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Erin Cunningham
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🪬Middle East News Editor @washingtonpost; previous life as a correspondent in Cairo, Kabul, Gaza, Istanbul, Baghdad. Now in D.C. All the pieces matter.
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides album cover
November 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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On Orwell, the unbelievable stupidities of our era, and how the press can rise to the moment. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
“I predict the journalists of tomorrow will look back on our time with disbelief at the benefit of the doubt afforded to claims made by Israeli military spokespeople, justifying air strikes on hospitals, ambulances, refugee camps, schools, apartment complexes, ‘safe zones,’ and journalist hangouts. And I think future observers will find it difficult to understand how reporters who tried to move the dial on their employers’ coverage were often forced out or pressured into silence.”
October 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Headed into Monday like
August 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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apparently
RFK, Jr. and Olivia Reingold standing together in front of a fireplace in a photograph she posted to her Instagram feed.
August 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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In today’s Washington Post, we published some of the names of the more than 18,500 children killed by Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Online, we published them all. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
At least 18,500 children have been killed in Gaza. This image is a PDF of the inside of The Washington Post on July 30 listing some of their names in Arabic and English. At least 18,500 children have been killed in Gaza. This image is a PDF of the inside of The Washington Post on July 30 listing some of their names in Arabic and English.
July 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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"Everything will burn" — A year of videos posted by Israeli soldiers in Gaza show the destruction of neighborhoods, torching of homes and schools, and troops posing next to dead bodies while calling for the extermination and expulsion of Palestinians. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
December 3, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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[Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent-free] bsky.app/profile/will...
December 2, 2024 at 2:00 AM