Jill Richardson
Jill Richardson is the founder of the blog La Vida Locavore and a member of the Organic Consumers Association policy advisory board. She is the author of Recipe for America: Why Our Food System Is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It.
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Views Thursday, January 11, 2018 Rethinking the ‘Goldwater Rule’ in the Trump Era Maybe it’s time America’s psychiatrists reconsider their Goldwater Rule. The Goldwater Rule simply states that psychiatrists shouldn’t diagnose the mental health of a public figure unless they’ve personally examined the person. Naturally, if any public figures have sought mental health treatment,... Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 31, 2017 A New Year’s Resolution: Time to Speak Up As we go into a new year, I have a resolution. I’m going to speak up more when men do things that make me uneasy. Take the other day, for example. I really like my neighbor. I also have no interest in dating him. It’s nothing against him, really. But I don’t know him well, and I’m not interested in... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 20, 2017 Washington’s War on Poor Grad Students The Republican tax plan winding its way through Congress includes a special middle finger to the nation’s graduate students. It’s a little bit wonky, so stay with me here. I’ll explain how it affects me, since I’m an actual graduate student. Going to grad school would’ve been entirely out of reach... Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 29, 2017 The Sad State of Disaster Relief Five former U.S. presidents recently came together to raise money for hurricane relief for the victims of hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. This generous, bipartisan act is one of true generosity and statesmanship. And yet, as former presidents, all five men know that there’s another way to help... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Me Too. And You. And You. “Me too.” I posted those words on Facebook recently, along with what seems like every woman I know. A post went viral asking each woman to write the words “Me too” if she’d been sexually assaulted or harassed. A man exposed himself to me once. Ten years ago. He was in a car, and I was on foot. He... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 05, 2017 We’re Failing the US Citizens of Puerto Rico Hurricane-struck Puerto Rico wants “ everything done for them ,” says President Trump. Puerto Rico, an island of 3.5 million inhabitants — all of whom are U.S. citizens — gets nearly nothing done for it. Puerto Rico, a colony of the United States, has gotten a whole lot of nothing from Washington... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 13, 2017 Sometimes the Poor Make It Big. Usually They Stay Poor We all want to live in a country where all it takes is hard work and some talent for anyone to succeed. We tell ourselves that we do. We even see examples of people who “came from nothing” and ended up rich and famous. And it’s true that it sometimes happens. Sometimes a child born into poverty... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 12, 2017 Is This How the World Sees America Now? Donald Trump recently returned from meeting with the other powerful countries of the G20 group—one of his first big performances on the world stage. So how did it go? Not swell, according to a no-holds-barred account delivered by Chris Uhlmann, an Australian journalist. Uhlmann made four main... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 05, 2017 Are We Tired of ‘Winning’ Yet? Can we stop pretending that leading Republicans care about anything beyond winning and power? To be sure, there are some in the party who are guided by conservative “principles.” House Speaker Paul Ryan said he’s been “ dreaming ” of gutting Medicaid — the program that provides health care to the... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 12, 2017 Trump’s Budget: Feeding One Kid, Starving the Family Imagine a parent who starves his children and fails to do any number of basic parental duties, but then buys one of his kids a healthy meal. Well, that’s good. Great, really. But it’s not enough. An act of goodness directed at one child cannot feed an entire starving family. That’s essentially what... Read more |