by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jul 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
I was in fifth grade the year of the Chernobyl disaster. I watched with morbid rapture all the great nuke movies — Silkwood with Meryl Streep, Marshall Brickman’s Manhattan Project and Hal Hartley’s Trust (which is as amazing as it is impossible to...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jun 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
The following story was commissioned by The Guardian after I was detained, questioned and banned from the United Kingdom in the wake of research for my next book in the Channel Islands, a $1 trillion tax haven off the coast of England. Many of you have asked what I...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Jun 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
SUNDAY’S NEWS SHOWS, BROUGHT TO YOU BY BIG OIL June 4, 2012 While Big Oil is always active during an election season, this year news and radio shows have been particularly shameless about airing back-to-back commercials propounding the virtues of oil and...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | May 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’ve been writing a series for Fortune in recent weeks tackling questions like, if the U.S. is now selling more petroleum products than it is buying for the first time in more than six decades, why is most of the country paying around $4 a gallon for gas? And if...
by Leah McGrath Goodman | Apr 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
Today marks six years of writing as a free agent. When I hung out my shingle back in 2006, I wasn’t sure what it would be like to get up in the morning, walk into the next room (my office) and find my job waiting for me. I wondered, would it be a matter of time...
