This Presidents’ Day, we look back on how the news about the four-term POTUS — who'd been in office as a generation of Americans came of age and then went off to war — still hit hard a dozen years later.
“Covering the tour is … a peculiar, alien sensation, as if you were visiting a planet where the female population had been decimated by an unnamed plague.”
Whether following thrilling new sounds coming out of the South Bronx or teenagers gunning each other down in Detroit, Cooper was on the spot to report on — and analyze — major shifts in American culture.
We remember a former editor and executive who, during his time at the Voice, oversaw three Pulitzer prize-winning features — and kept Rupert Murdoch at bay.
In this remembrance of Jules Feiffer we reprint a 2018 interview with the Voice legend, who talked about the panoply of his characters that live on in film, on the stage, and in print and pixels.
In his monumental investigative piece from 1995, a longtime New Yorker contributor told Ledbetter, “the closest I ever got to a person of color was a young white fact-checker with dreads.”
