The medical ordeal no one wants to talk about By Vanessa Gregory Harper’s For eight weeks, the pregnancy seemed normal. I was thirty-six, and thus supposedly at a higher risk for everything, but I’d had no spotting, no unusual pain. I learned that something might be wrong at my first prenatal appointment, even though that,…
Debra Kelly ListVerse The idea of someone being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender is certainly nothing new, but today, well into the 21st century, there’s still a huge amount of controversy on how legitimate their relationships are. And this isn’t a new controversy, either, as people have faced centuries of persecution for who they are.
Valeurs actuelles Avril 1945. Les femmes auxquelles de Gaulle a accordé le droit de vote l’exercent pour la première fois aux municipales. Non sans donner des sueurs froides à certains partis de gauche qui craignent de les voir suivre des mots d’ordre “cléricaux”…
Derrière le motard sauvage d’«Easy Rider», héros des sixties, se cachait un total drogué, qui faisait venir des hélicos chargés de poudre et se soûlait à l’after-shave. Bibliobs
Trade-Agreement Troubles By James Surowiecki, New Yorker. In 2012, Australia implemented tough anti-tobacco regulations, requiring that all cigarettes be sold in plain, logo-free brown packages dominated by health warnings. Philip Morris Asia filed suit, claiming that this violated its intellectual-property rights and would damage its investments. The company sued Australia in domestic court and lost….
Il a figuré parmi les plus grands cyclistes du monde pendant presque deux décennies, sans jamais remporter le Tour de France. Paradoxalement, ses défaites l’ont fait entrer dans la légende. Depuis la fin de sa carrière en 1977, « Poupou » devance toujours ses adversaires dans le coeur du public. Réalisation : Patrick Jeudy (France, 2015)
Feminist Times But the practices all these women are doing were created by men, and for men. Some medieval yoga manuals advise yogis to avoid women, for fear of distraction or pollution. Hatha yoga (yoga that works through physical postures to modify mental activities) was a boys’ game, and women were not invited. Medieval hatha…
Can a dying language be saved? By Judith Thurman New Yorker It is a singular fate to be the last of one’s kind. That is the fate of the men and women, nearly all of them elderly, who are—like Marie Wilcox, of California; Gyani Maiya Sen, of Nepal; Verdena Parker, of Oregon; and Charlie Mungulda,…
Le Figaro Les journalistes Mohamed Sifaoui et Zineb El Rhazoui, l’écrivain Boualem Sansal, sont parmi les signataires d’une tribune dans Marianne dénonçant l’«islam politique» et le communautarisme, et défendant «la laïcité et l’universalisme». Le documentariste Mohamed Sifaoui, la journaliste de Charlie Hebdo Zineb El Rhazoui, l’écrivain algérien Boualem Sansal, la militante politique Zohra Bitan…. Tous…
The troubling lesson of the Rotherham crimes Brendan O’Neill Reason P.C.’s invasion of everyday life; its movement from colleges into the concrete worlds of politics, society, and community relations. Consider Rotherham. Major official inquiries, including one published last week, have discovered that in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, around 1,400 young people, mainly white…