Bio: Jesse Morton was the first former Islamist extremist to take on a public role in American efforts to combat extremism. Previously, as cofounder of and chief propagandist for Revolution Muslim, a New York-based group active in the 2000s, he helped to inject and per...

Inkblot gained an exclusive interview with J.M. Berger, noted expert on jihadist and far-right extremism and online propaganda. Berger is the author of Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam, and co-author along with Jessica Stern on ISIS: The State of...

The day before the 2016 presidential election I received a call from my sister asking, “Did you hear what happened to Alia?”* In my six-year-old cousin’s class there was a mock election where Donald Trump had won and immediately a group of kids approached her saying, “...

When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold planned Columbine, they never intended for it to go down in history as a school shooting. On April 20, 1999, Columbine High School was supposed to detonate, but the bombs failed. When the narrative of the killers emerged, they were gr...

     Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) in the United States has had a problematic history since its inception in August 2011. The Obama presidency sought for it to be a community engagement- and intervention-based approach to rehabilitate those at-risk of engaging in...

The threat of radical Islamist terrorism dominates today’s public conscious. It has fueled the right-wing nationalist movement that is sweeping the West, it inundates the media, and ISIS-motivated attacks seem to happen almost weekly. In 2014, the federal government la...