More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

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

One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot

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

One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products. Meanwhile, you have issues like clean water, literacy for girls, female empowerment. People flinch at the idea of marketing these because marketing sounds like something only companies do.

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