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

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

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

I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.