Must Read Articles (October 19 – October 25)
By Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore
Foreign Affairs
In one of this week’s most talked about articles, Farrell and Finnemore assess the real threat leakers like Snowden and Manning pose to American diplomacy. Rather than a direct assault on national security, they argue that leakers compromise the U.S.’s ability to act hypocritically and get away with it.
By Hannah Lucinda Smith
Vice
Al Qaeda’s success in Syria is as much about savvy marketing strategy as it is about political vision. Smith describes how moderate, even friendly, young men are joining extreme jihadist forces.
By Matthew Shaer
New Republic
Shaer explores Reyhanli, a town bordering Syria that was once a backwater and has now become the hub of many Syrian citizen journalists. Through accounts given by citizen journalists, Shaer reflects on the difficulties and increased dangers of the Syrian media environment.
Matthew Power
GQ
Described as a warrior from afar, Brandon Bryant is part of the U.S. Air Force squadron that operates drones. Matthew Power describes in detail Bryant’s path to becoming “the 21st-century American killing machine.”
By J. David McSwane
Herald Tribune
The story of Camille Johnson’s daughter is set against the backdrop of child sex trafficking, or what McSwane calls an underground economy that turns at least 100,000 children into victims of sex trade in the U.S. each year.
By Alia Malek
Guernica Magazine
Alia Malek tells the compelling story of how one Armenian family that had called Syria home for more than half a century decided to repatriate in the midst of the Syrian civil war.
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