Posts by Milena Kirova:
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 thought. This is my first visit to a prison. At the entrance they warn us: “If you hear shots, don’t run, we...
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 that builds Iowa’s cultural, economic, and educational partnerships with the world – received Xi, then party...
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 happiness. We measure in percentages the damage we ourselves cause to nature. The climate is changing, and with it the...