Online Exclusive • 09/18/2015 • Essay
Choosing Among Alternative Responses to Mass Atrocity: Between the Individual and the Collectivity
MARK OSIEL When a country pursues only a single mode of atrocity response, it will over-individualize or over-collectivize its treatment of wrongdoer and victim, in ...
Online Exclusive • 08/12/2015 • Blog
What Should You Do if You Are Not an "Effective Altruist"?
Peter Singer argues that a significant portion of one’s income should go toward alleviating global poverty. But this is just a start.
Online Exclusive • 07/21/2015 • Interview
A Conversation on Climate Change with Conservation International's M. Sanjayan
M. SANJAYAN AND ZACH DORFMAN In this interview, M. Sanjayan, senior scientist at Conservation International, discusses our climate-changed world, and why—on some days at ...
Online Exclusive • 07/16/2015 • Blog
How Obama Solved U.S.-Iran Relations' "Trolley Problem"
HUSSEIN BANAI The announcement of a comprehensive deal on Iran’s nuclear program is a significant achievement of international diplomacy. The predicament faced—and perhaps ...
Online Exclusive • 07/13/2015 • Blog
The Risks of the "Shaming" Approach to Policy
The Bosnian tragedy is a case where unwillingness to really get involved should have been the spur to finding a compromise.