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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.
And a round of applause, please…
...as the eurozone overtakes the United States of America. FRANKFURT (AFP) — The dollar's plunge has made the eurozone the world's biggest economy by one...
Downtown Lhasa
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Bad time to be pegged to the dollar
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A carbon reality check
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Has Chinese diplomacy been ‘hijacked’?
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On sofa government
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TB is go!
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Nearly the weekend
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Latest security threat
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NY’s new governor: “the only whores I know are lobbyists”
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James Carville springs to Samantha Power’s defence
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New Avaaz campaign on biofuels
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Inequality: falling between countries, rising within them
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US national security – the budget version
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Pop quiz
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