Food Tells Our Stories and Gives Us Hope

Food Tells Our Stories and Gives Us Hope

I am a pessimist by design. My eyes fix in an upward glance, scanning the horizon for the other shoe to drop—a true believer in Murphy’s Law. Over the years, this has produced a mantra that can, like the prophets’ message, burn inside me at such an...
New Attacks on SNAP Use the Same Old Playbook

New Attacks on SNAP Use the Same Old Playbook

Right on cue, the “waste, fraud and abuse” crew deploys a familiar smokescreen to distract from their corruption. Last weekend, the social media platform owned by the oligarch-in-chief was awash in posts decrying the inclusion of sugar-sweetened sodas on the list of...