No question that the spotlight on Darfur has, for all intents and purposes, disappeared. And that's deeply problematic, because it hasn't disappeared because Darfur has been solved.

Strikingly consistent across all of the battles in Sudan's history has been a fundamental conflict over what are and what are not seen as legitimate aspects of Sudanese identity.

You have to simplify - there is no other way to reach a mass audience. And you have to feed them evidence of their own success to keep them motivated.

o this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of.

By all means, tell the cops about the crazy robot lady with the black leather body suit and the Kill Bill sword. Hope you like straitjackets.

Sleep: the breakfast of champions

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue.

I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

Now the Democrats control the Senate. But the good news is that now the Republicans can admit that Strom Thurmond has been dead since 1988.

It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.

If Quentin Tarantino is your writer-director then you're going to learn the words and your gonna learn why they're the words. You're gonna learn why they're the best words to say.

The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.

Don’t do to others what you would not like to be done to you, if you were in their place.