Graeme Wood
He joined the magazine in 2006 after working as a translator, courier, and bootlegger in northern Iraq. He has since reported for The Atlantic from every continent except Antarctica, and on subjects ranging from foreign policy to pro wrestling. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and teaches at Yale University.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty The Dumbest Coup Attempt
America was saved by pure indolence.
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Bernd von Jutrczenka / Picture-Alliance / DPA / … The Objective Reality of the U.S.-Saudi Relationship
President Biden undoubtedly continues to dislike MBS. But the U.S. does not exist in some ethereal realm of gumdrops and friendship bracelets, and eventually the two men will have to meet.
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MARK LEFFINGWELL / AFP / Getty Where Were the Police?
It appears that Uvalde’s law enforcement was unprepared for a mass shooting.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty Think Gun Laws Are Hard to Change? Try Gun Culture.
If you are in the United States, guns are all around you already, in the hands of decent people and well-adjusted people, and also of demons and sickos.
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The Atlantic Why Tucker Carlson Should Want the Buffalo Manifesto Made Public
I found on nearly every page of the manifesto evidence of profound moral deformity.
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Daniel Berehulak / The New York Times / … Don’t Fight in Another Country’s War
A Ukrainian victory should be as Ukrainian as possible.
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Romeo Ranoco / Reuters Why an ISIS Propagandist Abandoned Islam
“Seeing individuals dedicate themselves to tyrannical death cults led by suicidal maniacs is bad enough. Knowing that I may have contributed to their choices is terrible.”
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Bernd von Jutrczenka / Picture Alliance / Getty Of Course Journalists Should Interview Autocrats
Anyone who tells you otherwise does not understand the purpose of journalism.
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Lynsey Addario for The Atlantic Absolute Power
Asked about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Mohammed bin Salman said, “If that’s the way we did things, Khashoggi would not even be among the top 1,000 people on the list.”
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Getty; The Atlantic How the Finns Deter Russian Invasion
If you want ordinary people to make your society occupation-proof, you have to teach them to kill well before they need to do so.
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Culture Club / Getty; mikroman6 / Getty; The … ‘Land Acknowledgments’ Are Just Moral Exhibitionism
These statements relieve the speaker and the audience of the responsibility to think about Indigenous peoples, at least until the next public event.
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Paul Warner / Getty The Power of Artistic Exile
Melvin Van Peebles spent long periods outside America, and it is not coincidental that some of his best works were written abroad.
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WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP / Getty What Does ISIS Want Now?
A bombing at Kabul airport portends grave consequences as the Islamic State’s affiliate takes on the Taliban.
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Hoshang Hashimi / AFP / Getty This Is Not the Taliban 2.0
The group’s claims of having changed are probably more reassuring to those unfamiliar with its history.
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Hoptocopter / Getty After 11 Minutes in America, I Got Hit by the Crime Wave
I spent most of the pandemic abroad. It didn’t take long after I returned home for someone to try to rob me at gunpoint.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Princeton Dumbs Down Classics
And that might be the right way to save classics from oblivion.
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Ashraf Amra / Anadolu Agency / Getty Maybe You Have to Be Disagreeable to Convert
Muslim converts tend to be less religious than their non-convert peers. So what explains their overrepresentation among jihadists?
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic; Getty The Ryanair Hijacking Pierced the Delusion of Flight
Flying over a foreign country has, until now, felt to most people like teleporting past it.
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Karsten Moran/Redux The Cancellation of Nikole Hannah-Jones
Cancellation is not criticism; cancellation is the absence of criticism.
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Artur Widak / NurPhoto / Getty The J&J Vaccine Is Not a Tainted Cantaloupe
Our regulators are not fools. But they have a peculiar sense of responsibility that leads them to adopt a fraidy-cat level of caution.
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