Domestic Terrorism
Rethinking Domestic Terrorism Law After Boogaloo Movement Attacks
Jon Lewis Mon, Jul 27, 2020, 1:44 PM
The U.S. legal framework for foreign terrorism should be adapted to the domestic context.
Jon Lewis is a Research Fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University. He studies the effects of leadership decapitation on terrorist organizations and the activities of the Islamic State in Europe and the United States.
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White Supremacy
The State Department Should Designate the Russian Imperial Movement as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
Jon Lewis, Mary B. McCord Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 2:14 PM
Designation of the Russian Imperial Movement as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist is an important step, but it should be designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization, too.
Counterterrorism
It’s Not Only Iraq and Syria
Seamus Hughes, Jon Lewis Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 8:45 AM
Nearly a decade ago, five young men from the Washington, D.C., suburbs disappeared. Confusion about their whereabouts caused a panic within the national security community, which was only made worse by their reappearance a few days later when they were arrested in Pakistan for allegedly attempting to join Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the charity wing of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani terrorist organization.