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The first black president has made it harder to talk about race in America
A few weeks ago, I was standing outside a posh bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with my friends of almost two decades. ...
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Timing of Stop Kony campaign suspicious
As anyone who regularly utilizes the mixed blessing that is social media now knows, an internet campaign to “#stopkony” has exploded in popularity within the last few days....
Starving Iran won’t free it
THERE’S an old saying, attributed to the British Foreign Office in colonial days: “Keep the Persians hungry, and the Arabs fat.” ...
Bill Gates’ suppport of GM crops is wrong approach for Africa
First, his technocratic ideology runs counter to the best informed science. The World Bank and United Nations funded 900 scientists over three years in order to create an International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)....
Middle-class welfare state is invisible by design
March 1 (Bloomberg) -- What is a government program? And are you on one right now? Those are the questions Cornell University political scientist Suzanne Mettler has been posing. ...
Money and morals
Lately inequality has re-entered the national conversation. Occupy Wall Street gave the issue visibility, while the Congressional Budget Office supplied hard data on the widening income gap....
Take a step to help hungry children
Did you know? --6.3 percent of children in developing countries die before their fifth birthday—7.6 million children in 2010 --Malnutrition/hunger is an important factor in at least one-third of these deaths—2.2 million children. Typically children, weakened by hunger, succumb to a disease s...
1,000 days to change the future
Global leaders are gathering in Davos, Switzerland, this week to consider some of the most significant economic challenges facing the world and to look for solutions that can help people live healthier, more productive lives....
The army and the economy in Egypt
Until this very day, the role of the military establishment in the economy remains one of the major taboos in Egyptian politics....
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