Jon Queally

With nearly 60,000 tons of unsold clothes arriving globally from Europe, Asia and North America to the port town of Iquique, about 39,000 tons of fast fashion ends up in the landfill in the desert.

The company resisted them. History defied them. Geography worked against them.

We Americans are all beneficiaries of exceptionalism, even those of us who decry its corrosive impact.

"The choice facing the executive branch is clear: Act or default; act or increase the suffering of millions; act or go into economic tailspin."

It connects the proverbial dots of the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant disaster—doing so brilliantly.