Jennifer Williams
Deputy Foreign Editor
Before joining Vox, Jennifer was a senior researcher at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and the deputy foreign policy editor for Lawfare. Her work on jihadist groups, terrorism, and the Middle East has appeared in numerous publications including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The National Interest.
Did ISIS plan, inspire, or have no role in the Minnesota attack? The answer matters.
It affects how we think about the terrorism threat.
What people mean when they label an attack “terrorism”
The word means different things to different people.
Saudi Arabia and Iran are fighting a proxy war — on Twitter
Saudi Arabia and Iran are waging a proxy war for dominance of the Middle East and the broader Muslim world that is playing out on battlefields from Yemen to Syria. This past week, though, the...
Hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, explained for non-Muslims
At this moment, some 1.3 million people from 164 different countries are in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, performing the hajj, the Islamic religious pilgrimage — including, according to the US State...
The House passed a bill to let 9/11 victims' families sue Saudi Arabia—could it backfire?
The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) has some national security experts worried.