March 10, 2025 | Articles
Kudos on your President’s Note in the recent December 2024 issue. You nailed it with your description of our then-President-elect. But as disgusting an individual as Trump is, I lay blame with the American people for electing such a disgraced individual to the most powerful office on the planet. It…...
Read MoreMarch 10, 2025 | Articles
Florida Man Takes Office, Chaos Ensues Chaos may be too tame a word to describe the first weeks of this administration. By the time you read this, much will have changed — hopefully things will have gotten better, but it’s equally likely that they will have become worse. Much,…...
Read MoreMarch 10, 2025 | Articles
Seeds for a Future Seeds for a Future, based in Guatemala, has been a Population Connection Global Partner since 2022. The organization, founded by two longtime Population Connection members, helps families break out of the poverty trap by improving their health, introducing them to new sources of income, and giving…...
Read MoreMarch 10, 2025 | Articles
Trump withdraws from Paris Agreement and WHO, suspends foreign aid At the time of writing, Trump has just been inaugurated as the 47th US President. He wasted no time, signing a flurry of disturbing executive actions on his very first day. One of his first moves was to withdraw the…...
Read MoreMarch 10, 2025 | Articles
Interest in tubal ligations and vasectomies has skyrocketed in the past two years, according to research and health care providers. Originally published by The Washington Post on January 15, 2025 Marcus Aguinaga exits the Planned Parenthood Mobile Health Clinic after getting a vasectomy on Monday, August 19, 2024, in Chicago.…...
Read MoreDecember 9, 2024 | Articles
I made a mistake in the last issue of the magazine when I wrote that the United Nations Pact for the Future was an agreement that was meant to succeed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) after their 2030 end date. Rather, the Pact is intended to reinvigorate UN member states…...
Read MoreDecember 9, 2024 | Articles
“Meanwhile, his men were bridging the Hellespont from Asia to Europe. But no sooner had the strait been bridged than a great storm swept down, breaking and scattering everything. When Xerxes heard of this, he was very angry and commanded that the Hellespont be whipped with three hundred lashes …”…...
Read MoreDecember 9, 2024 | Articles
… Far from following the sacred Hippocratic oath of “do no harm” to the human bodies in a doctor’s care, too many elected officials follow the cynical mantra of “do no harm to my reelection prospects.” Nor are most of these politicians women, let alone women of childbearing age who…...
Read More
December 9, 2024 | Articles
2024 PopEd Leadership Institutes New Volunteer Trainers Attend Events in Charlotte and Detroit PopEd may be coming to a town near you. That’s in large part due to our wonderful network of volunteer facilitators, who present over half of our teacher workshops throughout the US and Canada. This year, we…...
Read MoreDecember 9, 2024 | Articles
WWF issues dire warning on state of nature The World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) latest Living Planet Report, published in October, estimates that vertebrate wildlife populations shrank by an average of 73% between 1970 and 2020 — an increase from the 69% drop between 1970 and 2018 reported in the 2022…...
Read More