‘We Voted for Retribution’
Over the next four years, some $45 billion will be spent on ICE detention centers, which will hold mainly people who have never been convicted of any crime.
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ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP / Getty Do We Really Want a Food Cartel?
Mergers and acquisitions have created food oligopolies that are inefficient, barely regulated, unfair, and even dangerous.
Millennium Images / Gallery Stock The Greatest Nuclear Threat We Face Is a Russian Victory
Putin’s blackmail is dangerous; its success would be even worse.
Anton Petrus / Getty; Getty; Anthony Gerace What If Russia Uses Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine?
A look at the grim scenarios—and the U.S. playbook for each
Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Picture Post / Getty; Universal History Archive / Getty The Essentials: How We’re Killing the People Who Feed Us
The industry practice of making hundreds of workers stand close together at a production line—with sharp knives and a fast line speed—endangers not only their safety, but also food safety and public health.
Tommaso Boddi/Getty Why It’s Immigrants Who Pack Your Meat
What Trump has called an “invasion” was actually a corporate recruitment drive.
Rogelio V. Solis / Associated Press Access to Good, Healthy Food Should Be a Basic Human Right
In an afterword to Prince Charles' speech on the future of food, Eric Schlosser and Will Allen make the case for a new, diverse food system.
How to Make the Country's Most Dangerous Job Safer
The power lies with one hamburger vendor
The Prison-Industrial Complex
Correctional officials see danger in prison overcrowding. Others see opportunity. The nearly two million Americans behind bars—the majority of them nonviolent offenders—mean jobs for depressed regions and windfalls for profiteers
