The information collected by the U.S. census is more than raw numbers, it's a project of stories. Population is a complicated idea disguised in a simple word. By collecting information about the interweaving groups of people who make up this country’s population, the census becomes the public story of who we are, where we are, and what matters to us.
Author Michael Pollan, whose best-selling books have prompted readers to think differently about food, is now asking the next president to rethink the nation’s food policies.
Mr. Pollan, whose most recent book is “In Defense of Food,†started the conversation in an article earlier this month in The New York Times Magazine in an open letter to the next “Farmer in Chief.â€
