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March 2019

Mar 13
Center for American Progress: Turkey's Refugee Dilemma
Mar 7
Center for American Progress: Confronting the Domestic Right-Wing Terrorist Threat

February 2019

Feb 27
The Conversation: Will terrorism continue to decline in 2019?
Feb 20
Newsweek: Muslim terror attacks get 357 percent more media coverage than others: Study
Feb 2
CNN: Law enforcement teaches rental car employees how to spot potential attackers in new video

January 2019

Jan 24
Fox: Concern over future funding of top terrorism database
Jan 17
ABC: Terror attacks in 2019 highlight challenges remain
Jan 12
Council on Foreign Relations: The Top Conflicts to Watch in 2019: Terrorist Attack
Jan 9
Snopes: Does Lack of Affordable Healthcare Kill More People in America Than Terrorism and Illegal Immigration?
Jan 3
New Republic: A Database Showed Far-Right Terror on the Rise. Then Trump Defunded It.

December 2018

Dec 28
Washington Post: 2019: The Year in Preview
Dec 20
CNN (Philippines): Philippines climbs to 10th spot in Global Terrorism Index
Dec 20
Wall Street Journal: Europe Faces Continuing Terror Threat, While Concerns in U.S. Ebb, Study Finds
Dec 14
Forbes (Portugal): Terrorism: The World's Most Powerful Organizations
Dec 13
The Belfer Center: Jihadists from Ex-Soviet Central Asia: Where Are They? Why Did They Radicalize? What Next?
Dec 6
United Nations: Secretary-General's remarks to the first meeting of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Compact Coordination Committee
Dec 5
CNN: Terrorism deaths down in 2017, but far-right terrorism rising, report says
Dec 5
BNN Bloomberg: The biggest political risks to the world economy in 2019
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 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 24
The New York Times: The New Radicalization of the Internet
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 15
The New Republic: California's Wildfires Don't Have to Be So Deadly
Nov 7
CSIS: The Rise of Far-Right Extremism in the United States
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.

October 2018

Oct 30
TIME: How Big a Role Does Social Media Play in Homegrown Terrorism?
Oct 29
Financial Times: Far-right fuels US violence as extremism creeps into mainstream
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 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 25
FiveThirtyEight: How To Make Sense Of This Week’s Mail Bombs
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 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 2
Foreign Policy: The Fight Against Terror Needs Better Data

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 11
The Independent: 9/11: Two former members of investigative commission warn of future terrorist attacks
Sep 11
Quartz: Decades after 9/11, the American right is behind a terrorism surge
Sep 6
Foreign Policy: India's Aging Guerrillas Still Believe in the Struggle

August 2018

Aug 17
Quartz: Terrorism is surging in the US, fueled by right-wing ideologies
Aug 15
Washington Post: Terrorist attacks are quietly declining around the world
Aug 15
Cato Institute: The Chance of Being Murdered or Injured in a Terrorist Attack in the United Kingdom
Aug 15
Washington Post: Were the American cyclists killed in Tajikistan naive for traveling there?
Aug 9
Quartz: Terrorist attacks in the Middle East and North Africa fell by almost 40% last year
Aug 3
Human Rights Watch: Pakistan: Surge in Militant Attacks on Schools

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