Best Political Violence Books of 2021
By Jessica Maves Braithwaite and Emily Hencken Ritter Like we did for 2020 and 2019, here’s a list…
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If Repression Is Local, So Are the Solutions
By Emily Hencken Ritter and Sequential Potential Dr. Martin Luther King spent his adult life fighting without violence…
Six Questions on North Korea Answered
Guest post by Stephan Haggard This week, North Korea fired a suspected submarine-launched ballistic missile into waters off…
The Biggest Warning from the Facebook Whistleblower
By Barbara F. Walter Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen came out swinging in her October 4 statement to the…
Looking Back at 9/11
It’s been twenty years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Conventional wisdom holds that the tragic…
The End of the War on Terror
By Navin Bapat On August 15, 2021, almost twenty years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Taliban recaptured…
Why Jihadists Are Collecting “Zakat” in the Sahel
Guest post by Alex Thurston Around the world, jihadists use a dizzying array of mechanisms to finance themselves,…
Has ISIS Made Gains as a Result of the Pandemic?
By Dawn Brancati and guest contributors Jóhanna Birnir and Qutaiba Idlbi Prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19…
Viewpoint: Good-Bye Two-State Solution, Hello Apartheid?
By Michael Barnett A few years ago, the riots in Jerusalem over Israel’s planned eviction of Palestinians from…
Countering Extremist Narratives in America
Guest post by Paul Lorenzo Johnson The escalation of activity by private militias in America transitioned from latent…