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...
Europe is right to order Apple to pay billions of euros of back taxes to Ireland. A failure to crack down on tax avoidance can only fuel populism. Employees at Apple’s European headquarters in Hollyhill, close to Cork, Ireland. 14 May 2015 (EPA/David Keane) This is...
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...
This is the first of two articles on the consequences of British voters’ decision to leave the European Union. By James Ryder Picture the scene: January 20, 2017. Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump, just sworn in, turns to cheering well-wishers crowded...
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...