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The parameters of acceptable journalist inquiry has dramatically narrowed over the nearly four decades I have been a reporter and author. Newspapers, where I began my career, have atrophied or died. The electronic media is in the hands of a half dozen corporations that impose a uniformity of opinion and ban the views of us who decry the crimes of empire, the permanent war economy, the apartheid state of Israel, our money saturated political process and social inequality.

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First of all, I’d like to say how surprised I am to be here. I’m a comedy writer, or at least I try to be. I never thought I would be spending the latter part of my life fighting for women’s rights and losing work for it. And yet, here I am. Three years ago, when my little part in this huge battle began, I was naive. I came nowhere near comprehending the firm, coercive power misogyny holds over society.

Hi, friends. Welcome to The Interpreter, a newsletter about language, politics, culture, and what everyone really means when they say what they’re saying. I’m Amanda Katz, a writer and editor in Washington, DC. My grad degree is in the most practical field, experimental poetry, but most of my work has been as an editor of journalism (investigations, ideas, and arts) and of books (nonfiction and fiction). I’m particularly interested in how all kinds of texts, verbal and visual and otherwise, create an effect on people, whether deliberately and consciously or in ways that are more subterranean.

Hi, I’m Gay! I’m also an interior designer, bestselling author (“Get It Together!” available wherever FINER books are sold), and TV host. My most recent TV shows are “Build Me Up” and “Unspouse My House,” on HGTV/Discovery+. I live in Los Angeles with my absolutely stunning American Staffordshire Terrier (Pit Bull) Ms Saturday Olivia Soria. You can also find me on Instagram or check out my website (which is boring but look at it anyway).

I coined the phrase the New American Diaspora to describe the growing phenomenon of those people living in homelessness and those people checking out of the so-called American dream and taking up residence in the margins. A diaspora by definition means the dispersion of people from their homeland. More and more Americans are dispersing from their homeland and its ideals and traditions but remaining on the land, mostly in plain sight but also hidden at the same time.

The New Roman Times was created and is run by me, Laura Itzkowitz. I’m an award-winning American journalist based in Rome. While I write about Italy for many publications, this newsletter is different. It’s a bit more personal (though sometimes I write personal essays for traditional media outlets, and I will link to them when I do). It’s a bit more niche and granular, devoting more space to places and people that might just get a passing mention in my articles.

In this newsletter, I compile and curate exciting things I come across along with some cultural insights —data, information, or knowledge that tells us something about the moment we live in and the spirit of our time. Here, you can find general or niche content that has something that sparks my brain and feeds my curiosity—aka brainsparks— or links I find from the serendipity of my content-filled journey, IRL or online.

The Scroll is Tablet magazine’s daily news report covering events around the world, from health policy in Jerusalem to developments in the cryptocurrency markets, sized to read over a cup of coffee or afternoon commute. And it’s free, you can’t beat that. Alongside the news, we also offer political analysis, arts and culture coverage, short essays, and semi-regular excursions into the kind of fascinating cultural oddities you might once have found in the back pages of your local newspaper or alternative weekly.