American Farmers Are Collateral Damage in Trump’s Trade War
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For a jet-setting Manhattanite, Donald Trump polled extremely well in 2016 among large-scale US farmers. But now the president’s heartland support will be tested by his increasingly aggressive trade stance with China, which buys about $25 billion in US-grown agricultural goods every year. Early Friday morning, news broke…
They Came Here Seeking Freedom and Were Imprisoned Instead. Look at Their Faces.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When asylum seekers arrive in the United States they face a harsh reality. The ones who they aren’t illegally turned away at the border are often sequestered, shackled, and transported to a detention facility that resembles prison. Since the mid ’90s, the US has followed a policy of…
Has #MeToo Changed Your Relationship With Restaurants?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mother Jones is exploring how #MeToo is affecting the culinary world for an upcoming episode of Bite, our food politics podcast—and we want to hear from you. In the past few months, accusations of sexual misconduct have emerged at major restaurants across the country, leaving customers…
Spending Bill Held Up at Last Minute by Dueling Jackasses
Castle Peak in the White Clouds Wilderness preserve. Despite Sen. James Risch’s best efforts at petty revenge against a dead man, it will probably be renamed the Cecil D. Andrus-White Clouds Wilderness preserve in the near future because the House is unlikely to even take up Risch’s bill to rescind the renaming.Eric Zamora/VW Pics via…
Don’t Call It Pot: My Dinner With San Francisco’s Cannabis Gourmets
Chron Vivant Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. San Francisco’s first ever Thursday Infused, a “gourmet series for the canna-curious,” begins at 6:30pm one evening in March. I’m greeted at the door of a handsome purple Victorian house by Jamie Evans, a willowy blonde in a yellow silk dress who organizes…
Charts of the Day: Here’s Why Republicans Are Terrified About the 2018 Midterms
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a couple of fun charts to finish off the evening. They’re from Geoffrey Skelley of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, and they show how many members of Congress have retired in previous midterm election cycles. First up is total retirements over time, starting at 600 days…