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.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

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

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

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

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