Daniel J. Kevles

The Scandal of Our Drug Supply

‘Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom’ by Katherine Eban

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

by Katherine Eban

July 23, 2020 issue

Martin Shkreli, the former head of Turing Pharmaceuticals, outside the federal courthouse in Brooklyn after he was found guilty of fraud, August 2017

Why Is Medicine So Expensive?

The system of prescription drug pricing is a patchwork product of history, vulnerable to manipulation by the pharmaceutical industry.

Medical Monopoly: Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry

by Joseph M. Gabriel

Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine

by Jeremy A. Greene

Getting to the Root of High Prescription Drug Prices: Drivers and Potential Solutions

a report by Henry Waxman and others

February 21, 2019 issue

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

March 21, 2017

Newspapers showing front-page coverage of Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a preemptive double mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer after genetic testing showed that she carried the abnormal BRCA1 gene, May 15, 2013

The Genes You Can’t Patent

September 26, 2013 issue

A laboratory at Myriad Genetics, the Utah-based biotechnology firm whose right to patent human genes will be reviewed by the Supreme Court this spring

Can They Patent Your Genes?

A Supreme Court case with huge consequences for American biomedicine

March 7, 2013 issue

Beurre d’Aremberg pear; mid-nineteenth-century lithograph by the Amana Society, Iowa County, Iowa

An American Passion Revealed

Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America

by Philip J. Pauly

May 13, 2010 issue

Vavilov and the Famine

December 4, 2008 issue

Martyred by Monsters

The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin’s Persecutionof One of the Great Scientistsof the Twentieth Century

by Peter Pringle

October 9, 2008 issue

Letter

Russell Todres

Vavilov and the Famine

December 4, 2008 issue

Keeping Mum about ‘No First Use’

May 31, 2007 issue

The Poor Man’s Atomic Bomb

Jonathan B. Tucker’s ‘War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda’

War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda

by Jonathan B. Tucker

April 12, 2007 issue

Letter

Milton Leitenberg

Keeping Mum about ‘No First Use’

May 31, 2007 issue

The Strange Case of Robert Oppenheimer

Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller

by Gregg Herken

Pandora's Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb

by Brian VanDeMark

December 4, 2003 issue

His Master’s Voice

The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900–1933

by Emily Thompson

April 10, 2003 issue

Cancer: What Do They Know?

The Nazi War on Cancer

by Robert N. Proctor

One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins

by by Robert A. Weinberg

September 23, 1999 issue

Darwin in Dayton

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion

by Edward J. Larson

November 19, 1998 issue

Endangered Environmentalists

The Last Harvest: The Genetic Gamble That Threatens to Destroy American Agriculture

by Paul Raeburn

Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides

by Wargo John

Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species

by Charles C. Mann and Mark L. Plummer

Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century

by Mark Dowie

February 20, 1997 issue

Earth First!

December 1, 1994 issue

Greens in America

The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work, with Selections from Her Writings

by Paul Brooks

Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson

Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement

by Robert Gottlieb

The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism

by Charles T. Rubin

The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement, 1962-1992

by Kirkpatrick Sale

A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement

by Philip Shabecoff

Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement

by Susan Zakin

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October 6, 1994 issue

Letter

Susan Zakin

Earth First!

December 1, 1994 issue

The Sticking Gas

June 25, 1992 issue

Some Like It Hot

Preserving the Global Environment: The Challenge of Shared Leadership

edited by Jessica Tuchman Mathews

It's a Matter of Survival

by Anita Gordon and David Suzuki

Ecology, Economics, Ethics: The Broken Circle

edited by F. Herbert Bormann, edited by Stephen R. Kellert

Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh

by Helena Norberg-Hodge

Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement

by Rik Scarce

Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization

by Christopher Manes

Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet

by Richard Elliot Benedick

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March 26, 1992 issue

Letter

Keith Montgomery

The Sticking Gas

June 25, 1992 issue

‘The Final Secret of the Universe’?

Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe

by Dennis Overbye

The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the Universe

by Eric J. Lerner

Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists

by Alan Lightman and Roberta Brawer

May 16, 1991 issue