My family went to Venice, Italy, this summer. We stood in the world’s first ghetto, where guards locked in Jews each night. There was a man sitting at a table with pamphlets in support of…

I was 13 years old on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. We lived less than two miles from ground zero, but by some miracle, I survived.…

President Donald Trump recently acknowledged what American farmers have known for decades: immigrant labor is indispensable to our agricultural economy. From tending crops to processing poultry and dairy, immigrants make it possible for American families…

I knew what exile felt like, but nothing had prepared me to experience it again in my 70s. I was 26 the first time I was forced to flee a dictator. It was in 1975,…

Imagine a group of 5-year-olds playing a board game. The rules are clear, the goal is fair, and one child edges ahead — until, suddenly, another child starts losing. That’s when the trouble begins. “He…

You know that oat milk doesn’t come from a cow, right? Right? Of course you do.  In fact, I feel pretty sure that all but a few misguided souls know that oat milk — or…

As President Donald Trump’s deputy assistant secretary for early childhood development and director of the Office of Head Start during his first term, I have seen firsthand the positive impact of his leadership.  His dedication…

When I was a college freshman studying broadcast journalism in 1978, I watched a show on PBS that made me contemplate something that I’d never thought about before: What would I do if one day,…

Forty years ago, the world’s conscience was shocked into action by images of emaciated children and starving babies dying in their mothers’ arms. There was a surge in international aid, airdrops of food and activism…

Life provides us plenty of opportunities to mess up and get things wrong. Our capacity to offend, make mistakes that hurt others, and commit painful errors is a daily reality of the human condition. Fractured…