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Building national character based on trauma

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The European deep transition strategy

The EU is leveraging the “Brussels Effect” to establish the metarules of the Second Deep Transition.

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Digital advertising in a post-cookie world

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Non-fungible tokens are all the rage

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Harvest now, decrypt later

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Will a post-corona era arrive in the coming years?

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The unique strength of Chinese business alliances

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Democratization of finance

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Crowdsourcing morality for autonomous systems

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Food security will have its moment on the world stage

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Vaccine diplomacy

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Biden’s America on the world stage

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Transatlantic troubles

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The sound and cost of silence

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The coronavirus is creating momentum for fiscal diet policy

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Our image of Chinese power

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Trump is making opposition media great (the platform becomes the bubble)

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Carbon border tax

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The geopolitics of rare earth metals

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Who do we trust in the Stack war?

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The not-so United States of America

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The outdoor economy

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Hollywood paves the way for diversity and representation

Will old mistakes continue to be made?

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The new power of technical standards

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Blurring boundaries with mixed reality toys

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The long hegemony of currency

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My plant the therapist

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After work thoughts

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Food nationalism

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Global value chains are experiencing a formative moment

Netflix’s Bandersnatch: the beginning of embedded content interfaces

Netflix's interactive film 'Bandersnatch' could set the trend for embedded content interfaces in films and shows.

Farming in the Anthropocene by improving photosynthesis

Retroscope 2018: Hegemonic cycle

Retroscope 2018: Socio-cultural

Retroscope 2018: Disruption in the making

Open-source software is eating the world

Open-source software is crucial in our daily lives, and recent acquisitions of GitHub and Red Hat highlight its importance.

The protein folding revolution

Our polygenic scores tell us who we are

Fighting terrorism has been a recurring issue in the history of Europe