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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 7 May 2022

This week unscalable barriers were erected around the United States Supreme Court to keep protesters at bay. It's now about as difficult to enter the highest court in America as it is to get a legal abortion in Missouri.

inkl Originals

Nostalgia: It's worse than it used to be

Before the pandemic, nostalgia was a major force in global politics. Donald Trump promised to "make America great again", and Brexiteers won their political battle partly by idealising Britain's imperial past. While Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a "great rejuvenation of the Chinese people", Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo…

Bangkok Post

I’m coming home, dear Mama

Back home to America after being reminded here in Africa that “home” is the beginning of charity.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Liam and Olivia once again dominate top baby names list

Olivia and Liam are once again America’s most common baby names

The Independent UK

Twelve mind-blowing facts about the criminal justice system — and the best ways to fix it

Problems remain well-known and abundant in the justice system, but activists are describing new research and new approaches at day two of the American Workforce and Justice Summit, Josh Marcus writes

The Independent UK

From Amazon to AWJS, is the future of social justice activism post-partisan?

With many activists fed up with the slow pace of change in Washington, they’re turning to business for help ending mass incarceration, Josh Marcus reports from the American Workforce and Justice Summit

The Independent UK

F1 touches down in US for Miami GP despite undercurrent of controversy

F1 and Miami are such a natural fit, it’s a wonder organisers’ designs on American expansion didn’t start there. But not everyone is caught up in the revelry

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'Making abortion illegal poses a danger to women as they will turn to unsafe solutions'

Tanya Gold says that where abortion is forbidden, terrible things happen. In south America, raped pubescent girls die in childbirth. Abortion could become illegal in more than 20 US states

Daily Mirror

Life after Roe v. Wade, what impact will it have on American society?

In this edition, uproar in the United States after a leaked Supreme Court draft ruling shows the country is set to end 50 years of a woman's right to have an abortion. Annette Young also talks to writer Molly Jong-Fast about what life in America would look like without Roe…

France 24

Emily Sheffield: Dark days ahead for American women if Joe Biden doesn’t step up on abortion

How many of you remember the explosive sexual assault allegations levelled against Justice Brett Kavanaugh by psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford, allegations he in turn vehemently denied? At the time America was gripped — as were we. It was 2018, MeToo was raging and Kavanaugh was Donald Trump’s ultra-conservative choice…

Evening Standard

America's love affair with the lawn is getting messy

For generations, the neat, green lawn has been a classic part of American yards

The Independent UK

Writer Ocean Vuong: ‘Beauty is medicinal to me. It’s not useless’

The Vietnamese-American poet on the legacy of war, navigating grief — and turning invisibility into a superpower

Financial Times

Will Bunch: The Supreme Court leak confirmed that this is no longer the America we grew up in

When the news dropped around 9 p.m. on Monday, one woman said she’d stomped around her house, cussing. Another said she cried. Only 20 hours after the unprecedented leak of a looming Supreme Court decision to undo nearly a half-century of abortion rights, they and more than 100 other people,…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Karine Jean-Pierre named as first black White House press secretary

President Joe Biden has vowed to name top officials, cabinet members and judges who reflect the diversity of America

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The Independent UK

US hiring was likely strong again in April despite inflation

For the past year, America’s job market has run like a well-engineered machine, adding an impressive average of 540,000 workers a month despite a punishing inflation rate, Russia’s ruinous war against Ukraine, a still-risky pandemic, jittery financial markets and the prospect of much higher borrowing costs

Salon

What Cinco de Mayo is actually about

The actual meaning of the holiday has been diluted over time through American celebrations

The Independent UK

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand calls on men to imagine they have no authority over their bodies in defense of abortion rights

The junior senator from New York also hit out at the conservative Supreme Court majority in her remarks on Thursday.

Salon

How to access abortion post-Roe

An individual states' ban cannot prevent you from getting an abortion in other ways and through other states

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Reason

Planes, Buses, and COVID Tests: How the NHL Playoffs Are Spotlighting America's Dumb Border Rules

There's no reason to have one set of rules for airline passengers and another for people who cross the border in a bus, train, or car.

The Guardian - US

Schumer announces Senate abortion rights vote: ‘America will be watching’ – as it happened

Senate to vote on legislation codifying abortion rights into federal law but measure has next to no chance of passing in divided chamber

Manchester Evening News

Former Rochdale doorman branded Kinahan cartel 'enforcer' in US government sanctions against infamous Irish cartel

Johnny Morrissey, 62, now living in Spain, has been accused of facilitating international drug shipments from south America into Europe

The Independent UK

HBCU medical schools to tackle organ transplant disparities

A coalition including the four medical schools at the nation's historically Black colleges and universities has announced a new initiative aimed at increasing the number of Black Americans registered as organ donors and combating disparities among transplant recipients

The Independent UK

Why two years after George Floyd, it’s ‘the year of receipts’ for businesses that promised change

America is ready for real change to the criminal justice system. At day one of the American Workforce and Justice Summit in Atlanta, activists and business leaders tell Josh Marcus what needs to be done

Football London

Arsenal set to add third stop to their US pre-season tour as date for clash with Everton emerges

The Gunners will be heading to the United States of America for their pre-season tour ahead of the upcoming campaign

Wales Online

Secret Spenders: Former NHS nurse can't take her sick father to America as husband's spending addiction leaves them in debt

Rae and her husband MK live rent-free as she cares for her father

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