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Monday, July 20Issue 41

Future TenseIn Maricopa County last year, 94% of people who died of heat indoors had an air conditioner in their home. Present, the reports said. The unit was there. It just wasn't running. That gap kept showing up everywhere we looked this week. A family gets a buyout "awarded" and is still paying rent on two places. In Ohio, a flood system that's worked for 110 years can't find funding because nobody remembers what it prevents. We kept landing on the same question: how far is it from the institutional word to the moment someone is actually safe?SUBSCRIBE

Past Articles

July — Issue #41

A Good Day

A multigenerational Memphis family moves through a summer Saturday in the mid-2050s where every quiet adaptation holds and nothing breaks.

The Underline Series — Weekly Chapter

Ghost-Feet

A basin compact's seasonal allocation meets every volume threshold while the river runs too warm for the fish to survive — and the data that could prove it will expose the last cold-water refuge that endured by staying off the map.