Last month, the Supreme Court announced that it will take up Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the most significant challenge to Roe v. Wade in nearly five decades—and the most direct threat to abortion since the decision itself. The deeply personal and private choice of whether or not a person can seek and access abortion
In June 1925 Werner Heisenberg retreated to Helgoland in the North Sea, a treeless island offering the 23-year-old German physicist a space to think, along with some respite from the extreme hay fever he was suffering. On that remote outpost, Heisenberg had an idea that would revolutionise physics and bring profound implications for philosophy and
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. “America is adolescence without end,” Ben Lerner writes in The Topeka School. His witty, revelatory novel follows the Gordon Family—Adam, a high
Left column (top to bottom): Boris Boubacar Diop, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya;Middle left column: Michális Ganás, Cristina Rivera Garza, Jean-Pierre Balpe; Middle right column: Natalie Diaz, Naomi Shihab Nye, Micheline Aharonian Marcom; Right column: Kwame Dawes, Reina María Rodríguez.Petrushevskaya photo © Anastassia Kazakova. Diaz photo © MacArthur Foundation. Dawes photo by Chris Abani World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Vroom (VRM) – Vroom intends to offer $500 million in convertible senior notes due in 2026. The used-vehicle e-commerce platform provider plans to use the proceeds for a variety of corporate purposes as well as investing in or acquiring new technologies. Its shares
SAN FRANCISCO – SkyWatch Space Applications raised 20.9 million Canadian dollars ($17.2 ) in a Series B funding round, less than 17 months after welcoming investors to its Series A round. The rapid pace of fundraising was not in the Canadian startup’s original plan but necessitated by demand for TerraStream, a data management and distribution
Mayoral candidates Eric Adams (L) and Andrew Yang Getty Images Wall Street leaders have poured more than $9 million into groups supporting candidates in the race for New York’s next mayor, with most of the big money getting behind former presidential candidate Andrew Yang and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. CNBC reviewed records of donations
A conceptual rendering of the two ESCAPADE spacecraft in orbit around Mars. Rocket Lab Rocket Lab, which is nearing the close of its SPAC deal to go public, on Tuesday announced it won an early contract that may send two of its Photon spacecraft on a mission to Mars in 2024. NASA, under its Small
Third-party streaming viewership stat org Samba TV reports this morning that 693k U.S. households watched In the Heights on HBO Max in their live+3-day window. The news comes in the wake of the Warner Bros. feature musical losing the No. 1 spot at the weekend B.O. to the third session of Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II, $11.5M to
Hitman Sniper: The Shadows, a spin-off to Hitman: Sniper mobile game, has been announced at E3 2021 by Square Enix. The game will be free-to-play, which is a new direction for the game, as Hitman: Sniper was paid. In Hitman Sniper: The Shadows, you do not play as Agent 47 but as one of the
News Recording Academy Seeks to Close Deborah Dugan Arbitration Hearing to Public CEO Harvey Mason jr. had previously promised transparency, claiming “The Recording Academy has absolutely nothing to hide” By Matthew Ismael Ruiz June 14, 2021 Facebook Twitter Deborah Dugan and Harvey Mason, Jr. speak at the 62nd Grammy Awards Nominations in New York City,
Did Sarah manage to save her town? On The Republic of Sarah Season 1 Episode 1, a young woman stepped up to the challenge when a massive vein of coltan is discovered beneath the town. With a company determined to take the measures needed to take the mineral, the townsfolk decided to rise up and
Pascal Le SegretainGetty Images Louis Vuitton debuts its cruise 2022 runway show live tomorrow, Tuesday, June 15, at 2 p.m. CEST. (That’s 8 a.m. EST.) Watch the atelier’s latest collection from the comfort of your own home, below. This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another
Shipping containers from China and other Asian countries are unloaded at the Port of Los Angeles as the trade war continues between China and the US, in Long Beach, California on September 14, 2019. – Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty Images First, it was a critical shortage of shipping containers due to the pandemic.
Boyhoods Lost to This Endless War If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. Campfire Outside Valdorros The boy should be in a robe ringing altar bells or chasing a
RokitPig Entertainment hits a grand slam, CEO and Producer Jerry G. Angelo (American Warfighter – NETFLIX, Artik – Amazon, All Rise – CBS), adapts into screenplay Best Selling Novel on AMAZON, “Interview With A Terrorist” the true story of military interrogator, James Rosone, during his years in Iraq and the prolific troop surge of 2007.
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has taken yet another step toward having a domestic satellite industry that is driven by the private sector. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), a state-funded university that has developed several satellites, has agreed to share its spacecraft-manufacturing technologies and know-how with three major South Korean aerospace
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden issued a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of their Wednesday summit that the death of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny would hurt Russia’s relationships with the rest of the world. “Navalny’s death would be another indication that Russia has little or no intention of abiding by basic