Congo Resources

A conference on conflict minerals at the Center for Global Development last week revealed that the gulf between advocates and critics of DF-...

Imagine you work in the development office of an NGO. Your job is to beg from the rich to give to the poor. Anywhere from a handful to sever...

Is this thing on? As some of you know, my blog has been having technical problems for a while. If you can, please tweet or email me at dar...

Tatiana Carayannis, over at the World Peace Foundation , has written an interesting article urging us all to think more clearly about the na...

For all I know Felix Salmon is one of the most brilliant financial journalists out there. But his piece yesterday pairing Mike Daisey’s fra...

I don't know when, exactly, the TED talks went from being nerd cool to being the nerd musical; perhaps they always were, but at some po...

Keegan Michael Key and Jordan Peele are a couple of young, bi-racial comedians who host a new TV sketch show on Comedy Central. The ke...

Many years ago, when I was young and harbored the dream of becoming the next George Orwell, I lived for a year in a shanty town in eastern C...

I swear I wrote the title before the news broke. Obviously, there's nothing to add at this point. Any fancy way of saying that Kony2012 ...

Two good pieces out in the New York Review this week:  Mischa Berlinski's ambivalent look back on his five years in Haiti, and  Jeffrey ...