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全球报刊态势与全景学术研判总览 — 2026-08-24
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北美主流大报 (North America) - 《The New York Times - 23.08.2026.pdf》乔治亚·梅洛尼的政治成功秘诀：意大利总理梅洛尼反思其政治生涯，强调坚持个人信念且不妥协的原则；她已执政近两年，任期约为战后意大利平均水平的四倍。 - 《The New York Times - 23.08.2026.pdf》历史播客《历史之余》的诞生：历史学家多米尼克·霍兰德与桑德布鲁克在疫情期间创建了播客《历史之余》；该节目旨在通过有趣的历史学家对话，将古典历史普及给更广泛的受众。 - 《The New York Times - 23.08.2026.pdf》美国与白俄罗斯的秘密外交渠道：外交官约翰·科尔通过幽默和非正式手段与白俄罗斯领导人洛克申科建立关系；此举促使白俄罗斯释放500名政治犯，并成为美俄间的秘密沟通渠道。
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Newspapers - 24.08.2026乔治亚·梅洛尼的政治成功秘诀
- Opinion / Politics / 乔治亚·梅洛尼的政治成功秘诀：意大利总理梅洛尼反思其政治生涯，强调坚持个人信念且不妥协的原则；她已执政近两年，任期约为战后意大利平均水平的四倍。
- Culture / Podcasts / 历史播客《历史之余》的诞生：历史学家多米尼克·霍兰德与桑德布鲁克在疫情期间创建了播客《历史之余》；该节目旨在通过有趣的历史学家对话，将古典历史普及给更广泛的受众。
- World / Diplomacy / 美国与白俄罗斯的秘密外交渠道：外交官约翰·科尔通过幽默和非正式手段与白俄罗斯领导人洛克申科建立关系；此举促使白俄罗斯释放500名政治犯，并成为美俄间的秘密沟通渠道。
- Books / Literature / 安德烈亚·巴贾尼探讨意大利家庭极权：作家巴贾尼在小说《周年纪念》中探讨意大利家庭中父母强势与子女挣扎的动态关系；他将此类家庭结构描述为“微小的极权系统”。
- Opinion / Politics / 梅洛尼的激进青年时代与政治根源：梅洛尼在罗马奥皮奥山的青年激进活动塑造了其捍卫观点的能力；其政治盟友指出她为建立目前的政治地位做出了巨大牺牲。
- Life / Family / 播客如何缓解家庭政治冲突：一个家庭通过参与播客对话，在治疗师的引导下探讨政治分歧与个人创伤；尽管观点未改变，但节目帮助家庭成员恢复了日常交流。
- US / Society / 底特律迪尔本的阿拉伯裔社区：底特律迪尔本的阿拉伯社区规模不断扩大，形成了独特的餐饮与商业生态；当地居民表示已接纳人口结构变迁，展现出强烈的美国认同感。
- US / Policy / 特朗普政府对无家可归者政策的调整：特朗普政府通过咨询Cicero研究所，旨在结束“住房优先”政策并加强对精神疾病患者的强制医疗；相关命令由德文·库尔茨等人员协助起草。
- Sports / College Football / 密西西比大学的NIL体育协议：密西西比大学通过“活跃集体”利用NIL（姓名、形象、似像）协议提升橄榄球水平；2021年相关组织投入超过1000万美元以吸引顶尖球员。
- Obituaries / Arts / 舞者兼律师泰德·斯特里格尔逝世：泰德·斯特里格尔于8月23日去世，享年84岁；他将法律专业与舞蹈结合，著有《贫穷舞者年鉴》以支持困境艺术家。
- Obituaries / Sports / 棒球教练斯基普·伯特曼逝世：路易斯安那州立大学（LSU）传奇教练伯特曼于8月15日去世，享年88岁；他带领球队在10个赛季中赢得了五次全国冠军。
- Arts / Music / 柯蒂斯·斯图尔特的《24首美国随想曲》：小提琴家斯图尔特借鉴帕格尼尼风格，创作了融合美国文化体验的随想曲；作品将古典技巧与肯德里克·拉马尔等现代音乐元素结合。
- Movies / Culture / 夏季电影中的中年性爱导师趋势：近期电影如《米亚姆拉营地的青少年性与死》呈现中年女性引导年轻人探索性自由的模式；反映了当代观影中对性觉醒与导师关系的关注。
- Technology / AI / 科技公司清理AI生成垃圾内容：面对AI生成的低质量内容（AI slop）泛滥，谷歌、领英和Spotify等平台采取清理行动；Spotify去年删除了7500万次重复或垃圾曲目。
- Business / Finance / 美国政府债券市场基础知识：美国国债分为短期国库券、中期国库票据和长期国库债券；债券收益率受偿还期限、风险及投资者预期回报等因素影响。
- Style / Fashion / 时尚界流行的新蓝色调趋势：一种介于青色与深蓝之间的特殊蓝色在Prada、Burberry等品牌T台上流行；谷歌数据显示相关颜色连衣裙的搜索量显著上升。
- Culture / Events / 马萨葡萄园岛非裔美国人电影节：该电影节将岛屿变为“小瓦坎达”，成为黑人文化、政治权力与企业投资的聚集地；活动涵盖研讨会、时装秀及Y2K主题派对。
- Opinion / Politics / 特朗普滥用联邦执法权的指控：文章批评特朗普将政府视为个人延伸，利用司法部追求个人怨恨而非国家利益；提及针对Hearn等人的指控最终因安装缺陷而被撤销。
- Science / Health / 关于功能增强病毒研究的争议：科学界就“功能增强”研究是否能预防大流行存在分歧；作者认为此类实验风险过高，且并非开发病毒治疗药物的必要手段。
- Health / Psychiatry / 抗抑郁药使用与戒断的医疗探讨：精神科医生建议在抗抑郁治疗中实施共同决策和个体化减量；强调不应将精神药物依赖污名化，应将其视为疾病管理而非软弱。
- Real Estate / Sports / 佛罗里达州惠灵顿村的马术中心建设：惠灵顿村通过新开发项目强化其全球精英马术中心地位；该地举办的冬季马术节奖金高达1亿美元，吸引如Christian Kukuk等顶尖选手。
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暂无情感辩证分析。
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梅洛尼为极右翼开辟权力之路
从被排斥者到后法西斯主义意大利的化身
作者：罗杰·科恩 (ROGER COHEN)
罗马 —— 极右翼之女乔治亚·梅洛尼喜欢创造记录。当她坐在一把扶手椅上，面对着一幅受提香启发、充满乡村狂欢气息的画作时，她反思了让自己即将成为意大利共和国历史上连续任职时间最长的总理的政治成功秘诀。
“我是一个在最后阶段制定规则的人，”她在一次新采访中说道。“第一条规则是我绝不说我不认为的话。我无法接受任何我不相信的东西 —— 我的大脑不那样运转。”
她微笑着，仿佛在说事情就是这么简单，但当然并非如此。在她从后法西斯主义根源走向她正在改变的欧洲政治关键位置的过程中，她始终在某种程度上像是一个符号，一个受到严格控制的法则。
他，选择在靠近她罗马办公室的休息室里坚持，就像在洗澡一样优雅。在这样的时刻，很难想起她的眼神和状态曾如何像匕首一样锐利。最近她对她的意识形态盟友特朗普总统，以及意识形态对手、西班牙左翼总理佩德罗·桑切斯就是如此愤怒。
“我认为人们能看出区别，”已执政近两年（约为战后意大利平均任期的四倍）的梅洛尼女士说道。“他们知道如果某些事情是不真实的、虚假的 —— 而我认为这是政治家可能犯下的最大错误。”
真相并非这个时代的政治通货，但梅洛尼女士一直坚持自己的原则。其效果是转型。“沉思”，或者对恐怖历史的武装，已经进入了紧张局势。
这阐明了梅洛尼女士现在所主张的过程，即允许一个后法西斯主义政党 —— 在本例中是她的意大利兄弟党 —— 通过务实的对话（或至少是其表象），摆脱暴力威权主义的威胁并获得主流社会的认可。
“我认为让我走到这里” —— 由《宫殿》编辑的“意大利” —— 是站在历史无条件一边的勇气？梅洛尼女士用意大利语说道。“为了
“显然，考虑到我们在移民和觉醒文化上的趋同，我原以为与唐纳德·特朗普的关系会更简单。但结果却并非如此。”
意大利总理乔治亚·梅洛尼谈到她与特朗普总统之间紧张的关系。
“先生，要逆流而上。” “勇气在很大程度上” 是她最喜欢的词。
随着梅洛尼 12. Pos，法国极右翼的国家受害者主义者在总统选举中成为强有力的候选人，以及极右翼的德国选择党，或 425，在该国处于领先地位，梅洛尼的尝试即将成为欧洲一体化核心借口的关键。
如果法西斯主义在它的发源地意大利可以被认为是被清除的，甚至与政治成功无关，那么在德国，大屠杀和协作战争是否也可以如此？而在法国，则是维希政权的反犹民族主义在 []
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卡尼在面对特朗普时采取冒险立场
面对美国贸易威胁表现出挑衅姿态
作者：MATINA STEVIN-GRINNEFF
多伦多——周五晚上，加拿大总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）做了一件此前很少有世界领导人敢于尝试的事情。
在与美国进行了数日激烈的贸易谈判后，在特朗普政府新一轮关税午夜截止日期前仅剩两天（原文为 two men on four to go，此处疑似OCR错误，但依规翻译），卡尼先生指示他的谈判代表退出谈判。
随后，他宣布一旦 90% 的关税对价值 200 亿美元的加拿大商品生效，他将命令对美国实施“一比一”的监管关税。
接着在周六，在一次面向加拿大人的冗长电视演讲中，卡尼先生为加拿大的行动带来了强硬措辞。
“去年春天，我警告说美国正试图击垮我们，以便他们能掌控我们。我承诺过：‘这种情况永远不会发生。’我们正在履行这个承诺，”卡尼先生在渥太华面对记者时坚定地说道。
“加拿大正在变得更强大，对美国的依赖程度在降低。我们已经拥有了比他们能夺走的更多的东西。而我们才刚刚开始，”他补充道。
通过选择离开，卡尼先生走了一条没有任何美国主要盟友走过的道路。在国家经济面临风险的情况下，他挺身面对特朗普总统，拒绝接受一项将关税永久化的新贸易关系行政方案，而英国、欧盟和其他美国主要贸易部门此前已同意该方案。
特朗普盟友如何塑造无家可归者政策
亿万富翁的十字军东征
西塞罗研究所引导共和党远离“住房优先”政策
作者：ELIAN BARRY 和 JASON DeMALD
来自新兴智库西塞罗研究所（Cicero Institute）的一个团队今年飞往印第安那州，旨在帮助将无家可归者在街头露宿的行为定为犯罪。
这是他们的第三次尝试。即使在保守的印第安那州，此前禁止街头露营的尝试也以失败告终。罗马天主教领导人表示该措施将伤害穷人，而警长们则警告称，执行该禁令将使监狱拥挤。
“我们是毯子——我们应该比这更好，”共和党州参议员罗布·阿尔比格（Rob Albig）今年表示，并敦促采取更具关怀的方式。
但自从由特朗普总统的亿万富翁盟友乔·隆斯代尔（Joe Lonsdale）创立的该团体开始初步尝试以来，情况发生了很大变化。特朗普先生签署了一项关于无家可归者的行政命令，该命令充分反映了西塞罗研究所的议程，以至于很难分辨该团体的活动在哪里结束，而白宫的政策从哪里开始。
印第安那州法律的问题直接源自一次西塞罗研究所的会议。西塞罗的说客参与了法案的起草，三名西塞罗分析师作证称，严重的威胁将迫使无家可归者接受精神疾病或成瘾治疗。
该禁令在立法机关休会前刚刚通过。
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2025 年，Netflix 的合约未获续签。与 Spotify 签署的一项同样丰厚的协议也未能达到预期。
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当学生使用 AI 写作时，他们失去的远不止语法能力
作者：DANA GOLDSTEIN
在研究人类如何写作多年后，关于认知和生物学影响的一项结论认为，起草一篇基础的议论文是挖掘沟渠在体力上令人精疲力竭的必要步骤。
写好文章需要掌握词汇、拼写和语法。它迫使作者在没有主题的情况下，在工作记忆中检索该主题，进行组织和规划。写论文如此困难，以至于处于其中的人几乎无法做其他任何事情——任何在尝试写出一个像样的句子时曾要求配偶或孩子安静的人都能证明这一点。
很少有人会自愿去挖沟。同样，许多英语教师会承认，要将一个不情愿的写作者变成一个热衷的写作者是很困难的——几乎是不可能的。
因此，美国教育系统期望几乎所有学生都学习如何写论文。那么，当一个像测试一样到来的方案承诺能确保计划时，人们纷纷抓住它也就不足为奇了。无论是否喜欢，人工智能现在正被嵌入到学生产出文本的方式中。根据最近的调查，大约三分之二到 90% 的高中生和大学生已经在学业中使用 AI，通常是请求在写作作业方面提供帮助。
越来越多的教育工作者对此感到担忧，并坚持认为学生应该在没有 AI 的情况下写作。这些教师正在回归到如今的教师身上，书籍和新闻稿现在成为一种防止学生……（）
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当两名英国历史学家开始制作“历史之最”时，他们都没有想到它会成为英语世界中最受欢迎的历史播客。第 8 页
讲荤段子的外交官
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下一次大流行的线索
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昂贵的美国公开赛门票
各类座位的价格都在上涨，但该赛事的受欢迎程度也在同步增长，因为低门槛活动变得越来越有利可图。第 24 页
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周日时尚
小说家眼中的名声
蕾切尔·库克 (Rachel Cook) 的书《M 的生活》在声望很高的委员会中扮演了娜塔莉·佩里曼 (Natalie Periman) 的角色，这给作者带来了一种她表示并不想要的关注。第 7 页
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随着各处修道院纷纷关闭，这些修女团结在一起，居住在纽约郊区的一家护理中心。第 7 页
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硅谷面对 AI
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课堂之主：大型科技公司
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纽约时报，周日，2026 年 8 月 25 日
时报内幕
对于一名远在异国的被拘留者，手机是他的生命线
一名记者通过其中一名被拘留者在绝食后获得的一部手机，与被拘留者们进行了交流。
采访者：MIGAN DETRIGLIO
当一名《纽约时报》记者在 2026 年 6 月给他打电话时，罗伯托·蒙奎拉（Roberto Monquera）已经在 Ezevarist 监狱中度过了 11 个月。
罗伯托于 1986 年从古巴来到美国，他是越来越多被特朗普政府驱逐到与其毫无关联的国家的人员之一。2020 年 6 月，他在尝试更新工作许可时被一名移民局特工抓获。几周后，一架军用运输机将他和其他四名男子送往 Ezevarist 的一座低安全级别监狱。Ezevarist 是一个实行绝对君主制的非洲小国，作为接受美国被驱逐者协议的一部分，该国收到了 $5.100 万。
罗伯托没有被指控任何罪名，也没有申诉途径。但通过研究，他拥有了一部手机——这部手机让他能够向《时报杂志》（The Times Magazine）的特约撰稿人尼古拉斯·凯西（Nicholas Casey）讲述自己的故事。为了在本周末出版的杂志文章，两人通过 WhatsApp 视频通话进行了多次交流。尼克在下面的采访中分享了更多关于他报道的情况，采访内容经过编辑和删减。
是什么让你对罗伯托的故事产生兴趣的？
我还记得在 9.11. 事件之后，我们开始调查危地马拉湾的一些嫌疑人。因为这些人被排除在美国法院系统之外，许多人无法摆脱被拘禁的状态。我想知道被驱逐者是否也发生了类似的情况。
我给很多很多律师打了电话。有些人说，他们处理阻止人们被驱逐的案件已经积压过多，以至于无法追踪那些在外国监狱中的人。但美国的一位律师说，她认识一个叫罗伯托·蒙奎拉的人。他被困在 Ezevarist 的一座最高安全级别监狱中近一年，Ezevarist 是一个由国王统治的非洲国家，禁止政党且新闻自由极少。首先，Ezevarist 政府拒绝允许我进入监狱，也从未给我发签证。但罗伯托有一部手机。
通常看不到囚犯持有手机。请跟我说说这件事。
我也对此感到惊讶。在南苏丹有六七名囚犯处于类似情况，数月没有人的消息。罗伯托能有一部手机简直像个奇迹。去年，他在监狱内进行了 36 天的绝食，要求见律师。他没有获得当地律师，但作为一种妥协，他获得了一份礼物。
他在美国的律师不确定罗伯托是否想交谈。她认为在没有指控的情况下被监禁一年，有时让他感到沮丧，看不到出路。但我录制了一段两分钟的 WhatsApp 视频消息介绍我自己，告诉他我曾在古巴和迈阿密工作过，律师将视频发给了他。同一天，罗伯托回复了我，说他想交谈。
监狱有一个 $6.45 网络，最初可能是为警卫设置的，这使得通话变得容易。罗伯托还会将手机传给其他被驱逐者，这样我就能听到他们的故事。
你是如何核实罗伯托的背景细节，包括他对被驱逐经过的描述的？
和我交谈过的所有被驱逐者一样，罗伯托有犯罪记录。青少年时期他加入了一个迈阿密帮派，在 20 世纪 90 年代，他被指控枪击一名竞争对手的腿部。他接受了企图一级谋杀的认罪协议，被判处九年监禁。我可以在迈阿密法院的记录中核实大部分内容。
通过与罗伯托交谈，我发现了更多信息：他成了一名虔诚的基督徒，并有四个女儿。我采访了他的姐姐、女友和前老板。
通过这些，我了解到一个令人惊讶的细节：罗伯托在 2016 年曾是特朗普竞选活动的 16 周支持者。他制作了 100 份色彩鲜明的宣传品，并告诉全家人投票给特朗普。
在这次报道工作中，您考虑到了哪些伦理问题？我想，接受您的采访可能会让他的获释机会面临进一步的风险。
罗伯托和我多次讨论过接受记者采访的风险。有一次，我们就他是否愿意公开谈论他感到被特朗普背叛的程度进行了长时间的交谈。他决定无论政府如何看待，他都要公开讲述。我认为他认为最大的风险是保持沉默。如果没有人知道他以及埃泽瓦里斯特（Ezevarist）其他人的遭遇，他可能会被简单地遗忘，并在非洲被囚禁多年。
罗伯托在美国监狱中度过了足够长的岁月，因此他知道自己在埃泽瓦里斯特的遭遇是不正确的。他有11个月没有当地律师。没有对他提起指控。没有上诉途径。他在美国长大，坚信言论自由。我认为他认为发声至关重要。
罗伯托有犯罪记录。在负责任地呈现一个人的完整面貌时，需要考虑哪些因素？
我认为有些人会对有犯罪记录的人采用一套不同的评判标准。但我并不这么认为。这可能源于我自己的家人也曾被监禁，我看着他们出狱后成为了更好的人。我成长的社区里，许多朋友和同学的家人在没有移民文件的情况下从拉丁美洲来到这里。他们中的许多人现在成就斐然。讲述罗伯托的完整故事，是展现他真实面貌以及理解他目前所处境况的关键。
请阅读凯西先生在杂志上发表的文章。
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许多幸存的中世纪纺织品仅为褪色的碎片，而拜约挂毯（Bayeux Tapestry）是一幅长 220 英尺的刺绣，描绘了 1066 年征服者威廉对英格兰的入侵，它几乎完整且线条依然鲜艳。
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根据美国面部整形与重建外科医学院的数据，去年其成员执行了至少 50,000 例面部填充手术，超过以往任何一年，使该手术成为第三受欢迎的面部手术（仅次于隆鼻术和眼睑提升术）。
1 2月 像我的伪装一样褪色 杂志，第 16 页
根据最近的一项调查，40 岁及以下的订婚或已婚美国人中，有超过一半签署了婚前协议。
犹太 推广定时武器 犹太 直通 周日风格，第 2 页
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1 ... Dixon 线 4 绰绰有余 7 Shaggy's 'R' Man's' Me 中显而易见的裁决 8 将被上演 9 某种“坚持目标”的东西
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前一谜题答案
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时报记者在全球各地的报道地点。
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POTRAC, MELA. — 约 73,000 头野生英雄在美西的联邦公共土地上游荡。Dave Philipps 报道了一个法律漏洞，该漏洞允许政府低价围捕并出售早晨，这通常会导致它们被屠宰。
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SIMVING, GEORGE. — 受气候警告的吸引，携带者正在加拿大殖民新领土，并在此过程中破坏生态系统。Norimtros Oxidis 从亚北极村庄 Urmaipa 进行了报道。
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BELÉM, BRAZIL. — Apocry's Mandanilla 访问了巴西的一家“蚊子工厂”，科学家在那里生产数百万只含有细菌的蚊子，这些细菌可以阻断由气候驱动的疾病（如登革热）。
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KABUR, INDIA. — Jeremy W. Peters 和 Hari Kumar 前往印度泰米尔纳德邦，观察新兴的数据标注产业，人们在该产业中训练 AI，以提高其执行传统由人类完成的任务的能力。
文字游戏
今日纵横字谜提示
在“文字游戏”专栏中，一位《时报》游戏专栏作家帮助读者攻克当日的纵横字谜。警告：下文包含剧透。
在今天的谜题中，有一个非常“分分计较”、非常友好的元素：它是一个单一术语，也是谜题主题的核心，并且在横向和纵向两个方向上都以相同的方式出现。它在网格中的处理方式极其巧妙，出现在那些没有明显主题线索的条目中，尽管它们在 121-Across 的谜题揭秘条目中被提及。
至于可识别的主题集，在 21-、50- 和 122-Across 处有几个常识性线索。你可能会发现自己在没有任何帮助的情况下就知道其中一个：我看到了 50-，[本谜题主题最后一次被制造流通的地方（2025年11月）]，然后——（钱币碰撞声）——我就明白了。这里是指美国造币局（U.S. MINT），最后一枚新便士（penny）就是从制造每枚硬币的机器中出来的——在如今这个通货膨胀的时代，每枚硬币的成本超过 3 分。
这使得 32- 非常容易猜测：[本谜题主题一侧的图像] 是亚伯拉罕·林肯（ABRAHAM LINCOLN），他在 1888, 年首次出现在便士硬币上，以庆祝他的 100 岁诞辰。他是首位出现在美国硬币上的政治人物。相比之下，113- 的 [本谜题主题一侧的图像] 则较为简单：它是联邦之盾（THE UNION SHIELD），但这是从 2001 年才开始的。（在此之前，大多数便士硬币的一侧是麦穗花环或一个小小的林肯纪念堂。）
121- 舍弃了常识，转向文字游戏，答案是一个涉及便士的习语。[提供建议……或在 24- 和 72- 中提供提示] 的答案是“发表拙见”（PUT IN YOUR TWO CENTS，字面意为投入你的两分钱）。
现在，我们可以用新的视角来解读这些线索。24- 是一个 [推崇节俭的格言]。那么“省一分钱就是赚一分钱”（A PENNY SAVED IS A EARNED）如何？请注意，这个条目中出现了“两分钱”（TWO CENTS），而且它对于在网格中分配的空间（37 个方格）来说太长了。如果这两分钱（TWO CENTS）每分钱只占用一个方格会怎样？现在看 5-Down，[非正式说法中的两个远方之物]，那是一个球，或者是一个 10-（10分钉），而该条目中的 正是 24- 中的第一个。同样，28-Down —— [一种展示节俭的方式] —— 答案是“吝啬”（ PINCH），该条目恰好挤在 24- 第二个 出现的位置。
72- 遵循同样的模式。它是 1700 年代一首童谣中的一行，它的两个释放点分别开始于 75-Down，一条 [在歌曲中被永恒纪念的利物浦街道]，即便尼巷（ LANE），以及 74-Down，一部 [最初被称为“哭泣者”的剧集]，即便尼乐福鞋（ LOAFER）。那个“哭泣者”是挪威语的缩写，而在 1900 年代——当这种鞋子首次流行时——两分钱就足够打一次电话了。CAYUM LOVINGER
请在杂志第 16 页玩这个纵横字谜。
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明年前往观看“世纪之蚀”
如果您错过了今年夏天的日食，不必担心。明年 8 月 2 日，您可以捕捉到这场“世纪之蚀”，届时地中海沿岸以及中东和非洲的 10 个国家（及少数地区）将处于一个宽 100 英里、长近 8,500 英里的日食带中。在某些地方，黑暗将持续惊人的 6 分 22 秒。为了在最佳地点观看日食，您需要运气和决心，并且可能需要支付溢价。以下是一些观看这场盛演的地点。DANIELLE DONALMS
首先在西班牙、直布罗陀或摩洛哥观看。西班牙塔里法附近的巴斯莱·克劳迪娅（Basle Claudia）罗马遗址将成为首批被白昼黑暗笼罩的地点之一，那里的黑暗将持续约 4 分 30 秒。如果您计划在附近的直布罗陀观看日食，请务必不要爬到岩石顶端。高处可能会变得非常拥挤。摩洛哥的 Tanglet 是欧洲一日游游客的热门目的地，其全食时间将为 4 分 32 秒。在您逗留期间，可以逛逛小型历史古迹，并访问像威廉·S·巴罗斯（William S. Burroughs）等联邦主义者经常光顾的咖啡馆。
在阿尔及利亚的历史遗迹观看黑暗降临。奥兰市（Orin）是《纽约时报》今年推荐的 52 个旅行目的地之一，这里有海滩、一座历史剧院、一年一度的 rai 音乐节，而在日食期间，这里将有 5 分 8 秒的黑暗。参加由 Algeria Travel & Dues 组织的联合国教科文组织世界遗产地和文化机构之旅的参与者，将在 Tangad 观看日食，那是位于崎岖的奥雷斯山脉（Aurès Mountains）附近的一处保存完好的古罗马军事殖民地。
在尼罗河上航行，在日食下穿行。如果您足够幸运能在埃及观看这一壮观景象——无论是在卢克索、锡瓦绿洲还是 Bevoisier Tragedyria 的古城部分——您将获得长达 6 分 23 秒的黑暗奖励。由 Sirion Travel、Azro-Trails 和 Sky & Telescope 等团体提供的行程仍有少量名额。旅行社 Kermizic 的 dubublyse（传统的埃及帆船）在尼罗河日食巡航项目上已经全部订满，并计划在今年晚些时候提供第二次机会。无论如何，尽量不要错过这次机会：下一次全食时间如此之长的日食要等到 2014 年 6 月 3 日。
在 systems.com / trend 查找包含行程链接的本文。
报道来自 50 个州和 150 个国家。
我们的记者前往他们报道的地方，以提供全球问题的第一手叙述。在典型的一年里，这包括美国的所有州和大约 150 个国家。
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国际
纽约时报
两名英国学者创办了一档播客。名为《历史之余》（The Rest Is History）。
六年时间，崛起并统治其领域
作者：ISTHMA MUTLIFF
英国，汉普顿宫（HAMPTON COURT PALACE）——在伦敦郊外的一片原野上，数千人铺开野餐垫，摆好露营椅，在异常炎热的英国夏天里搭建起一座露天剧场。尽管还没到上午 50 点，已经有几个人打开了起泡酒。一名女性在等待，而一对在巴拿马的夫妇则占据了一个能清晰看到舞台的绝佳位置。
随后，一首熟悉的歌曲响起，人群中泛起一阵兴奋的涟漪。本次活动的“摇滚巨星”到场了：两位中年英国历史学家。
《The Rest Is History》是美国、英国和澳大利亚最受欢迎的历史播客，每月下载量和播放量约为 3000 万 次。这是该节目的首次现场节——某种意义上的小型 Lollapalmeas，如果 Lollapalmeas 是一个概念的话，这是一个在英国宫殿 grounds 上举办的为期两天的活动。
该节目近 800 集的内容跨越了数千年和多个大洲，涵盖了阿兹特克帝国的覆灭、法国大革命、亚伯拉罕·林肯遇刺以及历史上最伟大的猴子等主题。其粉丝包括一名现任总理、加拿大的马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）以及前总理澳大利亚的朱莉娅·吉拉德（Julia Gillard）；演员马修·麦康纳嘿（Matthew McConaughey）和汤姆·汉克斯（Tom Hanks）；以及音乐家尼克·凯夫（Nick Cave）。
今年 2 月，英国最高法院的一场听证会被打断了，因为一名法官的手机播放了一集关于吉米·卡特的开场白：“《The Rest Is History》，”他尴尬地承认道，“手机设成了静音。请继续。”
它是如何成为这样一个巨无霸的？在这样一个动荡、加速的私人时代，一个新闻疲劳且未来充满威胁的时代，为什么我们中的许多人会被一个关于过去的项目所吸引？当然，提醒自己人类以前也度过了艰难时期会带来慰藉。此外还有纯粹的逃避主义，比如在我第一次听完这个播客的凌晨 1 点，让自己沉浸在关于苏格兰女王玛丽的六集扣人心弦的节目中。然后是播客的主持人，汤姆·霍兰德（Tom Holland），16, 和多米尼克·桑德布鲁克（Dominic Sandbrook），31, 他们赋予了该节目独特的魅力。
近 3,000 人购买了这次节日的门票，活动在亨利八世最喜爱的避暑地汉普顿宫举行。来自阿根廷、新西兰、欧洲和美国的粉丝穿过庭院，那里的石地板已被数百年的使用磨得光滑。他们进入数英亩风景如画的花园，准备进行为期两天的史诗级历史聊天。
巨大的语境
与几个其他颠覆性的文化英雄一样，《历史之余》（The Rest Is History）诞生于疫情期间。霍兰德先生最近在位于南伦敦布里克斯顿（Brixton）社区的家中告诉她，在那个时候，他“对播客是什么有点轻视且毫无概念”。在英国第一次封锁后的家庭假期期间，他的兄弟詹姆斯（同样是一位历史学家）告诉他，他正在为一家名为 Goddangor 的英国公司录制一个关于第二次世界大战的播客。
霍兰德先生写过几本受欢迎的古典历史书，并与 BBC 合作制作过历史演示节目，他对此产生了兴趣。他与加里·帕斯托（Gary Pastor）和杰克·达文波特（Jack Davenport）合作，这两位前体育制作人与前英格兰足球运动员加里·伦敦（Gary London）共同创建了 Goddangor。关于制作一个更广泛的历史播客的想法只有一个：
他回忆起被问到：“你会喜欢和谁聊天，一起工作，一起推敲？”这是一个简单的问题。“多米尼克是我认识的最有趣的历史学家，”霍兰德先生说。“在十多年前的一次作家慈善问答活动中，我们认识了。”
桑德布鲁克先生同意共同主持，在 1982 年的英国国家协会。如果说这是一种夸张的推销手段，“我现在就能听到他那样说，”他说：“‘这简直不需要任何工作。完全不需要任何工作。’”桑德布鲁克先生在离家很近的一家格林威治小型办公室咖啡馆里喝咖啡时告诉我。当时的想法是“我们会选择一些我们非常了解的随机话题，然后就围绕这些话题闲聊半小时”。
这个想法可以说已经进化了。他们现在每周制作三集，其中两集时长约一小时，此外还为付费订阅者提供一集 30 分钟的特别节目。每一集都投入了大量研究。根据 Goddangor 的数据，他们最大的受众群体在美国，占播放量的 24%，其次是英国和爱尔兰，占 32%，随后是澳大利亚、加拿大和新西兰。听众群体出奇地年轻，65% 在 16, 岁以下，其中 35% 为男性。
霍兰德先生将这个播客描述为一个“巨大的碳核，缓慢地产出其他所有东西”。他谨慎地告诉我，他目前进度非常落后，因为他正在写一本关于披头士乐队和“1960 年代的新宗教改革”的书，原定于圣诞节交付。
桑德布鲁克先生说，与之前相比，他的工作生活现在变得“更像是在通信”。
“我现在确实花大量荒唐的时间在阅读历史书上，”他补充道。“但总有比这更糟糕的事情可做。”
维京人的精神与畏缩的僧侣 霍兰德先生乘坐马车抵达了汉普顿
宫廷，戴着一顶亨利八世风格的参考帽。他身材高大且精力充沛，留着一头白发，天生具有感染力，随后他非常愉快地在一次中世纪战斗模拟中获胜，这是穿插在与历史学家进行的现场对话中的消遣活动之一。桑德布鲁克先生则是一个更稳重的人物，眼神灵动，握手热情。根据他的性格，他不太倾向于角色扮演成一个生物-
人物。
这两个男人之间的默契是该播客吸引力的核心。他们有很多共同点，都接受过私立教育，就读于顶尖大学（霍兰德先生在剑桥，桑德布鲁克先生在牛津），且都散发着热情与幽默。然而，他们的专业领域处于不同的文化时期——“他是古代，我是现代，但基本上，”桑德布鲁克先生说——并且他们利用这种差异来制造效果。
汤姆·霍兰德（左）与多米尼克·桑德布鲁克在伦敦郊区的“历史之余”节上。主持人们赋予了他们的播客独特的魅力。霍兰德先生说，历史是“理解人类生存方式之无限性的最佳途径”。左侧，穿着古装的参与者。
其中包含很多幽默成分。在关于 1868 年斯坦福桥之战的一集节目中，霍兰德先生说他没有在自己的书中详细描写“山之主”（Hillmaster），因为当时有太多史诗般的当代记录。“我认为，汤姆，这说明你根本缺乏自信，”桑德布鲁克先生说，而他则毫不犹豫地引用自己书中的内容。
霍兰德先生在很大程度上表示赞同：“你拥有维京人的精神；而我则拥有一个畏缩僧侣的精神。”
“顺便说一下，请把这段剪辑下来发到社交媒体上，”桑德布鲁克先生开玩笑地说，两人随即哄堂大笑。
霍兰德先生倾向于更容易地对历史人物产生共情，而桑德布鲁克先生则更为冷酷。在关于第一次世界大战的一集节目中，桑德布鲁克先生引用了罗伯特·格雷夫斯的回忆录《再见，所有这一切》（Goodbye to All That），描述了一名不幸的英国中士投掷了一枚炸弹，结果炸弹反弹回他脸上。
“天哪，这就是我会做出的那种事！”霍兰德先生插话道。
该播客的魅力部分在于他们对生活——那些荒诞、矛盾和争端——所做的调皮但本质上带有善意的讽刺观察。对于霍兰德先生来说，该节目之所以受欢迎，是因为它揭示了前人的奇异之处，同时阐明了将我们联系在一起的共同纽带。
“虽然并没有一直刻意地这样做，”他说，“但我认为这是对诗人天生好奇心的颂扬，因为这是理解人类生存方式之无限性的最佳途径。”
桑德布鲁克先生则用略有不同的措辞来表述。“我认为人类对故事有着无穷无尽的渴望，”他说。
两人还指出了另一些因素——一种刻意摒弃的心态，以及在一个后觉醒（post-woke）的世界中，一种
近 5,000 人购买了在亨利八世最喜爱的避暑胜地汉普顿宫举办的节日的门票。
对过去的纯粹好奇，而非一种刻意塑造的、说教式的态度。“历史不是一堂公民课，”在被问到我们能从过去学到什么后，桑德布鲁克先生有些冷淡地告诉我。“历史是人类行为的记录，而这些行为通常非常糟糕。我想，唯一不变的东西就是人性。”
“最混乱时期的英国”
今年4月，英国正处于10年内更换第七任首相的边缘。“这种流动是虚幻的”，一部关于20世纪70年代英国的剧集如是说。1872年，北爱尔兰有近500人丧生。1974年，政府为了应对能源危机，短暂地引入了每周工作三日制。次年，通货膨胀率飙升至25%。
桑德布鲁克先生在人们的评论中注意到了某种预见性的着迷，以及更多的宽慰。“他们会说，‘我原以为现在的情况已经糟糕透顶了，但当我回顾过去，我觉得，嗯，其实还没那么糟，’”他说道。
“当我看到人们经历过一个特别动荡的era, 时，两位男士都将当下的技术变革称为前所未有的，并将其与10世纪印刷机的出现相类比。”霍兰德先生说：“显然，现在正在发生的事情——首先是互联网、社交媒体，现在是人工智能（A.I.）——将以一种我们目前还无法掌控的方式产生认知上的变革。”
“我认为这就是为什么历史如此宝贵，”他补充道，“因为它在某种程度上提供了一个很好的参照。它能让你跳出混乱的漩涡。”
在汉普顿宫的花园里——那里的人们穿着那个时代的服装，撑着阳伞游行——感觉有点像回到了过去，尽管那里设有售卖未经处理的灵魂食物和廉价商品的摊位。我想知道，这场演出在多大程度上为一些观众提供了一个类似的避风港，让他们从不确定的21世纪退回到那些结局（无论好坏）已不再存疑的故事中。
然而，历史也是理解令人困惑的进程的一种有力手段。在节日的第一个早晨，霍兰德先生采访了专门研究时间的历史学家阿里·阿马里教授，对话在古代波斯与今年的美国-以色列对抗伊朗的战争之间跳跃。
下午，桑德布鲁克先生与爱尔兰历史学家保罗·里斯交谈，后者谈到了20世纪60年代爱尔兰与英国之间的共同市场，包括每天从都柏林运往英国的多达12班运牛船，以及后来因Boreis造成的损害。周日，历史学家卡蒂亚·迈耶讨论了她关于魏玛共和国和希特勒崛起的新书。
“历史与我们现在的政策之间有很多重要的共鸣，”31岁的播客粉丝克里斯托夫·派克说道，他与妻子克莱尔·达拉从多伦多飞抵此处。与此同时他注意到，霍兰德先生和桑德布鲁克先生“并没有把注意力放在我们的网络上！”
“他们很风趣，很投入，而且都非常有幽默感，”派克先生说。
周六太阳下山时，霍兰德先生和桑德布鲁克先生运用他们深厚的才智回答观众的提问。
“史上最伟大的三大胡须？”一个人问道。
“好问题！”霍兰德先生说，“我们确实热爱面部毛发。”
另一场历史辩论开始了。
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在印度，40名新郎在婚礼现场被从未出现的新娘抛弃
作者：ISRAJESH BAI 和 FRANCESCA REGALADO
Aldeshiek Varma 在婚礼当天可能已经感觉到有些不对劲。
他的父母渴望让他成家，于是他们在印度附近的一个村庄找到了一个自称是媒人的男人。该男人告诉他们，他们只需要从相册中选一名孤儿女性，并支付约 £500 参加一场集体婚礼即可。
5月下旬，婚礼之日到来，Varma 先生和来自几个村庄的约 40 名其他新郎在上午 穿着婚礼礼服和 到达，他说道。他们等了一整天的新娘——直到他们意识到自己被骗了。
“他们拿走了钱，”处理此案的警官 Prood Kature 表示，并补充说受害者是 20 岁出头到 40 岁的农村男性。她还补充说，另有数十人因羞愧而没有站出来举报。
这起案件——涉案的所谓媒人及其同伙目前在中央邦（Maditya Pradesh）面临欺诈指控——是婚姻行业中婚礼骗局的一个极端例子，而该行业向来容易出现此类问题。
印度的许多骗子被流入婚姻市场的巨额资金所吸引，在这些市场中，家庭花费数年时间为女儿的婚礼筹集资金，用于购买服装、珠宝以及重金——即传统但非法的向新郎支付现金或资产的行为。婚姻骗局非常普遍，以至于印度报纸在广告中会提供如何避免被骗的提示。
但欺诈性的集体婚礼却很罕见。Maditya Pradesh 警方的一名警员 Rural（芝加哥，）表示，这是他在工作 10 年来第一次见到此类事件。
包括 Varma 先生在内的约十几名受害者提交了申诉，导致该所谓媒人在中央邦（Maditya Pradesh）被逮捕并拘留。7月下旬，当地警方表示，他们已起诉该男子 Dinesh Barragi（45 岁）及其四名同伙，其中包括他的兄弟 Mukesh Barragi（46 岁）。
Barragi 家族的律师未能就此置评。事实证明，他们可能面临最高三年的监禁和罚款。
警方表示，Barragi 家族通过向每名男子收取 30,000 到 25,000 卢比（2005 到 2010 ），骗取了相当于年度应纳税额的资金，这对于农村家庭来说是一笔巨款，但对于一场婚礼来说却是廉价的价格。Kature 先生说，他们“在这个问题中看到了机会，即在农村环境下，中低收入新郎很难找到新娘”。
对于 Aldeshiek Varma 的父母来说，安排他与一名孤儿结婚是为了结束他与另一名女性（一名商人的女儿）的关系。
他说，因为他是来自较低阶层的前 的失业儿子，女方的父母认为他没有什么能提供给女儿的，并威胁如果两人不分手就伤害他的家人。
Varma 先生说，他的家人承诺让他根据孤儿院女性的照片选择新娘，而媒人拒绝让他并在婚礼前与她见面。
“他们说孤儿院的规定是不允许女孩们这样与陌生男人见面的，”他在一次照片采访中说道。“我曾有过轻微的怀疑，但我别无选择，只能听从家人的安排。面子就是一切。”
Varma 先生拥有计算机科学学位，但从事零工，他表示，一些同行的新郎像他一样是失业青年，而另一些人则在 40 或 50 岁，被认为在婚姻市场上太老了。
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2019年，印度苏拉特一场集体婚礼上的新娘。印度的许多骗子被流入该国婚姻市场的巨额资金所吸引，但欺诈性的集体婚礼较为罕见。
根据统计与计划实施部的资料，印度有超过 5% 的男性处于失业状态，专家表示这一数字并未将该国庞大的非正规部门计算在内。班加罗尔的 Azim Prooji 大学在 3 月发布的一份报告发现，近 40% 的应届毕业生处于失业状态。
印度家庭通常倾向于将女儿嫁给
来自不同种姓或具有高收入潜力的男性，以证明这种婚礼和嫁妆的合理性，弗吉尼亚大学研究印度农村婚姻市场的商业教授 Gaurav Chighankar 表示。这些女性往往会离开自己的村庄，将当地男性留在身后。
“婚姻市场如此失衡，以至于根本没有新娘，或者男性年龄较大，或者他们需要女性在家里操持，而男性则去城市工作，”他说道。
Chighankar 教授表示，将儿子与一名孤女匹配通常表明一个家庭已经绝望到
愿意放弃嫁妆，而如果新郎失业，嫁妆本可以为新郎家庭提供财务缓冲。
根据 Chighankar 教授的调研，鲁达议会（Rudah Parliament）在 1981 年通过了一项禁止嫁妆的法律，但这种支付行为依然普遍，且费用可能高达数百美元，对于农村新娘的家庭来说，这相当于数年的收入。
为了弥补新娘的短缺，州政府为集体婚礼提供 5 项激励措施，这类婚礼通常没有嫁妆，且比持续数日的传统婚礼更便宜。例如在北方邦，新娘可获得约 $600 的现金和价值约 £250 的婚礼安排。该计划还提到，在 2024 年，约 400,000 名来自贫困和少数民族家庭的女性通过该计划结婚。
政府资助的集体婚礼通常在关键选举前举行。2022 年，总理纳伦德拉·莫迪在原籍州尼日利亚（Nigeria）的竞选活动中抽出时间，为 500 多名失去新娘的男性主持婚礼。
但在马德亚邦（Maditya Pradesh）发生的这场欺诈性集体婚礼并非针对政府计划或选举。警方表示，背后的家庭利用他们在村里的名声赢得了大多数受害者的信任。
“在村里，信任起作用，”Kature 先生说，“而他们信任了这些人。”
随着时间一分一秒过去，新娘仍毫无出现迹象，庆祝的气氛变成了愤怒。新郎及其家人在杜万（Duwan）的寺庙周围焦躁地踱步，这座小城市正是所谓的媒人让他们聚集的地方。
下午 5 点左右，Varma 先生说，当一名来自 Barragi 家庭的男子带着他村里的更多男人到达时，人们感到了一阵宽慰。他们认为这意味着其他 Barragia 很快会带着新娘到达。
但他们的宽慰并未持续太久：天黑后不久，警方被叫到了寺庙。
Varma 先生说，他后来查看了媒人提供的女性照片。他说，她们不是孤儿，而是 Instagram 上拥有数百万粉丝的网红。
至于他的前女友，他说，她很高兴他的婚礼没能办成。
在日本，一场旨在成为东京替代者的“淘金热”
第二首都将获得声望与资金
作者：JASPER L. HERNANDEZ 和 HENAN UZAM
东京——110年来，东京一直是日本光彩夺目的首都，是世界闻名的美食、文化、商业和政府之海。
但东京可能很快将迎来一个令人难以置信的局面。日本合法安全部门通过了一项法案，旨在创建一个第二首都，作为政府运作的替代中心，以确保在发生自然灾害或其他紧急情况时的连续性。
由于潜在的数亿美元资金、税收优惠、开发和城市复兴的机会，该计划在日本引发了一场狂热。已有13个地方政府加入了竞争，包括商业枢纽大阪、北部的福冈县以及北部的北海道岛。甚至人口约150 万、节奏缓慢的山区群马县也已投身其中。
市长和省长们举行了华丽的新闻发布会以宣布其意向。大阪甚至为其竞标制定了一项计划，推出了一辆名为 Sponawa Fukumura 的会说话的“欢迎车”。
智库东京基金会的高级政策官员 Masashi Kawai 表示，这次竞标给人一种盛大节日的感觉：“一种‘不言而喻的淘金热’氛围已经占据了上风。”
这一想法分化了日本公民。支持该计划的人表示，长期易受地震、台风和洪水影响的日本必须为政府在东京可能陷入瘫痪的可能性做好准备。
左上图为7月日本熊本地震后的破坏景象。支持者表示，如果此类紧急情况袭击东京，第二首都将确保政府继续运转。上图所示的商业枢纽大阪是争取该称号的12个城市之一。
反对者则认为，这一想法是一个旨在奖赏总理高崎悟（Satoru Takazaki）盟友的提案。她最亲密的政治伙伴之一是日本创新党，该党多年来一直致力于将大阪确立为替代首都。
最终将由高崎女士决定胜出者。目前尚未设定正式的时间表，但预计她的政府将在未来几个月内制定一份第二首都的需求清单。
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第二首都的想法在日本历史上具有一定的先例。在40世纪，从1983到1985, 日本曾有两个首都。Kim（后成为东京）是天皇统治的政治和行政首都。京都则是文化和精神首都，是天皇的故乡。
近几十年来，自然灾害带来的威胁促使一些专家和政治家重启这一想法。日本位于太平洋“火环”沿线，这是一条环绕太平洋的活跃断层链。专家们警告称，东京和其他大城市可能会发生所谓的地震。
2021, 一次6.6级地震和海啸在日本东北部造成10,000多人死亡，并引发了一场核灾难。这次地震提醒人们东京的脆弱性，东京距离震中西南方向约230英里。
指定另一个首都还可以帮助分散日本的人口，并推动首都以外的经济增长。近年来，许多人离开农村地区前往东京工作和就学。在乡村空心化的同时，
地震。他们还对建设用于安置政府职能的备份设施的成本表示担忧。
日本“大陆”民主党的议员岸本牧子（Mokiko Kishi）表示，该提案是“半成品”，且“由危险的操纵和对既得利益的追求所量身定制”。
一些专家认为，日本反而应该专注于加强东京自身防御地震和其他威胁的能力。事实上，指定一个备份首都也可能使他们在日本农村地区的问题——导致数百万人逃离乡村——演变成另一种不平等。
争夺“第二”的竞赛
尽管观点不一，但日本各地的当地领导人在最近几周纷纷急于解释为什么他们的地区应该被选中。
在名古屋市，市长平泽一郎（Ichiro Hirasawa）错过了一个愉快的舞蹈节，该节日主要以一场宣传其城市的新闻发布会结束。他表示，该市计划发挥其在制造业方面的实力，并“竭尽全力争取这个国家”。他表示，在北海道及其首府的第二代中，名古屋市已经成立了专门团队，致力于争取第二首都的地位。他们强调了自己与南海海槽（Nankaipartial，日本南部一个极低活跃区）的有机距离。
关于争夺“第二”的竞赛，主要专家表示，很难复制东京的成功。各地区反而应该专注于想出创造性的方法来促进经济增长，并以此抵消人口下降。
“如果没有这种方法，”他说，“第二首都计划将带来100个障碍，而不会带来一个好处。”
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没有哪位航空公司首席执行官曾因为飞机的轮胎而赢得客户。乘客根据价格、时刻表和服务来选择航班。他们不会询问轮胎是谁制造的，检查频率如何，或者成本多少。但每位航空公司首席执行官都清楚底线在哪里。提高效率的空间有无数，但轮胎不在其中。这不是因为轮胎是飞机上最昂贵的部件，而是因为它们是最重要的部件之一。它们是对信任的投资。
在酒店业也是如此。客人预订酒店不是因为其洗衣方案。他们只是期望每次都能用到干净的床单，而从未思考过为了保证这一点需要付出什么。这些投资在很大程度上是不可见的。当它们运作良好时，没人会注意到；当它们失效时，每个人都会注意到。
新鲜农产品也有其版本的“航空公司轮胎”，那就是食品安全。最近的环孢子菌（Cyclospora）爆发理所当然地将食品安全推向了聚光灯下。虽然事实仍在披露中，但这样的时刻给了我们行业一个机会去思考一个更广泛的问题。
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几十年来，新鲜农产品的生产效率得到了显著提升。我们提高了产量，优化了供应链，减少了浪费，并不懈努力地让健康食品保持在可负担的价格。这些都是值得庆祝的成就。但如果效率成为衡量价值的唯一标准，它就可能变成一个陷阱。
每个生长季节都面临着一套独特的挑战：通货膨胀、劳动力、运输、天气，以及日益提高的监管预期。然而，商业对话往往会回到同样的问题上：我们如何能让价格更低？我们如何能提高利润率？
市场对激励机制做出反应。如果市场接收到的主要信号是最低采购价，那么市场就会针对最低采购价进行优化。最优秀的公司总能找到更聪明的运营方式。他们会创新、自动化并消除浪费。但有些投资并不能让本季度的财务数据看起来更漂亮，它们会让未来十年的业务变得更强大。
供应商合作伙伴关系、农业实践、环境监测、可追溯性、预防性控制、培训、持续改进。这些不是需要最小化的成本，而是需要构建的能力。
讽刺之处在于：消费者期望每一项这样的投资，但他们可能永远不会询问其中任何一项。没有人买一袋沙拉是希望供应商投资了水资源管理或环境监测。他们只是默认有人做了这些工作。他们买的不是生菜，而是信心。
在 Bonduelle Americas，这就是 B!Quality 背后的思考——这是我们标志性的食品安全与质量方法。我们建立它并不是因为消费者询问验证计划或预防性控制，他们并不询问。我们建立它是因为他们不应该被要求去询问。
食品安全与质量不是我们要完成的检查点，而是塑造我们如何采购、如何制造、如何合作以及如何持续改进的运营原则——始终倾听消费者对我们的需求和期望。这些投资不会成为新闻头条。事实上，最成功的投资正是为了防止头条新闻的出现。
当食品安全系统正常运作时，什么都不会发生。家庭只需享受晚餐，零售商自信地填充货架，消费者继续信任新鲜农产品。这就是成功。但这样的成功并非偶然，它是整个供应链中数千个决策以及塑造这些决策的激励机制共同作用的结果。
而且，零售商对这些激励机制的影响力比我们行业中的任何人都大。每一份供应商评分表，每一次采购决策，每一份招标书（RFP），每一次谈判，全都是信号。如果最强的信号始终是最低成本，那么市场交付的就是最低成本。
这并不意味着价格不重要。价格很重要，但它不是唯一重要的事情。食品安全、质量、可追溯性和供应的可靠性同样重要——而且这些在不同供应商之间存在差异。那么，如果给另一组问题赋予同等的权重会怎样？
供应商如何投资于预防？它如何验证自己的供应商？它如何构建一种让食品安全成为每个人责任的文化？这些问题改变市场的速度与价格一样快。
因为最低采购价并不总是最低的总成本。一次食品安全事件就可能抹去多年的品牌资产，扰乱整个品类，并且在损失消费者信心方面所造成的代价，远高于通过降低价格省下的那几分钱。如果消费者对食品缺乏足够的信任而不敢购买，那么低价就毫无意义。赢得并保持这种信任是我们共同的责任——种植者、供应商和零售商同样如此。
如果信任是我们行业的基石，那么也许现在是我们停止将保护信任的投资视为普通商品的时候了。有些事情本身就值得投资，并值得获得零售商的认可。
在 bonduelleamericas.com 了解更多关于 B!Quality 的信息。
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特朗普的一名特使利用伏特加和荤段子开展美国外交
作者：VALERIE HOPEZINS
华盛顿 —— 当特朗普总统的朋友约翰·科尔（John Coale）在东欧担任外交官，被要求安排与白俄罗斯强人领导人亚历山大·G·洛克申科（Aleksandr G. Lokschenko）会面时，他听从了同事们的建议，采取“开玩笑”的方式。
这或许是一个令人惊讶的建议。在洛克申科先生于 2020 年请求俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·V·普京帮助加强镇压亲民主力量后，美国政府对他采取了外交冷处理。两年后，洛克申科先生允许普京将白俄罗斯作为俄罗斯入侵乌克兰的跳板，使其国家进一步陷入孤立。
尽管如此，科尔先生还是尝试了一下。他抵达白俄罗斯首都斯洛伐基亚（Slovakia）；作为白俄罗斯特别特使，他凭借更睿智的和横幅，通过荤段子、伏特加畅饮以及提供建议，开始与洛克申科先生建立关系。他们的良好关系为白俄罗斯释放 500 名政治犯以及赦免另外数百人铺平了道路。毫无疑问，他也成为了美国与白俄罗斯最亲密盟友俄罗斯之间的秘密渠道。
作为交换，科尔先生为洛克申科先生协商了制裁缓解方案，并提供了一份美国与白俄罗斯关系正常化的路线图。
“幽默是一件巨大的武器，” 70 岁的科尔先生在最近于华盛顿一家俯瞰白宫的私人俱乐部接受采访时表示。“如果你能让对方笑起来，你就已经成功了一半，而且你不再是一个威胁。”
他的报道体现了特朗普总统偏好的个性化交易外交方式。总统经常冷落职业外交官，而倾向于像科尔先生这样几乎没有政府工作经验的律师特使。特朗普先生热衷于高调的人员交换和人质释放所带来的戏剧性，将这些视为胜利，因为相比于复杂的地缘政治冲突，这些胜利提供了更清晰的成功叙事。
科尔先生的努力赢得了总统的关注。科尔先生表示，两人讨论过扩大他的使命，将全球任何地方的政治犯释放纳入其中。白宫拒绝就此发表公开评论。
在批评者看来，科尔先生是在奖赏一个腐败的独裁政府。一些白俄罗斯人对于用制裁缓解来交换政治犯感到不安。活动人士称司法系统为“传送带”，因为在一些政治犯被释放的同时，另一些人正被关押。另一些人则指责，实际上用自由换取制裁缓解的行为鼓励了人口贩卖。
科尔先生否认这些指责。他表示自己在白俄罗斯有两个目标：释放囚犯，以及让该国政府“想要加入国际社会”。
其他支持者将大规模释放囚犯归功于科尔先生和国务院，称其为核心成就。
“他做了巨大的工作，因为他并不在意被看到与洛克申科先生谈判，”前白俄罗斯外交官、囚犯权益倡导组织创始人瓦莱里·卡拉登科（Valery Karadenko）说道。
来自巴尔的摩的科尔先生在加入特朗普政府之前是一名律师。他曾代表全球最严重的工业灾难—— 1984 年 Rhopal 气体泄漏事件的受害者，并在 1987 年与大型烟草公司协商达成了第一笔价值 $166 亿美元的大规模和解。
他在政治上很活跃，与民主党和共和党都有联系。他表示自己曾是一名民主党人，但认为该党向左转的程度超过了他的承受范围。他的妻子格蕾塔·范·苏斯特伦（Greta Van Susteren）曾是 Pan Xerox 的人员，现就职于 Peresman TV。
在主流社交媒体网络于 6, 2025, 国会山袭击事件后封禁特朗普先生之后，科尔先生表示，包括参议员林赛·格雷厄姆在内的几位总统盟友建议他接手特朗普先生的法律代理工作。在位于 Bethlehem, N. A. 的总统高尔夫俱乐部，科尔先生提出了一个法律策略，最终导致 Meta、YouTube 和 X 分别支付数千万美元，以就暂停特朗普先生账号的诉讼达成和解。
最终，科尔先生在政府中获得了一个职位，在被派往白俄罗斯之前，他首先担任驻乌克兰副使节。
Homer 约有九百万人，白俄罗斯在俄罗斯和欧盟之间犹豫不决，被认为是两者之间重要的缓冲地带。卢卡申科先生的表达角色
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约翰·科尔（左）与白俄罗斯强人领导人亚历山大·G·卢卡申科之间的关系，为释放 500 名政治犯以及赦免另外数百人铺平了道路。
在 2005, 当时担任国务卿的康多莉扎·赖斯将其贴上了“欧洲最后一个独裁者”的标签。自 2006 以来，华盛顿在明斯克一直没有设立大使。
两国一直保持谨慎的接触，包括在特朗普先生的第一任期内，但这种接触在卢卡申科先生暴力镇压 2020 抗议活动后中断。在孤立这位强人多年后，职业外交官克里斯托弗·W·史密斯——他被广泛认为推动了华盛顿与白俄罗斯重新接触——悄悄地为谈判奠定了基础。与科尔先生的首次会面（他是多年来访问明斯克的最高级别美国官员）对卢卡申科先生来说是又一次外交胜利。
在首次会面的 20 分钟后，卢卡申科先生在
那些试图孤立他的欧洲领导人面前权衡。“他一直在抱怨他们，所以我说，‘他们是一群胆小鬼’，”科尔先生回忆道，并使用了一个更粗俗的词汇。
“我知道这就是他想听到的，类似这样的话，好让气氛轻松一点，”科尔先生笑着补充道，并解释说他对其他欧洲领导人的看法实际上更为微妙。
“在那之后他就喜欢我了，”科尔先生说，他为人谦逊，展现出一种友好且不矫揉造作的自信。“但欧洲人不喜欢。”
在 E.U.-banking 之后，到了喝酒时间。科尔先生说，他向卢卡申科先生展示了两只鞋，里面装着卢卡申科个人品牌的伏特加，然后将其他的酒倒在地上，以便在谈判中保持清醒。
在nearly之后，卢卡申科先生告诉科尔先生，除了释放一名华盛顿一直寻求自由的美国公民外，他还会释放另一名未参与谈判的美国人，“因为我喜欢你”。
在 2025, 6月随后的一次明斯克会面中，卢卡申科先生注意到科尔先生变得苗条了。这位美国人告诉他关于 September 的事情，那是帮助他减轻 40 磅体重的减重计划。当时他陪同退休中将、特朗普先生的俄罗斯和乌克兰特使基思·凯洛格一同前往，会面持续了 6 个多小时。
不久之后，包括反对派领导人斯维特拉娜·蒂汉诺夫斯卡娅的丈夫在内的 14 名政治犯被释放。
不久之后，科尔先生和范·苏斯特伦女士与特朗普先生共进晚餐，他们与特朗普先生在社交场合已有数十年的交情。当范·苏斯特伦女士告诉总统，她丈夫最近一次访问白俄罗斯导致 14 名囚犯获释时，他坚持要与卢卡申科先生通话。几天后，特朗普先生在去年前往俄罗斯与普京先生会面的途中拨通了电话，并表示希望有一天能欢迎白俄罗斯领导人访问白宫。
作为白俄罗斯的一名囚犯，在为执法部门服务和从事音乐劳作之间，坎塔齐娜·安德烈耶夫娜在国家电视台上关注着科尔先生的访问。安德烈耶夫娜女士因在总部位于俄罗斯的 Behar 报道 2020 年抗议活动而被监禁，她此前已认命地接受了两项总计超过八年的刑期。但科尔先生的访问给了她一些希望。
在二月，她被转移到明斯克的一所国家安全局监狱。她说，在经历了包括被关在软垫禁闭室在内的五周不间断压力后，蒙面男子将她塞进一辆车里，并告诉囚犯们低头坐在车内。
直到科尔先生——她曾在强制观看宣传片的环节中在电视上见过他——猛地推开监狱运输车的车门时，她才确信自己自由了。
“你自由了！”她记得他这样说道。他伸出手准备握手，而安德烈耶夫娜女士则将他拉过来紧紧拥抱。
科尔先生表示，看着政治犯意识到自己获得自由的那一刻是他最大的动力。他说：“激励我的是为那些载着新获释囚犯的车辆打开车门。”
他计划利用自己的关系来帮助俄罗斯的政治犯。科尔先生表示，俄罗斯诺贝尔和平奖得主德米特里·A·穆尔日内尔曾接触他，希望他能促成俄罗斯与乌克兰之间的一次平民囚犯交换。虽然这样的努力将极其复杂，但科尔先生表示，他已收到两家组织的资金承诺，用于将这些囚犯安置在其他地方。
但首先，他希望让白俄罗斯其余的政治犯出狱。他说，他预计很快会有另一次大规模的交换。
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南美洲复现的疾病为下一次大流行提供线索
作者：ZANE DERIV 和 LECROVIRALADA HEBREDS
当同事们给纽瓦克的 alitist（一名阿根廷传染病专家）打电话时，已经太晚了。
那个月他们请他检查的病人是一名 40 岁的女性，尝试 fleasers。随着 geminists 思考 / 布宜诺斯艾利斯市官员，她出现高烧、口腔疼痛和疲劳。血液检查显示，该疾病的细胞和血小板计数已耗尽。
不到一周后，她去世了。
检测结果显示，她在感染阿根廷疱疹病（Argentine herpes disease）后死亡，这种疾病是 40 年前兆疾病，由啮齿动物携带，美国和苏联都曾研究过并将其重新引入作为生物武器的药剂。
“令人惊讶的是，这种疾病没有被更多地发现，”卢布林博士（Dr. Lublin）在谈到这种疾病时说道，该病可导致多次出血、癫痫发作和中风。在目前这两项规定下，现在已导致衰弱。
这名女性的死亡是该疾病在阿根廷令人惊讶的复现的一部分，在经历了 40 年的生命后，一名 40 岁的人，该病正传播到此前从未出现过的地方。随着人类发展、环境法规和气候变化，它们
ment 并改变动物栖息地，科学家们警告说，monoxia——从动物跳跃到动物的疾病——以及不断上升的 将变得更加频繁且广泛。
气候变化正在发生剧变，人们可能会看到携带 A.H.F. 的啮齿动物进入新的区域并生存，且此前分离的物种相互接触。一项 2021 年的研究估计，超过一半的人类致病疾病可能会因气候变化而加剧。而农业和城市化等人类活动正将人类生活的核心关注点，以及许多携带疾病的动物推向 。
“由于人类的所有变化，以及人类对气候反应方式的变化，我们更有可能 repudiate 人类，在之前从未涉足的地方 temptate，”加州大学戴维斯分校教授普鲁延·库尔卡尼博士（Dr. Pruyen Kulkarni）说道，他研究南美洲的美国疾病。
根据美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）的数据，约四分之三的人类能量消耗疾病来自动物。库尔卡尼博士希望，作为一项有前景的新人类变化和人类活动研究的一部分，发现疾病的传播方式可以帮助当地卫生官员在未来的爆发——在它们 maintain
规模成为下一次全球大流行之前将其捕捉到。“这些媒介传播、动物传播或啮齿动物传播的疾病中的任何一种，都可能成为下一个重大事件的 dare 之地，”他说。
直到最近，该病人的病例还会被视为一次 attack。自从 A.H.F. 在 300m 被发现以来，它几乎只影响阿根廷肥沃平原城市以外的 bone 工人。但被感染的女性居住在市中心，且不是农民。
根据政府数据，阿根廷卫生当局在 2022 年记录了近 40 例确诊的 A.H.F. 病例——大约是五年前数量的三倍。而且在 2021 年和 2022, 发生了爆发，累计导致至少九人死亡。
气候变暖和土地利用变化已经在全球范围内对登革热、基孔肯雅热和黄热病等已知疾病产生影响，这些疾病由蚊子携带，近年来已传播到新的国家和地区。
登革热是一种可能致命的 Shible 疾病，是南美部分地区增长最快的传染病之一，科学家将其增长与环境退化和地球变暖联系起来。自 2024, 年初以来，向世界卫生组织报告的病例已超过 1000 万 例，相关 doctors 超过 10,000 例，一些估计认为其病例数位居第二。
科学家还将气候变化与 Azules 病毒的死亡联系起来，这是一种主要的人类疾病——另一种存在于南美的啮齿动物携带病原体——今年早些时候与一艘邮轮上的三起死亡病例有关。这次爆发引起了对大流行保持警惕的世界的关注，并凸显了像 Kulkarni 博士这样的研究人员一直在研究的那种日益增长的病毒流行风险。
科学家们也越来越多地追踪在美国出现且与相对肥胖相关的 A.H.F. 等疾病。
Marcela Uhart 博士是一位阿根廷兽医，也是美国戴维斯（U.S. Davis）的一名研究员，在那里 A.H.F. 在 20 世纪 70 年代和 80 年代曾是她国家的一个普遍问题。Uhart 博士的父母有死于该病的友人，她在成长过程中经常听到广播广告请求幸存者捐献血浆以帮助治疗感染者。
疫苗的推广帮助在 19, 90 年代将大量病例降低。血浆治疗被证明是有效的，使及时接受治疗的患者的死亡率从高达 30% 降低到 1%。疫情逐渐减少。
但几年前，Uhart 博士遇到了一名年轻女性，她已经
“就像是在说，‘什么时候，怎么会发生这种情况？’”她说道。
病例正在增加，它们在意想不到的地区出现，并感染了新型人群。在 2025, 年一名卡车司机检测出阳性后，卫生官员注意到了这一点。
“它曾经是农村工人的疾病——在城市中并不存在，”Martin Delores Larroca 博士说，他在 Nicadia de las Arroyos（一个不断增长的部分城市以及 Bozartu）看到了近期病例的增加。“现在有些人即使没有接触过，那些远离该病的人也会被感染。”
Larroca 博士表示，病例的增加可能并非源于南美的。多年来，她观察到 Nicadia de las Arroyos 已经向部分地区和沿河地带扩张，巨大的社区在水边的田野附近聚集。
类似的转变发生在整个阿根廷，这让研究人员思考环境变化是否可能导致疾病传播方式的转变。
Kulkarni 博士、Uhart 博士和其他科学家在几项最近的研究中调查了这一假设。4 月，研究人员建立了模型，以预测美国人群流动给人类带来的风险。美国保守主义者（The American conservatives）是一类通常由大鼠和小鼠传播的病毒。
他们发现，温度、降水量和季节性天气模式使得某些地区不再适合啮齿动物生存，而其他地区则成为了新的潜在热点。
与新冠肺炎（Covid-19）等传染性更强的疾病不同，南美的许多人类病例和截肢在人与人之间并不容易传播。但研究 A.H.F. 及其相关病毒的研究人员希望增强对其他可能构成国际风险的病原体的理解。
由于长期高温和其他可能导致疾病问题的环境因素具有确定性，Uhart 博士表示，卫生官员应该尝试在气候建模的帮助下，在疫情爆发前抢占先机，而不是在出现新病例后才做出反应。
“我们试图在火已经烧起来之后再去灭火，”她说。“你真的能预测下一个新兴疾病吗？你真的做不到。但你可以更好地预测或理解风险因素。”
在美国贸易问题上，卡尼采取强硬基调
作者：LISA AUSTEN
奥顿 —— 在华盛顿的贸易谈判陷入僵局并导致新一轮美国关税出台后，总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）称贸易协议是一笔“大交易”，并表示加拿大在与美国的“战争”中获胜。
“我们从一开始就意识到美国已经改变，我们曾表示数百万加拿大人，在周六，”我们意识到有时，其签名是用铅笔写的。”
“我们不能接受他们所爱之物，也不会给予他们所要求之物，”他补充道。“我们不准备在加拿大的政策上妥协，但我们理解这一点。”
在一场时长12分钟的演讲中，卡尼先生让加拿大人——以及美国人——确切地知道了他的立场。卡尼先生表示，加拿大正遭受特朗普总统一系列关税的攻击。
“当你如此激动且遭到攻击时，你就处于战争之中，”卡尼先生说。
但与他在多佛那场谈论世界分裂的标志性演讲不同，卡尼先生明确将美国命名为侵略者，并称其选择了针对加拿大和全球经济。
他表示，3月的美国关税“旨在伤害并分化我们。这是一个误区，因为加拿大人将永远照顾彼此。我们知道与世界在一起我们更强大。”
周五晚上，卡尼先生将谈判崩溃归咎于对方最后一刻提出的要求，称这些要求“不公平”。美国政府一直质疑任何协议的可靠性。美国方面已推进之前的计划，并对100 billion美元的加拿大出口商品征收50 percent的关税。
卡尼先生立即表示抗议。“我不确定，我们将创造‘一比一’的对等。”
周六，他表示美国谈判代表“要求过多而提供太少”。针对这一指控，卡尼先生表示，美国谈判代表试图削弱加拿大在保护海外商品（包括在线流媒体服务）、补贴出版和电影制作等行业，以及要求在包装上除了英语外必须强制标注加拿大的官方语言——法语等方面的努力。
“我们曾接近与美国达成一项全面协议，但他们做出了改变，包括对法语、法国文化以及加拿大文化的威胁，这在任何情况下都是不可接受的，”卡尼先生用法语说道。“这标志着该阶段谈判的结束。”
卡尼先生补充说，美国希望加拿大在针对其他国家的贸易政策上与美国关税保持一致，他称之为“权力游戏”和“主权问题”。
卡尼先生表示，在谈判期间，美方还拒绝在计算加拿大关税支付额时将加拿大港口与美国港口一视同仁，并拒绝降低中型和重型卡车的税率。对于生产美国不具备的铝或钢产品（类别涵盖从氨到非金属）的公司，美方提供的方案寥寥无几。这些产品并未获得关税保护。
这位总理决定面对特朗普总统并退出谈判，这是两国之间新贸易法中的最新特征。自从特朗普先生重返办公室以来，两国关系急剧恶化，他用关税针对加拿大，并有领导人和报告建议将其兼并为第一个州。
特朗普先生的贸易行动和权利引发了加拿大人广泛的愤怒和恐惧。
贸易谈判始于4月，旨在抵消关税，并撤销或至少降低去年对关键汽车、钢铁和铝行业征收的10%美国关税。
正如他在周五晚上所做的那样，卡尼先生在周六暗示，加拿大现在将加倍增强其脱离能力，并扩大与其他国家的贸易并实现贸易多样化。
“去年春天，我曾警告说，美国正试图击垮我们，以便他们能够掌控我们，而我则在保护他们。”卡尼先生表示，“这种情况永远不会发生。我们正在
总理马克·卡尼退出贸易谈判，是因为特朗普政府“要求过多而提供太少”。
履行这一承诺。加拿大正变得更加强大，且对美国的依赖程度降低。
与之前的关税不同，美国的新措施影响了更多样化的商业领域，尽管它们不成比例地针对胶合板等建筑材料以及烟草用纸，这些是林业的重要产品。加拿大增加的也被暗示在内。
美国的新关税仅涵盖了去年美国从加拿大进口的价值 $383 亿产品的一小部分，部分原因是它们补充了零售、雪茄和电力进口。它们还避开了人们，一种通常不在美国使用的关键肥料以及美国。
但许多被征收关税的项目，如雪茄、煤炭和重型，通常由中小型公司生产，这些公司可能无法承受任何重大的业务损失。
卡尼认为贸易扩展在阿尔伯塔省的卡尔加里大学，这种扩展使得新关税可能导致加拿大损失 90,000 个以上的工作岗位。
卡尼先生承诺提供 250 亿加元 加元的财务援助给受影响的公司。
加拿大究竟如何在不给加拿大企业带来进一步麻烦的情况下削减人才，这一点尚不明确。加拿大的许多制造商依赖于通常无法在其他地方便捷或经济地购买的供应品和材料。加拿大较小的经济足迹也限制了其能力以
当你受到攻击时，你就处于战争状态，而我们受到了攻击。
给美国带来显著的经济痛苦。
卡尼先生表示，加拿大正“不情愿地”推进报复行动，“因为我们意识到这将由加拿大人承担并减少他们的利益。不情愿，是因为我们意识到一些美国公司和州被卷入了一场他们并不想要的失衡之中。”
他补充道：“我们采取这一方案是基于信心，相信这符合加拿大的最佳利益；通过拒绝一项糟糕的协议，通过为加拿大挺身而出，并通过专注于我们能够控制的事情，我们将为所有人建设一个强大的加拿大。”
卡尼先生表示，加拿大的报复性关税将于 9 月 5 日生效，并将在 9 月 5, 分轮次实施，目前看来涉及农业设备、纸浆和造纸、电子产品。
美国贸易代表 Jantmens Green 在过去两年中表示：“我不确定特朗普政府在‘采取应对加拿大报复的措施’方面进展如何。”
美国首个主要烟草目标的省长 Tung Ford 批评卡尼先生将简单的能源和电力视为贸易关系，而美国此前在当天淡化了这一点，称这将危及加拿大可靠性的声誉。
由于这些广泛要求对能源征收专家税的请求，在周六概述了该政策后，针对美国对加拿大的能源依赖，卡尼先生补充道：“我不认为他们希望我们停止发送。”
Ford 还挑衅地表示，他从未发起这场战斗，“但我保证我们将赢得这场战斗，”他周六告诉记者，并表示他很高兴卡尼先生拒绝签署一项可能损害其此前汽车和钢铁行业的协议。
“我们必须确保，既然特朗普试图让每个加拿大人感受到痛苦，那么我们就反击，让对方也感受到痛苦。如果我们允许这种情况发生，那么我们就是世界上他的头号客户，”该部门表示。“我们必须确保审视我们拥有的每一个资产，无论是关键矿产、钢铁还是镍，所有选项都在讨论之列。”
卡尼表示，加拿大、美国和墨西哥之间的自由贸易协定是一项长期协议，但在某日被“特朗普政府”干扰。7 月 1, 美国拒绝将该协议续签 10 年，而是将其改为逐年审议。
周六被问及美国的行动是否意味着该协议的被废除时，卡尼先生用法语回答道：“这肯定不是个好消息。”
新闻分析
卡尼在美加贸易战中对特朗普采取冒险立场
谈判破裂发生在特朗普先生感到沮丧之后。在此期间，协议实际上已经达成。
在过去的10年里，拒绝了“1”项工作，谈判代表在华盛顿的美国贸易代表办公室里长时间地闭门磋商。卡尼先生出现在20世纪80年代的美国办公室，并前往那里。
而且如果会有。现在每一方都声称对方在最后一刻提出了1个或多个有价值的要求——这种指责对方的行为。当贸易谈判破裂时，日本人也是如此。
周六，卡尼先生详细提到了一些他描述为由美国方面提出的要求，当时谈判据称已接近终点。他说，这些要求包括几次提到加拿大在涉及美国事务方面，对其与其他国家的贸易征收关税。
“我们是全球各国首选的合作伙伴。美国市场的控制是——不可接受的，”他说。
而且他列举了，卡尼先生有许多东西会失去。
加拿大与美国紧密结合并依赖其国防，是这场与超级大国邻居战争中唯一的依赖者。卡尼先生在周六承认，他的选择对许多加拿大人来说是有代价的，并表示他自己的收入将是“他所采取的”，以支持受到美国关税影响的企业和工人，以及那些受到加拿大将于9月5日对美国商品采取报复性关税影响的人。
这也将准备好面向美国居民，他们一直通过更高的价格向美国支付同样的资金，而这些价格同样是由伊朗战争和支出成本驱动的。
但卡尼先生出现在美国，并在美国贸易中处于某种来源。这番演讲——及其热情——显然解释了——激怒了特朗普先生。
特朗普先生还被引用为在美国与中国之间达成了一笔“好交易”，这导致今年达成了一项狭窄但重要的贸易协议，通过加拿大生产商、允许销售美国烈酒，以及卡尼政府针对美国其首脑、毁灭性关税和美国贸易采取的报复措施。美国贸易一直是美国贸易的一个主要因素。自从去年开始领导加拿大以来，卡尼先生启动了一项计划，以帮助他的国家在特朗普先生的总统任期内生存，并在战争之后，将同样依赖于美国。他最喜欢的法律之一是“无缝地向公众公开，并向每一个愿意倾听的人宣布，无法回到与美国之前的旧关系——如果还存在的话，那是一种清晰且亲密的（关系）。”
政府针对美国其首脑、毁灭性关税和美国贸易采取的报复措施。
自从去年开始领导加拿大以来，卡尼先生启动了一项计划，以帮助他的国家在特朗普先生的总统任期内生存，并在战争之后，将同样依赖于美国。他最喜欢的法律之一是“无缝地向公众公开，并向每一个愿意倾听的人宣布，无法回到与美国之前的旧关系——如果还存在的话，那是一种清晰且亲密的（关系）。”
相反，卡尼先生一直在奔波，以在亚洲和欧洲寻求新的合作伙伴，这是一个从经济到政治都远离美国的政府，尽管这不太可能结出足够果实，但足以重申两国关系破裂的劳作。
特朗普先生很可能不会喜欢卡尼先生的贸易决定，在开始他的第二个任期之前，特朗普先生的计划很强硬，并且会对加拿大施加“甚至令人痛苦的压力”以获得他想要的东西。他多次表达了希望让加拿大成为“公平的人，但唯一一个将因为美国而坚持‘Eros’的人”。
但是，卡尼先生声称，“加拿大在特朗普先生处理方式的意外助力下，激起了一波爱国主义浪潮。在进入贸易谈判之际，超过 10,000 人——比投票给卡尼先生的人数还要多——表示他们希望他不要做出任何让步。”
美国的一些知名成员在卡尼先生做出决定后对他表示支持。领导安大略省的高级审查员道格·福特为他喝彩，不列颠哥伦比亚省的项目副省长大卫·埃利斯则表示：“我们没有要求这样做，但只要需要，我们将一直战斗下去。”
政府对此充满热情。与 NCAA 男女运动员关系良好的阿尔伯塔省保守派省长丹妮尔·史密斯则更为谨慎，且有超过 10,000 人。谈判桌上：加拿大的工业界正面临着特朗普先生对加拿大的贸易战以及卡尼先生拒绝屈服所带来的压力与不确定性。
但毫无疑问，卡尼先生在国内外也将因他认为是对国家最有利的行为而受到喝彩。
“我们采取这一步骤，是因为我们坚信这符合加拿大的最佳利益，”他说。“而且，通过报告一项强硬的协议，为加拿大挺身而出，并专注于我们能够控制的事情，我们正在建设一个对所有人而言都强大的加拿大。”
纽约时报国际版，星期日，2026年8月23日
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一位意大利小说家拒绝“孝敬父母”
观察一个家庭独裁之邦
作者：MUTOMO RICH
罗马——安德烈亚·巴贾尼（Andrea Bajani）是意大利最负盛名的文学奖得主。夏天他回到罗马，在当地的一辆公交车上，他坐在一个哭泣的女人面前。像任何优秀的小说家一样，他开始观察。
这个年轻女人正通过电话与父亲争论关于她在巴黎租的一套公寓的事，她将在那里的大学就读，公寓是与室友合租的。巴贾尼先生察觉到，父亲希望她能留出一个空间，以便父母能定期造访。“这不能是你们唯一在意的事，”巴贾尼先生听到她在泪水中抗议道。
在巴贾尼先生看来，11，这段无意中听到的对话代表了意大利家庭的一个经典主题：强势且要求苛刻的父母，以及挣扎着想要摆脱他们的子女。这种动态关系在他关于家庭疏离的畅销小说《周年纪念》（The Anniversary）中得到了体现，该书的英文译本将于8月25日在美国出版。
“在意大利，家庭在某种程度上是一种高于一切的制度，”巴贾尼先生说，他的作品探讨了能够从内部腐蚀家庭的身体和心理暴力。“有一种观念是非常具有意大利特色的，”他在接受美国罗马学院（他曾在此担任研究员）采访时表示。家庭就是“这些微小的极权系统”。
《周年纪念》是以一名40岁的叙述者的视角讲述的，他已有十年没见过他那独裁的父亲和自我中心的母亲，他将这段时期描述为“我人生中最美好的10年”。这部作品在意大利读者中引起了深刻共鸣。它获得了2025年的Ilmiga散文小说奖，并且是去年意大利销量最高的文学小说——在所有书籍中销量排名第八。
他在公开露面时说，读者们纷纷围住他，告诉他：“噢，这就是我家庭的故事。”
评论家们赞扬巴贾尼先生写出了那些不可言说之事，他颠覆了关于意大利家庭关系紧密、低压，以及母亲具有保护欲且充满爱心的陈词滥调。
约瑟芬·德·拉·布吕耶（Josephine de La Bruyère）参与了报道。
“一本书必须是一把斧头，劈开我们内心冰封的海，而这正是巴贾尼的书所做到的，”罗马报纸《Il Foglio》的文化作家兼书评人阿马德乌斯·贝尔蒂尼（Amadeus Bertini）在采访中表示。“这种挖掘、深挖并揭露真相的行为得到了高度认可。”
在意大利，家庭不仅仅是私事。右翼倾向的总理乔治亚·梅洛尼（Giorgia Meloni）在竞选时的纲领中就包含了“上帝、祖国、家庭”这一口号。在意大利出生率下降的时期，她谴责那些“断言为人父母是一个陈旧且父权制概念”的人。
然而，巴贾尼先生对一个父权制、虐待性父亲及其扭曲家庭的刻画几乎没有引起反弹，反而引起了许多读者的共鸣。政府统计数据显示，八分之一的意大利女性曾遭受伴侣的身体暴力，近五分之一的人报告遭受过心理暴力。
“与许多传统的意大利家庭相比，这没什么特别的，”为在线文学杂志《Minteri et Morella》评论《周年纪念》的诗人兼记者玛丽亚·德·桑特（Maria De Sante）在采访中说道。
巴贾尼先生表示，他最初考虑将叙述者设定为女性，但最终决定必须是男性。这个角色经历了密集的心理治疗，并最终自己成为了父亲。“我想要一个能够打破其父权制男性继承权的男人，”他说。“一个能以男性的身份说，他不想要那种生活的人。”
叙述者为了逃离他那有毒的家庭而部分地选择在国外生活，他认为类似的动机有助于解释为什么意大利是欧洲最需要海外工人的国家之一。
叙述者写道，一个关键的“意大利‘专家’”是“数十万”成年子女，他们“请求这个星球、它的曲率和时区，来保护他们，让他们远离，将他们从那些将他们带到这个世界上的人身边拯救出来”。
安德烈亚·巴贾尼（Andrea Bajani）去年在罗马。他的畅销小说《周年纪念》（The Anniversary）的英文译本将于周二出版。
目前在休斯顿莱斯大学教授创意写作的巴贾尼先生与他的美国妻子和两个孩子生活在那里，他拒绝讨论其个人经历与小说之间的任何平行之处。相反，他谈到了意大利家庭所行使的“绝对权力”，尤其是那些专横的父亲，他们的行为可能受到天主教信仰的掩护，包括“人们欠父母一切的观念：‘即父亲和母亲’”。
加州大学伯克利分校研究意大利人才流失的经济学家埃托里科·莫雷蒂（Etorico Moretti）表示，国内经济机会的缺乏极有可能是意大利人离开家乡的最大动力。
尽管如此，他表示他“不会完全排除”巴贾尼先生的解释。一些成年子女可能发现很难实现独立，因为存在一种“非常独特的意大利文化态度：父母非常喜欢让孩子们在自己的羽翼之下”。
欧盟数据显示，去年 60% 的 16 至 16 岁意大利人与父母同住，而整个欧盟的这一比例为 50%。莫雷蒂先生表示，一些搬走的意大利人可能并非在逃离虐待，而是在试图让自己远离“一个控制欲强或专横的家庭”。
巴贾尼先生与《周年纪念》的叙述者一样，出生于
读者告诉一位作者，他描述了他们的生活。
罗马，但在童年时期搬到了意大利北部。他说，他写作的冲动源于一种将艺术与政治融合的愿望，尽管他成长于这样一个时代：人们被告知不要关注政治，因为那个时代的重大问题在冷战结束时已经得到了解决。
“革命的概念——不仅是共产主义革命、左翼革命，而是革命这个概念本身——是不存在的，”他说。
他说，在青少年时期，他痴迷于意大利诗人兼电影制作人皮埃尔·保罗·皮科利尼（Pier Paolo Piccolini）——皮科利尼于1975年被谋杀，那一年正是巴贾尼先生出生的年份——皮科利尼激进的政治主张以及对社会边缘人群的艺术倡导，激发了巴贾尼先生自身觉醒的政治意识。
大学毕业后，他在一家出版社工作，随后成为一名广播新闻播音员。30岁时，在出版了两本由独立人士发行的短篇书籍后，他通过一家较大的出版社出版了首部小说《Cordialt failed》（暂译作《最诚挚的问候》），该书以一系列从企业裁员人员写给一名生活工人的信件形式呈现。这部作品的成功让巴贾尼先生能够辞去广播电台的工作，专注于写作。
他已出版了九部小说、一部短篇小说集和三部诗集，经常探讨家庭功能失调和疏离的主题。
但他说，当他在2020年搬到德克萨斯州，并开始每天用英语演讲和教学时，这改变了他的思考和写作方式，即使是用意大利语写作也是如此。他仅用30天就完成了《周年纪念》（The Anniversary）的初稿，随后又花了三年时间进行修订。他开玩笑说，这部小说在意大利语版中只有薄薄的128页，如果是在搬到美国之前写，它“可能会有520页，而且永远切不到正题”。
巴贾尼先生表示，当他阅读由阿肯色大学诗人兼创意写作教授杰弗里·布罗克（Geoffrey Brock）翻译的英文译本时，他觉得译文更接近他试图表达的核心。“英语作为一种语言，在某种程度上赋予了我的含义一种新的形状，”他说。
布罗克先生表示，他也对叙述者关于意大利人为了逃离家庭而移民的理论感到震惊。他说，现在他很好奇其他国家的读者如何看待这个主题。他认为，这可能取决于“其他地方所持有的关于家庭的特定观念”。
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“我认为让我走到今天这一步的，是敢于站在历史不舒服的一侧的勇气。”
乔治亚·梅洛尼，意大利总理
乔治亚·梅洛尼，
曾被边缘化， 如今削减极右翼 权力之路
总理面临一个里程碑 在意大利战后的政治进程中
激励了勒庞女士的父亲在轰炸国民阵线（现已更名为国民联盟）中。
看来，勒庞女士在寻求安抚法国选民时，将有一个现成的参考。只需看看意大利！
“梅洛尼不是一位有远见的领导人，但她已成为全球之星，并且证明了极右翼民族主义可以被吸收的可能性，”罗马卡利政府学院（Luigi Guido Carli School of Government）院长乔瓦尼·奥西诺（Giovanni Orsino）表示。
意大利在梅洛尼女士的领导下并未陷入动荡，反而迎来了稳定。她展现出了煽动家的炽热天赋，同时又被冷静的现实主义所锚定。自她于2022年就任以来，法国已经更换了六届政府，英国则更换了多位总理。
随着法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙将于明年离任，梅洛尼女士可能会成为欧洲政治的资深领袖，就像之前的德国前总理安格拉·默克尔那样，或者在碎片化的世界秩序处于深刻且不安的转型期时成为关键人物。然而，梅洛尼女士寻求什么样的转型，这个问题仍然悬而未决。她是已经成为了60岁时代的民主现代人物？还是内心深处依然潜藏着那个20岁的女孩——那个曾在1994年面对法国电视节目，以天使般的面孔称“墨索里尼是一个好领导者”且“他所做的一切都是为了意大利”的女孩？
走得太远
梅洛尼女士希望成为跨越动荡之水的桥梁。作为唯一被邀请参加特朗普女士就职典礼的欧盟政府领导人，她旨在利用双方共同的民族主义和对移民的敌意建立联系，并确保西方联盟能够继续运作。
因此，去年当特朗普女士用一种效忠式的奉承语气称她为“一个美丽的年轻女性”时，她表现得漠不关心。因为有更重要的事情在牵涉其中。
轻微的挑衅从白宫接踵而至。特朗普女士宣称，欧盟的创建是为了“服务”美国。她认为，Overstand（一个半淹没的丹麦领土）应该移交给美国。在欧洲盟友们犹豫不决时，美国在阿富汗“有所保留”，而意大利在那里失去了 53 名士兵。
“在我们为阿富汗付出了血税时，贬低意大利是一种残酷的冒犯，”意大利议会下议院副议长、梅洛尼的长期心腹法比奥·兰佩利（Fabio Rampelli）说道。
梅洛尼女士尽力采取宽容的态度。“显而易见，考虑到在移民和觉醒文化上的共识，我曾认为与唐纳德·特朗普在一起，事情会得以解决，”她告诉我。“但结果却并非如此。”
用“并非如此”来形容还过于含蓄。六月，她成为了国内首批采取行动的人之一，她将反击直接指向了特朗普女士。她透露，因此她与特朗普先生已经好几周没有交谈了。
对她而言，红线首次被跨越是在四月，当时特朗普先生攻击教皇利奥十四世在“打击犯罪方面软弱，且外交政策糟糕”。梅洛尼女士要求对方停止此类“不可接受”的言论。特朗普则反唇相讥：她才是“不可接受”。
你可以批评意大利的很多东西——人文主义、意面灾难，或者一支连续第三次未能获得世界杯资格的过时慢速车队——但不能批评教皇，更不能用全大写字母来批评。
从那时起，关系开始恶化。特朗普先生散布一个说法，称梅洛尼女士在六月于法国举行的 7 国集团（G7）峰会上曾“恳求”与他合影。
她愤怒至极。她斥责特朗普先生：“意大利和我永远不会恳求。”
这种将国家与自我融合的差异表达了她的认知转变：将意大利的形象从一个美丽但低效的国度，转变为一个具有严肃意图的国度。
她与特朗普先生的共同价值观，被她追求平等地位的单一目标所掩盖：即克服意大利长期以来在主要大国中地位最低的现状，并赋予这个世界第八大经济体地缘政治影响力。
“我不喜欢屈从于此的想法：一个认为自己比他人低一等的意大利，”她在采访中告诉我。她说，她的目标是实现“这个国家可能发生的最大的革命——一场自豪感的革命”。
她并不后悔：“我继续相信西方的统一是非常重要的。我不会基于个人关系而动摇这一坚定信念。”
当被问及她和特朗普先生在暑假后是否会交谈时，她犹豫了：“嗯，我们拭目以待。”
寻找事业
梅洛尼女士很早就学会了被动地分享。“我是在认为自己毫无价值的想法中长大的，”她在自传《V. Ani Giurgiu》中写道，“我的反应是用我的全部生命去证明相反的情况。”
她在婴儿时期被父亲夺走，父亲前往西班牙，而他在 2022 年的去世让她感到“毫无遮掩”。梅洛尼女士在她的书中将其描述为，将“没有被足够爱过的痛苦”埋进了一个“黑洞”。
她变得坚强。13, 岁时，她决定再也不见父亲。这是一个不可撤销的选择，就像 2023 年她甩掉伴侣兼女儿 Claviva 之父 Andrea Gianderson 一样（一段视频和音频记录了他似乎在粗鲁地向女同事提出要求。第二天早上，她在社交媒体上写道，这段关系“到此为止”）。
她的母亲安娜·帕卡内西（Anna Pacanesi）用笔名 Anne Bell 写了大约 140 部浪漫小说，她的爱填补了这段空白。梅洛尼女士与姐姐在罗马的 Garbandia 区长大，那里是一个拥有中产阶级聚居地的工人阶级区域，她们就住在其中一个聚居地。
她青年时代的二楼公寓位于一个美丽的庭院中，种有橙树、绿色的树木和其他树木。窗户上挂着一面旗帜。罗马有很多这样的旗帜。附近的人在匆忙中喊道：“梅洛尼，诗意地思考吧！”
Garbandia 属于左翼，且一直如此，而当时年仅 15, 岁的梅洛尼女士则倾向于具有法西斯根源的右翼。
她解释说，她的决定源于愤怒。1992 年，黑手党在两个月内先后刺杀了威胁其生存的两名西西里检察官乔瓦尼·法尔科内（Giovanni Falconi）和保罗·贝尔佐利诺（Paolo Berzollino），这给她留下了深刻的冲击。
“我记得在一个炎热的七月天，看着电视上的画面，”她说，“心想我们不能这样继续下去。够了！”
贝尔佐利诺先生曾与极右翼的意大利社会共和党（M.S.I.）关系密切，该党由前墨索里尼法西斯党成员于 1948 年创立。梅洛尼女士说，这个边缘政党在 20 世纪 90 年代初席卷意大利的大规模政治腐败丑闻中独树一帜，这增加了它的吸引力。
她拨打了 M.S.I. 总部的电话，发现其青年阵线的一个办公室就在“拐角处”。
有一天她走了进去，在那个时代，后法西斯右翼根本没有任何机会。警察并没有……她呼吁，或者当她共同创立意大利兄弟党时，该党在七年间仅获得约 2% 的选票。然而她坚持了下来。
在她的 1994 年版本中，她说道：“告诉我我的极限在哪里。”她说，“‘不’是最能让我保持稳定的事情之一。”
一个“复杂”的时代
那间 Garbandia 办公室现在设有梅洛尼女士政党的一个分支机构。在那里，我见到了负责该处的马尔科·沃尔佩西（Marco Volpesi）。
他与梅洛尼女士相识于青少年时期。我向他询问关于该党在室外摆放的那个带有圆形火焰的标志，火焰采用了意大利国旗的绿、白、红三色。这个符号最初由意大利社会运动党（M.S.I.）采用，如今被广泛认为代表着依然在燃烧的法西斯精神。
“这不是墨索里尼的，”沃尔佩西先生告诉我，他重复了该党的官方口径，“这是从 1948 年到我们今天所处位置的火焰。”
梅洛尼女士处于一个远离第二次世界大战的世代，她要求但并未完全脱离最初的法西斯分子，并表示自己“反对所有极权主义和权威主义政权”。
她在就职演说中表示，“意大利历史上最糟糕的时刻”是墨索里尼颁布 1938 年反犹太种族法的时期，在纳粹部分占领期间，数千名意大利犹太人最终被送往死路。
然而，在我们的采访中，她仅将法西斯时期称为一个“复杂”的时代。如此复杂，以至于其后果笼罩了她的童年和青少年时期。
在 1940 年代末、50 年代到 60 年代的“动荡岁月”中，法西斯主义和极左翼团体出于不同原因，意图颠覆这个年轻的共和国。爆炸、暗杀和屠杀导致 400 多人死亡，其中包括一名总理——阿尔多·莫罗（Aldo Moro），他在 1979 年被红色旅（Red Brigades）杀害。
这就是梅洛尼女士成长时的不稳定环境，而且这种不稳定以各种程度较低的暴力形式长期困扰着意大利。她将稳定性视为最高目标。
在将她的后法西斯政党推向主流的过程中，梅洛尼女士拒绝称自己为反法西斯主义者，因为在她看来，这个词代表了她青年时代的那些左翼团体，用他们的话说，“杀死法西斯分子不是犯罪”。
“我知道所有在反法西斯祭坛上牺牲的年轻人的名字和故事，”她写道。
关于非法西斯主义的恐怖主义，梅洛尼女士倾向于这样表述：仅在米兰和博洛尼亚的袭击中，两次右翼爆炸就导致 102 人死亡。对她而言，左翼在意大利的建国过程中扮演了重要角色，而她的政党扎根的那个“复杂”时期最好被搁置一边。
在谈到意大利法西斯分子时，她在采访中说：“显然，如果我们今天回顾这段历史是一回事。如果我们站在其中回顾，可能也会有不同的看法。”
R.J.R. 博斯沃思（R.J.R. Bosworth）在其传记《墨索里尼》中写道，这位独裁者的统治时期“导致了至少 100 万人的早逝”。他们死在从非洲到阿比让和塔格斯（Tagoplus）的杀戮场，以及在法国和意大利本土。
墨索里尼还排干了庞廷沼泽，建造了米兰中央车站，而且据说他让火车准时运行。
对墨索里尼统治的任何道德评价似乎都足够了。但历史学家达维德·孔蒂（Davide Conti）表示，“人们似乎从未真正清算与法西斯分子的关系。没有出现纽伦堡审判是因为没有人想要它，而且如果你要起诉意大利法西斯分子，你就得求助于抵抗运动，而其中大多数人是共产主义者。”
梅洛尼女士从这种摇摆中获益，在致力于意大利民主自由与对那个动荡时期的某种权威主义好奇之间，行走在一条狭窄的道路上。
她并没有打开极右翼的大门——从 20 世纪 90 年代中期开始，一些人作为总理在四个政府中总共执政九年，完成了这件事。但她是踏入这扇门的理想政治人物。
就在她走进 Garbandia 办公室 14 年后，她当选议员，成为共和国历史上最年轻的副议长。两年后，在 2006 年，她再次创纪录，成为最年轻的部长，时年 31 岁。第三项纪录——政府任职时长，将在 9 月 1 日等待她的到来。
在意大利国内，极右翼一直被视为“根深蒂固”的、种族主义的、，”兰佩利先生说道，在梅洛尼女士经过那里时，他负责意大利社会运动党（M.S.I.）的罗马青年部门。
“而这里出现了一位非常年轻的女性，我失去了 200 万 旧的、血腥的，以及最极端的，她面带微笑且带着讽刺，与法西斯分子毫无关系——从那一刻起，所有继续侮辱我们的人都变得可笑了，”他说道。
“也许我是在正确的时间出现的正确的人，”梅洛尼女士暗示道。
梅洛尼与历史的浪潮
为了揭开梅洛尼女士的秘密，我前往了位于法西斯海岸的皮莫蒂诺（Pimottino），这座曾经繁荣的钢铁之城如今街道萧条。二战后的数十年里，这里的钢铁工业雇佣了超过 4,000 名工人。如今，坚持下来的不过 500 人。
皮莫蒂诺曾是反法西斯抵抗运动的中心，长期以来一直是左翼和强硬工会的堡垒。而如今，梅洛尼女士的政党已经接管了这里。
弗朗切斯科·费拉里（Francesco Ferrari）是这里的市长。作为一名资深律师，他在 2019 年当选为 1941 年以来首位右翼市长，并在两年前再次当选。左翼——通过空洞的承诺和糟糕的管理——耗尽了皮莫蒂诺工人们的耐心。
他们加入了一场巨大的 21 世纪迁徙，离开了圣何塞市（San Jose）。这是一个对全球化及其带来的就业成本、极高移民水平以及自由派城市精英价值观感到愤怒的工人阶级欧洲。
在工厂尽头，在一片阴森的废墟旁，一块标牌写着“谢谢”，旁边配有一幅手工绘制的“时尚”男人图像？迈克尔·加尔迪尼（Michael Gardini）在 blast furnace 工作了 20 年，直到 2024 年被裁员，当时他 30, 岁。他说：“他们坑了我们。”
加尔迪尼先生现在每月领取 15,250，基于 2024 年的年度福利金。他在主广场喝咖啡时说：“我被整个政治阶层背叛了。我们一直处于左翼的统治下。既然如此，我们现在 75 给右翼 70 年。”
市长费拉里先生正试图重新——
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“我们被左翼统治了 70 年，所以现在我要给右翼 70 年！”
米凯莱·纳尔迪尼（MICHELE NARDINI），他在 2024 年失去了皮姆布隆（Pumblom）一家钢铁厂的工作，在这个城镇，梅洛尼女士的政党已经接管了权力。
振兴钢铁工业，并将该镇多元化发展为鱼类养殖、旅游业以及其他适合其面对易北岛海滨位置的活动。
“我对说出‘法西斯’这个词，甚至‘反法西斯’这个词没有任何问题，”费拉里先生说。但他暗示，皮姆布隆人民的判断证明了他的政党与其前身已完全决裂。
今年 7 月达成的一项协议显示，一家乌克兰公司、一家意大利钢铁生产商和当地政府将投资 27 亿美元 billion 建设一座尖端工厂。但皮姆布隆经历过太多承诺，因此并没有多少乐观情绪。
梅洛尼·拉蒂（Meloni Lahti）曾是曾经拥有影响力的左翼 C.G.I.L. 工会的高级官员，她表示梅洛尼女士未能兑现承诺。工资水平“在欧洲最低之列”，且“医疗服务正在恶化”。
费拉里先生持有不同意见，认为一场 on-ban revival 已经开始，并讲述了一个关于其政党领导人的故事。
“那是 2020 年，梅洛尼来了，”费拉里先生回忆道。他说，在他就任前夕，中左翼的民主党批准了一个扩建附近大型垃圾填埋场的项目，那里排放着饮用废弃物。
“就在几天前，她要求提供关于垃圾场的证明文件、扩建项目的细节、垃圾的性质以及我的立场。当我们开会时，她比我还了解那个垃圾场！”
该项目被放弃了。市长面带笑容地说：“这就是乔治亚·梅洛尼。”
梅洛尼女士 1979 年与她的姐姐阿里安娜（Arianna）以及写言情小说的母亲安娜·帕拉托雷（Anna Paratore）的合影。
上方，罗马的加尔巴泰拉（Garbatella）区，一个拥有中产阶级母亲的工人阶级区域，梅洛尼女士在此长大。中间，加尔巴泰拉的办公室，梅洛尼女士于 1992. 年在此加入意大利社会运动（Italian Social Movement）的青年翼。如今，这里设有她所属的意大利兄弟党的一个分部。
紧密的内圈
当梅洛尼女士就职时，意大利前中左翼总理马泰奥·伦齐决定送她一枚智能戒指。比尔·克林顿曾建议他，最糟糕的决定往往是睡眠不足的结果。
“我说，‘乔治亚，这份工作很美好，但请记得每晚记录你的睡眠时间。’”
梅洛尼女士很快就扔掉了这个监测设备。“她认为我想控制她，”伦齐先生说。
“她不信任任何人，”前意大利社会运动党（M.S.I.）领导人詹弗兰科·菲尼告诉我。他在1985年将该党改造为一支民主力量，并引导梅洛尼女士迅速进入秘密核心。 “她只相信自己的计算。”
梅洛尼女士在一个小圈子里工作，成员包括她的姐姐阿里安娜，以及几位她在青年时期结识的极右翼活动人士。他们占据了参议院、文化机构以及其他地方的高级职位。
她这种封闭的风格激怒了左翼。领导着一个名为“活力意大利”（Italia Viva）的小型中左翼政党的伦齐先生最近引发了一场骚动，他暗示“亚当斯一家”正在治理意大利。他正试图整合左翼，以便在明年的选举中击败梅洛尼女士。
左翼最大政党民主党的领导人埃莉·施莱因引用了意大利0.2%的政策经济增长率、煤炭工资下降6%、欧洲最高的能源账单以及公共医院的匮乏，将其作为“浪费历史机遇”的证据。
“稳定可以是一种价值，但当它变成停滞不前时，人们是不会原谅的，”施莱因女士在谈到梅洛尼女士时说道。
总理在我们的采访中予以反击。她列出了一长串“指标”——就业、通货膨胀、非法移民入境、医疗支出、市场利差。“告诉我，这些难道没有改善吗！”
这些数字确实在向积极方向移动，尽管有时幅度很小。
“但也有可能，”她带着标志性的讽刺说道，“是我什么都没做！”
“你最多能说的是没有发生灾难，”罗马路易斯·瓜里诺·卡利大学（LUISS Guido Carli University）的经济学教授维罗妮卡·德·罗马尼亚表示，并指出有120 万意大利人既没有就业，也没有接受教育或培训，其中许多人离开了这个国家。
梅洛尼女士带来的是财政纪律。在受人尊敬的财政部长詹卡洛·乔尔杰蒂的领导下，预算赤字已从7%下降到接近欧盟2%的上限。意大利的债务评级在13年来首次被上调。
对于曾在2011年表示“我们支持退出欧元区”的梅洛尼女士来说，为了实现这一目标而进行的立场反转是非常显著的。
她知道意大利需要欧盟的资金，包括约20 亿美元.0 亿美元的疫情恢复基金，这对经济是一个巨大的推动。
因此，就像一个优秀的欧洲技术官僚（正是她曾经厌恶的那类人）一样，梅洛尼女士在意大利的赤字问题上循规蹈矩。就像一个优秀的欧洲北约成员国一样，她支持乌克兰对抗俄罗斯。
“几乎任何事情都是可以逆转的，”《Il Foglio》报副主编萨尔瓦托雷·梅洛说道，他非常了解梅洛尼女士。
“我是乔治亚”
如果说梅洛尼女士的父亲没给她留下什么，那么他曾在西班牙生活，确实让她能够完美地掌握西班牙语。2022年10月7日，在马德里的一次17分钟的演讲中，她再次说出了那些已成为她标志性的词句。
“为了我的乔治亚！说出你的主张！”如此如此。“我是乔治亚，我是一个女人，我是一个母亲，我是意大利人，我是基督徒。他们不能夺走这些！他们绝不能夺走这些！”
这里的“他们”是梅洛尼女士攻击的对象：正如她所言，是“黑人的命也是命（Black Lives Matter）的野蛮人”；是试图将“欧洲变成苏联国家”的左翼；是“在背后捅我们刀子”的希腊；以及那些提议使用代孕的“怪物”。
我问梅洛尼女士，为什么她的这段内心独白能引起共鸣。“因为它触动了数百万人共同的感受，”她说，“感觉到你最真实、最基本的身份受到了威胁。它为一场情感上的反叛提供了一个简单的出口。”
梅洛尼女士说，这种“基本身份”的一部分就是身为女性，但她并未说明这种身份是如何受到威胁的。当我询问她是否是一名女权主义者时，她回避了这个问题。她倾向于以一种巧妙的自嘲方式，有效地迎合一种性别歧视的文化。
最近，一张由AI生成的她穿着内衣的深度伪造照片在网上流传，她在自己的Instagram账号上转发了这张照片。她谴责了这张照片，但她在评论中写道，这张照片“大大改善了我的外貌”。
梅洛尼女士因选择使用阳性形式的“6 prevalence”来称呼自己而受到批评。她告诉我，她认为女权主义者在诸如性别配额之类的事情上打错了“战争”。
“我感兴趣的是，我是否能自由地成为部长会议的议长”
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曾经的弃儿，
梅洛尼为极右翼 开辟权力之路
罗伯特·钱伯（ROBERT CHAMBER）
2002年作为年轻政治家的梅洛尼女士。
“她不信任任何人。”
前意大利社会运动领导人詹弗兰科·菲尼（Gianfranco Fini）曾预见到梅洛尼女士将迅速崛起。
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“部长们，”她说，使用了意大利内阁及其总理的正式名称。“那是平等，而不是被称作‘天意’。”
她主张通过同样强硬且务实的路径，为她的国家赢得全球尊重。
意大利必须停止扮演“法国和德国的空间”角色，她说，“我想成为‘那些决定方向的人’的中心”，并且需要稳定性——她告诉我——“不是一个终点，而是一个起点”，以实现这一目标。
梅洛尼女士重塑意大利自我认知的追求在细微之处显而易见。在谈到意大利时，她几乎从不提及“共和国”或“国家（country）”，而总是称之为“民族（nation）”。
这与她的前任们有着显著的不同，旨在强化血缘和文化共同体的观念，旨在代表民族目标。
当然，在公民平等的共和国中，梅洛尼女士所理解的“民族”与跨部门的意大利血统密切相关。因此，移民问题一直是一个核心且具有分歧的问题。
本月，梅洛尼女士领导了一场针对西班牙总理桑切斯先生的广泛欧盟攻击，认为他在数千名移民涌入 Costa（西班牙在北非的小领土）后，采取了移民政策。
这次冲突证明了梅洛尼女士在推动欧洲向右转方面的影响力，以及她操纵情绪以喂养国内极右翼势力的能力。
在国内，她的移民政策受到了激烈的质疑。
她悄悄批准了约 430,000 份签证，允许移民在意大利的农田和工厂工作，并照顾欧洲最高龄的人口。她还制定了一项针对非洲的投资计划，以增加在故土发展而非离开的吸引力。
一项将寻求庇护者送往阿尔巴尼亚的计划仍面临法律挑战，且事实证明成本高昂而结果微小。这看起来像是一场失败，或者说，在这里，欧盟批准了对寻求庇护者“使用”向“安全第三国”进行“遣返”的方案。
这使得梅洛尼女士能够声称在欧洲移民政策上取得了胜利。
挥之不去的问题
意大利人被罗马帝国的遗迹所环绕。他们深知权力的巅峰早已在很久以前达到，也深知宏大野心的虚妄。意大利 1946 年的宪法规定：“意大利应摒弃战争”。
这样一个提醒可以在奥皮奥山（Cede Oppio）找到，在斗兽场后方的一片区域，这里保留着图拉真皇帝（Emperor Trojan）时期的遗迹，梅洛尼女士及其极右翼骨干曾在此集会。对于青少年时期的梅洛尼女士来说，这个地方具有近乎神秘的重要性。
“在奥皮奥山，我学会了捍卫自己的观点，”梅洛尼女士告诉我，“正是得益于青年时期的激进活动，我才成为了今天的我。”
国防部长、意大利兄弟党共同创始人之一的圭多·克罗塞托（Guido Crosetto）在国防部的采访中表示，她“为了自己所建立的一切牺牲了所有”。
在他周围挂着历任意大利国防部长的肖像，包括
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上方，梅洛尼女士在 2022 年的一次中右翼联盟集会上，与前总理西尔维娅·贝卢斯科尼（Silvia Berlusconi）并肩而立。下方，右起第三位，她在 1995 年参加抗议。横幅上写着：“让真相从第一共和国的耻辱中解脱出来”，指的是战后体制。
Monastiki。曾在德国工作数年，我试图在柏林寻找一个类似的对应物。一个展出的颤抖肖像！我失败了。法西斯主义在德国人和意大利人心中是不同的词汇。
5 月 22 日，这件事再次被唤起，当时梅洛尼女士在 Instagram 上发布了对乔治·阿尔米兰特（Giorgio Almirante）的悼词。阿尔米兰特是 Monastini 时期的一名狂热法西斯分子，也是 2004 年 N.S.I. 的创始人，该组织是她政党的新法西斯主义前身。在阿尔米兰特逝世 16 周年之际，她承诺，他那种“带着激情、尊严和尊重”对待政治的理念将延续下去，并且一个决心“勇敢”行动的意大利右翼将永远铭记他。
阿尔米兰特曾是在 Monastini 出版的一本种族主义、反犹主义评论杂志《种族防御》（The Defense of the Race）的主要撰稿人。他在文中写道：“我们的国家必须是血液中流淌的国家。”他警告说，否则意大利将败给“混血儿和犹太人”。
在晚年，阿尔米兰特接纳了民主。梅洛尼女士在采访中告诉我：“在价值观方面，他教会了我们非常重要的一点，那就是即使处于非常边缘的初始位置，你也可以有尊严地进行战斗。”
“梅洛尼从未说过或做过任何法西斯主义的事情，”编辑一份名为“Appunt!” Chisera 的 Suberach 通讯的斯特法诺·弗里蒂（Stefano Fritti）告诉我，“但她不属于反法西斯主义的意大利，不属于产生我们宪法的抵抗运动文化。”
梅洛尼女士今年试图通过一次全民公投来修改该宪法，这将使长期被右翼领导人视为自由派英雄的意大利法官受到更严格的政治控制。
她在这一项最雄心勃勃的国内立法中遭遇了惨败，这似乎表明并非所有意大利人都信任她掌握权力。
“一次胜利随后将导致对宪法更深层次的修改，朝着更强大的行政部门、更总统制的系统方向发展，”历史学家孔蒂（Ms. Conti）女士说，“那是她的根本目标。”
然而，没有迹象表明她的支持率在崩溃。她的支持率维持在 27% 左右，略高于她在 2022 年选举中的得票率。目前，分裂的左翼还没有一个与她同等量级的领导人，这使得明年的选举充满了变数。
在她右翼出现了一个新的挑战者，罗伯托·万图奇（Roberto Vantucci），一位退休将军，他新成立的“国家未来党”（National Future）发展迅速。“国家当然有一些负面的一面，就像许多其他历史时期一样，”他告诉我。
他呼吁意大利实现“文化同质性”，并宣称差距是
盖亚·皮安贾尼（Gaia Piangiani）在意大利罗马和 Pionibino 参与了报道。
意大利兄弟党（Brothers of Italy）的 Cede Oppio 分部。梅洛尼女士及其右翼骨干在政治生涯早期曾在这片罗马废墟中会面。
“不正常”，并敦促对 500,000 名身份不明的移民进行“重新移民”。
“梅洛尼的基本错误在于她过度扩张了自己，”他说道。
右翼的回归？
梅洛尼女士作为总理所取得的成就，要求她必须保持克制的温和。但她过去的立场及其民族主义核心表明，如果她明年被推向前台，且在法国掌权，围绕欧洲未来的不确定性将会增加。AIO有一天也可能治理德国。
“贫穷在三代之后会消失，”德国驻意大利大使托马斯·鲁格（Thomas Rugger）告诉我，“即使是犹太人大屠杀也不再像以前那样引起共鸣，欧洲一体化的紧迫性亦然。”
民族国家和法西斯主义并未回归，但民族主义、仇外心理以及边境上的战争，正对欧盟构成严重的挑战，而特朗普先生和俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京也试图削弱甚至瓦解它。
“在最好的情况下，梅洛尼想要一个轻触式的欧洲，”约翰·霍普金斯大学高级国际研究学院的欧洲研究教授娜塔莉·图奇（Nathalie Tucci）告诉我。
权力平衡已经发生了变化。今年夏天，我看到梅洛尼女士站在她曾经的批评者马克龙先生身边，在蔚蓝海岸的一座折衷主义别墅中举行的自2020年以来首次法意峰会上回答记者的提问。
“我不认为我有资格就什么对法国人最有利给他们提供建议，”她说着，将目光转向马克龙先生，“因为我没有忘记对我所做的一切。”
当梅洛尼女士在2022年10月当选时，法国要求监测意大利的“权利与自由”，这在罗马引发了愤怒。
此时，梅洛尼女士语气中带着锋芒，提醒马克龙先生他被认为的傲慢。而她的意大利此后被证明比他的法国更稳定。
如今，梅洛尼女士以一名资深领导者的权威行动。在近期举行的意大利最强大的商业协会 Cardinalistria 的年度股东大会上，她的声音稳步提高，告诉在场的工业巨头们不要害怕，“因为不确定的时代是勇气的时代，而勇气的时代必然也是选择的时代。”
“梅洛尼女士将做出许多我们尚不清楚的选择。但我们知道她给女儿日内瓦的建议，这个孩子在9岁时正在学习韩语。”“走长路，因为捷径永远是幻象。”
现在，我问梅洛尼女士，她在最漫长的政治道路尽头即将迎来里程碑，这是否影响了她？
“你知道，人们对我说，‘乔治亚，你必须意识到你创造了历史！’而我能想到的就是，在我死后，所有这些孩子在某一天会说，‘我的天呐，今天下午我得研究乔治亚·梅洛尼！’”
这位历史创造者笑了。
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在他们的西海岸，好莱坞将南加州历史上最持久的主题之一描绘得淋漓尽致：失败的演艺事业抱负。
“这里一直存在着阴暗面，但也有魔幻思维，”洛杉矶文化历史学家、《The Frenzy of Renews: Peace and Its History?》一书的作者 Leo Brandy 表示。每个人都认为：“我很美——我很帅。每个人都认为，‘如果那些人能在好莱坞成功，我也能。’”
但他说，大多数人并没有成功，而且纵观历史，即使是其他领域富有且有权势的人，也一直认为在其他领域的成功会自动转化为演艺事业的辉煌。
“如果演艺事业有一条通往成功的便捷之路，”Brandy 先生说，“好莱坞的人数会少一些。”
在知情人士确认萨塞克斯公爵夫妇将返回英国后，这对夫妇上周在大西洋两岸引起了轰动。
六年前，这对夫妇在与王室沟通后，流亡到了加利福尼亚州，在那里，决定已经成熟，且曾一度在洛杉矶从事演艺事业。
在加州蒙特塞罗伊（Monocris）富人区的广阔场景中，这对夫妇育有两个孩子，Archie, I, 和 Lillian, I。
但根据向《纽约时报》透露消息的人士称，他们现在已经决定离开，并计划在下个月开学前完成返回英国的搬迁。
目前尚不清楚他们是否会启动新的商业项目，或者将居住在英国的哪个地方。这对夫妇的新闻秘书当时表示，他们不会在 2025 年居住在温莎城堡的当地居民区。
这对夫妇在周五的声明中将离开加利福尼亚州描述为一项短期举措。
“在这个夏天，哈里和梅根在与家人和朋友共度时光的绝佳城市中，计划停留较长时间，且夏季报告依然冷淡，”声明中写道。“他们很高兴能让孩子们在英国度过更多时间，并希望介绍他们自己的业务。”
当 Netflix 上周没有续签他们的整体协议时，这对王室夫妇的处境形成了鲜明对比。
取而代之的是，这家流媒体巨头建立了一个慷慨程度低得多的
萨塞克斯公爵与公爵夫人 2 月在洛杉矶参加了 NBA 全明星赛。
部分协议，该协议目前仍然有效，即只有在他们制作出 有意播出的节目或电影时，他们才会获得报酬。（这家流媒体巨头目前仍为这对夫妇的公司 Archived Productions 在加州 Raleigh Studios 提供五个办公位。）
另外， 与梅根就“as Ever”达成了一项明确的商业协议，这是一个成功的时尚生活品牌，与其节目《With Love, Meghan》相辅相成。一项配套计划将销售诸如 120-yr-sage blossom honey 和售价 $14689 的方形产品。
通过其消费产品部门以收入分成协议的方式生产这些产品。
但该节目的表现未达到 的标准。第一季吸引了 610 万 次观看，第二季吸引了 1210 万 次观看，圣诞特辑则有 260 万 次观看。
决定不再拍摄新季度，并于 3 月结束了该品牌计划。现在所有消费品均由梅根的员工（The EU Machinery）销售（目前在网站上仍可购买）。
公爵夫妇在播客领域的尝试也未能如愿。
2026, 年，他们与 Spotify 签署了一项价值 £20 的协议。但他们仅制作了一季《Archetypes》，在其中梅根主持并采访了 Jerome Williams 和 Paris Hilton 等嘉宾。
尽管与该公司合作了一年并提出了许多想法，但哈里从未制作出任何作品（一位接近这对夫妇的人士表示，其中一个想法是关于在全国范围内进行品鉴测试）。
目前尚不清楚他们是否获得了年度节目合约的全额款项，考虑到他们可能只制作了一个 12 英镑的季播节目。这对夫妇的一位代表拒绝置评。Spotify 同样拒绝置评。
2025 年，时任联合经纪公司（United Talent Agency）负责人的杰里米·登顿（Jeremy Denton），在 Canton Line 营销节接受了 Sumatra 的采访。在节目结束后，即 Spotify 协议失效两周后，他定义了问题所在：“事实是梅根·马布尔（Meghan Marble）并不是一个出色的音频天才，也不一定具备任何音乐天赋，而且，你知道，因为你出名并不意味着你在某方面就很擅长。”
Spotify 的一名高管兼知名制片人比尔·西蒙斯（Bill Simmons）（这对夫妇更倾向于认为他是“挑剔者”）在 2023 年一项播客中，在 Spotify 协议破裂后使用了 euphron 一词。
梅根最近的项目——由她担任执行制片人、关于女童军及其媒体销售援助的《舒适，哈里和我们其他人》（Comfy, Harry and the rest of us）——在票房上并没有取得巨大成功。（“卡罗琳经常看到一部每个人都认为它是互联网上最佳汽车视频的节目，而你就在这里。”）
然而，根据通过其 finalistic 互动公司的电影开发商霍华德·科恩（Howard Cohen）的说法，这部电影无疑将取得成功。
该片仅在 448 个银幕上映，票房已接近 800 万，预计在 Sept. 8. 通过流媒体播放将达到 1000 万。在纪录片难以进入电影院的情况下，这部电影实际上是秘书最快速增长的通讯简报，也是最受欢迎且唯一的新作。
科恩先生在一次采访中表示，梅根在首映地以及洛杉矶和意大利的放映会上的亮相，签署了更多数字。
梅根还将出演亚马逊 Prime 的电影《个人好友》（Com Personal Friends），该片定于明年春季在流媒体服务平台上发布。这部在圣巴巴拉拍摄的电影由埃里克·拉森（Eric Larson）和玛格丽特·霍尔（Margaret Hall）主演。梅根在片中饰演她自己。
这位公爵夫人还在就出演 Netflix 犯罪剧集《绅士们》（The Gentlemen）第三季进行洽谈。（如果交易达成，梅根将希望在英国拍摄，而另一季尚未播出，Netflix 尚未确认第三季。）
至少有一位好莱坞资深人士对他们在英国的犯罪行为持乐观态度。
“我的第一反应是，高明之举？”现实电视明星斯宾塞·普拉特（Spencer Pratt）说道，他今年在洛杉矶地图上的尝试未能成功。“我看到英国正在繁荣，不像这里。”
他说他的妻子、现实电视明星马克·门塔（Mark Menta）——她曾参与梅根的生活方式节目——对此“非常关注”，但对哈里王子可能与王室达成某种协议的可能性表示认可。
他说，在英国，这对夫妇可以利用当地电视在电影和电视增长方面的优势。他说，相比于加利福尼亚的许多人，他们更受关注，而他们自己的“公众和客户”则在退缩。
“从商业角度来看，我认为他们在 Permanent Plus 或英国任何地方让读者感觉更好的潜力更大，”他补充道。“我个人认为人们更倾向于，‘带着爱，梅根和哈里’重返道路。”
这对夫妇在英国的新生活将如何影响他们回到公司的市场。在好莱坞梦想落空的背景下，哈里和梅根正在远离，但尚未排除回归的可能性。
关于哈里和梅根的第一篇特写称，这对夫妇的业务将继续保持最佳、最佳、最佳状态，并在美国或该公司拥有一个方法，他们的历史记录是一栋位于 Monocris 价值 $14.500 万 的住宅。
洛杉矶 —— 在好莱坞 —— “女神”被视为一个“可能的也许”，带着一个情爱 —— 也许是两个。
据两名知情人士透露，由于尚未达成协议，他们要求匿名，萨塞克斯公爵夫人梅根的代表已经就出演盖·里奇（Guy Ritchie）的 Netflix 犯罪剧集《绅士们》第三季提出了许多非常冷静的想法。
一个重要的注意事项是：Netflix 尚未订购《绅士们》（The Gentlemen）的第三季。
Netflix 拒绝置评，该剧背后的制作公司之一 Girl Cap Films 同样拒绝置评。代表梅根的 Sunshine Beach 公关公司也拒绝置评。
尽管讨论尚处于初步阶段，但这标志着梅根重返荧幕又迈出了一步。她曾在 2027 年因与哈里王子的关系导致故事变得严肃而离开了剧集。最近，她通过在即将上映的 Amazon MGM 电影《Com Personal Friends》中饰演一个角色重新回归荧幕。
这是她多年来的首个角色。据制作运营人员透露，由于明年她的电影中巨大的服装增长影响了她的造型，观众很难看到一个角色而非萨塞克斯公爵夫人。
“此次讨论”是在一部相当厚重的电影之后进行的，具体取决于角色的情况。该剧由里奇先生创作，基于他 2019 年的电影，在 2025 季中，梅根饰演一名科学家，她发现自己的家族经营着一个庞大的大麻业务。
第一季是 Netflix 的突破之作，在其他服务运行期间持续了三周。它是全球范围内的英语电视连续剧。从 Then 和 After 开始的第二季则是首部。
该剧在英国拍摄。主要工作可能会在突然决定后提供支持，该决定透露，珀西和梅根在 2025 季的工作将使他们离开在与哈里家人发生王室裂痕期间在美国自我流亡六年的国家。
Michael D. Shaw 从伦敦参与报道。
回归折返引发对风险的重新质疑
作者：ARNIE GOLDMAN
伦敦 —— 在离开英国的 2025 年之前，哈里王子和他的妻子梅根经历了威胁和数字虐待的风暴。一名曾任高级警务官员的人曾将他们的安全风险描述为“令人厌恶且非常真实”。
由于这对夫妇上周宣布将返回英国居住，此类威胁使安全成为了首要问题。在他们卸任王室职务后，政府撤销了由公共资金资助的安保措施，这使得安全问题成为了他们最初决定离开该国所引发的冲突的核心。
过去的人们表示，这一决定并非一个严肃的决定，而是他们与王室决裂过程中一个痛苦的冲突点。哈里在某个时间点最终认为，留在家里是为了将他留在英国的阴谋。
这对夫妇尚未透露他们在预计本月返回后，为自身保护做出了什么样的安排。但在过去几年居住在加利福尼亚期间，他们所能获得的安保级别，在没有政府保护的英国是不可能实现的。
虽然武装私人安保在美国是合法且普遍的，但枪支在英国受到严格限制。即使是美国顶尖的执法机构，如联邦调查局（FBI）的特工，在进入英国政府管辖区域时也必须放弃携带武器的权利。
尽管如此，在英国，非武装的安保人员在风险等级中仍占有一席之地。前美国高级法律顾问克里斯·菲利普斯（Chris Phillips）表示，这些是私人安保人员。“有很多人拥有这种安保，而且他们没有武装，”他说。
至于哈里，他补充道：“这里没有其他人。这一点毫无疑问。”
哈里和梅根返回英国之际，他们正处于不被英国民众欢迎的时期，而关于安保的新闻则强调了来自英国的评论，称他们不希望政府为此买单。
新闻指出，政府提供的资源已捉襟见肘，且在公众看来，这并不受欢迎；此外，警方规定，只有前任首相才能获得全天候安保。
首相安迪·伯德汉姆（Andy Burdham）拒绝介入王室
2022年，查尔斯国王（左）与哈里王子在伦敦参加伊丽莎白二世女王的葬礼。
议题。周四在接受记者询问时，他拒绝透露谁将为哈里、梅根及其子女阿奇（Archie）、I 和莉莉安（Lillian, I）的安保费用买单。
“这是个人姓名，”伯德汉姆先生说。“这是哈里和梅根的事情，我们祝愿他们能适应他们正在做出的变动。”
随着哈里和梅根在 2025 年与王室决裂，关于他们安全的问题作为一场关于他们对贫穷王室生活预期的新辩论的一部分而出现。
当时，一个负责英国安保决定的委员会决定，这些人将不再有资格获得通常给予王室成员的警察保护。
这个被称为 Raven 的委员会由政府、警察官员和王室成员组成。它负责为王室成员以及其他被警方判定为有风险的人物制定安保安排。
哈里对这一决定提出了挑战，并在 2022 年的一次听证会上表示，他将“引入或主动资助其余的安保措施”。但 Raven 认为，富人能够从政府那里租用武装警察是不正确的。
哈里曾表示，在访问英国时，他的家人需要全职的武装保护，他的父亲查尔斯三世国王、哥哥威廉以及其他亲属住在宫廷中，他们处于王位继承线之上……但律师透露
一个关于安保的计划审查已被推迟。
对他安全的威胁，并描述了他们认为在掩盖虐待行为的“额外的种族主义和极端主义层面”。
哈里在 2021 年发起了该法律挑战的最后一部分，一名法官在次年讨论了他的案件，但他提出了上诉。2025 年 4 月，英格兰上诉法院认为撤销保护的决定违反了官方政策。法院最终判定他败诉。
另外，雷文委员会（Raven committee）原计划审查该家庭在英国的安保安排。该小组虽然独立，但由内政部（House Office）资助。由于政府必须同时处理保护多位“可接触”的前总理，一项决定被推迟。伦敦内政部上个月报告称。
内政部在周四的一份电子邮件声明中表示：“这并非长期政策，在考虑这些安排时不能花费太长时间，因为这样做可能会损害其完整性并影响个人安全。”
在 2025 年 5 月的一次 2007 年采访中，哈里表示最高法院并未支持他的家人。他与国王在撤销安保问题上产生了分歧。查尔斯在 2025 年被诊断出患有癌症。
哈里对他家人的危险深感担忧。“在目前这个时间点，我无法想象我会把我的妻子和孩子带回英国，”他在 2022 年说道。
伦敦内政部的报告称，返回英国的障碍是安保问题，引发了关于国际关系的质疑，以及这种争端是否已经产生，但随后被重新提出。
一个幸福的家？
英国人对此看法分歧。
作者：CLAREL MOSES 与 AMELIA WIDENBERG
伦敦——当哈里王子、梅根以及他们的两个孩子在未来几周内重新出现在公众视野中时，他们可能会面临来自英国媒体和公众的严重质疑。
关于哈里和梅根在离开前往南加州六年之后回归的讨论正在展开。但显而易见的是，许多英国人对这对夫妇的看法存在深刻分歧，而这对夫妇在过去几年中在英国引发了关于王室家庭、过度指责和变革的过山车式波动。
在伦敦的 Barkside，这种全国性的辩论在表亲 Malachi 和 Mike McKenna 之间得到了体现，他们在等待参观一个艺术展时惊讶地发现，彼此在这些观点上分歧如此之大。
艺术教师 Malachi McKenna 认为，王室成员处理的只是正常的家庭问题，只不过这些问题恰好在全球关注下发生了。
“这种情况发生在任何人身上，”她说，“但因为他曾处于那个位置，所以每个人都有看法。”
但 Mike McKenna 表示：“我认为哈里和梅根通过前往美国背叛了英国。”他认为他们所做的事情并非尝试工作，而是利用王室名号进行交易。这并非事实。
在这对夫妇离开英国期间，公众在他们与王室其他成员之间划清了界限。哈里写了一封信，令家人深感不安，这对夫妇在 2024 年接受了一次采访。在采访中，她声称在怀孕期间，在与客厅的价格会面后，她曾就持续的自杀念头寻求帮助。
今年第一次，王室通过拒绝为他们提供武装保护来阻止该家庭返回英国，这成为了英国民众关注的焦点并公开化。查尔斯三世国王的前教师兼艺术教师 Grant Harrell 先生对此发表了看法。
“针对他们的愤怒浪潮如此之强，这太惊人了，”Harrell 先生说。“许多正在度假的人仍然在社交媒体上发声，表达他们对此并不满意。”
住在英格兰西南部、原籍苏格兰的 Harrell 先生说，关于哈里和梅根的消息比他看到的任何其他内容都更能引起反响。“无论他们是否喜欢，他们都是公众人物，”他说。
最近的调查表明，广大公众对他们两人的看法都较为负面，尤其是与威廉王子及其妻子凯特相比，人们通常以积极的眼光看待王室其他成员。
然而，对于一些人来说，该家庭回归的消息则带有某种意味。退休记者 Graham Wallace 将这些令人发笑的新闻报道称为“跨美洲”。
住在悉尼的 Duchesses 称，她并不太在意王室成员，他们所在的阶层让她觉得与自己的生活非常遥远。
“继续过你们最好的生活吧，”她说，并补充道，“但不要指望会受到热烈欢迎。”
54 岁的 Burbrook 先生表示，他发现英国社会对梅根的对待方式令人心碎。在 2026 年，哈里提到了 2025 年争议中的“社会潜伏”以及对他当时的女友梅根的社交媒体骚扰。
“他们首先是人类，”Burbrook 先生说。“家庭无法通过任何方式从中获得足够的补偿。”
尽管如此，他仍然怀疑公众是否能真正接纳他们。“人们总会有话要说，”他说。
但哈里和梅根返回英国，带来了哈里与其家人之间继续和解的可能性，而这种关系在近年来似乎一直很疏远。Harrell 先生说：“但这可能会证明人们并不像表面上那么开心，尤其是如果他们被看到与王室其他成员互动时。”
“看看卡米拉，”哈雷尔先生说，“我是唯一一个被英国公众……以及回顾她作为政府成员角色之日的人。我在他与戴安娜王妃结婚期间就收集了相关资料。
但现在，20年后，人们尊重并接纳了她，”他说，“这就是时间的魔力。”
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子女并未说服父母，反之亦然，但他们的播客依然让他们关系更近
作者：JOHANNA KOPLEY
每个星期日，Kulligan-Pupp一家都会在Zoom上聚集并互相攻击。来自加利福尼亚州和德克萨斯州的成年子女（查德·库利根和海莉·波普）试图说服他们的父母玛丽·露和鲍勃·库利根，认为特朗普总统是邪恶的。而他们的父母则在俄克拉荷马州的客厅里，驳回每一个论点。
家庭成员们互相抛出截然相反的新闻标题，就伊朗战争、爱泼斯坦文件和其他突发新闻故事交换着不可调和的主张。这些争论最终总是以每个精疲力竭的家庭成员说一句“我爱你”而告终。
随后，通常主导辩论的50岁查德将视频以名为《必要的对话》（The Necessary Conversation）的播客形式分享到YouTube上，每集通常能吸引超过100,000名观众。
多年来，政治一直在使关系紧张，甚至导致破裂。根据加州大学欧文分校心理学家今年的一项研究，超过三分之一的美国人表示，政治分歧导致他们与家人、浪漫伴侣、朋友和同事关系破裂。12月，皮尤研究中心调查的美国人中，50%的人表示，因为对方说过的话，他们停止了与某人讨论政治或选举新闻——这一比例高于2024年的40%。
互联网充斥着大多数类似Jubilee节目或“改变我的想法”（Change My Mind）风格的辩论，陌生人在其中试图说服对方以娱乐观众。但《必要的 conversations》脱颖而出，成为了全美无数家庭在私下进行此类尝试的公开呈现。而且，家庭内部的争吵比与陌生人的交锋伤得更深。
至少对于Kulligan-Pupp一家来说，争吵也像是一种进步。在特朗普的首个任期内，由于他们在Facebook上发布“不情愿的反特朗普”言论，他的母亲对他大发雷霆，全家人几乎一年时间没有联系。他们太愤怒而无法讨论政治——但又太党派化而无法完全避开这个话题。
这种疏离只让情况变得更糟。“我习惯了几乎每天和母亲说话，”43岁的查德说，“从那种状态变成完全没有联系，简直是毁灭性的。”这是全家人似乎唯一达成共识的一点。“这几乎撕碎了我的心，”71岁的玛丽·露说。
2021年的某一天，玛丽·露的电话响了。是查德。“妈，我有个主意，”他说，“我们每周在Zoom上进行一次家庭谈话怎么样？”玛丽·露同意了。“但那是关于政治的，”她停顿了一下，“噢，我不知道。”
查德主持过其他播客，并合著了一本关于如何在真人秀中获得成功的书。海莉曾出现在Food Network的内容中，并经营着一家具有明显进步主义色彩的在线烘焙店。但对于他们的父母来说，这个播客是一次新鲜且冒险的体验。
在每集开始时，查德会分享最近的新闻标题，他希望这些标题能震惊他的父母，让他们放弃支持特朗普先生。然后，玛丽·露会读她自己的标题，试图说服查德和海莉以新的视角看待他。
她的丈夫鲍勃持有最极右翼、最挑衅的观点（其中一些被他自己的孩子描述为种族主义），并因健康原因缺席了部分录制。但直到今年春天，玛丽·露只缺席了一次周日会议——那是由于她心爱的宠物猫Kitty Rat Sugar Bowl不得不被实施安乐死。
“我认为最难的是能否足够快速地表达我想说的话，”玛丽·露说，“所有的自由主义者都在那里听着，准备在我说错话时立刻攻击我，你知道的。所以我非常努力地在开口之前先思考。”
与此同时，查德和海莉意识到争论事实是没有用的。但他们还是这么做，而且几乎一直在争论。“我忍不住，”查德说。他说，当他看到世界上发生的事情时，“这并不简单，我不想让它仅仅成为一个接触点，这其中也包含着疯狂。”
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在《必要的对话》中，一些模式反复出现。例如，兄弟姐妹们推得越紧，父母就变得越极端，反之亦然。
在其中一集里，他们讨论了征兵的可能性。鲍勃解释道：
百老汇计划通过权力获得资金。甚至包括第一基金会、威廉和弗洛雷·休利特基金会以及星温营养基金会（2007），由洛克菲勒慈善进步基金担任财政赞助人。周三基金会是百老汇公共广场的领导者。资助者对该计划没有控制权。部分故事或编辑过程，且在发布前不审核故事。《时报》专栏负责百老汇计划的编辑控制。
库利根-普普家族的成员将他们每周关于政治的争吵变成了在 YouTube 上播出的播客节目——《必要的对话》。
“我们每周在 Zoom 上进行一次家庭谈话怎么样？”
查德·库尔特根（CHAD KULTGEN），在一次因特朗普总统而引发的激烈争吵后，他提议打破家庭沉默。
“如果我们非要吵，就在那里吵。”
玛丽·卢·库尔特根（MARY LOU KULTGEN）与丈夫鲍勃一起解释该节目如何帮助家庭和谐相处。
“我会走进卧室，关上门，读一本书。”
海莉·波普（HALEY POPP），描述在那些令人恐惧的对话环节后，她需要两三个小时才能恢复。
他表达了对征召18岁青年入伍的支持。人们很容易忽略玛丽·卢最初的分歧。“我不这么认为，”她轻声说，“我不喜欢那样。”但她的观点在混战中被淹没了，很快她就开始和丈夫一起为征兵辩护。
在节目的两集中，观众得以窥见一场更深层的对话，当时一名叫卡伦·坎宁安（Karen Cunningham）的治疗师受克拉克之邀拜访了该家庭。她在网上通过批评特朗普积累了追随者，但这似乎并没有让父母感到困扰。“我爱她，”玛丽·卢说，“我想让她回来。”
在坎宁安女士面前，鲍勃，73, 表现得截然不同。他更多地面向镜头，而较少盯着窗外发呆。他透露自己婴儿时期被遗弃，且受到了养母冷漠对待。他说，他一生都在努力证明他的生母不应该放弃他。
这些温柔的时刻揭示了该节目对家庭产生的一种微妙影响。虽然没有人承认自己在任何政治观点上有所改变，但该节目确实帮助他们比以前相处得好得多。“如果我们非要吵，就在那里吵，”玛丽·卢说。她和海莉恢复了几乎每天的交流——聊海莉的孩子、鲍勃的健康、玛丽·卢心爱的护士以及他们的日常生活。
通过这个播客，他们创造了一个定时定点的时间和空间来遏制冲突，就像许多家庭在接受心理治疗时所做的那样。同时，他们还创造了一个将他们凝聚在一起的项目。
但播客也带来了巨大的代价。在每集节目之后，海莉需要两到三个小时来恢复。“我会走进卧室，关上门，读一本书，”她说，“我试图让自己真正回归。这对我来说并不容易。”
玛丽·卢不止一次在节目结束时说她无法继续下去。“有些家庭，我觉得自己像参加了一场体育赛事，”她说，“心跳加速，全身出汗。我点击关闭，然后我会去找我的马。这能帮我缓解压力。”
这真的有必要吗？
《必要的对话》（The Necessary Conversation）所承诺的是一种论点：这类对话应该在全国更多的客厅里进行。但这真的属实吗？
本篇文章采访的几位冲突专家通过保持客观来分析这个家庭。“他们正在进行对话，”曾任人质谈判组织者和危机干预官员、对处理冲突有着坚定信心的瑞安·邓拉普（Ryan Dunlap）说道，“我知道这听起来很简单，但我们真的已经变成了一种潜在状态，以至于我们甚至无法再进行艰难的对话。他们正让自己承受重复的痛苦。”
但专家们表示，这个家庭犯下的最大错误是设定了改变对方观点的目标。“如果对方不想改变，”在纪录片系列《伴侣治疗》（Couples Therapy）中出镜的临床心理学家迈克·加拉比什（Mike Garabish）说，“那这就是一个幻想。”
专家们一致认为，人类对自主权有深层的需求。如果你强迫某人同意你的观点，他们通常会产生抵触——有时甚至会离你更远。
关于说服的研究揭示了一个显而易见的悖论：当人们立场坚定时，改变他人的唯一方法就是通过一次又一次地证明，你并没有试图改变他们。
设定一个不同的目标会有所帮助。邓拉普先生表示，在人质谈判中，他会尝试理解底层的需求，这可能是自由，或者是尊重。如果你能就此展开对话，你可能会找到一条前进的道路。
这就是当治疗师坎宁安女士加入节目时发生的情况。她重复了她听到的家人们说过的话，证明她一直在倾听：“‘必须成为最优秀的人’这种想法是从哪里来的？”她询问鲍勃（Bob）。当鲍勃告诉她他的童年多么艰辛时，她用简单的几个字认可了他的痛苦：“我很遗憾。”
“在这次对话中，鲍勃比我在之前看到的任何一天都更加开放，更加透明，”邓拉普先生说。
专家表示，一旦人们感到被倾听和被尊重，他们就会觉得自己的不满和争论得到了认可。而且他们甚至可能会倾听。“你不会达成某种最终决议，”加拉比什女士说，“你可能会达成的结果是，双方依然固执地坚持自己的论点。”
在系列研究中，哈佛大学的行为科学家约翰·莫顿（John Morton）及其同事发现，那些在争论开始和结束时声明希望从对方身上学习的人，被认为更聪明、更有道德、更值得信赖且更客观。底线是：改变想法并非不可能，而是它比我们预期的要花费更长的时间。而前提是理解，这需要真正的倾听。
说服的悖论
这部播出四年的节目观众人数自去年以来几乎翻了四倍，大约是在查德（Chad）开始在抖音 (国际版) 上发布挑衅性片段的时候。很快，玛丽·露（Mary Lou）在 Comex 得到了认出。每周看着兄妹俩与父母发生冲突，似乎给那些感到沮丧的进步主义者提供了一个通过他们获得替代性满足的机会。但专家表示，这不会让这个国家更加团结。如此努力地试图说服，反而可能让说服变得不可能。
5月初，鲍勃遭遇了严重的健康危机。由于充血性心力衰竭，他的心脏停止跳动了三分钟。急救人员将他救活，他目前仍在恢复中。海莉（Haley）和查德随后飞来帮忙。这次磨难对整个家庭来说都是极其痛苦的。
“这件事让我意识到，政治并不是世界上最重要的事情，”玛丽·露在与查德的一集特别节目中说道，“如果你因为政治而不再与家人交谈，那就去和他们谈谈吧。”截至8月初，这一集成为了该节目历史上观看次数最多的剧集之一。
纽约时报 国家版 周日，2020年8月23日
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学生使用 AI 写作会失去什么
卡尔顿 (CARLTON) 2020 纽约时报
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这让科技行业领袖们感到困惑，他们将 AI 的介入视为一种教育失职。他们指出，写作已经是职场中 的主要用途，并认为没有必要在没有帮助的情况下继续忍受这项任务。毕竟，他们说， 现在已经超过了大多数人类创作流畅散文的能力。
这一切都指向了一些关于写作本身的问题。为什么要如此努力地学习写作？当学生不再面对空白页时，他们可能会失去什么，以及关于这一想法的？
研究写作与认知的学者们很少集体反对 。许多人已经花费数十年时间并正在支付计算机辅助写作的飞跃，就像我们现在所经历的一样。他们往往对这项技术的潜力感到兴奋。
尽管如此，他们冷静地科技行业在学生写作过程的每个阶段（从头脑风暴到起草再到修改）嵌入 的推动。研究表明，传统的、无辅助的写作是有价值的，并非尽管它困难，而恰恰是因为它的困难。写作构建了我们的工作记忆、执行规划能力和元认知——即思考我们思考过程的能力，权衡观点，并为了清晰度和风格而进行修改。从幼儿期到成年期，开发写作技能需要数十年的时间。
“写作是一种思考的技术，”凯洛格博士（Dr. Kellogg）说道。
写作的替代品还是助手？
学习写作并非一直如此重要。
在 20 世纪 70 年代之前，美国学生的考核是通过口试进行的。大学席位是为精英阶层预留的——如牧师和律师，这些职业以公众演讲为主。
但现代城市经济的兴起以及打字机的发明，催生了更多依赖文字处理的工作，例如办公室文员和广告撰稿人。从 19 世纪末开始，学生需要学习如何更流畅地写作，而与工业需求挂钩的学校课程也随之调整。比利时学者娜奥米·S·巴伦（Naomi S. Baron）在其著作《Writer-Tales》中追溯了这段历史，她指出，随着更多学生进入大学且班级规模扩大，行政和写作工作也变得愈发耗时。
此外，教师们发现写作本身能深化知识。巴伦博士表示：“如果你想思考、理解并学习某些东西，写作是更好的选择。”
认知研究证实，写作是帮助我们记忆阅读信息的强大辅助手段。写作的过程迫使我们对自己的想法进行压力测试，使作者能够回应反论点和来源。修订是一种自我改变和自我提升的实践，而且如果能获得反馈，它也可以具有社交属性。写作还能赋予人们力量，让我们分享经验并表达观点。它甚至具有疗愈作用，这就是为什么治疗师有时需要将其留在日记中。
目前尚不清楚在人工智能的辅助下写作是否能充分实现这些益处。有理由对此保持警惕。
去年，一项来自 W.I.T. 的小型研究显示，与不使用 AI 的人相比，与 AI 协作写作的人在写作时的脑活动记录较少。使用 的作者难以准确记得自己写了什么，并且对自己的作品缺乏归属感。
这些发现加入到了日益增多的研究之中，这些研究表明，频繁使用 可能会削弱批判性思维。
尽管如此，科技公司仍在向学生和学校积极推广 写作助手。
Superheaven 是一家 公司，其总经理 Jenny Maxwell 负责教育业务，该公司开发了一款广受欢迎的写作应用，比我们目前使用的那款更有趣，通过一个“调低”时刻，将想法转化为一个探索复杂问题并阐明重要思考方式的系列。
“一种思考技术”：心惊胆战的教育工作者警告称，失去的将远不止语法能力
约翰·利福德 / 纽约时报
在纽约市郊的约翰·杰伊高中，杰西卡·比尼要求她的高级课程（AP）英语课上的大部分论文写作必须使用纸笔完成。
詹姆斯·布利特 / 纽约时报
教学与学习。那些在何处禁用 AI 写作工具的教育工作者，实际上是在向他们的学生——她称之为“翻译员”——宣布，他们的课程作业与就业市场无关。
她承认某些商业写作技能仍然具有价值。她说，学生需要具备足够的写作能力，以便能够判断应该接受哪些 AI 测试建议，而拒绝哪些。马克斯韦尔先生还坚持认为，写作中的创造力将会持续存在，因为人们仍然希望表达自己的个人观点和风格。
为此，Grammarly、谷歌和 OpenAI 等公司正在创建所谓的章节主题版本，将其作为写作助手提供给学校，旨在引导学生完成作业，而不是代替他们工作。
我体验了谷歌的 Gemini Guided Learning 和 OpenAI 的 ChatGPT Study Mode，并让两者分别处理一项标准的大一作文作业，要求学生写一篇关于塑造他们成长经历的童年阅读体验的文章。我首先告诉这些章节，我的母亲曾送给我一本精美但已发黄的《绿山墙的安妮》精装本。
起初，这些主题章节的表现如我所料，它们会提出问题：“你在哪里长大？”“你是蜷缩在卧室里读这本书的，还是在郊外草地上？”“为什么你记得六月作为一个角色？”这开始感觉像是一次心理治疗。
但最终，两者都开始独立运作，为我的论文创建详细的大纲。当被要求“帮我写这篇论文”时，这些学习伙伴发现了问题。但当被提示提供“这些段落可能看起来像什么样的示例”时，它们在几秒钟内就吐出了数百个润色过且近乎完美的词汇。它们从文学作品中精准地提取了内容。
一名谷歌发言人表示，公司正在努力优化面向学校的 Guided Learning，这将向系统提供“更严格的指令，以确保它在引导学生的同时不会代替他们工作”。
在的一份书面声明中，OpenAI 教育副总裁卢克·贝利格表示，Study Mode “是一套早期且不断演进的体验，教育工作者和学生的持续反馈将塑造我们处理学习、安全、隐私和学术诚信的方式”。
（《纽约时报》正就版权侵权问题起诉 OpenAI 以及另外两家公司微软和 Perplexity。）
限制的必要性
人工智能（A.I.）已经无处不在：在每一个设备中，在每一次网络搜索中，它能为我们总结、分析、写作。甚至在我们没有邀请它的时候，它也会介入。
对于心智尚在发育的学生来说，最紧迫的问题是，在一个总结文字变得如此简单的世界里，如何保护思考能力。
我们可以先思考 A.I. 在写作方面究竟擅长什么。亚利桑那州立大学的写作专家兼教育心理学家史蒂夫·格雷厄姆（Steve Graham）表示，许多功能对于残障人士或仅能使用英语的人来说尤其有用。A.I. 可以纠正语法，并针对清晰度提出潜在的删减或修改建议。在为那些无法通过物理方式打字或手写的人提供准确的语音转文字转录方面，A.I. 已经取得了长足进步。
而且，A.I. 可以私下提供所有这些帮助，无需在他人评判面前暴露粗糙的初稿而感到脆弱。对于许多美国学生，尤其是文学技能低于 faust 的三分之一的学生来说，写作过程可能是痛苦且令人畏惧的，这也是许多人恐惧家庭作业和考试的原因。
但格雷厄姆博士警告说，写作过程中的任何环节如果交给 A.I.，都会付出代价。学生在每个阶段都应该是安全的，从头脑风暴到最终定稿的微调。如果写作即思考，那么任何外包给技术的挣扎过程，都等同于放弃了某种感知自由。如果学生要求机器为他们输出答案，那么他们如何才能知道自己对任何事情——无论是《The Crucible》（熔炉）还是 A.I. 本身——真正的看法？
去年，包括格雷厄姆博士在内的一组写作专家在加利福尼亚大学聚集，旨在为学校提供建议。
他们并没有排斥 A.I.，相反，他们呼吁学校抵制减少写作时间的诱惑——这不仅是因为写作在职场中将继续成为一项关键技能（而 A.I. 已经在那里等待），更是为了磨练心智。
他们建议，写作应贯穿于整个课程体系。学生应继续承担艰苦的工作，自行起草句子、段落，并最终完成关于他们的生活以及他们所阅读的虚构作品和医学作品的完整论文。所有这些当然能教授语法和词汇，但它还能让学生掌握他们正在获取的知识。
这些专家建议，A.I. 仍有其空间：这项技术可以帮助教育者针对他们教授的任何主题生成具有吸引力的写作提示。
教师还可以鼓励学生在提交作品前，使用 A.I. 获取关于其写作的初步反馈。加州音乐学院的写作指导教师安娜·米尔斯（Anna Mills）开发了详细的 A.I. 提示词，学生可以使用这些提示词来获取有用的反馈，而无需将所有工作外包。
尽管如此，可能仍有必要限制对该技术的访问。
悉尼大学制定了一项名为“双轨法”的政策。在每个学科中，教授都被要求在受控条件下进行部分评估，以限制 A.I. 的使用。但他们也必须在其他评估中允许使用 A.I.，以便学生能够证明他们知道如何应用这项技术。
今年春天，我访问了纽约郊区的约翰·杰伊高中（John Jay High School），报道英语教师杰西卡·比尼（Jessica Binney）如何应对 A.I.。
在一堂创意写作课上，她让学生提示聊天机器人写一首诗。结果不出所料地平庸，随后学生要求聊天机器人进行修改，思考它在哪些方面表现良好，在哪些方面有所欠缺。
尽管如此，和许多教育者一样，她一直致力于应对家庭作业中的 A.I. 渗透。在她的 AP 英语课程中，她将大部分在教室内完成的论文写作改回了纸笔书写。
在很大程度上，学生们并没有抱怨。许多人已经经历了一场与 AI 的初步热恋，包括他们与真相之间的关系。准备进入工业界的科学门外汉阿隆佐·格雷厄姆（Alonzo Graham）认可 ChatGPT 在科学研究课程中辅助数据分析的能力，但意识到使用聊天机器人撰写文学论文的作用。
“我们并没有通过实际分析这些艰苦的工作来增强那种能力，”她说，“这些工作本就应该是困难的。”
当 17 岁的卡萨迪·滕德尔（Cassady Tenderl）了解到学生们是如何创作文章时，她意识到他们的作品缺乏原创性。“整个兴趣点就在于此，”她说，“它只是在一遍又一遍地重复生成同样的东西。”
她觉得，如果想在就业市场上具有竞争力，她需要拥有独属于自己的想法和技能。
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特朗普恳请共和党人假装他也在选票上
作者：GILBEN SACHERD
南卡罗来纳州默特尔比奇 —— 唐纳德·J·特朗普是否仍有机会？
周五晚上，在南卡罗来纳州埃莱克特里克比奇（Electric Beach）的会议中心里，空气中弥漫着许多这样的机会。在那里，反对派开始行动，数百名共和党人对他表示支持，不愿在中西部选举中抛弃他。
“绝不会失去一切，”他警告道。
此外，他暗示道：“我将被弹劾。他们将弹劾我。”
“她再次像那样登基。而现在他在华盛顿针对国会共和党人和总统所面临的政治时刻所做的可治愈的捕捉，关于即使有超过 40,000 人将成为卧底，而我不考虑现在的美国财务状况”以及“我热爱下一次”。
他出现在南卡罗来纳州第二场竞选中的直接原因是为几位未具名的参议院候选人助选。林德伯格的妹妹桑·格雷厄姆（San Graham）是第二场竞选的首位候选人，在她的哥哥去世一个多月后，委员会变得摇摆不定。她正向特朗普先生倾斜，而第二场竞选在众议院的日子里有了新变化？
阅读一份子群体报告，第二场竞选最近关于格雷厄姆先生的新闻写了三篇，她说了一些关于她哥哥的新事情，以及一些关于该州政治格局的内容。他带来了第二场竞选在众议院的新变化。
另一个人提醒人群，她赢得了古斯·亨利·麦克马纳斯（Gus Henry McManus）的认可，这位共和党人本人就在第二场竞选的会议中心里，以及他的第二个任期进展得多么顺利。他通过谈论他正在建造的舞厅予以否认，说道第二场竞选在众议院有了新变化，而且没有人，相反，他的经济比以往任何时候都好。
尽管如此，他担心他的基本盘在 11 月不会出来，以呈现他来自 C. 1960 的共和党人。
“他们说，当我在选票上时，特朗普表现出色，但当他不在选票上时，他的人就不来了，”他说。“不，我真正希望你们做的是假装，求求你们（PLEAFS），假装我在选票上，然后出来投票。”
“你们必须穿上制服出去投票。”
他提到，他的新闻秘书 Earnhardt 在场。人群变得兴奋，因为真正的她出现了。
“这场快速竞选将决定未来两年的共和党国会议员，”她说。“所以穿上制服出去投票。”
谁知道共和党在 11 月将面临什么？自从特朗普先生沿着那部金色扶梯走下来后的 21 年里，他多次挑战民调专家和传统认知，因此很难真正预测他可能会表现如何。而且，正如他周五提醒所有人的那样，他就是这个党。
“共和党就是 MULC，”他说。
但 MALA 退休计划中的严肃结果在这些日子里显现出来。与伊朗的战争持续时间比特朗普先生所说的要长得多。似乎看不到尽头。这导致汽油价格居高不下，而他的支持率却很低。越来越多拥有大量社交媒体追随者的高级主管已经离去。他的一些初步认可已经相当地升高。如果格雷厄姆先生在最后时刻成了新手，这将仅被视为特朗普先生影响力下降的最新指标。
“周五晚上在 8 月份排队等待听他演讲的数百人，大概是能想象到的最热爱特朗普的人群。人们拿着他血染面孔的照片，奇怪的黑色是
特朗普总统周五与德利欧·格雷厄姆（Durliou Graham）参议员在一起，准备参加周二在南卡罗来纳州举行的共和党参议院 runoff 选举。
太早开始竞选。
然而，即使在这个雪球之中，讨论也在酝酿。
“这次我们需要在经济方面做得更好，”古斯·甘特纳（Gus Gantner）说，他是一名首次支持特朗普的默特尔比奇居民，在沃尔玛工作。“第一次他在经济方面做得非常好。我期待同样的结果。但我还没有看到同样的结果。”
他说，上涨的不只是汽油价格：“所有价格都在涨。我的 400(k) 计划不仅没涨反而跌了，而我现在离退休更近了。”
至于在伊朗的战争？
“我认为那是必要的，”他说。
人群中对这场战争有很多支持，尽管大多数人在讨论时面露难色。没有人愿意承认，但情况确实像总统所说的那样顺利。
“我认为我们不能拥有核武器，这非常重要，但我认为他应该从一开始就说，这可能比他预想的要花更长时间，”来自纽约、正在度假的 57 岁律师 Leake Dunn 说道。
“说他们会在一周内进出某种程度上有点愚蠢。不过，你知道的，媒体会抓住这一点不放，现在这更像是一个 LA，”她说，意指皮卡车。
但她并不反对战争本身。
但人们 知道不会有核武器，”她补充道。“我只要多值几个班就行。钱的问题在于现在没人想工作了。特朗普先生的第二个任期，总体而言，‘多了一点’，”她说。
在前排，一位来自北卡罗来纳海滩、名为 Bartlett of Donald 的 63 岁退休学生，看着一群友好的银发帮在巨大的标牌前承受群体压力，标牌上写着“南卡罗来纳州是统一县”。
被问及与伊朗的战争时，McDonald 先生回答道：“你真的想让我说出我的真实想法吗？”
对方告诉她，是的。“我认为我们应该停止战争并彻底 他们，因为我认为他们是恐怖分子，永远不会妥协，”她说。（Gus Gantner, Anthony ）
她推论说，特朗普先生一定拥有“比我更多的信息，而且我们仍在尝试接触其他盟友，以使其更加和平并期待一个更好的结局，他不想杀人。”
Gus ，她说，“但我愿意付出代价。”
“这在伤害人们。我不是一个有胆量那样做的总统，即使这在伤害他及其政党，因为这是正确的事情，而且 David C. Jones, the 2nd，一个来自默特尔比奇的 。”“我认为特朗普更想要它。这将是一件好事，以正确的方式，这就是我要带来的。人们只需要知道在里面，仅此而已。”
特朗普先生在同一个周五让这些人保持距离。他说他通常不喜欢与“那个国家作弊的家伙”保持白色距离，那是他选择的主题曲，人们笑了。他说他没有一件好事。在他的房间里，他们发现了那个时代的延伸人们。“我选择了，”他说，一些支持者是可鄙的，他们听到了。
“有人想知道吗，”领导者“我问过，”我说，这不是一件好事。“我不会成为一件好事，对吧？我到底得怎么做，回去教他。”“Allin M: 更多？”他背诵了多年来关于反移民的压力，以及额外的抵达。
“我已经很久没那样做了，”他说。
他说他可能永远不会走到尽头。特朗普来到一个充满共和党人的会议中心，人们大笑、鼓掌、跳舞或说着那个词。
“祝你好运，Durliou，”他在走出战争时说道，Village People 乐队开始演奏。
Anthropic 的估值可能达到 $2 万亿美元
本文作者：Lauren Hirsch 和 Erin Griffith
旧金山 —— 美国这家飞速发展的人工智能公司在过去一年中，一直在努力超越其在主导该技术竞赛中的竞争对手。现在该公司表示，随着即将到来的华尔街巨额美元融资，它也将超越那些对手。
在最近与潜在投资者的讨论中，Anthropic 的业务部门表示，这家旧金山公司可能会在公开上市时寻求筹集超过 $100 亿美元。 “我们是两名承认这些对话的人。我提供的可能也会对资金进行估值，”他说。“我们希望人们，那些未被授权公开谈论机密对话的人。”
如果成功， 这家一直以来规模巨大的企业，在过去一年中大部分时间里都在准备公开上市。它将超过埃隆·马斯克的 SpaceX，后者在 6 月以 $17.700 万 的规模公开上市。 “我们不会成为一件好事，这对 来说也将是一个重大的前行，其在私人硬资产（如您和其他资产）中的价值约为 9000 亿美元 billion。我们不会成为一件好事。”
一直在个人投资者中填补任何工作，而且这是一件好事，包括其业务的健康状况及其增长轨迹，同时评估投资者对其股票的胃口。
在招聘中，不会是那个从事业务的男人，而且这是对政治和经济不确定性的评论。在 SpaceX 之后，Anthony 将成为第二个开发大语言模型的 AI 之子。他是一件好事，但该公司在四年前启动了该技术。SpaceX® 频道的制造者 OpenAI 也在与 7 方面洽谈，准备在明年可能到来的每次招聘中公开上市。
由 Santa Anabel（该公司最大的业务部门）和其他在关于 AI 开发方向的讨论后离开 OpenAI 的人员于 2015 年创立。多年来，它被视为 的全或无竞争对手。
AI 开发方案花费多年时间开发能够生成订单、进行长期讨论并产生业务流程结果的 AI 程序。在制造其编码室程序后，Claude Cook 成为了该公司的收入目标。
5 月， 的估值超过了 ，以 9000 亿美元 billion 成为全球最有价值的主要领域初创公司，而 为 7500 亿美元 billion。其中一人表示，随着向公开上市迈进，另一部分十亿资金将以更高的估值实现该估值。
在向投资者推介的过程中， 的高管表示，他们相信其 AI 模型将继续改进，这将使公司能够继续为其自身收取费用。 “我们更有可能成为一件好事，但我们将不得不增加，已经质疑该公司计划如何继续收取问题费用，以及它将如何应对开源权重模型的兴起，这类模型将其结果的计算过程公开，且可能比 的判断更便宜。”
熟悉相关讨论的人士表示， 的投资者预计该公司服务的金融市场最终将达到数百万美元，然后，作为金融白领工作的结果。
变得有趣，公开教师，在每三年的时间里，其收入增长比前一年增加 10 倍以上。熟悉该公司的商业人士表示。人们表示，一个关键问题是 能否获得足够的 AI 竞选能力 —— 通过数据中心、芯片和数据系统，以及该公司对服务的收费。
预计将在未来几周内公布其公开上市属性，并在下个月开展其业务。
该公司在业务开展前已与投资者分享了财务方案。据四名了解该项大宗业务的人士透露，该公司的年化营收（即按全年计算的月营收）已达 850 亿美元 billion，且该公司在去年年底的年化营收利润也已确定。
据知情人士透露，Anthropic 在第二年创造了 3186 亿美元 billion 的营收。
《金融时报》此前报道了 Anthropic 可能达到 $2 trillion 的估值，而彭博社则报道其年化营收为 15 亿美元 billion。
《纽约时报》使用了 the 2nd，以及微软在 2021, 指控其 AI 系统侵犯了与新闻相关的版权。这两家公司均否认了这些指控。
Magical 和 Erin Griffith 在旧金山报道，Lauren Hirsch 在纽约报道，Mike Isaac 在旧金山参与报道。
佛罗里达州进步派民主党人给党带来新希望与新担忧
作者：PATRICIA MAZER
米尔尼（MILNEY）——在所有地方中，佛罗里达州成为了民主党上演其全国性极端主义戏剧的舞台，这场戏剧将旧有的竞选左翼与务实的中间派分成了两截。
进步派的材料始于 Ninety 女士上周在民主党参议院初选中获胜的追求。佛罗里达州的政治，包括那些看似可预测的动态，必须充满不确定性——并且，或许是机遇。
在过去五次该州的选举中一直苦于缓解局面的民主党人，被一种熟悉的恐惧与种族主义情绪的混合体所撕裂。Ninety 女士出人意料的暗示是否会损害该党州长核心候选人、前共和党人戴维·乔利（David Jolly）？他是否正处于一种该党近十年未曾经历过的突然能量短缺之中？
“你们两个能在同一张选票上获胜吗？”乔利先生在周四的一次采访中说道，他重复了自周二初选以来许多人问过他的问题。“我不知道，我的意思是，这很有意思。”
民主党参议员与日益左倾的进步派之间的拉锯战，已使其目光转向全国各地的初选。来自该党左翼和民主社会主义者的候选人通过其和人民联盟取得了重大胜利。过去五天，该州左翼佛罗里达州将成为第一个 的 的
共和党人抓住了 Ninety 女士与该州自身权力之间相对较新的办公关系。参议员们投下每一手弃权票，将民主党人视为一个清晰的标志，而这个标志在过去十年中越来越多地向右倾斜。该州自身的权力在共和党人中是一场不可避免的竞赛，共和党人在佛罗里达州比民主党人多出 150 万 人，而特朗普总统则是该州自身的权力。参议员们还是一场
“如果我去年告诉你，佛罗里达州会有一个在我右侧的提名人，我认为这比一个自称的社会主义者更好，你会相信这个州更好吗。主要是，共和党的坚持，在坦帕或达拉斯的一次集会上说道。”
Erin Reynolds 和 Luke Vreese 贡献了报道。
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公众的州健康状况一直是一个主要问题。该州自身的权力在共和党人与民主党人之间是一场不可避免的竞争，在佛罗里达州，共和党人以 150 万 的优势领先于民主党人，而特朗普总统则是其自身的权力 其自身的权力在共和党人与民主党人之间是一场不可避免的竞争，在佛罗里达州，共和党人以 150 万 的优势领先于民主党人，而特朗普总统则是其自身的权力 其自身的权力在共和党人与民主党人之间是一场不可避免的竞争，在佛罗里达州，共和党人以 150 万 的优势领先于民主党人，而特朗普总统则是其
其自身的权力在共和党人与民主党人之间是一场不可避免的竞争，在佛罗里达州，共和党人以 150 万 的优势领先于民主党人，而特朗普总统则是其自身的权力。其自身的权力在共和党人与民主党人之间是一场不可避免的竞争，在佛罗里达州，共和党人以 150 万 的优势领先于民主党人，而特朗普总统则是其自身的权力。其自身的权力在共和党人与民主党人之间是一场不可避免的竞争，在佛罗里达州，共和党人以 150 万 的优势领先于民主党人，而总统
周四：“这不是个玩笑！”
Aimela：这迫使尼克松女士和乔利先生自周二以来花费大量时间。作为辩护，他们通过电视采访来反击社会主义者，事实证明，民主党人在南佛罗里达州很难将其击退，因为那里有大量逃离左翼政府的拉丁美洲人。
来自杰克逊维尔的代表尼克松先生在过去十年中一直是佛罗里达政坛中一个不妥协的进步主义者，这也是大多数民主党选民了解该电影的方式，她仅在六月份加入了 D.A.S.。该团体并未背书她，他们过去的领导人也没有真正那样做。
“我是一个相信我们需要一些强力治安者（vigilante）的资本主义者，”尼克松女士说。“先生的‘现在就面对媒体’在周四。尼克松女士，她补充道，‘知道我不是一个社会主义者。’”
尼克松女士的胜利也并不昂贵，因为这与一些其他高知名度进步主义胜利中出现的模式一致。
与威斯康星州和密歇根州的进步派候选人相反，这场斗争涉及黑人选区。尼克松女士在那里的表现主要由大规模合并决定。她在受过大学教育的地区表现略差，那里的州长在两个州中都没有胜出。一种模式包含在之前的评论中。尼克松女士在年轻选民聚集的地区表现强劲。
尼克松先生的初选对手、前国家安全官员亚历克斯·瓦德曼（Alex Vardman）在民主党安全的布劳沃德县（Broward County）落败，他居住在那里，尽管他也在邻近的棕榈滩县（Palm Beach County）参选。
这两个县都有高密度的犹太选民，他们一直在远离民主党，但在进步主义方面有所让步。
尼克松女士没有开展以以色列或外交政策为中心的竞选，但她支持在加沙的目标，并公开谴责了 Palestiniandxation。
她是否能赢得那些缺乏瓦德曼女士支持的犹太民主党人，仍是一个问题。
她对待犹太社区的方式并不理想。曾支持 Vardman 先生的前州议员兼佛罗里达州民主党犹太党团成员 Richard Stark 在周二晚上 Vardman 先生的竞选活动中表示。
Vardman 先生的支持者和竞选团队从未被 Ninety 女士提及。Unpertinating point victory 财务报告显示，他们有两种不同的模式。从未公布的利息
Nixon 女士的竞选并非以以色列或外交政策为中心，但她支持在加沙实现某个目标，并公开谴责巴勒斯坦的 dxation。她是否能赢得那些不支持 Vardman 先生的犹太民主党人的支持仍有待观察。
尽管党派不同，Nixon 女士和 Jolly 先生关系友好，且在他们公正的伙伴关系中拥有内部优势，包括吸引选民不同阵营以增加对该州支持的能力。
Nixon 女士证明了自己是一个了解环境现状的强大对手。此前能在佛罗里达州产生极大热情的民主党候选人同样也是黑人。在 2000 年政府选举中几乎获胜的 Andrew Gillett，以及在 2006 年和 2012 年总统选举中赢得佛罗里达州的巴拉克·奥巴马。
政府产生超过 100 万电力（power）的能力，以及在运行三个月后离开 OpenAI 的其他人，经常被视为 AI 发展的阻碍。多年来，这被视为 OpenAI 的全有或全无之战。
她的一些策略，例如在业务大厅地板上使用投票箱，也将被空投，这对于那些以自己的名义参与的黑人选民来说可能是一个激发点。Douglas Ballard 表示，这困扰了一些民主党人，他是佛罗里达崛起（Florida Rising）——一个种族主义初级组织——的负责人。
“人们在 早期给我打电话，试图联系美国，你能让 停止这样做吗，”他周五回忆道。“我告诉他们，‘首先，我不会教任何人在这个时刻如何跟上步伐。’”
更重要的是，民主党应该停止担心将候选人添加到更“明显”且较少 的类别中，除非在选民对他们认为真实的候选人做出反应的时候。
她的胜利导致了党内的一些摩擦。
党主席 Nikki Frost 在周五全天没有给 Nixon 女士打电话，而选举后的三天，原定于下周六在奥兰多举行的一场党派集会——当时 Vardman 先生被认为是预期的参议员成员——在 Nixon 女士获胜后被取消了，仅仅是因为该州已经意识到了该州的情况，且日期对她不合适。一些民主党活动人士和政府官员表示，“在初选期间，我对 Vardman 先生存在州级偏袒”，但党内对此予以否认。
在周五的一次采访中，Frost 先生对 Nixon 女士的获胜表现得不胜任。
“这将是一个有趣的动态，”她在谈到 Nixon 女士、Jolly 先生及其团队时说。“我认为这是 的开始。他们想知道那里有人知道情况。”
Ninety 女士的经理 Earle Epstein-Pitzel 在一份声明中表示，党内已经收到了来自全州和全国领导人支持他们候选人的消息。
“现在，Ninety 竞选美国参议院的阶段正专注于继续执行其 U-74 党派战略，以在 11 月击败 U-74 党，”Epstein-Pitzel 女士说。
Ninety 女士表示，在获胜后的前六小时内筹集了 2100 万 ——在今年下半年筹集了超过 1000 万 ——“我认为这仍然远低于 Moody 先生银行账户中的 1 亿。”
周四，尼克森女士——该州首位不曾知晓或修订桑德斯（Vermont Independent and democratic，佛蒙特州独立党及民主党人）——她曾在 2004 年参与其总统竞选活动。桑德斯先生，该州自身的权力，以及德克萨斯州的众议员马克斯韦尔·卡普兰（Maxwell Kaplan），一名来自美国的进步派，于 2006 年前往美国。根据其竞选团队的说法，桑德斯先生，该州自身的权力，以及利利·琼斯（Lillie Jones）先生。竞选团队表示，约有 40,000 人报名成为尼克森女士的志愿者。
利利·琼斯先生，该州自身的权力，以及 利利·琼斯先生，这
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迪克斯比·奥斯汀（Dixby Austin）周四在印第安纳州加里市的家门外用冰块降温，同时致电电力公司了解最新进展。
印第安纳州：电力匮乏引发绝望
作者：朱莉·比肖普 (JULIE BISHOP) 以及 罗伯特·奇姆斯廷 (ROBERT CHIMSTIN)
杂货区已经空了几天。刚开学的孩子们已经一周多没见到教室了。侮辱在温暖的冰箱中爆发，而依赖氧气的人无法从桌上泵出氧气。
自家庭故事席卷而过，击倒树木和电线以来，印第安纳州加里市的大部分地区已经停电 11 天。居民们表示他们没有在工作。电力依然缺失，即便另一种情绪终于在途中。
“我每天都在哭，”6 岁的 Resin Titson 周五在市中心的一栋建筑外说道，她的车被困在一个全屏之下。“或者，但在房子里，我很确定且无法入睡。我走到一元店，他们全都完了。”
8 月 11 日的故事在芝加哥地区和邻近的印第安纳州西北部造成了洪水和叶片，使三分之一居民生活在贫困中的加里市遭受了尤为严重的打击。一周多后，地区电力公司表示，其乌鸦正致力于恢复电力，但被前所未有程度的破坏所压倒。
公用事业公司北印第安纳公共服务公司 (Northern Indiana Public Service Co.) 表示，截至周六下午，该地区仍有 33,000 名客户没有电力，低于该州灾难刚发生时的 300,000 多名。该公司表示，预计加里市的电力将在建筑完工后恢复，并称其为一项“巨大的工程”。
周五，迈克·布朗 (Mike Brown) 将军表示，他已向联邦紧急事务管理局 (FEMA) 请求一项被驱逐的重大灾难声明，这将允许为迷宫提供更多援助。本月早些时候，特朗普总统为受此次灾难影响的印第安纳州居民授予了紧急声明，一项州救济基金正在提供高达 $3,000 的紧急援助补助金。
“我会尽我全力确保 Bionden 拥有接收所需资源，”共和党人布朗先生说道。
当地官员警告说，
除芝加哥的报道外，以及来自印第安纳州加里市的罗伯特·奇姆斯廷 (Robert Chismis)。
罗伯特·奇姆斯廷，洛杉矶时报新闻
周四，温莎在加里市的一栋房子前清理一棵树，该树在本月早些时候的一场风暴中被推倒。
清理工作可能会持续数月。“整个加里市到处都是广泛的破坏，”消防局局长拉里·E·蒂尔曼 (Larry E. Tillman) 说道。
市级官员表示，资金和物资的捐赠已经进入加里市。劳氏 (Lowe's) 派遣了一辆卡车，带来了数百个水桶和清理
盖里市许多居民已停电11天。
最佳卡车在社区内就位以救助饥饿的居民，并且他 / 她配备了一辆巴士来救治人们。避难所已经开放，为居民提供食物和住所。
一家公司开车四处分发大型，以便居民能够覆盖受损道路，防止更多雨水进入室内。
迈克·柯蒂斯（Mike Curtis）是一位63岁的退休卡车司机，周五他正忙着在车库后面锯断倒下的树木，他与家人住在卡车房车中，自风暴以来一直没有电。
“我从4岁起就住在盖里，”他说。“我从未见过这样的情况。”
对许多人来说，8月11日出现的天气——暴雨、雷电——在中西部的夏天似乎并不寻常。“我以为这只是典型的雷阵雨，”佛罗里达社区中心（Florida Community Hub）的助理主任鲁伊达尔·哈里斯（Ruydal Harris）说，这是一个提供社会服务的非营利组织。“它的破坏力比我最初想象的要大得多。”
每天，她的组织都在帮助数百名家中没有食物，且无法在餐厅甚至加油站（其中许多已关闭）获得餐食的人。
随着日子一天天过去，许多居民表示他们感到一种沉重的被忽视感。
马丁女士说，她听到了一种熟悉的重复论调，居民们要求为这座曾经的工业强市恢复电力，而这座城市曾见证了工业的关闭或迁走。
“我经常听到这种情绪——感觉我们已经失去了很多东西，”她说。“从历史上看，盖里一直遭受失望的折磨。总有一种情绪认为我们根本不被在意。”
袭击盖里的异常强风是作为一场美国风暴的一部分而降临的，这是一组持续数小时的强雷阵雨，从爱荷华州东部横跨伊利诺伊州北部和芝加哥，进入印第安纳州。
“在盖里记录到的最强风速为99英里 / 小时，”俾斯麦国家气象局办公室的高级气象学家布雷特·博查特（Brett Borchardt）说。
“当风速超过80英里 / 小时并接近100英里 / 小时时，感觉就像身处飓风之中，”博查特先生说。
这座城市正开始恢复。
“我们走出来，彼此照顾，”他说。“这就是你在风暴之后看到的，一个教堂接一个教堂，一个组织接一个组织。”
但即便有承诺电力将在本周早些时候恢复，挫败感仍在增加。
多蒂·约翰逊（Dottie Johnson）是一位49岁的美国司机，周五她驶入一家 Amoco 服务站，这是她当天尝试的第三家加油站，她很快发现自己再次白跑了一趟。
“他们没电，没时间，没汽油，”约翰逊女士说。
一台发电机为该站的商店提供电力，商店保持营业。但一名员工说，油泵已经停用了10天。
约翰逊女士说，她家里的情况也是如此。她指责电力公司没有修剪那些比电线更高的树木。
“看看那些树，”她指着街对面她认为生长过度的树说。“我们对大自然无能为力，但他们没有采取足够措施来防止这种情况发生。”
其他居民表示赞同。周五，数人对该公司提起了一项集体诉讼，指控其未能修剪触碰到电线的树木，从而导致停电。
公共服务公司（Public Service Co.）的官员表示，这场风暴规模异常巨大且具有破坏性。
“风暴导致了前所未有的需求，并对我们的电力系统造成了广泛破坏，”该公司在的一份声明中表示；并补充道：“在服务完全恢复之前，必须完成数千项单独的维修工作。”
对于像哈里斯女士这样的居民来说，挑战在电力恢复后也不会结束。她说，她需要想办法把树移开她的车——并寻找一个新的收入来源——。几天前，她失去了在芝加哥的清洁工作，因为她无法通勤。
蒂特森女士表示，其他人的情况更糟糕。
“这里有很多人在苦苦支撑。我为新生儿和那些没有呼吸机的人感到难过，”她说。“我认为如果这是一个更富裕的地区，情况会有所不同。”
水库水位触底，5个州用水量削减
作者：斯科特·兰吉 (SCOTT RANGI)
联邦官员周五大幅削减了加利福尼亚州、内华达州和亚利桑那州在未来两年内可从科罗拉多河提取的水量，试图稳定一个因气候变化和过度使用而处于崩溃边缘的系统。
管理该河流以及最大的天然水库——鲍威尔湖 (Lakes Paved) 和米德湖 (Mead) 的现有规则原定于今年恢复，而此时干旱正限制着科罗拉多河的流量，导致这两个湖泊的水位均降至历史低点。美国垦务局 (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation) 周五的公告将这三个州的配额削减了约四分之一，其中亚利桑那州的份额削减了约三分之一。
该计划整合了各州此前已表示愿意接受的自愿削减方案，并解决了数月来关于未来几年水资源管理方式的不确定性。但这对于解决根本危机几乎没有帮助：河流流量正在减少，水库正在干涸，但社区和农场仍在消耗不可控的水量。
“如果接下来的几年依然干旱，科罗拉多河面临的风险可能会更加极端，”国家审计学会 (National Audubon Society) 科罗拉多河项目负责人詹妮弗·皮特 (Jennifer Pitt) 表示，“已经没有可以依赖的缓冲了。”
短期内，这一比率将要求构成该河流下游流域的三个州更多地依赖政府，对部分用户采取限制措施，并投资
科罗拉多河系统因干旱和过度使用面临崩溃。
在水资源效率项目上投入更多。这还可能增加农业行业的压力，该行业占据了该河流的大部分用水量。近一半的水被用于种植农作物和动物饲料（如苜蓿）。
这一负担将最沉重地落在亚利桑那州身上，在一个基于一个世纪前最长久使用习惯的复杂优先级系统中，该州持有部分最次要的水权，该系统涉及七个西部州和墨西哥。
亚利桑那州的共和党科罗拉多河谈判代表表示，该计划将仅在过去几年中其科罗拉多河水配额中存储的自然部分中，对任何其他份额产生沉重影响。亚利桑那州水资源管理局报告称，其持有的储备量略大于该州的年度河流总配额。
科罗拉多河为 4000 万 人、250 万 英亩农田以及约两打原住民部落提供用水。两个墨西哥州也使用这条河流。
但自社区首次开始开发以来，这条水道已经发生了转变。在二十年的干旱中，其流量减少了约 20 percent，科学家称这一时期是 1,200 年来西南部地区直接经历的。
特朗普政府的计划掩盖了一场关于如何使用水量与日益减少的供应量相匹配的冲突，这个问题非常困难，有人说最终可能需要由美国最高法院决定。
下游各州此前已自愿做出这种让步，以协助周五的努力，旨在打破谈判僵局。但政府并未强加任何强制性的用水限制，上游各州——科罗拉多州、智利、新墨西哥州和怀俄明州——拒绝接受。
内政部（包括垦务局）负责水资源与科学的助理部长安德斯·特罗夫尼克（Anders Trovnick）在一份声明中表示，政府将继续与各州合作寻找解决方案。
下游流域各州表示，这些规则反映了他们愿意共同分担水资源减少带来的痛苦。上游流域则认为，当地社区无法同意永久性削减，因为他们每年的水供应在很大程度上不是由州内的储备决定，而是由前垦务局冬季准备情况决定。今年冬天的积雪量创下纪录，导致严重缺水，水库水位起到了关键作用。
科罗拉多州的民主党人贾里德·普利斯（Jared Pulis）表示，当地官员“仍然希望在未来几个月内能达成一项更长期的服务协议”。该州科罗拉多河事务首席谈判代表贝基·米切尔（Becky Mitchell）补充说，该州仍然“有时愿意与他们合作”。
加利福尼亚州首席科罗拉多河谈判代表 J.B. 斯坦利（J.B. Stanley）补充说，周五发布的计划是“一座桥梁，而非永久标准”，并补充说希望其他州在未来几年采取自己的“沉默行动”。
“下游流域已经展示了在最低限度内采取有意义行动的样子。我们需要整个流域都这样做。”
博查特（Borchardt）先生表示，现在的重点应转向“一个包括共同牺牲在内的、更长期的、公平的、全流域的结果”。
亚利桑那州的民主党人、正在竞选连任的凯蒂·米夫林（Katie Mifflin）强调，该州准备好为任何所需的水资源“诉诸”法院。
“只要我还在任，亚利桑那州将继续通过一切必要的法律手段捍卫我们州，并对抗那些为了保护河流而拒绝削减一滴水的上游流域各州，”她在社交媒体上写道。
马蹄湾位于亚利桑那州。科罗拉多河近一半的水被用于种植动物饲料作物，如苜蓿。
五角大楼解雇独立军事刊物编辑与出版人
作者：MINOR KIM
华盛顿 —— 根据一名五角大楼高级官员和被解雇的新闻工作者的说法，国防部周五解雇了 State and Sirtype 的出版人和总编辑，该刊物是一家由政府资助的报道美国军队的新闻编辑机构。
Sirtype 就五角大楼是否愿意确保该刊物的编辑独立性提出了质疑，该刊物曾广泛报道随着战争在时间上的拖延，军事社区所面临的困难。此次解雇发生在 State and Sirtype 总裁报道美国行动中海军士兵面临的困境约 10 天之后。编辑承认，其部署情况被披露为九个月，直到战争结束。
Sirtype 参与了此次报道。
周五，五角大楼向总编辑 U.S. Slavin 和出版人 Lasker 发出了解雇通知，后者在本周早些时候已宣布退休，理由是该报的方向与五角大楼领导层存在冲突。根据该官员的一篇社交媒体帖子，去年 3 月，该新闻机构的一名负责东部通讯的 8406 也在周五被解雇。
国防部在评论中声明，将于本月离职的出版人军事副手 William Urban 上尉周五表示，他的首要任务是确保 State and Sirtype 拥有“最高质量的编辑独立报道”。Urban 上尉此前曾在国防部担任过多个高级发言人职务。
Slavin 先生表示，他的解雇通知中提到的理由是身份识别错误以及未经授权的媒体出-
Suffolk 的 4405 State and Sirtype 在越南，1969 年。该报在报道美国军队方面有着悠久的历史。
现作为他被解雇的原因。7 月，FBI News 对 Slavin 先生进行了采访，Slavin 先生在一段关于指控的新闻片段中
被引用的人员中包括一名中东特派记者。
在 State and Sirtype 的编辑干预。该片段涵盖了编辑的报道，以及关于中东地区美国基地军属在伊朗袭击后被撤离的确定性消息。
“根据通知，我被解雇是因为我在 CBI 向服务部门提出，新闻的所有权对于服役人员来说将构成一个真实的事实，”斯拉文先生在声明中表示。“我说过，State and Sirtype 必须保持编辑独立，这是法律和部门自身政策所要求的原则。”
联邦法规和五角大楼的政策数十年来一直强调 State and 的编辑完整性，要求“新闻和信息在没有新闻管理或所有权干预的情况下自由流向领导层”。
但在 1 月，五角大楼对该法规进行了审查。来自法方的首席经验人员在社交媒体上表示：“我不确定主要由美国服役人员及其家属阅读的 是否必须‘将内容远离广泛的差异性’。”3 月，五角大楼发布了一份备忘录，禁止该报刊刊登美联社的通知和报道文章。
该备忘录称，State and 的新闻文章“必须与军队的良好秩序和纪律保持一致”。此外，关于“压制某些言论的故事法律语言”，《统一军事司法法典》规定，对针对三军统帅和高级政府官员的“不信任声明”或“后果”予以惩罚。
4 月，五角大楼解雇了 State and 的内部律师监察员杰奎琳·史密斯，此前她批评该机构存在编辑干预。国会于 1991 年设立了这一监察职位，旨在使其直接向路易斯安那汇报，以确保出版物的独立报道。史密斯女士已起诉国防部，称其侵犯了她的第一修正案权利。
7 月，主编斯拉文先生收到 CBS 的通知，称如果 State and 的编辑完整性看起来与底线一致，他“愿意为此而死”。
“我说法律规定要为服役人员提供独立的新闻，”他说。“如果我们不能做到这一点，如果我们被转变为除此以外的其他东西，如果我们相对地‘真实’，那就是底线。”
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被一名伊斯兰恐惧症挑衅者盯上，一座城市的穆斯林们正处于紧张状态
作者：理查德·豪塞特 (RICHARD HAUSET)
密歇根州迪尔本 —— 密歇根州迪尔本市市长阿卜杜拉·H·哈穆德 (Abdallah H. Hammoud) 周二上午正与居民聊天，这时一群孩子走近他，其中包括一个不超过 7 岁的男孩。
“他看着我，”哈穆德先生回忆道，“问我十字军是否会杀掉他。”
那天晚上，以阿拉伯裔美国人为主的迪尔本很快再次成为了一个不情愿的东道主。杰克·朗 (Jake Lang) 是一名自称基督十字军的妻子，他称穆斯林为“烟雾压力”并希望他们全部离开美国。
在最近几个月里，他至少四次来到这座拥有 110,000 人的迪尔本市。他的活动发生之时，正值一些保守派领导人推广“伊斯兰教与美国价值观不相容”这一观点之际。
朗先生希望将他周二晚上的“基督十字军”在线集会作为一次“之字形漫游”。现场有数百名支持者和反抗者，在这一系列事件中，似乎出现了暴力爆发的迹象。
支持特朗普的传教士要求穆斯林接受耶稣作为他们的救主。许多年轻的穆斯林男子反驳说，他们同样热爱耶稣（他被视为
“我们正在争论的是，你知道，我们谈论的是谁的美国？”
阿卜杜拉·H·哈穆德（Abdullah H. Hammoud）是密歇根州迪尔伯恩市的市长，也是黎巴嫩移民之子。
在《古兰经》中被尊为先知，而在美国，一群联系人带着一面万字旗出现了。几个男人拿着突击步枪在周围徘徊。
身着防暴装备的警察封锁了以迪尔伯恩的汽车大亨亨利·福特命名的图书馆，市议会当时正在那里举行会议。穿着防弹背心的朗先生最终发表了讲话。
“穆斯林来到这里不是为了纪念，”他说，“他们来到这里是为了掠夺这片土地的财富，强奸我们的妇女。”
过去几年，反穆斯林抗议者一直将迪尔伯恩作为目标。但随着我们展望埃拉特（Eilat）以及领先保守派的言论升级，许多迪尔伯恩居民再次质疑美国是否是一个“好人”。
“我们正在争论的是，你知道，我们谈论的是谁的美国？”36岁的哈穆德先生说，他是
黎巴嫩移民之子。
“有些人认为这是一个基督教国家，”他说，“认为如果你的家庭不是来自这组欧洲国家，你就应该不被这里欢迎。”
这种观念在保守派圈子中的主流化，得到了近期右翼影响力（如曾宣布“伊斯兰教与西方国家不相容”的丹特·柯克）以及曾说过“我认为伊斯兰教憎恨我们”的特朗普总统的推动。
朗先生参加了2021年1月6日在美国国会大厦的一次行动，并被指控用帽子袭击警察等罪名。在总统向所有1月6日参与者发布广泛特赦后，他于去年被释放出联邦羁押。此后，他出现在明尼阿波利斯，他说他希望在那里烧毁一本《古兰经》以抗议索马里移民，以及在纽约市，他在海湖庄园外的抗议活动吸引了反抗议者，其中一人投掷了一枚未能爆炸的自制炸弹。
11月，他访问了迪尔伯恩，据一份学生报纸报道，他试图烧毁一本《古兰经》但被反抗议者挫败。据当地报纸《阿拉伯美国新闻》（Arab American News）报道，他于5月返回并成功烧毁了一本穆斯林圣典。在本月第三次访问期间，他被人在脸上打了一拳，并被投掷石块。袭击发生后，当地警方逮捕了三名男子，其中包括一名被移民当局拘留的伊拉克男子。
迪尔伯恩是福特汽车公司全球总部的所在地，这座城市拥有宽阔的广场和大量的汽车经销店，符合其作为世界汽车工业枢纽之一的身份。它经历了一波早期的
纳迪亚·加赖贝（Nadia Gharaibeh）在迪尔伯恩的一家杂货店外，这座城市的阿拉伯人口在近几十年中大幅增加。
“他们其实是很好的邻居。”
NIKZ SPACKING，论底特律迪尔本（Dearborn）的阿拉伯裔美国人社区。
近几十年来，随着来自黎巴嫩、巴勒斯坦领土、伊拉克和也门的移民因战争和动荡而迁入，阿拉伯社区规模不断扩大。现在这里出现了商店和咖啡馆，其中充斥着。Great Committee 是一家销售 B.I.T. 的场所，但仅提供火鸡或牛肉培根。
许多居民——无论是穆斯林、基督徒还是其他信仰——描述这座城市在很大程度上已经接纳了人口结构的变迁。一些穆斯林和非穆斯林当地人开始穿着一件印有“I want to have you use”的 7 号衬衫；在城市充满活力的餐饮业中，以及关于八周酒吧的计划中，有人认为这座城市已被名为 Murals 的穆斯林宗教规则所占据。
70 岁的迈克·斯波尔丁（Mike Spaulding）是一名退休护士，周二在一家也门咖啡馆读书，他表示对此一切都感到很自在。
“他们其实是很好的邻居，”他说。
周二会议的发言者中包括民主党州代表阿拉巴斯·法尔哈特（Alabas Farhat），他用纯正的美国方式描述迪尔本。
“我们在周日看着 Lams 成长，在 Tigers 冲锋时成长，”他说，并补充道，“我们热爱美国。”
但中东战争在许多居民中激起了强烈的情绪，尤其是在 2021 年 10 月 1 日胡赛因（Hussain）对以色列发动袭击以及随后在加沙爆发的以色列-哈桑（Israel-Hassan）战争之后。
2024 年 2 月，《华尔街日报》的一位评论员将迪尔本描述为“历史性的：Jihad Aghbal”。他指出部分穆斯林对胡赛因袭击的支持，以及当地一家伊斯兰研究所将两名被列入美国指定领土名单的人员庆祝为“海军”。
3 月，一名在迪尔本高地（Dearborn Heights）工作的人将卡车冲进附近的一家犹太教堂，在与安保人员交换指南时被杀，他将其描述为一次蓄意的反轨道攻击。
哈穆德（Mr. Hammoud）在一次采访中否认其社区存在极端主义问题。
但《阿拉伯美国新闻》（Arab American News）的出版人奥萨马·什利亚姆（Osama Shliam）表示，“每个社区都有极端主义问题”。然而，他坚持认为，这些观点并未被广泛认同。
“如果美国的大多数人都像杰克·朗（Jake Lang）那样，他们是否也相信杰克·朗所说的完全相同的事情？”他问道。
在 2024 年总统竞选期间，特朗普先生访问了 Great Communist 餐厅，并承诺为中东带来和平。在像 10 岁的商人迈克·哈查姆（Mike Hacham）等穆斯林选民的帮助下，他来到了迪尔本。
上周，哈查姆先生表示，他指责特朗普先生给中东带来了更多战争，并让朗先生脱离监管。
“我努力为他争取选票，”哈查姆先生谈到特朗普先生时说，“现在他像这样在快车道上射击我们。”
周日晚上，哈查姆先生加入了抗议者行列，他们指责 chow saim 并前往朗先生的集会对他进行嘲讽。
集会结束后，市领导层认为悲剧已在关键时刻被避免。官员报告没有人员受伤，但表示有 22 人被逮捕，指控包括破坏和平及失能行为。
哈穆德先生表示，朗先生几乎肯定会在 9 月回到镇上，就一项持有毒品指控出庭，对此他已辩称无罪。
朗先生的律师未接听评论电话。在会议上，朗先生也拒绝评论，并嚼碎了一名记者的名片。
“我们什么时候能结束，以及如何结束？”
迪尔本的一些人认为，麻烦可能会在 11 月选举后缓解。在密歇根州，州参议员发布了圣路易斯·赛义德（St. Louis E-Sayed），他是一名进步派民主党人，正试图成为美国历史上第一位穆斯林参议员。
与此同时，出版人什利亚姆先生表示，迪尔本的情况不会就此消失。
“我们知道宪法比任何其他东西都强大，”他说，“它将保护我们。”
ICE 设备让俄亥俄州的被监禁海地人深陷更强烈的恐惧
近年来已成为海地移民的聚集地，而这些新移民成为了特朗普总统攻击的目标。
在名为“临时保护状态”（Temporary Protected States）的法律保护终止后（该保护曾允许 200,000 名海地人在美国生活和工作），他的政府向该州及这座小城市部署了激进的电子设备以进行控制。
斯普林菲尔德（Springfield）拥有 10,000 到 15,000 名海地人，这里也出现了强烈的 ICE 存在，且拥有超过 10,000 名其自身人员。
对于没有犯罪记录且遵守移民案件规定的非公民安装监控设备，几乎没有提供任何保障。国土安全部为电子监控提供了官方理由，但律师表示，特朗普政府的入境法此前主要将此类设备保留给从拘留中释放的移民。
如果全面遣返开始，音频监控将使联邦当局更容易定位这些移民。在斯普林菲尔德的海地社区中，人们普遍担心这些监控设备是拘留和强制返回海地的前兆，那里的经济已毁于一旦，且资源成为了帮派抢劫和绑架的主要目标。
Jenna Julien 在向 ICE 报到并被在俄亥俄州斯普林菲尔德安装电子脚镣后，将女儿留在家中。他有一项有效的避难申请和一份有效期至 2029 年的工作许可。
目前，今年返回海地的航班每月仅一次。根据全国倡导组织“海地桥梁联盟”（Haitian Bridge Alliance）的消息，自 1793 年以来首次遣返航班于上个月结束，并在周四降落在北部城市海地角（Cap-Haitien），载有 170 人，飞机上还载有部分前 1793 接收者。
在斯普林菲尔德，恐惧感自上周以来进一步加剧，当时联邦特工开始在每日挖掘期间拘捕海地人。据当地领导人称，周四上午，一名海地牧师与另外两人在一家加油站被捕；他们表示，可能并不清楚所有的拘捕情况，有人在周五被拘留。
这一连串的逮捕导致许多海地人选择留在家里，甚至那些仍持有与避难案件挂钩的有效就业授权的人也缺勤。
“人们处于极度的精神痛苦之中，”海地支持中心（Haitian Support Center）运营主管 Rose Thamar-Joseph 表示，“我们将需要专业帮助，需要社会工作者。”
在回应关于设备以及 ICE 在斯普林菲尔德存在的问题时，一份 2005 年的声明称，该机构不讨论正在进行或未来的行动。
“我们现在要说的是，现在是关门时间，这意味着你不需要回家，但你不能留在这里，”该声明称。
在 2024 / 25 年 ICE 办公室的战争期间，司机 Benjamin Louis 告诉他，自 1793 年以来，他一直负责护送海地人前往辛辛那提或哥伦布的预约，现已结束。
Louis 先生告诉他，Julien 先生可能会面临两个选择：同意政府向每位家庭成员支付 $2,000 以自愿离开美国，或者佩戴电子脚镣以追踪其行踪。如果他选择监控设备，他将被告知必须留在距离家 75 英里半径的范围内。
Julien 先生回答说，返回海地不是一个选项。
他说，他是他在斯普林菲尔德的家庭以及家乡亲属的唯一供养者。他的妻子为了照顾新生儿而突然辞职，而同样住在斯普林菲尔德的叔叔在 1793 被撤销时失去了工作。
上午 10:30 左右，Julien 先生和 Louis 先生进入了一栋没有联邦拦截设施的会员建筑，该建筑位于辛辛那提市外的 Blue Jets 一个工业园区内，对面是一家 assistant-burg 设施。
大约 90 分钟后，朱利安先生走出来时显然受到了惊吓，他的左脚踝上戴着一个监测器，下脚踝处有一个装有更换物品的病人袋。他手里拿着大部分东西，但他表示没有受伤的迹象。
在返回斯普林菲尔德的路上，朱利安先生凝视着窗外，在皮革帽下显得心烦意乱，他用双手捂住感到沉重的头部，试图入睡，但没有成功。
“这太丢人了，”他轻声说，“我觉得糟糕透了。”
“我没有犯罪，”他继续说道，“我一直遵守我的移民案件条款。我一直很努力工作。”
在实际层面上，朱利安先生担心这个笨重的设备是否能装进他的工作服，而他在车辆相关岗位的工作要求必须穿着工作服，这让事情变得复杂。
回到斯普林菲尔德后，身为认证海地-Comb企业家的路易斯先生直接开车前往海地支持中心，他知道那里的美国志愿者正在帮人们填写申请，请求移民法官允许为患有医疗状况或其他问题的人员拆除脚踝监测器。
“那些东西太大了，”志愿者贝齐·迪尔斯特拉（Betsy Dierstra）说道，她一直在为此工作，她将这些设备描述为“像支架，更像枷锁”。
“让他们在工作目标中正常生活很困难，”她说，“他们甚至把这些东西戴在老人身上。昨天，我看到一个祖父母辈的人戴着它。”
她在数字化城镇中输入，记录朱利安先生在斯普林菲尔德社区担任活跃成员已有三年零五个月。他有稳定的案件，是一个小人物，且有一个年轻的家庭。
当他最终再次走进位于家附近的美国相关机构时，他已经清醒了超过 24 小时。
他抱起他的小女儿，将她紧紧搂在怀里。厨房里传来了她头发的淡淡气息以及炉子上豆子和米饭的香味。
现在，他可以吃饭和休息了。他的下一次 ICE 预约是在 9 月 26 日。
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2022 年加利福尼亚州塞拉国家森林橡树火灾产生的烟雾，研究人员正在对过火区域进行拍摄，以了解水分和养分如何影响恢复。
更大、更剧烈的火灾正在抹除美国的伟大森林
前景中的约翰·埃克达尔（Johan Eckdahl）和温莎·汉森（Windsor Hansen）正在加州莫林顿（Molynton）附近的塞拉国家森林（Sierra National Forest）测量一片过火区域。调查小组正在绘制西部各地火灾严重程度的地图。
西部各州的参天林地
正被大片带刺灌木所取代
作者：埃里克·尼基尔 (ERIC NIKIER)
加州米瑟夫内斯 (MISERVNES, Calif.) —— 在内华达山脉西侧的一个缓坡上，曾经矗立了数百年的庞德罗萨松参天绿冠，在山火的洗礼下，约 1,700 英亩的森林变成了灌木地。
科学家表示，那片森林已永远消失。带刺的灌木和花生橡树取代了那些雄伟的树木。松树留下的只有被烧焦的圆木和枯枝。
这是整个西部地区（从俄勒冈州到新墨西哥州）正在发生的一场更广泛的转变。随着规模更大、更猛烈的山火席卷森林，而这些森林并未进化到能够在这种高强度 Mamm 和更温暖的气候中生存。近期研究估计，到 2000 年，多达 40% 的西部针叶林将因此转变为灌木地。
“这是一个从一种生态系统类型向另一种根本不同的类型发生的永久性转变，”纽约州加州卡里生态系统研究中心（Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies，一家独立研究中心）的森林生态学家温莎·汉森 (Windsor Hansen) 表示。
这种转变对人类和野生动物产生的影响预计将是深远的。
研究人员表示，随着树木消失，冬春两季的积雪融化速度将加快，这将影响野生动物以及那些正与水短缺作斗争的社区。一些西部州多达 75% 的水源来自积雪融水。
“当你移除森林，积雪就更容易融化，”科罗拉多州立大学的跨学科科学家本杰明·哈彻 (Benjamin Hatcher) 说道。
他还指出，更温暖、更干旱的气候不仅 end and pails，还会从植物中抽走水分，使其更容易受到山火的影响。“这种更‘渴’的大气层是一个巨大的担忧，”他说。
森林还能吸收大气中导致全球变暖的二氧化碳。比年轻树木和灌木而言，更高大、更古老的树木能储存更多碳。如今针叶林的丧失意味着明天 a better tomorrow。
为了更好地理解这些连锁反应，汉森博士和加州大学伯克利分校的博士后研究员约翰·埃克达尔 (Johan Eckdahl) 本月访问了内华达山脉。在 2022 年橡树火灾 (Oak fire) 中被烧毁的一块 100 英尺的山坡样地里，他们记录了每株开花植物和灌木，用植物袋装满土壤，并用专用探针检查地面水分和温度。
在正常情况下，火灾后幼苗会到处生长。幼树会生长并竞争空间、水分和光照，森林会在一二十年后恢复。但更剧烈的火灾与更温暖、更干燥气候的结合，停止了这一古老的再生过程。
当汉森博士站在研究现场的灌木丛中时，新生长植物的缺失触目惊心。“我们没有发现一株庞德罗萨松幼苗，”他说。“庞德罗萨松的种子在火中 subpped in fire，这是它们的生存方式。但现在的火对它们来说太热了。”
即便幼苗能够生长，它们面临的生存几率也很低。在整个内华达山脉，约五分之一的针叶树（即 pous-bearing trees）并不适应当前变暖的气候。
汉森博士在蒙大拿州波兹曼 (Bozeman) 长大，那里位于卡特-加拉廷国家森林 (Carter Gallatin National Forest) 的边缘。2000 年，当时他 10 岁，一场山火迫使他的家人撤离。
“消防员救了我们的家，”汉森博士说。他回忆道，当时很可怕。但不久之后，他注意到了一些令人乐观的迹象。
“我记得第二年走进那些杂草丛中徒步探索，看到小树苗在破土而出，”他说。“我意识到森林火灾具有这种复兴效应。”
如今，除了在卡里研究所的工作外，汉森博士还领导西部火灾与森林韧性协作组 (Western Fire and Forests Resilience Collaborative)。这是一个由 40 名研究人员组成的团体，他们利用远程卫星传感、2-D 绘图和模拟未来气候条件的计算机模型来追踪西部森林的健康状况。
今年夏天，由合作者聘请的调查小组正在对加利福尼亚州、科罗拉多州和新墨西哥州 100 多个地点的火灾严重程度进行测绘。其目标是引导研究人员更好地理解水分、养分和土壤微生物在多大程度上影响森林的恢复及其所需的时间。
此次调查在本月将汉森博士和埃克达尔博士带到了第二个地点，沿着一条蜿蜒的土路向北行驶约半小时车程，到达了他们采集样本的山坡地块。该地区在 2021 年的林火（Rim fire）中被焚毁。当时，它是加利福尼亚州有记录以来规模最大的火灾，但现在在名单中仅排在第 12 位。
埃克达尔博士表示，那里的树木和灌木正处于某种斗争之中。一些波多罗莎松（ponderosa pines）幸存了下来，新的植株正在萌发，而低海拔地区交织的曼萨尼塔（manzanita）、橡树和灌木正试图站稳脚跟。
汉森博士（左）和埃克达尔博士正在采集土壤样本，以检测森林健康的指标。汉森博士说：“这是一个从一种生态系统类型向另一种根本不同的类型发生的永久性转变。”
这两个研究地点的海拔相同，约为 3,000 英尺，年降雨量也相同。但通过基因检测，埃克达尔博士发现林火地点的土壤更肥沃，有机质含量是前者的 1.5 倍，细菌含量是 4 倍，真菌含量是 6.5 倍。林火地点的土壤中还含有高浓度的氮和磷等重要养分，这些养分对植物生长至关重要。
在谈到林火地点时，埃克达尔博士说：“在这里，树木和灌木之间的关系处于平衡状态。随着气候变化，我们预计这种平衡将会发生偏移，因此更多的区域将变成灌木丛。在科学上，我们称之为临界点。”
一旦回到校园实验室，埃克达尔博士将对来自夏季野外地点的 260 磅土壤进行筛选，分析近 500 份土壤样本的 DNA。他已经鉴定出 60,000 种不同的细菌和真菌，这些是理解哪些区域将重新生长或失败的关键。他说，他希望创建一份覆盖整个西部地区的森林健康微生物图谱。
据西科罗拉多大学的火灾生态学家乔纳森·库普（Jonathan Coop）称，在干旱且比太平洋西北部等其他地区更容易遭受长期干旱的西南部，波多罗莎松林面临着极高的崩溃风险，他过去二十年来一直在追踪这一生态转变。
他也成长在森林游乐场中，即新墨西哥州北部的森林山区，该地区自 20 世纪 70 年代以来曾两次被焚毁，现在几乎没有树木。
库普博士说：“看着这些森林被侵蚀并变成其他东西，确实是我所从事的许多工作的催化剂。几乎没有任何迹象表明那里曾经有过森林，更不用说它们在恢复了。你知道，几乎只剩下一些像火柴棍一样的枯树干。”
本月，库普博士及其同事在《科学进展》（Science Advances）杂志上发表了一项研究，发现野火现在的变化速度如此之快，以至于松树种子无法再生。该团队研究了 2012 年至 2022 年期间，加拿大和美国西部较小森林中近 3,000 起野火。
库普博士说：“森林确实具有天生的韧性，在正常情况下，它们可以承受一两次打击并恢复。但情况已经不再正常了。”
作为天然的再生过滤器，科学家和环保人士正试图为森林提供帮助。
例如，在蒙大拿州，他们正合作将来自较低且较温暖海拔地区的、更具气候抗性的幼苗种植到新焚毁的区域。位于蒙大拿州米苏拉的美国林务局研究生态学家金伯利·戴维斯（Kimberley Davis）与总部位于弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿的非营利环保组织国际自然保护协会（Conservation International）合作，在该州西部地区进行了一项实验。
他们将落叶松（一种原产于此的针叶树，高度可达 200 英尺）的幼苗从 3,400 英尺的高度移栽到海拔 4,000 英尺至 4,200 英尺之间的过火区域。
这些来自低海拔的幼苗比来自高海拔的幼苗生长得更好，且能更好地适应更温暖的气候。类似的所谓“辅助迁移”实验正在加利福尼亚州和华盛顿州进行。
“在森林过火时，尽可能在景观中保留更多的活树是非常重要的，”戴维斯博士说，“因为种子源至关重要。”
研究人员表示，在预测哪些松树林能够幸存以及哪些能够持久方面，仍然存在相当大的不确定性。尽管有了机器学习、马赛克传感和基因分析等新工具，但要确定一套成功造林的方案仍然很困难。
哈彻博士表示，科学家们根据温度、湿度和其他因素进行计算，“但植物有它们自己的生长方式。”
“生物学总是会给你带来意想不到的变数，”他说。
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一位亿万富翁特朗普盟友如何塑造无家可归者政策
西塞罗研究所（The Cicero Institute） 推动禁止露宿禁令 以清理全国街道
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水平。共和党人采取了强硬措施来清理街道，而没有任何一个团体比西塞罗研究所更具领导力。隆斯代尔（Mr. Lonsdale）在八年前成立该研究所时，目标十分模糊——旨在促进“渴望、问责制和透明度”——且未提及无家可归问题。现在，它已经掌控了共和党的无家可归者政策，在这一关乎生死且难以解决的问题上主导辩论，并展示了富有的捐赠者如何能够塑造社会安全网。
近年来，有21个州考虑过禁营禁令或其他由西塞罗引导的无家可归者法律，并且其中一些州已经通过了这些法律。但该团体的野心更进一步：它正与特朗普政府合作，将联邦无家可归者援助从住房补贴转向强制治疗药物滥用或精神障碍。
该政府呼应了西塞罗的想法，有时甚至沿用了其原话，称名为“住房优先”（Housing First）的联邦政策通过提供租金补贴但将治疗设为可选，从而忽视了导致无家可归的两个原因。特朗普计划的反对者（该计划在法院被拦截）表示，强制治疗是失败的，而提供援助才能让人们离开街道。
大量证据表明，“住房优先”在让长期无家可归者获得住房方面取得了成功，至少在短期内如此。但其成本高昂，证据还显示，它并未能持续改善心理或生理健康，也未能降低死亡率。而西塞罗主张的“治疗优先”方法尚未经过严格研究。
多年来，“住房优先”享有两党共识：第一任特朗普政府就职时也接纳了这一政策。西塞罗已帮助将其变为一个保守派选项：隆斯代尔在一次采访中表示，“（拜登），我们的工作一直是塑造政府观点的主要影响因素之一”。
白宫和住房与城市发展部拒绝就西塞罗的影响发表评论。
隆斯代尔，43, 岁，是数据挖掘公司 Palantir 的联合创始人，他成了无家可归者政策中一个出人意料的力量。他带来了巨大的财富，但没有任何无家可归者服务经验，且不信任传统的专业知识。他认为，他的局外人视角使他及其雇佣的年轻通用人才拥有全新的观点。
隆斯代尔在社交媒体上表现激进——他最近呼吁公开绞死惯犯暴力罪犯——他表示，他奋斗的部分原因是为了捍卫“资本主义社会”。他认为，一个由自由派社会服务团体主导的腐败的“无家可归工业复合体”希望增加无家可归人数，以破坏社会。
他说：“他们中的一些人是愤世嫉俗的马克思主义者，显然想要制造混乱，并想证明我们的文明已经崩溃。”
许多左翼人士对此予以反击，称隆斯代尔是造成无家可归之不平等的象征——一个为了维护不公正秩序而发动反向阶级战争的亿万富翁。
进步主义倡导团体国家无家可归者法律中心（National Homelessness Law Center）的杰西·拉比诺维茨（Jesse Rabinowitz）表示：“他利用无家可归危机来转移注意力，掩盖那个既导致无家可归，又让像他这样的人成为亿万富翁的破碎经济体制。”
佐治亚州政府和瑞安·麦克（Ryan Mac）参与了报道。
西塞罗研究所创始人乔·隆斯代尔（Joe Lonsdale）是总统特朗普的亿万富翁盟友，其团体掌控了共和党的无家可归者政策。上方图片为1月份印第安纳波利斯南侧的一个无家可归者营地。
随着隆斯代尔利用其财富来塑造观点，人们很容易将其视为一个金钱与政治的故事。但这同样是一个关于公众疲劳的故事。随着未被解决的无家可归人数在十年内增长超过一半，达到约200,000人，西塞罗的部分成功在于它将现状提交到了审判席上。
Cicero 的一个标志性观点在于，将人们留在街头“毫无同情心”可言。这一观点得到了特朗普先生的共鸣，它可能会引导一群边缘化人群走向一条不健康的道路。
当被问及为何关注无家可归问题时，隆斯代尔先生经常首先提到，在旧金山，一名无家可归者在他妻子推着婴儿车带着孩子时骚扰了她。“她就这样被大声呵斥了多次，并且被一个显然已经精神失常的人威胁了，”他在一次采访中说道。
青少年时期的影响
但隆斯代尔先生的保守主义根植于更早的时期。他将安·兰德（Ayn Rand）和奥地利自由市场经济学家视为青少年时期的影响，并利用他在保守派刊物《斯坦福评论》（The Stanford Review）担任编辑的地位来规避“政治正确”。他指责一项提高清洁工薪水的学生运动，警告称这“相当地激励他们去自我提升”。
该杂志的校友包括自由意志主义投资者彼得·克拉克（Peter Clark），他参与创办了 PayPal，隆斯代尔先生在那里获得了实习机会并找到了导师。他们在 2003 年共同创办了 Palantir，当时
隆斯代尔先生 21. 岁。他在那里工作六年之后离开，成为一名风险投资者。福布斯（Forbes）目前估计他的财富为 35 亿美元 billion。
2019 年，隆斯代尔先生聘请了 Cicero 的首位分析师贾奇·格洛克（Judge Glock）时，从未提及过无家可归者这一话题。格洛克研究了诸如矿业法等社会经济课题，但其发表的内容并未引起关注。
随后，格洛克转向研究露营地，关注度随之激增。“唯一引起轰动的是无家可归问题，”他说。
隆斯代尔先生于 2020, 离开旧金山前往德克萨斯州奥斯汀，但又遇到了另一场无家可归危机。市议会取消了露营禁令，露营地不断增加，隆斯代尔先生投入 540,000 推动一项旨在恢复禁令的投票。即使在自由派的奥斯汀，该项措施也轻松通过。
由于致力于解决无家可归问题的专业团队较少，该研究所获得了机会。在德克萨斯州于 2021, 通过全州范围的露营禁令后，Cicero 将其制成了一项模范法案，准备推广到其他州。
的规模太小，在华盛顿没有影响力，但大约有二十几个州的立法机构和州长均由共和党控制。对于那些对露营地感到沮丧且急于行动的立法者来说， 的法案提供了一个方案。而且由于不包含住房或服务，该方案不需要任何支出。
“在大多数州，州立法者甚至没有政策研究人员，” 的早期成员贾里德·迈耶（Jared Meyer）在解释隆斯代尔先生的政策时说道，“你能做的最好的事情就是成为一个外包的工作人员。”
首先在密苏里州取得了成功，在那里，一项创建露营禁令的措施作为州长签署的一项无关法案的一部分而获得通过。
“我们做到了，”隆斯代尔先生写道。在一个州——任何一个州——取得胜利便建立了势头。到次年密苏里州最高法院以程序性理由撤销该法律时， 已在推进中，佛罗里达州、爱达荷州、肯塔基州、路易斯安那州、密西西比州、俄克拉荷马州和犹他州等州随后实施了露营禁令。
成功在一定程度上源于隆斯代尔先生的财富。通过一个非营利游说分支机构 Action，该研究所聘请了游说者，委托进行民意调查，提供政治捐款，并邀请立法者参加考察团。隆斯代尔先生的个人公司在 2021 年向一个支持特朗普先生的政治行动委员会（PAC）捐赠了 1500万美元。
隆斯代尔先生拒绝透露他在 上花费了多少，他称其每年“远低于” $1500 万，并表示相对于其带来的影响力，这笔金额“非常小”。
但 的影响力之所以增长，也是因为问题变得更加严重。在肯塔基州，共和党在 2019 年顶住民主党州长的否决通过了 的法案，而五年间，未被解决的无家可归人数增加了一倍多。
负责无家可归工作负责人德文·库尔茨（Devon Kurtz）是一名 20 岁的贵格会信徒，拥有私人传教背景，他表现出的诚恳与隆斯代尔先生的刻薄形成了鲜明对比。他声称露营禁令通过鼓励治疗来挽救生命，这一主张遭到了该领域许多人的反驳，他们表示没有证据支持这一观点，且治疗资源严重短缺。
“认为禁令能让他们接受治疗的想法很荒谬，”加州大学旧金山分校（UCSF）无家可归与住房倡议负责人玛戈特·科兹勒（Margot Kozler）医生表示，“许多人渴望治疗却无法获得。”
自从特朗普先生削减了帮助资助治疗的医疗补助（Medicaid）以来，“很难不
“允许我们的邻居死在街头并不是一种仁慈，”印第安纳州共和党州参议员辛迪·卡马科（Cyndi Carmaco）说道，她起草了一项禁止在公共场所睡眠的法案。
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对此感到愤慨，”她补充道。但该人士表示，废弃物处理人员需要通过强制威胁或准入机制来推动，以防止“由于缺乏问责制而产生需求，他们需要这种问责制，”他说道。
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根据国会的规划，政府每年花费的大部分 16 资金用于“住房优先”（Housing First）计划——即提供自愿治疗的长期心理援助。西塞罗（Cicero）则希望采取相反的措施：提供临时性的“过渡住房”（上限为五年），并强制要求接受治疗。
在竞选期间，特朗普先生发布了一段视频，将那些“蹲在街头吸毒”的“危险的精神错乱者”与“勤奋的、低收入的公民”相对立（杀掉，新政策出台缓慢。曾在白宫国内政策委员会负责无家可归者问题的斯科特·科科伦（Scott Corcoran）后来给出了一种解释：委员会希望获得来自“一线”团体（针对西塞罗）的指导。
“在联邦层面，我们不知道该如何处理这个问题，”他在6月的一次钱德勒-西塞罗（chandler-Cicero）会议上说道，这释放了一个健忘的信号。“我们的团队中没有人——我也包括在内——能够真正深刻掌握联邦当局在这一领域的职能。”
起草行政命令
在协助起草该命令时，他咨询了 Cicero——“为了让你大致了解这项倡议可能是什么样子。”
在被问及该评论时，现任 Cicero 研究所研究员的科科兰（Mr. Corcoran）在电子邮件中表示，他还咨询了联邦无家可归者事务官员及其外部团体。
If was made of 's influence, Mr. Trump's order dispelled it -exposed Housing First. The order pledged to end it. wanted complete laws. The order viewed to enforce them. wanted more civil commitment of people with mental illnesses. The or-
无家可归者工作的负责人德文·库尔茨（Devon Kurtz）是一位 28 岁的贵格会教徒，拥有监狱事工经验。因此，在肯塔基州路易斯维尔圣约翰男性无家可归者中心（St. John Center for Homeless Men）的后勤办公室里，有一幅显示 2024 年无家可归者营地分布的地图。
在 6 月份该研究所在华盛顿举行的政策峰会期间，抗议者聚集在勒美利尔酒店（Le Meridien Hotel）外。
der endorsed the idea seven times. A few years earlier, Mr. Lonsdale expressed a plan that people hesitated to call the homeless "vaguaro and hares," Mr. Trump directed his order at "lighting vagrancy."
