Food security is not something most of us think about. Yet it is a problem for over a billion people, some one sixth the planet’s population. That’s why what the United States did recently is noteworthy. Through the Department of Agriculture it will spend $3.5 billion over the next three years to boost food sufficiency…

The 99 cents Only Stores are being sued because despite their name they have raised their prices .99 of a cent. This way they could keep the 99 cents in the name with reasonable accuracy. That is not good enough for some, however, who feel that given their name of 99 cents since they are…

There was a discussion in New York not long ago about the role of the media in covering human-trafficking. On the one hand there were people like UN under secretary-general Antonio Mario-Acosto, executive director for the UN Office of Drugs and Crime, who believed at most the media gets a C because “the media has…