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START in the News


START in the News

September 2017

Sep 4
CNN: What motivates ISIS fighters -- and those who fight against them
Sep 1
PolitiFact: Who carries out more terror attacks on U.S. soil: Right wing or Islamic extremists?
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

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
Aug 30
Huffington Post: Former White Supremacists In Canada Give ‘Triage' To Racist Radicals
Aug 29
Westworld: Resistance in Denver
Aug 29
Vox: The case against antifa
Aug 28
Sputnik: Why Rising Number of Daesh Attacks 'Won't Decrease in the Short Term'
Aug 23
AFP: W. Europe had less than 1% of terror victims in 2016
Aug 23
US News and World Report: What Makes People Join Hate Groups?
Aug 22
New Yorker: An Intimate History of Antifa
Aug 21
Reuters: Despite losing terrain, Islamic State's attacks rose in 2016: study
Aug 21
Center for American Progress: Losing the War of Ideas
Aug 20
The Guardian: Extremism is surging. To beat it, we need young hearts and minds
Aug 19
Bloomberg: Terror in Spain Shows Islamic State Is Down Not Out
Aug 18
New York Times: How to Make Fun of Nazis
Aug 18
New Scientist: What makes normal people become extremists?
Aug 18
Vox: The radicalization of white Americans
Aug 17
PBS Newshour: How the term ‘alt-left’ came to be
Aug 17
NBC News: Vehicles in crowds are becoming terrorists' weapons of choice
Aug 17
Sinclair Broadcast Group: Terrorist attacks decrease worldwide but fatalities increase in the west
Aug 16
NBC News: The Psychology of Hate Groups: What drives someone to join one?
Aug 15
5280 Magazine: In the Age of Trump, Resistance Isn’t Futile
Aug 15
Sinclair Broadcast Group: A new generation of American extremists is on the rise, experts say
Aug 15
New York Times: Trump Asks, ‘What About the Alt-Left?' Here's an Answer.
Aug 15
Deutsche Welle: Three things that make the violence by the extreme right in Charlottesville unique
Aug 15
Huffington Post: This Is How White Supremacists Get Radicalized
Aug 15
The Hill: Trump's Charlottesville response stirs debate on 'domestic terrorism'
Aug 14
Cato Institute: Terrorism Deaths and Injuries by Ideology: Excluding the Outlier Attacks
Aug 14
RadioTimes: The Violence in Charlottesville / Debating ‘The Goldwater Rule’
Aug 11
LSE Blogs: Vulnerable targets, lone actors, and unsophisticated weaponry are increasingly common trends of U.S. far-right domestic terror attacks
Aug 8
Fox Baltimore: Local intelligence expert reacts to Trump's "fire and fury" comment towards N. Korea
Aug 8
National Public Radio: FBI Continues Investigation Into Minnesota Mosque Explosion
Aug 8
Fox 45 Baltimore: Local intelligence expert reacts to Trump's "fire and fury" comment towards N. Korea
Aug 8
Inside Higher Ed: Preventing Terrorist Attacks
Aug 7
Fox News: Boston attack underscores growing threat of IEDs in America
Aug 5
Associated Press: Should springing of US terrorism convicts alarm Americans?
Aug 1
Security Management: Securing Sacred Spaces
Aug 1
Seeker: What Criminology Reveals of Trump's War on the MS-13 Gang

July 2017

Jul 23
The Times of India: India 3rd worst hit by terror in 2016: US report
Jul 21
Maclean’s: How the West is winning the war on terror
Jul 21
Homeland Security News Wire: UMD team wins national competition to curb violent extremism
Jul 21
Non-Profit Quarterly: Homeland Security Recruits Students to Challenge Extremism
Jul 21
UMD Right Now: UMD’s “It Takes Just One” Student Team Wins National Competition to Curb Violent Extremism Online
Jul 20
Voice of America: Islamic State, Iran Still Top Terror Concerns
Jul 19
Scientific American: Nasty, Brutish and Short: Are Humans DNA-Wired to Kill?
Jul 19
Associated Press: Iran Still Top State Terror Sponsor; Global Attacks Down
Jul 19
U.S. Department of State: State Department Releases Country Reports on Terrorism 2016

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