Mark Schapiro

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Mark Schapiro’s latest book, Seeds of Resistance, on the struggle to control the worlds seeds, will be published in 2018. He is also a Lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

FinanceDecember 6, 2017

Investigative Journalism Can Still Make Bad Guys Squirm

A massive muckrakers conference celebrates triumphs—and plots new targets.

Mark Schapiro
Air PollutionOctober 8, 2014

Is Pittsburgh Really Green—or Is It Just Outsourcing Its Pollution?

How Pittsburgh’s greenhouse gases became Guangzhou’s problem.

Mark Schapiro
ActivismOctober 18, 2007

Toxic Toys

As safety scandals dampen the public’s appetite for cheap imports, the European Union is raising doubts about standards and oversight in the US toy industry.

Mark Schapiro
Global OrganizationsDecember 9, 2004

New Power for ‘Old Europe’

The EU is an emerging geopolitical force that corporate America must reckon with.

Mark Schapiro
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CorporationsOctober 10, 2002

Sowing Disaster?

How genetically engineered American corn has altered the global landscape.

Mark Schapiro
BusinessApril 18, 2002

Big Tobacco

Uncovering the industry’s multibillion-dollar global smuggling network.

Mark Schapiro
PoliticsApril 18, 2002

Is Smuggling a Patriotic Act?

On the one-month anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tobacco industry took aim at Congress’s first effort to respond to the crisis with a major piece of new legislation-what wou

Mark Schapiro
Drug War and Drug PolicySeptember 6, 2001

Drug War on Trial

'Following the Money' can prove devastating to critics of the illegal trade.

Mark Schapiro
MediaNovember 11, 1999

The Cable Guise

Ten years ago, as Hungary was roiling with democratic protests, the country had two television channels, both controlled by the state.

Mark Schapiro
FictionApril 29, 1999

Fading Czech Velvet

As I’m driven to the home of Ivan Klima, one of the Czech Republic’s most internationally respected writers, the hand of fate slips in beside me in the taxi.

Mark Schapiro

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Mark Schapiro

FinanceDecember 6, 2017

A massive muckrakers conference celebrates triumphs—and plots new targets.

Air PollutionOctober 8, 2014

How Pittsburgh’s greenhouse gases became Guangzhou’s problem.

ActivismOctober 18, 2007

As safety scandals dampen the public’s appetite for cheap imports, the European Union is raising doubts about standards and oversight in the US toy industry.

Global OrganizationsDecember 9, 2004

The EU is an emerging geopolitical force that corporate America must reckon with.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

CorporationsOctober 10, 2002

How genetically engineered American corn has altered the global landscape.

BusinessApril 18, 2002

Uncovering the industry’s multibillion-dollar global smuggling network.

PoliticsApril 18, 2002

On the one-month anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tobacco industry took aim at Congress’s first effort to respond to the crisis with a major piece of new legislation-what wou

Drug War and Drug PolicySeptember 6, 2001

'Following the Money' can prove devastating to critics of the illegal trade.

MediaNovember 11, 1999

Ten years ago, as Hungary was roiling with democratic protests, the country had two television channels, both controlled by the state.

FictionApril 29, 1999

As I’m driven to the home of Ivan Klima, one of the Czech Republic’s most internationally respected writers, the hand of fate slips in beside me in the taxi.