The News Media's Silence, Particularly

The Bulk Of The Emails Tend To Come After A Column. I Can Get About 2,000 After A Column.

Neither Western Donor Countries Like The U.s. Nor Poor Recipients Like Cameroon Care Much About Africans Who Are Poor, Rural And Female

There Are Other Issues I Have Felt More Emotionally Connected To, Like China, Where I Lived And Worked For Some Time. I Was Living There When Tiananmen Square Erupted

So Kim Kardashian Is Getting A Divorce, 72 Days After A Wedding That Is Variously Reported To Have Cost $10 Million Or More. Just To Put That In Perspective, That Sum Could Have Built 200 Schools In Poor Countries Around The World For Kids Who Desperately Want An Education. Then Kardashian Could Have Helped Transform The World, Not Just Entertain It. And The Schools Would Have Lasted Incomparably Longer Than Her Marriage.

Laws Matter, But Typically Changing The Law By Itself Accomplishes Little.