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How Safe Can a Marathon Be?
The marathon-as-spectacle is, more than any other sporting event, built on the responsibility and rationality and general non-wickedness of other human beings. You’re at this long, winding, sweeping...
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Terrorism and Privilege: Tim Wise on the Power of Whiteness
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on Sociological Images, a Pacific Standard partner site. As the nation weeps for the victims of the horrific bombing in Boston, one searches for lessons...
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How Many People Have Died in Terrorist Attacks This Month?
In 2011, the most-recent year of the Global Terrorism Index, there were 4,564 terrorist incidents, which led to 7,473 deaths. The numbers presumably take a while to compile, and last year’s numbers are...
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The Changing War on Terror
Is the United States safe enough? That is the fundamental question being asked by the public, policymakers, and members of the Obama Administration after the Boston bombing. What shape is al Qaeda in...
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Terrorism’s Centerfolds
Michelle Legro runs a website called My Daguerreotype Boyfriend, a Tumblr where readers can submit photos of really attractive and long dead men. One of the men featured is this guy. That’s Louis...
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Why Don’t Americans Seem to Care About Government Surveillance?
It’s been less than a week since former National Security Agency systems administrator Edward Snowden, through the reporting of The Guardian and The Washington Post, lifted the curtain on the United...
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NSA Surveillance: Better Down the Stretch Than at the Start
In the furor over revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency has been tracking phone calls, social media, and other Internet metadata, the question remained whether this monitoring actually...
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How the NSA’s High-Tech Surveillance Helped Europeans Catch Terrorists
PARIS — In 2007, Belgian police were keeping close watch on Malika el-Aroud, a fierce al Qaeda ideologue whose dark eyes smoldered above her veil. The Moroccan-born Aroud had met Osama bin Laden while...
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The Man Who Wants to Shoot Islamist Terrorists Straight to Hell With Pork...
Bullets with a lethal dose of pork. A progressive group is petitioning Idaho’s governor to ban their sale. A firearms blogger calls them useless crap and says the shooting community “is better than...
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Vacuum Cleaners, Yoga, and Keeping Inmates Sane
An Associated Press exclusive on Thursday added intriguing new insights into the CIA’s dealings with 9-11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. After extensive and harsh interrogations in a facility in...
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Who Is the United States at War With? That’s Classified Information
In a major national security speech this spring, President Obama said again and again that the U.S. is at war with “Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their associated forces.” So who exactly are those...
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The New Land of Jihad
MADRID — Rachid Wahbi came to Syria from a Spanish slum, rushing toward death. And he didn’t plan to die alone. Facing a camera hours before the end, the bearded, 33-year-old cabdriver wore a black...
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Why Is the U.S. Arming Those in Syria It Legally Defines as Terrorists?
Authorized by Congress, the CIA has started sending weapons to Syrian rebels. But under a legal definition of terrorism adopted by the U.S. government after the September 11 attacks, those same rebel...
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What Would Make the Los Angeles Airport Bombs 'Terrorism'?
Four bombs found smuggled into a restricted area of Los Angeles International Airport had no links to terrorism, a detective told the L.A. Times. How can bombs at an airport, two of which exploded, not...
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Is the NSA Really Preventing Terrorist Attacks?
Two weeks after Edward Snowden's first revelations about sweeping government surveillance, President Obama shot back. "We know of at least 50 threats that have been averted because of this information...
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