“In Ely we have a WhatsApp fishing group… and none of it is true”
Welcome to Ely, population 3,400+. Located in the northern part of Minnesota, next to the Canadian border, it is a relatively small town by American standards – and a very polarized one, regular Minnesotans tell us before we depart from the Twin Cities to the...
WPI report 1: Welcome to Minneapolis!
Dear WPI fellows from all the next generations – here is something for you! https://youtu.be/evKNTAuI3oI First steps in the Twin cities – or how to take a closer look at American society through a baseball game As you already know – you are going to...
You can’t always get what you want
The legend goes that in the summer of 1964, a day after The Rolling Stones had played a one-night concert in Excelsior, Minn., a still unknown Mick Jagger went into a local drugstore looking for medicine to treat a sore throat. That was the fourth show of the first...
Wake up, time to vote!
Only a week in Minnesota and I had already lost count of how many conversations I’d had where the locals were expressing their distress, sometimes even shame, over the Trump presidency. How could this happen and will it get worse? It almost seems the United States has...
The times they are a changin’ (again)
Minnesota is not a state that comes immediately to mind when most nonAmericans think of the United States. For all I knew before coming here, it was simply the place where Bob Dylan and Prince were born and took their first steps as musicians en route to becoming the...
#WPIFellowship participants are required to submit blog posts throughout the program, in their chosen medium.
Radio broadcaster @PauliinaGrym naturally chose an audio format for this interview w/ @StimsonCenter's Jenny Town.
https://worldpressinstitute.org/how-big-of-a-nuclear-threat-is-north-korea-to-the-world-in-2022/
How much do you know about the home of @GrainBeltBeer?
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https://worldpressinstitute.org/immigrants-brewery-survives-thrives/
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