It is easy to write off mass shootings as a U.S. problem. But they are on the rise globally. Can we find global solutions to this massive problem? Candles, flowers and other memorabilia are placed at the Viertola school in Vantaa, Finland, 3 April 2024. A 12-year-old...
Can we explain mass shootings in places like the Czech Republic or Serbia as American-influenced phenomena or is something else going on? We turned to one expert to learn more. Jason Silva. (Photo courtesy of Jason Silva) On 21 December 2023, Charles University in...
By Nelson Graves Let’s take time out from digesting Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election to look at a critical issue that is helping to shape politics in that country and around the world: terrorism. Terrorism sends shock waves around...
What are we to make of France and the burkini? Should we be outraged that towns have banned the swimsuit? Or glad as it is a symbol of oppression? A woman wearing a burkini at a protest in London, 25 August 2016. (EPA/Hannah McKay) By Nelson Graves What are we to make...
I was in Nice on Bastille Day and am lucky to be alive. I have a byline. But the 84 dead, they have no byline. French flags at half mast on the Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France, 16 July 2016. (EPA/Ian Langsdon) News-Decoder Editor Robert Holloway was in Nice on...