Staff Writer at The Atlantic. Before: Washington Post foreign correspondent in Barcelona, Mexico City, Nairobi and Kabul. Florida man.
Joined October 2008
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I’m thrilled to join The Atlantic. theatlantic.com/press-releas…
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El Salvador is still imprisoning deportees from the U.S., even after Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case sparked a backlash. Some are disappearing, @ksieff reports: theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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After thousands of stories, this is the last piece I'll ever write in the @washingtonpost.
It's about Iceland, looking at the planet's future, seeing an existential threat.
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Only in the Washington Post:
Newly 18 and unemployed, Vika felt like her life was going nowhere fast. So when a stranger on Telegram offered her cash to make a delivery, she agreed.
Then, she found out it was a bomb. washingtonpost.com/world/202…
He took on the world’s hardest sailing race while battling cancer. What would it do to his body? wapo.st/4qDPyxK
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Finally got around to reading this eye-opening piece from the Washington Post on how some U.S. universities are funding time trials in Kenya to recruit distance talent. These “Golden Ticket” races to an NCAA scholarship are totally reshaping college running.
Then, I caught up on some of the cross country results from this past weekend. The scale of the Kenya to NCAA pipeline is staggering already.
Looking at the results from the Cowboy Jamboree in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
On the men's side, Town Hall (one of the recruiting services being used by these universities) had seven men in the top 10 – including three to New Mexico and two to Oklahoma State.
On the women's side, Town Hall had five athletes in the top 10 – including three at Oklahoma State.
Not faulting Kenyan athletes who are chasing life-changing opportunities. It’s more about the system. Schools are outsourcing recruitment overseas and the NCAA’s structure enables it. How much of NCAA XC is still about the growth of student-athletes or the growth of a globalized talent marketplace? Curious what people think.
A recruiting drive in Kenya is changing the face of U.S. college athletics as time trials have become bitterly competitive for runners seeking a way out of poverty.
Critics call it “athlete trafficking.” wapo.st/4mrWzPR
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Warms my heart to see report of U.S. colleges finally looking to Africa to recruit world class athletes. During my years in Africa I ran across many young athletes with world champion potential but missing opportunities for training and competition. washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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A behind the scenes look at the craziness of NCAA recruiting in running, and how 3rd party companies are making lots of $$$ to get desperate east africans to the US.
It's a mess all around.
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"Platters stacked with cash, thieves making off with priceless pigeons in the night, wronged fanciers and devoted detectives. This crime caper has everything I could ask for in a story." -Guest editor @klaidlaw's top pick by @ksieff washingtonpost.com/world/int…
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Another cracking dispatch from @ksieff, who teleports like some sort of Douglas Adams character to those crooked crossroads where cash, crime and absurdity collide. This one: the Chinese pigeon mafia erupts into the Flemish countryside. washingtonpost.com/world/int…
The pigeon heist: How million-dollar racing birds became the target of organized crime wapo.st/42bOR55
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Today on the @washingtonpost!
With @ksieff, we went through thousands of pages of court documents and interviews over the past months.
“They are the die-hard fans of Milan’s soccer teams — and mafia-controlled”, by Kevin Sieff and Francesco Porzio.
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This is how the war in Gaza looks from the locker room of Bnei Sakhnin, a team of Arabs and Jews in Israel's premier league, struggling to hold together since Oct. 7: wapo.st/43oXTNA
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📽️🎬 @ksieff's investigation into an elite Mexican police force comes to life on @netflix as part of our first look partnership with @RealImagine
Una unidad policial mexicana de élite tiene una misión: atrapar fugitivos estadounidenses que escapan a México.🏃🏻♂️
La serie ‘Los gringo hunters’ llega a Netflix este 2025. 👮♂️ #NuevoEnNetflix
This children’s go-karting circuit is the wildly expensive path to Formula 1. Teams charge hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Kids arrive in helicopters. With bodyguards. But amidst that moneyed chaos, there are high-stakes rivalries, like this one: wapo.st/3ZwvQYZ
The first two sentences of this excellent @rubycramer story make a good case for you to subscribe (re-subscribe?) to the @washingtonpost. washingtonpost.com/nation/in…
One of the great journalists and editors of our time, David E. Hoffman, explains why he’s resigning from the Post’s editorial board. What a loss.
Quincy Promes was one of the most famous players in the Netherlands. On the side, he was quietly importing vast amounts of cocaine from Latin America to Europe: washingtonpost.com/world/202…
The whole time, Promes released rap songs that seemed to narrate his descent into Europe's criminal underworld. This song, perhaps a bit on the nose, is called "Cocaine": youtube.com/watch?v=z-n2Rv43…
It was a strange experience reporting this story on a star athlete trying to make it as a drug trafficker. Because just a few months ago, we published this investigation on one of the world's biggest drug traffickers trying to make it as an athlete: washingtonpost.com/world/int…
