It’s Our Act of Killing, Too It’s Our Act of Killing, Too
The brilliant Oscar-nominated film The Act of Killing depicts the horrifying mass murder in Indonesia in the 1960s—but the US was no mere observer.
Feb 28, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Brad Simpson
The Sochi Games Are Being Held on the Land of Genocide The Sochi Games Are Being Held on the Land of Genocide
“Sochi is the land of Circassians. They can’t hide this anymore.”
Feb 17, 2014 / Blog / Dave Zirin
Are Rwanda’s Post-Genocide Youth Programs Paving the Way for Future Unrest? Are Rwanda’s Post-Genocide Youth Programs Paving the Way for Future Unrest?
Many participants say they peddle militaristic values and obedience to the state.
Jan 24, 2014 / Foreign Policy In Focus / Hilary Matfess and Foreign Policy In Focus
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Eight Decades of Hannah Arendt and Her Critics This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Eight Decades of Hannah Arendt and Her Critics
Arendt's life and work have been debated in our pages possibly more than those of any other twentieth-century philosopher.
Nov 16, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Guatemala’s Genocide on Trial Guatemala’s Genocide on Trial
The Constitutional Court may have vacated Efraín Ríos Montt’s conviction, but the struggle for justice will continue. And nothing can annul the survivors’...
May 22, 2013 / Editorial / Kate Doyle
Is There a Chechen Connection to the Boston Bombings? Is There a Chechen Connection to the Boston Bombings?
It appears the Tsarnaev brothers were self-motivated. But their Salafist extremism was itself one outgrowth of the brutal Chechen wars of independence against Russia.
Apr 24, 2013 / Editorial / Thomas Goltz
Two Rights and A Wrong: On Taner Akçam Two Rights and A Wrong: On Taner Akçam
A historian’s view of why political demands, past and present, have weighed on Turkish debates about the Armenian genocide.
Mar 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Holly Case
Putting Stories Into the World Putting Stories Into the World
Nathan Englander’s play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, focuses on the moment that Yiddish culture in Russia died a sudden and unnatural death.
Jan 2, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
A Brutal Peace: On the Postwar Expulsions of Germans A Brutal Peace: On the Postwar Expulsions of Germans
Did postwar population transfers complete a project of ethnic cleansing started by Hitler?
Nov 28, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Tara Zahra
The Noble and the Base: Poland and the Holocaust The Noble and the Base: Poland and the Holocaust
Can the two central images of Poland during World War II—a country of heroes and a country of collaborators—ever be combined?
Nov 14, 2012 / Books & the Arts / John Connelly