In the space of a week, america's supreme court has issued rulings on some of the most fundamental and live wire issues in the country. In much of the west, mustaches have been rather in decline since the days of tom stellock and bert reynolds - but they're making a comeback. There's not much left hong kong's democracy; we look at the techniques the mainland government has used to throttle descent.
America’s Supreme Court has essentially shorn the Environmental Protection Agency of its agency in making national policy. We ask what that means for the climate-change fight. Hong Kong is marking 25 years since its handover from Britain to China; the promised “one country, two systems” approach is all but gone already. And why moustaches are back in Iraq.
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