Early in the morning on February 28, Ed Martin awoke in his home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, rolled over in bed to check his phone, and let out a slow sigh. The United States and Israel had attacked Iran. With a sense of resignation, the 78-year-old went to the computer in his bedroom office to lear
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The year after my church dissolved, I listened to SZA’s “Good Days” on repeat. Lyrically, the song is about SZA cutting her losses after a relationship that has amounted to nothing: She wants to deliberately forget the past, “get right,” and keep it “always sunny inside.” But her declarations of res
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On Saturday, February 28, just a few hours after the start of the US–Israel war against Iran and before the internet went dark, my sister called from Yazd in central Iran. Her voice was calm.“Don’t worry,” she said. “We have supplies. We’ll stay home. We’ll lock the doors.”Then the line went silent.