An end to global poverty and suffering is in sight, but much more work remains. In a world awash with suffering and sorrow—the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe...
Margin Notes
What is the cost of being poor in America? Researchers have long known that because of a broad reduction in retail and other consumer choices experienced by...
So-called “cheap” energy sources will have a high cost for future generations. We have been told that we live in a threshold age of energy production, an era...
How much do workers have to celebrate this labor day? The summer of 2013 may go down as one of the most scorching in recorded history. The blazing sun broke...
The war on drugs isn’t working. In fact, it is making the problem even worse. In May President Barack Obama signaled the beginning of the end of the war on...
Buyer beware: That low-priced shirt might have cost someone their life. New York City made it easier to eat healthier a few years ago by requiring that calorie...
Perhaps only the global drug trade has been less scrutinized than the $70 billion annual market in conventional weapons. The world community took a significant...
Cutting out the middleman may increase the value of our charitable donations. Most savvy charity “shoppers” have learned that a little homework is required to...
Pope Benedict kept us guessing—especially on matters of social justice. Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to become the first pope since Celestine V in 1294 to...
Our best shot at protecting the common good isn’t to keep loading up on guns. A few weeks before Adam Lanza began his shooting rampage among children in...
