Food and Farming
States Must Learn the Lessons of the Great Recession Before It’s Too Late
The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is going to cause major pain in statehouses. Lawmakers need to prepare now.
Rural America Has a Plan. Congress Needs to Show Up.
Five ways lawmakers can deliver for rural America — not just corporations and the wealthy.
Blowing Up Fishing Boats Won’t Win the Drug War
There’s a reason we don’t want drug warriors playing judge, jury, and executioner.
Ten Ways You’re Being Burned By Billionaires
Many Americans don’t realize it, but the decisions of billionaires shape every aspect of our lives. Here are just a few — and what we can do.
AI Is a Dangerous Billionaire Boondoggle
Billionaires want to use your tax dollars to put nuclear-powered AI data centers in drought-prone farmland. What could go wrong?
The Climate’s Emergency Brake
Slashing methane emissions now could slow the runaway train of global warming long enough to get our act together. But only if we act.
Communities Pay the Price for ‘Free’ AI Tools
AI data centers produce massive noise pollution, use huge amounts of water, and keep us hooked on fossil fuels.
Red States Are About to Go Hungry Thanks to Trump
GOP lawmakers are taking food out of the mouths of kids — including their own constituents — to put toward tax cuts for billionaires.
10 Ways the GOP Budget Will Make Life Worse for Americans
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery.
Let’s Get Child Labor Off Our Dinner Plates
From agriculture to restaurants, more and more food in this country is produced by child labor. That’s putting whole communities at risk.