Skip To Main Content
Michael Wolraich on Muck Rack

Michael Wolraich

New York
As seen in: CNN, MSN, HuffPost, Reuters, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, The Hill, The Minnesota Star Tribune and
Covers:  bitcoin, net neutrality, republicans, american history, democrats, elections, politics, white house, tea party
Writer, coder, pundit, dad. Author of 3 narrative nonfiction books: THE BISHOP AND THE BUTTERFLY, UNREASONABLE MEN, and BLOWING SMOKE.

Get in touch with Michael

Contact Michael, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Michael Wolraich’s Biography

Read Full Bio →

[Michael Wolraich] (http://www.michaelwolraich.com) is a journalist and historian who writes about historical events to illuminate modern politics. He founded [dagblog.com] (http://dagblog.com) and has contributed to CNN.com, Reuters, TalkingPointsMemo.com, and Pando Daily. Wolraich has appeared on C-SPAN’s BookTV, The John Batchelor Show, Culture Shocks, and various radio shows across the country.

Books:

  • UNREASONABLE MEN: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive P…

Michael Wolraich’s Journalist Portfolio

Theodore Roosevelt on net neutrality

Theodore Roosevelt on net neutrality

"Above all else," President Theodore Roosevelt admonished Congress in 1905, "we must strive to keep the highw…

View article →
Why Libertarians and gold hoarders love Bitcoins

Why Libertarians and gold hoarders love Bitcoins

By On April 17, 2013 What kind of people use Bitcoins, the digital currency designed by cryptographers to be …

View article →
GOP's obstructionism is suicide strategy

GOP's obstructionism is suicide strategy

A suicide bomber walks into a bar. He shouts at the bartender, "Gimme the money, or I blow this place to bits…

View article →
Why Etch A Sketch gibe will be hard for Romney to shake

Why Etch A Sketch gibe will be hard for Romney to shake

Mitt Romney is in a bind. He must present himself as a staunch conservative in order to appeal to skeptical r…

View article →
Why evangelicals love Santorum, hated JFK

Why evangelicals love Santorum, hated JFK

Sen. Rick Santorum, who is campaigning to become America's second Catholic president, disagrees from the bott…

View article →

Articles

"Little Short of Madness"

|
By Edwin G. Burrows, Michael Wolraich, Karin Abarbanel, William Tyrrell
| American Heritage Verified
As mayor of New York City and later as governor of New York State, De Witt Clinton crusaded so zealously for a canal connecting Albany to Buffalo that the project became known as “Clinton’s Ditch.” It was a dream of pharaonic proportions—a 363-mile-long artificial waterway that most people considered impossible.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Reader Blogs

|
By Michael Wolraich, Martinn Pengelly, William K. Wolfrum
| dagblog.com
Dear TPM refugees, web surfers, and other assorted riffraff, I returned from vacation last night and was happy to find a surge of activity from new members and friends from TPM Cafe. Welcome all to dagblog.com. Like many of you, I first started blogging at TPM Cafe during the 2008 election cycle.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Hersh On Obama's Lies About Syrian Chemical Weapons

|
By Martinn Pengelly, Michael Wolraich, Danny Cardwell, William K. Wolfrum
| dagblog.com
Hersh On Obama's Lies About Syrian Chemical Weapons By A Guy Called LULU on Sun, 12/08/2013 - 1:36pm | A month ago Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer, wrote about CIA analysts who threatened to resign over the Obama administration allegations about the use of chemical weapons in Syria by the Syrian government: With all evidence considered, the intelligence community found itself with numerous skeptics in the ranks, leading to sharp exchanges with the Director of Central Intelligence John...
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 856 licensed articles (857 Total)