Members phkrause Posted August 30, 2023 Author Members Share Posted August 30, 2023 August 29, 2023 Continue reading the main story SUPPORTED BY By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering a Times investigation into water levels, Trump’s trial date in the federal election case and the health benefits of smoothies. A pool of groundwater next to sprawling alfalfa fields in Butler Valley, Ariz.Rebecca Noble for The New York Times Dry wells The water that lies beneath the earth’s surface — known as groundwater — has been a vital resource for thousands of years. Communities that are far away from lakes and rivers use groundwater to irrigate crops and provide drinking water. For most of human history, groundwater has existed in a convenient equilibrium. The pockets of water under the surface need years or decades to replenish as rainwater and other moisture seep into the earth. Fortunately, though, people have used groundwater slowly, allowing replenishment to happen. Now that equilibrium is at risk. Several of my colleagues — led by Mira Rojanasakul and Christopher Flavelle — have spent months compiling data on groundwater levels across the U.S., based on more than 80,000 monitoring stations. Chris and Mira did so after discovering that no comprehensive database existed. The statistics tended to be local and fragmented, making it difficult to understand national patterns. The trends in this new database are alarming. Over the past 40 years, groundwater levels at most of the sites have declined. At 11 percent of the sites, levels last year fell to their lowest level on record. The U.S., in other words, is taking water out of the ground more quickly than nature is replenishing it. “There’s almost no way to convey how important it is,” Don Cline, the associate director for water resources at the United States Geological Survey, told The Times. Already, there are consequences. In parts of Kansas, the shortage of water has reduced the amount of corn that an average acre can produce. Sources: U.S.D.A., U.S.G.S., Kansas Geological Survey | By The New York Times In Norfolk, Va., officials have resorted to pumping treated wastewater into underground rock layers that store groundwater — known as aquifers — to replenish them. On Long Island, the depletion of aquifers has allowed saltwater to seep in and threatened the groundwater that remains. “We’ve built whole parts of the country and whole parts of the economy on groundwater, which is fine so long as you have groundwater,” Chris told me. “I don’t think people realize quite how quickly we’re burning through it.” Giant wells Unlike many other environmental trends, this story is not primarily about climate change, although the warming planet plays an aggravating role. There are three main reasons for the groundwater declines: Pumping technology has improved, allowing communities to draw water out of the earth much more quickly than in the past. Some wells can pump more than 100,000 gallons a day. Economic growth and urban sprawl have increased the demand for water. Although the U.S. economy has not been growing rapidly in recent decades, American farms help feed other countries where the economy and population have been growing faster. Climate change has reduced the amount of water that comes from alternative sources, like rivers: A warmer planet leads to less rainfall and faster evaporation of the rain that does fall. These declines have led communities to increase groundwater use. These forces are not unique to the U.S. Other countries are coping with groundwater declines that are sometimes worse. This summer, my colleagues Vivian Yee and Leily Nikounazar reported on the dire shortages in parts of Iran, while Alissa Rubin and Bryan Denton did so in Iraq. The photographs and videos from Iraq are especially jarring. Protecting the commons Is there any solution? Slowing climate change, by reducing carbon emissions, would help in the long term — and the long term is obviously important. More immediately, the answer may need to involve stricter rules on how much water towns, farms and companies can remove from the ground. “In many places,” Chris said, “the rules are weak or nonexistent.” The federal government neither tracks the situation nor does much to regulate it. Some state and local governments — in parts of Arizona, for instance, and Texas — also have lax rules. It’s a classic tragedy of the commons. The ecologist Garrett Hardin popularized that term in a 1968 essay based on a 19th-century pamphlet by William Forster Lloyd, an English economist. In the pamphlet, Lloyd explained that any individual farmer had an incentive for his cattle to eat as much grass as possible in any field that the community shared. But if all the farmers did so, the field would be ruined. The solution is for the farmers to agree on a set of rules that benefit all of them in the long run. You can read The Times’s groundwater investigation here. Related: Children have a right to sue their countries over climate change, a U.N. panel determined. Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM AT&T Data center migration? You need the Next Level Network. AT&T Business, the network more businesses choose. Learn more THE LATEST NEWS Trump Indictments Donald Trump’s federal trial on 2020 election interference is set to begin on March 4, a day before the Super Tuesday primaries. If the trial goes as scheduled, most Republican delegates will be awarded after it starts but before a verdict. The outcome could transform the race, The Times’s Nate Cohn writes. China China’s real-estate crisis is leaving workers and small businesses unpaid. Chinese officials continue to insist that economic failure is impossible. International Jennifer Hermoso, center, said the kiss was not consensual.Abbie Parr/Associated Press Spanish prosecutors opened an inquiry into Luis Rubiales, the soccer official who kissed a player at the Women’s World Cup. Some are calling the scandal Spain’s #MeToo moment. A cyberscam industry in Cambodia holds workers captive and forces them to hawk fraudulent investments online. More sanctions on Russia could affect the global diamond market. Climate Florida counties ordered mandatory evacuations as Hurricane Idalia approaches. See its likely path. How to prepare for hurricane season: Make a plan, store digital copies of documents and prepare an emergency kit. Flash floods destroyed homes in West Virginia; dozens of residents needed rescue. Americans misunderstand what individual actions can cut the most emissions, like flying less and reducing meat consumption, a poll from The Washington Post found. Politics Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, who became known during the 2008 presidential race as “Joe the Plumber,” the metaphorical middle-class Everyman, died at 49. Tennessee Republicans voted to again silence Justin Jones, one of the Democratic state representatives whom they expelled in the spring. The Defense Department plans to buy thousands of drones in response to China’s military buildup. Violence An assailant shot to death a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The campus went into lockdown for hours. Two adults, a toddler and a baby were found dead in an Upper West Side apartment. Other Big Stories The president of the National Association of Realtors resigned after sexual harassment complaints. The Transportation Department fined American Airlines $4.1 million for repeatedly stranding passengers on tarmacs. Covid hospitalizations in the U.S. have risen in recent weeks but remain low. A neurosurgeon found a live parasitic worm in an Australian woman’s brain, The Guardian reports. Opinions Pundits believe Donald Trump would be a weak Republican nominee. Republican voters think he’s their best bet, Kristen Soltis Anderson writes. Here are columns by Michelle Goldberg on Vivek Ramaswamy and Jamelle Bouie on the March on Washington. Morning readers: Save on the complete Times experience. Experience all of The Times, all in one subscription — all with this introductory offer. You’ll gain unlimited access to news and analysis, plus games, recipes, product reviews and more. MORNING READS Today, we’re offering free access to the articles linked in this section. A new Little Havana: Why Cuban migrants are moving to Kentucky. Smoothies: If you blend fruits and veggies, do they keep their health benefits? Coping strategies: A psychologist’s advice for dealing with adolescents’ emotions. Lives Lived: Nicholas Hitchon’s life was chronicled in the “Seven Up!” series of British documentaries, beginning in 1964 when he was a boy in England and continuing for decades as he grew to become a professor at the University of Wisconsin. He died at 65. SPORTS NEWS Frances TiafoeGabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times U.S. Open: Frances Tiafoe got an easy first-round win yesterday. Read an interview with him about fame. “It’s the rules”: Coco Gauff, who won her U.S. Open match yesterday, made sure her opponent didn’t take an illegal break. Watch the video from ESPN. Mourning and a terrible truth: Football probably contributed to a diagnosis of the degenerative brain disease C.T.E. in the son of the Maryland coach Michael Locksley. A tie: The five-time world chess champion Magnus Carlsen settled a defamation lawsuit stemming from his accusations that another player had cheated. Outfield invaders: The M.L.B. superstar Ronald Acuña Jr. was knocked down last night as two fans rushed the field and attempted to hug him. ARTS AND IDEAS Hilma af Klint’s art.Neil Hall/EPA, via Shutterstock Hilma af Klint: She was a little-known Swedish artist and mystic until the art industry deemed her a pioneer of abstract painting a few years ago. Since then, her work from the early 1900s has become famous — shown in the Guggenheim, printed on posters and sold in museum shops. Her fame has also attracted scrutiny, and research on the authorship of her paintings and a fight over her estate are threatening her legacy. More on culture Millennial moms say they’re sick of trying to be Instagram-perfect parents, The Washington Post reports. A whale swallowed her. “It was amazing,” she told Slate. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Craig Lee for The New York Times Make dinner in 20 minutes with linguine with lemon sauce. Wear the best white T-shirts for women. Try therapy to combat insomnia. Pack a good thermos. Read “The Breakaway,” Jennifer Weiner’s new novel about a woman who has no idea what she’s doing with her life. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangrams were backboard, backdoor and corkboard. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. 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 August 30, 2023 Author Members Share Posted August 30, 2023 August 30, 2023 Continue reading the main story SUPPORTED BY Masterworks By Lauren Jackson and Ian Prasad Philbrick Good morning. We’re covering Hurricane Idalia, Medicare and theater subscriptions. Rising waters in St. Petersburg, Fla., early this morning. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Idalia’s landfall Hurricane Idalia intensified overnight and is now a Category 4 storm heading toward Florida’s Gulf Coast. It has wind speeds of 130 miles an hour and is expected to make landfall around 8 a.m Eastern, bringing catastrophic waves and potentially submerging the coast in up to 16 feet of flooding. You can track the storm’s path here. The strongest part of the storm will be over Florida’s Big Bend, where the state’s long peninsula curves to meet its Panhandle. Though that region is sparsely populated, the storm is expected to affect much of the southeastern United States: Officials issued evacuation orders in counties across West and Central Florida, and governors in Georgia and the Carolinas declared states of emergency because of concerns about heavy rains and potential tornadoes. More than half of Florida’s western coastline is at risk of life-threatening storm surges, as rising ocean water floods towns. “You’re not going to be able to survive that,” Gov. Ron DeSantis warned. Here are the latest updates: More than 50,000 customers in Florida are already without power. Tallahassee is preparing for outages that could last days, expecting its strongest storm in decades. Heavy rains doused Tampa, Florida’s third-largest city, overnight. Much of the city closed in preparation. See what has shut down. Schools canceled classes, performers postponed concerts and museums closed across the Southeast, too. Children in the Naples, Fla., area huddled in hallways yesterday during a tornado warning. The Florida National Guard is fully mobilized, with more 55,000 soldiers and airmen either deployed or deploying, and help is coming from as far away as California. Communities along hundreds of miles of coastline boarded up windows, sandbagged buildings and emptied grocery store shelves of water. Many people have fled Cedar Key, an island city that is home to roughly 700 people. “My family has been here for many generations,” said the mayor, Heath Davis. “We haven’t seen a storm this bad, ever.” Hot water, stronger hurricanes Idalia (pronounced ee-DAL-ya) is the first major hurricane to threaten the U.S. mainland this Atlantic season, which is expected to be more active than usual. That’s partly because of human-driven climate change, which appears to have contributed to record-breaking ocean temperatures off the Florida coast. Warmer air and water feed a hurricane’s winds. “There’s never been as much fuel available to a hurricane as Idalia has available to it,” said Daniel Gilford, a meteorologist at the research group Climate Central. Warming can also cause hurricanes to intensify rapidly and increase how much rain they drop, worsening flooding. Idalia is expected to hit some parts of Florida that have yet to fully rebuild after Hurricane Ian, which devastated the state’s southwest coast last year. After slamming into Florida, Idalia is expected to weaken. Forecasters predict it will head north into Georgia, then lash the southeastern U.S. before heading back out to sea. For more See The Times’s live coverage of the storm here. Here’s why storm surges are so dangerous. The storm has caused flight delays and cancellations ahead of the holiday weekend. Here’s how to prepare for travel disruptions. If rain from Idalia swells Florida’s Lake Okeechobee, officials might have to release water full of toxic algae. 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See disclosures at masterworks.com/cd Skip the Waitlist THE LATEST NEWS Politics Some of the medications on the government’s list.Matt Rourke/Associated Press The Biden administration named the first 10 medicines that will be subject to Medicare price negotiations, including drugs to treat diabetes and cancer. Here’s the full list. Steve Scalise, the No. 2 House Republican, said he had multiple myeloma, a rare but treatable blood cancer. Republican House members in vulnerable seats are highlighting their support for contraception access to voters skeptical about their party’s opposition to abortion. 2024 Election Donald Trump’s aides have worked to ensure he will have Republican primary delegates loyal to him whatever happens in his trials. Trump could mount a long-shot challenge to the scheduled March start of his federal election interference trial by arguing that it interferes with his campaign. Francis Suarez, the Republican mayor of Miami, suspended his presidential campaign. He’s the first 2024 candidate to drop out. Trump’s lies about the 2020 election splintered Michigan’s Republican Party, driving away donors and voters. War in Ukraine The cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia, where Yevgeny Prigozhin was buried.Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times Russia used false reports about hearses and decoy police contingents to prevent crowds gathering for the burial of the mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. Russian troops are advancing in the northeast of Ukraine, Ukrainian troops in the south. Each side hopes to divert the other’s forces. Volodymyr Zelensky asked for more F-16 fighter jets while visiting Western allies. Gun Violence A.J. Laguerre, 19, wanted to go to college, but he took a job at a Dollar General store to support his grandmother. Read more about the victims of the Jacksonville shooting. A U.N.C. graduate student was charged with murdering one of his professors in a shooting that locked down the campus for hours on Monday. Business CNN plans to name Mark Thompson, a former New York Times executive, as its leader. Meta removed Facebook and Instagram accounts tied to a Chinese influence campaign against the U.S. that also spanned Reddit and TikTok. Tech industry investors spent roughly $900 million buying land to build a city. It could be years, though, before they can do anything with it. Other Big Stories Military officers in Gabon said they had seized power in a coup. Most students in Lahaina, Hawaii, haven’t enrolled in classes for the fall after the deadly wildfire. A Native American boarding school system in place for more than 150 years forcibly removed children from their homes. Hundreds died. Uganda charged a 20-year-old man with “aggravated homosexuality” under its antigay law, a crime punishable by death. A water-main break in Times Square flooded streets and subway tunnels, upending commutes. Opinions Is America’s memory of the pandemic accurate? Not quite, the epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina argues, and that could hurt future responses. Critics of Oregon’s policy of drug decriminalization assume that charging people for opioid possession will somehow lead to treatment. But when has it? Maia Szalavitz writes. Here are columns by Thomas Edsall on campaign financing and Bret Stephens on China’s economic problems. Morning readers: Save on the complete Times experience. Experience all of The Times, all in one subscription — all with this introductory offer. You’ll gain unlimited access to news and analysis, plus games, recipes, product reviews and more. FREE MORNING READS Today, we’re offering free access to the articles linked in this section. Night swimming.Andrea DiCenzo for The New York Times. Dubai: To escape the heat, people are going to the beach in the middle of the night. Would your partner cheat? A paid online service is offering to help you find an answer. Regret: It’s a painful emotion, but it can be harnessed. Lives Lived: In plays like “Coastal Disturbances” and “Painting Churches,” the writer Tina Howe zeroed in on her characters’ humor, heartache and solidity, particularly the women. She died at 85. SPORTS NEWS One and done: Venus Williams lost in the first round of the U.S. Open. Purge: The Angels put nearly a fifth of their roster on waivers yesterday, another reminder of the team’s swift fall since the trade deadline. An emotional pick: Justin Thomas surprisingly made the Ryder Cup team, announced yesterday, despite a terrible year on the course. ARTS AND IDEAS Clarence Brown Theater in Knoxville, Tenn.Jessica Tezak for The New York Times Unsubscribe: Before the pandemic, many people bought subscriptions to their local theaters, paying upfront to see most or all of a season’s shows. But while theaters were closed during Covid, longtime subscribers started streaming entertainment instead of going out. Their cancellations have caused deep problems for many theaters. More on culture The Venice Film Festival begins today — but without many of Hollywood’s striking stars. Here’s the movies to watch for. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Bryan Gardner for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne. Pair gingery meatballs with peaches. Keep your money — right now is the worst time to buy a new iPhone. Watch your baby with these monitors. Track a songbird from Alaska to Peru. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was fixated. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. 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. 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 August 31, 2023 Author Members Share Posted August 31, 2023 August 31, 2023 By German Lopez Good morning. We’re covering Republican claims about crime — plus Hurricane Idalia, Mitch McConnell and Korean fine dining. A prayer vigil in Florida after the Jacksonville shooting.Malcolm Jackson for The New York Times The politics of crime Republican politicians often treat it as an established fact: Where they are in power, crime is low. Where Democrats are in power, crime is high. “Republican-run cities are doing very nicely because they arrest people when you have crimes,” Donald Trump told Tucker Carlson last week. “The cities and these left-wing states allowing criminals to run wild on our streets, that doesn’t work,” Ron DeSantis, Florida’s governor, said in March, citing New York in particular. But party rule does not drive crime. Consider DeSantis’s state, Florida. Its homicide rate was roughly 50 percent higher than New York’s in 2021. Florida’s two most populous cities, Jacksonville and Miami, each had a homicide rate more than double New York City’s last year, even though both had Republican mayors. This is not to say Republican leadership leads to more crime. You can find examples of blue states and cities doing worse than Florida, and of other red states and cities doing better. Looking at all the data, it is hard to make much of any connection between political partisanship and crime. To put it another way, prominent Republicans are misrepresenting the country’s crime problem. Comparing places The Republican claim is rooted in a real pattern. Big cities generally have higher crime rates than rural and suburban areas, thanks to their density and other factors. Democrats run most big cities because urban areas tend to contain more liberal voters. So when looking at the places with the most murders, you’ll often find Democratic-run cities. But that is not the whole story. Take the 20 largest U.S. cities. The 16 run by Democratic mayors had 12.3 murders for every 100,000 people. The three Republican-run cities — Jacksonville, Fort Worth and Oklahoma City — had a rate of 11.4. There is a difference, but it is small. (I’m focused on murders because the data for them is more reliable than for other crimes, which go underreported.) Those rates mask a lot of variation. In a ranked list of murders for all 20 cities, the three Republican-run cities fall around the middle. Some blue cities — such as New York, San Francisco and Seattle — have roughly half the murder rates as their red counterparts, while the rates in other blue cities, like Philadelphia, Indianapolis and Chicago, are two to three times as high. That variation is the point: Whether a big city is run by Democrats or Republicans has little influence on its murder rate. The same is true at the state level for homicides, as this map by my colleague Ashley Wu shows: Source: C.D.C. | Data is from 2021. | By The New York Times Once again, it’s hard to see a strong link between party rule and killings. The four deadliest states are Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and New Mexico. Two have Democratic governors, and two have Republican governors. Some red states look bad, and some look good. The same is true for blue states. Deeper causes So what drives higher crime rates? The state map offers a few answers. Rural areas tend to have lower crime and murder rates. (But when murders surged and then fell across the U.S. starting in 2020, rural places experienced a similar pattern.) Poverty and race play a role, both of which are historically linked to violence in cities. Access to guns is another major factor, particularly for murders. Guns make any conflict more likely to escalate into deadly violence, and they can embolden criminals. On this issue, there is a partisan divide — Democrats are more comfortable regulating firearms — and that could help explain higher levels of violence in Republican states, especially in the South. It can also explain violence in cities, which get a lot of guns from Southern states with laxer laws. There are many more variables. It is a point that this newsletter has made before: Crime is a complicated issue, touching on personal disputes, the economy, social services and, really, almost every other aspect of society. Only a few factors are significant enough to make a big difference by themselves — and partisanship is not one of them. Related: Tennessee held a special legislative session on gun violence after a mass shooting at a Nashville school. Lawmakers enacted no major policy changes. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS Hurricane Idalia Damage in Horseshoe Beach, Fla.Emily Kask for The New York Times Idalia, now a tropical storm, is dumping rain and flooding streets in North Carolina, where some school districts have canceled class today. It hit South Carolina overnight. More than 300,000 customers in the Carolinas, Florida and Georgia are without power this morning. The storm slammed into a sparsely populated area of Florida yesterday as a Category 3 hurricane. It wrecked homes and businesses but brought less damage than feared. Two people died in car crashes blamed on the weather conditions. South Africa Fire At least 73 people were killed today as fire ripped through a building in Johannesburg. Some residents jumped from windows to escape. It’s not clear what started the fire early this morning. But the building had become a crowded informal settlement, where people often lit fires to keep warm. Politics Mitch McConnellKenny Holston/The New York Times Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, froze for several moments in public for the second time this summer. The New York attorney general has asked a judge to find that Trump overvalued his properties by up to $2.2 billion. Trump, speaking to the New York attorney general’s office in April, said that while he was president he averted “nuclear holocaust.” Flip-flopping and lies: Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican presidential candidate, mimics Trump’s media strategy. Religion Pope Francis said that conservative U.S. Catholic Church leaders offered a backward view of the faith. Theodore McCarrick, a former cardinal, is not competent to stand trial on sexual abuse charges, a Massachusetts judge ruled. International Chile’s president announced a plan to find the remains of people killed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s and 1980s. The weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy have made their manufacturer so successful that it’s reshaping Denmark’s economy. She rose from poverty as China prospered, and then everything fell apart: Read Li Yuan’s latest Times column, on China’s economic problems as reflected in one woman’s life. War in Ukraine Drone damage in Moscow last month.Yuri Kochetkov/EPA, via Shutterstock Drones exploded in six Russian regions, a sign of Ukraine’s growing capacity to strike beyond its borders. Germany sent Ukraine tanks so old that ex-soldiers returned from civilian jobs to teach troops how to operate them. Other Big Stories Temperatures of 100-plus degrees are contributing to the deaths of migrants trying to cross into the U.S. from Mexico. Prosecutors are investigating Tesla’s use of company funds on a project that had been described internally as a house for Elon Musk, The Wall Street Journal reports. Transit officials promised to add elevators to hundreds of New York City subway stations in the coming decades. They have completed work on two. Opinions Early-stage prostate and breast cancer behave differently from other cancers. We should give them a different name, Laura Esserman and Scott Eggener argue. Here’s a column by Zeynep Tufekci on bird flu. Morning readers: Save on the complete Times experience. Experience all of The Times, all in one subscription — all with this introductory offer. You’ll gain unlimited access to news and analysis, plus games, recipes, product reviews and more. FREE MORNING READS Today, we’re offering free access to the articles linked in this section. In Britain.Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Blue supermoon: See beautiful moonrises from around the world, from the BBC. Meltdown: Big Gay Ice Cream had widespread success. Now it’s in debt — and in court. Bee emergency: The call went out for a serious mission — get five million bees off a road. Welcome to Singers: A Brooklyn bar hosts cigarette marathons and sauna raves. Lives Lived: Laszlo Birinyi’s stock-picking strategy, which tracked the flow of money, won him a reputation for prescience in the 1990s. He died at 79. SPORTS NEWS Coco Gauff: At 19, she was the veteran in her win over Mirra Andreeva, 16, at the U.S. Open. Making history: The Nebraska women’s volleyball team played in front of 92,003 fans last night — a world record in women’s sport. More trouble: Authorities in the Dominican Republic are investigating a second formal complaint against Wander Franco about having an inappropriate relationship with a minor. No trade: Despite rumors, and though he’s still holding out on a contract, San Francisco brass says the star defensive end Nick Bosa won’t be traded. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS At NARO.Karsten Moran for The New York Times New food: Fine dining in New York City is evolving: New restaurants are opening quickly and the types of food they are serving has changed. Korean owners and chefs now run about a dozen of the city’s most prominent high-end restaurants. Their rise, which has been remarkably swift, brings to an end the unquestioned supremacy of French cuisine that lasted for decades, The Times’s food critic Pete Wells writes. See the Korean restaurants he calls “exceptional.” More on culture A children’s book author told a group of Georgia fifth graders that a son of one of Batman’s co-creators was gay. The school principal apologized to parents. Martha Stewart put a tiny iceberg in her cocktail in Greenland. The internet wasn’t happy, The Washington Post reports. An American live-action remake of the manga and anime franchise “One Piece” drops on Netflix today. Read our review. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Johnny Miller for The New York Times Roast the ingredients to bring out flavor in this shrimp boil. Stir-fry in the best woks. Bring this gear on your next road trip. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was daintily. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — German P.S. The Times won the Society of Publishers in Asia’s technology reporting award for coverage of China’s surveillance system. 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 September 2, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 2, 2023 September 1, 2023 By David Leonhardt Good morning. We offer a guide to fall vaccine shots — and also have the latest on the Proud Boys, Mitch McConnell and the British Museum. A vaccine clinic at Seattle Children’s Hospital last year.Jovelle Tamayo for The New York Times Whether over when Covid cases have risen. Flu season is approaching. And new vaccines for the virus known as R.S.V. recently became available. This swirl of developments has left many people wondering which vaccine shots they should be getting and when. Today’s newsletter offers a guide. The main message that I heard from experts is that Americans should shift how they think about respiratory viruses. For the past few cold-weather seasons (which are also when viruses spread most), we obsessed over Covid. This year, we should take a broader approach. “It’s not only Covid you have to think about,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccine expert and the author of a forthcoming book, “The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science.” The good news is that there are vaccines and treatments that reduce risks from all major viruses likely to circulate this season, including Covid. “For the past couple of seasons, the notion was that Covid controlled us,” Dr. Nirav Shah, the C.D.C.’s principal deputy director, told me. “The tables have turned, not just for Covid but for the others.” 1. R.S.V. The most immediate step worth considering involves R.S.V., which stands for respiratory syncytial virus. It is a common winter virus that usually causes mild cold-like illness but can be dangerous for young children and older adults, as Emily Martin, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, has told The Times. This spring, the federal government approved the first R.S.V. vaccines, for people aged 60 and older. If you qualify, consider getting your R.S.V. vaccine shot now. Shah, the C.D.C. official, recently urged his mother to do so. Hotez, who’s 65, has received his own R.S.V. shot. Why now? R.S.V. tends to circulate somewhat earlier than the flu. If you’re 60 or over, “you don’t want to get into November without having an R.S.V. vaccine,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, the former White House Covid adviser and current dean of Brown University’s public health school. What about infants? Although there is no R.S.V. vaccine for them, children under 8 months (and some who are older) can receive an advance antibody treatment to prevent severe illness. Parents may want to ask their pediatrician about it. It’s sufficiently new that not all doctors have it yet. 2. Influenza The flu officially kills about 35,000 Americans in a typical year, and the true toll is probably higher. As Jha told me, the flu also weakens the body in ways that make heart attacks and strokes more common, especially among the elderly. “We underestimate the impact that respiratory viruses have on our population,” he said. “The flu can knock people out for weeks, even younger people.” Yet the flu’s toll would be lower if more people got a vaccine shot. In recent years, less than half of Americans have done so. This year’s flu vaccine shots are now available at drugstores, hospitals, doctor’s offices and elsewhere. You may want to wait until late September or October to get one, though. The heaviest parts of flu season tend to occur between December and February. If you wait, the shot’s protection against severe illness will still be near its strongest level during those months. 3. Covid The best defenses against Covid haven’t changed: vaccines and post-infection treatments. They are especially important for vulnerable people, like the elderly and the immunocompromised. “Overwhelmingly, those who are being hospitalized are unvaccinated or undervaccinated,” Hotez said. The federal government is on track to approve updated Covid vaccine shots, designed to combat recent variants, in mid-September. Once it does, all adults should consider getting a booster shot. Many Americans have now gone more than a year without one, and immunity has waned. Yes, severe Covid remains rare in people under 50, especially if they have received a vaccine shot or had the virus — and nearly all Americans fall into one or both categories. But Covid can still be nasty even if it doesn’t put you in the hospital. A booster shot will reduce its potency. Shah argues that children (over 6 months old) should also get a Covid shot this fall, even though their own Covid risk is very low. “We should be thinking bigger than just ourselves,” he told me. “Do you want to see your grandpa? Do you want to hang out with your grandma? Are you really sure you’re not going to give Covid to them?” Even some boosted older people get severe versions of Covid. A good strategy for many people may be to get their Covid booster and flu shot at the same time, in late September or October. And if you’re older and you get Covid, talk to a doctor about taking Paxlovid or a different treatment. It can make a big difference. “When I get Covid,” said Jha, who’s 52 and healthy, “I have every intention of taking Paxlovid.” The bottom line I’ve offered specific advice here about the ideal time to get different vaccine shots. But don’t exaggerate the importance of timing. As Shah said, “What I care more about is that you get all three shots if you’re eligible rather than when you get all three.” Related: Check your at-home Covid tests to see if they have expired. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS Politics Donald TrumpDoug Mills/The New York Times Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in the Georgia criminal case over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, waiving an in-person arraignment. Justice Clarence Thomas formally disclosed private flights, luxury trips and a real estate transaction with Harlan Crow, a billionaire conservative donor. A former Proud Boys leader received a 17-year prison sentence for plotting to attack the Capitol. “We need 50 million bucks”: With Ron DeSantis lagging Trump, the chief strategist of DeSantis’s super PAC made an urgent plea to donors. Mitch McConnell Congress’s attending physician called Senator Mitch McConnell “medically clear” to work after he froze up at a news conference for a second time. Three senators named John — Thune, Cornyn and Barrasso — are among the possible successors if McConnell steps down as Republican leader. 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More on culture Christie’s canceled a sale of jewelry from the collection of an Austrian heiress following criticism of connections between her family’s fortune and Nazi-era policies. Are the characters in “Succession” and “Mad Men” actually good negotiators? A Harvard professor evaluates them in this video from The Wall Street Journal. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Layer the parts of a California roll for a sushi bake. Use better cat litter. Make smoothies in a smaller blender. Take our news quiz. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangrams were hegemony and homogeny. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. 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 September 3, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 3, 2023 September 2, 2023 By Melissa Kirsch Good morning. Labor Day Weekend marks the unofficial end of summer. But we don’t have to be so doctrinaire about it. María Jesús Contreras Holding on This weekend, while you’re working the grill or attending a parade or sitting in traffic, conversation will turn, inevitably, to the end of summer. How fast it’s gone by, someone will remark, always incredulous. You’ll nod along and say something wistful about how you could smell a crispness in the air this morning, or how few weeks are left of good tomatoes. Someone will wail about having seen silos of candy corn looming large and in charge at the supermarket and the next thing you know, it’s fall. Time to put on long pants and real shoes, time to straighten up and fly right. Labor Day, nominally a holiday celebrating the industriousness of the American worker, also serves to remind the worker that they haven’t been quite as industrious as they might have been these past three months. All summer, deadlines and dentist appointments were easily waved off until After Labor Day, a time that felt far enough in the future that you’d be sufficiently rested to confront whatever unpleasantness these obligations entailed. In his eulogy for summer’s lazy days in The Times today, my colleague Stephen Kurutz mourns the vestiges of truly unmonitored working from home that this fall seems to augur: “Will we forget the small pleasure of sitting on a porch and looking at the yard?” he writes. “Of taking what some might consider to be too much time over a morning coffee? Of trading the daily commute for an aimless drive?” Why must there be such an austere demarcation between before Labor Day and after, between summer and not-summer, between enjoying our lives and enduring them? Why have we so internalized the back-to-school dread of childhood that it’s become a permanent feature of adulthood? I know there are people (many of them! and so vocal!) who enjoy the ramrod posture of fall, who find the post-Labor Day realignment invigorating. I’m not immune to the appeal of a unified buckling down, of the tacit understanding that we’ll put away our childish things and finally set a date for the catch-up lunch we’ve been gesturing at since May. But let’s ease into it. I challenge you, this year, to own every last day until the equinox (Sept. 23 at 2:49 a.m. Eastern in the Northern Hemisphere). Sure, the first day of school has come and gone, the vacation people have returned from their vacationing, rested and restive, muttering about Q4 and getting a jump start on Christmas shopping. But there are still three weeks left of summer, plenty of time both for nimbu pani and pumpkin spice alike. Plenty of time to integrate your summer self — looser, less fretful — into the incipient and inevitable enterprise of fall. For more Why do we end summer so early? “People have a problem enjoying themselves,” goes one theory. Even Zoom is making its workers return to the office. A history of Labor Day. “Like Memorial Day or the Fourth of July, Labor Day has nothing to do with the rhythms of nature, nothing to do with the movement of the sun.” A meditation on the season, from 2013. “Why Summer Makes Us Lazy,” from The New Yorker. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE WEEK IN CULTURE Jimmy Buffett at Manhattan’s Marquis Theatre in 2018.Aaron Richter for The New York Times Jimmy Buffett, the singer whose brand of escapism on hits like “Margaritaville” made him a latter-day folk hero, died at 76. As the U.S. Open started, celebrities descended on a tennis foundation gala. Taylor Swift announced that a filmed version of one of her Eras Tour concerts will be released in movie theaters this fall. Five late-night hosts, including Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon, will create a podcast, the proceeds of which will go to striking writers, The Washington Post reports. The rapper Travis Scott has announced a North American tour, Pitchfork reports. It will be his first since the 2021 Astroworld tragedy. John Eliot Gardiner, a renowned conductor, will withdraw from performances and seek counseling after he was accused of striking a singer in the face at a concert. Florence Welch, the Florence + the Machine front woman, announced that she had emergency surgery. She did not specify what the operation was for. Richard Ekstract, a magazine publisher who lent Andy Warhol the video recorder he used to make the landmark movie “Outer and Inner Space,” died at 92. Ray Hildebrand, whose recording of a love song he wrote in college, “Hey Paula,” became a No. 1 hit in 1963, died at 82. A Utah mother who chronicled her strict parenting on YouTube was arrested on suspicion of child abuse after one of her children climbed out a window and ran to another house seeking help. A body was found after a nearly weeklong search for a British poet who had disappeared. THE LATEST NEWS The New York Times U.S. unemployment rose to 3.8 percent last month as the economy continued to lose momentum built up after pandemic lockdowns. The recent episodes of Senator Mitch McConnell freezing up publicly suggest he might be having small seizures, neurologists said. Two more members of the Proud Boys were sentenced to years in prison for their roles in the Jan. 6 attacks. Educators are divided on whether A.I. chatbots will fuel plagiarized college application essays or democratize the admissions process for poorer students without access to resources like writing coaches. “I was thinking nothing”: A survivor of the Johannesburg fire that killed dozens jumped from the fifth floor to save himself. Tourists were told to stay away from Maui after last month’s devastating wildfires, but now some islanders whose work is being cut back want them to return. Morning readers: Save on the complete Times experience. Experience all of The Times, all in one subscription — all with this introductory offer. You’ll gain unlimited access to news and analysis, plus games, recipes, product reviews and more. CULTURE CALENDAR By Gilbert Cruz 📚 “The Fraud” (Tuesday): Zadie Smith has written one of the first big books of the fall season. Set in 19th-century London, it concerns a past-his-prime novelist, his Scottish housekeeper and the real-life trial involving a man claiming to be the presumed dead heir to a great fortune. As our reviewer writes, “As always, it is a pleasure to be in Zadie Smith’s mind.” 📚 “Holly” (Tuesday): Stephen King writes as much in the thriller and suspense zone as he does horror these days, and his latest book is the sixth featuring his increasingly endearing private investigator, Holly Gibney. Introduced as a side character in 2014’s “Mr. Mercedes,” she takes center stage in this sometimes grisly tale of a series of disappearances and the older college professors who may be responsible. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT RECIPE OF THE WEEK Bobbi Lin for The New York Times. By Tanya Sichynsky Corn Salad With Tomatoes, Basil and Cilantro Prove Melissa’s point that summer isn’t over just because Labor Day has arrived, with a salad teeming with corn, cherry tomatoes, basil and cilantro (which made a timely appearance this week in my newsletter, The Veggie). Genevieve Ko smartly zaps the corn in the microwave for easy shucking and optimal sweetness, a hack worth passing on during holiday cookout small talk. REAL ESTATE Brooke Fitts for The New York Times Antique designs: A Seattle house, built by a former ship captain as a replica of his childhood home in Norway, gets an update. What you get for $1.1 million: A 1790 house in Washington, Conn.; a three-building compound in Warrenton, Va.; or a midcentury home in Boise, Idaho. The hunt: They wanted a home in Lower Manhattan for less than $500,000. Which one did they choose? Play our game. LIVING Eiko Ojala Healthy eating: Can this diet prevent dementia? Skin care: Retinol can counter signs of aging and treat acne, but can be tricky to apply. Here’s how to use it. Dominate game night: How to win at Monopoly. Drippy: Fashion designers have long been fascinated by creating the illusion of wetness. ADVICE FROM WIRECUTTER Clean your grill After a holiday weekend of barbecuing, you might start to think about preparing your grill for winter hibernation. That starts with a thorough deep clean. Wirecutter experts have laid out the best ways to rid your grill of built-up gunk. Gas grill owners: Don’t forget to disconnect the propane tank, and remove the battery from the igniter so it doesn’t corrode during the winter. Taking these steps now will ensure that your grill will be burger-ready come spring. — Lesley Stockton GAME OF THE WEEKEND Florida State quarterback Jordan TravisPhelan M. Ebenhack/Associated Press L.S.U. vs. Florida State, college football: After more than six months away, football is back, and nearly all of the top college teams start their seasons this weekend. The marquee matchup will be between the No. 5 Louisiana State Tigers and the No. 8 Florida State Seminoles. The Tigers, whose offense is stocked with returning starters, will be looking for revenge after losing to the Seminoles by one point last year in a thriller. But it won’t be easy; Florida State’s quarterback, Jordan Travis, is widely considered to be a Heisman Trophy candidate. 7:30 p.m. Eastern tomorrow on ABC. For more Colorado’s new head coach, the former N.F.L. star Deion Sanders, is confident he can win, but others are skeptical that he can quickly turn around a team that went 1-11 last season. New rule changes are designed to make games go more quickly. This is the last season before new-look leagues and an expanded playoff will drastically alter college football. NOW TIME TO PLAY Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangrams were domicile, domiciled and melodic. 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, Sudoku and Connections. 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 September 3, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 3, 2023 September 3, 2023 By Lauren Jackson Good morning. Mormonism has made successful young adult authors, thanks to a unique blend of support for religious writers and an emphasis on family entertainment. Chris Crowe, who teaches a young adult literature class at Brigham Young University.Kim Raff for The New York Times Faith and fantasy An epic origin story, a charismatic leader, a generational saga: Is this the description of a fantasy novel, or a religion’s history? For Mormon authors, the line is blurry. That may be what makes them successful. Drawing inspiration from their religion, Mormon writers have filled young adult best-seller lists with fantasy and sci-fi novels, Abby Aguirre reported for The Times. Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series sold more than 100 million copies; Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game” was adapted into a successful movie; and Ally Condie’s “Matched” trilogy filled bookstore shelves. Several factors contribute to their success. First, the church, officially called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, encourages members to become strong readers and public speakers from a young age. The religion also embraces the family-friendly entertainment that the Y.A. genre has historically offered. As young churchgoers interested in publishing work grow up, writing programs at the church’s universities, church-affiliated publishers and enthusiastic Latter-day Saint readers support them if they write about subjects that the community has deemed acceptable. Early storytelling A literary legacy suffuses the modern church, which comprises more than 17 million members. From early childhood, Latter-day Saints read complex sacred texts like The Book of Mormon — the basis for the church’s claim to be God’s restored church. Then, they stand in front of peers and share stories from these scriptures and the church’s history. The church also encourages members to write in journals and watch or read only “clean” entertainment, giving young adult writers a built-in audience. Many writers, raised in large families that consume only children’s shows, enter their careers with a deep understanding of the market for youth entertainment. And when the time comes to find their own subject matter, Latter-day Saints find it easy to develop material. The church’s doctrine relies on vivid and rich scriptural stories — of heroes, villains and other worlds. Many writers say their upbringing gave them the ability to create fantastical characters and plots. “Fantasy is often a way that you can explore ideas of, you know, trust in something bigger,” said Rosalyn Eves, an author of five Y.A. novels that blend fantasy and romance with historical fiction. “I’ve always felt like religious faith and belief in miracles is not all that different from magic in some ways.” Evolving genre In recent decades, Y.A. books were compatible with the Mormon Church’s strict code of conduct: no alcohol, smoking, coffee, swearing, sex outside marriage or gay or lesbian sex. Now, contemporary Y.A. books often reflect evolving social norms, including L.G.B.T.Q. themes and more relaxed views about sexuality, making it harder for some Latter-day Saint writers to find an audience. But the writers are changing, too. Many disagree with the church’s stance on L.G.B.T.Q. rights. For that and other personal reasons, some have stepped away from the church, which is losing many millennials. Still, their backgrounds provide rich material. “People turn to stories to make meaning of their lives,” Casper ter Kuile, the author of “The Power of Ritual,” said. “They also use stories to mark transitions, from one belief to another.” Kiersten White, who has written more than 20 books for young adults and children, is an author who has left the church. Her latest project? A book for adults called “Mister Magic.” It’s about a religious sect in the desert in Utah. Read Abby’s story about Mormon Y.A. authors. More on books Cody Rigsby, a Peloton instructor and the author of “XOXO, Cody,” is a big believer in the power of a cold plunge. Our editors’ picks: “Holding Pattern,” about a woman in her 20s who finds work as a professional cuddler, and eight other books. Adalyn Grace’s “Foxglove” is in the top spot on The Times’s young adult hardcover best-seller list. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT NEWS Politics President Biden in Live Oak, Fla., yesterday.Tom Brenner for The New York Times President Biden toured a Florida community hit hard by Hurricane Idalia. Gov. Ron DeSantis declined to join him. Bill Richardson, the former secretary of energy, congressman and governor of New Mexico who later devoted himself to liberating Americans held hostage, died at 75. Biden presides over a strong economy, but he is struggling to convince most Americans to give him credit for it. War in Ukraine The destruction of a major Ukrainian dam in June and the ensuing flood are still causing damage: Entire towns are without work and drinking water and farms lack irrigation. Hundreds of small-scale assault groups drive Ukraine’s counteroffensive — often eight to 10 soldiers assigned to attack a single trench, tree line or house. International How Xi Jinping returned China to one-man rule: He concentrated decision-making around himself, overturned term limits and installed loyalists. China’s Communist Party is enlisting citizens to guard against perceived foreign threats. Much of the Mexican government was colluding extensively with a drug cartel that was behind the killings of 43 college students in 2014, a Times investigation found. South African officials were warned repeatedly about the dangers of a building where a fire killed 76 people, but did nothing. Other Big Stories Heavy rainfall in a remote Nevada desert trapped thousands of attendees at the Burning Man festival in mud. As fire spread through Maui last month, officials sent an evacuation notice, but few residents received it. An autoworkers’ strike seems increasingly likely, with less than two weeks left for union members to reach a deal with the big three Detroit automakers. (This chart shows how many workers have gone on strike this summer in the U.S.) The wreckage of the grain ship Trinidad, which sank in 1881, was found nearly intact in Lake Michigan. Its dishes are still stacked in their cabinets. FROM OPINION As climate change wreaks havoc on our summers, it also disrupts our opportunities to relax, Henry Wismayer writes. Here are columns by Maureen Dowd on young women’s anxiety and Ross Douthat on right-wing economic populism. The Sunday question: Is a growing BRICS a threat to American power? The expansion of BRICS, the group of emerging economies, represents “dissatisfaction with the global order” and “a signal that American global dominance is waning,” Sarang Shidore writes for Times Opinion. But the group is not yet stable, and as it expands, it “will be forced onto battlefields it might not be ready for,” Abishur Prakash writes for The South China Morning Post. Morning readers: Save on the complete Times experience. Experience all of The Times, all in one subscription — all with this introductory offer. You’ll gain unlimited access to news and analysis, plus games, recipes, product reviews and more. MORNING READS Mennonite women consider purchasing in-line skates in Owenton, Ky.Kendall Waldman for The New York Times Thrifting marathon: This yard sale stretches across six states, 690 miles and two time zones. Stalwarts: You know you’re getting old when your regular bartenders retire. Vows: They turned to each other in crisis. Lives Lived: Mohamed al-Fayed was an Egyptian tycoon whose empire of trophy properties was overshadowed by the 1997 car crash that killed his son Dodi and Diana, Princess of Wales. He 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 with the CNN mainstay Anderson Cooper, co-author of the forthcoming nonfiction book “Astor,” about the challenges facing television news. Can a reporter from a known media outlet be a blank slate anymore? CNN or Fox News mean something by themselves aside from the individual reporters. You’re right that some people view The Times as leftist, view CNN as whatever they view CNN as, Fox as whatever they view Fox as, and that’s going to determine things. I know also there are people who base things more on the individual. There are people who will watch one person on Fox News and not other people. So I don’t think you can paint with quite as broad a brush. People had problems with CNN’s town hall in May with Trump. CNN was also criticized for giving him too much airtime during the 2016 primaries. It’s 2023, he’s still around and raising questions about how best to cover him. What do you see as answers? There was a steep learning curve in figuring out how to deal with a candidate who is completely willing to lie and lies repeatedly and often. There’s a shamelessness in that and only so much you can do about it from a reporting standpoint. Then there’s questions about, well, should there have been a town hall? Should there have been a live event? All those are completely fair. Is there something about TV news that needs to be fixed? Do I, as a viewer, watch hyperpartisan content? I don’t. Do I, as a journalist, want to be in the business of hyperpartisan broadcasting? No, I don’t. But I know that’s popular, and that’s fine. I’m not in the business of telling people what they should and shouldn’t watch. Read more of the interview here. More from the magazine For Ukrainian and Russian tennis players, the war has bled into the game. H.B.O.’s comedy “The Righteous Gemstones” offers a surprisingly complex take on American faith. Read the full issue. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Open a bottle of rosé for this shrimp dish. Watch a stand-up special recommended by our critic. Sleep better — these books tell you how. Hear Meryl Streep tell a story. THE WEEK AHEAD What to Watch For Tomorrow is Labor Day in the U.S. The presidents of Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will meet tomorrow. Erdogan is trying to revive a grain export deal involving Ukraine and Russia. Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of the Proud Boys, is scheduled to be sentenced on Tuesday for his conviction on sedition charges. The U.S. Senate is back in session on Tuesday after its August break. The House returns next week. Peter Navarro, a former Trump aide, is scheduled to go to trial on Tuesday on charges of contempt of Congress. The impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas is set to open Tuesday in the State Senate. Biden will travel to India on Thursday for a summit meeting with other Group of 20 leaders. The N.F.L. season will open on Thursday when Kansas City, the reigning Super Bowl champion, hosts Detroit. New York Fashion Week begins on Friday. What to Cook This Week David Malosh for The New York Times. You may find inspiration for weeknight dinners in The Times’s 50 most popular recipes of the year so far, Emily Weinstein writes. Among her suggestions: ginger chicken with sesame-peanut sauce and buttery lemon pasta with almonds and arugula. NOW TIME TO PLAY Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was unveiling. Can you put eight historical events — including the dim sum restaurants of the Song dynasty, America’s first female international spy and a coup in Chile — in chronological order? Take this week’s Flashback quiz. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. 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 September 4, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 4, 2023 September 4, 2023 With hurricane season off to a fast start, I asked Judson Jones, a meteorologist for The Times, to use today’s newsletter to give you perspective on what’s happened and what may happen in coming weeks. — David Leonhardt By Judson Jones Reporter/Meteorologist Good morning. We’re covering the potential for hurricanes ahead — as well as Ukraine’s defense minister, Burning Man and Parisian pools. Cedar Key, Fla., after Hurricane Idalia.Zack Wittman for The New York Times Competing forces In a typical Atlantic Ocean hurricane season, August is the ramp-up to September’s peak. This season came to life almost overnight in mid-August, producing a record four named storms in less than 48 hours. This season’s third hurricane, Idalia, formed on Aug. 29, 10 days earlier than average. It struck the southeastern U.S. last week as a Category 3 hurricane and caused a dangerous storm surge, wind damage and flooding. (Idalia weakened but was still roaring in the Atlantic Ocean over the weekend.) By the end of August, 11 named storms had formed. Only eight other hurricane seasons in more than 100 years of record-keeping have matched that pace, according to Phil Klotzbach, a hurricane expert at Colorado State University. They include the busy and memorable seasons of 2005 (the year of Hurricane Katrina), 2020 (with a record 30 named storms) and 2021 (the year of the powerful Ida). This relatively frenetic end of August doesn’t necessarily mean that we should brace for an onslaught of late-summer and autumn storms, Eric Blake, a hurricane specialist with the National Hurricane Center, told me. “It’s very common that you’ll get a whole bunch of storms, then it will take a week or two off,” he said. What’s next At this busy point in the hurricane season, forecasters begin homing in on two-week forecasts. Even if named storms form over the next two weeks, it could feel calmer because there is a decent chance that they will develop off the coast of Africa and stay well out into the Atlantic Ocean, far from people. Such hurricanes are sometimes called fish storms because they affect only the fish. As for the rest of hurricane season, which ends in November, two clashing meteorological forces are battling to determine how busy its remaining weeks will be. In Florida after Hurricane Idalia.Paul Ratje for The New York Times The first force is El Niño, the climate phenomenon that shows up intermittently and can affect weather around the world. El Niño arrived over the summer, and forecasters predicted that it would ramp up in intensity. Historically, it produces abundant amounts of wind in varying speeds and directions that tears apart storms. The stronger El Niño becomes, the greater its influence in limiting the formation of Atlantic Ocean hurricanes. But El Niño is competing with another factor: the heightened ocean water temperatures that grabbed headlines this summer for bleaching coral and turning Florida’s coastal waters into something akin to a hot tub. Scientists believe that climate change has contributed to the warming oceans. The abnormally hot water temperatures provide more energy to fuel hurricanes and could thwart El Niño’s mitigating effects on these storms. It’s rare to see both El Niño and warmer ocean waters simultaneously, and the lack of historical context has reduced experts’ confidence in their predictions. But at the halfway point of the hurricane season, just a few more named storms will make their forecasts of an above-average number of storms come true. More on climate Huge farms have gulped up water in Minnesota — even during a drought — to make the perfect French fries. Thousands of people are still stranded at the Burning Man festival, after mud from torrential rain closed roads. Some campers may be able to leave today. Sign up for alerts that track extreme weather in places you care about. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS War in Ukraine Ukraine’s outgoing defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov. Ints Kalnins/Reuters Volodymyr Zelensky said he would replace his defense minister. The ministry has faced scandals over weapons contracts. Zelensky’s nominee for the role is from an ethnic group that Russia is accused of persecuting. Vladimir Putin is expected to meet with Turkey’s leader to discuss reviving a grain deal, as Russia continues to attack Ukrainian grain facilities. Politics President Biden’s aides have begun moving to counter any effort to impeach him, without waiting for congressional Republicans to begin a formal inquiry. Politicians need vacations, too, but an ostentatious trip — too elite, too disconnected, too much beach bod — can alienate voters. A redistricting fight in Los Angeles highlights the gerrymandering that occurs in cities across the country, often led by Democrats. China A welder fuses different sections of steel.Annie Flanagan for The New York Times Small, agile boats would help the U.S. win a conflict with China, some experts say. But the Navy, wedded to tradition, is still building big ships. The U.S. is opening embassies in island nations to push back against Chinese influence, The Washington Post reports. Other Big Stories Gang rapes of two preteen girls shocked Italy, and fueled debate over violence and sexism. Montana’s attorney general has made banning TikTok a top priority. Texas became the latest state to drop taxes on menstrual products. Over 85,000 highchairs are being voluntarily recalled after reports of two dozen falls. A woman gave birth alone in a jail cell after seeking medical help for more than an hour. Opinions The American empire will never return to global dominance, John Rapley writes, and the U.S. should try to lead a coalition of world powers instead. Liberals and conservatives have both overreached on L.G.B.T.Q. issues, putting progress at risk, Brad Polumbo argues. Here are columns by David French on age verification laws and Nicholas Kristof on accusations of ethnic cleansing in Azerbaijan. Morning readers: Save on the complete Times experience. Experience all of The Times, all in one subscription — all with this introductory offer. You’ll gain unlimited access to news and analysis, plus games, recipes, product reviews and more. FREE MORNING READS Today, we’re offering free access to the articles linked in this section. The Butte-aux-Cailles municipal pool.Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times Paris: To experience the city like a local, plunge into a public pool. Onscreen: A summer of women being liberated — from their clothes, mostly. A.D.H.D.: Receiving a diagnosis for the disorder in adulthood has helped some women manage their money. Comebacks: His recovery from a horrifying pro football injury didn’t prepare him for watching his daughter deal with a brain tumor. Metropolitan Diary: A coat worthy of New York. Lives Lived: Nathan Louis Jackson was an acclaimed playwright who grappled with issues like the death penalty and homophobia. He died at 44. SPORTS NEWS Coco GauffElsa/Getty Images Coco Gauff: She defeated Caroline Wozniacki on Sunday, advancing to the U.S. Open quarterfinals. Surface speed: A super-close-up shows how the U.S. Open courts are built for quicker matches. College football: Colorado upset the 17th-ranked T.C.U. over the weekend. Sports Illustrated has takeaways from the win. N.F.L.: The Dallas Cowboys and offensive tackle Terence Steele have agreed to a five-year, nearly $87 million contract extension. Baseball: Jasson Domínguez and Ronny Mauricio made their Major League debuts. National pride: In Turkey, women’s volleyball has become a symbol of female empowerment. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS Tashea Channell Younge preparing food.DeSean McClinton-Holland for The New York Times Upscale eating: A new type of food celebrity has emerged on TikTok: private chefs for the ultrawealthy. They share day-in-the-life videos from mansion kitchens, where their jobs often pay more and offer far better perks than restaurants. Still, they know their role is to cook. As Tashea Channell Younge, a private chef and caterer from New York, put it: “You’re not a guest. At all. You’re not their friend. At all.” More on culture The British Museum named an interim director while it confronts a crisis over thefts from its storerooms. Lea Michele ended her yearlong run as the lead in the Broadway revival of “Funny Girl.” THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times Brighten a holiday barbecue with cucumber-watermelon salad. Handle conflict in a healthy way. Browse Wirecutter’s picks for the REI Labor Day sale. Plunge a toilet right. Take our news quiz. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was hormonal. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. P.S. Happy Labor Day. Read the history of the worker’s holiday. 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 September 5, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 5, 2023 September 5, 2023 Continue reading the main story SUPPORTED BY GE By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering the surge in school absences — as well as China’s real estate crisis, an Antarctic rescue and a missing Beatles guitar. An empty classroom at Waco High School.Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times Empty seats If you’re a child — or a former child — you know how hard it can be to summon the energy to leave the house each day for school. It’s early in the morning, and you are tired. Maybe you have a test or a social situation that’s making you anxious. Staying in bed often seems easier. For as long as schools have existed, so have these morning struggles. Nonetheless, children overcame them almost every day, sometimes with a strong nudge from parents. Going to school was the normal thing to do. Then, suddenly, it wasn’t. The long school closures during the Covid pandemic were the biggest disruption in the history of modern American education. And those closures changed the way many students and parents think about school. Attendance, in short, has come to feel more optional than it once did, and absenteeism has soared, remaining high even as Covid has stopped dominating everyday life. On an average day last year — the 2022-23 school year — close to 10 percent of K-12 students were not there, preliminary state data suggests. About one quarter of U.S. students qualified as chronically absent, meaning that they missed at least 10 percent of school days (or about three and a half weeks). That’s a vastly higher share than before Covid. Thomas Dee “I’m just stunned by the magnitude,” said Thomas Dee, a Stanford economist who has conducted the most comprehensive study on the issue. This surge of absenteeism is one more problem confronting schools as they reopen for a new academic year. Students still have not made up the ground they lost during the pandemic, and it’s much harder for them to do so if they are missing from the classroom. Losing the habit In Dee’s study, he looked for explanations for the trend, and the obvious suspects didn’t explain it. Places with a greater Covid spread did not have higher lingering levels of absenteeism, for instance. The biggest reason for the rise seems to be simply that students have fallen out of the habit of going to school every day. Consistent with this theory is the fact that absenteeism has risen more in states where schools remained closed for longer during the pandemic, like California and New Mexico (and in Washington, D.C.). The chart below shows the correlation between Dee’s state data on chronic absenteeism and data from Thomas Kane, a Harvard economist, on the share of students in each state who in 2020-21 were enrolled in districts where most students were remote: Thomas Dee (absenteeism); Thomas Kane (virtual schooling) “For almost two years, we told families that school can look different and that schoolwork could be accomplished in times outside of the traditional 8-to-3 day,” Elmer Roldan, who runs a dropout prevention group, told The Los Angeles Times. “Families got used to that.” Lisa Damour, a psychologist and the author of “The Emotional Lives of Teenagers,” points out that parents think they are doing the right thing when they allow an anxious child to skip a day of school. She has deep empathy for these parents, she said. Doing so often makes the child feel better in the moment. But there are costs. “The most fundamental thing for adults to understand is that avoidance feeds anxiety,” Damour told me. “When any of us are fearful, our instinct is to avoid. But the problem with giving in to that anxiety is that avoidance is highly reinforcing.” The more often students skip school, the harder it becomes to get back in the habit of going. Aggravating inequality I know that some readers will wonder whether families are making a rational choice by keeping their children home, given all the problems with schools today: the unhealthily early start times for many high schools; the political fights over curriculum; the bullying and the vaping; the inequalities that afflict so many areas of American life. And the rise in chronic absenteeism is indeed a sign that schools need help. One promising step would be to make teaching a more appealing job, Damour notes, in order to attract more great teachers. Still, it’s worth remembering that the rise of absenteeism isn’t solving these larger problems. It is adding to those problems. Classrooms are more chaotic places when many students are there one day and missing the next. Educational inequality increases too, because absenteeism has risen more among disadvantaged students, including students with disabilities and those from lower-income households. “Studies show that even after adjusting for poverty levels and race, children who skip more school get significantly worse grades,” The Economist explained recently. As Hedy Chang, who runs Attendance Works, a nonprofit group focused on the problem, told The Associated Press, “The long-term consequences of disengaging from school are devastating.” Many schools are now trying to reduce absenteeism by reaching out to families. Some school officials are visiting homes in person, while others are sending texts to parents. (This Times story goes into more detail.) It will be a hard problem to solve. Dee’s study focused on 2021-22 — which was two years ago, and the first year after the extended Covid closures — but he notes that absenteeism appears to have fallen only slightly last year. In Connecticut, which has some of the best data (and lower absentee rates than most states), 7.8 percent of students missed school on an average day two years ago, a far higher level than before the pandemic. Last year, the rate dipped only to 7.6 percent. More on education Americans are losing faith in the value of college: 45 percent of Gen Z say that a high school diploma is all they need for financial security. After the Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision, students must decide whether to mention race in their college applications. Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM GE Live Tomorrow: GE’s Lean Mindset Leadership Summit Don’t miss The Lean Mindset: The Pursuit of Progress. A one-of-a-kind leadership summit bringing together C.E.O.s, athletes and creators to discuss the business of improvement. Watch the live webcast September 6 on Bloomberg Originals YouTube. R.S.V.P. HERE THE LATEST NEWS China A Country Garden construction project in Nantong, China.Qilai Shen for The New York Times China’s biggest property developer, Country Garden, avoided default with a last-minute interest payment. But it has billions more to repay within the next year. The company’s troubles are part of a real estate crisis threatening China’s economy. Chinese people, sometimes posing as tourists, breached U.S. military sites up to 100 times in recent years in acts of potential espionage, The Wall Street Journal reports. International “Hostage diplomacy”: Iran is using an imprisoned E.U. official as a bargaining chip against the West. Pope Francis visited Mongolia. Few Chinese Catholics crossed the border to see him, seemingly because they were afraid their government would punish them. Trailing in the polls with an election on the horizon, Britain’s prime minister, Rishi Sunak, is turning to divisive issues like refugees and crime. War in Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, who removed Ukraine’s defense minister after accusations of financial mismanagement, is struggling to eliminate corruption in his government. Kim Jong-un is planning to visit Vladimir Putin in Russia to discuss supplying weapons. People in a liberated Ukrainian village still lack electricity and water — and mines are everywhere. See images of the devastation. Politics The impeachment trial of the Texas attorney general, which starts today, will be a fight over the future of the Republican Party. Jill Biden tested positive for Covid, but President Biden did not. Real Estate Store fronts.Emily Badger/The New York Times The ground floors of buildings, long valuable real estate, are now empty in cities like San Francisco and Washington. New York City begins restricting short-term home rentals today. Thousands of listings are expected to disappear from Airbnb. Other Big Stories An icebreaker. Pete Harmsen/Australian Antarctic Division A rescue team broke through Antarctic ice and flew helicopters on a dangerous mission to reach a sick worker at a research station. An audit accused state troopers in Connecticut of faking thousands of traffic stops — probably, it said, to game internal performance statistics. Opinions To strengthen free speech on campus, universities need to bring civic education back to the heart of curriculums, Debra Satz and Dan Edelstein write. Here’s a column by Michelle Goldberg on doppelgängers. Morning readers: Save on the complete Times experience. Experience all of The Times, all in one subscription — all with this introductory offer. You’ll gain unlimited access to news and analysis, plus games, recipes, product reviews and more. FREE MORNING READS Today, we’re offering free access to the articles linked in this section. The West Indian American Day Parade in Brooklyn.David Dee Delgado for The New York Times Feathers and flags: New York’s Caribbean community celebrated its heritage at a parade. Fashion advice: Are you ever too old to wear vintage? The Buffett look: The king of yacht rock influenced style as much as any designer. Wellness retreat: The travel industry is catering to women who want help dealing with menopause. Lives Lived: Marilyn Lovell became a celebrity as the wife of Jim Lovell, who captained the disaster-struck Apollo 13 moon mission. She died at 93. SPORTS NEWS Julio Urías: The Dodgers pitcher was arrested on a felony domestic violence charge. College football: Duke toppled No. 9 Clemson last night, the first Blue Devils win over a top-10 opponent in 34 years. An American upset: Madison Keys beat the No. 3 seed Jessica Pegula at the U.S. Open yesterday. Playing today: Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe will face each other in an all-American quarterfinal tonight. Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM GE Live Tomorrow: GE’s Lean Mindset Leadership Summit Don’t miss The Lean Mindset: The Pursuit of Progress. A one-of-a-kind leadership summit bringing together C.E.O.s, athletes and creators to discuss the business of improvement. Watch the live webcast September 6 on Bloomberg Originals YouTube. R.S.V.P. HERE ARTS AND IDEAS The Beatles at the Cavern Club in 1962.Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images “The bass that made the Beatles”: In 1961, Paul McCartney bought a bass guitar that he played as the Beatles became famous. It can be heard on songs like “Love Me Do” and “Twist and Shout.” But it vanished eight years later, and has been missing since. The Lost Bass Project, started by three Beatles fans, hopes to find it — and hundreds of people have responded to a request for tips. More on culture Steve Harwell, the former singer of Smash Mouth, known for the ’90s hits “All Star” and “Walkin’ on the Sun,” died at 56. Thousands of people left the Burning Man festival after being stranded in the mud. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Armando Rafael for The New York Times Freshen up cold sesame noodles with cucumbers and corn. Cook with the best skillet Wirecutter has ever tested. Work from your sofa with the best lap desk. Watch an N.F.L. season preview tonight on The CW. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangrams were checkmate and matchmake. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — David Alain Delaquérière contributed research to today’s newsletter. 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 September 6, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 6, 2023 September 6, 2023 Continue reading the main story SUPPORTED BY By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering the shift in the Democratic Party’s economic policy — as well as the Proud Boys, Spanish women’s soccer and college dining halls. President BidenKenny Holston/The New York Times Undoing inequality Bill Clinton and Barack Obama both ran for president promising to reinvigorate the economy for ordinary Americans. And both enacted laws that helped millions of people. Clinton expanded children’s health care and tax credits for low-income families. Obama accomplished even more, making it possible for almost anybody to afford health insurance. Yet neither Obama nor Clinton managed to alter the basic trajectory of the American economy. Income and wealth inequality, which had begun rising in the early 1980s, continued to do so. So did inequality in other measures, like health and life expectancy. Polls continue to show that most Americans are frustrated with the country’s direction. Note: Income is pretax. | Source: World Inequality Database | By The New York Times In response, a growing number of policy experts aligned with the Democratic Party have decided in recent years that their party’s approach to economic policy was flawed. They concluded that Democrats had not gone far enough to undo the revolution that Ronald Reagan started in the 1980s — a revolution that sparked the huge rise in inequality. These Democratic experts have grown skeptical of the benefits of free trade and Washington’s hands-off approach to corporate consolidation. They want the government to spend more money on highways, technological development and other policies that could create good-paying jobs. The experts, in short, believe that they had been too accepting of the more laissez-faire economic agenda often known as neoliberalism. This turnabout is the central explanation for President Biden’s economic agenda, which White House aides call Bidenomics and will be core to his re-election campaign. He has signed laws (sometimes with bipartisan support) spending billions of dollars on semiconductor factories, roads, bridges and clean energy. He has tried to crack down on monopolies. He has encouraged workers to join unions. The best description of this shift I’ve yet read appears in “The Last Politician,” a new book about Biden’s first two years in office by Franklin Foer of The Atlantic. Foer tells the story partly through Jake Sullivan, who helped design Biden’s domestic agenda during the campaign and then became national security adviser. Sullivan was nobody’s idea of a left-wing populist: He is a Rhodes Scholar with two Yale degrees who was a close aide to Hillary Clinton before Biden. But the financial crisis and then Donald Trump’s victory led Sullivan to reflect on Americans’ frustration, and he decided that elites like him had not done enough to address its underlying causes. (Here’s a 2018 article in which I described his shift.) “An entire generation of young Democratic wonks, with a similar establishment pedigree, found itself in the same brooding mood, tinged with fear,” Foer writes. These wonks built alliances with the more progressive parts of the party — those represented by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — during Trump’s presidency. That’s why several Warren protégés, like Bharat Ramamurti, work in senior White House roles today. Biden himself embodies the shift, too. Although he has long emphasized his humble background in Scranton, Pa., he supported his party’s more neoliberal agenda in the 1980s and 1990s. Recently, he has returned to some of the populist themes that he used to launch his political career a half-century ago. He has lamented the Democratic Party’s drift from working-class families toward college-educated professionals. New terrain Much of the 2024 presidential campaign will revolve around the economy’s short-term performance, and both Biden and his Republican critics will be able to cite evidence to make their case. Republicans will note that inflation remains uncomfortably high and that Biden’s pandemic relief spending played a role (albeit a secondary one, as my colleague German Lopez has explained). Biden’s campaign will counter that job growth is solid, and wages have risen across the income spectrum. His investments, in semiconductors and more, seem to be playing a role. But I would encourage you not to lose sight of the bigger picture during the back and forth of the campaign. The biggest picture is that the post-1980 economy failed to deliver the broad-based benefits that Reagan and his allies promised. So did several economic policies, like expanded global trade, that many Democrats favored. Biden represents a response to these unfulfilled promises, as do the small but growing number of Republicans pushing their party to change. Whatever happens with the economy over the next year or with Biden’s presidency, the policy debate has shifted. “Bidenomics sounds banal when plastered as a slogan across the backdrop of a presidential stump speech,” Foer told me. “But it’s more than a set of positive economic indicators. It’s a shift in ideology. For a generation, Democratic presidents were inclined to be deferential to markets, basically uninterested in the problem of monopoly, and lukewarm to unions. Biden has gone in the other direction.” Related: Some people mistakenly think that “working class” is a euphemism for “white working class.” It isn’t. The American working class spans all races, and the Democratic Party has also lost ground with voters of color, especially those without a four-year college degree. You can read more from my colleague Nate Cohn. More economic news Read more about the Republican debate on how much the government should do about inequality. Many experts predicted Medicare would be an ever-growing burden on the federal budget. Instead, spending per person has been flat for the past decade. Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM Amazon Small businesses are making it big More than 60% of products sold on Amazon.com come from independent sellers. Like Pawstruck. Learn more THE LATEST NEWS Politics Enrique Tarrio at a protest in Washington in 2020.Victor J. Blue for The New York Times The former leader of the Proud Boys received 22 years in prison for his role on Jan. 6, the longest sentence yet for the Capitol riots. A federal court again struck down Alabama’s congressional map, saying the revision diluted Black voters’ power. Senator Mitch McConnell did not suffer seizures or strokes when he froze publicly in recent weeks, according to the Capitol’s physician. Gabriel Amo, a moderate Democrat who won a special House primary election in Rhode Island, is likely to become the state’s first Black member of Congress. War in Ukraine Ukrainian forces are focusing on punching a second hole in Russia’s defenses, a few miles from the town they retook last week. Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, arrived in Kyiv this morning. He is expected to announce a more than $1 billion aid package. A Russian military pilot who defected to Ukraine said he escaped by flying his helicopter low to evade detection, The Wall Street Journal reports. International The coach of the Spanish women’s national soccer team was fired, but his boss — who kissed a player without her consent — is hanging on. China’s economic slowdown is challenging Xi Jinping’s obsession with control, Chris Buckley writes. Violent gangs control roughly 80 percent of Haiti’s capital. There’s a plan to send in an outside police force, but people in the country are skeptical. In South Korea, known for its competitive schools, teachers are protesting intense parental demands. Climate Building a solar plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Moses Sawasawa for The New York Times Investors are now putting more money in solar than oil. The poorest countries, mostly in Africa, want more of the spending. Torrential rain that flooded Greece has moved on to Bulgaria and Turkey. At least seven people have died. Temperatures in the New York City area are breaking records for early September. How hot will your city be in 2050? Check with these graphics from The Washington Post. Water scarcity is causing conflicts — including in Colorado, where a Denver suburb is fighting its neighbors for the right to use its own water. Health Care Rigid abortion laws are driving doctors out of states like Idaho, leaving gaps in maternity care. After a campus suicide, Yale revised its mental health policy, which had required students seeking medical leave to withdraw from the school and reapply. Other Big Stories Lawyers for Alex Murdaugh, who was convicted of murdering his wife and son, accused a court official of jury tampering and asked for a new trial. “Cop City”: Dozens of people protesting an Atlanta police training facility were indicted on racketeering charges, accused of violence and destroying property. Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of FTX, has protested his conditions in jail while he awaits trial for fraud, including a lack of hot vegan food. Opinions New discoveries are likely to leave experts wanting to tweak the Big Bang theory. They should instead depart from the idea entirely, Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser write. Here are columns by Thomas Friedman on diplomacy with Israel and Bret Stephens on American pessimism. Everything The Times offers. All in one subscription. Morning readers: Save on unlimited access to The Times with this introductory offer. MORNING READS A section of the Great Wall of China.Youyu County Public Security Bureau, via Reuters “Irreversible damage”: Two people plowed through the Great Wall of China, leaving a gaping hole. Toes: Will fungus go away on its own? Dining hall dilemmas: Colleges are struggling to cater to every student’s dietary restrictions. Lives Lived: Gloria Coates was among the most prolific female composers of symphonies, writing 17 in her lifetime. Her calling card was the orchestral glissando. She died at 89. SPORTS NEWS A new star: At just 20, Ben Shelton is through to the U.S. Open semifinals after beating Frances Tiafoe last night. Injury: The Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce has a knee inflammation. Read how the team could adjust. W.N.B.A.: Breanna Stewart broke the league’s record last night for most points scored in a single season. A landmark: The Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton hit his 400th career home run last night. Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM Amazon Small businesses are making it big More than 60% of products sold on Amazon.com come from independent sellers. Like Pawstruck. Learn more ARTS AND IDEAS Bethesda Game Studios Galactic journey: Starfield, an adventure game set in a galaxy of 1,000 planets, comes out today on Xbox. Its release is a big deal for gamers: The company behind the game, Bethesda, is revered for its earlier creations like Fallout, and Starfield is its first new franchise in 25 years. The game was so eagerly anticipated that Microsoft recently bought the studio, in part to ensure that the franchise would be on its platforms exclusively. More on culture Outside the premiere of Woody Allen’s 50th film at the Venice Film Festival, protesters urged the organizers to “turn the spotlight off of rapists.” THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Julia Gartland for The New York Times (Photography and Styling) Braise white beans and add Parmesan. Prepare for an emergency with these supplies. Prevent tick bites on your next hike. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was impalpable. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. 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 September 7, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 7, 2023 September 7, 2023 By German Lopez and Ashley Wu Good morning. We’re covering abortion rates — as well as a Russian missile strike, Chinese exports and The Rolling Stones. Anti-abortion protesters in Fort Myers, Fla., last year.Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times Persistent trend After the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade last year, it looked like the number of abortions would soon plummet across the country. But new estimates suggest that has not happened. The number of legal abortions has held steady, if not increased, nationwide since 2020, our colleagues Amy Schoenfeld Walker and Allison McCann reported today. How is that possible? New data from the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit specializing in reproductive health, implies that more people are traveling across state lines or using telemedicine to get abortions, including through the use of abortion pills. The increase in use of those options has offset the decrease in abortions resulting from new state bans, Amy and Allison found. This map tells the story. As you can see, states bordering those with bans largely saw increases in the number of abortions in the first half of 2023 compared with the same period in 2020. In Illinois, for example, estimated abortions rose 69 percent. Source: Guttmacher Institute | Data compares January through June of 2023 to a six-month period in 2020. | By The New York Times If anything, Guttmacher’s data underestimates the number of abortions. It does not count abortions obtained outside the formal health care system, including those done with pills acquired through community support networks or websites based outside the U.S. And it does not include counts from states with bans, though there are few or no reported abortions there. Altogether, the data suggests that there are the same number of abortions, or more, occurring in the U.S. now than there were before the Supreme Court’s ruling last year in the case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. For abortion rights advocates, this is a mixed outcome. Not everyone can afford to travel across state lines or access telemedicine, so it’s likely that some people who want to get an abortion still cannot do so. And while the overall count is up, abortions were rising before the Supreme Court’s decision. “They may have continued to rise even more steeply than observed if it weren’t for the bans,” Caitlin Myers, an economist at Middlebury College, told Amy and Allison. Source: Guttmacher Institute | By The New York Times What do the data say about the impact of the Dobbs decision? Guttmacher and Myers caution that it is too soon to draw definitive conclusions, noting the possibility of future restrictions. But the immediate impact on the overall number of abortions has been smaller than many abortion rights advocates feared. And for anti-abortion groups, the data could be an argument for further limits to access, including a nationwide ban. Read Amy and Allison’s full analysis, which includes a breakdown of abortion counts across the states. Related: Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalized abortion, making it legally accessible nationwide. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS Politics Caribou near a pipeline in Alaska in March.Erin Schaff/The New York Times The Biden administration will cancel oil drilling leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, leases the Trump administration had approved. The special counsel investigating Hunter Biden plans to charge him this month with a gun offense. A federal judge ordered Gov. Greg Abbott to move buoys that Texas placed in the Rio Grande to discourage illegal border crossings. Abbott plans to appeal. A liberal State Supreme Court justice is jeopardizing Republicans’ control of Wisconsin politics. They may impeach her before she’s heard a case. Peter Navarro, a former Trump trade adviser, is on trial for refusing to testify to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. 2024 Election Mike Pence criticized Donald Trump’s brand of populism — “personal grievances and performative outrage” — in a New Hampshire speech. Colorado voters sued to disqualify Trump from appearing on the state’s 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment. The case is a legal long shot. International After a missile strike in eastern Ukraine.Lynsey Addario for The New York Times A Russian missile killed at least 17 people in a bustling market in eastern Ukraine, one of the war’s deadliest strikes in recent months. China’s exports have fallen for the fourth straight month, a sign of the country’s economic challenges. There is a prominent exception: Sales of Chinese cars overseas. Mexico’s governing party decided two women would face each other in the general election, meaning the country stands to elect its first woman president next year. Bedtime check-ins and verbal abuse: More than a dozen women described sexism in the Spanish women’s soccer league. A cyclone battered southern Brazil, killing at least 37. Flooding submerged dozens of towns, and more rain is coming. Japan launched a robotic moon lander and an X-ray telescope into space. Manhunts People have seen a convicted murderer who escaped from prison in a neighborhood outside Philadelphia. Officials broadcast his mother’s voice from helicopters, pleading for his return. A former British soldier facing terrorism-related charges escaped from a London prison, prompting a nationwide search. Other Big Stories Florida’s public universities are expected to approve the Classic Learning Test, a college-entrance exam that emphasizes the Western canon and Christian thought. (Try sample questions.) A 14-year-old died after eating a tortilla chip dusted with two extremely hot peppers, part of a “One Chip Challenge” on social media. Opinions Environmentalists rushing to build green infrastructure like wind farms need to ease the fears of people who are watching those changes happen in their backyards, Elizabeth Cerceo writes. Some Republicans in Wyoming want to keep national politics out of state party platforms. To protect democracy, more states should follow their lead, Stephanie Muravchik and Jon Shields write. “It’s a fun time to be alive”: Thirteen older photographers capture their lives. See the photos. Here are columns by Charles Blow on Trump’s rivals and Ross Douthat on Canadian and British conservatism. Everything The Times offers. All in one subscription. Morning readers: Save on unlimited access to The Times with this introductory offer. MORNING READS A homemade vessel on the coast of Florida.Flagler County Sheriff Office Human-size hamster wheel: A man tried to roll across the Atlantic. He was stopped by the Coast Guard. Burning Man: Festival cleanup is a big job — especially when the trash is stuck in hardened mud. The first lady of fitness: At 97, Elaine LaLanne is still shaping the industry. In the beginning: A lonely old building on a New Jersey hill, where we first heard the hum of the Big Bang. Lives Lived: Ferid Murad’s research into nitric oxide’s effects on the body advanced the treatment of hypertension and erectile dysfunction, earning him a Nobel Prize. He died at 86. SPORTS NEWS Madison Keys: The American won her U.S. Open match in straight sets to reach the semifinal. N.F.L.: The season opens tonight with a game between the Lions and the Chiefs, the defending Super Bowl champions. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Mick Jagger in London.Toby Melville/Reuters A classic rock return: The Rolling Stones announced a new album yesterday, their first record of new material in 18 years. “Hackney Diamonds,” named after a neighborhood in London and slang for the shards of glass left after a break-in, will be released Oct. 20. It’s also the band’s first album since the death of its longtime drummer, Charlie Watts, in 2021. So far, the British press has offered positive reviews: The first taste of the album is an “absolute blast,” The Telegraph wrote. “It’s the best Rolling Stones album since 1978,” The Times of London declared. More on culture Bruce Springsteen postponed his September performances, announcing he will receive treatment for peptic ulcer disease. The piano that Freddie Mercury used to compose “Bohemian Rhapsody” sold for more than $2 million at an auction in London. The anonymous creator who unnerved the music industry with an A.I. song mimicking the voices of Drake and The Weeknd has been quietly consulting with executives. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Bryan Gardner for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne. Slice heirloom tomatoes for this tart. Listen to podcasts about the perils and joys of modern dating. Watch movies anywhere with a portable projector. Invest in a sustainable alternative to single-use sandwich bags. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was offhanded. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — German and Ashley P.S. Colby College gave its annual courage in journalism award to Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter jailed in Russia. Evan’s parents will accept the award on his behalf. 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: Desiree Ibekwe, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lyna Bentahar 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 September 8, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 8, 2023 September 8, 2023 By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering a new look at economic diversity in higher education — as well as the G20, climate protests and Danny Masterson. The University of Virginia.Carlos Bernate for The New York Times The College Access Index The Supreme Court decision banning race-based affirmative action has thrust economic diversity to the center of the debate over college admissions. Many supporters of the old affirmative action see economic diversity as a way to continue creating racially diverse college classes, given the large racial gaps that exist in income and wealth. Many critics of the old affirmative action argue that economic factors are a better measure of disadvantage anyway: These critics argue that lower-income applicants of all races should be given credit for what they’ve overcome. Given this background, my colleagues at The Times Magazine and I decided to shine a light on economic diversity at nearly 300 of the country’s most selective colleges, public and private. This morning, we’re publishing a measure we call the College Access Index. It’s an updated version of a project The Times last published in 2017. Our goal is to help readers understand which colleges were already enrolling economically diverse classes before the Supreme Court decision — and therefore can serve as a model for others. Today’s newsletter offers highlights from the project and links if you want to go deeper. ‘They are there’ A decade ago, Washington University in St. Louis was the least economically diverse college in the country. Only about 6 percent of its students received Pell Grants, federal scholarships that typically go to students in the bottom half of the income distribution. But some university leaders were uncomfortable with the situation and began pushing for change. As they did, they heard a concern from the board of trustees: Would Washington University need to lower its academic standards to enroll more middle-class and poor students? After administrators studied the data, they concluded that the answer was no. “There were plenty of low-income kids with high scores that we hadn’t been admitting,” Holden Thorp, the provost at the time, told me. Ron Daniels, the president of Johns Hopkins, another college that has become more diverse over the past decade, said the same thing about such students: “They are there, and they do come.” This point is crucial. It means that colleges enrolling mostly affluent students are making a choice. They are bypassing qualified students — more qualified, sometimes — from humbler backgrounds. The colleges are choosing not to prioritize upward mobility. The new Wash. U.’s Our analysis found: Most elite colleges have become more diverse over the past decade. These colleges — with the largest endowments and lowest admissions rates — still enroll a disproportionate share of very affluent students, but they also enroll more low- and middle-income students than in the past. Here is a selection of 20 prominent colleges: Source: Ithaka S+R, IPEDS | Data is for first-year students. | By The New York Times Some of the biggest increases occurred at colleges without billion-dollar endowments. “We’re actually not fulfilling our mission unless we have a diverse group of students,” said Kathleen Harring, the president of Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania. To afford it, Muhlenberg has expanded its corporate partnerships for adult-education programs and started a fund-raising campaign focused on financial aid, among other efforts. Source: Ithaka S+R, IPEDS | Data is for first-year students. | By The New York Times Eric Boynton, the president of Beloit College, in Wisconsin, told me with a laugh that “there are no lazy rivers” on his campus — a reference to the deluxe pools that some colleges have built. Beloit keeps its administrative staffing lean and fields relatively few sports teams. “We’re here to transform lives,” Boynton said. But at most of the 286 colleges in our analysis, the Pell share fell over the past decade. Among the reasons: Some states have cut funding for higher education, and many colleges have chosen to spend money on buildings and staff rather than financial aid. What are now the country’s least economically diverse colleges? This chart shows the colleges with a Pell share 10 percent or below in the most recent year in a federal database: Source: Ithaka S+R, IPEDS | Data is for first-year students in the 2020-21 school year. | By The New York Times Some of these colleges told me they were committed to enrolling more lower-income students in the years ahead, including Bates, Santa Clara, Scripps and S.M.U. And Caltech has become significantly more diverse in the past few years. Other colleges offered general endorsements of diversity and said they focused their resources on ensuring that lower-income students could succeed. (I find this unpersuasive because lower-income students also have high graduation rates at selective colleges that enroll many more of them.) Some administrators also said — correctly — that Pell was not a comprehensive measure of diversity. It can’t distinguish between a student with a household income of, say, $100,000 and one with $1,000,000 because neither is likely to receive a Pell Grant. Nonetheless, other data — from both academic research and the federal government — suggests that most colleges with a low Pell share are not in fact enrolling large numbers of students just above the cutoff. Any college that believes it’s doing so is free to release data showing the full income distribution of its students. In almost all cases, a college’s Pell share is an accurate reflection of its commitment to economic diversity. More in The Magazine Our table showing 286 colleges, created by my colleague Ashley Wu, is here. In The Times Magazine, I profiled Duke — which has recently been the country’s least economically diverse elite college (as the first chart in this newsletter indicates). I heard a consistent message from lower-income Duke students: It’s a special college that is transforming their lives, but they wish there were more students like them on campus. The magazine’s education issue also profiles Ben Sasse, who was once a Republican star in Washington and now runs the flagship university in Florida, a state where education has become a battleground. Americans are losing faith in the value of college. Whose fault is that? Colleges with declining male enrollment have decided to admit more men at the expense of women’s enrollment. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS War in Ukraine People on three continents are fighting for control of the lucrative empire left behind after the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the former mercenary chief. Read our investigation. Ukrainian troops say cluster munitions, banned by most countries because of human rights concerns, are helping them fight Russian forces. G20 Summit President Biden is traveling to India for a meeting of the Group of 20. He hopes to fill a leadership gap left by Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, who won’t attend the summit. As part of its preparations, India has deployed monkey impersonators to scare away New Delhi’s primates, which are known to steal food and harass pedestrians. Politics A jury convicted Peter Navarro, an adviser to Donald Trump, of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee. Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy called the prison sentences for members of the Proud Boys convicted over their roles on Jan. 6 “excessive” and “wrong.” Mayor Eric Adams said a surge of migrants from the southern border would “destroy New York City.” The city has struggled to house the 110,000 migrants who have arrived since last year. From presidential candidate to professor: Hillary Clinton is co-teaching a class and starting an institute on global politics at Columbia University. U.S. Open Protests Protestors disrupting play at the U.S. Open.Manu Fernandez/Associated Press Environmental protesters delayed a U.S. Open semifinal match between Coco Gauff and Karolina Muchova by 49 minutes after one protester glued his feet to the ground. Gauff, 19, won the match when play resumed, advancing to her first U.S. Open final. She will play Aryna Sabalenka. A stretch of extreme heat has resulted in sweltering stadiums at the tournament. International Refugee children suffer from measles and malnutrition in South Sudan.Joao Silva/The New York Times “There’s war everywhere”: Scores of South Sudanese fled north to escape violence. Now, fighting in Sudan is forcing them to return home. Female soccer players in Spain are going on strike over disparities in pay, adding to a debate over sexism in the women’s national league. Immigrants who survived a fire in Johannesburg have avoided government shelters and hospitals, fearing that officials might deport them. Other Big Stories A month after wildfires on Maui, more than 380 people are still missing. Hershey is pulling the One-Chip Challenge, an extremely spicy snack, from store shelves after the death of a teenager whose family said he had eaten a chip. Prison officials are investigating the errors that led to a prisoner’s escape in Pennsylvania. See a video of him climbing a wall. Opinions People over 65 talked to The Times about how their disabilities make it difficult to get around their communities. Here’s a column by Jamelle Bouie on autocracy in Wisconsin. Everything The Times offers. All in one subscription. Morning readers: Save on unlimited access to The Times with this introductory offer. MORNING READS The U.F.O. Days festival in Elmwood, Wis.Erinn Springer for The New York Times Paranormal: For one weekend every year, a U.F.O. festival takes over a small Wisconsin town. Tripod: A three-legged bear has become a celebrity in Florida. He invaded a patio and recently stole some hard seltzers. “Barbie”: The movie was a big gamble for Mattel’s new chief executive. It paid off. Modern Love: Who do we trust to have a child? Lives Lived: The actress and comedian Arleen Sorkin’s career spanned opera and superheroes. She played the fashion designer Calliope Jones Bradford on “Days of Our Lives” and voiced Harley Quinn on “Batman: The Animated Series.” She died at 67. SPORTS N.F.L.: The Lions beat the Chiefs, the defending champions, by one point in the league’s season opener. Burrow bucks: Joe Burrow, the Bengals’ quarterback, became the highest-paid player in N.F.L. history after agreeing to a five-year, $275 million contract extension last night. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS In “Buddy Games,” people compete in a camp-like setting.CBS Fall TV: Networks are filling their fall schedules with unscripted programs like “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune,” “The $100,000 Pyramid” and “The Masked Singer.” And not all the additions are a response to the writers’ and actors’ strikes. Many had been scheduled earlier, a reminder that the industry is moving away from scripted shows — a trend that was one cause of the strikes. More on culture Danny Masterson, an actor from “That ’70s Show,” received 30 years to life in prison for the rape of two women decades ago. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Johnny Miller for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Rebecca Jurkevich. Make breakfast for dessert with yogurt and jam pops. Hydrate with a good-looking and functional water bottle. Control any electrical device in your home with a smart plug. Take our news quiz. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was chutney. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. 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: Desiree Ibekwe, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lyna Bentahar 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 September 10, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 10, 2023 September 9, 2023 By Melissa Kirsch Good morning. Let’s take a look at some of the most exciting movies coming this fall. María Jesús Contreras Season tickets Searching for something to look forward to in the last light of summer, the fall movie schedule beckons. When the sun sets too early, what better refuge than the movies, where Annette Bening is playing Diana Nyad (October), Colman Domingo plays Bayard Rustin (November) and Timothée Chalamet is Willy Wonka (December)? Transformations! Oh, to enter a theater, see something spectacular and emerge a little transformed, too! Will these movies arrive as scheduled? Some studios pushed their big theatrical releases to 2024 while the ongoing actors’ strike prevents stars from promoting films. For now, at least, here are the movies I’m most excited to see this fall: This month, a movie that seems so madcap I’m surprised it exists: “Dicks: The Musical.” It’s a musical re-envisioning of “The Parent Trap” with Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally as the parents and Larry Charles (“Borat”) directing. Watch the trailer, and see what you think. In October, the film adaptation of Kristen Roupenian’s much-debated New Yorker short story, “Cat Person,” arrives, starring Nicholas Braun of “Succession.” Its bleak portrait of modern courtship looks just excruciating. Peter Dinklage, Anne Hathaway and Marisa Tomei star in Rebecca Miller’s romantic comedy “She Came to Me,” about a composer who’s having trouble composing. That one’s set in my neighborhood, so I’m presold on it. I wasn’t about to brave the ticket trenches of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour this summer, but I’ll see the concert film when it arrives next month. And I’m super interested, along with most of the cinema-going universe, in Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited “Killers of the Flower Moon,” starring Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio in the adaptation of David Grann’s book about the 1920s serial murders of members of the Osage Nation after oil is discovered on their land. “I’ll answer any question you wish me to answer, as truthfully as I can,” John le Carré tells Errol Morris in “The Pigeon Tunnel,” a documentary built around what’s billed as le Carré’s final interview. I can’t wait for some incredible tales of Cold War intrigue! Speaking of intrigue, David Fincher’s “The Killer” seems suitably terrifying. Michael Fassbender plays an assassin who admonishes himself in the trailer: “Stick to the plan; forbid empathy.” And Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla,” based on Priscilla Presley’s book, “Elvis and Me,” looks divine. November sees “American Fiction,” Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel “Erasure,” starring Jeffrey Wright as a Black author who, responding to criticism that his work isn’t “Black enough,” writes a satirical book that plays to racial stereotypes and achieves huge success. I’ve been looking forward to Todd Haynes’s “May December” since Cannes. It stars Julianne Moore and Charles Melton as a couple whose age difference was a public scandal (think: Mary Kay LeTourneau) and Natalie Portman as an actress who’s portraying Moore’s character in a film. Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro,” in which he plays Leonard Bernstein, is already the talk of the internet, so let’s see if the movie itself proves as scintillating. And Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn,” starring Barry Keoghan as a college student who visits his fancy classmate at his family estate for the summer, looks delicious and suspenseful. I’d watch Jodie Comer in pretty much anything, so that gives me reason to look forward to December when she and Austin Butler play motorcycle gang members in “The Bikeriders.” Also at the end of the year, Yorgos Lanthimos (“The Favourite”) returns with “Poor Things,” starring Emma Stone as a reanimated corpse with the mind and id of an infant and Willem Dafoe as the scientist who resurrects her. And on Dec. 25, two potential Christmas gifts: Michael Mann’s “Ferrari,” starring Adam Driver as the carmaker Enzo Ferrari, and “The Color Purple,” the big-screen adaptation of the Broadway musical version of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel, starring Halle Bailey, Fantasia Barrino, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo and Taraji P. Henson. For more See our full list of the most anticipated films for fall. Many of this season’s releases were featured at the Venice and Telluride Film Festivals. With the dual strikes by SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America, what will this year’s Oscar season look like? There’s much more than movies on the way. Check out our fall preview of theater, books, TV, art and more. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE WEEK IN CULTURE Frances TiafoeGabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times Tennis’s top players competed under sweltering heat at the U.S. Open. To avoid sweaty shirts, Frances Tiafoe changed his top about five times per match. The Venice Film Festival’s lineup includes films from Sofia Coppola and Yorgos Lanthimos in which female characters squirm under the thumbs of egocentric men, our critic writes. Mayor Eric Adams kicked off New York Fashion Week. Steve Harwell, the former lead singer of the rock band Smash Mouth, died at 56. The band’s 1999 track “All Star” got a second wind from memes. Jimmy Fallon apologized after more than a dozen current and former “Tonight Show” employees accused him in a Rolling Stone story of creating an erratic environment. Joe Jonas and the “Game of Thrones” actress Sophie Turner announced they are divorcing after four years of marriage, Vogue reported. The singer-songwriter Zach Bryan was arrested in Oklahoma after interfering with a traffic stop. The supermodel Linda Evangelista revealed that she survived breast cancer twice in five years. The MacArthur Foundation and other philanthropic groups will invest $500 million in local news outlets. Bruce Springsteen canceled his September tour shows to be treated for symptoms of peptic ulcer disease. Read more about the condition. Gary Wright, a synthesizer pioneer who had a 1970s hit with “Dream Weaver,” died at 80. THE LATEST NEWS Marrakesh, Morocco, on Saturday.Fadel Senna/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A powerful earthquake struck Morocco, killing more than 600 people. A Georgia grand jury last year recommended indicting more than twice as many allies of Donald Trump as were eventually charged, including Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. A judge in the case rejected an attempt by Mark Meadows, Trump’s former White House chief of staff, to move his case from state court to federal court. The number of people missing from the Maui wildfires dropped from hundreds to 66. Elon Musk acknowledged deactivating satellite internet service last year to prevent a Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian naval fleet. The border crisis has animated Republicans for years and is now dividing Democrats as it strains resources in cities like New York and Chicago. Everything The Times offers. All in one subscription. Morning readers: Save on unlimited access to The Times with this introductory offer. CULTURE CALENDAR 🎧 “Guts” (out now): Olivia Rodrigo’s 2021 debut album, “Sour,” went quadruple platinum and scored her a best new artist Grammy. For her follow-up, she told The Times’s pop editor that she’s “always loved rock music, and always wanted to find a way that I could make it feel like me.” Judging by the two singles that are already burning up YouTube — “Vampire” and “Bad Idea Right?” — it feels fair to say she’s putting her stamp on the genre. 📺 “The Morning Show” (Wednesday): This Apple TV+ series, depicting the off-camera drama of a network morning talk show, is back, more than a year after wrapping its snatched-from-the-Covid-headlines second season. There is something chaotic and irresistible about a TV show with so many big stars — Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Billy Crudup, Greta Lee after her breakthrough performance in “Past Lives” — chewing up the scenery. This season, Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”) joins the fray. — Andrew LaVallee Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT RECIPE OF THE WEEK Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times By Melissa Clark Everyday Pancakes Congratulations, you made it through the first week of September! As a back-to-school/back-to-work reward, why not treat yourself to a splendid pancake breakfast this weekend? Mark Bittman’s recipe is everything you want a pancake to be — fluffy yet crisp-edged, butter- and syrup-ready, and easy enough to make even early in the morning in a pre-caffeinated state. You can even add blueberries, pecans or chocolate chips if you feel like going all out, sprinkling them on top of the pancakes in the pan just before you flip them. REAL ESTATE Stephanie Carter created a new environment in a smaller apartment in the building where she had lived with her husband.Nicole Baas Photography Downsizing: Moving was a way to process grief after her husband’s death. 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When I realized I could simply fill the thermoses with reheated leftovers from dinner — say, last night’s Japanese curry chicken over rice — then fill the other compartments with fresh fruits or veggies, all my mental blocks started to crumble. If you feel a similar resistance, think about what easy means for you. Then decide on the best tools and containers for the task. Bonus points for lunchboxes that are dishwasher safe, which is true for many of Wirecutter’s picks. — Marilyn Ong GAME OF THE WEEKEND Coco GauffHiroko Masuike/The New York Times Coco Gauff vs. Aryna Sabalenka, U.S. Open women’s final: Gauff is only 19, but for years she has seemed like the successor to Serena Williams as the queen of American tennis. Her breakout win came at age 15, when she upset Venus Williams at Wimbledon; last year, shortly after finishing high school, she reached the French Open final. Now she has a chance to win her first Grand Slam. But it will not be easy. Sabalenka hits with such power that it can be hard to keep up — as the Times reporter Matthew Futterman once put it, she “swings a tennis racket like a lumberjack wields an ax.” 4 p.m. Eastern on ESPN. For more Daniil Medvedev upset Carlos Alcaraz, the reigning champion, to reach the men’s final. He will face Novak Djokovic on Sunday. When the tournament starts, players are tripping over each other in the halls and even in cavernous locker rooms. By the end, the final few have only their nerves for company. The U.S. Open is how tennis should be: welcoming without being overly elitist, Futterman writes. NOW TIME TO PLAY Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was fruition. 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, Sudoku and Connections. 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: Desiree Ibekwe, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lyna Bentahar 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 September 10, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 10, 2023 September 10, 2023 By Vivian Yee and Aida Alami Good morning. We’re covering the deadly earthquake in Morocco — plus the G20, Coco Gauff and Italian food. Destroyed houses southwest of Marrakesh, Morocco.Fadel Senna/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A search for survivors Rescuers in Morocco are racing to dig survivors out of rubble after the country’s worst earthquake in a century flattened homes and buildings, killing at least 2,000 people. The magnitude-6.8 quake struck in the mountains south of Marrakesh, an ancient city that is a popular tourist destination. Buildings crumbled and caked its cobblestone streets with mounds of red dust from the walled old city. The quake particularly devastated communities in the Atlas Mountains, where the full extent of the damage is still unknown. Debris has blocked some of the region’s roads, making it difficult for rescue crews to reach remote communities. The quake also knocked out power and cell service in some areas. The death toll is expected to rise: Most homes there are made of mud bricks, a traditional construction method that is vulnerable to earthquakes and heavy rains. Frantic rescue efforts In some remote areas, people sifted through debris with their bare hands to search for survivors. Others climbed through the canyons between collapsed homes to retrieve bodies. The U.N. said that more than 300,000 people in Marrakesh and its outskirts had been affected by the earthquake. Emergency teams from around the world are arriving to help. One of the first countries to offer aid was Turkey, which experienced its own earthquake in February that killed tens of thousands of people there and in neighboring Syria. Spain’s foreign affairs minister said the country would send search and rescue teams to try to “find the greatest number of people alive.” The Moroccan Army said the air force was evacuating casualties from a hard-hit region to a military hospital in Marrakesh. Still, some foreign crews complained that the government approvals process for rescue efforts had been slow. Some villages have not yet received any aid, according to reports on social media. One man who said he was volunteering as a rescuer in a province southwest of the epicenter begged for more assistance in an Instagram video. “We don’t have any food or water. There are still people underground. Some of them are still alive,” he said, adding, “There are some villages that we couldn’t reach.” Here are the latest updates: Aftershock: A 3.9-magnitude earthquake, almost certainly an aftershock, struck Morocco this morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Afraid of aftershocks, many people spent the weekend sleeping outside on grassy medians and roundabouts near one road heading into Marrakesh. Housing: The office of Morocco’s leader, King Mohammed VI, said he had ordered the government to rapidly provide shelter and rebuild houses for those in distress, “particularly orphans and the vulnerable.” For more See maps of where the quake struck and photos of the destruction. The authorities announced three days of national mourning to honor victims. Here’s how you can help. “My husband and four children died,” one woman told Moroccan state television. “Mustapha, Hassan, Ilhem, Ghizlaine, Ilyes. Everything I had is gone. I am all alone.” Moroccan news media reported that no deaths had been recorded in hotels in Marrakesh and that there had not been any major damage to the airport there. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT NEWS War in Ukraine A declaration from world leaders at the Group of 20 summit omitted any condemnation of Russia’s invasion. As President Biden heads to Vietnam, Hanoi is making secret plans to buy weapons from Russia in defiance of American sanctions. Politics Some Biden allies say that he is too deferential to his son Hunter Biden and that their closeness has created political peril for the president. A former Secret Service agent present at John F. Kennedy’s assassination contradicted the official conclusion about the “magic bullet” thought to have both hit Kennedy and wounded Gov. John Connally of Texas. California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said he was not running for president and urged his party to line up behind Biden. Gun owners denounced a gun safe manufacturer after it acknowledged that it gave the F.B.I. the access code to one of its safes to help an investigation. 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FROM OPINION The Chinese Communist Party’s only plan to deal with its disillusioned youth is repression, Ho-Fung Hung writes. Even though we don’t understand why obesity drugs work, people who need them should take them anyway, Aaron E. Carroll argues. Here’s a column by Farhad Manjoo on Vivek Ramaswamy. The Sunday question: Can India lead developing nations in addressing climate change? India has already taken the lead as the holder of this year’s Group of 20 presidency, and officials have met with other countries’ energy ministers to stress the importance of an “equitable transition” away from fossil fuels, Syed Munir Khasru writes for The South China Morning Post. But combating global warming is extremely difficult, and India’s own ambitious energy goals are “looking even less achievable,” David Fickling of Bloomberg writes. Everything The Times offers. All in one subscription. Morning readers: Save on unlimited access to The Times with this introductory offer. MORNING READS The Abbey of Our Lady of Ephesus in Gower, Mo.Katie Currid for The New York Times Missouri abbey: The body of a nun that was found well preserved years after she died draws believers from all over. (Read more stories about life in America here.) Visit Bologna, Italy: “Possibly the greatest food city in the world.” The perfect day: A health reporter at The Wall Street Journal tried to live all her tips. Read how it went. Vows: The popular guy meets the academic girl. Lives Lived: Mangosuthu Buthelezi was a Zulu chief who was a strong voice for tribal rights as apartheid ended in South Africa. He died at 95. