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After Crafting American Criminal Justice, Christians Keep Changing the Rules

28 July 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Chris Hutton The News Station In the 1640s, New England had a peculiar problem: “Something close to a bestiality panic,” historian John Murrin wrote. Teenagers were whipped, and at least […]

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Mental Health as Middle East Foreign Policy

1 December 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Ryan J. Suto Fair Observer If Washington wants to decrease volatility and violence in the Arab region, US foreign policy must advocate for the treatment of conflict-related mental health […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY

War Goes Viral

21 October 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Emerson T. Brooking & Peter W. Singer The Atlantic Like most every­thing today, the campaign was launched with a hashtag. But instead of promoting a new album or a […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

Chasing ISIS Through Europe

22 August 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Mitch Prothero Buzzfeed The assignment given to the Belgian police in the summer of 2014 was straightforward but high stakes: Follow two men suspected of involvement with ISIS through […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

How the Arab World Came Apart

16 August 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Scott Anderson The New York Times Magazine History never flows in a predictable way. It is always a result of seemingly random currents and incidents, the significance of which […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Fifteen Years After 9/11, is America Safer?

9 August 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Steven Brill The Atlantic This is the story of the first 15 years of how we have dealt with newfound fear—how we have confronted, sometimes heroically and sometimes irrationally, […]

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LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

‘Cyberbombs’ Away

17 May 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Richard Forno & Anupam Joshi The Conversation Recently, United States Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work publicly confirmed that the Pentagon’s Cyber Command was “dropping cyberbombs,” taking its ongoing battle […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY

ISIS and the Social Media War

30 March 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Brendan I. Koerner Wired The Islamic State recognized the power of digital media early on, when its brutish progenitor, Jordanian jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, discovered the utility of uploading grainy […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY

The Birth of Boko Haram

9 February 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Andrew Walker The Guardian In February 2009, I was at a motor park in Maraba, a satellite of the Nigerian capital Abuja, looking for motorcyclists wearing dried vegetables on […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY

Why Young Men are so Prone to Crime and Fanaticism

5 February 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Joe Herbert Aeon Young men are particularly liable to become fanatics. Every dictator, every guru, every religious leader, knows this. Fanatics have an overwhelming sense of identity based on […]

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