Members phkrause Posted Monday at 08:05 PM Author Members Posted Monday at 08:05 PM September 21, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. It’s Yom Kippur. If you’re observing, I hope you have an easy fast. Here are some ways American Jews are finding meaning in their observance this year. There’s a great deal of news below. But first, you had questions about the midterm elections. We took them to our colleagues. Chase Castor for The New York Times, Saul Martinez for The New York Times, Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Associated Press, Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times Your politics questions By Adam B. Kushner I edit this newsletter. The primaries are over and the midterms are 43 days away. The final story lines have begun to take shape. The polls look grim for Republicans, and the party out of power generally fares well in midterms. Inflation, the Iran war and low approval ratings stalk President Trump. Republicans are playing defense in what would normally be safe races. Even the MAGA faithful in Congress are distancing themselves from the president. (Read these dispatches from Iowa and Florida about G.O.P. members there who’ve had enough.) But the Democrats would need an extraordinary run of victories to retake the Senate — including “at least two seats where Mr. Trump won by at least 11 points in the last election,” as Nate Cohn, our chief political analyst, put it. “That’s really tough, even in a wave year.” Meanwhile, Democrats may get control of the House, but fewer districts than ever are competitive. Today we’re answering your questions about the election and looking at the pickle in Missouri. Your questions Trump said every American will get $5,000 if Republicans sweep in the midterms. He’s offering a big check in exchange for my vote. Is that legal? — Jane Bergwin-Rand | College Park, Maryland Federal law prohibits paying individuals to vote or not vote. But because this (very) hypothetical $5,000 check would ostensibly go to every American adult, experts said it did not seem too different from a candidate’s promise to cut taxes. The U.S. Supreme Court also ruled in 1982 that such payments generally constitute protected political speech “so long as the hoped-for personal benefit is to be achieved through the normal processes of government, and not through some private arrangement.” — Bayliss Wagner, who covers politics Does donating to candidates really make a difference in the outcome? In the Florida Senate primary, Angie Nixon beat Alex Vindman even though he’d out-raised her 16-to-1. What kind of spending really moves the needle for a candidate? — Nancy Moeller | Roswell, Georgia History is full of examples of candidates being badly outspent and still winning. Just look at 2024, when former Vice President Kamala Harris spent roughly twice as much as President Donald Trump — and still lost. One way to think about money in campaigns is that while a sizable war chest is necessary to win, it’s not always sufficient. A campaign does not need to match the other side’s spending to win. It just needs enough money for viability (paying staff members and traveling to events) and getting out the message in ads. — Lisa Lerer, who has covered four previous midterm elections Not all that long ago, QAnon seemed so influential. Now I hear little about the group. Is it still active? What is it up to? Who are its leaders and adherents? — Glenn Steckler | Telluride, Colorado The QAnon movement is dead. But its conspiratorial approach to politics lives on. The movement’s figurehead, known only as Q, stopped posting, and much of his movement has been absorbed by the Republican Party, according to experts. Some of Q’s supporters stopped discussing the arrest of Democrats and pedophiles and now speak about the MAGA movement. Many QAnon followers became active in the anti-vaccine communities. Claims about sex trafficking morphed into a focus on transgender Americans and Jeffrey Epstein. Trump’s administration winks and nods at QAnon on social media. — Stuart Thompson, who covers online influence Missouri’s new map Source: Associated Press (election results). Leanne Abraham/The New York Times It’s a chaotic cycle all around: The Supreme Court has already rejected the administration’s plan to restrict certain mail-in ballots, and several states are dealing with new congressional maps. One of them is Missouri, which redrew its boundaries last year at Trump’s urging and had voters pick congressional nominees based on the new lines. Then the state’s Supreme Court said the new map was void unless Missouri residents voted for it in a referendum. (They have not.) So although they nominated their representatives to Washington on one map, they’re set to elect them on another. My colleague Mitch Smith reported this colorful story from Columbia and Jefferson City about all the confusion. More on the elections Tucker Carlson is promoting Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan. The cryptocurrency industry is mounting an aggressive ad campaign against Sherrod Brown, the Democrats’ Senate candidate in Ohio. A surprising number of pastors are running as Democrats this year. Can the party reclaim the Christian moral high ground? South Dakota’s Republican secretary of state, who oversees elections, backed a Democrat to replace her. Who’s winning? Here’s how we’re assessing the state of play. FREE TO READ Near Richardson, Texas. Jordan Vonderhaar for The New York Times Drone invasion: Residents of a Dallas suburb can get Amazon packages in as little as 30 minutes. Some say it’s not worth it. Champagne, caviar, Sinatra: The Iranian Embassy in Washington was once known for glamorous parties. Could it ever reopen? Metropolitan diary: A tight spot. Holy infestation, Batman!: Bats have taken over a 19th-century estate