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When Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas opened its health center in Lubbock in 2020, it was the culmination of a years-long effort to reestablish an abortion clinic in west Texas, a region that had become, by some metrics, the country’s most notable abortion desert. In 2013, Lubbock’s old Planned Parenthood clinic had been forced to close after Republicans in the state legislature passed budget cuts and anti-abortion restrictions sharply curtailing clinics’ ability to operate. Until this spring... Читать дальше...

A year and a half after Soviet troops marched into Afghanistan, the US Central Intelligence Agency is coordinating a complex, far-flung program, involving five countries and more than $100 million, to provide the Afghan resistance with the weaponry of modern guerrilla warfare. The result is an emerging anti-Soviet alliance—the United States, China, Pakistan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia—that, in the judgment of American planners, is effectively countering the most blatant Soviet aggression of the postwar era. Читать дальше...

It’s rare for a rank-and-file congressmember’s comments to break through the news cycle for multiple days, but that’s just what’s happening with Representative Madison Cawthorn, the bombastic, Trumpian 26-year-old Republican representing North Carolina’s 11th congressional district. Over the weekend, Cawthorn falsely claimed that the country’s elections “continue to be rigged” and that if it went on, there would be “bloodshed.”

Exactly 16 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Hurricane Ida struck Louisiana on Sunday, flooding towns and knocking out power for entire parishes. The New Orleans levee system erected in the wake of Katrina’s catastrophic failures held. But there were two notable differences between the storms. First was Ida’s rapid intensification as she sped over climate change–warmed Gulf waters. And second, she struck a region already pushed to its limits by Covid-19. In this sense, Hurricane... Читать дальше...

For much of August, European soccer appeared to be racing toward a rebalancing that doubled as an existential crisis. Already fantastically unequal, with a handful (at best) of clubs dominating in every country, the continent’s three richest teams—two, Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City, owned by Middle Eastern countries and the third, Chelsea, owned by a Russian oil billionaire—raced even further ahead of everyone else. Manchester City splashed £100 million on Jack Grealish, a tricky winger... Читать дальше...

In The Cost of Living, the second book in Deborah Levy’s memoir trilogy, a child haunts the author’s dream, appearing barefoot in the large Victorian home Levy shared with her husband and two daughters in London. The child smells of “plants that have grown in the African soil,” and as she joins Levy’s English girls on the sofa to watch The Great British Bake Off, Levy looks on warily, conscious that this child has known political upheaval that would rock her children’s easy lives. Levy’s husband... Читать дальше...

After weeks of chaotic evacuations in the wake of the collapse of the Afghan government to the Taliban, and a devastating attack that saw dozens of Afghan civilians and 13 American Marines killed, the last American planes have departed the country.