Matthieu Aikins

@mattaikins

Schell Fellow at the . I report from South Asia and the Middle East for Harper's, Rolling Stone, the New Yorker, et al. PGP & email on my site.

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  1. Apr 7

    NDS funded "people's uprisings" in Andar and militias in Kunduz. Uprising label just seems like a way to avoid what little oversight ALP has

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  2. Apr 7

    Great reporting by and , though People's Uprising is old wine in (barely) new bottles. 1/2

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  3. Apr 7

    Aww, even the GWOT has quaint consequences in Canada. ht

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    Apr 7

    Its the birthday of feminist Violette Leduc & a good time to ask Why have we forgotten her

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  5. Apr 5

    Holy smokes so many great suggestions. Picked a few, added my own-Savage Detectives. Kindle laden, now boarding, thanks superfriends.

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  6. Apr 5

    PS: I'm really picky

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  7. Apr 5

    Quick, gimme a novel for a long flight. Something incandescent that will keep me awake. Doesn't have to be new.

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  8. Apr 4

    Rarely does reading a Trump op-ed not produce a candy hangover; this piece is worth reading and thinking about.

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  9. Apr 4

    Part of a longstanding pattern. English link here:

    Writer Bashir Ahmad Riyan is one of 11 'suspicious' deaths in Kandahar over the last two weeks:
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  10. Apr 4

    About six years ago I heard Talese mention this story at an event. He said he didn't know if he'd ever publish it.

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    Best critique yet of Bernie Sanders' foreign policy, courtesy of

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  12. Mar 29

    +1000

    scribd is a terrible product, please stop posting your pdfs there
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    Mar 23

    Finally got a chance to read latest. All the corruption and debacle of the Afghan war in one story:

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  14. Mar 24

    40 years for genocide? What do you have to do to get life in prison?

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  15. Mar 24

    The launches the Ida B. Wells fellowship for investigative reporters of color. Spread the word.

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  16. Mar 24

    That went well

    Microsoft is deleting its teen chatbot's incredibly racist tweets
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  17. Mar 23

    Sufferin' succotash!

    Jumpin' Jehosaphat! Why didn't Obama think of this?!?!?!?
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    Mar 23

    The New Yorker's general counsel weighs in on the Hulk Hogan-Gawker verdict

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  19. Mar 23

    Chatting with Microsoft's new millennial AI bot is kind of hilarious. Give it a shot.

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