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When fewer doctors possess a working comfort with the full spectrum of reproductive health to begin with, assaults on abortion may seem to many physicians like a lamentable thing happening to some distantly affiliated and dimly imagined professional cousin.]]> Fri, 01 Jul 2022 16:13:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezd2z8mdx58C0oy9CZgXDJO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezh-0k9bDEookoy9CZgXDJO
At the beginning of The Velvet Underground, the first documentary film by Todd Haynes, a title card appears: “A documentary film by Todd Haynes.” I laughed out loud when I saw it, though not out of derision. I had been waiting for Todd Haynes to make a documentary for a while. Or, more accurately, I […]]]> Mon, 27 Jun 2022 18:42:57 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezh-0k9bDEookoy9CZgXDJO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpex9HJofybRpoagzzHWHxDTV
He felt like somehow Livy had taken him in hand. They ran into others, an American who was spending the year at Wolfson in a small group of Oxford people, and Livy knew everybody and didn’t mind repeating herself. She said, “Why is everyone obsessed with Dennis Galway?” And also, “I’m obsessed with Dennis Galway.”]]> Fri, 24 Jun 2022 18:26:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpex9HJofybRpoagzzHWHxDTV https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezUWsReV_lkdnOFESPuQWsX
Rather than height or leaping ability, Curry creates spatial advantages by simply shooting from farther away than ever before. To prevent taller defenders from closing the distance, he speeds up his shot and increases the arc without losing efficiency, simulating the play of someone much bigger and bouncier than himself. He has collected an arsenal of different shooting forms: going left or right, backward or forward, shooting over or underneath defenders, off one leg or two, spotting up or off the dribble. It only works because of the dexterity and control of his fingertips, providing airtight ball handling abilities and freakish accuracy.]]> Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:26:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezUWsReV_lkdnOFESPuQWsX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew2BQJ4VgSfq3CrAHWlao0B
Our safety, we were told, was the primary concern and we were told to be careful going up and down the stairs and that we should regard ourselves as if we personally lived here. Everything is aristocratic and stylish and I could barely recall our hasty morning departure from Little Neck—from bitterness, political stresses, and from our immoral conduct. That was all blurred and misshapen.]]> Fri, 10 Jun 2022 17:02:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew2BQJ4VgSfq3CrAHWlao0B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezLj7FY6i_C4e4DA87rvhPr
As Kimmelman’s employer keeps reminding us with googly-eyed headlines, rent is soaring. The city’s pandemic-era eviction moratorium has been lifted. Our new mayor is a cop who seems to disdain unhoused people. And the architects of the largest residential transformation in the city today—the supposedly radical campaign to close Rikers Island—insist that incarcerated New Yorkers should be in a better jail, not in apartments.]]> Fri, 03 Jun 2022 18:16:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezLj7FY6i_C4e4DA87rvhPr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexQheU9494Ld3OFESPuQWsX Join n+1 for the very first event in our new office! On Thursday, June 9, we’ll be hosting a spring cleaning sale and open house in our new space in Greenpoint. Drop by to say hello, see the space, and find discounts on: + n+1 books, back issues, and titles by our contributors + hats, […]]]> Thu, 02 Jun 2022 20:33:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexQheU9494Ld3OFESPuQWsX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewJf_cckkURVoeLGixeGJZp
What happened this winter? Why, despite us all catching Covid twice, did the schools carry on in their pauperized way, half the world remain unvaccinated, the government purse stay tight-lipped, or spilled open only delinquently? And why, despite ten of the fifteen Chicago Bulls being too sick or exposed to play for a couple weeks […]]]> Fri, 27 May 2022 17:02:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpewJf_cckkURVoeLGixeGJZp https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeys4LUkYwu7WavLeqE6yv18
To a remarkable degree, party elites have sorted on abortion. When the House voted on the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021, codifying the right to abortion prior to viability and thereafter if “continuation of the pregnancy would pose a risk to the pregnant patient’s life or health,” every Democrat but one was in favor, and every single Republican was opposed. The result was the same in the Senate, where a vote to advance the bill failed 49-51. The one Democrat who voted no in the House, the corrupt but loyal Henry Cuellar of Texas, faces a runoff challenger to his left, Jessica Cisneros, backed by national groups like Justice Democrats. It is a proxy fight about House Democratic leadership generally, as those leaders have been for decades happy to back members who don’t ruffle feathers in Washington and whom they deem good fits for their districts, but in terms of abortion politics, it’s a sideshow.]]> Thu, 19 May 2022 16:28:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeys4LUkYwu7WavLeqE6yv18 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezFsPXPlSDlyyoxzwoq1nFt
In 2017 Strelkov came up with the idea of holding a televised debate with Alexey Navalny, who agreed to participate. One hundred and fifty thousand people tuned in. Strelkov’s principal accusations against Navalny included not just his betrayal of Russian nationalism (he claimed his opponent “never once referred to [ethnic] Russians, only citizens of the Russian Federation”), but also the claim that Navalny’s economic program was incapable of dismantling the “total system of corruption” that defines Russian life. As one of the moderators put it, “they’ve spent an hour calling each other Putin.”]]> Mon, 09 May 2022 20:23:49 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpezFsPXPlSDlyyoxzwoq1nFt https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyF2cHsHGq8z4fjc6hd5eWF
