Today, Guantánamo turns 10.
TNR’s Stanley Kauffmann reviews a recent film that gives a terrifying look back on a decade of detention at Gautanánamo Bay, here.
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Today marks the 10th Anniversary of the launch of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
It seems like only yesterday that we could wear our shoes on planes and pack a tube of toothpaste without fear of being tackled by a rotund security officer. But is America any safer for it?
In honor of this milestone, read Legal Editor Jeffrey Rosen’s examination of TSA and the right to privacy in “Nude Breach” from the December 13th, 2010 issue (sub. req.).
As we near the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, The New Republic is looking back on the day that changed the direction of the country forever, including our initial coverage of that day and our immediate reactions.
On the anniversary of the Omagh Bombing, the deadliest attack during the so-called “Troubles” in Ireland, a New Republic piece looks at a history of Ireland rising. Was the Irish uprising against England right? Or was it terrorism?
In the name of preserving a Christian Europe, Anders Behring Breivik conducted an ideologically inspired terrorist attack against those he believed were Islamist terrorist sympathizers. In many ways, this latest act of religious hatred, carried out in the name of cultural purity, signals the febrile acceptance of Osama bin Laden’s invitation to reignite the medieval holy war between Islam and the Christian West.
Karen J. Greenberg, “The Norway Attacks Reveal the Parallels Between Islamists and Islamophobes”
