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Decoder Replay: Fighting to end female genital mutilation
Millions of girls around the world undergo a brutal and unnecessary surgery. Gambia, which banned the practice, is set to reverse course.
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Courts around the world are considering promises made via text message as legally-binding contracts.
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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.
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Decoder Replay: Fighting to end female genital mutilation
Millions of girls around the world undergo a brutal and unnecessary surgery. Gambia, which banned the practice, is set to reverse course.
Decoder Replay: Putin raises the spectre of nuclear war
Three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has revived dormant fears of a catastrophic nuclear war.
Decoder: The political cost of economic ignorance
People vote with their wallet. But most are clueless about economic concepts. Do they cast votes based on misconceptions about money?
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Pursuing journalism across borders
News Decoder intern Kaja Andrić has genes from two sets of people historically at war with each other. The result? Someone who sees connections, not divides.
Saving people, fish and Alpine snow: Our story contest winners
For the 14th News Decoder Storytelling Competition, the winning stories tackled human trafficking, river conservation and climate change.
Faculty in the Spotlight: Russell Spinney
Russell Spinney of The Thacher School knows teaching history means teaching humans. He wins this month’s Faculty in the Spotlight award.
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