Graeme Wood is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a lecturer in political science at Yale University. At The Atlantic since 2006, he has covered foreign affairs, domestic policy, climate science, food, sports, and more. Wood’s book, The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State, won the Canadian Governor-General’s Award for Nonfiction. Previously, Wood was a contributing editor to The New Republic, literary editor of Pacific Standard, and the 2015-2016 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has also written for The New Yorker, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the International Herald Tribune, among others.
Previously
Recent years have seen the wane of the threat of ISIS, even as white supremacists carry out more violent attacks across the globe, from Christchurch, New Zealand, to Charlotte...
Recent years have seen rising political extremism in both Europe and the United States, from Neo-Nazi rallies in Charlottesville to ISIS jihadists in Brussels. One of the hard...
Tens of thousands of men and women have left comfortable, privileged lives to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria—and kill for it. The highest-ranking American currently...