Talia Cohavi

We teach the Dust Bowl as a cautionary tale. In every American history class, we learn how farmers in the 1920s and 1930s tore up millions of acres of native grassland across the Great Plains to plant wheat, how the deep-rooted prairie grasses that held the soil and trapped moisture were replaced by shallow crops and bare fields, and, when drought came in 1930, how the exposed topsoil turned to dust. Read More

Women's figure skating individual finals have taken the spotlight with Alysa Liu’s recent return to the sport leading to the first U.S. women’s gold since 2002. Read More