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• Will the US Supreme Court roll back abortion rights?

  With a conservative majority established, it is unclear what will happen to women’s reproductive rights.

• "The blanket framing of a group can fuel contempt and hatred"

  Q&A with James Morrison, author of "Scroungers".

• "Borders are man-made fictions, inequality is a man-made reality for millions"

  Q&A with Lyndsey Stonebridge, author of "Placeless People"

• The other opioid crisis

  While all the attention is on western drug misuse, 80 per cent of the world’s population goes without sufficient pain relief treatment.

• Book review: Revolting Prostitutes

  Molly Smith and Juno Mac's book on sex work demonstrates the inadequacy of binary positions and the need for nuance.

• Justice deferred in Northern Ireland

  The battle over abortion rights in Northern Ireland is continuing in the courts.

• What the experiences of young migrants tell us about Britain today

  A 10-year project documenting the lives of young migrants to the UK exposes the divisions of our globalised age.

• Breaking the cage: creativity and survival in Greek refugee camps

  For refugees trapped in Greece, creative projects are not just diverting – they’re the key to staying alive.

• Book review: Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

  Zora Neale Hurston's book is a rediscovered masterpiece of literary journalism from the 1930s.

• Time to log off

  Calls to delete Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal raise a bigger question: can we live without the internet?