'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

When I wake up in the morning, I think about Syria.

My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

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.

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.