Education Sneak Peek

Read the Dirt’s latest project is its Ear to the Ground newsletter. The newsletter is a civic intelligence service. We read local [read more …]

Check It Out!

Read the Dirt is launching an affordable, exclusive newsletter that takes the model of a corporate intelligence service, and wields it for [read more …]

Editor’s Introduction: December 2013

Read the Dirt has some exciting if not momentarily sad news to announce: We are going on sabbatical. Simon Davis-Cohen, our co-founder [read more …]

Editor’s Introduction: November 2013

Welcome to our November 2013 Editor’s Introduction—published on the 8th of every month. Join us in continuing the conversation. Send op-eds and [read more …]

Editor’s Introduction: October 2013

Welcome to our October 2013 Editor’s Introduction—published on the 8th of every month. Join us in continuing the conversation. Send op-eds and [read more …]

Editor’s Introduction: September 2013

Welcome to our September 2013 Editor’s Introduction—published on the 8th of every month. When bacteria are surrounded by their own kind—when they [read more …]

Editor’s Introduction: August 2013

Welcome to our August 2013 Editor’s Introduction—published on the 8th of every month. Join us as we work to provide tactical information. [read more …]

Editor’s Introduction: July 2013

Welcome to our July 2013 Editor’s Introduction-published on the 8th of every month. This month we are featuring: an extensive (multi-article) look [read more …]

Editor’s Introduction: June 2013

Welcome to our June 2013 Editor’s Introduction-published on the 8th of every month. Here you will find summaries of eight new Read [read more …]

Editor’s Introduction: May 2013

Welcome to our May 2013 Editor’s Introduction-published on the 8th of every month. Scroll down for this month’s articles and correspondence.   [read more …]

Editor’s Introduction: April 2013

Welcome to our first Monthly Editor’s Introduction—published on the 8th of every month. This here should help you navigate our publication. Below [read more …]

Read the Dirt: Changes on the Way

Changes are on the horizon for Read the Dirt and its website readthedirt.org. We are revamping the website while simultaneously becoming a [read more …]

Where in the World is Read the Dirt?

Photo: The Colosseum in Rome, Wikimedia Commons   Much has been said about what to do “when in Rome”. Saint Ambrose of [read more …]

Notice: Official Communication

Read the Dirt needs dollars to provide a valuable public service. We want to provide for you a place to learn about [read more …]

New Section: Community Rights

Introducing Read the Dirt’s coverage of the American Community Rights Movement. When we first launched Read the Dirt, we envisioned an online [read more …]

A Letter from the Editors

Welcome to our most recent “Letter from the Editors”, thanks for reading. We have got a lot to say, we’ll try to [read more …]

Attention Readers of the Dirt!

Welcome Readers of The Dirt! You may noticed that our “Letters from the Editors” section has been somewhat dormant since we launched [read more …]

Welcome To Read The Dirt!

We hope that it doesn’t come as too much of a surprise that Read The Dirt is, at its most fundamental level, [read more …]