Opinions
Breeding the nutrition out of our food
WE like the idea that food can be the answer to our ills, that if we eat nutritious foods we won’t need medicine or supplements. We have valued this notion for a long, long time. ...
The end of the perpetual war
President Obama’s speech on Thursday was the most important statement on counterterrorism policy since the 2001 attacks, a momentous turning point in post-9/11 America....
What guilt does the US bear in Guatemala?—four views
Guatemala’s former dictator, Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt, has been convicted of genocide in the slaughter of as many as 200,000 members of indigenous groups during the 1980s in a long bloody fight against the left....
How social networks drive black unemployment
It’s easy to believe the worst is over in the economic downturn. But for African-Americans, the pain continues — over 13 percent of black workers are unemployed, nearly twice the national average....
Lives destroyed, dreams crushed, and cheap clothes
The collapse of a large eight-story garment factory in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka a few days ago has resulted in numerous images, stories and reports....
Kill the Food for Peace program? What a horrible idea from our own government!
April 27, 2013 For more than 57 years, the United States has given food, through what is known as the Food for Peace Program, to hundreds of millions of people who were starving and malnourished. This program has used safe and nutritious US produced food to help famine victims, malnourished child...
The jobless trap
F.D.R. told us that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself. But when future historians look back at our monstrously failed response to economic depression, they probably won’t blame fear, per se. Instead, they’ll castigate our leaders for fearing the wrong things....
US food aid: Take the local food movement global
THE UNITED States has a proud tradition of supplying food aid to hungry people around the world, whether their plight is due to chronic poverty or sudden natural disaster....
The kids are (not) all right—UNICEF report ranks US child welfare 26th of 29 rich countries
According to a Unicef report issued last week — “Child Well-Being in Rich Countries” — the United States once again ranked among the worst wealthy countries for children, coming in 26th place of 29 countries included. Only Lithuania, Latvia and Romania placed lower, and those were among the ...
Helping the world’s poorest children requires radical reform
The world’s newest and youngest liberation movement will make its presence felt at a summit in Washington this week. ...
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