How Roasting Pigs Year After Year Teaches Me to Love Filipino Food
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.Before the pandemic, for my birthday each year I’d roast a whole lechon in my Oakland yard and invite anyone I could to help eat it. It’s an odd tradition, but…
Watch the New Season of “The Handmaid’s Tale” If Only For This One Flashback
June is being tortured again!Sophie Giraud/Hulu 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.June is screwed. If you’re reading this and you’ve watched even a fraction of an episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, you know that this cannot possibly…
The Original Sin of America’s Broken Immigration Courts
Trump speaks during an event to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day.Matt Dunham/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.During the Trump administration, Alison Peck started to see more of her cases have an outcome she describes…
The IRS Used to Be a Guard Dog. Republicans Neutered It.
Mother Jones illustration; Getty 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.Taxpayers and politicians are forever complaining about rich people taking advantage of “loopholes” in the tax code, but the IRS, America’s most beloved government agency, doesn’t view…
The Black Farmer Movement Battling History to Return to the Land
Tahz Walker stands on land that he and others own communally as part of Earthseed Land Collective in Durham, North Carolina on March 14, 2021. Walker and his partner Cristina Rivera-Chapman run Tierra Negra Farm which provides produce for farm shares as well as fresh vegetables to communities in downtown Durham.Madeline Gray Let our journalists…
Drought-Plagued California Orders Nestlé to Stop Hogging Water
A sign reading “Help! Solve the Water Crisis,” posted in California’s central valley. In Pictures Ltd./Getty 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.This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.…