One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products. Meanwhile, you have issues like clean water, literacy for girls, female empowerment. People flinch at the idea of marketing these because marketing sounds like something only companies do.

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

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

One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products. Meanwhile, you have issues like clean water, literacy for girls, female empowerment. People flinch at the idea of marketing these because marketing sounds like something only companies do.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

Random violence is incredibly infectious