Members phkrause Posted June 18, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 18, 2023 June 17, 2023 By Melissa Kirsch Good morning. Take some seasonal inspiration from what readers of The Morning are planning for their summers. María Jesús Contreras Variations on a theme Years ago, I received a voicemail from the neighborhood cobbler telling me my shoes were ready to pick up. The message was perfunctory, left by the shop owner, a usually grumpy guy who sounded like his usually grumpy self. But instead of ending with “OK, bye” or “have a good day” or some other cliché, he signed off with “Enjoy your time.” I found this strange, delightful, a little bit menacing. (Was he implying I didn’t have a lot of time left?) It was probably just a quirky way of saying goodbye. But since then, I’ve repeated this phrase to myself as a sort of mantra. It’s true, we never know how much time we have, so why not enjoy it? “Enjoy your day” is a finite wish. “Enjoy your life” seems akin to “goodbye forever.” But “enjoy your time” is more expansive. I’ve come to interpret it as, “Whatever amount of time is before you, enjoy it, and don’t take it for granted.” So I’m planning an “Enjoy Your Time” summer. I asked you recently what sort of personal summer “brand” you might declare, what this will be “the summer of” for you. The responses I received offer glimpses into your current realities and dreams for the future. Many of you wrote of welcoming new babies, celebrating milestone birthdays, focusing on health and self-improvement, and truly, finally getting “back to normal life.” Here is a sampling of the responses I received. I hope they make you think a little more creatively about the possibilities for your own summer: Your summer plans It’s the summer of Frosty Fridays, where I take my three kids out to a new ice cream shop each Friday. — Pete Horvath, Chicago This is #granolagrandma summer. Gardening, reading books, crossword puzzles, sitting on my patio enjoying the sounds of the birds and the bugs. — Katherine Knight, Knoxville, Tenn. Vasectomy summer! A handful of my male friends and family members in their 30s and 40s got vasectomies over this past year, but none of them are really talking about it. This summer, let’s normalize the conversation while enjoying sex without the fear of an unwanted pregnancy. — Annabeth Rodgers Faucher, Providence, R.I. Mine will be the Summer of Proust, as I work my way through “In Search of Lost Time.” — Jason Lloyd, Louisville, Ky. It’s summer of dodging Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Instagram content so the concert can remain a surprise! — Havi Carrillo-Klein, Cleveland I declare this will be the summer of growing our groceries! Getting my hands dirty to eat clean. — Melinda Deas, Stonewall, La. I deleted all social media apps and declared a no-social summer. I want to live for the actual moments, not worry about how I will portray them. — Morgan Gelfand, Portland, Maine We’re having a summer of ice cream. I set up a five-cubic-foot freezer on the front porch filled with ice cream bars and Popsicles. My 9-year-old and his friends? HAVE SOME ICE CREAM! The neighbors? HAVE SOME ICE CREAM! The postal delivery person? HAVE SOME ICE CREAM! It’s 2 a.m.? HAVE AN ICE CREAM! — Janet Wallace, Atascadero, Calif. I would like for this to be the summer of taking charge. I feel as if I’ve been letting life just happen to me for too long, and I would like to step forward and participate more actively in my own existence. — Charles Surette, New York City I’m currently riding my motorcycle through the African continent. Present location is Turkana, Kenya. So I’m proclaiming this my summer of motorcycling on rice and beans. The rice and beans play the part of keeping my finances healthy. — Sally Anne Greenwood 2023 will be the summer of making more gazpacho than enemies. — Lauren Oster, New York City It’s the summer of Barbiecore. (Hot pink, and lots of it!) I’ve been waiting 30 years for this much hot pink to be considered high fashion! — Kelly Hoffman, Boston This will be my summer of reading six to seven books a month. I turned 73 in May, and my goal this year is 73 books. — Alice Benson, Gaithersburg, Md. This is going to be the summer of hiking the Appalachian Trail for me. I quit my job and started the 2,198-mile trail on April 5. — Sam McClintic, Mile 1,026, Harpers Ferry, W.Va. This will be my fat Elvis summer. — Joe Toris, Akron, Ohio I want this summer to feel like a Pitbull song — ridiculous and lighthearted and fun. — Camila Manjarres, New York City For more How a sex-shaming rant about margaritas accidentally became the song of summer. From 2022, a summer playlist of songs selected by readers of The Morning. Long live the “Summer of George.” Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE WEEK IN CULTURE Cormac McCarthy in 2011.Dawn Jones/Professor Productions Cormac McCarthy, the novelist, died this week at 89. Readers shared his influence on their lives. Watch five film adaptations of McCarthy’s work. The Tony Awards opened with a clever performance and nodded to the striking Hollywood writers. See the best and worst moments from the show. Gowns and Shake Shack: These photos capture an all-night Tonys after-party. Riley Keough, Elvis Presley’s granddaughter, agreed to pay Priscilla Presley to settle a disagreement over control of the Presley family trust. Glenda Jackson, the British actress turned politician who died this week at 87, had an unnervingly energizing presence at every age, Ben Brantley writes. Here are highlights from more than 50 years of Times reviews of Jackson’s work. A Picasso show at the Brooklyn Museum, curated by the comedian Hannah Gadsby, has drawn scathing reviews. Cheryl Hines, the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress, is risking her reputation to support her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in his presidential campaign. “Flamin’ Hot,” an origin story for a spicy snack, is based on a debunked memoir. THE LATEST NEWS Attorney General Merrick Garland in Minneapolis yesterday.Caroline Yang for The New York Times The Minneapolis police routinely discriminated against Black people and used deadly force without justification, according to a Justice Department investigation opened after George Floyd’s murder. The gunman who killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 was found guilty of dozens of charges. The jury will decide whether he gets the death penalty. Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who leaked to The Times a secret history of the Vietnam War that came to be known as the Pentagon Papers, died at 92. The N.B.A. suspended Ja Morant for 25 games starting next season after he waved a handgun on Instagram for the second time in just over two months. The Greek authorities blamed smugglers for a shipwreck that may have been one of the worst in years. Since former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie left office, he has capitalized on the connections he made as one of country’s best-known governors. Offer won’t last. Save 50% on Games. Whether you’re interested in speedy play or all-day play, New York Times Games has new puzzles every day. The Games Sale is happening now and won’t last — save 50% on your first year of a Games subscription. CULTURE CALENDAR By Gilbert Cruz 🎬 “Past Lives” (Friday): After a successful limited run, one of the year’s critically acclaimed films opens in wide release. A boy and a girl become friends in Seoul, lose touch, grow older, reconnect, lose touch and reconnect once again. As Manohla Dargis writes in her review, “Past Lives” is “a tale of friendship, love, regret and what it means to truly live here and now. In a sense it is a time-travel movie, because even as the two characters keeping moving forward, they remain inexorably tethered to the past.” 📺 “Outlander” (out now): Speaking of time travel, this Starz series about a woman from the World War II era who gets sent back to the past and falls in love with a man in 18th-century Scotland has returned for its seventh season. The characters are now in colonial America and it’s Revolutionary War time! Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT RECIPE OF THE WEEK Jenny Huang for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Susie Theodorou; Prop Stylist: Paige Hicks. By Melissa Clark Lemon Ricotta Pancakes It’s Father’s Day tomorrow, so why not make some crisp-edged lemon ricotta pancakes to honor the dad in your life (or just because everyone loves pancakes)? Genevieve Ko’s recipe, made with tangy buttermilk and ricotta, yields tender pancakes that are especially light and fluffy in the center, thanks to well-beaten eggs. 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ADVICE FROM WIRECUTTER Try a sunshade The best beach umbrella, it turns out, is not an umbrella at all. That’s because unless your favorite stretch of shoreline remains wind-free at all times, the archetypal beach umbrella can uproot itself and blow away. Enter Wirecutter’s recommendation: the less conventional, but far more functional, sunshade. A good sunshade will shelter a family of four from gusty winds. It’s also easy to carry and intuitive to set up, so you can focus on what’s most important: lazing and lounging. — Christine Ryan GAME OF THE WEEKEND Max Homa.Meg Oliphant for The New York Times The U.S. Open: The golf major is in Los Angeles for the first time since the 1940s, and much about the course, at the Los Angeles Country Club, is distinctive. A steep gully known as a barranca snakes through the course. There are five par-3 holes — the most at a U.S. Open in decades. And then there’s the novelty: Only a handful of the golfers competing this weekend have played the course. The group includes Max Homa, who grew up in the area and is seeking his first major. “I’m getting to do something I would have lost my mind about as a kid,” Homa said. 1 p.m. Eastern today and tomorrow on NBC. For more After two days, Rickie Fowler leads the field. It’s quite a return for Fowler, who was once a top-ranked player but had recently fallen to No. 173. Brooks Koepka dreads a “birdiefest” at a major. But Los Angeles Country Club is giving the Open field only so much heartburn. NOW TIME TO PLAY Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangrams were immaturity and maturity. See the hardest Spelling Bee words from this week. Take the news quiz to see how well you followed this week’s headlines. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your weekend with The Times. — Melissa Correction: Yesterday’s newsletter contained an incorrect link for this week’s news quiz. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 19, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2023 June 18, 2023 One of my favorite regular Times features is Talk, the interview column in our Sunday Magazine by David Marchese. So I’m thrilled to tell you that The Morning will now be including excerpts from those interviews (sometimes longer, sometimes shorter), most Sundays. Today, David talks with the comedian Samantha Irby. — David Leonhardt By David Marchese Good morning. I think of Samantha Irby as akin to our poet laureate of peevishness. Samantha IrbyE. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune via Getty Images The struggle of success I spend a lot of time — maybe you do, too — thinking about happiness. What is it? How can I get more of it? But there are other times — and maybe this also applies to you — when I just think, forget all that: Life is hard, and who says lasting happiness is even within reach? It’s in those moments that Samantha Irby’s work feels so valuable and refreshing. I spoke to Irby, the best-selling humorist who recently published her fifth book of essays, “Quietly Hostile,” and who is a contributing producer on the new season of “And Just Like That,” the “Sex and the City” revival, about the tyranny of positivity. A running theme in your work is that you’re a mess and you don’t understand how to make life go smoothly. But do you think other people are walking around thinking, I’ve got everything under control? I know people who have it together, which, when I look at them, I feel even worse. My wife is very put together. She knows where her stuff is and she has routines. I see this in other people and then I don’t know where my glasses are or where I put my shoes and I’m like, how am I getting through the same life they’re getting through? But from afar, you’re successful. Are you just locked into a certain idea of yourself? That could be true. But, OK, I don’t know that I’ve ever said this to anyone before, so we’re about to get into it. Please. I think there is a part of me that because I’m in this fat body that doesn’t work right — I saw somebody say that straight white men are the only group you can still joke about. There are fat jokes everywhere. I’ll always feel a little less-than because of my size and, secondarily, my Crohn’s disease. That is why I will never view anything I do as extremely successful because there’s always, yeah, but you look like that. I don’t mean this as Feel Bad for My Fat Struggle, it’s just real! David, people hate fat people so much. I don’t think there is a way — at least I haven’t figured it out yet — to both feel successful and exist in a world that’s like, I don’t want to sit by you. What do you think of happiness as a goal that we should all be striving toward? I think that leaves a lot of people out. It feels dismissive or unrealistic to tell people who are suffering, “Hey, you just got to be happy,” because it’s like, well, are you going to put me somewhere that makes me happy? Are you going to give me something that makes me happy? This is the perfect example: I don’t take beach vacations, but you see people posting about their beach vacation on social media, and they’re like, “Black people don’t travel enough. We got to get out there and travel!” What if I’m disabled? Or too poor? The thing where whatever you aspire to is a thing we all should aspire to — I hate it. That kind of messaging just exists to make people feel bad. When you flatten everything into “be happy,” it’s like, what does that mean? It means a different thing for you than it does for me, and can you ever get there? For most people, the answer is no. The dishonesty behind positivity grates on my nerves. For more Read my full interview with Irby here. During that interview, she mentioned her love of the comedian Paul Mooney, who left behind a complicated legacy, which Vulture explored. Apart from her books, Irby may be best known for writing the fan favorite “Pool” episode of “Shrill,” which was celebrated for its joyous depiction of a “fat babe pool party.” Slate explained that episode’s importance. If you’re looking for a different perspective on happiness, read my interview with Laurie Santos, a Yale professor and “The Happiness Lab” podcast host. Unsurprisingly, Irby’s ideal Sunday comes with a little vinegar: “If it is football season, I like to post up on the couch and watch all of the games. I watch the noon game, the three o’clock game and the Sunday night game, which is maybe a sickness.” Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT NEWS War in Ukraine Flooding in the Kherson region of Ukraine this month.Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters Russia blew up a Ukrainian dam from within, evidence suggests. These graphics show how an environmental and humanitarian disaster may have started. To resist the Ukrainian counteroffensive, Russian troops have improved their defenses by learning from past mistakes. War and the pandemic may set the global economy back by a decade, the World Bank warned. International Flying over the fires in Canada.Renaud Philippe for The New York Times “The fires here are unstoppable”: French firefighters, the first foreign reinforcements, arrived to help put out the blazes in Quebec. Militants killed at least 37 people, including many students, at a high school in Uganda. The Taliban runs on WhatsApp, but the platform keeps kicking them off to comply with U.S. sanctions. Politics Ron DeSantis is young and has little kids, and he wants America to know it. With abortion restricted in many states, reproductive rights advocates are trying to make birth control access a right. Other Big Stories Minneapolis residents said a damning federal report on the city’s police department affirmed their mistrust of officers. Tension between New York City and its suburbs over issues like crime and congestion have gotten worse. After winter storms, California rivers are too dangerous to enjoy. The shortest hole in U.S. Open history tormented golfers. FROM OPINION This Father’s Day, Esau McCaulley recounts how he learned to forgive his father, who struggled with addiction. Trent Davis Bailey’s mother died in a plane crash in 1989. Having children of his own forced him to finally reckon with the loss. Here are columns by Maureen Dowd on Donald Trump and Ross Douthat on masculine alienation. The Sunday question: Is Trump’s indictment good news for his primary opponents? The charges have prompted Republican presidential candidates to run on whether they would pardon Trump, “suffocating the G.O.P. primary,” The Hill’s Myra Adams writes. But if another candidate wins, “Trump now has a real personal interest — his own liberty — in ensuring that a Republican wins next year’s election,” Jason Willick writes for The Washington Post. Offer won’t last. Save 50% on Games. Whether you’re interested in speedy play or all-day play, New York Times Games has new puzzles every day. The Games Sale is happening now and won’t last — save 50% on your first year of a Games subscription. MORNING READS Making a potato volcano.Lucy Hewett for The New York Times Beyond the grill: Dads’ cooking has become more inventive. Here’s what they’re making now. Infertility: The emotional toll is real for men, too. Sign in the crowd: Kourtney Kardashian announced she was pregnant at her husband’s Blink-182 concert. See the video from CNN. Vows: A vegan restaurateur and a meat connoisseur fell in love. Lives lived: Carol Higgins Clark was a best-selling suspense novelist who collaborated with her mother, the famed mystery writer Mary Higgins Clark. She died at 66. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Find a Father’s Day gift for less than $50. Pit olives and cherries with this tool. See what millennial dads are reading, watching, doing and wearing. Guess where these buildings are in our architecture quiz. BOOKS National dishes: A new book looks at the histories of some of the world’s most iconic food. Our editors’ picks: “The Late Americans,” a novel about sex and grad students, and eight other books. Times best sellers: Elliot Page’s memoir “Pageboy” is a No. 1 debut on the hardcover nonfiction list. THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE The New York Times On the cover: Diaries from three young women dreaming of a new Iran. Considering an open relationship? This sex therapist wants you to think hard about it. Eat: Yotam Ottolenghi explains how he comes up with a new recipe. Read the full issue. THE WEEK AHEAD What to Watch For Antony Blinken arrived in Beijing today, the first visit of a U.S. secretary of state to China since 2018. Tomorrow is Juneteenth in the U.S. Financial markets will be closed. John Durham, the special counsel who investigated the Russia inquiry, will testify before lawmakers on Wednesday. Wednesday is the first day of summer. India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, will travel to Washington for a state visit on Thursday. Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, is scheduled to go to trial on Thursday over allegations of election fraud. The N.B.A. draft is on Thursday. What to Cook This Week Ryan Liebe for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne. In her Five Weeknight Dishes newsletter, Emily Weinstein shares this tip from a reader: If you’re cooking for picky eaters, try a Niçoise salad, which lets everyone pick their favorites off the platter. Emily recommends this sheet-pan roasted salmon version, with potatoes, tomatoes, olives and more. You can also try a pasta with creamy lemon sauce that is great for nights when you need something simple. GAMES Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangram were buttoned, unbuttoned and undoubted. Take the news quiz to see how well you followed the week’s headlines. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your weekend with The Times. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 19, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 19, 2023 June 19, 2023 By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering Juneteenth, Blinken’s China visit and Baggu. Tallulah Fontaine Progress, finally In the early 2000s, the wage gap between Black and white workers in the U.S. was as large as it had been in 1950. That is a shocking statistic and a sign of the country’s deep racial inequality. Over the past five years, however, the story has changed somewhat: The wage gap, though still enormous, has shrunk. “It’s a pretty meaningful reversal,” Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told me. In today’s newsletter — on Juneteenth — I’ll try to explain why the gap has narrowed and what would have to happen for it to narrow more. After all, even with the recent progress, the median Black worker makes 21 percent less than the median white worker. Source: Economic Policy Institute | Wages are in 2022 dollars. | By The New York Times 1. A strong economy There appear to be three main causes of the recent trend, and the most significant is the country’s tight labor market. The unemployment rate has been falling for most of the past decade and has recently been near its lowest levels since the 1960s. Tight labor markets help almost all workers, and they tend to help disadvantaged workers the most. As Gould put it, “When employers can’t be quite as choosy — when employers have to look beyond their network — that can provide more opportunities for historically marginalized groups.” This dynamic helps close the Black-white wage gap because Black workers are overrepresented among low-wage workers. (A Times story set in Philadelphia went into more detail, focusing on Markus Mitchell, a worker there.) The Hispanic-white wage gap has also declined recently. William Spriggs, a labor economist and Howard University professor who died unexpectedly this month, often made this point. In one of his last interviews, Spriggs told my colleague Ben Casselman that he was concerned the recent Federal Reserve interest-rate increases would weaken the labor market and undo the recent progress of Black workers. “You should see from this moment what you are truly risking,” Spriggs said. (If you have a few minutes this morning, I recommend reading his Times obituary.) Of course, inflation is also a serious economic problem, which is why the Fed has raised rates. But the recent narrowing of racial wage inequality is a reminder that the Fed faces risks both from doing too little to fight inflation and from doing too much. “Tight labor markets make almost everything else easier,” said Suzanne Kahn, a historian who works at the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank. 2. The Fight for $15 More than a decade ago, a group of fast-food workers in New York City began agitating for a higher minimum wage. They attracted the support of Senator Bernie Sanders, the leaders of the Service Employees International Union and other high-profile allies. The movement became known as the Fight for $15. It has not persuaded Congress to lift the federal minimum wage, mostly because of opposition from congressional Republicans. The federal hourly minimum has been $7.25 since 2009, even as inflation has eroded its value. But the Fight for $15 movement has helped change policy in states and cities. A minimum wage well above $7.25 is a broadly popular idea, including among many Republican voters and independents. Ballot initiatives to raise the minimum wage have passed over the last decade in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada and several other states. As a result, the effective national minimum wage — a weighted average of state minimum wages, adjusted for inflation — has risen to nearly its highest level in 40 years (before falling a bit lately because of high inflation.) Source: Ben Zipperer, Economic Policy Institute | Wages are in May 2023 dollars. | By The New York Times Minimum-wage increases tend to shrink the racial wage gap for the same reason that tight labor markets do: Black workers disproportionately work in low-wage jobs. As a result, one powerful way to reduce racial inequality is to reduce economic inequality. The flip is also true. The racial wage gap widened in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s mostly because income inequality was soaring. 3. Black Lives Matter After a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd on May 25, 2020, racial inequity became a focus of intense national attention. Many companies promised to diversify their work forces and leadership ranks, and some took concrete action. At Fortune 500 companies, for example, Black board members occupied less than 9 percent of all board seats in 2020, according to Deloitte. By last year, the number had risen to 12 percent (compared with 14 percent of the U.S. population). It remains unclear how widespread the changes in corporate America have been; corporate boards obviously make up a tiny share of jobs. But the recent emphasis on diversity has probably played at least a modest role in narrowing racial gaps. There is a larger point here. Yes, a reduction in economic inequality can substantially shrink the Black-white wage gap. But that gap will never approach zero so long as racial inequities remain as large as they are in the U.S. today. The problem is not only that Black workers disproportionately work in low-wage job categories; it’s also that Black Americans make less money on average than similar white Americans. According to the Economic Policy Institute, a typical Black worker last year made 13 percent less than a typical white worker who was the same age and gender, had the same amount of education and lived in the same region. And the racial wealth gap is even larger than the wage gap. Related: A new book, “Just Action,” offers policy ideas for reducing residential segregation, much of which is the legacy of subsidized mortgages that were designed to exclude Black Americans. Today, write the authors, Richard and Leah Rothstein, “Placing ‘Black Lives Matter’ signs is not enough.” More on Juneteenth Black cowgirls and cowboys came together for a Juneteenth rodeo in Portland. See images of the bull riding and gleaming buckles. To formerly enslaved Black Catholics who stayed in the faith after the Civil War, the church was bigger than the sinful white men within it, Rachel Swarns writes in Times Opinion. Tiya Miles argues that Juneteenth is a national holiday that should retain its local flavor. (Here are descriptions of the celebrations in Galveston, Texas; Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.; and elsewhere.) Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS International Secretary of State Antony Blinken with Xi Jinping, China’s leader.Pool photo by Leah Millis Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, is meeting with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, to try to smooth tension between the countries. The Biden administration is trying to broker a long-shot diplomatic deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Israel is making it easier to approve new construction in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Thousands of houses could soon be built. Inflation passed 100 percent in Argentina. People are rushing to spend pesos before they lose more value. Dozens of men tried to check into a drug rehab facility in Indonesia. Instead of receiving treatment, they were enslaved and locked in cages. In 2020, Russia tried to assassinate a C.I.A. informant on American soil. War in Ukraine Ukrainian forces have retaken a village in the south of the country, a small gain in the counteroffensive. Kyiv officials are trying to root out corruption to reassure Western countries that donations aren’t being siphoned, The Washington Post reports. Politics The former attorney general William Barr criticized Donald Trump, his former boss, saying the classified documents case was “entirely of his own making.” Top Republicans are changing their position on early and mail-in voting, leading to a split in the party. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist, is polling well and could pull skeptical Democratic voters away from Biden. Other Big Stories U.S. transit systems that relied on office workers are scrambling to avoid financial collapse as commuters stay home or relocate. These charts show the cities workers are leaving. Kyle Roche was a rising star in the field of cryptocurrency law — until his career imploded. Who orchestrated his downfall? Opinions Taylor Swift is giving young girls a cohesive community and sense of belonging, Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell, a psychiatrist, writes. Here are columns by David French on the Alabama redistricting case and Ezra Klein on housing in California. Offer won’t last. Save 50% on Games. Whether you’re interested in speedy play or all-day play, New York Times Games has new puzzles every day. The Games Sale is happening now and won’t last — save 50% on your first year of a Games subscription. MORNING READS Danny Clarke is known across Britain as the Black Gardener.Karis Beaumont “The Dannahue”: A prestigious rose breeder is naming a new bloom for a Black gardener. Discovery: Archaeologists found a 3,000-year-old sword so well preserved it’s still gleaming, CNN reports. Cash crop: An Oregon border town is booming thanks to the Idahoans who visit its legal weed shops. Metropolitan Diary: What’s a vegetarian doing in a pastrami palace? Lives Lived: Donald Triplett was widely considered the first person to be diagnosed with autism. His happy life later became the subject of a book and documentary. He died at 89. SPORTS NEWS U.S. Open winner: Wyndham Clark beat Rory McIlroy in his first major victory, The Athletic reports. Lionel Messi’s payday: The Argentine star is earning millions for posting photos from Saudi Arabia on social media, a tourism contract obtained by The Times reveals. An N.B.A. mega-trade: The Washington Wizards sent Bradley Beal to the Phoenix Suns yesterday, The Athletic reports. