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Alex Evans
Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017).
He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development.
Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.
Miss Representation – trailer
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A moment of perfect cognitive dissonance
Earlier today, I was reading the transcript of an interview that my brother (GD contributor Jules Evans) conducted earlier this year with Apollo 14 astronaut...
“In the event of moon disaster…”
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The Chinese government: paranoid, or hanging by a thread?
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Our unspoken bet on climate change: we’re going to wing it, and to hell with the poor (and our kids)
Simon Kuper in this weekend's FT Magazine about where the state of the climate change debate now stands: When someone offered me a trip to India, I said,...
Highbrow analysis on Sky News
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Has the green jobs argument been lost?
With Obama about to attempt to get back on the front foot with a major speech on jobs to both houses of Congress on Thursday, it's dispiriting to see the...
Is it time for Sustainable Development Goals?
The pros and cons of a new global set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – and how they might work in practice
Not waving but clowning
What on earth was with this painfully cringeworthy waving at the Seoul G20? Heavens above - this is supposed to be a summit, not a school outing. If you look...
The crises of capitalism
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The European crisis in 3 minutes
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Jeff Sachs on how OECD countries can get their act together
Jeff Sachs in the FT on how OECD countries could finally get their acts together: An improved fiscal policy in the transatlantic economies would therefore be...
The perfect global governance metaphor
Never mind deckchairs on the Titanic. Vinay Gupta (find him here on Twitter) has come up with the perfect metaphor to describe governance breakdown in the...
Meet the Republican front runner
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Quote of the month
Philip Zelikow nails it in the FT: In the past foreign policy mainly consisted of adjusting relations between states – what they will do with or to each...
Foreign aid policy a la Heritage Foundation
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Five must-reads on the London riots
James Meek recalls a recent stroll down Hackney's Broadway Market, and what it said about London, on the LRB blog yesterday: As Ghaith and I walked down the...
Flash mob vs flash mob
Lots of commentary on the media about how London rioters are using social media to coordinate their movements. But the converse holds, too: here's a snap of...
Time-lapse footage of Tottenham’s skyline during the riots
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