Commentary

Erin Sweeney provides guest commentary on food, agriculture, and forestry in Southeast Asia.

States like Michigan are feeling the lack of international students and refugees as immigration restrictions cut off the Midwest's economic lifeline.

Farmers’ decisions to change the way they have farmed for years and start using new conserving agricultural practices such as conservation tillage, cover cropping, or buffer strips will depend in large part on how much it will cost.

Mira Rapp-Hooper joins Ivo Daalder on Deep Dish for a discussion about the state of US alliances at a moment when new concerns are flaring up.

Presidential candidates and the President are overstating Americans’ desire for a full-scale retreat from the Middle East.

Seriously addressing the region’s plastic apocalypse will require moving beyond blunt moves such as plastic bag bans.

In mainstream media outlets, Millennials have spent the last decade on a multi-industry killing spree. Now Millennials, along with neighboring Gen X and Gen Z, are coming for your politics.

What does the American public think of the American intelligence community and its efforts at global surveillance?

We may never know if the spread of the new virus could have been prevented by earlier, concerted action. But the fact that China chose secrecy and inaction turned the possibility of an epidemic into a reality.

Our Field Notes series explores how food systems innovation and agricultural research and development can empower farmers and feed the world.