Guest Farm Workers Died of COVID in Obscurity While Trump Planned to Freeze Their Wages
A Honduran migrant worker harvests apples in Aspers, Pennsylvania. August 15, 2019. Lance Cheung/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Two fathers and their sons traveled from Mexico this spring to grow and harvest North Carolina’s sweet…
Monsters of 2020: The United States Senate
Mother Jones Illustration; Eleven Photographs/ Unsplash Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.As coronavirus infection rates are rising and the death toll is climbing to horrific heights every day, millions of people are facing eviction, hunger, poverty, and…
The Shockingly Long List of Corrupt Officials and Political Allies Pardoned by Trump
Patrick Semansky/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Versions of this story were published on April 13, 2020, July 10, 2020, and November 25, 2020. Donald Trump on Tuesday added another batch of names to the long…
The Stimulus Shows the Best Congress Has To Offer for Climate Change
The Problem Solvers Caucus hold a press conference on the stimulus bill.Rod Lamkey, CNP/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Environmentalists are describing the year-end $900 billion stimulus bill just passed by Congress as the most ambitious climate…
Economic Growth in the US Has Been Fairly Good During the Pandemic
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To Beat Anti-Vaccine Trolls, Sometimes You Have to Think Like One
Wren McDonald Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Let’s do a little experiment. I’m going to tell you two stories, and at the end of this article, we’ll come back to them. Here’s the first story: Last…