by Robert Conner | 10 Apr 2020 | Youth Voices
Local news outfits are disappearing in the U.S. Student journalists are starting to cover important local stories. But there are limits to what they can do. Students prepare an edition of the Cougar Claw newspaper at Kearns High School in Kearns, Utah, 26 November...
by Robert Conner | 18 Jan 2018 | Discovery, Donald Trump, Future of Democracy, United States
Are you interested in driving political change? Getting fired up about U.S. midterm elections this year? Here’s advice from a young man in the trenches. The author (second from right) with an animated U.S. Rep. Mark Takano (D-Cal), Washington, DC, May 2017...
by Robert Conner | 18 Aug 2016 | Discovery, Technology
Instagram’s new “Stories” platform taps into a human desire to share emotions and is re-shaping global marketing and social media. A woman with a frame of Instagram, Mexico City, Mexico, 26 November 2014.(EPA/Sashenka Gutierrez) We encourage our...
by Robert Conner | 24 Jun 2015 | Asia, Human Rights
image buach image skyline image temple img 2984 img 2985 By Robert Conner It is a busy Saturday at Chatuchak Market in downtown Bangkok. Food stalls and handicrafts line streets crowded with Thais and foreign tourists. Street performers sing and dance, weaving between...