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

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female

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

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.

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health

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