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Cambodia
November 16, 2018
Jeet Heer
Four decades later, Khmer Rouge leaders convicted of genocide—which doesn’t fully encompass their acts.
March 23, 2018
Amar Diwakar
Saffron Curtain: How Buddhism Was Weaponized During the Cold War
The U.S. tried to foment an anti-communist Buddhist bloc in Southeast Asia—with deadly consequences for the region’s politics today.
September 15, 2016
MagazineBrent Crane
Can “Dark Tourism” Help Cambodia Heal?
The jungle hideout where genocidal dictator Pol Pot made his last stand could become the country's next grim attraction.
November 16, 2014
Judith Shulevitz
The Science of Suffering
Kids are inheriting their parents' trauma. Can science stop it?
April 25, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
The Trial of Robert D. Kaplan
The Atlantic's absurd defense of Henry Kissinger
November 20, 2012
Joshua Kurlantzick
The Moral and Strategic Blindspot in Obama’s Pivot to Asia
October 21, 2012
Rick Perlstein
George McGovern, 1922-2012: Is Decency in Politics Always Doomed?
December 21, 2011
Tom Malinowski
Is There Any Way To Help the People of North Korea?
December 2, 2010
Dustin Roasa
Cambodia’s Democratic Warrior
December 2, 2010
Leon Wieseltier
Stephen Solarz (1940–2010)
July 26, 2010
Stephen Morris
Mock Trial
May 1, 2010
Martin Peretz
Samantha And Fern
November 23, 2009
Bradford Plumer
How Much Is Nature Worth, Anyway?
October 10, 2009
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Ending Our Age of Suffering
September 5, 2009
Christine Stansell
The Aftermath and After
August 27, 2008
Richard Just
The Truth Will Not Set You Free
August 27, 2008
Richard Just
The Truth Will Not Set You Free
March 2, 1995
Jeffrey Rosen
Dancing Days
December 2, 1985
Stephen J. Solarz
Next Stop, Angola
July 30, 1984
Richard Holbrooke
Conscience and Catastrophe

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