by Emily T. Metzgar | 19 May 2016 | Americas, Indiana University, Politics, United States
The U.S. heartland — “flyover country” — is sending surprising signals about the presidential election and disenchanted voters. At a rally for Bernie Sanders, Evansville, Indiana, 2 May 2016 (Jason Clark/Evansville Courier & Press via AP)...
by Bernd Debusmann | 3 May 2016 | Americas, Politics, United States
By Bernd Debusmann America’s millennials, the country’s biggest generation, are falling out of love with capitalism. That is one of the most remarkable findings by Harvard University researchers who recently interviewed more than 3,000 Americans between the ages of 18...
by News Decoder | 19 Apr 2016 | Americas, United States
Last month dozens of foreign policy experts in the U.S. Republican Party issued a letter denouncing Donald Trump’s worldview and vowing to oppose his presidential candidacy. Coming from officials who had served under Republican presidents and who normally would...
by Bernd Debusmann | 15 Mar 2016 | Americas, Asia, China, Europe, Middle East, Politics, United States
There are walls, fences, trenches and berms. In Iraq, Israel, Morocco, China and elsewhere. They are admissions of the breakdown of diplomacy and destined to fail. An Iraqi street vendor stands beside a concrete wall in Baghdad, 11 February 2016(EPA/Ali Abbas)...
by Alan Wheatley | 11 Mar 2016 | Americas, Asia, China, Economy, Europe, Politics, United States
Whatever his takeover of the Republican party says about U.S. politics, Donald Trump is capitalizing on anxiety over changes in the global economy. We asked News-Decoder correspondents for their thoughts on Donald Trump’s campaign to become U.S. president. Last...