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A crowded suburban home-improvement store parking lot on a bright summer morning, full of pickup trucks and shoppers loading cars.
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We Got the Day Off for Juneteenth and Spent It at Lowe’s

Margaret Thorne -
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Aerial view of Tehran at twilight with city lights spreading across the valley and a thin column of smoke on the distant horizon.
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Israel Hit Iran on Friday and Washington Filed It Under Housekeeping

Margaret Thorne -
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A corporate lobby wall with a faintly visible rectangular outline where a Pride banner had previously hung, now replaced by a small neutral painting.
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The Rainbow Logos Came Down This Year, and We Called It Restraint

Margaret Thorne -
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A storefront window plastered with red-white-and-blue Memorial Day sale signs advertising furniture discounts.
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We Marked Memorial Day With a Mattress Sale and a Moment of Silence, in That Order

Margaret Thorne -
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A federal wage garnishment notice and paystub lying on a kitchen table beside reading glasses and an unopened Treasury envelope.
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On Wage Garnishment, and the Dinner Party Where Everyone Suddenly Had a Niece in Default

Margaret Thorne -
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A crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican looking toward the basilica.
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The Vatican Picked an American and We Treated It Like a Cabinet Appointment

Margaret Thorne -
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A cheap polyester American flag partially unwrapped from cellophane, lying on a wooden workbench in a dim garage with afternoon light filtering in.
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I Bought a $4 American Flag at Lowe’s for Memorial Day and the Smell Coming Off It in My Garage Is Personally Insulting to My Grandfather

Brooke Ellery -
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A dense crowd of May Day marchers fills a downtown American street, holding handmade signs about workers' rights.
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A Thousand Cities Marched for Labor on Thursday. Washington Decided It Was a Commute Issue.

Margaret Thorne -
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A farmhouse kitchen table with tax forms, a hemp-paper envelope, a lit beeswax candle, a bowl of salt, and a sourdough starter jar in warm afternoon light.
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My Sister-in-Law Who Does Reception at H&R Block Told Me to Never File Before 4:11 PM on Tax Day and the Reason Is Honestly Beautiful

Brooke Ellery -
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The Constitutional Court of Korea in Seoul, with news cameras and a small crowd gathered outside on the day of the ruling.
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South Korea Removed a President This Morning. We Can’t Even Remove a Library Book.

Margaret Thorne -
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