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Only an Apocalypse Can Save Us Now

by Mark Lilla ,

On the politics of nostalgia

A Special Relationship

by Andrew Cockburn ,

The United States is teaming up with Al Qaeda, again

The Ultimate Terrorist Factory

by Scott Sayare ,

Are French prisons incubating extremism?

Modest Proposals

by Asma Ghribi ,

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

The Joke

by Justin Smith ,

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…

Guns and Poses

by Sarah A. Topol ,

Smuggling and subterfuge in the North African desert

The Pious Spy

by Mujib Mashal ,

A Taliban intelligence chief’s death and resurrection

How Timbuktu Saved Its Books

by Tristan McConnell ,

Behind the rescue of Mali’s historic manuscripts

This is not an Islamic revolution

by Olivier Roy , Translated by Jonathan Derbyshire ,

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…

The War We Can’t Win

by Andrew J. Bacevich ,

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…