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Workers pushing Coca-Cola refrigerators.

Coca-Cola's Biggest Challenge in Greening its Operations is Its Own Global Marketing Strategy

Coca-Cola has made ambitious climate and sustainability pledges, but marketing its products worldwide will always be a top priority.
by Bart Elmore via The Conversation on May 23, 2023
Collage of Holmesburg Prison aerial view with a gloved hand picking up a medical vial in the foreground.

Holmesburg Prison's Medical Experiments Are Philadelphia's 'Lasting Shame'

For over 20 years, Dr. Albert Kligman experimented on incarcerated men at Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. Those who profited have yet to redress the harm.
by Tamar Sarai via Prism on May 15, 2023
Poster encouraging cancer patients to seek information from various government agencies, showing a woman holding a caduceus.

After the War on Cancer

Raising awareness helped turn cancer from a stigmatized disease into a treatable one. But it hasn’t made affording that treatment any easier.
by Libby Watson via The Baffler on March 23, 2023
Emissions from Union Carbide’s Ferro-Alloy Plant, Charleston, West Virginia, May 1973

The Lost Promise of Environmental Rights

As environmental rights seem on the verge of a comeback, it’s worth remembering why they once seemed so promising, and why that promise remains unfulfilled.
by Scott Wasserman Stern via New York Review of Books on March 15, 2023
A plantation worker harvests palm oil fruits in Riau, Indonesia.

The Story of Palm Oil Is a Story About Capitalism

Palm oil is in everything, but it is also enmeshed in global supply chains that rely on brutal working conditions and the destruction of the planet.
by Scott Wasserman Stern via Jacobin on January 19, 2023
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Native Trails

Ed Ayers travels back to his childhood stomping grounds in search of traces of the dispossession that took place there generations earlier.
by Ed Ayers on June 13, 2022

Merchants of Death

From the Nye Committee to Joe Kent, the fight against war profiteering is a constant struggle.
by Hunter DeRensis via The American Conservative on November 8, 2021
Woman's glowing face

“A Revolutionary Beauty Secret!”

On the rise and fall of radium in the beauty industry.
by Lucy Jane Santos via Literary Hub on July 8, 2021
Men with guns in street

How Tear Gas Became a Staple of American Law Enforcement

In 1932, the “Bonus Army” of jobless veterans staged a protest in Washington, DC. The government dispersed them with tear gas.
by Lauren Vespoli via JSTOR Daily on June 24, 2020
Greenpeace demonstrators opposing drilling.
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Liberal Activists Have to Think Broadly and Unite Across Lines

The forgotten environmental action that pointed the path forward for the left.
by Matthew D. Lassiter via Made By History on March 11, 2020

American Bottom

Designed as a bucolic working-class suburb of St. Louis, the nearly all-black town of Centreville now floods with raw sewage every time it rains.
by Walter Johnson via Boston Review on January 23, 2020

Muskets! Axes! Revolt! Here Are the Plans for a Reenactment of an Actual 1811 Rebellion

This fall 500 Louisianans, in 19th-century attire, will re-create America’s largest plantation uprising.
by Julian Lucas via Vanity Fair on September 9, 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
Rachel Carson conducting marine biology research with Bob Hines offshore.

Rachel Carson's Critics Called Her a Witch

When Silent Spring was published, the response was overtly gendered. Rachel Carson's critics depicted her as hysterical, mystical, and witchy.
by Livia Gershon, Maril Hazlett via JSTOR Daily on February 21, 2019

Dog Poo, an Environmental Tragedy

When industrial fertilizer replaced dung heaps, its spoils helped fund the spread of plastics.
by T. Hugh Crawford via The Atlantic on November 26, 2017

American Green

How did the plain green lawn become the central landscaping feature in America, and what is the ecological cost?
by Ted Steinberg via Longreads on March 15, 2006

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