The U.N. Is Not Serious About Its Peacekeeper Rape Problem / Foreign Policy
It was a raid gone horribly wrong. In the early morning hours of Sunday, Aug. 2, U.N. peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic entered a…
The Worst of All Horrors / Foreign Policy
These days, no one seems to have endured just one kind of life-jarring experience in the conflict areas of Iraq. The suffering is multilayered: trauma caused…
Refugees in Their Own Homeland / Foreign Policy
Let’s imagine for a moment, that in some massively devastating economic disaster, the entire population of Canada, roughly 35 million people, loses its jobs. The country’s…
A Miserable Mystery in Congo / Foreign Policy
The men come during the night. They choose a house, smash a hole through a wall, and take a child away to do terrible things to…
Not Monsters, but Men / Foreign Policy
An eerie whitish spotlight follows a speeding bus down a highway in Delhi. The footage is in a grainy black and white, shot from an eagle-eyed…
Suffocating Congo’s War / Foreign Policy
The following is in response to a rebuttal by the Enough Project to my previous Foreign Policy story, “How Dodd-Frank Is Ruining Congo.” In a badly…