Kermit Heartsong is an empirical scientist, political author and the creator of several award wining word games. For the past 25 years, Kermit has investigated…
Africa
Where profits alone count, there can be no thinking about the rhythms of nature, its phases of decay and regeneration, or the complexity of ecosystems…
Population growth and fossil fuel use, seen on a time-scale of several thousand years. The dots are population estimates in millions from the US Census…
Is the world really overpopulated, or are humans just utilizing resources at an unsustainable rate in irresponsible fashion? Debate persists, but what is known is…
EDINBURGH — Private, for-profit schools in Africa funded by the World Bank and U.S. venture capitalists have been criticized by more than 100 organizations who’ve…
In episode 67 David interviews Dr. Remington Nevin about the controversial anti-malarial drug mefloquine that for decades was given to soldiers in the US and…
United States President Barack Obama is the most admired foreign leader in Africa because he has ancestral roots in our continent. This is partly the…
Also the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, came to the United States the previous week and held high-level meetings with Obama…
In high school textbooks on world history, US history and US government, the world of Islam continues to be interpreted to American high school students…
A for-profit British private security firm whose human rights abuses have been documented around the world, from Israel to South Africa to the United Kingdom,…
Laura Browder is the latest example of how harsh America can be on working mothers. When an employer called [3] the Houston mother of two to meet up for…
Global poverty has halved over the last decade, but a staggering 71% of the world’s population remains low-income or poor, living off $10 or less…