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The New Yorker Radio Hour

Why Israel Struck Iran First

The Israeli American writer Yossi Klein Halevi is vehemently opposed to Benjamin Netanyahu, but he makes a case for why Netanyahu was right to start a war, whatever the consequences.
Books

How the I.R.A. Almost Blew Up the British Government

Four decades ago, a hotel bomb nearly claimed the lives of Margaret Thatcher and her ministers. Can we still feel the aftershocks?
A Reporter at Large

Murder in Malta

After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government.
Books

America’s War on Syrian Civilians

Bombs killed thousands of civilians in Raqqa, and the city was decimated. U.S. lawyers insist that war crimes weren’t committed, but it’s time to look honestly at the devastation that accompanies “targeted” air strikes.
Dispatch

At St. Sebastian’s Church, in Negombo, Sri Lanka, After the Massacre

Priests and nuns stood quietly watching as masked men wearing gloves up to their elbows performed grisly recovery work in the churchyard.
Comment

Reigns of Terror in America

From a 1958 synagogue bombing in Atlanta to the events of recent weeks, the bloody-mindedness of broken men can be countered only by principle and fortitude.
News Desk

Where Is the Empathy for Somalia?

After a devastating bombing, Somalis watched with a familiar disappointment as details of the attack failed to headline broadcast news or resonate on social media.
Books

Blast Radius

News Desk

The Explosions in Turkey

Amy Davidson Sorkin

Five Questions About the Bombing of a Hospital in Kunduz

A Reporter at Large

The Avenger

A Reporter at Large

The Worst of the Worst

A Reporter at Large

Death of a Prosecutor

Letter from Norway

The Inexplicable

Books

The New Curiosity Shop

Comment

Limited Options

Fiction

Kattekoppen

Annals of War

The Silent Strike

American Chronicles

Objection