Journalist and ghostwriter. Contributing Editor @newrepublic. Interested in foreign policy, crime, journalism, and dogs.
Toronto
Joined January 2010
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Congratulations to journalist @WriterJMS on being awarded the Michener–Deacon Fellowship for Investigative Journalism for his forthcoming project, “The Hague Mothers." Read more about the project and the fellowship on thewalrus.ca: thewalrus.ca/2026-michener-d…
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Jordan Michael Smith (@WriterJMS) in Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, for his review of Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew by Avi Shlaim
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Reporter @WriterJMS investigates how top universities provide deplorably subpar healthcare to incarcerated populations while misusing public funds.
For EHRP + @chronicle: economichardship.org/2024/12…
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“But Mick cannot forget what she saw at Larned. She believes that people like her former patients deserve an honest chance at rehabilitation, and she will keep fighting for their rights and dignity, no matter how unpopular this cause may be.” —@WriterJMS
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“The pretension to treatment there was a ‘façade,’ she wrote, and the SPTP effectively a ‘shadow prison masking as a treatment facility. . . .’” —@WriterJMS
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“She came to believe that the SPTP would never release most of these people, no matter how eagerly they participated in treatment and kept up good behavior; her job wasn’t to treat these patients but to perpetuate the illusion of treatment.” —@WriterJMS
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“Out of sight, out of mind: this is the attitude most people seemed to have about those in civil commitment, no matter the human cost.” —Jordan Michael Smith (@WriterJMS)
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“Although he committed his only crimes as a juvenile more than twenty-five years ago, Merryfield, now in his mid-forties, is still at Larned, with no release in sight.” —Jordan Michael Smith (@WriterJMS)
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“For Mick, the residents were simply people in need of care. They had committed crimes, but they had completed their sentences. ‘No human being is beyond redemption,’ she told me.”
@WriterJMS reports on civil commitment programs for sex offenders.
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My latest investigation: Fossil Fuel Interests Are Working to Kill Solar in One Ohio County. The Hometown Newspaper Is Helping.
W/ @jsmithrichards & @acookiecrumbles
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One of Toronto's newest park is built on a former giant mound of trash blogto.com/city/2024/09/bear…
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As colleges and universities reopen, we should ask what the pro-Palestine protests achieved—and what’s in store for the fall.
From @WriterJMS: newrepublic.com/article/1854…
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The demonization of other countries and peoples, the inability to understand the worldview of challengers and adversaries, the overreliance on force: these traits remain, because they were ingrained in Washington long before 9/11.
From @WriterJMS in 2021: trib.al/7HJbuaO
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Not a band to be outdone, Spinal Tap is demanding that the Trump campaign refrain from playing “Sex Farm” at their rallies.
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As colleges and universities reopen, we should ask what the pro-Palestine protests achieved—and what’s in store for the fall.
From @WriterJMS
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📣Breaking News: We’re thrilled to announce our Dalton Camp Award winners!
Congratulations to Jordan Michael Smith and Dana Cramer for their compelling essays on the link between media and democracy! To read the essays click on the link below 👇
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What is the foreign policy mistake the U.S. Keeps Repeating in the Middle East?
🚨Read this new review of Professor Fawaz Gerges' @fawazgerges book in major US publication @newrepublic @WriterJMS
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In order to think about resetting American policy in the region, we need to clearly understand the dangers of aligning ourselves with autocrats—even ones that are anti-colonial and popular.
From @WriterJMS:
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Next up on the Ghostmasters 101 Instructor Spotlight!
Ghostmasters 101 will be taught live online Sept 30-Oct 11. Register before July 31 for $100 off Early Bird Pricing ($895) with code BREAKING100.
Pssst, Early Bird pricing ends today!
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