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Getty / The Atlantic Our Consensus Reality Has Shattered
A whirlwind of uncertainty landed on us this year, and it’s stirring up extremism.
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters The Strategy of Violent White Supremacy Is Evolving
The failed approach of “leaderless resistance” gets a second chance in the information age.
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Virginia Mayo / AP The Dangerous Spread of Extremist Manifestos
By sharing the writings of terrorists, media outlets can amplify their impact.
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Andrew Harnick / AP Trump Is the Glue That Binds the Far Right
An analysis of 30,000 Twitter accounts provides a map of online extremists—and reveals that support for Trump is what holds them together.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Difference Between a Killer and a Terrorist
Two mass murders reveal how difficult—and important—it is to correctly identify terrorism when it occurs.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters What the Next Round of Alt-Right Rallies Will Reveal
Protests scheduled in nine American cities for Saturday will provide a sense of where the movement is headed.
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Neil Hall / Reuters London and the Clash of the Extremists
The violence ISIS carries out in the west provides fodder for anti-Muslim attackers, and violence against Muslims feeds back into the ISIS narrative.
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STR New / Reuters Alt History
How a self-published, racist novel changed white nationalism and inspired decades of violence
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Reuters ISIS Is Not Winning the War of Ideas
The Islamic State isn’t succeeding because of the strength of its narrative. It’s succeeding because it can mobilize a microscopic minority.
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Porter Novelli Global/Flickr How ISIS Succeeds on Social Media Where #StopKony Fails
Even with fewer clicks
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Reuters ISIS and the Foreign-Fighter Phenomenon
Why do people travel abroad to take part in somebody else’s violent conflict?
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Pete Simon/Flickr How ISIS Games Twitter
The militant group that conquered northern Iraq is deploying a sophisticated social-media strategy.
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Anwar Al-Awlaki's Links to the September 11 Hijackers
In the timeline of the hijackers' movements in the months before the attacks, New Mexico-born Awlaki and his followers seem to turn up nearly every step of the way
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Why U.S. Terrorists Reject the Al Qaeda Playbook
What's driving jihadist self-starters to break from the world's most famous terrorist group?
