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

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

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

Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles; if it was a woman, she was likely raped; if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.

So Kim Kardashian is getting a divorce, 72 days after a wedding that is variously reported to have cost $10 million or more. Just to put that in perspective, that sum could have built 200 schools in poor countries around the world for kids who desperately want an education. Then Kardashian could have helped transform the world, not just entertain it. And the schools would have lasted incomparably longer than her marriage.

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.