What I Discovered From Interviewing Imprisoned ISIS Fighters

What I Discovered From Interviewing Imprisoned ISIS Fighters   They’re drawn to the movement for reasons that have little to do with belief in extremist Islam.

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Hillary Clinton‘s Best Asset Is Also Her Greatest Liability   Her answers at the Des Moines debate revealed a fluency in the complicated global challenge. But can Democrats forgive her Iraq vote?   JOAN WALSH

To Defeat ISIS, We Must Call Both Western and Muslim Leaders to Account   And that includes the Saudi kings whose funding of Wahhabi doctrine gave rise to the scourge of Islamic extremism.   LAILA LALAMI

France Should Stop Listening to Saudi Arabia on Syria   ISIS is the most urgent threat to the West stemming from the Syrian war and must be destroyed. Assad’s murderous dictatorship can be dealt with next.   JUAN COLE

After Paris Attacks, a Call for Justice—Not Vengeance   The years after September 11 are a powerful reminder that an “all-out war” on terror only creates more terrorism.   PHYLLIS BENNIS

Why Does Ta-Nehisi Coates Say Less Than He Knows?   The journalist’s best-selling memoir offers eloquent testimony to the vulnerability of black life, but it surrenders too much to despair.   JESSE MCCARTHY

The TRUTH will set you FREE.