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT TALK | FROM THE TIMES MAGAZINE Roz Chast.Mamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times By David Marchese I spoke with the great cartoonist Roz Chast, who grew up in New York and whose work is deeply associated with the city, about the irritation of moving to the suburbs. You’ve written about feeling as if you didn’t fit in as a kid. Do you remember when you first thought, I do fit in? When I got my first apartment in the city. When I got out of art school [at the Rhode Island School of Design], I thought: “My cartoons, they’re weird. They make me laugh, but this doesn’t look like anything that I see.” Then I decided to start taking my cartoons around, and that was when things started to change. That has a lot to do with why I love New York. It was the first time in my life that I didn’t feel like I was in the wrong place, in the wrong clothes, at the wrong time. How did moving to the suburbs change that? I did not feel like I fit in. I remember going to a P.T.A. meeting and thinking, I hate this so much. I can’t stand any of these people. There was a field day — you know field day? Oh yes. I had decided to be one of the parents who helped out, and somebody gave me a bag of ice to break up and I didn’t know how. I was hitting it with a branch! This woman, she took it from me with this “tsk!” and she drops the bag of ice on the floor. She acted like, “You’re an idiot” — and I sort of knew I was. Will my own lingering sense that somehow moving to the suburbs represents a personal failing ever go away? You have to repress it. (Laughs.) Deeply repress it. Read more of the interview here. More from the magazine The Tiny Desk series at NPR has grown to host the biggest names in music. Read the full issue. BOOKS Dishy: Read a tell-all about the beauty brand Glossier. Our editors’ picks: “Play to Win,” a book about winning the lottery, and eight other books. Times best sellers: Hannah Nicole Maehrer’s TikTok series has been turned into the novel “Assistant to the Villain,” which is a No. 1 debut on the paperback trade fiction list. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Pick the right leaf blower for fall. Wear these cheap but durable leggings. Maximize credit card points. Take a long walk on Prince Edward Island, in Canada’s smallest province. THE WEEK AHEAD What to Watch For Russia is holding widely denounced local elections that end today in four provinces that it occupies in eastern Ukraine. The House returns from its summer recess tomorrow. Google’s trial on accusations that it illegally abused its power over online search begins on Tuesday. The MTV Video Music Awards are on Tuesday. The U.S. government will release data on consumer prices on Wednesday. A C.D.C. independent panel of advisers is scheduled to meet on Tuesday to make a recommendation on who should receive the latest Covid booster shots. London Fashion Week begins on Friday. What to Cook This Week Nico Schinco for The New York Times. Did summer vacation break your budget? Krysten Chambrot’s Five Weeknight Dishes newsletter includes ideas for great meals that can be made for cheap. Alexa Weibel’s kimchi chicken lettuce wraps maximize just five ingredients, and basil-butter pasta upgrades a kid-approved staple. NOW TIME TO PLAY Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was companion. Can you put eight historical events — including the first Burning Man, mastodons in the Arctic and vampire tales in Europe — in chronological order? Take this week’s Flashback quiz. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. 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: Desiree Ibekwe, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lyna Bentahar 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 September 12, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 12, 2023 September 11, 2023 By German Lopez Good morning. We’re covering medication access for drug users — plus the Morocco rescue efforts, Novak Djokovic and Iceland. Kent House Irish Pub in Towson, Md.Rosem Morton for The New York Times More than 100,000 America’s overdose crisis has prompted a significant shift in the war on drugs. Just last week, Narcan, a medication that stops opioid overdoses, became available nationwide without a prescription for the first time. The change, which the Food and Drug Administration approved in March, is part of a growing acceptance of a strategy known as harm reduction. Under that approach, policymakers focus first on limiting the dangers of drugs, not necessarily getting users to abstain. Democrats and Republicans long shunned harm reduction as too radical, but many in both parties have reconsidered their opposition in response to the high death toll from overdoses. More than 100,000 people in the U.S. die of overdoses each year, mostly from the synthetic opioid fentanyl. That is higher than the number of people who die each year from homicides and suicides combined, as this chart by my colleague Ashley Wu shows: Source: C.D.C. | By The New York Times The policy shift seems to be producing results. Overdose deaths have plateaued over the past two years, after more than doubling from 2014 to 2021. Narcan has played a role, even when it required a prescription, and policymakers hope that making it more accessible will reduce deaths further. Shifting policy Naloxone, the key ingredient in Narcan, has been around for decades, but its use caught on in recent years in response to the overdose crisis. The F.D.A.’s approval of Narcan, a nasal spray, in 2015 made naloxone easier to administer. And serious side effects are rare. So police officers and other emergency responders started to carry it to reverse overdoses they would have been powerless to stop before. But public health advocates have called for many more Americans to carry naloxone to try to stop overdoses. (Here is a video guide from The Times on how to use it.) Greater availability of the medication is one of the most effective interventions against the drug crisis, experts have said. “Everyone should be thinking about putting this into their first aid kit,” Dr. Kevin Ban, Walgreens’s chief medical officer, told CNN. “It’s really unlimited in terms of the folks who should make sure that they get some naloxone in the off chance that they come across someone who was experiencing an overdose.” Of course, the ideal solution is to get drug users into addiction treatment so they can stop using harmful drugs. But that is not possible if they are dead. Narcan, like other forms of harm reduction, can keep people alive until they are ready to get help. Until now, however, access was limited without a prescription. State and local officials tried to get around that restriction by issuing what is called a standing order, allowing pharmacists to distribute naloxone without a prescription. But few people knew about the orders. If they did, they might have been too nervous to ask a pharmacist for naloxone because of the stigma attached to drug use. Putting the medication on store shelves and letting people buy it online could both raise awareness and make people more comfortable getting it. The over-the-counter version is not cheap. Each two-dose carton will cost about $45, a price tag that will put the medication out of reach for many who need it. Still, some insurance programs, including several state Medicaid plans, will cover naloxone without a prescription. And now that the F.D.A. has approved an over-the-counter version, other drugmakers will likely try to compete with cheaper alternatives. Limited impact Every story about policy successes against the overdose crisis, like Narcan, comes with a caveat: This helps, but only somewhat. What the crisis calls for, experts say, is a layered approach that simultaneously tries to keep people alive, get them into treatment and reduce access to dangerous drugs. The strategy is often compared to stacking Swiss cheese, with each slice helping cover the others’ holes. Naloxone is only one slice. Related: In places with more overdose deaths, the job of restaurant workers now includes administering Narcan. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS Morocco Earthquake The village of Azgour, Morocco.Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times Rescuers finally reached remote mountain villages hardest hit by the earthquake, which has killed at least 2,122 people. Some villages remained inaccessible because of debris blocking roads. Many people are still without power and face food and water shortages. The chances of finding survivors are shrinking three days after the quake, especially among flattened mud-brick homes. In one village, bodies were removed from the rubble in such terrible condition that relatives buried them without washing them — an essential part of the Muslim funerary ritual. China A welcome ceremony for President Biden.Kenny Holston/The New York Times President Biden cemented a new strategic relationship with Vietnam on a visit to Hanoi. The countries are concerned about an aggressive China. Apple, which is expected to release a new iPhone tomorrow, has increased its share of smartphone sales in China. Some Chinese state employees said they were told not to use iPhones for work. The reports hurt Apple stock. China may ban clothes that hurt people’s feelings. The columnist Li Yuan explains why citizens are outraged. International The head of the Spanish soccer federation has resigned under pressure after he kissed a member of the women’s team on the lips. “Merchant of Death”: Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer released by the U.S. in a prisoner swap, is reinventing himself as a local politician. Israelis are deeply split about the country’s direction, specifically about the role of religion in public spaces. Unsafe concrete has closed schools in Britain, leaving parents scrambling to find child care. Google Trial A trial to determine if Google abused its monopoly in online search will begin this week. Read about the case. Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, is expected to testify. Other Big Stories Nikki Haley has softened her anti-abortion approach. It has won both supporters and detractors. Child care in New York City has become unaffordable for nearly everyone. Opinions Major U.S. cities trying to be more affordable should look to Tokyo, where apartments can be built almost anywhere, Binyamin Appelbaum writes. India’s failure to regulate the medicines it manufactures is an urgent message to rich countries to take global drug safety seriously, Vidya Krishnan writes. Here are columns by Maureen Dowd on Jimmy Buffett and Ross Douthat on why Biden is unpopular. Gail Collins and Bret Stephens discuss immigration and Hunter Biden. Everything The Times offers. All in one subscription. Morning readers: Save on unlimited access to The Times with this introductory offer. MORNING READS Sky Lagoon.Sky Lagoon by Pursuit Iceland: Take a dip in these five geothermal baths — that aren’t the Blue Lagoon. Sept. 11: An Irish nurse who worked in a Manhattan hospital when the towers fell created a memorial in her small hometown. Mormon royalty: He is part of a famous family. Now he’s suing the church, The Washington Post reports. Metropolitan Diary: At the red light, the cabby jumped out. The ideal sandwich? A bánh mì. Stephen King: Listen to the mystery writer explain why he’s not so big on mystery. Lives Lived: Marc Bohan was the longest-serving creative director at Christian Dior, spending nearly 30 years spinning out classically attuned looks with a touch of whimsy. He died at 97. SPORTS NEWS Novak DjokovicMichelle V. Agins/The New York Times Novak Djokovic: He beat Daniil Medvedev at the U.S. Open to win his 24th Grand Slam, tying Margaret Court for the most major singles titles. Coco Gauff: After winning the U.S. Open women’s singles title on Saturday, the 19-year-old is set to reach the headiest levels of fame. College football: Mel Tucker, the Michigan State head coach, has been suspended without pay as the university investigates a sexual harassment allegation. N.F.L.: The Cowboys beat the Giants last night, 40-0. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS Tyler ChildersStacy Kranitz for The New York Times Rural anthems: Tyler Childers, a country musician from Kentucky, sings about fraught topics, including racial violence and the inclusivity of faith. He’s also made a music video about a queer love story. Childers’ songs, with roots in bluegrass, Southern rock and Appalachian tradition, have pushed the boundaries of country music. They’ve also made him one of the most successful touring and streaming artists in his field. His new album, “Rustin’ in the Rain,” is out now. More on culture Despite high-profile cuts, streaming isn’t actually as hard on new shows as network TV was, James Poniewozik writes. Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis addressed leniency letters they wrote in support of Danny Masterson, who was found guilty of raping two women over 20 years ago. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Coax rich flavor out of simple ingredients in roasted white bean and tomato pasta. Try 30-plus easy recipes for beginner cooks. Watch the best movies on Netflix right now. Tailgate with this gear. Light your home with these LED bulbs. Take our news quiz. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was abandoning. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — German P.S. Eric Schmitt, a national security reporter who is regularly quoted in this newsletter, is celebrating 40 years — and nearly 7,000 bylines — at 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: Desiree Ibekwe, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lyna Bentahar 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 September 13, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 13, 2023 September 12, 2023 By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering the Republican Party’s shrinking advantage in the Electoral College — as well as aid in Morocco, floods in Libya and Aaron Rodgers. The Georgia State Capitol.Nicole Craine for The New York Times All politics is national The Electoral College has been very kind to Republicans in the 21st century. George W. Bush won the presidency in 2000 despite losing the popular vote, and Donald Trump did the same in 2016. But over the past few years the Republican advantage in the Electoral College seems to have shrunk, as Nate Cohn, The Times’s chief political analyst, points out in his newsletter. Republicans are no longer faring significantly better in the states likely to decide the presidential election — like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — than they are nationwide. Instead, a 2024 race between Biden and Trump looks extremely close, with a tiny lead for Biden both nationally and in the swing states. 2023 indicators are based on a New York Times analysis of midterm results, demographics and polling. What’s going on here? Democrats have lost some ground in comfortably blue states like New York while gaining some in swing states like Pennsylvania. “At this point,” Nate writes, “another large Trump Electoral College advantage cannot be assumed.” In today’s newsletter, we’ll examine the main reasons for the trends. An unexpected shift One surprising feature of American politics since Trump’s 2016 victory has been the decline in some forms of polarization. Many political analysts (including me) assumed that Trump’s presidency would aggravate racial gaps in voting, given Trump’s embrace of white nationalism. We were wrong. Instead, the racial gaps have narrowed. White voters have moved toward the Democratic Party, while Asian, Black and Hispanic voters have moved to the right. Voters of color still lean clearly Democratic, and white voters clearly Republican, but the shifts are big enough to matter. White voters have helped Democrats win recent elections in the Midwest and Georgia, while voters of color have helped Republicans keep their hold on Florida and Texas. Nobody has come up with a comprehensive explanation, but there are some plausible theories. In much of the world, left-leaning parties are increasingly attractive to college graduates. The U.S. — where the Republican Party denies climate change and spreads conspiracy theories — is a good example. And college graduates are disproportionately white. On the flip side, polls suggest that some voters of color have been influenced by economic trends. After years of weak performance, the economy fared better while Trump was president. (How much credit he deserves is another matter.) Covid interrupted that boom, but some voters evidently appreciated the Republican emphasis on reopening the economy. In an analysis of the Republicans’ unexpectedly strong 2020 showing in Texas, Equis Research, a research firm that focuses on Latinos, cited voters’ frustration with lockdowns. Social issues probably play a role, too. Many voters of color are moderate on these issues. The most progressive segment of the American public, by contrast, is disproportionately white, the Pew Research Center has documented. As the progressive left has become bolder — on gender, immigration, policing and other subjects — it has alienated some of the voters of color for whom it claims to speak. Whatever the full explanation, the decline in racial polarization has diminished the Republicans’ advantage in the Electoral College. That advantage has existed partly because swing states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are heavily white, Nate notes. Blue states, less blue In addition to race, polarization has declined in another way: Some blue states have become a little less blue, while some once-reddish swing states have turned blueish. In both types of places, Nate suggests, voters are unhappy with what they consider the excesses of their own party. In swing states, the Republican Party has damaged itself by trying to ban abortion and spreading lies about the 2020 election. In solidly blue states, however, an overturned election or abortion ban is implausible. Instead, some voters have apparently grown dissatisfied with Democratic politicians who have been in charge while other problems have mounted. Crime remains elevated. Cities are struggling to handle a surge of migrants. Education issues, including new admission policies for magnet high schools, have hurt the party in some places. “Moderate voters in a blue state — say around Portland, Ore. — have no need to fear whether their state’s conservatives will enact new restrictions on transgender rights or abortion rights, but they might wonder whether the left has gone too far pursuing equity in public schools,” Nate writes. “They might increasingly harbor doubts about progressive attitudes on drugs, the homeless and crime, as visible drug use among the homeless in Portland becomes national news.” If one voter in solidly blue Oregon flips to the Republicans and another voter in swing-state Arizona moves to the Democrats, the Republicans’ Electoral College edge shrinks. Nate emphasizes that these trends are not guaranteed to continue. Perhaps the Republicans’ edge will re-emerge by 2024. Or perhaps the election will be so close that even a tiny Republican edge will decide the outcome. For now, though, a key feature of recent American politics has receded. Nate’s newsletter, called The Tilt, is free for Times subscribers, and you can sign up here. Related: Gov. Glenn Youngkin hopes his more moderate plans to restrict abortion will keep Virginia red this November. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS Morocco Earthquake In Douar Tnirt, a village in the Atlas Mountains.Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times Four days after the earthquake, many people in mountain villages are still waiting for help. They are digging bodies out of rubble with their hands. When rescuers finally arrived in one village, residents were angry about the pace of aid efforts. Read the story of one man searching for his daughter. Politics The House returns today after weeks in recess. Republicans’ disagreements over spending could shut down the government this month. Trump’s lawyers asked the judge in his federal trial on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election to recuse herself, accusing her of bias. Biden is planning an expensive ad campaign to reassure voters about his age. The president stopped at an Alaska military base on his way back from Vietnam to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Putin-Kim Meeting Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, will make a rare trip outside the country to meet with Vladimir Putin, Russia confirmed. North Korea could provide Russia with ammunition it needs for the war in Ukraine. In return, the North wants food aid and advanced technology. The Kim family’s preferred way to travel is a slow, heavy bulletproof train. International Flood damage in Libya.Reuters Floods washed away neighborhoods in Libya, killing more than 300 people. More than 5,000 are missing. China is spreading disinformation about the Maui wildfires using artificial intelligence, claiming the U.S. government started the fires. In Turkey, rescuers saved an American cave expert who fell sick thousands of feet underground. Israel’s highest court is about to start reviewing a law that limits its own power. Israelis have been protesting about the law for months, and now Americans are joining them. Business In an antitrust lawsuit against Google, the government is expected to borrow arguments from its landmark case against Microsoft 25 years ago. Disney and Charter ended their standoff, restoring ABC, ESPN and other channels to around 15 million households. J.M. Smucker, the jelly maker, is buying the snack cake brand Hostess for more than $5 billion. TikTok, which often popularizes products, is introducing an in-app shop for users in the U.S. Other Big Stories The F.D.A. approved a new Covid vaccine formulated for more recent variants. Shots could be available within days. The killer who broke out of a Pennsylvania prison previously fled into the wilderness in Brazil to escape a murder investigation. Restaurants and unions in California agreed to raise pay to $20 an hour. Montana’s renowned rainbow and brown trout are disappearing as waters warm. Opinions Chile’s coup in 1973 ended a peaceful revolution. Now the coup’s supporters want to separate it from the torture and killings that followed, Ariel Dorfman writes. Here’s a column by Michelle Goldberg on minority rule in American democracy. Everything The Times offers. All in one subscription. Morning readers: Save on unlimited access to The Times with this introductory offer. MORNING READS Michelin restaurants: Does the quest for stars generate excellence, or sameness? Girl dinner and hot girl walks: Online, the terms describe a mind-set more than an age or even a gender. Cute fossil: Meet a 25-million-year-old koala. Marriage: In the U.S., the bridal tradition of taking a husband’s last name remains strong. Lives Lived: Ian Wilmut led the team that cloned Dolly the sheep in the 1990s, a feat that shocked the world. Wilmut died at 79. SPORTS Aaron Rodgers exited the game after being sacked by Leonard Floyd.Seth Wenig/Associated Press Aaron Rodgers: The Jets quarterback injured his left ankle early in a game against the Bills. His team went on to win in overtime. Michigan State: After a sexual harrassment allegation, head coach Mel Tucker defended his intimate conversation, calling it mutual. Rest rule: The N.B.A. is considering stricter rules for teams that sit star players in prime-time matchups. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS Carne asada.Johnny Miller for The New York Times. What’s for dinner? Figuring out nightly meals is hard enough; in September, with school back in session and families busy again, it can feel daunting. Emily Weinstein, the editor of NYT Cooking, put together 100 recipes that can relieve some of the stress. Many take only 30 minutes. “No matter how old you are, or where you are in life, September has a way of sweeping us all,” Emily writes. 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Continue reading the main story Editor: David Leonhardt Deputy Editor: Amy Fiscus News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Desiree Ibekwe, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lyna Bentahar 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 September 13, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 13, 2023 September 13, 2023 Continue reading the main story SUPPORTED BY Apple TV+ By David Leonhardt and Lauren Jackson Good morning. We’re covering the floods in Libya as well as a Biden impeachment inquiry, American poverty and a tank museum. The city of Derna, Libya.Jamal Alkomaty/Associated Press More than 5,200 dead The initial floods in northeastern Libya — after torrential rain this past weekend — were bad enough. But the worst of the damage was not a result of those floods. It has instead come from the subsequent bursting of two dams near the coastal city of Derna. By The New York Times The waters that those dams had been holding back washed entire neighborhoods into the sea, officials said. Tall buildings fell into the mud, trapping residents under rubble. At least 5,200 people have died and thousands more are missing. “The situation is catastrophic,” the Derna City Council said in a Facebook post. “Derna is pleading for help.” The chain of events — first a major storm, followed by a collapse of infrastructure that made the situation far worse — reminded experts of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans almost 20 years ago. Today’s newsletter gives you the latest news from Libya, with help from our colleagues Vivian Nereim, a Times correspondent, and Mohammed Abdusamee, who is in Tripoli. The rescue effort Medical teams have flown to Libya to help search for survivors and treat the injured. But rescue efforts have been slow because the flooding cut off roads into Derna. Workers from Turkey and the United Arab Emirates arrived yesterday in Benghazi, a city more than 180 miles away. The Libyan government in Tripoli also has sent supplies, including body bags and medical equipment, to Benghazi. But it is not clear if supplies have reached the most affected areas. The Derna City Council called for a safe shipping route to the city and for international intervention. President Biden said the U.S. would send emergency funds to relief organizations and that it would coordinate with the U.N. and Libyan authorities. Emmanuel Macron, France’s leader, also announced financial and other aid for organizations working in Libya. Bodies in Derna.Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters Climate change Scientists say that climate change may have increased the severity of the storm that caused the flooding, a Mediterranean cyclone named Daniel. Though climate change is likely making Mediterranean cyclones less common, it is intensifying those that do form. Making matters worse, Libyans are especially vulnerable. “Libya is ill-prepared to handle the effects of climate change and extreme weather,” said Malak Altaeb, an environmental expert. Most Libyans live in coastal areas at risk of flooding as sea levels rise. Towns along dry riverbeds can also flood rapidly when heavy rain falls and the parched earth struggles to absorb it. “This is going to happen more and more as the climate warms,” said Matthew Brubacher, an expert on Libyan climate change. “Everything is falling apart.” Political instability Since Muammar el-Qaddafi’s government fell in 2011, Libya has lacked a strong central government. Instead, two rival factions have struggled for control: an internationally recognized government based in Tripoli, in the west, and another group in the east whose domain includes the flooded area. As Daniel approached, the authorities in eastern Libya — who have limited resources — seemed to have no plan to monitor the dams and evacuate residents, experts said. “For the past 10 years there hasn’t really been much investment in the country’s infrastructure,” said Claudia Gazzini of the International Crisis Group. More flooding still seems possible. Yesterday, the mayor of Tocra, 120 miles from Derna, warned on a local television channel that another dam was at risk of collapse. A flash-flood damaged area in Derna. Agence France-Presse — Getty Images For more Floodwaters swept through other eastern settlements, displacing at least 20,000 people. See photos of the devastation and maps of the flooded areas. Libyans have posted in Facebook groups, begging for information about their missing loved ones. Read more about the crisis. Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM Apple TV+ 'The Morning Show' on Apple TV+ "The Morning Show," starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, is now streaming on Apple TV+. Stream Now THE LATEST NEWS Biden Impeachment Inquiry Kevin McCarthy, the House speaker, opened an impeachment inquiry into Biden. Republicans have so far failed to find evidence of wrongdoing. McCarthy is trying to appease far-right Republicans, who have threatened to oust him as speaker over government spending. He accused Biden of lying about his son Hunter’s business dealings. There’s little to back up the allegations. The speaker announced the inquiry unilaterally, without a House vote. Some Republicans who represent districts that Biden won have misgivings. Donald Trump has been privately encouraging Republicans to impeach Biden. War in Ukraine Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un in a photo released by Russian state media.Sputnik, via Reuters Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un met in eastern Russia for a summit in which they were expected to discuss arming Russian troops. Russian has overcome Western sanctions to expand its missile production. Morocco Earthquake King Mohammed VI, Morocco’s leader, has kept a low profile after the earthquake. Some said that slowed rescue efforts. Though citizens are frustrated with the earthquake response, criticism of the king can have serious consequences. Many Moroccans are eager for visitors to keep coming to support the economy and fund relief. Economy Poverty spiked in the U.S. last year, more than doubling among children, as prices rose and federal aid programs expired. In the opening of a major antitrust trial, the government argued Google eliminated competitors by paying to be the default search engine on phones. Eight more companies that work on artificial intelligence agreed to follow the White House’s voluntary safeguards for the technology. Apple’s newest iPhone will use USB-C ports, the same charger as many MacBooks. Bernard Looney resigned as BP’s chief executive after failing to disclose past relationships with colleagues. Health The C.D.C. recommended that all Americans 6 months and older get at least one dose of the latest Covid vaccines. The shots will be available within days. (Here’s an Opinion article by the C.D.C. director.) A decongestant used in cold medicines from Sudafed, Tylenol and others doesn’t work, an F.D.A. panel said. See what you can use instead. Other Big Stories A fire broke out in a nine-story apartment block in Hanoi, killing more than 30. Five former Memphis police officers accused of brutally beating Tyre Nichols were indicted on federal charges over his death. New York City’s pension funds sued Fox, saying that by broadcasting falsehoods about the 2020 election and risking lawsuits, it neglected its duty to shareholders. As much as $135 billion in unemployment benefits paid during the pandemic could have been claimed illegally. Opinions The Supreme Court can earn back some legitimacy by forcing Alabama to comply with the Voting Rights Act in its congressional maps, Kate Shaw writes. Here are columns by Ross Douthat on Joe Biden’s age and Bret Stephens on American foreign-aid efforts. Everything The Times offers. All in one subscription. Morning readers: Save on unlimited access to The Times with this introductory offer. MORNING READS Flowing freely: A river of wine filled streets in Portugal after two distillery tanks collapsed. Van Gogh: A painting stolen from a Dutch museum in 2020 was returned in an Ikea bag. Dublin marathon: The medals commemorated Yeats — and misquoted him. Titan: The presence of an experienced deep sea explorer on the doomed submersible is a riddle that haunts the disaster. Lives Lived: As New York City’s police commissioner in the 1990s, Howard Safir expanded antidrug efforts and improved officer training. But New Yorkers criticized his response to fatal police shootings of Black men. He died at 81. SPORTS Aaron Rodgers: The Jets’ quarterback is out for the season with a torn Achilles’ tendon. New York fans’ hopes that he would lead the team to a Super Bowl were short lived. Substitution: Zach Wilson is now the Jets’ starting quarterback. New boss: David Stearns, the former Brewers president and general manager, will take over the baseball operations for the New York Mets. Tennis: Simona Halep received a four-year suspension for a doping violation after she tested positive for a banned substance at last year’s U.S. Open. ARTS AND IDEAS The Tank MuseumSam Bush for The New York Times Internet fame: The first museum to reach 100 million views on YouTube was not the Louvre or the Smithsonian. It was the Tank Museum. Its videos, which include detailed discussions on tank technology and history, have made this museum in the English countryside an unlikely global sensation. More on culture The National Book Awards dropped Drew Barrymore as its host after she resumed her daytime talk show despite the strike by television writers. Locals in Brentwood, Calif., are fighting to stop the demolition of the house where Marilyn Monroe died. Venice plans to charge a five-euro fee to tourists coming on a day trip. