In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

I was interning in the CBS sports affiliate in Atlanta with Robin Roberts.... I was taking notes on a Braves-Padres game, and on the live feed came footage of these kids protesting and getting crushed during the Tiananmen Square uprising in China in 1989. In that moment I became like a lot of young people in this country today, horrified and inspired but confused as to what I might do.

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.