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Alex Evans
Alex Evans is a Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University, and the author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren't Enough? (Penguin, 2017), a book about the power of deep stories to unlock transformational change. He lives in North Yorkshire and is currently working on political polarisation and learning dry stone walling. Full biog here.
That Norwegian UN memo in full
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Greenpeace fail
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Megrahi’s release: select your conspiracy theory now
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Townhall latest: US right winger yells ‘Heil Hitler’ at Israeli man criticising US healthcare coverage
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Town hall crazies: Barney Frank shows us how it’s done
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Thought US healthcare opposition was bad? Just wait for the climate bill
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Peak oil’s entry into mainstream discourse: now complete
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Facebook fail
As TheNextWeb so sagely observes, "note to self: don't 'friend' your boss on Facebook and then bitch about your job".
Jeff Rubin on why your world is about to get a whole lot smaller
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There go the supply chains
The FT has a big splash this morning on how concerns about future climate policy and the global downturn are both driving a move away from global supply...
If international relations were a John Hughes movie
Dan Drezner sets it out: CLOSING SCENE OF "THE SECURITY COUNCIL CLUB": INT. SECURITY COUNCIL CHAMBER - DAY -- we see the U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL enter the...
Moo hoo
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Tcktcktck? Tsk tsk tsk
Back in February, I figured that the pre-G20 "Jobs, Justice, Climate" NGO campaign was probably the "pointless NGO campaign of the year", naively arguing...
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Blackwater founder implicated in murder
Okaay: A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in...
“Over-population is a myth”: pro-life groups take aim at the UN Population Fund
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Cellphone fail
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Department of wishful thinking
Is a peak for global oil demand in sight, wonders the Guardian's Data Blog this morning? Er, no - what might make them think that, you wonder? Answer: a new...
Ambassador Stages UN Coup, Issues Long List of Non-Binding Resolutions
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