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As the U.S. Supreme Court makes two historic rulings in favour of gay marriage, this report examines a complex and controversial issue that has been debated by parliaments around the world.
The US spends billions on its border war. Now its chaotic drug policy is also costing a fortune, as border checkpoints snare not immigrants, but young Americans caught with small quantities of Marijuana.
The US consumes 80% of the world's painkillers and more die from them than heroin and cocaine combined. Fatal overdoses are twice the national average among war veterans: so why are they fed addictive opiates?
Eugenics is a concept so universally despised it is hard to imagine its existence in the Western world. But in California the forced sterilization of women in prisons is a terrifying, cruel reality.
Across the US, Hollywood-style surveillance technology, is inching closer to reality. Sophisticated technologies enable access to more data than ever before, raising questions about how the information is used.
The US Academy of Adolescent and Child Psychiatry forbids the use of solitary confinement on juveniles. Yet on Rikers Island, correctional officers are increasingly enlisting its use against young inmates.
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