We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off.

When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.

It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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