Good morning, and welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times, and I can’t stop thinking about dehumanizing violence. That’s because ...

Thanks to technology, we can work remotely, interacting with colleagues online rather than face to face. We can order our groceries and meals through delivery apps, so we don’t have to go out to ...

David Livingston Smith has a new book, On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It, which offers a helpful review of the kinds of psychological and social structures that lead to dehumanization ...

Donald Trump's mother mocked him amid his financial failings in the early 90s, a new book written by the president's niece claims—one of the many tales of dysfunction in the Trump family. "Somebody's ...

We human beings have a remarkable ability to dehumanize one another: to conceive of others as subhuman creatures, and to treat them accordingly. I argue in my book Less Than Human: Why We Demean, ...