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August 15, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize Obsession Is Getting Way Out of Hand
Donald Trump reportedly begged a Norwegian minister to nominate him for the award.
April 23, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Finds Another Country to Accept His Mass Deportations
Amid the fury over Trump’s deportations to El Salvador, the administration just deported someone to Rwanda. And no, he’s not from there.
December 14, 2020
Nate Berg
The Man Who Wants to Take Down Bashar Al Assad
Wolfgang Kaleck is using the justice system to do what nation-states will not or cannot.
May 17, 2018
MagazineKevin Baker
Nothing in All Creation Is Hidden
Why America needs truth and reconciliation after Trump
May 11, 2018
Peter Vanham
Why Do-Gooders Love Development Statistics
Sure: dictators do, too. But development stats, properly weighted, can be a tool for change.
April 26, 2018
Alex Gladstein
Why Dictators Love Development Statistics
They're an easily faked way to score international points.
February 16, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
The unlikely pop culture celebrity of Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
April 17, 2014
Tomaso Clavarino
Rwanda's Open Wounds
Tens of thousands of amputees serve as living reminders of the 1994 genocide
April 7, 2014
Sara J. Bloomfield, Michael Abramowitz
Don't Assume That the Rwandan Genocide Couldn't Happen Today
December 20, 2012
Julia Ioffe
Susan Rice Isn’t Going Quietly
May 14, 2012
Jonathan Cohn
Even the Costa Ricans... and Chinese and Mexicans...
April 5, 2012
Jonathan Schanzer, Claudia Rosett
It's Time to Add Syria to Kofi Annan's Long List of Failures
February 29, 2012
Martin Peretz
Friends of Syria: Obama, Clinton, the Saudi King, All Pusillanimous, One Worse Than the Other
February 27, 2012
Josef Joffe
Why Nobody Will Help the Syrian People
May 19, 2011
Jeffrey Gettleman
The Horror, The Horror
March 17, 2011
Lawrence F. Kaplan
Failed Analogy
March 15, 2011
Larry Diamond
Obama’s Moment of Truth
December 8, 2010
Jerome Groopman
Against Despair
October 5, 2010
Mvemba Phezo Dizolele
It's Time to Hold Rwanda Accountable for its War Crimes
August 5, 2010
Ruth Wedgwood
Paul Kagame and Rwanda's Faux Democracy

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