...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

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.

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

The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

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

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.

China was probably the worst place in the world to grow up female 100 years ago. There was foot binding, female infanticide, concubinage, and child marriage, and now it's one of the better places. So I really do feel that we're on the right side of history here.