The alarm goes off. Perhaps the first thing you do is stumble, walk or run to the kitchen. To the coffee maker. Caffeine: Itand#8217;s what wakes you up and keeps you going. Some say itand#8217;s what America runs on and#8230; and, at least according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, some of us are running headlong into a mental disorder.

One of America’s most wanted fugitives just got caught in Mexico. 64-year-old Walter Lee Williams is a former professor at Southern Cal; he was wanted for the sexual exploitation of children. Williams is accused of traveling to the Philippines in …

Apple Valley’s Brianna Brown had to brew a lot of coffee before her career finally became piping hot.

Starbucks is about to bake croissants inside 3,500 of their stores. The pastry selection will improve immeasurably, but will a Starbucks still smell like a Starbucks? Aside from one stunning location in the Netherlands, Starbucks stores have never baked their own pastries. So the result is that, in a moment of a missed breakfast or lunch, many of us inevitably reach for one of the coffeemaker’s ...

Family coffee farms, like this one near Matagalpa, Nicaragua, are the beneficiaries of the work of the Coffeelands Food Security Coalition. Photo: Erik Mandell for Mercy Corps.