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

Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives

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.

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female

One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.

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

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur