Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight

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

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month

So Kim Kardashian is getting a divorce, 72 days after a wedding that is variously reported to have cost $10 million or more. Just to put that in perspective, that sum could have built 200 schools in poor countries around the world for kids who desperately want an education. Then Kardashian could have helped transform the world, not just entertain it. And the schools would have lasted incomparably longer than her marriage.

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.