In this edition:
• A pair of aces
• Room for growth
• Still a-maze-ing
• Wheel of misfortune
• The road less traveled
“Losing home and rebuilding, reluctantly, in the year after Los Angeles’s Eaton Fire.”
“In Louisa, an unbearable social crisis has become the main source of economic opportunity.”
“I’ll give her the best four months possible.”
“Each of these principals led a school traumatized by a shooting. Now they’re finding a way forward through a unique support group—an unlucky club—where they talk about recovery, courage, and healing.”
“But he did get sober. By the time his book came out almost exactly a year ago, he’d been clean 18 months.”
Forty-three million Americans need substance addiction treatment, but only a tiny fraction receive it. We know why.
This week we have stories by Dan Kois, Matt Gallagher, Marina Benjamin, Caleb Daniloff, and Vauhini Vara.
Working the night shift on an intensive care unit, Suzanne Ohlmann brushes up against death, Jesus, and her biological father.
When a promising student left a neighborhood full of heroin for the University of Pennsylvania, it should have been a moving story. But what does an at-risk student actually need to thrive — or even just to survive?
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