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January 2019

Snopes: Does Lack of Affordable Healthcare Kill More People in America Than Terrorism and Illegal Immigration?
New Republic: A Database Showed Far-Right Terror on the Rise. Then Trump Defunded It.

December 2018

Washington Post: 2019: The Year in Preview
CNN (Philippines): Philippines climbs to 10th spot in Global Terrorism Index
Wall Street Journal: Europe Faces Continuing Terror Threat, While Concerns in U.S. Ebb, Study Finds
Forbes (Portugal): Terrorism: The World's Most Powerful Organizations
The Belfer Center: Jihadists from Ex-Soviet Central Asia: Where Are They? Why Did They Radicalize? What Next?
United Nations: Secretary-General's remarks to the first meeting of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Compact Coordination Committee
Psychology Today: Mass Radicalization in the USA
CNN: Terrorism deaths down in 2017, but far-right terrorism rising, report says
PR Newswire: IEP's 2018 Global Terrorism Index: Deaths From Terrorism Down 44 per Cent in Three Years, but Terrorism Remains Widespread
MSN News: Canada was pushed up 9 places in a global terror ranking after Quebec mosque shooting: report
BNN Bloomberg: The biggest political risks to the world economy in 2019
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

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

October 2018

NBC News: Trump admin will apparently not renew program to fight domestic terror
The Conversation: Ideologically motivated far-right extremists have killed close to 500 people since 1990 – and 10 percent were targeted based on religion
NPR: Pittsburgh Shooting And Other Cases Point To Rise In Domestic Extremism
TIME: How Big a Role Does Social Media Play in Homegrown Terrorism?
The Washington Post: Pittsburgh shooting comes amid rise in hate crimes, growing anxiety about right-wing extremism
Financial Times: Far-right fuels US violence as extremism creeps into mainstream
Christian Science Monitor: ‘Lone wolves' and the rhetoric that fuels them
FiveThirtyEight: Only 6 Percent Of U.S. Terrorists Act Alone, But They Are Prolific
NPR: Investigators Search For Culprit Behind Potential Explosive Devices
The Atlantic: If the Pipe-Bomb Mailings Weren't Terrorism, What Is?
Quartz: Stochastic terror and the cycle of hate that pushes unstable Americans to violence
WAMU 88.5: With Technology, Law Enforcement Gets Better At Threats By Mail
The Telegraph: Who is the US bomb suspect and what do we know about the devices?
FiveThirtyEight: How To Make Sense Of This Week’s Mail Bombs
Boston Herald: Mail bombs put Dems on high alert
The Globe and Mail: Suspicious packages sent to De Niro, Biden as investigators focus on leads in Florida
TIME Online: This Week's Attempted Bombings Raise Alarms. But Experts Say It Doesn't Mean the Country Is More Violent
WJLA: Domestic terrorism? Experts analyze targets, timing and tactics in package bomb attacks
The Christian Science Monitor: What mail bombs say – and don't say – about political discourse
AirTalk: Suspicious packages sent to Clintons, Obamas, Time Warner Center and other high profile figures