@gcaw

Staff writer, @TheAtlantic. Lecturer, @Yale political science. Formerly: @newrepublic, @DeutschePostDHL

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Joined May 2008
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.@washingtonpost coverage of their reporter Heidi Levine being attacked by settlers: washingtonpost.com/world/202…

Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and Washington Post photographer in West Bank

The settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives and beat Heidi Levine, a veteran photojournalist. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers did nothing to halt the violence.

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‘All the poet would say was she was “in Iceland,” where she was “listening to the wind.”’ nytimes.com/2026/10/08/books…

Canadian Poet Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.

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does not break character
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Hyperborean sibyl, voyageuse through grief and longing. Excellent choice overall
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Dial down the fine to $100, but confiscate the phone until they pay the fine in person at a police station.
Polymarket
@PolymarketSep 24
JUST IN: Singapore is cracking down on people blasting music & videos on public transportation, with violators now facing fines of up to $500 SGD.
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Free pair of the cheapest possible ear buds when they pick up the phone. Use Singapore’s confiscated chewing gum to destroy the phone’s speakers
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@TheAtlanticSep 22
The real problems for Israel lie within—negotiating religious and ethnic divides, and figuring out how the country will govern itself, @gcaw reports. Dismantling Hamas, one former official told him, is a leisurely errand by comparison. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…

Israel Can’t Postpone Its Reckoning Forever

Intractable divides between the secular and the religious pose a bigger problem for the country than any external threat.

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Steven Pinker
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One generalization from The Better Angels of Our Nature is that terrorist movements virtually never attain their political goals. 25 years after 9/11, this remains true of Al Qaeda - Graeme Wood in The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/magazine/202…

What Happened to al-Qaeda?

Twenty-five years after 9/11, analysts can’t decide if the terrorist organization is all but defunct or more threatening than ever.

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I find it weirdly comforting that Osama bin-Laden was both evil and, apparently, mindbendingly stupid. theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
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Jack Shafer@jackshaferAug 18
Replying to @gcaw
@gcaw with the last best word on Jason Arday. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…

Jason Arday’s Final Self-Delusion

Elevating a fraud is shameful. Exposing one isn’t.

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Scott Stossel@SStosselJun 19
"Normally one would have to pay a lot of money to a discreet professional to be humiliated this badly. Watching Trump and his aides sell the deal is in some ways as humiliating as the deal itself. “ theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…

Iran Has Humiliated Trump

Officials in Tehran got the United States to sign a document that even Americans described as degrading, mortifying, a total capitulation.

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Yoni Appelbaum
@YAppelbaumMay 20
“An article in The Atlantic in March, citing anonymous associates of Mr. Ahmadinejad, said that the former president had been freed from government confinement after the strike at his house, which the article described as “in effect a jailbreak operation.””
Mark Mazzetti@MarkMazzettiNYTMay 19
NEW: The regime change plan at the beginning of the Iran War called for installing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's former hard line president known for accelerating the nuclear program and denying the Holocaust, as the country's new. leader.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/po…

Early War Goal Was to Install Hard-Line Former President as Iran’s Leader

An Israeli strike designed to free Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from house arrest in Tehran, U.S. officials said, was part of an effort to bring about regime change and put him in power.

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The bombing of Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's compound in February was not an assassination attempt but an Israeli-led jailbreak operation: nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/po…

Early War Goal Was to Install Hard-Line Former President as Iran’s Leader

An Israeli strike designed to free Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from house arrest in Tehran, U.S. officials said, was part of an effort to bring about regime change and put him in power.

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Yoni Appelbaum
@YAppelbaumMar 10
Replying to @YAppelbaum
Full story from @gcaw theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…

Why Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Is Still Useful

For more than a decade, he has been known more as a regime opponent than as a supporter.

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Karim Sadjadpour
@ksadjadpourMay 3
5 The "Mossad's trained zoo of animals" has been seriously reported about in Iranian state media, together with images of sharks and vultures wearing yarmulkes yjc.ir/fa/news/4253519/%D8%A…
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Crime, to these people, appears to be a series of Thomas Crown affairs, punctuated for some reason by free guacamole. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…

Something Is Happening to America’s Moral Code

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.

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Jack Shafer@jackshaferApr 24
The Fake Radicals Stealing Lemons @gcaw theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…

Something Is Happening to America’s Moral Code

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.

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“If I tried to escape, I was told, I would be killed.” ⁦@shellykittleson⁩ for ⁦@TheAtlantic⁩: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…

If I Tried to Escape, I Would Be Killed

A kidnapping in Iraq

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Transmission from an Indian tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, fired upon by Iranian navy after receiving Iranian permission to pass
TankerTrackers.com, Inc.
@TankerTrackersApr 18
Replying to @TankerTrackers
Here’s today’s audio recording involving SANMAR HERALD (9330563).
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In fairness, the scammers had as much legal authority to tax the Indian tanker’s passage as the IRGC did
Josh Young
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"New reports from today indicate that this Indian tanker fell for a fake IRGC crypto scam. They paid USDT to the scammers, thinking they could now pass through freely, and got shot at by the real IRGC forces."
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Nano-scale miracles of engineering—literally everywhere you look.
Natalie Wolchover@nattyoverApr 20
Bacteria move around using a molecular machine called the flagellar motor that rotates faster than the flywheel of a race car engine and switches directions in an instant. After 50 yrs, scientists have finally figured out how it works. “My lifelong quest is now fulfilled.” Link⤵️
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