November 20, 2015
- The Paris attacks were planned over the past 11 months. A January raid in Verviers galvanized Abaaoud's resolve.
- Belgium’s system of local government, ruled by clientelistic interests, left huge cracks for ISIS to exploit.
- ISIS’s first female suicide bomber in Europe grew up in Paris. Her past may be the rule, not the exception.
- Confirming and debunking on the terror beat.
- The most hawkish Dem candidate, Clinton's plans for ISIS are a mixed bag that includes familiar paths to chaos.
- Military commanders are using Captagon, an amphetamine, to embolden soldiers fighting in Syria.
- How language desensitizes drone pilots to assassination—and endangers them as well as their targets.
- "The number of Mexican immigrants in the US is declining, leaving behind older, more established families."
- Paul Mason argues information technology means Keynes's playbook won't be enough any more.
- Gertrude Stein shared children's books' commitment to clarity without prejudice for words over shapes and colors.
- The problem with Anonymous hackers' war on ISIS: Some targets are better left online and surveilled.
- A ring of cloud and dust will soon become a planet.
- The building blocks of our existence are agnostic to identity.
- Harlem at night, without the flash.
- Today's video: "The Clock of the Long Now."