Viewpoint: Ensuring sustainable agriculture — Should organic and small farms get special federal tax breaks or subsidies?

Viewpoint: Ensuring sustainable agriculture — Should organic and small farms get special federal tax breaks or subsidies?

Growing political pressures for federal subsidies and regulations to shift food-supply incentives toward favored farms and farm practices may divert ...
Viewpoint: Does artificial intelligence really threaten jobs? Lessons from history suggests ‘no’

Viewpoint: Does artificial intelligence really threaten jobs? Lessons from history suggests ‘no’

Anxiety about a dystopian “future of work” caused by advances in artificial intelligence (AI) is the latest outbreak of a ...
Easing the way for technological innovation is key to addressing climate change impacts on agriculture: AEI policy analysis

Easing the way for technological innovation is key to addressing climate change impacts on agriculture: AEI policy analysis

Climate change associated with GHG emissions is typically perceived to influence agricultural productivity through three primary channels. Other things being ...
Viewpoint: Waiving patent restrictions on COVID vaccines to address global shot shortages is politically appealing but fraught with consequences

Viewpoint: Waiving patent restrictions on COVID vaccines to address global shot shortages is politically appealing but fraught with consequences

US Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced the US would support a petition filed last October at the World Trade Organization ...
Going forward, taming COVID may depend more on logistics and administration than science

Going forward, taming COVID may depend more on logistics and administration than science

The US can emerge from the depths of the COVID-19 crisis in the coming months if the federal government leads ...
Validating full safety of vaccines might take months but effectiveness judgements likely soon

Validating full safety of vaccines might take months but effectiveness judgements likely soon

The global campaign to identify effective vaccines against COVID-19 has entered the final stage of testing for regulatory approval—Phase III ...
Saving the world: Global vaccine rescue plan rests with two nonprofits--COVAX Framework and Gates Foundation

Saving the world: Global vaccine rescue plan rests with two nonprofits–COVAX Framework and Gates Foundation

[T]he United States launched Operation Warp Speed to secure 300 million doses by January 2021 for domestic consumption, and the European Union, ...
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Getting past the coronavirus: ‘A road map to reopening’ by the American Enterprise Institute

Executive Summary This report provides a road map for navigating through the current COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. It ...
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Report: ‘Little doubt’ GMOs increase crop yields

Editor's note: Gary Brester is a professor of agricultural economics at Montana State University Some have questioned whether GM crops ...
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FDA seeks to regulate your cells

A recent decision by a federal trial court gave the Food and Drug Administration the latitude that the agency has ...
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