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A World that Works for Everyone
BYA Mendoza professor is a leader in a global movement to save the planet and ourselves by sharing what we all have in common.
Read full articleGotta Have It Now, Right Now
BYWe used to work hard to earn the American dream. Today our desires aren’t so patient. We’re driven by an appetite for instant gratification.
Read full articleMy Fair Share
BYThere’s a great and growing divide in America between the rich and the poor, and it’s threatening our economic health and tearing the national fabric.
Read full articleAbout the Commons
BYThe commons is actually a simple notion, but advocates say it has huge ramifications for how we lead our lives, maintain our communities and organize our society in the years to come.
Read full articleImages of Us
BYNotre Dame hosts the American debut of an international exhibit whose lens focuses on pockets of poverty, violence and oppression around the world — and reminds us that we’re affected too.
Read full articleThe Damage Done
BYIt may have seemed that time heals the brain after severe blows to the head, but the evidence shows a cumulative effect may cause long-term suffering.
Read full articleThe sacred and secular at Ground Zero
BYIn the 10 years since 9/11, the section of Lower Manhattan known as Ground Zero has resonated in the minds and hearts of Americans more than any other place in the nation, not because of what it is — a 16-acre hole in the ground that you can walk around in about 20 minutes — but rather because of what it represents.
Read full articleDealing with the Dead
BYThe deceased were not the only victims of the mortuary tent in Logar Province, Afghanistan. Even the living are still haunted by the place.
Read full articleLetter from Campus: Go Irish
BYI don’t know exactly when it happened, but somewhere along the way — as with almost all Domers — “Go Irish” became my standard closing.
Read full articleCollateral damage
BYSome wounds are obvious. Others are hidden to the eye. But invisible scars — the ones lurking in the human psyche — can be just as crippling, similarly painful, and possibly much tougher to repair.
Read full articleBelieving: Inflammatory forgiveness
BYIn addition to its being the 10th anniversary of that terrible day, this September 11th is, according to the Catholic liturgical calendar, the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time. The Mass readings for the day are from the Book of Sirach (“Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight. . . . If one who is but flesh cherishes wrath, who will forgive his sins?”).
Read full articleHaiti's future bumper crop: houses?
BYGingerbread it’s not, but the answer to the permanent housing crisis in Port-au-Prince and Léogâne may lie in sugarcane. Or sorghum. Or a blend of Haitian crop fibers.
Read full articleSome good news for a change
BYWhen he talks about the need for a master plan for Léogâne, William DeJong quotes Proverbs: Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Read full articleHope's plan
BYIn their 18-year fight against the pain, disfigurement and injustice caused by lymphatic filariasis, Father Tom Streit, CSC, and his bi-national team in the Notre Dame Haiti Program have grounded their scientific research and medical work in a consistent message: We are here for you. We are one with you. We will not stop until this scourge is gone. We will not lose hope.
Read full articleThe Mortgage that Ate My Life
BYGreat new job, beautiful new home, happy horizons in one of America’s most scenic landscapes. Then a crash, and a quandary. An American morality tale.
Read full articleThe Common Good: Averting the next ‘too big to fail’ bank crisis
BYIn a recent New York Times Op-Ed article, Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, wrote that despite financial reform legislation, the biggest banks still control our economy and pose a serious threat.
Read full articleNDAve: Kids must come first
BYThis month, Notre Dame began a year-long conversation about equal opportunity in K-12 education, and the four high-profile panelists who conversed from red leather chairs on the Leighton stage said just about everything this parent wanted to hear.
Read full articleNDAve: On Cities and the Common Good
BYSeventy years of misguided public policy and regulations have shattered America’s traditional city forms, impairing their ability to serve the common good, former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist charged in an April lecture at Notre Dame.
Read full articlePeace in South Sudan: A Catholic Agenda
BYReligious institutions, especially the Anglican and Catholic churches, have played a leading role in peacebuilding in Sudan for decades. Their role in the process leading to South Sudan’s independence is the most recent example.
Read full articleThe Global Good
BYWhether globalization contributes to the common good is a question that has been answered: Yes, some of the time. The more pertinent question is how globalization, through business, can serve society.
Read full articleLive from South Bend . . . er, Cairo
BYNotre Dame Professor Emad Shahin had spoken with journalists before, but never like this. No ND expert within memory has become the overnight go-to for the international media quite the way Shahin was this winter.
Read full articleLessons from the Japanese nuclear disaster
BYRecent events in Japan highlight the dangers of storing used nuclear fuel at reactor sites for lengthy time frames, and may increase the sense of urgency for a final solution in the United States.
Read full articleNetworthy ND 11
BYThis edition of Networthy ND features several items related to the tragic suicide death February 17 of Notre Dame football great Dave Duerson ’83. Also featured are links to two noteworthy videos produced by Notre Dame alums.
Read full articleIslamophobia, Nuclear Zero and Cold War Rhetoric
BYFour senior U.S. statesmen — George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn — captured world attention in January 2007 with their call for "A World Free of Nuclear Weapons.” Their premise is compelling: nuclear deterrence is no longer required in the post Cold War.
Read full articleLazy I: Signs in the sand
BYI’ll speak for myself: I’ve done a poor job paying attention to North Africa and the Middle East during my lifetime. I suspect this is true of most Americans, but I shouldn’t presume. I know I wasn’t expecting the news from Tunisia last month. Now I can’t look away.
Read full articleFar afield: Game changer
BYReports that Dave Duerson had killed himself didn’t make me think of football at first. They stirred up vague recollections about business and family problems. The game’s potential role didn’t register until the chilling detail that he shot himself in the chest, preserving his brain to be tested for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) — a football side effect.
Read full articleJesters Rule
BYMaybe what we need in these times of pomp and self-importance is the truth-edged merriment that cuts through the malarkey. Send in the wise and witty clowns.
Read full articleGlobal diplomacy in 207 DeBartolo
BYAhmad Kamal introduces Lucie Brigham to the students in Room 207 of DeBartolo Hall as “the woman who got Ted Turner to give the United Nations a billion dollars.”
Read full articleEnd of the Ride?
BYAmericans face an uncertain future with deflated confidence in the institutions that have guided our way.
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