Announcement: Say Hello To "Oligarch Valley"

My journalism outside the newsletter has been increasingly focused on the world of Oligarch Valley. So I’m bringing Oligarch Valley into the newsletter fold.

OLIGARCH VALLEY, CA — If you’ve been following my work, you probably know that for the last few years I’ve been making a documentary with Rowan Wernham about the rapacious oligarch farmers who run California. The film’s working title is Pistachio Wars and it’s inspired by my “Oligarch Valley” reporting — work that I started a decade ago when I first mov…