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A City in the Dark (opens the original)
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I have been thinking over the past two weeks about what it means to be seen and what it means to be merely looked at. I have been thinking about how a nation can look directly at a city and still, somehow, manage not to see it at all. Gary, Indiana, went dark on August 11th, when a storm tore through Northwest Indiana, and for nearly two weeks after, in the last merciless stretch of an American summer, tens of thousands of people sit in houses that have gone silent. Homes without light, the hum
Letter From the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Year (opens the original)
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On the day this country turned two hundred and fifty years old, a boy went into the water.I want to say his name slowly, because the country will not: Nolan Xavier Wells. Eighteen years old. Ocean Springs, Mississippi. On the afternoon of July 4, 2026, while the nation lit its candles and sang to itself, he boarded a boat with a group of friends and rode out to Horn Island to do what American boys are promised they may do on that day, which is to be young, and free, and unafraid, on the water, i
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