Are you interested in driving political change? Getting fired up about U.S. midterm elections this year? Here’s advice from a young man in the trenches. The author (second from right) with an animated U.S. Rep. Mark Takano (D-Cal), Washington, DC, May 2017...
This article was submitted to News-Decoder’s recent essay/reporting contest for students in our partner academic institutions. To read other submissions, click here. By Lily Annenberg Last July, my father and I spent two weeks traveling through rural Kenya and...
By Paul Radford I have covered 17 Olympics and can assure you, they are much more than sport. Consider them international politics with sports thrown in. North Korea’s sudden enthusiasm for taking part in next month’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang on the southern...
Media outlets in the U.S., usually dismissive of unidentified aerial phenomenon, have suddenly changed their tone. I’m not saying it’s aliens, but … Michael Savage, 15-year-old son of a prominent San Bernardino physician and surgeon, was practicing...
Suzuyo Takazato first protested against a U.S. military base on Japan’s Okinawa island in 1995 after the rape of a schoolgirl. She persists today. (Photo by Joe Coleman) This story was co-winner in the university division in News-Decoder’s Arch Roberts Jr...
Are you worried millennials are doomed to financial inadequacy? That retirement is a pipe dream? Here’s a book with tough-love advice. Young people attend a seminar on investing, Brookline, Massachusetts, 8 January 2016 (AP Photo/The Christian Science Monitor,...
Baby boomers have basically ruined things for millennials. But here’s a book that will help you have your avocado, your trips and financial freedom. Young people attend a seminar on investing, Brookline, Massachusetts, 8 January 2016 (AP Photo/The Christian...
Since this installment was posted in October, this story has been published by Explorer’s Eye Press in “Exceptional Encounters: Enhanced Reality Tales from Southeast Asia”. It is available for purchase here. This is the final installment of a five-part...
Do rivers and trees on Borneo have legal rights? A Southeast Asian court is asked to decide, and the answer is not as simple as it might seem. In the first, second and third installments of this story set in Southeast Asia, we met a U.S.-educated Malaysian lawyer who...
Since this installment was posted in October, this story has been published by Explorer’s Eye Press in “Exceptional Encounters: Enhanced Reality Tales from Southeast Asia”. It is available for purchase here. In the first and second installments of this...