Opinions
A compelling reform of United States food aid
Since the Eisenhower administration, the United States generally has done food aid in a certain way: grow and pack it in this country, ship it across the world on U.S.-flagged ships, then deliver it through American charities, which sell a portion of the food to fund their other programs. Not coinci...
Ending world hunger is possible – so why hasn’t it been done? Some 850 million people go to bed hungry. If the right decisions are made now, w...
Save the Children is to be applauded for reminding us all of one of the most extraordinary and humiliating aspects of living in the modern world: child hunger....
Chavez: Washington nemesis, Latin American hero
You could almost hear the sigh of relief coming out of Washington at the news of Hugo Chavez’s death on March...
Chavez: Lest we forget
In early December 2001, I was searching through my files looking for a column topic....
The feminization of farming
ACROSS the developing world, millions of people are migrating from farms to cities in search of work. The migrants are mostly men. As a result, women are increasingly on the front lines of the fight to sustain family farms....
Climate change and food prices: the scary hidden stressors
IN her introduction to a compelling new study, “The Arab Spring and Climate Change,” released Thursday, the Princeton scholar Anne-Marie Slaughter notes that crime shows often rely on the concept of a “stressor.” A stressor, she explains, is a...
Landgrabbing for biofuels must stop
Zainab Kamara is one of several thousand farmers in Sierra Leone whose lands have been taken over by the Swiss company Addax Bioenergy for a 10,000 hectare sugar cane plantation to produce ethanol for export to Europe....
600 homeless children in DC, and no one seems to care
I don’t care what we call our football team. I don’t care about Lance Armstrong’s doping or RGIII’s knee, or whether Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o knew his dead girlfriend never existed in the first place, or any of the other sports dramas we’ve spent gobs of energy on in these past f...
The persistence of racial resentment
Although there was plenty of discussion during the 2012 presidential campaign about the Hispanic vote and how intense black turnout would be, the press was preoccupied with the white vote: the white working class, white women and upscale whites....
How effective is the safety net?
Nicholas Kristof published an important column in the New York Times recently about young children in some poor communities who face greatly diminished opportunities by the time they’re just 2 years old.[1] “Many low-income children never reach the starting line,” he notes....
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