Five Questions About the Assassination of Ayman al-Zawahiri
By Rebecca Best and guest contributors Debra Leiter and Simanti Lahiri Last weekend, a US drone dropped two…
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Terrorism and Political Tolerance Toward “Fellow Travelers”
Guest post by Mark Peffley, Marc L. Hutchison, and Michal Shamir During President Biden’s recent trip to Israel,…
What Americans (Really) Believe About Chemical Weapons
By Joshua A. Schwartz, Jonathan A. Chu, and Christopher W. Blair The norm against the use of chemical…
Why Have Military Courts Become Such a Popular Tool of Repression?
Guest post by Brett J. Kyle and Andrew G. Reiter In November, the Taliban government in Afghanistan announced…
Looking Back at 9/11
It’s been twenty years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Conventional wisdom holds that the tragic…
9/11 Didn’t Change Us—Our Response to It Did
By Joe Young My phone rang just before 9 a.m. on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.…
Why the “Terrorist” Label Helps Some Groups and Hurts Others
Guest post by Rebecca Best Does adding a terrorist group to the US State Department’s Foreign Terrorist Organization…
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…
The Political Costs of Abusing Human Rights
Guest post by Rebecca Cordell As countries around the world continue to battle a deadly pandemic, another crisis…
The Attack on the Capitol Was a Success. So What Happens Next?
By Evan Perkoski For the first time since 1814, unauthorized forces took control of the United States Capitol…