US Bans Sugar Imports From Top Dominican Producer Over Forced Labor Allegations
A worker of Central Romana, preparing the field for the upcoming sugar crop in La Romana.Pedro Farias-Nardi Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The United States will block shipments of raw sugar from a top Dominican producer with close ties to two wealthy Florida businessmen…
A North Carolina Farmer Was Accused of Abusing His Workers. Then Big Tobacco Backed His Election.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This story is a collaboration between The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Mother Jones, and Enlace Latino NC. When the tobacco giant Reynolds American cut a check for Brent Jackson’s political campaign in November 2019, it was well aware of…
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…