Adam Weinstein

About Me:: Adam Weinstein is Mother Jones' copy editor. Before that, he worked at the Wall Street Journal, the Village Voice and the Tallahassee Democrat. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times and on Newsweek.com. A Navy veteran, two-day Jeopardy champion and seasoned ne'er-do-well, he's currently at work on a book about his recession-fueled stint as a military contractor in Iraq.

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About Me:: Adam Weinstein is Mother Jones' copy editor. Before that, he worked at the Wall Street Journal, the Village Voice and the Tallahassee Democrat. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times and on Newsweek.com. A Navy veteran, two-day Jeopardy champion and seasoned ne'er-do-well, he's currently at work on a book about his recession-fueled stint as a military contractor in Iraq.

Rolling Stone Reporter’s Afghan Embed Nixed

By: Adam Weinstein Wednesday August 4, 2010 12:40 am

…And we have get-back. The military today announced that Mike Hastings, the RS reporter who ended Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s career by listening to stuff that happened and writing it down, will not be returning to Afghanistan anytime soon. His request for a front-line embed, a DOD spokesman said, was rejected by the unit’s commander: “There [...]

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So This Is the Way a War “Ends”…

By: Adam Weinstein Tuesday August 3, 2010 8:02 pm

…not with a bang, but a crapload of paperwork and actuarials. So reports the Associated Press from Joint Base Balad in Iraq. Your money grafs: The orderly withdrawal is a far cry from the testosterone-fueled push across the berm separating Kuwait and Iraq, when Marines and soldiers pushed north in the 2003 invasion, battling Saddam [...]

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We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Ack

By: Adam Weinstein Monday August 2, 2010 9:32 pm

Breitbart identifies America’s true adversaries for a tea party crowd of several. Name check at 0:52. Lefty traitor reporter, when you get wheels down in Afghanistan, why don’t you just go on to Waziristan and make nice-nice with Mullah Omar? You know you want to. Maybe they’ll introduce you to the big guy, and you [...]

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Wheels Down.

By: Adam Weinstein Monday August 2, 2010 3:46 am

Greetings! Ack is enduring that lovely Dantean purgatorio known as a slow plane to Southwest Asia, and I appear to be the first reinforcement to arrive at this here rally point. On the strength of one or two angry posts at my day job, Spencer grabbed an Internet Code God by the throat and demanded [...]

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