Do you think universities should create “safe spaces” and offer “trigger warnings” for material that might upset students? Here are two opposing views. Protesters shout before a speaking engagement by Ben Shapiro at the University of California...
By Nelson Graves Today News-Decoder is launching a fund-raising campaign to ensure we keep growing so we can become the world’s pre-eminent news service and global forum for young people. We have made excellent progress since we launched two years ago. Now we...
This article looks at the potential impact that Spain’s current constitutional crisis over independence for Catalonia could have on some of the more significant separatist movements elsewhere in Europe. For more “decoders” explaining big issues, click...
By Alistair Lyon Arriving in Amman the other day, I boarded an airport taxi into town and began chatting with the driver. I’ll call him Yusuf. He told me he used to work as an engineer, calibrating ground instruments for the Jordanian air force. I mentioned that...
Rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia, aspirants for leadership of the Islamic world, is at the crux of conflict across the Mideast, with deadly results. An Iranian woman in Tehran holds up a poster showing Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent opposition Saudi Shiite...