The Grain That Could Help Save Agriculture in the West Rye lacks mainstream market demand in the United States. But a group of family farmers in Colorado are banking on its potential to help combat the area’s water shortage.
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Was the First Amendment a Mistake? A new book questions the decision to frame free speech as an absolute
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The Hard-Hearted Right and “Toxic Empathy” It’s been weeks since I listened to a New York Times podcast featuring Allie Beth Stuckey, a far-right, fundamentalist Reformed Baptist social media influencer and podcaster on politics, theology, and lifestyle advice. She is instantly identifiable as such by her look, featuring all the MAGA woman signifiers: the flowing hair streaked with blonde, the masklike ...
https://arlenegoldbard.com/202....5/08/03/the-hard-hea

Where Oppenheimer Feared to Tread, ‘Atomic People’ Bravely Goes A new documentary tells the story of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the perspective of the atomic bomb’s victims, rather than its inventor.
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After Eighty Years, Nuclear Threat Remains Grave A nuclear war would be catastrophic. We eliminate nuclear weapons to ensure events like the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki never happen again.
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