California’s Vineyard Workers Already Faced Long Hours, Low Pay, and Harsh Conditions. Then Came Trump’s Immigration Crackdown.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s Sunday night of Labor Day weekend, but any barbecues died down hours ago, and the rural back roads of this southern Napa County neighborhood are a dark and silent maze. Around midnight, the lights of the Robert Sinskey Vineyards’ shop blink on. In the center…
A Lawyer Met With 11 Separated Parents in One Day. What She Heard Is Terrifying.
Immigration attorney Ruby L. Powers standing at the entrance to the Port Isabel detention center where hundreds of separated parents are being held.Mark Helenowski/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ruby L. Powers’ most recent journey to the Port Isabel detention center in Los Fresnos, Texas, began with an early-morning flight…
Donald Trump Really, Really Wanted to Invade Venezuela
Miguel Gutierrez/EFE via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Let’s invade Venezuela! As a meeting last August in the Oval Office to discuss sanctions on Venezuela was concluding, President Donald Trump turned to his top aides and asked an unsettling question: With a fast unraveling Venezuela threatening regional security, why…
It’s a Tough July 4th for Patriots This Year
Mother Jones; J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last night I wrote about Imran Awan, a Capitol Hill IT specialist who got caught up in a senseless “lock him up!” Twitter jihad from Donald Trump. Did this put Awan in personal danger? There’s no way to know, but…
What Patriotism Looks Like: A 6-Year-Old Raised $13,000 For Migrant Kids
The lemonade stand in Atlanta, Georgia. Courtesy of Shannon Cofrin Gaggero Hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets last weekend to demand the Trump administration reunite kids and parents who were separated at the border. A 6-year-old boy in Atlanta also had an idea: Make money by selling lemonade, and give it to…
Corporate Merger Activity in 2018 Is Almost Record-Setting
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The New York Times has tallied all the corporate merger activity through the first half of the year and compared it to first-half activity over the past two decades: We’ve set a new record, surpassing even the insane bubble year of 2007. Or have we?…