It always bothers me when I hear Rwanda’s genocide described as a product of “ancient tribal hatreds.” I think this is an easy way for Westerners to dismiss the whole thing as a regrettable but...

I still wonder how policy officials… can sit down at the table with their families and have any appetite for food, or go to sleep at night, knowing that they failed to act. Human beings...

A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is not you or somebody close to you. Unless the world...