One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot

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

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.

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

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.

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