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,...
This is the second of two articles on the consequences of British voters’ decision to leave the European Union. Last week, James Ryder warned us not to hold our breath for Brexit. By Alec Fullerton One of the side effects of Britain’s decision to quit the...
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 Alec Fullerton At the age of 16, I headed off on a typical student exchange with a French school. Despite the old-fashioned teaching style and the amusingly novel sight of a teacher smoking a clope out the window mid-class, the most striking difference between...
The European Union has failed to bring peace to the Middle East and needs to rethink its strategy if it wants to help end conflicts in the region that threaten European security and prosperity. We encourage readers to contribute their views on international issues....
This is the second of two articles on the rise of nationalism in Europe. Giulia Morpurgo wrote the first article last week. By Clara Piacenza Europe, not long ago a bloody battleground that pitted nation states against each other, is experiencing a surge of...
This is the first of two stories on the rise of nationalism in Europe. By Giulia Morpurgo Europe’s debt and refugee crises have exposed fault lines in the world’s biggest trading bloc. Was it utopian to think that Slovenia, Estonia or Latvia could sustain...
By Lukas Jansen Ayu is a 13-year-old girl from a village in Indonesia, one of five children in a family that cultivates tobacco and other crops. All of the children help with the tobacco crop. Ayu says she vomits every year while harvesting tobacco. “My stomach...
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...