https://www.christopherdcook.com/articles-1 daily 0.75 2024-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1607814117683-K83DGGJOXYAYRUV4SU5U/2018-The-Guardian-logo-design.png Articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1607814203524-YIBEU5HTOWJDHBKKU2TJ/the_atlantic_2019_logo_before_after.jpg Articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1607814396511-KPNQOMDNMIM56RPOPNC8/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-12%2Bat%2B6.05.18%2BPM.jpg Articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1607814120522-838N7JCBTZIXQJAAFG2O/the-nation.jpg Articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1607814114564-U5SMCKEO7AZPY6CZQYQK/ri2nchzwkllrshkqbxwv.jpg Articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1607814115424-RQXRO36CC05PDH9H1BHV/harpers-twitter.png Articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1607814115625-F4QOMKNV6LB9UU8PRI5F/logo_CJR-300x225.png Articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1607814116397-KZNXE2SRJKSIUJCP8BZI/Screen+Shot+2020-12-12+at+6.00.54+PM.png Articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1607814116041-V9PCI7QBLA1SY6QTYYCK/logo.png Articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1607814118477-PL6UM11A5GGM3N8L10K2/American-Prospect.jpg Articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1607814154942-OF9FXRCALR13U2TVS36U/Unknown.png Articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608343536562-QCK827FDDMZLVU3INVS4/1200px-The_Economist_Logo.svg.png Articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608330306145-MDKBWT54HLNBVNY99X6C/Food-Shift-Img2.jpg Articles In perennially water-starved Patagonia, Arizona, just 18 miles from the Mexico border, Gary Nabhan, well known as an author and ethnobotanist, farms a worldly array of desert crops that could make any food lover salivate. His harvest, more than 120 varieties strong, includes Sonoran pomegranates, Baja California Mission guavas, Winter Banana apples, amaranth, asparagus, globe artichokes, and even an arid-friendly Texas Mission variety of the infamously thirsty almond. The 5-acre farm, which he manages with his wife Laurie Monti, a medical anthropologist and professor of indigenous studies, grows these foods on precious little water—about 17 inches of rainfall a year, a dollop compared with the US-wide average of 28 inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608330430081-Y6O0H2MPMIWRBR3M7D8Z/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-18%2Bat%2B5.26.40%2BPM.jpg Articles When thousands of the nation’s nutritionists gathered in Philadelphia for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ 2012 annual conference, they plunked down $300 apiece to hear the latest thinking on food and health. Many were surprised to find that this thinking included a hefty portion of nutritional advice from food corporations that were major sponsors of the event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608333009492-HOJD7F0MEUQKU4EL4CUO/cook_food_agriculture_climate_change_01c8ac7cc3b849e525e370bc51344120.jpg Articles The clock on cli­mate upheaval is tick­ing fast with lit­tle time to lose, as the Inter­gov­ern­men­tal Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (IPCC) made fright­en­ing­ly clear last week. “Lim­it­ing glob­al warm­ing to 1.5ºC would require rapid, far-reach­ing and unprece­dent­ed changes in all aspects of soci­ety,” the Octo­ber 8 report warned. Yet just one month ear­li­er, the Glob­al Cli­mate Action Sum­mit (GCAS) brushed over what may be the most crit­i­cal “aspect of soci­ety,” mak­ing only mar­gin­al men­tion of the crisis’s top cause. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608739934863-GP3P2F6J24XQK4TASYN0/unnamed.jpg Articles At a time of soaring food prices, America's grocery bill is about to balloon. Congress is staggering toward completion of a nearly $300 billion farm bill that upholds subsidies for big farmers and food corporations – undermining vital efforts to make our food supply more healthful and sustainable, both environmentally and economically. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608330035805-1HX4AMW4O7M865KPAQKC/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-18%2Bat%2B5.15.58%2BPM.jpg Articles Every day in America, as we consume whatever food we can access and aford, the system that supplies our sustenance is engaged in its own form of consumption. It feasts on human toil, commodifed animals, natural resources, and our own bodies. Food, one of the foundations of life, has become a hub of sufering and struggle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608329885767-ZY74YCJLRFDEWV5RRXSL/radical%2Broots%2Bteaser.jpg Articles Joey Klein bounces around me like a boxer, hurling verbal enticements. Wiry, strong, and ruddy from long days in the sun, the Long Island native turned radical farmer invites me to “come on up the hill, come check out the chickens and goats!