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Other lives: Professor of geography at UCL who was an expert on risk and the social implications of a hypermobile world

The Guardian - UK

Rightwing US supreme court justices are in trouble. So they’ve discovered feminism

Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and John Roberts love women’s autonomy if it avoids awkward conflict-of-interest questions

The Guardian - US

Franklin episode 7 recap: France and America lose trust

In Franklin episode 7, Benjamin pushes hard to include France in America's negotiations with Britain, much to Jay and Adam's dismay. Here's what happened.

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Franklin episode 5 recap: Franklin vs Adams

In Franklin episode 5, Franklin and John Adams annoy each other and Temple gets involved in the revolution in a new way.

WhatToWatch

Adams: Girls of the Golden West album review – California gold rush opera has a definitive recording

The opera met with a mixed response on its 2017 premiere. After two reworkings, and with many of its original cast reprising their roles, this premiere recording is a rich and energetic mix

The Guardian - UK

Eddie Marsan: ‘Mitch Winehouse was a loving father whose daughter was an addict’

The actor on playing Amy Winehouse’s dad, leaving school at 15, and why he loves going back to London’s East End

The Guardian - UK

‘Feeble, desperate, mentally unfit’: Biden changes tack to mock Trump

The Republican contender lowered the tone of electoral politics in 2016 – now the Democratic president has left the high road to take him on at his own game

The Guardian - US

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The week in classical: LSO/ Rattle; The Rake’s Progress; The Flying Dutchman; Elena Urioste and Tom Poster – review

Dread runs through John Adams’s pulsating new ‘short symphony’; Stravinsky’s Rake has plenty of company at ETO; Bryn Terfel returns as the mythical Dutchman; and two lockdown favourites bring the house down

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Rattle review – Adams’ Frenzy debuts but Roy Harris’s Third is the real discovery

In an all-American programme, works by composers from Gershwin to an Adams world premiere were superbly presented by Rattle and LSO, with Harris’s 1939 symphony a revelation

The Guardian - UK

SCOTUS is broken — can it be fixed?

After Dobbs, many Americans woke up to the Roberts court's dangerous power. But history offers lessons — and hope

Salon

Exploring The Top 10 Political Families With Dynasties Of Leaders

Explore the legacies of prominent political families in the United States, from the Kennedys to the Cuomos.

Top News

A Response to John Mikhail on "Officers of the United States"—Part I

The issues, arguments, and evidence raised by Mikhail has already been addressed by our scholarship. This evidence was not "ignored or overlooked."

Reason

Adventures in Democracy by Erica Benner review – many men, many minds

A sparkling account of people power through the ages, and how to save it from itself

The Guardian - UK

Belfast court dismisses ‘frivolous’ Sinn Féin libel case against journalist

Gerry Kelly took action against Malachi O’Doherty, who had identified Kelly as the shooter in a 1983 prison break

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The Independent UK

What is the Boston Tea Party and what did it do?

The 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party is marked this year

The Independent UK

What is the Stonehenge tunnel project and why is it so controversial?

Government wants to build a two-mile tunnel near Stonehenge - but campaigners say it will destroy the site’s unique landscape

Salon

Trump's campaign is spooked

The Trump campaign understands that his mouth is lethal for Trump's chances in the general election

The Guardian - UK

Stonehenge campaigners’ last-chance bid to save site from road tunnel

Historian says if ‘Britain trashes their world heritage sites, it bodes badly for the rest of the world’

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Bronzeville Trail to receive $5 million in funding in 2024

The Bronzeville Trail Task Force met with the city two weeks ago discuss opening at least some parts of the trail.

Ballotpedia

Kamala Harris (D) breaks record for most tie-breaking Senate votes in United States history

Vice President Kamala Harris (D) cast her 32nd and 33rd tie-breaking votes in the Senate on Dec. 5, 2023, giving her the most tie-breaking votes in the U.S. Senate of all vice presidents in U.S. history. Her 32nd and 33rd votes were to invoke cloture on and subsequently approve the…

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Update on presidential state filing deadlines—which ones have passed, which ones are next, and how many candidates are in

Welcome to the Thursday, December 7, 2023, Brew.

The Independent UK

Judge rejects plea for Pennsylvania woman charged with killing her 2 young children

A judge has rejected a plea agreement for a Pennsylvania woman charged with killing her two young children

The Guardian - UK

John Adams: Antony and Cleopatra review – European premiere fuelled by molten chemistry

In his ambitious and richly orchestrated 2022 opera, the American composer makes Shakespeare his own, with a star cast to match

Wallpaper

From Nabokov to Miffy: Liu Ye on his cultural references

Artist Liu Ye tells us what inspires him, as his exhibition ‘Naive and Sentimental Painting’ is on show in London

AAP

Watchdog probes investments following lawyer's death

A Victorian law firm has uncovered concerns about mortgage investments made by a partner following his death and reported it to the legal watchdog.

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