One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.

Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic.

Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments.