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

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.

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

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

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

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health

So Kim Kardashian is getting a divorce, 72 days after a wedding that is variously reported to have cost $10 million or more. Just to put that in perspective, that sum could have built 200 schools in poor countries around the world for kids who desperately want an education. Then Kardashian could have helped transform the world, not just entertain it. And the schools would have lasted incomparably longer than her marriage.