Random violence is incredibly infectious

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

You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger issues the culture was facing. It struck me as a better way to learn about a place, or at least a different way, than just going to interview the president. So I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there. But I'm just amazed.

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

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

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.

Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments.