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How America’s Elite Colleges Breed High-Status Careers—and Misery
Mother Jones • Sep 24, 2025

How America’s Elite Colleges Breed High-Status Careers—and Misery

To say that Justin Portela never imagined himself as a highly paid business consultant at McKinsey & Company would be an understatement. He didn’t have a privileged upbringing, to put it mildly, and in 2018, when he first walked onto the Stanford University campus, Portela, like most incoming freshmen, was unaware such careers even existed. […]

“Godsend” or “Concentration Camp”? A Lucrative ICE Deal Divides a Colorado Town.
Mother Jones • Sep 24, 2025

“Godsend” or “Concentration Camp”? A Lucrative ICE Deal Divides a Colorado Town.

In January 2010, the private prison operator now known as CoreCivic announced the closure of a 752-bed facility in Walsenburg, Colorado. At the time, the Huerfano County Correctional Center was the second-largest employer in the county. Its shutdown caused a “major hit” to the economy, said John Galusha, then the county’s administrator. The town estimated […]

Big Utilities Are Even Worse on Climate Than They Were Five Years ago
Mother Jones • Sep 24, 2025

Big Utilities Are Even Worse on Climate Than They Were Five Years ago

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Since 2021, the Sierra Club has been grading US utilities on their commitment to a clean-energy transition. While most utilities have not earned high marks on the group’s annual scorecards, as a whole they had been showing some progress.  That’s over now. […]

There Is No Defense For Sweatshops
Current Affairs • Sep 23, 2025

There Is No Defense For Sweatshops

In 2023, a young Bangladeshi woman named Tureza Akter committed suicide after facing repeated abuse at a sweatshop in Jordan. Subsequent investigations found that factory managers withheld employees’ passports to prevent them from leaving, forced female employees to strip naked, and required workers to labor 16 hours a day, seven days a week, threatening to withhold already-earned pay if they did not comply.  The clothes produced in this factory bore the logos of Under Armour, Columbia, and American Eagle. 

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