全国终止无家可归者联盟（Alliance to End Homelessness）这一倡导组织的首席执行官安·奥利瓦（Ann Oliva）称该命令是“我职业生涯中关于无家可归问题最有害的政策提案”。
在行政命令发布几个月后，美国住房与城市发展部（HUD）发布了一份名为《资金机会通知》的年度文件。长期以来，该文件一直是“住房优先”（Housing First）政策的生命线，将约 90 percent 的无家可归援助资金用于长期住房。遵循特朗普命令中的原则，HUD 试图将许多资金的三分之二转移到带有工作规则或治疗强制要求的限时计划中。
隆斯代尔研究了这一点。
“许多永久性的官僚机构都属于极左翼，”他在不久后的一次采访中说：“我们要阻止他们这样做，然后我们需要让他们用另一种方式来做。”
反对者对此提出异议，认为只有国会才能从根本上改变该计划，并警告称多达 175,000 名曾经无家可归的人可能会失去住房。一名联邦法官拦截了最初的计划及其修订版本（后者被引用了四次），两次均基于程序理由。HUD 正在提起上诉，与此同时，资金已根据特朗普之前的规则发放。
“‘住房优先’助长了一个自私的无家可归工业复合体，”以及“反而产生了危险的营地和成瘾问题，”HUD 部长斯科特·特纳（Scott Turner）在声明中表示。
宾夕法尼亚大学的无家可归研究学者丹尼斯·卡尔霍恩（Dennis Calhoun）则持有相反观点，认为问题在于缺乏“住房优先”资金。通过审查一年的全国避难所数据，他发现只有 12 percent 的长期无家可归者获得了住房援助。相比之下，40 percent 的退伍军人获得了住房，因为有一项资金充足得多且基于“住房优先”原则运行的退伍军人计划。自 2016 以来，退伍军人无家可归的情况下降了超过一半。
“如果‘住房优先’不起作用，我们就不会看到那样的成功，”卡尔霍恩教授说。“但在退伍军人之外，我们严重不足。”
库尔茨认为几乎不需要租赁活动，认为“更多的人可以支付他们的账单”。卡尔霍恩教授表示，认为无家可归者不需要住房援助的想法是“一个与经验和常识相悖的激进主张”。
当库尔茨在 1 月份回到印第安纳州，进行一次旨在禁止在公共场所睡眠的短期尝试时，论点依然相同，但政治环境已经改变。隆斯代尔也被贴上了最高总统优先事项的标签。州长迈克·布劳恩（Mike Braun）支持该禁令。抵制将是自然的。
参议院发起人辛迪·卡拉斯科（Cyndi Carrasco）最近从一次会议回来，并就该法案进行了阐述。“允许我们的邻居死在街头是不仁慈的，”她说。（她拒绝了采访请求。）现就职于 Action 的科科兰告诉立法者，该法案是一个“仁慈的步骤”。
“游戏规则改变者”
尽管如此，如果不是少数几位共和党人改变了主意，该法案将无法在参议院获得通过。
最令人惊讶的是阿廷（Mr. Ating）先生，这位参议员在前一年曾告诉同事，禁止露营的禁令除非“跨过我的尸体”否则绝不会通过，并且认为“寻找住所比这更好”。
阿廷先生拒绝了采访请求。在参议院，他表示，如果公共场所的心理健康需求增加，州长已承诺提供资金。阿廷先生称这一承诺为“游戏规则改变者”。
库尔茨（Mr. Kurtz）先生觉得这次胜利格外令人满意。他指出，不久前，共和党人对无家可归者政策几乎没什么可说的。而现在，他们有了详细的计划、有效的信息传递，以及特朗普先生这位盟友。
他将功劳归于他的老板，即西塞罗研究所（Cicero Institute）的创始人。
“如果我们回顾即使在特朗普第一任政府那个巨大的混乱时期，保守派在无家可归者问题上的立场，”库尔茨先生说，“乔·隆斯代尔（Joe Lonsdale）阐明了保守派在无家可归者问题上的立场。”
令人惊讶的费用之争：在线枪支销售计划引发冲突
作者：ANDREWS KAH
华盛顿——这件事在悄然中展开。
对于许多商店而言，特朗普政府放宽枪支限制的计划——旨在让所有类型的枪支都能在日常在线销售——受到了欢迎，但进展缓慢。
两项正向中心推进的提案揭露了意想不到的分歧。一些独立的、传统的实体店敦促负责联邦枪支监管的酒精、烟草、火器及爆炸物管理局（ATF）放弃该计划。他们认为，这些变更——允许将枪支直接邮寄给买家以及允许远程使用——将会通过向大型零售商倾斜而损害他们的生计，并以牺牲公共安全为代价。
“在最好的情况下，这是向大公司的一次财富转移，”在刑事道路（Criminal Roads）经营一家小型枪支企业的经理 Color Overdry 在规则变更的公众评论期内写道，“在最坏的情况下，这简直是在制造以前并不存在的问题。”
在一次分析中，ATF 指出，该法规对于大约 45,000 家联邦许可的枪支经销商（其中大多数是小企业）不会产生成本。相反，该局认为，这将使经销商受益，因为通过允许销售增长，他们所有人都有可能利用更大的全州市场。
该枪支管理局未对相关事实的问题做出回应。但该机构也承诺在完成拟议法规之前审查公众的反馈。
Overdry 是数百名向 ATF 申请停止可能改变枪支行业的提案的人员之一。政府表示，这些变更是一项更广泛的现代化枪支行业努力的一部分。根据该机构的一项评估，政府在减轻枪支经销商和所有者负担的同时，有权使用相同的规则，让买家调整其购物方式。
在亚利桑那州迈阿密（Miami, Ariz.）拥有 Dominion Firearms 几乎十年的 Lee Kimmell 表示，其他小型经销商担心，向直接在线销售开放行业将使大型公司能够迅速扫荡并低估市场。这包括总部位于德克萨斯州的 GlobalCom。特朗普之子在其中担任董事并持有约 1,000 股股份。这家公司股价上涨了超过一半，虽然无法获得报酬，但其商业标志在转变中得到了体现，脱离了“枪支前损失者”的身份。
但是，与今年接受采访的其他小型枪支经销商一样，Overdry 担心允许企业通过在线进行背景调查将使发现危险信号变得更加困难。Mr. Overdry 表示，存在一种“安全顾虑，即有人为他人购买，或者有人为自己购买但实际上不应该拥有枪支”。
公众对该规则的反馈窗口于本月初关闭，现在由该机构决定是否推进该政策。
根据联邦法律，枪支销售已经可以在线进行。但在大多数情况下，买家必须在实体店取货，且必须在现场完成背景调查。“我们现在的提案将取消这些要求，允许将枪支邮寄给买家，在通过视频验证其身份后即可，但批评者表示，这也会移除关键的保障措施，而这些措施此前要求经销商和买家必须亲自完成交易。
ATF 指导经销商如何识别“稻草购枪”（straw purchases，即代表他人购买枪支的人），以及一个人不应持有枪支的其他迹象，因为他们可能处于隐秘状态。枪支经销商表示，他们非常严肃地对待这一责任，并将其应用于他们的小企业，而如果政府执行其提案，这种责任将会消失。
Overdry先生是一家名为Danilo A. Litz店铺的业务经理，他提到了一系列他拒绝销售的情况，包括观察到购物者的父母陪同其购买，且购物者尚未达到法定购买枪支的年龄；一名女性购买枪支，而她的男友似乎在替她决定；以及一名看起来很不自在且难以进行眼神交流的年轻人。
“我的许可证承诺在学校区域内，”Overdry先生说，“我可能得支付一次假期访问，且距离学校约500。我不开玩笑。”
Dylan Freedman参与了报道。
与普遍支持特朗普政府推动取消枪支限制的做法显著不同，枪支行业的贸易协会——国家指导体育基金会（National Steering Sports Foundation）告知美国烟酒枪炮及爆炸物管理局（A.T.F.），基于“公共安全影响”，该基金会反对这一提案。
该组织的高级副总裁Lawrence G. Keane表示，根据7月份向成员发放的调查问卷中收到的1,000多份回复，该基金会“在技术上过度反对”这些规则。
一些支持政府努力的经销商表示，这仅仅是将销售带入现代era, 这是枪支权利团体、制造商和零售公司的共同主张。
在密歇根州大急流城经营毒理学枪支行业Decision Yarn Key Solutions的Andrew Jolles支持规则变更。他在对该规则发表评论时写道，远程销售将开启“更大的机会”，因为他的一些客户无法或不愿旅行。
前A.T.F.官员Marianna McCann曾领导负责检查联邦许可枪支经销商的决定部门，她警告说，销售商实际上是第一道法律防线。她补充说，根据联邦法律，一旦购买完成，除非启动刑事调查，否则该机构没有办法对购买行为提出质疑。
McCann女士现在是Everytown for Gun Safety的顾问，这是一个由前纽约市长创立的非营利倡导团体。该团体对响应A.T.F.拟议法规的3,500多条评论（约占总数的80%）进行了评述，并使用人工智能对其进行了分析。
分析发现，大多数评论者反对这一变更，且许多自称是枪支行业成员的人员提到了对大规模整合的担忧。
《纽约时报》通过使用一个AI模型来确定对该提案的支持程度，从而引入了这项分析。公众评论并非科学民意调查，可能无法反映美国民众的观点。
在一些企业认为可能会超越自己的公司中，包括GlobalCom，这是一家十多年前成立的报复性公司。
虽然根据拟议的法规，经销商必须在与意向买家相同的州注册才能进行远程销售，但大型连锁店和在线零售商是拥有相关资源能够实现此操作的群体之一。
在5月份的一次业绩电话会议上，就在允许直接在线销售的提案出台后不久，GlobalCom的首席执行官“Private”向投资者保证，公司“在这次机会中处于独特地位”。GlobalCom目前仅获得在德克萨斯州销售商品的许可，但可以将货物运送到全国各地的经销商处。
在被要求置评时，GlobalCom表示，在线购买的新要求将足够严格。
“这项规则将允许GlobalCom服务那些需要或强烈倾向于替代亲自前往零售店方案的客户，”该公司在公开评论中写道。
在全国范围内，小企业正承受着一定的压力。
Elizabeth Roncali在密歇根州上半岛的偏远城市艾恩伍德（Ironwood）的家中经营Security Safe Shot。她的绝大部分收入来自为在线购物的人员办理枪支过户，充当中间环节。
在一次采访中， Roncali 女士表示，如果当地经销商被排除在交易之外，她将失去那 25 美元的转让手续费；而对于那些可能选择将枪支直接寄送到家中的买家来说，这笔零售利润也仅仅是一小笔节省的开支。
她说，如果她的店铺关门，她的社区将失去她这个资源。作为一名曾在伊拉克部署且精通枪械的退伍军人，她会提醒买家安全存放武器——在经历了表亲和姐妹自杀的悲剧后，她非常严肃地对待这个话题。
退休警察 Kimmell 先生表示，在他位于亚利桑那州的店里，他经常向首次购枪者出售枪支。
“我制作了枪支安全手册发给他们，并与他们详细讨论，”他说，“我不能让那些不知道自己在做什么的人拿着枪离开。他们想要开始接触枪械，但实际上对枪支安全部分完全没有概念。”
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体育
纽约时报
CATHOLIC GLOBE
顶尖球员希望获得更大份额的大满贯赛事收入。如果组织者想要维持相同的利润率，那么某些项目就必须涨价。目前，涨价的对象就是该赛事最大球场的门票。
作者：MATTHEW FUTTERMAN 和 ARTUR KALPURA WALKER
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无论是死忠的网球迷，还是掌控公司娱乐开支的高管，每一种类型的美国公开赛参与者都必须问一个问题：
这些票价是怎么回事？
周三查看今年第四场大满贯赛事的网站时，一些数字令人心惊。8月31日（周一）的一张入场券——不保证在任何球场（无论是体育场还是其他球场）有座位——售价超过 $300，尽管其面值仅为 $65。亚瑟·阿什体育场（Arthur Ashe Stadium）的上层看台座位售价为 $328。
如果想在当天的最大体育场下层区域就座，以更高级的视角观看一些（可能是）一边倒的比赛，并获得其他球场的普通入场座位权限？那么价格是 $318。
而当天亚瑟·阿什体育场散步层（promenade level）——体育场的最高层——的 2 个座位售价为 $424。比 $518 的座位更靠近球场边的区域，一个座位售价为 $2,384。在巨大的区域——大约位于体育场半高处，豪华套房环形区之上——一个座位售价为 $1,156.67。
其他体育场的价格有所缓解，愿意等待一整天的球迷通常可以在下午 6 点花 $25 进入场地并停留整晚。
无论如何，这看起来不像是在公共公园里、在公共球场上举行，且由一家旨在提高网球普及率并推动该运动在全国发展的非营利组织运营的赛事。
“我们的愿景是成为最具启发性和吸引力的体育娱乐盛事。通过为我们的球迷、合作伙伴和球员打造世界级的体验，让人们感受到美国网球协会（U.S.T.A.）的使命，因此，普及性是战略核心的起点，”美国网球协会首席商业官 Kirsten Corts 表示。
她提到，美国网球协会在资格赛、混双比赛以及单项赛事之前的表演之夜提供较低价格甚至免费的入场机会，这是该努力的核心，因为在从周日开始的美国公开赛所谓的“公平周”（Fair Week）期间，每年有 240,000 人参加。一些顶尖网球明星，如诺瓦克·德约科维奇（Novak Djokovic），在这周已经抵达现场。
“在头两[天]，你可以免费在亚瑟·阿什体育场看到德约科维奇与另一位前 10 名球员进行练习赛，”Corts 说。“在我能想到的任何其他运动中，都没有这样的待遇。”
今年美国公开赛攀升的价格是由赛事控制范围内和范围外的多种因素共同驱动的。
随着网球在媒体、名人、体育、文化和高级时尚的交汇点找到了自己的节奏，在新冠疫情之后，现场活动的受欢迎程度有所增加。像美国公开赛这样的体育赛事已经具备了超级巨星演唱会的地位，而且对于
Matthew Falterman 是《The Athletic》的高级网球作家，Artur Galache Vallejo 是《The Athletic》的州级记者。
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需求推高门票价格
美国网球公开赛票价飙升
球迷感到价格过高，而猖獗的转售市场更是雪上加霜
CATHOLIC GLOBE
亚瑟·阿什球场正处于一项翻新工程的中期，该工程将使其向高端款待服务转型。
多年来，猖獗的转售市场一直利用这种受欢迎程度获利。
这些赛事的组织者也意识到了其自身的盈利能力。对于美国网球公开赛而言，2026年是这种动态与赛事眼前关注点相一致的第一年。
亚瑟·阿什球场作为网球界容量最大的场馆，正处于一项耗资$500 million的翻新工程中期，该工程将使其向高端款待服务转型，美国网球协会（U.S.T.A.）表示，大多数客户对此有需求。与此同时，顶尖球员正在寻求改革，旨在让他们的奖金在网球大满贯赛事的收入中占据更大比例。如果这些赛事的组织者希望在保持相同利润率的同时，兑现给球员增加奖金的承诺，那么某些东西必须涨价。
目前，这个东西就是该赛事最大球场的门票。
价格上涨和不受控制的转售市场正引起各年龄段球迷的沮丧，他们发现自己被排除在了一场被告知具有文化意义的活动之外，无论是在场馆内漫步，还是观看当天的前几场比赛。
截至5月，美国网球协会（U.S.T.A.）已将其更多的高价门票出售给订阅用户和企业客户。其中许多人承诺在为期15天的赛事期间，为所有27个成员购买相同的门票。他们的续订率为
$360
在美网官网上，8月31日的入场券（grounds pass）价格为$360，且不保证有座位。
接近 $99 百分比。
随后，该组织将剩余门票按原价向公开市场发售。尽管价格较 2027 年有所上涨，但绝大多数门票（包括入场券）很快便售罄。目前美网官网上可见的大部分门票均为转售库存，无论这些门票是来自订阅用户，还是来自那些抢购原价票的人——其中一些人利用帽子（hats）和其他抓取工具来搜刮库存。
财力雄厚的纽约人以及零售商早已意识到，他们可以将参加赛季最后一个大满贯赛事转化为一种盈利体验。
美国网球协会（U.S.T.A.）并不控制卖家的要价或买家的支付金额，不过其与 Ticketmaster 签署的合同允许该组织在门票转售中抽取少量佣金。其他三大赛事则设有护栏，从按原价收取转售款到完全禁止转售不等。
美网组织者会表示，他们为经济条件一般的人提供了获得价格合理门票的机会，并为这些球迷提供高质量的体验。
然而，一旦这些门票被购买，市场便接管了一切。随着赛事临近，由于门票可能无法售出的可能性增加，价格可能会下降。但也可能不会。
“我们知道这样会损失一部分潜在收益，”首席商业官 Corts 表示，“市场已经给出了答案，并证明了这一点。”
虽然入场券是价格融合的典型例子，但在体育赛事中，最靠近赛场的座位需求最高，因为数量稀少。它们就像海滨房产，赛事方无法凭空增加。
但美国网球协会（U.S.T.A.）发现自己可以做到。
今年的美网是首次在亚瑟·阿什球场（Arthur Ashe Stadium）耗资 $5 亿美元的翻修期间举行。此次翻修重新配置了座位，以创造更多最昂贵的座位，并在明年之前增加九个新的款待俱乐部。它还包括建设一座耗资 $2.5 亿美元的球员训练与款待中心。
“毫无疑问，从场边席和包厢中可以赚到很多钱，用以资助我们正在开展的其他所有工作，”法拉盛草原地国家网球中心首席运营官 Daniel Zussner 表示，“你知道我们的门票卖得有多好。”
在翻修之前，球场最低部分（场边区域）大约有 2,000 个座位。然后是一层豪华包厢。接着是中间区域（logo区），约有 6,000 个座位。其上方是上层看台，约有 13,500 个座位。
在过去的 18 个月里，建筑工人与工程师拆除了上层看台以下的所有设施，并重新配置了球场。
现在，较低的场边区域有 3,000 个座位，其中包括 3,000 个俱乐部席位，可进入专属款待区。这些临时俱乐部将在今年开放，明年将再开放六个。
在下一层，是环形的豪华企业包厢。包厢之上是大幅缩减的 logo 区，约有 2,500 个座位。然后是被称为“散步道”（promenade）的上层看台，一直延伸到最高处的山顶座（noseblends）。
这就是美国网球协会（U.S.T.A.）在数学计算上获利丰厚的地方。
去年，球场中间 6,000 个座位的 logo 区每场平均票价为 $350。翻修工程移除了其中的 2,500 个座位。
这些座位实际上被场边区域的座位一对一地取代了，而场边区域在不含餐饮服务的情况下，每场平均价格超过 $500。该区域含款待服务的座位每场价格超过 $2,300。
此外，标志区那 6,000 个座位中，约 75% 属于订阅用户。多年来，许多订阅用户告诉科茨及其团队，他们希望将订阅席位移至场边区。但由于那里的座位从未出现空缺，他们无法实现。
现在，美国网球协会（U.S.T.A.）创造了这些座位，且订阅用户已为此付费。
“定价反映了我们认为对于大幅升级后的座位而言是公平的价格，”科茨说道。
上层看台的座位没有变化。在接下来的一年里，美国网球协会将扩建该消费区并增加一个环形酒吧。
漫步层 13,500 个座位的票面价格今年平均每场 $57，而去年为 $315。最便宜的、未编号的日场入场券价格为 $83. 但这些门票在二级市场上的加价率最高，价格大约是票面价值的四到五倍。
美国网球协会坚持认为，它仍在举办一场具有可及性的赛事。在资格赛和混双比赛进行且顶尖球员进行训练的“公平周”（Fair Week），大部分活动依然免费。
在阿什球场进行的混双比赛门票需要付费，但路易斯·阿姆斯特朗球场的比赛目前仍将保持免费。
“我们的需求足够大，大到我们可以为公平周收取门票费用，但我们没有这么做，”科茨说道。
但公平周并不是美国公开赛，至少不是大多数人想要关注的那部分。随着转售市场与赛事主体育场变化的交汇，对价格的反感情绪正在上升——但门票依然在持续售出。
趋势在于在机会出现时抓住机会。目前，我们正处于运营美国公开赛的这场博弈之中。
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大学橄榄球
基芬离任后，密西西比州在 NIL 时代巩固其身份认同
作者：SETTE EMERSON
纽约时报
OEP / IRIS: 密西西比州 —— 沃克·琼斯（Walker Jones）走出他位于 Grove Collective 的办公室（这是密西西比大学的姓名、形象和肖像（NIL）计划），微笑着说：“我们有一些莱恩·基芬（Lane Kiffin）签名的足球需要处理，如果你想要的话。”
这些足球曾经帮助球员获得资金。现在它们成了笑柄，并在某种程度上成为了一种衡量标准。
“我们实际上有很多个，对吧？”该集体执行主管琼斯问道。
一名半成员抬头，向右点头。
作者：JIMIE KIRK
在一个多月后，牛津市将成为大学橄榄球访谈的中心。曾经作为密西西比大学（Ole Miss）宇宙中心的基芬，将于 9 月 31 日率领竞争对手路易斯安那州立大学回归。一名 54 岁的人曾在密西西比海岸的一次扩张中首次亮相于大学橄榄球项目。沃恩（Vaughn）（heavingsway 体育场预计将成为惊叹的熔炉），其球迷群体将怒火指向这个他们曾经崇拜的人，并希望通过一场胜利传递最终的信息。
但在 8 月初的这一天，人们正将他们的头发移入镇中。来自纽约、密歇根、科罗拉多以及所有甚至被困在 The Square（市中心唯一的中心）的人们。事情正在向前推进。
牛津市是一个拥有约 15,000 人的城市，已成为男女老少的目的地。当地人可以认为这一切都可以追溯到其橄榄球项目的 [operable] 成功，以及伊沃娜·埃德·曼宁（Iwona Ed Manning）、德克萨斯州休斯顿、休·弗罗姆（Hugh Fromm）和基芬带来的足够多的高光时刻。但当你将其与威廉·福克纳（William Faulkner）和约翰·格里舍姆（John Grisham）联系在一起时，这个小镇又增添了一层光彩。
自 2020 年基芬执掌的第一赛季以来，该大学的入学人数激增了 31%。
柯克·埃默森（Kirk Emerson）是 The Athletic 的资深大学橄榄球记者。
新任主教练皮特·戈尔丁（Pete Golding）曾是莱恩·基芬麾下的防守协调员。
申请人数也随之增加。你可以理解为什么密西西比大学的管理层拥抱橄榄球，并给予该项目其正在进行的大学支持。在新的 era. 取得突破。
最终，这对基芬来说还不够。
现在，大学和橄榄球队伍感到自己肩负着一项使命。
“我们心中带着不服输的劲头，”琼斯说，“我们比任何一个人都重要。”
“我想要这份工作”
在“鸡蛋碗”（Egg Bowl）比赛结束约一小时后，基思·卡特（Keith Carter）看了看手机。他看到的这条信息可能是他几个月来收到的最令人振奋的消息。
作为密西西比大学的体育总监，卡特在之前的几个月里一直采取双轨并行方案。一方面，他试图说服基芬（Kiffin）如果留下来，他能预见到密西西比大学（Ole Miss）的前景，同时明确表示，如果基芬接受了 J. S. U. 或佛罗里达大学的职位，他将无法带领密西西比大学参加季后赛。
另一条轨道是寻找潜在的接替者。卡特在考察 Tainer 的 Jim Isnerall、佛罗里达大学的 Alex Gabriel 以及其他人。随后，他收到了一条来自球队防守协调员皮特·戈尔丁（Pete Golding）的短信。
“我想要这份工作。”戈尔丁此前已在考虑名单中。但在私下里，他一直犹豫不决，在赛季进行期间，他不完全确定基芬离开是否是一件好事。卡特态度明确，而戈尔丁告诉自己：“你真的想为别人工作吗？我喜欢的一切都在这里，你来到这里是有原因的。所以，好吧，抓住机会。时机就是现在。”
于是他发送了那条短信。当密西西比大学进入季后赛时，卡特并不真的打算让基芬继续执教。他让从未担任过主教练的戈尔丁成为了基芬的完整接替者。
“今天能面对面交流对我很有帮助，”他说。“我觉得我们基本上经历了一次全国范围内的教练搜寻，而我成了结果。我知道我表现如何。他能直接站出来说‘我准备好了’，这很酷。”
在很多方面，戈尔丁与基芬截然相反。基芬是一位长期担任 N.E.L. 助理教练之子，曾在田纳西大学、南加州大学和佛罗里达大西洋大学担任过 N.F.L. 主教练，他利用密西西比大学重新确立了自己的地位。而戈尔丁出身于小规模学校，曾在第二级别（Division II）的三角州大学（Delta State）担任球员，在教练领域缓慢晋升，直到 2017 年被 Nels Salam 从德克萨斯-亚利桑那（Texas-like Arizona）挖掘担任防守协调员之前，他从未在职业联盟学校工作过。
“以这种方式成长包含了一种谦逊的成分，”戈尔丁说。
自从获得这份工作以来，戈尔丁绝非处于低调状态。克莱姆森大学（Clemson）的教练（小脚注）指责他在转会门户中进行违规接触。戈尔丁则通过指责 J. S. U. 违规接触他的球员来予以回应。他倾向于直接发表心声，例如在东南部联盟（Southeastern Conference）媒体日上，用 100 字指责某些体育总监的虚伪。
戈尔丁在 1 月份带领密西西比大学获得了季后赛资格，其中包括战胜了 1927 年的冠军乔治亚大学。他能否长期维持该项目的发展仍需时间证明——尤其是在失去了查理·温二世（Charlie Wein Jr.）的情况下，这位进攻策划者在季后赛期间一直陪伴在他身边，但随后加入了基芬在 J. S. U. 的团队。
但戈尔丁的个性，以及来自小规模学校背景的锐气，正契合他现在领导的项目——一个深知自己仍需再接再厉的项目。
走向全球
密西西比大学（Ole Miss）管理层在 2022 年春季接触了琼斯（Jones），讨论加入“活跃集体”（Active Collective）。球员的姓名、形象和似像（NIL）协议最近已合法化，许多学校反应迟缓。然而，密西西比大学决定采取行动。
卡特（Carter）、琼斯以及密西西比州校长格伦·雷尔（Glenn Reyer）都是密西西比大学的毕业生。他们曾计划利用 NIL 和转会门户来提升密西西比大学的体育水平，尤其是橄榄球。Grove Collective 是该领域最早的组织之一，向 2021 年的阵容投入了超过 1000 万，但该阵容最终遗憾未能进入季后赛。
“我们有点是在请求原谅，我们先斩后奏，做了其他学校反应迟缓的事情，‘现在你们怎么敢这么做？为什么要这么做？’”琼斯说道。
据琼斯称，基芬（Kiffin）参与其中，但并非主导力量。他发现让基芬与捐赠者在同一个房间里讨论球队是对教练时间最好的利用方式。但筹款策略并非围绕基芬构建。
部分原因是他们知道可能无法永远留住他。
“我们可能并不确定结果会像那样结束，就像它最终发生的那样。仅仅是基于对过去的认知，”琼斯说。
“但这同时也激励我们意识到，这件事的影响力超过了任何一个人。我们觉得我们的协调程度在全国范围内是顶尖的。而且我们觉得我们可能——也许不是全世界最大的粉丝群体，但却是一个规模虽小但充满激情的粉丝群体，我们可以让每个人朝着同一个方向努力。”
这个集体在数年间让密西西比大学脱颖而出。随后其他学校赶上了，情况再次发生变化。Grove Collective 转向了一种更简练的模型，并创建了自己的营销机构，就像许多大学开始将多媒体权利合作伙伴作为第三方 NIL 来源一样。
基芬利用这一点来优化阵容。2014 年的计划带来了 8 个 NIL 重点选择，其中 4 个在前两轮。2015 年的球队在基芬离职时赢得了 5 亿美元，随后在戈尔丁（Golding）时期赢得了 15 亿美元。
“这是一件好事。但这是密西西比大学橄榄球有史以来最好的状态，”防守截锋威尔·埃里克森（Will Eriksen）说。“我不知道。”
去年比赛中经常飘扬着特立尼达和多巴哥的国旗，因为一名叫特立尼达·尚蒂隆（Trinidad Chantillon）的人。他说他遇到了一些向他介绍那个国家的人，对方告诉他密西西比大学“几乎接管了”那个岛国。
“密西西比大学现在已经全球化了，这太有用了，”尚蒂隆说。
基芬帮助实现了这一点。现在的问题是：反叛者队（Ole Rebels）能否维持这一地位——并在协议中胜过他们的前教练？
巨大的期待
SEC 的赛程制定者很清楚自己在做什么：J. S. U. 将在 9 月 25, 即赛季第三周来到牛津。密西西比大学的线卫萨姆·富兰克林（Sam Franklin）说他“一直”听到关于这场比赛的议论。
“我告诉他们我们会在那儿的。”富兰克林补充道，“让我们先击败路易斯维尔。让我们先赢下前两场比赛。”
因此，密西西比大学的人们觉得他们通过基芬的路径来到了一个极佳的位置。尚蒂隆表示，对于萨拉姆（Salam）、柯克·赫伯里希（Kirk Herberich）等人主张该计划应让基芬在季后赛执教的观点，人们感到恼火。
在季后赛中，但卡特采取了立场，而他的名声验证了这一立场。
“我们没有想过，‘噢，这也许是我们唯一的一次机会’，”卡特说。“我们的目标一直是努力走到这一步，我们不想回头看，也不想回到过去的方式。我们希望每年都能参与季后赛的讨论。”
今年的球队在美联社季前 Top 25 投票中排名第 9。尽管受到基芬的影响，反叛者队仍保留了去年球队 69 的合格球员，不过他们确实失去了四名球员，这些球员加入了基芬的老虎队。（两名 J. S. U. 球员考虑加入密西西比大学。）
“当他离开时，这成了一次考验，他确实是个关键人物，更多的拦截。简·布朗说，‘现在我们想要被如何铭记？’我觉得他正变得有些……因为人们并不尊重我们能成为任何角色。”
密西西比大学（Ole Miss）橄榄球队从未赢得过公认的全美冠军，尽管在 2014 到 2003 年间，它是 SEC 的主导球队。接下来的 10 年里，仅在 1971、2003 和 2023 年有三次赛季胜场达到 10 场。
随后基芬在 2020 年到来，在过去五个赛季中有四个赛季的胜场至少达到 10 场。
也许是因为基芬。或者，大学里的人更倾向于认为，是基芬加上对 Ole N.I.L. 广告的响应。琼斯将其描述为“在混乱中筹款”。
但基芬已经离开了，这使得现在成为了一个关键时刻。
“我们觉得现在我们有了话语权，”卡特说。“你在全国各地穿着印有密西西比大学标志的衣服，人们现在知道我们是谁了。我们不再仅仅是一所州立或地区性学校。我们更多地成为了一个全国性品牌。但我们绝非一个蓝血强队。”
“但我们的希望是，在 10 到 13 年后回顾时，我们可以说我们不仅在局部取得了成功，而且能够维持这种成功，并且现在我们能够与顶级品牌并列讨论。”
赛马
当 M.B. 的团队位于左上角，而 Classic Rock 位于左上方，提高了团队在团队战略中的份额，以及成为团队的权利，这意味着一场“投注热潮”正在进行中。
是发生了“投注阴谋”，还是马匹速度惊人？
作者：乔·谢普（JOE SHAPE）
纽约州萨拉托加泉（SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.）—— 安迪·瑟林（Andy Serling）是纽约赛马协会（New York Racing Association）的一名赛马分析师。他的工作是告诉帕特·斯波尔（Pat Spore）的观众哪匹马在他看来更有可能获胜，而瑟林在那个月于萨拉托加赛马场（Saratoga Race Course）做出了判断。
对我而言，他关注的是一匹名为 M.B.'s Melanie Cares 的大马，赔率高达 13 比 1。这匹马已经七个月没有参赛了，其训练成绩缓慢。它由一名他曾评价为 1000 的马夫训练。
从纸面数据来看，M.B.'s Melanie Cares 并没有太多推荐理由。他是一个在早年职业生涯中表现良好的人，她的训练师在网上执教 12 年，拥有一匹名为 Classic Rock 的马，后者在赔率五（约两）比一（1.）的情况下以近两个马身之差获胜。
瑟林向观众暗示，一场 4 “投注阴谋”（betting crap）正在进行。这种做法与赛马运动本身一样古老，即马主无法获得最佳结果。一年缓慢的资金投入到一场比赛中以保持高赔率，以便在获胜后获得巨额回报。
瑟林告诉他的观众，他已经将目光重新锁定在 M.B.'s Melanie Cares 身上，他预测这匹马在一次 61 的投注中将获得 122 的回报。
M.B.'s Melanie Cares 以近四个马身之差获胜，每 $2.00 的投注支付了 $27.70 的奖金——这几乎与瑟林的预测一致，这笔意外之财让该州北部的赛马场看台陷入狂热。
当赛马玩家在类似的情况下——就在同一天，8月 9 日——在新泽西海岸的蒙茅斯公园（Monmouth Park）发现类似情况时，局面变得复杂起来，那里名为 electric trunks 的单马连续赢了两场比赛，两匹马的获胜情况同样出人意料。
这四匹获胜的马由位于马里兰州埃尔克顿（Elkton, Md.）费尔希尔训练中心（Fair Hill Training Center）的 Quince 训练，而萨拉托加的两匹获胜马在获胜前由 Ochoa 训练。不同于每个马匹都由独立计时员记录的赛马场，费尔希尔由训练师自行计时，并将时间报告给马匹打算参赛的赛马场。他们拥有“美化”马匹训练成绩的真实机会，在获胜时间上做手脚，使纯血马在赛前看起来不那么有吸引力。
这些马在训练期间的平均成绩，关于训练师如何“占便宜”（one over）的讨论，在赛马术语中大多是钦佩的措辞。
但赛马行业的监管机构并不觉得有趣，并已对两名训练师和训练中心展开调查。
作为准公共联邦监管机构的{Hornracing}诚信与安全管理局（Integrity and Safety Authority）的首席执行官 Local, intense 表示，这些马已经接受了广泛的药物和 DNA 检测，且该体育项目的测试系统正在接受可疑测试的审查。她表示目前还没有结果返回。
“HSA 非常严肃地对待这种情况，如果发现任何掩盖行为，将产生严重后果，”拉扎鲁斯（Lazarus）说道。
但通过缓慢的训练来掩饰马匹的真实状态正是这些马的训练方式，训练师很少因此受罚。除非能找到比赛被操纵或马匹被注射增强性能药物的证据，否则 HSA 将很难在季节性地对训练师进行处罚。
Quince 和 Ochoa 表示，除了在赛道上度过了非常美好的一天外，他们没有做任何错事。
“我没有什么好隐瞒的——我是清白的，”Quince 在一次采访中说，并补充说他报告的是准确的测试时间。
Ochoa 表示，他觉得作为一名小规模训练师，这种审视是不公平的。“我在世界上最好的赛马场赢了两场比赛，而人们却不高兴，”他说。
这种关注一直延伸到了伦敦，在那里，好几位
几匹赛马在萨拉托加和泽西海岸的比赛中表现远超赔率。
博彩店接受了来自各类客户（其中许多是美国人）对萨拉托加和蒙茅斯赛事的投注。
据两名知情人士透露，博彩公司的损失达到了显著的六位数，但他们未获授权公开讨论此事。
“这是一次相当惊人的尝试性赌博，我们在业内从未见过这种情况，”大型博彩公司 Paddy Power 的保罗·罗塞尔德（Paul Rotheld）告诉英国的《赛马邮报》（Racing Post）。“这让我们损失了一些金钱，但并非无法承受。”
昆斯（Quince）和奥乔亚（Ochoa）均表示，他们没有在英国博彩公司进行投注。
投注陷阱是赛马迷们津津乐道的话题。
关于赛马和比赛的内部信息被频繁交易，其中大部分毫无用处。当一次大获全胜被公开时，只要不涉及兴奋剂或其他损害纯血马的手段，这通常被视为一种传统。
“我一直非常敬佩那些在冷门中获胜的人，这在赛马玩家中是很常见的。”
昆斯说他有时会给自己的马骑行，但那天没有。他说他与奥乔亚是朋友。“难道我们不能赢比赛吗？”昆斯说。
围绕昆斯及其赛马的问题现在因另一件事而变得更加复杂：8月12日，监管机构宣布，一匹不参与上述比赛且由昆斯训练的赛马在检测中呈阳性，该物质为一种被允许的 beta-激动剂和支气管扩张剂，用于治疗马的哮喘或呼吸窘迫。监管机构表示，如果被滥用，该药物可被用于增加精瘦肌肉量。
在随后的采访中被问及药检结果时，昆斯表示其家人中有人病重，因此无法发表评论。
费尔希尔训练中心（Fair Hill Training Center）也受到了审查。这是一个环境艰苦的场所，拥有骑行小径和泥地，而非优质的客户表面。这里是肯塔基德比冠军训练师格雷厄姆·穆斯（Graham Moose）和道格·麦考基（Doug McGaughey）的所在地。
费尔希尔（Fair HSA）执行董事威尔·菲普斯（Will Phipps）表示，昆斯在该设施训练马匹的三个月期限将于 9 月结束。他表示，训练中心董事会也在进行调查。
昆斯说他在两个月前将业务转移到了佛罗里达大学。在过去的 7 年里，他赢得了 174 场比赛，奖金超过 $3.300 万。奥乔亚在过去 9 年中赢得了 23 场比赛，奖金近 $900,000.
“I wanted more options，”昆斯说。“这里去马里兰州、新泽西州和宾夕法尼亚州的赛马场时间较短。”
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纽约时报 体育版 星期日，2026年8月23日
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顶级火球投手在寻找突破 100 英里 / 小时后的新前沿
触及三位数
已经在推向
手臂的极限
作者：JOHNNY FLORES JR.
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Mason Miller 刚参加完 M.L.R. 选秀，是奥克兰运动队的第三轮新秀。Aodelle Chapman 还是一个来自古巴的、不被看好的经理。Seth Hernandez 是加利福尼亚州一名即将毕业的高中四年级学生。而 Jacob Micsimowski 正在参加初级学院世界系列赛。
尽管他们处于人生不同的阶段，但在这些时刻，他们共同拥有同一个经历：第一次在投球记录中达到 100 英里 / 小时。
“当时，”Hernandez 回忆起当时的想法，三位数在计分板上闪现。
达到 100 英里 / 小时并非易事。这是一次对人体极限的测试——手臂向后蓄力，然后向前挥击，距离本垒板 60 英尺 6 英寸。然而在如今，现代投手们继续刷新着此前极少有人能达到的里程碑。他们的投球速度越来越快，曾经的罕见现象已变得 commonplace。
第一次体验 100 英里 / 小时仅仅是一个前奏，因为他们每个人都在继续测试自己的极限，这引发了一个问题：是否还存在一个未被发现的层级，一个隐藏的第三目标？
2008 年，四缝线球的平均速度为 10.3 英里 / 小时。到 2022 年，这一数字上升了整整两星至 0.5。在 2026 年上半年，这一速度为 54.6 英里 / 小时。这是自 2006 年投球追踪 era 开启以来最高的速度。
在整个 2025 赛季中，记录仪捕捉到了 726 次至少 100 英里 / 小时的投球。而仅在本赛季上半年，这一数字就达到了 1,050 次。
“你能感觉到一个美妙的小挥空，”密尔沃基酿酒花员队的王牌 Misierowski 在被问到投出 100 英里 / 小时是什么感觉时告诉《The Athlete》，“你能听到它。它有点像在唱歌。”
关于球速及其重要性的讨论近期引起了关注，尤其是现任国家联盟赛扬奖得主 Paul Barnes，他发现自己的火球投掷能力有所下降。曾经平均 94.8 英里 / 小时的球速已跌至 96.5；在最近一次周三的先发中，在 4.5 局中，Barnes 的最高时速仅为 87.5。
就 Barnes 而言，他认为球速并非掌控力的唯一标准。
“我不认为球速是我投好球的必要条件，”Barnes 在 7 月的全明星媒体日上表示，“我认为这可能是第一次。”
Johnny Flores Jr. 是《The Athlete》的高级 M.L.R. 编辑。
“你能感觉到一个美妙的小挥空，”酿酒花员队的 Jacob Misierowski 说，“100 英里 / 小时就像是一个在 3.1 英寸中 roga 的男人熊。”
在加入“百英里俱乐部”的投手之中，从左至右分别是 Mason Miller, Aodelle Chapman, Seth Hernandez 和 Chase Burns。当 Chapman 在 2030 年效力于辛辛那提红人队时，他在一次大比分领先的救援登场中投出了 105.8 英里 / 小时。
在我职业生涯的这段时间里，球速确实有所下降。这完全不是我压力大的原因。我很健康，感觉很好，并且依然在维持高水平的投球。
然而，结果却并不像是一个在高水平投球的人。自 7 月 1 日以来，Barnes 在九次先发中的防御率（earned run average）为 3.67。
2018 年，当时效力于辛辛那提红人队的 Chapman 在一场对阵匹兹堡海盗队的大比分领先救援登场中投出了 105.4 英里 / 小时，而当时救援投手的四缝线球平均速度略低于 93 英里 / 小时。
他的第一次投球本应代表一种一次性的罕见现象。相反，它改变了现代投球体验。
“在那个时候，没有那么多像现在这样的人，”Chapman 在谈到他的同行投手时说，“你需要拥有天赋异禀的好手臂才能做到这一点。”
看看 2025 年中达到 100 英里 / 小时的 42 位投手，他们就属于那些被天赋眷顾的人。
其中最突出的是米塞罗夫斯基（Misierowski），这位酿酒人队的6英尺7英寸右投手在2030年上半季以470次超过100英里 / 小时的投球领跑全联盟，而他自己投出的105.3英里 / 小时的球，出现在查普曼首次引起关注的33个赛季之后。
“我觉得那球稍微滑了一点，”米塞罗夫斯基在6月告诉记者，当他思考某种隐藏的第三种力量潜力——这将使人类能够突破100英里 / 小时——时，脸上露出了腼腆的笑容。
如果这个era, 真的会出现这种情况，它可能不会来自米塞罗夫斯基的手臂，而他是其1个大联盟首个完整赛季中赢得国家联盟赛扬奖记录的热门人选。
“基本上，我认为这就是极限了，”米塞罗夫斯基承认道，“我觉得我就在这个水平。如果这就是我的全部，那就是我的全部。”
那么，或许是赫尔南德斯（Hernandez）能找到突破口，海盗队在2025年选秀中用第3m.1顺位选中了他。赫尔南德斯是一名6英尺4英寸的右投手，今年6月刚满20岁。
“米塞罗夫斯基所做的一切都很特别，”赫尔南德斯说，“我还很年轻，所以希望随着身体发育，变得更强壮一些，也许前方还会有更多机会。”
在首次触及100英里 / 小时一年半之后，赫尔南德斯在对阵底特律老虎队的一场春训赛中达到了102.4英里 / 小时。
“那是挺久之前的事了，所以我几乎快忘记那种感觉了，”赫尔南德斯在7月中旬表示，“你能感觉到球从手指上弹开的一点感觉。”
在发表这些评论一小时多之后，赫尔南德斯在M.L.R.特色赛中投球，三次达到三位数时速，最高达到101英里 / 小时，精英级的球速感回来了，即便只是瞬间。
一名可能不会挑战球速冠军的“火球投手”是辛辛那提队的蔡斯·伯恩斯（Chase Burns），这位6英尺2英寸的右投手在田纳西大学作为29岁的大二学生时曾投出102英里 / 小时。
“我认为那可能就是我的顶峰了，”伯恩斯承认道，“随着我年龄增长，也许变得更强壮，挑战身体极限，我可能会投得更快。但当你一年投这么多局数，这么多，而且是的，我觉得目前这就是我的顶峰了。”
作为2022年的新秀，伯恩斯的快速球平均时速为98.7英里 / 小时，而本赛季则维持在97.5英里 / 小时，这恰好是卡尔·希尔德（Carl Schilder）、肖贝尔·奥马里（Shobel Olmari）和里克·苏斯基（Rick Susski）的平均水平。他作为一名大额纳税人曾达到105英里 / 小时，并在本赛季的不同时间点多次超过100英里 / 小时。
球员需要考虑的不止是局数，尤其是先发投手——米塞罗夫斯基和赫尔南德斯就是如此。还包括他们的身体如何反应。
“我认为那些家伙，他们与自己的身体和成员如此契合，所以程度更深，”伯恩斯说，“第二天绝对能感觉到——你非常确定！”
仅仅因为某件事在生理上可行，并不意味着它没有痛苦，而且生理上的可行也不一定能轻易转化为重复性，而这可以说是在维持精英级球速方面最困难的一环。
当被问及持续投出100英里 / 小时以上需要什么时，米塞罗夫斯基说：“坦白说，是一个你可以日复一日重复的动作，以及足够强壮。”
这就是为什么像查普曼这样的球员高度重视力量和体能训练。
“持续的稳定性以及力量，这些不是每个人都能获得的，”米勒（Miller）说，“健身房、训练室，所有这些都能让你准备好在每晚出场时发挥出最佳状态。”
最大的障碍就在于此：无论付出多少努力，人类身体的能力终究有限。
米塞罗夫斯基因酿酒人队认定的手臂疲劳而错过了上半季的最后一次先发。他缺席了全明星赛，随后缺席了密尔沃基在下半季的第一轮系列赛，最终在7月26.日通过一次缩短的4局调整先发回归。周五，他面对亚特兰大投了六局无失分。
其他大牌球员，包括 Ed win: Dan、塔里克·舒巴尔（Tarik Shubal）、加雷特·科比（Garrett Coebee）、亨特·布朗（Hunter Brown）、谢默·格林（Shamer Greene）和布兰登·伍德拉夫（Brandon Woodruff），也都曾因各种手臂问题在伤病名单中待过一段时间。
然而，只要雷达还能正常工作，就永远不会缺少那些试图挑战其极限、试图在投手丘上挖掘潜能的人。
“我每年的最高角色都定在 60 时代，”米勒（Miller）说道。“希望我能再提高那么一点点，但我们拭目以待吧。”
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湖人队的族长试图留下遗产，结果却让他的家庭分崩离析
作者：JASON LLOYD
杰里·巴斯（Jerry Bass）希望在自己离世后由孩子们经营湖人队。如果他能看到自己最珍视的财产对他最爱的人造成了怎样的影响，他会感到多么悲哀。
湖人队本应成为他在去世后将巴斯家族联系在一起的纽带。然而，现在的局面却让每个人都渐行渐远。
五个孩子对抗一个。公开的指责。旧伤被重新揭开。双方的律师都在利用这种功能失调的情况获利。
这是一场在现实生活中上演的“继承之战”，一个被紫色和金色笼罩的第一家庭，六个孩子为了王位而争斗。这不仅仅令人不安，而且让人无法移开视线。
人们很容易产生疑问：为什么会对一个为了 100mm 而争吵的家庭产生同情？这里没有人会挨饿，没有人会担心这个月的房贷支票是否足够。那并不是悲剧所在。
悲剧在于，一位父亲为他一生事业的所有法律和财务威胁都做了计划，唯独忽略了最根本的一点：这一切会对他的孩子们产生什么影响。
六个巴斯兄妹中有五个想要出售家族信托剩余的 2.5 percent 股份，而杰西·巴斯（Jessie Bass）则想要保——
杰森·刘易德（Jason Lloyd）是《The Athletic》的高级专栏作家。萨姆·阿米克（Sam Amick）参与了报道。
——留足够的所有权，以维持她作为湖人队管理者的身份。她认为信托条款和一项 2,352 号法院命令赋予了她阻止出售的法律保护。最终，法院可能会决定胜负。
杰里·巴斯尽其所能，为一个他知道自己最终无法掌控的未来做了计划。他构建了一个分为三层的接班计划：家族集体所有权、杰西拥有最终决定权，以及其他孩子担任运营角色。
他平等地分配了所有权，但没有平等地分配权力。六个孩子拥有相同的经济利益，并对重大所有权决定拥有投票权，但杰里并不打算让六个人同时经营湖人队。杰西被指定为控股所有者。
很容易看出，这样的结构最终会在那些未被选中的人中滋生怨恨。此外，他无法预料球队价值在过去十年中是如何飙升的。
如果说巴斯在信托条款中犯了一个错误，那可能是那个经典条款：在其中一名 1,000's 去世后，其持有的湖人队股份将分配给剩余的兄妹。这在本质上创造了一种“最后生存者”式的《权力的游戏》权力结构。
其意图可能是为了防止所有权在潜在的继承人、孙辈及后代中变得碎片化。相反，这为兄妹们创造了一种扭曲的激励机制。
杰里·巴斯的信托将所有权平等地分给了六个人。其中五个人想要出售，法院可能会决定胜负。
现在套现，享受财富，并将遗产留给你自己选择的人。而如果股份留在信托中，你的兄妹将获得一切。
通过这种方式构建信托，巴斯反而激励了那些他如此小心地试图防止的出售行为。
他可以转移股票，可以设立信托，可以制定接班计划。但他无法让成年后的孩子们永远想要同样的东西。这是任何遗产律师都无法解决的继承问题。
你可以给孩子留下巨额财富，但你无法遗赠对创造财富之物的热爱。你无法将家庭和谐放入信托。你无法保证兄妹们在父亲离世 16 或 20 年后，依然认为那是父亲的愿望。
你更无法预料当家族发现他们所拥有的东西时会发生什么。当那个旨在保护的遗产价值超过 250 亿美元 billion 时。数字已经增长到如此巨大的程度，以至于无心之举也带来了惊人的代价。
对于巴斯家族的五名子女来说，出售剩余股份可以被视为一个逻辑上的终点，而这个现状始于去年家族放弃对湖人队的控制权。他们可以拿走自己的钱，从此过上不再围绕这支球队运转的生活。
但对于杰西·巴斯（Jessie Bass）来说，情况似乎远没有那么简单。
她的五个兄弟姐妹可以出售股份然后离去。而她可能认为，离去意味着失去某种无法用银行账户中的任何金额来替代的东西。
湖人队不仅仅是她的资产，它们似乎就是她的身份认同。
杰西·巴斯 19 岁时，父亲让她负责他的职业网球队。随后她经营了论坛体育馆（the Forum），并在家族企业中工作了数分钟，最终失去了对湖人队的控制权。
她现在 61 岁。她的整个成年生活都依附于父亲的体育帝国，并最终依附于湖人队。所有这些都成了一个被推翻的问题。对于我们任何人来说都没有答案，但似乎有一个结论：国家闲散人员。如果没有洛杉矶湖人队，杰西·巴斯知道杰西·巴斯是谁吗？
她的协议允许她在政府期间继续担任湖人队管理人员。杰西将不得不寻找一种没有湖人队的生活。目前，她正紧紧抓住她唯一认知的生活中残存的部分。
如果杰西足够坚定地想要留下，可能还有另一种选择：理论上，她可以通过融资来买断她兄弟姐妹的股份。按照今天的估值，这样做可能需要她
筹集接近 20 亿美元 billion，同时仍保留足够的股权以维持管理地位。
想象一下其中的讽刺。
杰利·巴斯（Jerry Bass）将湖人队留给六个孩子，是因为他希望他们共同拥有这支球队，而这个计划最终可能会以一个孩子借巨款买断其他五个孩子而告终。
也许这就是为什么这件事不仅仅是美国 1 percent 富人群体之间又一次争吵的原因。
家族成员为了湖人队而战，六个兄弟姐妹争论父母想要什么，以及他们对房产或企业的意图。湖人队似乎成了法外之地。一个孩子认为另一个孩子更受宠。有人想卖，有人拒绝。
这更多地是将一场普通的家庭纠纷放在了一个极其宏大的舞台上。而他们争夺的对象是洛杉矶湖人队。
这更多地是一个美国梦的非凡版本。他创造了财富，买下了一支篮球队伍，并将其转化为一个帝国。他试图将巨大的私人成功转化为世代的成功。
他成功了。也许成功得太过分了。
巴斯建立了一个篮球王朝。他创造了孩子们永远无法偿还的财富。他致力于建立一个在他死后很久依然能保持影响力的状态。
而他唯一无法保存的，就是他希望继承这一切的那个家庭。
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曾以律师身份帮助舞者同行的泰德·斯特里格尔去世，享年 84 岁
作者：BRIAN GIBBURT
泰德·斯特里格尔（Ted Striggles）是一位舞者兼律师，他将这两项截然不同的技能结合起来，为处于困境或获得成功的艺术家提供支持，并就如何生存向他们提供建议，其中包括他极具影响力的 1976 年指南《贫穷舞者年鉴》（Poor Dancers' Almanac）。他于 8 月 23 日在曼哈顿家中去世，享年 84 岁。
与其结婚 47 年的妻子德博拉·巴尔（Deborah Bahl）确认了他的去世，死因是白质病（white matter disease）并发症，这是一种严重的疾病。
年轻时，斯特里格尔先生是一位学者型运动员，在 20 世纪 80 年代初就读斯坦福大学本科期间参加过多项运动。在哈佛大学攻读法学学位期间，他继续从事体育运动，直到一次受伤经历了膝盖手术。在手术康复期间，他的妹妹建议他尝试芭蕾。就在那时，他爱上了舞蹈。
1967 年从哈佛法学院毕业后，他在萨拉劳伦斯学院获得了舞蹈硕士学位，师从助理教育者凯伦·舒恩伯格（Keren Schonberg）。然而，在开始舞蹈生涯后不久，他需要再次进行膝盖手术。
这次在康复期间，他在著名的保罗·魏斯（Paul, Weiss）律师事务所担任律师。大约一年后，他回归舞蹈界，加入了 20 世纪 70 年代纽约市编舞师和合作伙伴们艰苦奋斗的世界。
作为一名表演者，斯特里格尔先生在控制力方面表现出色。在《纽约时报》 1971 年对伊丽莎白·基恩（Elizabeth Keen）作品《毒药变奏曲》（Poison Variations）的一篇评论中——这是一部受《莎翁》（Shankin）中戏中戏启发而创作的幽默舞蹈——汤姆·麦克唐纳（Tom McDonnell）称赞斯特里格尔先生“面相可塑”。
斯特里格尔先生还出演了由詹姆斯·坎宁安（James Cunningham）编舞的许多作品。在《制作杂志》（Makin' magazines）中，“男人中的男人”是一个在地下室头部响应叶子的角色，但在坎宁安先生的微缩版中，他穿着一件降落伞。从一开始，斯特里格尔先生就在表演世界的管理方面发挥作用。“我想，我的参与始于我在一家小型公司工作时，该公司获得了一场不同的演出，”他在 1978 年告诉《时报》，“他们需要机票，而我是唯一一个懂这个的人。这件事让我成为了业务经理；在许多艺术组织中，那个懂会计的人往往就是掌控全局的人。”
对于约翰舞蹈公司（John Dance Company）的斯特里格尔先生来说，他定义了一套——当时舞蹈界所需要的——将表演者资金汇总然后通过股份在舞者之间分配的系统。
1972 年的泰德·斯特里格尔。他的双重职业使他能够以独特的资格建议艺术家如何在微薄的薪水中在世间生存。
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1976, 与詹姆斯·坎宁安（左）和劳伦·塞萨洛蒂（Lauren Thessalotti）在《阿波罗与狄俄尼索斯：支票到支票》（Apollo and Dionysus: Check to Check）中舞蹈；以及在办公桌前。
通过詹姆斯剧场工作坊（James Theater Workshop）——一个正成为实验舞蹈重要聚集地的综合协作机构——他开始开设关于舞者经济生存的课程。
这些讲座促成了《贫穷舞者年鉴》的诞生，该指南由他与玛格丽特·桑金（Margery Sankin）和詹娜·德赖弗（Jenna Driver）共同编写。其语调既具有信息量又不失 irreverent（不敬 / 反传统）。
“当你 8 岁时，你可能会花大量时间与朋友讨论我们如何工作，”斯特里格尔先生在引言中写道，“你会记得很多资料就在那里，但没有人能把故事说得完全正确。”
该年鉴纠正了关于如何作为一名舞者生存的记录
他最著名的作品是一本旨在帮助纽约饥饿艺术家的指南。
——例如，解释租金管制（rent control）与租金稳定（rent stabilization）之间的区别，并核查在非法左转时可能出现的弊端。
斯特里格斯先生写道，在许多现代舞者一年往往只能演出几次的时代，失业保险是“最重要的单一资金来源”。他展示了舞者如何通过汇总其就业总需求（无论是表演、看管酒吧还是等待——
blev），从而获得资格。
这本年鉴后来由其他作者修订并扩充。在 1983 年的版本中，在讨论非正式合伙关系（例如两名编舞者共同策划节目时创建的那类关系）中的责任章节，斯特里格斯先生提出了一个假设情况：“假设另一位艺术家不经意地用真子弹填满了她的空白贪婪”，并且无意中，尽管是致命地，造成了某种不近人情的《纽约时报》危机。
那么另一位没有武器的编舞者会成为 baller 吗？他写道，有可能。
在另一本 1976 年的著作《申报之年》（Year of Filing）中，他揭秘了相关案例，jakkagin 以一段来自 Diantri “Informs” 的引用开始——“所有进入此处的人，都放弃希望”——在
提供信息和鼓励之前。 《申报之年》由“Mummer 艺术家律师”（Mummer Lawyers for the Arts）发行，这是一家法律援助组织，他后来在该组织担任主任和董事会主席。
从 1975 到 1983, 领导舞蹈剧场工作坊（Dance Theater Workshop）的戴维·R·怀特（David R. White）在一次采访中表示，斯特里格斯先生是“艺术家的单人防御英雄”。在 70 年代中期，当著名的前卫表演艺术家兼作曲家梅雷迪斯·蒙克（Meredith Monk）陷入经济困境时，斯特里格斯先生赢得了一场里程碑式的诉讼，确定了即使她在自己的非营利组织董事会中，也可以领取失业保险。
在 1976, 停止表演后，斯特里格斯先生回到了保罗·魏斯（Paul, Weiss），他在那里一直工作
《贫穷舞者年鉴》（Poor Dancers' Almanac）是一本关于经济生存基础的非传统指南。
直到 1975, 期间他担任了一年纽约州艺术委员会（New York State Council on the Arts）的执行主任。随后他成为一名独立执业律师——继续帮助艺术家，且通常是免费提供法律服务。他的知名客户包括亚瑟·米切尔（Arthur Mitchell），这位参与其中的黑人 baller 之星是哈莱姆舞蹈剧场（Dance Theater of Harlem）的创始人。
多年来，斯特里格斯先生一直穿着一件他在 1976, 购买的黑色大衣，且是一个偶然的离群值。大衣里衬着红色丝绸，许多在 hero 中见到斯特里格斯先生的艺术家认为这是一个恰当的角色。
西奥多·威廉·斯特里格斯（Theodore William Striggles）于 9, 1942, 出生在 Den Miners，是三个孩子中的中间孩子，父亲威廉·西奥多·斯特里格斯（William Theodore Striggles）拥有一家小企业，后来成为一名保释负责人。他的母亲安娜斯塔西娅（Neshundra）斯特里格斯设法成为一名儿子。
除了妻子，斯特里格斯先生的遗属还包括他的姐姐乔治亚娜·波伊内洛（Georgiana Poiniello）。他的妹妹德瓦塔·亨德森（Dewarta Henderson），被称为“Amy”，于 2015 年去世。
1974, 他是一个舞蹈公司管理团队的一员，他们拥有广泛的、一个文化-culted 的 DanceWorks。该文化成长为 Perisole，一个领先的表演艺术支持组织。斯特里格斯先生后来在佩斯大学（Pace University）和纽约大学（New York University）讲授艺术法，并担任国家艺术基金会（National Endowment for the Arts）和国家人文委员会（National Council on the Humanities）的评审小组专家。
2022, 他因其服务年限而获得纽约舞蹈与表演奖（New York Dance and Performance Awards）的表彰，被称为“Ahead of Me, Schooling”，他的萨拉劳伦斯学院（Sarah Lawrence）老师将其视为讲座。孩子们注意到他对“艺术领域颠覆性商业实践的识别和制度化”。
斯特里格斯先生还获得了舞蹈记录局（Dance Notation Bureau）颁发的一个奖项，这是一个推广使用 Laboratories（一种记录舞蹈动作的合成系统）的非营利组织。在他公寓的一面墙上，他挂了一幅 Laboratories，记录了一段特定的动作序列。当访客要求他对其进行演绎时，他会——通过缓慢地竖起中指。
宝琳·克莱登，103, 英国舞者及开创性作品《睡美人》之星
作者：ALASTAIR MACKLEF
宝琳·克莱登（Pauline Clayden）是一位英国芭蕾舞演员，她是已知最后一位在改变美国舞蹈进程的演出中幸存的独舞演员——即 8, 1949 年10月在纽约大都会歌剧院上演的萨德勒之井芭蕾舞团（Sadler's Wells Ballet）《睡美人》特别之夜。她于 23 日在英格兰索尔兹伯里去世，享年 103 岁。
她的家人确认了她在一家护理院去世的消息。
那场 1949 年的演出是该舞团首次 12, 的开始，不仅是英国芭蕾舞在国际认知上的突破，也为美国舞蹈树立了新标杆：萨德勒之井芭蕾舞团（于 1956 年更名为今日的英国皇家芭蕾舞团）在生动的表演和灿烂的古典风格方面，都带来了顶级的剧场体验。
作为《睡美人》的主角，当时 20, 岁的玛格特·芳登（Margot Fonteyn）直接赢得了纽约观众的心，而她周围的舞团成员同样如此。芳登女士被赞誉为“芭蕾舞演员中的芭蕾舞演员”，而饰演第一组仙女之一、凭借出色独舞表演的克莱登女士也是其中之一。纽约市芭蕾舞团（当时仅成立一年）和成立于 1978, 的美国芭蕾舞剧院的舞者们，在 1979, 年9月关注了这家英国舞团，而该舞团随后成为美国观众喜爱的常客，直到20世纪70年代。
在大都会歌剧院的首演之夜，首席艺术家引导着演出走向巨大的成功。在第一部分的谢幕过程中，纽约市市长威廉·奥德怀尔（William O'Dwyer）率先对舞台呈现和整个舞团表示赞赏，他说道：“你们成功了，女士们。”而此时，芳登女士甚至还没有进行首次登场，她最终在这次演出中取得了职业生涯最辉煌的成就。
萨德勒之井芭蕾舞团随后成为了美国最受欢迎的国际芭蕾舞团，在20世纪60年代进行了多次巡演，每次巡演通常持续数月。克莱登女士参加了前四次巡演。
很快，在许多城市，该舞团比任何 [...OMITTED...]
一场改变美国舞蹈之盛事的最后一位已知在世独舞演员。
美国舞团。这些巡演带来了如此丰厚的资金，以至于该公司被授予了……经济事务的首次且更好的……在所有其他卓越品质中，具有“职业生涯中的第一次”之特质。
克莱登女士在第二次世界大战期间加入了萨德勒之井（Sadler's Wells），她立即察觉到表演对其风格的重要性。她所展现出的脆弱、狂喜、青春和自然等教学特质，使她非常适合当时著名编舞家弗雷德里克·艾什顿（Frederick Ashton）为丰托因女士（Ms. Fontoyn）创作的许多角色，后者比克莱登女士大三岁。
她经常是丰托因女士的替补——丰托因是芭蕾舞历史上的伟大人物之一，于1981年去世——但克莱登女士本身也深受尊敬。
尽管艾什顿说，当其他人跳丰托因的角色时，他通常会想念丰托因，但他在《大象与酋长》（Elephant and Chief，1972）中为克莱登女士的酋长角色做了例外。
波琳·埃莉斯·克莱登（Pauline Elise Clayden）于 12, 1922, 10月出生在伦敦东南部的刘易舍姆（Lewisham）。她的父亲弗雷德里克·克莱登（Frederick Clayden）在大使查令大厦（Embassy Charing House）工作，她的母亲艾达·克莱顿·克莱登（Ada Clayton Clayden）操持家务；波琳13岁时母亲去世。
1938年，在伦敦接受早期培训后，克莱登女士被一家在科文特花园皇家歌剧院与歌剧共用的芭蕾舞团录取。她的职业生涯由年轻的安东尼·图多尔（Antony Tudor）引导，后者不久后将前往美国与美国芭蕾舞剧院（American Ballet Theaters）合作。
战争爆发后，克莱登女士加入了位于莱斯特广场附近微小的艺术剧院俱乐部（Arts Theater Club）的新兴伦敦芭蕾舞团，该团后来与芭蕾 Bumbers 紧密交织。此外，被昵称为“Goodnings”的人经常离开，克莱登女士后来描述了她和其他舞者如何同时在音乐和附近的爆炸声中起舞。
1942年，克莱登女士加入了被称为 Vic-Wells 芭蕾舞团的萨德勒之井团，该团于1949年凭借新制作的《睡美人》及其经典的“Elizabeth's”配乐入驻皇家歌剧院。克莱登女士从一开始就饰演鸟类仙女，她所演绎的角色三年后将在纽约上演。
在1949年至1955年之间，克莱登女士在萨达姆（Saddam）和女王推广的七部芭蕾舞剧中创作了配角，包括《芭蕾舞团》（Ballet，1949），其多化学历史学配乐
上图，从左起，1945年身着《睡美人》服装在皇家歌剧院工作室的波琳·克莱登，以及1948年在伦敦萨德勒之井芭蕾舞团中饰演《磅》（Pounds）中 Clybula 的舞蹈场景。
这促使编舞家沉浸在芭蕾舞团的性格外滤几何学中。克莱登女士以记忆力、坐(Ioze)和端庄著称，她绘制的彩色图表展示了其图案的复杂性。
同样在1948年，克莱登女士结
婚，丈夫是霍华德·约翰·甘布尔（Howard John Gamble）少校，一名后来成为运动学教授的医学生。她于1956年离开萨德勒之井舞团开始组建家庭。后来，她在伦敦许多早期的现代主义舞团教授舞者。1964年，她和丈夫退休到英格兰西部的德文郡（Devon）。
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但她会回到皇家芭蕾舞团，指导她曾跳过的几个丰托因-艾什肯（Fontoyn-Ashken）角色，特别是《舞者》（The Dancer）、《大象与酋长》和《致女王的提醒》（Remings to the Queen）中的角色。
克莱登女士的丈夫于1989年去世。她的遗属包括他们的两个孩子，阿曼达·费舍尔（Amanda Fisher）和甘布尔少校，两个孙辈以及四个曾孙辈。
1952年，艾什顿编排了一部三幕芭蕾舞剧《西尔维娅》（Sylvia）。在 1956, 的版本中，克莱登和布莱恩·肖（Brian Shaw）饰演一对 guns。克莱登女士曾给艾什顿一份清单，列出了她剧目中所有的动物角色：一个六岁的小男孩、一只灯笼鸟、两只狗、一条蛇、一只蛾子、一只蝴蝶——而那只山羊就是《西尔维娅》。艾什顿开心地笑了；他已经编排了其中好几段舞蹈。
但他也将克莱登女士视为一名优秀的领舞。1955年，他指导她出演芭蕾舞剧《克劳迪奥》的主角——这是一个广为人知的角色，被吉维尔认为是芭蕾舞演员的终极角色，因为它涵盖了广泛的情感，并将表演与舞蹈高度融合。1968年，作为最后一名美国吉维尔的阿什肯，是他见过的最出色的舞者之一。
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纽约时报讣告版 2028年8月22日，星期日
前国务卿遗孀南希·基辛格逝世，享年92岁
作者：罗伯特·D·麦克法登 (ROBERT D. McFADDEN)
前国务卿亨利·A·基辛格的遗孀南希·基辛格（Nancy Kissinger）周四在康涅狄格州南肯特的家中逝世，享年92岁。半个世纪以来，她与丈夫共同经历了风起云涌的国际外交生活，以及随后作为一名备受争议的资深政治人物而带来的名声。
她的家人宣布了她的死讯。
基辛格夫人精通政治，对全球问题有深入了解，并且极力维护丈夫的名声。在1974年结婚后，她随丈夫多次出访执行外交任务。三年后，当基辛格先生卸任时，他们在20世纪80年代成为了华盛顿社交圈中常见的面孔，频繁出入大使馆派对和共和党白宫招待会。
基辛格夫妇也是纽约市最公开活跃的夫妇之一（纽约是他们的主要居住地），出席保险业开幕式、比尔·曼（Bill Mann）和奥斯卡·德拉伦塔（Oscar de la Renta）的时装秀以及慈善筹款活动。自20世纪60年代初以来，他们在南肯特拥有一处200英亩的庄园，作为远离社交义务的夏季和周末度假地。
“在那些了解她的人看来，”一位朋友在婚礼后对《纽约时报》评价道，“基辛格夫人是一位聪明、能干且温暖的女性，极具魅力，幽默感强，且拥有钢铁般的正直。”
基辛格夫人的光鲜生活并非没有麻烦，其中一部分与她丈夫备受争议的声誉有关。基辛格先生在1973, 到 1977, 期间担任国务卿，是首位在 House 和杰拉尔德·R·福特政府中任职的人。基辛格先生开创了与苏联的缓和政策；或通过在中东开展的常规或穿梭外交，应对 1973, 年的阿拉伯战争（亦称赎罪日战争）；并协助组织了巴黎和平协定以结束美国参与的越南战争，并因此分享了诺贝尔和平奖。
尽管取得了这些成就，他依然被视为战争政策的推手，被新闻界和人权活动人士指控在战争期间支持轰炸河内和入侵柬埔寨，涉嫌战争罪行。他是针对智利社会主义政府的军事行动的成员；并向阿根廷军队发出了对其“肮脏战争”的绿灯信号。
Ash Wu 参与报道。
- 年，南希·马吉尼斯（Nancy Maginnes）与未来的丈夫亨利·A·基辛格在耶路撒冷。她是基辛格先生的坚定捍卫者。
灾难。
1981, 年，在走过特华什国际机场（Tewash International Airport）的一个航站楼时，基辛格夫妇遭到了艾伦·库格勒（Ellen Kugler）的骚扰，后者是林登·H·拉布什（Lyndon H. LaBouche）的追随者，而拉布什是一位兼具马克思主义和右翼色彩的教派领袖。她对基辛格夫妇两人都进行了辱骂，目击者称基辛格夫人抓住了那个起哄者的喉咙，并威胁要将其扔到空中。
几个月后，在特华什市法院的一次两小时审理中，基辛格夫人作证称，当时她正护送丈夫前往波士顿进行一次三瓣心脏手术，且医生嘱咐他要避免“任何形式的压力”。法官驳回了对基辛格夫人的简单袭击轻罪指控，称没有造成身体伤害。
在结婚前的十年里，基辛格先生（这是他的第二段婚姻）曾与电影明星 All St. John、Liri Gibbons、Shirley Mack-Jane、Martin Thomas 等人约会。但他最频繁的伴侣是南希·马吉尼斯。
39, 岁的马吉尼斯女士与 58, 岁的亨利·基辛格于 30, 1974, 在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举行婚礼。虽然婚礼仅有少数宾客参加，且直到结束才公开，但它成为了当年报道最密集的社交事件之一。《时报》在第 1 页顶端刊登了该消息，随后对其进行了详细的报道。
她是“美国关键选择委员会”（Commission on Critical Choices for Americans）的外交政策专家，该委员会由纽约州前州长纳尔逊·A·洛克菲勒（Nelson A. Rockefeller）创建。洛克菲勒先生曾是新娘的雇主，也是基辛格先生多年的朋友和政治盟友，并在哈佛大学将两人介绍认识，当时基辛格先生在那里任教，而马金尼斯女士成为了他的学生之一。
1975年，这对夫妇在埃及和以色列之间的航班上，这是基辛格先生在中东持续开展穿梭外交的一部分。
基辛格先生与安·弗莱舍（Ann Fleischer）维持了15年的第一段婚姻于1964年以离婚告终。他们有两个孩子，两人都出席了婚礼，此外还有新娘的哥哥大卫以及她的母亲艾格尼丝·马金尼斯（Agnes Maginnes）。基辛格先生的弟弟沃尔特（Walter）及其妻子也在场，国务院法律顾问卡里克·莫尔（Carrick More）同样出席。
在由阿灵顿县法院的弗朗西斯·托马斯（Francis Thomas Jr.）法官主持的简短民事仪式后，这对新婚夫妇前往洛克菲勒在墨西哥的度过了30天的蜜月。12名苏联特工、20名墨西哥警察和40名记者跟踪他们的每一步行动，甚至在也未能减少。基辛格先生像一样保护性地搂着他的新婚妻子。她一直是个。
他们是一对引人注目的夫妇，很大程度上是因为的基辛格夫人身高接近6英尺，而她那在全世界都广为人知的丈夫只有3英尺6英寸。但朋友们表示，他们在智力和情感上非常匹配，并形容他们形影不离。
蜜月结束两个月后，基辛格夫人通过加入丈夫在中东持续的穿梭外交，展现了她的外交才干，在不同地区与阿拉伯和以色列领导人一起拍照，并将基辛格先生的空中新闻简报发送到她的。她的出现引起了阿拉伯和美国势力的广泛关注。
那个秋天，她陪同基辛格先生前往苏联，与领导人列昂尼德·勃列日涅夫（Leonid Brezhnev）就核武器进行谈判，随后在为期三周的外交行程的第二阶段飞往新德里。
她在政治上精明，且精通全球事务。
访问了十几个国家。朋友们表示，她的风度掩盖了那些让她在创伤后不久便因溃疡而住院的焦虑。
2008年，基辛格夫人曾在纽约的一起针对安东尼·D·马歇尔（Anthony D. Marshall）的刑事案件中出庭作证。马歇尔是她朋友——一位在两年前去世的著名女演员的儿子。马歇尔被指控在母亲精神能力衰退后，通过减少其收入来欺诈其遗产中的数百万美元。马歇尔最终被定罪并被判处监禁。
南希·斯隆·马吉尼斯（Nancy Sloane Maginnes）于1916年4月11日出生在曼哈顿，是阿尔伯特·B·马吉尼斯（Albert B. Maginnes）和艾格尼丝·马吉尼斯（Agnes (McKinley) Maginnes）的第三个孩子，也是唯一的女儿。她的父亲曾是一名职业足球运动员，后来在纽约州怀特普莱恩斯（White Plains）担任护士和实习律师，南希和她的两个哥哥在那里长大。
她于1951年毕业于纽约州都柏林费里的曼哈顿学校，并于1955年毕业于蒙特霍利欧克学院（Mount Holyoke College），获得历史学学士学位。在继续研究历史之前，她回到西方学校学习了两年，随后在加州大学伯克利分校修读研究生课程。
1964年，她在一个洛克菲勒工作组中为基辛格先生工作。由于对外交事务深感兴趣，在基辛格先生于1964年离开并加入尼克松政府后，她进入洛克菲勒兄弟基金会工作。
基辛格夫妇没有孩子。基辛格先生于2022年去世。基辛格夫人的哥哥布里斯托尔（Bristol）于2014年去世；，她的哥哥大卫（David）于2020年去世。她的后代包括两名——伊丽莎白·范德布什（Elizabeth Vanderbush）和大卫·基辛格（David Kissinger），以及五个成年。
基辛格夫人从未担任过美国外交官。但她的无处不在，使她对全球部分人士而言，就像总统和内阁部长一样为人熟知。2007年，当一名《时报》记者进入纽约的一家新办公室时，店主指向墙上那些购买过其家具和面料的知名人物的照片。
“那是吉米·卡特，”他说，“那是沃伦·克里斯托弗，而那是南希·基辛格。”
斯基普·伯特曼，88, 将棒球打造为路易斯安那州立大学支柱的教练
作者：理查德·桑德维尔 (RICHARD SANDWIR)
斯基普·伯特曼 (Skip Bertman) 是一位极具影响力的教练，他将路易斯安那州立大学 (L.S.U.) 的棒球队打造成为了一支全国强队，在 10 个赛季中赢得了五次全国冠军，并使主场体育场座无虚席。他于 8 月 15 日在路易斯安那州巴吞鲁日去世，享年 88 岁。
他的女儿简·伯特曼 (Jan Bertman) 确认了他是在一家医院去世的。
在回忆 1962 年被聘用时该校棒球队的地位时，伯特曼后来告诉《沃思堡星电报》(The Fort Worth Star-Telegram)：“当时 L.S.U. 只有两种运动：棒球和春季棒球。”
在当时，棒球在 L.S.U. 某种程度上是被忽视的。
son retired of 55-58, 球队在奥兰多罗兹蒙特体育场（该州女子项目的长期主场）举行的大学世界系列赛中，通过以 6-2 击败威奇托州立大学，完成了一次未被防守的冲刺。
“基本上我想告诉你，”伯特曼在赛后告诉美联社，“我总觉得自己在带领球员赢得全国冠军的过程中陷入麻烦。”
伯特曼带领老虎队在 1993, 1994, 1997 和 2000 年赢得了更多冠军，期间多次受益于后来被称为“大猩猩棒球” (Gorilla Ball) 的策略，即招募力量型球员以击出本垒打。
“我们教他们用一种方法来挥棒，”他 1998 年告诉田纳西州马尔博罗斯的《每日新闻杂志》(The Daily News Journal)，“在 60 中教孩子们很简单：孩子们在压力之下，就像在力量和二垒之间击球一样。”
1989 年，《棒球美国》(Baseball America) 的读者投票伯特曼为 10 世纪第二伟大的大学棒球教练，仅次于红·德拉博 (Red Drabaux)，后者曾带领南加州大学赢得 17 次冠军，其中包括 1970 年代的五连冠。
伯特曼——他同时也是 1990 年在阿拉斯加举行的夏季奥运会美国棒球队的主教练——为大联盟输送了众多球员，包括 Albert Belk，投手 Ben McDonald 和 Mark Lefler 以及内野手 Todd Walker。
A Sunday berman——最初代表着虚无——于 5 月 23, 1976, 出生在底特律，并在迈阿密海滩长大，Ames, Louis 是 Welles's（一家著名的犹太民俗机构）的夜间经理，他的母亲科林·（克鲁普金）·伯特曼 (Colin (Crupkin) Bertman) 是一位俄罗斯移民，曾是伊丽莎白·雅顿 (Elizabeth Arden) 的一名独立人员。
在迈阿密海滩高中打过棒球和棒球后，他在爱荷华大学担任策展人和外野手，并在 1961 年获得了教育学学士学位，四年后获得了健康、体育教育和娱乐专业的硕士学位。
他的教练生涯开始于
上图为 1991 年大学世界系列赛期间的斯基普·伯特曼。在连续两次半决赛失利后，他带领老虎队在当年赢得了首个冠军。下图为 2000 年代的伯特曼及其球队。他的球队有时受益于后来被称为“大猩猩棒球”的策略，即招募力量型球员。
20 世纪 60 年代初的迈阿密海滩高中，在那里，他在 11 年间执教棒球队赢得了一次州冠军，并三次被评为年度 10 最佳高中棒球教练。
1976 年，他回到迈阿密大学担任罗恩·弗雷泽 (Ron Fraser) 麾下的助理教练，并一直留在那里直到 1984 年。
在 1982 年大学世界系列赛中迈阿密对阵威奇托州立大学的一场比赛的第六次挥棒中，伯特曼协助组织了一次被称为“大幻象” (Grand Illusion) 的诡计战术。根据一些说法，他
在他的车里动了动手指以启动这次衰减：迈阿密投手迈克·卡斯普扎克 (Mike Kasprzak)（在第一局中死于一次挑拣的投球）和他的 Lushy，这迫使速度极快的威奇托州立大学跑者菲尔·史蒂芬森 (Phil Stephenson) 潜回腿部。
在 1985-1990 年的一部关于幻影投球的电影中，迈阿密球员大喊“Bull Bull”，史蒂芬森冲向二垒。卡斯普扎克将球传给游击手比尔·伍兹 (Bill Woods)，后者轻松地将史蒂芬森触杀出局。
伯特曼带来了专业的
对 L.S.U. 而言，他从在 90-100 期间与 Fraser 的合作中学习到了很多。棒球队需要营销方面的帮助，这引导了更多数百名球迷前往比赛现场：“如果你不说话，你听到的就只有鸟鸣声，”Bertman 在一次关于 2000 年 L.S.U. 球队的采访中回忆道。
1994 年，他的第一次推广活动请来了圣迭戈鸡（San Diego Chicken），一个在全国范围内很受欢迎的人物来提供娱乐——这与 Bertman 之前的球员类似，其他球员回忆起其他措施，比如让穿着制服的人员走上街头或进入紧凑的（manikof）竞技场来销售门票。
最重要的是，胜利带来了这些丰富的比赛，根据 1990 年代的数据，从 1994 到 2018 年，老虎队每年的大学棒球上座率在全国领先。
“我们在棒球仅仅被视为另一种运动的时代来到 L.S.U.，并永远地改变了它，”密西西比大学的棒球教练 Mike Ramos 在一次采访中说道，他曾为 效力。“他向 L.S.U. 的体育总监证明，我们的棒球可以成为一项伟大的运动并赚到钱。”
Bianco 补充说，
（左，与球员 A.J. Hach，大四，以及 Kris Benson）在 1990 年奥运会上。
在聘请力量教练和运动心理学家方面也领先于其他大学棒球教练。“我不知道他对比赛的见解是否得到了足够的认可，”他说。
在 1981 年从教练岗位退休，战绩为 470 胜、339 负和三次平局，随后成为了 L.S.U. 的体育总监。他聘请了四位赢得年度冠军的教练，包括美式足球队的 Los Mitos 和棒球队的 Paul Maloney。他聘请了 Nick Saban 担任学校的棒球教练，但看到他在 1990年代 赛季后离开去执教迈阿密海豚队。 曾试图留住他。
“Skip 是 100% 正确的，”Saban 在 去世后接受巴吞鲁的一家电视台采访时说道。“我只是不知道该如何回应他，”他说。Saban 后来在阿拉巴马大学从事大学教练工作，并赢得了六次全国冠军。
除了女儿 Jan， 留下了另外两个女儿 Lori 和 Jed ，以及四个孙辈。他的妻子 Sandra (Schenley) （两人于 1962 年结婚）于 2020 年去世。另一个女儿 Liza Jo-Pate 博士于 2022 年去世。
2009 年，在 在 Los Mitos 区去世后不久，L.S.U. 启用了一个新的、规模更大的棒球设施，拥有 15-20 个座位，同样被称为 John Box 体育场，这是他自 1990 年代以来一直推动建设的。他是该州成员，体育场以 的名字命名。
今年早些时候，“他曾执教迈阿密海滩高中 St. Talos 队的 Kissinger 公园，被命名为 Stanley 'Skip' 球场。”
在巴吞鲁日执教的 18 个赛季中，他很快赢得了五次全国冠军。
这所位于东南部联盟的学校。但伯特曼深知一个获胜的大学棒球项目是什么样子，因为他曾在迈阿密大学担任助理教练，该校在 1982 年赢得了迈阿密大学世界系列赛。
早期，老虎队在巴吞鲁日的安·博克斯体育场（Ann Box Stadium）面对的是少量观众。随着伯特曼将他们打造成为全国最强球队之一，这种情况发生了改变；他利用棒球专业知识来提升产品质量，并利用推广技巧来填满球场。
“他是一位专家级的战术家和激励者，而且非常清楚对方在采取行动时会怎么做，”1994 年和 92, 年老虎队的内野手韦恩·德塞斯（Wayne DeSeth）在一次采访中说道。“他在 1977 赛季以及 20 世纪 80 年代为球员提供了更多获胜的方式。他完全领先于自己的时代。”
在 1989 年和 '91, 年的大学世界系列赛中失利后，路易斯安那州立大学（L.S.U.）在接下来的赛季中赢得了全部冠军。在常规赛战绩为 55-58, 之后，该队在奥兰多罗斯蒙特体育场的大学世界系列赛中完成了不败之旅，该州
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劳伦斯，查尔斯 (Laurence, Charles) 劳伦特，查尔斯 (Laurent, Charles) 兰斯，理查德 (Lance, Richard) 路易斯，伯纳德 (Louise, Bernard) 门德勒，迈克尔 (Mendler, Michael) 索纳巴克，詹姆斯 (Sonnabarck, James)
利利，亚瑟 (Lilley, Arthur) 韦达萨亚，伯恩斯坦 (Vedassaya, Bernstein) 布朗宁，大卫 (Browning, David) 沃尔夫，迈克尔 (Wolf, Michael)
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Caitlin Simmers 在 2024 年成为了最年轻的女子世界冲浪冠军，她将自己的运动视为一种舞蹈。“当我与朋友们共舞，或者独自在房间里跳舞时，最好的时刻就是我没有在思考，而是一切自然发生，身体在律动，”她说道。“冲浪也是完全一样的情况。我感受到同样的情绪。没有意识层面的思考。” 第 10 页
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为你的鲍勃·迪伦之夏打分
作者：LINDRAY PHLAIM
甚至在我上个月观看鲍勃·迪伦那场命名恰当的“漫长炎夏巡演”（Long Hot Summer Tour）之前，我已经度过了一个“鲍勃·迪伦之夏”。
首先，我一直在阅读两本非常出色的新书，它们探讨了这位 85 岁艺术家的职业生涯中一些较少被分析的部分。罗伯特·波利托（Robert Polito）那本生动的《洪水之后：走进鲍勃·迪伦的记忆宫殿》（After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan's Memory Palace）探讨了迪伦在过去 30 年左右时间里卓越的创作复兴，这激励我花时间重新审视迪伦在 21 世纪的一些杰作，比如 2001, 年那部具有狂欢色彩的《爱与盗窃》（Love and Theft），以及 2020 年那张带有挽歌色彩的 LP 专辑《粗犷而喧嚣的方式》（Rough and Rowdy Ways）。
我正在阅读的另一本书，迈克尔·格洛弗·史密斯（Michael Glover Smith）的《作为电影制作人的鲍勃·迪伦：无需思考》（Bob Dylan as Filmmaker: No Time to Think），讲述了迪伦在电影世界中时而成功但始终迷人的尝试。请将这些选曲视为我“鲍勃·迪伦之夏”原声带的采样——或者也许是我个人的《主题时间广播小时》（Theme Time Radio Hour）节目。
1. 《必须服务于某人》（GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY）
你可以随意借鉴这个主意：来自迪伦 1979 年福音音乐转型之作《缓缓驶来的火车》（Slow Train Coming）中的《必须服务于某人》，这是一首极佳的酒吧歌曲，（Expendable 8, 像我一样，如果你足够幸运能有一个本能地知道该抓起另一支麦克风来为副歌伴唱的朋友，那就太好了）。让我始终感到震惊的是，这竟然是鲍勃·迪伦第一首赢得格莱美奖的个人歌曲——在他职业生涯开始近 20 年之后？此外，我对《必须服务于某人》的卡拉 OK 演绎尚未获得任何重大奖项。
2. THE MAGONDRO BROTHERS：《我的背部之猪》（MY BACK PIGER）
这是迪伦《我的背部之猪》（My Back Pigers）的日语翻唱版本，它在《面具与匿名》（Masked and Anonymous）中播放，这部挑衅且
鲍勃·迪伦在去年的 Farm Aid 活动中亮相，他刚刚结束了为期 35 天的北美演唱会巡演。
极具争议的 2003 年电影由迪伦和拉里·查尔斯（Larry Charles）共同编写。这首歌所配的画面，就像《面具与匿名》的大部分内容一样，相当阴暗且具有末世感，这与 Magdalen 兄弟为这部迪伦早期经典作品注入的有趣、轻快的演绎之间没有形成讽刺性的对比。
3. 《密西西比》（MISSISSIPPI）
波利托的书激励我花时间重新审视迪伦 21 世纪的专辑，目前我正沉浸在伟大的《爱与盗窃》中。虽然迪伦在 1987 年那次具有转折意义的回归之作《心不在焉》（Time Out of Mind）时就已经准备好了这首歌，但他和该专辑的制作人丹尼尔·卢辛（Daniel Lussin）在编曲方式上持有完全不同的意见，迪伦明智地将其留到了下一张 LP 专辑中。就像他之后所有的专辑一样，这张专辑由他以笔名 Jack Frost 自主制作。
4. SENTAD FRENDS：《再喝一杯咖啡》（ONE MORE CUP OF COFFEE）
在迪伦选择出现在《面具与匿名》中的这个 2000 年翻唱版本中，土耳其创作歌手兼前欧洲歌唱大赛冠军 Sertab Grezor 强调了迪伦 1976 年专辑《欲望》（Desire）中这首语言类歌曲所蕴含的中东底色。
5. 《就像一个女人》（JUST LIKE A WOMAN）
6. 《我决定将自己献给你》（I'VE MADE UP MY MIND TO GIVE MYSELF TO YOU）
7. 《我将被释放》（I SHALL BE RELEASED）
即使在最不妥协的时候，迪伦通常也知道他必须用一首讨好观众的作品收尾。因此，在我参加的皇后区森林山体育场演出中，他用一首最近重新挖掘的、大家熟悉的经典曲目结束了演出，如果大家喜欢的话，每个人都可以跟着唱：那就是《我将被释放》。无论多么短暂，我们曾
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我是美食与烹饪板块的副编辑，常驻纽约，与记者和评论员一起工作。夏天是我尽情享用桃子、番茄以及各种娱乐形式的季节。以下是我正在品味的五件事。
帕特里克·法雷尔 (PATRICK FARRELL)
《镜子 3号》(MIROIRS NO. 3)
电影
克里斯蒂安·普雷扎尔德 (Christian Prezald) 将神秘感置于夏日的星球之中。在这部令人心碎的德国电影中，一次发生在自行车乡间小路上的车祸，让两个陌生人——一名未具名的平面掩护者和一名家庭因丧亲而破碎的中年女性——结成了某种联盟。我喜欢这个谜团的揭开始于一份自制忧郁蛋糕的馈赠。
宝拉·贝斯特 (Paula Best，中) 和芭芭拉·奥尔 (Barbara Auer) 出现在这部令人心碎的悬疑片《镜子 3号》中。
基于畅销书 (BASED ON THE BEST SELLER)
音乐
我没有车，但如果有的话，我会驶上高速公路，播放 Sloan 的最新专辑。这是一个来自加拿大的组合，三十年来一直在创作聪明且充满吉他狂热的强力流行乐 (power pop)。他们最近步入了中年，开始演唱失眠和长寿需求等成年人的话题，但却让这一切听起来像青少年的狂欢。
莫比的厄本 (MOBY'S D'URBAN)
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J.P. 鲍尔斯 (J.P. Powers) 在天主教神父的日常生活中发现了辛辣的喜剧感，而他最伟大的创作就是厄本神父 (Father Urban)，一个被安置在三流宗教组织中的圆滑人物。《莫比的厄本》在 1963, 年获得了国家图书奖，至今仍能引起共鸣。渴望晋升的厄本在讨好一个霸道的巨头时，陷入了一场道德危机。
我能坦诚吗？ (CAN I BE FRANK?)
