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July 2018

Feminist Current: Why don't we consider violence against women and girls terrorism?
Crucial Steps Forward: the National Academies of Science’s 2018 Study, “Enhancing Global Health Security through International Biosecurity and Health Engagement Programs”
AEI: The terrorists' war on education
Mother Jones: Inside the Radical, Uncomfortable Movement to Reform White Supremacists
Washington Times: Americans charged with ISIS support served in military more than 10 percent of time, study finds
Small Wars Journal: Rational Choice and How Erdogan Keeps Winning

June 2018

Christian Science Monitor: A nonviolent movement challenges Pakistan's military
Washington Post: Separating children isn't just immoral. It also threatens our national security.
Deutschlandfunk: Extremismusforschung
SOL: O "Novo" Terrorismo na Europa
Malta Today: Terrorism costs Malta €26.5 million in economic losses
Oxfam Blogs: Violence v Non Violence: which is more effective as a driver of change?
Omaha World-Herald: $92 million contract with the military is NU's biggest research grant yet

May 2018

New York Times: What Is Terrorism? Attacks in Canada and Belgium Reflect Uncertain Definition
Small Wars Journal: The Tricky Business of Counting the Costs of Armed Conflict in Cities
War on the Rocks: Doing More with Less: How to Optimize US Counterterrorism
CBS: How Investigating Bombings And Threats Has Evolved Since The 1950's
Washington Post: Insurgents have waged a war on education in her home country. But she died in a Texas school shooting.
The Washington Times: Justice Department: No ISIS charges in months as U.S. recruitment dries up
Politico: It’s always infrastructure week
GQ: How Free Speech Warriors Mainstreamed White Supremacists
WalletHub: 2018’s Best & Worst States to Be a Police Officer
Washington Post: Did bin Laden's death help the Islamic State?

April 2018

Pulitzer Center: Colombia: After the Violence
VICE: How The Gun Lobby Uses Van and Knife Attacks To Shut Down Gun Control
Lawfare: Preventing, Not Just Countering, Violent Extremism
Il Lametino: Calabria a basso rischio d'infiltrazione terroristica
Salon: Why cops kill black people: Research suggests a troubling pattern of “retaliatory violence”
VICE: Why Vehicles Are on the Rise as Weapons of Mass Killing
Cato Institute: The Toronto “Van Incident” and Terrorism in Canada
USA Today: Waffle House suspect Travis Reinking deemed himself a 'sovereign citizen,' part of anti-government group
Washington Post: How to make sense of our collapsing global order
Psychology Today: The Cycle of Violence
9 News: The evolution of terror: From anarchists to Al-Qaeda
Toronto Star: My friend ended up in jail, I ended up at Yale: Toronto lawyer and activist Jamil Jivani explores the destructive ideas that can influence young men
Der Tagesspiegel: Held über Nacht

March 2018

The National Post: Is Sikh extremism really active in Canada?
National Public Radio: Is The Austin Serial Bomber A 'Terrorist'? Not Legally – Yet.
The New York Times: Were the Austin Bombings Acts of Terrorism? Why Law Enforcement Says No
Crime Report: Three Universities Launch National Database to Track School Shootings
War on the Rocks: Strategic Progress Remains Elusive in America's Expanded Air Campaign Against Al-Shabaab

February 2018

Politifact: NRA's Loesch cherry-picks terrorism deaths in France to argue against assault weapon ban
Playboy: How to Deprogram a White Supremacist
LA Times: Guns play an outsized role in deaths from terrorist attacks, especially in the U.S., data show
BBC: Can mapping conflict data explain, predict and prevent violence?
The Reason: Is It OK To Punch a Nazi? We Asked Berkeley Students

January 2018

The Hill: American attitudes are disconnected from reality on crime trends
Religion News Service: To keep churches safe, government gets involved
The Hill: New defense strategy requires paradigm shift in US counterterrorism
U.S. News: How Terrorism Is Taught Around the World