The Boy Scouts File for Bankruptcy
The Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy this week in the face of hundreds of lawsuits from men who allege that they were abused during their time in the scouts. Pro Rata producer Naomi Shavin a...
21 Feb 202010min
Bloomberg's Social Media Strategy
The Wall Street Journal reports that Mike Bloomberg’s campaign is hiring people to regularly post from their personal social-media accounts and send texts in support of Bloomberg to their contacts. Pr...
20 Feb 202011min
A Beijing Think Tank Ranks U.S. Governors
A Chinese think tank generated a series of reports rating state governors and White House officials on their “friendliness” towards China. Pro Rata producer Naomi Shavin is joined by Axios China repor...
19 Feb 202010min
Why U.S. Cities Can’t Recycle
After China implemented a ban on importing waste including recyclables, many U.S. cities found themselves without a market for their paper, plastics, and more. Pro Rata producer Naomi Shavin and Axios...
18 Feb 202010min
Building Safer Cities
Helsinki, Finland just joined Oslo, Norway in achieving a major road safety goal: zero pedestrian or cyclist deaths for an entire calendar year. Dan and Axios editor Sam Baker discuss the investments,...
13 Feb 202010min
The Intelligence Coup of the Century
In a new report from the Washington Post, national security reporter and author Greg Miller reveals that a major global supplier of encrypted communication technology was owned, for decades, by the CI...
12 Feb 202011min
Amazon Raises the Temperature on Trump
Amazon is seeking to depose President Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Esper in the latest escalation of a suit attempting to prove “unmistakable bias” in the Pentagon’s decision to award a $10 billio...
11 Feb 20209min
Putin’s YouTube Problem
Russian President Vladimir Putin is considering ways to limit access to YouTube, which has become a crucial platform for his critics and go-to source for news and entertainment for Russians under 30. ...
10 Feb 202010min
