Starving Its Own Children

Nicholas Kristof: "Perhaps hundreds of thousands of people here have no food and are reduced to eating leaves and insects, as Sudan’s government starves and bombs its own people in the Nuba Mountains. Children are beginning to die."

Hunger at Thanksgiving

Ertharin Cousin and Tony Hall: "As a global community, we must all make sure that every country can produce the food it needs, that every mother has the means to feed her children, and that smallholder farmers, especially women, have the tools they need to better produce, store, and market what they grow. These values … Continue reading Hunger at Thanksgiving

Inside a Mogadishu hospital, a struggle to treat the smallest victims of famine

Washington Post: "This week, the scale of the challenge came into sharper focus: the United Nations declared that Somalia’s famine has spread to a sixth region and warned that at least 750,000 people are at risk of dying in the next four months if aid efforts are not stepped up. Tens of thousands have died, … Continue reading Inside a Mogadishu hospital, a struggle to treat the smallest victims of famine

How the Working Poor Became the New Welfare Queens

Ed Kilgore: "The transformation is widely observable across the conservative landscape, with Republican fiscal proposals in the states and in Washington going after a host of other key support systems for the working poor with a vengeance: state-level EITCs, job training programs, unemployment benefits, food stamps, Medicaid, you name it. It’s also no coincidence that, … Continue reading How the Working Poor Became the New Welfare Queens