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

We have an interest in combating tactics in war that are abhorrent and that only fuel terrorism because they incite people on the ground.

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.

'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.

We need to find means for cooperation.

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

We, as Americans, have an interest in ensuring that the only people who get to vote for our elected leaders are our citizens, and not some foreign people who think that they have an interest in skewing our election in one direction or another.