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Why the Electrical Grid Is a Civil Rights Issue
Stand by a substation at solar noon and you can hear the republic breathing: a dry chorus of fans, a smell of ozone, cables as thick as a forearm doing the humble arithmetic that keeps everything else lyrical—elections, novels, marriages. If the hum wobbles, the country stutters.
The Lines That Remember the Sun: A North American grid for a Spanish-American republic
Most borders are written in ink, but the U.S.–Mexico line is increasingly drawn in wire. It is a thin set of bridges—high-voltage interties, converter halls, relay cabinets—that allow two different electrical civilizations to borrow from each other when heat climbs, when hurricanes prowl, when a.
Power Lines as Colonial Control
Puerto Rico's democracy, bankruptcy, and the grid that could teach the mainland how to heal. If you want to see the United States without makeup, fly to San Juan and wait for the lights to flicker. In that twitch you can read the whole civics lesson: a people who are citizens without a presidential.