For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

Written by Shift Editor Ben Lear, published online February 2012. This was the call out for articles for a short series on Precarity. "We must accept the idea that financial capitalism can recover and ...

A woman takes a bag of groceries during a free food distribution for recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) organized by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office and The Jewish ...

Sometimes when I get real frustrated, a few Spanish curse words enter my vocabulary. My mom would probably be both amused and disappointed. “Jesus Christ, there ain’t nowhere in here for anything to ...

Teresa Puente begins cutting celery with a machete before 4 a.m. It’s the coolest time of day to harvest the green stalks from the chocolate-brown soil of the Rio Grande Valley. Puente is among ...

As rivers go, the Santa Cruz is a border-jumping nomad. Starting in Southern Arizona’s lush San Rafael Valley, it forges a 35-mile loop through Mexico before flowing back across the line near Nogales.