Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and even a drug industry insider-whistleblower work to transform this documentary exploration of the complex politics of the pharmaceutical industry into something more like a murder mystery thriller.
Have you ever wondered to what extent that can of Pepsi or Coke – or the quasi-potato-chip Pringles or that quasi-chocolate Snickers bar – hurts the poor?
No? Well, Oxfam and its Behind the Brands campaign staff would like you to wonder about that. And they would like to then go check out the anti-poverty advocacy organization’s colorful online interactive chart that will tell you in quantifiable terms just how well, or badly, the top 10 food companies do when it comes to displacing poor farmers from their land, or otherwise undermining their rights and well-being.
Flickr, Roadsidepictures Members of the United Nations General Assembly met this week to come up with a plan to combat…
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has provided a interactive graphic that describes state-by-state the impact of international trade. Washington state’s…
My colleague Keith Seinfeld did a story for NPR today on our local boom in the global health industry that…