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David Bathgate / Corbis What Does It Feel Like to Have a Slave?
Once, for five days, I found out.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Complies Perfectly With the Saudi Line
The intolerance of the president’s Riyadh speech was the intolerance sanctioned by the other Gulf states: anti-Shiism, with frankly sectarian overtones.
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Philip Montgomery His Kampf
Richard Spencer is a troll and an icon for white supremacists. He was also my high-school classmate.
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Ezra Acayan / Reuters The Thug Appeal of Rodrigo Duterte
Making sense of Trump’s White House invitation to the Philippine president
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Alex Wong / Getty What Sebastian Gorka Got Right About 'Radical Islam'
The White House counterterrorism adviser is so misguided in so many ways that some are reluctant to acknowledge when he has a point.
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Stoyan Nenov / Reuters The Coldhearted Folly of Trump's Proposed Immigration Order
The countries likely affected are not those whose nationals have actually perpetrated the most ghastly attacks on Western targets.
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Yagiz Karahan / Reuters ISIS Ends Its Separate Peace With Turkey
The group claims the Reina nightclub massacre—making its war of terror official.
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The American Climbing the Ranks of ISIS: An Update
The Texan jihadi's name differs, subtly, from the Islamic State's new spokesman's.
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Ian Wright The American Climbing the Ranks of ISIS
John Georgelas was a military brat, a drug enthusiast, a precocious underachiever born in Texas. Now he is a prominent figure within the Islamic State. Here’s the story of his long and troubling journey.
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Social Media Website via Reuters TV The ‘Caliph’ Speaks
As ISIS faces defeat in Mosul, its leader breaks a long silence to urge a fight to the death.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Donald Trump and the Apocalypse
Is Rome really ISIS’s “ultimate trophy”?
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Stringer / Iraq / Reuters Why Global Religious Conflict Won’t End
As long as people interpret texts literally, religion will be a source of conflict.
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Reuters/The Atlantic 'What ISIS Really Wants': The Response
A survey of reactions to The Atlantic's cover story—from think tanks to jihadist Twitter
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AP/The Atlantic What ISIS Really Wants
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.
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Brian L. Frank How Gangs Took Over Prisons
Originally formed for self-protection, prison gangs have become the unlikely custodians of order behind bars—and of crime on the streets.
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Adam Voorhes The Future of College?
A brash tech entrepreneur thinks he can reinvent higher education by stripping it down to its essence, eliminating lectures and tenure along with football games, ivy-covered buildings, and research libraries. What if he's right?
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My Bizarre Trip to Burma’s Drug Elimination Museum
What the war on drugs looks like in Rangoon
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John Cuneo The U.S. Soldier Who Defected to North Korea
... and now lives in Japan selling crackers
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What Martial Arts Have to Do With Atheism
An interview with Sam Harris about self-defense and the seduction of faith
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John Cuneo The Atheist Who Strangled Me
In which Sam Harris teaches me Brazilian jiu-jitsu and explains why violence is like rebirth
