Author: WHES

What progress has been made in the last year in addressing the underlying causes of the global food crisis? Far too little.

Politicians across the political spectrum herald “job creation,” but frightfully few of them talk about what kinds of jobs are being created.

Disappointment at the collective performance of our leaders at global summits goes far beyond the development movement.

Nothing affects public health in the United States more than food. Gun violence kills tens of thousands of Americans a year.

Sixty years ago, emboldened by such figures as Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere and Leopold Senghor, Africans were enjoying the fresh air and the expectations of independence.

LAST month, as I was driving down a backbreaking road between Goma, a provincial capital in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kibumba, a little market town about 20 miles away, I

It is a dark day for the rule of law. Federal and state authorities have chosen not to indict HSBC, the London-based bank, on charges of vast and prolonged money laundering, for fear that criminal prosecution would topple the bank and, in the process, endanger the financial system.

There are hungry people out there, actually; they’re just largely invisible to the rest of us, or they look so much like us that it’s hard to tell.

Post-independence African countries inherited deeply corrupt institutions, laws and values from colonial and apartheid governments.

THE white students at Ole Miss who greeted President Obama’s decisive re-election with racial slurs and nasty disruptions on Tuesday night show that the long shadows of race still hang eerily over us.