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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Photograph by Bill McCullough for The Atlantic Inside the Garden of Evil
Harlan Crow wants to stop talking about Clarence Thomas.
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Chris Goodney / Bloomberg / Getty Clarence Thomas’s Billionaire Friend Is No Nazi
He has a signed copy of Mein Kampf. That doesn’t mean he admires Hitler.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The God That Couldn’t Possibly Fail
An afternoon at the New York Young Republican Club in Manhattan, now a house of worship for Trump
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Ben Stansall / AFP / Getty Blasphemy Forever
Schoolboys scuffed a Quran. Why did the police care?
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Thomas Simonetti / The Washington Post / Getty DEI Is an Ideological Test
New College is not a weak target, and if Christopher Rufo wants to challenge an entrenched bureaucracy, then he will have a fair fight.
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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.
