Dispatches with Hollie McKay

Dispatches with Hollie McKay

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More Than Just Things: The Deep Ache of Losing Everything
Reflections as wildfires rage across Los Angeles
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What it is really like as a woman visiting Saudi Arabia in 2023
The last time I visited the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was in the scorching summer of 2018; it was merely a stopping point between assignments in…
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Hollie McKay
Keeping the sisterhood from extinction: The struggle to save nuns in America
It’s an image woven into America’s cultural fabric: Catholic nuns, heads bowed in deep devotion, reciting prayers and lighting candles.
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Why the Health Insurance Industry in the U.S. is a Scam
Examining our country’s broken system
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Behind America’s secret “ninja knife bomb” used to kill terrorists while leaving everything around them untouched
Last year, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda and second-in-line to Usama bin Laden was killed by the United States while standing on his balcony…
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The one piece of controversial career advice I would tell my younger self
I am immensely grateful for my career experiences, but there is one thing I would do differently – and many people won’t want to hear it
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USAID Under Fire: Some Findings Should Shock You
USAID does incredibly important, lifesaving work, including delivering food assistance to crisis zones, managing global health programs like polio…
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The Heartbreaking Truth of Bacha Bazi in Afghanistan: A Missed Opportunity
Every morning during a work stint in Afghanistan about eight years ago, I would see a young boy named Abdul at the bakery window, perhaps 14 years old.
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The Los Angeles Fires and the Fragility of Empathy
Wildfires have become an unfortunate seasonal ritual for Californians, but the 2025 Los Angeles fires have cut deeper than ever.
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We turned our attention to China and Russia. And then terrorism returned.
While the West’s attention has moved away from the once cataclysmic threat of Islamic terrorism to focus on the perils posed by state actors – namely…
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Unveiled: This is how China recruits ordinary citizens to spy
In Beijing's eyes, American spies are everywhere, and ordinary Chinese citizens are expected to help authorities uncover them.
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Over 150 Women Raped and Burned Alive in a Congo Prison—It Doesn't Make the News.
Grainy video footage, shot from above barbed-wire fencing, captures the frightening chaos — figures scrambling in the gloom, smoke billowing into the…
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