Graeme Wood
He joined the magazine in 2006 after working as a translator, courier, and bootlegger in northern Iraq. He has since reported for The Atlantic from every continent except Antarctica, and on subjects ranging from foreign policy to pro wrestling. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and teaches at Yale University.
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Israeli Government Press Office / Anadolu / Getty What Will Netanyahu Do Now?
Iran has handed him an opportunity. Will he find a way to blow it?
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Jack Guez / AFP / Getty Israeli Rage Reaches New Levels
Protesters believe they cannot change Hamas, but they might be able to change their own government.
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Stringer / AFP / Getty Conspiracy Theories About the Moscow Attack Are Unnecessary
The fault lines in Russian society have foretold yesterday’s atrocity for literally centuries.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Maxar Technologies / … A Suspicious Pattern Alarming the Ukrainian Military
A Ukrainian military source believes that Russia’s long-range strikes are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty Stop Glorifying Self-Immolation
The tendency to celebrate and encourage this behavior, or even to be moved by it, strikes me as deeply sick.
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TC Shorts What Tucker Carlson Saw in Moscow
He never quite says what precisely he thinks Russia gets right.
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Samuel Corum / Bloomberg / Getty The Presidency Is Not a Math Test
Neither of the old men running on a major ticket shows any sign of catastrophic senescence.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty Jamaal Bowman’s Very Bad Poetry
Before he entered politics, the representative posed some questions in verse about 9/11.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Jacquelyn Martin / … The Stay Puft Marshmallow Doctrine
Something is broken in the current policy of brinkmanship with Iran, and something unusual might be needed to restore a status quo.
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Piroschka van de Wouw / Reuters Israel’s Bitter Bind
Arguments made before the International Court of Justice earlier this month were infuriating, no matter whose side one took.
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Pressuring Israel Works
The U.S. provided a detailed list of steps, symbolic and concrete, that would prevent the West Bank from becoming another front in the war.
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Craig F. Walker / The Boston Globe / … Harvard’s Bundy Standard
Claudine Gay’s defenders erred in trying to suggest that she was a “scholar’s scholar.”
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Jalaa Marey / AFP / Getty Hamas Doesn’t Want a Cease-Fire
It wants the war to expand.
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Frederic Sautereau / laif / Redux Is Hamas Waging a Religious War?
The group’s religiosity is real, but flexible.
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Kevin Dietsch / Getty Harvard’s President Should Resign
And so should everyone else.
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Gil Cohen-Magen / AFP/ Getty A Moral Case Against the Israeli Hostage Deal
Israel is collectivizing its own sin, the sin of rewarding hostage-taking.
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Gali Tibbon / AFP / Getty Why the Most Hated Man in Israel Might Stay in Power
Benjamin Netanyahu has a path to political survival.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. ‘If We Go on Living Like This, Israel Is Not Going to Find Peace’
In the short term, indirect rule of Gaza by the Palestinian Authority is worth considering.
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Photograph by Jerome Sessini / Magnum for The … ‘There Will Probably Be a Cease-Fire. And Then They Will Just Be Names.’
Israeli-hostage families fear abandonment.
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Avishag Shaar-Yashuv / The New York Times / … The Theory of Hamas’s Catastrophic Success
Both Hamas and Israel are making up strategies as they go.