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … David Malosh for The New York Times. Roast mushrooms until golden for a different take on larb. Invest in adjustable buttons to make your pants fit better. Prepare one of these 142 easy vegetarian recipes. Balance quality and budget when buying a sofa. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was pivoting. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — David P.S. “The conservative whisperer to liberals”: The New Yorker profiled Ross Douthat, a Times Opinion columnist. 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: Desiree Ibekwe, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lyna Bentahar 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 September 14, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 14, 2023 September 14, 2023 Continue reading the main story SUPPORTED BY Upway By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering the Google antitrust trial — as well as rescue efforts in Libya, Mitt Romney and vanilla. Judge Robert Bork during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1987.Jose R. Lopez/The New York Times The Bork factor Americans have long been skeptical of big business. Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Harry Truman all tried to constrain the power of large companies. Their efforts were part of a national culture that long emphasized individual freedom. In the 1960s, however, a group of conservative scholars began arguing that large corporations had been unfairly maligned. These scholars — led by Robert Bork, then an obscure law professor — made the case that big business was often efficient and innovative. And if a large company did try to take advantage of consumers, these scholars said, a competitor could swoop in and lure away those consumers. For years, Bork and his allies failed to persuade Washington to embrace their views. But after the U.S. economy struggled during the 1970s, policymakers became worried that antitrust laws were keeping American companies from competing with Japanese and European rivals. Slowly, the Bork view won converts, among both Republicans and Democrats. Since the 1980s, that view has dominated, allowing corporations to grow much larger. I wanted to tell you this history today because it’s a crucial backdrop to the Google antitrust trial that began this week. That trial is the most significant attempt in decades to undo the Bork consensus. Entwined in our lives Google’s Mountain View campus.Jim Wilson/The New York Times Google certainly looks like a monopoly by many measures. More than 90 percent of web searches worldwide are done on Google. This level of dominance can create problems for anybody who isn’t a Google executive or shareholder. The company is so profitable that it can shape government policies through lobbying and donations. Google can potentially hold down wages for anybody who wants to work in internet search: Where else is that person going to go? Google can also essentially force consumers to turn over their personal data to the company; to exist in today’s economy, you need to interact with Google’s various services, like search, Gmail, Google Cloud and YouTube. “For the past decade, Google and other tech giants have become incredibly powerful and entwined in just about every aspect of our lives,” Cecilia Kang, one of the Times reporters covering the Google trial, told me. The Justice Department’s case against the company (and a related lawsuit brought by 38 states and territories) argues that Google has unfairly maintained its dominance by paying other companies billions of dollars a year. Payments to Apple, for example, are the reason that Google is the default search engine on iPhones. As a result, the Justice Department says, competitors to Google cannot establish themselves. Google responds that its success is simply a reflection of the quality of its products. “People don’t use Google because they have to,” Kent Walker, Google’s top lawyer, has written. “They use it because they want to.” The government’s biggest challenge in winning this case is closely connected to Bork’s framework for antitrust policy. He argued that the most rigorous standard for judging potential monopolies was consumer prices. Only when economic analysis proved that a company was so powerful that it could raise consumer prices should regulators step in, Bork and his allies said. Otherwise, the government was just guessing about when a company was so big as to be problematic. Who benefits? A protester dressed as Mr. Monopoly.Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times Google, of course, charges consumers nothing for its main products. The company makes money in other ways, such as advertisements. The same dynamic exists elsewhere in the technology industry. Facebook does not charge consumers for an account, either. Amazon does charge for products on its site, but often not any more than other retailers. In recent years, a rising generation of legal scholars has tried to overturn the Bork consensus by arguing that large companies can still do damage even without increasing prices. They can hold down wages, warp government policy, trample on privacy or spread misinformation. (One member of this rising generation is Lina Khan, whom President Biden named to run the Federal Trade Commission.) As part of their argument, these critics of big business — the intellectual heirs to Theodore Roosevelt — can point to macroeconomic data. In the four decades since Bork’s view triumphed, wages for most Americans have grown more slowly than either corporate profits or the incomes of the wealthy. Corporate consolidation seems to have been better for a small slice of privileged people, including Google executives, than for most Americans. In the long term, these critics hope to change the legal standard for evaluating large companies, much as Bork and other scholars slowly did in the late 20th century. Doing so will probably require new laws as well as different attitudes among regulators and judges. Such a project might take decades, if it ever succeeds. In the meantime, the Justice Department’s lawyers hope to persuade Amit Mehta, the federal judge hearing the case, that Google has violated even the lenient antitrust laws of today. For more Google used deals with phone makers as a “powerful strategic weapon” protecting its dominance, the government has argued in the first days of the trial. For more on the case, I recommend this article by David McCabe and Cecilia Kang, which explains the implications for the entire technology industry, as well as this recent episode of “The Daily.” For more on Bork — who became famous for his role in the Watergate investigation and his failed Supreme Court nomination — you can read his Times obituary from 2012. Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM Upway Meet Upway — the No. 1 Certified E-Bike Expert Upway carries both new and like-new e-bikes at up to 60 percent off retail. All its e-bikes go through a rigorous inspection and certification process by its master mechanics and are given a one-year warranty. The best part? Each bike comes 99 percent assembled and ready to ride. Upway carries a wide selection of e-bikes from top brands like Specialized, Gazelle and Aventon. Its goal is to make electric mobility affordable for everyone. Use code NYT for an extra $150 off your e-bike. Shop now THE LATEST NEWS International Derna, Libya.Jamal Alkomaty/Associated Press Rescuers are slowly reaching flood victims after dams collapsed in Libya, killing thousands. Read the story of one survivor. At a summit, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un found common ground in opposing the U.S. and its allies. At the Darién Gap, the treacherous passage connecting South and Central America, local politicians make money from desperate migrants. Politics Mitt RomneyKent Nishimura for The New York Times Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, 76, won’t seek re-election. He suggested that Biden and Donald Trump should also make way for “a new generation of leaders.” A judge in Texas again ruled that DACA, a program that shields some migrants from deportation, was unlawful. The husband of Representative Mary Peltola, an Alaska Democrat, died in a plane crash. A former top buildings official in New York City who raised funds for Mayor Eric Adams pleaded not guilty to bribery charges. Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican presidential candidate, said he would fire most federal workers and shut several agencies. George W. Bush urged Congress to continue authorizing a program he started to treat H.I.V. around the world, in an opinion piece for The Washington Post. House Republicans have threatened to let it lapse. Abortion Policy Pentagon officials said that Senator Tommy Tuberville’s blockade on military confirmation votes over abortion policy was undermining national security. In The Times Magazine, Emily Bazelon previews ballot initiatives that will try to establish abortion rights in surprising places. Pennsylvania Manhunt With help from a heat sensor and a police dog, the authorities captured Danelo Cavalcante, a convicted killer who had escaped prison and prompted a 500-officer manhunt. People online criticized about two dozen law-enforcement officers who took a group selfie with Cavalcante before he was returned to jail. Business and Economy Consumer prices accelerated last month, after several months of slowing growth. One factor: gasoline prices. Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and other tech leaders met with members of Congress to discuss regulating artificial intelligence. The United Auto Workers, facing stalled contract talks, are set to strike against the three big Detroit automakers at selected plants on Friday. Arm, the British chip design company whose technology is essential to nearly all mobile phones, had the biggest initial public offering of the year so far. Other Big Stories Hurricane Lee, a Category 2 storm, is expected to hit Bermuda before moving on to New England and Canada. New York City is introducing new trash cans. Opinions Two-parent families are the anti-poverty strategy that liberals too often ignore, Nicholas Kristof writes. Here are columns by Charles Blow on the Birmingham church bombing and Pamela Paul on the Ivy League. Everything The Times offers. All in one subscription. Morning readers: Save on unlimited access to The Times with this introductory offer. MORNING READS Video by Melody Melamed Vanilla: How did a complex ingredient become a byword for blandness? “Dad, get us out of here!”: Read what stood in the way of a family trying to escape the Maui wildfires as smoke engulfed them. Kirk, McCoy and Spock: Scientists in Brazil named new species of spiders after “Star Trek” characters. Otherworldly: A self-proclaimed U.F.O. researcher presented what he claimed were two mummified extraterrestrial beings to Mexico’s Congress. The group chat: Finding the right name has become something of an art. Lives Lived: Len Chandler was an early fixture of the Greenwich Village folk music revival. He sang alongside Bob Dylan and at the March on Washington. Chandler died at 88. SPORTS Aaron Rodgers: The Jets quarterback said he would “rise again” after rupturing his Achilles’ tendon. Baseball’s best team: The Atlanta Braves won their sixth straight National League East title last night. N.B.A: The league’s board of governors approved a new policy to restrict teams from resting star players in prime matchups. ARTS AND IDEAS The Perelman Performing Arts CenterGeorge Etheredge for The New York Times Manhattan’s new jewel: The Perelman Performing Arts Center, a marble cube nestled near One World Trade Center, is “the most glamorous civic building to land in New York in years,” the Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman writes. It houses three theaters that can be rearranged in 60 ways, and its translucent exterior glows amber in the evening, as chandeliers cast the silhouettes of theatergoers onto its surface. More on culture Representative Lauren Boebert was ejected from the audience of the musical “Beetlejuice” in Denver for being loud and recording the show. New York investigators have seized three artworks they said were stolen from a Jewish art collector and cabaret artist killed during the Holocaust. Gannett, America’s largest newspaper chain, is hiring full-time reporters to cover Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times Chop mangoes to brighten this chicken dish. Celebrate with The Times’s best Rosh Hashana recipes. Build a wedding registry list that’s both practical and fun. Give your dog the gift of a comfortable bed. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was empathy. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. 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: Desiree Ibekwe, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lyna Bentahar 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 September 16, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 16, 2023 September 15, 2023 Continue reading the main story SUPPORTED BY The League By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering the start of an autoworkers’ strike — as well as Hunter Biden, Kevin McCarthy and U.F.O. research. In Detroit.Brittany Greeson for The New York Times A strike begins Tumultuous labor strikes are a natural part of an economy with an expanding middle class. I realize that idea may sound surprising. Strikes are unpleasant, after all. They disrupt life for a company’s workers, managers and customers. (Here is the latest Times coverage of the United Auto Workers strike that began this morning.) It’s usually better for everyone when a company’s executives and union leaders can agree on a contract without a walkout. But history shows that the potential for a strike, and sometimes the reality of one, is necessary for workers to receive healthy raises and ensure good working conditions. The decades after World War II are rightly remembered as a time when the American middle class was expanding rapidly. Median family income more than doubled over a 25-year period starting in the 1940s, even after taking inflation into account. The income gap between rich and poor families shrank, as did the gap between white and Black families. These were also years when strikes were a regular feature of American life. In the 12 months after World War II ended, almost five million Americans, or roughly 10 percent of the work force, went on strike, including autoworkers, film crews in Hollywood, steel workers, coal miners and meatpackers. During the 1950s — a supposedly conformist decade — more than 1.5 million workers went on strike every year on average. The strikes helped create the American middle class. Without at least the possibility of a disruptive strike, companies are often able to keep wages relatively low. They can bet that workers won’t quit for higher-paying jobs elsewhere. This bet often pays off, particularly when industries are highly concentrated with only a few large companies. That’s essentially what has happened over the past few decades as unions have withered and companies have consolidated. The economic trends have been the opposite of what they were in the mid-20th century: Executive pay and corporate profits have grown faster than the American economy — and much faster than wages for rank-and-file workers. Source: Henry Farber, Daniel Herbst, Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu | By The New York Times Makeup pay The current burst of labor activism, in the auto industry, Hollywood, Amazon warehouses, Starbucks stores and elsewhere, is an attempt to reverse these trends. The United Auto Workers, for example, agreed to large pay cuts for new workers when the industry was near collapse during the financial crisis almost 15 years ago. Since then, Detroit’s Big Three — General Motors, Ford and Chrysler (now owned by Stellantis, a Netherlands-based company) — have recovered, earning large profits, but worker pay has not rebounded so well. Union leaders are now asking for a 36 percent wage increase over four years, to match the similar recent pay increase for top executives. The union also wants pay to rise automatically with inflation in the future, as it did before the financial crisis. Without such cost-of-living increases, inflation causes de facto pay declines every year. I want to emphasize that the broader importance of unions doesn’t mean that all their demands are reasonable. Sometimes, unions really do make self-defeating demands. The auto industry is a case study. As Japanese and German companies won over American customers in the 1970s and 1980s, Detroit’s unions (along with the industry’s top executives) were slow to recognize the threat and continued insisting on wages and work rules that contributed to the Big Three’s decline. A classic example was known in the auto industry as a jobs bank — places where workers who no longer had jobs came every day to do little and still be paid. (My colleague Neal Boudette nicely traced this history on an episode of “The Daily” this week.) In the current negotiation, the U.A.W. is asking for a new version of jobs banks. The updated version would continue paying some employees who had lost their jobs during the transition to electric vehicles, which require fewer workers than gas-powered vehicles. Is that a sensible demand? I’m not sure. It might be good for individuals, but it could also prevent the car companies from staying competitive with foreign rivals. Likewise, is a 36 percent pay increase a fair catch-up after the previous pay concessions — or is it more than the companies can sustain and instead a sign that neither C.E.O.s nor workers should be getting such big raises? These are legitimate questions, and I hope that Detroit’s executives and union leaders will hash them out in public. Just keep in mind that if they weren’t arguing over them, the workers would probably be worse off. For more The strike initially involves less than 10 percent of the union’s workers. See a map of where the strikes are happening. An extended walkout could raise car prices and affect jobs at the companies’ suppliers. President Biden says he supports both autoworkers and electric vehicles, but there are inherent tensions between the two positions, Noam Scheiber explains. Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM The League A Dating App for Goal Diggers We know you’re a goal-getter. Find someone goal-ing the same places you are. Join The League THE LATEST NEWS Politics Hunter BidenKenny Holston/The New York Times Hunter Biden was indicted on charges that he lied about his drug use when he bought a handgun in 2018. He could go on trial next year. Donald Trump has sued the judge presiding over his New York fraud case. That could delay the trial, which is scheduled to begin next month. Florida recommended that residents under 65 skip the new Covid vaccines, contradicting the C.D.C. Gov. Ron DeSantis accused federal officials of using people as “guinea pigs.” Biden said he believed he could direct limited military operations without lawmakers’ approval, in a Times survey of 2024 candidates’ views on presidential power. Congress Speaker Kevin McCarthy dared far-right lawmakers to try to oust him, earning a standing ovation from other House Republicans. Mitt Romney’s biography recounts how he warned Mitch McConnell about Jan. 6 — and mocked other senators for using easy settings on exercise bikes. Read an excerpt in The Atlantic. War in Ukraine The U.S. imposed new sanctions on Russia, targeting military supply chains. Ukraine said it had struck a Russian missile system in Crimea and two ships in the Black Sea, far beyond the front lines. Africa Derna, Libya.Ayman Al-Sahili/Reuters Before two dams collapsed in Libya, killing thousands, some residents in the danger area said they received conflicting signals about evacuating. One woman in Morocco fled the earthquake’s devastation while in labor. Her daughter, Fatima Zahra, is healthy. Europe French schools and students are wrestling with a ban on the abaya, a full-length robe worn by some Muslim women and girls. Ireland’s government is bracing for a boom in corporate tax revenue from American tech and pharmaceutical companies. Wisconsin Planned Parenthood will resume providing abortions in the state next week amid a legal fight over a 174 year-old abortion law. Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate voted to remove the state’s nonpartisan elections administrator, a target of 2020 election deniers. She’s suing to keep her job. Other Big Stories Hurricane and tropical storm watches have been issued for coastal New England and parts of Canada. Here’s what to know. “I’m broke and wearing an ankle monitor”: Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX founder, wrote about his mind-set ahead of a criminal trial in a 15,000-word unposted Twitter thread. After Elijah McClain died during an encounter with police in 2019, the case seemed to be closed. Then the George Floyd protests changed things, Audra Burch writes in The Times Magazine. People on Staten Island used a loudspeaker to drive away migrants sheltering at a defunct school. Opinions Prosecutors in Poland, where abortion is effectively banned, are testing women to see if they’ve taken an abortion pill. It could happen here, Patrick Adams argues. Here are columns by Michelle Goldberg on Mitt Romney, and Paul Krugman on child poverty. Our best offer is here. But not for long. It’s your last chance to enjoy The Times at substantial savings on your first year. Start benefiting from unlimited access to News, Games, Cooking, Audio, Wirecutter and The Athletic. Subscribe today. MORNING READS NASA: The agency appointed a director to lead a scientifically rigorous study of U.F.O. reports. Greenland: Rescuers freed a luxury cruise ship that had been stuck for three days. High Holy Days: It’s crunchtime for a playwright who helps rabbis craft their sermons. Modern Love: Punishment, and healing, under men’s bodies. Lives Lived: Lisa Lyon won the first Women’s World Pro Bodybuilding Championship, then captured the attention of Robert Mapplethorpe, who took scores of photos of her in the early 1980s. She died at 70. SPORTS Philadelphia Eagles: The defending N.F.C. champions improved to 2-0 last night despite a late rally from Minnesota. Boston: The Red Sox fired their chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom after a disappointing tenure. Blue Jackets scandal: Players’ association officials are investigating the Columbus coach Mike Babcock, who is accused of scrolling through players’ phones. Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM The League A Dating App for Goal Diggers We know you’re a goal-getter. Find someone goal-ing the same places you are. Join The League ARTS AND IDEAS The ZeitpyramideFelix Schmitt for The New York Times Slow and steady: A crowd gathered recently in Germany to see a crane lower a large concrete block, part of a sculpture called the Zeitpyramide. If they wish to see the next block come down, they will need to wait 10 years. The artwork, whose name translates to “Time Pyramid,” is a study in long-term thinking: The plan is to add a block a decade until the year 3183. More on culture The C.I.A. revealed the identity of a second spy involved in its “Argo” operation, the subject of a Ben Affleck movie. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Armando Rafael for The New York Times Braid challah. Cook one of Kenji López-Alt’s 33 most popular recipes. Project movies on these screens. Upgrade your iPhone. Take our news quiz. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was bedfellow. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. 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: Desiree Ibekwe, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lyna Bentahar 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 September 17, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 17, 2023 September 16, 2023 By Melissa Kirsch Good morning. The National Book Awards longlist was announced this week. Is your next favorite book on it? María Jesús Contreras Balancing the books One of the best birthday gifts I’ve ever received was a stack of four or five books, all published the year I was born. I hadn’t read John le Carré’s “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” but now I felt a connection to it; we’d both come into being at roughly the same time. I wasn’t much of a sci-fi fan, but it seemed like a requirement that I read “The Dispossessed,” by Ursula K. Le Guin after receiving it in the stack. The gift was meaningful in the way that receiving a reprint of the front page of the newspaper from your birth date is: Here is a snapshot of the world, which was already awake and complicated with ideas, at the moment you arrived in it. I’m interested in how people choose the books they read. Do they pick up the most alluring from a table teeming with new releases at the bookstore? Read reviews and make selections based on critics’ picks? Get recommendations from friends or celebrity book clubs? The all-you-can-read buffet of books available begs a reader, especially a slow reader like me, to develop a strategy. As with an actual buffet, where you can fill up at the pasta station but be full by the time you get to the make-your-own-omelet bar, I worry about spending too long with any era or genre to the exclusion of others. Perhaps the right move is to graze, a little bit of everything in moderation, keep it interesting, keep moving. This week, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2023 National Book Awards, presenting a crop of books on which a hungry reader could happily feast from now through the end of the year.(“Chain-Gang All-Stars,” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and “Fire Weather,” by John Vaillant just moved to the top of my list.) A friend recently suggested to me that the longlists and finalists from National Book Awards past offered an abundance of uncommon ideas for what to read. Pick a year and see what you haven’t read — or better yet, what you haven’t heard of, the books that were admired in a particular year but, for whatever reason, don’t come up on your radar today. You could, of course, choose the year you were born and go to town. But you’d best get to reading this weekend. The finalists for the 2023 Booker Prize will be announced on Thursday, and the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on Oct. 5. Add those to the fact that it’s fall, the season when many publishers release their biggest titles, and your reading plate is about to be very full. For more The New York Times Book Review’s best books of recent years. Drew Barrymore’s invitation to host this year’s National Book Awards was rescinded after she announced that her talk show would return without unionized writers. She apologized yesterday but signaled she was sticking to her plans. Sign up for the “Read Like the Wind” newsletter for recommendations from the Book Review. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE WEEK IN CULTURE Fernando BoteroMartin Bureau/Agence France-Presse Fernando Botero’s paintings and sculptures of overstuffed generals, bishops, prostitutes and housewives made him one of the world’s best-known artists. He died at 91. Nicki Minaj hosted the MTV Video Music Awards. She also performed in a medley celebrating 50 years of hip-hop. See memorable moments from the night. The Rolling Stone magazine co-founder Jann Wenner said his decision to feature only white men in his book on rock’s “masters” was unintentional and about “my personal interest and love of them.” Sean Combs released his first solo album in 17 years, which the Times pop critic Jon Caramanica called “modern and engaged.” “Sometimes I have a conversation with the mustache”: The hair and makeup designer for “A Haunting in Venice” knows that Kenneth Branagh’s facial hair may be the movie’s most important detail. Contract negotiations between Hollywood studios and striking screenwriters could restart next week. Bill Maher said his weekly HBO show would return despite the writers’ strike, which includes members of his own staff. A public-relations expert examined the divorce announcement of Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner. Ashton Kutcher stepped down as chairman of a nonprofit he co-founded to combat child sexual abuse. He had drawn criticism for seeking leniency for his former co-star Danny Masterson, who was convicted of rape. The breakout Mexican singer-songwriter Peso Pluma postponed concerts in the U.S. while the authorities investigate whether a drug cartel made threats against him. Aerosmith postponed six shows of its farewell tour after the lead singer, Steven Tyler, sustained vocal cord damage, CBS News reports. ’NSYNC will release its first new song in over 20 years for the “Trolls Band Together” soundtrack, Pitchfork reports. The acclaimed playwright who wrote the script from which the 2016 movie “Moonlight” was adapted will be the next director of Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Amanda Gorman and Cynthia Erivo were among the performers at the opening of the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the site of the World Trade Center. A Polish singing competition is facing criticism after two contestants performed in blackface, imitating Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé. The New York Philharmonic has received a $40 million donation, the largest endowment gift in the orchestra’s 181-year history. Authors, playwrights and composers who are not U.S. citizens will soon be eligible for the Pulitzer Prizes for the first time. THE LATEST NEWS Outside a Ford plant in Wayne, Mich.Brittany Greeson for The New York Times The autoworkers’ union said it would resume negotiations today after its members walked off the job at three factories that produce of some of the Detroit carmakers’ most popular vehicles. A government shutdown looms at the end of the month as far-right Republicans have paralyzed Congress. President Biden has been besieged on multiple fronts in recent days, Peter Baker writes, including by an indictment of his son Hunter and an impeachment inquiry. Witnesses have undercut or pushed back on some accusations against Biden that Republicans have cited in pushing forward with the impeachment inquiry. A 1-year-old boy died and three other children were hospitalized after an apparent opioid exposure at a Bronx day care center, officials said. China’s defense minister has not been seen in public in more than two weeks, fueling speculation about more upheaval in its military. Prosecutors asked the judge in Donald Trump’s federal indictment on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election to impose a narrow gag order on him. Our best offer is here. But not for long. It’s your last chance to enjoy The Times at substantial savings on your first year. Start benefiting from unlimited access to News, Games, Cooking, Audio, Wirecutter and The Athletic. Subscribe today. CULTURE CALENDAR 🎬 “Stop Making Sense” (Friday): David Byrne’s big suit is about to get much bigger. Jonathan Demme’s 1984 concert film of the Talking Heads, shot over several nights at Pantages Theater in Los Angeles, will be rereleased on IMAX. Straddling art rock, punk rock, world music and No Wave, the music remains startlingly contemporary, and the staging is beautifully weird. For a more recent performance, try Spike Lee’s 2020 film of Byrne’s “American Utopia.” 