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Journalist, Poet & Publisher of The First Person with Michael Judge & Contributing Editor at The Japan Times https://michaeljudge.substack.com/
In February 2022, former WSJ editor and writer, Michael Judge, launched The First Person, an independent Substack newsletter featuring conversations with—and essays by—writers, thinkers, and doers around the globe. TFP currently has thousands of subscribers worldwide. Judge, a journalist and poet, is a former deputy editorial features editor at The W…

Michael Judge’s Journalist Portfolio

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Justice in a Time of War

Justice in a Time of War

Nearly two years after she was killed by a Russian missile strike, Victoria Amelina's unflinching 320-page bo…

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'America is scary.'

'America is scary.'

I pray that's a sentence my son never hears again.

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'Russia can kill our journalists, but it can't kill the truth.'

'Russia can kill our journalists, but it can't kill the truth.'

Ukrainian journalist Maria Romanenko on the killing of her former colleagues and her efforts to help refugees…

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Doctor, My Eyes

Doctor, My Eyes

A conversation with Art Cullen, the Pulitzer Prize winning Iowa journalist who has done all that he could to …

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He Saved Sailors' Lives, Countless Others

He Saved Sailors' Lives, Countless Others

This Memorial Day weekend, I revisit the life and legacy of my friend Dr. Charles H. Read, a flight surgeon d…

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The Stories My Father Told

The Stories My Father Told

My recent conversation with Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, brought back memories of …

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Articles

The voices of Tibet, far from home

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By Michael Judge
| The Japan Times
In “Far From the Rooftop of the World: Travels Among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents” (2023), Amy Yee writes about cultural identity, life in exile, and the injustices faced by Tibetans since China’s 1950 invasion and the Dalai Lama’s 1959 escape to India, where he settled in Dharamsala, home to the Tibetan government-in-exile.
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An ICE Raid in Iowa City and the Real ‘Enemy From Within’

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By Michael Judge
| The First Person with Michael Judge
By Michael Judge Nearly two decades ago, I wrote a piece for The Wall Street Journal titled, “Iowa’s Job Thieves.” The title was an attempt at irony by my editor at the Journal, who, along with the editorial board, was fervently pro-immigration.
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Nuclear destruction through the eyes of a 10-year-old

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By Michael Judge
| The Japan Times
Three years ago, I traveled with my then 10-year-old son, Max, to Hiroshima, a city I fell in love with 30 years ago while interviewing survivors of the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of that once — and now once again — beautiful city on Japan’s Seto Inland Sea. Max, as he likes to tell people, is “half-Japanese, half-American” and my wife and I have made a point of teaching him about the great heroism and horrors of World War II.
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