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Adopting Conserving Agricultural Practices: A Farmer's Perspective

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Global Food for Thought by Coauthors

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.

Field worker in a vegetable field.
Reuters
Food and Agriculture

Alliances Secured America's Past. Will They Secure Its Future?

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Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

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.

A general view during the NATO leaders summit in Watford, Britain, December 4, 2019
Reuters
Defense and Security

Americans Aren't as Eager to Retreat From the Middle East as Politicians Seem to Think

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The Hill
Coauthors

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

M2A2 Bradley IFVs of the 4th Battalion, 118th Infantry Regiment, attached to 218th MEB, accompany a U.S. patrol in eastern Syria, 13 November 2019
United States Army
Defense and Security

Why Asia Needs to Move Beyond Plastic Bag Bans

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The Diplomat
Kris Hartley

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

Plastic Bag Waste
Ben Kerckx
Climate and the Environment

Can Millennials Save US Foreign Policy?

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Responsible Statecraft
Craig Kafura

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.

Immigrant rights march for amnesty in downtown Los Angeles, California
Jonathan McIntosh
Public Opinion

Intelligence Coup of the Century: Would Americans be on Board?

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Running Numbers by Brendan Helm

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

The entrance to the CIA New Headquarters Building (NHB) of the George Bush Center for Intelligence.
Central Intelligence Agency
Public Opinion

China's Secrecy Has Made the Coronavirus Crisis Much Worse

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Chicago Tribune
Ivo H. Daalder

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.

Policemen wearing masks patrolling Wuhan Tianhe Airport during coronavirus outbreak
China News Service
Global Health

Boosting Nutrition and Sustainability through Superfoods in Local Food Systems 

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Global Food for Thought by Juan Lucas Restrepo

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

A close-up view of quinoa, a superfood
Pierre Bamin
Food and Agriculture

One Woman Is Standing Up to Murder and Violence in El Salvador

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Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Gus Hart Visiting Fellow Rosa Anaya joins Deep Dish to discuss her work rehabilitating inmates and gang members in El Salvador with Catholic Relief Services’ Second Changes.

Rosa Anaya Perla in front of the National Palace of El Salvador Migration

Kelly Magsamen on the Threat from Iran

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Wait Just a Minute

Kelly Magsamen, former National Security Council director for Iran under US presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, takes a minute to answer questions on Iran, its proxies, and whether the US should support anti-regime protests.

Kelly Magsamen on Wait Just a Minute Defense and Security