This whole world is now “glocal.” What happens locally can resonate globally. What happens at the global level impacts local levels. Our whole world now, Earth, its oceans, outer space and all peoples ...

The future of the world depends on citizens connecting with one another. Let me explain. About a month ago, I found myself sitting in a cozy but cluttered dining room in a modest apartment in Brussels ...

My parents owned a turf farm in northern Illinois -- my father provided the sod for Wrigley Field. When I was growing up, I went to a one-room schoolhouse that had no indoor plumbing, which makes me ...

Every individual must work toward improving U.S. foreign relations, said former president of Ireland Mary Robinson during a speech Friday in the Intercultural Center. Robinson, the first female ...

In the late 1980s, after 40 years, the Cold War simply ended. And with it fell the Ice Curtain, the impenetrable border between Alaska and the Russian Far East that had been erected by Soviet dictator ...

Bassett is a retired diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Paraguay after being nominated by President Barack Obama. She is a board member of the San Diego Diplomacy Council and lives in Imperial ...

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Shannon Galpin zips through the crowded streets of Kabul, Afghanistan, on her motorbike. The city markets of Kabul are a long way from her hometown of Breckenridge, and she travels alone, without ...

The impact of Iowa’s citizen diplomacy was on full display at the Nov. 15 dinner in San Francisco that featured a keynote address by Chinese president Xi Jinping, which drew over 600 of the nation’s ...

Ken Quinn served as a Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. State Department for 32 years, followed by two decades as President of the World Food Prize Foundation. The impact of Iowa’s "Citizen ...

This column is an excerpted version of Liz Colton's Commencement 2022 Speech at Warren Wilson College. This whole world is now “glocal.” What happens locally can resonate globally. What happens at the ...