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Anton Petrus / Getty; Getty; Anthony Gerace The Greatest Nuclear Threat We Face Is a Russian Victory
Putin’s blackmail is dangerous; its success would be even worse.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Picture Post / … What If Russia Uses Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine?
A look at the grim scenarios—and the U.S. playbook for each
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Tommaso Boddi/Getty America’s Slaughterhouses Aren’t Just Killing Animals
The industry practice of making hundreds of workers stand close together at a production line—with sharp knives and a fast line speed—endangers not only their safety, but also food safety and public health.
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Rogelio V. Solis / Associated Press Why It’s Immigrants Who Pack Your Meat
What Trump has called an “invasion” was actually a corporate recruitment drive.
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Access to Good, Healthy Food Should Be a Basic Human Right
In an afterword to Prince Charles' speech on the future of food, Eric Schlosser and Will Allen make the case for a new, diverse food system.
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The Freak Show
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How to Make the Country's Most Dangerous Job Safer
The power lies with one hamburger vendor
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The Prison-Industrial Complex
Correctional officials see danger in prison overcrowding. Others see opportunity. The nearly two million Americans behind bars—the majority of them nonviolent offenders—mean jobs for depressed regions and windfalls for profiteers
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Saturday Night at the Haçienda
Once a city of dying mills, Manchester, England, has been revived by the music and nightclub industries. But has it merely traded one "dark Satanic" economy for another?
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A Grief Like No Other
Americans are fascinated by murders and murderers but not by the families of the people who are killed—an amazingly numerous group, whose members can turn only to one another for sympathy and understanding.
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More Reefer Madness
Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is, the author writes, "in the grip of a deep psychosis".
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David Butow / Getty In the Strawberry Fields
The management of California's strawberry industry offers a case study of both the dependence on an imported peasantry that characterizes much of American agriculture and the destructive consequences of a deliberate low-wage economy.
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Marijuana and the Law
The vigorous enforcement of marijuana laws has resulted in four million arrests since the early 1980s. Owing to mandatory-minimum sentences, many of those convicted are receiving stiff prison terms, even as violent criminals are released for lack of space. The second part of a two-part article. [See Part 1.]
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Reefer Madness
Marijuana has not been de facto legalized, and the war on drugs is not just about cocaine and heroin. In fact, today, when we don't have enough jail cells for murderers, rapists, and other violent criminals, there may be more people in federal and state prisons for marijuana offenses than at any other time in U.S. history
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The Bomb Squad: A Visit With the Members of a Police Unit Whose Work Load May Be Growing