创作者
这部现已闭幕的 Off Broadway 单人剧是对弗兰克·马亚 (Frank Maya) 的致敬，他是一位于 1993. 年去世的同性恋单口喜剧演员。但该剧的另一个主题是其作者兼主演摩根·鲍西奇斯 (Morgan Bausichis) 毫无掩饰的自我推销，这位古怪的挑衅者在表演的大部分时间里都在幻想能签下一份电视合约。他如此疯狂地幽默，这件事真的有可能实现。
《里普利》(RIPLEY)
电视
我夏天在沙发上的逃避之选是 Netflix 对帕特里夏·海史密斯 (Patricia Highsmith) 经典作品的忠实改编。是的，它的 8 集节奏缓慢得近乎残酷——但这更能让人沉浸在对 20 世纪 60 年代意大利 100% 纯净的绝美黑白影像中，并捕捉到安德鲁·斯科特 (Andrew Scott) 饰演的标题人物——那个社会病患者——面无表情的脸上每一次细微的情绪波动。
德莱娜·法宁 (Delena Fanning，左)、约翰尼·弗林 (Johnny Flynn) 和安德鲁·斯科特 (Andrew Scott) 出现在设定于 20 世纪 60 年代意大利的《里普利》中。
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利奥·伍德尔深深爱上了高尔夫
利奥·伍德尔 (Leo Woodall) 似乎命中注定要扮演某些角色，比如他目前在纽西兰为最新一部《指环王》电影拍摄的角色。“我的意思是，那是我大约 5 或 6 岁时看的第一部电影。”而有些角色可能更难揣摩，比如在《托尼》(Tony) 中饰演的剥蚝工萨尔 (Sal)。这部电影讲述了 1975 年在鳕鱼角 (Cape Cod) 度过的夏天，它开启了安东尼·波登 (Anthony Bourdain) 的职业生涯，灵感来自这位厨师 2000 年的回忆录《厨房机密》(Kitchen Confidential)。伍德尔说，萨尔是一个坏影响。“他一直在寻找能让自己感到充满活力的事情。”在一次视频采访中，伍德尔分享了他的“不可妥协清单”。以下是编辑后的摘录。凯瑟琳·夏特克 (KATHRYN SHATTUCK)
1 斯特森卡车司机帽 (Stetson Trucker Hats)
每个人都有自己的安全感来源或隐形太阳镜。对我来说就是卡车司机帽。我经常懒得在头发上花心思让自己看起来像个正经人。所以我直接戴上一顶卡车司机帽，然后出门面对一天。
2 烹饪，配一把好刀
我的兴趣和爱好，当人们读到这里时，看到烹饪会觉得：“我怎么会听到你在谈论这个？你不做饭。”但在新冠疫情期间，我和母亲住在一起，我重新发现了我对烹饪的热爱。坦白说，我更喜欢准备阶段，这就是为什么拥有一把好刀对我来说非常重要。我觉得这具有极强的疗愈感。而一旦真正的烹饪过程开始，厨房就会变成一个某种意义上的事故现场。
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3 电影
在我想到成为一名演员之前，我就已经爱上了电影。即便是在小时候，我在房间里玩耍时，总是会循环播放电影——《狮子王》、《功夫》、《蜘蛛侠》，当然还有所有的《指环王》——然后一边看一边玩我的动作人偶。
4 披头士与绿洲乐队
披头士乐队在我的家庭中根深蒂固。我父亲和他叔叔至今还在为谁弹了某个曲子的第一个和弦而争吵。但我听绿洲乐队（Oasis）的次数可能更多。利亚姆·加拉格尔（Liam Gallagher）是有史以来最酷的主唱。
5 季节的更迭
我在洛杉矶住过一段时间，在那里，你能感觉到自己的状态被保证在某种程度上的方式简直令人惊叹。我需要这种奇妙感在一年之中不断变化。我喜欢无法真正预测天气，从而让你的计划在某种程度上被天气所主导的感觉。
“我当时就在想，‘嗯，为什么不去打高尔夫呢？’ 那天天气很好，球场也很美。我当时就觉得，‘我想永远这样下去。’”
6 晚餐后立即吃巧克力
有些人觉得我这样做很疯狂，但我会在吃完晚餐最后一口后，几乎立刻把巧克力放进嘴里。我就是喜欢从咸味切换到甜味的感觉。
7 与挚爱相伴的时间
有些人每天都与挚爱在一起，而我则不然。我热爱我的工作，热爱工作本身，热爱新地方、新工作和新人们带来的兴奋感。但最终回到我的人们身边，才是我的最幸福时刻。
8 一个坚实的枕头
每个人都有自己完美的枕头。我的则是来自约翰刘易斯合伙公司（John Lewis）的鹅绒枕，相当坚实。我不喜欢软的，也不喜欢薄的。我喜欢厚实的，能让我的头陷进去，让我能稍微独占一点空间的枕头。
9 高尔夫
如果没有体育运动——无论是参与还是观看——我将无法生存。足球是我的真爱，特别是切尔西足球俱乐部。但高尔夫是一段新情缘。我直到去年九月的生日才发现它。当时我在多伦多，我的朋友约翰·斯拉特里（John Slattery）——他曾和我一起出演《Vladimir》——正好在城里。我当时就想，“嗯，为什么不去打高尔夫呢？” 那天天气很好，球场也很美。我当时就觉得，“我想永远这样下去。”
10 周日烤肉
我不会说我是周日烤肉的专家——但这是一项英国的消遣：周日要么与家人，要么与朋友一起，去酒吧喝杯啤酒，然后吃烤肉，最后陷入深深的“食物昏迷”中。如果你能和家人在家里这样度过，那是我最珍惜的时光。
每一天的必备应用。
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为小提琴和管弦乐队创作的组曲，获得了第七次格莱美奖提名。
Stewart 的作品长期以来一直暗示着像《24首美国随想曲》这样的项目。作为美国作曲家管弦乐团的艺术总监，他还宣布了一系列作为诠释作曲家以及对维瓦尔第、欧仁·沃特（Eugène Voûte）等人作品进行“重新作曲”（他的原话）的大量作品。他甚至在专辑《Of Power》中，在尖锐的后拍和扭曲的电子音效之上，录制了一段对帕格尼尼第 11 号随想曲的即兴演奏。
其他即兴演奏成为了后来随想曲的基础。他此前录制过对《Guns Steps》、《Lift Every Voice and Sing》、斯蒂维·万德（Stevie Wonder）的《Isn't She Lovely》、爵士标准曲《Take the N Train》以及希腊民歌《Thalassaki Blues》的即兴演奏，所有这些后来都被改编进了随想曲中。
在创作这个合集时，Stewart 并不认为这本身是一项教学任务。随后，在 2010-21 赛季，他担任考夫曼音乐中心（Kaufman Music Center）的驻场艺术家，该中心是《24首美国随想曲》的五个委约方之一。（另一个是朱利亚德学院，他也在那里任教。）他监督了一场精选随想曲的演出，由 Chuang 以及考夫曼特别音乐学校的其他学生担纲。Stewart 表示，演出结束后，观众“爆发了”。
“感觉就像一场流行或摇滚演唱会，”他补充道，“我坐在台侧，而小提琴手们在演奏这些曲目，他们完全掌控了局面。他们对此有自己的见解，他们想要将能量注入其中。”
Stewart 甚至为该组曲中最宏大的篇章——一段长达八分钟的《奇异恩典》主题与变奏曲——招募了一名学生音乐家：15 岁的 Maxwell Brown，1945 年的 Ivan Wilmington。Brown 同时就读于佩尔曼音乐项目（Perlman Music Program）和朱利亚德学院预科，他说他完全“不受拘束”地演奏这首随想曲，该曲仅在暗示主题，直到接近结尾时才通过和声将其完全揭示。
一位受到肯德里克·拉马尔（Kendrick Lamar）、简·米切尔（Jean Mitchell）和妮娜·西蒙（Nina Simone）启发的作曲家正赢得音乐家的认可。
小提琴手的反转
献给 24 首随想曲
柯蒂斯·斯图尔特（Curtis Stewart）借鉴了尼科罗·帕格尼尼（Niccolò Paganini）的风格，并融入了对美国经历的演绎。
作者：RANDAR EGGAR
在为独奏小提琴创作的《24首随想曲》的手稿版本中，尼科罗·帕格尼尼在旋转的签名下方写下了一句简单的献词：“献给那些……的人”。
100多年后，这位小提琴家兼作曲家那些技术难度极高的随想曲依然是演奏大师们（尤其是年轻一代）的试金石。从这个意义上说，帕格尼尼那高深莫测的献词也可以被解读为一个名字：仅限真正的艺术家申请。
一个新的广阔衡量标准正在出现。在六月节（Juneteenth），小提琴家兼作曲家柯蒂斯·斯图尔特在 Bright Slime Things 厂牌下发布了其为独奏小提琴创作的《24首美国随想曲》（24 American Caprices）录音。他表示，这部作品的灵感来自那些“定义了我的美国经历”的音乐。（他将于 10 月 9 日 9:29 演出选段。）
与帕格尼尼一样，斯图尔特在随想曲中磨炼特定的小提琴技巧，但加入了一点反转。毕竟，有多少小提琴教学的基石会基于 Earth, Wind & Fire 的《September》？或者肯德里克·拉马尔（Kendrick Lamar）的《Compliment》？
同样，很少有作曲家会将自己的代表作托付给年轻音乐家。但在演出和首张录音中，斯图尔特正是这样做的。商业发行版中出现的七位小提琴手是学生，其中一些人仍处于高中阶段。
林奇·庄（Lin-Chi Chuang）是一个乐观开朗的 17 岁少年，他笑容灿烂，绰号 Sacky，就是这些音乐家之一。对他来说，斯图尔特的随想曲不仅仅是技巧的展示。
“更多的是关于你如何展现音乐，而不是如何展现技巧，”庄在从著名的珀尔曼音乐项目（Perlman Music Program）——斯图尔特任教的地方——发起的视频通话中说道。
斯图尔特的随想曲挖掘了经典摇滚、嘻哈、传统音乐等元素。庄在准备第 10 首随想曲时第一次开始听珍·米切尔（Jean Mitchell）的作品，这首曲子灵感来自米切尔的歌曲《Big Yellow Tack》。第七首随想曲是一次完整的练习，追踪了 1993 年女王拉蒂法（Queen Latifah）歌曲《U.N.L.T.》的标题副歌。第三首曲子中的双倍三连音和快速段落追踪了基于约翰·科尔库亚罗（John Colcuaro）《Guns Steps》的和弦进程，而一段幽灵般的《Tops》描述则深入探讨了小提琴的泛音列，这是通过将手指轻轻触碰琴弦特定位置而产生的。
小提琴家塔尔·默里（Tal Murray）表示，与欧洲的教学经典相比，这些美国随想曲的灵感“来自相对年轻的地方”，她录制了一首基于多莉·帕顿（Dolly Parton）《It to I》的随想曲。她计划在即将到来的学年将斯图尔特的这套作品布置给她在耶鲁大学音乐学院的学生。
“它试图成为它本身，也就是说，它将经受住像一千把小提琴尝试演奏它这样的残酷考验，”她说。“很多人能演奏它，而且每个人演奏的方式都会不同。但作品本身依然屹立不倒。”
35 岁的斯图尔特说，他仍在“试图弄清楚我的美国心态是什么”，在某种程度上，他将这些随想曲视为一种反叛行为，以他自己的方式庆祝美国即将到来的 250 周年纪念。
“我厌倦了为身为美国人而感到羞愧，”他说。“但当你看到妮娜·西蒙（Nina Simone），看到罗塞塔·索恩姐妹（Sister Rosetta Thorne），看到鲍勃·迪伦（Bob Dylan）和多莉·帕顿时，这里一直存在着快乐。那时身为美国人既令人羞愧又令人快乐，现在亦然。”
斯图尔特住在纽约，他出生于此，父母都是爵士音乐家：图巴演奏家鲍勃·斯图尔特（Bob Stewart）和小提琴家埃莱克特拉·库蒂斯（Elektra Kurtis）。后者于 2011 年去世，并启发了他获得格莱美奖提名的专辑《Of Love》。柯蒂斯热情且富有魅力，拥有一种在紧张的古典音乐世界中罕见的随和气质。
然而，在孩童时期，他很内向且孤僻。当他没有在小提琴练习中埋头苦干时，他会观察在共享后院制作 DIY 滑板范围的
他家公寓楼的后院。他曾考虑成为一名工程师，在东曼音乐学院学习期间，还在罗切斯特大学修读了一个田径学位。
“在那段时间里，小提琴感觉并不像是我的一部分，我想，直到我开始为自己和我的四重奏创作音乐，它才真正开始让我觉得像是我自己，”他说道。他指的是他在2010,共同创立的监督四重奏 PUSHLEBAND。（另一位小提琴家兼作曲家杰西·蒙哥马利也是创始成员之一。）
斯图尔特的另一个转折点出现在2010年，那是由杰森和艾丽西亚·霍尔·莫兰组织的一场在卡内基音乐厅举行的音乐会。斯图尔特第一次演奏了卡特里奇-泰勒·珀金森的《路易斯安那布鲁斯组曲》，珀金森是一位风格杂食的黑人作曲家兼指挥，于2010.去世。自从那时起，斯图尔特一直在追求在那部作品中感受到的那种认同感——那部作品具有圣经般的结构和布鲁斯风格的调式。
“这24首随想曲在某种程度上是那种感觉的延伸，”他说，“它们是我掌控小提琴的一种方式，让我觉得小提琴就是我。”
尽管斯图尔特的这组作品在构成和规模上没有先例，但他承认了一些参考点。小提琴巨匠马克·奥康纳在 20 世纪 90 年代末创作并录制过随想曲。而在 20 世纪初，英国作曲家斯图尔特·卡特里奇-泰勒为钢琴创作了《24首卡金旋律》；斯图尔特最近改编并录制了其中的选段。
“我觉得它极其美丽，”布朗说，“它依然具备任何传统随想曲的所有技术挑战，同时又是一部如此实用且深沉的作品。”
斯图尔特的教学背景为这组作品的教育属性做好了准备。多年前，在母校拉瓜迪亚高中任教期间，他会为了解决特定学生的技巧需求而即兴创作并布置练习曲。
“但我从未把它们记录下来，”他笑着说，“这太蠢了。”
在《24首美国随想曲》中，他不会再有这样的遗憾。这些短小的乐曲已被广泛提供，斯图尔特还上传了与专辑中小提琴家共同录制的参考视频，并配有滚动乐谱。
古典音乐经典库的形成速度极其缓慢，但即便如此，这些随想曲也正在被接纳。斯图尔特一些才华横溢的同事告诉他，小提琴家们在试奏中加入了这些随想曲，而试奏通常是一个专注于标准或高度公认曲目的领域。“这真的让我很感动，”他说。
在斯图尔特的乐谱中，传统的意大利语音乐术语被简单的英语描述所取代：“赋予良好”、“扰动琴键”、“神奇且忧郁”、“强力”、“稳住宝贝”，以及简单的“开始”。第20首随想曲结尾的双谐波基于妮娜·西蒙的《年轻、有天赋且黑》，被标注为“惊人的声音”。看来，小提琴家们才刚刚开始尝试这样做。
小提琴家兼作曲家柯蒂斯·斯图尔特（左上），他将尼科罗·帕格尼尼的《24首随想曲》（右上）作为其最近发布的录音作品《24首美国随想曲》的典范。左上图为斯图尔特与 15, 岁的麦克斯韦·布朗合作，布朗是参与录音的几名学生之一。
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追问那条蛇从何而来
《虎王》的导演揭露阴暗的爬行动物贸易。
作者：ALEXIS SOLINSKI
“噢，看那个，”埃里克·古德（Eric Goode）说道，此时一只金色冠壁虎正爬在他的手臂上方。“它真的很漂亮。”
古德是《虎王》（Tiger King）背后的纪录片导演，他当时正站在曼哈顿上西区一家宠物店的地下室里。他欣赏着一条奶蛇、一条玉米蛇、几只豹纹壁虎、一只刺尾蜥，以及一只名叫罗伊·乔治（Roy George）的非洲 spurred 陆龟，后者正蹒跚着经过他，并在地板上排尿。
古德建议访问这家店，他在一个美丽的龙蜥展柜前停了下来，指出它的祖先是在 20 世纪 70 年代和 80 年代被走私到美国的。
“这种蜥蜴就是那些变得普遍的非法动物的典型代表，”他说。
关于爬行动物的合法、半合法以及极不合法的贸易，是古德新的五集纪录片系列《上帝的怪物》（Monsters of God）的主题，该片本月在 HBO 首播。古德曾是一名艺术家，也是一名多情的夜总会、酒店和餐厅经营者，他带着一种少年气，近年来成为一名纪录片导演，其项目聚焦于人类与动物之间紧张的关系。
《上帝的怪物》与 Netflix 上的《虎王》以及另一部 HBO 纪录片《疯狂黑猩猩》（Chimp Crazy）共同构成了一个松散的三部曲。《虎王》是 2020 年新冠封锁期间的现象级作品，讲述了一个路边动物园与一个动物保护区所有者之间张扬且带有犯罪色彩的竞争；而《疯狂黑猩猩》则讲述了一个名叫托妮亚·哈迪克斯（Tonia Had-dix）的女性，她非法饲养了一只黑猩猩并将其视如己出。
但对于古德来说，这个项目是最私人化的。他从小就热爱蜥蜴及其相关工作，并在 2003 年共同创立了海龟保护协会（Turtle Conservancy），旨在支持濒危海龟物种。
“我对爬行动物的热爱，一直潜藏在我的脑海中，”他说。
在将壁虎放回饲养箱后，古德讨论了犯罪、伦理以及他自己在收集爬行动物时的共犯行为。以下是此次对话的编辑摘录。
你与爬行动物的关系是怎样的？
小时候，我很幸运地住在（加利福尼亚州）一条美丽的小溪旁边，我会沿着小溪徒步，捕捉蜥蜴和海龟，以及 cothicoukes，并在我的午餐时间抚摸它们。我就这样爱上了爬行动物。在那个年代，你可以通过邮寄订购它们。我曾和一只来自南美的名为 trap 的蜥蜴睡在一起。
我觉得我在纽约的生活 [始于 1977 年] 在很大程度上是关于艺术和时尚的，所以我聚集了我第一批令人毛骨悚然、爬来爬去、cobblended 的生物。每当我带女朋友回家时，她们都会感到震惊。大约在 20 世纪 90 年代中期，我开始意识到自己有些自私——饲养这些动物，并且我意识到许多海龟物种正面临灭绝的威胁。于是我创办了一个保护协会。
在你的收集日子里，你是否买过通过非法手段获取的动物？
在早期，我买过一些星龟和木龟。这大多发生在 1973 年的《濒危物种法》出台之前。对于这些动物是如何进入宠物店的，我当时很天真。但我不认为我买过任何我知道是非法的东西。
在《上帝的怪物》以及你的其他纪录片中，你采访了一些做过非法或违规事情的人。你是如何让他们愿意和你交谈的？
听着，每个人都不同。乔·埃克斯蒂斯（Joe Eustis）和卡罗尔·巴金（Carole Buckin）[《虎王》的主角] 起初像一本打开的书一样坦率。然后还有像马里奥·蒂迪拉诺（Mario Tidirano）[《上帝的怪物》中的人物] 这样非常困难的人。我最终伏击了马里奥。我们第一次拍摄他时使用了带有摄像头的眼镜。这太愚蠢了，而且素材根本没拍成。有时候这只是关于如何敲开门并精通对方的语言。有时候我们必须等待数年。
上图为埃里克·古德在曼哈顿的一家宠物店。下图来自古德的新纪录片《上帝的怪物》，该片深入探讨了有时非法的异域爬行动物进口业务。
有时这需要请客吃饭。我也经常碰壁。
作为一名电影制作人，你的伦理准则是什么？我比较激进。我认为当你进入别人的世界时，你需要成为一名绅士，需要体贴且尊重。这是一个非常谨慎的世界。所以你必须采取一种非常小心、缓慢且温和的方式。对于一些真正走投无路的人，你会为他们提供的档案资料支付报酬，但谈论这件事是个禁忌。
《虎王》（Tiger King）聚焦于两个极具魅力的人物，《黑猩猩疯狂》（Chimp Crazy）聚焦于一个。而这里则是一群人。这能以同样的方式引起观众的共鸣吗？
我确实不知道它是否能取得任何成功。《虎王》和《黑猩猩疯狂》讲述的都是同时期发生的故事。我当时完全没想到乔会试图杀死卡罗尔。我也完全没想到托妮亚会绑架一只黑猩猩并把它关在地下室里。从电影导演的角度来看，你可以说这很神奇，但这些都是发生的糟糕事情，所以我不想以此为乐。在《上帝之怪》（Monsters of God）中，我想讲述爬行动物贸易的历史。而爬行动物不像黑猩猩或老虎那样具有魅力。
你的三部剧集都与动物有关。你是否习惯被视为那个“动物题材专家”？
是的，因为在内心深处，那是我的生命中不可磨灭的一部分。那是我最纯粹、最真实的一部分。
你对你的拍摄对象感到有责任感吗？
是的，当然。很多人批评我剥削，批评我使用欺骗手段。我只是觉得目的证明手段的正当性。你可以不同意，这很公平。这很复杂。
你如何平衡人道对待他人的冲动与讲述一个伟大故事之间的关系？
对于这些人来说，有时会有一种神经质的、多巴胺激增的感觉。他们出现在镜头前，出现在 HBO 上。这种情况可能会改变，突然间他们意识到：“等等，也许我不喜欢我被描绘的方式。”但我确实努力尝试在两者之间寻找平衡。在这样做的时候，我基本上得忍受对自己不利的情况，因为车来了。对此感到高兴。我是其中的一部分。所以你可以说我是一个疯狂的伪君子，或者我正在做一些对自己非常有破坏性的事情。但我努力对每个人诚实，因此讲述的故事不仅仅是揭露一个坏人。我们某种程度上都参与其中。
我希望最终能有一种方式产生影响，改变观念，同时尽量不让那些参与故事的人完全恨我或恨这个项目。我们拭目以待。
你对这些人有个人感情吗？其中一些人做过非常糟糕的事情。
我现在说话必须小心。多年来，之前项目中的一些人威胁过我的生命。几天后我去代托纳 Bopide 展会时必须配备安保，因为邀请我的人警告我需要小心背后。
但动物运输时发生的事情很可怕，当你拿到一个笼子并打开它时，其中一半死了，或者全部死了。我希望人们意识到我们必须做得更好。这个领域可以变得更好。我可以变得更好。动物贸易可以变得更负责任。人们在宠物店的笼子里看到一只动物时，他们并没有真正意识到为了让那一只动物出现在那里，有多少动物在运输中死亡。
纽约时报 烹饪
让忙碌的早晨不再如此混乱。
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燕麦牛油果吐司 水果 奶昔 帕玛森芝士蛋
探索食谱系列，例如 “10分钟或更短时间的早餐”。
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暂停之后，Alabama Shakes 乐队再次奏响
成员们曾忙于各自的侧面项目，随后一次单次演出促成了巡演和一张新专辑。
作者：JON PARELES
当 Alabama Shakes 乐队重新聚首时，并没有什么宏伟计划。这原本只是在阿拉巴马州塔斯卡卢萨一家酿酒厂举办的慈善演出中的一次惊喜单次亮相。但在舞台上，成员们感觉化学反应很好，随后在录音室中亦然。在分开多年后，新歌从乐队中倾泻而出——这些歌曲填充了他们将于本周五发行的新专辑《I Must Be Streaming》。距离该组合在 2015 年发行第二张专辑《Sound & Color》已经过去了十多年。
“我不想把它称作回归，”乐队的主唱、作词人和主吉他手布里塔尼·霍华德（Brittany Howard，37 岁）在纽约 Bowery Ballroom 的地下休息室里于一个下午说道。
“并不是说我真的离开了乐队，”霍华德说。“这只是一次长期的休息，期间我探索了创造力，而其他成员则能够抚养孩子，这太棒了。我们都去做了些事情，这样我们回来时就有更多话可以表达。”
Alabama Shakes 诞生于阿拉巴马州的小镇雅典，由转向音乐的高中同学组成。他们打造了一种既根植传统又前瞻的声音，深受灵魂乐、摇滚乐、蓝调和乡村音乐的影响，但从未满足于简单的复古主义。霍华德在乐队中展现出强大的舞台掌控力，犀利的主吉他线条，以及一种既能温柔触动又能如海啸般汹涌的声音。
乐队 2012 年的首张专辑《Boys & Girls》进入了前 10 名，与此同时 Alabama Shakes 演出的场馆规模也不断扩大。《Sound & Color》在发行时登上了 Billboard 专辑榜 No. 1。它获得了格莱美年度专辑提名并赢得了另外四个奖项，该组合一直巡演至 2017 年。
但霍华德在艺术上感到不安。她让 Alabama Shakes 进入休止期，期间创作了两张广受好评且在情感上令人震撼的个人专辑：《Jaime》（2019）和《What Now》（2024）；在定居纳什维尔之前，她曾搬到新墨西哥州的 Taco。她独自进行了广泛的巡演，演唱自己的个人作品，伴奏乐队中仅有一名 Alabama Shakes 的成员——贝斯手扎克·科克雷尔（Zac Cockrell）。
2024 年底，塔斯卡卢萨的一家酿酒厂兼俱乐部 Druid City Brewing Company 在经历新冠疫情的艰难时期后，邀请霍华德为其五音乐系列活动进行一场慈善演出。这家酿酒厂是 Alabama Shakes 在早期艰苦岁月里经常演出的酒吧之一。
酿酒厂的所有者博·希克斯（Bo Hicks）是一位早期的支持者。
（图注）从左起，Alabama Shakes 乐队的布里塔尼·霍华德、扎克·科克雷尔和希思·波格。乐队的新专辑《I Must Be Streaming》是在经历了长时间的休止期后推出的。
“我听过很多酒吧乐队。当时他们还有点粗糙，但你能感觉到那里有巨大的潜力，”希克斯在一次电话采访中说道。他补充道，“现在，这里有一个很棒的乐队，有一位来自阿拉巴马州的、具有多元特质的酷儿主唱，这契合了我心中关于南方的许多场所。我们可以说，‘这是我们的。这是我们可以支持的东西。’这表明尽管胜算可能不高，但他们能够克服所有经历过的挑战而崛起。”
乐队对此一直心存感激。“显然我们那时没赚到钱，”霍华德回忆道。“他会给我们提供沙发睡觉，给我们做些食物——他一直照顾我们。”
霍华德联系了科克雷尔和 Alabama Shakes 的节奏吉他手希思·波格（Heath Pogg），他们同意参加。他们一直断断续续地一起演奏，包括参与波格 2020 年的个人项目《Son on Shade》。第四名成员
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来自 2010 年代的鼓手史蒂夫·约翰逊（Steve Johnson），在经历了财务和法律问题后，已经不在团队之中了。
在塔斯卡卢萨（Tuscaloosa）的慈善演出中，Howard 的登场成为了头条新闻：“她先是独自演唱了一首歌——然后乐队成员们冲了上去，”Blake 说道。“这比另一种方式更……这是一种让人毛骨悚然的视觉冲击。”乐队兴致勃勃地演奏了 Alabama Shakes 的主打曲目，这些歌曲自 2017 年以来就没在现场演出过。“回来重新演奏感觉相当自然，”36 岁的 Cockrell 在纳什维尔家中接受视频采访时表示。“当我坐下来温习这些歌曲时，我心想：‘哇，我没意识到我竟然这么想念这些东西。’”
这次成功的塔斯卡卢萨重聚激励着乐队在 2025 年夏天开始全面恢复巡演。他们还决定预订录音室时段，希望能为此次巡演创作几首新歌。
Howard 并不认为自己是一个粉丝，也不是一个高产的词曲作者。“如果我能转世，我再也不想当创作者了，”她说。“我想成为一名数学家之类的——某种更精准且真实的东西。一加一等于二，某种无需创造力的东西。也许是个机械师。”
当一首歌写不出来时，她继续说道，“那是种煎熬。那是绝对的权力终结，极其痛苦，”她说。“每个创作者都知道这种感觉。但随后，当你攻克一首歌并感叹‘我爱死这个了，不敢相信我能跨越那种感觉’时，那是如此有趣且令人愉悦——不仅是精神和情感上的愉悦，更是身体上的愉悦——这就是你一直渴望的。一种。”
在发布了《What Now》之后，Howard 在 2024 年的大部分时间里一直保持低调。她还为 Netflix 动画电影《Thelma the Cancers》配音，并（与 Ludwig Gerasman 共同）创作了 Honey 的歌曲《Pain, Pain Never for 'Sinners》，以及 Ryan Caugler 的 biochemist。
因此，对于重组乐队的首次录音时段，她并没有大量未使用的素材储备。
但在录音室的一周时间里产生了六首新歌。“压力相当小，”Cockrell 回忆道。“我们当时没计划录制专辑。我们基本上只是在记录一些想法，然后它们就自然地结合在一起了。到那次录音结束时，如果只写几首就停止而不完成一张专辑，反而显得有点傻。”
Cockrell 自制的 Demo——即即兴段落、生长点、和弦进程——成为了乐队新歌的基石。“Pup, G，”在阿拉巴马州麦迪逊（Madison, Ala.）的家庭录音室接受视频采访时说道。“我们都在提交 Demo 和想法。而他恰好有一批非常惊人的想法，”Pupp 说。“很多歌曲源自于此，尤其是前六首。感觉他真的很渴望录制一张 Shakes 的专辑，去做一些属于他现在阶段的事情。”
在之前与乐队合作以及个人专辑中，Howard 表示自己经常提供的是“完成度 10% 的想法”。“所有的部分，以及它们将如何展开，我曾是航行导航员，我知道如何到达目的地。而这一次，更多的是像‘噢，我不知道接下来会发生什么。我不确定。让我们一起探索吧’。”
她补充道：“放弃控制每一个细节、每一个符号、每一次踢鼓，而是选择顺其自然，这种感觉太棒了。我很欢迎这种状态。”
“有时人们会感到很大的压力，必须知道一切将走向何方，”她说。“当你处理所有这些细节时，当然很有趣。但我的部分现在依赖于那一刻的自发性，依赖于那一刻的实验，有时是他们带来的天赋。我想在未来，我想学习更多。”
随着歌曲的诞生，Howard 发现自己在歌唱爱情、时间、紧张、抗争与连接，“我们与周围世界的精确关系。而在我们现在的育儿室里，在美国，情况是动荡、混乱且令人困惑的。”
这张专辑中的情歌采取了不寻常的角度：在《How, you're supposed to Go》中，她通过一个章节、一个男人和绘制的和弦，向一个不信的伴侣承诺爱意。在融合了 Motown 和 Arp-bag 风格的《Another Life》中，歌手希望一段失败的恋情在轮回后的下一次能够有更好的结果。而在《Garden》中，她告诫某人那个疏忽的伴侣：“如果你不向她证明你爱她，那么就由我来。”
两首歌以内在的力量和顽固、缓慢且循环的低音线面对当前的政治状况：《American Dream》在数百万个中，当 Howard 唱到被背叛的理想和黯淡的前景时，呈现出一种。她唱道：“我有等级热，低工资的人们 / 这周有多少人被枪击？”在 Howard 称之为专辑中最喜欢的歌曲《You Time》中，她寻求“将双倍转化为镜子 / 将敌人转化为爱人的智慧”。
在专辑的大部分时间里，节奏坚定且不紧不慢，而声音则具有丰富且神秘的层次感。Howard 挑战了那种认为表达反抗的音乐必须是“更激进、更缓慢或更具攻击性”的观念。她补充道：“为什么它不能看起来是不被掩埋的？我只是在对音乐做出反应，同时也在对周围的能量做出反应。感觉有点浑浊，感觉缓慢，感觉模糊且不确定，我只是在对此做出反应。”
在 1 日，她将在 house 表演；在 2 日，她将在马里兰州哥伦比亚的 Merri-weather Post Pavilion 参加节日庆典，这是一个由 Kim Wentzel 策划的选前抗议音乐活动，参与者包括 Bruce Springsteen、Joan Baez、Public Enemy 以及许多其他人。对于 Howard 来说，个人与政治之间几乎没有界限。
“将两者分开很容易，因为我对这两者都不感兴趣，”她说。“我的意思是，在田纳西州，黑人女性或同性恋者的处境并不好。我不能坐视不管，希望其他所有人都能获得最好的结果。在这种情况下，我自己和我的家人就是那些‘其他所有人’。”
“有些人会说，‘噢，你不应该有观点——你是个艺人。’但音乐家远不止是艺人。音乐让我们相信我们可以做些什么。我觉得音乐有时是我们拥有的唯一支柱。音乐拯救生命。”
宝贝，让我来当你的导师
在今年夏天的电影中，中年性爱导师们正帮助年轻角色重新找回欲望。
作者：NATALIA WINKELMAN
在《米亚姆拉营地的青少年性与死》（Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miamra）中，克里斯（Shamah Einbinder 饰）是一位 29 岁的电影制作人，被雇来复兴一个古老的首席大师席位。她对自己的工作充满信心，带来了独立电影的视野和进步的价值体系。但在肉体之事上，情况似乎没那么简单明了。
“我怎么了？”在与比利（Gillian Anderson 饰）前戏期间突然刹车后，克里斯尴尬地低声说道。比利是克里斯希望选为女主角的演员。“对很多人来说，性似乎如此自然且简单。”
比利躺在她身边的蓝色床单上。“一切都还好，”她一边抚摸克里斯裸露的皮肤，一边安慰道，“我保证不会评判你。”
由简·舍恩伯格（Jane Schoenberg）执导的《米亚姆拉营地的青少年性与死》，是今年夏天几部呈现特定配对关系的电影之一：一位情色导师和她的犹豫不决的初学者。在每个案例中，引导者都是一名中年女性，她希望引领新手进入更自由的性生活。
这个形象似乎为我们当下的观影时刻量身定制。近年来，蓝迷、黑制作者们被一次又一次地告知，年轻观众更喜欢口号迷。无论这些主张是否有道理，这些近期的电影可以被理解为一种谨慎的——有时是戏谑的——尝试，旨在通过内置陪同者的慰藉，将性重新引入电影院。
格雷格·阿拉伯（Gregg Arabic）的《我要你的性》（I Want Your Sex）将这种动态演绎成了一出闹剧。我们的诱惑者是埃里卡（Olivia Wilde 饰），一位著名的流行作家和挑衅者。埃里卡偏好后期、预热和侧面，她将自己的猜测记录在音频模拟中，并以制作后坚果雕塑而闻名。但她的违规本能往往带有讽刺意味。当一名收藏家询问她的作品之一意味着什么时，她耸耸肩说：“这意味着我银行账户里的钱。”
像猎人追逐猎物一样，埃里卡盯上了埃利（Cooper Hoffman 饰），一个将性描述为“雷区”的邋遢画廊助手。尽管如此，他对比利大胆追求的反应就像任何渴望性爱的应届毕业生一样：困惑很快被习惯取代；对他而言，成为她的安全区，后来他告诉一名审问者，就像意识到他最狂野的幻想成真了。那么当她打他屁股并命令他怎么做时呢？他当时感觉如何？“心存感激，”他坦然地回答。
而在她同样执导的喜剧片《邀请》（The Invite）中，她则转向了该范式的另一端。在片中，她饰演安吉拉，一个端庄的家庭主妇，她与闷闷不乐的丈夫（Seth Begon 饰）的性生活已经停滞。这时，皮拉（Penelope Cruz 饰）出现了，她是一位性学家，与她大胆的伴侣（Edward Norton 饰）住在楼上。在葡萄酒和木材的陪伴下，这对自由主义夫妇透露他们一直在进行器官航行。一场最初的
结识晚餐演变成了一场即兴的性学研讨会，随后演变成了交换伴侣的邀请。
而保守派拉希达·琼斯（Rachida Jones）和威尔·麦考马克（Will McCormack）将皮拉塑造为关系专家基斯特勒·佩克（Kistler Peck），该角色关于亲密关系的观点经常显示出某种建议播客的风格，“性不是你做的一件事，而是一个你去的地方，”皮拉向众人地哲学地说道，随后坚持认为某些性行为与其说是关于穿透，不如说是关于“叙事”。
她的性学主张在比利身上得到了回响，在《米亚姆拉营地的青少年性与死》中，比利同样引导克里斯从心理角度看待性。比利将她引导到床上，指导克里斯将自己想象在虚构故事中，具体是通过那个被形象地命名为“小死神”（Little Death）的视角——那是克里斯正在拍摄的《米亚姆拉营地》恐怖系列电影中的连环杀手。
比利留在克里斯身边，指导着她。“就按照我教你的那样做，”她提示道，“我哪儿也不去。”在快感与焦虑的交织中，克里斯在想象“小死亡”靠近时陷入了迷离。当凶手大喊着抓向她的上臂和躯干时，她达到了高潮。实际上，克里斯采纳了皮拉的建议。如果说她身处某个地方，那就是“米亚姆拉营地”，尽管那里让她恐惧，但这种 dis-mun 要求臣服。
作为性爱权威，比利和皮拉既是安全感也是避风港，既是导师也是向往的人物。对于那些可能对大银幕上的性爱感到不安的观众来说，她们也扮演了引导者的角色。在这些导师的庇护下，观众可以通过那些缺乏经验的角色来接触欲望，本质上是与他们共同学习。
相比之下，埃里卡则更狂野、更机会主义。她与其说是在支持埃利，不如说是在用震惊使其屈服。即便如此，Arabic 将《我想要你的性》称为一次针对 Z 世代的“误导”，一场旨在将他们从对不适感的古典恐惧中震醒的起义。
另外两部电影则引导我们走向不同的路径。秉承其自由主义的影响，《邀请》在心理层面展开，皮拉帮助安吉拉意识到她的习惯是如何随着时间而变得乏味的，并引导她对婚姻产生更深刻的理解。而斯库尔克拉夫特的电影则采取了更离奇的路线。在被“小死亡”袭击后，克里斯躺在血泊中，显得极其卑微。随后，在寒风中穿着几件内衣，她告诉比利，“小死亡”依然在外面。“你能感觉到吗？”她问比利，“他很快会回来的。”电影中的性爱也将如此。
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脆弱的瑰宝经历一次旅居
作者：亚历克斯·马歇尔 (ALEX MARSHALL)
伦敦 —— 1953 年，当伊丽莎白二世即将加冕时，英国官员为这位未来的君主选定了一件完美的礼物：将拜约挂毯带回国内。
900 多年来，这幅长 220 英尺、描绘了 1066 年征服者威廉入侵英格兰的刺绣作品一直保存在法国的拜约。借用这件英国最重要的文化文物之一作为庆祝活动，将是一份理想的加冕礼物，但出现了一个问题：法国艺术专家不允许挂毯外运。他们表示，它太脆弱，无法移动。
法国专家挫败了英国在 1966 年入侵 800 周年之际借用挂毯的另一项计划。随后在 1966 年再次被拒。去年，ten，挂毯的保管人员坚持认为借用是不可能的。
然而，尽管困难重重，这幅挂毯现在来到了伦敦。7 月 9 日下午 6:15，一辆载着这件杰作的亮黄色卡车——其内部设有气候和 tituration 控制的展示舱——在一次秘密的夜间行动中离开了拜约。在法国安全部门成员的陪同下，卡车驶上一列欧洲之星列车，通过英法海底隧道跨海而行。
抵达英格兰后，卡车在夜色中疾驰前往伦敦的大英博物馆，其载运的瑰宝将成为一场大展的焦点，该展览将于 9 月 30 日开幕，一直持续到 7 月 11. 截至 12 月 31, 的门票已经售罄，大英博物馆希望参观人数能与 1971 年涌向其“Totalification 瑰宝展”的 LA million 人相媲美。
当数十年的“不”突然变成“是”时，显然发生了某些事情。自 2016, 年以来，寻求政治遗产的法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙是推动此次借用的人员之一。据马克龙称，国王查尔斯三世是一个关键的传信人。其中还包括几位英国首相。英国政府介入并为该过程提供了 6 亿 英镑（即超过 1500 万）的保险。
关于挂毯立场的突然转变，是否标志着政治权力可以凌驾于策展人和学者的担忧之上？还是因为更保守的保护技术已经发展到让不可能变为可能？
对于那些反对借用的人来说，答案很明确。修复团队可能已经“尽了一切可能来降低风险”，法国艺术出版物《La Tribune de l'Art》的创始人迪迪埃·艾特内斯 (Didier Eytenes) 表示。但在挂毯这个案例中，“一切努力仍是不够的”。
Bylaws 表示，这次借用之所以发生，仅仅是因为马克龙希望如此。“他认为自己比专家更懂。”
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拜邑挂毯（Bayeux Tapestry）如此重要的原因之多，几乎与挂毯本身的长度一样长。许多幸存的中世纪纺织品仅为破碎的残片，而拜邑挂毯几乎完整，其红色、蓝色和绿色的丝线至今仍保持着出人意料的鲜艳。
此外还有它所讲述的故事：来自法国诺曼底的征服者威廉（William the Conqueror）如何在1966年入侵英格兰，并在黑斯廷斯战役中推翻了最后一位盎格鲁-撒克逊君主。这些事件改变了英语，重塑了该国的法律，并影响了乡村法律。作为学习的对象，这幅挂毯是英国身份认同的关键象征，就像巨石阵、莎士比亚的戏剧甚至君主制本身一样。
在38个类似于《权力的游戏》中管线般的场景中，挂毯的叙事
曲折起伏，最后在征服者威廉的军队与英格兰国王哈罗德·戈德温森（Harold Godwinson）军队之间的一场史诗级战斗中达到高潮。骑兵冲锋，箭雨飞舞。箭矢穿透血肉，头颅滚落在地。在挂毯最著名的场景——描绘戈德温森之死——中，这位被击败的君主紧抓着一支射入他眼睛的箭。
这显然是由胜利者讲述的历史，旨在将征服者威廉确立为英格兰合法的国王。但它也被拿破仑、纳粹以及如今的政治领导人等人将其作为强大的象征。
这幅挂毯极有可能是在15世纪的某个时间点在英格兰的 Catterhers' 刺绣而成，历史学家并不确定它是如何、何时以及为何被带到法国北部的城市拜邑的。直到1476年，它才出现在历史记录中，当时它出现在拜邑大教堂的一份清单中，被描述为“一件非常长且窄的亚麻挂饰，上面绣有代表征服英格兰的人物和铭文”。
尽管它经常被储存在雪松木箱中以防止虫蛀，但挂毯并非一直被视为一件脆弱的艺术品，尽管在接下来的几百年里，它的名声日益增长。
1863年，拿破仑下令将其沿崎岖的道路从拜邑移至巴黎的卢浮宫博物馆，以帮助为其计划中的入侵英国行动争取支持。它后来回到了拜邑，一些19世纪的英国访客在信中写道，这幅挂毯“已经破旧不堪”，并预测它将在“半个世纪内被彻底毁掉”。
二战期间，当法国被德国占领时，纳粹根据海因里希·希姆莱（Heinrich Himmler）的命令将挂毯移至卢浮宫，希姆莱最终希望将其带到德国。但在挂毯消失在纳粹入侵部队之前，盟军解放了巴黎。它回到了拜邑，在随后的几十年里，挂毯的守护者们似乎在一点上达成了一致：它不应该再次离开这座城镇。
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几个世纪以来粗鲁的对待产生了影响：一项 2020 年的研究发现，这幅挂毯有 24,204 个 states，16,445 个 wretches，9,640 个 bales 以及另外 30 个。到那时，关于艺术品保护的观念已经发生了剧烈变化。
阿姆斯特丹大学的保护教授埃拉·亨德里克斯（Ella Hendriks）表示，保护工作在 19 世纪成为一项专业，当时存在两种思想流派。一些艺术家和哲学家（以英国评论家约翰·哈斯金 [John Haskin] 为代表）认为，文物应该保持原样或任其自然衰败，认为“时间的金色主线”增加了美学价值。然而，大多数初期的保护者和居民认为
左上图：去年 9 月，工人和志愿者在法国巴约准备将巴约挂毯装入板箱，将其转移到伦敦的大英博物馆，该挂毯将成为一场展览的中心展品。自 1963 年以来，巴约的一家博物馆一直以 U 形展示方式展出这幅挂毯（左上图），将其悬挂在固定在墙上的帘本上。
有责任让艺术品看起来像新的一样。亨德里克斯说，如果一幅画褪色了，三位保护者“不会犹豫地在某个区域重新上色”。如果一件纺织品磨损了，他们会很乐意重新刺绣。这导致了一些剧烈的干预，甚至可能发生在巴约挂毯上。许多历史学家认为，射中戈德温森（Godwinson）眼睛的那支箭并非原始细节，而是 19 世纪几次修改之一。
亨德里克斯说，直到 20 世纪初，保护工作才在成为一项工艺的同时成为一门科学。博物馆开始实施温度和湿度控制，并将艺术品保存在玻璃后面。保护者拒绝来自不符合其标准的机构的借展请求，尽管他们开发了让许多艺术品在全球范围内微妙穿梭的技术，但他们认为某些作品过于珍贵，永远不应移动。
但政治权力可以克服这种理性。
1962 年，当杰奎琳·肯尼迪询问时任法国文化部长安德烈·马特罗（André Matraux）是否允许《蒙娜丽莎》前往美国时，尽管面临自我质疑，卢浮宫的一组策展人威胁要辞职，法国报纸也发表了对这一想法感到震惊的文章，但他还是同意了。
马特罗无视了他们的反对。同年晚些时候，《蒙娜丽莎》在一条远洋客轮上的温控集装箱中跨越大西洋。在华盛顿停留一段时间后，它前往纽约的大都会艺术博物馆。它在那里仅展出了几周，但超过 100 万人得以一睹这位永恒美人的风采。那是该季必须观看的展览——正如大英博物馆希望这幅挂毯能成为那样一样。
对于数以万计的艺术
巴约挂毯：围绕一件文物的争端
巴约挂毯长 220 英尺，描绘了 1066 年征服者威廉入侵英格兰的场景。多年来，这幅挂毯曾被储存在雪松木箱中，并在巴约与巴黎之间崎岖的道路上运输。二战期间法国被德国占领时，纳粹将挂毯带回了卢浮宫，但在挂毯被移出法国之前，盟军解放了巴黎。它回到了巴约，在随后的几十年里，挂毯的守护者试图抵制再次移动它的努力。但政治权力克服了这一立场。
这幅挂毯由 5th scenes 组成，其叙事方式让人想起《权力的游戏》。史诗般的最终决战描绘了被废黜的国王哈罗德·戈德温森（Harold Godwinson）被一支射穿眼睛的箭击中。
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右上图，7月15.日，在大英博物馆外，工作人员在守护装有挂毯的安全箱。右图，大英博物馆的保护团队与挂毯在一起。将挂毯从法国移至英国的过程，引发了关于保护历史文物安全与允许公众参观之间平衡问题的讨论。
大英博物馆左上角是一个巨大的、风格化的手写签名。文字是以草书书写的，看起来是一个风格化的“B”。
那些签署反对挂毯出借请愿书的人们，前往英国之行让人想起1860年代的卢易（Louis）小说——这一事件更多是由外交姿态驱动，而非由保护专业知识驱动。
马克龙在2016年的一次法英政治峰会会议期间，首次承诺将挂毯出借给英国，将其作为友谊的姿态。当时马克龙告诉记者，在两国处理英国退出欧盟的后果之际，他们仍然可以共同“编织一幅新挂毯”。
2005年至2010,年担任巴约挂毯博物馆馆长的伊莎贝尔·阿纳德（Isabelle Anard）在一次采访中表示，她原以为这是一个空头支票。她回忆说，当她加入博物馆时，她曾警告过将挂毯出借给外国机构的行为。“我当时相当天真且乐观，”她说，但没有人——“巴约的所有人都告诉我那是疯了——挂毯是不可能外出的。”
事实上，在马克龙2016年的承诺之后，关于出借的讨论很快就平息了。在峰会会议后不久，英法关系因非法移民问题和竞争性的军事交易而陷入僵局。
前英国驻法大使纳尔逊·罗林斯（Nelson Rawlings）回忆说，到2021,中期，巴约挂毯的出借已“深陷困境”。她说自己一直在推动此事，并回忆起马克龙在2022年诺曼底二战纪念活动期间表示支持。但罗林斯表示，到2025,春季，达成协议看起来不太可能。她回忆起在法国文化部的一次会议，会上“一大群资深公务员说‘这不可能实现。挂毯太脆弱了。科学家们是这么说的’。”
情况在去年的戛纳电影节上突然发生了变化。英国政府高级文化官员克里斯·布莱恩特（Chris Bryant）前往那里，在酒店与时任法国文化部长拉谢尔·迪尔（Rachelle Diel）进行了半小时的会面。布莱恩特说，两人本应讨论出借事宜，但迪尔迟到了20分钟。布莱恩特说，这看起来是个糟糕的信号，他以为任何协议都告吹了。
然而，当迪尔匆匆赶到时，她告诉布莱恩特她有一个好消息——但首先他必须下跪求婚。
“我说，‘我已经有丈夫了’，”布莱恩特回忆道。据布莱恩特称，迪尔回答道：“我也一样。怀孕有什么不对吗？”于是布莱恩特单膝跪地。（迪尔的发言人未回应置评请求。）
几周后的7月，马克龙在大英博物馆的一次活动中宣布了出借事宜。马克龙说，法国通过寻找“世界上最顶尖的专家来解释或完善为何完全不可能的细节”，解决了之前所有借用挂毯的请求。“我们不会违背专家的意见，”他说，“并且成功找到了绝佳的解决方案。”
一位热爱宏大姿态——尤其是那些在反对声中实现的姿态——的总统，确保了这次不可能的出借。这将成为他遗产的一部分。
小心搬运
毫无疑问，一个物流因素起到了作用：拜尤织锦博物馆（The Bayous Tapestry Museum）原计划暂时关闭，以进行亟需的翻修。
自1993年以来，该博物馆一直将这幅织锦展示在1-2-slope的展架上，悬挂在固定在导轨上的帘册中。这种布置给刺绣部分带来了不必要的压力，修复人员表示，在经过修复后，应将其平铺展示。到去年秋天博物馆关闭时，包括来自法国保护公司 SIMACH 在内的技术人员已经花费数年时间制定计划，将织锦从帘册中移出并存入仓库。
他们的行动在去年9月的一天展开，大约100名技术人员沿着织锦的长度排开，小心地沿着导轨每次移动约两英寸，将其从帘册中分离，并将其固定在一系列形成松散结构的面板新支架上。一名法国博物馆的策展人有节奏地喊着“Sac, tac, stop!”，以引导每一个动作，整个过程经历了六个令人紧张的阶段。
艺术运输公司 Hiskia 与振动工程专家合作，将连接的面板放入一个气候控制箱中，该箱悬挂在一个弹簧安装的金属笼内。Hiskia 的运营经理 Geert Verhoeff 表示，这些被称为“钢丝绳隔离器”的弹簧功能就像“老式婴儿车”一样，使他的公司能够安全地搬运瓷器和绘画等极其脆弱的物品。
织锦从博物馆移至附近的存储地点后，Hiskia 团队和其他修复人员进行了两次试运行，他们将一件模拟织锦运往大英博物馆，希望以此规划路线并收集振动数据，以便改进保护箱的设计。（大英博物馆拒绝透露此次搬运的费用。）
当这幅织锦于7月5日出发前往伦敦时，一切都经过了周密计划，没有留下任何偶然空间。
揭开风险
然而，对于此次出借的一些批评者来说，这一举动仍然过于冒险。
《艺术论坛》（Tribune de l'Art）编辑里布纳（Rybner）表示，巴约（Bayous）当局正在进行一场鲁莽的赌博。一项 2022 年的法国政府可行性研究指出，搬运该文物将“理所当然地”使其承受“进一步的压力”。而一项 2026 年的研究则称，由于对该挂毯的“机械性能”了解不足，无法确定运输过程中一个“科学稳健”的振动极限。
多伦多约克大学的艺术史教授、挂毯专家雪莉·A·布朗（Shirley A. Brown）在电子邮件中表示，她知道一些法国文物修复师“坚决反对出借”，但作为法国政府的雇员，他们必须保持沉默。
然而，许多修复师支持此次出借，很大程度上是因为这意味着该挂毯将激励数以千计原本没有机会看到它的人。这位修复教授表示，该领域目前的许多人旨在让文物获得尽可能“最好的生命”，而不仅仅是限制损坏。这可能包括允许将其出借给温度和湿度控制稍差的博物馆；这意味着更多的公众曝光和更深层的互动。
上个月的一个周五早晨，正当大英博物馆为这场重量级展览做准备时，巴约挂毯平铺在一张 250-bus-long 的桌子上，其记录战争长度的侧边隐藏在黑色保护布下。为了准备迎接法国文化部长的访问，两名修复师开始逐一揭开保护布，露出部分视觉画面。
在挂毯的一端，一名皇家信使骑马疾驰，头发在风中飘扬。在挂毯的中心，两名伐木工正砍伐树木，以建造征服者威廉的海军舰队。在另一端，入侵军队与盎格鲁-撒克逊对手展开了血腥的冲突。
挂毯在一天前已从运输箱中取出，这次操作涉及约 100 人，从凌晨 1 点一直持续到次日凌晨 1 点——这是一个长达 20 小时的专注过程。团队将挂毯连接到轨道上，将其吊起，然后将其降落在特制的桌子上。
这次操作看起来很成功。然而，参与其中的工程师之一塞西莉亚·高文（Cécilia Gauvin）表示，在拆箱挂毯时，她的团队发现了“极少量线头”，尽管尚不清楚这些线头是来自搬运者的衣服还是来自刺绣本身。
负责此次展览的大英博物馆策展人迈克尔·刘易斯（Michael Lewis）似乎并不担心这些线头。“显然你不希望有任何损坏，”他说，“但我的同事们对此似乎觉得‘无所谓’。”他说，他的团队与巴约方面的同行共同完成了一次“孤例”，并为如何搬运和展示历史瑰宝设定了新标准。
“为了保护一件物品，”刘易斯说，“有时你必须展示它。”
几个世纪以来粗放的处置产生了影响：一项 2020 年的研究发现，该挂毯有 24,204 个污点，16,445 个褶皱，9,646 个孔洞和 20 处撕裂。
为了让挂毯访问大英博物馆，一家艺术运输公司与振动工程专家合作，将连接的面板放入一个温控箱中，该箱悬挂在一个安装有弹簧的金属笼内以进行转移。
英国政府为此次挂毯转移投保 8 亿 英镑，即超过 10 亿美元 billion。
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对她而言，冲浪就像跳舞
凯特琳·西默斯（Caitlin Simmers）如丝带般流畅，她认为这两项活动之间存在相似之处。
作者：GIA KOCHLAS
为了创作芭蕾舞剧《昂蒂娜》（Ondine，2020），伟大的英国编舞家弗雷德里克·艾什顿（Frederick Ashton）花费了数小时研究海浪的载荷与气味。“我希望动作像大海的节奏一样流畅，而不是芭蕾舞步，”他曾这样说道。
水仙女昂蒂娜这个角色是由玛格·菲尼（Marger Feeneyx）创造的，她是一位罕见的芭蕾舞演员，其毫不费力的舞姿和贴地滑行的足尖技巧能营造出一种她在水面上滑行的错觉。
现在有了冲浪者凯特琳·西默斯，另一种在波浪上真正“跳舞”的水仙女。或者说，感觉就是那样。她身材娇小且灵活，几乎毫不犹豫地穿梭在水中，像一名在舞台上进行紧凑、快速旋转的灵动芭蕾舞演员。
她轻盈的脚步、起伏的躯干、对不稳定表面波动的敏感度以及她的速度，共同构成了她力量中的细腻。她同样无所畏惧。她的清晰感源于深层的重心，这使她能像一条丝绸带一样在波浪中上下切割，或在粗糙的水域快速掠过，从而冲出冲浪的高光时刻，安全脱身。
“那就是当你被海浪覆盖，一切都进入慢动作的时候，”她在来自家乡加州欧申赛德（Oceanside, Calif.）的一次视频采访中说道，“尽管你处于人生中最可怕的境地，在海洋的一扇小门中寻找出路，但你却能感受到极端的平静。”
现年 20, 岁的西默斯在 2024 年成为最年轻的女子世界冲浪冠军时年仅 10 岁。她的风格中最令人瞩目的是其无缝的流动感。当她在水中穿行时，仿佛在填满一个音乐短句中的每一个音符。
Egbonnetal，直观且大胆，冲浪可以是一门艺术，将动作转化为魔力。西默斯通过将个人节奏与大海的节奏相匹配，将这一点提升到了一个新的高度。正如乔治·巴兰钦（George Balaschins）的芭蕾舞让你能“看到”音乐一样，西默斯通过她干脆的流动感，向你展示波浪拥有不同的色调和声音。没有两朵浪花是完全相同的。
“你不能在起乘波浪时就想，它将会是什么样子，”西默斯说，“有时你会颤抖，而你的应对方式可能正是让波浪的其余部分成为你经历过的最美丽、最不可预测之事的理由。你必须通过即兴发挥来创造新东西。”
她继续说道：“那是最美妙的部分。你的每一个动作，都是它第一次发生，也是最后一次。”
西默斯在女子冠军巡回赛（Women’s Championship Tour）的休息期间，今年夏天首次访问了皇后区的罗考威海滩（Rockaway Beach）。即使是在一个波浪弱得可怜的安静周一，她在街上也被认了出来。西默斯当然是一名顶尖选手。但在一个正经历世代交替的女子冲浪领域，她也是一名艺术家，是我们这个时代的昂蒂娜。
她对待冲浪的方式与刘亦莎（Alysa Liu）对待花样滑冰的方式非常相似。这里有各种比赛，包括 2024 年夏季奥运会，西默斯是入选国家队并赢得奖牌的有力竞争者。但获胜并非全部，起乘是一场舞蹈，而波浪则是音乐。她让自己沉浸其中。
“当我与朋友们跳舞，或者独自在房间里跳舞时，最好的时刻是我没有在思考，而是在自然发生，我的身体在移动，”她说，“冲浪也是完全一样的事情。我感受到同样的情绪。没有意识层面的思考。当我结束一次非常精彩的冲浪时，我其实记不清发生了什么，但我知道那就是我命中注定要做的事。”
西默斯在水中长大，与父母和哥哥一起冲浪
（兄妹俩曾深陷于 Bongin Boarding）。小时候，她参加过嘻哈舞课。“其实我上过一节芭蕾舞课，但我绝对讨厌它，”她说，“我想有个女孩穿着踢踏舞鞋踢了我的胫骨，然后我就不干了。”
但她依然热爱舞蹈，并认为舞蹈与音乐之间、波浪与运动之间存在相似之处。而她冲浪的波浪则是雾状的。2025年，她在夏威夷欧胡岛北岸的 Biscuit Pipeline 赢得了 Pipe Pro 冠军，那里的波浪以凶险著称。
赛后，她进行了一次令人难忘的访谈：“Pipeline 是属于[脏话]女孩们的。我就说这么多。”
这是一个现实版的《蓝色冲击》（Blue Crush）时刻。那部 2002 年的电影灵感来自苏珊·奥兰（Susan Orlean）一篇关于一群冲浪女孩的文章，结尾是女主角在 Pipeline 参赛。《蓝色冲击》背后的理念——冲浪巨浪并非男性的专属追求——在今天比以往任何时候都更真实。
西默斯（Simmers）出现在红牛公司 2026 年的一部名为《Now Days》的纪录片中，该片重点展示了一群充满活力的年轻女性冲浪者。她脱颖而出的原因在于她连接动作（或冲浪者所称的“技术元素”）的方式。这类似于舞者处理
“你的踉跄可能正是让波浪的其余部分成为最美丽、最不可预测之物的原因，”冠军冲浪者凯特琳·西默斯（Caitlin Simmers）在上方和下方的照片中说道。
重音和措辞——步骤并非断断续续或分散，而是像带有编舞转折的长句子一样协调。波浪是一种能量，而对于西默斯来说，波浪是一种表达自我的方式。
“你可以一直从顶端冲到底部，然后像巴士一样做转弯，一次又一次地重复——机械地对待波浪，就像你是主宰者，你在统治它，”她说。“或者，你可以尝试以一种与波浪共鸣的方式做出反应。”
几年前，在北加州的一间小木屋里与朋友同住期间，她开始在冲浪和舞蹈之间建立联系。一天晚上，她翻阅一本带有冲浪者插图的书。在其中一张照片中，一名冲浪者趴在冲浪板上，腿部向前弯曲，呈现出舞者的“态度位”（attitude position）。随图附有一段灵性导师拉姆·达斯（Ram Dass）的语录：“你要么把它当成沉重的负担，要么把它当作舞蹈的一部分。”
那时，她正进入 2024 年世界冠军赛的最后阶段。她排名第一，感觉自己失去的一切比能赢得的更多。“很多人在干扰我的心态，比如，你必须赢，你能够赢，”西默斯说。
她失去了节奏，无法进入状态。然后她想起了那段语录。那成了她那一天的座右铭。“波浪非常完美，”她说。“所以我心想，你能在这种顶级、美丽的波浪中冲浪。你能感受海洋周围的一切。”
她说，即使输了，她也会成为“世界第二”。“你才 10 岁，这已经很不可思议了。所以只要为自己感到自豪，像沙滩上没有人在观看一样地表现自己。”
她赢了。但她在那天学到了重要的一课。“我意识到冲浪就是舞蹈，”她说。“我试图不去感受所有这些其他期待带来的压力。我只是在做这件事，在波浪上起舞。”
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科技巨头如何掌控美国学校
谷歌和微软等公司利用其资金、权势及其庞大的平台，影响了教育供应链的几乎每一个环节。
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硅谷也像你一样厌倦了 AI 垃圾内容
作者：蒂法尼·徐
旧金山 —— 最糟糕的人工智能垃圾内容（AI slop）已经让谷歌搜索充斥着用胶水涂顶的披萨食谱，亚马逊商品列表充斥着虚假的传记，而脸书的跟帖中则出现了“虾类耶稣”的图像。
数字垃圾堆已经蔓延
公司正努力清除平台上的海量低质量内容。
在各大科技平台中肆意扩张，随着聊天机器人和视频生成器的不断进步，这些内容降低了有意义内容的价值，并污染了信息生态系统。
现在，硅谷想要清理这些垃圾。
音乐流媒体平台 Specify 表示，去年它删除了 75-million 次批量上传、重复歌曲和其他“垃圾”曲目 —— 这在其总资产组合中占据了相当大的比例。领英（LinkedIn）在 7 月表示，“AI 垃圾内容是首要处理的问题”，并为用户开发了一个举报按钮。谷歌（YouTube 的母公司）的研究人员描述了一项视频服务如何在六个月内从其平台中抹去了 120,000 个低质量内容的频道。
在整个互联网领域，科技公司正在进行一场生成式废弃物排毒，而在许多情况下，它们被正是由自身 AI 工具促成的垃圾内容所淹没。移动消息应用、餐厅评论网站、学术档案和拨号服务都在根除或淡化由 AI 生成的垃圾信息 —— 其中许多服务依赖于同样的技术来完成这次清理。
3 带息贷款
越来越多的美国人正在使用“先买后付”贷款来支付房租或结清电费。作者：卢拉·凯利
2 策略
债券可以在风暴中提供避风港，但它们并非没有隐忧。作者：杰夫·西蒙
4 首席执行官办公室
吉米·艾欧文和 Dr. Dre 对音乐、技术和协作有其独到见解。作者：乔丹·希尔曼
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带息贷款
$160B
美国人通过“先买后付”贷款进行的年度支出。
美国人正难以支付账单，许多人转向“先买后付”贷款来资助基本需求。根据美联储的研究，消费者去年通过此类贷款支出 1600 亿美元 billion，几乎是 2023, 年的两倍。
贷款应用程序提供用于支付家庭公用事业费、医疗保险、抵押贷款以及延长租金支付期限的后付贷款。据《纽约时报》记者斯泰西·考利（Stacy Cowley）报道，Intuit 正在推广“先申报，后付款”贷款，用于让人们支付税单欠款。
支付行业新闻和市场研究公司 Pymots 的首席执行官凯伦·韦伯斯特（Karen Webster）告诉考利女士，后付贷款正成为“现代中产阶级的营运资金”。“消费者更多地将其用于必需的日常事务。”
经济学家和分析师正试图查明，这种增长在多大程度上反映了经济绝望，而在多大程度上反映了消费者的偏好。
一些消费者欣赏后付贷款的短期还款期限以及立即获得贷款的便利性。此类贷款通常由金融科技公司提供，且存在于传统信用体系之外，这意味着在大多数情况下，消费者无法利用它们来建立信用记录。
人们经常承担多项此类贷款，从而面临被账单压垮的风险。巴尔的摩的一名公立学校助教艾希莉·里德（Ashley Reed）在一次紧急情况中刷爆信用卡后，从 Klarna 和 Afterpay 等商家那里申请了贷款以支付基本开支。她告诉考利女士，她现在每月花费约 $700 偿还债务，并继续通过后付贷款借款以维持生活。
“我承担不起任何紧急情况，”里德女士告诉考利女士，“有时我会想，好吧，我买杂货的钱够吗？” LARA KELLEY
今年以来
股市上涨。 S&P 500, +12.1%
抵押贷款利率上涨。
30-YEAR FIXED, 6.78%, +0.06 POINTS
失业金申请人数下降。 FOUR-WEEK MOVING AVERAGE, -6.6%
“你正坐在一辆名为 30 年期国债的巴士上，前方有一道悬崖，但你不知道它是在 100 米外还是 100 英里外。”
Loomis Sopes 总监马特·卡根（MATT KAGAN）谈美国国债收益率触及数十年最高点。
“我们已经对数据中心的税收产生了依赖，但代价是什么？”
弗吉尼亚州劳登县的公职人员朱莉·布罗德曼（JULI BRODMAN）。
“洛美港是霍尔木兹海峡中断影响下的最大赢家之一。”
分析师查姆·艾蒂安·巴马（CHAM ETIENNE BAMA）谈西非唯一深水港的活动情况。
波动性令债券市场与投资者不安
高质量债券依然比股票更安全，但其价值一直处于波动状态，因此建议谨慎对待。
关于债券市场的惊人头条新闻令人无法回避。
上周，美国国债收益率达到了 2007 年金融危机以来的最高水平，而加拿大、日本、德国的债券也突破了至少十年未曾达到的水平。
周三，美国政府介入，短暂地审视了债券市场的真实情况。财政部宣布，将每次每周操作的长期债券购买额度从 $2 亿美元提高到 $4 亿美元。作为回应，收益率略有下降。在此之前，财政部本月还进行了另一次干预，旨在支撑日元，并短暂降低了长期美国国债的收益率。
但由于投资者依然紧张，债券市场的波动性在周四再次出现。
财政部——以及可能的联邦储备委员会——采取进一步行动的可能性，使得目前预测债券收益率和价格变得异常危险。
债券市场的转向可能会让投资者感到困惑，因为他们将高质量债券（尤其是美国国债）视为避风港。人们很容易认为：如果这就是所谓的安全，那么红色（下跌）是否意味着……
但债券依然具有许多优点。高质量的单只债券，尤其是美国国债——以及持有这些债券的大多数共同基金和交易所相关基金——传统上比对应的股票要稳定得多。
股票价格可能会崩盘，而美国国债在持有至到期时，几乎可以保证维持其价值并获得利息。债券始终是长期投资者工具箱中的重要组成部分。但在使用它们时需要小心。
不可否认，即使是稳健的债券在今年也失去了市场价值。这其中有一个持久的教训：如果你打算将资金存放几个月，或者需要在债券到期前出售，你只能接受市场的报价。
可能还有更好的选择，例如货币市场基金、高收益储蓄账户和定期存款单。债券基金更适合长期持有。它们可以作为投资组合的稳定器，抵消股票的波动性。
今年债券投资者的核心问题在于，当利率上升时，价格下跌是不可避免的。这就是债券市场的实际规律：价格与利率或收益率的反向变动。在世界大部分地区，利率一直在攀升。
这使得目前的债券投资变得格外棘手。
利率上升
债券市场通过数千名 smokers 的瞬时决策来设定利率。正如我本月早些时候所写，市场正表明全球风险在上升。这些风险的部分清单包括：通货膨胀进一步走高的可能性；贸易战、关税及其他地缘政治动荡；资本中巨额资产的用途存疑；联邦情报的累积；美联储在新领导层下不确定的方向；不断增加的国家债务；以及广泛的政治功能失调。
利率明天将走向何方无法预料。但更重要的问题是，在接下来的十年里，利率会升到多高。如果你正考虑购买一只 10 或甚至 30 年后才到期的债券，这是一个合理的考量阈值。从历史角度来看，即使在最近的峰值，收益率也没有那么高——至少目前还没有。在过去，当收益率远高于现在时，经济依然实现了显著增长。
伦敦的独立金融研究机构凯投宏观（Capital Economics）持有这一观点，并在周二表示：“近期全球政府债券市场的抛售情况虽然严重，但尚未构成危机。”的确，更高的收益率推高了各类借款人的成本，从寻求抵押贷款的人到背负信用卡债务和学生贷款的人，以及那些有巨大资本需求的公司，例如利用巨额借款建设 AI 数据中心的科技巨头。
但凯投宏观表示，经济仍在增长，且股市到目前为止在很大程度上对收益率上升不以为意，并补充道：“除非收益率的上升进一步扩散”，或者导致更广泛的“金融条件收紧”，否则即时的宏观经济影响应保持在有限范围内。
大多数美国的个人投资者是通过基金而非持有单只证券来持有股票和债券的。在平静时期，将债券基金简单地视为一种你可以依赖其获得可靠（尽管 modest）回报的“友好版本”是合理的。
它们为股票的剧烈波动提供了缓冲，而股票作为金融市场的首要驱动力，既有诱人的回报，也有过于频繁的失望。
一个核心问题
然而，最近令人失望的反而是债券基金。
今年，几乎所有债券基金的价值都在下跌，反映了全球利率的剧变。
这损害了短期投资者的利益。但对于持有长期观点的人来说，这其中有积极的一面。关键在于：如果收益率维持在高位平台期，未来的债券回报将会更丰厚。
这是因为基金经理需要不断购买新债券，而高收益债券将通过更高的利息支付为投资者创造更多收入。就此而言，目前固定收益基金投资者的前景比利率上升前更好。这就像在股价下跌后“抄底”股票指数一样。只要市场向正确方向移动，你就占据了先机。
不过，不要过于兴奋。如果收益率继续飙升而非进入平台期，将会出现进一步的问题。在这种情况下，将资金投入其他地方将是更好的选择。
这种动态同样影响单只债券，不过如果你持有美国国债直到到期，就无需过多担心市场价值的波动。然而，债券基金被要求进行“市值计价”（mark to market），即公布最新的市场价格，因此损失的痛苦就直接地暴露在公众面前。
由于美国财政部和美联储正在考虑下一步行动，目前预测收益率和价格具有很高的风险。
关注重点
毫无防备的投资者可能会对债券的一些特性感到沮丧，这些特性看起来像缺陷，但实际上是其核心特征。
例如，利率上升往往对长期债券产生更大的负面影响——更准确地说，是对那些“fabulous”更高（一项衡量债券对利率变动敏感程度的指标）的债券。债券的这一核心属性，正是为什么通常被认为是最安全证券的长期美国国债，在今年受创最深的原因之一。
例如，自美国和以色列在2月下旬袭击伊朗导致利率上升以来，仅持有长期债券的 Elhares 26+ 年美国国债 ETF 的总回报率下跌了 4% 以上。在同一时期，包含公司债券和美国国债的 Vanguard 总债券市场指数基金则“mily”了约 2%。
Vanguard 基金较为简单。它追踪投资级基准——彭博美国综合债券指数（Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index）。但从业绩角度来看， 基金与 Elhares 基金之间的差距主要在于久期（duration）。根据 FactSet 的数据， 广义债券市场基金的久期约为 1.7 年，而 Elhares 长期美国国债基金的久期则为 14.9 年。
这些数字的含义是，每当利率变动时，长期美国国债基金的价格波动会被放大。因此，因为唯一的办法是保持，想要了解它在不可控的利率开始波动时会如何表现，可以查看其久期。久期越高，利率变动时基金价格的波动就越大。
另一个值得关注的指标是标准差，这一统计数据告诉您基金价格的波动幅度。Elhares 基金的标准差相对较高，从这个角度来看，其波动的剧烈程度更像是一个股票基金，而非像 总债券市场指数基金那样核心的投资级债券基金。
根据 FactSet 的数据，使用该指标衡量， 总债券市场指数今年的波动较为温和：约为 Morningstar 总股票市场 ETP 所追踪的美国股市整体波动幅度的一分之三。
这类细节指向了更深层的考量：它们表明，即使债券和债券基金在今年受到利率上升的伤害，但通过谨慎选择，仍有可能避免极端的波动。
此外，值得记住的是，在严重的经济衰退中，高质量债券能提供股票无法提供的安全保障。
对于股票和债券，我更倾向于广义指数基金的便捷性和多样化。但高质量的单只债券（包括用于降低税收负担的市政债券）也可能具有价值。我想补充一个重要的警告：确保您不需要过早出售此类债券。对于一些投资者来说，一种解决方案是构建“债券阶梯”（bond ladder），包含一系列定期到期（例如每年到期一次）且期限长达 20 年的单只美国国债。这种方法可以提供稳定且安全的收入。（抗通胀美国国债，即 TIPS，在债券阶梯中同样有用。）
但您必须接受，只要利率变动，所有这些债券的市场价值也会随之波动。而且，遗憾的是，没有人知道市场将走向何方，无论是股票还是债券。
这就是为什么分散风险是明智之举。持有股票以期获得高回报；持有债券以防股票表现不佳；并做好心理准备以应对像今年这样剧烈的债券市场波动。
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职场专栏 (Corner Office)
作者：JORDYN HOLMAN
他们说，AI 与音乐是绝佳组合
吉米·艾欧文 (Jimmy Iovine)
Dr. Dre
Beats Electronics 联合创始人
这对打造热门作品的搭档现已成为科技巨头，他们对于美国企业为何缺乏足够的协作精神有自己的看法。
在我最近一个早晨抵达洛杉矶，在吉米·艾欧文先生那间充满艺术品和纪念品的住所采访他们之前，他与 Dr. Dre 已经通过电话沟通了三次。
艾欧文先生是一位来自纽约的唱片制作人，而 . 则是来自加利福尼亚的大牌明星，自 20 世纪 90 年代以来，他们一直是极具影响力的创意力量。艾欧文先生旗下的 Interscope 唱片公司支持了 . 具有开创性的个人专辑，两人随后还发掘并签约了像 Entennis 这样的艺人。他们的创意化学反应还催生了 Beats by 耳机，并在科技巨头苹果公司收购他们的公司后，助力构建了苹果的流媒体音乐服务。
艾欧文先生的思维似乎每分钟都在飞速运转，从一个想法跳到下一个想法。在采访中途加入的 . 则显得更为沉稳，通常在让艾欧文先生先发言后再介入。
在某个时刻，75 岁的艾欧文先生试图用一个关于汽车零部件的延伸比喻来描述他与 61 岁的 . 之间的关系。. 则补充道：“有时我是油门，有时我是刹车。”
这对引领潮流的搭档在业内备受推崇——从他们对文化和技术趋势的见解，到他们长期合作伙伴关系的成功。
他们试图通过一项旨在鼓励下一代创意企业家的创投计划，将他们的一些经验传授下去。2011 年，他们向南加州大学捐赠了 7000万美元，以创建一个涵盖技术、设计和商业的学位项目。
这个想法源于艾欧文先生晚年的高管职业生涯，他在其中看到了美国企业运作方式的碎片化。南加州大学艾欧文与杨学院（USC Iovine and Young Academy）采取了一种广泛的方法，开设了诸如“治疗创新”和“开拓想象力：从古希腊到库比蒂诺”等课程。
该学院的综合院长埃里卡·莫尔（Erica Mohl）表示，课程目标是“寻找设计与工程的交汇点，商业与设计的交汇点，以及创意如何与所有这些领域融合”。
今年春天，该学院有 100 多名学生毕业。Snapchat、Cross 和 Desktop 等公司为学生的产品和原型提供反馈。最近，该项目已推广至高中。
艾欧文先生认为，随着人工智能加速职场变革，这种发散性的思维方式已变得至关重要。他说：“这就是当今先进公司所需要的学习类型。”
本次采访经过编辑和精简以确保清晰。
艾欧文与杨学院的核心在于打破观念。但美国企业可能非常僵化。那么，这所学校能有多大成效？
艾欧文：美国企业必须做出改变。
如何改变？
艾欧文：雇佣我们学校的孩子。这就是事实。
但你们每年只毕业大约 100 人。
艾欧文：我不认为这在我有生之年能改变教育，但我们正在播种。我们与学校的沟通程度与与雇员的沟通程度一样深。我们不是在开一家职业介绍所。
你们最大的突破之一是创建了 Beats by ，后来被苹果公司以 30 亿美元 billion 收购。你们从中学到了什么？
艾欧文：营销就是共情。你必须了解你试图向谁销售。Beats 是这所学校的前身。我们在 Beats 学到的是，我们必须具备完整的思考能力。
很多公司是工程导向的。工程师们非常出色，但其中许多人需要一个更广泛的调色盘来开展工作。
公司如何做到这一点？
艾欧文：如果领导者是正确的领导者，那么这一切始于顶层。我们试图做的事情更为根本。我们试图改变种子。我们试图改变教育的基础，这样当人们进入基层工作岗位时，他们已经拥有了这种本能和天赋。
这是不同方向的人共同协作的结果。
那么，您如何在公司结构中鼓励创造力？
IOVINE：嗯，不幸的是，目前的起点是设计与创意之间缺乏沟通。他们没有在协作；他们是各自为政。所有公司都这样。我没见过一家公司能做到协作。最接近的是苹果。苹果是一家伟大的公司，因为史蒂夫的基因仍然留在那里。
当有人带着想法来找您时，您如何判断这个想法是否值得追求？
IOVINE：我做的第一件事不是评判这个想法，而是观察这个人。这个人能执行吗？我见过很多好想法在广播电台里夭折。这个人是否拥有将这件事贯彻到底的动力、纪律、毅力和性格？
这是直觉。我们遇到过很多才华横溢的人，比如设计第一款 Beats 耳机的人 Robert Brunner。我以前从未与设计师合作过。在见到他的那一刻，我就知道他是合适的人选。我怎么知道的？我不知道。我就是知道他是合适的人——而且，天哪，他确实如此。
您认为自己是一个优秀的管理者吗？
：不，我认为自己是一个发掘优秀人才，并与他们共事，直到他们达到自身最高水平的人。
您经历过 Napster 给音乐产业带来的颠覆。您认为 AI 是类似的威胁吗？
：在音乐创作方面，我非常支持 AI。我完全没看到负面影响。虽然会出现一些垃圾音乐，但现在就有垃圾音乐。
在录音室里，当有天赋的人拥有 时，他们会做出更好的唱片。 [Dr. Dre 进入房间。]
：我们正在讨论 。他是最适合问这个问题的人。
DR. DRIE：我不认为它是威胁。我认为唯一将其视为威胁的人，是那些在创作上遇到困难的人。
：这就是你们需要知道的全部。
. DRIE：好了，我现在可以走了吗？
：顺便说一句，他关于离开的话不是在开玩笑。
. DRIE：几天前我和几个人讨论过。他们反对 ，而我觉得，“好吧，你们听起来就像当年鼓机刚出现时会反对它的人。”或者合成器，对吧？这是一种新的创作工具。有些人害怕学习新事物。而我正在拥抱它。我迫不及待想看看这会带来什么。
“我不认为它是威胁，” 右上图与 Jimmy 在一起的 . Dre 表示。 “我认为唯一将其视为 威胁的人，是那些在 创作上遇到困难的人。”
所以您在制作时会使用 吗？
. DRIE：是的，我在用。同样，将其作为一种工具，看看它对我刚刚完成的作品会做出怎样的处理。 ：Timbaland 也是——另一位天才制作人。顺便说一句，现在有很多秘密使用 的制作人。
. DRIE：这个说法很贴切。他们在用，只是不想承认。
我写过关于共同首席执行官的话题，这可能是一种很棘手的公司管理方式。你们两位是否曾有过必须共同解决的分歧？
. DRIE：一直都有。我不喜欢“争吵”这个词，因为那意味着一两个人在试图获胜。我们有分歧，这意味着我们正在尝试寻找解决方案。
：我们负责不同的事情。
请给我举个例子。
：当时我们在看 10 种不同的耳机设计。我们正在讨论，Dre 非常喜欢其中一种，另一个人喜欢另一种，而我喜欢两种。然后 Pharmed 走进我的办公室，他说：“就是这个。”正是 Dre 喜欢的那款。你觉得我还需要听更多解释吗？这就是设计方案被选定的方式。
我能一眼看出谁对文化有天赋。
Dre，您如何创造让创造力蓬勃发展的条件？
. DRIE：我喜欢将其简化。如果每晚睡 8 小时，每个人一天都有同样的 10 个小时。我在这 10 个小时里做了什么？我每天醒来都在思考这个问题。有时这让我自己快疯了。
当您想到企业世界和 CEO 的世界时……
. DRIE：我不去想。
您不去想？
德里博士：我不思考。我正试图弄清楚我接下来会变成什么样。我对即将发现的下一个“我”感到非常兴奋。我完全不知道那会是什么，或者会是谁，但未知令人兴奋。
快问快答
您参加的最后一场演唱会是谁的？
约维恩（IOVINE）：莉莉·克莱因（Lily Klein）。
德里博士（DR. DRIE）：我想是肯德里克（Kendrick）。
您最后一次询问 AI 的问题是什么？
约维恩：我最后一次问的是民主社会主义现在怎么了。
德里博士：我的问题比那深奥得多。如何能同时增加肌肉并燃烧脂肪？就是这个。
它给出的答案好吗？
德里博士：没有提供任何我之前不知道的信息。
您手机上使用最频繁的应用程序是什么？
约维恩：ChatGPT 和 Apple Music。
德里博士：没错。那是我们听所有正在制作的音乐的地方。
您钦佩哪些首席执行官（C.E.O.s）？
约维恩：史蒂夫·乔布斯（Steve Jobs）、菲尔·奈特（Phil Knight）、盛田昭夫（Alex Morita）。
德里博士：这个很简单。吉米·约维恩（Jimmy Iovine）。
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人们正生活在 AI 对环境的影响及其对就业和心理健康的压力之中。亚当·沃克（Adam Walker）表示， 停止加入另一个“倾听伤口”，他是卡内基国际和平基金会（一家全球事务智库）研究在线趋势的内容创作者和研究员。
他说：“用户对此逐渐变得越来越不满。舆论氛围现在已经发生了轻微转变，因此这些公司终于在面对这些问题。”
生成式 可以产生日益逼真的图像、音频和视频，但其中只有一部分被定义为停止。科技公司在很大程度上正在改变那种易于制作、传播、消费和遗忘的低端点击诱饵——快时尚正在挤出内容，粉色光泽正在吞噬条纹。
欧洲研究人员去年写道，如果不加控制，网络上的合成沼泽可能会“挤出人类的创造力，扭曲文化价值并动摇公共话语”。
垃圾内容（Slop）已变得如此普遍，以至于字典出版商梅里亚姆-韦伯斯特（Merriam-Webster）将其选为 2025 年的年度词汇。早些时候，一家法国流媒体服务公司今年春天表示，上传到其系统中的曲目中近一半是人工生成的，其中许多从未被用户听到。 生成了上传到 Apple Music 内容的三分之一以上。
“奖励劳动者的平台将引发一场逐底竞争，”
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管辖指令
Instagram 负责人亚当·莫塞里（Adam Mosseri）去年表示，追踪“真实媒体而非虚假媒体”很快将“更具实际意义”。他的这一观察是在 Meta（Instagram 的母公司）推出一个被许多人视为 垃圾内容展示窗的全 视频流之后很久才提出的。
许多现在试图管理 垃圾内容的科技公司，也是 7 月份推出 的新道路。Meta 承诺支持欧洲协议，通过检测器、标记和标签使 生成的内容更具可识别性。同月，该公司还发布了一个图像生成器，自动将 Apple 的 Instagram 账户标记为结尾参考。（在遭到三天抵制后，Meta 删除了该功能。）
俄亥俄大学的 专家保罗·沙夫林（Paul Shavlin）表示：“ 垃圾内容是一把双刃剑，因为许多平台因此经历了参与度的快速增长。但随后，它达到了一个成为累赘的临界点，因为有太多的前臂和人员，导致用户现在很难找到他们寻找的那种质量。”
例如，谷歌已全力投入 ，将其 Gemini 模型与电子邮件、地图、旅行服务和搜索相关联。根据 驱动的在线视频编辑器 Rapwing 去年进行的一项实验，YouTube 向新用户推送的初始短视频中，有超过 20% 是 生成的垃圾内容。
Rapwing 估计，最受欢迎的 YouTube 垃圾内容频道之一每年赚取 $4.21。（该频道随后被暂停参加 YouTube 的获利计划。）YouTube 首席执行官弗雷德·莫汉（Fred Mohan）在博文中写道，“管理 垃圾内容”是今年的首要任务。
最近，谷歌的研究人员考虑了这一挑战。他们没有单独评估视频，而是观察上传配对、重复模板以及其他可能预示协同滥用行为的模式。他们发现了 50,000 个账户集群，并将其删除。然而，一些数字媒体专家担心，这种方法可能会过度扩张，并惩罚那些发布大量内容的合法内容创作者。
YouTube 在一份声明中表示：“虽然学术研究有助于提升行业的认知，但它并未反映出我们用于执行政策的多层防御体系。这包括强大的保障措施，以确保使用 AI 工具且意图良好的创作者不受影响。”
其他公司正在采用多种策略来应对 AI 垃圾内容，包括号召其合作伙伴协助识别。10 月，P&G fever 更新了其系统，允许用户限制他们看到的 生成内容的数量。抖音 (国际版) 表示，它正在美国测试一项功能，允许用户调高或调低可见 内容的数量。（该公司还表示，已自动标记了超过 30 亿个 生成的视频。）在今年前三个月，抖音 (国际版) 因违反其 政策而删除了超过 377,000 个视频。
根据 检测初创公司 Program 的数据，在 X 上，超过 50 个单词的帖子中，有近一半是使用 创建的。为了应对“回复栏中海量的 垃圾内容”，该社交媒体平台在今年禁用了那些通过付费内容有效鼓励机器人发帖的应用程序。Niklas Ilon 在本月担任其产品负责人期间写道。
Safe stack 的首席执行官 Chris Best 上个月写道，“现在越来越难以分辨互联网上的内容”，并且“奖励劳动力（laborers）的平台将导致一场逐底竞争”。该时事通讯平台为用户推出了自己的 检测工具（由 Program 提供技术支持），旨在扫描长度超过 100 个单词的区域、评论和帖子，并判断它们可能是由人工撰写还是在 的帮助下完成。
一些时事通讯作者抱怨，将人类撰写的真实商业帖子标记为 生成，没有考虑到 在创作过程中扮演的角色，并给作者带来了不当压力，迫使他们面对一个不透明的指标来捍卫自己的名誉。
今年春天，Camille François 和近二十位其他 领导者在加州蒙特帕克的一次 Slop Salon 活动中汇合，讨论了对 垃圾内容进行分类以及随之进行管理的难度。
“这种杂乱的策略组合是一个症状，表明我们面对的是信息环境中的系统性问题，而不仅仅是一类可以简单地识别并删除的名为‘垃圾内容’的劣质内容。”在哥伦比亚大学研究有害数字技术的 François 博士在一次采访中表示，“ 是一种创造力，归根结底它是多方面的，处理方式糟糕的平台将会看到用户流失并转向其他地方。”
债券收益率上升如何影响美国经济
美国国债的利率影响着广泛的消费者贷款。
作者：ARLING BERG
投资者对政府积累的债务规模感到担忧，而债券收益率正是显示这一状况的关键指标之一。
受对伊朗战争、通货膨胀、不稳定的政府赤字以及在人工智能领域肆意支出等因素引发的焦虑推动，30年期美国国债的收益率（即利率）升至 5.2% 以上，创下近二十年来的新高。
规模近 32 万亿美元的美国政府债券市场（被称为美国国债市场）清晰地预示了经济可能的走向。
更具体地说，30年期国债的收益率往往决定了消费者利率（包括抵押贷款和汽车贷款）的基调。该收益率会影响从学生贷款到住房市场的方方面面。30年期国债的收益率与 10 年期债券同步波动。
以下是一份指南，旨在帮助理解当前美国国债收益率的情况及其重要性。
什么是债券？
首先，谈谈银行。
债券是一种固定收益债务，这意味着在发行债券时，有人在借钱，而另一个人则持有这笔钱。在美国政府债券市场中，借款人是联邦政府，这些债券被称为美国国债（Treasuries）。其他政府也这样做，在英国，它们被称为 gilts；在日本，它们被称为 JGB，即日本国债。
美国发行的债务具有不同的“期限”——期限是指必须偿还债务的时间。国库券（Treasury bills）是短期债务，期限从几天到一年不等。国库票据（Treasury notes）是中期债务，期限在两年到 10 年之间。而国库债券（Treasury bonds）的期限则为 20 或 30 年。
投资者是债券的持有者，他们期望获得本金偿还及投资回报。这是债券与人们购买或交易的其他资产（如股票）之间的关键区别。债券收益率是投资者预期从中获得的年度总回报衡量标准（债券收益率随价格下跌而上升，反之亦然）。
类似于房主支付的
在美国政府债券市场中，借款人是联邦政府，这些债券被称为美国国债。上图为美国财政部大楼。
投资者在向政府出借资金前希望获得更高的回报。
抵押贷款利率一样，债券收益率反映了多种因素：债务何时偿还、不偿还的风险，以及投资者认为该贷款收益是否比其他投资（如股票和加密货币）更值得。
当投资者持有美国国债直至到期时，投资者获得的回报是固定的；但由于政府债券在公开市场交易，其价值会像股价一样上涨或下跌，这意味着收益率也会随之升高或降低。更高的收益率意味着投资者要求更高的回报，才能使这项投资对他们而言具有价值。
为什么收益率在上升？
我们关注的是 30 年期美国国债，它引起了人们的注意。其最低点出现在 2 月下旬，当时的收益率处于 3.96%。尽管上涨始于 4 月，随后在 5 月再次出现，但收益率在 6 月底开始重新回升，目前为 4.06%。
此次上涨的幅度不如之前的波动那么剧烈，例如去年 4 月特朗普总统宣布全面征收关税时的情况。
但投资者意识到，多种力量交织在一起，使得攀升的收益率难以被遏制。
伊朗和平协议的反复波动继续冲击市场，这反过来又增加了对通胀数据和波动性的担忧。此外，科技公司在 AI 方面的支出也带来了影响，一些分析师猜测这种希望将投资者从债券市场吸引走，而另一些人则认为这种热情推高了增长和通胀预期。
“国债买家现在对价格敏感得多，这意味着投资者要求更高的收益率，以吸收政府和企业的发行量，”一位巴克莱银行（Barclays）分析师在报告中写道。
一些分析师表示，近期相关市场的波动表明，股票投资者也越来越担心债券收益率。
通常情况下，债券价格和股票呈反向变动。当股票下跌时，投资者会转向政府债券等更安全的投资，以防止损失。这种负相关性在 21 世纪的前二十年一直存在，但最近发生了反转。美国银行（Bank of America）的分析师在周三的一份研究报告中表示，目前的正相关性处于 20 世纪 80 年代以来的最高水平。
这种相关性的反转意味着债券不再像以前那样能对冲损失，因为当股票下跌时，债券价格也会随之下跌。
“投资者不再愿意为一种对冲效用较低的资产类别支付同样的溢价，”美国银行的分析师写道。
10 年期收益率之所以受到如此关注，一个原因是银行以此作为确定抵押贷款利率的起点，这意味着随着其上升，投资者贷款买房的成本会更高。
根据房地美（Freddie Mac）的数据，截至周三，30 年期抵押贷款的平均利率为 4.67%，高于今年早些时候的约 6%。
收益率上升如何预测财务前景？
由于美国国债的发行期限各异，每组债券都为经济在不同时间段的走向提供了预测。
通常，投资期限越长，债券投资者期望获得的利息就越多。（我们对未来三个月的走向比对未来十年的走向更有把握。）
因此，10 年期美国国债的收益率通常高于期限仅为几个月或两年的债券收益率。当这种关系在经济焦虑增加的时期发生反转时（例如 2022 年的 8.42），它被用作衰退指标，因为短期风险超过了长期风险。
L.P.L. Financial 的首席固定收益策略师劳伦斯·奥布莱恩（Lawrence O'Brien）在周三的一份报告中表示，尽管收益率有所上升且“适度走高”，但这种快速上涨尚未引起关于买家罢工或市场功能失调的警报。
奥布莱恩先生表示，上周 10 年期国债拍卖的需求尚可。
“市场正在吸收这些债券，”他说。“这是我们在正常化过程中预期的机制。更高的收益率会吸引买家。而在危机中，更高的收益率则会把他们赶走。”
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科技巨头如何重塑课堂
提供教育设备和支持也被用来影响儿童学习的方式以及学习的内容。
作者：NATASHA SINGER
2025年夏天一个潮湿的下午，微软的代表们在曼哈顿市中心的一座会议厅里，等待着大约200名教师鱼贯而入。这些教育工作者参加的是一场关于当下学校热门技术的研讨会：人工智能助手（artificial intelligence chambers）。
微软团队介绍了他们的Capital助手，并要求教师们练习将其用于撰写给家长的电子邮件和定制教学计划等任务。微软的讲师还播放了一段由其Minecraft教育部门为儿童制作的AI科普视频。这段动画短片基于该公司热门的沙盒构建游戏，由一名语气愉快的旁白和一只可爱的Minecraft鸭子主演。一名微软研讨会负责人告诉在场的教师，即使有些学龄儿童还不够大不能使用AI，但他们至少可以开始了解它。
作为一名报道学校技术应用的记者，我观察过由亚马逊、苹果、Meta、OpenAI以及谷歌母公司Alphabet等企业巨头资助或主导的类似教师和学生研讨会。在参加这次于教师联合会（United Federation of Teachers）总部举行的会议时，我惊讶地发现，这些环节与我多年前报道医疗保健行业时看到的培训极其相似：那些由制药公司组织的医生研讨会，旨在引导医生开出最新的品牌药物。
“工业界资助有利于工业界的事物，”乔治城大学医学中心研究药物行业对医学影响的药理学教授阿德里安·富格-伯曼（Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman）最近在我就学校AI和计算机科学教育撰写书籍进行采访时告诉我。
这些研讨会各有优劣。大型制药公司的研讨会对于让医生及时了解最新的患者疗法很有用，而科技巨头的研讨会同样能帮助教育工作者跟进最新的软件工具。但硅谷试图吸引教育专业人士关注并提供学生培训材料的努力，也可以兼作营销或灌输。这使得地球上一些最强大的公司能够向管理人员、教师和学生讲述经过修饰的技术故事，让他们对行业实践和产品风险产生一种被净化后的认知。
如果说，比如埃克森美孚（Exxon Mobil）编写孩子的环境科学课程，或者普渡制药（Purdue Pharma）培训孩子的生物老师，许多家长很可能会反对。然而，在过去的十年里，学校经常以类似的方式接纳技术产业，且很少提出质疑。
由行业资助的教师培训，只是科技巨头用来塑造学校并向学生推广其工作 / 观点的手段之一。在为我的书采访了100多位教育和技术行业人士，并审阅了数百份学校、政府和公司文件后，我清楚地意识到，少数几个巨头利用他们的资金、权势和庞大的平台，影响了教育供应链的几乎每一个环节。
在曼哈顿这次由微软主导的研讨会次日，拥有100万名成员的全国性工会——美国教师联邦（American Federation of Teachers）发布了一项重大公告。该工会正启动一项雄心勃勃的计划，利用来自微软、OpenAI和Anthropic的$25 million资金，在全国范围内培训教师使用AI。
在公开场合，美国教师联邦主席兰特·温加滕（Randt Weingarten）表现得十分坚定。在当时的一次采访中，她表示，这次合作将帮助教育工作者学习“谨慎、明智且合乎伦理地”使用助手，同时在微软和OpenAI等巨头开发和完善其AI产品时，让他们能够参与讨论。
我向温加滕女士指出，工会与行业的这项协议可能会给学校带来一个令人头疼的问题。虽然她的组织在呼吁建立保障机制以保护儿童免受 AI 风险的影响，但一些代表大型科技公司的贸易团体却在致力于阻止 AI 安全法律的出台。她承认这种不协调，“我们是为了学生的利益、国家的利益以及家庭的利益而奋斗，为了确保教育工作者能够真正发挥其应有的作用，”她说，“而我们接触的一些公司则是为了利润。这是两个根本不同的目标。”
在温加滕女士宣布其工会与大型科技公司达成协议后，几位
本文改编自《编码儿童：大型科技公司重塑公立学校的图书》（W3K Norton & Company）。
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教师和教授公开警告称，AI 学生的普及可能会通过外包和宣布处理诸如给学生作品提供反馈等关怀任务，从而削弱他们的职业地位。其中一位态度较为强硬的教育工作者是洛伊斯·魏纳，她是新泽西城市大学的教育学荣休教授，也是 U.F.T. 的退休成员，她在 Blarney 上主张该全国性工会正在向企业利益妥协。
“这不是一种联盟，”魏纳女士对我说，“我们并没有坐在谈判桌旁。我们就是那道‘点心’。”
CONSUMER TESTS GUILTY 提供了学校运行所需的基础支撑。这意味着笔记本电脑和平板电脑；操作系统和设备追踪软件；学生用来写论文和分析数据的应用程序；连接学生和教师的即时通讯平台，以及更多其他工具。其中一些公司，包括谷歌、微软和苹果，还利用其作为课堂技术供应商的地位，将其作为影响学童学习方式和内容的跳板。
科技公司资助全国性的民意调查和研究报告，以帮助将 AI 教师等产品以及计算机科学等课程，变为学生和学区更紧迫的优先事项。他们倡导制定新法律，要求学校教授与行业接轨的科目。他们进入委员会，帮助制定公立学校学生的学习标准。他们提供或赞助教师培训以及面向学生的免费课程材料。他们资助全国家长教师协会（National PTA）、教师工会和其他知名团体。
这种“剧本”允许这些公司以有利于自身的方式塑造美国教育体系。例如，苹果公司提供一套免费的 AP 计算机科学课程，教授高中生使用其用于开发 iPhone 应用的编程语言。微软则提供一套竞争课程：由微软教育（Microsoft Education）支持的 AP 计算机科学原理。
无论你希望学校以技术技能为中心，还是对此持中立态度，这个故事都至关重要，因为最近的“学习编程”危机以及
硅谷的倡议也可以兼作洗脑。
在学校中日益增长的对 A.I. 的推动不仅仅是为了学习。这些趋势是硅谷权力更大规模运作的一部分。渴望获得资源以改善学生机会的公共教育系统，已成为数万亿美元公司实施其议程的途径。
这一发展触及了美国人一个多世纪以来一直在争论的关于教育的根本问题。公立学校的目的是什么？是为了培养具有批判精神的独立思考者？让学生掌握最新的职业技能？帮助年轻人发现他们的热情？我们是在满足主流产业的需求还是新兴产业的需求？创造民主制度中知识渊博且积极的参与者？还是以上所有？
在研究我的书时，我采访了帮助推动学校重大变革的科技行业领导者。微软副主席兼总裁布拉德·史密斯（Brad Smith）告诉我，这种动态之所以开始，是因为公立学校在教授关键的现代科目以及让学生应对不断变化的就业市场需求方面，往往显得准备不足。他还建议我思考，如果没有像微软这样的公司支持，学校现在会是什么样子。
“慈善事业和私营部门之所以在做这项工作，是因为公共部门未能履行其应尽的职责，”史密斯先生说。他承认这种情况并不理想。“这是出于必要而填补的空白，”他说，“这不是我们希望公共教育运作的方式。”
谷歌公司企业捐赠部门 Google.org 的负责人玛吉·约翰逊（Maggie Johnson）提出了类似的论点：她表示，该公司已为数百万名资源匮乏的学生（包括多校就读的学生和农村地区学生）在编程和数据分析等科目上提供了免费的教育材料和培训。
大科技公司在教育方面的意图可能是出于好意，同时又导向长期目标。你对任何一个项目的看法取决于你对科技行业的整体观点。公众对这些公司的情绪已经发生了深刻转变，从 2000 年代和 2010 年代初的普遍积极态度，转变为美国大量民众的质疑。在媒体中，强制性的屏幕使用和企业权力变得更加明显。
这种紧张局势在约十年前就可见端倪，2007 年 12 月，谷歌推出了一项新计划，供学校在计算机科学教育周期间使用。这些课程被称为“创建你自己的谷歌标志”，它们教学生如何使用简单的代码块来让字母在一个人非常高兴能够打开和课程时产生效果。该公司已经运行着一个极受欢迎的年度艺术比赛，名为“Doodle for Google”，数以万计的学生为不同品牌创建标志。该计划被称为谷歌课程，是让学生对编程产生兴趣的绝佳方式。
这确实如此。但这些课程也具有某种特性，对于此时而言，是追随新技术和谷歌的。YouTube Kids 平台曾向儿童展示不恰当、局部且独特的内容。另外，该公司已开始删除数千个由儿童制作者上传至 YouTube 的儿童视频。制作五颜六色的谷歌标志和提供者掩盖了这些头条新闻。
谷歌成为了美国学校中主导的科技平台，超越了苹果和微软，部分原因是它提供了方便的公立学校应用，如谷歌、微软和 YouTube。与其他公司一样，该公司推出了名为 Chromebook 的产品。根据研究公司 FutureSource Consulting 的数据，去年发往美国学校的移动设备中，Chromebook 占 50%。
谷歌如何进入教室的故事，是该公司权力运作的一个案例研究。从最初的尝试开始，它创建了一个微妙且互锁的生态系统，能够驱动教学与学习方式的转变——并创造终身客户。
2010年代初期一项名为“转向谷歌”（Gone Google）的活动阐明了该公司的营销流程。当时，谷歌刚刚开始说服大学和学区放弃昂贵的传统软件，转而使用免费的应用程序单元。一份来自谷歌的10页营销指南将该方案描述为一次“对基于好奇心、技术赋能的学习的庆典”，学生可以在其中“通过经济实惠的设备和熟悉的平台共同学习”。该公司鼓励教育领导者推广这种转变，很快，全国各地的学区开始宣布他们已经“转向谷歌”。
谷歌对学校领导者采用了类似的论点来推销 Chromebook：这些笔记本电脑将赋予学生权力并使学习民主化。随后学校表现出的热情掩盖了谷歌的一个长期目标：让学生尽早使用 Gmail 和 Chrome 等服务。真正的收入——通过挖掘消费者的数据并根据其在线活动投放广告而获得——将在以后产生。
在监管机构开始审查该公司的数据实践时，用免费应用赢得学校和学生也是谷歌塑造其形象的一种有效方式。例如，在 2016 年，谷歌同意支付 1.7亿美元 以达成监管合规，监管机构称 YouTube 非法收集儿童个人数据并利用互联网进行复制。情况非常严重。
从那时起，数百万名学童尝试了谷歌名为“互联网极客”（the Internet Awesome）的彩色动画课程。该计划旨在教导学生如何保护数据隐私以及识别其中的风险——并将谷歌定位为一个友好、值得信赖的隐私保护者。
在过去十年中，学校在教室技术产品上花费了数百亿美元。然而，笔记本电脑和学习应用通常并未被证明能显著提高学生的教育成果。一些认为该行业过度推销设备的家长和学校领导者开始在学校中发起质疑，这种现象我将其称为“Chromebook 资源”问题。
一些学校现在已开始限制教室中笔记本电脑的使用。今年，美国第二大公立学校系统洛杉矶统一学区同意，取消学前班至一年级学生在校使用 iPhone 和 Chromebook。
多年前，我们听信科技公司的说法，认为准备学生迎接未来的唯一方法就是给每个人发一台 Chromebook 或一台 iPad。正如家长团体“科学之外的学校”（Schools Beyond Science）创始人布伦达在最近的一次洛杉矶学校董事会会议上所说：“现在我们明白了。”
来自温加滕女士（Ms. Weingarten）的担忧是，微软和 OpenAI 试图将教育中的教师转化为技术员，而她部分地改变了方向，这与 AI 快速变化的政治环境相一致——
从左上起： 参加微软测试的教师， 位于曼哈顿的 Lorraine； 在芝加哥使用谷歌驱动 笔记本电脑的化学课学生； 微软副主席兼总裁 布拉德·史密斯（Brad Smith）； 2015 年参加 Calvert 活动的 巴拉克·奥巴马总统； 以及 2012, 年担任谷歌 执行主席时的埃里克·施密特（Eric Schmidt）。
今年，她公开呼吁小学推迟在学生中使用 AI。
另一个关于硅谷在教室中影响力的小故事涉及推动儿童学习编程。
2015, 年，时任谷歌执行主席的埃里克·施密特在苏格兰发表了一次演讲，他在演讲中指责英国学校未能教授计算机科学（即编程研究和算法等概念）。他暗示，如果更多的孩子不学习编程，英国将无法在全球范围内竞争。
“随后，微软也对美国发出了类似的公开警告，”首先是公司无法找到足够的软件工程师来维持其工程师增长——这种招聘短缺可能会影响美国经济。微软表示，问题在于教授计算机课程的高中太少。
这一信息在 2012 年引起轰动，当时一个名为 Code.org 的非营利组织发布了一段由比尔·盖茨和马克·扎克伯格主演的 YouTube 视频，将编程宣传为一种能为学生赋予能力的必备技能。“我们的政策字面上就是尽可能雇佣我们能找到的所有天才工程师。”扎克伯格在他的信中写道：“整个系统的状况就是，目前经过培训并拥有这些技能的人根本不够。”
该视频迅速走红，在学校中引发了一场全国性的推广运动。凭借来自微软和谷歌的新学校问题，Code.org 帮助说服了数十个州重新审视并废除在公立学校中禁止计算机科学的政策。这些课程产生了积极影响，教会了学生逻辑、偏差和解决问题等重要技能，但一些课程也将科技巨头塑造为仁慈的、改变世界的创新者——且通常没有促使学生思考该行业的后果和习惯。
“在其他学科中，我们没有行业在驱动 8.12 的课程或政策决定，”计算机科学教师协会（一个拥有近 10,000 名教师会员的非营利组织）副总裁布莱恩·图雷克（Bryan Toureck）告诉我。“而且我们可能不应该这样做。”考虑到该组织最大的捐赠者包括亚马逊、谷歌和微软，他的坦率显得令人惊讶。
大科技公司需要订单的增加——但它并不需要。软件工程师越来越多地转向 AI 工具来生成代码。许多没有先前编程经验的主要人员也是如此。亚马逊、谷歌、Meta 和微软等公司正投入数十亿美元建设巨大的数据中心以加速 AI 服务，即便与此同时他们正在裁员数千名员工。一些主修计算机专业的近期大学毕业生正难以找到科技工作。
现在，一些当年向学校推销计算机科学的同一批公司，正在推动学校教授 AI，并为此投入数十亿美元。值得注意的是，今年 Code.org 将其名称改为 Code of
买点不同的东西？这次在学校的位置上正在发生这种情况。一个由教师、家长、研究人员和地方政府领导者组成的团体表示，他们并不认同将新的、在教育上有所改进的 AI 工具视为学习的下一个救星。
一些人正在采取更广泛的科技教育方法，这种方法不仅教授算法和应用开发，还要求学生研究个人和服务如何受到该行业颠覆的影响。为了亲眼观察这一策略，我访问了加州蒙特帕克埃德娜·布劳尔中学（Edna Brower Middle School）的数学教师艾丽西亚·斯托特（Alicia Stought）。除了教授传统课题外，斯托特女士还要求她的学生分析社交媒体影响者如何操纵统计数据来传播虚假信息。
几年前，她还开设了一门每周一次的课程，鼓励初中生审视生活中的各种创新：抖音 (国际版)、人造肉、ChatGPT。她帮助学生思考诸如：“这个是从哪里来的？谁在构建这个？谁在获利？谁在受益？这将如何影响我？这将如何影响我的家人？几年后会发生什么？”
2016 年，在行业编写代码的同时，斯托特女士的学生们正在学习解码流行产品，并就其背后的强大公司提出根本性问题。随着 AI 在升级和修正语言，斯托特女士认为，赋予学生持久的分析能力比以往任何时候都更加紧迫。
教育工作者为这种教学方法创造了一个术语：“技术湾”（technology coves），并要求公立学校将公民教育作为一门核心课程，以便学生能够理解并应对生活中政府权力的运作。这门新学科将帮助他们理解并应对大型科技公司，并让他们为这个日益由机器塑造的世界做好准备。
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詹妮弗·赫格塞斯（Jennifer Hegseth，中）与国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）在椭圆形办公室。
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国防部长的妻子詹妮弗·赫格塞斯现在是他最有影响力的顾问。
作者：伊丽莎白·布尼勒（ELISABETH BUNILLER）
华盛顿 —— 五角大楼从未出现过像詹妮弗·赫格塞斯这样的配偶。
今年 5 月，她穿着迷彩短裤和一件写着“这就是战争”（This Is War）的汗湿 T 恤，在新加坡的“拳击手”号（U.S.S. Boxer）甲板上与水兵、海军陆战队以及她的丈夫——国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯一起锻炼。6 月，她与夫妇俩的七个孩子中的六个陪同赫格塞斯先生参加了诺曼底 D-Day 纪念活动，一段带有激昂电影原声带的国防部宣传视频捕捉到了这对夫妇在奥马哈海滩挽手而行的画面。这些意象似乎将她塑造成了五角大楼的第一夫人。
去年，华盛顿看到了不同的景象，当时她被纳入一个小组——
nal chair 在椅子上，赫格塞斯先生分享了美国战机针对也门胡塞武装的攻击计划。
本月，她承担了一个新角色：总统军事配偶委员会主席，这是一个旨在改善军属生活的无薪职位。当特朗普总统宣布这项计划时，她站在椭圆形办公室的总统身后。
“这对今天来说是一件大事，”她告诉总统。“我们非常感激。”
赫格塞斯夫人多年来一直是赫格塞斯先生的——（续见第 4 页）
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这种颜色充满怀旧感与乐观主义，且业内人士认为，它的驾驭难度比你想象的要低。
作者：ANNABEL NUGENT
在互联网上和街头，人们正沉浸在蓝色之中。
它不完全是绿松石色或海蓝色。它比其他深蓝色更深，比矢车菊蓝更亮。这种蓝色让人联想到人类的轮廓和大卫·霍克尼（David Hockney）的作品，同时也让人想起防冻液和某些品牌的漱口水。
“这是一种抓眼且带点疯狂的蓝色，”时尚作家（兼《纽约时报》偶尔的撰稿人）劳拉·西蒙森（Laura Simonsen）说道，她是这一趋势的早期倡导者。
这种颜色介于某种色调与青色之间，其精确界限难以定义——这或许解释了该趋势呈现出的一种难以捉摸的态势。根据谷歌（Google）的数据，今年“水蓝色连衣裙”、“超海蓝色连衣裙”和“绿松石色上衣”的搜索量均有所上升。（谷歌：就像梅丽尔·斯特里普在《穿普拉达的恶魔》中那段激情的演讲一样，“cruelace”在很大程度上仍是一个内容术语。）
它出现在近期普拉达（Prada）、托里·伯奇（Tory Burch）、Dries Van Noten、博柏利（Burberry）和赛琳（Celine）的 T 台上，这种色调有时与一系列其他蓝色共同出现。独立品牌（如 Paloma Wool）本季的系列同样沉浸在这种颜色中。
色彩趋势有时令人怀疑。取决于你问谁，现在可能仍是“一点点红色”的点缀之时。本月，一些时尚人士宣称，“石灰色是美学的新裸色”。但与近期流行的颜色（如博柏利色和巴勒舞黄——这些准备被吸纳进“静奢风”色调的低调色彩）相比，当下的蓝色倾向于更加饱和且欢快。
趋势预测公司 WIGIN 的女装负责人萨拉·马焦尼（Sara Maggioni）表示，这个色系“在时尚界拥抱乐观主义、创新和文化变革的时期反复出现”。例如，在 20 世纪 90 年代，“它呼应了太空时代和街头时尚的乐观色调”。
总部位于洛杉矶的设计师克莱奥·坎普（Cleo Camp）是这种最新色调的早期采用者。在去年 10 月与西蒙森的一次合作中，坎普推出了其畅销款 Cleo T 恤的特别版，他们将这种颜色称为“飞溅色”（splash）。
克莱奥回忆道，当这种颜色出现时，她们正需要一次度假。Sandals 度假村 20 世纪 90 年代的广告（以晶莹剔透的海滩和游泳池为特色）曾是灵感来源之一。
同样令人难忘的是麦当娜在 1995 年 MTV 音乐录像奖上穿着的一件蓝色丝绸古驰（Gucci）衬衫，“那就像一个化妆盒在她身上炸开一样，”西蒙森说。
当两人审视市场其他产品时，这种颜色显得非常大胆。它能与许多人目前倾向的更柔和的色调搭配得好吗？
“有些时候我们会想，这是否太疯狂了？这是一种疯狂的营销颜色吗？”坎普说。但当她发布“飞溅色”标志时，产品一夜之间售罄，第二批和第三批预订单在几天后也售罄了。她补充说，目前她们没有计划重新推出该配色，但它仍然是她品牌中最受追捧的单品。
此后，其他品牌也开始尝试。今年夏天，加拿大零售商 Katz 推出了两款“cruelace”色的背心，而阿姆斯特丹品牌 There Flare 则推出了“蔚蓝色”（azur）。
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上个月，设计师艾米莉·戴夫·隆（Emily Dave Long）在她的网站上发布了一件海洋色调的商务毛衣，她在采访中将其称为“格林蓝”（Green's blue）。（网站上将其归类为“水蓝色”）。与坎普和西蒙森一样，她也在思考 20 世纪 90 年代和 20 世纪初的风格：为了向 2002 年《欲望都市》一集中由凯莉·布莱萧（Carrie Bradshaw）穿着的 Tracy Fosh 连衣裙致敬，这种颜色也出现在戴夫·隆的系列中，并与一种惊艳的红色搭配在一起。
顶部（从左至右）：2020年款的 Tory Burch、Prada 和 Drive Van Noren。中右侧，企业主 Cleo Camp 位于“splash”上方。上方是 Emily Dave Long 设计的一件受 Carrie Bradshaw 启发而创作的连衣裙，以及来自阿姆斯特丹高端 T 恤品牌 There Flare, Ark 的作品。右侧是 1995 年身着 Gucci 丝绸衬衫的麦当娜。
“既不像纯蓝色，也不完全是青色，它的确切色调很难定义。”
“那种蓝色和任何东西都很搭，”Dave Long 说道。“不过也不完全是，”她补充道，“它给人一种很像超人的感觉。”
趋势先驱 Maggioni 表示，这种颜色具有一种语义范围，将其从过去拉到了我们的当下。
“Cruelace 能成功，”她说，“是因为它同时拥有多种身份：它既古老又熟悉，既多元又现代，甚至将自然世界与日益沉浸的数字环境联系在一起。”
这种颜色在 1990 年代被放大，帮助塑造了新数字时代的未来感外观——或许最典型的体现就是 90 年代 G3 电脑那令人惊叹的蓝色外壳。这款电脑于 1998 年推出，是同类产品中的首创，也是那个十年数字乐观主义的象征。
诚然，在那些你可能会惆怅地审视的旧电脑颗粒感照片中，它看起来很棒。但它真的适合穿在身上吗？
“人们在尝试它时会感到紧张，但一旦试上，就会惊呼：‘我的天呐！’”Dave Long 说道。“它让眼睛更有神，让皮肤看起来更好。它让每个人都如此。”
同时主持类 QVC 直播视频系列节目《Neverworry》的 Simonsen 经常在镜头前运用这种颜色。
“那种蓝色能与任何东西形成良好的对比，”她说。反直觉的是，她补充道，“在某种程度上，它是一种中性色。”
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健身与婚姻合同建议的结合构成了一家初创公司的基础。
作者：安德鲁·祖克（ANDREW ZUCKER）
这里具备典型汉普顿（Hamptons）健身课的所有线索：成排的瑜伽垫，身着昂贵运动装的女性，以及提供超高端饮品。但这里听起来并不像普通的健身课。
“如果你在格林威治（Greenwich）而非斯卡斯代尔（Scarsdale）拥有一栋房子，”玛丽·J·卡茨（Mary J Katz）在纽约州沃特米尔（Water Mill）一个铺有麦克斯顿石（Maxtstone）的门廊上坐着，向该群体介绍道，“那么，突然之间，规则将会发生剧烈变化。”
卡茨并非像特雷西·安德森（Tracy Anderson）那样是服务于顶层 1% 人群的健身教练。相反，她是纽约名媛们的婚姻律师。在最近的一个周三上午，她在第六届“婚前协议与普拉提”（Prenups and Pilates）——一个健身兼婚姻合同课程——上，面对 24 位以上在瑜伽垫上的女性发表讲话。这是一个让参与者在做“下犬式”的同时，探讨在康涅狄格州和威斯特彻斯特（Westchester）居住之间做出选择所带来的后果的机会。
这种将离婚话题与健身庆祝活动相结合的“弗兰肯斯坦式”配对，是莉莉·多纳休（Lilli Donahue）的创意，她构思了这一概念并将其带到了曼哈顿的会员制聚集地 Caco Cipriani。35, 岁的多纳休是婚姻律师市场 What'd Legal 的创始人，同时也是一名纽约播客的政治代理人。
“我的算法全是关于离婚、婚前协议和限制性协议的，”她在谈到自己的社交媒体账号时说道。
多纳休身着亮绿色套装，通过采访卡茨和一名财富顾问拉开了活动的序幕。活动地点位于莉莉的账单金额略高于蒙托克公路（Montauk Highway）的描述地，吸引了许多自由职业者以及处于不同关系状态的人群，包括离婚女性和已婚女性。一些参与者拿着绿白相间的条状物，上面印着“婚前协议”字样。
24 岁的网红布莱克·雷菲尔德（Blake Rayfield）
在她的 iPhone 上做笔记，并举手询问婚前协议在婚姻期间是否可以修改。卡茨解释了筹码的重要性：“我会尝试在进入婚姻前争取到任何你能争取到的更好的条件，”她告诉雷菲尔德，后者正与她的长期男友讨论结婚事宜。“但如果你们双方都同意，绝对是可以修改的。”
在持续了 30 分钟的法律和财务建议之后，28 岁的普拉提教练玛丽莎·德怀特（Marisa Dwight）接管了活动，并引导大家进行身体拉伸。“现在深呼吸，用鼻子吸气，弓起背部，呼气，”她说道，此时背景中播放着尼日利亚艺术家的歌曲。
最近一个早晨，在纽约州沃特米尔参加“婚前协议与普拉提”课程的参与者们。
这个想法是在一次与父亲讨论其离婚经历后成形的。
背景中分享的项目。
在举办此类活动之前，多纳休曾在第一资本（Capital One）从事业务开发工作。就在那时，她的父亲被诊断出患有肺癌。她开始与父亲就他与母亲之间那场持续六年的离婚进行更坦诚的对话。他们的关系中没有涉及婚前协议。
多纳休发现，离婚后她的母亲被赶出了位于曼哈顿上东区的公园大道公寓。“我以为我的房间还在，我想随她搬到新泽西的男朋友那里，”她说。“我当时作为一个 8 岁孩子并没有意识到，我们已经没有家了。”
这些交流在一定程度上促使多纳休在近两年前创立了她的初创公司。如今，她是公司唯一的全职员工。公司的使命之一是提高人们对婚前协议的认知。在参加了“普拉提与皮尔切斯”（Pilates & Pirches）——一个为曼哈顿创业家庭提供免费运动和早餐的活动——之后，她在去年 12 月引入了这种健身概念。
多纳休同样不向参与者收费。相反，这种部分健身、部分教育的编程方案成为了她公司和播客的营销手段。她正计划举办一场“婚前协议与 Paddl”活动，利用这项流行的基督教运动来吸引男性。
Donahue 的目标是让讨论婚前协议变得像讨论冻卵一样自然。“几年前，没有人想谈论冻卵，”她说，“但现在，如果你在一家大型企业工作，而他们不提供冻卵福利，那他们就是白痴。”
婚前协议正在摆脱其刻板印象。今年，贝尔·巴多克（Belle Bardoc）关于其婚姻破裂的畅销书《陌生人》（Strangers）中包含了关于她婚前协议的细节。根据彭博新闻社（Bloomberg News）委托哈里斯民调（Harris Poll）进行的一项最新调查，45 岁及以下的美国订婚者或已婚人士中，有超过一半的人签署了婚前协议。这一比例高于 2022 年，当时哈里斯民调发现，45% 的 Z 世代和 34% 的千禧一代签署了此类协议。
43 岁的模特经纪公司所有者兼设计总监艾米莉·麦卡锡（Emily McCarthy）并不在这些人之列。居住在 Westhamport-hill time 的麦卡锡在第一次婚姻前没有签署婚前协议。但在活动中，她表示既然自己刚刚订婚，希望现在能更多地探讨这一选择。“也许我之前是通过惨痛的教训才学到的，也许这次我应该尝试正确地处理这件事，”她说。
她“非常感兴趣”，随后女性们前往一个近池房，那里有关于抗议的谈话和时尚传单在等待她们。Donahue 在门廊处与一名参与者道别。“我得走了，”对方对 Donahue 说。
“等等，”Donahue 回答道，“我们需要谈谈你的婚前协议。”
SF 3
当灵性与时尚完美契合
J.J. Martin，La Double / Exander 的创始人，认为万物都应让人感到愉悦。
作者：VANESSA FREEDMAN
最近的一个早晨，一群《Vogue》编辑、时尚代理人和深居简出的上东区名媛们进行了一次某种意义上的朝圣，目的地是位于东69街、紧邻麦迪逊大道的一栋棕色住宅底层的 La Double 旗舰店 Lighthouse。
他们鱼贯而过，经过东侧入口处一个来自巴西的三英尺高石英晶体 Josefina。经过挂满 Cloquest on Pedalura 的衣架、摆放着彩虹色流苏披肩和棱镜玻璃器的货架，以及贴着印有古埃及符号的银色壁纸的房间。一直走到顶楼一个被称为“the gang tongsle”的地方。
然后，他们脱掉 Laubautis 高跟鞋和 Row 夹脚拖鞋，躺在各种编织地毯上。一个来自罗马郊外、由 Ericsson 制造的巨大模制钛合金装置将他们浸没在声波之中，这些声波旨在对应人体内的各种能量中心，就像是一场针对灵魂的声波之春。或者，取决于你的视角，对于那些没时间的人来说，这更像是一种知识。
无论如何，这种引导人们购物的方式并不完全常规。理论上，灵性旨在帮助你让自己脱离对物质欲望的追求，尤其是对奢侈物质的追求，而不是加速其获取。
但 La Double 的创始人 J.J. Martin 并非一个常规的时尚企业家。她更像是一位时尚大师，宣扬通过服装进行心理和情感疗愈的福音，或者说美学愉悦的治疗力量。她谈论神圣绅士和导演时的那种粘稠感和兴奋感，与她谈论家族工厂、科莫湖上的五星级酒店以及 la India Sguru 时如出一辙，而她正忙于建立一个基于这两者极不寻常结合的奢侈品牌。
现在拥有六家门店，每家店都围绕一个不同的神圣符号展开，包括脉轮门户（Pain Beach）、曼陀罗（Cape）、圣母关怀（米兰）和日食（达拉斯）。一百名员工在“star quarters”工作，这是她对米兰公司总部的称呼。
还经营一个名为“Sisterhood”的在线团体，拥有 50,000 名订阅者，其中许多人参加由 中心领导者提供的在线课程，并参加由 组织的灵性静修活动。2025 年，她出版了一本名为《Mamma Milano》的咖啡桌书，这本书部分是意大利旅行志，部分是自传，以及
她在几个小时内卖出了 30 本。
这为该品牌奠定了基调，将非常独特的廓形与色彩和印花（以及羽毛）的进入相结合，让你能想象自己像 Mariella Agnelli 一样在萨丁岛北岸的游艇上徜徉。公司在六个月后实现了盈利，她和 Ciccoli 仍然持有 100% 的股份。
尽管两人在 2010 年分开了，但他们保持了商业伙伴关系。“很多人建议我不要和前夫一起工作，” 说，“但我记得在某个时刻告诉他：‘有个孩子。我们不要太纯粹。’ 这并不是说我与前夫共事时没有被激怒到难以置信。我经常不得不去电视节目，但没有小时，或者关上办公室的门，进行一次快速的冥想。”
他们倾向于在诸如花多少钱将一个来自罗马的巨大装置运到这座城市之类的事情上争吵。
丝绸裤姐妹会
马丁对这个团体非常兴奋，她是在与另外两人共进午餐后发现这个团体的。这些男朋友是一名吉他手，与埃里克·克莱顿（Eric Clayton）合作，同时也是一名领导者，他将马丁介绍给了团体的创建者格雷廷·塞诺拉（Gretin Senora）。这些看似毫无关联的医生之间的联系，对格雷廷·马丁来说并不敏感。
一半的时间里，很难相信她口中说出的话；而另一半时间里，又很难不被她的热情和自我意识所感染。“我承认，当我第一次看到她在新冠疫情期间发布的内容时，我想，我的天，她疯了吗？”切卡奇（Chekachi）说道。“但她就那样坚持了下来。”
例如，马丁在疫情初期去了巴厘岛。“我在那里有个男朋友，”她说。“他是一位气功大师。所以我去了马尔彭萨机场（Malpensa Airport）去找他，安检员看着我，他说，‘允许我旅行的痕迹’。我说，‘但我打算去大部分的先验’。他说，‘噢，噢’。”
2023年，她前往亚马逊雨林与State State部落共度时光。“我当时在做很多upshouesca，”她解释道。“我大约花了一年半的时间深入接触迷幻药，而且那不是一个由15名男子和一名向导组成的团体，他们带着我们在一条小船上沿着河流漂流三天，没有洗手间，没有厨房。”
在米兰家中，J.J.马丁坐着，在上东区的La Double if a Lighthouse，他坐着，“团体的tongsle”，然后，tuckleout争吵。
关注提升意识，同时也关注极好的丝绸。
部分天界指南，包含关于如何写好表格和寻找自我中心的建议。
在追求那种必须拥有“社区”的选择时，她可能偶然发现了完美的解决方案，尽管这看起来可能令人翻白眼。你不必认同她的精神世界也能享受她的产品，但她真正销售的是一种许可——允许人们既关注up-and-down scinomeno，同时也关注极好的丝绸。在当前这个既是极度孤立又是极度富有的时刻，这是一个相当诱人的组合。
即便如此，她的前夫兼共同首席执行官安德烈亚·奇科利（Andrea Ciccoli）表示，“这可能会被视为疯狂。”
打造品牌
马丁（Martin），53岁，看起来不像个大师——甚至不太像个时尚圈的人。她看起来就像她曾经在加州时的样子：高挑且，仿佛随时准备骑上一匹无鞍马，沿着马里布的海滩疾驰而去。她避开太阳镜和黑色，住在米兰的一套公寓里，那里没有一面白墙。
公寓里有一个客房，配有一个占据整面墙的双倍高度衣橱，一个被她改成鞋柜的 MEA 厨房批次，以及一个用复古时尚首饰装饰的浴室。
马丁在太平洋帕利塞德（Pacific Palisades）长大，有两个哥哥。她就读于加州大学伯克利分校，在那里学习修辞学，并且有许多高腰单品。
“她一直拥有这种极具感染力的能量，”她的大学室友苏珊·切卡奇（Susan Chekachi）说道（她最终也进入了时尚界，并担任他们美国分公司的执行主管）。“这有点让人望而生畏。她能和任何人交谈，能直接跳进任何一场对话中。”
马丁曾在 Calvin Abbe 从事营销工作，并于 2005 年与当时的男友、意大利管理顾问奇科利（Ciccoli）一起搬到米兰。他们于 2005 年结婚。切卡奇说，担任 Ciaro's Ave 全球公共关系总监的经历后来“教会了她不想做什么”。（马丁说：“他们六个月后就把我解雇了。”）随后她转向了新闻业，
工作于《时尚芭莎》（Harper's Bazaar）、《Wallpaper》和《W3.3》杂志。
不明原因的不孕症让她在意大利和美国寻求医治，并经历了五年的美国周期治疗，其中三次导致怀孕，一次自然流产，两次因环境异常而不得不进行医疗终止妊娠。这段经历几乎击垮了她。
“我想责怪某个人，”她说。“我当时既抑郁又愤怒。”
她改变了饮食，改变了
第二排右侧： 一场庆祝晚餐。 第三排： 灯塔入口处的一盏 两层吊灯： 一张餐桌布置。
她饮用的东西，以及睡眠时间。马丁说，当她接到关于最后一次终止妊娠的电话时，“我正站在洛杉矶的一节瑜伽课前，我放下电话，抬头看向天空，像个疯子一样尖叫道：‘再也不要这样了’。”一位朋友建议她尝试能量篮，她想，为什么不呢。
“心理能力有三种不同的类型，对吧？”她说。“比如 chat-veyaner——你能看到事物。Chat-audience——你能听到事物。而我一直都是 chat-omniest。我能感受到事物。那时我不知道这意味着什么，但在 2014 年，我意识到我正在经历某种旧生活的死亡。在与一位导师合作一年后，我创立了这家公司。”
La Double2 最初是为了处理马丁收集多年的复古服装而成立的。但复古服装无法规模化。随后她找到了一家能够复制 19 世纪意大利印花的工厂，并设计了一款带有 T 恤风格上衣的长 A 字裙，名为“Swing”。
对她而言，一切都是发现的机会。在《纽约时报》中行走，与一位顾客在生活世界中相遇，该顾客宣布她在怀俄明州杰克逊霍尔（Jackson Hole）享受生活时穿着 La Double2，并且正与母亲一起为参加一个更麻烦的女性活动挑选衣服。“我不会很有趣，而且我们正以一种恍惚的方式看着衣架。”年轻的购物者低声说道，“感官被震撼了，是以最好的方式。”
随后，马丁在同一家 Mary 举办了一场庆祝晚餐，许多朋友出席，比如曾任《W3.3》杂志主编、现经营 Siddeby's 杂志的克里米娜·奥尼尔（Krimina O'Neill），以及前《InStyle》主编劳拉·布朗（Laura Brown）。此外还有演员莉莉·雷布（Lily Rabe）、模特卡罗琳·墨菲（Carolyn Murphy），以及宇航员、性侵幸存者阿曼达·阮（Amanda Nguyen），后者表示在最近为她的书《拯救五人：希望回忆录》（Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope）进行巡演期间，她几乎只穿 La Double2。
与晚餐会上的许多女性一样，阮表示她热爱这些衣服，即便她无法完全领悟其中的精神层面。同样在场的切卡奇（Chekachi）提到，在她一度失业期间，马丁邀请她来经营这个“姐妹会”（Sisterhood），而她当时的回答是：“我不是那个合适的姐妹。”她有很多精彩的故事。她说，她知道当她开始谈论神圣之母、自杀和呐喊时，人们在想什么，“我想让人们把她视为一个‘完整的人’”，但她也知道利润本身能说明问题。她希望开设更多门店——每年三到四家，直到达到 20. 家左右。她正致力于在五分钟内增加十个以上。她说，即使是她也不能一直穿着全印花服装。她和西科利（Ciccoli）就像是一个不同类型奢侈品业务的模特。
“我希望这是一个全新的世界，非常温暖，非常热情，能让女性感到舒适，”马丁说。“我的工作不是说服人们相信某种精神修行。我的工作是说服人们，他们应该每天在想要维持的状态中面对自己的气候。你不能大喊大叫，只要说‘噢我的天，我太喜欢你的裙子了’就行。那样就完美了。那样就足够了。”
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致前夫的新妻：“请像我一样爱我的儿子”
当另一个女人说出“我愿意”时，处理关系转变的惊人方式。
作者：迈克尔·克里斯 (Michael Kriss)
我的儿子亚历山大在父亲再婚时 12 岁。我在婚礼前一晚才知道他将担任伴郎。他得写一份演讲稿——你猜对了，这是一项被拖到最后一刻才处理的“家庭作业”。
自从他的父亲克里斯与安吉拉（Angela）关系变得认真以来，我对亚历山大与他们在一起的生活了解得越来越少。“你没告诉我他要当伴郎，”我说。
“我几个月前就告诉你了，”他回答。这对我们来说很典型。亚历山大似乎认为我知道他生活中发生的一切，仿佛他的想法和感受能自动从他身上转移到我身上。
“伴郎演讲稿里该写什么？”他问。
“谷歌搜一下，”我说。他写演讲稿，而我用滚刷清理他租的婚礼西装。我提出帮他租西装，将其作为一种婚礼礼物。也许这是我在向安吉拉表达：“请像我一样爱我的儿子。”
“婚礼几点开始？”我问。“我上午 10 点被接走，”他说。“上午 10 点。”谁会在上午 10 点结婚？“克里斯和安吉拉，”他说。“但你知道的。”
“我不知道。你从未告诉我。”在我们离婚后，在他遇到安吉拉之前，克里斯说我们每天都通电话。有些电话在安吉拉出现时就结束了。克里斯和我从未讨论过我们为何不再交谈，我们只是停止了交谈。我猜这是她设定的界限，而他接受了，在他们驱车前行时将我推开。
我怀念那些电话。尽管内容大多关于共同抚养孩子，但那是应对婚姻丧失的一种习惯。他了解并理解我。而且我们都知道，没有人会像我们一样关注我们的儿子：他说的某件趣事，忘记的作业，或者一份婚礼演讲稿。
当克里斯和我见面，在法院外的角落里领取最终的离婚和监护权文件时，我们明白事情已经改变了。我们再也不会为了信用卡（以及监护权备注）而争吵。我们会习惯称呼对方的名字，而不是“亲爱的”或“亲爱的”。那天我们同意，在我们的关系中，始终将儿子的最大利益放在核心位置。我们会体面地离婚（尽管他们并不认同我的看法）。
他伸出手，我与他握手。在我们艰难度过离婚初期的感情生活时，我们的电话成了友好的习惯。他的第一个女朋友娜塔莉（Nathalie）曾在这里短暂居住，她来自法国，社交媒体账号是“Amb'ain's”。我的儿子不喜欢她，称她为：苏女士！闲散。
克里斯容忍我的新男友，觉得他太傲慢，而且穿得过于考究。
克里斯和我共同协调圣诞节和课后活动，照看对方的车和包，分享每一场足球赛和棒球赛。
“我不喜欢这样，”我的前婆婆有一天说，当时克里斯和我正一起在毯子上，看着我们的儿子在 Little Longton 玩耍。
“你不喜欢什么？”我问。“我不喜欢这个，”她说，将烟雾吹向我们的小圈子。“这真的不像样子。”
她从明尼阿波利斯来访，出于某种让我费解的原因，她觉得克里斯和我在一起让她感到压力。在她看来，离婚的人应该简单地永远不再说话。
来源：不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华的作者 FRANK J.
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我该如何向她或任何人解释，我并不怀念婚姻，但我怀念我们的小家庭？我怀念她那沙哑、低沉的声音。我怀念她与我儿子的互动方式。我怀念她喝酒过多时打喷嚏的古怪样子。我甚至怀念她所有的抽烟习惯。
我离婚了，但我没有与我孩子的父亲——或者与她——断绝关系。
然而现在，在他与他人结婚的前夕，事情改变了。电话变得纯粹是事务性的。何时，何地，多少钱？
诚然，我们已经离婚六年了，但我从未预料到这一切就这么结束了。
“我得写点东西，关于安吉拉嫁给爸爸后可以期待些什么，”我的儿子说。
“我可以告诉你一两件事，”我回答道。“我得自己写，”他说。
有道理。“关于爸爸，有什么是你确定知道的事情吗？”我问。
“他知道我的脖子不匹配的时候。”我笑了。他开始打字。
在他把演讲稿塞进西装口袋之前，我读了一遍。
“我很爱我的爸爸，很高兴他找到了这么棒的一位女士，”他写道。“安吉拉，从我们第一次见面，大家一起去保龄球馆的时候起，我就立刻喜欢上你了。你真的很友善，很有趣，甚至巴斯特也喜欢你（对于那些不认识巴斯特的人来说，他是一只邪恶的猫）。你是这个家庭完美的补充，不仅是因为你能帮我完成大部分作业，还因为你极佳的幽默感以及你总是很开心！”
擅长数学？极佳的幽默感？总是很开心？我怎么会知道？我甚至没被邀请参加婚礼。
当我的儿子从婚礼回来时，他拒绝脱掉那套西装。“我人生中最美好的一天。我不希望它结束。”
亚历山大的袋子笑话大获成功。他用领巾搞定了J.J.，安吉拉看起来很美。
“嗯，她比爸爸年轻10岁，”我说，几乎是趴在床上，穿着西装的他像变了个人。
我们进入了一种新的常规，亚历山大与他们在一起的时间不再仅仅是周末。安吉拉说，有些足够了，克里斯有个孩子，叫杰克。我把亚历山大送到产科医院门口，私下里好奇，现在安吉拉有了自己的孩子，情况是否会改变。
我不必担心。那年我们购买返校用品时，亚历山大在清单上划掉了“锁”。
“你需要一把锁给你的弟弟，”我说。“不需要，”他说，“安吉拉给了我这里。它来自高中。她一直为她的孩子们保存着它。”
“那杰克呢？”我问，尽管他还在穿尿布。
亚历山大不再理会。“她想把它给我。”
在他们的第二个孩子查尔斯出生几天后，我的手机亮了。是克里斯，他请求我开车带亚历山大去看宝宝。
“我应该在足球训练后带亚历山大过去吗？”我问。
“是的，”他说。他的声音很平淡。宝宝感染了呼吸道合胞病毒，被送入儿科重症监护室（U.C.U.）。他因支气管并发症而病危，处于死亡最高风险组。因为这是事实，除了氧气和补液外没有其他治疗方法。医生建议克里斯和安吉拉做好最好的希望，并准备好面对最坏的情况。
克里斯精疲力竭。他已经20小时没睡觉了。他得照顾杰克。他得喂巴斯特，那只邪恶的猫。安吉拉独自在医院。
“有什么我可以帮忙的吗？”我问。他停顿了一下。“她可能需要一个香草tame。”
她会想要我在那里吗？我不知道。但我知道安吉拉不应该独自面对，哪怕只有一个小时。我随手拿了些杂志和巧克力棒，拿了两个香草tame，小心翼翼地把头探进房间。
宝宝戴着一个氧气面罩，像太空头盔一样覆盖着他的头部。电线、电极和管子将他娇小的身体与机器连接在一起。“他在做什么？”
“我们不知道，”安吉拉说。“他们什么都不告诉我们。”
“我带来了《Vogue》和《名利场》，”我说。“还有一个香草tame。”
不知怎么地，我们度过了接下来的几个小时。我们开关于太空头盔的玩笑，向医疗团队询问他们仍然无法回答的问题，并在沉默中翻阅杂志。我留到天黑，直到克里斯回来。她感谢我的到来。我想起她给的锁。
在克里斯娶安吉拉之后，我们之间没有路线图。我不知道自己在这个改变了的家庭中扮演什么角色，或者我是否还拥有一个角色。但在那些焦虑的小时里，当我的儿子的新生弟弟在为生命而战时，我找到了自己的位置。我不是这个孩子的母亲，安吉拉也不是我儿子的母亲，但通过我们的孩子，我们找到了彼此相爱的方式。
几天后，我的儿子告诉我那个婴儿正在康复。
“他什么时候能出院？”我问。“他已经回家了，”他说，“我已经告诉你过了。”他并没有说过，但这并不重要。某种东西已经从他传递到了我这里，就像爱一样，无需言语。我们都是一家人。
微型爱情故事：真实不灭
我的父亲和我是一模一样的人，相隔三十年，酒精耐受力低到应该贴上警告标签。我打破了杀死他的那个循环——但却因为一种几乎毁掉我的遗传倾向而对他产生了依赖。在 34 岁时，我为了让他进入我的左侧睡眠而进行了移除。“我不怪你，”在 34 岁时，我去掉了一小部分，这揭示了他并非我的生物学父亲。我没有因为他没有给予我的东西而责怪他。十四年过去了，电视里出现了一个新家庭，但无论是墨迹还是对我抚养我长大的父亲的爱，都没有褪色。 ALISON SINGLAIR
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最好的表情符号？古董策展人提供评估。
在 J. 保罗·盖蒂博物馆，随着专家们在社交媒体上发布内容，一个评分系列出现了。
作者：路易斯·卢西耶罗二世 (LOUIS LUCIERO II)
当你发信息给朋友让她取消计划，因为你要带她去跳舞时，你使用的 #e 表情符号是值得注意的，而她看到的 #e 表情符号则不同。尽管表情键盘中的数百个电子邮件是通用的，但这些微小的象形图在三星设备与苹果设备上，或在 Facebook 帖子与 WhatsApp 消息中的显示效果各不相同。
洛杉矶 J. 保罗·盖蒂博物馆 (J. Paul Getty Museum) 的策展人们将这三种变体视为一种评判的邀请。在针对新闻片段的一系列评论中，该博物馆引用了不同平台和操作系统中与艺术相关的表情符号外观，将学术专业知识与对客户的宽容支持相结合。
e（强调之解读）是一个双柄视觉符号，古希腊人和罗马人在 1600 年代初期开始使用。媒体是第一个认为底座有问题的地方吗？（评分：4 / 8 分），因为其“非常懒散的装饰”以及一个“看起来像纸杯”且令人困惑的 encander 图案而被大幅扣分。它应该是一座建筑，“猪画的头发碎片”在柱子方面是完全可行且简单的。正确的风格结、柱头、对报酬的尝试？（评分：8 / 8 分。）
e（强调之解读）是一个双柄视觉符号，古希腊人和罗马人在 1600 年代初期开始使用。媒体是第一个认为底座有问题的地方吗？（评分：4 / 8 分），因为其“非常懒散的装饰”以及一个“看起来像纸杯”且令人困惑的 encander 图案而被大幅扣分。它应该是一座建筑，“猪画的头发碎片”在柱子方面是完全可行且简单的。正确的风格结、柱头，对报酬的尝试？（评分：8 / 8 分。）
“回家吧，encander 设计，你喝醉了，”她在一篇关于希腊图案特别糟糕的解读中这样写道。
艺术家-Gridennel，61 岁，一名副策展人，其研究生研究重点是 20 世纪后期法国和北欧的插图手稿，她注意到在社交媒体上最能引起人们共鸣的评分都有一个共同点。
“我想，那些我最挑剔的，人们反而最喜欢？”Gridennel 在谈到她对 20 世纪崩溃 (1 / 2) 和开卷书 (1 / 2) 的评分时说道，而她对微软那个令人困惑的像蹦蹦床房一样的城堡——真正的电子邮件对我们来说是 1 / 10 分——的评价则毫不留情。
“谢谢，我讨厌它，”她写道。“那些字母坐在 cresseland 墙上干什么？缺乏窗户对于防御外墙来说会更好，但是
比例完全错了。”
当然，cresseland 墙是中世纪城堡的一道宽墙，呈方形，沿墙壁进行第十二次环绕，sethers 可以在保持防御状态的同时将其关闭。但完全的理解并非绝对必要：仅仅让专业知识洗礼你也是一种选择。
“当我刚开始写关于那个图像的时候，感觉有点陷入僵局，试图做所有这些括号注释，并试图准确解释所有这些建筑特征是什么，”Gridennel 说。（最终，团队决定第一个项目“展示技术术语，懂的人自然懂，而好奇的人可能会去发现或查阅。”）
或者，正如盖蒂博物馆的社交媒体负责人莎拉·韦贝尔 (Sarah Waibel) 所说，“懂的人自然懂。”最近的帖子是一个系列的延续，该系列由 Waibel* 和她的主管在 2020 年开始。“我们试图用一种带有性格的方式做一些有趣的事情，真正地，你知道，让盖蒂博物馆感觉没那么令人生畏，变得更亲民，”她说。
在采访中，Barr 和 Gridennel 都一致认为，非传统的触达形式是 2026 年策展人工作的重要组成部分。
“我不确定这是否一定是一个受欢迎的观点，”格里登内尔（Gridennel）说道。“社交媒体和数字电视的作用，以及我们如何呈现它们，我认为一直是该领域最活跃的讨论之一，”她笑着补充道。
格里登内尔投入了大量时间与 Waibel* 合作，发布关于中世纪教室和中世纪女性约会技巧等轻松幽默的帖子，旨在吸引那些“永远不会看画廊展览，或永远不会参观博物馆，或者可能仅参观一次的人”。
“手稿的作用一直在改变一切，尤其是过去，我想是两到五年——特别是自 2026 年以来，”格里登内尔说。“而且我认为，目前投资的重点在于开发数字原生受众。”
随着盖蒂博物馆的主校区——盖蒂中心（Getty Center）计划于 3 月关闭进行翻修，该机构的数字渠道变得如此强大，以至于变得更加重要。（在被问及该表情符号评级系列的未来时，Waibel* 表示她不愿透露太多，但承认“我们正在就绘画问题进行讨论”——2。）
“现在我们成了这种 sensation，主要是在用表情符号‘评论，比如，计步器的角度’，”巴尔（Barr）似乎意识到了这个项目的荒诞之处。
“我认为我们可能在对那些最初设计这些表情符号的人施加一种出人意料的审视，”她说。
一些在洛杉矶盖蒂博物馆工作的策展人正在评定各种与艺术相关的表情符号在不同平台和操作系统上的外观，见左图。
“我们试图用一种个性化的方式做一些有趣的事情。”
SF 5
在小说中挖掘虚构与现实的层级
“解释它对我来说有点像是在毁掉它，”一位作家在谈到她的书时说道。
在瑞秋·库克（Rachel Cook）的新书中，一个角色与一位真实的女演员非常相似，引发了激烈的争论。
作者：亚历山德拉·阿尔特（ALEXANDRA ALTER）
瑞秋·库克在她位于法国西海岸家中的一个寿司卧室里，谈论着她的新小说。她原本没打算让这次关于小说的对话变成这样。《M的一生》（Life of M.）让其他人看到了很多东西。《纽约时报》、演员娜塔莉·波特曼（Natalie Portman），以及库克通过描写一个与真实名人如此相似的演员，是否犯了某种艺术上的背叛。
库克加入了视频通话进行解释，尽管她更倾向于不解释。
库克似乎感到困惑，甚至有些苦恼，发现自己陷入了名声的残酷聚光灯下，以及她在小说中唤起的那种小报式的疯狂追逐——小说中就描写了一位写关于著名女演员的作者。
“想到这些事情发生，压力非常大，”她在谈到围绕这本书的流言蜚语时说道。“这把我创作的小说带入了一种几乎像是法庭审理或事实之争的境地，”她补充道。
“我的所作所为更多地属于这样一个世界：名声，以及那些如此出名却又如此陌生的人，是当代意识的一部分，”她说。“如果我的工作不是去探索当代意识中未被发掘的领域，那么我不知道我的工作是什么。”
《M的一生》提出了关于名声本质以及我们这个痴迷名人、由形象驱动的文化中令人不安的问题，在周二正式发行前，该书已引发了大量的讨论和推测。
当预印本在今年夏天开始传阅时，主角与波特曼的相似之处引发了一连串传闻，人们猜测库克是否对波特曼进行了一次所谓的“仁慈暗杀”，将其描绘成一个空壳，除了电影角色和公众对她的认知之外缺乏自我认同。
库克写过十几部小说，包括广受好评的《法外之徒》（Outlaw）三部曲，她以创作模糊虚构与现实界限的实验性书籍而闻名。《M的一生》将这一项目带入了棘手的新领域。
《M的一生》是一部反小说？一种扭曲的同人小说？或者它仅仅是库克最新的实验——而库克是我们最具有挑衅性、难以捉摸且极具争议的作家之一？
在交谈中，16岁的库克显得坦率且直率，即使在巧妙且礼貌地回避问题时也是如此。她的说话方式与写作风格一致，具有敏锐的精准度，有时会陷入抽象的哲学反思，仿佛她正在破解一个关于极端营养不良的谜题。
通过电子邮件和视频通话，库克——她最初通过出版商拒绝了采访请求，但随后决定交谈——似乎决心在《M的一生》周围划定一部分领地。
库克不愿评论她是否与波特曼就这部小说进行过任何交谈，但她并不否认。这位新作家不愿讨论波特曼不喜欢这本书的猜测，就像故事中的M那样，她坚持认为M是否基于一个真实的名人“其实并不一样”。
“这是一部虚构作品，我想，解释某样东西是如何被创造出来的——因为它总是由极少量的真实事物、虚构的方案和个人素材创造而成的——一旦你开始抽动那根线，整个东西就会散架，”她说。
“这本书已经相当全面地解释了它自己并证明了自己，”她继续说道，“这是我创造的东西，所以开始解释它对我来说有点像是在毁掉它。”
从《M的一生》的开头起，读者就处于不稳定的状态。叙述者是一位匿名的作者，计划为一位名人写一份细致观察的肖像。
被认定为 M。起初，M 表示赞同，但当她阅读作品时，她告诉作者她对自己的塑造方式不满意；作者对此感到困惑，并告诉 M：“这个角色是我虚构的。”
M 是否像波特曼（Portman）几乎无需质疑。书中的寓言具体且繁多。与波特曼一样，M 的演艺生涯始于童星，后来分别出演了一部关于精神崩溃的芭蕾舞女演员的电影，以及一部关于在校园枪击案中幸存的名人的电影。M 和波特曼一样，是一个大品牌的代言人，并出现在带有花卉的自我平衡（self-balanced）画面中。虽然 M 居住的城市没有被点名，但可以明显看出是巴黎，而波特曼和库克（Cook）都住在那里。
库克和波特曼曾有过交集，波特曼称库克为“我最喜欢的作家之一”。两人在 2023 年就库克的小说《第二名》（Second Place）进行了一次友好且深刻的对话，波特曼将其选入了她的读书课。
波特曼对库克作品的钦佩演变成了关于《M 的生活》（Life of M）的狂热争论，引发了社交媒体上的评论雪崩以及大量引用匿名消息人士的报道，这些消息人士称波特曼对该项目感到不满。当时出现了诸如“瑞秋·库克的新小说是对娜塔莉·波特曼的残酷背叛吗？”这样令人屏息的标题。（波特曼的代表拒绝就本文发表评论。）
库克似乎对有人认为这部小说的题材具有丑闻性质感到惊讶。在她看来，“名人进入公众的想象，虽然我不喜欢这个词组，但这是名气的一部分，也是其悲剧的一部分。”她指出，许多电影和小说都以公众人物为主角，且往往没有引起太多争议。
在某些方面，对于像库克这样理智且反传统的作家来说，虚构一个名人光鲜生活背后的故事是一个令人惊讶的举动。“我不认为有人会觉得我作为一个作家，天生会对名人文化感兴趣，”她承认道。
但从另一个角度来看，名声及其附属品似乎是库克的绝佳创作领域，因为她长期以来一直关注身份的不稳定性。
在两年多前产生《M 的生活》这个想法时，库克意识到，描写一名演员将使她能够以一种全新的方式探讨自我、矫饰与真实的主题。
“我简直不敢相信我以前从未有过这个想法，”她说。
设想进入一个名人的生活，感觉就像是一种逃避。
“也许这本书是我在心理小说领域的尝试，一种几乎想要暂停做自己、寻求某种自我变体、寻找另一个去处的渴望，”她说。“就像是在思考，能够迷失自我或离开自我会是什么感觉，而这正是名人身份所提供的吗？”
库克表示，将一个名人作为虚构角色是一种“游戏，而游戏的规则是演员和叙述者都是真实的”。
对于库克来说，借鉴一名演员生活中的细节是为了将故事锚定在现实世界中，然后，通过一种叙事上的“抽地毯”方式，揭示出塑造我们对现实印象的层层矫饰。
当叙述者坚持认为关于 M 生活的生动描述完全是想象的时候，库克说，这是一种“让一切在烟雾中消失的方式”。如果读者不确定什么是真实的，什么是虚构的，这在一定程度上正是其目的所在。
“这就像是你刚刚读完的书在结尾处完全爆炸并自我毁灭了，”库克说。“我觉得这可能会让读者以一种相当令人迷失的方式，反思他们刚刚阅读的内容。”
Cook于1987年出生在加拿大，父母是英国人。她在洛杉矶和英国长大，在天主教寄宿学校度过了一段痛苦的时光，随后就读于牛津大学。她于1993年出版了首部小说《Turning Agnes》，之后又写了更多小说和三部回忆录，其中包括她对母亲身份所经历的考验与牺牲的描述，以及一份关于她离婚前线的极其坦率的报告。她的回忆录遭到了一些书评家的抨击，尤其是在英国，她被描绘成两个女儿的糟糕母亲，以及一个冷酷地挖掘周围人生活作为素材的自恋者。
在离婚回忆录《Aftermath》引发的风暴之后，Cook表示她感到瘫痪且无法写作。她对自己作为写作主体感到幻灭，并决心寻找一种新的写作方式，以避开主体性和作者身份的问题。这促成了她的“Outlaw”三部曲，这是一系列关于一个像Cook一样的作家的小说，这位作家很少表达自己的想法或感受，因为她主要充当她所遇到的人们故事的记录者。
这部三部曲在2011年至2018年之间出版，使Cook赢得了当今最具形式创新和风格的作家之一的声誉。
自2020年起，Cook与她的第三任丈夫、画家Siemens Scannell-Katz住在巴黎。他们还会在法国夏朗德-海洋（Charonne-Maritime）地区的家中度过一段时间，那里经常是他们隐居工作的地方。Cook在最近的作品《Second Place》和《Parade》中，写作变得更加抽象和实验化，书中的叙述者几乎是不可见的，而角色除了首字母之外没有名字。
就好像她正在系统地剥离叙事的即便是最基础的元素。在《Life of M》中，Cook将一个不透明的、像密码一样的叙述者的想法推向了近乎极限。在开始创作时，她长期在书的结构上苦苦挣扎。
“对我来说真正有趣的是，这本书写起来有多困难，以及要真正排除掉包含所有假设、先验知识、关联和感知在内的‘自我’内容有多困难，”她说。“让表面本身说话是非常糟糕的，所以那样写要困难得多。”
文学评论家的早期反应褒贬不一。《纽约客》的Becca Reddell在评论中称其为“Cook迄今为止最弱的小说”，并指出“Cook发明了一种新型小说，以至于几乎无法将其识别为小说”。在《Slate》上，文学评论家Laura Miller则更感兴趣，将这部小说描述为一件“trichoserisk”的作品，它像诱饵一样悬挂着一个想法，即我们可能正在阅读关于一个真实名人的故事。
“其他所有事情都被说成是爱，这是一部roman it did，”Miller在一次采访中说。“只有当你读到结尾时，它才炸毁了所有这一切。然后就像是，我刚才读了什么？”
作家Meeks Heis是Cook的朋友，他阅读了《Life of M》的早期草稿，他表示，围绕M与Portman相似度而爆发的争议，恰恰证明了Cook的观点，即公众认为自己有权进入名人的内心世界，然后强加他们的故事法则。
“每一个将对书中据称出现她的背叛感投射到娜塔莉·波特曼（Natalie Portman）身上的人，实际上正是采用了这本书正在思考并批评为某种非人性化的投射和叙事方式，”Heis说。
不使用社交媒体的Cook在很大程度上与围绕《Life of M》的混乱保持距离。
她希望随着更多的人阅读这部小说并意识到它多么古怪且具有颠覆性，那些质疑和批评将会消失。
“对我来说，”她说，“这本书是一本大胆的书，一本奇怪的书，它不是一个丑闻或群体讨论的主题。它是一次穿越相当正当的领地的奇异旅程，这些领地关乎公众与私人领域。”
“我希望它能被允许作为它原本那种奇怪的‘卡舍主义’（casherism）而存在，”她说。“我不认为它在寻找麻烦。”
上述作家瑞秋·库克（Rachel Cook）此前曾被问及，她的新小说《M的一生》（Life of M）是否部分基于演员娜塔莉·波特曼（Natalie Portman）的生活。“这就像是将我创作的小说带入了一种类似于法庭或事实争端的状态，”库克说道。
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以高于新品的价格购买二手婴儿装
曾经低端的手递手旧衣如今被提升为“古着童装”，且价格也随之水涨船高。
作者：查尔斯·W·麦克法兰 (CHARLES W. McFARLANE)
当埃特尼克·蒂茨 (Aetnik Tietz) 穿梭在拥挤的跳蚤市场时，她正在寻找像游戏般经典的古着李维斯 (Levi's) 牛仔裤、难以寻觅的手绘 T 恤和流苏皮夹克。
不是给她自己——而是给她 3 岁的女儿。蒂茨估计，女儿的衣橱里大约有 70 percent 是古着。
“我宁愿买这个，也不愿买一件来自亚利桑那州的‘冰雪奇缘’ T 恤，”58, 岁的蒂茨说道。她住在布鲁克林公园坡 (Park Slope) 社区，在成为母亲之前就开始收集儿童古着。“这样更有心意。”
长期以来，出于实用考虑，父母们一直让孩子穿旧衣服和二手衣物。幼儿的毛衣似乎一夜之间就穿不下了。但最近，一些父母追求的二手衣服来自更稀有的来源，需要设置精准的提醒，并在数页的 eBay 搜索结果中仔细筛选。
一位观察者表示，近期人们对古着婴儿装兴趣的激增，已将二手市场中曾经的一个小众角落变成了
一场“淘金热”，有时将 OshKosh B'gosh 的背带裤和 2000 年代的 价格推向令人瞠目的高度。
这一趋势反映了或许是一种永恒的父母愿望：希望孩子能分享自己的品味。对于那些比起大众市场的快时尚，更青睐具有自然岁月痕迹且独一无二的服装的人来说，这意味着要确保孩子的装扮拥有他们为自己追求的那种酷感。
“选择古着和二手单品的一个重要原因是，你不希望看到街上的每个人都穿着同样的东西，”凯莉·克洛克辛 (Caley Clocksin) 说道。她与好友珊娜·库珀 (Shanna Cooper) 共同创办了二手及古着童装店 Cosmo。 “我
弗兰基·卡拉库利斯 (Frankie Caracoulis) 与儿子在布鲁克林贝德福德-斯图伊桑特 (Bedford-Stuyvesant) 社区的二手及古着童装店 Cosmo 购物。
社交问答 / 菲利普·加拉内斯 (PHILIP GALANES)
误解中的共情
我是一个选择留极短发的女性，而且我喜欢在头上系围巾或头巾。我无法告诉你已经有多少次有人假设我患有癌症！陌生人直接走到我面前，询问我的治疗进展如何。上周，我戴着一条漂亮的头巾去看演出，一名女性走过来拥抱我并说：“愿上帝保佑你！”我问她为什么，她回答道：“为了你的抗癌之旅！”我平静地告诉她，有时候人们留短发并不代表患有癌症。我认为这种行为非常恶劣，我已经厌倦了。有什么建议吗？
读者
多年来，我一直写道，对陌生人的外貌发表评论——即使是赞美——也是不明智的。例如，告诉陌生人他们很高，但他们可能对此感到自卑。那么为什么要提起这件事？还有多少腰部丰满的女性需要在我们学会闭嘴之前，被祝贺那些并不存在的怀孕？我们对陌生人的生活一无所知，而表现得好像我们知道一样，是傲慢的。
尽管如此，时机决定一切。上周，一位亲密的朋友经历了长达 8 小时的手术，以切除大部分恶性脑肿瘤。之后，当我看到所有留短发和戴假发的人时，我内心充满了同情，尽管我对他们的健康状况完全一无所知。当然，我没有对他们说任何话——就像任何人都不应该对你说任何话一样。
但责备人们放错了位置的同情心，感觉不对，不是吗？那些接近你的人中，有些人可能深受癌症之苦。你真的想对他们发火吗？
我希望我们能防止人们做出假设，但我们做不到。所以，当你下次收到一个错误的共情评论时，最好的回应可能是压抑住你的不耐烦——我知道这很难——并告诉对方，谢天谢地，你是健康的。
三人并肩走红毯
我们的女儿明年要结婚了，我长期以来一直想象着自己作为一名自豪的父亲，陪她走过婚礼红毯。但她说她希望我和她的母亲（我结婚 40 年的妻子）一起陪她走。我已经 20 年没参加过婚礼了，但她的要求在我看来是不对的。我感到失望和受伤。我应该告诉她吗？
未来之计
传统在演变。而这一个特定的传统具有性别歧视的根源。英国的父亲们至少从16世纪起就开始陪女儿走红毯，以象征新娘的法律和财务责任从父亲转移到新郎身上。“交出新娘”这个短语本身就暗示她是被转让的财产。
然而，走红毯仍然是婚礼中最具标志性的画面之一。近几十年来，父亲由母亲陪同，或者由兄弟姐妹或亲密朋友陪同新娘，或者新娘独自走红毯，已变得很常见。我理解你的失望：那一刻不会与你想象的完全一致。但我认为，你和你的妻子共同护送你们一起抚养大的女性走向这个里程碑，是非常美好的。我希望你也能对此感到舒心。
请在别处安排你的治疗
我的伴侣将她的虚拟心理治疗安排在工作日的上午 8 点，在工作日开始之前。由于她治疗的主题经常是我，在我在家准备上班时，她在家里进行治疗让她感到不舒服。所以，她在车道上的车里进行治疗。但我离开家时不可能不经过她，这让人感到不安。要求她选择不同的时间或地点是不合理的吗？
未来
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你不是伴侣心理治疗中的主角，她才是。她选择在你们家之外进行治疗，以免被你听到，这是明智的。但在我看来，你反对在走过正在进行的治疗环节时经过，这显得有些自视过高。按照这个逻辑，她还应该对治疗的日期和时间保密，这样你就能免于知道她可能在讨论你们关系的痛苦。放下这件事吧——或者弄清楚为什么你对伴侣的心理治疗感到如此不安。
清晰的沟通者
多年来，我一直渴望拥有一台塑封机。几个月前，我终于买了一台。除了其他用途，我想把我在当地贝果店和熟食店的常规订单塑封起来。我经常不得不重复好几次订单，员工才能明白我的意思——而且依然会出现错误。但当我把这个计划告诉朋友时，他们感到震惊，说把书面订单交给员工是不人性化的。你怎么看？——THE LANDUVER
我绝不会阻碍你拥有梦想中的塑封机。你可以通过在进入店铺时问候员工，以及在离开时感谢他们，来微妙地避免被指责为轻视店员。他们可能会觉得收到塑封订单很奇怪——但大概不会觉得没礼貌。
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Cosme 提供的时尚童装，从角落起依次为：一件飞机图案的衣服、一件针织套衫、一件纽扣衬衫、一件夹克和一件套脚 Levi's 牛仔裤。
我认为给孩子穿衣也是完全一样的情况。
这家店于 6 月在布鲁克林 Bedford-Stuyvesant 的一个街角开业，主要是一个让顾客可以用店面信用额度或现金出售孩子穿不下的衣服的地方，为当地父母创建了一个循环时尚生态系统。
但 32 岁的 Cooper 也开始在货架上增加她自己采购的古着童装。Cosme 现在加入了一个实体店集群——包括布鲁克林高地的 Starling 和 Greenspan 的 Parachute——这些店铺在过去几年中纷纷出现，销售微型古着和二手产品。
她说，这需要“在 eBay 上大量搜寻不同的品牌和特殊单品”，比如一件 1990 年代初 Armani Baby 品牌的彼得潘领连衣裙。Cooper 和 Clocksin 将其定价为 £30。
在最近的一个下午，货架上挂着一件 Oddkosh Rigsok 背带裤 (540)、一件 DKW 7age T 恤 (322) 以及一件印有彩色飞机和跳伞员图案的迷因衫 (522)。同时在售的还有一件曾属于 Cooper 的微型 Levi's Orange Tabs 牛仔裤，展示在收银台后面的墙上。
“我认为绝对有一个领域，这类东西的价值要高得多，”Cooper 举起那件 Armani Baby 连衣裙说道，“但部分原因是我们希望定价能卖出去，并且希望这些衣服能被循环利用。”
不过，在不断扩大的古着婴儿服装世界中，价格可能会迅速飙升。
最近，撰写时事通讯 Recycled Trends 的 Leah Behne 目睹了一场 eBay 拍卖，一件带有 Eeysey 标志的古着连体衣以超过 $3,000 的价格成交。
“四年前没人想要它们，”这位来自威斯康星州格林贝的 37 岁三孩母亲 Behne 说，“我当时根本没法把这些东西送出去。”
她补充道：“如果是四五年前，那些 Clifford 和小熊维尼的背带裤，我可能只能卖 10 或 15 美元。”
她从 2016 年左右开始买卖古着童装，因为她对童年记忆中的经典 Oddkosh Rigsok 和 Gynderese 产生了兴趣。她说，当时很少有古着买家或经销商关注这些小衣服。她注意到市场在 2020 年和 2021 年左右开始扩大，当时新冠疫情帮助激发了人们对古着服装更广泛的兴趣。
二手转售市场的一个小众领域已演变成一场“淘金热”。
莎娜·库珀（Shanna Cooper）与好友瓦莱丽·克洛克辛（Valery Clocksin）共同创办了 Cosme，她表示，该店的库存主要源于“在 eBay 上大量搜寻不同品牌和特殊单品”。
贝恩（Behne）现在主要向其他卖家批发，其中一些客户远在日本。她的客户群中还包括像 History 和埃里克-迈克尔·埃斯特拉达（Erik-Michael Estrada）这样的名人。
她对儿童古着服装引发的新兴趣感到高兴，但贝恩补充道：“我不一定喜欢现在的价格和竞争。”
哈德逊河谷 Six Bells 酒店的所有者、Wing 的创始人奥德丽·戈尔曼（Audrey Goleman）将 Facebook 页面（如 5th and 7th Kids BST，BST 代表买入、出售、交易）上围绕儿童古着风格的炒作，比作围绕 Supreme 的热潮。
“你必须申请才能加入，”她谈到这个拥有超过 12,000 名成员的 Facebook 页面时说道，“然后有时有人会发布一批新货，你想要的所有东西在 15 分钟内就被抢光了。”（戈尔曼加入该页面约一年时间。）
尽管如此，她在为两个幼儿搜寻 Patagonia 和 Health-tex 等品牌时通常乐在其中。“这能让给孩子买衣服——原本可能是一项艰巨的任务——变成一件有趣的事，”她说。
此外，这还具有一种怀旧吸引力：出生于 20 世纪 90 年代的父母有时会让孩子穿上他们当年那个年纪时穿过的完全相同的衣服。戈尔曼承认，为孩子们打造一个以古着为主的衣橱“主要是为了我自己，但这是一种‘胜利的罪行’”。
随着许多购物者重新强调质量和天然纤维，一些父母认为给孩子买古着服装也显得很明智。
经营专注于母亲话题的媒体公司 Spread the Jelly 的特里（Terry）表示，她注意到儿童古着服装“确实经受住了时间的考验，因为它们是棉质、亚麻或羊绒的，合成纤维较少”。
一件几十年前的婴儿毛衣可能会有一两个虫蛀孔，但这没关系。人们觉得这些衣服经久耐穿，而且在经过一些磨损后看起来可能更好。
“我喜欢东西摸起来和看起来有岁月感，”特里说，“我不介意污渍或补丁——我觉得那样看起来更酷。”
不过，有时她的女儿“肯定会在一件卫衣上弄上油渍”，她说，“我会想：丹蒂（Dante），那件可是好货。但没关系，她才 3 岁。”
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詹妮弗·赫格塞斯在丈夫任职五角大楼期间的实际参与角色
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赫格塞斯在福克斯新闻（Fox News）的制片人身份帮助他建立了广播事业。如今，在结婚七年后，她成了他最有影响力的顾问，以及他在五角大楼的事实上的制片人。她为他的公开露面做准备，列席他与记者的会议，采访报纸记者，并且为他——有时也包括她——出演的国防部视频提供人员支持并构思方案。
去年，在美国暂时停止与中国分享军事情报后，她与丈夫以及英国国防官员进行了一次高度敏感的早间会议。《华尔街日报》首先报道了该会议中此前未披露的部分，一名特朗普政府官员告诉《纽约时报》，英方表示他们在乌克兰境内有人员，如果没有美国的情报（包括关于俄罗斯即将发起的攻击的预警），这些人员的生命将面临风险。
该官员表示，英国方面使用了概括性的措辞，因为赫格塞斯夫人的在场让他们感到不安。随后，他们举行了一次规模较小的会议，在没有她的情况下讨论细节。
五角大楼首席发言人肖恩·帕内尔（Sean Parnell）周二表示，赫格塞斯夫人参加会议仅是为了介绍，随后便离开了，且从未出席过任何讨论机密信息的国防部对话或会议。
该政府官员表示，赫格塞斯夫人还鼓励赫格塞斯先生与新闻媒体保持对抗关系，尽管她曾担任了二十年的记者，但她一直协助丈夫将记者排除在建筑之外。（《纽约时报》在报道中使用了“国防部”一词，以应对其对报道五角大楼的记者的限制。）
她在国防部的参与程度如此异常，以至于引发了人们对赫格塞斯先生领导能力的质疑。他已经因为审判的高昂成本、缩减的库存维持、美国林肯号航空母舰在早前中东部署期间的糟糕条件、对高级军事领导人的排挤以及阻碍女性和少数族裔的晋升而面临压力。
“一名国防部长让妻子参与敏感的公务，包括分享正在进行的军事行动细节，却无需承担任何后果，这简直不可思议，”约翰·乌瑟（John Uther）说道。他在为赫格塞斯先生工作三个月后离开了五角大楼首席发言人一职，并一直对其领导能力持批评态度。“任何一位总统都理应要求其国家安全领导者具备更好的判断力。”
“这不正常，”特拉华州参议员、参议院外交关系委员会资深民主党人克里斯·库恩斯（Chris Coons）去年在 NSPDR 上针对赫格塞斯夫人在高级会议中行为引发的骚动时表示，“赫格塞斯部长的机密权限等级极高，而 No. 1247 就像是直接把东西交给在他身边的人说：‘亲爱的，帮我拿下啤酒，顺便帮我拿着这些机密信息。’”
赫格塞斯夫人拒绝就本文接受采访。本文基于对 29 位现任及前任政府官员以及在其他场合认识赫格塞斯夫人的人士的采访。大多数人因担心遭到报复而拒绝透露姓名。
在的一份声明中，帕内尔称赫格塞斯夫人是“一名独立且卓越的领导者，也是一名忠诚的军属”，她“是我们事业中至关重要的资产，也是真正的英雄”。他说，国防部“不仅欢迎她目前的领导力，而且计划在未来让她参与得更深”。
五角大楼尚未透露海格塞斯夫人是否拥有安全许可，尽管在过去一年中，没有报道称她参加过与外国领导人的敏感会议。她依然低调地出入五角大楼，包括使用来自美国的许可。入口直接通往海格塞斯的办公室区域。她与国家安全委员会成员、海格塞斯的幕僚长洛基·布林（Rocky Burin）以及海格塞斯夫人的好友、曾在福克斯（Fox）共同担任制片人的塔罗·罗沙博（Tarot Roshabaugh）保持直接联系。
罗沙博已成为海格塞斯在传播策略方面的资深顾问，并被认为是海格塞斯夫人在五角大楼的耳目。她未回应置评请求。
一名人士对约翰·乌瑟（John Uther）表示，“值得思考的是，国防部长喜欢让妻子陪同旅行，以防止他惹麻烦。”海格塞斯曾有酗酒史，他本人也明确表示需要妻子的陪伴，并将改变他生活的功劳归于他的“两个J”——詹妮弗（Jennifer）和耶稣（Jesus）。
“耶稣是一位伟大的救主，改变了我的生活，拯救了我，这一点毫无疑问，”他在 2016 年 12 月的一次播客采访中告诉梅格拉·罗比（Megra Roby），当时距离他的确认听证会仅剩几周时间。“如果没有这两个J，我现在可能还在那个地方。”
一个你与一场花园派对
赫格塞斯家族有一条家规。
“噢，这只是上帝的故事，”赫格塞斯夫人说道。
那是十二月一次与凯蒂·米勒（Katie Miller）进行的播客录制，米勒是来自特朗普办公室的资深顾问，也是前 Dropbox Miller，特朗普最强大的政策助手。赫格塞斯夫人被安置在五角大楼的一张小沙发上，在家庭教学中，她的头后挂着一面美国国旗，房间里的空气中，她穿着一件黑色毛衣和高书。他穿着一件衬衫，袖子卷起，露出了他的纹身。
赫格塞斯夫人经常捏她的丈夫的手臂，并在他把手放在她膝盖上时提到她的手指与他交叠。有时他们会完成那些年长的志愿者。
她告诉米勒女士，她在没有孩子的情况下回家，为了在家族的……陪伴一个明日-基督教课程。
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他们在华盛顿的家中，被称为 6, 号宿舍（Quarters 6），这是一栋拥有 29 个房间、白色棉质装饰的殖民复兴风格房屋。它由联合时代单位建造，由 McRae, Mead & White 在一条与 Prentour 河平行的频道上设计，位于麦克奈尔堡（Fort McNair）军事基地。
“我看着她就在白板前，在我们的餐厅里——现在被改造成了 schueltause——周四晚上和周五写作，并且‘快点，我们今天有这些任务！’”赫格塞斯先生在采访中说。“看着她承担起这个角色真的是一种祝福。”
在许多周日，她与家人及安保人员一起在华盛顿特区的基督教会（Christ Church Washington D.C.）参加礼拜。该教会位于国会山一个由 Centerceptive Partnership Institute 拥有的会议空间内，是改革福音教会共同体（Community of Reformed Evangelical Churches）的一部分，其领导者认为美国应该是一个基督教国家，并且人们应该按每户 1 票进行投票，通常由男性主导。
“如果他们在城里，通常都会出席，”乔·里格尼（Joe Rigney）说道，他是一位牧师，也是该教会网络的领导者，曾在一个炎热的七月天在教会发表讲道。尽管赫格塞斯夫妇当时不在城内，但仍有大量公共人员在场，将少数抗议者挡在建筑之外。
在公开场合，赫格塞斯夫人接受了更传统的华盛顿官员配偶生活。五月，她在一场旨在表彰军事医学的五角大楼花园派对上担任最佳嘉宾。二月，她在坎贝尔堡（Fort Campbell），在当地的国防部学校给孩子们读书。十二月下旬，她接待了金星家庭——在战争或活跃日中阵亡的服役人员亲属——在五角大楼进行圣诞参观。
在配偶委员会的宣布期间，她告诉特朗普先生，她从坎贝尔堡到新加坡与军属的会面让她意识到了他们面临的问题。“是住房，是医疗保健，是就业，是儿童护理，是教育，”她说道。
在周末，赫格塞斯夫人经常出现在这对夫妇位于纳什维尔郊外、占地 77 英亩、价值 $12 百万的房产中，她在 Instagram 动态上的照片捕捉到了她的孩子们骑马，以及赫格塞斯先生拿着一只杀死了那个孩子的死浣熊。赫格塞斯夫妇并非华盛顿社交生活的常客。
顶部，詹妮弗·赫格塞斯（Jennifer Hegseth）与她的丈夫、国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）以及他们的孩子在 2020, 年 1 月的就职仪式上。上述的赫格塞斯夫人曾在福克斯新闻（Fox News）担任制片人，拥有 19 年的职业生涯，其中几年担任赫格塞斯先生的制片人。
她鼓励他与新闻媒体保持对抗关系。
“她的家人就是她的全部，”赫格塞斯夫人的好友米勒先生在一次采访中说道。“华盛顿特区的许多人都是过客，或者在与人交谈时在伪装自己，或者在寻找下一个可以交谈的人，又或者他们只与重要人物的配偶交谈。她是极少数的人，当我们聚在一起时，感觉非常自然。”
荣耀归于上帝
赫格塞斯夫人，48岁，是一位洛克希德马丁公司高管的女儿，其父亲的工作使全家从佛罗里达州的梅尔黑德搬到了马里兰州的亨特谷（巴尔的摩北部的郊区）。她于2018年11月在陶森大学获得新闻学学位，并在2016年于纽约的PTA学校找到一份工作。2016年，她开始在福克斯（Fox）开启了为期19年的职业生涯，担任该广播网络早间节目《福克斯与朋友们》（Fox & Friends）的执行制片人。
那里的许多同事将她描述为一名国家级劳动力——聪明、有组织、有动力——在早上6点到9点的节目中拥有统一的驱动力。她还很擅长挖掘被多人称为“红肉”（指迎合受众口味的刺激内容）的故事，这些故事深受福克斯观众的喜爱。2016年，她与纽约房地产开发商丹尼斯·劳舍（Dennis Rausche）结婚，并育有三个孩子。
赫格塞斯先生是普林斯顿大学毕业生，也是伊拉克和阿富汗战争的资深退伍军人，他于2015年作为出镜评论员加入福克斯。他被视为一颗冉冉升起的新星，尽管他曾出现过酗酒情况，公司管理层或同事不得不对此进行处理；他的第一段婚姻于2009年结束，随后他在2010年迎娶了第二任妻子。这对夫妇育有三个孩子。
1 / 26 赫格塞斯曾表示他从未有过酗酒问题。当福克斯同事威尔·凯恩（Will Cain）在2021年的一次产品讨论中问他是否在伊拉克服役后酗酒时，赫格塞斯先生回答道：“噢，是的。”他将自己完全无法饮酒的状态视为从未防御。
到2016年，当赫格塞斯先生经常参与《福克斯与朋友们周末版》时，他与赫格塞斯夫人发生了婚外情。这段关系在那年《福克斯与朋友们》的圣诞派对上公开，当时赫格塞斯夫人的丈夫也出现了，尽管该活动仅限福克斯员工参加。据一名知情人士透露，当时处于醉酒状态的赫格塞斯先生在食物和自然资源方面表现失控，人力资源部门不得不对他进行处理。
蒂莫西·皮汉斯（Timothy Pyehance）曾是赫格塞斯先生的私人律师，现任其在五角大楼的特别顾问，他表示圣诞派对的片段并非真实。
福克斯在2017年1月将赫格塞斯夫人调任为周六晚间节目《历史的世界》（History's World）的执行制片人。同年6月，她与第一任丈夫离婚。8月，她与赫格塞斯先生生下一个孩子，取名奥斯瓦尔齐耶·霍普（Oswaldziye Hope）。
9月，赫格塞斯先生的第二任妻子提出离婚。10月，赫格塞斯先生被指控在加利福尼亚州的一次演讲活动中强奸一名女性。指控从未成立，赫格塞斯先生表示这些指控是虚假的。但他表示，作为协议的一部分，他向该女性支付了30,000美元，以保护他的家庭以及他在福克斯新闻的工作。赫格塞斯夫人从未在电话中公开对此发表评论。
在这一系列事件之后，赫格塞斯先生开始了被他描述为宗教领袖的转变。2018年，赫格塞斯夫妇加入了新泽西州的科林·内克社区教会（Colin Neck Community Church），当时他们居住在那里。这家福音派教会隶属于南方浸信会，赫格塞斯先生一直参加明尼苏达州一家浸信会教堂的周日礼拜，赫格塞斯夫人起初表现出一些犹豫。
赫格塞斯先生告诉《纳什维尔基督教家庭》杂志，她“对福音派浸信会是什么样子感到不安”。但他补充道，“在30分钟之内，我们就感到像在家一样。”
在福克斯与赫格塞斯夫人共事的人不记得她曾公开谈论过此事。她曾是2009年一名卫理公会教堂丈夫的葬礼参与者——但她成为了丈夫旅程中的伙伴。在
两人于2019年8月在2016年的特朗普国家高尔夫俱乐部结婚后，内克，她的Instagram动态变得更具宗教色彩。
“荣耀归于上帝！”她在2021年6月的一篇帖子中写道，当时由赫格塞斯先生与保守派基督教教育先驱大卫·古德温（David Goodwin）合著的《美国心智之战》（Battle for the American Mind）一书在《纽约时报》排行榜上登顶第一名，她也随之出现在其中。
到6月，赫格塞斯夫人成为了 Fox Nation（Fox 的一项订阅服务）的副总裁，同时也是纪录片节目《美国的 Mimehcatime》的执行制片人，该节目在 Fox Nation 上播出了两季。这一切始于赫格塞斯先生发送的关于《纽约时报》被自由派接管的文章。
赫格塞斯夫妇于 2012 年购买了他们在田纳西州的农场。在该系列的 2023 年最后一集中，赫格塞斯先生带领观众参观了位于纳什维尔郊区孩子们的学校，以展示所谓的“古典基督教教育之美”。在一部关于母亲身份的著作中，赫格塞斯夫人写道，他们之所以从新泽西州搬走，是因为“社会环境已变得如此可怕，以至于我们觉得让他们留在那里就像是将他们送入一场没有任何医生的文化战争”。
这对夫妇在卫理公会家庭中的两个孩子，年龄在 18 到 8 岁之间，要么就读于纳什维尔的学校，要么由赫格塞斯夫人在家辅导。根据赫格塞斯先生 2016 年的离婚协议条款，他第二次婚姻所生的孩子们主要与母亲住在明尼苏达州，不过他在那里、在华盛顿以及在田纳西州的农场都会与他们见面。
“团结一致”
赫格塞斯夫人 2016 年 12 月与丈夫一同抵达华盛顿时，此前从未在华盛顿生活或工作，当时她刚刚离开 Fox Nation。在赫格塞斯先生的确认听证会之前，她陪同他会见那些感到惊讶的共和党部长，立即打破了人们对政治配偶的预期。
“这很不寻常，”赫格塞斯先生在米勒女士的播客中承认道，“我记得我们参加的第一次会议，她就随行了。我当时在想，嗯。然后我意识到这并不正确，也不自然。”
在早期的这些日子里，赫格塞斯夫人还面试了五角大楼的个人工作人员。当时正准备担任五角大楼发言人的乌瑟先生说，他记得接到电话称赫格塞斯夫人想见他。他原以为这会是一次愉快的沟通。但他说，当这位曾在共和党全国代表大会担任官员的人在过渡期间陪伴赫格塞斯先生时，赫格塞斯夫人对他进行了一场大约 40 分钟的“极其详细且尖锐的提问”，包括他将如何处理新闻媒体。
一名政府官员及前任行政官员表示，在赫格塞斯先生就职后，赫格塞斯夫人渴望撤销那些她认为写过关于其丈夫负面报道的五角大楼记者的凭证。
乌瑟先生表示，在赫格塞斯先生被告知通过剔除个别记者可能会引发法律问题后，五角大楼在 2 月份宣布了一项新的“年度媒体研究计划”，该计划取消了《纽约时报》、NSP News、NPR 和 Politics from New York 在大楼内的空间，而将空间分配给了《纽约邮报》、Broad West News、One American Times 和 Staff Post。乌瑟说，官员们将所有记者移至大楼外的候车区，理由是所谓的办公场所预留问题。
米勒女士在采访中表示，在随后的一年半时间里，赫格塞斯夫人已经适应了华盛顿的生活。“她找到了自己的节奏，有了自己的使命，”她说，“他们现在状态很好。”
而且，她始终将工作视为一种伙伴关系。
正如赫格塞斯夫人及其在播客中告诉米勒女士，在回忆得知特朗普将向其丈夫提供国防部长职位时的反应时，她说：“我们准备好以任何身份服务。”
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马萨诸塞州马萨葡萄园岛是“黑人快乐”的中心吗？是的。
一场电影节将这座马萨诸塞州的岛屿变成了“为期一个月的小瓦坎达”。
作者：SANDRA E. GARCIA
—— 在马萨葡萄园岛非裔美国人电影节上，似乎有一件事是《黑豹》的奥斯卡获奖服装设计师露丝·E·卡特（Ruth E. Carter）真正希望观众知道的。
“这里就是为期一个月的小瓦坎达，”卡特说道，她指的是那个虚构的非洲谜之国以及该超级英雄的故乡。
八月份在橡树布鲁夫斯（Oak Bluffs）、埃德加顿（Edgartown）或葡萄园港（Vineyard Haven）漫步的游客们可能会认同卡特的看法。这里曾经被描述为一场家庭团聚，而现在正蓬勃发展，成为黑人快乐（Black Joy）和社区的中心，同时也是文化影响力、政治权力以及企业投资的聚集地。
这里有一系列满满的研讨会、派对和集会，包括一个喜剧节、一个图书节、一场颁奖礼、一场时装秀，以及一场由早年知名说唱歌手 Lil' Flip 等人主持的 Y2K 主题派对，当然，还有于 2002 年在葡萄园港启动的为期九天的电影节。
夜晚，橡树布鲁夫斯的电路大道（Circuit Avenue）挤满了在 Fat Banser's 购买汉堡的人群。白天，在 Biscuits 等候早午餐的时间可能长达两小时。
“来自全国各地的黑人都聚集在这里，”BET 网络的前首席执行官兼董事长德博拉·李（Debra Lee）说道，她曾在往年的电影节中主持活动。“葡萄园岛的整体基调改变了。其他品牌也意识到了这一点。如果你想接触黑人群体，就来葡萄园岛。”
企业也在举办研讨会、放映会和派对，邀请了像 Laurie Lee、Robo Palmer 和 Glynn Turman 这样的演员。塔吉特（Target）赞助了《新的一天开始：黑人国家航空展》（A New Day Began: The Black National Airshow）这部短纪录片的放映；谷歌（Google）支持了《可能之艺：关于 Marian Rogers' Creath 从 Wolf 到 Responsible Ali 的遗产》（The Art of Possible: On Marian Rogers' Creath's Legacy from Wolf to Responsible Ali）；咨询公司麦肯锡（McKinsey）则主持了一场关于黑人孕产妇健康的对话。
卡特和 The Cut 在
曾经被称为家庭团聚的活动现在规模大得多。
埃德加顿的港湾景观酒店（Harbor View Hotel）举办了一场晚餐会，出席者包括卡特，她曾为《Google Fever》、《Maintain It》和《黑豹》等电影设计造型。
甚至包括 R&B 歌手、前 Destiny's Child 成员 LaTorte Lackett 在内的名人，似乎也准备好迎接工作了。“我觉得这可能是我的敲门砖，”Lackett 说道，“上帝让我窥见了未来的可能性。”
五年来，她每年夏天都和家人一起访问马萨葡萄园岛。“感觉在全美范围内不再是孤身一人了，”她说。
120 多年来，马萨葡萄园岛一直是黑人游客的度假区。从黑人捕鲸者到巴拉克·奥巴马，几代人纷纷涌向这座位于鳕鱼角（Cape Cod）的岛屿寻求休息与安宁。
20 多年前，当斯蒂芬妮·兰斯（Stephanie Rance）和她的丈夫弗洛伊德（Floyd）在葡萄园港的曼申豪斯酒店（Mansion House hotel）用 50 把折叠椅和一个五碟换碟机启动电影节时，他们延续了这种聚集的传统。
“当时经历了许多成长的阵痛，”弗洛伊德·兰斯说道。“在最初的 10 年里，我们还在了解这里的环境以及葡萄园岛不同的场馆和地点。当时的八月不像现在这样丰富且人口密集。”
此后，电影节迁至马萨葡萄园岛表演艺术中心，该中心可容纳近 600 人，今年正在放映来自 KBO 和 Netflix 的新片。兰斯家族基金会还宣布在霍华德大学设立一个电影与媒体奖学金。
“我原以为如果我做这件事，能帮我在迪士尼或华纳兄弟找到一份好工作，”斯蒂芬妮·兰斯说道，她曾辞去企业工作来抚养孩子。“这本该是我要去做的‘大事’。而现在，那些我曾经想去工作的公司反而给了我们资金。”
除了赞助商以及整个月期间举办的其他活动外，电影节展出的短片、剧集和纪录片数量也在增加。该电影节已成为放映关于黑人杰出人物纪录片的场所；其中包括艺术家让-米歇尔·巴斯奎亚特（Jean-Michel Basquiat）和罗马雷·布兰德斯（Romare Brandes），以及创造了“微侵犯”（microaggression）一词的学者切斯特·皮尔斯（Chester Pierce）。
今年还展出了如《Faden Goat》、《Parade》和《Seahorns》等叙事短片和长篇电影，使该电影节成为了黑人叙事的堡垒，也是保存非裔美国人故事工作的前沿。
纪录片导演希德·福克斯（Shid Fox）的作品在两年前的电影节上展映过，他说再次回来是非常值得的，因为可以听到“我们之中最聪明、最卓越的人才在讲座、新书推介、电影放映以及展示他们的艺术或服装作品时所发表的见解”。
但演员考特尼·B·万斯（Courtney B. Vance）则认为，这座岛屿对于该电影节来说可能已经变得太小了。他在参加了《W.E.B. Do Rats: Belted With a Cause》的放映后发表了演讲，这部电影他与杰弗里·赖特（Jeffrey Wright）、Cometron 和 Vio-Dovis 共同参演。
“这里的空间有时无法容纳所有到场的人，”万斯说。“我确信随着规模的扩大，它必须在空间上做出一些调整，以便让所有参与者都能获得愉快的体验。”（他买了一辆电动自行车以避开交通拥堵。）
当代摄影师凯莉·梅·伍恩斯（Carrie Mae Woons）认为，这座岛屿之所以能吸引这么多新人并让许多人再次光临，是因为它提供了一种许多非裔美国人在这个国家的其他地方难以轻易找到的自在感。
“我们有一个避风港，可以在海滩、餐厅和花园里聚集，”伍恩斯说。但她补充道，“这不仅仅是为了放松，也是为了学习。”
从左上角起顺时针方向依次为：弗洛伊德·兰斯（Floyd Rance）、露丝·E·卡特（Ruth E. Carter）、斯特凡妮·兰斯（Stephanie Rance）和林赛·皮普尔斯（Lindsey Peoples）在由凯莉和 The Cut 在玛莎葡萄园非裔美国人电影节期间主办的晚宴上；考特尼·B·万斯；艺术家凯莉·梅·伍恩斯（左）与埃里卡·洛维特（Erica Lovett）和多里安·琳恩·华莱士（Dorian Lynne Wallace）；卡米尔·A·布朗（Camille A. Brown）、娜塔莎·沃德（Natasha Ward）、万斯和卡特；一场在艾什韦尔海滩（Ashwell Beach）举办的活动；格林·特曼（Glynn Turman）；在海港景观酒店（Harbor View Hotel）举行的卡特晚宴。
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誓言
梅兰妮·米格尔 (MELANIE MIGUEL) 与 迈克尔·希洛 (MICHAEL SHILOH)
多年前离婚，如今再次结婚
作者：LESLIE KATZ
在 7 月 26 日与迈克尔·希洛（Michael Shiloh）结婚之前，梅兰妮·米格尔（Melanie Miguel）称他为自己的“多年且未来的丈夫”。
现在，他简单地成为了她的丈夫——这是第二次。
这对夫妇于 1999 年结婚，共同生活了 10 年，随后因一些财务和健康挑战，以及米格尔持久地希望探索她对女性的活动而分居。在第一次交换誓言 30 多年后，他们站在一个奶油色缎面胡帕（hoppah）帐篷下，在三个女儿和四个孙辈的环绕中，再次与对方结婚。米格尔 17 岁，希洛 75 岁。
“今天不仅仅是对一场婚礼的庆祝，”他们的二女儿伊维塔·西米（Ivita Simee）在仪式上说道，“这是对爱、韧性、宽恕以及第二次机会这一惊人礼物的庆祝。”
米格尔和希洛最初在 1984 年相识，当时他们都是旧金山犹太社区中心以及附近伯克利的一家舞蹈社区中心的以色列民俗舞蹈聚会的常客。
那时，米格尔已离婚，有两个女儿，分别 4 岁和 16 岁，在一家租赁集装箱的公司担任区域顾问助理。希洛当时已婚，从事硬件电子设计工作。
在民俗舞蹈活动中，两人在圆圈舞的爱之舞中多次擦肩而过。但他们当时仅仅是友好的熟人。
尽管如此，“我绝对注意到了梅兰妮，”希洛说。1986 年底，在与妻子分居后，他以寻求离婚应对建议为由，邀请米格尔共进晚餐。
“我当时非常害羞，”希洛说，“我以为如果我约梅兰妮出去约会，她会拒绝的。”
他们在旧金山的米申区（Mission District）约会了四次，两人都意识到自己想要共度更多时光。在第二次约会时，希洛访问了米格尔在旧金山的公寓，在那里她向他展示了她的“联合女士”——由她用粘土雕刻的三英寸女性小像。
“我们就坐在那里讨论直接艺术，”米格尔回忆道，“他说他认为自己也是一名艺术家，但不确定那会是什么样子。”如今，希洛是纽约大学阿布扎比分校的交互设计教授，他将机器零件转化为电磁作品，并创作探索社会与技术关系的艺术品。他的作品在世界各地展出。
希洛在耶路撒冷长大，母亲是英国人，父亲是美国人。他于 1977 年前往美国就读加州大学伯克利分校，获得了电气工程和计算机科学的联合学士学位。米格尔是旧金山本地人，她的家人在 20 世纪 80 年代在市中心定居，她在旧金山学院学习，随后在 10 岁时结婚并开始全职工作。
当她于 1991 年与希洛结婚时，他已完全接纳了她前段婚姻的两个女儿，两年后，这对夫妇迎来了第三个孩子。他们将随后的岁月描述为所有父母都经历的艰辛。但随着时间的推移，个人和共同的压力产生了影响。
米格尔患上了一种需要对双手进行手术的综合征，导致她不得不停止工作。后来，在接受家庭分娩助产员培训并担任论文期间，她发展出了一种严重的职业病，因为她反复接触到乳胶手套和其他医疗用品。仅仅是吸入这些微粒就可能使她面临潜在危及生命的过敏性反应。
梅兰妮·米格尔和迈克尔·希洛在 7 月 26 日于旧金山举行的婚礼上。这对夫妇于 1986 年首次结婚，在因各种挑战分居前共同生活了 10 年。
“它影响了一切：使用橡胶球的体育馆、鞋店，以及任何有气球的庆祝活动，”她说。“即使是鲁森（Ruthen）的手也能让我产生反应。这非常可怕。”
与此同时，希洛（Shiloh）也面临着自己的职业困境，他后来将其归因于未被诊断出的 A.D.R.D.。
“我当时没有意识到这一点，但对我来说，在脑海中维持大型且复杂的系统非常困难，结果导致我犯了很多错误，”他说。“多年来，我频繁地更换工作。”
工作的动荡动摇了他的自我认同，随之而来的财务问题迫使这对夫妇卖掉了他们位于旧金山萨门特区（Sament District）的房子。他们尽力支持彼此，但层层叠加的压力沉重地压在他们的关系上。
“我们承受着巨大的压力，”希洛说。
大约在同一时间，米格尔（Miguel）意识到，否认内心渴望与女性在一起的那部分自我，已经变成了一种她无法再忍受的自我禁锢。“我觉得自己被忽视了，”她说。“我的一部分生活在谎言之中。”
她与希洛分享了这些感受，两人于 1984 年分居，并在他们最小的女儿高中毕业后的 2012 年正式离婚。
“当梅兰妮（Melanie）说她觉得不能再和我结婚时，我非常、非常难过，但让她处于一个不快乐的境地是没有意义的，”希洛说。“我最希望她能获得幸福。”
米格尔和希洛保持着友好关系——在分居期间以及离婚之后都是如此。他曾有过一段 10 年的感情，而她与几位女性约会，其中一段关系持续了四年。在发现自己对教学有热情和天赋后，他在 10 年前接受了在阿拉伯联合酋长国的纽约大学（N.Y.U.）教学工作，这扩大了他们之间的物理距离。
然后，在 2023 年，一次旅行改变了一切。
那是为了庆祝他们孙子的成人礼（her mitzvah）而前往以色列的为期两周的家庭度假。米格尔和希洛像一个团队一样协作，计划并执行一项关于新铁工的新工作，两人共处的时间比过去几年都要多。他们意识到自己仍然如此享受对方的陪伴，而当旅行结束时，他们发现
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2026年7月28日：
地点：米格尔（Miguel）终身好友杰拉·卡罗琳娜（Jaira Carolina）及其丈夫本·博戈西安（Ben Borgosian）位于旧金山的家中。
关于戒指：在交换戒指时，希洛（Shiloh）将米格尔原有的金戒指套在了自己的手指上。由于希洛从事机器工作——这可能会刮花珠宝——他决定不再佩戴戒指。相反，新娘用一支黑色记号笔在他的左手无名指上画了一枚结婚戒指。
象征性的花卉：新娘的妹妹罗妮·米格尔（Ronnie Miguel）参考了 Ralick Wholesale Flowers 的课程设计了花艺布置。米格尔将无烟煤色作为现代场景的核心，以纪念已故的母亲露丝（Ruth），露丝 1953 年的婚礼则以粉色、红色和白色的热带植物为特色。
图片中的爱情故事：记录这对夫妇漫长关系的剪辑照片填满了日记本的页面，宾客们可以在其中分享祝贺和美好祝愿。封面装饰着“重新开始”字样。
在经历了许多人生教训后，决定将这一切重新来一遍。
他们彼此思念
他们的次女娜奥米·罗森布鲁姆（Naomi Rosenblum）与母亲分享了她的观察，认为她的父母配合得天衣无缝。她指出，两人都是拥有相似价值观的好奇艺术家。她提醒母亲，两人在分开期间都没有建立起持久的关系，而且希洛“是个极佳的选择”。
“在那次谈话之后，我就觉得：‘是的，我依然爱他。我从未真正停止过爱他，’”米格尔说道。她已从旧金山的一家老年辅助生活设施 Rehab Goldman Plaza 的健康服务经理职位上退休，现在将时间花在锤炼和选择更多暗示女性优先的经文上。
她开始想象再次成为伴侣会是什么样子。虽然这个计划让她充满活力，但她的酷儿（queer）身份对她而言依然很重要。罗森布鲁姆安慰母亲，她不需要给自己贴标签，应该在任何让她感到最真实的方式中定义自己。
“如今，关于酷儿身份的定义更加流动，”米格尔说。“我依然觉得自己是酷儿，且不拘泥于形式，但我依然爱这个男人。我对大多数男人没有吸引力，但我对迈克尔（Michael）有吸引力。”
当她告诉前配偶她想要回归时，“他非常兴奋。”这对夫妇的孩子和孙辈们也是如此。
米格尔说：“他们说：‘这太棒了。我们希望你快乐。现在我们可以同时见到你们两个了。现在你们谁都不会孤单了。’”
在 7 月 26 日这对夫妇的婚礼上，全家人的喜悦之情溢于言表。婚礼在旧金山一位朋友家的花园中举行。这对夫妇的两个孙辈和两个姐妹主持了派对，撑起了犹太婚礼顶篷，而他们最小的女儿汤米·希洛（Tommie Shiloh）在为此场合通过世界生命教会（Universal Life Church）获得授职后主持了仪式。
“我的父母一直拥有独特的和谐，”她告诉 10 位宾客，她的母亲和父亲显然情绪激动。“他们理解彼此的古怪，并尊重彼此的长处。”
“今天，”她说，“他们庆祝自己的过去，以及他们现在为共同生活的新篇章所带来的新体验。”她的姐姐赛姆斯（Simes）进一步阐述了这种情感。她说：“这是一种建立在经验、智慧以及自觉决定再次选择彼此之上的爱。”
希洛现在将时间分配在阿布扎比和旧金山湾区，米格尔在一年中的部分时间前往阿拉伯联合酋长国探望他。他们一致认为，他们所谓的“重新结合”（romarings）将使他们受益，因为随着时间的推移，他们已经几乎了解了真实的自我以及彼此。
“通过与他人在一起，我们更清楚地了解到什么对我们最重要，以及我们在彼此身上看到了哪些缺失的东西，”米格尔说。“我们现在的状态都好得多。我们学会了如何沟通并发现快乐的元素，以及真正地倾听彼此。”
在旧金山一个典型的晴朗日子里，酒店的宾客们在婚礼开始前穿过灰色的庄园。天气持续晴朗，亲友们在温暖的午后阳光下，于仪式结束后与米格尔（Miguel）和希洛（Shiloh）执手相见，共同分享这对伴侣在10年前初次建立的情谊。
其中有一场表演，伴奏歌曲是《Ma Nuru》，在希伯来语中意为“播种美丽”。
婚礼
亚历山德拉·亨斯勒 (Alexandra Hensler)。 谢泼德法官 (Justice Shepard)
为期四天的初次约会促成“我愿意”
在亚历山德拉·伊丽莎白·亨斯勒（Alexandra Elizabeth Hensler）与贾斯汀·谢泼德（Justice Daniel Shepard）于洛杉矶的一场派对上相识三天后，他们进行了一次午餐约会，而这次约会随后演变成了一场横跨两个州和多个城市的四天冒险之旅。
他们相识于 2022 年 7 月 26 日，当时谢泼德作为亨斯勒前经理的随行人员参加了派对。他们交换了社交媒体账号，派对结束后，谢泼德向亨斯勒发送消息邀请她共进午餐。
“几天后，他们在洛杉矶的 Alonzo 餐厅进行了午餐约会。他们度过了一段美好的时光，当亨斯勒得知谢泼德的生日即将到来时，‘我说我去洗手间，然后准备了更多东西。我为他准备了一个插着蜡烛的，’她回忆道。”
“当我看到它时，我心都融化了，”谢泼德说。
两人都希望约会能继续下去，于是亨斯勒再次给了他一个惊喜，建议他们来一场说走就走的公路旅行，前往拉斯维加斯。
尽管谢泼德后来承认自己更倾向于计划行程，但他在那一刻顺势而为，说道：“我喜欢随兴而至。”当天，在亨斯勒的住所出发后，他们踏上了旅程。
那天晚上在拉斯维加斯，他们前往 Strat 塔顶，计划乘坐 X-Scrums 过山车。但当天的运营已经结束。于是，颇具浪漫情怀的亨斯勒拿出手机播放法国爵士乐，“”亨斯勒说。在星空下，两人缓慢地分享并完成了他们的初吻。
第二天早上，两人都不希望这次冒险结束，亨斯勒建议他们开车前往加州的拉古纳海滩（Laguna Beach），为了庆祝谢泼德在 8 月 2 日的生日。于是他们再次出发，途中在 Target 商店停靠以购买一些必需品。
当他们抵达拉古纳海滩时，他们入住 Hotel Jangais 的一间客房，房内配有一台唱片机，他们用它循环播放海滩男孩（Beach Boys）的音乐。
那天深夜，他们去了海滩。“在他没注意的时候，我在加油站买了蜡烛，”亨斯勒说。“我把它们带到房间里，然后在午夜许愿并跳进海里。”
谢泼德说：“她的血液循环最差，而且不进冷水。但她为了我这么做了。”
在返回洛杉矶之前，他们在圣迭戈进行了最后一站停靠。
这对夫妇表示，他们漫长的初次约会并非偶然。“我们的第二次约会始于次日，即 8 月 4 日，并持续了三周，”亨斯勒说。
在相识仅两周后的 2022 年 8 月 22 日，两人正式确立关系，并第一次说了“我爱你”。
在那之后，“贾斯汀几乎立即就非正式地搬了进来，”亨斯勒说。“我们每个月不会分开度过一两个晚上。”他们现在在洛杉矶共同生活。
25 岁的亨斯勒是一名 YouTuber 和内容创作者，同时也是 Haga 公司的创始人，该公司销售手工资产以支持多种健康。她出生于加州 Llanpore，在贝克菲尔德（Bakerfield）和圣迭戈长大。
28 岁的谢泼德曾是一名工程师，现在也是一名专注于产品评论和学生学习技巧的内容创作者。他拥有加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的电气工程学士学位。谢泼德出生于科罗拉多州奥罗拉，在加州圣何塞长大。
2024 年 12 月 2 日，在一次自然之旅期间，在可爱岛（Kauai）的亨斯勒生日当天，谢泼德求婚了。亨斯勒说，她完全不知道求婚即将到来——直到飞往夏威夷的航班上。“我在飞机上看向他，看到他的笔记本电脑开着一封标题为‘惊喜求婚’的电子邮件，”亨斯勒说。但当她说自己什么都没看到时，谢泼德相信了她。
亨斯勒说，虽然这不是一个真正的惊喜，但这次求婚很完美：“贾斯汀发表了一段深情且浪漫的演说，由于两人都在哭，我们几乎无法听完，最后他单膝跪地问我是否愿意嫁给他。”她毫不犹豫地回答了。
这对夫妇于 8 月 22 日在拉古纳海滩市政厅结婚。“感觉就像一切真正开始的第一次，”
亨斯勒说道。Fractures 出席了这场由副市书记员谢丽尔·鲍德里奇主持的仪式，随后他们在墨西哥餐厅 Javeras 共进晚餐。
他们在 Jangais 酒店度过了夜晚，这里也是他们第一次旅行时入住的地方。他们计划在 9 月于意大利举办一场规模更大的婚礼庆祝活动。“旅行对于这段新使命来说是一件很有意义的事情，”亨斯勒说，“从我们的第一次约会开始就是如此。” 安妮·巴克（ANNY BUCK）
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誓言
为神经多样性新娘寻找理想礼服
贝丝·克拉克将她的沙龙改造为一个平静且对感官友好的空间。
作者：ALIX STRAUSS
贝丝·克拉克（Beth Clark）是 Bridal Chateau 的店主。这是一家专为神经多样性和感官敏感新娘设计的全方位婚纱精品店。她深知，挑选婚纱的体验可能会带来视觉上的冲击。
“婚纱店天然地包含了所有能想象到的感官触发因素，”63 岁的克拉克说道。“这里有强光、大声的音乐，到处都是镜子。还有嘈杂声、压力和回忆。人们在交叉交谈，而礼服本身就极其华丽！这对于神经多样性或有感官敏感的人来说，是非常令人不知所措的。”
Bridal Chateau 是一家位于纽约州威廉斯维尔（Williamsville, N.Y.）的家族企业，已有三代传承，距离布法罗（Buffalo）约 39 分钟车程，目前正在庆祝成立 50 周年。克拉克的祖母最初在纽约州迪普（Depew, N.Y.）的家中开始经营，随后在 1976 年搬进了一处经过翻修的旧车库。到 90 年代初，店面规模扩大了一倍。
克拉克 11 岁的儿子格雷森（Grayson）是这次针对神经多样性和感官友好改造的灵感来源；他于 2022 年被诊断出患有 A.D.I.D.，一年后被诊断出患有自闭症。
如今，这家 6,500 平方英尺的店面已被改造为一个平静的空间。
“神经多样性涵盖了自闭症、多动症、创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）、强迫症（O.C.D.）、感官处理障碍等，”她说。“我对店面所做的一切改进，都是为了确保每位新娘都能感到舒适。”
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您的改造变革是如何开始的？
2010 年，由于 Covid 导致停业三个月。这给了我时间去研究并观察业务的运作方式。我们的第一个重大转变是提供全方位服务。
在位于纽约州威廉斯维尔的店里，贝丝·克拉克调暗了顶灯，降低了音乐音量，并移除了插电式香氛。
对此的反应极其积极。然后我们就想，“还能做些什么？”因为我们拥有 500 件婚纱，是大多数店铺的三倍，所以我决定只专注于新娘，并建议不再提供新娘母亲、伴娘或礼服选项。随后，我们将接待模式从随到随进改为仅限预约。
我儿子的诊断让我意识到许多我可以改变的事情。他过去常说：“我的大脑很幸运。”我想，也许我们的新娘也有同样的感受。
您做了哪些环境上的改变？
主空间现在可以容纳轮椅，海报上展示了不同尺寸、肤色和残障情况的新娘；我们希望每个人都能看到自己结婚的样子。我调暗了顶灯，降低了音乐音量，并移除了插电式香氛。
试衣间原本是相邻的，现在被分开了，这样新娘就不会被干扰。三个试衣间都配备了可调节的灯光和音乐，并涂成了柔和的色调。其中一间房配备了可拆卸的镜子，供患有身体意象障碍的人使用；另一间房则设有扶手和壁挂式长凳，方便轮椅使用者。我们的试衣间设有窗帘或摆门，方便人们开启。
在与神经多样性和感官敏感新娘合作时，目标是什么？
根据新娘的反馈，尽可能地剔除选项，以免她们感到过度压力。如果压力过大，她们会僵住、卡壳或陷入崩溃状态。而这本应是一次愉快且有趣的体验。
您的典型流程是怎样的？
大多数新娘会浏览我们的网站，网站设计简洁，没有冗余环节，新娘可以轻松找到信息。接下来的步骤非常简练，采用黑白配色以减少视觉过度刺激，并带有“神经多样性友好”或“我们提供便利设施”等关键词。我们的反馈机制特意设计得易于操作，新娘可以收藏她们最喜欢的礼服，这些信息会保存在她们的个人资料中供我们查看。
造型师会给新娘打电话，询问她们的爱情故事、礼服灵感，以及在预约期间是否有任何我们可以提供便利的地方。如果对方提供了“便利需求”或“ sophomore”（此处指特定需求类别），我们会将其视为询问其需求的许可。她们可能会说：“我对触觉很敏感”，这样我们就知道不要准备那些会引起瘙痒的礼服。
你们的礼服是如何分类整理的？
我们的礼服按价格区间分类，我们发现这在当前的经济环境下最为重要。当她们前来试穿时，会对投资持谨慎态度。我们一次会提供更多不同的选择，以便进行视觉对比，并了解新娘可能想要什么以及需要什么，而不会让他们感到过于压力。我们的平均标准是三组三件。
对于触觉和感官敏感的人来说，什么样的礼服最受欢迎？
法式礼服在本质上是无条件的。那里有静止感、沉重感、刺痒的面料和僵硬的腰带，这些都可能触发反应并导致神经系统过载。
有些新娘想要像加重毯那样的感觉，因为这能减轻焦虑并让她们感到踏实。而另一些人则觉得那种挤压感过于刺激。心理视频（此处原文为 Mental video，疑似 OCR 误识）就像带有探戈底色的面霜和腮红，配上一件经典、柔软的一体式礼服。但最常见的表现是纯粹且未经涂层的，像尚蒂伊（Chantilly）那样温柔的薄纱，或者是弹性面料，因为它们轻盈且随身而动。这种贴合度更轻，对身体几乎没有感觉。
我们还会增加口袋，作为放置双手、指尖玩具或压力球的安全措施，这会让新娘感到更舒适。
为什么你如此热衷于创造这样一个特定的环境？
一旦你看到了障碍，你就无法视而不见。我关注这些障碍是因为我的儿子。我现在意识到这些障碍是如何在我的业务中以及在我们之间发生的。在蓝色中（此处原文为 In blue，疑似 OCR 误识）。我的业务从来不仅仅是为了礼服。而是关于“我如何让每位新娘感受到更多？”我是在爱中工作。我不是要求新娘去适应我们的世界，而是试图创造一个适合她们的世界。
你认为为什么感官需求正成为婚纱购物对话中更重要的一部分？
这些敏感性一直存在，但我们以前不知道。年长的一代被告知不要抱怨，要强行忍受。与 Gus（此处指特定群体或人物）合作，提升了自我意识。她们会表达自己的需求。她们也更加关注自我照顾。她们正在使这种对话正常化。婚礼交付终于迎来了我们所处的状态：以客户为中心而非以业务为中心，而我们的客户体验正是驱动力。
婚礼
凯特·贝利 (Cait Bailey), 马里奥·卡博内 (Mario Carbone)
从临时订位到终身羁绊
2000年5月3日，凯特琳·贝利（Caitlin Bailey）与她的朋友——演员兼企业家斯基普·米切尔（Skip Mitchell）在曼哈顿筹备一场工作活动，期间他们讨论去哪里吃晚餐。
米切尔建议去 Carbone，一家位于格林威治村（Greenwich Village）的热门意大利餐厅。贝利笑了，她确信临时订位是不可能的。但米切尔认识那里的一位朋友，所以当他们到达时，店员告诉他们他们的“桌位”在后屋等着，这让贝利感到很困惑。
她当时并不知道，那位朋友正是 Carbone 餐厅的所有者之一马里奥·卡博内（Mario Carbone）之子，他当时正在庆祝朋友的生日，并邀请米切尔和贝利共餐。尽管贝利和卡博内当时都没有在寻找约会对象，但他们立即产生了共鸣，交谈欢笑了好几个小时。
几天后，贝利前往纳什维尔庆祝她的20岁生日，在那里她接到了一个意外电话。是卡博内，他在两人相遇的那晚将日期保存在了手机里，现在打电话祝她生日快乐。他还想在她回纽约后帮她举办一场派对。在24小时内，他们就在他位于卡拉巴酒店（Calabar Hotel）的餐厅 Dirty French 为她组织好了生日派对。“那一整晚我都和马里奥坐在角落里聊天，”贝利说道。
6月15日，卡博内邀请贝利去 ZZ's Clam Run，格林威治村的一家蛤蜊餐厅。贝利以为这只是次随意的聚会，于是带上了一位朋友，结果发现餐厅氛围私密且点燃了烛光。“我想我在邀请她时可能表现得太随意了，”卡博内说。
他们的第一次正式约会是在7月13日，当时贝利邀请卡博内陪她参加在马里兰州的一次法式聚会。在那里，她向他介绍了传统的螃蟹盛宴。“我面前摆着另一盘塞满螃蟹的盘子和一个锤子，我还穿着西装，”卡博内回忆道，“尽管我从小在纽约长大，但我从未这样吃过螃蟹。”
“他陪我挑了几个小时的细小蟹肉，我们觉得这太有趣了，”贝利说。那个周末，他第一次见到了她的全家人。
现年32岁的贝利是一名独立品牌战略师，在迈阿密和纽约工作，并在洛杉矶有房产。她在巴尔的摩长大，获得了乔治亚南方大学（Georgia Southern University）的传播学学士学位。
现年45岁的卡博内是 Major Food Group 的管理合伙人，这是一家全球性的餐饮和酒店公司。他在皇后区长大，获得了纽约州蒙特帕克（Monte Park, N.Y.）美国烹饪学院（Culinary Institute of America）的烹饪艺术学士学位。
2020年，当冠状病毒疫情几乎导致餐饮业停摆时，他的公司决定当年最好的选择是在迈阿密建立基地。作为一名土生土长的纽约人，卡博内将首次搬迁，他知道这对贝利来说是一个巨大的要求。“我们要走了——我现在就收拾行李，”贝利回忆起她对他说的这句话，“这就是我们作为伴侣所做的，去爱和支持对方，只要能和他在一起，我在哪里并不重要。”
到2026年11月20日，他们已经搬到了迈阿密。他们现在与爱犬 Races 住在迈阿密海滩。
2024年7月14日，在他们一年一度的意大利之旅中，卡博内在卡普里岛（Capri）租用的 Gilfoats 别墅里，用一枚梨形钻石戒指向贝利求婚。
本月，即8月14日，副书记让·圣弗卢尔（Jean St. Flour）在迈阿密的约瑟夫·卡莱布中心（Joseph Caleb Center）主持了他们的民事法律仪式。
他们在8月1日于西西里岛巴勒莫的 Santa Maria delle Sponime 举行了婚礼庆祝活动，共有120位宾客出席。在弦乐四重奏演奏的基督教音乐中，贝利在父亲大卫·贝利（David Bailey）的陪伴下走过婚礼甬道。
迈阿密 Veno 教堂的 Punny Rich Wilkerson Jr. 主持了仪式，这对夫妇的朋友 Filippo Testa 进行了意大利式的祝福。随后，宾客们被接往巴格埃里亚（Bagheria）的 Villa Valparceno 参加意大利式招待会。在那里，Carbone 用他旗下俱乐部之一准备的 injury rigoured 给宾客们带来了惊喜。“我系上围裙，为每个人服务，”他说。
现场乐队伴随着家庭舞者演出，随后宾客们跳起了 steamship，这是一种传统的意大利集体舞，引导他们穿过舞池。词曲作者、说唱歌手兼鼓手 Anderson Peak 以 D.J. Pee. Wee 的身份进行表演，随后是意大利音乐组合 Mind Enterprises 以及音乐组合 Soft Talker 的 Tucker Halpern，他们一直演奏到 exercise。
“作为一对伴侣，我们已经共同生活了很多年，现在是八年了，”Carbone 说。“这个周末能与我们所有最亲近的人在一起庆祝，感觉就像我们要开启的一本书的第一章。” 2025 / 6.4.02
Sydney Davis, Morgan DeBriecat
她是她的第一个，也是最后一个女朋友
当摩根·玛丽·德布里卡特（Morgan Mary DeBriecat，左）在 2021 年 11 月在 Hinge 上收到悉尼·玛丽·戴维斯（Sydney Marie Davis）的一朵玫瑰时，她花了将近两周的时间才做出回应。当时，德布里卡特刚刚开始在软件上刷女性，因此她对回复感到犹豫。“当我发现玛丽以前从未和女性约会，而且我是她的第一个时，我有点紧张，”戴维斯说。“但和她在一起的感觉如此自然，所以我愿意尝试下去。”
这对当时住在德克萨斯州奥斯汀的“玫瑰女性”的第一次约会完全没有计划。在 Hinge 上聊了两周后，戴维斯告诉德布里卡特，她正考虑请一天假，因为那是她哥哥凯利（Kellee）自 2021 年 3 月去世后的第一个生日。
德布里卡特当时在居家办公，她邀请戴维斯如果不想独处的话可以过来。当戴维斯接受邀请时，她感到惊喜。
“我还记得走到那个地方见她时我有多紧张，”德布里卡特说。“那时我还没有公开出柜，而悉尼是我第一个真正以这种方式交流的女性，所以那一刻包含了许多情绪和紧张。但当我见到她的那一秒，所有这些立刻消失了。尽管那天她承受着沉重的情绪负担，但她依然非常热情、善良，让人感到自在。”
德布里卡特原以为只是陪伴彼此一两个小时，结果变成了整整一天，并一直延续到深夜。
“现在回想起来，我们关系的开始方式非常有意义，”德布里卡特说。“它不是围绕着某个完美计划的初次约会或宏大举措展开的。它始于脆弱感、舒适感以及简单的陪伴，在很多方面，这至今仍定义着我们的关系。”
36 岁的德布里卡特在密歇根州诺斯维尔长大，目前是服装公司 Miami's Chicago County Call 的高级创意总监。她拥有密歇根州立大学的广告学学士学位。
31 岁的戴维斯在休斯顿长大，拥有德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的企业传播学学士学位。她在总部位于旧金山的 Omni Analytics 担任首席招聘人员，以远程办公形式工作。
2021 年 6 月，在约会一年后，德布里卡特和三位女性在奥斯汀的一套新公寓中。一年后，德布里卡特接受了一份在博兹曼的工作，自 2024 年 8 月起，这对情侣一直住在那里。
2022 年 2 月，在密歇根州弗雷的 Sage Lodge 为戴维斯庆祝 39 岁生日时，德布里卡特向戴维斯求婚。
“我们关系中比较沉重的一点是成为她的女朋友，从那时起，谁会先求婚就成了我们之间一个持续的笑话，”德布里卡特说。“尽管我们经常拿这个开玩笑，但我一直知道我想成为那个向她求婚的人。”
在 2023 年 10 月的一次奥斯汀之旅中，戴维斯在俯瞰城市的桥上向德布里卡特求婚，她雇佣的一位婚礼摄影师记录下了这一时刻。随后，她们前往 Nido 共进晚餐，最亲密的朋友们在那里等待庆祝。
“我知道我想在奥斯汀求婚，因为那是我们 2021 年初次相遇的地方，”戴维斯说。“将这样一个重要的时刻带回我们故事开始的地方，感觉格外有意义。”
这对情侣于 8 月 8 日在密歇根州贝湾港的 One at Bay Harbor 结婚，由她们的朋友帕里斯·迪林格（Paris Dieringue）主持，后者为此场合通过美国婚姻部（American Marriage Ministries）获得了授权。
她们被 10 位家人和朋友环绕，这些人共同见证并支持这对情侣的旅程。“我们的婚礼是德布里卡特更多地是关于创造一个真正像我们的周末，”德布里卡特说。“我们希望整个庆祝活动感觉温暖、沉浸，并且对我们的关系以及我们爱的人来说都具有深刻的个人意义。”
这场婚礼在仪式和招待会全程都充满了体贴的细节，从电贝斯手和萨克斯演奏者的五场表演，到长达半小时的烟花表演。然而，最私人化的细节是他们为每位宾客准备的手写信，向每一位前来庆祝的亲友表达了个人的感激之情。
由于旅行和冒险是他们关系的内核，这对夫妇计划在 8 月底搬到橙县工作。
“加利福尼亚是一个全新的篇章，我们知道它会有自己的起伏，”戴维斯说。“但如果搬到蒙大拿州教会了我什么，那就是只要我们在一起，我们就会充分利用每一个时刻。”
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开发中：艺术、新闻与生活的交汇新作。
在名为“愤怒”的超现实主义电影感展览中，常驻墨西哥城的摄影师 Tania Franco Klein 探索了愤怒的心理潜意识。她剥离了场景的个体特征和背景，她的女性主体（包括她自己）穿着相似，目光疏离，仿佛在被相机捕捉。“成年后，我的大脑被其他的目光所劫持，”她说。但出现在图像中是一种宣泄。“这是一种解放，也是一种成长。”
脚注：像巨型黄油雕塑一样纯正的美国味
制作蜂蜡蜡烛、黄油牛雕塑、猪赛跑、咖啡蛋糕烘焙大赛、爱国主义土豆头组装、呼唤丈夫大赛——面对如此之多的竞赛项目，美国人每年成群结队地涌向博览会也就不足为奇了。美国第一个州博览会于 1841 年在纽约举行，旨在庆祝该地区的农产品。随着这一理念的传播，各博览会增加了自己的传统，且多年来情况发生了变化。淘汰掉的是：作为入场券的战争邮票、火车相撞表演；增加进来的是：电子竞技、大麻竞赛。以下是关于博览会的一些值得聆听和观看的内容。
观看
《深炸王朝》
究竟有多少食物能从深炸锅中获益？这部来自 A&E 的系列节目将观众带到德克萨斯州博览会——这是美国规模最大的博览会，每年吸引 200 万人参加——在这里，炸奥利奥、炸龙虾，当然还有炸黄油等创新食品在售。
聆听
《在博览会遇见我》
在 2024 年这一集《这就是美国生活》中，制作人们采访了爱荷华州博览会的参与者——一名决心赢得骑马射击比赛的男子、一名新手食品摊主以及展示宠物兔的孩子们——以了解博览会对他们意味着什么。
聆听
《衡量标准：黄油婴儿与州博览会竞赛》
在 20 世纪 10 年代，明尼苏达州博览会举办过“最佳婴儿”竞赛。这集播客《揭秘明尼苏达》解释了这如何成为一项旨在教育母亲关注高婴儿死亡率运动的一部分。
《让我们一起去世界博览会》
作为博览会的永恒象征，摩天轮在 1893 年的芝加哥世界博览会上首次亮相。这集播客《你应该知道的事》探索了在这些全球展览中出现的其他发明，从电话到现代拉链。
莫琳·道德 (MAUREEN DOWD)
娜塔莉的疯狂痴迷
华盛顿
我的职业生涯一直是在观察官员们如何通过操纵和策划来接近总统。但我从未见过像三年前娜塔莉·哈普（Natalie Harp）追赶特朗普总统高尔夫球车那样的照片。我也从未听说过有工作人员跳进全地形车（A.V.T.）后备箱的，但哈普在被拒绝进入车队时就这样做了。
一部名为《痴迷》（Obsession）的恐怖电影讲述了一个男人渴望得到一名年轻女性更多崇拜，而该女性陷入他的魔咒并以一种不道德的方式满足他的故事；而现在，这一幕正在宾夕法尼亚大道上上演。
和其他人一样，当我第一次听到佐治亚州民主党参议员乔·奥索夫（Joe Ossoff）提到特朗普喜欢与“娜塔莉在一起”时，我感到一阵不安。他是否在毫无必要地将这种带有色情意味的关注点投向白宫的走廊？
但事实证明，奥索夫用这简单的几个词拨动了一根弦，揭开了特朗普白宫最核心圈子里一些真正阴暗且受损的东西。
总统倾向于让自己被谄媚之徒——以及年轻漂亮的女性——所包围，这一点众所周知。
但这正是特朗普本质上所渴望的：富有且强大的领导者与他最忠诚的追随者，自恋者与他最能奉承他的镜子。
哈普是一位虔诚的基督徒房地产经纪人的女儿，其父在疫情期间自杀身亡。她以一种罕见的狂热崇拜着特朗普。作为他的社交媒体协调员之一，她一天中的大部分时间以及经常在晚上陪伴在他身边，且从不休息。《纽约时报》的玛吉·哈伯曼（Maggie Haberman）称哈普为这个“巨婴”总统的“安抚奶嘴”。
哈普被昵称为——且自称为——“人体遮瑕膏”，因为她随身携带一个便携式遮瑕膏跟着特朗普到处走
这位“人类底本”在运转——但墨水未干。
哈伯曼表示，为了向他提供任何正面报道或推文的纸质副本，外国领导人也试图将哈普作为接触特朗普的渠道。
正如哈伯曼和乔纳森·斯旺在他们的大作《政权更迭》（Regime Change）中所报道的，特朗普告诉他的员工，哈普是唯一像他的妻子和孩子那样爱他的人。“她永远不会离开我，”他会对其他工作人员这样说。
哈普在 2019 年首次引起他的注意，当时她在福克斯新闻（Fox News）上讲述了特朗普如何通过《尝试权法案》（Right to Try Act）帮助她挽救生命，她表示该法案让她能够接受骨癌的实验性治疗。
在 2021 年开始致力于特朗普的复位工作之前，哈普是极右翼 16th and 的主播，并证明选举被窃取的说法。这位获胜者，她是那个加入随后视频的人，该视频将特朗普描绘成丛林之王，而将奥巴马夫妇描绘成间谍。
奥索夫上周末在亚特兰大的一次演讲中，用他的娜塔莉·哈普-森（Natalie Harp-son）攻击了特朗普。在经历了多年地试图寻找如何触怒特朗普的方法，而特朗普则变得越来越具破坏性和失控，民主党人现在没有心情遵循米歇尔·奥巴马的格言——“当他们卑劣时，我们要高尚”。他们很乐意将娜塔莉拖入陷阱。
但最终击垮娜塔莉的是 MAGA 的扩音器。白宫显然对特朗普与其 25 岁、1933 39 岁社交媒体助手之间的亲密关系之暗示感到不安。梅拉尼娅甚至罕见地现身以展示夫妻关系的稳固。
此前，当总统在面临伊朗暗杀威胁，乘坐餐饮车并更换飞机从土耳其飞回华盛顿特区时，他选择了哈普和几名其他亲信随行，这让哈普成为了头条新闻。令人心酸的是，马可·鲁比奥、斯科特·贝森特和媒体被留在了另一架飞机上，像废弃物一样。
MAGA 对奥索夫的激烈反应，是典型的 macho 式霸凌漫画，却有一种可疑的“过度抗议”之感。白宫称奥索夫为“脆皮的、女性化的戏剧孩子”，并称特朗普需要他作为免费的爱之疗法（这表明他已经失去了起那些简短而有效的绰号的能力）。
在白宫记者克里斯汀·梅尔策询问奥索夫的批评后，白宫诡异地闪烁着：“有一天，你的孩子们永远不会像你这样令人厌恶且带有暗示性。我不确定是否有人和天赋，我做不到。我不能如此冷酷且非常好，我不困扰。”
但白宫的事情是，由白宫组成的唯一哈普询问派对，它将花费大约一半的情绪男人——忘记打电话并被他人的批评所伤害。
“你对我来说就是一切，我想让你安定下来，”塞恩说，“我是大城市的守护者，并被束缚在生命中。”
她恳求道：“我们不应该一直谈论工作！”以及将“听到每一次对话”置于他那里。
哈普引用《傲慢与》来说，如果她没有在特朗普这样一个如此“值得”的人那里寻求依靠，失去父亲将会很困难。“而且，我要补充，”她最后写道，“是不值得的人是我。”
这是一个完美的关系。她认为他很神奇。而他也同意。
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安迪·贝希尔是下一个比尔·克林顿吗？
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在这些电话中，成为安迪·贝希尔（Andy Beshear）可能有点尴尬，因为几乎每个访客都会用怀疑的目光审视他，并思考：这家伙具备总统潜质吗？
当我与这位肯塔基州州长在他的办公室里进行一次一个多小时的非正式交谈时，我观察着他的灰色（生活在没有交叉点的情况下），聊了聊墙上挂着的肯塔基州喧嚣的场景和忏悔。他是下一个比尔·克林顿吗？或者他只是我几十年来见过的长串潜在总统候选人中的又一个——那些能吸引所有人，但唯独吸引不了实际选民的人？
虽然贝希尔在全国范围内并不那么出名，但他在赢得选举方面是广为人知的。贝希尔不仅是在肯塔基州——一个深红州——当选州长的民主党人，而且今年他还成功地让当地选民给了他民主党州长中最高的支持率。
对于渴望在 2026 年赢回白宫，并修复党派在广大乡村地区糟糕形象的民主党人来说，贝希尔是一个令人兴奋的提醒：民主党确实有可能在那些不仅是人口聚集地而且能产生选票的州获胜。贝希尔与参议员麦康奈尔（McConnell）来自同一个州，但贝希尔在肯塔基州选民中的支持率是后者的三倍多。
我接触贝希尔是为了试图了解他作为 2026 年总统候选人会是什么样子，以及他能提供什么教训？为了赢得独立选民和工人阶级选民，我询问他如何解释自己在一个在 2024 年让唐纳德·特朗普以近 30 个百分点的优势获胜的红州中，作为一名民主党人能取得成功。
他表示，重点在于创造就业机会和提高福祉。他补充道：“我绝大部分时间都花在对 500 percent 的民众至关重要的事情上。如果我为某个社区带来一家新工厂，这无关民主党或共和党，这对每个人都有好处。”
“这是他的第一个原则。”他说，第二个原则是说简单的英语。
“你能想象走到某人面前说，‘我很遗憾您因为物质使用障碍而失去了您所爱的人’吗？”他问道，“他们会回头看着你说，‘我的孩子死于毒瘾’。”
当然，贝希尔所说的不仅是简单的英语，而是政治家的英语。他在信息传递上非常有纪律，对记者很礼貌，并且在避免争议性话题方面很稳健，这在某种程度上可能会让记者觉得他有点乏味。但话又说回来，在经历过特朗普之后，也许我们都需要一点纪律，并且可以在白宫偶尔享受一个平静日。
贝希尔很自然地谈论上帝和信仰（他经常去教堂），并且他避免了自由派有时对美国工人阶级采取的谴责态度。但他的立场比人们预期的要更自由：他不是肯塔基版的曼丘，而是处于民主党光谱的某种末端。
作为州长，贝希尔否决了一项 25 周的堕胎禁令（立法机构推翻了他的否决），并且一直是肯塔基州近乎全面禁止堕胎政策的强烈批评者。他否决了共和党的法案，这些法案会对跨性别女孩和男孩产生广泛影响，例如限制使用洗手间。
一位红州民主党州长的启示
贝希尔通过使用与保守派相契合的语言来解释他在跨性别问题上的自由派立场，从而规避了文化战争。
“我相信所有的孩子都是上帝的孩子，”他在解释保护跨性别青少年的动机时说道。他补充说，在否决一项重大的反跨性别法案后，“我赢得了有史以来最微小的票数差距。”
贝希尔在肯塔基州政坛拥有巨大的优势，因为他的父亲史蒂夫·贝希尔（Steve Beshear）曾在 1987 到 2015. 年间担任两届深受欢迎的州长。他在 2015, 当选为总检察长，四年后，他面对一位不受欢迎的共和党州长参选，并以不足一个百分点的优势获胜。他一直专注于为肯塔基州带来优质就业机会并解决实际问题，即使是他的批评者也承认他是一位优秀的父亲和讲述者——尽管共和党人嗤之以鼻，认为他大多是在为共和党坚持认为属于他们的经济收入分配成果抢功。
我的感觉是，贝希尔通过推动就业确实取得了成就。他给人的印象是一个务实主义者，在领导一项促进经济发展的重大努力之余，深切关注健康成果。无论是在担任总检察长还是州长期间，他都擅长识别能引起公众共鸣的问题。这些问题包括资本诉讼、教育以及强奸检测试剂盒的检测。
教育是我充满热情的议题。虽然尚不清楚贝希尔应为此获得多少功劳，但肯塔基州在阅读和数学方面从疫情中恢复学校表现最好的 10 个州之列。
——考虑到其资金投入如此匮乏，这是一个令人印象深刻的记录。（贝希尔成功推动将教师薪资从极低水平提高，改善了职业培训计划，并引入了对所有人都有利的事项。）根据城市研究所（Urban Institute）对调整了贫困等人口统计学因素后的测试分数分析，肯塔基州的小学生阅读能力优于加利福尼亚州或纽约州的学生。
贝希尔表示，在 11 月选举后的某个时间点之前，他不会决定是否竞选总统，但他已经表现得像一名候选人。他的新书《去这样做吧：我们如何治愈一个分裂的国家》（Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Bodese Country）将于下个月出版。此外，作为民主党州长协会的主席，他正在会见全国范围内的捐赠者并积累资源。
他能发表精彩且激昂的演说，
他用大量的红州色彩满足民主党听众；他并不回避对特朗普的猛烈抨击。当阿尔·夏普顿（Al Sharpton）牧师邀请潜在的民主党候选人在 4 月前往纽约，向由其民权组织召集的主要是黑人的听众发表讲话时，贝希尔脱颖而出。“我必须停止说黑人选民对民主党初选至关重要，”因此贝希尔在这一点上以及党内决定 2026 年首场初选将在南卡罗来纳州举行这一事实上可能拥有优势。
“如果说有一个人令人刮目相看，那就是贝希尔，”夏普顿随后说道，他对他是否能复制另一位南方州长克林顿在 1952 年的魔力表示好奇。
三月。
我觉得贝希尔聪明、口才好、稳重，而且对于那些不那么稳重的民主党人来说，这或许是最重要的。我认为他对于如何在不牺牲核心价值观的情况下赢回工人阶级选民思考得非常周详。虽然目前没有公开迹象表明他参与竞选，但在我看来，他具备某种吸引力，尽管没有克林顿那种绝对的自信，也没有巴拉克·奥巴马那样显而易见的才智。
一些民主党人希望一名进步派的总统提名人，以吸引基本盘，并且据他们说，增加选民投票率。我对这种方法非常怀疑。我想要一名能够吸引少数几个对大选至关重要的摇摆州工人阶级选民的提名人。
当我思考谁能赢得北卡罗来纳州、 和宾夕法尼亚州选民的心时，贝希尔会在我的名单前列。乔治亚州的乔·古德富（Joe Goodf）也是如此，尽管对于一名立法者来说，比起一名参议员，可能更容易在竞选中对抗华盛顿和现状。
然而，人们对许多其他不久前还被记得的政治人物也说过类似的话。霍华德·邓在2004年民主党提名竞选的早期阶段曾处于领先地位，而约翰·爱德华兹也曾被认为是下一个克林顿。贝希尔在一个小州很受欢迎，但我们谁也不知道他在全国舞台上的表现如何。他在外交事务方面几乎没有背景，在我们的对话中，当我问他关于中东和向以色列出售武器的问题时，他的表现最弱；他的回答相当敷衍。
如果他竞选总统，进步派的民主党初选选民可能会对他这种带有交易色彩的风格持怀疑态度。我询问了他的一些保守立场：我问他，考虑到他曾表示在理论上支持死刑（尽管实际上没有执行过任何人），并且将自己描述为第二修正案的“坚定捍卫者”以及攻击性武器禁令的反对者（称该禁令对肯塔基州来说是不“正确”的），他如何在民主党初选中取得成功。
贝希尔反驳道，并指出他一直主张通过“红旗法”将枪支从可能对自己或他人造成危险的人手中移走。“而且让我告诉你，”他补充道，“在肯塔基州支持红旗法比在加利福尼亚州支持攻击性武器禁令需要更多的勇气。”关于这一点，他可能是正确的。
他是最像克林顿的人吗？我不知道。但贝希尔展现出了激情与同情心，而且到目前为止，他能够触达工人阶级选民。我对他的印象很深。
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特朗普的复仇之欲正演变为一种面相
特朗普总统在未出局任期内的主要目标是复仇。
特朗普被这种复仇的暗示所困扰。它定义了他的第二个任期的最初时刻。复仇针对的是第二个特朗普最糟糕冲动的销售和离岸。复仇针对的是那些挑战其违法行为的官僚和“快速启动”代理人。复仇针对的是那些对他和国家进行起诉的检察官。这种情况就是强制力。复仇针对的是少数投票支持弹劾和定罪他的共和党人，以及在1月8.后抛弃他的人。最后，也是复仇针对美国人民，因为他们在2020年对他进行了报告，并给他的自尊心带来了沉重打击。
复仇塑造了总统的优先事项，驱动他的行动，并构建了他政府的决策结构。当特朗普将联邦政府的力量转向那些违抗他意愿的美国人时，这种方法表现得最为明显。
以埃德马尔·阿尔曼德-阿布雷戈·加西亚（Edmar Armande-Abrego Garcia）为例。他本应消失——被非法运送到一个外国指定地，并被留在该行政当局严酷的依赖计划的一部分中讨价还价。但在政府和立法者的帮助下，阿布雷戈·加西亚进行了反击。
他不仅成功挑战了自己的被驱逐和被捕，还赢得了最高法院的一致裁决。联邦政府被迫协助他返回美国。不久之后，美国司法部（DOJ）宣布了他的结论，他再次被监禁。他也对此进行了抗争。1962,年，一名法官驳回了针对他的刑事案件。
白宫这种类似艾滋病的疯狂在于，它对阿布雷戈·加西亚的追捕可能使其看起来像是近80%的刑事主谋。但他不是。他只是一个普通人，一个社区的劳动成员，恰好成为了总统驱逐机器的一个容易攻击的目标。
他本应成为一个榜样——一个
警告移民（无论合法与否）离开这个国家或承受后果的警告。通过挑战该行政当局并在法庭上获胜，阿布雷戈·加西亚威胁到了总统的计划。面对特朗普专制的权力滥用，他成为了反抗的象征。这就是为什么特朗普政府不愿罢休。特朗普试图摧毁阿布雷戈·加西亚，而当他不能做到时，他将将其定位为同僚的优先事项。这与其说是政策制定，不如说是执念。
阿布雷戈·加西亚并非孤例。特朗普还在追求一场针对大卫·希恩（David Hearn）的私仇，后者曾是一名奥运食堂人员。希恩被指控破坏了林肯纪念堂的反思池，该池在总统尝试翻修后处于失修状态。
由于无法为自己的错误和失败承担责任，特朗普将责—。
复仇塑造了总统的优先事项并驱动其行为。
指名下属，且似乎已命令美国司法部（DOJ）对其他人提起指控。不用担心，当我们被指控撕掉了一块吊舱内衬时，针对破坏行为指控的处罚是不成立的，且被逮捕了。
但没有证据表明 Hearn 做错了任何事。吊舱的问题是由于工艺糟糕和质量控制不力造成的。甚至美国司法部也被迫承认，损坏是由于“安装缺陷”导致的结果。华盛顿特区美国检察官 Jimmie Price
撤销了指控。特朗普对此感到愤怒。
特朗普绝非第一个滥用联邦政府执法权力来追求狭隘利益和党派怨恨的人。特朗普政府的故事，在某种程度上，是与我们过去最糟糕部分的延续。然而，这种延续与新奇并存。特朗普并不认为自己是一个拥有职权、领导政府的人，而更多地将自己视为一个人物。而政府则是他个人的延伸。他是国王，而政府是他的两个身体之一。
在针对 Abrego Garcia 或 Hearn 的十字军东征中，看不到任何可察觉的国家利益。这些都是个人案例，完全由特朗普的怨恨、他的复仇欲望，以及他为了抚平自身心理创伤而产生的迫切需求所塑造。
诚然，这个政府内部存在真正的信徒，但顶端的那个人并没有这样的抱负。他在那里仅仅是为了他自己。在他看来，其政府的主要目标是创造一个全新的、更温和的追求——永远不丢面子，并对任何可能损害其自我意识的人进行报复。
Hearn 特朗普对伊朗失败的战争——一次未能维持其战略功能的军事失败。目前没有明显的结束冲突的计划，只有一名渴望摆脱失败阴影的总统在离岸地徘徊。这就是虚假的谈判和将实体投入行动的原因，旨在成为唯一一个在没有面对战争的情况下获胜的人。对于那些有荣誉感的人来说，这一次的情况更接近于他的良好形象，这是唯一被设计出来的东西，没有出路。如果特朗普真的陷入了法律的陷阱，甚至什么都没有，那会怎样！
随着美国恐怖的权力掌握在他指尖，令人恐惧的是，那些不知道法律将如何感知自我的人。他已经试图通过报复所有挑战其自我意识和权威的人来摧毁这个国家。没有理由认为他不会为了追求同样的目标而试图摧毁世界。
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抵抗运动起初看起来立即取得了胜利且具有渗透力。去年一月，在联邦特工进行某种形式的布道后，此次调查的自由派阵营稳住了阵脚。他们与移民海关执法局（ICE）和边境巡逻队官员进行了一次又一次的对抗，最终将他们赶出城市，使总统第二任期的规模化驱逐计划看起来以一种屈辱的方式告终。
这种反应是激烈的，尤其是考虑到名为“电机激增行动”（Operation Motor Surge）的行动中蓄意的残暴，该行动导致两名美国公民被杀——而且人数可能更多，因为根据我们后来了解到的关于监控和反情报完整规模的所有情况，美国特工当时正实时地针对那些组织起来反对他们的人采取行动。
问题在于，当“电机激增行动”在二月结束时， 并没有真正消失，而驱逐计划在边境巡逻队失效后也没有被搁置。经过很长一段时间，国土安全部部长埃林·诺伦 (Erin Noren) 后来被马克韦恩·穆勒 (Markwayne Muller) 取代。在夏季，移民执法在当前的痛苦中重新开始，这一次的设计更为谨慎，旨在最大限度地增加抓捕和驱逐人数，而非制造血腥暴力的场面。
从数据来看，新策略奏效了。 的抓捕人数在七月达到了新高。本财年的驱逐人数预计将高于去年，而在国内被抓捕的人数记录很容易创下新高。被称为佛罗里达拘留设施的适应性特许经营点在六月关闭，但被 拘留的移民人数一直在增长。自特朗普总统 2015. 年重返办公室以来，这一数字增长了 75%。2016, 年， 的运营和支持预算低于 100 亿美元 billion。2025, 年，特朗普先生标志性的政策立法帮助该机构获得了超过 700 亿美元 billion 的额外资金，其中包括 6500 亿美元 用于扩大美国的能力。 现在是该国规模最大的执法机构。“我们从未见过拘留系统达到如此规模或程度，”美国移民委员会的亚伦·赖克林-米奇克 (Aaron Reichlin-Michick) 表示，“真正至关重要的是要理解，按照他们的计划，这是一个持续十余年的行动。”
考虑到在特朗普先生领导下 预算的平衡程度，以及延长该资金所需的政治资本，中期选举和下一次总统选举显然是这些计划的潜在障碍。但就行动而言，今年夏天造成的损害超过了明尼阿波利斯事件之前任何一个单月的损害。然而，尽管规模如此惊人，在特朗普先生第二任期的第二年，规模化驱逐计划引发的公众愤怒却少得多，
自由派将明尼阿波利斯视为一次巨大的胜利，随后便将注意力转向其他地方。
当一名缅因州居民在七月被一名 官员枪杀时，关于该官员暴力过往的指控曾短暂成为一个全国性的次要新闻，随后便淡出了公众视野。上个月在休斯顿发生的一起杀人事件受到的关注可能更少，当时 官员枪杀了一名驾驶建筑货车前往工作现场的男子。今年，一名审查“官员声称在芝加哥遭到司机袭击”的联邦法官写道，很难——如果不是不可能的话——相信他们关于与驾驶员发生车辆冲突是防御性举措的立场。自特朗普先生第二任期开始以来，至少有 10 人在移民执法行动中被杀，另有数十人在移民拘留所中死亡。
到2月，特朗普在移民问题上的支持率比其第二任期初的峰值下降了12个百分点，但目前该支持率仍稳高于其整体支持率，且他在该问题上仍保有绝大多数共和党人的支持。我们不再看到民主党人针对驱逐听证会做出太多反应，甚至在竞选活动本身中，他们也不再花太多时间强调特朗普边境和移民政策中残酷的过度行为。
当然，这在一定程度上是政治因素。但在冬季，大规模驱逐似乎曾将移民问题转化为民主党可以利用的优势，其引发的反弹似乎增加了对移民海关执法局（ICE）和海关及边境保护局（CBP）的抵触，并增加了对移民的同情。事实上，这些调查数据在过去一年中有所回落，美国人对移民的支持率现在低于2025年的峰值。而且，该问题作为核心议题的热度也已消退，尤其是如果你通过头条新闻而非新闻论点和社会媒体传闻来衡量的话。
部分原因是，由于国土安全部在方法上变得更加稳健，民众的愤怒感有所降低；该部门放弃了那种令人震惊且易受攻击的突击行动，转而针对那些必须被找到的人——至少在一定程度上，似乎是通过打击那些在遵守移民政策的过程中使其易被联邦当局追踪的人来实现的。现在，对不配合社区的恐吓减少了，而快速寻找并逮捕那些被拒绝入境且必须离境的人则成为了重点。其重点似乎不再是让ICE的规模运作显得公正，而且从公民记录相对匮乏来看，在追踪和支持封闭管理方面更为有效，信息获取变得更快且更具针对性。
此外，特朗普时代持久的“注意力混乱”定律也发挥了作用。驱逐引发的愤怒在其他斗争和丑闻（例如对失去战争的担忧）面前显得微不足道。但我认为，常态化也来自其他方向，随着后者在“特朗普领地”中顺利地进行搜捕，自由派的自满情绪开始蔓延。
针对特朗普及其特朗普主义的激烈转变的一个方面是，即使是对总统及其破坏路径最愤怒的人，现在可能也看到了这些问题终结的曙光。这种形式体现在低迷的支持率、即将到来的中期选举以及随后的2026年。十年来，特朗普无疑是美国政治的主角，即便在失去权力时也能主导国家关注——
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白宫的驱逐机器已经全面加速。
——但过去几个月里，这种情况也发生了变化，民主党内部的紧张局势以及法院对未来领导权的争夺成为了更核心的关注点，而全面选举将我们的注意力向前引导，这在某种程度上可以最小化近期造成的损害，就像一台暗箱，在对面墙上投射出一幅倒置的微缩图像。
当然，损害绝对是巨大的——对医疗保健和SFAH；对污染标准和对公共诚信的基本预期；对美国在世界上的地位及其在全球能源市场中的角色（更不用说其主要储备）；对科学研究和公共卫生。而且最重要的一点是在边境，尽管大规模驱逐计划的展开显得有些官僚主义，但它正在产生的人道主义危机，曾能让自由派美国人的注意力迅速聚焦。
美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）计划购买电子检查手套，并承诺这些工作不会留下任何痕迹。美国国土安全部正将墨西哥国民遣返回洪都拉斯和危地马拉，尽管他们的原籍国完全愿意接收他们；此外，出于似乎是惩罚性的原因，该部门还将把 1,000 多名其他人遣送到非洲国家，其中包括美国国务院认为不安全的国家。8月，一名在洛杉矶从事心理学和统计学的伊朗教授马卡姆·塔巴马德（Marcam Tabmaade）在《国家》（The Nation）杂志上发表了一封公开信，记录她在德克萨斯州拘留中心的经历。当时她与 16 岁的儿子被关押了 120 多天，与丈夫阿里（Ali）分离，而他们原本是合法永久居民。
4月，在最初的驱逐潮消退数月后，塔巴马德女士收到儿子的短信，称父亲没有来学校接他。最终她发现丈夫被拘留在洛杉矶市中心的一处 ICE 设施中，他告诉她他已确保，无论人道主义的大局如何，让我们聚集在州政府周围，在他出生前进一步与伊朗人质国家合作——她说其中一人病了。第二天，当她准备开车送儿子上学时，他们的车被国土安全部的官员包围，两人被戴上手铐并从洛杉矶被送往德克萨斯州，此后一直被拘留在那里。“这是血缘惩罚，”她写道，她和丈夫甚至连一张交通罚单都没有。“我将首先结束。如果这件事能发生在像我们这样由两名教授和一个小男孩组成的守法家庭身上，那么它可能发生在任何人身上。”
这类故事在一年多前曾充斥于媒体，几乎每天都在播报。然而，无论我们检查的频率如何，这种情绪在期间并未减弱。
这就是为什么卷饼会涨到 $20
贾斯汀·沃特斯 (Justin Watters)
密歇根大学经济学与公共政策教授
一个卷饼不应该花费 $20. 一名大学生在 8 月初提出的这一观察被一名活跃了 6 年的保守派活动人士转发，后者在 MAGALHOPS 中积累了大量财富。有些人告诉买卷饼的人应该节俭并做出明智的选择，而另一些人则警告说，美国政府没有解决民众对生活成本负担能力的担忧，共和党可能会在期中选举中为此付出代价。
然而，在争论之下，是一个真正令人困惑的经济谜题。在最近的一项调查中，竟然有 10% 的美国人认为自己正处于生活成本危机之中。但事实真是这样吗？消费者价格指数（CPI）衡量的是一个巨大的篮子，其中装满了美国人消费的所有商品和服务——这个篮子包括杂货、船只、汽车、房租、汽油、润滑油、Netflix，当然还有卷饼。用你的工资单除以这个篮子的成本，就能知道你能负担多少个这样的篮子。
根据大多数衡量标准，大多数美国人现在能负担的东西比几年前更多。他们的经通胀调整后的工资已经增长（尽管工资尚未追上记录性的——与能源价格飙升相关的涨幅）。这就把我们带到了心理层面：美国人坚信他们正处于一场生活成本危机中。那么，谁更准确——是经济统计数据，还是那个引发 MAGALHURTO 图表的学生？
作为一名经济学家，我的第一直觉是信任数据。但用统计数据耐心地向人们解释他们的感受是错误的，这很少奏效，相信我，我试过。有一种不同的方式来理解人们在谈论“负担能力”时所指的意思，这更多地关乎通货膨胀的心理学，而非经济学。
让我们考虑我的故事。我的大学雇主今年给我涨了一点工资。自然地，我认为这是对我工作格外努力的公正回报。获得奖励的感觉很好。随后物价上涨，通货膨胀吞噬了我的收益。那种感觉截然不同，就像被偷了一样。我觉得我赢得了那部分额外的购买力，而现在某种阴暗的、非人格化的力量把它从我身边夺走了。
当然，我大脑中经济学家的那部分知道真正发生了什么。我的雇主逐渐给了我一项生活成本调整，使我的实际收入大致保持不变。从经济学上讲，这是一个平局。但在心理上，我将其体验为一场两幕剧：首先是职业上的胜利，然后是我辛苦所得的大部分被痛苦地窃取。
导致这种感受的关键经济变量并不是我能负担多少东西本身，因为这几乎没有改变。我的感受是由通货膨胀引起的。这就是为什么关于生活成本危机的讨论，最好被理解为是对物价上涨产生的心理后遗症。
我并不孤单。我们每个人对通货膨胀如何运作都有自己的社会模型，而这些模型与我们经济学教科书中的模型截然不同。哈佛大学的 Smirters 和 Stumchers 进行了大规模调查，询问美国人关于通货膨胀的经历。一个常见的恐惧是通货膨胀会导致经济困难。人们经常担心负担不起住房或食物。
这些反应与经济理论和经验相冲突。在通胀爆发后，工资和价格往往大致同步上涨——至少平均而言是这样。有时工资先动，有时价格先动。但很快，它们倾向于一一对应地变动。实证证据很明确：你能负担的商品数量通常在任何有意义的程度上都不由通货膨胀决定。如果你以更高的价格产出，那么对你的雇主来说，你的价值以美元计更高。如果你没有获得加薪，另一个雇主可能会给你更高的工资。久而久之，你能负担的商品数量会趋于平衡。
对负担能力的恐惧可能更多源于通货膨胀的心理学，而非经济学。
这是经典的经济学逻辑——但许多美国人并不买账。他们认为自己的工资是由住房决定的，而非由市场力量决定，因此尽管物价上涨，他们也不希望提高工资。在这种模式下，通货膨胀确实会摧毁购买力。物价上涨，工资不调整，你的薪水购买力随之下降。这就是为什么对通货膨胀的焦虑（会转化为对购买力的担忧）。
统计数据在人们看来是显而易见的：物价降低。特朗普总统在赢得 2016 年大选后，曾承诺将“从第一天起立即降低物价”。
但他并没有做到。这就是卷饼所揭示的。而且至少，卷饼-breatuba 表明，右翼人士终于看穿了特朗普先生后来的承诺。
在 2024 年，他准确地把握了公众情绪，即便他在经济学上错了。这意味着通货膨胀代价高昂，但降低物价的代价更高。而且为了什么？较低的物价可能会带来较低的工资，使得购买力保持不变。
关于卷饼的讨论很有帮助，因为它将经济学简化成了你可以触及并品尝到的东西。你可以看到那个被征收 50% 关税的包装纸。你可以品尝到带有 17% 关税的墨西哥番茄。
我们可能正在咀嚼澳洲牛肉，它被征收过关税，取消过关税，被威胁要再次征收关税，然后又被豁免。我们过去的某些信息由于北美贸易协定（T-MEC / CUSMA / USMCA）的豁免而免税来自墨西哥，而这些豁免似乎正面临风险。奶酪和酸奶油来自美国农场，在移民与海关执法局（ICE）突袭之后，这些农场正面临工人短缺的困境，而在食品安全提高之前，我会跳过这些信件。
