Graeme Wood
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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
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Osman Orsal / Reuters Jamal Khashoggi's Murder Remains a Mystery
The conventional account leaves major questions unanswered.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Gods That Will Fail
If voters are freighting politics with religious significance, we need to drain it of the expectation of transcendence.
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Younis Al-Bayati / AFP / Getty Don’t Shut Down the Internet’s Biggest Jihadist Archive
Jihadology.net is a valuable resource for researchers, even if terrorists make use of it too.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Brutal Truth Behind Trump’s Love Affair With Saudi Arabia
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has done what America has asked, and the president has assured him their relationship is safe.
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Vincent Kessler / Reuters In Europe, Speech Is an Alienable Right
A human-rights court upheld an Austrian woman’s conviction for disparaging the Prophet Muhammad.
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Osman Orsal / Reuters Why Won’t Turkey Release the Khashoggi Tapes?
If Turkish officials really have the grisly recordings, they must share them—and soon.
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Reuters TV Three Theories on Jamal Khashoggi’s Fate
Killing him in cold blood would not have been in the Saudis’ best interest.
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Osman Orsal / Reuters What the Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi Portends
The Saudi journalist urged his kingdom toward reform—and may have paid a terrible price for his dissent.
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Andy Friedman The Gun Guru of YouTube
John Correia wants you to prepare for the worst day of your life.
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Saul Porto / Reuters ISIS Tactics Have Spread to Other Violent Actors
The Toronto van attack shows the wider adoption of techniques associated with the Islamic State.
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Gene Glover The Refugee Detectives
Inside Germany’s high-stakes operation to sort people fleeing death from opportunists and pretenders
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Where Nassar's Judge Went Wrong
By endorsing vengeance from the bench, the judge sentencing the disgraced Olympic doctor crossed an important line.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Another Failed ISIS Attack
A would-be suicide bomber in New York again displays the incompetence of so many of the Islamic State’s sympathizers.
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Samer Abdallah / AP Mass Murder is How ISIS Tries to Stay Relevant
No one has claimed responsibility for an attack on a mosque in Egypt. But no points should be awarded for guessing that the Islamic State is at fault.
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Jeremy Raff From the Islamic State to Suburban Texas
In 2013, Tania Georgelas traveled to Syria with her husband and children to join ISIS. Today, she attends a Unitarian church outside of Dallas.
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Reuters What the Attack in New York Revealed About the Islamic State's Supporters
As ISIS loses territory, the greatest danger remains that more competent fighters will return home.
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Erik de Castro / Reuters The Bloody End of the Islamic State's Utopian Dream
“The fall of Raqqa this week completed the slow-motion demolition of the world’s only utopian movement worthy of the name.”
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP When Do We Get to Call Someone a Terrorist?
There’s a compulsion to keep mental ledgers of the jihadists and non-jihadists. But what can these statistics really tell us?
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Steve Marcus / Las Vegas Sun via Reuters Why Did the Islamic State Claim the Las Vegas Shooting?
Assessing the group’s puzzling statement
