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Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity
Norman Borlaug, the agronomist whose discoveries sparked the Green Revolution, has saved literally millions of lives, yet he is hardly a household name
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Blood and Motherly Advice
The American Forces Network offers homilies, sports events, and surprisingly graphic depictions of war.
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Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity
Norman Borlaug, the agronomist whose discoveries sparked the Green Revolution, has saved literally millions of lives, yet he is hardly a household name
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Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters The Future of Electric Power
Deregulation has come to the semi-monopolistic world of public utilities, with potentially far-reaching consequences for the environment and for energy efficiency, cost, and investors as well.
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MJ / AP Are We Alone?
Scanning the universe to see if we have company has fallen out of favor among many scientists, but the true believers who continue to search raise diverting questions—like why planets form where they do, and how life began, and where we might end up.
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Marcy Nighswander / AP Washington: The Business of Politics
Representative Tony Coelho has raised a lot of money for congressional Democrats—and roused a lot of debate.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Conservation: Vanishing Land Reappears
For a change, good news: the America-is-losing-its-farmland-to-urbanization crisis has been called off
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Charles Tasnadi / AP ‘Ideas Move Nations’
How conservative think tanks have helped to transform the terms of political debate
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Mike Murphy / AP Making Sense of Agriculture
A revisionist look at farm policy
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AP What’s Wrong With Congress
Before Congress can lead the nation, it must be able to lead itself.
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Steve Helber / AP The Airplane That Doesn’t Cost Enough
A reliable and relatively cheap fighter is being ignored by the Air Force, because the Air Force didn’t design it.
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Mark Terrill / AP Housing: Examining a Media Myth
The “new poor” and homeless discovered by the press a few months ago seem to have vanished; meanwhile, the real poor still need help.
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Voting for Unemployment
Why union workers sometimes choose to lose their jobs rather than accept cuts in wages
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The Perpetual Campaign
An inquiry into these questions: Will years of running for President pay off for Walter Mondale, as it did for three previous candidates? Does Mondale, or any other Democratic candidate, have any new ideas? And what is the party going to do about entitlement programs, and about the unions, whose support it needs but whose expectations may have become an obstacle to economic recovery?
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Divad
The most sophisticated weapon ever to roll onto a battlefield is a treat for contractors but a liability for soldiers in battle.
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The Myth of Oppressive Corporate Taxes
Congress has found an expensive solution to what wasn’t wrong with the economy.
