President Bush, who has generally been on the right side of the farm issue, should think seriously about vetoing a deeply disappointing farm bill.

Higher prices, partly due to demand for ethanol made from corn, have helped slash American food aid to its lowest level in a decade.

After purchasing bags of summer tomatoes from the farmer's market, I spent the next week in decadent tomato revelry. Here's a chronicle of my grand tomato tour.

In the past few years protecting the environment has emerged as a religious issue. Now, something similar is taking place in the way people of faith view their daily bread.

CARE, one of the world's biggest charities, said that American food aid may hurt the people it aims to help.

A small change in American legislation could allow the U.S. to buy food in Africa to feed the famished there.

The good news is that there is a core group of influential farm state senators ready to break with the past and with the lobbyists for big agriculture.

Incredibly, the House is poised to approve a subsidy-laden farm bill more nearly suited to the Great Depression.

Legislators are offering an approach to reforming the country's farm bill that actually improves on the Bush administration's.

In a 200-page journal, First Sgt. Charles Monroe King prepared his boy for a life without him.

It is a great shame that Saddam Hussein will not be held accountable for all of his crimes, and a far greater tragedy that he was allowed, sometimes with American complicity, to commit them in the first place.

Baghdad has been all but isolated electrically, and attempts to repair power lines are falling behind attacks on the grid.

President Bush has no more time to waste on "listening tours" and photo ops. The nation is in a crisis, and Americans need to hear how he plans to unwind the chaos he has unleashed in Iraq.

The timing of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's death has left a host of troubling legal and political questions unresolved.