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START in the News

March 2019

News media features START expertise in wake of attack
TIME: 'A Game of Whack-a-Mole.' Why Facebook and Others Are Struggling to Delete Footage of the New Zealand Shooting
Center for American Progress: Turkey's Refugee Dilemma
New York Magazine: Report: Domestic Terrorism Is Still a Greater Threat Than Islamic Extremism
Military Times: Biological and chemical weapons: the other threats from North Korea
Tampa Bay Times: Marco Rubio and Venezuela: What a Twitter campaign to oust Maduro says about modern diplomacy
Center for American Progress: Confronting the Domestic Right-Wing Terrorist Threat

February 2019

The Hill: Any US military intervention in Venezuela will be counterproductive
The Conversation: Will terrorism continue to decline in 2019?
Yahoo News: Democratic lawmakers demand answers from Trump administration on extremists serving in U.S. military
The Washington Times: Seeing red: Trump opponents say the MAGA hat is much more ominous than a show of support
Newsweek: Muslim terror attacks get 357 percent more media coverage than others: Study
The Atlantic: The Next Parkland Could Happen Anywhere
CNN: Law enforcement teaches rental car employees how to spot potential attackers in new video
The Washington Post: The 2019 Women’s March was bigger than you think

January 2019

The Economist: Culture as the menacing force behind today’s crazy politics
Nature Human Behaviour: The loosening of American culture over 200 years is associated with a creativity–order trade-off
The Conversation: ‘Bye Bye 45:’ Activists create news hoax with President’s resignation
Fox: Concern over future funding of top terrorism database
Larry King Now: The Psychology Behind Violent Hate Groups
TERP Magazine: Damage, Controlled
ABC: Terror attacks in 2019 highlight challenges remain
Vox: Al-Shabaab's Kenya attack proves the terrorist group is still deadly
The Irish Times: Keeping the Peace
New Republic: How to Build a Powerful Protest Movement
Council on Foreign Relations: The Top Conflicts to Watch in 2019: Terrorist Attack
Snopes: Does Lack of Affordable Healthcare Kill More People in America Than Terrorism and Illegal Immigration?
New Republic: A Database Showed Far-Right Terror on the Rise. Then Trump Defunded It.

December 2018

Washington Post: 2019: The Year in Preview
CNN (Philippines): Philippines climbs to 10th spot in Global Terrorism Index
Wall Street Journal: Europe Faces Continuing Terror Threat, While Concerns in U.S. Ebb, Study Finds
Forbes (Portugal): Terrorism: The World's Most Powerful Organizations
The Belfer Center: Jihadists from Ex-Soviet Central Asia: Where Are They? Why Did They Radicalize? What Next?
United Nations: Secretary-General's remarks to the first meeting of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Compact Coordination Committee
PR Newswire: IEP's 2018 Global Terrorism Index: Deaths From Terrorism Down 44 per Cent in Three Years, but Terrorism Remains Widespread
MSN News: Canada was pushed up 9 places in a global terror ranking after Quebec mosque shooting: report
CNN: Terrorism deaths down in 2017, but far-right terrorism rising, report says
BNN Bloomberg: The biggest political risks to the world economy in 2019
Psychology Today: Mass Radicalization in the USA
The Washington Post: The U.S. believes that kidnapped journalist Austin Tice is still alive. Here are 5 things to know about global kidnapping.

November 2018

The New Republic: Can a White Supremacist Learn Not to Hate?
The Washington Post: In the United States, right-wing violence is on the rise
The Washington Times: FBI terrorism investigations result in just nine people facing charges in 2018
The New York Times: The New Radicalization of the Internet
Buzzfeed: The Unsatisfying Truth About Hateful Online Rhetoric And Violence
Foreign Policy: Want to Deradicalize Terrorists? Treat Them Like Everyone Else.
The New York Times: Two Decades After 9/11, Militants Have Only Multiplied
Voice of America: Far-right Extremism Rising in US, Report Says
WVIK: Can Peaceful Protest Successfully Influence Change?
The New Republic: California's Wildfires Don't Have to Be So Deadly