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS A Baggu in Brooklyn.Dolly Faibyshev for The New York Times Gen Z’s favorite tote: TikTok has spread the gospel of Baggu totes. Videos highlighting the lightweight, foldable bags have collected over 130 million views. Now, self-described “Baggu girlies” are filling farmers’ markets and public parks with the brand’s vibrant prints — recognizable without a logo. More on culture Pixar’s “Elemental” had the worst opening for a film in the studio’s history. The director Wes Anderson narrates a sequence from his film “Asteroid City.” Watch the scene. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Shakshuka with feta.David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews Sprinkle feta on top of shakshuka. Play these card games. Clean just about anything with these tools. Take our news quiz. GAMES Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangram was kneading. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — David P.S. The Times’s publisher, A.G. Sulzberger, discussed — and sometimes debated — journalistic independence and other subjects with the editor of The New Yorker on a recent podcast. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 20, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 20, 2023 June 20, 2023 Continue reading the main story SUPPORTED BY Amazon By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering a new breed of Republicans, a missing submersible near the Titanic and Judge Judy’s new TV empire. Kenny Holston/The New York Times ‘Not working right now’ A rising generation of Republican politicians is more skeptical of the free market and more comfortable using government power to regulate the economy than the party has traditionally been. Consider: Senator J.D. Vance, the Ohio Republican, and Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts progressive, have collaborated on a bill to claw back executive pay at failed banks. The two worked through the details through in-person conversations, weekend phone calls and late-night texts. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida has signed a public letter calling for the reinvigoration of collective bargaining and praising the German approach, in which labor unions play a larger role in the economy. Rubio this month published a book, “Decades of Decadence,” that criticizes the past 30 years of globalization. Senator Todd Young of Indiana has helped write a bipartisan bill to restrict noncompete agreements, which companies use to prevent their employees from leaving for jobs at a competitor. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas was among a bipartisan group of lawmakers who began pushing a few years ago for federal subsidies to expand domestic semiconductor manufacturing. President Biden signed a version of the policy last year. Tomorrow afternoon, these four Republican senators — Cotton, Rubio, Vance and Young — will speak at an event on Capitol Hill that’s meant to highlight the emergence of a populist conservative movement in economics. The event is organized around a policy manifesto, called “Rebuilding American Capitalism: A Handbook for Conservative Policymakers.” “We really like capitalism, but we recognize it’s not working right now,” said Oren Cass, a former aide to Mitt Romney and the executive director of American Compass, a think tank that published the manifesto. Cass is right about that: Income growth for most families has been sluggish for decades, trailing well behind economic growth. Life expectancy stagnated even before Covid. And polls show that Americans of all ideological stripes are frustrated with the country’s direction. “Capitalism is a complex system dependent on rules and institutions,” Cass told me. “And conservatism calls for building and maintaining institutions that work well.” A new capitalism I recognize that many liberals will be skeptical of the new breed of Republicans. For one thing, they really are conservative; they’re not disaffected right-wingers who have become moderates without admitting it. They support abortion restrictions and oppose gun laws. They make excuses for Donald Trump’s anti-democratic behavior or even spread his falsehoods. But the preference for a different kind of economic policy than one Republicans have long supported is nonetheless significant. It is a sign that the consensus in Washington is moving away from the neoliberal, laissez-faire approach that has dominated since the 1980s. These new conservatives are trying to separate themselves from anti-government Republicans like Paul Ryan — and, although they won’t say so, Ronald Reagan. One major reason is the class inversion of American politics. Most professionals now vote for Democrats, which is a stark change from past decades. Most working-class voters vote Republican, partly because they see Democrats as an elite party dominated by socially liberal and secular college graduates. Yet the Republican Party still has a major vulnerability with working-class voters. The party has long pushed the laissez-faire agenda that has hurt those voters, and polls show the country to be left of center on economic policy. Most Americans favor a higher minimum wage, higher taxes on the rich, expanded government health insurance and subsidies for well-paying jobs. When Democrats can flip the script on elitism and paint a Republican candidate as an out-of-touch protector of the rich, the Democratic candidate can often draw enough blue-collar support to win. John Fetterman used this approach to beat Mehmet Oz last year in Pennsylvania, the only state where a Senate seat switched parties. Politically, the new conservative populism is an effort to show that Republicans understand Americans’ struggles and want to help. Economically, the new approach offers a glimpse of a Republican Party that’s starting to grapple with the economy’s true challenges. The manifesto rejects the idea that free trade is inherently good and argues for policies to ensure the U.S. has a thriving, well-paying manufacturing sector that makes strategically important goods like semiconductors. “The idea that trade would lead to liberalization and a happy world was wildly wrong,” Cass said. The document also calls for: a guaranteed right for workers to organize and industrywide bargaining, which could increase the number of union contracts — and raise wages. a financial transaction tax, meant to reduce Wall Street trading that makes people rich without making the economy more productive. a monthly child benefit of around $300, as well as changes to Medicare and Social Security to recognize the work done by stay-at-home parents. an easing of government regulations, to encourage new construction. Progressives will raise principled objections to some ideas — such as a ban on unions’ campaign donations. And that’s how a democracy should function. The country’s two political parties are not on the verge of agreeing about most economic issues. But something is changing. More politicians are recognizing that the policies of the past several decades have failed to create a broadly prosperous economy. From that emerging consensus may eventually come a longer list of bipartisan legislation designed to lift living standards. Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM Amazon Free training programs Free technical training programs at Amazon help employees learn and earn more. Learn more THE LATEST NEWS International A Ukrainian artillery team preparing to fire at a Russian ammunition depot.Finbarr O'Reilly for The New York Times Ukraine has paid contractors hundreds of millions of dollars for weapons that have not been delivered. The Greek Coast Guard is under scrutiny after it decided to not help save hundreds of smuggled migrants on an overloaded boat. An Israeli raid on terrorism suspects in the West Bank turned into a gun battle. At least five Palestinians were killed, and eight Israeli soldiers were wounded. Submersible Disappearance The missing submersible has five people on board.OceanGate Expeditions, via Associated Press The Coast Guard is rushing to find a submersible that was on its way to the wreck of the Titanic. The craft has been missing in the North Atlantic since Sunday, and is equipped with only a few days’ worth of oxygen. Among the people on board are a British explorer and a Pakistani businessman with his son. Politics Trump’s real estate project in Oman puts a renewed focus on how his business deals could influence his foreign policy. Republicans are taking legal action against disinformation researchers, who say this is undermining their work. Trump told Fox News the secret document he described in a recorded meeting was just news clippings. Other Big Stories Some local officials in the U.S. are seeking revenge on their hometown newspapers when they publish critical coverage. Ice and snow in the world’s highest mountains are disappearing at a faster pace than thought. Alibaba, China’s e-commerce giant, said its chairman and chief executive would leave his post in September. Opinions Seventeen columnists each picked one piece of culture that captures America’s true spirit. Find them all here. It was once possible to be a pro-life Democrat or an anti-gun Republican. Remixing alliances is a way out of our political stalemate, Tish Harrison Warren writes. The Biden administration has been surprisingly aggressive in pursuing environmental justice for minority communities, Nick Tabor writes. Offer won’t last. Save 50% on Games. 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SPORTS NEWS A new study: A football player’s chances of developing the brain disease C.T.E. are related not only to the number of blows to the head, but also to the cumulative impact of all those hits, The Times writes. A star on the market: Draymond Green opted out of his contract with the Golden State Warriors and will become a free agent, The Athletic reports. A new Dodger? The Angels superstar Shohei Ohtani could be playing in Los Angeles soon, according to The Athletic’s M.L.B. player poll. “An unpopular surface”: Kgothatso Montjane, a tennis champion in women’s wheelchair doubles, spoke to ESPN about the challenges of playing on grass. ARTS AND IDEAS Pharrell Williams at LVMH headquarters in Paris.Sam Hellmann for The New York Times On the runway: Pharrell Williams will unveil his first collection as creative director of Louis Vuitton today. Williams, a hip-hop artist with a famed sense of style, was catapulted into one of fashion’s pre-eminent jobs this year. “I am a creative designer from the perspective of the consumer,” Williams told The Times’s Jon Caramanica. More on culture Thousands of Reddit boards have gone dark in protest of changes to the company’s business model. Curators from the Met Museum are teaching Ukrainian military officers to save art. “Astonishing,” a Times review says about “Romeo and Juliet” at London’s Almeida Theater. “Ted Lasso” fans will recognize one of the stars: Toheeb Jimoh, who played Sam Obisanya. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times Cook Thai red curry noodles with vegetables. Walk through cities, from Seoul to Marrakesh and beyond. Choose from Wirecutter’s four best collapsible wagons. Mow your lawn with a robot. GAMES Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangrams were hateful and healthful. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — David P.S. The word “puzzleist” — a puzzle constructor — appeared for the first time in The Times recently, in a book review. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 21, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 21, 2023 June 21, 2023 Continue reading the main story SUPPORTED BY GE Aerospace By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering the coming affirmative action ruling, the search for a submersible and Hunter Biden. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times Waiting for the justices Sometime in the next 10 days, the Supreme Court is expected to tightly restrict or ban race-based affirmative action in college admissions. The ruling could come as soon as tomorrow or as late as Friday, June 30, before the justices leave for their summer break. In today’s newsletter, I will walk through two of the big uncertainties about the decision — one involving the ruling itself, the other involving the political reaction. With both questions, the dynamics are quite different from what they were with the highest-profile case last year, on abortion. The details matter In the abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the details of the court’s ruling were of only secondary importance. The justices faced a fundamental decision: Should they overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to outlaw abortion? Once a majority of justices decided to do so, the written opinions that they released were less meaningful. “The decision in Dobbs was essentially binary,” Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The Times, told me. “The affirmative action rulings are likely to be more complicated, raising more questions than they resolve.” Many experts expect the court to strike down the two specific race-based admissions programs that they’re reviewing, at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. But the detailed rationale will matter. It will shape future admissions policies, as well as any legal challenges to those policies from opponents of affirmative action. One question is whether the justices will allow university administrators to monitor the racial composition of the student body, even if they cannot use race-based admissions preferences. In a 2007 case about K-12 education, Justice Anthony Kennedy (who has since retired) made this subtle distinction. He held that schools could use racially neutral factors to achieve racial diversity. What does that mean? Imagine that a college gave an admissions bonus to children of all races who grew up in a neighborhood with a poverty rate of at least 15 percent. Under Kennedy’s standard, the college could still analyze how many Black students were enrolling — and change the threshold to, say, 20 percent partly to increase Black enrollment. The current court may reject Kennedy’s distinction, however. It might rule that racial diversity is not a legitimate factor for colleges to prioritize and might bar almost any discussion of race. Either way, the ruling is unlikely to be the last word. The admissions process is too complex for the justices to anticipate every scenario. The ruling will instead become the ground rules on which future legal cases are fought. A backlash is unlikely Barring a major surprise from the court, the ruling will probably anger many Democrats. They may also be tempted to assume that a political backlash will follow, as happened after the Dobbs ruling. In that case, the court was indeed acting in defiance of public opinion. Polls show that most Americans support widespread access to abortion, at least early in pregnancy. After the court overturned Roe and abortion became less available, some voters evidently reacted by voting for Democrats in last year’s midterm elections. “But,” as my colleagues Michael Powell and Ilana Marcus recently wrote, “the politics of affirmative action are different.” Most Americans oppose race-based admissions programs, polls show. When these programs have appeared on the ballot, they have almost always lost, including in Arizona, California, Michigan and Washington State, which are hardly red states. In California three years ago, the policy lost in heavily white and Asian communities — and fared worse in Black and Hispanic areas than Democratic candidates did. Sources: California Statewide Database; L2; Harvard University ALARMProject | Chart shows Biden’s two-party vote share. | By Eli Murray If Democrats try to generate mass outrage about a court ruling on affirmative action, they are likely to be disappointed, as Carlos E. Cortés, a historian at the University of California, Riverside, and a supporter of the policy himself, recently told The Times. “If they keep making it a cause, they will just alienate Hispanic and Asian voters,” Cortés said. Yet Democrats may have a more promising path open to them. Polls also show that most Americans do support giving students credit for overcoming economic disadvantage. And economic disadvantage is not evenly distributed across racial groups. Policies that consider family wealth and neighborhood wealth — rather than only income, the poverty rate and parental education — are especially likely to produce diverse classes. They’re also likely to remain legal, whatever the justices say about race. If liberals make a major push to expand those policies, it could have a big effect. “On one level, a Supreme Court decision ending racial preferences presents a crisis,” Richard Kahlenberg recently wrote for The Liberal Patriot. “Simply ending racial programs without coming up with something new would devastate Black and Hispanic constituencies and be terrible for the country. But Democrats also will have been handed an opportunity to create something better — an affirmative action policy that reminds working people of what they have in common, not what divides them.” And a tip: Even more so than with other big Supreme Court cases, I encourage you to read beyond the headlines and into the details of the coverage. And remember that journalists don’t get advance copies of Supreme Court rulings, which typically appear around 10 a.m. Eastern. We need to spend the morning making sense of them. As a result, coverage of a complex decision tends to be strongest starting in the afternoon. Related: Students whose lives were shaped by race-conscious admissions share their thoughts. Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM GE Aerospace GE Aerospace Takes the Stage at Paris Air Show '23 Every day, we’re working to help move the world forward. Today, and for generations to come. Stay updated with GE Aerospace at the Paris Air Show 2023 to learn how we’re changing the future of flight. Learn More THE LATEST NEWS Hunter Biden Investigation Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, in Syracuse in February.Al Drago for The New York Times Hunter Biden will plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his taxes on time. The deal will clear him of separate gun charges if he remains drug-free. Donald Trump has long held him up as a source of corruption. Republicans in Congress said they would continue to investigate Hunter Biden. For the president, his son’s struggles are politically painful, Peter Baker writes. Titanic Submersible OceanGate’s Titan submersible.OceanGate Expeditions/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Rescuers looking for the missing submersible that was on its way to the Titanic said they heard underwater noises, the Coast Guard said. Experts had warned OceanGate, the company that operates the submersible, that the craft posed a danger to passengers. The vessel is a technological maverick that has undergone no standard certification. Quiet and cramped, with a single porthole: This is what it’s like inside. Politics A judge struck down Arkansas’s ban on transgender medical treatment for minors. New York State passed a bill that protects doctors who prescribe and send abortion pills to patients in states that have outlawed abortion. It now heads to the governor’s desk. Judge Aileen Cannon set Aug. 14 as the earliest start date for Trump’s classified documents case, though delays are likely. Other Big Stories Residents in Ahmedabad, India, listening to a broadcast of Narendra Modi’s radio show.Atul Loke for The New York Times Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, is visiting Washington this week. At home, an old-fashioned radio show has softened his image. Andrew Tate, an internet personality and self-professed misogynist, was charged with rape and human trafficking in Romania. The Panama Canal is going through its driest spell in more than a century, endangering supply chains, The Wall Street Journal reports. The newspaper chain Gannett is suing Google, claiming it has contributed to the downfall of local news. Opinions The legal battle that publishers and copyright holders have waged against the Internet Archive is threatening free information, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup writes. Senators have a history of blocking nominations to protest policy. Republicans have taken it to new heights, David Firestone writes. And a column by Bret Stephens on Robert Kennedy Jr. All of The Times. All in one subscription. Enjoy unlimited access to everything we offer — with this new introductory offer. You’ll benefit from more of the insights that you find in The Morning, every morning. MORNING READS Mariana Rangel-Soto has her hair bleached by a member of the Beauty 2 the Streetz team.Alex Welsh for The New York Times Internet family: She provides Los Angeles’s homeless community with food and haircuts. Millions watch on TikTok. Summer solstice: It’s the longest day of the year. So, what’s new with the sun? Décor destination: At this hotel, almost all the furnishings are for sale. Lives Lived: Onstage, Paxton Whitehead did Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde. But he was best known for his onscreen work — a neighbor on “Mad About You,” a boss on “Friends” and the stuffy nemesis of Rodney Dangerfield’s character in “Back to School.” He died at 85. SPORTS NEWS Unease in New Orleans: Zion Williamson probably won’t be traded before tomorrow’s N.B.A. draft, The Athletic writes, but the fact that he is in trade conversations is a sign of disconnect. Women’s World Cup: The U.S. is bringing one of its youngest and most inexperienced teams to the soccer tournament this summer, The Times writes. Golf’s big weekend: The U.S. Open had its biggest viewership since 2009, The Athletic reports. Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM GE Aerospace GE Aerospace Takes the Stage at Paris Air Show '23 Every day, we’re working to help move the world forward. Today, and for generations to come. Stay updated with GE Aerospace at the Paris Air Show 2023 to learn how we’re changing the future of flight. Learn More ARTS AND IDEAS Inwangsan, a mountain in central Seoul, offers sweeping downtown views.Jun Michael Park for The New York Times Take a walking vacation: There’s no better way to understand the essence of a place than to walk through it. The Times’s Travel desk has put together routes for seven cities, including a tour of the markets of Marrakesh, Morocco, and a hike along Seoul’s fortress wall. For those who want more adventure, multiday pilgrimage-style vacations follow trails through Bhutan and the Caucasus Mountains. Culture news Ryan Murphy, the producer behind hits like “American Horror Story,” is planning to leave Netflix for Disney. The new Marvel mini-series “Secret Invasion,” starring Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, contains surprises but little original story. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Linda Xiao for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Monica Pierini. Eat breakfast for dinner with this sausage and egg tater tot casserole. Watch “L.A. Fire & Rescue,” a new docuseries, on TV tonight. Let your kids get bored. It’s good for them. Choose the right storage containers. Make rich, creamy ice cream. GAMES Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangram was mouthed. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — David Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 22, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 22, 2023 June 22, 2023 Continue reading the main story SUPPORTED BY By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering the politics of class, severe weather in Texas and the Indian prime minister’s visit to the U.S. Voters in the Bronx on Election Day in 2020.Desiree Rios for The New York Times Officious technocracy The class inversion in American politics — Republicans’ struggles with college graduates and Democrats’ struggles with the working class — is a running theme of this newsletter. To help make sense of it, I asked four Times Opinion writers to join me in an exchange this morning. They are Michelle Cottle, Carlos Lozada, Lydia Polgreen and Ross Douthat, and they’re also the hosts of a new podcast, “Matter of Opinion.” David: Democrats are nearly shut out of statewide office in almost 20 states, largely because of their weakness with working-class voters. And in the past five years, the party has lost ground with working-class voters of color. How can Democrats do better? Michelle: There are concrete issues on which some Democrats stumbled too far to the left, crime being notable. But I don’t think the main problem is with the party’s policies so much as its overall vibe. Dems need to relearn how to talk to working-class voters — to sound less condescending and scoldy. Too many Democrats radiate an aura of, If only voters understood what was good for them, they would back us. Carlos: Dispensing political strategy is not my comfort zone, so all I’ll say is that it seems a bit shortsighted when politicians talk to Latino voters as if the only thing they care about is immigration and the border, or when they address Black voters as if all that animates them is policing reform or racial discrimination. Don’t try to woo large and varied voting groups with narrow appeals. It’s pandering, it’s obvious and it’s dismissive. Lydia: As Michelle hinted at, the Democrats have become the party of officious technocracy, which makes so many things they propose sound, well, ridiculous. A classic for me was Kamala Harris’s student loan forgiveness plan from the 2020 race: You had to be a Pell Grant recipient, start a business in a disadvantaged community and keep that business going for three years. That’s no “Make America Great Again.” They should talk about big, bold and simple ways you will improve people’s lives. Michelle: “Officious technocracy” is my new favorite term, Lydia! I’m officially — and officiously — appropriating it. Carlos: The irony of the Democrats’ officious technocracy is that, in some cases, it misrepresented how science works. Admonishing people to “follow the science” on Covid can be counterproductive when recommendations should change as new data comes in. Science is a method of inquiry, not a set of off-the-shelf solutions. Ross: Talking about working people’s material interests in language that doesn’t sound like it was lifted from a glossary of progressive-activist terminology is the right path for Democrats. Right now, though, I think they have a lot to gain by treating the Covidian and George Floyd-era breakdown in public order as their major political problem — treating homicide rates, drug abuse, school discipline and border security as key issues where they need to separate themselves from their own activist class, which has a tendency to act like living with disorder is an essential part of left-wing tolerance. Remember Kamala Harris the prosecuting attorney, once disdained by the left? The Democrats could use a leader like that. Brian Kemp, Georgia’s governor.Audra Melton for The New York Times Craziness and chaos David: What about the other side of the class inversion? Republicans used to win white-collar professionals. Not anymore. Ross: The G.O.P. has multiplied the reasons for college graduates to turn against them: The craziness and chaos of the Trumpist style cost them with one group; the fact that they can now legislate against abortion costs them with another. I think you can see in the success of Brian Kemp in Georgia a model for how they can advance pro-life legislation without suffering dramatic losses. But the Kemp model requires a rigorous reasonability, a studied outreach to suburbanites, a moderate and competent affect, none of which a Trump 2024 candidacy is likely to offer, and the effort to defeat Donald Trump may push Ron DeSantis from the Kempian sweet spot as well. Lydia: I think it’s brave to take a principled stand on a defining moral question like abortion, electoral consequences be damned! Just ask the Democrats what embracing civil rights cost them. Maybe there is something for the G.O.P. to learn from Bill Clinton, who was able to triangulate his way into the Oval Office by undercutting the critiques of liberal overreach. Michelle: It goes beyond the Trumpian crazy. Republicans have, for a while now, been spinning up their voters by painting every issue as an existential crisis such that compromise, triangulation and moderation are anathema. College-grad-moderate-swing-voter-suburban types find it unsettling. Carlos: Maybe the thing to remember is that “rigorous reasonability,” as Ross calls for, is relative, and the G.O.P. could benefit from the soft bigotry of low expectations. It might not take all that much for college grads turned off by Trumpism but still wary of the activist left to consider a Republican who combines populist policy impulses with a more sober governing style. In his book, DeSantis brags that his administration in Florida was “substantively consequential.” Michelle: I like your optimism, Carlos. But I’d venture that DeSantis’s nerdier approach is a key reason he’s getting his booty stomped in polls by the MAGA king. Not juicy enough and way too wonky/jargony at times. Listen to the latest episode of “Matter of Opinion” — about America’s place in the world and the significance of this week’s visit to the U.S. by Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister. Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM Card Hello, Daily Cash Get up to 3% Daily Cash on every purchase. Apply with no impact to your credit score. Terms apply. Apply now THE LATEST NEWS Politics Representative Adam Schiff, right.Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times The Republican-led House voted to censure Representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat, for his role leading investigations into Trump. Justice Samuel Alito took a vacation with a billionaire who frequently has cases before the Supreme Court, ProPublica reported. Alito pre-empted the report with a Wall Street Journal op-ed. A federal judge sentenced a rioter who assaulted an officer on Jan. 6 to more than 12 years in prison. Modi’s U.S. Visit President Biden is welcoming Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, today, hoping to woo the country at a time of conflict with Russia and rising tension with China. By staying neutral in the war in Ukraine, India has profited: It has emerged as a primary buyer of Russia’s crude oil, which it refines and exports. Severe Weather A storm barreled through a Texas town with about 600 residents, killing at least three people. Extreme heat is stalled over Oklahoma and Texas and could linger until the Fourth of July, straining the power grid. Other Big Stories A superyacht helped rescue 100 migrants thrown overboard in a deadly wreck in the Mediterranean, reflecting a new inequality of the seas. The search for the missing submersible continues in the North Atlantic. The vessel’s oxygen could run out today. Math and reading scores for 13-year-olds in the U.S. hit their lowest levels in decades. The U.S. approved the production and sale of laboratory-grown chicken meat. A Florida county is trying to contain an invasive species of giant snail that can grow as big as a fist. Opinions As Modi visits the U.S., President Biden should promote shared democratic values with an increasingly autocratic ally, The Times’s editorial board writes. Here are columns by Tressie McMillan Cottom on a Black rodeo in Portland, Ore., and Zeynep Tufekci on the lab-leak theory. All of The Times. All in one subscription. Enjoy unlimited access to everything we offer — with this new introductory offer. You’ll benefit from more of the insights that you find in The Morning, every morning. MORNING READS The New York headquarters of Salesforce.Jeenah Moon for The New York Times Return to office: Bosses have reached the desperation phase. Beauty: The salon where a corporation tries to understand Black women’s hair. The Ethicist: “My wife lives in a nursing home. Can I take a lover?” Lives Lived: Haim Roet survived the Holocaust by hiding in a Dutch village. At a protest in 1989, he read out the names of people murdered by the Nazis, starting a practice that has become a part of memorial ceremonies around the world. He died at 90. SPORTS NEWS FROM THE ATHLETIC N.B.A. blockbuster: Kristaps Porzingis is heading to Boston and Marcus Smart to Memphis in a three-team swap. Wunderkind: Meet Ness Mugrabi, the N.F.L.’s youngest agent. Scrutiny: Leaders of the PGA Tour, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and the LIV Tour were invited to testify in front of a congressional committee. Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM Card Hello, Daily Cash Get up to 3% Daily Cash on every purchase. Apply with no impact to your credit score. Terms apply. Apply now ARTS AND IDEAS Clive, a prince, is out for revenge in this new incarnation of the Final Fantasy franchise.Square Enix Role-playing games: The Final Fantasy video game series has been around for more than three decades. Recently, as its creators worked on the next entry, Final Fantasy XVI, they confronted what The Times’s Brian X. Chen calls the “Star Wars” problem: Can a long-running franchise reinvent itself to win over new audiences without losing longtime fans who crave nostalgia? Final Fantasy XVI is out today, and Corey Plante writes at Kotaku that it successfully threads the needle: “It just may be the best the series has been in more than 20 years.” More on culture The second season of “And Just Like That …” premieres today. Catch up. Six writers selected essential works of queer literature. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Broil miso-honey chicken. Exercise your body and mind with tai chi. Visit the site where Caesar was killed. Upgrade your bath towels. Skip the silicone baking mats. GAMES Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangrams were autocracy and carryout. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — David P.S. The Society for News Design named The Times best-designed newspaper. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 23, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 23, 2023 June 23, 2023 By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering Modi’s visit to the U.S., the implosion of the missing submersible and the N.B.A. draft. Jill Biden, Narendra Modi and President Biden at the White House last night.Doug Mills/The New York Times Democracy and reality India is arguably the most important swing nation in global politics. It is influential enough to shift the balance of power, and its allegiances are neither obvious nor consistent. India is both the world’s most populous country and the only country among the top 10 economies that has not clearly chosen a side in what President Biden calls the struggle between democracy and autocracy. On the one hand, India is skeptical of a Western-led world and has helped to finance Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine by continuing to buy Russian oil. On the other hand, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, arrived in Washington yesterday trumpeting his nation’s closeness to the U.S. Modi’s visit, complete with an address to Congress and a state dinner at the White House yesterday, has caused understandable discomfort among some Americans. (Several liberal Democrats refused to attend his speech to Congress.) In addition to working with Putin, Modi is a Hindu nationalist whose party has cracked down on political opponents and inflamed anti-Muslim bigotry. At a White House news conference with Biden yesterday, Modi brushed aside reporters’ questions about these issues. Were the Biden administration to choose its international friends based only on their commitment to freedom and democracy, Modi’s India would be a strange nation to celebrate with White House pomp. But the reality is that the U.S. can’t have everything that it wants in foreign policy. It faces unavoidable trade-offs. If the U.S. embraced only those countries with purer democratic records, it would not be able to create a very powerful global alliance. The U.S., Canada, Western Europe, Japan and South Korea are not strong enough to dominate the world as they once could. They need allies in the global South and the Middle East. And India isn’t merely the biggest of these countries; it is also among the most democratic, despite Modi’s flirtation with autocratic methods and India’s historical closeness with Russia. There is an irony to the situation, but it’s one that Biden and other U.S. leaders can’t simply wish away with lofty rhetoric. An alliance made up only of liberal democracies would probably weaken global democracy: It would alienate many countries in Asia and Africa and lead them to establish stronger ties with China and Russia. “Primly rejecting cooperation with India because its ideology and democracy do not conform to Western ideals would only empower China,” the editors of The Economist recently wrote. “It would also show that America has failed to adapt to the multipolar world that lies ahead.” Finding the balance between effectiveness and morality in foreign policy is not easy. Modi’s critics are smart to use his Washington visit as an opportunity to highlight his dangerous Hindu supremacy. In the long run, the cause of democracy would benefit from a less xenophobic, less authoritarian India, just as the cause would also benefit from a U.S. where the Republican Party was fully committed to democracy and pluralism. (The Times editorial board has urged the Biden administration to push Modi on these issues during this week’s meetings. And Maya Jasanoff, a historian, writes in an Opinion essay: “Modi has presided over the nation’s broadest assault on democracy, civil society and minority rights in at least 40 years.”) However much the U.S. does push Modi, it has never been powerful enough to build an effective global alliance while also insisting that all of its members be American-style democracies. In today’s multipolar world, the U.S. certainly cannot do so. The trade-offs can often be unpleasant, but they are inescapable. Democracy is much more likely to thrive in the coming decades if India and the U.S. are imperfect allies rather than antagonists. Modi addressed Congress.Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times More on Modi’s visit Biden avoided publicly discussing Modi’s crackdown on human rights. The state dinner featured meatless delicacies (Modi is a vegetarian), ginger ale (neither leader drinks alcohol) and a mix of political adversaries and Biden family members. Modi and other top Indian officials are single, contributing to a perception that they are less corrupt because they don’t need to steal for their families. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS Titanic Submersible The five people aboard the missing submersible are dead. Searchers found pieces of it on the ocean floor, the U.S. Coast Guard said, concluding it had imploded. James Cameron, the director of “Titanic” and a deep-sea explorer himself, said the implosion must have been “like 10 cases of dynamite going off.” Politics The Colorado RiverErin Schaff/The New York Times The Supreme Court ruled against the Navajo Nation over access to Colorado River water. Representative George Santos’s father and aunt paid for his bail on fraud and other charges. He had tried to keep the names secret. In the year since Roe v. Wade was overturned, dozens of clinics have closed or halted abortions, and some have moved state. New polling shows growing public support for legal abortion. War in Ukraine A Ukrainian soldier this month, south of Bakhmut.Tyler Hicks/The New York Times More than 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers trained by the West are entering the fight. Progress has been slow for Ukraine early in its counteroffensive. A Chinese firm sent $2 million worth of ammunition powder to Russia last year. A Moscow court denied an appeal by the American reporter Evan Gershkovich to end his pretrial detention. Russia arrested him 12 weeks ago. Other Big Stories The chemical giant 3M reached a $10 billion settlement with cities and towns over claims it contaminated drinking water. The part of Interstate 95 that collapsed this month in Philadelphia is scheduled to reopen today, earlier than expected. The occupied West Bank has seen an escalation of violence in recent days, involving Palestinian militants, Israeli security forces and extremist Jewish settlers. Texas’ record-setting heat wave continues this weekend and is expected to spread through nearby states. After threats over his coverage of climate change, a TV meteorologist in Iowa said he was quitting. “I’m up for a cage match if he is”: Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg seemed to have agreed to a fight. Opinions Muslims know what it’s like to be the scapegoats in the culture wars. They should know better than to pile on against L.G.B.T.Q. people, Wajahat Ali writes. Here are columns by David Brooks on the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Jamelle Bouie on Donald Trump’s management style and Farhad Manjoo on conspiracy theorists. All of The Times. All in one subscription. Enjoy unlimited access to everything we offer — with this new introductory offer. You’ll benefit from more of the insights that you find in The Morning, every morning. MORNING READS Most cabrage riders are men in their late teens to 20s.Cedrine Scheidig for The New York Times Coming of age: In Martinique, young people gather in parking lots for “cabrage” — a sort of rodeo on wheels. Bored of her aesthetic: The influencer who became too influential. Modern Love: She stood by her husband’s grave while his bones were exhumed. Lives Lived: Teresa Taylor drummed for the Texas acid-punk band Butthole Surfers and became an emblem of Generation X aimlessness through the 1990 film “Slacker.” Taylor died at 60. SPORTS NEWS The 19-year-old French basketball phenom Victor Wembanyama, right.Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times N.B.A. draft: The San Antonio Spurs selected Victor Wembanyama No. 1 overall last night, starting the N.B.A. career of a highly anticipated prospect, The Times reports. And Amen and Ausar Thompson became the only brothers to be drafted in the top 10, The Athletic writes. A new home: The Wizards sent their acquisition Chris Paul to the Warriors, who are pairing former rivals and going all-in on a title next season, The Athletic reports. A Times obituary: Bob Brown was one of the N.F.L.’s most intimidating offensive tackles in the 1960s and 1970s, but had to wait decades to be elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He died at 81. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS Sheila Pepe in front of her installation “My Neighbor’s Garden.”Amir Hamja/The New York Times Art in the park: The artist Sheila Pepe uses crochet, which she learned from her mother, to create in three dimensions. Her first outdoor installation opens next week in Manhattan and features brightly colored strands of crocheted shoelaces, paracord, rope and garden hose stretching between tall posts. “My favorite thing is crocheting 20 feet in the air,” she says. More on culture Queen Latifah, Renée Fleming and Billy Crystal will be among this year’s Kennedy Center honorees. An exhibit of prints by Hokusai shows how he influenced artists as diverse as the Impressionists and Roy Lichtenstein, The Times’s Jason Farago writes. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Bake an old-fashioned 7Up cake. Watch “I’m a Virgo,” a comedy starring Jharrel Jerome as a 13-foot teenager. Simplify the work of pitting cherries. Focus with the help of brown noise. Take our news quiz. GAMES Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangram was biotech. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — David P.S. What are your favorite lesser-known hip-hop lyrics? Times journalists want to know. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 25, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 25, 2023 June 24, 2023 I’m turning over today’s newsletter to the latest developments on the unfolding crisis in Russia. — Melissa Kirsch By the staff of The Morning Good morning. A Russian mercenary leader claimed he controls a military headquarters in southern Russia, and Vladimir Putin vowed to take action. Wagner fighters in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, today.Reuters Standoff A long-running feud over the invasion of Ukraine between the Russian military and Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia’s private Wagner military group, escalated into an open confrontation over the past day. Prigozhin accused Russia of attacking his soldiers and appeared to challenge one of President Vladimir Putin’s main justifications for the war, and Russian generals in turn accused him of trying to mount a coup against Putin. Prighozin (pronounced pree-GOH-zhin) claimed he had control of Russia’s southern military headquarters in the city of Rostov-on-Don, near the front lines of the war in Ukraine where his fighters had been operating. Video showed him entering the headquarters’ courtyard. Prighozin’s moves set up the biggest challenge to Putin’s authority since he invaded of Ukraine early last year. Putin promised “decisive actions,” and Russian security forces scrambled to regain control in the country’s south. Events unfolded rapidly: Prighozin stepped up his criticisms of the Russian military in videos posted to social media yesterday. He said Russian troops had attacked Wagner encampments and killed “a huge number of fighters.” His claims could not be verified, but he promised to bring soldiers into Russia in retaliation. Troops widely believed to be Wagner forces surrounded the military headquarters in Rostov, and tanks drove down the city’s streets, videos showed. Soldiers were also seen in other key places, like the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region. Signs of active fighting were also visible near the western Russian city of Voronezh, according to videos posted online, including helicopters and a destroyed truck along the road. Reports said that Wagner fighters had entered the region. Prighozin declared that his forces were headed to Moscow. “We are going farther,” he said. “We will go to the end.” Russia military armored vehicles were deployed on the streets of Moscow and in Rostov-on-Don, and Russia was moving convoys of military equipment on a major highway linking the two cities. Russian security forces appeared to have also raided a Wagner building in St. Petersburg. Putin vowed “to stabilize the situation in Rostov-on-Don.” He also called Wagner’s actions a treasonous, armed rebellion. Prighozin rejected the allegations. The key figures Prighozin: Though he has complained for months about Russia’s military brass, his accusations were a significant turnabout. Prighozin is a businessman who became rich through his ties to Putin, winning lucrative government contracts while building the Wagner mercenary force. (Read more about him from The Times’s Moscow bureau chief, Anton Troianovski.) Putin: His quick public address was a sign of the seriousness of the situation. He prefers to exert power behind the scenes until the outcome is clear, The Times’s Steven Lee Myers wrote. Putin also acknowledged some success by Prighozin, saying that the functioning of Rostov, a city of a million people, had “essentially been blocked.” The generals: Prighozin’s feud with the Russian generals grew out of the battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which his forces led on the Russian side. He accused the defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, and the country’s most senior general, Valery Gerasimov, of treason. He said they deliberately withheld ammunition and supplies from Wagner while their troops failed repeatedly in the war. Ukraine: “Russia’s weakness is obvious,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said. But his country was still mired in violence. Russian forces fired more than 20 missiles at Kyiv this morning, killing at least three people. What’s next The British military described the crisis as the “most significant challenge to the Russian state in recent times” and said: “Over the coming hours, the loyalty of Russia’s security forces, and especially the Russian National Guard, will be key to how the crisis plays out.” More Russia news Here’s what we know so far. Putin struck a tough tone in his address. Follow our live updates. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT NEWS Border Patrol agents searching migrants in El Paso.Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The New York Times The Supreme Court revived Biden administration immigration enforcement guidelines that a Texas judge had blocked. Attorney General Merrick Garland defended the federal investigation of Hunter Biden against Republican allegations of bias. House Republicans are using spending bills to amplify social issues. The company chief executive piloting the submersible that imploded this week pushed to expand deep-sea voyaging despite safety concerns. THE WEEK IN CULTURE Craig Blankenhorn/Max “And Just Like That …” is back and so is its over-the-top fashion, Times journalists write. Read a recap of the first two episodes. The International African American Museum opens next week in Charleston, S.C. It’s the first of its kind to fully incorporate the Afro-Atlantic world, The Times’s Holland Cotter writes. “Once Upon a One More Time,” a jukebox musical of Britney Spears hits, opened on Broadway this week. Our critic calls it entertaining, if hampered by jumbled storytelling. Sheldon Harnick, the lyricist who co-wrote musicals including “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Fiorello!,” died at 99. His lyrics were models of humor, elegance and compassion, Jesse Green writes. Reddit users’ protests stood out from other online uprisings because they showed the power of the site’s community. Body paint and lying facedown for an hour: what it was like being Margo Robbie’s body double for “Barbie.” Wes Anderson’s secret weapon: His grip, Sanjay Sami, who makes his trademark camera movements possible. The editor Robert Gottlieb, who died last week, quietly played a major role in fostering American dance. A drag show in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, took its inspiration from Gwyneth Paltrow. See the best looks. Bookforum, a literary magazine that closed in December, will be back in print in August. All of The Times. All in one subscription. Enjoy unlimited access to everything we offer — with this new introductory offer. You’ll benefit from more of the insights that you find in The Morning, every morning. CULTURE CALENDAR By Gilbert Cruz 🎬 “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (Friday): This franchise is composed of an all-time classic, a fantastic sequel, an OK sequel and a disappointing sequel. (Guess away, readers.) Steven Spielberg sat out this latest installment, but James Mangold (“Ford v. Ferrari,” “Logan”) is a strong action director and Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen star alongside Harrison Ford. I remain optimistic, for hope is the most precious treasure of all. 📺 “Silo” (Friday): Based on Hugh Howey’s trilogy of novels, this dystopian science-fiction drama, in which the members of a futuristic society live in a massive underground bunker (a … silo), ends its first season on Apple TV+. Season two has already been ordered up, so expect a cliffhanger or two. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT RECIPE OF THE WEEK Julia Gartland for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne. By Melissa Clark Cold Noodles With Tomatoes As we slide into full-on tomato season, you’ll want a selection of easy recipes that you can turn to all summer long. Be sure to add Eric Kim’s savory cold noodles with tomatoes to your list. Seasoned with a mix of soy sauce, rice vinegar and sesame, along with scallions and a little garlic, the halved cherry tomatoes get juicy as they sit, releasing liquid that becomes a cooling broth when mixed with crushed ice. It’s like a cross between a gazpacho and naengmyeon, the chilled Korean noodle soup. Serve it as is for a light and summery main course, or top with poached shrimp or halved hard-cooked eggs for something a bit heftier. REAL ESTATE Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Pink pad: Barbie’s Dreamhouse is a mirror of the country’s social and economic changes. What you get for $450,000: A Craftsman bungalow in Oklahoma City, a Tudor Revival in St. Louis, or a cottage in Cranston, R.I. The hunt: A family wanted three bedrooms in New York. Which home did they choose? Play our game. Dining al fresco: Creating an outdoor kitchen is easier than you think. Diseased dahlias?: A lab for sick plants has the diagnosis. LIVING Kaitlin Brito “Food noise”: Patients who take weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are startled by the way their cravings go silent. Travel: Spend 36 hours in Paris off the beaten paths. Mental health: How much anxiety is too much? Menstruation: What do you know about period cycles? Take our quiz. Wedding bikinis: Brides are embracing swimwear. ADVICE FROM WIRECUTTER A speaker for summer For me, music in the summer means relaxing on a beach while listening to Miles Davis’s “Jack Johnson,” or checking out the Top 40 on my back porch while watching the sun set. A good Bluetooth speaker can make these moments happen. Wirecutter’s favorite, the UE Wonderboom 3, is compact and rugged. This grapefruit-size speaker has a surprisingly full, clear sound, and it’s tough enough to survive a 5-foot drop onto concrete or a 30-minute dunk underwater. Perfect for whatever your summer has in store. — Brent Butterworth For more expert advice, independent reviews and intensively researched deals, sign up for Wirecutter’s daily newsletter. GAME OF THE WEEKEND L.S.U. pitcher Paul Skenes.John Peterson/Associated Press L.S.U. vs. Florida, College World Series finals: L.S.U. began the season as the favorite to win the title, and it reached the final with a walk-off home run to beat the No. 1 seed, Wake Forest. Unfortunately for L.S.U., the team’s ace starter, Paul Skenes, may not be available for the finals after going eight innings in the last game. “Give Florida the edge for the simple fact that the Gators have their pitching rotation set up for a three-game series,” The Athletic’s Mitch Light writes. 7 p.m. Eastern tonight on ESPN. Related: Florida’s Jac Caglianone hit 31 home runs — tied for first in the N.C.A.A. — and his fastball regularly hits 99 miles per hour, earning comparisons to the M.L.B. phenom Shohei Ohtani, Jeff Passan writes at ESPN. NOW TIME TO PLAY Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangram was analyzing. See the hardest Spelling Bee words from this week. Take the news quiz to see how well you followed this week’s headlines. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your weekend with The Times. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 26, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 26, 2023 June 25, 2023 By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering the latest news from Russia, Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial and a Kylie Minogue single. Wagner mercenaries leaving Rostov-on-Don, Russia, yesterday.Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters Back from the brink Vladimir Putin has apparently survived the boldest challenge to his 23-year autocratic rule in Russia. The Russian mercenaries who appeared to be mounting a coup attempt stopped their advance on Moscow, and Putin’s government announced that their leader — Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner, a private military company — would flee to Belarus in exchange for amnesty. The Wagner troops who participated in the uprising would also receive amnesty, and other Wagner troops would be given the option of joining the Russian military or demobilizing, a Kremlin spokesman said. The deal defused a crisis that seemed to verge on civil war over the past two days, and it appeared to be a major short-term victory for Putin. Notably, many Russian political leaders both in Moscow and in regional governments had proclaimed their loyalty to him since Prigozhin intensified his criticism of the Ukraine invasion this weekend and went so far as to take over a Russian military headquarters in the city of Rostov-on-Don. His troops advanced hundreds of miles toward Moscow before turning around, as this map shows: By New York Times staff Prigozhin’s actions were a shocking rebellion — and the absence of punishment for him seemed to be a potential sign of weakness for Putin. He evidently lacks the military strength or political consensus to arrest somebody who started an armed mutiny against him. The Wall Street Journal described this weekend’s events as the gravest threat to Putin’s rule since he took over in 2000. Prigozhin “openly says what a lot of other people are thinking,” Fiona Hill, a Russia expert who has served in the U.S. government, told The Journal. The Economist magazine wrote: “Putin has shown he can no longer maintain order among his warlords. He has been greatly weakened by the challenge — and in his world weakness tends to lead to further instability.” And my colleague Peter Baker wrote that the uprising “suggested that Mr. Putin’s hold on power is more tenuous than at any time since he took office more than two decades ago.” Another Times story simply said, “Russians on Sunday confronted a changed country.” In the rest of today’s newsletter, we’ll give you more of the latest details and analysis from The Times’s reporting. A programming note: I’ll be off this week, and my colleagues will be writing the newsletter. — David More on Russia Prigozhin stood down after cutting a deal that promised he and his fighters would escape prosecution. This timeline shows how the rebellion unfolded. Residents cheered and embraced the mercenaries as they left Rostov-on-Don. Prigozhin once sold hot dogs in St. Petersburg, where he befriended Putin, then a minor city official. Follow our updates. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT NEWS Politics Donald Trump is diverting more of the money he has raised for his presidential campaign to a political action committee that he has used to pay legal fees. Trump took credit for the Supreme Court appointments that overturned Roe v. Wade. President Biden is trying to rally Democratic voters on abortion rights, but there is little chance of federal legislation on the issue. International The star witness in a corruption trial against Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, is testifying today. He’s a Hollywood producer and ex-secret agent. Christians have flocked to Saudi Arabia since the kingdom opened its borders to leisure tourists in 2019. Heavy rainfall in China disrupted its wheat harvest and efforts by its leader, Xi Jinping, to make the country more self-reliant in food. Other Big Stories Josh Askins was charged with the murder of his friend.Erin Schaff/The New York Times Two friends in Oklahoma planned to go to rehab but needed fentanyl in the meantime. One overdosed; the other is on trial for his death. Three San Antonio officers face murder charges after the police there shot a 46-year-old woman to death in her home. Prince Harry and Meghan’s multimillion-dollar deals with Netflix and Spotify led to more cancellations and rejections than produced shows, The Journal reports. At least seven freight cars fell into the Yellowstone River after a train derailed and a bridge collapsed in Montana. FROM OPINION Conservatives view sex and birth control as individual choices, but ones that come with individual responsibility for the consequences, Hadley Heath Manning argues. The 2018 Tree of Life massacre that killed 11 people also deprived the synagogue of reliable members of a minyan — the quorum of 10 Jews necessary for religious observance, Mark Oppenheimer writes. Here are columns by Charles Blow on coming out and Lydia Polgreen on the conflict in South Sudan. The Sunday question: Is India committed to democratic values? The Indian government’s harassment of critics, restrictions on entry and exit and other steps show that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is intent on hobbling democracy, Maya Jasanoff writes in Times Opinion. But India’s Constitution “remains strong, and its Supreme Court shows signs of willingness” to stand up to the government, Ricken Patel writes in The Los Angeles Times. The Games Sale ends soon. New puzzles every day means moments of fun throughout your day. Don’t miss the chance to subscribe to New York Times Games for 50% off your first year. Find all the words in Spelling Bee, try WordleBot to strengthen your Wordle guesses, play past puzzles and more. MORNING READS Kylie MinogueDave Kotinsky/Getty Images Padam: Why Kylie Minogue’s latest single is all over Pride Month playlists. Vows: They saw each other at the gym, but remained aloof for months before finally going on a lunch date. Scam or not? The science behind supplements for focus is lacking. Lives Lived: H. Lee Sarokin, a federal judge in Newark, freed the boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter from prison, overturning a murder conviction that the judge said had been based on “an appeal to racism rather than reason.” Sarokin died at 94. