Graeme Wood
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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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Gérard DuBois The Awful Wisdom of the Hostage
What a new memoir reveals about endurance—and extreme remorse
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Mark Peterson / Redux A Black Army Rises to Fight the Racist Right
A man calling himself Grandmaster Jay has raised a disciplined, heavily armed militia. It has yet to fire a shot at its enemies, but it’s prepared for war.
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Jason Kempin / Getty America Has Forgotten How to Forgive
The revolt against Alexi McCammond shows that even Teen Vogue doesn’t think teens deserve a sin jubilee.
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U.S. Embassy Switzerland / AP The Princeton Historian Mugged by Reality
Since being freed from Iranian detention, Xiyue Wang has been unrelenting in his criticism of the authoritarian country—and some American elites’ attempt at rapprochement.
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LISE ASERUD / AFP / Getty Royals Could Choose Ordinary Anonymity
But they don’t. Expect more scandals in the future.
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BULENT KILIC / AFP / Getty Murderers Should Be Called Murderers
Frequently and to their faces
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic What to Do With Trumpists
The proper response to these extremists isn’t counterterrorism. It is mental hygiene.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Sun Is Up. Impeach and Convict.
What can we take away from yesterday’s coup attempt?
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Alex Wong / Getty The Professor and the Madman
If Jill Biden wants to flaunt her Ed.D., who are we to object?
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Cliff Owen / Charles Dharapak / Jose Luis … Biden’s Sleepily Reassuring Appointments
If you wonder how Biden’s appointees will govern, just close your eyes and imagine yourself back to 2016.
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Nicolas Ortega 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.
