by News Decoder | 18 Mar 2020 | Health and Wellness
As the coronavirus crisis deepens, we confront a most basic question: Will we survive this? We tapped our correspondents for their thoughts. An emergency hospital during the Spanish flu epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas, circa 1918 (Wikimedia Commons/National Museum of...
by News Decoder | 25 Jan 2017 | Economy, United States
Four News-Decoder correspondents look at Donald Trump and his potential impact on the U.S. economy, the media and democracy. Donald Trump’s Twitter account as U.S. president, 20 January 2017. (AP Photo) Here are the views of four News-Decoder correspondents on Donald...
by News Decoder | 18 Oct 2016 | Human Rights, Islam, Middle East, Syria
Five and a half years after its civil war erupted, Syria descends into the abyss as the world watches. What lessons can we draw from this tragedy? A Syrian man holding a girl surrounded by the rubble of houses destroyed by air strikes in Aleppo, Syria, 21 April 2014...
by News Decoder | 9 Jun 2016 | Europe, Ukraine
Russia has released pilot Nadiya Savchenko, Ukraine’s “Joan of Arc,” from prison. Does Vladimir Putin want the EU to drop sanctions? Nadiya Savchenko sings Ukraine’s national anthem in parliament, 31 May 2016. (EPA/Sergey Dolzhenko) Russia released...
by News Decoder | 16 Feb 2016 | Indiana University, Middle East, Syria
Fighting rages in Syria despite international efforts to impose a ceasefire and advance a peace plan. How remote are the prospects for peace in Syria? A hospital destroyed in northern Syria, 15 February 2016 (EPA/Sam Taylor/Médecins Sans Frontières handout) Fighting...