The Family Research Council, a leading advocacy group for social conservativism, drew fire for an email that seemed to blame liberal values for tragedies like the Boston Marathon bombing and gun attacks.

Read a New York Times story on the two brothers and what may have led them to abandon fairly normal lives for acts of terrorism.

Read an April 19, 2013 article in the New Republic about the influences on the Boston Marathon bombers.

Read an April 19, 2013 New York Times article by columnist Charles Blow on the trail of clues the brothers left behind.

Read an April 19, 2013 Daily Beast’s article that explores what may have motivated the Tsarnaev brothers to bomb the Boston Marathon.

An April 19 story at Slate examines parallels between the Boston bombers and the Columbine killers.

An April 20, 2013 New York Times story that explores similarities with other longtime U.S. residents who chose jihadi-style violence.

Read an April 9, 2013 Boston Globe‘s story on the two brothers’ “paths into infamy.”

Read an April 21, 2013 interview in America magazine with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a visiting research fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism—The Hague and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C.