Graeme Wood

Graeme Wood is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The Way of the Strangers: Encounters With the Islamic State.

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The Sun Is Up. Impeach and Convict.

What can we take away from yesterday’s coup attempt?
- Graeme Wood
- January 7, 2021
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The Professor and the Madman

If Jill Biden wants to flaunt her Ed.D., who are we to object?
- Graeme Wood
- December 14, 2020
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Biden’s Sleepily Reassuring Appointments

If you wonder how Biden’s appointees will govern, just close your eyes and imagine yourself back to 2016.
- Graeme Wood
- November 23, 2020
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The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse

A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news.
- Graeme Wood
- December 2020 Issue
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The New York Times Owes the Public an Explanation

Anonymous was just a little gremlin all along.
- Graeme Wood
- October 29, 2020
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He Won’t Concede, but He’ll Pack His Bags

All evidence suggests that the president would run from the responsibility of overseeing the violent fracture of America.
- Graeme Wood
- October 15, 2020
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Only About 3.5 Percent of Americans Care About Democracy

A recent study reveals that vanishingly few voters will defect from a candidate who acts undemocratically.
- Graeme Wood
- September 30, 2020
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End the Nobel Peace Prize

The Trump nomination shows that peace had its chance, and blew it.
- Graeme Wood
- September 11, 2020
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The Pinnacle of Looting Apologia

If the real, lasting change you wish to effect is burning society to cinders, then perhaps looting is the right tool.
- Graeme Wood
- September 2, 2020
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Kyle Rittenhouse, Kenosha, and the Sheepdog Mentality

Rittenhouse appears to live in a fantasy world where police and car dealerships are more endangered than unarmed Black men, and where he is a warrior.
- Graeme Wood
- August 28, 2020
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Why the UAE Made Peace With Israel

WhatsApp diplomacy seems to have worked for the Trump administration.
- Graeme Wood
- August 13, 2020
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The Families of ISIS’s Victims Are Asking for Justice

The Trump administration faces a choice on how to proceed against two men.
- Graeme Wood
- August 4, 2020
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I Went to Disney World

As the coronavirus pandemic ravaged Florida, the Magic Kingdom welcomed back its most loyal subjects—and me.
- Graeme Wood
- July 27, 2020
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The Cowardice of Open Letters

They’re badly written, open to doubt, and fundamentally unnecessary.
- Graeme Wood
- July 15, 2020
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Yale Doesn’t Need to Change Its Name

The name of the university has long been divorced in meaning from the life of Elihu Yale, who dealt in enslaved people.
- Graeme Wood
- July 1, 2020
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John Bolton Tries to Recover His Dignity

In his new memoir, the former national security adviser assesses and defends his time in the Trump administration.
- Graeme Wood
- June 22, 2020
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The United States is Now in the Midst of an Extended Moral Holiday

When the going gets tough, the law gets suspended
- Graeme Wood
- June 13, 2020
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A Solution to the Confederate-Monument Problem

Destroying the statues won’t erase the past. Why not let them deteriorate in a public space instead?
- Graeme Wood
- June 8, 2020
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How Do You Kneel on a Neck for Nine Minutes?

I don’t see how anyone could remain in that position unless he was, at best, totally indifferent to the person’s survival.
- Graeme Wood
- May 31, 2020
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What’s Behind the COVID-19 Racial Disparity?

Outrage is warranted. But outrage unaccompanied by analysis is a danger in itself.
- Graeme Wood
- May 27, 2020

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