The media sensationalizes wildfires, overlooking beneficial effects that fire can have nature. Journalists need to take a more sophisticated approach. A firefighter lights a “backfire” to contain the Rocky Fire near Clearlake, California, 3 August 2015. (AP Photo/Josh...
By Nelson Graves They love to travel, speak multiple languages, do community service outside of school and often aim for international careers. They are News-Decoder’s student ambassadors. Today we are announcing the lineup of students who serve as crucial...
By Nelson Graves There are jobs for young people interested in advocacy, they don’t necessarily pay very much, it can be a long slog, but in the end the personal satisfaction from helping others who are less fortunate can be enormous. That was one of the...
Is Donald Trump’s administration straight out of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984”? Or is the U.S. mainstream media in an anti-Trump frenzy? The logo of Ingsoc, the political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania, in George...
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...