Opinions
Nutrition and health: The opportunity cost of opportunities lost
Despite significant progress made in child survival responses, millions of children under the age of five continue to die from preventable causes, with malnutrition contributing to 45 percent of those deaths. For those who live, one quarter — approximately 165 million children — suffer from stun...
Food justice is about more than food security and nutrition
We need fundamental change in the food system that has developed in the rich world, particularly in the last 75 years or so. ...
We need an international court to stamp out corruption: The creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court would hold leaders accountable
Mark L. Wolf is a senior U.S. district judge for the District of Massachusetts. He was a special assistant to the U.S. attorney general from 1975 to 1977 and the chief federal public corruption prosecutor in Massachusetts from 1981 to 1985. This piece is condensed from an article published by the Br...
House child tax credit leaves behind millions of low-income working families
The Child Tax Credit (CTC) legislation that the House is slated to consider this week has misguided priorities: it would make many relatively affluent families better off while letting millions of low-income working families become poorer....
The passing of Martin Lueders, conflict photographer
Martin Lueders (file photo from 2000) With great sadness I note the passing of Martin Lueders in June 2014. He was an i...
US should have tried nation-building in Central America, not Iraq and Afghanistan
It’s nice to see the United States paying attention to Central America again. Too bad it took tens of thousands of desperate children pouring across the border to attract our interest....
Our bees, ourselves: Bees and colony collapse
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — AROUND the world, honeybee colonies are dying in huge numbers: About one-third of hives collapse each year, a pattern going back a decade. For bees and the plants they pollinate — as well as for beekeepers, farmers, honey lovers and everyone else who appreciates thi...
Global food security: Why it affects us all
Concerns about food security — and efforts to achieve it — are nothing new for the international development community....
Inequality is not inevitable
AN insidious trend has developed over this past third of a century. A country that experienced shared growth after World War II began to tear apart, so much so that when the Great Recession hit in late 2007, one could no longer ignore the fissures that had come to define the American economic landsc...
Class war: Thailand’s military coup. Outnumbered by the country’s rural voters, Thailand’s once vibrantly democratic urban middle class ...
This article is a joint publication of Foreign Policy In Focus and TheNation.com. After declaring martial law on Tuesday, May 20, the Thai military announced a full-fledged coup two days later. ...
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