The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has found Ugandan-born Dominic Ongwen guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Ongwen’s story is unsettling because it challenges stereotypes about the pathological war criminal – relentless men who are indifferent to human suffering or, more typically, who actively seek it out. Abducted and conscripted into the Lord’s Resistance Army as a child, Ongwen grew up to become one of its dreaded fighters. Here Kjell Anderson chronicles Ongwen’s life.

The top 50 donors in the U.S. gave nearly $25 billion in 2020, up from $16 billion a year earlier, according to a detailed new report published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Where did all of that money go? We asked three philanthropy scholars – Binghamton’s David Campbell, Seattle University’s Elizabeth Dale and Jasmine McGinnis Johnson of George Washington University – to assess the trends and where even this huge surge of giving fell short of expectations.