An analyst's newsletter on the Com Network, 764, and violent extremist and terrorist groups such as the Order of Nine Angles and Terrorgram. It offers analytical framing, tracking of government terrorist designations, and explanations of how online threat networks are structured.
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Posts on Iraq, Syria and jihadist groups, covering developments such as foreign fighter factions in Idlib, pro-Islamic State online networks and the fate of Assad-era militia leaders. The author also writes on medieval Latin and Arabic texts, drawing on primary sources and personal contacts.
Long-form essays on geopolitics, terrorism and history, with recent issues examining the Karabakh conflict, genocide recognition politics and the casualty figures of the 1915 Armenian catastrophe. Writing is footnoted and source-driven, interrogating how political actors establish and use historical narratives and numbers.
A newsletter publishing essays, analysis and field reporting on Middle Eastern politics and society, written by outside contributors with regional expertise. Recent issues cover jihadist violence in the Sahel, Syria's political transition, and Palestinian refugees rebuilding in Syria.
Short Tails is a data-driven newsletter that uses public and scraped datasets to answer specific questions, such as how subreddits cluster by user overlap, how terrorism trends have changed since 1970, and which colleges give the best earnings-to-debt return. Each issue walks through the method, shows the charts, and draws out what the numbers do and do not say.
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