Brooke Rollins

Equality, Not Elitism

Rooting out the deep state in American agriculture

September 22, 2025 6:00 am

A helicopter ferries a log to the landing, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2006, on the Mike's Gulch timber sale in the South Kalmiopsis Roadless Area of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest near Selma, Oregon.

Energy and Environment

Trump USDA advances plan to ax logging protections for 44 million acres of national forests

Callie Patteson -

August 27, 2025 2:30 pm

Secretary of Health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. greets a market vendor, Aug. 4, 2025. ( (Bryan Dozier/NurPhoto/AP)

Healthcare

MAHA on the Mall: A Trump-aligned farmers market in its salad days

Hannah Rowan -

August 15, 2025 4:15 am

In this March 16, 2017 photo, Margaret Atkinson speaks during an interview as she shops for soda at the IGA supermarket in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia less than three months into Philadelphia's new tax on sweetened drinks.

Community and Family

SNAP ban on soda aligns with public opinion

Nora Kenney -

August 13, 2025 6:00 am

Soda tax advocates promise healthier communities and balanced budgets. So far neither promise has materialized anywhere the tax has been imposed. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Editorials

Make the MAHA SNAP junk food ban permanent

Washington Examiner -

August 10, 2025 5:00 am

A farmer harvests seed corn in temperatures over 100 degree Fahrenheit Tuesday, July 29, 2025 near Albany, Georgia.

Community and Family

The USDA’s Great American Farmers Market celebrates our local farmers

Brooke Rollins -

August 7, 2025 2:00 pm

The next five-year reauthorization of the farm bill comes up in 2018, which has groups set to make sure the bill's increased energy focus over the last decade doesn't face the cuts it experienced in the last Congress.

Editorials

Trump’s welcome crackdown on Chinese ownership of American farmland

Washington Examiner -

July 14, 2025 12:01 am

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Washington.

In Focus

Trump’s made-for-TV administration shows flashes of drama

Naomi Lim -

July 12, 2025 8:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks during a lunch with African leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Washington.

Healthcare

Trump administration bars illegal immigrants from swath of federal programs

Gabrielle M. Etzel -

July 10, 2025 10:57 am

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Trump gets serious on farm-related national security

Sean Durns -

July 10, 2025 6:00 am

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