Author Evan Osnos @eosnos Evan Osnos is a staff writer at The New Yorker covering politics and foreign affairs. Closing Gaps in the Name of Democracy Making improvements in polling, news literacy, and the use of technology is urgent November 13, 2016 Up Close and Personal Watch video of Osnos’s Morris Lecture, from which this essay was adapted In 1948, the Harvard Sinologist John King Fairbank wrote, “China is a journalist’s dream and a statistician’s nightmare.”… January 31, 2014