Vox Sentences: The world reacts, and overreacts, to Paris

An investigation throughout Europe; a state of emergency in France; and — this part's the overreaction — calls to ban Syrian refugees from the US.

Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.

TOP NEWS

Shock waves from Paris

(Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images)

• In France: President François Hollande is calling for a three-month extension of the "state of emergency" instituted after the Paris attacks.

  [Wall Street Journal / William Horobin, Max Colchester and Sam Schechner]

• A law dating back to the Algerian war for independence gave Hollande the authority to institute the state of emergency. If that doesn't make you uneasy, you should read Vox's Libby Nelson.

  [Vox / Libby Nelson]

• In Syria: France took the lead on bombing ISIS positions in Raqqa and elsewhere on Sunday, to much hullaballoo. But the bombings were largely symbolic, hitting sites the US likely would have hit otherwise.

  [CNN / Ben Brumfield, Tim Lister and Nick Paton Walsh]

• Vox's Zack Beauchamp argues that ISIS is lashing out in France because it's losing territory in Iraq and Syria.

  [Vox / Zack Beauchamp]

• In Belgium and throughout Europe: French and Belgian authorities believe they've identified the man who planned the Paris attacks: the Belgian-born ISIS fighter Abdelhamid Abaaoud.

  [New York Times / Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura, Aurelien Breeden and Katrin Bennhold]

• Abaaoud is one of the best-known extremists to come out of Belgium, a country that's become something of an incubator for jihadist extremism, as this SPIEGEL feature from January explains.

  [SPIEGEL / Katrin Kuntz and Gregor Peter Schmitz]

• So far, all of the men who have been positively identified as attackers have been European nationals. The European Commission's vice president in charge of security stresses that "this is an internal threat."

  [Think Progress / Justin Salhani]

• However, one of the attackers at the Stade de France, who was found with a fake Syrian passport, has been confirmed to have entered through Greece earlier this year — although his true name and nationality are still unknown.

  [Wall Street Journal / Marcus Walker and Noemie Bisserbe]

Remember when Americans felt bad for Syrian refugees?

(Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

• There are not a lot of Syrian refugees coming into the US. The US has only admitted 2,000 in the past four-plus years.

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

• That has not stopped the governors of at least 23 states* from declaring that they will not take Syrian refugees, because maybe ISIS. (*The number may have risen by the time this is sent out.)

  [USA Today / Mary Troyan]

• States definitely don't have the legal authority to bar refugees. They do, however, have the ability to starve state agencies that help integrate refugees of funds.

  [Mother Jones / Tim Murphy]

• Congress, however, can limit refugee intake. And many members would like to do that — at risk of a government shutdown — next month.

  [Politico / Seung Min Kim, Jake Sherman and Burgess Everett]

• Rand Paul, for his part, would like to suspend refugees from up to 30 Muslim-majority countries.

  [Washington Post / David Weigel]

• Then there's the moderate position of Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush. They're okay with Syrian refugees — as long as they're Christian. Muslim Syrians need not apply.

  [CBS News / Rebecca Kaplan]

• President Obama took time out from the G20 summit to call out all of this posturing — especially the "religious test" faction. He was right to do so. It is a disgrace.

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

We deserve the superbugs

(Medicine and Social Justice Blog)

• Happy World Antibiotic Awareness Week! Apparently we have a lot to learn: According to a new WHO survey, 64 percent of people think they can use antibiotics to fight colds and flus. You cannot. They are viruses.

  [Vox / Julia Belluz]

• The Atlantic's Ed Yong explains attitudes toward antibiotics: People think antibiotics are for when they're seriously sick, and are liable to stop taking them once they feel better (before the antibiotics run their course).

  [The Atlantic / Ed Yong]

• This is a terrible development. Superbugs — bacteria that are resistant to all known antibiotics — are real, and they are growing. (Vox's Julia Belluz explains antibiotic resistance here.)

  [Vox / Julia Belluz]

• This helpful-slash-terrifying map will show you the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria for various diseases — including strep — in your region of the country.

  [Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy]

• The likelihood that we will move into a fully antibiotic-resistant future is real enough that some scientists are already thinking about what comes after the end of antibiotics.

  [Medium / Maryn McKenna]

MISCELLANEOUS

Social media after tragedies is a tire fire of false rumors and sanctimony. [The Independent / David Weigel]

• R. Kelly is almost certainly a serial sexual predator. That was enough to sink Bill Cosby's career. Why hasn't it sunk Kelly's?

  [NY Mag / David Marchese]

• The Justice Department has forced serious reforms at 16 police departments over the past two decades. But the deals are often costly, delayed, and, in some cases, don't even lead to fewer uses of force by cops.

  [Frontline / Kimbriell Kelly, Sarah Childress, and Steven Rich]

• Separating the Binder twins made Ben Carson's name. But with one twin dead and the other with permanent brain damaged, was the surgery worth it?

  [Washington Post / Ben Terris and Stephanie Kirchner]

• No, college students aren't unusually mentally fragile now. We're just more mocking of them.

  [NY Mag / Jesse Singal]

VERBATIM

"Bears make money, bulls make money, pigs get slaughtered. There’s no reason to be a pig." [Dave McClure to Bloomberg / Adam Satariano, Jing Cao, Eric Newcomer]

• "Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn’t until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana’s 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house. Marriage was a relationship between the dominant, breadwinning husband and the subordinate, child-rearing wife. What lesbian or gay man would want that?"

  [Ruth Bader Ginsburg to NYT / Philip Galanes]

• "Outside the main ballroom, a few Jeb Bush shirts lay on the table. A few booths down, $45 'Marco Polos' were selling like hotcakes."

  [Daily Beast / Tim Mak]

• "There’s an old saying that says, 'When you see one cathedral one time, you have seen a cathedral. When you see eight cathedrals six times, you have had forty-eight cathedral experiences. When you haven’t seen a cathedral at all, you probably drank too much champagne, got separated from the tour, and wandered off down a side street, and then we had to come retrieve you and bring you to your hotel or we would have been legally at fault.'"

  [Washington Post / Alexandra Petri]

• "I have such a hard time flying commercial. I always want to — it’s cheaper, it’s easier — but there can be 300 perfectly lovely people at the gate and one crazy person who ruins it for everyone, so flying private is great because I don’t have to worry. Is that relatable enough for you?"

  [Jennifer Lawrence to Vogue / Jonathan Van Meter]

WATCH THIS

Why ISIS would attack Paris [YouTube / Zack Beauchamp and Johnny Harris]

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