Laws Matter, But Typically Changing The Law

You Will Be Judged In Years To Come By How You Responded To Genocide On Your Watch.

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.

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. Meanwhile, You Have Issues Like Clean Water, Literacy For Girls, Female Empowerment. People Flinch At The Idea Of Marketing These Because Marketing Sounds Like Something Only Companies Do.

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're Harder Working, Not That We're More Virtuous - It's That We're Luckier.

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.