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The California drought, one of the worst ever, has been ongoing for three years and counting. It presents several complex, important issues, from assessing California’s reliance on snowpack to understanding climate change. But as always, a crisis is also an opportunity.

As business leaders and politicians alike have proclaimed, this may be China’s century. Which is why we at Hippo have invited American journalist Evan Osnos, who witnessed China’s transformation firsthand as The New Yorker’s China Correspondent, to be our next Ask Me Anything guest.

A single inscription, the Radcliffe Line, changed the fates of millions. Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs suddenly became enemies; they fought over land, wealth, respect, community, and national identity. The objects the refugees brought with them speak volumes.

It’s true that the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee—probably the longest civil disorder in U.S. history since the Civil War—brought national attention to the oppression of Indian people. But Wounded Knee 1973 did not end the oppression. A new film by Kevin McKiernan, an NPR journalist who defied an embargo to get inside, could shed new light on what happened during the conflict.

After losing the Senate, the Democrats will need a candidate to make a middle-class economic populist message credible. The problem? Hillary the Inevitable might also be Hillary the Unelectable. The solution? Jim Webb or Elizabeth Warren.

In this exclusive interview, long-time Wall Street Journal editor and author Karen Elliott House speaks with writer Jayne Amelia Larson on how being a woman gained her unparalleled access to the lives of women in Saudi Arabia. She also provides insights on a life in journalism at a time when women were a relative anomaly in the newsroom.

For Saudi royal servants life isn’t as glamorous as that of their employers: writer and actress Jayne Amelia Larson, author of Driving the Saudis, examines the inequalities of working behind gilded bars.