If in the last few years you got out your checkbook or credit card and donated to help rebuild Haiti, rescue Pakistanis from floods or fund a school in Tanzania, your contribution did not make its way into global aid figures.

Don't be offended. Neither did the growing aid...

Let them eat cake.

Not since the famously callous phrase attributed to Marie Antoinette spread through revolutionary France has the world's political establishment been so far out of touch with the reality of hunger.

We simply don't get it. We rarely even talk about it. That may sound strange...

Port-au-Prince -- Haiti's main airport looks like a war zone, but the troops encamped beside the runway in Port-au-Prince are there to save lives, not to take them. They are part of a global coalition of mercy that includes a host of UN agencies, private charities and religious organizations. All...

Hunger now scars the lives of over 1 billion people -- a new record. Today, Monday the 16th, world leaders will gather at a UN food summit in Rome to debate what to do about it. As a former Goodwill Ambassador for the World Food Program, I sense how the...