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Illustration of a smoker with coins instead of puffs of smoke coming from his cigarette

Pinhookers and Pets: Inventing the Non-Smoker

Who needs a public health system when sickness is a personal failure?
by Jackson Lears via London Review of Books on February 18, 2021
Person getting a vaccination.
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A Coronavirus Vaccine Can’t Come at the Expense of Fighting the Virus Now

Government investment into a cancer vaccine had drawbacks.
by Robin Wolfe Scheffler via Made By History on July 24, 2020
Abstract image of a wedge whose shading does not align with the shading in its context.

A Brief History of the Gig

The gig economy wasn’t built in a day.
by Veena Dubal via Logic on April 27, 2020
Medical professionals confer at the entrance to a hospital emergency room.
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Doctors and Hospitals Are Struggling Financially in a Pandemic. Here’s Why.

Procedures drive the bottom line in our medical system.
by Mical Raz via Made By History on March 11, 2020
Devils roasting the earth on a spit.

From Saving the Earth to Ruling the World

The transformation of the environmental movement.
by Christopher Caldwell via Claremont Review of Books on November 1, 2019

How War Made the Cigarette

A new book explores the tangled politics behind a global addiction.
by Scott Wasserman Stern via The New Republic on September 25, 2019

A Brief History of American Pharma: From Snake Oil to Big Money

The dark side of the medical industrial complex.
by Mike Magee via Literary Hub on September 5, 2019

The Racist History of Tipping

Employers pay tipped workers $2.13 an hour. Why? Reconstruction-era racial discrimination.
by William J. Barber II via Politico Magazine on July 17, 2019
A rent strike in Harlem, New York City, September 1919.

The Fight for Rent Control

In the early twentieth century, immigrant tenant organizers made rent control laws a reality. Today, working-class New Yorkers still fight for housing justice.
by Daniel Wortel-London via Dissent on June 5, 2019

Wearing The Lead Glasses

Lead contamination in New Orleans and beyond.
by Thomas Beller via Places Journal on May 31, 2019

Fear and Loathing of the Green New Deal

What the backlash to the emergency legislation reveals about the age-old pathologies of the right.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on May 29, 2019
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gives a speech celebrating ADL’s centennial in 2013.

The Anti-Defamation League Is Not What It Seems

The ADL's influence on U.S. politics mobilizes against Black and Arab leaders, enforces pro-Israel stances, and capitalizes on anti-hate efforts.
by Emmaia Gelman via Boston Review on May 23, 2019

Inside the Long War to Protect Plastic

Single-use plastic is clogging oceans and landfills. The plastic industry has waged a decades-long campaign to keep it selling it.
by Tik Root via Center for Public Integrity on May 16, 2019

How a Movement That Never Killed Anyone Became the FBI’s No. 1 Domestic Terrorism Threat

Behind the scenes, corporate lobbying laid the groundwork for the Justice Department’s aggressive pursuit of so-called eco-terrorists.
by Alleen Brown via The Intercept on March 23, 2019
U.S. Senators Bob Dole and Birch Bayh shaking hands.

How Big Pharma Was Captured by the One Percent

The industry's price-gouging economic model was engineered by Wall Street and its political enablers—and only Washington can fix it.
by Alexander Zaitchik via The New Republic on June 28, 2018
Demonstrator outside the U.S. Capitol protesting Scott Pruitt's confirmation.
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Would Firing Scott Pruitt Save the EPA?

Not unless the most dangerous assault in the EPA's history also ends.
by Leif Fredrickson, Jennifer Liss Ohayon, Christopher Sellers via Made By History on May 22, 2018

Richard Nixon Probably Would Not Have Been Saved by Fox News

The 37th president used methods of media manipulation that Donald Trump can only fantasize about.
by Matt Welch via Reason on May 22, 2018

How Baby Boomers Broke America

Is the Baby Boomer generation to blame for America's crumbling roads, galloping income inequality, bitter polarization and dysfunctional government?
by Steven Brill via TIME on May 17, 2018

What Gun-Control Activists Can Learn From the Civil-Rights Movement

The success of the 1963 March on Washington hinged on a confluence of factors that aren't yet present for demonstrators today.
by Julian E. Zelizer via The Atlantic on March 23, 2018
Harry Truman receives a menorah from Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in 1951.

"The Edge of the Abyss": The Origins of the Israel Lobby, 1949-1954

Today's Israel lobby is one of the most powerful forces in Washington, but how did it start?
by Doug Rossinow via Modern American History on March 8, 2018
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The NFL: America’s Socialist Utopia

The Super Bowl might be a capitalist bonanza — but its creation was the ultimate socialist act.
by Jesse Berrett via Made By History on February 2, 2018

Paul Manafort, American Hustler

Before Trump, one lobbyist’s pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for Washington’s corruption.
by Franklin Foer via The Atlantic on January 28, 2018
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Even in the 1960s, the NRA Dominated Gun Control Debates

Lyndon Johnson wanted sweeping new gun control laws. Instead he got crumbs.
by Kyle Longley via Made By History on October 5, 2017
Pile of guns.
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When It Comes To Guns, Congress Has Always Been in the Pocket of Profit Chasers

How profit motives have driven two centuries of American gun laws.
by Gautham Rao via Made By History on October 4, 2017

The Shooting of a Nevada Senator in 1921 Spurred the First Big Push for Federal Gun Control

It was defeated by the firearm lobby.
by Stephanie Buck via Timeline on October 2, 2017

A Brief History of American Health Reform

In order to win universal health care, we have to understand what — and who — we're up against.
by Colin Gordon via Jacobin on July 25, 2017
Washington D.C. in 1860.

Draining the Swamp

Washington may be the only city on Earth that lobbied itself into existence.
by Ted Widmer via The New Yorker on January 19, 2017
Jo Ann Robinson's mug shot.

This Unheralded Woman Actually Organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Jo Ann Robinson is unfortunately overlooked by history.
by Keisha N. Blain via Timeline on January 19, 2017

The Epic Bar Fight That Sums Up the Problem with Memorial Day

A Depression-era story of mourning, motherhood, and grandiosity.
by Lisa M. Budreau via What It Means to Be American on May 26, 2016

How Corrupt Are Our Politics?

A review of Zephyr Teachout's "Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United."
by David Cole via New York Review of Books on September 25, 2014
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