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Decoder Replay: What stories can teach us about the world
While around the world misinformation and lies abound, in Africa, stories transmit morals, acceptable behavior and universal truths.
Why social media hasn’t ruined our democracy (yet)
Recent elections show that social media can affect political outcomes. A single post can alter public opinion. How does this affect direct democracies?
Surveilled, censored and in jail cells
India might be the world’s largest democracy, but journalists there lack the press protections their counterparts find in smaller democracies.
Decoder: The Paris (Dis)Agreement
A decade ago 195 countries gathered to find a way to slow climate change. Will the United States under Trump crash the “green economy” that the agreement promised?
Decoder: Do fixed borders guarantee peace?
While Russia and Ukraine war over their shared border, two Central Asian nations prove that borders can be changed by mutual agreement.
Decoder Replay: Can France accept its past as an oppressor?
It’s been 60 years since Algeria won freedom. The nation’s former ruler, France, is still struggling with its colonial legacy, national identity and values.
When world leaders descend on your town
Each January, people who live in the small Alpine town of Davos grit their teeth as they play host to the thousands who swarm in for the World Economic Forum.
Decoder: From a cold war to a warm hug
How to get the significance of Donald Trump’s bitterness towards Europe? You have to look at the complicated dance between Russia and the United States.
Top Tips: That info you found. You sure of the source?
It is hard to tell if information has been aggregated when you find it on the Internet. Getting a story right means tracking down the original source.
A taste for the good life
People spend a lot for chocolate in Switzerland. But a willingness to pay up to live well gives the country its distinctive flavour.
Decoder Replay: Why parks are worth more than what they cost
The idea of setting aside land back in 1872 has spread into a movement across the world. When a nation creates a national park, it is a gift to the globe.
When soldiers march in on your city
M23 rebel forces took over the largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Residents who have not fled now wait to see what’s next.
Can U.S. tariffs sour Canada’s “Sweet Kiss”?
Maple syrup is linked to Canada’s national identity and economy. Threats of U.S. tariffs makes the trade relationship between the two natiions quite sticky.
Top Tips: To tell a big story find one that’s small
The more complicated an issue is, the more you need to humanize it and make it comprehensible. That’s where the anecdote comes in.
Will the Vatican find its next pope in an unlikely place?
With many fearing Pope Francis won’t survive his latest illness, the Catholic Church prepares for the world’s most secretive election. Here’s what to expect.
Decoder Replay: The importance of Ukraine to the world
On the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine we return to the question we asked our correspondents then. Why should the world care?
The world applauds an indie filmed in Hindi
It’s been a decade-long journey from film school to red carpet for Mumbai director Payal Kapadia. If you want to follow her path she’s got some advice.
Trump’s idea of peace in Gaza? Hotels and yacht clubs.
The U.S. real estate developer-in-chief sees profit potential in the beaches of Gaza. But the forced relocation of people is a crime agains humanity.
Top Tips: Can your story stay fresh?
An audience will connect to a news story that is about something that concerns them even if they stumble on the story long after it is published.
Teaching students they don’t have to change the world
In Tasmania, students are learning how to prepare for a warmer planet and ways they can realistically help slow down climate change.
Decoder Replay: Should we erase history we don’t like?
A Chinese AI program negates the Tianenmen Square uprising. Google Calendar has struck oout Black History Month. Why remember the scars of the past?
Decoder: What’s all the flap about bird flu?
For decades, doctors have worried about bird flu becoming a global pandemic. With cases now in the United States, is it time for the rest of us to worry?
In an age of anxiety, people look to the stars for answers
Across the world, people have questions neither science nor religion can answer. That’s where the so-called pseudosciences come in.
Decoder: Can regional leaders help bring peace to DR Congo?
African leaders work to contain intensified conflict in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and ensure it won’t spread to neighboring nations.
Decoder: How foreign aid helps the country that gives it
Donald Trump is trying to cut off U.S. foreign aid. He might not understand that international good will is an investment that reaps all kinds of dividends.
Decoder Replay: Bacteria doesn’t stop at the border
During the Covid pandemic, nations realized they needed to work together to keep their people safe. That’s where the World Health Organization comes in.
The legion of journalists who report unbiased news
Much of the news people consume is produced by newswires. Their reporters keep their opinions to themselves so you can make up your own mind about world events.
Building tiny chips that can handle enormous data
The quantum world isn’t just for Antman. At a New York lab, scientists are building a new kind of computer based on the bizarre world of quantum physics.
Top Tips: Journalism is a calling. Is a story calling you?
News reporters are needed more now than ever before. If you’ve got a lot of curiosity and a little determination you’ve got what it takes.
Does the press affect how we think about government?
If democracy depends on the support of an informed public what does it mean when people distrust what they read and hear in the news?
Decoder Replay: Could the next gold rush be in outer space?
Technology depends on rare earth minerals, but their extraction can harm our planet. Asteroids offer a plentiful source of valuable elements.
Human rights are not just for those in power
One young Ugandan activist says its time for her generation to stand up and exercise the power their constitution gives them.
Whose business is it if a woman lends out her womb?
Some believe the business of surrogacy commodifies women. Does everyone have the right to a biological baby or does surrogacy violate the rights of the child?
Decoder: Would you sell your country to Trump?
Long ignored by much of the world, Greenland finds itself stanned by Donald Trump. How do the 56,000 people who live there feel about this uninvited attention?
The people who live where nickel is mined
In remote villages live some of the last nomadic tribes in Indonesia. But nickel mining is disrupting their lives and poisoning their land.
Decoder Replay: A nation more than syrup and hockey sticks
Trump isn’t the only American who considers Canada the 51st state. It shares a continent but it is its own nation and a big player in world affairs.
Bridging the world’s research and data divide
At the United Nations University, researchers and policy makers across the globe work together to solve big problems and share knowledge.
Bite of the Big Four: India’s deadly snakebite crisis
Almost 60,000 die from snakebite each year in India, but only one facility is producing the venom needed to make the antivenom.
Can we manage disasters that are no longer anomalies?
How India manages the extreme weather events that are becoming more common with climate change can be a lesson for the world.
Decoder: There’s no monopoly on democracy
The United States prides itself on being a government of the people. But the nation that invented modern democracy is no longer the model for it.
Decoder Replay: When facts don’t matter
What happens when distributors of information don’t care whether they peddle truth or trash?
How a festival of light can create a blanket of gray
With temperature inversion and climate change, the joyful meaning of a festival dissipates in the air we can’t breathe.
Is freedom of speech the same as freedom to lie?
Meta has told an army of fact checkers they are no longer wanted, deeming acceptable what was once considered outlandish and offensive.
The universal language of football
Playing on a different team in a different country is disorienting. But on the field the only question is this: Can you play?
Decoder: What a peaceful transition of power looks like
For a democracy to last, its leaders must willingly step down and the transition from one to the next must be smooth and bloodless.
Decoder Replay: What goes up must come down
Way up over our heads satellites and rocket parts orbit the Earth. Sometimes pieces of metal fall towards us. Most burn up in the atmosphere, but not all.
How difficult can it be to dub a Korean show into Czech?
Dubbing enables the world to share movies. But it takes an army of people to translate, voice over and make it seem natural.
The Earth tells us: Take better care of me!
Would you want a roommate to treat you the way we’ve treated the Earth? It’s time to clean up our act.
Top Tips: Nobodies become somebodies
Think you know no one of importance? Most important people were once nobodies.
Remembering a president who believed in accountability
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will be buried today. Our correspondent remembers meeting the man who put personal integrity over politics and profits.