The generosity of the Quebec City eulogy
After the massacre at a Quebec City mosque, a lesson in how to defeat hate
On the attacks in Paris
Le Ca Rillon and Le Petit Cambodge, both hit by Islamic State, were two of my favorites in Paris
Charles de Gaulle campaign poster
After the attacks by Islamic State in Paris the old slogan “With You, For You” is fitting
Bashar al-Assad stonewalls Charlie Rose
Charlie Rose gets in a theater of the absurd debate with Assad and loses
The cultural destruction of war in the Middle East
My beloved Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo may not be a total loss but much is elsewhere
Why Narendra Modi is a bad choice for India
India is too internally diverse to privilege any single group within society, but Modi will try
My favorite museum in Cairo damaged by a car bomb
Terror attack on Egyptian police HQ badly damages the Museum of Islamic Art, an overlooked marvel
Dead, but right, in Beirut
Hezbollah can’t kill everyone in Lebanon who believes it should give up its weapons
The Aldo Moro assassination, Reggio-Emilia, Italy, 1978
A prized book of Italian newspapers and a dead terrorist; is there a connection?
Rendition and torture: how it happened
Everyone knows by now that the US and UK tortured captives. That should still shock us
What the New York police are taught about Islam
Muslims are taking over the world. Run! No, fight! No, run!
The official end of the Iraq debacle
A bad idea, but it will incubate like a latent virus in right-wing circles and return one day
Where were you on September 11th?
Mapping where I stood on that day, and where others stood around the world at the same moment
The people we are assassinating in Pakistan
Osama bin Laden’s death was big news but this site tracks the quiet killings
Liberal hawk Bill Keller changes his mind on the Iraq war
But the former New York Times executive editor still misses the main reason to have opposed the war
My journals on September 11th, 2001
I still can’t believe how slowly I grasped the scale of what was happening that day
Ten years gone
On the street, watching the World Trade Center fall and our nation misinterpret why it happened
Osama bin Laden killed after 3,519 days of freedom
Osama bin Laden is dead but it is the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions that are killing Al Qaeda
Osama bin Laden still free 3,514 days later
What is most astonishing is that there is no public pressure whatsoever to capture him