There’s something down right scary about singling out one ethnic group. The French government ongoing expulsions of the Romas back to Bulgaria and Romania has earmarks of discrimination and prejudice. What’s even more disturbing is that the Romas, often called gypsies, are part of the 27 nations European Union and people from one nation are…

My young nephew who’d enlisted in the Marines and was sent to Afghanistan was injured recently. He lost his legs. Today’s technology is such he may be able to avoid being in a wheelchair and even if not he will go on to live a productive life. Until then though there will be a lot…

There’s another way to look at Africa besides wars, famines and corruption. The business and economic research arm of the McKinsey Global Institute paints a very different picture. Since 2000 316 million people have signed up for cell phone service, that’s more than the entire population of the U.S. And what’s more the one billion…