America In Realization [10.10.14]

US Infrastruture

• America’s crumbling infrastructure : Bridging the gap. (Economist)

"For a country where everyone drives, America has shoddy roads."

Climate Change

• Climate change and the economy : The cost of doing nothing (Economist)

"It looks at three areas where the weather makes the biggest difference: coastal property, farming and the effect of heat on work."

US Education

• The future of universities : The digital degree (Economist)

Justice, Law & Order 

• The Supreme Court : A win for privacy, a loss for internet television (Economist)
• Criminal justice : How prosecutors came to dominate the criminal-justice system (Economist)
• American justice : A plea for change American prosecutors have too much power. Hand some of it to judges (Economist)