Stories by Mariah Blake

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Michele Bachmann's Husband's Clinics Practiced Ex-Gay Therapy (While Pocketing $161,000 of Your Tax Money)

Posted on: Jul 11, 2011, Source: The Nation

Michele Bachmann's husband, Marcus, denies that his Christian counseling center offers "ex-gay" therapy. But a former client says he was brought there for that "cure."

How Medical Supply Companies Are Getting Away with Rip-off Prices

Posted on: Sep 17, 2010, Source: Washington Monthly

How medical behemoths are making America’s health care system more dangerous and expensive.

Texas Education Board Is Trying to Infuse Schoolbooks with Ultraconservative Ideology

Posted on: Feb 12, 2010, Source: Washington Monthly

"We are a Christian nation founded on Christian principles," says one board member. "The way I evaluate history textbooks is first I see how they cover Christianity and Israel."

How an Eccentric Right-Wing Pizza Billionaire's Attempt to Build Catholic Law School Ended in Disaster

Posted on: Sep 8, 2009, Source: Washington Monthly

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.

A Solar Revolution May Be Coming to Your Town

Posted on: Apr 10, 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?

Europe is Closing Its Doors to Iraqi Refugees: Where Will They Go?

Posted on: Apr 26, 2008, Source: Christian Science Monitor

In Sweden, one town alone has welcomed more Iraqi refugees than the U.S. since 2003. Not for long.

Inside Guantánamo with Detainee 061

Posted on: Apr 1, 2008, Source: Mother Jones

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.

Jews Say 'Feh' to Darwin

Posted on: Jan 3, 2006, Source: Miami New Times

The Orthodox Jewish community clashes over intelligent design.

Air Jesus

Posted on: May 4, 2005, Source: Columbia Journalism Review

Over the air and under the radar, Christian broadcasting has created an alternative universe of faith-based news.

Tin Soldier

Posted on: Jan 7, 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?

Targeting Tehran

Posted on: Dec 9, 2004, 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.

'Crack Babies' Talk Back

Posted on: Sep 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.