| Sep 24, 2014 | Peace / SecurityBack in the spring, an Asian tragedy fleetingly made headlines when an overloaded ferryboat sank on its way to South Korea’s Jeju Island. Nearly 300 people aboard the Sewol ferry perished, mostly children. We’ve been hearing way less about the tragedy...
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| Sep 23, 2014 | Peace / SecurityPresident Barack Obama’s decision to bomb Syria stands in stark violation of international law, the UN Charter, and the requirements of the U.S. Constitution. It contradicts his own commitment, stated a year ago in the UN General Assembly, to reverse Washington’s...
| | Food / FarmingNow here’s a dinner I wish I could’ve attended. I hear it was an elegant evening of fine dining in New York City’s chic Tribeca neighborhood. Celebrity chefs prepared a sumptuous spread of international cuisines for this truly unique ballet for the...
| Sep 22, 2014 | Ellen Powell co-authored the 2014 IPS report Conflict vs. Climate: The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared. A student at Cambridge University in the UK, she lives in Philadelphia.
