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Issue 19: American S-Bahn
Plus: How to redraw cities with tangled property rights, the secret history of inflation targeting, and the end of lead pollution in the developing…
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Lenacapavir: can this drug end AIDS?
Hard Drugs: Episode one is out now.
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Saloni Dattani
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Jacob Trefethen
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New podcasts: Hard Drugs and the Works in Progress Podcast
The miracle drug that could end AIDS. Plus: the Great Downzoning, coming soon.
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Gentrification as a housing problem
The root cause is inflexible supply
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How the world's first electric grid was built
When Britain actually made something
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Alex Chalmers
4
Why child benefits should be front loaded
The timing of benefits matters to families, and doesn't change costs for governments
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Peter R. Brookes
17
The beauty of concrete
Why are buildings today austere, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately ornamented?
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Samuel Hughes
6
The world of tomorrow
When the future arrived, it felt… ordinary. What happened to the glamour of tomorrow?
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Virginia Postrel
2

May 2025

The End Kidney Deaths Act
Congress should start compensating compassion
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Jason Hausenloy
, 
Elaine Perlman
, and 
Duncan McClements
4
Computers of the future
How to process information without waste
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Rodolfo Rosini
3
Why we stopped building subways cheaply
We used to dig up roads to put trains underneath
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Brian Potter
16
The bad science behind expensive nuclear
How an arcane model makes nuclear power expensive and why its time might be up
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Alex Chalmers
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