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

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

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.

Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

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