Elevating the status of women is our best path to peace, justice, and prosperity on a global scale.

Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.

From China and India to Turkey and Brazil, when women have gotten access to education, to family planning and to a vital place in the economy, greater prosperity has followed. And when women are free to speak and learn, they temper the extremes of ideology and fanaticism and raise sons who are less likely to become human bombs.

Bringing Charles Taylor to justice is the surest way to bring about true reconciliation and peace in Liberia.

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

If we desire swift progress & global peace in life,we've got to school ourselves on how to live together in harmony irrespective of religion,tribal or racial affiliations,if we oppose the abolition of religion.