An Urban's Rural View

The DTN Ag Summit is an in-person event this year and it's a particularly good year to consider attending.

AUKUS, the pact between the U.S., the United Kingdom and Australia under which the French lost a big submarine contract, puts new strains on U.S.-EU relations.

An underlying truth about China emerged from the inconclusive report on COVID-19's origins by U.S. intelligence agencies.

The 20th anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon is a time for national reflection.

The founding fathers wanted the making of laws to be a slow and deliberate process. If the U.S. wants to be geopolitically competitive, it might want to speed things up a bit.

With the Delta variant dominant, it's increasingly clear that vaccinated people can be infected with COVID-19 -- and communicate it to others. That has implications for the unvaccinated.

Despite back-to-back months of 5% increases in consumer prices, the Federal Reserve isn't hurrying to raise interest rates.

Many of those who've refused vaccination against COVID-19 will never change their minds. But if even a few could be persuaded, it's worth trying.

Using genetic engineering, scientists are moving close to being able to eliminate a scourge to mankind. Should they?

There are three messages for carnivores in a tantalizing new commercial for a plant-based product, and maybe a fourth for cattle producers.

Inflation jumped in April but the Federal Reserve thinks "one-time" increases will prove "transitory." If they don't, the Fed will come under pressure to raise rates despite its desire not to.

"Cold War" is a misleading historical analogy for the U.S.-China relationship. The two countries are indeed serious rivals, but they're also economically interdependent.

Competition with China means the U.S. must rebuild its infrastructure and protect against losing its semiconductor-manufacturing base.

The financial markets' current concerns about inflation are overdone but the inflation of the 1970s teaches precautionary lessons.

As optimal temperatures move north, Siberia's permafrost will melt, potentially opening up a vast new area to farming. But will anyone want to farm it?

The public may be underestimating just how effective the vaccines against COVID-19 will be.

If you believe a paper from two prominent economists, the national debt is far from out of control.

It's easy to pooh-pooh Former Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman's choice for USDA's most important function. But actually, he has a point.

Calls for an Infrastructure Week diverted criticism from President Donald Trump but otherwise led nowhere. Washington needs to focus a whole year on doing something about infrastructure.

DTN's lead analyst makes a strong argument for USDA not to accept China's ending-stocks numbers.