News & Opinion Video
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01 / CLEAN ENERGY IS BOOMING. BUT WE’RE ABOUT TO WASTE ALMOST ALL OF IT.
In 2022, the U.S. Senate approved a historic investment in climate action. Turns out money was the easy part. On Semafor’s Agenda series, we take a look at the future by looking at Texas, where the climate fight is already playing out in someone’s backyard.
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02 / UKRAINE IS RUNNING OUT OF AMMO. THE WEST DOESN’T HAVE ENOUGH.
MAY 23, 2023 | The war between Russia and Ukraine has in many ways become a contest to see which country can get their hands on the most 155-millimeter howitzer shells. The video takes a hard look at the state of the U.S. defense industry to answer why supplying Ukraine with the ammunition it needs has become such a daunting task.
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03 / FLYING SUCKS NOW. HERE’S WHY.
Air travel feels worse than ever: packed planes, smaller seats, inflexible schedules. Yet somehow, airlines are more efficient than they've ever been. This video takes a fun look at how optimizing for cost and scale made flying cheaper but far less forgiving for passengers.
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04 / THE SIX MONTHS I SPENT BUILDING FURNITURE
What a semester spent re-upholstering furniture taught a medical student in the throes of depression.
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05 / HOW 30 YEARS OF ‘COPS’ CHANGED THE WAY AMERICA VIEWS POLICING
It’s been three decades since “COPS” first aired, and in that time, the part-documentary, part-reality TV show has radically changed the perception of policing in the U.S. Podcast host Dan Taberski joined THINK to talk about the show’s impact, which he investigates in season three of the podcast, “Headlong: Running from COPS.”
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06 / INSIDE THE ‘DANGEROUS AND ABUSIVE’ CONDITIONS IN INDIA’S SHRIMP INDUSTRY
A team of AP journalists in India and the United States provided an unprecedented cross-format look at the Indian shrimp industry, capturing labor and environmental abuses by the world’s top exporter of shrimp to America.
AP journalists obtained access to shrimp hatcheries, growing ponds, peeling sheds and warehouses in Southeast Asia where women with frozen hands stood for 10-hour shifts peeling endless piles of shrimp for as little as $3 a day.
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07 / WHY WE’RE SUING YALE’S FRATERNITIES
Three Yale students who claim they were groped at fraternity parties filed a class-action lawsuit against the university, arguing the school has fostered an environment where alcohol-fueled gatherings at off-campus fraternity houses dictate the undergraduate social scene.
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