Rebuilding in Puerto Rico

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Lessons from an Isolated Grid

Fortnightly Magazine - November 2026
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In 2015, I took my son to Puerto Rico for one of our first real trips together. He was two and a half, completely obsessed with the waves at Isla Verde, and mostly along for the ride while we drove up to El Yunque, wandered San Juan past El Capitolio, and looked up at the massive telescope at Arecibo.

I pulled out these photos while putting this issue together, and it’s a little surreal. For starters, my toddler is now a teenager. But looking at the pictures also brings home just how much the island has lived through over the last eleven years.

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