If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died, then people tend not to be receptive. But once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

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

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.