Graeme Wood
Staff writer, @TheAtlantic. Lecturer, @Yale. Once upon a time: @perryworldhouse, @CFR_org, @newrepublic, @DeutschePostDHL.
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Sex Offender Registries Don't Keep Kids Safe, But Politicians Keep Expanding Them Anyway
Lawmakers are using "stranger danger" myths to keep almost a million Americans out of work and on the verge of homelessness.
Trump Administration Plans Tighter Asylum Rules at Southern Border
The Trump administration is preparing a new rule requiring refugees to seek asylum in the country through which they transited, dramatically limiting their ability to do so at the U.S. border with Mexico.
Graeme Wood
No mention in this article of why this would be a bad (as opposed to merely illegal) policy
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Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
Woven from the words of the inhabitants of a small Suffolk village in the 1960s, Akenfield is a masterpiece of twentieth-century English literature, a scrupulously observed and deeply affecting portrait of a place and people and a now vanished way...
A-Rod Whiffs at Auction as Basquiat Fetches Less Than Expected
Alex Rodriguez failed to turn a double play Thursday when one of two paintings from his collection went unsold at auction and the other came in below expectations.
Graeme Wood
A-Rod, the sucker at the table: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… pic.twitter.com/L7SY3ewUTs
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Photo of 'Thomas from Washington' in Trump’s 2020 campaign actually taken in Turkey’s Izmir
The photo of a young man used to portray a Republican in the U.S. President's 2020 campaign turns out to have been taken in Turkey's third largest city...
While Jeffrey Epstein Is in Jail, the Reporter Julie K. Brown Keeps Digging
The case seemed cold when a Miami Herald investigative journalist started looking into it. Then she persuaded accusers to tell their stories.
Sam Shepard Saw It All Coming
The family battles he described foreshadowed our current national crisis.
Graeme Wood
I watched a season's worth of revivals of Sam Shepard plays—and came away unsettled. In the latest issue of @TheAtlantic
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'African Samurai': The story of Yasuke — black samurai and warlord's confidant
The epic tale of Yasuke, Japan's first foreign-born samurai has hit bookshelves, giving readers a comprehensive picture of a man who witnessed great moments of history, but whose story has largely been overlooked in official accounts.
Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Infinite Means’ May Be a Mirage
Mr. Epstein, facing sex-trafficking charges, has long been hailed as a financial wizard. He got rich with the help of two wealthy connections, but there is little evidence he’s a billionaire.
Utah resident is former French soldier who fought Germans
Daniel Nevot was supposed to land on Utah Beach for the massive D-Day invasion. His division wa
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Graeme Wood
In retrospect, Daniel Nevot (1920-2019) was a tad overqualified to be the physical education teacher at my middle school. RIP 🇫🇷
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Unmask Antifa and Watch the Cowards Retreat
Antifa members seek to engage in violence and destruction with impunity, and the mask protects them from legal accountability.
Graeme Wood
Read @DavidAFrench on anti-masking laws, which still seem to me a flawed way of deterring street thuggery
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How Long Can John Bolton Take This?
The national security adviser was conspicuously absent from North Korea during the historic concession to Kim Jong Un.
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Graeme Wood
That’s one short waddle for a U.S. president, one giant leap for a Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. More tapeworm analysis from me in @TheAtlantic @TheAtlIdeas
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The Problem With HR
For 30 years, we’ve trusted human-resources departments to prevent and address workplace sexual harassment. How’s that working out?
Tucker Carlson vs. John Bolton
The Fox News host called the national security adviser a “bureaucratic tapeworm.” Is his wrath justified?
San Francisco Will Spend $600,000 to Erase History
The school board has voted to destroy public murals by a New Deal-era Communist.
The Lost Man
An amateur sleuth thinks he's cracked one of the most legendary cold cases of all time.
Former Senior Official Pleads Guilty to Stealing Government Money
An Alexandria man pleaded guilty today to stealing over $40,000 in government money during 2018, while he was employed as a senior government official at the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) in Washington, D.C.
Graeme Wood
Haroon Ullah, ex-U.S. diplomat who worked on Afghanistan-Pakistan and violent extremism, will be going to prison for stealing from the U.S. government
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How a Fringe Muslim Cleric From Australia Became a Hero to America’s Far Right
Why is Mohamad Tawhidi, the self-anointed “Imam of Peace,” so devoted to amplifying racist and sexist attacks on the first two Muslim women in Congress?
Joe Exotic Built a Wild Kingdom. He Was the Top Predator.
A cunning and cuddly persona created an empire. A murder plot brought it crashing down.
Graeme Wood
What a hot mess of a life. Joe Exotic, Dolly Parton impersonator and cop and tiger abuser and Red Lobster enthusiast and cult leader and polyamorous gay redneck and serial litigant and professional dishwasher and attempted murderer and
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