…Institute’s main agenda was to shape policymaking on international economic issues that affected US foreign policy and economy. The Latin American debt crisis, in this vein, was the Institute’s first…

A squat gray building of only eight stories. Over the course of 2014 and 2015, The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) slowly discovered—and even more slowly disclosed—that it had…

…poses to all Americans. The question that “We are all Flint’s” traction raises then is not whether this “we” actually includes those Americans most at risk from lead poisoning. It…

It was 1965: televisions were blaring, and Alan Lomax was worried. As Gilligan’s Island, The Andy Griffith Show, Green Acres, and Bewitched capered into tangerine family rooms, the famous American…

…vulnerable systems; for modeling how these systems would be affected by nuclear war; and for planning measures that would reduce vulnerability and prepare the government to manage the economy and…

…Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Colonel Llewellyn J. Legters, an epidemiologist at the Army Uniformed Services Hospital specializing in tropical disease, led the audience in…

…practices and scientific management to a stagnant industry, moving individual enterprises based on credit and custom to national chains fed by anonymous cash and carry. A&P Economy Store front, 1915,…

…admitting to germ-warfare missions; twenty-one American GI’s held as Korean War POWs defected to communist lands; and there appeared to be a blind spot in American individualism, which was evidently…

…Eneida, the metal rod illuminated infrastructural relationships linking her body, farm plot, and community to the canal and its dispersed publics, including the state institution that manages the waterway (once…

…were charged with developing damage assessment techniques that could anticipate the effects of an enemy attack on the American military-industrial economy. Using the new Univac computer (see Figure 5), and…

…have issued their first sovereign bonds on European and American securities markets totaling around $25.8 billion in new debt, most of which is intended to fund infrastructural investments (Adams 2015)….

…firm—my “day job”—I work closely with top executive teams to understand their shoppers and consumers, the world of food, and the store experience, in order to help create prototype retail…

…transgenerational diseases. In 1991, a group of scientists met at the initiative of Theo Colborn and Pete Myers, American researchers searching for links between environmental exposures and health. All of…

…spot. And it’s my spot to hit. Unlike European classics, when it comes to American artisanal cheeses, there is no à point. Who knows when a Hooligan is perfectly itself?…

…“6 things Americans should fear more than Ebola” (Schwartz 2014), Humanosphere’s “5 diseases Americans should fear way more than Ebola” (Murphy 2014), and Cracked’s “5 Reasons America Can Calm the…

Two handsome mahogany boxes, long and narrow, sit on a high shelf in a home basement that is prone to flooding in the American Midwest. Release one of their tiny…

…crowds of workers within a relatively fixed size organization. Large-scale requesters facing the challenges of managing these crowds are developing techniques I’m calling automatic management. Automatic management and politics with…

…local populations and limit local autonomy. To meet the ambitious goals set in place, wind parks have rapidly been erected across the isthmus, now a dense crop of white towers…

…York City, a journalist contacted me to ask if I thought Sandy would be a tipping point. Would this be the crucial event that convinced an otherwise skeptical American public…

…clear obstacle to their commercialization. But again, the general evolution of the economy and the American society changed the odds: Progressive Grocer noted that more than half the population lived…

…are focusing on you). How did this odd now-I see-you-now-I-don’t quality come about? Born in World War II as a device to gauge American GIs’ attitudes toward the fascist enemy…

In winter of 2014, an inquiry from a journalist landed in my email inbox. His message opened innocently: “how can I can safely and effectively get plugged into the hacker…

…From the Journal of the American Medical Association, 1970. A key partner in the FDA’s efforts was the American Medical Association (AMA), which had long been concerned with medical quackery…

…walking in one of the schools and saw [a] huge pile of students’ annual report card dump[ed], being a data junkie my heart sunk at seeing all valuable student data…

…credit risk. It is also a tool that is actively used to manage credit accounts. So the crushing involuntary landslide didn’t stop at the scores. Following the fine print in…

…biased due to their management’s ethnic affiliation. Safaricom, in contrast, employs foreign management to avoid accusations of favoritism. In its public performances, too, it does its best to present itself…