Opinions
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....
The global farmland rush
OVER the last decade, as populations have grown, capital has flowed across borders and crop yields have leveled off, food-importing nations and private investors have been securing land abroad to use for agriculture....
Resolving the food crisis: The need for decisive action
What progress has been made in the last year in addressing the underlying causes of the global food crisis? Far too little....
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