Adam Serwer

You can’t. Or at least, it’s very hard to, according to the Congressional Research Service’s report on homegrown terrorism: Scholars and law enforcement officials have noted that no workable general profile of domestic violent jihadists exists. According to the NYPD’s Intelligence Division, there is no effective profile to predict exactly who will radicalize. Another study […]

Spencer Ackerman writes about the “network of Pashtun snitches” that guide the CIA’s drone strikes in Pakistan: Since 2001, the CIA has cultivated and managed a large web of Afghan proxy forces, Pakistan-focused informants and allies of convenience, as a richly-detailed Washington Post piece reports today. Some of the CIA’s Afghans are more brutal and […]

The new Republican Policy platform, the “Pledge to America,” offers a number of unrealistic and even undesirable policy proposals on immigration and national security that are worth noting. • Keep Terrorists Out of America: We will prevent the government from importing terrorists onto American soil. We will hold President Obama and his administration responsible for […]

So as I reported yesterday, former Bush-era Voting Section Chief Christopher Coates is set to testify Friday before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission in their investigation of the Justice Department’s handling of the New Black Panther voter intimidation case. Here’s what’s interesting: According to a source close to the commission, Coates’ letter to the USCCR […]

Ban on ethnic studies courses in Arizona makes them more popular. Julian Sanchez on speech, privacy, and government infiltration. Darrell Issa‘s agenda. Immigrants rights groups mobilize against Republicans.

Former Voting Section Chief Christopher Coates, who was transferred to a detail in South Carolina in the midst of a controversy over the New Black Panther voter intimidation case, is going to testify Friday morning before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, according to a source close to one of the commissioners. Coates is described […]

Markos Moulitsas offers a forceful defense of his book, endorsing Glenn Greenwald‘s thesis that I probably just don’t want to think of Americans as monsters: That’s probably it. The issue here isn’t that people doubt the shared social values of American conservatives and Islamic fundamentalists. The issue is that the Taliban are monsters, and it’s […]

This 10-minute trailer for BioShock Infinite suggests the game is drawing on the history of right-wing political movements in the United States. The developers previously indicated that “American Exceptionalism” was going to be the guiding theme behind the third game in the series, and the setting seems to have a right-wing populist flavor. The first […]

Torture lover Marc Thiessen is interpreting Obama‘s remarks on another potential terrorist attack exactly as expected: During an interview with Woodward in July, President Obama said: “We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever … we absorbed it and we […]

Sara Mayeux notes that South Carolina is likely to miss its deadline for changing its draconian policy of segregating HIV positive prisoners from the general population, meaning that the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is likely to file suit. I just want to reiterate again that South Carolina is one of two states that […]