by News Decoder | 20 Sep 2016 | Art, News Decoder Updates
French artist Sandrine Courau has been with News-Decoder from the start. Now, with a new batch of sketches, she helps us build a global forum. Many News-Decoder readers will recognize the hand of French artist Sandrine Courau in a batch of new sketches that she has...
by Nelson Graves | 19 Sep 2016 | Americas, Future of Democracy, United States
By Nelson Graves More than 4,400 Americans have been killed in Iraq since 2003. But most young people educated at U.S. universities and colleges cannot find Iraq on a map of the Middle East. Fewer than one third of the respondents in a poll of young people...
by News Decoder | 26 Aug 2016 | Europe, Islam, Paris attacks, Terrorism, Women's rights
What are we to make of France and the burkini? Should we be outraged that towns have banned the swimsuit? Or glad as it is a symbol of oppression? A woman wearing a burkini at a protest in London, 25 August 2016. (EPA/Hannah McKay) By Nelson Graves What are we to make...
by News Decoder | 25 Aug 2016 | Europe, Student Posts
By Alec Fullerton At the age of 16, I headed off on a typical student exchange with a French school. Despite the old-fashioned teaching style and the amusingly novel sight of a teacher smoking a clope out the window mid-class, the most striking difference between...
by News Decoder | 17 Aug 2016 | Youth Voices
Céline Rottier speaks 8 languages and has 2 master’s degrees. She wants to spur development by contributing to a sustainable energy future. Céline Rottier Name: Céline Rottier Birth place: Eindhoven, Netherlands Age: 32 Education: Delft University of Technology...