Genocide

Right-wing diatribes about Columbus Day combine a fear of the future with a refusal to really look at the past.

• By David M. Perry

If liberal democracies categorically reject genocide as the pinnacle of human evil, why don't they do anything to stop it?

• By Jared Keller

Researchers attempt to predict which countries are most at risk for genocide or politicide over the coming five years.

• By Kate Wheeling

Recent psychological research suggests a new way to frame the ongoing situation in Syria is to get certain groups of Americans to support opening our borders.

• By Eric Horowitz

The word was created to have a set, legal definition so that perpetuators could be prosecuted for their crimes.

• By Francie Diep

Why do people commit genocide?

• By Louisa Lombard

For the month of April we're profiling the individuals who made our inaugural list of the 30 top thinkers under 30, the young men and women we predict will have a serious impact on the social, political, and economic issues we cover every day here at Pacific Standard.

• By Avital Andrews

Our brains are better equipped to process isolated tragedies, while international laws make it easy to ignore anything that isn't the Holocaust.

• By Paul Hiebert

A conversation about the grim business of predicting mass atrocities.

• By Ryan Jacobs

A study of Polish emigrants to Israel found men who survived the Holocaust lived, on average, six months longer than those who avoided it.

• By Tom Jacobs

The next American ambassador to the United Nations discusses her philosophy of leadership in a 2008 interview with Miller-McCune.

• By Tom Jacobs

There is, in fact, a surprising amount of scholarship on the subject of Thanksgiving, a uniquely American celebration marked by rituals that lend themselves to a wide range of interpretations.

• By Tom Jacobs