This is the first part of a two-part series. In a related pair of posts (“Reactance Without Atrocity,” Parts 1 and 2), I found some small sliver of hope in the psychological phenomenon of reactance.

A Beaver County hunter bagged a massive, record-setting black bear while hunting over the weekend. Nate Miller told Pittsburgh Action News he was in his hunting spot in Moraine State Park in Butler ...

Ukraine has identified a Russian commander it accuses of “systematic and coordinated war crimes” in Bucha, near Kyiv, where hundreds of civilians were murdered during its brief occupation by Russian ...

An 11-year-old boy ran into a Pennsylvania Family Dollar with a black bear right behind him. The bear charged through the front doors, sending the boy and the cashier scrambling for cover. The moment ...

We welcome this convening and thank the panelists for their stark reporting on the atrocities unfolding in and around El Fasher. Human Rights Watch has analyzed videos filmed by the RSF, showing their ...

Twenty-two years ago, the devils came on horseback. Now they come on pickup trucks mounted with machine guns, funded by gold and assisted by drones. Now, the devils fight against the Sudanese Armed ...

Eliza Jacobs, the senior director of product policy at Roblox, spoke with WRAL anchor Ashley Rowe about the platform's safety features and what major change the gaming app is planning to launch.

How do governments end up committing violent atrocities against their own people? New research finds that they follow a path of least resistance. The past four decades have unfortunately provided ...

Justin Willis has previously received funding from the UK government, via the Rift Valley Institute, for research on elections in Sudan. Willow Berridge receives funding from Peace and Conflict ...

The beauty writer Jessica DeFino refers often to the “mirror world” inside our phone, the uncanny, glistening selfieverse that’s also become more real for many of its devotees than the lumpy, blotchy ...

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