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    'Tightrope' Implores America To Make Changes To Save Itself

    A new book by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn is an agonizing account of how apathy and cruelty have turned America into a nightmare for many less fortunate citizens. But it is not without hope.
    by Michael Schaub Jan 14, 2020 3 minutes
    <em>Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope,</em> by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

    Tightrope, the latest book from New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof and former Times business editor Sheryl WuDunn, starts off with a horror story.

    Dee Knapp, an Oregon woman, is awakened by her drunken husband, who demands that she make him dinner. Angry that she's not moving fast enough for him, her husband punches her, then chases her out of the house with a rifle. She's forced to spend the night in the fields around their house, hoping her husband doesn't

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