International food aid—the food grown by American row crop farmers—has been a hallmark of United States foreign policy since the beginning of the Cold War. Its untimely end by the Trump administration ...

Monsignor George Higgins was a fixture of American Catholicism in the mid- 20th century. He taught at Catholic University and served on the staff of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He had a ...

Friday, March 28, was a near-perfect spring day in Mankato, Minnesota. The sun peeked out and temperatures hovered around 70 degrees. Students on the campus of Minnesota State University, Mankato, ...

About 75 years ago, Great Lakes fish were nearly wiped out and the fishing industry as we know it completely eradicated. A so-called vampire was lurking, overpopulating and infiltrating the waterways ...

Iowa has long prided itself on its public schools. Its 2004 statehood quarter features a one-room schoolhouse with a teacher and a student planting a tree alongside the inscription “Foundation in ...

Visit a dairy farm anywhere in the country and odds are decent you’ll overhear conversations in Spanish. Like other farmers in the United States, dairy farmers rely on immigrant laborers from Mexico ...

I am a small, organic vegetable farmer in southern Maine, in the town of Topsham, where I grew up. For the past 15 years, our farm has worked with U.S. Department of Agriculture to help build ...

The following is an excerpt from Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America by Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin, published by Island Press. You can purchase a copy here. Brenda ...

The preamble for the next war over water is here. Aggressive corporations are coming after the few remaining pristine places on Mother Earth—mainly on the land of Indigenous people. Nowadays, it’s not ...

Thirty-five-year-old singer Carín León won the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Regional Mexican Music Album for Boca Chueca, Vol. 1. To that, León says: “F*ck Regional.” “Regional Mexican Music” is a term ...