📺 “Still Up” (Friday): Plenty of people watch television when they can’t sleep, so here is Apple TV+ to square that wakeful circle, with an eight-episode comedy about insomnia. Two Londoners, Danny (played by Craig Roberts) and Lisa (Antonia Thomas), chat all night while chasing sleep. Not quite a romantic comedy, the show shares the occasional absurdity and gentle melancholy of other Britcoms such as “Lovesick” and “Starstruck.” But can it beat chamomile tea? — Alexis Soloski Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT RECIPE OF THE WEEK Sarah Anne Ward for The New York Times By Melissa Clark Baked apples It’s Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, which is traditionally celebrated by dipping apples in honey and savoring other sweet dishes. Dorie Greenspan’s baked apples would be a perfect addition to a Rosh Hashana dinner, and they make a festive finale to any autumnal meal. Dorie’s recipe — a riff on her mother’s — calls for stuffing firm and tart baking apples (like Rome Beauty) with crystallized ginger and diced, dried apple rings, then bathing them with honey-spiked apple cider. As the apples bake, they soften, turning plush, and the liquid in the pan reduces and caramelizes until it becomes sticky and sauce-like. Serve these golden, fragrant confections topped with sour cream, sorbet or ice cream for dessert, or with dollops of yogurt for breakfast the next day. They’re a lovely way to ease into fall. REAL ESTATE A tiny house inside a dumpster in London.Sam Bush for The New York Times Social media fodder: Millions have watched videos of tiny homes online. But do views translate into new occupants? What you get for $2.8 million: A 1750 house in Newport, R.I.; a Craftsman bungalow in Carmel, Calif.; or a Tudor Revival in Denver. The hunt: A New York firefighter and single father wanted the three-bedroom home of his dreams. Which did he choose? Play our game. Luxury condos: Branded developments feature amenities like a car elevator at the Porsche Design Tower or Armani wallpaper. LIVING The 50th-anniversary edition of the Big Brown BagBloomingdale's Unpacking: The distinctive paper shopping bag at Bloomingdale’s is turning 50. $41,000 a night: Rome is full of exorbitantly priced hotels, even as some neighborhoods fall apart. Ready, set … : Running a marathon this fall? Learn how to prepare your body and mind. An unlikely comeback: Some artists still see smoking as cool. Herbal supplements: What can turmeric actually do for your health? ADVICE FROM WIRECUTTER Wash cashmere at home On the first sweater-weather day of the year, you want to be prepared. Give your cashmere a wash before the season arrives. Despite what the label might say, hand-washing is fine. Fill a sink with lukewarm water and add a capful of detergent — for the gentlest clean, use a no-rinse detergent. Submerge your sweater and let it soak for 15 minutes, then gently press out excess water by rolling in a dry towel. Lay the garment flat to dry, and voilà! Deliciously soft, clean cashmere that’s ready to take on the autumn chill. — Zoe Vanderweide GAME OF THE WEEKEND Tua TagovailoaRonald Martinez/Getty Images Miami Dolphins vs. New England Patriots, N.F.L.: For two decades, the Patriots ruled over the A.F.C. East. But Tom Brady is gone, New England’s reign is over and the Dolphins appear ready to take over the division. They had one of the league’s best offenses last year, a high-powered passing attack with two elite receivers, Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle. This year, they might be even better: Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa threw for 466 yards in the first game, leading his team to a thrilling 36-34 win over the Los Angeles Chargers. 8 p.m. Eastern tomorrow on NBC For more The Dolphins have changed so much that they are almost unrecognizable from 20 games ago, Mike Sando writes in The Athletic. NOW TIME TO PLAY Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was blizzard. 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, Sudoku and Connections. 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: Desiree Ibekwe, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lyna Bentahar 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 September 17, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 17, 2023 September 17, 2023 By Lauren Jackson Good morning. Adventure tourism in places like Mongolia is becoming more popular. A dirt road in central Mongolia.Lauren Jackson A remote road trip In 2001, a British man named Tom Morgan decided to host an extreme car race. It would start in Britain and end in what he thought was the world’s most difficult destination for most people to reach: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, more than 5,500 miles away. He called it the Mongol Rally. Participants had to drive the worst car they could find, avoid any planning and have as much fun as possible. Only six cars raced the first year. But interest grew as people began to talk about the rally online. “It’s gone ballistic,” Morgan said. More than 2,000 teams are on the wait-list to join the next Mongol Rally. The growing popularity of the race is one example of interest in trips to remote destinations. Adventure travel companies and insurance providers are reporting record sales this year. “We’ve never been busier,” said Michael Pullman, head of marketing for Wild Frontiers, an adventure travel company. Global Rescue, a company that offers emergency rescues to clients anywhere in the world, said consumer sales were 36 percent higher last year than in 2019 (the last year before the pandemic). The companies say their clients are skipping Bali or Santorini in favor of destinations with less tourism infrastructure. The number of visitors to Antarctica has more than tripled in the last decade. Nepal granted a record number of permits to climb Mount Everest this year. And car rental companies in Mongolia sold out of S.U.V.s this summer, as I discovered during a road trip across the country. The Mongolian steppe. Lauren Jackson Changed tastes Experts attribute the surging interest, in part, to pandemic restrictions and precautions that kept people at home. After Covid lockdowns, people have been eager to travel far. “People want to feel a sense of freedom again,” Max Muench, a co-founder of the travel company Follow the Tracks, said. They also have a sense that time is precious and they should cross off bucket-list items, Pullman said. Wild Frontiers has seen more interest in places like Mongolia, Namibia and Uzbekistan, where bookings are up 150 percent compared with 2019. Social media is also responsible, experts say. Instagram is filled with posts advertising foreign destinations. The posts are social currency, conferring status on users who share images from remote places. “People know their posts will be the envy of the neighborhood,” Dan Richards, Global Rescue’s chief executive, said. “So they’re going to Bhutan instead of buying a BMW.” Some governments see the surging interest in adventure tourism as an economic opportunity for their countries. They have invested in social media marketing campaigns to bring in even more visitors. The Mongolian government has invited influencers to come and post videos of the country’s verdant valleys, Caribbean-blue lakes and orange sand dunes. But by bringing in more tourists, the governments endanger their countries’ reputations as remote destinations. While tourists bring their wallets, spurring economic development, they can also bring pollution and destruction to environments and social changes to communities. “The country is changing very rapidly,” said Breanna Wilson, a travel expert in Mongolia. “It’s not going to be this Wild West for much longer.” Read more about the rise of adventure tourism in Mongolia here. More on travel Paddle board across Florida’s rivers. Sam Heughan of “Outlander” shares his five favorite places in Glasgow. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS International Illustration by Chantal Jahchan; photographs by Getty Images Spy balloons and intercepted communications: The U.S. and China are expanding their espionage operations. Libyan officials didn’t listen to warnings about dams that could collapse during strong storms, according to an engineer who published a paper on the topic. Politics The Texas Senate voted to acquit the state’s attorney general after an impeachment trial that focused on corruption accusations. Democratic leaders are more optimistic about President Biden’s 2024 re-election bid than voters, causing concern within the party. Autoworkers’ Strike The United Auto Workers union and three Detroit automakers resumed negotiations on a new labor contract. Electric vehicles are an issue in the strike, as manufacturers shift from gasoline-driven cars and workers seek to preserve jobs. Climate The storm known as Lee made landfall in Canada. It knocked out power to tens of thousands of people and killed at least one. New York’s biggest landfill, almost as tall as the Statue of Liberty, could rise higher than a 35-story building. Other Big Stories The Pennsylvania fugitive Danelo Cavalcante broke into homes and stole boots to change his tracks. Read how he survived for 13 days. At Yale, a woman’s rape accusation exposed her to a defamation lawsuit. The case could help reshape how colleges handle assault cases. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame board removed the co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine after remarks he gave to The Times were criticized as racist and sexist. FROM OPINION The trees that logging companies planted to make up for cutting down forests have become the kindling for Canadian wildfires, Claire Cameron writes. Republican primary candidates looking to distinguish themselves have all decided to sound like Donald Trump, Katherine Miller writes. Here are columns by Nicholas Kristof on world hunger and David French on Hunter Biden. The Sunday question: Does Biden’s conduct deserve a House impeachment inquiry? Biden’s involvement with his son Hunter’s business dealings hardly meets the bar for an ordinary crime, much less a high crime or misdemeanor, and the investigation is “a revenge mission and nothing more,” Norman Eisen writes for CNN. But having seen how Democrats undermined the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, Republicans had no choice but “to get to the bottom of the Biden family’s alleged corruption,” The Washington Post’s Marc A. Thiessen writes. Our best offer is here. But not for long. It’s your last chance to enjoy The Times at substantial savings on your first year. Start benefiting from unlimited access to News, Games, Cooking, Audio, Wirecutter and The Athletic. Subscribe today. MORNING READS An extreme boat docking event in Salisbury, Md.Kent Nishimura for The New York Times Boat docking: Watermen are in a serious competition. Succession: The luxury conglomerate LVMH made Bernard Arnault one of the world’s richest men. Will one of his five children inherit the company? Work texts: Colleagues are sliding into DMs. Vows: Robin Roberts and her wife, Amber Laign, proposed to each other with calamari rings. Lives Lived: Tadaaki Kuwayama was a celebrated painter who forged a distinctively minimal path with cool but vivid monochromes. He died at 91. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT TALK | FROM THE TIMES MAGAZINE Jenny OdellMamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times By David Marchese Earlier this year, I spoke with Jenny Odell, the author of “Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock,” about the perils of time management. You’re skeptical about whether any time-management mind-set can lead to a more substantive relationship with time. But who’s to say that someone can’t find fulfillment by treating time as something he or she can get better returns on? My skepticism is about that way of thinking of time as being offered as a solution to someone who doesn’t have control of their time — that if they controlled their time in this grid-like way, they could succeed in life. I think that person has the potential to use that way of thinking very self-punitively. You’ve said that the return-on-investment view of time goes in the direction of meaninglessness. I want to know more about why you think that. There’s the question of why you do anything. There’s something about that culture of making everything more efficient that risks avoiding that question of why. A life of total efficiency and convenience? Well, why? Do you have advice for how people might answer that question for themselves? Like, what is the meaning of life? Yep. Someone who’s completely habitual is liable to see days as being pieces of material that you use to achieve your goals. There’s degrees between that and someone who’s so open to every moment that they’re dysfunctional, but I want to live closer to that second pole. Things that are enlivening to me tend to be encounters where you are changed by the end. To me those are the reminders that, yeah, I will be different in the future, therefore I have a reason to live, which is to find out what that change is going to be. Read more of the interview here. More from the magazine What seeing classical tragedies performed in Greece taught one writer about pain and grief. The Ethicist: “My mother is a hoarder. Do I have to help her?” Read the full issue. BOOKS Mercurial subject: On “Hard Fork,” Walter Isaacson discussed his new biography of Elon Musk. Our editors’ picks: “Fixer,” a haunting poetry collection about the gig economy, and eight other books. Times best sellers: The comedian Maria Bamford’s memoir “Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult” is on the hardcover nonfiction list. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Make a chocolate cake in one bowl. Photograph this Picasso. Memorialize your pet. Choose the best running shoes. THE WEEK AHEAD What to Watch For The Senate is set to reconvene tomorrow and will discuss a bipartisan spending package that a lone Republican senator, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, held up. Biden and other world leaders will begin meeting in New York on Tuesday for the U.N.’s annual gathering. Milan Fashion Week begins on Tuesday. The Federal Reserve will release its next interest rate decision on Wednesday. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is expected to visit Washington on Thursday, as Congress debates whether to send his country a multibillion-dollar aid package. Saturday is the first day of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. What to Cook This Week David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. The breeziness of summer is gone, and life is picking up speed. Emily Weinstein’s Five Weeknight Dishes newsletter has recipes that fit into a crowded fall routine, including miso-honey chicken and asparagus and sheet-pan salmon and broccoli. NOW TIME TO PLAY Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was updraft. Can you put eight historical events — including the first SMS message, an asteroid striking the Yucatán and a 67-day strike at G.M. — in chronological order? Take this week’s Flashback quiz. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. 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: Desiree Ibekwe, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lyna Bentahar 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 September 20, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 20, 2023 September 19, 2023 By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering the latest Times investigation into child labor — as well as the prisoner release in Iran, Hunter Biden and Ozempic. Marcos Cux, 15. Meridith Kohut for The New York Times Child labor and a broken border It sounds like something out of an earlier century. Tens of thousands of children in the U.S., spanning all 50 states, work full time, often on overnight shifts and in dangerous jobs. The adults in their communities — including executives at major companies like Perdue Farms and Tyson Foods, whose slaughterhouses are cleaned by the young teenagers — look the other way. Government officials, in state capitals and in Washington, allow it to happen. For the past year and a half, my colleague Hannah Dreier has been reporting on the explosion of child labor among young migrants who have recently arrived in this country. Her latest story, which tells the story of Marcos Cux, a 15-year-old who was maimed last year in a chicken plant in rural Virginia run by Perdue, has just published in The Times Magazine. The story exposes the human costs of this country’s broken immigration system. Over the past 15 years, entering the U.S. without legal permission has become easier, especially for children. A 2008 law, intended to protect children from harm on the Mexican side of the border, has meant that children can usually enter the country without documentation. As Hannah writes, “In the 15 years since, the carveout has become widely known in Central America, where it shapes the calculations of destitute families.” Likewise, a 2015 ruling by a federal judge made it easier for children to enter the country with their families, as a recent New Yorker story by Dexter Filkins explained. These policy changes aren’t the only reasons that migration — by adults, too — has recently increased. The collapse of Venezuela’s economy and a rise in global poverty during the Covid pandemic also play a role, as does a perception in Latin America that the Biden administration is less vigilant about border security than either the Trump or Obama administrations. Many students quit school as soon as their English is proficient enough to get work. An open secret Whatever the causes, migrant children are arriving in a country that’s often unable, or at least unwilling, to protect them. After unaccompanied children come to the U.S., authorities place them with so-called sponsors, adults who are supposed to care for the children and ensure they attend school. Frequently, though, the sponsors allow the children to work full time, knowing that their parents need the money that working children can wire home. The children use false documents to get the jobs, and employers accept them even when they’re obviously incorrect. In many communities, child labor has become an open secret. Maria Escalante, a U.S.D.A. inspector, feels badly for the children working the night shift, but says, “It’s not my place to say anything." Yet this modern version of child labor brings the same terrible costs that led this country to ban the practice in the early 20th century. Children are exhausted. Many never graduate high school and learn the skills necessary to find decent-paying work as adults. Some, like Marcos, suffer gruesome injuries while working jobs intended for adults. In response to Hannah’s reporting, companies like Perdue and Tyson have said they do not tolerate child labor, but their actions suggest otherwise. And although the Biden administration responded to her initial story by increasing enforcement, it has so far fined only subcontractors for employing children, rather than brand-name companies. I recommend you find the time this week to read Hannah’s story. It is wrenching, but it offers some reason for hope about Marcos’s future. It’s also part of a larger problem: The U.S. has allowed millions of people to enter the country in recent years and is failing to care for many of them. For more “So Much Suffering”: The Times’s Ginia Bellafante writes about the struggle of New York City schools to care for migrant children. On a recent episode of “The Daily,” Nicholas Fandos explained how the migration surge has caused a political crisis in New York. Unlike other cities, Los Angeles is not facing a migrant crisis. The high cost of living and a lack of jobs have deterred many people from coming. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS International Siamak Namazi and Morad Tahbaz, who were released from prison.Mohammed Dabbous/Reuters Iran freed five Americans it had detained on spying charges. In exchange, the U.S. will allow Iran to access $6 billion in seized oil revenue. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the Indian government of killing a Sikh leader on Canadian soil in June. He pressed India to cooperate in an investigation. Libyans in Derna, the city where two collapsed dams killed thousands, protested against their government. Ghana sought help from the International Monetary Fund for the 17th time. Similar cycles of financial crisis and bailout plague many poor and middle-income countries. War in Ukraine CCTV camera footage, obtained by The Times. An errant Ukrainian missile, rather than a Russian attack, appears to have caused a deadly blast at a market in eastern Ukraine this month, a Times investigation found. President Biden will urge countries to continue to support Ukraine in a speech at the U.N. today. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, will also address the gathering. Politics Hunter Biden sued the I.R.S., saying it had violated his privacy by disclosing tax information. Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s plan to avoid a government shutdown over spending faces opposition from some Republicans. U.S. national debt has exceeded $33 trillion for the first time. Ken Paxton, attorney general of Texas, survived an impeachment vote but faces a Justice Department investigation over many of the same corruption allegations. Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, agreed to testify against Trump in the Georgia election interference case. His decision may have backfired. Senators no longer have to wear business attire on the floor. 2024 Election Donald Trump plans to speak to striking autoworkers in Detroit next week instead of attending the second Republican presidential debate. David McCormick, a former hedge fund executive who lost the Pennsylvania Republican Senate primary to Dr. Mehmet Oz last year, plans to run again. Jennifer Wexton, a House Democrat from Virginia, won’t seek re-election after she was diagnosed with a rare, incurable neurological condition. Other Big Stories A kilogram of fentanyl was found near nap mats at a Bronx day care where a 1-year-old boy died. The police in Los Angeles arrested a 29-year-old in the ambush-style killing of a deputy. The autoworkers’ strike will stress-test public approval for unions, which has been rising since the start of the pandemic, Noam Scheiber writes. The wreckage of a lost F-35 jet was found in South Carolina. The military lost track of the warplane on Sunday after the pilot ejected with a parachute. On Cyprus, home to a million free-roaming cats, unused Covid treatments are taming a feline virus, The Atlantic reports. Florida officials captured a black bear at Disney World. Like other hungry visitors, she was searching for food. Opinions With Congress beholden to the fossil fuel industry, the only path to reversing climate change is through executive action on oil and gas projects, Lydia Millet writes. The blame for the chaos in the House falls not to the most extreme Republicans, but to Kevin McCarthy, who gave them political leverage, Michelle Cottle argues. Here’s a column by Paul Krugman on Mitt Romney. Our best offer is here. But not for long. It’s your last chance to enjoy The Times at substantial savings on your first year. Start benefiting from unlimited access to News, Games, Cooking, Audio, Wirecutter and The Athletic. Subscribe today. MORNING READS A young member of the Punan Batu.Joshua Irwandi D.N.A. study: A nomadic clan with a songlike language in Borneo appears to have been isolated for more than 20 generations. The Cafe of Mistaken Orders: In Japan, one cafe owner is hiring older people with dementia as servers to help them socialize, The Washington Post reports. Plateau: You won’t lose weight on Ozempic forever. Here’s why. Skin care: Vitamin C is probably good for you, but it’s hard to make it work the way it’s supposed to. Lives Lived: Margaret Chung was the first known American woman of Chinese ancestry to earn a medical degree. Chung died in 1959, at age 69. (Her obituary is part of Overlooked, a Times series about the lives of remarkable figures from history.) SPORTS N.F.L.: The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Cleveland Browns, 26-22, despite just one touchdown from their offense. Monday Night Football: A stingy defense helped the 2-0 New Orleans Saints stifle the Carolina Panthers on the road. Investigation: Michigan State told the football coach Mel Tucker it intended to fire him after sexual harassment allegations. Recurring theme: The tennis star Coco Gauff embodies perhaps the biggest story in sports — the rise of female athletes. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS Cups for mixing paint in Joan Miró‘s Taller Sert studio in Majorca.Successió Miró, 2023 Art and science: Some of the great paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries are losing their brilliance. Many artists of the era, including Van Gogh, Munch and Picasso, favored a paint known as cadmium yellow, whose bold, lemony hue has become faded and chalky. A team of researchers, studying samples from Joan Miró paintings of the 1970s, found that the paint was doomed by flaws at the atomic level. More on culture Russell Brand postponed the rest of his British comedy tour after four women accused him of sexual assault. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Nico Schinco for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne. Make yogurt rice, a nostalgic dish for many South Indians. Watch Kim Kardashian in a new season of “American Horror Story.” Crisp your food in a Wirecutter-approved air fryer. Keep your tea or coffee warm for as long as possible. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was handout. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — David P.S. Sign up to watch a Times-hosted discussion about solutions to climate change on Thursday featuring Al Gore, Marie Kondo and others. 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: Desiree Ibekwe, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lyna Bentahar 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. 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Members phkrause Posted September 20, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 20, 2023 September 18, 2023 Continue reading the main story SUPPORTED BY The Propane Council By German Lopez Good morning. We’re covering Ukraine’s slow counteroffensive — as well as the annual U.N. meetings, sanctions in Niger and Gen Z politicians. Ukrainian soldiers near the southern front.Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times Grinding progress Before Ukraine’s military began a counteroffensive in June, officials hoped they could replicate last year’s successes and quickly retake large swaths of Russian-held territory. Instead, Ukrainian forces initially made almost no progress. In recent weeks, they have made more but still captured only a few small villages. But perhaps we should have expected a result like this. War tends to be a grind. The types of routs that let Ukraine retake thousands of square miles in the northeast last year are rare. Fighting frequently involves chipping away at an enemy, like Ukraine’s retaking of a small but strategic village in the east yesterday. Such advances try to build toward a big breakthrough, although one may never come. It was true most famously during the trench warfare of World War I but also in World War II, the Korean War and the U.S. Civil War. “War is not always the spectacular triumph,” said George Barros, an analyst at the Institute for the Study of War. “It’s largely the really boring stuff that you don’t see — all the groundwork setting up the conditions for the triumphs.” In other words: Ukraine and its allies, including the U.S., may have set their expectations for the counteroffensive too high. Ukraine is fighting one of the world’s strongest militaries. If Ukraine could succeed in forcing Russia to retreat in a significant way, it was always more likely to take years than months. Today’s newsletter explains Ukraine’s modest recent progress and what could come next. Ukraine’s leaders still hope to achieve a breakthrough that divides Russian troops in the east and south. But by November, muddy season will have arrived, and movement will be more difficult. Deadly defenses Ukraine’s counteroffensive initially struggled to make progress. The military’s original plan was to use infantry, tanks and other armored vehicles supplied by the West to roll through Russian forces in Ukraine’s southeast. It aimed to split off Russian troops in the southern peninsula of Crimea from the eastern region of Donbas, hindering Russia’s ability to reinforce or resupply its armies in either area. By The New York Times But the Ukrainians ran into Russian defenses that were more extensive than they expected, particularly large minefields. Initial efforts to break through proved costly in both lives and equipment. So Ukraine’s military changed its approach. It pulled back vehicles and tried to thin out Russian defenses with artillery, defuse the mines and slowly advance with infantry. Last month, Ukrainians finally made modest but meaningful gains. They pierced Russia’s first line of defense in the southeast and recaptured small towns along the way. They are now pursuing two main routes, one through the recaptured village of Robotyne and another that could eventually lead to the Russian-controlled coastal city of Berdiansk. Either course could help achieve Ukraine’s main goal of dividing Russian forces. The gains exemplify the often grinding pace of war. Working through minefields without major casualties and wearing down Russia’s defenses with artillery simply takes time. It looked like very little happened for months because the battle lines stayed the same. But now Ukraine has advanced, and could quickly make more progress. “Offenses are not linear affairs,” said Stacie Goddard, an international security expert at Wellesley College. Breaking through Ukraine wants to widen the lanes it has opened through Russia’s first lines of defense. For example, Ukrainian forces could capture more area around towns like Robotyne to establish a wider corridor of territory. They could then use that larger space to move many more forces through and carry out their original plan — deploying ground troops and armored vehicles in a swift counteroffensive. Russia may also have put its strongest forces on the front line, and Ukraine could break through the other lines more easily. “A lot depends on how strong these remaining Russian defenses are,” my colleague Eric Schmitt, who covers national security, told me. But time is running out. As rain arrives this fall, the terrain will get muddier and harder to traverse, likely preventing major battlefield gains. In the meantime, Russian forces have stepped up attacks in the northeast. In doing so, Russia hopes to retake some of the territory it lost last year, and force Ukraine to divert its troops and resources to the northeast. If enough Ukrainian forces are kept from the southeastern front, the counteroffensive’s last big push could fail. For more Volodymyr Zelensky will attend the U.N.’s annual meeting and visit Washington this week. He hopes to ensure congressional support for military aid. Moscow residents, far from the front lines, feel the war’s effects in the price of goods and increasing repression. In Ukraine, the war didn’t stop a famous Rosh Hashana celebration. “Although some military strategists remain optimistic, it now looks as if the conflict could be a long and indecisive slog,” Bret Stephens of Times Opinion writes. “Ukraine needs to inflict as much damage on Putin’s army as fast as possible,” Thomas Friedman argues in another Opinion column. Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM The Propane Council The Future Is Now With Propane What if there were an energy source available today that was affordable, plentiful and environmentally friendly? There is, and it's propane. The same energy that you use to grill can power jobs big and small, lowering carbon emissions while reducing energy costs. And with the introduction of renewable propane, this clean energy is getting even cleaner every day. Get the facts THE LATEST NEWS Politics Donald Trump called a six-week abortion ban signed by Ron DeSantis “a terrible mistake” but dodged questions about his own position. The Texas attorney general’s acquittal in an impeachment trial was a victory for the state’s hard-right Republicans. “Woke free”: Some companies selling clothing and pet care are attracting customers who think corporate America is pushing a liberal agenda. International A rally in Niamey, the capital of Niger.Issifou Djibo/EPA, via Shutterstock Sanctions imposed on Niger after a military coup there have raised food prices and made medicine scarce. China has limited imports of cosmetics, hurting foreign companies’ revenue. Rishi Sunak, the British prime minister, announced he would outlaw the American bully XL dog breed after a series of fatal attacks. South Korean adoptees are returning to the country to investigate claims that companies coerced parents to give up their children. Climate A march in New York.Bryan Anselm for The New York Times Before the U.N. meeting, tens of thousands of people protested in Manhattan to demand that world leaders stop new oil and gas drilling. Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, said he would sign a bill that requires major companies to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions starting in 2027. If President Biden wins a second term, he plans to crack down on industrial pollution, including emissions from steel plants and oil refineries. Most cities amplify heat, endangering people’s health as the world warms. These graphics show how Singapore is trying to cool its streets. Education The U.S. News & World Report overhauled its college rankings system and some state schools received a boost. Vassar faculty members accused the college, one of America’s first for women, of paying female professors less than their male colleagues. Other Big Stories A day care owner and her tenant have been charged with murder after a 1-year-old boy died after being exposed to fentanyl. An L.A. County sheriff’s deputy was shot in the head in his patrol car and later pronounced dead. Two pilots competing in the National Championship Air Races in Nevada died after their planes collided. The F.D.A. took decades to pull an ineffective decongestant from over-the-counter medicines like Sudafed and Tylenol. Hurricane Nigel is spinning over the Atlantic and is expected to become a Category 3 storm, but forecasters say it will remain at sea. Opinions Dams are less effective in a warming world. Restoring rivers can prevent tragedies like the floods in Libya, Josh Klemm and Isabella Winkler argue. Here is a column by Maureen Dowd on Biden’s speeches. Gail Collins and Bret Stephens discuss the Biden impeachment inquiry and the autoworkers’ strike. Our best offer is here. But not for long. It’s your last chance to enjoy The Times at substantial savings on your first year. Start benefiting from unlimited access to News, Games, Cooking, Audio, Wirecutter and The Athletic. Subscribe today. MORNING READS A pair of humpback whales.Sutton Lynch Migration patterns: See whales breaching from above. Neighborhood changes: Investors are buying starter homes and converting them into rentals. Persistence: Want to thrive? First, learn to fail. Metropolitan Diary: When dinosaurs roamed the bus. Lives Lived: Jules Melancon was a oyster farmer who revolutionized his industry after hurricanes and the BP oil spill. He died at 65. SPORTS N.F.L.: After a loss to the Dolphins, the Patriots are 0-2 for the first time since 2001. Resilience: The Giants recovered from a 21-point deficit to beat the Cardinals, matching their biggest comeback ever. Baseball: The Orioles are headed to the playoffs for the first time since 2016. N.H.L.: Mike Babcock, the Blue Jackets coach, resigned yesterday just two months into his tenure after the league’s players’ association found evidence of misconduct. Continue reading the main story A MESSAGE FROM The Propane Council The Future Is Now With Propane What if there were an energy source available today that was affordable, plentiful and environmentally friendly? There is, and it's propane. The same energy that you use to grill can power jobs big and small, lowering carbon emissions while reducing energy costs. And with the introduction of renewable propane, this clean energy is getting even cleaner every day. Get the facts ARTS AND IDEAS Representative Maxwell Frost, 26, Democrat of Florida.Kenny Holston for The New York Times Gen Z: Many of the country’s youngest elected officials are using their clothes to signal they are different from their older colleagues. In Congress, state legislatures and city councils, dress codes often demand they wear formal attire. But at more casual events, they’re wearing colorful jackets, T-shirts and Doc Martens. More on culture Four women accused Russell Brand of sexual assault in an investigation by British media outlets. He has denied the allegations. Drew Barrymore reversed her decision to resume her daytime talk show during the Hollywood writers’ strike. A rare prop used in the original “Star Wars,” which was found in the garage of a late visual effects artist, will go up for auction. Bidding starts at $400,000. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Nico Schinco for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne. Combine coconut milk and chipotle chiles for a silky grilled chicken. Listen to new tracks from Mitski and Maren Morris. Step into fall with a new umbrella. Enjoy cinematic surround-sound in your home. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangrams were colorant and contralto. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. 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: Desiree Ibekwe, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lyna Bentahar 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 September 21, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 21, 2023 September 20, 2023 By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering a change in how Biden talks about the world — as well as Justin Trudeau, Kevin McCarthy and The Times’s favorite restaurants. President Biden at the United Nations General Assembly.Doug Mills/The New York Times A bigger tent President Biden has made it a signature phrase of his administration: The world is engaged in “a battle between democracy and autocracy.” He publicly expressed a version of this idea at least a dozen times during his first year in office and a dozen more during his second year, according to Factba.se, an online database that tracks his remarks. But Biden has used it less often during his third year in office — and he notably did not use the phrase when speaking to the United Nations General Assembly yesterday. Last year in the same setting, he did use it. What explains the change? Biden still very much believes in the basic idea, but he and other administration officials have come to think that the framing comes with downsides. Biden’s phrase accurately captures the leading players in the core struggle for global influence today. The U.S., Japan, South Korea, Western Europe and a few other rich countries are healthy democracies on one side of the divide. Russia and China are autocracies on the other side. Many other countries, however, have not chosen sides. They are willing to work closely with both Washington and Beijing, depending on the issue. These countries tend to be flawed democracies (like Brazil, India, Israel and Nigeria) or autocracies (like Saudi Arabia and Vietnam). If the U.S. suggests that only democracies are welcome in its alliance, that alliance will shrink. “Defining the current contest as one between democracies and autocracies is a flawed strategy,” Walter Russell Mead, a foreign policy expert at the Hudson Institute, wrote in The Wall Street Journal this spring. “Abroad, this approach weakens America’s ties with key allies and exposes us to devastating charges of systemic hypocrisy.” Mead is a conservative who often criticizes Biden, but some members of the administration have had similar concerns, as Peter Baker, The Times’s chief White House correspondent, has reported. In June, Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, acknowledged the tension. “I do think we are dealing with the gathering and march of autocratic forces in ways that are not in the United States’ national interest, and that we do need to rally the values, norms and forces of democracy to push back against that,” Sullivan said. But, he added, Biden “has also been clear that in that larger effort, we need constructive relationships with countries of all different traditions and backgrounds.” The C.I.A. and Stalin There is, of course, a long history of the U.S. working with autocracies as part of a stated strategy of fostering democracy. Sometimes, this history has been tragic, as during the Vietnam War. Other times, the practice has aged well, such as the alliances with Stalin’s Soviet Union during World War II or with Persian Gulf kingdoms to evict Saddam Hussein from Kuwait during the 1990s. The democracy-vs.-autocracy dichotomy has probably been most helpful in energizing Western Europe to come to Ukraine’s defense and persuading Japan and South Korea to strengthen ties as a counterweight to China. Over the past year, though, the administration has also tried to build ties with countries that are democratically weaker: India is another potential counterweight to China, and Biden hosted its prime minister, Narendra Modi, for a warm three-day visit this year despite Modi’s crackdown on critics of his Hindu nationalist government. (This week, Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, accused India’s government of killing a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia.) The U.S. strengthened its ties with Vietnam — which remains a one-party state — when Biden visited Hanoi this month. Both countries are worried about China’s ambitions. Turkey, Hungary and Poland are important parts of the alliance supplying Ukraine with weapons to fight Russia. The Biden administration is talking with Saudi officials about establishing a mutual defense treaty in which each country would promise to come to the other’s aid if attacked, my colleagues Edward Wong and Mark Mazzetti reported yesterday. The talks are part of an effort to persuade Saudi Arabia and Israel to normalize their relations. All of this may help explain the approach Biden took at the U.N. yesterday. He continued to celebrate the virtues of democracy, saying that it “can deliver in ways that matter to people’s lives” while describing programs to build infrastructure in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia. Yet he did not use any versions of the words “autocracy” or “authoritarian.” In a dangerous world, the U.S. evidently wants to woo many kinds of allies. More from the U.N. Biden called for collective action on Ukraine, climate change and other crises. Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of weaponizing food and energy prices against the entire world. Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, threatened revenge against U.S. officials for the American drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in 2020. Kenya has offered to lead a security mission in Haiti, where gangs control parts of the capital. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS Canada and India Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India earlier this month.Pool photo by Evan Vucci Justin Trudeau, Canada’s leader, rejected India’s denial of involvement in the killing of a Sikh separatist near Vancouver. Both countries expelled diplomats as the fight escalates. Hardeep Singh Nijjar, 45, was a prominent advocate of the creation of an independent Sikh nation that would include parts of India. Read more about his life. Politics Hard-right House Republicans blocked a bill to fund the military, another setback for Speaker Kevin McCarthy as he tries to avert a government shutdown. Donald Trump is said to have instructed a former aide not to tell federal investigators about the boxes of government documents he had kept at Mar-a-Lago. She told them. Hunter Biden plans to plead not guilty to three federal charges brought against him for a 2018 gun purchase. The governors of Iowa and Georgia criticized Trump after he called a six-week abortion ban in Florida “a terrible thing.” Autoworkers’ Strike The United Auto Workers union threatened to expand its strike to more plants if its contract talks with three U.S. automakers don’t move forward. From sympathy to “You’re fired”: Republican presidential candidates are split on the strike. International Azerbaijan launched a military operation against Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave inside its territory. Here’s a guide to the conflict. Britain passed a sweeping law to regulate online content, introducing age-verification requirements for pornography sites. Texas The U.S.-Mexico Border crossing at Ciudad Juarez on Monday.Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters Illegal crossings at the U.S. southern border have increased in recent weeks, stretching federal resources and overwhelming local communities. A Texas trial over a new election law is giving voice to residents who tried and failed to vote. Pennsylvania Democrats maintained control of the Pennsylvania House by winning a special election in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, a swing state, will automatically register residents to vote when they get a driver’s license or state ID. Housing Lawsuits New York lawmakers are suing to block Mayor Eric Adams from using national parkland in Brooklyn for an emergency migrant shelter. The Sacramento County district attorney has sued the city over inaction on homeless camps. Other Big Stories The cost of crude oil has jumped, pushing U.S. gas prices to the highest level in 11 months. The group that won a Supreme Court case against affirmative action sued West Point, arguing it should be barred there too. JoAnne Epps, the acting president of Temple University, died after becoming ill onstage at a memorial service. She was 72. A 150-year-old giant banyan tree in downtown Lahaina, Hawaii, that burned during the fires is showing signs of recovery. Customers will likely struggle to get Clorox wipes after a cyberattack at the company. Opinions Stop telling colleagues, “Let’s take a walk,” Lydia Polgreen writes. Timed math tests needlessly pressure students, especially girls, whose fear of the “can’t do math” stereotype causes anxiety, Adam Grant writes. Here's a column by Ross Douthat on Trump’s ideological pandering. Our best offer is here. But not for long. It’s your last chance to enjoy The Times at substantial savings on your first year. Start benefiting from unlimited access to News, Games, Cooking, Audio, Wirecutter and The Athletic. Subscribe today. MORNING READS An effigy of Benedict Arnold.Jessica Hill/Associated Press Tradition: A city in Connecticut burns Benedict Arnold, America’s most infamous traitor, in effigy each year. Invasive species: Florida is full of animals that don’t belong there, Vox reports. Should they be kicked out? Street looks: Has the era of peacocking during New York Fashion Week come to an end? Lives Lived: James Hoge led both The Chicago Sun-Times and New York’s Daily News. He died at 87. SPORTS Betnijah Laney of the New York Liberty.Bruce Bennett/Getty Images W.N.B.A.: The New York Liberty advanced to the semifinals after defeating the Washington Mystics, 90-85. The Dallas Wings secured their place in the other semifinal, where they will face the Las Vegas Aces. Baseball: After surgery, Shohei Ohtani is expected to hit next season but not pitch until 2025, his agent announced. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS Quiet on the set: For years, Big Hollywood productions brought money and prestige to British film crews. Now a downside has become apparent: When Hollywood goes on strike, their work stops, too. “We depend so much on U.S. studio-based productions for our work,” said Charlotte Sewell, a costume designer in London. More on culture YouTube blocked Russell Brand’s advertising income on its platform, days after he used it to deny accusations of sexual assault. Jann Wenner, the Rolling Stone co-founder, ruled the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for years. His reign ended in 20 minutes. Shakira, Karol G and Edgar Barrera lead the nominees for the Latin Grammy Awards. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Nicole Guglielmo Dine at the 50 restaurants that Times editors are most excited about this year. Lift stains with these carpet cleaners. Charge your devices with the best USB-C cables. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was expending. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times. See you tomorrow. — David Kitty Bennett contributed research to today’s newsletter. Correction: Yesterday’s newsletter incorrectly described the nature of Mark Meadows’s testimony in the Georgia election interference case. He testified on his own behalf, not against Donald Trump. P.S. “The Run-Up” podcast plans to answer readers’ questions about the 2024 election. Submit yours here. 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: Desiree Ibekwe, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lyna Bentahar 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 September 22, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 22, 2023 September 21, 2023 By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering a behind-the-scenes look at teenagers’ use of social media — as well as Russian missile strikes, Merrick Garland and Hasan Minhaj. London, 13.Dee Dwyer for The New York Times Being a teenager London, a 13-year-old girl who lives in suburban Maryland, took a more considered approach to joining social media than many teenagers do. Knowing her mom was skeptical, London put together a presentation making a case for why she should join TikTok, complete with promises such as allowing her mother to review her posts in advance. It worked: On London’s 13th birthday, she joined TikTok. Since doing so, she has experienced some of the joys of social media — experiences that were not possible in a less networked world. In her living room, London streams popular dance videos onto a TV, and sometimes her mother (a former dancer) and sister (who has nonverbal autism) join her. TikTok also allows London to stay in closer touch with friends. Yet the downsides of social media are never far away. London is constantly confronted with images of people who somehow seem prettier, richer, more fashionable and more popular. Sometimes, she stumbles on truly disturbing videos, like one claiming to show a woman flushing her baby down a toilet. Above all, social media takes the normal anxieties of teenage life and hypercharges them. When another girl in London’s school stops replying to her messages at night, London ends up crying. When a group of girls gather to get dressed for a dance, they obsess not only over how they look, but how their before-and-after videos will play on TikTok. “It’s not as easy as it used to be,” London said, about being a teenager. “’Cause you can’t escape social media unless you delete the apps.” Gas and brakes London is one of three teenage girls whom my colleague Jessica Bennett followed for the past year, online and offline. Jessica’s piece, complete with screenshots and online videos, offers a look at teenage life today. (The girls’ parents gave The Times permission to do the reporting, and we have not used last names.) As I read the article, I felt deep sympathy for today’s teenagers. Many feel that they have no choice but to plunge into social media. And it does have advantages. Yet the disadvantages often seem larger. Small mistakes — the unavoidable mistakes of the teenage years — become humiliations that hundreds or thousands of people see. People are quicker to be nastier in writing than they would be in person. Envy and jealousy, more commonly known as FOMO, are constant. Adrenaline and stress are always just a glance away. “The adolescent brain is kind of like a car that — when it comes to the desire for social feedback — has a hypersensitive gas pedal, with relatively low-functioning brakes,” said Mitch Prinstein, the chief science officer of the American Psychological Association. In recent years, executives at technology companies and some academic researchers have argued that the evidence of social media’s harm remains mixed. They’re not entirely wrong about that. No study has demonstrated the precise effect of TikTok vs. Instagram or texting vs. posting. Some studies don’t come to much of a conclusion at all. But most studies have indeed found a link between teenage smartphone use and mental health problems. Even more telling, to my mind, is that the timing and logic line up: Teen mental health (and the amount teens sleep) began to decline between 10 and 15 years ago, just as smartphones, Facebook and other social media were becoming ubiquitous. Nobody has offered a persuasive explanation for the decline other than the revolution in daily life caused by technology. Technology surely is not the only cause of the problems. It does seem to be a leading cause. Addi, 14.Elaine Cromie for The New York Times Moral panics In an article accompanying Jessica’s story, my colleague Catherine Pearson makes a fascinating point. “Every generation has its moral panic,” Catherine writes. It was rock music in the 1950s, and long hair, rap music and video games in later decades. “And for Gen Z — teenagers today — it is, undoubtedly, social media,” she adds. It’s a good reminder that not all moral panics are justified. It’s also a reminder that something is different this time. After the onset of rock, rap, long hair and video games, teenage mental health didn’t deteriorate. After the rise of smartphones and ever-present social media, it has. I recommend Jessica’s nuanced reporting on London and two other 13-year-olds — Anna, in Colorado, and Addi, who lives near Lake Michigan. You can also read a list of social media tips from teenagers, compiled by Sharon Attia. Among them: You don’t have to reply right away; unfollow people who make you feel bad; put your phone down and go outside; and — a tip for parents — watch your own social media use. Related: President Biden has promised to provide every American access to reliable high-speed internet. He still has a long way to go. More on tech OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT, can now also create realistic pictures. In its antitrust trial, Google says switching to a new default search engine is simple. Our tech columnist found it wasn’t. The Defense Department will award grants to develop new semiconductors for use in A.I., quantum computing and more. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS War in Ukraine Russia struck at least five cities in Ukraine with missiles, damaging energy infrastructure. Rescuers are searching for survivors under rubble. The attack came hours after Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Russia at the U.N. He also told the Security Council that it was powerless while Russia had a veto. Zelensky is expected to meet with Biden and members of Congress today. More on the U.N. Biden met with Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time since Netanyahu again became Israel’s prime minister. At a climate summit, the secretary general said he would give speaking slots only to countries taking action on the issue seriously. The U.S. and China didn’t qualify. 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Members phkrause Posted September 23, 2023 Author Members Share Posted September 23, 2023 September 22, 2023 With Rupert Murdoch having announced his retirement, I’ve asked my colleague Jonathan Mahler, who’s written about Murdoch’s media empire for The Times, to assess his legacy in today’s newsletter. — David Leonhardt By Jonathan Mahler Staff Writer, Magazine Good morning. We’re covering Murdoch’s impact on American life — as well as Zelensky’s visit to Washington, a heat record and sustainable lawns. Rupert MurdochStefan Wermuth/Reuters Viewers as voters No one has had a bigger impact on modern American media and politics than Rupert Murdoch. His most enduring legacy in the U.S. will be Fox News, whose board he stepped down from yesterday, and the ethos of fear and contempt that infuses today’s Republican Party. Murdoch launched Fox News in 1996 to exploit what he saw as an unaddressed need for a conservative TV network. Existing news outlets, he believed, leaned left without acknowledging it. Fox’s reach was initially limited, but as more cable providers began to carry the network, its influence grew. A study in 2007 established what became known as the Fox News Effect: The introduction of the network on a particular cable system typically pushed local voters to the right. Fox’s power grew in part from the very proposition of cable news. Years before people were glued to their smartphones, they were glued to their TVs. Hour after hour, night after night, Fox hosts shaped the realities of its viewers, fostering a suspicion of Democratic politicians and policies and of the mainstream media. In the process, the network became the only news source that many American conservatives trusted. Republican ecosystem Fox also derived its clout from its unique relationship with its audience. Murdoch was a businessman and Fox News was a business, which meant that ratings, above all, drove programming decisions. In this sense, Fox was a nonstop Republican message-testing machine. The goal was always to find what resonated most with Fox viewers — a group that was becoming synonymous with the Republican base — and then double- or triple-down on it. Murdoch owned media properties on multiple continents, but he took a special interest in Fox News. Its political influence gave him political influence. He didn’t necessarily call in interview questions from the control room, but he oversaw all of the big decisions — like the hirings and firings of hosts and executives — that shaped the network’s direction. During Barack Obama’s presidency, Fox News provided endless hours of coverage of raucous Tea Party rallies and of the “birther” campaign — a false story claiming that Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. — to delegitimize the nation’s first Black president. Both were quintessential Fox: building a populist, right-wing groundswell into a movement that delivered reliably big ratings and stoked the G.O.P. base, creating and feeding an appetite for cultural warfare. It was that groundswell — and Fox’s amplification of it — that propelled Donald Trump’s political rise. Murdoch and Trump have had an on-and-off relationship. Murdoch initially opposed his 2016 candidacy, but eventually swung Fox behind him and was thrilled to have a president whom he could get on the phone whenever he needed. During the Trump presidency, Fox became America’s dominant news network. But it also became a kind of prisoner of its own business model, spawning numerous imitators and an ecosystem of right-wing outlets that were seeking to threaten its monopoly over conservative voters. Even as Murdoch privately dismissed Trump’s claims of voter fraud as “really crazy stuff,” his network kept selling the lie. Its support ultimately came at a financial cost: In April, the network agreed to pay nearly $800 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems over 2020 election coverage. Though Trump and Murdoch’s relationship is currently off, there is little doubt that Fox will back Trump if he becomes the Republican nominee. Its viewers will demand it. Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch in Sun Valley, Idaho in 2017.Tk/Getty Images What’s next On the eve of the 2024 election, Murdoch is turning control over to his eldest son, Lachlan, the winner of the family’s Shakespearean succession fight. Rupert will remain chairman emeritus and will continue to be active behind the scenes. Each new poll confirming the resilience of Trump’s popularity — despite four indictments and 91 criminal charges — is a testament to Murdoch’s impact. You might call this, too, the Fox News Effect. For more Lachlan is finally getting the family prize: the keys to his father’s media empire. His path to succession was rocky at times, but Lachlan showed his father in recent years that they were aligned politically. Murdoch built a propaganda machine by giving his people what they wanted. He turned grievance into money and power, James Poniewozik writes. The electorate that Fox helped shape has made this country ungovernable, Michelle Goldberg argues for Times Opinion. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT THE LATEST NEWS Congress House Republican holdouts blocked a military spending bill for the second time this week, rebuking Speaker Kevin McCarthy and risking a government shutdown. The Senate confirmed two more generals to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, circumventing Senator Tommy Tuberville’s blockade. Hundreds of other military promotions remain in limbo. Politics Nearly 500,000 low-income people will keep their health coverage after state officials found they had wrongly removed them from federal programs. 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Zelensky in Washington President Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House.Doug Mills/The New York Times Volodymyr Zelensky met with Biden at the White House, receiving a promise of further tanks and weapons. “If we don’t get the aid, we will lose the war”: Zelensky also appealed to members of Congress. Some Republicans have grown skeptical of giving more aid to Ukraine. Climate This August was earth’s hottest on record. June and July also broke records. Federal agencies should take planet-warming emissions into account when buying vehicles and equipment, the Biden administration directed. Sea-ice coverage in the Arctic shrinks in mid-September. These photos show what its like to study climate change during the melt. Business A real estate crisis in China has triggered alarms over the country’s shadow banks, risking panic. Britain signaled its approval of Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which it initially tried to block. International In a clash between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Russia is a distracted spectator in its former Soviet dominion, Andrew Higgins writes. “We have no other place to go”: See photos of survivors of Libya’s floods in temporary accommodation from The Wall Street Journal. India passed legislation to reserve one-third of seats for women in the lower house of Parliament and in state legislatures. Other Big Stories A storm system is heading for the East Coast. Tropical storm warnings were in effect from the Carolinas to Delaware. Days after a 1-year-old died at a day care, investigators uncovered a trap door that was hiding fentanyl under a play area. A bus carrying a high-school marching band from Long Island crashed, killing two people and injuring dozens. Opinions Celebrities who receive public backlash should learn how to apologize: acknowledge harm, promise not to repeat it and take action, Elizabeth Spiers writes. If countries prioritize gender equality, peace and economic success can follow, Lyric Thompson writes. Here are columns by David Brooks on Elon Musk’s ambition and Paul Krugman on a government shutdown. Our best offer ends soon. Save on all of The Times. Readers of The Morning can enjoy everything The Times has to offer, all in one subscription and all for a special rate. Subscribe today for unlimited access to News, plus Games, Cooking, Audio, Wirecutter and The Athletic. MORNING READS A native lawn.F. Robert Wesley Unconventional lawn: Cornell is testing sustainable — and beautiful — options to replace your grass. Dietary rules: Can meat from a lab be kosher or halal? Modern Love: She was 45, he was turning 80. Lives Lived: Marvin Newman was a renowned photographer who brought a quirky, artistic eye when capturing moments on the street, and a unique perspective when shooting athletes like Muhammad Ali and Mickey Mantle. He died at 95. SPORTS Football: The San Francisco 49ers beat the New York Giants, 30-12. Soccer: The U.S. women’s national team legend Julie Ertz played in her final match, a 3-0 win over South Africa. Big injury: The Dallas Cowboys’ star defensive back, Trevon Diggs, tore his A.C.L. in practice. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT ARTS AND IDEAS The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Jeenah Moon for The New York Times Art history: Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas met in the early 1860s, while on separate trips to the Louvre. The two remained close friends (and occasional rivals) throughout their lives. A new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, titled “Manet/Degas,” explores how the artists drove one another to evolve, and together pushed their mediums into a modern era. “It’s about as good as exhibitions get,” the Times critic Holland Cotter writes. It opens Sunday. For more: Take a close look at Manet’s “Olympia,” the most scandalous painting of the 19th century and the centerpiece of the Met’s exhibition. More on culture A Beyoncé fan missed her show in Seattle after an airline said it could not accommodate his electric wheelchair. The BeyHive worked to get him to another. Efforts to ban books from public libraries have spiked. Most of the challenged books are by or about people of color or L.G.B.T.Q. people. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS … Linda Xiao for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne. Add tomato-basil vinaigrette to this salad. Listen to a “Matter of Opinion” podcast episode about the future of work. Stock emergency gear in a ready bag. Use the best laptops for photo editing. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was motivation. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Sudoku and Connections. 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: Desiree Ibekwe, Lauren Jackson, Sean Kawasaki-Culligan, Brent Lewis, German Lopez, Ian Prasad Philbrick, Ashley Wu News Assistant: Lyna Bentahar 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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