Alana Semuels / The Atlantic “When you live in Juarez, you know your status. You just say, ‘Okay, I’m going to wait two or three hours in line,’” —Valeria Padilla, a college student (pictured above) who crosses the U.S.-Mexico border every day to get to school. “A political nerd’s dream honeymoon,” —how Justin Chappell describes his reporting trip on the Iowa campaign trail with his husband Ben Spangenberg.