We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.

Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic.