Articles
Senate Set to Pass Half-Trillion Dollar Farm Bill
(WASHINGTON) — The Senate is poised to pass a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill Monday that would expand government subsidies for crop insurance, rice...
N Korean Farmers Planting Rice with Bonuses in Mind
(HAMHUNG, North Korea) — North Korean farmers knee deep in muddy paddies across the country have a new incentive during this year's crucial rice planting season:...
Bridge Collapse a Major Break in Trade Corridor
(SEATTLE) — For farmers, business owners and government officials up and down the West Coast, Washington's bridge collapse on Interstate 5 represents much more...
The Next Real Estate Bubble Has Already Begun (But It’s Not What You Think)
The American public is, for obvious reasons, a bit gun-shy when it comes to asset bubbles. Ever since the financial crisis, market watchers have worried about...
Modifying the Endless Debate Over Genetically Modified Crops
GM crops have become a symbol: either you're for agribusiness or you're against science. But for all the heat, GM crops are something much simpler: one of many...
Photo Essays
LIFE and Civil Rights: Segregation in 1956 South Carolina
In late 1956, over the course of several months, LIFE published what the magazine itself described as “a series of major articles on the background of the crisis...
LIFE With Horace the Housebroken Hare
Carl Mydans belongs on anyone’s short list of the 20th century’s finest photojournalists. The Boston native chronicled downtrodden migrant farmers in New England...
Time.com Specials
Birds of a Feather
For 140 years, scientists argued over the link between modern birds and dinosaurs. The final, feathery piece of the puzzle fell into place two years ago when...
