Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.

I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.

If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.