To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our souls. For every one of those decisions, maybe there's another decision that could have been made, should have been made.

There was a time when the women of Afghanistan - at least in Kabul - were out there. They were allowed to study, they were doctors and surgeons, walking free, wearing what they wanted. That was when it was under Soviet occupation. Then the United States starts funding the mujahideen. Reagan called them Afghanistan's "founding fathers." It reincarnates the idea of "jehad," virtually creates the Taliban.

One beach-colored. One brown. One Loved. One Loved a Little Less.

Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum - all we are supposed to expect - but human rights aren't enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice.