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Terrorism

Crime World

Terror in Berlin: How the Attack Has Changed the Country

A 48-hour reconstruction of the Breitscheidplatz Attack and the political response.

Der Spiegel Dec 2016 25min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Most Die Young"

A search for meaning through academics, cultural studies, and terrorism.

Camille Bordas The New Yorker Dec 2016 30min Permalink

Crime

The Heroes of San Bernardino: 1 Year After the Attacks

A minute by minute account of the officers and first responders on the scene of the San Bernadino shooting and the subsequent firefight between police and and the Farooks.

Brian Ross, Megan Christie, Josh Margolin, Rhonda Schwartz, Paul Blake ABC News Dec 2016 10min Permalink

Arts

Typecast as a Terrorist

“As my acting career developed, I was no longer cast as a radical Muslim – except at the airport.”

Riz Ahmed Guardian Sep 2016 15min Permalink

Crime World

Chasing ISIS

The investigators tasked with finding jihadists embedded within Europe.

Mitch Prothero Buzzfeed Aug 2016 25min Permalink

Best Article

Scenes From the Terrifying, Already Forgotten JFK Airport Shooting That Wasn’t

“There was no they.' There was not even a 'he,' no armed person turning on a crowd. But what happened at JFK last night was, in every respect but the violence, a mass shooting.”

David Wallace-Wells New York Aug 2016 15min Permalink

Politics

Is America Any Safer?

Since 9/11, the United States has spent $1 trillion on national security. An investigation into whether it has worked.

Steven Brill The Atlantic Aug 2016 1h10min Permalink

Music

The Pop Star of Jihad

The story of Deso Dogg, a German rapper-turned-ISIS propagandist who may or may not have been killed in an airstrike.

Amos Barshad The Fader Aug 2016 Permalink

World

First Come the Sweets, Then the Beheadings

How ISIS trains the children it captures.

Katrin Kuntz Der Spiegel Jul 2016 10min Permalink

Crime

"I've Had Almost Every Tragedy You Can Imagine"

An interview with Dallas Police Chief David O. Brown.

Joe Pappalardo Dallas Observer Feb 2016 20min Permalink

Crime Tech

Envisioning the Hack That Could Take Down New York City

Cars driving themselves into walls. Hospitals frozen. Elevators jammed. A scenario that could happen based on what already has.

Reeves Wiedman New York Jun 2016 30min Permalink

Crime

The Orlando Killer: “Always Agitated. Always Mad.”

Who was Omar Mateen?

Dan Barry, Serge F. Kovaleski, Alan Blinder, Mujib Mashal New York Times Jun 2016 Permalink

Crime

A Severed Head, Two Cops, and the Radical Future of Interrogation

A novel interrogation technique is transforming the art of detective work: Shut up and let the suspect do the talking.

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Previously: Robert Kolker on the Longform Podcast

Robert Kolker Wired / The Marshall Project May 2016 25min Permalink

Business Crime Politics Tech World

Fear This Man

David Vincenzetti says his company, which sells spyware to world’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies, is helping to thwart terrorism. Others say it’s a danger to citizens, dissidents, and journalists alike.

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David Kushner on the Longform Podcast

David Kushner Foreign Policy Apr 2016 20min Permalink

Crime Tech Media

#jihad

Why ISIS is winning the social media war.

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Brendan Koerner on the Longform Podcast

Brendan I. Koerner Wired Mar 2016 Permalink

Reprints Crime World

Once Upon a Jihad

Life and death with the young and radicalized.

Alex Perry Newsweek Jan 2015 55min Permalink

Crime

Hidden Damages

After his daughter died in a terrorist attack, Stephen Flatow won an unprecedented judgment against her killers. Then he had to figure out how to actually collect.

M.R. O'Conner The Atavist Magazine Jan 2016 50min Permalink

World

The Fight for Mosul

A report from the border of ISIS territory in Iraq, where civilians are battling to survive.

Luke Mogelson New Yorker Jan 2016 35min Permalink

Business Crime World

The Narco-Terror Trap

The DEA warns that drugs are funding terror. But is the agency stopping threats or staging them?

Ginger Thompson ProPublica Dec 2015 35min Permalink

Crime World

Magical Thinking About ISIS

On the response to the Paris attacks.

Adam Shatz London Review of Books Nov 2015 15min Permalink

Crime World

The Avenger

Ken Dornstein’s older brother died when a bomb exploded on Pan Am Flight 103. For the past three decades, he’s been obsessed with identifying who’s really responsible.

Patrick Radden Keefe New Yorker Sep 2015 40min Permalink

Crime World

The Imam’s Curse

The family accused of funding the Pakistani Taliban.

Evan Osnos New Yorker Sep 2015 25min Permalink

Crime

ISIS and the Lonely Young American

An isolated 23-year-old Sunday school teacher living with her grandparents makes a new group of friends online who mail her chocolates and cash.

Rukmini Callimachi New York Times Jun 2015 Permalink

Crime

Five Hostages

Feeling abandoned by America, families fight to save their children from ISIS.

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Lawrence Wright on the Longform Podcast

Lawrence Wright New Yorker Jul 2015 1h25min Permalink

Crime

Rise of al-Qaida Sahara Terrorist

A profile of Moktar Belmoktar, Al-Qaida’s “most difficult employee,” who was responsible for a major attack on an Algerian BP plant and, according to U.S. and Libyan forces, was killed in an air strike on Sunday.

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Rukmini Callimachi on the Longform Podcast.

Rukmini Callimachi AP May 2013 10min Permalink

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