Mike Mariani is a writer and educator based in Hoboken, New Jersey.
In the late 1940s, a group of doctors and researchers traveled to Guatemala and conducted extensive and often ghastly STD experiments there. This is the story behind who was responsible, what the test subjects did and didn’t know, and the onerous task of meting out justice.
How the American opiate epidemic was started by one pharmaceutical company.
Can Christmas' pagan roots explain its increasing secularization today?
The cautionary parable of a snake-handling preacher.
During the nine-day Phuket Vegetarian Festival, a group of chosen ones known as the mah song torture themselves in order to redirect bad luck and misfortune away from their communities and ensure a year of prosperity.