By Yesenia Mozo I live in a couple of different worlds. One is within me — a queer person of color, born of immigrant parents, fighting for an education despite strapped family finances. This world often collides with others, particularly with my world at home....
This article was a runner-up in the high school category of News-Decoder’s second essay/reporting contest. By Kate Curry While the United States ponders the domestic implications of Donald Trump’s election victory, the rest of the world is anxious about...
With the election of Donald Trump and Brexit, the world is at a crossroads. We can close our ears to the pleas of the disaffected, or start to listen. Donald Trump welcomes Nigel Farage, left, ex-leader of the British UKIP party, at a campaign rally in Jackson, Miss.,...
This article won first prize in the high school category of News-Decoder’s recent essay/reporting contest. By Nicholas Jain Evelyn Momplaisir’s eight-year-old son was crying in her arms. Earlier that day, two classmates in his Northern Virginia school said...
This story won first prize in the university category in News-Decoder’s second essay/reporting contest. By Alina Kaur A cold Siberian October. The last leaves are falling from the trees in a soothing silence. Then you hear someone running through the grass,...
By Rashad Mammadov Two years ago, a pair of American political scientists published a study that found that the U.S. system of government is closer to oligarchy — or rule by the few — than to democracy. Martin Gilens of Princeton University and Benjamin...
Young people in several countries share their anxieties and fears following Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election. Clinton supporters, New York, 9 November 2016 (by Enrique Shore) We asked several young followers of News-Decoder for their...
By Ruben Tjon-A-Meeuw It was hardly a coincidence. Mere hours before U.S. Vice President Joe Biden landed in Ankara to stress the significance of Turkish-American friendship, Turkish tanks rolled into northern Syria in an effort to drive Islamic State forces out of...
By Rashad Mammadov If you were on the streets of Turkey’s largest city, Istanbul, today, you could be forgiven if you had mixed feelings or asked some embarrassing questions. While some were celebrating the failed military coup, others were depressed. The conflicting...
The nuclear agreement between Iran and global powers sealed a year ago is good as it prevents Iran from building weapons for at least a decade. Iranian women in Tehran, Iran, 16 January 2016. (EPA/Abedin Teherkenareh) This is the second of two articles on the nuclear...