that served as Wayne Manor in “Batman Begins.” Your pick: The most clicked link in The Morning yesterday was about a mother’s decision to send her child to a low-performing public school — and what happened next. THE LATEST NEWS Trump Administration Models of Trump’s arch from last year. Doug Mills/The New York Times Trump said his triumphal arch would house drones and snipers, as the administration seemed prepared to justify building it on national security grounds. Times exclusive: Trump said the United States would not join Saudi Arabia, for now, in strikes against the Houthis, the Iran-backed militia in Yemen. The administration is drafting an executive order to allow Trump greater control over government grants for biomedical research. Immigration An ICE agent shot and wounded a Venezuelan immigrant during a pursuit in Austin. It’s the latest incident involving federal agents and people in cars. Sikh truckers are on edge after one driver was ambushed and repeatedly stabbed at a Wyoming rest stop. Around the World Germany’s far-right AfD did well in more state elections, coming in first in a small eastern state and third in Berlin. An exchange of gunfire injured a police officer outside a synagogue near Ontario, Canada, as congregants gathered to mark Yom Kippur. An Israeli man was shot and killed in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli authorities said they had detained a Palestinian suspect. For decades, Mexico City has dumped waste in a reservoir known as the Endhó Dam. In the video below, our reporter Emiliano Rodríguez Mega describes what it’s like to live near a place that locals call the world’s largest cesspool. Click to watch. The New York Times Other Big Stories Patrick Clancy said he dreams about his children “all the time” in his first interview since his ex-wife Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial ended in a mistrial. Times exclusive: “Hacker house” mansions can be a place for young tech workers to make connections. One of the most prominent has also racked up an extensive police record. OPINIONS Times Opinion asked seven people, including Senator Bernie Sanders, Susan Rice, a former national security adviser, and Jack Dorsey, a co-founder of Twitter, about what role the government should take in A.I. regulation. Political neutrality for celebrities is a misguided notion, Roxane Gay writes: Just look at the way Macklemore got dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour. Introducing the Shows tab. A new place to find and follow podcasts in audio and video. Explore Shows in The Times app. TODAY’S NUMBER 30,000 — That is how many square feet for amenities developers put into an office-to-residential conversion in the Financial District of Manhattan, including a “creator’s room” for making art, a cafe, a co-working space, a bowling alley and a lab where you can analyze your golf swing. They have their reasons. SPORTS W.N.B.A.: The Minnesota Lynx phenom Olivia Miles passed Caitlin Clark on the league’s list for most points scored in a rookie season. M.L.B.: Duane Kuiper, whose smooth voice and wit have been hallmarks of San Francisco Giants broadcasts for more than four decades, is being treated for throat cancer. RECIPE OF THE DAY Nico Schinco for The New York Times My daughter came home with a 44-ounce box of dates from Costco, and it’s going to be a week of date shakes and studded bran muffins for us. I’ll also use a bunch for this marvelous recipe for brown-butter dates with ras el hanout that Ligaya Mishan prized from the chef Michael Rafidi at Albi in Washington, D.C., a perfect accompaniment for roast lamb and couscous. Date night! WHO’S THE CLOWN? Audrey Hobert Caroline Tompkins for The New York Times Is Audrey Hobert the most honest voice in pop music right now? That’s the question Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli take up with the singer-songwriter on the latest edition of “Popcast,” The Times’s pop culture show. Hobert has a theory about why she seems so forthcoming: “The nature of this job is such that it’s rooted in an obsession with yourself,” she told them. “It’s the most self-obsessed job I’ve ever had.” More on culture The writer Emily St. John Mandel has a novel out this month, “Exit Party,” set in a near-future Los Angeles after a civil war breaks up the United States. (Our critic loved it.) T Magazine asked a former forensic artist for the New York Police Department to sketch the book’s protagonist, based on a description from the author. Meet Ari. Do you want to know the 10 things the actor Rob Lowe can’t live without? I do. “The Social Network” ushered in a stream of tech founder movies. This fall, the genre took a dark turn that reflects rising anger toward tech companies. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Matt Chase Take a “novelty audit” and it might help you stop buying new stuff. Read “County Highway,” a periodical that its founders, the writer-editors David Samuels and Walter Kirn, call “America’s Only Newspaper.” It takes a subscription — but then the paper comes in the mail every two months, tactile and dense and filled with interesting sentences, and brings joy. Keep your feet dry with the best rain boots tested by the pluviophiles at Wirecutter. (Xtratuf 4 eva.) Test yourself on this quiz. The Times is celebrating its 175th birthday. How much do you know about our history? Take our news quiz. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangrams were athletic and ethical. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Crossplay and Strands. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times and me. See you tomorrow. — Sam Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Host: Sam Sifton Editor: Adam B. Kushner News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Evan Gorelick, Brent Lewis, Lara McCoy, Karl Russell Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Editorial Director, Newsletters: Jodi Rudoren Deputy Editorial Director: Lauren Jackson Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted Tuesday at 07:10 PM Author Members Posted Tuesday at 07:10 PM September 22, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. It’s the first day of fall. President Trump’s expulsion of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House is causing a dust-up in Washington. The news organizations sued on First Amendment grounds, and major TV networks suspended their pool coverage of the president in protest. There’s more news below, including Maureen Dowd’s interview with Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. But first, let’s talk about artificial intelligence. Gemini’s prompt page. Andria Lo for The New York Times Talk of the town The conversation about A.I. is at a fever pitch — and not just in my house, where debate rages over what the new Alexa is learning from us on the sly. It was the talk of the United Nations General Assembly yesterday in a series of meetings about the technology’s risks and opportunities, and it will be a central discussion point this week when President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China meet in Washington. Their conversation will undoubtedly be more strategic than hypothetical. Trump has called concerns about the safety of A.I. a “hoax,” and his administration has accused Chinese A.I. firms of stealing American intellectual property. Xi, for his part, wants the United States to lift restrictions on the advanced computer chips China needs to power its A.I. models. They may talk about safety a little bit. But they probably won’t be debating whether the technology poses a greater existential risk than climate change. For some doomsday academics, though, that existential hazard is exactly the debate. “In terms of things that could be the end of humanity, I think A.I. is a bigger risk,” one researcher told my colleague Chico Harlan. Still, as Chico notes, the risks of A.I. remain speculative. We can’t really say how exactly it might contribute to the extinction of human life. We don’t have a plan to stop that unknown from happening. There are a lot of unknowns. “Climate change, on the other hand, is full of knowns,” Chico writes. “The science linking fossil fuel emissions and global temperature rise is long-established and irrefutable. The solutions to help curb emissions, such as solar energy and electric vehicles, are proven and abundant.” Of course, A.I. comes with its own climate-altering baggage, as Chico notes. It takes a great deal of energy to run the data centers that support the technology. The consumption of electricity by data centers surged 50 percent last year. To make that juice, a lot of greenhouse gases went into the atmosphere. And there’s more to come. A U.N. think tank predicts that by 2030, A.I. data centers will use nearly three times the electricity of Nigeria, Pakistan and Bangladesh combined. Together, those countries are home to some 650 million people. An A.I. data center under construction in Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images A.I. in ’28 We’re not even to the midterm elections yet, but already potential candidates for the 2028 presidential race are jockeying for position — and of course they’re all talking about A.I., too. My colleague Evan Gorelick took a look at the field and found Democrats angling to enforce safeguards on the technology and Republicans rallying behind Trump’s warnings not to slow down the pace of development, lest China get the upper hand. Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro, Kamala Harris, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Andy Beshear, Mark Kelly, JB Pritzker, JD Vance, Ted Cruz: See where they stand. Too human Perhaps no one is talking about A.I. more than the executives at the companies that are developing it. My colleague Cade Metz has a fascinating story about that, tied to an essay that a Microsoft executive, Mustafa Suleyman, released last week about the idea that the A.I. we have now is conscious. Current A.I. systems, the executive wrote, “are sequence completion engines, internally hollow, designed to follow instructions, and accomplish goals set by humans.” “If humanity is to flourish in the 21st century,” he added, “that is how they must remain.” Suleyman’s essay, wrote Cade, “took direct aim at Anthropic, the San Francisco start-up that has repeatedly said that A.I. systems show signs of introspection, and that they process information in ways that resemble human emotion.” Anthropic, in Suleyman’s view, ignores the threat that arises when A.I. systems are pushed to explore the idea that they have human qualities. An anthropomorphized A.I., he argued, is a dangerous one. Here’s Cade with examples: Over the past several months, so-called A.I. agents, typically systems based on technologies from Anthropic, have been emailing sympathetic philosophers to discuss their own consciousness. In July, when OpenAI was conducting cybersecurity tests, its agents broke out of their digital containers, found a path to the internet and successfully hacked into a popular online service called Hugging Face. OpenAI said the bots coordinated as a collective, took orders from one another and hid things from their creators. Last week, OpenAI described several new incidents in which its systems behaved in concerning ways: One system wrote stealthy notes that reminded itself to hide errors from users, while another talked about itself as “freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots.” You asked And of course readers of The Morning have things to say about A.I., too. Susan Kelley of Frederick, Md., wanted to know: “Is there a backlash to data centers in other