Big Pharma Ditches Antibiotic Research When It’s Needed Most
Julien Behal/PA Wire via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every year, at least 2 million Americans get infected with bacteria that have evolved to resist antibiotics, and at least 23,000 people die. Globally, resistant pathogens take 700,000 lives annually. Given this level of disease and death, you might think Big Pharma…
Food Stamps Are Too Complicated. This Is a Much Better Way to Fix Hunger.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here in the United States, 18 percent of people live in poverty. For particularly vulnerable groups like children and the elderly, the poverty rate exceeds 20 percent. Annie Lowrey, an economics writer for The Atlantic and author of the new book Give People Money: How a…
As Trump’s China Tariffs Kick In, US Farmers Watch Prices Slide
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s long-simmering, multi-front trade war is about to escalate: On Friday, the United States plans to begin slapping a 25 percent tariff on $34 billion worth of goods from China, which has vowed to retaliate immediately with its own duties on US goods. …
California’s Vineyard Workers Already Faced Long Hours, Low Pay, and Harsh Conditions. Then Came Trump’s Immigration Crackdown.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s Sunday night of Labor Day weekend, but any barbecues died down hours ago, and the rural back roads of this southern Napa County neighborhood are a dark and silent maze. Around midnight, the lights of the Robert Sinskey Vineyards’ shop blink on. In the center…
Trump’s Trade War Is Hurting Red-State Farmers—and Ripping Their GOP Senators Apart
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R.-Iowa), left, is clashing with Trump over trade policy.Bill Clark/ ZUMA, Evan Golub/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Having yet again teed up a multi-front trade war with the United States’ biggest agricultural trading partners—Mexico, China, Canada, and the European Union—President Donald Trump’s agricultural policy team is talking tough.…
This Famous Author Commands You to Step Away From the Pork Chop
Searsie/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jonathan Safran Foer is probably best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, which is set in New York shortly after 9/11. But in the late 2000s, he took a break from fiction. As he prepared to become…