How Black Rifle Coffee Company Made Itself One of the Right’s Biggest Brands
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 early moments of the insurrection on Capitol Hill, there was a way to see it as something of a joke—a serious one with important consequences, but still just a…
Three Big Questions the Senate Agriculture Committee Needs to Ask Tom Vilsack
Once and future US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in 2016, during his first stint on the job. Thais Llorca/EFE via ZUMA Press 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.On Feb. 2, the Senate Agriculture Committee…
After Enduring “Complete Hell” During the Pandemic, Food Workers Struggle to Get Vaccinated
Farmworkers harvest romaine lettuce on a machine with heavy plastic dividers that separate workers from each other in Greenfield, California. April 27, 2020. Brent Stirton/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…
How the American Diet Turbocharges COVID-19
Wren McDonald 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 coronavirus hit in early 2020, a quieter epidemic was already taking its toll across the United States: the near-universal prevalence of diet-related maladies. More than half of…
The Coffee Shop Manager Who Quit With Her Entire Staff
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. We’re asking people who quit in 2020 why and how they did it. You can read more about the project, and all the stories, here. Got your own quitting tale? Send…
What California’s Farmworkers Can Teach Us During a Season of Giving
Daniel A. Anderson/ Grist 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 Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Out of the corner of my eye, I caught…