Jake Whitney is a journalist based in New York. In addition to The Progressive, his work has appeared in The New Republic, The Daily Beast, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many other publications.
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Why It’s Worth Reading Comey’s ‘A Higher Loyalty’
While much of the media attention on the book focused on Comey’s digs at Trump, there is much more to it. Read more
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Keeping the Poor Poor: How Government Automates Inequality
Virginia Eubanks’ new book “Automating Inequality” looks at how automated eligibility systems “profile, police, and punish” the poor. Read more
Elvert Barnes
Why Is Dark Money Spending so Much on Neil Gorsuch?
We'll likely never know, but the maximally conservative record of the Supreme Court nominee provides some answers. Journalist Jake Whitney talks with law professor Zephyr Teachout in search of clues. Read more
Wounded beyond PTSD: War Trauma and “Moral Injury”
War forever changes the men and women we send to fight. Can traumatized veterans ever fully recover? Read more
Zephyr Teachout's Push for Reform
Do voters care passionately about corruption and campaign finance reform? Teachout is adamant that they do. Read more
What the Verizon Strike Really Means
"Basically the company can say to workers as it says to its customers: take it or leave it.” Read more
Supreme Opportunity? Law Prof Sees High Court Opening as a Teachable Moment
Much of Teachout’s career has been spent as an ideological adversary of Scalia’s. Read more
The Spirit of Occupy is Alive: An Interview with Kalle Lasn
"The Billion People March and a whole bunch of other initiatives that are happening around the world—is because the spirit of Occupy is alive." Read more
Warmaking at Its Most Immoral
In May 2005, Colonel Theodore Westhusing, a West Point professor of English and Philosophy who was serving in Iraq, received an anonymous letter. Read more
Washington’s Pepe LePew
This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral--Plus Plenty of Valet Parking!--in America's Gilded CapitalBy Mark LeibovichBlue Rider Press. 386 pages. $27.95.In the summer of 2011, President Obama geared up for his reelection campaign by launching a serie... Read more
The Media as War Junkies
Jake Whitney reviews The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan, by Michael Hastings. Read more
