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Journalism As Criminal Vagrancy: City Of LA Finally Charges Me For Reporting...
“Let me say publicly what I said privately earlier today: no person in any country should be detained for exercising universal freedoms of expression, assembly and conscience” —Hillary Clinton in...
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Back to Victorville: Dispatch Zero
It’s just past 5 a.m. and I’m sitting in my suite at The Plaza hotel, high up above the grimy streets of downtown Las Vegas. On the horizon, beyond the gold brick Trump Tower, beyond the needle of the...
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NPR’s Education Coverage Funded By Pro-Privatization Billionaires
Last week, I wrote about the nation’s first successful “parent trigger” privatization of a public school, in a isolated town on the edge of the Mojave Desert. In that piece, I mentioned how parents...
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BuzzBagger Ben
Our story begins late last week when I got a tweet from @AlphaInvictus telling me to go check “who’s sponsoring BuzzFeed today.” I wasn’t expecting much… After all, BuzzFeed’s known for creating...
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Book Review: Malcolm Gladwell Asks Us To Pity the Rich
Ever since Malcolm Gladwell’s “David and Goliath” came out in early October, he’s been on a non-stop promotional tour. He’s appeared on the BBC and the Daily Show, he’s done Twitter group chats and...
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Pulling the Trigger: School Privatization in California’s Subprime Suburbs
Originally published in NSFWCORP on April 16, 2013. When I first started reporting on the subprime suburb of Victorville, I little expected that the neighboring town of Adelanto would become ground...
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