Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Woman with Red Zinnia 1891, by Mary Cassatt (Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) When the Jian Ghomeshi story first broke back in 2014, I knew with unwavering certainty exactly how the story would play out. “Just wait,” I would tell friends. “He’ll disappear for a few years, and then he’ll come back with some…
Yesterday, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, a research psychologist in Northern California, came forward to say that she was the woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. She came forward, although she never intended to, because she wanted to make sure everyone got the story straight. The story is this — that when she was 15…
On Thursday, Senate Democrats disclosed that they had referred a complaint regarding President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, to the F.B.I. for investigation. The complaint came from a woman who accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct when they were both in high school, more than thirty years ago. The woman, who has asked not…
Twenty-seven US states specifically target clinics that provide abortions with laws called “Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers,” also known as TRAP laws. They exist to regulate the operation of clinics beyond what is necessary for patients’ safety. There are a wide range of regulations imposed by TRAP laws that require drastic, expensive, or impractical changes…
The now finally former CBS CEO Les Moonves is a crawling smear of slime. He’s like the dog poop that Wadsworth the butler steps in at the start of Clue. But we’ve known that since Ronan Farrow’s expose in the August 6 issue of The New Yorker, which revealed how Moonves assaulted women, including the…
A tall, unemployed man took his niece to see Serena and Venus Williams play each other at the United States Open on Friday of last week. The man, a free-agent football player clad in a simple black T-shirt, was briefly shown on the video board at Arthur Ashe Stadium to thunderous applause from the crowd….
react-text: 97 At first, it seemed funny. /react-text react-text: 99 “Temper tantrum” was how I described his behavior to my friends. Michael* would raise his voice at me, then flounce out of the room in a huff. At first his outbursts seemed innocuous, if unprofessional: Can you /react-text react-text: 101 believe /react-text react-text: 102 he…
CreditCreditMatt Chase “White men,” an obscure Australian academic named Charles Henry Pearson predicted in his 1893 book “National Life and Character: A Forecast,” would be “elbowed and hustled, and perhaps even thrust aside” by people they had long regarded as their inferiors — “black and yellow races.” China, in particular, would be a major threat….
Mapbox, the mapping startup that competes with the likes of Google Maps and Here to power location services on apps like Snapchat and Foursquare, says that a version of its New York map calling the city ‘Jewtropolis’ was an act of human vandalism that has now been removed across the hundreds of apps that pull…
As the New York Times reported, when Louis C.K. took the stage for a surprise set at the Comedy Cellar Sunday night, he was met with applause. The short set was his first appearance after he released a statement in November admitting to sexually harassing five women following a New York Times exposé. Two women who sat through C.K.’s set told Vulture that though the…