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Chicago Area Fourth of July Shooting Leaves 6 Dead, Dozens Wounded

Plus: Inflation eats up Americans' savings, copyright officials want to protect your fireworks photos, and more...

Reason

How the US Supreme Court has become right-wing, and do recent decisions give Democrats hope at the midterms?

The US Supreme Court’s annual term usually finishes at the end of June, so late June is when the most important decisions are likely to be announced.

The Conversation

Poll shows record low number of Americans proud of nationality

The Independent UK

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Alarm as US supreme court takes a hatchet to church-state separation

A series of court decisions has raised fears that the conservative majority are forcing religion back into the US political system

The Guardian - US

How leaders can improve global happiness

"Emotionally, the second year of the pandemic was an even tougher year for the world than the first one."

Axios

6 political questions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

There are lots of questions about what happens now after the Supreme Court's ruling on Roe v. Wade. Here are six that have political implications.

WEKU

Abortion, gun rulings show Supreme Court ready to ‘jolt’ system

Back-to-back rulings on guns and abortion eliminated any doubt the U.S. Supreme Court will be the transformational force Republicans envisioned when they filled three vacancies during Donald Trump’s presidency.

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Contraception, gay marriage: Clarence Thomas signals new targets for supreme court

Rightwing justice appears to offer preview of the court’s potential future rulings after decision to remove US abortion rights

The Guardian - US

Commentary: Ending Roe is a pure exercise of Republican power, wielded to reduce women’s freedom and equality

Freedom and equality have expanded enormously over the course of American history, which makes the ending of a constitutional right virtually unprecedented.

Los Angeles Times

Confidence in SCOTUS at all-time low

A paltry 13% of Democrats have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in the Supreme Court

Salon

The GOP weaponizes Christianity

The new right’s variations of “God and Guns” bumper stickers, T-shirts, yard signs and rallying cries can feel today like an actual threat that sometimes even implies violence. Surely there are atheists who will speak out.

Chicago Sun-Times

Teacher burnout hits record high – 5 essential reads

Teachers in grades K through 12 are more burned out than workers in any other industry, according to a new Gallup poll that finds 44% of K-12 employees report “always” or “very often” feeling burned out at work. That number climbs to 52% when looking just at teachers.

The Conversation

Only 18 states have made Juneteenth a state holiday

All 50 states either commemorate or observe Juneteenth but only 18 observe it as a paid holiday.

Axios

Americans’ belief in God drops to record low, poll shows

Republicans are essentially unchanged while Democrats and young people show the biggest drop

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WEKU

In a time of national division, polarizing primaries are part of the problem

It is said the best medicine for what ails democracy is more democracy. But what does more democracy mean? If it just means more of the kind of politics we have now then it hardly offers a remedy.

Los Angeles Times

As abortion ruling nears, Supreme Court’s standing already has dropped, polls show

WASHINGTON — Sometime in the next two or three weeks, the Supreme Court will release a decision on abortion rights that probably will rank among its most controversial in decades.

Reason

81% of Americans Believe in God, Down from 92% in 2011

https://twitter.com/GallupNews/status/1537767725874958337 For the 2011 number, see here. Note also that "Gallup has found that Americans are much less likely to attend church, become members of a church or rate themselves as confident in organized religion than to simply believe in God's existence."

Axios

America's belief in God hits new low

81% of U.S. adults say they believe in God — down 6 points from 2017.

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America's workers are up for grabs

CEOs and cities have a chance to lure top-tier talent.

The Independent UK

Colombia faces presidential choice between leftist, populist

Colombians can count on one thing: The country’s presidential politics will drastically change after Sunday’s runoff election

Axios

Health care consumers feeling economic sting

During the pandemic, Americans aged 50 to 64 said they've been skipping medications, cutting back on food and utilities to cover their medical needs. And they're increasingly worried about covering their future bills, according to newly released Gallup polling.

Tribune News Service

Kamala Harris emerges as Biden team’s leading voice in battle over abortion rights

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged as the Biden administration’s leading voice in the battle over abortion rights, as the president has yet to forcefully weigh in on an issue that may offer Democrats a lifeline in November’s midterm elections.

WEKU

Watergate Committee hearings may be both an inspiration and a hard act to follow

Fifty years from now, when Americans look back on the riotous break-in at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, will it have as much impact as memories of the Watergate scandal continue to have today?

WEKU

In a new U.S. poll, a majority identify as 'pro-choice' for the first time in decades

The Gallup poll, conducted after the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, says that 55 percent of Americans now identify as pro-choice, up from 49 percent last year.

Reason

Pro-Life Identification Falls to Lowest Level Since 1996

Plus: Michigan prisons ban Spanish and Swahili dictionaries, a win against New York's ban on "unauthorized" legal advice, and more...

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