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This Weed Killer Is Wreaking Havoc on America’s Crops

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Gary TaxaliWhen farmer Darvin Bentlage surveyed his southwestern Missouri soybean fields in August, he knew something was amiss in one of them. “I’ve been looking at soybeans for about 60 years, and these didn’t look right,” he says. The plants’ leaves had shriveled upward, taking the…

Who’s the Fakest President of All?

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the weekend, James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal complained that liberals are always stereotyping Republican presidents as dimwitted. Maybe so. But I’d argue that this is nothing compared to the relentless stereotyping of Democrats as fake and poll-driven. This started with Jimmy Carter,…

America Needs a Troglodyte/Eat-the-Rich Party

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Atrios today: I’m not sure of the precise timing, but I figure sometime soon..either before the 2018 midterms or soon after… the regular drumbeat for a “populist” party whose appeal is limited to Tom Friedman and Matthew Dowd and maybe Chuck Lane will begin. A…