Graeme Wood
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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
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Thomas Peter / Reuters Is It Unethical To Pose as an Alt-Righter?
A 25-year-old graduate student went undercover, yielding captivating footage of extremists—and a moral dilemma.
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Howard Burditt / Reuters The Foreign Places an Eclipse Can Take You
One of the great joys of an eclipse is when it pushes you out of your way.
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Reuters What We Still Don’t Know About the Islamic State’s Foreign Fighters
The biggest concern is what happens when they come back home.
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Stringer / Reuters Why Hasn’t ISIS Nuked America Yet?
There is plenty of reason to be confident that if ISIS could reliably and easily make a dirty bomb, they would do so.
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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.