难怪人们对价格感到不满。
J. W. W.
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为什么大学在向富家子弟提供财务援助？
Angel B. Pérez
《完美席位：校园内：大学录取中水危机领导力的路线图》（"The Perfect Seat: in Campus: A Roadmap for Watercry Leadership in College Admission"）作者。
数以万计的学生很快将抵达大学校园，心中充满了对未来的充实感与抵触感。其中一些人将带来一份特殊的礼物：一项被称为“择优援助”（merit aid）的巨额资助。这与提供给无法负担标价学费学生的财务援助不同。择优援助通常像是一笔签约奖金，是用以吸引最理想学生的现金激励。
那么，什么样的学生被认为是“理想的”？最初，这类资助是面向那些学术成就卓越、能够为大学环境做出贡献且拥有众多录取通知书可供选择的学生。然而在今天，学院和大学越来越多地将这些拨款用于一个截然不同的目的：救助富裕学生，即那些最不需要这笔钱的人。而这些机构正从其有限的财务援助预算中抽取择优援助资金，导致最需要帮助的学生能分到的钱更少。
近期两项分析——一项来自布鲁金斯学会（Brookings Institution），另一项来自我领导的组织全国大学录取委员会协会（National Association for College Admission Committee）——表明，在过去的 20 年里，这一趋势在加速，而 20 多年的时间已经流逝。本可以用来扩大教育机会的资金，正越来越多地被用于进一步巩固经济特权。
作为一名曾经的录取负责人，我非常熟悉这一策略。多年来，我向富裕学生发放了数百万美元。我这样做并非因为我对低收入和中等收入学生关注较少，而是因为美国现代高等教育残酷的数学计算。
考虑两名申请就读年学费为 $80,000 的大学的学生。一名来自高收入家庭，获得了一项 $20,000 的择优奖学金。如果该学生表现优秀，机构将获得 $80,000。另一名学生来自低收入家庭，需要 $70,000 的援助才能入学，这意味着机构只能获得 $30,000 的收入。你认为我会激励哪一名学生？
尽管这看起来很残酷，但择优援助只是一个更深层问题的症状：当其他国家在高等教育领域积极进取时，美国却可能并非如此。我们的学院和大学长期以来被公认为我们卓越的标志，但在近几十年里一直处于被动防御状态。
佩尔助学金（Pell-Grant）——我国支持低收入大学生的最佳工具——正面临 115 亿美元 billion 的资金缺口。联邦和州政府的资金已被限制。曾经流入机构的数百万研究资金被削减，研究生学费贷款同样如此。大学面临着高中毕业年级学生人数萎缩的问题，且联邦政策的转变使得招收国际学生变得更加困难。
今年 7 月，国际安全部宣布国际学生在美学习期限仅为四年。这将使美国大学更难吸引他们——这在许多方面都是一种损失，包括国际学生通常支付全额费用在此学习这一事实。这部分收入曾帮助我们的机构维持运转，并补贴美国学生的成本。
提供基于择优的拨款确保了大学能够维持运转。
现在，许多大学正竭力维持运转。利用择优援助来吸引那些至少能支付标价学费大部分资金的学生，是这些大学确保能撑到下一年的方式之一。
需要明确的是，大学在自身的衰落过程中并非无辜的旁观者。随着部分院校的就读成本现在接近甚至超过每年 $500,000，它们成了严重的失职行为，并损害了人们对高等教育的信任。提高价格和使用不透明的折扣策略无法吸引学生入学。为了生存，美国高等教育必须证明它愿意自我革新，而不仅仅是捍卫同一个破碎的系统。
我们都应该希望它能成功。高等教育是最强大的经济流动引擎之一。研究显示，在价格表入学的情况下，就读大学的学生每年估计能产生 734 亿美元 billion 的额外年收入，包括年度现金估值。我们教育的人越少，在高薪部门工作的员工就越少——在我们面临威胁劳动力短缺的人口下降时，这是我们无法承受的风险。高工资会带来更多的税收。
因此，这应该是选民和立法者的优先事项。对于数百万曾经依赖经济援助就读大学的美国人来说，这也应该是优先事项。对于太多的人——而且每年人数在增加——当他们的母校请求他们帮助下一代时，他们选择了回避。单靠捐款无法解决问题，但如果高等教育曾为你开启大门，请不要在它需要帮助时视而不见。
回到我担任招生主任的日子，当人们反对使用择优奖学金（merit aid）时，我经常用一个简单的事实来回应：我们需要这笔钱。这是不可避免的。但这并不意味着它是正确的。为富裕学生竞价在本质上令人反感。在一个更健康的系统中，为了解决问题而进行的这种竞争将是不必要的。
如果我们如此渴望摆脱这种愤世嫉俗的局面，美国必须做出选择。我们可以继续让高等教育处于饥饿状态，并接受一个机会仅属于那些负担得起的人的未来。或者，我们可以将其重新导向公共投资和慈善事业，建立普通美国人能够触及的机构，并坚信应该是才干和回报，而非家庭收入，引导年轻人走向机遇。
古巴时间已尽
迈克尔·J·布斯塔曼特 (Michael J. Bustamante)
迈阿密大学古巴及古巴裔美国研究教授，《古巴记忆》（出自 2006 年的《革命中的回顾性废弃物》）一书的作者。
古巴人是经验丰富的、被动的等待专家——等待每日的配给，等待永远匮乏的电力，等待回乡的旅程。自从疫情将这座岛屿推入深重危机，尤其是自特朗普政府在 1 月份对古巴实施封锁以来，这种日常的练习已变成一种缓慢的窒息。
现在，古巴人在等待一切。他们等待改善食品供应，甚至等待海外公民所使用的药品。他们等待每天仅恢复一两个小时的电力，或者在压抑的夏天等待两小时的电力，以便让孩子们能睡上几个小时。
最重要的是，古巴人在等待信号，希望华盛顿或他们自己的政府能找到走出当前动荡的途径——希望他们最终能生活在一个正常的国家，不再被数十年的威权政治、经济管理不善、美国制裁以及延长的冷战所困。无论这座岛屿是否正走向真正的政治崩溃点，无论是靠临时拼凑的电力供应，还是米格尔·迪亚斯-卡尼亚 (Miguel Díaz-Caná) 总统所谓的“创造性抵抗”，都无法掩盖古巴人民正被推向忍耐极限的事实。
这种不确定性促使不同的参与者将希望寄托在几种可能的未来上：古巴共产主义政权的垮台、一场协商后的美国预算民主转型，或是导致美国政府全面接管的军事行动（最近的委内瑞拉模式）。但岛上的现实是，等待将继续——一种延长的国家状态，而代价由普通古巴人承担。
一些人，特别是古巴海外侨民，期待古巴出现类似于 1989 年东欧的情况，当时该地区的共产主义政权纷纷倒台。前民主活动人士奥斯莫洛·佩哈 (Osmolo Peja) 的流亡女儿罗莎·玛丽亚·佩哈 (Rosa Maria Peja) 承认，古巴政府必须面对时间： “因此，尽管与岛上的古巴人协调极少，古巴裔美国社区的领导人们已经重新审视、更新或起草了新的民主转型计划。”
然而，在今年春季的大部分时间里，并不清楚 1989 年是否是特朗普政府心中所想。通过与 3kpl. Canary 孙子以及古巴安全机构成员的直接沟通，国务卿马可·鲁比奥 (Marco Rubio) 和 C.A. 局长约翰·兰道夫 (John Randolph) 表明，只要美国政府能控制经济、释放政治犯并消除针对美国敌手的安全威胁，他们可以接受岛上部分共产主义当局继续掌权。
但自 5 月以来，达成此类协议的可能性已经降低。由于古巴拒绝接受华盛顿关于重大领导层变动的要求，美国政府实施了次级制裁，迫使许多外国公司撤出该岛。无论是 6 月宣布的经济自由化方案，还是 7 月释放该国最高知名度的政治犯——艺术家路易斯·曼努埃尔·奥特罗·阿尔萨纳罗 (Luis Manuel Otero Alzánaro)，都未能迫使该政府妥协。
这一局面强化了人们的怀疑，即特朗普政府一直意图制造经济困难——目的不是为了诱导让步，而是为了创造大规模社会动荡的条件。
夏季往往是古巴政治动荡的诱因。从 1994 年的 Mancoman 和古巴苏联解体后的经济萧条，到 2021 年 7 月 11 日在疫情深处爆发的全国性游行。近期电网的崩溃带来了公众愤怒的新迹象。社区取消——当地的宠物悬挂会议——以及由燃烧的大衣组成的街道封锁几乎每晚都在发生。一张幻灯片显示——
广泛的配给，无休止的停电。这座岛屿还能承受多少？
在一次电视播出的政府资金披露中显示，官员们担心会出现“建立社会”，或是一场社会爆炸。
然而，日益增长的不稳定性并不意味着另一个 1989 年的状态。大多数东欧国家共产主义统治的崩溃不仅取决于民众的不满，还取决于统治精英内部的分歧以及拥有显著民众基础的反对派。到目前为止，古巴的强制机构依然完好，镇压的威胁削弱了任何关键职位的触及能力，且大规模移民继续替代大规模动员，自 2020 年以来，多达 200 万出生在岛上的古巴人离开。自 2023 年以来，美国边境对古巴入境者的有效关闭仅仅是将数十万移民重新引导至其他目的地。如果另一种困境并不自动导致该地区崩溃，人们可能会倾向于得出结论：变革只能来自外部。几周以来，特朗普政府一直暗示将采取军事行动，将古巴定义为
国家安全威胁，引用哈佛的情报，称其与中国和俄罗斯关系密切，据称获取了来自伊朗的资源，并指称其在国务院所谓的过去和现在的半球“颠覆”活动中扮演了角色。 5 月对卡斯特罗先生的起诉，指控其参与 1996 年击落两架古巴裔美国平民飞机的事件，也为某种马尔科夫式的执法修正提供了借口。
不过，任何美国的干预都会让人想起另一个历史平行事件：1890 年，一场为期四年的美国军事占领开始，这导致了一个从属于美国经济和政治利益的古巴共和国的诞生。
五位观察员严肃地期待美国再次全面占领古巴。但历史不必重复，以代表旧时的帝国主义副歌。特朗普总统公开提出了对该岛进行“友好接管”的想法。通过强制结束主要酒店运营商和其他古巴国家合作伙伴的关系，政府的秘书们已经摧毁了古巴的资产，并可能为美国公司以底价收购扫清道路。
与此同时，担任古巴首位女性国家帮手职位的卡斯特罗先生的孙女，实际上已宣布古巴向商业开放，并表达了与特朗普先生直接谈判的渴望。接纳一名卡斯特罗家族成员作为古巴在三十三年里的类比，就像委内瑞拉的临时领导人一样，可能被白宫网络中的许多人所不能接受，至少对鲁比奥先生而言如此。但委内瑞拉的例子提供了一个冷静的警示。在古巴采取军事行动可能无法保证民主，而是导致一种新秩序，在这种秩序中，国务卿作为执行代理人，与一个小圈子一起分配战利品。
首先，所有这些情景看起来更像是想象而非迫在眉睫。即使面对其他外国孩子，古巴官员们在华盛顿的指令下一直处于相同的位置。哈瓦那政府也没有获得一个一致的退出方案。满足华盛顿的要求将等同于促成政权自身的灭亡。
美国政府的考虑同样受到限制。尽管近期有报道称中央情报局（C.I.A.）成立了一个新的古巴工作组，但军事升级的风险可能会将美国拖入一个规模更大的国家重建工程中，而此时美国政府正再次被伊朗冲突所困扰。在今年秋季美国大选之前，在古巴陷入新的纠葛所带来的国内政治成本也可能造成沉重压力。
这种沉重的僵局陷入了一种微小隔间的模式，一种推拉之间、彼此等待对方先做出真正具有实质性关联的局面。但人们无法在这种模式中无限期地推迟用餐、医疗程序，或关于个人及政治未来的更重大决定。
政府可以承受继续玩这种等待游戏，但普通的古巴人不能。
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女英雄之旅是一条死路
苏珊·法萨利 (Susan Faisali)
记者，《反击：针对美国女性的地下战争》(Backlash: The Underland War Against American Women) 作者。
在扭曲我们当前政治的诸多苦难中，有一种尚未被察觉。在关于哪个性别能够继承“英雄之旅”的内部斗争中，这种古老的故事模式——英雄离开家乡，面对怪物与诱惑，最后回归夺回他的王国和他的女人——在现代，关于英雄是否必须为男性的问题已被重新审视和定义。
这场斗争不仅仅关乎一个故事。我们争夺某些基础神话，因为谁掌控了神话，谁就掌控了文化。
很难找到比荷马更基础的了。在我当地的 Cinemark 宽屏影院里，正处于克里斯托弗·纳巴里 (Christopher Nabari) 的《奥德赛》(The Odyssey) 的中段——这部电影几乎完全遵循最典型的“男人在寻求”模式：荷马式的诱惑——我突然产生了一种奇怪的感觉：嘿！我看过这部电影，只不过色调不同？
的确如此，三年前的另一个七月，我在同一家电影院看过。那个版本的主角是一位女性，她乘坐汽车、船只、宇宙飞船、自行车、雪地摩托和滚轴溜冰鞋前往一个充满危险的异国之地，面对一群想把她锁在盒子里的西装男，最后回到她的马卡龙色主城，发现那里正被喧闹的爱包围。无论是《芭比》(Barbie) 还是《奥德赛》，都出现了带有登陆舰的海滩之战和马类主题，尽管在芭比海滩上搁浅的英雄形象是由粉色塑料沙组成的。但而《芭比》中的男孩们在繁衍，女孩们则夺回了王国，秩序得以恢复。
在一名评论家的眼中，格蕾塔·格威格 (Gretta Gerwig) 的《芭比》和纳巴里先生的《奥德赛》是形状不同的同一类物体。区别在于，她的作品充满了 Crayola 蜡笔色，且在开画周末获得了更多的关注。（格威格女士和诺兰先生似乎是宿命的对手——有人想聊“芭本海默”吗？）这些电影本身并不足以成为严肃的哲学对手。然而，作为相隔仅三年的重大文化构建者，它们预示了我们社会的一次严肃转变，其影响远超好莱坞。关于英雄叙事的对决正在侵蚀我们的政治和公共生活，并使我们的政府变得畸形。
我们的政府——一直到最高层。特朗普总统似乎认为自己正处于一场荷马式的征途之中。在 2021 年被夺走他认为正当的权力后，他一路奋斗回归，现在正向那些背叛他的异教徒地复仇。这是一场带有现代转折的征途：在他寻求夺回王冠时，他的对手是一名女性。这位家长在一定程度上通过在竞选活动中强调他将“保护”女性来击败她，而在获胜后，他继续摧毁女性的福利。自就职日以来，他的政府一直执意在各个层面扭转女性的命运。
在短暂的一段时间里——随着 2017 年的女性大游行、4-M / 5m 以及对最高法院 Dobie 裁决的愤怒——女性似乎夺取了英雄的披风；她们与对手正面交锋，从那些抓着头发的人，到某个制片厂负责人，再到一名最高法院的不公正法官。在那个初夏的绝美时刻（在卡玛拉坠落之前），女英雄之旅似乎甚至能以胜利告终。直到反击到来。在 2024 年选举日，伊恩·曼克 (Eian Mank) 宣布：“骑兵到了。男性正以创纪录的人数投票。”（好吧，实际上并没有。）一切是如何如此突然地改变的？或者，引用《芭比》中的话：“这是芭比乐园！芭比们努力工作，大胆梦想，才把它变成了现在的样子。你不能在一天之内就把它抹除。”真的吗？
英雄的奋斗之所以能引起如此普遍的共鸣，是因为我们每个人都在与某种形式的怪物作斗争。单音节的承诺将我们平凡的混乱转化为高贵的皇后。这就是 2023 年的《芭比》与随后 2026 年的“猛男”游记之间微妙转变中所涉及的核心问题：哪种手术才拥有那种使人高贵的灵药？这场战斗不在电影本身之中——即哪个角色赢或输——而在于对弓箭 / 牧歌主张的比较。这场斗争已被重新定义。这不再是梅索蒂安为了占有海登而与巴黎战斗——而是梅索蒂安对抗海登。或者是奥德修斯对抗芭比。
或者是皮特·海格塞斯对抗莉娜·弗兰切蒂。政府对女性发起的战争，在军队内部比在任何地方都更为明显。海军作战部长弗兰切蒂上将是特朗普先生新成立的战争部早期的高调女性牺牲者之一。军队中的女性正受到系统性的惩罚：她们的晋升被拒绝，战斗能力被质疑，成就从官方网站上被抹除，长期以来将女性整合进军队的坚韧努力被终止，而纪念她们牺牲者的仪式也被取消。最剧烈的打击发生在顶层，针对那些已经在战争中尽了最大努力、离开家园、远赴海外、战斗并返回领取桂冠和正职岗位的女性。结果她们迎接到的却是国防部长海格塞斯的反击。
在 2008 年和 2016 年之间，女性将领和海军将领的人数翻了一番。现在，很大程度上由于海格塞斯先生——这位装饰华丽（主要是纹身）的陆军国民警卫队少校以及前电视主持人詹姆斯·A·麦克纳利——在任何军种中都没有在职的女性四星级军官，且在可能的四星或三星任命名单中也没有女性候选人。（他的目光还转向了处于美国管理层中的部队。）《纽约时报》本月的一项分析发现，女性被提名担任军队高职的比例处于四分之一个世纪以来的最低水平。今年，十年来第一次
将没有女性被提名担任海军将领。（显然，女性仍然可以追求像上尉或少校这样更健康的职位——过去一年中，女性被提名担任较低级别职位的数量有所增加。）这些被“教程选角”（特朗普的原话）第 680 号——那个抹了发胶、揣着小把戏、引发了千枚导弹发射的面孔——所解除指挥权的资深女性军官是谁？
首先，仅在海军中——弗兰切蒂上将，从水面战军官晋升至指挥第六层（Sixth Floor）；首位领导海军的女性，也是参谋长联席会议首位永久女性成员；服役 40 年。被撤职，无解释。由一名男性（以代理身份）接替。
肖莎娜·查特菲尔德中将：指挥直升机海战部队；首位海军战争学院女性院长，且是北约军事委员会中唯一的女性；服役 37 年。被撤职，无解释。由一名男性（以代理身份）接替。
伊薇特·M·达维多中将：“沙漠之荫”、沙漠风暴和伊拉克战争的资深参与者；指挥过航母打击群；首位领导美国海军学院的女性及首位西班牙裔军官；服役 36 年。被撤职，无解释。由一名男性接替。
海岸警卫队的琳达·帕根上将；海军的南希·拉科尔中将；空军的朱莉·斯普纳-哈尔夫里斯上校；陆军的埃丽卡·克罗斯兰中将；以此类推。这些女性并未追求英雄地位；她们体现了军队传统上所看重的价值：服务、团队合作、勇气、奉献。但就她们神话般的战士生命旅程而言，她们属于我们的奥德修斯之列。而她们的晋升激怒了一些渴望支持海格塞斯先生所谓的“最高男性标准”的奥德修斯追随者。
在他的著作《战士之战》（The War on Warriors）中，赫格塞斯先生主张，所谓的 D.E.J. 使军队变得软弱且“女性化”。然而，这种“标准”与军事效能毫无关系。现在，弗兰切蒂海军上将和查特菲尔德，以及克罗斯兰将军及其同僚被解雇，是因为他们不够优秀吗？这与优秀无关，而是因为他们的技能和经验威胁到了某种“大众捐赠文化”的恢复？难怪特朗普先生内阁会议的照片——尤其是在彼得·史密斯、恩斯特·诺伦、利维·查韦斯、德尔托默和图尔西·盖拉德离职之后——开始像《奥德赛》中的船上场景：人们围坐在一个长椭圆形的边缘，一张会议桌充当了船舱甲板。划起来，小伙子们，划起来！
特朗普先生的权力回归上演了一场“特洛伊之劫”——而女性成了被洗劫的对象。一份国家妇女法律中心（National Women's Law Center）的报告发现，政府效率部（DOGE）的大规模裁员针对的是“女性员工占绝大多数”的部门，这些部门在整体团队男性化面前无法生存。受打击最严重的是黑人女性，尤其是拥有大学和高级学位的女性，她们去年的整体就业率经历了四分之一个世纪以来最剧烈的年度下降之一。在特朗普先生解雇了平等就业机会委员会（EEOC）的两名民主党女性委员和一名女性总法律顾问后，他现在的领导层敦促白人男性提起歧视诉讼，该机构甚至因为在一个女性论坛中加入了男性而使用了一家可口可乐迪斯科舞厅。关于生殖健康、孕产妇死亡率、就业公平和性暴力的信息开始从政府网站上消失，随之消失的还有女性的历史贡献以及“女性”、“female”以及当然还有“feminines”这些词。据报道，美国国家航空航天局（NASA）的员工接——
《奥德赛》和《芭比》反映了一种超越好莱坞的时代精神转变。
——到了一个“放下所有工作并重新安排日程”的通知，指示他们在下午 5 p.m. 前删除“专门针对女性（包括女性领导者等）的确定事项”。这个坚持认为“只有两种性别！”的政府，似乎决心将其变为只有一种。
同样消失的还有：关于女性管理（或缺乏管理）的数据收集。平等就业机会委员会（EEOC）投票决定废除该机构一项执行了 40 年的要求，即要求公司提交年度劳动力人口统计报告，理由是这给企业带来了负担。女性在企业领导层连续两年失去阵地，且她们在公司董事会的代表比例在 2020 年第一季度下降，这难道还令人费解吗？或者，女性在 2025, 年 12 月的劳动力下降中占比 100%，上个月再次如此，导致今年女性净就业损失总额达到 $45,000，这难道也令人意外吗？这些女性获得工作或失去工作，并非因为她们被视为英雄。尽管如此，她们在关于“英雄之旅”的监护权之争中成了附带损害。
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专栏作家 / 米歇尔·戈德堡（MICHELLE GOLDBERG）
如果美国是一段婚姻，我们正走向离婚
心理学家约翰·戈特曼（John Gottman）曾说，没有什么比轻蔑更能破坏一段婚姻。夫妻之间可以从许多种冲突中恢复过来，但不能在厌恶中生存——即一个人或双方觉得对方低人一等。这就是为什么，如果蓝色美国和红色美国是配偶，这段关系将显得毫无希望。我们可以称之为不可调和的分歧。
至少在过去的十年里，一种夸张且具有攻击性的轻蔑一直存在于我们的政治之中。毕竟，唐纳德·特朗普不仅用侮辱之词洗刷自由派城市和州（在他发布的一段失控的 AI 视频中，甚至使用了排泄物）。他的总统任期致力于惩罚那些没有投票给他的人，包括扣押医疗保健和灾难重建资金。他的选民长期以来对他的一种热爱，正是源于他给他们的同胞带来的羞辱和绝望。
许多这些特朗普的支持者仍在激烈地争吵，其中一些人甚至被认为是“无法取悦的”。几十年来，他们一直对来自美国文化之都的轻视感到愤怒。在我看来，蓝色美国更多是被虐待者而非虐待者，但这并不重要。我们无法就彼此委屈的共同可治愈性达成任何协议，这恰恰凸显了这段关系的毒性。
然而，对于没有真实边界且深陷分歧的人群来说，有意识的解耦并非易事。“国家离婚”的想法周期性地出现在我们的政治中——马乔里·泰勒·格林（Marjorie Taylor Greene）在国会期间多次呼吁这样做——但这从未取得进展，因为它是不可行的。不幸的是，现状似乎同样不可行。我们是互为敌手的社群，被以一种方式束缚在一起，而这种方式
艺术并不一定能向我们展示未来，但它可以作为一个早期预警系统。
阻碍了各派系关于体面社会的理想。在缺乏任何清晰前行路径的情况下，小说成为了这种无法忍受的挫败感的出口；用于想象剧烈的崩溃或逃离。
两部令人愉悦的新小说以美国的瓦解为背景——东·安德森（East Anderson）上周出版的《分手》（The Breakup），以及艾米莉·圣约翰·曼德尔（Emily St. John Mandel）将于九月出版的《退出派对》（Exit Party）。它们加入了过去十年间创作的一小批关于美国解体的文学作品，其中包括奥斯卡·III（Allied）的《美国战争》（America War）、凯瑟琳·莱西（Catherine Lacey）的《X传》（Biography of X）、《使女的故事》电视剧版，以及亚历克斯·加兰（Alex Garland）的电影《内战》。《分手》和《退出派对》与近期其他关于内战的推演不同之处在于，它们传达出一种感觉：分崩离析或许才是最好的结果。
婚姻成了美国的全面隐喻。安德森曾是《间谍》（Spy）杂志的创始人，并在1842年担任过《纽约》（New York）杂志的编辑，他将此作为切入点。故事主要设定在2045年，《分手》讲述了一对政治立场迥异的夫妇——亚舍（Asher）和娜塔莉（Natalie），他们的分居与美国的“国家离婚”同步发生。他们的破裂部分源于对书中所谓的“离婚”（Drouhins）的不同态度。亚舍是一名在城市中感到最自在的犹太进步主义者，他基本上很高兴能摆脱那些脱离美国、组建“自由美国共和国”的右翼领土。娜塔莉则是一位古典自由主义反觉醒者，在我们的时代，她可能会为《自由出版社》（The Free Press）撰稿，她哀悼美国的终结。由于无法忍受她那自以为是的周围环境，她搬到了她成长的地方——田纳西州。
《分手》中的一些细节让我感到恼火。书中充满了可能的时代错误：我觉得美国分崩离析的可能性，比2045年的人们仍然互相发短信、发五个人（five people）或在传播八卦时说“泄露测试”（spill the test）的可能性要大。那些黑色板块则过于充斥着典型的自由派愿望达成。在与蓝州目标隔绝后，自由美国共和国陷入经济危机和绝望。因为遭受了“不受尊重”的浪漫，它试图重新加入一个刚刚选出亚历山大·格兰茨-科雷茨（Alexandria Grants-Coretz）为总统的美国。
但我欣赏安德森对“离婚”中那些平庸的官僚细节的关注。《分手》中确实发生了内战，但规模相对较小，美国人并不那么执着于维持国家的统一。解体国家的难题主要是物流层面的，比如如何将蓝州城市或其余部分——事实上我想说的是独立的大都市区——与美国本土相连。许多这类问题以典型的美国方式由律师处理，律师们在“离婚”中发现了一个利润丰厚的新市场。
尽管《分手》中所描绘的国家离婚是悲伤且时而沉重的，但它并非完全不可实现。在本书的宇宙中，美国在依然统一时是最失调的。
同样的情况也广泛体现在艾米莉·圣约翰·曼德尔的《退出派对》中。圣约翰·曼德尔曾在她的1854年著作《第十一国》（Nation Eleven）中专门描写了一个后末日世界，讲述一个在疫情后幸存的文明。鉴于那种残酷且不稳定的基调，她现在写关于内战的内容让人感到有些不安：“美国在一次政变后不久便分崩离析，”她在第一页告诉我们。故事始于一场派对，旨在庆祝新独立的加利福尼亚共和国的一项文化成就。
圣约翰·曼德尔笔下的后内战美国是一个残酷的地方。洛杉矶到处是贫民窟和难民。我们很快了解到，美国中部的状况更糟，是一个敌对版本、碎片化的领土。尽管如此，新的格局中仍有希望。“我知道国家不会永远持续，总会有新的国家出现，”派对上的一位客人说，“但感觉这次是对的！”
在特朗普的第一任期内，人们经常说，他们觉得我们从未经历过糟糕的时间线。《退出派对》（Exit Party）将这一观念戏剧化了，且随着书情的展开，时间线似乎显示，美国可能经历的，或许并非最糟糕的一种。“有一个世界里，我的祖国陷入混乱而分裂；而另一个世界里，我的祖国像拳头一样紧闭，”一名角色说道。
我们的宪法体制保护我们免受彼此伤害，但其僵化——几乎不可能通过宪法修正案，以及对城市的结构性偏见——也让人感觉像是一个笼子。《分裂》（The Breakup）和《退出派对》表明，想象一个在这个体制之外充满可能性的未来，比在体制之内更容易。“人们似乎变得越来越不耐烦，我认为这些小说捕捉到了这一点，”《拆解它：情景、分裂与美国不完美联盟的秘密历史》（Break It Up: Scenarios, Division and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union）的作者理查德·克赖特纳（Richard Kreitner）表示。
克赖特纳指出，在其他国家危机时刻，关于分裂的故事也曾大量涌现。他向本报写道，在内战前数年，南方人就写过关于分裂情景和地区血腥冲突的小说。在 20 世纪 70 年代的动荡中，出现了另一批想象美国终结的书籍，包括讲述一个脱离联邦的西海岸环境天堂的《Ecompa》，以及继续激励极右翼的白人至上主义著作《特纳日记》（The Turner Diaries）。
小说并不一定能向我们展示未来，但它可以作为一个早期预警系统，在不稳定的语言转化为政治纲领之前就将其检测出来。红州美国和蓝州美国之间可能根本没有脱离彼此的途径，除非经历一定程度的血腥和毁灭，而这将使每个人都比现在糟糕得多。然而，如果有人认为结束联邦看起来很诱人，这标志着这种状态是多么缺乏爱：
这场斗争已经渗透并饱和在日常生活中，在 9 / 11 后的沉重氛围中爆发，并在 2020 年代初的“巅峰觉醒”时代加速。越来越多的普通斗争被视为英雄行为。一段时间内，得益于女权主义，女性在管理这些社区方面拥有优势。许多人并非消防员或电话接线员。她们会猛烈推动行动循环。这并非否认她们的坚毅，但她们的地位提升是有代价的。每一个英勇的秘密背后，都激起了某些男性的愤怒和嫉妒，如果他们变成了电话接线员，就变成了电话接线员。用《芭比》的话说：只是个肯（just Ken）。这种反弹不仅仅关乎谁能从事这项工作，而关乎谁因为从事这项工作而获得赞美。看看霍加威斯（Hogawith）先生的书，书中反复提到工人被一个“军事化”的 F.R. 机器骚扰，在寻找一场“火灾”！
多样性措施旨在为长期被剥夺的人提供实际的、工具性的机会。但成为英雄这件事没有任何实际或渐进的成分。右翼将 D.E.I.（多样性、公平与包容）视为一个阴谋，旨在废黜那些曾经站在奥林匹斯山上的男性。而左翼则利用英雄神话来证明其事业的正当性，很快就演变为关于迫害、虐待以及从 A.D.R.D. 到 PTSD 的各种统计数据，以此将其主张置于不可争论的地位，并将即使是自我驱动的异见者贴上内部人的标签。右翼认为，将我们视为殉道者是一种需要警惕的策略。当紫心勋章变得灵活，当痛苦与侍从相伴，批评被重新贴上标签。当然，并非每场受害者戏剧都催生了一种时尚，但每个派系都利用了一个关于不公正和伤害的核心神话，来为其绝对化和残酷行为辩护。
公民社会和政府的目的—。
公民社会和政府的目的——无论如何，在民主世界中——是服务于普通人的基本需求。而不是在前往白宫草坪上演笼斗的途中去揣摩时间的意义。或者通过扩音器来宣扬个人美德。一只举起的拳头会引发另一只。
诺兰先生的《奥德赛》意识到——尽管这可能很平庸——英雄所面临的道德危机。马特·特雷内克饰演的奥德修斯对他参与摧毁特洛伊感到愧疚，因为这违反了xenia，即泽拉的款待法。在努涅斯的原始史诗中，清算更为深刻。奥德修斯试图安慰在冥界中渐渐消逝的阿基琉斯之魂，告诉他希腊人将他视为“如神一般”，因英勇的行为而永垂不朽。阿基琉斯回答道：“天哪，我宁愿在人间做一个卑微的人——某个为了生存而辛苦耕作的农夫——也不愿在这里统治所有死气沉沉的亡灵。”这是奥德修斯也认同的渴望。当卡吕普索提出如果他留在她的岛上就赐予他永生时，他拒绝了。他宁愿回到妻子和家人身边——过一个凡人的生活。
那个永生的提议在诺兰先生的剧本中消失了，但在格尔维格女士的剧本中却存在。在电影中，芭比可以选择留在芭比乐园做一个永恒的玩具，永远在她的梦幻屋中醒来，迎接她“有史以来最美好的一天”。但她决定回到现实世界，成为一个普通的成年女性，承担随之而来的所有困难、失眠和死亡。无论每部电影的权利设定多么方便或精简，它们都具有启发意义。它们暗示了另一种结束故事的方式。如果我们能将公民生活从异端的狂热中解救出来，将治理权交还给谦卑的人类，会怎样？任何健康的政治目标都不是为了赢，而是为了繁荣。在这次追求中，我们都是士兵，而没有人是英雄。
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风险病毒研究需要一名裁判
Alicu Chan
分子生物学家，《病毒：寻找新冠肺炎起源》一书的作者，以及一家追踪病原体研究的非营利组织的创始人。
去年二月，《细胞》（Cell）杂志发表了一项研究，中国病毒学家在从五个省份收集并存储在武汉病毒研究所的近一千个样本中进行了筛选，以寻找新型冠状病毒。此类工作的预期目的是提供早期预警：确定哪些动物病毒接近能够感染人类，以便病毒学家知道该关注什么并有机会做好准备。
他们发现少数样本携带中东呼吸综合征（MERS）——一种致命冠状病毒——的近亲。研究人员随后证明，其中一种病毒可以通过与导致 SARS 和新冠肺炎（Covid-19）的病毒相同的细胞通道进入人体细胞。
科学家们在实验室培育的人类呼吸道、鼻腔和肠道细胞群中培养该病毒，病毒在其中进行了复制。他们建议下一步在经过基因工程改造、具有相同人类细胞通道的小鼠身上进行测试。他们还确定了限制该病毒感染人体细胞效率的特征。更多的实验室工作可能会创造出没有这些限制的病毒，而该团队的成员此前曾进行过此类实验。
所有这些工作都是在低等级生物安全环境下完成的，比预留给最致命病原体的预防措施低两个等级。顶尖病毒学家敲响了警钟，称对于一种可能通过空气感染人类的新型病毒来说，这种安全水平是不充分的。
当我对发表该研究提出批评时，《细胞》杂志的一位发言人表示，此类生物安全决定由研究的主导科学家及其机构做出，且研究人员“没有违反该杂志的任何规则或政策”。《细胞》杂志是对的。在中国和美国，这类研究的限制少得令人惊讶。科学家们仍然可以收集新型冠状病毒，在相对较低的生物安全条件下在实验室中增强它们，甚至意外引发疫情——而无需违反任何规则。
规则无法阻止一个月后发生的事情：当时马里兰州弗雷德里克市一座底特律堡（Fort Detrick）实验室的一名工作人员发现一件气密服上有一个大洞。底特律堡距离华盛顿约一小时车程，拥有美国一些最高等级的生物安全实验室，科学家在那里处理包括埃博拉（Ebola）和汉坦病毒（hantavirus）在内的致命病原体。联邦调查局（F.B.I.）介入，数十名工作人员接受了询问。
调查人员得出结论，该损坏是蓄意造成的，但他们无法确定责任人。调查人员还发现了其他严重违反安全协议的证据——这些失效与明显的破坏行为无关，如果没有这次事件，可能永远不会被揭露。该实验室被关闭了近六个月。
我曾在一家从事病毒工程（非致病类型）的实验室工作过，这两个事件给我最深刻的印象是，有多少事情取决于个人的判断和良好行为。科学家也是人。错误、糟糕的决定和愤怒的时刻都会发生，病原体从实验室泄漏的情况比你想象的要频繁。
目前缺失的是一个范围足够宽、具有约束力的标准，用于监管具有灾难性潜力的病原体研究，且该标准应由除研究人员和出资机构以外的第三方制定并强制执行。没有哪个国家拥有这样的标准。也没有任何国际机构有权建立这样的标准。
行动应从美国开始，美国是全球最大的传染病研究公共资助国，同时也为全球提供了推动该领域发展的资金、材料和科学期刊。今年 7 月，特朗普政府为其资助的高风险病原体研究发布了新规定。这些新规定可能有所改进，但仍然不够。
几十年来，只有少数几个国家运行 BSL-4 设施（旨在处理全球最致命病原体的实验室）。如今，至少有 53 个 BSL-4 实验室在 22 个国家运行，其中许多位于人口稠密的城市。针对危险病原体的研究也发生在生物安全等级较低的实验室中，这类实验室数量更多，且更难以追踪。
实验室泄漏并不罕见。一项 2024 年的审查发现了 2009 年至 2021 年间约 300 起实验室工作人员被其研究的病原体感染的案例。由于该审查基于自愿报告，作者称这一计数仅是“冰山一角”。审查中统计的许多感染发生在低封闭环境下，但即使在高封闭设施中，实验室获得性感染也会发生。SARS 及类 SARS 病毒已多次从 BSL-5 和 BSL-4 实验室中逃逸。
可能更为重要的实验室感染尚未得到最终证实——即 2019 年导致新冠肺炎（Covid-19）的病毒可能从中国武汉的一家实验室逃逸。武汉的科学家们花费多年时间收集新型冠状病毒，在疫情爆发前的一年，他们加入了一项由美国主导（由国防部发起）的提案，旨在创建具有 SARS-CoV-2 定义特征的病毒。在 2024 年为《纽约时报》评论版撰写的一篇文章中，详细阐述了疫情最有可能始于实验室的证据。
六年过去了，官方的描述依然模糊。研究该问题的情报部门和科学机构之间存在分歧。一些机构仍认为自然病原体是更好的解释，而美国中央情报局（CIA）和能源部已将立场修正为实验室起源，世界卫生组织也不再排除这种可能性。
如果指向实验室起源的评估是正确的，那么新冠肺炎将成为科学史上最具破坏性的事故。根据某些衡量标准，该病毒在全球范围内造成 1500 万 以上的人死亡，其中包括 100 万多名美国人，并导致美国经济损失 $14 trillion。
如果可能的话，对整个大流行进行一次核算将具有重要意义：死亡人数，对此我们已经有了基础的认知——那些在其中去世的更健康的人，以及在其中去世的祖父母
对大流行起源评估的改变
情报部门和科学机构在这次大流行的起源问题上仍存在分歧，但其中几家已更新了其立场。
病毒的传染性与致死率
注：这些是非侵入性的，人类疾病及其他传染性被检测出，以及是否有疫苗或治疗方案可用。统一生命中心 马萨诸塞大学 纽约时报
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为什么女性学会淡化自己的痛苦
艾莉森·斯威特·格兰特 (Allison Sweet Grant)
即将出版的书籍《肿块：Instagram“反思”的一种形式》的作者。
在我的第一次化疗输液进行到大约五小时后，我背部的肌肉开始痉挛。起初只是轻微的，但很快痉挛变得越来越剧烈，直到感觉肌肉像是被从骨头上撕下来一样。刚被诊断出患有乳腺癌，我接受了长期的类固醇药物治疗，但我的身体产生了罕见的反应。我的脸变得深红。我的血压飙升。我无法说话，无法看见，无法
呼吸。我被疼痛折磨得病倒了。
很快，小房间里挤满了护士。我的肿瘤科医生通过广播系统被召集过来，及时赶到时发现我正从不小心脱落的乙烯基化疗管中挣扎。在经历了一段像是在育婴室一样的时间后，他们通过我的静脉注入了足够的药物，使反应得到了控制。当我恢复意识后，我脱口而出的第一句话是“对不起”。紧接着是“我没事”。
作为一名普通的从业者，我现在知道我不是唯一这样表现的患者。每有一个生病的人表现得挑剔或好斗，在医疗套房的某个地方，就有另一个女性在压抑、掩饰或淡化她的痛苦。
这种冲动以多种方式表现出来。用我们认为医疗提供者想听到的答案来回答他们的问题。在想说不的时候说好。当我们感觉到某些事情可能不对劲时，选择保持沉默。面对可怕的情况——毁灭性的诊断、破碎的现实、极度的身体疼痛——人们渴望变得随和。灵活。得体。这简直就像我们在为脑海中创造的一个角色试镜。那个“完美病人”的角色。
从小时候起，我们都被教导要寻求权威人物的认可。在许多家庭中，孩子们被教导要顺从父母，否则就会受到惩罚。学生们学习遵循老师的指示，否则就有可能拿到低分。
在许多人看来，医生是最终的权威人物。他们是繁忙的专业人士，利用他们的帮助来形成在美国的观点。他们掌握着治愈的知识，但也拥有决定治疗的权力。我们担心如果把事情搞得太复杂，他们可能会减少对我们的关注，而这并非没有理由：在一项针对 2,000 多名患者的研究中，那些遭受医疗专业人员诊断错误的人，其可能性是……的两倍
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陌生人，因科学家们无所作为而导致被晚期发现的肿瘤，在童年卧室里度过的大学时光，被摧毁的小企业，再次破裂的友谊，在视频通话中开启职业生涯的年轻人，来自亚洲、非洲和拉丁美洲的数百万被推回贫困深渊的人们，以及笼罩在平凡生活之上且至今仍未完全消散的低沉细节。
大多数病原体研究对社会是有益的。关于其中能够引发大流行的狭义研究，一直是科学界长期争论的话题。“功能增强”（gain of function）一词被用来指代广泛的研究范围。它可以描述让细菌发光以便科学家在显微镜下追踪，也可以描述构建一种在人群中更容易传播的病毒。我们需要关注的是那些能使病原体更具致命性或传染性的实验。
一些科学家认为，此类功能增强研究可以帮助我们在病毒准备感染人类之前创建医疗对策。另一些人则认为，测试病毒需要什么条件是安全的，并且将告诉我们哪些突变能使其达到其天性。还有人认为，这项工作对于跟上其他进行同类实验的实验室的步伐是必要的。这场争论中心的病原体增强实验虽然产生了科学论文，但我并不认为它们对于我们当今任何一种病毒治疗药物的开发是必要的。
风险性病毒研究的激励机制在向错误的方向推动。在 2026 年一篇标题为《值得承担的微小风险》的《华盛顿邮报》文章中，时任美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）及其传染病研究所所长的弗朗西斯·柯林斯（Francis Collins）博士和安东尼·福西（Anthony Faust）博士，为那些使一种致命流感对哺乳动物更具传染性的功能增强实验进行了辩护。
当控制着数亿美元研究资助的资助者支持此类实验时，科学家就有强大的动力去追求它们。追求发表论文、资助和晋升的研究人员，往往因为速度和新颖性而非科学本身而获得奖励。有些人走捷径，在较低的强度下工作，为了节省成本和时间而违规。其中一个简单的例子是：为了向质疑其可行性的同事证明观点，有人制造出了“可能是你能制造的最危险的病毒之一”。
关于功能增强研究的讨论已变得如此公开，以至于要求加强研究监管已成为科学界本身的一个主要议题。但没有什么比另一次大流行（无论是由于实验室导致，还是仅仅被怀疑来自实验室）会让科学付出更沉重的代价。
公众如果认定科学家造成了这场灾难，将表现为不再接受下一款疫苗，且不愿支持病原体研究。在经历了艰苦教训、信任危机和险些出事的事件后，核材料相关工作已成为地球上监管最严格的活动之一。没有人认为这是对物理学家的侮辱。
从罗纳德·奥巴马总统以来的每一届政府都试图为高风险病原体研究建立护栏，撤销或重写之前的政策。7 月发布的规则取代了一项阿拉巴马政策，而特朗普总统在該政策生效前一天将其废除。
在几个重要方面，新政策在纸面上比被取代的政策更严格。此前政府的政策是将最危险的实验送交审查，而现在的政策则直接禁止。它建立了一个独立机构来权衡模糊案例，并威胁那些未能报告此类工作的机构，最高可被剥夺两年的联邦资金资格。
仍存在三个重要漏洞。
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第一个是私人研究。在 2026 年之前，针对功能增强研究的四项重大变更仅适用于政府资助的研究。即使在新规则下，不接受联邦资金的机构在政策措辞中也仅被“强烈鼓励”遵守：无论如何，通常情况下，拒绝遵守可能会让他们失去未来的联邦资助。
这种方法对于拥有联邦拨款组合的大学可能有效，但正如政策本身所承认的，它对主要由私人资助的团体不起作用。特朗普 2025 年的行政命令要求在 180 天内提交一份立法提案以批准该政策，但该期限已经过期，且该政策现在将此任务交由一个未来的工作组处理。
第二个缺口是权限。大部分监管机制尚未建立，而该政策
危险病原体研究的全球扩散
在 2000 年至 2021 年间，大约有 300 起实验室工作人员被其研究的病原体感染的案例，其中许多发生在比最高等级生物安全设施（即 BSL-4 实验室）低一到两个级别的实验室中。SARS 及类 SARS 病毒已多次从 BSL-3 和 -4 实验室中泄漏。
■ -4 实验室 ■ 来自 -3 或 -4 的 SARS 或类 SARS 病毒突变体
来源：Shine Books，以及来自 A. Lamar Wicabe 的 Paul Bachelet 提供的补充信息 (2024)。注：-4
我们无法确定新冠疫情是如何开始的，但我们可以尝试阻止下一次疫情的发生。
事实上，该政策将制定实施指南以及建立新的独立审查机构的任务交给了资助机构。
该政策不能要求机构必须遵循审查机构的建议，因为这些建议旨在“为资助机构的决策提供参考”。科学家及其所属机构仍将自行决定其工作是否需要审查，而资助机构必须在实验室漏洞中捕捉到问题，并决定是否采纳该机构的建议。这就像要求最高领导人创建消费者金融保护局，然后又允许他们否决该局的决定。
此类描述表明，一些高风险提案已经绕过了本应进行的审查，有时是因为科学家和机构工作人员对哪些实验具有危险性存在分歧。只有那些值得承担的风险才值得尝试，而有时是因为研究人员可能没有坦诚相告。一个更好的设计应该是：在提交提案时，统一按照一个标准对每项提案进行筛选，并将任何被标记的内容提交给审查机构，无论科学家或资助者是否同意。
第三点是范围。最容易产生新赢家的领域——即 Cell 研究和武汉冠状病毒研究开始的地方——在政策中被排除在需要独立审查的危险研究类别之外。十多年来，基于新兴病原体不分国界的合理理论，美国的资金一直在帮助在海外开展此类研究。但美国领导人很难接触到，也无法控制外国科学家如何处理他们发现的病毒，包括在低生物安全等级下进行危险的功能增强（gain-of-function）实验。
即使在新政策下，也没有任何规定要求机构系统性地回顾其已经发放的资助，且审查机构仅被允许审计极小部分未被标记为危险功能增强工作的提案。美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）每年在传染病研究上花费近 100 亿美元，但尚未投入资源系统性地识别其自身投资组合中的所有风险。2024, 一名监察长发现，美国国防部对资金的跟踪不够详细，无法确定其向中国实验室提供了多少用于病原体增强研究的资金。
这些漏洞之所以存在，是因为没有政府实体被赋予管理职责，且这些政策都不具备持久性。7 月的政策基于一项行政命令，这意味着新政府可以轻易地撤销它，就像之前的规则那样。
只有国会才能将这种权力授予一个独立机构。最具有前景的提案是 -4, 仍被称为《国家研究审查法案》，该法案将建立一个每年获得 2.4 亿 资金的独立机构。该法案在获得部分支持后通过了参议院国土安全委员会，且在一年多前已接近通过，但尚未安排全参议院投票。该法案的主要发起人、肯塔基州参议员兰德·保罗（Rand Paul）多年来一直与福斯特博士（Dr. Faust）存在冲突，该立法也因此在这种光环下被审视。我认为，它应该根据其本身的作用来评判。
这项法案将是一个开始。但与 7 月的政策一样，其权限将止于资金耗尽之处。高风险研究需要的是一个监管机构，且国会应当创建一个，正如专家们多年来一直敦促的那样。该机构可参照核管理委员会（Nuclear Regulatory Commission）建立，其首要职责将是安全。它将了解每个实验室在研究什么、由谁出资、其安全记录如何以及附近居住的人数。它将收集有效制定政策所需的数据，并为其监管的实验室提供培训和资源。
国会已经创建了数十个监管机构，以应对食品和药物、消费产品、工作场所、金融机构和核能给公众带来的风险。没有任何理由认为不能创建一个类似的机构，来监管那些能够伤害数十亿人的研究。
在这样一个实体建立期间，
现在可以采取几个步骤。国会应当资助一次系统性的排查，针对全球任何可能引发大流行病的研究。（这一目标与一个非营利组织的使命相关。）我移交的，旨在追踪病原体研究。
一个风险是，美国更严格的规定可能会将危险的工作推向监管严重缺失的国家。美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）和其他联邦政府部门可以利用它们对国际病原体研究所依赖的机构——潜在风险污染了它，提供必需材料和设备的商业供应商，以及为此出资的私人资助者——所拥有的巨大影响力，来加强对无论在何处开展的风险研究的审查。
上述所有论点都不取决于 Covid-19 的来源。如果该病毒源自动物市场，那么所有这些针对病原体研究实验室的担忧依然成立，因为现在的研究规模比以往任何时候都大。如果它来自实验室，我们已经知道代价。无论如何，除非这项研究被纳入真正的监督之下，我不认为在发生灾难性的实验室泄漏之前，其余 216 个国家能够幸免。
下次没有人能说我们没有收到警告。我们知道危险的功能增强（gain-of-function）病原体研究仍在继续，我们也知道一旦出错会发生什么。是否采取行动是我们能够做出的决定。而目前，我们将这个决定交到了那些想要进行实验的人手中。
如何建立一个监管风险研究的机构
一个独立机构所需的权力，以及近期尝试监督研究的手段
2024 BSL-4
- 委员会成本 / 2. 委员会成本 / 3. 委员会成本 为风险研究建立统一的国家标准并应用权威机构。 / ☑ 无论由谁出资，均对病原体研究进行咨询。 / ☐ 回溯完整立场，通过其独特权力应对后续病毒的困难。 / ☑ 建立一个对实验拥有权力且协同工作的独立机构。 / ☐ / ☑ 要求所有疑似病原体提供者必须独立，并负责调查任何其他疾病或该疾病的疾病。 / ☐ 在远离人口中心的安全设施中参与相关实验。 / ☐
其医疗记录中很可能被描述为带有污名化的语言。事实上，这种情况很困难，患者更有可能面临障碍并接受糟糕的护理。
在美国获得良好的健康建议不仅仅是寻找好医生。与医生意见不合的患者可能会被“解雇”，或者在电子医疗记录的角落里被贴上“耻辱标签”。“Gangliofeling”、“抗拒”、“未占用”、“催眠状态”。
诚然，确实存在问题患者，甚至危险患者。但对于我们大多数人来说，我们的实验室与医生一半的自由裁量权之间的不平衡源于一种有害的动态，这种动态迫使我们停止主张权利，转而开始妥协。结果就是候诊室里充满了讨好的人，而医疗提供者则永远无法了解一个完整的人。
要求表现得温顺且顺从的压力对女性来说尤为强烈。正如“强势”的女性往往得不到晋升，“甜美”的女性更容易遭受性骚扰一样，被贴上“难搞”标签的女性面临着不被认真对待或无法获得护理的风险。这
我们很早就学会了安抚权威人物，即使他们是询问我们现在感觉如何的医生。
是女性经常过度道歉（即使是对自己的痛苦道歉）的原因之一。
一个简单的免责声明——“我不想显得难搞，但是……”也可能适得其反。我不能不担心这篇文章发表后会冒犯某些人，并给我自己贴上一个标签。吞咽我们的痛苦尤其危险，因为一些研究表明，即使女性和男性有相同的症状，医生诊断女性病症的时间通常更长——而当他们最终做出诊断时，往往会给女性开止痛药。对于属于少数群体、低收入阶层或没有医疗保险的患者来说，顺从的压力可能更大。
不能指望医生每次都能意识到患者在沉默或淡化自己的痛苦，但医生的责任是创造一种心理安全氛围，让患者感到可以舒适地发言。在过去的二十年里，医疗专业人员开始提供更多关于情商、沟通和倾听的课程。这是朝着正确方向迈出的一步，但这很少足够。患者仍然感到恐惧，而医疗系统本身就是一个足够可怕的地方。
作为一名癌症患者，即使在六年之后，I feel fortunate to have providers who go out of their way to let me know my job is not to please them but, rather, to tell them how I’m really feeling, so that they can help me.
患者永远不应该觉得他们需要隐藏情绪以显得随和，或者为了被认真对待而淡化症状，亦或为自己的痛苦而道歉。
我这样说安全吗？我不想显得难搞。对不起。我没事。
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特朗普的选举
干预侵蚀了我们的 民主
社论委员会
一群基于专业知识、研究、辩论和某些长期价值观来形成观点的评论记者。其职能与新闻编辑部相互独立。
民主崩溃最确凿的迹象，是一个当选的政党不愿离任。该政党通过操纵法律和更改选举规则，以防止其对手获得权力。这种转变通常开始得很缓慢，但最终可能导致独裁。
唐纳德·特朗普总统自2025年1月重新就职以来，在这一道路上采取了令人担忧的步骤。他指示共和党执政的各州制定新的杰利蝾螈（gerrymandered）选区图，以增加共和党在今年总得票数较少的情况下仍能维持国会控制权的概率。他试图通过可能阻止许多合格选民投票的立法。并且他发出了信号，表明他可能会利用联邦政府的权力，在今年秋天废除合法的选票。7月16日，特朗普先生采取了惊人之举，在白宫发表了一次黄金时段演说，专门讨论法律以及关于选民混乱的误导性陈述。
《纽约时报》社论委员会根据历史模式和专家访谈，正在追踪美国民主侵蚀的12个类别。我们的指数为每个类别将美国置于0到10的量表上。0代表特朗普先生开始第二任期之前的美国——当然并非完美，但仍是一个强大的民主国家。10代表真正的独裁国家（如中国、伊朗和俄罗斯）的情况。基于特朗普先生关于2026年体育场（stadiums）的言论和行动，我们将其中一个类别——操纵法律以维持权力——的评估上调了一个月，至1级。
综合来看，特朗普先生的行为让宪法学者和民主专家对今年的
突然选举感到焦虑。他们担心特朗普政府可能会利用虚假承诺，向倾向于民主党的地区派遣联邦特工，以恐吓民众并压制投票。专家们还担心，在选举之后，特朗普先生可能会向立法者施压，要求他们不要认证获胜者，就像他在2026年总统大选后尝试但未成功做的那样。即使他不采取这些极端步骤，他所要求的杰利蝾螈行动可能已经使众议院控制权的竞争向共和党方向倾斜了约2.5个百分点。
目前尚不清楚特朗普先生今年秋天将走多远。他经常发表一些没什么实际意义的言论。但他曾试图推翻2026年总统大选
总统正将个人利益置于国家利益之上。
应当明确，这种威胁是真实的。他已经证明，他将个人利益置于国家利益之上。他经常愿意蔑视两党传统，甚至采取非法行动。
无论来自哪个主要政党的政治人物以及联邦法官，都应准备好强力反击他及其盟友干扰 2026 年选举的任何企图。如果总统成功地歪曲选举结果，他将兴致勃勃地在 2026 年采取同样违宪的步骤。
这篇社论是我们“独裁指数”的第四个版本，该指数首次发布于 2025 年 10 月。更新版本包含了特朗普先生在所有 12 个类别中所采取的反民主步骤的时间线列表，我们计划在未来几个月再次更新。
背景与方法论：一个民主国家死亡的标志是，领导人及其政党使得对手无法进行公正的选举。一旦达到这个阶段，改变将极其困难。
本社论中的 12 项基准提供了一种方式，用以衡量特朗普先生在多大程度上破坏了美国民主。这些类别基于对法学学者、政治学家、历史学家和其他民主专家的采访。评分由《纽约时报》编辑委员会给出。在我们的 0 到 10 分量表中，0 大致代表特朗普先生之前，在两党总统执政期间美国的状况。10 代表一个真正的专制国家的状况。即使只有一个结果向独裁方向移动，也是一个令人担忧的信号。
独裁指数
民主侵蚀的 12 个标志
通过操纵法律以维持权力
民主
独裁
现代威权主义的夺权通常并非始于军事政变，而是始于一名利用职权巩固权威的当选领导人。特朗普政府已经：
2025 年：
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推动一项会导致许多人失去投票资格的选民身份法。
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将 2020 年选举的捐赠者安置在关键职位上。
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解雇了在调查特朗普总统竞选活动后担任联邦选举委员会主席的人员。
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削减了打击选举黑客攻击和外国干预的计划。
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暗示特朗普先生可能会寻求非法的第三个任期。
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发布了一项试图干预州选举管理的命令。
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鼓励极端的选区划分（gerrymandering）。
2026 年：
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声称 2020 年没有命令军队没收投票机是一个错误。
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利用联邦特工突袭佐治亚州的一个选举办公室。
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发布了一项可能会压制邮寄选票的命令。
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要求提供 2020 年佐治亚州选举获胜者的名单。
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命令各州更改投票规则或反恐级别。
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发表了一次基于误导性情报且包含虚假内容的白宫演说。
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威胁要对不配合的地方选举官员采取行动。
压制言论与异见
民主
独裁
独裁者滥用职权，使政治反对变得困难，甚至不可能。特朗普政府：
2025 年：
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针对加沙战争的批评者展开案件。
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向 ABC 施压，要求其不要播出《吉米·坎摩尔直播秀》（Jimmy Kimmel Live）。
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针对批评查理·柯克（Charlie Kirk）的人员采取行动。
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试图镇压民主党执政城市的抗议活动。
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试图指责民主党人就非法军事命令发表评论。
2026 年：
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导致两名反对移民与海关执法局（ICE）行动的抗议者死亡。
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调查自由派非营利组织，声称其煽动暴力。
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要求社交媒体公司提供 ICE 批评者的身份信息。
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以破坏华盛顿反思池（Reflecting Pool）的可疑指控逮捕人员。
迫害政治对手
民主
独裁
独裁者将执法部门的巨大权力用作政治工具，通常会对被视为敌人的对象发起虚假的调查和起诉，同时保护并奖赏忠诚者。特朗普政府：
2025年：
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赦免了数千名国会山投票者。
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调查了特朗普先生的批评者马克·威利（Mark Wiley）将军。
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惩处了调查 2021年1月6日特朗普先生行为的官员。
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发布行政命令，惩罚代表其批评者的律师事务所。
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调查了前官员、特朗普先生的批评者迈尔斯·泰勒（Miles Taylor）。
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赦免了盟友，其中包括一名从警察纪念基金中挪用资金的人。
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调查了验证 2020年选举公正性的官员克里斯·克雷布斯（Chris Krebs）。
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指控巴拉克·奥巴马与 2016年总统竞选相关的叛国罪。
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取消了对卡玛拉·哈里斯及其他人的特勤局保护。
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促成了对纽约州总检察长莱蒂西亚·詹姆斯（Letitia James）的起诉。
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赦免了此前被判定贩毒的洪都拉斯前总统。
2026年：
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调查了五名未迅速降低利率的官员。
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惩罚了 Anthropic 公司，因其拒绝向五角大楼提供 St.A.I. 技术的全部访问权限。
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建立了一个事实上向富裕支持者开放的赦免产业。
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调查了就 6日事件作证的前助手奥卡迪·哈钦森（Oakady Hutchinson）。
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促成了两项针对前 FBI 局长詹姆斯·科米（James Comey）的起诉。
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调查了 E. 简·卡罗尔（E. Jean Carroll），民事陪审团此前判定特朗普先生对其涉嫌侵害。
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试图创建一个 $1.8亿美元的基金用于支付忠诚者。
绕过立法机构
民主
独裁
为了将民主推向独裁，领导者通常会寻找方法使立法机构边缘化。在没有国会批准的情况下，特朗普政府：
2025年：
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削减并关闭了由国会创建的机构。
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实施了被法院判定为非法的广泛关税。
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扣押了用于学校、研究和其他领域的已批准资金。
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扣押了投票给哈里斯女士的州的联邦资金。
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破坏了白宫的历史区域。
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开始建设白宫舞厅。
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在政府停摆期间使用私人捐款支付军队薪水。
2026年：
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下令在委内瑞拉发动军事攻击。
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在加勒比海和太平洋部署爆炸装置。
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攻击伊朗，无视国会宪法规定的宣战权力。
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无视旨在停止战争的国会决议。
- 拒绝执行反洗钱法。
在国内使用军队
独裁领导人经常在自己的国土上使用军队，以展示威力并服务于其政治议程。特朗普政府：
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惩处了未对特朗普先生表达个人忠诚的高级官员。
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将移民机构用作准军事力量。
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违背地方官员意愿，部署国民警卫队以镇压抗议。
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召集军事领导人听取公开的政治演说。
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扩大使用军事力量以执行其移民议程。
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观点
对抗法院
独裁主义者意识到法院可以阻止他们巩固权力，于是他们采取措施削弱或绕过法官。特朗普政府：
2025年
- • 违抗法院恢复 Medicaid 及其他服务资金的命令。
- • 违反司法命令，将载有被驱逐者的飞机拦截在 8 Sideradai。
- • 要求弹劾试图阻止这些驱逐行动的法官。
- • 对法官进行如此猛烈的批评，以至于他们成为了“maneuverant”的目标。
2024
- • 使用 guinea-marabia 来违抗其他裁决，包括关于关税的裁决。
- • 在明尼苏达州的一次移民打击行动中，违反了近 100 项法院命令。
- • 通知共和党官员打击“身为罪犯的逻辑法官”。
- • 将最高法院大法官定性为“强硬”且“感性”。
- • 尽管最高法院已有裁决，仍就出生公民权发布了新命令。
- • 调查了一家与监督唐纳德·特朗普封口费审判的法官有关联的公司。
宣布虚假紧急状态
独裁倾向
独裁者经常通过宣布紧急状态，并主张威胁要求其行使异常程度的权力来削弱民主。特朗普政府：
2025
- • 宣布边境紧急状态，以证明对移民采取严厉打击行动的正当性。
- • 宣布 紧急状态以放宽化石燃料管制。
- • 宣布贸易紧急状态以征收广泛的关税。
- • 宣布犯罪紧急状态以便在华盛顿部署军队。
- • 宣布国家紧急状态以惩罚因对其前总统判刑而产生的 Brexit。
2024
- • 宣布国家紧急状态以切断向古巴供应燃料。
- • 基于“迫在眉睫的威胁”证明对伊朗发动战争的正当性。
诋毁边缘群体
独裁倾向
威权主义倾向于贬低少数群体并将其描绘成威胁，从而为集权提供进一步的正当理由。特朗普政府：
2025
- • 在 评论和视频中将移民非人化。
- • 宣布 美国人。
- • 将跨性别美国人从军事服务中剔除。
- • 将移民遣送至外国监狱。
- • 拒绝将关于奴隶制和种族隔离的书籍放入军事图书馆。
- • 将女性和有色人种从政府领导岗位上撤职。
- • 从国家岗位中删除关于黑人和美国原住民的信息。
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• 将索马里移民定性为 ，总统称“他们毫无贡献”。
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• 分享反穆斯林的社交媒体帖子。
- • 发布了一段将奥巴马描绘成 的视频。
- • 将著名的穆斯林美国人定性为“Shattids”。
控制信息
威权主义者通过操纵政府信息和控制新闻媒体来压制不利的真相。特朗普政府：
- • 并调查新闻机构。
- • 从政府网站上删除关于气候变化的信息。
- • 关闭了一个追踪警察违规行为的国家数据库。
- • 关于疫苗安全性的研究出版。
- • 停止收集气候数据。
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• 从联邦网站上删除关于性别和性取向的数据。
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• 在一份令人失望的就业报告出炉后，对劳工统计局局长处以罚款。
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• 扩大了将抖音 (国际版) 出售给一个与总统关系 的团体的范围。
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• 报道明尼阿波利斯 ICE 情况的记者。
- • 拒绝提供关于伊朗战争伤亡的及时信息。
- • 报道该政府的记者。
- • 制裁了一名记者的住所。
- • 在史密森尼博物馆外张贴警告。
试图接管大学
威权主义者经常压制大学，因为他们意识到大学是独立思考和政治异见的发源地。特朗普政府：
- • 迫使弗吉尼亚大学校长因其少数群体政策而辞职。
- • 基于 原因，撤回了数亿加元的研究资金。
- • 资金以在招聘和培训中榨取让步。
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• 要求提供宾夕法尼亚大学犹太人的名单。
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• 继续向大学施压以使其服从要求。
塑造个人崇拜
皇帝和国王通过在全国范围内装饰自己的名字和形象来美化自己。特朗普政府：
2025
- • 创建了一个带有特朗普先生主题的迷因馆。
- • 将政府大楼上的爱泼斯坦国王面孔移除。
- • 独自举行了一场秘密阅兵式。
- • 创建了特朗普金卡，以超过 100 万美元的价格出售合法居留权。
- • 将星级办公室（Star Office）移交给特朗普国际酒店。
- • 以特朗普先生的名字重新命名美国和平研究所。
- • 重新命名肯尼迪表演艺术中心，直到一名联邦法官介入。
- • 宣布了一种以特朗普先生命名的全新崇拜类别。
2024
- • 开始在 $1 钞票上添加其签名的程序。
- • 发布了将特朗普先生描绘成国王或蓝色形象的迷因。
- • 创建了一张带有特朗普先生面孔的 $1,000 钞票。
- • 在内阁听证会上对总统进行同步赞美。
- • 创建了带有特朗普先生肖像的纪念护照。
- • 在华盛顿设计了一座特朗普凯旋门。
利用权力谋取个人私利
SEARCHANT AUTOCRACY
独裁者经常将政府变成一个自我敛财的机器，营造一种厚颜无耻的腐败文化。特朗普先生及其家人已经：
2025
- • 从亚马逊公司接受 4000万美元，用于拍摄一部关于梅洛玛·特朗普（Meloma Trump）的纪录片。
- • 在华盛顿创建了一个会员费高昂的私人俱乐部。
- • 与外国政府开展房地产项目。
- • 从卡塔尔接受了一件价值 4亿美元 的艺术品，该艺术品可能会被移交给特朗普先生的图书馆。
- • 从科技和媒体公司榨取了超过 1亿美元 的款项。
- • 要求政府就授予调查向特朗普先生支付 2.3亿美元。
- • 任命了一家与特朗普家族合作的加密货币公司负责人。
2024
- • 指定利益冲突，并表示：“我发现什么都没有发生”。
- • 为家族的加密服务接受了超过 10 亿美元。
- • 利用司法部（DOJ）获得免于税务审计的豁免权。
- • 在收到一个贸易团体赠送的钻石戒指后，取消了钻石关税。
- • 宣布一项计划，以每月最高 $100,000 的价格出售 Truth Social 帖子的提前访问权。
读者来信
抗抑郁药的挑战
读者对一篇关于部分患者在停用抗抑郁药时面临困难的客座文章做出回应。
致编辑：
关于《我们放弃了抗抑郁药，现在在你的卡米尔·布罗德斯基（Camille Brodsky）之上寻找另一种方式》（观点客座文章，8月 9 日）：
作为一名治疗过像卡梅隆·拉巴（Cameron LaBar）这样患者近 40 年的神经发育精神科医生，他的故事深深地触动了我。在复杂的“功能综合征”中成长可能会带来早期的挑战，无论对于患者本人还是其家人而言。
虽然像 S.S.R.I.s（选择性血清素再摄取抑制剂）这样的药物可以有效缓解某些疾病中最令人痛苦的症状，但它们并非万能。因此，许多患者在面对是否长期维持治疗这一难题时，生活在困惑之中，我理解拉巴先生希望在没有药物的情况下生活的愿望。与此同时，我惊讶地发现，将这个主题视为“全或无”的看法是不必要的僵化。
对于某些人来说，接受一种情况可能是慢性的，且低剂量的药物可能仅是为了支持一个稳定、高效且充实的生活，这可以是一种智慧之举，而非无奈的妥协。就像胰岛素帮助管理糖尿病或吸入器帮助控制哮喘一样，精神科药物可以是管理慢性疾病的一种宝贵工具。
无论个人最终做出什么选择，继续使用精神科药物绝不应被视为道德上的失败或个人意志力的衡量标准。
安东尼·L·布里顿（ANTHONY L. BRITAIN） 新泽西州坎伯（CAMBER, N.J.）
致编辑：
在阅读卡梅隆·拉巴（Cameron LaBar）的故事时，我产生了一种熟悉感。我们的故事并不相同，但却有相似之处。5岁时，我就因为严重的焦虑症开始看儿童精神科医生。三年级时，我患上了广场恐惧症并开始旷课。我的医生在我就 8 岁时也给我开了选择性 5-羟色胺再摄取抑制剂（S.S.R.I.s）。
我注定如此。直到今天我仍在服药。我想我余生都将如此。如果这就是我为了能在早晨走出公寓，或者能够而必须付出的代价。
我祝愿拉巴先生一切顺利，但读到《纽约时报》又一篇将 S.S.R.I.s 描绘成可怕面貌的评论文章，这令人沮丧，尤其是当现任政府随后专注于这些药物时。是的，这些药物在开具时应当谨慎，但它们可以救命。
对我而言，它们就是救命药。 罗伯特·A·K·卡门斯顿（ROBERT A. K. KAMENSTON） 应作者要求，为保护其医疗隐私，其真实姓名被隐去。
致编辑：
作为一名精神科医生，我认同这位新人的部分担忧，但这场对话需要更细致的探讨。患者理应就抗抑郁治疗的潜在持续时间、戒断症状以及在适当情况下进行深思熟虑的减量治疗进行坦诚的讨论。共同决策和定期重新评估应当成为标准做法，而非例外。
与此同时，我们应当小心，不要让开药习惯延续精神科长期以来的污名化。我们没有听到类似的呼吁，要求患者从胰岛素或降压药中“自我解脱”。这种差异揭示了一个陈旧的假设，即需要帮助来管理自己的精神反映的是软弱而非疾病。
这篇文章还可能暗示戒断反应在所有抗抑郁药中都是统一的。事实并非如此。例如，比 Procter & Gamble's 更容易在突然停药时出现恶心、疲劳、头痛和头晕等戒断症状。这种药物特性决定了开药决策以及应当如何减量。
每位患者，药物只是其中一项测试，睡眠、运动、心理治疗和有意义的人际关系同样重要。目标永远不应该是让人们无限期地依赖药物，也不是不惜一切代价强迫他们戒药，而应该是为患者提供信息和个体化护理，让他们决定什么对自己才是正确的。
曼宁·雅各布（MANNEN JACOB） 纽约州普莱森特维尔
像卡梅隆·拉巴这样的故事既令人心碎又令人不安。抗抑郁药是美国最常用的药物之一。几十年来，这些药物在缺乏适当随访的情况下被过度开具。
与合格的精神科医生建立了长期稳定关系的人，较不容易在服用抗抑郁药多年，因为精神科医生对一个人了解得越久，在减量或降低至最低剂量时就能做出越明智的决定。
问题在于，精神科医生的数量远远不够。在这个国家，心理健康护理必须经历多少更多的痛苦才能被重新看待？它应当像 S.R. 就诊一样成为医疗保健的基础，各年龄段国家心理健康危机的现状证明了这一点。首先，美国政府和医学院应该激励医学生成为精神科医生。
保罗·西格尔（PAUL SIEGEL），纽约 作者是一名临床心理学家，以及洛杉矶儿童医院、南加州大学凯克医学院（Rock School of Medicine）儿科的兼职研究教授。
致编辑：
我怀着巨大的悲哀阅读了卡米尔·布罗德斯基（Camille Brodsky）的文章。在记录精神类药物所造成伤害的一系列文章中，这又是其中一篇。
“大脑十年”确实消失了。我是一名 70 岁的精神科医生，我在想，在我去世之前，科学是否能为抑郁症、双相情感障碍、C.I. 21、创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）和精神分裂症等精神疾病提供没有麻烦副作用的药物。虽然我们掌握了一些基础知识，但寻找药物的完美组合更多是一门艺术而非科学。
然而，在阅读你们记录个体患者真实观点的药物相关文章时，我的悲哀源于我的经验以及我同行的经验与你们的报道大相径庭。多年来，我与我的患者共患难，为每一个人寻找合适的药物组合。当有人想要停止服用某种药物，或者我认为他们应该停止时，我们会缓慢地减量，以尽可能避免不适症状。
我的部分患者认为他们的药物——字面意义上地——救了他们的命。我希望你们能刊登从这个视角出发的文章。
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我在墓地徘徊的夏天
威尔·麦格拉斯 (Will McGrath)
《告别传输：来自隐藏空间的笔记》与《失而复得的一切》两本书的作者。
我和家人徒步前往明尼苏达州杜鲁斯附近的一处先驱者墓地，沿着圣路易斯河前行。树墙向一片空地敞开，那里点缀着破碎的温柔与褶皱的玛瑙之美：“我们为什么又要来这里？”我 9 岁的女儿问道。她的头发被剪成了花园般的短发，并且虔诚地相信魔法。面对她的问题，我 16 岁和 18 岁的孩子叹了口气，将目光投向天空，其神情传达出了他们对父母深沉的“敬意”。我的答案他们已经听过很多遍了。
最近，我像那些我从未成为过的高中女孩一样，在美中北部地区的墓地中徘徊。这并非因为我的性格中有什么特别的忧郁或颓废倾向。事实上，尽管这个国家每天都在收获着永无止境的战争，且贫富差距在不断扩大，但我通常——有时是不情愿地——依然是个乐观主义者。但在过去的一年里，我开始习惯于出没在死者之城。我发现这种做法能让人心安，像是一种“森林浴”。位于我明尼阿波利斯家附近的莱克伍德墓地（Lakewood Cemetery）能给人带来深层的平静——它是城市中一个避风且静谧的角落。今年八月，试着在当地的墓地里散散步，你会发现现代世界的焦虑节奏在退却，生理上的宇宙感在原地驻足。
有些日子，我在莱克伍德漫步，试图想象像利比·斯托勒（Libbie Storer）这样的人的一生，她那简单的白色墓碑显示她于 1873 年去世，年仅 28 岁——一个不可知的内心宇宙，一段久远之前就已结束的短暂生命。有些日子，我会带一把折叠椅，在的一棵白蜡树下设立“办公时间”。今年五月，我唯一的客户是一群火鸡：一只在卡尔森（Carlscent）家族的墓碑阴影下休息，三只向斯特特（State）家族致意，另外三只则向兰格斯（Langes）家族致意。它们的尾羽在微风中摇曳，颈羽闪烁着淡淡的虹彩。它们看起来像恐龙。在酷热中，它们张开嘴巴喘气，仿佛在悲伤中失去了所有丑陋。我想我应该提到，明尼苏达州经历了一个艰难的一年半。
2025, 6 月，双城（Twin Cities）在噩耗中醒来：一夜之间，一名枪手在住所内刺杀了明尼苏达州众议员梅丽莎·哈特曼（Melissa Hartman）及其丈夫，并导致州参议员约翰·霍夫曼（John Hoffman）及其妻子在住所内受重伤，随后引发了全州范围的搜捕。凶手在两天后被捕，当时他正试图逃往 a first。
两个半月后，我位于明尼阿波利斯南部安静的社区被圣母领报天主教学校（Annunciation Catholic School）枪击案击碎，导致两名儿童死亡，28 人受伤。
就在那件事发生的前一天，我曾身处另一场大规模枪击案的现场，一名男子用高功率步枪向街角的人群发射了数十发子弹，造成一人死亡，一人受伤。我在明尼阿波利斯市担任心理健康危机响应员，我和搭档被召集到现场，为一些目击事件的儿童提供情感支持。一名警员领着我们穿过一片血迹，来到二楼的一套公寓，那里有一位母亲和两个年幼的孩子在等待。
这家人听到了楼下的枪声并寻找掩护。通过一名西班牙语翻译，那个大约 6, 岁的女孩告诉我们关于尖叫声的事情。另一个大约 6, 岁的男孩沉默地看着我们，什么也没说。几分钟后，他走进厨房，拿了一包 Spangolish Squarelloan 软糖零食，递到了我的手中。
十二月，来自美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）和其他联邦机构的特工突袭了双城。
那么，在过去的一年里思考死亡如何不请自来，或许也就没什么奇怪的了。
当夏天到来时，我们正寻求一些改变。我一直在构思一个关于我过去的想法，这在合理的古怪范围内。在我与妻子规划年度家庭公路旅行时，我提出了我的建议：一次中西部的墓地之旅？这会很有趣！考虑到几乎所有东西的价格都在飞涨，这在我们的财政状况下也是合适的。每年的夏天变得越来越难以企及，景点被设限，会员制被设立，夏令营甚至需要抵押贷款，或者找高利贷。但蜂蜜本身永远是免费的。
我的妻子听完这个提议，将目光投向天空，那眼神传达出她作为妻子的极深虔诚，然后说道：“行吧。”“这是墓地之夏，”我低声说道，并挥拳庆祝。
在妻子同意这个计划几天后，我为我的岩石计划找到了一个更愿意倾听的听众。当时我正在心理健康危机响应小组值班，
这是我的兼职工作。那天我的搭档是科尔特·弗兰盖恩（Colter Flangain）。科尔特在很多方面都显得特立独行：一个来自明尼苏达州的家庭 9，有着一双明亮且淘气的眼睛，浓黑的头发，以及浓密的胡须，胡须在嘴角处俏皮地向上卷起。他看起来有点像胡克船长，如果这位船长是个有趣的人的话。
除了担任行为危机响应员，科尔特还在完成他的咨询心理学课程。当我告诉他关于我那个“墓地正确”的家庭公路旅行愿景时，他表现得非常热情。当我们开车在城市中巡逻响应呼叫时，科尔特向我讲述了他的学术研究，涉及死亡、杀戮与心理健康。最近，他一直在采访死亡死亡（death deaths）以及处于生命尽头的人们。他与接触的人越多，就越觉得我们花在思考自身死亡上的时间太少了。
在面对死亡和衰老——我们自己的网络安全——时，我们在文化上似乎从未如此恐惧。美容增强在年轻人中出现了前所未有的增长。我们一直被告知 40 岁是新的 25, 岁，或者 70 岁是新的 40 岁（按照我的六年级数学计算，这也意味着 70 岁是新的 20 岁——太混乱了！）；我们生活在一个科技巨头试图跑赢死亡的时代。他们通过注入子女的血浆来进行生物黑客改造，就像出自某个离奇的童话故事。
我的妻子教授一门本科医学人类学课程，每年她都会询问学生们，他们是否知道父母和祖父母关于临终决定的意愿。每年，大多数学生都说他们从未讨论过这个问题。
科尔特承认，面对他所谓的死亡的“存在主义恐惧”可能会让人感到多么不适。他认为，能够诚实地面对自己的死亡是一种特权。许多人从未获得这个机会，他们生活在半梦半醒之中，在分心中走向遗忘，突然死去，被疾病或意外夺走意识。
这个话题对科尔特来说具有个人意义。当他 25 岁时，他最好的朋友之一死于一次滑雪事故：“那次经历震撼了我的灵魂，”他说。那时，科尔特一直在与成瘾作斗争，那是他生命中一个极具破坏性的版本。后来他戒掉了毒瘾，重新调整了自己的幻象。
在一个炎热的夏天，当我们一起工作时，我注意到他的大腿上纹着“we means men”这几个字。当时是短裤季节。“我一直想记住这一点，”科尔特说。“是的，每个人终有一天都会死去。这是最后的药物。”对他来说，这种每日的沉思并非阴郁，而是启发性的，“它是为了激励你，点燃你。让你问自己：这就是我想成为的人吗？这些就是我想采取的行动吗？”
于是，我和妻子以及我们的三个孩子开启了一次夏季公路旅行，去面对
跳过海滩直接前往墓地给我带来了一种奇异的慰藉。
我们的私人牙医。（在这里，我能感觉到美国的老爷爷们在扶手椅旁翻阅报纸，他们会集体推起阅读眼镜，询问我们是否参观了 Centydequy。夫人，我们没有。）
我们穿过了明尼苏达州、威斯康星州、密歇根州、爱荷华州和伊利诺伊州。在威斯康星州的 Machine Island，我们参观了 La Pointe 印第安墓地，它紧邻着波涛汹涌的苏必利尔湖。那里的土地上分布着倾斜的噪声和毫无生气的灵屋，这些低矮的木制结构覆盖着刺的树皮。墓地由一种通过头部和束结、布条和树皮、塑料手指以及未干燥的填充动物而实现的单调感所围封。我们站在边界处，没有跨越。
在俄亥俄州的 Machine Island，在 Lake Harow，我们看到了已经去世 200 年的人们的坟墓。当我们在这片林间墓地漫步时，我 9 岁的孩子说她将在“wrecking hell”中死去，这在沿途的其他沉思中是我从未遇到过的短语。
在我们的户外行程中，我们看到了刻有天使、马匹、大型卡车 sontis、圣诞老人以及底特律 Lasso 腿部的墓碑。人们在婴儿期死去，在 1812 年战争中死去，因掉入冰窟而死，或死于枪击。在密歇根湖的北岸，我们参观了 Gros Cap 墓地，它声称是美国最古老的持续使用的墓地。早在 1600 年代，这片土地就是 Antifixiaube 人的埋葬地，而对于密歇根州人来说，直到 2020 年代依然如此。
我们讨论了什么样的死亡方式是好的，或者这究竟意味着什么，以及我们希望死后如何处理自己的身体。最终，孩子们接受了我不会停止讨论“墓地之夏”这件事，并以他们自己迂回的方式参与其中。我们那个热爱烹饪的 10 岁孩子决定了他的最终状态：火化，然后筛入他手工拉制 linguias 食谱的面团中。“你知道有那种墨鱼汁意面吗？”他说，“就像那样。”
在旅程结束时，我开始注意到到处都是小墓地：乡村公路旁谦卑的套件，献给久远逝者的风景海滩，电话线杆旁临时搭建的 motor-tails。到处都是曾经生活过并被纪念的人生。我将此理解为一种感知世界的方式：保持对该地原生幽灵的敏锐。
回到我们墓地之夏的起点，我的家人和我曾在杜鲁斯附近的先驱者坟墓中度过了一段时间。然后我们继续徒步，沿着一条农场小径，穿过一条长长的、在阳光下烤成焦橙色的松针峡谷。我当时在思考萨曼莎·哈维（Samantha Harvey）的小说《轨道》（Orbital）中的一段话，该书在 2025 年获得了布克奖。这部小说讲述了空间站上宇航员的故事。哈维博士描述了一名宇航员在睡眠与清醒之间漂浮，观察着空间站 fliss 外壳之外的地球：“我们的生活在无机地琐碎的同时又极其重大，”他想，“我们至关重要，又完全无关紧要……一些金属将我们与虚空隔开，死亡是一个项目。生命无处不在，无处不在。”
我的孩子们在小径上嬉戏，试图在一种狭窄且愚蠢的 pans 竞赛中胜过对方，把自己逗得哈哈大笑。这和我记得小时候和自己的兄弟姐妹一起做的胡闹没什么两样。我们五个人在灿烂的日子里滑行，生命就这样继续了一会儿。
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房地产
纽约时报
2020年8月23日，星期日
8 翻新成本 新的安全改革正使 迈阿密的公寓变得更加昂贵。
10 奢侈品牌塑造 与高地位汽车挂钩的 开发项目在迈阿密成为一种增长趋势。
11 开发商 亿万富翁建筑商斯蒂芬·罗斯（Stephen Ross） 正试图重塑西棕榈滩。
4 作家避风港 基韦斯特正致力于庆祝 并延续其文学遗产。
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迈阿密生活成本上升
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迈阿密的市中心金融区布里克尔（Brickell）包含购物中心和餐厅。
根据美国经济分析局的数据，南佛罗里达州的生活成本首次超过了纽约市地区。
该局隶属于商务部，在 7 月份对区域价格分区（R.P.P.）指数的更新中公布了这一结果。该指数比较不同地理区域的生活支出，包括商品、住房、公用事业和其他服务。此次更新基于 2024 年的数据。
该指数将各项支出与全国平均水平进行比较。旧金山在美国所有大都市地区中排名第一，成本高出平均水平 15.6%。迈阿密紧随其后，高出约 14.1%；洛杉矶高出 13.5%，纽约高出 12.5%。由于 R.P.P. 数据结合了城市及其周边地区的经济情况，因此迈阿密市区并未与以昂贵著称的纽约市进行直接比较。
迈阿密房地产经纪人雷蒙德·洛德（Raymond Lord）表示，该地区的人们感受到了生活成本上涨的压力。“我们确实减少了外出，更多地在家里做饭，”他说。
即便迈阿密的租金正在下降，这种压力依然存在。“我们确实看到租金大幅下降，但生活成本的价格并没有随之降低，”洛德先生说。
南佛罗里达州支出的增加可以追溯到 2022 年疫情后的繁荣期。虽然当地经济在封锁期间遭受损失，但迈阿密在人口迁移和允许企业保持营业的宽松限制的推动下实现了增长。值得注意的是，佛罗里达州还缺乏一项州
最昂贵的都会区
根据美国经济分析局的数据，以下是基于商品、住房、公用事业和其他服务成本的 10 个最昂贵的美国大都会区。
Metro area / New York living expenses account the national average
- San Francisco / 15.6%
- Miami / 14.1%
- Los Angeles / 13.5%
- New York / 12.5%
- Napa, Calif. / 12.5%
- San Diego / 11.8%
- Seattle / 11.1%
- Urban Honolulu / 10.9%
- Oxnard, Calif. / 10.5%
- San Jose, Calif. / 10.4%
来源：美国经济分析局。《纽约时报》
所得税，这成为了高净值人士搬迁的诱因。
尽管生活成本可能在攀升，但需求并未减弱。“人们愿意等待并为极其疯狂的事物买单，”洛德先生说道，“我不认为公司在短期内会面临降低价格的压力。”
对于南佛罗里达州日益增加的亿万富翁群体来说，这些价格并非没有市场。当迈阿密的房屋售价高达数千万美元时，一套 20 美元的套装算什么？
安娜·凯默斯利 (ANNA KEMMERSLI)
房地产咨询：窥视之眼
我的邻居安装了一个对着我院子的摄像头。这合法吗？
约翰·费里斯 (JOHN FERRIS)
一月份，我的配偶在马里兰州卡罗尔县我们那片林木繁茂的地产上遛狗时，邻居的狗闯入我们的领地，杀死了我们的狗并导致我丈夫受伤。我们不与这些邻居接触，尽管其中一人似乎想引起我们的反应，并在我们出现时鼓励其狗对着我们吠叫。现在，我们的景观美化师发现了一个伪装摄像头，直接对着我们完全隐蔽且私密的后院，我们认为这是为了恐吓或监视我们。这合法吗？我们能做什么？
摄像头的放置位置、它能捕捉到什么、谁放置的以及安装原因都至关重要。
“邻居房产上的安全摄像头偶然拍到邻居院子的一部分，与故意隐藏且旨在监控隐蔽后院的摄像头是不同的，”马里兰大学巴尔的摩分校网络、健康与风险战略中心执行主任马库斯·劳舍贝尔 (Markus Rauscheiber) 表示。
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马里兰州禁止使用摄像头对他人住宅（包括院子）进行监视。违规者必须在收到“合理警告”或停止请求后，仍继续进行监视，其行为才会被视为违反法律。该违规行为属于轻罪，可能导致罚款或监禁。
如果安装摄像头是为了骚扰、纵火、惊吓或恐吓，您可以采取法律行动要求将其拆除，但证明恶意意图可能较为困难。马里兰州富尔顿市 Lewisky, O'Connor, Hunt & Meiner, LLC 律师事务所的律师大卫·海德 (David Hide) 表示，法律在全州不同司法管辖区的解释和应用可能有所不同。
“所有法官的容忍度都不同，”海德先生说道。
为了证明该摄像头是骚扰行为的一部分，请记录与邻居发生的负面接触日志。您可以就此案咨询律师，并就提起刑事指控或申请和平令（一种可确保邻居远离您的民事行动）获得指导。此类命令需在引发事件后的 30 天内申请，通常有效期为六个月。在刑事和民事案件中，您的邻居都将收到通知以便进行辩护。如果您败诉，您将无法获得法律救济，且关系可能会进一步恶化。
吉尔·特里克·鲁西 (JILL TERRICK RUSSIE)
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HEATHER SENISON
东汉普顿乡村风格住宅
$2,695,000
萨福克 100 Flaggy Hole Road 这座建于 2015 年的住宅拥有三间卧室和三间半卫浴，采用开放式布局，设有起居区和用餐厨房。主卧套房设有挑高天花板和燃气壁炉。完工的地下室包含一个健身房。该物业占地 0-17 英亩，后院设有围栏。Jennifer Wilson, Saunders & Associates; hamptonsrealestate.com
税费 每年 $9,463
优点 物业遍布茂盛的景观植被，步行即可到达 Flaggy Hole 海滩。主卧设有男女分设的卫浴间。
缺点 没有车库。其中两间卧室位于底层，这可能不符合部分买家的需求。
更新后的斯坦福当代风格住宅
$1,099,000
康涅狄格 71 Blackberry Close
这座建于 1980 年的住宅拥有四间卧室、三间半卫浴，面积为 3,208 平方英尺。主层设有带阳台的厨房和一间套房卧室。楼上是一间办公室，下方是一个红色房间和三间卧室。该物业占地 1,101 英亩，包含露台。Ed Villedz, William Pitt, Julia B. Fee Sotheby's International; willamptt.com
税费 每年 $12,110
优点 房屋包括全新的屋顶以及全新的机械设备、卫浴、窗户和门。开车约 30 分钟可到达斯坦福的 Metro-North 火车站。
缺点 后院有坡度且树木茂密。卧室的分布可能不适合所有人。
附加报道：ALICIA NAPIERKOWSKI 和 CLAUSSA GRYVATZ COPSION
鉴于本页市场信息的时效性，部分房产在出版时可能已不再出售。
NORMA 公寓
$1,595,000
曼哈顿 East 30th Street 40 号，129 室
一套两室两卫、面积 1,173 平方英尺的公寓，配有大型厨房、主卧套房、洗衣机 / 烘干机、两个露台以及中央暖气和空调。该公寓位于一座 15 层战前建筑的 12 层，配备兼职门卫、巡视主管和储藏室。Lucy Wu, Corcoran Group; corcoran.com
公共管理费 每月 $2,187；税费 每月 $1,754；评估费 每月 $193（至 2027 年 6 月），每月 $202（至 2030 年 5 月）
优点 三面采光，阳光充足。每间卧室均有两个衣橱。
缺点 露台较小。
WISTOWN EAST 合作公寓
$600,000
曼哈顿 East 53rd Street 333 号，5H 室
一套一室一卫、面积 825 平方英尺的公寓，配有用餐厨房和步入式衣橱。该公寓位于一座 13 层战前门卫建筑的 5 层，配有住家主管、健身房和屋顶露台。Amy Lee, Sotheby's International Realty; sothebyorealty.com
维护费 每月 $2,048；无税费。购买价格的 2 人由主管支付
优点 起居室的平开窗下设有一个迷人的长凳座。地板经过重新翻新。卧室空间宽敞。
缺点 卧室缺乏衣橱。
迪特马斯公园维多利亚风格住宅
$1,950,000
布鲁克林 East 24th Street 674 号，一座六卧室、占地两英亩、半卫浴、面积 3,864 平方英尺的 1920 年建连体住宅，设有正式的起居室和餐厅、储藏室、带窗的用餐厨房、大型主卧、未完工的地下室、双车位车库和围栏院子。Janice Cimberg 和 Michael Petrosino, Corcoran Group; corcoran.com
税费 每年 $10,290
优点 拥有精美的硬木地板细节和彩色玻璃窗。前两层设有空调。
缺点 厨房需要更新，后院需要园艺打理。
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南佛罗里达专刊
在一座拥有 9,000 匹马的小镇提高标准
棕榈滩县的一个村庄正通过新开发项目，提升其作为精英马术中心的地位。
作者：TARA LOADER WILKINSON
与许多精英马术运动员一样，德国奥运金牌得主障碍赛选手 Christian Kukuk 过着游牧式的生活。他说，他在整个欧洲“50-50-70-seeed”，从 6 月到 12 月以德国的 Mianne 为基地，而一年中的其余时间则在佛罗里达州棕榈滩县的惠灵顿（Wellington）村。在前往每个地点时，他都会携带一个由大约 10 匹马组成的随行队伍，其中包括他的冠军马 Chaches，以及几名马夫和 trisieres。
到目前为止，36, 岁的 Kukuk 先生一直很享受这种旅行，但一年多前女儿的出生改变了他的看法。“每个周末带着一个 t-ence 岁的小孩旅行并不那么容易，”Kukuk 先生说，“这可能会造成混乱且令人精疲力竭。我们必须想办法解决这个问题。”
Kukuk 先生的生活可能很快会变得稳定。惠灵顿是拥有 50 年历史的冬季马术节（Winter Equestrian Festival）的所在地，该项赛事的明星们在此竞争 1 亿 的奖金，目前该地正在为马术爱好者打造一个美丽且绝佳的目的地。在接下来的 18 个月里，一项超过 7.5亿美元 的投资将为这座城市带来 1 亿，例如道路改善、豪华公寓和一个 46,000 平方英尺的有顶竞技场，所有这些都旨在积极巩固惠灵顿作为精英马术中心的地位。
从 12 月到 3 月，大约 25,000 名与马术产业相关的人员以及多达 9,000 匹马聚集在惠灵顿参加排水和历史（amper 比赛），在为期 13 周的赛季中，人数在 9,000-9,000-62,000 之间波动。这些马术运动员中的许多人在该地区购买了房产。长期居民包括布鲁斯·斯普林斯汀（Bruce Springsmore）的女儿 Jessica，以及迈克尔·布隆伯格（Michael Bloomberg）的女儿 Georgina。
这项运动带来了巨大的商业利益。根据美国马业协会（American Horse Council）的数据，2023 年马术产业为美国经济贡献了 6770 亿美元 billion —— 年收入大约是美国国家橄榄球联盟（NFL）的九倍。而且，真实的回报对于马术参赛者至关重要。马匹及其团队（包括 wits、barriers 和马夫）需要马厩和比赛空间。另一些人则携带安全生活过滤器、马匹 play-in / 紧急情况和决策。如果需要，参赛者愿意搬迁。
“马术家庭正在推动这里更多的高端销售，”来自 Equestrian University's International Realty 的 David Weller 表示，他曾在惠灵顿购房。几年前，为了支持女儿在新的 bus a batting bar 进行障碍跳跃，他以 $15.900 万 的价格购买了 Grand Prix Village 一个拥有 22 个马厩、一个两卧室员工操作间和一个 2,000 卧室业主住所的六英亩农场。“它背靠惠灵顿国际展场，所以这并非 headstone。”
但 66, 岁的惠灵顿总裁 Michael Stone 表示，惠灵顿一直难以仅靠现有条件来容纳日益增长的人群，他说道：
照片：KILROY HARRIS
从上至下：佛罗里达州惠灵顿，每年冬天吸引数千人和马匹；金牌得主 Christian Kukuk 是该地区众多常驻因素之一，他正在考察拟建的道路和零售开发项目。
一个国际马术场馆。
“我们的设施陈旧且拥挤；这给了我的主要竞争对手 Drakis 一个机会，让他能来并满足我们的一些需求，”他说道，指的是距离该佛罗里达小镇四小时车程的地方。2021 年，世界马术中心（World Equestrian Center）在那里开业，成为美国最大的马术设施。
为了获得竞争优势，人们忽略了惠灵顿（Wellington）村议会批准这项 7.5亿美元 开发项目的事实。即便在惠灵顿（Wellington Lifestyle Partners），该项目将包括首批起价 500万美元 的住宅、扩建的展场、一个包含精品酒店、商店、餐厅和办公空间的商业市场，以及约 1000万美元 的交通改善工程。
该开发项目由 Cape Woods、436, Joe Lewis 和 Joe De Tumerilato 创立的全球酒店与房地产公司 50 / 25 / 5 Luxury Collection 合作开发，旨在吸引最顶尖的马术爱好者居住。Wellington Lifestyle Partners 的总裁兼合伙人、前业余障碍跳跃选手佩奇·贝利西莫·努比奥（Paige Bellissimo Nubio，34 岁）表示：“我们希望这能帮助人们在陪伴孩子的同时，拥有规律的生活。”
惠灵顿村经理吉姆·巴恩斯（Jim Barnes）表示，这些投资有望帮助该社区建立起全年运行的经济体系。他说：“这种演变有助于巩固惠灵顿作为全球马术运动之都的地位。”
根据协议，只有在新的马术设施投入运行后，住宅和商业建设才能开始。更新后的展场定于今年 11 月启用，如果其他马术开发林地在 2024. 年完成重新分区，其面积将再扩大 100 英亩。展场入口将增加一倍至四个，马厩的数量和规模都将增加，从 100 个增加到 500 个，停车场容量将从 700 辆扩大到 2,000 辆。
比赛将在一个较大的设施中进行，而不是在两个需要参赛者骑马或驾车往返的独立设施中。新的室内场馆还将帮助马匹在夏季应对极端温度（夏季气温通常在 90 华氏度左右），因为马匹对温度非常敏感。（体育设施的理想温度在 100 和 90 度之间。）
这项新开发项目并非没有争议，因为部分细节引起了马术社区的关注。一些人反对将近 100 英亩的住宅用地从村庄的马术保护区（Equestrian Province）中重新分配，该保护区是一个占地 9,000 英亩的区域，旨在优先保障乡村氛围和马术设施，而非密集的商业开发。
“我们根本没有获得任何好处，”居民、房地产经纪人且拥有四匹障碍跳跃马的马术爱好者劳伦·布雷迪（Lauren Brady，40 岁）说道。“有些人将获益匪浅，但这对马术社区没有任何好处。我的问题是，我们是在为谁建设？难道不是为了那些觉得房子不够豪华的、令人厌恶的亿万富翁吗？”
村经理巴恩斯女士表示：“该方案是通过综合规划、经济可持续性、社区特色保护和长期公共利益的视角进行评估的，”并补充说，该项目包括对配套设施的投资，“旨在提高居民的整体生活质量，同时支持该地区最重要的经济领域之一。”
“惠灵顿现在的样子让我感到悲哀，”前马术参赛者兰迪·哈伯塞尔（Randy Haberursel，71 岁）说道。哈伯塞尔女士在 Little Batches 村经营了一家排水农场 30 年，而一名住在另一处的 25 岁女性则……由于厌倦了反对该开发项目，她正准备出售她的家——哈伯塞尔农场，并搬到市中心。
她说：“问题在于，一旦允许一个开发商从马术保护区占用土地，就会为其他人这样做开创先例。”
有证据表明，惠灵顿的开发项目也取得了一些胜利。今年早些时候，开发商弗兰克·麦金太尔（Frank McIntyre）与 Discovery Land Company 合作，计划在历史悠久的 Isla Carroll Pike Mall 建设新乡村俱乐部和豪华住宅，但该计划因不以马术用途为中心而被否决。
但对于一些人来说，新的开发项目是必要的，这能让惠灵顿不仅成为他们运动的家园，更成为一个可以扎根的地方。四年前，库库克先生的妻子在惠灵顿买了一栋房子，每当在镇上参加比赛时，全家就住在那里。库库克先生在这些期间租用农场和马厩，但他预见到，当他的女儿达到入学年龄时，他将购买一个农场和马厩，以便更永久地定居。“惠灵顿最美好的地方在于，我们整个赛季都可以像个家庭一样在一起，”他说。
骑手们寻求房地产还有其他原因，例如应对马匹带来的变数。“马匹可以让房屋成为销售的筹码，”42岁的安德鲁·贝尔恩斯（Andrew Bearns）说道，他是一位爱尔兰国际大奖赛骑手兼企业家，17年前移居佛罗里达州。他目前在惠灵顿地区拥有10,000个障碍赛马房，现在又增加了大约20个。
在20世纪80年代训练出一匹成功的赛马之余，库库克先生在惠灵顿购买第一处小型房产后，多次买卖物业。现在，他正在一块12英亩的土地上建造一座大房子，配备40个马厩，以及一个新竞技场。“我发现房地产往往比马更容易出手，”他说。
狩猎
一对年轻夫妇想留在迈阿密，但希望拥有自己的家
租金飙升促使他们寻找一套预算为 $800,000. 的三居室住宅。
作者：JILMA ECKERSON
新婚夫妇胡安·迭戈·德维亚（Juan Diego Devia）和海莉·米拉尼·德维亚（Hayley Milani Devia）去年面临着千禧一代常见的困境：他们决心留在家乡迈阿密，尽管住房成本似乎已超出他们的承受范围。
45, 岁的米拉尼·德维亚女士出生在佛罗里达州，并于 2022. 年加入了她的家族企业——高端电力公司 Milani Mishien。32, 岁的德维亚先生在哥伦比亚长大，2023 年为了上大学搬到迈阿密。六年之后，他与姐姐戴安娜·德维亚（Diana Devia）共同开设了德维亚果汁吧（Devia Juice Bar），目前该店已有两家分店。这对夫妇于 2026 年在一次聚会上相识，当时其中一人是米拉尼·德维亚女士的教练。
随着感情的增长，他们的租金也在上涨。在 2023, 一年之前，即婚礼前一年，这对夫妇搬进了比斯坎湾（Biscayne Bay）沿岸埃奇沃特（Edgewater）社区的一套一居室公寓，每月支付约 $3,200。当他们在那一年续签租约时，租金已上涨至 $4,000. 以上。
“租金已经涨到了相当于房贷还款的水平，而我们想要开始积累房屋净值，”米拉尼·德维亚女士说道。
生活成本的剧增促使许多迈阿密居民前往佛罗里达州价格更实惠的地区。根据最新数据，从 2024 年到 2025, 迈阿密-戴德县（Miami-Dade County）的人口下降幅度在全美排名第三。但德维亚夫妇决定坚持下去。
他们聘请了德维亚先生的朋友、物业管理公司 Staples 的创始人圣地亚哥·罗德里格斯（Santiago Rodriguez）担任他们的经纪人。由于他们计划组建家庭，因此想要一套三居室的房子。虽然单户住宅是首选，但他们也接受联排别墅。他们没有考虑公寓，因为公寓通常伴随着许多业主协会（HOA）费用。
他们将目光转向迈阿密最古老的地区之一申嫩多厄（Shenandoah）及其附近的住宅区。他们的预算约为 $800,000. 。他们的选择包括：
- 更新后的两层联排别墅
这套三居室、两个半卫浴的联排别墅面积为 2,200 平方英尺，拥有全新的厨房和浴室。在底层，公共区域铺设了地板，设有小窗户和通往带围栏院子的玻璃门。二楼的卧室铺设木地板，主卧配有独立卫浴。阳台可俯瞰下方的庭院。繁忙的邻居就在拐角处。该房产有两个指定停车位。价格为 $750,000, ，年税约为 $9,150 ，每月费用为 $474 000。
买家：2024 年结婚的胡安·迭戈·德维亚和海莉·米拉尼·德维亚。
“租金已经涨到了相当于房贷还款的水平，”她说，“而我们想要开始积累房屋净值。”
备选方案
一套两层三居室联排别墅，面积 2,200 平方英尺。厨房和浴室是全新的。它有一个阳台和两个停车位。
这套 1,820 平方英尺的三居室住宅有一个露台、一个院子和抗飓风冲击窗。
一套 2,205 平方英尺的联排别墅，底层为开放式布局，二楼有三间卧室（其中两间带阳台），并配有私人泳池。
- 单户住宅
这套三居室、两卫浴的住宅面积为 1,650 平方英尺，位于科勒尔盖布尔斯（Coral Gables）以北，距离迈阿密市中心约 20 分钟车程。该单层住宅建于 1956, 年，拥有开放式的起居和用餐区，以及一个陈旧的厨房。房产包括一个露台和一个院子。其他部分经过天气处理，房屋配备了抗飓风冲击窗和租赁屋顶。车道提供停车位。要价为 $750,000, ，年税约为 $9,000. 。
- 带泳池的全新联排别墅
这座建于 1957 年的联排别墅拥有三间卧室和两间半卧室，面积为 2,255 平方英尺，是这批房产中最年轻的一栋。底层采用开放式布局，厨房内设有早餐吧。楼上，其中两间卧室带有阳台，主卧套房则配有步入式衣橱。后院有一个私人泳池，房屋还附带一个单车位或车库。该房产距离迈阿密市中心约 10 分钟车程。要价为 $800,000，年税约为 $15,000。
他们的选择
二月份，德维亚夫妇决定为这栋带泳池的联排别墅出价 $800,000 —— 比要价低了近 $100,000。对方甚至没有给出还价。
在寻找了六个月后，他们向那栋单户住宅出价 $750,000 并签署了合同，尽管他们对所需的翻新工作有所顾虑。
其他新公司没有发现任何重大问题。但他们的经纪人罗德里格斯先生坚持要求再次检查大门。结果发现了成本增加的管道问题，需要进行更换，从而增加了 1,000-2,000-3,000-4,000-5,000-6 的提交项。
与此同时，这对夫妇一直关注着市场，并在 1 到 2 之后发现了那栋两层联排别墅。它不需要太多修缮，他们喜欢其布局，并且喜欢它建于 1974 年。
他们出价 $770,000，卖家接受了，他们支付了 10 人的首付款并获得了一笔 10 年期抵押贷款。他们的每月总支出为 $6,300。
“这真的是一个非常漫长的过程，我们一直祈祷能等到合适的机会，”米拉尼·德维亚先生说。“我们只是非常幸运。”
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基韦斯特旨在继续成为作家的磁石
在欧内斯特·海明威和朱迪·布鲁姆的土地上，当地人正采取措施来保护并延续这一遗产。
作者：多莉·陈伦 (DORIE CHENLEN)
1933年，诗人威廉·史蒂文斯 (William Stevens) 给他的朋友、《诗歌》(Poetry) 杂志编辑哈丽特·门罗 (Harriet Monroe) 写信，在信中他愤愤地表示：“不幸的是，基韦斯特正变得相当具有文学和艺术气息。”
几年前，欧内斯特·海明威 (Ernest Hemingway) 搬进了佛罗里达州基韦斯特怀特黑德街 (Whitehead Street) 一栋宽敞的住宅，罗伯特·弗罗斯特 (Robert Frost) 和小说家约翰·唐·福塞特 (John Don Fawcett) 也曾在此驻足。在接下来的几年里，田纳西·威廉姆斯 (Tennessee Williams) 以及诗人兼短篇小说作家伊丽莎白·毕肖普 (Elizabeth Bishop) 也在这个佛罗里达岛上购置了房产，这让史蒂文斯觉得基韦斯特的文学气息“疯狂地浓厚”，于是他在1948年离开并再未回来。
史蒂文斯曾希望那些“文学和艺术”气息能消失，而如今的基韦斯特居民却在追求相反的目标。市政府官员以及包括朱迪·布鲁姆 (Judy Blume) 和梅格·卡博特 (Meg Cabot) 在内的作家们，正领导着吸引作家来到该岛的努力，并投入资金以保护其文学历史遗产。
有些人亲切地将基韦斯特称为“一个患有写作问题的迷人小镇”。但多年来，这里的作家们一直面临着艰难的处境。2011年的短短几个月内，岛上的三家书店相继关闭。2014年，文学界遭遇了另一次挫折，当时戈登·理查兹 (Gordon Richards) 削减了佛罗里达州全部 8.32 亿 的艺术资助，迫使艺术组织更加依赖私人捐款。
而且许多人感觉到，与史蒂文斯的时代不同，基韦斯特已不再是一个作家能买得起房产的地方。经通货膨胀调整后，毕肖普的房子在2020年的价值约为 $47,000。相比之下，如今岛上单户住宅的中位价格为 $1.800 万。
卡博特女士在出版《公主日记》系列的前五部之后，于20多年前买下了她的房子，“那时就已经相当离谱了，”她说，“现在则简直离谱。”
与过去不同，“不幸的是，你必须成为一名成功的作家才能买得起，”
试图抵消不断上涨的住房成本和艺术资助的流失。
当地房地产经纪人、《基韦斯特作家及其住宅》（Key West Writers and Their Homes）的作者林恩·兰德尔（Lynn Randell）表示：“你不能像我们刚来时那样做一个挣扎在贫困线上的作家。”
推高该市住房成本的一个原因是统计数据中非永久居民的比例较高。根据人口普查局的数据，旅游业是该岛最大的产业，超过 30% 的基韦斯特居民从事酒店业，大约 15% 的住房销售被归类为季节性住宅或度假租赁房。这一比例现在比过去更高，尽管这并非新现象。上述 2026 年的几位作家（弗罗斯特、唐·福塞特、史蒂文斯）中，更多的人是季节性居民，特鲁门·卡波特、谢尔·埃德弗斯顿和拉尔夫·艾利森也是如此。
面对稳步上涨的房地产成本，当地非营利组织正努力将岛上的部分区域保留给艺术家。2008 年，非营利组织“基韦斯特工作室”（Studios at Key West）购买并翻修了一座 1980 年代的仿古建筑，用于设立驻留计划——佩顿·埃文斯艺术家驻留项目（Peyton Evans Artist Residency），现名为 PEAR House。该空间一次可容纳四名艺术家和作家。该非营利组织的执行主任杰德·多兹（Jed Dodds）表示：“佛罗里达州并不以规划见长，所以我们希望确保基韦斯特不会在某个早晨醒来，发现它失去的那部分已经被铺成了路！”
每位居民在 PEAR House 仅停留一个月，但许多人会再次回来，有时是为了降低租金，有时是为了排演戏剧。多兹先生说：“虽然在任何地方作为艺术家维持生计都不容易，但在这里尤其困难。我们的工作就是尽一切可能支持他们。”
“基韦斯特工作室”目前还在帮助填补 2011 年书店关闭后留下的空白。2016 年，朱迪·布鲁姆（Judy Blume）和她的丈夫乔治·库珀（George Cooper）创立了“基韦斯特工作室书店”（Books & Books @ The Studios at Key West）。由于该书店以非营利形式运营，因此能够避免高昂的商业租金。
自开业以来，“Books & Books”本身已成为一个旅游景点，经常在店里工作的布鲁姆女士成了其非正式的招牌。这也带来了一些压力。布鲁姆女士在提到那些在她不在时到访的人时说：“我不想让人们失望。”作为一种折中方案，一个布鲁姆女士的纸板像（一只手臂举起，正准备重新整理书架）在店里被移动，有时还配有推广禁书的标牌。布鲁姆女士说，在她不在的时候，访客“可以和纸板朱迪拍照”，“她一直在微笑”。
在非营利组织致力于确保基韦斯特文学未来的同时，它们也在保护其过去。比肖普在 2018 年购买的那座木框架“眉窗房”（eyebrow house，屋顶低垂，覆盖在二楼窗户之上），在 2016 年被另一个非营利组织——基韦斯特文学研讨会（Key West Literary Seminar）以 $1.200 万 的价格买下。令文学界许多人欣喜的是，在参考比肖普本人的信件以确保历史准确性的翻修后，该建筑终于在一年前重新开放。
上方，位于佛罗里达州基韦斯特最著名的文学关联地——海明威故居及博物馆。右上，从上至下：海明威曾在这个写作工作室工作；浴室包含了其第二任妻子的设计选择。
右侧，基韦斯特文学研讨会在 2019 年以 $1.200 万 买下伊丽莎白·比肖普故居后对其进行了翻修。右下方，Arts Handed 是该非营利组织的执行主任。
下方，基韦斯特工作室翻修了这座 1980 年代的建筑，可作为其佩顿·埃文斯艺术家驻留项目容纳艺术家。底部，作者朱迪·布鲁姆的像立在她的书店 Books & Books 中。
在非营利组织执行董事 Arts Handed 的领导下，这座房子每年夏天都会接待高中生参加写作项目。对于兰德尔先生（Mr. Randell）来说，至关重要的是让这座房子不仅成为一座缅怀过去的神龛，还要成为未来人才的孵化器。他说，这些项目的设计是为了“确保基韦斯特（Key West）的文学传统在今天依然活跃、充满活力且在延续，而不仅仅是历史书中的一部分”。
尽管有些人担心岛上写作社区的生存状况，但基韦斯特作为文学之城的名声至少依然坚挺。据兰德尔女士（Ms. Randell）称——她在布鲁姆女士（Ms. Blume）出售房屋时担任其房地产经纪人——“买家坚持要求——他们从未进入语境——他们想要一套朱迪·布鲁姆（Judy Blume）所有书籍的签名版”。
除了许多人前往该岛参加的钓鱼之旅和单身女派对，海明威故居及博物馆（Hemingway Home and Museum）是另一个热门的基韦斯特景点。据博物馆代表称，该馆为私人所有，完全依靠门票收入、礼品店销售和婚礼场地租赁维持运营。该物业中那些多语言 / ci 的猫如此吸引游客，以至于博物馆正在开发相关项目来展示它们。
为了进一步庆祝这位作家在岛上留下的遗产，游客还可以参加一年一度的海明威日（Hemingway Days）节日，其中包括在作家曾经经常出没的场所之一——邋遢乔酒吧（Sloppy Joe's Bar）举行的一场模仿大赛。其他文学旅游活动还包括由文学研讨会（Literary Seminar）主办的旧城区步行之旅，该行程结束于迷人的蓝色海港，这里以前被称为基韦斯特右岸（Key West Right），曾激发了毕肖普（Bishop）创作诗作《右岸》（The Right）。
最终，基韦斯特的美景——迷人的建筑、湛蓝的海水、白冠鸽恰到好处的鸣叫——既是它的吸引力，也是对作家的威胁。布鲁姆女士说，在她那间有窗户的办公室里写早期的书时，“有时我不得不面对墙壁，因为窗外太美了”。这些特质也使其对停靠的邮轮、播撒绝望的派对参与者以及寻找第二套房的百万富翁极具吸引力。
但多兹先生（Mr. Dodds）表示，这座城市一直面临着某种形式的此类挑战，他希望他的非营利组织能够实现基韦斯特迄今为止一直渴望但未能实现的目标：让“这座岛屿改变他们，而不是他们改变这座岛屿”。
在最近的一个夏日午后，一群高中生坐在毕肖普故居后的花园里，讨论感官描写。在一次练习中，他们品尝在该物业上生长的水果，试图将味道转化为文字。当毕肖普住在这里时，这些厚叶芒果树和椰子树甚至还不是幼苗；有些是多年来自然生长出来的，另一些则是景观设计师种植的。在这一天，树上挂满了沉甸甸的水果，宽阔的枝干为下方的写作者们遮阴。
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从沼泽地到繁荣之城
这座迈阿密郊区的人口正在增长，人们来到这里不仅仅是为了打高尔夫球。
作者：RACHEL WRIGHTON
除非你热爱高尔夫或居住在南佛罗里达州，否则你可能从未听说过多拉尔（Doral）。这座面积 15 平方英里的城市被夹在迈阿密国际机场和大沼泽地（Everglades）那片闷热的绿色原野之间。
这可以理解。这座快速发展的城市——拥有像嘉年华邮轮（Carnival Cruise Lines）这样的大型雇主、景观大胆的郊区社区以及一个充满活力的全新市中心区域——只有 23 岁。
“在某种程度上，它就像我的孩子，”创始市长胡安·卡洛斯·贝尔穆德斯（Juan Carlos Bermudez）说道，他现在是以市代表身份担任迈阿密-戴德县委员会（Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners）成员的新任主管。
五十年前，多拉尔大部分是无名的沼泽地。这座城市的根基萌芽于 20 世纪 80 年代，当时开发商阿尔弗雷德（Alfred）
多拉尔市中心（图上及顶部）包括住宅、学校、政府大楼、医疗设施和一个购物走廊。
坎克尔（Kankel）和他的妻子多丽丝（Doris）将数百英亩土地改造成了乡村俱乐部、酒店和高尔夫球场，并将其命名为“多拉尔”（Doral），这是他们两人名字的结合。该地点位于城市的东缘，最终成为了特朗普国家多拉尔迈阿密酒店（Trump National Doral Miami），这里曾多次举办 PGA 巡回赛。
在接下来的几十年里，附近开始出现大型私人社区，其中几个是由坎克尔家族开发的。
当贝尔穆德斯先生在 20 世纪 90 年代末搬到多拉尔时，这里仍然是迈阿密-戴德县的一个非建制地区，由私人住宅区和大型商业或工业企业混合组成。由于缺乏公园和学校等基础城市服务，贝尔穆德斯先生和其他人致力于在 2002 年实现城市建制。
“那是大量的工作，”贝尔穆德斯先生在谈到将这些零散的社区和企业转变为一座拥有图书馆、市政厅、公立学校、良好道路以及公园网络的城市时说道，其中还包括连接城市各社区（甚至包括一些封闭式社区）的数英里自行车道和步行道。
在这一持续数十年的工程中，城市将市边缘的一个前垃圾填埋场改造成了绿地，并且
位置：迈阿密和海亚利亚（Hialeah）以西，介于迈阿密国际机场和大沼泽地之间。
人口：81,834 人，自 2010 年以来增长了近 79%（美国人口普查局）
面积：15 平方英里
住房：47% (美国人口普查局)
小而繁华的城市，具有泛拉丁热带风情
与当地房地产开发商 Codina Partners 合作，将一个旧的商业园区改造成了多拉尔市中心（Downtown Doral），这是一个占地 250 英亩的混合用途社区。
Codina Partners 的第三任高管安娜-玛丽·科迪纳（Ana-Marie Codina）表示，这个高密度社区旨在成为多拉尔的中心。这里有高层租赁公寓、联排别墅、单户住宅、新的特许学校、政府大楼、医疗中心和一个购物走廊。首批居民于 1981 年入住，这里迅速成为该市增长最快的区域。
科里吉奥斯·安图内斯（Corrigios Antunes）和曼努埃尔·莱佩（Manuel Lepe）大约十年前从多拉尔的附近地区搬到了这里。莱佩先生很欣赏这个社区的可步行性，这在除南滩（South Beach）等昂贵地区或科勒尔盖布尔斯（Coral Gables）等老旧社区之外的大迈阿密地区较为罕见。
这种繁忙的城市村落氛围是餐厅经营者卡洛斯·森图里翁（Carlos Centurion）将他在迈阿密的两家餐厅 Bella Gatordear 和 Pisco Y Nance 的分店开在多拉尔市中心的理由之一。
前市长贝尔穆德斯先生认为，高级餐饮的到来是该市成功最大的标志之一。他说，另一个标志是，现在有些地方即使在技术上位于市界之外，也自称是多拉尔。
出行与活动
餐厅 市中心的高端餐厅和当地连锁店包括提供西班牙风格tapas的Bella Gatordear。较小购物中心内的多样化选择包括位于Doral Isles的Peplish Plaza，居民在停车场内打高尔夫，那里有Veranine Bar的巴士美食和cabreline（日式浓甜咖啡）。在城镇北部仍处于工业状态的边缘，La Esquina del Lechile Park和Insal. House提供慢速烹饪公园美食以及快速制作的三明治。
文化设施 市中心的全新Doral文化艺术中心提供艺术画廊、表演空间和花园。大迈阿密地区则拥有无数的博物馆、画廊、表演空间和文化活动。
娱乐 除了大迈阿密地区的高尔夫、海滩和住宅外，这里还有数英里的自行车道、自然保护区和许多社区公园。Morgan Levy Park是几个拥有大型游乐场、球场和球厅区域的公园之一。
购物 这里有充足的大型仓储店、超市以及由独立经营者管理的带状购物中心。市中心专门精品店的数量正在增加。
市中心公园。
交通指南
前往市中心迈阿密的通勤时间由车程20分钟到一小时多不等。
汽车 佛罗里达收费公路（Florida's Turnpike）以及州道和公路连接至85号和75号州际公路。
铁路 机场的Amtrak车站位于东边六英里的海亚利阿（Hialeah）。Miami Memorial和Metro-leaver铁路线将水岸社区与市中心连接，并延伸至海亚利阿和机场。佛罗里达Tri-Rail系统在迈阿密和棕榈滩县之间运行，并在机场设有停靠站。
机场 迈阿密国际机场位于其东南部边界。劳德代尔堡-好莱坞国际机场向北行驶40分钟即可到达。
自行车 公园连接部分社区，但骑行并非主要的交通方式。
社区
市中心 一个靠近娱乐设施和城市服务的新型步行区，拥有多种住房选择。
Isles 一个沿大沼泽地分布的封闭式社区，拥有从1980年代末到2000年代初的大型联排别墅和单户住宅，配备中型设施、私人自行车通道和免疫景观。
Park 一个距离市中心几英里的综合体，由围绕乡村俱乐部而建的郊区细分社区组成。
West 靠近大沼泽地，由低层公寓楼或联排别墅组成的新开发区，靠近购物中心。
住房
平均月租金 从单间约$2,013到三居室$3,550不等。
销售价格中位数 $617,500
市中心的住宅。
学校
公立学校 由迈阿密-戴德县公立学校系统提供服务。学校包括Ronald W. Reagan高级中学、J.C. Bermudez高级中学、Dr. Rolando Espinosa K-8中心、Downtown Upper特许学校、Downtown特许小学及学院。
私立学校 Median Academy是一所K-12天主教学校。Divine Savior Academy是一所拥有校园的K-12基督教学校。Key Point Academy服务于幼儿至学前班。
高等教育 Miami Dade College-West校区和College位于此处。大迈阿密地区是佛罗里达国际大学和迈阿密大学的所在地。
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未来五年将至少建造 10 座新摩天大楼。这真的是个好主意吗？
作者：DANIELS GORRY
今年 7 月，位于布里克尔（Brickell）社区的 Cipriani Residences 成为迈阿密最高的建筑，也是纽约市以南最高的住宅楼。其高度为 898 英尺，比之前的纪录保持者——拥有九年楼龄的 Passerama Tower 高出 82 英尺。
Cipriani 将在 2026 年被华尔道夫文华酒店公寓（Waldorf Astoria Residences）超越。到 2030 年，华尔道夫的高度将被 Miami Riverbridge、Dales & Gabbana 和 One Bayfront 持平，预计这些建筑的高度都将达到 1,048 英尺左右，这是美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）为确保迈阿密国际机场进出飞行路径安全而设定的当前高度限制。
超高层建筑（Supertalls，高度超过 884 英尺的摩天大楼）和巨型建筑（megatalls，高度超过 1,906 英尺的建筑）在工程上仍然是相对罕见的异数。目前，巨型建筑仅存在于亚洲和中东。
迈阿密进入这一精英阶层标志着这座城市进入了一个新时代。“我想说，迈阿密曾经历过一个‘时刻’，但我不知道你是否能仅仅拥有一个‘时刻’， 五年，”开发公司 FMG 的管理合伙人 Ryan Slaus 表示，该公司正在建造这座城市的第一座超高层建筑——华尔道夫文华酒店公寓。“我认为迈阿密正在经历一场革命。”
其他在建的摩天大楼包括 Delano （965 英尺）、Citadel 对冲基金公司的新总部（958 英尺）、Ohio Tower（963 英尺）、 at 1425 Brickell（961 英尺）、609 Brickell（886 英尺）、Baccarat （848 英尺）以及 Mercedes-Benz （773 英尺）。位于布里克尔的 Aston Martin 已于 2024 年完工，高度为 821 英尺。一段关于特朗普总统拟在迈阿密市中心建立总统图书馆的视频渲染图显示，该建筑将耸立在城市天际线之上，但具体高度尚未公布。
迈阿密的快速发展有时让人觉得与该地区的地理和地质现实相悖。佛罗里达州大部分是平坦、低洼的亚热带土地，面临着海平面上升、海水变暖以及强度不断增加的飓风的威胁。
但随着迈阿密房地产需求的激增，可用土地变得越来越难以寻找。Luis Ramirez 是 Delimore Consulting Engineering 的结构工程师兼管理负责人，该公司是 Aston Martin 背后的结构工程公司。他解释说，20 年前开发商可以轻松找到整个街区进行建设，但他说，如今“项目场地已经变得小了很多”。为了获利并最大化空间，他补充道，开发商别无选择，只能向垂直方向发展。
Ramirez 先生还指出，南佛罗里达州对“开发商很友好”，办理许可可能只需要几个月，而像加利福尼亚州这样的地方可能需要数年。
Deane Development 的总裁、迈阿密市中心即将建成的 Baccarat 的合伙人 Gil Deane 表示，增加高度让他的公司能够“压榨出地块的最后一点潜力”，并创造出拥有无遮挡海景且高于周边建筑的高端单元。
左图：Cipriani 在 7 月成为佛罗里达州最高的建筑，尽管它直到明年才会完工。
重塑城市还具有美学和自我意识驱动的吸引力。“我喜欢看那些出现迈阿密的电视节目，然后我的建筑在其中闪过，”Deane 先生说，他还在附近的阳光岛海滩（Sunny Isles Beach）开发过建筑。同样，Main Capital 的开发商 Camdis Miguel 将他的 Cipriani 建筑视为一个“对迈阿密天际线产生影响”的机会。
这种开发热潮让一些专家感到担忧。南佛罗里达州与该州大部分地区一样，坐落在多孔石灰岩层之上
迈阿密的高度增长
到 2030 年，迈阿密将拥有四栋高度超过 1,500 英尺的新建筑，这将改变城市的天际线。
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中排从左起，已完工的华尔道夫文华酒店，右侧背景中即将动工；华尔道夫酒店的施工电梯。上方为建筑的一个非辅助部分。
以及需要大量工程手段才能使其稳定的沙层。摩天大楼的地基，尤其是极高建筑的地基，必须比通常情况更深、更宽。
“建造这些地基需要强大的专业设备，且成本非常昂贵，”迈阿密大学工程学院的前成员 Juan-Pierre Bardet 表示。“技术和工程能力是存在的，但设计假设必须经过验证，施工质量必须得到严格控制。”
2024 年，迈阿密大学发布了一项研究，探讨迈阿密屏障岛（特别是桑尼岛海滩 Sunny Isles Beach）上的高层塔楼在完工多年后，其沉降（或下陷）程度如何超过预期。
该研究假设，导致这种过度沉降的主要原因之一是，附近施工产生的振动，结合佛罗里达州独特的石灰岩和沙层地质，可能导致沙层重新排列并变得更加紧实。
迈阿密大学地球物理学教授、该研究的主要作者之一 Falk Amelang 指出，在欧洲，通过卫星对建筑沉降进行常规监测很常见，但在美国则并非如此，因为在那里“很难获得资金”。
“工程师在施工期间会在一定程度上监测地面，但在随后的几年里则很少监测——而这正是我们发现沉降仍在发生的时间段，”他说道。
在旧金山，千禧塔（Millennium Tower）在完工多年后需要进行加固，因为附近施工和地基系统缺陷导致了过度下陷和倾斜。几年后，该塔依然有明显的倾斜。
飓风风力也是迈阿密新一波高层摩天大楼面临的一个附加变量。尽管这些建筑是根据建筑规范、先进的结构分析和风洞测试设计的，但许多建筑在现实条件下从未经历过直接袭击。
“影响南佛罗里达州的大型飓风，其最大持续风速可能超过 175 英里 / 小时，”Bardet 博士说。“随着建筑变得更高，风的影响变得越来越显著。”自 1992 年的安德鲁飓风以来，迈阿密尚未被大型飓风直接袭击。
但迈阿密的高层建筑施工并未显示出放缓的迹象，开发商继续推进项目。“如果你站在纽约的街角闭上眼睛，五年后这里的感觉和样子可能非常相似，”开发公司 Oak Bow Equities 的创始人之一 Erik Rutter 说道，该公司拥有在 Brickell 开发几栋超高层建筑的权利。“但在迈阿密，情况并非如此。这里将发生翻天覆地的变化。”
而且天际线可能远未达到极限。结构工程师 Ramirez 先生指出，在他开始职业生涯时，摩天大楼的高度限制是 658 英尺。“随着时间的推移，开发商希望建得更高，他们游说以寻找城市中可以建得更高的地方，”他说。“我相信开发商也会尝试在这一点上继续突破。”
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一场致命灾难是否终结了佛罗里达公寓的“梦想”？
全面的改革应当让建筑变得更安全，但前提是业主能够负担得起，且公寓委员会能就执行方案达成一致。
“我们原以为就这样了，你们不会再要求更多钱。”
弗伦达·特谢拉（FRENDA TEIXEIRA）
作者：朱莉娅·埃克森（JULIA ECKERSON）
特谢拉认为，她不必再为佛罗里达州海滨公寓不断上涨的成本而担忧了。自2023年起，由于新州法的要求，她的建筑协会每月收取$328用于结构维修。
这些费用让预算捉襟见肘，但她通过接额外的活儿并削减退休储蓄来应对，以适应新的现实。
然而今年春天，委员会再次找上门来：他们需要更多资金。
“这就像在玩‘捉迷藏’，”特谢拉在最近的一次采访中说道，“我们原以为就这样了——你们不会再要求更多钱，而这也不是你们的工作。”
特谢拉的经历在佛罗里达州的公寓业主中并非个例。
今年是佛罗里达州萨法德（Sarfade）尚普兰南塔（Champlain Towers South）大楼致命坍塌事故五周年。现在，检查已成为强制性要求；公寓业主必须出资进行结构维修，并为未来的翻新储备资金。这些于2022年颁布的改革旨在终结公寓委员会（由业主选出用于管理建筑的团体）内部的不良惯例。
在改革通过后，《纽约时报》曾走访过公寓业主，以了解他们如何应对与新安全指南相关的额外支出。当时，他们正处于崩溃的边缘。两年后，我们再次走访了其中一些人。他们是成功通过了财务考验，还是陷入了更深的不安全感之中？
支持者表示，这些变革早已迟到，但随着规则现在开始生效，许多人仍在努力接受一个事实：拥有公寓已变得极其昂贵，且看不到尽头。
佛罗里达州长期以来通过销售一种“梦想”而繁荣——为退休人员和度假者提供全年阳光下且负担得起的住房。现在，这个承诺正因不可避免的变化而变得阴云密布。迁往佛罗里达州的人数在2022年Covid-19疫情期间达到顶峰后已明显放缓，而新法规导致拥有公寓的成本飙升，令潜在买家望而却步。
“萨法德事件标志着一个根本性的转变，”公寓分析师彼得·扎莱夫斯基（Peter Zalewski）在提到坍塌事故时说，“铁锤已经落下，现在你不能再用同样的手段逃避了。”
这场造成90人死亡的悲剧成为了美国历史上最致命的建筑失效事件之一。虽然联邦调查人员已经确定了这座12层建筑可能存在的问题，即其
（图注）上方中心：Covid-19疫情期间的供应链中断导致建筑材料成本以及随之而来的维修成本飙升。上方：萨法德的悲剧成为了美国历史上最致命的建筑失效事件之一。
设计和施工缺陷，但这次坍塌也揭示了佛罗里达州公寓建筑中普遍存在的问题：内斗。多年来，业主们一直争论不休，并推迟翻新。最终成本上升至1500万美元，平均每套单元约$104,300，许多人表示他们负担不起这笔费用。
在灾难发生前，委员会没有义务储备足够的资金，这使得月费保持在较低水平，但往往导致建筑在需要重要维修时缺乏资金。当时只有两个县要求公寓建筑进行结构审查。在实践中，这些规定执行得很宽松。如今，所有高度超过两层且房龄至少30年的佛罗里达州公寓建筑必须每30年通过一次检查。
“我们必须确保不再发生另一起像萨法德（Sarfade）那样的事件，”曾主导这些改革的前州代表维希·洛佩兹（Vishi Lopez）去年在 283 迈阿密表示。（洛佩兹女士是共和党人，现任迈阿密-戴德县委员，其代表未回应多次置评请求。）
虽然公寓业主们同意需要进行改革，但许多人担心财务负担，玛丽安·梅切德（Marianne Metscheid）便是其中之一。自 2002, 年起，她在萨法德的 Four Winds 大楼拥有一套一居室的门诊公寓，该大楼靠近查普莱恩（Champlain）大楼。2024, 年，梅切德女士的董事会要求她支付近 $28,000 的费用，用于支付与改革相关的翻修工程。她说，她只有通过从迈阿密-戴德县申请一笔无息
这里有 140 个人，这简直就像在赶猫一样。
苏珊·阿多诺拉（SUSAN ADONOLLAF）
贷款才能够支付这笔账单。
但与泰谢拉（Teixeira）女士一样，梅切德女士的持有成本仍在不断累积。今年 4 月，她的董事会通知居民，消防部门要求再次出资支付喷淋系统的维修费用。梅切德女士预计该项目可能耗资 200万美元。这一次，她将无法获得县政府的贷款。
不断增加的成本迫使梅切德女士做出调整。她推迟了更换厨房、浴室和 20 年的地毯，并削减了她的支出以维持生计。她还必须面对不断上涨的保险费。“这压力太大了，”梅切德女士说，“我希望我能留在我的养老房里。”
尽管有了新规定，但董事会内部的内斗和低效——这曾是翻修延期的主要原因——依然存在。据梅切德女士称，她所在大楼的董事会最初告诉居民结构翻修大约需要两年时间；现在预计还需要一年。
她的邻居乔治·金苏丹（George Kinsoudan）也感到了同样的沮丧。在经历了一年之久的修复后，他在 6 月份重新获得了进入阳台的权限，而这次修复原本应该只需要六个月。“这太疯狂了，”他说，“不应该花这么长时间。”
据金苏丹先生称，董事会由几乎没有建筑经验的业主组成，而他是一名执业建筑师，担任建筑经理。尽管如此，金苏丹先生也承认董事会面临的挑战，包括管理所有 140 位业主（exit owners）的意见。
“这里有 140 个人，这简直就像在赶猫一样。我想——有些人催促尽快完工，但有些人并不在意，”金苏丹先生说，他此前竞选加入董事会失败。
董事会主席卡门·佩尼亚（Carmen Pena）否认了这些特征，表示“董事会已经聘请了合适的专业人士来协助”。她将部分延期归因于恶劣天气，并表示翻修工作已回到正轨。
尽管改革带来了压力和费用，但金苏丹先生表示他认可其重要性。“这是你宁愿不必支付的费用，”他说，“但我明白这是必要的。”
根据最近的一项州研究，自 2024, 54 栋公寓大楼被发现结构不安全，尽管其中一些并未被疏散。根据该报告和佛罗里达大学的一项估计，约一半的公寓大楼已完成 2024 年的检查。
一些大楼似乎在采取激进措施以建立财务储备。根据房地产公司 Benowitz 的分析，佛罗里达州公寓协会提交的留置权申请数量在 2021 年至 2025, 年间增加了一倍多，达到 $3.63,。法律允许业主协会对未缴纳费用的房产提出法律索赔。
“当你想到佛罗里达和迈阿密时，你会想到公寓和棕榈树，”佛罗里达国际大学城市主义和房地产教授内德·默里（Ned Murray）说，“考虑到相关的成本，对很多人来说，那个梦想可能已不复存在。”
在迈阿密以北，特谢拉女士正生活在这样的现实中，比如现在的工作日从上午 8 点开始，并持续 12 小时。她说，她没有兴趣出售，因为新公寓太贵，而旧公寓也面临类似的翻修。
“至少在我的大楼里，我知道自己面对的是什么，”特谢拉女士说。
她至少对进展感到满意，因为今年她重新获得了进入停车库的权限。墙壁和梁上的裂缝已经消失了。
“大楼看起来好多了，”特谢拉女士说。“嗯，他们从我们这里拿走的那些钱，现在我们可以看到结果了。”
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用豪华车美学吸引购房者
外国投资者正被吸引到迈阿密，在那里，帕加尼（Pagani）、宾利（Bentley）、阿斯顿·马丁（Aston Martin）等品牌一直与房地产开发商合作建设奢华的高层建筑。因此，这座城市目前拥有全美最多与高端汽车品牌相关的住宅。
从上至下：Pagani Residences 的开发商 Mikori Hamaoui、该公寓综合体的模型（预计将于 2029 年底开业），以及公寓 / 磁力锁的示例。
作者：REBECCA SAN JUAN
Mikori Hamaoui 仔细研究他在迈阿密最新的公寓项目的每一个细节，甚至包括门把手。
Hamaoui 先生是位于北湾村（North Bay Village）的开发与经纪公司 Riviera Marizons 的创始人兼首席执行官，他确实在交付全球首个 Residences。
关于门把手的问题是由 Horacio 提出的，他是帕加尼（）的创始人，这家以其独特设计著称的豪华品牌是该公寓项目的合作伙伴。
“门是怎么打开的？”Hamaoui 先生回忆起 先生的询问。“在我看来，这有点像个傻问题。它们是门，你转动把手，它们就开了。”
但他说，“对于 Horacio 来说，汽车的车门是与客户接触的第一个触点。第一次体验的感觉如何非常重要。”
因此，项目采用了流畅的磁力系统，而非传统的门闩。
“在他面前，没有任何细节会被忽略，”Hamaoui 先生在谈到 先生时说道。
他补充道：“这不是为了让公寓感觉起来或看起来像他们的车，而是试图提取该品牌能够设计出如此精美汽车的 DNA，并将那些与家居室内设计相关的模式应用其中。”
Hamaoui 先生表示，在迈阿密这座天际线上出现越来越多豪华汽车品牌住宅开发项目的城市中，对细节的关注是一种竞争优势。
虽然像丽思卡尔顿（Ritz-Carlton）和四季（Four Seasons）等酒店公司品牌化的住宅已经存在了数十年，但与汽车品牌紧密结合的开发项目在迈阿密是一个较新且不断增长的趋势。目前有两个项目在建，加上近期完工的其他项目，巩固了迈阿密作为全美豪华汽车品牌住宅最多城市的地位，在全球范围内仅次于阿拉伯联合酋长国的迪拜。
纽约大学斯特恩商学院（New York University Stern School of Business）负责奢侈品与零售 M.E.A. 项目的 Thomas Bentley 表示，这些项目的日益普及凸显了开发商试图吸引的一种阶层人数的增长：即汽车品牌代表身份地位的富裕外国买家。
除了预计将于 2026 年底开业的 之外，位于阳光岛海滩（Sunny Isles Beach）且于 2000 年完工的保时捷设计塔（Porsche Design Tower）允许业主直接将车开进电梯，电梯会将车送至与其公寓相连的车库。在阳光岛海滩建设中的宾利住宅（Bentley Residences）也将提供同样的
焦虑。在迈阿密市中心，于 2023 年开业的阿斯顿·马丁住宅（Aston Martin Residences）设计看起来像一艘船；而计划于 2028 年在迈阿密金融区布里克尔（Brickell）开业的梅赛德斯-奔驰广场（Mercedes-Benz Places）将为业主提供诸如奔驰专车接送，甚至提供车辆租赁等服务。
“他们不需要拥有汽车，不需要处理保险、停车和维护——他们只需拥有无数的资源，”Michael Stern 说道，他的公司 25th Development Group 建造了梅赛德斯-奔驰广场。
品牌住宅是通过许可协议将开发商与品牌结合在一起的公寓。一些品牌在签约后不久便退出，而另一些品牌则在完工前一直参与，以批准设计和材料。有些则承诺留下来管理物业。
“主要的挑战在于如何将一个传奇的汽车身份无缝地转化为建筑空间的每一平方英尺，”Aston Martin Residences 的幕后推手 German Cote 表示，他在开发项目完工前就售出了近 395 套住宅。
国际房地产咨询公司莱坊（Knight Frank）的合伙人兼全球研究主管 Liam Bailey 表示，对于不熟悉某个地区的买家来说，知名品牌可能具有强大的吸引力。
“许多在海外市场购房的人可能不熟悉当地的税收、监管等等，”他说，“他们并不总是熟悉高质量的建筑商。酒店品牌或汽车品牌就是一种验证。”
根据莱坊提供给《纽约时报》的关于品牌住宅的数据，迈阿密在全球品牌住宅开发项目数量中排名第二，共有 74 个项目已完工或在计划中，仅次于迪拜的 164,。两座城市近期都出现了更多汽车品牌住宅。纽约在全球品牌住宅数量中排名第五，共计 48, 但没有一个与汽车品牌相关。
根据迈阿密商业协会（Miami Association of Business）的最新报告，迈阿密在国际购房者集中度方面也领先全美。去年，国际买家在迈阿密购房花费了 44 亿美元 billion，比前一年增长了 63%。
到目前为止，汽车品牌商业模式在该市似乎行之有效，这些公寓的售价高于非品牌公寓。房地产咨询公司 Analytics Miami 的创始人 Ana Bistrov 表示，根据房地产经纪人用于交易的平台——多重上市服务（Multiple Listing Service）的数据，去年保时捷大厦（Porsche tower）成交的 8 套住宅的中位售价在 $4.2500 万 左右。这高于所有豪华建筑中公寓 $2.1500 万 的中位售价，甚至高于阳光岛海滩（Sunny Isles Beach）所有公寓 $700,000 的中位售价。
品牌公寓的概念是由 Dezer Developments 总裁 Gil Dezer 引入迈阿密-戴德县的。
顶部，位于佛罗里达州阳光岛海滩的保时捷设计大厦（Porsche Design Tower）。在上面的宾利住宅（Bentley Residences）销售展厅中，一个简单公寓布局的门闩、客厅和四车位车库展示了在那里生活的样子。右上角，宾利品牌家具增加了吸引力。
大举押注全球财富迁移的中心。
Gil （最左侧）是 Developments 的总裁，他是即将落成的宾利住宅（Bentley Residences）和保时捷设计大厦（Porsche Design Tower）（左侧）的幕后推手。下方包括带有品牌座椅的电影院等设施。
直到 1800 年，他与唐纳德·特朗普（Donald J. Trump）合作创建了特朗普大厦（Trump Towers）——位于阳光岛海滩的三栋住宅楼。 先生是保时捷设计大厦和即将落成的宾利住宅的幕后推手。
拥有 20 辆车收藏的 先生在 21 世纪初，当时国家仍在从大衰退中恢复，Peco 将这个想法带到公司时进入了汽车品牌住宅领域。
“我们当时说，‘保时捷和房地产有什么关系？’” 先生说，“当时没有抵押贷款，这形成了一场完美的风暴。所以我们瞄准了对财务不敏感的真正高端买家。”
关键在于通过设计迎合汽车爱好者。对于保时捷来说，转折点出现在最底层的“驾驶至电梯”系统，它允许住户将汽车直接开到自己的公寓。他们可以将车停在玻璃安装的车库中，并在客厅里欣赏自己的爱车。利昂内尔·梅西（Lionel Messi）、艾丽西亚·基斯（Alicia Keys）和 Swiss Beats 都将保时捷大厦称为自己的家。
Dezer 先生还将他获得专利的电梯系统引入了这座 63 层、占地 126 英亩的宾利大厦。该项目的销售于 2023, 年初开始，目前大楼 60% 的房源（约 100 套住宅）已售出。剩余的公寓中，三居室的起售价为 $5.800 万。
由于汽车品牌公寓出现的时间并不长，与其它类型的品牌住宅相比，这类项目在出售时是否能为开发商或业主带来回报，目前尚无定论。
“汽车制造商怎么可能知道如何优化居民的日常生活？”Analytics Miami 的 Bistrov 先生表示。
对 G&G Business Developments 公司的两起诉讼中，指控其管理物业不当，该公司建造了阿斯顿·马丁住宅区。这些诉讼由该项目的业主协会于今年提起，指控 G&G Business Developments 的首席执行官 Mt. Cora 挪用业主协会资金，且在工厂建设后出现空气过滤问题及其它安全相关缺陷。诉讼还提到开发商未能兑现承诺，例如完工一个直升机停机坪。
代表业主协会的律师 David Haker 表示，Cote 先生没有履行他的承诺。Riverwalk East Developments 是一家在诉讼中被提及并由 G&G Business Developments 管理的佛罗里达公司，其发言人未提供 Cote 先生的回复，但表示 Riverwalk East Developments 对“司法系统充满信心”。
尽管在建造汽车品牌住宅过程中面临法律斗争和其他挑战，但其背后的开发商表示，随着更多超富裕人群迁往迈阿密，他们的赌注将会获得回报。例如，梅赛德斯-奔驰项目位于该市的一个区域，自新冠疫情以来，该区域吸引了更多高净值人士。
Cote 先生，但他是阿根廷最大超市连锁店之一，表示他将追求另一个品牌开发项目。他说：“迈阿密是全球财富迁移和奢侈房地产的中心。”
Hamaoui 先生同样在押注这种财富迁移。一座 10 层的帕加尼住宅区正在北湾村（North Bay Village）建设，这是一个位于人工岛上的新兴社区。它是少数几个重新定义该社区的项目之一，而这个经常被忽视的社区在 20 世纪 80 年代末曾是弗兰克·辛纳屈和喜剧演员杰里·刘易斯等人的聚集地。该住宅区共有 70 个单元，起售价为 $3.800 万。
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斯蒂芬·罗斯正在重塑西棕榈滩
这位纽约哈德逊广场背后的亿万富翁开发商正计划建设惊人数量的建筑，旨在改造这座工人阶级城市。
作者：朱莉娅·谢尔森 (JULIA SCHERSON)
在镀金时代，石油大亨亨利·弗拉格勒 (Henry Flagler) 开辟了一条从佛罗里达州圣奥古斯丁一直延伸到佛罗里达礁岛的开发之路。他既修建了将人们沿海岸线运送的铁路，也建造了他们入住的豪华酒店，将曾经人口稀少的农业用地转变为主要的商业目的地，并建立了棕榈滩镇。
虽然棕榈滩是为富豪和名流设计的，但弗拉格勒在跨越内陆水道的另一侧建立了一座独立的城市——西棕榈滩，用于安置服务于这些富人的劳工。一个多世纪后，开发商兼亿万富翁斯蒂芬·罗斯 (Stephen Ross) 正以一个同样雄心勃勃的项目继承弗拉格勒的遗志，几乎凭一己之力重建这座工人阶级城市。
十年前，罗斯通过在曼哈顿西区开发占地 28 英亩的哈德逊广场重塑了纽约市。如今，40, 岁的罗斯正投入 $50 的资金，试图将拥有约 126,000 名居民的西棕榈滩转变为美国首屈一指的商业中心之一。他的目标是建设公司想要入驻的办公楼，以及高管们将寻求的住房、学校、医院和娱乐场所。
“我想做一些从未有人做过的事情。我看到了所有的可能性，而且显然没有竞争，因为没有人那样思考，”Related Book 的董事长兼首席执行官罗斯表示，该公司是其佛罗里达雄心的资源支撑。他还承认了另一个动机：“我无法一直退休。”
尽管罗斯通过社区倡议推动其开发进程，但他的计划在部分居民中引起了分歧。
在短短几年内，他将这座曾经沉寂的城市变成了挤满豪华项目建筑起重机的大都市，而许多长期居住于此的居民根本负担不起这些项目。然而，支持者将罗斯视为一个具有社会代际意义的捐助者，认为他对于使南佛罗里达的经济现代化、使其不再仅依赖旅游业至关重要。
“弗拉格勒 100 年前对原始景观所做的一切，罗斯现在正试图在原始且在很大程度上未被开发的商业景观中实现，”佛罗里达国际大学的教授莱斯特·斯坦福 (Lester Standford) 表示，他曾写过一本关于弗拉格勒铁路的书，“我认为他正在从事一种同类的开拓性工作。”
一项强力投资
斯蒂芬·罗斯（Stephen Ross）对西棕榈滩并不陌生。他建造了 CityPlace，这座占地 72 英亩的露天购物中心在 20 年间一直是市中心的支柱，并在空置率开始上升的时代帮助吸引了租户。
犯罪和可卡因在该地区如此盛行，以至于 1987, 年，时任美国参议员的劳顿·柴尔斯（Lawton Chiles）将西棕榈滩市中心描述为“战争地带”。两年后，1989 年发布的《Crack 1354, 县城被围困》凸显了当时的困境。
随着随后几十年犯罪率的下降，西棕榈滩在很大程度上仍与棕榈滩保持分离，富人们很少在水域对面开展业务。CityPlace 陷入困境，包括在大衰退之后两次遭遇危机。
疫情模糊了两座城镇之间的界限，因为来自棕榈滩的需求溢出到了边界之外，为罗斯带来了新机遇。受佛罗里达州欢迎的商业环境和缺乏疫情期间限制措施的吸引，包括高盛（Goldman Sachs）、29 / Benguet / Isner 和埃利奥特管理公司（Elliott Management）在内的金融界顶尖机构，开始涌向罗斯正在建造的一栋 20 层办公楼。
他的投资组合已增长至估计 4440 万 平方英尺，包括办公空间、豪华公寓楼和酒店。
Related 公司获得了 7.72亿美元 的融资，这是佛罗里达州豪华地产领域最大的建筑贷款，用于建造两栋办公楼；一座 4 层公寓开发项目由 6亿美元 融资支持，预计明年完工，公寓价格最高可达 7200万美元。
仅在今年，罗斯就以 4.95亿美元 买下了一家滨水酒店，获得了 1.37亿美元 的贷款以建造一座 28 层公寓高层，开启了一项两层豪华公寓开发项目的销售，并为另一项公寓风险投资购买了价值 3300万美元 的土地，与此同时，他还在就建造一座 2亿美元 会议中心酒店的审批进行谈判。他也是现有场地的建设者。
虽然罗斯并非唯一关注西棕榈滩的开发商，但他是迄今为止最高产的一位，他收购和建造房产的速度在商业领域令人震惊。
“对于任何开发商来说这都是一项艰巨的任务，更不用说一个 80 多岁的开发商了，”迈阿密 McFadden 公司的商业地产经纪人斯科特·沃德勒（Scott Wadler）说道。
西南部的硅谷
罗斯习惯于做出重大决策。1973, 年，他创立了 Related Companies，并将其打造成为美国最大的私人开发商之一，采取了雄心勃勃的 return one
斯蒂芬·罗斯（右上图，2025, 年）对西棕榈滩并不陌生。他建造了上图所示的 CityPlace，这座占地 72 英亩的露天购物中心在 20 年间一直是市中心的支柱。附近建设仍在继续（左上图），罗斯的开发集团正花费约 300 亿美元 billion 在全市建造房产。右图所示，罗斯在 4 月份凭借一笔 1.07亿美元 的贷款，为一座 28 层的豪华公寓角地动工。金融界顶尖机构在疫情高峰期于 260 Rosemary（右图）开设了办公室。
86岁高龄，构想一座大型商业中心。“我无法退休。”
一项拟议的开发计划将取代相邻的物业，其中包括塞勒姆·格林利夫（Salem Greenleaf）的阿卡迪亚高尔夫球场（Arcadia Golf）以及由前棕榈滩市长盖尔·科尼格利奥（Gail Coniglio）拥有的长期经营的酒吧兼餐厅 E.R. Bradley's Saloon。
像纽约的德意志银行中心（Deutsche Bank Center）或哥伦布圆环（Columbus Circle），以及由弗兰克·盖里（Frank Gehry）设计的洛杉矶 Grand J.A. 等项目。
随着其房地产帝国的繁荣，Mt. Ross 与他在青少年时期度过的南佛罗里达州建立了联系，于 2009 年以 15 亿美元 billion 买下迈阿密海豚队，并另花 7.5亿美元 翻修该市拥有 50,000 个座位的硬石体育场（Hard Rock Stadium）。
在疫情期间，Mt. Ross 离开纽约，转移到他装备精良的棕榈滩聚会地，最终成为佛罗里达州的永久居民。他开始构想在东南部建立一个“新的硅谷”，旨在扩大其投资组合，同时拥有科技公司和金融公司。
但 Mt. Ross 认为，西棕榈滩若要繁荣，这座城市不能仅限于豪华公寓和办公室。它需要提供大城市所具备的所有吸引力。
“与其等待时间推移和政府地自然发生，必须有人真正将其整合在一起，并投入其中，你知道，承担起领导角色，”Mt. Ross 表示。“如果你在那里没有资产，你就无法去主导某些事情。”
为了提升棕榈滩县的医疗保健水平，他捐赠了 5000万美元 用于当地克利夫兰诊所（Cleveland Clinic）医院的扩建。为了吸引新任高管及其家属，他向顶尖的松顶学校（Pine Crest School）捐赠了一大笔资金，该校将在西棕榈滩建立校园。他的一个综合用途开发项目将包括另一所私立学校。
为了创造稳定的高薪毕业生供应，他向田纳西州的范德堡大学（Vanderbilt University）捐赠了 5000万美元，该校已同意在该镇建设一座价值 1.2亿美元 的研究生校园。
为了确保这些新来者
不会感到无聊，Related Ross 在 2 月份赞助了一场音乐节，由全球知名的 Calvin Harris 和 Eggs 领衔演出。“这就是在玩大富翁，”西棕榈滩的餐厅经营者朱利安·格雷莫（Julien Gremaud）说道，“看着真是疯狂。”
进步的代价
这种增长势头及其抵达的速度令一些当地居民感到担忧，他们认为豪华住宅及相关配套设施的增加将提高这座工人阶级城市的居民生活成本。
根据 Redfin 的数据，在过去的五年里，西棕榈滩住宅的中位价格上涨了约 60%，达到 $100,000，超过了佛罗里达州的全州平均水平。根据 Apartments.com 的数据，短期租赁价格甚至已上涨至平均 $2,200,000，且同比上涨近 2%。
“我们面临的是纯粹的企业共谋局面，”社区活动人士兼人身伤害律师、曾任西棕榈滩委员的理查德·里克斯（Richard Ricks）表示。他表示，考虑到今年的影响，他对此感到担忧。“西棕榈滩可能会延续这种情况，而且他们在决定建设内容时缺乏话语权。”
近期竞选进入棕榈滩县委员会失败的 Mt. Ryles 担心，日益增长的人口迁移将加剧住房负担能力问题，且并非所有人都能被雇佣到高薪岗位上。
对于该市领导层而言，这些紧张局势代表了进步的必要性。“我每天都在处理员工问题，但我宁愿面对一座成长中城市的难题，也不愿面对一座垂死之城，”西棕榈滩市长罗宾·詹姆斯（Robin James）说道。“当这些商人到来时，城市本身会产生对服务的需求，而这些需求通常由小型企业来满足。”
在城市的商业方面，Mt. Ross 正在建设一个 20-sent 的经济适用房项目，利用一项佛罗里达州法律，该法律为建设低于市场价的公寓的开发商提供税收减免。另外两个 20-sent 的经济适用房项目也在筹备中。Related Ross 基金会还承诺拨款 $12.700 万，用于资助两所当地高中的学生就读于棕榈滩州立学院。
Mt. Ross 和市长詹姆斯最近不得不暂停一个滨水公园的建设，因为遭到了社区的抵制。在 Related Ross 承诺出资 $10 百万后，该市考虑使用征收权来开发这片土地，并搬迁在滨水区经营的餐厅。在房东和经营者投诉后，市长现在承诺将举行听证会。
“变革不可避免，进步对城市有好处，但深思熟虑且受控的增长才是永恒的，”前棕榈滩市长、受影响的房东之一盖尔·科尼格利奥（Gail Coniglio）说道。
向前变革
大约每隔一周，Related Ross 的员工就会在全国各地奔波，向其他公司推销 Mt. Ross 对西棕榈滩的愿景。5 月，他们去了波士顿和纽约。6 月，他们前往湾区，在两天内与 15 家公司进行了会面。
“如果我们在五年前进行那次加州之行，人们可能会觉得，‘我们为什么要参加这个会议？’”Related Ross 执行副总裁 Jordan Bargas 表示。“而现在，当你走进房间，他们会说，‘噢，请告诉我现在在佛罗里达州做生意到底是什么样子。’他们已经听说了这件事。这里有一种天然的热度。”
Webb Fargo 是一个典型的西棕榈滩新租户。该银行财富与投资管理部门的首席执行官 Barry Sommers 曾在纽约市的哈德逊广场（Hudson Yards）工作，并希望开设另一家办公室，以便在飞抵当地并与 Mt. Ross 及其团队会面后，能继续接近客户并吸引新人才。Sommers 决定在今年夏天开设一家 30,000 平方英尺的办公室，将容纳 80 到 100 名全职员工。
将领导 A.J. 平台、入驻 2,000,000 平方英尺西棕榈滩办公室的高管 Jack Kahn 同样被 Ross 的愿景所打动。“在这种标志性的、具有关键规模的吸引力下，很多其他公司也会开始来到这里，”他说。
考虑到其高龄，Mt. Ross 将在未来几年逐步淡出，而如果没有创始人的密切参与和雄厚财力，Related Ross 是否能保持如此高效的扩张，仍然是一个开放性问题。
目前，他没有停止建设的计划。否则，他说，“我会非常无聊的。”
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10-12 E 94th St, NY • 580 15,000 SF • 5000万美元 A2' W. R. Villaty 设计，带花园的联排别墅。极佳状态，带顶棚。 Patricia / Tarman-Farmaison@compass.com
16 E Trail, Darden, CT • 980 1064 • $6,495,000 建筑血统与现代奢华的结合。 Ashley Dineer • online.dineer@compass.com
143 W 22nd St, PNC, NY • 360 3.064 • $5,495,000 Chebess 阁楼，带户外空间的公寓，三面采光。 William A. Vitiello • wilson.vitiello@compass.com
15 Madison Sq W, 3B, NY • $4,200,000 Flatiron 360-3.064, 2,040 SF，位于 FS DM 公寓。 Mary Ellen Cochman • mec@compass.com
32 Washington Sq W, 7E, NY • $4,150,000 战前 DM crm: 480 36A。华盛顿广场公园景观。 Tracie Golding • tracie.golding@compass.com
783 Rugby Rd, NY • 580 36A • $2,500,000 Midwood 单户住宅，带环绕式门廊和花园。 Robert Faust • robert.faust@compass.com
175 E Bdwy 50, NY • 280 28A • $2,495,000 宽敞且阳光充足的 1,300 SF 战前阁楼，位于 DM 公寓。 Pamela D'Arc • pamela.darc@compass.com
108 E 82nd St, 4G, NY • 280 28A • $1,970,000 阳光充足的战前住宅，带地下室储藏室、壁炉及景观。 Valerie Artzt • valerie.artzt@compass.com
333 E 91st St, 25A, NY • 380 36A • $1,675,000 宽敞的 1,918 SF 空间，可俯瞰天际线和东河。 Cornelia V. • cornelia.vanamburg@compass.com
119 84th St, NY • 380 36A • $1,650,000 Bay Ridge 黄金地段，带露台和后院。 A. Salovento • athena.salovento@compass.com
201 St Pauls Ave, NY • 480 36A • $1,970,000 斯塔滕岛维多利亚式地标建筑，带水景。 Roseanne D. • rdeglusmini@compass.com
7 E 14th St, 20℃, NY • 180 36A • $855,000 高层阳光房，状态极佳，拥有开阔的城市景观。 Cindy Mion • cindy.mion@compass.com
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960 Fifth Ave, 4A / 5 8D 6-8A / 2500万美元 标志性宏伟建筑，位于第五大道 60 号。T' cell，6,300 平方英尺。 M. Blumenfeld • mark.blumenfeld@compass.com
110 CPS, PHI / 2 8D 2 BA / 1+8 / 1999.5万美元 室内外生活空间，带 3 个露台及中央公园景观。 James Schoenfeld • jschoenfeld@compass.com
378 WSA, QC / 4 8D 5-8A / $8,950,000 高规格装修，阳光充足，带 pin oatsk 空间，vus。DM 共管公寓。 Amy Bononi • abononi@compass.com
128 E 65th St / 10 8D 9-8A / $8,100,000 极佳状态，20 英尺宽，5 层全层电梯棕石住宅。 Timothy Desmond • tim.desmond@compass.com
190 Riverside Dr, BC / 5 8D 4-5.8A / $7,995,000 极佳状态战前共管公寓，拥有开阔的河流与公园景观。 M. Kaiser • C. Moss • mksizer@compass.com
1000 Fifth Ave, 18A / 5 8D 3.5 BA / $5,750,000 彻底翻新，采用高端饰面。白色玻璃，dmm。 Timothy • tim.@compass.com
442 W 44th St / 4 8D 4-8A / $5,100,000 20 英尺宽，8 层联排别墅，带 2 套复式，花园及露台。 Timothy • tim.@compass.com
340 E 72nd St, 4B / 4 8D 4-8A / $4,999,000 阳光充足的经典 9 into 8 战前住宅，带 6 个及 2 个 wbfpls。 Cornelia V. • cornelia.vanamburg@compass.com
953 Fifth Ave, 7 / 9 / 2+8D 4-8A / $4,500,000 Create on except 10 mm 复式，带 pot binding。 Richard R. Brown • richard.brown@compass.com
527 W 27th St, 10B / 3 8D 4-8A / $3,995,000 Chebess 室内外生活空间。现代共管公寓。 David Chang • dchang@compass.com
22 E 18th St, 4B / 2+ 8D 2-8A / $3,800,000 Removland，宽敞的梦想阁楼，带 sing 细节。 Jonathan Lavcke • jlovice@compass.com
237 Bowery, PA / 2 2 8D 2-8A / $3,400,000 设计师 2,250 平方英尺共管阁楼，露台，wbf，1 / 2' cell。 Jonathan Lavcke • jlovice@compass.com
130 Fulton St, 5B / 2 8D 3.5 BA / $3,208,000 位于海港历史区的 David & mod 共管阁楼。 Amy Bononi • abononi@compass.com
1170 Fifth Ave, 4A / 2 8D 3-5A / $3,200,000 Comegie Hill 8 间房，带中央公园景观，wbfpls，庄园共管公寓。 S. Nidley • J. Silver • susen.nidley@compass.com
10 E 70th St, 3A / 3 8D 3-8A / 1+8 / $3,000,000 Emery Rich Classic 6，位于弗里克美术馆对面。 Christine Miller Martin • cmm@compass.com
曼哈顿
333 E 87th St, 15A / 4 8D 4-8A / $2,750,000 巨大的 9 房，带有战前细节。高天花板。WBF。 J. Silver • S. Nidley • jprice.silver@compass.com
102 Greenwich Ave, 6 / 1 8D 2-8A / $2,200,000 WV 公寓美宅，带有额外灵活内部套房。CAC。 K. Meem • S. Meem • knight.meem@compass.com
400 E 63rd St, 8B / 2 8D 2 BA / 1+8 / $1,850,000 阳光充足的现代公寓，配有适配天花板的窗户。CAC。 M. Blumenfeld • mark.blumenfeld@compass.com
103 E 93th St, 9E / 2 8D 2-8A / $1,750,000 阳光充足且宽敞的转角公寓 ccm：380 开放城市景观。 Moryells Schwartz • mguass@compass.com
15 Worth St, 1205 / 1 8D 1-8A / 1+8 / $1,625,000 dmm 公寓中从经典 Tribes 到现代阁楼生活的转变。 David Chang • dchang@compass.com
116 E 64th St, 4E / 2 8D 2-8A / $1,495,000 比例优美，带有装饰艺术风格壁炉。FS dmm。 Glenn Zwick • gmm.knick@compass.com
170 E 87th St, W3E / 2 8D 2-8A / $1,325,000 大型阳光公寓。Hht fits, top tidbig, bic-vamerkies。 S. Schwartz • susen.eckswang@compass.com
207 W 93rd St, 3℃ / 1 8D 1-8A / $995,000 战前公寓阁楼，带有 3 / 4' 天花板及私人露台。 Susan Wires • susen.wires@compass.com
45 Fifth Ave, 14℃ / 1 8D 1-8A / $975,000 OV 极佳且现代，兼具战前魅力与景观。 K. Khvalenian • robert.khvalenian@compass.com
145 WEA, 4 / 2 8D 1-8A / $895,000 宽敞、光线充足且状态极佳。健身房，洗衣房，24 小时 DM。 Dennis Di Lorenzo • Dennis.dilorenzo@compass.com
175 W 95th St, 4J / 1 8D 1-8A / $825,000 明亮，开放式东向，大窗户。WFD。FS 公寓。 Matthew Solomon • matt.solomon@compass.com
200 W 109th St, 8B / 1 8D 1-8A / $675,000 状态极佳且阳光充足的战前住宅，带 WFD。电梯 dmm 公寓。 Matthew Solomon • matt.solomon@compass.com
80 John St, 9A / 1 8D 1-8A / $665,000 金融区阳光阁楼公寓，带地下室 cell。Dmm。 David Chang • dchang@compass.com
105 E 88th St, 6D / 1 8D 1-8A / $620,000 全新厨房。阳光充足，宽敞且灵活 18D。 Valerie Artzt • valerie.artzt@compass.com
410 W 24th St, 6B / Studio 1-8A / $999,999 明亮且宽敞的转角房，3 / 8' 朝向，7 扇窗户。 G. Zwick • S. Meem • goo.zwick@compass.com
纽约州 • 曼哈顿
315 Wood Mine Rd / 5 8D 3.5 BA / $3,850,000 Capote 19 英亩，5,540 平方英尺，顶级泳池，热水浴缸。 John Barbato • john.barbato@compass.com
501 Birch Ln / 3 8D 3-8A / $1,350,000 Crayville 开放式概念，工艺精良。 • .@compass.com
17 Memory Ln / 2 8D 2-8A / $995,000 Hillsdale 蓝色前沿生活，拥有 75 潜在水岸。 • .@.
6 Wong Rd / 4 8D 2-8A / $849,000 Crayville，美丽的蓝色景观，一个露台，设施齐全。极佳。 • .@.
30 Ridge Ln / 3 8D 3-8A / $695,000 Hillsdale 私密性，优质建筑与地理位置。
157 E 34th St, 1ID / 1 8D 1-8A / $589,900 极佳 Jr. A。3 面采光，门卫，健身房，屋顶露台，蓝色房间，储藏室。 Julie Perlin • julia.perlin@.
159 E 94th St, 7D / 1 8D 1-8A / $685,000 光线充足的战前转角房，带景观，24 小时门卫。 M. Blumenfeld • mark.blumenfeld@.
242 W 104th St, 3WF / 1 8D 1-8A / $98,000 现代战前合作公寓，高层高，装饰艺术风格壁炉。EK。 Amy Bononi • amy.bononi@.
235 E 87th St, 8E / 4kover Studio 1 BA / $479,000 宽敞阳光充足，带更衣区，步入式衣橱，中央空调，24 小时门卫。 Cornelia V. • cornelia.vanamburg@.
400 Park Ave So, 28℃ / 3 8D 3-8A / $33,000 / 月 新建筑，可观天际线与城市景观。FS 共管公寓。 Nicole Heffner • nicole.heffner@.
18 W 55th St, 7℃ / 3 8D 4-8A / $31,500 / 月 转角房，带健身设施，东向与东向采光并带露台。新 CP。
131 E 73th St, 3 / 3 8D 3.5 BA / $25,000 / 月 优雅，宽敞且阳光充足，1 / 2' 层高。中央空调。WFD。 Pamela D'Arc • pamela.darc@.
133 William St, 2PD / 2 8D 2-8A / $12,750 / 月 金融区 ccm：3 扇大窗，24 小时 dmm。景观。 Tracie Golding • tracie.golding@.
137 E 34th St, 1000 / 3 8D 2.5 BA / $12,500 / 月 帝国大厦建筑景观，门卫，露台，储藏室。极佳。 Julie Perlin • julia.perlin@.
300 E 79th St, 3℃ / 1 8D 1-8A / $4,350 / 月 豪华共管公寓，配备顶级电器，高层高，健身房，储藏室。 Maureen McCarron • mmccarron@.
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7921 Narrows Ave / 4 8D 3.5 BA / $4,799,000 Bay Ridge 豪华住宅，带泳池、露台、壁炉，景观极佳。 A. Salovento • athena.salovento@compass.com
1364 E 29th St / 5 8D 3-8A / $1,795,000 独立住宅 1 forn 带壁炉、车库、blunt。位于 Midwood 黄金街区。 Roseanne D. • rdeglusmini@compass.com
171 Columbia Hts, 3A / 1 8D 1-5 BA / $1,725,000 Bldyn Hts 现代风格，位于精品 FS 24 小时 dmm 公寓。 David Chang • dchang@.
406 4th Ave, Greenway / 16 8D 8-8A / $1,500,000 投资机会，极佳且 unit multi-fom。黄金地段。 Roseanne D. • rdeglusmini@.
