by Laura Seay | Dec 1, 2010 | Opinion
World AIDS Day is here. I’ve been bracing for another stupid Twitter stunt and whatever other kinds of ridiculousness might ensue in the name of marketing disguised as “awareness-raising.” But I wasn’t prepared for this: Today, “Kim...
by Laura Seay | Nov 9, 2010 | Opinion
I’ve avoided reading and writing about the New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof lately as I’ve really been trying to get the stress in my life under control. But this merits a response as apparently somebody still doesn’t understand the difference...
by Laura Seay | Sep 28, 2010 | Opinion
I’m headed home from a couple of days at United Nations Week in New York, where I was fortunate to attend several events relating to a review of the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals. The events brought home one very clear fact for me: Western thinking...
by Laura Seay | Sep 17, 2010 | Opinion
Newt Gingrich is in the news again, this time for picking up on Dinesh D’Souza’s comment in a Forbes article about President Obama having inherited his father’s “anti-colonial” Kenyan worldview. Let’s set aside the question of when...
by Laura Seay | Aug 10, 2010 | Opinion
Rwandans voted on Monday. President Paul Kagame was expected to win a large majority, a resounding victory, giving him another seven-year term in the office. It’s been interesting to watch global opinion on Kagame shift over the course of the last year or so....