topic: terrorism

Yesterday’s News: Religion, Politics, and Violence in Kenya
December 1, 2014
Soon after last Saturday’s gruesome bus attack in northeastern Kenya—an ambush that left 28 people dead—al-Qaeda linked al-Shabaab issued a...
blog
A Second Look at Mexican Drug Gangs and ISIL
October 27, 2014
This past week, Al Jazeera America published a piece by Musa al-Gharbi in which the author argues that Mexico’s drug gangs, who have...
blog
Terrorism Craves an Audience and We are Playing into the Islamic State's Hands by Watching
October 2, 2014
The well-known US security expert, Brian Jenkins, famously declared in 1974, that “ terrorism is theatre ”. And over the last few weeks,...
Reportage
Dirty Entanglements (an excerpt)
September 19, 2014
Editor's Preface My first conversations with Louise Shelley, a professor at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and the...
blog
#BringBackOurGirls and the Dilemma of Hashtag Activism
May 19, 2014
Since early May, the #BringBackOurGirls campaign has permeated the highest ranks of government and sparked a resurgence of global hashtag...
Reportage
Orwell in Nairobi
April 15, 2014
“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is...
blog
If Iran's Not Developing Nuclear Weapons, Why Is It So Secretive?
March 27, 2014
In the course of telling “The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare,” the subtitle of his authoritative new book Manufactured Crisis (Just...
blog
Kill List Legacies
March 10, 2014
Drones may soon claim the life of one more Americans. Reports have surfaced that the Obama administration is debating whether or not to...
retrospectives
The Essential Terrorist
September 26, 2013
As a word and concept, "terrorism" has acquired an extraordinary status in American public discourse. It has displaced Communism as public...