Corn Tortillas and an Election
Corn tortillas, along with rice and beans, are the most important foods in the diet of millions of people across Mexico. Analysts estimate the rate of consumption of corn tortillas in the country at...
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Punishing the Opioid Industry
In Philadelphia, the United States’ 6th largest city, officials are taking a new step in a fight to address an opioid epidemic which has become a national public health crisis. They now are attacking...
Food Fight: India and the U.S.
In India, the National Food Security Act, or NFSA, is feeding the poor. Indian officials say the food program saves lives. American officials say it violates agreements made at the World Trade Organization (WTO)....
Shinzo Abe Gets Ready for War
Shinzo Abe won’t stand by and allow Kim Jong-un to fire missiles over Japan any longer. The 62-year-old prime minister of Japan is using the threat of a missile strike from North Korea to...
Trump Entertains Another Dictator
In Malaysia, a large sum of money has disappeared from the country’s principal investment fund. All signs point to the man who controls it, Najib Razak, the 64-year-old prime minister of the Southeast Asian...
A New Calculus: North Korea
Co-existence for the United States and North Korea is possible, although, as tensions rise steadily, it does not seem so. Donald Trump, North America’s new president, and a newcomer to politics, repeatedly threatens North...
Korean Unity, Trump Failure
Moon Jae-in, South Korea’s president, insists there will never be another war on the Korean peninsula and warns Donald Trump, the U.S. president, not to make a missile strike against Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s...
Teacher in Ho Chi Minh City, 4
It was 7:10am on Tuesday. The morning light in southern Vietnam was strong; the exercise room on the fourth floor of Hotel Vissai was empty. I lay down on a mat to start my...
Teacher in Ho Chi Minh City, 3
It was 6:30am on Sunday. Two elderly Chinese couples sat at a table eating breakfast in the second-floor restaurant of Hotel Vissai. I heard one of the women speaking in English to a waiter....
Teacher in Ho Chi Minh City, 2
It was 8:30am on Wednesday, the next morning. I entered the dining room on the 2nd floor of the Hotel Vissai Saigon. I didn’t feel rested, but I felt eager to go downtown again....