In this week’s episode of Radio Atlantic, Adrienne LaFrance, the executive editor of The Atlantic, names and explains the political ideology of the unelected leaders of Silicon Valley. They are “leading an antidemocratic, illiberal movement” she calls: techno-authoritarianism.
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Aug 7
No Easy Fix | 2. Tolerance
At the onset of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s, U.S. cities began trying new ways to stop the spread of infection among drug users. Ideas that were first seen as radical, such as needle exchanges, quickly caught on—because they worked. San Francisco is one of the first places ... Show More
35m 1s
Sep 2024
9.12.2024 - Helena Maus, Archetype and Marker Collective
This week’s guest on The PR Week podcast is none other than Helena Maus, CEO of Next Fifteen agency Archetype and the Marker Collective. She explains the rapidly changing world of technology comms, the PR scene in the Bay Area, the debate between former President Donald Trump and ... Show More
41m 16s
Jul 2024
Slate Money: Behind Britain’s Bonkers Election
This week, Felix Salmon, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by Shira Ovide, who writes the newsletter The Tech Friend for the Washington Post, and Peter Thal Larsen of Reuters, who demystifies the wacky state of European and British politics. Also: Are Chipotle burritos getting smal ... Show More
48m 26s
Nov 2024
Local Democratic Victories, a Likely Legislative Flip, Pizza Pop-Up
Election results are still rolling in and we’ve got some good news. Executive producer Emily Means and host Ali Vallarta discuss wins in Salt Lake County and where the future of the Democratic party is headed. Plus, a Native-majority school board, a pizza pop up, and legislative ... Show More
33m 29s
Aug 2024
Is the Planet Running Out of People? with Paul Morland
The author and broadcaster Paul Morland is one of the UK’s leading thinkers on demographics – the study of population and its characteristics. Morland has been an associate research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, and is a senior member at St Antony's College, Oxford. H ... Show More
45m 23s