Tag: Laws

The Domino Effects of New Anti-Abortion Laws

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This is an edition of Up for Debate, a newsletter by Conor Friedersdorf. On Wednesdays, he rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here.

Question of the Week

Should Americans have a right to privacy and/or bodily autonomy? If so, what should those rights encompass and exclude? Abortion? Carrying a pistol? Selling a kidney? Taking heroin? Keeping a Swiss bank account? Assembling explosive devices

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Freedom Day arrives! England finally scraps all its remaining emergency Covid laws

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England woke up to freedom this morning after nearly two years of crippling on-off lockdowns as all emergency Covid laws introduced to tackle the pandemic ended at midnight.  

Self-isolation rules for the infected are now officially over, masks are no longer necessary on public transport in London and NHS hospitals are finally being told to lift visiting restrictions. 

Boris Johnson said England was exiting the ‘grimmest years in our peacetime’ when the PM unveiled his ‘Living With Covid’ strategy on

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Republicans Are Trying to Suppress More Than Votes

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The accelerating red-state offensive to censor what public-school students are taught about racism is emerging as a critical companion measure to proliferating race-based voter restrictions in many of the same states.

The two-pronged fight captures how aggressively Republicans are moving to entrench their current advantages in red states, even as many areas grow significantly more racially and culturally diverse. Voting laws are intended to reconfigure the composition of today’s electorate; the teaching bans aim to shape the attitudes of

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Nine big changes to driving laws, road rules and car tech coming in 2022

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Drivers can expect to see some big changes on the road next year. 

A raft of new laws, vehicle technology and driving rules are due to be introduced in 2022 – and many of them are influential developments that will impact every person who regularly gets behind the wheel.

From changes to the Highway Code to councils taking powers to issue fines across England and Wales for minor traffic offences like stopping in a box junction, these are the nine

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What Voter Fraud in Texas Really Looks Like

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When I met with Crystal Mason recently at her home in Rendon, Texas, we sat on a wide couch that served as the center of her domain, with plenty of space for children, grandchildren, nephews, and nieces. Their photographs filled the house. Mason’s mother called to her from another room, needing advice; later, her eight-month-old grandson, Carter, joined us on the couch after waking up from an afternoon nap. For hours that day, Mason spoke candidly about the

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Jude Laws Tochter Iris ist ein sexy Style-Star auf dem Vormarsch

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Es war ein Jahr der Wende für Iris Law – im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes.

Bereits im Juli brach die 21-jährige Tochter von Jude Law und Sadie Frost praktisch das Internet, als sie ihre langen brünetten Locken gegen einen kühnen, blondierten Buzzcut tauschte.

“Ich wollte etwas tun, das sich befreiend anfühlte. An dem Tag, an dem ich mir den Kopf rasierte, veränderte ich mein Leben. Ich habe so etwas noch nie gemacht”, sagte sie damals der britischen Vogue.

Lebensverändernd ist

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Yale Law’s Diversity Bureaucrats Made Five Mistakes

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Have you ever wondered what deans of diversity do behind closed doors? Until last week, the public had little visibility into bureaucracies such as the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Yale Law School. Then covertly recorded audio emerged of Yaseen Eldik, the office’s director, and Ellen Cosgrove, an associate dean, pressuring a student to issue a written apology for emailing out a party invitation that offended some of his classmates.

The Yale Law student in question, Trent

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