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​There is No Migration Crisis

The entire world is in panic. For the first time in dozens of years — actually for the first time in many generations — the cause isn’t a war, a stock market crash or a natural disaster. The problem has a new, scary name: the migration crisis. Well-known...
USA on a stick

USA on a stick

  Yesterday  at the state fair I noticed what ever was offered on a stick was greatly welcomed and adapted by everyone. That made me think what if the national and international issues of american politics was offered in a same way, would that solve the...
Two parallel (and similar) races

Two parallel (and similar) races

The race for the White House is always there. When I turn on the TV, when I get together with the Americans, when we talk with specialists and journalists… the presidential campaign catches my attention all the time. Particularly, because we are also living the...

Home, away from home

It is Monday morning and well past the Sunday mid night deadline given to me by David, our “supreme guide”, and the WPI executive director, to write this blog. See, for days on end I have been agonizing about what to write about my stay in the US so...
The lesson at one-room school

The lesson at one-room school

Many Americans are rightfully mystified and concerned by nostalgia for communism, especially when they learn there are those who miss the Soviet Union not only among radicals in Putin’s Russia – but also in my home country of Ukraine. Americans saw the dark truth...
Just Another Perfect Day in Paradise

Just Another Perfect Day in Paradise

The quaint little town of Ely north of Minnesota past the grey waters of Lake Superior, comes as a neat surprise all wrapped in lush green on a rainy evening late August. Our six-hour long first road trip in the United States with pit-stops at Highway 61 and Dylan...

On life and death – in the news

Unfathomable deaths have dominated the news this week both in the US and Europe. In the US, a former reporter murdered two journalists from his former channel in Virginia on Wednesday on air. In Europe, Austrian police found a truck with dozens of bodies abandoned on...
#2016SocilalMediaElections

#2016SocilalMediaElections

  Social media is driving the 2016 presidential race. That’s why the candidates of both parties increasingly view Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram as the main battleground in the fight for the White House. Now they found that using their Twitter and...