Cynthia Miller-Idriss

MSNBC Columnist

Cynthia Miller-Idriss is a professor in the School of Public Affairs and the School of Education at American University, where she directs the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL). Her most recent book is "Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism."

Cynthia Miller-Idriss is a professor in the School of Public Affairs and the School of Education at American University, where she directs the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL). Her most recent book is "Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism."

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We keep overlooking signs that could help stop violence like the Idaho shootings

Three firefighters were shot in Idaho this week, two of them killed, after a 20-year-old man set a fire and lured them into an ambush before attacking from a perch in a tree.
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The Minnesota shootings offer a painful lesson on the vitriol that haunts America

Minnesota lawmaker shooting suspect Vance Luther Boelter is in custody, but bad-faith responses by figures like Elon Musk and Mike Cernovich show the dangers of violent partisan rhetoric.
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The biggest failure in fighting antisemitism may also be the easiest to address

Sunday’s antisemitic attack in Boulder, Colorado on a Jewish gathering highlights the danger of the narrative of targeting of Jews because of political disagreement about the state of Israel.
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Parents are being caught off-guard by the violent extremist '764' network

Despite growing law enforcement concern and attention over the '764' network, there’s been virtually no investment in prevention of the group's violent attacks.
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Trump and his staffers are undermining the social norms that prevent racism

President Donald Trump's actions over his first three weeks in office seem to be increasing the risks of violence and inflaming racial tensions.
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Trump’s ‘America First’ approach is already hurting Americans

Trump's freezing of U.S. foreign aid has stopped work in most military and security assistance programs including in Ukraine and parts of the Middle East.
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Trump's pardoning of Enrique Tarrio sets a dangerous global precedent

What happens now that Donald Trump has commuted the sentences of Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys former chairman, and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.
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The New Orleans truck attack is an urgent national warning

On New Year’s Day, a terror suspect (and Army vet) drove a Turo Ford truck with an ISIS flag through New Orleans' Bourbon Street. The death toll keep rising.
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JD Vance and Elon Musk’s defense of a far-right German party has troubling risks

Elon Musk and Trump's vice president-elect JD Vance praised AfD, a German political party so extreme that other European far-right parties booted it from their coalition.
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The dangerous Trump-blindness of Marjorie Taylor Greene

Marjorie Taylor Greene chose loyalty to Trump over facts during a Homeland Security Committee hearing on disinformation and the government’s role in countering it.
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Andrew Tate’s violent, misogynistic teachings are seeping into classrooms

Internet influencer Andrew Tate has amassed a growing following of school-aged boys to his misogynistic school of violent, anti-feminist thinking.
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