Short Stories from Adventureland

and other flights of fancy. by heather ayres

newyorker: The Oak Creek murders reflect upon another neglected subject: the surprising pattern of terrorism in America since September 11th. In partnership with a team of researchers at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Public Policy, some of my colleagues at the New America Foundation collated and analyzed three hundred and two cases of domestic terrorism during the decade after the September 11th attacks. The numbers do not correspond with the public’s fear or understanding. In today’s Daily Comment, Steve Coll asks, “What is the Real Terrorist Threat in America?” http://nyr.kr/ON2fPG Photograph by Darren Hauck/Getty.

newyorker:

The Oak Creek murders reflect upon another neglected subject: the surprising pattern of terrorism in America since September 11th. In partnership with a team of researchers at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Public Policy, some of my colleagues at the New America Foundation collated and analyzed three hundred and two cases of domestic terrorism during the decade after the September 11th attacks. The numbers do not correspond with the public’s fear or understanding.

In today’s Daily Comment, Steve Coll asks, “What is the Real Terrorist Threat in America?” http://nyr.kr/ON2fPG


Photograph by Darren Hauck/Getty.