[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription FIREBAUGH, Calif. — Many farmers probably haven’t read the new report from the United Nations warning of threats to the global food supply from climate change and land misuse. But we don’t need to read the science — we’re living it. Here in the...
Valley Is Diverse, Invisible, and Most Productive Ag Region in U.S.
California’s San Joaquin Valley is often dismissed as small and rural. To the contrary, it’s a massive area of farms, ranches, small towns, and growing cities, emblematic of the American West as a blend of Old West values and New West technology. It’s also historically distinctive as one of the...
Delta's CEO Missed a Meeting With the President to Go on Vacation With His Family. It's a Lesson in Emotional Intelligence
[aggregation-styles] inc. Imagine for a moment that you and your family have been planning a vacation abroad. After months of anticipation, the time has finally arrived. Suddenly, the unthinkable: As you're getting ready to leave the country, you get a phone call from work. They need you to cancel your...
Is the End of Iran's Regime Finally Near?
[aggregation-styles] The National Interest Pressure can work on Iran. There has been, for more than a decade, a curious line of argument that pressure upon Iran is counterproductive. Iran and the United States are as close to direct conflict as they have been for three decades, since Operation Praying Mantis...
Big Ag Monopolies Have Stifled Small Farmers. 2020 Democrats Want to Break Them Up.
[aggregation-styles] Pacific Standard Food hasn't been a major focus for the 25 Democrats running for president. But for those who have released plans on the topic—or made promises to rural Iowa audiences—one issue in particular looms large: breaking up big ag. The call to bust agribusiness monopolies is growing stronger...
The U.S. Needs to End the War With Afghanistan Without Losing the Peace
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription The Trump administration’s emerging deal with the Taliban has the potential to bring greater stability to Afghanistan, after an 18-year inconclusive war in that country. Or it could reignite the Afghan civil war, emboldening terrorist groups and plunging the nation into another decade of turmoil...
Call Your Iran Policy by Its True Name
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Why won’t President Trump’s foreign affairs advisers call their approach to Iran by its true name? They owe that to the American people. If the administration’s goal is regime change, they should come out and say it. They should present a plan outlining how they...
Is B.D.S. Anti-Semitic? A Closer Look at the Boycott Israel Campaign
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription JERUSALEM — In a matter of months, a campaign to boycott Israel has moved from the margins of politics — liberal college campuses and protest marches — to Congress, where the freshman representatives Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan have become...
Boris Johnson Will Accelerate the Decline of Europe
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Britain has a new prime minister, and President Trump approves. “He’s tough and he’s smart,” Trump said of Boris Johnson. “They call him ‘Britain Trump.’ And people are saying, ‘That’s a good thing.’ They like me over there.” In fact, according to YouGov, only 21 percent...
When Jews Praised Mussolini and Supported Nazis: Meet Israel's First Fascists
[aggregation-styles] Haaretz “Fascism is not a product for export.” – Benito Mussolini, 1925 A mixture of repulsion and weird fascination was the reaction of many to the advertisement in the last election campaign in which Israel’s minister of justice modeled a vial of fictional perfume that bore a literally ideological...
