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November 2017

Nov 2
Bustle: Can Vehicle Attacks In The U.S. Ever Be Stopped?
Nov 1
Newsweek: Trump Calls Terrorists 'Sick' and 'Deranged' - Is That a Good Strategy?
Nov 1
Business Insider: Startling maps show every terrorist attack worldwide over the last 20 years
Nov 1
Newsweek: New York Terror: Could the Killer Have Been Spotted Sooner?
Nov 1
BBC: Why Uzbek migrants are being radicalised
Nov 1
Mic: Vehicular attacks like the one in New York City are on the rise. Here's why.
Nov 1
WSB-TV: FBI lays groundwork to prevent truck attacks in Georgia
Nov 1
The Hill: Cities grapple with how to protect soft targets from new attacks

October 2017

Oct 31
The Hill: Americans’ fear of terrorism divided along party lines
Oct 26
PolitiFact: Donald Trump takes credit for gains against ISIS but there's more to the story
Oct 24
The Hill: Will America ever have a grand strategy for the Middle East?
Oct 19
The New York Times: How to Respond to Richard Spencer
Oct 19
ProPublica: Racist, Violent, Unpunished: A White Hate Group's Campaign of Menace
Oct 18
The New Yorker: The Ignominious End of the ISIS Caliphate
Oct 17
PRI: Minnesota's Somali immigrants feel 'holes' left after deadly Mogadishu attack
Oct 13
FSI Stanford: When are mass shootings acts of terrorism?
Oct 10
LSE US Centre: White supremacy can be addictive, and leaving it behind can be like kicking a drug habit
Oct 9
Thrive Global: How Changing Views on Masculinity are Helping Drive Gun Ownership
Oct 9
Reuters: Terror attacks in U.S. more likely than elsewhere to involve guns
Oct 6
L.A. Times: Guns play an outsized role in deaths from terror attacks, especially in the U.S., data show
Oct 6
Washington Post: How the erosion of trust leads to murders and mass shootings
Oct 5
The Hill: Las Vegas highlights Islamist terrorism is not America's greatest domestic threat
Oct 4
National Post: 'It was textbook": How Edmonton Police masterfully prevented a mass casualty terrorist attack
Oct 4
Think Progress: America has a skewed perception of what qualifies as terrorism
Oct 3
PRI: There's no evidence linking the Las Vegas attack to ISIS. So why did the group claim responsibility?
Oct 3
The Cipher Brief: No Proof ISIS Behind Vegas, No Problem for its Followers
Oct 2
USA Today: Las Vegas mass shooting raises new doubts about safety of live entertainment
Oct 2
Buzzfeed: This Is Why ISIS Took Responsibility For The Las Vegas Shooting
Oct 2
The New York Times: Terrorizing if Not Clearly Terrorist: What to Call the Las Vegas Attack?
Oct 2
Slate: A “Distraught Person” Can Still Be a Terrorist
Oct 1
National Post: Low-tech, lone-wolf terrorism like Edmonton's almost unstoppable, experts say
Oct 1
CBRNe World: Get busy dying...

September 2017

Sep 29
Christian Science Monitor: Behind the ‘paradox of fear’: Crime is down, but many Americans don’t feel safe
Sep 28
PBS News: How to fight extremist psychology with social media
Sep 25
Washington Post: The countries added to Trump's immigration ban don't have very much terrorism
Sep 19
Bloomberg TV Bulgaria: The ISIL crash will not lead to the collapse of Islamic terrorism
Sep 17
The Globe and Mail: RCMP shelved hundreds of organized-crime cases after terror attacks
Sep 17
The Wall Street Journal: To Deal With Antifa, Designate It a Street Gang
Sep 15
Huffington Post: Why do People Believe Fake News?
Sep 13
Department of Homeland Security: Written testimony of I&A Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Intelligence Operations Robin Taylor for a House Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence hearing
Sep 12
Berks: Womelsdorf Volunteer Fire Company pays tribute to first responders
Sep 10
The New Yorker: Sixteen Years After 9/11, How Does Terrorism End?
Sep 10
The Conversation: Why al-Qaida is still strong 16 years after 9/11
Sep 6
New York Times: Neo-Nazis in Your Streets? Send in the (Coup Clutz) Clowns
Sep 4
CNN: What motivates ISIS fighters -- and those who fight against them
Sep 1
McClatchy: Does Charlottesville horror make the case for a U.S. domestic terrorism law?
Sep 1
Orange County Register: Waging war against hate? It's deeper than fists
Sep 1
PolitiFact: Who carries out more terror attacks on U.S. soil: Right wing or Islamic extremists?

August 2017

Aug 31
Washington Post: Almost all news coverage of the Barcelona attack mentioned terrorism. Very little coverage of Charlottesville did.
Aug 30
Task and Purpose: Looking For A Gender Gap In The Army? Try The Army Chief Of Staff’s Reading List

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