Big News On the Global Development Front: Unicef and the WHO announced that humanity has achieved the Millennium Development Goal of cutting half the number of people around the world who do not have access to clean water.
Donald Payne will be missed not only in his New Jersey district, but by his other "constituents " -- the dispossessed in Africa and around the world. Our thoughts are with his friends and family at this time.
Here is a world-historical event that you probably missed this week. India, which holds the world's second largest population, has not had a new case of polio for one year.