Terrorism & Violent Extremism

Charlottesville was a watershed moment in US politics and a wake-up call to the counterterrorism community. What lessons have been learned on how to counter white supremacist extremism?

President Biden may be tempted to let the inspector general community police their own, but that might tacitly approve inferior performance.

Serious questions need to be addressed in order to establish that both the killing of Zawahiri, and the use of force against Afghanistan, were not violations of international law.

Governments should recognize that pulling the plug on the internet – or on an entire social media platform – is not a viable solution to the spread of hate speech or misinformation…

The US could still change course to salvage the relationship, advance mutual interests, and expand overlapping values.

A note from co-editors-in-chief Tess Bridgeman and Ryan Goodman: Although Just Security is on hiatus this week, we wanted to be sure to examine and reflect on the U.S. airstrike…

Before Russia opens yet another war theater through its proxies, the US must recalibrate policy to restore influence in the region.

Section 516 of the NDAA is a commonsense reform that would prevent a president from borrowing the National Guard of a political ally to use it as a domestic police force in an…

The Dobbs decision has broad national security implications, increasing the risk of political violence and damaging US standing in the world.

A compendium of what each major witness said during the January 6th Hearings of relevance to two federal crimes and one state (Georgia) crime.

Albert W. Alschuler, Julius Kreeger Professor of Criminal Law Emeritus at Univ of Chicago, writes about the failure to respond to takeover of U.S. Capitol.

"Almost every expert said a defamation suit brought by Dominion against Trump would be very strong."