Dan Glickman is chair of the International Advisory Council of APCO Worldwide, a communications consultancy, and a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, formed by former Senate majority leaders to promote bipartisan solutions to the country’s problems and civility in government. Previously, he was a vice president of the Aspen Institute and executive director of its Congressional Program, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan educational program for members of Congress. Glickman served as US secretary of agriculture in the Clinton administration and as a US representative from Kansas from 1977 to 1995. He has also chaired the Motion Picture Association of America and directed the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Institute of Politics.
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Much of the global economy depends on natural capital—the world’s stock of natural assets including soil, air, water, and living things. Acting as the planet’s balance sheet,...
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Federal funds could not be used to pay for sugar-sweetened beverages under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly called food stamps), if recommendation...
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Two US Department of Agriculture Secretaries, one past, one present, come together to talk about American food policies. Agricultural supports and other decisions made on US s...
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