Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Letter From a Small Island in A Scary World

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The world has been a fearsome place this summer. There’s no escaping the haunting horrors from Syria and Iraq, Israel and Gaza, Fer...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Shaming Our Nation into Caring About Hunger

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Last night NBC Nightly News used a newly released Feeding America report on hunger in America in 2014 as a jumping off point to report o...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

On the 50th anniversary of LBJ's "war on poverty" bill

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This week makes the 50 th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson signing the legislation that enacted his “war on poverty” into law.  ...
Friday, June 6, 2014

From last night's wreath laying ceremony at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on 70th anniversary of D-Day

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            Today is the 70 th anniversary of D-Day, one of those rare world-changing events that actually live up to such a phrase....
Sunday, April 27, 2014

A Pulitzer Prize for Giving Voice to the Voiceless

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 I sent a note of congratulations last week to Eli Saslow of the Washington Post after he won a Pulitzer Prize for “Explanatory Reporting”...
Monday, April 7, 2014

“The key to the future is finding the positive stories and getting people to tell them to each other.”

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Last week I was in New York to speak at a social entrepreneurship forum that took its name, Go Big or Go Home, from one of the articles ...
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Goose Rocks Beach at First Light on New Year's Day

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  There’s nothing like watching dawn break over Goose Rocks Beach in Maine.  The first sign of light on the horizon is as thin as the...