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Alexander Hurst’s Biography

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Alexander is a journalist at FRANCE 24 in Paris. He holds an MSc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics, an M.A. in International Public Policy from Sciences Po, and a B.A. in Political Science from Amherst College.

In the time between undergrad and graduate school, he lived and worked in southern Chad, where he became proficient in bucket shower and mango peeling.

He has written for, among others, The New Republic, The Daily Beast, Full Stop Magazine, and Lobelog.

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The Ugly, Illiberal, Anti-Semitic Heart of the Yellow Vest Movement

The Ugly, Illiberal, Anti-Semitic Heart of the Yellow Vest Movement

The protests have combined legitimate economic grievances with the worst of far-right politics. And the Frenc…

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'I felt like an impostor': a mixed-race American in Africa

'I felt like an impostor': a mixed-race American in Africa

The long read: 'Passing for white' was a complicated feeling at home in Ohio. In Chad, it was a whole differe…

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Escape From the Trump Cult

Escape From the Trump Cult

Reason rarely defeats emotion-or, as Catherine Fieschi, an expert on political extremism, told me, gut instin…

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Skin Worn Thin | Hazlitt

Skin Worn Thin | Hazlitt

Every time I crossed the courtyard, walked past the well in the corner and slipped out of the baby blue gate …

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What the preservation of a Roma identity entails

What the preservation of a Roma identity entails

Miroslav Brož, holding a can of Krušovice beer, greeted me and Eli Naegele, a Czech reporter, one April after…

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The flag culture wars have come to an unlikely place: progressive Iceland

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To enter Reykjavik's Grafarvogur Lutheran church, worshippers and visitors are invited to make their way down 16 steps painted in the rainbow stripes and the white, pink, blue, brown and black chevrons of the Progress Pride flag. The artwork, which can even be seen on satellite pictures, was originally a project of former head pastor Guðrún Karls Helgudóttir, now the bishop of Iceland, and her colleagues.
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The flag culture wars have come to an unlikely place: progressive Iceland

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Repainting stripes of the Progressive Pride flag in Reykjavik, Iceland, last month after they were covered with an image of the national flag. Photograph: Garðaþjónusta Sigurjóns/Facebook To enter Reykjavik’s Grafarvogur Lutheran church, worshippers and visitors are invited to make their way down 16 steps painted in the rainbow stripes and the white, pink, blue, brown and black chevrons of the Progress Pride flag.
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How to feel optimistic in the face of crisis? Ask the kids fighting slug-like aliens

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A ‘die-in’ organised by Extinction Rebellion in Toulouse, France, with a placard that reads ‘Do our children have a future?’, 26 March 2022. Photograph: Alain Pitton/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock Recently I found myself thinking about slug-like aliens that crawl through people’s ears and into their brains, with the ultimate purpose of global domination. It would explain a lot about what has gone so wrong with the world, wouldn’t it?
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