Does the Holocaust teach us anything about modern-day genocide? (Oh, and happy new year)
Things are quiet on this blog while we’re preparing for a server transfer and redesign. But here’s a nice graph from a piece in…
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Congo 101, or "Can't you clap?"
This has got to be the best quote yet to run in anyone’s Congo stories. From Stephanie McCrummen, who has been doing stellar work…
Read MoreUN updates, and a kink fix
In case you were desperate to read the story I posted the wrong link for, here it is: “Rwanda-Congo move isolates UN mission” This…
Read MoreRwanda and Congo: It's not what you think
In the last week, everything here has changed. Rwanda and Congo, former enemies, are the statecraft version of best buddies. Congo invited Rwandan troops…
Read More“After disasters and death tolls, world moves on”
It sounds like me being glib, using my unending cynicism to make a point, but that’s a real, it-ran-in-papers-and-on-the-web headline from the Associated Press….
Read MoreAnd next in the long list of Things That Won’t Help
You’ll forgive the cynicism, I’m sure–or maybe not, which is also legitimate–but here is a quick highlight of things in my inbox: Writers in…
Read MoreA short, short, short story
A friend has a link on her blog to another interesting blog–this all sounds so incestuous–called Six Sentences. Just what it sounds: Stories, about…
Read MoreWho does laundry for the Leader of the Free World?
This was one among many questions Bob Geldof had for George Bush. Geldof — you know, the guy behind retro-human-rights-cool “Live Aid” and modern-day-human-rights-chic…
Read MoreI can’t believe I’m posting about George Clooney
It has come to this. But maybe the “it” isn’t me… Hold on, we need some context: Clooney recently had a dark-night-of-the-soul (or of…
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