In the vast, scrolling river of social media, where a thousand videos flood our feeds every minute, some clips have the power to stop us cold. One such video recently surged across WhatsApp and Twitter, sparking a wave of terror and outrage. It showed two men, their heads covered with turbans, slumped over and hunched awkwardly on the dusty side of a road, their bodies swaying in a troubling, lethargic stupor. They were unresponsive, their gazes fixed on some invisible point in the distance, appearing utterly disconnected from the reality around them. To the average viewer, this was a stark,…

The summer of 2023 presents a peculiar, exhausting paradox. We wake up each morning to a barrage of headlines that feel less like news and more like a forecast of impending storm—a storm of calculated lies, brazen corruption, and the kind of political violence that once belonged to distant history books, not our nightly broadcasts. The cost of eggs and gas becomes a national referendum on our collective security, while the right to exist, to love, to choose, and to vote is relentlessly chipped away in statehouses and courtrooms. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, a faction of Senate Republicans has elevated…