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The true cost of the Iraq war: $3 trillion ($3,000 billion) and more
Writing in these pages in early 2008, we put the total cost to the United States of the Iraq war at $3 trillion. This price tag dwarfed previous estimates, including the Bush administration's 2003 projections of a $50 billion to $60 billion war. ...
Its time to end the excessive subsidies ($1.78 a gallon) for corn ethanol
WHEN WASHINGTON starts handing out cash, it can be hard to stop. See, for example, the decades of subsidies the government has showered on the corn ethanol industry. The fuel was supposed to free America from its dependence on foreign oil and produce fewer carbon emissions in the process....
Obama’s overdue AIDS bill
HAVING met President Obama, I’m confident that he’s a man of conscience who shares my commitment to bringing hope and care to the world’s poor. But I am saddened by his decision to spend less than he promised to treat AIDS patients in Africa....
Violence in South Africa against immigrants is caused by very poor South Africans facing great competition from very poor immigrants, not xenophobia
Rumors are circulating that when the World Cup is over, foreigners will be expelled. But surely it must be clear by now that South Africa has long been a melting pot and that our immigrant population is here to stay? We must ask ourselves whether xenophobia is perhaps just a label we have slappe...
Giant oil spills have turned the Amazon in Ecuador into a disaster zone long before the Gulf
BP’s calamitous behavior in the Gulf of Mexico is the big oil story of the moment. But for many years, indigenous people from a formerly pristine region of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador have been trying to get relief from an American company, Texaco (which later merged with Chevron), for what h...
Has the US rice export policy condemned Haiti to poverty?
(April 23, 2010) Did President Clinton and other recent White House tenants condemn Haiti to a future of endemic poverty through a self-serving U.S. rice export policy? An examination of Haiti’s economic liberalization strategies of the 1980s and 1990s indicates that the answer in part is “yes.â...
The worst of the pain of the economic crisis is felt by low income households–the lowest income group had unemployment of 30 percent while the h...
Bob Herbert is no longer writing his column for The New York Times. Bob Herbert joined The New York Times as an Op-Ed columnist in June 1993. He writes about politics, urban affairs and social trends in a twice-weekly column....
Equatorial Guinea: Its per capita income is equal to Italy, while two-thirds of its population live in extreme poverty and its infant and child mortal...
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The other plot to destroy America: Wall Street has (arguably) caused more devastation than Al Qaeda, yet what are we doing to prevent a recurrence of ...
THERE may not be a person in America without a strong opinion about what coulda, shoulda been done to prevent the underwear bomber from boarding that Christmas flight to Detroit. In the years since 9/11, we’ve all become counterterrorists....
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