This Is the Key to Recovering Black Wealth in America

America’s giant wealth disparity is driven by a history of racist redlining.

Mike Konczal and Bryce Covert

Snapshot: The Aftermath

Soldiers and police stand guard in Paris’s Jewish quarter. France deployed nearly 10,000 troops to sensitive sites across the nation after the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the murders two days later at a kosher super­market in east Paris. Nearly half of those forces will be guarding Jewish schools, synagogues and neighborhoods. Read More

Remy de la Mauviniere

What Americans Should Do After Charlie Hebdo

We must resist the push to increase surveillance and repeat the foreign policy mistakes of the past.

The Editors

Against Easy Stories

Facile explanations for the massacre must be resisted.

Laila Lalami

Theater of the Absurd

In the wake of the Paris attacks, moral idiots play their predictable roles.

Eric Alterman

Paris Attacks Will Bolster the Right-Wing Front National

The sad irony of terrorism is that it sparks a backlash against the very groups it seeks to champion.

Gary Younge

Runnabee Reunion

Calvin Trillin

Letters

Mutualize Uber?… what a mensch!… too broad a brush… make ’em care!… nobody does it better…

Our Readers and Barry Schwabsky