An examination of Brazil’s immense tannery industry shows how hides from illegally deforested ranches can easily reach the global marketplace. In the United States, much of the demand for Brazilian leather comes from automakers.

On the history of modern food.

As the country heads into a dangerous new phase of the pandemic, the government’s management of the P.P.E. crisis has left the private sector still straining to meet anticipated demand.

“It was a clusterfuck of clusterfucks.”

Tracing the path of one of the world’s most in-demand minerals from deadly mines in Congo to your phone.

When it comes to sweatshops and child labor, your $7 H&M gym shorts aren’t really the problem (or the solution).

The “naked technological realities” of America’s heartland and how they power a “cosy coastal world of pretend farmers’ markets and happy cows.”