Reading Room¶

Some sources for news in technology, science, economics, infrastructure, governance, world events.

Annotations¶

• ➕ Discovery, progress, exploration, and human achievement
• $ Paid
• $$ Premium paid

General Reading¶

• National Geographic ➕ $
• Wired $
• The Atlantic $

Global Data & Development¶

• Our World in Data ➕
• Gapminder ➕
• UNdata ➕
• UN SDG Indicators ➕
• World Bank Open Data ➕
• OECD Data ➕
• UNESCO Institute for Statistics ➕
• IMF Data

Education & Learning¶

• The Conversation
• Pew Research Center
• UNESCO Education
• UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report
• UNESCO UIS Data Browser
• UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning
• OECD Education
• OECD Education at a Glance
• OECD PISA
• World Bank EdStats
• UNICEF Education Data
• Eurostat Education and Training

Good News & Human Progress¶

• Our World in Data Articles ➕
• NASA News ➕
• The Planetary Society ➕
• Good Good Good ➕
• Reasons to be Cheerful ➕

Tech & AI¶

• IEEE Spectrum ➕
• MIT Technology Review ➕ $
• Import AI
• Semafor Technology

AI Governance & Policy¶

• Tech Policy Press
• Lawfare Cybersecurity & Tech
• Ada Lovelace Institute

Science¶

• Quanta Magazine ➕
• Science News ➕
• Nature Briefing ➕

Economy & Supply Chains¶

• Financial Times $$
• Wall Street Journal $$
• FreightWaves ➕

Energy & Grid¶

• Latitude Media
• Canary Media
• Utility Dive

Climate & Environment Data¶

• IPCC
• UNFCCC
• Carbon Brief ➕
• Yale Environment 360 ➕

Country Data & Institutions¶

• National Bureau of Statistics of China
• NITI Aayog
• India Data Portal
• World Bank: China
• World Bank: India

Engineering & Infrastructure¶

• Construction Physics
• Institute for Progress

Privacy¶

• The Markup
• EFF Deeplinks

Legislation & Rulemaking¶

• Congress.gov
• GovInfo
• Federal Register
• Regulations.gov
• GovTrack.us
• Open States / Plural
• LegiScan
• EUR-Lex
• European Parliament Legislative Observatory
• European Commission: Have Your Say

US State Legislatures¶

• Minnesota Legislature
• Missouri House · Missouri Senate
• California Legislature
• Hawaii State Legislature
• Florida Legislature (Online Sunshine)

US Science & Research¶

• National Science Foundation
• NOAA
• NASA
• NIH
• USDA Research, Education, and Economics
• DOE Office of Science
• NIST
• USGS
• CDC
• EPA Science

Policy Research¶

• RAND
• Brookings

Policy Agendas & Reform Initiatives¶

• ALEC
• State Innovation Exchange
• Project 2025 ~283/532 (cite)
• Project 2029

Transparency¶

• OpenSecrets
• Follow The Money
• Documented
• SourceWatch
• Center for Public Integrity
• Silencing Science Tracker

World Affairs¶

• The Economist $$
• Foreign Affairs $
• War on the Rocks