Jacob Wheeler - In These Times

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.

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How Right-Wing Groups Created an Atmosphere in which Kidnapping the Michigan Governor Made Sense

The alleged militia plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was only the most shocking episode in the campaign to undermine and politicize the state’s response to Covid-19.

How Did Minnesota Stay Blue in the Midterms? By Embracing, Not Running From, Progressive Values

Minnesota bucked the nationwide swing to the right. The national Democratic Party could learn a few things from how they did it.

Building Parent-Teacher Unions

Inspired by Chicago, teachers unions across the country are looking to parents and communities for support.

Gay Marriage Tests ‘Minnesota Nice’

A constitutional amendment proposal comes to the Land of Lakes, a microcosm of the nation.

Live From Madison!: Updates From Inside/Outside Capitol

Wisconsin Labor Fight: Prelude to a Big Bang?

The Poisoning of Puerto Rico

The U.S. Navy left Vieques, but for many, the cancer remains.

COPENHAGEN VIDEO: Strong Voices Speak for the Weak

Largest Environmental Demonstration in History

Protests in Copenhagen: VIDEOS

More Naomi Klein interviews on TheUptake.org

Naomi Klein Interviews from COP15

Creative Collaboration in Copenhagen

COP15 Demonstration Outside Bella Center

Upcoming Coverage from Copenhagen: Stay Tuned

El Salvadors Left Turn?

Mixed results for 'el frente' in the country's congressional elections.

An FBI report details white supremacists' recruitment of military personnel.

An Inauguration Too Big for Words

The significance of Obama's coronation Tuesday was overwhelming; waving goodbye to Bush, on the other hand, was an emotion much easier to measure.

El Salvadors New Left

Once a guerrilla movement, the FMLN has swapped revolutionary rhetoric for pragmatic politics.

More U.S. Meddling in El Salvador?

Was Hillarys speech a turning point?

Many Clinton supporters in Denver swallow doubts, support Obama

Bringing Baghdad to Denver Streets

Michelle’s speech on family values

The Audacity of HOPE signs

Climate Change on the campaign trail

Dont Tase Me, GOP!

Caricaturing Danish Muslims

The War That Never Ends

Iraq Veterans Against the War's 'Winter Soldier' hearings revealed the awful truths of the occupation and the ongoing struggle for those who have returned home.

Guatemala’s “Crime of the Century”

Corporate Potluck

Dietitians and their company sponsors make strange buffet fellows

El Salvadors Patriot Act

Last year the government adopted a "Special Law Against Acts of Terrorism," which gives police and judges leeway to clear the streets of demonstrators and imposes mandatory sentences of 60 years for what was once considered a freedom of expression

Banana Republic to Baby Republic

Guatemala could shut down its massive adoption industry

Civil War by Other Means

Rigoberta Menchú's presidental bid could turn the page on Guatemala's bloody past

Resisting the War on Science