HeyJaredTed Alby
Biological, agricultural, environmental scientist. Arts admirer. Independent. “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” —Thomas Jefferson.
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America is Fracturing the Global Food System (opens the original)
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America is making the global food system more fragile just as safe affordable food is becoming harder to secure. An old Middle Eastern proverb has guided my career in agricultural research: A man with a loaf of bread has many problems. A man with none has but one.Anyone who has visited a grocery store lately knows that, for too many families, food affordability has become a problem. The United States remains in better shape than much of the world, at least for now, but the Trump administration’s
The High Cost of Energy Delusion (opens the original)
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If the Trump administration is good at anything, it is creating destructive loops. Its energy agenda treats ideology as strategy, fossil-fuel nostalgia as strength, and sabotage of renewable energy as patriotism. A Trump-aligned coalition of former officials, congressional allies, fossil-fuel executives, state policymakers, right-wing media, and partners such as Saudi Arabia is pursuing one goal, expand fossil fuels at all costs, even when American families bear those costs.Analyses from Chatham
The Inflation Debt Bomb (opens the original)
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The inflation-debt-inflation loop is simple. Policies that raise prices lead lenders to demand higher interest rates, which raise costs and prices again. The federal government, now more than $40,000,000,000 in debt, is the nation’s largest borrower. Buying a U.S. government bond means lending it money in exchange for interest. Today, a ten-year bond pays 4.8 percent, while bonds maturing this year paid less than 3 percent. As those bonds are repaid, the government, deeper in debt, must replace
The "Woke" Commanders Who Beat Fascism (opens the original)
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World War II was won by Allied commanders: Eisenhower, Marshall, Nimitz, Bradley, Patton, and Montgomery. They succeeded because they turned diversity, morale, psychology, informed judgment, and multinational cooperation into strategic advantages. If those traits are now dismissed as “woke,” then the commanders who defeated fascism were modern. They understood people, adapted faster, and won.Their record challenges the claim by the current regime that empathy, inclusion, concern for welfare, and
The Oldest Lesson in Military History: Morale and Logistics Win Wars (opens the original)
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Military strength rests on morale, logistics, discipline, trust, and competent leadership, not performative toughness or culture-war masculinity. I began this piece out of frustration with the current abuse of the United States Armed Forces, but anger blurred the argument. As a former member of the armed forces, I know emotion cannot be allowed to outrun judgment, so I stepped back to examine what military history and strategy actually teach.That matters because Hegseth’s culture warfare is not
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