A reader also believes Democrats are exploiting the Capitol Building riot for political purposes.
Our nation is in crisis. We are faced with some of the most difficult societal challenges in generations.
As we saw two weeks ago in D.C. and as we have seen here in Oregon, we are in a time of increased political violence. A faction of this country is using violence and intimidation to try and overturn a valid election and harm their opponents. These are the same tactics that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and thousands of others marched against, and that ultimately cost him his life.
dream. nicholas christoff who is also a new york times columnist joins me now. you and cheryl started this journey in your hometown of yamhill, oregon. and you started by focusing what happened to people you went to school with. that s right. cheryl and i were traveling around the world covering genocide, refugees, war. and meanwhile periodically coming home, and i was finding a humanitarian crisis on the kids who were on my old school bus. so for our book called tightrope and for this documentary now also called tightrope so one of the things we did was we followed the kids on my old school bus, a quarter of whom have now passed away mostly from drugs, alcohol, suicide, reckless accidents. and it s a microcosm of so much that has gone wrong in so many places around the country. what we think, you know, should be the foremost challenge and