Graeme Wood
Staff writer, @TheAtlantic. Lecturer, @Yale. Once upon a time: @CFR_org, @newrepublic, @DeutschePostDHL. Use your real name if you want me to read your replies.
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Keith Raniere, Leader of Nxivm Sex Cult, Is Sentenced to 120 Years in Prison
In the courtroom, more than a dozen victims gave wrenching testimony about how he manipulated and sexually abused them.
Graeme Wood
“The Dalai Lama once spoke at a Nxivm event.”
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Kazakhstan, Reversing Itself, Embraces ‘Borat’ as Very Nice
After banning the first Sacha Baron Cohen satire, the country has created tourism ads adopting its catchphrase.
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, aide to Saddam Hussein, killed - CNN
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest-ranking member of Saddam Hussein's regime to evade capture, has been killed, a Shiite Iraqi militia commander says.
Americans Have Lost Sight of What 'Fascism' Means
Many Americans who brand Trump and his allies as fascists are paying too little attention to abuses in Hong Kong and cultural genocide in Xinjiang.
Israel, Sudan Agree to Normalize Ties in U.S.-Brokered Deal
Israel and Sudan agreed to normalize ties in a U.S.-brokered deal on Friday, ending decades of hostility as one of Africa’s largest countries joins a broader diplomatic realignment in the Middle East.
Dutch Ethical Hacker Logs into Trump’s Twitter Account
Last week a Dutch security researcher succeeded in logging into the Twitter account of the American President Donald Trump. Trump, an active Twitte...
Graeme Wood
If this hack of Trump's twitter is real, then the survival of the planet was in the hands of a Dutch password-guesser and whatever mischievous tweets he could come up with. "I have ordered immediate nuclear strikes against...." etc.
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Q380 What do you call the end of a loaf of bread?
end 259/1378 heel 624/1378 crust 233/1378 nose 7/1378 butt 93/1378 shpitzel 2/1378 I have no word for this 59/1378
Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police
“We’re now approaching the technological threshold where the little guys can do it to the big guys,” one researcher said.
New Yorker Suspends Jeffrey Toobin for Zoom Dick Incident
In a statement to VICE, Jeffrey Toobin apologized for the "embarrassingly stupid mistake."
Graeme Wood
This is of course in reference to the humiliation of Jeffrey Toobin, and not—I hasten to add—a choice actually presented to me (or him, for that matter). Just curious where your intuitions fall….
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Urban Flight Seeded the COVID-19 Pandemic Across the United States by Arpit Gupta, Iris Yao, Joshua Coven :: SSRN
We document large-scale urban flight in the United States in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Populations that flee are disproportionately younger, whiter, an
Escape from New York
Tracking Urban Flight, and the Implications for the Future of Cities
LA Rapper Who Boasted About Getting Rich From Unemployment Fraud on Youtube Gets Arrested -- for Unemployment Fraud
A rapper who boasted in a YouTube music video about getting rich from committing unemployment benefits fraud was arrested Friday in Los Angeles on federal charges of carrying out that very scheme by fraudulently applying for more than $1.2 million...
WSJ News Exclusive | Top White House Official Flew to Syria for Talks to Free U.S. Hostages
A top White House official recently traveled to Damascus for secret meetings with the Assad regime, marking the first time such a high-level U.S. official has met in Syria with the isolated government in more than a decade, according to Trump...
As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place
A nationwide operation of 1,300 local sites publishes coverage that is ordered up by Republican groups and corporate P.R. firms.
The Rukmini Callimachi Controversies: Some Thoughts
Most of the readers of my blog are probably aware at this point of a series of controversies surrounding the New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi. The initial spark was the arrest of one 'Abu Huzaifa al-Kanadi' by the Canadian authorities on...
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Graeme Wood
A balanced assessment of the current state of the accusations against Rukmini Callimachi. (Some of the tirades against her have been unhinged.)
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Sibyl Hathaway - Wikipedia
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'Sibyl Beaumont had no contact with her father until the birth of her first child, Bridget (1902–1948), when he sent her a telegram of condolence because the child was female, saying: "Sorry it was a vixen” ‘
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Religion Professor Denies Accusations of Human Rights Abuse Cover-Up
A letter calling for the removal of a faculty member was sent to President Carmen Twillie Ambar yesterday, alleging that the professor participated in covering up the Iranian regime’s 1988 mass killing of political prisoners. The letter was written...
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Coronavirus: fake news factories churning out lies over ‘monkey’ vaccine
The messages are deliberately unsophisticated, laced with attempts at dark humour and calculated to spread fear, uncertainty and scepticism.A picture of Boris Johnson walking in Downing Street has
Graeme Wood
These Russian anti-vaccination propaganda images, alleging that #COVID19 vaccinations will turn you into a monkey, are far too fun to be effective: thetimes.co.uk/article/fake-n… pic.twitter.com/P3zRLvU8Cb
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