Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding

Our national leaders tend to try to protect the national interest as they see it. They may screw up in that, but they at least see that as their role. In contrast, where issues of our national values are involved, which covers pretty much any humanitarian issue, they pretty much drop the ball.

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur

Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

I said that one can't stereotype [Donald] Trump voters anymore than they can anybody else.