Rad Storm Rising (1990) A hundred and fifty years ago the Russian philosopher Petr Chaadayev wrote that “we are one of those nations that somehow are not part of mankind but exist only for the sake of teaching the world some kind of terrible lesson.” In the area of nuclear affairs the steady emission of […]
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The Atlantic: 10 Essential #Longreads on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda from The Atlantic archives
The Atlantic: 10 Essential #Longreads on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda from The Atlantic archives theatlantic: From The Atlantic archives, ten articles on terrorism, Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, and more. Visit The Atlantic for most After Bin Laden coverage Hunting The Taliban In Las Vegas, Robert D. Kaplan, September 2006 In trailers just minutes away from the […]
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“Yet, as a 2006 State Department report shows, U.S. officials have for years been aware of credible allegations that Raziq and his men participated in a cold-blooded massacre of civilians, the details of which have, until now, been successfully buried. And this, in turn, raises questions regarding whether U.S. officials may have knowingly violated a […]
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Featured Longreader: Barbara Mack, teacher/theologian. See her story picks from The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Morning News, and more on her #longreads page.
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Almost every morning, as Lyle was getting ready to take the dog for a walk along the bay, his wife would ask, “Are ye down the prom, then?” They had met and married thirty years before, in Vermont, when she was Mary Curtin and he’d thought her a happy combination of exotic and domestic. At […]
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When she came back to her desk, half an hour later, she couldn’t log into Gmail at all. By that time, I was up and looking at e‑mail, and we both quickly saw what the real problem was. In my inbox I found a message purporting to be from her, followed by a quickly proliferating […]
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Featured Longreader: Pushcart Prize winner Elliott Holt. See her story picks from The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Grantland and more on her longreads page.
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Top 5 #Longreads of the Week: GQ, Los Angeles Times, Sady Doyle, The Atlantic, The Telegraph, and a guest pick by our German friends, Gute Texte.
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Featured Longreader: Bloomberg News writer Elizabeth Lopatto. See her story picks from The Atlantic, Cabinet Magazine and more on her #longreads page.
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They blindfolded us and stuffed us into a small sedan, three tall people with their hands bound behind them. This is what they mean by a “stress position,” I remember thinking. I don’t know how long that ride lasted—two hours, three?—but it seemed longer. The car’s sound system played a somber remix of Qaddafi’s famous […]
