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THE WORLD FOOD CRISIS The World Food Program’s description of the global food crisis raises the specter of a natural disaster surging over an unaware populace that is helpless in the face of massive destruction. With billions of people at risk of hunger...

Today’s compendium of economic, political, and environmental events is a doozy. Starting with a taper at home we cover the latest developments in Europe, the Greek meltdown, Ukrainian angst and Russian manuvers, Latin American politics, Indian...

From Ian: New York University’s Students for Justice in Palestine Blames Police Shootings of Blacks on Israel The killings this week of African Americans Alton Sterling and Philando Castile by police have sparked soul-searching and protests across...

“Build That Wall!” Refrain enthusiastically shouted during packed Donald Trump Republican campaign rallies around the US in 2016. “Tear down this wall!” Part of a speech made by Republican US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin June 12, 1987, calling...

By The Atlantic, December 2016 The country has become repressive in a way that it has not been since the Cultural Revolution. What does its darkening political climate—and growing belligerence—mean for the United States? What if china is going bad...