James Pogue
James Pogue is the author of Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West, and is a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine. He is writing a book about rural California. The Pulitzer Center helped fund his reporting for ‘Wagner in Africa’.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Fires
James Pogue
‘In 2018 in northern California, 21,000 homes burned.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Republicans
James Pogue
‘This American says he’s heard of Cross but that he’s still just passing through.’ He laughed and formed the shape of a pistol with his right hand. ‘Well you heard that part, didn’t ya? That is one thing that will never change here.’
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The White Bloc
James Pogue
‘This election made clear that white people in this country have begun to vote how Southern whites always have: as a bloc.’