Foreign ownership of U.S. farmland probed at U.S. Senate hearing
Kevin Kirby operates a tractor to begin the sweet potato harvest process by plowing them up from the field on Kirby Farms in Mechanicsville, Virginia, on Sep. 20, 2013. Kirby is a fourth-generation farmer. A U.S. Senate hearing on Sept. 27, 2023 examined foreign ownership of U.S. farmland. USDA photo by Lance Cheung WASHINGTON —…
No, Tim Scott: Cutting Taxes Won’t Fix America’s Child Care Crisis
Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Saturday isn’t just the deadline for Congress to fund the government. It’s also the day that the $24 billion pandemic-era program to prop up the nation’s struggling child care network comes to an end. The elimination of…
Republicans’ Immigration Proposals Are Shockingly Cruel
Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy during Wednesday’s Republican presidential primary debateMark J. Terrill/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.During the second Republican presidential primary debate, Republicans wasted no time latching onto the issue of immigration—even when the moderators’ questions had little to do with…
There’s Nothing Pro-Labor About Trump’s Visit to Michigan
Melina Mara/The Washington Post/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In early 2017, the Chamber of Commerce published the top 10 policies it wanted to see change under Donald Trump at the National Labor Relations Board. Trump’s appointees, along with the Supreme Court majority he…
What the New York City Migrant Crisis Is and Isn’t
Recently arrived migrants gather outside of the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It doesn’t take more than a couple of strolls around the block on East 45th Street in Midtown Manhattan for the faces of New…
U.S. Senate moves on short-term spending bill in struggle to avoid shutdown days away
U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., center, speaks to reporters on Sept. 26, 2023, at the U.S. Capitol. Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate is on track to clear a short-term government funding bill in the days ahead, but it wasn’t clear Tuesday if that would happen before the Saturday midnight deadline to…