The Best Articles in Politics
The most useful articles and videos in Politics from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
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Top 5 Politics Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Politics by Refind users in 2024 so far.
Videos
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Why Do So Many People Not Want To Have Children?
Malcolm Collins is a pronatalist, Stanford MBA graduate, venture capitalist and an author.What would the world actually look like if only the global populati...
Why is government failing to regulate Big Tech? 👀 #shorts
Full episode: https://youtu.be/IP-rkxgen4A
Why do the worst people rise to power?
Why do the worst people rise to power? University College London professor Brian Klaas responds.Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/c...
Ukraine tech sector goes to war
From the production of cheap battlefield drones to AI-powered missile detection, Ukrainian tech start-ups, IT workers and volunteers have been developing mil...
The call to save poorer nations drowning in debt
Global interest rate rises have led to spiralling, decades-high external debt payments for 91 low or lower-middle income countries. In a few cases the IMF an...
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A beginner's guide to global artificial intelligence policy
Neural's long-running Begginer's Guide To Artificial Intelligence gets a modern update discussing policy and regulation around the globe.
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How to avoid sharing bad information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Even well-meaning attempts to participate in the news can play into bad actors’ campaigns.
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All We Have to Fear
The Western world has held an outsized fear of Chinese power for centuries. But why? A new book argues that alarmism began in the late 1800s, snowballed from there — and is very much alive in…
How Covid changed politics
The long read: Four years on from the start of the pandemic, the drama may have subsided but the lingering effects go on. Are we suffering from political long Covid?
Deepfakes Will Break Democracy
The fragmenting of shared reality is fuelling political extremism and dysfunction
That one last phone call Joe Biden always needs to make
When he must decide a high-stakes issue, the president hears out his top aides — then picks up the phone and calls a politician.
Inside North Korea’s Forced-Labor Program in China
Workers sent from the country to Chinese factories describe enduring beatings and sexual abuse, having their wages taken by the state, and being told that if they try to escape they will be “killed…
Short Articles
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In case you missed it: America just effectively got much bigger
Did you get a little bit bigger over the holiday season? Well, so did America. You may not have noticed in the pre-Christmas rush, but on December 19, 2023, the U.S. added an area of about 1 million…
Invisible Ink: At the CIA’s Creative Writing Group
Last spring, a friend of a friend visited my office and invited me to Langley to speak to Invisible Ink, the CIA’s creative writing group.
Israel-Gaza war explainer: a visual analysis
A visual guide to the Palestinian territory of Gaza and the war between Israel and Hamas, following the deadly October 7 attack.
How to Spot Corporate Bullshit ❧ Current Affairs
A new book shows that the same talking points have been recycled for centuries, to oppose every form of progressive change.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Politics.
Fentanyl, the portrait of a mass murderer
It’s the big threat. A cheap, white powder — 50 times more powerful than heroin — which kills more than 70,000 people each year in the United States and countless others across the rest of the Western…
Welcome to 2034: What the world could look like in ten years, according to nearly 300 experts
To survey the future, we polled global strategists and foresight practitioners on our most burning questions about the biggest drivers of change over the next decade. Check out their forecasts on…
How ancient civilisations dealt with trauma
As the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine continue, there’s deepening concern for the trauma that may come later. But war has been around for millennia. How did our ancestors cope?
Who Gets A Nation?
Faced with novel collective and planetary threats like the climate crisis, the EU’s layered architecture provides a model of international cooperation while still respecting disparate peoples’…
Why so much is going wrong at the same time
Lots of things are going wrong. Does that make it a polycrisis?
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