Andrea Pitzer
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Springfield, VA, United States
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I (Kinda) Hate Running
I'm worse at it than your average tortoise, and yet I persist. Why? Miseries and all, there's no better foundation for my physical and mental health. → Read More
Donald Trump is still setting up concentration camps on American soil
It is an earlier incarnation of Auschwitz, a place of indefinite detention for a vilified minority, that we saw on our border this week. The president's executive order offers no evidence this will change → Read More
‘Some Suburb of Hell’: America’s New Concentration Camp System
President Trump and senior White House adviser Stephen Miller appear to have purged the Department of Homeland Security of most internal opposition to their anti-immigrant policies. In doing so, that have removed even those sympathetic to the general approach taken by the White House, such as former chief of staff John Kelly and former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, in order to… → Read More
The Small-Town West Virginia Bookstore That Helped Me Survive My Terrible Childhood
Parkersburg, West Virginia, where I grew up, sits on land that was once home to the Shawnee and later belonged to George Washington. After killing → Read More
How Concentration Camp Prisoners Found Comfort in Imaginary Feasts
When the Soviet Union sent Dmitri Likhachev to an offshore detention camp in February 1928, the Russian scholar was crammed onto a train car with other pri → Read More
How Concentration Camp Prisoners Found Comfort in Imaginary Feasts
When the Soviet Union sent Dmitri Likhachev to an offshore detention camp in February 1928, the Russian scholar was crammed onto a train car with other → Read More
History Lesson: Gitmo Started as a Detention Camp for Immigrants
From the Bolshevik Revolution to 9/11, mass detention starts as a temporary measure and becomes an indefinite nightmare. → Read More
Donald Trump is still setting up concentration camps on American soil
It is an earlier incarnation of Auschwitz, a place of indefinite detention for a vilified minority, that we saw on our border this week. The president's executive order offers no evidence this will change → Read More
Trump's Tent City for Children Is a Concentration Camp
What does it mean that the United States of America is taking children from their parents and detaining them in camps? News of a tent city dedicated to hol → Read More
Why the Tent City for Children Is a Concentration Camp
What does it mean that the United States of America is taking children from their parents and detaining them in camps? News of a tent city dedicated to hol → Read More
Why the Tent City for Children Is a Concentration Camp
What does it mean that the United States of America is taking children from their parents and detaining them in camps? News of a tent city dedicated to hol → Read More
The Invention and Evolution of the Concentration Camp
Before the first prisoner entered the Soviet Gulag, before “Arbeit macht frei” appeared on the gates of Auschwitz, before the 20th century had even begun, → Read More
Concentration Camps Were Invented to Punish Civilians
Before the first prisoner entered the Soviet Gulag, before “Arbeit macht frei” appeared on the gates of Auschwitz, before the 20th century had even begun, concentration camps found their first home in the cities and towns of Cuba. The earliest modern experiment in detaining groups of civilians without trial was launched by two generals: one who refused to bring camps into the world, and one who… → Read More
How Burma Built Concentration Camps and Got Away With It
In a stumbling democracy, Rohingya Muslims became trapped in a relentless campaign of ethnic cleansing that has left hundreds of thousands homeless and in detention camps. → Read More
Vanity Fair’s Bryan Burrough on writing narrative: “people are dying to put down your article”
In what might be the only performance of Texas stand-up comedy about narrative writing, Vanity Fair writer Bryan Burrough recently offered practical tips for long-form … → Read More
The Bitter History of Law and Order in America
It has stifled suffrage, blamed immigrants for chaos, and suppressed civil rights. It's also how Donald Trump views the entire world. → Read More
Trump Revives a Shameful Tradition: Targeting a Minority Group with Crime Reports
The president’s executive orders and inflammatory rhetoric follow a predictable path. → Read More
In the Wake of Pearl Harbor, a Secret Intel Report Could've Stopped the Internment Camps
In spring 1941, months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a team led by U.S. Naval Intelligence officer Kenneth Ringle broke into the Japanese consulate → Read More
In the Wake of Pearl Harbor, a Secret Intel Report Could've Stopped the Internment Camps
In spring 1941, months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a team led by U.S. Naval Intelligence officer Kenneth Ringle broke into the Japanese consulate in Los Angeles. One man stayed downstairs to guard the elevator while the rest snuck upstairs using skeleton keys to make their way to the back rooms. They brought along a safecracker—a convicted felon sprung for one night to help them—as well… → Read More
Zócalo on KCRW » Blog Archive » The Intel Report That Could’ve Stopped Japanese American Internment
A recreation of a typical living space inside internment barracks for a Japanese American family at Tule Lake in California during World War II. Photo courtesy of Andrea Pitzer. In spring 1941, months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a team led by U.S. Naval Intelligence officer Kenneth Ringle broke into the Japanese consulate in Los Angeles. One man stayed downstairs to guard the elevator… → Read More