Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female

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

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

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

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.