A little bit of attention can go a long way.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

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

Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

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

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

It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.