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As Zambia’s experience shows, solving hunger is not just about growing more food.

The US has spent nearly $8 trillion on national security since 9/11. Do you feel any safer?

While the US funds democratic reform projects in the post-Mubarak age, Egyptians are mistrustful of American meddling in their domestic affairs.

A 2005 cable obtained by WikiLeaks predicted that the Haitian government was "unprepared to handle a natural disaster of any magnitude."

Cables made available by WikiLeaks show how disaster capitalists sought "opportunity" in the devastated country.

The US Embassy aided Levi’s, Hanes contractors in their fight against an increase in Haiti’s minimum wage.

An American nonprofit is offering HIV-positive Kenyan women $40 to use IUDs as long-term birth control—and women are taking them up on it. Is this the right way to prevent the transmission of HIV to children?

Welcome to the world of the real US national security budget. 

A former legal counsel for the corps argues for its continuing usefulness.

Nick Cullather’s The Hungry World teaches us that US agricultural assistance in Asia during the cold war was a Green Counterrevolution.