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Editorial: July 4 mass shooting drives home how much America has left to do on gun reform

Every mass shooting in America is a tragedy, but the one that killed seven people near Chicago Monday was especially jolting, as it combined two singularly American phenomena: the nation’s annual celebration of its independence and the chronic scourge of gun violence at a level unheard of in the rest…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Michael Hiltzik: Why is this foul-mouthed enemy of Social Security receiving a presidential honor?

The 17 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom named recently by the Biden White House are, by and large, distinguished Americans deserving of the nation’s highest civilian honor.

Los Angeles Times

Glasgow women's rights protests planned in 'solidarity' after Roe v Wade overturn

Protests will be taking place in Glasgow in response to the overturning of abortion laws in America with groups spreading the message that it's women's right to choose what happens with their bodies.

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Gun violence in America: A long list of forgotten victims

Amid the stream of mass shootings that have become chillingly commonplace in America, the reality of America’s staggering murder rate can often be seen more clearly in the deaths that never make the national news

The Independent UK

Paul Sullivan: A tragic event in Highland Park became just another day at the ballpark — and in America

About 3½ hours before the Chicago White Sox met the Minnesota Twins Monday to start the biggest series of the season, manager Tony La Russa’s pregame media session in the dugout competed with a singer practicing over the Guaranteed Rate Field sound system.

Chicago Tribune

Bill Plaschke: Brittney Griner pleads for freedom, but is America listening?

LOS ANGELES — From the hell of a Russian penal colony, an American basketball superstar pleads for her freedom.

Los Angeles Times

Highland Park shooting victim shares gruesome photo of her face grazed by bullet

‘I’ve felt safe at this parade for 18 years and today I got hit with a bullet and nothing will change in America, this is ridiculous’

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As fireworks lit up the sky, firearms displayed an uglier face of US culture

America’s national day became a twisted showcase of another form of US exceptionalism: its exceptionally easy access to guns and the resultant mayhem

The Guardian - US

Winold Reiss: the ‘immigrant modernist’ who changed American art

An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society looks back at the German artist’s often undervalued influence on early 20th-century art

The Guardian - US

‘Dystopian’ video shows Americans fleeing Philadelphia shooter as fireworks explode on July 4

‘It has just been a night of absolute horror and terror,’ reporter on scene says

The Independent UK

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

Inside Iggy Azalea's rundown childhood home as she reveals real name and humble beginnings

Iggy Azalea - who moved to America to chase stardom at the age of 16 - has taken to social media to reveal a series of childhood memories from her former home in Australia

Daily Mirror

Editorial: The filibuster is further endangering abortion rights. It's time to scrap it

The irony is thick: A Republican president took office despite getting fewer votes than his opponent, then installed three conservative Supreme Court justices — and now that court majority has ignored America’s majority, not to mention its own precedent, to impose its ideological will on society. The fall of Roe…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Missouri legislation previewed how far post-Roe radicals may be ready to go

One of the more shameful moments in congressional history was the passage in 1850 of the Fugitive Slave Act. It required that even slavery-free Northern states must abet that evil institution by returning enslaved people who’d escaped from the South and believed they had attained freedom. With the Supreme Court’s…

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Commentary: Will 2022 turn the clock back to America before 1964?

“The United States is now at one of those historic forks in the road whose outcome will prove as fateful as those of the 1860s, the 1930s, and the 1960s,” Nancy MacLean wrote in her 2017 book, “Democracy in Chains.”

Chicago Tribune

Our two failing parties need to be shaken up by independents

For 16 years, I had the privilege of representing the people of Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District until I was narrowly defeated in the 2020 Democratic primary. I lost that race because I dared to not always follow in lockstep with my party in an era in which extreme partisanship and…

Chicago Tribune

In painful, chilling detail, witnesses recount the deadly mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade

CHICAGO — The first popping noises sounded like firecrackers or maybe a gun salute honoring the American flag.

Sports Illustrated

White Sox RP Hendriks on Mass Shooting: 'Something Needs to Change'

"I had to take a driving test when I [came] over [to America]," Hendriks said. "I won't have to take a test if I want to get a gun. That's stupid.”

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Chicago Sun-Times

Highland Park parade shooting: Stop the endless tragedies

When government refuses to act, it betrays the ideals we celebrate on the Fourth.

WEKU

Biden urges unity in July 4th speech, while acknowledging the country's sour mood

In a largely optimistic speech to commemorate July 4th, President Biden spoke to Americans who feel "exhausted" by what they see as a lack of progress.

The Conversation

'Satanic worship, sodomy and even murder': how Stranger Things revived the American satanic panic of the 80s

From Kate Bush to Russian villainy, Season Four of Stranger Things revives many parts of the 1980s relevant to our times. Some of these blasts from the past provide welcome nostalgia. Others are like unwanted ghosts that will not go away. The American Satanic Panic of the 1980s is one…

The New Daily

‘Satanic worship, sodomy, murder’: How Stranger Things revived the Satanic Panic of the ’80s

Stranger Things revives many parts of the 1980s relevant to our times. The American Satanic Panic is a less welcome but important callback.

WEKU

6 immigrants reflect on their complicated relationships with the 4th of July

We asked people who immigrated to the United States what the day meant to them — and how their feelings about the holiday have changed since they first arrived.

Chicago Sun-Times

Baseball should honor Larry Doby, another pioneer in integrating the sport

On July 5, 1947, the unassuming 22-year-old joined the Cleveland Indians and played at Comiskey Park, the first Black player in the American League. Every July 5, AL players should wear his No. 14.

Asharq Al-Awsat

A Turbulent US this July 4, but Many See Cause to Celebrate

Independence Day has arrived as the United States is rocked by hearings over the Jan. 6 insurrection, awash in turmoil over high court rulings on abortion and guns and struggling to maintain the bonds that keep it together. Yet many also see cause to celebrate Monday: the deadly danger of…

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