Tropical agriculture, farming systems, distance running, international orgs
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Why has the world become more gender equal? Why are some societies more gender equal than others?
A newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy around the world
I've covered everything from three wars, a few presidential campaigns, the Stonewall riots and the Rolling Stones. This column reflects that history and is about politics, culture, personal stories, and the nation's descent into anti-democratic madness.
Both the millennia past and the new millennium. The economic world: working, making, apportioning, talking, & more. What I learn about it, largely through history, as I bet that humans are such the same that the future resonates if not reflects the past.