by News Decoder | 16 Jan 2017 | China, Human Rights, School Year Abroad, Student Posts, United States
By Anitra Conover What does the United States risk by trading heavily with China and cooperating with the ruling Chinese Communist Party? The relationship appears economically symbiotic. According to the Observatory of Economic Complexity, nine percent of U.S. export...
by News Decoder | 11 Jan 2017 | Donald Trump, School Year Abroad, Student Posts, United States
By Maxine Arnheiter When I was 11 years old, my school held a rally during the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. I remember staying up late with my babysitter, making a flashy, patriotically colored sign for Obama. I misspelled the...
by Bernd Debusmann Jr | 10 Jan 2017 | Americas, Donald Trump, Islam, Middle East, Syria, United States
Donald Trump has called for a ban on the entry of Muslims into the U.S. and conflated “Muslim” and “terrorist.” But many Arabs are hoping the next U.S. president will take a harder line on Iran. Donald Trump at a rally opposing the Iran nuclear...
by News Decoder | 5 Jan 2017 | Donald Trump, Europe, Future of Democracy, Globalization, Greens Farms Academy, Student Posts, United States
By John Selkowitz When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, it marked the end of Communism in a nation that had been one of its strongest global advocates. It also marked a new reality: that a coalition of liberal democracies led by the United States had emerged...
by News Decoder | 3 Jan 2017 | Donald Trump, Refugees, School Year Abroad, Student Posts, United States, Women's rights
By Yesenia Mozo I live in a couple of different worlds. One is within me — a queer person of color, born of immigrant parents, fighting for an education despite strapped family finances. This world often collides with others, particularly with my world at home....