Check out The Woman Who Faced Down the Woolwich Butchers, and The Future of/with AlJazeera America, and 5 Ideas

The Daily Beast: The Woman Who Stood Up to the Woolwich Butchers, 23 May 2013
One woman faced down the two alleged killers who used cleavers and carving knives to hack a soldier to death in London. Christopher Dickey on the Cub Scout leader who stood up to terror.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/23/cub-scout-leaders-stands-up-to-london-attackers.html


Newsweek: Al Jazeera is the Best Thing to Happen to Journalism -- Unless it Isn't, 22 May 2013
Can a small very rich nation save American news?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/05/22/the-al-jazeera-revolution.html

Newsweek: Better World - Reinventing the Globe in Five Ideas, 22 May 2013

A climate of agreement; unlocking the genes of the sacred lotus; the catch-22 of closing cyberdoors; twenty-nothings; and getting fit in seven-minutes

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/05/22/issue/betterworld.html

My latest column: Truth, Justice and Benghazi

The Daily Beast: Truth, Justice and Benghazi - 17 May 2013
Why the CIA bears the main responsibility for the intelligence failures that led to the atrocity in Libya last year.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/17/truth-justice-and-benghazi.html

"The Art of the Heist" and "5 Ideas" in the new re-designed digital Newsweek

First, a note on the redesigned digital Newsweek: You can read it on any browser, no app required. The reader experience is equally good on a computer, a tablet or a smartphone (and not only iPads and iPhones). It's also very easy to find. To get there just type in newsweek.com . 

As for my latest:

Newsweek: (Some) Crime Pays, 15 May 2013

The New Art of the Heist

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/05/15/some-crime-does-pay-the-art-of-the-heist.html

Newsweek: Better World, 15 May 2013 

Reinventing the Globe in Five Ideas

This week: Building Mosques for Peace; Printing Prosthetics; Grand Grandparents; Location, Location, Location; and Mapping the Twittersphere

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/05/15/issue/betterworld.html

(This is the successor to Six Ideas from Around the World)

Video: France 24 The World This Week, 10 May 2013

Talking about Syria, the hero of Cleveland, and the Ferguson management style

http://www.france24.com/en/20130510-world-week-part-1-syria-israel-war-cleveland-ramsey-charles-ferguson-manchester-united

Quick hits on breaking news: Stolen Diamonds; Maid-Slaves, plus the latest 6 Ideas

The Daily Beast: Ocean's 31 - Belgian Diamond Heist Solved? 8 May 2013
Authorities in Belgium, France, and Switzerland say they've got the robbers who stole $50 million worth of ice from Brussels Airport. But details are sketchy, reports Christopher Dickey.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/08/belgian-diamond-heist-solved.html

Newsweek: Around the World in Six Ideas, 6 May 2013

Water Worlds - The new blue planets discovered 1,200 light years from Earth; Texting as linguistic evolution; See-through brains; Early Warning Systems networks; Saving DNA samples for every species on the planet; the left-leaning ivory tower.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/05/06/around-the-world-in-six-ideas-from-water-in-space-to-species-extinction.html

The Daily Beast / Women in the World: U.S. Authorities Free Two Domestics in Raid on Saudi Diplomatic Residence, 3 May 2013
Middle Eastern nation is notorious for ill treatment of indentured servants.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/05/03/u-s-authorities-free-two-women-in-raid-saudi-diplomat-residence.html

Video: How the NYPD secures the city (2009)

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, a lot of people have been wondering if New York City is safe -- or at least safer than other cities. If it is, and there is good reason to believe that's the case, this brief video produced by Lee Wang for Newsweek in 2009 suggests why.

If the above doesn't play for you, try this from Vimeo:

NYPD Unseen from Lee Wang on Vimeo.

A busy weekend: "Six Ideas," "The FBI vs NYC," two appearances on MSNBC, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev's mysterious friend

The Daily Beast: The FBI Cut The NYPD Out of the Loop About the Tsarnaev Brothers' Plans, 27 April 2013
The Feds allegedly failed to tell officials in New York that the Boston Marathon bombers meant to target Times Square, reports Christopher Dickey. The threat may have passed but the tensions haven't.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/27/the-fbi-cut-the-nypd-out-of-the-loop-about-the-tsarnaev-brothers-plans.html

Newsweek: Around the World in Six Ideas, 29 April 2013

Emotional men; digital dictators; the polarization equation; the society of spectacle; wikipresident; and rethinking the border.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/04/29/around-the-world-in-six-ideas-are-men-more-emotionial-about-sex-than-women.html

MSNBC video: Talking Tsarnaevs, terror and "TNT" with Alex Witt, 28 April 2013

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/msnbc/51694163#51694163

Video on MSNBC w/ Alex Witt, Lessons Learned from Boston Attacks, 27 April 2013

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/weekends-with-alex-witt/51685356#51685356

[[With a bad cold and little sleep, looking pretty gnarly in this one.]]

The Daily Beast: Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Friend & Teacher Misha, the Bombings' Mystery Man, 24 April 2013
By Anna Nemtsova and Christopher Dickey
Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, tells Anna Nemtsova that Russian and U.S. investigators are asking her about Misha, the Armenian convert to Islam who influenced Tamerlan.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/24/tamerlan-tsarnaev-s-friend-teacher-misha-the-bombings-mystery-man.html

Check out The Terrorist Tipping Point and the latest "Six Ideas"

The Daily Beast: The Terrorist Tipping Point - What Pushed the Tsarnaev Brothers to Violence? 23 April 2013
Forget what you know about terrorism. Christopher Dickey on the three surprising factors that contribute to creating deadly terrorists, whether they are from al Qaeda or the IRA. [An update my my 2009 "TNT" column]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/23/the-terrorist-tipping-point-what-pushed-the-tsarnaev-brothers-to-violence.html

Newsweek: Around the World in Six Ideas, 22 April 2013

The American Quest for Redemption, Your Cellphone Data Isn't Anonymous & More

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/04/22/around-the-world-in-six-ideas-the-american-quest-for-redemption-your-cellphone-data-isn-t-anonymous-more.html

Newsweek: The Story Behind the Bombers

Newsweek: The Story Behind the Bombers, 19 April 2013

How safe are we, really? Did al Qaeda ideology inspire the attack or were the two brothers driven by other motivations? Christopher Dickey, Eli Lake, and Daniel Klaidman report on the latest.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/19/the-story-behind-the-bombers.html

[This story last updated at noon Boston time on Friday.]