Joel Bleifuss

Joel Bleifuss is the editor and publisher of In These Times, where he has worked as an investigative reporter, columnist and editor since 1986. He is on the board of the Institute for Public Affairs, which publishes In These Times.

Bleifuss has worked at In These Times for 23 years, including as managing editor and senior editor. He tackles the state of national and international events with a blend of critical insight and humor, and over the years has developed a niche for investigative reporting.

His reporting on environmental health issues, national security scandals and the Iran Contra affair has landed in newspapers and magazines around the country, including the New York Times, the Utne Reader, the Capital Eye and many others.

He is the co-author of the book “Was The 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?,” with Steven F. Freeman.

Before joining In These Times, Bleifuss was director of the Peace Studies Program for the University of Missouri, a features writer for the Fulton Sun in Fulton, Missouri and a freelance journalist in Spain.

Bleifuss currently serves on the advisory board of The Public Square , a program of the Illinois Humanities Council.

Articles by Joel Bleifuss

• Obama’s ‘Ben Tre Logic’
  December 15, 2009
• Block ’Em, Sock ’Em
  July 9, 2009
• Buy Back Our Government
  June 11, 2009
• A Specter is Haunting Dems
  May 12, 2009
• Bailout Bandits
  April 16, 2009
• Building Utopia
  April 13, 2009
• To Boycott Israel…or Not?
  March 30, 2009
• The Audacity of Reform
  March 4, 2009
• The Interactive Presidency
  January 13, 2009
• We Have Much to Celebrate
  November 20, 2008
• In Loving Memory of Louis "Studs" Terkel
  October 31, 2008
• Demons Out!
  October 14, 2008
• United We Fail
  September 16, 2008
• Keep the Heat on Obama
  August 19, 2008
• EPA on Trial
  July 14, 2008
• Bush's Selective Mourning
  July 3, 2008
• Piling it High
  May 21, 2008
• Political Vice Squad
  April 22, 2008
• Red-Boating Obama
  March 11, 2008
• Political Climate Change
  February 19, 2008
• Pollsters and Puppets
  January 15, 2008
• The New Children's Crusade
  July 13, 2007
• Thicker Than Oil
  June 12, 2007
• The Fraudulence of Voter Fraud
  April 18, 2007
• Thank You Mr. Vonnegut
  April 13, 2007
• Global Warming: Dim Bulbs, Bright Lights
  April 13, 2007
• A Politically Correct Lexicon
  February 21, 2007
• Thirty More Years
  February 6, 2007
• Outlawing Legal Bribery
  January 4, 2007
• Voting Problems? In Florida? No Way!
  December 19, 2006
• The E. coli Free Market
  November 23, 2006
• The Importance of Not Getting Over It
  October 3, 2006
• If the Paint Sticks, Sling It
  July 25, 2006
• DC Reading: Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?
  June 27, 2006
• DeLay May Be Gone, But His Legacy Isnt
  June 27, 2006
• Was the Presidential Election Stolen?
  June 19, 2006
• Information Highway Robbers
  May 18, 2006
• What Ails Us?
  May 2, 2006
• Strangers to the Truth
  March 24, 2006
• The Crescent Menace
  March 7, 2006
• FBI, DoD, NSA: All Spying on You
  January 28, 2006
• Ghosts in the Voting Machines
  December 29, 2005
• Tale of Two Wars
  December 18, 2005
• Their Patents or Your Life
  December 3, 2005
• Lies Judith Miller Told Us
  October 21, 2005
• Kurt Vonnegut's In These Times Opus
  October 9, 2005
• Disasters: Natural and Social
  September 26, 2005
• The New New Orleans
  September 26, 2005
• End it Already
  August 21, 2005
• What Jimmy Taught Us
  July 6, 2005
• Embedded with Tim Robbins
  June 27, 2005
• Sanders Steps Up
  May 24, 2005
• Christian Restorationists
  May 2, 2005
• Face the Facts
  March 22, 2005
• R.I.P. FDR?
  January 31, 2005
• Time for a Purge?
  December 20, 2004
• Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
  December 10, 2004
• Take a Breath
  November 18, 2004
• The Choice is Yours
  October 31, 2004
• Duck and Cover-up
  September 11, 2004
• Silence of the Dems
  August 3, 2004
• Framing Michael Moore
  June 24, 2004
• Reagans Legacy of Lies
  June 22, 2004
• No News is Bad News
  June 9, 2004
• Vietnam Reprise
  May 18, 2004
• The New Red Menace
  May 14, 2004
• Campaign of Shame
  March 16, 2004
• Fear Monger in Chief
  February 2, 2004
• Union Makes Us Strong
  January 19, 2004
• Progressive Hope
  December 19, 2003
• Corporate Medicare
  December 9, 2003
• PR Watch Has Its Eyes Open
  October 17, 2003
• Creating Better Choices
  October 17, 2003
• A Costly Preemption
  September 15, 2003
• Rods from God
  September 3, 2003
• Smokescreen of Compassion
  June 6, 2003
• Isnt That Special
  May 28, 2003
• The War at Home
  May 19, 2003
• Regime Change Begins at Home
  April 28, 2003
• Virtual War and Reality
  April 4, 2003
• Michael Moore Stars at Academy Awards
  March 24, 2003
• Spies Like Us
  March 14, 2003
• Total Information Control
  March 10, 2003
• The First Stone
  February 24, 2003
• War With No Winners
  February 14, 2003
• The First Stone
  January 31, 2003
• Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !&#*!@
  January 27, 2003
• No Child Left Unrecruited
  December 6, 2002
• A Matter of Conscience
  November 8, 2002
• Bush Apologistas
  October 25, 2002
• Fear and Loathing
  May 24, 2002
• The Sludge Report
  April 12, 2002
• Stand Up For Peace
  March 29, 2002
• Disinformation Follies
  March 1, 2002
• The Permanent War
  February 1, 2002
• At the Gates of Power
  November 26, 2001
• Say No to War
  October 29, 2001
• ENDURING FREEDOMS
  October 22, 2001
• The Problem With Evil
  October 15, 2001
• Back to the Past
  September 3, 2001
• Yikes! It's Otto Reich
  April 16, 2001

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