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New York City’s infamous jail Rikers Island houses nearly 7,000 detainees. Chefs, not inmates, do the cooking. And while they’re on their shift, the chefs are locked inside, too. There are cameras everywhere, monitored from the guard’s office. Dull knives are chained to heavy machinery. Can lids slide into a locked cage. Spoons are locked up in the office. Inside Rikers’ kitchens, there’s a delicate balance between the chefs, the guards, and the inmates who wash the dishes. Read “I visited the Rikers jail kitchen. I left shaken by what I’d seen”: https://bit.ly/3MDpvJ2 00:00 – Intro 01:19 – What is [See More…]

Most of the shrimp Americans consume comes from India. But in August 2025, the Trump administration announced 50% tariffs on the country. Shrimp farmers in Gujarat, who’d taken US demand and turned poor towns into valuable shrimp hubs, had to pivot. In the US, Louisiana shrimpers applauded the tariffs but were split on whether they’d gone as far as they’d hoped. Now the Supreme Court has struck down Trump’s ’emergency tariffs’ but the President says he will still pursue them with an executive order. So, how did tariffs affect Indian shrimp farmers and Gulf fishermen? And who really wins and [See More…]