More out of Africa
A deal that sounds too good to be true probably is-especially for subsistence farmers

A few fit men
We should be helping America’s young people really be all that they can be.

Welcome to the Motel California
What was once such a lovely place is becoming the country’s financial flophouse.

This is your country on drugs
Countries who live in glass houses should take care when criticizing others’ anti-drug efforts.

Please, Sir, I want some more
The nation's most vulnerable children are getting the short end of the spending stick.

You want fries with that
Fast food has meant a slow death for thousands. Why aren't we doing more about it?

Let them eat cash
The hungry of the world make an uncommonly good investment opportunity.

Whose child is this?
"Banning" Mexico City's street kids only moves their plight from sight

Will teach for tenure
Glaring double standards on workers' rights are far from a class act.

The drone wars
High-tech warfare administers death from a great distance

When enough is enough
Why a future of endless economic growth is not the cure for what ails the earth

¡Romero vive!
"The harvest comes because of the grain that dies."

Promises to keep
Barack Obama's election was historic, but can his presidency be great?

We should still give unto others 
After the Wall Street wipeout, in a world full of hurt, we're still our brothers' keepers.

Between Iraq and no place
Iraqis are on the move away from their broken nation. Who will be responsible for them?

Let my people stay
How to deal with the immigration “problem”? Give people a real choice on migration.

Let them eat corn
Our agricultural priorities should be on filling hungry bellies, not fuel tanks.

Now that’s a cold war!
Let’s melt these nationalists’ cold, cold hearts and build an Arctic circle of cooperation.

Paper chase
The right paperwork can save lives among the world’s stateless people.

Reality bites back
New show ideas are endless—and depressing—when real life is the true basis of TV.

Spending like there's no tomorrow
It's time for Uncle Sam to call a credit counselor

I think I can, I think I can
A 19th-century mode of transport may be the answer to our current environmental woes

Home sweet biohazard
There's no place like home, as long as parents prevent it from becoming toxic

Womb for rent
Have infertile couples taken a maternity leave of their senses?

Hot enough for you?
The world's poor face an even bleaker future than polar bears, thanks to global warming

No more CARE packages
Instead of dumping grain in poverty-stricken regions, we should be investing cash

Cracks in the system
Deferring infrastructure maintenance for war spending builds a bridge to nowhere

Code blue
The patient is ailing, the prognosis is poor. It's the nation's major medical emergency

Be our guest
The U.S. should be a good host and protect the migrant workers who knock on our door

Troubled waters
Billions of the world's poorest are being denied even the most basic natural resource

Dispatches from Decatur
Community is the first casualty in America's labor wars

They can do it
Third World women could be the new recruits in the global war on poverty

These American lives
Undocumented stories

To read more of Kevin Clarke visit his Margin Notes blog only on USCatholic.org.