According to this piece, online grocery shopping is on the up and up. Meanwhile, this article describes something similar happening with book subscriptions.
This article tries to delineate boundaries between what sorts of things people should do, and what sorts of things machines should do.
In other news, this piece worries that certain federal safety regulations could be applied to small farms. Speaking of farms, for those following the farm bill, it has just passed in the Senate.
Lastly, The Atlantic has an interesting piece on the decline of American Exceptionalism.