...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public..

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no ma….

So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlockin….

Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, ….

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there..

We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we'r….

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity..

One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products. Meanwhil….

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe t….

The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and mo….

It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none..

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights..

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings..

If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one ….

In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough!.

If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish….

When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the ….

More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are k….

I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history..

Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices ..

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books..