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

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

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

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.

If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.