Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.

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

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.

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

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

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

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.