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608330340632-VGE4YKDK8QP94P7BXTJ1/90.jpg Articles In its $10.5-million spending binge to defeat soda tax measures in Berkeley and San Francisco in November — and to stem the nationwide push to hold Big Soda accountable for epidemic diseases related to sugar overconsumption — the soda industry has positioned itself as a populist defender of poor people’s access to supposedly cheap soda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608332972061-TYSJW1DCBBNXS2LIKL09/untitled-article-1458316265%2B6.06.45%2BPM.jpg Articles As Cuba-US relations gradually warm, with President Barack Obama heading to the island this weekend for the first US presidential visit in 90 years, American agribusiness is seeing green — specifically, lucrative pastures of export opportunities. While still a relatively small market, Cuba represents potentially billions of dollars of US commodity exports, just a 90-mile flight or cargo ship ride away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608330624164-R7I0FEVKB7ARIJMKF9F0/4609-news_hungrysf.jpg Articles Antonia Williams is part of a slow, quiet food revolution. After battling obesity for much of her adult life, the 26-year-old lifelong Bayview resident did some research. “I realized it had a lot to do with the food I consumed,” she told us. “As a result of growing up in the neighborhood, I suffer from obesity. I’m overweight because of the lack of options for good healthy food.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608329992271-1FC4YHGX6QM3LW4FXB4B/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-18%2Bat%2B5.14.36%2BPM.jpg Articles Remember the great 2016 presidential campaign debate about food and agriculture, the backbone of human nourishment and survival? Remember when the candidates were forced to articulate their stances on soil regeneration, farm subsidy inequities, labor abuse in the food industry, and how to rein in pesticides and GMOs while expanding organic diversified farming? Remember when the media pressed candidates to explain how they would make food and farming equitable, truly sustainable, and deeply healthful for generations to come? You didn’t forget—it never happened. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608333114942-L6071440UX5LIJRQPJMI/unnamed.jpg Articles Nauseating as it was, last week’s record-setting beef recall and the apparent feeding of meat from crippled “downer” cattle to our nation’s children and others should come as little surprise. Although egregious to the point of obscenity, this latest meat scandal fits a pattern of regulatory anemia -- the byproduct of a decades-long bipartisan assault on “big government” -- that has opened the floodgates to all sorts of contamination shenanigans. The deregulated chickens, cows and pigs have come home to roost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608329859784-HU412K13V3A3E2VEIPLS/3000.jpg Articles Crises tend to expose pre-existing societal malfunctions, and the Covid-19 pandemic has provided a bleak view into our political and economic soul. This March and April, even as an astounding 30 million Americans plunged into unemployment and food bank needs soared, farmers across the US destroyed heartbreaking amounts of food to stem mounting financial losses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608739901518-ONVVNUU90XD1V5M8GDM3/unnamed.jpg Articles Large biotech agribusinesses like Monsanto control much of the global seed market with genetically modified (GM) crops. This centralization of GM seeds threatens food safety, food security, biodiversity, and democratic ideals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1609196874530-BGWK6AHRWHS967G5X9OM/Screen%252BShot%252B2020-10-12%252Bat%252B1.28.21%252BPM.png.jpg Articles For at least ten hours a day and “sometimes twelve hours or more,” Maria Ramirez packed hamburgers at the Strauss Brands meatpacking plant in Franklin, Wisconsin. The job, which she held for thirteen years, was tough. Then came COVID-19, which made her work “more dangerous,” says the forty-one-year-old single mother of four, originally from Mexico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608335096423-L0XFRZUBLQ6HWBG3UU2O/Screen%2BShot%2B2017-02-09%2Bat%2B9.jpg Articles In 1989, during the transition from Presidents Reagan to George H.W. Bush, the rightwing Heritage Foundation expressed dismay that “free market” reforms were not moving fast enough. The group weighed in with a burly 900-plus page “Mandate for Leadership,” urging Reagan Revolutionaries to more aggressively dismantle government regulations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608335633519-336GQQ437UXVNO55VZFO/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-18%2Bat%2B6.53.16%2BPM.jpg Articles The doctors “had to go down to the second knuckle,” says Terry Feeny. They cut off the tops of three of his fingers, leaving quarter-inch stubs with nerves so tender they reacts as if they are twenty degrees colder that the actual temperature. Even with special Neosporin gloves, “I can’t go outside in the cold for more than five minutes of my hands turn blue,” he says. “I can’t really hold nothing or grip nothing.