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This California wine country town is multicultural. So why do so many feel invisible?

PASO ROBLES, Calif. — Paso Robles is idyllic: Victorians line its streets; wine tasting rooms ring a grassy plaza; country roads wind through oak groves; and grapevines stream like braids over steep hillsides. Children walk to school on their own, and on warm evenings, couples stroll past sidewalk patios where…

Los Angeles Times · Mar 25, 2022

Jan. 6: Does America even want to know?

The House probe wants to create a "narrative thriller" in hopes Americans will care about an attack on democracy

Salon · Mar 25, 2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson Defended People Suspected of Terrorism. Good.

There's a particular richness to Republican senators weaponizing the right to defense counsel as an affront to the Constitution as opposed to something that's pivotal to it.

Reason · Mar 24, 2022

Met Gala 2022: what and when is it, who is going and what is this year’s theme?

The first Monday in May sartorial extravaganza is back for good, and this year’s theme is anything but an American classic

Evening Standard · Mar 24, 2022

Commentary: How Toni Morrison’s use of the prefix ‘re-’ captures our complicated racial history

On March 10, as part of a wave of similar moves by states across the country, the Florida legislature passed what supporters are calling the “Stop WOKE Act,” a bill limiting what workplaces and schools can teach about race and identity, with special emphasis on discussions that could cause others…

Chicago Tribune · Mar 24, 2022

‘A trailblazer’: political leaders pay tribute to Madeleine Albright

Obama, Bush, Blair and others hail first female secretary of state: ‘She lived out the American dream’

The Guardian - US · Mar 23, 2022

Madeleine Albright, 1st female US secretary of state, dies

President Bill Clinton chose Albright as America’s top diplomat in 1996, and she served in that capacity for the last four years of the Clinton administration.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 23, 2022

Why China Hasn't Condemned Russia: American-Led Sanctions Against Russia For Its Invasion Of Ukraine Are Fueling A Global Realignment.

"The friendship of the peoples of China and the Soviet Union is everlasting." 1967 Sino-Soviet propaganda poster (via Soviet Visuals). 

Benzinga · Mar 23, 2022

Man told Amess suspect: This isn’t America – you’re not getting shot by police

Vivid testimony from witness Darren King was played to jurors at the Old Bailey.

The Independent UK · Mar 23, 2022

Madeleine Albright, first female US secretary of state, dies at 84 – as it happened

Albright served as the senior US diplomat in the administration of Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001 – follow the latest

The Guardian - US · Mar 23, 2022