The U.S. Conference of Mayors, the organization of American cities with populations of 30,000 or greater, has been surveying hunger and homelessness in urban areas for more than two decades.

Share Our Strength, an anti-hunger organization based in Washington, D.C., focuses on ending childhood hunger in America.

RESULTS is a nonprofit grassroots advocacy organization in Washington, D.C., that works to create the political will to end hunger. Joanne Carter is executive director.

Food Research and Action Center is a Washington, D.C., advocacy group working on public policy and public-private partnerships on food and hunger issues. The organization maintains statistics about poverty and food insecurity.

The bipartisan Congressional Hunger Center, which grew out of the U.S. House Select Committee on Hunger, trains anti-hunger advocates. A number of members of Congress are on its board; Zack Bly is the communications specialist.

June 18, 2013, The Christian Post article about a petition asking the White House to ban the teaching of creationism and intelligent design in schools.

This blog operated by the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture follows the debate over intelligent design.

The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit society of distinguished scholars. Established by an act of Congress signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, the NAS is charged with providing independent, objective advice to the nation on matters related to science and technology.

Diane Orentlicher is a professor at the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. Her scholarly work has focused on issues of accountability for human rights crimes, transitions to democracy, corporate responsibility in a transnational context, and the relationship between ethnic identity and political participation.