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608335982318-3G1ITE9HOBM4PIK1OC9M/harpers-compressor.jpg Articles In the nation’s poultry plans, brutality to workers as well as to bird. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608336720244-SA13I9BZ9XFQAA2GBNMD/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-18%2Bat%2B7.10.46%2BPM.jpg Articles After five days of cutting pig fat in northern Missouri, Sergio Rivera is ready to go home. So is his sixty-year-old father, who joined him on the Greyhound from El Paso in a desperate sojourn for work. Now they are broke in Missouri—financially and physically—and as eager to leave as they ever were to cut up pigs for Premium Standard Foods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608739985939-WEDCHA6LI3JTDK06P6XI/unnamed.jpg Articles When Michelle Galvan heard the radio announcing job openings at a Case Farms' poultry plant in Ohio, she rushed to meet with recruiters in her hometown - McAllen, in southern Texas. The deal sounded good: She would pack boneless chicken breasts for $5.50 an hour, and the company would provide free furnished housing and transportation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1621932287826-OZRIY4URQ43VHGTWH3U3/Screen+Shot+2021-04-26+at+3.21.48+PM.jpeg Articles - Make it stand out Despite growing pressure from labor groups and worker advocates on Capitol Hill, the Biden Administration continues to delay an emergency COVID-19 worker safety protection that was supposed to launch March 15—and it’s still unclear when (or even if) the measure will be enacted… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608332290255-CXGI67GGPTJ2Z9OUZ6HM/4000.jpg Articles Amputations, fractured fingers, second-degree burns and head trauma are just some of the serious injuries suffered by US meat plant workers every week, according to data seen by the Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608335333332-W618BEWSDR0PRYCSS4PJ/c.jpg Articles Amid Silicon Valley’s torrid dot-com boom, stories abound of peach-fuzzed college graduates pulling down six-figure salaries and, in short order, securing their American dream. For them there is no shortage of opportunity–for new business ventures, luxury cars and seven-figure homes. Yet beneath this gilded veneer a class war is brewing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608335253132-L9GO12SFLWS02VKKJCHW/mj-nomaster-2000-1124.jpg Articles Providing workers to do the dirtiest, riskiest jobs has become a big business. One corporation has cornered the market and is squeezing millions from its day-labor temps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1619082857337-B3UR4TBHYONBAG714H9J/Progressive%25252BEssential%25252BWorkers%25252BFeb%25252B2021.jpg Articles More than a year into a pandemic that has killed nearly half a million Americans, millions of workers still toil in dangerous infection-spreading conditions, in hospitals and clinics, nursing homes, factories, supermarkets, and fields—perilously providing America’s food and health care in hazardous conditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608332256276-U3NYGRXIDLHE2Q77F5GQ/alex_acosta_ap_img.jpg Articles Overshadowed by the high-octane wars over the Affordable Care Act and Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, the confirmation of Labor Secretary nominee Alexander Acosta is cruising toward a March 30 Senate committee vote with little fanfare. Yet Acosta’s acquiescence to President Trump’s labor agenda holds frightful if unheralded consequences for America’s workers, millions of them Trump supporters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608337100535-2EYWULRLLLGKK81SWBSO/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-18%2Bat%2B7.07.12%2BPM.jpg Articles Government and business officials in Missouri have developed an efficient way to slash the welfare rolls: order recipients to gut chickens or pigs for Tyson Foods, ConAgra, or Premium Standard Farms, or else lose their benefits. Under an initiative called Direct Job Placement, the companies have hired hundreds of former welfare recipients. But turnover has been high, and many—balking at the prospect of gutting fifty chickens per minute—have disappeared or been dropped from the welfare rolls by the state. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608740051169-OGBIVZS2KXDPK9AS7GI4/unnamed.jpg Articles Living a half-mile downwind from 12,000 hogs has been hard on Sharlene Merk, of Audubon, Iowa. It's beyond smelly; it's a health hazard, says Mrs. Merk, a longtime farmer who, with her husband, once raised hogs. Ammonia and hydrogen sulfide fumes are a natural byproduct of the animal farms that supply America's meat. But as farms expand - some housing close to 100,000 livestock - so have concerns about air quality and the impact on people nearby. Studies near bigger farms, for example, have documented high rates of respiratory illness in the human population. