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An Illegal Majority
Charles Kurzman, “An Illegal Majority,” April 10, 2024. The Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives currently stands at 218-213. But this majority is tainted: at least four of the Republican districts have been thrown out by the courts as racist gerrymanders. If the 2022 elections had used legal maps, Democrats would have a slight majority, not Republicans. … And if the House majority is illegitimate, how can the House’s actions be considered legitimate? More…
Muslim-American Involvement with Violent Extremism, 2001-2023
Examine the data for yourself here. A full collection of past reports is available here.
Fatalities in the U.S. from Muslim-American involvement with violent extremism since 9/11: 145.
Victims of murder in the U.S. since 9/11, according to the FBI’s Expanded Homicide Offense Counts: 312,317.
Introducing the ACSS Dataverse
Charles Kurzman, Seteney Shami, and Neil Ketchley, “Introducing the ACSS Dataverse,” MENA Politics Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 2023, pp. 13-17. It is a common complaint: researchers cannot access high-quality statistical data for countries in the Arab region. To address this, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) has launched a broad interdisciplinary data archive for social science research datasets, the ACSS Dataverse, which allows researchers and institutions both to deposit and access research data on the Arab region. More…
U.S. Domestic Terrorism Prosecutions: The Reality Behind the Government’s Inflated Numbers
Faiza Patel and Charles Kurzman, “U.S. Domestic Terrorism Prosecutions: The Reality Behind the Government’s Inflated Numbers,” Just Security, May 8, 2023. Over the last decade, the Department of Justice has asked Congress for more than $500 million to pay for terrorism-related prosecutions. These funds support more than 300 positions in the U.S. Attorneys Offices around the country, which claim to have won more than 2,000 domestic terrorism-related convictions in this time. Unfortunately, data released by DOJ in litigation that we brought some five years ago shows that these numbers are wildly inflated. More…
Muslim-American Involvement with Violent Extremism, 2001-2022
- A full collection of past reports is available here.