This piece, which I wanted to call “The Digitally Driven Rise of the Tea Party,” was originally about how the right was using new media to oppose climate protection regulations. The idea for the piece grew out of earlier conversations I’d had with climate activists about what made their organizations different from right wing groups. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Taxes’
Will The World Cup Be An Economic Own-Goal For South Africa?
Posted in The New Republic, tagged Africa, Finance, Literature, Sport, Taxes on June 22, 2010 |
The tax loophole Fifa imposed on the World Cup’s developing nation host country was what originally attracted me to this piece. As I read more though, the post became less about “the Death Star that is Fifa,” as David Smith of South Africa’s Mail & Gardian put it, and more about how bad of an idea it was [...]
The American Prospect: Learning From Greece
Posted in Hiar Learning, tagged Congress, Democrats, Greece, Offshore, Taxes on May 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is my second post on a topic of my choice for The Prospect‘s writing test. The first is here. If you had asked me last week what lessons the US can learn from the Greek crisis, I would have only said, “don’t ask Goldman for debt advice.” Then over the weekend I read an [...]
The American Prospect: Don’t Ignore Inequality
Posted in Hiar Learning, tagged Congress, Health Care, Inequality, New York City, Taxes, Washington DC, Wealth on April 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
For The American Prospect‘s excellent (and highly competitive) fellowship program I had to submit two article critiques and a critique of their group blog TAPPED, among much else. This article critique was assigned, the second critique is of an article I selected for myself. I’m still waiting–with fingers crossed–to hear back from the Prospect. To [...]
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 [...]
Imperiled UBS Threatens the Entire Swiss Economy
Posted in Mother Jones, tagged Business, Foreign Policy, Taxes on February 2, 2010 |
On Friday, I explained why UBS was the only bank that offered to take a hit on its contracts with AIG during the government’s backdoor bailout of the ailing insurer. The reason? A looming US investigation of UBS that meant the Swiss banking behemoth was in no position to play hardball. In an interview this [...]
Golf-Loving, Ethically Challenged Rep. to Retire
Posted in Mother Jones, tagged Republicans, Scandal, Taxes on January 29, 2010 |
A week of heat from the IRS was all it took for this corrupt GOP congressman to decided he wanted to spend more time with his family. And his lawyer, presumably. Rep. Steve Buyer (R-Ind.), who has recently come under fire for his shady charity, won’t seek reelection in the fall. In a statement released this afternoon, [...]
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 [...]
Pelosi’s Progressive(ly Less Believable) Promises
Posted in Hiar Learning, tagged Activism, Democrats, Health Care, Politics, Taxes, Washington DC on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday Campus Progress, the youth-oriented project of the sprawling Center for American Progress empire, concluded a two-day series of events on activism and the media. The Center for American Progress (CAP) was founded in 2003 by John Podesta, Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff, and like the Heritage Foundation during Reagan’s presidency, the young organization has quickly become [...]
