
Timothy McLaughlin
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Contributing Writer at The Atlantic
Contributing writer @TheAtlantic. Co-author of Among the Braves. No opinions, only typos: https://t.co/EsSkCFz9Ap
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Sep 20, 2024 |
foreigncorrespondence.substack.com | Timothy McLaughlin |John Hudson |Olivia Nuzzi |Yasmeen Serhan
Hello, and happy Friday. This correspondence comes to you following a brief holiday, a bout of illness, and a major escalation in the Middle East involving *checks notes* exploding pagers. Needless to say, it’s been a week—and I’ll be keeping the top of this edition nice and short. There are still more questions than answers surrounding the deadly pager explosions in Lebanon, where as of this writing at least 20 people have been killed and thousands more wounded.
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Sep 11, 2024 |
afr.com | Timothy McLaughlin
Timothy McLaughlinSep 12, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? If you’ve ever bought anything from the fast-fashion company Shein, you know that its marketing can feel inescapable.
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Sep 6, 2024 |
theatlantic.com | Timothy McLaughlin
Listen1.0x0:0034:13Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. If you’ve ever bought anything from the fast-fashion company Shein, you know that its marketing can feel inescapable. Shein’s website, a digital bazaar bursting with pop-up ads and strobing discounts, lists thousands of new items every day—clothes, housewares, pet supplies, cosmetics, sex toys—at inconceivably low prices: $16.08 for a powder-blue suit, $3.80 for a three-pack of aviator sunglasses.
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Jul 17, 2024 |
msn.com | Timothy McLaughlin
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Jun 16, 2024 |
theatlantic.com | Timothy McLaughlin
On Thitu, a tiny dot of coral reef and palm trees in the South China Sea about 300 miles off the coast of the Philippines, the inaugural Mrs. Kalayaan Pageant was the event of the night, the week, and quite possibly the month. When I was there in May, the entire island’s population, some 250 people, seemed to have gathered around a nautical-themed stage to see who would win the sash and crown. You might think that a local beauty contest would not involve geopolitics. You would be wrong.
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