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

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

'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.

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.

We need to find means for cooperation.

I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.