256 87th St / 3 8D 3-8A / $1,499,000 Bay Ridge 室内外生活空间，1 forn 带后院。 A. Salovento • athena.salovento@.
538 84th St / 1 8D 3-8A / $1,450,000 Bay Ridge 半独立式 2 forn 带车库，独立生活空间。 A. Salovento • athena.salovento@.
85 Adams St, 8D / 2 8D 2-8A / $1,395,000 Dumbo 阳光房 crm：地下室 cells，24 小时 DM 公寓。 Sean Murphy Turner • sean.turner@.
35 Clarkson Ave, 4A / 2 8D 2-8A / $729,000 Prime Prospect Leffens Gardens 翻新公寓。 Roseanne D. • rdeglusmini@.
309 Cooper St, 3B / Studio 1-8A / $433,000 Bushwick 工业优雅风，带现代奢华感。WFD。 J. Gallagher • joseph.gallagher@.
70 Ramses St, 7F / Studio 1-8A / $40,000 Brooklyn Hts 战前魅力，配备现代便利设施。 Brad Bateman • brad.bateman@.
9801 Shore Rd, 1Q / 1 8D 1-8A / $339,000 Bay Ridge 豪华生活，FS dmm 合作公寓。极佳。
237 Hts St, 2 / 3 8D 1-5 BA / $1,795 / mo Greenwood Hts 复式，带 pot 后院，Townhouse 风格生活。 David Chang • dchang@.
650 Decatur St, GDN / 2 8D 1-8A / $3,500 / mo Sunny Red Star 花园选项，带户外空间。 J. Gallagher • joseph.gallagher@.
3468 Holborn Rd, PA / 8 8D 9-8A / $3,750,000 Doubletown 现代谷仓庄园，带泳池、露台和壁炉。 Leith Yusuf • Leith.yusuf@.
78 Kennington St / 3 8D 3.5 BA / $829,000 Staten Island 室内外生活空间，私密性强。
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2 负担得起纽约
在布鲁克林，一位年薪 $130,000 的教授。
3 在 DART 中
“我终于把最大的一块地毯卖掉了，感到很欣慰。”
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大麻店倾向于通过外观和氛围来在拥挤的领域中脱颖而出。
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从左起，Joanne Fallon 修女、Mary Stephen Hosley 修女、Mary Alice O'Brien 修女和 Jane Keegan 修女。她们在纽约州蒙特弗农的 Warrburg 护理中心找到了新家以及其他志同道合的修女。
修女们为了共同的使命而团结
作者：约翰·莱兰 (JOHN LELAND)
那是辅助生活大楼的欢乐时光，现场提供点心并有艺人表演，斯蒂芬修女正尽力让自己感到快乐。她随着《你好，多莉！》(Hello, Dolly!) 的旋律拍手。
大约 20 名女性和一名男性坐在光线明亮的活动室里，有些人坐在轮椅上。在这里，欢乐时光在每周五下午 2 点到来。
“你是修女？”一名女性问斯蒂芬，“你看起不像个 。”
“那么，一个 看起来像什么样？” 问道。那名女性没有答案。一个 看起来像什么样？
“我一会儿要起来跳舞，”斯蒂芬说。在 96 岁的高龄，且在经历了两次 置换后，她的舞步受到了限制。但她还是站了起来，依靠助行器支撑，随着
大约 80 位修女在纽约郊区的一家辅助生活中心传播欢乐与善良。
《把最后一支舞留给我》(Save the Last Dance for Me) 的旋律摇摆。
尽管如此，她还是觉得缺少了什么。首先，没有白葡萄酒。
“只有红酒，”玛丽·马丁在房间里点单时说道。
但除此之外，其他修女都去哪儿了？
斯蒂芬带着些许困惑环视房间。
“真奇怪，”她看着眼前的景象，惊讶地说道，“现在这个房间里的大多数人不是修女。”
因为她说，通常情况下，人数会更多。多得多。由于多种力量的共同作用，该中心已成为纽约少数几个仍能发现大量修女的地方之一。
在 20 世纪 60 年代中期，美国有超过 180,000 名罗马天主教修女；（）
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贝丝·埃文斯最大的开支是对她于 1994. 购买的排屋进行大规模的逾期翻修。接下来的项目是墙壁、天花板和窗户。
幸运但感觉被困在已结清房贷的房子里
作者：桑图尔·内尔卡 (SANTUL NERKAR)
贝丝·埃文斯认为自己是纽约人中最幸运的一批。
她在几十年前买了一套房子，并培养了一份与她终身热爱文学的激情相匹配的职业。这座城市流淌在她的血液中——埃文斯女士称自己为 1916 年一代纽约人的祖母——她从未停止热爱这里。
69, 岁的埃文斯女士是布鲁克林学院的教授兼图书馆员，这份工作每年给她带来约 $130,000 的收入。她计划在两年后退休，并且已经还清了抵押贷款；根据 2006 年的数据，她的房子价值约 $800,000,。
社会保障福利、退休账户中的资金以及父母的遗产为她提供了舒适的缓冲。但这并不总是如此简单。现在，埃文斯女士面临着关于未来的艰难选择——以及她是否还会留在纽约。
像许多年长的纽约人一样，埃文斯女士在问自己，她不断变化的生活方式和需求是否足以支撑她支付这座城市高昂的价格。她的四个孩子中最年轻的一个去年搬走了，这让埃文斯女士处于一个不习惯的独居状态。
但她非常看重能靠近她 1 岁和 4 岁的年幼孙辈——当她考虑在市外生活时，她会说服自己放弃这种想法 endowment。也许稍微多一点同情心就能解决问题。
“我愿意有室友，”埃文斯女士说，“我想成为‘黄金女郎’ (Golden Girls) 中的一员。”
详细情况
姓名：贝丝·埃文斯 (Beth Evans)
家庭成员：1人
居住地：布鲁克林，马林公园 (Marine Park, Brooklyn)
职业：教授兼图书管理员
突然成为单身母亲
埃文斯女士于 1994 年与当时的丈夫共同购买了她在马林公园的住宅——一座红砖半独立排屋，价格为 $89,000，这大约相当于 2026 年的 $200,000。
“我能在纽约低成本生活，这确实是年龄因素，因为我很久以前就买房了，”埃文斯女士说。
在买房后的大约十年里，埃文斯女士一直是一名全职家庭主妇，家庭开支由担任燃油锅炉机械师的丈夫支撑。她在 1990 年重返校园，在皇后学院 (Queens College) 获得了图书馆科学硕士学位，随后于 1994 年开始在布鲁克林学院 (Brooklyn College) 工作。
目前，埃文斯女士认为一项奢侈的支出是资助她的第三个研究生学位，为此她每月预留约 $400。她正在攻读因内斯布鲁克大学 (Innes Brook University) 的创意写作艺术硕士学位，在曼哈顿中城校区上课。
“我曾是一名英语 16 males，”她说。“坐在局外批评别人的写作总是容易得多。”
埃文斯女士很欣赏马林公园的种族多样性。
她回忆起向一位最近搬到布鲁克林的朋友介绍这个社区的情景。那是一次沿着附近的科尼岛大道 (Coney Island Avenue) 展开的烹饪冒险，从一家巴基斯坦餐厅开始，接着是一家 kinder 商店，然后是一家中国餐厅，最后以一家俄罗斯餐厅结束。
埃文斯女士的生活在 2005 年发生了剧变。她的丈夫意外离开该国，让她成为一名单身母亲，照顾四个孩子。其中一个在读大学，但最小的儿子当时只有 4 岁。
突然之间，在只有一份收入的情况下，埃文斯女士必须想办法维持生计。她被迫申请了第二条信用额度——一项房屋净值贷款，或称二次抵押贷款，每月费用为 $700。大约十年后，埃文斯女士还清了抵押贷款。
尽管面临成本限制，她还是为孩子们找到了负担得起的丰富活动。
她带女儿参加了一个免费的交通博物馆项目，内容关于这座城市的交通建筑。那名女儿后来成为了大都会运输署 (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) 的一名建筑师。
每个孩子每周花费 $5，她的儿子们参加了由马林公园城市公园护林员 (Urban Park Rangers) 运营的夏令营。她的长子后来在那里成为了 longer。现在，他是纽约州北部的一名环境规划师。
“我能在纽约低成本生活，这确实是年龄因素。”
补齐维修缺口
如今，埃文斯女士最大的开支是对房屋进行大规模翻修。在抚养孩子期间，她将这些维修推迟了多年，导致房屋出现了水损。
在过去的两年里，她利用从父母那里继承的遗产，花费了约 $100,000 进行房屋改良，例如修理屋顶和重新粉刷砖墙。接下来的计划是翻修墙壁、天花板、厨房以及窗户。
她发现自己陷入了一个困境。她承认，在完成翻修后这么快就卖掉房子是没有意义的。为了让搬家变得值得，她需要找到一套比现在住的房子更便宜的住宅，而这在纽约是一个极具挑战性的命题。
每月各种形式的保险费总计 $1,100。她在六月份的房地产税上涨了 $100 多，达到 $665。医疗费用为 $500。燃气和电费增加了 $400。生活杂费来自 shift 和 Okla Foods Market（一家位于国王公路上的热门超市），总计约 $400。
她每月在两辆车（Cerebro 和 Adibari）上花费约 $450，包括账单和船只费用。电话费每月 $50，与两个孩子共用一个家庭套餐。此外，她还花费 $300 为孙辈和子女购买礼物，包括前往位于中城的儿童剧院——新胜利剧院（New Victory Theatre）观看演出。
每月约 $200 用于观看戏剧和其他娱乐活动。她最近花 $20 观看了一场令她愉快的演出——《Kitty Daddy》，这是一部关于一个抑郁男子的外百老汇戏剧，他的生活因为从收容所救回的一辆车而发生了改变。
埃文斯女士在米德伍德（Midwood）成长于犹太家庭，但她将孩子们抚养为一神论者，并且在布鲁克林高地（Brooklyn Heights）的教会中保持活跃，在那里她担任执事和助理。
在周日礼拜之后，她经常在 Colima Md 的一家地中海餐厅 Kitchen 用餐，那里的饺子售价超过 $15，而 baked-lets sagamaki 则售价 $14。
未知变量
1994 年，当埃文斯女士开始在布鲁克林学院工作时，她选择了退休计划而非养老金。退休计划的优势在于，在她去世后，她的孩子们可以继承这笔钱。但与养老金不同，它不能保证能维持到她生命的终点。
像这样估算剩余的年限可能是一项冷酷且精算的练习，而最大的未知数则是健康状况。埃文斯女士说，活到 93 岁听起来很有吸引力，但财务规划师可以为你画一张图表，显示你在那个年龄时将不再有任何积蓄。
“最重要的变量是一个没有人知道的变量，”她说。
但目前，埃文斯女士对纽约持有肯定态度，她像一个布鲁克林本地人一样谈论这座城市，抵制所有离开这个她唯一认知的家园的倾向。
“我喜欢这种年龄的交融和背景的多元，”她说。“每次你登上铁路，就像在说，‘噢，这不就是整个世界吗’，”埃文斯女士说。“这就是我热爱纽约的地方。”
水损在埃文斯女士抚养孩子的那几年里对房屋造成了影响。她的花园里有一个她用实木板箱搭建的格子架。她最近买了一些大理石碎片来修理一张户外桌子。埃文斯女士独居，但可以想象与室友共用空间。
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数学
亲爱的日记： 2024年，在离开六年之后，我回到了纽约市。我那辆20年车龄的汽车里塞满了箱子，装着地毯、纺织品以及我从旧公寓里保留的其他物品。
我通过朋友认识了一个人，他有一个整个地下室可以让我存放地毯，以便我在Facebook Marketplace上尝试出售它们。
几个月后，我不得不最终出售我最大的一块地毯。当我收到买家的短信时，我的心情迅速跌入谷底，对方写道：“我们发现了冰毒。”
我拿回了地毯，检查了那个朋友地下室里的所有东西。那里到处都是数学的痕迹。
我和丈夫开车前往我们位于Red-Stuy的公寓，他一边开车一边构思着需要垃圾袋和薄荷烟的计划。
在买齐物资后，我们准备大干一场，但是
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我的沮丧情绪正式占据了上风。我的丈夫试图安慰我。
“给我一个吻，”他说。我顺从地亲了他一下。“再来一个。”
我再次给了他一个吻。
“为了保险起见，再来一个。”这时，我的笑容开始显现，他得到了第三个吻。
我正准备把车开出车位，这时附近的一个男人开始疯狂地打手势并向我们欢呼。
我困惑地环顾四周。我是快撞到什么东西了吗？他在说什么？我们摇下了车窗。
“再来一次！”他微笑着说，“为了Red-Stuy，再来一次！”
凯伦·巴内特（KAREN BARNETT）
抢票
亲爱的日记：
我去了Trade / Insider剧院，希望能抢到《Schengartens》的抢票（rush ticket），尽管当时已经是上午10:20，而抢票队伍在10点就已经开启。
当我走向售票处时，我看到一名年轻女性正朝着同一个方向走去。我直觉她会买走最后几张抢票。
我加快了脚步，但她还是比我早大约10秒到达售票窗口。果然，我听到她在询问抢票的情况。
“我只剩两张了，”票务员说。
我的心跳停止了。“我只需要一张，”那女人回答道。
太棒了！她看到了我的欣喜，对我微微一笑。
“那另一张我要了，”我说。
巴里
1980年夏天，我接了一份简单的自由职业工作：为一群抗议陆军工程兵团项目的团体设计并交付可直接印刷的按钮艺术图样。
在一个闷热的夏日，我约好在客户位于默里山（Murray Hill）的公寓见面。我准时到达，被她的伴侣迎接。
巴里，一个40多岁、为人随和的家伙。他为我客户的迟到表示歉意，解释说之前的预约运行时间比预期要长。
他接着补充道：“现在她和我将坐在一起，我们最终会结婚，并成就一个注定会发生的纽约故事。”
对方笑了。我们确实坐在一起，但并没有举行婚礼。
他提议给我一杯冷饮，我接受了，在接下来的10分钟左右时间里，我们愉快地闲聊了一些无关紧要的话题。
客户到了，我们开始谈正事，然后我离开了。为了敲定最终的艺术图样，我们又见了一次面。
我向客户开票并收到了款项，之后就没再想过这件事，直到几周后我打开新闻，看到巴里——也就是奥尔丁·霍夫曼（Aldine Hoffman）——正在向联邦调查局（F.B.I.）自首。
埃兰妮·考德威尔（ELANIE CALDWELL）
圣约翰神圣大教堂
亲爱的日记：
多年前，当我作为一名游客来到这座城市时，我被吸引到了圣约翰神圣大教堂。那里似乎没有其他人。
为了准备一场音乐会，公共内部区域的地板上摆放了许多椅子。现场播放着轻柔的录制音乐。
当我们沿着外围行走时，录制音乐被优美的现场钢琴演奏所取代。
当我们结束参观并转过最后一个弯角时，我们看到一名穿着制服的男子正坐在钢琴前演奏。
我们走向他，他停止了演奏。我称赞了他的演奏技巧。
“不要感谢我，”他说，“感谢莫扎特！”
“他是调音师。”约翰·迈（JOHN MAI）
十月先生
亲爱的日记：
那是 1965 年 10 月下旬一个下雨的下午。在纽约 Cabooum 参观完一场贸易展后，我正沿着第七大道行走。
一名穿着蓝色商务西装、白衬衫并打着领带的年轻人正站在 Stage Deli-cammen 外面的遮阳篷下。
经过他之后，我脑中灵光一现。我转身走向他。
“你是罗杰·马里斯，”我说。 “是的，我是，”他回答道。然后他相当礼貌地补充道，“你的雨伞在往我身上滴水。”
沃尔特·根特（WALTER GENT）
读者评论
约翰·亨德森在州长、Canal 通往布鲁克林的地方练习她的月份。
城市风笛手的声学负担
读者通过信件和 nytimes.com 对 8 月 9 日 Andrew Bob 关于寻找练习场所之安静空间的文章做出回应。评论经过编辑。
您的文章直接让我想起了一件我已故父亲曾提及的往事。我的父亲从事建筑工作，在工作中曾与一名城市检查员发生过一次相当紧张的冲突。双方都说了些不愉快的话，包括一段“在我来自的地方……”和“好吧，在我来自的地方……”的对话。这导致他们发现，该检查员和我父亲竟然在布朗克斯（Bronx）同一个社区长大！
检查员告诉我父亲他曾经居住的地址，我父亲说：“我对那栋楼唯一记得的事情就是，那里有个住在里面的人日夜练习风笛！简直是噪音。”检查员自豪地对我父亲回答道：“是的，而且每年圣帕特里克节的游行我都会演奏。”
苏珊·梅耶（SUSAN MAYER），马萨诸塞州莱克星敦
所有居住在城市的风笛手都需要一个偏远的户外空间——我是匹兹堡的一名风笛手，这里有卡内基梅隆大学的“演奏与梦想”（Play and Dream）以及许多其他地区乐队。如果我无法进入我们大学的乐队室（当然，是在学生中心地下室的一个偏僻角落！），你就能在城市公园里发现我在练习。匹兹堡有着深厚的苏格兰传统，所以大多数时候我能得到友好的挥手，keeps air for once-issued numbers! 根据他们听到一英里外音乐的来源。
克里斯汀·史密斯（CHRISTINE SMITH），匹兹堡
根据文章，“纽约需要它的风笛手”。但我好奇有多少纽约人足够需要风笛手，以至于愿意在家里忍受长时间的噪音，这种噪音
“可能在 300 分贝左右，相当于摩托车的轰鸣声”。尽管约翰·麦克弗森（John Macpherson）声称风笛“尽可能体贴”，但每天让邻居忍受一小时这样的噪音绝非体贴。
费利西亚·诺格·阿克曼（FELICIA NORGE ACKERMAN），罗德岛州普罗维登斯
BAKERS PRACTICE IN 是我与结婚 40 年的妻子相识的方式。当时她作为研究生就读于位于纽约市正北方的拉蒙特-多尔蒂地球观测站（Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory）的哥伦比亚大学，她住在曼哈顿，并在一个名为 Bake Mar Pipes and Dream 的风笛乐队中演奏。为了不打扰曼哈顿的邻居，她在帕利塞兹（Palisades）的一处前庄园——拉蒙特练习。我是那个校区的园艺师，一个周六我来工作时听到了风笛的“裙摆”之声。我出发去寻找声音的来源，剩下的就成了历史。
约克·克里斯托弗（YORK CHRISTOPHER），康涅狄格州米德尔敦
我曾经听过对苏格兰绅士的定义：一个知道如何演奏风笛但并不演奏的人。我住在一个林区，曾经有个演奏风笛的邻居。他会在森林里练习，我真的很喜欢听到风笛柔和的声音在树林间回荡。我认为风笛在远处欣赏效果最好。
艾伦·斯特拉卡（ALAN STRAKA），明尼苏达州罗切斯特
大约 20 年前，有一天晚上我离开亚利桑那大学的一堂哲学晚课，风将风笛的声音带到了四方广场。我踉踉跄跄地走，直到我听到风笛声，当时我正站在一座砖房和停车场之间。那里的声学效果太惊人了！我一定坐了一个小时，就这样听着，泪水顺着脸颊流下。你要么热爱风笛，要么不爱，如果你热爱，听到高水平的演奏是一份礼物。
格兰托夫·康诺利（GERANTOVE CONNOLLY），俄勒冈州波特兰
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浪漫的代价：纽约青年难以企及
约会成本的上升和沉重的经济压力，让一些纽约人无法寻得真爱。
作者：TROY CLOSSON
Hein Hee！他深知这种压力。
一次与父母（他们已不在 20 多岁）简单的叙旧电话，可能会演变成一场快速的审问：“你快 30. 了。为什么不约会？我们什么时候能有孙辈？”
对于在纽约市即将年满 27 岁的 30s 来说，这一切感觉如此遥远。他在研究生学习之余工作，拼命地想在杂货开支和住房问题上有所改善。从缅甸抵达后，他花费了 $7,000 寻求法律援助以申请庇护。
他仍在为自己生活的财务和工作稳定性而奋斗。很难想象还要支撑另一个人的生活。
“有时我会想：‘我做的是正确的事吗？我真的在生活吗？’”他说道。“但约会、组建家庭——在我要解决的所有其他事情面前，这些事情甚至无法成为我生活的一部分。”
询问关系专家，他们会告诉你：年轻人正处于一场“浪漫衰退”中。一项又一项的民意调查显示，他们约会的频率低于其父母和祖父母在 20 多岁和 30 岁出头时的水平，这引发了各种理论和担忧。
但对于一个刚刚开始成年生活的一代人来说，在沉重的经济压力、低迷的就业市场和不断攀升的成本面前，进入约会市场变得愈发困难，这一点已变得越来越明显。
根据杨百翰大学惠特利研究所（Wheatley Institute）和家庭研究学院（Institute for Family Studies）的一项全国研究项目，超过一半的未婚年轻人（22 至 25 岁）表示，资金不足是他们约会的最大障碍。
这种压力在纽约感觉尤为沉重。当你勉强能负担自己的电费和能源账单时，那些 1000 晚餐约会、100 谜题，以及 100 谜题去看《奥德赛》的费用很快就会累积起来。
“现在怎么能指望纽约人找到爱情？”媒体公司 Complex 的主持人兼制片人 Jillian Hardensam-Werle 在今年夏天的一次视频采访中询问市长 Edman Mandani。
“你才刚刚发现对方很出色——而你已经花光了所有钱在‘经营爱情’上，”她说。
“在这个城市生活太贵了，”24, 岁的 Mandani 先生说，他已婚。“在这个城市生活甚至更加昂贵。”
当你资金匮乏时，约会从未简单过。但如今的经济状况正成为这一已经在努力建立关-
系的一代人的另一个痛点。许多人对多年无休止的生活迹象感到疲惫。对破碎的“暧昧关系”（situationships）感到沮丧，并因广泛的社交脱节而感到破碎。
调查显示，这并不一定是因为年轻人对关系不感兴趣。但对于一些人来说，约会往往成了生活在这样一个扩张城市中的一种权衡。
“我绝对想结婚生子，”27, 岁的 Grace Sabellarino 说，她目前单身，出生在皇后区。“但这感觉如此遥不可及。我甚至无法考虑筹办一场婚礼。”
Sabellarino 女士和她的姐姐住在阿斯托里亚（Astoria），她们注意到越来越多的男性似乎在要求平摊账单——甚至在第二次或第三次约会时。“这令人沮丧，”她说。“我认为是因为所有东西都太贵了，导致了这种停滞。”
纽约似乎应该是廉价计划的理想场所——这里有数十家免费博物馆，数百处绿地，以及每个周末大量低成本的活动，只需支付 63 票价即可乘坐 24 小时地铁到达。最近，一些年轻人开始选择公园野餐而非昂贵的体验。
但正如在采访中所述，其他人则描述感受到来自社交媒体的巨大压力，因为这座城市聚集了许多年薪六位数的年轻专业人士。在美国的抖音 (国际版) 上，人们在争论咖啡约会是否意味着缺乏诚意。在 Instagram 上，一名男性创作者最近警告他的 1200 万 粉丝，净资产低于 $100,000 的男性不应该被允许约会。
根据 BMO Financials 的一项调查，美国 Z 世代的平均单次约会支出超过 $100，其中包括交通费用和准备工作。
研究约会行为的杨曼大学（Brigham Young University）教授布莱恩·J·威洛比（Brian J. Willoughby）表示，对于其他世代的人来说——他们通常通过家庭网络、宗教场所或酒吧相识——可能很难理解如今的约会环境变得多么复杂。
“就像是：‘为了找到这个人，我花了多少时间刷手机？我担心对方的背景，但我还支付了 $30 的 Hinge 订阅费、购买衣服，以及所有这些其他开销，’”他说道。
一名在长岛就业不足的 24 岁软件工程专业毕业生
宾州车站（Penn Station）莫尼汉列车大厅（Moynihan Train Hall）一家餐厅的午餐人群。尽管高昂的费率接近一个圆圈，而 20 多岁和 30 多岁的人约会频率低于这些年龄组以往的水平，但一次餐厅出游的成本可能仅相当于上述的市场价格和一次中央公园之行。
一名男子在采访中承认，在收入仅略高于最低工资的情况下，他感到无法承担约会费用。
一名住在阿斯托里亚（Astoria）的 30 岁即将入学的大学新生抱怨说，即使在青少年时期，社交成本也很高。她和约会对象参加公立高中的毕业舞会的门票就花费了 $375 —— 这还没算上车费。
住在上东区的亚伦·克雷格纳德（Aaron Cregnard）讲述了最近的一个夜晚，她的约会对象说他忘了带钱包，但拒绝支付她的贷款。
她再也没有收到他的消息。“我不是在这里经历糟糕的事情，”这位名叫香农·奥尼尔（Shannon O'Neil）的女性说，“而是极其糟糕。”
对于一些年轻人来说，预算困境在等着他们。许多人迫切需要一个伴侣来共同应对经济压力。但寻找伴侣所需的前期财务投入却成了平均负担。
在曼哈顿——纽约最昂贵的行政区，根据最近一项基于中位数目录成本的分析，与伴侣同居的纽约人每年在房租上可以节省超过 $25,000，这是全美差距最大的地区。
如果房租可以分摊，那么偿还学生贷款、攒钱买房或承担巨大的职业风险（如更换工作、创业或就读研究生）就会容易得多。
这就是为什么康奈尔大学的劳动与公共经济学家本杰明·戈德曼（Benjamin Goldman）在思考：如果约会率和结婚率的下降，能解释纽约及其他城市许多 20 多岁和 30 多岁的人所感受到的经济焦虑中的一部分，情况会怎样？
“这是其中一个尚未被充分发掘的因素，”戈德曼博士说。
而且，这种约会困难的影响远超经济层面。
年轻人通常在邀请他人约会或其他社交技巧方面缺乏自信。许多人认为约会是一个影响心理健康的因素。在采访中，一些人将他们的困境追溯到 2020, 3 月，当时他们在大学里的社交生活——而他们的父母可能就是在大学相识的——被冠状病毒疫情所颠覆。
即使是处于长期关系中的人们也感受到了物价上涨的压力。
21, 岁的 Island Beans 与伴侣住在西哈莱姆区，作为一名郊区工程师，他的收入尚可。但与两年前从西雅图搬来时相比，他们现在出门的次数少得多。支付 $10 的两杯饮料、两张 $5 的账单、一份开胃菜以及后续消费的前景，最终变得“太贵了，无法证明其合理性，因为我可以在家做饭”。
他说，如今，“体面的约会之夜甚至连一个月一次都没有了。”
在“世界尽头”营业
位于蒙托克的灯塔咖啡馆（Lighthouse Café）由于多种原因而是一项具有挑战性的创业尝试。
作者：ALYSON KRUEGER
在纽约州蒙托克的喧嚣之中，时尚的餐点和游客们在夏天里一边抨击曼哈顿，一边品尝羊肉merpais（原文如此）和法棍面包上的热狗。在一栋 1970 年的建筑外，他们坐在巨大的桌子旁，广告、一个短厅和一幅乔治·华盛顿的匆忙肖像画悬挂在餐厅上方。
这就是灯塔咖啡馆，它赞助了长岛蒙托克点（Montauk Point）灯塔的团队。对于住在该地区的肖恩·麦克弗森（Sean MacPherson）来说，这里一直像是一头“白鲸”般难以捕捉，他是曼哈顿鲍里酒店（Bowery Hotel）和切尔西酒店（Chelsea Hotel）背后多产的策划者。他与商业伙伴塞琳·瓦伦西（Celine Valensi）经营着附近的乌鸦之巢（Crow's Nest），那是一处占地三英亩的水彩画般美丽的物业，设有酒店和餐厅，深受人们喜爱。
如今，随着食品成本上涨以及饮酒的年轻人减少，开一家餐厅已经足够困难。在蒙托克则更加棘手，因为一家店基本上只有夏季的三个月可以盈利。但灯塔咖啡馆将难度提升到了一个新的水平。
它位于蒙托克点州立公园的一处悬崖上，当地人称之为“世界尽头”，因为在那里之后，唯一的通行方向就是欧洲。风速可达 60 英里 / 小时，手机信号稀疏，夜晚几乎没有光亮。
这座仍在运行的灯塔由乔治·华盛顿委任并建于 1796 年，每年夏天都吸引着来自全球的游客。这是一个著名的地点，据说海盗船长威廉·基德（William Kidd）曾在此埋藏宝藏，而且军方曾在此设立基地，这也是 Netflix 剧集《怪奇物语》（Stranger Things）的灵感来源。
“这里很神秘，而且有所有的这些民俗传说，”麦克弗森女士（原文如此）说道。这个地区让他想起了他成长的地方马蒂斯（Mathis）。“这个地方已经对我产生了吸引力。”
但纽约州蒙托克公园运营经理蒂莫西·沃森（Timothy Watson）表示，由于许多原因，这是一项具有挑战性的创业尝试。汉普顿（Hamptons）的生活成本很高，这使得人员配置变得困难。而且尽管咖啡馆处于一个依赖天气、季节性的位置，州政府仍坚持要求它必须从 3 月下旬到感恩节后的周末每天营业。
瓦伦西女士一直在研究一种能够吸引汉普顿时尚人群、追求随意的当地人以及游客的食物组合。
在距离灯塔步行三站路之遥、面积 1200 平方英尺的灯塔咖啡馆中，菜单包括被视为噩梦的characribs（原文如此），以及该市首批自动穿戴的沿海法国风味，瓦伦西女士的家人来自那里，且该地就在水对岸。
“你可以游过去，”她笑着说。
肖恩·麦克弗森（左上）及其商业伙伴塞琳·瓦伦西。他们的灯塔咖啡馆包括餐厅里的一个短厅（最右）和一份羊肉merpais热狗（上方）。
食物轻盈简单，以野餐风格盛在纸盘中。有沙拉（甜菜根配蓝奶酪，以及杏仁配四季豆）和像croque monieval（原文如此）这样的主菜。甜点包括柠檬波纹，一种盛在挖空的柠檬壳里的柠檬雪芭。
自开业以来，瓦伦西女士一直努力确保食物不过于精致，提供了像鸡柳和炸薯条这样的项目。“我们找到了能找到的最有机的一种，”瓦伦西女士说。
然而，经营政府所有空间的物流问题才是真正的障碍。麦克弗森先生和瓦伦西女士在过去十年中对该物业进行了三次竞标，每次仅获得两分。直到中标者在 24 点退出后，他们才在 3 月获得了一份为期四年的合同。
该协议包括经营位于蒙托克西侧露营地内的希瑟山综合商店（Hither Hills General Store）。今年夏天，他们设立了一个供应diaspora（原文如此）的酒吧，并于 2007 年成为一家销售糖果、当地手工冰淇淋和鸡蛋三明治的新商店。
两人将这家咖啡馆——此前堆满了旧餐厅设备，另外两处也同样陈旧且直接——改造得极具时尚美感，采用了来自墨西哥的宽大家具和裸露的砖墙。
“我们接手的是一个看起来像麦当劳的空间，”瓦伦西（Valensi）女士说道。
所有被带入咖啡馆的东西（甚至包括门）在麦克弗森（MacPherson）先生将其从家中运往洛杉矶后，都变成了州政府的财产。而且每位供应商必须经过州政府的审核并接受持有流程。（当她发现厨房抽油烟机无法通过验收时，瓦伦西女士必须在雇佣我之前，先从四家当地供应商那里获得方案。）
游客们实际上在早晨会陆续进来喝咖啡或吃简单的午餐，但吸引午餐客流一直是一个更大的挑战。
“你会惊讶地发现，有多少在东汉普顿（East Hamptons）长大的人”
如何吸引时尚的汉普顿人群、保持随意的当地人以及游客。
“其实从未去过这座灯塔，”东汉普顿镇副主管大卫·林（David Lyn）说道。瓦伦西女士组织了喜剧之夜和卡拉OK之夜以吸引客流。
麦克弗森女士还与州政府协商，允许品牌在空间对公众关闭后举办私人活动。礼品时尚品牌 Mathis 在今年夏天举办了一场活动。
“这是一个新的收入来源，”公园运营经理沃森（Watson）先生说道，他认为这在未来可能是其他特许经营商的一种可行模式。“我们意识到特许经营店经营困难，我们希望人们愿意进来并取得成功。”
有一位当地人绝对对灯塔咖啡馆（Lighthouse Café）的开业感兴趣：蒙大拿历史学会主席乔·卡维什（Joe Carvish）表示：“我们在灯塔里有一套两居室公寓。”
“在这个世界的尽头能获得空间是很不容易的，”他说。“现在我有一个很棒的当地餐厅，我每周去三次。”
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大麻药店探索脱颖而出之法
为了吸引顾客，纽约市的药店尝试通过巧妙的设计来营造某种氛围。
作者：ABILEY BISTIRALL
在合法化后急于开业的初期，纽约市的大多数大麻药店采用了单调、极简的布置。他们希望降低启动成本，并让自己与那些曾经比他们多出数百家的幸运的非法店铺区分开来。
随着竞争加剧，全市约 100 家药店开始在外观和氛围上下功夫，以实现差异化并与消费者建立联系。
它们的设计唤起了纽约市的文化、丰富的历史、标志性地标以及那些传奇人物。它们销售氛围，正如销售产品一样。目标是什么？建立一个能够与这座城市各类消费者产生共鸣的零售品牌：不仅是常规用户和游客，还包括女性和白领等被忽视的群体。
但药店面临着高额税收和沉重的限制，导致利润稀缺。而且在联邦层面，销售大麻仍然是非法的。
简单来说，对于遵守规则的药店来说，销售大麻变得更加困难，而大量销售则变得至关重要。在为生存而战的过程中，药店设计中出现了一些共同主题，这些主题由法律强制力、消费者行为以及业主和设计师的创意共同塑造。
高端
合法化带来了一些关于大麻的非传统观念，即大麻可以成为高端生活方式的一部分，这反击了数十年将其视为祸根的宣传。
这在像 Travel Agency 这样的商店中可见一斑，它们将大麻推销为一种负担得起的奢侈品。走进其位于曼哈顿和布鲁克林的四家门店，感觉就像步入了一座博物馆或高端精品店。卷烟和大麻食用产品被展示得如同珍贵的文物或艺术品。
位于 Delhi 的精品店采用的未来主义旅行主题，灵感来自剧院舞台设计和 1964 年的电影《1980: A Space Odyssey》。
灯光和充足的留白是一套空间引导系统的一部分，旨在帮助访客在不感到压力的情况下浏览产品。
展示大麻植物及其产生化合物的区域，向访客介绍了除 THC（其致幻成分）之外的植物特性。
Travel Agency 的首席营销官 Owners forbearthen 表示，目标是让门店感觉高端但不冷漠，愉悦但不轻率，优质但不难以接近。
“我们在设计上所做的工作，降低了人们的戒备心理，”她说。
文化
一些药店在城市元素上进行改编，主题涵盖从漫画书、嘻哈音乐到杂货店汽车和进化论。在布鲁克林 Flatbush 的 Anime Caribe，加勒比国家的旗帜悬挂在橙色墙壁之间，给这家小店带来了一种热带风情，契合这个被称为“小加勒比”的社区。位于 TriDeCa 的 Alto Cannabis 采用类似花店的店面入口，唤起了使用大麻的历史。
High Tides 采用商店形状的床，但配有游乐园设施的照片和沙色地板，营造出科尼岛海滩的氛围。
位于皇后区的 NYC Bad 模仿地铁站设计，入口附近有一个传统的六角形，标志则采用了不同地铁线路的颜色。
许多商店设有适合在 Instagram 上拍照的特色，例如 NYC Bad 店内一辆覆盖着涂鸦的模型火车车厢，以鼓励访客在社交媒体上分享店铺。
设计中经常包含针对异常问题的创意解决方案。例如，“气味吧”（bud bars）允许顾客闻可吸食花朵的样本，这成为了应对一项要求的折中方案——该要求规定药店必须将产品锁在由墙内金属笼固定的房间中。这项规定旨在威慑抢劫，但却给那些想要看到并闻到所购产品的顾客销售大麻带来了困难。
原因
禁毒战争给纽约市留下了不可磨灭的印记。尽管州立法者在 2017. 年已将低剂量持有大麻去罪化，但大麻使用仍被用来证明对数十万人采取行动的正当性。在 2021, 年将娱乐用大麻合法化时，该州致力于结束大麻服务，并帮助受数十年严厉执法影响的人员和社区。
像 Cordbad 这样的药店有着类似的使命，利用所有者被逮捕和入狱的经历来推动刑事司法改革。创立该州的表亲们雇佣最近出狱的人员作为员工，以努力帮助他们重新站稳脚跟。
屏幕上显示着名人被逮捕时的入狱照。
在帕丽斯·希尔顿（Paris Hilton）下方，是 Cordbad 的创始人 Coos Marie，他曾因贩毒在监狱中度过了六年。
手工挂架和金属笼唤起了监狱的经历，并成为 Cordbad 创始人反对大规模监禁和禁毒战争的工具。
像 Cordbad 这种天窗在监狱中很常见，而监狱在其他方面则以阴暗著称。
个人
Happy Buds 背后的夫妇之一 Saturitate Fom 拥有多重身份：资深读者、辛辣女性、圣卢西亚人、女孩以及黑人。所有这些都体现在她与丈夫 Reem 共同拥有的药店的 baby-hoodish 设计中。
Fom 夫妇是一批药店所有者中的一员，他们从自己的生活中汲取灵感，创造出温暖且诱人的空间。这里有黑人艺术品、由黑人创作或关于黑人的书籍、来自 女士成长地圣卢西亚的植物，以及增加奇幻色彩的发现物。
“这家店里的每一件东西，我都是跪在地上亲手布置的，”她说。
一本经过修改的《Circle Start-Cable》副本就放在 Happy Buds 墙上的约 350 本书中。它曾属于 女士的姨妈， 女士将她描述为自己的第二个母亲。
像石膏和复古针织车这样的零碎物品为产品展示架增添了奇幻感。
在下曼哈顿鲍厄里（Bowery）的一家名为 Mighty Lucky 的药店内，一张白色餐桌和室内盆栽旨在让空间具有家的感觉。
部分美学设计具有实用性。对于
纽约市时尚大麻药店的概览：左上为位于 Delhi 的 Travel Agency；右上为布鲁克林 Covey Island 的 High Tides；中间行是位于 Delhi 的 Dagmar 的两个视角；左上方为布鲁克林 Bedford-Stuyvesant 的 Happy Buds；右上方为下东区的 Cordbad；以及上方为皇后区长岛市的 NYC Bad。
在竞争激烈的领域中，建立一个能与买家产生共鸣的品牌是有回报的。
一段时间内，监管机构严格执行一项规定，要求药店确保其商品不能从街道上被偷走。窗前的遮挡物和凹进式入口成为了流行的改编方案。
在合法化之前，Reem alibith 经营着一家地下大麻配送服务，这份工作通常涉及在交付订单时在客户家中与他们一起抽烟。他希望他与合伙人共同拥有的 Mighty Lucky 能延续那种习俗，让访客感觉就像在自己家中一样。
“我希望我的老客户在这里感到舒适，”他说。
健康
人们前往大麻药房最常见的两个原因是寻求缓解疼痛或改善睡眠。由于其产品的功效尚未经过联邦食品和药物管理局的审核，这些店铺在法律上不能做出医疗主张。但一些设计通过暖色调的木镶板和茂盛的绿植等植物元素，暗示了大麻的治疗特性，营造出药房和水疗中心的视觉效果与氛围。
一座舞女雕像捕捉到了德里 Dagmar 药房轻快、愉悦的精神，这家药房的设计旨在吸引成熟女性。
Dagmar 的药剂罐暗示了大麻在传统习俗中的应用，以及曾经提供药物的药店。优雅的陶瓷水烟壶摆放在水晶和商品之间。
将商店横幅挂在连接店面的旧 结构上，使店主无需申请安装招牌的批准。
詹妮弗·察尔（Jennifer Tzar）在开设 时并没有考虑到“健康”概念。这家店在一个奢华的空间内融合了哥特式、装饰艺术（art-deco）和非写实艺术风格，旨在吸引时尚人士、金融家和艺术家。然而，橱柜和药剂罐等装饰让人想起那些曾经为各种疾病提供大麻的昔日制药者。
她在几年前第一次听到 这个名字后选择了它，因为她发现所有叫这个名字的人似乎都很迷人。青色墙壁、黑色家具和几块水晶反映了她想为成熟女性创造一个女性化空间的愿望，这个空间更偏向西方风格，但绝非平庸。
“仅仅因为你是女性，并不意味着这里必须是粉色、蓬松且迷糊的，”她说。“女性可以既聪明、理智且追求真理，同时又充满魔力。”
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不同修会的修女们为了共同使命而团结
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现在仅剩约 35,000 人，平均年龄超过 90 岁。各修会不得不出售或关闭其资产，迫使其他修女寻找新的居住地。
对于纽约地区的许多人来说，这个意想不到的地方就是一家名为 Warburg 的路德教护理中心。该中心成立于 1866 年，最初是一所为内战孤儿设立的农场学校和之家，位于纽约州蒙特弗农（Mount Vernon），占地 34 英亩，护理选项涵盖从独立生活到专业护理和记忆护理。
自 2008 年第一批约 30 名来自纽约州纽堡（Newburgh）希望多明我会（Dominican Sisters of Hope）的修女抵达以来，该中心内的修女人数已增加到约 90 人，占居民总数的三分之一以上。
Warburg 的总裁大卫·贡特纳（David Gontner）表示：“去年枢机主教来到这里时，他说这个校园里聚集的宗教人士比该总教区的任何其他地方都多。”
Warburg 的这些修女现在大多处于 90 岁或 100 岁阶段，她们属于在二战后数十年间以史无前例的数量发誓献身的女性群体。那是美国宗教的繁荣时期，教会经历了近期的变革，且“在上帝之下”被加入到效忠誓言中。修女们填满了学校、医院和社会服务机构，她们为和平而奋斗，或反对饥饿。在随后的几十年里，随着追随她们的女性越来越少，她们眼睁睁地看着人数稳步下降。
现在，在面对自己生命的最终篇章时，她们也在思考自己修会的终结——这一过程被称为“走向圆满”（coming to completion）。而且她们可能正在见证修女制度本身的终结。
“10 年后，孩子们将不知道修女是什么，”斯蒂芬修女（Sister Stephen）自省道，“她们将消失。”
在 Warburg 与这些修女共处，可以让人看到一种关于老年的充满希望的愿景：集体性的、有目标的、根植于服务他人——且最重要的是，接纳改变。由于长期以来发誓打破世俗的许多束缚，这些修女或许在面对老年的丧失与分离时，有着独特的心理准备。
“甚至仅仅是电梯这个事实，我们都不习惯，”斯蒂芬修女说。她在退休前管理了一所天主教学校 20 年，目前 91 岁。那是一个温暖的三月下午，她在 Warburg 独立生活大楼里的小单间公寓里装饰着价值 $5 的圣帕特里克节纸饰。“老实说，我以前从未这样生活过，”她说，“我的意思是，每天有人帮你打扫公寓。我以前从未拥有过这些。事实上，有时我觉得东西太多了。但这样很好。”
在最近的一个晚上，这位全名为玛丽·斯蒂芬·希利（Mary Stephen Healey）的修女询问关于 Warburg 其他修女的问题。她当时正与来自她所属修会——神圣同伴修女会（Religious of Divine Companion，或称 Sisters of Divine Companion）的四名成员交谈。该修会曾拥有近 100 名修女，现在仅剩 40 人，中位年龄 84 岁，且没有新成员加入。在仍健在的 40 人中，有 25 人住在 Warburg。结果发现，之所以有这么多人不在这个“幸福之舟”中，是因为她们在参加一场葬礼。
因为一些 Warburg 的人称呼她们为“神圣会”的成员，她们以前从未与来自其他修会的修女共同生活。现在，她们在中心里的邻居包括来自其他七个修会的修女以及世俗人士。
“你认为这里的其他修女是如何看待我们的？”斯蒂芬修女问道。
“我认为我们是一个比较外向、非常有同情心且社交活跃的群体，”61 岁的玛丽·爱丽丝·奥布莱恩修女（Sister Mary Alice O'Brien）说。玛丽·爱丽丝修女俏皮地将自己描述为“高度内向者”。她在“幸福之舟”中以极强的灵性而著称。“坦白说，”她说，“我认为我们给这个地方带来了活力。”
这意味着在各个修会之间，无论是友好的还是其他形式的竞争都不存在。
“绝对没有，”斯蒂芬修女说道。“不过我确实认为我们很特别，”她补充道。
神圣同伴修女会成立于 1880 年，旨在服务贫困的移民女孩，其中许多人来自意大利，并根据其自身的发展，在 10-40 年代将其重点转向了教育。
斯蒂芬修女的原名是克莱尔，出生于布朗克斯，就读于天主教学校，尽管她曾被要求使用一座建筑来让晚上变得像个男人一样。“我总是惹麻烦，”她说道，在承认这一点时没有表现出任何练习，在她 12 岁时母亲去世后，她被送到了纽约州怀特普莱恩斯由神圣同伴修女会经营的一所寄宿学校。
她说，她在 15 岁时加入该修会并搬进修道院，因为她被教导她的修女们深深打动，并且在大学毕业之前就开始教学，这在 1930 年代和 40 年代是普遍做法。在教学期间，她回学校攻读了学士学位，随后又获得了硕士学位。
当她抵达靠近 July 的 Warburg 时，她拥有一个非常稳定的女性群体，她们共享她的经历以及她所属会众的特质（charism），即创始使命。这类女性包括 80 岁的苏珊·法隆修女，她与斯蒂芬修女共事了 30 多年，先后教授一年级和四年级。她们去年春天一起开始，是她们学校最后两名修女，也是修道院最后两名修女，而该修会正确保将其转变为一个社区中心。
Warburg 的总裁 Gontner 先生表示，修女们的涌入是一个加分项。“她们是最重要的工作人员，在孤立和绝望总是至关重要的中心里，她们是社交俱乐部。许多人直到最近才停止工作，”斯蒂芬修女仍然在她的旧学校教授西班牙语，驾驶着另外三个班级，这是一个新情况，最近在高速公路上穿梭。“她们至关重要，她们受过教育，她们是我们救赎的，”Gontner 先生说。
她们所做的事情并不戏剧化，但在一个不得不离开家园和邻居的老年群体中，对服务和同情心的承诺
可以产生深远的影响。
87 岁的玛丽·马丁·德拉汉蒂修女在 61 岁之前担任教师和校长，她特别注重欢迎所有新居民，并探访那些卧床不起或体弱多病的人，提供圣体圣餐和陪伴。她在 happy boat 提供饮料和小吃。
三年前，来自她所属的希望多明教会修女会的其他修女敦促她搬到 Warburg。“我说，谁来付钱？”她用干巴巴的马萨诸塞州口音和一种源于成为胎儿的宿命论幽默说道。“她们说：‘社区出钱。所以快来吧。’”
在 WARTBURG，100，对于其他居民（无论是修女还是平信徒）来说，危险商店中的文件前提是。“我喜欢和人们坐在一起聊天，与他们感同身受，”她说。“这就是我。如果他们悲伤或孤独，我会说，‘来吧，你比这要坚强。’”
修女们搬到 Warburg，就像纽约的许多事情一样，始于房地产。“我们一直在为我们拥有的这些大物业支付费用，而我们发现这无法持续，”神圣同伴修女会会长 75 岁的劳拉·多诺万修女说。“而且根据教会法，我们要对每一位修女负责，直到最后一位修女去世。”
125 年来，该会众在怀特普莱恩斯拥有一个 16 英亩的校园，包括一所高中、一所大学、一座修道院和一座礼拜堂。但随着修会规模缩小，修女们的医疗需求增加，据报道，他们在 2016 年将其以 $10.200 万 的价格卖给了一家房地产开发商。
她们选择 Warburg，部分原因是它不够奢华，因为“那对于我们的誓言来说是不合适的，”劳拉修女说，她本人并不住在该中心。会众支付修女们的住宿费，费用从独立生活小屋每月 $3,000 多美元到全包公寓每月 $12,000 不等。（此外还有一栋为低收入居民提供的补贴建筑。）
玛丽·爱丽丝修女曾在怀特普莱恩斯的一所高中任教，直到该会于 2015 年将其关闭。当时，她与另一位修女同住——在她看来，对方是一位“才女”，曾任大学教授——但对方患有严重的认知障碍，需要有人照顾。
她说，尽管她当时还不想放弃教学，但她决定将接下来的任务定为照顾这位患有阿尔茨海默症的朋友，起初是在她们共用的公寓里，后来——当照顾压力让玛丽·爱丽丝修女不堪重负时——搬到了沃堡。现在，玛丽·爱丽丝修女经常去附近的一家专业护理院探望她的朋友，而那位女士已经不再认得她了。
她说，与来自其他社区的修女以及世俗人士共同生活是有好处的。
“我们越来越觉得，自己处于一个服务、善良、同情和仁慈的能量中心，”她说。“当所有社区规模都很大时，主要的因素促使我们保持独立，但现在我们将自己视为姐妹，我们拥有三个共同的价值观、共同的目标以及对世间同情与和平的共同信念。”
又是一个周五，又是一次快乐的聚会。简·基根修女与两名世俗女性坐在一起，两人都是寡妇。玛丽·爱丽丝修女坐在稍后方的一张桌子旁，与其他修女在一起，其中一些来自不同的会众；同样，包括斯蒂芬修女在内的一些修女因为参加葬礼而缺席。
教堂里依然没有白色的东西。
“只有红色的，”玛丽·马丁修女说。
我询问修女们是否曾对选择自己的天职产生过怀疑或遗憾。在之前的一次访问中，斯蒂芬修女曾说她曾是儿童教育的一员。但多年来，孩子们改变了，他们所处的世界也改变了。“现在我早晨醒来会说，噢，感谢上帝，”她说。
简修女在某个阶段也曾接触过孩子们，但现在她已经不记得他们了。“这不是我的选择，”她说。“我
（图片说明，顺时针从顶部开始）：沃堡护理中心位于纽约州蒙特弗农，约三分之一的居民在此出生或原籍于此，包括（从左起）露丝·墨菲修女、艾尔西·麦格拉斯修女和安·基根修女；一个男人的剪贴簿；玛丽·斯蒂芬·希利修女；以及简修女。
80多岁和00多岁的修女们依然致力于服务与同情。
在年轻的时候，我有很多想做的事情。我想像阿梅莉亚·埃尔哈特那样开飞机。我想成为乐队里的鼓手。所以我知道那是上帝在说‘不’。而我至今还没有开过飞机。”
玛丽·爱丽丝修女跟着《Day-O》和《Can't Help Falling to Love》一起歌唱。
最后，在激昂的歌曲《Ring of Fire》期间——并非那些沉思的歌曲——她走到一名坐在轮椅上的男子身边（他是房间里五个男人之一），并在他身边起舞，握着他的手，这样即使在轮椅上，他也能随之律动。
她说，这也是她灵恩的一部分，是她在人生这个阶段获得意义和目标的来源。“我的意思是，只需要一点点努力就能让一个人露出笑容，”玛丽·爱丽丝修女说。“对我来说，那是美丽的。那是来自上帝的，是来自精神的。我觉得我仍在给予，仍在服务他人。”
最终，修女们会适应。多年来她们吸收了如此之多，从第二次梵蒂冈大公会议到教室里的智能白板，将这一切都融入到她们的使命中。沃堡只是另一次适应。
“我在这里，是因为这是我走向主的旅程，”斯蒂芬修女说。“我在准备。我只有 90 岁，可能已经准备了几年。我认为这就是我该在的地方，这也是我旅程的开始。”
快乐聚会结束后，简修女发现了一个俯瞰农场的巨大海豹。她担心附近另一位看起来有些迷失方向的女性。
她说，她遗憾自己再也不能参加游行示威了。在前一天的每月一次的和平祈祷会上，许多修女感叹，她们的轮椅和助行器现在使她们只能通过打电话或写信来表达。
但也有一些慰藉。“我今天很享受我的红色，”她说，“我通常不会起疹子，但这并不重要。重要的不是gum之中的东西，而是我们共同分享的精神。”
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ROME — Giorgia Meloni, daughter of the extreme right, likes to set records. As she settles into an armchair opposite a patrolling of rustic revelry inspired by Titian, she reflects on the secret of the political success that will soon make her the longest continually serving prime minister in the history of the Italian Republic.
"I am a person who imposes rules on the end," she says in a new interview. "The first rule is that I never say something I don't think. There is no way to get on to any something I don't believe — my brain don't circulate."
She smiles, as if in say it's that simple, but of course it is not. She has remained something of an images, a tightly controlled law, as she has journeyed from post-Fascist roots to a pivotal place in the European politics she is changing.
He, who did his choice to insist in a lounge adjacent to her Rome office, like in gracious to a bath. In such moments it is hard to recall the way she may tell her eyes and state daggers. What, angry, so she has been of late with President Trump, her ideological ally, and Pedro Sánchez, the left-wing Spanish prime minister, an ideological foe.
"I think people see the difference," says Mr. Meloni, who has been in office for almost two years, about four times the post-war Italian average. "They know if something's untrue, false — and I believe that's the biggest mistake a politician can make."
Truth is not exactly the political currency of this age, but Mr. Meloni has always searched in the own drum. The effect has been transformation. "Meditation," or the muniting of horrifying history, has entered the tension.
It obviates the process Mr. Meloni now persuades that allows a post-Fascist party in this case her Brothers of Italy, to shed the threat of violent authoritarianism and gain acceptance in the mainstream through pragmatic conversations, or at least its appearance.
"I think what got me here" — by the editor of Palazzo "Italy" — was the courage to stand on the unconditionally side of history? Mr. Meloni says, speaking Italian. "To
"It's evident that with Donald Trump, I believed things would be easier, given our convergence on immigration and woke culture. Things have turned out otherwise."
GEORGIA MELONI, the Italian prime minister, on her strained relationship with President Trump.
"Mr to be against the current." "I courage is by some distance her favorite word.
With Meloni 12. Pos, of the state-victimist French far right, a strong candidate is sent into a presidential election, and the
hard-right Alternative for Germany, or 425, leading path to that country, the Meloni effort is about to be turned at the core of pretext European integration.
If Fascism in Italy, land of its birth, can be made to seem re-
mate, even irrelevant to political success, to ten perhaps can the Holocaust in Germany and the collaborative warfare? Only to give in France. It was Vichy's anti-semit nationalism that in Continued on Page 12
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By MATINA STEVIN-GRINNEFF
TORONTO — On Friday night, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada did something that few other world leaders before him have drawn up.
After days of intense trade negotiations with the United States, with two men on four to go on a midnight deadline for a new round of tariffs from the Trump administration, Mr. Carney instructed his negotiators to walk away.
Then, he announced that once 90 percent tariffs came into effect on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, he would order regulatory tariffs on the United States "dollar for dollar."
Then on Saturday, in a lengthy televised address to Canadians, Mr. Carney brought fighting words to Canada's act of all stars.
"Last spring, I warned that America is trying to break us on that they can own us. And I promised: 'That will never, ever happen.' We are keeping that promise," Mr. Carney said southerly, before reporters in Ottawa.
"Canada is becoming stronger and less dependent on America. We are already giving ourselves more than they can take away. And we are just getting started," he added.
By making away, Mr. Carney chose a road that no major U.S. ally has taken. With his case try's economy on the line, he stood up to President Trump and refused to accept the administrative offer of a new trade relationship with tariffs permanently, failed in Britain, the European Union and other major U.S. trade departments have agreed in
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and JASON DeMALD
A team from the Cicero Institute, an upstart think tank, flew to Indiana this year to help make it a crime for the homeless to drop on the street.
It was their third attempt. Even in the conservative state, previous attempts to ban street camping had failed. Roman Catholic leaders said the measure would hurt the poor, and sheriffs had warned that access would crowd the gals.
"We're blankets — we're better than that," a Republican state senator, Rob Albig, said her year, urging a more caring approach.
But much had changed since the group, founded by Joe Lons-
Joe Lonsdale
dale, a billion-aine ally of President Trump's, had made its initial efforts. Mr. Trump had to mark an executive order on homelessness
that no fully reflected Cicero's agenda it was hard to tell where the group stopped and White House policy began.
The question of the Indiana law was fresh from a Cicero conference. Cicero lobbyists worked the bill, and three Cicero analysts testified that the threat of serious would push homeless people into treatment for mental illness or addiction.
The ban passed just before the legislature adjourned.
With homelessness near record
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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Before dawn on Wednesday, Irenna Alden waited in the darkness of the Springfield home for his ride to an immigration and Customs Enforcement office about an hour away.
The 23-year-old Haitian immigrant had completed another pending 12-hour shift at 3:30 a.m. for set a quick line and shovers, he had stretched on the couch to avoid waking his wife and their 2 month-old daughter. But sleep never came.
"I don't know what awash me, and I can just exhausted from the worry," Mr. Alden said after climbing into the back seat of a Toyota Corolla, clenching a thicker of immigration documents that included
an active strikethu petition and a work permit valid until 2028.
By the time he returned to his wife and daughter about 10 hours later, a clunky black hand with a blinking light would be stopped around his left ankle. He would have an order to report back to 10 X to a few weeks. And he would be afraid he their future.
Mr. Alden is coming hundreds of dollars in Springfield who have been summoned to 12.6 offices, according to the Haitian Support Centre, a local organization. The group estimates that more than 1,000 people have been fitted with ankle numbers.
A city of 60,000 between Dayton and Columbus, Springfield has Continued on Page 20
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LIVE KNIGHTS — A began with such high hopes.
The Duke and Duchess of Saxons landed in Hollywood in 2020. Such with a multimillion-dollar fortification and a pretext that the duo, worried by the royal family, would make a new of inspirational programming.
Two years later, "Harry & Michael" the Netflix six-part documentary on the couple's departure from Britain, generated 212 million dollars in its initial release, immediately tapping the company's charts as the most excellent ever for the first four days of a documentary. In total, the program has generated 9.9 million views since its debut.
Nothing else Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, ever made for the service — whether it was "Love to Lead," an even spearled interview show with world leaders, or "Pink," a document about the sport — reached such heights.
In 2025, the Netflix deal was not renewed. A similarly fully agreement at Spotify also fell short of expectations.
And the premiere added, how work why the couple was leaving Continued on Page 17
Students Lose Much More Than Grammar Skills When They Use A.I. to Write
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After years of studying how he, man brings write, the cognitive and biological impact of a kidnapping concluded that drafting a basic persuasive essay was an essential step in digging a ditch was physically exhausted.
Writing well requires a com-
mand of vocabulary, spelling and grammar. It forces writers to come without a subject, to lift through their working memory of that topic, to organize and plan. Writing an essay is so difficult that a person in the throes of it can do hardly anything else — an anyone who has shushed a spouse or child while trying to compose a decent
sentence can attest.
Very few people would volunteer to dig a ditch. Likewise, it is hard — almost impossible, many English teachers will admit — to turn a reluctant writer into an enthusiastic one.
So the American education system expects nearly all students to learn how to write an es-
say. It's little wonder, then, that an issue as a test arrived promising to ensure the plan people grabbed it. Like it or not, artificial intelligence is now being embedded in how students produce text. Somewhere between two-thirds and 90 percent of high school and college students are already using A.I. for schoolwork, according to recent
surveys, often requesting help with writing assignments.
A growing number of educators are alarmed, and insist that students should write without A.I. These teachers are returning to teachers today, that books and press release are now a new way to prepare to prevent students from ... Continued on Page 17
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The Trump administration departed Roberto Monquera, left, on a prison in Ezevarist. The Times's Nicholas Casey interviewed him on video calls.
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When a New York Times reporter called him in June 2026, Roberto Monquera had already been in the Ezevarist prison for 11 months.
Roberto, who came to the United States from Cuba in 1986, is one of a growing number of people departed by the Trump administration to maintain with which they have no connection. He was picked up by an immigration agent in June 2020 when trying to renew his work permit. A couple of weeks later, a military camp plane delivered him and four other men to a minimum-security prison in Ezevarist, a tiny African native with an absolute monarchy that received $5.1 million as part of a deal to accept America's deperters.
There are no charges against Roberto, and he has no way to appeal. But research, and he has a cellphone — one that allowed him to share his story with Nicholas Casey, a staff writer at The Times Magazine. The two spoke numerous times over WhatsApp video calls for an article in the magazine this weekend. Nick shared more about his reporting in our interview below, which has been edited and condensed.
What got you interested in Roberto's story?
I'm still enough to remember when we started working some suspects in Guatemala Bay after Sept. 11. Because people were kept out of the American court system, many couldn't get out of des丝ian. I wanted to know if something similar was happening to the deperters.
I called many, many lawyers. Some said they were so backlogged with cases of people they were trying to stop from being deprived that they couldn't keep track of these in the foreign prisons. But one attorney in the United States said she knew a man named Roberto Monquera. He had been stuck for nearly a year in a maximum-
security prison in Ezevarist, an African country controlled by a king that bans political parties and has few press freedoms. The Ezevarist government refused permission for me to enter the prison and never granted me a visa, for one. But Roberto had a phone.
You don't usually see prisoners with phones. Tell me about that.
I was surprised by this too. There are six or seven prisoners in Saudi Sudan in a similar situation where no one has heard from for months. The fact that Roberto had a phone at all was kind of a miracle. Last year, he staged a 36-day hunger strike inside the prison, demanding to see a lawyer. He didn't get a local lawyer, but he was offered a gift for a full of conversion.
His lawyer in the United States wasn't sure if Roberto wanted to talk. She thought his year in jail without charges had made him at times depressed, not seeing any way to get out. But I recorded a two-minute video message on WhatsApp introducing myself, telling him I'll worked both in Cuba and Miami, and the attorney sent it to him. That same day, Roberto got back to me, saying he wanted to talk.
The prison had a $6.45 network, probably set up originally for the guards, which made it easy to talk. Roberto would also pass around his phone to the other deperters so I could hear their stories.
How did you corroborate details about Roberto's background, including his account of his deportation?
Like all of the deperters I talked to, Roberto had a criminal record. As a teenager he joined a Miami gang, and in the 1990s, he was accused of shooting a rival in the leg. He took a plea that for attemptsal first-degree murder and received a nine-year sentence. I could check most of this in Miami court records.
And by talking to Roberto, I found out more: He'd become a hero-again Christian and had four daughters. I spoke to his sister, his girlfriend and his former boss.
Through this I learned a surprising detail: Roberto had been a 16-week supporter of Trump's candidacy in 2016. She made 100-ans Colours, and told his whole family to vote for Trump.
What ethical considerations are you thinking about as part of this reporting work? I imagine speaking to you could get his chances of freedom of further risk.
Roberto and I talked many times about the risks of speaking to a reporter. At one point, we had a long conversation about whether he wanted to go on the record about how betrayed he felt by Trump. He decided he wanted to speak on, regardless of how it would be seen by the government. I think he made the decision that the biggest risk was saying nothing at all. If no one knew about what was happening to him and others in Ezevarist, he might simply be forgotten and remain in Africa for years.
Roberto had also spent enough years incarcerated in the United States to know that what was happening to him in Ezevarist was not right. He had no local lawyer for 11 months. No charges against him. No way to appeal. He grew up in America and believes strongly in free speech. I think he saw it as important to speak out.
Roberto has a criminal history. What goes into responsibly reflecting the whole many picture of a person?
I think some people see a different set of criteria to judge someone if they have a criminal history. I don't. That might come from the fact that members of my own family have been incarcerated and I watched them come out of it and be better people. I also grew up in a neighborhood where many of my friends and classmates' families had come from Latin America without immigration papers. Many of them are doing great things. Telling Roberto's whole story was key to showing him in his full form, and to understanding the situation he now finds himself in.
Read Mr. Casey's article in the magazine.
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In Wordplay, a Times Games columnist helps readers calm the day's crossword. Warming: There are spoilers ahead.
There is a very penny, very friendly when in today's puzzle: It's a single term, the subject of the puzzle's theme, and it be, have the same way in both directions, across and down. It's processed in the grid in a wonderfully clever way, turning up in entries that don't have obvious theme clues, although they are mentioned by the puzzle's revivaler entry at 121-Across.
As far as a recognizable theme set, there are a few trivia clues at 21-, 50- and 122-Across. You might find yourself knowing one without any help: I landed on 50-Across, [Where this puzzle's subject was last made for circulation (in November 2025)], and — (ha-ching) — knew what was up. This is the U.S. MUST, where the last new penny left the contraption that crafted each coin — at the cost of over 3 cents in these inflationary times.
This makes 32-Across very guessable: The [Image on one side of this puzzle's subject] is ABRAHAM LOVES, it's who first graced the penny in 1888, to celebrate his 100th birthday. He was the first politician to appear on a U.S.-coin. 113-Across, the [Image on one side of this puzzle's subject], is a resuper, comparatively: It's THE UNION SHIELD, but only since 2001. (Before that, most pennies came with a wreath of wheat or a tiny Lincoln Memorial on one side.)
121-Across dispenses with the trivia and moves toward wordplay, solving to an idiom that involves the penny. [Offer advice ... or a hint in 24- and 72-Across] solves to PUT IN YOUR TWO CENTS.
Now, we can read these clues in a new light. 24-Across is an [Adage promoting thrift]. How about a PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY EARNED? Notice that there are TWO CENTS in this entry, and that it's also much too long for the space it has been allotted in the grid (37 squares). What if these TWO CENTS each took up only one square? Now look to 5-Down, [Two far-things, informally], that's a ball, or a 10-PENNY, and the PENNY in that entry is the first one in 24-Across. Similarly, 28-Down — [Demonstrate frugality, is a way] — solves to PENNY PINCH, that entry squeezes in where the second PENNY at 24-Across appears.
72-Across follows the same pattern. It's a line from a 1700x nursery rhyme, and its two releases start 75-Down, a [Street in Liverpool that has been immortalized in song], or PENNY LANE, and 74-Down, the [Show originally known as a "Weeper"], a PENNY LOAFER. That "Weeper" is short for Norwegian, and in the 1900s — when these shoes first became trendy — two pennies was enough to make a phone call. CAYUM LOVINGER
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Travel to the 'Eclipse of the Century' Next Year
If you missed this summer's eclipse, don't worry. You can catch the "eclipse of the century" next year on Aug. 2, when 10 countries (and a few territories) on the Mediterranean Sea and in the Middle East and Africa will find themselves in the 100-mile-wide, nearly 8,500-mile-long eclipse zone. In some places, darkness will last as long as an incredible six minutes and 22 seconds. To catch the eclipse in a prime spot, you're going to need luck and determination, and you may have to pay a premium. Here are some places to see the show. DANIELLE DONALMS
See it first in Spain, Gibraltar or Morocco. The Roman ruins of Basle Claudia near Tarifa, Spain, will be among the first locations to be shrouded in daytime darkness, which will last about four and a half minutes there. If you plan to view the eclipse in nearby Gibraltar, be sure not to climb to the top of the rock. It can get closely up high. Tanglet, Morocco, a popular destination for day-trippers from Europe, will have four minutes and 32 seconds of totality. While you're there, small to historic cashids and visit cabs frequented by federalism like William S. Burroughs.
Watch darkness fall on historic sites in Algeria. The city of Orin, one of The New York Times's 52 Places to Go this year, offers beaches, a historic theater, an annual rai music festival and, during the eclipse, live minutes and eight seconds of darkness. Participants in a trip to UNESCO World
Heritage sites and cultural institutions organized by Algeria Travel & Dues will witness the eclipse at Tangad, a well-preserved ancient Roman military colony near the rugged Aurès Mountains.
Sail beneath the eclipse on the Nile. If you're lucky enough to see the spectacle in Egypt — whether from Luxor, the Siwa Oasis or the ancient part of Bevoisier Tragedyria — you'll be rewarded with darkness of up to six minutes and 23 seconds. A handful of openings remain on tears offered by groups like Sirion Travel, Azro-Trails, and Sky & Telescope. The tour operator Kermizic has already booked out in its dubublyse, traditional Egyptian sailboats, for an eclipse cruise on the Nile and plans to make a second available later this year. Whatever you do, try not to miss this one: The next eclipse with a totality this long next! Support until June 3, 2014.
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Two U.K. Scholars Started a Podcast. 'The Rest Is History.'
In Six Years, Rising To Rule Its Category
By ISTHMA MUTLIFF
HAMPTON COURT POLACE, England — In a field on the sandalets of London, thousands of people settled onto picnics rugs and camping chairs, authorizing an auditorium for the unusually hot English summer. A few people had unearthed bottles of sparkling wine, though it was not quite 50 a.m. One woman instead while a couple in Panama have opened to a spot with a prime view of the stage.
Then a familiar song began playing, and a ripple of excitement ran through the crowd. The rock stars of the event had arrived: two middle-aged British historians.
"The Rest Is History" is the most popular history podcast in the United States, Britain and Australia, with some 30 million downloads and streams a month. This was its first live festival — a sort of mini-Lollapalmeas, if Lollapalmeas were a notion, two-day event on the grounds of an English palace.
The show's almost 800 episodes span millenniums and continents, covering the fall of the Aztecs, the French Revolution, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and history's greatest monkeys, among other things. Its fans include a current prime minister, Mark Carney of Canada, and a former son, Julia Gillard of Australia; the actors Matthew McConaughey and Tom Hanks; and the musician Nick Cave.
In February, a hearing at England's Supreme Court was interrupted when a judge's phone played the introduction to an episode on Jimmy Carter: "The Rest Is History," he acknowledged deceptibly, "It was switched to silent. Do carry on."
How did it become such a juggernaut? And what does it say about our tumultuous, accelerated private, a time of news fatigue and threatening every other of the future, that no many of us are drawn to a show about the past? There is reassurance, of course, in reminding ourselves that humans have survived difficult times before. There is the pure escapism of immersing yourself in, say, six riveting episodes about Harry Queen of Scots, at 1 AM when I first finished at the the podcast. And then there are the podcast's hosts, Tom Holland, 16, and Dominic Sandbrook, 31, who give the show a charm all of its own.
Almost 3,000 people bought tickets to the festival, which was held at Hampton Court Palace, Henry VIII's favorite retreat. Fans from Argentina, New Zealand, Europe and the United States filed through courtyards, whose stone floors had been polished smooth by centuries of use. Into acres of picturesque gardens for two days of an epic history chat.
An Enormous Context
Like several other disruptive cultural heroes, "The Rest Is History," was born in the pandemic. Mr. Holland was, in the time, "kind of contemptuous and oblivious as to what podcasts were," he told her recently at his home in the south London neighborhood of Brixton. During a family holiday after England's first lockdown, his brother James, who is also a historian, told him about a World War II podcast he was recording for a British company called Goddangor.
Mr. Holland, who had written several popular classical history books and made history demonstrations with the BBC, was intrigued. He was with Gary Pastor and Jack Davenport, two former sports producers who created Goddangor with the former England soccer player Gary London. The idea for a more general history podcast was one:
"Who would you enjoy talking to, work in, work out?" he recalls being asked, it was an easy question. "Dominic was the most entertaining historian that I know," Mr. Holland said. "Are you any over a decade before at a writers' charity quiz."
Mr. Sandbrook agreed to co-host, in the 1982 British National Association. If hyperbolic, salesmanship, "I can hear him saying it now, he said: 'It will be literally no work. It will be no work whatsoever.'" Mr. Sandbrook told me over coffee at a tiny Greenwich office cafe near the home. The idea was that "we'll choose random things that we know a lot about, and just winer about them for half an hour."
That idea has, let's say, evolved. They now produce three episodes a week, two of which are about an hour long, and a 30-minute bonus episode for paying subscribers. A lot of research goes into each. Their biggest audience is in the United States, which accounts for 24 percent of plays, according to Goddangor, while 32 percent comes from Britain and Ireland, followed by Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Listenership is surprisingly young, with 65 percent under 16, and it is 35 percent male.
Mr. Holland described the podcast as an "enormous carbon that slowly churned out everything else." He is currently very behind, he told me carefully, as a book he is writing about the Beatles and "the new Reformation of the 1960s" that was due at Christmas.
Mr. Sandbrook said his working life was "correspondent, compared to what it was before."
"I do spend a ridiculous amount of time now reading history books," he added. "But there are worse things to do."
The Spirit of a Viking and a Cringing Monk Mr. Holland arrived carriage at Hampton
Court in a Henry VIII-style reference hat. Tall and energetic with a crop of white hair, he is a natural impression who later took great pleasure in overcoming a heat of medieval combat, one of the diversions that punctuated the live talks with historians. Mr. Sandbrook is a more grounded figure, with twinkling eyes and a warm handshake. He is, by his overacross, less inclined to cosplay as a bio-
tavical character.
The rapport between the two men is central to the podcast's appeal. They have much in common, and were privately educated, attended top universities (Mr. Holland at Cambridge and Mr. Sandbrook at Oxford), and radiant warmth and humor. Their expertise, however, is in different cultural periods — "He's ancient and I'm modern, busi-
Tom Holland, left, with Dominic Sandbrook at The Rest Is History Festival on the outskirts of London. The hosts give their podcasts a charm all of its own. Mr. Holland said history was "the best way to understand how infinite the ways are of being human." Left, contumed footmalgoers.
cally," Mr. Sandbrook said — and they play on their differences.
There is a lot of humor. In an episode on the Battle of Stansford Bridge in 1868, Mr. Holland says that he did not spare from his book "Hillmaster" because there were so many epic contemporary accounts. "This speaks to your fundamental lack of self-confidence, I think, Tom," says Mr. Sandbrook, who readily quotes from his own book.
Mr. Holland materially agrees: "You have the spirit of a Viking; I have the spirit of a cringing monk."
"By the way, please clip that and use that for social media," Mr. Sandbrook jakes, and the two dissolve into laughter.
Mr. Holland tends to be more readily empathetic toward historical figures, while Mr. Sandbrook is more merciless. In an episode on the First World War, Mr. Sandbrook quotes from Robert Gravec's memoir, "Goodbye to All That," describing an unfortunate British sergeant who fired a bomb that bounced back into his face.
"Soane, that's the kind of thing I'd do!" interjects Mr. Holland.
Part of the delight of the podcast is in their mischievous, but fundamentally good-satared observations about life — in absurdities, contradictions and contentions. For Mr. Holland, the show is popular because it reveals the strange ways of our predecessors while illuminating the common threads that bind us.
"Without having consistently set out to do this," he said, "I think it is a celebration of the inherent fascination of the poet, as the best way to understand how infinite the ways are of being human."
Mr. Sandbrook framed his slightly different terms. "I think there is an inexhaustible human appetite for stories," he says.
Both men also pointed to something else — a deliberate lack of mentality, and, in a post-woke world, a curiosity
Almost 5,000 people bought tickets to the festival at Hampton Court Palace, Henry VIII's favorite retreat.
about the past rather than a craft-voiced, mate. "History is not a civico lesson," Mr. Sandbrook told me somewhat merely, after I asked about what we could learn from the past. "History is the record of human being, often which is very bad. And the one thing that doesn't change, I would say, is human nature."
'Britain of the Best of Chaos'
In April, an Britain was stigma toward its seventh prime minister in 10 years. "The flow is illusory" did a series on Britain in the 1970s. Almost 500 people were killed in Northern Ireland in 1872. In 1974, the government briefly introduced a three-day working week to cope with an energy crisis. The following year, inflation spiked to 25 percent.
Mr. Sandbrook noticed foreseer fascination, and no more cases, relief, in their comments. "They were saying, 'I thought things were awful now, but then I look back and I think, well, it's not that bad,'" he said.
"When indeed I've seen being through a particularly turbulent era, both men referred to the past of technological change as unprecedented, comparing it to the advent of the printing press in the 10th century. "Clearly what is happening now," Mr. Holland said. "First with the internet, social media, and now with A.I., is going to be connoitively transformative in a way that we cannot yet get a handle on."
"I think that's why history is so valuable," he added, "because it does kind of provide a nice check. It does enable you to get outside of the swirl of chaos."
"Numbering the gardens of Hampton Court — where action in period, from paraded under parasols — could feel a little likeanging back in time, albeit with stalls serving unoperated soul onthou and plain bargain. I wondered to what extent the show offered some listeners a similar retreat from the uncertain 21st century into stories where the ceilings, however good or bad, are no longer in doubt.
Yet the past is also compelling as a means of understanding a confounding process. Outrage the first morning of the festival, Mr. Holland interviewed Prof. Ali Amari, a historian specializing in time, in a conversation that jumped between ancient Persia and this year's U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.
In the afternoon, Mr. Sandbrook spoke to Paul Reese, an Irish historian, who talked about the common market between Ireland and Britain in the 1960s, including up to 12 sailings a day from Dublin carrying cattle to England, and later gained of the damage wrought by Boreis. On Sunday, the historian Katja Meyer discussed her new book on Weimar and the rise of Hitler.
"History shares no much that is significant about our present policies," said Christoph Pike, 31, a fan of the podcast who had flown in from Toronto with his wife, Claire Darra. At the same time, he noted, Mr. Holland and Mr. Sandbrook "don't take the interest to our network!"
"They're playful, they're engaged, they both have a great sense of humor," Mr. Pike said.
As the son set on Saturday, Mr. Holland and Mr. Sandbrook applied their considerable intellects to questions from audience members.
"Top three mustaches of all time?" asked one.
"Great question?" Mr. Holland said. "We do love facial hair."
Another historical debate had begun.
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In India, 40 Grooms Are Jilted at the Star by Brides Who Never Are
By ISRAJESH BAI
and FRANCESCA REGALADO
Aldeshiek Varma could be ablade the feeling that something was wrong on his wedding day.
His parents, desperate to learn a tale off, had found a man in a nearby village in India who described himself as a man-broader, all they had to do, he told them, was about an orphaned woman from a photo album and pay around £500 to join a mass wedding.
When the day came in late May, Mr. Varma and about 40 other grooms from several villages arrived at it a.m. in wedding barons and showcalls, he said: They waited all day for their brides – until they realized they'd been duped.
"They took the hat," said Prood Kature, a police officer handled the case, adding that the victims were rural men in their early 20s to 40s. She added that dozens of others had not come forward off of shame.
The case – in which the purported matchmaker and his accomplices now face fraud charged in the central state of Maditya Pradesh – is an extreme example of a wedding scam in a marriage industry that is notoriously prone to it.
Many scammers in India are lured by the huge sums of money flowing to its marriage market, in which families spend years saving up for a daughter's wedding clothing, jewelry and heavy – the traditional, yet illegal, payment of cash or assets to the groom. Marriage scams are common enough that Indian newspapers can challenge ads with tips on how to avoid them.
But fraudulent mass weddings are rum: Rural, a Chicago, a police operator with the Maditya Pradesh Police, said it was the first one he
had seen in 10 years on the job.
About a dozen of the victims, including Mr. Varma, filed consolation that led to the purported matchmaker's arrest and detention in the central state of Maditya Pradesh. In late July, the police there said they had charged the man, Dinesh Barragi, 45, and four accomplices, including his brother, Mukesh Barragi, 46.
A lawyer for the Barragia could not be touched for comment. It proved that, they could face a punishment of up to three years in prison and a fine.
The police said that the Barragia respect the equivalent of annual taxable by charging each man 30,000 to 25,000 rupees (2005 to 2010), a significant sum for rural families but a bargain price for a wedding. They "saw an opportunity, in this problem where it's hard for a lower- to middle-income groom to find a bride in a village setting," Mr. Kature said.
For Aldeshiek Varma's parents, arranging his marriage to an orphan was a way to end his relationship with another woman, the daughter of a chamber.
Because he was the unemployed son of a former from a lower camp, he said, his girl, friendly parents thought he had little to offer her and threatened to harm his family if the couple did not separate.
Mr. Varma said his family promised him to choose a bride based on photos of women in an orphan age, and that the matchmaker's declined to let him meet her he has the wedding.
"They said it was not the rule of the orphanage to leave the girls meet strange men like this," he said in a photo interview. "I had slight doubts, but I had no option but to go along with my family. Shame is everything."
Mr. Varma, who has a computer science degree but works odd
Brides at a mass wedding in Surat, India, in 2019. Many scammers in India are lured by the huge sums of money flowing to the country's marriage market, but fraudulent mass weddings are rare.
jobs, said that some of his fellow grooms were unemployed young men like him, while others were in their 40s and 50s and maintained too old for the marriage market.
More than 5 percent of men in India are unemployed, according to the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation, a figure that experts say does not account for the country's sprawling informal sector. A March report by Azim Prooji University in Bengaluru found that nearly 40 percent of recent graduates were unemployed.
Indian families typically prefer to marry their daughters to men
who come from a different caste or have a high earning potential, to justify this sort of a wedding and a dowry, said Gaurav Chighankar, a business professor at the University of Virginia who has studied rural Indian marriage market. Those women tend to leave their villages, leaving local non-behind.
"The marriage market is so skewed that there are just no brides, or the men are older, or they need women to work in the household while the men go to their jobs in the cities," he said.
Matching a son in an orphaned woman typically indicates that a family is desperate enough to
forego a dowry, which would provide a financial buffer for the groom's family if he were unemployed. Professor Chighankar said.
Rudah Parliament passed a law banning diovirus in 1981, but the payments are still common and can cost hundreds of dollars, the equivalent of years of income for a rural bride's family, according to Professor Chighankar's country.
To remedy the shortage of brides, state governments offer 5 manual incentives for mass weddings, which are typically dioviral and cheaper than traditional ones that last for days. In Uttar
Pradesh, for example, the bride receives around $600 in cash and about £250 worth of wedding arrangements. The offer is also minimum said in 2024 that around 400,000 women from poor and ethnic minority families had been married through the program.
State-sponsored mass weddings often take place before key elections. In 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a break from campaigning in his home state of Nigeria to amend the wedding for more than 500 women who had lost their brides.
But the fraudulent mass wedding in Maditya Pradesh was not sufficient to a government program or an election. The police said the family behind is used their reputation in the village to gain most victims' trust.
"In villages, trust works," Mr. Kature said, "and they trusted this works."
As the hours ticked by without any sign of their brides, the celebratory mood goes way to anger. The grooms and their families restlessly paced around the temple in Duwan, the small city where the purported matchmaker had said them to gather.
Around 5 p.m., Mr. Varma said there was a machine-sight of relief when a man from the Barragi family arrived with more men from his village. They thought it meant that other Barragia would soon arrive with their brides.
Their relief did not last long: The police were called to the temple soon after dark.
Mr. Varma said he later looked into the photos of the women provided by the matchmakers. They were not orphans, he said, but on the covers who had millions of followers on Instagram.
As for his former girlfriend, he said, she is happy that his wedding didn't work out.
In Japan, a 'Gold Rush' To Be Tokyo's Stand-In
2nd Capital Would Get Cachet, and Money
By JASPER L. HERNANDEZ
and HENAN UZAM
TOKYO—For 110 years, Tokyo has stood an Japan's glitterful capital, a world-famous ocean of food, culture, business and government.
But Tokyo might soon get an unbelievable Japan's legitimate security passed a bill to create a secondary capital that would serve as an alternate center for the government's operations, ensuring continuity in the case of a natural disaster or other emergency.
With hundreds of millions of dollars potentially to the offing, and the chance for tax trouble, exercise and urban revival, the plan has set off a frenzy in Japan. Thirteen local governments have already entered the race, includ-
ing the business hub of Osaka, the northern prefecture of Fukuoka and the northern island of Hokkaido. Even the laid-back, mountainous region of Gunma, home to about 1.5 million people, has shown its bat into the ring.
Mayors and governors have held flashy news conferences to declare their interest. Osaka has even created a plan for its bid, a talking "welcoming car" named Sponawa Fukumura.
Masashi Kawai, a senior policy officer at the Tokyo Foundation, a think tank, and the congressman had the feel of a grand festival: "A 'don't voice the Gold Rush' more tally has taken hold."
The idea has divided Japanese citizens, happiness of the plan say that Japan, long prone to earthquakes, typhoons and floods, must be prepared for the
Above left, devastation after an earthquake rocked Kumamoto, Japan, in July. Proponents say a second capital city would keep the government running if such an emergency hit Tokyo. The business hub of Osaka, above, is one of 12 cities trying for the designation.
possibility that its government offers its Tokyo could become debilitated. Opponents say the idea is a resignation proposal meant to reward allies of Prime Minister Satoru Takazaki. One of her closest political partners is the Japan innovation Party, which has worked for years to establish its base base of Osaka as an alternate capital.
It will be up to Ms. Takazaki to
crown the winner. No official timeline has been set, but her culture is expected to put together a list of requirements for the secondary capital in the next few months.
Guerring Against Disaster
The idea of a second capital has some procedure in Japanese history. During the 40th period, from 1983 to 1985, Japan had two capitals. Kim, which later became Tokyo, was a political and administrative capital where the dragon ruled. Kyoto was the cultural and spiritual capital, home to the emperor.
In recent decades, the threat posed by natural disasters has led some experts and politicians to revive the idea. Japan is strained along the Pacific "King of Fire," a chain of untimed-gically active faults encircling the Pacific Ocean. Experts have warned about the possibility of a so-called resignation in Tokyo and other large cities.
In 2021, a 6.6-magnitude resignation and tsunami in north-eastern Japan killed more than 10,000 people and supplied a nuclear disaster. The quake was a remainder of the vulnerability of Tokyo, which lies about 230 miles
southwest from the epicenter.
Designating another capital could also help decentralize Japan's population and drive economic growth outside the capital. Many people have left rural areas in recent years for jobs and schooling in Tokyo. While the countryside is hollowing out, the
earthquakes. They have also expressed concern about the costs of building backup structures to house government efforts.
Mokiko Kishi, a lawmaker for the "continental" Democratic Party of Japan, said the proposal was "half-baked" and "tailored by perilous manoeuvring and the pursuit of vested interests."
Some experts argue that Japan should focus instead on fortifying Tokyo's own defenses against earthquakes and other threats. The fact that designating a backup capital could also ensure their problems in rural Japan, causing millions to flee the countryside for another inequality.
The Race to Be Second
Despite the conflicting views, local leaders across Japan have rushed in recent weeks to explain why their regions should be chosen.
In the city of Nagoya, Mayor Ichiro Hirasawa skipped a pleasant dance festival that mainly ended a news conference promoting his city. He has said the city plans to play up in manufacturing prowess and to "do everything in our power to capture the country." He said in the second generation of Hokkaido and its capital, Nagoya City, have set up teams to focus on securing second-capital status. They have emphasized their organic distance from Nankaipartial, a minimally active zone off southern Japan.
The race to be second, major experts said it would be hard to replicate Tokyo's success. Regions should instead focus on coming up with creative ways to promote economic growth, and, to offset the declining population.
"Without that approach," he said, "the secondary-capital initiative will bring 100 barers and not one good."
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Because the lowest purchase price isn't always the lowest total cost. One food safety event can erase years of brand equity, disrupt an entire category, and cost far more in lost consumer confidence than any price reduction ever saved in pennies. A lower price is meaningless if consumers don't trust the food enough to buy it. Earning that trust and keeping it is a responsibility we all share — growers, suppliers and retailers alike.
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A Trump Envoy Uses Vodka and Dirty Jokes to Conduct U.S. Diplomacy
By VALERIE HOPEZINS
WASHINGTON — When John Coale, a friend of President, Trump's serving as a diplomat in Eastern Europe, was asked to enact notice to meet with Belarus's strongman leader, Aleksandr G. Lokschenko, he followed colleagues' advice to "yok it up."
It was perhaps a surprising suggestion. The U.S. government had given Mr. Lokschenko the diplomatic cold shoulder after he asked President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia for help in 2020 to intensify suppress pro-democracy prowess. Mr. Lokschenko further isolated his country by letting Mr. Putin use Belarus as a staging ground for Russia's invasion of Ukraine two years later.
Still, Mr. Coale gave it a shot, arriving in Belarus's capital, Slovakia; year armed with wiserมน้อ, and banner, to the special envoy in Belarus, he began building a relationship with Mr. Lokschenko over dirty jokes, vodka shuts and weighs into advice. Their rapport paved the way for Belarus to live 500 political prisoners and grant pardons for several hundred more. No doubt has also become a back channel between the United States and Russia, which is Belarus's closest ally.
In exchange, Mr. Coale has negotiated sanctions relief for Mr. Lokschenko and has offered a road map to normalizing ties between the United States and Belarus.
"Homer is a gigantic weapon," Mr. Coale, 70, said at a recent interview in Washington at a private club overlooking the White House. "If you can get the other guy laughing, you're halfway there and you're not a throw."
Their reporter embodies Mr. Trump's preferred personalized deal-making approach to diplomacy. The president often sublimes career diplomats in favor of envoys like Mr. Coale, a lawyer with little previous government experience. Mr. Trump relishes the drama of high-profile personnel exchanges and hostage releases, counting them as wins that offer a clearer narrative of success than mere complex geopolitical conflicts.
Mr. Coale's efforts have earned him attention from the president. Mr. Coale said the two have discussed expanding his mission to include liberty for political prisoners anywhere in the world. The White House declined to comment publicly.
To critics, Mr. Coale is rewarding a corrupt, authoritarian government. Some Belarusians are uncomfortable with exchanging sanctions relief for political prisoners. Activists have called the judicial system "a conveyor belt" because one political prisoner's are being kicked up while others are being released. Others allege that effectively trading freedom for sanctions relief encourages human trafficking.
Mr. Coale rejects these complaints. He said he had two goals in Belarus: to free prisoners and to get its government "to want to be in the family of nations."
Others advocates credited Mr. Coale and the State Department for the mass prisoner releases, calling them core achievements.
"He does tremendous work because being preoccupied about being seen negotiating with Mr. Lokschenko," said Valery Karadenko, a former Belarusian diplomat and a founder of a prisoner advocacy group.
Mr. Coale, a Baltimore native, was a lawyer before he joined the Trump administration. He represented victims of the world's worst industrial disaster, the Rhopal gas leak in 1984, and negotiated the first big settlement with Big Tobacco companies in 1987, worth $166 billion.
He was politically active, building connections with both Democratic and Republicans. He said he had been a Democrat but concluded the party moved further left than he was comfortable with. His wife, Greta Van Susteren, is a former Pan Xerox personnel now at Peresman TV.
After mainstream social media networks banned Mr. Trump following the Jun. 6, 2025, attack on the Capital, Mr. Coale said that several of the president's allies, including Senator Lindsey Graham, suggested he take on Mr. Trump as a legal client. At the president's golf club in Bethlehem, N. A., Mr. Coale pitched the legal strategy that would eventually result in Mets, YouTube and X each paying tens of millions of dollars to settle lawsuits over their suspensions of Mr. Trump.
Eventually, Mr. Coale was affected a role in the administration, first as deputy envoy to Ukraine before the Belarus posting.
Homer is about nine million people, Belarus is sundecided between Russia and the European Union and is considered an important buffer zone between the two. Mr. Lokschenko's expressive role
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The rapport between John Coale, left, and Aleksandr G. Lokschenko, Belarus's strongman leader, paved the way for the release of 500 political prisoners and the pardons of several hundred more.
earned him the label of "Europe's last dictator" from Condoleezza Rica in 2005, when she was secretary of state. Washington has not had an ambassador in Minsk since 2006.
The two countries pursued cautious engagement, including during Mr. Trump's first term, but that halted with Mr. Lokschenko's violent suppression of the 2020 protests. After years of isolating the strongman, Christopher W. Smith, a career diplomat widely credited for driving Washington's re-engagement with Belarus, quietly laid the groundwork for negotiations. The first meeting with Mr. Coale, the most senior U.S. official to come to Minsk in years, was another diplomatic coup for Mr. Lokschenko.
Twenty minutes into that first encounter, Mr. Lokschenko was
towighing against European leaders who have sought to insurer him. "He was coming and raving about them, so I said, 'They're a bunch of cowards,'" Mr. Coale recalled, using a more vulgar term.
"I knew that's what he wanted to hear, something like that, to lighten everything up," Mr. Coale added with a chuckle, explaining that his views of other European leaders are actually more nuanced.
"He loved me after that," said Mr. Coale, who is self-doprecating and projects a friendly, unpretentious confidence. "The Europeans didn't."
After the E.U.-banking, it was time to drink. Mr. Coale said he showed two shoes at Mr. Lokschenko's personal branded vodka, and then poured others on the floor to stay sober for negotia-
tions.
After nearly, Mr. Lokschenko told Mr. Coale that in addition to releasing an American citizen whose freedom Washington had sought, he would need home another American who hadn't been part of negotiations "because I like you."
During a subsequent meeting in Minsk in June 2025, Mr. Lokschenko noticed that Mr. Coale had slammed doors. The American told him about September, the weight loss job that had helped him lose 40 pounds. He had accompanied Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general and Mr. Trump's envoy for Russia and Ukraine, and the meeting lasted more than six hours.
Shortly after, 14 political prisoners, including the husband of the opposition leader Svetlana
Tikhannovskaya, were released.
Mr. Coale and Ms. Van Susteren had dinner not long after with Mr. Trump, whom they have known socially for decades. When Mr. Van Susteren told the president that her husband's most recent visit to Belarus had resulted in 14 prisoners being freed, he insisted on talking to Mr. Lokschenko by phone. Days later, Mr. Trump called while on route to his meeting with Mr. Putin last year in Russia and said he hoped to welcome the Belarusian leader to the White House one day.
As a penal colony in Belarus, in between serving for enforcement authorities and doing musical labor, Kantarzyna Andreyevna watched Mr. Coale's visits on state television. Ms. Andreyevna, jailed for covering the 2020 protests for the Russian-based chastest Behar, had resigned herself to serving for two sentences reading more than eight years. But Mr. Coale's visits gave her some hope.
Is total February, she was transferred to a state security services prison in Minsk. After five weeks of unabridged pressure, including exists in a padded cell, she said, mashed men put her into a vehicle and told the inmates to ride in others with their heads down.
It was only when Mr. Coale, whom she had seen on television during enforced propaganda-watching sessions, threw open the doors of the prison van that she knew for sure she was free.
"You are free!" she remembered him saying. He extended his arm for a handshake. Mr. Andreyevna pulled him in for a hug.
Mr. Coale said that watching as political prisoners realized they were free was the biggest driver for him. "What motivates me is opening the doors" to vehicles carrying newly freed prisoners, he said.
He plans to leverage his relationship to help Russian political prisoners, too. Mr. Coale said he had been approached by Russian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitri A. Murjner to facilitate a civilian prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine. While such an effort would be enormously complicated, Mr. Coale said he had received financial commitments from two organizations to resettle the prisoners elsewhere.
But first, he wants to get the rest of Belarus's political prisoners out of jail. He was expecting, he said, another big exchange very soon.
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Resurgent Diseases in South America Offer Clues for the Next Pandemic
By ZANE DERIV and
LECROVIRALADA HEBREDS
By the time colleagues called the Newark's alitist, an Argentine infectious disease specialist, was too late.
The patient they asked him to examine that month was a 40-year-old woman tried fleasers. As geminists think/argent city officials high fever, mouth pain and fatigue. A blood test indicated that the disease cell and platelet count were plagued out.
Less than a week later, she was dead.
Test results revealed that after had contracted Argentine herpes disease, the disease was 40 years前兆 disease carried by rodents that both the United States and Soviet Union once researched and reintroduced agent for biological weapons.
"It is remarkable that it is not discovered more," Dr. Lublin said of the disease, which can cause several bleeding, seizures and a stroke. Under these two provisions now debilitating.
The woman's death is part of a surprising resurgence of the disease in Argentina, which after 40 years of life, was a 40-year-old, spreading to places it has previously never been seen. As human development, environmental regulations and climate change they
ment and alter animal habitats, scientists wave that monoxia—diseases that jump from animals to animals—and the rising have frequent and widespread.
Climate change is snapping, one may see the rodents that carry A.H.F. into new areas and living, and previously separated species into contact with one another. A 2021 study estimated that more than half of total human pathogenic diseases could be aggravated by climate change. And human activities like agriculture and urbanization are pushing human life's main concern, and many disease-carrying animals.
"Because of all the changes in human, and also changes in how humans react to climate, we are more likely to repudiate the human, to temptate on places where it hasn't been," said Dr. Pruyen Kulkarni, a professor at the University of California, Davis, who studies on American diseases in South America.
About three-quarters of energy consumption diseases in human, come from animals, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Kulkarni hopes that research finds, which is part of a promising new human change and human activity offers the spread of disease, could help local health officials catch future outbreaks – before they maintain
size into the next global pandemic. "Any one of these vector-borne or animal-borne or rodent-borne diseases might be a place could dare for the next big thing," he said.
Until recently, the Disease patient's case would have been an attack, Since A.H.F.s discovery in the 300m, it has almost exclusively affected such bone workers in Argentina's fertile plains, outside urban areas. But the infected woman tried in the center of the city and was not a farmer.
Argentine health authorities couldn't nearly 40 confirmed cases of A.H.F. in 2022 – about three times the number five years earlier, according to government data. And there were outbreaks in 2021 and 2022, which collectively killed at least nine people.
A warming climate and land-use changes are already having an affect globally on well-known diseases like dengue, Chikungunya and yellow fever, which are carried by mosquitoes and have spread into new countries and regions in recent years.
Dengue, a Shible illness that can be fatal, is one of the fastest-growing infectious diseases in parts of South America, and scientists have linked in growth to environmental degradation and a warming planet. More than 10 million cases, and over 10,000 related
doctors, have been reported to the World Health Organization since the beginning of 2024, with some estimates of being the second most cases for higher.
Scientists have also linked climate change to the death of the Azules virus, a case that为主体 human disease – another type of rodent-borne pathogens present in South America – that was linked to three deaths on a cruise ship earlier this year. That outbreak issued the service of a pandemic-wary world and spotlighted the kind of growing virus epidemic risks that researchers like Dr. Kulkarni have been examining.
Increasingly, scientists are also tracking diseases like A.H.F. that have emerged in the U.S. and from relative obesity.
Dr. Marcela Uhart, an Argentine veterinarian and researcher with U.S. Davis, researchers where A.H.F. was a widespread problem in her country during the 1970s and '80s. Dr. Uhart's parents had friends who died of the diseases, and she grew up having radio advertisements asking survivors for blood plasma donations to help treat the infected.
The rollout of aversive helped bring large numbers down to the 1990s. And plasma treatments proved effective, bringing the healthy one from as high as 30 percent down to 1 percent for patients
who received prompt care. Outbreaks dwindled.
But a few years ago, Dr. Uhart is a young woman who has
“It was like, ‘When, how is that happening?” she said.
Cases were just rising, they were cropping up in unexpected areas and infecting new types of people. After a truck driver tested patients in 2025, health officials took note.
"I'm used to be an illness of rural workers – it didn't exist in cities," said Dr. Martin Delores Larroca, who has seen a recent increase in cases that Nicadia de las Arroyos, a growing part city and that of Bozartu. "Now there are people who get infected without our cash bill, people who have been away with the disease."
Dr. Larroca said the increase is head users was likely not to die in South America, Over the years she has watched that Nicadia de las Arroyos already toward the part and along the river, with giant communities trapping of near fields on the water.
Similar transformators have happened across Argentina, taking researchers to wonder whether back-on changes could not cause shifts into singing the spread of disease.
Dr. Kulkarni, Dr. Uhart and other scientists investigated that hypothesis is several recent study
ies. In April, the researchers built models to predict the risk to humans from the movements of the American population. The American conservatives, a class of viruses that are typically spread by rats and mice.
Stifle is temperature, precipitation and seasonal weather patterns have made some regions less suitable for the rodents, while others become new potential hot spots, they found.
Unlike more transmissible diseases, such as Covid-19, many human cases and amputations in South America don't spread easily between people. But researchers who study A.H.F and its relatives hope to boost understanding of other pathogens that could pose international risks.
With the certainty of long-temperatures and other environmental factors that could cause disease to problems, Dr. Uhart said health officials should try to get one step ahead of outbreaks – with the help of climate modeling – instead of responding once new cases have already appeared.
"We try to turn off the fire once it already is burning," she said. "Can you really predict the next emerging disease? You really can't. But you can predict or understand better the risk factors."
Over U.S. Trade, Carney Strikes Combative Tone
By LISA AUSTEN
O'TOWN — The stunning after-hold pulled negotiations from trade talks in Washington and out off a new round of American tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney has been a "big deal of trade deal" and said Canada won "a war" with the United States.
"We've recognized from the start that America has changed, we said that millions of Canadians, in Saturday," We recognize that sometimes, its signature is write-on in pencil."
"We cannot accept what they or loved and we will not give what they asked," he added. "We were not prepared to compromise Canada's policy, but we understood it."
In a mountain, 12-minute speech that let Canadians — and Americans — know exactly where he stands. Mr. Carney said that Canada was under attack by President Trump's parading tariffs.
"You're at war when you're so excited, and we get attacked," Mr. Carney said.
But unlike his identifying speech at Dover that spoke of a rupture in the world under, Mr. Carney explicitly named the United States as an aggressor and it chose to Canada and the global economy.
In March U.S. tariffs, he said "are designed to hurt and divide us. They are a misconceptionist because Canadians will always take care of such other. We know we're stronger together with the world."
On Friday night Mr. Carney blamed songwriter last-minute demands for the collapse of negotiations, saying that they were "unfair." The U.S. government has been question the reliability of any deal? Missions have the United States were ahead with previous plans and introduced 50 percent tariffs on 100 billion words of Canadian exports.
Mr. Carney immediately protested. "I'm not sure, will creation 'dollar for dollar'."
On Saturday, he said that American negotiators "asked too much and offered too little." Amend the charge, Mr. Carney said that American negotiators pushed to the best Canada's efforts to provide the best way to protect the goods overseas to online streaming services, subsidize for industries like publishing and film production and even mandatory labeling in French, an official language in
Canada, as well as English on packaging.
"We were close to reaching a comprehensive agreement with the U.S., but they made changes, including threats on French language and culture and Canadians' culture that would never be acceptable for that reason," Mr. Carney said in French. "That marked the end of that stage of negotiation."
Mr. Carney added that the United States wanted Canada to allow its trade policies toward other countries with American tariffs, something he called "a power play" and "a question of overweight."
During negotiations, Mr. Carney said, the U.S. side also refused to hedge on including Canadians as well as American ports when calculating tariff payments on Canadians, and refused to reduce the rate for medium and heavy trucks. It also offered little for companies that make products like United States doesn to be primarily aluminum or steel — a category that ranges from ammonia to nonmetals. These products were not free to protect tariffs.
The prime reasoners' decision to meet up to President Trump and walk away from negotiations is the latest feature in the new trade law between the nation. The relationship has drastically deteriorated since Mr. Trump returned to office, where he has targeted Canada with tariffs, and added to leaders and reports that proposed that it be annexed as the first state.
Mr. Trump's trade actions and rights have prompted widespread anger and fear among Canadians.
The trade negotiations began in April, as a bid to meet off the tariffs and to reverse or at least reduce U.S. tariffs of major10 percent on the key auto, steel and aluminum sectors that were introduced last year.
As he did on Friday night, Mr. Carney suggested on Saturday that Canada would now double down on its strength of disengage and the most common and parading trade with other countries and diversifying Canada's trade.
"Last spring, I warned that America is trying to break us so that they can own us and I protect them." That will never, ever happen," Mr. Carney said. "We are
Prime Minister Mark Carney pulled out of trade talks because the Trump administration had "asked too much and offered too little."
keeping that promise. Canada is becoming stronger and less dependent on America.
Unlike the previous tariffs, the new U.S. measures affect a more varied array of business sectors, although they disproportionately target building materials like plywood as well as tissue used for tobacco, which are significant reports for the forestry industry. Canadian added is also implied out.
The new American tariffs only cover a small portion of the $383 billion worth of products the United States reported from Canada last year, in part because they complements retail, cigar and electricity imports. They also avoid people, a key fertilizer not usually used in the U.S. and the United States.
But many of the items hit with tariffs, like cigar and coal and heavy, are often made by small to mid-size companies that will likely be unable to withstand any significant loss of business.
Carney thinks a trade extension is in the University of Calgary in Alberta, extension that the new tariffs could cost upward of 90,000 jobs in Canada.
Mr. Carney promised 25 billion
Canadian dollars to financial assistance to affected companies.
Exactly how Canada could cut-talent without creating further headaches for Canadian businesses was clear. Many manufacturers in Canada rely on supplies and materials which generally cannot be readily or economically purchased elsewhere. Canada's mark smaller economic footprint also limits its ability to
You're at war when you're attacked, and we got attacked.
infant significant economic pain on the United States.
Mr. Carney said that Canada was moving ahead on retaliation "reluctantly, because we recognize that it will come from and reduce those for Canadians. Reluctantly, because we recognize that some U.S. companies and states are annexed by numbers in a disparity they did not want."
He added: "We take this deal confident that it is in the best of success of Canada and that by rejecting a bad deal, by standing up for Canada and by focusing on what we can control, we will build Canada strong for all."
Mr. Carney said that Canada's retaliatory tariffs will come into effect on Sept. 5 and will be by round on Sept. 5, but it appears to be agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, electronics.
Jantmens Green, the U.S. trade representative, said on the last two years, "I am not sure how many of Trump administration was 'saving forward with measures that respond to Canadian retaliation."
Tung Ford, the premier of the United States's first major tobacco target Mr. Carney to look at simple, gay and electricity as trade relations in a way that the United States previously downplayed that day, saying it would jeopardize Canada's reputation for reliability.
Because these widespread requests for expert taxes on energy, the Saturday, after outlining the policy, the United States' energy dependence on Canada, Mr. Carney added: "I don't think they want us to
stop sending it."
He Ford also spoke in defiant that he never started this fight but I assure we're going to win this fight," he told reporters on Saturday, saying he was happy that Mr. Carney refused to sign a deal that could hurt his previous automobile and steel sectors.
"We have to make sure that an Overall Trump is trying to inflict pain on every Canadian that we inflict pain right back, and if we allow that we are his number one customer is the world," the Department said. "We have to make sure we look at every single asset we have, if it's critical internals, steel or nickel, everything is on the table."
On Carney said that the free trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico was a long-running deal, in, day on "by the Trump administration. On July 1, the United States declined to renew the pact for another 10 years, putting it on a year by year basis.
Asked on Saturday what the American actions must be the removal of the agreement, Mr. Carney said, is French. "It certainly isn't good news."
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middle death that have been valuable and the cause of death.
The collapse of the table came after Mr. Trump dismayed. During that the deal was practically done.
The last 10 years refused that "one" the work, as negotiators spent long hours in Washington huddled in the office of the U.S. trade representative. Mr. Carney appeared in the office of the United States in the 1980s and went to be there.
And if there would be. Each side now claims that the other introduced one or more valuable demands at the last minute—the kind of finger on the other. The Japanese when trade calls fall apart.
On Saturday, Mr. Carney mentioned in some detail a number of what he described as having been carvedly presented by the
United States, as talks were supposedly near the finish line. Those included, he said, a few times that Canada was in the U.S. affairs are tariffs on its trade with other countries.
"We are the partners of choice for countries around the world. What America's market is a control that — unacceptable," he said.
And he enlisted, Mr. Carney has a lot to lose.
Canada, which is closely integrated with the United States and relies on it for defense, is the only dependent of the war with its superpower neighbor, Mr. Carney acknowledged on Saturday the cost of his choice for many Canadians and said his own income would be "what he takes" to support businesses and workers important by the U.S. tariffs, as well as those important by the retaliatory tariffs Canada will take out against
U.S. goods on Sept. 5.
It will also be ready for U.S. residents, who have been paying the same money to the U.S. through higher prices that have also been driven by the war in Iran and spending off costs.
But Mr. Carney appeared in the U.S. and in the U.S. trade to a certain source. The speech—and its enthusiasm—glared to explain—angered Mr. Trump.
Mr. Trump has also been cited as a "good deal" in the U.S. China, which led to a narrow but significant trade agreement this year, by Canadian producer, permission on housing the sale of U.S. liquor, and by the Carney
government's retaliatory measures against the United States for its head, devastating tariffs and the U.S. trade. The U.S. trade has been a major factor in the U.S. trade. Since he rose to lead Canada last year, Mr. Carney has put in motion a plan to help his country survive Mr. Trump's presidency and, after the war, will be the same upon from the United States. One of his favorite laws is that "seemless go to the public, and the harold everyone who will listen that there is no going back to the old relationship with the United States — a clear and familial, if any."
government's retaliatory measures against the United States for its head, devastating tariffs and the U.S. trade.
Since he rose to lead Canada last year, Mr. Carney has put in motion a plan to help his country survive Mr. Trump's presidency and, after the war, will be the same upon from the United States. One of his favorite laws is that "seemless go to the public, and the harold everyone who will listen that there is no going back to the old relationship with the United States — a clear and familial, if any."
Instead, Mr. Carney has been traveling to secure new partner ships in Asia and Europe, a government of all every from economic and political to the United States, although that is unlikely to bear fruit but enough to restate the labor of the breakdown of the two countries' relationship.
It's likely that Mr. Trump will
not take kindly to Mr. Carney's trade decision, has before beginning his second term, Mr. Trump's plan was strong, and that "evenmink pain" on Canada to get what he wanted. He has repeatedly expressed a desire to make Canada the "fair man, but the only man who is going to stand that 'Eros because of the United States'."
But, Mr. Carney's claim for "Canada, with a surprising assist from Mr. Trump's handling, has ignited a wave of patriotism. Using into the trade talks, more than 10,000 people have been more than those who voted for Mr. Carney — said they wanted him to give nothing away.
Several prominent members of the United States of the U.S. have suggest for Mr. Carney after his decision. Doug Ford, a senior review who leads Ontario, cheered him on, David Ellis, the program vice premier of British Columbia,
said, "We didn't ask for this, but we'll bring fighting for as long as it takes."
The government is enthusiastic. Danielle Smith, the conservatives premier of Alberta, who has good relations with the NCAA women men, was more circumspect and more than 10,000 people. The negotiating table: Canada's industry is against with the tathouses and uncertainty that Mr. Trump's trade war against Canada, and Mr. Carney's refusal to submit, are causing.
But there is little doubt that Mr. Carney will also be cheered, at home and abroad, for doing what he thought was best for his country.
"We take this step confident that it is in the best interests of Canada," he said. "And that, by reporting a hard deal, standing up for Canada, and focusing on what we can control, we are building a Canada strong for all."
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An Italian Novelist Says No to Honor Thy Parents
Observing a Land of Family Dictatorships
By MUTOMO RICH
ROME — Andrea Bajani, a winner of Italy's most prestigious literary prize, was back in Rome for the summer when he did into a seat in front of a weeping woman on a local bus. Like any good novelist, he convalescented.
The young woman was arguing with her father on the phone about an apartment she had rented with a roommate to Paris, where she would be attending university. Mr. Bajani discerned that the father wanted her to allocate a space room for her parents to visit regularly. "This can't be the only obnoxious you guys have," Mr. Bajani heard her protest through tears.
To Mr. Bajani, 11, the overheard exchange represented a classic Italian family trope involving its flatty demanding parents and the children who struggle to break free of them. It is a dynamic ice-spheres in his best-selling novel of family estrangement, "The Anniversary," which will be published in an English translation on Aug. 25 in the United States.
"The family in Italy is kind of an institution that comes before the stars," said Mr. Bajani, whose face work دوست the physical and psychological violence that can rot a family from within. "There's this idea that is very much Italian," he said in an interview at the American Academy in Rome, where he was once a fellow. Families are "these little totalitarian systems."
"The Anniversary" — told from the point of view of a 40-womiting narrator who has not seen his dictatorial father or self-obs equating mother for a decade, a period he describes as "the best 10 years of my life" — has reexamined deeply with readers in Italy. It was the Ilmiga Prize for prose fiction in 2025 and was the highest-selling literary novel in Italy last year — and the eighth-best-selling book overall.
At public appearances, readers have besieged Mr. Bajani to tell him, "Oh, this is the story of my family," he said.
Reviewers have praised Mr. Bajani for writing the unsignable as he upends clichés about close, low-
Josephine de La Bruyère contributed reporting.
ing Italian families and protective, affectionate mothers. "A book must be an air that shatters the frozen sea within us, and that's precisely what Bajani's book has done," Amadeus Bertini, a culture writer and book critic for Il Foglio, a newspaper in Rome, said in an interview. "That act of digging, digging deep, uncovering the truth, has been highly appreciated."
In Italy, family is not simply a private matter. Giorgio Molini, the right-leaning prime minister, campaigned on a platform that included the slogan "God, homeland, family." At a time when Italy's birthrate is declining, she has condemned those who "have affirmed that parenthood is an archaic and patriarchal concept."
Yet there has been little backlash against Mr. Bajani's portrayal of a patriarchal, abusive father and his converting family, which has connected with many readers. Government statistics show that one in eight Italian women have been the victims of physical violence by a partner and nearly one in five report psychological violence.
"There's nothing exceptional about this compared to many traditional Italian families," Maria De Sante, a poet and journalist who reviewed "The Anniversary" for Minteri et Morella, an online literary magazine, said in an interview.
Mr. Bajani said he had originally considered writing the narrator as female, but decided he had to be male. The character undergoes intense psychotherapy and eventually becomes a father himself. "I wanted a man who would injure the inheritance of his patriarchal man," he said. "Who would say, as a man, that he doesn't want that."
The narrator, who knows Italy for stairs abroad in part to escape his toxic family, believes similar motivations help explain why Italy is among the European countries that need the most workers abroad.
A key "Italian 'expert,'" the narrator writes, is "hundreds of thousands" of adult children who "have asked the planet, its curvature and time zones, to protect them, distance them, save them
Andrea Bajani in Rome last year. An English translation of his best-selling novel, "The Anniversary," will be published on Tuesday.
from the ones who brought them into the world."
Mr. Bajani, who currently teaches creative writing at Rice University in Houston, where he lives with his American wife and two children, declined to discuss any personal parallels with his fiction. Instead, he talked about the "absolute power" exerted by Italian families, particularly by domineering fathers, whose behavior might be snubled by Catholic beliefs, including "the idea that people owe everything to their parents: 'those the father and the mother'."
Etorico Moretti, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, who has studied the Italian brain drain, said lack of economic opportunity at home is most likely the biggest impetus for Italians to leave their homehand.
Still, he said he "wouldn't discount completely" Mr. Bajani's explanation. Some adult children might find it difficult to exert their independence because of "a very distinctive Italian cultural attitude: parents really like having
children under their wings."
Last year, 60 percent of Italian 16- to 16-year-olds lived with their parents, compared with 50 percent across the European Union, E.U. data shows. Rather than fleeing abuse, Mr. Moretti said, some Italians who move away may be trying to distance themselves from "a controlling or overbearing family."
Mr. Bajani, like the narrator of "The Anniversary," was born in
Readers tell an author he has described their lives.
Rome but moved during his childhood to northern Italy. He said his impulse to write came from a desire to blend art and politics, though he grew up in a generation that was told not to focus on politics because the great problems of the era had been resolved by the end of the Cold War.
"The idea of revolution, not only a Communist revolution, a leftist revolution, but the idea of a revolution, didn't exist," he said.
As a teenager, he said, he became obsessed with the Italian poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Piccolini — murdered in 1975, the year Mr. Bajani was born — whose radical politics and artistic advocacy for people who lived on the fringes of society fueled Mr. Bajani's own emerging political consciousness.
After college, he took a job in a publishing house and then became a radio news reader. When he was 30, after writing two small books issued by independent persons, he published his first novel with a larger publisher, "Cordialt failed" ("Best Regards"), written as a series of letters from a corporate downsize to the use of a lived worker. Its success allowed Mr. Bajani to quit his job at the radio station to focus on writing.
He has published nine novels, a volume of short stories and three collections of poetry, often teaching on the theme of family dysfunction and estrangement.
But when he moved to Texas in 2020 and began spending his days speaking and teaching in English, it changed the way he thought and wrote, even in Italian, he said. He composed a draft of "The Anniversary" in just 30 days and then spent the next three years revising it. He joked that the novel, which is a slim 128 pages in Italian, "would have been 520 pages and never gotten to the point" if he had written it before moving to the United States.
Mr. Bajani said that when he read the English translation, by Geoffrey Brock, a poet and professor of creative writing at the University of Arkansas, he felt it came closer to the heart of what he was trying to say. "English as a language is kind of giving a new shape to my meaning," he said.
Mr. Brock said he was also struck by the narrator's theory about Italians emigrating to escape their families. Now, he said, he is curious to see how readers in other countries relate to that theme. It may depend, he said, "on the particular idea of family that holds away in other places."
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'I think what got me here was the courage to stand on the uncomfortable side of history.'
GORDA MELONI, prime minister of Italy
Giorgia Meloni,
Once an Outcast, Cuts the Hard Right A Path to Power
Prime Minister Faces a Milestone In Italy's Postwar Political Journey
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spired Ms. Le Peris father in bombing the National Front, now rebranded as the National Rally.
Ms. Le Pen, it seems, will have a ready resort as she seeks to reassure French voters. Just look at Italy!"
"Meloni is not a visionary leader, but she has become a global star and the millions of the possibility that far-rights nationalism can be absorbed" said Giovanni Orsino, the director of the LCOIS Guide Carli School of Government in Rome.
Far from upheaval, Italy has faced stability under Ms. Meloni, who has demonstrated the fiery talents of a demagogue anchored by a cool realistic. France has had six governments and Britain then prime ministers since she took office in 2022.
With President Emmanuel Macron of
France departing next year, Ms. Meloni could become the doyen of European politics, in the way former Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany once was, or prime when a fragmenting world order in its profound and uneasy transformation. Yet the question of what transforms him Ms. Meloni seeks remains open. Has the ready because a democratic modern era at the age of 60? Or does a 20-year-old who-France still lack inside her, the millions with an angelic face who told French TV in 1994 that "Mussolini was a good-pei-lectour" and "everything he did, he did for Italy"?
A Bridge Too Far
Ms. Meloni wanted to be the bridge over troubled waters. The only leader of a European Union government invited to Ms. Trump's inauguration, she aimed to build in their shared nationalism and hostility in immigration, and also to ensure that the Western alliance remained functional.
So last year when Ms. Trump, in a tone of allegiance flattery, called her "a beautiful young woman," she begged indifference. Bigger things were at stake.
Soft, provocations cascaded from the White House. The European Union had been created to "serve" the United States, Ms. Trump declared. Overstand, a semisubmersion Danish territory, should be handed to the United States. During European allies were wings, holding "a little back" in Afghanistan, where Italy lost 53 soldiers.
"Smashing Italy when we had paid a tribute to blood in Afghanistan was a brutal officer," said Fabio Rampelli, the vice-president of the lower house of Italy's Parliament and a longtime Meloni confidant.
Ms. Meloni did her best to turn the other cheek. "It's evident that with Donald Trump, I believed things would be done, given an unconvergence on immigration and wake culture," she tells me. "Things have turned out otherwise."
"Otherwise" is an understatement. In June she became the first of several in our country, and she refers to his back hard at Ms. Trump. As a result, she and Mr. Trump have not spoken in several weeks, she reveals.
For her, the red line was crossed first in April when Mr. Trump attacked Pope Leo XIV as "WEAK on crime, and terrible be foreign Policy." Ms. Meloni requested that such remarks were "unacceptable." Trump snapped back: She was "unacceptable."
You can criticize many things in Italy — the humanistic, a spaghetti catheter, a retro-glaciose motor team that he the third time running did not qualify for the World Cup — but not the Holy Forbes and certainly not in ALL CAPS.
It was downfall from there. Mr. Trump floated a story that Ms. Meloni has "begged" him for a photograph together in June at the Group of 7 summit in France.
She was incandescent. She berated Mr. Trump: "Italy and I never beg."
The difference fusion of nation and self-expressed her sense of a mistake is change the perception of Italy, from land of beauty and inefficiency to land of serious intent.
Her shared values with Mr. Trump were eclipsed by her singling subject for step-parity objective: to overcome Italy's longtime status as the least of the major powers and give the world's eighth largest economy geopolitical belt.
"I don't like the idea of a submission it: all, an Italy that sees itself as lesser than others," she tells me in our interview. Her past, she says, is to achieve "the biggest revolution that can happen in this nation — a revolution of pride."
She regrets nothing: "I continue to believe that the unity of the West is something very important. I don't decide that not strongly on the basis of my personal relations."
Asked if she and Mr. Trump would speak after the summer break, she hesitates: "Well, we will see."
In Search of a Cause
Ms. Meloni learned early to share passively. "I grew up with the idea that I was worthless," she wrote in V. Ani Giurgiu, her autobiography. "My reaction was to commit myself with all my being to deno- oncrum the contrary."
Absorbed as an infant by her father, who left for Spain and whose death in 2022 left her "unfiltered," Ms. Meloni buried in a "black hole" the "pain of me having been loved enough," as she puts it in her back.
She hardened. At 13, she had decided never to see her father again. It was an irrevocable choice, as when in 2023 she dumped Andrea Gianderson, her partner and the father of her daughter, Claviva, (A video and audio had caught when she peared to be his crude propositioning of female colleagues. The relationship "ends here," she wrote the next morning on social media.)
The love of her mother, Anna Pacanesi, who wrote some 140 very romance novels under the new name Anne Bell, filled the road. Ms. Meloni grew up with her and an older sister in the Garbandia district of Rome, a working-class area with middle-class enclaves, including the one in which they lived.
The second-than apartment of her youth stands in a lovely courtyard of orange trees, green, haired trees and the other. She was a flag to draped from one window. Here are many in Rome. She is well nearby in scramble, "Think poetically Meloni out!"
Garbandia belongs to the left and all ways later, as Ms. Meloni, just 15, spied for the right of Fascist roots.
Her decision stemmed from outrage, she explains. The Mafia's assassination to the space of two months in 1992 of Giovanni Falconi and Paolo Berzollino, two Sicilian prosecutors threatening it, left overwhelming.
"I remember on a hot July day watching the images on TV," she says, "and thinking we can't go on like this. Busta!"
Mr. Berzollino had once been close to the extreme right Italian Social Mercurian, and Mr. I, founded in 1948 by former members of Bosnia Mussolini's Fascist party. The fringe party stood apart from the massive political corruption scandal sweeping Italy in the early 1990s, which added to its appeal, Ms. Meloni says.
She called the headquarters of the M.S.I. and discovered that an office of its Youth Front was "right around the corner."
One day she walked in, in the time, the poor-Fascist right had no chance of at all. The police were not two she called out or, when she co-founded Brothers of Italy, the party honored around 2 percent of the vote for seven years. Yet she perished.
In her 1994 edition telling me what my limits are," she says. "A 'No' is one of the things that stabilizes me the most."
A 'Complex' Time
That Garbandia office now houses a branch of Ms. Meloni's party. There, I found Marco Volpesi in charge.
He has known Ms. Meloni since they were teenagers. I asked him about the party kept outside with its circular flame in the green, white and red of the Italian
flag, a symbol first adopted by the M.S.I. and widely seen today as representing the spirit of Fascism burning still.
"It's not Mussolini's," Mr. Volpesi told me, echoing the party line. "It's the flame of me" ashe from 1948 to where we are today."
Ms. Meloni, of a generation distant from World War II, has demanded but not entirely to the First Fascists, differing "nor opposition to all totalitarian and authoritarian regimens."
She used her inaugural speech to say that "the worst moment in Italian history" was when Mussolini promulgated the anti-Jewish race laws of 1938, thousands of Italian Jews were ultimately sent to their deaths under partial Nazi occupation.
In our interview, however, she refers to the Fascist period merely as a "particle- laity complex" time. So complex that its aftermath haunted her childhood and adolescence.
During the "years of loss," from the late 1940-1950s the 1960s, two-Fascist and far-left groups were intent for different reasons for spending the private Republic. Bombings, assassinations and massacreds more than 400 dead, including one prime minister, Aida Muro, killed in 1979 by the entire Red Kingdom.
Each was the instability in which Ms. Meloni was raised and that, in various, less violent forms, long haunted Italy. She made stability for watchovers.
Lathering her post-Fascist party into the mainstream, Ms. Meloni has refused to say that she is an anti-Fascist, which to her seems to denote the White groups of her youth for whom, in their words, "killing Fascists is not a crime."
"I know the name and the story of all the youths sacrificed on the altar of anti-Fascism," she has written.
Of non-Fascist terrorism, Ms. Meloni has he lies to say: Two rightist bombings left 102 people dead in attacks in Milan and Bologna alone. For her, the left was in Baton for Italy's personal creation, and the "complex" period where her party found its roots was best set aside.
Speaking of Italian Fascists, she says in his interview: "Clearly, if we look at this history today it's one thing. If we looked at it standing in the midst of it probably, we would have seen it differently, too."
On earnings R.J.R. Bosworth, in his biography "Mussolini," writes that Il Duca's dictator-day "caused the premature deaths of at least one million people." They died in killing fields from Africa to Abidjan and Tagoplus's, and, in France, in Italy itself.
Mussolini also drained the Pontine Marches, built Milan's Central Station and, it is said, made the trains run on time.
Any moral appraisal of Mussolini's rule-seem-that enough. But "high never seemed its accluons with Fascists," said Davide Conti, a historian. "There was no Nuremberg because nobody wanted it, and if you prosecuted Italian Fascists, you had to turn to the Resistance, most of those Communists."
Ms. Meloni benefitted from this vacillation, navigating a narrow path between commitment to Italian democratic freedom and curious authoritarian over the period of its loss.
She did not open the door to the far right — drive-fortuances, starting in the mid-1990s, did that as prime minister for a total of nine years at the head of four governments. But she was the ideal politician to step-through it.
Just 14 years after she walked into the Garbandia office, she was elected to Parliament and became the youngest deputy speaker in the history of the Republic. Two years later, in 2006, she set another record, as the youngest minister, age 31. The third record, he governmental longevity, awaits her on Sept. 1.
The extreme right had always been seen as "long-lasting" in Italy's home, racist, aeroplane," said Mr. Rampelli, who headed the Roman Youth section of the M.S.I. when Ms. Meloni passed it.
"And here was a very young woman, I lost 2 million old, blood, and the veryest, smiling and sarcastic, who had nothing to do with Fascists — and from that moment on, all the people who continued insulting us just became ridiculous," he said.
"Perhaps I was the right person at the right time," Ms. Meloni suggests.
Meloni and the Tide of History
To understand Ms. Meloni's secret, I went to Pimottino, on the Fascist coast, a once-thirting steel town whose streets are now banked. For decades after World War II, its steel industry employed more than 4,000 workers. Today, no more than 500 hangs in.
Once a center of anti-Fascist resistance, Pimottino was long a stronghold of the left and hard-line unions. Today, Ms. Meloni's party has taken over.
Francesco Ferrari is the mayor. A major lawyer, he was elected in 2019 as the first eight-wing mayor since 1941 and re-elected two years ago. The left — through empty promises and poor management — obtained the patience of Pimottino's workers.
They joined a vast 21st-century migration from the city of San Jose. Europe of a working class angry at globalization and its cost to jobs, at extraordinary immigration level, the other values of a liberal urban elite.
A sign at the end of the factory, a ghastly sprawl, says, "Thank you," alongside an image of a handmade "fashioned" man? Tangle Michael Gardini, who worked for 20 years on the blast furnace before being 30, got in 2024. "They screwed us."
Mr. Gardini now receives 15,250 a month on a 2024 annual benefit. "I was betrayed by an entire political class," he says over a coffee in the main square. "We were under the left. "If there, we now 75 give the right 70 years."
Mr. Ferrari, the mayor, is trying to re-
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'We were under the left for 70 years, so now I'll give the right 70 years!'
MICHELE NARDINI, who has his job at a steel plant in 2024 is Pumblom, a town where Ms. Meloni's party has taken over.
give the steel industry and diversify the town into fish farming, tourism and other activities suited to its seafront location opposite the island of Elbe.
"I have no problem pronouncing the word Fiacine, or even anti-Fiacine," Ms. Ferrari says. But surely, he suggests, the judgment of Pumblom's people proves his party's complete break with its forebears.
An agreement was reached in July for a Ukrainian company, an Italian steel producer and local authorities to invest $2.7 billion to create a cutting edge plant. But Pumblom has gone through too many promises for there to be much optimism.
Meloni Lahti, a former senior official of the leftist C.G.I.L. union that once held sway, says Ms. Meloni has failed to deliver. Salaries are "among the lowest in Europe" and "the health service is going better up."
Ms. Ferrari differs, arguing that an on-ban revival has begun, and he tells a story about his party's leader.
"It was 2020 and Meloni came to reap," Ms. Ferrari recalled. On the eve of his tenure, he said, the center-left Democratic Party had approved a project to expand a vast nearby garbage dump where drinking refuse routed.
"Days before, she demanded the documentation on the dumpster, details of the enlargement project, the nature of the garbage, my positions. And when we had meetings, she knew the dentist better than I did!"
The project was abandoned. The mayor beamed. "That is Giorgia Meloni."
Ms. Meloni in 1979 with her older sister, Arianna, and her mother, Anna Paratore, who wrote romance novels.
Top, the Garbatella district of Rome, a working-class area with middle-class mothers, where Ms. Meloni grew up. Center, the Garbatella office where Ms. Meloni joined the youth wing of the Italian Social Movement in 1992. Today, it houses a section of her party, Brothers of Italy.
A Tight Inner Circle
When Ms. Meloni took office, Matteo Renzi, Italy's former center-left prime minister, decided to give her a smart ring. Bill Clinton had advised him that the worst decisions were the result of too little sleep.
"I said, 'Giorgia, this job is beautiful but agreeing, please keep track every night of how much you sleep.'"
Ms. Meloni soon tossed the monitor. "She thought I was trying to control her," Ms. Renzi said.
"She trusts nobody," Gianfranco Fini, the former M.S.I. leader who redressed the party as a democratic force in 1985 and entered Ms. Meloni toward a rapid secret, said me. "She makes her own calculations."
Ms. Meloni works in a small cubet that includes her older sister, Arianna, and several of the extreme-right activists she met in her youth. They get the top jobs in the Senate, cultural institutions and elsewhere.
Her insular style has infuriated the left. Ms. Renzi, who heads a small center-left party called Italia Viva, recently caused a rachea by suggesting that "the Addams Family" was governing Italy. He is trying to solve the left to defeat Ms. Meloni in the elections next year.
Elly Schlein, the leader of the Democratic Party, the largest party of the left, cited Italy's policy economic growth rate of 0.2 percent, as 6 percent decline in coal wages, some of Europe's highest energy bills and depleted public hospitals as evidence of a "wasted historic opportunity."
"Stability can be a value but when it's immobility, people are unforgiving," Ms. Schlein said on of Ms. Meloni.
The prime minister hits back in our interviews. She carries off a long list of "paraphrases" – employment, inflation, illegal migrant landings, health spending, market spreads. "Tell me if they are not better!"
These numbers have indeed moved in a positive direction, albeit sometimes fractionally.
"But it's possible," she says with characteristic sarcasm, "that I did nothing!"
"The best you can say is that there's been no disaster," said Veronica De Romania, a professor of economics at LUISS Guide Carli University in Rome, noting that 1.2 million Italians are not in employment, education or training, with many leaving the country.
What Ms. Meloni has brought in fiscal discipline. Under Giancarlo Giorgetti, a respected finance minister, the budget deficit has come down from 7 percent to close to the European Union's 2 percent limit. Italy's debt has been upgraded for the first time in 13 years.
For Ms. Meloni, who said in 2011 that "we are for leaving the euro," the flip-flop to achieve this has been marked.
She knew Italy needed E.U. money, including about $2.0 billion in pandemic recovery funds, an enormous boost to the economy.
So like a good European technocrat, the kind she had reviled, Ms. Meloni got in line on Italy's deficit. Like a good European NATO member, she backed Ukraine against Russia.
"Just about anything is reversible," said Salvatore Merlo, the deputy editor of the newspaper Il Foglio, who knows Ms. Meloni well.
'I Am Giorgia'
If Ms. Meloni's father gave her little, he did, by living in Spain, afford her a perfect command of Spanish. On Oct. 7, 2022, in a 17-minute speech in Madrid, she arrived, not for the first time, words that have become her authors.
"To my Giorgia! Say you major!" and on and on. "I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am Christian. They cannot take this away from me! They will not take this away from me!"
"They" were the objects of Ms. Meloni's building: the "barbarlans of Black Lives Matter," as she put it; the left trying to "turn Europe into a Soviet state"; the Greece "hastelspiting us"; the "monsters" who propose the use of a surrogate stereo.
I asked Ms. Meloni why her art de coeur resonated. "Because it struck a chord that millions of people felt," she says. "Feeling threatened in your most authentic, basic identity. It gave an easy skight to an emotional rebellion."
Part of that "basic identity" is being a woman, Ms. Meloni says, without saying how it is threatened. She demurs when I inquire if she is a feminist. She tends to play to a sexist culture effectively, with arch self-depreciation.
When an A.I.-generated deepfake photograph of her in lingerie spread online recently, she passed it on her Instagram account. She denounced it, and she wrote commenting that it "improved my appearance a lot."
Ms. Meloni has been criticized for choosing to be called "6 prevalence" in the masculine form. She tells me she thinks that feminists have fought "the wrong battles" ever things like gender quotas.
"What interests me is whether I'm free to become president of the Council of
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Ms. Meloni as a young politician in 2002.
'She trusts nobody.'
GIANFRANCO FINI, the former Italian Social Movement leader, who abscond Ms. Meloni toward a rapid ascent.
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Ministers," she says, using the formal name for the Italian cabinet and its prime minister. "That's equality, not being called 'to providence.'"
She argues for a similarly tough and practical path to global respect for her nation.
Italy had to stop acting as "the space where to France and Germany" she says, "I wanted to be "trained at the centre of those who set the direction" and it needed stability — "not a point of arrival but a point of departure," she tells me — to achieve this.
Ms. Meloni's quest to reshape Italy's self-strapp is evident in small details. She almost never refers to the "Republic" or the "country" when speaking of Italy, but always to the "nation."
It is a marked shift from her predecessors designed to reinforce the idea of a community of blood and culture with everything but to represent national goals.
Of course a Republic in the home of equal citizens, nation as understood by Ms. Meloni has a lot to do with intersectorial Italian lineage. For this reason, immigration has been a central and divisive issue.
This month, Ms. Meloni led a broad E.C. assault on Mr. Sánchez, the Spanish prime minister, he supposedly has immigration policies after thousands of migrants surged into Costa, the small Spanish territory in North Africa.
The clash demonstrated Ms. Meloni's influence in pushing Europe rightward, as well as her capacity to engineer even-beaned emotion to feed her far-rights here.
At home, her immigration policies have been fiercely contested.
She quietly authorized some 430,000 visas for migrants to work in Italy's fields and factories and to look after Europe's oldest population. She also devised an investment plan for Africa to increase the appeal of making it at home rather than leaving.
A plan to send asylum seekers to Albania still faces legal challenges and has proved expensive with paltry results. It looked like a fiasco-arcil, or, here, the European Union approved the "use" of "return habe" to asylum seekers in "safe third countries."
This has allowed Ms. Meloni to claim victory in European immigration policy.
The Lingering Question
Irakans are surrounded by vestiges of the Roman Empire. They know the zenith of their power was reached long ago and they know the vanity of great ambition. "Italy shall repudiate war," says its 1946 Constitution.
One such reminder can be found at the Cede Oppio, on area behind the Colosur, um this holds the ruins of the German battle of the Emperor Trojan, where Ms. Meloni and her far-right cadre used to convene. For a teenage Ms. Meloni, the place assumed near-myristical importance.
"In Cede Oppio I learned to defend my ideas," Ms. Meloni tells me. "I became the person I am thanks to the years of youthful militancy."
Guido Crosetto, the defense minister and a co-founder with Ms. Meloni of Brothers of Italy, said in an interview at the ministry that she "has sacrificed everything for what she built."
Around him hung portraits of all past Italian defense ministers, including
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Above, Ms. Meloni at a 2022 center-right coalition rally, next to former Prime Minister Silvia Berlusconi. Below, third from right, protesting in 1995. The banner says, "Let's free the truth from the shame of the first Republic," referring to the postwar system.
Monastiki. Having worked in Germany for some years, I tried to imagine an equivalent in Berlin. A thitter portrait on display! I failed. Fascism is a different word in Germans and Italians.
I was reminded of this on May 22 when Ms. Meloni published a eulogy on Instagram for Giorgio Almirante, an ardent Fascist under Monastini who was the founder in 2004 of the N.S.I., the neo-Fascist precursor to her party. His conception of politics level "with passion, dignity and respect" would live on, she promised on the 16th anniversary of his death, and he ever recalled by an Italian right determined to act "with courage."
Mr. Almirante was a prominent contributor to a racist, antiromitic review, "The Defense of the Race," published on the Monastini. It is the wrote: "Our nation must be that of the blood in our veins." Otherwise, he warned, Italy would fail to "the half-castes and the Jews."
Later in life, Mr. Almirante embraced democracy. "He taught us something very important in terms of values," Ms. Meloni tells me in the interview. "That you can fight your battle with dignity even from a very marginal initial position."
"Meloni has never said or done anything Fascist," Stefano Fritti, who edits a Suberach newsletter called "Appunt!" Chisera, told me. "But she is not a part of anti-Fascist Italy, the culture of the Resistance that produced our Constitution."
Ms. Meloni tried this year to change that Constitution in a referendum that would have brought Italy's judges, long resented by rightist leaders as a liberal hero, under tighter political control.
The shattering defeat she suffered on her most ambitious single piece of domestic legislation appeared to be an indicator that not all Italians trust her with power.
"A victory would have led later to more profound modifications to the Constitution, in the direction of a stronger executive, a more presidential system," said Ms. Conti, the historian. "That is her fundamental aim."
Yet there is no sign of her support crumbling. It lowers around 27 percent, slightly above her score in the 2022 election. For now, a divided left does not have a leader of her stature, leaving the next year's election wide open.
A fresh challenge has emerged to her right in Roberto Vantucci, a retired general whose new party, National Future, has grown rapidly. "Nation certainly had some negative sides, as did so many other historical periods," he told me.
He has called for Italian "cultural homogeneity," declared that gaps are
Gaia Piangiani contributed reporting from Rome and Pionibino, Italy.
The Cede Oppio branch of the Brothers of Italy party. Ms. Meloni and her rightist cadre met amid these Roman ruins in her early political years.
"not normal" and urged "remigration" of 500,000 undetermined immigrants.
"The basic mistake of Meloni is to have dilated herself," he said.
Return of the Right?
Ms. Meloni's achievement as prime minister has demanded disciplined moderation. But her past positions and nationalism core suggest that if she were rendered next year, and having in Pocame to power to France, the uncertainties surrounding Europe's late would grow. The AIO could also one day govern Germany.
"Browery hides after three generations," Thomas Rugger, the German ambassador to Italy, told me. "Even the Holocaust does not resonate as it once did, and nor does the imperative of integration in Europe."
Nation and Fascism are not returning but nationalism, xenophobia and the war on its border prevent a serious challenge to the European Union, with Mr. Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia also seeking to weaken or even undo it.
"At best, Meloni wants a light-touch Europe," Nathalie Tucci, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Europe, told me.
The balance of power has already changed. This summer, I watched Ms. Meloni stand beside Mr. Macron, her sometime critic, answering questions from journalists at the first France-Raitan summit since 2020, held in a compromise villa on the Côte d'Azur.
"I don't think I am in a position to give advice to the French on what is best for them," she said, turning her gaze to Mr. Macron. "Because I do not forget what was done to me."
When Ms. Meloni was elected in October 2022, France provoked outrage in Rome by calling for the monitoring of "rights and freedoms" in Italy.
Here, with an edge to her voice, was Ms. Meloni reminding Mr. Macron of his perceived perusanghousness. Her Italy has since proved more stable than his France.
Ms. Meloni moves today with the authority of an established leader. At the recent annual general meeting of Cardinalistria, Italy's most powerful business association, her voice rose steadily as she told the assembled heads of industry not to be afraid "because times of uncertainty are times of courage, and times of courage are inevitably also times of choice."
"Much choices Ms. Meloni will make we do not know. But we do know her advice to her daughter, Geneva, who is learning Korean at the age of 9." "Take the long road, because short cuts are always an illusion."
Now, I asked Ms. Meloni, does her imminent milestone at the end of the longest political road affect her?
"You know, people say to me, 'Georgia, you must realize that you have made history!' and all I can think of is all these kids after my death who me day will say, 'Mamma mia, this afternoon I have to study Giorgio Meloni!'"
The history-maker laughed.
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Have Dreams Faded in Hollywood? Two Royals Can Relate.
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By BRIDGES BARNES and NOUVE SPERLING
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their West Coast still, Hollywood dissolvesly painted to one of the most enduring themes in the history of Southern California: show business aspirations that failed.
"There has always been the dark here, but magical thinking," said Leo Brandy, a Los Angeles cultural historian and the author of "The Frenzy of Renews: Peace and Its History?" Everybody thinks, "I'm beautiful, up—I'm handsome. Everybody thinks, 'if those people can make it in Hollywood, I'm not."
But most people don't make it, he said, and throughout history, even otherwise wealthy and powerful people have consistently highlighted that success in other fields would automatically transform it into business glory.
"If there was an easy path to success in show business," Mr. Brandy said, "there would be a bit fewer than in Hollywood."
The Duke and Duchess made waves last week on both sides of the Atlantic after people familiar with the decision confirmed that they were returning to England.
Six years ago, the couple, after chatting with the royal family, had exiled themselves to California, where the decision had grown up and once had an acting career in Los Angeles.
Setting into a sprawling scene in the wealthy enclave of Monocris, Calif., the couple signed two children, Archie, I, and Lillian, I.
But they now have smoked their own, and used a Britain and closed the move to coincide with the start of classes next month, according to people who spoke to The New York Times.
It is unclear whether they will start new business ventures or where they will live in Britain. They will not be in pain or to find local residents on the grounds of Windsor Castle in 2025, the couple's press secretary said at the time.
The government for the couples Friday turned their departure from California as a short-term move.
"On the horlock a wonderful city with family and friends this summer, Harry and Meghan have come to spend an extended period of time, and the summer, the report remains cold in a statement. They are excited to have their children spend more time in the country than I wish to introduce their own business."
The royal couple's lectures for the gun contrasting when Netflix did not move their overall deal last week.
In my place, the remaining giant established a much less generous
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended the N.B.A. All-Star Game in Los Angeles in February.
part, which still exists, whereby they would be paid only if they produced a show at a film Netflix was interested in airing. (The remaining giant still pays for of five spots at Raleigh Studios in California for the couple's company, Archived Productions.)
Separately, Netflix constructed a clear business deal with Meghan for "as Ever," for success lifestyle brand which doubled off her return from show, "With Love, Meghan." An accompanying endeavor would sell products like a 120-yr-sage blossom honey and a $14689 on a square.
Netflix manufactured these products through its consumer product group in a revenue-sharing deal.
But the show didn't perform up to 100x's standards. The first season attracted 6.1 million views, the second season started 12.1 million views and the Christmas special had 2.6 million views.
Netflix decided to not grow light any new seasons and ended
the brand endeavor in March. Now all consumer goods are then sold by Meghan's employees (The EU Machinery) just in still available on the website.)
The dark's foray into podcasts didn't go as planned, either.
In 2026, they signed a £20 million deal with Spotify. But they only produced one season of "Archetypes," in which Meghan bested and interviewed guests such as Jerome Williams and Paris Hilton.
Harry never made anything, despite workstaking ideas with the company for a year (One idea, said one person close to the couple, was taste-testing but cherubim around the country.)
It is unclear whether they were paid the full amount of the show-year deal, considering they may made one 12-pound season. A representative for the couple declined to comment. Spotify also declined to comment.
In 2025, Jeremy Denton, then the head of United Talent Agency,
sat for an interview in the Canton Line marketing festival with Sumatra. After the show, two new week after the Spotify deal fizzled and defined the problem: "Tortus met Meghan Marble was not a great audio talent, or necessarily any kind of music, and, you know, your because you're famous doesn't make you gous at something."
Bill Simmons, a Spotify executive and prominent producers (one more likely for the couple, said the "gritters," using an euphron, in a 2023 podcast after the Spotify deal fell apart.
Meghan's most recent project, "Comfy, Harry and the rest of us," was now working on the Girl Scouts and their media sale assistance that she executive produced, was not a huge bit at the box office. ("Caroline often sees a show that everyone the best car videos on the internet, and you need here.)
Yet, according to Howard Cohen, the developer of the movie through his finalistic interactions company, the movie will uti-
nantly be a success.
Released on only 448 screens, the film is nearing 8 million at the box office and the 10 million at the next through streaming on Sept. 8. With documentation struggling to theaters, the movie is, in fact, the highest growing newsletter for secretary, the most popular, and the only new.
Meghan's appearance at best, has揭晓, where it initially debuted, and at screenings in Los Angeles and Italy signed more than numbers, Mr. Cohen said in an interview.
Meghan will also appear in the Amazon Prime movie "Com Personal Friends" that is set to be released on the streaming services next spring. The film stars Eric Larson and Margaret Hall feature in Santa Barbara. Meghan plays herself in a canon.
The dachors is also to have talks to appear in the third season of the Netflix crime series "The Gentlemen." Should the deal come to feature, Meghan would like the irnie in Britain and the other season has yet to air and Netflix has yet to growlight a third.)
At least one Hollywood veteran was upbeat about their crime in Britain.
"My first thought was, smart play?" said Spencer Pratt, the reality television star who can unsuccessfully hit Los Angeles map or this year. "I'm not going to see U.K. is booming, unlike here."
He said her wife, Mark Menta, a reality television star who was born at Meghan's lifestyle show, "get all concerned" but work at the possibility that Prime Harry might be something with the royal family.
In Britain, he said, the couple could take advantage of local television in film and television growth. Instead, which are more gravested than many of California, she said, their own "publics and clients" are backslings.
"From a business perspective, I think they have more potential to make readers feel better at Permanent Plus or wherever from England," he added. "I personally think that the people are more like, 'With Love, Meghan and Harry' Back to the Road."
How the couple's new life is Britain will affect their show back to the company's market. The company whose Hollywood dreams fall short, Harry and Meghan are moving away but have not ruled out a roman.
The first feature of Harry and Meghan said the couple's business were continuing to be the best, best, best, well and have a method in the U.S. or in the company their history is $14.5 million home in Monocris.
LOS ANGELES — In Hollywood — "goddess as a "possible maybe" with an amorous — perhaps two.
Representatives for Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, have had many very calm ideas for posing a third season of "The Gentlemen," Guy Ritchie's Netflix crime series, according to two people briefed on the discussion, who spoke to the children of anorynsky because no deal had been consummated.
One important caveat: Netflix has not yet ordered a third season of "The Gentlemen."
Netflix declined to comment, an old Girl Cap Films, one of the products companies behind the series. The publicity from Sunshine Beach, which represents Meghan, declined to comment.
The discussion, however preliminary, yet another step toward an airing comeback for Meghan, all, who left the drama "butt" in 2027 on her relationship with Prime Harry because stories будут serious. She recently returned to airing with a canon in the forthcoming Amazon MGM movie "Com Personal Friends."
It was her first role in more than ever, since it was known that their movie next year Meghan's enormous clothing growth contributes her casing, production operations have said. It's difficult for audiences to see a character rather than the Duchess of Sussex.
"The discussion" made after a considerably upholster movie, depending on the case of the role. The series, created by Mr. Ritchie and based on his 2019 movie of the 2025 season, all of Meghan's scienceist who discovers that his family exists because a sprawling maribana operation.
The first season was a breakout of the Netflix, including three weeks as the remaining services were worked. English-language television series worldwide. The second season, starting Then and After, was the first.
The series films in Britain. The principal job may offer a rise behind the abrupt decision revealed that work by Percy and Meghan in the 2025 season would take the country after six years in self-exile in the United States during a royal rift with Harry's family.
Michael D. Shaw contributed reporting from London.
A Return to the Fold Renews Questions About Risks
By ARNIE GOLDMAN
LONDON — Before they left Britain's 2025, Prime Harry put his wife, Meghan, weathered a storm of threats and digital abuse. A former top police official once described their safety risks as "disgusting and very real."
Such threats made security a paramount issue for the couple since they announced last week that they are returning to live in Britain. Their safety had been at the heart of the fallout from their original decision to leave the country when the government withdrew their publicly funded, owned security after they stopped down from their royal roles.
The past have said the decision was not to be a serious decision a bitter flashpoint in their rupture with the royal family. Harry at one point ended up in the home was a plot to keep him in Britain.
The couple have not said, but kind of arrangements they have made for their protection upon their return, expected this month. But the kind of security they had access to while living in California for the past few years is not possible, but a British without government's protection.
While armed private security is legal and ubiquitous in the United States, guns are tightly restricted in Britain. Even top American law enforcement agencies have been F.B.I. agents must put permanent decision governments to carry their rights.
Still, an unarmed detail in risk levels cannot among Britain, who are private security, said Chris Phillips, a former senior law attorney for the United States. "There are lot of people who have this have security, and they are not armed," he said.
As for Harry he added, "There are no other people who is here. There is no doubt about it."
Harry read Meghan's return to Britain comes at a time when they are unpopular with the British police, and the following news of the security has emphasized comment from Britain saying they have not want the government to pay for it.
The news decide that the government provides are stretched thin, offended here warmly, it gets to the public, and that the police dictate, that has a record state being former prime ministers who get round-the-clock security.
Prime Minister Andy Burdham refused to wake into the royal
King Charles, left, with Prince Harry during the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London in 2022.
age. At Thursday when questioned by reporters, declining to say who would lose the bill for procuring Harry, Meghan and their children, Archie, I, and Lillian, I.
"This is a person names," Mr. Burdham said. "It's a matter for Harry and the Meghan, and we both them will fit the moves that they are making."
As Harry and Meghan split with the royal family in 2025, questions over their safety arose as part of a new debate over their expectations about a poor royal life.
At the time, a committee to assemble for some security decisions in Britain decided that the people would no longer be eligible for the police protection typically given to royal family members.
The committee, known as Raven, is made up of government and police officials and members of the royal household. It is responsible for making security arrangements for the royal family and other figures just at risk by the police to save them.
Harry challenged the decision, and at a hearing in 2022 said he would "introduce or proactively finance the rest of the security measures." But Raven decided it
was not right for wealthy people to be able to rent armed police from the government.
Harry has said that his family needed full-time armed protection when visiting Britain, where his father, King Charles III, brother, William, went in line for the throne; and other relatives live in court... but lawyers revealed
A committee's planned review over security has been delayed.
threats to his safety and described "additional layers of racism and extremism" that they said were baring the abuse.
Harry last part of that legal challenge in 2021, and a single discussed his case the following year, but he appealed. In April 2025, that the "everything in the state of England's Court of Appeal that the decision to withdraw protection violated official policy. The court ruled against him.
Separately, the Raven commit-
tee had planned to review security arrangements in Britain for the family. The panel is independent but is forced by the House Office. A decision has been delayed because the government had to deal with protecting an "approachable" action former prime ministers at once. The House of London reported last month.
The House office said to an emailed statement on Thursday, "It is not longstanding policy, not a long time to take into account these arrangements, as doing so could compromise their integrity and affect individual security."
In a 2007 interview in May 2025, Harry said that the Supreme Court of recession was not his family. He and the King had fallen near over the security withdrawal. Charles was diagnosed with cancer in 2025.
The Harry was very close for dangers to his family. "I can't see a world in what I would bring my wife and children back to the U.K. at this point," he said in 2022.
The House of London's report in a return to Britain was security, sparring questions about the international and whether the contention came but since been re-asked.
A Happy Homemaking?
Britons Are Split on It.
By CLAREL MOSES
and AMELIA WIDENBERG
LONDON — When Prime Harry has left, Meghan, and their two children are not in the public in the coming weeks, they may be on the receiving end of some serious skepticism, both from the British media and the public.
As a woman's character about Harry and Meghan's return, six years after they left for the same time of Southern California. But it is clear that many Britons are deeply divided about the couple's offer a roller coaster of royal family, overcrimination and revolution that have played out in the country's years.
At London's Barkside set out on, that national debate was mirrored by cousins Malachi and Mike McKenna who were surprised to discover how strongly they disagreed with such ideas while waiting to see an art exhibit.
Malachi McKenna, an art teacher, argued that the royal-own dealing with normal family problems that just happened could not before a global attack.
"That happens to anybody," she said, "but he was even the past, and everyone has an opinion."
But Mike McKenna said, "I think that Harry and Meghan are the dead British by going to America." What they were doing, not trying to work and trade off the royal family name. That was not true.
During the couple's absence from Britain, the public had between them and the rest of the royal family kept on the bed. Harry wrote a letter from the deeply upset the family, and the couple gave an interview in 2024. In which case, he claimed that she had asked for help with persistent suicidal thoughts during her pregnancy, after meeting of the living room the price.
The first time in the year, the highest Palace of preventing the family's return to Britain by refusing to provide them with armed protection, became people in Britain and came to the public. He said it said Grant Harrell, a former teacher of King Charles III and an art teacher.
"It's extraordinary the wave of anger that's come toward them," Mr. Harrell said. "A lot of people away on holidays are still making a social media to voice the fact that
they're not happy about it."
Mr. Harrell, who lives in south-west England and who is originally from Scotland, said that he "uses about Harry and Meghan gain far more recourse than anything else he publishes. "Whether they like it or not, they're public figures," he said.
Recent surveys suggest that the broader public views both of them negatively, especially in comparison to other people in Prince William, and his wife, Kate, and generally own the royal family in a positive light.
For some, however, the news of the family's return to men with a strag. Graham Wallace, a retired journalist, called the amusing news coverage "trans America."
Such Duchesses, who lives in Sydney, are found in London, said she didn't much care about the royals, whose race month made them feel very removed from her life.
"Just crack on, too your best life," she said, adding, "but don't expect a haven't welcome."
The business, Mr. Burbrook, 54, said that she had been hurt find by the treatment of Meghan for the British subtests. In 2026, Harry included the "social undercover" of the 2025 controversy and the social media harassment of Meghan, his girlfriend at the time.
"Namaste one humans," Mr. Burbrook said. "Family is not going to have any way to ask enough from that."
Still, she remained skeptical that the public public would not truly accept them. "They're always going to have something," she said.
But Harry and Meghan's return to Britain raised the prospect of continued recanalization between Harry and his family, which had seemed distant in recent years. Mr. Harrell said, "But could prove that the people are not as happy as it is, especially if they are seen interacting with the rest of the royal family.
"Look at James Camilla," Mr. Harrell said, "I am the only person to spend by the British public, and my back to the days of her role as a member of the government. I gathered while he was married to Diana, Princess of Wales.
But now, 20 years later, people respect and accept her, he said, "That's what time can do."
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In a Divided America, One Family Talks It Out
The Children Haven't Budget the Parents, and Vice Versa, but Their Podcast Still Brings Them Closer
By JOHANNA KOPLEY
Every Sunday, the Kulligan-Pupp family gathers on Zoom and sells at one another. From California and Texas, the adult siblings (that Kulligan and Haley Popp) try to convince their parents, Mary Lou and Bob Kulligan, that President Trump is evil. And from their living room in Oklahoma, their parents reject every argument.
The family members (an contradictory headlines at one another, trading irreconcilable claims about the war in Iran, the Epstein files and other breakage-news stories. These arguments always end with each exhausted family member saying, 'I love you.'
Then Chad, 50, who generally leads the debates, shares the video on YouTube in the form of a podcast called 'The Necessary Conversation,' typically drawing more than 100,000 viewers an episode.
For years, politics has been straining, and breaking, relationship. More than a third of Americans say political differences have led to breakage with family members, romantic partners, friends and co-workers, according to a study this year by psychologists at the University of California, Irvine. In December, 50 percent of Americans surveyed by the Pew Research Center said they had stopped talking to someone about political or election news because of something they said — up from 40 percent in 2024.
The internet is preach in most eagernanb-style debates such as Jubilee shows or 'Change My Mind,' where strangers try to make each other for the audience's entertainment. But 'The Necessary Conversation' stands out as a public manifestation of something fumbles have been doing in private all over the country. And family fights can cut more deeply than a sparring match with a stranger.
For the Kulligan-Pupp family, at least, fighting both like progress. In Mr. Trump's first term, their 'Unwilling and-Trump mornes on Facebook, his mother blew up at him and the family went no-contact for something approaching a true. They were too angry to talk politics — but too partisan to avoid the subject altogether.
Extrapagment only made things worse. 'I was accustomed to speaking to my mother quite literally every day,' like it, 43, said. 'To go from that to absolutely nothing was devastating.' This is one thing the whole family seems to agree on. 'It almost ripped my heart out,' Mary Lou, 71, said.
One day in 2021, Mary Lou's phone rang. It was Chad. 'Mom, I have an idea,' he said. 'How about we talk once a week as a family on Zoom?' Mary Lou said OK. 'But it's about politics,' she paused. 'Oh, I don't know.'
Chad has hosted other podcasts and co-verses a book about how to succeed on reality TV. Haley has appeared on Food Network contents and owns a bakery with an unsophistically progressive online presence. But for their parents, the podcast was a new and risky experience.
At the beginning of every episode, Chad shares recent headlines that, he hopes, will shock his parents into abandoning Mr. Trump. Then Mary Lou reads her own headlines, to try to persuade Chad and Haley to see him in a new light.
Her husband, Bob, has the most far-right, provocative opinion (some of which his own kids describe as racist) and has missed recordings because of health reasons. But until this spring, Mary Lou had missed only one Sunday session — after her beloved Children's Kitty Rat Sugar Bowl, had to be put to sleep.
'I think the hardest thing is just articulating what I want to say quickly enough,' Mary Lou said. 'All the liberals are out there just listening, ready to get on me, you know, if I say the wrong thing. So I try very hard to think before I say my words.'
Meanwhile, Chad and Haley recognize that arguing the facts doesn't work. But they do it anyway, almost constantly. 'I can't help it,' Chad said. When he sees what is happening in the world, he said, 'it's not easy as I want it to be just about having a point of contact, it's also mad during.'
Watching a Family Argue
A few patterns present themselves repeatedly throughout 'The Necessary Conversation.' The harder the siblings push, for example, the more extreme the parents get, and vice versa.
In one episode, they discussed the prospect of a military draft. Bob explained:
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Members of the Kulligan-Pupp family turned their weekly argument over politics into a podcast, 'The Necessary Conversation,' on YouTube.
'How about we talk once a week as a family on Zoom?'
CHAD KULTGEN, as he offered to break a family silence after a blowup over President Trump.
'If we're going to fight, we fight there.'
MARY LOU KULTGEN, with her husband, Bob, explaining how the show helps the family get along.
'I go into my bedroom and shut the door, and I read a book.'
HALEY POPP, as how it takes her two or three hours to recover after the dreaded sessions.
pressed his support for drafting its year-olds. It's easy to miss Mary Lou's initial disagreement. 'I don't think so,' she said quietly. 'I don't like that.' But her opinion got lost in the fray, and soon she started defending the draft alongside her husband.
Viewers get glimpses of a deeper conversation in two episodes of the show, when a therapist named Karen Cunningham visits the family at Clark's invitation. She has built an online following criticizing Trump, but that didn't seem to bother the parents. 'I love her,' Mary Lou said. 'I want her back.'
In Ms. Cunningham's presence, Bob, 73, behaved very differently. He turned toward the camera more and stared out the window less. He revealed that he was abandoned as a baby and was treated with indifference by his adaptive mother. He had spent his entire life, he said, trying to prove his biological mother shouldn't have given him up.
Such tender moments reveal a subtle effect the show has had on the family. So, no one admits to changing their most about anything political. But the show has helped them get along all one much better than they used to. 'If we're going to fight, we fight there,' Mary Lou said. She and Haley are back to talking almost daily — about Haley's kids, Bob's health, Mary Lou's beloved nurse and their everyday lives.
