If you want peace, cultivate creation,” Pope Benedict XVI said in his 2010 World Day of Peace reflection, arguably a message not just for the new year...
Author - Kevin Clarke
A deal that sounds too good to be true probably is-especially for subsistence farmers. Africa’s savannahs and plains, even its smoldering desert dunes...
We should be helping America’s young people really be all that they can be. Despite the grim toll taken in what is becoming a war of attrition in Afghanistan...
What was once such a lovely place is becoming the country’s financial flophouse. While most of us have watched, mouths agape, as the eye-rubbing economic clown...
Countries who live in glass houses should take care when criticizing others’ anti-drug efforts. Bolivia received a little diplomatic scolding from the...
The nation's most vulnerable children are getting the short end of the spending stick. Spending more and getting less: sound familiar? A recent assessment...
Fast food has meant a slow death for thousands. Why aren't we doing more about it? If you knew of an obvious public safety hazard that contributed to the...
The hungry of the world make an uncommonly good investment opportunity. An online investment board hosts a lively chat among a gaggle of eager Wall Street...
In this article from the U.S. Catholic archives, Kevin Clarke explored the state of our U.S. health care in 2004, capturing the effects of a crisis that...
"Banning" Mexico City's street kids only moves their plight from sight. If you have ever visited Mexico City you may have enjoyed their antics as...
