By: Marc Andrew Tager A narrative feature on the farmworkers who put food on our tables while skipping meals themselves. We follow a day in the fields, the commute, a crowded kitchen after midnight, and ask what an ethical food system owes to the hands that harvest. For those of you who follow my work on Justice Unshackled , you know I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about prisons. I’ve come to understand that the most confining walls are often invisible—systems of control th

By: Marc Andrew Tager Introduction: The Final Ten Feet The fluorescent lights of the grocery store hum with a flat, indifferent buzz. It’s a sound I know well, the soundtrack to a thousand mundane errands. But for the woman at the self-checkout kiosk, a mother I’ll call Maria, the sound is a ticking clock. Her two young children are restless in the cart, a small boy tugging at a box of cereal while his older sister stares, mesmerized, at the glowing screen where the numbers