Domestic Terrorism

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…

The costs of allowing expansive U.S. counterterrorism laws are borne by too many Americans who live in fear of these tools.

The decentralized white supremacist "active clubs" movement won't be halted by Robert Rundo's extradition and potential prison time.

Despite receiving intelligence that threatened an attack on the U.S. Capitol, intelligence agencies downplayed the risk of violence.

The charging of Cop City protestors as domestic terrorists highlights the dangerous manner in which the federal government’s DVE policies are playing out on the ground – interacting…

Homeland security organizations are injecting federal spy agencies into local political matters, often without meaningful restrictions.