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Dada Birthday Bash – When Zürich Meets New York
So the Dada movement threw itself an early birthday party - two years before the centennial in 2016. Why would a centennial need to be at exactly 100 years?
Why Schaffhausen takes democracy as seriously as ancient Athens
Despite not being nestled on the jagged cliffs of the Aegean sea, Switzerland did have similarities with ancient Greece over 700 years ago...
Christian
Immigration Policy: What Switzerland Could Learn from the U.S. (and vice versa)
Switzerland and the United States have a track record of adopting each other's policies. Consider 1787, when the founders of...
3 popular initiatives about money and salaries in Switzerland
Switzerland has long been known as an island of wealth in Europe, but there is growing discontent in the country of cheese and chocolate...
Elections: No Thanks, Say the Swiss. Again.
Last week the Swiss voted on a topic of profound national importance that would boggle the minds of most Americans...
Bill Harby
A Lesson from Liechtenstein
If you love cultural diversity, you’ve got to love Switzerland. Among only 8 million residents, 25%+ of whom are immigrants, we have four official languages, at least 18 types of cheeses...
Graubünden 2022: Olympic Dream or Nightmare?
Higher, faster, stronger. Those three words are the theme of the Olympic Games. Every two years, the countries do their best to come together and cheer on the world's best athletes. Yet for an institution that tries so...
Explaining the Smoking Ban Initiative (Sept 2012)
I felt like I was stepping back in time when I moved to Switzerland in 2012. In fact, with all this second-hand smoke for free, I have often wondered why people (particularly at train stations) will pay for cigarettes...
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