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<title><![CDATA[Graeme Wood - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/29713.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Graeme Wood]]></description><category domain="29713">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[A Near-Disaster on Flydubai and Its Implications]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This unbelievable sequence of events has huge implications.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Arday's Final Self-Delusion]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/iJrRg</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Elevating a fraud is shameful. Exposing one isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Something Is Happening to America's Moral Code]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A New York Times podcast hosted Hasan Piker and a New Yorker staff writer for a discussion of lawbreaking, which they both endorsed as resistance to tyranny.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&lsquo;The Most Dangerous Man in the World&rsquo;]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/i0RZy</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mojtaba Khamenei, a candidate to succeed his father as Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s supreme leader, is no reformer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Most Effective Antidote to ISIS Attacks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/crime/general/the-most-effective-antidote-to-isis-attacks/ar-AA1wP4SO?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The man who murdered at least 15 people with his truck on Bourbon Street last night was flying the black banner of the Islamic State from his truck,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' according'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to the FBI. Police shot 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar dead at the scene. So far little else is known about the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ismail Haniyeh's Assassination Sends a Message]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ismail-haniyeh-s-assassination-sends-a-message/ar-BB1qXrhc?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Early this morning, Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Revolutionary Guard Corps announced that someone'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'no points for guessing who'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'had fired a projectile into the temporary bedroom of the Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh and killed him, along with an Iranian bodyguard. Haniyeh was in Tehran for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Scheme for Biden To Preserve His Dignity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-scheme-for-biden-to-preserve-his-dignity/ar-BB1pBc0c</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Hamas Called Its Female Captives, and Why It Matters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-hamas-called-its-female-captives-and-why-it-matters/ar-BB1n2KEt?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week, Israel released an appalling video featuring five female Israeli soldiers taken captive at Nahal Oz military base on October 7.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Will Netanyahu Do Now?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-will-netanyahu-do-now/ar-BB1lBbs0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On April 1, Israel killed Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior official of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, by attacking Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s consulate in Damascus. Iran spent the next two weeks promising revenge, and the world tried to imagine what form that revenge might take.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israeli-Hostage Families Fear Abandonment]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/there-will-probably-be-a-cease-fire-and-then-they-will-just-be-names/ar-AA1jn812</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, while walking through central Jerusalem, I heard a chant in the distance. War has driven away tourists, and in a tourist city without tourists, sounds carry far. The discernible portion of the chant was a single word in Hebrew, akshav'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'now.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Israeli Officials Screened Footage of Hamas Attack]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-israeli-officials-screened-footage-of-the-hamas-attack/ar-AA1iHMNq</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This afternoon, at a military base north of Tel Aviv, the Israel Defense Forces held a grisly matinee screening of 43 minutes of raw footage from Hamas'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s October 7 attack.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Historic Cataclysm in the Middle East]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-could-come-next-in-the-middle-east/ar-AA1hQoLB#:'&#'.ord('~').';':text=War%20is%20a%20perpetual%20concern,building%20deciding%20whom%20to%20slaughter.</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[War is a perpetual concern in Israel, but it has been decades since Israelis have had to wonder whether today might be the day that their borders will be overrun and their enemies will go building to building deciding whom to slaughter.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran's Inflluence Operation Pays Off]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-s-influence-operation-pays-off/ar-AA1hpoTM</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When news comes out that someone has suffered an email breach, my first instinct is to pity them and practice extreme charity. I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t remember any emails I wrote a decade ago, but I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m sure there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s something in there appalling enough to sour my relationships with every...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Mercenary Always Loses]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-mercenary-always-loses/ar-AA1fJzpn</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2019, a Russian foreign-policy hand told me that his country had intervened in Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad for reasons that were, he said, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'pedagogical.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Putin had watched the Bush and Obama administrations insert themselves into Iraq, Libya, and Syria,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Salman Rushdie and the Cult of Offense]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/salman-rushdie-and-the-cult-of-offense/ar-AA10EmL5</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when you debase free expression in the name of free expression.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Al-Zawahiri Is Dead. He Was Already Irrelevant]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-key-9-11-plotter-is-dead-he-was-already-irrelevant/ar-AA10cMTo</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why Ayman al-Zawahiri's killing won't have much effect on global terrorism]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Does ISIS Want Now?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/kabul-airport-bombing-afghanistan/619906/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A bombing at Kabul airport portends grave consequences as the Islamic State's affiliate takes on the Taliban.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Princeton Dumbs Down Classics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/princeton-greek-latin-requirement/619136/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And that might be the right way to save classics from oblivion.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No, We Should Not Be Pausing the J&amp;J Vaccine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-j-j-vaccine-is-not-a-tainted-cantaloupe/ar-BB1fEeCY</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am one of the nearly 7 million Americans with the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine percolating through my tissue at this very moment. It feels good. The sensation of rising immunity to COVID-19 would almost certainly still feel good if I were a woman between the ages of 18 and 48, like all...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is the Problem, Not China]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/trumps-chinese-virus-tweet/608263/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Are you most offended by Trump's insistence on racializing the pandemic, or by the administration's incompetence?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Coronavirus Could Break Iranian Society]]></title>
							<link>https://outline.com/PJytD8</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Picture the following sacred but unhygienic scene: Pilgrims from a dozen countries converge on one small city. They stay in cramped hotels, using communal toilets and eating meals together.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Baghdadi&rsquo;s Death Punctuates the End of an Era]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/death-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-end-era/600880/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[First the ISIS leader lost his state, then he took his life.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Was Right Not to Sign the Christchurch Call]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/trump-was-right-not-sign-christchurch-call/590038/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The pledge to eliminate extremist content online is antithetical to the American understanding of free expression.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harvard's Ronald Sullivan Affair Is Less Than It Seems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/ronald-sullivan-was-fired-harvard-does-it-matter/589471/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Ronald Sullivan affair is about everything'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and nothing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Is Alive. Now What?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/baghdadi-alive-shows-new-isis-video/588313/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Islamic State released a video today of the most wanted man in the world.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Sri Lanka Probably Wasn't Retaliation for Christchurch]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/were-sri-lanka-bombings-retaliation-christchurch/587836/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Even if the retribution argument were consistent with prior ISIS doctrine, which it is not, the timing is off.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Sri Lanka Silenced Social Media]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/after-sri-lanka-bombings-social-media-banned/587686/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Information blackouts almost always turn into authoritarian tools, whether or not they start that way.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ISIS Is Like a Chronic Disease]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/opinion/islamic-state-defeated.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It can be managed but never really cured.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[John Bolton May Save Us All]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/john-bolton-trump-national-security-adviser/583246/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The national security adviser could be our best hope for protecting the world from Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s impulses.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jamal Khashoggi's Murder Remains a Mystery]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/jamal-khashoggis-murder-still-mystery/579079/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Graeme Wood</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The conventional account leaves major questions unanswered.]]></description>
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