It all started like this: a suitcase, a passport and expectations for something new and exciting. We were 10 complete strangers from five...
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At San Quentin, prisoners create a newspaper in search of their freedom
Freedom and prison: two opposites. How can you be free behind bars? At San Quentin State Prison north of San Francisco, they seek their freedom of...
Most U.S. adults consider China a competitor or enemy. Is friendship beyond politics possible?
In 1985, Xi Jinping visited Iowa. Sarah Lande - who a few years later would become the first executive director for Iowa Sister States, a nonprofit...
Stanley Center HQ doing its part to counter climate change
We are used to measuring everything in percentages - successes and failures in business, the quality of education and health care, even...
A lesson in democracy – for Kosovo, Europe’s youngest nation
Fifteen years – it might be the age of a teenager without many cares and problems. But 15 is also the age of Europe’s youngest country – Kosovo,...
Minnesota: Big on voting turnout and on paper ballots
Stolen, forged, falsified - these are the words heard in many countries around the world, in talk about elections. In September CNN reported that...