US Trade Officials Commit to Stop Hawking Surveillance Tech to Repressive Regimes
Mother Jones; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Commerce Department is implementing new policies to prevent the work it does to boost exports by US companies from assisting in the sale of surveillance technologies to repressive governments. In a previously undisclosed October 19…
The High Human Cost of America’s Sugar Habit
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.It was 5 a.m. and still dark as we rolled west out of Santo Domingo, on a cool morning in May 2019. We rode through the tourist zone, past whitewashed Spanish colonial buildings, pointing our truck toward…
Solar Companies Ask Biden to Reverse Trump’s Biggest Blow to the Industry
A 2 megawatt DTE Energy solar installation built on formerly vacant land in Detroit, Michigan.Jim West/Zuma 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 piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate…
Robert Lighthizer Blew Up 60 Years of Trade Policy. Nobody Knows What Happens Next.
US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in March 2018. Lighthizer is leading the strategy behind President Donald Trump’s trade war. Jabin Botsford/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This story was published in partnership with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign…
When Climate Change Drove All the Men Away
A woman removes weeds from a family farm plot of corn and beans in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.Bill Lambrecht/Zuma This piece was originally published in the National Observer and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Miles short of the Mexico-US border, rough hands yanked Javier Hernandez from the trunk. They beat him,…
These Emails Show a Trump Official Helping Her Former Chemical Industry Colleagues
The Department of Agriculture building in Washington, DC.Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Images This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. In 2017, Dow Chemical scored a long-sought-after…
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