By Emefa Agawu By October, 22-year-old Matt was settling into New York just fine. He was two months into a job and was slowly furnishing the East Village apartment he rents with two close friends from college. Seeing posts on social media about 2016 presidential...
By Bernd Debusmann Take note of a new phrase in the U.S. political lexicon: the Trump Phenomenon. It was coined by pundits who are perplexed by the enduring popularity of Donald Trump, the New York billionaire who wants to become U.S. president, among a segment of the...
Two News-Decoder “ambassadors” offer their thoughts on Hillary Clinton’s campaign to become the next U.S. president. Hillary Clinton, Ankeny, Iowa, 16 August 2015. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) Two of News-Decoder’s young...
It seems that the U.S. media just recently stumbled upon the Syrian refugee crisis, more than four years after it began in March of 2011. I consider myself a well-informed college student. But it is worrying that young adults in the United States, myself included, are...
By Randall Mikkelsen The attacks in Paris have jolted candidates for the U.S. presidency into advocating tougher action against the Islamic State without committing large numbers of U.S. troops, with leading Republicans favoring curbs on Syrian refugees. Until this...