Jet Lag is Truth Serum: An American Travelog

It’s weird visiting a place I know in my bones, and that I study from afar, but that has also been undergoing some changes since I left. I’ve been seeing America as a kind of insider-outsider. 

If there’s a singular theme from the trip overall so far, it’s that there are a lot of (mostly young) people who are fighting every fight they can for a better ve…