If you repress rather than unlock the potential of large groups of Americans, what's that going to do to our economy? It's going to contract, not expand.

Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

The most responsive group relative to potential near-term changes is the hotel sector. If the economy is expanding and business spending is picking up, so will business travel.