You could see the tiny bottles through all the downtowns of the Berkshires, lining walks and clogging gutters, collecting in massive piles behind buildings. The problem seemed to have become ...

The first time Courtney Porter noticed Ray Harlequin was in 2007, when they were both 13, as he stared at her across a Sabbath school classroom in Brooklyn. “I didn’t even know who this boy was,” ...