Peter Trachtenberg took a tour around the world in his quest to understand why some people are crushed by suffering and others are transformed by it.
By Louis Bayard Sep 5, 2008
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An American indie filmmaker's amazing Rwandan odyssey. Plus: Blame Canada! (For the virus eating your brain.)
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 30, 2009
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"The Host" rises up from American slime to destroy the Korean family! It must be destroyed! Plus: A new film on credit card debt will make you weep.
By Andrew O'Hehir
March 8, 2007
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It was supposed to be a storybook tale of young refugees triumphing against all odds. But an alarming number of Sudan's "Lost Boys" have spiraled into alcohol abuse, crime and even fratricide. What went wrong?
By Leigh Flayton
August 25, 2005
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In "Machete Season," 10 Hutu men recall how they enjoyed slaughtering their neighbors with machetes and clubs -- and six years after the Rwanda genocide, feel no guilt.
By Suzy Hansen
July 20, 2005
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While the world commemorated the millions of victims of the Nazis on Thursday, Congress squandered an opportunity to address the ongoing genocide in Darfur.
By Julia Scott
May 6, 2005
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Bush's jaw-dropping nomination of John Bolton as ambassador to the U.N. is a slap in the world's face.
By Ian Williams
March 9, 2005
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The authors of "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures" talk about keeping body and soul together in the killing fields of Cambodia, Somalia and Haiti.J
By Suzy Hansen
July 8, 2004
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Author Aidan Hartley talks about his new book, "The Zanzibar Chest," the horrors of Somalia and Rwanda, and when you know war has become genocide.
By Suzy Hansen
July 31, 2003
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The Congo's descent into a vortex of murder and destruction is the globe's worst human crisis. But as he travels in Africa this week, the president will ignore it.
By Laura McClure
July 4, 2003
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In a terse speech to the nation and the world, the president stopped just short of a declaration of war.
By Jake Tapper
March 18, 2003
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What kind of person can attack, mutilate and kill a total stranger or even a neighbor? A scholar talks about the dark potential in all of us.
By Suzy Hansen
August 22, 2002
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An author who followed the lives of survivors in Rwanda and Bosnia talks about how people and nations learn to go on after they've suffered the unthinkable.
By Suzy Hansen
December 5, 2001
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A
fast-paced crime novel about a supposed priest who flees war-torn Rwanda to
find himself pursued by a cigarette smuggler.
By
October 5, 2000
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In his latest black-comic thriller, the peerless crime novelist takes his wisecracking swindlers from post-massacre Rwanda to downtown Detroit.
By Charles Taylor
September 7, 2000
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A geneticist sparks outrage with a project to help African-Americans trace their family roots.
By Arthur Allen
May 12, 2000
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A feud between Richard Holbrooke and Madeleine Albright shadows what will likely be useless U.N. aid to war-torn Central Africa.
By David Rieff
May 8, 2000
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Pictures from an exhibition -- in hell.
By Douglas Cruickshank
April 10, 2000
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Researchers claim decade-old evidence has been ignored.
By Hank Hyena
February 28, 2000
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The author of "And the Sea Is Never Full" discusses his work, the Middle East, Rwanda and his friend Primo Levi.
By Jill Priluck
January 5, 2000
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Why has it taken us so long to believe that the new "great hope" of Africa may have been responsible for terrible massacres?
By Jonathan Broder
December 11, 1997
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American media are running less and less foreign news.
By Martha Ann Overland
July 1, 1997
So much misery, so little time
Movies not to miss: "Munyurangabo"
Beyond the Multiplex
Lost in America
Conversations with mass murderers
"Not on my watch"
Sex and drugs in hell
"A blink of an eye, and a million killed"
Millions die, Bush is silent
Ordinary people, extraordinary evil
My neighbor, the war criminal
"Pagan Babies" by Elmore Leonard
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald
Joan Walsh