International visual correspondent for @globeandmail. Ex- @latimes foreign correspondent. Nieman Fellow ’24–25 @Harvard. Still winless at trivia.
Cambridge, MA
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2017 was an eventful year. But one memory stood out: when Darl Synder, a reader, sent me an American Flag in the mail. I was on assignment overseas when I got an email from my equipment manager asking me if I bought a television and had it sent to the office. ⬇️
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Applications for the 2026 Stringer Foundation awards for journalists is now open. "The awards offer unrestricted funding for courageous journalists...The form can be filled out in any language and only takes a few minutes. All vetted applicants will receive access to technological safety tools, mental health education, writing, photography and other training opportunities."
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"There have been some signs, however, that voters are paying closer attention in light of the billions Trump made last year." nytimes.com/2026/07/29/us/po…
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In January, 2025, Wenjian Zhuo drove to a location near the Canadian border to pick up a passenger, who he assumed was an international student. Instead, he ended up in the middle of a drug-trafficking scheme. Jennifer Gonnerman reports on how a Chinese-immigrant driver became involved in a marijuana-smuggling incident near a Mohawk reservation: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/DN…
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Rubio "runs" Venezuela, but not alone. Now his right-hand man, Mauricio Claver-Carone, is out after ruffling feathers with his heavy-handed approach and relationship with VZ businessman Alejandro Betancourt, who the US has been using as an intermediary
reuters.com/world/trumps-pow…
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Many struggling Americans now find their difficulties compounded by President Trump's cuts in food stamps and health care. On a 1,000 mile road trip, I met people like Trinity Goodman, who survives by selling blood plasma, has $3.78 in her bank account, one cent in her savings account to keep it open, and six pennies in cash.
And the group most likely to live in poverty in America? Children, especially children under 2. They aren't lazy, and they aren't irresponsible, yet they are being set up for failure that will haunt all of us. And while it's easy to focus on Trump's policies, and we should, both parties have dropped the ball and failed so many. A gift link to my column: nytimes.com/2026/08/01/opini…
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He helped China repress Uyghurs. He says he's a victim, now too. After nearly 10 years carrying out Chinese government repression in Xinjiang, a former Chinese police officer is now seeking asylum in Germany. trib.al/WOfvmvt
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PODCAST: Inside Meta’s war on Palestinian content
A new report by @7amleh examined over 3,500 cases of digital censorship relating to Palestine. @NadimNashif explains what they discovered.
972mag.com/podcast-meta-pale…
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Giving addicts clean needles and safe places to inject was supposed to save lives, @powellAtlantic writes. Instead, it created a “zombie apocalypse”: theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
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This, also from NYT, is absolutely heart-breaking, and gets at why just "surviving" the current crisis can't be the end game, let alone be celebrated or romanticized. Cubans deserve a way out.
nytimes.com/video/world/amer…
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Secret Service agents were told to quickly send a written summary of their interview with Comey to Trump on Air Force One, one of the most glaring examples to date of how he now personally directs federal law enforcement actions. @DevlinBarrett @alanfeuer nytimes.com/2026/07/29/us/ja…
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Helpful Reuters summary of a report by The Information on China appearing to have built homegrown deep ultraviolet lithography machines
reuters.com/world/china/chin…
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Spent 2 weeks with the civilians vanguards of Taiwan and learned about the civil defense movement on the island nation.
Read our story in The Globe and Mail: shorturl.at/bzyI2
Spent 2 weeks with the civilians vanguards of Taiwan and learned about the civil defense movement on the island nation.
Read our story in The Globe and Mail: shorturl.at/bzyI2
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In Taiwan, civilians are preparing for a conflict they hope never comes.
The Globe's international visual correspondent Marcus Yam spent more than two weeks shadowing the island’s budding civil defence movement, and learned it’s about more than strategizing for potential war with China.
Read @yamphoto's full story and see his photos chronicling life as possible conflict looms: theglobeandmail.com/world/ar…
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A decade ago, Taiwan's economy was highly reliant on China.
Today Taiwan invests almost nothing in China and is projected to clock economic growth of 10% this year vs China's 4.3%.
Taiwan has shown that it is possible to pivot away from China and thrive.
asia.nikkei.com/opinion/taiw…
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"He was the guardian of Israel’s standing in America, a task he never delegated, since he believed that nobody understood it better than he did. And it is a task at which Netanyahu, as Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, has failed abjectly." -- @FranklinFoer: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Brilliant piece by my @defpriorities colleague @jekavanagh in the NYT. I particularly like this insight: "...history has shown that Asian countries with diverse interests and forms of government can build working partnerships without deep U.S. participation. The 11-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, founded in 1967, is often criticized as slow and indecisive in responding to shared challenges ... But ASEAN has helped to maintain peace among its members in a part of Asia previously torn by decades of war and provided a framework for Southeast Asia to engage with China."
The transition to a more self-reliant Asian security order that requires less of the U.S. is underway.
For @nytopinion I argue that this is unavoidable.
An over-extended U.S. that has squandered its military power cannot underwrite Asia's security anymore. It will have to pull back & the region itself will have to fill the gaps.
It's good news that Asia is already adjusting to this reality.
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'There was a stunning Freedom of Information release last week of a CIA note that indicated that the CIA did not believe that the Venezuelan elections from 2006 to 2020 were significantly affected by election fraud. So the imposition of the vast bulk of Western sanctions which crippled Venezuela over that period – and at one point caused devastating famine and mass emigration – were knowingly based on a lie.'
A great deal of effort and attention went into this article on the Karim Khan case and on Venezuela, and it contains key information you will find literally nowhere else.
I was up all night writing and editing, and published at 7am.
craigmurray.org.uk/archives/…
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If your attention span has suffered in the past few years and you’re struggling to finish a single novel, it wouldn’t hurt to read more poetry
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Across Iran’s southern coast, U.S. strikes have destroyed ports, fishing boats, roads, airports and power infrastructure.
@KarimkhanF reports on the communities enduring the attacks amid extreme heat and rolling blackouts, for @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/reportage/so…
