Lindsay Beyerstein
Investigative Journalist
Lindsay Beyerstein is an award-winning investigative journalist in Brooklyn, NY.
Her reporting has appeared in Newsweek, Salon, Slate, The New York Press, In These Times, AlterNet, and other publications. She was the recipient of a 2009 Project Censored Award. She covers the labor movement for In These Times. In 2008, she covered the presidential race for firedoglake.
Lindsay's photojournalism has appeared in TIME, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, The Austin American Statesman, and on PBS.
Lindsay speaks regularly on journalism, blogging, and media. She has presented at MIT, The Center for American Progress, The Royal Society, BlogHer, and Netroots Nation. She has been a guest on CNN and GritTV.
She writes Morning Coffee, a daily international news bulletin produced by the UN Foundation's UN Dispatch blog.
As a MediaWire Blogger for the Media Consortium, Lindsay synthesizes and promotes the best healthcare coverage in TMC each week.
You can email Lindsay at frege [at] mac [dot] com, find her on Twitter at @Beyerstein, or subscribe to her RSS feed here.
Anti-porn feminist Gail Dines manages to completely miss the point of the Slut Walk marches being organized in cities around the country. Dines and her co-author think that the marchers […]
I had high hopes for Tina Fey’s Saturday Night Live send up of natural childbirth. Fey is very talented and natural childbirth subculture is ripe for parody, in part because […]
Pitzer College, a small liberal arts school in Southern California, will launch a Department of Securlar Studies this fall: “It’s not about arguing ‘Is there a God or not?’ ” Mr. […]
Liposuction is often billed as a permanent surgical solution to unwanted fat deposits. Various types of fat-sucking surgery have been available for over three decades, but these procedures have rarely […]
House Republicans are backing off their controversial plan to privatize Medicare, for now. The Congressman who would have been in charge of translating the policy proposal into a law has […]
The official account of the killing of Osama bin Laden has changed. U.S. officials initially claimed that bin Laden went down shooting. Now, they’re saying he wasn’t armed when he […]
Last night President Obama announced that 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden had been killed in a compound near the capital of Pakistan. I’m a little taken aback by the jingoistic […]
Is this some kind of sick April Fools Day spoof? Arizona’s Republican governor reportedly has a bold new plan to pit fat Medicaid recipients against kidney-transplant candidates. Jan Brewer is […]
Remember, ladies, there is no “I” in “uterus.” The Republican speaker in the Florida state house has opened in new front in the GOP’s war to control women’s bodies. He […]
I heard he has an ex-wife in some place called Mayors Income, Tennessee And he used to have a consulting business in Indonesia But what’s he building in there? He […]
Florida’s Republican governor has a creative way to demoralize and demonize public sector workers: mandatory drug testing for all state employees who answer to the governor and all prospective hires […]
@BronxZoosCobra has 12,165 twitter followers as of this writing. We live in the digital age, communicating instantaneously across continents, but we’re still just a bunch of primates chattering about where […]
Getting over half a million hits on your very first post is every blogger’s dream. That’s what happened to Prof. William Cronon, a distinguished professor of American history at the […]
A deadly Egyptian cobra is AWOL from the Bronx Zoo. Anybody got a spare mongoose? [Photo credit: Pandiyan, Creative Commons.]
Many thanks to the American Prospect for giving me the opportunity to guest blog at TAPPED last week. Thanks also to my friends, family, colleagues, and loyal readers who helped […]
Jason Torpy argues in the American Humanist Association e-zine that “vegan priorities are humanist priorities.” His argument is a bait-and-switch–he sets you up for brie and leaves you with textured […]
Rolling Stone editor Neil Strauss shares some exchanges New York Timescopy editors from his days as a rock critic, several years ago: Editing an article that quotes the Courtney Love […]
In my latest post for TAPPED, I reply to fat activist Paul Campos who argues that Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” program is the fat-hating equivalent of “ex-gay” ministries who purport […]
Isabel Wilkerson’s masterful history of the Great Migration won a National Book Critics Circle Award last week, a richly deserved honor. You can read my review of “The Warmth of […]
This week, I will be guest blogging at TAPPED, the group blog of the American Prospect. I’ve got big plans for the week ahead. Please join me. My first post […]
Beyerstein’s take on Newt Gingrich: he was really into America, but he was freaked out because she was way more sexually experienced than him.
The Republicans are trying to pit private sector workers against public sector workers, but the workers shouldn’t listen.
In their haste to pass a union-busting bill in the dead of night, without a quorum, Wisconsin’s Republican senators may have violated the state’s open meetings law. As I report […]
Benjamin Dueholm has a cover story in the Washington Monthly assessing sex advice columnist Dan Savage as an ethicist: Savage yields to no one in his sexual libertarianism, but he […]
“Secession wasn’t evidence that the South didn’t have a reasoned intellectual life. In fact, it was the strongest evidence that it did,” according to the teaser on a blog post […]
Kirsten Powers has a piece in the Daily Beast arguing that birth control doesn’t prevent abortions. Her case is largely based on a blatant factual error. She writes: In the […]
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker defied a court order to ban citizens from the capitol building during his budget address. Citizens were left out in the cold while Walker’s allies were […]
Good news: Attorney General Eric Holder announced last week that the Justice Department will no longer defend Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, the part that defines marriage […]
A Georgia Representative has introduced a bill to investigate all unsupervised miscarriages as crimescenes. Don’t believe me? Here’s the relevant language from HB 1, downloadable from legislature’s website: When a […]
Sam Stein asks, “Would The Democrats Have Been Better Off Letting Walker’s Bill Pass?” Better off how? If Wisconsin’s Democratic legislators had sat still and let the bill pass, the […]