Conservative Courts and the Filibuster Are Blocking Heat Protections for Farmworkers
Farm workers clear out hosing which was used to irrigate an okra field on July 13, 2022 near Coachella, California.Mario Tama/Getty In the fertile plains of Washington State’s Yakima Valley, maximum summer temperatures typically approach 90° F, meaning sweaty, potentially dangerous work for the people who harvest the region’s bounty: 77 percent of US-grown hops,…
EPA Prepares to Approve Bee-Killing Pesticides for 15 More Years
Preston Keres/ Zuma. This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Environmental Protection Agency is poised to allow the use of four of the most devastating chemicals to bees, butterflies and other insects to continue in America for the next 15 years, despite moves by…
Meet the Know-Nothing MAGA Stalwart About to Take Over Georgia’s Universities
Mother Jones illustration; Oliver Contreras/SIPA USA/AP, Tomasso DeRosa/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Last year, fresh from serving a full term as the Secretary of Agriculture during the Trump administration, Sonny Perdue began angling for another plum post: leadership of the University…
“They Just Came and Started Breaking Houses”
A building in Hoyo de Puerco in August. The encampment was recently demolished.Pedro Farias-Nardi Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On a November day in a remote corner of the Dominican Republic, a line of trucks rolled across a vast sugarcane plantation and…
The Trump Administration Used Its Food Aid Program for Political Gain, Congressional Investigators Find
Alex Edelman/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This story was originally published by ProPublica. A $6 billion federal program created to provide fresh produce to families affected by the pandemic was mismanaged and used by the Trump administration for political gain, a…
The High Human Cost of America’s Sugar Habit
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.It was 5 a.m. and still dark as we rolled west out of Santo Domingo, on a cool morning in May 2019. We rode through the tourist zone, past whitewashed Spanish colonial buildings, pointing our truck toward…