20 Years After Rwanda, Why Is It Still So Hard to Stop Genocide?
Our brains are better equipped to process isolated tragedies, while international laws make it easy to ignore anything that isn't the Holocaust.
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Asia Watches as Taiwan’s Democracy Falters
Student protests in one of Asia’s most stable democracies are facing violent police crackdown. The effects could echo throughout the region.
The Unconventional Role Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Could Play in the Ukraine Crisis
The nostalgic dreams this timely film rouses can provide an antidote against the next foreseeable bout of “Ukraine fatigue.”
How Putin’s Image Obsession Helps Explain the Situation in Ukraine
While the crisis in Crimea might seem anything but rational, when you look at it through the lens of Putin's past actions, it starts to make some sense.
What Red Deer Tell Us About Our Dangerous Iron Curtain Obsession
The way the media mishandled a years-old story about the behavior of wildlife where Germany and the Czech Republic meet feeds and legitimizes many people’s visions of impermeable physical borders or solid inter-ethnic lines.
The Strange Mystery of the Alien Bears of Bulgaria
New genetic analysis suggests that a deranged Romanian dictator, who relished bear hunting, flew them there.
How to Forecast Democracy After a Bloody Civil War
Aid from external rivals is a key variable that can complicate democratization.
How We Discovered That Christopher Columbus Didn’t Get to America First
And why it doesn't really matter if he was 500 years too late.