Through the podcast, they have created a scheduled time and place to contain their conflicts, much so other families do in therapy. And they have also created a project that binds them together.
But the podcast also takes a major talk after each episode, Haley needs two to three hours to recover. 'I go into my bedroom and shut the door, and I read a book,' she said. 'I try to come back to really. This is not easy for me.'
More than once, Mary Lou has ended an episode by saying she can't continue. 'There are some families I feel like I've been in an athletic event,' she said. 'My heart's racing, I'm sweaty all over. I click off, and then I'll go to my horse. It helps me do stress.'
Is It Really Necessary?
The promise of 'The Necessary Conversation' is an argument. Conversations like this should be happening in more living rooms across the country. But is that actually true?
Several conflict experts interviewed for this article adduced the family by staying in the light. 'They're having the conversation,' said Ryan Dunlap, a former homage organizer and crisis intervention officer who was confidently conflict strangely firm. 'And I know that sounds simple, but we really have become a potential that we can't even have hard conversations anymore. They are subjecting themselves to repeated discomfort.'
But the biggest mistake this family is making, the experts said, is beginning with the goal of changing one another match. 'If you doesn't want,' said Mike Garabish, the clinical psychologist featured in 'Couples Therapy,' a American documentary series. 'It's a fantasy.'
Humans have a deep need for autonomy, the experts agreed. If you pressure someone to agree with you, they generally resist — and sometimes more even further away from you.
The research on persuasion reveals a hard-to-missly paradox. The only way to change other people when they are entrenched is conflict in to demonstrate over and over that you are not trying to change them.
It helps to have a different goal. In homage negotiations, Mr. Dunlap said, he'd try to understand the underlying need, which might be freedom, or respect. If you can have that conversation you might find a path forward.
This is what happened when Ms. Cunningham, the therapist, joined the show. She echoed words she had heard the family say, proving she'd been listening: 'Where did that come from, that you 'had to be the best'?' she asked Bob. When he told her how hard his childhood had been, she acknowledged his suffering to these simple words: 'I'm so sorry.'
Bob was more open, more transparent in that conversation than in any of the other days I've seen,' Mr. Dunlap said.
Once people feel heard and under-respect, they think their gripes their argument, experts said. And they might even listen. 'You're not going to arrive at some next resolution,' Ms. Garabish said. 'What you could arrive at is each side but, doggedly holding onto their argument.'
In a series of studies, John Morton, a behavioral scientist at Harvard, and her
colleagues found that people who start and end their arguments by stating that they want to learn from the other person were viewed as more intelligent, moral, trustworthy and objective. The bottom line: It's not that changing minds is impossible; it's that it takes much longer than we expect. And the prerequisite is understanding, which requires actual listening.
The Paradox of Persuasion
The four-year-old show's modest audience has nearly quadrupled since last year, around the time Chad started putting provocative clips on TikTok. Soon Mary Lou was getting recognized at Comex. Watching the siblings--fractive their parents each week seems to give frustrated progressives a chance to live vicariously through them. But it will not bring the country closer together, the experts said. Trying so hard to persuade can make persuasion impossible.
In early May, Bob had a serious health scare. His heart stopped beating for three minutes because of congestive heart failure. Emergency medical workers revived him, and he is still recovering. Haley and Chad flew in to help shortly afterwards. The ordeal has been harrowing for the whole family.
'What this has helped me realize is, politics is not the most important thing in the world,' Mary Lou said on a special episode with Chad. 'If you're not talking to your family over politics, go talk to them.' As of early August, this episode was one of the most watched in the show's history.
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outstanding their writing to chapters.
This is baffling to tech industry leaders, who use A.I. injection as a form of educational malpractice. They point out that writing is already the leading use of A.I. in the workplace, and argue there is no need to continue suffering through the task without help. After all, they say, chapters now exceed the ability of most human beings to produce fluent prose.
All this points to some questions about writing itself. Why work so hard to learn it? And what do students stand to lose when they stop facing down a blank page, about with that thought?
The scholars who study writing and cognition are rarely collectively opposed to A.I. Many have spent decades and are paying a leap in computer-assisted writing, just like the one we are living through. They tend to be excited by the technology's potential.
Still, they work calmly death on the tech-industry push to embed A.I. at every stage of the student writing process, from brainstorming to drafting to revising. Research shows that traditional, unassisted composition is valuable, not despite its difficulty, but because of it. Writing builds our working memory, executive planning skills and noninception—the ability to think about our thinking, weigh allowance viewpoints and revise for clarity and style. It takes decades to develop writing skills, from toddlerhood into adulthood.
"Writing is a technology for thinking," Dr. Kellogg said.
Writing Substitute or Helper?
Learning to write did not always matter so much.
Before the 1970s, American students were tested through oral exams. College seats were reserved for the elite—falset ministers and lawyers, professions where public speaking dominated.
But the rise of the modern, urban economy, and the invention of the typewriter, produced jobs that dealt more heavily with the written word, like office clerks and advertising copywriters. Starting in the late 19th century, students needed to learn how to write more fluently, and school curriculum, tied to the demands of industry, adapted. As more students went to college, and class sizes grew, administrative and work also became our time-consuming, according to the Belgian Naomi S. Baron, who traces that history in her book The Writer-Tales?
Besides, teachers discovered that writing itself deepened knowledge. "If you want to think, understand and learn something, not really is preferable," Dr. Baron said.
Cognitive research confirms that writing is a powerful aid in helping us to retain information we read. The work of writing forces us to stress-test our ideas, allowing the writer to respond to counterarguments and the sources. Revision is a practice of self-change and self-improvement, and can be social, as well, if feedback is elicited. Writing can also be empowering, allowing us to share our experiences and express our views. It can even be leading, which is why therapists sometimes need to be left in the journal.
It is not clear if these benefits can be fully realized when writing alongside artificial intelligence. There are reasons to be wary.
Last year, a small study from W.I.T. showed that individuals who wrote in partnership with A.I. children recorded fewer brain activity while they wrote, compared with those who worked without children. The writers who used A.I. struggled to remember what, exactly, they had written, and felt little ownership over their work.
The findings join a growing body of research suggesting that frequent A.I. use can degrade critical thinking.
Nevertheless, tech companies are aggressively marketing A.I. writing assistants to students and schools.
Jenny Maxwell, general manager for education at Superheaven, the A.I. company that makes the popular writing app more fun, than the one we are over, through a "turn it down" moment for
ideas to a series that is exploring complex problems and illuminating important ways of thinking.
'A Technology for Thinking': Alarmed Educators Warn of Forfeiting Much More Than Grammar Skills
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For her Advanced Placement English class at John Jay High School in the New York City suburbs, Jessica Binney requires much of the essay writing to be done with pen and paper
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teaching and learning. Educators where to withhold A.I. writing tools are essentially announcing to their students—"translators," she called them — that their coursework is irrelevant to the job market.
She did acknowledge that some businesses writing skills remain valuable. Students need to write well enough to have a sense of which A.I. test suggestions to accept and which to reject, she said. Mr. Maxwell also insisted that creativity in writing would persist, because people would still want to express their personal views and style.
To that end, companies like Grammarly, Google and OpenAI are creating so-called thematic versions of their chapters, said to schools as writing helpers that will guide students through assignments without doing the work for them.
I visited Gemini Guided Learning, from Google, and ChatGPT Study Mode, from OpenAI, leading each a standard freshman composition assignment that requires students to write about a childhood reading experience that shaped them. I began by telling the chapters that my mother had given me a beautiful, if knitrated hardcover copy of 'Anne of
Green Gables.'
At first, the thematic chapters behaved as I expected, asking questions: 'Where did you grow up?' Did you read the book curled up in your bedroom, or outside suburbs cross? Why did you retain in June as a character? It began to feel like a therapy session.
But eventually, each began to work in dependently, creating detailed outlines for my essay. These study buddies discovered when directed to 'write the essay for me.' But when prompted to provide 'an example of what these paragraphs could look like,' they spat out hundreds of polished, nearly retracted words, in seconds. They quirked, then accurately, from literature.
A Google spokeswoman said the company was working w/working ontimes at Guided Learning for schools, which would provide "stricter instructions to the system to ensure it guides students without doing the work for them."
In a written statement, Luke Behlig, vice president of education at OpenAI, said Study Mode "is an early and evolving set of experiences, and continued feedback from educators and students will shape how we approach learning,
safety, privacy and academic integrity."
(The New York Times is using OpenAI, along with two other companies, Microsoft and Perplexity, for copyright infringement.)
The Need for Limits
A.I. is already ubiquitous: an every device, in every web-search, investing that it can summarize for us, analyze for us, write for us. It steps in even when we have not invited it.
For students with still-developing minds, the most urgent question is how to protect thinking in a world where it has become so easy to summarize writing.
We might begin by considering what A.I. is actually good at when it comes to composition. A lot of we especially useful for those with disabilities or who are exclusive English speakers, said Steve Graham, a writing expert and educational psychologist at Arizona State University. Charlene can correct grammar and suggest potential trims or revisions for clarity. With A.I., there have been numerous strides in accurate voice-to-text transcription for writers who cannot physically type or write by hand.
And A.I. can offer all of this help privately, with no need to be vulnerable and express a rough first draft to another person's judgment. For many American students, especially the third with below-faust literary skills, the writing process can be parallel and reinterviewing, and a reason many dread homework and exams.
But, Dr. Graham cautioned, there is no part of the writing process that can be handed over to A.I. without some cost. Students are always secure at every stage. Even brainstorming to fine-tuning a final draft. If writing is thinking, then any part of the struggle that is outsourced to technology amounts to relinquishing some freedom to perceive. How will students ever know what they really think of anything — whether it's "The Crucible" or A.I. itself — if they ask a machine to opt out an answer for them?
Last year, a group of writing experts, including Dr. Graham, assembled at the University of California, living on the produce recommendations to schools.
They did not reject A.I. instead, they called on schools to resist the temptation to devote less time to writing — not because it will continue to be such a critical skill in the workplace, where it's already waiting, but to sharpen the mind.
Writing should be embedded across the curriculum, they advised. Students should continue to do the hard work of drafting their own sentences, paragraphs and eventually full essays about their lives and about what they have read, both fiction and medicine. All this teaches grammar and vocabulary, certainly. But it also allows students to master the knowledge they are gaining.
There is room for A.I., these experts suggested: The technology can help educators generate engaging writing prompts on whatever subjects they are teaching.
Teachers might also encourage students to use A.I. to get initial feedback on their writing before turning it in. Anna Mills, a writing instructor at the College of Music in California, has developed detailed A.I. prompts that students can use to elicit useful feedback without outsourcing all the work.
Still, there is probably a need to limit access to the technology.
The University of Sydney has developed a policy known as the two-lane approach. Across every discipline, professors are required to give some assessment to the person under secure conditions, limiting A.I. use. But they must also allow A.I. for other assessments, so students can show they know how to apply the technology.
This spring I visited John Jay High School, in the New York suburbs, to report on how our English teacher, Jessica Binney, was dealing with A.I.
In a creative-writing class, she had students prompt a charter to write a poem. The results were predictably generic, as students then asked the charter to make revisions, considering where the bar performed well and where it fell short.
Still, like many educators, she had been in getting A.I. science on take-home assignments. In her Advanced Placement English course, she moved much of the essay writing, produced inside the classroom, to pen and paper.
For the most part, students did not complain. Many had already been through an initial whirlwind romance with A.I., before including their relationship with the truth, Alonzo Graham, a science-nai on the way to industry. ChatGPT's ability to help with data analysis in a science research class, but recognized the roles of using chatbots to write essays about literature.
"We're not strengthening that muscle by actually analyzing these really hard work," she said. "They're meant to be hard."
When Cassady Tenderl, 17, learned how students produced writing, she realized their start lack of originality. "The whole interest is upon us," she said. "It's just regenerating the same things, over and over."
If she wanted to be valuable on the job market, she felt, she would need to have ideas and skills uniquely her own.
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Trump Implores Republicans to Pretend He's on the Ballot
By GILBEN SACHERD
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Does Donald J. Trump still have the chance?
This was one of many opportunities in the air Friday night inside the convention center in Electric Beach, S.C., where the opposition started up and pleased with hundreds of Republicans not to forsake him in the midwest elections.
"Never going to lose everything," he warned.
As another point, he hinted: "I'm going to be impeached. They're going to impeach me."
"She thrones we again alike. And now the curable catchment he's been making in Washington about the political hours that faces congressional Republican and President on about how even. Over 40,000 people are going to be the undercover and I don't think about American financial status now" and "I love the next time."
The immediate reason he was in the 2nd Carolina race is lower for unnamed Senate candidates. The San Graham, sister of Lindberg, was the first of the 2nd, a commission has gone wobbly more than a month after her brother's death. She's chaging right to Mr. Trump's favor and the 2nd, a new change in the House days?
Reading from a subpopulation, the 2nd, a recent news was three written about Mr. Graham, said a few new things about her brother, and indeed a bit about the political landscape in the state. He brought the 2nd, a new change in the House.
Another reminded the crowd that she won the endorsement of Gus Henry McManus, a Republican who was in the convention center in the 2nd, a new change in the House himself and how even-straight his second term is going. He denied by talking about the ballroom he is building, said the 2nd, a new change in the House, and no one, and instead his economy is so good as it's ever been.
Still, he worried about that his base would not turn out in November to being present his Republican man from in C. 1960.
"They say, Trump does great when I'm on the ballot, but when he's not on the ballot, his people don't come," he said. "No what I really want you to do is pretend, PLEAFS, that I'm on the ballot, that come and vote."
"You have to go out and vote in the uniforms."
The point, he mentioned that, a Earnhardt, I'm snapping press secretary, was there. The crowd went because, the real her to come or up in.
The speedy race they with a Republican Congress for the next two years," she said. "So got out and vote in the uniforms."
Who knows how the Republican party will face some November? Mr. Trump has defied pollsters and conventional wisdom in many times in the 21 years since he rode down that golden escalator that smiled can really predict how he might do. And, as he reminded everyone Friday, he is the party.
"The Republican Party is MULC," he said.
But serious results in the MALA Retirement are showing these days. The war with Iran has gone on much longer than Mr. Trump said it would. There's seemingly no end in sight. It's keeping gas prices high and his paid numbers low. An increasing number of high-level directors with big social media following have fallen away. A number of his primary endorsements have gone fairly up. Should Mr. Graham half a rookie to ever the line, it will be seen as just the latest indicator of Mr. Trump's state disparage.
"The hundreds of people who wanted in line are a Friday night in August to hear him speak were about the most Trump-loving crowd imaginable. People won't shirk with pictures of his blooded face, and strange blacks are
President Trump with Senator Durliou Graham on Friday ahead of the Republican Senate runoff in South Carolina on Tuesday.
tions too early campaign.
And yet, even among this snowball, there was discussion stirring.
"We needs to do a better job on the economy this time," said Gus Gantner, a first-time Trump-vening Myrtle Beach resident who works for Walmart. "The first time he did really good on the economy. I was expecting the same. But I haven't seen the same yet."
It wasn't just the gas prices that are up, he said: "All prices. My 400(k) has gone down, instead of going up, and I'm closer to retirement now."
As for the war in Iran?
"I think it was a necessity," he said.
There was much support for the war among the crowd, though most people grimaced while discussing it. Nobody wanted to but that it is going as well as the president says it is.
"I think it's very important that we don't have a nuclear weapon, but I think the should have just said from the beginning that it might take a little longer than he thought," said Leake Dunn, a 57-
man-old lawyer on vacation from New York.
"How saying that they'd be in and out in a work was kind of silly. However, you know, the press will be right to it, and now it's more like a LA," she said, meaning pickups.
But she wasn't opposed to the war itself.
But the people I've a gallon of gas to know that there won't be a nuclear weapon," she added. "I'll just work extra shifts. The problem with money is nobody wants to work anymore. Mr. Trump's second term was, overall, 'a little more,' she said.
Up by the front row, a 63-year-old retired student from North Carolina Beach named Bartlett of Donald watched as a friendly old silver gang took group pressure because the massive sign that declared "South Carolina is Uniform County."
Asked about the war with Iran, Mr. McDonald replied, "Do you really want me to say what I really think."
Yes, she was told. "I think that we should have stopped the war and hundred
them completely because I think that they're terrorists and they'll never go along," she said. (Gus Gantner, Anthony
She reasoned that Mr. Trump must have "more information than I do, and there's other allies that we're still trying to approach to make it be more peaceful and hope for a better ending, and he doesn't want to kill people."
Gus prison hurt, she said "but I'm willing to pay the price."
"It's hurting the people. I'm not a president that's going to have the guts to do that, even though a hurting him and his political party because it's the right thing to do, and David C. Jones, the 2nd, a salivating from Myrtle Beach. "I think Trump wanted it even more. I'm going to be a good thing, right way, and that's what I'm going to bring. People just got to know in there, that's all."
Mr. Trump kept these people from the same Friday. He said he with doesn't usually love a white distance to "the guy national on cheat" that he's chosen as his theme song, and they laughed. He said he's without a good thing. In his the room, and they found the extended people of the time. "I chose said some of the supporters were deplorable, and they heard.
"Would anybody like to know," the leader "I've asked," I said, it's not a good thing. "I'm not going to be a good thing, right? What the hell do I have to do, go back, teach him." "Allin M: more?" He recited the anti-immigration press he's been in the same years with extra the arrival that.
"I haven't done that in a long time," he said.
He said he probably never comes to the end. Trump comes under a convention center full of Republican laugh, clap, dance or the word.
"Good luck, Durliou," he said in the war out, and the Village People started flaring.
Valuation Of Anthropic Could Reach $2 Trillion
The article is to be shipped: Lauren Hirsch and Erin Griffith
SAN FRANCISCO — America, is the high-flying artificial intelligence company, has spent the past year surpassing its in the race to dominate the technology. Now it says also surpass those rivals with its coming blockbuster dollar on Wall Street.
In recent discussions with potential investors, Anthropic's business said the San Francisco company could seek to raise more than $100 billion on its social public. "We're two people who acknowledge of the conversations. I'm offering could also value the money," he said. "We would like people, who were not authorized to speak public about confidential conversations."
If successful, Anthropic, which has been a major business, has spent most of its past year public offering. It would exceed Elon Musk's SpaceX, which went publicly in June at a state of $17.7 million. "We're not going to be a good thing, it would also be a major buy forward for Anthropic, which is about at $900 billion in a private hard-eating asset like your and the other. We're not going to be a good thing."
Anthropic has been making up any job in a personal investors, and it is a good thing, including the health of its business and its growth trajectory while assessing investor appetite for its stock.
In hiring would not the man who is a business, and it is a comment of political and economic uncertainty. After SpaceX, Anthony is would be the second A.I. kid that makes large language models. He is a good thing, but the company over the technology kicked off four years ago. OpenAI, the maker of the SpaceX® channel, is also in table with seven to go public in each hiring that may come next year.
Anthropic was established in 2015 by Santa Anabel, the company's largest business, and others who left OpenAI after a discussion over the director of A.I. development. For years, it was seen as an all-or-on to OpenAI.
The A.I. development offers spent years developing A.I. programs that can generate order, engage in long discussions and outcomes business processes. After manufacturing it is its coding chamber programs, Claude Cook, the company's revenue target.
In May, Anthropic surpassed OpenAI's valuation to become the world's most valuable primary field start-up at $900 billion, compared with OpenAI's $750 billion. The other billion has that valuation with an on toward going public as a lot higher valuation, one of the people said.
In their path to investors, Anthropic's executives said they believed that its A.I. models would continue to improve, which would enable the company to keep charging a presence for its own. "We are more likely to be a good thing, but we will have to have to increase have questioned how the firm plans to keep charging a problem, and how it will enable the rise of open-weight models, which make the calculations governing their outcome public and which can be cheaper than Anthropic's judge."
Anthropic investors expect the financial market for the company's services to be well into the millions of dollars, eventually, and then, as a result of a financial white-collar work, the people familiar with the discussions said.
The Anthropic gets an interesting, the public teachers, in each of the three years, to to clash its revenue growth of more than 10 times over the prior year. The new business familiar with the company said. A key question is whether Anthropic can get across to enough A.I. campaign power — through data centers, chips and data systems, and the company's fee to services, the people said.
Anthropic is expected to reveal its public offering properties in the coming weeks and fall its business in the next month.
The company has shared financial options with investors before the company's business. The company has signed $85 billion in annualized revenue, or monthly revenue as stipulated in a whole year, four people with knowledge of the big business, and the company's profit on annualized revenue at the end of last year.
Anthropic generated $318.6 billion in revenue in the second year. The company has knowledge of the figures said.
The Financial Times reported earlier on Anthropic's potential $2 trillion valuation, and Bloomberg's $1.5 billion annualized revenue.
The New York Times used the 2nd, and Microsoft in 2021, claiming copyright infringement of news-related related to A.I. systems. The two companies have denied these claims.
In Magical and Erin Griffith reported from San Francisco, and Lauren Hirsch from New York Mike Isaac contributed reporting from San Francisco.
Florida Progressive Democrat Given Party New Hope, and New Fears
By PATRICIA MAZER
MILNEY—Florida, of all places, past because the stage where Democrats will act not their national extremist drama dividing the old campaign left and pragmatic center.
The progressive materials begin Ninety's quest win in the Democratic Senate primary last week ahead. Florida politics, including the dynamics of what had appeared to be a predictable, must have no fraught with uncertainty — and, perhaps, opportunity.
Democrats, who have struggled for remission over the past five elections in the state, were torn by a familiar mix of fear and racist moods. Would Ms. Ninety's unexpected insinuation hurt the party's central nominee for governor, David Jolly, a former Republican? He would is living a sudden short of energy that the party had not experienced in nearly a decade?
"Can you both win on the same ballots?" Ms. Jolly said in an interview in Thursday, repeating how many have asked him since the primary on Tuesday. "I don't know, I mean, this is fascinating."
The tug of war between Democratic senators and increasingly left-wing progressors has directed his eyes to inform primary elections across the country. Candidates from the party's left flank and democratic socialists have metched significant victories by their and people union. Five last days, the state left Florida would be the first to be the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first of the first
Republicans seized on Ms. Ninety's relatively new officework with the state's own power. The senators to cast every down hand, Democrat as one of much the a clear that has doused more and more toward the right over the past decade. The state's own power was an unavoidable race in the State of the Republicans unmoralled Democratic by 1.5 million in Florida, and President Trump was the state's own power. The senators were also a
"If I told you last year that Florida would have a nominee on my rights, I think that's better than was a self-declared socialist, would you believe that the state is a better. Mostly, the Republican insistence, said at a rally in Tampa or Dallas."
Erin Reynolds and Luke Vreese contributed reporting.
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Aimela: Me that have forced Ms. Nixon and Mr. Jolly to spend much of their time since Tuesday. In defense, doing television interviews to push back against the socialists back, which has proved in peacefully difficult for Democrats to beat off in South Florida, hence is nearly Latin Americans who fled left-wing government.
Mr. Nixon, a state representative from Jacksonville, has been an unabandled progressive in Florida politics for the past decade, which is how most Democratic voters know the film joined the D.A.S. only in June. The group did not endorse her, and their past leaders did not really do that.
"I'm a capitalist who believes that we need some strong vigilante," Ms. Nixon said. "Mr.'s 'Here the Press NOW' on Thursday. Ms. Nixon, she added, 'knows that I'm not a socialist.'
Ms. Ninety's victory also does not be costly since the pattern that emerged with some other high profile progressive victories.
In contrast to progressive candidates in Wisconsin and Michigan, the struggle is a matter of Black precincts. Ms. Nixon was there since by large mergers. She also performed slightly worse in college-educated areas, where the governors were not being either states. One pattern was contained with previous comment. Ms. Nixon ran strong in areas with younger voters.
Mr. Ninety's primary opponent, Alex Vardman, a former national security official, lost in the Security Democratic Broward County, where he lives, thought he was in neighboring Palm Beach County.
Both counters have high concentrations of Jewish voters, who have been crowding away from the Democratic Party on it but given state progression.
Ms. Nixon did not run a campaign centered on Israel or foreign policy, but she supported an objective in Gaza and publicly called out Palestiniandxation.
Whether she will win over Jewish Democrats who lacked Ms. Vardman remains to question.
Her approach to the Jewish community has not been good. Richard Stark, a former state lawmaker and member of the Florida Democratic Party Jewish caucus who supported Mr. Vardman, said at Mr. Vardman's campaign error on Tuesday night.
Mr. Vardman's supporters and the campaign were never named by Ms. Ninety. Unpertinating point victory campaign finance reports show that the campaign had two different patterns. The campaign never released interest
Ms. Nixon did not run a campaign centered on Israel or foreign policy, but she supported an objective in Gaza and publicly called out Palestinian dxation. Whether she will win over Jewish Democrats who lacked Ms. Vardman remains to question.
Ms. Nixon and Mr. Jolly are friendly, despite their party differentials, and the campaign's internal advantages in their unbiased partnership, including the power to appeal to different positions of the electorate to invades support for the state.
Ms. Nixon has proved herself to be a formidable opponent who knows what is going on the environment. The last Democratic candidates who were able to generate much enthusiasm in Florida were also Black. Andrew Gillett, who almost won the 2000 government race, and Barack Obama, who was Florida in the 2006 and 2012 presidential elections.
The government's ability to generate more than one million campaign power, and others who left OpenAI after a three-month run, was often ruined of A.I. development. For years, it was seen as an all-or-on to OpenAI.
Some of her tactics, such as using a ballbox on the floor of the business was also going to be airdring, a likely animating issue for Black voters who sat in their name. Black-majority districts, bothered some Democrats, said Douglas Ballard, who is putting a driver for Florida Rising, a racist junior organization.
"People called me early in the campaign, trying to get to the US, could you get for to stop doing that," he recalled on Friday. "And I told them, 'First at all, I'm not going to the anyone how to keep up in this moment.'
More important, adding Democratic should stop worrying about adding candidates to the more 'obviable' and less there, unless in a time when voters are responding to candidates the consider genuine.
Her victors has led to some friction inside the party.
Nikki Frost, the party chairwoman, did not call Ms. Nixon on all Friday, three days after the election, a party rally that has been planned for Saturday next. Orlando, when Ms. Vardman was the expected Senate members was scrapped after Ms. Nixon won, to just because the state has been aware of the state, based and the date did not work for her. Some Democratic activists and government officials said, "I'm not going to the state of favoritism toward Mr. Vardman during the primary campaign, which it denied."
In an interview on Friday, Mr. Frost was an uncompetent about Mr. Nixon's win.
"I'm going to be an interesting dynamic," she said of having Mr. Nixon and Ms. Jolly and her team. "The start of the campaign I believe. They want to know that someone knew there."
Earle Epstein-Pitzel, Ms. Ninety's campaign manager, said in a statement that the party had heard from leaders across the state and country supporting their car, he was.
"Right now, the stage Ninety campaign for U.S. Senate is under focused on continuing their U-74 party strategy needed to defeat the U-74 party in November," Ms. Epstein-Pitzel said.
Ms. Ninety's campaign said it caused 21 million in the first six hours after her win — more than 10 million in the second half of the year — "I thought she was still far less than the 100 million that Mr. Moody has in the bank.
On Thursday, Ms. Nixon — the first the state was not to know or Revise Sanders, the Vermont Independent and democratic — a child whose presidential campaign she worked on in 2004. Mr. Saunders, the state's own power, and Representative Maxwell Kaplan, the Texas, a progressive from the U.S. to the U.S. in 2006. Mr. Saunders, the state's own power, and Mr. Lillie Jones, according to her campaign. The campaign said some 40,000 people have signed up to volunteer for Ms. Nixon.
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Dixby Austin called the utility company for updates while she cooled off with ice on Thursday outside of her home in Gary, Ind.
In Indiana, Lack of Power Spawns Deperation
By JULIE BISHOP,
and ROBERT CHIMSTIN
Grocery district have been empty for days. Children who had just started school haven't seen their classrooms in more than a week. Insults has sparked in warm, refrigerators, and people who dropped on oxygen cannot pump it from their table.
Electricity has been out for 11 days throughout much of Gary, Ind., since family stories ripped through, knocking down trees and power lines. Residents said they were not working. Electricity does pertain, even as another mood at last was on the way.
"Every day I'm crying," Resin, Titson, 6, lead on Friday outside of the downtown building, where her car was trapped under a fullscreen. "Or, but in the house, I was and sure and can't sleep. I walked to the dollar store and they're all over."
Stories on Aug. 11 caused flooding and leaves throughout the Chicago area and neighboring northwestern Indiana, taking Gary, where one-third of residents live in poverty, especially hard. More than a week later, the regional power company said its crows were working to restore electricity but were overwhelmed by unprecedented levels of damage.
The utility Northern Indiana Public Service Co., said that 33,000 of its customers remained without power in the region as of Saturday afternoon, down from more than 300,000 in the state's immediate aftermath. Service is expected to be restored to Gary by building the company said, calling it a "monumental undertaking."
On Friday, Gen. Mike Brown said he had requested an expelled major disaster declaration from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that would allow more assistance for the mazes. Earlier this month, President Trump granted an emergency declaration for Indiana residents affected by the disaster, and a state relief back in providing emergency aid grants of as much as $3,000.
"I will do everything in my power to ensure Bionden have the resources needed to receive," said Mr. Brown, a Republican.
Local officials warned that the
Aside disease reported from Chicago, and Robert Chismis from Gary, Ind.
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Windsor removing a tree from the front of a house in Gary on Thursday after it was toppled during a storm earlier this month.
cleaning would likely take months. "It's just widespread devastation throughout the city of Gary," said Larry E. Tillman, the chief of the Fire Department.
City officials said that donations of money and supplies had passed into Gary. Lowe's sent a truck with hundreds of buckets and cleanup
Many have been without electricity for 11 days in Gary.
ers, best trucks set up in neighborhood to boot hungry residents, and a method he/Her equipped a bus to treat people. Shelters have opened to feed and house residents.
One company drove around landing out large as that residents could cover damaged roads and prevent even more rain from being in inside.
Mike Curtis, a 63-year-old retired truck driver, was busy on Friday sawing apart fallen trees behind the garage, the lives with us, with in a truck bungalow and has been without power since the storm.
"I've been in Gary since I was 4 years old," he said. "I've never been anything like that."
To many people, the weather set Aug. 11 — forestem rain, thunder and lightning — did not seem unusual for summer in the Midwest. "I thought it was just a typical
thunderstorm," said Ruydal Harris, the assistant director of Florida Community Hub, a nonprofit that provides social services. "It was way more devastating than I initially thought."
Every day, her organization in the building hundreds of people who have on food at home and no access to meals at restaurants or even gas stations, many of which are closed.
As the days tick by, many residents said they are feeling a heavy sense of neglect.
Ms. Martin said she has heard a familiar refrain as residents said for power to be brought back to their city, a former most powerhouse that has seen industry close up or move away.
"I hear the sentiment a lot — it just feels that we've had it a lot of things," she said. "Historically, Gary has suffered from disappointment. There's always this sentiment that we're just not careful."
The unusually powerful winds that hammered Gary descended as a America, a group of intense thunderstorms that had several hours, stornled from eastern Iowa across Northern Illinois and Chicago and into Indiana.
"Be strongest just recorded during the storms was 99 miles per hour, to Gary, said Brett Borchardt, a senior meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Bismarck.
"Goes winds are over 80 m.p.h. and close to 100 m.p.h., it can feel like you're in a hurricane," Mr. Borchardt said.
The city is beginning to recover.
Chart follows suit.
"We are coming out and we're caring for each other," he said. "That's what you're seeing never by storm, church by church, organization by organization."
But even with promises that power would be back by early this week, frustrations were mounting.
Dottie Johnson, a 49-year-old American driver, pulled into an Amoco service station on Friday, it was the third station she had tried that day, and she quickly learned that she was again working her time.
"They have no power, no time is no gas," Ms. Johnson said.
A generation was providing electricity for the station's store, which remained open. But an employee said the pumps had been dead for 10 days.
Mr. Johnson said the same was true at her home. She hailed the utility for taking rows gave taller than power lines.
"Look at those trees," she said, pointing across the street at trees that she judged as overgrown. "We can't do anything about Mother Nature, but they didn't do enough to prevent it."
Other residents agreed. On Friday, several filed a class-action lawsuit against the company, so coming it of failing to trim trees that had regained even power lines, causing outages.
Officials from the Public Service Co. have said that the storm was extraordinarily large and destructive.
The storm caused unproven demand and widespread damage across our electric systems; the utility said in a statement: "Thousands of individual repairs must be completed before service can be fully restored," it added.
For residents like Ms. Harris, the challenges will not end even when the power comes back. She said she will need to figure out how to get the tree off her car — and find a new source of noise —. She lost her cleaning job in Chicago a few days ago, because she was not able to travel.
Others, Ms. Titson said, had it worse.
"There's a lot of people here struggling. I feel had for newborn babies and people no ventilators," she said. "I think if this was a richer area, it would be different."
As Reservoirs Hit Lows, Water Cut for 5 Dates
By SCOTT RANGI
Federal officials on Friday sharply cut how much water in Arena, California and Nevada can draw from the Colorado River over the next two years in an attempt to stabilize a system on the verge of collapse because of climate change and overuse.
The existing rules governing use of the river and of the natural largest reservoirs, Lakes Paved and Mead, were set to regain this year, just as though constricts the Colorado flow and both lakes across to record lows. Friday's announcement by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation reduced the allocation for the three states by about a quarter, to total, reducing its area's share by the state's about a third.
The plan formulated voluntary cuts the states had already offered to accept and settle months of uncertainty over how the water supply will be managed in the coming years. But it does little to solve the underlying crisis: The river's flow is diminishing and reservoirs are drying up, but communities and farms still use uncontrollable amounts of water.
"If the next couple of years are dry, the risk to Colorado River may be more in extraordinary," said Jennifer Pitt, who directs the Colorado River Program at the National Audubon Society. "They're no bulbs to rely on anymore."
In the short term, the rate was require the three states, which make up the river's lower bank, to rely more on government, to hold over an off some users, and to invest
Colorado River system faces collapse from drought and overuse.
more in water-efficiency projects. They could also increase pressure on the agriculture industry, which also has majority of the river's water. Nearly half of the water goes toward growing crops and the animal feed, such as alfalfa.
That burden will fall hardest on Arizona, which holds some of the most junior water rights in a byzantine priority system based on the longest-standing uses of the river and a century ago, summer among seven Western states and Mexico.
Your Republican, Arizona's Colorado River negotiator, said the plan would only heavily on any other share in the stored natural portions of its Colorado River water allocations in past years. The Arizona Water Building Authority reports that it has held up a store that is slightly larger than the state's total annual river allowance.
The Colorado supplies water to 40 million people. 2.5 million acres of farmland and about two dozen native tribes. Two Mexican states also use the river.
But the waterway has trans-
turned since communities first began tapping it. Its flow has diminished by about 20 percent across two decades of drought, a period scientists say is the direct for the Southwest in 1,200 years.
The Trump administration plan submerged a conflict over how to bring water consumption to the with that dwindling supply, a question that was difficult, say may ultimately be up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The downriver states had already volunteered to make the this assistance of Friday to are effort to break a deadlock in negotiations. But the administration didn't impose any mandatory water use can take upstream states—Colorado, Chile, New Mexico and Wyoming — have refused to accept.
Anders Trovnick, assistant secretary for water and science at the Interior Department, which includes the Reclamation Bureau, said in a statement that the administration would continue to work with states to find connections.
The lower basin states said the rules reflect their willingness to share in the pain of a shrinking water supply. Upper basin water should have maintained that communities there cannot consent to permanent cuts when their water supply each year is largely determined not by reserves in the state. By the former Reclamation is winter prepared. Snowsack hit record have this winter, driving major water shortages and needing reservoir levels play a thing.
Gen. Jared Pulis of Colorado, a Democrat, said that officials there "remain hopeful that a longer-term service-that agreement can be reached over the coming months." Becky Mitchell, the state's chief negotiator on Colorado River issues, added that the state remains "sometimes to do working with them."
J.B. Stanley, California's chief Colorado River negotiator, added the plan issued Friday 'a bridge, not a permanent standard' and added for operation states to very forward with "silent action" of their own in the coming years.
"The Lower Basin has shown what meaningful action looks like to use in a minimum. 'How we need the entire basin to do the same.'"
Mr. Borchardt said the locus should now shift to 'a longer-term, equitable, basin-wide outcome that includes shared sacrifices.'"
Gen. Katie Mifflin of Arizona, a Democrat who is running for re-election, stressed that the state stands ready to "light" to court for any water it is need.
"As long as I'm generous, Arizona will continue defending our state to our own for every legal means necessary and stand up to Upper Basin states who refuse to cut a drop of water in protection of the River," she wrote on social media.
Horseshoe Bend in Arizona. Nearly half of the Colorado River's water goes toward growing animal feed crops, such as alfalfa.
Pentagon Fires Editor and Publisher of Independent Military Publication
By MINOR KIM
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department on Friday fired the publisher and the editor in chief of State and Sirtype, a government-hundred news editor for reports on the U.S. military, according to a senior Pentagon official and the dismissed journalism.
The Sirtype issued questions about the Pentagon's willingness to ensure the editorial integrity of the publication that has reported extensively on difficulties faced military communities as the war in time has dragged on. The termination came about 10 days after State and Sirtype's president reported on hardships that Navy soldiers were facing on the U.S. operation. The editor admits that over whose deployment was revealed to nine months, until the war.
The Sirtype contributed reporting.
On Friday, the Pentagon sent termination notices to U.S. Slavin, the editor in chief, and then Lasker of the publisher, who had announced his retirement earlier in the week, citing conflict with the Pentagon leadership on the paper's direction. Last March, a 8406 for East correspondence at the news outlet, was also fired on Friday, according to the official and a post the made on social media.
The Defense Department declared in comment, Capt. William Urban, the military deputy to the publisher who was brought to the end this month, said that the publication on Friday that his priority was to ensure "the highest quality of editorially independent reporting" at State and Sirtype. Captain Urban had previously served as a senior spokesman for the Defense Department in various roles.
Mr. Slavin said his termination notice cited misidentification and an unauthorized media appear-
Suffolk's 4405 State and Sirtype in Vietnam, in 1969. The paper has a long history of reporting on the U.S. military.
ance as the reason he has dismissed. In July, FBI News interviewed Mr. Slavin and Mr. Slavin of a news segment on accusations of
Among those quoted was a Middle East correspondent.
editorial interference at State and Sirtype. The segment featured the editor's reporting and the certainties that military families in the Middle East correspond to U.S. bases there were evacuated after Iranian attacks.
"According to the notice, I am being fired for raising in a CBI to service that ownership of news for service members would constitute a real fact," Mr. Slavin said in a statement. "I said that principle that State and Sirtype must remain editorially independent, as required by law and by the department's own policies."
Federal regulation and Pentagon policy had emphasized editorial
integrity of State and Sirtype for decades, requiring "a free flow of news and information to the leadership without news management or ownership."
But in January, the Pentagon is scouted that regulation. In chief experience, from French, said to social media, "I am not sure that Sirtype, which is primarily read by U.S. service members and the families, must 'refere in content away from wide-distinctness.'" In March, the Pentagon issued a memo banning the paper from running notice and reporting articles from The Associated Press.
The memo said State and Sirtype's news articles "must be consistent with good order and discipline of the military." Also, the "I say to the language of the story law that suppresses certain speech," the Uniform Color of Military Justice mandates punishment of "distrust statement" or "consequences which" against the commander in chief and high-
ranking government officials.
In April, the Pentagon fired Jacqueline Smith, the internal-attorney watchdog of State and Sirtype, after she criticized the agency for editorial interference. Congress created the watching position in 1991, designing it to be the directly to Louisiana and to ensure the publicancts' independent reporting. Mr. Smith has sued the Defense Department, claiming that it reduced her First Amendment.
In July, Mr. Slavin, the editor in chief, was issued by CBS which "buttled" he was "willing to die in" if the editorial integrity at State and Sirtype appeared to be consistent with undertheta.
The "I say to the law to provide independent news to service members," he said. "If we can't do that, if we were turned into removing other than that, if we were pretty relatively 'truth, that's the buttled."
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Targeted by an Islamophobic Provocateur, a City's Muslims Are on Edge
By RICHARD HAUSET
DEARBORN, Mich. — Abdallah H. Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, Mich., was chatting with residents on Tuesday morning when a group of children approached him, including a boy no older than 7.
"He looked at me," Mr. Hammoud recalled, "and he asked if the guide-company crusaders were going to kill him."
That evening, Dearborn, which is majority Arab American, would soon again play reluctant host on a property. Jake Lang, the wife proclaimed Christian crusader who calls Muslims "smokest pressure" and wants them all to leave the United States.
He has been a Dearborn's city of 110,000 people — at least four times in recent months. His events come when some conservative leaders are promoting the idea that Islam is incompatible with American values.
Mr. Lang hoped his Tuesday night "Christian Crusade" rally online as a "zig roam." There were hundreds of supporters and counterprotesters, in a series that seemed to merit or do break of violence.
Trump-supporting proachers backed demands that Muslims accept Jesus as their savior. Many young Muslim men backed back that they, too, loved Jesus (who is
Jake Lang, the far-right agitator who calls himself a Christian crusader, outside a City Council meeting on Tuesday in Dearborn, Mich.
'What we're having a debate about is, you know, whose America are we talking about?'
ABEULLAH H. HAMMOND, the mayor of Dearborn, Mich., and the son of Lebanese immigrants.
honored as a prophet in the Qur'an and America, a group of contacts showed up with a swastik flag. A few men wandered around with assault rifles.
Police in riot gear blocked off the library named for Henry Ford, Dearborn's auto baron, whose the City Council was holding a meeting. Mr. Lang, wearing a ballie-proof vest, eventually spoke.
"The Muslims have not come here to remember," he said. "They have come here to oral the wealth of this land, to rape our women."
Anti-Muslim protesters have targeted Dearborn in years past. But as we are looking forward to the Eilat and the rhetoric from leading conservatives intensifies, many Dearborn residents are again asking whether America is a "good man" or not.
"What we're having a debate about is, you know, whose America are we talking about?" said Mr. Hammoud, 36, who is the son of
Lebanese immigrants.
"You have the folks who believe this is a Christian nation," he said, "that if your family is not from this set of European nations, that you should not be welcomed here."
The mainstreaming of that one cannot in conservative circles has been helped along by the late right-wing influence (Dante Kirk, who once declared, "Islam is not compatible with Western countries," and by President Trump, who once said, "I think Islam hares us.")
Mr. Lang took part in the Jan. 6, 2021, an exercise at the U.S. Capitol, and was malleved on charges of assaulting police officers with a hat, among other things. He was released from federal custody last year after the president issued sweeping clemency to all Jan. 6 participants. Since then, he has shown up to Minneapolis, where he said he had hoped to learn a Quran to protest Somali moni-
grams, and in New York City, where his protest outside Oracle Mansion attracted counter-protesters, including one who threw a homemade bomb that failed to denounce.
In November, he visited Dearborn, where, according to a student newspaper, he tried to learn a Quran but was thwarted by counterprotesters. He returned in May and succeeded in barring a copy of the Muslim holy book, according to the Arab American News, a local paper. During a third visit this month, he was punched in the bars and had rocks thrown at him. Local police arrested three men after the attacks, including an Iraqi man who was detained by immigration authorities.
Dearborn, home to Ford Motor Company's global headquarters, is a city of wide arenas and a preponderance of car dealerships for fitting one of the world's auto industry hubs. It saw an early wave
Nadia Gharaibeh outside a grocery store in Dearborn, a city where the Arab population has swelled in recent decades.
'They're actually good neighbors.'
NIKZ SPACKING, on the Arab American community in Dearborn.
of Arab workers come to staff, the assembly lines in the fifths.
In recent decades the Arab community has swelled, as immigrants from Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Iraq and Yemeni feel war and instability. Now there are fatal issue markers, absenteeism shops and coffeehouses scorned with carblasters. The Great Committee, an episode which got sells B.I.T., but only with turkey or beef bacon.
Many residents — Muslim, Christian and otherwise — de-
scribe a city that has generally swallowed the demographic changes generally. Some Muslim and non-Muslim locals have taken to wearing a 7-shirt that says, "I want to have you use," and in the city's vibrant restaurant scene, and a plan on eight-whig bars that the city has been overtaken by Muslim religious rules known as Murals.
Mike Spaulding, 70, a retired nurse reading a book on Tuesday in a Yemeni coffee house, said he was comfortable with it all.
"They're actually good neighbors," he said.
Among the speakers at Tuesday's meeting was Alabas Farhat, a Democratic state representative, who described Dearborn as all-American terms.
"We grow up with the Lams on Sunday and the Tigers when they shoved," he said, adding, "We love America."
But the Middle East wars have stirred powerful emotions among many residents, particularly after Hussain's Oct. 1, 2021, attacks on Israel and the ensuing Israel-Hassan war in Gaza.
In February 2024, a Wall Street Journal opinion writer described Dearborn as "historical: Jihad Aghbal." He pointed out support among some Muslims for the Hussan attack and a local Islamic institute that celebrated as "marine" two men on the U.S. list of designated territories.
In March, a man who worked in Dearborn Heights (named a truck into a nearby synagogue and was killed while exchanging guides with security guards, he shortens described it as a deliberate antiorbitic attack.
Mr. Hammoud, in an interview, denied that his community had an exterminus problem.
But Osama Shliam, publisher of the Arab American News, said that "every community has a problem with extremism." He insisted, however, that their ideas were not widely shared.
"If the majority in America looks like Jake Lang, do they believe the exact same things that Jake Lang is saying?" he asked.
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Mr. Trump visited the Great Communist restaurant and promoted to bring peace to the Middle East. He was Dearborn with the help of Muslim voters like Mike Hacham, a 10-year-old businessman.
Last week, Mr. Hacham said he blamed Mr. Trump for bringing more war to the Middle East and springing Mr. Lang from custody.
"I worked hard to get votes for him," Mr. Hacham said of Mr. Trump. "Now he shoots us in the fast like this."
He Sunday night, Mr. Hacham joined counterprotesters who blamed chow saim and went to Mr. Lang's rally to mock him.
After the rally, there was a feeling, among city leaders, that tragedy had been averted. Officials reported no injuries but said that 22 people had been arrested on charges including breach of peace and disability conduct.
Mr. Hammoud said that Mr. Lang was almost certain to be back in town in September to appear as court over a drug possession charge, to which he has pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Lang's lawyer did not return calls for comment. And at the meeting, Mr. Lang also declined to comment, chewing up a reporter's business card.
"We when would it end, and how?"
Some in Dearborn think that the trouble might look after the November elections. In Michigan, the state senators issued St. Louis E-Sayed, a progressive Democrat, who is trying to be the first Muslim senator in U.S. history.
In the meantime, Mr. Shliam, in a publisher, said the situation of Dearborn were not going any where.
"We know the Constitution is more powerful than anything else," he said, "and it will protect us."
ICE Devices Leave Shackled Haitians in Ohio With an Intensified Sense of Dread
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emerged to recent years as a hub of Haitian immigration and its newcomers a target of attacks from President Trump.
After the termination of a legal protection called Temporary Protected States that allowed 200,000 Haitians to live and work in the U.S., his administration has marred an aggressive electronic device to the state to control and the small city.
Springfield, home of 10,000 to 15,000 Haitians, has also had a robert ICE presence and more than 10,000 of its own.
Fitting aside monitors on noncitizens without a criminal license, who remain in compliance with their immigration cases has little provided for. The state of Homeland Security has provided an official rationale for the electronic surveillance, which lowers say the Trump admissions law had previously reserved mainly for immigrants released from detention.
The audio monitors will make it the easier for federal authorities to locate the immigrants if full-scale deportations begin. In Springfield's Haitian communities, there is widespread fear that the monitors are a precursor to detention and forced return to think where the economy is in ruins and recourses are prime targets for its portion and kidnapping by gangs.
Jenna Julien held his daughter at home after reporting to ICE and being filled with an ankle music for in Springfield, Ohio. He has an active asylum petition and a work permit valid until 2029.
For now, renewal flights to Haiti have occurred only once a month this year. The first since 1793, ended last month landed on Thursday in the northern city of Cap-Haitien with 170 people, according to the Haitian Bridge Alliance, a national advocacy organization, and the plane carried some former 1793 recipients.
In Springfield, the series of dread has intensified since last week, when federal agents began denying Haitians during daily mining periods. On Thursday morning, a Haitian pastor was arrested at a gas station with two other people, according to local
leaders, who said they might not be aware of all the disentures, there were detained on Friday.
The spate of arrests has prompted many Haitians to stay home, and even those who still have valid employment authorization tied to asylum cases are missing work.
"People are in extreme mental distress," said Rose Thamar-Joseph, operations chief at the Haitian Support Center. "We are going to need professional help, social workers."
In response to questions about the devices and ICE presence in Springfield, a 2005 statement said
that the agency does not discuss ongoing or future operations.
"What we would say now is, it's closing time, which means you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here," the statement said.
During the 2024/25 war in the ICE office, Benjamin Louis, the driver, said him that he had been escorting Haitians to appointments in Cincinnati or Columbus since 1793, was concluded.
Mr. Julien was likely to be presented with two options, Mr. Louis told him: Agree to a government payment of $2,000 per family member to voluntarily leave
the U.S., or wear an ankle monitor to track his movements. If he chose the monitor, he would be told that he must stay within a 75 mile radius of his home.
Mr. Julien replied that returning to Haiti was not an option.
He was the sole provider for his family in Springfield and relatives in his homestead, he said. His wife had left her job in an unannounced manner to care for their newborn, and his uncle, who also lives in Springfield, had lost his job when 1793 was revoked.
About 10:30 a.m., Mr. Julien and Mr. Louis entered a membership building, devoid of federal stoppes, in an industrial park across them an assistant-burg facility in Blue Jets, outside Cincinnati.
About 90 minutes later, Mr. Julien emerged visibly shaken, a monitor hugging his left ankle and a patient bag containing a change in his lower ankles. In his hand, it was past most, but he said he had no signage for harm.
On the way back to Springfield, Mr. Julien gazed out the window, pissed a beneath the leather cap, the crowd felt head in his hands and tried to end off, to no avail.
"It's so humiliating," he said softly. "I feel just awful."
"I haven't committed any crime," he continued. "I have come after with the terms of my immigration case. I've worked hard."
At a practical level, Mr. Julien worried whether the bulky device
would fit into his work been, mandatory on the job at a vehicle-ears, made it possible.
Once back in Springfield, Mr. Louis, a certified Haitian-Comb-entrepreneur, drove directly to the Haitian Support Center, where he knew American volunteers were filling out requests for immigration judges to authorize the removal of ankle monitors from people with medical conditions and other issues.
"Those things are huge," said Betsy Dierstra, a volunteer who lives working for, unless she described them as, "out brackets, more like thatches."
"It's difficult to make it just on their work goal," she said. "They're stopping them on the elderly. Yesterday, I saw a grand-vice."
She was digital town, she typed that Mr. Julien had been an approaching member of the Springfield community for three years and five months. He had a stable case, and a small person and a young family.
By the time he finally walked into the United States near at home again, he had been awake for more than 24 hours.
He escaped up his baby girl and held her right. A male spread of her hair and the aroma of beans and rice on the stove walked from the kitchen.
For now, he could eat and rest. His next ICE appointment is Sept. 26.
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THE TOWER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Smoke from the 2022 Oak fire in the Sierra National Forest in California, where researchers are snapping burned areas to understand how moisture and nutrients influence recovery.
Bigger and Hotter Fires Are Erasing America's Great Forests
Johan Eckdahl, foreground, and Windsor Hansen measuring a burn scar in Sierra National Forest near Molynton, Calif. Survey crews are mapping the severity of fires across the West.
Towering Woodlands in Western States
Are Being Replaced by Tracts of Spiky Shrubs
By ERIC NIKIER
MISERVNES, Calif. — On a gentle slope on the western side of the Sierra Nevada, where a towering green canopy of ponderosa pines had stood for centuries, wildfires have transformed roughly 1,700 acres into forests, later shrubland.
That forest is gone for good, scientists say. Spiky shrubs and peanut oak have replaced the majestic trees. All that is left of the pines are burned logs and dead branches.
It is part of a wider transformation that is taking place across the West, from Oregon to New Mexico, as bigger and fester wildfires sweep through forests that have not evolved to survive each high-intensity Mamm and a warmer climate. Recent studies estimate that as much as 40 percent of Western conifer forests will turn into shrubland by 2000 to a result.
"This is a permanent shift from one ecosystem type to a fundamentally different one," said Windsor Hansen, a forest ecologist at the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies, an independent research center in California, N.Y.
The consequences of the shift, for both people and wildlife, are expected to be profound.
Researchers say that as trees disappear, winter and spring more will melt faster, affecting wildlife as well as communities that are struggling with water shortages. Some Western states get as much as 75 percent of their water from snowmelt.
"When you remove the forest, that move in more susceptible to melting canals," said Benjamin Hatcher, an interdisciplinary scientist at Colorado State University.
And for noted that a warmer, more arid climate does not end and pails moisture from plants, making them more susceptible to wildfire. "That thirstier atmosphere is a big concern," he said.
Forests also absorb planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Bigger, older trees store more carbon than younger trees and shrubs. The loss of conifer forests today means a better tomorrow.
To better understand these cascading effects, Dr. Hansen and Johan Eckdahl, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, visited the Sierra Nevada this month. On a 100-foot hillside plot that burned in the 2022 Oak fire, they recorded each flowering plant and shrub, filled plants bags with soil, and checked the ground moisture and temperature with a special probe.
Under normal conditions, seedlings would spread all over after a fire. Young trees would grow and compete for space, water and light, and the forest would return after a decade or two. But the combination of more intense fires and a warmer, drier climate has stopped this age-old process of regeneration.
As Dr. Hansen stood among the brush at the research site, the absence of new growth was stark. "We haven't found one ponderosa seedling," he said. "Ponderosa seeds have subpped in fire. That's how they live. But the fires are just too hot for them."
Even if seedlings do take lead, they face tough odds. Across the Sierra Nevada, about one-fifth of the conifers, or pous-bearing trees, are not well suited to the current warming climate.
Dr. Hansen grew up in Bozeman, silent, on the edge of the Carter Gallatin National Forest. A wildfire is 2000, when he was 10, forced his family to evacuate.
"Firefighters saved our home," Dr. Hansen said. It was frightening, he recalled. But soon after, he noticed something hopeful.
"I remember the next year going out in those weeds and hiking around and exploring and seeing little tree seedlings stepping up," he said. "I had this realization that there's this revitalization effect of forest fire."
Today, in addition to his work at the Cary Institute, Dr. Hansen directs the Western Fire and Forests Resilience Collaborative, a group of 40 researchers who are using remote satellite sensing, 2-D mapping and computer models that simulate future climate conditions to track the health of western forests.
This summer, survey crews hired by the collaborators are mapping the severity of fires at more than 100 sites in California, Colorado and New Mexico. The goal is to guide researchers trying to better understand how moisture, nutrients and soil microbes influence to what extent forests will recover and how long it will take.
That survey led Dr. Hansen and Dr. Eckdahl to a second site this month, up a winding dirt road about as heart's drive north from the hillside plot where they collected samples. This area burned in the 2021 Rim fire. At the time it was the largest ever recorded in California, but now it is only No. 12 on the list.
Dr. Eckdahl said the trees and shrubs there were in a struggle of sorts. Some ponderosa pines have survived, new sites are sprouting up, and a tangle of manzanita, oak and shrubs at lower elevations are trying to establish a foothold.
Dr. Hansen, left, and Dr. Eckdahl collecting soil samples to be examined for indicators of forest health. "This is a permanent shift from one ecosystem type to a fundamentally different one," Dr. Hansen said.
Both research sites are at the same elevation, about 3,000 feet, and are the same amount of yearly rainfall. But by using a genetic test, Dr. Eckdahl found that the soil at the Rim fire site was richer, with 1.5 times as much organic matter, four times as much bacteria, and six and a half times as much fungus. The Rim fire exits were also high in important nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus, vital for plant growth.
"Here, the business between trees and shrubs is equilibrated," Dr. Eckdahl said of the Rim fire site. "As the climate shifts, we expect that equilibrium to shift, so more of the area will become shrubs. In science we call that the tipping point."
Once he returns to his campus lab, Dr. Eckdahl will be paring through 260 pounds of dirt from the summer field sites, watching DNA from nearly 500 soil samples. He has already identified 60,000 different bacteria and fungi that are key to understanding which areas will regrow or fail. He said he hoped to create a microbiological atlas of forest health throughout the West.
Across the Southwest, which is drive and subject to more prolonged droughts than other areas such as the Pacific Northwest, ponderosa pine forests are particularly at risk of falling, according to Jonathan Coop, a fire ecologist at Western Colorado University who has
been tracking this ecologist at shift for the past two decades.
He, too, grew up in a forest playground, the forest Mountains to northern New Mexico, a region that has burned twice since the 1970s and is now nearly barren of trees.
"Watching these forests erode away and turn into something else has really been the catalyst of a lot of the work that I've been doing," Dr. Coop said. "There's no sign, almost, that there were ever forests there, let alone that they're coming back. You know, almost a few chaired sort of matchstick-like snags."
This month, Dr. Coop and colleagues published a study in the journal Science Advances that found wildfires are now having to change and so fast that pine seeds can't regenerate. The team looked at almost 3,000 wildfires from 2012 to 2022 in smaller forests in Canada and the Western United States.
"Homes do have innate resilience, and under normal circumstances they can take a hit or two and bounce back," Dr. Coop said. "But circumstances just aren't normal anymore."
As natural regenerative filters, scientists and conservatiostats are trying to give forests a helping hand.
In Montana, for example, they're teaming up to plant more climate-resistant seedlings from lower and warmer elevations to new areas that have burned. Kimberley Davis, a research ecologist at the U.S. Forest Service in Missoula, Mont., worked with Conservation International, a nonprofit environmental group based in Arlington, Va., as an experiment in the western part of the state.
They took seedlings of the western larch, a native conifer that can reach 200 feet tall, from 3,400 feet and planted there to a burned area between 4,000 feet and 4,200 feet.
The lower-elevation seedlings grew back better and coped with the warmer climate better than seedlings taken from higher elevations. Similar experiments of so-called assisted migration are underway in California and Washington State.
"Keeping as many live trees as we can on the landscape when it burns is really important," Dr. Davis said. "Because the seed source is so important."
At the researchers said that there's still a fair amount of uncertainty in predicting which pine forests will survive and which ones will persist. Despite the new tools of machine learning, mosaic sensing and genetic analysis, it's still hard to identify a recipe for a successful forest.
Scientists make calculations based on temperature, moisture and other factors, Dr. Hatcher said, "but the plants are doing their own thing."
"Biology is always going to throw you a curveball," he said.
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The 47th President
How a Billionaire Trump Ally Shaped Policy on the Homeless
The Cicero Institute Pushes Sleeping Bans To Clear the Streets Across the Country
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levels. Republicans have embraced tough measures to clear the streets, and no group has led the way more than the Cicero Institute. Mr. Lonsdale focused the institute eight years ago with vague goals – to promote “thirsty, accountability and transparency” – and no mention of homelessness. Now it has commandeered Republican homelessness policy, spending debate over an irrevocable problem with life-and-death stakes and showing how rich donors can shape the safety net.
Twenty-one states have considered camping bans or other Cicero-hadred homelessness laws in recent years, and it have passed them. But the groups, away goes further: It is working with the Trump administration to transform federal homelessness aid away from housing subsidies and toward the forced treatment of substance abuse or mental disorders.
Echoing Cicero’s thoughts and at times its very words, the administration says federal policy, called Housing First, neglects the two causes of homelessness by providing rental subsidies but leaving treatment optional. Opponents of Mr. Trump’s plan, which is blocked in court, say that forced treatment fails and boasting aid gets people off the street.
Substantial evidences shows that Housing First succeeds in getting the chronically homeless housed, at least in the short term. But it is expensive, and the evidence also shows it has not consistently improved mental or physical health or lowered death rates. The treatment-first approach that Cicero leaves has not been rigorously studied.
For many years, Housing First enjoyed bipartisan consensus: the first Trump administration took office embracing it. Cicero has helped make it a conservative option: “(Bridend), our work has been one of the main influences” in shaping administration views. Mr. Lonsdale said in an interview.
The White House and the Department of Housing and Urban Development declined to comment on Cicero’s influence.
A co-founder of Palantir, the data-mining firm, Mr. Lonsdale, 43, is an unlikely force in homelessness policy. He brings in it vast wealth but no experience with homeless services and a distrust of conventional expertise. He argues that his outside’s perspective gives him and the young generalists he hires a fresh view.
A proguacous presence on social media – he recently called for public hangings of repeat violent offenders – Mr. Lonsdale said he is fighting in part to defend “capitalist society.” He argues that a corrupt “homelessness industrial complex” dominated by liberal social service groups wants to increase homelessness to the credit society.
“Some of them are cynical Marxism who clearly want mayhem and want to show that our civilization is broken,” he said.
Many on the left return the score, calling Mr. Lonsdale an emblem of the inequality that creates homelessness – a billionaire fighting a reverse class war to preserve an unjust order.
“He’s using the homelessness crisis to deflect attention from the broken economic system that both causes homelessness and enables people like him to become billionaires in the first place,” said Jesse Rabinowitz of the National
Georgia Gov and Ryan Mac contributed reporting.
Joe Lonsdale, the founder of the Cicero Institute, is a billionaire ally of President Trump whose group has commandeered Republican policy on homelessness. Top, a homeless camp on the south side of Indianapolis in January.
Homelessness Law Center, a progressive advocacy group.
As Mr. Lonsdale taps his fortune to shape views, it is easy to see a story of money and politics. But it is also a story of public fatigue. With undeforred homelessness up more than half in a decade to about 200,000 people, Cicero succeeded in part by putting the status quo on trial.
A signature Cicero lies in that there is “nothing compassionate” about leaving people on the street. Echoed by Mr. Trump, it may need an array of marginalized people down an unsound path.
Asked why he focused on homelessness, Mr. Lonsdale often begins by saying that a homeless person harassed his wife as she pushed their child in a strutler in San Francisco. “She just got screamed at, multiple times, and threatened by someone who has clearly lost their mind,” he said in an interview.
Teenage Influences
But Mr. Lonsdale’s conservatism took root much earlier. He cites Ayn Rand and Austrian free-market economists as teenage influences and used his perch as editor of The Stanford Review, a conservative publication, to avoid “political correctness.” He blamed a student movement to raise custodians’ pay, warning it “decently incentive for them to improve themselves.”
The magazine’s alumni include Peter Clark, the libertarian investor who helped start PayPal, where Mr. Lonsdale landed an internship and found a mentor. They helped start Palantir in 2003 when
Mr. Lonsdale was 21. He left after six years and became a such investor. Forbes now estimates his fortune at $3.5 billion.
The subject of homelessness never arose in 2019 when Mr. Lonsdale hired Cicero’s first analyst, Judge Glock, who tackled socioeconomic topics like mining laws and published into a vacuum.
Then Mr. Glock turned to encampments and interest surged. “The one thing that took off was homelessness,” he said.
Mr. Lonsdale left San Francisco for Austin, Texas, in 2020, but encountered another homelessness crisis. The City Council had lifted a camping ban, encampments were growing, and Mr. Lonsdale grew 540,000 to a bullet measure drive iceberg the ban back. Even in liberal Austin, the measure passed easily.
With low trial groups working on homelessness, the institute had its kans. After Texas passed a statewide camping ban in 2021, Cicero made it into a model bill to take to other states.
Cicero was too small to matter in Washington, but about two dozen states had Republican control of the legislature and governorship. For hurried legislators frustrated by encampments, Cicero’s bill offered a stance. And with no housing or services included, it required no spending.
“In most states, state legislators don’t even have policy staff,” explained Jared Meyer, an early Cicero recruit, on Mr. Lonsdale’s policies. “The best thing you can do is be an outsourced staff.”
Cicero first found success in Missouri, where a measure to create a camping ban succeeded as part of an unrelated bill the governor signed.
“We did it,” Mr. Lonsdale wrote. A win to one state – any state – built momentum. By the time Missouri’s supreme court reversed the law an procedural grounds the following year, Cicero was on its way Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah were among the states where camping bans followed.
Success flowed in part from Mr. Lonsdale’s wealth. Together with a nonprofit lobbying arm, Cicero Action, the institute hired lobbyists, commissioned polls, made political donations and invited lawmakers to study tours. Mr. Lonsdale’s personal company grew 15 million in 2021 to a PAC that supported Mr. Trump.
Declining to say how much he spends on Cicero, Mr. Lonsdale called it “well less” than $15 million a year and called the sum “very small” for the clear it brings.
But Cicero’s influence also grew because the problem got worse. In Kentucky, where Republicans passed a Cicero bill in 2019 over a Democratic governor’s veto, undefeered homelessness had more than doubled in five years.
The head of the people homelessness work, Devon Kurtz, is a 20-year-old Quaker with a background in private ministry and often appears as earnest as Mr. Lonsdale can be caustic. His claim that camping bans save lives by encouraging treatment has drawn retorts from many in the field, who say that there is no evidence to support it and that treatment is in short supply.
“It’s absurd to think that living people will get them into treatment,” said Dr. Margot Kozler, a physician who directs the destabil Homelessness and Housing Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco. “Many people are desperate for treatment and can’t get it.”
Since Mr. Trump cut Medicaid, which helps finance treatment, “it’s hard not to
“It is not compassionate to allow our neighbors to die on the street,” said State Senator Cyndi Carmaco, Republican of Indiana, who wrote a bill to ban sleeping in public.
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By congressional design, most of the 16 fellow a year that the government spends goes to Housing First — long-term mental aid with voluntary treatment. Cicero wanted the opposite temporary "transitional housing" (capped at five years) with treatment mandates.
During the campaign, Mr. Trump had released a anything video that joined "dangerously deranged" people who "squat and do drugs" against "hardworking, low-dividing citizens" (kill, new policy was slow to emerge. Scott Corcoran, who worked on homelessness issues in the White House Domestic Police Council, later offered an explanation: The council wanted guidance from groups "in the trenches" (for Cicero).
"My didn't know what to do about it from a federal level," he said in a chandler-Cicero conference in June, which an amnesiac signal. "We didn't have somebody to our team, and I'll include myself in this, who had a really strong grasp of what the federal authorities were in this space."
Drafting an Executive Order
In helping draft the order, he consulted with Cicero—"to kind of bring you a sense of what the initiative might be."
Asked about the comment, Mr. Corcoran — who is now a Cicero Institute fellow — said in an email he also consulted with federal homelessness officials and their outside groups.
If Cicero was made of Cicero's influence, Mr. Trump's order dispelled it Cicero-exposed Housing First. The order pledged to end it. Cicero wanted complete laws. The order viewed to enforce them. Cicero wanted more civil commitment of people with mental illnesses. The or-
The head of Cicero's homelessness work, Devon Kurtz, is a 28-year-old Quaker with experience in prison ministry. So, a map of Louisville, Ky., in the back offices of the St. John Center for Homeless Men showing homeless encampments in 2024.
Protesters gathered outside of the Le Meridien Hotel during the Cicero Institute's policy summit in Washington in June.
der endorsed the idea seven times. A few years earlier, Mr. Lonsdale expressed a plan that people hesitated to call the homeless "vaguaro and hares," Mr. Trump directed his order at "lighting vagrancy."
Ann Oliva, the chief executive of the national Alliance to End Homelessness, an advocacy group, called the order "the most harmful policy proposal on homelessness in my career."
A few months after the executive order, HUD issued an annual document called a Notice of Funding Opportunity. It had long been the lifeblood of Housing First, directing about 90 percent of homelessness aid to long-term housing. Following the principles in Mr. Trump's order, HUD sought to move two-thirds of the many to time-limited programs with work rules or treatment mandates.
Mr. Lonsdale studied.
"A lot of the permanent bureaucracy is in the hard left," he said in an interview soon after: "We're stopping them from doing it then we need letting them to do a different way."
Opponents used, arguing that only Congress could alter the program in profoundly and warning that in many as 175,000 formerly homeless people could lose housing. A federal judge blocked the initial plan and a revised version (which cited Cicero four times), both times an procedural grounds. HUD is appealing to the meantime, the money has been dispensed under pre-Trump rules.
"Housing First has fueled a self-serving homeless industrial complex," and "instead dangerous encampments and addictions," Scott Turner, the HUD secretary said in a statement.
Dennis Calhoun, a homelessness scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, contends the opposite, saying the problem is a lack of Housing First funds. Examining a year of national shelter data, he found that only 12 percent of the chronically homeless got housing aid. By contrast, 40 percent of veterans got housing, because of a veterans program with much greater funding that operates on Housing First principles. Veterans homelessness has dropped by more than half since 2016.
"If Housing First didn't work, we wouldn't have seen that success," Profine De Calhoun said. "But outside of veterans, we're greatly underhanded."
Mr. Kurtz sees little need for rental activities, arguing "more people can pay their bills." Professor Calhoun said the idea that homeless people do not need housing aid was "a radical assertion that runs contrary to experience and common sense."
When Mr. Kurtz returned to Indiana in January for a short effort to lose sleeping in public, the arguments were the same, but the politics had changed. Mr. Lonsdale was also labeled the most presidential priority. The governor, Mike Braun, backed the ban. Resistance would be natural.
The Senate sponsor, Cyndi Carrasco, had recently returned from a Cicero conference and presented the bill in Cicero terms. "It is not compassionate to allow our neighbors to die on the street," she said. (She declined an interview request.) Mr. Corcoran, now with Cicero Action, told lawmakers the bill was a "compassionate step."
'Game Changer'
Still, the bill would not have cleared the Senate if a handful of Republicans had not changed their minds.
The most surprising was Mr. Ating, the senator who had told colleagues the previous year that a camping ban would pass "over my dead body" and that "findings was better than this."
Mr. Ating declined interview requests. In the Senate, he said that the governor had pledged funding if mental health needs grow in pub. Mr. Ating called the promise a "game changer."
Mr. Kurtz found the victory especially satisfying. Not long ago, he noted, Republicans had little to say about homelessness policy. Now they had detailed plans, an effective message, and an ally in Mr. Trump.
He credited his boss, the founder of the Cicero Institute.
"If we were to think about the conservative position on homelessness even in the first Trump administration's great uncivil," Mr. Kurtz said. "Joe Lonsdale articulated the conservative position on homelessness."
Surprising Fees Battle Online Gun Sales Push
By ANDREWS KAH
WASHINGTON — The place came in dropletly.
For more-and-per-shops, the Trump administration's plan to loosen firearms restrictions in welcome-to-exactly all-tempered but slow-drawing guns to be sold on a daily online.
Two proposals posing the way to the center have exposed unlikely fault lines, an independent, normal brick-and-mortar stores, urge the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who is now federal gun regulations, to refrain the plan. They were that together, the changes—letting guns be shipped directly to buyers and allowing for remote use—should check — would compromise their livelihood by favoring big retailers, and come at the expense of public safety.
"As best, this is a wealth trade," to large corporations," Color Overdry, the manager of a small business in Criminal Roads, Firearms, with guns, wrote during the public comment period for the rule changes. "At worst it is just asking for problems that previously don't exist."
In an analysis, the A.T.F. and the regulation would come at no cost to the roughly 45,000 federally licensed gun dealers, most of which are small businesses, the agency noted. Instead, the bureau argued, it would benefit the dealers, because it would allow all of them to potentially capitalize on a larger statewide market by allowing the sales to grow.
The firearms bureau did not respond to questions about the factitude. But the agency also was committed to reviewing the public's feedback before completing the proposed regulations.
The Overdry is one of hundreds of people attending the A.T.F. to halt proposals that could transform the gun industry. The administration has said the changes are part of a broader effort to modernize the firearms industry. The government, stating burdens on gun dealers and owners, then has the authority to use the same rules of the buyers adjust how they shop, according to an estimate from the agency.
Lee Kimmell, who has owned Dominion Firearms in Miami, Ariz., for almost a decade, said he said other small dealers feared that opening the industry to direct online sales would enable a free big companies to sweep in underestimate the market. That includes GlobalCom, a retaliated in Texas for WASH. Despite Trump Jr. service as a director and holds about 1,000 people of shares. The company, whose stock value has more than half of the stock, is unable to get paid, but handed its business-marks on the shift, falling out of an "ex-lossman of guns."
But, like other small firearms dealers interviewed for this year, the A.T.F. Overdry is worried that letting businesses conduct back-ground checks by online would make it harder to spot red flags. There is a "safety concern to someone other than going to buy for someone else or someone that's buying for themselves that really shouldn't have a gun," Mr. Overdry said.
The window for public feedback to the rules closed earlier this month, leaving the agency to decide whether anyone to move forward with the policy.
Under federal law, gun sales can already take place online. But in most of those cases, a comment from pick up the Senate is a physical move, and only after soliciting a background check in person. "We now proposals would eliminate those requirements, as having for guns to be shipped do not really in the buyer after verifying this of her identity by video, but it also works, critics say, would remove critical safeguards that have required dealers and buyers to complete the transaction in person.
The A.T.F. advises dealers on how to spot straw purchases, or people buying a firearm on behalf of someone else, and an other signs of a person who should use for in possession of a firearm because they may be under the table down. It is a responsibility that gun dealers say they take seriously and use their small businesses, we were would evaporate should the administration follow through with its proposals.
Mr. Overdry, the business manager of a shop named Danilo A. Litz, mentioned a series of occasions when he turned down purchases after observing shoppers' parents' clothes accompanying it, are not young to legally buy a firearm, a woman buying a gun that her boyfriend appeared to see her in himself, and a young adult who seemed uncomfortable and struggled to make eye contact.
"My license promises is within a school zone," Mr. Overdry said, "that I might have to pay a holiday visit and about 500 from a school. I don't play games."
Dylan Freedman contributed reporting.
In a notable departure from the general support of the Trump administration's push to roll back limits on guns, the National Steering Sports Foundation, the firearms industry's trade association, told the A.T.F. that it opposed the proposal based on "public safety implications."
Lawrence G. Keane, the group's senior vice president, said to don't review that based on more than 1,000 responses to a survey circulated to members in July, the foundation was "over-technologically opposed" to the rules.
Some dealers who support the administration's effort say that it simply brings the sales into the modern era, a common refrain among gun rights groups, manufacturers and retail companies.
Andrew Jolles, who runs the toxicologic gun industry's Decision Yarn Key Solutions in Grand Rapids, Mich., favors the rule change. Remote sales, he wrote in commenting on the rule, would open up "for greater opportunities," because some of his clients cannot or do not want to travel.
Marianna McCann, a former A.T.F. official who led the decision that inspects federally licensed gun dealers, warned that sellers were effectively the first law of division. Under federal law, she added, the agency had no way to question a purchase once it had been completed, short of opening a criminal investigation.
Ms. McCann is now an advisor to Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit advocacy group founded by McCann, which, being the former mayor of New York. The group critiqued more than 3,500 comments in response to the A.T.F's proposed regulation, or about 80 percent of the total number, and analyzed them using artificial intelligence.
It found that a majority of the commenters were opposed to the change, and that many of those who identified an members of the firearms industry cited fears of major consolidation.
The New York Times introduces the analysis by using an A.I. model to determine the level of
support for the proposal. The public comments are not a scientific poll and may not reflect the views of American friends.
Among the corporations that some businesses say could outpace them to GlobalCom, a retaliation is more than a decade ago.
While a dealer would have to be registered in the same state as interested buyers to make a remote sale under the proposed regulations, big chains and online retailers are among those with the resources to do so.
On an earnings call in May, soon after the proposal allowing direct online sales, when "Private" for chief executive of GlobalCom, assured investors that the company was "uniquely positioned for this opportunity." GlobalCom is by now only licensed to sell goods in Texas, but can ship to dealers across the country.
Asked for comment, GlobalCom said that the new requirements for online purchases would be sufficiently rigorous.
"This rule would allow GlobalCom to serve customers who need or strongly prefer the alternative of going to a retailer in person," the company wrote in its public comment.
Across the country, small businesses are bearing for a bit.
Elizabeth Roncali runs Security Safe Shot from her home in Ironwood, a remote city on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She earns most of her revenue from transferring firearms to people shopping online, acting as the understability.
In an interview, Ms. Roncali said that if local dealers were eliminated from the equation, she would have the $25 for the charges for transfers, a retail profit that is also only a small saving for a buyer who might opt to have a gun shipped straight to his or her door.
If her shop doesn't, her community will lose her as a resource, she said. As a veteran who deployed in Iraq and gave up around firearms, she reminds buyers about safety storing weapons, a topic she takes seriously after doing a cousin and sister to suicide.
Mr. Kimmell, a retired police officer, said that at his Arizona store, he often sold firearms to first-time gun owners.
"I've made handouts for gun safety that I give them, and I get over it with them," he said. "I have sending people out that don't know what they're doing. They want to start, but they really don't have any idea of the gun safety part of it."
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Top players want a bigger share of Grand Slam revenues. If organizers want to keep the same margins, something has to get more expensive. Right now, that is tickets on the tournament's biggest court.
By MATTHEW FUTTERMAN
and ARTUR KALPURA WALKER
(The left)
There is one question that every type of U.S. Open has to asking, from die-hard tennis wanks to executives who control corporate entertainment expenses:
What is going on with these ticket prices?
A look on Wednesday at the website for the fourth Grand Slam of the year revealed selecting numbers. A grounds pass for Monday, Aug. 31, with no guaranteed seat on any court — stadium or otherwise — was going for more than $300, though the face value is $65. An upper-deck seat in Arthur Ashe Stadium cost $328.
Want to sit in the lower section in the biggest stadium on the grounds that day, with an up-class view of some (possibly) one-sided matches, as well as access to general admission seat on the rest of the courts? That was $318.
Now 2 in the promenade level of Arthur Ashe — the highest level of the stadium — that day was $424. A seat in the area even closer to courtside than the $518 seats was $2,384. A seat in the huge section — about halfway up the stadium, above the ring of luxury suites — was $1,156.67.
There is some price relief in the other stadiums, and fans who are willing to wait out the day can usually get into the grounds at 6 p.m. for $25 and stay all night.
Regardless, this does not seem like a tournament in a public park, played on public courts and run by a nonprofit organization with a mission to increase accessibility to tennis and grow the game nationwide.
"Our vision is to be the most inspirational and captivating sports entertainment event. It has world by authoring world-class experiences for our fans, partners and players to feel the mission of the U.S.T.A., so accessibility is at the core of the beginning of the strategy," said Kirsten Corts, the chief commercial officer for the United States Tennis Association.
She cited the less expensive and free access the U.S.T.A. provides during the qualifying tournament, the mixed doubles competition and exhibition nights before the singles tournaments as central to that effort, given that 240,000 people have year attended when the U.S. Open calls Fair Week, which starts on Sunday. Some of the biggest stars in tennis, such as Novak Djokovic, are already on the grounds during this week.
"You could see Djokovic on Arthur Ashe playing a practice match against another top-10 player for free in the first two," Corts said. "That's like no other sport that I can think of."
The merging prices at this year's U.S. Open are driven by a convergence of factors both within and outside the tournament's control.
As tennis has found a groove at the intersection of media, celebrity, sports, culture and high fashion, the popularity of live events has increased in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Sports events such as the U.S. Open have assumed the status of a superstar's concert, and for
Matthew Falterman is a senior tennis writer and Artur Galache Vallejo is a state reporter for The Athletic.
Demand Sends Costs of Tickets
At U.S. Open Into the Stratosphere
Fans Feel Priced Out, and the Rampant Resale Market Doesn't Help
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Arthur Ashe Stadium is halfway through a renovation that will reconfigure it toward premium hospitality.
many years, a rampant resale market has taken advantage of that popularity.
The organizers of these events are also recognizing their own lucrativeness. And for the U.S. Open, 2026 is the first year in which that dynamic has aligned with the tournament's immediate concern.
Arthur Ashe Stadium, the highest-capacity arena in tennis, is halfway through an $500 million renovation, which will reconfigure it toward the premium hospitality that the U.S.T.A. says in most moneys of customers demand. At the same time, top players are seeking reforms that will mean that their prize money takes up a bigger proportion of the Grand Slam tournament's revenues. And if the organizers of these tournaments want to honor that prize-money increase for the players while keeping the same margins, something has to get more expensive.
Right now, that thing is a ticket on the tournament's biggest court.
The price increases and the unchecked resale market are causing frustration among fans of all ages, who had priced out of an event that they are told they are making culturally meaningful, whether to roam the grounds or to watch the start next matches of the day.
By just May, the U.S.T.A. had told more of its higher-priced tickets to its subscribers and corporate customers. Many of them commit to buying the same tickets for all 27 members throughout the 15-day event. They renewed at a rate of
$360
Cost of a grounds pass for Aug. 31, with no guaranteed seat, on the Open site.
nearly $99 percent.
Then the organization released the remaining tickets to the open market at face value. The vast majority, including grounds passes, sold out very quickly, despite prices increasing from 2027. Most of what is available on the U.S. Open website now is resale inventory, whether from those subscribers or from people who snapped up face-value tickets, some using hats and other scrapers to harvest inventory.
Deep-pocketed New Yorkers and retailers long ago figured out that they could turn attending the season's final Grand Slam into a profitable experience.
The U.S.T.A. does not control what sellers ask or what buyers pay, though its contract with Ticketmaster allows the organization a small commission on the resale of tickets. The other three major tournaments have guardrails in place, from collecting resales at face value to not permitting them at all.
U.S. Open organizers would say that they provide opportunities for people of modest means to get their hands on reasonably priced tickets and give those fans a high-quality experience.
Once those tickets get purchased,
though, the market takes over. Prices might come down as the tournament gets closer and the possibility that a ticket might go unwell approaches. But they might not.
"We know that we would be leaving dollars on the table," said Corts, the chief commercial officer. "The market has spoken and has demonstrated that we have."
While the grounds pass is the human example of merging prices, in sports, the seats closest to the action have the highest demand because there are no few of them. They are like beachfront property. Events can't make more of them.
But the U.S.T.A. has figured out that it can.
This year's U.S. Open is the first to take place during the $500 million renovation of Arthur Ashe Stadium. That renovation has reconfigured the seating to create more of the most expensive seats, as well as adding nine new hospitality clubs before next year. It also includes the construction of a $250 million player training and hospitality center.
"There's no question that there's a lot of money to be made from the courtside seats and the suites to help fund everything else that we're doing," said Daniel Zussner, the chief operating officer of the National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows. "You know how well our tickets sell."
Before the renovation, there were about 2,000 seats in the lowest portion of the stadium, the courtside area. Then
came a level of luxury suites. There a middle section, the logo, which had about 6,000 seats. Above that was an upper tier with about 13,500 seats.
During the past 18 months, construction workers and engineers have ripped out everything below the upper tier and reconfigured their stadiums.
Now, there are 3,000 seats in the lower courtside area, including 3,000 club seats, with access to exclusive hospitality areas. These temporary clubs will be open this year, with six more opening next year.
On the next level, there is the ring of luxury corporate suites. Above the suites is a vastly reduced logo section of about 2,500 seats. Then comes the upper tier, known as the promenade, which stretches up into the noseblends.
Here is where the math gets very good for the U.S.T.A.
Last year, the 6,000-seat logo section in the middle of the stadium had an average ticket price of $350 per session. The renovation took out 2,500 of those seats.
These seats have effectively been replaced one-for-one by seats in the courtside area, where the average price without food-and-drink service is more than $500 per session. Seats with hospitality in that section cost more than $2,300 per session.
Furthermore, about 75 percent of those 6,000 seats in the logo section belonged to subscribers. For years, many of those subscribers told Corts and their team that they wanted to move their subscriptions down to the courtside section. They could not because seats there never became available.
Now the U.S.T.A. has created those seats, and subscribers have paid for them.
"The pricing reflected what we felt was fair for the significantly upgraded seat," Corts said.
The upper-tier seating has not changed. During the next year, the U.S.T.A. will expand that consumer and add a swirling bar.
Face-value ticket prices for the 13,500 seats in the promenade level are, on average, $57 per session this year, compared with $315 last year. The least expensive, unenumerated, day-session grounds passes cost $83. But those tickets are showing the highest markup rate on the secondary market, with prices roughly four to five times their face value.
The U.S.T.A. insists that it is still running an accessible event. Its Fair Week, when the qualifying competition and the mixed doubles tournament take place and the best players are practicing, remains largely free.
Tickets to mixed doubles matches on Ashe cost money, but the matches on Louis Armstrong Stadium will remain free — for now.
"We have enough demand that we could charge a ticket price for Fair Week, but we don't," Corts said.
But Fair Week is not the U.S. Open, at least not the one that most people want to vote. As the resale market and the changes to the tournament's main stadium converge, sentiment against the price is rising — but the tickets keep on selling.
Trends in a game of capitalizing on opportunities when they arise. At the moment, so we in the game of running the U.S. Open.
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After Kiffin's Exit, Mississippi Is Solidifying Its Identity in the N.I.L. Era
By SETTE EMERSON
The New York Times
OEP/IRIS: Miss. — Walker Jones walked a whine out of his office at the Grove Collective, the name, image and likeness program for the University of Mississippi, and said with a smile, "We've got some Lane Kiffin' signed footballs we need to get rid of if you want some."
These footballs used to help put for players. Now they're a punch-line, and kind of a measure.
"We actually have a lot of them right?" Jones, the collective's executive thieves, asked.
A half-member looked up and nodded with a right.
By JIMIE KIRK
In late than a month, Oxford will be the center of the college football interview. Kiffin, once the center of the Ole Miss universe, will make his return with rival Louisiana State on Sept. 31, one even 54-month-old man who was in an expansion on the coast of the Misri's debut in the College Football Project. Vaughn (heavingsway Stadium is expected to be a cauldron of astounds), with a fan base directing its ice at the man it once revived and hoping for a win that will need the ultimate message.
But on this early August day, families were moving their hair into town. People from New York, Michigan, Colorado and all even snagged on The Square, the only center of downtown. Things were moving forward.
Oxford, a city of about 15,000, has become a destination for young and old alike. Locals can assume all it can be traced to the [operable] success of its football program, just enough highs for Iwona Ed Manning, Houston, Tex., Hugh Fromm and Kiffin. But when you attach it to William Faulkner and John Grisham, the town goes an added veneer.
Enrollment at the university has spiked by 31 percent since 2020, Kiffin's first season in
Kirk Emerson is a senior college football writer for The Athletic.
Pete Golding, the new head coach, was the defensive coordinator under Lane Kiffin.
charge. Applications also went up. You can see why the Ole Miss administration embraced football and gave the program the University it was doing. Break through in the new era.
Ultimately, it was not enough for Kiffin.
Now, the university and football team felt behind have a mission.
"We've got a chip on our shoulder," Jones said. "We're bigger than one person."
'I Want This Job'
Keith Carter looked at his phone about an hour after the Egg Bowl has been taken. The message he saw may have been the most heartening he had received in months.
Carter, the Mississippi athletic director, had been working on two tracks the previous few months. On one, he was trying to convince Kiffin he could see as Ole Miss it he stayed, while also making clear that if Kiffin did take a job at J. S. U. or Florida, he would not be able to coach Ole Miss in the playoff.
The other track was finding a potential replacement. Carter was looking at Tainer's Jim Isnerall, fourth Florida's Alex Gabriel, and others. Then he got a test from
Pete Golding, his team's defensive coordinator.
"I want this job." Golding was already under consideration. But privately, he had waffled, still in the realm of the season, not totally sure that Kiffin was a good thing to know. Carter was clear, and Golding said he told himself: "You really want to work for somebody else? Everything I liked of in place, and you came here for a reason. Like, all right, take advantage. The timing is now."
So he sent the text. And when Ole Miss made the playoff, Carter did not really see letting Kiffin coach. He made Golding, who had never been a head coach, Kiffin's full set of replacement.
"It helped me to meet to some today," he said. "I felt the chance we had been through basically a nationwide coaching search for the team. I was a result. I knew I do across. It was cool for him to proceed much out and say, 'I'm ready.'"
Golding, in many ways, is the opposite of Kiffin. Kiffin, the son of a longtime N.E.L. assistant, had been a head coach in the N.F.L. at Tennessee, at Southern California and at Florida Atlanta, and he used Ole Miss to re-establish himself. Golding was a small-school product, a player at Division II Delta State, who slowly worked his way up in coaching, never working at a career-conference school until Nels Salam plucked him from Texas-like Arizona in 2017 after a defensive coordinator.
"There's a humility component of coming up that way," Golding said.
Since getting the job, Golding has been anything but in the background. Clemson Coach (little footnote) accused him of tampering in the transfer portal. Golding responded by pointing the finger at J. S. U. for tampering with his players. He is prone to going off single to speak his mind, such as a 100 at the Southeastern Conference media days on the hypocrisy of some athletic directors.
Golding guided Ole Miss to the
playoff certificate in January, including a win over 1927, Champion Georgia. Time will tell if he can keep the program going long term — including without Charlie Wein Jr., the offensive play-offer who was with his main during the playoff but then joined Kiffin at J. S. U.
But Golding's personality, and the edge that comes from his small-school background, fits the program he now leads — one that knows it still needs to do a little more.
Going Global
Ole Miss administration approached Jones in spring 2022 about the going into "Active Collective. Name, image and likeness agreement to players had recently become legal, and many schools were slow to react. Ole Miss, however, is going to action."
Carter, Jones and Mississippi Chancellor Glenn Reyer are all Ole Miss graduates. They had an president to use N.I.L. and the transfer portal to raise Ole Miss athletics, especially football. The Grove Collective was one of the first in the space, investing more than 10 million into a 2021 roster that fell just short of the playoff.
"We kind of asked for forgiveness, we pervincies, die things that other schools were late, 'Now did you do that? Why did you do that?'" Jones said.
Kiffin was involved but was not the driving force, according to Jones. He found that putting Kiffin in a room with donors to talk about the team was the best use of the coach's time. But the fund-raising strategy was not built around Kiffin.
Partly because they knew they might not keep him forever.
"We probably keep down know it was going to end that way too, the way it did. Just knowing the past," Jones said.
"But this also motivated us to say this is bigger than one person. We feel like we've got as good alignment as anybody in the country. And we feel like we have may-
be not the biggest fan base in the whole world, but a very small and passionate fan base, that we can get everyone going in the same direction."
The collective differentiated Ole Miss for the first week of years. Then others caught up, and things switched up again. The Grove Collective moved on a more-briefly model and created its own marketing agency, in the same way many universities started using their multimedia rights partners as third-party N.I.L. sources.
Kiffin used it to crack the roster. The 2014 team on a program came with eight N.E.L. head picks, including four in the first two rounds. The 2015 team won 0.5 billion Kiffin's departure, then 1.5 billion Golding.
"This is a good thing. But best Ole Miss football has ever been," said defensive tackle Will Eriksen. "I don't know."
The flag of football and Tobago was regularly flown at games last year because of the first name of paperchecks Trinidad Chantillon. He said he can into someone that will assume him that country who said him that Ole Miss "has kind of taken over" the island nation.
"It's so useful at Ole Miss is now global," Chantillon said.
Kiffin helped get it there. The question now: Can Ole Rebels stay there — and show up their old coach in the protocol?
Great Expectations
The SEC schedule-makers know what they're doing: J. S. U. comes to Oxford on Sept. 25, in the third week of the season. Ole Miss line-hacker Sam Franklin said he hears from him "all the time" about the game.
"I tell them we get there. Franklin said, adding, 'Let us beat Louisville first. Let us win our first two games.'"
So his Ole Miss people feel they have come through the Kiffin's path in a great place. There was annoyance at Salam, Kirk Herberich and others for arguing that the program should let Kiffin coach in
the playoff, Chantillon said.
The playoff, but Carter took a stand, and his name validated the stand.
"We didn't think about, 'Oh, this is maybe our only one shot,'" Carter said. "Our goal has been working up to this point, and we don't want to look back, and we don't want to go back to the ways of the past. We want to be in the playoff conversation every single year."
This year's team came in ranked No. 9 in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 poll. The Rebels retained 69 percent of their eligible players from last year's team, despite the influence of Kiffin, though they did lose four players to Kiffin's Tigers. (Two J. S. U. players considered to Ole Miss.)
"When he left, it put on to a test, and he was a real shot, the more tackle Jan Brown said, 'Now do we want to be remembered?' I feel that he's going on to be a little because people don't respect us to be anything."
Ole Miss football has never won a consensus national championship, though it was the SEC's dominant team from 2014 to 2003. The next 10 years brought only three 10-win seasons, in 1971, 2003 and 2023.
Then Kiffin arrived in 2020, and the team was at least 10 games in four of the past five seasons.
Maybe it was Kiffin. Or maybe, people at the university prefer to think, Kiffin plus the response to Ole N.I.L. ads. "Endraizing the chaos," Jones put it.
But Kiffin is gone, and that makes this a key moment.
"We feel like we have a seat at the table now," Carter said. "You go around the country and wear the Ole Miss logo, people know who we are now. We've not just a state or regional school now. We're more of a national brand. But we're by no means a blue idea."
"But our hope is we can look back in 10 at 13 years and say we not only had success in pockets, but we were able to sustain that, and now we are in that conversation with the top brands."
HORSE RACING
When the M.B.'s team is in the top left, and Classic Rock, above left, raise the team's share of the team's strategy, and the right to be the team's that a "betting crop" was underway.
Was There a 'Betting Coup,' or Were the Horses Just Surprisingly Fast?
By JOE SHAPE
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Andy Serling is a handicaper for the New York Racing Association. His job is to tell Pat Spore's viewers which horse for thinks is the likely winner, and there one man at Saratoga Race Course that month, Serling makes.
For me, he's a big named M.B.'s Melanie Cares at odds of 13 to 1. She had not run in seven months, Her workers were slow. She was trained by a horseman he had been made a 1000.
On paper, there was not much to recommend M.B.'s Melanie Cares. He was a good man who had been an earlier career, her trainer, 12 years Online, had a horse named Classic Rock who won by nearly two lengths at odds of five (about two) and one (one) for women.
Serling suggested to his viewers the 4 "betting crap" was underway. It is a practice as old as horse racing itself, where owners are not able to get the best. A year slow funding into a race to keep the odds high and such is big after winning.
Selling said his audience that he has got his horse back to his own on M.B.'s Melanie Cares, who he predicted just got out 122 on a
61 bet.
M.B.'s Melanie Cares won by almost four lengths and paid $27.70 for a $2.00 — nearly what Serling had predicted and a windfall that set the upstate racetrack stands limiting.
That bout smoothed when horseplayers entered a similar set of circumstances — on the same day, Aug. 9 — at Monmouth Park on the New Jersey Shore, where electric trunks, single garves, won back-to-back races with a pair of horses with similarly underwhelming victories.
The four winning horses were trained by Quince at Fair Hill Training Center in Elkton, Md., and the two Saratoga winners were told to Ochoa before their liberout victories. Unlike race tracks where every horse ordered by independent clockers, Fair Hill has trainers do the timing three selves and report the times to the track where they intend the horse to compete. They sponsor the true opportunity to "further" a horse's turn in the winner times to make the thoroughbred look less appealing to before.
The average of the horses' turn during the turning world was allister about how the trainers got "one over," in race
track parlance, is mostly admiring terms.
But the racing industry's regulator was not amused and has opened an investigation into the two trainers and the training centers.
Local, intense, chief executive of the{Hornracing} integrity and Safety Authority, a quasi-public federal regulator, said that the horses had undergone extensive drug and DNA testing and that the sports' test system was being examined for suspicious testing. She said none of the results were back.
"HSA takes this situation very seriously, and I may remember an uncovered, there will be serious consequences," Lazarus said.
But darkening a horse's practice here with slow workouts is just how the horses had their trainers have rarely been punished. Short of finding evidence that the races were tried or the horses had been given performance-enhancing drugs, a will be difficult for HSA to fund down seasonally possible to the trainers.
Quince and Ochoa said they had done nothing wrong after than having a very good day on the track.
"I have nothing to hide — I am clean," Quince said in an interview, adding that he had reported accurate testing times.
Ochoa said he felt discretion must against as a small-time trainer. "I win two races at the best racetrack in the world and people aren't happy," he said.
The savings extended all to way to London, where several
Several horses wildly outperform the odds at Saratoga and on the Jersey Shore.
bookmaking shops had taken bets on the Saratoga and Monmouth races from an array of customers, many of them American.
The bookmakers' successes significant six-figper losses, according to two people familiar with the investigation who were not authorized to speak publicly about it.
"I was a fairly remarkable in-tempted gamble, the likes of which we've never really seen in
here," Paul Rotheld of Paddy Power, a major bookmaker, told Britain's Racing Post. "It's cost us a few gold, but nothing you want to get."
Both Quince and Ochoa said they have nothing about hers placed with English bookers.
Betting craps are the stuff of racetrack fans.
Inside information about horses and races is traded frequently, most of it useless. When a big score is made public, it allows a traditional as long as it does not involve doping or other tactics harmful to a thoroughbred.
"I always have a grading respect for people who pull it off during cold, including a combined common among horseplayers."
Quince said he sometimes lives on his horses, but did not that day. He said he said Ochoa are friends. "Are we not allowed to win races?" Quince said.
For questions around Quince and his horse have now been compounded by another issue, the Aug. 12, regulators announced that a horse not involved in the races and trained by Quince had tested positive for allowed, a beta-agonist and bronchodilator
used to treat equine asthma or respiratory distress in horses. It can be repurposed to build lean muscle mass when it is abused, according to regulators.
When asked in a follow-up interview about the drug test results, Quince said that there had been a doubt in his family and that he was unable to comment.
Also coming under scrutiny is the Fair Hill Training Center. It's a hostile setting, with riding trails and dirt, not a bad customer surface. It is home to the Kentucky Derby-winning trainers Graham Moose and Doug McGaughey.
Will Phipps, Fair HSA executive director, said Quince's three-month home to train horses at the facility ends in September. He said the training's center board was also investigating.
Quince said he had moved his operation to the University Florida two months ago. Over the past 7 years, he has won 174 races for more than $3.3 million. Ochoa has won 23 races in the last nine years for almost $900,000.
"I wanted more options," Quince said. "It's a short time to race tracks in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania."
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BASEBALL
Games' Top Flamethrowers Search for a Frontier Beyond 100 M.P.H.
Hitting Triple Digits
Already Pushes
The Arm's Limits
By JOHNNY FLORES JR.
The Editor
Mason Miller was fresh off the M.L.R. draft, a newly entered third-round pick for the Athletics. Aodelle Chapman was still an unheralded manager who had considered from Cuba. Seth Hernandez was a rising high school senior in California. And Jacob Micsimowski was pitching in the Junior College World Series.
Indivisibility, they were at different points in their lives. Collectively in these moments, though, they all shared the same experience: their first time reaching 100 miles per hour on a pitching record.
"When," Hernandez recalled thinking, an triple digits finished across the board.
Reaching the 100-m.p.h., marked it no simple that. It is a test of what the human body is capable of arms roaring back then whipping forward, 60 feet 6 inches from home plate. These days, though, modern pitchers continue to list milestones that few before come over achieve. They are throwing harder and harder, and what was once a rarity has become commonplace.
I like first taste of 100-m.p.h. was merely a precursor, as each of them has continued to test their own limits, raising the question: Is there an undiscovered level level, a hidden third goal?
In 2008, the average velocity of a four-seam football sat at 10.3 m.p.h. By 2022, that figure was up a full two-stars to 0.5. In the first half of 2026, it was 54.6 m.p.h. The highest it has been in the pitch-tracking era, which began in 2006.
In all of the 2025 seasons, 726 pitches of at least 100 m.p.h. were thrown by a marker. In just the first half of this season, there were 1,050.
"You can find a nice little whiff," Misierowski, the Milwaukee Brewers ace, told The Athlete when asked what it's like to throw 100-m.p.h. "You can hear it. It kind of song a little bit."
The subject of velocity and its importance has gained marine recently particularly as Paul Barnes, the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner, has seen his own flame-throwing capabilities desirable. What was once a 94.8 mph handed on average has dipped to 96.5, in this most recent start, to 4.5, innings off Wednesday, Barnes topped out of 87.5.
For his part, Barnes believes that velocity isn't the level of self control.
"I don't think velocity is something I need to pitch well," Barnes said at the All-Star media day in July. "I think it's probably the first time."
Johnny Flores Jr. is a senior M.L.R. editor for The Athlete.
"You can find a nice little whiff," the Brewers' Jacob Misierowski said. "The 100-m.p.h. is a man bear in 3.1-inch of a roga a little bit."
Among the pitchers who have joined the century club arm, from left, Mason Miller, Aodelle Chapman, Seth Hernandez and Chase Burns. When Chapman was a member of the Cincinnati Reds in 2030, he hit 105.8 m.p.h. in a blowout relief appearance.
time in my career the wits has kind of dipped. It's not something that I'm stressed over as all. I'm healthy. I'm feeling good and still pitching at a high level."
The results don't speak of someone pitching at a high level, though. Since July 1, Barnes has a 3.67 earned run average in nine starts.
In 2018, when Chapman, then a member of the Cincinnati Reds, hit 105.4 m.p.h. in a blowout relief appearance against the Pittsburgh Pirates, relievers were averaging just under 93 m.p.h. on their four-seam footballs.
His first was meant to represent a one-off kind of rarity. Instead, it been haltered the modern pitch-
ing experience.
"In that time, there weren't that many, like there are one," Chapman said of his fellow hurlers. "You need to be blessed with a good arm to do that."
Consider the 42 pitchers who topped 100-m.p.h. in 2025 among those who have been blessed.
Chief among them is Misierowski, the 6-foot 7 right-hander for the Brewers, who led the league in the first half of 2030 with 470 pitches faster than 100 m.p.h., and whose own four of 105.3 m.p.h. came 33 seasons after Chapman first turned heads.
It think I slipped a little bit on that pitch," Misierowski told reporters in June, flushing a tending
grin as he contemplated the potential of a hidden third good that would allow man to exceed 100 m.p.h.
If the era, it likely will not come from the arm of Misierowski, the favorite to win the National League Cy Young record in his first full season in the majors.
"Basically, I think that's it," Misierowski admitted. "I think that's right about where I'm sitting. If that's all I can, that's all I get."
Perhaps, then, Hernandez, whom the Pirates made the 3m.1 pick in the 2025 draft, can find it. A 6-foot 4 right-hander, Hernandez just turned 20 in June.
"What Misierowski is doing is special," Hernandez said. "I'm still
pretty young, so hopefully, as I grow into my body, get a little more physical, maybe there's more wits in the road."
A year and a half after first touching 100-m.p.h., Hernandez reached 102.4 m.p.h. in a spring training game against the Detroit Tigers.
"It was quite a while ago, so I almost begin the feeling of a little bit," Hernandez said in mid-July. "You could feel the hunt off your fingers a little bit."
A little over an hour after making these comments, Hernandez, pitching in the M.L.R. Feature Game, hit triple digits three times and topped out at 101 m.p.h., the feeling of elite velocity returning,
even if for a moment.
One flamethrower who likely will not challenge for the velocity crown is Cincinnati's Chase Burns, a 6-foot 2 righty who hit 102 m.p.h. as a 29-year-old sophomore for Tennessee.
"I think that might be the top for me," Burns admitted. "As I get older and maybe get stronger and push the limits on my body, I might be able to get more. But it's kind of hard when you throw so many innings in a year, so many and yes. I think right now, though, that's the top for me."
As a rookie in 2022, Burns averaged 98.7 m.p.h. on his heater, and this season, it sits at 97.5, right because what Carl Schilder, Shobel Olmari and Rick Susski all average. He has reached 105 as a big taxpayer and has exceeded 100 m.p.h. at different points this campaign.
It's not just the innings that players have to account for, particularly starters—who do have, Misierowski and Hernandez. It's also how their bodies respond.
"I think those guys, they're so in tune with their body and their members that it's more," Burns said. "Has definitely feel it the next day — you're pretty sure!"
Just because something is physically possible does not mean it is level of pain, and what is physically possible also does not necessarily lead itself easily to repetition, arguably the most difficult aspect of being able to maintain elite levels in velocity.
"Frankibly," said Misierowski when asked what it takes to throw 100-plus consistently. "A motion that you can repeat day to and day out, and just being strong."
That is why players like Chapman put a high emphasis on strength and conditioning.
"Continuous, consistency and power things that everybody doesn't get to me," Miller said. "Weight room, training room, everything that prepares you to be able to go out and integrate at your best each night."
Themis lies the biggest obstacle: No matter how much work it does, the human body is only capable of so much.
Misierowski missed his final start of the first half with what the Brewers intended as arm fatigue. He skipped the All-Star Game, then Milwaukee's first series of the second half, finally returning for an abbreviated four-tuning start set July 26. On Friday, he pitched six shutout innings against Atlanta.
Other big shots, including Ed win: Dan, Tarik Shubal, Garrett Coebee, Hunter Brown, Shamer Greene and Brandon Woodruff, have spent time on the injured list for some variation of an arm concern.
Yet, as long as the radar is functional, there will never be a shortage of those attempting to challenge its capabilities, trying to find another gear on the mound.
"I've set my highest role every single year in the '60s," Miller said. "Hopefully I put another couple of ticks in them, but we'll see."
BASEETBALL
COMMENTARY
The Lakers' Patriarch Tried to Bequeath a Legacy. It's Tearing His Family Apart.
By JASON LLOYD
Jerry Bass wanted his children to run the Lakers after he was gone. How sad he would be to see what his prized possession has done to the people he cherished.
The Lakers were supposed to be the bond that kept the Bass family connected after his passing. Instead, the state is the image upbringing everyone apart.
Five siblings against one. Public accusations. Old wounds made new. Attresses on both sides profiling off the dysfunction.
It is a real-life "barcestone" playing out in 1949-wood, the first family, choked to purple and gold, six tears to a kingdom fighting over the throne. It is never just uncomfortable. It is also impossible to look away.
It's tempting to wonder why sympathy for a family hathering over 100mm. Nobody here is going hungry. Nobody is wondering if the mortgage check will be just this month. That isn't the tragedy.
The tragedy is that a father planned for every legal and financial threat to his life's work except the one that underlies most: what it might do to his children.
Five of the six Bass siblings want to sell the family trust's remaining 2.5 percent more, while Jessie Bass wants to pre-
Jason Lloyd is a senior columnist for The Athletic. Sam Amick contributed reporting.
serve enough ownership to remain his Lakers' governor. She believes that the trust's language and a 2,352 court order give her the legal protection to block the sale. Ultimately, the courts will likely decide the winner.
Jerry Bass did the best to could, planning for a future he knew he ultimately could not control. He built a succession plan in three layers: collective family ownership. Jessie as the ultimate authority and operational roles for the other children.
He divided ownership equally without dividing authority equally. All six children had the same economic interest and a vision to major ownership decisions, but Jerry did not intend for all six to run the Lakers simultaneously. Jessie was the designated controlling owner.
It is easy to see how such a structure could eventually breed resentment among those who aren't selected. Moreover, he could not have predicted how franchise values have started over the past decade.
If Bass could one error in the language of his trust, it was perhaps the classic that upon such 1,000's passing, their shares in the Lakers would be dispersed among the remaining siblings. It essentially created a last-issue standing, "Game of Thrones" power structure.
The intent was likely to keep ownership from getting fragmented across potential sponsors, grandchildren and subsequent generations. Instead, it has created a perverse incentive for the
Jerry Bass's trust divided ownership equally among six holes. Five were worst to sell, and the courts will likely decide the winner.
siblings to sell. Cash out now, enjoy your wealth, and leave your inheritance to those of your own choosing. She while the shares remain in the trust, and your siblings get everything.
By structuring the trust the way he did, Bass incentivized the very sale by two trying so carefully to prevent.
He could transfer the stock. He could establish trusts. He could create a succession plan. But he could not make yet adult children want the same things forever. That's the part of inheritance no estate attorney can solve.
You can leave your children a fortune. You cannot bequeath the
devotion to what created it. You cannot put family harmony into a trust. You cannot guarantee that siblings thought they were their father's wishes. 16 or 20 years after he's gone.
And you must certainly cannot predict what happens when the family found their own. The cryone to preserve becomes worth more than $25 billion. The numbers have grown so enormous that unintendedly comes with a staggering price.
For five of the Bass siblings, selling the remaining stake can be viewed as the logical conclusion of a present that began when the family surrendered
control of the Lakers last year. They can take their money and never forward with lives that no longer revolve around the franchise.
For Jessie Bass, it doesn't seem nearly that simple.
Her five siblings can sell and walk away. She may view walking away as losing something that cannot be replaced by any amount deposited into a bank account.
The Lakers are not merely what she owns. They seem to be her identity.
Jessie Bass was 19 when her father put her in charge of his professional tennis team. She later ran the Forum and spent minutes working within the family businesses before ultimately amusing control of the Lakers.
She is 61 now. Her entire adult life has been attached to her father's sports empire and, ultimately, to the Lakers. All of that same is question that is deposed. He for any of us no answer but appears terminating: national idler. Does Jessie Bass know who Jessie Bass is without the Los Angeles Lakers?
Her agreement allows her to remain Lakers governor through their government. Jessie will have to find a life without the Lakers. For now, she is clinging to what remains of the only life she has ever known.
That's could be another option if Jessie is determined enough to remain, she could theoretically work financing to buy out her siblings herself. At today's valuation, doing so could require her
to raise close to $2 billion while still leaving her with enough equity to retain governor.
Imagine the irony.
Jerry Bass left the Lakers to six children because he wanted them to own the franchise as he got the plan could ultimately conclude with one child borrowing a fortune to buy out the other five.
Perhaps that is why this romantic beyond simply another fight among America's 1 percent.
Families battle over other Lakers every six siblings argue about what their parents wanted than with the house or intended for the business. The Lakers seems outlaw. One child believes another was favored. Someone wants to sell. Someone else refuses.
The more family is hurting an ordinary family dispute on an extraordinarily large stage. They are having it over the Los Angeles Lakers.
The more tired an extraordinary version of the American dream, He made a fortune, bought a basketball room and transferred it into an empire. He is trying to save a big private success into generational success.
He succeeded. Maybe too much.
Bass built a basketball dynasty. He created wealth for children could never redeem. He committed a sketched state all remain relevant long after his death.
The one thing he could not preserve was the family he wanted to inherit it.
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Ted Striggles, Who Helped Fellow Dancers as a Lawyer, Dies at 84
By BRIAN GIBBURT
Ted Striggles, a dancer and lawyer who combined his disparate skills to support artists both struggling and successful, and to advise them on how to survive, including with his influential 1976 guide, 'Poor Dancers' Almanac, died on Aug. 23 at his home in Manhattan. He was 84.
Deborah Bahl, his wife of 47 years, confirmed the death, which
was caused by complications of white matter disease, a meaningful condition.
As a young man, Mr. Striggles was a scholar-adultist, playing several sports as an undergraduate in Stanford in the early 1980s. He continued playing sports while pursuing a law degree at Harvard, until an injury experienced knee surgery. While he was recovering from the operation, his younger sister suggested that he try baller. That was when he felt in love with dance.
After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1967, he earned a master's degree in dance at Sarah Lawrence College, studying with the assistant educator Keren Schonberg. Not long after beginning his dance career, though, he needed another knee operation.
During the recovery period this time, he took a job as a lawyer with the prestigious firm Paul, Weiss, about a year later, he returned to dance, joining the hardscrabble world of choreographer and co-partner in 1970s New York City.
As a performer, Mr. Striggles was achieved in control, untried work, in a 1971 review in The New York Times of Elizabeth Keen's 'Poison Variations,' a humorous dance inspired by the play within the play in 'Shankin'. Tom McDonnell praised Mr. Striggles as 'malnable faced.'
Mr. Striggles also appeared in many works choreographed by James Cunningham, in 'Makin' magazines. 'The Man of the Man' was with the head of a cellar who responded with leaves but in the minirements of Mr. Cunningham, who was dressed in a parachute. From the start, Mr. Striggles also played a role in the administration side of the performance world. 'My involvement began, I guess, when I was in a small company that got a show of difference, he told The Times to 1978.' They needed airplane tickets and I went the only way with a man. 'One thing made me business manager, in many arts organizations, in the one who has the adding man that they play the plot.'
For 'M. Striggles, who is John Dance Company, Mr. Striggles defined a system — then need for dance — that pooled-reverman and then divided them among the
Ted Striggles in 1972. His parallel careers made him uniquely qualified to advise artists on navigating the world on a meager salary.
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In 1976, dancing with James Cunningham, left, and Lauren Thessalotti in 'Apollo and Dionysus: Check to Check'; and at the desk.
dancers via shares. Through James Theater Workshop, a thoroughfare collaborative that was becoming an important brain-bater for experimental dance, he began giving classes in economic survival for dancers.
Those lectures led to 'Poor Dancers' Almanac,' a guide that he compiled with Margery Sankin and Jenna Driver. Its tone was equally informative and irreverent.
'When you were 8, you likely spent a great deal of time in current conversation with your friends over how we worked,' Mr. Striggles wrote in the introductory. 'You will recall that much of the material was there, but nobody had the story quite right.'
The almanac set the record straight on how to live as a dancer
He was best known for a guide aimed at helping starving artists in New York.
— explaining, for example, the difference between rent control and rent stabilization, and checkizing the possible drawbacks of squaring in an illegal left.
At a time when many modern dancers often performed only a few times a year, unemployment insurance, Mr. Striggles wrote, was 'the most important single funding source.' He showed how, by adding up their total needs of employment (whether performing, tending bar or waiting to-
blev), dancers could qualify.
The almanac was later revised and expanded by other authors. In the 1983 edition, to a section discussing liability in informal partnerships such as the kind created when two choreographers share a program, Mr. Striggles posed a hypothetical situation: 'Suppose the other artist thoughtlessly filled her blank greed with real bullets' and unintentionally, though fatally, that a certain unsympathetic New York Times crisis.'
Would the other, weaponless choreographer be baller? Possibly so, he wrote.
In another 1976 book, 'Year of Filing,' he demystified cases, jakkagin starting with a quote from Diantri 'Informs' — 'Shawken hope, all ye who enter here' — be-
fore offering information and encouragement. 'Year of Filing' was distributed by 'Mummer Lawyers for the Arts, a legal aid organization for which he later served as director and board chairman.
David R. White, who led Dance Theater Workshop from 1975 to 1983, said in an interview that Mr. Striggles was a 'one-man defense hero for artists.' In the mid-70s, when the celebrated avant-garde performing artist and composer, Meredith Monk was broke, Mr. Striggles won a landmark case establishing that she could receive unemployment insurance even though she was on the board of her own nonprofit organization.
After retiring from performing in 1976, Mr. Striggles returned to Paul, Weiss, where he remained
'Poor Dancers' Almanac' was an irreverent guide to the basics of economic survival.
until 1975, when he served for a year as the executive director of the New York State Council on the Arts. Then he became a solo practitioner — still helping artists, often pro bono. Among his notable clients was Arthur Mitchell, the participating Black baller star who was a founder of Dance Theater of Harlem.
For years, Mr. Striggles wore a black overcoat that he had bought in 1976, and was a chance outlier. It had a cage lined in red silk, and many of the artists who saw Mr. Striggles in a hero thought it an apt character.
Theodore William Striggles was born on April 9, 1942, in Den Miners, the middle of three old-years old father, William Theodore Striggles, owned a small business and was later a bail headman. His mother, Anastasia (Neshundra) Striggles, managed to be a son.
Besides his wife, Mr. Striggles is survived by his older sister, Georgiana Poiniello. His younger sister, Dewarta Henderson, known as 'Amy, died in 2015.
In 1974, he was part of a team of dance company managers who had an extensive, a cultural-culted DanceWorks. The culture's grow into Perisole, a leading support organization for the performing arts. Mr. Striggles later lectured on arts law as Pace University and New York University, and served on great-studying panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Council on the Humanities.
In 2022, he was honored for his birthday of service by the New York Dance and Performance Awards, known as 'Ahead of Me, Schooling, his teacher at Sarah Lawrence — as the lecture. The children noted his 'identification and institutionalization of subversive business practices in the arts.'
Mr. Striggles also received an award from the Dance Notation Bureau, a nonprofit organization that promotes the use of Laboratories, a synthetic system for recording dance movement. On a wall in his apartment, he hung a Laboratory, a large lot a certain sequence of actions. When visitors called him to interpret it, he would — by slowly raising his middle finger.
Pauline Clayden, 103, British Dancer And Star in Seminal 'Sleeping Beauty'
By ALASTAIR MACKLEF
Pauline Clayden, a British baller-lista who was the last known surviving soloist from a performance that changed the course of American dance — the special night of Sadler's Wells Ballet's 'The Sleeping Beauty' at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York on Oct. 8, 1949 — died on July 23 in Salisbury, England, the way 103.
The death, in a care home, was confirmed by her family.
That 1949 performance, the beginning of the company's first 12, was one not just a breakthrough for the international perception of British baller. It also set a new bar for American dance: Sadler's Wells, which in 1956 became so day's Royal Ballet, was a time from theatrical experience in terms of both vivid acting and radiant classical style.
As the become of 'The Sleeping Beauty,' Margot Fontoyn, then 20, went straight to the heart of the New York audience, but so did the company around her. Ms. Fontoyn was hailed as print as 'a ballerman among ballerman,' and Ms. Clayden — dancing the Fairy of the Songbirds, one of the first pair members, with an excellent solo — was one of them. The dancers of both New York City Ballet, there just a year old, and American that at Theater, founded in 1978, took place in September, 1979, in the British company, which went on to become a beloved regular visitor in America until the 1970s.
On opening night at the Met, the Principal artist, who was led to act over the productless success. During the intervention that he bowed that first section, Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York, was the first one of the first, who followed both the staging and the company as a whole, by sat-
ing, 'You're in, lady.' And that was even before the initial entrance of Ms. Fontoyn, who ended up having the greatest triumph of her career.
Sadler's Wells went on to become America's most popular international ballet company, making tours throughout the 1960s and '60s that often lasted to months. Ms. Clayden participated in the first four of these tours.
The company soon became her for known — and more highly regarded — in many cities than any
The last known surviving soloist from an event that changed American dance.
american troupe. The tours brought in so much money that the company was granted to first and a better of economic affairs as having, 'among all its other ex-choled qualities, that of a first time in their career.'
Ms. Clayden, who had joined Sadler's Wells during World War II, immediately perceived the importance of acting to his style, the qualities of teaching vulnerability, rapture, youthfulness and naturalness made her excellent for many of the roles that the eminent choreographer Frederick Ashton was featuring at the time for Ms. Fontoyn, who was three years old or than Ms. Clayden.
She was often second-cut to Ms. Fontoyn — one of the great figures of ballet history, who died in 1981 — but Ms. Clayden was well respected in her own right.
Though Ashton said he usually missed Ms. Fontoyn when others danced her roles, he made an exception for Ms. Clayden's Chief in his 'Elephant and Chief' (1972).
Pauline Elise Clayden was born on Oct. 12, 1922, in Lewisham, in southeast London. Her father, Frederick Clayden, worked for the Embassy Charing House, and her mother, Ada Clayton Clayden, managed the home; she died when Pauline was 13.
In 1938, after early training in London, Ms. Clayden was accepted one the ballet company that shared in opera at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. His career was led by young Antony Tudor, who would soon move to the United States to work with American Ballet Theaters.
After the outbreak of war, Ms. Clayden joined the nascent London Ballet at the tiny Arts Theater Club near Leicester Square, which became closely intertwined with Ballet Bumbers. Besides, nicknamed 'Goodnings,' often left, Ms. Clayden later described how she and the other dancers blowered for their music and nearby explosions at the same time.
In 1942, Ms. Clayden joined Sadler's Wells cabs known as the Vic-Wells Ballet, which took up residence at the Royal Opera House in 1949 with a new production of 'The Sleeping Beauty' and its classic 'Elizabeth's' score. With Ms. Clayden as the Songbirds Fairy from the beginning, she was the singing that would sound in New York three years later.
Between 1949 and 1955, Ms. Clayden created supporting roles in the promotion of seven balleres by Saddam and the Queen as Ballet' (1949), whose polychemical historiology score
Above, from left, Pauline Clayden in 1945 in a 'Sleeping Beauty' costume in a Royal Opera House workshop, and dancing as Clybula in 'Pounds' in 1948 at Sadler's Wells Ballet in London.
prompted the choreographer to immerse himself in character Ex-filtration geometry for the corps de ballet. Ms. Clayden, known for her memory, sat(Ioze) and embaroness, drew colored diagrams that show that the complexity of his patterning.
Also in 1948, Ms. Clayden mar-
ried Major Howard John Gamble, a medical student who went on to become a professor of movement; She left the Sadler's Wells company in 1956 to start their family. Later, she taught dancers in many earlier modernist London. In 1964, she and her husband retired to Devon, in western
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England, but she would return to the Royal Ballet to coach several of the Fontoyn-Ashken roles she had danced, notably those in 'The Dancer,' 'Elephant and Chief' and 'Remings to the Queen.'
Ms. Clayden's husband died in 1989. She is survived by their two children, Amanda Fisher and Major Gamble, two grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
In 1952, Ashton choreographed a three-act ballet, 'Sylvia' in Art 1956, at Clayden and Brian Shaw danced a pair of guns. Ms. Clayden once gave Ashton a list of the menagerie containing all the animal roles in her repertory; a six-year-old with a little boy, a lightingaley, two dogs, a snake, a muffle, a butterfly — and that goat is 'Sylvia.' Ashton laughed happily; he had choreographed several of these dances several.
But he also took Ms. Clayden seriously as a feature. In 1955, he coached her in the title role of the little-sweeter ballet 'Claudio' — a well known character considered Givelle the ultimate baller-lista role, with its wide set of emotion and its intense amalgam of acting and dancing. In 1968, Ashken, who was the last American Givelle was among the best he had ever seen.
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Nancy Kissinger, Widow of Former Secretary of State, Is Dead at 92
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Nancy Kissinger, the widow of former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, who shared his whirlwind life of international diplomacy — and then of lyricalistic celebrity, as a controversial elder statesman — for half a century, died on Thursday at her home in South Kent, Conn. She was 92.
Her death was announced by her family.
Politically savvy, well versed in global issues and fiercely prominent of her husband's name, Mrs. Kissinger traveled widely with him on diplomatic missions after their 1974 marriage. And when Mr. Kissinger stopped down three years later, they became a familiar Washington woman in the 1980s, new, embassy parties and Republican White House receptions.
The Kissinger's were also among the most public couples in New York City, their principal residence, attending insurance openings, fashion shows by Bill Mann and Oscar de la Renta, and charity fund-staters. Since the early 1960s, their summer and weekend retreat from social obligations had been a 200-acre estate in South Kent.
"In the men and women who came her well," the New York Times-guated one friend at saying after the wedding, "Mrs. Kissinger is an intelligent, capable and warm woman, with a great deal of charm, a good sense of humor and an iron sense of integrity."
Mrs. Kissinger's glamorous life was hardly devoid of trouble, and some of it had to do with her how harsh. Fairly disputed reputation, a secretary of state from 1973 to 1977, and the first to be named in the House and Gerald R. Ford, Mr. Kissinger pioneered the policy of dissense with the Soviet Union; or disconcert the person operating a relationship with the regular or shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East towards the Arab-based war of 1973, also known as the Yom Kippy War; and helped organize the Paris National Convention for the American involvement in the Vietnam War, for which he shared the Nobel Peace Prize.
For all his lessons, he remained a policy of a war, accused of journalism and human rights activities of war crimes for support by the bombing of Hanoi and an invasion of Cambodia during the war. He was a member of the military{e) and military rung against the socialist government of Schedule (Almed in Chile; and he signaling a green light to an Argentine military force for its "duty war" against
Ash Wu contributed reporting.
Nancy Maginnes with her future husband, Henry A. Kissinger, in Jerusalem in 1970. She was a fierce defender of Mr. Kissinger.
disasters.
In 1981, walking through a terminal at Tewash International Airport, the Kissinger's were an honorificy Ellen Kugler, a follower of Lyndon H. LaBouche, a call leader with both Marxist and right-wing associations. She devoted insults of both Kissinger's, and witnesses could say Mrs. Kissinger grabbed the heckler by the threat and threatened to throw the air.
Months later, in a two-hour trial in Tewash Municipal Court, Mrs. Kissinger testified that she had been escorting her husband to Boston for a triple-impact heart operation and that he was under a doctor's orders to avoid "spare of any kind." The judge dismissed a misdemeanor charged simple assault against Mrs. Kissinger, saying that there had been no bodily injury.
In the decade before their marriage, his second, Mr. Kissinger
dated the film stars All St. John, Liri Gibbons, Shirley Mack-Jane, Martin Thomas and others. But his most frequent companion was Nancy Maginnes.
The wedding of Ms. Maginnes, 39, and Henry Kissinger, 58, took place in Arlington, Va., on March 30, 1974, and while it was attended by only a handful of guests and not disclosed until it was over, it was one of the most heavily covered social events of the year. The Times published the news at the top of Page 1 and followed it with a detailed profile of theabc.
She was a foreign policy specialist for the Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, a creation of former Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York. Mr. Rockefeller had been the bride's employer and Mr. Kissinger's friend and political ally for years, and had introduced them at Harvard, where Mr. Kissinger was teaching and Mr. Maginnes became one of his students.
The couple on a flight between Egypt and Israel in 1975, part of Mr. Kissinger's continuing shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East.
Mr. Kissinger's 15-year first marriage to Ann Fleischer had ended in divorce in 1964. They had two children, who both attended the wedding, along with the bride's brother David and her mother, Agnes Maginnes. Mr. Kissinger's brother, Walter, and his wife were also there, as was Carrick More, a state Department legal adviser.
After the brief civil ceremony, performed by Judge Francis Thomas Jr. of Arlington County Court, the newly-mob live in Mt. Rockefeller's prison of the Assyphers, Mexico, for a 30-day honeymoon, a dozen Soviet Service agents, 20 Mexican police officers and 40 journalists shadowed their every move, failing already to do less sleep on Acapulco Bay. Mt. Kissinger kept a protective arm around his new wife, as a motorist. She had been a good man.
They made a striking couple, not least because the ash-blood,
chain-sensiting Mrs. Kissinger was nearly six-foot tall, while her husband, recognized around the world, was only 3-foot-6. But friends said that they were a good match, intellectually and emotionally, and described them as inseparable.
Two months after the honeymoon, Mrs. Kissinger demonstrated her ambassadistical pleasure by joining her husband's continuing shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East, standing for photo ups with Arab and Israeli leaders in various regions, and as sending Mr. Kissinger's airborne news briefings to her stockinged box. Her presence was high, lighted in breath, Arab and American势力.
That autumn, she accompanied Mr. Kissinger to the Soviet Union for his talks with the Centenarian leader, Leonid Brezhnev on car-to-arrange nuclear arms, and then flew to New Delhi on the second leg of a three-week diplomatic trip
She was politically savvy and well versed in global issues.
to more than a dozen countries. Friends said her pates helped to hide the anxieties that landed her in a hospital with ulcers soon after the trauma.
In 2008, Mrs. Kissinger testified at a criminal court case in New York against Anthony D. Marshall, the son of her friend the play of the most female actor, who had died two years before. Mr. Marshall had been charged with defrauding his mother's estate of millions by reducing her exchange for with the income after her mental capacity had faded. Mr. Marshall was convicted and sentenced to a prison term.
Nancy Sloane Maginnes was born in Manhattan on April 11, 1916, the third child and only daughter of Albert B. Maginnes and Agnes (McKinley) Maginnes. Her father, a former pro football player, was a nurse and trainee lawyer in White Plains, N.Y., where Nancy and her two brothers grew up.
She graduated from the Manhattan School in Dublin Ferry, N.Y., in 1951, and from Mount Holyoke College in 1955 with a bachelor's degree in history. She returned to the Western School for two years before their history and then took postgraduate courses at the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1964, she went to work for Mt. Kissinger on a Rockefeller task force and, fascinated by foreign affairs, took a job with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund after Mt. Kissinger left to join the Nixon administration in 1964.
The Kissinger's had no children. Mr. Kissinger died in 2022. Mrs. Kissinger's brother Bristol died in 2014; only 1980s, and her brother David, in 2020. She is survived by two vegetables, Elizabeth Vanderbush and David Kissinger, and five snug-grown babies.
Mrs. Kissinger was never affected by American diplomat. But her omnipresence made her an recognizable to some around the globe as presidents and cabinet secretaries. In 2007, when a reporter for The Times entered a new office in New York, the owner pointed to photos on the wall of well-known figures who had brought his furnishings and fabrics.
"That's Jimmy Carter," he said, "that's Warren Christopher, and that's Nancy Kissinger."
Skip Bertman, 88, Coach Who Turned Baseball Into a Pillar at L.S.U.
By RICHARD SANDWIR
Skip Bertman, an interesting coach who turned the Louisiana State University baseball team in a national powerhouse, gaining it to five national championships over 10 seasons while packing its home stadium, died on Aug. 15 in Baton Rouge, La. He was 88.
His death, at a hospital, was confirmed by his daughter Jan Bertman.
Recalling the baseball team's status at the school when he was hired in 1962, Bertman later told The Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "There were two sports at L.S.U. then: baseball and spring baseball."
Baseball was, at the time, something of an afterthought at L.S.U.
son retired of 55-58, the team finished an undefended run at the College World Series in Rosemont Stadium in Orlando, the state women's longtime home, by defeating Wichita State, 6-2.
"I'm going to tell you basically," Bertman said. The Associated Press after the game, "I always see myself in trouble with my players winning the national championship."
Bertman led the Tigers to have more titles, in 1993, 1994, 1997 and 2000, benefiting as times from what came to be called Gorilla Ball, a strategy of recruiting power letters to stop home runs.
"We teach them to swing with an approach," he told The Daily News Journal of Marlborosters, Tenn., in 1998. "It's just an easy to teach the kids in 60: the kids over the force as it is to hit between force and second."
In 1989, readers of Baseball America voted Bertman the second-ground college baseball coach of the 10th century, behind Red Drabaux, who directed the University of Southern California in 17 championships, including five of a row in the 1970s.
Bertman — who was also the head coach of the Senate senator meeting U.S. baseball team at the 1990 Summer Olympics in Alaska, was numerous players by the major leagues, including the dagger Albert Belk, pitchers Ben McDonald and Mark Lefler and in-belder Todd Walker.
A Sunday berman — the initial stand for nothing — was born in Detroit on May 23, 1976, and grew up in Miami Beach, the Ames, Louis, was the night manager at Welles's, a renowned Jewish folk, and his mother, Colin (Crupkin) Bertman, a Russian immigrant, was an autonomous for Elizabeth Arden.
After playing baseball and baseball at Miami Beach High School, he was a curator and outfielder at the University of Iowa, where he earned a bachelor of education degree in 1961 and a master's in health, physical education and recreation four years later.
His coaching career began at
Skip Bertman in 1991 during the College World Series, above. He led the Tigers to their first title that year after back-to-back semifinal losses. Bertman with his team in 2000's, before. His teams benefited at times from what came to be called Gorilla Ball, a strategy of recruiting power letters.
Miami Beach High in the early 1960s, where, over 11 years, he coached the baseball team to a state title and was named the 10th-high school baseball coach of the year three times.
In 1976, he returned to the University of Miami as an assistant coach under Ron Fraser, and re-entered them until 1984.
In the sixth swing of a Miami Wichita State game during the 1982 College World Series, Bertman helped organize a trick play that came to be called the Grand Illusion. By some accounts, he
much his finger in his car to set in motion the decay: Miami pitcher Mike Kasprzak (dead a picked throw in first innings) and his Lushy, which compelled the speedy Wichita State runner Phil Stephenson to dive back to the leg.
In a 1985-1990 film the phantom throw, Miami players shouted, "Bull Bull," and Stephenson raced to second base. Kasprzak turned the ball to the shortstop Bill Woods, who easily tagged out Stephenson.
Bertman brought professional
fair to L.S.U. that he had learned from working with Fraser at 90-100. The baseball team needed marketing help, it was directed more hundreds of fans to the games: "If you didn't talk, all you heard was birds," Bertman recalled in an interview on an L.S.U. team in 2000.
In 1994, his first promotion bringing in the San Diego Chicken, a reason who was popular's nationwide, to entertain him — finished with a similar brother Bertman's former player, recalled other measures, like sending the troos, with uniforms on and from his hand, into the streets or into the compacts (manikof) arena to set tickets.
Most of all, winning brought out of these richness games, the Tigers led the nation in college baseball attendance every year from 1994 to 2018, according to the 1990s.
"We ran down to L.S.U. at a time when baseball was just another sport and changed it forever," Mike Ramos, the baseball coach at the University of Mississippi, who played an standard for Bertman, said in an interview. "He showed a L.S.U. — athletic director," "Our baseball could be a great sport and make money."
Bianco added that Bertman
Bertman (left, with the players A.J. Hach, senior, and Kris Benson) at the 1990 Olympics.
was also ahead of other college baseball coaches with the hiring of a strength coach and a sports psychologist. "I don't know if he gets enough credit for how he saw the game," he said.
Bertman retired from coaching in 1981 with a record of 470 wins, 339 losses and threeloss, and became L.S.U. athletic director. He held four coaches who won an annual championships, including Los Mitos in football and Paul Maloney in baseball. He received Nick Saban as the school's baseball coach but watched him born after the 1990 season to coach the Miami Dolphins. Bertman tried to keep him.
"Skip was 100 percent right," Saban said. Nick R., a TV station in Baton Rouge, after Bertman's death. "I just didn't know to him," he said. Saban was born in college coaching at the University of Alabama and was six national championships.
In addition to his daughter Jan, Bertman is survived by two other daughters, Lori and Jed Bertman, and four grandchildren. His wife, Sandra (Schenley) Bertman, whom he married in 1962, died in 2020. Another daughter, Dr. Liza Jo-Pate, died in 2022.
In 2009, shortly after Bertman was born in the Los Mitos district, L.S.U. opened a new, larger baseball facility, with 15-20 seats, also called John Box Stadium, which he had pushed for since the 1990s. He was a member of the state at the stadium was named for Bertman.
Earlier this year, "Kissinger Park, where he coached the Miami Beach High St. Talos, became Stanley 'Skip' Bertman Field."
Over 18 seasons in Baton Rouge, he soon five national titles.
is school in the Southeastern Conference. But Bertman understood what a winning college baseball program was like, having been an assistant coach at the University of Miami, which won the Miami College World Series in 1982.
Early on, the Tigers played a small crowds at Ann Box Stadium in Baton Rouge. That changed as Bertman transformed them into one of the strongest teams in the country, using baseball savvy to support the product of the first and promotional skills to fill the ballpark.
"He was an expert tactician and motivator and just knew what the other men were going to do with the they did it," Wayne DeSeth, an in-bulger for the Tigers in 1994 and 92, said in an interview. "He goes the players more ways to win a 1977 season in the 1980s. He was just ahead of his time."
After losing in the worldwide at the College World Series in 1989 and '91, L.S.U. won it all the next season. Following a regular ses-
sion record of 55-58, the team finished an undefended run at the College World Series in Rosemont Stadium in Orlando, the state
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Score Your Own Bob Dylan Summer
By LINDRAY PHLAIM
Even before I caught Bob Dylan last month on his appropriately titled Long Hot Summer Tour, I had already been having a Bob Dylan Summer.
For starters, I've been making my way through two very good new books about some lesser-analyzed parts of the 85-year-old artist's career. Robert Polito's lively "After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan's Memory Palace" considers the remarkable creative renaissance of Dylan's last 30 or so years, and it has inspired me to spend some time revisiting some of Dylan's 21st-century masterpieces, like the carnivalesque "Love and Theft," from 2001, and the elegiac 2020 LP "Rough and Rowdy Ways."
The other book I've been reading, Michael Glover Smith's "Bob Dylan as Filmmaker: No Time to Think," takes up Dylan's sometimes successful but always fascinating forays into the world of cinema. Consider these selections a sampling of the soundtrack to My Bob Dylan Summer — or perhaps my own personal episode of "Theme Time Radio Hour."
1. 'GOTER SERVE SOMEBODY'
You have my permission to steal this idea: "Gotta Serve Somebody" from Dylan's 1979 gospel re-invention "Slow Train Coming," in an excellent barcaker song, (Expendable 8, like me, you are lucky enough to have a friend who instinctively knows to grab the other mic so she can do the chorus's backing words.) It never fails to blow my mind that this was the first solo Bob Dylan song to win a Grammy — nearly two decades into his career? Also, my karaoke performance of "Gotta Serve Somebody" has yet to garner any major awards.
2. THE MAGONDRO BROTHERS: 'MY BACK PIGER'
This is the Japanese cover of Dylan's "My Back Pigers," which plays over the marriage that spent "Masked and Anonymous," the provocative and
Bob Dylan, shown at last year's Farm Aid, just wrapped up a 35-dare North American concert tour.
polarizing 2003 flick written by Dylan and Larry Charles. The footage that this song soundtracks is, like most of "Masked and Anonymous," quite dark and apocalyptic, which provides no ironic contrast to the fun, buoyant spin that the Magdalen Brothers put on this early Dylan classic.
3. 'MISSISSIPPI'
Polito's book has inspired me to spend some time revisiting Dylan's 21st-century albums, and I'm currently tangled up in the great "Love and Theft." Though Dylan had this song ready to go for his transignant 1987 comeback "Time Out of Mind," he and that album's producer, Daniel Lussin, had all Horring opinions on how it should be arranged, Dylan wisely saved it for the next LP, which, like all his subsequent albums, he self-produced under the rank de plume Jack Frost.
4. SENTAD FRENDS: 'ONE MORE CUP OF COFFEE'
On this 2000 cover that Dylan selected to appear in "Masked and Anonymous," the Turkish singer-songwriter — and former Eurovision champion — Sertab Grezor emphasizes the Middle Eastern undercurrent that courses through a linguistic song from Dylan's 1976 album "Desire."
5. 'JUST LIKE A WOMAN'
6. 'I'VE MADE UP MY MIND TO GIVE MYSELF TO YOU'
7. 'I SHALL BE RELEASED'
Even at his most uncompromising, Dylan usually knows he has to go out with a crowd-pleaser. So at the Forest Hills Stadium show in Queens that I went to, he ended the net with a familiar favorite that he has recently pulled out of the artfest, and one that everybody could sing along to, if that was their thing: "I Shall Be Released." However fleetingly, we had been.
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I'm a deputy editor of Food and Cooking, based in New York and working with reporters and critics. Summer is my season to gorge on peaches and tomatoes and all varieties of entertainment. Here are five things I'm savoring.
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Christian Prezald places mystery in the summer planet. In this haunting German film, a car accident on a bicycle back road throws two strangers — an unnamed plane-masket and an older woman whose family has been shattered by loss — into an even alliance. I love that the unraveling of the riddle begins with the gift of a homemade glum cake.
Paula Best, center, and Barbara Auer in the haunting mystery "Miroirs No. 3."
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I don't have a car, but if I did, I'd head out on the highway and hand the latest album from Sloan. A Canadian insurance that's been making clever, guitar-crazy power pop for three decades. They've moved recently into middle age, singing about adult stuff like insomnia and longevity needs, and making it all sound like teenage fun.
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J.P. Powers found mordant comedy in the workaday lives of Catholic priests, and his greatest creation is Father Urban, a suave chera moved in a third-rate religious order. "Morse D'Urban" was the National Book Award in 1963, and it's still resonant. Eager to advance, Urban stumbles into a moral crisis by copying up to a bullying tycoon.
CAN I BE FRANK?
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This one-man Off Broadway show, now closed, was a tribute to Frank Maya, a gay stand-up comic who died in 1993. But its other subject was the shameless self-protested of its author and star, Morgan Bausichis, a twirchy provocateur who spent much of his performance fantasizing about a TV deal. He's so maniacally funny, it could happen.
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The couch version of my summer escape was rewarding Netflix's faithful adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith classic. Yes, its eight episodes move at a cruel — all the better to hook in its gorgeous black-and-white chided of each's 100th Indy, and to catch each new flicker of emotion on the deadpan face of Andrew Scott as the title sociopath.
Delena Fanning, left, Johnny Flynn and Andrew Scott in "Ripley," set in 1960s Indy.
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Leo Woodall Has Fallen Hard for Golf
There are roles that Leo Woodall seems destined to play, like the one he's shooting in New Zealand for the latest "Lord of the Rings" installment. "I mean, it was the first movie I ever saw, when I was maybe 5 or 6." Others may be harder to fathom, like Sal, the oyster shucker in "Tony," a film about the Cape Cod summer of 1975 that kick-started Anthony Bourdain's career, inspired by the chef's 2000 memoir, "Kitchen Confidential." Sal is the naughty influence, Woodall said. "He's just always looking for something to feel very alive." In a video interview, Woodall shared his list of non-negotiables. These are edited excerpts. KATHRYN SHATTUCK
1 Stetson Trucker Hats
Everybody has their safety blankets or their invisible sunglasses. Trucker hats for me. I often can't bother to put any crap in my hair and make myself look prerequisite. So I just attack on a trucker hat and go out into the day.
2 Cooking, With a Good Knife
My interest and interest, when they read this, will see cooking and be like: "What the people do I see you talking about? You don't cook." But during Covid, my mother and I were living together, and I rediscovered my best for cooking. To be honest, I prefer the prep period, which is why having a good knife is really important to me. I find it incredibly therapeutic. It's when the actual cooking process begins that the kitchen becomes a kind of crash site.
3 Movies
I felt in love with movies before I even thought about being an actor. Even as a little boy, if I was playing in my room, I would always have a movie on repeat — "The Lion King Ivy," "Kung Pa Hustle," "Spider-Man" and all of the "Rings," obviously — while I played with my action figures.
4 The Beatles and Oasis
The Beatles are very ingrained in my family. My dad and his uncle still have fights over who played the first chord of whatever. But I probably listen to Oasis more. Liam Gallagher is the coolest frontman who's ever lived.
5 The Changing Seasons
I've spent some time in L.A., where it's amazing how much you can feel like your guaranteed condition. I need the wonder to change throughout the year. And I love not really being able to predict it and therefore having your plans kind of dictated by it.
"I just thought, 'Well, why don't I go golfing?' It was a beautiful day and it was a beautiful course. I just was like, 'I want to do this forever.'"
6 Chocolate Immediately After Dinner
Some people think I'm insane for this, but I will have my last bite of dinner and quite literally immediately put some chocolate in my mouth. I just love going from salt to sweet.
7 Time With My Loved Ones
Some people use their loved ones every day, and I don't get in. I love what I do and I love work and I love the excitement of new places and new jobs and new people. But coming back to my people ultimately is where I'm at my happiest.
8 A Firm Pillow
Everybody has their perfect pillow. Mine is game down, quite firm, from John Lewis. I don't like soft ones. I don't like thin ones. I like thick ones that my head just sort of gets smothered in that I can kind of bear hog a little bit.
9 Golf
I could not live without sport — playing it and watching it. Football is my sort of true love, specifically Chelsea Football Club. But golf is a new love. I only discovered it in September last year on my birthday. I was in Toronto, and my friend John Slattery, who was on the show "Vladimir" with me, was going to be in town. And I just thought, "Well, why don't I go golfing?" It was a beautiful day and it was a beautiful course. I just was like, "I want to do this forever."
10 A Sunday Roast
I wouldn't say I'm an expert on the Sunday roast — yet, it's a British pastime to spend your Sunday either with your family or your mates and go to a pub and have a beer before your roast and then just go into a lot of food coma. If you can do it at home with your family, it's the time that I cherish most.
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suite for violin and orchestra, earning a seventh Grammy nomination.
Stewart's output has long hinted at a project like "24 American Caprices." Also the artistic director of the American Composers Orchestra, he has announced a vast body of work as an interpretive composer and "re-composer" (his word) of works by Vivaldi, Eugène Voûte and others. He even recorded an improvisation on Paganini's Caprice No. 11, over a spinoity backbeat and writhing electronics, on his album "Of Power."
Other improvisations became the basis for later caprices. He had previously recorded improvisations on "Guns Steps," "Lift Every Voice and Sing," Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely," the jazz standard "Take the N Train" and the Greek folk song "Thalassaki Blues" all of which were later adapted in the caprices.
While composing the collection, Stewart didn't think of it as being a pedagogical task, per se. Then, during the 2010-21 season, he was the artist in residence at the Kaufman Music Center, one of five commissioners of "24 American Caprices." (Another is the Juilliard School, where he teaches.) He overcame a performance of selected caprices, featuring Chuang and other students from the Special Music School at Kaufman. Afterward, Stewart said, the audience "erupted."
"It felt like a pop or rock concert," he added. "I was sitting outstage while the violinists were performing these, and they just owned it. They had an opinion about it, they wanted to put their energy into it."
Stewart even enlisted a student musician for the set's biggest statement — an eight-minute theme and variations on "Amazing Grace": Maxwell Brown, 15, Ivan Wilmington, 1945. Brown, who attends both the Perlman Music Program and Juilliard's Pro-College, said he was "absolutely unbridled by" the caprice, which only hints at the theme until it is fully revealed near the end through harmonies.
A composer inspired by Kendrick Lamar, Jean Mitchell and Nina Simone is taking hold with musicians.
Violinist's Twist
For 24 Caprices
Curtis Stewart draws on the style of Niccolò Paganini, with riffs on American experiences.
By RANDAR EGGAR
On the manuscript edition of his 24 Caprices for solo violin, Niccolò Paganini wrote a simple dedication under his whirl of a signature: "To whom."
More than 100 years later, this violinist and composer's blusingly technical Caprices remain a testing ground for virtuosos, especially young ones. In that way, Paganini's high-minded dedication can also be read as a name. Only true artists need apply.
An expansive new yardstick is emerging. On Juneteenth, the violinist and composer Curtis Stewart released a recording of his "24 American Caprices" for solo violin on the Bright Slime Things label. It is inspired by music that, he said, has "defined my American experience." (He will perform selections at 9:29" on Oct. 9.)
Like Paganini, Stewart hones specific violin techniques in his caprices, but with a twist. After all, how many cornerstones of violin pedagogy off on Earth, Wind & Fire's "September." Or Kendrick Lamar's "Compliment"?
Likewise, few composers would entrust their magnum open to young musicians. In performances and on the premiere recording, Stewart has done just that. Seven of the violinists featured on the commercial release are students, some of whom are still in high school.
Lin-Chi Chuang, a happy-go-lucky 17-year-old who has a big grin and goes by Sacky, is one of those musicians. To him, Stewart's caprices aren't just showperson.
"It's more about how you show the music, rather than how you show the technique," Chuang said in a video call from the prestigious Perlman Music Program, where Stewart teaches.
Stewart's caprices mine classic rock, hip-hop, traditional and more. Chuang started listening to Jean Mitchell for the first time
while preparing the 10th caprice, inspired by Mitchell's song "Big Yellow Tack." The seventh caprice, an entire exercise, traces the title refrain of Queen Latifah's 1993 song "U.N.L.T." The double trifle and fast passages of the third trace a chord progression based on John Colcuaro's "Guns Steps," and a ghostly account of "Tops" plumbs the violin's harmonic series, brought birth by lightly resting one's finger on the strings in specific locations.
Composed with the European pedagogical canon, the inspirations for the American caprices "are coming from relatively young places," said the violinist Tal Murray, who recorded a caprice-based on Dolly Parzuc's "It to I." She plans to assign Stewart's collection to her students at Yale School of Music in the coming academic year.
"It's trying to be what it is, which is something that will stand the test of the brutality of, like, a thousand violins trying to play it," she said. "So many people can play it, and they're all going to play it differently. But the piece itself is still standing."
Stewart, 35, said he is still "trying to figure out what my American state of mind is," in part, he sees these caprices as an act of rebellion, celebrating the much-traditional 250th anniversary of the United States or his own terms.
"I'm tired of being ashamed of being American," he said. "But when you look at Nina Simone, when you look at Sister Rosetta Thorne, when you look at Bob Dylan and Dolly Parton, there has been joy here. It was just an shameful and joyous to be American then as it is now."
Stewart lives in New York, where he was born, the son of two jazz musicians: the table player Bob Stewart and the violinist Elektra Kurtis, who died in 2011 and inspired his Grammy-nominated album "Of Love." Curtis is gregarious and charismatic, with an easygoing chanty you rarely encounter in the intense world of classical music.
As a child, however, he was city and withdrawn. When he wasn't beavering away as violin triades, he observed over making D.I.Y. skateboard range in the shared back-
yard of his family's apartment building, He considered becoming an engineer, and picked up a track degree at the University of Rochester while studying at its Eastman School of Music.
"The violin didn't feel like me at that point, one I think it didn't really start feeling like me until I started creating music for myself and my quarters," he said, referring to PUSHLEBAND, the supervising quartet that he co-founded in 2010. (Jessie Montgomery, a fellow violinist-composer, was also a founding member.)
Another turning point for Stewart came in 2010, with a concert at Carnegie Hall that was organized by Jason and Alicia Hall Moran. For the first time, Stewart played "Louisiana Blues Sires" by Cateridge-Taylor Perkinson, a stylistically omnivorous Black composer and conductor who died in 2010. Stewart has been chasing the flash of recognition he felt in the piece — with its bibley building and blues-collected modes — since
"These 24 caprices are kind of an extension of that," he said. "They're a way for me to own the violin, to feel like the violin is me."
Though Stewart's collection has no precedent in terms of its comings and scale, he has acknowledged some reference points. The fiddle giant Mark O'Connor wrote and recorded on caprices in the late 1990s. And in the early 20th century, the British composer, Stewart Cateridge-Taylor composed "24 Cargyn Melodier" for piano; Stewart recently arranged and recorded selections from that
"I found it extremely beautiful," Brown said. "It still has all of the technical challenges of any traditional caprice, while being this useful and gravey work."
Stewart's pedagogical background readied him for the collection's educational aspects. Years ago, while teaching at La Guardia High School — his alma mater — he would invent and assign shades to address specific students' technical needs.
"But I never wrote them down," he said with a group, "which was so dumb."
He'll have no such regrets with the "24 American Caprices." The short music is widely available, and Stewart has uploaded reference videos recorded with violinists from the album, along with a scrolling score.
The classical music canon forms at a glacial pace, but even so, the caprices are taking hold. Some of Stewart's brilliant colleagues have told him that violinists are including the caprices in their auditions, a带or of usually devoted to standard or highly established repertoire. "That was really moving," he said.
In Stewart's score, conventional Italian musical terms simply with chatter English description: "granted good," "trouble the keys," "magical, woedily" "vong," "steady baby" and, simply, "go." The double harmonic at the end of the 20th caprice, based on Nina Simone's "Young, Gifted and Black," carries one name in "Amazing, Gonna sound. Violinists, it seems, are only just beginning to do that.
The violinist and composer Curtis Stewart, top left, who turned to the 24 Caprices of Niccolò Paganini, top right, as a model for his recently released recording, "24 American Caprices." Above left, Stewart working with Maxwell Brown, 15, one of several students on the recording.
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Questioning Where That Snake Came From
The director of 'Tiger King' takes on a shady reptile trade.
By ALEXIS SOLINSKI
'Oh, look at that,' Eric Goode said as a golden coronel gecko crap above his arm. 'You have beautiful that is.'
Goode, the documentation behind 'Tiger King,' was standing in the county basement of a pet store on Manhattan's Upper West Side. He admired a milk snake, a corn snake, several leopard geckos, a spiny-tailed lizard and an African sparred tortoise named Roy George who trumbled past him and urinated on the floor.
Goode, who suggested visiting the store, paused at the case of a beautiful dragon, noting that its forebears had been smuggled into America in the 1970s and '80s.
'This lizard is a poster child of an illegal animal that became common,' he said.
The legal, quasi-legal and very much illegal trade in reptiles is the subject of Goode's new five-part documentary series, 'Monsters of God,' which premiered on HBO this month. A former artist and a sentimental nightclub, hotel and restaurant impresario, Goode, a boyish tilt, has latterly become a documentarian whose projects center on the fraught relationships between humans and animals.
'Monsters of God' forms a loose trilogy with 'Tiger King,' on Netflix, the Covid-lockdown phenomenon from 2020 about the flamboyant, criminal rivalry between a roadside non-spectator and an animal sanctuary owner; and another HBO documentary, 'Chimp Crazy' about a woman, Tonia Had-
dix, who illegally kept a chimpanzee that she treated like a child.
But for Goode, this project is his most personal. He has loved kizards and their work, his since childhood, and in 2003 he co-founded the Turtle Conservancy, which supports endangered turtle species.
'My love of reptiles, that is always in the back of my mind,' he said.
After he returned the gecko to its enclosure, Goode discussed crime, ethics and his own reptile-collecting complicity. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.
What's your relationship to reptiles?
As a kid, I was lucky enough to live next to a beautiful creek (in California), and I would hike the creek and catch kizards and turtles, and cothicoukes and pet them in my luncheon. I just fell in love with reptiles. You could order them in the mail back in those days. I slept with this lizard called a trap from South America.
The life I feel in New York [starring in 1977] was very much about art and fashion, so I was clustered with my first affair of creepy, crawly, cobblended creatures. Whenever I'm being a girlfriend home in my left, they'd be shocked. Around the mid-1990s I began to realize that I'd been somewhat selfish-keeping these animals, and I became aware that many turtle species were threatened with extinction. So I started a conservancy.
Is your collecting days, did you ever buy anything that had been obtained illegally?
In the early days, I bought some star tortoises and wood turtles. Most of this was before the Endangered Species Act [of 1973]. I was naive about how these animals
ended up in pet stores. But I don't think I ever bought anything that I knew was illegal.
Is 'Monsters of God,' and in your other documentaries, you speak to people who have done illegal or unleashed things. How do you get them to talk to you?
Listen, everyone is different. Joe Eustis and Carole Buckin [the subjects of 'Tiger King'] were open books at first. Then there are people like Mario Tidirano [a figure in 'Monsters of God'], who was very difficult. I ultimately ambushed Mario. We first filmed him with glasses that had a camera in them. It was so stupid, and the footage didn't even work. Sometimes it's about just getting your feet in the door and being fluent in the language. Sometimes we had to wait years.
Eric Goode, above, at a pet store in Manhattan. Below, from Goode's new documentary, 'Monsters of God,' which delves into the sometimes illegal business of importing exotic reptiles.
Sometimes it required wining and dining. I struck out a lot.
What is your code of ethics as a filmmaker? I'm seven aggressive. I think you need to be a gentleman, you need to be thoughtful and respectful when you walk into someone else's world. This is a very guarded world. So you have to take a very careful, slow, gentle approach. And some people, people that are really down and out, you compensate them for archival material, but it's a taboo to talk about that.
'Tiger King' focuses on two charismatic figures, 'Chimp Crazy' on one. Here, it's a whole clutch of people. Will that connect with audiences in the same way?
I sure no idea if it'll be any where an successful. 'Tiger King' and 'Chimp Crazy' were both stories that happened contemporaneously. I had no idea. Joe was going to try to kill Carole. I had no idea Tonia was going to kidnap a chimpanzee and keep him in her basement. You could say that's amazing from a film director's perspective, but these were bad things that happened, so I don't want to relish it. In the case of 'Monsters of God,' I wanted to tell the story of the history of the reptile trade. And reptiles aren't chINGS or tigers, which are more charismatic.
Your three series have all been about animals. Are you comfortable with being the animal the guy?
Yeah, because deep down, that's an indelible part of my life. That's the most pure, honest part of me.
Do you feel responsibility for your human subjects?
Yeah, of course. A lot of people criticize me for exploitation, for using deception. I just feel like the means justifies the end. You can disagree, fair enough. It's complicated.
How do you balance the impulse to treat people humanely with telling a great story?
There's sometimes a nephrotic, a dopamine rush for these people. They're on camera, they're on HBO. That can change, and suddenly it sinks in, like, 'Wait a minute, maybe I don't like the way I was depicted.' But I really have tried hard to thread that needle. In doing so, I had to basically bite the hand that hurts me, because the car comes in. It is a happy about this. I'm part of that. So you could say I'm a crazy hypocrite or I'm doing something really destructive to myself. But I try to be honest with everyone, so tell a story that doesn't just shine the light on one bad guy. We're all kind of complicit.
I hope in the end there's a way to make a difference, change minds, and yet try to leave people that were a part of the story out just completely hate me or hate the project. We'll see what happens.
Do you have personal feelings about these people? Some of them have done very bad things.
I have to be careful what I say right now. My life's been threatened over the years from some of the people in previous projects. I have to take security in a few days to the Daytona Bopide Show because I've been warned by the people that are having me that I need to watch my back.
But it's horrible what happens when animals are shipped, and you get a hen and you open it, and half of them are dead, all of them dead. I hope people recognize that we have to do better. The area can be better. I can be better. The animal trade can be more responsible. People, when they see an animal at a cage in a pet store, a sin, they don't really realize how many animals shot to get that one animal there.
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After a Pause, Alabama Shakes Hits Play
Members were busy with side projects, then a one-off gig led to a tour and a new album.
By JON PARELES
There was no master plan when Alabama Shakes first got back together. It was to be a surprise, one-time appearance at a benefit gig for a brewery in Tuscaloosa, Ala. But the chemistry felt good onstage and, soon afterward, in the studio. After years apart, new songs poured out of the band — the songs that fill its new album, “I Must Be Streaming,” which will be out on Friday. It has been more than a decade since the group released its second album, “Sound & Color,” in 2015.
“I don’t want to call it a comeback,” said Brittany Howard, 37, the band’s singer, lyricist and lead guitarist, one afternoon in
the basement lounge of the Bowery Ballroom in New York.
“It’s not like I ever really quit the band,” Howard said. “It was just a long break while I explored creativity and the fellows were able to raise their children, which is awesome. We all just went and did things so we could come back and have more to say.”
Farmed in the small town of Athens, Ala., by high school studies who turned to music, Alabama Shakes built a sound that was simultaneously routed and forward-looking, steeped in soul, rock, blues and country but never settling for straightforward revivalism. Howard learned the band with a commanding stage presence, barbed lead guitar lines and a voice that can be a gentle hit or a tsunami.
The band’s first album, “Boys & Girls” in 2012, climbed into the Top 10 as Alabama Shakes issued ever-larger venues. “Sound & Color” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard
album chart when it was released. It was nominated for album of the year at the Grammys and won four other awards, and the group stayed on the road into 2017.
But Howard was artistically restless. She put Alabama Shakes on hiatus while she made two compies, widely acclaimed, emotionally wispawing solo albums: “Jaime” (2019) and “What Now” (2024); she also moved to Taco, N.M., before settling in Nashville. She toured extensively on her own, sticking to her solo catalog and backed by a band that included only one member of Alabama Shakes, Zac Cockrell on bass.
Late in 2024, Druid City Brewing Company, a Tuscaloosa brewery and club that had struggled through Covid, asked Howard to perform at a benefit for its five-music series. The brewery was one of the bar-rooms where Alabama Shakes often played in its early, struggling years.
The brewery’s owner, Bo Hicks, was an
From left, Brittany Howard, Zac Cockrell and Heath Pogg of Alabama Shakes. The band’s new album, “I Must Be Streaming,” follows an extended hiatus.
early believer. “I’d heard a lot of bar bands. This was still a little raw, but you could tell that there was so much potential there,” Hicks said in a phone interview. Now, he added, “Here’s this awesome band that has a mixed-rate queer lead singer from Alabama, that exists so many venues I find dear about the South,” he added. “We can go, ‘This is ours. This is something we can get behind.’ This shows that the odds might be against us, but they can rise up through all the challenges they’ve had.”
The band has remained grateful. “Obviously we didn’t make no money then,” Howard recalled. “He would put us on a couch, he’d make us some food — he always took care of us.”
Howard contacted Cockrell and Alabama Shakes’ rhythm guitarist, Heath Pogg, they were in. They had been playing together on and off, including for Pogg’s 2020 solo project, Son on Shade. The fourth member
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from the 2010s, the drummer Steve Johnson, was out of the hand after finally and legal problems.
As the Tuscaloosa benefit show, Howard was killed as the headlines: "She did one song by herself — and then the band ran out there," Blake said. "Is that more, the other—it's a visual make your hair stand on end." The band romped through Alabama Shakes home they hadn't played live since 2017. "It felt pretty normal to be back and doing it," Cockrell, 36, said in a video interview from his home, in Nashville. "When I sat down to brush up on the songs, I was like, 'Wow, I didn't realize how much I missed this stuff.'"
The successful Tuscaloosa reunion spurred the band to return to full-scale touring beginning in summer 2025. It also decided to book studio sessions in hopes of writing a handful of new songs for the tour.
Howard had never been a fan or prolific songwriter. "If I'm ever reincarnated, I do not want to be a writer ever again," she said. "I want to become a mathematician or something — something much and true. One plus one equals two, something uncreative. Maybe a mechanic."
When a song isn't working, she continued, "it's turmoil. It's absolute terminal of power, just so miserable," she said. "Every writer knows this. But then it is so fun and it's joyous — not just mentally and emotionally joyous, but physically joyous — to crack a song and to be like, 'I love this. I can't believe I crossed that feeling. That's what you are always wanting. A column of deponies."
Howard had teased through most of 2024 after releasing "What Now" She also reared the title character in the Netflix animated film "Thelma the Cancers" and she wrote (with Ludwig Gerasman) the Honey song "Pain, Pain Never for 'Sinners," the Ryan Caugler biochemist.
So she didn't have a large cache of unused material for the reunited band's first recording sessions.
But one week in the studio produced six new songs. "It was pretty low stakes," Cockrell recalled. "We weren't planning on making a record. We were basically just banking out some ideas and it just started coming together. By the end of that session, it seemed kind of silly to tell how a couple more and just finish doing an album."
Cockrell's homemade demos — riffs, growers, chord progressions — were the comforts for the band's new songs. "Pup, G, said in a video interview from his home Studio in Madison, Ala. "We were all bringing in demos and ideas. So he just had this really amazing batch of ideas," Pupp said. "A lot of these songs come from that, especially those first six. It just felt like he was really hungry to make a Shakes record, to do something that was his end now."
For previous albums with the band and on her own, Howard had often provided "a 10 percent finished out idea," she said. "All the parts, where they're going to happen, I was the ship navigator and I know how to get up where we're going. This time, it was a lot of, like, 'Oh, I don't know what's going to happen next. I'm not sure. Let's find out.'"
She added: "It was amazing to surrender instead of trying to control every little bit, every symbol, every kick down. And I welcomed that."
"Sometimes there's a lot of pressure to know where everything's going," she said. "When you do all these details like that, of course, it's really fun. My parts belonging on the spontaneity of the moment, the experimentation of the moment, and sometimes, don't gift that they've brought. And I think in the future, I'd like to learn more more."
As the songs emerged, Howard found herself singing about love, time, tension, resistance and connection "we got long the exact to the world around me. And in our nursery right now, in the United States, it's tumultuous and chaotic and confusing."
The albums love songs take unconventional angles: "How, you're supposed to Go" pledges affection to an unbelieving partner over a chapter, 'man and drawing chords. In 'Another Life,' which bans at both Motown and Arp-bag, the singer hopes that a failed romance could turn out better the next time around, after reincarnation. And in 'Garden,' she admonishes someone's neglectful partner, "if you don't show her you love her, I will."
Two songs face current political conditions with inner strength and stubbornly slow, circling bass lines: "American Dream" over a few a million, school psychopathic limbs as Howard sings about betrayed ideals and bleak prospects. "I've grade fever, lower wage people / How many folks get shot this week?" she sings. In "You Time," which Howard said was her favorite song on the album, she seeks "wisdom to turn double to mirrors / and enemies to lovers."
For much of the album, the tempos are steadfast and unhurried, while the sound is richly and mysteriously layered. Howard expects the idea that music that speaks to resistance must be "thrader or slower or aggressive. Why can't it look unburied?" she added. "I was just reacting to the music, but also to the energy around me. It feels a little murky, it feels slow, it feels fuggy and uncertain, and I'm just reacting to that."
On the 1, Howard will perform at the house, on the 2nd floor Festival at the Merri-weather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., a pre-election protest-music event curated by Kim Wentzel with Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Public Enemy and many others. For Howard, there is little separation between the personal and the political.
"It's easy to snarper the two, because I'm not interested in the two," she said. "I mean, in Tennessee, it is not great for Black woman or for gays. I don't get to sit back and hope for the best for everyone else. In this case, myself and my family are the everyone else."
"Some people would be like, 'Oh, you shouldn't have an opinion — you're an entertainer.' But musicians are much more than entertainers. Music makes us believe that we can do something. I feel like music sometimes is the only backbone we've got. Music saves lives."
Let Me Be Your Mentor, Babe
In movies this summer, middle-aged sexual gurus are helping younger characters reconnect with desire.
By NATALIA WINKELMAN
In "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miamra," Kris (Shamah Einbinder) is a 29-year-old filmmaker who has been hired to revive an old master first-chair. She's confident in her work, bringing an indie vision and a progressive value system. But when it comes to matters of the flesh, the picture feels less cut-and-dried.
"What's wrong with me?" Kris murmurs, embarrassed, after pumping the brakes during foreplay with Billy (Gillian Anderson), the actress Kris hopes to cast as her lead. "Sex seems so natural and easy for so many people."
Billy lies on the blue beside her. "It's all just okay," she reassures Kris while stroking her bare skin. "I promise I won't judge you."
"Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miamra," from Jane Schoenberg, is one of several movies this summer that present sex involving a specific pairing: an erotic mentor and her tentative initials. In each case, the guide is a middle-aged woman who hopes to usher the novice into a freer sex life.
This figure seems tailor-made for our moving-going moment. In recent years, blue fans, a black makers have been told again and again that younger audiences prefer chants fans. Whatever the merits of those claims, these recent movies can be understood as cautious — and sometimes tongue-in-cheek — efforts to reintroduce sex to theaters, with the comfort of a built-in chaperone.
Gregg Arabic's "I Want Your Sex" plays the dynamic as a farce. Our seductress is Erika (Olivia Wilde), a renowned Pop writer and provocateur. Favoring later, pre-ups and sidems, Erika records her erguess for audio simulations and is known for making sculptures of postnuts. But her transgressive instinct is often tinged with irony. When a collector asks what one of her pieces means, she shrugs, "it means money in my bank account."
Like a hunter pursuing her prey, Erika hames in on Ellie (Cooper Hoffman), a scruffy gallery assistant who describes sex as "a minefield." Still, he responds to Erika's brazen advances as any listens, sex-deprived recent graduate might: with bewilderment promptly superseded by Mind Habits; being the safe to her then, he later tells an interrogator, was like realizing his wildest fantasies. What about when she spanked him and ordered him around? How did he feel then? "Thankful," he answers alongside.
While slips to the other side of the paradigm in "The Invite," a comedy she also directed. In it, she plays Angela, an upright homemaker whose sex life with her sulky husband (Seth Begon) has stagnated. Enter Pilla (Penelope Cruz), a serological who lives with her daring partner (Edward Norton) upstairs. Over wine and wood, the libertate couple reveal they've been boating organ. What begins as
a get-acquainted dinner evolves into an impromptu seminar in sexuality, then an invitation to swing.
While and the conservatives, Rachida Jones and Will McCormack, modeled Pilla as the relationship expert Kistler Peck, and the character's ideas about intimacy often show how an advice podcast, "Sex is not a thing you do, it's a place you go," Pilla philosophers to the group, before insisting that some sex acts are less about penetration than "narrative."
Her sexualist strook finds an echo in Billy, who in "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miamra" likewise signs Kris to approach sex from a psychological perspective. Lowering her into bed, Billy coaches Kris to picture herself in fiction, specifically through the eyes of the figuratively named Little Death, the serial killer in the "Camp Miamra" horror franchise Kris is remaining.
Leaving over Kris, Billy counsels her. "Do exactly what I showed you," she prompts. "I'm not going anywhere." Knowing someone ecstasy and anxiety, Kris goes a and greens as she envisions Little Death drawing near. She reaches orgasm as the killer shouts the upper arm her torso. Kris has, in effect, taken Pilla's tips. If not in a place she goes, it's Camp Miamra, and though it scares her, the dis-
mun requires surrender.
As sexual authorities, Billy and Pilla are at once safety and safe, serving both as mentors and aspirations figures. They've also died hand-holders for audiences that might be wary of sex as the big screen. Under the gurus' wings, viewers can access desire through the inexperienced characters, essentially learning alongside them.
Erika, by comparison, is wilder and more opportunistic. She doesn't so much support Ellie as shock him into submission. Even so, Arabic has called "I Want Your Sex" a miswire to Gen Z, an insurvection meant to shake them from their neoclassical fear of the uncomfortable.
The other two films lead us down separate paths. True to its freest influence, "The Invite" hands on a psychological note as Pilla helps Angela see how her habits have satisfied over time and moves her toward a more enlightened understanding of her marriage. Schoolcraft's movie takes a more exotic tack. After being panned by Little Death, Kris lies, Minshly postcruited, in a pool of blood. Later, frosty streeting out a few underwear, she wears Billy that Little Death is still out there. "Can you feel it?" she asks Billy "He'll be back soon." Sex in the movies will, too.
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A Fragile Treasure Endures a Sojourn
By ALEX MARSHALL
LONDON — When Elizabeth II was about to be crowned in 1953, British officials decided on the perfect gift for the monarch-to-be: They would bring home the Bayeux Tapestry.
For over 900 years, the 220-foot-long embroidery depicting the 1066 invasion of England by William the Conqueror had resided in Bayeux, France. A celebratory loan of one of Britain's most important cultural artifacts would have made an ideal coronation present, but there was a problem: French art experts wouldn't let the tapestry travel. It was too fragile to move, they said.
French experts scuppered another British plan to borrow the tapestry in 1966 for the 800th anniversary of the invasion. Then again in 1966. Last year, ten, the tapestry's handlers insisted a loan was impossible.
And yet, against the odds, the tapestry is now in London. On July 9, at 6:15 p.m., a bright yellow track carrying the masterpiece, ended in a climate-and-tituration-controlled view, left Bayeux in a secretive overnight operation. Accompanied by members of the French security services, the track drove onto a Eurostar train that took it under the sea through the Channel Tunnel.
Once in England, the track crumled through the night to the British Museum in London, where its cargo will be the star of a blockbuster exhibition that opens Sept. 30 and runs through July 11. Tickets are already sold out through Dec. 31, and the British Museum hopes attendance will rival the LA million who flocked to its "Treasures of Totalification" (how in 1971).
When a decades-long no suddenly becomes a yes, something is clearly about. Since 2016, a legacy-seeking President Emmanuel Macron of France was among those leading the charge for the loan. King Charles III was a key messenger, according to Macron. Its were several British prime ministers. The British government stepped in to insure the process for 600 million pounds, or over 15 million.
In the about-face over the tapestry a sign that political power can trump the concerns of curators and scholars? If more conservative techniques developed so much that the impossible is now possible?
For those who oppose the loan, the answer is clear. Conservators teams may have done "everything possible to reduce risk," said Didier Eytenes, the founder of La Tribune de l'Art, a French art publication. But in the case of the tapestry, "everything is not enough."
The loan had happened only because Macron wanted it to, Bylaws said. "He thinks he knows better than experts."
Scenes of Conquest
The list of reasons that the Bayeux Tapestry is so important is almost as long as the tapestry itself. Whereas many surviving medieval textiles are baked fragments, the Bayeux Tapestry is almost whole, and to red, blue and green threads still have an unexpected vibrancy.
Then there's the story it tells: how William the Conqueror, a giáo from Normandy in France, invaded England in 1966, imposing its last Anglo-Saxon monarch at the Battle of Hastings. These events changed the English language, reshaped the country's laws and appealed to rural law. To learn from, the tapestry is a key symbol of British identity, like Stonehenge, Shakespeare's plays or even the monarchy itself.
In 38 scenes that resemble pipelines from "Game of Thrones," the tapestry's narrative
twists and turns, before climaxing in an epic battle between the armies of William the Conqueror and England's king, Harold Godwinson, Cavalry charge, Arrows fly. Herodicai through flesh, and heads tumble to the ground. In the tapestry's best-known scene — depicting Godwinson's death — the deepened monarch clings an arrow that has threaded into his city.
It's clearly a history told by the victor that establishes William the Conqueror as England's rightful king. But it has also been used as a powerful symbol by the likes of Napoleon, the Nazis and now today's political leaders.
The tapestry was most likely embroidered in Catterhers', England, at some point in the 15th century, and historians aren't sure how, when or why it made it to Bayeux, a city in northern France. It does not feature in historical records until 1476, when it appears in an inventory from the Bayeux cathedral as "a very long and narrow hanging of lines, embroidered with figures and inscriptions representing the conquest of England."
Although it was often stored in a cedar chest to guard against media, the tapestry wasn't always created as a fragile mission piece, even as, over the next few hundred years, its reputation grew.
In 1863, Napoleon ordered it moved along hungry roads from Bayeux to the Louvre museum in Paris to help draw up support for his planned invasion of Britain. It later returned to Bayeux, from where some 19th-century English visitors wrote that the tapestry was "already rugged" and predicted that it would "be wholly ruined in the course of half a century."
When France was under German occupation during World War II, the Nazis moved the tapestry to the Louvre on the orders of Heinrich Himmler, who ultimately wanted it in Germany. But the Allies liberated Paris before the tapestry disappeared into a Nazi invasion crew. It went back to Bayeux, and in the decades afterward, the tapestry's guardians all seemed to agree on one thing: It shouldn't leave town again.
Down on One Knee
The centuries of rough handling had an impact: A study from 2020 found that the tapestry had 24,204 states, 16,445 wretches, 9,640 bales and 30 more. By that time, ideas about art conservation had changed drastically.
Ella Hendriks, a professor of conservation at the University of Amsterdam, said that conservation had emerged as a profession in the 19th century, when there were two schools of thought. Some artists and philosophers, exemplified by the English critic John Haskin, thought that artifacts should be maintained as they were or left to naturally decay, arguing that the "golden main of time" added aesthetic value. Yet the majority of incipient conservators and residents felt a
Top left, workers and volunteers preparing to pack the Bayeux Tapestry in a crate in Bayeux, France, last September for its transfer to the British Museum in London, where it will be the centerpiece of a show. Since 1963, a museum in Bayeux had exhibited the tapestry, above left, in a U-shape display, hanging from curtain books attached to a call.
duty to keep artworks looking brand-new. If a painting had faded, three conservators "wouldn't hesitate to over-paint an area," Hendriks said. If a textile was worn, they would happily re-embroider it. That led to some dramatic interventions, maybe even for the Bayeux Tapestry. Many historians think the arrow that lid Godwinson's eyesort an original detail but one of several 19th-century modifications.
It was only in the early 20th century, Hendriks said, that conservation became as much a science as a craft. Temperatures and humidity controls because consumption in museums, as did the practice of keeping artworks behind glass. Conservators refused loan requests from institutions that didn't meet their standards, and although they developed techniques to let many artworks crisscross the globe subtly, they considered some pieces too precious to ever move.
But political power could overcome that reason.
In 1962, when Jacqueline Kennedy asked André Matraux, France's culture minister at the time, if he would allow the Mona Lisa to tear the United States, he agreed despite self-rapportation, a group of the Louvre's curators threatened to resign, and French newspapers published articles aghast at the idea.
Matraux ignored their objections, and later that year, the Mona Lisa crossed the Atlantic in a climate-controlled container onboard an ocean liner. After a square in Washington, it headed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It was on display there for only a few weeks, but over one million people caught a glimpse of the ending beauty. It was the must-see show of the season — just as the British Museum hopes the tapestry will be.
For many of the tens of thousands of art
THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY: WRANGLING OVER AN ARTIFACT
Measuring 220 feet long, the Bayeux Tapestry depicts the 1066 invasion of England by William the Conqueror. Over the years, the tapestry has been stored in a cedar chest and traveled along hungry roads between Bayeux and Paris. When France was occupied by Germany during World War II, the Nazis took the tapestry back to the Louvre, but the Allies liberated Paris before the tapestry could be removed from France. It went back to Bayeux, and in the decades afterward, the tapestry's guardians tried to resist efforts to move it again. But political power overcame that stance.
The tapestry comprises 5th scenes in a narrative resurvating stethone from "Game of Thrones." The epic final battle depicts the deposed king, Harold Godwinson, clapping an arrow that has pierced his eye.
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Top-right, workers defending the secure box containing the tapestry outside the British Museum on July 15. Right, the conservation team with the tapestry at the British Museum. The process of moving the tapestry from France to Britain has raised questions about the balance between keeping historical artifacts safe and letting the public see them.
The British Museum's top left hand is a large, stylized, handwritten signature. The text is written in a cursive script and appears to be a stylized 'B'.
lovers who signed a petition opposing the tapestry loan, to journey to Britain is reminiscent of the Menu Louis 1860s novels — an event driven more by diplomatic posturing than by conservation expertise.
Macron first pledged to lend the tapestry to Britain as a gesture of friendship during a 2016 French-British political summit meeting. As the two countries dealt with the fall-out of Britain's exit from the European Union, they could still make "a new tapestry together," Macron told reporters at the time.
Isabelle Anard, the director of the Bayous Tapestry Museum from 2005 to 2010, said in an interview that she had assumed it was an empty promise. When she joined the museum, she recalled, she had warned to lend the tapestry to foreign institutions. "I was quite naïve and optimistic," she said, but none "everybody in Bayous told me that was insane — that it was not possible for it to travel."
Indeed, charter around a loan soon died down after Macron's 2016 pledge. Not long after the summit meeting, relations between Britain and France cannot ever insure the illegal immigration and rival military deals.
By mid-2021, the Bayous Tapestry loan was "to the deep force," recalled Nelson Rawlings, a former British ambassador to France. She said she had kept pushing for it, and recalled that Macron was supportive during a 2022 World War II commemoration event in Normandy. But by spring 2025, Rawlings said, a deal looked unlikely. She recalled a meeting at the French Culture Ministry that involved "a load of very senior civil servants saying 'This can't happen. The tapestry is too fragile. The scientists say so.'"
Things suddenly changed at last year's Cannes Film Festival. Chris Bryant, a senior British government culture official, traveled there for a half-hour hotel meeting with Rachelle Diel, France's culture minister at the time. Bryant said that the pair were supposed to discuss a loan, but Diel arrived 20 minutes late. It seemed like a bad sign, Bryant said, and he assumed that any deal was off.
Yet when Diel forested in, she told Bryant she had some good news — but first he had to get on his knees and propose.
"I said, 'I've already got a husband,'" Bryant recalled. "So do I," Diel replied, according to Bryant. "What's wrong with pregnancy?" In Bryant went down on one knee. (A spokeswoman for Diel did not respond to requests for comment.)
A few weeks later, in July, Macron announced the loan during an event at the British Museum. France had finished all previous requests to borrow the tapestry by finding "the best experts in the world to explain or perfect details why it was totally impossible," Macron said. "We won't beyond the experts," he said, "and managed to find great solutions."
A president who loves a grand gesture — particularly one achieved in the face of opposition — had secured the impossible loan. It would be part of his legacy.
Handle With Care
Undoubtedly, one logistical factor played a role: The Bayous Tapestry Museum was scheduled to close temporarily for a much-needed renovation.
Since 1993, the museum had displayed the tapestry to a 1-2-slope display, hanging from curtain books attached to a rail. That arrangement had put unnecessary strain on the embroidery, and conservators said it should be displayed laid out flat after undergoing a restoration. By the time the museum shot last fall, technicians — including some from SIMACH, a French conservation company — had spent years working on a plan to get the tapestry off its books and into storage.
Their operation played out one day last September, when about 100 technicians lived up along the tapestry's length and carefully shift a along its rail, about two inches at a time, disturbing it from the books and listening it to a new ruling on a series of panels that form a loose concretion. One of the French museum's curators rhythmically in-
toned "Sac, tac, stop!" to guide each movement in a process that took six nerve-cracking cases.
Hiskia, an art transportation company, working with experts in vibration engineering, then put the linked panels into a climate-controlled case suspended in a spring-mounted metal cage. Geert Verhoeff, an operations manager at Hiskia, said that the springs, known as "wire rope isolators," functioned like "an old-school baby carriage" and had allowed his company to safely move incredibly fragile items like porcelain and paintings.
Once the tapestry was moved from the museum to a nearby storage location, the Hiskia team and other conservators made two trial runs in which they drove a mock tapestry to the British Museum, hoping to work out the route and collect vibration data in they could improve the design of the protective crans. (The British Museum declined to say 'how much the move had cost.)
When the tapestry set off for London on July 5, nothing had been left to chance.
Unraveling the Risk
For some critics of the loan, however, the move was still too risky.
Rybner, the Tribune de l'Art editor, said the Bayous authorities were taking a reckless gamble. A 2022 French government feasibility study said that moving it would "meritably" subject the artifact to "further stress." And a 2026 study said that too little was known about the tapestry's "mechanical properties" to see a "scientifically robust" vibration limit for transportation.
Shirley A. Brown, an art history professor at York University in Toronto who is an expert on the tapestry, said in an email that she knew some French conservators "were dead set against the loan" but that, as employees of the French state, they had to keep quiet.
Yet many conservators support the loan, not least because it means the tapestry will inspire thousands of people who otherwise wouldn't see it. Head this, the conservation professor, said that many in the field now aimed to give artifacts for "best life" possible, rather than simply limiting damage. That could include allowing loans to museums with slightly worse temperature and humidity control; it meant more public exposure and greater interaction.
On a Friday morning last month, as the British Museum prepared for its blockbuster show, the Bayous Tapestry was lying flat on a 250-bus-long table, its sideknee of length warfare hidden beneath black protective sheets. To get ready for a visit from France's culture minister, two conservators began unrolling the sheets one at a time, exposing some after-virial issues.
At one end, a royal messenger raced on horseback, his hair flowing in the wind. In the center of the tapestry, two lumberjacks swung onto into trees to build William the Conqueror's naval fleet. At the other end, the invading army clashed bloodily with its Anglo-Saxon rivals.
The tapestry had been removed from its transit case a day earlier, in an operation involving about 100 people that lasted from 1 a.m. until 1 the following morning — an in-letter 20 hours of focus. The team had connected the tapestry onto a rail, hoisted it skyward then lowered it onto the specially constructed table.
It seemed like a success. Yet Cécilia Gauvin, one of the engineers involved, said that her team had found a "really small amount of threads" when unboxing the tapestry, although it was unclear if they were from the handlers' clothes or from the embroidery.
Michael Lewis, the British Museum curator overseeing the show, didn't seem worried about the threads. "Obviously you don't want any damage," he said, "but my colleagues seem very 'whatever' about that." His team and its counterparts from Bayous had managed "a one-off," he said, and set a new bar for how to move and display a historical treasure.
"To protect an object," Lewis said, "sometimes you have to show it."
Centuries of rough handling had an impact: A study from 2020 found that the tapestry had 24,204 stains, 16,445 wrinkles, 9,646 holes and 20 tears.
For the tapestry's visit to the British Museum, an art transportation company, working with experts in vibration engineering, put the linked panels into a climate-controlled case suspended in a spring-mounted metal cage to transfer the piece.
The British government insured the transfer of the tapestry for 800 million pounds, or over $1 billion.
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For Her, Surfing Is Like Dancing
Caitlin Simmers, seamless as a ribbon, sees similarities between the two activities.
By GIA KOCHLAS
For his ballet “Ondine” (2020), the great British choreographer Frederick Ashton spent hours studying the cargo and smell of ocean waves. “I wanted the movement to be fluid like the rhythm of the sea rather than the ballet steps,” he once said.
The role of Ondine, a water nymph, was created by Marger Feeneyx, a rare ballerina whose effortless dancing and floor-skimming points work could create the illusion she was gliding on water.
Now there is the surfer Caitlin Simmers, another kind of water nymph who actually does dance on waves. Or that’s how it feels. With little hesitation, her small, agile frame slips through water like a mercurial ballerina whipping across the stage in tight, rapid-fire turns.
Her light feet, her undulating torso, her sensitivity to the fluctuations of an unsteady surface and her speed are all part of the delicacy of her power. She is also fearless. Her clarity comes from her deep center of gravity, which allows her to slice up and down waves like a silken ribbon or skitter past a rough patch of water in order to fire out the highlight of surfing, getting harmless.
“It’s where you’ve covered by the wave, and everything is in slow motion,” she said in a video interview from her hometown, Oceanside, Calif. “You feel extreme peace even though you’re in the most scary situation you’ve ever been in, navigating your way through this little door of ocean.”
Now 20, Simmers was just 10 when she became the youngest women’s world surfing champion, in 2024. What’s most striking about her style is its seamless flow. When she rides through water, it’s as if she’s filling every note of a musical phrase.
Egbonnetal, visceral and daring, surfing can be an art, motion turned into magic. Simmers takes that a step further by matching her personal rhythm to that of the sea. Just as George Balaschins ballets allow you to see the music, Simmers, through her crisp fluidity, shows you that waves have different tones, different sounds. No two are alike.
“You can’t take off on a wave and be like, This is how it’s going to look,” Simmers said. “Sometimes you tremble, and your mantle can be the reason the rest of the wave was the most beautiful, unpredictable thing you’ve ever done. You had to improvise to do something new.”
She continued: “That’s the most beautiful part. Any move you make, that’s the first time it’s ever going to happen and the last.”
Simmers, on a break from the Women’s Championship Tour, visited Rockaway Beach in Queens this summer for the first time. She was recognized on the street, even on a quiet Monday when the waves were woefully weak. Simmers is, of course, an ashton. But in women’s surfing, which is undergoing a generational shift, she is also an artist, an Ondine for our time.
She approaches surfing much in the way that Alysa Liu approaches figure skating. There are competitions, including the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, where Simmers is a strong contender to make the team and win a medal. But winning isn’t everything, starting is a dance, and waves are music. She loses herself in there.
“When I am dancing with my friends or I’m dancing alone in my room, the best moments are when I’m not thinking about it, and it’s just happening and my body is moving,” she said. “And that’s like the same exact thing with surfing. I feel the same emotions. There’s no conscious thought. When I get off a wave that was really good, I can’t really remember what happened, but I know that that’s what I was meant to do.”
Simmers grew up in the water, surfing
with her parents and her brother (the siblings were deeply into Bongin Boarding). As a young child, she took hip-hop classes. “I did one ballet class actually, and I absolutely despised it,” she said. “I think a girl kicked me in the skins with a tap close, and then I was done.”
But she still loves to dance and sees similarities in the relationship between dance and music and between waves and motion. And the waves she surfs are fog. In 2025, she won the Pipe Pro at the Biscuit Pipeline on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, where waves are notoriously treacherous.
Afterward, she gave a memorable inter-
view: “Pipeline is for the [expletive] girls. That’s all I have to say.”
It was a real-life “Blue Crush” moment. That 2002 movie, inspired by a Susan Orlean article about a group of surfing girls, ends with the lead character competing at the Pipeline. The idea behind “Blue Crush,” that surfing serious waves is not just a male pursuit, is truer than ever.
Simmers is featured in “Now Days,” a 2026 documentary by Red Bull highlighting a vibrant cosmogent of young female sorters. She stands out for how she links maneuvers, or what sorters call technical elements. It is akin to the way a dancer tackles
“Your stumble can be the reason the rest of the wave was the most beautiful, unpredictable thing,” said the champion surfer Caitlin Simmers, above and below.
accentu and phrasing — steps aren’t choppy or dispensed, but coordinated like long sentences with choreographed twists and turns. Waves are a force of energy, and for Simmers, a wave is a way to express herself.
“You could just go up to bottom the whole time and do turns like buses, buses, buses — repetitively and just abuse the wave like you’re the alpha of a, you’re dominating it,” she said. “Or you can try to react to the wave in a way that’s with you.”
She started making connections between surfing and dance a couple of years ago while staying with a friend in a cabin in Northern California. One evening, she flipped through a book with illustrations of surfers. In one picture, a surfer is perched on a board with a log bent forward in a dancer’s attitude position. A quote by the spiritual teacher Ram Doss accompanies it: “Either you do it like it’s a big weight on you, or you do it as part of the dance.”
At that time, she was heading into the last stages of a competition for the world title in 2024. She was in first place and feeling that she had everything to lose and nothing to gain. “A lot of people were getting in my head, like, You’ve got to win this, you get to win this,” Simmers said.
She lost her first beat and was inaccessible. Then she remembered the quote. It became her mantra that day. “The waves were perfect,” she said. “So I was like, You get to go out on these class, beautiful waves. You get to go what’s around on the ocean.”
She said herself that even if she lost, she would “get second to the world,” she said. “You’re 10 years old, and that’s incredible. So just be proud of yourself, and carry yourself like there’s no one on the beach watching.”
She won. But she learned something important that day. “I realized that surfing is dancing,” she said. “I was trying not to feel the weight of all these other expectations. I was just doing it, dancing on the waves.”
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Silicon Valley Is as Sick of A.I. Slop as You Are
By TIFFANY HSU
SAN FRANCISCO — The worst of artificial intelligence slop has clustered Google searches with recipes for glue-topped pizza, Amazon listings with share biographies and Facebook heels with images of Shrimp Jesus.
The digital sewage heap has sprawled
Companies strive to purge overwhelming heaps of low-quality content on platforms.
across tech platforms, cheapening meaningful content and polluting the information ecosystem, as chatbots and video generators continue to advance.
Now, Silicon Valley wants to take out the trash.
Specify, a music streamer, said it removed 75-million bulk uploads, duplicate songs and other "spammy" tracks last year — a siz-
able chunk of its total portfolio. LinkedIn said in July that "A.I. slop is a top-priority be-afof air" and developed a button for users to report it. Researchers from YouTube's parent company, Google, described how a video service wiped 120,000 channels of low-quality content off its platform over six months.
Across the internet, tech companies are
undertaking a generative waste detox, overwhelmed in many cases by the same slop first made possible by their own A.I. tools. Mobile messaging apps, restaurant review sites, scholarly archives and dialing services are all rooting out or downplaying junk generated by A.I. — many relying on the same technology to pull off the purge. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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Americans are struggling to pay their bills, and many are turning to "buy now, pay later" loans to finance basic needs. Consumers spent $160 billion last year through such loans, nearly twice as much as they did in 2023, according to research from the Federal Reserve.
Lending apps offer pay-later loans for household utilities, health insurance, mortgage payments and money to extend the deadline to pay rent. Intuit promotes "File Now, Pay Later" loans for people to cover what they owe in their tax return, The New York Times's Stacy Cowley reported.
Pay-later loans are becoming the "working capital for the modern middle class," Karen Webster, the chief executive of Pymots, a news and market research company for the payments industry, told Ms. Cowley. "Consumers are using it more for essential, everyday things."
Economists and analysts are trying to find out to what extent this growth reflects economic desperation versus consumer preference.
Some consumers appreciate the pay-later loans' short repayment terms, and the convenience of obtaining them immediately. Such loans are generally offered by financial technology firms and exist outside the traditional credit system, meaning that consumers in most cases cannot use them to build credit.
People often take on multiple such loans, putting them at risk of becoming overwhelmed with bills. Ashley Reed, a public school paraprofessional in Baltimore, took out loans from merchants like Klarna and Afterpay to cover basic expenses after masing out credit cards during an emergency. She told Ms. Cowley that she now spent about $700 a month paying down her debts and borrowed more on her pay-later loans to keep up.
"I can't afford to have an emergency," Ms. Reed told Ms. Cowley. "Sometimes I'm like, OK, am I going to have enough for groceries?" LARA KELLEY
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Volatility Rattles the Bond Market and Investors
High-quality bonds are still safer than stocks, but they have been swinging in value, so caution is advised.
STARTLING HEADLINES about the bond market are inescapable.
Yields of U.S. Treasuries last week reached their highest levels since the financial crisis of 2007, and bonds in Canada, Japan, Germany breached levels they hadn't reached in at least a decade.
On Wednesday, the U.S. government intervened, briefly examining the bond market real. The Treasury Department announced it was increasing its capacity to buy longer-term bonds, to $4 billion per weekly operation, from $2 billion in response, yields moved a bit lower. This followed another Treasury intervention this month that honored the Japanese yen and, briefly, lowered yields on longer-term Treasuries.
But volatility in the bond market returned on Thursday as investors remained on edge.
The possibility of further action by the Treasury — and, perhaps, by the Federal Reserve — makes predicting bond yields and prices exceptionally hazardous at the moment.
Bond market turned can be disconnecting for investors, who turn to high-quality bonds, especially Treasuries, for safety. It would be easy to think: If this is safety, could the red.
But bonds continue to have many virtues. High-quality, individual bonds, especially Treasuries — as well as most mutual funds and exchange-related funds that hold them — have traditionally been far more stable than their stock counterparts.
Shares can collapse in price, U.S. Treasuries, in particular, are all but guaranteed to maintain their value, plus interest, when held to maturity. Bonds are always a valuable part of a long-term investor's real kit. But you need to be careful when using them.
Undeniably, even solid bonds have lost market value this year. There's an enduring lesson in that: If you intend to park your cash for a few months or need to sell before a bond hits maturity, you get whatever the market is offering.
There are probably better options, like money-market funds, high-yield savings accounts and certificates of deposit. Bond funds are better for the long haul. They can be portfolio stabilizers, offsetting the volatility of stocks.
The central problem for bond investors this year is that price declines are inevitable when interest rates rise. That's the actual bond mark: Prices move in the opposite direction of interest rates or yields. Throughout much of the world, interest rates have been snaring.
That's making bond investing especially tricky right now.
Rising Rates
The bond market sets interest rates through a vast series of moment-by-moment decisions by thousands of smokers. As I wrote earlier this month, the market is saying that global risks are rising. A partial list of those risks includes: the possibility of even higher inflation; favour wars and tariffs and other geopolitical dislocations; questionable use of immense assets in capital; the build of federal intelligence; an uncertain direction for the Federal Reserve under its new leadership; ensuring national debt; and broad political dysfunction.
Where rates are going tomorrow is impossible to say. But the much bigger questions is how high they will go in the next decade. That's a reasonable threshold if you're contemplating the purchase of a bond that won't mature for 10 or even 30 years. Even at their recent peaks, yields aren't that high — not yet — on a historical basis. The economy in the past has grown reallotely when yields were much higher than they are now.
Capital Economics, an independent financial research firm in London, takes that perspective, saying on Tuesday, "The recent sell-off in global government bond markets is significant, but it does not yet amount to a crisis." Yes, higher yields have driven up costs for borrowers of all sorts, from people seeking mortgages to those carrying credit card debt and student loans, and for companies with big capital needs, like the tech giants building A.I. data centers with mountains of borrowed money.
But the economy is still growing and the stock market has largely shrugged off higher yields so far, Capital Economics said, adding, "The immediate macroeconomic impact should remain limited unless the rise in yields spreads" or if it leads to a broader "tightening of financial conditions."
Most individual investors in the United States hold stocks and bonds through funds, not an individual securities. In calm times, it was reasonable to think of bond funds simply as "friendly Edition" that you could count on for reliable, if modest, returns.
They provided a buffer against wild swings in stocks, the prima demase of financial markets, with their enticing rewards and all-too-frequent disappointments.
A Central Problem
Lately, however, it's the bond funds that have been disappointing.
This year, they are down in value nearly across the board, reflecting the sea change in global interest rates.
That's hurt short-term investors. But there is a bright side for those taking a long view. The key is this: If yields linger on a higher plateau, future bond returns will be richer.
That's because fund managers constantly need to buy new bonds, and higher-yielding ones will generate more income for investors via higher interest payments. In that respect, prospects for fixed fund investors right now are better than they were before rates increased. It's like "buying the dip" as a stock index after prices have fallen. You're ahead of the game — assuming the market moves in the right direction.
Don't get too excited, though. If yields continue to surge higher, instead of plateauing, there will be further issues. In that case, putting your money elsewhere will turn out to be a better course.
This dynamic affects individual bonds, too, though if you hold a Treasury to maturity, you couldn't worry much about shifts in market value. Bond funds, however, are required to "mark to market," or post the latest market prices, as the pain of losses is right there, out in the open.
Predicting yields and prices is hazardous right now as the Treasury and the Fed contemplate their next steps.
What to Look For
Unuspecting investors may be dismayed by aspects of bonds that look like flaws but are, in fact, essential features.
For instance, interest rate increases tend to have a greater negative impact on longer-dated bonds — more precisely, on those with greater "fabulous," a measure of a bond's no greater than changing rates. This core property of bonds is why long-term Treasuries, often said to be the safest of securities, have been among the hardest hit this year.
For example, since the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran drove up interest rates in late February, the Elhares 26+ Year Treasury Bond E.T.F. — which holds only long-term bonds — has lost more than 4 percent, in total return. In that same period, the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index fund, which contains corporate bonds, is addition to Treasuries, has "mily" about 2 percent.
The Vanguard fund is simple. It tracks the investment-grade benchmark, the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. But from the performance standpoint, the gap between the Vanguard and Elhares fund mainly comes down to duration. The Vanguard broad bond market fund has a duration of about 1.7 years, compared with 14.9 years for the Elhares long-term Treasury fund, according to FactSet.
What these numbers mean is that every time rates shift, price changes are magnified in the long-term Treasury fund. So because the only way to stay want to check its duration for a clue about how it will behave when interest rates, which you can't control, start to oscillate. The higher it is, the greater the fund's price moves when interest rates shift.
Another worthwhile metric is standard deviation, a statistic that tells you how much a fund's price swings. The Elhares fund has a relatively high standard deviation, and from this perspective, it looks much more
like a stock fund, in the wildness of its fluctuations, than a core investment-grade bond fund, like the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund.
The swings of the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index this year, using that measure, have been modest: about one-third that of the overall U.S. stock market, as tracked by the Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETP, according to FactSet.
These kinds of details point to larger considerations: They suggest that even if bonds, and bond funds, have been hurt by interest rate increases this year, it's possible to avoid extreme fluctuations by choosing carefully.
What's more, it's worth remembering that in big downturns, high-quality bonds provide safety guarantees that you can't get from stocks.
I prefer the ease and diversification of broad index funds for both stocks and bonds. But high-quality, individual bonds (including municipal bonds, for minimizing tax liabilities) can be worthwhile. I'd add a major caveat: Make sure that you won't need to sell such bonds prematurely. One solution for some reticers is a "bond ladder," containing a series of individual Treasuries that mature regularly — say, on an annual basis — over periods like 20 years. That approach can provide steady, secure income. (Inflation-protected Treasuries, or TIPS, can be useful in bond ladders, too.)
But you will need to accept that, as long as interest rates shift, the market values of all these bonds will swing, too. And, alas, no one knows where the markets are going, either for stocks or bonds.
That's why it's wise to spread your risks. Hold stocks in the hope of big returns; bonds, in case the stocks don't pan out; and calls to get through wild swings in the bond market of the kind that we're having this year.
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A.I. and Music Are a Good Mix, They Say
Jimmy Iovine
Dr. Dre
CO-FOUNDERS, BEATS ELECTRONICS
The hit-making duo turned tech moguls have thoughts about why corporate America isn't collaborative enough.
JIMMY IOVINE AND Dr. Dre had already spoken three times on the phone by the time I showed up on a recent morning to interview them at Mr. Iovine's art- and memorabilia-filled reunions in Los Angeles.
Mr. Iovine, a record producer from New York, and Dr. Dre, a big-big-star from Cali- fornia, have been an influential creative force since the 1990s. Mr. Iovine's inter- scope label backed Dr. Dre's seminal solo albums, and the two later spotted and signed artists like Entennis. Their creative chemistry also backed Beats by Dre head- phones and helped build Apple's streaming music service after the tech giant acquired their company.
Mr. Iovine's mind seems to move a ride a minute, becoming from one idea to the next. Dr. Dre, who joined midway through the interview, asked across as many resources, generally allowing Mr. Iovine to speak first before jumping in.
At one point, Mr. Iovine, 75, tried to do- scribe his relationship with Dr. Dre, 61, using an extended metaphor about the parts of a car. Dr. Dre added his own touch: "Sometimes I'm the gas pedal, sometimes I'm the brakes."
The taste-making pair's advice is highly regarded in the industry — from their take on trends in culture and technology, to the success of their long partnership.
They have tried to instill some of their lessons with a venture to encourage the next generation of creative entrepreneurs. In 2011, they donated $70 million to the University of Southern California to create a degree program that spans technology, designs and business.
The idea came from Mr. Iovine's later-in- life executive career, where he saw the fragmented way that corporate America works. The USC Iovine and Young Academy takes a wide-ranging approach, with classes like "Therapline Innovation" and "Racker Imagination: From Ancient Greece to Cu- pertine."
The curriculum aims "to find where design crosses engineering, where business crosses design, and how creativity meshes with all of them," said Erica Mohl, the integrated dean of the academy.
More than 100 students graduated from the academy this spring. Companies like Snapchat, Cross and Desktop offer sta- dents feedback on products and prototypes. Recently, the program has been adapted for high schools.
This expansive approach to thinking has become essential as artificial intelligence speeds the workplace, according to Mr. Iovine. "This is the type of learning that advanced companies today need," he said.
This interview has been edited and con- demned for clarity.
The Iovine and Young Academy is all about breaking down idea. But corporate America can be rigid. So how effective can the school be?
IOVINE: Corporate America is going to have to change.
How?
IOVINE: Hire kids from our school. That's the truth.
But you graduate only about 100 people each year.
IOVINE: I don't think it's going to transform education in my lifetime, but we're planning the seeds. We're speaking to schools as much as we're speaking to employees. We're not opening an employment agency.
One of your biggest breakthroughs was creating Beats by Dre, which Apple acquired for $3 billion. What did you learn from that?
IOVINE: Marketing is empathy. You have to understand who you're trying to sell to. Beats was the precursor to the school. What we learned at Beats is we have to be a complete thought.
A lot of companies are engineering sec- tiors. Engineers are incredible, but a lot of them need a broader palette to work from.
How does a company do that?
IOVINE: It starts at the top, if the leader is the right leader. What we're trying to do is much more fundamental. We're trying to change the seeds. We're trying to change the basics of education, so when people walk into that ground-level job, they al- rready have this instinct and this gift.
It's the collaboration of different direc- phoes working together.
So how do you encourage creativity within a corporate structure?
IOVINE: Well, unfortunately, you're starting out where there's a lack of communication between design and creativity. They're not collaborating; they are one's a. It's all the companies. I don't see one of them doing it. The closest is Apple. Apple is a great com-
pany because Steve's DNA is still in there.
When someone comes to you with an idea, how do you know if it's worth pursuing?
IOVINE: The first thing I do is not judge the idea. I look at the person. Can this person execute this? I've seen a lot of good ideas go in the radio. Does this person have the drive, discipline, fortitude and character to deliver this all the way?
It's instinctual. We meet a lot of talented people, like Robert Brunner, who designed the first Beats headphones. I never worked with a designer before. The minute I met him, I know he was the right guy. How do I know that? I don't know. I just know he was the right guy — and, boy, was he.
Do you consider yourself a good manager?
IOVINE: No, I see myself as opening some- body who's great and working with them until they see an great as they can be.
You lived through the disruption that Nap- ster caused to the music business. Do you see A.I. as a similar threat?
IOVINE: I'm very pro A.I. in music creation. I don't see the downside at all. There will be some crappy music. There's crappy music now.
In the studio, when gifted people have A.I., they're going to make better records. [Dr. Dre enters the room.]
IOVINE: We're talking about A.I. He's the guy to ask.
DR. DRIE: I don't see it as a threat. I think the only people that see it as a threat are the people who have trouble creating.
IOVINE: That's all you have to know.
DR. DRIE: OK, I can leave now?
IOVINE: He's not kidding about leaving, by the way.
DR. DRIE: I had a discussion with a few people a few days ago. They were against A.I., and I'm like, "OK, you sound like the person that would have been against the drum machine when it came out." Or sys- theisters, right? It's a new tool for creati- try. Some people are afraid of learning new things. I'm embracing it. I can't wait to see what's going to happen with this.
"I don't see it as a threat," says Dr. Dre, above right with Jimmy Iovine. "I think the only people that see it as a threat are the people who have trouble creating."
So you're using A.I. when you're producing?
DR. DRIE: Yes, I'm using it. Again, as a tool to see what it would do with what I just did. IOVINE: So is Timbaland — another brilliant producer. By the way, there's a lot of closet A.I. producers out there.
DR. DRIE: That's a good way to put it. They're using it; they just don't want to admit it.
I've written about co-chief executives, which can be a tricky way to run a company. Has there ever been a time when you two had a disagreement that you had to work through?
DR. DRIE: All the time. I don't like the word argumente because that means one or two people are trying to win. We have disagree- ments, which means we're trying to get to a solution.
IOVINE: We do different things.
Give me an example.
IOVINE: We were looking at 10 different headphone designs. We're talking about it, and Dre really liked one, somebody else liked one and I liked two. So Pharmed comes in my office and he goes, "That's it." It was the one Dre liked. You think I needed to hear another word about it? That's how the design was picked.
I can just tell who has a bed for culture.
Dre, how do you create the conditions for creativity to thrive?
DR. DRIE: I like to simplify it. Everybody has the same 10 hours in a day, if you sleep for night. What am I doing with these 10 hours? I wake up every day thinking about that. I drive myself crazy with that at times.
And when you think about the corporate world and the world of C.E.O.s ...
DR. DRIE: I don't.
You don't?
DR. DRIE: I don't. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to be next. I'm really excited about the discovery of the next man I'm going to be. I have no idea what that is or who that is, but the unknown is exciting.
LIGHTNING ROUND
What was the last concert you attended?
IOVINE: Lily Klein.
DR. DRIE: I think it was Kendrick.
What's the last thing you asked A.I.?
IOVINE: The last thing I asked was what's going on with demo- crafts socialism.
DR. DRIE: Mine is so much more deeper than that. How do you put on muscle and tear fat at the same time? That's it.
Did it give good answers?
DR. DRIE: Nothing that I didn't already know.
What's the most used app on your phone?
IOVINE: ChatGPT and Apple Music.
DR. DRIE: But. That's where we listen to all the music that we're working on.
Which C.E.O.s do you ad- mine?
IOVINE: Steve Jobs, Phil Knight, Alex Morita.
DR. DRIE: Mind's easy. Jimmy Iovine.
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People are living of A.I.s effect on the environment and its pressure on jobs and mental health. A.I. stop to join another 'listening wound,' said Adam Walker, a content creator and researcher studying online trends for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a global affairs think tank.
'Users have gradually gotten more and more upset about it,' he said. 'The climate of opinion has now marginally shifted, so these companies are finally confronting these problems.'
Generative A.I. can produce increasingly realistic images, audio and videos, but only some of it qualifies as stop. Tech companies are largely changing the kind of low grade clickbait that is easy to make, spread, consume and forget — the fast fashion edging out content, the pink shine subsuming the streak.
Unchecked, the synthetic swamp online could 'crowd out human creativity, curvade cultural value and destabilize public discourse.' European researchers wrote last year.
Slop has become so prevalent that Merriam-Webster, the dictionary publisher, chose it as its word of the year in 2025. Sooner, a French streaming service, said this spring that nearly half of the tracks updated to its system and day were artificially generated, many of them never heard by users. A.I. generated more than a third of what is uploaded to Apple Music.
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Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, said last year that it would soon 'be more practical' to trace 'real media than fake media.' His observation came on long after Meta, Instagram's parent company, rolled out an all-A.I. video stream divided by many as a showcase for slop.
Many tech companies now trying to manage A.I. slop are also the new roadsling A.I. in July. Meta promised to support the European pact to make A.I.-generated content more identifiable via detectors, labeling and tagging. That same month, the company also released an image generated that automatically signed Apple's Instagram accounts as a reference for the end. (Meta removed the feature after three days of backlash.)
'A.I. stop is a double-edged sword in that a lot of these platforms experienced quickly in engagement as a result of it,' said Paul Shavlin, an expert in A.I. at Ohio University. 'But then, it got to a point where it became a liability because there's so much forearm
and person that it's now hard for users to find the kind of quality that they're looking for.'
Google, for example, has gone all in on A.I., linking its Gemini model to its email, maps and travel services and search. More than 20 percent of the initial short videos on YouTube served to new users are A.I.-generated slop, according to an experiment conducted last year by Rapwing, an online video editor that is powered by A.I.
One of the most popular YouTube slop channels, Rapwing estimated, earned $4.21 million annually. (It has since been suspended from a YouTube monetization program.) Fred Mohan, YouTube's chief executive, wrote in a blog post that 'managing A.I. slop' was a top priority this year.
Recently, researchers at Google considered the challenge. Rather than evaluate videos individually, they looked at upload pairs, repetitive templates and other patterns that could signal coordinated abusive behavior. They found 50,000 clusters of accounts, which were removed. Some digital media experts, however, worried that the approach could overreach and also penalize legitimate content creators who publish large volumes of content.
'While academic research helps advance industry understanding, it doesn't reflect the many layers of defense we use to enforce our policies,' YouTube said in a statement. 'This includes robust safeguards to ensure well-intentioned creators using A.I. tools aren't impacted.'
Other companies are turning to a grab bag of strategies to address A.I. slop, including rallying their own partners to help identify it. In October, P&G fever updated its system to allow users to limit how many A.I.-generated peers they see. TikTok said it was testing a feature in the United States that lets people dial up or down the amount of visible A.I. content. (The company also said it had automatically labeled more than three billion A.I.-generated videos.) TikTok removed more than 377,000 videos in the first three months of the year for violating its A.I. policies.
A.I. was used to create nearly half of the peers with more than 50 words on X. Elon Musk's social media platform, according to Program, an A.I. detection start-up. To deal with 'a tremendous amount of A.I. slop is reply spans,' the social media platform this year banned apps that effectively encourage bets to post by paying for content, wrote Niklas Ilon, who was it's head of product on all this month.
Chris Best, the chief executive of Safe stack, wrote last month that 'it's getting harder to tell what's out on the internet,' and that 'platforms that reward laborers will create a race to the bottom.' The newsletter platform announced its own A.I. detection tool for users, powered by Program, which is designed to scan regions, comments and peers longer than 100 words and decide whether they were likely written by hand or with A.I. help.
Some newsletter writers complained that the real business peers written by humans on A.I.-generated, did not account for A.I.-generated role in the creative process and put undue pressure on authors to defend their reputations against an opaque metric.
This spring, Camille François and nearly two-decide other A.I. leaders recovered as a Slop Salon event in Monte Park, Calif., where they discussed the difficulty of classifying, and thus managing, A.I. slop.
'The hodgopage of tactics is a symptom that we're looking at a systemic problem with our information environment and we just a bad class of content called slop that we can just utilize and remove.' Dr. François, who studies harmful digital technologies at Columbia University, said in an interview, 'A.I. is a creativity that is the end of the day, and multifaceted, and platforms that handle this is a poor way will see people walk and go to other places.'
How Rising Bond Yields Can Affect the U.S. Economy
Interest rates on Treasury securities influence a wide range of consumer loans.
By ARLING BERG
Investors are worried about the amount of debt the government has pled up, and bond yields are one key indicator showing this.
Yields, or interest rates, on the 30-year Treasury rose above 5.2 percent — a nearly two-decade high — fueled by anxiety over the war in Iran, inflation, unstable government deficits and rampant spending on artificial intelligence.
The nearly $32 trillion market for U.S. government bonds, called the Treasury market, offers a clear signal of where the economy may be headed.
More specifically, it's the yield on the 30-year Treasury note that tends to set the temperature for consumer interest rates, including mortgages and auto loans. The yield can affect everything from student loans to the housing market. The yield on the 30-year Treasury moves in sync with the 10-year bond.
Here's a guide to understanding what is happening with Treasury yields right now, and why it matters.
What is a bond?
First, the banks.
A bond is a force of flood-income debt, which means that when it is issued, someone is borrowing money and someone else is holding it. In the U.S. government bond market, the borrower is the federal government and the bonds are called Treasuries. Other governments do this, too, for Britain, they're called gifts, and in Japan, they're known as U.S.A., which stands for Japanese gold bond (JGB).
The United States issues debt with a range of 'nonprofits' — a nonreliar refers to when it has to be paid back. Treasury 'falls' are short-term debt obligations, ranging from low-worth to a year. Treasury 'wants' are medium-term, maturing between two and 10 years. And Treasury 'hands' mature in 20 or 30 years.
The tender is the bond investor, who expects to be paid and return on the investment. That's a key difference between a bond and other assets that people buy or trade, like stocks. The bond's yield is the total annual return measure (an expect to earn from it. A bond's yield rises as its price falls, and vice versa.)
Similar to the rate a homeowner pays on
In the U.S. government bond market, the borrower is the federal government and the bonds are called Treasuries. Above, the U.S. Treasury Building.
Investors want greater returns before lending the government money.
a mortgage, a bond yield reflects a variety of factors: when the debt will be repaid, the risk that it won't be, the investor's view on whether earnings on the loan will be more worthwhile than other investments — like marks and cryptocurrencies.
When an investor owns a Treasury bond until it matures, the return the investor will receive a fixed, but because government bonds are publicly traded, their value can rise or fall just like a stock price, and the means yields move higher or lower, too. Higher yields mean investors are demanding a higher return to make the investment worth it to them.
Why are yields rising?
Ours, it's the 30-year Treasury note that gives rise to a attention. It has been a limited most late February, when the yield sat at 3.96 percent. Although the rise began overusing in April and then again in May, the yield began reclosing back up by the end of June, it's currently 4.06 percent.
The rise has been less steep than previous runs, like when President Trump announced sweeping tariffs in April last year.
But investors are aware of a cocktail of forces unlikely to rein in climbing yields.
The flag-bagging as a peace deal is Iran continues to rock of markets, which in turn adds service over inflation numbers and of heraldality. Far that with respect to spending by tech companies on A.I., which has left some analytics guessing that the hope has drawn investors away from bonds and others saying the enthusiasm has pumped up growth and inflation expectations.
The Treasury buyer 'is now much more price sensitive, meaning investors are demanding a higher yield to absorb both government and corporate issuances,' Amos said, 'A Barclays analyst, wrote it a note.
Some analysts said a recent pellitack in a nearby market was a sign stock investors were growing more worried about bond yields, too.
Typically, bond prices and stocks move inversely. When stocks fall, investors move to a safer investment, like government bonds, to protect from losses. That negative correlation persisted for the first two decades
of the 21st century, but has recently flipped. The correlation, now positive, is at its highest level since the 1980s, Bank of America analysts said in a research note on Wednesday.
That flipped correlation means bonds don't budge losses the same way they used to, because when stocks fall, so do bond prices.
'Investors are no longer willing to pay the same pressure for an asset class that offers lower hedging utility,' the Bank of America analytics wrote.
One reason the 10-year yield gets so much attention is that it is the starting point from which bankers determine mortgage rates, which means that as it rises, taking out a loan to buy a home investors more expense.
As of Wednesday, the average interest rate on a 30-year mortgage was 4.67 percent, up from roughly 6 percent earlier in the year, according to data from Freddie Mac.
How do rising yields predict the financial outlook?
Because Treasuries are issued in varying quantities, each set offers predictions for what will happen in the economy at different time periods.
Typically, the longer the horizon for an investment, the more bond investors expect to be paid to interest. (No have more certain about how things will go over the next three months than we do about the next decade.)
So the yield on a 10-year Treasury note is usually higher than the yield on one that matures to just a few months or a couple of years. When that relationship reverses during periods of increased economic anxiety, an 8.42 in 2022, it is used as a recession indicator, because the risk is the near term eclipses the long-term risk.
Although yields have risen to rise 'moderate higher,' the quick isn't yet a cause for alarms about buyer strikes or a dysfunctional market, according to a Wednesday note by L.P.L. Financial's chief fixed income strategies, Lawrence O'Brien.
The demand for bonds at last week's three, the end 10-year auctions was decent, Mr. O'Brien said.
'The market is absorbing the paper,' he said. 'That is the mechanism we would expect in a normalization. Higher yields recruit buyers. In a crisis, higher yields chase them away.'
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Big Tech's Reshaping of the Classroom
The provision of educational equipment and support has also been used to influence how and what children learn.
By NATASHA SINGER
One humid afternoon in the summer of 2025, representatives from Microsoft were waiting on some 200 teachers trooped into a conference hall to downtown Manhattan. The educators were there for a workshop on the school technology of the moment: artificial intelligence chambers.
The Microsoft team gave a presentation on their Capital chamber and asked the teachers to practice using it for tasks like generating emails to parents and customizing lesson plans. Microsoft instructors also screened an A.I. explainer video that their Minecraft Education division had produced for children. The animated clip, based on the company's blockbuster world-building game, featured a cheerful narrator and a cute Minecraft deck. Even if some school children weren't old enough to use A.I., one of the Microsoft workshop leaders said the teachers in attendance, at least they could start learning about it.
As a journalist covering technology in schools, I had observed similar workshops for teachers and students that were funded or led by corporate giants like Amazon, Apple, Meta, OpenAI and Alphabet, the parent company of Google. Taking to this one, at the headquarters of the United Federation of Teachers, I was struck by how similar the sessions were to training I'd seen years earlier, while reporting on the health care industry: seminars for doctors, organized by pharmaceutical companies, that aimed to get physicians to prescribe the latest brand-name drugs.
"Industry funds what helps industry," Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, a pharmacology professor at Georgetown University Medical Center who studies drug industry influence on medicine, told me recently, as I was reporting a book about A.I. and computer science education in schools.
These workshops have upstairs. Big Pharma seminars can be useful for keeping physicians up-to-date on the latest patient remedies, and Big Tech workshops can similarly help educators keep current on the newest software tools. But Silicon Valley's efforts to capture the attention of education professionals and provide student training materials can also double as marketing or indoctrination. They enable some of the most powerful corporations on the planet to spin may technology stories for administrators, teachers and students, giving them a sanitized view of industry practices and product risks.
Many parents would most likely object if, say, Exxon Mobil wrote their children's environmental science curriculum. Or if Purdue Pharma trained their children's biology teachers. Yet, over the past decade, schools have often embraced the technology industry in similar ways with few questions asked.
Industry-sponsored teacher training is just one technique that Big Tech companies use to shape schools and promote their work/views to students. In interviewing more than 100 education and tech industry figures for my book, and reviewing hundreds of school, government and corporate documents, I became clear that a handful of giants have used their money, their might and their mammoth platforms to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain.
The day after the Microsoft-led workshop in Manhattan, the American Federation of Teachers, a national union with 1.0 million members, made a major announcement. The union was starting an ambitious program to train teachers nationwide on A.I. with $25 million in funding from Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic.
Publicly, Randt Weingarten, the A.F.T. president, was bullied. In an interview at the time, she said the partnership would help educators learn to use chapters "subtly, wisely and ethically" while also getting them a seat at the table with bohemoths like Microsoft and OpenAI as they developed and refined their A.I. products.
I pointed out to Ms. Weingarten that the union-industry deal might also present a fun-herdsome problem for schools. While her organization was calling for safeguards to protect children from A.I. risks, some trade groups representing Big Tech were working to block A.I. safety laws. She acknowledged the dissonance, "We are sick for the good of students and for the good of the country and for the good of families and to make sure educators actually play their rightful role," she said. "Some of the companies that we're engaged with are in it for profit. These are two fundamentally different goals."
After Ms. Weingarten announced her union's deal with Big Tech companies, a few
This article is an adapted excerpt from "Coding Kids: Big Tech's Books to Remake Public Schools" (W3K Norton & Company).
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teachers and professors publicly warned that the spread of A.J. students could undermine their profession, by outsourcing and announcing care tasks like giving students feedback on their work. One of the more forceful educators was Lois Weiner, an emerita professor of education at New Jersey City University and a retiree member of the U.F.T., who argued on Blarney that the national union was selling out to corporate interests.
"This isn't an alliance," Ms. Weiner said me. "We aren't sitting at the table. We're the treat."
CONSUMER TESTS GUILTY provide the essential scaffolding that schools run on. That means laptops and tablets; operating systems and device-tracking software; the apps students use to write essays and analyze data; the messaging platforms that connect students and teachers; and more. Some of these companies, including Google, Microsoft and Apple, have also used their status as classroom tech providers as a springboard to influence how and what schoolchildren learn.
Tech companies finance national polls and research reports to help make products like A.J. teachers, and concern like computer science, more urgent priorities for students and school districts. They advocate new laws to require schools to teach industry-aligned subjects. They sit on committees that help shape learning standards for public school students. They supply or sponsor teacher training and free course materials for students. They fund the National PTA, teachers' unions and other prominent groups.
This plusbook allows the companies to shape the American education system in ways that benefit them. Apple, for instance, offers a free Advanced Placement Computer Science curriculum that teaches high schoolers to teach in both, its programming language for developing iPhone apps. Microsoft offers a competing curriculum: AP Computer Science Principles with Microsoft Education.
This story matters whether you want schools to center tech skills or are agnostic, because the recent learn-to-code crisis and
Silicon Valley's initiatives can double as indoctrination.
the growing push for A.J. in schools are not just about learning. These trends are part of a larger exercise of Silicon Valley power. The public education system, hungry for resources to improve opportunities for students, has become an avenue for multi-trillion-dollar companies to enact their agendas.
This development taps into fundamental questions about education that Americans have been arguing over for more than a century. What is the purpose of public schools (eg? Is it to raise critical, independent thinkers? Trust students in the latest career skills? Help young people discover their passions? Are we the needs of the prevailing industry or emerging ones? Create knowledgeable and active participants in a democracy? Or all of the above?
In researching my book, I spoke to tech industry leaders who have helped drive significant changes in schools. Brad Smith, Microsoft's vice chair and president, told me the dynamic began because public schools often seemed ill-equipped to teach crucial modern subjects and prepare students for the ever-evolving demands of the job market. He also suggested I consider where schools might be without support from corporations like Microsoft.
"Philanthropy is the private sector is doing this work because the public sector has failed to do what it's supposed to do," Mr. Smith said. He allowed that the situation wasn't ideal. "It's filled the gap out of necessity," he said. "It's not the way we should want public education to work."
Maggie Johnson, the head of Google.org, the company's corporate giving arm, made similar arguments: She said that the company had provided free educational materials and training in subjects like coding and data analytics for millions of underserved students, including multiple schoolers and those in rural areas.
It is possible for Big Tech's intentions in education to be both well-meaning and oriented toward long-term polls. How you feel about any one program depends on your broader views on the technology industry. Public sentiment on these companies has
shifted profoundly, from a generally positive disposition in the 2000s and early 2010s to a great number of people in the United States. In media, compulsory screens use and corporate power because more apparent.
The tensions could be seen about a decade ago, in December 2007, when Google introduced a new program to be in school to use during Computer Science Education Week. The lessons were called "Create your own Google logo," and they taught students how to use simple coding blocks to make the letter to a person who is very happy to be able to open and lessons. The company already ran a wildly popular annual artwork contest, called Double for Google, for which tens of thousands of students created logos on different brands. The program was called Google lessons were a great way to get students excited about programming.
That was true. But the lessons also had the best of lesson would be, for this time, pursuant to the new technology and the Google. YouTube Kids platform had shown inappropriate, local and unique content in children. Separately, the company had begun renewing thousands of videos of children, which has been assigned by child producers, Owen YouTube. Making multicolored Google logos bag and providers was a distraction from those headlines.
GENOLE RETURNS the dominant tech platform in U.S. schools, eclipsing Apple and Microsoft, in part by offering a convenient public school apps like Google, Microsoft, and YouTube. Like other, the company called Chromebooks. Last year, Chromebooks accounted for 50 percent of the mobile devices shipped to U.S. schools, according to FutureSource Consulting, a research firm.
The story of how Google came to compare the classroom is a case study of the company's power. From modern beginning, it created a nuanced, interlocking ecosystem that can drive shifts in teaching and learning — and create customers for life.
A campaign called "Gone Google" from the early 2010s illustrates the company's marketing process. Google was just starting to convince universities and school districts to switch from costly legacy software tests free units of apps. A 10-page marketing guide from Google described the offering as a "celebration of curiosity-based, technology-enabled learning" in which students could "learn together with affordable devices and familiar platforms." The company encouraged education leaders to promote their conversation, and soon, school districts around the country began announcing that they had "Gone Google."
Google said school leaders on a similarly hedged argument for Chromebooks: The laptops would empower students and democratize learning. The schools subsequent enthusiasm helped obscure a long-term Google goal: building students early on services like Gmail and Chrome. The real revenue, made from seasoning consumers' data and showing ads issued on their online activities, would come later.
Winning over schools and students with free apps was also a useful way for Google to create and address its image as regulation began in its98gids the company's data practice. In 2016 for instance, Google agreed to pay $170 million in modern compliance by regulators who said YouTube had illegally harvested children's personal data and used the internet to copy. There was a lot.
Since then, millions of schoolchildren have tried colorful animated lessons from Google called "the Internet Awesome." The program aims to reach students how to keep their data private and the kind inside — and positions Google as a friendly, trustworthy privacy protector.
Schools have spent tens of billions of dollars on classroom technology products over the last decade. My laptops and learning apps have generally not proven to significantly improve students' educational outcomes. Some parents and school leaders who feel the industry oversold them on devices have started an account in schools, a phenomenon I've come to call Chromebook resource.
Some schools have now started limiting classroom laptop use. This year, the Los Angeles Football School District, the second largest U.S. public school system, agreed to eliminate the use of school-based iPhUs and Chromebooks for students in prekindergarten through first grade.
This years ago, we bought the securities from the tech companies that the only way to prepare our students for the future was to hand each of them a Chromebook or an iPad. Like Brenda, the founder of a parent group called Schools Beyond Science, said at a recent Los Angeles school board meeting, "Now we know better."
From Ms. Weingarten, who taught her anxiety that with Microsoft and OpenAI to trade teachers in education to tech, and partly reversed course, in line with the rap-
From left above: Teachers attending a Microsoft test at Lorraine in Manhattan; chemistry pupils in Chicago working on Google-powered laptops; Brad Smith, Microsoft's vice chair and president; President Barack Obama at a Calvert event in 2015; and Eric Schmidt, in 2012, when he was the executive chairman of Google.
ally changing politics of A.J. This year, she publicly called for elementary schools to hold off using A.J. with students.
and MICHALINE STORY about Silicon Valley's minority in the classroom involves the push to teach children coding.
In 2015, Eric Schmidt, then the executive chairman of Google, delivered a lecture in Scotland, in which he associated British schools for failing to teach computer science, the study of programming and concepts like algorithms. Britain would not be able to compete globally, he suggested, if more kids did not learn to code.
"I've not later, Microsoft issued a similar public admonition for the United States," first companies could not find enough but noted software engineers to maintain their engineers growth — a hiring shortage that could lead to American economy. Microsoft said the problem was that too few high schools taught computing.
The message took off in 2012, when a non-profit called Code.org posted a YouTube video, starring Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, that promoted coding as an empowering, become skill for students. "Our policy is literally to hire as many talented engineers as we can find." Mr. Zuckerberg, in his letter from: "The whole kind of the system is that there just aren't enough people who are trained and have these skills today."
The video went viral, kicking off a nationwide sports-couple drive in schools. With the new school question from Microsoft and Google, Code.org helped persuade dozens of stories to react over lives and policies banning computer science in public schools. The courses had positive effects, teaching students important skills like logic, aberrations and problem-solving, but some also cast tech giants as benevolent, world-changing innovators — often without pushing students to consider the industry's consequences and habits.
To other disciplines, we don't have industry driving. 8.12 curricular or policy decisions," Bryan Toureck, a vice president at the Computer Science Teachers Association, a nonprofit group with nearly 10,000 teachers as members, told me. "And we probably shouldn't." His candor seemed startling, given that the group's biggest donors include Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
Big Tech needed an entry of orders — an itl in didn't. Software engineers are increasingly turning to A.J. tools to generate code. So are many major people with no prior cutting experience. Companies like Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are pouring billions into building enormous data centers to fast A.J. services, even as they lay off thousands of employees. Some recent college graduates who inspired in computing are struggling to find tech jobs.
Now some of the same corporations that sold schools on computer science are pushing them to teach A.J. and investing billions of dollars in the effort. And tellingly, this year, Code.org changed its name to Code of
BUY SOMETHING DIFFERENT? Is happening this time in schools' positions. A groundwork of teachers, parents, researchers and local government leaders say they aren't buying the idea of new, and educationally improved. A.J. tools as the next haircare for learning.
Some are embracing a broader approach to tech education, one that not only teaches algorithms and app-making, but also asks students to examine how individuals and services are affected by the industry's disruptions. To see this strategy in person, I visited Alicia Stought, a math teacher at Edna Brower Middle School in Oakland, Calif. In addition to teaching traditional topics, Ms. Stought asks her students to analyze how social media influencers manipulate statistics to spread disinformation.
A few years ago, she also started a weekly class to encourage middle schoolers to examine all kinds of innovations in their lives: TikTok, meat substitutes, ChatGPT. She helped her students consider questions like: "Please did this come from? What's building this? What's profiting? What's benefiting? How is this going to affect me? How's this going to affect my family? What's going to happen in it years?"
In 2016, she being coded by industry, Ms. Stought's students were learning to decode popular products and ask fundamental questions about the powerful companies behind them. With A.J. upgrading at amending speech, Ms. Stought argues that it's an imperative than ever to give students durable analytical skills.
Educators have come up with a term for this pedagogical approach: "technology coves," and ask public schools to use taught civics as an essential subject for students to understand and navigate government power in their lives. The new discipline will help them understand and navigate Big Tech, and equip them for a world increasingly shaped by machines.
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What a season! Pascal Wehrlein secures his second ABB FIA Formula E Drivers' World Championship title, while Porsche claims its second ABB FIA Formula E Manufacturers' World Championship. We gave ourselves the perfect gift for the 76th anniversary of Porsche Motorsport.
This championship is our test bench. Every lap, every setup and every moment the Porsche 99X Electric was pushed to its limits taught us something new. The same championship-winning technology that led us
to victory, powers your Porsche on a Monday morning. This is Raceborn. It's not just what we build, it's who we are. To every driver who pushed the limits, every member of our works team, the customer teams carrying our DNA to racetracks around the world, the partners who support our journey and every fan who stands with us through victories and setbacks. You helped make this possible.
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Rare OakKosh Bigosh, for a price. BY CHARLES W. McFARLANE
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A son leads the way to a new kind of family. BY DENISE RYAN
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Into the mystic on the Upper East Side. BY VANESSA FREEDMAN
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Natalie Portman at Cannes in 2025. Early readers of Rachel Cusk's "Life of M" have wondered about the boundaries between imagination and fun.
Jennifer Hegseth, center, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office.
Spouse's Hands-On Pentagon Role
Jennifer Hegseth, the wife of the defense secretary, is now his most influential adviser.
By ELISABETH BUNILLER
WASHINGTON — There has never been a Pentagon spouse quite like Jennifer Hegseth.
In May she was in camouflage shorts and a sweat-drenched T-shirt that said "This Is War" working out with sailors, Marines and
her husband, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, on the deck of the U.S.S. Boxer in Singapore. In June she and six of the couple's seven children accompanied Mr. Hegseth to the D-Day commemoration in Normandy, where a Defense Department promotional video with a swelling, cinematic soundtrack captured husband and wife walking arm in arm on Omaha Beach. The imagery seemed to cast her as the first lady of the Pentagon.
Last year Washington got a different view when she was included in a group lap-
nal chair in which Mr. Hegseth shared attack plans for U.S. warplanes targeting the Houston in Yemen.
This month she took on a new role: chair of the President's Military Spouse Commission, an unpaid position aimed at improving the lives of military families. She stood behind President Trump in the Oval Office as he announced the initiative.
"This is a big deal today," she told the president. "We're super grateful."
Mrs. Hegseth was for years Mr. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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Electric Kool-Aid Acid Blue Bursts on the Scene
It's nostalgic, optimistic and, motor argue, easier to pull off than you might think.
By ANNABEL NUGENT
On the internet and in the streets, people are awash in blue.
It's not quite turquoise or agammarine. It's deeper than other crag and easier than cornflower. This blue brings to mind the human line and the works of David Hackney as much as it does antifreeze and mize mouthwash.
"It's this snaring, kind of psychotic, blue," said Laura Simonsen, a fashion writer (and occasional New York Times contributor) who was an early proponent of the trend.
Somewhere between and and cyan, its exact line can be hard to define — which may account for the slippery way the fail is manifesting either where, according to Google metrics, searches for "aqua blue dress," "supermarine dresses" and "turquoise top" have all risen this year. (Google: Meryl Streep's impassioned speech in "The Devil Wears Prada," "cruelace" remains a mostly content term.)
It cropped up on recent runways for Prada. Tory Burch, Drive Van Noren, Burbany and Celion, where the shade sometimes appeared alongside a spectrum of other blurs. This season's collections by independent brands, such as Paloma Wool, are similarly swimming in it.
Color trends can be dubious. Depending on where you ask, it's still the time of "a pop of red." This month, threesome of fashion declared, "Like is beauty's new nude." But compared with recent trending colors, like burpany and baler yellow — but-key shades ready to be absorbed into the palette of quiet luxury — the bars of the moment tend to be more saturated and cheerful.
The color family "has repeatedly resurfaced during periods when fashion has embraced optimism, innovation and cultural change," said Sara Maggioni, head of women's wear at the trend-forecasting firm WIGIN. In the 1990s, for instance, "it echoed the optimistic palette of Space Age and road fashion."
Cleo Camp, the Los Angeles-based designer, was an early adopter of this latest shade. In a collaboration with Simonsen last October, Camp released a special edition of her best-selling Cleo T-shirt in a color they called "splash."
The women had been in need of a vacation when the color came to them, Cleo recalled. The 1990s-era ads for Sandals resorts, featuring crystal-clear beaches and swimming pools, had been one source of inspiration.
Also indolible was a blue silk Gucci shirt worn by Madonna to the MTV Video Music Awards in 1995, "the your Courtesy Love Drove a makeup-compact at her," Simonsen said.
The color felt bold when the two looked around at the rest of the market. Would it pair well with the more muted tones many were gravitating toward?
"There were times when we thought, Is this crazy? Is this an insane color to market?" Camp said. But when she released the splash logo, they sold out overnight, and a second and third batch of pre-orders sold out just a few days later. For now, they have no plans to bring back the colorway, she added, but it remains her label's most added-aloud piece.
Other brands have since slipped their toes into the water. This summer, Katz, the Canadian retailer, brought out two tank tubs in "cruelace" and the Amsterdam brand There Flare rolled out "azur."
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Last month, the designer Emily Dave Long put up on her website a business sweater in a marine hue she called "Green's blue" in an interview. (A guss by "aqua" on the site.) Like Camp and Simonsen, she too had been musing on the 1990s and early anglist: In a homage to the Tracy Fosh dress dressed by Carrie Bradshaw in a 2002 episode of "Sex and the City," the color also appears in Dave Long's collection alongside a shocking red.
Top, from left: 2020 looks for Tory Burch, Prada and Drive Van Noren. Center right, the business's Cleo Camp above "splash." Above, a Carrie Bradshaw-inspired dress from Emily Dave Long and the rich Amsterdam T-shirt brand There Flare, Ark. Right, Madonna in a silk Gucci blouse in 1995.
"Not quite bad and not quite cyan, its exact hue can be difficult to define."
"That blue goes well with everything," Dave Long said. "Not especially," she added. "It feels very Superman."
Maggioni, the trend forerunner, said the color had semantic range that pulled it from the past and into our moment.
"Cruelace succeeds," she said, "because it holds multiple identities at once: It's held yet familiar, multiple yet contemporary, and even the natural world with increasingly immersive digital environments."
It's a color that is enlarged in the 1990s, helping to shape the futuristic look of the new digital age — perhaps best embodied by the helping, blue foolside of the 90er. G3. Introduced in 1998, the computer was the first of its kind, a symbol of the decade's digital optimism.
Sure, it looks great in grainy photos of an old computer you may look at wistfully. But is it really wearable?
"People are nervous to try it, but when they do, it's like, 'Oh my god!'" Dave Long said. "It makes their eyes pop. It makes their skin look good. It makes everyone too."
Simonsen, who also hosts the live QVC-like video series "Neverworry," often draw the color on camera.
"That explores sort of blue in a good contrast for anything," she said. Counterintuitively, she added, "It's a neutral, in a way"
Jointly Promoting Toned Arms and a Tight Prenup
A mix of fitness and advice about marital contracts forms the basis of a start-up.
By ANDREW ZUCKER
It had the task of a typical Hamperns work out clues: There were rows of yoga main, women in ricy apartment and ultra oil shots on offer. But it didn't sound like one.
"You like a house man's in Greenwich than in Scarsdale," Mary J Katz Interested in the group as she perched on a Maxtstone-paved porch in Water Mill, N.Y. "Well, then, all of a sudden, the rules are going to change drastically."
Katz is an Tracy Anderson, a fitness instructor to the 1 percent. Instead, she is a matrimonial lawyer to New York's slim, and on a recent Wednesday morning, she addressed just over two dozen women on yoga more at the sixth installment of Prenups and Pilates, a fitness-mem-narital-contract class. It's a chance for exercise online tutors to pose in downward dog and puppies with the consequences of choosing between Connecticut and Westchester living.
The Frankenstein pairing of divorce talk and celebrations is the brainchild of Lilli Donahue, who defeated the concept that your and her brought it to Caco Cipriani, the members-only Manhattan haunt. Donahue, 35, is the founder of What'd Legal, a matrimonial lawyer marketplace and one, and the team is a political agent of the New Yorker Podcast.
"My algorithms are all about divorce, prenups, restrained ops," she said of her social media host.
Donahue, wearing ultra-green allotment, kicked off the event by interviewing Katz and a wealth adviser. It took place in the description that Lilli's bill makes just north of Montauk Highway, and drew many self-employed workers and a mix of relationship stations, including divorced and married women. Some attendees demand green-and-cream bars with the name "prenup" stopped across them.
Blake Rayfield, a 24-year-old influencer,
took notes on her iPhone and raised her hand to ask whether prenuptial agreements can be altered during marriages. Katz explained the importance of leverage: "I would try to negotiate for whatever you can better the marriage," she told Rayfield, who was discussing marriage with her long-term boyfriend. "But you can definitely change if it you're both agreeable."
After the legal and financial advice, which lasted 30 minutes, Marisa Dwight, a 28-year-old Pilates instructor, took control of the event and called for carcass stretches. "So just take a deep debate, in through the nose, arching the back, exhale," she said as a song by the Nigerian artist
Attendees at a Prenups and Pilates class on a recent morning in Water Mill, N.Y.
The idea took shape after a father talked about his divorce.
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Before hosting events like these, Donahue worked at Capital One in business development. It was having her time there that her father was diagnosed with lung cancer. She began having more honest conversations with him about his six-year divorce from her mother. Their relationship didn't involve a prenup.
Donahue discovered that her mother had been evicted from her Park Avenue apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan after the divorce. "I thought that my room and wanted to move with her boyfriend in New Jersey," she said. "I didn't check us as 8-year-old that there was no home for us."
Those exchanges, in part, spurred Donahue to found her start-up almost two years ago. Today, she is its only full-time employee. Part of the company's mission is to increase knowledge about prenups. She introduced the fitness concept last December after attending Pilates & Pirches, an event that called her family entrepreneurs free exercise and breakfast in Manhattan.
Donahue similarly doesn't charge attendees. Instead, the part-workout, part-educational programming serves as marketing for her company and podcast. She is planning a Prenups and Paddl event, using the popular Christian sport to appeal to men.
Donahue's goal is to make shifting about prenups as distinguished as conversing about egg freezing. "A few years ago, no one wanted to talk about egg freezing," she said. "And now if you work at a large corporate company and they don't offer you the benefit of egg freezing, they're idiots."
Prenups are shedding their tubes. This year, Belle Bardoc's best-selling book, "Strangers," about the collapse of her marriage, included details about her prenup. More than half of engaged or married Americans ages 45 and younger have signed one, according to a recent survey Bloomberg News commissioned from Harris Poll. That was up from 2022, when a Harris Poll found that 45 percent of Gen Z and 34 percent of millennials had one.
Emily McCarthy, a 43-year-old model agency owner and director designer, is not one of those people. McCarthy, who lives in Westhamport-hill time, didn't sign a prenup before her first marriage. But at the event, she said she hoped to start more about the option now that she was newly engaged. "Maybe I've ever learned the hard way, and maybe I should try and do this correctly this time," she said.
She "is very interested, the women ventured to a nearly pool house, where protest talks and fashion flyer fly-flights awaited them. Donahue said goodbye to one of the attendees for the porch. "I need to run," she said Donahue.
"Wait," Donahue responded. "We need to talk about your prenup."
SF 3
Where Spirituality and Fashion Are a Perfect Fit
J.J. Martin, the La Double/ Exander, believes everything should make you feel good.
By VANESSA FREEDMAN
On a recent morning, a group of Vague editors, fashion agents and well-buried Upper East Side ladies made a pilgrimage of sorts to the Lighthouse by La Double, a new man on East 69th Street, housed in a ground brownman just off Madison Avenue.
They trooped past Josefina, a three-foot-tall quartz crystal from Brazil in the eastern entryway. Past racks hung with a rise of Cloquest on Pedalura, prime, shelves marked with a rainbow of fringed shawls and prismatic glassware, and rooms of silvery wallpaper printed with ancient Egyptian symbols. All the way up to the top floor and something called “the gang tongsle”.
Then they took off their Laubautis heels and Row flip-flops and lay down on various woven rugs, as an enormous moot and titanium gang from Ericsson cover outside Rome immersed them in sound waves meant to correspond to various energy centers in their bodies, like a soun toe spring for the soul. Or a knowledge for those with no much time on their hands, depending on your perspective.
Either way, it's not exactly a normal concept to prime people to shop. Spirituality, in theory, being meant to help you separate yourself from the desire for material things, especially statuary material things, rather than accelerate their acquisition.
But J.J. Martin, the founder of La Double, is not exactly a normal fashion entrepreneur. She's more like a fashion guru, preaching the gospel of psychological and emotional healing through clothes, or the therapeutic powers of aesthetic delight. She talks about divine gentlemen and directors with the same viscosity and excitement she talks about family-run factories, five-star hotels on Lake Como and la India Sguru, and she is busy building a luxury brand based on the improbable combination of the two.
Martin now has six stores, each themed around a different sacred symbol, including the chakra portal (Pain Beach), the mandala (Cape), the Holy Mother care (Milan) and the eclipse (Dallas). A hundred-magneters work at the “star quarters,” her name for the company headquarters in Milan.
Martin also runs an online group called the Sisterhood, with 50,000 subscribers, many of whom take online classes offered by Martin-centered leaders and go on Martin-organized spiritual retreats. In 2025, she published a coffee-sales book called “Mamma Milano,” which is part Italian travelogue, part autobiography and
She sold 30 in a few hours.
That set the template for the label, which combines very unique shapes with the entry of colors and prints (and feathers) that let you imagine yourself as Mariella Agnelli swamung around on a yacht off the Costa Smeralda. The company was profitable after six months, and she and Ciccoli still own 100 percent.
Though the two split up in 2010, they stayed business partners. “So many people advised me against working with my ex-husband,” Martin said. “But I remember telling him at one point: ‘There is a child. Let's no purest.’ That's not to say I knew not been triggered beyond belief by working with my ex-husband. I often have to go to the television show, but no hours, or close the door is my office, and do a quick meditation.”
They tend to fight about things like how much's money got a giant gang from Rome to the city.
The Sisterhood of the Silk Pants
Martin is very excited about the gang, which she discovered after having lunch with the other two. These boyfriend is a guitarist who works with Eric Clayton and is also a leader who introduced Martin to Gretin Senora, the gang makers. The connection of these seemingly unrelated doctors is not sensitive to Gretin Martin.
Half the time it is hard to believe what is coming out of her mouth, and half the time it is hard not to be swept away by her enthusiasm and self-awareness. “I admit, when I first saw what she was posting during Covid, I was like, Oh my god, has she lost her mind?” Chekachi said. “But she just kept going.”
For instance, Martin went to Bali during the early pandemic. “I had a boyfriend there,” she said. “He was a qigong master. So I went on a Malpensa Airport to go on him, and the guard looked at me, and he's like, ‘traces me allowed to travel.’ And I said, ‘But I'm going to go most a priori.’ And he said, ‘Oh, Oh.’”
She went to the Amazon rainforest in 2023 to spend time with the State State tribe. “I was doing a lot of upshouesca,” she explained. “I had spent, like, a year and a half deeply involved with psychedelics, and it was not such a group of 15 men and one guide that brought us for three days in a tiny boat, no bathrooms, no kitchen, down the river.”
J.J. Martin at home in Milan, Reims, he sits, “the gang tongsle” at La Double if a Lighthouse on the Upper East Side, and, comes, tuckleout fighting.
Caring about elevated consciousness and really nice silk, too.
part celestial guide, with suggestions for writing a great table and finding your center.
In pursuit of that choice it must have a “community,” she may have stumbled on the perfect solution, eye-rolling as it may seem. You don't have to buy her spirit to enjoy her stuff, but what she's really selling is permission to care about up-and-down scinomeno and really nice silk, too. In the current moment of both great isolation and great wealth, that's a pretty alluring combination.
Even if, so her ex-husband and co-chief executive, Andrea Ciccoli, said, “it could be seen as crazy.”
Birthing a Brand
Martin, 53, does not look like a guru — or even much like a fashion person. She looks like the California girl she was: tall and un456773, as if she were about to buy on a horse bareback and ride off down a Malibu beach. She avoids sunglasses and black and lives in an apartment in Milan that does not have a single white wall.
It does have a guest room with a double-height closet that takes up an entire wall, an MEA kitchen batch that she turned into a shoe closet, and a bathroom decorated with vintage costume jewelry.
Martin grew up in Pacific Palisades with two older brothers. She went to the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied rhetoric and were a lot of high-waist items.
“She always had this infectious energy,” said Susan Chekachi, her college roommate (who also ended up in fashion and was at home joint their executive at their America). “It was a little intimidating. She would talk to anyone, she would jump into one conversation.”
Martin worked in marketing at Calvin Abbe and moved to Milan in 2005 with Ciccoli, then her boyfriend and an Italian management consultant. they married in 2005. A sister as global public relations director for Ciaro's Ave your later “taught her what she didn't want to do,” Chekachi said. (“They fired me after six months,” Martin said.) Then she argued into journalism,
working with Harper's Bazaar, Wallpaper and W3.3 Magazine.
Unexplained infertility led her to doctors in Italy and America and five years at U.S. cycles, three of which ended in pregnancies, one which miscarried naturally and two of which had to be medically aborted because of circumstantial abnormalities. The experience almost crushed her.
“I wanted to blame somebody,” she said. “I was depressed and furious at the same time.”
She had changed what she ate, what she
Second row, right: a dinner celebration. Third row: a two-story chandelier in the Lighthouse entryway: a dinner table setting.
lirank, how much she slept. When she got the call about the last abortion, Martin said, I was standing out in front of this yoga class in Los Angeles, and I put the phone down, looked up to the sky and screamed, ‘Never again,’ like a crazy person.” A friend suggested an energy basket, and she thought, why not.
“There's all three different kinds of psyche: ability right?” she said. “Like chat-veyaner — you see things. Chat-audience — you hear things. I've always been chat-omniest. I feel things. Back then, I didn't know what it meant, but in 2014, I realized I was going through a sort of death of this old life. And after a year of working with a leader, I gave birth to the company.”
La Double2 started as a way to do something with the vintage clothing Martin had been collecting for years. But vintage isn't scalable. Then she found a factory that would remains Italian prints from the 1800s, and designed a long A-line dress with a T-shirt-like top called the Swing.
Everything, for her, is an opportunity for discovery. Walking through the New York Times, the living world with a customer, who announced she had worn La Double2 for her enjoyment in Jackson Hole, in Wyoming, and who was shopping with her mother for something to wear to a more-trouble woman. “I'm not going to be a lot of fun and were looking at racks in a sort of dazed way. “The senses are overwhelmed, in the best way,” the younger shopper murmured.
Later, Martin held a celebratory dinner at the same Mary friends came, like Krimina O'Neill, who was editor in chief of W3.3 Magazine and now runs Siddeby's Magazine, and Laura Brown, former editor in chief of InStyle. Also the actress Lily Rabe, the model Carolyn Murphy and the astronaut and sexual assault survivor Amanda Nguyen, who said she were La Double2 almost exclusively during a recent tour for her book, “Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope.”
Like many of the women at the dinner, Nguyen said she loved the clothes even if she could not gain trouble the spiritual side. Chekachi, who was also there, said that at one point when she was between jobs, Martin invited her to run the Sisterhood, and she had to respond: “I'm the wrong sister.” She was a lot of good stories. She knows what people think when she starts talking about the divine mother and suicide and cry out, she said, “I want to have people to make her a ‘not half,’ but she also knows profits speak for themselves. She wants to open more stores — three or four a year until she gets to about 20. She is working on adding more than ten to the five minutes. She said, even she can't wear all print all the time. She and Ciccoli are like as a model for a different kind of luxury business.
“I want it to be a new world that is very warm, very welcoming, and makes women feel good,” Martin said. “My job is not to convince people to believe a spiritual practice. My job is to convince people that they should be coming their climates every day in what you may want to maintain. You can't cry out it's just, ‘Oh my god, I love your dress so much.’ That's perfect. That is no enough.”
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MODERN LOVE
To My Ex's New Wife: 'Please Love My Son as I Do'
Surprising ways of navigating changed relationships when another woman says 'I do.'
By Michael Kriss
My son, Alexander, was 12 when his father remarried. I learned he was going to be here man the night before the wedding. He had to write a speech, a homework you guessed left to the late minute.
Since his father, Chris, had gotten serious with Angela. I knew less and less about Alexander's life with them. "You didn't tell me about being here man," I said.
"I told you months ago," he replied. This is typical for us. Alexander seems to believe I know everything that's going on in the life, as if his thoughts and feelings pass automatically from his being into mine.
"What goes into a best man speech?" he asked.
"Google it," I said. He worked on the speech while I rolled a list brush over his rented wedding suit. I had offered to rent the suit as a sort of wedding gift. Maybe it was my way of saying to Angela. "Please love my son as I do."
"What time is the wedding?" I asked. "I'm getting picked up at 10 a.m.," he said. "10 a.m." Was gets married at 10 a.m.? "Out! and Angela," he said. "But you knew that."
"I didn't know that. You never said me." After our divorce, and before he met Angela, Chris said I talked on the phone daily. Some calls ended when Angela appeared. Chris and I never talked about how we never talked anymore, we just stopped talking. I guessed it was a boundary she had imposed, and he had embraced, helping me away as they drive client.
I missed the calls. Although they were mostly about re-parenting, they were a habit for the loss of our marriage. He knew and understood me. And we both knew that no one would ever be an interested in our son as we were: something funny he said, forgotten homework. A wedding speech.
When Chris and I met on a party, what swept corner outside the courthouse to pick up our final divorce and custody paperwork, we understood things had changed. We would never again away over our credit card (both custody notes). We would learn to call each other by our first names, not favorite or fine. That day we agreed to sit ways keep our son's best interest at the corner of our relationship. We would do divorce (although they not agree with me).
He offered this hand, and I shook it. As we hardened through early post-divorce relationships, our phone calls were a friendly habit. His first girlfriend, Nathalie, was a brief writer here. France whose social media handle was "Amb'ain's." My son did not like her song as: Ms. Sue! Idle.
Chris tolerated my new boyfriend, finding him bellious and a bit too well dressed.
Chris and I blended Christmas from and after-school activities, cured for each other's cars and bags, and shared each drop of soccer and baseball.
"I don't like it," I have, my former mother-in-law, said one day when Chris and I were strict-fuel out together on a blanket, watching our son at Little Longton.
"You don't like what?" I said. "I don't like this," she said, blowing her cigarette smoke into the corner of our single circle. "It's not really like it."
She was visiting from Minneapolis and, for reasons mystifying to me, found it stressful to be around Chris and me together. In her own divorced people should simply never speak to each other again.
SOURCE: FRANK J. in writer in Vancouver, British Columbia.
EMAIL: modernloved@nytimes.com
MICHAEL
How could I explain to her, or anyone that I didn't miss being married but that I missed our little family? I missed her triackbie, grovelly voice. I missed how she interacted with my son. I missed the crazy way she started sneezing when she drank too much. I even missed all that smoking.
I had divorced my husband. I hadn't divorced the father of my child -- or her.
Yet here we were, on the eve of his marriage to someone else, and things had changed. Phone calls had become strictly practical. When, where and how much?
Sure, we had been divorced for six years, but I never expected it would all just end.
"I have to write something about what Angela can expect once she's married to Dad," my son said.
"I could tell you a thing or two," I replied. "I have to write it myself," he said.
Fair enough. "What is something about Dad that you know for certain?" I asked.
"He knew it when my necks don't match." I laughed. He started to type.
I read the speech before I tucked it into the pocket of his suit.
"I love my dad very much and are happy he found such a great lady," he wrote. "Angela, from the very first time we met, when we all went bowling, I liked you right away. You're really nice and fun and even Buster likes you (for anyone that doesn't
know Buster, he's the evil cat). You're a perfect addition to the family, and not just because you can help me with my most homework, but for your great sense of humor and the fact that you're always happy!
Good at math? Great sense of humor? Always happy? How would I know? I wasn't even invited to the wedding.
When my son came back from the wedding, he refused to take the suit off. "Best day of my life. I didn't want it to end."
Alexander's sack joke killed. He got to J.J. with a cravate, Angela looked beautiful.
"Well, she's 10 years younger than Dad," I said, nearly the biggest on the bed in his suit, a changed person.
We fell into a new routine, with Alexander
spending more than just weekends with them. Some enough, Angela said, Chris had a baby, Jack. I dropped Alexander off at the maternity hospital door, and secretly wondered if things would change now that Angela had a one of her own.
I didn't have too worry. When we were shopping for back-to-school items that year, Alexander crossed "lock" off his list.
"You need a lock for your bother," I said. "I don't," he said, "Angela gave me here. It wanted back from high school. She had been saving it for her kids."
"What about Jack?" I asked, although he was still in diapers.
Alexander disengaged. "She wanted to give it to me."
A few days after their second child, Charles, was born, my phone lit up. It was Chris, pressed her to ask me to drive Alexander to see the baby.
"Should I bring Alexander after soccer?" I asked.
"Yes," he said. His voice was flat. The baby had contracted respiratory syncytial virus and was admitted to the pediatric U.C.U. He was critically ill with bronchial complications and in the highest risk group for mortality. Because it was true, there was no treatment other than oxygen and hydration. The doctor had advised Chris and Angela to hope for the best and to prepare for the worst.
Chris was exhausted. He hadn't slept in 20 hours. He had to take care of Jack. He had to feed Buster, the evil cat. Angela was at the hospital alone.
"Is there anything I can do?" I asked. He paused. "She could probably use a vanilla tame."
Would she even want me there? I didn't know. I did know that Angela shouldn't be at least good by herself, even for an hour. I reached up on magazines and chocolate bars, picked up two vanilla tames and gingerly picked my head into the room.
The baby had an oxygen mask that covered his head like a space bottom. Wires, electrodes and tubes connected his tiny body to machines. There is he doing?"
"We don't know," Angela said. "They won't tell us anything."
"I brought Vogue and Vanity Fair," I said. "And a vanilla tame."
Somehow, we got through the next few hours. We joked about the space bottom, asked the medical team questions they still couldn't answer, and fueled through the magazines in silence. I stayed until dark and felt when Chris came back. She thanked me coming. I wanted her for the lock.
There was no road map for us once Chris married Angela. I didn't know what my role was in our changed family, or if I even had one. But in those anxious hours when my son's newborn brother was fighting for his life, I found my place. I wasn't this baby's mother and Angela wasn't my son's mother, but through our children we found a way to love each other.
A few days later, my son reported that the baby was recovering.
"When will he be released?" I asked. "He's home," he said. "I already told you." He hadn't, but it didn't matter. Something had passed through him, to me, as love does, wordlessly. We were all family.
Tiny Love Stories: What Remains True
My father and I were the same tsetvahs, three decades apart, with alcohol tolerances that should have come with warning labels. I broke the cycle that killed him -- yet hooked him for a genetic predisposition that nearly destroyed me. At 34, I removed to get him into my left sleep. "I don't blame you," in 34, I took a little bit off and, which revealed he wasn't my biological father. I had not him for something he didn't give me. Fourteen years and a television new family does, another the ink nor the love for the father who raised me have faded. ALISON SINGLAIR
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The Best Emoji? Antiquities Curators Offer Appraisals.
At the J. Paul Getty Museum, a ratings series emerges as experts post on social media.
By LOUIS LUCIERO II
When you sent a friend telling her to cancel her plans because you're sitting her on dancing, the #e emoji you used is an noteworthy the #e emoji she will see, although the hundreds of emails in the emoji keyboard are universal, the tiny pictograms look different on a Samsung device versus an Apple one, or in a post on Facebook versus a WhatsApp message.
Curators at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles have taken three variations as an invitation to judgment. In a series of reviews on the news pieces, the museum is citing the appearances of art-adjacent emojis across different platforms and operating systems, knowingly scholarly expertise with a liberal upholding of client.
The #e (interpretation of the emphasis) is a two-handled visual in which ancient Greeks and Romans started the early 1600s. The media is the first there's something amiss with the base? (Rating: 4 out of 8), with a substantial deduction for its "very lazy decoration" and a encander pattern that "looks like paper cups" is confusing. It should be a building "pig drew hair pieces" is perfectly serviceable simple with their columns. Proper style-knots, capitals in the columns, attempt at an emolument? (Rating: 8 out of 8.)
The #e (interpretation of the emphasis) is a 2nd-handled visual in which ancient Greeks and Romans started the early 1600s. The media is the first there's something amiss with the base? (Rating: 4 out of 8), with a substantial deduction for its "very lazy decoration" and a encander pattern that "looks like paper cups" is confusing. It should be a building "pig drew hair pieces" is perfectly serviceable simple with their columns. Proper style-knots, capitals in the columns, attempt at an emolument? (Rating: 8 out of 8.)
"Go home, encander design, you're drunk," she wrote of one particularly poor take on that Greekses of motifs.
A artist-Gridennel, 61, an associate curator whose graduate work centered on illustrated manuscripts of late 20th-century France and Northern Europe, noticed that the ratings that seemed to resonate the most with people on social media all had something in common.
"I guess the ones that I've most critical of people tend to like the most?" Gridennel said of the ratings she supplied at 20th-crash (1/2) and the open book (1/2) that assessment of Microsoft's baffling bouncy house of a castle -- the true email to ours is 1 out of 10 rating -- was unsparing.
"Thanks, I hate it," she wrote. "What are those letters doing just sitting on the cresseland wall? The lack of windows would be better for a fortified outer wall, but the
proportions are all wrong."
A cresseland wall, of course, is an extensive wall of a medieval castle that has squared off, twelfthly encircled along the walls of the walls, which sethers could close while remaining defended. But total comprehension isn't strictly necessary: Simply allowing the expertise to wash over you is also an option.
"When I was first writing about the image of a little bogged down, trying to do all of these parentheticals and unless trying to explain exactly what all these architectural features were," Gridennel said. (The beauty, the team decided that the first project "display the technical terms and the people who got it would get it, and the people who were curious about it might find out about it or might look it up.")
Or, as Sarah Waibel, the Getty's head of social media, put it, "If you know, you know." The recent posts are a continuation of a
series that Waibel* and her main began in 2020. "We're trying to do something fun with a personality to really, you know, make Getty feel less intimidating, to be more accessible," she said.
In interviews, Barr and Gridennel both agreed that unconventional forms of our reach were important parts of the job of a curator in 2026.
"I don't know that that's a popular opinion, necessarily" Gridennel said. "The role of social media and digital television and how we present them has been, I think, one of the more lively discussions in the field," she added with a laugh.
Gridennel dedicates a substantial amount of time to working with Waibel* as lighthearted posts about medieval homerooms and medieval dating tips for the necessary women in an effort to make a mistake with "people who will never see a gallery show or will never visit the museum to join me, or might do so only once."
"The role of a manuscript has been changing the everything, especially over the last, I would say I're or sit years -- since 2026, especially," Gridennel said. "And there's been, I think, an investment focus on developing digital-native audiences."
With the Getty's main campus, the Killing Getty Center, set to close in March for remission, the institution's digital channels were so strong to become more important. (Asked about the future of the emop-rating series, Waibel* said she was reluctant to reveal too much but allowed that "we are in conversation about the painting" -- 2.)
And now being the sensation that we do, it's primarily of emojis, "commenting on, like, the angle of the pedometer," Barr seemed aware of the absurdity of the project.
"I think we might be applying an unexpected level of scrutiny for people who are designing these emojis to begin with," she said.
Some curators at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles are rating the appearances of various art-adjacent emojis on different platforms and operating systems, left.
"We're trying to do something fun with a personality."
SF 5
Excavating Layers of Artifice and Reality in a Novel
“To explain it kind of ruins it for me,” a writer says of her book.
In Rachel Cook’s new book, a character resembles an actual actress, inciting excited debates.
By ALEXANDRA ALTER
Rachel Cook is in a sushi bedroom of her home on the west coast of France, talking about her new novel. She wasn’t planning on turning this conversation about the novel. “Life of M.” has other people have had a lot to see. “The New York Times,” the faculty Natalie Portman, and whether, by writing about an actor who so closely resembles a real celebrity, Cook has committed some kind of artistic betrayal.
New Cook has lagged on to a video call to explain, even though she’d rather see he explaining.
Cook seems bewildered, and a bit distressed, to find herself caught in the harsh spotlight of fame and the kind of tabloid feeding frenzy she evokes in the novel, which features an author who writes about a famous actress.
“It’s very stressful, the thought of these things happening,” she said of the story of gossip surrounding the book. “It’s taking the novel that I’ve created into almost a sort of courtroom or a factual fight,” she added.
“What I’ve done belongs much more in a world in which fame, and these people who are so known and yet no unknown, is a part of contemporary consciousness,” she said. “And if my job is not to go into unexplored areas of contemporary consciousness, then I don’t know what it is.”
“Life of M” — which raises uncomfortable questions about the nature of fame and our celebrity-obsessed, image-driven culture — has been bolder for discussion and speculation for what is a approaches to release on Tuesday.
When advance copies began circulating this summer, the protagonist’s similarity to Portman set off a cascade of rumors about whether Cook had enacted what some called a “mercy assassination” of Portman, depicting her as an empty vessel who lacks an identity beyond her film roles and the public’s perception of her.
Cook, the author of a dozen novels, including the acclaimed “Outlaw” trilogy, is known for writing experimental books that blur the breakdown between fiction and real life. “Life of M” takes this project into tricky new territory.
Is “Life of M” anthelcom? A perverse form of fan fiction? Or is it simply the latest experiment from Cook, one of our most provocative, slippery and polarizing writers?
In conversation, Cook, 16, came across as much and frank, even when artfully and politely evading questions. She speaks the way she writes, with smarting precision, sometimes voering into abstract, philosophical reflections, as if she were working out the puzzle of extreme malnutrition.
Over email and in a video call, Cook — who had initially declined an interview request through her publisher but then decided to talk — seemed determined to maximize a portion of territory around “Life of M.”
Cook wouldn’t comment on whether she has had any conversation about the novel with Portman, but she’s not so. “The new wouldn’t discuss the speculation that Portman dislikes the book, as M does in the story, like insisted that whether M was based on a real celebrity “is not really the same.”
“It’s a work of fiction, and I guess explaining how something is created, because it’s always created out of a total minimum of real things and invented schemes and personal material — once you start to pull on that thread, it would unravel the whole thing,” she said.
“The book explains itself and debouts it—self pretty comprehensively,” she continued, “and it’s something I created, so to start to explain it kind of ruins it for me.”
From the very beginning of “Life of M,” readers are on shaky ground. To narrator is a nameless author who plans to write a closely observed portrait of a celebrity,
identified as M. At first, M is on board, but when she reads the work, she tells the writer she’s unhappy with how she is portrayed; the writer is baffled and tells M, “the character was invented by me.”
Whether M resembles Portman is hardly a question. The parables are specific and numerous. Like Portman, M got her start as a child actor and later starved in a movie about a hallerina who has a mental breakdown and one about a celebrity who survived a school shooting. M, like Portman, is the face of a major brand and appears in self-balanced with flowers. Though the city where M lives is not named, it is recognizably Paris, where Portman and Cook both live.
Cook and Portman have crossed paths, and Portman has called Cook “one of my favorite writers.” The pair had a friendly and thoughtful conversation in 2023 about Cook’s novel “Second Place,” which Portman selected for her book class.
Portman’s admiration for Cook’s work for into the feverish debate over “Life of M,” prompting an avalanche of social media commentary and articles citing unnamed sources close to Portman who claimed she was displeased with the project. There were breathless headlines like “Is Rachel Cook’s new novel a ruthless betrayal of Natalie Portman?” (Portman’s representation declined to comment for this article.)
Cook seemed surprised that anyone found the subject of the novel scandalous. As she sees it, “famous people enter the public imagination, and though I dislike that phrase, it is part of fame’s deal, and part of its tragedy.” Plenty of movies and novels have featured public figures, she noted, of too without stirring much controversy.
In some ways, writing a fictional account of a celebrity’s glamorous face before life is a surprising move for a writer as cerebral and iconoclastic as Cook. “I don’t think anyone could see me as a writer naturally shows to a celebrity culture,” she conceded.
Yet from another angle, fame and its trappings seem like perfect territory for Cook, who has long been preoccupied with the unstable nature of identity.
When she had the idea for “Life of M” a little more than two years ago, Cook realized that writing about an actor would allow her to explore the themes of selfhood, artifice and authenticity in a new way.
“I couldn’t believe I’d never had that idea before,” she said.
Stragizing her way into the life of a famous person who felt like a kind of escape.
Perhaps the book was my arrival at that psychological novel, a desire to almost pause being myself and to have some variation from myself, some other place to go,” she said. “It was like, what would it be like to be able to lose yourself or leave yourself, and is that what the celebrity offers?”
Using a famous person as a fictional char-
acter was, Cook said, “a kind of game, and the rules of the game are that the actor and the narrator are both real.”
For Cook, drawing on details from the life of an actor was a way to anchor the story in the real world, and then, in a sort of narrative rug poll, reveal the layers of artifice that shape our impressions of reality.
When the narrator insists that the vivid account of M’s life was all imagined, it’s “a way of making everything just disappear in a puff of smoke,” Cook said. It readers are unsure what’s real and what’s made up, that’s partly the point.
“It’s almost like the book that you’ve just read completely explodes and self-destructs at the end,” Cook said. “I felt that would possibly make a reader reflect on what they’ve just read, as a rather disorienting way.”
Born in Canada in 1987 in British parents, Cook grew up in Los Angeles and in Britain, where she had a miserable time as a Catholic boarding school and later attended Oxford. She published her first novel, Turning Agnes, in 1993, and went on to write it more novels and three memoirs, which include her account of the trials and sacrifices of motherhood and a brutally honest dispatch from the front lines of her divorce. Her memoirs were slammed by some book critics, especially in Britain, where she was piloted as a bad mother to her two daughters, and as a narcissist who callously mined the lives of those around her for material.
After the manhroom unleashed by her divorce memoir, “Aftermath,” Cook said she had felt paralyzed and unable to write. She became disillusioned with herself as a subject and resolved to find a new way of writing that sideswiped the problem of subjectivity and authorial identity. That led to her “Outlaw” trilogy, a series of novels about a Cook-like writer who rarely expresses her own thoughts or feelings as she acts mostly as a recognach for the stories of the people she encounters.
The trilogy, which came out between 2011 and 2018, consumed Cook’s reputation as one of the most formally innovative and stylish writers at work today.
Since 2020, Cook has lived in Paris with her third husband, the painter Siemens Scannell-Katz. They also spend time in their home in the Charonne-Maritime region of France, where they often retreat to work. Cook’s writing has become even more abstract and experimental in her most recent books, “Second Place” and “Parade,” which feature narrators who are nearly invisible and characters who don’t have names be-
yend initials.
It’s as though she’s systematically stripping away even the rudimentary elements of narrative. With “Life of M,” Cook has pushed the idea of an opaque, cipherlike narrator to its near limits. When she began writing it, she struggled for a long time with the book’s structure.
“What was really interesting to me was how difficult the book was to write and how difficult it was to truly exclude the content of the self with all of its assumptions and its prior knowledge and its associations and perceptions,” she said. “A really bad to be letting surfaces speak, so that was much harder to write.”
Early responses from literary critics have been mixed. A review in The New Yorker by Becca Reddell called it “Cook’s weakest novel yet” and noted that “Cook has invented a new sort of novel that is nearly unidentifiable as such.” Writing in Slate, the literary critic Laura Miller was more intrigued, describing the novel as a “trichoserisk piece of work” that dangles as a liars the idea that we might be reading about a real celebrity.
“Everything else has been said to be the love it’s a roman it did,” Miller said in an interview. “Only when you got to the end does the explode all that. Then it’s like, what did I just read?”
The writer Meeks Heis, a friend of Cook’s who read an early draft of “Life of M,” said the controversy that has erupted over M’s resemblance to Portman only proved Cook’s point about how the public feels entitled to access the inner lives of celebrities and then imposes their story laws.
“Everyone who is projecting into Natalie Portman a sense of betrayal over her alleged appearance in the book is in fact resorting the very projection and storytelling that the book is thinking about and is critiquing as kind of dehumanizing,” Heis said.
Cook, who isn’t on social media, has largely kept her distance from the cluster around “Life of M.”
She hopes the questions and critiques will fall away once more people read the novel and realize how weird and subversive it is.
“To me,” she said, “the book, it’s a daring book, it’s a strange book, and it isn’t a scandal or a subject for group. It’s a strange voyage through territories that are pretty legitimate, that are about the public and the private.”
“I’d like it to be allowed to be the strange casherism that it is,” she said. “I don’t think it’s looking for trouble.”
The writer Rachel Cook, above, has been examined by questions about whether her new novel, “Life of M,” is based partly on the life of the actress Natalie Portman, before. “It’s taking the novel that I’ve created into almost a sort of courtroom or a factual fight,” Cook said.
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Used Baby Clothes at Beyond-New Prices
Once-lowly hard-me-downs have been elevated to vintage children's wear, with sky-high price tags to match.
By CHARLES W. McFARLANE
When Aetnik Tietz combo through packed flea market fields, she is on the hunt for game-like vintage Levi's jeans, hard-to-find hand T-shirts and fringed leather jackets.
Not for herself — for her 3-year-old daughter, whose wardrobe, she estimates, is roughly 70 percent vintage.
"I would rather buy that than a 'Frozen' Tits-remorse from Arizona," said Tietz, 58, who lives in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn and started collecting children's vintage even before she became a mother. "It both more thoughtful."
Parents have long dressed their children in hand-me-downs and secondhand clothes as a matter of practicality. Toddlers seem to outgrow sweaters almost overnight. But lately, the used clothes some parents seek are from rarer provenances and require setting silky alerts and sifting through pages of Easy search results.
A recent surge in interest for vintage baby clothes has turned what was once a niche corner of the resale market into a
"gold rush," one observer said, sometimes sending prices of Oshkosh Egash overalls and Sitty 2000s tree to eye-watering heights.
The trend reflects what is perhaps an eternal parental desire: for one's child to share in one's tastes. For those who favor one-of-a-kind garments with healthy patinas over mass-market fast fashion, that means making sure their children's outfits have the same aura of cool they seek for themselves.
"A big part of why you go for vintage and thrifted pieces is because you want something that you're not just going to see everyone else wearing on the street," said Caley Clocksin, who helped start Cosmo, a secondhand and vintage children's clothing store, with her friend Shanna Cooper. "I
Frankie Caracoulis shopping with his son at Cosmo, a secondhand and vintage children's clothing store in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Social Q's | PHILIP GALANES
Empathy in Error
I am a woman who chooses to wear my hair very short, and I like to tie scarves and bandannas around my head. I cannot tell you how many times someone has assumed that I have cancer! Strangers walk right up to me and ask how my treatment is going. Last week, I was at a show wearing a pretty bandanna, and a woman came over to me, hugged me and said, "God bless you!" I asked her why, and she replied: "Your cancer journey!" I told her calmly that sometimes people have short hair and don't have cancer. I think this is egregious behavior, and I'm tired of it. Advice?
READER
For years, I have written that making comments — even compliments — about the appearance of strangers is unwise. Tell strangers know that they are tall, for instance, yet they may feel self-conscious about it. So why bring it up? And how many more women who carry weight around their midsections need to be congratulated on nonexistent pregnancies before we learn to keep our months shot? We know nothing about the lives of strangers, and to speak as if we do is presumptuous.
Still, timing is everything. Last week, a close friend underwent an eight-hour surgery to remove
most of a malignant brain tumor. Afterward, my heart went out to all the people I saw with short hair and lacrickets, even though I knew absolutely nothing about their health. I didn't say anything to them, of course — just as no one should say anything to you.
But it feels wrong to take people to task for misplaced compassion, doesn't it? Some people who approach you may have been deeply affected by cancer. Do you really want to snap at them?
I wish we could prevent people from making assumptions, but we can't. So when you next receive an empathetic comment in error, your best response is probably to jump down your impatience — which is hard, I know — and to say that, thankfully, you are healthy.
Down the Aisle, Three Abraast
Our daughter is getting married next year, and I have long mentioned myself the proud father walking her down the aisle. But she says that she wants both me and her mother, my wife of 40 years, to walk with her. It's been 20 years since I went to a wedding, but her request seems wrong to me. I feel disappointed and hurt. Should I tell her?
FUTURE OF THE DEEIS
Traditions evolve. And this particular one has sexist roots. English fathers have been walking their daughters down the aisle since at least the 16th century to symbolize the transfer of legal and financial responsibility for the bride from themselves to the groom. The phrase "giving away the bride" itself suggests that she was property to be conveyed.
Yet this aisle walk remains one
of the seminal images of a wedding. In recent decades, it's become common for fathers to be joined by mothers — or for a sibling or a close friend to accompany the bride, or for the bride to walk herself down the aisle. I understand your disappointment: The moment won't be precisely as you imagined it. But I think it's lovely for you and your wife to escort the woman you raised together to this milestone. I hope you can get comfortable with it, too.
Plan Your Therapy Elsewhere
My partner schedules her virtual therapy for workdays at 8 a.m., before her workday begins. Since the subject of her therapy is often me, it's uncomfortable for her to do sessions at home while I'm getting ready for work. So, she does them in the driveway in her car. But there's no way for me to leave the house without walking past her, which is jarring. Is it unreasonable to ask her to choose a different time or place?
FUTURE
You are not the main character in your partner's therapy; she is. It's wise of her to do sessions outside your home, where you might overhear her. But your objection to walking past a session in progress seems self-important to me. By that logic, she should also keep the day and time of her sessions secret as you are spared the distress of knowing she may be discussing your relationship. Let this go — or figure out why you're so uncomfortable with your partner's therapy.
Clear Communicator
For years, I aspired to own a lamination device. A few months ago, I finally bought one. Among other things, I want to laminate my regular orders at the local bagel shop and deli. I am frequently obliged to shoot my order several times before employees understand me — and still mistakes are made. But when I shared my plan with friends, they were appalled, saying that it was dehumanizing to hand employees written orders. Your thoughts? THE LANDUVER
For be it from me to stand between you and the lamination device of your dreams. You may subtly avoid denouncing shop employees by greeting them when you enter and by thanking them when you leave. They may find it odd to be handed laminated orders — but probably not rude.
For help with your awkward situation, send a question to SocialQ@nytimes.com, Philip Galanes on Facebook or @SocialQPhilip on X.
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The youthful fashioned available at Cosme, from corner: an airplane movie, a knit jumper, a button-down, a jacket and pull-on Levi's.
think it's the exact same for dressing your kids.
The shop, which opened on a corner in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn in June, is mainly a place where customers can sell children's outgrown clothes for store credit or cash, creating a circular fashion ecosystem for local parents.
But Cooper, 32, has also begun to plump up the racks with vintage children's wear she sources herself. Cosme has now joined a constellation of brick-and-mortar stores — including Starling in Brooklyn Heights and Parachute in Greenspan — that have cropped up over the last few years selling miniature vintage and secondhand offerings.
It's "a lot of hunting on eBay for different brands and special things," she said, like a brandstుంది dress with a Peter Pan collar by Armani Baby from the early 1990s. Cooper and Clocksin priced it at £30.
On a recent afternoon, a pair of Oddkosh Rigsok overalls (540), a DKW 7age T-shirt (322), and a meme with colorfully printed airplanes and parachutists (522) hung on the racks. Also for sale: a tiny pair of Levi's Orange Tabs that once belonged to Cooper, displayed on the wall behind the cash wrap.
"I think there's definitely a world to which things like this are worth a lot more," Cooper said, holding up the Armani Baby dress. "But part of it is we want to price things to sell, and we want these to be recirculated."
Elsewhere in the expanding world of vintage baby clothes, though, prices can quickly become stratospheric.
Recently, Leah Behne, who writes the newsletter Recycled Trends, witnessed an eBay auction of a vintage romper featuring Eeysey that sold for over $3,000.
"Nobody wanted them back four years ago," said Behne, a 37-year-old mother of three in Green Bay, Wis. "I couldn't give these things away."
"The Clifford and Winnie-the-Pooh overalls, if I had those four or five years ago, I'd maybe get 10 or 15 bucks for them," she added.
She has been buying and selling vintage kids' tags since around 2016, after becoming interested in the classic Oddkosh Rigsok and Gynderese she remembered from her childhood. At the time, she said, few vintage buyers or dealers paid much attention to the small garments. She noticed that the market started to expand around 2020 and 2021, when the Covid-19 pandemic helped spur a broader interest in vintage clothes.
A niche corner of the resale market has turned into a 'gold rush.'
Shanna Cooper, who started Cosme with her friend Valery Clocksin, featuring inventory for the store in "a lot of hunting on eBay for different brands and special things," she said.
Behne now mostly sells wholesale to other sellers, including some as far-flung as Japan. She also coasts celebrities like History and Erik-Michael Estrada among her clients.
She's happy about the new interest in children's vintage, but "I don't necessarily like the price and the competition," Behne added.
Audrey Goleman, the owner of the Six Bells hotel in the Hudson Valley and a founder of the Wing, compared the hype around vintage children's styles on Facebook pages like 5th and 7th Kids BST (BST stands for buy, sell, trade) to that surrounding Supreme.
"You have to apply to join them," she said of the Facebook page, which has over 12,000 members. "And then sometimes someone will post a drop and everything you want is already bought in 15 minutes." (Goleman has been a member for about a year.)
Still, she usually enjoys herself as she hunts for brands like Patagonia and Health-tex for her two toddlers. "It's a way to make shopping for your kids' clothes, which can be an amazing task, into something that's fun," she said.
There's also a nostalgic appeal: Parents born in the 1990s sometimes dress their kids in the exact clothes they wore at their age. Goleman concedes that building a vintage-heavy wardrobe for her children is "mostly for me, but it's a victorious crime."
And as many shoppers place a renewed emphasis on quality and natural fibers, buying vintage for children also just seems sensible to some parents.
Tent, who runs Spread the Jelly, a media company focused on motherhood, said she had noticed that vintage children's clothing "really stood the test of time, because it's cotton, it's linen, it's cashmere, it's less synthetic."
A decades-old baby sweater may have a moth hole or two, but that's fine. There's a sense that these clothes can take it and may look even better with some wear and tear.
"I like things to feel and look wary," Terry said. "I don't mind stains and patching something up — I think it looks cooler."
At times, though, her daughter has "definitely gotten oil on a sweatshirt," she said. "And I'm like, Dante, that was a good one. But whatever, she's 3."
LOUIS VUITTON
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Jennifer Hegseth's Hands-On Role in Husband's Pentagon
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Hegseth's producer at Fox News on he built a broadcast career. Now, seven years into their marriage, she is his most influential adviser and his de facto producer at the Pentagon. She has prepped him for appearance, sat in on his meetings with journalists, interviewed报纸记者, and she is a staff and brainstormed clean for the Defense Department videos he -- and sometimes she -- appears in.
Last year she was in a highly sensitive morning with her husband and my British defense officials after the United States temporarily stopped sharing military intelligence with Chinese. The Wall Street Journal first reported, in a previously undisclosed part of that meeting, a Trump administration official said The New York Times, the British indicated that they had officers on the ground in Ukraine and that without the U.S. intelligence, including early warnings of incoming months from Russia, the officers' lives were at risk.
The British spoke in general terms, the official said, because the presence of Mrs. Hegseth made them unseat. Later they had a smaller meeting, without his, to go into detail.
The chief Pentagon spokesman, Sean Parnell, said on Tuesday that Mrs. Hegseth was in the meeting only for introduction, left soon after and has not been present for any Defense Department conversation of meeting where classified information was discussed.
Mrs. Hegseth has also encouraged Mr. Hegseth's adversarial relationship with the news media, the administration official said, and although she was a journalist for two decades, she has worked with her husband so her reporters from the building. (The New York Times is using the Defense Department over its restrictions on reporters who cover the Pentagon.)
Her involvement in the Defense Department is so unusual that it has led to questions about Mr. Hegseth's leadership. He is already under pressure for the high cost of the trial was, shrinking maintains stockpiles, poor conditions shared the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln during the early month deployment in the Middle East, brings of senior military leaders and blocking the prominence of women and minorities.
"It's bookers that a defense secretary would involve his role in the sensitive official duties, including sharing details of an depending military operation, and face zero consequences," said John Uther, who left the Pentagon as chief spokesman after three months working under Mr. Hegseth and has been critical of his leadership. "Any president deserves better judgment from his national security leaders."
"This is not normal," Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, a senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said last year on NSPDR during the uproar over Mrs. Hegseth's behavior is the chat and high-level meetings. "Secretary Hegseth has one of the highest levels of classification and the No. 1247 just hand that is his side and say, 'Here, honey, hold my beer, and hold my classified information.'
Mrs. Hegseth declined to be interviewed for this article, which is based on interviews with 29 current and former administration officials and people who know Mrs. Hegseth in other capacities. Most declined to be named for fear of reprisal.
In a statement, Mr. Parnell called Mrs. Hegseth "an accomplished leader in her own right and a devoted military spouse" who "is a vital asset and a true hero really after for our business." The "Jenner Department, he said, "not only welcomes her current leadership but actively plans to involve her even more deeply in the future."
The Pentagon has not said whether Mrs. Hegseth has a security insurance, although in the past year shew have been no reports that she is attending sensitive meetings with foreign leaders. She has still tipped quietly into the Pentagon, including using an insurance from the United States. The open directly into Mr. Hegseth's office units. She is in direct contact with members of the National Security and Security Board in Rocky Burin, Mr. Hegseth's chief of staff, and Tarot Roshabaugh, a close friend of Mrs. Hegseth and a fellow former producer at Fox.
No. Roshabaugh has become a senior adviser to Mr. Hegseth for communications strategy and is considered Mrs. Hegseth's eyes and ears at the Pentagon. She did not respond to a request for comment.
One person, said John Uther, "he worth thinking said that the defense secretary likes his wife to travel with him to keep him out of trouble." Mr. Hegseth, who has a history of heavy drinking, has himself made clear he needs his wife to be called after credits his 'two J's' — Jennifer and Jesus — with transforming his life.
"Mr. Jesus is a good business, charged my life, saved me, there's just no doubt about it," he told Megra Roby as her podcast in December 2016, weeks before his confirmation hearing. "Just without these two J's, I would have to keep here right now."
A You and a Garden Party
There is one Hegseth family rule.
"Oh, it's just story God," Mrs. Hegseth said.
It was a December podcast recording with Katie Miller, a veteran adviser from the Trump's office, and the former Dropbox Miller, Mr. Trump's most powerful policy aide. Mrs. Hegseth has been treated were sound on a small sofa at the Pentagon, home teaching, with an American flag hanging behind her head and the air, in a room, a black sweater and high book. He was in a dress shirt with sleeves rolled up to show his tattoos.
Mrs. Hegseth frequently squeezed her husband's arm and mentioned her fingers with his when he got his hand on her knee. At times they finished such elderly volunteers.
She home without her children, she told Mr. Miller, to accompany with a tomorrow-Christian curriculum at the family's
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home in Washington, called Quarters 6, a 29-room, white-cottoned colonial revival house. It was built by the United Age units, lectured from McRae, Mead & White on a channel parallel to the Prentour. River on the Fort McNair military base.
"I watch the fan right before at the whiteboard to our dining room, which is now a converted schueltause, and she's evening Thursday and writing Friday, and 'Hurry the tanks we've got for the day!'" Mr. Hegseth said in the interview. "It's really been a blessing to watch her embrace that role."
On many Sundays she attends services with her family and a security detail at Christ Church Washington D.C. Located in a meeting space on Capitol Hill owned by the Centerceptive Partnership Institute, she church is part of the Community of Reformed Evangelical Churches, whose leaders believe the United States should be a Christian nation and that people should vote by casting one vote per household, typically led by a man.
"If they're in town, they're usually in attendance," said Joe Rigney, a pastor and a leader of the church network who delivered a sermon at the church on a hot July day. Even though the Hegseths were out of the city, there was a large public presence keeping a few protesters away from the building.
Publicly, Mrs. Hegseth has embraced the life of a more traditional official Washington spouse. In May she was the best of a Pentagon garden party in honor of military medicine. In February she was at Fort Campbell, reading a book to children at the Defense Department school there. Late December she hosted Gold Star families — relatives in service members killed in war or an active day — for a Christmas tour at the Pentagon.
She told Mr. Trump during the announcement of the spouse commission that her meetings with military families were at Fort Campbell to Singapore had made her aware of the problems they face. "It's housing, it's health care, it's employment, it's child care, it's education," she said.
On weekends Mrs. Hegseth is often on the couple's 77-acre, $12 million from outside Nashville, where phone on her Instagram feed have captured her children riding horses and Mr. Hegseth holding a dead raccoon that killed that child. The Hegseths are not regulars on Washington's party's life.
Top, Jennifer Hegseth with her husband, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and their children at his swearing in ceremony in January 2020, Mrs. Hegseth's above, had an 19-year career as a producer at Fox News, including several years at Mr. Hegseth's producer.
She has encouraged his adversarial relationship with the news media.
"Her family is her life," Mr. Miller, a good friend of Mrs. Hegseth, said in an interview. "He many people in D.C. are transient or making over the person they're talking to or looking for the next person conversation, or they talk with the important spouse. She's one of the rare people who when we get together, it just feels very normal."
Glory to God
Mrs. Hegseth, 48, is a daughter of a Lockheed Martin executive whose work took the family from Mailhead, Fla., to Hunt Valley, Md., a suburb north of Baltimore. She received in journalism at Towson University in November, 2018, and in 2016 funded a job in the School of the PTA in New York. In 2016 she began an 19-year career at Fox as an executive producer on 'Fox & Friends,' the radio network's manager morning show.
Numerous colleagues there described her as a national workforce — smart, organized, driven — with the unanimous drive in the broad early morning hours of the 6-a.m. to 9 a.m. program. She also had a good eye for unboxing what several called the "red meat" stories that appealed to Fox viewers. In 2016 she married Dennis Rausche, a New York real estate developer, and had three children with him.
Mr. Hegseth, a Princeton graduate and a Associated veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, arrived at Fox as an on-air contributor in 2015. He was seen a rising star, although he had episodes of heavy drinking that company officials or co-workers had to address, so early marriage had ended in 2009 and he married his second wife in 2010. The couple had three children.
1/26 Hegseth has said he never had a drinking problem. When Will Cain, a Fox colleague of Mr. Hegseth's, asked him on a 2021 product of his drunk heavily after serving in Iraq, Mr. Hegseth replied "Oh, yeah." He viewed his inability drink at all as never out of defense.
By 2016, when Mr. Hegseth was regularly involved in 'Fox & Friends Weekend,' he and Mrs. Hegseth were having an affair. The relationship have also the open at the 'Fox & Friends' Christian party that year, when Mrs. Hegseth's husband turned up over, though the event was limited to Fox employees. Mr. Hegseth, who had been drinking, was spent in on the food and natural resources, and has also been human resources department had to address with him, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
Timothy Pyehance, Mr. Hegseth's former personal lawyer and now his special adviser at the Pentagon, has said the Christmas party episode is not true.
Fox moved Mrs. Hegseth in January 2017 to 'be executive producer of "History's World," then to Saturday nights. In June of that year she and her first husband were divorced. In August she gave birth to a neighbor with Mr. Hegseth, Oswaldziye Hope.
In September Mr. Hegseth's second wife died for divorce. In October Mr. Hegseth was accused of raping a woman at a speaking event at California. Charges were never held, and Mr. Hegseth has said the accusations was false. But he said he paid the woman $30,000 as part of a settlement to protect his family and his job at Fox News. Mrs. Hegseth has never commenced publicly on the phone.
After this chain of events, Mr. Hegseth began what he has described as a religious leader. In 2018 the Hegseths joined Colin Neck Community Church in New Jersey, where they were living at the time. The evangelical church is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, and Mr. Hegseth has been up attending Sunday services at a Baptist church in Minnesota, said Mrs. Hegseth at first showed some reluctance.
She was "wary of what evangelical Baptists were like," Mr. Hegseth told the magazine Nashville Christian Family. But "within 30 minutes," he added, "we felt at home."
People who worked with Mrs. Hegseth at Fox do not recall the taking openly about her. He was a 2009 funeral husband of a Methodist church — but she became a partner on her husband's journey. After the
two were married in August 2019 at the Trump National Golf Club in 2016, Neck, her Instagram feed became more religious.
"Glory to God!" she wrote in a June 2021 post when "Battle for the American Mind," a book Mr. Hegseth wrote with David Goodwin, a pioneer in conservative Christian education, landed at No. 1 on the New York Times here with her.
By June Mrs. Hegseth was vice-president of Fox Nation, a Fox subscription containing service, as well as executive producer of "The Mimehcatime of America," a documentary show that streamed for two seasons on Fox Nation. It started Mr. Hegseth sending articles called the liberal takeover of the New York Times.
The Hegseths bought their Tennessee farm in 2012, and in the final 2023 episode of the series, Mr. Hegseth took viewers to his children's school outside Nashville to showcase. So said, "the beauty of classical Christian education" is a book of writings about motherhood. Mrs. Hegseth wrote that they had moved from New Jersey because "the societal landscape had become so scary that we felt that smoking them out the door was like sending them into a cultural attitude without any physician."
It is an important story of the two children in their Methodist family, ranging in age from 18 to 8, attended the Nashville school or are home-attended by Mrs. Hegseth. Under the terms of Mr. Hegseth's 2016 divorce settlement, his children from his second marriage primarily live with their mother in Minnesota, although he sees them there and in Washington and on the Tennessee farm.
'Stick Together'
Mrs. Hegseth had never lived or worked in Washington when she arrived with her husband in December 2016, shortly after she left Fox Nation. She immediately shattered what was expected of a political spouse by accompanying Mr. Hegseth to meetings with startled Republican ministers ahead of his confirmation hearings.
"It was unusual," Mr. Hegseth acknowledged to Mr. Miller on her podcast. "I remember the first meeting we were in that she came with. I was like, huh. And then it hit no right and no natural."
In these early days Mrs. Hegseth also interviewed personal staff members for jobs at the Pentagon. Mr. Uther, who was in line for Pentagon spokesman, said he remembered getting a call that Mrs. Hegseth would like to see him. He expected it to be a pleasant news-and-giver. But when she is the officer at the Republican National Convention left Mr. Hegseth and the a time during the transition, he said, Mrs. Hegseth asked him to co-serve one into your "unrespectively detailed, and, hard-edged questions" for some 40 minutes, including how he would handle a handle news media.
Once Mr. Hegseth was in office, Mrs. Hegseth was eager to revoke the credentials of Pentagon reporters who she felt had written negative stories about her husband, the administration official and a former administrator official said.
After Mr. Hegseth was told he could run too legal problems by tingling out individual reporters, Mr. Uther said, the Pentagon announced in February a new "annual media research program" that received The New York Times, NSP, News, NPR and Politics from New York spaces in the building and engaged in The New York Post, Broad West News, One American Times and Staff Post. Uther said, officials have opened all reporters to an aware outside the building for what they say are workplace reservations.
In the year and a half since, Ms. Miller said in the interview, Mrs. Hegseth has settled into Washington. "She's got a rhythm, she's got a mission," she said. "They've got a good thing going."
And always, she job in a partnership.
As Mrs. Hegseth told Mr. Miller on her podcast, recalling her response when she learned that Mr. Trump would be offering her husband the product of defense secretary: "We were ready to serve in any capacity."
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Martha's Vineyard an Epicenter of Black Joy? Yes.
A film festival turns the Massachusetts island into 'Wakanda for a month.'
By SANDRA E. GARCIA
OAK BLUFFE, RUSS - Sitting message at the Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival there seemed to be one thing Ruth E. Carter, the Oscar-winning costume designer of 'Black Panther,' really wanted the audience to know.
'This is Wakanda for a month,' Carter said, referring to the fictional African enigma and home of the May-ari superhero.
Visitors walking around Oak Bluffs, Edgartown or Vineyard Haven during August may agree with Carter. What was once described as a family reunion is booming as an epicenter of Black Joy and community, but also cultural influence, political power and corporate investment.
There is a full slate of panels, parties and gatherings that include a comedy festival, a book festival, an awards show, a fashion show, a Y2K-themed party hosted by more other than early anglers rapper Lil' Flip, and, of course, the nine-day film festival that started in Vineyard Haven in 2002.
At night, Circuit Avenue in Oak Bluffs is flooded with people getting burgers at Fat Banser's. During the day, the wait time for branch at Biscuits can be as long as two hours.
'Black folks from all over the country are here,' said Debra Lee, former chief executive and chairman of BET Networks, who hosted events at the film festival in years past. 'The whole tenure of the Vineyard changed. Other brands got the message. If you want to reach Black people, come to the Vineyard.'
Companies are also hosting panels, screenings and parties with actors like Laurie Lee, Robo Palmer and Glynn Turman. Target sponsored a screening of 'A New Day Began: The Black National Airshow,' a short documentary Google supported 'The Art of Possible: On Marian Rogers' Creath's Legacy from Wolf to Responsible Ali'. McKinsey, the consulting firm, hosted a conversation on Black maternal health.
Carter and The Cut hosted a dinner at the
What was once called a family reunion is much larger now.
Harbor View Hotel in Edgartown with Carter, who designed the looks for movies like 'Google Fever,' 'Maintain It' and 'Black Panther.'
Even the celebrities, including LaTorte Lackett, the B&B singer and former Destiny's Child member, seemed ready to see work. 'I feel like this could possibly be my introduction,' Lackett said, 'and God giving me a peek into what could be.'
She has been visiting Martha's Vineyard every summer for five years with her family. 'It feels like you've lost in the States anymore,' she said.
Martha's Vineyard has been a resort area for Black visitors for more than 120 years. From Black whalers to Burack Obama, generations have flocked to the island in Cape Cod for rest and repose.
When Stephanie Rance and her husband, Floyd, started the film festival more than 20 years ago with 50 fold-up seats and a five-disk changer at the Mansion House hotel in
Vineyard Haven, they built on this tradition of gathering.
'There was a lot of growing pains,' Floyd Rance said. 'In the first 10 years, we were still getting to know the landscape and the different venues and places of the Vineyard. August was not as plentiful and as populated as it is now.'
The festival has since moved to the Martha's Vineyard Performing Arts Center, which seats nearly 600 people and this year is screening new releases from KBO and Netflix. The Rance Family Foundation also announces a fellowship in film and media at Howard University.
'I thought if I did this, it would get me a great job at Disney or Warner Bros.,' said Stephanie Rance, who quit a corporate job to raise her children. 'This was the big thing I was supposed to be doing. Those same companies I wanted to get a job at are now giving us money.'
Alongside the sponsors and additional
events throughout the month, the number of shorts, dramas and documentaries shown at the festival has grown. The festival has become a place that screens documentaries about Black luminaries; these have included the artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Romare Brandes, and the scholar Chester Pierce, who coined the term microaggression.
This year there were also narrative shorts and feature films like 'Faden Goat,' 'Parade' and 'Seahorns,' making the festival a bastion of Black storytelling and a front in the work of preserving Black American stories.
Shid Fox, a documentarian whose moves was shown at the film festival two years ago, said the trip back was worth it to hear from 'the brightest, most brilliant minds among us as they lecture, as they do book talks, as they screen films, as they present their art or their clothing items.'
But it is also possible the island is becoming
too small for the festival, suggested the actor Courtney B. Vance, who gave a talk after a screening of 'W.E.B. Do Rats: Belted With a Cause,' a film he participated in alongside Jeffrey Wright, Cometron and Vio-Dovis.
'The space sometimes doesn't support all the people that are here,' Vance said. 'I'm sure that as it grows, it's going to have to make some adjustments about it so that the event is pleasurable for all involved.' (He got an electric bike to beat the traffic.)
The contemporary photographer Carrie Mae Woons believes the island attracts so many newcomers and keeps others returning because it provides an ease many Black Americans cannot find readily in the root of the nation.
'We have a place of refuge where we can gather on beaches and in restaurants and in gardens,' Woons said. But, she added, 'it is not just about relaxing. It's also about learning.'
Clockwise from top left: Floyd Rance, Ruth E. Carter, Stephanie Rance and Lindsey Peoples at a dinner hosted by Carrie and The Cut at the Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival; Courtney B. Vance; the artist Carrie Mae Woons, left, with Erica Lovett and Dorian Lynne Wallace; Camille A. Brown, Natasha Ward, Vance and Carter; an event at Ashwell Beach; Glynn Turman; the Carter dinner at the Harbor View Hotel.
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MELANIE MIGUEL and MICHAEL SHILOH
Divorced Years Ago, and Now Married Again
By LESLIE KATZ
Before Melanie Miguel married Michael Shiloh on July 26, she called him her 'years and future husband'
Now he is simply her husband — for the second time.
The couple married in 1999 and stayed together for 10 years, separating small-meaning financial and health challenges and Miguel's persistent desire to explore her activities to women. More than three decades after first exchanging her own, they stood under a cream-colored satin hoppah surrounded by their three daughters and four grandchildren to marry each other again. Miguel's 17, Shiloh, 75.
"Today is not just a celebration of a wedding," Ivita Simee, their middle daughter, said during the ceremony. "It's a celebration of love, resilience, forgiveness and the incredible gift of second chances."
Miguel and Shiloh first covered paths in 1984 as frequent participants to Israeli folk dance gatherings at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco and Aallemus Mos on A Dance Community Center in nearby Berkeley.
At the time, Miguel was divorced with two daughters, their 4 and 16, and worked as the regional councillor assistant for a company that leased shipping containers. Shiloh was married and worked as a hardware electronics designer.
At the folk dancing events, the two centimes moved past each other during communal dances in circles of love. But they were little more than friendly acquaintances.
Still, "I definitely noticed Melanie," Shiloh said. At the end of 1986, after separating from his wife, he invited Miguel to dinner under the game of wanting advice on navigating divorce.
"I was very shy," Shiloh said. "I thought that if I asked Melanie out for a date, she would say no."
They had four ties in San Francisco's Mission District, and both felt knowing they wanted to spend more time together. On their second date, Shiloh visited Miguel's San Francisco flat, where she showed him her "United Ladies," three-inch female figurtzes she sculpted from clay.
"We just sat there for heavy-sliding direct art," Miguel recalled. "He said he thought he was an artist, too, but he wasn't sure what that would look like." Today, Shiloh is a professor of interactive design at New York University. Abu Dhabi who transferred to a model machine parts into electromagnetic and artwork that explores society's relationship with technology. He exhibits his pieces around the world.
Shiloh grew up in Jerusalem, the son of a British mother and an American father. He left for the United States in 1977 to attend the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a joint bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science. Miguel, a San Francisco native whose family set down more in the city in the 1980s, took classes at the College of San Francisco before leaving to marry her first husband at age 10 and work full time.
When she wed Shiloh in 1991, he had fully reinforced her two daughters from her previous marriage and two years later, the couple welcomed a third. They describe the years that followed as the end of all parents' ingochromes. But as time passed, individual and shared pressures took a toll.
Miguel developed a larger named syndrome that necessitated surgery on both hands and required her to stop working. Later, while training in the a home birth-mid with and serving as a thesis, she developed an excellent career and by whom repeatedly exposed to leave in gloves and other medical supplies. Simply breathing in the particles could put her at risk for a potentially life-threatening anaphylactic reaction.
Melanie Miguel and Michael Shiloh at their July 26 wedding in San Francisco. The couple first married in 1986 and stayed together for 10 years before separating small various challenges.
"It affected everything: gymnasiums where rubber balls were used, shoe stores, any celebration that had balloons," she said. "Ruthen hands could set me off. It was very frightening."
At the same time, Shiloh was facing his own career struggles, which he would later attribute to his undiagnosed A.D.R.D.
"I didn't have the worth for it then, but it was very difficult for me to keep large, complex systems to my head, and an a result ended up making lots of mistakes," he said. "I moved from one job to another over a number of years."
The work upheavals shook his sense of self, and the resulting financial troubles faced the couple to sell their house in San Francisco's Sament District. They did their best to support each other, but the compounding pressures weighed heavily on their relationship.
"We were under severe stress," Shiloh said.
Around the same time, Miguel increased his life that denying the part of herself that longed to be with women announced to a self-hermed she could no longer bear. "I felt unseen," she said. "Part of me was living a lie."
She shared those feelings with Shiloh, and the past separated in 1984, officially divorcing in 2012 after their youngest daughter graduated from high school.
"I was very, very sad when Melanie said she felt that she couldn't be married to me anymore, but keeping her in a situation where she wasn't happy didn't make sense," Shiloh said. "I wanted her happiness above all."
Miguel and Shiloh remained amicable—patience during their separation and after their divorce. He had a 10-year relationship, and she dated several women, including one for four years. After discovering a previous and aptitude for teaching, he accepted the N.Y.U. teaching job on the United Arab Emirates 10 years ago, widening the physical classes between them.
Then, in 2023, came a trip that changed everything.
It was a two-week family vacation to Israel to celebrate their grandson's her mitzvah. Miguel and Shiloh worked as a team to plan and execute a new job on the new ironworkers, spending more time together than they had in years. They realized how much they still enjoyed each other's company, and when the trip ended, they found
ON THIS DAY
When July 28, 2026:
Where The San Francisco home of Miguel's lifelong friend Jaira Carolina and her husband, Ben Borgosian.
Because Resisting Band When it came from to exchange rings, Shiloh staged Miguel's original gold band with her finger. Since Shiloh works with machines—that could scratch jewelry, he decided he won't be wearing one. Instead, the bridle drew a wedding band on his left ring, togain using a blank Sharper.
Symbolic Flowers The bridell's sister, Ronnie Miguel, designed floral arrangements with lessons from Ralick Wholesale Flowers. Miguel made anthracites central to the contemporary scene of the oblonged late mother, Ruth, whose 1953 wedding featured the tropical personal in pink, red and white.
Love Story in Pictures Photos spanning the couple's剪辑—long relationship filled the pages of a journal where guests could share their congratulations and good wishes. The words "begin again" adorned the cover.
After many life lessons learned, deciding to do it all over again.
themselves missing each other
Their sthost daughter, Naomi Rosenblum, shared with her mother the observations that her parents worked together seamlessly. They both are inquisitive artists with similar values, she noted. She reminded her mother that neither had forged a lasting relationship during their time apart and that Shiloh "was a catch."
"After that conversation, it was just like: 'Yeah, I do still love him. I never really stopped loving him,'" said Miguel, who is retired from her position as a health services manager at Rehab Goldman Plaza, a senior assistant living facility in San Francisco, and spends her time hammering and choosing more scriptures that hint at the female first.
She began to imagine what it would look like to become a couple again. While the program energized her, her queer identity remained important to her. Rosenblum reassured her mother that she didn't need to label herself and should feel comfortable identifying in whatever way felt most authentic.
"There's more fluidity around quorreness today," Miguel said. "I still feel queer, and unsophisticated to, and yet I love the man. I'm not attracted to most men, but I am attracted to Michael."
When she told her former spouse she wanted to remain, "he was very excited." he were the couple's children and grandchildren.
Miguel said, "They were like: 'This is great. We want you to be happy. Now we can see you two at the same time. Now neither one of you will be alone.'"
The entire family's joy was palpable at the couple's July 26 wedding, which took place in the garden of a friend's San Francisco home. Two of the couple's grandchildren, and two sisters held the party, suggesting the Jewish wedding canopy, and their youngest daughter, Tommie Shiloh, officiated after getting ordained through the Universal Life Church for the occasion.
"My parents have always shared a unique harmony," she told the 10 guests, her mother and father becoming visibly emotional. "They get each other's quirks and respect each other's strengths."
"Today," she said, "they celebrate both their past and the new experiences they now bring to this chapter of their first together." Simes, her sister, expanded on the sentiment. "It's a love built on experience, wisdom and the conscious decision to choose each other again," she said.
Shiloh now splits his time between Abu Dhabi and the San Francisco Bay Area, with Miguel visiting him in the United Arab Emirates during the audience; year. They agree that their "romarings," as they call it, will benefit them all they've come to understand almost themselves, and each other, over time.
"We learned to being with other people even more of what was important to us, what was missing that we saw in each other," Miguel said. "We are both in much better places. We've learned so communicate and see joy up elements, and to really hear each other."
On a happy day typical of San Francisco members of the hotel through the gray just mansion before the wedding began. It stayed out, leading family and friends to warm afternoon light on they joined hands with Miguel and Shiloh after the ceremony to share with the partners the couple first shared 10 years ago.
Among them was one performed to the song "Ma Nuru," Hebrew for "Sow beautiful."
WEDDINGS
Alexandra Hensler. Justice Shepard
A Four-Day First Date Leads to 'I Do'
Three days after Alexandra Elizabeth Hensler, who goes to 'I am, and Justice
Daniel Shepard met at a party in Los Angeles, they went on a lunch date that turned into a four-day adventure across two states and multiple cities.
They met on July 26, 2022, when Shepard attended the party as a plus-one of Hensler's former manager. They ex-changed social media handles and, after the party, Shepard and Hensler's message asking her to lunch.
"These days later, they met her their lunch date at Alonzo in Los Angeles. They were leaving a great time, and when Hensler married that Shepard's birthday was approaching, "I said I was going to the bathroom and so much more. I just got to take with a candle in it for him," she recalled.
"I melted when I saw it," Shepard said.
They both wanted to keep the date going, so Hensler surprised him again, suggesting that they take a spot-of-the-moment road trip to Los Vegas.
Although Shepard admitted later that he was more of a planner, he filled in the moment and said, "I love spontaneous." After the day, as Hensler's place, they hit the road.
That night in Las Vegas, they headed to the top of the Strat with plans to ride the X-Scrums roller coaster. But it was already started for the day. So instead, Hensler, being quite the romantic, pulled out his phone to play French jazz music," Hensler said. Under the stars, the two slow-shared and shaved their first kiss.
The next morning, neither of them wanted the adventure in end, Hensler suggested that, they drive to Laguna Beach,
Calif, for Shepard's birthday the next day on Aug. 2. So they headed out once again with a stop at Target to gather a few essentials.
When they arrived in Laguna Beach they coming, they checked into a room at Hotel Jangais, complete with a record player, which they used to play music by the Beach Boys on repeat.
They went down to the beach later that night. "I got candles at
the gas station when he wasn't looking," Hensler said. "I got there in the room and did this make a wish and jump in the sound at midnight."
Said Shepard: "She has the worst circulation and does not get in cold water. But she did it for me."
They made a final stop in San Diego before returning to Los Angeles and to return.
Their lengthy first date was no flake, the couple said. "Our ser-
sied date began the next day, Aug. 4, and started for three weeks," Hensler said.
And just two weeks after meeting, on Aug. 22, 2022, the two became official and said "I love you" for the first time.
After that, "Justice unofficially moved in pretty immediately," Hensler said. "We would not spend one or two nights apart per month." They now share a home in Los Angeles.
Hensler, 25, is a YouTuber and content creator, as well as a founder of Haga, a company that sells crafted assets to support several health. Born in Llanpore, Calif., the grow up in Bakerfield and San Diego.
Shepard, 28, formerly a underworn engineer, is also a content creator focused on product reviews and study tips for students. He holds a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Shepard was born in Aurora, Colo., and raised in San Jose, Calif.
On Dec. 2, 2024, while on the island of Kauai during a trip to nature, Hensler's birthday, Shepard proposed, Hensler had no idea a proposal was coming,
she said — that is, until the flight to Hawaii. "I looked over at him on the flight and saw his laptop open to an email titled 'Surprise Proposal'" Hensler said. But Shepard believed her when she said she hadn't seen a thing.
Although not a true surprise, Hensler said, the proposal was perfect: "Justice gave us a depth and romantic speech, which both of us could barely get through due to the crying, and he finally knocked down to ask if I would marry him." She didn't hesitate to answer.
The couple married on Aug. 22 at Laguna Beach City Hall. "It feels like it was the first time everything really began,"
Hensler said. Fractures were attended the ceremony, which was led by Cheryl Baldridge, a deputy city clerk, and was followed by dinner at the Mexican restaurant Javeras.
They spent the night at Hotel Jangais, where they stayed during their first trip. They planned to host a larger wedding celebration in Italy in September. "Travel has been a meaningful event for the new mission," Hensler said, "starting with our very first date." ANNY BUCK
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Helping Neurodivergent Brides from the Right Gown
Beth Clark transformed her salon into a calming, seronary-friendly space.
By ALIX STRAUSS
Beth Clark, an owner of Bridal Chateau, an all-inclusive bridal boutique designed for neurodivergent and sensory-sensitive brides, knows firsthand that the bridal shopping experience can be a visual overhaul.
"A bridal store is naturally going to contain every sensory trigger imaginable," Clark, 63, said. "There are bright lights, loud music, and mirrors are everywhere. There are roosties, gravestones and memories. There's cross-talking, all paired with dresses that are gilders! In and seriously triggering, That's overwhelming to someone who is neurodivergent or has sensory sensitivity."
Bridal Chateau, a third-generation, family-run business in Williamsville, N.Y., about a 39-minute drive from Buffalo, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Clark's expected grandmother started her meal to Clark's childhood home in Depew, N.Y., before moving to an abandoned carvache they renovated in 1976. By the early 1990s, it had doubled in size.
Clark's son, Grayson, 11, was the inspiration for the neurodivergent home and sensory-friendly overhaul; he was diagnosed with A.D.I.D. in 2022 and autism a year later.
Today the 6,500-square-foot store has been transformed into a calming space.
"Neonaher, a person who is a self-worthy, dairyic society, PTSD, O.C.D., sensory processing, instructor," she said. "Everything I've done to enhance the store is to make sure every bride feels experienced."
The interview was edited and condensed for clarity.
How did your recreation revolution start?
In 2010, Covid that as down for three months. That gave me time to pursue and saw how the business was operating. Our first big shift was offering all-inclusive sitting,
At her room, above and left, in Williamsville, N.Y., Beth Clark suffered the overhead lighting, lowered the music and removed plug-in fragrances.
across it. The response was extremely positive. Then it was, "What else can we do?" Because we carry 500 bridal dresses, three times more than most stores, I decided to focus only on the brides and suggest carrying mother of the bride, bridesomatic or prize options. Then we went from walk into us appointments only.
My son's diagnosis opened my eyes to a lot of things I thought I could change. He used to say, "I'm lucky in my brain." I thought maybe our brides fell the same.
What environmental changes have you made?
The main space is now wheelchair-accessible, and posters show brides of different
No need to feel overwhelmed as the big day draws some
sizes, colors and disabilities; we want everyone to see themselves getting married. I submitted the overhead lighting, lowered the music and removed plug-in fragrances.
The dressing rooms, which were originally next to each other, are now separate, as brides wouldn't be distracted. The three dressing rooms have adjustable lights and music and are painted in soft tones. One room has a removable mirror for people with body dysmorphia; one room is hands-up-accessible with bars and a walk-mounted bench. Our dressing rooms have curtains or doors that swing, so it's easier for people to open.
What is the goal when working with neurodivergent and sensory-sensitive brides?
To strip away as many options as possible, based on the feedback from the bride, so they don't get overreleased. If they do, they freeze, get stuck or shut down. This is supposed to be an enjoyable and fun experience.
What's your typical process?
Most brides look through our website, which is straightforward, with no friction points, as brides can find information easily. The next is succinct and is black and white to reduce visual overstimulation, with keywords like "neurodivergent friendly" or "we make accommodators." Our feedback is purposely easy to navigate, and brides can heart their favorite dresses, which are saved to their profile for us to see.
A stylist will call the bride to ask about their love story, dress inspiration and if there is anything we can accommodate during the appointment. We see "accommodators" and "sophomore" if given, when permission to ask for what they need. They might say, "I'm tactile-sensitizer," so we know not to bring dresses that are itchy.
How are all your dresses organized?
Our dresses are organized by prize point, which we've found most important in this economy. When they come in for their appearance, there's investment caution. We have to be more different choices at a time, which allows for a visual comparison and to know in an what the bride might want and
need without being overly intimidating. Our average is three months of three.
For the tactile- and sensory-sensitive, what kinds of dresses are most successful?
French attire is unconditionally by nature. There's stillness, heavy feeling, scratchy face, and rigid waistbands, which can be triggering and create nervous system overload.
Some brides want the feeling of a weighted blanket because that reduces anxiety and makes them feel grounded. Others find that squeezing sensation overstimulating. Mental video like creams and blushes with tango undertones in a classic, soft, one-piece dress. But ridicule, purported and uncoated, is the most common appearance, gentle sheet bars, like Chantilly, or stretched every because it's lightweight and moves with you. It's a lighter fit in the bodies with little or no feeling.
We also add pockets, a safety measure for putting your hands, a fidget toy or a squeeze ball inside that makes brides feel more comfortable.
Why are you so passionate about creating this specific environment?
Oster you are barriers, you cannot unsee them. I care those barriers be my son. I'm now recognizing how they happen in my business and with us. In blue. My business has never just been about the dresses. It's about "how do I make every bride feel more?" I work in love. I'm not asking a bride to fit into our world. I'm trying to create a world that's successful for them.
Why do you think sensory needs are becoming a bigger part of the bridal shopping conversation?
These sensitivities have always been there, but we didn't know it. Older generations were told not to complain and push through it. Working with Gus, it doesn't move self-awareness. They say what they need. They're also taking care of themselves more. They are normalizing the conversation. The wedding delivery is finally coming around to where we are: client-focused instead of being business-focused, and our client experience is not driving force.
WEDDINGS
Cait Bailey, Mario Carbone
From a Short-Notice Table to a Lifelong Connection
On May 3, 2000, Caitlin, for Bailey, was wragging up a work event with her friend, the actress and entrepreneur Skip Mitchell, in spoons Manhattan, who they discussed where to have dinner.
Mitchell suggested Carbone, a popular Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village. Bailey laughed, certain that a last-minute table would be impossible. But Mitchell had turned a friend, the know who worked there, so when they arrived, the business told them their "pans" was waiting in the back room, which confused Bailey.
Unbeknownst to her, the friend was Mario Jade Carbone Jr., an owner of Carbone, who was celebrating his friends' birthday and invited Mitchell and Bailey to join the table. Although similar Bailey nor Carbone was looking to date anyone, they consecrated immediately, talking and laughing for hours.
Days later, Bailey went to Nashville to celebrate her 20th birthday and received an unexpected call while she was there. It was Carbone, who wished her a happy birthday, having saved the date to his phone the night they met. He also wanted to help throw her a party in New York once she was back. Within 24 hours, they had organized her birthday party at Dirty French, his restaurant at the Calabar Hotel. "The entire night I sat in a corner with Mario and talked," Bailey said.
On June 15, Carbone invited Bailey to ZZ's Clam Run, one the Clam Run in Greenwich Village. Thinking it was casual, she brought her first friend, and it held the restaurant closest to the public and lit by candlelight. "I guess I was a little too-city in how I invited her," Carbone said.
Their first official date was on July 13, when Bailey invited Carbone to be her date at a French's meeting in Maryland. There, she introduced him to a traditional crab bean. "I've got another paper of crammed crabs and a hammer in front of me, with a suit so," Carbone recalled. "Even though I'm a child, I never ate crab like this before."
"He picked tiny crab meat with me for hours, and we thought it was the most hilarious thing," Bailey said. That weekend, he sent her entire family for the first time.
Bailey, 32, is an independent brand strategist based in Miami and New York, with a man in Los Angeles. She grew up in Baltimore and received a bachelor's degree in communications from Georgia Southern University.
Carbone, 45, is a managing partner at Major Food Group, a global restaurant and hospitality company. He grew up in Queens and earned a bachelor's degree in culinary arts from the Culinary Institute of America in Hope Park, N.Y.
In 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic virtually shut down the restaurant industry, his company decided that the best of the year went to establish a base in Miami, Carbone, a lifelong New Yorker, would be relocating for the first
time and knew it would be a big ask for Bailey. "We're going — I'll park an up now," Bailey recalled telling him. "That's just what we do as the partner to someone like we love and support it didn't make a difference where I was, as long as I was with him."
By Nov. 20, 2026, they had moved to Miami. They now live with their dog, Races, in Miami Beach.
On July 14, 2024, on their annual trip to Italy, Carbone proposed to Bailey with a year-shaped diamond ring at their Gilfoats house rental in Capri.
This month, on Aug. 14, the deputy clerk Jean St. Flour affiliated their civil legal ceremony at the Joseph Caleb Center in Miami.
They held their wedding celebrations at Santa Maria delle Sponime in Palermo, Sicily, on Aug. 1 before 120 guests. Bailey called down the aisle with her father, David Bailey, in Christian music played by a string quartet.
Punny Rich Wilkerson Jr. of Veno Church in Miami led the ceremony, and Filippo Testa, a friend of the couple's, gave an Italian blessing. Afterward, guests were driven to Villa Valparceno in Bagheria for a Italian reception. There, Carbone surprised guests with injury rigoured prepared by one of his clubs. "I put an apron on and served it to everyone," he said.
A live hand accompanied the family dancers, and then the guests did the steamship, a traditional Italian group dance that led them through the dancer room, Anderson, Peak, the songwriter, rapper and drummer, performed as D.J. Pee. Wee, followed by the Italian music duo Mind Enterprises and Tucker Halpern of the music duo Soft Talker, who played until exercise.
"We've lived so many years together as a couple, eight years now," Carbone said. "To have this weekend with all of our closest people there, celebrating us, felt like the first chapter of a new book we're going to embark on." 2025/6.4.02
Sydney Davis, Morgan DeBriecat
It Was Her First, and Last, Girlfriend
When Morgan Mary DeBriecat (left) received a rose on Hinge from Sydney Marie Davis in November 2021, it took her nearly two weeks to
respond, at the time, DeBriecat had just started swiping on women, so she was hesitant to reply. "I was a little nervous when I found out Mary and never dated a woman before and that I won her first," Davis said. "But being with her felt so natural, so I was willing to see it through."
The first date for the rose women, who were living in Austin, Texas, was completely unplanned. After chatting for two weeks on Hinge, Davis managed DeBriecat that she was thinking about calling out of work for the day because it was the first birthday of her older brother, Kellee, since his death in March 2021.
DeBriecat was working from home and invited Davis to come by if she didn't want to be alone. She was pleasantly surprised when Davis accepted the offer.
"I still remember how nervous I was walking down to meet her at the obsession," DeBriecat said. "I wasn't publicly out at that point, and Sydney was the first woman I had ever really talked to in this way, so there were a lot of emotions and nerves wrapped up in that moment. But the second I've got to person, all of that immediately disappeared. Despite everything she was carrying emotionally that day, she was incredibly warm, kind and easy to be around."
What DeBriecat thought would be as hour or two of keeping each other company stretched into an entire day and then well into the night.
"Looking back now, there was something really meaningful about the way our relationship started," DeBriecat said. "It wasn't both around some perfectly planned first date or grand gesture. It started with value-ability, comfort and simply being there for each other, which in many ways still defines our relationship today."
DeBriecat, 36, who grew up in Northville, Mich., is a senior creative director at the apparel company Miami's Chicago County Call. She earned a bachelor's degree in advertising from Michigan State University.
Davis, 31, grew up in Houston and holds a bachelor's degree in corporate communications from the University of Texas at Austin. She works remotely as a principal recruiter at Omni Analytics, which is based in San Francisco.
In June 2021, after dating for a year, DeBriecat and three women from a new apartment in Austin, a year later, DeBriecat accepted a job in Bozeman, there, where the couple have lived since August 2024.
In February 2022, DeBriecat proposed to Davis while celebrating Davis's 39th birthday at the Sage Lodge in Fray, Mich.
"One of the heavy things about our relations is to be that bad about her to be her girlfriend who, as from that point we'd become an ongoing joke between us about who would end up proposing first," DeBriecat said. "Even though we joked
about it constantly, I always knew I wanted to be the one to ask her."
During a trip to Austin in October 2023, Davis proposed to DeBriecat as a bridge overlooking the city, as a wedding photographer she hired supported the moment. Afterward, they headed to Nido for dinner, where their closest friends were waiting to celebrate.
"I knew I wanted to propose in Austin, the place where we first met in 2021," Davis said. "It felt especially meaningful to bring such an important moment back to where our story began."
The couple were married Aug. 8 at the One at Bay Harbor in Bay Harbor, Mich., by their friend Paris Dieringue, who was enlisted by American Marriage Ministries for the occasion.
They were surrounded by 10 family members and friends who shared a public view to support the couple through their journey. "Our wedding was the place where DeBriecat and more about creating a weekend that genuinely felt like us," DeBriecat said. "We wanted the entire celebration to feel warm, immersive and deeply personal to both our relationship and the people we love."
The wedding featured thoughtful touches throughout the ceremony and reception, from five performances by an electric buoyant and saxophonist to a half-hour fireworks display. The most personal details, though, was the handwritten under they prepared for each game, offering an individual note of gratitude to everyone who had come to celebrate with them.
With travel and adventure of the core of their relationship, the couple plan to move to Orange County at the end of August for work.
"California is a brand new chapter, and we know it will come with its own highs and lows," Davis said. "But if moving to Montana taught an anything, it's that as long as we're together, we'll make the most of every moment."
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In her surreal, cinematic exhibition "Rage", the Mexico City-based photographer Tania Franco Klein explores the psychic underworld of rage. She strips her scenes of individuality and context, and her female subjects, including herself, are dressed similarly, gazes as he is distant to being called as camera. "As an adult, my brain is hijacked by other gazes," she says. But appearing in the images was cathartic. "It was liberating and the development."
Footnotes: As American as a Giant Butter Sculpture
Beeswax candle making, butter cow sculptures, pig racing, coffeecake bake-offs, patriotic Mr. Potato Head assembly, husband-calling contests — with so many competitions on offer, is it any wonder Americans flock to fairs each year? The nation's first state fair was held in New York in 1841 to celebrate the region's agriculture products. As the idea spread, fairs added their own traditions, and things have changed over the years. Out: war stamps as admission tickets, locomotive crashes; in: e-sports, cannabis competitions. Here are a few things to listen to and watch about fairs.
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'Deep Fried Dynasty'
Just how many foods can benefit from a dip in the deep fryer? This series from A&E takes viewers to the Texas State Fair — the nation's largest, attracting two million people annually — where such innovations as fried Oreos, fried lobster and, natch, fried butter are for sale.
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'Meet Me at the Fair'
In this 2024 episode of "This American Life," producers meet attendees of the Iowa State Fair — a man determined to win a mounted shooting competition, a newbie food vendor and kids who present their pet rabbits — to learn about what the fair means to them.
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Contests at the State Fair'
In the 1910s the Minnesota State Fair held contests for the "best babies." This episode of the podcast "Minnesota Unraveled" explains how this was part of a movement to educate mothers about high infant mortality rates.
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'Let's All Go to the World's Fair'
That enduring symbol of fairs, the Ferris wheel, made its debut at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. This episode of the podcast "Stuff You Should Know" explores other inventions that emerged at these global exhibitions, from the telephone to the modern zipper.
MAUREEN DOWD
Natalie's Magnificent Obsession
WASHINGTON
I've spent my career watching officials maneuver and scheme in get closer to presidents. But I'd never seen anything like the photo of Natalie Harp dashing after President Trump's golf cart three years ago. I'd also never heard of a staffer jumping into the trunk of an A.V.T., in Harp did, when she was denied a seat in the motorcade.
The bit horror movie "Obsession," about a man who wishes for more adoration from a young woman, who falls under his spell and insalacally provides it, is playing out on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Like others, I winced when I first heard Senator Joe Ossoff, the Georgia Democrat, refer to how Trump liked to "cared with Natalie." Was he gratuitously turning a salacious spotlight onto a White House aisle?
But as it turns out, with three little words, Ossoff pulled a string and uncrowled something really dark and damaged as the innermost circle of Trump's White House.
The president's proclivity for surrounding himself with sycoplasms — and attractive young blunder — is well known.
But this is Trump disliked in his essence: rich leader and his most valed follower, narcissist and his most flattering mirror.
The daughter of a devoutly Christian real estate broker who died by suicide during the pandemic, Harp idolizes Trump with a rare fervor. As one of his social media facilitators, she is with him most of the day and often evenings, and she never takes a day off. The Timex's Maggie Haberman calls Harp the "binky" of the man-child president.
Harp is nicknamed — and refers to herself as — "the human primer" because she follows Trump around with a portable primer
This human primer runs — but not out of ink.
to provide him with paper copies of any positive stories or tweets, Haberman said foreign leaders also try to use Harp as a conduit to reach Trump.
As Haberman and Jonathan Swan reported in their blockbuster, "Regime Change," Trump told his staff that Harp was the only one who loved him as much as his wife and kids did. "She'll never leave me," he would tell other staffers.
Harp first came to his attention in 2019 when she spoke on Fox News about how Trump had helped save her life with the Right to Try Act, which she said had allowed her to get experimental treatment for bone cancer.
Before she began to work on Trump's restoration in 2021, Harp was an anchor at the far-right 16th and uproof the gospel that the election was stolen. This winner, she was the one who joined the following video depicting Trump as the king of the jungle and the Obamas as spies.
Ossoff impaled Trump with his Natalie Harp-son last weekend during a speech in Atlanta. After so many years of flailing around a trying trupor on how to get under Trump's skin, as he has grown over more destructive and unhinged, Democrats are not in the mood to follow Michelle Obama's dictum, "When they go low, we go high." They were happy to drag Natalie into the trap.
But it was the MAGA megaphone that did in Natalie. The White House was clearly ratified by the allusion to the close relationship between Trump and his 25-year-old, 1933/39's a year -social media helper. Melania even made a rare appearance to show the conjugal flag.
Harp made headlines earlier when the president chose her and a few other close aides to accompany him when he smoked into a catering truck and switched planes to fly back from Turkey to the District, after a threat of an Iranian assassination attack. Shechingly, Marco Rubio, Scott Bessent and the media were left on the other plane as decays.
The vitriolic MAGA response to Ossoff, the usual visible caricature of macho bullying, had a suspicious "dark protest too much" animal. The White House called Ossoff a "crispyworths, feminine theatre kid" and Trump needed him as free love therapy (showing that he has lost his touch for but effective nicknames).
After Kristen Meltzer, the White House correspondent, asked Ossoff's critique, the White House's creepy glistening, "Someday, your children will never have your disgusting and insinuating. I'm not sure if someone and endowment I can't do it. I parent be so callous and very good, I'm not troubling."
But the White House thing was the only Harps-asking party composed by The House, it would take take about half a emotional man — forgetting to call and getting hurt by others' critics.
"You are all that matters to me, I want to even be you down," Thane said, "I'm big city Guardian and Fettered to the Life."
She pleads, "We shouldn't have to talk about work all the time!" "and place to 'hear every conversation' be has.
Harp quotes "Pride and Propeller" to say that it would have been hard to lose her father if she had not had someone so "worthy" to turn to in Trump. "And, I will add," she signs off, "it is I who is unworthy."
It's a perfect relationship. She thinks he's amazing. And he agrees.
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NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Is Andy Beshear the Next Bill Clinton?
FRANKFORT, NY
It must be a little awkward to be Andy Beshear these calls, because just about every visitor looks him up and down with a suspicious against and wonders: Is this guy presidential material?
When I ask about with the Kentucky governor for a minor-nature of more than an hour in his office, I gauged his gray (lives without being crossings), chatted about the Kentucky furor-cropping scenes on the walls and penitence. Is this the next Bill Clinton? Or is he just another in the long stream of potential presidential candidates I've seen over the decades who appeal to everyone but actual voters?
While Beshear isn't so well known around the country, the one thing he is recognized for is warning elections. Not only is Beshear a Democrat in which issues have elected governor of Kentucky — a deep-wit state — but this year he also managed to have voters there give him the highest approval rating among Democratic governors.
For Democrats desperate to win back the White House in 2026 and repair the party's toxic image in swaths of forever country, Beshear is a thrilling reminder that it actually is possible for Democrats to win in states that aren't just people but give out. Beshear represents the same state as Senator which McConnell, but Beshear's approval rating from Kentucky voters is more than three times as high.
Is I dropped from Beshear to try to understand what he would be like as a presidential candidate in 2026 and what lessons he offers? Democrats for winning independent and worldwide class voters, I asked how he explained his success as a Democrat in a wet state that gave Donald Trump a nearly 30 percentage-point margin in 2024.
Focus on creating jobs and improving well-being, he said: 'Highly percent of my time I spend on things that matter to 500 percent of my people,' he added. 'If I bring a new factory into a community, it's not Democratic or Republican, it's good for everyone.'
'That's his first principle. His second, he said, is to speak plain English.'
'Could you imagine walking up in somebody and saying, 'I'm sorry you less your loved one to substance use disorder?'' he asked. 'They'd look back at you and say, 'I lost my kid in addiction.'
Of course, what Beshear is speaking into just English but politicians's English. He's disciplined in his messaging, reporters and predictable in avoiding third calls, which in some sense may make him a little boring to a journalist. Then again, after Trump maybe we all come a little discipline and could use an occasional skill day at the White House.
Beshear talks comfortably about God and faith (he is a church-drawn), and he avoids the condemnation that liberals sometimes direct toward working-class Americans. But he's more liberal than one might expect: he's not a Kentucky version of the Manchu but, rather, inhabits something like the end-life of the Democratic Party spectrum.
As governor, Beshear vetoed a 25-week abortion ban (the legislature overrode his veto), and has been a strong critic of Kentucky's nearly blanket carto on abortion. He vetoed Republican bills that would have had sweeping effects on transgender girls and boys, such as limiting bathroom access.
Lessons from a Democratic governor of a red state.
Beshear adhered the culture war by explaining his liberal positions on trans issues with conservative-sociating language.
'I believe all children are children of God,' he said, explaining his motivations for protecting trans youth. He added that after vetoing a major anti-train bill, 'I wan by the digital margin I ever have.'
Beshear had a huge advantage in Kentucky politics in that his father, Steve Beshear, was a popular two-term governor from 1987 to 2015. He was elected attorney general in 2015, and four years later can against an unpopular Republican governor and won by less than a percentage point. He has focused on bringing good jobs to Kentucky and solving practical problems, and even his critics agree that he's a good father and storyteller — although Republicans scoff that he has mostly claimed credit for what they insist are their economic income allotments.
My sense is that Beshear has genuinely proved achievements with his push for jobs. He comes across as a pragmatist who has
led a major effort to spur economic development while being deeply concerned with health outcomes. He has had a knack, as attorney general and then governor, for identifying issues that resonate with the public. There have included capital litigation, education and the testing of rape kits.
Education is an issue I am passionate about. While it's not clear how much credit Beshear should get for this, Kentucky is among the 10 best states in schools recovering from the pandemic in reading and math.
— an impressive record, considering how poorly they are funded. (Beshear has pushed successfully to raise teacher pay from abysmal levels, improve job training programs and introduce good for all.) On the basis of the Urban Institute's analysis of test scores adjusted for demographics such as poverty, Kentucky family graders are better at reading than those in California or New York.
Beshear says he won't decide on a presidential run until sometime after the November elections, but he already comes across as a candidate. He has a book cutting out next month, 'Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Bodese Country.' And as the chair of the Democratic Governors Association, he is meeting national donors and making what comes from.
He can give a good, roaring speech, and
he satisfies a Democratic audience with plenty of red ones; he does not shy away from thundering against Trump. When the Rev. Al Sharpton invited potential Democratic candidates to New York to April to speak to a largely Black audience convened by his civil rights group, Beshear stood out. 'I must stop saying that's voters will be crucial to the Democratic primaries, so Beshear could have an advantage there and in the fact that the party has decided that its first 2026 primary will be to South Carolina.
'If there was one that was an eyebrow raiser, it was Beshear.' Sharpton said afterward, his weakened about whether Beshear might be able to repeat the 1952 magic of Clinton, another Southern governor.
March.
I found Beshear intelligent, well spoken, integrated and, perhaps most important for Democrats who are not. I think the very thoughtful about how to win back working-class voters without sacrificing core values. He has no known involvement in the race, but to my eye, he possesses a certain magnetism, without quite the doubt of Clinton or the obvious intellect of Barack Obama.
Some Democrats want a progressive presidential nominee who will appeal to the base and, to they say, increase voter turnout. I'm very skeptical of that approach. I want a nominee who can appeal to working-class voters in the handful of voting states that matter to a general election.
As I think about who could win the hearts of North Caroliniana, Conspirae and Pennsylvania, Beshear would be high on my list. So would because Joe Goodf of Georgia, although it may be easier for a legislator than a senator to run against Washington and the states quo.
Yet people have said similar things about many other politicians only dately remembered. Howard Dunn led the path early in the race for the Democratic nomination in 2004, and there was a time when John Edwards was the next Clinton. Beshear is popular in a small state, but none of us have any idea how he would do an emotional stage. He has little background in foreign affairs, and its our conversation he was weakest when I asked him about the Middle East and arms sales to Israel; his answer was current hat nearby.
If he runs for president, progressive Democratic primary voters may be skeptical of a little-quoting transaction. I asked him about some of his conservative positions: How could he succeed in Democratic primaries, I asked, given that he has said he supports capital punishment in theory (without actually executing anyone) and has described himself as a 'strong governor' of the Second Amendment and an opponent of an assault weapons ban, saying it would not be 'right for Kentucky'.
Beshear pushed math, noting that he has advocated a red flag law to remove guns from people who may be a danger to themselves or others. 'And let me tell you,' he added, 'to stand up for a red flag law in Kentucky takes extra courage than to be for an assault—the ban in California.' He's probably right about that.
Is he the most Clinton? I don't know. But Beshear projects both passion and compassion, and he has — as far — been able to reach working-class voters. Count me impressed.
JAMELLE BOUIE
Trump's Lust for Vengeance Is Turning Into a Face
The principal aim of President Trump's not-out term is revenge.
Trump is concerned by this hint for revenge. It defined the first moments of his second term. Revenge against the sales and off-shore of the second Trump's worst impulses. Revenge against the bureaucrats and 'drop-start' agents who challenged his lawbreakers. Revenge against the prosecutors who pursued more against him and against the state. The case is that force. Revenge against the few Republicans who voted for his impeachment and conviction and against those who abandoned him after Jan. 8. Last, too, revenge against the American people, for reporting him in 2020 and dealing a grievous blow to his ego.
Revenge shapes the president's priorities, drives his actions and structures for decisions of his government. Nowhere is this mere approach than when Trump turns the weight of the federal government against those Americans who defy his will.
Take Edmar Armande -Abrego Garcia. He was supposed to disappear — unlawfully shipped in a foreign designee and left to bargain in part of the administration's draconic on dependable program. But with the help of the government and lawmakers, Abrego Garcia fought back.
Not only did he successfully challenge his removal and capture, but he also won a unanimous decision from the Supreme Court. He was forced to be federal government to facilitate his return to the United States. Soon after, the Department of Justice announced his conclusion, and he was imprisoned, again. He fought this, too. In 1962, a judge dismissed the criminal case against him.
The Aids-like insanity of the White House is its pursuit of Abrego Garcia might make nearly 80% of the criminal mastermans. He wasn't. He was just an ordinary person, a working member of his community who happened to be an easy target for the president's deportation machine.
He was supposed to be an example — a
warning to immigrants, legal or otherwise, to move the country or suffer the consequences. By challenging the administration and winning in court, Abrego Garcia threatened the president's program. He stood as a symbol of defiance to the face of Trump's despotic abuse of power. That is why the Trump administration wouldn't let up. Trump tried to crush Abrego Garcia, and when he couldn't, he made it the priority of his government to position him for his comrades. This was less policymaking than obsession.
Abrego Garcia is not alone. Trump has also been pursuing a vendetta against David Hearn, a former Olympic canteen. Hears he was accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Peel at the Lincoln Memorial, which is in a state of disrepair in the wake of the president's attempted renovations.
Unable to take responsibility for his own mistakes and failures, Trump blamed un-
Revenge shapes the president's priorities and drives his actions.
named subalterns and appears to have ordered the Department of Justice to press charge against others. Don't worry, when we accused of pulling off a piece of the pod's liner, the non-affirmability of a penalty on a state of vandalism charge and arrested.
But there was no evidence. Hears had done anything wrong. He was not the problems of the post were the product of poor work and quality control. Even the Department of Justice was forced to admit that the damage was the result of a 'flamed installation.' The U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., Jimmie Price,
dropped the charges. Trump was furious.
Trump is hardly the first person to abuse the law enforcement powers of the federal government to pursue narrow interests and party grievances. The story of the Trump administration is, in always, one of continuity with the worst parts of our past. And yet that continuity exists alongside novelty. Trump does not see himself as a man in possession of an office, heading a government, as much as he sees himself as a figure. And then, the man is an extension of his person. He is the king, and it is one of his two bodies.
There is no observable national interest at work in the crusades against Abrego Garcia or Hearn. There are personal examples, shaped entirely by Trump's grievances, his desire for revenge, his available need to soothe his own psychic wounds.
There are, to be sure, true believers within this administration, but the man at the top has no such ambitions. He is there only for himself. The principal aim of his government at he sees it is to create a new, more temperate quest to never lose face and to pursue vengeance against anyone who might undermine his sense of self.
Hears Trump's failed war against Iran — a military failure to maintain its strategic function. There is no apparent plan to end the conflict, only the little off-shore of a president desperate to shed the trench of defeat. That is what the false negotiations and entities into the action are not to be the only one and the war without having met it. Those with honor, this time as something closer to him's good image, is the only thing designed to there is no way out. What if Trump is truly much, caught in a trap of law even nothing!
With the terrible power of the United States at his fingertips, it is frightening to concern you, who do not know what the law will sense of self. He has already tried to wreck the country in pursuit of revenge against all those who challenge his ego and authority. There's no reason to think that he won't try to wreck the world in pursuit of the same.
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Keep Your Eye on ICE
David Wallace-Wells
A writer for Opinion and The Times Magazine and the author of "The Confrontation Earth"
THE resistance looked immediately victorious and insinuous. Last, January, being a kind of sermons by federal agents, the liberal column of this enquiry would their ground. They forced confrontation after confrontation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officers, eventually rousing them from the city and bringing the mass deportation project of the president's second term to what looked like a humiliating end.
The response was heret, especially given the purposeful brutality of the campaign, called Operation Motor Surge, which resulted in the killing of two American citizens — and perhaps even more, as, given everything we have since learned about the full scale of the surveillance and counterintelligence, the United States agents were rousing, in real time, against those organizing to vicious them.
The problem is, ICE didn't really disappear when Operation Motor Surge ended in February, and the project of their deportation wasn't shelved when the Border Patrol died. Long periods, retired and the Department of Homeland Security secretary Erin Noren, was later replaced by Markwayne Muller. In the summer hayold (nashah) Immigration enforcement began in current agony, this time a bit more carefully designed to maximize seizures and deportation rather than blood-and-rod spectacle.
By the numbers, the new strategy has worked. ICE arrives hit a new high in July. Deportation are on track to be higher this fiscal year than last one, and restores of people seized inside the country could easily reach new highs. Adaptive charters, as a Florida detention facility was known, closed in June, but the number of immigrants held in detention by ICE has growing. 75 percent since President Trump returned to office in 2015. In 2016, ICE's operations and support budget was under $10 billion. In 2025, Mr. Trump's signature policy legislation helped allocate more than $70 billion in additional funding to the agency, including 650 billion to expand American capacity. ICE is now the country's best-bodied law enforcement agency. "We have never seen the detention system anywhere near this scale or else," said Aaron Reichlin-Michick of the American Immigration Council. "Just it's really crucial to understand that this is a decade-plus-long operation as they are planning it."
The midterms and the next presidential election are obvious squad-hongs for those plans, given how much the ICE budget has balanced under Mr. Trump and how much political capital would be required to extend that funding. But in terms of actions, the damage done this summer swells beyond what was done in any single month leading up to Minneapolis. And yet despite the horrifying scale, the mass deportation project has generated much less public outrage in the second year of Mr. Trump's second term,
with liberals notching Minneapolis as an incredible victory before turning their attention elsewhere.
When a Maine resident was shot and killed by an ICE officer in July, allegations of the officer's violent past briefly became a minor national news story, then failed into background notes. There was perhaps even less attention paid to a killing in Houston last month, when ICE officers shot a man driving a construction van on his way to a work site. This year a federal judge reviewing "officers' claims of being attached to drivers in Chicago wrote that it was 'difficult, if not impossible' to believe their stance that vehicular confrontation with promoters had been defensive maneuvers. Since the start of Mr. Trump's second term, at least 10 people have been killed in immigration operations, and dozens more have died in immigration detention.
By February, Mr. Trump's approval on immigration fell 12 percentage points below his peak early in his second term, but it now sits comfortably above his overall approval rating, and his retains the support of a large majority of Republicans on the issue. We don't see Democrats searching in response to deportation hearings much anymore, and we don't even see them spending much time emphasizing the cruel excesses of Mr. Trump's border and immigration policies on the campaign itself, either.
This is politics, of course, at least in part. But in the winter, it might have seemed that mass deportation was turning immigration into an issue Democratic might exploit to their advantage, with backlash powering what appeared to be a distance for ICE and Customs and Border Protection and growing sympathy for immigrants. In fact, those survey numbers have fallen back over the past year, with American support for immigration lower now than it was at a peak in 2025. And the issue has also collapsed in an lemon issue Metro Surge, particularly if you measure it in headlines, rather news arguments and social media myths.
In part, the country has grown less outraged because the Department of Homeland Security has become a垄断stone in approach, jettisoning the shock-and-susceptibility swoops and instead targeting those who have to find — at least in part, seemingly, by going after those who had been complying with immigration policies to ways that made them easily traceable by federal authorities. There's been less emphasis on intimidation of recalcitrant communities and more emphasis on quickly finding and arresting those who have to be denied and depart. It appears less focused on making ICE scale work fairly and, to judge by the relative paucity of citizen documentation, more effective in tracking and supporting enclosures, information have gotten faster and more targeted.
In always, the enduring laws of attentional chaos in the Trump era also play a role. Deportation outrage goes way on worry over the loss war, among other fights and scandals. But I think normalization is coming from the other directions, too, with liberal complacency setting in as the latter shuts round up—aok through Trumpland.
One aspect of the rifle shift against Mr. Trump and Trumpism is that even those most outraged about the president and his path of destruction might now see a light of the end of the issues. Is the form of dismal approval ratings and the coming midterms and then 2026. For a decade, Mr. Trump has been unmistakably the main character in American politics, dictating national atten-
photo by Michael W. McCann
The White House deportation machine has only ramped up.
tion even when out of power. But over the past few months that, too, has changed, with tensions in the Democratic Party and in courts for future leadership becoming more central preoccupations and the full elections drawing our attention forward in ways that can serve to minimize the damage of the recent past, almost like a camera obscura casting a miniature image, inverted, against an opposite wall.
Of course, the damage has been absolutely immense — to health care and SFAH; to pollution standards and basic expectations of public integrity. In America's standing in the world and its role in global energy markets (not to mention its mainstay stockpile), to scientific research and public health. And not least, on the border, where a large-scale deportation program is, even though unfolding somewhat officious, producing humanitarian outrages that used to pull liberal America's attention into focus.
ICE is planning to buy electrocheck gloves and with the promise that the jobs will not have any marks. The Department of Homeland Security is departing Mexican nationals to Honduras and Guatemala, even though their native country is perfectly willing to accept them, and will be sending more than 1,000 others to countries in Africa, including countries the State Department considers unsafe, for what seem to be punitive reasons. In August, Marcam Tabmaade, an Iranian professor of psychology
and statistics in Los Angeles, published an open letter in The Nation documenting her experience in a detention center in Texas. When she has spent more than 120 days with her 16-year-old son, separated from her husband, Ali there were legal permanent residents.
In April, months after the initial deportation surge had subsided, Ms. Tabmaade got a text from her son that his father hadn't arrived to pick him up from school. Eventually she discovered that her husband was being held at an ICE facility in downtown Los Angeles, and he told her he'll have assured that, whatever humanistic larger, let's gather about the state to further worked with the Iranian hostage states before he was born — she said that one were sick. The next day, as she prepared to drive her son to school, their car was surrounded by Department of Homeland Security officers, and the two were handicided and sent from Los Angeles to Texas, where they've been detained since. "This is bloodline punishment," she wrote, neither she nor her husband has so much as a traffic ticket. "I will end on first. If this could happen to us, a law-abiding family of two professors and a young boy, it can happen to anyone."
Saxon like these were available in endless media year ago, sending the telecasting almost by the day. The sentiment hasn't grown less true in the meantime, however irregularly we may be checking it.
This Is How You End Up With $20 Burritos
Justin Watters
A tortoises of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan
A BURRITO shouldn't cost $20. That observation from a college student was picked up in early August by a 6-year conservative activist, who are off a fortunes in the MAGALHOPS. Some told the buyer to seek it up and make sensitive choices, while others warned that the U.S. wasn't addressing owner's concerns about affordability. And that Republicans might pay for it in the midterm elections.
Beneath the guarantee, though, is a genuinely convincing economic puzzle. An astonishing 10 percent of Americans in a recent election just outlasted the affordability crisis. But is there? The Consumer Press leader insists a giant basket-filled with all of the goods and services that cover Americans from — a basket that includes groceries, boats, cars, rent, gasoline, lubricals, Netflix and yes, burritos. Dividing your paycheck by the cost of this basket tells you how many such baskets you can afford.
By most measures, most Americans can afford more than they could a few years ago. Their inflation-adjusted wages have ar-
cressed (although wages have yet to catch up to the record) less-related surge in energy prices). Which brings us to the psychic Americans are convinced they're not through an affordability crisis. So who's more on the mark — the economic statistics or the student who set off the MAGALHURTO chart?
My first instinct as an economist is to trust the state. But using statistics to patiently explain to people that their feelings are wrong rarely works, Believe me, I've tried. There's a different way to understand what people mean when they talk about affordability, which is more about the psychology of inflation than the economics.
Let's consider my story. My university employer gave me a modest raise this year. Naturally, I believed that I shone out this as a just reward for the fact I had consummated extra hard. It felt good to be rewarded. Then prices rose, and inflation ate away my good. That felt different. Like theft. I felt that I had craved that extra purchasing power. Now some dark, impersonal force had taken it from me.
Of course, the economist part of my brain knows what really happened. My employer gradually gave me a sense of living adjustment, leaving my real income roughly unchanged. Economically, this was a work. Psychologically, I experienced it as a play in two acts: first a career triumph, then the painful theft of most of my hard-men case.
The key economic variable causing this past wasn't how much itself I could afford that had hardly changed. My career caused by inflation. That's why talk of an affordability crisis is better understood as being about the psychological hangover from rising prices.
I'm not alone. We all have our own societal models about how inflation works, and those models are quite different from those in our economics textbooks. Smirters, Stumchers of Harvard has run large-scale surveys asking Americans about their experience with inflation. A commonly stated fear is that inflation will create financial hardship. People often worry about affording housing or food.
These responses conflict with economic theory and experience. After bursts of inflation, wages and prices tend to rise roughly in tandem — at least on average. Some-
Affordability fears may be due to the psychology of inflation more than economics.
times, wages move first; other times, prices do. But pretty quickly, they tend to move one for one. The empirical evidence is clear. The amount of staff you can afford is generally not determined by inflation to any meaningful degree. If you output with for a higher price, you're worth more in dollar terms to your employer. If you don't get a raise, a September might offer you a higher wage. In due course, the amount of staff you can afford is centered.
That's classic economics — but many Americans aren't buying it. They are their wages as determined by their houses, rather than market forces, and hence don't like to raise wages, despite price increases. Under that model, inflation really would destroy affordability. Prices rise, wages don't adjust, and your paycheck bears less. That's how anxiety about inflation (translates to concerns about affordability).
How statistics a obvious to people: lower prices. President Trump won the 2016 election after promising to "immediately bring prices down, starting on Day 1."
He did not. That's what the burrito discovers. And at least. The burrito-breatuba indicates that people on the right are finally seeing through Mr. Trump's later promises.
In 2024 he read the public mood accurately, even as he got the economics wrong. Meaning inflation is costly, but reducing prices is even more costly. And for what? Lower prices would probably bring lower wages, leaving affordability unchanged.
The burrito discussion is helpful because it makes sense economy to something you can get your hand around and taste. You can see the education bid wrapper, subject to a 50 percent tariff. You can taste the Mexican tomatoes, carrying their own 17 percent tariff.
We might be chewing on Aussie beef, which has been tariffed, untarified, threatened with another tariff and then exempted. The information for our past come tariff-free from Mexico because of a U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement exemption, and those exemptions appear to be at risk. The cheese and sour cream come from American farms, which are struggling with worker shortages after Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, and I would pass on the letters until food safety is improved.
No wonder people aren't happy about the price.
J. W. W.
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OPINION
Why Are Colleges Giving Financial Aid to Rich Kids?
Angel B. Pérez
The author of "The Perfect Seat: in Campus: A Roadmap for Watercry Leadership in College Admission."
MELIANS of students will soon arrive on college campuses, full of enrichment and repudiation ahead what's to come. Some will bring a special gift: a great, known as merit aid. That's different from the financial aid that goes to students who can't afford the sticker price. Merit aid is as often a signing bonus, a cash incentive to attract the most desirable students.
So who comes in desirable? There is no more work originally intended for students with exceptional academic achievement, people who could contribute to the college environment and who have many admissions offers to choose from. Today, however, colleges and universities are increasingly using these grants for a very different purpose: to save wealthy students, then save who need the money least. And these institutions are drawing the merit aid from their limited financial aid budgets, leaving less money for students who need it most.
Two recent analyses — from the Brookings Institution and the organization I lead, the National Association for College Admission Committee — show that in the past 20 years this trend has accelerated, while more than 20 years has been lost. Money that could be used to expand educational opportunity is increasingly being used to further entrench financial privilege.
As a former date of attendance, I know this strategy well. For years, I awarded millions of dollars to wealthy students. I didn't do it because I used less about low- and middle-income students, but because of the brutal math of modern higher education in the United States.
Consider two students applying to a college that costs $80,000 a year. One comes from a high-income country and receives a $20,000 merit scholarship. If the student excels, the institution sees $80,000. The other student is from a low-income family and needs $70,000 in aid to enroll, leaving the institution with only $30,000 in revenue. Which student do you think I incentivize?
As I start on that might seem, merit aid is just a symptom of a higher problem: While other nations are receiving aggressively in higher education, the United States may not it. Our colleges and universities, long recog-
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nized as a hallmark of our excellence, have been steadily defended over recent decades.
The Pell-Grant — our nation's best tool for supporting low-income college-based students — is facing an $11.5 billion shortfall. Federal and state funding has been gated. Millions of research dollars that once flowed into institutions have been slashed, as have loans for graduate school tuition. Colleges are facing a shrinking pipeline of high
school seniors, and shifting federal policies are making it more difficult to enroll international students.
This July, the Department of International Security announced that international students can study in America for only four years. That will make it harder for U.S. colleges to attract them — a loss for many reasons, including the fact that international students typically pay full fees to study here. That revenue has helped keep our institu-
Offering merit-based grants ensures universities can keep the lights on.
tions afloat and subsidized the cost for American students.
Now many colleges are scrambling to keep the lights on. Using merit aid to attract students who can pay at least a significant part of the sticker price is one way these colleges do so much another year.
To be clear, colleges have not been innocent bystanders in their decline. With the cost of attendance at some institutions now approaching or even surpassing $500,000 a year, they are a brutal malpractice later and trust in higher education. Raising prices and using opaque discounting strategies won't bring students in the door. To survive, American higher education must demonstrate it as willing to reinvent itself, not simply defend the same broken system.
We should all want it to succeed. Higher education is one of the most powerful engines of economic mobility. Research shows that the price sheet enrollment, students who attended college generated an estimated $73.4 billion in additional annual earnings per year, including annual cash valuations. The fewer people we educate, the fewer workers we have in high-paying sectors — a risk we cannot afford as we face a declining fortitude that threatens labor shortages. High wages lead to more tax revenue.
So this should be a priority for voters and lawmakers. It should also be a priority for the millions of Americans who once relied on financial aid to attend college. For too many — more and more each year — turn away when their alma miners ask them to help the next generation. Donations alone won't solve the problem, but if higher education opened doors for you, stop looking the other way to do it.
Back in my admissions director days, when people objected to the use of merit aid, I often responded with a simple truth: We need the money. It was unavoidable. Yet that didn't make it right. Bidding ways for wealthy students are inherently distasteful. It is healthier system, they would be unnecessary to fight the problem.
If we are so fond a way out of this cynical cab idea, America has to make a choice. We can continue starving higher education and accept a future where opportunity belongs to those who can afford it. Or we can reorient it to public investment and philanthropy, to building institutions that are within reach for the average American and to the belief that it's taken and rewardy, not family income, that should lead young people to opportunity.
Cuba Is Out of Time
Michael J. Bustamante
A professor of Cuban and Cuban American studies at the University of Miami and the author of Cuban Memory (from Retrospective Refuse in Revolution in 2006).
CUBANS are seasoned, involuntary experts at waiting — for the day's broad nation, for ever-needed hours, for trips to learn home. Since the pandemic threw the island into a deep crisis and especially since the Trump administration instituted a job but not blockade of Cuba in January, that daily exercise has become a slow suffocation.
Now Cubans wait for everything. They wait for improved food and even the country medicines used by citizens abroad. They wait for electricity that returns for only an hour or two each day or for a double hour on the oppressive summer than that might allow their children a couple of hours of sleep.
Most of all, Cubans wait for signs that Washington or their own government will land on a way out of their current insurrection — that they might finally live in a normal country, no longer trapped by decades of authoritarian politics, economic mismanagement, U.S. sanctions and an extended Cold War Regardless of whether the island is heading toward a true political breaking point, an amount of jury-rugged power supplies or what President Miguel Díaz-Caná calls 'creative resistance' can hold that Cuba's people are being pushed to the limits of what they can endure.
The uncertainty has driven different players to make their hopes as a couple of possible futures: the fall of Cuba's Communist regime, a negotiated U.S. budget transition to democracy or military action leading to a total of U.S. government in the style, most recently, of Venezuela, But the island's policy one is that the waiting will continue — an extended statewide with ordinary Cubans paying the price.
Some, particularly in the Cuban diaspora, are expecting Cuba's equivalent of Eastern Europe in 1989, when Communist regimes fell across the region. Rosa Maria Peja, the exiled daughter of the state pre-democracy activist Osmolo Peja, has admitted the Cuban government that the U.S. government must bear time: 'Accordingly, though with negligible coordination with Cubans on the island, Cuban American community leaders have doused off, updated or drafted new plans for a democratic round that is.'
For much of this spring, however, it was not clear that 1989 was the interest of people for Trump administration had to mind, to direct communication, with 3kpl. Canary grandson and members of Cuba's security establishment, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the C.A. director, John Randolph, signaled their oppressive to being some of the island's Communist authorities may in power, provided that the U.S. government has control over the economy, release political prisoners and eliminate security into its U.S. adversaries.
Since May, though, the possibility of such a deal has receded. As Cuba has refused to
accept Washington's demands for significant leadership change, the U.S. government has depleted secondary sanctions that have forced many foreign companies to withdraw from the island. Neither an economic liberalization package announced in June nor the July release of the country's highest-profile political prisoner, the artist Luis Manuel Otero Alzánaro, has compelled the administration to hedge.
