It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.