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Meeting Tunisia's Ansar al-Sharia - By Aaron Y. Zelin

I walk through a Tunisian market around midday, at the entrance to the fortress of Sousse, a town about 90 minutes southeast of the capital Tunis on the coast. A man is selling Salafi books and…
PUBLISHED: March 8, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4069 words)

The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man

Target in sight: 'Our expectation was that if he was there, he would go down fighting,' said Barack Obama. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features Viewed backwards, from Osama bin Laden's hideout to the…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5505 words)

Weekend Reading: Small Acts of Grace Within Large Acts of Horror

Weekend Reading: a weekly column of my favorite long magazine stories from the past week. They’re also often collected on twitter and Longreads.com. (Read the last three here, here, and here.)…
PUBLISHED: June 1, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (688 words)

Daniel Kahneman: How cognitive illusions blind us to reason

Many decades ago, I spent what seemed like a great deal of time under a scorching sun, watching groups of sweaty soldiers as they solved a problem. I was doing my national service in the…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 30, 2011
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3013 words)
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