Adam Hochschild, a TomDispatch regular, teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism of the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of several books, including King Leopold’s Ghost and To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. His most recent book is American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis.
News from the Ituri region of the misnamed Democratic Republic of Congo in recent weeks has been so grim as to make one want to turn the page or flip the TV channel in despair: tens of thousand