What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.

When I wake up in the middle of the night when I hear one of my kids coughing or crying, I think about Syria.

We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.

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

Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.