Michael Hobbes
Journalist & Animator
HuffPost reporter / occasional videographer / former human rights dude
PROJECTS
iTunes
You're Wrong About
My podcast with Sarah Marshall. Every week we debunk a political or historical myth.
highline.huffingtonpost.com
Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong
How America's institution of public health are ruining fat people's lives.
highline.huffingtonpost.com
Generation Screwed
It's not the avocados: Millennials really do have it harder than their parents
highline.huffingtonpost.com
The Epidemic of Loneliness Among Gay Men
Despite years of social progress, gay men have the same sky-high rates of suicide, mental illness and substance abuse they've had for decades
Pacific Standard
The Afterlife of Big Ideas
I spent two weeks at my old high school to report on how we keep making the same mistakes in education reform.
Foreign Policy
One Buzzword at a Time
How corporations, activists, and politicians turned the language of human rights into meaningless babble
longreads.com
This Is How It Ended
Personal essay about the breakup that made me, briefly, a crazy person.
newrepublic.com
Why Did AIDS Ravage the U.S. More Than Any Other Developed Country?
Solving an epidemiological mystery
newrepublic.com
How Big Ideas are Ruining Development Aid
"If we really want to fix development, we need to stop chasing after ideas the way we go on fad diets."
Foreign Policy
The Untouchables
Based on some work I did in Zimbabwe. The worst multinational corporations aren't Shell and Monsanto. They're companies you've never heard of.
highline.huffingtonpost.com
The Myth of the Ethical Shopper
Buying better clothing is never going to end sweatshops. Here's why.
highline.huffingtonpost.com
How Mark Zuckerberg Should Give Away $45 Billion
I asked 40 development experts how they think Mark Zuckerberg should donate his money to charity. Answer: It's complicated.
highline.huffingtonpost.com
I Misremember the 90s: Sexual Harassment
Video series for Highline. The untold history of the Anita Hill hearing—and the real reason we spent the 1990s talking about sexual harassment.
Pacific Standard
Why Is Zambia So Poor?
As close as I've ever gotten to writing about my dayjob. The reasons for systemic poverty are incredibly complex. The formula for solving them, to me anyway, is an absolute mystery.
The Huffington Post
America’s Housing Crisis Is Spreading To Smaller Cities
The next front in the battle over affordable housing isn’t Boston or San Francisco. It’s Boise.