Stephen Lemons Independent Journalist
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STEPHEN LEMONS Independent Journalist

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  • ​​Writer/editor of FrontPageConfidential.com, a website that reports on matters involving the First Amendment, including the Backpage case. 
  • Former political columnist for the Phoenix New Times. Bylines in Phoenix Magazine, Salon, Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Splice Today, Jacobin, Sierra ​Magazine, the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report, and many others.

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Multiple Pieces
  • ​Phoenix Magazine
  • Phoenix New Times​
  • Salon
  • ​Front Page Confidential
  • LA Weekly
​Featured Stories​
  • "State Bar knew Allister Adel may have been a domestic violence victim," Phoenix New Times
  • "The War on Woke," Phoenix Magazine
  • "Bruises, fights, a fall: Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel’s rumored domestic violence ordeal," Phoenix New Times
  • "Joe Arpaio's goons busted her jaw. Now U.S. Army mom faces deportation," Phoenix New Times
  • "Maricopa County is filled with victims who aren’t getting the Preston Lord treatment," Arizona Mirror
  • "Rachel Mitchell keeps talking tough about retail theft. It’s a sham," Phoenix New Times
  • "What’s Eating Gilbert, Arizona?" Phoenix Magazine
  • "2 men took Angel Reyes for a ride. He ended up in the morgue," Phoenix New Times
  • "She was a Republican activist. I was not. What I learned from our unlikely friendship," Arizona Republic
  • "Neo-Nazi, Two Others Arrested in Killing of Gay Phoenix Man," Phoenix New Times
  • "Demon in the Dark: The Perplexing Unsolved Murder of David Denogean," Phoenix Magazine
  • "Doomsday Duo charged for taking teen out of Arizona ahead of apocalypse," Phoenix New Times
  • "Death in the Desert: Who Killed Sex Worker Brenda Broyles?" Phoenix Magazine​
  • "Paging Senator Sinema," Sierra magazine
  • "Cowboy Down: The Tangled Arizona Legacy of Lawrence Tenney Stevens," Phoenix Magazine
  • "When Kyrsten Sinema Tried to Stop the Recall of an Anti-Immigrant Zealot," Jacobin​
  • "Recovery on the Rocks: Phoenix's New Comeback Kids," Phoenix Magazine
  • "Show Low Musician Punks Arizona Legislature," Phoenix Magazine
  • "Martyred at the Mic? ASU Removed a Student radio Station Manager Due to an Unwoke Tweet. Does the Cronkite School Have a Free Speech Problem?" Phoenix Magazine 
  • ​"Once Upon a Time . . . in Tempe: The Early Days of Phoenix New Times," Phoenix New Times​
  • "Heart of Glass: Famed Phoenix Chef Christopher Gross Carefully Crafts His Dream Eatery High Atop the Wrigley Mansion," Phoenix Magazine
  • "Cast Away: Jeff Flake Sacrificed His Political Career to Defy the GOP and President Trump," Phoenix Magazine
  • "The Avengers: The Elite Phoenix PD Squad That Smashed Violent Valley Fascists," Phoenix Magazine
  • "Neo-Nazi Travis Ricci Dodges the Needle for Murder; Jury Saw No Hate Crime," Phoenix New Times
  • "Blood Cult: Utah’s Polygamous Kingston Clan Mixes Incest and White Supremacy with Old-Fashioned Capitalism," Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report
  • ​"21st-Century Viking: The Life and Death of Ex-Con, Tattoo Artist, and Heathen Warrior Jubel Dean Perkins," Phoenix New Times​​
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