The trauma inside all of us

The terrible things that keep happening have a place inside us — but they don't have to control us.

This time last year I was neck-deep in investigating election deniers. I was also drinking heavily. That’s always been the case but my drinking had accelerated by this time last year. Then Uvalde happened. Noah Schactman, editor-in-chief of Rolling Stone, asked me if I would go to Texas to do what I’ve been doing for a long time now. I was still one of …