Graeme Wood (journalist)

Graeme Charles Arthur Wood (born August 21, 1979) is an American staff writer for The Atlantic and a lecturer in political science at Yale University.

[1] He was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations[2] and won the Canadian Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction for his book The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State.

[7] He has also written for The Cambodia Daily,[8] The New Yorker,[9] The American Scholar, The New Republic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Culture+Travel, The Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune.

[1] Wood was awarded the 2015–2016 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations.

[3] In 2024, controversy abounded after an article by Wood titled, The UN's Gaza Statistics Make No Sense, was published by The Atlantic in which Wood argued "It is possible to kill children legally, if for example one is being attacked by an enemy who hides behind them.