The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined.

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.