Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein

Sanctions were conceived as an alternative to war. But they may have made the world more violent.

In 1948, the landfill at Fresh Kills was marketed to Staten Island as a stopgap measure. No one guessed that it would remain open for more than half a century.

It’s a simple process that recurs throughout history: workers see injustice, they organize each other, and they fight for change.