Dear White People, Love Rwanda
At a conference last week about Rwanda, Jacqueline Murekatete, a genocide survivor who lives in New York and works with a nonprofit called Miracle…
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Rwanda’s Genocide, 15 Years Later
This is the first part of a three-part series. See Part 2: “One community works for forgiveness.” And see the slideshow in this story….
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Survivors Start to Confront Trauma
This the second part of a three-part series. See “Part 1: Survivors start to confront trauma.” See Part 3, the slide show “Remembering in…
Read MoreVox justus. (Cuz that sounds like it would be Latin for justice…): An interview with Luis Moreno-Ocampo
My personal picks for “best of” the ICC prosecutor’s sit-down with Newsweek: NEWSWEEK: Bashir responded to the ICC’s arrest warrant by expelling foreign-aid groups…
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Editorial Choices II, or, Good job, Parade, for not making rape victims all victim-y
Er, sort of. Parade Magazine is circulated in local American newspapers and claims something like 40 gajillion readers. It’s seriously huge, and pretty mainstreamy,…
Read MorePoints to the hubris patrol
A reader has pointed out an error I made last week, in a post about writing about rape in Congo. Having struggled with the…
Read MoreICC: Not as stupid as the cynics may have thought…
So I feel a little bad about my reflexive “Yes, but what about the DYING?!” response to the ICC indictments. For starters, it’s pretty…
Read MoreWhat does the high road cost?; or, Thanks, ICC: Bashir orders a dozen+ aid agencies out of Darfur
There has been lots of speculation, hand-wringing and other expressions of sincere concern since the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the…
Read More"Excuse me, but could you please push apart your thighs?"
I’m not a fan of making lives easy on my readers. I think the kind of bs we usually encounter in what fills our…
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What Happens When You Try to Put All The Words Online
Lexicographer Erin McKean’s interactive ‘Wordnik’ is projected to be the largest online dictionary ever. CHICAGO — Erin McKean doesn’t look much like a revolutionary….
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