Is it criminal accountability or prosecutorial overreach? Examining Trump's charges in his hush-money case, legal columnist Elie Honig explains how the former president's characterization is all a matter of perspective. Read by Karl Miller.

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Donald Trump’s trial is a Rorschach test

When our daughter died suddenly, she left us with grief, memories—and Ringo, David Frum writes. Read by Michael Satow.

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Miranda's last gift

Why millennials are quitting the rat race

Ambition once came with a promise: a home, a salary, progress and fulfilment. What happens when that promise is broken? Leila Latif meets the millennial women who are turning their backs on consumerism, materialism, and burnout. Read by Emma Powell.

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The Guardian

The soft life: why millennials are quitting the rat race

It all started with an asthma attack. The London Mayor finds himself at the centre of a global conspiracy. Peter Guest argues that fake news and hostility towards Sadiq Kahn display the power of the online 'rage machine' fuelled by social media and populist politicians. Read by Jonathan Booth.

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The mayor of London enters the bullshit cinematic universe

Have laws on weed ever been truly relaxed?

The ancient history of marijuana has created a false narrative that the prohibitions of the 20th century were the first of their kind. Yet, as Ryan Stoa explores, from Ancient China to 14th century Egypt, this has been a contentious issue for those in power.

        “Our marijuana-farming ancestors of the past could have told us, based on experience, that when prohibitionists come after cannabis, they will do so in predictable ways. They will use rhetoric to associate the plant with violence, depravity, and other more dangerous drugs, as the European temperance movement did in France and Great Britain. They will use a militarized show of force to eradicate crops, persecute farmers, and dissuade the next generation from growing marijuana, as the Ottomans did in Egypt. They will portray marijuana users as religious extremists or dangerous minorities, as Pope Innocent VIII did in Europe, Sunni Muslims did in the Middle East, or white South Africans did in South Africa.”

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