A New Human Rights Logo, Brought to You By Qaddafi's PR Firm
Maybe the idea of universal human rights would catch on if it had a memorable emblem. That's the idea behind the Logo For Human Rights project, which is currently holding a competition to crowdsource a...
View ArticleOhio's Employment Picture: Bleak and Bleaker
I know, Labor Day was last week, but in case you missed it, there's a dismal new report out from the think tank Policy Matters Ohio about the state of my home state. According to it, wages have...
View ArticleToday in Deepwater Horizon Updates
A report by the Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement, says that everyone—BP, Halliburton, Transocean—is to blame for the April 2010 explosion that caused...
View ArticlePutting the Pope on Trial
Like most people who went to Catholic school, I have a long list of offenses I feel the church inflicted on me, which is probably partly why I sort of love the idea of an international police force...
View ArticleThe Real Price of Amazon's Free Shipping
A couple of weeks ago, my best friend sent me an email. She just got this new expensive makeup she'd ordered on the internet. It had arrived! But then she remembered that story I wrote about a...
View ArticleOhio Could Become Most Anti-Choice State Yet
Yesterday, hundreds of people rallied at the Columbus, Ohio, statehouse in support of the so-called "Heartbeat Bill," the pending legislation that could crown Ohio as home of the strictest abortion law...
View ArticleFear and Loathing in Congo
The feature on war criminals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that I reported this spring is out. In honor of its publication, I'd like to share a scene that was in my notes but that didn't end...
View ArticleOhio Governor Gets a Raise While Slashing Public Services
While we're all at being (rightfully) mad at some really rich people, let's splash some more fuel onto the class-warfare fire. Think tank Innovation Ohio has released some stats about that state's...
View ArticleSpeaking of War Criminals
Good news for Cote d'Ivoirians who would like to see any sort of incremental progress toward justice for alleged rapists, murderers, and civilian-attackers within their government. The judges of the...
View ArticleStat of the Day: Don't-Lend-College-Students-Money Edition
Here's a fun tidbit fact-checker extraordinaire Aaron Ross dug up when we were shipping my Assignment: Ohio feature for the November/December issue. With the help of student-aid guru Mark Kantrowitz,...
View ArticleThe Blue Angels' Psychological Warfare
Today is the penultimate day of San Francisco's annual Fleet Week, during which communists like myself complain about the Navy's wasteful expenditure of taxpayer dollars on jet fuel so the Blue Angels...
View ArticleInside a Haitian Women's Prison
In the immediate aftermath of Haiti's 2010 quake, many relied on Twitter for news about what was going on in the country. One of the more prominent Haitian tweeters was @RAMhaiti, a.k.a. Richard Morse,...
View ArticleWay to Go, Ohio!
Today, MoJo is publishing a story about the war on the middle class that I witnessed in Ohio this summer. Read it here. I've compiled a corresponding playlist. Paste informs me that there are newer,...
View ArticleThe US vs. LRA Showdown, As Seen From Uganda
Since President Obama's announcement on Friday that he will send 100 soldiers to Uganda to help fight the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that's been responsible for killing thousands of...
View ArticleAre Qaddafi's Killers War Criminals?
Was Moammar Qaddafi—who was wanted by the International Criminal Court for committing war crimes—himself a victim of a war crime? Amnesty International thinks it's a good possibility:Video footage...
View ArticleThe Latest From Ohio
Some crucial updates from my home state of Ohio, which is proving to be ground zero in the war on organized labor and the middle class:First up: Those lazy, selfish public workers Gov. Kasich and state...
View ArticleWe Interrupt This Blog…
It's time for my next assignment! Unfortunately, we can't tell you what it is. Nor can I blog about it, nor explain why I can't blog about it at just this moment. So I'll be virtually disappearing, to...
View ArticleHillary's Hopes for Burma
This past month, I was on a sort of sneaky assignment and then out of the country, and in my absence there have been some huge developments in US-Burma relations. For the first time in 50 years, an...
View ArticleRick Perry Is an Idiot, Gay-Rights Edition
Rick Perry has no problem executing lots of people, so it wasn't really that shocking when he announced last week that Obama's initiative to "ensure that US diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and...
View ArticleMy (Fake) Interview With Jeff Bezos
If you missed Wired's recent cover interview with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, you should check it out. Reading it on a plane recently, I was interested in a) knowing how thoroughly he controls important...
View ArticleDid Your Haiti Donations Ever Get Spent?
Why yes, according to a new report by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, most of them did. Since the earthquake that devastated the country nearly two years ago, two-thirds of the $2.1 billion aid...
View ArticleLove Letters for Veterans
It's not every marriage in which one partner implores the other to justify why, why they still love them. But then, it's not every marriage in which one partner went to war, killed or saw...
View ArticleToday in Ridiculous Homophobic Comments
It's been kind of a banner week as far as making offensive and stupid comments about gays goes. In case you missed them, let's run down the top slurs:Coming in at No. 3, Pat Buchanan, on why he appears...
View ArticleBurma Halts War With Karen Rebels…For Now
Crazy news coming out of Burma yesterday: The Karen National Union, an ethnic organization that's been waging an armed insurrection against the Burmese government since nearly the moment the country...
View ArticleRomney Wins Coveted Sugar Daddy Endorsement
We got a really important press release this morning from SeekingArrangement.com, a website where old rich guys who want to pay for sex can find young women who want to sell it to them. Because GOP...
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