Upton Sinclair

Is media bias attributable to corporate power or personal psychology? Upton Sinclair and Walter Lippmann disagreed.

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle has come to symbolize an era of muckraking and reform. But its author sought revolution, not regulation.

How Upton Sinclair’s 1934 run for governor of California inspired a cult.

While worrying about our food supply, we must also worry about workers producing it.

Before the establishment of the modern FDA, anti-regulation attitudes ruled the world of food.

The field of political consulting was unknown before Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker founded Campaigns, Inc., in 1933.

Considering a novel as a whole, rather than as the sum of its parts, was an approach favored by mid-20th-century literary critics. It was also useful for fighting book bans.

In the 19th century, tens of thousands of babies died every year of gastroenteritis.

I never knew I lived in an oil town until I went looking for the concealed infrastructure of fossil fuel production.

A look at how and why African Americans first started to abandon the GOP for the Democratic Party.

On the early origins of a very American kind of writing.

Its inhabitants are as much creatures of state power and industrial capitalism as their city-dwelling counterparts.

Basic healthcare in the 20th Century greatly impacted the way that the drug business currently operates in the United States.

Keeping meat production moving during the pandemic is dangerous. But history shows that there’s little Americans won’t sacrifice for a cheap steak.

Protecting the food supply chain means protecting workers.

A biographer of Day talks about what we can learn from the iconic activist.

America’s obsession with beef was born of conquest and exploitation.

Exploitation and predatory pricing drove the transformation of the beef industry – and created the model for modern agribusiness.

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.

The rise, fall, and afterlife of George Sterling’s California arts colony.