Fed up, everyday citizens are stepping up to reverse a whole slew of assaults on our democracy—from voting rights to gerrymandering to removing money’s grip
With the past half-century’s experience, it’s become harder to deny that suffering arises not from nature’s deficit but humanity’s failure to reverse the concentration of wealth and the decline of democracies around the world
Globally, in this now-or-never moment, we can remake governance to answer to all of us, to finally make policy with the understanding that hunger will only be uprooted if we tackle the anti-democracy forces at its roots
Now that the climate crisis calls for vastly more trees, it’s time to take in the good news that trees and crops can do well together
Where are the calls to stop the massive illegal transfer of U.S. weapons fueling the very violence that drives innocent people to leave their homes?
Citizens are not sitting idly watching our democracy go under
I grew up in Cow Town. Or make that Fort Worth, Texas. It was the ’50s and supper was canned spinach with…
“To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen surpasses that of a…
What a weekend to be hanging with the guys from Farm Aid: historic financial meltdown, plus, breaking news — ignored by virtually…
Bill Gates thinks he’s got a brilliant idea: fighting malnutrition abroad by fortifying food. The scheme, backed with $50 million from the…
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