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

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.