Jamie Thompson

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Jamie Thompson

Jamie Thompson

@ThompsonJamieL

Staff writer for @TheAtlantic. Nonfiction book STANDOFF. [email protected]

Bethesda Katılım Temmuz 2011
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Caitlin Flanagan
Caitlin Flanagan@CaitlinPacific·
Now I know why this story has been #1 at the Atlantic for so long - it’s a fantastic mystery, a tale of astounding selfishness - yet also filled with characters motivated by justice and compassion. A barn burner, by ⁦@ThompsonJamieLtheatlantic.com/magazine/2025/…
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The Atlantic@TheAtlantic·
Police spent more than 50 days searching a lake for Ryan Borgwardt, a kayaker they assumed had drowned. Then they told his wife that they’d come to believe something different. @ThompsonJamieL spoke with the people involved in the case that rattled a Wisconsin town: theatlantic.com/magazine/2025/…
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The Atlantic
The Atlantic@TheAtlantic·
The Atlantic is proud to announce that “American Cowardice,” by Jamie Thompson, has won the 2025 National Magazine Award for Reporting. Read Jamie’s story, from our March 2024 issue, here: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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Jamie Thompson@ThompsonJamieL·
"He walked along a dirt road as trucks blasted him with fumes. He walked across one farm after another. He felt so hungry. At times he knelt on the ground and said, “God, can you see this?”" Read this breathtaking Atlantic cover story from the great @mccrummens
Stephanie McCrummen@mccrummens

How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai from the last of their Serengeti homeland theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

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The Atlantic@TheAtlantic·
Scot Peterson, the “Coward of Broward,” stood by as a slaughter unfolded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Does the blame lie with him, his training—or a society in denial about what it would take to stop mass shootings? @ThompsonJamieL reports: theatln.tc/C2VHHaHu
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Jamie Thompson@ThompsonJamieL·
DC area friends -- come join us at Politics and Prose on Sunday to hear the brilliant @drbrianwilliams talk about his fantastic book, THE BODIES KEEP COMING. @PoliticsProse
Politics and Prose@PoliticsProse

Sunday, join @drbrianwilliams at P&P to discuss THE BODIES KEEP COMING -- a surgeon's inside look at the trauma bay, where the violence of structuralist racism wields the wounds of a national emergency. 3pm @ Conn Ave w/ @ThompsonJamieL - politics-prose.com/brian-williams

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Jamie Thompson@ThompsonJamieL·
@keribla Congrats on the book @keribla -- saw it on the NYTimes homepage this morning. Just downloaded, can't wait to read!
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Keri Blakinger
Keri Blakinger@keribla·
I am blown away by the number of people who are texting and tweeting that they read this in one sitting -- it's 322 pages!!
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Henry Holt & Company
Henry Holt & Company@HenryHolt·
STANDOFF is out now in paperback! Award-winning journalist @ThompsonJamieL writes a gripping account of a deadly night in Dallas, told through the eyes of those at the center of it all, who offer a nuanced look at race & policing in America. Available now:ow.ly/fE3750IsFKV
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Frank Scozzari
Frank Scozzari@ScozzariFrank·
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. —Ernest Hemingway—
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