Opinions
Hunger in plain sight
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....
Why fighting corruption in Africa fails
Post-independence African countries inherited deeply corrupt institutions, laws and values from colonial and apartheid governments....
Political racism in the age of Obama
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....
Obama must rewrite his foreign policy legacy
With a more than comfortable margin of 332 to 206 electoral votes, President Barack Obama held onto office last Tuesday. ...
George McGovern: A friend to the hungry
(RNS) Former Sen. George McGovern was a friend to anyone concerned about the issue of hunger and malnutrition in the world, always making hunger a top concern, even when the political winds did not favor that fight as a topical concern. ...
How blaming the West hides war on women
The targeting of Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old girl shot nearly two weeks ago by a Pakistani Taliban assassin, brought back memories of my teenage years in Tehran, where theocratic zealots were similarly in control....
The untouchables: both presidential candidates neglect poor people in the their debate
In hopes of embarrassing President Obama, several right-wing news organizations took a renewed interest on Tuesday in a well-reported speech Mr. Obama delivered in 2007 to a conference of ministers at Hampton University, a historically black college in Virginia. ...
Twitter and the onslaught of social media in food and nutrition (my life in 140 characters or less!)
(September 25, 2012) I admit it. I tweet. I like Twitter. I like the fact that it is quick, brief (less than 140 characters), and it is a conduit to provide so much content on the internet. Twitter is agnostic. It works on web browsers, in third party applications on android and even in the walled g...
Vitamin A wars: the downsides of donor-driven aid
Surely one of the most precious of human dreams is to become rich and famous by doing good for others. And what could do more good than eradicating global malnutrition? Subtle variations on that theme have muddled the field of international nutrition for decades....
Balancing food, weather and population
The drought that has hit the United States and other grain-producing nations could be global warming or just a one-season aberration....
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