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Sam Harris: Why It’s Futile to Debate Israel’s Enemies
There is only one nation on Earth that must continually argue for its right to exist, even when the very survival of its people is threatened by…
Sam Harris
The Making of a Teenage Terror Suspect
Extremists know which kids to target online: young, male, and isolated. An Ohio family never imagined their autistic son would be one of them.
Maya Sulkin
Watch: How Discord Radicalized Our Son
Maya Sulkin investigates how an Ohio teenager was raided by the FBI after he was targeted by jihadis online.
Maya Sulkin
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The SPLC Targeted Me. Now Its Reckoning Has Come.
The group that called me an ‘extremist’ has been accused of funding hate groups. And it’s provoked racial conflict for decades.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
This Week in Canada: Islamic Schools Multiply with Public Funding
More Muslims turn to schools that require the hijab; the expanding definition of hate crimes; a left-wing party trips over its own equity rules; and…
Rupa Subramanya
Why the West Won’t Call This a Holy War
The conflict with Iran didn’t begin three weeks ago; it is the continuation of a decades-long religious war to weaken the West and eliminate Israel.
Yardena Schwartz
The Forgotten History of Slavery in the Islamic World
Historian Justin Marozzi joins Coleman Hughes to examine the scale of slavery in the Islamic world, the reasons it has been understudied, and the ways…
Coleman Hughes
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The GOP Has an Anti-Muslim Problem
Lawmakers face no penalty for bigoted remarks, so don’t be surprised when the hate spreads to other groups.
River Page
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Iran Is Collapsing, but Islamism Is Spreading
The fall of the Islamic Republic would be a defeat for political Islam. But an election in Britain and an attack in Texas suggest that Islamism poses an…
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
On the Ground in Nigeria’s Religious Killing Fields
I spent a week in Nigeria, where entire villages are being emptied in coordinated raids—all while the government looks away and the world stays silent.
David Patrikarakos
Will the Iranian Regime Fall?
Iran’s security forces have killed at least 2,000 protesters in a brutal crackdown. Can the protesters prevail—and will it take U.S. military…
Rafaela Siewert
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The Great American Religious Attic
American religious pluralism cannot be reduced to law or theory. It is a lived historical reality that has defined the nation from its earliest days.
Matthew Walther
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