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Keep Calm Good Reads: What it means to be the "other" in America

This week's better long form stories help us make sense of the deeper cultural issues behind Sunday's Sikh Temple shooting, as well as the immigrant experience in America.

Syria: Despite prime minister's defection, Assad’s inner circle intact (+video)

Syria's rebels have a new villain: the United States

Consumer Energy Report Beijing flexes some muscle to protect energy interests

Keep Calm US Navy fires on fishing boat in sensitive Strait of Hormuz

US quietly prepares for naval clash with Iran in Strait of Hormuz

Details emerge on Iran's priorities in nuclear talks

Stocks rise as oil prices, factory orders also climb

Iran nuclear talks: limited progress as both sides send military 'messages'

Turkish troops head to Syrian border

US plans to base regional force in Kuwait. Will Iran get the message?

Military drone aircraft crashes in Maryland; no injuries

US intervention unlikely in Syria

Keep Calm Europe launches airstrikes on Somalia to uproot pirate base

Biden hammers Romney on jobs, foreign policy

Bahrain F1 race: How a Sunni backlash kept an uprising at bay

Blast-off: 6 recent missile advances

Pressure mounts on Bahrain as hunger striker reaches 62nd day (+video)

Keep Calm Good Reads: Is the US actually in decline, or just taking a breather?

Backchannels Why Israel is even less likely to strike Iran now

Robert Reich Gas prices rising: Why GOP won't address real cause

Opinion Six reasons to keep America as No. 1 superpower

In event of an Iran-Israel showdown, what would US military do?

Terrorism & Security Reports: Netanyahu will push Obama hard on Iran

Putin: US seeking 'absolute invulnerability'