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How do we distil a good narrative from 2020?
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Biden’s America on the world stage
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The Retroscope 2020
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Transatlantic troubles
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The sound and cost of silence
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The 'Brussels effect' on digital legislation
Europe is reinventing its digital Stack by taking the lead in legislation implementation
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Disinformation and the false believe we are autonomous in our search for knowledge
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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 future of Trumpism
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Biden: neither friend nor foe to big tech
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The geopolitics of rare earth metals
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The sharing economy is dead, long live the rental economy
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Are we sharing enough data?
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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 sterile human and the biomedical disease model
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Human death as a boost for the use of ecological materials
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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 future of monetary policy and central banks
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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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Is the meme culture causing an increase in widespread stereotypes?
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American soft power is under pressure
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My plant the therapist
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Politics should focus more on the Good Life
How can we reinstate the concept of the Good without downplaying the systemic risks threatening our global society?
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The rise of CBDCs
Pim Korsten gives a rundown on the opportunities and risks of the rise of central bank digital currencies.
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What is Russia's view on climate change?
Melting ice caps in the Arctic are incentivizing Russia’s exploitation and extraction of natural resources representing the last straw of the Anthropocene.
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The energy transition is not a hobby
With the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, we have to face the fact that our dependence on fossil fuels poses a structural problem.
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Autocracy and the End of History
Is the ideological confrontation between the liberal-democratic and autocratic world order on its way to becoming the global political issue of our century?
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Russian digitalization through a Cosmist lens
To understand Russian politics, we need to understand Russian Cosmism, a philosophy that supports the digitalization of the Arctic.
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An introduction to the Stack
Learn more about our framework that helps us understand the anatomy of digital systems.
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Russia’s strategic exploitation of the Arctic
A long-standing resource-dependent economy, a melting Arctic, and technical capabilities have thrown the Arctic into the spotlight for Russia’s upcoming economic strategy.
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A beginner's guide to the metaverse
Both praised and feared by many, the 'promises' of the metaverse are highly contentious. Sebastiaan Crul aims to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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A cultural cluster bomb
What will be the lasting impact of the cancellation of Russia?
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