A little more than two years ago, the US Supreme Court voted to overturn the landmark ruling Roe v. Wade, in a case known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (Dobbs). This effectively removed the federal guarantee of the right to abortion and allowed each state to decide for themselves whether to allow abortion to remain legal. Many progressives feared the overturning to be a sign of a greater wave of backsliding with regard to women’s rights, and to date, it look

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On 29 June, the conservative-led Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) made yet another groundbreaking decision of great...

The United States of America has always been known for the blunt nature of its press media, where strikingly offensive ideas are often freely expressed in strongly-worded speeches on national platforms. This is because in America, society covets freedom of speech. It values the ability for people to express their ideas and opinions so long as public order or morality is reasonably protected. Therefore, when a major news network fires a major opinion personality that has been

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