The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.

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

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

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

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.

You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger issues the culture was facing. It struck me as a better way to learn about a place, or at least a different way, than just going to interview the president. So I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there. But I'm just amazed.

Sandy was particularly destructive because it was prevented from moving back out to sea by a "blocking pattern" associated with the jet stream. There's debate about this, but one recent study suggested that melting sea ice in the Arctic may lead to such blocking.