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“It’s an ominous sign of how the court values a nearly-50-year-old precedent”—Texas’s abortion ploy
Also on the daily podcast: racial divides in Brazil’s police killings and the press to revive Lebanon’s olive-oil industry
THE SUPREME COURT’S surprise decision to let the country’s harshest “heartbeat bill” stand bodes ill for the landmark Roe v Wade decision; we ask what happens next. Brazil’s police kill six times as many people as America’s—and the numbers bear out a clear racial divide among the fallen. And how Lebanon is reviving its olive-oil industry, with global ambitions. Runtime: 22 min
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