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10 Ways The Media Manipulates You
The media keeps us up to date on the happenings of the world. However whether the news is good or bad, it's not exactly impartial' Here are 10 ways the media is manipulating you.
Soliloquy
Could Trump win under a Proportional System?
Could Trump or Sanders win if the US used a proportional system? The United States uses first passed the post for its electoral system, but many have argued that a proportional system would better represent the nation in the house of...
TLDR News
The US Economy Is it as Strong as Trump Claims - TLDR News
Going into the 2020 election, Donald Trump is trying to emphasise the strength of the US economy. This seems like a good tactic, and there is a track record for presidents getting re-elected on the basis of economic strength. So in this...
ACDC Leadership
Vote for The Economics Party- Clifford vs Trump & Clinton
Two points. First, politicians shouldn't make economically unrealistic promises. A single-payer health care system would be nice, so would free college education, lower taxes, paid maternity, a balanced budget, services for senior...
STAT
Donald Trump, the vitamin pitchman
A STAT investigation found The Trump Network sold customized vitamins and scientific testing kits for about two years, claiming they would yield health benefits. But according to many outside experts, the network was selling bad science.
TLDR News
Trump's Tax Returns Explained: How Will they Impact the Election? - TLDR News
After years of questions and speculation, we may finally have an answer to what is in Trump’s Tax Returns. In this video, we breakdown the key findings of the New York Times report on President Donald Trump’s tax returns and finances, as...
Global Health with Greg Martin
Climate change and public health - why Trump should NOT have pulled out of the Paris Agreement
How will climate change impact on public health and global health? This video explores important reasons why climate change will affect population displacement, conflict, infectious disease and more. The impact of climate change on...
TLDR News
Supreme Court Opens Trump’s Tax Returns What We Could Learn - TLDR News
Yesterday (Thursday 9th July 2020) the US Supreme Court ruled on two cases related to Trump’s tax returns - potentially allowing a New York Grand Jury to examine his financial records. In this video we examine the implications of this...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Leadership of the Next New Economy | #8 | Venture Capital in the 21st Century
What will the next technological revolution look like? What challenges will be posed by climate change? Economists cannot approach it merely as an externalities pricing problem, but one which will require a wider range of policies to be...
TLDR News
Are Conservatives Silenced By Social Media? Trump's Twitter, Shadow Bans & Algorithms - TLDR News
In the last week an old conversation about social media fairness as reignited, with those on the right claiming that their views are being suppressed by social media. So in this video, we investigate the claim and discover whether the...
TLDR News
Biden's Immigration Plan: Why Republicans AND Democrats Hate It - TLDR News
The border is proving to be a difficult topic for Biden, with both Republicans and Democrats on his back about his policies. So in this video we unpick what Biden's immigration policy looks like, why it's fairly universally disliked &...
Healthcare Triage
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Have a Plan for Covid-19
The federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been criticized as somewhat...disorganized. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have outlined a plan for how their administration would approach the pandemic, should they be elected to the White...
TLDR News
Russia and China Meddle in 2020? The Impact of Foreign Election Interference Explained - TLDR News
A report published last week by the National Counterintelligence and Security Center highlighted the very real potential for foreign interference in the 2020 election. The report suggests that Russia plans to assist President Trump again...
The Wall Street Journal
Commerce and the Courts
This administration is on course to set a transformative number of judicial appointments. The wave of new conservative judges could change society and business. Two views.
TLDR News
State of the Election Will Coronavirus Help Trump or Biden - TLDR News
State of the Election is our new series where every week or two we look at the current environment surrounding the election. We look at the broad trends and shifts which may impact 2020. In this video, we discuss the impact of...
History Hit
How the Cold War Shaped Western Democracy with Simon Reid-Henry: Centrist politics
Is there a decline of centrist politics during the early 1970's? Was the early 1970's a more important turning point compared to the fall of the Berlin wall? How the Cold War Shaped Western Democracy with Simon Reid-Henry, Part 2
TLDR News
QAnon Explained: How The Conspiracy Became Mainstream - TLDR News
QAnon is a conspiracy theory that's been around for a few years now, but since COVID the theory seems to have really taken off. Believers think there's a secret underground group of people committing horrific crimes and that Trump's the...
History Hit
How the Cold War Shaped Western Democracy with Simon Reid-Henry: Impressions of democracy today
What are the authors impressions of how democracies have changed and how have they evolved over time? How the Cold War Shaped Western Democracy with Simon Reid-Henry, Part 5
TLDR News
What Trump's Acquittal Means for the 2020 Election - Impeachment Explained
This week President Trump was acquitted of both of the Articles of Impeachment. This is a momentous moment for the President, allowing him an opportunity to try and move past these accusations. In this video, we discuss how the acquittal...
TLDR News
15 Executive Orders: What Biden Did in his Huge First Day in the White House - TLDR News
On Wednesday, Joe Biden entered the White House for the first time as President and he didn't mess around. In his first 24 hours, Biden got to work undoing some of Trump's biggest achievements - signing 15 executive orders. So in this...
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Trump's Social Media Executive Order & Twitter Battle Explained - TLDR News
This week President Trump has been taking swings at Twitter after they started fact-checking his tweets. Trump promised big moves and an executive order to limit the power of social media sites. And... well he delivered an executive...
Healthcare Triage
The Trump Admin is Back to Sabotaging Obamacare
Last week, we gave the Trump department of Health and Human Services some credit for approaching the administration Obamacare as honest brokers. This week, it's back to sabotaging the ACA.
TLDR News
Harris vs Pence: Who Won the Vice Presidential Debate (and What About that Fly?!) - TLDR News
Last night Vice President Mike Pence took on Kamala Harris (& a fly) in the Vice Presidential Debate. The debate, which featured significantly less shouting and interrupting than last week's, covered eight important topics from the...
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Biden Vs Trump: The First Debate Highlights Explained - TLDR News
Last night, the first Presidential Debate of the 2020 Election took place in Ohio, and saw President Donald Trump and Former Vice-President Joe Biden go head-to-head for the first time. In this video, we cut through the cross-talk to...