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Islamic fundamentalism

The Ultimate Terrorist Factory

Are French prisons incubating extremism?

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Modest Proposals

From a list of rules the Islamic State has imposed within territories it has claimed since 2013. Translated from the Arabic by Asma Ghribi.

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The Joke

By Justin E. H. Smith, from “The Fundamentals of Gelastics,” a work in progress. Smith’s latest book, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference (Princeton), will be published in June. In…

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Guns and Poses

Smuggling and subterfuge in the North African desert

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The Pious Spy

A Taliban intelligence chief’s death and resurrection

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How Timbuktu Saved Its Books

Behind the rescue of Mali’s historic manuscripts

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Tough Luqman

From an October 27 federal criminal complaint against Luqman Ameen Abdullah and ten other alleged members of Ummah, a radical Islamic separatist group based in Detroit. On October 28, after…

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The War We Can’t Win

By Andrew J. Bacevich, in the August 15 issue of Commonweal. Bacevich is a professor of international relations at Boston University and the author, most recently, of The Limits of…

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