How to turn a child into a murderer

I know that some people may disagree with me, particularly some of my friends, but I believe that to understand goodness, you also have to understand evil. We need to learn how people can perform evil acts. How do they come to believe that such failures of compassion are actually good, or are other motives driving them?

Journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reports on one path to evil. She describes in detail how the Taliban turn children into suicide bombers.

HT to Andrew Sullivan.

Top Headlines: Taliban, Gitmo, gay teen, abortion, U.S. Supreme Court & more

We've had a busy week here at In This Moment. We've gone everywhere from Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan, the U.S. Supreme Court, the wilds of the religious right in Kansas, and to the depths of Newark, N.J. Here are the week's top headlines.

Girls are meaningless in Afghanistan

Why Guantanamo Bay is not and never will be a model prison

Newark superintendent finally applies the Golden Rule to gay teen

Five to Four: The scariest words in U.S. law

The Bushies take aim at Mom & Pop pharmacies

Kansas Attorney General's office says darling of religious right botched Tiller case

National right-to-life figure might want to thank his political opponent