He has contributed to The New Yorker and New York Times Magazine, covering the wars in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq, as well as Minneapolis after the murder of George Floyd and the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
[6] In 2021, he received a George Polk Award for his coverage of protests and racial politics in the United States.
[7] Mogelson is the author of The Storm is Here: An American Crucible[8] and These Heroic, Happy Dead, a book of short stories.
[9][10] Mogelson's first book, The Storm is Here: An American Crucible, was published September 13, 2022, by Penguin Random House.
The book describes the social discord in the United States through a series of eye-witness accounts following the distress created by COVID-19, economic uncertainty, and the clash of political and race relations within the US post-2016.