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

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

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

It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

So Kim Kardashian is getting a divorce, 72 days after a wedding that is variously reported to have cost $10 million or more. Just to put that in perspective, that sum could have built 200 schools in poor countries around the world for kids who desperately want an education. Then Kardashian could have helped transform the world, not just entertain it. And the schools would have lasted incomparably longer than her marriage.

Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

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.