Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

Usually people are very much focused on keeping their kids alive.

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic.

The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

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.