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Just as police brutality sparked the Watts riots, masked abductions by ICE agents and militarized raids sparked the recent ones in LA. That doesn’t excuse violence, but it’s not an unexpected end ...

How they do so is important. This is the first time since 1965—that supposedly tranquil year—that a president called out the National Guard without approval of the governor.

They’d politely answer their questions. The main parallel between 1965 and 2025 is that they are tumultuous years. Sixty years ago the nation largely moved in a positive direction to address the ...