Word: revolutionize
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Twenty years ago in Bucharest, the United Nations World Population Conference produced a wish list of things governments might do to get a grip on population: improve the status of women, expand access to health care, alleviate poverty. With the notable exception of Africa, the world has made progress in...
Despite this progress, the global population situation is far more dire than it was back then. In 1974 the world had roughly 3.9 billion people and was growing by 80 million a year. Since then the world's population has grown nearly 1.7 billion, and it now increases 90 million...
This is how a conservative like Bill Bennett responds to a crime scene like that: "Body count!" barks the former Education Secretary. "Body count, yes, body count. Kids dying, kids abused, kids cut up, kids burned with cigarettes, kids whose brains are so poorly developed they can't function in...
Of all the domestic-policy battles of this Administration, none is more politically incendiary than taking money away from mothers with children. The President needs to define himself as a new kind of Democrat yet preserve the liberal base he will need to pass his health-care bill. For Congress...
When the goal is changing behavior rather than changing governments, the results are mixed. The U.S. has abandoned the trade weapon as a lever to improve human rights in China, yet years of sanctions helped end apartheid in South Africa. Even there, however, it was the possibility of revolution, which...