Romance on the spectrum: Autism and relationships
“I greatly want girlfriends. Like my kind mom says, I need patience and the real advice from a knowledgeable person. Like, how do you find the woman of your dreams?”
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Wednesday Morning, at last: How we plan to change the world
Even when half the country wakes up thrilled and the other half disappointed, there’s no escaping the fact that progress tends to start on the ground level. So: How do you plan to improve your own little corner of the world?
PIN in person: Building relationships across the divides
What happens when you invite two dozen PIN sources to sit in a circle and share their stories about alienation and politics? Turns out, they make friends — despite their political differences.
Voters’ voices: Keeping a divided congregation together
Rev. Bonnie Wilcox, like so many clergy around the country, knows her congregation is politically divided. She walks a delicate line between offering pastoral guidance about “moral issues” and keeping her own political views to herself — even on social media, where she is both minister and “friend.”
Video series: Minnesotans share their thoughts on proposed marriage amendment
Listen to the stories of doubt, indecision, religion, science, memories, childhood and relationships that have informed the decision-making of a handful of Minnesotans as they prepare to vote Nov. 6.
Where do you find the silver lining amid all the election noise?
Is Facebook actually helping you express yourself in ways you wouldn’t feel comfortable doing in person? Have you learned something important from a Twitter post? Or are you so sick of election noise that you turn to social networks as a form of refuge?
Story feed: Politics, relationships and our strained social fabric
Every two years — and especially every four — Americans are confronted with a red-blue divide that polarizes the candidates and the public. The stories we’ve heard from more than 500 people paint a picture of a social fabric under tremendous strain from the pressures of the political season.
New details on our political unfriending habits
Seventy-five percent of Americans who use social networks say their friends post political statements online, according to a new survey. Eighteen percent of users have gotten so fed up they’ve blocked, unfriended or hidden some of those friends.
Lonely? Blame social media — for pointing it out
Instead of social media being the cause of our problems, couldn’t it be that it just highlights the problems we already have?
Voices of bullying: Common threads across years and miles
We asked about people’s experiences with bullying. The voices we heard told a collective story of bullying as a universal: among siblings, in the classroom, at the office; consciously and unconsciously; through passive silence and aggressive participation.