Hannah Allam
Hannah Allam is a Washington-based national security correspondent for NPR, focusing on homegrown extremism. Before joining NPR, she was a national correspondent at BuzzFeed News, covering U.S. Muslims and other issues of race, religion and culture. Allam previously reported for McClatchy, spending a decade overseas as bureau chief in Baghdad during the Iraq war and in Cairo during the Arab Spring rebellions. She moved to Washington in 2012 to cover foreign policy, then in 2015 began a yearlong series documenting rising hostility toward Islam in America. Her coverage of Islam in the United States won three national religion reporting awards in 2018 and 2019. Allam was part of McClatchy teams that won an Overseas Press Club award for exposing death squads in Iraq and a Polk Award for reporting on the Syrian conflict. She was a 2009 Nieman fellow at Harvard and currently serves on the board of the International Women's Media Foundation.
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Two distant cousins connect online, only to learn that one is a militant leftist and the other is in a right-wing militia. Their story shows the complexities of a timely question: Who's an extremist? -
In the fight against violent extremism, there's a hot debate: Who's an extremist? Two cousins, one a far-right militia member and the other aligned with Antifa, bring that debate to life.
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Some 25,000 National Guard members are in the city where insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol just two weeks ago. -
As thousands of security forces deploy nationwide in anticipation of unrest ahead of the inauguration, there has been a national reckoning over how seriously to take the right-wing extremist threat.
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Terrorism analysts warn that the country's polarization isn't just damaging to U.S. politics — it's a national security threat. -
The latest national rallies to protest the 2020 election results drew crowds of President Trump's most ardent supporters to Washington, D.C., and several state capitols.
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The Million MAGA March drew a mix of conservative Republicans, far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists. Extremism analysts say their cooperation is a troubling sign. -
Groups supporting President Trump plan to converge on Washington DC today for a rally billed as the "Million MAGA March." It's unclear how many people will actually turn out.
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Activists pushing baseless claims about a "stolen" election mobilized in several cities in response to President-elect Joe Biden's victory. -
Domestic terrorism analysts say that the drawn-out vote count and fiery rhetoric from the White House are inflaming tensions.
