Dream of the Hamptons?

The Hamptons are a group of villages which are at the end of Long Island in New York state. The coast at the end has a fork's shape ; you have the South Fork, the most well known, and the North Fork. In the south fork, you have the most expensive houses in the US ; it's an hour and a half drive from Manhattan, NYC ; celebrities in this small "world" are everywhere. You have the Hamptons style or you don't have it...
It looks like a lot where the Great Gatsby takes place, the Fitzgerald's best seller even if the West and East villages depicted in the novel are nearer from Manhattan (they still are on Long Island).

Barbara Streisand's latest fad

Barbara Streisand, this great singer with a profound voice, lives in a big mansion in California. She has made a dream true : her basement is like a mall's street with a doll's store, an antique store, a dresses store where she can put all her collections and the fancy clothes she wears during concert.
It's a little bit scary, don't you think? It's not one of my dream if I was a millionaire.

Stories about Louisiana in the beginning of the 20th century in paintings

So vivid paintings by Clementine Hunter, an ousider artist revisited now :

Black and White in America don't live in the same world...

African-Americans are more likely to be arrested fro marijuana possession than whites, even though the two groups use the drug at similar rates. In some counties around the country, blacks are 10, 15 or even 30 times as likely to be arrested !
A research paper showed that police officers who are targeting black citizens and black neighborouds are turning a comparatively blind eye to the same conduct occuring at the same rates in many white communities. It brings disastrous consequences for black young people, as convictions can lead to fines, jail time, and loss of federal student financial aid.

Big brother is in Utah

Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor, is he a traitor or an hero? He escaped to Hong Kong after having leaked some classified documents and is acting, he says, as a whistleblower to warn US citizens about activities from the NSA, an agency which is a pqart of the CIA.
In Bluffdale, a little city of Utah State, several miles from Salt Lake City, in the middle of "nowhere",  the Utah Data Center will open this fall. Its goal is to store extremely large amounts of data ; those data could be contents of private mails, cell phone calls, internet searches as well as all sorts of personal data trails (parking receipts, bookstore purchases...). Verizon and Comcast, the providers of telecommunications in the US, signed a, no more secret now, phone program to deliver to the center all sorts of informations about their clients. So, watch out...

Foundations instead of a state to help people in need

What's impressive here, is the power of foundations compare to state's policies. For instance, in education, you have a lot of foundations which will help children with some characteristics.
The Ben Carson Fund rewards young students from low income families who had good scores during their elementary schoolyears to open a saving account, the money will be used during their college years (some 7-8 years after). Ben Carson is an African American who struggled to achieve a medical degree and is now a pediatrician in a renowned hospital in Baltimore.
You have a fund which will help children of deceased veterans.
It's a way to achieve meritocrarcy for those who are particularly hard working.

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Dover Air Force base in Delaware

Dover, capital of Delaware, is known for its Air force base since World War 2. It receives all American soldiers who died in operation and a team organizes their burial and dress them with their uniform and ribbons. They already received 6,700 dead soldiers from Irak and Afghanistan wars.