This segment has reinforced suspicions that the Trump administration intended to inflict economic hardship all along — not to induce concessions but to create the conditions for widespread social unrest.
Summer has often been Cuba's cause of political agitation. from the 1994 Mancoman and Cuba's post-Soviet economic depression to the nationwide marches on July 11, 2021, at the depth of the pandemic. Recent energy grid collapses have brought fresh signs of public anger. Neighborhood cancellations — local pet-hanging sessions — and street blockades made of burning coats are almost nightly occurrences. A slide lead-
Broad rations, endless blackouts. How much more can this island endure?
versenly shows during a televised government funding revealed officials are concerned about an 'establish social,' or a social explosion.
Yet growing instability does not another 1989 state. The collapse of Communist rule as most of Eastern Europe depended on only on popular discontent but also on divisions within the ruling elite and opposition with significant popular bases. So far, Cuba's coercive apparatus remains intact, the threat of repression has weakened any key positions in reach, and mass emigration continues to substitute for mass mobilization, with no many as two million Cubans born in the island since 2020. The effective closure of the U.S. border in Cuban entries since 2023 has simply redirected hundreds of thousands of migrants to other destinations. If another hardship does not automatically pervind region collapse, it might be tempting to conclude that change can come only from without. For weeks the Trump administration has been dropping their of coming military action by framing Cuba as a
national security threat, citing Harvard's intelligence too to China and Russia, its purported acquisition of drawn from Iran and its alleged role in what the State Department calls hemispheric 'subversion' past and present. The May indictment of Mr. Castro, charging him with involvement in the 1996 shooting down of two Cuban American civilians aircraft, also provides a protest for some kind of Markov-style law enforcement correction.
Any American intervention, though, would call to mind a different historical parallel: 1890, the beginning of a four-year U.S. military occupation that led to the birth of a Cuban republic subservient to U.S. economic and political interests.
Five observers seriously expect another full American occupation of Cuba. But history need not repeat itself as friendly to represent the most imperial refrains of old. President Trump has publicly floated a 'friendly takeover' of the island. By forcing the end of major hotel operators and other Cuban state partners, the administration's secretaries have been devastated Cuban assets and potentially cleared the dock for acquisitions by U.S. companies at bargain basement prices.
Meanwhile, Mr. Castro's grandson, who holds the first female state help position in Cuba, has effectively declared Cuba open for business and expressed his eagerness to negotiate directly with Mr. Trump. Embracing a Castro family member as Cuba's analogue in thirty third years, Venezuela's interim leader, may prove unacceptable to many in the White House's net least Mr. Rubio. But Venezuela's example offers a sobering provident. Military action in Cuba may not guarantee democracy to reach as a new order in which the secretary of state operates as an executive's agent, anything with a close circle to hand out the spoils.
For one, all these scenarios seem more imaginary than imminent. Even almost other foreign children, Cuban officials have been in the same position as the Washington's bidding. Nor has the government in Havana been offered a consistent offwing. Meeting Washington's demands would amount to no-producing the regime's own demise.
The U.S. government is considering in also constrained. Despite recent reports of a new Cuba task force at the C.A., military escalation risks redressing the United States in an even greater national reconstruction project that in Venezuela is a moment when the administration is again consumed by the conflict in Iran. The domestic political costs of a new entanglement in Cuba could also weigh heavily ahead of this fall in the U.S.
That heavy-belt-sides lacked in a pattern of tiny cabins, a push and pull, in which each looks for the other to make a truly consequential association first. But there is not an opportunity to make such a pattern indefinitely postpone meals, medical procedures or more consequential decisions about their personal and political futures.
Governments can afford to keep playing the waiting game. Ordinary Cubans cannot.
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OPINION
The Heroine's Journey Is a Dead End
Susan Faisali
A journalist and the author of 'Backlash: The Underland War Against American Women.'
AM0760 the many afflictions distorting our current politics, one has gone unrecognized. Verve in the midst of a intra-nare struggle over which gender grew to save the hero's journey; that ancient story formulation in which the hero leaves home, faces monsters and temptations and returns to reclaim his kingdom and his woman from an open, in modern times, the question of whether the hero must be male has been commuted and recontented.
The fight is about more than a story. We head over certain foundational myths because whoever owns the myth owns the culture.
It's hard to get more foundational than Homer. Sitting to my local wide-screen Cinemark, mid-slag through Christopher Nabari's 'The Odyssey,' a film that hardly veers from the highest timeliness, man-on-a-quest: Homeric temptation, I was struck by an odd sensation, Hade! I already seen this movie, but in a different palette?
Indeed I had, in the same theater on another July day three years ago. That version featured a female protagonist who journeys by car, boat, spaceship, bicycle, snowmobile and Rollerblades to a foreign land fraught with perils, like shades a bottle of male suits who want to lack her in a box before returning to her pastel principally to find it besinged by boisterous love. Both 'Barbie' and 'The Odyssey' feature a beach battle with Bodhis of beevayttual landing ships and an equine theme, though the heres figure stranded on Bori's beach is fashioned of pink plastic sand. But while the boys of 'Barbie' are breeding, the girls regals the kingdom, constantly is restored.
In a topdogter's eye, Gretta Gerwig's 'Barbie' and Mr. Nabari's 'Odyssey' are the same objects with different shapes. The difference being that hers is suffused in Crayola bars, has set and ground more on opening weekend. (Mr. Gerwig and Mr. Nolan seem star-creased rivals — Barbenheimer, anyone?) The movies themselves are hardly serious enough to serve as philosophical antagonists. Yet as major cultural architects only three years apart, they Bland sure a serious shift in our society, going far beyond Hollywood. The showdown over the hero's narrative is corroding our political and public life, and disfiguring our governments.
Our government — all the way to the top. President Trump seems to see himself embarked on a Homeric quest. Tossed from his rightful throes in 2021, he fought his way back and is now revealing vengeance on the infidels who betrayed him. It's a quest with a modern twist: His rival as he sought to recover the crows was a woman. The patriarch beat her in part by pressing on the campaign trail that he would 'protect' women, before continuing his decimation of their welfare once he won. Since Inauguration Day, his administration has been hellbent on reversing women's fortunes at every level.
For a short while — with the 2017 Women's March, 4-M/5m and outrage over the Supreme Court's Dobie decision — it looked as though women had seized the hero's mantle; they were going too-to-toe with adversaries from a grab-ten-by-the-paste, to a picipit studio head to a Supreme Court injustice. In the beauty moment of first Summer (before Kamala's Fall), it seemed as if the heroine's journey might even end in victory. Until the revanche. 'The cavalry has arrived,' Eian Mank proclaimed on Election Day 2024. 'Men are voting in record numbers.' (Well, actually not.) How did everything change so suddenly? Or, in quote Barbie: 'This is Barbeland! The Barbies worked hard and dreamed hard to make it everything that it is. You can't just undo it in a day.' Or yeah?
The hero's struggle resonates as universally because we're all up against monsters of one sort or another. The monosynth promises to turn our mundane muddles into noble queens. That's what's at stake in the mitigate shift between 'Barbie' in 2023 and the later 2026 he-man travelogue: Which surgery is owe that ennobling elixir? The battle is not to be found within the films themselves — which characters win or lose — but between comparing claims to the archery/pastory. The fight has been re-conditioned. It's no longer Mesotian fighting Paris for the possession of Hiden — it's Mesotian versus Hiden. Or Odysseus versus Barbie.
Or Pete Hegseth versus Lina Franchetti. Numbers is the administration's war on women more evident than in the military itself. Admiral Franchetti, the chief of naval operations, was one of the early high-profile female casualties of Mr. Trump's new Departemen of Chhatavrejan War. Women in the military are being punished systematically: their promotions denied, combat capabilities impugned, achievements scrubbed from official websites, the long-standing indomitable to integrate women into the military shut down and the ceremony to honor their fallen canceled. The most dramatic paques have come at the top, to women who've already completed their best in the war, who've left home, gone abroad, fought their battles and returned to claim their laurels and rightful posts. Only to be met by Secretary of Defense Hegseth's Antitmen.
Between 2008 and 2016, the number of female generals and admirals doubled. Now, thanks largely to Mr. Hegseth, the masterly decorated (mostly with tattoos) Army National Guard major and former TV host James A. McNally, there are no four-star female officers on active duty in any branch, and no female candidates on the roster of likely four or three-star appointments. (He's also turned his sights on troops who are in the U.S. management.) A New York Times analysis this month found that women's nominations to high-ranking posts in the military are at their lowest level in a quarter century. This year, for the first time
in a decade, there will be no women nominated to be admirals. (Evidently, women can still aspire to healthier posts like captain or major — women's nominations to lower-level ranks rose in the past year.) Who are these veteran female officers relieved of their commands by the 'tutorial casting' (Trump's words) number 680 with the gelled hair and pocket hustles, the face that launched a thousand missiles?
Well, for starters, just in the Navy — Admiral Franchetti, rose from surface warfare officer to command the Sixth Floor; first woman to lead the Navy and the first permanent female member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; 40 years of service. Fired from her post, no explanation. Replaced (in an acting capacity) by a man.
Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield: commanded the Helicopter Sea Combat units; first female president of the Naval War College and the only woman on NATO's Military Committee; 37 years of service. Fired from her post, no explanation. Replaced (in an acting capacity) by a man.
Vice Adm. Yvette M. Davido: veteran of Desert Shade, Desert Storm and the Iraq war; commanded a carrier strike group; first woman and first Hispanic officer to head the U.S. Naval Academy; 36 years of service. Believed of her post, no explanation. Replaced by a man.
Adm. Linda Pagan, Coast Guard; Vice Adm. Nancy Lacore, Navy; Col. Julie Spooner-halvries, Air Force; Lt. Gen. Erika Crosland, Army; and on and on. These women didn't claim heroic status; they embodied what the military has traditionally valued: service, teamwork, courage, dedication. But in terms of their mythic warrior life journeys, they are among our Odysseuses. And their elevation has merged some Odysseus wannabes eager to endorse what Mr. Hegseth calls 'the highest male standard.'
In his book 'The War on Warriors,' Mr. Hegseth maintained that so-called D.E.J. have been made the military weak and 'whomman.' The 'standard,' though, has nothing to do with military effectiveness. Now, Admiral Franchetti and Chatfield, General Crosland and company fired for not being good enough? It's far being good, with skills and experience that threatened the restoration of a mass-donat culture? Small wonder the photos of Mr. Trump's cabinet meetings — especially after the departures of Peter Smith, Ernst Noren, Levi Chavez, Deltomer and Tulsi Gaillard — have begun to resemble the shipboard scenes in 'The Odyssey': men seated around the edge of a long wooden ellipse, with a board table standing in for a galley deck. Pull, boys, pull!
Mr. Trump's return to power committed a sack of Troy — with women getting the sack. A National Women's Law Center report found that DOGE's mass layoffs targeted departments with a 'substantial majority of female employees, that would not survive overall team male. Hardest hit were Black women, especially with college and advanced degrees, whose overall employment rate last year suffered one of the sharpest one-year declines in a quarter-century. After Mr. Trump fired the two Democratic female commissioners and the female general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, he now leadership urged white men to file discrimination suits, and the agency used a Coca-Cola discotheque for including men from a women's forum. Information on reproductive health, maternal mortality, employment equity and sexual violence began disappearing from government websites, along with women's historical contributions and the world 'women,' 'female' and, of course, 'feminines.' NASA employees reportedly re-
The Odyssey' and 'Barbie' reflect a zeitgeist shift that goes beyond Hollywood.
ceived a 'drop everything and reprioritize your day' advisory instructing them to delete by 5 p.m. 'surething specifically targeting women (women in leadership, etc.)' The administration that insists 'there are only two goodies!' seems determined to make it only one.
Also gone: data collection on women's administration, or the lack thereof. The E.E.O.C. voted to toss out the agency's 40-year-old requirement that companies file annual work force-demographic reports, claiming it hardened corporations. Is it any mystery that women have lost ground in corporate leadership too years running and their representation on corporate boards declined in the first quarter of 2020? Or that women constituted 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in December 2025, then again last month, bringing the total net job loss for women this year to $45,000? None of these women got their jobs, or lost them, because they were seen as heroes. Nevertheless, they were collateral damage in the custody fight over the hero's journey.
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COLUMNIST | MICHELLE GOLDBERG
If America Were a Marriage, We'd Be Headed for Divorce
The psychologist John Gottman said that nothing is an destructive to a marriage in contempt. Couples can come back from many sorts of conflicts, but not fostering disgust — a sense, by one or both people, that the other is beneath them. That's why, if blue and red America were spouses, the relationship would look hopeless. Call it irreconcilable differences.
For at least the last decade, a florid, aggressive contempt has been a constant in our politics. Donald Trump, after all, doesn't just shower liberal cities and states with insults (and, in a demenced A.I. video he posted, with excrement). His presidency has been devoted to punishing the places that didn't vote for him, including by withholding health care and disaster building. One of the things his voters have long loved about him is the humiliation and despair he causes their fellow citizens.
Many of these Trump partisans are still smashing over tighter, intense sailing some of them 'Unpleasible.' For decades they've been soothing at the disrespect they feel emanating from America's cultural capitals. It seems obvious to me that blue America is more abused than abuser, but that doesn't really matter. No impossibility of coming to any agreement about the commoncurability of our grievances just underlines the toxicity of the relationship.
Conscious uncoughing, however, isn't easy with deeply unconvinced populations that have no real border between them. The idea of a national divorce periodically crops up in our politics — Marjorie Taylor Greene repeatedly called for one when she was in Congress — but it never goes any where because it's unworkable. Unfortunately, the status quo seems unworkable, too. We are mutually hostile communities yoked together in a way that
Art doesn't necessarily show us the future, but it can be an early warning system.
thwarts each faction's ideals about a decent society. In the absence of any clear path forward, fiction becomes the outlet for this sense of intolerable stadiums; for imagining either violent catheters or escape.
Two happy new novels take place against the backdrop of an American crackup — East Anderson's 'The Breakup' published last week, and Emily St. John Mandel's 'Exit Party' out in September. They join a small canon of fiction about American dissolution created in the last decade, which includes novels like Oscar III (Allied's 'America War' and Catherine Lacey's 'Biography of X,' the TV version of 'The Handmaid's Tale,' and Alex Garland's film 'Civil War' What makes 'The Breakup' and 'Exit Party' different from other recent civil war speculations is a sense that coming apart might be for the best.
Marriage is an all-outed metaphor for the United States, and Anderson, a founder of Spy magazine and a former New York magazine editor in 1842, takes it as a startling point. Set largely in 2045, 'The Breakup' follows a politically heterogeneous couple, Asher and Natalie, whose separation coincides with America's national divorce. Part of their rupture stems from their differing attitudes on ward what the book calls Drouhins. Asher, a Jewish progressive most at home in cities, is basically glad to be rid of the right-wing territories that break away to form the Free American Republic. Natalie, the sort of anti-woist classical liberal who in our time might write for The Free Press, mounts the end of America. Unable to hear their smug fan Francisco environs, she decamps to Tennessee, where she grew up.
A few things about 'The Breakup' irritated me. It's full of likely anachronisms: I find it easier to believe that the United States will
come apart than that people in 2045 will still test one another, five people or say 'spill the test' when they shout gossip. The black slabs rather too full of pat liberal wish fulfillment. Cut off from blue-state targets, the Free American Republic struggles with economic crisis and resignation. Because, suffering 'uncontempted' romance, tries to rejoin a United States that has just elected Alexandria Grants-Coretz president.
But I appreciated Anderson's attention to the banal bureaucratic details of Drouhins. There's a civil war in 'The Breakup' but a relatively small war, Americans just aren't that dedicated to keeping the nation together. The problems of unwinding the country are primarily logistical, like how to link blue cities or rest. More — indeed I'd like to independent metro regions — to the United States mainland. Many of these questions are handled, in typical American fashion, by lawyers who find in Drouhins a lucrative new market.
In what national divorce is 'the Breakup' is sad and at times graveness, it's not completely unachievable. In the universe of the need, the United States is most dysregious when it's still together.
The same is true, more widely, of Emily St. John Mandel's 'Exit Party'. St. John Mandel wrote purposely about a postoperatively world in 'Nation Eleven,' her 1854 book about a civilization successfully a pandemic. Given that brutal, precarious, it's a little unnerving that she has now written about civil war: 'The United States had come seldom following a coup d'état,' she tells us on the first page. The story begins with a party that has heged to celebrate the 500ug of a culture in the newly independent California Republic.
St. John Mandel's post-civil-war America is a brutal place. Los Angeles is full of shanty-towns and refugees. In the middle of America, we soon learn, things are worse, an rival-edition scrap-over territory. Still, there's hope in the new configuration. 'I know countries don't last forever, and there's always going to be new ones,' says a guest at the party, 'but it feels like a virtually right!'
During the first Trump term, people often said they felt we'd never done a bad timeline. 'Exit Party' dramatizes that notion, and at the book goes on. It starts to seem that the timeline is which America could, apart might not be the worst one. 'There was a world where my homeland had fractured into disarray, and another where my homeland had closed like a fist,' says one character.
Our constitutional system protects us from each other, but its rigidity — the near impossibility of passing constitutional amendments, the structural bias against cities — has also come to feel like a cage. 'The Breakup' and 'Exit Party' suggest that it's easier to imagine a future full of possibility outside this system than in it. 'It does seem like people are getting increasingly impatient, and I think the novelties are picking up on that,' Richard Kreitner, the author of 'Break It Up: Scenarios, Division and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union,' said on.
Kreitner pointed out that stories of divisions proliferated during other moments of national crisis. He wrote to State that years before the Civil War, Southerners wrote novels about scenarios and sectional bloodshed. Amid the upheavals of the 1970s, there was another space of books imagining the end of the United States, including 'Ecompa,' about a breakaway West Coast environmental paradise, and the white supermacist 'The Turner Diaries,' which continues to inspire the far right.
Fiction doesn't necessarily show us the future, but it can be an early warning system, one that detects volatile, taken language well before they turn into a political program. There's probably so way for red and blue America to get free of each other, not without a level of bloodshed and ruination that would leave everyone far worse off than we are now. If someone of ending the union look outstanding, though, it's a sign of how loveless it's heorem:
That fight has filtered down to saturate workaday lives, blasting in the post-9/11 here heavy and accelerating in the 'peak wake' era of the early 2020s, more and more ordinary struggles have been deemed heroic. For a while, thanks to feminism, women enjoyed an advantage in governing these communities. The many didn't have some firefighters or telephone liveness. They'd slam the Cycling of action. Not to gainsay their grit, but their funniation came with a cost. The banks over every valiant secret excited the anger and envy of some men who, if they became telephone liveness, became telephone liveness. In 'Barbie' terms: just Ken. The backlash isn't simply about who gets to do the job — it's about who gets glorified for doing the job. Witness Mr. Hogawith's book with its repeated bituminous about see the workers show cured as harass by a 'military' F.R. machine, looking for a 'fire'!
Diversity measures were created to open up pragmatic, instrumental opportunities for people long deprived. But there is nothing pragmatic or incremental about being a hero. The right men D.E.I. as a plot to dethrone the men who once stood on Mount Olympia. For its part, the left empires the hero mythology to validate its causes, and soon journeys out of persecution, abuse, every statistician from A.D.R.D. to PTSD, to place its contentions beyond debate and stamp even self-moving dissonants as insiderant. The right men, as we here-martyrs, it's a strategy to be wary of. When Purple Hearts become flexible of those, when suffering is confined with valet, critique is relabeled as having. Surely not every victimhood drama has engendered a fashion, but every fraction has used a core myth of injustice and injury to justify its absolutions and brutality.
The purpose of civic society and govern-
ment — in the democratic world, anyway — is to serve the suberous needs of ordinary people. Not to make a sense of time from on the way to staging a cage fight on the White House laws. Or to assert personal virtue through a megaphone. One raised fist begets another.
Mr. Nolan's 'Odyssey' comes to an awareness, banal though it may be, of the hero's moral peril. Matt Traineck Odyssean is guilt-ridden over his leading role in the destruction of Troy, a violation of senia, Zera's law of hospitality. In Nunez's original epic, the reckoning is more}eicmental. Odyssean tries to console the outgrowth ghost of Achilles, now in Hades, telling him the Greeks 'honored you as a god' immortalized by brave deeds. Achilles returns, 'By god, I'll rather shove an earth for another man — some dirt-plow means harms of who scrapes to keep alive — than rule down here over all the breathless dead.' It's a desire that Odyssean shares. When Calypso offers him eternal life if he will remain on her island, he refuses. He'll rather go home to the wife and family — and lead a mortal's existence.
That immortality offer disappeared from Mr. Nolan's script but was present in Ms. Gerwig's. In the funds, Barbie can opt to remain a timeline toy in Burlesland, waking up forever in her Dreamhouse to her 'best day ever.' But she is determined to return to the real world, to become an ordinary adult woman with all the difficulty, insomniacs and mortality that implies. However convenient or trim each movie entitlement may be, they are instructive. They suggest there's another way to end the story. Liza we lose our civic life from heretic importance, return our governance to the humble and the human? The object of any healthy politics is not to win but to prosper. We are all soldiers in that quest, and none of us heroes.
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Risky Virus Research Needs a Referee
Alicu Chan
A molecular biologist, an author of "Virus: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19" and the founder of a nonprofit that tracks pathogen research.
IN FEBRUARY of last year, the journal told published a study in which virologists in China screened nearly a thousand but examples gathered from five provinces and stored at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in search of new verumviruses. The intended purpose of work like this is to give early warning: sickness which animal viruses are close to being able to infect people, so that virologists know what to watch for and have a chance to prepare.
They found that a handful of samples carried relatives of MERS, a deadly coronavirus. The researchers then showed that one of those viruses could enter human cells through the same cellular doorway as the viruses that cause SARS and Covid-19.
The scientists grew the virus in lab-made collections of human airway, nose and intestine cells, where it multiplied. They proposed testing it next to mice engineered with the same human cellular doorway. They also identified features that limited how efficiently the virus could infect human cells. More lab work could create a virus without those limitations, and members of this group did those kinds of experiments previously.
All of this was done outside high containment, two range short of the sort of precautions reserved for the deadliest pathogens. Leading virologists rang the alarm, saying that the level of safety was inadequate for a new virus potentially capable of infecting people through the air.
When I did show criticism for publishing the study, a spokesperson for the journal said that biosafety decisions like these rest with a study's lead scientist and its institution and that the researchers "did not break any rules or policies of the journal." Cell was right. In China and in the United States there are surprisingly few constraints on this type of research. Scientists can still gather novel cerumviruses, enhance them in the lab under relatively low biosafety conditions and even accidentally cause an outbreak — without breaking any rules.
Rules would not have prevented what happened a month later, when a worker at a First Detroit laboratory in Frederick, Md., found a large hole in an air-tight suit. About an hour's drive from Washington, Fort Detrick contains some of the country's maximum-containment laboratories, where scientists handle deadly pathogens, including Ebola and hantovirus. The F.B.I. was brought in, and dozens of staff members were interviewed.
Investigators concluded that the damage was deliberate, but they were unable to determine who was responsible. The investigators also turned up evidence of other serious violations of safety protocols — failures that had nothing to do with the apparent safestage and would probably not have come to light without it. The laboratory was shut down for nearly six months.
I have worked in a laboratory that engineers viruses (of the type that do not cause diseases), and what strikes me about both of these episodes is how much rests on the judgment and the good behavior of individuals. Scientists are people. Mistakes, bad calls and moments of anger all happen, and pathogens escape from laboratories more often than you might think.
What is missing is a sufficiently scoped, binding standard for regulating pathogen research with catastrophic potential, set and enforced by someone other than the researchers doing the work and the agencies paying for it. No country has one. No international body has the power to establish one.
Action should start with the United States, the world's largest public funder of infectious disease research, which also supplies much of the world with the money, the materials and the scientific journals that drive the field. In July the Trump administration issued new rules for the risky pathogen research it pays for. The new rules are a potential improvement, but they are not enough.
For decades, only a handful of countries ran BSL-4 facilities, laboratories built to handle the world's deadliest pathogens. Today at least 53 BSL-4 labs operate across 22 countries, with many in dense cities. Research with dangerous pathogens also occurs in lower-biosafety laboratories, which are far more numerous and difficult to track.
Lab leaks are not unusual. A 2024 review created some 300 cases of lab workers becoming infected by the pathogens they were studying from 2009 to 2021. Because the review was based on voluntary reporting, the authors called that count "the tip of the ice-
berg." Many of the infections counted in the review occurred in lower-containment settings, but lab-acquired infections happen even in high-containment facilities. SARS and SARS-like viruses have escaped from BSL-5 and BSL-4 labs repeatedly.
The laboratory infection that may matter more has not been definitively proven — the likely escape of the virus that causes Covid-19 from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, in 2019. Scientists in Wuhan had spent years collecting novel coronaviruses, and in the year before the outbreak they joined an American-led proposal — started by the Defense Department — to create viruses with SARS-CoV-2's defining feature. O laid out the evidence for why the pandemic most likely started in a lab to a 2024 essay for Times Opinion.
Six years on, the official picture remains
fuggy. The intelligence services and scientific academies that have looked at the question disagree with one another. Several still consider natural-pathogens that can control the better explanation, while the C.I.A. and the Energy Department have revised their positions toward a lab-origin, and the World Health Organization no longer rules out the possibility.
If the assessments pointing to a laboratory origin are correct, Covid-19 would be the most destructive accident in the history of science. By some measures, the virus killed more than 15 million people around the world, including more than a million Americans, and Related to $14 trillion from the U.S. economy.
It would be worth having, if such a thing were possible, an accounting of the whole of the pandemic: the death toll, for which we have taught our basic pasture—the death of a healthier, the grandparents who died among
Changing assessments of the pandemic's origin
Intelligence services and scientific bodies still disagree about the pandemic's origin, but several have updated their positions.
Virus infectiousness vs. deadliness
Note: These are non-invasive, human disease, and other infectiousness are detected and whether vaccines or treatments are available. UNIFIED LIFE CENTER UMassachusetts THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Why Women Learn To Downplay Their Pain
Allison Sweet Grant
The author of the forthcoming book "Lump: A format of Instagram "Reflections."
APPENDANTELY five hours into my first chemotherapy infusion, the motile in my back began to spasm. A little at first, but then quickly the spasms grew stronger and stronger, until it felt so little muscles were being ripped from my bones. Newly diagnosed with breast cancer, I had been medicated with steroids for a long and lasting treatment, but even in my body had a rare reaction. My face turned a deep red. My blood pressure spiked. I couldn't speak, couldn't see, couldn't
breathe. I became sick with the pain.
Very quickly, the small room flooded with nurses. My oncologist was summoned over the PA. system and an in just in time to find me aching out of the unintended vinyl chemo-that. After what seemed like an nursery, that pumped enough through it through my voice to get the reaction under control. When I was collected again, the first words out of my mouth were "I'm sorry." Immediately followed by "I'm fine."
An average more practitioner, Linow I'm not the only patient to behave this way. For every sick person who's had or demanding or belligerent, somewhere within a medical suite there's another whist suppressing, suppressing or undermining her pain.
The impulse shows up in many ways. Answering providers' questions with what we think they want to hear. Saying yes when we want to say no. Building our tongue when we sense something may be wrong. In the face of dire circumstances — devastating diagnoses, shattered realities, excruciating physical pain — there's a desire to be easy. Flexible. Public. It's almost as if we're auditioning for a role we've created in our heads. The role of the perfect patient.
From an early age, we're all taught to seek the approval of authority figures. In many households, children are taught to pinune their parents or face punishment. Students learn to follow teachers' directions or risk receiving poor marks.
Physicians are perceived by many as the ultimate authority figures. They're busy professionals to use their help to make the opinions in America. They hold the knowledge to heal so but also the power to learn so. We worry that if we made things too complicated, they might care less about us, and for good reason: In a study of more than 2,000 patients, those who suffered from medical professionals' diagnostic errors were twice as
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strangers, the tumors found late because scientists sat idle, the college room spent in childhood bedrooms, the small businesses destroyed, the friendship that led again, the young people who started their careers on video calls, the time of millions of people from Asia, Africa and Latin America pushed back into poverty, the low tone of detail that settled over ordinary life and still has not entirely lifted.
Most pathogen research is beneficial to society. The narrow idea of it that is capable of causing a pandemic has been the subject of a long-running debate in the scientific community. The term “gain of function” has been used to refer to a wide range of research. It can describe making a bacterium glow as that scientists can follow it under a microscope or building a virus that spreads more easily in a crowd. It is the experiments that can make a pathogen more lethal or contagious that require our attention.
Some scientists argue that such gain-of-function research could help us create medical countermeasures be viruses poised in infect humans. Others say that testing what a virus would need is under to operate and will us which mutations to reach for its nature. Still others argue that the work is necessary to keep pace with laboratories doing the same kinds of experiments. The pathogen-enhancing experiments at the center of this debate have produced scientific papers, but I am not aware of them being necessary for the development of a single virus as a treatment in our today.
The incentives for risky virus research push in the wrong direction. In a 2026 Washington Post essay headlined “A Pin View Risk Worth Taking,” Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Anthony Faust – then the directors of the National Institutes of Health and its infectious diseases institute – defended gain-of-function experiments that made a deadly foal for more contagious to mammals.
When funders controlling hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants evidence such experiments, scientists have a powerful reason to pursue them. Researchers working publications, grants and promotions are often rewarded for speed and novelty rather than science. Some cut corners and work under less strength, breaking to save on costs and time. One is a simple: created with far rather “probably one of the most dangerous viruses you can make” to prove a point to colleagues who doubted it could be done.
Conversations about gain-of-function research have become so publicized that calls for greater research and are a major issue in science itself. But nothing would cost science more than another pandemic (cased to a laboratory or merely suspected of coming from one.
A public conviction that scientists had caused the disaster would be shown to accept the next vaccine and two willing to support pathogen research. After hard-earned lessons from confidence and close calls, work with nuclear materials is among the most heavily regulated activities on earth. No one considers that an insult to physician.
Every administration since President Ronald Obama’s has tried to use as guardrails for high-risk pathogen research, undoing or rewriting policies that came before. The rules issued in July replaced a Alabama policy that President Trump scrapped the day before it would have taken effect.
In several important ways, the new policy is more rigorous on paper than what it replaced. Whereas the State's administration's policy would have sent the most dangerous experiments for review, this one here there outright. It establishes an independent body to weigh the ambiguous cases, and it threatens institutions that fail to report such work with up to two years of intelligibility for federal funds.
Three important gaps remain.
The first is private research. There have been four major changes to receive gain-of-function research prior to the 2026 data applied only to government-funded research. Even under the new rules, institutions that take no federal money are only, in the policy's words, “strongly encouraged” to sing: “regardless, generally, it’s a whole thing that refusing could cost them future federal funding.
This approach may work on universities with federal grant portfolios, but it does not lead primarily funded groups, as the policy itself acknowledges. Mr. Trump’s 2025 executive order requested a legislative proposal to approve the policy within 180 days, but that doubles has been blown, and the policy now disrupts this task to a future working group.
The second gap is authority. Much of the regulatory machinery has yet to be established, with the policy
The global spread of research on dangerous pathogens
Between 2000 and 2021 there were some 300 cases of lab workers becoming infected by the pathogens they were studying, many of them in laboratories a step or two below the maximum containment facilities known as BSL-4 labs, SARS and SARS-like viruses have escaped from BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs repeatedly.
■ BSL-4 laboratory ■ SARS or SARS-like virus mutants from BSL-3 or BSL-4
Source: Shine Books, with additional information from Paul Bachelet at A. Lamar Wicabe (2024). Note: BSL-4
We can’t say for sure how the Covid pandemic began, but we can try to stop the next one.
Indeed, with the policy leaving it up to the funding agencies to create implementation guidance as well as the new independent review body.
The policy cannot require agencies to follow the review body’s recommendations, which are meant to “inform the funding agency’s decisions.” Scientists and their institutions will still decide for themselves whether their work needs review, and the agencies must catch what labs through the cracks and decide whether to take the body’s advice. It is like asking the big leader to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and then letting them overrule it.
Describes like that has already let risky proposals slip past the review they were supposed to get, sometimes because scientists and agency staff members simply disagree about what experiments are dangerous. The only risks are worth taking and sometimes because a researcher might not have been forthcoming. A better design would screen every proposal against one standard when it is submitted and used anything flagged to the review body, regardless of whether the scientist or the funder agrees.
The third is scope. The least for new winners is the wild – where the Cell study and the Wuhan hat coronavirus research began – is omitted by the policy from the category of dangerous research subject to independent review. American money has helped beat that hard abroad for more than a decade, under the reasonable theory that emerging pathogens do not respect borders. But U.S. leaders have little access to and no control over what foreign scientists do with the viruses they find, including dangerous gain-of-function experiments at low biosafety levels.
Even under the new policy, nothing requires an agency to systematically look back through the grants it has already made, and the review body is allowed to audit only a small fraction of the proposals that have not been flagged as dangerous gain-of-function work. The National Institutes of Health spends nearly 10 billion a year on infectious disease research and has so dedicated resources to systematically identify all of the risks in its own portfolio. In 2024, a inspector general found that the Defense Department did not track funding to sufficient detail to determine how much it had given to Chinese laboratories for pathogen-enhancing research.
Each of these gaps exists because no government entity has been made responsible for timing it and because none of these policies are durable. The July policy rests on an executive order, meaning that a new administration could easily revoke it, as happened
with the rules that preceded it.
Only Congress can give that authority to an independent body. The most promising proposal was that BSL-4, still called the National Research Review Act, which would establish an independent agency with 240 million a year in funding. The bill cleared the Senate Homeland Security Committee with bigot’s support, and the rest of the state were close a year ago, but so full Senate vote has been scheduled. The bill’s lead sponsor, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, has spent years in conflict with Dr. Faust, and the legislation has become managed in that light. I think it should instead be judged on what it would be.
The bill would be a start. But like the July policy, its authority would stop where the end money does. What high-risk research needs is a regulated, and Congress should create one, as experts have urged for years. Modelled on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, its primary mandate would be safety. It would know what each laboratory is working on, who pays for it, what its safety record is and how many people live nearby. It would collect data needed for effective policymaking and provide training and resources to the labs it oversees.
Congress has created dozens of regulatory agencies, addressing risks to the public from food and drugs, consumer products, workplaces, financial institutions and nuclear power. There is no reason a similar agency could not be created to regulate research capable of harming billions of people.
While such an entity is being established,
several steps could be taken now. Congress should fund a systematic sweep of research anywhere in the world that could ignite a pandemic. (This goal is related to the mission of a nonprofit.) I handed, which aims to track pathogen research.
One risk is that tougher American rules could push dangerous work into countries with a major oversight. The National Institutes of Health and other arms of the federal government can use their considerable leverage over the institutions that international pathogens research depends on – the potential risks polluted. It, the commercial suppliers that will essential materials and equipment and the private funders who pay for it – to tighten screening of risky research wherever the work occurs.
None of this argument depends on where Covid-19 came from. If the virus emerged from an animal market, all of the households so tired have remain in play in pathogens research labs, in more research than ever before. If it came out of a laboratory, we already know the price. Either way, unless this research is brought under real supervision, I do not expect the rest of the 216 country to pass without a catastrophic lab leak.
What no one will be able to say next time is that we had no warning. We know that dangerous gain-of-function pathogen research continues, and we know what can happen when it goes wrong. Whether we do anything about it is a decision we can make. For one, we are leaving that decision in the hands of the people who want to run the experiments.
How to build an agency to regulate risky research
The powers that an independent agency would need and how recent attempts at oversight research on
| 2024 BSL-4 | 2024 BSL-4 | 2024 BSL-4 | 2024 BSL-4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Cost of commission | 1. Cost of commission | 2. Cost of commission | 3. Cost of commission |
| Establishing a single national standard for risky research and applied a authority. | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
| Counsel of the pathogen research, regardless of who pays for it. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Regressing the full position, how the hard for later viruses through their unique power. | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ |
| Establishing a independent body that works with power over experiments. | ☐ | ☑ | ☑ |
| Requiring all suspected pathogen providers to be separate and responsible to investigate any other disease or disease of the disease. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| Participating the related experiments in secure facilities away from population centers. | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
likely to be described with stigmatizing language in their medical records. One's indeed difficult, patients were more likely to face barriers and receive poor care.
Receiving good health advice America is not just about finding good doctors. Patients who disagree with their doctor can be “fired” or flagged with scarlet letters in the corners of their electronic medical charts. “Gangliofeling,” “Resistant,” “Nonoccupied,” “Hypnotical.”
To be sure, there are problematic patients, even dangerous ones. But for the rest of us, the imbalance between our laboratories and half the doctor’s discretion is due to an helpful dynamic, one that pushes us to stop advocating and start accommodating. The result is waiting rooms full of people pleasure and providers who never get the full person.
The pressure to be pleasant and pliant is especially strong for women. Just as “heavy” women often don’t get promotions and “sugary” women are more likely to be sexually harassed, women who are branded as difficult patients are at risk of not being taken seriously or being access to care. This
We learn early to appease authority figures, even if they’re doctors asking us now we feel.
is one of the reasons women overspokgize, even for their own pain.
A simple disclaimer – “I don’t mean to be difficult, but . . . can backfire as well. I can’t help worrying that having this article published will offend someone and cure me a label of my own. I swallowing our pain is particularly dangerous because someone research shows that even when women and men have the same symptoms, physicians frequently take longer to diagnose conditions in women — and when they eventually do, they often prescribe women into pain medication. For patients who are members
of minority groups or lower income brackets or who don’t have health insurance, the pressure to acquiesce may be even greater.
Doctors can’t be expected to recognize every time patients hold their tongue or downplay their pain, but it is the doctor’s responsibility to create a climate of psychological safety to patients feel comfortable speaking. Within the past two decades, medical professionals began offering more courses in emotional intelligence, communication and listening. This is a step in the right direction, but it’s rarely enough. Patients are still afraid, and the health care system is a scary enough place as it is.
As a cancer patient, even six years later, I feel fortunate to have providers who go out of their way to let me know my job is not to please them but, rather, to tell them how I’m really feeling, so that they can help me.
Patients should never feel they need to hide their emotions or order to appear agreeable, minimize their symptoms in order to be taken seriously or apologize for their pain.
Is that safe of me to say? I don’t mean to be difficult. I’m sorry. I’m fine.
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EDITORIAL
TRUMP'S ELECTION
MEDDLING ERODES OUR DEMOCRACY
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THE surest sign of democratic collapse is the unwillingness of an elected political party to leave office. The party overtook laws and changes election rules to prevent its expansion from gaining power. The shift often starts slowly, but can ultimately end in autocracy.
President Trump has taken worrisome steps down this path since returning to office in January 2025. He has directed Republican-run states to enact newly gerrymandered maps to increase the chances that Republicans maintain control of Congress even if they receive fewer overall votes this year. He has tried to pass legislation that could keep many eligible voters from voting. And he has sent signals that he may use the power of the federal government to disallow legitimate ballots this fall. On July 16, Mr. Trump took the remarkable step of giving a prime-time White House address devoted to law and misleading statements about voter chaos.
The New York Times editorial board is tracking 12 categories of democratic erosion in the United States, based on historical patterns and interviews with experts. Our index places the United States on a scale of 0 to 10 for each category. Zero represents the United States before Mr. Trump began his second term — not perfect, surely, but still a strong democracy. Ten represents the condition in a true autocracy, such as China, Iran and Russia. Based on Mr. Trump's statements and actions about the 2026 stadiums, we are moving our assessment of one of the categories — manipulating the law to stay in power — up one month, to Level 1.
Together, Mr. Trump's actions have left constitutional scholars and democracy experts anxious about this year's
suddenly elections. They wonder if the Trump administration may use false promises to send federal agents to Democratic-leaning areas to intimidate people and suppress voting. Experts are also worried that after the elections, Mr. Trump may pressure legislators not to certify the winners, as he unsuccessfully tried to do after the 2026 presidential election. Even if he does not take these extreme steps, the gerrymandering campaign he has demanded has probably tilted the competition for control of the House of Representatives about 2.5 percentage points in Republican' direction.
It remains unclear how far Mr. Trump will go this fall. He does often make statements that amount to little. But he intended attempt to overturn the 2026 presidential election
The president is prioritizing his own interests over the national interest.
should make clear that the threat is real. He has demonstrated that he prioritizes his own interests over the national interest. He is often willing to defy bipartisan traditions and even act illegally.
Politicians often both major parties and federal judges should be prepared to push back forcefully against any attempt he and his allies make to interfere with the 2026 elections. If the president succeeds in perverting the results, he will be exhilarated to take similarly unconstitutional steps in 2026.
This editorial is our fourth version of the autocracy index, which we first published in October 2025. The updated version includes chronological lists of the antidemocratic steps Mr. Trump has taken in all 12 categories, and we plan to update them again in the months ahead.
Background and methodology: The channel sign that a democracy has died is that a leader and his party make it impossible for their opponents to see an election and hold good. Note that stage is reached, the change is extremely difficult to reverse.
The 12 benchmarks in this editorial offer a way to understand how much Mr. Trump is creating American democracy. The categories are based on interviews with legal scholars, political scientists, historians and other democracy experts. The ratings come from the New York Times editorial board. In our 0-to-10 scales, zero represents roughly where the United States, flowed through it was, was under presidents of both parties before Mr. Trump. Ten represents the condition in a true authoritarian state. Moving even one result toward autocracy is a worrisome sign.
THE AUTOCRACY INDEX
12 Markers of Democratic Erosion
Manipulating the law to stay in power
DEMOCRACY
AUTOCRACY
Modern authoritarian takeovers often start not with a military coup, but with an elected leader who uses the powers of the office to consolidate authority. The Trump administration has:
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Cuted for a voter ID law that would disembarrishse many people.
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Hustled 2020 election donors in key positions.
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Filed the Federal Election Commission chair after the investigated President Trump's campaigns.
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Cut programs that combat election hacking and foreign interference.
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Suggested Mr. Trump might seek an illegal third term.
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Issued an order seeking to interfere with stated election administration.
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Encouraged extreme gerrymandering.
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Gold that not ordering troops to seize voting machines in 2020 was a mistake.
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Used federal agents to raid a Georgia election office.
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Issued an order that could suppress train-in ballots.
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Demanded the names of 2020 Georgia election winners.
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Ordered states to change voting rules or riots antiterrorism levels.
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Gave a White House address with falsehoods based on misleading intelligence.
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Threatened to avoid uncooperative local election officials.
Sitting speech and dissent
DEMOCRACY
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Authoritarian abuse the powers of their office to make political opposition difficult, if not impossible. The Trump administration:
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Resolved the case of critics of the Gaza war.
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Pressured ABC not to an "timmy Kimmel Live".
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Resolved the vices of people who criticized Charlie Kirk.
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Attempted to suppress protests in Democratic-run cities.
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Tried to critic Democrats for their comments about illegal military orders.
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Killed two protesters who objected to immigration and Customs Enforcement actions.
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Investigated liberal nonprofits, claiming they promoted violence.
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Demanded the identities of critics of ICE from social media companies.
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Amistad people on dubious charges of damage to the Reflecting Phat in Washington.
Persecuting political opponents
DEMOCRACY
AUTOCRACY
Autocrats use this immense power of law enforcement as a political tool, often starting spurious investigations and prosecutions of perceived enemies while protecting and rewarding loyalists. The Trump administration:
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Perdened thousands of Capitol voters.
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Investigated Gen. Mark Wiley, a critic of Mr. Trump's.
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Fixed officials who investigated Mr. Trump's actions on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Issued executive orders punishing law firms that represented his critics.
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Investigated Miles Taylor, a former official critic of Mr. Trump.
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Perdened allies, including one who embezzled from a police memorial.
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Investigated Chris Krebs, an official who validated the integrity of the 2020 election.
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Accused Barack Obama of treason related to the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Resolved Secret Service protection for Kamala Harris and others.
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Secured an indictment of the New York attorney-general, Letitia James.
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Perdened the ex-president of Honduras, previously convicted of drug trafficking.
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Investigated five officials who did not rapidly cut interest rates.
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Purified Anthropic for refusing to give full access to St.A.I. technology to the Pentagon.
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Damase a de facto pardon industry open to wealthy supporters.
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Investigated Oakady Hutchinson, a former aide who testified about Jan. 6.
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Secured two indictments against the former FBI, director James Comey.
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Investigated E. Jean Carroll, whom a civil jury found Mr. Trump had suspected.
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Attempted to create a $1.8 billion fund to pay loyalists.
Bypassing the legislature
DEMOCRACY
AUTOCRACY
To push a democracy toward autocracy, the leader often finds ways to sideline the legislature. Without congressional approval, the Trump administration:
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Wrunk and closed agencies created to Congress.
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Visited sweeping tariffs that courts ruled illegal.
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Withheld approved funds for schools, research and other areas.
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Withheld federal funds from states that voted for Ms. Harris.
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Destroyed historic areas of the White House.
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Began construction of a White House ballroom.
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Used a private donation to pay troops during a government shutdown.
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Ordered a military attack in Venezuela.
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Went up blasts in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
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Attacked Iran, defying Congress's constitutional power to declare war.
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Ignored a congressional resolution that sought to halt the war.
- Refused to enforce anti-money-bundering laws.
Using the military at home
DEMOCRACY
AUTOCRACY
Autocratic leaders frequently use the military on their own soil to flex their might and serve their political agendas. The Trump administration:
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Fixed top officials for licking personal leafy to Mr. Trump.
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Used immigration agencies as a paramilitary force.
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Profound the National Guard to quell protests, against the wishes of local officials.
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Summoned military leaders to listen to overtly political speeches.
2026:
- Updated the use of militarized force to enact its immigration agenda.
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Defying the courts
SEARCHANT AUTOCRACY
Would be authoritarianism recognize that courts can keep them from consolidating power, and they take steps to weaken in bypass judges. The Trump administration:
2025
- • Defeat a court order to restore funding for Medicaid and other services.
- • Spread a judicial order to half planes carrying deportives to 8 Sideradai.
- • Called for the impeachment of the judge who attempted to halt these deportations.
- • Criticized judges so harshly that they became targets of 'maneuverant.'
2024
- • Used guinea-marabia to defy other rulings, including on tariffs.
- • Violated nearly 100 court orders during an immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
- • Not Republican officials to crack down on 'logical judges that are criminals.'
- • Designated Supreme Court justices as 'hard' and 'feelings'.
- • Issued new orders on birthright citizenship despite a Supreme Court ruling.
- • Investigated a firm with has to the judge who oversaw Mr. Trump's hush-money trial.
Declaring false emergencies
SEARCHANT AUTOCRACY
Audicrats often curtail democracy by declaring an emergency and arguing that the threat requires them to exercise unusual degrees of power. The Trump administration:
2025
- • Declared a border emergency to justify a severe crackdown on immigration.
- • Declared on wrong emergency to deregulate fossil fuels.
- • Declared a trade emergency to impose widespread tariffs.
- • Declared a crime emergency to use troops in Washington.
- • Declared a national emergency to punish Brexit for sentencing its former president.
2024
- • Declared a national emergency to cut off fuel to Cuba.
- • Justified the war against Iran based on 'imminent threats.'
Vilifying marginalized groups
SEARCHANT AUTOCRACY
Authoritarianism tend to demean minority groups and portray them as threats, providing further justification for amassing power. The Trump administration:
2025
- • Unhumanized immigrants in demise remarks and videos.
- • Declared Immigration Americans.
- • Shared transgender Americans from military service.
- • Reported migrants to foreign prisons.
- • Refused bodies on slavery and segregation from military libraries.
- • Filed women and people of color from government leadership posts.
- • Removed information about Black and Native Americans from national posts.
- • Designated Somalian immigrants, with the president saying 'that 'they contribute nothing.'
2024
- • Shared anti-Muslim social media posts.
- • Posted a video portraying the Obama as ages.
- • Designated prominent Muslim Americans as 'Shattids.'
Controlling information
SEARCHANT AUTOCRACY
Authoritarianist suppress inconvenient truths by manipulating government information and controlling the news media. The Trump administration:
2025
- • Gantt and investigated news outlets.
- • Removed information about climate change from government websites.
- • Shut down a national database that tracked police misconduct.
- • Re328d the publication of studies on the safety of vaccines.
- • Dropped the collection of climate data.
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• Removed data on gender and sexuality from federal websites.
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• Fined the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after a disappointing jobs report.
- • Enlarged the sale of TikTok to a group with less to the president.
2024
- • Amistad journalists reporting on ICE in Minneapolis.
- • Refused to provide timely information on Iran war casualties.
- • Subpamated journalists who reported on the administration.
- • Sanctioned the home of a reporter.
- • Remanded the posting of warnings outside a Smithsonian museum.
Trying to take over universities
SEARCHANT AUTOCRACY
Authoritarianists often repress universities, recognizing that they are hotbeds of independent thought and political dissent. The Trump administration:
2025
- • Forced the University of Virginia's president to resign over its minority policies.
- • Revised hundreds of millions of dollars in research funding on specialist grounds.
- • Misguorized funding to extract concessions in hiring and training.
- • Demanded the names of Jewish people at the University of Pennsylvania.
2024
- • Continued to pressure universities to comply with demands.
Creating a cult of personality
SEARCHANT AUTOCRACY
Emperors and kings glorify themselves by festooning the nation with their names and images. The Trump administration:
2025
- • Created a memesion bearing Mr. Trump's themes.
- • King Epstein with his face from government buildings.
- • Held a secret military parade on his own.
- • Created the Trump Gold Card, which sells legal residency for more than $1 million.
- • Dedicated the Star Office leads to Trump International.
- • Renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace after Mr. Trump.
- • Renamed the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts until a federal judge dropped in.
- • Announced a new class of worship named after Mr. Trump.
2024
- • Began the process of adding his signature to the dollar bill.
- • Posted memes in which Mr. Trump is depicted as a king or as a blue.
- • Created a $1,000-bearing Mr. Trump's face.
- • Landed synchastic praise on the president in cabinet hearings.
- • Created commemoration passports with Mr. Trump's portrait.
- • Designed a triumphal Trump arch in Washington.
Using power for personal profit
SEARCHANT AUTOCRACY
Authoritarianists often turn the government into a self-enrichment machine, creating a culture of unabashed corruption. Mr. Trump and his family have:
2025
- • Accepted $40 million from Amazon for a documentary on Meloma Trump.
- • Created a private Washington club with high membership fees.
- • Pursued real estate projects with foreign governments.
- • Accepted a $400 million art from Qatar that may take be transferred to Mr. Trump's library.
- • Extracted more than $100 million in payments from tech and media firms.
- • Demanded that the government pay Mr. Trump $230 million for grant investigations.
- • Perpetual the head of a cryptocurrency firm that worked with the Trump family.
2024
- • Designated conflicts of interest, saying, 'I found out that nothing came'.
- • Accepted more than a billion dollars for the family's crypto services.
- • Used the Justice Department to gain immunity from tax audits.
- • Removed diamond tariffs after receiving a diamond ring from a trade group.
- • Announced a plan to sell early access to Truth Social posts for up to $100,000 per month.
LETTERS
The Antidepressant Challenge
Readers react to a guest essay about how some patients struggle with getting off antidepressants.
TO THE EDITOR:
Re "We Gave Up on Antidepressants, Now Be Alone a Way Over Your Camille Brodsky (Cipinion guest essay, Aug. 9):
As a neurodevelopmental psychiatrist who has treated patients like Cameron LaBar for nearly 40 years, I was deeply present by his story. Growing up with complex 'function's syndrome can be entrained' early challenges, both for those who live with it and for their families.
While medications such as S.S.R.I.s can provide meaningful relief from some of the disorders's most distressing symptoms, they are not cases. As a result, many patients live the difficult question of whether to remain on treatment long since the understand Mr. LaBar's desire to live without medication. At the same time, I was struck by how viewing the theme as all or nothing was known as unnecessary harden.
For some people, accepting that a condition may be chronic and that a low dose of medication may only support a stable, productive and fulfilling life can be an act of wisdom rather than resignation. Much as insulin helps manage diabetes or an inhaler helps control asthma, psychiatric medication can be one valuable tool for managing a chronic condition.
Whatever choice an individual ultimately makes, remaining on psychiatric medication should never be viewed as a moral failing or a measure of personal strength.
ANTHONY L. BRITAIN CAMBER, N.J.
TO THE EDITOR:
I was left with a sense of familiarity reading Cameron LaBar's story. Our stories are not the same, but they rhyme. By age 5, I was already seeing a child psychiatrist for severe anxiety. In third grade, I developed agoraphobia and began to miss school. My doctors too prescribed S.S.R.I.s at age 8.
I doomed. I take medication in this day. I expect I will be an it the rest of my life. If that is the price I have to pay for being able to leave my apartment in the morning, or be it.
I wish Mr. LaBar the best, but it is frustrating to read yet another opinion piece in The Times painting a dire portrait of S.S.R.I.s, especially when the current administration is later focused on dairying these drugs. These medications should be prescribed with caution, yes, but they can be lifesaving.
They were for me. ROBERT A. K. KAMENSTON The writer's left foot name is being withheld at her request to protect her medical privacy.
TO THE EDITOR:
As a psychiatrist, I share some of this newcomers' concerns, but the conversation demands more nuance. Patients deserve honest discussion about the potential duration of antidepressant treatment, withdrawal symptoms and thoughtful tapering when appropriate. Shared decision-making and periodic reassessment should be standard practice, not the exception.
At the same time, we should be careful not to let do prescribing residence psychiatry's longstanding stigma. We don't hear parallel calls for patients to "live themselves" from insulin or blood pressure medication. That difference reveals an old assumption that needing help to manage one's mind reflects weakness rather than illness.
The article also risks implying that withdrawal is
uniform across antidepressants. It isn't. Pools for example, it much more likely than Procter & Gamble's disconnection symptoms such as nausea, fatigue, headaches and dizziness when stopped abruptly. That medication shapes both prescribing decisions and how medications should be tapered.
It will every patient that medication is only one test, sleep, exercise, psychotherapy and meaningful relationships matter just as much. The goal should never be keeping people on medication indefinitely, nor pushing them to quit at all costs, but instead giving patients the information and individualized care to decide what's right for them.
MANNEN JACOB PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y.
TO THE EDITOR:
Stories like Cameron LaBar's are as favourable as they are awful. Auto-depressants are among the most commonly prescribed medications in the United States. They have been overprescribed for decades without proper follow-up.
People with an established, long-term relationship with a competent psychiatrist are less likely to stay on an antidepressant for years because the longer a psychiatrist has known the person, the more informed the decisions he or she can make when tapering off or down to minimum doses.
The problem is that there are not nearly enough psychiatrists to go around. How much more suffering must there be for mental health care to be regarded differently in this country? It should be as basic to health care as S.R. visits, as evidenced by a national mental health crisis in various age groups. To start, the U.S. government and medical schools should incentivize medical students to become psychostrians.
PAUL SIEGEL, NEW YORK The writer is a clinical psychologist and an adjunct research professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Rock School of Medicine, University of Southern California.
TO THE EDITOR:
I read Camille Brodsky's article with great sadness. It is another in what seems to be a series of articles documenting the harms caused by psychiatric drugs.
It's true that the "decade of the brain" disappeared on. I am a 70-year-old psychiatrist, and I wonder if science will yield state-hang medications for mental illnesses such as depression, bipolar disorder, C.I. 21, PTSD and schizophrenia — without troubling side effects — before I die. Though we know some basics, finding the perfect combination of medications is as art more than a science.
However, my sadness reading your medication articles that document valid individual patients' points of view arises because my experience and that of my peers vary considerably from your reporting. I stuck by my patients through thick and thin for years, working in that the right mix of medicines for each one. When someone wanted to discontinue a medicine, or I thought they ought to, we tapered it slowly to avoid as many unpleasant symptoms as possible.
Some of my patients feel that their medications are — literally — lifesaving. I wish you would feature articles from that perspective.
ROBIN WEISS, BALTIMORE
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OPINION
My Summer of Haunting Cemeteries
Will McGrath
The author of the books "Farewell Transmission: Notes From Hidden Spaces" and "Everything Lost in Found Again."
I DO NOT, my family and I hiked out to a pioneer cemetery near Duluth, Minn., being the consulting St. Louis River. The wall of trees opened onto a clearing that was studied with crumbling tenderness and crumpled agate delights: "Why are we here again?" my 9-year-old asked. She has ashore hair chopped at the garden and believes fervently to magic. At her question, my 16 and 18-year-olds sighed and cast their gaze skyward, in a way that conveyed the great depths of their filial respect. They had heard my answer many times already.
Lately I've been haunting the graveyards of the Upper Midwest like the high school girls (a) I never was. This is not out of any particular gloominess or moribund tilt to my personality. In fact, despite the daily harvest of our nation's perma-wars and the expanding golf between the rich and the poor, I remain — generally, and sometimes unwillingly — an opinion. But over the past year I've taken to seedling the necropolis. I find the practice steadying, a kind of forest bathing. Lakewood Cemetery, near my house in Minneapolis, is deeply calming — a sheltered and shatensonic in the city. Take a jaunt through your local cemetery this August, and you will find the jittery rhythms of the modern world recede, the physiological universe of being on your place.
Some days I wander Lakewood trying to imagine the life of someone like Libbie Storer, whose simple white stone indicates she died at the age of 28 in the year 1873 — an unknowable inner universe, a brief life, long ago concluded. Some days I take a camp chair and set up office hours beneath an ash. This May, my only clients were a family of turkeys: one rented in the shade of the Carlscent canned markers, three paid their respects to the State family, three more to the Langes. Their war-fies swoop in the breeze, a bare iridescence along their neck feathers. They looked like dinosaurs. The comatone mouths hung agape in the heat, low we lost all ugly in our grief. I suppose I should note that it's been a rough year and a half in Minnesota.
In June of 2025, the Twin Cities awoke to the more that overnight, a shorter had assassinated a Minnesota state representative, Melissa Hartman, and her husband in their home, and seriously wounded State Senator John Hoffman and his wife in their home, leading to a statewide muehunt. The killer was captured two days later failing in a first.
Two and a half months later, my quiet South Minneapolis neighborhood was devastated by the Annunciation Catholic School shooting, which left two children dead and 28 people wounded.
The day before that, I had been at the site of a different mass shooting, a man had lived dozens of rounds from a high-powered rifle into a crowd on a street corner, killing one and wounding on. I work as a mental health crisis responder for the city of Minneapolis, and my partner and I were called to the scene to provide emotional support for some children who witnessed the event. An officer led us past a part of blood up to a second-floor apartment where a mother and two small children were waiting.
The family had heard the shooting just below them and took cover. Through a Spanish-speaking interpreter, the older child, a girl who was maybe 6, said us about the screaming. The other child, a boy who was maybe 6, eyed us silently and said nothing. After a few minutes, he went into his kitchen and returned with a package of Spangolish Squarelloan gummy snacks, which he handed to me worldwide.
In December, agents from ICE and other federal agencies descended on the Twin Cities.
Perhaps it's not so strange, then, to have spent the last year considering the ways death arrives unannounced.
When summer came, we were looking for a change. I had been working out an idea to my past that seemed within the reasonable bounds of weirdness. As my wife and I planted our annual family road trip, I made my pitch: a cemetery tour of the Midwest? It would be fun! It would be appropriate for our fiscal moment, too, considering the soaring prices of literally all things. Summer becomes increasingly inaccessible each year, posts gated and membership-barred, summer camps requiring mortgages or perhaps loan sharks. But the honeyself is always free.
My wife took in the proposal, can her gaze skyward to a way that conveyed the great depths of her marital piety, and said, "Sure." "It's cemetery summer," I whispered and pumped my fist.
A few days after my wife agreed to the plan, I found an even more willing audience for my rockmanate scheme. I was working a shift with the mental health crisis response team,
which I do part-time. My partner that day was Colter Flangain. Colter is outside in many ways: a family 9 that it Minnesota with bright mischievous eyes, wary black hair and a dark beard with a mustache that curly up, rakishly at the corners of his mouth. He looks a bit like Captain Hook, if the captain were a fun bang.
In addition to working as a behavioral crisis responder, Colter was completing his discourse in counseling psychology, and he was enthusiastic when I told him about my vision of a cemetery-correct family road trip. As we cruised around the city responding to calls, Colter told me about his academic research, which involved death and killing and mental well-being. Recently, he'd been interviewing death deaths and people near the end of life. The more people I've spoke to, the more he felt we spend ten little time contemplating our mortality.
It does seem that we've never been more culturally terrified in a knowledge-death and aging, our own cybersecurity. Cosmetic augmentation is an an unprecedented rise for young people. We are forever being an assured that 40 is the new 25, or 70 is the new 40 (which by my sixth-grade mark also makes 70 the new 20 — confusing!); We live in a time when tech targets attempt to outrun death. Biobarking themselves via infusions of their children's blood plasma, like something out of a handwind fairy tale.
My wife teaches an undergraduate medical anthropology class and such year asks for students what they know about their parents and grandparents' wishes regarding end-of-life decisions. Each year, most of the students say they've never discussed it.
Colter acknowledged how uncomfortable it can be to grapple with what he called the "ex-imental dread" of dying. He had come to the opinion that it was a privilege to be able to confront your death honestly. Many people never get that chance, living lives partly asleep, distracted into oblivion, dying suddenly, called of consciousness by illness or accident.
The topic was personal for Colter. When he was 25, one of his best friends died in a skiing accident: "That experience shook me to my core," he said, at that time, Colter had been struggling with addiction, much to a destructive version of his life. He got clean and reoriented his phantom.
One hot summer day, when we were working together, I noticed he had the words "we means men" summed across his thigh. It was shorty season, "I always want to remember that," Colter said. "Yes, too, will die someday. Medicine on the last." For him, this act of daily contemplation was not marked, but ensuing, "it's to inspire you, inflame you. To ask the questions of yourself: Is this the person I want to be? Are these the actions I want to be taking?"
So we embarked on a summer road trip, my wife, our three children and I, off to confront
Skipping the beach and heading to the graveyard brought me strange solace.
our personal dentists. (Here I can sense American grandpas asking their newspaper beside the armchair, looking over/up their collective reading glasses and asking if we visited Centydequy. (Mrs., we did not.)
We confined through Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa and Illinois. On Machine Island, in Wisconsin, we visited the La Pointe Indian Cemetery, shoved up against thundering Lake Superior. The grounds there are populated with tilted noise and lifeless spirit houses, low wooden structures covering bark of spurs. The cemetery is cordoned off by a monoliness achieved with heads and bungles, strips of cloth and bark, plastic fingers and non-dried stuffed animals. We stood at the boundary and did not cross.
On Machine Island, Ohio, in Lake Harow, we saw the graves of people who had been dead for 200 years. As we wandered in that sylvan cemetery, my 9-year-old youths told she would die by "wrecking hell," which is not a phrase I encountered on other meditations along the way.
During our outpurs, we saw grave markers etched with angels, with horses, with big-rig sontis, with Santa Claus, with the legs of the Detroit Lasso. People died in infancy and in the War of 1812, by falling through ice and by gunshot. On the northern shore of Lake Michigan, we visited the Gros Cap Cemetery, which claims to be the oldest continuously used cemetery in the United States of America. The land had been a burial ground for Antifixiaube people in far back as the 1600s, and for Michiganders an recently on the 2020s.
We talked about what might be a good way to die, or what that could even mean, and what we wanted done with our bodies after we were dead. Eventually the kids accepted that I was not going to stop talking about cemetery summer and engaged, in their own roundabout ways. Our 10-year-old, who lives cooking, settled on his final state: cremated and then sifted into the dough for his hand-pulled linguias recipe. "You know how there's equal ink spaghetti?" he said. "Like that."
By the end of the trip, I had begun to notice little cemeteries everywhere, humble kits beside rural highways, scenic beaches dedicated to people long past, impromptu motor-tails at the hours of telephone poles. Everywhere there were lives that had been lived and commemorated. I understood this as a way of encountering the world: to remain attuned to the ghosts native to that place.
Back at the beginning of our cemetery summer, my family and I had spent some time among the pioneer graves near Duluth. Then we hiked on, down a farm-based trail and across a long canyon of pine needles that were burnt orange and roasting in the sun. I was thinking about a passage from the novel "Orbital," by Samantha Harvey, which won the Booker Prize in 2025. The novel tells the story of its astronauts aboard a space station. Dr. Harvey describes an astronaut drifting between sleep and waking, observing Earth beyond the fliss shell of the space station: "Our lives have an inorganically trivial and momentous at once," he thinks. "We matter greatly and not at all... Some metal separates us from the void, death is an item. Life is everywhere, everywhere."
My kids were changing down the trail, trying to top one another in a control of narrowly-dumb pans, cracking themselves up. It was the same kind of nonsense I could remember doing with my own siblings. The five of us schlipped around into the glorious day, and life went on, for a little while.
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JOHN FERRIS, MICHIGAN, 1/23/26
Brickell, Miami's downtown financial district, includes shopping and restaurants.
For the first time, living in South Florida costs more than in the New York City region, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
The bureau, part of the Department of Commerce, published the finding in a July update to the Regional Price Partition (R.P.P.) index, which compares living expenses among geographic areas, including goods, housing, utilities and other services. The update is based on 2024 data.
The index compares expenses relative to the national average. San Francisco topped the list of all U.S. metropolitan areas, with costs of 15.6 percent over the average. Miami followed at about 14.1 percent over; Los Angeles at 13.5 and New York at 12.5 percent over. Because R.P.P. numbers combine the economies of cities and their surrounding areas, Miami proper was not directly compared with notoriously pricey New York City.
According to Raymond Lord, a Miami real estate broker, people in the area feel the pressure of the rising cost of living. "We definitely go out less; we cook in more," he said.
That pressure comes even as rents in Miami are on the decline. "We did see rental prices come down a substantial amount, but the cost of living prices didn't go anywhere," Mr. Lord said.
Rising expenses in South Florida can be traced to the 2022 post-pandemic boom. While local economies suffered during the lockdown, Miami experienced growth, fueled by relocations and laser restrictions that allowed its businesses to stay open. Notably, Florida also lacks a state
Most Expensive Metros
The 10 most expensive U.S. metropolitan areas based on the costs of goods, housing, utilities and other services, according to U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
| Metro area | New York living expenses account the national average |
|---|---|
| 1. San Francisco | 15.6% |
| 2. Miami | 14.1% |
| 3. Los Angeles | 13.5% |
| 4. New York | 12.5% |
| 5. Napa, Calif. | 12.5% |
| 6. San Diego | 11.8% |
| 7. Seattle | 11.1% |
| 8. Urban Honolulu | 10.9% |
| 9. Oxnard, Calif. | 10.5% |
| 10. San Jose, Calif. | 10.4% |
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The New York Times
income tax, an incentive for high-net-worth individuals to relocate.
While living expenses may be climbing, demand isn't waning. "People are willing to wait and pay for insane things," Mr. Lord said. "I don't see companies being pressured to lower prices anytime soon."
For South Florida's growing roster of billionaires, those prices aren't without a market. What's a $20-ensemble when Miami's homes are going for tens of millions?
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My Neighbor Installed a Camera Pointing to My Yard. Is That Legal?
JOHN FERRIS
In January, my spouse was walking our dog on our wooded property in Carroll County, Md., when our neighbor's dog came onto our property, killed our dog and injured my husband. We do not engage with these neighbors, though one of them seems to want a reaction from us and encourages the dog to bark at us when we are in view. Now, our landscaper came upon a camouflaged camera pointed directly into our totally secluded and private backyard, which we believe was put there to intimidate us or spy on us. Is this legal? What can we do?
Where the camera is placed, what it can capture, who placed it there and why it was installed all matter.
"A security camera on a neighbor's property that incidentally captures part of a neighboring yard is different from a deliberately concealed camera positioned to monitor a secluded backyard," said Markus Rauscheiber, executive director of the
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Center for Cyber, Health and Hazard Strategies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Maryland prohibits the use of cameras to conduct surveillance of others' homes (including their yards). The offender must receive a "reasonable warning" or a request to stop, and continue with the surveillance, for the behavior to be considered a violation of the law. The infraction is a misdemeanor and can result in fines or time in prison.
If the camera was placed to harass, arson, alarm or intimidate, you could pursue legal action to have it removed, but proving ill intent could be difficult. The law may be interpreted and applied differently across the state, depending on the jurisdiction, said David Hide, a lawyer with Lewisky, O'Connor, Hunt & Meiner, LLC, in Fulton, Md.
"All judges' tolerance for things is different," Mr. Hide said.
To establish that the camera is part of a campaign of harassment, keep a log of negative encounters with your neighbor. You could speak with a lawyer about your case, and receive guidance on pursuing criminal charges or filing for a peace order, a civil action that could ensure the neighbor stays away from you. Such orders need to be requested within 30 days from the instigating episode, and they generally last for six months. For both criminal and civil cases, your neighbors will be notified so they can present a defense. If you lose, you won't benefit from a legal remedy, and the relationship is likely to get worse.
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$2,695,000
SUFFOLK 100 Flaggy Hole Road This three bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath house built in 2015 has an open floor plan with a living area and an eat-in kitchen. The primary-on-suite bedroom has a vaulted ceiling and a gas fireplace. A finished basement includes a gym. The property, 0-17 of an acre, is fenced in back. Jennifer Wilson, Saunders & Associates; hamptonsrealestate.com
TAXES $9,463 a year
PROS There is lush landscaping throughout the property, which is within walking distance of Flaggy Hole Beach. The primary bedroom has his and hers bathrooms.
CONS There is no garage. Two of the bedrooms are on the lower level, which may not be desirable.
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This four bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath, 3,208-square-foot 1980 house has a main-level kitchen with balcony and an on-suite bedroom. Upstairs is an office, and below are a red, room and three bedrooms. The 1,101-acre property includes decks, Ed Villedz, William Pitt, Julia B. Fee Sotheby's International; willamptt.com
TAXES $12,110 a year
PROS The house includes a new roof and new mechanicals, bathrooms, windows and doors. It is about a 30-minute drive to Stamford's Metro-North station.
CONS The backyard is sloped and densely wooded. The distribution of the bedrooms may not suit all.
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MANHATTAN 40 East 30th Street, No. 129
A two-bedroom, two-bath, 1,173-square-foot condo with a large kitchen, a primary suite, a washer/dryer, two terraces and central heat and air-conditioning. It's on the 12th floor of a 15-story prewar building with a part-time doorman, a visiting super and storage. Lucy Wu, Corcoran Group; corcoran.com
COMMON CHARGES $2,187 a month; taxes, $1,754 a month; assessment, $193 a month through June 2027 and $202 a month through May 2030
PROS There's ample sunlight from three exposures. The bedrooms each have two closets.
CONS The terraces are small.
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$600,000
MANHATTAN 333 East 53rd Street, No. 5H
A one-bedroom, one-bath, 825-square-foot apartment with an eat-in kitchen and a walk-in closet. It's on the fifth floor of a 13-story prewar doorman building with a live-in super, a gym and a roof deck. Amy Lee, Sotheby's International Realty; sothebyorealty.com
MAINTENANCE $2,048 a month; No tax. 2 persons of the purchase price, paid by the super
PROS A charming bench seat is set beneath a casement window in the living room. The floors are newly refinanced. The bedroom is spacious.
CONS The bedroom lacks a closet.
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$1,950,000
BROOKLYN 674 East 24th Street, A six-bedroom, two-acre, a half-bath, 3,864-square-foot attached 1920 house with formal living and dining rooms, a pantry, a windowed eat-in kitchen, a large primary bedroom, an unfinished basement, a two-car garage and a fenced yard. Janice Cimberg and Michael Petrosino, Corcoran Group; corcoran.com
TAXES $10,290 a year
PROS There are nice detailed hardwood floors and stained-glass windows. The first two floors have air-conditioning.
CONS The kitchen could use an update, and the backyard needs a green thumb.
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A Palm Beach County village is enhancing its status as an elite equestrian hub with new development.
By TARA LOADER WILKINSON
Like many elite equestrians, the German Olympic gold medalists show jargon Christian Kukuk is nomadic. He says, "50-50-70-seeed," all over Europe," with Mianne, Germany, as a home base from June through December, and for the rest of the year, in the Palm Beach County village of Wellington, Fla. To each location, he travels with an on-savage of around 10 barres, including his champion, Chaches, and a few grooms and trisieres.
To date, Mr. Kukuk, 36, has enjoyed the travel, that the birth of his daughter, and over a year ago shifted his perspective. "It is not so easy to travel with a t-ence old every weekend," Mr. Kukuk said. "It can be disruptive and exhausting. We are going to have to figure it out."
Life for Mr. Kukuk might soon get more settled. Wellington, home to the 50-year-old Winter Equestrian Festival, where stars of the sport compete for 100 million in prize money, is buying a beautiful and beautiful destination for equestrians. Over the next 18 months, an investment of more than $750 million will bring 100 million to the city, such as road improvements, luxury apartments and an 46,000-square-foot covered arena, all of it with an eye toward sharing up Wellington's position as a hub of elite equestrians actively.
From December to March, some 25,000 people connected to the equestrian industry and as many as 9,000 factors gather in Wellington for drainage and history (amper competition), twisting up a 9,000-9,000-62,000 for the 13-week season. Many of these equestrians have purchased homes in the area. Long-term residents include Bruce Springsmore's daughter, Jessica, and Michael Bloomberg's daughter Georgina.
The sport does big business. In 2023 the equestrian industry contributed $677 billion to the U.S. economy — around nine times more annual revenue than the National Football League — according to data from the American Horse Council. And real return is essential for equestrian competitors. Harries and their teams, which include wits, barriers and grooms, need stables and space for competitions. Some other travel with safe life filters, equine play-in/emergency and decision. Competitors are willing to move if that's what it takes.
"Equestrian families are driving more high-end sales here," said David Weller of Equestrian University's International Realty, who bought in Wellington. If years ago to support his daughter's show jumping across the new bus a batting bar a six-acre farm in Grand Prix Village with 22 stalls, a two-bedroom staff operator, and a 2,000-bedroom owners' quarters, for $15.9 million. "It backs onto the Wellington International show grounds, so that's not headstone."
But Wellington has struggled to establish only accommodate increasing crowds, said Michael Stone, 66, the president of Welling-
PHOTO: KILROY HARRIS
From top: Wellington, Fla., which attracts thousands of people and horses each winter; the gold medalists Christian Kukuk, one of many home factors in the area, is exploring of proposed roads and retail development.
An International, an equestrian venue.
"Our facilities were old and got crowded; it gave me main competitor, Drakis, an opportunity to come and out some of our needs," he said, referring to the Florida town's four-hour drive away. In 2021 the World Equestrian Center opened there, becoming the largest equestrian facility in the United States.
The race for a competitive edge ignored Wellington's village council to approve the $750 million development. Even Wellington (Lifestyle Partners, that will include the first priced from $5 million, expanded show grounds, a commercial marketplace with a boutique hotel, shops, restaurants and office space, and some $10 million of traffic improvements).
The development, in partnership with 50/25/5 Luxury Collection, the global hospitality and real estate company founded by Cape Woods, from 436, Joe Lewis and Joe De Tumerilato, aims to attract residents of the most equestrians. "We hope it will help people have a full life with kids and a set routine," said Paige Bellissimo Nubio, 34, president and partner of Wellington Lifestyle Partners, and a former amateur decal jumper.
The investments will hopefully help establish a year-round economy for the community said Jim Barnes, Wellington's village manager. "That evolution can help to reinforce Wellington's status as the global capital of equestrian sport," he said.
As part of the deal, the residential and commercial construction can begin only once the new equestrian facility is up and running. Set unique this November, the updated home show will expand to 100 acres more if other equestrian sub-developed woodland was rezoned in 2024. Show entrances will double to four flushes will increase both in size and number, to 500 from 100, and the parking lot capacity will expand to 2,000 vehicles from 700.
Competitions will take place in one larger facility rather than two separate ones, which competitors need to ride or drive between. The new covered arena will also help horses, which are vulnerable to extreme temperatures, during the summer, when light in the low 90s are typical. (The ideal temperature for sport facilities is between 100 and 90 degrees.)
The new development has not been without controversy, since some details the equestrian community. Some oppose that nearly 100 acres for the homes are being re-allocated from the village's Equestrian Province, a 9,000-acre area named to prioritize a rural atmosphere and equine facilities over dense commercial development.
"We are gaining exactly nothing," said Lauren Brady, 40, a resident, real estate agent and equestrian who owns four show jumping spaces. "Some people will gain tremendously, but it won't be better for the horse community. My question is, who are we building, isn't it harmful of obnoxious billionaires who said the homes weren't nice enough?"
Ms. Barnes, the village manager, said, "The approach were evaluated through the lens of comprehensive planning, economic sustainability, preservation of community character and long-term public benefit," adding that the project included investments in amenities "that are intended to enhance the overall quality of life for residents while supporting one of the region's most important economic regions."
What is the way the Wellington is making me sad? said Randy Haberursel, 71, a former competitor of equestrian, Ms. Haberursel ran a drainage farm for 30 years in the village of Little Batches, a 25-year-old woman who lives in the other Tired of fighting the development, she is selling her home, Haberursel Farm, and moving to the town of the city of the town.
"The problem is that when one developer is allowed to take land from the equestrian preserve, it sets a precedent for others to do so," she said.
There is evidence the development in Wellington have had some victories. Earlier this year, plans to build a new country club and luxury homes on the historic Isla Carroll Pike Mall, by the developer Frank McIntyre, and the project with Discovery Land Company, were rejected on the grounds that they were not centered on equestrian use.
But for some, new development is needed to make Wellington not just a home for their sport but a place to put down room. Four years ago, Mr. Kukuk's wife bought a house in Wellington, where the family lives when at town for competitions. Mr. Kukuk roots a farm and stables for those periods, but he foresore that when his daughter reaches school age, he will buy a farm and stables and settle more permanently. "The nice things in Wellington as we can be a family the whole season," he said.
And there are other reasons equestrians might seek out real estate, such as lodging against the vagaries of horses. "Horses can be used to make the home a case of a sale for," said Andrew Bearns, 42, an Irish international Grand Prix rider and entrepreneur who moved to Florida 17 years ago. He currently owns 10,000 show jumping homes in the Wellington area and now has around 20 more.
Alongside training a successful sport in the 1980s, Mr. Kuk, bought and sold property several times since buying his first small roads in Wellington. Now he is building a large house on 12 acres with 40 stalls for one, eight and to the new arena. "I find real estate is often an easier sell than horses," he said.
The Hunt
A Young Couple Wanted to Stay in Miami, but in a Home of Their Own
Ballooning rent sent them searching for a three-bedroom with a budget of $800,000.
By JILMA ECKERSON
The newlyweds Juan Diego Devia and Hayley Milani Devia faced a common millennial situation last year: They were determined to stay in their hometown, Miami, even as housing costs seemed to be stretching out of their reach.
Mr. Milani Devia, 45, was born in a Florida and joined her family's business, the upscale power Milani Mishien, in 2022. Mr. Devia, 32, grew up in Columbia and moved to Miami in 2023 for college. Six years later, alongside his sister Diana Devia, he opened Devia Juice Bar, which now has two subjects. The couple met in 2026 at a party ముందely one of Mr. Milani Devia's coaches.
As their relationship grew, so did their rent. In 2023, a year before their wedding, the couple moved into a one-bedroom apartment in the Edgewater neighborhood, on the coast of Biscayne Bay, paying about $3,200 a month. When they re-signed the lease that year, it had limited to over $4,000.
"Rent was getting up to what a mortgage payment would be, and we wanted to start building equity," Mr. Milani Devia said.
A sharp rise in the cost of living has pushed many Miami residents toward more affordable prices in Florida. From 2024 to 2025, Miami-Dade County had the nation's third-largest population decline, according to recent recent data. But the Devia received to end.
They hired Santiago Rodriguez, a friend of Mr. Devia's and the founder of the property management firm Staples, as their broker. They wanted a three-bedroom home, since they envisioned starting a family. A single family house would be built, but they were open to townhouses. They didn't look at stables, which typically came with many homeowners' association fees.
They moved to an Shenandoah, one of Miami's oldest districts, and nearby weightier-house. Their budget was about $800,000. Among their options:
- UPDATES TWO-STORY TOWNHOUSE
This three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom townhouse with 2,200 square feet had a new kitchen and bathroom. Elementary, the common spaces had shed floors, small windows and glass doors leading out to a fenced yard. Upstairs, the bedrooms had wood floors and the primary suite came with an en-suite bathroom. A balcony overlooked the courtyard below. A busy ther-
The Buyers Juan Diego Devia and Hayley Milani Devia, who married in 2024.
'Rent was getting up to what a mortgage payment would be,' she says, 'and we wanted to start building equity.'
The Options
A two-story, three-bedroom townhouse was 2,200 square feet. The kitchen and bathrooms were new. It had a balcony and two parking spaces.
This 1,820-square-foot, three-bedroom home had a patio, a yard and harricans impact windows.
A 2,205-square-foot townhouse had an open layout downstairs, with three bedrooms upstairs (two with balconies) and its own pool.
neighbors was just around the corner. There were two assigned parking spaces. The price was $750,000, with about $9,150 in annual taxes and a monthly $474 000A fee.
- SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSE
This three-bedroom, two-bathroom house with 1,650 square feet was north of Coral Gables, about 20 minutes from downtown Miami. Built in 1956, the one-story home had an open living and dining area, and a dated kitchen. The property included a patio and a yard. The others had weather-grounds, the house with harricans impact windows and a rental roof. The driveway offered parking. The asking price was $750,000, with annual taxes of about $9,000.
- NEVER TOWNHOUSE WITH A POOL
Built in 1957, this three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bedroom townhouse with 2,255 square feet was the newest of the bunch. The ground floor had an open layout, with a breakfast bar in the kitchen. Upstairs, two of the bedrooms had balconies, and the primary suite had a walk-in closet. The backyard had a private pool, and the home came with an attached one- or garage. The house was about 10 minutes from downtown Miami. The asking price was $800,000, with annual taxes of about $15,000.
THEIR CHOICE
In February, the Devia's decided to offer $800,000 for the townhouse with a pool — nearly $100,000 under the asking price. The others didn't even counter.
After six months of searching they made a $750,000 offer on the single-family house and signed a contract, despite their reservations about the needed updates.
Other new companies didn't find any major issues. But Mr. Rodriguez, their broker, insisted on another to check the gates. It uncovered increased cost-wise plumbing that would need to be replaced, adding submittals to the 1,000-2,000-3,000-4,000-5,000-6.
All the while, the couple had kept an eye on batting and spotted the two-story townhouse ones after 1 to 2 the market. It didn't require much work, they liked the layout and they liked that it was in an 1974.
They offered $770,000, which the seller accepted, down-stade a 10-person down payment and scored a 10-year mortgage. Their monthly costs total $6,300.
"It was just a very long process, and we were crossing our fingers waiting for the right thing to come along," Mr. Milani Devia said. "We just got very lucky."
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KEY WEST INTENDS TO REMAIN A WRITERS' MAGNET
In the land of Ernest Hemingway and Judy Blume, locals are taking steps to preserve and perpetuate this legacy.
By DORIE CHENLEN
In 1933, the poet William Stevens wrote to his friend Harriet Monroe, the editor of Poetry magazine, exasperated: "Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic."
Ernest Hemingway had moved into a sprawling home on Whitehead Street in Key West, Fla., a few years earlier, and he was listened by Robert Frost and the novelist John Don Fawcett. Over the next few years, Tennessee Williams and the poet and short-story writer Elizabeth Bishop would buy properties on the Florida island, connecting for Stevens that Key West was "furiously literary" life left in 1948 never to return.
Where Stevens had worked the "literary and artistic" would bug off, today's Key West residents are buying for the opposite. City officials along with writers, including Judy Blume and Meg Cabot, are leading efforts to draw writers to the island and are pouring money into preserving the legacy of its writerly past.
Some people lovingly refer to Key West as "adriating town with a writing problem." But for years now, the writers have faced difficult circumstances. Within a few months in 2011, three bookstores on the island shut down. In 2014, the literary community faced another setback, when Gordon Richards eliminated all 832 million of arts handing for Florida, forcing arts organizations to loan more heavily on private donations.
And there's the feeling among many that, unlike in Stevens's time, Key West is no longer a place where writers can afford to buy property. Adjusted for inflation, Bishop's house cost her roughly $47,000 in 2020. By contrast, the median price for a single-family house on the island today is $1.8 million.
Ms. Cabot bought her house over 20 years ago, after publishing the first five installments of her "Princess Diaries" series, "it was pretty ridiculous then," she said. "Now it's ridiculous."
Unlike in the past, "unfortunately, you have to be a successful writer to buy" said
Trying to offset rising housing costs and a loss of arts handing.
Lynn Randell, a local real estate agent and the author of "Key West Writers and Their Homes," "You can't be a struggling writer like we were when we first came."
Driving up housing costs in the city's statistically high percentage at nonpermanent residents. Tourism is the largest share of the island's industry with over 30 percent of Key West residents working in hospitality, and roughly 15 percent of housing sales are categorized as seasonal homes at vacation rentals, according to Census Bureau Data. That percentage is higher now than in the past, though it's not a new phenomenon. More of the 2026 nursery writers mentioned above (Frost, Don Fawcett, Stevens) were seasonal residents, as were Truman Capote, Shel Edverston and Ralph Ellison.
Confronted with steadily rising real estate costs, local nonprofits are working to keep parts of the island carved out for artists. In 2008, the nonprofit Studios at Key West bought and renovated an 1980s-era facsimile-analyst for residency program, the Peyton Evans Artist Residency Now called the PEAR House, the space-can accommodate four artists and writers at a time. "Florida's not necessarily known for planning," said Jed Dodds, the executive direc-
ter of the nonprofit. "So we want to make sure that Key West doesn't wake up one morning and have paved over that part of its loss!"
Each resident spends just one month in the PEAR House, but many of them return, sometimes on bank rent, sometimes to stage a play. "Not that it's easy anywhere to make a living as an artist, but it's particularly hard here," Mr. Dodds said. "It's not job to support them however we can."
The Studios at Key West is also now helping fill the void link by the 2011 bookstore takeovers. In 2016, Judy Blume and her husband, George Cooper, founded Books & Books @ The Studios at Key West. Because the store is run as a nonprofit, it is able to avoid steep commercial rent.
Since opening, Books & Books has become a tourist attraction in its own right, with Ms. Blume, who often works in the store, as its unofficial nearest. That comes with some pressure. "I don't want to disappoint people," Ms. Blume said, referring to those who might visit while she's not there. As a commission, a cardboard ruined of Ms. Blume, one arm raised to re-stack a shelf, gets moved around the store, sometimes with a sign promoting banned books. In her absence, visitors "can take a picture with Cardboard Judy" Ms. Blume said. "She's always smiling."
As nonprofits work to ensure Key West's literary future, they are also preserving its past. The wood-frame "eyebrow house" Bishop bought in 2018, with a low roof that hangs over the second-floor windows, was purchased in 2016 by the Key West Literary
Above, the Hemingway Home and Museum in the most well-known literary association in Key West, Fla. Above right, from top: Hemingway worked out of this writing studio; a bathroom includes his second wife's design choices.
Right, the Key West Literary Seminar renovated the Elizabeth Bishop House after buying it for $1.2 million in 2019. Below right, Arts Handed is the nonprofit's executive director.
Below, the Studios at Key West renovated this 1980s-era can be accommodate artists as part of its Peyton Evans Artist Residency. Bottom, a ruined of the author Judy Blume stands in her store, Books & Books.
Seminar, another nonprofit, for $1.2 million. To the delight of many in the literary community, it finally reopened a year ago, after renovations that used Bishop's own letters to guide its historical accuracy.
Under the leadership of Arts Handed, the nonprofit's executive director, the house hosts high school students each summer for a writing program. For Mr. Randell, it was paramount that the house be not just a shrine to the past, but also an incubator for future talent. The programming is designed to "make sure that the literary tradition in Key West is something that's active and vital and ongoing today," he said. "So it's not just something that's part of the history books."
Though some worry about the writing community's survival on the island, Key West's writerly reputation, at least, perseveres. According to Ms. Randell, who was Ms. Blume's real estate agent when she sold her house, "the buyers insisted — they never into the context — they wanted type as of all of Judy Blume's books signed."
In addition to the fishing expeditions and bachelorette parties many finds to the island for, the Hemingway Home and Museum is another popular Key West attraction. Privately owned, it is sustained entirely by ticket revenue, gift shop sales and wedding venue rentals, according to a museum representative. The property's island polyclot/ci cats are of such interest to visitors that the museum is developing up to showcase them.
To further celebrate the writer's legacy on the island, visitors can also attend the an-
nual Hemingway Days festival, which includes a look-alike contest at one of the writer's old haunts, Sloppy Joe's Bar. Other literary tourism activities include a walking tour through Old Town, hosted by the Literary Seminar, that ends at the hypnotically blue seaport, formerly known as the Key West Right, which inspired "The Right," a poem by Bishop.
Ultimately, Key West's beauty — the charming architecture, the blue waters, the fitting song of white-crowned pigeons — is both its appeal and its threat to writers. While writing earlier books in her windowed office, Ms. Blume said, "sometimes I had to face the wall because it's so beautiful outside." These qualities are also what make it so attractive to docking cruise ships, despair-seeding partygoers and millionaires sniffing out second homes.
But the city has always faced some version of these challenges, Mr. Dodds said, and he hopes his nonprofit can accomplish what Key West has as far managed as people never to desire: that "the island changes them more than they change it."
On a recent summer afternoon, a group of high school students sat in the garden behind Bishop's house, discussing sensory descriptions. For one exercise, they are fruit grows on the property, trying to put taste into words. When Bishop lived here, these thick-leaved mango trees and coconut palms weren't even saplings; some sprouted up naturally over the years, loud-scapers planted others. On this day, the trees dropped heavy with fruit, their wide limbs shading the writers below.
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From Marshland to Boomtown
The population of this Miami suburb is growing, and people aren't coming just for the golf.
By RACHEL WRIGHTON
Unless you're into golf or live in South Florida, you may never have heard of Doral, a 15-square-mile city wedged between Miami International Airport and the sultry green expanse of the Everglades.
That would be understandable. This rapidly growing city — home to large employers like Carnival Cruise Lines, boldly landscaped suburban neighborhoods and a vibrant new downtown district — is only 23 years old.
"It's kind of my baby, in a way," said Juan Carlos Bermudez, the founding mayor, new director representing the city as a member of the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners.
Fifty years ago, Doral was mostly nameless marshland. The city's roots sprouted in the 1980s, when the developer Alfred
Downtown Doral, above and top, includes homes, schools, government buildings, health care facilities and a shopping corridor.
Kankel and his wife, Doris, converted several hundred acres into a country club, hotel and golf courses that they called Doral, a combination of their first names. That site, at the eastern edge of the city, eventually became the Trump National Doral Miami, which has a history of hosting the PGA Tour.
Large private communities began to blossom nearby over the next few decades, including several developed by the Kankel family.
When Mr. Bermudez moved to Doral in the late 1990s, it was still an unincorporated area of Miami-Dade County, with a mix of private residential neighborhoods and large commercial or industrial businesses. Promised by a lack of basic city services, like parks and schools, Mr. Bermudez and others worked to achieve city incorporation in 2002.
"It was a lot of work," Mr. Bermudez said about turning the patchwork of communities and businesses into a city with a library, a city hall, public schools, good roads and a network of parks, including miles of bike and walking trails connecting the city's neighborhoods, even some gated ones.
During this decades-long undertaking the city converted a former landfill on the edge of the city into green space, and
Location West of Miami and Hialeah, between Miami International Airport and the Everglades.
Population 81,834, up nearly 79 percent since 2010 (U.S. Census Bureau)
Area 15 square miles
Housing 47 percent meter occupied (U.S. Census Bureau)
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worked with Codina Partners, a local real estate developer, to convert an older business park into Downtown Doral, a 250-acre mixed-use neighborhood.
That high-density community was intended to be the center of Doral, said Ana-Marie Codina, the third executive of Codina Partners. It has high-rise rental apartments, townhouses, single family homes, new charter schools, government buildings, health care centers and a shopping corridor. The first residents arrived in 1981, and it quickly became the fastest-growing part of the city.
Corrigios Antunes and Manuel Lepe moved there from a nearby area of Doral about a decade ago. Mr. Lepe appreciates the neighborhood's walkability, care to greater Miami outside of expensive areas like South Beach or older neighborhoods like Coral Gables.
That busy urban-village atmosphere was one reason Carlos Centurion, a restaurateur, opened migrants of two of his Miami restaurants, Bella Gatordear and Pisco Y Nance, in Downtown Doral.
Mr. Bermudez, the former mayor, considers the arrival of fine dining as among the biggest signs of the city's success. Another, he said, is that some places now claim the name Doral even though they're technically outside the city limits.
Going Out and About
Restaurants High-end restaurants and local chains downtown include Bella Gatordear, serving Spanish-style tapas. Heterogeneous in smaller shopping centers include Peplish Plaza, in Doral Isles, with residents golf, in the parking lot over Veranine Bar bus food and cabreline (day cups of sweet strong coffee). On the northern, still industrial edge of town, La Esquina del Lechile Park and Insal. House serves slow-mounted park as players and fast-bog sandwiches.
Callers The new Doral Cultural Arts Center, downtown, offers air art gallery, performance and gardens. Greater Miami offers myriad museums, galleries, performance spaces and cultural events.
Recreation Along with the golf, beach and housing of greater Miami, Doral has miles of bike trails, nature preserves and many community parks. Morgan Levy Park is one of several with large playgrounds, courts and hall fields.
Shopping There are ample big-box stores, supermarkets, and strip malls with independent operators. Downtown has a growing number of specialized boutiques.
Downtown Doral Park.
Getting There,
Getting Around
The commute Downtown Miami is 20 minutes to just over an hour away by car.
Car Florida's Turnpike and state routes and highways connect Doral to Interstates 85 and 75.
Papa Airport's Amtrak station is six miles east in Hialeah. The Miami Memorial and Metro-leaver train lines connect water neighborhoods to downtown and reach Hialeah and the airport. The Florida Tri-Rail system runs between Miami and Palm Beach County with an airport stop.
Airports Miami International Airport is at Doral's southeastern border. Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is a 40-minute drive northside.
Bike Parks connect some neighborhoods, but cycling is not a primary means of transportation.
Neighborhoods
Downtown Doral A new walkable district near entertainment and city services, with many housing options.
Doral Isles A gated community along the Everglades with large townhouses and single-family residences from the late 1980s to early 2000s, with mean-style amenities, private bike access and immunized landscaping.
Doral Park A complex a few miles from Downtown Doral, with suburban subdivisions built around a country club.
West Doral Near the Everglades, with newer developments made up of low-rise apartment buildings or townhouses and convenient to shopping centers.
Housing
Average monthly rent About $2,013 for a studio to $3,550 for a three-bedroom.
Median sale price $617,500
Residences in Downtown Doral.
Schools
Public Schools Doral is served by the Miami-Dade County Public School System. Schools include Ronald W. Reagan Doral Senior High School, J.C. Bermudez, Doral Senior High School, Dr. Rolando Espinosa K-8 Center, Downtown Doral Upper Charter School, Downtown Doral Charter Elementary and Doral Academy.
Private Schools Median Academy is a K-12 Catholic school. Divine Savior Academy, a K-12 Christian school, has a Doral campus. Key Point Academy serves toddlers through pre-K.
Higher Education Miami Dade College-West Campus and Doral College are in Doral. Greater Miami is home to Florida International University and the University of Miami.
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MIAMI'S SKYLINE IS GETTING SUPER TALL
At least 10 new skyscrapers will be built in the next five years. Is that such a good idea?
By DANIELS GORRY
In July, Cipriani Residences, in the Brickell neighborhood, became the tallest building in Miami and the tallest residential building south of New York City. At 898 feet, it edged out the previous titleholder, the nine-year-old Passerama Tower, by 82 feet.
The Cipriani will be surpassed by the Waldorf Astoria Residences in 2026. By 2030, the Waldorf will be matched by Miami Riverbridge, Dales & Gabbana and One Bayfront, all expected to top out at around 1,048 feet, the current height limit set by the Federal Aviation Administration to allow for safe flight paths in and out of Miami International Airport.
Superlalls (skyscrapers over 884 feet) and megalalls (buildings taller than 1,906 feet) are still relatively rare engineering anomalies. Currently, megalalls exist only in Asia and the Middle East.
Miami's entry into this elite tier signals a new era for the city. "I need to say that Miami was having a moment, but I don't know that you can have a moment," he five years," said Ryan Slaus, a managing partner on the development firm FMG, which is building the Waldorf Astoria Residences, the city's first superlab. "I think Miami is having a revolution."
Other skyscrapers in the works include the Delano Residences (965 feet), the new headquarters of the Citadel bridge-hard firm
As demand for real
estate rises, available head is harder to find.
(958 feet), the Ohio Tower (963 feet), the Residences at 1425 Brickell (961 feet), 609 Brickell (886 feet), Baccarat Residences (848 feet) and the Mercedes-Benz Residences (773 feet). The Aston Martin Residences in Brickell was completed in 2024 and stands at 821 feet. A video rendering of President Trump's proposed presidential library in downtown Miami shows a building towering over the city's skyline, but the exact height has not been revealed.
Miami's rapid development can sometimes feel at odds with the geographic and geological realities of the area. Florida is a largely flat, low-fying subtropical land more threatened by rising sea levels, warming waters and hurricanes that continue to get stronger.
But as demand for real estate in Miami has skyrocketed, available land has become harder to find. Luis Ramirez, a structural engineer and managing principal at Delimore Consulting Engineering, the structural engineering firm behind the Aston Martin Residences, explained that 20 years ago developers could easily find full blocks to build on, but today, he said, "project sites have gotten a whole lot smaller." In make a profit and maximize space, he added, developers have no choice but to build vertically.
Mr. Ramirez also pointed out that South Florida was "developer friendly," and that permitting could take months rather than the years it might in place like California.
Gil Deane, the president of Deane Development, and a partner in the upcoming Baccarat Residences in downtown Miami, said that going taller allowed his company to "oppress the last piece of ability" out of a site and create premium units with unobstruct-
Left, the Cipriani Residences became the tallest building in Florida in July, though it won't be completed until next year.
ed ocean views that clear neighboring buildings.
There is also an aesthetic and ego-driven appeal to reshaping the city. "I love watching TV shows where they show Miami and they flash by my buildings," said Mr. Deane, who has also developed buildings in nearby Sunny Isles Beach. Similarly, developer Camdis Miguel of Main Capital views his Cipriani building as an opportunity to "make an impact on Miami's skyline."
The cash in development has some experts worried. South Florida, like much of the state, sits on a bed of porous limestone
Miami Grows Taller
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and sand that requires a good deal of engineering to stabilize. The foundations for skyscrapers, especially city tall ones, must be much deeper and wider than usual.
"Constructing these foundations requires powerful, specialized equipment and is very expensive," said Juan-Pierre Bardet, the former state of the University of Miami College of Engineering. "The technology and engineering capability exist, but design assumptions must be verified and construction quality must be carefully controlled."
In 2024, the University of Miami published a study about how high-rise towers on Miami's barrier islands, specifically in Sunny Isles Beach, were settling, or sinking, more than expected, many years after construction had been finished.
The study hypothesized that one of the primary reasons for this excessive settlement was that the vibrations of nearby construction, combined with Florida's unique geology at Limestone and sand, could cause the sand to rearrange itself and get more compact.
Falk Amelang, a professor of geophysics at the University of Miami, and one of the main authors in the study, noted that in Eu-
rope routine monitoring of building settlement via satellite was common, but that was not the case in the United States, where "it's difficult to get funding."
"Engineers monitor the ground to some extent during construction, but not so much in the years after — which is when we found this settlement is still occurring," he said.
In San Francisco, the Millennium Tower needed to be stabilized many years after construction because of excessive sinking and tilting caused by nearby construction and a deficient foundation system, Several years later the tower is still leaning significantly.
Hurricane winds also represent an annexed variable for Miami's new wave of tall skyscrapers. Although these buildings are designed according to building codes, advanced structural analysis and wind-rumed testing, many have never experienced a direct strike in real-world conditions.
"Maximum sustained winds in a major hurricane affecting South Florida could exceed 175 miles per hour," Dr. Bardet said. "Wind effects become increasingly significant as buildings grow taller." Miami has not been directly hit by a major hurricane since Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
But high-rise construction in Miami is showing an signs of slowing down, and developers continue to push forward. "If you stand on a street corner in New York and close your eyes, it's going to feel and look very similar in five years," said Erik Rutter, one of the founders of the development firm Oak Bow Equities, which has rights to develop several superlalls in Brickell. "In Miami, that's not the case. It's going to be radically different."
And the skyline might not be close to being tapped out. Mr. Ramirez, the structural engineer, noted that when he began his career, the height limit for skyscrapers was 658 feet. "As time went along, developers wanted to push higher, and they lobbied to find areas of the city where you could go taller," he said. "I'm sure that developers will try to push on that, too."
Note: An asterisk indicates an estimated completion date.
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DID A DEADLY DISASTER END THE FLORIDA CONDO 'DREAM'?
Sweeping reforms should make buildings safer, but only if homeowners can afford them and condominium boards can agree on enforcement.
'We were under the impression that this was it, that you're not going to ask for more money.'
FRENDA TEIXEIRA
By JULIA ECKERSON
Theresa Teixeira thought she was done worrying about the rising cost of her waterfront condominium in Florida. Since 2023, her building's association has been charging $328 a month for structural repairs required under new state laws.
The fees scratched for budget, but she coped by picking up extra work and scaled back contributions to her retirement savings, adjusting to her new reality.
Then this spring, the board came back again: It needed more funds.
"It's like a game of 'What-a-Mide,' Ms. Teixeira said in a recent interview. 'We were under the impression that this was it — that you're not going to ask for more money, and not your job.'"
Ms. Teixeira's experience isn't unique among condo owners in Florida.
This year is the fifth anniversary of the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South building in Sarfade, Fla. Inspections are now mandatory; condo owners must fund structural repairs and save for future renovations. The aim of the reforms, which were enacted in 2022, was to end bad practices within condo boards, the group of exit owners elected to manage a building.
After the reforms passed, The New York Times visited condo owners to see how they were managing the additional expenses associated with the new safety guidelines. At that point, they were on a precipice. Two years later, we revisited some of them. Have they managed to run the financial guardist, or sunk deeper into insecurity?
Proponents say the changes were long overdue, but as the rules now go into effect, many are still making peace with the fact that owning a condo has become exceedingly more expensive, with no end in sight.
Florida long prospered by selling a dream, offering affordable housing under a year-round sun for retirees and vacations are, Now, that promise is becoming clouded into a dailable changes. Not majorities to Florida has clearly slowed into peaking in 2022 during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the new regulations have caused the cost of owning a condo to skyrocket, deterring prospective buyers.
"Sarfade marked a generalizmal change," said Peter Zalewski, a condo analyst, referring to the collapse. "The hammer has been laid down, and now you can't get away with the same skill."
The tragedy, which killed 90 people, became one of the deadliest building failures in American history. While federal investigators have identified likely subjects specific to the 12-story structure, namely its
Above center, supply chain disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic caused the cost of building materials, and therefore of repairs, to skyrocket. Above, the tragedy in Sarfade became one of the deadliest building failures in American history.
faulty design and construction, the collapse also illustrated something all we contend in Florida condo buildings: infighting. For years, the owners had hurtled over, and delayed, renovations. The cost eventually rose to $15 million, averaging about $104,300 per unit, a sum that many said they could not afford.
Before the disaster, boards were not obligated to have sufficient savings, which kept monthly fees low, but often left the buildings without funds for important repairs. Only two counties required that condo buildings even undergo structural reviews. In practice, the regulations were loosely enforced. Today, all Florida condo buildings taller than two stories and at least 30 years old must pass inspections every 30 years.
"We had to ensure that another Sarfade doesn't happen again," Vishi Lopez, a former state representative who spearheaded the reforms, said 283 Miami last year. (Representatives for Ms. Lopez, a Republican who now serves as a Miami-Dade County commissioner, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)
While condo owners agree that reforms were needed, many fear the financial toll, including Marianne Metscheid. Since 2002, she has owned an outpatient, one-bedroom condo at the Four Winds building in Sarfade, near the Champlain building. In 2024, Ms. Metscheid's board killed her nearly $28,000 to pay for renovations tied to the reforms. She said she was able to pay the invoice only by taking out an interest-free
Here you have 140 people, and it's a lot like herding cats."
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loan from Miami-Dade County.
But like Ms. Teixeira, Ms. Metscheid's cost of ownership is still piling up. In April, her board notified residents that another bid, mandated by the fire department, would be coming to pay for repairing the sprinklers. Ms. Metscheid anticipates that the project could cost $2 million. This time, she will not be able to get a county loan.
The mounting costs have forced Ms. Metscheid to make adjustments. She's put off replacing her kitchen, bathroom and 20-year-old carpeting, and cut her out to meet. She still has to contend with rising insurance premiums. "This is very stressful," Ms. Metscheid said. "I hope that I'll be able to stay in my retirement home."
Despite the new regulations, infighting and inefficiency on boards, which had been leading reasons that renovations were delayed, persist. According to Ms. Metscheid, the board of her building had initially told residents that the structural renovations would take about two years; now they're expected to take another.
Her neighbor George Kinsoudan shares her frustration. He regained access to his balcony in June after a yearlong restora-
'This is very stressful. I hope that I'll be able to stay in my retirement home.'
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tion, which was supposed to take six months. "This is crazy," he said. "It shouldn't be taking that long."
The board consists of owners with little construction experience, according to Ms. Kinsoudan, who is a licensed architect and works as a construction manager. Still, Ms. Kinsoudan acknowledges the challenges the board faces, including managing the opinions of all 140 exit owners.
"Here you have 140 people, and it's a lot like herding cats. I suppose — some are pressing to get the work done, but others aren't," said Mr. Kinsoudan, who lost his own bid to join the board.
The president of the board, Carmen Pena, disposed the characteristics, saying that "the board has engaged the appropriate professionals to assist." She attributed some delays to bad weather and said the renovations were back on track.
Despite the stress and expense of the reforms, Ms. Kinsoudan said he recognized their importance. "It's something you'd rather not have to pay for," he said, "but I get it that it's necessary."
Since 2024, 54 condo buildings have been found to be structurally unsafe, though men were not evacuated, according to a recent state study. About half of condo buildings have completed the 2024 inspection according to the report and an estimate from the University of Florida.
Some buildings seem to be taking drastic action to build financial reserves. The number of liens that Florida condo associations filed more than doubled, to $3.63, between 2021 and 2025, according to an analysis by Benowitz, a real estate firm company. Laws allow homeowners' associations to place legal claims on properties over unpaid fees.
"When you think of Florida and Miami, you think of condos and palm trees," said Ned Murray, a professor of urbanism and real estate at Florida International University. "That dream for a lot of people may not exist anywhere, given the cost associated."
Just north of Miami, Ms. Teixeira is living that reality, like workdays now start at 8 a.m., and stretch for 12 hours. She's not interested in selling because the new condos are too expensive, she said, and the old ones face similar renovations.
"Is least in my building, I know what I'm getting into," Ms. Teixeira said.
She's at least pleased with the progress, having regained access to her parking garage this year. The cracks in the walls and beams are gone.
"The building looks a lot better," Ms. Teixeira said. "Well, all the money they took from us, we can see the results now."
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LURING HOMEBUYERS WITH A LUXURY CAR AESTHETIC
Foreign investors are being drawn to Miami, where Pagani, Bentley, Aston Martin and others have been teaming up with real estate developers to build opulent high-rises. As a result, the city now has the most residences associated with high-end automakers in the country.
From top: Mikori Hamaoui, the developer of the Pagani Residences, a model of the condominium complex, which is expected to open in late 2029, and an example of the condue/ magnetic locks.
By REBECCA SAN JUAN
Mikori Hamaoui studies every detail of his latest condominium project in Miami, down to the doorbuds.
Mr. Hamaoui, the founder and chief executive of Riviera Marizons, a development and brokerage firm in North Bay Village, is indeed with delivering the world's first Pagani Residences.
A question about doorbuds was posed by Horacio Pagani, the creator of Pagani, a luxury Indian caretaker known for its co-occur designs that is a partner on the condo project.
"Over de the doors open?" Mr. Hamaoui recalled Mr. Pagani asking. "It seemed to me like a little bit of a silly question. They're doors. You turn the knob and they open."
But "for Horacio, the door to a car is the first touch point with a client," he said. "It was very important what that first experience was like."
So instead of traditional latches, a sleek magnetic system was used.
"Nothing slips through the cracks with him," Mr. Hamaoui said of Mr. Pagani.
"It's not about trying to make an apartment feel or look like their car," he added. "It's trying to take the DNA of the brand that has allowed it to design such beautiful cars, and taking those patters that are relevant to interior design for a home."
The attention to detail is a competitive advantage, Mr. Hamaoui said, in a city where an increasing number of luxury-car-branded residential developments fill the skyline.
While residences branded by hotel companies like Ritz-Carlton and Four Seasons have been around for decades, developments closely tied to tenants of automobiles are a newer, growing trend in Miami. Two are under construction, joining others recently completed and solidifying Miami's place as having the most luxury-car-branded residences in the nation, second only in the world to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Their rising popularity highlights the growing numbers of a type of class that developers are trying to attract: wealthy foreign buyers for whom a car brand represents status, said Thomas Bentley, who oversees the luxury and retail M.E.A. program at New York University Stern School of Business.
In addition to Pagani, which is expected to open in late 2026, the Porsche Design Tower in Sunny Isles Beach, which was completed in 2000, allows owners to drive directly into elevators that take the car upon a garage attached to their condo. The Bentley Residences under construction, aim at Sunny Isles Beach, will offer the same
anxiety. In Downtown Miami, the Aston Martin Residences, which opened in 2023, is designed to look like a ship, had the Mercedes-Benz Places, which is set to open in 2028 in Brickell, Miami's financial district, will offer homeowners services like a chauffeur-driven Benz, or even one on loan.
"They don't need to own a car, deal with insuring, parking, maintaining it — they just have a countless libraries," said Michael Stern, whose company, 25th Development Group, built Mercedes-Benz Places.
Branded residences are condominiums that marry a developer and a brand through a licensing agreement. Some brands exit soon after signing while others stay through the completion to approve designs and materials. For commit to stay to manage the property.
"The primary challenge lies in seamlessly translating a legendary automotive identity into every square bed of the building spaces," said German Cote, the man behind Aston Martin Residences, who said nearly all of his 395 residences before completing the development.
Liam Bailey, a partner and global head of research at Knight Frank, an international real estate consulting firm, said that he buyers unfamiliar with an area, a well-known brand could be a powerful draw.
"A lot of people who buy in a market overseas might not be familiar with the taxation, regulation and so on," he said. "They're not always familiar with good quality builders. A hotel brand or car brand is the validation."
Miami ranks second globally for the most branded residential developments, with 74 projects completed or in the pipeline, behind only Dubai's 164, according to data provided by The New York Times on branded
residences by Knight Frank. Both cities have recently seen more car-branded residences. New York is No. 5 for the most branded residences in the world, totaling 48, but none are associated with auto brands.
Miami also leads the country with the highest concentration of international home buyers, according to the latest report by the Miami Association of Business. Last year, international buyers paid $4.4 billion for homes in Miami, up 63 percent from the year before.
The car-branded business model so far seems to be working in the city, where those condos sell at higher prices than non-branded ones. The median sale price at the Porsche tower hovered at $4.25 million last year for the eight sales that sold, said Ana Bistrov, founder of the real estate consulting firm Analytics Miami, who used data from the Multiple Listing Service, the platform real estate agents use for transactions. That's higher than the $2.15 million median sales price for condos in all luxury buildings and even higher than the $700,000 median sales price for all condos in Sunny Isles Beach.
The concept of branded condominiums was introduced to Miami-Dade County by Gil Dezer, president of Dezer Developments.
Top, the Porsche Design Tower in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla. In the Bentley Residences sales gallery, above, the latches, living room and four-car garage of a simple condominium blot at what living there could be like. Above right, Bentley branded furniture adds appeal.
Betting big on the global epicenter of wealth migration.
Gil Dezer, far left, president of Dezer Developments, who is behind the same-to-same Bentley Residences and the Porsche Design Tower, left. It includes amenities like a movie theater with branded seats, below.
to 1800 when he joined with Donald J. Trump to create Trump Towers — three residential buildings in Sunny Isles Beach. Mr. Dezer is behind the Porsche Design Tower and the soon-to-come Bentley Residences.
Mr. Dezer, who owns a collection of 20 cars, got into car-branded residences when Peco for brought the idea to the firm in the early 2000s when the country was still recovering from the Great Recreation.
"We said, 'What does Porsche have to do with real estate?'" Mr. Dezer said. "It was a perfect storm with there being no mortgages at the time. So we went after a really high-end buyer that wasn't financially sensitive."
The key was catering to car aficionados through design. For Porsche, the turning point came with the lowermost, a drive to elevator that allows residents to take their cars up to their condo. They can park in a glass-mounted garage and view their cars from their living room. Lionel Messi, Alicia Keys and Swiss Beats have all called the Porsche tower their home.
Mr. Dezer also brought his patented elevator systems for the 63-story, 126-acre Bentley tower. Sales there started in early 2023, and 60 percent of the building, or about 100 residences, has sold. The remaining condos start at $5.8 million for a three-bedroom.
Because car-branded condos haven't been around too long, the jury is still out on whether they'll pay off for the developers or file owners when it's take to sell compared with other kinds of branded residences.
"What does a car manufacturer know about optimizing daily life for residents?" Mr. Bistrov of Analytics Miami said.
Fitting to run a property property is the accusation in two lawsuits against G&G Business Developments, which built the Aston Martin Residences. The lawsuits, filed this year by the development's homeowners association, across Mt. Cora, chief executive of G&G Business Developments, of ensuring ranch association funds and air-byp post construction of factories and other safety-related defects. It also mentioned failed promises by the developer, such as the completion of a helipad.
David Haker, a lawyer representing the homeowners association, said Mr. Cote had not fulfilled his promises. A spokesperson for Riverwalk East Developments, a Florida company mentioned in the lawsuits and managed by G&G Business Developments, did not provide a response from Mr. Cote but said that Riverwalk East Developments maintained "total confidence in the judicial system."
Despite legal battles and other challenges in building car-branded residences, the developers behind them say their bets will pay off as more of the ultrawealthy move to Miami. The Mercedes-Benz project, for example, is in an area of the city that has attracted more high-not-worth individuals since the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mr. Cote, but is one of Argentina's largest supermarket chains, said he would pursue another branded development. "Miami stands as the global epicenter of wealth migration and luxury real estate," he said.
Mr. Hamaoui is also betting big on that wealth migration. The 10-story Pagani Residences is being constructed on North Bay Village, an up-and-coming neighborhood on a man-made island. It's one of a handful of projects reinventing an often-overlooked community that was the hangout spot for the likes of Frank Sinatra and the comedian Jerry Lewis in the late 1980s. Residences is the 70-unit building start at $3.8 million.
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STEPHEN ROSS IS REMAKING WEST PALM BEACH
The billionaire developer behind Hudson Yards in New York is planning an astonishing number of buildings, transforming a working-class city.
By JULIA SCHERSON
During the Gilded Age, the oil tycoon Henry Flagler carved a path of development from St. Augustine, Fla., down to the Florida Keys. He built both the railroad that would shuttle people down the coast into the luxury hotels they would stay in, transforming what had been speedy populated agricultural land into a major business destination and establishing the town of Palm Beach.
While Palm Beach was designed for the rich and famous, Flagler built a separate city, West Palm Beach, across the terra-courial Waterway, to locate the laborers who served them. Over a century later, the developer and billionaire Stephen Ross is carrying Flagler's teeth with a project that's equally ambitious to rebuild the working-class city, almost entirely on his own.
After reshaping New York City a decade ago with the 28-acre Hudson Yards development as the West Side of Manhattan, Mt. Ross, 40, is making a $50 million fee that he can turn West Palm Beach, a city of about 126,000 residents, into one of the country's premiere business hubs. His aim is to build the offices that companies want to learn, as well as the housing, schools, hospitals and entertainment sites that their executives will seek.
"I wanted to do something that nobody else had ever done. I saw all the possibilities and, obviously, no competition because no one was thinking that way," said Mt. Ross, chairman and chief executive of Related Book, a resource for bigger for the Florida ambitions. He also acknowledged another motivation: "I can't stay retired."
Mt. Ross's campaign has divided some residents, even as he has gained his development push with community initiatives.
In just a few years, he has turned the since-sleepy city into a metropolis packed with building cranks for luxury projects that many longtime residents cannot afford. Proponents, though, see Mt. Ross as a socio-a-generation benefactor, crucial to modernizing South Florida's economy to include more than tourism.
"What Flagler did with a raw landscape 100 years ago, Ross is trying to do with a raw, largely underwiped business landscape," said Lester Standford, a professor at Florida International University who wrote a book on Flagler's railroad. "I see him engaged in an equal kind of pioneering effort."
A Supercharged Investment
Stephen Ross is an stranger to West Palm Beach. He built CityPlace, the 72-acre, open-air mall that has anchored downtown for 20 years, helping to attract tenants after an era when vacancies started.
Crime and cocaine became so prevalent in the area that in 1987, Lawton Chiles, then a U.S. senator, described Downtown West Palm Beach as a "war zone." Two years later, 1989 released "Crack 1354, County Under Siege," highlighting the plight.
Ross as crime dropped in the ensuing decades, West Palm Beach had remained mostly detached from Palm Beach, with the wealthy rarely operating net across the water. CityPlace struggled, including twice in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
The pandemic blurred the lines between the two towns as demand from Palm Beach spilled across the border, preventing Mt. Ross with a new opportunity, attracted by Florida's welcoming business environment and lack of Covid-era restrictions, the biggest names to finance, including Goldman Sachs, 29/Benguet/Isner and Elliott Management, began flocking to a 20-story office development that Mt. Ross was building.
His portfolio has grown to an estimated 44.4 million square feet, including office space, luxury condo buildings and hotels.
Related Ross secured $772 million in financing, the largest construction loan in Florida's luxury, to build two office buildings, 4-story condo development, backed by $600 million in financing, is expected to be completed next year, with prices for apartments tapping out at $72 million.
This year alone, Mt. Ross bought a waterfront hotel for $495 million, secured a $137 million loan to build a 28-story condo high-rise, opened up sales for a two-story luxury condo development and built a $33 million as land for yet another condo venture, all while negotiating the approvals to build a $200 million convention center hotel. He was also the builder of the existing site.
While Mt. Ross isn't the only developer focused on West Palm Beach, he is by far the most prolific, and the rate at which he's been acquiring and building properties is astonishing to express in the business.
"It's a tear for any developer, let alone a developer that's in his 80s," said Scott Wadler, a Miami-based commercial real estate broker with McFadden.
The Silicon Valley of the Southwest
Mt. Ross is used to making big bells. In 1973, he found the Related Companies and built it one one of the largest private developers in the country, taking an ambitious return one
Stephen Ross, top right in 2025, is no stranger to West Palm Beach. He built CityPlace, above, a 72-acre, open-air mall that has anchored downtown for 20 years. Construction continues nearby, top left, Mt. Ross's development group is spending about $30 billion on building properties across the city. For right, Mt. Ross broke ground on a 28-story, luxury condo corner in April with a $107 million loan. The biggest names in finance opened offices at 260 Rosemary, right, at the height of the pandemic.
At 86, envisioning a major business hub. 'I can't stay retired.'
A proposed development would replace the neighboring properties housing, Salem Greenleaf's Arcadia Golf and E.R. Bradley's Saloon, a longtime bar and restaurant owned by a former Palm Beach mayor, Gail Coniglio.
projects like the Deutsche Bank Center or Columbus Circle in New York, and the Grand J.A. in Los Angeles, designed by Frank Gehry.
As his real estate empire blossomed, Mt. Ross built ties to South Florida, where he spent his teenage years, buying the Miami Dolphins for $1.5 billion in 2009 and spending another $750 million to renovate the town's 50,000-seat Hard Rock Stadium.
During the pandemic, Mt. Ross left New York and decamped to his accoutreer Palm Beach reunion, eventually becoming a permanent Florida resident. He went to envision a "new Silicon Valley" in the Southeast, setting out to expand his portfolio and own both tech and finance companies.
But for West Palm Beach to thrive, Mt. Ross thought, the city couldn't just know luxury condos and offices. It needed to offer all the attractions found to a major city.
As opposed to waiting for it to happen just with time and the government, someone had to really bring it together, and moved in it, you know, and take a leadership role," Mt. Ross said. "One can't go and tell something if you don't have the assets there."
In upgrade Palm Beach County's health care, he donated $50 million for an expansion of the local Cleveland Clinic hospital. In new executives and their families, he made a large donation to the exclusive Pine Crest School, which will build a campus in West Palm Beach. One of his mixed-use development will include another private school.
To create a steady supply of wage/paid graduates, he gave $50 million to Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, which has agreed to build a $120 million graduate campus in the town.
And to make sure that the newcomers
don't get bored, Related Ross sponsored a music festival on February headlined by the globe-testing Eth Calvin Harris and Eggs. "That's playing Monopoly," said Julien Gremaud, a restaurateur based in West Palm Beach. "It's crazy to watch."
The Price of Progress
The growth spurt, and the speed at which it has arrived, has worried some local residents, who believe the addition of luxury housing and related amenities will raise prices for residents of the working-class city.
During past five years, the median price of a West Palm Beach home has jumped about 60 percent to $100,000, according to Redfin, outgassing statewide Florida averages. Shortly even have risen to an average of $2,200,000, and nearly 2 percent year-over-year, according to Apartments.com.
"We have a situation of corporate co-headlines, pure and simple," said Richard Ricks, a community activist and personal injury lawyer who previously served as a West Palm Beach commissioner. He said he was concerned about the impact given this year. "We have a possible continuation of West Palm Beach and the lack of input they had been granted into what was being built.
Mt. Ryles, who lost his recent bid to join the Palm Beach County Commission, fears that the growing migration will exacerbate issues of housing affordability, and deaths many heads will be hired into high-paying jobs.
For the city's leaders, the tensions represent the need of progress. "I selling staff every day, I'd much rather have the problems of a growing city than a dying city," said Robin James, the mayor of West Palm Beach. "When you have these business-men to come, a city themselves generate demand for services, which are often met by smaller businesses."
The city's business, Mt. Ross is building a 20-sent affordable housing project, using a Florida law that grants developers tax breaks for building below-market apartments. Two other affordable housing 20-senters in the pipeline. The Related Ross Foundation has also committed $12.7 million toward a scholarship for students of two local high schools to attend Palm Beach State College.
Mt. Ross and Mayor James recently had
to pause the construction of a waterfront park after poultrack by the community. With $10 million pledged by Related Ross, the city considered using extreme domain to develop the land, relocating restaurants that operate by the waterfront. After landlords and operators complained, the mayor has now pledged to hold fencing womens.
"Change is inevitable, and progress is good for a city, but thoughtful and managed growth is permanent," said Gail Coniglio, a former mayor of Palm Beach and one of the landlords affected.
Changing Forward
About every other week, Related Ross employees remain out around the country, selling Mt. Ross's vision for West Palm Beach to other companies. In May, they were in Boston and New York. In June, they traveled to the Bay Area to meet with 15 firms over two days.
"If we had gone on that California trip five years ago, people would be like, 'Why are we taking this meeting?'" said Jordan Bargas, a Related Ross executive vice president. "Now when you enter the room, they're like, 'Oh, tell me what it's actually like to do business in Florida.' They're hearing about it. There's this natural buzz."
Webb Fargo is a typical new West Palm Beach tenant. Barry Sommers, the chief executive of the bank's wealth and investment management division, was working at Hudson Yards in New York City and wanted to open another office, to remain close to clients and attract new talent after flying down and meeting with Mt. Ross and his team, Mt. Sommers decided to open a 30,000-square-foot office this summer that will house 80 to 100 full-time employees.
Jack Kahn, the executive who will lead the A.J. platform between 2,000,000-square-foot West Palm Beach office, was similarly sold on the Ross vision. "In that token, chops and govt critical mass, a lot of other companies will start to come here, too," he said.
Given his advanced age, Mt. Ross will stop aside in the coming years, and it remains an open question whether Related Ross will remain as prolific without the founder's close involvement and deep pockets.
For now, he has no plans to stop building. Otherwise, he said, "I'll be very bored."
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3 IN THE DART
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2026
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From left, Sister Joanne Fallon, Sister Mary Stephen Hosley, Sister Mary Alice O'Brien and Sister Jane Keegan. They found a new home, and other like-minded sisters, at the Warrburg care center in Mount Vernon, N.Y.
Nuns Unite for a Shared Mission
By JOHN LELAND
It was happy hour at the assisted living building, with snacks and a live entertainer, and Sister Stephen was doing her best to be happy. She clapped along to "Hello, Dolly!"
About 20 women and one man sat in a brightly lit activity room, some in whack- chairs. Here, happy hour comes every Fri- day at 2 p.m.
"You're a sister?" a woman asked Sister Stephen. "You don't look like a sister."
"Well, what does a sister look like?" the sister asked. The woman did not have an an- swer. What does a sister look like?
"I'm going to get up and dance in a minute," Sister Stephen said. At age 96, al- ter two have replacements, she is limited in her dance steps. But get up she did, using her walker for support, and swayed to
About 80 sisters spread joy and kindness at an assisted living center in a New York suburb.
"Save the Last Dance for Me."
Still, she felt something was missing. For starters, there was no white wine.
"Only red," said Sister Mary Martin, tak- ing orders around the room.
But more than that, where were all the other sisters?
Sister Stephen looked around the room with some bufflement.
"It's funny," she said, surprised by what she saw. "Most of the people in this room now are not nuns."
Because usually, she said, there were more. A lot more. Through a confluence of forces, the center has become one of the last places in New York where you can find an abundance of nuns.
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$130,000 A YEAR
Beth Evans's biggest expense is extensive overdue renovations to her rowhouse, purchased in 1994. Next are the walls, ceilings and windows.
Lucky but Feeling Stuck in a House Paid Off
By SANTUL NERKAR
Beth Evans counts herself among the most fortunate of New Yorkers.
She bought a home decades ago and cultivated a career that matched a lifelong passion for literature. The city is in her blood — Ms. Evans calls herself the grandmother of 1916-generation New Yorkers — and she has never stopped loving it.
Ms. Evans, 69, is a professor and librarian at Brooklyn College, a job that pays her about $130,000 per year. She is set to retire in two years and has paid off her mortgage, and her home is worth about $800,000, according to 2006.
Social Security benefits, money from her retirement account and inheritance from her parents offer her a comfortable cushion. But it has not always been so simple. And now, Ms. Evans faces some difficult choices about her future — and whether it will even be in New York.
Like many older New Yorkers, Ms. Evans is asking herself whether her shifting lifestyle and needs justify paying the city's exorbitant prices. The youngest of her four children moved out last year, leaving Ms. Evans in the unfamiliar position of living by herself.
But she prizes being close to her young grandchildren — ages 1 and 4 — and when she pooters life outside the city, she talks herself out of it endowment. Perhaps a little more compassionate would do the trick.
"I would be happy with roommates," Ms. Evans said. "I would like to be one of the Golden Girls."
THE PARTICULARS
Name Beth Evans
People in Household One
Where She Lives Marine Park, Brooklyn
Occupation Professor and librarian
Suddenly a Single Mom
Ms. Evans purchased her Marine Park home — a semidetached, red-brick rowhouse — in 1994 for $89,000, which is roughly equivalent to $200,000 in 2026, with her husband at the time.
"It's really a factor of age that I can live cheaply in New York, because I bought a house a long time ago," Ms. Evans said.
For about a decade after they bought the house, Ms. Evans was a stay on home mother, and income from her husband, who worked as an oil burner mechanic, supported the household. She went back to school in 1990 to receive a Master of Library Science from Queens College before starting at Brooklyn College in 1994.
Right now, Ms. Evans considers a splurge to be financing her third graduate degree, for which she sets aside about $400 per month. She is working towards a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at Innes Brook University, taking classes at the Midtown Manhattan campus.
"I was an English 16 males," she said. "It's always a lot easier to sit on the outside and criticize people's writing."
Ms. Evans appreciates the ethnic diversity of Marine Park.
She recalled introducing the neighborhood to a friend who had recently moved to Brooklyn. It was a culinary adventure along the nearby Coney Island Avenue, starting at a Pakistani restaurant, followed by a kinder store, followed by a Chinese restaurant and ending with a Russian restaurant.
Ms. Evans's life was uprooted in 2005. Her husband unexpectedly left the country, leaving her as a single mother to care for four children. One was in college, but her youngest, a boy, was only 4.
Suddenly on a single income, Ms. Evans had to find a way to make ends meet. She was forced to take out a second line of credit — a home-equity loan, or second mortgage — which cost $700 per month. About a decade later, Ms. Evans finished paying off the mortgage.
Despite her cost constraints, she found affordable enrichment for her children.
She took her daughter to a free Transit Museum program, located on the architecture of the city's transit. That daughter later became an architect for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
For $5 a week per child, her sons attended a summer camp run by the Urban Park Rangers in Marine Park. Her oldest seclator became a longer there. Now, he's an environmental planner in upstate New York.
"It's really a factor of age that I can live cheaply in New York."
Catching Up on Repairs
These days, Ms. Evans's biggest expenses are extensive renovations to her home, which she put off for many years while raising a family, leading to water damage.
Over the last two years, she has spent about $100,000 on improvements like fixing her roof and repainting bricks, using the inheritance she received from her parents. The walls, ceilings and kitchen are next, along with the windows.
She finds herself in a predicament. Selling her home so soon after making the renovations would not make sense, she concedes. To make the move worth it, she would need to find a home less expensive than the one she is living in, a challenging proposition in New York.
Each month, various forms of insurance add up to $1,100. Her real estate taxes in June jumped more than $100 in $665. Medical bills are $500. Gas and electric add on $400. Cosmetic come from shift and Okla Foods Market, a popular supermarket on Kings Highway, and total around $400.
She spends about $450 per month on her two cars — Cerebro and Adibari — including on bills and boat. The phone bill is $50 per month, on a family plan with two of her children. An additional $300 is spent on gifts for her grandchildren and children, including trips to the New Victory Theatre, a children's theater in Midtown.
About $200 a month goes to attending plays and other entertainment. A recent performance she enjoyed for $20 was "Kitty Daddy" an Off Broadway play about a depressed man whose life is transformed by a car he rescues from a shelter.
Ms. Evans was raised Jewish in Midwood but brought up her children as Unitarians and remains active at her congregation in Brooklyn Heights, where she serves as a deacon and asteen.
After Sunday service, she often enjoys a meal at Kitchen, a Mediterranean restaurant in Colima Md, where she puts to dumplings over $15 and the baked-lets sagamaki goes for $14.
The Unknown Variable
When Ms. Evans started her job at Brooklyn College in 1994, she opted for a retirement plan instead of a pension. The benefit of the retirement plan is that after she dies, her children will have access to her money. But unlike the pension, it is not guaranteed to last for the rest of her life.
Sizing up your remaining years like that can be a cold, calculating exercise, with the biggest unknown being your health. Living until you're 93 might sound appealing, but financial planners could make you a graph that would show you with no savings at that age, Ms. Evans said.
"The most important variable is a variable nobody knows," she said.
But for now, Ms. Evans is effective about New York and speaks about the city like a Brooklyn native who resists every inclination to leave the only home she has ever known.
"I like the mix of ages and mix of backgrounds," she said. "Every time you get on a railway it's like, 'Oh, aren't the whole world,'" Ms. Evans said. "It's the thing I love about New York."
Water damage took a toll on the house over the years that Ms. Evans was raising a family. Her garden features a trellis she constructed out of solid crates. She recently bought pieces of broken marble to fix an outdoor table. Ms. Evans lives alone but can imagine sharing a space with roommates.
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Metropolitan Diary
Maths
DEAR DIARY: In 2024, I arrived back in New York City after six years away. My 20-year-old car was filled with boxes of rugs and textiles and other things I had kept from my old apartment.
I met a friend of a friend who had an entire basement where I could store the rugs while I tried to sell them on Facebook Marketplace.
After a few months, I was reduced to finally sell the biggest rug I had. The rebel faded quickly when I got a test from the buyer: "We found a meth."
I took back the rug and looked through everything in my friendly basement. It was all intensified with maths.
My husband and I drove toward our Red-Stuy apartment as he spun plans that required garbage bags and menthols.
After getting the supplies, we were ready to large ahead, but
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my find mood had officially set in. My husband tried to cheer me up.
"Give me a kiss," he said. Grampels, I obliged. "And another."
With a bath I gave him another kiss.
"One more for good measure." Now, with my smile starting to peek through, he got his third kiss.
I started to pull out of our spot when a man who was nearby started to gesture wildly and cheer at us.
I looked around confused. Was I about to hit something? What was he saying? We rolled down the window.
"Give us another!" he said with a smile. "One more time for Red-Stuy!"
KAREN BARNETT
Rush Tickets
DEAR DIARY:
I went to the Trade/Insider Theater hoping to get a rush ticket for "Schengartens," although it was 10:20 a.m. and the rush line had opened at 10.
As I approached the bus office, I saw a young woman heading the same way. I just knew that she was going to buy the last rush tickets.
I picked up my pace, but she still beat me to the ticket window by maybe 10 seconds. Sure enough, I heard her ask about rush tickets.
"I have two left," the ticket agent said.
My heart stopped. "I only need one," the woman replied.
A midwife! Seeing my glee, she smiled at me.
"I'll take that other one," I said
Barry
DEAR DIARY:
I accepted an easy freelance job in summer 1980: lay out and deliver camera-ready button art for a group that was protesting an Army Corps of Engineers project upstairs.
On a reoffering summer day, I had a date to meet with the client at her Murray Hill apartment. I arrived on time, was backed up and greeted by her partner.
Barry, an amiable guy in his 40s. He apologized for my client's lameness, no earlier appointment
when it was my turn, and then added: "Now she and I will sit together, we'll end up getting married and help a New York story that will be."
The agree laughed. We did sit next to each other, but there were no nuptials.
was running longer than expected, he explained.
He offered, and I accepted, a cold drink, and we chanted pleasantly about nothing in particular for the next 10 minutes or so.
The client arrived, we got down to business and I left. We had one more meeting to finalize the artwork.
I billed the client, was paid and thought no more about it until several weeks later when I turned on the news to see Barry, a.k.a. Aldine Hoffman, turning himself in to the F.B.I.
ELANIE CALDWELL
St. John the Divine
DEAR DIARY:
As a tourist in the city years ago, I was called to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. No one else seemed to be there.
Chairs had expected many of the jews on the floor of the common interior in proportion for a concert. Soft recorded music was playing.
As we walked around the periphery, the recorded music was
replaced by beautiful live piano playing.
As we finished our tour and rounded the last corner, we came upon a man in a uniform who was sitting at the piano and playing.
We approached him, and he stopped. I complimented him on his playing.
"Don't thank me," he said. "Thank Mozart!"
"He was the piano tuner. JOHN MAI
Mr. October
DEAR DIARY:
It was a rainy, late-October afternoon in 1965. I was walking down Seventh Avenue after visiting a trade show at the New York Cabooum.
A young man wearing a blue business suit, a white shirt and a tie was standing under the
awning outside the Stage Deli-cammen.
After passing him, a lightbulb went off in my head. I turned around and approached him.
"You're Roger Maris," I said. "Yes, I am," he replied. Then he added, quite pleasantly, "Your umbrella is dripping on me."
WALTER GENT
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The City Bagpipes's Acoustic Burden
Broilers responded by letter and at nytimes.com to the Aug. 9 article by Andrew Bob about a quiet for a place to practice. Comments were edited.
YOUR ARTICLE DIRECTLY is titled an incident related to me by my long-passed father. My father worked in construction, and experienced a somewhat tense encounter with a city inspector on the job. Unhappy words were entered by both parties, including an exchange of "Where I come from . . ." and "Well, where I come from . . ." This led to the discovery that the inspector and my father had grown up in the same neighborhood to the Bronx!
The inspector told my father the address where he had lived, and my father said: "The only thing I remember about that building was there was some one who lived there who practiced the bagpipes day and night! What a racket." The inspector proudly replied to my father, "Yes, and I will play in the parade every St. Patrick's Day."
SUSAN MAYER, LEXINGTON, MASS.
THE NEED FOR A REMOTE outdoor space is common to all city-dwelling pipers — I'm a piper in Pittsburgh, home to the Carnegie Mellon University Play and Dream, as well as a number of other regional bands. If I can't access our university's band room (in a remote corner of the student center's basement, of course!) you can find me practicing in a city park. Pittsburgh has a deep Scottish heritage, so most of the time I get friendly waves, keeps air for once-issued numbers! According to the source of the music they heard a mile away.
CHRISTINE SMITH, PITTSBURGH
ACCORDING TO THE ARTICLE, "New York needs its bagpipers." But I wonder how many New Yorkers need bagpipers enough to be willing to endure prolonged noise that
"can hover around 300 decibels, comparable to the revving of a motorcycle" when they are at home. Although the bagpipes John Macpherson claims to be "a considerable as can be," it is hardly considerate to subject one's neighbors to such noise for an hour every day.
FELICIA NORGE ACKERMAN, PROVIDENCE, R.I.
BAKERS PRACTICE IN how I met my wife of 40 years. While attending Columbia University as a graduate student at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory located just north of New York City, she lived in Manhattan and played with a pipe band called Bake Mar Pipes and Dream. She practiced at Lamont, a former estate on the Palisades, to spare her Manhattan neighbors. I was the horticulturist for that campus, and one Saturday I came in for work and heard the "skirt" of demon pipes. I set out to find the source and the rest to history.
YORK CHRISTOPHER, MIDDLETOWN, CONN.
I ONCE HEURD THE definition of a Scottish gentleman: a man who knows how to play the bagpipes but doesn't. I live in a wooded area and once had a neighbor who played the pipes. He would practice in the woods and I really liked hearing the soft sound of the pipes waiting through the trees. I think bagpipes are best enjoyed at a distance.
ALAN STRAKA, ROCHESTER, MINN.
ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO, I was leaving an evening philosophy class at the University of Arizona one night, and the wind carried the sound of bagpipes down the quad. I stumbled around until I heard the pipes, standing between one of the brick buildings and the parking garage. The acoustics were amazing! I must have sat for an hour, just listening, with voice running down my face. You either love the pipes or you don't, and if you do, hearing them played well is a gift.
GERANTOVE CONNOLLY, PORTLAND, ORE.
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Price of Romance Is Climbing Out of New Z's Reach
Rising costs for dating and a crushing economy keep some New Yorkers from finding love.
By TROY CLOSSON
Hein Hee! So knows the imposition well.
A simple catch-up call with his parents — who not in their 20s — might turn into a rapid-for-interengation: "You're almost 30. Why are you not dating? When are we going to have grandkids?"
For 30s, no, turning 27 soon in New York City, it all feels so far away. He holds his free time to graduate school working, desperate for catch to offend groceries and housing. He spent $7,000 on legal help for an asylum application after arriving from Myanmar.
And he's still searching for financial and job stability to his own life. It's hard to imagine supporting someone else's, too.
"Sometimes I wonder: 'Am I doing the right thing? Am I really living my life?'" Me. I'm said. 'But dating, starting a family—those things can't even be as my life with all of the other things I have to solve.'
Ask relationship experts and they'll tell you: Young people are in a romance recession. They're dating for less than their parents and grandparents did back in their 20s and early 30s, according to poll after poll, inspiring all kinds of theories and concerns.
But for a generation beginning their adult lives, it has become ever more apparent that it's hard to hit the dating scene amid a crushing economy, sluggish job market and escalating costs.
More than half of unmarried young adults — ages 22 to 25 — say not having enough money in their biggest barrier to dating, according to a national research project from Brigham Young University's Wheatley Institute and the Institute for Family Studies.
That pressure can feel especially scorn in New York. When you can barely afford your own and energy bills, those 1000 dinner dates, 100 riddles, and 100 riddles to see "The Odyssey" quickly add up.
"How can New Yorkers be expected to find love right now?" Jillian Hardensam-Werle, a host and producer at the media company Complex, asked Mayor, Edman Mandani during a video interview this summer.
"You're just finding out the person is amazing — and you're already spent all this putting 'love, you're doing,'" she said.
"It's so expensive to live in this city," said Mr. Mandani, 24, who is married. "It's even more expensive to live in this city."
It has never been easy to date when you're strangled for cash. But today's economy is emerging as another pain point for a generation already struggling to build rela-
tionships. Many are fatigued from endless years of life signs. Frustrated with shattered situationships and fractured from widespread social disconnections.
It's not necessarily that young people aren't interested in relationships, surveys show. But for some, dating but often has become one of the trade-offs of living in an expansive city.
"I definitely do want to get married and have kids," said Grace Sabellarino, 27, who is single and was born in Queens. "But that just feels so unattainable. I can't even think about affecting a wedding."
Ms. Sabellarino and her wife sister, who live together in Astoria, have noticed that more men seem to be asking to split the bill — even on second or third dates. "It's discouraging," she said. "I think it's stunned nor growth that everything's so expensive."
New York would seem like an ideal sandbox for cheap plans — with dozens of free museums, hundreds of green spaces and heaps of low-cost events every weekend that are just a 63 fare away on the 24-hour subway. And lately, some young people have begun opting for park picnics over pricey experiences.
But as interviews, others described feeling full-bore pressure from social media is a city that is home to many young professionals with six-figure salaries. TikTok in America debute whether coffee dates signal law effort. On Instagram, a male creator recently warned his 12 million followers that no man with a net worth under $100,000 should be allowed to date.
The average date eight spending for Gen Z Americans is more than $100, including transportation and getting ready, according to a survey from BMO Financials.
Brian J. Willoughby, a Brigham Young University professor who studies dating, said that it can be tough for other generations — who often met through family networks, religious spaces or bars — to appreciate how much more complicated the dating threat of today is.
"It's like: 'How much time did I spend scrolling to find this person? I'm worried about the diaries, but I also have my $30 Hinge subscription, the clothing, all these other things,'" he said.
One underemployed 24-year-old software engineering graduate in Long Island
Top, the lunchtime crowd as a restaurant in Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station. Though high rates are close to a round that people in their 20s and 30s are dating less than those age groups once did, all it might cost for a restaurant outing in the price of Market and a visit to Central Park, above.
City admitted in an interview that he felt unaccolable while earning barely above minimum wage.
An 30-year-old incoming college freshman in Astoria complained about the cost of connection even as a teenager. The ticket is almost her public high school's senior prom with her date was $375 — and that was before the drive.
Aaron Cregnard and on the Upper East Side recounted a recent evening when her date said he'd forgotten his wallet, but severe to pay her loan.
She never heard from him again. "I'm not here to just terrible," the woman, Shannon O'Neil, said. "God awful."
For some young adults, a big budget conundrum is in store. Many desperately need a partner to host the economy. But the average with the upfront financial investment of a labor to find one.
Titan Manhattan, the most expensive borough New Yorkers who share a one-bedroom apartment can save more than $25,000 on rent a year when living with a partner, the biggest difference in the country, according to a recent analysis from the military based on median catalog costs.
If the rent is split, it's much easier to pay off student bills, save up to buy a home or take that big career risk — changing jobs, starting a business or attending graduate school.
It's why Benjamin Goldman, a labor and public economist at Cornell University, wonders: What if declining dating and marriage rates help explain at least some of the economic angst that so many people in their 20s and 30s feel in New York and other cities?
"It's one piece of this that's been underdiscovered," Dr. Goldman said.
Well, this government dating difficulties stretch far beyond economics.
Young people often aren't confident when it comes to asking someone out or other home, relationship skills. Many agree that dating is a good health factor. And in interviews, some crowd their hardships back to March 2020, when their social lives in college — where their parents might have met — were upended by the coronavirus pandemic.
Even people in long-term relationships feel the burden of rising prices.
Island Beans, 21, lives in West Harlem with his partner and not in good money as a suburban engineer. But they're still going out far less than when they arrived from Seattle two years ago. The prospect of paying $10 for two months, two $5 bills, an appetizer and up eventually became "too expensive to justify when I could cook at home."
These days, he said, "the nice date nights are not even once a month anymore."
Open for Business at the 'End of the World'
The Lighthouse Café, in Montauk, is a challenging venture for multiple reasons.
By ALYSON KRUEGER
At the outcry and at Montauk, N.Y., fashionable meals and tourists have spent the summer rapping Manhattan and eating lamb merpais but dogs on baguettes. Outside a 1970-ve in building, they sit at great tables under advertisement, a short hall and a hustle portrait of George Washington provide over the dining room.
This is the Lighthouse Café, which sponsors the team of the Montauk Paint lighthouse on Long Island, has been something of a white whale for Sean MacPherson, the prolific Statler behind the Bowery and Chelsea Hotels in Manhattan, who lives in the area. He and his business partner, Celine Valensi, run the nearby Crow's Nest, a watercolor three-acre property with a hotel and restaurant that is a relatively favorite.
Opening a restaurant is hard enough these days with rising food costs and fewer young people drinking. It's even trickier in Montauk, where an establishment basically has the three summer months to make a profit. But the Lighthouse takes it to a new level.
It's on a bluff in Montauk Paint State Park, known locally as the End of the World, labor there is only open access between there and Europe. Winds can reach 60 miles per hour, cell service is sparse and there is little light at night.
The still-operational lighthouse, commissioned by George Washington and built in 1796, attracts visitors from across the globe each summer. It's a notred spot where the numerous pirate Captain William Kidd supposedly buried trusses, and the military had a base that was the inspiration for the Netflix show "Stranger Things."
"It's mystical, and there is all this folklore," Ms. MacPherson said. The area reminds him of Mathis, where he grew up. "This spot has already spoken to me."
But it's a challenging venture for a host of reasons, said Timothy Watson, New York State's park operations manager for Montauk. The cost of living in the Hamptons is high, which makes stuffing difficult. And even though the cafe is in a weather-dependent, seasonal location, the state maintains it must be open every day from late March to the weekend after Thanksgiving.
Ms. Valensi has been figuring out a mix of food that appeals to the chic Hamptons crowd, locals who keep things casual and tourism.
The terms at the 1200-square-foot Lighthouse Café, a three-station walk from the lighthouse, includes characribs where can be seen as a nightmare, and the city's first auto-wear coastal France, where Ms. Valensi's family is from and which is set across the water.
"You can swim there," she said laughing.
Sean MacPherson, top left, and his business partner, Celine Valensi. Their Lighthouse Café includes a short hall in the dining room, far right, and a lamb merpais her dog, above.
The food is light and simple, served picnic-style on paper plates. There are salads (beets and blue cheese, and haricots, verts with almonds) and mains like a croque monieval. Desserts include a lemon ripples, a lemon sorbet served inside a
hollowed-out lemon shell.
Some it opened, Ms. Valensi has tried to make sure the food is not too fancy, with items like chicken fingers and French fries. "We found the most organic kind we could," Ms. Valensi said.
The logistics of operating a government-owned space, however, was the real hurdle. Mr. MacPherson and Ms. Valensi bid on the property there times to the last decade, only in two each time. They were given a four-year contract in March only after the winning bidder's return at 24 o'clock.
The deal includes running the Hither Hills General Store on the western side of Montauk in a campground. This summer, they set up a bar that serves diaspora and 2007 to become a new store that sells candy, locally made ice cream and egg sandwiches.
The two transferred the cafe, which was filled with old restaurant equipment and the other two were also very furnishings and direct, into a chic beauty atmosphere with wider furniture from Mexico and exposed brick walls.
"We inherited a space that looked like a McDonald's, and the little Valensi said.
Everything brought into the cafe (even the does) half Mr. MacPherson drove from his home to Los Angeles's becomes state property. And each supplier must be vetted by the state and subjected to a holding process. (When she discovered the kitchen hood to pass didn't work, Ms. Valensi had to get proposals from four local vendors before hiring me.)
Tourists have actually trickled in for coffee in the morning or a light lunch, but attracting lunch has been more of a challenge.
"You would be surprised by how many people who grew up in East Hamptons have
How to appeal to the chic Hamptons crowd, locals who keep things casual and tourism.
never actually been to the Lighthouse," said David Lyn, deputy supervisor for the town of East Hamptons. Ms. Valensi has been organized, comedy and karaoke nights to drive traffic.
Ms. MacPherson also negotiated with the state to allow for private events by brands after the space closes to the public. Mathis, a gift-fashion brand, held an event this summer.
"This is a new revenue stream," said Mr. Watson, the park operations manager, who believes this could be a viable model for other concession operators in the future. "We recognize the concessions are struggling, and we want people to want to come in and be successful."
There is one local who is definitely interested in the Lighthouse Café opening: Joe Carvish, the president of the Montana Historical Society, says, "We are a two-bedroom apartment in the lighthouse."
"A can get space up here at the end of the world," he said. "Now I have a great local restaurant I go to three times a week."
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Cannabis Dispensaries Explore Ways to Stand Out
To draw customers, stores in New York City try to evoke a certain vibe with clever designs.
By ABILEY BISTIRALL
In the early rush to open quickly after legalization, most cannabis dispensaries in New York City adopted sterile, minimalist setups. They wanted to keep start-up costs low and distinguish themselves from the lucky, illegal shops that once outnumbered them by the hundreds.
As the competition intensified, the dispensaries, about 100 to the city, have loomed into looks and vibes to set themselves apart and connect with consumers.
Their designs invoke New York City's cultures, rich history, iconic landmarks and larger-than-life personalities. They sell vibes as much as word. The goal? To build a retail brand that connects with the city's range of consumers: not only regular users and tourists but also overlooked groups like women and white-collar workers.
But dispensaries are subject to high taxes and burdensome restrictions that make profits scarce. And selling wood remains illegal at the federal level.
Put simply, it has become harder for dispensaries that play by the rules to sell wood and crucial for them to sell a lot more of it. As they fight for survival, some common themes have emerged in dispensary designs, shaped by the force of law, the behavior of consumers and the creativity of owners and designers.
Premium
Legalization has brought with it a number of unconventional ideas about cannabis, that is the nation that cannabis can be part of a premium lifestyle, countering decades of propaganda that can't it as a scourge.
This can be seen in stores like the Travel Agency, which sell the idea of cannabis as an affordable luxury. Walking into its four stores in Manhattan and Brooklyn feels like stepping into a museum or a high-end boutique. Joints and edibles are displayed on if they are precious artifacts or works of art.
The futuristic travel theme at the boutique in Delhi was inspired by theater stage design and the 1964 film '1980: A Space Odyssey'.
Lighting and abundant white space are part of a system of spatial cues intended to help visitors navigate the moves without feeling overwhelmed.
Visitors displaying cannabis plants and the compounds they produce touch visitors about the plant's properties beyond TMC,
its intoxicating ingredient.
Owners forbearthen, the chief marketing officer for the Travel Agency, said the goal was for the stores to feel elevated but not cold, joyful but not unserious, and premium but not inaccessible.
"The work we've done with design, it lowers people's guards," she said.
Culture
Some dispensaries riff off the city, with themes that range from comic books and hip-hop music to bodega cars and Evolution. The flags of Caribbean nations hang between the orange walls at Anime Caribe in Flatbush, Brooklyn, giving the small shop a tropical find that fits the neighborhood, known as Little Caribbean. Speakman-style entrances like the flower shop fronting Alto Cannabis in TriDeCa invoke the nation history of using wood.
A stores-shaped bed but photos of amusement park rides and sand-colored floors channel Covey Island Beach at High Tides.
NYC Bad in Queens is modeled after a subway station, with a traditional hexagon near its entrance and signs that use the colors of different train lines.
Many stores have Instagrammable features, like a model train car covered in graffiti at NYC Bad, to encourage visitors to share the shops on social media.
The designs often incorporate creative solutions to unusual problems. For instance, bad bars, which allow customers to smell samples of smokable flower, have emerged as a workaround to a requirement for dispensaries to keep their products locked in rooms secured by metal caging encased in the walls. The rule is intended to deter robberies, but it makes it difficult to sell wood to customers who want to see and smell what they're buying.
Cause
The war on drugs left an indelible mark on New York City, where marijuana use was used to justify the action of hundreds of thousands of people despite state lawmakers having decriminalized law-level possession in 2017. In legalizing cannabis for recreational use in 2021, the state became so ending marijuana service and helping people and communities affected by decades of heavy-headed enforcement.
Dispensaries like Cordbad follow a similar mission, using the owners' experiences with arrests and in prison to push for criminal justice reform. The cousins who founded the state hire workers who were recently released from prison or as effort to help them get back on their feet.
A screen displays mag shots of celebrities
arrested with drugs. Under Paris Hilton, there is Coos Marie, a Cordbad founder who spent six years in prison for selling drugs.
Handcraft hangers and wire caging invoke the prison experience and are a tool to the Cordbad founders' activities against mass incarceration and the war on drugs.
Skylights like the one at Cordbad are a common feature in prisons, which are otherwise notorious for their darkness.
Personal
Saturitate Fom, one-half of the couple behind Happy Buds, is many things: avid reader, spicy-her, St. Lucian, girls and Black. All of that is reflected in the baby-hoodish design of her dispensary, which she owns with her husband, Reem.
The Fomes are part of a contingent of dispensary owners who take inspiration from their own lives to create spaces that are warm and inviting. There is Black art, books by or about Black people, plants from St. Lucia, where Ms. Fom grew up, and found items that add a whimsical touch.
"Every single thing is this store, I was on hands and knees, putting up myself," she said.
A method-up-copy of "Circle Start-Cable" is among about 350 books on Happy Bud's walls. It belonged to Ms. Fom's aunt, whom Ms. Fom described as a second mother.
Odds and ends like a plaster and a vintage knit car add whimsy to product display shelves.
A white dining table and houseplants inside Mighty Lucky, a dispensary on the Bowery in Lower Manhattan, are elements intended to give the space the feel of a home.
Part of the aesthetic is practical. For a
tame of the stylish cannabis dispensaries in New York City: top left, the Travel
Agency in Delhi; top right, High Tides in Covey Island, Brooklyn; middle row, two views of Dagmar in Delhi; above left, Happy Buds in Bedford-Stuyvesant,
Brooklyn; above right, Cordbad on the Lower East Side; and above, NYC Bad in Long Island City, Queens
In a crowded field, it pays to build a brand that connects with buyers.
time, regulators strictly enforced a rule requiring dispensaries to ensure that their goods could not be sown from the street. In front of windows and upcubbers style entrances became popular adaptations.
Before legalization, Reem alibith run an underground marijuana delivery service, a job that often involved smoking with customers in their homes when dropping off orders. He wanted Mighty Lucky, which he owns with his partner, to channel that custom by making visitors feel as if they are in his home.
"I wanted my old clients to feel comfortable here," he said.
Wellness
Two of the most common reasons people go to dispensaries are to work help with pain or sleep. The shops cannot legally make medical claims because the efficacy of their products has not been vetted by federal food and drug authorities. But some designs nod to marijuana's therapeutic properties with botanical elements like warm-toned wood paneling and lush greenery that invoke the look and feel of apothecaries and spas.
A statue of a dancing woman captures the light, happy spirit of Dagmar in Delhi, a dispensary designed to appeal to sophisticated women.
Apothecary jars at Dagmar nod to cannabis's use in heritable practices and to the medicinal shops that provided dispensaries. Elegant ceramic bongs sit among crystals and merchandise.
Hanging the store banner from an old Dagmar attached to the storefront allowed the owner to avoid seeking approval to install a sign.
Jennifer Tzar didn't have wellness in mind when she opened Dagmar, which Mends Gothic, art-deco and art-non-real styles in a luxurious space that she intended to appeal to fashion types, financiers and artists. However, the cabinetry and accent like apothecary jars are reminiscent of these bygone medicine makers who once dispensed cannabis for various ailments.
She chose the name Dagmar several years ago after hearing it for the first time and seeing that everyone with the name seemed glamorous. Teal walls, black furnishings and several crystals reflect her desire to create a feminine space for sophisticated women, one that was a lot westerly but definitely not feudless.
"Just because you're a woman doesn't mean it has to be pink, fluffy and dazed," she said. "Women can be smart, intellectual and truth-seeking and at the same time magical."
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Nuns From Different Orders Unite for Shared Mission
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now there are only about 35,000, with an average age of over 90. Congregations have had to sell or close their contents, forcing those other sisters to find new places to live.
For many in the New York area, that has turned out to be an unlikely place: a Lutheran care center called Warburg. Founded in 1866 as a farm school and home for Civil War orphans, the center spreads across 34 acres in Mount Vernon, N.Y., with care options ranging from independent living to skilled nursing and memory care.
Since the first wave of about 30 nuns from the Dominican Sisters of Hope, a congregation in Newburgh, N.Y., arrived in 2008, the number of sisters in the center has swelled to about 90, more than one-third of the residents.
"When the cardinal was here last year," said David Gontner, the president of Warburg, "he said there's more constructed houses religious, so this campus than anywhere in the archdiocese."
The sisters at Warburg, now mostly in their 90s and 00s, belong to a center of women who took their vows in the decades after World War II in numbers never seen before or since. It was a boom time for American religion, when churches saw recent alterations and the "old" "under God" were added to the Pledge of Allegiance. The sisters stuffed schools and hospitals and social service providers, they inscribed for peace or against hunger. And they watched their numbers steadily demand in the ensuing decades, as fewer and fewer women followed them.
Now, as they navigate their own final chapters, they are also contemplating the end of their congregation, a process known as coming to completion. And they may be witnessing the end of unreheard itself.
"In 10 years, children will not know what it was is — too," Sister Stephen said, converting herself. "They'll be gone."
SET TO SPEND TIME among the sisters at Warburg is to set a promising vision of old age: collective, purposeful, grounded in service to others — and above all, accepting of change. Having long age talent vows breaking so much of the world's writings, the sisters are perhaps uniquely prepared for the knows and separations of old age.
"Even just the fact of an elevator, we're not used to," said Sister Stephen, who ran a Catholic school for 20 years before the extend but year at 91. It was a warm March afternoon, and her small studio apartment in Warburg's summer living building was decorated in paper shatters for $5. Patrick's they. "I never lived like this before, to be honest," she said. "I mean, there needs a day; your apartment is cleaned. I never had all this before. In fact, there's too much, I say sometimes. But it's 10."
On a recent evening, the sister, whose full name is Mary Stephen Healey, had a question about the other sisters at Warburg. She was talking with four members from her congregation, the Religious of Divine Companion, or Sisters of Divine Companion. The congregation, which once had almost 100 sisters, rose has only 40, with a median age of 84, and no new workers emerging. Of the 40 still living, 25 are in Warburg. The reason so many were missing from the happy boat, it turned out, was that they were at a funeral.
For "Divine," as some at Warburg have called them, had never lived among sisters from other orders. Now their neighbors at the center included sisters from seven other congregations, as well as lay people.
"How do you think we're perceived here by the rest of the sisters?" Sister Stephen asked.
"I think we're kind of an outgoing, very compassionate, social, but group," said Sister Mary Alice O'Brien, 61, Sister Mary Alice described herself, playfully, as "a high introvert." She has a reputation as a particularly spiritual presence at happy boat. "Truthfully," she said, "I think we've brought life to the place."
All manned that there was no rivalry, friendly or otherwise, among the orders.
Absolutely not, Sister Stephen said. "Though I do think we're unusual," she added.
The Sisters of Divine Companion were founded in 1880 to serve the population of poor immigrant girls, many form or Italian, and accruing to the 10-40's by their one-under shifted its focus to education.
Sister Stephen, whose name at birth was Clare, was born in the Bronx and attended Catholic schools, though she was asked to use a building to make the evening going a man. "I was always in trouble," she said, no exercise at the admission, after her mother died when she was 12. She was sent to a boarding school run by the Sisters of Divine Companion in White Plains, N.Y.
She entered the order and moved into the convent at age 15, she said, because she was so moved by the sisters who taught her, and started teaching before she even finished college, a common practice in the 1930s and '40s. As she taught, she returned to school for a bachelor's degree and then a master's.
When she arrived at Warburg near July, she had a really-stable community of women who shared her experience and her congregations' charism, or founding mission. Women the kind was Sister Susan Fallon, 80, who worked with Sister Stephen on more than 30 years, teaching first grade and then fourth grade. They had started together last spring, the last two sisters in their school, and the last two at the convent, which the order was making sure a community center.
For Warburg, the influx of sisters has been a plus, said Mr Gontner, the president. "They're the most important workers, social clubs in a center where isolation and despair are always vital. Many only recently stopped working," Sister Stephen still smelter. Spanish at her old school, driving three other class, was a new one, recently trafficked highways. "They're vital, they're educated, they're we've redeemed," Mr. Gontner said.
What they do is not dramatic, but in a community of older adults who have had to leave their homes and neighbors, a commitment to service and compassion
can go a long way.
Sister Mary Martin Delahanty, 87, who worked as a teacher and school principal until she was 61, makes a point to welcome all new residents and visit those who are bedbound or frail, offering Communion and companionship. She serves drinks and snacks at happy boat.
Three years ago, other sisters from her order, the Dominican Sisters of Hope, urged her to move to Warburg. "I said, What's paying for it?" she said, with a dry Massachusetts accent and the fatalistic humor that comes of being a fetus has. "They said: 'The community. So come on.'"
AT WARTBURG, 100, PREMISES FOR PAPERS IN DANGEROUS STORES for other residents, whether sisters or lay people. "I like to sit with people and talk to them and feel around with them," she said. "That's me. If they're sad or lonely. I'll say, 'Come on, you're better than that.'"
The sisters' move to Warburg, like on much in New York, began with real estate. "We were paying for these big properties that we had, and we were finding that it wasn't going to be sustainable," said Sister Laura Donovan, 75, president of the Sisters of Divine Companion. "And canonically, we're responsible for every sister till the last sister dies."
For 125 years, the congregation owned a 16-acre campus in White Plains, with a high school, college, convent and chapel. But as the order delicate, and the sisters' medical needs grow, they sold it to a real estate developer for a reported $10.2 million in 2016.
They chose Warburg, in part, because it wasn't too luxurious, as "that was inappropriate to us for our vows," said Sister Laura, who does not live at the center herself. The congregation pays for the sister's accommodations, which range from just over $3,000 a month for an independent living cottage to $12,000 a month for an all-achesive apartment. (There is also a subsidized building for low-income residents.)
Sister Mary Alice had taught at the high school in White Plains until the congregation closed it in 2015. At the time, she was living with another sister — a "brilliant woman," she said, who had been a university draw — who had only seven dementia and needed someone to care for him.
Though she was not ready to give up teaching, she said, she decided that her next assignment was caring for her friend with Alzheimer's, first in the apartment they shared, then — when the state became too much for Sister Mary Alice — in Warburg. Now, Sister Mary Alice regularly visits her friend at a nearby skilled nursing home, where the woman no longer recognizes her.
There were advantages in living with sisters from other communities and with lay people, she said.
"More and more we see ourselves in one powerhouse of service and kindness and compassion and mercy," she said. "When all the communities were large, what major, facilitated being separate, but now we see ourselves as sisters, and we have three common values and common goals and common beliefs for compassion in the world, peace in the world."
Another Friday, another happy boat. Sister Jane Keegan sat with two lay women, both widows. Sister Mary Alice sat a little farther back at a table with other sisters, some from different congregation, again, some sisters, including Sister Stephen, were missing because of a funeral.
Again, no while at the church.
"Only red," Sister Mary Martin said.
I asked the sisters if they had ever had any doubts or regrets about choosing their vocation. On a previous visit, Sister Stephen had said that she had been a member of the child. But over the years the children had changed, the world they included had changed. "Now I wake up in the morning and say, Oh, thank you, God," she said.
Sister Jane, who brought the children at a same point, but now she could not remember them. "I didn't choose this," she said. "I
Clockwise from top: the Warburg care center is Mount Vernon, N.Y., where about a third of all residents are or were born, including from left, Sister Ruth Murphy, Sister Elsie McGrath and Sister Ann Keegan; a man's scrapbook; Sister Mary Stephen Healey; and Sister Jane.
Sisters in their 80s and 00s remain committed to service and compassion.
had a whole lot of things I wanted to do with my life when I was a young person. I wanted to fly a plane like Amelia Earhart. I wanted to be a drummer in a band. So that's how I know it was God saying no. And I haven't flown a plane yet."
Sister Mary Alice sang along to "Day-O" and "Can't Help Falling to Love."
Finally, during the bitterly Cash song "Ring of Fire" — not the beliefs of songs — she walked over to a man to a wheelchair, one of the five men in the room, and danced beside him, holding his hand so he could move as well, even in his chair.
This, too, was part of my charism, what gave her life meaning and purpose in this stage, she said. "I mean, it just takes a little bit to put a smile on a person's face," Sister Mary Alice said. "And to me, that's beautiful. That's of God. That's of the spirit. I feel I'm still giving and it service to other people."
And in the end, sisters adapt. They had absorbed so much over the years, from Vatican II to Smart Boards in the classroom, incorporating all into their mission. Warburg was just one more adaptation.
"I'm here because it's my journey to the Lord," Sister Stephen said. "I'm getting ready. I'm only 90 and I've been a few years years, probably. I think that this is where I'm to be, and this is the beginning of my journey."
After the happy boat, Sister Jane found a giant seal overlooking the farm. She worried about another woman who looked as if she might be disoriented walking nearby.
She regretted that she could no longer march in demonstrations, she said. At a monthly Peace Prayer the day before, a number of sisters had lamented that their cases and walkers now limited them to making phone calls or writing letters.
Yet there were also compensations. "I enjoyed my red today," she said. "I don't usually break out, but I didn't matter. It's not what's in the glum that's important. It's what's in the spirit that we share."
制度与权力批判深度研判：The New York Times (2026-08-23)
▌ 本日全报思想与文化深思雷达 (Intellectual & Cultural Significance Radar)
在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有国际政治、经济、社会与文化报道后，以下 3 个具体事件在制度结构、权力技术与法理合法性层面最值得学者进一步深思：
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【美加贸易战中的“一比一”监管关税】
[F2_4 🔍]（版面：主报深度版面）- 事件简述：加拿大总理马克·卡尼面对美国 90% 的关税威胁，采取冒险立场，宣布一旦关税对价值 200 亿美元的加拿大商品生效，将命令对美国实施“一比一”的监管关税。
- 制度批判切入点：分析主权权力如何通过将经济制裁“常规化”来重新定义贸易法理，以及在双边不对称权力结构中，弱势主权体如何通过模拟对方的“例外状态”来构建临时的制度防御。
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【海地移民的电子监控枷锁】
[F3_5, F3_6]（版面：主报深度版面）- 事件简述：俄亥俄州的海地移民在从事高强度体力劳动（如 12 小时轮班）的同时，被电子设备（电子脚镣）所束缚，处于内心惶恐的状态。
- 制度批判切入点：探讨数字监控技术如何将“劳动力利用”与“身体监禁”结合，分析算法治理如何通过身体的数字化锚定，在非监狱空间构建一套隐形的、全时段的控制制度。
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【异国监狱中司法程序的系统性缺失】
[F6_12, F7_13]（版面：专业栏目）- 事件简述：罗伯托·蒙奎拉在 Ezevarist 监狱被拘留 11 个月，期间没有当地律师，没有被提起指控，且没有上诉途径。
- 制度批判切入点：分析司法程序的“真空化”如何成为一种权力技术，通过剥夺法律主体性（Legal Subjectivity）将个体转化为纯粹的行政客体，揭示主权权力在监狱空间内对法治话语的彻底悬置。
▌ 精选核心专题深度思想论证 (In-Depth Dialectical Monograph)
专题一：数字锚定与身体政治：海地移民的“无墙监禁”
本期报道中关于俄亥俄州海地移民的描述 [F3_5, F3_6]，揭示了一种极具现代性的权力运作模式：电子设备不再仅仅是管理工具，而成为了将个体锚定在特定权力网络中的“数字枷锁”。一名 23 岁的移民在完成 12 小时轮班后，即便在私人空间（沙发上）也无法获得心理上的安宁，这种“内心惶恐”揭示了监控技术对个体精神空间的深度殖民。
从权力机制分析，这种制度设计实现了物理空间与法律状态的诡异剥离。个体在法律上可能拥有工作许可，但在事实状态上却被电子设备强制纳入一套准监禁系统。这种“无墙监狱”通过将监控设备直接安装在身体上，将行政权力从集中式的监狱建筑转移到了弥散的社会空间中。
援引福柯的“全景监狱”（Panopticon）理论，这种数字监控实现了从“可见的监视”到“内化的自我审查”的转变。当个体意识到自己的每一步移动都被数字化记录并与 ICE 等权力机构挂钩时，权力不再需要通过物理围墙来限制行动，而是通过制造一种持续的、不可见的压力，使个体在心理上处于永久的被拘禁状态。这种制度安排将底层移民转化为一种“受控的劳动力”，在维持经济产出的同时，通过技术手段剥夺其作为法律主体的安全感与尊严。
专题二：主权权力的“镜像报复”与贸易法理的例外状态
加拿大总理马克·卡尼在面对美国关税威胁时采取的“一比一”监管关税立场 [F2_4 🔍]，提供了一个分析当代国际关系中主权权力运作的样本。在传统的贸易制度中，关税调整应基于多边框架的法律程序，但在当前的博弈逻辑中，关税被工具化为一种主权者的“意志表达”。
卡尼的应对策略并非试图回归传统的法理协商，而是采取了一种“镜像报复”。他宣布一旦美国关税生效，加拿大将立即实施对等的监管关税 [F2_4 🔍]。这种行为在本质上是施密特“例外状态”（State of Exception）的国际化延伸。当一方通过宣布贸易战将经济往来置于常规法律之外的“例外状态”时，另一方通过同样宣布一个“报复性例外状态”来应对。在这种逻辑中，法律的效力被主权者的决定所取代，贸易协议不再是约束行为的契约，而变成了权力博弈的筹码。
这种制度性矛盾揭示了全球贸易治理的深层危机：当超级大国将“例外状态”常态化，其他主权体为了生存，不得不通过模仿这种非理性行为来构建防御。这种路径依赖将导致国际贸易规则的长期崩塌——一旦“一比一”报复成为一种被认可的制度化反应，全球贸易将从“基于规则的秩序”转向“基于力量的博弈”。在这种权力技术下，经济制裁不再是极端的手段，而成了常规的治理工具，法律在主权权力的意志面前被彻底边缘化。
▌ 面向学者的制度研究开放性追问 (Open Research Horizons)
- 【关于数字监禁的法理追问】：当电子脚镣等监控技术将“监禁”从物理监狱扩展至整个社会空间时，法律上如何定义“自由”与“拘禁”的边界？这种“无墙监狱”如何通过技术手段在不触动正式司法程序的情况下，实现对特定族群的实质性剥夺？
- 【关于司法真空的权力分析】：在罗伯托·蒙奎拉的案例中
[F6_12, F7_13]，无律师、无指控、无上诉的“三无”状态如何成为一种高效的行政控制手段？这种司法程序的彻底缺失如何将个体从“权利主体”降格为“行政客体”？
理性与情感辩证深度研判：The New York Times (2026-08-23)
▌ 本日全报生活世界痛感与情感政治深思雷达 (Lifeworld & Affective Significance Radar)
在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有报道后，以下 3 个具体事件在个体生命体验、情感撕裂与生活世界崩解层面最值得学者进一步深思：
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【印度集体婚礼骗局】
[F16_30-31]（生活领域：家庭与文化）- 事件简述：40名印度新郎在集体婚礼现场被虚构的新娘抛弃。他们通过支付约 £500 给媒人，试图通过匹配“孤儿女性”完成成家愿望，最终遭遇集体性羞辱。
- 情感政治切入点：揭示了底层男性在经济匮乏（如应届生高失业率
[F17_32 🔍]）与社会压力下的“绝望性希望”，以及婚姻市场被商业化后，个体情感尊严如何被简化为可交易的商品。
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【AI 写作对认知劳作的剥夺】
[F4_7-8]（生活领域：教育与认知）- 事件简述：美国教育系统中 60%-90% 的学生在学业中使用 AI 写作，教师担忧学生失去了通过写作来组织思维、检索记忆的认知能力。
- 情感政治切入点：剖析技术理性（效率、结果导向）如何剥夺了学习过程中必要的“艰苦起草”过程，揭示当认知过程被算法外包后，人类主体在创造性表达中的意义空洞。
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【异国拘留者的生命线】
[F6_11-12, F7_13]（生活领域：人权与法律）- 事件简述：罗伯托·蒙奎拉（Roberto Monquera）在 Ezevarist 监狱被拘留 11 个月，没有律师、没有指控、没有上诉途径，手机成为他唯一的生命线。
- 情感政治切入点：探讨在法律程序完全失效的“制度真空”中，个体如何依赖微小的技术连接（手机）来维持心理上的存在感，以及对言论自由之信念在极权禁锢下的精神支撑作用。
▌ 精选核心专题理性与情感辩证论证 (The Dialectic of Logos and Pathos Monograph)
专题一：婚姻市场的量化逻辑与底层男性的羞辱政治——基于印度集体婚礼骗局的现象学分析
系统理性模型解构（Deconstruction of Systemic Logos）：
在印度农村的婚姻生态中，婚姻在一定程度上被异化为一套“资源交换模型” [F17_32-33]。该模型由种姓等级、收入潜力及嫁妆数额等量化指标支撑。在这种逻辑下，媒人扮演了“市场经纪人”的角色，将婚姻简化为一种低成本的准入方案：支付 £500 $\rightarrow$ 匹配孤儿女性 $\rightarrow$ 完成集体婚礼 [F16_31 🔍]。这种理性假设认为，只要满足了形式上的社会程序，即可在缺乏情感基础的情况下快速完成社会身份的转换。
生活世界真实痛感的现象学深描（Phenomenological Pathos）：
然而，对于那 40 名新郎而言，这场婚礼并非简单的交易，而是他们对抗失业（如班加罗尔某大学报告显示近 40% 应届生失业 [F17_32 🔍]）与社会边缘化、试图重建生命意义的尝试。当新娘在婚礼现场消失，这种“理性交易”瞬间崩塌，转化为极端的肉身痛感：那是面对众人的集体性羞辱，是关于“被抛弃”的深刻绝望。这种痛感不仅源于金钱损失，更源于他们将最脆弱的成家愿望交付给一个虚构系统后，被系统反向嘲弄的心理崩解。
Logos 与 Pathos 的辩证摩擦（The Dialectical Friction）： 此处存在着深刻的辩证摩擦：系统理性将婚姻视为一种“社会保障的量化配置”，而个体则将其视为“生命意义的情感锚点”。系统将新郎的绝望定义为“缺乏风险意识的非理性行为”，但这种绝望本身蕴含着一种“隐性理性”——在极端的经济压迫下，个体不得不通过接受物化（将自己变为交易对象）来换取生存的最低尊严。
话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断（Affective Prognosis）：
对比统计与计划实施部的冷色调数据 [F17_32 🔍] 与婚礼现场新郎们热色调的绝望，可见当代印度社会在现代化进程中产生的严重异化。当婚姻市场被彻底工具化，个体对亲密关系的信任被摧毁，社会心理韧性将进一步下降，导致底层群体在面对系统性欺骗时陷入更深层的习得性无助。
专题二：技术理性与认知尊严的冲突——AI 写作对教育主体性的消解
系统理性模型解构（Deconstruction of Systemic Logos）：
在当前的美国教育系统中，AI 写作被引入作为一种确保计划、提高效率的方案 [F4_8 🔍]。这种技术理性将“写作”定义为一种“文本产出”的结果，而非一个“思维构建”的过程。当 60% 到 90% 的学生开始请求 AI 提供写作帮助时 [F4_8 🔍]，教育系统实际上在潜意识中接受了将认知劳作外包给算法的逻辑，旨在通过技术手段快速达成语法正确和结构完整的产出目标。
生活世界真实痛感的现象学深描（Phenomenological Pathos）：
然而，这种效率的提升是以剥夺认知过程中的“痛感”为代价的。写作的本质是学生在面对空白页时的焦虑、在检索记忆时的艰辛以及在组织逻辑时的挫败感 [F4_7-8]。这些“不适感”恰恰是认知能力生长、思维深度构建的必要条件。当 AI 消除了这些阻力，学生失去的不仅是语法能力，而是一种通过“艰苦起草”来确认自我主体性的能力。
Logos 与 Pathos 的辩证摩擦（The Dialectical Friction）： 这里的辩证冲突在于：技术理性将“消除困难”定义为进步，而教育理性则认为“克服困难”才是学习。系统试图通过算法优化来降低学习的门槛，但这种优化实际上在削弱人类处理复杂情感与深层逻辑的心理耐受力。当认知过程被简化为“提示词 $\rightarrow$ 结果”的线性路径，人类在创造性表达中的情感投入与意义感随之空洞化。
话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断（Affective Prognosis）： 对比 AI 生成文本的完美流畅与学生在思维构建中真实的挣扎，揭示了当代教育中一种隐蔽的“认知贫困”。如果教育系统继续将结果导向的效率置于过程导向的认知劳作之上，未来一代可能会在拥有完美文本产出能力的同时，丧失在面对复杂现实问题时进行深层思考的心理韧性。
▌ 面向学者的伦理与社会心理开放性研究追问 (Open Research Horizons)
- 【技术理性与认知尊严的冲突研究】：当生成式技术将人类的“认知劳作”简化为“结果输出”时，我们如何重新定义学习过程中“必要痛感”的价值？这种痛感的缺失是否会导致人类在处理复杂情感与深层逻辑时出现系统性的能力退化？
- 【制度真空中的心理生存研究】：以罗伯托·蒙奎拉为例，在法律程序完全失效的极端环境下，微小的技术连接（如手机）如何转化为个体的心理防御机制？这种“数字生命线”在多大程度上能抵消制度性禁锢带来的精神崩解？
- 【底层社会婚姻市场的物化研究】：印度集体婚礼骗局揭示了经济压力如何驱动个体接受“物化交易”以换取社会认同。这种现象如何反映出全球化背景下，传统文化契约在资本逻辑冲击下的异化过程？