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Cover Story
Three ‘Ebola Ambassadors’
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People of World Influence
Respected U.S. Political Watcher
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Infrastructure
High-Speed Rail: Everyone’s
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Food Security
Despite Food Security Gains,
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Book Review
Internecine Warfare Hobbles
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The Other Half
Four Wives and a Husband Talk
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Medical
Hidden Hypothyroidism:
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Respected political commentator Stuart Rothenberg talks about what the recent election means for America’s political paralysis, the next Congress, the final two years of the Obama presidency and his foreign policy agenda. 
Fifty years after Japan introduced the world’s first bullet train, a multitude of countries around the world are investing in high-speed rail, while progress in the United States has stalled. 
About 805 million people — more than one-ninth of the world’s population — suffer from chronic hunger, yet other parts of the world are dying of gluttony. These incongruities define the changing face of hunger in the 21st century. 
“Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation” chronicles the internecine warfare in Australian politics that combines Shakespearean tragedy with 21st-century political farce. 
From Vienna to the Vatican, the experiences of diplomatic spouses are as varied as the foreign capitals to which their husbands and wives are posted. Five such spouses shared their stories recently at the Meridian International Center. 
For a long time, hypothyroidism — estimated to affect as much as 3 percent to 5 percent of the U.S. population — was an under-recognized problem, but that seems to be changing. 