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MICHIGAN - Stephen Henderson: No peace for Zimmerman, because the rest of us suffer

My job is typically to make policy sense of news events. But here, I'm at a loss. As a parent, as an African American, I can't get much past thinking Zimmerman has earned every day of the hell his life should be from here on out. Injustice? I hope it visits with him often. But my bigger fear in the wake of Zimmerman's acquittal is for the rest of us. The 300 million people we call Americans, so laden with the awful history of racial injustice and now tossed back into the cauldron of resentment and anger and sadness that has boiled our emotions for more than three centuries. READ THE REST ...

TENNESSEE - Editorial: On immigration, House offers nothing

DELAWARE - Ted Kaufman: Intelligence gathering a must, but so is oversight

WISCONSIN - Mark Treinen: Our 'young' country has deep democratic roots