Sahar F. Aziz (Texas A&M): Losing the “War of Ideas”: A Critique of Countering Violent Extremism Programs. Threats of violent Islamist and far-right extremism: What does the research say? The media needs to start calling white men terrorist. Most convicted terrorists are U.S. citizens — why does the White House say otherwise? It’s not foreigners who are plotting here: What the data really show. What if President Trump really wants to alienate Muslims? Fanning national security fears is GOP’s obvious path to midterm success. Donna Starr-Deelen on double government, national security powers, and the Trump administration. Trump administration is said to be working to loosen counterterrorism rules. Trump has a plan for the next 9/11 — Democrats need one. Jed S. Rakoff reviews A War Like No Other: The Constitution in a Time of Terror by Owen Fiss.
Trump’s Pentagon presents ISIS plan that looks much like Obama’s. Kurt Eichenwald on how Donald Trump is fueling ISIS. What ISIS fighters think of Trump: The president has given terrorist groups a propaganda victory beyond their wildest dreams. Al Qaeda propaganda is using Steve Bannon’s Islamophobia against the U.S. Al-Qaida puts Steve Bannon on the cover of its official newspaper. “Our readiness for a terrorist attack is dangerously low”: Richard Clarke, a former counterterrorism adviser to three presidents, says, “I’ve never seen anything quite like” Trump’s approach to national security.
