Features
Alice Hamilton
Brief life of a public-health pioneer and reformer: 1869-1970
by Daniel Stone
Albert Gallatin Browne Jr.
William P. MacKinnon profiles the early war correspondent who covered the Utah War against the Mormon government of Brigham Young.
by William P. MacKinnon
Decoding Diabetes
Elizabeth Gudrais reports on how discoveries in genetics, cell metabolism, and the study of small molecules point the way to new therapies and perhaps a cure for diabetes.
by Elizabeth Gudrais
The Economic Agenda
Challenges facing the next president
Greening China
Market-based policies for air-pollution control
by Mun S. Ho
Albert Bickmore
Brief life of a museum impresario: 1839-1914
by Victoria Cain
Seriously Funny
Ian Frazier combines an historian's discipline with an original comic mind...
by Craig Lambert
Works and Woods
Architecture and ecology in Japan...
by Paul Gleason
Maxim Gorky
Brief life of a great enigma, the Russian author and political propagandist born Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov: 1868-1936...
by Donald Fanger
A Plague Reborn
The fight against an ancient scourge shifts to new battlegrounds...
by Jonathan Shaw
Unequal America
Causes and consequences of the wide—and growing—gap between rich and poor
by Elizabeth Gudrais