Income Inequality’s Strange Relationship to Violence
By Elaine Denny and Barbara F. Walter A strange pattern recently caught our eye. Numerous studies about murder…
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The Long Road to Statehood
By Tanisha Fazal As of this week, both the Republican and Democratic platforms now recognize Jerusalem as the capital…
Explaining High Murder Rates in Latin America: It’s Not Drugs
By Elaine Denny and Barbara F. Walter In a background paper for the World Bank on homicide rates James D.…
Getting it Wrong About Wartime Sexual Violence
By Andrew Mack Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has played a critically important role in drawing…
The Case Against Intervention
By Erica Chenoweth How does military intervention affect ordinary people? Does it spare them from violence by the…
Abhorrent neq Aberrant
By Will H. Moore This post is part of the “Would Someone Please Explain This to Me?” series. Pauline Moore…
Atop the Sovereignty Bubble
By Bridget Coggins, Tanisha Fazal, and Ryan Griffiths Earlier this week, Sudan and South Sudan announced an agreement on oil pipeline fees…
Violence in America, Redux
By Christian Davenport This post is part of the “Would Someone Please Explain This to Me?” series. Thank…
“An Ideal for Which I am Prepared to Die”
By Will H. Moore Fifty years ago South African police arrested Nelson Mandela, the leader of Umkhonto we…
Syria’s Bad, Bad Chemical Weapons Bluff
By Barbara F. Walter Something strange happened on Monday. The Assad regime came out and publicly declared that they…