by David Schlesinger | 19 Feb 2025 | Decoder Replay, History, Media Literacy, Politics
A Chinese AI program negates the Tianenmen Square uprising. Google Calendar has struck out Black History Month. Why remember the scars of the past? Thousands of people at Victoria Park in Hong Kong 4 June 2019 attend a candlelight vigil for victims of the Chinese...
by Gene Gibbons | 16 Jan 2025 | Decoders, Government, History, Politics, United States
For a democracy to last, its leaders must willingly step down and the transition from one to the next must be smooth and bloodless. Then-President Barack Obama shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump during the presidential inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in...
by Jonathan Lyons | 2 Oct 2024 | History, Journalism, Politics, Wh-Y Vote
U.S. presidents have often twisted the truth. But Donald Trump has flooded the media with falsehoods in a unique challenge to democratic institutions. Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Bayfront Convention...
by Marcy Burstiner | 1 Aug 2024 | Decoders, History, Politics, Wh-Y Vote
Why the winner of the most votes in the U.S. presidential election might lose the presidency. A map shows the results of the Electoral College in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the results of the general election. (Illustration by News Decoder) This article...
by John West | 29 Jul 2024 | Decoders, Europe, History, Politics, Russia, Ukraine, United States
The mutual defence pact started with 12 nations and now has 32 members. But does bigger mean safer? Military officers attend a ceremony in Albania for the inauguration of an international tactical air base, NATO’s first in the Western Balkan region, 4 March 2024. (AP...