The XX Factor : Terrorism

What We're Talking About: Talking to Nannies and More

DoubleX Staff — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:51:00 GMT

Despite their portrayal in pop culture as overentitled, micromanaging shrews, mothers who employ nannies often struggle to communicate with them and vent to friends instead. Recognizing this communication gap, some schools have begun training nannies...(read more)

That Must Have Been Some Kiss

Rachael Larimore — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:11:00 GMT

I am of two minds about the story from the Newark Star-Ledger that says that the recent Newark airport security breach was caused by a couple kissing goodbye . On the one hand, it’s outrageous (though not entirely surprising, alas) that people could be...(read more)

According to Napolitano, the System Worked

Emily Yoffe — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:44:00 GMT

Janet Napolitano, head of Homeland Security, thinks that the attemped Christmas bombing of a flight bound for Detroit showed that, “ The system has worked really very, very smoothly over the course of the past several days." So the billions we pour into...(read more)

Clarity, Climate, and the Fort Hood Massacre

Kerry Howley — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:12:00 GMT

Bill Bennett has a post up at National Review demanding that Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s murder of 13 people be deemed “terrorism .” Forty-nine percent of Americans apparently prefer the phrase “killing spree.” This, we are to understand, is the terminology...(read more)

Ft. Hood Shooting is Less Jihad Than Part of a Pattern of American School and Workplace Shootings

Samantha Henig — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:36:00 GMT

A post from DoubleX writer KJ Dell'Antonia: Emily and Marjorie , don't you think we ask ourselves different questions about Major Nidal Hasan because he wasn't just a Muslim or jihadist, he was also a U.S. citizen and a member of the armed forces? It's...(read more)

Maybe the Military Is Inept, Not Politically Correct

Marjorie Valbrun — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:31:00 GMT

Emily, When you say: “Surely the general doesn't mean that in our quest for diversity in the military, we embrace fanatics in our midst,” you're surely not suggesting, are you, that military generals would purposely sacrifice the lives of dozens of soldiers,...(read more)

Terror, Right and Left

Kerry Howley — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:07:00 GMT

On May 30 several men and a woman broke into an Arizona trailer, killing 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father. This weekend three people were arrested for the murder, two of whom are leaders of the Minutemen American Defense, an anti-illegal immigrant...(read more)

Dr. George Tiller's Killer Was a Domestic Terrorist

Dayo Olopade — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:38:00 GMT

The murder of Dr. George Tiller in his church this Sunday sent a special chill down my spine; not the kind one gets when someone young, or important, or defenseless is gunned down in cold blood, but the kind one gets when domestic terror strikes. I don't...(read more)