Non-fiction

In Terms of Animal Welfare, Hunting is More Humane Than Farming

On the "Fair Chase" vs. the Factory Farm

 
By Philip Dray  May 3, 2018
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What Happens When You Sail Into a Hurricane

By Rachel Slade  May 2, 2018
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How Did African Hippos End Up in Colombia?

By Lucy Cooke  April 17, 2018
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On the Rise—and Cost—of the African Novel in English

By Mukoma Wa Ngugi  April 9, 2018
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Barbara Ehrenreich: Why I’m Giving Up on Preventative Care

By Barbara Ehrenreich  April 9, 2018
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What the Rest of America Can Learn from California’s Turnaround

By Manuel Pastor  April 9, 2018
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How Big Sugar Got Rich Off American Cravings

By James Walvin  April 5, 2018
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How the Advice Columnist Conquered America

By Jessica Weisberg  April 4, 2018
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How Does Consciousness Work?

By Michael S. Gazzaniga  April 3, 2018
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Why Cities Are Teeming With Exotic Wildlife More Than Ever

By Menno Schilthuizen  March 30, 2018
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Regarding the Pain of Women

By Maya Dusenbery  March 29, 2018
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Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, and the Tumultuous Summer of 1962

By Andrea Barnet  March 23, 2018
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It Only Takes Seconds to Hack an ATM… Are Our Cars Just as Vulnerable?

By Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik  March 23, 2018
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How Polar Explorer Ernest Shackleton Became an International Celebrity

By Edward J. Larson  March 16, 2018
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Maeve Brennan: On the Life of a Great Irish Writer, and Its Sad End

By Kathleen Hill  March 16, 2018
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Why Don’t We Eat (More) Brains?

By Alan Jasanoff  March 16, 2018
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Why Do We Still Buy Mass-Produced Souvenirs?

By Rolf Potts  March 8, 2018
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The President Has Too Much Power to Make War

By Bruce Ackerman  March 8, 2018
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It’s Not Easy Running a Retirement Home for Old Dancing Bears

By Witold Szablowski  March 6, 2018
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When Rousseau Advocated for Book-Burning

By William Marx  March 2, 2018
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The World Might Not Be As Disastrous As We Think It Is

By Steven Pinker  March 1, 2018
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The Silicon Spies: Public Money and Private Surveillance

By Yasha Levine  February 27, 2018
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The Rise of the Female Showrunner and Hollywood’s Woolf Pack

By Joy Press  February 27, 2018
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Acquiring Books for the Greatest Libraries in the World

By Alexander Bevilacqua  February 23, 2018
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When Vogue Went to Russia

By Michael Idov  February 21, 2018
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