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.

Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

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

Our national leaders tend to try to protect the national interest as they see it. They may screw up in that, but they at least see that as their role. In contrast, where issues of our national values are involved, which covers pretty much any humanitarian issue, they pretty much drop the ball.