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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Eric Thayer / Getty The Mayhem Is Not About You
Most shooters don’t think straight. For that matter, most nonshooters don’t either.
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Jenn Ackerman / NYT / Redux Who’s Afraid of a Portrait of Muhammad?
When Hamline University cut ties with a professor who showed a painting of Muhammad, it sided with the most intolerant element of the American Muslim spectrum.
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Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto / Getty You Can’t Reform the Morality Police
Why half measures are a trap
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Illustration by James Lee Chiahan. Source image: Karol … Cormac McCarthy Has Never Been Better
His two new novels are the pinnacle of a controversial career.
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Cole Wilson / The New York Times / … Who’s Afraid of Masih Alinejad?
The journalist and activist is caught between a regime that hates her and a diaspora whose elite isn’t eager to give her credit for anything.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty This Is What Decadence Looks Like
Saving democracy shouldn’t be the Democrats’ main pitch to voters.
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Tai Power Seeff / The New York Times … Cowardice at Sundance
Why was Jihad Rehab canceled? And who is behind the most serious charges leveled against the documentary?
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The Atlantic Iran’s Knucklehead Assassination Strategy
Three recent incidents suggest that Iran is ready for another round with the United States, this time with new, more amateurish tactics.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty The Move to Eradicate Disagreement
What troubles me when the censorious types speak is not that they speak but that their response is to call for less speech.
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Severin Carrell / Camera Press / Redux Salman Rushdie and the Cult of Offense
This is what happens when you debase free expression in the name of free expression.
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Getty; The Atlantic Not Even the President Can Declassify Nuclear Secrets
Fan letters and snapshots are one matter, and launch codes are another—and here the details of classification might decide just how much trouble Trump is in.
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Visual News / Getty A Key 9/11 Plotter Is Dead. He Was Already Irrelevant.
Why Ayman al-Zawahiri’s killing won’t have much effect on global terrorism
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP Kamala Harris’s Blue Suit
The vice president sought to accommodate the blind by stating what, to the sighted, was obvious. Social-media confusion ensued.
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OLEKSANDR GIMANOV / AFP / Getty The Torment of Odesa
The Ukrainian city has been hit with rocket attacks, rumors of rocket attacks, and much else.
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The Atlantic What Joe Biden Should Know About Jamal Khashoggi
Hanan Elatr Khashoggi describes her husband not as a happy warrior against MBS, but as a homesick patriot looking for ways to come in from the cold.
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Hulton Archive / Getty Just Say ‘Slavery’
Involuntary relocation and enslaved person are misguided euphemisms.
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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.
