I was interning in the CBS sports affiliate in Atlanta with Robin Roberts.... I was taking notes on a Braves-Padres game, and on the live feed came footage of these kids protesting and getting crushed during the Tiananmen Square uprising in China in 1989. In that moment I became like a lot of young people in this country today, horrified and inspired but confused as to what I might do.

India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.

I think about Syria when I go to bed at night.

We need to find means for cooperation.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.