From the ground up: New York after 9/11

Decades of messaging have not worked, so governments are trying new ways to get citizens to eat well, from scary labelling to taxing the junkiest foods. Will it work? The death of a plague researcher in Russia is made more mysterious by the government’s resolute lack of transpare ...  Show more

Bond yields across the rich world keep ticking up. We take a global look at where the risks are mounting most, and just how much worry is warranted. What might have once seemed fanciful is becoming real: delivering daylight to dark parts of the world using mirrors in space. And t ...  Show more

As the country marks ten years of civil war, the economy is crippled; it has broken up into statelets and ethnic encl ...  Show more

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Bill talks about a disturbing assault that took place in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

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