This was written as a part of my application for TNR‘s once sought-after reporter-researcher position while I was wrapping up my web internship at The Nation. In the past, the year-long position has been an important career springboard for many accomplished journalists. Now I’ve heard TNR, the venerable Washington institution, can only afford to pay [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Recession’
The New Republic: Politics Critique of the Feburary 18, 2009 Issue
Posted in Hiar Learning, tagged China, Finance, Politics, Recession, Republicans, Russia, Washington DC on April 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Iceland: Offshore Haven for Journos?
Posted in Mother Jones, tagged Business, Environment, Law & Order, Media, Recession, Taxes on February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Below is my last MoJo blog post. I concluded my internship at the DC bureau of Mother Jones on Friday and had an editor publish the post for me at the beginning of this week. Next stop Reykjavík? (If you have any better ideas, leave me a comment.) Could Iceland soon be to journalists what [...]
UBS: Bank Bailout Good Guy?
Posted in Mother Jones, tagged Business, Foreign Policy, Recession, Scandal, Taxes on January 29, 2010 |
I’m working on a larger piece on the UBS whistleblower, Bradley Birkenfeld, so I’ve been following news of the bank rather closely. One exchange from the Congressional hearings on AIG regarding UBS caught my eye so I decided to put the piles of research I’ve done on it to good use. My editor liked the [...]
Attack of the Taxpayers’ Watchdog: Barofsky Bashes the Bailout
Posted in Mother Jones, tagged Recession, Scandal on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post was assigned to me by the bureau chief David Corn. One of the interns at the home office in San Francisco had recently run a profile on Barofsky (the post’s title plays off Andy Kroll’s original piece “Meet the Taxpayers’ $3 Trillion Watchdog“) and Corn wanted me to post an update on it. [...]
Climate Regulation Lives Another Day
Posted in Mother Jones, tagged Environment, Foreign Policy, Recession on September 24, 2009 |
I first became aware of Sen. Murkowski at the costs of cap-and-trade hearing I attended last week. She griped to the panel of experts about how it would cripple our already weakened economy and they pointed out that all the proposals on the table wouldn’t go into effect for until like 2012. Clearly, reality did [...]
Cash for Clunkers: Buyers’ Remorse
Posted in Mother Jones, tagged Environment, Politics, Recession on August 25, 2009 |
My editors made me take out this bold prediction, which they claimed was, um, totally unsubstantiated: “The bill’s dubious environmental credentials may also give lawmakers green cover for voting against the more ambitious and effective cap and trade legislation currently stalled in the Senate. Blue Dog Democrats and moderate Republicans (both of them) and can [...]
“Public Enemies”: Just What the Banks Need
Posted in More Intelligent Life, tagged Film, History, Law & Order, Literature, Minnesota, New York, Recession on July 13, 2009 |
This is a fun little post about a movie I have yet to see. I hope to change that soon. Over Independence Day weekend Michael Mann, acclaimed director of such films as “Heat”, “The Insider” and “Collateral”, released another beautiful crime drama about an infamous Midwestern bank robber, John Dillinger. Over the course of [...]
The Q&A: Lewis H. Lapham, Writer, Historian
Posted in More Intelligent Life, tagged Advertising, Business, History, Language, Literature, Politics, Recession on June 16, 2009 |
I was tremendously lucky to get this interview and, as you’ll see below, it went very well. Mr. Lapham’s wonderful assistant Ann Gollin allotted a half-hour of his time but he let the conversation go on for nearly two hours, putting off a call to Dave Eggers in the process. I had a tremendous amount of material to work with (nearly 6,500 [...]
