MinnPost Picks: soccer, sexism and easy-listening music

“Teenager’s Jailing Brings a Call to Fix Sex Offender Registries,” The New York Times

On the Fourth of July, the New York Times dug into the complicated problem with state sex offender registries, using the case of a casual teenage hookup in Indiana to show how even the smallest indiscretion can put someone in the same boat as serial rapists and pedophiles. —Briana Bierschbach, state politics reporter

“FIFA’s Sexist Shadow Looms Over U.S. Women’s World Cup Victory,” Vanity Fair

I've been a little distracted by the Women's World Cup that was played in Canada over the last month, but certainly enjoyed the result. To help wean myself off the tournament, I found two articles that look at the tournament from different directions. The first is Jeffrey Maurer's delightful minute-by-minute recap of the Sunday final between the U.S. and Japan. The second is Vanity Fair's response to the lingering sexism in women's soccer. —Peter Callaghan, local government reporter

“A Short History of Love,” The Book of Life

I get so much out of Alain de Botton’s truly original and sensible “The School Of Life” and its weekly Book of Life newsletter, especially this one on the History of Love: “The dream of love survives, but it disappoints constantly. At dinner tables around the world, otherwise intelligent people complain that they simply cannot understand the strange and tricky subject of love.” —Jim Walsh, contributing writer

“In Praise of Mood Music,” JazzWax

Love easy-listening mood music? So does Wall Street Journal music/arts writer and author Marc Myers. In his award-winning blog, JazzWax, Myers gives you a little background on how easy-listening happened, then provides plenty of links so you can indulge your guilty pleasure. Click on “go here” in the first paragraph to read what he wrote for the Journal. —Pamela Espeland, Artscape columnist

“Farewell to America,” the Guardian

Gary Younge, going home to England after 12 years as a U.S. correspondent for The Guardian, writes an eloquent farewell column. As a black man with an African-American wife and family, his perspective on race in America is compelling, including its impact even on middle- and upper-middle-class blacks. It's a long piece, but you'll be rewarded if you stick with it. —Joel Kramer, CEO & editor  

“Distraught people, deadly results,” The Washington Post

The Washington Post takes a dive into the 125 cases of acutely mentally ill people who have been shot and killed by police this year in the United States — five of them in the Twin Cities. In most cases, the Post found, law enforcement agencies didn’t give their officers proper training on how to appropriately handle this population, leading to preventable deaths. —Andy Mannix, data reporter

“Everything is Yours, Everything is Not Yours,” Medium 

Clemantine Wamariya’s unexpected, sure-footed story of fleeing genocide in Rwanda at the the age of 6 showed up in my Facebook feed courtesy of fellow Twin Cities journalist Julia Nekessa Opoti. It’s co-authored by the brilliant Elizabeth Weil, and I’m rereading it obsessively — for the subject matter, but also because it offers a kind of narrative genius you want to deconstruct with other writers. —Beth Hawkins, education reporter

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