The News Media's Silence, Particularly Television News,

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 More Trying To Build A Social Movement That Holds Their Feet To The Fire.

The Equivalent Of Five Jumbo Jets' Worth Of Women Die In Labor Each Day, But The Issue Is Almost Never Covered.

If President Bush Is Serious About Genocide, An Immediate Priority Is To Stop The Cancer Of Darfur From Spreading Further, Which Means Working With France To Shore Up Chad And The Central African Republic.

China Was Probably The Worst Place In The World To Grow Up Female 100 Years Ago. There Was Foot Binding, Female Infanticide, Concubinage, And Child Marriage, And Now It's One Of The Better Places. So I Really Do Feel That We're On The Right Side Of History Here.

Our Nearly Century-long Experiment In Banning Marijuana Has Failed As Abysmally As Prohibition Did... In Contrast, Legalizing And Taxing Marijuana Would Bring In Substantial Sums That Could Be Used To Pay For Schools, Libraries Or Early Childhood Education.