Stories by Mariah Blake
Mariah Blake is an assistant editor at CJR.
Tom Monaghan, Domino's Pizza founder, took advice from God and Antonin Scalia on the creation of of a Catholic Law school in Florida. It hasn't gone very well.
Posted on Sep 8, 2009, Source: Washington Monthly
A little-known policy is turning sleepy central Florida into a green energy hub. Could it do the same for America at large?
Posted on Apr 11, 2009, Source: Washington Monthly
In Sweden, one town alone has welcomed more Iraqi refugees than the U.S. since 2003. Not for long.
Posted on Apr 26, 2008, Source: Christian Science Monitor
The Pentagon knew that Murat Kurnaz was an innocent man at Guantánamo Bay, but they kept him there for five years anyway. This is his story.
Posted on Apr 2, 2008, Source: Mother Jones
The Orthodox Jewish community clashes over intelligent design.
Posted on Jan 4, 2006, Source: Miami New Times
Over the air and under the radar, Christian broadcasting has created an alternative universe of faith-based news.
Posted on May 5, 2005, Source: Columbia Journalism Review
How did a former Special Forces soldier – and convicted criminal – manage to use a hungry press for profit and glory?
Posted on Jan 8, 2005, Source: Columbia Journalism Review
By beaming dissent into Iran, much of it aimed at improving the lot of women, expat broadcasters are weakening the clerics’ chokehold on news.
Posted on Dec 9, 2004, Source: Columbia Journalism Review
In the midst of drug war hysteria, crack babies became an emblem of the havoc drugs wreak and a pretext for draconian drug laws. But crack babies, it turns out, were a media myth, not a medical reality.
Posted on Sep 9, 2004, Source: Columbia Journalism Review
