As the climate changes, so have the fortunes and profile of Maine’s potato culture. Drought and heat have so stressed potato yields in the West that Maine growers have been called upon to ship their potatoes almost 3,000 miles to french fry processors in Washington state.
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Cal Thomas: History in black and white
There seems to be a certain conceit among some that the past is irrelevant to modern challenges. The opposite is true.
Alex Cornell du Houx: After a year of war, we need a Ukraine Clean Energy Marshall Plan urgently
The plan is a crucial opportunity to help undermine Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, strengthen global security, and increase clean energy production.
Elliott Epstein: Fox News is vulnerable in Dominion defamation lawsuit
Dominion Voting System’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, pending in Delaware state court, will, I expect, produce the mother of all verdicts. I rarely attempt to predict the outcome of jury trials, because, as a wise judge once cautioned in persuading me to settle a case over which he was presiding, “a jury […]
Austin Bay: Weaponizing everything, including lawyers and balloons: China’s 1999 manual for defeating America
Informed minds assure us the study titled “Unrestricted Warfare” and published by the People’s Liberation Army in February 1999 isn’t a war plan. I’ll agree it isn’t a step-by-step plan, but it is a thoughtful and deadly intellectual guidebook China’s communist leaders are using to defeat the U.S. and establish a Chinese-mandated international order.
Froma Harrop: Ah, Nikki. Change your shoes
Nikki Haley is running for the Republican presidential nomination. She is clearly a long shot, but ditching pointy toes for sharper counterattacks would be the way to go.
Bob Neal: The Countryman: Finding purpose in our brave new world
Looking for meaning helps us understand how our actions are or are not important. Looking for purpose helps us understand how we can fit into the world (and how we can’t).
Rich Lowry: Biden’s push to radicalize the federal bureaucracy
In a push for so-called equity so shockingly far-reaching that, not so long ago, a “woke” diversity officer wouldn’t have attempted it at even the most progressive liberal arts college, Biden is pushing to make the federal government a frank instrument of a racialized radicalism.
Cal Thomas: The Coolidge presidency at 100
Calvin Coolidge has received what might be called a raw deal from historians like Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Henry Steele Commager. They created a caricature of Coolidge that includes blaming him for the Great Depression, which began in 1929, the year after he left office. In fact, it was the policies of his successors, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt that turned an economic downturn into a 10-year disaster.
Rich Lowry: The ignorant and racially charged attacks on Nikki Haley
Only in 21st-century America can you call yourself the “proud daughter of Indian immigrants” and get accused of whitewashing your background.