Barry Yeoman

Contributing Writer

Barry Yeoman is a contributing writer for Mother Jones. Get my RSS

When Is a Corporation Like a Freed Slave? Business and the Bill of Rights

In rural Pennsylvania, township supervisors battling sewage sludge and hog manure stumble up against one of the biggest mysteries in constitutional law.

November/December 2006 Issue

Jack Abramoff: The Fall (and Rise?) of a True Believer

Abramoff has just been made an "anti-corruption blogger." Wait, what?

September/October 2005 Issue

Soldiers of Good Fortune and the Business of Military Privatization

The four Americans horrifically killed on Wednesday by a mob in Fallujah, Iraq, worked for Blackwater USA, a private military company profiled by <a href="http://www.barryyeoman.com" target="new">Barry Yeoman</a> in the May 2003 issue of <i>Mother Jones</i>.

May/June 2003 Issue

How the Bush Administration Sought to Derail a Global Tobacco Treaty

After closed-door meetings with cigarette makers, the Bush administration is seeking to derail a global tobacco treaty.

March/April 2003 Issue

Unhappy Meals: Why School Lunches Have Stayed Loaded With Fat

School lunches are loaded with fat and the beef and dairy industries are making sure it stays that way.

January/February 2003 Issue

The Stealth Crusade

Inside one Southern university, Christian missionaries are being trained to go undercover in the Muslim world and win converts for Jesus. Their stated goal: to wipe out Islam.

May/June 2002 Issue

Airline Insecurity

Federal regulators have known for years that the nation's system of airport security was "seriously flawed." But the FAA repeatedly placed politics and profits above the public's safety.

January/February 2002 Issue

Surgical Strike

Is a group that pays addicts to be sterilized defending children or exploiting the vulnerable?

November/December 2001 Issue

The Quiet War on Abortion

After decades of noisy protests and violence, anti-abortion activists are relying on a new 'stealth strategy' to shut down clinics.

September/October 2001 Issue

Subsidies at Sea

A private shipbuilder received million in 'location incentives' to save an abandoned naval yard in South Philadelphia. What did the city get in return?

May/June 2001 Issue

Silence in the Fields: "Guest workers" and the Farm Lobby

The U.S. government is allowing farmers to fill thousands of jobs with foreign 'guestworkers.' The conditions are hardly hospitable -- but those who speak out can be sent straight back home.

January/February 2001 Issue

Hispanic Diaspora

Drawn by jobs, Latino immigrants are moving to small towns like Siler City, North Carolina, bringing with them new diversity -- and new tensions.

July/August 2000 Issue

Steel Town Lockdown

Corrections Corporation of America is trying to turn Youngstown, Ohio, into the private-prison capital of the world.

May/June 2000 Issue