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608338573457-BUSH6FHTSHWYVXX6Y2HK/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-18%2Bat%2B7.42.02%2BPM.jpg Articles Each night, during four viciously cold, wind-throttled months in Cheyenne, Wyoming, this past winter, I gazed out my window at a hideous beauty: a hissing tongue of oil fire erupting from a refinery, flaring like a devil’s flame, licking eastern Wyoming’s towering high plains sky. Above the gaseous bursts, the night subsumed everything beneath it with an all-consuming hugeness, pockmarked by cold-shined moon and stars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608339054053-NM8H0DLAA6NQA6141LB5/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-18%2Bat%2B7.49.52%2BPM.jpg Articles The sun-seared Movaje Desert serves up some of the Earth’s hottest summer days, firing the mercury above 120 degrees; just four inches of rain trickle from these unforgiving skies each year. In this parches beige moonscape there’s not much room for error. A troll in the wrong direction without enough water can spell death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608338482108-2PH4S9SB9ZD5WTKGHDDR/sunrise-movement-green-new-deal-ss-img.jpg Articles Amid raging California wildfires, rising sea levels, and a sudden wave of Democratic power in Congress, the idea of a Green New Deal to create millions of new jobs combating the climate crisis is surging. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608347226341-QAFQNZXZT4XZWA2CS757/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-18%2Bat%2B10.06.34%2BPM.jpg Articles On April 16, in Building Three of MMC Technology’s CD-ROM plant in San Jose, the lid exploded off a 55-gallon drum, sending up a cloud of toxic chemicals and a splash of nitric acid. The San Jose Fire Department’s Hazardous Incident Team evacuated the building and cordoned off the area. Workers, dressed like surgeons in head-to-toe sterile suits, filed out of the plant as the ambulances arrived. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608338311389-K5FLA571IJQQAXTX8X7D/190207-green-new-deal-food-agriculture-ocasio-cortez-markey-pingree-blumenauer.jpg Articles Today, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) released their much-anticipated Green New Deal with the goal of creating millions of jobs by expanding renewable energy and de-carbonizing the economy over the next 10 years. It’s a sweeping attempt to reorient energy production and shift public resources in an urgent bid to make the U.S. carbon-neutral by 2030. And it comes at a crucial moment, as dire scientific evidence shows the world needs to act fast over the next 12 years to avert the worst impacts of climate change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608341227608-MZBEYBFJWMEZM3BOUW9T/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-18%2Bat%2B8.26.12%2BPM.jpg Articles Robert Reich entered the national stage, moderately left, when President Bill Clinton appointed him Labor Secre- tary in 1992. But after some bruising battles with Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who wanted to ban the phrase “corporate welfare” in the White House, Reich left the Administration at the end of the first term—an experience he describes in his book Locked in the Cabinet. He has written more than a dozen books, most of them about the U.S. econo- my or the future of liberalism in America. His latest, Beyond Outrage, accompa- nied by his own whimsical political cartoons and dedicated to “the Occupiers,” is a clarion call for progressive change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608340959738-DCI7A1S92D81D0O09SN3/original.jpg Articles Whether he wins the Democratic Party nomination or not—and his chances are increasingly viable—the candidacy of Bernie Sanders has already won, by vastly enlarging America’s political conversation and possibilities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608340398695-92614ZERPOS1BJG16XXX/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-18%2Bat%2B8.09.11%2BPM.jpg Articles In a surreal year that has spiraled from surging hopes for a Bernie Sanders presidency to today’s pandemic-hemmed fear and a tight election between centrist Democrats and fascistic Republicans, now may be just the right time for a new political party. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608340053612-8BJ5MBDKVHHATG6CK5PZ/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-18%2Bat%2B8.07.05%2BPM.jpg Articles With a deep sigh opening his “Thank you” video to supporters on April 8, following a brutally bizarre Wisconsin primary clouded by voter suppression and endangerment amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Senator Bernie Sanders ended his once mightily promising bid for the presidency. