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 Wednesday, June 20, 2018 Immigrant Kids Are Suffering Trauma That Will Last Years Let’s be clear about something: Separating children from families, as the Trump regime is doing to undocumented immigrants, isn’t just cruel. It’s going to cause irreparable damage to the children involved — and probably to the parents too. The difference is that developmental trauma — trauma... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Scott Pruitt's Corruption Is Bad, But His Planetary Sabotage Is Worse Did you hear that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt, is so corrupt that he spent $1,560 on 12 customized fountain pens ? Or that he spent another $43,000 on a soundproof phone booth in violation of government spending laws ? Pruitt’s big spending on the taxpayer... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 02, 2018 Want to Attract Women? Try Not Hating Us. The recent attack in Toronto by a man who identifies as an “incel” has called attention to the disturbing and flourishing online incel community. “Incel” stands for “involuntarily celibate.” These are straight men who, frustrated by their lack of romantic success, channel their feelings into hatred... Read more |
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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 |