Just finished Neha Dixit's book. Devastating. A staggering work of sustained qualitative data collection over 9 years. Both the protagonist and the author were subject to violent threats during drafting. A vivid reminder that recall is nonlinear, 60 minutes may not be enough.

Election officials in the state of Arizona are giving public tours of a fortified ballot processing center to assuage fraud concerns ahead of the US presidential election. My AFP News Agency report from Phoenix, with photos by Patrick T. Fallon: u.afp.com/5LMQ

From Daniel P. Galgano + Anuj Chopra: A barrage of attacks on Tim Walz fueled by misinformation over his support for LGBTQ communities has failed to dent the US vice presidential candidate's surging poll ratings barrons.com/news/vp-conten…

"His position seems more Tom Wambsgans than Katharine Graham." Great, must-read piece by Arthur MacMillan on the credibility crisis facing WaPo's Will Lewis. Brit checks in with baggage - BJR bjr.org.uk/brit-checks-in…

US disinformation researcher laments 'incredible witch hunt' AFP spoke with Renee DiResta DiResta, author of "Invisible Rulers: The people who turn lies into reality." ⁦Anuj Chopra⁩ and ⁦Alex Pigman⁩ sg.news.yahoo.com/us-disinformat…

US-American disinformation researcher says Republican inquiry about ties to government is "witch hunt" sg.news.yahoo.com/us-disinformat…

Priceless artefacts looted from Sudan’s National Museum. Fighters have taken away boxes of ancient statues, vases and other items in the capital, Khartoum, over the past year, according to senior museum staff. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Season 3 of The New Yorker's podcast In the Dark is one of the pieces of investigative journalism I am the proudest to have supported Pulitzer Center It's not just about war crimes committed by US Marines in Haditha, Iraq, but about the coverup that ensued newyorker.com/season-3

Saudi Arabia's NEOM a magnet for expat employees known for racism, misogyny, corruption. Great reporting (as always) by Rory Jones wsj.com/business/the-w…

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Interesting, but who thought otherwise? nytimes.com/2024/09/14/bus…

This is an outstanding The New York Review of Books essay by Tareq Baconi that has radically deepened my understanding of what it is to be Palestinian. nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

Incredibly moving evening at ⁦British Library⁩ listening to Afghan women tell ⁦lyse doucet⁩ explain how their desperate WhatsApp messages about life under the Taliban became a book - and a very powerful one everyone should read ⁦Coronet⁩

More powerful and beautifully written work by lizzie johnson and Anastacia Galouchka from Kharkiv, with photos by the one and only Oksana Parafeniuk washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/…

Reuters story from two months ago. Maybe Hezbollah should have kept its iPhones.

Thanks Nick McDonnell- “Radio Free Afghanistan: a Twenty Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul” out in exactly a week in the US

.Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and The Washington Post argue that there is an “overwhelming public interest” in unsealing court records related to a now-closed special counsel investigation that examined whether Egypt sought to give Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign $10 million. rcfp.org/trump-egypt-sp…

On behalf of Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and The Washington Post, we have filed two motions to unseal additional court documents relating to this blockbuster Egypt story by Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis. Links below. Hearing in EDVA case on 10/18. gibsondunn.com/wp-content/upl… gibsondunn.com/wp-content/upl…

I had a lot of fun interviewing Alia Bhatt for Allure. We spoke about beauty, fashion, cinema, motherhood, among other things. allure.com/story/alia-bha…