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Decoder Replay: If a woman designed this place…
Women use cities differently than men but their needs have largely been ignored in urban planning. That’s starting to change.
Decoder: What has the United States gotten the world into now?
With the joint bombing of Iran with Israel, the United States may have begun a war without an endgame. Let’s help you make sense of the chaos.
Decoder Replay: The power of individual climate action
To fight climate change, we can each do more than take the bus instead of drive. Systemic change is spurred when individual shouts becomes a collective outcry.
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Where could you find popes, snakes and soccer players all in one place? On the pages of News Decoder this past year. Explore our most-read stories of 2025.
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As we approach the coming year, let’s look back on the past year and see that it wasn’t all gloom and doom.
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