📅 Thurs, April 16 | 1 PM ET
Strange People on the Hill
Michael Edison Hayden & @luke_baum94 on VDARE and its impact on a West Virginia town.
📍In-person @ GWU
🔗 extremism.gwu.edu/strange-peop...
📅 Thurs, April 16 | 10 AM ET
Ghost Guns, Real Violence
How 3D-printed firearms & digital blueprints are reshaping extremist violence & policy.
📍Online via Zoom
🔗 extremism.gwu.edu/ghost-guns-r...
📅 Tues, April 14 | 10 AM ET
Barry Jonas & Dr. Omar Mohammed on: when radicalism becomes a crime, how cases are built, and where the First Amendment draws the line.
📍Live on Substack.
🔗 extremism.gwu.edu/how-do-you-p...
🚨We’ve got 3 events this week tackling extremism, law, and emerging threats.
Join us for timely conversations with leading experts. Make sure you register!
🎙️Ep 1 part 2 is here - Inside Baseball
Don’t miss the deep dive into the Pahlawan case - interdiction at sea, smuggled missile components & the prosecution that followed. Join the conversation and hear firsthand insights from one of the federal prosecutors.
🎙️Our new podcasts explore terrorism and national security through distinct lenses & are now streaming on our YouTube channel. Watch episode 1 of each now!
Echoes of Terrorism
youtu.be/LmZ2ulZapUA?...
Inside Baseball
youtu.be/ThwX9x2ZR5o?...
Research Fellow @lbaum94.bsky.social most recent article in
@justsecurity.org tackles the difficult topic of mass shooters and the subsequent discussion around their supposed gender identity and underlying ideological motivations. Read the article here 👇
www.justsecurity.org/136047/no-tr...
Opposition to the Shah grows as Islamists and secular leftists align, merging clerical grassroots mobilization with student activism, spreading revolutionary sentiment and transforming public spaces like Tehran University by 1977–78.
Many date the Iranian Revolution to 78, but Islamist historians trace it to 63 when Khomeini rebelled. Though the Shah crushed the uprising, Khomeini’s movement went underground, built influence & set the stage for his fall.
Echoes of Terrorism ep 1 is out
Join us next week April 16 at 1pm ET for a conversation with journalist @michaelehayden.bsky.social on Strange People on the Hill-the story of VDARE, Peter Brimelow & how extremism disrupted life in Berkeley Springs.
📍GWU Gelman Library
Moderated by @lbaum94.bsky.social
Register now!
We're live soon with our first ever Substack event!
Jay Solomon joins Dr. Mohammed for a live discussion on the reporting behind the Calla Walsh story and what it reveals about radicalization, propaganda, and militant politics today.
History doesn’t disappear. It echoes.
A bombing. A hijacking. A hostage crisis. The events that shocked the world didn’t end-they evolved. Our new podcast revisits these moments to uncover the ideologies & networks still shaping today.
Watch the trailer🎧
youtu.be/aPukByyrTyA
In the midst of choppy seas, a U.S. Naval vessel interdicts a boat in the Arabian Sea.
Watch episode 1, part 1 of our new podcast "Inside Baseball"
In a world of fast-moving risks, clarity matters.
Edited by Jay Solomon, The Threat delivers sharp analysis, original reporting & expert insights on extremism - from antisemitism & Islamism to global jihadism & domestic movements.
📩 Subscribe for free and never miss a post.
Jay Solomon joins Dr. Omar Mohammed for a live discussion on the reporting behind the Calla Walsh story and what it reveals about radicalization, propaganda, and militant politics today. The event will be held virtually, live on Substack "The Threat" on April 9, 2026, at 10:00 AM ET.
“Inside Baseball” explores national security cases through conversations with prosecutors and agents. Each episode walks through the facts, investigative challenges, and key evidence behind cases involving terrorism, espionage, and more.
“Echoes of Terrorism” revisits pivotal acts of terrorism-examining the people behind them, the ideologies that fueled them, and the networks that still operate today. Because terrorism doesn’t disappear; it evolves through movements, propaganda, and new recruits.
We’re pleased to announce the release of two new podcasts: “Echoes of Terrorism” & “Inside Baseball”. Both explore terrorism and national security through distinct lenses & are now streaming on our YouTube channel, with trailers and ep 1 available.
How has gender shaped who is held accountable for mass violence?
Jessica Trisko Darden unpacks Nazi-era prosecutions & their lasting impact on justice today-including cases tied to ISIS.
🗓️4/28 🕚11am ET
🎙️Moderated by Barry Jonas
📍Online
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How is additive manufacturing & digital weapons blueprints reshaping extremist violence?
Join us 4/16 for a webinar addressing regulatory blind spots, online distribution networks & implications for US enforcement policy
👇Register
extremism.gwu.edu/ghost-guns-r...
Retired FBI agent Lara Burns writes in "The Threat" about the arrest this week of Salah Sarsour & the numerous legal cases tying him to Hamas. Sarsour & his brothers have long been suspected of financing Hamas, while the AMP is also alleged to have emanated from the US-based Hamas network.
Join us April 16 at 1pm ET for a conversation with journalist @michaelehayden.bsky.social on Strange People on the Hill-the story of VDARE, Peter Brimelow & how extremism disrupted life in Berkeley Springs.
📍GWU Gelman Library
Moderated by @lbaum94.bsky.social
Register now👇
The Iranian Regime never underestimates the power of propaganda and how war is waged in minds and battlefields. Learn about the critical turning points before the '79 Islamist Revolution and current events in Iran through our podcasts.
Read our report "What is Samidoun?" to understand Samidoun and the true focus of its activities
extremism.gwu.edu/what-samidoun
"B.C.-based pro-Palestinian group Samidoun, listed as terrorist entity, is dissolved"
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Jay Solomon joins Eli Lake to break down his investigation into extremist Calla Walsh, and we revisit a story from the Breaking History archives that helps us understand her radical conversion.
www.thefp.com/p/when-good-...
The Axis of Resistance may not be the unified alliance it was once assumed to be.
Read this opinion piece "When Iran becomes the battlefield, its proxies go their own way" by our Research Fellow Asher Stern in @thejerusalempost.bsky.social
Outsourced counterterrorism is reshaping modern conflict.
Research by Grespin reveals how private security actors operate across Iraq, Somalia & the Sahel-spanning training, intel & combat-filling gaps left by states & multilateral limits.
Read the paper👇