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608340681187-O4ZRBVPC2KWFNUXUVLPX/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-12-18%2Bat%2B8.17.09%2BPM.jpg Articles Political campaigns open and break hearts, then disappear. In the end, signs come down, campaign offices empty out, voter and volunteer lists coated with coffee and sweat are shredded. The moment and the movement dissolve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608479741764-X333SMJT24M1GHQ3D3GM/unnamed.jpg Articles One of the few things most voters agree on is that political campaigns too commonly devolve into personality feuds rather than substantive, issue-driven debates. That's unfortunate, because most voters have concrete needs and issues propelling their votes in 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608341021576-JEHRL0CXINAHPOWF33I7/image-asset.jpeg Articles As Bernie Sanders defies expectations with a resounding New Hampshire victory and a virtual tie in Iowa, Democratic Party leaders still insist Hillary Clinton is the pragmatic choice to beat Republicans and bring effective leadership and change—if incremental—to Washington. Clinton and her supporters frame the race, and her appeal, as a matter of “ready on day one” leadership and “get things done” practicality. But what does the record show, and what do leadership and pragmatism really mean? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608343177554-BCV7B18L3Y1CD4L4A1BU/blog_featured-image_iasc_keynote_0.jpg Articles America’s bitterly divided discourse about government and the public sector is all but absent here at the global commons conference in Hyderabad, India where criticisms of government seem driven more by an impulse to protect communities from state-corporate takings of common lands than by the urge to eliminate taxes and regulation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608342735868-SNX65BEXZJYS2LI9NU9I/seiudemo1.preview.jpg Articles At the corner of Turk and Hyde Streets in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, just a few blocks from the glittering commerce and bustling tourism of Union Square, lies a little slice of the Third World that visitors rarely see — unless they go to India or Africa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608342936011-VUXFH21CXQV9CFM5FFNC/columbiajournalism-rev.jpg Articles The documents are ugly and embarrassing. In e-mails riddled with terms like “gasoline slops” and “caustic washing,” officials with Trafigura, a major global commodities trading firm, described plans to clean and re-sell contaminated oil from Mexico and deposit the wastes in Africa, since they were too toxic for regulators in Europe or the U.S. In one 2005 e-mail discussing oil-cleaning profits, Trafigura staffer James McNicol wrote, “This is as cheap as anyone can imagine and should make serious dollars.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608341903499-ETVV4QZOXJDXQMJ7EUQX/SRO_01.jpg Articles The sidewalk on Hyde Street was jam-packed with people hustling for survival. A wiry young man in cutoff shorts, his legs pockmarked by needle wounds, barreled through the crowd. A tall slender middle-aged man clutched a wad of bills, eyes alert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608342105069-J7466FK81NK6MEQJCRQM/GettyImages-110872572_master-3-1300x500.jpg Articles While Koch Industries snared headlines last fall for its partial acquisition of Time, Inc. (including Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and other holdings), the business empire’s nonprofit Koch Foundation made a smaller, little-noticed investment—granting $80,000 to the American Society of News Editors for its freedom of information hotline program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608342431201-24A4T6F2XZCXWOD2TY2O/mj-nomaster-2000-1124.jpg Articles In September, just two days after a Census Bureau report showed that food stamps helped keep 4 million Americans out of poverty last year, the US House of Representatives approved a $39 billion cut to the program (known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) over the next decade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608343022669-9VNTX5249WNF87HB1ZVH/blog_featured-image_p1019067.jpg Articles One issue largely absent from the agenda of this January’s global commons conference in Hyderabad, India was the idea of limits to consumption and material accumulation. There were presentations aplenty on how commons are being limited and threatened by development, land-grabbing, and ecological decay, but little discussion of how global consumption, notions of material ‘progress,’ and ‘development’ factor into the evolving equation of how humans and the planet will survive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd5291e674bc6778f3f6479/1608409223534-SPZJKML0432RG3VXCOGS/6a0120a69a468c970c0192aa44ee92970d.jpg Articles To hear Republicans — and some Democrats — in Congress talk, you’d think food-stamp dollars just disappear into a black hole. The prevailing debate in the Senate and House versions of the farm bill, which contains funding for food stamps (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP), is over how much to cut. 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