If there is one success story since 9/11, it has been the efforts to combat terror finance. If military action is sometimes akin to conducting surgery with an axe, efforts to dry up sources of funding are like wielding a scalpel.

If assassination was most noxious to the progressive left, the fact that a president they supported embraced the strategy has permanently nullified what otherwise would have been a staunchly partisan issue

As famine spreads in Somalia, it is more important than ever to ensure that food aid reaches the starving. It's unlikely that the US military, haunted by the memory of Black Hawk Down, will step in. And as long as supply chains are easily looted, hundreds of thousands of Somalis will continue to starve while al Qaeda-linked militants perpetuate conflict and instability in the country.

The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe may be spreading to other African nations.

It is time the World Health Organizationlost all its AIDS funding until it demonstrates an ability to deal with the disease and not just play to the activist crowd.

An increase in support for high-profile health-care projects such as fighting HIV and malaria is failing the developing world in the long term.

Kent Hill's response to Roger Bate's critique of USAID efforts to fight malaria contained a number of misleading statements and distortions of fact.

Review of Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity, by Priscilla B. Hayner