Capital & Main: Trader Joe’s Union-Busting (September 2023)
Union-Busting With a Smile: Is Trader Joe’s the Next Starbucks? Gabriel Thompson, September 29, 2023The friendly grocer’s staff are increasingly going union — and say the company is hostile to their efforts.
Joining Capital & Main as Series Editor, Striking Back
How Workers Across a Polarized U.S. Are Challenging Economic Inequality This two-year series explores how American workers across political, geographic and racial lines are challenging an increasingly unequal economic status quo. Our reporters take readers inside some of the most innovative, high-stakes organizing campaigns in the country, from the Deep South to the industrial heartland to the urban … Read more
On Reports of Harassment from Edouardo Jordan
Twitter ThreadJune 14, 2021 Phenomenal reporting from @asiakmfields and @JackieVarriano on Edouardo Jordan in Seattle: “Edouardo Jordan, acclaimed Seattle chef, accused by 15 women of sexual misconduct or unwanted touching.” Full disclosure: In 2019, I reported a Food & Wine story about “great restaurants to work for.” We included @JuneBabySeattle. This was not an investigative … Read more
Without Compromise: The Brave Journalism Journalism That First Exposed Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and the American Epidemic of Corruption
A collection of groundbreaking investigations by Wayne Barrett, the intrepid, muckraking Village Voice journalist who exposed corruption in New York City and beyond. With piercing moral clarity and exacting rigor, Wayne Barrett tracked political corruption in the pages of the Village Voice fact by fact, document by document for 40 years. The first to report … Read more
RSF Announces 2020-2021 Visiting Journalists
The Russell Sage Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of four visiting journalists for the 2020-2021 academic year: Clara Hemphill, Tracie McMillan, Melissa Segura, and Mosi Secret. Their journalistic work on a range of urgent issues in American life, including school segregation, as well as racism in social safety net policies and in the criminal justice system, intersects … Read more
Maximus Inc.’s Safety Net Contracts
Type InvestigationsFebruary 21, 2020 Type Investigations and Mother Jones have compiled the most comprehensive database of the company’s contracts for public benefits to date.
MacDowell Awards Winter-Spring Fellowships to 87 Artists
January 14, 2020 Seven international artists join Americans from across the country The MacDowell Colony has awarded Fellowships to 87 artists from 21 states and seven countries. The incoming Fellows reflect seven artistic disciplines and will arrive from locales as far apart as Poland, Mexico, Belgium, and Israel, as well as Tennessee, Washington, and Minnesota. … Read more
The White Bonus Book Announcement
As they say, some personal news:
Breadsticks from a Different Time
Bon AppétitApril 16, 2019 The Detroit suburbs have gone through a massive demographic change in the past 60 years. Gino’s has been around during all of it.
19 Great Restaurants to Work For
Food & Wine digital March 15, 2019 When it comes to working in the average restaurant in America today, there is good news, and there is bad news.
