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title: "Dystopias, gravitational waves, and the US Supreme Court"
date: "2016-11-01T10:29:51+00:00"
modified: "2016-11-01T10:29:51+00:00"
url: "https://newhumanist.org.uk/2016/11/01/dystopias-gravitational-waves-and-the-us-supreme-court/"
post_id: 6584
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# Dystopias, gravitational waves, and the US Supreme Court

1\. [What’s next for the US Supreme Court?](/articles/5093/whats-next-for-the-us-supreme-court)

Amid the turmoil of US politics, could the Supreme Court resume its role as the defender of American liberalism? Richard Scorer explores.

2\. [Are you living in a dystopia?](/articles/5090/are-you-living-in-a-dystopia)

Dystopias help us understand the world we live in, says Ray Filar; but what happens when concepts like “precrime” become a reality?

3\. [A new threat to free choice: how anti-abortion protesters got organised](/articles/5096/a-new-threat-to-free-choice-how-anti-abortion-protesters-got-organised)

Rosa Ellis reports that anti-abortion campaigners are becoming more vocal in the UK, helped along by tactics borrowed from America’s religious right.

4\. [How gravitational waves were discovered](/articles/5092/how-gravitational-waves-were-discovered)

Einstein didn’t live to see it, but the discovery of the gravitational waves he thought existed will help us better understand the universe. Tosin Thompson explains.

5\. [The last city of the Soviets](/articles/5100/the-last-city-of-the-soviets)

After the catastrophe of Chernobyl, Soviet architects built a new ideal city on humanist principles. Owen Hatherley visits Slavutych in Ukraine.

[*Previous selection of long-reads*](/articles/5091/effective-altruism-ancient-wisdom-and-the-cult-of-celebrity-diets)

*[More on our Autumn issue – out now](/articles/5075/the-autumn-2016-new-humanist-is-out-now)*