Dubai made me confront contradictions I’d never reckoned with.
In San Diego, homelessness isn’t just a problem—it’s a daily onslaught: tents under bridges, makeshift encampments lining freeway overpasses, and garbage strewn across sidewalks. People sleep in their cars, at bus stops, on benches. A man shouts obscenities in the street, another strips naked and stumbles into an intersection.
