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

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

American airstrikes...create risks, especially if our intelligence there is rusty. The crucial step, and the one we should apply diplomatic pressure to try to achieve, is for Maliki to step back and share power with Sunnis while accepting decentralization of government. If Maliki does all that, it may still be possible to save Iraq. Without that, airstrikes would be a further waste in a land in which we've already squandered far, far too much.

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

There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction