Why Genocide Keeps Happening

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1. Here’s why genocide keeps happening.

By Jacqueline Murekatete, Simon Adams, Ellen Kennedy, Ernesto Verdeja, Charles J. Brown, Peter Galbraith in Zócalo Public Square

1. How not to fix airport screening.

By Patrick Tucker in Defense One

2. Our best tool to avoid conflict in the South China Sea is a treaty the Senate won’t ratify.

By Ankit Panda in the Diplomat

3. Teaching them to “think slow” and control their impulses is keeping teens out of trouble in Chicago.

By Andrew Flowers in FiveThirtyEight

4. How not to fix airport screening.

By Patrick Tucker in Defense One

5. Teaching inmates to tame wild horses gives both a better life.

By Melanie Ruiz in Ozy

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