Odette Yousef
Odette Yousef is a National Security correspondent focusing on extremism.
In her reporting, Yousef aims to explore how extremist ideas break into the mainstream, how individuals are radicalized and efforts to counter that.
Before joining NPR in August of 2021, Yousef spent twelve years reporting for member station WBEZ in Chicago, where she was most recently part of the Race, Class and Identity team. While there, she was reporter and host for Season 3 of WBEZ's investigative podcast, Motive. The podcast, which won a 2021 national Edward R. Murrow award, explores the emergence and spread of the neo-Nazi skinhead movement in the U.S. and its connections to the far right extremism of today. Yousef was also part of a team that won a 2016 National Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Continuing Coverage, and she received a 2018 Studs Terkel Community Media Award. Prior to joining WBEZ, Yousef reported at WABE in Atlanta.
Born and raised in the Boston area, Yousef received a Bachelor of Arts in economics and East Asian studies from Harvard University. She is based in Chicago.
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The report's claim comes with caveats. Its critics say it does more to reveal issues around collecting and analyzing domestic terrorism data than it does to clarify the current state of the problem. -
The assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk has reanimated claims that the left is increasingly responsible for terrorist activity in the U.S. But the data paints a more complicated picture.
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NPR's Odette Yousef describes how she reports on conspiracy theories, domestic and foreign terror organizations and how people become radicalized.
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President Trump has issued an order designating antifa a "domestic terrorist organization," as he has long promised. It sets a precedent and is prompting many questions.
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President Trump has issued an order designating antifa a "domestic terrorist organization," as he has long promised. It sets a precedent and is prompting many questions.
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Current law provides for the designation of some groups as "foreign terrorist organizations," but no similar process exists for domestic groups. -
President Trump has said he wants to see antifa designated a "major terrorist organization." But it's not clear how that might work.
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The killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has unleashed a frenzy of recrimination — and finger-pointing. But the suspect's politics may be less clear than some say. -
Utah Governor Cox and others have labeled the accused shooter of Charlie Kirk a "leftist." But extremism analysts say the only clear indication so far is that he was deeply into online meme culture.
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Before his apprehension, speculation about the identity and motivations of Charlie Kirk's killer filled the void. A increasingly familiar pattern of political violence is taking shape in America.
