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Eat Less Beef. Eat More Ostrich?

Sarah Zhang The Atlantic
Ostrich is touted as a more sustainable red meat that tastes just like beef.
The truth is, greenhouse-gas emissions from food are sensitive to the exact mode of production, which vary country to country, region to region, and even farm to farm. And any analysis is only as good as the quality of the data that go into it.

Tony Kahn: Boy Fugitive in the Cold War

Paul Buhle Portside
This is a poignant tale of remembering parents in trouble, careers dashed and of steady FBI harassment. The end is not happy, except that the boy survives and makes his own life as an admired cultural commentator on radio.

Bring In the Clowns

Jean Chacona
Poet Jean Chacona offers a satirical view of the hucksterism at the heart of the new administration.