Trump’s New Rules for Radicals

Sebastian Gorka
Dr. Sebastian Gorka was the first speaker at the State Department's symposium. Photo: Aaron Schwartz / Bloomberg via Getty Images
Julia Ioffe
June 4, 2026

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On Tuesday morning, about 100 State Department officials gathered in the building once known as the U.S. Institute of Peace—now renamed the Donald J. Trump U.S. Institute of Peace—for an event billed as a “Symposium on the Rise of Far-Left Political Terrorism.” Organized under the auspices of Thomas DiNanno, the undersecretary for arms control and international security, the event featured a “comprehensive threat briefing” from the F.B.I. on “Domestic and Trans-National Far-Left Terrorism,” along with a case study on left-wing radicalization.