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Theo Emery
Washington, DC
Theo Emery is a freelance reporter and writer based in Washington, DC.
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The Monday Pig: Убирайся! (Get Out!)
A new week, and the president's troubles continue to mount. His porn star problem. His special prosecutor problem. His gun problem. And now, come Monday morning, his Putin problem. On Monday morning, the Trump administration ordered the expulsion of 60 Russians -- 48 diplomats and 12 intelligence officers -- in response to what Britain and the US believe was a Kremlin assassination attempt, using a banned chemical weapons agent, of a former Russian spy and his daughter in Salisbury, England, earlier this month. He also ordered the Russian consulate in Seattle closed. The expulsion was an extraordinary act against the... Continue reading
Posted Mar 26, 2018 at Hot Type
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Hellfire Boys
Posted Feb 6, 2018 at Hot Type
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The Monday Pig (Tuesday morning edition): Get On
Monday was my first day back at my desk after a parental sabbatical. My book Hellfire Boys had been published, and wobbly stacks of used books on a half-dozen potential topics for future research framed my laptop screen. I clawed through unopened bills and paperwork. Unmailed Christmas cards sat next to my keyboard. Crumpled receipts littering my desktop reminded me that April 15 is right around the corner. I began the day determined to restart my on-again, off-again blogging that I had doggedly begun years ago with my site Hot Type. I had started it to plug back into the... Continue reading
Posted Feb 6, 2018 at Hot Type
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North Korea and the Threat of Chemical Warfare
Posted Nov 5, 2017 at Hot Type
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The Hellbox: Declarations of Independence
Posted Sep 30, 2017 at Hot Type
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The Monday Pig: Eye On the Ball
Posted Sep 25, 2017 at Hot Type
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Superheroes, Super Gases, and Super Villains
Posted Sep 18, 2017 at Hot Type
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New York Times: VX Killed Kim Jong-Un's Estranged Half-Brother
Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was killed with the nerve agent VX when he died in Malaysia on February 13, the New York Times is reporting. VX is one of the deadliest chemical weapons agents in existence. The full story is here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/world/asia/kim-jong-nam-vx-nerve-agent-.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news Continue reading
Posted Feb 23, 2017 at Hot Type
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A Century of "America First" from 1917 to 2017
Posted Jan 20, 2017 at Hot Type
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ISIS Has Used Chemical Weapons at Least 52 Times
ISIS has used chemical weapons at least 52 times since 2014, according to the New York Times. The IHS Conflict Monitor, a London-based intelligence analysis service, compiled the information based on local news reports, ISIS propaganda, and social media. Mosul has been the epicenter of such attacks -- roughly one-third of the chemical weapons attacks took place in the city, which Iraqi forces and its allies have launched an offensive to retake from ISIS, also known as Islamic State, ISIL or Daesh. Continue reading
Posted Nov 22, 2016 at Hot Type
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The Friday Hellbox: Veterans Day Version
Posted Nov 11, 2016 at Hot Type
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A Newer Republic
On a cold and raw spring afternoon in the thick of World War I, James Thayer Addison returned to his wartime billet in Humes, France, to find several packages waiting for him. It was April 24, 1918, and the U.S. Army chaplain was thousands of miles from home and only a few miles from the front. Addison, the pastor for the 30th Engineers (Gas and Flame), known as the Hellfire Regiment, had spent part of the day visiting a hospitalized fellow officer whose hand been mangled in a training accident with a grenade. Returning home on that dank day, he... Continue reading
Posted Feb 26, 2016 at Hot Type
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The Hellbox: Frozen Mornings, Cold Comfort
Posted Jan 4, 2014 at Hot Type
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The Monday Pig: The Seventh Day
Piety being a recommended trait for elected officials in Washington, no doubt some members of Congress in Shutdown City begin the week with admonitions from the pulpit ringing in their ears. At the Red Mass at St. Matthew's Cathedral, Bishop Kevin Farrell of Dallas delivered a plea for overcoming "petty partisanship and ever-politicizing rhetoric" on Sunday. For senators who, say, failed to set their alarm in time for services, they can expect a rumbling tongue-lashing from Senate Chaplain Barry C. Black when the chamber returns today at 2 p.m. “Save us from the madness,”he said last week. The junior senator... Continue reading
Posted Oct 7, 2013 at Hot Type
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The Weekend Hellbox: Commedia Dell'Arte in Shutdown City
Posted Oct 6, 2013 at Hot Type
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The Monday Pig: The Freeze, or Pig in a Blanket (of snow)
Spring has sprung but winter lingered. Overnight camping for a coveted gallery seat has become a Washington ritual when high-profile cases come up on the Supreme Court docket. An inch or more of sticky snow turned that urban adventure into a slushy challenge this Monday morning, with the tents and tarps on the sidewalk in front of the court somewhat resembling a mountaineering basecamp as dawn arrived. The arguments for the twin cases of Hollingsworth v. Perry and United States v. Windsor ,the first aimed at California's gay marriage ban known as Proposition 8 and the second challenging the legality... Continue reading
Posted Mar 25, 2013 at Hot Type
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The Monday Pig: The Valley and the View
Posted Mar 5, 2013 at Hot Type
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The Monday Pig: Inauguration Day
Posted Jan 22, 2013 at Hot Type
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The Monday Pig: Watch Night Edition
Posted Dec 31, 2012 at Hot Type
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My Story on LGBT Hate Crimes in Washington, DC
My latest in the New York Times published in the Sunday, Nov. 25 edition. Read the entire story here: WASHINGTON — It was just after 4 a.m. when the young man turned down his street toward his apartment. In the dark, another man fell in step behind him, demanding his bag. The young man ran, as shouted slurs trailed him. On the front steps of his apartment building, under a security camera, the pursuer’s fists began pummeling his face. The beating of the 23-year-old gay man last month in the city’s Columbia Heights neighborhood was among dozens of episodes reported... Continue reading
Posted Nov 24, 2012 at Hot Type
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Archaeological "Time Capsule" of Battle of Fredericksburg
Posted Nov 24, 2012 at Hot Type
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The Monday Pig: The Cabbie, the Kurds and Karl
Posted Oct 22, 2012 at Hot Type
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The Hellbox: The Week in Bullets
• When I sat down with the newspaper on Friday morning, I almost overlooked the brief on page A-6. It was short -- fewer than 120 words. "China: Protestor Killed as Police Fire on Demonstration." As many as 1,000 people had gathered to protest plans for a mine in Tibet. Citing Radio Free Asia, the brief reported that security forces used tear gas and live rounds against the protesters. It took about as long to read as to take a slow sip of coffee. • It felt as though half the news that morning had sprung from the barrel of... Continue reading
Posted Aug 18, 2012 at Hot Type
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The Monday Pig: Two Years, Two Months, 24 Days
Two years, two months and 24 days ago, I signed off from this blog, Hot Type. My last post announced the start of a new reporting job covering Congress that would leave little time for blogging. I disabled Hot Type's optimizing function, making the site invisible to web search engines. I bought two new suits off the rack. I found a desk that suited me in the cramped Senate Periodicals Gallery. I began hunting for stories on Capitol Hill. Some reporters thrive on covering government. I discovered that I am not one of them. Continue reading
Posted Aug 13, 2012 at Hot Type
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Hot Type, stone cold
A change in jobs has ended my blogging experiment for the time being. Hot Type is going into hibernation. To my loyal readers -- and I mean each and every one of the three of you -- you have my heartfelt thanks. Continue reading
Posted May 20, 2010 at Hot Type
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