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

When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

As a journalist, I've felt as if it's a privilege that people share their stories and want you to be the messenger.... Even in my current job, when I go abroad, I'm racing to get back to the president and the secretary to share what I've seen.

The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

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

As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.