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In the News | Our Reports
As a leader in the field of extremism research, our works have been cited by some of the largest and most influential news organizations in the world.
The Travelers: American Jihadists in Syria and Iraq
- "A New American Leader Rises in ISIS," The Atlantic
- "American jihadists in Syria remain terror threat to US: report," ABC News
- "U.S. Prisons Allow Extremism to Fester, Study Warns," Wall Street Journal
Digital Decay: Tracing Change Over Time Among English-Language Islamic State Supporters on Twitter
- "Twitter's Efforts Curbed pro-ISIS Accounts, Study Finds," Wall Street Journal
Fear thy Neighbor: Radicalization and Jihadist Attacks in the West
- "ISIS, Despite Heavy Losses, Still Inspires Global Attacks," New York Times
- "Who was behind the jihadist attacks on Europe and North America?," BBC News
Not Just The Caliphate: Non-Islamic State-Related Jihadist Terrorism in America
- "Other Than ISIS: Half of U.S. Terror Suspects Support ISIS Rival Groups, New Report Details," ABC News
- "Study: Almost half of alleged terrorists in US unrelated to ISIS," The Hill
Cruel Intentions: Female Jihadists in America
- "These 25 American female jihadis show why it’s hard to combat radicalization," Miami Herald
- "Why do they join?" Vice News
ISIS in America: From Retweets to Raqqa
- "ISIS followers in U.S. are diverse and young," The New York Times
- "ISIS sympathizers in U.S. prefer Twitter among social media," The Wall Street Journal
- "Why ISIS recruiting in America reached historic levels," The Atlantic
In the News | Our Staff & Fellows
The Program's staff and fellows are frequently featured as experts in media reports, offering analyses on both domestic and international cases of violent extremism and radicalization.
60 Minutes interview with Seamus Hughes
- "Tech Firms Tout Progress on Scrubbing Online Terror Content," The Wall Street Journal
- "What Happens to the American Families of Islamic State Fighters?" PBS
- "Three Kansas militiamen who plotted to bomb Muslims are found guilty on terrorism charges," Washington Post
- "US has 1,000 open ISIS investigations but a steep drop in prosecutions," CNN
- "Texas convert Warren Clark sent ISIS his resume, report says," NBC News
- "How an American Rose to the Upper Ranks of ISIS," NPR
- "One Brooklyn Man's Lonely Journey to Jihad," The New York Times
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"ISIS, Despite Heavy Losses, Still Inspires Global Attacks," The New York Times
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“FBI Says ISIS Used eBay to Send Terror Cash to U.S.," The Wall Street Journal
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"The Road to Radicalism in Charlottesville," The Atlantic
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"Spain, a Leader in Foiling Attacks, Falls Victim to One Anyway," The New York Times
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"How Did Spain Avoid Terrorism Before Barcelona?," The Atlantic
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“Federal government has long ignored white supremacist threats, critics say," The Washington Post
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“ISIS Releases Recording Said to Be of Its Leader”, The New York Times
- "Islamic State seeks to impose religious rules in Egypt's North Sinai," Reuters UK
- "Terrorists Are Not Snowflakes," Foreign Policy
- "Lone-actor vs. Remote-Controlled Jihadi Terrorism: Rethinking the Threat to the West," War on the Rocks
- Anderson Cooper investigates first ISIS-claimed attack in U.S., CBS’s 60 Minutes
- "ISIS Will Fail, but What About the Idea of ISIS?” The Atlantic
- "Not ‘Lone Wolves’ After All: How ISIS Guides World’s Terror Plots From Afar," The New York Times
- "Where America's Terrorists Actually Come From," The Atlantic
- "Why the United States Should Be as Circumspect as the British about the Muslim Brotherhood," Lawfare
- "Terrorists Deliver Their Message With Lethal Simplicity," The New York Times
- "What life inside the Islamic State looks like for recruits," The Washington Post
- "What is inspiring homegrown terror in the U.S.? It’s not the just Islamic State," The Washington Post
- Kamran Bokhari on the Future of Syria's Kurds, Center for Global Policy
- ‘In-Betweeners’ Are Part of a Rich Recruiting Pool for Jihadists
- "Egypt to hold mass trial of suspected Islamic State militants," The Guardian
- The challenge of recognizing radicalization before it’s too late, PBS Newshour
- "Will a European de-radicalization approach work in at-risk U.S. cities?" The Washington Post
- "Engaging the “Not-Yet-Guilty” in the Fight against Terrorism," Lawfare
- "What Aaron told me: An expert on extremism shares his conversations with the terror suspect," National Post
- "Who can stop a jihadi? Try his mom." Houston Chronicle
- "What motivates a Canadian jihadist?" Maclean's
- "Why Islamic State's Abu Muhammad Adnani was much more than a spokesman," Los Angeles Times
- Could the Orlando attack have been prevented?, CBS News
- "Orlando shooter pledged loyalty to conflicting organizations," The Associated Press
- "Orlando Shooting Plays Into FBI’s Homegrown-Terror Worries," The Wall Street Journal
- "The high bar for when a person becomes a terror threat," Boston Globe
- "‘I am fed up with this evil’: How an American went from Ivy League student to disillusioned ISIS fighter," The Washington Post
- Lorenzo Vidino on the 'Terror in Orlando', MSNBC's Weekends with Alex Witt
- "Orlando Shooting Plays Into FBI’s Homegrown-Terror Worries," The Wall Street Journal
- "7 Things You Need to Know About Jihadists in the United States," Politico
- "The Houthi Hezbollah: Iran's Train-and-Equip Program in Sanaa," Foreign Affairs
- "Who Would Become an ISIS Suicide Bomber?" Newsweek
- Recruiting college students to fight extremists online, PBS Newshour
- "American ISIS Twitter Scene’ Reveals Social Media’s Power to Radicalize," The Guardian
- "Study finds dozens of ISIS-related crimes in US," Boston Globe
- "'Unprecedented': What ISIS Looks Like In America," NPR
- Where are ISIS-related arrests in US?, MSNBC
- "Report: American ISIS Supporters Are Good at Social Media, Bad at Evading Arrest," New York Magazine
- "Americans Attracted to ISIS Find an ‘Echo Chamber’ on Social Media," The New York Times
- Expert on radicalization analyzes San Bernardino killers, CNN
- American ISIS Sympathizers, C-SPAN
- The terrorism question looming over the San Bernardino attack, PBS Newshour
- "Both San Bernardino shooters radicalized at least 2 years ago," Boston Globe
- "How to stop ISIS from recruiting American teens," The Washington Post
