When I Wake Up In The Morning,

'acting As If...' I Decided, Ridiculously In Retrospect, That My Experience Covering Women's Volleyball For My College Newspaper Was Sufficient For Me To At Least Try To Become A War Correspondent.

You Could Be In The United Nations Office All Night Every Night And Still Feel Like You Were Not Making A Sufficient Dent In The World's Problems. I Think The Key Is Prioritization. But Every Job Presents The Tyranny Of The Inbox, Of Allowing The Urgent To Crowd Out The Important. So We Have To Have Our Lodestars.

There Is A Convergence Of Crises That Makes It Challenging To Keep The World's Attention.

I Got Into Journalism Not To Be A Journalist But To Try To Change American Foreign Policy. I'm A Corny Person. I Was A Dreamer Predating My Journalistic Life, So I Got Into Journalism As A Means To Try To Change The World.

Over The Years, Western Governments Have Been Criticized For Working With Foreign Police Who Have Proved Abusive Or Corrupt.