“How much do I cost? Like, a hundred dollars? How would you buy a ‘me’?”  My six-year-old asked this after a conversation he overheard between my husband and me about medical bills. I told him the truth: “You can’t be quantified in dollars, baby. Apples to stardust....

It was hot. June beat down on the pavement, and had I been better about avoiding dehydration, it likely would have made my eyes water. My phone was even hot, but I dialed my husband’s number and put my little computer to my cheek. He answered quickly, immediately...

We have given people coping skills, but no quest.  Pinocchio does not want to be affirmed as wood. He wants to become real. He can walk, speak, desire, disobey, and lie. He is only transformed after he embarks on a humanizing journey through suffering, sacrifice, and...

Before Mackenzie Shirilla became the subject of Netflix’s number-one documentary The Crash, she was living within a broader cultural script: teenagerhood as a relatively new social category, loaded with adult privileges and stripped of adult duties.  That is the...

Contributor: Jillian Tymo Governor Gavin Newsom’s $189 million project for California prisons includes terms like “digital equity” for the “justice-impacted”, which is just about the fluffiest way to describe death row inmates watching porn while incarcerated....