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November 2018

Fox 47 News: Using Social Media To Weaken Wrath Of Terrorist Attacks
Washington Post: 3 ways to look at August’s protests — and 2 charts showing all protests since January 2017
CSIS: The Rise of Far-Right Extremism in the United States
NPR: Is There A Cure For Hate?
The New York Times: U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don't Know How to Stop It.
Washington Post: The psychology of how someone becomes radicalized

October 2018

The Conversation: Ideologically motivated far-right extremists have killed close to 500 people since 1990 – and 10 percent were targeted based on religion
NBC News: Trump admin will apparently not renew program to fight domestic terror
NPR: Pittsburgh Shooting And Other Cases Point To Rise In Domestic Extremism
TIME: How Big a Role Does Social Media Play in Homegrown Terrorism?
Financial Times: Far-right fuels US violence as extremism creeps into mainstream
The Washington Post: Pittsburgh shooting comes amid rise in hate crimes, growing anxiety about right-wing extremism
Christian Science Monitor: ‘Lone wolves' and the rhetoric that fuels them
FiveThirtyEight: Only 6 Percent Of U.S. Terrorists Act Alone, But They Are Prolific
The Atlantic: If the Pipe-Bomb Mailings Weren't Terrorism, What Is?
WAMU 88.5: With Technology, Law Enforcement Gets Better At Threats By Mail
NPR: Investigators Search For Culprit Behind Potential Explosive Devices
Quartz: Stochastic terror and the cycle of hate that pushes unstable Americans to violence
Boston Herald: Mail bombs put Dems on high alert
The Globe and Mail: Suspicious packages sent to De Niro, Biden as investigators focus on leads in Florida
FiveThirtyEight: How To Make Sense Of This Week’s Mail Bombs
WJLA: Domestic terrorism? Experts analyze targets, timing and tactics in package bomb attacks
TIME Online: This Week's Attempted Bombings Raise Alarms. But Experts Say It Doesn't Mean the Country Is More Violent
The Christian Science Monitor: What mail bombs say – and don't say – about political discourse
The Telegraph: Who is the US bomb suspect and what do we know about the devices?
Quartz: US terror attacks are increasingly motivated by right-wing views
AirTalk: Suspicious packages sent to Clintons, Obamas, Time Warner Center and other high profile figures
Vice: Tracing the Tactics of 21st-Century Youth Protest
Nature: Retool AI to forecast and limit wars
OZY: AI Heralds End of the Passport Line... and Start of a Privacy Row
The Conversation: The psychology of closure – and why some need it more than others
Foreign Policy: The Fight Against Terror Needs Better Data
Forbes Online: Trump: America's Tweeter In Chief Becomes Its Texter In Chief

September 2018

RAND: Why We Should Measure the Economic Impact of Terrorism in the Middle East
USA Today: The shooter who killed 3 in Aberdeen, Md., was a woman. How unusual is that?
Wall Street Journal: 400 Murders a Day: The Crisis of Latin America
The Guardian: Here’s the science behind the Brexit vote and Trump’s rise
The Conversation: Our shared reality is fraying
Scientific American: A Powerful Force That Shapes All of our Decisions
Quartz: Decades after 9/11, the American right is behind a terrorism surge
The Independent: 9/11: Two former members of investigative commission warn of future terrorist attacks
CTV: Growing Venezuela Refugee Crisis
Newshub: Interview: Martha Crenshaw
Foreign Policy: India's Aging Guerrillas Still Believe in the Struggle

August 2018

ABC: Why Al-Qaeda is alive and well long after the death of Bin Laden
Newswise: S&T Develops the First Line of Defense Against Acts of Targeted Violence
DHS: Vehicle Ramming Attack Mitigation
Quartz: Terrorism is surging in the US, fueled by right-wing ideologies
WKRC-TV Online: Global terrorism down in 2017... but there's more to the story.
Washington Post: Were the American cyclists killed in Tajikistan naive for traveling there?