#ben taub

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So happy they had Ben Cook play Race in the Newsies film because I just love him and his voice to pieces.

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February 8, 2026

“Did A Celebrated Researcher Obscure a Baby’s Poisoning?” In The New Yorker by Ben Taub

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Thirty-six Thousand Feet Under the Sea

The explorers who set one of the last meaningful records on earth.

A fascinating read.

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The fight to save an innocent refugee from almost certain death

This article was written by Ben Taub, a staff writer at The New Yorker who mainly writes about subjects related to jihadism, crime, conflict, and human rights, mostly in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. It was published by The New Yorker on 20 January 2020. 

Omar Ameen could not sleep at home. For years, he had been shuttling between safe houses, terrified that armed men would kidnap or kill him for the crimes of his cousin Ghassan, a member of Al Qaeda. Things often worked that way in Rawah, a small village in Iraq’s Anbar Province, where the Ameens had lived for generations. Tribal justice, long-running disputes: rivals denounced rivals as terrorists, and the state took care of the rest. “When you want to get revenge, you get revenge on the entire extended family,” Ameen later said. He and his brothers scattered to other parts of Iraq, leaving behind vast tracts of farmland, which were eventually taken by the people who had driven them out. On a chilly evening in early 2012, Ameen sneaked into Rawah and told his friends that he was leaving Iraq forever. He begged them to come with him. “You go first, dear,” one of them replied. “If everything goes O.K., we’ll follow.” [Read more here.]

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Iraq’s Post-ISIS Campaign of Revenge

The corruption and cruelty of the state’s response to suspected jihadis and their families seem likely to lead to the resurgence of the terror group.

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Longform Podcast #210: Ben Taub · Longform

Ben Taub is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. "I don’t think it’s my place to be cynical because I’ve observed some of the horrors of the Syrian War through these various materials, but it’s Syrians that are living them. It’s Syrians that are being largely ignored by the international community and by a lot of political attention on ISIS. And I think that it wouldn’t be my place to be cynical when some of them still aren’t."

This was such a compelling episode of Longform. Here’s this journalistic wunderkind who starts traveling to the Middle East and reporting on ISIS during college. And yet, he comes across as smart and sensitive and personable and interesting and modest.