As suggested by a post here last week, AJN has carried editorials, opinion pieces, and news reports about the Gulf War, Desert Storm, and the Iraq War, and about nurses and torture. We’ve also documented issues around women’s rights, AIDS in Africa, hunger, and poverty. (In November 2007, as part of a group of 200 journals organized by the Council of Science Editors, we focused an entire issue on poverty.) But we get pushback, in the form of letters—some readers feel that we should focus on nursing in the United States only.