by Nelson Graves | 13 Oct 2016 | Americas, Asia, China, Human Rights, United States
The imprisonment of large numbers of Black Americans constitutes the most serious human rights violation in the U.S., an expert tells students. The imprisonment of disproportionately large numbers of African-Americans constitutes the most serious human rights...
by Enrique Shore | 26 Sep 2016 | Americas, United States
Friends and foes, big nations and small, gather every September at the United Nations. Enrique Shore looks at this year’s assembly. Every September, an extraordinary event takes place in New York City. It happens with such regularity that it has become almost...
by Nelson Graves | 19 Sep 2016 | Americas, Education, United States
By Nelson Graves More than 4,400 Americans have been killed in Iraq since 2003. But most young people educated at U.S. universities and colleges cannot find Iraq on a map of the Middle East. Fewer than one third of the respondents in a poll of young people...
by Betty Wong | 8 Sep 2016 | Americas, Europe, United States
Apple’s whopping $14.5-billion tax bill from the EU highlights the dilemma for governments wanting to attract jobs without emptying their coffers. Apple logo in front of a European Union flag, 2 September 2016.(REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration) This is the first...
by News Decoder | 1 Sep 2016 | Americas, United States
This week, News-Decoder correspondent James Clad, who served under ex-U.S. President George W. Bush, became the latest former senior official who worked for a Republican president to endorse Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, for the White House. Below, Clad explains his...
by News Decoder | 1 Aug 2016 | Americas, Personal Reflections, Politics, United States
We asked News-Decoder’s ambassadors — a network of young adults around the world who believe in our mission — for their thoughts on the U.S. presidential race, now that the two major parties have held their nominating conventions. Here’s what...
by News Decoder | 26 Jul 2016 | Americas, Politics, United States
Protesters in Cleveland, Ohio speak out against Republicans. Christopher Alexander Gellert spoke to protesters who demonstrated on the margins of the U.S. Republican National Convention last week in Cleveland, Ohio. They tell him why they decided to come into the...
by Christopher Alexander Gellert | 20 Jul 2016 | Americas, Politics, United States
I’m from Cleveland, where Republicans have nominated Donald Trump as their presidential candidate. Farce has not yet descended into tragedy. The Barbarians are coming! I was not alone in this thought when I learned Republicans were descending on my dear...
by News Decoder | 20 Jun 2016 | Americas, Decoders, King’s College London, Student Posts
This article is part of a News-Decoder series of “decoders” that explain crucial background to big issues. For more decoders, click here. By Emma Bapt The biggest leak in history, the Panama Papers have cast an uncompromising glare on the inner workings of...
by Giuliana Nicolucci-Altman | 7 Jun 2016 | Americas, Europe, Islam, School Year Abroad, Student Posts, Terrorism, United States
I’ve spent the past year in France. I’m not French, but I no longer identify completely as an American. It’s given me a new perspective. A Muslim student puts on her head scarf as she leaves high school in Lille, France, 2 September 2004. France bans...