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

Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.

The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.

Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles; if it was a woman, she was likely raped; if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.