The Threepenny Review

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Such Good Work by Johannes Lichtman. Simon and Schuster, 2019, $26.00 cloth. JONAS ANDERSON is a bullshitter. He’s a twenty-seven-year-old teenager, the kind of guy who attends Narcotics Anonymous meetings but secretly mocks the recovering addicts t

NPR

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President Trump celebrated the mission at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, saying "we got our young man back."

Post South Africa

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VICTIMS who died during the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks – from November 26 to 29 – in India were honoured at a multi-faith peace prayer in Durban on Sunday. The event, at the amphitheatre on North Beach, was hosted by the Indian Association of South A

NPR

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Two distant cousins connect online, only to learn that one is a militant leftist and the other is in a right-wing militia. Their story shows the complexities of a timely question: Who's an extremist?

NPR

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One American soldier has died and four have been injured in an attack by insurgents in Somalia, marking the first known U.S. combat death in Africa since an ambush in Niger last year.

NPR

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New Zealand police charged Brenton Tarrant, an Australian citizen, under the Terrorism Suppression Act. He also faces charges of 51 counts of murder and 40 counts of attempted murder.

NPR

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The State Department said Friday an American was one of at least 14 people killed in the attacks, and the more than 100 injured came from at least 34 countries. Here's a portrait of the lives lost.

Literary Hub

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The New Books Network is a consortium of author-interview podcast channels dedicated to raising the level of public discourse by introducing serious authors to a wide public via new media. They publish 100 new interviews every month and serve a large

NPR

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her country and France will lead a meeting with world leaders next month. Social media is now a "centerpiece" for terrorist outreach, an expert says.

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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What? Another mass murder? Almost missed this one: Virginia Beach. Twelve killed on May 31, plus the killer himself, who was a city employee -- an engineer. He had legitimate access to the building where he shot people on three floors. His guns were

India Today

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Pakistan, one commentator notes, "teetered on the verge of being designated by the US government as a state that supported terrorism in 1993." Since then, the spectre of this designation and its new avatar 'terrorist state' has haunted Pakistan. In t

Reason

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October 2007 “Government and foundations are more likely to fund earlier stages of drug development, where the risk of failure is higher. Companies jump in to sponsor drug research at later stages of development, when success is more likely. Thus it

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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The cries of terror and disbelief continue. Teenagers lie down in front of the White House to protest the nation's tepid, stalled gun-control legislation. Parents grieve for their children and stare at the wound carved into the American soul. Assault

Manhattan Institute

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New York’s political class talks a good game about resilience but won’t describe the terrorist threat honestly.

Tribune Content Agency Opinions

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Love thy enemy? I get a chance to do so on a regular basis, thanks to the email (or nasty-mail) I sometimes get in response to my column, e.g.: “Must be a dearth of anyone with anything intelligent to say for the News to put your drivel out for us to

NPR

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In her first non-fiction work, Laila Lalami says these Americans want the country to succeed, but can't avoid the gulf between purported values of equality and the realities of systematic oppression.

Manhattan Institute

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The British criminal-justice system once again exposed its elaborate and ceremonious frivolity. This frivolity is serious in its effects, not only for its immediate consequences on Britain’s crime rate but also because it undermines the legitimacy of

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - Nearly six years after his arrest, a suburban Chicago man has finally been declared fit to stand trial on terrorism charges alleging he tried to detonate a bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar. Adel Daoud, now 24, was sent to a mental health

Literary Hub

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Historian and intellectual Pankaj Mishra’s latest book Age of Anger: A History of the Present, published earlier this month, presents what Mishra calls “an emotional history” at a time of “worldwide emergency” when rage fills the global political sph

The Atlantic

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Every four years, a group of U.S. intelligence analysts tries to predict the future. And this year, in a report released just weeks before Donald Trump assumes the presidency, those analysts forecast a massive shift in international affairs over the

Evening Standard

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Londoners have been urged not to be “complacent” about the threat of terrorism as lockdown restrictions ease, with a “substantial” number of terror investigations currently ongoing in the capital. The warning came from Commander Richard Smith, head o

NPR

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Russian officials were warned of an attack on a school and used "powerful weapons such as tank cannon, grenade launchers and flame-throwers," a European court says. More than 180 children died.

Manhattan Institute

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Sometimes the attacks are made with firearms. Sometimes they’re done with trucks on busy bridges or thronged thoroughfares or with bombs at rock performances or with pressure-cookers at marathons. Terrorists constantly revise their tactics, but the a

The Atlantic

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Today’s youth aren’t interested in learning about the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts that have shaped recent history—but an Iraq war veteran-turned-teacher warns that the results of an uninformed generation could be dangerous.

India Today

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Q. What was the motive for the bomb scare at Antilia? The NIA has not yet found out why explosives were planted outside Antilia, presumably by Sachin Vaze. One theory is that Vaze was looking to be seen as a hero by pretending to have demolished a t

AppleMagazine

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The leaders of New Zealand and France are backing a watchdog organization aimed at keeping internet platforms from being used by extremists — and preparing speedy responses to future attacks. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday the

TIME

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Dear President Trump, REPRESENTING THE U.S. IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES WAS the greatest honor of my life. I will never forget walking into the opening ceremony behind our American flag that I revere, surrounded by my teammates, each drawn from different s

TechLife News

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The leaders of New Zealand and France are backing a watchdog organization aimed at keeping internet platforms from being used by extremists — and preparing speedy responses to future attacks. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday the

India Today

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Fake Warriors In a video posted on Facebook, a comedian described the social media outpouring (mostly in the form of unhinged demands for revenge) after the death of over 40 soldiers in a terrorist attack in Pulwama as "performative patriotism". Peru

Los Angeles Times

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Explosives. Arson. Guns. Driving into a crowd of people. These are the most common tools that terrorists use to inflict fear and destruction on an unwitting public. But a new study suggests that these violent methods, while all horrific, are not equa