By Theodore Ross It was a good day at the old FERN HQ yesterday (i.e. our Slack channel) when we learned that eight of our articles were nominated for James Beard media awards in four ...

The first time I met Alex Paul he wore a stylish patterned shirt and a wide smile. Paul, an immigrant from Haiti, came to the U.S. in the summer of 2023 and got a job at Amick ...

An immigration raid twenty years ago transformed the workforce at U.S. meatpacking plants. Under Trump, the consequences of that shift are becoming painfully clear.

Haitians moved to Colorado to work for the world’s largest meatpacker on the promise of good jobs and a place to stay—only to be mistreated. Now, Trump is trying to deport them.

I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’n’wipe, the no-touch flush, the sanitisers and disinfectants.