The Fact That People Will Pay You

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 You Just Try To Make Rational Arguments About Why People Should Care About Congo And How 5 Million People Have Died, Then People Tend Not To Be Receptive. But Once You've Created A Connection Of Empathy, Rational Arguments Can Play A Supportive Role.

American Airstrikes...create Risks, Especially If Our Intelligence There Is Rusty. The Crucial Step, And The One We Should Apply Diplomatic Pressure To Try To Achieve, Is For Maliki To Step Back And Share Power With Sunnis While Accepting Decentralization Of Government. If Maliki Does All That, It May Still Be Possible To Save Iraq. Without That, Airstrikes Would Be A Further Waste In A Land In Which We've Already Squandered Far, Far Too Much.

Abortion Politics Have Distracted All Sides From What Is Really Essential: A Major Aid Campaign To Improve Midwifery, Prenatal Care And Emergency Obstetric Services In Poor Countries.

The Greatest Threat To Extremism Isn't Drones Firing Missiles, But Girls Reading Books.