The Greatest Threat To Extremism Isn't Drones

Half A Million Women Die Each Year Around The World In Pregnancy. It's Not Biology That Kills Them So Much As Neglect.

You Could Perhaps Better Tell The Story Of A Place By Writing Of A Tiny Village As A Sort Of Prism Into The Bigger Issues The Culture Was Facing. It Struck Me As A Better Way To Learn About A Place, Or At Least A Different Way, Than Just Going To Interview The President. So I Have Often Tried To Tell The Story Of A Place Through People There. But I'm Just Amazed.

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.

The U.n. Population Fund Has A Maternal Health Program In Some Cameroon Hospitals, But It Doesn't Operate In This Region. It's Difficult To Expand, Because President Bush Has Cut Funding

Look, We'll Have To Confront The Pathologies Of Poverty At Some Point. We Can Deal With Them Cheaply At The Front End, In Infancy. Or We Can Wait And Jail A Troubled Adolescent At The Tail End. To Some Extent, We Face A Choice Between Investing In Preschools Or In Prisons.