#5SmartReads - October 8, 2020

On Armenia & Azerbaijan, Asian sustainability, and Section 230

California Just Passed Common-Sense Criminal Justice Reforms. Really. (The Dispatch)

In ‘everything is related and no single issue exists in a silo’, this article aptly breaks down the social and economic benefits of California’s new criminal justice reforms, focused on probation reform and juvenile justice reform.

Better yet, this package contained bills sponsored by both Democrats and Republicans.

This is why local elections matter SO MUCH. Strong state polices are often the framework for federal policy, and local and state governments are much more likely to work across the aisle.