News can seem to be a nonstop narrative of tragedies and victims: an unceasing flow of children, women, and men routed by war, fleeing drought, epidemics, terrorists, repression.
It is refreshing to hear that two American women representing opposing political parties may agree on an approach to education that views children in a new way.
Political pundits jumped all over Melania Trump for parts of her GOP convention speech that sounded very similar to one by Michelle Obama at the 2008 Democratic convention.
In a trip to Europe earlier this year, President Obama relied on a little-used art of diplomacy to help the Continent resolve its divisions and woes, which include a refugee crisis.