An Arab-Swede navigates the consequences of a car bomb in Stockholm.
Tag: terrorism
Posted inNews & Politics
The problem with the “public health” approach to ideological violence
The Countering Violent Extremism program is meant to stop terrorism and hate crimes before they happen, but critics say it’s yet another excuse to spy on Muslims.
Posted inArts & Culture
Aguijón’s Brutality reveals the banality of violence in contemporary America
And, in the process, examines how people cope with trauma—or don’t.
Posted inBlogs
Kanye West returns to Chicago, makes first live appearance in nearly a year, and other news
Also, the Chicago Police Department discredits terrorism plot rumors.
Posted inBlogs
Emanuel: Chicago will ‘learn something’ from Manhattan terror attack, and other news
Also, the Obamas would rather have a conversation with fans than take a selfie.
Posted inBlogs
Villa Park man arrested for allegedly raising money to send ISIS fighters from the U.S. to Syria, and other Chicago
Also, the family of man shot to death by a CPD officer in 2011 is asking for a special prosecutor.
Posted inNews & Politics
After Trump’s air strikes, a Syrian asylum seeker remembers revolution and imprisonment in Damascus
Abu Shadi, who survived torture by the Assad regime, says he feels torn between Trump and an apathetic world.
Posted inBlogs
An Iraqi-American professor remembers his complicated midwestern youth
DePaul’s Laith Saud describes his American life during a seemingly endless war.
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Muslim, Latina, and attacked from all sides
Chicago-area resident Diana Cruz on living in Trump’s America
Posted inFilm
Patriots Day soft-pedals the citywide lockdown that followed the Boston Marathon bombing
Mark Wahlberg stars as a Boston cop on the trail of two lone-wolf jihadists.
Posted inBlogs
Mendoza and Munger continue to spar even though the comptroller’s race is over, and other Chicago news
Also, former Mayor Daley is scheduled for deposition in January in a Jon Burge-related torture lawsuit.
Posted inBlogs
Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa on Orlando: ‘It really hit close to home’
Chicago’s first openly gay alderman reflects on the mass shooting’s impact on queer and Latinx communities.
Posted inBlogs
‘We’ll always be here for you’: Top cop vows to protect Chicago’s LGBTQ community in wake of Orlando shooting
LGBTQ groups, city officials, and ordinary Chicagoans also expressed grief and outrage over the worst mass shooting in American history.
Posted inBlogs
Reading Charlie Hebdo in Evanston
On the anniversary of the deadly Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris, Evanston’s City Newsstand recounts how it got hold of the French satirical magazine’s first post-attack edition.
Posted inBlogs
Jeremy Scahill on Dirty Wars and the global battlefield
The journalist takes questions about his muckraking documentary.