On stifling days last summer, Reyes Miranda baked in his cell, the metal walls so hot to the touch that he worried he’d burn himself. At night, he slept on the cool concrete floor for relief. Miranda ...

Early one morning in 2003, I woke up next to my girlfriend, Ambere, in the Venice Beach apartment that we shared. Sunlight flitted over the Pacific Ocean and into our bedroom. I ate breakfast and ...

We’re taught to think of it as some hardened mental posture—the ability to push through pain, to “toughen up,” to bend and not break. But real resilience doesn’t come from brute strength. It comes ...