Luke Mogelson, author portrait
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Luke Mogelson

Luke Mogelson has written for The New Yorker since 2013, covering the wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine, and Iraq. During the pandemic, he reported from across the US. Previously, Mogelson was a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, based in Kabul. He has won two National Magazine Awards and two George Polk Awards.
The Storm Is Here
These Heroic, Happy Dead

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The Storm Is Here
These Heroic, Happy Dead

FROM THE PAGE: An Excerpt from Luke Mogelson’s The Storm Is Here

After years of living abroad and covering the Global War on Terrorism, Luke Mogelson went home in early 2020 to report on the social discord that the pandemic was bringing to the fore across the US. An assignment that began with right-wing militias in Michigan soon took him to an uprising for racial justice in

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