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December 2018

Dec 5
MSN News: Canada was pushed up 9 places in a global terror ranking after Quebec mosque shooting: report
Dec 5
PR Newswire: IEP's 2018 Global Terrorism Index: Deaths From Terrorism Down 44 per Cent in Three Years, but Terrorism Remains Widespread
Dec 5
Psychology Today: Mass Radicalization in the USA
Dec 4
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

Nov 27
The New Republic: Can a White Supremacist Learn Not to Hate?
Nov 26
The Washington Post: In the United States, right-wing violence is on the rise
Nov 26
The Washington Times: FBI terrorism investigations result in just nine people facing charges in 2018
Nov 24
The New York Times: The New Radicalization of the Internet
Nov 24
Buzzfeed: The Unsatisfying Truth About Hateful Online Rhetoric And Violence
Nov 23
Foreign Policy: Want to Deradicalize Terrorists? Treat Them Like Everyone Else.
Nov 21
The New York Times: Two Decades After 9/11, Militants Have Only Multiplied
Nov 18
Voice of America: Far-right Extremism Rising in US, Report Says
Nov 16
WVIK: Can Peaceful Protest Successfully Influence Change?
Nov 15
The New Republic: California's Wildfires Don't Have to Be So Deadly
Nov 13
Fox 47 News: Using Social Media To Weaken Wrath Of Terrorist Attacks
Nov 12
Washington Post: 3 ways to look at August’s protests — and 2 charts showing all protests since January 2017
Nov 7
CSIS: The Rise of Far-Right Extremism in the United States
Nov 6
NPR: Is There A Cure For Hate?
Nov 3
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.
Nov 1
Washington Post: The psychology of how someone becomes radicalized

October 2018

Oct 31
NBC News: Trump admin will apparently not renew program to fight domestic terror
Oct 31
The Conversation: Ideologically motivated far-right extremists have killed close to 500 people since 1990 – and 10 percent were targeted based on religion
Oct 30
NPR: Pittsburgh Shooting And Other Cases Point To Rise In Domestic Extremism
Oct 30
TIME: How Big a Role Does Social Media Play in Homegrown Terrorism?
Oct 29
The Washington Post: Pittsburgh shooting comes amid rise in hate crimes, growing anxiety about right-wing extremism
Oct 29
Christian Science Monitor: ‘Lone wolves' and the rhetoric that fuels them
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
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 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 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 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 24
Quartz: US terror attacks are increasingly motivated by right-wing views
Oct 24
AirTalk: Suspicious packages sent to Clintons, Obamas, Time Warner Center and other high profile figures
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?

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