By Brent Cunningham The slow-moving tragedy of whales becoming entangled, often fatally, in the fishing lines used by lobster and crab fishermen gets a fair amount of media coverage.

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At 7:30 on a clear morning in December 2025, I arrived at the marina in Oxnard, California, in search of Mikey Volaski, one of the only commercial fishers in North America whose operation is dedicated ...

The Armed Services YMCA in Harker Heights, Texas, is a state-of-the-art facility, with a swimming pool, gym and coffee shop.

In a normal midterm cycle, this race, in a bright red state, might be nothing more than a political footnote: Anyone with an ...

Outside the BigIron Events Center at the State Fairgrounds in Grand Island, Nebraska, the midway blinked with lights and rippled with the faint shrill screams of happy children. At the JBS Show ...

The first time Jesse Gabriel was asked to consider a food safety bill, in 2023, he was wary—to say the least. Banning food dyes? It sounded a little “California woo-woo.” Gabriel, a third-term ...

This this past February, as Super Bowl viewers chowed down on Buffalo wings and loaded nachos, they found themselves unexpectedly admonished. On their TV screens, in a black-and-white close-up, was ...

Marina Arbetman stands in the middle of a raspberry field with a look of disbelief. Though she knew what to expect, to actually see it is, by turns, baffling, outrageous, and saddening. Her expression ...

Forked is back for a third season, and the premiere episode is all about BEEF. The cattle ranchers are beefing with the president about importing tariff-free beef from other countries. The president ...

Nathan Hill pushes his skiff off from the shore as the Alaskan dawn breaks through a dense bank of clouds. It’s high tide at the mouth of the Naknek River, in the northeast arm of Bristol Bay, home to ...

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. jumped on Donald Trump’s bandwagon in 2024, he brought with him the wellness-obsessed, vaccine-rejecting, food-label-reading Make America Healthy Again voters—who’ve been ...