All 82 articles by Erin Polgreen

• 04 Dec 07

• The ITT List

  Jena Six update: Mychal Bell Plead Guilty

  Mychal Bell, 17, originally was charged as an adult with attempted murder in the beating of Justin Barker in... MORE »

• 29 Nov 07

• The ITT List

  Cigarettes, Toxic Waste, Graveyard Shift

  What do the above three things have in common? According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer,... MORE »

• 27 Nov 07

• The ITT List

  Tasers as Torture

  More on the Taser Front: RawStory recently posted footage from a Nov. 26 recap of Taser-related deaths/interview with... MORE »

• 20 Nov 07

• Culture

  R.I.P. LiP

  Amidst the demise of Clamor, Punk Planet, Satya and LiP, Tipping the Sacred Cow: The Best of LiP reads like a super-special edition--complete with illustrations, a "theft ethics" quiz, a glossary of culture-jamming lingo and other useful appendices MORE »

• 25 Oct 07

• The ITT List

  Raging Bulls

  MSNBC put up an fascinating (but brief) story about six elephants that were "electrocuted in a drunken rampage"... MORE »

• 23 Oct 07

• The ITT List

  Hypnotic, isn’t it?

  This nifty, low-budget animation chronologically charts the physical development of the United States. Very neat. MORE »

• 16 Oct 07

• The ITT List

  Climate Change and Peace-Keeping

  There's a great article in Slate on how societal conflict is directly related to climate preservation. The article,... MORE »

• 04 Oct 07

• The ITT List

  Washington’s White Market/Blackwater’s Black Market

  If the current Iraq war has taught us anything, it’s when the streets run red with blood,... MORE »

• 02 Oct 07

• The ITT List

  Flickr Faux Pas

  ITT's very own web reporter Lindsay Beyerstein is featured in this NY Times article on the misuses of... MORE »

• 26 Sep 07

• The ITT List

  “Anger and passion slipped inside a fun cartoon coating.”

  Mikhaela B. Reid has publishing political cartoons on InTheseTimes.com for some time now. Her work is witty,... MORE »

• 25 Sep 07

• The ITT List

  Ways to Fight Unionbusting

  If you've read Art Levine's article Unionbusting Confidential, and wanted to know what you could do to protect... MORE »

• 18 Sep 07

• The ITT List

  Another Taser Tale

  ITT has been on the Taser trail for a while now, thanks to the fine investigative reporting of... MORE »

• 12 Sep 07

• The ITT List

  Risking Everything To Write The Truth

  US troops who criticised Iraq war strategy killed in Baghdad · Soldiers' article claimed Bush's policy was total failure ·... MORE »

• 12 Sep 07

• The ITT List

  The President’s Next Evasion

  General Petraeus has spoken. So expires another line of evasion for our Coward-In-Chief. For months, whenever Mr. Bush... MORE »

• 05 Sep 07

• The ITT List

  Remembering Grace Paley, The Combative Pacifist

  "Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life." In honor of the late Grace Paley who... MORE »

• 05 Sep 07

• The ITT List

  Junot Diaz: Screaming the Fine Nuances of Loss

  Seven years ago this writer read a novella-length short story in The New Yorker called "The Brief, Wondrous... MORE »

• 12 Feb 07

• The ITT List

  Disarming North Korea?

  Jim Yardley at the New York Times has reported on a tentative deal to begin disarming North Korea’... MORE »

• 06 Feb 07

• The ITT List

  Sustaining Independent Media

  Interested in issues facing independent media? Then check out the audio from these discussions featuring ITT staff. There... MORE »

• 06 Feb 07

• Culture

  Mr. Smith Doesnt Go To Washington

  One of 15 films shortlisted for a 2006 Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary, Can Mr. Smith Get To Washington... MORE »

• 04 Oct 05

• News

  Muzzled Voices

  A federal court decision forces Voices in the Wilderness to disband MORE »