Garrett Ordower

Garrett Ordower is an investigative journalist based in New York. His work has appeared in The Nation, Chicago's Daily Herald and the Beacon News.

Currently

  • The Loan Shark Lobby

    March 29, 2007

    With Democrats in control of Congress, prospects for regulating subprime lenders have improved. But don't hold your breath.

  • KBR's $400 Million Iraq Question

    March 12, 2007

    Did the Pentagon's biggest Iraq contractor violate military policy by hiring Blackwater and other private military companies?

2006

  • From Whitewater to Blackwater

    October 26, 2006

    Blackwater USA has a new attorney to defend it against a wrongful death lawsuit by families of four contractors killed in Iraq: Kenneth Starr.

  • The Dot-Degree Boom

    March 28, 2006

    Thanks to aggressive recruiting tactics and a complaisant Congress, online enrollments at the University of Phoenix and its spinoff, Axia College, are soaring. So are student debt and disaffection.

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Blogs

» The Beat

Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan | "Once again, the loudest case for enlarging the war is being made by those who will not have to fight it..."
John Nichols
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» The Notion

Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
Leslie Savan
118 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman

» Editor's Cut

An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
76 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
Robert Dreyfuss
207 Comments

» Act Now!

Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
62 Comments