Scholars estimate that the 1994 Rwandan genocide resulted in the murder of between 800,000 and 1 million ethnic Tutsis and the rape of between a quarter and a half million women. One aspect of this horrific event worth noting is the use of the term “Inyenzi” (cockroach) by extremist Hutus ...

The line, “all press is good press,” has been ringing in my head this week. It’s an expression meant to soften the blow from the attention drawn toward dark corners we might not want illuminated, the kinds of places where there are cobwebs or other embarrassing details. Personally, I ...

December is the month of shopping. There are right — and wrong — ways to do this ... The young father’s voice is audible to everyone near him. He’s intently teaching his toddler son, maybe two years old, how to act in a store. He’s drilling down on the elements of “stranger ...

Of all the head-scratching ideas our political leaders have rolled out over the years, this one is practically guaranteed to make the history books. I’m referring to the 50-by-the-year mortgage, an idea shot out like confetti from a cannon pointed in the wrong direction by our current ...

I have been recently trying to understand why some drivers approaching four-way stops seem to feel that if they allow another driver to pass through the intersection first, their entire day’s schedule will be messed up–not to mention that in some cases, their wife may file for divorce for ...

In the theater of geopolitics, few performances have been as strange — and as consequential — as the ongoing pas de deux between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin over Ukraine. What should be a sober negotiation to end Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II has instead taken on the ...