access, is america exceptional? we will look at reproductive rights. all that with two top journalists. then president biden is in germany today for the meeting of the g7. will the world s advanced economies ramp up pressure on russia? will it work? israel s government collapses. what does that mean for the country, the region, and for bb netanyahu? finally, a seismic shift in french politics. president macron s centrist party loses its parliamentary majority but the far right and left make electoral gains. why is this happening? just who are these voters embracing the extremes? first, here is my take. american democracy has been under stress for sometime now. trust in its institutions is near the lowest on record. when we say this we usually mean congress and the presidency. the supreme court s decision on roe v. wade has brought the public s confidence in the court to an all time low and puts it in the same category as the others defined bipartisanship and polarization. the
will it work? israel s government collapses. what does that mean for the country, the region, and for bb netanyahu? finally, a seismic shift in french politics. president macron s centrist party loses its parliamentary majority but the far right and left make electoral gains. why is this happening? just who are these voters embracing the extremes? first, here is my take. american democracy has been under stress for sometime now. trust in its institutions is near the lowest on record. when we say this we usually mean congress and the presidency. the supreme court s decision on roe v. wade has brought the public s confidence in the court to an all time low and puts it in the same category as the others defined bipartisanship and polarization. the court s decisions this week are not conservative. they are radical. one of the time honored conservative doctrines has been a respect for precedent. and yet in two days the court swept aside a right that for half a century american jur
The cass review, as its called, came out last week, and it recommends a new approach for clinicians. This is a Polarising Subject for some people. So, what mightjournalism do differently in how it covers it . Hannah barnes is a former bbc producer who investigated some of the uks gender Identity Services for the corporations newsnight programme. She went on to write a book about it. I asked her when she first started her investigation. First came across it at all in 2017. I was off on my first Maternity Leave and there was a piece in the times Byjanice Turner Which was talking about this really rapid increase in the referrals of Teenage Girls to gids the gender Identity Development service and she had spoken to two clinicians who worked at the service. It wasnt really a Big Sort Of Whistle blowy piece but they had talked to her and said what theyd seen and itjust i thought it was very interesting, but i was off and, you know, spending time with my baby. And there was also a documentary
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