Amazon, Apple, Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft are some of the most impactful corporations to ever come out of the United States.

And their innovation has transformed our lives.

But after decades of unchecked growth are these companies now too powerful for regulators to ignore?

The United States has had antitrust laws for over a century so why has enforcement been dormant for so long?

Too Powerful to Regulate — the battle to rein in Big Tech

Move beyond the headlines to see how the past defines our world.

History

Society & Culture

News

Politics

Mexico has one of the highest murder rates on earth, and most of these murders are committed by guns that come into Mexico illegally from America. Can or should American gun manufacturers be held responsible for the damage caused by these guns. That’s the question being asked by Mexico in two court cases underway in the US states of Massachusetts and Arizona.

Could two lawsuits bring down the US gun industry?

Australia is a nation built on migration, but the system has a sometimes-cruel history.  How has our migration program evolved?
And why the perception of being in control has been so central to its success.

The power to choose — how Australia curated post war migration

It's almost two years since the US supreme court overturned Roe V Wade
In this episode from our archives, we revisit the story of the landmark 1973 ruling.

Roe v Wade and how it changed the United States

As TikTok's power and popularity has grown, concerns around its Chinese ownership have gotten louder.

How TikTok went from addictive pastime to a potential threat to national security

The gang violence that is gripping the Caribbean nation of Haiti, is the most recent disaster in a long line of political, economic, and natural disasters. Today Haiti is one of the poorest and most unstable country on the planet, but this was not always the case, it was once France’s riches colony and the world’s first black-lead republic. So why has Haiti become such a political and economic mess?

Too Powerful to Regulate — the battle to rein in Big Tech

Download our free app to listen on your phone