Stories by Emily Badger

This isn't the policy cure-all for obesity (or even the best way to curb it). But if politicians are determined to create some kind of fat tax, this would be the way to do it.

The information age is yielding reams of official communication not even worth saving, let alone classifying, yet the amount of material deemed secret has increased dramatically.

Government's last big shutdown offers a glimpse of what could happen come this weekend.

Does the National School Lunch Program make children obese, or are obese children simply more likely to sign up for the program in the first place?

Congress is preparing to take up reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, but the recipe for success is far from simple.

Calorie counts? A disclosure of swag Big Pharma reps give doctors? Abstinence education? Here are some surprising items in the health care bill.

Overcoming inertia on climate change is unlikely to take place through hectoring and lecturing.

Our food has become so homogeneous we are in danger of losing the biodiversity we'll need to survive.