Masha Gessen, journalist and author of The Brothers and The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (Riverhead Books, 2015); Rami Khouri, senior public policy fellow at the Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut and a senior fellow of the Harvard Kennedy School; and Sheryl WuDunn, writer, Pulitzer-prize winning former reporter with the New York Times and co-author with Nicholas Kristof of (now in paperback) A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity (Vintage, 2015), offer analysis of some of the major speeches at the opening session of the U.N. General Assembly.