Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

This week on nybooks.com: The disaster of unlimited political spending, the unsparing and unsettling vision of Francisco Goya, a survivor’s account of the Charlie Hebdo attack, the magic of Alice Munro’s stories, how ISIS rules its capital, and the Obama administration’s record on rights.   THIS ISSUE SPONSORED BY UCONN

The Supreme Court’s Billion-Dollar Mistake David Cole Five years ago this week, the Court decided to allow unlimited amounts of corporate spending in political campaigns. How important was that decision? The evidence is in, and the results are devastating.   ADVERTISEMENT   Goya: Order and Disorder Colm Tóibín A selection of prints and paintings from the recent exhibition in Boston, with commentary   My Charlie Hebdo Philippe Lançon If there is one thing that this attack reminded me about, or even taught me in the first place, it’s why I practice this profession—out of a spirit of freedom and the sheer fun of expressing it.   More on the massacre in France: Ahmed Rashid on the threat of al-Qaeda, Tim Parks on the limits of satire, Mark Lilla on the prior attacks, Robert Darnton on laughter and terror   ADVERTISEMENT   Alice Munro’s Magic Hermione Lee She is wonderfully crafty at making her stories seem to move both forward and backward, to be at once anticipatory and elegiac.   How ISIS Rules Sarah Birke Raqqa has become a crucial power center in a territory that is now bigger than many countries and includes some six million to eight million people in Iraq and Syria.   Obama & Counterterror: The Ignored Record Kenneth Roth Ensuring a counterterrorism policy that respects basic rights seems simply not to have been a priority for the president.