by News Decoder | 24 Jan 2018 | La Jolla Country Day School, Student Posts, Women, Youth Voices
Afghan school girls study under a tent, at the Zarghona High School in Kabul Afghanistan on Thursday Oct 16, 2003. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel By Jane GreenipCollege. It’s the first word I hear out of my relatives’ mouths right now, the moment I walk into the room. I get...
by News Decoder | 22 Jan 2018 | Princeton Day School, Student Posts, United States, Women
By Léa Namouni I expected no one to show up to the Women’s March on Saturday. The first Women’s March last year was so unbelievably crowded, I didn’t think it would happen again. On the train to New York’s Penn Station, my mom and I were the only ones...
by News Decoder | 17 Jan 2018 | Africa, Student Posts, Thacher School
This article was submitted to News-Decoder’s recent essay/reporting contest for students in our partner academic institutions. To read other submissions, click here. By Lily Annenberg Last July, my father and I spent two weeks traveling through rural Kenya and...
by News Decoder | 10 Jan 2018 | Asia, Indiana University, Student Posts
This article was submitted to News-Decoder’s recent essay/reporting contest for students in our partner academic institutions. To read other submissions, click here. (Photographs by Carley Lanich) By Carley Lanich Under an early morning sun, four men wearing...
by News Decoder | 8 Jan 2018 | Europe, Nationalism, Spain
By Robert Hart As a new year starts, Spain’s increasingly bitter constitutional crisis over a bid for independence by the separatist-led government of the northeastern region of Catalonia seems no closer to a solution and threatens to deepen divisions in Catalan...