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The suffering of children--whether from the afflictions of poverty, disease, or war--tends to be regarded as a greater offense to conscience than the suffering of their elders. But why? Is [...]

A profile of Paul Rusesabagina, the Hutu manager of Des Mille Collines Hotel, Kiagli, Rwanda, who saved the lives of more than thousand Tutsis refugees staying in the hotel, is presented. The Mille Collines refugees could see the carnage in the streets below but Rusesabagina protected them from a similar fate at the hands of militia.

Mille Collines Hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina managed to keep his guests alive during the one hundred days of genocide in Rwanda. Rusesabagina used only his phone line, his supply of liquor and his spirit of resistance in keeping himself, his family and guests alive.

Ethnic violence in Rwanda and Burundi are caused by political systems corrupted by Europeans. Ethnic divisions were initiated by Belgian colonial masters who regarded the Tutsis as more superior than the Hutus.

The distinguished writer V.S. Naipaul opens his new book, A Way in the World[*] - it is his 22nd - with a brief 'Prelude' (subtitled 'An Inheritance') in which he [...]

MOVIEGOERS are by now accustomed to the brief warnings attached to ratings in newspaper reviews: 'nudity,' 'violence,' 'language,' or that titillating euphemism, 'adult situations.' Each of these tags might fairly [...]

I am a first-generation American, born, like the nation, in Philadelphia, the child of refugees from European barbarism. Both my parents, in their separate youths, escaped the Nazi effort to [...]

EARLY One evening during the riot in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in August 1991, I stopped in at the 71st precinct station and chatted briefly with Captain Mescolotto, [...]

Byline: -Philip Gourevitch THE NEW WORLD DISORDER On October 20, 2011, the day that Libyan rebel fighters found Colonel Muammar Qaddafi hiding in a desert culvert, hauled him out, and [...]

Byline: -Philip Gourevitch COMING TO TERMS Back in the summer of 2009, President Barack Obama went to Ghana and gave Africans a lecture about democracy, in which he paid tribute [...]

Byline: -Philip Gourevitch SEARCH AND RESCUE On the evening of May 22, 1988, a hundred and ten Vietnamese men, women, and children huddled aboard a leaky forty-five-foot junk bound for [...]

REMEMBERING IN RWANDA In Kigali last week, thousands of mourners trekked through a thick predawn fog to converge on Amahoro Stadium. By midmorning, in hot, raking sunshine, they filled the [...]

In the summer of my twentieth year, I worked briefly as a bear-skinner in the mountains of Wyoming. I knew nothing about bears, and I had never flayed an animal. [...]

'Everyone here--they won't say it this way, you know, our pride won't let us--but everyone voting here today, myself included, is homeless right now,' a poll worker said, on Election [...]

Twenty years ago this month, Republicans convened at the Astrodome, in Houston, to nominate George H. W. Bush for reëlection to the Presidency. His acceptance speech was interrupted by spirited [...]

In April of 1993, President Bill Clinton and Elie Wiesel presided over the dedication of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, D.C. Wiesel spoke first. He asked, 'What have we [...]

In South Africa in the nineteen-eighties, the military wing of the African National Congress was on the attack. The anti-apartheid guerrillas rarely let a week go without action--dynamite at a [...]

North Korea is among the poorest nations in the world, enduring government mismanagement that emphasizes military spending, which leads to repeat famines and manipulated relief efforts. With the announcement of [...]

Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France, doesn't like wine. He doesn't like smelly cheeses. He doesn't like truffles. He likes Diet Coke and candy and big Havana cigars. Such distaste [...]