Immigrant farmers are flocking to the poultry industry — only to become 21st-century sharecroppers for companies like Tyson.
Monica Potts
Monica Potts is a former senior writer at The American Prospect. She is working on a book about low-income women in her rural Arkansas hometown. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York, Vogue.com, The Daily Beast, The Trace, and Democracy.
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Who Drives Innovation?
Republicans like to argue that private companies are responsible for technological breakthroughs, but that’s not true.
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Q&A: Why the Deficit Doesn’t Matter
TAP talks with James Galbraith about the deficit and what we really should be looking for in the president’s budget.
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Clean Energy’s Cat-and-Mouse Game
The president’s new budget has a lot of proposals for green energy, but what if states fail to implement them?
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More Than “Mom-in-Chief”
Despite criticism from feminists, Michelle Obama has shown herself to be a serious first lady.
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Moral Combat
Why do liberals play computer games like conservatives?
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Q&A: Food Prices and Revolution
TAP talks to someone from the United Nations World Food Programme about how food-price instability affects what’s happening in Egypt.
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The USDA’s Thintervention
On Monday, the United States Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services — the guys responsible for the ever-evolving “food pyramid” — released their national nutrition guidelines, which they update every five years. The basic message of the report: Eat less, make more of what you eat vegetables and fruits, and eat […]
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Obama, UnMoved.
If you haven’t read Paul Waldman’s piece on how President Obama hasn’t really moved to the not-really-there-center so much as remained the same person he’s always been, I urge you to do so. What’s true about Obama is that progressives have always been inclined to see him as more progressive than he probably is in […]
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Down Syndrome and Abortion.
In the above BloggingHeads video, Amanda Marcotte and Mollie Ziegler Hemingway discuss the scandal of Dr. Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia, the doctor who is charged with running an unclean clinic in which one woman died and seven babies were delivered live and then killed, rather than aborted, as Gosnell purported to do. For abortion foes […]
