In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries.

In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!

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.

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.

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