Arlie stopped just beyond the kitchen door, backpack dangling precariously on a single thin shoulder, and looked around our carport as if she’d never seen it before. I was struggling to haul my own ...

I was scrolling TikTok when I came across a bizarre Rhode Island phenomenon, and thought, what in God’s name am I looking at? It was a video of a six-hour line of people in Newport, a half-mile long ...