The Society of Honor by Joe America

By Karl M. Garcia

Few stories are more devastating than the tale of Rostam and Sohrab, the father and son who meet not in a loving reunion but on opposite sides of a battlefield. Found in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, their story has endured for centuries because its tragedy is painfully simple: the son is searching for his father while unknowingly fighting him, and the f...

By Giancarlo Angulo

My work as a USAID subcontracted consultant from 2020-2025 for the RESPOND Project has given me a view of how you move mountains.

You do it one stone at a time. You talk about it. You talk about it a lot. You convince people, from the frontliners to the top people and everyone in between. Any level you skip means less continuity and les...

By Karl M. Garcia

Every family needs a place from which to begin.

But a house is a structure. Housing is a system.

A family can receive a house and still be poorly housed if employment is too far away, transportation is unaffordable, schools and health services are inaccessible, utilities are unreliable, or the c...

When public recording becomes an unofficial enforcement system

By Karl M. Garcia

We have become a society that records.

A mother scolding her child. A couple arguing in a restaurant. A passenger confronting a driver. A drunk person making a scene. A politician saying something embarrassing. A motorist engaging in road ra...

By Karl M. Garcia

A crate of perfectly edible mangoes sits unsold until the fruit softens.

Vegetables are harvested and left to deteriorate because their selling price no longer covers the cost of bringing them to market.

Fish spoils because there is no reliable cold chain.

A supermarket discards food that has lost its ...