It’s often the dumbest news stories that get the most traction. Runaway bride, shark summer, Monica Lewinsky, SARS — believe me, I could go on all day. Leave it to the American conversation to hone in on the most inane, milquetoast concern and drive it into the ground. We have a habit of painting the […]

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The news is big business. Given the historic media mergers planned this summer, you can expect network news to reveal even more bias than before. Contrary to popular belief, network television’s fiction-before-facts approach isn’t nearly as politically motivated as it is the result of internal measures made to reiterate and reward networks’ preexisting profit structure.

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People say a lot of dumb things. This has always been an unfortunate feature of ours, but it’s especially apparent given the volumes we’re now able to transmit and receive. The Internet’s biggest achievement seems to have been its ability to give a soapbox to those who least need it. For users seeking access […]

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This article, featured in the March issue of O’Dwyer’s, asks a question that affects everyone in today’s economic climate yet is often overlooked: why are the most affordable foods in the U.S. always the ones that are bad for you?
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In this new essay I show that every Republican leader of the past 35 years has consistently worked to expand the presence of government at every level, contrary to their constituency’s core party ‘values.’
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Here’s the first feature article I wrote for the newly re-launched O’Dwyer’s magazine. I prove many of the same U.S. corporations touting popular “green” initiatives are simultaneously funding anti-climate trade groups to sway public opinion as well as D.C. lobbyists to push polluter-friendly legislation.
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Democracy took a dive on Thursday after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that corporations may now spend unlimited amounts of money to support or oppose the Congressional or Presidential candidates of their choosing.
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Opponents of health care reform have made a hilarious about-face in the past year. In 12 months they’ve managed to reposition themselves from vanguards of “the best system of care in the world,” to a noticeably more demure standing, complete with blanket admissions of a “broken system” along with conciliatory promises to fix it. […]

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Obama’s war on special interest groups has received praise for its populist tenor and condemnation from those in the Washington influencer circuit. But it reached a boiling point on Jan. 21, when he imposed an executive order that seeks to remove all lobbyist influence from the White House.

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Sound as they may be, Obama’s recent administrative picks make an easy target for conservative blowhards who claim that ’09 is shaping up to be revival of the Clinton years.
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