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August 2019

ABC: El Paso & Poway: Shootings with online hate crime connection
New York Times: White Extremist Ideology Drives Many Deadly Shootings
AFP Fact Check: No, that is the approximate total number of terror attacks recorded globally over that period

July 2019

Los Angeles Times: Gilroy shooter meticulously planned attack, was armed for battle
The Hill: What's the plan for preventing the next violent attack?
USIP: People Power Can Boost the Afghan Peace Process
The Conversation: Are Syrian refugees a danger to the West?
The Washington Post: Terrorism does increase with immigration - but only homegrown, right-wing terrorism
The Hill: Fears of violence grow amid Trump race storm
The Conversation: Extinction Rebellion uses tactics that toppled dictators – but we live in a liberal democracy
Vice: We Analyzed More Than 1 Million Comments on 4chan. Hate Speech There Has Spiked by 40% Since 2015.
USA Today: Global terrorism is in decline. For victims, it doesn't feel like it
Small Wars Journal: Global Terrorism May be Down but is Still a Threat In 2019 - Are We Ready?
Bustle: Why The Betsy Ross Flag Has Been Taken Up By Some White Nationalists
The New York Times: What Is Antifa? Explaining the Movement to Confront the Far Right

June 2019

NPR: Recipe For A Revolution
Tribune-Review: Experts: Refugee vetting effective despite alleged Pittsburgh terror plot
Yahoo News: Military grapples with white nationalists in ranks
NPR: National Security Officials Debate What To Call The Far-Right Threat
MSN News: Rebelling against extinction
The Conversation: Boko Haram deploys lots of women suicide bombers. I found out why
National Geographic: Surrounded by chaos, Niger is a nation on the edge
NPR: After Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting, The Challenges Of Putting 'Stronger Than Hate' Into Practice
Yahoo News: White nationalist attacks should be prosecuted as terrorism, lawmakers say

May 2019

New Republic: Racial Terror and the Second Repeal of Reconstruction
Politico: Close race ahead in Lithuania's presidential election
NBC: Inside the U.S. military's white supremacy problem
Macdonald Laurier Institute: Do we really want to give the Christchurch killer what he wants?
San Francisco Chronicle: ‘American Taliban’ fighter John Walker Lindh from Marin released from federal prison
Bustle: White Supremacist Terrorism In The US Is On The Rise, The FBI Found
NPR: 'American Taliban' To Be Released From Prison Thursday
Associated Press: 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh to Be Released
Forbes: Three Problems With The Word 'Bust' During Real-Time Weather Threats
Medium: Is Iran the biggest state sponsor of terrorism?
Eos: Tornado Warnings Don’t Adequately Prepare Mobile Home Residents
BBC Future: The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
The National Interest: Who Was behind Sri Lanka’s Easter Terrorist Attacks?
Newsweek: Domestic terrorism hearings focus on social media regulation
USA Today: US army could help Venezuela with nonviolent resistance against Maduro
San Diego Union-Tribune: What parents need to know about online radicalization
The Trace: What to Do About the Threat of White Supremacists With Guns
Voice of America: European Security Chiefs Alarmed at Threat From Far-Right Terrorism

April 2019

CBS Los Angeles: Synagogue Shooting Suspect's Former Classmate Speaks Out
NBC News: DHS won't answer queries about staff, funds for domestic terror fight
Foreign Affairs: People Power Is Rising in Africa
CNN: Are Muslims and Christians at war? The data says no
The Economist: Global jihadists turn increasingly against religious targets
Christian Science Monitor: After the bombings, searching for sense in Sri Lanka
Foreign Policy Research Institute: Lithuania's Presidential Election: Same Policy Wine in New Bottles?
Small Wars Journal: AvFID: Achieving the Peace in Colombia Through Aviation Foreign Internal Defense