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About emptywheel
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
Entries by emptywheel
“Border security is the primary element of national security.”
/25 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election, Drones, Drug War, Immigration/by emptywheelStephen Miller, who never tires of confessing that his understanding of immigrants in the United States is entirely fictional nonsense, has nevertheless prioritized his fight against the fictional immigration menace over more basic threats to the United States. The results might make a good comedy if they weren’t so deadly serious.