Domestic Terrorism

If the Trump administration designates Antifa as an FTO, it could have implications extending beyond anti-fascist activists to the entire architecture of U.S. civil society.

A recent published report risks feeding false narratives about political violence and polarization.

Swatting attacks are sometimes dismissed as pranks or hoaxes. But they’ve wreaked havoc on college campuses this year and a network of extremists is behind many of them.

Americans can no longer turn to their political leadership to avert the catastrophe of political violence.

Prevention efforts must shift toward a model that addresses the systemic drivers and underlying causes of youth vulnerability to violent extremism.

Confusion over “nihilistic violence” risks mislabeling attacks, hindering efforts to prevent mass violence by non-ideological subcultures.

Nihilistic violent extremism might even be considered part of a fourth generation of online radicalization, blurring the lines between killers and terrorists.

We asked nine experts about what clemencies might herald for the future of the rule of law, political violence, and extremism.

Since political violence is already criminalized under other state and federal laws, state domestic terrorism laws are arguably unnecessary. These laws create serious, and often…

Paul Barrett discusses the novel case and its potential impact on legal efforts to hold social media companies liable for mass shootings.

Lawsuits connecting social media companies to mass shootings could hold Silicon Valley titans legally responsible for societal harms. 

The Department of Justice was founded specifically to counter domestic terrorism. A new law to better prosecute today’s domestic terrorists and more effectively deter people…