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August 2, 2018

Tidbits - Aug. 2, 2018 - Reader Comments: 2018 - Trump Country Cracking?, Embracing Democratic Socialism; MLK's Early Socialist Ideas; Household Debt; NATO; Ken Burns’ “The Vietnam War”; Billy Joel; Meat Surplus; Resources; Announcements....

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Reader Comments: 2018 and Trump Country Cracking, Parts Embrace Democratic Socialism; Young MLK Already Had Socialist Ideas; Medicare; Household Debt; NATO: Time Up; Ken Burns’ “The Vietnam War”; Billy Joel; Meat Surplus; Resources; Announcements

July 23, 2018

Nobody Is Safe: Disordered Eating in the Age of Foodies

Susan Pagani LA Review of Books

When I tell strangers that I’m a food writer, they tell me I’m lucky, and then ask, “How do you eat all that food?” I rarely tell them the whole truth.

June 10, 2018

A Deeper Challenge of Change: the Role of Land-Grant Universities in Assessing and Ending Structural Racism in the US Food System

Inter-Institutional Network for Food, Agriculture, and Sustainability

Institutional expressions of racism in the US food system and ways universities can contribute to challenging racism.

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June 10, 2018

Anthony Bourdain Was the Best White Man

Malika Rao Vulture

Bourdain engaged without fetishizing, touristed with ease, in the way of a person who’s been toggling between identities so long, the act of meeting a stranger from a strange land is the only familiar feeling.

May 20, 2018

How Rice Farming May Have Spread Across the Ancient World

Lizzie Wade Science

Hunter-gatherers didn’t learn farming themselves, or from their immediate neighbors, but rather from distant people moving into their territory—a pattern that may have played out throughout this part of the globe.

May 17, 2018

Tidbits - May 17, 2018 - Reader Comments: Nakba-Jerusalem Embassy-Palestinian Reality; Public Worker Unions, Union Membership and Janus; Radical literature; food; Avengers; Tidbits Returns; Brown v. Board of Education; Resources and more...

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Reader Comments: Jerusalem Embassy - Palestinian Reality; Public Worker Unions, Union Membership and Janus; Portside Culture stirs responses: Radical mysteries; food; Avengers; Tidbits Returns after six-week hiatus; Today in History: Brown v. Board of Education; Resources and more...

April 6, 2018

Friday Nite Videos | April 6, 2018

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Why Eating Healthy Is So Expensive. Weak Black Women | Robin Thede. Hip Hop or Shakespeare? Documentary | RGB. Tom Lehrer's 'The Elements' Animated.

Why Eating Healthy Is So Expensive

April 6, 2018

Produce helps your health and hurts your wallet, but that is as much a result of policy as of nature

January 28, 2018

Twinkies, Carrots, and Farm Policy Reality

John Ikerd Civil Eats

An agricultural economist writes that treating Twinkies and carrots as the beginning and end of the farm subsidies discussion distracts from useful public discourse.

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January 15, 2018

The Food World and America's White Supremacy Problem

Tunde Wey San Francisco Chronicle

In America, white supremacy is the establishment — not part of it, but all of it, our politics, prisons, schools. And white supremacy dominates our food, our media, even our escapism.

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