With the Virus on the Rise, Alaskans Crowd Rivers to Stock Up on Wild Salmon
A fisherman pulls one of two sockeye salmon that landed in his net while dip-netting on the Kenai River.Nathanial Wilder For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This story was produced by the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a non-profit news organization. Cortney Edwards’ camp at the mouth of…
Kiano Moju’s Mouthwatering Berbere-Braised Short Rib Recipe
Kiano Moju / Jikoni For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Ever since she was a young girl feeding her mother her Easy-Bake Oven creations, Kiano Moju has loved to experiment with food and create her own recipes. She’s since acquired a much bigger platform for her work, first…
Herman Cain’s Enduring Lobbying Triumph
Herman Cain, then-president of the National Restaurant Association, enjoys a plate of nachos at a restaurant in 1998. Michael S. Green/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Herman Cain, who died this week of COVID-19, lived quite a life: He was a fast-food magnate, a zealously anti–immigrant presidential candidate, a staunch…
A New Study Reveals What’s Actually in Hot Dogs. Hint: It’s Not Meat.
Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.If you think you’re eating meat when you have a hot dog, I’m sorry to tell you that you’ve been getting played. We all have. What’s actually in them, then? “They’re just tubes of fat,” Tyler Rouse, a pathologist at…
White People Own 98 Percent of Rural Land. Young Black Farmers Want to Reclaim Their Share.
Leah Penniman, left, tends the crops at Soul Fire Farm.Courtesy of Soul Fire Farm For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Black people have largely been expelled from the US agricultural landscape. In 1920, nearly a million Black farmers worked on 41.4 million acres of land, making up a…
“They Just Don’t Get It!”: New Emails Detail Deadly Struggles to Stop Meatpacking Outbreaks
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters. For weeks, Rachel Willard, the county health director in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, had watched with alarm as COVID-19 cases rolled in from the Tyson Foods chicken plant in the center of town. Then Tyson hired a private company to take over…