* Baltimore residents notice strange planes that turn out to be providing surveillance support from FBI to police. * Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau: Great satire doesn't demean disenfranchised minorities, it attacks the powerful. * Iranian-Americans confounded by census race questions that code them as white despite generations of exclusion.
Class isn’t supposed to exist in America, unless it’s overcome. But the art of being upwardly mobile doesn’t always come easy.
* Vengeful Jalisco cartel shoots down a Mexican military helicopter, accedes to power vacuum created by feds targeting top cartels. * "The swiftness with which the movement now acts has turned every police killing into a national referendum on the value of black lives." * Some US police departments look to
Inspired by memories of his own childhood in the UK—part joy, part Lord of the Flies—a photographer studies playgrounds around the world.
* Last night at an anti-Muslim event near Dallas, two gunmen were killed after shooting a security guard. * Elite patronage drives art-world delusion: "That by looking at political art we are somehow engaged in a deeply political act." * Texas's new governor capitulates to conspiracy theorists,
* Second man in police van with Freddie Gray disputes allegations that he was trying to injure himself. * Bipartisan bills in the House and Senate would reform the Patriot Act, prohibiting bulk collection. * Gap in life expectancy between the rich and the poor is widening, and social services aren't
* American Psychological Association accused of secretly partnering with the Bush White House to help justify torture post-9/11. * Hillary Clinton gives first big policy speech—on police and prison reform. * Multiple eyewitnesses claim Baltimore's Monday riots began when cops wouldn't allow after-school crowd of
Sometimes a bowl of noodles is big enough to absorb conversation, literature, and the love lives of those nearby.
* History weighs heavily on justices in the Supreme Court's first day of oral arguments on same-sex marriage. * Pilot Viruet, "Black Exhaustion." * While the city protested, Baltimore County celebrated its annual Hunt Cup with underage drinking, pastels, and no second thoughts. * Police unions may be the
A young girl in South Dakota—the last school-age child remaining in her community—epitomizes the challenges of rural American Judaism.
