Barbara Bush Changed With Her Country
The former first lady was notably eager to learn about people she didn’t understand—and recognize she might have been wrong about them.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Will the U.S. Join the Fight Against ISIS in Ramadi?
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday the administration is prepared to send advisers and helicopters to aid Iraqi forces—if Iraq wants them.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters How the San Bernardino Shooters Planned for Jihad
The FBI director said Wednesday the couple was discussing “martyrdom” online even before they were engaged.
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Obama ‘Needs to Stop Sounding Like Dad’
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The FBI's New Plan to Track Police Shootings
After newspapers stepped up to provide data government hadn’t collected, Director James Comey called the lack of reliable information “ridiculous.”
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Nick Ut / AP Quoted
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Reuters / San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department ISIS and the ‘Internet Radicalization’ Trope
Whatever motivated the San Bernardino attackers, it was more complicated than online propaganda.
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Matthew Rutledge / Flickr The Atlantic's Case for the Singular, Gender-Neutral 'They'—in 1879
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Who Would Jesus Arm?
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Does a Chickenhawk Nation Invite Terrorism?
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Quoted
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YouTube Another Chicago Police Shooting, This Time With No Charges
State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez announced she would not prosecute an officer in the October 2014 death of Ronald Johnson.
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FBI / California Department of Motor Vehicles / … The Long Radicalization of the San Bernardino Shooters
Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik participated in target practice just days before last Wednesday’s massacre.
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Wikimedia Terror Alerts in the 'See Something, Say Something' Era
On Monday, Homeland Security Chief Jeh Johnson announced the national terrorism warning system would be changed again.
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Pearl Harbor, Seven Years Later
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Susan Walsh / AP An Investigation Into Chicago's Police Department
The department’s Civil Rights Division will examine the use of force, following the death of Laquan McDonald.
