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Overhauling the Farm Bill: The Real Beneficiaries of Subsidies Shutterstock

Overhauling the Farm Bill: The Real Beneficiaries of Subsidies

It's one thing to support a family farmer. It's another to subsidize a mega farm expansion that puts family farmers out of business.

Overhauling the Farm Bill: Political Wedge Issues Slowing Reform Shutterstock

Overhauling the Farm Bill: Political Wedge Issues Slowing Reform

Government deficits, energy, health care: Any one of these issues could lead to a policy fight that keeps much-needed reform off the table.

The Surprise Question: Would Your Doctor Be Shocked If You Died? Shutterstock

The Surprise Question: Would Your Doctor Be Shocked If You Died?

With studies showing an answer to the question is a significant prognostic indicator, it's a simple way of screening for palliative care eligibility.

Transforming the Way We Die Shutterstock

Transforming the Way We Die

Our cultural tendency is to avoid serious conversations about end of life, and mortality has become politically polarized, but the longer we wait, the harder it will be to avoid disaster.

'The American Way of Eating': What It's Like Picking Fruit as a Laborer Shutterstock

'The American Way of Eating': What It's Like Picking Fruit as a Laborer

Tracie McMillan went undercover as a farm hand to find out about the difficulties involved in getting our food from plant to plate.

Making the Best of What Is Often the Very Worst Time of Our Lives Shutterstock

Making the Best of What Is Often the Very Worst Time of Our Lives

Though death is the most inevitable fact of life, our social systems are broken when it comes to caring for people with advanced illnesses.

How Freud Canonized Himself Cambridge

How Freud Canonized Himself

The censorship of Freud's correspondences, sequestering of documents and reminiscences in sealed boxed, and more was a systemic and concerted enterprise to consolidate the legend.

Access to Good, Healthy Food Should Be a Basic Human Right Shutterstock

Access to Good, Healthy Food Should Be a Basic Human Right

In an afterword to Prince Charles' speech on the future of food, Eric Schlosser and Will Allen make the case for a new, diverse food system.

Reward Good Food: Prince Charles on Healthy, Sustainable Farming Rodale Books

Reward Good Food: Prince Charles on Healthy, Sustainable Farming

Questioning conventional wisdom can be a risky business, but the Prince of Wales does it by calling for an overhaul of our food system.

Just Ride: Radically Practical Tips for Healthy Biking Done Right Workman

Just Ride: Radically Practical Tips for Healthy Biking Done Right

A lot of the advice you've been getting ever since you became a bike rider is flat-out wrong and is actually bad for your physical health.

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