Le vrai Charlie

Charlie Hebdo’s Zineb El Rhazoui on her colleagues (English translation) (French original).

Portraits of editorial meetings at Charlie Hebdo before the massacre and after.

Cartoonists Ted Rall, Cathy Wilcox, Ruben Bolling and Robert Crumb on Charlie Hebdo.

Charlie Hebdo victim was “a friend of Islam, Turkey”.

A longtime reader’s letter to my British friends.

Charlie Hebdo and the right to be offended.

Why is the response to a strike against free speech more surveillance?

The biggest hypocrites marching for free speech in Paris.

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12 January 2015

Qui est cet Charlie Hebdo?

My first reaction to the events in Paris this week was, obviously, dismay, not just that this depressing drumbeat of the 21st century was still sounding, but that this time the target was a satirical magazine, an enterprise close to my heart. My only previous exposure to Charlie Hebdo had been seeing it at magazine stands in French-speaking countries, but I knew it was something like the French Private Eye, and that was enough to empathize with the French people’s reaction to, not just an act of terror, but an attack on a beloved national institution.

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