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The amount of money sent home by migrants and refugees from developing countries exceeds foreign aid – making migration a powerful anti-poverty, too. Despite this overwhelming evidence, countries are shutting their doors to foreigners. The effort by Western governments to limit the entry of migrants and refugees is fueled by nationalism and rising inequality … and a fair amount of misinformation.

hitthatswitch / Flickr In 1992, James Carville coined the phrase “It’s the economy, stupid!” to focus the Clintonites in their…
Earlier this year, I went to Thailand to report on a historic AIDS vaccine study known as the Thai Prime-Boost…
Flickr, Curtis Gregory Perry That’s one of the key points of the Vienna Declaration, an international statement issued this week…
Flickr photo by Y Remember the Swine Flu Pandemic of 2009? The one that didn’t quite happen? Well, the World…
Chris Elias They’re a funny bunch, those PATH folks. I gave them credit for having long been advocates for an…
Should corporations — and not just the wealthy individuals running them — be expected to do good? Here are two…
So far, the best news out of the 2010 International AIDS Conference in Vienna was the report issued Monday that…
At the 2010 International AIDS Conference, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates urged the world to continue the progress made against…

Flickr, Laughing Squid Not What We Mean What is Humanosphere? It was already a word — an obscure one, yes,…
The 2010 International AIDS Conference is taking place in Vienna this week, bringing together 25,000 people to discuss and debate…

Thomas Hawk Bill Gates A week before he was to speak at the world’s largest AIDS conference, which began Sunday,…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlWEc96Wweo This is a video illustrating the basic concept for an AIDS vaccine, produced by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.