This Land Is Not Your Land
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.Since the inception of the United States, the government has helped make sure land stays in white hands. In the decades after slavery ended, Black Americans accumulated a substantial amount of…
After a Century of Dispossession, Black Farmers Are Fighting to Get Back to the Land
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.In the decades before the Civil War, one of the South’s largest slave enterprises held sway on the northern outskirts of Durham, North Carolina. At its peak, about 900 enslaved people…
A Year Later, It’s Still Impossible to Tell How Many Food Workers Are Contracting COVID-19
An aerial view shows the Farmer John slaughterhouse, near the Los Angeles River, after 153 workers tested positive for COVID-19, on May 26, 2020 in Vernon, California. David McNew/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…
Despite All the Fake Meat, Americans Are Still Gobbling Up the Real Stuff
Alex Potemkin/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.These days, you can find faux beef at just about any national fast-food chain and supermarket meat case. Already wildly hyped in 2019, tech-backed burger analogues got a boost from…
Biden’s Big Jobs Plan Is Really a Climate Bill. But It Left Out Farming.
This is your food system on climate change. Jevtic/iStock/Getty Plus 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.An ambitious climate bill lurks within the sprawling $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan released by the Biden administration Wednesday. With its…
President Biden’s Trustbusters Aren’t Just Experts on Tech. They Know About Big Ag.
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.President Joe Biden looks like he’s ready to bust up some monopolies, and it’s not just tech oligarchs who should be worried. After he tapped antitrust stalwarts Lina Kahn to the…