Graeme Wood
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The White House / Flickr Trump’s El Paso Photo Is Obscene
The president’s callousness has reached a new low: smiling, flashing a thumbs-up next to an orphaned infant.
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Reuters Ideology Kills. How Do You Police It?
The manifesto that appeared just before the El Paso shooting opposed racial mixing.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Life in Prison, or the Death Penalty?
What Chekhov has to tell us about capital punishment
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Jerry Lampen / Reuters The Life-Changing Magic of Tripping
Mark Kleiman, the drug-policy scholar who died last week, thought certain hallucinogens should be legalized.
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Chad Batka / The New York Times / ... Sam Shepard Saw It All Coming
The family battles he described foreshadowed our current national crisis.
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Ian Langsdon / Reuters How Long Can John Bolton Take This?
The national security adviser was conspicuously absent from North Korea during the historic concession to Kim Jong Un.
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Richard Drew / AP The National Security Adviser Has No Heart
Tucker Carlson called John Bolton a “bureaucratic tapeworm.” Is his wrath justified?
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Piroschka Van De Wouw / Reuters Are Politics Regressing to Premodern Forms?
The sultan of Brunei has proposed stoning as a punishment for male sodomy.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters I Wrote to John Walker Lindh. He Wrote Back.
The American jihadist thanked me for my interest in the Islamic State.
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Yoan Valat via Reuters Trump Was Right Not to Sign the Christchurch Call
The pledge to eliminate extremist content online is antithetical to the American understanding of free expression.
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Richard Drew / AP Harvard’s Feast of Grievance
The Ronald Sullivan affair is about everything—and nothing.
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Associated Press Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Is Alive. Now What?
The Islamic State released a video today of the most wanted man in the world.
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Chamila Karunarathne / AP Why Sri Lanka Was Probably Not Retaliation for Christchurch
Even if the retribution argument were consistent with prior ISIS doctrine, which it is not, the timing is off.
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Reuters Why Sri Lanka Silenced Social Media
Information blackouts almost always turn into authoritarian tools, whether or not they start that way.
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Edgar Su / Reuters After Christchurch, Commentators Are Imitating Sebastian Gorka
Everyone seems to have discovered at once that belief systems are behind individual atrocities.
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Edgar Su / Reuters A Repulsively Casual Terrorist Manifesto
The New Zealand shooter’s text is unoriginal, but the ideology is potent.
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Philip Montgomery Will John Bolton Bring on Armageddon—Or Stave It Off?
The national security adviser could be our best hope for protecting the world from Donald Trump’s impulses.
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Reuters Don't Strip ISIS Fighters of Citizenship
Shamima Begum and Hoda Muthana are products of their own societies—they can’t just be disowned.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Two Amy Klobuchars
In light of the revelations about the senator’s temper, let’s revisit her interrogation of Brett Kavanaugh.
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Reuters The Vatican and the Gulf Have a Common Enemy
The meaning of the pope’s historic visit to the United Arab Emirates
