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Welcome to the Cut On Tuesdays on Thursdays.

I'm Stella Bugbee, editor-in-chief of the cut.

Tumble out of bed and a stumble to the kitchen

for myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come to life. This is how I get it done. The Cut series about ambitious women and the way they live.

How they deal with their inboxes, people's feelings, their grocery shopping, their

morning routines. What do they know that we don't? What do they do that we can steal?

It's part advice column, part love letter, part voyeurism.

Today we're talking to journalist Rachmini Kalamaki.

Today we're talking to journalist Rachmini Kalamaki. She's a foreign correspondent who reports on Islamic extremism for the New York Times.

She's also the host of the podcast Caliphate. It's a devastating series about the realities of life under ISIS.

I spoke to Rokmini earlier this month just after she returned from a reporting trip to Syria.

I wanted to know what's it like to report on a group that brags about murdering

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