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• Payday lending
  Do payday loans take advantage of the poor? Or do they extend much-needed loans to consumers with no other access to credit? Read our primer.
• It’s time for the U.S. to ratify the Law of the Sea
  The Law of Sea treaty will enable the U.S. to assert global leadership and navigate an increasingly complex international security environment without relying on its military, writes Joshua Foust.
• Need to Know, May 18, 2012: Financial inclusion
  Need to Know’s Stacey Tisdale travels to Missouri, where activists are collecting signatures for a ballot initiative that would cap payday loan rates at 36 per cent. Jeff Greenfield hosts.

• May 11, 2012: Churches and the Disabled
  The disabled, says religion writer Mark Pinsky, “are not just people who need help, but they are people who can help."
• May 11, 2012: Social Entrepreneur Mechai Viravaidya
  This award-winning economist is credited with bringing down Thailand’s HIV infection rate, lowering its high birth rate, reducing poverty rates, and championing sustainable development ideas that work …
• Masters of Mercy
  “The message is that the Buddha is within and moving about in very mysterious ways,” says James Ulak, senior curator of Japanese art at the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer and Sackler Galleries.

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