Tunnel of Gov

“The one-lane tunnel, which carves 2.5 dark, musty, bumpy miles through a glacial mountain, opens for two 15-minute periods every hour, once for each direction; the troopers caught the 10 a.m. window heading east. On the other side, Whittier’s punishing microclimate—more snow than Aspen, Amazon-level rainfall, and almost nonstop wind—greeted them with cold, wet bluster. This small port town was built by the military during World War II, as the U.S. warred with Japan. In the 1950s during the Cold War, the military constructed two gigantic housing structures, one of which is still in use: The 14-story complex, set back a few blocks from the waterfront, houses nearly all of Whittier’s roughly 300 residents. Inside this tower, people shop for groceries, get mail, attend church, exercise, and gather in community.” How did some of America’s more obscure voting rights laws (that people in Whittier, including law enforcement officials, were ignorant of) lead to arrests in this tiny corner of the country? And how did the American Samoans at the center of the dispute end up there in the first place? Bolt Magazine with an interesting story, and one that shows how deeply our political dysfunction has seeped into every corner of society. Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It.