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT TALK | FROM THE TIMES MAGAZINE Mamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times By David Marchese I spoke recently with the sex therapist Emily Morse, host of the popular “Sex With Emily” podcast, about why nontraditional sexual arrangements seem to be on many couples’ radar. Why do you think people are curious about nonmonogamy these days? Thirty or 40 years ago, there weren’t a whole lot of people talking about mental health and wellness. Now that’s part of the conversation. That’s been a big switch, and when couples get into their feelings and emotional intelligence, they’re realizing: We can love each other and be together but also figure out new ways to negotiate our sexuality. We can create a relationship on our terms that works for us. A term I hear a lot now is “ethical nonmonogamy.” My sense is that in some couples, one half feels like things have to open up or the relationship isn’t going to last. But in that situation, how ethical is the ethical nonmonogamy? That’s coercion. That’s manipulation. If you say to your partner, “We have to open up or I’m leaving you” — I don’t feel great about the future of those couples. I can say that there usually is one partner who starts the nonmonogamy conversation. They might say, “I’ve been thinking about it and our friends are doing it and what would you think about being open?” They’ll talk about how they would navigate and negotiate it. For nonmonogamy to work, you need to be self-aware and have self-knowledge about your sexual desires and do some work. To do it to spice up your relationship is not the reason to do it. Do it because you’re open and curious and understand that your desire for pleasure extends beyond your relationship. Read the rest of our interview from last Sunday’s Times magazine. More from the magazine The author Lorrie Moore avoids self-disclosure. We may be on the cusp of an era of astonishing innovation in medicine. Read the full issue. BOOKS Reading in crisis: Book bans, A.I. and teaching standards are changing what it means to read. Our editors’ picks: S.A. Cosby’s “All the Sinners Bleed,” which sets a serial killer loose in a small Southern town, and eight other books. Times best sellers: A collection of photographs that Paul McCartney took during the rise of the Beatles, titled “1964,” is a new hardcover nonfiction best seller. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Bryan Gardner for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne. Finish this tomato salad with cheesy bread crumbs. Compete with the best pickleball paddle. Choose the right bassinet for your baby. THE WEEK AHEAD What to Watch For Guatemala and Greece hold elections today. The Supreme Court will issue rulings on Tuesday and likely other days this week. Major opinions are expected on college admissions, student loans and other issues. Walt Nauta, the aide charged alongside Trump in his classified documents case, will be arraigned on Tuesday. The Screen Actors Guild could go on strike if no deal is reached by midnight Friday. The Tour de France, cycling’s premier annual race, begins on Saturday. What to Cook This Week Risotto is the star of Emily Weinstein’s Five Weeknight Dishes newsletter this week. She recommends Kay Chun’s laid-back version, which takes whatever mix-ins you throw at it and is a favorite among picky kids. Gingery meatballs in tomato sauce work with any kind of ground meat. GAMES Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangram was lexicon. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your weekend with The Times. — David Correction: Yesterday’s newsletter misspelled the names of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Margot Robbie. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 27, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 27, 2023 June 26, 2023 By German Lopez Good morning. We’re covering murder rates, the military rebellion in Russia and Pride in New York City. The scene of a mass shooting last week in Willowbrook, Ill.Jim Vondruska for The New York Times The right direction When murder rates spiked three years ago, experts worried that the U.S. was slipping into a violent era that recalled the period between the 1970s and ’90s. But the data this year offers hope that the increase was temporary. This year, murders have fallen more than 12 percent in major cities (where recent data is most reliable), after also having fallen slightly last year. The murder rate is still about 10 percent higher than it was in 2019, but at least the trend is going in the right direction. The declines are a sign that at least two of the issues that likely contributed to the murder spike — Covid and the fallout from George Floyd’s murder — are receding. As much of life has returned to normal after a highly unusual 2020, the crime trends have started to shift back, too. Policy seems to have played a role as well, as cities have moved to hire more police officers and embraced new anti-violence strategies. Combined, these forces have created the possibility that 2023 will bring one of the largest drops in murder since the U.S. began keeping national statistics more than 60 years ago. Source: Jeff Asher, F.B.I. | Data is based on 99 cities; 2022 and 2023 rates are estimates. | By The New York Times Explaining the drop Let’s take the three explanations — Covid, Floyd’s death and policy changes — one by one, starting with the pandemic. Among the many aspects of life that Covid upended were social services that help keep people out of trouble, such as the police, schools, workplaces and addiction treatment. As those services have returned, so have their potentially protective effects. Some experts are skeptical of the Covid explanation because other countries saw no large increases in murder rates during the pandemic. But Americans have far more guns than their peers around the world, possibly putting them at greater risk for violence when much of society is upended. The second explanation: More time has passed since Floyd’s death at the hands of the police in 2020 strained relations between law enforcement and their communities. How does this strain contribute to crime? After high-profile killings, some officers pull back from proactive practices that keep people safe. The public becomes more reluctant to work with the police. And with less confidence in the justice system, some Americans resort instead to violence to resolve conflicts. These patterns have happened before. Between 2014 and 2016, murders also increased after widely publicized police killings of Black men in Ferguson, Mo.; Baltimore; and elsewhere. This year, Memphis is among a minority of big cities where murders have increased — and Memphis is also where officers were charged in the beating and killing of Tyre Nichols in January. In most cities, though, this dynamic seems to have diminished since 2020. The third explanation for the murder drop is government policy: Many places have recently invested more in policing and other anti-violence programs. Cities used Covid relief money to bolster their law enforcement ranks, and some have received federal dollars for community-led efforts to break up violence. In Baltimore, a new strategy of focusing policing and other resources on people with a history of violence seems to be paying off, as The Baltimore Banner reported. What we don’t know Experts caution that these three explanations are not proven. And it is possible that the rest of the year will be more violent than the first half. “I do think it’s a little premature to be making any strong conclusions about what it all means just yet,” Jeff Asher, a crime analyst who tracks the big-city murder data, told me. The lack of certainty is typical in discussions about crime. Starting in the 1990s, crime rates plummeted. Yet decades later, after much scholarship, no consensus has emerged for why violence subsided. Crime is an incredibly complicated topic, involving personal disputes, the economy, social services, the political system and more. A few decades, much less a couple of years, is typically too little time to explain a trend definitively. Still, we do know that murders in big cities have declined since last year. As a result of that decrease, the lives of hundreds of Americans are being spared each month. A note to readers: David Leonhardt is off this week. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS Wagner Rebellion Wagner group members in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on Saturday.Roman Romokhov/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A short-lived military rebellion in Russia by the Wagner mercenary group may have undermined Vladimir Putin’s power. Both Putin and Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner group, were silent in the day after the rebellion. Russians and Western officials are wondering if the confrontation is really over, The Journal reports. Ukraine hopes to capitalize on the chaos in Russia to make gains on the front lines. Aleksandr Lukashenko, Belarus’s dictatorial leader, is trying to rebrand himself as a mediator after he helped de-escalate the crisis. Elections Kyriakos MitsotakisPetros Giannakouris/Associated Press Greece overwhelmingly re-elected a conservative party to power. Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to return as prime minister. People in Guatemala, the most populous nation in Central America, voted for president, but officials kept top candidates off the ballot. A day after presidential elections in Sierra Leone, the country’s main opposition party said the military fired ammunition and tear gas into their headquarters. A.I.-generated campaign messages can be more effective at fund-raising than those from humans. Climate Bangladesh is adapting to water crises aggravated by climate change, a preview of what is to come in other parts of the world. Storms in Indiana killed at least one person. Rescue crews are still searching for other victims. Temperatures in Texas are expected to stay above 100 degrees this week. This winter’s heavy rainfall in California revived an ancient lake. It may stay for years. Medicine A shortage of cancer drugs in the U.S. is hurting the prognosis for many patients. The drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, known for weight loss, may soon come in pill form. New research found the pills were about as effective as injections. Other Big Stories A parade in Greenwich Village.Amir Hamja/The New York Times Millions celebrated Pride at a march in New York City, where attacks against L.G.B.T.Q. people have become more frequent. New York City’s policy to send homeless people to psychiatric hospitals was panned by critics. But it has ultimately helped some people move into permanent housing. California authorities found human remains near where search crews have been looking for the British actor Julian Sands. He’s been missing since January. A Hollywood movie mogul and billionaire spy took the stand as a key witness in Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial. They are old friends. Opinions Republicans have made a colossal political miscalculation in defending Trump over the rule of law, J. Michael Luttig writes. Here are columns by Nick Kristof on Biden’s parenting and David French on trans athletes. The Games Sale ends soon. New puzzles every day means moments of fun throughout your day. Don’t miss the chance to subscribe to New York Times Games for 50% off your first year. Find all the words in Spelling Bee, try WordleBot to strengthen your Wordle guesses, play past puzzles and more. MORNING READS A rodeo in the Philippines.Jes Aznar for The New York Times Philippine rodeos: They ride and lasso like Texans. But they live 8,000 miles away. Rain on your wedding day? This meteorologist can help. Digital atlas: L.G.B.T.Q. people share memories — by location. Metropolitan Diary: A birthday party on the No. 1 train. Lives Lived: Don Harold saved vintage train cars from the junkyard, helping create the New York Transit Museum. He died at 91. SPORTS NEWS An artist with his mural of Victor Wembanyama in San Antonio.Josh Huskin for The New York Times Cashing in: Businesses in San Antonio are eager to sell merchandise promoting Victor Wembanyama, a 19-year-old French basketball star, The Times reports. He just signed with the Spurs as the No. 1 draft pick. Florida swamps L.S.U.: The Gators scored a record 24 runs in Game 2 of the men’s College World Series final, The Athletic writes. Game 3 is tonight. Golfing: Ruoning Yin, just 20, became just the second Chinese woman to claim a major tournament with her Women’s P.G.A. Championship victory yesterday. The Athletic explains how she won. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS Harrison Ford in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”Lucasfilm Ltd. The movie maestro: John Williams’s iconic “Indiana Jones” theme — “dah dah-dah DAH” — is as much a part of the character as his fedora and bullwhip. So it’s fitting that Williams, 91, says the new “Indiana Jones” film out this week will be his final movie. To mark the end of his career, The Times asked Williams to reflect on some of his best scores, including for “Star Wars” and “Superman.” More on culture A statue of Philip Schuyler, a central figure in “Hamilton,” has been removed from outside Albany City Hall because he enslaved people. The Jewish folk song “Hava Nagila” is playing at clubs and sporting events. “I’m a Virgo,” a surreal satire about a teenage giant, is “magnificently batty,” James Poniewozik writes. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Julia Gartland for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Samantha Seniviratne. Cook this Japanese adaptation of spaghetti. Liven up your walk. Try these ways to banish distraction and boost productivity. Replenish your pantry with the best canned tomatoes. Take our news quiz. GAMES Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangram were naively and venially. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — German Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 28, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 28, 2023 June 27, 2023 Continue reading the main story SUPPORTED BY GE Aerospace By German Lopez Good morning. We’re covering rising temperatures in the U.S., the revolt in Russia and A.I. DallasEmil Lippe for The New York Times Dangerous heat Today, New Orleans will reach 113 degrees in the heat index. Houston will reach 111. Mobile, Ala., and Jackson, Miss., will also surpass 110. And those are only a few of the places that will experience dangerous heat this week. Summer technically just began, and parts of the U.S. are already seeing the unusual heat that experts warned about and that is becoming more common as a result of climate change. About 45 million people — or 14 percent of the U.S. population — live in areas that are expected to reach dangerous temperatures in the coming days. Today and tomorrow, the heat will be concentrated in Texas, Louisiana and parts of the South. By the end of the week, it is expected to spread in the South and to the West, as these maps show: Source: NOAA. Data as of 4 p.m. Monday. The heat index measures not just temperature, but how hot it really feels outside by taking into account humidity as well. (Heat index forecasts are typically accurate for the next day, but become less reliable as they project further into the future.) If you’re in any of these major cities, here’s what you can expect: In Houston, the index is forecast to peak at 111 degrees this week before falling to 106 by Sunday. In New Orleans, the heat index will hit 111 degrees today, climb to 115 by Thursday and remain above 110 for the week. Jacksonville, Fla., will peak at 106 degrees today on the index and gradually climb until it hits 109 this weekend. In Bakersfield, Calif., the heat index will climb above 100 on Friday. When the index measures anywhere from 103 to 125 degrees Fahrenheit, experts label it as dangerous heat. Such temperatures carry a higher risk for cramps and exhaustion as well as heat stroke, particularly after exercise or long stretches in the sun. The heat has already resulted in tragedies. On Saturday, a 14-year-old hiker fell ill and died at Big Bend National Park in Texas as temperatures reached 119 degrees Fahrenheit. His 31-year-old stepfather crashed his car and died while seeking help. The two may not have been the only heat-related deaths in Texas last week, my colleagues Jacey Fortin and Mary Beth Gahan reported. In Dallas, a postal worker collapsed and died while on his route during an excessive heat warning. Officials are investigating whether the heat was a cause. A hotter normal This week’s heat is likely just the beginning. Meteorologists predicted a hotter-than-normal summer this year, particularly in the West, Southwest, South, and Northeast. El Niño, a Pacific weather pattern, could send global temperatures even higher. Climate change is one reason for the rising heat. Summer temperatures have steadily increased over the past three decades. A warming climate will push those temperatures higher, resulting in more and worse heat waves, wildfires and other extreme weather. It is too late to reverse those trends for the current and next few summers, but you can take steps to protect yourself. For one, watch for dangerous heat in your area and respond accordingly: Stay inside, drink enough water and avoid direct sunlight or outdoor exercise. Related: Using The Times’s heat tracker, you can look up the heat index in your area over the coming week to help reduce your own risk. For more Concho Valley in West Texas was hotter than Death Valley at the weekend. Storms brought baseball-sized hail and tornadoes to the Midwest and South over the weekend. The storms have reached the east coast. Thousands of flights are canceled or delayed, The Wall Street Journal reports. Intensifying rain is creating flood risks in parts of the U.S. where drainage systems aren’t built to cope. Wirecutter has advice for keeping your kitchen cool. (One tip: Let the slow cooker do the work.) Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM GE Aerospace GE Aerospace Takes the Stage at Paris Air Show '23 Every day, we’re working to help move the world forward. Today, and for generations to come. Stay updated with GE Aerospace at the Paris Air Show 2023 to learn how we’re changing the future of flight. Learn More THE LATEST NEWS Russian Revolt Yevgeny PrigozhinAlexander Ermochenko/Reuters Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner group, began his revolt over the weekend in a desperate attempt to regain power after the Kremlin sidelined him. In his first remarks since backing down, he claimed he wasn’t trying to overthrow Vladimir Putin, only the military leadership in Moscow. Prigozhin made his statement over social media. His location remains unknown. Putin, visibly angry, took credit for ending the crisis and claimed Russians rallied around his leadership. Watch his speech. The crisis suggests Putin’s hold over the elite that keeps him in power is under stress. President Biden said the U.S. and its allies had “nothing to do with” the revolt. Ukrainian troops have tried to push ahead in the counteroffensive with the Kremlin distracted. But Russian land mines stand in their way. Trump Tape In an audio recording from 2021, Donald Trump is heard discussing a classified document related to Iran. Listen to the recording. “This is secret information”: The audio contradicts his claim that he only shared news clippings. Artificial Intelligence A.I. is transforming health care, and it is starting by helping doctors eliminate hours of paperwork. Public schools in Newark, N.J., are testing A.I. tutoring bots. Other Big Stories An illegal logging operation in Brazil, in 2022.Michael Dantas/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Despite an international pledge to end deforestation, the planet is still rapidly losing tropical forests. The shooter who killed five people at Club Q, an L.G.B.T.Q. bar in Colorado Springs, pleaded guilty. They will spend life in prison. Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against the man accused of murdering four University of Idaho students in a home near campus. Jesse Watters will fill Tucker Carlson’s old 8 p.m. time slot on Fox News. Congestion pricing in New York City cleared its final federal hurdle. Charges for drivers entering Midtown Manhattan could begin next year. Americans are starting to think about China as they once did about the Soviet Union. That could make it harder to mend ties. Opinions L.G.B.T.Q. Americans should embrace their queerness rather than seek to mainstream their identities, Richard Morgan argues. Public health work needs investment even when there isn’t an emergency, Rochelle Walensky, the C.D.C.’s outgoing director, writes. Here are columns by Maureen Dowd on Turner Classic Movies and Jamelle Bouie on Samuel Alito. The Games Sale ends soon. New puzzles every day means moments of fun throughout your day. Don’t miss the chance to subscribe to New York Times Games for 50% off your first year. Find all the words in Spelling Bee, try WordleBot to strengthen your Wordle guesses, play past puzzles and more. MORNING READS Wavelights.Ilvy Njiokiktjien for The New York Times Green lights: Set along the track, they’re helping runners break world records. Crumbling church: Congregants want it torn town. But its celebrity neighbors are trying to save it. Harvard scholar: She studies honesty, but is accused of fabrication. Scavenger hunt: The owners of a store that specializes in midcentury furniture find most pieces by going door to door. Health: Why do you sometimes wake up just before your alarm? Lives Lived: The lithium-ion batteries that power smartphones, laptops and electric vehicles grew from incremental insights over decades. But John Goodenough made one of the crucial breakthroughs. He died at 100. SPORTS NEWS L.S.U.’s stunning reversal: A day after losing by 20 runs, L.S.U. won its seventh college baseball national championship in an 18-4 romp, The Athletic reports. Golf merger: The Times obtained a document revealing details about the PGA Tour’s agreement with LIV. It includes only a handful of binding commitments. A curious departure: Jordy Bahl was a two-time champion at Oklahoma. The Athletic asks: Why did she leave it all behind? Role change: Belgium was out of hurdlers, so a shot-putter agreed to sprint. She spoke to The Times about the race. ARTS AND IDEAS Yann Kebbi Small-town madness: Seventy-five years ago, The New Yorker set off a literary firestorm when it published Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery.” Readers flooded the magazine with angry letters, calling the story “outrageous,” “gruesome” and “utterly pointless,” writes Ruth Franklin, a biographer of Jackson. After the outrage subsided, the story became a classroom favorite, inspiring generations of horror writers and filmmakers. Stephen King, who discovered it in high school, recalled: “My first reaction: Shock. My second reaction: How did she do that?” Read the original story in The New Yorker. More on culture Elton John gave what is expected to be his last-ever performance in Britain. It was “rock history in the making,” The Guardian wrote. A flood of bad scores — known as review bombing — can tank a novel before it’s even published. The Hermitage Amsterdam cut ties with its Russian mother ship, The Hermitage in St. Petersburg. It will now be called H’Art Museum. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times Mix capers and avocados into this salad. Watch “Casa Susanna,” a documentary about transgender women in the ’50s and ’60s, tonight. Read a new book about a wildly successful art thief. Explore Japan’s 750-mile Shikoku pilgrimage. Clean dishes with the best dishwasher detergent. GAMES Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangrams were millionth and monolith. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — German P.S. The Times wants to hear from New Yorkers about how they’ve handled the cost of child care. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 28, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 28, 2023 June 28, 2023 Continue reading the main story SUPPORTED BY Masterworks By German Lopez Good morning. We’re covering the Supreme Court’s latest ruling, more wildfire smoke and the new host of “Wheel of Fortune.” A rally for voting rights outside the Supreme Court.Drew Angerer/Getty Images The rules of elections Yesterday, the Supreme Court took a step in a high-profile case to preserve democratic checks and balances. The details of the case, Moore v. Harper, can sound technical. But it is simply about which officials can oversee federal elections. The petitioner, a North Carolina lawmaker, had sought to radically reshape how federal elections are conducted. The court ruled that state legislatures do not have unchecked power over elections and that other government officials can question and overturn their decisions. Chief Justice John Roberts and two other conservatives joined the court’s three liberals in the ruling. The Constitution, Roberts wrote, “does not exempt state legislatures from the ordinary constraints imposed by state law.” Why does the ruling matter? Because it makes it more difficult for partisan state legislatures to flout the law or norms to keep their party in power, at a time when most legislatures have one-party supermajorities. Under the Supreme Court ruling, other officials can step in if they feel state lawmakers went too far in rewriting election law. The decision, then, could influence which party controls Congress in the future. The stakes The facts of the Supreme Court case help clarify the ruling’s potential impact. They offer a real-world example of how branches of government can check each other — in this case, courts over legislatures. In 2021, lawmakers in North Carolina drew a voting map that would have likely given Republicans 10 of its congressional seats and Democrats four — a lopsided result in a state that is close to evenly divided politically. The state’s Supreme Court initially rejected the redrawn map. And in November, the state held elections with a map drawn by experts appointed by a state court. The result: a congressional delegation evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, mirroring the state’s actual political makeup. In short: Without the court, Republicans would have drawn a map that heavily favored their party. With the court’s intervention, the congressional map accurately reflected the state. Last year, Republican lawmakers took the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court. They invoked what is known as the independent state legislature theory. They claimed the Constitution’s Elections Clause empowers only state legislatures, not courts, to set rules for congressional elections, including redrawing district lines. The other side, made up of Democratic voters and advocacy organizations, argued that state legislatures’ election decisions should have many checks: the courts, governors, independent commissions and other officials empowered under the law. The ruling In yesterday’s decision, the Supreme Court rejected the independent state legislature theory. Roberts cited the long history of state courts reviewing and striking down state laws, and argued that nothing exempts election laws from such judicial review. “The extreme version of the theory was soundly rejected, and by a six-justice majority,” my colleague Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court, told me. “It would seem to be quite dead.” It is the second time this month that Roberts and another conservative justice, Brett Kavanaugh, have joined the liberals in an election case. They also did so in a case over Alabama’s congressional map. The two rulings suggest there may be a moderate wing on voting issues in an otherwise conservative Supreme Court. Three of the court’s conservatives dissented yesterday, largely on procedural grounds. After Republican lawmakers appealed the case to the U.S. Supreme Court last year, conservatives took over the North Carolina Supreme Court and reversed its previous ruling on the state’s congressional map. That eliminated the need for a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the issue, the three justices argued. The court’s bipartisan majority disagreed. For more In a separate case, the Supreme Court imposed First Amendment limits on laws that ban online threats. The court also ruled on an unusual Pennsylvania law, potentially making it easier to sue corporations. Affirmative action and student loans are two of the issues the court will rule on soon. Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM Masterworks 98% of the rich invest more than 5% in art — so can you A recent report by global investment bank UBS reveals 98 percent of wealthy investors surveyed invest at least 5 percent of their total wealth in art. But how can everyday people get access? It's easy with Masterworks, an award-winning platform for investing in fractionalized works of art. Masterworks has completed 13 sales on their artwork, all of them profitable, with three recently realizing annualized net returns of 17.8 percent, 21.5 percent and 35 percent. Skip the waitlist to join. See disclosures at masterworks.com/cd Skip the Waitlist THE LATEST NEWS Russian Revolt The Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin arrived in Belarus, appearing for the first time since he called off his rebellion against Russia’s leadership. Aleksandr Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, said Vladimir Putin raised the possibility of killing Prigozhin over the weekend. A senior Russian general knew about Wagner’s plans, according to U.S. intelligence. It’s not yet clear whether he helped coordinate the revolt. Russians are wondering why Prigozhin escaped the country without punishment, questioning Putin’s competence in a crisis, The Washington Post reports. Politics Hunter Biden at the White House last week.Doug Mills/The New York Times The Justice Department says the prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden had total freedom in the case, but an I.R.S. official’s testimony calls that into question. President Biden is still bringing his son to events. Kevin McCarthy, the Republican speaker of the House, said Donald Trump might not be his party’s strongest candidate for president — then quickly tried to walk it back. States have passed a record number of transgender bills, including bans on medical care and restrictions on school sports. Climate Smoke from Canadian wildfires is again shrouding skies across the Midwest. Chicago’s mayor, Brandon Johnson, urged residents to stay indoors. These apps help you monitor air quality. The dangerous temperatures in Texas are forecast to spread north and east. Track the heat. Earth’s spin went off-kilter around the turn of the millennium. Scientists have discovered a major factor: groundwater pumping for crops and households. International Many employers in China won’t hire workers over 35. They think younger employees are cheaper and will work more overtime. Canada is expanding a national program to make day care cheaper. Some families now pay as little as $10 per day. Archaeologists discovered a painting in the ruins of Pompeii they believe shows an ancient version of pizza. Other Big Stories Yegor, 11.Lynsey Addario for The New York Times “Pain in my soul”: These photos capture the life of one boy in Ukraine, navigating a childhood transformed by war. Remains found in the California wilderness were identified as those of the British actor Julian Sands. A mother had three minutes to address her son’s killer, the mass shooter in Colorado Springs. Read what she said about her son. “Guam is a litmus test”: The tiny, isolated U.S. territory may soon be living with a near-total abortion ban. Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the bishop of Knoxville, Tenn, who has been sued over his handling of sexual misconduct allegations. A teenager flying a drone discovered two people trapped in a car that was being swallowed by a sinkhole. They were rescued as water filled the car. Opinions The Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha falls on a different day each year. Taking the time off is a rebellion against our society’s approach to work, Romaissaa Benzizoune writes. The loss of the Titan submersible proves that while regulation slows progress, it also saves lives, Naomi Oreskes argues. Here is a column by Tom Friedman on Russia and Ukraine. The Games Sale. One day left. Subscribe today to save 50% on your first year of New York Times Games. Spelling Bee, Wordle, The Crossword and more — enjoy puzzles for all skill levels. MORNING READS Dodai Stewart/The New York Times DMs from N.Y.C.: Handwritten notes tell the city’s story — even what looks like a breakup message scrawled on a mattress. Collective cringe: A TikToker is reading her old diaries aloud, helping viewers feel less embarrassed by their past selves. Postpartum depression: Four new mothers spoke about their common yet isolating struggle. Lives Lived: Bobby Osborne was a singer and mandolin player with one of the most radical bands in bluegrass. He died at 91. SPORTS NEWS The Bedard Era begins: Connor Bedard will be the No. 1 pick in tonight’s N.H.L. Draft. He enters the league with astronomical expectations, The Athletic writes. Golf’s future: The PGA-LIV merger stands to profoundly reshape professional golf. But there’s still a chance the deal could fall apart, The Times explains. Ryan Mallett: The former N.F.L. quarterback is dead at 35 after drowning in Florida, where he coached high-school football, The Athletic reports. Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM Masterworks 98% of the rich invest more than 5% in art — so can you A recent report by global investment bank UBS reveals 98 percent of wealthy investors surveyed invest at least 5 percent of their total wealth in art. But how can everyday people get access? It's easy with Masterworks, an award-winning platform for investing in fractionalized works of art. Masterworks has completed 13 sales on their artwork, all of them profitable, with three recently realizing annualized net returns of 17.8 percent, 21.5 percent and 35 percent. Skip the waitlist to join. See disclosures at masterworks.com/cd Skip the Waitlist ARTS AND IDEAS “Lady With a Fan” via Sotheby's A major art auction: “Lady With a Fan,” a radiant portrait by Gustav Klimt that was on an easel when he died, sold for about $108 million at Sotheby’s in London yesterday. The purchase — the largest ever at a public sale in Europe — was a morale boost for Britain’s high-end art market, where prices have dwindled since the country voted to leave the E.U. in 2016, Scott Reyburn writes in The Times. More on culture Ryan Seacrest will host “Wheel of Fortune,” starting next year after Pat Sajak retires. Kevin Spacey arrived in court in London today for the beginning of a trial on sexual assault charges. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times Grill carrots, and add yogurt. Wear these no-show socks. Buy a housewarming gift that someone is unlikely to buy themselves. Read “A Thread of Violence,” a book about an infamous Irish murder case. GAMES Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangrams were daywork, workaday, workday and yardwork. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — German Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted June 30, 2023 Author Members Share Posted June 30, 2023 June 29, 2023 By German Lopez Good morning. We’re covering Ukraine war casualties, wildfire smoke and a pitcher’s perfect game. Inside a hospital. Treating the wounded The Wagner paramilitary group’s brief mutiny in Russia and the fallout from it has eclipsed attention on the war in Ukraine over the past few days. The war slogs on in the meantime: Russian soldiers kill or wound as many as thousands of Ukrainian troops a week, adding to the invasion’s toll. My colleagues Yousur Al-Hlou, Masha Froliak and Ben Laffin published a striking video today from the front lines, following Ukrainian combat medics. Before the war, they were civilian doctors and nurses. Now, they treat their wounded countrymen while trying to protect themselves from artillery fire and rocket attacks. I urge you to watch the video, which changed how I look at the sacrifice Ukrainians have been forced to make. I spoke to Yousur and Masha about their experience following these medics for a week. German: What is the mood among Ukrainian medics, more than a year into the war? Masha: They compared the grinding workload to the film “Groundhog Day,” reliving the same day over and over and losing sense of whether it’s day or night. They have been living in that hospital, as well as working there. They’re tired. They don’t have a sense of when this is going to end. What they say in the video has an existential sense to it. They seem motivated to keep going because they feel their country needs them. Yousur: They’re not just defending their country. They’re defending their families’ lives and their own lives. It’s a very personal struggle. It’s a very personal motivation — a very personal risk. One of the doctors asks: “How could I not take this on? How could I not be at this frontline hospital? How can I not risk my life if it’s in service of protecting my family and protecting my country?” They acknowledge they have fatigue. They acknowledge that they have doubts about when this conflict might end. But they also have this relentless motivation. Masha: One doctor said these young soldiers were the same age as her child. She spoke about imagining it’s her child in the operating room — and she just wants to hug and protect them all. It seems like an important point: As tired as they may be, these doctors are not giving up on the war. Yousur: That’s right. These doctors were not shy about voicing the toll the war is having on them. But it doesn’t negate their motivation and their hatred toward the enemy — feelings they also expressed openly. These feelings live in parallel. What were their lives like before the invasion? Yousur: They were anesthesiologists, surgeons, nurses and so on at civilian hospitals. They were wearing white coats. When the invasion began last year, their lives changed drastically. It is a nearly universal aspect of the war. Once it began, a lot of civilians suddenly found themselves in service of their country. People volunteered to stitch camouflage nets for soldiers. Grandmothers made Molotov cocktails. Similarly, these doctors began working practically overnight in a frontline military hospital having to tend to the wounded amid rocket fire. Watch the video, which includes one scene in which the combat medics confront the task of treating a Russian prisoner of war — and not all of them feel comfortable helping someone they view as the enemy. More on the war Vladimir Putin is planning to punish those who enabled Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion, but the Wagner leader’s deep ties to the Moscow elite are making that difficult. Sergei Surovikin, the general said to have known about the revolt in advance, has not been seen publicly since early Saturday. An unlikely obstacle has slowed Ukraine’s counteroffensive: flat, open fields. These illustrations and maps show why the terrain makes advancing so difficult. President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus may have brokered the deal between Putin and Wagner’s leader, but he still cuts a pathetic figure as a Russian pawn, Thomas Graham writes for Times Opinion. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS Wildfire Smoke Downtown Chicago yesterday.Scott Olson/Getty Images A blanket of wildfire smoke spread across the Midwest, keeping millions of Americans indoors. The smoke is returning to the East Coast today. Track its path. This is the air quality status across the country. Chicago and Pittsburgh have it worst. Politics President Biden is making a push to promote the improving U.S. economy, hoping to turn around public pessimism that could hurt his re-election campaign. Rudy Giuliani, who served as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, was interviewed by federal prosecutors investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five, has a large lead in his race for a seat on New York’s City Council. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is using his name, a libertarian bent and support from the tech world to gain a 2024 foothold. China The Chinese spy balloon was loaded with American-made technology that helped collect photos and videos, U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal. China wants to export its way out of a slump, sending more solar panels and electric vehicles abroad. That could upset its trade partners. Scientists have long explored how three things interacting can create chaos. As China joins a three-way nuclear standoff, experts see growing risks of war. Technology TikTok acknowledged funding a case by five creators against Montana’s ban on the platform. Facial recognition is spreading in Britain. Stores use it to try to stop shoplifters, and the police to identify wanted criminals on the street. New tools claim they can spot A.I.-generated images. The Times tested five. Other Big Stories Debris from the Titan submersible.Paul Daly/The Canadian Press, via Associated Press A deep-sea crew brought debris and presumed human remains from the Titan submersible back to land. Violent protests rocked French cities overnight after the police shot a 17-year-old driver. More than 100,000 people are in New York City’s homeless shelters, a record for the city. Astronomers have detected a low-pitched hum of gravitational waves echoing across the universe, probably from the merging of massive black holes. Airlines are canceling or delaying flights in the Northeast. Here’s what to expect if you’re flying for the Fourth of July. Opinions Chronic illness is often hidden, Sara J. Winston writes. Through photographs of her monthly treatments for multiple sclerosis, she makes it more visible. This week’s episode of “Matter of Opinion” discusses our collective fascination with extraterrestrial life and conspiracy theories. Here are columns by Ross Douthat on replacing elites and Charles Blow on Republican constitutionalists. The Games Sale ends today. Subscribe today to save 50% on a New York Times Games subscription. Enjoy the full Games experience, including Spelling Bee, Wordle, The Crossword and more. Play new puzzles every day. MORNING READS Which one is kiki, and which one is bouba? Most people agree on the answer. Kiki or Bouba? They’re nonsense words, but people still match them to shapes and images. Take our quiz to see how you pair them. “Showbiz!” The drag king Murray Hill offers a glimpse inside his busy Pride month. A morning listen from Serial: Dozens of women experienced severe pain after visits to a Yale fertility clinic. Listen to the shocking story on “The Retrievals.” Lives Lived: Lowell Weicker was a senator from Connecticut in Richard Nixon’s party when he took an assignment on the select committee investigating Watergate. His attacks on Nixon during the committee’s hearings made him famous. He died at 92. SPORTS NEWS Domingo GermánStan Szeto/USA Today Sports, via Reuters Baseball history: The Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán threw the M.L.B.’s first perfect game since 2012, The Athletic reports. “The magic of the perfect game,” The Times’s Tyler Kepner writes, is that “it can happen to any pitcher at any time.” Bedard’s destiny: As expected, Connor Bedard went No. 1 overall in last night’s N.H.L. draft. The Athletic explains why he’ll transform the Blackhawks. Simone Biles: The star gymnast is expected to compete in the upcoming U.S. Classic, The Times reports. Her entrance signals a return to elite gymnastics after her mental health issues at the Tokyo Olympics. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS Maya Kherani sang the role of Autonoe in “Orfeo” while pregnant.Sam Hellmann for The New York Times Changing bodies: Many opera singers say they work best while pregnant. Doctors are unsure why — it could be a result of increased blood flow, or added pressure on the diaphragm, or a new awareness of muscles and posture. “Everything was so easy,” said the soprano Kathryn Lewek, who performed in Mozart’s “Magic Flute” through two pregnancies. “High notes just came shooting out of me.” Yet singers say they are still removed from roles because of pregnancies. More on culture Madonna will postpone her “Celebration” tour after being hospitalized with an infection. Harrison Ford has a digital face-lift in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” a “weird and distracting” decision, Manohla Dargis writes. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Kerri Brewer for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Marinate tofu for tacos. Revive your old computer to pass on to your children. Cool down your hot, stuffy car with shades and fans. Read “Self-Made,” a new book about the history of personal branding. GAMES Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangrams were flipflopping and flopping. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — German Correction: Yesterday’s newsletter misidentified the state where the former N.F.L. quarterback Ryan Mallett had been coaching high school football before his drowning death this week. It was Arkansas, not Florida. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 1, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 1, 2023 June 30, 2023 By German Lopez Good morning. We’re covering the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling, heat in the South and a fast-fashion blunder. Demonstrators near the Supreme Court yesterday.Kenny Holston/The New York Times Considering race The current Supreme Court has been out of step with public opinion in some of its highest-profile rulings, including on abortion and environmental protection. Yesterday’s ruling restricting race-based affirmative action at colleges and universities was different. In a 6-3 decision, the court’s six conservative justices declared that colleges’ use of race as a factor in student admissions is unconstitutional. They cited the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits discrimination based on race. Their ruling appears to align with public opinion. Most Americans oppose the consideration of race or ethnicity in college admissions, surveys have found. Even in liberal California, the public has voted twice to prohibit affirmative action. (Americans’ opinions can shift somewhat depending on how the survey question is framed.) The public’s views could make it difficult for Democrats to rally Americans in support of affirmative action as they have with abortion rights since the court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. Still, Democrats quickly condemned the affirmative action ruling. “We cannot let this decision be the last word,” President Biden said yesterday. Whatever the political outcome, the decision upended decades of law and the higher education landscape. The ruling will shift the makeup of many of America’s top universities — and the prospects of students who want to attend them. The University of North CarolinaKate Medley for The New York Times The ruling The decision addressed cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina. Both schools say they consider race in admissions to diversify their student bodies, particularly by boosting Black and Latino applicants who may be disadvantaged by racism. But critics say that Black and Latino students are helped to the detriment of students of races or ethnicities that are already more represented on campuses, particularly Asian Americans. Writing the majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the policy’s critics. He stated that affirmative action is racially discriminatory and unconstitutional. “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” he wrote. The ruling did not prohibit all mentions of race in college applications. Prospective students can, for example, write in application essays about how race has affected their lives. But Roberts warned that schools still can’t use race in determining admissions even when considering those essays. Instead, mentions of race can only demonstrate an applicant’s personal accomplishments or virtues. “A benefit to a student who overcame racial discrimination, for example, must be tied to that student’s courage and determination,” Roberts wrote. “In other words, the student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual — not on the basis of race.” The court’s three liberals dissented. Justice Sonia Sotomayor summarized her dissent from the bench, a rare move that signals deep disagreement. “Today, this Court stands in the way and rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress,” she wrote. She added that the ruling “cements a superficial rule of colorblindness as a constitutional principle in an endemically segregated society where race has always mattered and continues to matter.” Whether a justice views affirmative action as positive or negative appears to hinge on whether he or she primarily sees it as holding down or pulling up prospective students. The majority and concurring opinions focused on affirmative action’s downsides for white and Asian students, while the dissents focused on the benefits to Black and Latino students. The disagreement comes down to which effect someone believes matters more. What comes next Some states have already banned race-based affirmative action, offering real-world examples of what could happen. Many schools saw drops in Black and Latino student attendance, my colleague Stephanie Saul, who covers education, wrote. The same could happen at Harvard, North Carolina and other universities. But one large university system, the University of California, adopted policies that helped increase the number of Black and Hispanic students after the state ended affirmative action. California’s experience indicates that schools can, if they’re willing, take steps that improve diversity even without explicitly considering race. For most college students, the ruling will have limited direct impact. Few colleges outside of elite institutions have affirmative action policies; they accept a majority of applications. But the overall makeup of the higher education landscape understates the effects of the ruling. Elite colleges have a disproportionate impact on American society. Consider that eight of the nine justices who voted on yesterday’s ruling went to Ivy League schools. And two, Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas, have said that they benefited from affirmative action. Now, they help decide the law of the land. More on the ruling Read key passages from the ruling and dissents. Legal experts expect a flood of lawsuits to define the boundaries of “race neutral” admissions, including whether schools can recruit students by ZIP code. For applicants, the essay will become more important and the SATs less. Similar challenges look likely to follow against corporate diversity efforts. Admissions experts say elite schools will probably face more pressure to end legacy admissions, which favor the children of alumni. The ruling is expected to benefit historically Black colleges and universities. Biden assailed the decision and said colleges should find other ways to diversify their student bodies. “This is not a normal court,” he said. Affirmative action created a race-obsessed American university culture, and the court ruling will make it worse, Tyler Austin Harper writes for Times Opinion. The most passionate opposition to affirmative action centered on its most reparative element: compensation for centuries of exclusion, Jerome Karabel writes for Times Opinion. The court also broadened protections for religious workers in a separate case involving a mail carrier who refused to work Sundays. The court is expected to end its term today with decisions on student debt relief and L.G.B.T.Q. rights. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS Severe Weather Cooling off in the Chattahoochee River in Columbus, Ga., yesterday.Cheney Orr for The New York Times At least 15 people have died of heat-related causes in recent days in the U.S. Heat and humidity have created dangerous conditions across the South. Track the temperature where you live. There are ways to stay cool: Open windows at night, and block them out during the day. Unrest in France The police arrested more than 600 people in France during a third night of unrest after a police officer shot to death a teenage driver this week. The officer was detained on a charge of voluntary homicide. New York City The city’s homeless population hit a record of 100,000, driven by an influx of migrants. The system is straining to adapt. Mayor Eric Adams compared an activist whose family fled the Holocaust to a plantation owner after she asked him about back-to-back rent increases. Other Big Stories A former school resource officer who failed to confront the gunman in the Parkland, Fla., school shooting was found not guilty of child neglect. Russia seems to have detained a top general under suspicion that he helped plan the Wagner group’s failed rebellion. Wading into the Republican primary for the first time, the Koch brothers’ network has raised more than $70 million to try to sink Donald Trump. After a right-wing boycott of Bud Light, the brand is struggling to win back longtime customers — even with extreme discounts. Rip currents have killed 11 people along the Gulf Coast recently. Here’s what they are and how to escape one. Opinions On The Ezra Klein Show, a Russia scholar helps make sense of the Wagner group’s mutiny. Here are columns by Michelle Goldberg on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Jamelle Bouie on birthright citizenship. Experience all of The Times. One subscription includes everything we offer — and everything you need to make the most of every day. Enjoy an introductory offer on The Times. MORNING READS Diamond giant: Is Botswana getting a raw deal from De Beers? Floating jungle supermarket: The only ferry in one of South America’s most remote stretches may soon disappear. Modern Love: Did she even know her husband of 20 years? (She didn’t.) Lives Lived: Christine King Farris supported her brother the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement and promoted his legacy after he was assassinated. She was King’s last living sibling. King Farris died at 95. SPORTS NEWS FROM THE ATHLETIC An N.B.A. divorce: James Harden and the Sixers appear to be parting ways. A W.N.B.A. superteam: The Las Vegas Aces are off to a stunning 14-1 start after routing the New York Liberty. Clock watchers: Across M.L.B., a shadowy group controls the new pitch clocks. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS Christophe Archambault/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A fast-fashion blunder: The online retailer Shein, which sells trendy clothes at bargain-bin prices, has struggled to win over shoppers who question its labor practices. So the company invited influencers to tour its facilities in China. When their posts showed tidy stacks of packages and rows of happy workers, the backlash was swift. While Shein’s marketing stunt failed, it shielded the executives who should be the focus of the public’s scorn, Amy Odell writes on Substack. “This is where influencers have been usefully employed: as the faces of faceless corporations.” More on culture In a dark time for broadcast TV, one genre continues to bring in big ratings: game shows. Vanna White, the “Wheel of Fortune” co-host, hasn’t gotten a raise in 18 years, The Cut reports. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Christopher Simpson for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Pour peanut sauce onto cold noodles. Shop for a used desktop monitor. Pick the best lunchboxes. Take our weekly news quiz. GAMES Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangrams were beanpole and openable. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Sign up for the new weekly newsletter “Easy Mode” to get an easy version of Friday’s crossword. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — German P.S. On this day in 1859, the French acrobat Charles Blondin tightrope-walked across the Niagara Gorge, 160 feet above water. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 2, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 2, 2023 July 1, 2023 As a crossword enthusiast, I’m delighted that my colleague Joel Fagliano, a Times puzzle editor, is here to tell us a little about how he works his magic. Below you’ll also find coverage of yesterday’s Supreme Court rulings. — Melissa Kirsch By Joel Fagliano Good morning. Today I’m bringing you a special edition of a Times puzzle designed for Morning readers. PinonRoad Popular knowledge Because I’m the creator of the New York Times Mini Crossword, people often assume that I’m a trivia expert. The embarrassing truth is that my trivia knowledge is heavily weighted toward things with four and five letters and a lot of vowels. Sure, I can tell you Elvis Presley’s middle name (Aron), or that a small sewing kit is known as an “etui,” but I’m not going to be much help at your local pub trivia night. People who don’t do crosswords often believe that you need an encyclopedic knowledge of arcane facts to complete a puzzle. My mission with the Mini is to change that perception. As much as possible, I avoid obscure words that solvers would know only if they’ve done 1,000 crosswords before. Instead, I test solvers on the stuff of everyday life: state capitals, street signs, internet slang and the occasional random animal fact. In a perfect puzzle, the trivia clues draw you in, leaving you wanting to know the answer. That idea guides today’s custom Mini crossword, specifically designed for The Morning. If you’ve never tried a crossword before, you can warm up with a few trivia questions. Solve these brainteasers for a head start on today’s Mini: What word becomes shorter when you add letters to it? What is the only seven-letter word to use all five vowels and Q? What is the only planet in our solar system not named for a deity? For those who have never tried a Mini crossword before, it’s a free, daily 5x5 puzzle (7x7 on Saturdays) available to all Times readers. The small grid takes only a few minutes to complete (even less once you get good!), and it is packed with lively vocabulary, timely references and witty minithemes. You can even compete against your friends for the fastest solving time by using our Leaderboards feature. I hope you’ll check it out! The answers to today’s brainteasers are found in the Mini crossword and at the bottom of this newsletter. The New York Times For more How to get started solving the mini and the Monday and Tuesday crossword puzzles. How Connections, our new game, is put together. Need help with today’s crossword? The columnist Caitlin Lovinger breaks it down. