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

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

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

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

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

If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.