Ten years ago today, my life and the lives of hundreds of thousands of Yazidis were upended and shattered. Coming together with other survivors a decade later to commemorate the 10th anniversary in Sinjar sends a powerful message to those who sought to eradicate us from our

Me: "How many [Uighurs] are in detention?" Victor Gao: "Let me be philosophical..." Me: No, don't be philosophical. Be numerical. How many people are in detention?" Watch a clip from my latest Head to Head, with Chinese government defender Victor Gao:

In Germany, Nadia Murad gathered with family and fellow survivors from Kocho to mark the 10th anniversary of the Kocho Massacre. Ten years on, they continue to fight for justice. As we honor the victims of Kocho, we must stand alongside survivors until justice is delivered.

Thrilled to share that my book, “Strangers in the Land,” will be published by Doubleday on 4/29/25. It’s an epic history of exclusion, belonging, and the complications of our multiracial democracy. Please pre-order and spread the word! penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704981/s…

This last episode gets to a place that you would be hard pressed to anticipate… or to forget. You’ll probably stop whatever else you’re doing when you get to it. A pitch-perfect ending to a podcast that kept delivering.

On its 10th anniversary, Signal's president Meredith Whittaker is reminding you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. Doesn’t track or serve you ads. Pays its engineers well. And millions use it. #TheBigInterview: wired.com/story/meredith…

A thread and short video intro, from me, about our latest story. 👇 Very glad to have gotten the chance to help tell an undercovered side of last year's tragic events in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Heartbroken to learn of the loss of my old friend and @wired colleague Steve Silberman. He was a pioneer in writing about so much, including, quite often the mysteries of the human brain. Here are some favorites. wired.com/story/the-plac… wired.com/2015/08/fully-…

"The war in Sudan has received a fraction of the attention given to Gaza and Ukraine. Yet it threatens to be deadlier than either conflict....Perhaps 150,000 people have been slaughtered and bodies are piling up in makeshift cemeteries visible from space." economist.com/leaders/2024/0…

Ted Chiang: When you are writing fiction, you are—consciously or unconsciously—making a choice about almost every word you type; to oversimplify, we can imagine that a ten-thousand-word short story requires something on the order of ten thousand choices. newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

The Three Mile Island nuclear plant is being restarted. All 835 megawatts will go to power Microsoft's data centers. This is both the first time a U.S. nuclear plant will come back into service after being decommissioned, and that an entire plant’s output will go to one customer.

Bellingcat explores the mysterious Hungarian company linked to the exploding pagers from Tuesday’s attack in Lebanon that left at least 12 dead and almost 3000 injured. Researchers found an unreported name associated with the consulting firm. bellingcat.com/news/2024/09/2…

Ambassador with Israel Foreign Ministry celebrates Azerbaijan’s brutal military approach to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, resulting in the enclave’s entire Armenian population fleeing one year ago—the ethnic purging and territorial control now marked as “State Sovereignty Day” in Baku.

This piece about Russian hybrid warfare by the remarkable Ben Taub is a must read. It’s set in the Arctic. But the observations and lessons apply across Europe, and in the Baltics and in the South Caucasus, among other places.

Of the many complexities of the Karabakh conflict, the blurring of NKAO with the 7 regions into a single imagined space in Armenian discourse doesn’t get enough attention. But this had moral and strategic implications, and should be explored, even at a moment of loss and trauma

the first photo of a sunset on Mars. ~ via Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Today marks 10 years since Uyghur HRD Ilham Tohti was cruelly sentenced to life imprisonment in #China for his peaceful work promoting the rights of the Uyghur minority. I once again call for his immediate release & for China to stop misusing criminal legislation to target HRDs

Former Vice President Al Gore says there should be changes in the COP hosting selection process at #AxiosHouse in NYC. "This is the third year in a row where it's hosted by a petro state, it's really ridiculous."

Crazy. The unsealed indictment against New York City mayor Eric Adams appears to show, in count 42 (b), the Turkish government using corruption in the form of “illegal benefits” to influence him into making no statements about the Armenian Genocide in April 2022.

My first piece for Bellingcat is out. Read about how we found evidence of ransacking and destruction of civilian homes in Nagorno-Karabakh! Thanks to my reporting partner Ella Chakarian and the great team at Bellingcat for supporting this work. bellingcat.com/uncategorized/…