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Helen Epstein is Visiting Professor of Human Rights and Global Public Health at Bard. She is the author of Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror (2017) and The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa (2007). (November 2020)
Left Behind
While poverty in America is all too real, it’s not the only reason for the epidemic of deaths of despair.
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
by Anne Case and Angus Deaton
We’re Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of America
by Jennifer M. Silva
March 26, 2020 issue
The Highest Suicide Rate in the World
When I visited Nunavut’s capital in July, virtually every Inuit I met had lost at least one relative to suicide.
Too Many People: Contact, Disorder, Change in an Inuit Society, 1822–2015
by Willem Rasing, with a foreword by George Wenzel
The Return of the Sun: Suicide and Reclamation Among Inuit of Arctic Canada
by Michael J. Kral
October 10, 2019 issue
Rwanda: A Deathly Hush
How Paul Kagame and the Rwandan Patriotic Front obscured Washington’s role in a particularly bloody period of central African history
In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
by Judi Rever
June 28, 2018 issue
The Mass Murder We Don’t Talk About
Judi Rever’s ‘In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front’
In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
by Judi Rever
June 7, 2018 issue
The Strange Politics of Saving the Children
A Mighty Purpose: How Jim Grant Sold the World on Saving Its Children
by Adam Fifield
November 5, 2015 issue
Colossal Corruption in Africa
Zambia: The First 50 Years: Reflections of an Eyewitness
by Andrew Sardanis
Africa: Another Side of the Coin: Northern Rhodesia’s Final Years and Zambia’s Nationhood
by Andrew Sardanis
The 1980 Coup: Tribulations of the One-Party State in Zambia
by Goodwin Yoram Mumba
Rethinking African Politics: A History of Opposition in Zambia
by Miles Larmer
The Musakanya Papers: The Autobiographical Writings of Valentine Musakanya
edited by Miles Larmer
Tiny Rowland: A Rebel Tycoon
by Tom Bower
December 4, 2014 issue
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