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Preeti Aroon “Ukraine Remembers Famine Horror,” by Laura Sheeter on BBC News. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the start of the “Holomodor,” the Stalin-devised famine that is thought to have killed at least 3 million people in Ukraine. The country has officially declared it a genocide, but some in Russia object to that ...

By , a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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Preeti Aroon

Preeti Aroon

  • Ukraine Remembers Famine Horror,” by Laura Sheeter on BBC News. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the start of the “Holomodor,” the Stalin-devised famine that is thought to have killed at least 3 million people in Ukraine. The country has officially declared it a genocide, but some in Russia object to that term.

Christine Chen

  • To End a War. Richard Holbrooke’s memoir of negotiating an end to the war in the Balkans is one of the best books out there on modern diplomacy. Wonder if Condi read it in advance of Annapolis?

Blake Hounshell

  • Our Dumb World: Atlas of the Planet Earth, by the good folks at The Onion. In which we learn that “Yemen is home to terrorists who are neither smart enough to come up with evil plots nor brave enough to carry them out” and that “there is something in Costa Rica for every nouveau riche environmentalist from the U.S.”

Prerna Mankad

Carolyn O’Hara

Kate Palmer

Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.

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