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Our correspondent teaches Libya’s budding reporters the ABC’s of ethics and objectivity—with mixed results.… More »
Graeme Wood is an Atlantic contributing editor. His personal site is gcaw.net.
Our correspondent teaches Libya’s budding reporters the ABC’s of ethics and objectivity—with mixed results.… More »
An enigmatic filmmaker manages to confound and thrill his fans in equal measure… More »
An unlikely revolutionary sparks a monumental uprising with the click of a mouse… More »
A schizophrenic tries to save the mentally ill in Pakistan, a land gone mad.… More »
Does great wealth bring fulfillment? An ambitious study by Boston College suggests not. For the first time, researchers prompted the very rich—people with fortunes in excess of $25 million—to speak candidly about their lives. The result is a surprising litany of anxieties: their sense of isolation, their worries about work and love, and most of all, their fears for their children.… More »
Incarceration in America is a failure by almost any measure. But what if the prisons could be turned inside out, with convicts released into society under constant electronic surveillance? Radical though it may seem, early experiments suggest that such a science-fiction scenario might cut crime, reduce costs, and even prove more just.… More »
Witches are overwhelming the courts in the Central African Republic. And that may be a good thing.… More »
In Qom, the site of Iran’s secret uranium-enrichment facility, the Islamic Revolution remains as strong as ever.… More »
Our correspondent makes a pilgrimage to Bob Dylan's hometown in search of the source of his bizarre accent.… More »
As the threat of global warming grows more urgent, a few scientists are considering radical—and possibly extremely dangerous—schemes for reengineering the climate by brute force. Their ideas are technologically plausible and quite cheap. So cheap, in fact, that a rich and committed environmentalist could act on them tomorrow. And that’s the scariest part. … More »
A groundling's-eye view… More »
In Afghanistan, some soldiers are pampered. Should they be?… More »
A look at how The Atlantic navigates the sometimes confusing straits of Arabic transliteration… More »
Turkey has begun bombing Kurdish militant training camps near its border with Iraq. In this dispatch, Atlantic editor Graeme Wood describes his encounter with the bookish young radicals who fill the camps.… More »
Can meteorologists armed with supercomputers and a few tons of soot stop a hurricane from reaching the Gulf Coast? Can they stop it without getting sued?… More »
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