| Sep 17, 2013 | Farrah Hassen, a Syrian-American writer and filmmaker, was the associate producer of Saul Landau’s 2004 film, “Syria: Between Iraq and a Hard Place.” Now a Howard University law student, she served as the Carol Jean and Edward F. Newman Fellow at the Institute for...
| | Food / Farming“I’m 98 percent confident we can make a tomato that tastes substantially better,” Professor Harry Klee recently exulted to The New York Times. Hmmm. Excuse me, professor, but “substantially better” than what? One of Momma Nature’s...
| Sep 16, 2013 | James Abourezk of Sioux Falls is a former U.S. senator from South Dakota.
| | Saru Jayaraman is the co-director of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United), director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Behind the Kitchen Door (Cornell University Press, 2013). ROCUnited.org
| Sep 11, 2013 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Peter Certo likens the situation in Syria to a “landmine” and Jim Hightower celebrates a campaign that wants extreme weather events named after the politicians who refuse to recognize or do anything about man-made climate change....
