Karl Vick

Karl Vick is an Editor at Large based in New York. From 2010 to the autumn of 2014 he was the Jerusalem Bureau Chief, covering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories with occasional forays into other lands.

Recent Articles

Europe Is Saving Democracy From Big Tech

When Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism was published in 2019, public unease with the power of Big Tech found its Rosetta Stone, an opus that simultaneously described, confirmed and named the transformation of...

By Karl Vick May 11, 2022

Shohei Ohtani Is What Baseball Needs

When Shohei Ohtani takes a seat on a shaded bench to await his turn in the batting cage at Los Angeles Angels spring training, the feeling is like a restaurant when a movie star is...

By Sean Gregory and Karl Vick/Tempe, Ariz. April 7, 2022

Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins on the Ukraine Information War

The ability of anyone with a phone or laptop to see Russia's invasion of Ukraine unfold in almost real time—and to believe what they're seeing—comes to us thanks to the citizens operating what's known as...

By Karl Vick March 9, 2022

Art Spiegelman On Why 'Maus' Got Cancelled

In the four decades since Art Spiegelman began Maus, the graphic novel has sold millions of copies, won a Pulitzer Prize, and secured a place in the Western canon. The book communicates the history of...

By Karl Vick February 11, 2022

How Wordle's Creator Feels About Selling His Viral Game

A couple of hours after the New York Times announced on Monday that it had acquired the online word game known as Wordle, its inventor was still looking for the right word—this time, for his...

By Karl Vick February 1, 2022

Why 2021 Was a Watershed Year for Press Freedoms

On May 23, a control tower radioed a Ryanair jetliner that it had a bomb on board. A fighter jet appeared off its wing, and Flight FR4978, en route from Greece to Lithuania, was compelled to...

By Karl Vick December 30, 2021

A Tribute to the People We Lost in 2021

A moving tribute from cellist Yo-Yo Ma to those we lost in 2021.

By Karl Vick December 20, 2021

Looking Back On the Year That Was 2021

It was a lurching, stammering year. But resilience was everywhere.

By Karl Vick December 20, 2021

Matt Black's Photos Capture 'American Geography' Left Behind

Moments come when we see clearly. Sometimes it’s the moment our eyes fall upon a photograph. In August of 2005, many people who lived outside the United States found themselves struggling to reconcile their image...

By Karl Vick November 4, 2021

'It Is a Battle for Facts.' What Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Ressa Understands About Why She Was Chosen

If Maria Ressa long has been known to people who follow the news, she has become absolutely essential to anyone grappling with why the news has gotten harder and harder to follow. Born in Manila...

By Karl Vick October 8, 2021
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