Catherine Coleman Flowers

Nov 17, 2024 | nybooks.com | Joshua Craze |Catherine Coleman Flowers |Omer Bartov |Dahlia Krutkovich

Dahlia Krutkovich • Omer Bartov • Catherine Coleman Flowers • Joshua Craze* Bad-faith accusations of antisemitism on American campuses are not new, but they have exploded with new force in the last year. One example: this April a Yale student shared a video she took at a campus Palestine solidarity demonstration. Surrounded by a group of protest marshals who block her off from the rank-and-file, she films the participants, who chant about university divestment while walking by.

Mar 8, 2024 | nybooks.com | Catherine Coleman Flowers

On February 16 Alabama’s supreme court ruled that fertilized, unimplanted embryos created using in vitro fertilization (IVF) are children under state law. The three couples at the center of the case, known as LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, each underwent fertility treatments years ago at the Center for Reproductive Medicine, a clinic based in Mobile. The clinic stored some of their frozen embryos in a cryogenic nursery at a local hospital.

Oct 13, 2023 | inkl.com | Catherine Coleman Flowers

On this breezy day, sewage smells waft behind the house. Rudolph and most of her neighbors here on Gardenia Street have on-site septic tanks for sewage disposal. They're common in rural regions where there might not be enough customers for a municipal sewage treatment plant to be feasible. But the septic tanks here are failing – some are old and others are sinking or have completely collapsed. Rudolph says she's tried getting the tank pumped out and the pipes repaired, but nothing has worked.