One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

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

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition

Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding