The Daily Yonder reports on the confusion over a federal spending freeze that is threatening large- and small-scale farmers who rely on USDA programs in areas that private investors won't touch, according to a national farmers coalition.

The Hechinger Report reports on how a much-touted federal reform effort, and a tribal lawsuit, sought to improve outcomes for Bureau of Indian Education students, but now the Trump administration's efforts to slash the government threaten what little progress the agency has made.

Reasons to be Cheerful reports on river Seine, the storied French waterway that was once nearly biologically dead but is not teeming with marine life once again.

Grist details how farmers from Italy to California are embracing mango crops as the world warms.

Ramp explains that some of the most successful business owners know that tax planning is a year-round process, not a one-time event.