Meredith Rutland Bauer
Meredith is a San Francisco Bay Area freelance reporter. She is a Florida native and a graduate of the University of Florida, and her work has appeared in Vice, Quartz, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. See her work at meredithrutlandbauer.com and follow her on Twitter @merebauer.
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Fast fashion pollutes the Atacama Desert in Chile
With nearly 60,000 tons of unsold clothes arriving globally from Europe, Asia and North America to the port town of Iquique, about 39,000 tons of fast fashion ends up in the landfill in the desert.
How workers in the South are defying history
The company resisted them. History defied them. Geography worked against them.
The surprising pervasiveness of American arrogance
We Americans are all beneficiaries of exceptionalism, even those of us who decry its corrosive impact.
Among the GOP’s debt ceiling hostages? Social Security payments for oldest Americans
"The choice facing the executive branch is clear: Act or default; act or increase the suffering of millions; act or go into economic tailspin."
Radioactivity: The Women of Three Mile Island
It connects the proverbial dots of the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant disaster—doing so brilliantly.