WASHINGTON – This day, Nov. 7, 2020, will take a seat at the table as one of the...
Nov 12, 2020An elegy for the American election
BOSTON -- Like great American poetry, this election speaks directly to who we are, and we need to...
Nov 06, 2020Sectarian violence in America is not fiction anymore
It can happen here. With so much fear and loathing in America and militias armed with assault rifles...
Nov 02, 2020Safer in Rwanda: Other Countries Are Taking COVID-19 Seriously, and It Shows
As an American documentary filmmaker on location in Rwanda, I saw what it takes to successfully flatten the...
Oct 29, 2020A lens on war frames an understanding of peace
Updated on Oct. 14, 2020 Photographer Gary Knight has documented war, but now he’s trying to understand peace. ...
Oct 09, 2020Back to school – and inspiring the next generation of journalists
When Megan Botel was in Mr. Tyrell-Smith’s fifth grade class, she wrote a poem on a brown paper...
Sep 30, 2020How to recognize fascism
As the saying goes, history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. As the world commemorates the 75th...
Sep 04, 2020‘Welcome to history’: MLK’s legacy lives on in a march for Black lives
WASHINGTON – Sometimes your heart knows the answer to a question before your brain does. On the eve...
Aug 31, 2020Remembering Pete Hamill, a voice for New York and the world
It’s been said the legendary newspaperman, essayist and author Pete Hamill, who died Wednesday at the age of...
Aug 07, 2020100&Change: An honor, an acknowledgement, a challenge for Report for America
The idea of “ground truth” means even more in an age of uncertainty, as a pandemic rages and...
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