Janet Reitman, ASU Future Security Fellow, is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, covering extremism, youth, and national security. During her time as a fellow, she worked on a book for Random House about the demoralization of post-9/11 America. Tentatively titled The Unraveling of Everything, the book presents a narrative history of the country's increasingly violent and extremist drift from the 1990s to the current day.
A former contributing editor at Rolling Stone, Reitman has twice been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, and her work has appeared in GQ, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Men's Journal, and many other publications, as well as anthologized in the Best American Magazine Writing series (2007 and 2014). Reitman's first book, Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion (2011), was a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book.
Selected Work
- U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It: An analysis in the New York Times of how the federal government failed to recognize the threat of far-right domestic terrorism in the years leading up to 2018.
- All American Nazis: A story for Rolling Stone about the growing fascist youth movement of the early Trump era and the online radicalization of young white men.
- The Children of ISIS: A story in the Rolling Stone about three teenage siblings from the Chicago suburbs who attempted to join ISIS, with a particular focus on the organization's sophisticated online recruitment techniques.
