Luke Mogelson is an American journalist. He has contributed to ''The New Yorker'' and ''New York Times Magazine'', covering the wars in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq, as well as

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after the

murder of George Floyd On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black American man, was murdered in Minneapolis by Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old White police officer. Floyd had been arrested after a store clerk reported that he made a purchase using a c ...

and the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

Biography

Mogelson was born in

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. He graduated from

Bennington College Bennington College is a private liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont, United States. Founded as a women’s college in 1932,

in 2005. He was a contributing writer for the ''

New York Times magazine ''The New York Times Magazine'' is an American Sunday magazine included with the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times''. It features articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors. The magazin ...

'', reporting from

Kabul, Afghanistan Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province. The city is divided for administration into 22 municipal districts. A 2025 estima ...

, from 2011 to 2014. He then moved to ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York T ...

'' in 2013'','' where he has reported from Ukraine and Syria, and on domestic affairs in the United States.

Achievements and honors

Mogelson won a

Livingston Award The Livingston Awards at the University of Michigan are American journalism awards issued to media professionals under the age of 35 for local, national, and international reporting. They are the largest, all-media, general reporting prizes in Amer ...

in 2013, a

National Magazine Award The National Magazine Awards, also known as the Ellie Awards, honor print and digital publications that consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives, innovative techniques, noteworthy enterprise and imaginative design. Or ...

in 2014, and his work has been supported by the

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an American news media organization established in 2006 that sponsors independent reporting on global issues that other media outlets are less willing or able to undertake on their own. The center's go ...

. In 2021, he received a

George Polk Award The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website of PBS, described the awar ...

for his coverage of protests and racial politics in the United States.

Works

Mogelson is the author of ''The Storm is Here: An American Crucible'' and ''These Heroic, Happy Dead,'' a book of short stories. ;The Storm is Here Mogelson's first book, ''The Storm is Here: An American Crucible, was'' published September 13, 2022, by

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. The book describes the social discord in the United States through a series of eye-witness accounts following the distress created by COVID-19, economic uncertainty, and the clash of political and race relations within the US post-2016.

Bibliography

* * Online version is titled "Among the insurrectionists". * ——————— ;Notes

References

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