Working in both the child welfare system and a homeless shelter, Kelly Kolberg got an up-close look at the difficulties facing children who age out of the foster care system. “I started seeing our ...
You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. This summer, I reread the novel “Aurora,” by Kim Stanley Robinson, a science-fiction writer whom I ...
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