The modern world threatens the existence of a small group of our own species. Multinational mining interests, illegal logging, and slash-and-burn agriculture...
Author - Kevin Clarke
Can the $300 home add dignity to the lives of the world’s poorest people? According to U.N. projections, a trend of demographic concentration in the world’s...
The energy policy of the future should be sung to the tune of “Here Comes the Sun.” Events out of Japan persist in an irradiated gloom. The disaster unfolding...
As a voice for peace and justice, Pope John Paul II was a man for all political reasons. John paul II will be remembered as the pope who stared down global...
Don’t paint public workers as a public enemies; they’re just working for the common good. A few days after Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki issued a...
If profit is the prime motive, the poor will always get the raw end of the deal. When lives are on the balance sheet, how should a credit program for the poor...
The Internet keeps its promise in Egypt. In the early days of the World Wide Web, HTML practitioners maintained the googly-eyed optimism of people who thought...
The pope’s stance on health care may be hard pill to swallow for opponents of reform. More than 100 million people a year across the world are driven into...
The country’s cities may no longer be the epicenters of poverty. After 18 months of unemployment that has refused to budge below 9.6 percent, it will come as...
The land of Jesus’ birth may soon be without Christians to celebrate it. At eventide the square of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem lights up like a...






