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October 2018

Oct 29
Financial Times: Far-right fuels US violence as extremism creeps into mainstream
Oct 27
FiveThirtyEight: Only 6 Percent Of U.S. Terrorists Act Alone, But They Are Prolific
Oct 26
WAMU 88.5: With Technology, Law Enforcement Gets Better At Threats By Mail
Oct 26
The Atlantic: If the Pipe-Bomb Mailings Weren't Terrorism, What Is?
Oct 26
Quartz: Stochastic terror and the cycle of hate that pushes unstable Americans to violence
Oct 26
NPR: Investigators Search For Culprit Behind Potential Explosive Devices
Oct 25
WJLA: Domestic terrorism? Experts analyze targets, timing and tactics in package bomb attacks
Oct 25
TIME Online: This Week's Attempted Bombings Raise Alarms. But Experts Say It Doesn't Mean the Country Is More Violent
Oct 25
The Christian Science Monitor: What mail bombs say – and don't say – about political discourse
Oct 25
The Telegraph: Who is the US bomb suspect and what do we know about the devices?
Oct 25
The Globe and Mail: Suspicious packages sent to De Niro, Biden as investigators focus on leads in Florida
Oct 25
Boston Herald: Mail bombs put Dems on high alert
Oct 25
FiveThirtyEight: How To Make Sense Of This Week’s Mail Bombs
Oct 24
AirTalk: Suspicious packages sent to Clintons, Obamas, Time Warner Center and other high profile figures
Oct 24
Quartz: US terror attacks are increasingly motivated by right-wing views
Oct 16
Vice: Tracing the Tactics of 21st-Century Youth Protest
Oct 15
OZY: AI Heralds End of the Passport Line... and Start of a Privacy Row
Oct 15
Nature: Retool AI to forecast and limit wars
Oct 9
The Conversation: The psychology of closure – and why some need it more than others
Oct 2
Foreign Policy: The Fight Against Terror Needs Better Data
Oct 2
Forbes Online: Trump: America's Tweeter In Chief Becomes Its Texter In Chief

September 2018

Sep 24
RAND: Why We Should Measure the Economic Impact of Terrorism in the Middle East
Sep 20
Wall Street Journal: 400 Murders a Day: The Crisis of Latin America
Sep 20
USA Today: The shooter who killed 3 in Aberdeen, Md., was a woman. How unusual is that?
Sep 17
The Guardian: Here’s the science behind the Brexit vote and Trump’s rise
Sep 12
The Conversation: Our shared reality is fraying
Sep 11
The Independent: 9/11: Two former members of investigative commission warn of future terrorist attacks
Sep 11
Quartz: Decades after 9/11, the American right is behind a terrorism surge
Sep 11
Scientific American: A Powerful Force That Shapes All of our Decisions
Sep 10
CTV: Growing Venezuela Refugee Crisis
Sep 8
Newshub: Interview: Martha Crenshaw
Sep 6
Foreign Policy: India's Aging Guerrillas Still Believe in the Struggle

August 2018

Aug 30
ABC: Why Al-Qaeda is alive and well long after the death of Bin Laden
Aug 28
Newswise: S&T Develops the First Line of Defense Against Acts of Targeted Violence
Aug 28
DHS: Vehicle Ramming Attack Mitigation
Aug 17
Quartz: Terrorism is surging in the US, fueled by right-wing ideologies
Aug 16
WKRC-TV Online: Global terrorism down in 2017... but there's more to the story.
Aug 15
Washington Post: Terrorist attacks are quietly declining around the world
Aug 15
Cato Institute: The Chance of Being Murdered or Injured in a Terrorist Attack in the United Kingdom
Aug 15
Washington Post: Were the American cyclists killed in Tajikistan naive for traveling there?
Aug 9
Quartz: Terrorist attacks in the Middle East and North Africa fell by almost 40% last year
Aug 3
CBC: Vegas police close investigation into Strip shooting, with FBI report to come
Aug 3
Human Rights Watch: Pakistan: Surge in Militant Attacks on Schools
Aug 1
Small Wars Journal: Terrorism is Still a Problem. It Has Not Gone Away.
Aug 1
Quartz: New data shows terror attacks are becoming less frequent and much less deadly
Aug 1
Washington Times: Terrorist attacks are down worldwide, new data shows

July 2018

Jul 26
CBC: ISIS claims of responsibility for Toronto shooting raise questions of credibility
Jul 25
The Star: Is U.S.-style gun violence really ‘new’ to Canada? Experts say our problems are not that different
Jul 20
Feminist Current: Why don't we consider violence against women and girls terrorism?
Jul 20
The Guardian: Terror attacks by Muslims receive 357% more press attention, study finds

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