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE WEEK IN CULTURE A scarf can elevate a standard polo shirt. The street style outside men’s fashion shows in Paris and Milan featured neck scarves, graphic tops and clothes worn backward. Alan Arkin, who had a long career as a character actor who specialized in comedy but was equally adept at drama, died at 89. The opulent wardrobes in “And Just Like That …” may signal the end of the stealth wealth era, Vanessa Friedman writes. The latest episode was filled with shoes. “Barbenheimer”: People are planning how to watch both “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” a movie about the atomic bomb designer, on their shared release day. ESPN laid off on-air personalities, including Suzy Kolber and Jalen Rose. Rachel Griffin Accurso spoke with The Times about how she became Ms. Rachel, the overall-wearing toddler video sensation. Russia’s International Tchaikovsky Competition, once one of the world’s most prestigious music contests, had fewer participants this year. Many arts leaders see it as a propaganda tool. THE LATEST NEWS Supreme Court Demonstrators in Washington yesterday.Kenny Holston/The New York Times The Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s plan to cancel student debt for tens of millions of borrowers, saying it overstepped executive powers. Biden said he would seek new ways to relieve student debt. If you have loans, the Education Department is finalizing a new system that could lower payments. The court also backed a Colorado web designer who said she had a First Amendment right to refuse to provide services for same-sex marriages. It was not clear whether the ruling would apply to others who supply wedding services, like photographers or florists. Other Big Stories Judges in Brazil moved to block former President Jair Bolsonaro from seeking public office until 2030 for spreading false claims about voting. A man accused of involvement in the Jan. 6 attacks was arrested near Barack Obama’s home with weapons, ammunition and materials for explosives. Fox News agreed to pay $12 million to a former producer who had accused the network of operating a hostile workplace. Experience all of The Times. One subscription includes everything we offer — and everything you need to make the most of every day. Enjoy an introductory offer on The Times. CULTURE CALENDAR By Gilbert Cruz 🎬 “Insidious: The Red Door” (Friday): The actor Patrick Wilson has had a long and interesting career. Starting in Off Broadway and Broadway productions, he has now become somewhat of a “scream king,” flourishing in successful horror movies like the “Conjuring” franchise and this series, the fifth entry of which he both stars in and directs. Here, the boy from the first two “Insidious” movies is all grown up and headed to college, as are those spirits with the scary faces. 📚 “Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis” (Tuesday): In 2018’s “Dopesick,” her book about the opioid crisis in Appalachia, Beth Macy tried to explain why so many people have become addicted to these drugs. As Jan Hoffman wrote about Macy’s latest, soon out in paperback, the author, “no longer struggling with why, has moved on to an even more impenetrable question: How the hell do we extract ourselves from this quicksand?” Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT RECIPE OF THE WEEK David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. By Emily Weinstein Cherry Pie I have a deal with my husband and my mother: They work together to pit enough fresh cherries for baking, and I’ll make them any cherry-based dessert they want. This time, I’ll subtly nudge them toward this new cherry pie recipe from Melissa Clark, a fairly classic take on the ne plus ultra of summer pies. You can make this with either sweet cherries or sour ones — your choice. Not up for debate, in my opinion: a scoop of vanilla ice cream or dollop of whipped cream to serve. (A cherry pitter is the tool you need for this job; my colleagues at Wirecutter recommend this one.) REAL ESTATE Brushwood Nursery Clematis flowers: How to make them last longer in your garden. Childhood dream: They wanted a fire pole in their house. What you get for $630,000: A three-bedroom rowhouse in Richmond, Va.; a hillside retreat in Black Mountain, N.C.; or a 1908 cottage in New Orleans. The hunt: Two sisters try to live together again as one buys an apartment. Which one did they choose? Play our game. LIVING Randi Baird for The New York Times 36 hours: Spend a long weekend in Martha’s Vineyard. Old fashioned: Upgrade your Klondike bars with a better ice cream sandwich. Mixing booze and exercise: You shouldn’t do it. But if you do, here’s how to stay safe. For the hangover: Rich people are paying for IV drips. ADVICE FROM WIRECUTTER Try a beach wagon If you’re a parent, you may have long ago said goodbye to the days of minimalist beachgoing. But a wagon can restore that simplicity: It’s a great way to lug toys, sunshades and chairs over sandy hillocks. Wirecutter’s super-durable pick has wide wheels and 6.7 cubic feet of space, making it easy to pull your mountain of gear — and even your little kids — across the sand. There’s value off the beach, too. Our favorite folding wagons work for all kinds of jaunts. — Rachel Hurn GAME OF THE WEEKEND NASCAR driver Ryan Blaney.Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images NASCAR Grant Park 220: NASCAR drivers will race through downtown Chicago, reaching speeds of 140 miles per hour as they navigate tight turns around Grant Park. It’s the first time NASCAR’s top series has raced on city streets, and drivers have little chance to prepare outside of computer simulations, so the race could get chaotic. “Part of me is nervous because we’ve never been to a street course before,” the driver Ryan Blaney told NBC Chicago, “but I think it’s going to be a hell of an event.” 5:30 p.m. Eastern tomorrow on NBC. For more NASCAR officials worked with the Art Institute to ensure that vibrations from the race would not damage the museum’s artifacts, The Times’s Mitch Smith writes. Here’s a video tour of the course. NOW TIME TO PLAY Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangrams were mollycoddle and mollycoddled. See the hardest Spelling Bee words from this week. Take the news quiz to see how well you followed this week’s headlines. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your weekend with The Times. Answers for the brain teasers: SHORT SEQUOIA EARTH Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 3, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 3, 2023 July 2, 2023 By Melissa Kirsch Good morning. “The Bear” offers a depiction of work that’s turbulent, and, in its own way, enviable. María Jesús Contreras Pressure cooker Business leaders are resorting to desperate measures to entice workers back to the office, my colleague Emma Goldberg reported recently. “It’s been three years of scattershot plans for returning to in-person work — summoning people in, not really meaning it, everybody pretty much working wherever they pleased,” she wrote. “Now, for the umpteenth time, businesses are ready to get serious.” Will inducements like $10 donations to charity for each day workers show up, as Salesforce recently announced, prove powerful enough bait? Perhaps an in-office pickleball court, or a desk-delivered sauvignon blanc from the roving bar cart? One idea I haven’t seen floated is to offer screenings of the series “The Bear,” whose second season was released in June on Hulu. The show is about Carmy, a James Beard award-winning chef who returns to run his family’s sandwich shop, The Original Beef of Chicagoland, after his brother’s suicide. He finds a business mired in debt, a grieving staff set in its ways, a kitchen in shambles. When it debuted last year, “The Bear” was praised for its authenticity, for depicting the chaos of a real restaurant kitchen. “Work here is furious, violent and relentless,” James Poniewozik wrote in The Times. “Flames roar up the sides of pans, pots clatter like artillery, slabs of beef are dragged and hoisted like casualties. Hands are burned, fingers slashed; the pace of the prep rush turns the kitchen staff into sweating, shouting bodies, meat cooking meat.” Hardly a convincing argument for in-person work. But watching the new season, I found myself focused less on the anxiety-inducing mayhem (of which there is plenty!) as Carmy and the gang scrounge up money, knock down walls, hire a staff, remediate mold and develop new dishes to transform The Beef into The Bear, their new upscale dining concept. I was more interested in the fantasy of collaboration the show portrays, of a group of cantankerous misfits begrudgingly working together toward a common goal. Each episode of “The Bear” is short; some come in under 30 minutes. But the amount of action packed into each is dizzying — how does this show manage to create so much drama, to develop such fully realized characters in so small a space? My days in the office are not nearly as frenetic, but I’ve similarly been amazed at how full a day of in-person work seems compared to the plodding predictability of remote work. As much as I cherish the commute-free flexibility of working from home, there’s not much action in the dust-filled sunlight of a 2 p.m. living room. Please don’t get me wrong: “The Bear” is still committed to a depiction of “work as a kind of barely restrained combat,” as James put it. But its music-video-style montages of the characters taking pride in their tasks, toiling toward a common goal, do make for a romantic vision of teamwork. Contrast this with “Severance,” another recent workplace drama. That show portrays office work as an antiseptic nightmare, where the price of work-life balance is a literal subjugation of your true self. Season 2 of “Severance” will be delayed because of the writers’ strike. In the meantime, “The Bear” offers us another version of the workplace drama, a scenario that’s complicated, anarchic and, for all its dysfunction, sometimes pretty rewarding. For more “The Bear” captures the panic of modern work. The show “suggests that there’s a better way of playing this game,” wrote James Poniewozik in his review of the new season. “You can win without being toxic; you can be a genius without being a jerk.” Tejal Rao wrote that “it conveys an unexpected optimism about the restaurant industry and the people who make it run.” Every Wirecutter pick spotted in Carmy’s kitchen. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT NEWS Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts delivered victories for the right on affirmative action, gay rights and student loans, but he forged alliances with liberal justices, too. The court’s conservative supermajority wasn’t as dominant this term as it has been, The Washington Post writes. “Adversity scores”: A medical school ranks applicants by assessing their disadvantages, which could be a model for other schools seeking to increase diversity. The Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action is the latest version of an old question: How to deal with the legacy of slavery? The fight for reparations is still an uphill battle across the country. Unrest in France At a funeral, the French Muslim community mourned the death of a 17-year-old who was shot to death by a police officer. Violent riots convulsed French cities again last night in response to the killing. A simultaneous ban on head scarves in soccer was a coincidence, but it illuminated France’s identity crisis. Other Big Stories A photo provided by the Greek Coast Guard of the migrant boat Adriana.Hellenic Coast Guard/Reuters Officials watched for hours as a humanitarian disaster unfolded on a migrant ship near Greece. They likely could have prevented hundreds of deaths, a Times investigation found. A small, hard-won victory for Ukraine signaled the counteroffensive could be long. Ford and General Motors are making deals with mining companies to obtain raw materials for electric vehicles. Hunter Biden’s daughter has never met him nor her grandparents, complicating the president’s image of family unity. The dissident who inspired the movie “Hotel Rwanda” defied the government to speak with The Times about his imprisonment. FROM OPINION Instead of saving the world, the quest to build artificial general intelligence will make things only worse, Evgeny Morozov writes. Here are columns by Nick Kristof on the British monarchy and Ross Douthat on Chief Justice John Roberts. The Sunday question: Will the Wagner group’s mutiny bring down President Vladimir Putin? Although Putin’s government remains standing, “cracks in the perception of power, often after military setbacks, can quickly lead to real collapses in power,” Jonah Goldberg writes in The Los Angeles Times. But Russians support Putin because of “a very genuine fear of war coming to their porch,” a belief Wagner has only validated, Leonid Ragozin writes for Al Jazeera. Experience all of The Times. One subscription includes everything we offer — and everything you need to make the most of every day. Enjoy an introductory offer on The Times. MORNING READS In the Dolomites. Francesco Guerra for The New York Times Go running: In the jagged peaks and lush meadows of the Dolomites. (Or, just look at the beautiful photos.) Pickleball noise: The nation’s fastest growing sport is annoying people. Its incessant pop-pop-pop has fueled lawsuits. A Rubik’s cube and thick socks: Read about the Titan submersible passengers’ last hours. Vows: They fell in love over coffee. So they started their own coffee bean company. Lives Lived: Peg Yorkin was a feminist activist who helped bring the abortion pill to the United States. She died at 96. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT TALK | FROM THE TIMES MAGAZINE Mamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times By David Marchese Since breaking out with her Emmy award-winning television series “Fleabag,” Phoebe Waller-Bridge has co-written the James Bond film “No Time to Die” and is now co-starring in the new “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” I spoke with her about the potential pitfalls of moving from smaller, more personal projects to bigger franchises. Going from “Fleabag” to James Bond and “Indiana Jones” isn’t the most logical move. What do you think the people behind those projects see you bringing to them? With Bond, there is something transgressive about that character, and it’s the same with Indy. In the kernel of these characters is something dangerous. So it was less like, “I want to go do this big movie,” and more, “I want to play in the sand pit with these rascals.” That’s one way of looking at it. Is there another way? Well, I’ve been having these conversations with myself. I’m trying not to overthink it. For these purposes, overthinking is good. Knowing that someone from one of these massive franchises has watched “Fleabag” and gone, “What happens if we put this with this?” — I’m intrigued by that. When I spoke to [“Indiana Jones” co-producer] Kathy [Kennedy] early on, she was like, “This is about aging. This is about regrets.” I can look at that and go, “That’s similar to some things I’ve made.” I’m curious about the actual practical balance between those dramatic ideas and the day-to-day making of the movie. That deeper stuff is essential to me. Which is not to say that I won’t one day be wearing a cape and jumping off the back of an airplane being like, “This is all about saving animals!” Read more of the interview here. More from the magazine A letter to the Ethicist columnist: “My friends are losing weight with Ozempic. Can I tell them I disapprove?” Try Hawaiian-style sherbet, a recipe that’s lusher than sorbet but more ethereal than ice cream. Read the full issue. BOOKS Franziska Barczyk 25 years later: Bridget Jones deserved better, particularly in her professional life, Elisabeth Egan writes. Our editors’ picks: “Be Mine,” a novel about a man taking his terminally ill son on a road trip to Mt. Rushmore, and eight other books. Times best sellers: The N.B.A. star Chris Paul’s memoir of basketball and of family tragedy, “Sixty-One,” debuts on the hardcover nonfiction list. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Stream three great documentaries, including one about Pablo Picasso’s methods. Listen to vinyl again with these tips from The Times’s pop music critic. Pick the best sleeping pad for camping. See “Hamlet,” The Public Theater’s production in Central Park. THE WEEK AHEAD What to Watch For Wimbledon starts tomorrow. Independence Day is Tuesday. U.S. financial markets close early tomorrow and will remain closed Tuesday. Monthly U.S. employment numbers will be released Friday. What to Cook This Week David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Emily Weinstein’s Five Weeknight Dishes newsletter has recipes that may come in handy for the Fourth of July. This simple grilled steak uses cuts of skirt steak. Wow guests by grilling gochujang burgers. And for the non-meat-eaters: Julia Moskin’s famous gazpacho. NOW TIME TO PLAY Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangrams were invincible and vincible. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your weekend with The Times. — Melissa Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 4, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 4, 2023 July 3, 2023 By Lauren Jackson Good morning. We’re covering age checks online, surveillance in Russia and Wimbledon’s dress code change. Scrolling in Georgia. Stephen B. Morton for The New York Times Controlled substance Like millions of other teenagers, Jack Merrill, an 18-year-old living outside of Chicago, regularly uses the online game platform Roblox. So when it rolled out a new feature — voice chatting with other users — he wanted to try it. But first, he had to pull out his driver’s license. Jack had to pass through what’s called an age gate, an identity check that is becoming increasingly common online. Roblox wanted to verify that he was at least 13 before he could voice chat. The game asked for government identification to confirm his age, and a selfie to ensure that the ID was his. These checks are popping up across the internet, as part of a global push to protect children’s safety. At least two dozen states have proposed or passed website age restrictions, many of which are focused on limiting access to pornography. Countries like Britain, Italy and Japan have passed similar laws. As of this month, seven states have passed laws requiring age checks for users on websites like Pornhub. Companies are also limiting children’s access to dating apps, gaming platforms and online shopping. Social media is the next major target: Last week, France passed a law that will require social media platforms to verify the ages of their users and get parental consent for children under 15. Lawmakers in Congress have introduced a bill to create a minimum age for social media use, too. But instead of only carding children who appear to be underage, age checks can ask every user to present their ID. Lawmakers in favor of the restrictions say it’s the necessary cost of creating a safer internet, but civil liberties advocates are concerned about the effects of age checks on privacy and internet freedom. The case for age checks Lawmakers tried for decades to shield children from content they thought was harmful. They encouraged ID checks for R-rated movies and forced websites like MySpace and Facebook to ask that users self-report their ages. Those checks were rudimentary: With a click and a white lie, anyone could pass. The latest attempt to restrict access to the internet is different in two ways. First, the technology has changed. Websites can accurately discern the ages of users using digital copies of driver’s licenses or passport scans, options that weren’t available to use broadly even a few years ago. Second, public opinion has shifted. Children are experiencing a national mental health crisis, and a majority of parents say it is their top parental concern coming out of the pandemic. They’re particularly worried about social media, which the U.S. surgeon general recently warned poses a health risk to children. Those mental health concerns have prompted the latest wave of age restriction proposals, including laws that have passed in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Utah and Virginia. Many lawmakers say that the internet should be treated as a controlled substance, like cigarettes or alcohol. “We have agreed as a society not to let a 15-year-old go to a bar or a strip club,” Laurie Schlegel, the Republican state representative behind the Louisiana age-verification law, told my colleague Natasha Singer. “The same protections should be in place online so that you know a 10-year-old is not looking at hard-core pornography.” The case against Most companies using age checks assure users that their data won’t be saved. But privacy activists say that many companies and governments, which are already susceptible to data breaches, aren’t prepared to check ages without incidentally saving or revealing intimate information about users’ internet behavior — what they’re watching, who they’re talking to or what they’re buying. The activists say that age checks are part of a slow creep toward a world where companies, and even democratic governments, have a near-total view into people’s lives. This is already the case in China, where the government uses widespread surveillance to track its citizens and limit dissent. China has cited the protection of children as a reason to restrict speech online. “Surveillance is very much tied to authoritarianism,” said Carissa Véliz, author of the book “Privacy is Power.” “We’re really testing the limits of democracy.” Age checks don’t always work, privacy activists argue, pointing to potential loopholes such as virtual private networks. Children can also ask someone older to help them create an account, or attempt to use fake identification. The age gates are also a barrier to the internet for some adults, who can’t get them to work, or lack identification. The patchwork of different forms of access is creating different versions of the internet for every American, where their rights and abilities to access information vary depending on their age and where they live. More on tech Parents are worried that video games and social media spike their children’s dopamine levels, a brain chemical connected to addiction. But the science is mixed. Can A.I. beat the problem-solving ability of the best mathematicians? Some think it will soon. The next generation of chatbots doesn’t have many of the guardrails put in place by companies like Google and OpenAI. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS War in Ukraine The Federal Security Service building in Moscow.Maxim Shemetov/Reuters Russia is investing in digital surveillance tools to track citizens and suppress dissent. Psychologists in Ukraine rush to the sites of airstrikes to offer immediate support to survivors. International Janet Yellen will visit China for the first time as Treasury secretary. The trip is intended to help stabilize the relationship between the world’s two largest economies. Israel launched airstrikes on the occupied West Bank in what it called an “extensive counterterrorism effort.” At least seven people were killed. Politics Republicans in North Carolina are pushing for voting restrictions in the state, an important battleground in 2024. Lawyers are using religious freedom arguments to fight state abortion bans. Michigan’s lawmakers have fought limits on pollution for a long time, but toxic algae and flooding are changing their minds. “Y’all means all”: Miss Texas is talking about her liberal views on race and abortion, taking on the state’s Republican leaders, The Washington Post reports. Other Big Stories Thousands of hotel workers in Southern California went on strike, demanding higher pay and better benefits. The number of migrants crossing the southern border is down, but officials say the lull won’t last. A shooting at a block party in Baltimore killed two people and wounded 28 others, many of them teenagers. Opinions Instead of fighting to retain police officers who feel threatened by accountability, cities should let them quit, Radley Balko writes. The Supreme Court rejected the so-called independent state legislature theory, but some version will loom over the 2024 elections, Richard H. Pildes writes. Vladimir Putin has himself to blame for the mutiny that substantially weakened his authority, Mikhail Zygar argues. Here are columns by Ezra Klein on Biden’s economic policies and Maureen Dowd on Chris Christie. Experience all of The Times. One subscription includes everything we offer — and everything you need to make the most of every day. Enjoy an introductory offer on The Times. MORNING READS Thrill-seeking at Fun Spot America Atlanta.Dustin Chambers for The New York Times Vertigo: One theme park is a destination for roller coaster lovers. Fourth of July: Young Americans are questioning whether they want to celebrate the holiday. “Cage match”: A fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg may actually happen. Dark universe: A spacecraft is on the way to photograph billions of galaxies. Metropolitan Diary: New York is a small town in some ways. Lives Lived: Frank Field was the first meteorologist to forecast the weather on New York television. He later became known for publicizing the Heimlich maneuver. He died at 100. SPORTS NEWS A long-awaited change: Wimbledon is adjusting its all-white dress code to ease the stress of women’s periods, The Athletic reports. Players say it’s about time. Foes to friends: Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova had a 15-year tennis rivalry. Sally Jenkins at The Washington Post writes about how they bonded while having cancer at the same time. Closing the loop: The golfer Rickie Fowler won his first PGA Tour title in four years, The Athletic reports. Unlikely partnership: Chicago gave its streets to NASCAR for racing, but the weekend was rainy and the reviews were mixed, The Times writes. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS Asian-influenced Texas barbecue.Jessica Attie for The New York Times The new taste of Texas: Texas is a barbecue capital of the United States. But in recent years, the state’s trademark cuisine has evolved from its excellent mainstays — brisket, beef sausage and pork ribs — into fusion creations by a diverse new generation of pitmasters. Meats once seasoned with only salt and pepper now taste like lemongrass, fenugreek, gochujang and turmeric; brisket can be found in curry, enchiladas, shawarma and ramen. These are the 20 best places to try Texas barbecue, according to Times food writers. More on culture Three Times critics agree: “The Idol” is bad television. Paper Magazine has a new owner and an uncertain future. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Johnny Miller for The New York Times. Improve your s’mores with salt. Watch apocalyptic television. Sleep on linen sheets this summer. Pick the best vanilla ice cream. Take our news quiz. GAMES Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangrams were cartload and doctoral. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanseng Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 On 5/9/2022 at 2:19 AM, phkrause said: A former romantic partner of his told Larry Kramer, the playwright and activist, about his past relationship with Koch. Larry Kramer once started a rumor that Abraham Lincoln was gay. Anything to promote homosexuality worked for him, truth or lie, apparently. Kramer wrote a book called "Faggots," a brutal narrative of what the gay lifestyle was really like. Today, apologists deny that there is a gay lifestyle. Well, when the term was coined, there was definitely a gay lifestyle. It involved numerous sexual encounters with various men in public restrooms and other places such as bathhouses. Since I prefer to not deal in filth, I'll omit what I know about the gay lifestyle in Hollywood, Ca in the 90s and before. Enough to say that much of an entire generation of gay men was destroyed by their lifestyle through AIDS, As a news source, a former lover of Larry Kramer is about as credible as a gay man, trying to seduce me, describing his romance with Mick Jagger, in his home, while the gay man's parents were there. Lies work as well or better than truth for agenda driven people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 4, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 4, 2023 16 hours ago, Hanseng said: Lies work as well or better than truth for agenda driven people. Absolutely!! Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 5, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 5, 2023 July 4, 2023 By Lauren Jackson Good morning. We have reading suggestions for the Fourth of July holiday. The New York Times Good reads If you’re spending this Fourth of July holiday in the U.S. grilling or setting off Roman candles, we hope you have some time to take a break and read. Today, we have suggestions for readers anywhere in the world — 25 of the best stories from The Times this year so far. They’re articles you may not have seen yet. We asked editors around the newsroom to pick their favorite stories that, for one reason or another, most readers overlooked. There are beautiful photos of Spanish flamenco dresses, a tale of TikTok feuds and a peek inside a pacifist sect in Canada. Enjoy these 25 stories: “Doing the work”: The language of therapy has taken over dating. Dolphins and whaaaaales use vocal fry to communicate. The El Rocío pilgrimage in Andalusia, Spain’s southernmost region, is filled with horseback riders and dramatic dresses. Look at the photos. Divorce is seen as shameful in many cultures. But in Mauritania, it’s not just normal, it’s a reason to celebrate. Medical students are honoring the lives of the cadavers they study with gratitude ceremonies. People in China are amassing huge followings and fortunes by filming themselves shopping. He was born into slavery, but became a writer, composer, merchant and voter. Read more about the polymath Charles Ignatius Sancho. Oklahoma wants to be the new Texas. But it needs visitors to give it a try. Meet two students who drove a battered Toyota through the fighting in Sudan, and saved at least 60 people. California’s salmon stocks are crashing. A.I. is writing campaign emails, blurring even further the boundaries of fact and fake in politics. Jay Shetty, the monk turned author and Instagram influencer, shares some dating advice. More migrants are trying to cross the dangerous Darién Gap, which connects Central and South America. Listen to the story of one mother and daughter who were separated on the journey. New York’s diamond district is hanging on to a dying trade. But it still has hustle, prerolled joints and TikTok feuds. A small town in England has presented new monarchs with a pie filled with a slimy, eel-like fish for 800 years. This year, the pie for King Charles was different. Because insects aren’t considered wildlife in some states, many aren’t legally protected. That’s a problem for the environment. At one professional tennis tournament, the women compete for less than half as much money as the men do. That’s tennis in 2023. These graphics show how Asian actors have been underrepresented at the Oscars for decades. The U.S. government is trying to hire someone to run the Capitol complex. The job is powerful, but scandal-plagued, and they’re struggling to find the right fit. Videos and photos of police violence affect the mental health of millions of Black people. More girls are being diagnosed with autism — but many are likely still being missed. The war in Ukraine is forcing a pacifist sect from Russia to question its national ties. SZA’s moody, enigmatic music made her a megastar. Can she learn to live with success? For Black horseback riders with natural hair, finding a helmet that fits can be virtually impossible. With replay cameras watching every call, it’s a really weird time to be an umpire. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS International Israel fired missiles at a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, targeting militants and killing at least eight Palestinians. Vladimir Putin is scrambling to protect himself from a future coup, giving a nearly 11 percent pay raise to soldiers. On an upcoming trip to China, Janet Yellen, the Treasury secretary, is expected to discuss technology and human rights concerns. Fires in Canada have burned 20 million acres, upending the oil and lumber industries. Fourth of July A light show in a Los Angeles suburb.Steve Evans, via Facebook Drones and lasers are becoming more popular as an alternative to fireworks, minimizing wildfire risks. After last year’s shooting at a parade, some people concerned about gun violence are avoiding packed Fourth of July celebrations. Other Big Stories After the Supreme Court limited affirmative action, activists filed a new complaint challenging Harvard’s special treatment for children of alumni. The F.D.A. approved a blood test that may predict pre-eclampsia, a leading cause of disability and death among pregnant women. As dementia cases rise worldwide, a new type of care facility known as a dementia village aims to integrate patients into the community. An eighth grader died by suicide after he was asked to leave an elite private school. Does the school bear responsibility? Opinions These graphics show that for the majority of American college students, affirmative action made very little difference, Richard Arum and Mitchell L. Stevens argue. Gail Collins and Bret Stephens discussed the state of America on its birthday. Here is a column by Paul Krugman on Biden and the economy. Experience all of The Times. One subscription includes everything we offer — and everything you need to make the most of every day. Enjoy an introductory offer on The Times. MORNING READS American Giant’s shirts.American Giant American made: People are buying more products with the U.S. on the label. Summer pests: Mosquitoes actually do bite some people more than others. It’s a matter of smell. “The Problem of Whiteness”: A class at UChicago stoked outrage after a student with a large online following posted about it. Lives Lived: Joseph Pedott made Chia Pets a sensation. He died at 91. SPORTS NEWS N.B.A.: The Timberwolves signed Anthony Edwards to a max extension worth up to $260 million, The Athletic reports. The frankfurter favorites: Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo are favored to win today’s Nathan’s hot dog eating contest. The Athletic asks: Can they beat their own records? Women’s World Cup: An assault case that rattled one of France’s best soccer teams remains unresolved despite a series of arrests, The Times reports. Wimbledon upset: Coco Gauff is out after losing her first-round match to Sofia Kenin yesterday. It was a shock for the rising star, The Athletic writes. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS A Manhattan Barnes & Noble.Amir Hamja/The New York Times BookTok: TikTok has changed the way that readers discover books. 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Food Stylist: Maggie Ruggiero Mix a tinto de verano, the drink of the summer, today. Celebrate with juicy burgers and flag cake. Here are our favorite holiday recipes. Apply these face sunscreens if you’re going outside. Browse the best Fourth of July sales. Take a quiz on books about the American Revolution. GAMES Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangram was beachcomb. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 5, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 5, 2023 July 5, 2023 By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering affirmative action, Israel’s deadly military raid and tourists in Europe. The UVA campus.Carlos Bernate for The New York Times Colleges’ blind spot The University of Virginia, one of the country’s top public universities, enrolls a strikingly affluent group of students: Less than 15 percent of recent undergraduates at UVA have come from families with incomes low enough to qualify for Pell Grants, the largest federal financial aid program. The same is true at some other public universities, including Auburn, Georgia Tech and William & Mary. It is also true at a larger group of elite private colleges, including Bates, Brown, Georgetown, Oberlin, Tulane and Wake Forest. The skew is so extreme at some colleges that more undergraduates come from the top 1 percent of the income distribution than from the entire bottom 60 percent, one academic study found. It’s worth remembering that this pattern has existed despite affirmative action. Nearly every college with an affluent enrollment has historically used race-based admissions policies. Those policies often succeeded at producing racial diversity without producing as much economic diversity. After the Supreme Court decision last week banning race-based affirmative action, much of the commentary has focused on how admissions officers might use economic data, like household income or wealth, to ensure continued racial diversity. And whether they figure out how to do so is important (as I’ve previously covered). But racial diversity is not the only form of diversity that matters. Economic diversity matters for its own sake: The dearth of lower-income students at many elite colleges is a sign that educational opportunity has been constrained for Americans of all races. To put it another way, economic factors like household wealth are not valuable merely because they are a potential proxy for race; they are also a telling measure of disadvantage in their own right. As colleges revamp their admissions policies to respond to the court’s decision, there will be two different questions worth asking: Can the new system do as well as the old one at enrolling Black, Hispanic and Native students? And can it do better at enrolling lower-income students? So far, the public discussion has tended to ignore that second question. The F&M model Creating more economically diverse selective campuses is both difficult and possible. It is difficult because nearly every aspect of the admissions system favors affluent applicants. They attend better high schools. They receive help on their essays from their highly educated parents. They know how to work the system by choosing character-building extracurricular activities and taking standardized tests multiple times. In many cases — if the applicants are athletes or the children of alumni, donors or faculty members — they benefit from their own version of affirmative action. Nonetheless, some colleges have recently shown that it is possible to enroll and graduate more middle- and low-income students. These newly diverse colleges include several with multibillion-dollar endowments (like Amherst, Harvard, Princeton, Swarthmore and Yale). The list also includes colleges with fewer resources — like Franklin & Marshall, Macalaster, Vassar and Wooster — which have had to make tough choices to find the money to increase their scholarship budgets. Crucially, these campuses have not sacrificed one form of diversity for another: They also tend to be racially diverse. Source: Education Department, via Ithaka S+R Admissions officers at such colleges have recognized that talented students from humble backgrounds usually don’t look as polished. Their essays may be less impressive — perhaps because they received less editing from adults. The student’s summer activity may have been a job in her own impoverished neighborhood — rather than a social justice trip to an impoverished area overseas. Many of these students have tremendous promise. By admitting them, an elite college can change the trajectories of entire families. A college dominated by affluent students, by contrast, is failing to serve as the engine of opportunity that it could be. I’m not suggesting that economic diversity is an adequate replacement for racial diversity. The United States has a specific history of racial discrimination, especially against Black and Native Americans, that continues to restrict opportunities for today’s teenagers. The Supreme Court ruling that banned race-based affirmative action at times seemed to wish away this history, imagining that the country had moved beyond racism. In truth, students of color, at every income level, face challenges that white students do not. But many of the people who run elite colleges have had their own blind spot in recent decades. They have often excluded class from their definition of diversity. They enrolled students of every race and religion, from every continent and U.S. region, without worrying much about the economic privilege that many of those students shared. Now that colleges are legally required to change their approach, they have a new opportunity to broaden their definition of diversity. Related The Supreme Court’s decisions on affirmative action and student debt have handed Democrats an opportunity to talk about class and improve their elitist image. The Times’s Jonathan Weisman asks, “Will the party pivot?” “Affirmative action, in my view, was doomed,” Jay Caspian Kang writes in The New Yorker, focusing on how the system treated Asian Americans. This could be an opportunity to improve college admissions, Times Opinion writes. Seven experts share how they would overhaul the system. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS Israeli Airstrikes Israel’s military said it had left Jenin, a city in the occupied West Bank, after a major incursion killed at least 12 Palestinians. To Israelis, Jenin is an incubator of terrorism. To Palestinians, it’s a symbol of defiance. War in Ukraine Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing a summit.EPA, via Shutterstock Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi met in a virtual summit. Instead of discussing collaboration, each leader was focused on his own agendas. Russia and the U.S. were in contact over the possibility of a prisoner swap, the Kremlin said. It was likely a reference to the jailed American reporter Evan Gershkovich. The Russian Embassy in Washington D.C. is a scene of constant protests, and the F.B.I. is trying to recruit disaffected embassy workers as spies. Many businesses are still overhauling operations because of the war, including a Finnish tire company that made 80 percent of its tires in Russia. Politics A judge limited the Biden administration’s contact with social media sites, a ruling that could hurt efforts to fight disinformation. The Secret Service is investigating cocaine found at the White House. President Biden and his family were away when it was discovered. Republicans haven’t been successful in framing Biden as part of the woke left, despite his support for abortion rights and gay rights. Republican presidential candidates spent the Fourth of July campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire. Donald Trump was absent, but his presence was still felt. The White House wanted South Carolina to vote first in 2024, and the Democratic National Committee obliged. But it hasn’t gone according to plan. Gun Violence A shooter dressed in a ski mask and body armor opened fire on multiple blocks in a Philadelphia neighborhood. Five people were killed. Several gunmen fired indiscriminately into a crowd in Fort Worth, killing three people. Fireworks exploded as people tried to flee. Other Big Stories The French justice system is trying to process about 3,400 arrests after five nights of protests over a teenager’s killing. Amsterdam wants to improve its red-light district for residents. One idea: create a building for legal prostitution elsewhere in the city. An alligator killed a 69-year-old woman walking her dog in South Carolina. Opinions Utility companies are lobbying to slow down the clean energy transition. They should be prevented from using customers’ money to do so, David Pomerantz argues. Here is a column by Farhad Manjoo on gas-powered cars. Experience all of The Times. One subscription includes everything we offer — and everything you need to make the most of every day. Enjoy an introductory offer on The Times. MORNING READS Tourists in Venice.Francesca Volpi for The New York Times Going to Europe? You’re not alone. People are arriving in record numbers. “Asteroid City”: These are the six best films of 2023 so far. July supermoon: See photos of a blood-red moon around the world. (It was the first of four this year.) Wine: Painstaking blends are dazzling diners and critics. Lives Lived: Susan Love was a surgeon and one of the world’s most visible public faces in the war on breast cancer. She died at 75. SPORTS NEWS Rehab: The Yankees star Aaron Judge opted against in-season surgery, which leaves the door open to a return, The Athletic reports. C.T.E.: For the first time, the degenerative brain disease has been diagnosed in a female professional athlete, The Times reports. Mustard Belt: Reigning champions Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo each defended their Nathan’s hot dog eating contest crowns yesterday. The Athletic shares the videos. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS Clockwise from top left: Drake, Wiz Khalifa, Chance the Rapper and Mac Miller.Clockwise from top left: Adam Riding for The New York Times; Jared C. Tilton/Getty Image; Charles Sykes/Invision, via Associated Press; J. Emilio Flores for The New York Times Saving music history: In the mid-2000s, before Spotify dominated the online music industry, mixtape websites like DatPiff flourished, giving musicians a simple way to release their songs for free. Much of their content fell into a legal gray area; signed artists would publish songs without their label’s approval, and tracks often used unlicensed samples. While those loose rules once helped spur hip-hop creativity, Brian Josephs writes in The Times, they are now complicating the effort to preserve the sites’ archives. More on culture The hot new Italian player at Wimbledon? Gucci. Vietnam has banned “Barbie” screenings because the film features a disputed map of the South China Sea, The Washington Post reports. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Linda Xiao for The New York Times. Make a chopped salad with chickpeas, feta and avocado. Store your bike in a smart way. Use the best bread knife. Read “The Exhibitionist,” a novel about a woman married to a monster in the art world. GAMES Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangrams were diatomic and idiomatic. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — David P.S. Trying to use your summer produce? Text any fruit or vegetable emoji to 361-COOK-NYT (361-266-5698) and we’ll send you a free recipe with that ingredient. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 7, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 7, 2023 July 6, 2023 By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering the fight over the Democratic primaries, Yevgeny Prigozhin and an astrology machine. A primary night party for Pete Buttigieg in 2020.Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times The Tsongas state The Democratic Party is engaged in a roiling debate over the order of its presidential primaries, as a Times Magazine story by Ross Barkan explains. President Biden and other top Democrats want South Carolina to go first next year. State officials in New Hampshire insist on keeping their first-in-the-nation status and say they will simply move their primary to take place before South Carolina’s. The outcome remains unclear. Holding the country’s first primary certainly offers big benefits to a state. Presidential candidates make repeated visits. So do political organizers and members of the media, filling hotels and restaurants. A single state’s voters get to shape the national discourse. No wonder New Hampshire is fighting so hard to keep a privilege that it has had since the 1950s. But there is also an inconvenient question to which New Hampshire officials have failed to offer a persuasive answer: How has the rest of the country benefited from the state’s special status? New England bias New Hampshire’s critics often point out the many ways it does not look like the rest of America. It is one of the country’s whitest, highest-income and most educated states. It is home to ski resorts, lake retreats and boarding schools — but not a single city with more than 125,000 residents. New Hampshire’s defenders respond that its intimacy allows for a purer version of politics. Candidates talk directly with voters in restaurants and at town meetings, rather than competing mostly through advertisements. As in ancient Greece or the early United States, citizens can take the measure of the people who want to represent them. I have covered the New Hampshire primary, and I too found it charming. The results are less impressive, though. There is no evidence that New Hampshire’s voters have a talent for picking presidents that other Americans lack. If anything, the state’s record is worse than average, at least on the Democratic side: New Hampshire voted against each of the past three Democratic presidents during their ultimately victorious nomination campaigns: Biden (who finished fifth!) in 2020, Barack Obama in 2008 and Bill Clinton in 1992. Not since Jimmy Carter, almost 50 years ago, has an eventual Democratic president won the state. No two-term Democratic presidency has started with a New Hampshire win. In 1992, Clinton did spin his second-place finish as a victory, calling himself “the comeback kid,” but he received less than 25 percent of the vote. The clearest pattern is that New Hampshire prefers Democrats from nearby, regardless of their ideology or national appeal. Every time a major candidate from neighboring Massachusetts or Vermont has run in the past 35 years, that candidate has won New Hampshire: Bernie Sanders in 2020 and 2016, John Kerry in 2004, Paul Tsongas in 1992 and Michael Dukakis in 1988. The closest thing to a substantive counterargument from New Hampshire officials is that their state is a swing state, unlike South Carolina, which is solidly Republican. If New Hampshire does still go first (as state law dictates) and Biden skips the state’s primary (as his aides have said he would), the primary campaign would be filled with criticisms of him from both Republican candidates running for the 2024 nomination and fringe Democrats challenging Biden like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson. “The reality is that New Hampshire is going to keep the first-in-the-nation primary,” Ray Buckley, the chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, said, “and the question only is whether or not the president is going to put his name on the ballot.” If he is not on the ballot, the criticism of Biden could theoretically damage his image in the state and hurt his chances when New Hampshirites vote next November in the general election. In a very close national election, New Hampshire might even determine the Electoral College result. But that scenario seems remote. A sitting president is always subject to harsh criticism during the other party’s open primary, and most sitting presidents nonetheless win re-election. Ultimately, the main beneficiary of New Hampshire’s privileged primary status is New Hampshire, which explains why the state is fighting so hard to keep it. As Ross Barkan, the author of the Times Magazine article, writes, “Democrats there insist that it is their right to go first.” Related: Biden has his own self-interested motives in pushing for South Carolina, Ross explains. The state — home to many working-class Black voters — rocketed Biden to the front of the Democratic field in 2020 after his losses in New Hampshire and Iowa. More on politics Ron DeSantis has made a series of unforced campaign errors, including the release of a controversial video. Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five, won the Democratic primary for a City Council seat in Harlem. Members of Congress are pushing for more nonstop flights to Reagan National Airport in Washington on routes they use to commute. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS War in Ukraine President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus.Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times The leader of Belarus said that Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led the Wagner uprising, was in Russia, not Belarus. The claim could not be immediately confirmed. President Biden told Sweden’s prime minister that he was “anxiously” waiting for the country to join NATO. Its inclusion is unlikely because of Turkey’s opposition. Media A judge’s ruling to limit the government’s contact with social media companies will hurt the fight against disinformation, experts say. Conservatives say the decision combats censorship of their views. The “Twitter killer”: Instagram introduced Threads, an app for text updates. GQ removed an article about the Warner Bros. Discovery C.E.O. from its website after the company complained. Gun Violence The long Fourth of July weekend was full of gun violence that killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 50 others. In Florida, a 7-year-old boy was killed by bullets fired as people fought over a jet ski. His grandfather tried to shield him. International Janet Yellen, the Treasury secretary, arrives in China on a high-stakes diplomatic visit today. Israel’s incursion into Jenin, a city in the occupied West Bank, was one of the largest in decades, but some analysts say it lacked a deeper strategy. A man who etched his name into a wall of the Colosseum in Rome apologized, saying he didn’t know it was an ancient site. Her husband was smart and intensely private. Then the Chinese authorities stormed their home, leaving her to uncover that he was also, she suspects, a famed dissident blogger. Other Big Stories A chemical agent destruction plant in Colorado.Michael Ciaglo for The New York Times The U.S. is destroying the last of its chemical weapons stockpile, decades behind schedule. Federal health officials will urge older people to get new vaccines for Covid, flu and R.S.V. before winter. Most people released from U.S. prisons struggle to find jobs, despite programs intended to help them. A man in California hid his mother’s death for three decades to collect her government benefits. Opinions To integrate artificial intelligence into medicine, doctors can’t expect traditional testing to work with new technology, Daniela J. Lamas writes. In the wake of the failed mutiny against Vladimir Putin, there are signs his close relationship with China’s Xi Jinping has peaked, Ryan Hass argues. Here are columns by Charles Blow, David French and John McWhorter on affirmative action. Experience all of The Times. One subscription includes everything we offer — and everything you need to make the most of every day. Enjoy an introductory offer on The Times. MORNING READS Chirlane McCray and Bill de Blasio.Sarah Blesener for The New York Times “You can’t fake it”: Bill de Blasio and Chirlane McCray explain what went wrong in their relationship. Inked: People are getting freckle tattoos. Gum disease: Nearly half of Americans over 30 show symptoms. Here’s how to recognize them. Road trip: Prue Leith, the “Great British Baking Show” judge, drives from California to Florida. Lives Lived: Edward Fredkin was an influential professor at M.I.T., despite never having graduated from college, who championed the idea that the entire universe might function like one big computer. He died at 88. SPORTS NEWS FROM THE ATHLETIC Tension: A year after Wimbledon banned Russian and Belarusian players, those returning to the competition have been met with a frosty reception in locker rooms. An unusual end: Once ranked No. 2 in the world, Anett Kontaveit is retiring after this year’s Wimbledon — with Netflix cameras documenting every second of her career’s last days. Golf wunderkind: Rose Zhang, the 20-year-old phenom, is the favorite in this weekend’s Women’s U.S. Open in just her third tournament as a professional. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS Co-Star’s astrology machine.Amir Hamja/The New York Times Written in the stars: Visitors have flocked to Iconic Magazines in Lower Manhattan this summer to enter their birth date into a machine that offers life advice. It’s not a fortune teller (though it was influenced by the old Zoltar machines in arcades); it’s an astrology machine, created by Co-Star. The device, which looks like a retro NASA creation, combines astrological info with an A.I. chatbot to generate personalized readings. On a recent trip to the shop, some users said the A.I. technology made them trust it more: “I’d be more inclined to believe that an old lady leaning over a crystal ball is lying to me than a computer,” one said. More on culture Coco Lee, the musician best known for performing an Oscar-nominated song in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” has died at 48. The Smithsonian’s pick to direct a women’s museum withdrew, citing “family issues,” after a review of how she handled earlier harassment claims. The band Wham! is the focus of a new Netflix documentary. It is a “nostalgic, fantastical elixir,” Wesley Morris writes. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … David Malosh for The New York Times Add garlic-chile oil and burrata to spaghetti. Splurge on this lip balm (it’s on sale). Wear this summer’s best sneaker. Spend five minutes falling in love with avant-garde jazz. GAMES Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangram was nonbelief. