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.

Kim Jong-Il loved movies, but hated all the movies made in North Korea. So he kidnapped a famous South Korean director and his ex-wife—a South Korean film star—locked them up in a villa in North Korea, and forced them to make movies for him. Nancy Updike tells the story.

Producer Nancy Updike talks to her friend Mary Conway about the strangest-looking trophy she got in her years playing basketball.

We start with someone getting up the nerve to do something that really, it would be nice to see more often — an apology.