by News Decoder | 27 Mar 2017 | Americas, Economy, King’s College London, Politics, Student Posts, United States
U.S. President Donald Trump’s unsuccessful attempt to repeal Obamacare raises the question of how he will approach another of his targets: the Dodd-Frank Act that aims to protect consumers from self-serving financial services. What is the purpose of these financial...
by Alan Wheatley | 23 Mar 2017 | Economy, United States
Under Donald Trump, the U.S. is mounting an assault on free trade that could undermine the system that has underpinned global prosperity for years. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin at a news conference at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors...
by Bernd Debusmann | 6 Mar 2017 | Politics, United States
Donald Trump is calling for the “greatest military buildup in American history,” to be financed in part by cuts in funding for foreign aid. In a nutshell: more guns, less diplomacy. U.S. President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Rex Tillerson (L) after...
by News Decoder | 27 Feb 2017 | Europe, Indiana University, King’s College London, Student Posts, United States
By Nelson Graves Students at King’s College London have written a package of articles on politics and public policy that we will be publishing in coming days and which represent the second such team effort for News-Decoder after a recent series of stories by...
by Nelson Graves | 17 Feb 2017 | Journalism, Media Literacy, Technology
Increasingly we are living in media silos that divide us from large numbers of fellow citizens. Here are some tricks for bursting your media bubble. Worried about alternative facts? Try entering an alternative universe. Like it or not, each of us lives in a media...