Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker – MRQE

The Meaning of Hitler

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This provocative consideration of the lasting influence and draw of Hitler provides insight into the resurgence of white supremacy, antisemitism, and the weaponization of history.

Karl Marx City

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker take a powerfully personal journey through the former East Germany, as Epperlein investigates her fathers 1999 suicide and the possibility that he may have worked as a spy for the dreaded Stasi security service.

Fightville

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

FIGHTVILLE is about the art and sport of fighting: a microcosm of life, a physical manifestation of that other brutal contest called the American Dream…

How to Fold a Flag

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein reveal the lives of post Iraq from a Congressional candidate in Buffalo to a cage fighter in Louisiana, set against the backdrop of the 2008 election. From Jon Powers’s political fight for a congressional seat to Wilf Stuart’s family struggling with his brother’s combat deployment, this poignant piece offers a picture of both the hope and loss that remain after the fighting ends.

Bulletproof Salesman

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Fidelis Cloer is a self-confessed war profiteer who found The Perfect War when the US invaded Iraq. It wasn’t about selling a dozen cars, or even a hundred, it was a thousand-car war where security would become the ultimate product.

Gunner Palace

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

American soldiers of the 2/3 Field Artillery, a group known as the “Gunners,” tell of their experiences in Baghdad during the Iraq War. Holed up in a bombed out pleasure palace built by Sadaam Hussein, the soldiers endured hostile situations some four months after President George W. Bush declared the end of major combat operations in the country.