June Monthly Goodreads

Articles

• Universal Basic Income is neither universal nor basic (Bloomberg)

• The Euro: common currency's existential crisis (Bloomberg)

• AI will add $15.7 trillion to the global economy (Bloomberg)

• Balance of power: Macron's revolution (Bloomberg)

• These are the most powerful brands in the world (World Economic Forum)

• Austerity had strangled Britain. Only Labour will consign it to history (The Guardian)

• Climate scientists just debunked deniers' favourite argument (The Guardian)

• Homophobia is back - it's no accident that nationalism is too (The Guardian)

• Freedom of movement helped British creativity thrive. Its loss will diminish us (The Guardian)

• Drugs alone won't cure the epidemic of depression. We need strategy (The Guardian)

• Electoral victory will make France's president a potent force (The Economist)

• Britain's decline and fall (The Economist)

• What is the one-Child policy? (The Economist)

• India's prime minister is not as much of a reformer as he seems (The Economist)

• Two decades after taking over Hong Kong, China is getting tougher (The Economist)

• Duterte, Year One (NY Times)

• From Aleppo to L.A. (NY Times)

• A Palestinian novel unearths dirty secrets in the Arab world (NY Times)

• Terrorists' love for Telegram, explained (Vox)

• The 3 leading conservative cases for the Senate health bill, explained (Vox)

• Ukraine reacted to the biggest hack in its history with a GIF of a dog in a room on fire (Vox)

• Google launches its AI-powered jobs search engine (Techcrunch)

• Klarna gets a full banking license, gears up to go beyond financing payments (Techcrunch)

Books

• Bad Feminist (by Roxane Gay)

• The Good Immigrant (edited by Nikesh Shukla)

• The Spirit Level: why equality is better for everyone (by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson)

• The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world (by Michael Marmot)

Blogs

• Freakconomics

Talks/ Lectures

• Why journalists have an obligation to challenge power (TED)

• A celebration of natural hair (TED)

• Doesn't everyone deserve a chance at a good life? (TED)

• Why design should include everyone (TED)

• No one should die because they live too far from a doctor (TED)

• The evolution of global inequalities: the impact on politics and the economy (LSE)

• International law and new wars (LSE)

• Marketplaces and market design (LSE)

Podcasts

• The Economist asks: Are we too dependent on big data? (The Economist)

• Masters of Scale

Videos

• How bicycles boosted the women's rights movement (Vox)

• How the LGBT community created voguing (Vox)

• What happens when you threat health care like a soap opera (Vox)

• Why it's so hard to cure HIV/ AIDS (TED-Ed)

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