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Terrorism
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Driving Is Much Deadlier Than Terrorism—Why Isn’t It Scarier?
Humans are flighty, irrational creatures that calculate risk in fascinating ways.
America’s Sea-Born Terrorism Challenge: the Panga Boat
Low-slung speedboats from Mexico are smuggling millions of dollars' worth of marijuana along the California coast. And we can't do a thing about it.
Terrorist? Cigarette Distributor? Both?
Is France at war with terrorists in Mali? Or with smugglers? A study from September suggests the confusing…
Rethinking the Classic ‘Obedience’ Studies
Stanley Milgram's 1961 obedience experiments and the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment are legendary. But new research adds new wrinkles to our understanding of allegiance and evil.
Dark Tourism Has Its Fans
Just two days after the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks themselves, writer Michael Luongo’s piece, “Ground Zero…
Who is Bombing Mexico’s Nanotech Labs?
Policemen outside the Monterrey Institute of Technology after a letter bomb exploded there in August 2011. (A. FRANCO/AP/PRESS…
Things We Know That Aren’t True, Poverty and Terrorism Edition
You might think that poverty breeds terrorism. It’s a fairly intuitive view, and it has been trumpeted by…
No Way Out: Exiting Afghanistan and Iraq
It’s hard to find an exit when you don’t know what leaving means, as the U.S. has found in winding down its on-the-ground military involvements in Iraq and Afghanistan.