Rapping East-West, Abortion Pills and a Starbucks Fight Club

Telemedicine could have huge ramifications for both sides of the abortion debate.

From inside the U.S. Capitol, Deb Fischer defends her party’s push for abortion restrictions in states like Georgia and Alabama as protesters outside shout that the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision is in danger of being overturned. “I don’t know that I see a case the court would take. It’s a what-if,” the Republican senator from Nebraska says. Meanwhile, hundreds of abortion rights advocates — and harried-looking presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders — are storming the nearby Supreme Court steps. “It’s a human right, and we need to understand that,” says high school senior and ballerina Julie Gundzik, whose company performs while carrying signs supporting abortion access.

The debate in Washington is playing out with ferocity nationwide after six states passed laws to curtail abortion in recent months. Democrats fret that those laws are aimed at challenging past court precedents and could reach the conservative-majority Supreme Court. But a reversal of Roe would merely toss the matter to individual states rather than ban the practice outright. And in the state-by-state legal framework that would emerge, a key question might be one that’s garnered little national attention: What about the intensifying war over abortion facilitated by telemedicine?

Raja Kumari melds her Indian and American identities to forge a forceful style all her own.

Groovy yet sharp, with a dancehall-reggae feel, “Shook” by Raja Kumari is an act of resistance. The video, in which Kumari dons a half-sari over a camouflage jumpsuit and flaunts a bindi on her forehead, lands the ultimate punch. In short, it’s shook, in a way only she could pull off.

“I am thriving in a space that’s not designated for me,” Kumari says. We’re talking over coffee and quinoa in Mumbai, and Kumari couldn’t be more pumped. She headlined the Adidas Nite Jogger shoe launch the night before, and it went spectacularly well. Hip-hop, after all, is the musical toast of the season in India, following the massive success of Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy, a film that celebrates rappers from Mumbai’s slums. Kumari has long supported Divine and Naezy, the street rappers who inspired the film, and has a song with Divine called “City Slums.” She even has a cameo in the flick.

Chaos and indecision in London (and Washington) are giving “democracy” a bad name. Politicians must again learn to compromise.

The resignation of British Prime Minister Theresa May, announced after 1,045 days in office, deepens what was already a crisis in British politics. We asked our senior contributor, former acting director and deputy director of the CIA John McLaughlin to weigh in on the implications for Britain, Europe and the United States.