Ellen Ruppel Shell is a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly magazine, the author of The Hungry Gene: The Inside Story of the Obesity Industry, and a professor of journalism at Boston University, where she codirects the graduate program in science journalism.
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From the shuttered factories of the rust belt to the look-alike strip malls of the sun belt-and almost everywhere in between-America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little examined obsession is arguably the... SEE MORE