Mitchell Morgan Johnson Mitchell Morgan Johnson is a writer and radio producer living in Minneapolis.

The End of the Road | Nomadland, My Mother, and the Frontier's Broken Promise

Mitchell Morgan Johnson

For the first few months of the Great Recession, I was glued to cable. When I got home from school, I would turn on the news, usually CNN, to check in on the financial collapse. The same people were on TV all the time: sobbing families and defensive bankers, Hank Paulson and Octomom. Reporters toured abandoned Las Vegas cul-de-sacs in search of the average American. Jon Stewart seemed always on...