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Graeme Wood is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The Way of the
Strangers: Encounters With the Islamic State.
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   OF COURSE JOURNALISTS SHOULD INTERVIEW AUTOCRATS
   
   Anyone who tells you otherwise does not understand the purpose of journalism.
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * March 6, 2022
 * Lynsey Addario for The Atlantic
   
   
   ABSOLUTE POWER
   
   Asked about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Mohammed bin Salman said, “If
   that’s the way we did things, Khashoggi would not even be among the top 1,000
   people on the list.”
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * April 2022 Issue
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   HOW THE FINNS DETER RUSSIAN INVASION
   
   If you want ordinary people to make your society occupation-proof, you have
   to teach them to kill well before they need to do so.
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * March 2, 2022
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   ‘LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS’ ARE JUST MORAL EXHIBITIONISM
   
   These statements relieve the speaker and the audience of the responsibility
   to think about Indigenous peoples, at least until the next public event.
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * November 28, 2021
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   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.
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * October 2, 2021
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   WHAT DOES ISIS WANT NOW?
   
   A bombing at Kabul airport portends grave consequences as the Islamic State’s
   affiliate takes on the Taliban.
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * August 27, 2021
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   THIS IS NOT THE TALIBAN 2.0
   
   The group’s claims of having changed are probably more reassuring to those
   unfamiliar with its history.
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * August 18, 2021
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   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.
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * July 22, 2021
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   PRINCETON DUMBS DOWN CLASSICS
   
   And that might be the right way to save classics from oblivion.
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * June 9, 2021
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   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?
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * June 6, 2021
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   THE RYANAIR HIJACKING PIERCED THE DELUSION OF FLIGHT
   
   Flying over a foreign country has, until now, felt to most people like
   teleporting past it.
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * May 28, 2021
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   THE CANCELLATION OF NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES
   
   Cancellation is not criticism; cancellation is the absence of criticism.
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * May 21, 2021
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   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.
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * April 14, 2021
 * Gérard DuBois
   
   
   THE AWFUL WISDOM OF THE HOSTAGE
   
   What a new memoir reveals about endurance—and extreme remorse
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * May 2021 Issue
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   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.
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * April 2, 2021
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   AMERICA HAS FORGOTTEN HOW TO FORGIVE
   
   The revolt against Alexi McCammond shows that even Teen Vogue doesn’t think
   teens deserve a sin jubilee.
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * March 19, 2021
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   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.
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * March 17, 2021
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   ROYALS COULD CHOOSE ORDINARY ANONYMITY
   
   But they don’t. Expect more scandals in the future.
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * March 9, 2021
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   MURDERERS SHOULD BE CALLED MURDERERS
   
   Frequently and to their faces
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * February 26, 2021
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   WHAT TO DO WITH TRUMPISTS
   
   The proper response to these extremists isn’t counterterrorism. It is mental
   hygiene.
   
   * Graeme Wood
   * January 19, 2021

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