Tales from the Police: When Official Accounts Undervalue Public Intelligence
When Craig Hicks murdered three Muslim students in North Carolina, the police provided a preliminary account that sounded more like a fairy tale. According to their version, the crime was the
It was around 1977 or 1978—I was very young—when I first read a short (but marvelous) translation of Dracula. Last month, in January 2015, about 35 years after reading that abridged version, I finally finished the full text in English.
In another part of his lecture, this Saudi cleric attempts to cite the Quran as "proof" that the Sun rotates around the Earth. However, what he is actually doing is interpreting the Quran—or more precisely, relying on older interpretations. The
Note of 2005: This article was written, but has not been published, prior to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1546 (8 June 2004). This resolution gives the facts mentioned in the article further dimensions.
George W. Bush, insistent on completing the U.S. mission in Iraq, has repeatedly declared—and continues to do so—that America will not leave Iraq. His slogan is simple: "No withdrawal."
This rhetoric mirrors what we heard in Iraq months before the first