[aggregation-styles] Bakersfield.com Water managers trying to bring groundwater into balance in the severely overdrafted Indian Wells Valley basin near Ridgecrest laid out a draft plan last month that would essentially mean the end of large-scale agriculture in that desert region. "We are giving options to (ag) pumpers so they understand...

[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Ami Ayalon is a former commander in chief of the Israeli Navy and former director of Israel’s Shin Bet security service. This article is adapted from a speech given at the J Street National Conference on Oct. 26. As someone who has spent almost my...

[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription No more denying, no more dodging. The Chinese Communist Party can no longer hide its relentless campaign of mass internment against the ethnic minorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, or claim that the effort is an innocuous educational program. What was already widely...

[aggregation-styles] The Week Subscription This is the editor's letter in the current issue of The Week magazine. If Fox News had a DNA test, it would trace its origins to the Nixon administration. In 1970, political consultant Roger Ailes and other Nixon aides came up with a plan to create...

[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription While impeachment has been dominating the headlines, we are missing a set of stories about U.S. foreign policy that might prove equally consequential. The Trump administration has been doubling down on a policy of unilateralism and isolationism — a combination that is furthering the abdication...

[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription On Nov. 15, the government in Tehran raised prices for gasoline — setting off a wave of protests that has yet to subside. The unrest has become so intense that the authorities decided to cut off the entire country from the Internet. That’s made it...

[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Subscription Yosemite and most of the other national parks in California suffer from a malaise that would have sickened legendary conservationist John Muir, who reveled in Yosemite’s awe-inspiring views, among many other pleasures. “Another glorious day,” he wrote in 1911, “the air as delicious to the...

[aggregation-styles] The Atlantic Subscription Remember these numbers. You’ll be asked about them at the end of the test: 70, 73, 76, and 78. These are the ages of the leading candidates in the 2020 presidential election: Elizabeth Warren, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Bernie Sanders, respectively. In most any other...

[aggregation-styles] The Economist Subscription Under a makeshift sunshade by a half-dry riverbed on the Indonesian island of Java, Eddie Sebastian is taking a lunch-break. It is hot and he is tired. He makes $2 a day collecting stones, breaking them with a hammer and selling them as building material. Asked...

[aggregation-styles] The American Prospect  A savvy politician, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I—Vermont) worked the crowd at the J Street conference in Washington. “Just a couple of things …” said Sanders, standing up from the chair he was seated in on the stage. “Number one: I am very proud to be...