Stories by Mariah Blake
Mariah Blake is an assistant editor at CJR.
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
In Sweden, one town alone has welcomed more Iraqi refugees than the U.S. since 2003. Not for long.
Posted on Apr 26, 2008
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
The Orthodox Jewish community clashes over intelligent design.
Posted on Jan 4, 2006
Over the air and under the radar, Christian broadcasting has created an alternative universe of faith-based news.
Posted on May 5, 2005
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
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
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
