Jeffrey Sachs

Global mental health issues woefully overlooked

Health & Medicine

The United Nations has made it a goal to improve maternal and child health, but mental health issues around the world remain woefully overlooked.

Columbia economist says to save our country, economy, we need to hike taxes

An environmentally sustainable economic model

Reggae critique of the economic crisis

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

Jeffrey Sachs on moral causes to America’s fiscal problems

Environment

Mental Health Not Getting Enough Attention From UN

Global Politics

Mental health advocates are upset that the UN is not focusing attention on mental health.

The World

Hit hard by drought, Ethiopia pleads for aid

Environment

A prolonged drought is devastating harvests and grazing land across swathes of East Africa. On Thursday Ethiopia’s government told aid donors it needs emergency food supplies for more than 6 million people.

The World

Global Hit

Arts, Culture & Media

Anchor Marco Werman looks at “Heavy Voodoo,” a newly recorded song by Jamaican reggae legend Lee Scratch Perry. Perry wrote the song some 30 years ago, forecasting the current global economic crisis.