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Courtney Martin
Brooklyn, NY

Courtney Martin

Voted out Nov. 19. I’m a writer and teacher from Colorado Springs, now living in Brooklyn. I’m also the author of the forthcoming book, “Do It Anyway: Portraits of the Next Generation of Activists.”

Archive: Courtney Martin

America's Next Great Pundit: Video edition

Watch Courtney Martin compete in the video challenge.

By Courtney Martin | November 19, 2009; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (0)

Getting outside the bubble

Where can a progressive gal find a little ideological diversity?

By Courtney Martin | November 12, 2009; 02:40 PM ET | Comments (28)

No ladies allowed in Publishers Weekly's top 10

What you should do about it.

By Courtney Martin | November 12, 2009; 01:40 PM ET | Comments (23)

The complexity of philanthropy

One commenter pushed me on the issue of a donor's trust in an organization.

By Courtney Martin | November 12, 2009; 10:38 AM ET | Comments (4)

Good Crazy: animal kingdom odd couple

This should be required viewing for the Senate.

By Courtney Martin | November 12, 2009; 06:30 AM ET | Comments (5)

Letter to my cousin on Veterans Day

When you joined the Marines, I was blind to your reasoning -- and my own privilege.

By Courtney Martin | November 11, 2009; 04:04 PM ET | Comments (10)

Stupak-Pitts isn't just bad for women

There's another constituency that should give a damn: men.

By Courtney Martin | November 11, 2009; 02:05 PM ET | Comments (14)

Obama's Asia trip starts on common ground

It makes a difference that he is returning to a region he once called home.

By Courtney Martin | November 11, 2009; 11:50 AM ET | Comments (16)

Beyond Green Jobs

What should be the focus of America's environmental agenda?

By Courtney Martin | November 11, 2009; 09:37 AM ET | Comments (7)

Good Crazy

Remember the horror that was school picture day?

By Courtney Martin | November 11, 2009; 08:43 AM ET | Comments (4)

A story makes the giving go down

Is it a problem if a microfinance organization deludes us into generosity?

By Courtney Martin | November 10, 2009; 04:03 PM ET | Comments (9)

Good Crazy

Models of making the world better through not-so-serious means.

By Courtney Martin | November 10, 2009; 01:00 PM ET | Comments (7)

Fort Hood tragedy centers secondary trauma

The U.S. military has an epidemic on its hands.

By Courtney Martin | November 10, 2009; 09:18 AM ET | Comments (18)

Grade your engagement

For the year since Obama's election, I'd give myself a C-plus at best.

By Courtney Martin | November 4, 2009; 12:00 AM ET | Comments (63)

Between work and life

Both women and men are starting to crave the porous kind of life that my mom led, instead of the compartmentalized version that my father has left behind.

By Courtney Martin | October 30, 2009; 12:00 AM ET | Comments (49)

 
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