Independent Journalist & Author
Trump and Murdoch Have Set Our Future On Fire
The Nation has posted my article on the California wildfires that almost–but didn’t–burn Fox TV founder and Trump confidant Rupert Murdoch’s $28.8 million mansion to the ground. The fires and storms ravaging the planet are only going to get worse, especially if we don’t end the power of climate deniers…. Read more
Greenpeace Beats SLAPP Suit (For Now) While Forests Dwindle
Contrary to initial reports, the lawsuit Donald Trump’s personal lawyers brought against Greenpeace on behalf of a $3.5 billion logging company is not over, while new science shows surviving climate change is impossible without healthier forests. I explain in The Nation:… Read more
Other People’s Money–And Alleged Fraud at JPMorgan Chase Bank
In a Nation investigative exclusive, I edited this jaw-dropping expose by David Dayen, revealing how America’s biggest bank paid its fine for the 2008 mortgage crisis–with phony mortgages! Specifically, JPMorgan allegedly claimed credit for forgiving loans on properties–wait for it–that it no longer owned. The bank came out hundreds of millions of dollars ahead;the rest of us, not so much. And there is strong evidence CEO Jamie Dimon knew and approved of the scheme:… Read more
Is Nonviolence Still The Answer To Far-Right Thuggery?
As Donald Trump gleefully incites violence and white supremacists and others carry it out, what is the best response–the nonviolence of Martin Luther King, Jr., or the street fighting of Antifa? That’s the question my colleague Sasha Abramsky brilliantly reports and discussed in this piece I edited:… Read more
How Many Palm Beach Mansions Does A Tycoon Need?
Why, as many as ransacking America’s hometown newspapers can buy, of course! Read this stunning expose of vulture capitalist Randall D. Smith, whose investment firm makes a habit of buying and then destroying once-proud newspapers. Reporter Julie Reynolds explains how 6 of America’s 10 biggest newspaper owners now are investment firms, in this piece I edited for The Nation:… Read more
This Is Murder: Harvey, Irma & Climate Denial
We’ve known for decades that global warming would make extreme weather worse, but climate deniers have blocked solutions. It’s past time to call climate denial what it is: pre-meditated murder…. Read more
Latest Book
By now, almost everyone knows what Edward Snowden did: leak top secret documents revealing that the US government was spying on hundreds of millions of people around the world. But if you want to know why Snowden did it, the way he did it, you need to know the stories of two other men.
The first is Thomas Drake, who blew the whistle on the very same surveillance ten years before Snowden did and got crushed. The other is The Third Man, a former senior Pentagon official who comes forward in this book for the first time to describe how his superiors repeatedly broke the law to punish Drake—and unwittingly taught Snowden how to evade their clutches.
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