Tracy McNicoll has been reporting for The Daily Beast from Paris since 2010. As Newsweek's former Paris Correspondent, she covered Western Europe for the magazine from 2002 to 2013.

HOT OFF THE PRESSES

No one is safe from France’s cartoonists: An Islamic cleric worries Charlie Hebdo’s cartoonist martyrs will steal his virgins, and the pope calls women ‘cocksuckers.’

UNHOLY WARRIORS

In the video that showed the decapitated head of an American hostage and the murder of 18 Syrian soldiers, the real message was the faces of the killers.