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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A Tale of Two Economies
In Africa, what money can buy sometimes depends on who’s doing the spending. Reporter Jina Moore tries to negotiate Rwanda’s two economies – one…
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Confronting Your Own Stereotypes
When we travel to a foreign country, we often bring our assumptions with us. That’s what reporter Jina Moore did during a trip to…
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Truth Commissions: A Comprehensive Report
Six Ideas That Will Shape the World in 2010
New York — There are no iPods in this report. There are also no digital e-readers, no flat-screen televisions, no snowblowers, or lawn mowers…
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In Cheap We Trust
Here we are again: Even as the recession groans onward, box stores and boutiques alike are attempting to pry dollars from our clenched, fearful…
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Reimagining Anne Frank
Francine Prose’s Anne Frank is not, strictly speaking, a book about Anne Frank. That’s a good thing: We’ve had quite a few of those,…
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The Safety Geeks Who Rescue Us Before Disaster Happens
The best indication that John Drengenberg has been doing his job well, for 40 years, is that you’ve never heard of him. Most of…
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Nation-Building At Home, In the Classroom
Portland, Ore. — Six sophomores at Grant High School sit, shoulders slumping slightly, before two lawyers. The room fills with nervous expectation. Here, the…
Read MoreSketches from the Liberia notebooks…
A farmer on the outskirts of Saniquellie, Liberia, itself on the outskirts of the town Ganta, itself near little but Guinea… I ask, “Do…
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