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The design ethicist did not hold back his concerns when talking to political leaders.

Journalist Eric Schlosser reports that the president isn’t actually the only American who can launch a nuclear attack all by himself or with one other person.

The Global Challenges Foundation released a Global Catastrophic Risk Report last week. The results aren’t pretty. Or surprising. 

The Daily Table, a new Boston grocery store from the ex-president of Trader Joe’s, sells nearly expired food items at a steep discount.

Author Eric Schlosser discusses what he’s learned after writing, publishing, and touring for his book on the illusion of safety associated with nuclear weapons.

Governments and world citizens must commit themselves to common goals in order to reduce the risk of a global nuclear catastrophe.

Ideas about religion can be so powerful that people can’t endorse them without giving up a part of their identity. It’s the same thing with diets.

Who launches a nuclear weapon if the president has been killed? Investigative journalist Eric Schlosser explains the chilling history of American nuclear authority and chain of command.

Investigative journalist Eric Schlosser serves as executive producer for the new documentary “Food Chains.” In this video, he discusses the injustices of the American food industry.

Investigative journalist Eric Schlosser shares the chilling history of myriad Americans who have at one time or another had the authority to launch nuclear weapons.

Journalist Eric Schlosser, an executive producer on the film Food Chains, discusses the exploitation of poor workers in the American food system.

Investigative journalist Eric Schlosser describes the terrifyingly close calls we’ve had with nuclear weapons, and the odds that a disaster would result in global catastrophe.

Despite knuckle-gripping tension and mass nuclear proliferation during the Cold War, not a single detonation has caused mass civilian casualties since 1945. According to investigative journalist Eric Schlosser, such good fortune is nothing more than blind luck.

Now that another Texas healthcare worker has contracted Ebola, and was allowed to fly commercial airlines before the diagnosis was made, health officials risk losing the public’s trust. 

Is it pure dumb luck that we have not had an accident involving nuclear weapons? In fact, we have had many such accidents. 

Bipartisan cooperation isn’t something you see very often these days. But the Senate just passed The Food Safety Modernization Act by a vote of 73 to 25. 14 Republicans joined Democrats […]

Over the past decade, issues such as fast food and obesity, organics and pesticides, genetic engineering, and factory farming have each captured their share of attention from engaged citizens and […]