Morning Briefing

In his latest Foreign Policy column, Charles Kenny, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, argues that famine is a crime. Famines "don't happen any more in any country where leaders show the slightest interest in the wellbeing of their citizenry. ... In order to ensure widespread death by starvation, a governing authority must make a conscious decision: it must actively exercise the power to take food from producers who need it or deny food assistance to victims," he writes.