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Women working at a farm at Lamas district in Peru, 2014. (Photo by CIF Action)

Reforming Peruvian Agriculture, Again

… took power in a bloodless coup. The Peruvian military had a history of intervening in national politics to preserve … As one spokesperson in Cuzco indicated in 1974, “Our record books are all blank because we do not know how to write …. …
Cover of Mother of Invention by Robert I. Field

Government Fingers in the Health Care Jar?

Review of Mother of Invention: How the Government Created "Free Market Health Care", by Robert I. Field (Oxford University Press, 2013)
… Taxol, in particular, the best-selling cancer drug in history, is the product of a long back-and-forth between the …
Djiboutian workers fill bags with wheat destined for Ethiopia, provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), at the Port of Djibouti, Africa, Jan. 7, 2013.

The Birth and Death of USAID

… a group of liberal intellectuals spent the 1950s writing books and building new academic departments dedicated to the … past to value a stronger, healthier global community.   The history of foreign aid provides many examples of failed …
John Filo's iconic photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller

Kent State after Fifty Years

… the Guard more times than any governor in the state’s history and obliged without hesitation. He already had … ready, marched into the field, students with their notebooks wandered past peers who were hurling tear-gas …
Israeli Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol

Six Days That Shook The World

Review of The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East, by Guy Laron (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017)