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The systems that harm animals go hand in hand with systems that harm humans. Combating them requires inter-species solidarity.
The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.
In a world unraveled by COVID-19, the brutality of factory farming demands we rethink our relationship to animals.
Biodiversity should be maintained by using it, not by storing it under ice.
A rural town in Spain gives us a glimpse into the challenges we will face in a workless future.
On the cruelties the South doles out to animals, children, and black folks.
A tribute to one of the century’s great anthropologists and teachers.
It is impossible to divorce nature from human influence. Can that influence be democratic?
Why do our ideas about nutrition change so quickly?
Dole used a pesticide that rendered banana workers sterile. Why is it so hard to litigate?
The cause of Camus's native countrymen moved him, yet he yearned helplessly toward the European culture that had formed him.
While some U.S. politicians won’t even admit climate change exists, Central American political leaders increasingly find the phenomenon impossible to ignore.
That people respond to the relative costs and returns of schooling might imply that the poor are optimizing the amount of school they invest in, as predicted in a simple economic model. But evidence suggests that reality is more complex.
How Julia Child sold Americans on the difficult, alien art of French cooking.
Julia Child reviews a gastronomic history of American cooking, sings the praises of a recipe for pimiento custard spread, and details her obsession with all things corn.
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