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How the U.S. Betrayed the Marshall Islands, Kindling the Next Nuclear Disaster

A close look at the consequences of nuclear testing.

by Susanne Rust via Los Angeles Times on November 10, 2019

A Strange Blight: Rachel Carson’s Forebodings

Reading Silent Spring today, in the hazy reddish glow of climate catastrophe, is both an exhilarating and a melancholy pleasure.

by Meehan Crist via London Review of Books on June 6, 2019

Joe Biden's Audacity of Grief

On the mournful threads connecting his half-century in politics.

by George Blaustein via The New Republic on May 16, 2019

First Slavery, Then a Chemical Plant and Cancer Deaths: One Town's Brutal History

Long before Reserve, Louisiana was home to a chemical plant and riddled with cancer, it suffered the deprivations of enslavement.

by Oliver Laughland, Jamiles Lartey via The Guardian on May 6, 2019

Veteran who was exposed to nuclear radiation.

The Atomic Soldiers

How the U.S. government used veterans as atomic guinea pigs.

by Morgan Knibbe via New York Times Op-Docs on February 12, 2019

Shaman's Revenge?

The birth, death and afterlife of our romance with tobacco.

by Mike Jay via mikejay.net on January 1, 2019

Was Gary Hart Set Up?

On his deathbed, GOP strategist Lee Atwater admitted he staged the events that brought down a Democratic presidential candidate.

by James Fallows via The Atlantic on October 16, 2018

The Nuclear Fail

Physicist and writer Leo Szilard was vital to the creation of the atomic bomb. He also did everything he could to prevent its use.

by Emily Harnett via Hazlitt on July 30, 2018

Henrietta Lacks, Immortalized

Henrietta Lacks's "immortal" cell line, called "HeLa," is used in everything from cancer treatments to vaccines.

by Allison C. Meier via JSTOR Daily on May 17, 2018

It's Against The Law for Employers To Make You Sick. Thank The 'Radium Girls' For That

100 years ago, factory workers fought to hold companies accountable for their radium poisoning.

by David Brancaccio, Katie Long via Marketplace on November 28, 2017

Organic chemistry graphic of burning tree

How the Benzene Tree Polluted the World

The organic compounds that enabled industrialization are having unintended consequences for the planet’s life.

by Rebecca Altman via The Atlantic on October 4, 2017

Could You Patent the Sun?

Decades after Dr. Jonas Salk opposed patenting the polio vaccine, the pharmaceutical industry has changed.

via Retro Report on December 11, 2016

Ruth Bader Ginsburg sitting on a chair in a room with a fireplace

How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Moved the Supreme Court

Despite her path-braking work as a litigator before the Court, she doesn't believe that large-scale social change should come from the courts.

by Jeffrey Toobin via The New Yorker on March 11, 2013

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