Random violence is incredibly infectious

Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we need a balanced tool chest of diplomatic and military tools alike. Instead, we have a billionaire military and a pauper diplomacy. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in its foreign service - and that's preposterous.

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

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction

It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

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.