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...
“The truck plowed into the crowd, and then we heard screaming. It was really a horrible experience.” Robert Holloway saw the attack in Nice last night. Bodies at the scene of a truck attack in Nice, France, 15 July 2016. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) “We saw...
By Ally Oh We’re always told to look for the good — the silver lining, the upside, the half-full glass — but it’s not always that easy or simple. On a recent weekend, listening to a heartbroken Turkish girl cry and yell at everyone in the bathroom to get...