Tag: Terrorism
Lynching memorial will show that women were victims, too
Evelyn M. Simien, University of Connecticut
A memorial to victims of lynching in the U.S. opens in Alabama on April 26, 2018.
The National Memorial for...
Since Boston bombing, terrorists are using new social media to inspire...
Mia Bloom, Georgia State University
Five years ago, a deadly attack during the Boston Marathon made America’s nightmare come true: the radicalized boy next door.
The...
Who are the Sufis and why does IS see them as...
Peter Gottschalk, Wesleyan University
Over 200 people were killed and many more injured in an attack on a Sufi mosque in Egypt’s North Sinai region...
What draws ‘lone wolves’ to the Islamic State?
James L. Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles
The recent attack on a bike path in lower Manhattan once again compels us to ask: Why...
Why al-Qaida is still strong 16 years after 9/11
Tricia Bacon, American University
Sixteen years ago, on September 11, 2001, al-Qaida conducted the most destructive terrorist attack in history.
An unprecedented onslaught from the...
Charlottesville and the politics of fear
David Alpher, George Mason University
I have spent nearly 16 years studying how the risk of violence grows in societies around the world and running...
Charlottesville attack shows homegrown terror on the right is on the...
Arie Perliger, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a man named James Alex Fields Jr. used his Dodge Challenger as...
Is it ever a good idea to arm violent nonstate actors?
Patricia Sullivan, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
In May, President Donald Trump authorized a plan to arm the YPG, a Kurdish militia...
EXPLORING NATURE
The western US is in a snow drought, and storms have...
Alejandro N. Flores, Boise State University
Much of the western U.S. has started 2026 in the midst of a...
