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“You’re Just Screwed”: Why Black-Owned Businesses Are Struggling to Get Coronavirus Relief Loans
An ugly history of inequality is compounding the economic crisis. -
CEOs Say America Is Running Out of Meat—While Shipping Ever More Pork Overseas
US companies have exported a third of the pork they've produced in 2020. -
“News Is Just Like Waste Management.”
It’s essential, it can’t happen if we don’t pay for it, and it’s going to stink when it's gone. -
When Meat Plants Close Down, Farmers Have to Kill Thousands of Piglets
"It's a tremendously emotional time to be in the livestock business." -
Let’s Connect the Dots Between Environmental Injustice and the Coronavirus
"There's a link between race and class in this country." -
A New Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory Claims COVID Contact Tracers Are Stealing Children
There are others about Nazis and pedophilia, too. -
This Treasury Official Is Running the Bailout. It’s Been Great for His Family.
Deputy Treasury Secretary Justin Muzinich has an increasingly prominent role. He still has ties to his family’s investment firm, which is a major beneficiary of the Treasury’s bailout actions. -
Dr. Bronner’s Soaps Wants to Protect You From COVID—and Legalize Your Right to Magic Mushrooms
“Whatever your subculture is, we’re your soap.” -
Trump’s Tax Cuts Were a Disaster. Naturally, Republicans Want Even More.
Study up, because they're about to try again. -
There’s No Evidence That Opportunity Zones Benefit Low-Income Residents and Their Neighborhoods
A tale of two zones in Austin, Texas. -
Global Warming. Inequality. COVID-19. And Al Gore Is…Optimistic?
He says all our crises are speeding us toward real solutions. -
Industrial Hog Farms Are Breeding the Next Pandemic
And the government is doing a “very spotty” job of monitoring for dangerous strains of swine flu. -
The White House–Kodak Controversy Has a New Angle: A Billionaire’s Huge Stock Gift to a Synagogue
Why did investor George Karfunkel donate shares worth up to $180 million to a little-known congregation? -
Trump Attacks Them. COVID-19 Threatens Them. But Immigrants Keep the US Fed.
A county-by-county analysis drives home how crucial Latino immigrants are to the food supply. -
Tackling Climate Change Seemed Expensive. Then COVID Happened.
A new study finds that just one-tenth of COVID stimulus spending would be enough to limit global warming. -
When Falling Behind on Rent Leads to Jail Time
Evictions in Arkansas can snowball from criminal charges to arrests to jail time. -
Joel Salatin’s Unsustainable Myth
His go-it-alone message made him a star of the food movement. Then a young Black farmer dug into what he was really saying. -
The Paris Agreement Is 5 Years Old. Is It Strong Enough to Prevent Climate Catastrophe?
If Trump was hoping to wreck Paris, he was disappointed: The rest of the world carried on.