American politics has long personalized its violence. Time and again, history's advance has been imagined to depend on silencing or destroying a single figure.

A recent repatriation from Australia to Cambodia shows how this process can reinforce oppressive powers, and further ...

Others similarly weighed in. Whoopi Goldberg on “The View” declared that Americans solve political disagreements peacefully: “This is not the way we do it.” Yet other awful episodes come immediately ...