Every two weeks, we lose more Americans from drugs, alcohol and suicide than we lost in 18 years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. And I don’t think that we as journalists have adequately highlighted the suffering out there in communities across the country.

Pulitzer Prize winning author and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is in Missoula to deliver a Mansfield Lecture at UM. Kristof has reported from trouble spots all over the world, but his latest book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, co-written with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, looks at the challenges facing America’s working class. Kristof joins Sally Mauk to talk about the book