Tag: american history

• Documenting American segregation at the Berlin Wall

  November 9, 2019

  On August 13, 1961, East German forces closed the borders of East Berlin and encircled the allied sectors of the city’s western half. Two weeks later, American photographer Leonard Freed… more ›

• Moneta Sleet: The great black photographer you’ve never heard of

  October 28, 2019

  It’s 50 years since photographer Moneta Sleet became the first African American to win a Pulitzer prize for journalism. Has his work received the recognition it deserves? https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50186270 more ›

• Nancy Pelosi: An Extremely Stable Genius

  September 28, 2019

  Before we begin to grapple with the gravity of the impeachment inquiry that is now upon us, can we acknowledge yet again the extreme weirdness of our times? If, through… more ›

• What the Reactionary Politics of 2019 Owe to the Politics of Slavery

  August 19, 2019

  If you want to understand American politics in 2019 and the strain of reactionary extremism that has taken over the Republican Party, a good place to start is 2011: the… more ›

• On The Mueller Report, Vol. 1

  July 29, 2019

  For two years we knew of the possibility that the Donald Trump campaign cheated in the 2016 election. https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-the-mueller-report-vol-1/ more ›

• ‘It’s totally unfair’: Chicago, where the rich live 30 years longer than the poor

  June 24, 2019

  Walking down 69th Street in Englewood, Chicago, near where she grew up, Michelle Rashad gestures to a rundown retail shop, across from a long open lot. “At this store, there’s… more ›

• The Self-Destruction of American Power

  June 16, 2019

  Sometime in the last two years, American hegemony died. The age of U.S. dominance was a brief, heady era, about three decades marked by two moments, each a breakdown of… more ›

• The Dressing Rooms of Broadway: 33 Photos Over Nearly a Century

  June 9, 2019

  What performers take off (and put on), as told in 33 photographs and the words of Jesse Green, co-chief theater critic for The New York Times. “Some dressing rooms are… more ›

• Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s Unlikely, Untested, Unprecedented Presidential Campaign

  May 5, 2019

  As Pete Buttigieg addressed supporters off a back porch in Marshalltown, Iowa, the Devil was whispering his name. “Pete,” the Devil hissed into a microphone. “You’re sooo smart, Pete.” http://time.com/longform/pete-buttigieg-2020/ more ›

• Privileged

  April 8, 2019

  When the police break your teammate’s leg, you’d think it would wake you up a little. When they arrest him on a New York street, throw him in jail for… more ›