Isabelle Roughol

Journalist, podcaster, media consultant, public historian. Telling stories & building better newsrooms. 🎓 Mizzou '08, Birkbeck '25.

America may be back, but the world wasn't waiting

America may be back, but the world wasn't waiting

Tech entrepreneurship has exploded around the world, and Silicon Valley is now but one of many models. A conversation with venture capitalist Christopher Schroeder.

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031 | Christopher Schroeder | How tech entrepreneurship exploded beyond Silicon Valley

031 | Christopher Schroeder | How tech entrepreneurship exploded beyond Silicon Valley

America may be back, but the world wasn’t waiting on it. Venture capitalist Chris Schroeder travels the world to invest in emerging markets. To the entrepreneurs he meets, Silicon Valley is just one of many models, China is everywhere and South-to-South exchanges are constant. To succeed in this distributed

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Members' letter #13

Episode 31 with venture capitalist Christopher Schroeder

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Immigrants don't owe us a thing

Immigrants don't owe us a thing

Episode 30 with Leah Cowan: Should we abolish borders?

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030 | Leah Cowan | Should we abolish borders?

030 | Leah Cowan | Should we abolish borders?

The border isn’t a line on the periphery of the country, says Leah Cowan, author of Border Nation. It is a fog that covers all of society and can descend upon you at any time if you’re an immigrant or racialized as “other.” It wasn’t always thus

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Leah Cowan's borderless world (episode 30) / Members' letter #12

Episode 30 with Leah Cowan

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Vaccine nationalism was always going to win

Vaccine nationalism was always going to win

The same politicians who told us not to hoard toilet paper are stockpiling the world’s most valuable good. We're secretly glad.

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029 | Tania Cernuschi | Vaccine nationalism is winning

029 | Tania Cernuschi | Vaccine nationalism is winning

More than half of Covid-19 vaccines administered so far have been in high-income countries, which account for just 15% of the world population. Four out of five doses are purchased outside COVAX, the UN-backed procurement scheme that had attempted to set up fair and equal access for all countries. The

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