* Tonight's State of the Union, expected to address income inequality, is a final chance to set the agenda before the next campaign. * See also: Transcripts and, where possible, video of every State of the Union address. * Even when black Americans make it to the middle class, their children
An American in Dijon, France, brings his country’s grasp of recent terrorism to a nation enthralled by theory, traumatized by attack.
The Supreme Court will soon deliver a definitive ruling on same-sex marriage, a subject that has roiled the United States since the colonial era—or not. A brief illustrated history.
* When the measure to create MLK Day passed in 1983, 112 members of Congress opposed it; six are still office. * Like the tactics of MLK, the Black Lives Matter movement embraces direct action and discomfort—not just nonviolence. * A father brings his daughter to a civil rights protest and wonders
* Police raids in five towns around Paris net 12 suspects in connection with last week's terror attacks. * An anthropologist explains the Paris attacks. * In Belgium, terrorists killed in firefight with police; they were suspected of planning attacks on Jewish schools in Antwerp and Brussels. * France is seeing a
* Charges filed against Iguala mayor in the October kidnapping and disappearance of 43 students. * Reelected after pleading guilty to sex with a minor, Virginia State senator spends half his day in office and half in jail. * Defending pot legalization, 2Chainz lays out a conservative philosophy. * See also: Transcription errors lead
Idea for a television show: a teenager has the power to turn fantasy into reality—but she doesn’t know it. It's “Amelia Bedelia” meets “Quantum Leap.”
* What to expect in the new Charlie Hebdo: crude sexual cartoons, and one lampooning Je Suis Charlie T-shirts. * Reckoning with Charlie Hebdo requires confronting France's racist, unexorcised past. * In the wake of last week's terrorist attacks, David Cameron vows to crack down on "safe
* Central Command hackers claimed to be ISIS, but were mere pranksters, Pentagon says. * Just because Centcom's Twitter account has been hacked doesn't automatically mean that Centcom itself has been hacked. * Excellent Human Rights Watch report on the crisis in the Central African Republic, where the UN
You can learn how to read a poem, but you can’t choose how it will affect you. Here, a little cough launches a journey through a reader’s mind.
