New York Times Columnist Calls For Investments In Global Family Planning

Although topics such as AIDS, tsunamis and earthquakes make for “dramatic” and “visceral” news about the developing world, there is “a far more widespread challenge, one that’s also more fixable: the unavailability of birth control in many poor countries,” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. Kristof notes that the birth control pill, “50 years old this month in the [U.S…

Opinions: Chile's Preparedness; Evangelical Christians; 'Locavorism'

Free Economies Essential For Disaster Preparedness The earthquake in Chile “was the fifth biggest ever measured, and several hundred times larger than the one that killed more than 220,000 in Haiti,” according to a Wall Street Journal editorial. The editorial highlights Chile’s preparation for earthquakes, including stricter building codes…