by News Decoder | 14 Feb 2017 | Europe, Politics, United States
By Robert Holloway The stakes in France’s election this spring could not be higher. When French voters elect their next president on May 7, the fate of the European Union, of the euro currency and of a decades-long push for continental integration will be in the...
by Luke Drabyn | 13 Feb 2017 | Europe, Nationalism, Politics, Ukraine, United States
Donald Trump shocked Europeans when he called NATO “obsolete.” But the threat the continent faces from Russia is not conventional war. Estonian soldiers during NATO exercise near Vilnius, Lithuania, 2 December 2016.(EPA/Olivier Hoslet) Is Donald Trump...
by Bernd Debusmann Jr | 9 Feb 2017 | Americas, United States
Mexico has begun exploring its options in dealing with Donald Trump. And it has some cards up its sleeve. Wax figures of Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico City, 1 February 2017(EPA/Alex Cruz) Mexico has begun exploring its options in...
by News Decoder | 8 Feb 2017 | Americas, Personal Reflections, United States
By Robert Holloway It is the year 2242. A small group of people emerge from a battered bus in the morning twilight. They walk across barren ground towards a white concrete wall that stretches left and right as far as the eye can see. They are thin and shabbily...
by Alexandra Wells | 6 Feb 2017 | School Year Abroad, Student Posts, United States, Women
Donald Trump tapped into racism to win the White House. But I assert my identity — Middle Eastern, Jewish, female — and will fight to succeed despite prejudice. Hannah Shraim, 17, affixes her hijab, Germantown, Maryland, U.S., 13 May 2016.(AP...