I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight

Usually people are very much focused on keeping their kids alive.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products. Meanwhile, you have issues like clean water, literacy for girls, female empowerment. People flinch at the idea of marketing these because marketing sounds like something only companies do.

We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.