A plane crash -- Overthrowing the patriarchy, in 8th grade -- A family of spies -- A glimpse of journalism -- A wimpy kid -- High school rabble-rouser -- Faking it at Harvard -- From Oxford to the Khyber Pass -- "I will shoot you." -- Making mistakes in Arabic -- Abe Rosenthal makes an offer -- Cub reporter -- Finding Sheryl...and a job abroad -- My soulmate -- How little we knew -- Witness to a massacre -- We become "hoodlums" -- The prize -- An escaped felon -- Frequenting a brothel -- Journey into a war -- "We have to kill them" -- "Do they play baseball in America?" -- I become an editor -- I begin my column -- The Iraq War -- Covering genocide -- Where's the line? -- What I learned from genocide -- The Arab Spring -- Covering genocide and poverty left me an optimist -- A day in the life of a columnist -- When reporting haunts you -- Women hold up half the sky -- Covering Donald Trump -- Politics? "Don't do it." -- My hat in the ring -- Navigating a campaign -- "To fill a person's heart."