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If This Is How America COMPETES, We're Going to Lose

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Reason

The pandemic changed death rituals and left grieving families without a sense of closure

The unexpected death of a friend and colleague to COVID-19 in January 2021 led me to start researching how American death rituals were transforming during the pandemic. My friend was Hindu, and while watching his funeral on Zoom, I witnessed the significant transformations that had to be made to the…

The Conversation

Commentary: What we can learn from one of California’s most successful abortion providers

For more than two decades, I researched the life of Inez Burns, one of America’s most successful abortion providers. Burns lived in California and terminated more than 50,000 pregnancies when abortion was illegal across the U.S. While the Supreme Court weighs whether to overturn Roe v. Wade, Burns’ cautionary story…

Los Angeles Times

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Lynn Schmidt: Americans aren't in a party mood (politically speaking)

American voters have been trying to tell political parties and elected officials what they want, and perhaps more importantly, what they don’t want. The question remains, will they ever listen? Will things ever change?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

How history shields Trump and his allies

A cruel irony: Our misguided faith that America is special is shielding Trump and the fascists from punishment

Salon

Editorial: Trial of 3 officers in George Floyd's death is latest test of American justice

Police abuse of power often involves not only the abuser but also other officers who enable the abuse through inaction and silence. They are virtually never prosecuted, meaning that a crucial precedent could be set with the trial that began Monday for the three former Minneapolis police officers who did…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

'I've tried to invest in joy': Wajahat Ali on traumas physical, political and global

LOS ANGELES — Wajahat Ali has spent much of his life narrowly escaping death and disaster.

Los Angeles Times

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Review: 'South to America,' by Imani Perry

One Black academic's exploration of the South seeks to center the region as the "soul of America."

Tribune News Service

Miami gold hauler cuts plea deal in huge South American-Caribbean money laundering case

MIAMI — A trucking company owner charged with playing a supporting role in a gold-smuggling scheme spanning South America, the Caribbean and South Florida pleaded guilty this week to submitting false customs documents that concealed the true origins of the gold being imported through Miami International Airport.

Miami Herald

Sundance: 'Descendant' chronicles a Black history uncovered

Rarely have past and present mingled in a documentary the way they do in “Descendant,” a nonfiction account of the last known ship to bring African captives to the American South for enslavement

The Independent UK

Outlander's Sam Heughan claims he ate 'smuggled' haggis during trip to the United States

Haggis has been banned for more than twenty years in America.

Daily Record

Why Are Vaccinated Americans Still Worrying About COVID?

Maybe it's because pandemic policies are forcing them to continue being anxious.

Reason

What to stream: The best of Julian Fellowes and cast of 'The Gilded Age'

Debuting this week on HBO, “The Gilded Age” is a new series from celebrated writer Julian Fellowes. Known for creating the smash hit series “Downton Abbey,” Fellowes has a signature perspective, looking at class, culture, money and power through an “upstairs downstairs” lens. In “The Gilded Age,” he hops across…

Tribune News Service

Ukraine crisis is reminding Nato why it was formed in the first place

As Russian troops mobilise near Ukraine’s border and appear poised to invade, so the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) has assumed its traditional role as a bastion of European defence. That mission – the one for which Nato was founded way back in 1949 – is a short cut to…

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The 13th Amendment's fatal flaw created modern-day convict slavery

The 13th Amendment is having a moment of reckoning. Considered one of the crowning achievements of American democracy, the Civil War-era constitutional amendment set “free” an estimated 4 million enslaved people and seemed to demonstrate American claims to equality and freedom. But the amendment did not apply to those convicted…

The Conversation

Opioid overdose: A bioethicist explains why restricting supply may not be the right solution

Year after year, America’s drug overdose crisis is worsening.

Evening Standard

Mikel Arteta meets Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke in USA before Dubai trip as January transfer deadline looms

Mikel Arteta is currently in America visiting Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke before the club’s warm-weather training camp in Dubai.

Daily Mirror

Mikel Arteta flies to America for talks with Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke

Mikel Arteta has been pictured alongside Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke after the Spaniard jetted off to Colorado with just days remaining in the winter transfer window

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

Will Bunch: The question is no longer Donald Trump's criminality but whether America will care

America still had the naïve ability to be shocked back on Nov. 16, 1973, when a rambling then-President Richard Nixon stood up before 400 Associated Press journalists. Wallowing in the Watergate scandal, the 37th president joked morbidly about his plane crashing before he could be impeached, then uttered these famous…

Tribune News Service

Stephen L. Carter: Do Americans even know what free speech is?

The Knight Foundation and Ipsos have a new survey on Americans’ views about free speech, and for those of us who consider spirited and even wrongheaded debate crucial to democracy, there’s both good news and bad.

Football London

Mikel Arteta meets with Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke amid Alexander Isak transfer pursuit

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta was seen with Stan Kroenke in America as the Gunners continue to search for a top-class centre-forward

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Barring members of Congress from playing stocks could restore public trust.

Ballotpedia tracks what it calls a “personal gain index” showing how much each member of Congress’ personal wealth has changed while in office. For the top 20, the average increase in net worth has been 422% per year. Data like that helps explain why regular Americans hold Congress in such…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Vending machine to offer fried oysters overseas

HIROSHIMA -- "One day, fried oysters could replace hot dogs as America's favorite food," oyster farmer Takashi Suzuki said with starry eyes.

The Independent UK

‘I’m over Covid’: Bill Maher says Americans shouldn’t obediently follow all doctors’ advice

That the medical establishment ‘never even attempted to get people to live a healthier lifestyle as a response to this pandemic is a giant scandal to me,’ HBO host says

Dublin Live

Denzel Curry Dublin: Rapper announces 3Olympia date with tickets on sale this Friday

The rapper has 42 performances scheduled in Europe and America as part of his world tour and he said on Instagram that more dates will be announced

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