We asked four experts — Carroll Bogert (human rights), Tom Burke (environment), Alan Wheatley (international economy) and Alex Nicoll (defense & security) — for their thoughts following Donald Trump’s shock victory in the U.S. presidential...
Trump has won, and Clinton has lost. Half of America is elated, half is afraid. It’s an historic moment in America. Now, time to get to work. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at an election night rally in New York, 9 November 2016, (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) Today,...
This U.S. election is calling into question the post-war world order. Whoever wins will have to address grievances shared on both sides of the Atlantic. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump shake hands at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner in New York, 20...
By Nelson Graves U.S. populists such as Donald Trump share grievances with supporters of Britain’s campaign to leave the European Union, including antagonism towards immigrants and antipathy towards elites, but not all contemporary populists are cut from the...
We have technology to avert climate disaster. But do we have the political will? A leading environmentalist is cautiously optimistic we can save the earth. The world has all the technology it needs to prevent rising temperatures from destroying the earth, but...
Tempted to erect trade barriers to protect jobs at home? Think again, says Alan Wheatley, who holds up the iPhone as “the essence of trade.” High school students participating in a mini-course on the U.S. elections recently peppered News-Decoder...
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...
What are the biggest security threats the U.S. will face under its next president? Several hundred high school students have tackled that question. What are the biggest security threats that the United States will face under its next president, no matter who wins the...
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 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...