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This Holiday Season, Choose a New Food Future
What better symbol of agri-industry’s vision of “food” than the ubiquitous Butterball turkey so many ate for Thanksgiving?
Get the Feds Out of the Way of Cannabis Reform
The House just took a huge step toward repealing the marijuana prohibition. What’s next?
Looking for That Get Out of Jail Free Card
Defeated Donald Trump and embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ponder their next moves.
We Need an Essential Workers Bill of Rights
Walmart’s owners are seeing their wealth surge while my former coworkers there go without hazard pay. That has to change.
Biden Could Cancel Student Debt. Will He?
The federal government owns 92 percent of all student debt owed in this country. Canceling it could provide a huge stimulus.
Paying Politicians to Criminalize Protest
More communities are standing up to pipelines. The fossil fuel industry wants to make that a felony.
Make USDA ‘The People’s Department’ Again
For years, the Department of Agriculture has been run by Big Ag acolytes. Biden has a chance to change that.
One Flew Over the Coup-Coup’s Nest
Counting the votes? That’s a coup.
We Need a Safety Net for Parents
The collapse of child care and traditional schooling is having a devastating effect on women in particular.
The First Thanksgiving?
Wherever it began, and whatever the purists claim is “official,” Thanksgiving today is as multicultural as America.