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Nature, Published online: 08 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02407-6 A new government policy seeks to balance innovation and safety
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Could the UK be facing empty supermarket shelves by 2030? Are food distribution centres sitting ducks for drone warfare? And how has Britain got to a place where is has just 3 days to 3 weeks worth of food supplies? This week, Caroline Lucas sits down with food security expert, Professor Paul Behrens from the University of Oxford. To hear the full episode and the whole series as it drops, sign up here or at therestispolitics.com Please continue to send in your questions for Caroline, Alastair...
Why We Love to Hate Tradwives The summer’s most talked-about novel, the debut Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke, has a tantalizing premise: a tradwife influencer wakes up one day to find that her modern kitchen, two nannies, and the other behind-the-scenes creature comforts that prop up her “traditional” lifestyle brand have disappeared. Instead, she is now living in 1855, where she has to bake her signature sourdough over a fickle fire and bloody her hands while scrubbing clothes with a washbo...
The Commonweal Fund for Moral & Civic Renewal Thomas and Allison Franco have made a founding gift of $1,000,000. We invite you to join them. Introduction In an era of deep polarization and widespread distrust of institutions, Commonweal’s independent voice is more urgently needed than ever. The Commonweal Fund for Moral & Civic Renewal is a permanent endowment designed to ensure that voice endures—free, fearless, and faithful—for generations to come. The challenges facing American civic and r...
Hunger Is a Cry to Heaven “Hunger…is a cry that rises to heaven and requires a swift response from every nation, every international organization, every regional, local or private body. No one can remain on the sidelines in the fight against hunger.” The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops included these words from Pope Leo XIV in a letter to the Senate on July 9 about the priorities of the Farm Bill. The bill sets agricultural policies and funds programs that address hunger in the United Sta...
The cyclospora outbreak lays bare our underfunded and overwhelmed public-health system