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Alexander Hinton

Alexander Hinton (@AlexLHinton) is Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University Newark. He is also a past President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2011-13) and holds the UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention. He is the author or editor of seventeen books, including the award-winning Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide (California, 2005), The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia (Oxford, 2018), and, most recently, It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US (NYU, 2021) and Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell, 2022). Research interests: Sociocultural and psychological anthropology; genocide and political violence; extremism; transitional justice; US and Southeast Asia (with a focus on Cambodia); culture and mind; globalization and modernity; self and emotion; anthropology and critical theory.
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Why does MAGA support Trump if his ‘big beautiful bill’ will likely hurt many of them?

The Big Fugly Bill will hurt people in red States the most. So why does MAGA support Trump after he…

Trump’s White Genocide Claims About South Africa Have Deep Roots in American History

Trump’s white genocide claims, which echoed assertions he made during his first term, were quickly debunked by independent fact-checkers.