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

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

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.

Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we need a balanced tool chest of diplomatic and military tools alike. Instead, we have a billionaire military and a pauper diplomacy. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in its foreign service - and that's preposterous.

I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.

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

I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history.