Field of Interrupted Dreams

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.

Hyder Akbar was a teenager living with his family in the Bay Area when president Hamid Karzai asked Hyder's dad to return to Afghanistan and become an official in the new government.

Sandy and Lonnie’s daughter, Jessi, died back in 2012, when a gunman opened fire in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.

Lenny Pozner’s son, Noah, was killed at Sandy Hook.

When someone stole Jessamyn Lovell’s ID, she became obsessed with the thief. Miki Meek tells what happened.