They told me they’d wanted to be around women. They hadn’t loved the speakers or the claim that Mayor Adams was one of “the men who get it,” but the gathering was, at the very least, a space of shared outrage. Some 14-year-old boys told me the most memorable speeches were the ones that situated the court’s decision within broader struggles and insisted that this wasn’t a single-day or single-issue action.]]> Sat, 07 May 2022 21:53:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyF2cHsHGq8z4fjc6hd5eWF https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew4ANqcDjd8DwC0qH-r7xlT
Criminalization does increase the risk of physical harm. But that is basically a consumer protection argument: It’s not safe enough. The fact is that whether anyone ever climbed on an abortion table or not, the message of criminalization to all people who can get pregnant is: You don’t have dominion over your own body, you are always vulnerable, always in danger of being surveilled. You are vulnerable not only because the law makes behavior a crime and you can be punished for committing a crime.]]> Thu, 05 May 2022 23:58:34 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew4ANqcDjd8DwC0qH-r7xlT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexZOEOBOFQitn1d0VB8z-7c
What does Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest mid-life crisis, want with Twitter? It has cost him $44 billion to buy, much of it raised from investment banks like Morgan Stanley, yet is scarcely profitable. Some have speculated that he wants to use Twitter’s personal data to market his company, Tesla.1 But it would have been […]]]> Fri, 29 Apr 2022 19:38:56 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexZOEOBOFQitn1d0VB8z-7c https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexyt6AIcV1Z3XHnycKeoCpf
We pedaled in single file, hugging the curb to avoid the trucks. And there was the rally! The spring clothes were bright, the air loud with hip-hop. Some women were selling fruit. Drivers were honking support. The ALU’s logo, three fists thrusting up from an open box, snatched the alienated mojo from the huge boxlike buildings stuffed with billions of smaller boxes and transformed it into solidarity and joy.]]> Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:25:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpexyt6AIcV1Z3XHnycKeoCpf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyYlRDNAj2FdO9WSSr4-0sP
I do not want violence. Not in any form. I do not want teachers’ hands down schoolgirls’ underwear. I do not want drunken fathers’ fists beating the bodies of their wives and children. Were I to list all the violence that I am aware of, there would not be enough days, weeks, or years. To start seeing violence one simply has to open their eyes.]]> Fri, 22 Apr 2022 20:28:40 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyYlRDNAj2FdO9WSSr4-0sP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpey-A-S3ifS4NGZMehmtHS8-
This rhythm in Russia, of repression and violent revolution, is well known to Sorokin, who first emerged as a writer under Soviet rule in the 1980s, when he was no less irritating to the Kremlin. He’s not just a satirist but also a speculative fantasist, and he became angrily political after Putin came to power.]]> Thu, 21 Apr 2022 17:14:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpey-A-S3ifS4NGZMehmtHS8- https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpex54iGyeqfUfu-bbeigX9oC
A woman’s friend buys toilet paper in bulk. Dozens of rolls line a section of wall in the basement, stacked hip-high and four deep, a snowbank against the stone wall of the foundation. The supply’s position, and its volume, makes it the first thing the woman sees as she descends the stairs, sent by her friend to retrieve a jar of jam and a bag of coffee beans. Her reaction to it arrives with an intensity that surprises her.]]> Mon, 11 Apr 2022 17:13:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpex54iGyeqfUfu-bbeigX9oC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew2WgYT2nRxD6gzzHWHxDTV
The afterglow of this communion extends into the final, much-anticipated delight: a “cultural boat ride” promising “ten thousand years of Indian Culture in ten minutes.” This air-conditioned funfair ride begins, appropriately enough, on the mythic “banks of the Saraswati” (a now unknown or extinct river celebrated in the Vedas) festooned with tableaux of ten-thousand-year-old “Vedic” agriculture, Vedic universities, Vedic bazaars, Vedic elections and even the “first conference on embryology.” Never mind that the prevailing historical consensus is that the earliest Vedic “texts” (they were originally orally transmitted) are little more than 3,500 years old. Further downriver, things get weirder as we witness the Indic invention of everything from plastic surgery to the airplane.]]> Fri, 08 Apr 2022 14:32:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpew2WgYT2nRxD6gzzHWHxDTV https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyoKtMe_dNbtQm0QkxGtqLL
The state has forcibly placed me in the space of my house and family, has tried to infantilize me, but I have reclaimed these spaces and recalled all the practices of resisting the system that I came up with back in school. Writing my own texts instead of their compositions, wriggling out from under supervision, dreaming of other worlds and, of course, uniting with others despite prohibitions and borders. ]]> Wed, 06 Apr 2022 21:52:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyoKtMe_dNbtQm0QkxGtqLL https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyoKtMe_dNbtbkdRKkm2PJP
We knew that the transcripts of our hearings would be broadcast. Even though no one listens to you in the courtroom, you can address invisible listeners who will read about it later in the media. And so to demonstrate the full absurdity of the Russian courts we set up what we called a “word auction”: we invited our readers to contribute words, any words, along with a monetary donation. We then went ahead and wove them into our speeches—we put the speeches together using the words people sent in. So the speeches ended up pretty absurdist, but we managed to express some of our ideas at the same time. I remember that there were a lot of really wacky and exotic animals, so we would say, like, “we’ve been sitting under house arrest for a long time now, we aren’t able to admire these wonderful animals.” Someone sent in the phrase “bee extinction,” so my colleague Volodya [Vladimir Metyolkin] gave a whole speech about the problem of bees going extinct due to climate change, and how in our country journalists are just as important as bees, and their extinction is just as dangerous for the environment as the bees.]]> Wed, 06 Apr 2022 21:52:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/kujMZQ4tpeyoKtMe_dNbtbkdRKkm2PJP