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Jacob Wheeler
Jacob Wheeler is a contributing editor at In These Times.
A Danish-American fluent in four languages, Wheeler worked as an assistant editor at the magazine from February 2007 to January 2009. His international interests include Central America, where he lived while writing a book on the Guatemalan adoption industry, and Scandinavia, as he was born in Denmark.
Wheeler received his MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College in 2006 and his B.A. in Comparative Literature and German from the University of Michigan in 2000. He is the founding editor of the Glen Arbor Sun, a seasonal, northern Michigan-based magazine, and translates for the Copenhagen daily Borsen. His freelance work has appeared in Utne Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Detroit Free Press and the websites WorldPress.org, AlterNet.org and WorldChanging.com.
Most Recent Articles
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News
Gay Marriage Tests ‘Minnesota Nice’
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Working
Live From Madison!: Updates From Inside/Outside Capitol
Watch live streaming video from theuptake at livestream.com Action inside and outside the Madison capitol building more »
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Wisconsin Labor Fight: Prelude to a Big Bang?
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Features
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The ITT List
COPENHAGEN VIDEO: Strong Voices Speak for the Weak
COPENHAGEN—While a two-dimensional view casts the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen as a battle between the United more »
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Largest Environmental Demonstration in History
As many as 100,000 demonstrators marched on Saturday, Dec. 12, from the Christiansborg Parliament in downtown Copenhagen on a six-kilometer more »
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Protests in Copenhagen: VIDEOS
COPENHAGEN—The first day of demonstrations in downtown Copenhagen was a peaceful one. Up to a couple thousand more »
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More Naomi Klein interviews on TheUptake.org
Our independent progressive American media collaboration at the COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen this week has worked really more »
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Naomi Klein Interviews from COP15
Author, activist, and The Nation columnist Naomi Klein is here at the COP15 in Copenhagen, interviewing powerful players more »
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Creative Collaboration in Copenhagen
Over the next two weeks I'll be teaming up with other members of the Media Consortium — The Nation, more »
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