Andy Kroll is an investigative journalist living in Washington, DC. He works for Mother Jones magazine, and is an associate editor at TomDispatch.com. His writing has been published at AlterNet, The Nation, Salon, CBSNews.com, CNN.com, Truthout, The Detroit News, YouthVote.WashingtonPost.com, and a number of other publications.
He is a two-time recipient of a Larry Lourain Journalism Grant from the Detroit chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in 2008 and 2009, and was named one of the “UWIRE 100? top student journalists in the country in 2008 and 2009. He won first place for “Student Newspaper Reporting — Series” and second and third place for “Student Newspaper Reporting” as part of the Detroit Press Club’s Michigan Excellence in Journalism Competition in 2008. He was also the recipient of the Stan Lipsey Investigative Story Award at The Michigan Daily in 2009 for his investigation on the controversial bowl-game perks practice at the University of Michigan.
Back to $chool: College Is the Past, Prison Is the Future
Crossposted from TomDispatch It was the greatest education system the world had ever seen. They built it into the eucalyptus-dotted Berkeley hills and under the bright lights of Los Angeles, down in the valley in Fresno and in the shadows of the San Bernardino Mountains. Hundreds of college campuses, large ...
Crossposted from TomDispatchThe revelers watched in stunned disbelief, cocktails in hand, dressed for a night to remember. On the big-screen TV a headline screamed in crimson red: "Projected Winner: Scott Walker." It was 8:49 p.m. In parts of Milwaukee, people learned that news networks had declared Wisconsin’s governor the winner ...
How the 99% Won in the Fight for Worker Rights
Crossposted from TomDispatchNo headlines announced it. No TV pundits called it. But on the evening of November 8th, Occupy Wall Street, the populist uprising built on economic justice and corruption-free politics that’s spread like a lit match hitting a trail of gasoline, notched its first major political victory, and in ...
Crossposted from TomDispatch Food pantries picked over. Incomes drying up. Shelters bursting with the homeless. Job seekers spilling out the doors of employment centers. College grads moving back in with their parents. The angry and disillusioned filling the streets. Pan your camera from one coast to the other, from city ...
The Badger State's Bloody Stalemate
Crossposted from TomdispatchStephanie Haw needed a good cry. On the night of August 9th, the rowdy crowd inside Hawk's bar in downtown Madison grew ever quieter as the election results trickled in. Earlier that day, with the nation watching, voters statewide cast their ballots in Wisconsin's eagerly awaited recall elections ...
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Jobs
Crossposted from TomDispatchLike the country it governs, Washington is a city of extremes. In a car, you can zip in bare moments from northwest District of Columbia, its streets lined with million-dollar homes and palatial embassies, its inhabitants sporting one of the nation's lowest jobless rates, to Anacostia, a mostly ...
How the McEconomy Bombed the American Worker
Think of it as a parable for these grim economic times. On April 19th, McDonald's launched its first-ever national hiring day, signing up 62,000 new workers at stores throughout the country. For some context, that's more jobs created by one company in a single day than the net job creation ...
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October 5th, 2012
Back to $chool: College Is the Past, Prison Is the Future
Crossposted from TomDispatch It was the greatest education system the world had ever seen. They built it into the eucalyptus-dotted Berkeley hills and under the ...
June 10th, 2012
Crossposted from TomDispatchThe revelers watched in stunned disbelief, cocktails in hand, dressed for a night to remember. On the big-screen TV a headline screamed in ...
November 22nd, 2011
How the 99% Won in the Fight for Worker Rights
Crossposted from TomDispatchNo headlines announced it. No TV pundits called it. But on the evening of November 8th, Occupy Wall Street, the populist uprising built ...
October 10th, 2011
Crossposted from TomDispatch Food pantries picked over. Incomes drying up. Shelters bursting with the homeless. Job seekers spilling out the doors of employment centers. College ...
August 23rd, 2011
The Badger State's Bloody Stalemate
Crossposted from TomdispatchStephanie Haw needed a good cry. On the night of August 9th, the rowdy crowd inside Hawk's bar in downtown Madison grew ever ...
July 5th, 2011
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Jobs
Crossposted from TomDispatchLike the country it governs, Washington is a city of extremes. In a car, you can zip in bare moments from northwest District ...
May 10th, 2011
How the McEconomy Bombed the American Worker
Think of it as a parable for these grim economic times. On April 19th, McDonald's launched its first-ever national hiring day, signing up 62,000 new ...
May 10th, 2011
How the McEconomy Bombed the American Worker
Think of it as a parable for these grim economic times. On April 19th, McDonald's launched its first-ever national hiring day, signing up 62,000 new ...
October 10th, 2011
Crossposted from TomDispatch Food pantries picked over. Incomes drying up. Shelters bursting with the homeless. Job seekers spilling out the doors of employment centers. College ...
August 23rd, 2011
The Badger State's Bloody Stalemate
Crossposted from TomdispatchStephanie Haw needed a good cry. On the night of August 9th, the rowdy crowd inside Hawk's bar in downtown Madison grew ever ...
July 5th, 2011
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Jobs
Crossposted from TomDispatchLike the country it governs, Washington is a city of extremes. In a car, you can zip in bare moments from northwest District ...
June 10th, 2012
Crossposted from TomDispatchThe revelers watched in stunned disbelief, cocktails in hand, dressed for a night to remember. On the big-screen TV a headline screamed in ...
October 5th, 2012
Back to $chool: College Is the Past, Prison Is the Future
Crossposted from TomDispatch It was the greatest education system the world had ever seen. They built it into the eucalyptus-dotted Berkeley hills and under the ...
November 22nd, 2011
How the 99% Won in the Fight for Worker Rights
Crossposted from TomDispatchNo headlines announced it. No TV pundits called it. But on the evening of November 8th, Occupy Wall Street, the populist uprising built ...
'The East'
Why have you started a comedy festival in northern Michigan in the middle of winter?
Because if you were here in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere (which is actually somewhere to us), you'd need a few laughs too ... Continue Reading
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