Graeme Wood
National correspondent, The Atlantic. Lecturer in political science, Yale University. PGP etc:
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Soldier Excited To Take Over Father’s Old Afghanistan Patrol Route
Theonion.com 28h 3 tweets
FAYETTEVILLE, NC—Saying he “never could have imagined” he would have the opportunity to follow directly in his father’s footsteps, 19-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. Tyler Corcoran was reportedly excited Tuesday to take over his dad’s old patrol route in Afg
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Graeme Wood With Spock-like calm and rationality, Robert Zoellick analyzes foreign policy in the Trump age:  7h ago
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Louise Linton Goes From the Lap of Luxury to the Center of a Social Media Storm
Katie Rogers — Nytimes.com 11h 2 tweets
Ms. Linton’s in-the-clouds lifestyle abruptly collided with her husband’s political day job after she dressed down a stranger on Instagram.
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Graeme Wood "Louise Linton's character was dressed as Marie Antoinette."  11h ago
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Janusz Korczak - Wikipedia
En.wikipedia.org 12h 1 tweets
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Graeme Wood Today I toured a school for street-kids in a Bangkok slum. The school is named for Janusz Korczak. His bio is here:  12h ago
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Cambodia PM Orders English-Language Newspaper to Pay Taxes or Close
Nytimes.com 32h 1 tweets
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen denounced the media, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the United States on Tuesday, amid growing government impatience with criticism ahead of a general election next year.
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Actor Samuel L. Jackson, ex-NBA star Magic Johnson mistaken for migrants in Italy
DailySabah 35h 0 tweets
Hollywood actor Samuel L. Jackson and former NBA star Magic Johnson drew unexpected criticism after shopping in the Italian resort town of Forte dei...
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Qatar to build World Cup stadium shaped like Arabian skull cap
The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com 35h 0 tweets
"This symbolic design embodies everything that unites us as Arabs and Muslims, and is a fitting tribute to the first FIFA World Cup in the Middle East."
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How I Became Fake News
POLITICO Magazine 48h 8 tweets
I witnessed a terrorist attack in Charlottesville. Then the conspiracy theories began
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Graeme Wood 'My parents’ sole precaution was to pick the remaining tomatoes from their garden, “so the Nazis won’t get them.”'  44h ago
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The Ally From Hell
Jeffrey Goldberg — The Atlantic 46h 1 tweets
Pakistan lies. It hosted Osama bin Laden (knowingly or not). Its government is barely functional. It hates the democracy next door. It is home to both radical jihadists and a large and growing nuclear arsenal (which it fears the U.S. will seize). Its
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The Foreign Places an Eclipse Can Take You
Graeme Wood — The Atlantic 2d 1 tweets
One of the great joys of an eclipse is when it pushes you out of your way. 
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Graeme Wood I saw an eclipse, while fleeing hippies:  2d ago
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Suspects' 'sex fantasies' led to fatal high-rise stabbing, prosecutors say
chicagotribune.com 2d 1 tweets
A former Northwestern professor and another man lured a 26-year-old man into a high-rise and stabbed him dozens of times to fulfill a violent sexual fantasy, prosecutors said Sunday.
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Graeme Wood "Colleagues [wrote letters] attesting to Lathem's character and academic accomplishments." The Judge was unpersuaded  2d ago
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Scott Adams's Nihilistic Defense of Donald Trump
Conor Friedersdorf — The Atlantic 2d 6 tweets
The cartoonist defended the president in a podcast debate with Sam Harris. The portrait he painted of Trump supporters was not flattering.
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This Combat Photographer Kept Snapping Until Her Last Moment
Sarah Sicard — Task & Purpose 3d 0 tweets
Army Spc. Hilda Clayton documented the live-fire training accident that claimed her life and the lives of four others in 2013.
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We Are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance - Issue 51: Limits
Nautilus 6d 4 tweets
For many years I lived in Eugene, Oregon, also known as “track-town USA” for its long tradition in track and field. Each summer…
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Graeme Wood "The most popular sport of 2100 might be cage fights between 8-foot-tall ballerinas capable of spinning head kicks"  3d ago
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Terrorist cell planned to attack Sagrada Familia with van of explosives
Thelocal.es 4d 3 tweets
Police believe that the jihadist cell responsible for the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils that left 14 dead and more than 100 injured were originally planning something much bigger involving Barcelona’s most emblematic tourist sites.
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Graeme Wood The Barcelona attackers were thinking big -- truck-bombing Sagrada Familia -- but scaled back out of frustration:  4d ago
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The War Nerd: The Confederates who should've been hanged
Pando 4d 1 tweets
It’s a tricky question: Which representatives of Southern manhood should have danced in the air, come April 1865?
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Graeme Wood Amoral revenge fantasy about the end of the Civil War:  4d ago
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Erik Prince's Plan to Privatize the War in Afghanistan
Rosie Gray — The Atlantic 5d 8 tweets
President Trump is meeting with his aides on Friday at Camp David—and some unorthodox ideas are on the table.
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Ireland should take in two million refugees
Helytimes 4d 1 tweets
I’ve developed a radical policy idea.  This is my position paper. The Republic of Ireland should take in two million refugees. Here’s my case. Ireland is empty Seriously, walk around th…
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Graeme Wood More from on why Ireland should take in 2m refugees:  4d ago
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Sons of defector American reappear in N. Korean media, confirm father’s death
NK News - North Korea News 4d 1 tweets
The two adult sons of James Dresnok, an American who defected to the North in 1962, appeared in a video released by North Korean state media on Friday and confirmed their father's death last year. In an interview released by the Uriminzokkiri outlet,
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Graeme Wood Sons of late American defector James Dresnok appear in North Korean media, say dad had no regrets:  4d ago
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True Believers
Foreign Affairs 6d 2 tweets
ISIS’ land may be vanishing, but the dream of a true Islamic state—of heaven on earth—remains.