Along with Monsanto, Chemical Giant Bayer Inherits Its Pests
Outside of Bayer’s annual shareholder May 2018 meeting in Bonn, activists protested the German company’s acquisition of Monsanto. AP Photo/Martin Meissner Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Seed and pesticide titan Monsanto continues its slow shuffle off the global stage and into the maw of Bayer, its new parent company. This week,…
Farmworkers Are Dying from Extreme Heat
Ed Reinke/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On June 16, Miguel Angel Guzman Chavez arrived in Georgia from Mexico. He was 24 years old and went right to work picking tomatoes. The Georgia heat was consistently more than 90 degrees, and on June 21, the temperature soared to 95 degrees. That day, Chavez collapsed…
What It’s Like to Eat Dinner at Home With David Sedaris, Lorrie Moore, and Terry Tempest Williams
MichellePatrickPhotographyLLC/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Deep into his middle age, after his marriage dissolved and his grown kids moved out, author Rick Bass was feeling restless. He decided to embark on a new project: He would tour the country and make dinner for the literary giants who inspired him…
Hawaiians Are Using Lessons From Maria to Prepare for “Dangerous” Hurricane Lane
“We are expecting large amounts of rain, flooding and high winds,” Ige said. “There will be significant impacts even if the hurricane doesn’t hit us directly.” Hurricane Lane caused some panic as it moved closer to the islands and strengthened into a Category 5 storm late Tuesday night before weakening to Category 4 on Wednesday…
Random Knowledge: How Segregated Are Urban American Schools?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bob Somerby is always going on about this, so I thought I’d show it to everyone in simple chart form. Among America’s 20 biggest urban public school districts, here are the percentage of students who are white: Outside of Florida and North Carolina, there are…
Jeff Sessions Finally Hits Back at Trump in Rare Statement
Michael Candelor/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a rare statement on Thursday responding to President Donald Trump’s continued attacks against him and the Justice Department—the most recent of which came just hours earlier in a newly aired Fox News interview. During the interview, Trump once…