by Bernd Debusmann | 6 Mar 2017 | Americas, Donald Trump, Guns in America, 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, 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 | Discovery, Donald Trump, Fake News, Future of Democracy, Technology, United States
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...
by Emily T. Metzgar | 15 Feb 2017 | Donald Trump, Future of Democracy, United States
Is Donald Trump’s administration straight out of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984”? Or is the U.S. mainstream media in an anti-Trump frenzy? The logo of Ingsoc, the political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania, in George...
by Alexandra Wells | 6 Feb 2017 | Donald Trump, Identity, School Year Abroad, Student Posts, United States, Women's rights
Donald Trump tapped into racism to win the White House. But I assert my identity — Middle Eastern, Jewish, female — and will fight to succeed despite prejudice. Hannah Shraim, 17, affixes her hijab, Germantown, Maryland, U.S., 13 May 2016.(AP...