Original photo here, taken by NYC-MetroCard / CC BY Public Health researchers at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health released a study last month that estimates the number of deaths in the US in 2000 due to social factors such as poverty, low education, and income inequality. The researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 47 studies […]
Freedom House’s 2010 edition of Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa is out and a great resource. It analyzes the status of women in the region country by country. As Queen Noor has said, “It is vital that MENA countries more urgently recognize that the status of women is the key determinant […]
According to UNICEF some 60 million children are forced to enter into marriages before they are of legal age, half of which are in South Asia. While countries in South America, Africa and Asia may have the highest numbers of early and forced marriages, more than 2 million young girls in Europe are also child […]
Evolution of violence against the state will occur in environments that do not allow for coping mechanisms, perceived political inclusion, and sufficient state propaganda. Iran and Turkey, for example, are states that can shift if the former were to experience erosion of coping mechanisms, pushing it further towards violence, and the latter could see improvement in political inclusion, pushing it further towards peace.
As you may have heard, the space shuttle Atlantis will launch tomorrow for the last time. This launch will conclude the shuttle program and quite possibly, the U.S. manned space program, at least in the way we have come to think about it. If NASA is ending the shuttle program you would think that a […]
Journalist R. Jeffrey Smith has a piece in today's Washington Post which publicizes a letter released by Abdul Quadeer Khan, Pakistani proliferation raconteur, and imaginary nuke trader (the West made it up, you see) to former British Journalist Simon Henderson which ” support(s) his claim that he personally transferred more than $3 million in payments […]
The Big Apple should not have to wait any longer: It’s time to become a center of renewable energy. We’re not talking about big solar and wind arrays as we’re going to see in the Sahara – although that’s a good thing too – but rather about distributed generation: making power where you live and […]
I hope that you had a great Independence Day holiday weekend. I’ve been thinking about what kind of patriotic post I could write that would be interesting and different from the usual 4th of July posts I’ve made in year’s past. When I saw this report from Voice of America, I knew I’d found my […]
I found this letter today. It comes from Words Without Borders. The author, Boualem Sansal, is an Algerian novelist, and Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia on December 17, 2010. The letter is beautiful, and worth a read. Dear Brother: I write these few lines to let you know we’re doing well, on […]
The challenges faced by Kenyan aid workers is the subject of a short piece by Sara Corbett in the recent The New York Times Magazine. The profile of Dorothy Gakii, a Kenyan who works with Refugepoint to distribute food for the swelling numbers of refugees from the Horn of Africa; particularly countries like Ethiopia, Sudan […]
The FPA Blogs Network has a new design. As you can see, there is a new look, a new layout, a new grouping of blogs by theme, a more user friendly comment system, a most popular posts widget, better sharing/social networking tools, and the design team in New York has been working on many behind-the-scenes […]
Today Americans gather to celebrate as a nation both our independence and freedom. We honor those who have fought and died to give us the ability to walk this land without fear of persecution. The United States is a nation built on the back of injustice one who fought to overcome religious persecutions, escape a dark slave past, one […]
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