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What Snowden said about democracy

(N.B.: Since someone already commented elsewhere, to be clear, I absolutely and completely support asylum for Edward Snowden. That doesn’t mean I have to agree with everything or even anything he says or does). There’s a somewhat odious quote floating around from Edward Snowden that was tweeted, then expanded by the Guardian, but both come […]

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Let’s talk about terrorism and Facebook

I came across this fascinating (and horrifying) article by Ellie Hall yesterday on the “women of ISIS,” many of whom are foreigners who have traveled from “Western” countries to join the fighters in Syria.  The piece is worth a read, but I was particularly struck by the first paragraph, in which—for the first time, I […]