Politics Literature Arts Ideas

Samantha Power

Samantha Power is United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Her article in this issue is drawn from a lecture at the American Academy in Berlin. (August 2016)

An Acholi child in Northern Uganda in 2007, as the first internally displaced Acholi people began to return to their villages after the signing of a peace accord intended to end more than twenty years of atrocities by the Lord’s Resistance Army; photograph by Sara Terry from Forgiveness and Conflict: Lessons from Africa, just published by 10(X) Editions

US Diplomacy: Realism and Reality

August 18, 2016 issue

It Didn’t End

October 9, 2008 issue

The Democrats & National Security

Us vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America's Security

by J. Peter Scoblic

Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats

by Matthew Yglesias

August 14, 2008 issue

A Hero of Our Time

November 18, 2004 issue

The Lesson of Hannah Arendt

April 29, 2004 issue

Repression in Cuba

December 4, 2003 issue

Rwanda: The Two Faces of Justice

January 16, 2003 issue

They Never Met

May 9, 2002 issue

Genocide and America

March 14, 2002 issue

Subscribe and save 50%!

Get immediate access to the current issue and over 25,000 articles from the archives, plus the NYR App.