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Kim Heys's blog Wondering what is all this hype about global cities? There are several things you need to know about global cities, starting with the fact that you’re probably living in one. Nearly one billion people reside in 60 global cities. Yet, ...


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Iain Whitaker's blog Every June  Book Expo America brings the nation’s publishing houses together with book wholesalers, retailers, and marketers in New York. The event provides an opportunity to collect an unwieldy amount of free as-yet-unpublished ...


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Brittany Broaders's blog Our new web series, Wait Just a Minute, asks experts to answer complex questions about global affairs in 60 seconds. In this episode, our senior global cities fellow, and former chief sustainability officer for the city of Ch ...


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Kim Heys's blog Our web series, Wait Just a Minute, asks experts to answer complex questions about global affairs in 60 seconds. In this episode, CEO and cofounder of Water.org and WaterEquity, Gary White, explains the global water crisis, how cities ...


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Emily Baker's blog The world can no longer afford to neglect the abuses to which women and girls are subjected in armed conflict and its aftermath, or to ignore the contributions that women make to the search for peace. It is time they are given the ...


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Brittany Broaders's blog Our web series, Wait Just a Minute, asks experts to answer complex questions about global affairs in 60 seconds. In this episode, historian and author Michael Beschloss answers questions on presidential history, the system of ...