foreign-aid

Obama Administration Launches Global Quest to Save Gay People

Jim Newell · 12/06/11 04:10PM

The Obama administration announced today, via a presidential memorandum and a speech from Secretary of State Clinton, that the United States will "use foreign aid as a tool to improve Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender rights abroad." This is a first! What does it even mean, though?

Slow Food Crusade Won't Save the World

Jeff Neumann · 04/29/10 06:15AM

Attention foodiots! Stop snapping iPhone pictures of that grain-fed, humanely slaughtered, free-range veal burger and order up some genetically-modified super corn, because your whole cause is a scam and isn't helping anyone but Whole Foods. According to some, at least.