The U.S. military’s recruiting commercials often feature scenes of combat, hard rock riffs, and dragon-slaying, but they never seem to show the day-to-day reality that most troops face: being bored as ...

As he created a sword out of cardboard, bamboo and tape, 11-year-old Severin Nilsen considered how it felt to be offline on this summer’s day spent at Adventures in Cardboard in the wilds of North ...