Police are closing in on the gunmen in Charlie Hebdo massacre

The two brothers suspected in a newspaper terror attack were cornered inside a printing house northeast of Paris on Friday, taking a hostage and telling police they "want to die as martyrs," a French lawmaker told the Associated Press. Earlier, police had chased a vehicle at high speed along a main road heading towards Paris as one of France's biggest security operations in recent times unfolded. Reuters reports that gunshots rang out and the suspects abandoned their car in Dammartin-en-Goele, a small town of about 8,000 residents. + Surviving Charlie Hebdo editor says the magazine will continue to publish: "Stupidity will not win." + Angry French citizens are taking out their anger by attacking mosques. + Across the pond, the reactions of Americans aren't much better. + With #JeSuisAhmed, citizens are paying tribute to the overlooked hero of the Charlie Hebdo shooting: the Muslim police officer who died protecting the paper's right to satirize his faith. + Kyle Chayka on why we must protect art's capacity to shock: "The ideas we hold sacred are often the most worth reconsidering. And if art cannot be allowed to create dialogue between cultures, what will? Little else throughout history has proven as effective at translating between nations and peoples." + David Sessions argues we're asking the wrong questions about the Charlie Hebdo massacre: "It seems that many Westerners would prefer this sort of fear-based, authoritarian response to terrorism, just like Americans seem to prefer militarized police forces and mass incarceration to addressing the racist policies that make them 'necessary.' Why would that be? Because to address the root conflicts would be to admit that the 'othe'" — the Muslim, the immigrant, the African-American — has a legitimate and equal claim on "our" society."