by Joana Azevedo Viana | Sep 4, 2018 | Global Business, Journalism in the Trump Era, Nuclear Threats and Security, Personal Reflections, WPI Activities
It’s easy to dismiss Donald Trump’s supporters as a bunch of far-right anti-immigration ultra conservatives, but reality – like history – is in no way written in a straight line. Traveling through Minnesota helps paint a more complex picture of who supports the...
by Gabriel Baldocchi | Aug 29, 2017 | Global Business
In the small town of Ely, just around 30 miles south from the Canadian border, foreign trade is not a big issue. The ties with the other side are everywhere, but most locals don’t seem to worry about the possible impacts of the review in the North American Free...
by Vinicius Neder | Aug 21, 2016 | Global Business, Homeland Security/Terrorism, Politics, Presidential Election
Since the beginning of his campaign to be the G.O.P.’s candidate in the Presidential election, Donald J. Trump has already suggested to build a wall along the border to Mexico, to increase imports tax, stated that he would fight ISIS and that the U.S. should not...
by Denis Dyomkin | Sep 6, 2014 | Global Business
Computer terminals filled with markets data, agricultural news, and weather forecasts, GPS-led unmanned tractors – high technologies that have been adopted by American farmers to do their business and enhance their operations. Minnesota is one of the leading...
by Elina Lappalainen | Sep 3, 2013 | Global Business
Today it happened. Microsoft said it has reached an agreement to acquire the handset and services business of Nokia for more than $7.1 billion. This is a historical moment for Finland’s economy and for Finnish business journalism. Finland-based Nokia was once...
by Shakir Reshamwala | Aug 27, 2013 | Agriculture, Food Security, Global Business
As we left the Twin Cities and headed southwest towards the small town of Tracy – the ‘big city’ in the storied “Little House on the Prairie” TV series – the landscape gradually changed from thick pine trees to rolling grasslands. Corn and soybean crops swayed...
