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.

There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.

Our national leaders tend to try to protect the national interest as they see it. They may screw up in that, but they at least see that as their role. In contrast, where issues of our national values are involved, which covers pretty much any humanitarian issue, they pretty much drop the ball.

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.

Isn't it time to talk not only about weather, but also about climate?

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

There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.