By John M. Bridgeland, Vice Chairman of Malaria No More American leadership can make the difference between life and death. I’ve witnessed firsthand how Americans saved lives in villages across Africa. While visiting a public health facility 13 years ago in Mukarange, the capital of the Kayonza District in eastern Rwanda, […]
One of the most charming qualities of trees is their ability to absorb atmospheric CO2, and the loss of large tracts of forested land is widely imagined as a contributing factor to global warming. Except it’s just not true, as Alexander Hammond points out in Human Progress, noting that environmental activists’ claims about […]
The Big Nudge, er, a sugar tax on sweetened drinks is a recent arrival in the UK, but the country needs to resist opposition to the tax in order to combat obesity and diabetes, argues Nina Renshaw in The Telegraph, noting that it […]