Three Muslim students killed in North Carolina. Jewish hostages killed at a kosher market in Paris. The Charlie Hebdo massacres. The NAACP firebombed in Colorado. And it’s just February. How will it end, how it will end? … this bleak year, year of blind rats, this bleak year of rage and rancor, you ask, you ask me, how will it end? —Pablo  Neruda, Chronicle of 1948 (America)