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

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted

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.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.

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.

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

The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.