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obituaries
July 23, 2024
James Fallows
The Reporter Who Made Us Love Politics—or Tried
Walter Shapiro’s journalism was bighearted, clear-eyed, and guided by a deep reverence for the whole operating-level panorama of American democracy.
February 17, 2021
Alex Shephard
Rush Limbaugh Made America Worse
The racist, sexist radio host played a pivotal role in injecting cruelty and conspiracy into conservative mass media.
November 10, 2017
Casey N. Cep
Dream of a House
Remembers One Writer’s “Long and Happy Life”
A new book about the home of Reynolds Price asks whether there are better ways to memorialize a genius.
October 3, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Goodbye, Tom Petty
The man who defined the sound of America has died at age 66.
September 29, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Hugh Hefner Was Never The Star of
Playboy
His greatest achievement was the brilliant criticism he provoked from women.
May 30, 2017
James Pogue
Denis Johnson Saw What America Was Becoming
The writer focused his talent on illuminating those the country left behind.
February 13, 2015
Peter Klein
Working in a War Zone With Bob Simon, the Humble CBS Newsman
October 9, 2013
Jed Perl
Stanley Kauffmann Tribute: How to Care About the Arts
October 9, 2013
The New Republic Staff
Stanley Kauffmann, 1916-2013
March 8, 2013
Mike Madden
Adios, Presidente
What Hugo Chávez's obituaries revealed
March 1, 2013
Mike Madden
C. Everett Koop: The Man, The Beard, The Legend
How the obituaries remembered our most famous surgeon general
February 1, 2013
Mike Madden
The Obituarists Remember Stanley Karnow
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