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

Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.

If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries.

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.

Random violence is incredibly infectious

In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.