The Farm Bill, signed into law by President Donald J. Trump on Dec. 20, 2018, died on Oct. 1, but with Congress on its long election break until November 14, it has not yet been buried. When Congress ...

Jock Reynolds, director of the Yale University Art Gallery, writes in his introduction to the book that these “jet-black circular voids strongly focus a reader’s attention in different ways, in some ...

Cronyism is the practice by which government officials provide preferential treatment (such as loans, subsidies or regulatory preferences) to handpicked firms or industries. It is a bipartisan ...

According to the New York Times, a fight is breaking out in the Democratic Party between supporters of three candidates for secretary of agriculture. Rep. Marcia Fudge of Ohio, Heidi Heitkamp and Tom ...

The Library of Congress has an incredible digitized archive of Depression-era photographs, taken between 1935 and 1945 on behalf of the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War ...

American documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) took some of the most powerful and iconic ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Pepperdine University professor Loretta Hunnicutt discussed the significance of the Farm System in baseball during the Great Depression.

There's something kind of remarkable about food born from necessity. When you're staring down empty cupboards and an even emptier wallet, creativity kicks in. The Great Depression era of the 1930s ...