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Sad about Edwards
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David Kuo
I am watching John Edwards suspend his campaign and I am sad. I’m sad that his relentless voice for the poor and against the two Americas in which we live is leaving this race. I’m sad because we live in a self-obsessed and materially-obsessed culture that doesn’t give a rip about the poor. I’m sad…
Peppermint Stick Prime Minister
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David Kuo
In the early summer of 1989, on a humid night, as China erupted on the other side of the world, in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, I sat with several hundred other people, eating peppermint stick ice cream, listening to a woman from Pakistan talk about democracy as a moral force. She was 35.…
“Santas or Scrooges”?
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David Kuo
When it comes to charitable giving are we more like: or: Well, apparently a bit of both: The truth is that Americans are generous when it comes to private aid, domestic or overseas. But the U.S. government is comparatively stingy when helping the poor, here and abroad. The disparity is nothing new. It’s a reflection…
Random Friday question
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David Kuo
From the Seattle Post intelligencer: “In the 50 years since the first African countries won independence, the world has spent $568 billion on Africa. Yet Africans are poorer now than a quarter century ago.” Why?
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