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Dozens of ICE Detainees Were Pepper-Sprayed by Guards for Protesting at a Louisiana Jail

Shane Bevel/The (Shreveport) Times/AP Immigrants held at a Louisiana jail say they were beaten and pepper-sprayed Friday after protesting their indefinite detention at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Mother Jones obtained several text messages sent by detainees to attorney Lara Nochomovitz, who represents clients held in the Bossier (Parish) Sheriff Medium Security Facility,…

A Teen Scientist Figured out How to Suck Microplastics from the Ocean. There May Be Hope for Humanity.

Fionn Ferreira On Monday, Fionn Ferreira, an 18-year-old from Ireland, took home the top prize—which includes, in addition to a lifetime of bragging rights, a $50,000 educational scholarship—at the Google Science Fair for his project on microplastic pollution. Microplastics are plastic fragments less than 5 millimeters in size and they pose serious environmental and a public…

Here’s How Globalization Has Affected America

How much has globalization hurt the American worker? Entire forests have been felled around this question, but here’s a simple way of getting a rough read on things. Globalization mainly affects what’s called the tradeable sector—that is, stuff that can be traded between countries. These are mostly physical goods like cars and coal and lumber.…

Trump Praises Kim Jong Un’s “Beautiful Vision for His Country”

Dong-A Ilbo/Getty North Korea—a country best known for its systemic human rights violations and unpredictable, authoritarian leaders—fired two short-range missiles on Friday, the South Korean media reported. This latest weapons test, the hermit kingdom’s third in eight days, would typically inspire some element of concern or retaliatory action from the United States, which North Korea…

Ilhan Omar and Nancy Pelosi Go to Ghana and Stick It to Trump

Ilhan Omar/Twitter So much for the apparent feud between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the progressive freshman congresswomen who make up “the squad.” Pelosi joined Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on a recent trip to Ghana, standing in solidarity against President Donald Trump and his supporters, who have said that Omar—who emigrated from Somalia as…