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Online Exclusive 02/27/2026 Blog

What We've Been Reading

Online Exclusive 11/17/2025 Online Essay

Department of Violence

Pete Hegseth's speech and the U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats reveal an American policy of war without rules, violence without constraint.

Online Exclusive 10/23/2025 Online Essay

Beware the Boomerang Effect: Why U.S. Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats Pose a Profound Threat to American Freedom

The U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats point toward an intensification of unchecked destructive and coercive power that directly threatens civil and political freedom.

Online Exclusive 11/21/2018 Blog

The Truth is Not Always as It Seems, and What That Means for Reconciliation and Justice

In this blog post, Caroline Nguyen writes that the difficulty of defining and enforcing the right to truth explains why many scholars and practitioners are ...

Online Exclusive 11/8/2018 Blog

Truth, Justice, and Power: Why Victimization Continues After Conflict

The cases of South Korea, Spain, and the Gambia show how political institutions can marginalize survivors in the aftermath of conflict.

Online Exclusive 10/31/2018 Blog

Sanders' "Selective Engagement" versus Transactional Internationalism

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders each offer a different alternative to the traditional "bipartisan consensus" in U.S. foreign policy.

Online Exclusive 10/30/2018 Interview

The Alternatives to War: From Sanctions to Nonviolence, with James Pattison

In this interview, James Pattison discusses his book, "The Alternatives to War." His goal is to offer policymakers a pragmatic moral map of the main ...

Online Exclusive 10/24/2018 Blog

The Importance of Memory: Unreliable, Precarious, and Crucial to Reconciliation

Several recent cases involving the Gambia, Japan and Korea, and Spain highlight the tenuous relationship between memory, history, and state-building.