Media Coverage & Commentary by Rich. For direct access, click on media source!
Fighting for the Middle Class
Fox Business News
Interview with Rich Benjamin
January 27, 2012
"Pushback Against the 1%"
FOX Business News
Interview with Rich Benjamin
January 25, 2012
"When Leadership Rots: Americans Heed the Call"
USA Today
January 13, 2012
"Do Sociopaths Run Wall Street?"
Rich Benjamin in Conversation with Author Nomi Prins and Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi
C-SPAN Book TV
December 3, 2011
"Get a Job? Get Real: Lost Times, Lost Generation"
USA Today
November 18, 2011
"Taking a Pass on Straight Weddings"
NPR Interview with Rich Benjamin
June 9, 2011
"Would You Boycott Your Friend's Wedding?"
MSNBC Interview with Rich Benjamin
May 23, 2011
"Not Going to the Chapel"
The New York Times
May 22, 2011
"Salty Entertainer Wins Haitian Election: So What Next?"
Candadian Broadcasting Corporation Interview w/ Rich Benjamin
April 6, 2011
"Centrist Obama Mustn't Sacrifice Too Much"
USA Today
February 11, 2011
Time / Time.com
January 12, 2011
"Haiti's Precarious Elections -- Between Crisis and Optimism"
Time / Time.com
December 2, 2010
"In the Short Term, Don't Fear the Deficit"
USA Today
November 5, 2010
"Will the Tea Party Tip the Mid-term Elections?"
Al Jazeera Interview with Rich Benjamin
November 1, 2010
"Resilient Americans Fight This Recession"
USA Today
September 3, 2010
"Glenn Beck Cranks Up the Culture Wars"
CNN.com
August 31, 2010
"Wyclef Jean's Dubious Run"
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Interview with Rich Benjamin
August 16, 2010
"Why Haiti Can't Afford a Rap-Star President"
Salon.com
August 10, 2010
"Let's Not Forget Haiti's Anguish"
USA Today
"Talk Today: Live Chat with Rich Benjamin 1PM EST"
July 16, 2010
"World Cup Ushers In Loyalty to Humanity"
USA Today.com
July 6, 2010
"Double Trouble: Why Obama is Ducking Immigration Reform"
Salon.com
May 23, 2010
"Yes, I Love Paying Taxes"
USA Today
April 15, 2010
"Beyond the Pale: Is White the New Black?"
The New Yorker
April 12, 2010
"Obama's America: 2010 and Beyond: Town Hall With Chris Matthews and Tom Joyner"
MSNBC TV
January 18, 2010
"Obama Is Not Over-Reaching - He Needs to Be Even Bolder"
CNN.com
January 18, 2010
"Journey into the Heart of Whiteness"
Mother Jones Interview with Rich Benjamin
January 2009
Searching for Whitopia
C-SPAN 2 / Book TV
December 13-14, 2009
November 14-15, 2009
"What Tiger Could Learn From Obama"
USA Today
December 11, 2009
"What Obama's Nobel Means"
CNN.com
December 10, 2009
"America's Whitest Communities"
Time Video
November 24, 2009
"Welcome to Whitopia: Scholar, journalist chronicles time spent in North Idaho"
Coeur d'Alene Press
November 16, 2009
Review: Searching for Whitopia
Time Magazine
October 26, 2009
This Week's Hot Reads: Searching for Whitopia
The Daily Beast
October 19-26, 2009
"Whitopia, Idaho"
The Pacific Northwest Inlander
October 15-21, 2009
"America's Booming White Enclaves: Q&A with Rich Benjamin"
CNN/Time.com
October 12, 2009
Rich Benjamin in Conversation with Tom Joyner and CNN's Roland Martin
The Tom Joyner Show
October 7, 2009
A Black Author's Journey Into American "Whitopia"
NPR, Talk of the Nation
October 6, 2009
"Black-White Thinking is So Yesterday"
USA Today
September 11, 2009
Conversation w/ Rich Benjamin
Ron Reagan Show, Air America Radio
August 13 2009
"Hate Crimes and Immigration Policy"
GRITtv with Laura Flanders
June 17, 2009
"Road Tripping Through Whitopia"
In These Times
March 11, 2009
"Recession Porn: A Hard Spot for Soft Times"
Huffington Post
February 11, 2009
"King Stood With, Not Above, The People"
USA Today
January 11, 2007
"This Nation's De-Facto Draft Hits Rural America"
Lone Star Iconoclast
July 24, 2006
"What King Really Dreamed"
NPR, Talk of the Nation
January 18, 2006
"How Far Will Street Smarts Get You?"
Des Moines Register
May 19, 2005
"Generation Permalance on the Brink"
Grand Forks Herald
March 25, 2005