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — David Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 9, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 9, 2023 July 7, 2023 By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering a hotel strike in Los Angeles, extreme heat and an Alzheimer’s drug. Elba Guzmán, right, in a scene from “Working: What We Do All Day.”Netflix Unions and wages Early in Barack Obama’s recent Netflix documentary series about American jobs, viewers meet a housekeeper at the Pierre Hotel in New York named Elba. She spends her shifts cleaning hotel rooms, and she talks about the job’s challenges, including back pain and guests’ occasional misbehavior. Elba is meant to be a symbol of difficult service-industry work in today’s economy. But when she mentioned how much money she made, I will admit that I was surprised: Elba earns about $4,000 a month, or roughly $50,000 a year. While modest, that income still allows for something approaching a middle-class lifestyle, especially when combined with the income her husband, Francisco, makes at his job in the Pierre Hotel’s cafeteria. “I don’t worry too much about money,” said Elba, who recently became a grandmother, “because I know I can count on my paycheck.” Many other service workers earn far less. Full-time Starbucks baristas in New York City often earn less than $35,000 a year, while many Walmart employees make even less. Across New York City, the median household income is about $75,000 — which is less than Elba and Francisco make. How is it that they earn a living wage while so many other Americans do not? The biggest part of the answer is that Elba belongs to a labor union. A living wage Unions are a much smaller part of the American economy than they once were, representing only 6 percent of private-sector workers. Still, unions allow their members to earn substantially more than similar workers who are not unionized. Consider this data from the federal government: Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics | By The New York Times At workplaces where workers don’t belong to a union, an employer has far more leverage over employees. The company can more easily outsource jobs — like cleaning or cafeteria work — to contractors that pay as little as possible. The company can also hold down wages for its own workers, effectively daring them to quit and find a better-paying job. Economic theory may suggest that market forces take care of these problems and pay workers their true value. But the economy doesn’t really work the way that tidy theories imagine. Similar workers often earn different wages, and union status is a major reason. A large empirical study by economists at Columbia and Princeton, tracking millions of workers over decades, found that unionized workers typically earned 10 percent to 20 percent more than similar workers. (Here’s a Times article on the study.) The results also suggested that much of the money came out of business profits and executive pay. Unions reduce economic inequality by effectively shifting money out of stock returns (which disproportionately flow to the affluent) and top incomes and into wages. Obviously, unions can overreach and demand wages so high, or working conditions so inefficient, that a company can’t survive. But those situations are the exception, not the norm. In most situations, unions give workers the bargaining power that they lack when they try to negotiate their pay individually. An employer has a harder time rejecting the requests of hundreds of workers at the same time. If you are trying to understand why income inequality has soared over the past half-century, the decline of unions is a central part of the story. This chart compares the share of workers who belong to a union with the share of income flowing to high earners: Source: Henry Farber, Daniel Herbst, Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu | By The New York Times And in L.A. … I wanted to tell you Elba’s story this morning because it’s connected to a recent news development in Southern California. About a month ago, 15,000 hotel workers in Unite Here, the same national union to which Elba belongs, voted to authorize a strike. Most of them walked off their jobs and took to picket lines for three days over the July 4 weekend before returning to work on Wednesday. The workers, who include housekeepers and cafeteria workers, now typically earn $20 to $25 an hour, which they say is often not enough for them to afford convenient housing. “We can’t afford to live in the place that we work,” Ayden Vargas said. Vargas works at the Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica and lives in San Bernardino, almost 80 miles away. The workers are asking for an immediate $5 raise, followed by $3 annual raises in later years, as well as better health coverage and pensions. The hotels have countered by offering a $2.50 initial raise, followed by smaller annual raises. The largest hotel in Los Angeles, the Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites, settled with its Unite workers before the July 4 strike and gave them unspecified wage increases and pension improvements. Unite officials say that workers at the other hotels may go on strike again soon. Already, the July 4 strike was the largest in the U.S. hotel industry in 50 years. For more If you’re a Netflix subscriber, I recommend the Obama documentary, which is called “Working.” It’s nuanced and empathetic, and the former president says it was inspired by a 1974 book, also called “Working,” by Studs Terkel. As more workers are showing interest in unions, some employers — including Apple, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s — are fighting back, The Times’s Noam Scheiber has reported. As the economy cools and the “great resignation” ends, Ben Casselman asks if workers can continue to win pay increases. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS Climate Seeking respite in a fountain in Hermosillo, Mexico.Cesar Rodriguez for The New York Times The first three days of this week were the hottest in Earth’s recorded history — a result of climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. “I felt as if my eyes wanted to burst”: These photographs show how one Mexican town endured 120-degree heat. Politics Walt Nauta fixing Donald Trump’s shirt at a golf tournament.Doug Mills/The New York Times Walt Nauta, Donald Trump’s personal aide, pleaded not guilty to charges that he helped obstruct the investigation into sensitive documents at Mar-a-Lago. Using a quirk of Wisconsin law, the state’s Democratic governor raised school funding for the next 400 years. International Washington may provide Ukraine with cluster munitions, which are banned in many countries and are known to cause harm to civilians. In Beijing, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen criticized China’s harsh treatment of U.S. companies. An Israeli researcher who vanished months ago in Baghdad is being held by an Iran-linked militia, the Israeli government said. Other Big Stories Eric Adams, New York’s mayor, has often mentioned keeping a fallen police officer’s photo in his wallet. City Hall aides created it. The Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi will soon be widely accessible. Medicare said it would cover much of its high cost. (Here’s what you should know if you’re considering the drug.) Two firefighters died battling a blaze on a big cargo ship in New Jersey that they were ill-equipped to face. OceanGate, the operator of the submersible that imploded last month, said it would suspend its operations. Threads, Instagram’s new app, was downloaded more than 30 million times in 16 hours. Twitter threatened legal action against its rival. Opinions The American Ballet Theater’s recent showcasing of Black dancers threatens to put race before skill, Gabe Stone Shayer writes. Here are columns by Paul Krugman on tech billionaires’ politics, Pamela Paul on the romance author Colleen Hoover and David Brooks on the Mets. Gain unlimited access to The Times — with just one subscription. Independent reporting. Recipes. Games. Product reviews. Personalized sports journalism. Enjoy it all with an introductory offer. MORNING READS Robert Rausch for The New York Times 36 hours: Spend a weekend in the Florida panhandle. Poachers: A popular novelist spent years protecting wildlife in Africa. For some locals, she was no hero. New start-ups: India has become a surprising competitor in the space industry. Lives Lived: Lewis Branscomb was a physicist who led scientific advances at IBM and within the government during the space race and the dawn of the internet. He died at 96. SPORTS NEWS FROM THE ATHLETIC Golf merger details: The Athletic reports on misconceptions about the proposed P.G.A./LIV merger, which awaits government approval. A new star: Mirra Andreeva, 16, made a stunning run to the third round at Wimbledon. A sneaky great year: Baseball fans have been focused on Shohei Ohtani. But Ronald Acuña Jr., the Braves outfielder, is doing things we haven’t seen on a baseball field. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS Beka Gvishiani in Paris last month.Violette Franchi for The New York Times Living a fashion dream: Two years ago, Beka Gvishiani traveled from his home in Tbilisi, Georgia, to cover Paris Fashion Week on his Instagram account, Style Not Com. He had just a few hundred followers and wasn’t invited to any shows, but his fawning posts caught the eyes of the fashion world. Now he sometimes sits in the front row. More on culture Britney Spears said a security guard with the N.B.A. rookie Victor Wembanyama struck her when she tried to get the athlete’s attention in Las Vegas. Several women accused the architect David Adjaye of sexual misconduct, the Financial Times reported. Cultural institutions have begun removing him from projects. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Johnny Miller for The New York Times Grill zucchini and add ricotta. Eat vegan ice cream (we promise it is good). Pack your stuff in one of these carry-ons. Take our news quiz. GAMES Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangrams were lapidary and rapidly. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — David P.S. The Morning wishes a happy birthday to Trent Hickman — and hopes he can continue his perfect Queen Bee streak! Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 10, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 10, 2023 July 8, 2023 By Melissa Kirsch Good morning. As we age, our needs for sleep change. Nights when we’re asleep more than we’re up can become as precious as they are elusive. María Jesús Contreras Turning in How did you sleep last night? Did you slumber lavishly, temperature and temperament aligned, waking with the sun? Or was it one of those stormy-seas nights, dreams indistinguishable from waking-life worries, tangled covers, eyes on the clock? Sleep is mysterious, although we try mightily to make it less so. We use metaphors to describe it, diaries to track it, pharmaceuticals to manipulate it. I have spent a good decade trying to find the perfect pillow. As we age, our needs for sleep change. The forces working against our undisturbed seven to nine hours multiply. In my 20s, I decided that if I was to lead a full and exciting life, I was going to have to be comfortable going to work exhausted. This seemed, at the time, like a workable model. I didn’t think that much about sleep. I thought about waking life, about how to get as much out of it as possible, with only brief pit stops to refuel. I would stay out late, barely sleep, vault awake with the alarm a few hours later. “By definition, if you’re using an alarm clock to wake up, then you are chronically sleep-deprived,” Dr. Indira Gurubhagavatula, a sleep specialist at Penn Medicine, told The Times’s Dani Blum. If you’re getting enough sleep, you’ll wake naturally when you’re rested. Now, in middle age, I’m determined to rely on an alarm only when I’m catching an early flight. Bedtime is sacred, and violating it requires a PowerPoint deck describing risks and rewards and return on investment. I’m always making calculations now, talking about sleep as if it were currency, feeling always a scarcity, greedy for more. “The sleep debt collectors are coming,” Oliver Whang wrote in The Times last year. “They want you to know that there is no such thing as forgiveness, only a shifting expectation of how and when you’re going to pay them back.” I’ve been asking people lately about how well they sleep. Their responses are complicated. Even though we know we need to practice good sleep hygiene in order to be healthy and effective, I still detect a perverse hint of pride when people tell me they don’t sleep well, as if they’re society’s noble sentinels, up all night scanning the darkness for predators. Those who say they sleep well are a little bashful, as if their easy rest bespeaks a too-cosseted mind, a too-simple life. One person said of sleep in adulthood, “I just love sleep more now than I ever have. Does that make sense?” I knew exactly what they meant. The older I become, the more grateful I am for whatever sleep I can get. I crave the overnight mop-up, the “taking out the trash” that occurs in the brain while the body’s out. A quick nap functions like rebooting a computer; my system is haywire, so I pass out and then chime awake a short spell later, flushed of unnecessary data. I crave what Walt Whitman called “free flight into the wordless, / Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done.” For more Your sleep may be more messed up in summer. Here’s why. Why do women have more sleep issues than men? One potential remedy for insomnia: segmented sleep. How to use melatonin. Have you tried sticking your head in the freezer? Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE WEEK IN CULTURE From left, Sabrina Wu, Ashley Park and Stephanie Hsu in “Joy Ride.”Ed Araquel/Lionsgate A new crop of shows and movies feature Asian American characters who are hot messes — angry, mopey and on drugs. Their actors say it’s about time. One of those films is “Joy Ride,” a new comedy about a trip to China that veers into debauchery. Our critic calls it “inspired pandemonium.” The upcoming “Barbie” movie has been thrust into a geopolitical conflict over the South China Sea. Vietnam banned the film, and the Philippines is considering doing the same. The New York designer Thom Browne made his debut at Paris Haute Couture Week, with a collection that transformed the standard gray suit into high fashion. Guram Gvasalia of Vetements wants to be the biggest name in fashion. Designing Madonna’s tour costumes is a good start. The breakout star of Wimbledon: Jannik Sinner’s Gucci duffel bag. The classical record label Naxos is now offering streaming video of European operas through Amazon Prime. Here are five of the best productions. THE LATEST NEWS President Biden in the White House on Friday.Kenny Holston/The New York Times President Biden will provide cluster munitions to Ukraine, breaking from Western allies who oppose the weapons. He called the decision difficult but necessary as Ukraine runs low on ammunition. The Pentagon said the cluster munitions it was sending had been improved to reduce the risk to civilians, but they still contain old grenades that fail at high rates. The U.S. added more jobs last month, continuing a 30-month streak. But the number of new jobs was lower than in past months, a sign that the job market is cooling. The prime minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, announced that he would resign after his ruling coalition fractured over a dispute on how to handle migrants. The gunman in the 2019 El Paso Walmart shooting, a self-described white nationalist, was sentenced to 90 consecutive life terms on hate crimes charges. A giant blob of stinking seaweed in the Gulf of Mexico that has been menacing Florida’s beaches shrank by 75 percent last month. Gain unlimited access to The Times — with just one subscription. Independent reporting. Recipes. Games. Product reviews. Personalized sports journalism. Enjoy it all with an introductory offer. CULTURE CALENDAR By Gilbert Cruz 🎥 “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” (Wednesday): It’s a little hard to keep track of how many films there are in this Tom Cruise action espionage series, as they stopped using numbers in the titles after the third part. But we’re now on the seventh movie, which itself is the first of two parts. (Got it? Yes?) And if you haven’t already seen the stunt in which Cruise drives his motorcycle off the side of a mountain, then please show me the cave you’ve been hanging out in, because I would like to go there and rest my eyes. 📺 “Bluey” (Wednesday): In a fun piece arguing for the modern “dad canon” (Crocs, weed, wife guydom), The Times called Bandit, the canine patriarch of this Australian cartoon, “a textured representation of responsible modern fatherhood.” So it’s time to throw up the dad signal! Ten new episodes are dropping on Disney+. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT RECIPE OF THE WEEK Con Poulos for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. By Emily Weinstein Tomato and Peach Salad I am a summer-tomato devotee, and I firmly believe there is no better use for them than a juicy, vibrant salad. Alexa Weibel makes that salad just a little fancy by punctuating it with peaches and adding a bed of whipped goat cheese, a tangy answer to the fruit’s sweetness. The presentation is gorgeous, and the recipe isn’t hard to make — all the more reason to seize the moment. REAL ESTATE Kate Glicksberg for The New York Times House of the moment: Modern farmhouses are taking over the suburbs. Native plants: Here’s how to use them in formal landscaping. What you get for $2.5 million: A midcentury-modern showplace in Denver, a renovated hillside home in Seattle or an 1812 Federal house on the coast in Kittery Point, Maine. The hunt: A couple of longtime renters searched for a condo on Manhattan’s West Side. Which one did they pick? Play our game. LIVING via Edgar Calel and Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City; Photo by Charles Benton N.Y.C. galleries: Check out Edgar Calel’s solo show. Visit the Azores: Find earth, water, fire and air — sometimes all at once. Watch: These are the best movies and shows on Hulu right now. Travel like a rich person: Visit Napa Valley without spending too much. ADVICE FROM WIRECUTTER In Defense of Cheap Sunglasses Summer is all about feeling carefree. So why spend it tethered to a pair of expensive sunglasses that you’re constantly worried about misplacing or breaking? After splurging on a couple of costly designer pairs in my youth — and losing them at the bottom of the ocean or leaving them on planes — I’ve become a huge fan of Sungait Vintage Round sunglasses, the cheapest of all of Wirecutter’s cheap sunglasses picks. They’re sturdy, they’re stylish, and they cost under $20. Grab a pair (or two) and lose the summertime stress. — Rose Maura Lorre GAME OF THE WEEKEND Rose Zhang on the eighth hole at Pebble Beach on Friday.Ezra Shaw/Getty Images U.S. Women’s Open: The stage could not be set more perfectly for Rose Zhang. After two N.C.A.A. titles at Stanford, Zhang turned pro in May and promptly won her first event. She arrived at Pebble Beach this week already owning the course record, a nine-under-par that she shot in college. “Golf has been waiting for Rose Zhang,” The Athletic’s Brendan Quinn wrote. 3 p.m. Eastern, today and tomorrow, on NBC. For more: Before Zhang, Michelle Wie West was golf’s last true phenom. This weekend could be her final major tournament. The Times’s Alan Blinder spoke with Minjee Lee, last year’s U.S. Open winner, about her career, Pebble Beach and why she loves playing in the wind. NOW TIME TO PLAY Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangram was clawing. See the hardest Spelling Bee words from this week. Take the news quiz to see how well you followed this week’s headlines. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your weekend with The Times. — Melissa Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 10, 2023 Author Members Share Posted July 10, 2023 July 9, 2023 By Lauren Jackson Good morning. We’re covering how Meta did what no other Twitter competitor could. Trying out the competition.Idrees Mohammed/EPA, via Shutterstock Like Twitter, but ‘nice’ To many users, Twitter had become like a bad boyfriend. Under Elon Musk, the platform could be unreliable and unfiltered. Some users called it toxic. They encouraged their followers to get off the platform in protest of Musk’s leadership, including his algorithm changes and decision to reinstate Donald Trump’s account. Other tech companies, like Substack, tried to offer frustrated Twitter users a new place to go, but none was compelling enough to pose a viable alternative — until now. This week, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, released Threads, its Twitter competitor. It soon became the most rapidly downloaded app ever. More than 70 million users have joined Threads in the last few days, blowing past the audience sizes of Twitter’s other challengers. Why? Because Meta had something that the other competitors didn’t: two billion existing users whom the company could push to use the new product. People log in to Threads using their Instagram account, rather than having to create a new user name, password and profile photo. Meta has also used its existing platforms to promote Threads. For people who liked Twitter but didn’t like the changes that Musk put in place, or had grown tired of his antics, the emergence of Threads is exciting. For all its downsides, Twitter did play an important role in many people’s lives, helping them understand the news and stay current on trends in culture. At the same time, the early success of Threads highlights a recurring problem in the internet economy. A tiny number of gargantuan companies have ever more control over our attention. Twitter, if anything, was too small to be considered part of this club. Meta, by contrast, is a modern behemoth, along with Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Amazon, Apple and Microsoft. “They’re not only the wealthiest corporations that have ever existed, but they’ve institutionalized a new form of profound inequality” in who controls information, Shoshana Zuboff, a privacy expert at Harvard, said. “Threads is simply another property in a global surveillance empire.” In the rest of today’s newsletter, we’ll explain the basics of Threads, assess its likelihood of long-term success and give you links to more coverage, in The Times and beyond. What is it? Threads looks a lot like Twitter. It offers many of the same features: a scrolling feed of posts, some with photos or videos attached, and the ability to repost other users. The feed is a mix of posts from accounts that users follow and those suggested by an algorithm. But it’s also supposed to have a different vibe. Meta has pitched Threads as a less political version of Twitter, but it’s not clear how the company will maintain that atmosphere. Many of the platform’s posts have made memes out of the competition between Twitter and Threads. Users have photoshopped the faces of Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, and Musk onto famous fights, like Will Smith slapping Chris Rock. News outlets, like The Guardian and Semafor, joined and started posting their articles. So far, those posts seem indistinguishable from tweets. But users are having fun on the platform, too. Oprah Winfrey, Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez and Tom Brady all created accounts, and many celebrities posted welcome messages. Pitbull said, “Mr. Worldwide checkin in.” And Martha Stewart posted a photo in a pool, saying she was “ready to make a splash.” Meta’s commitment to keep Threads “positive” is a contrast to Musk’s plan to make Twitter an uncensored platform. Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, said Meta decided to create the app specifically to respond to “product changes and decisions” that Musk made at Twitter. The rollout has heightened the rivalry between Zuckerberg and Musk, who have recently been threatening to cage-fight each other. After Threads’ release, Musk claimed he had previously deleted his Instagram account. “It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram,” he wrote on Twitter. Lawyers for Twitter sent Meta a letter threatening legal action, accusing Zuckerberg’s company of using trade secrets to build Threads. The app is also not currently available in the European Union because Meta is not yet sure whether it complies with Europe’s strict privacy rules. Meta’s advantage The early success has been a rare recent win for Meta. Facebook and Instagram have struggled to keep up with TikTok, while Zuckerberg’s dreams of creating a “metaverse” have gone mostly unrealized. The company has laid off thousands of employees. Still, the early momentum for Threads does not guarantee long-term success. Other platforms, like BeReal and Clubhouse, have generated buzz as the future of social media, only to wither. Again, though, Meta has an advantage that none of those other attempts did: It’s easy to attract users when you already have them. More on Threads “Right now it’s just very friendly in there. Now, we’ll see what it looks like when the gates blow open and anyone and everyone can join. But the vibes are good in there right now,” Mosseri, the Instagram chief, said on The Times’s “Hard Fork” podcast. Threads is simple to use, “thanks to some serious Twitter copying and pasting,” The Wall Street Journal writes. But it lacks hashtags or private messaging. Threads is the first app to threaten Twitter’s status as “the watercooler of the internet,” Bloomberg’s Dave Lee writes. To delete a Threads profile, users have to delete their Instagram account. This may conflict with the government’s efforts to make it easier to cancel online accounts. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT NEWS International Janet Yellen in Beijing today.Mark R Cristino/EPA, via Shutterstock Janet Yellen, the Treasury secretary, said that the U.S. and China would have more frequent communication after her trip to Beijing. The Dutch prime minister resigned after his coalition rejected his tough new line on refugees, demonstrating how potent the issue of migration is in European politics. Ukrainian doctors who fled Russia’s invasion often face a difficult choice: stay unemployed or return to a country at war. North Koreans trying to escape their country struggle to evade China’s surveillance state. Read messages from defectors describing their journeys. Other Big Stories Justice Clarence Thomas’s membership in an elite club gave him access to a wealthy circle of friends. He, in turn, gave them rare access to the Supreme Court. The star U.S. soccer player Megan Rapinoe said she would retire at the end of the year. Realtors say their job — meeting strangers to woo them into buying property — comes with the risk of sexual harassment. FROM OPINION Russia will threaten nuclear war regardless of whether Ukraine joins NATO, Alyona Getmanchuk writes. Here is a column by Farhad Manjoo on affirmative action. The Sunday question: Should the U.S. supply Ukraine with cluster munitions? Providing the weapons, which are banned in more than 100 countries but not in Ukraine, Russia or the U.S., would put at risk “the very people the Ukrainians are trying to protect,” MSNBC’s Hayes Brown writes. But cluster munitions are only considered criminal when they’re used indiscriminately, Robert Goldman writes at The Conversation, and it is “highly unlikely” that Ukraine would use them in civilian areas. Gain unlimited access to The Times — with just one subscription. Independent reporting. Recipes. Games. Product reviews. Personalized sports journalism. Enjoy it all with an introductory offer. MORNING READS The Upper Peninsula, Mich.Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Summer destinations: National Parks get all of the attention. These public lands are also beautiful — but lack the crowds. TikTok famous: Matt Rife was just another struggling stand-up comedian. Then he blew up on TikTok. Vows: After her ex-husband used her identity to embezzle money, she swore never to marry again. She changed her mind. Lives Lived: Sue Johanson was a beloved radio and television host who talked about sex with aplomb. She died at 92. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT TALK | FROM THE TIMES MAGAZINE Robert Downey Jr.Mamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times By David Marchese Robert Downey Jr. co-stars in the director Christopher Nolan’s upcoming “Oppenheimer,” in which he plays Lewis Strauss, an antagonist of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb.” I spoke with the actor about returning to nonfranchise roles after years spent mostly playing Tony Stark (a.k.a. Iron Man) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. You’re in a phase of your career, post-Marvel, in which you only have to work when you want to. How do you decide what movies to do? At this point, you’re not doing it for the money. But then there’s the why: I don’t know why I can relate to Lewis Strauss so much, but I felt like I was meant to play this role. “Oppenheimer” has been a demarcation line for me. Why? I finished the Marvel contract and then hastily went into what had all the promise of being another potential franchise in “Doolittle.” After that, we had this reset of priorities. Then old Chris Nolan calls. So I guess my answer to your question is, it is great to spar with someone more dangerous than you. Unlike with other actors, I have no idea how important being able to personally identify with a character is for your acting. There’s things that feel in the sweet spot. I had an experience on “Oppenheimer” where we were doing a driving shot and it’s me and Nolan and the D.P. and driver, and we had to address something on the car. Nolan was like, “I’m going to step out — here, take this,” and put a mag of film in my lap. I was brought back to that first time I was on set with my dad and it was almost like in the five minutes that I was sitting there he gave me back my cellular dignity. Read the full interview here. More from the magazine How to divvy up two Taylor Swift tickets among four friends? The Ethicist weighs in. This melon salad is pure pleasure. Read the full issue. BOOKS The German brothel owner Kitty Schmidt, left, with her daughter Kathleen.Angel & Bear Productions Ltd. “The Madam and the Spymaster”: A trio of journalists probe the story of a Nazi brothel that may have spied on clients. Our editors’ picks: The novel “Retrospective,” a powerful study of global revolutions, and eight other books. Times best sellers: Danielle Steel’s “Palazzo,” about a family business in Venice, is new this week on the hardcover fiction list. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Read Olivia Rodrigo discuss her new album in Vogue. Pick the best waterproof camera. Throw a great barbecue. Watch the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. THE WEEK AHEAD What to Watch For President Biden is scheduled to meet with King Charles III and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London tomorrow. Major League Baseball’s Home Run Derby is tomorrow, followed by the All-Star game on Tuesday. A trial is set to begin in Michigan tomorrow to determine which of Aretha Franklin’s handwritten wills is legally binding. NATO leaders are scheduled to meet for a summit in Lithuania starting Tuesday. Friday is Bastille Day in France. The Wimbledon women’s singles final will be on Saturday, and the men’s final is on Sunday. What to Cook This Week Linda Xiao for The New York Times Emily Fleischaker, an editor on The Times’s food desk, uses this week’s Five Weeknight Dishes newsletter to offer tips for those lazy summer days when a full recipe feels overwhelming. A lazy take on spicy corn and coconut soup uses frozen corn kernels. And this sheet-pan chicken is still great without the yogurt marinade or sliced red onions. NOW TIME TO PLAY Here are today’s Spelling Bee and the Bee Buddy, which helps you find remaining words. Yesterday’s pangram was megahit. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle and Sudoku. Thanks for spending part of your weekend with The Times. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Lyna Bentahar, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lauren Hard Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Quote phkrause By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government, and shall make provision for the propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Satan and that the end is near. {5T 451.1} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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