Terrorism

Charlottesville

This weekend a bunch of young white men protested, with dopey tiki torches and pepper spray, begging not to be “replaced” as the most privileged group of people on earth. When counter-protesters gathered to argue otherwise, one of the racists drove his Dodge Challenger into them. He killed a woman…

Which politician will exploit Manchester first?

Hours after the ISIS attack on Paris in November 2015, Marine Le Pen, whose right-wing party was competing in regional elections, called a press conference to announce that “France and the French are no longer safe.” She blamed refugees and called…

Barbara Lee is the bravest woman in Congress

It was Sept. 14, 2001, and the United States was already at war, having been surprise attacked in the heart of the financial capital of the world. We didn’t yet know exactly who we were fighting or where they were. But Congress couldn’t just do…

Analysis

Tortured by the U.S., in the victim’s own words

Key lines from the newly…

Reportage

Bring Back Our Girls marks 1,000 days with improbable hope

Workers’ rights in Finland… and Saudi Arabia

Two things happened this week that won’t really surprise anyone. But together they struck me as illustrative of the world’s contradictions: We’ve never been more enlightened, and yet some of us still can’t manage to treat each other decently.

The last moments of Berlin, 2016

I flew out to Berlin a week after the attack.

These are Berlin’s Terror Days

The Berlin I knew has changed, maybe forever.