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60 Minutes 58x7 - The Family Farm | Collateral Damage | TheIndomitable Margaret Atwood

    

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The Family Farm – American farmers have faced months ofuncertainty after China stopped buying soybeans in retaliationfor the White House's reciprocal tariffs strategy.Correspondent Cecilia Vega interviews farmers from Tennesseeand Missouri who are struggling with high costs and low pricesfor their crops, and who fear they could be the generation tolose the family farm. Michael Rey is the producer.CollateralDamage – President Trump has accused elite universities ofliberal bias and antisemitism and has been threatening theirfederal research funding to pressure them to change. At HarvardUniversity, scientists tell correspondent Bill Whitaker thatthe government's actions are jeopardizing their research intopotentially life-saving advances in medicine and coulddismantle America's lead in scientific innovation. Sarah Kochis the producer.The Indomitable MargaretAtwood – Correspondent Jon Wertheim profiles literarytitan Margaret Atwood, author of the dystopian classic TheHandmaid's Tale. At 85, with 64 books to her name, Canada'sbest-known author has been called the "prophet of doom" for heruncanny ability to write about catastrophes in her fictionbefore they happen in real life. Wertheim talks to Atwood abouther new memoir, Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, why shethinks The Handmaid's Tale became a cultural touchstone, andhow she refuses to be silenced by an increasing number of banson her books. Nathalie Sommer is the producer.

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