Why Isn’t There a Domestic War on Terror in the US?
By Rebecca Best The US State Department appears on the verge of removing five organizations from its list…
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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…
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…
Locked Down and Lashing Out: What’s Driving Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
Guest post by Gemma Dipoppa, Guy Grossman, and Stephanie Zonszein During his speech commemorating the one-year anniversary of…
Could Trump Unite the Nation—Against Himself?
Guest post by Sooyeon Kang As protests over the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery—among…
Why Do Protests Turn Violent? Blame State-Society Relations (and Not Provocateurs)
Guest post by Heather Sullivan As some protests across the country in response to George Floyd’s murder by…
Diversions: Brexit
This week’s Diversion takes us back to 2016, a few weeks after the June “Brexit” vote in Britain,…
Send in the Clowns: Opposing Anti-Migrant Citizen Patrols in Finland
By Steven T. Zech for Denver Dialogues State repression, armed conflict, and a variety of humanitarian crises have…
Guatemala Calling: Lynchings and the Politics of Inequality
By Matthew Klick for Denver Dialogues On May 20th, 2015, a sixteen-year-old girl was captured, beaten and, while…
Hate Crimes In The USA
By Will H. Moore Through the first six months of 2012 the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has…