‘How Harris can enhance on Walz’s “liberal” college lunch program’
Michael Pollan at The Washington Publish
Providing “common college lunch — which was nationwide coverage through the pandemic — must be a part of the Harris-Walz agenda,” says Michael Pollan, as a result of “providing college lunch on the premise of want stigmatizes eligible youngsters.” College-supported agriculture has the “potential not solely to enhance the well being of our kids but additionally to mitigate local weather change.” It could “additionally take away the lock {that a} small handful of food-processing firms have available on the market for varsity meals.”
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‘It is localization, not globalization, for the well being of the US economic system’
Christine Ngoc Ngo at The Hill
The U.S. is “present process a transformative shift away from the total embrace of globalization, towards a extra deliberate concentrate on localization,” says Christine Ngoc Ngo. That is “evident within the financial priorities of each Kamala Harris and Donald Trump by means of tariffs or industrial technique.” And “regardless of the contrasting strategies by each candidates, localization has turn into a bipartisan method to financial nationalism.” It additionally “displays broader considerations about earnings inequality and the equitable distribution of financial advantages.”
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Renée Graham at The Boston Globe
Over “800 veterans obtained honorable discharges years after they had been kicked out of the navy for being lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, or transgender,” and it’s “not possible to elucidate the indelible hurt inflicted on those that had been punished just because they wished to each serve their nation and be true to their genuine selves,” says Renée Graham. The Pentagon ought to “pace up the method of granting honorable discharges to LGBTQ former service members unfairly dismissed.”
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Ethan Yang and Ryan Yonk on the Nationwide Evaluation
The Federal Commerce Fee (FTC) “continues to step properly outdoors its authorized authority, all of the whereas making an attempt to broaden its jurisdiction covertly,” say Ethan Yang and Ryan Yonk. This “foray into disparate-impact enforcement is very regarding,” as “policing alleged racial bias will not be one thing the FTC is provided to do.” This “would additional erode the FTC’s nonpartisan credentials,” and America is “harmed when it chooses to defy the legislation in pursuit of issues outdoors its correct purview.”
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