Mother Jones – September 01, 2019

36 MOTHER JONES |^ SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2019 TROLL STORY “Matt Gaetz is living proof that Veep was less parody and more prophecy, ...

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38 MOTHER JONES |^ SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2019 TROLL STORY year, including the biggest monied interests in the district: local real ...

SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2019 | MOTHER JONES 39 ing to his financial disclosures. Most of that was tied up in property he owned. He h ...

EPEAT. BURN. BUILD. RE CALIFORNIA’S WILDFIRES ARE GETTING WORSE. SO WHY ARE WE STILL ...

EPEAT. BURN. BUILD. RE DEVELOPING IN THE DANGER ZONE? BY JEFFREY BALL / PHOTOGRAPHS BY JUSTIN MAXON ...

42 MOTHER JONES |^ SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2019 BURN. BUILD. REPEAT. standing on Shingletown Ridge and gazing west toward the settin ...

Developer Jeb Allen (previous) stands at a construction site in Redding’s Salt Creek Heights, where Renee Rand (above) bought a ...

44 MOTHER JONES |SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2019 BURN. BUILD. REPEAT. ber, and only two fi res burned more than 47 square miles each, a ...

SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2019 | MOTHER JONES 45 somely from it. A former car racer—he was recently inducted into the International Dr ...

46 MOTHER JONES |SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2019 on election night in 2016, Carlos Spector turned off the TV as soon as the networks ca ...

photographs by ivan pierre aguirre Carlos Spector at the US-Mexico border in his hometown of El Paso. When he was growing up, th ...

48 MOTHER JONES |^ SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2019 HOLD THE LINE Spector helped with her papers, a new- comer refugee—yelling, “¡Abogad ...

SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2019 | MOTHER JONES 49 has always been highly politicized. During the Cold War, the United States welcomed C ...

50 MOTHER JONES |^ SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2019 in february 2018 , in a small courtroom in rural Louisiana, an Eritrean man was figh ...

SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2019 | MOTHER JONES 51 and the Department of Homeland Security. (Asylum seekers are not guaranteed an at- to ...

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SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2019 | MOTHER JONES 53 DOCTOR WOO Jen Gunter made a name for herself by calling out Gwyneth Paltrow and the ...

54 MOTHER JONES |^ SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2019 MIXED MEDIA inside a serene natural grocery store in Mill Valley, California, Dr. Je ...

SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2019 | MOTHER JONES 55 GO OP “People have been selling snake oil for a long time. This is just another type ...