There is a convergence of crises that makes it challenging to keep the world's attention.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.

Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

When I wake up in the middle of the night when I hear one of my kids coughing or crying, I think about Syria.