The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

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.

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.

It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president