human rights

Historian Samuel Moyn contends that efforts to conduct war humanely have only perpetuated it. But the solution must lie in politics, not a sacrifice of human rights.

An inquiry into a utopian vision of abolitionism.

How is it that the era of neoliberalism coincides almost perfectly with the triumphant rise of a discourse of human rights?

The era of Trump could mark the recovery in American civil society of the moral and political power of global human rights.

In the wake of the Second World War, Eleanor Roosevelt seized the moment and gave lasting life to the idea of universal human rights.

Traditional Supreme Court precedent may depend too much on substantive due process to safeguard human rights.

Carter’s speech lays out his commitment to implement human rights into U.S. foreign policy.

Native peoples face similar struggles with the federal governments in the U.S. and in Canada.

“This isn’t about being for one group or against another. It’s about basic human rights.”

The primary sources on Kissinger’s controversial legacy.

We reach for the term when we want to condemn the worst crimes, but the UN’s Genocide Convention excuses more perpetrators of mass murder than it condemns.

At the height of George W. Bush’s War on Terror, Jimmy Carter had the courage to call out Israel for its human rights abuses.

50 years after native inhabitants of the Chagos Islands were forced out to make room for a military base, a Chagossian leader came to D.C. seeking reparations.

Buckley’s seldom-acknowledged fluency in Spanish shaped his worldview—including his admiration for dictators from Spain to Chile and beyond.

Chile’s president was in Washington over the weekend to mark a grim anniversary. Congress is still asking questions about the U.S. role in the 1973 coup.

Some personal reflections on history, memory, and the survival of democracies.

Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman helped devise Pinochet's economic agenda and endorsed the brutal repression that was needed to force it through.

Recently declassified documents have exposed former Mexican president José López Portillo as a CIA asset.

The political preacher who made the religion look bad.

The United States’ destruction of Iraq remains the worst international crime of our time. Its perpetrators remain free and its horrors are buried.