Gabe Ramirez

You could be forgiven for mistaking Saturday’s event at the Broadmoor Arena in Colorado Springs for an “American Idol” audition.

In a strip mall on a dusty street, a group of U.S. military veterans gather. Like any group of old soldiers, they joke, swap stories and keep each others’ spirits up. But they aren’t in Texas or California. This isn’t a local VFW. This is Tijuana, Mexico a place most of these men barely knew before being banished here.

Tuesday was going to be a historic day and California Democrats weren’t taking any chances.They didn’t want Hillary Clinton’s moment spoiled. So the early delegates -- Clinton supporters -- surrounded the microphone to crowd out the boisterous supporters of Bernie Sanders.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump wrapped up their conventions on a high note this summer, hoping to launch their fall campaigns with legions of newly energized activists and a fresh opportunity to rebuild their battered images.

After visiting Tracy, a woman in California who is ready to flee her dream house to escape wildfires and other effects of climate catastrophe, John Sutter traveled halfway across the country, to Duluth, Minnesota to try to answer her question: Where can she go? Is anywhere safe? It turns out, Tracy…