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Evan Osnos

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Evan Osnos is a staff writer at The New Yorker covering politics and foreign affairs.

Closing Gaps in the Name of Democracy

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

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
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