What we talk about when we talk about ‘Free Trade’ on March 19, 2018America, can we talk? We need to talk about “free trade.” We’ve needed to have this conversation for a while, actually. Like, since the 1980s. For the past several decades, the U.S. political establishment has advocated free trade as part of a broader economic ideology called neoliberalism. Now, you may need to ignore the word […]
The coming crisis for the world’s farmers on May 22, 2017Remember the climate crisis? It’s still happening. Having a government that resembles a circus, it turns out, hasn’t stopped the clock on the level of greenhouse gases in the air. At a conference in Italy, former president Barack Obama spoke recently about the impact the climate crisis will have on the world’s poorest and most […]