…mitigate such catastrophes in the future. The term systemic risk was coined on the onset of the Latin American debt crisis of the early 1980s by William Cline, an international…

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…

…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…

…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…

…resources agency charged with overseeing the civil service of the U.S. federal government. In addition to “recruiting, retaining and honoring a world-class force to serve the American people,”[2] it is…

…narrates the widespread transmission of animals, plants, cultural practices, human populations, diseases, technologies, and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres. In the course of these encounters Europeans witnessed the…

…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)….

…superstores. That cheese requires a different story, one that begins with the mid-nineteenth century move of American cheesemaking off the farm and into cooperatively owned factories where farmers pooled their…

…to manipulate the American stomach. It is a story about the slow-paced evolution of a $600 billion food retail industry, with 3.4 million employees in America. But if the center…

…“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…

…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…

…understood as “a deadly race to bring American resources up to capacity while simultaneously reducing those in Germany” (Katz 1989:104). In the same fashion, a future war would be won…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…an obscure American government agency: the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). At the time, Enron had been embroiled in scandal with its top corporate executives under investigation for fraud. According…

…Twede, 2012) as an underappreciated but highly important “pico-infrastructure” underlying these same transformations. More precisely, cans were like an inverted Trojan horse, transforming American consumption just like the Greeks’ gift…

…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…

…flight and indoors feeding (Kelly, 2012). While attempting to simulate natural conditions (traditional architecture, thatch walls, human sleepers) these experimental replicas of the domestic realm are structurally modified to render…

…Sergeant David Linley was one of dozens left on Linley’s blog at betweenthebars.org.[1] Between The Bars is a blogging platform for the (other) 1% of Americans who are incarcerated, the…

…response, evacuation, and the restoration of local services – was now obsolete. The prospect of a thermonuclear attack heralded destruction on a previously unimaginable scale. Many American cities would be…

…American professionals whose companies build and run the parks. Streets have been paved, lowering the dust and grit profile in places like La Ventosa, but residents are often unclear who…

…U.S. Congress, responding to pressure from sport-hunters and Canadian provincial governments and to assurances from scientists that Canada’s bears were being sustainably managed, re-opened American borders to the import of…

…and pathogens with identifiable signatures, such as the parasitic Varroa mites that have devastated US bee colonies since the late 1980s or American foulbrood, a bacterial disease that transforms developing…

…American tests, one financial analyst noted that Chimerix “shares [were] likely to be (awkwardly) tracking the fate of the Ebola outbreak” (Tirrell 2014). Indeed, by November, the company’s stock rose…