I Think It's Dangerous To Be Optimistic.

Americans Have Called On Moderates In Muslim Countries To Speak Out Against Extremists, To Stand Up For The Tolerance They Say They Believe In. We Should All Have The Guts Do The Same At Home.

More Americans Die In Gun Homicides And Suicides In Six Months Than Have Died In The Last 25 Years In Every Terrorist Attack And The Wars In Afghanistan And Iraq Combined.

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 Step That Would Cost Us Nothing And Would Save Hundreds Of Thousands Of Lives. It Would Be To Allow Ddt In Malaria-ravaged Countries.

The News Media's Silence, Particularly Television News, Is Reprehensible. If We Knew As Much About Darfur As We Do About Michael Jackson, We Might Be Able To Stop These Things From Continuing.

Individual Storytelling Is Incredibly Powerful. We As Journalists Know Intuitively What Scientists Of The Brain Are Discovering Through Brain Scans, Which Is That Emotional Stories Tend To Open The Portals, And That Once There's A Connection Made, People Are More Open To Rational Arguments.