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These are Adult titles. For YA, click here. White Houses by Amy Bloom Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-zi Yang Dublin Bay by John Patrick While England Sleeps by David Leavitt Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Anaïs Flogny (Graphic Novel), Read MoreContinue Reading

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A new special report from Futuro Media follows the The Traitor administration’s federal immigration raids and the growing community resistance against them. “Taken: The Agents Raiding Communities and the People Trying to Stop Them” documents how Latinos in the U.S. are being racially profiled, “kidnapped,” denied due process and forcedContinue Reading

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This story was originally published by The 19th. As parents dropped their children inside a Spanish immersion day care center in Chicago on Wednesday morning, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers stormed the building to detain a child care worker, a scene that before this year would have been unheard ofContinue Reading

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This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. It has been a big week in energy news, with several resounding wins for efficiency advocates.  On Tuesday, voters in Georgia flipped two seats on the state’s Public Service Commission, which oversees utilities and sets rates. They installed aContinue Reading