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Robert Chang
The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act
5:15
Alex Gendler
Demolition, disease, and death: Building the Panama Canal
5:20
Joseph Goffman
Whatever happened to acid rain?
4:49
TED-Ed
Why good ideas get trapped in the valley of death -- and how to rescue them
5:57
Lisa Krause
Who were Las Mariposas, and why were they murdered?
4:28
Karen L. Cox
Debunking the myth of the Lost Cause: A lie embedded in American history
4:57
Moriba Jah
What if every satellite suddenly disappeared?
11:23
Sharon Weinberger
Inside the massive (and unregulated) world of surveillance tech
10:28
María Teresa Kumar
How the new generation of Latinx voters could change US elections
5:42
John Soluri
The dark history of bananas
4:44
Claire Wardle
Can you outsmart a troll (by thinking like one)?
4:06
Elizabeth Cox
Can you outsmart the fallacy that started a witch hunt?
16:25
Van Jones
What if a US presidential candidate refuses to concede after an election?
5:20
Sophie Howe
Lessons on leaving the world better than you found it
4:43
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
The city planting a million trees in two years
10:12
Monica Araya
How cities are detoxing transportation
5:48
Ursula von der Leyen
Europe's plan to become the first carbon-neutral continent
5:17
António Guterres
The race to a zero-emission world starts now
4:53
Elyse Cox
Who owns the "wilderness"?
6:10
Camilo Ramirez
The problem with the U.S. bail system
10:19
Amber McReynolds
An election system that puts voters (not politicians) first
6:02
Takis S. Pappas
The rise of modern populism
4:54
Rod Phillips
What happened when the United States tried to ban alcohol
10:28
Shari Davis
What if you could help decide how the government spends public funds?
51:30
Mariana Mazzucato
The COVID-19 crisis is a chance to do capitalism differently
6:03
Dustin Tahmahkera
The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire
5:08
Alex Gendler
Which voting system is the best?
45:29
Achim Steiner
The alliances needed to rebuild the developing world
1:06:31
Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King, Anthony D. Romero
The path to ending systemic racism in the US
5:35
Alex Rosenthal
When is a pandemic over?
49:05
Audrey Tang
How digital innovation can fight pandemics and strengthen democracy
10:00
Colombe Cahen-Salvador
A global movement to solve global problems
11:43
Jessy Kate Schingler
Civilization on the Moon -- and what it means for life on Earth
32:41
Georges C. Benjamin
The secret weapon against pandemics
11:44
Huang Hung
How American and Chinese values shaped the coronavirus response
33:02
Fareed Zakaria
How the coronavirus pandemic is changing the world
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