Last year, I wrote a pretty controversial piece about Matter, a long-form science journalism web site with little inkling of a business model that managed to raise $140,000 on Kickstarter from 2,566 people who apparently have far bigger hearts and more optimism about the future of journalism than I do....

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, I witnessed two Long Island communities, Long Beach and Oceanside, located just 1.5 miles from one another, experience very different fates. Both communities have populations hovering around 33,000 residents, and both faced unprecedented damage during the storm.

However, the...

In the immediate aftermath of the horrific Newtown shooting, both traditional and new media sources disseminated a significant amount of misinformation. This is a consequence of the reality that new media organizations, PolicyMic included, operate around a 24/7 news cycle and compete to have the latest information to drive traffic.

After reading Pete Wells' marvelously entertaining New York Times review of Guy Fieri's Times Square restaurant, the eponymously named Guy's American Kitchen and Bar, I wanted to experience the place myself, simply to judge whether Wells was too harsh, or whether this dining experience was truly...

Election Day is less than three weeks away, but that doesn't mean much to me, because I'm not voting. I'll go into work, read PolicyMic on my computer, check some exit polls in the early afternoon, and hopefully not encounter any radical offshoots of the New...

If you haven't seen the documentary Searching for Sugar Man, then consider this a spoiler alert. If you've already seen it or you're not going to see it any time soon, then keep on reading. (But first, take a second to sign this Change.org petition!)

In...

I'm throwing Sheldon Adelson to the wolves. Does that mean I'm a neurotic Jew, a self-hating Jew, a liberal Jew, a secular Jew, a kvetching Jew, an ethical Jew, a mentschy Jew, or some combination of the above?

Here's the history of my relationship with Sheldon (and no,

I love cycling and I've had the good fortune to live in Denmark and the Netherlands, where bicycles are as ingrained in the culture as the NFL is in America. But I've proceeded with caution when cycling in NewYork City, because, despite progressive measures created by the Bloomberg administration to...

I roll my eyes every time someone says that New York is the greatest place on earth.

The inhabitants of the greatest places on earth have freedom. The people of New York, well, we have civil liberties that are in line with the plutocracy in which we...

Bartending was, by far, the most enjoyable job I've ever had. Think about it: Get paid to listen to music, talk to attractive women, casually watch television, and comment on current events without people thinking you're crazy.

But I don't understand America's tipping culture. Why don't we tip the...

I recently read a fascinating and controversial blog post by a millennial who defended her (our!) generation from verbal attacks that Baby Boomers and other older folks use to discredit us. The irony is that these people, who are currently in positions of power -- and, by many...

In the wake of Democratic operative Hilary Rosen's recent accusation that Ann Romney has not worked a day in her life, my thoughts drifted back to my days as a Women's Studies minor at Penn. (Finally, this is my chance to show that I really learned something!)

Among the canons...

As a Tow-Knight Entrepreneurial Journalism Fellow at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, I am one of 16 lucky new media entrepreneurs who have access to world class mentors, financial opportunities, industry leaders, venture capitalists and like-minded thinkers. It is difficult to classify the program as a seed...

When I made the documentary Ain't Easy Being Green in 2006 and 2007 (it was my senior thesis at the University of Pennsylvania), I had no idea that five years later, Rick Santorum would be running for president. Furthermore, I was flabbergasted when it became clear after the...