Many of these schools and mosques are doing good work to help Pakistan's poor. But some of them seem only to exist to teach militant jihad. |
Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in cities. But the girls stay home, become leaders in the community and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls. |
They raised 62,340 pennies. These kids, in all their purity and innocence, were reaching out to kids halfway around the world. |
We spent $94 billion on the war in Iraq last year. But we need to be pragmatic. |
We're trying to plug in democracy. You can't do that. You can't just tell people to vote. You have to put in education, and land ownership. |