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"Big Food” Tries To Look Good

Alicia Kennedy The Bittman Project
If the top-heavy, ultra-consolidated food industry decides to offer us a few organic options, is that really a good thing? Most people do their food shopping solely at supermarkets or grocery stores where they find only those options that big food corporations allow them. Today the top five food retail companies account for about half of the market.

poetry

peeling potatoes

Nels Goñi Christianson
California poet Nels Goñi Christianson honors the women who made him the man he is, their often undervalued care and strength.

books

Grave New World

David Klion Bookforum
This book starts by saying that the 9/11 attacks "occurred at a moment when “the United States found itself at the head of a global economic order that had been founded on a growth surge that was slowly but surely running out of steam."

film

Toronto Film Festival Goes Around the World

Bill Meyer Hollywood Progressive
A favorite film at the Toronto International Film Festival this year was by far M - Son of the Century directed by the talented UK filmmaker Joe Wright. It’s actually an Italian TV mini-series about the founder of fascism himself, Benito Mussolini.

food

Will Congress Force This Controversial Alcohol Study To Stop?

Esther Mobley San Francisco Chronicle
Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Napa, co-wrote a letter to two federal agencies calling for the suspension of an alcohol review. The upcoming revision of U. S. Dietary Guidelines is unfolding amid a shifting global sentiment toward drinking. Members of Congress are calling for a suspension of a controversial committee that could recommend Americans reduce alcohol consumption.

tv

Say Nothing Turns the IRA’s Secret History Into TV Drama

An interview with Josh Zetumer Jacobin
The new FX TV show Say Nothing dramatizes one of the most controversial stories in modern Irish history, with characters that include former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams. Showrunner Josh Zetumer spoke to us about the challenges of producing the serie

books

Man Overboard

Rebecca Onion Slate
"Josh Hawley’s long-threatened tome about American masculinity is here," writes this reviewer. "Savor it with me."
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