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•	High Soy Prices Idling Biodiesel Plants
	Soy oil now costs so much biodiesel products can't compete with the price of ordinary diesel fuel. Across the U.S., biofuel plants have halted production, and construction of new ones has been delayed.

•	'We Are Workers, Not Criminals'
	Millions of people have come to this country to work, not to break its laws. Some have come with visas, and others without them. But they are all contributors to the society they've found here.

•	Canada to Provide Cash, Not Commodities in Food Aid Policy Change
	Canada's move to

•	Time for a Diplomatic Surge
	In the wake of last month's congressional hearings featuring Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, it seems clear that Washington has focused its attention on a new nemesis: Iran.

•	Chinese Fusion, New York Style
	If you're a New Yorker with a hankering for Chinese food, I'll tell you where to find pastrami egg rolls, sushi with cream cheese, and the Korean lonely-hearts all-night noodle special.

•	Haitian Food Riots Unnerving but Not Surprising
	Haiti's geopolitical positionespecially its close proximity to the United States and level of dependence on foreign aidhighlights the contradictions and flaws in the system of international aid.

•	Cuba: Will Washington's Blindness Continue to Prevent It From Registering the Fundamental Changes Now Taking Place in Havana?
	One of the most anticipated leadership transitions of this epoch has been underway for the better part of a year in the absence of political instability or the upheaval predicted by American policymakers.

•	Should We Dump the Absentee Ballot?
	Critics say a system that obliges many of the nation's 18 million college students to vote from afar is inaccurate, insecure, and just plain annoying.

•	Costly Food an Opportunity to Review Aid Responses
	High food prices have brought social unrest but they have also provided a "window of opportunity" to review global policies on the response to food insecurity, said a leading food aid analyst

•	Food Fights
	For the first time since widespread famines devastated whole populations, serious doubts about global food supply have gripped societies throughout the world.

•	The Specious 'National Security' Argument
	In the past week, the Bush administration has unearthed a "national security" justification for passage of the United States-Colombia Free Trade Agreement that can't be allowed to stand.

•	House of Cards
	The end of the housing boom has signaled a bust in construction jobs, a field in which about 28 percent of workers are foreign-born, according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.

•	Dominica: The Caribbean's Next 'Terror Island'?
	Dominica's pursuit of an independent foreign policy and its insistence on maintaining cordial relations with Caracas might sorely test the tolerance of a putative McCain administration.

•	Plan Colombia: The Real Destabilizing Force in South America
	U.S. press coverage of the recent tensions between Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela might lead one to conclude that Colombia has become the victim of the wrath of its' evil next door neighbor.

•	An Encounter With Chile's Powerful Pascua
	Home to the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the largest in the world outside of Antarctica and Greenland, the remote region of Aysén also boasts one of Chile's most powerful rivers, the Pascua.

•	Cuba Votes as Fidel Castro Steps Down
	Before any evaluation regarding the legitimacy of Cuban elections can begin, we must first start by analyzing the electoral system that Fidel Castro has left for Cuba.

•	The Militarization of the World's Urban Peripheries
	Urban peripheries in Third World countries have become war zones where states attempt to maintain order by establishing a sort of "sanitary cordon" to keep the poor isolated from "normal" society.

•	Can I Have My Change Back: Arab-Americans and Obama's False Hope
	Searching for substantive policy, I began to chip away at Obama's political posturing and came to a daunting conclusion: there is a multitude of reasons why an Arab-American shouldn't vote for him.

•	Hallmark Events and Evictions: An Interview With Kris Olds
	In the case of the Chinese, they are using the Olympic Games to showcase China as a modern superpower. With the razing of entire neighborhoods, hundreds of thousands of evictions have taken place.

•	The Second Coming of Daniel Ortega
	Since projecting Daniel Ortega into the presidency, poverty-stricken Nicaragua seemed to have been granted an older, more traditional version of Daniel Ortega, seasoned revolutionary.

•	To Wear or Not to Wear the Hijab
	We wish to address the hijab specifically because it is so deeply misunderstood by many and is representative of general misconceptions of Islam.

•	U.N. Troops Accused of Human Rights Violations in Haiti
	There is very little discussion in Brazil about the country's role in the occupation of Haiti, and especially, about the accusations leveled against the United Nations troops.

•	Muslim Charities Guilty Until Proven Innocent?
	The Treasury Department has effectively closed down many not-for-profit organizations that support Muslim causes by seizing records and freezing assetswith virtually no due process.

•	Vancouver's Pre-Olympics Housing Crisis: A Conversation With Helen Jefferson Lensky
•	Chile Senate Protests U.S.-Mexico Border Wall
	Chile's Senate passed a resolution on last Wednesday formally protesting the United States government's construction of a wall along the United States-Mexico border.

•	Congress and National Security in 2007
	Congressional failure to end the Iraq War in 2007 masked a series of less visible but nonetheless important triumphs on national security issues, particularly related to nuclear weapons.

•	Struggling to Adjust, Young Russian Immigrants to the U.S. Turn to Heroin
	In the 1990's, refugees fleeing the former Soviet Union helped inject new life into South Brooklyn's Russian enclaves, but also triggered a heroin epidemic among New York's young Russian-Americans.

•	Cuba Changes, United States Policy Stagnates
	Cuba is on the cusp of change, but continuity reigns in Washington. The Bush administration is sitting on the sidelines, failing to take advantage of the new opportunities for meaningful engagement.

•	Does the Merida Initiative Represent a New Direction for U.S.-Mexico Relations, or Does It Simply Refocus the Issue Elsewhere?
	Many officials argue that what Mexico really needs from the United States is a crackdown on its northern neighbor's huge market for illicit drugs, and on arms dealers who supply Mexico's cartels.

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