Prologue

One good place to see how this ad hoc response is working is at an abandoned baseball stadium in Athens.

Most big grand transformations we go through really come down to a hundred little things that we change about ourselves.

For decades, the writer Alex Kotlowitz has been writing about the inner cities and the toll of violence on young people.

Alex Blumberg talks to Shane Dubow about a time decades ago, when Shane went sea kayaking and camping with his friends on the beach in Baja California, Mexico.

Alex Blumberg investigates a little-studied phenomenon: Children who get a mistaken idea in their heads about how something works or what something means, and then don't figure out until well into adulthood that they were wrong.

Alex Blumberg takes us to an American classroom where students are reading a classic, The Education of Little Tree, by Forrest Carter.