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An Ode to Farming Striking images of agriculture around the world. Bears in a Honey TrapBy Julia Ioffe The sex scandal rocking Russia’s opposition. Don’t Panic, Go Organic By Anna Lappe Be not troubled by Robert Paarlberg’s scaremongering. Organic practices can feed the world — better, in fact, than wasteful industrial farming. Peak PhosphorousBy James ...

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An Ode to Farming

An Ode to Farming

Striking images of agriculture around the world.

Bears in a Honey Trap
By Julia Ioffe

The sex scandal rocking Russia’s opposition.

Don’t Panic, Go Organic
By Anna Lappe

Be not troubled by Robert Paarlberg’s scaremongering. Organic practices can feed the world — better, in fact, than wasteful industrial farming.

Peak Phosphorous
By James Elser and Stuart White

It’s an essential, if underappreciated component of our daily lives, and a key link in the global food chain. And it’s running out.

They’re Not Brainwashed, Just Miserable
By Marcus Noland

What North Koreans really want.

Look Upon These Works and Despair
By Joshua Keating

When bad art and bad politics mix.

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