• Tommy Robinson: Five Things to Know

    Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is a former soccer hooligan who, around 2009, adopted the name Tommy Robinson. In 2009, he founded the English Defense League (EDL), an anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant organization. The EDL’s anti-immigrant views, mostly directed at Muslims, mobilized Britons and attracted support from xenophobic groups in the U.S.

  • What’s Going on at the FBI?

    The Trump administration has launched a broad political purge of the FBI, aiming to remove senior officials and field agents who are regarded as insufficiently loyal to President Trump. In addition to forcing the retirement of senior bureau leaders, the FBI’s interim leadership is now trying to identify agents and other personnel who had worked on the Jan. 6 investigations. Benjamin Wittes writes that “A lot of people at the bureau—leadership and street agents, analysts and staff alike—are flirting with heroism right now” by engaging in conscientious objection: they “are upholding the law, which is closely aligned with their own oaths and the FBI’s culture, and the rule of law itself.”

  • Most Violent Crime Rates Have Fallen ack to Pre-Pandemic Levels: Report

    By Amanda Hernández

    The number of homicides across the United States declined by 16% in 2024, continuing a recent downward trajectory. Crime is expected be a major focus for state lawmakers and the Trump administration.

  • Turns Out Neither. New Research Finds Mayors on Both Sides Mixed in Implementing Effective Policies.

    By Christina Pazzanese

    Many Republican political candidates and leaders accused their Democratic counterparts of being soft on crime during the run-up to the 2024 elections. Concerns over the safety of the nation’s cities has been a longstanding —and potent —political issue. But how much influence do elected officials actually have over crime rates?

  • Why Do Illegal Immigrants Have a Low Crime Rate? 12 Possible Explanations

    By Alex Nowrasteh

    The evidence is overwhelming that immigrants in the United States have had a lower crime rate than native-born Americans since at least the 19th century. When people learn that fact, they aren’t surprised that legal immigrants have a lower crime rate than native-born Americans, but they are surprised that it’s also true for illegal immigrants.

  • This Icebreaker Has Design Problems and a History of Failure. It’s America’s Latest Military Vessel.

    By McKenzie Funk, ProPublica

    The Coast Guard’s $125 million purchase of the Aiviq, made under congressional pressure, follows the service’s failure to get its preferred, $1 billion model built.

  • Marine Heatwaves: A Rising Challenge for Naval Warfare

    By Quentin Comminsoli

    We now know that rising sea temperatures will affect sonar performance, sometimes greatly affecting submarines’ ability to find ships and other submarines, and ships’ ability to find them. This leaves us wondering about the specific effects of another phenomenon: marine heatwaves, which can create large and sudden changes in temperatures.

  • Climate Change Primed LA to Burn — Catastrophically

    By Matt Simon

    A new analysis finds that human-caused warming helped dry out the vegetation that turned Los Angeles into a firestorm.

  • Diseased Illegal Immigrants Aren’t “Invading” the United States

    By Alex Nowrasteh and Krit Chanwong

    My research at the Cato Institute on crime and terrorism committed by illegal immigrants conclusively shows that they commit less crime than native-born Americans and have murdered zero people in domestic attacks since 1975. We also fond no statistically significant relationship between the size of the immigrant population, the illegal immigrant population, or the legal immigrant population and the spread of serious communicable diseases.

  • How Ruhr University is Combatting Right-Wing Extremist Activities

    By Hubert Hundt

    “The constitutional principles of freedom of opinion, which we seek to protect and defend, don’t allow people to be sanctioned because of their presumed beliefs. This also applies to neo-Nazis. However, we do not stand idly by”: Ruhr University Bochum’s vice rector.

  • Madison and Nashville School Shooters Appear to Have Crossed Paths in Online Extremist Communities

    By Phoebe Petrovic, Wisconsin Watch

    A month after a student opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School, another killed a classmate at Antioch High School. Both were active in an internet subculture that glorifies mass shooters and encourages young people to commit attacks.

  • Antioch, Tenn., Shooter Inspired by Broad Extremist Beliefs and Previous Mass Killers

    On January 22, 2025, a 17-year-old student opened fire inside the cafeteria at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee. The shooter subscribed to broad accelerationist beliefs, which hold that society is irrevocably broken and must be destroyed to be rebuilt.

  • Bystander Reporting Helps Prevent Mass Violence

    By Taylor R. R. Cilke and Mary Rowe

    Bystander reporting’s role in mitigating mass violence deserves much more attention –because peers, bystanders, and “bystanders of bystanders” often know a lot about a person’s concerning behavior, and because they often choose not to report because they perceive authority figures are not receptive or are unlikely to be helpful.

  • 5 Israeli Innovations for Fighting Wildfires

    By Zachy Hennessey

    As regions from California to the Mediterranean face wildfire threats, these innovations can help win the battle against out-of-control flames.

  • Will Trump Spark a Mineral 'Gold Rush' in Greenland?

    By Henry Ridgwell

    The mineral wealth on the Arctic island of Greenland is in the global spotlight after U.S. President Donald Trump said he wants to take control of the territory from Denmark, prompting alarm from European allies.