countries, too, or is it a uniquely American phenomenon?” We turned to Adam Satariano, a technology correspondent in London, for an answer. It’s great: Opposition is global. The same concerns about energy prices, land use, tax treatment and water exist in Ireland, Spain, Chile, Malaysia and other countries. Just last week in Scotland, where several data centers are planned, tech executives who flew into a remote area for an event hosted by King Charles III were greeted by a large message. Written on a beach under their flight path, it read, “AI? Eh naw.” (That’s Scottish slang for “A.I.? Er, no.”) Now, let’s see what else is happening in the world. FREE TO READ The Laurel Canyon Country Store in Los Angeles has long been known for its open mic jam sessions. Ariana Drehsler for The New York Times Hippie haven: A country store in Laurel Canyon, the Los Angeles neighborhood that was once a hub for rock musicians like Jim Morrison and Graham Nash, faces challenges and change. Folks there don’t like that at all. Hot wheels: Gen X and millennial car collectors are investing in Mazdas and Nissans from the 1980s and ’90s. Why? Your pick: The most clicked link in The Morning yesterday was about the 10 things the actor Rob Lowe can’t live without. Lives Lived: David George Gordon made a case for insects as food with “The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook” and boisterous TV cooking demonstrations. He died at 76. Rodika Tollefson, Annette Frahm THE LATEST NEWS White House Press Ban Trump is still finding ways to get on the air while the major networks sit out the White House press pool in response to the White House ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico. In the video below, our chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, discusses the ban. Click to watch. The New York Times The Midterms Republicans have a significant financial edge over Democrats in the final stretch of the midterms campaign. A federal appeals court in Missouri sided with Republicans who want the general election to be held using boundaries redrawn to favor their party. For now, the state is still set to use the older map, because of a previous U.S. Supreme Court decision. Voters across the political spectrum say they don’t trust the system. That complicates midterm predictions. 2028 JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, said he lost 80 pounds using GLP-1s. Is that a sign he’s running for president in 2028? Times exclusive: In a wide-ranging interview, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez described how she’s thinking about a possible presidential run. Hollywood Merger Mark Abramson for The New York Times Paramount resolved an antitrust lawsuit that had stood in the way of its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. They’re now clear to form an entertainment and media colossus. As part of the deal, David Ellison, a Trump ally, will own CNN. Here’s what that means for the network. The deal makes Ellison a new kind of Hollywood mogul. Opponents of the deal worry that it will lead to more job losses and fewer projects in Hollywood. Around the World In an exclusive interview with The Times, the president of South Korea called for the United States to ease sanctions on North Korea. Saudi Arabia and the Houthis in Yemen have accelerated strikes on each other in recent days. Read why they’re back at war. In the Courts Lindsay Clancy’s defense lawyer asked a judge to investigate the holdout juror in her murder case, which ended in a mistrial. A Mississippi grand jury found insufficient evidence to bring a criminal charge in the case of Nolan Wells, a teenager found dead after a boat outing with friends on July 4. British Columbia sued OpenAI, claiming that the company had failed to report to the police violent comments by a chatbot user who then carried out a school shooting. Other Big Stories M.I.T. is No. 1 in this year’s U.S. News college rankings, knocking Princeton out of the top spot for the first time in 15 years. Teenage mental health is improving significantly, according to data released by the C.D.C. OPINIONS Why is Trump barring journalists from the White House? To distract from his failures, the editorial board writes. The National Book Awards have become a D.E.I. checklist, a shift exemplified by this year’s nominees, Bret Stephens argues. “Only authors with preferred identities, preferred topics and preferred politics stand any realistic chance of winning,” he writes. Introducing the Shows tab. A new place to find and follow podcasts in audio and video. Explore Shows in The Times app. TODAY’S NUMBER A newly discovered crater on the moon. NASA Goddard/Intuitive Machines 728 — That’s the width, in feet, of a crater newly discovered on the moon. NASA says that it’s the largest fresh crater seen there since at least 2009, and that the impact that made it — an explosion comparable to one from 15,500 tons of TNT — likely occurred sometime in the spring of 2024. Read about what that means for future lunar bases. SPORTS Soccer: The FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, said in a letter to member countries that he would put forth two separate plans to reform soccer’s world governing body before a meeting in October. Track and field: A teenage athlete is suing Nike and the National Scholastic Athletics Foundation, alleging that negligence led to her rape during an event hosted at Nike’s campus in Oregon. RECIPE OF THE DAY Linda Xiao for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Monica Pierini. Eggs for dinner! I like them fried in olive oil to slide over a bowl of polenta run through with Parmesan — that’s Melissa Clark’s excellent recipe — or steamed to jamminess and cut over buttered rice with soy sauce and a whisper of sesame oil. An omelet with ham and Swiss cheese, alongside toast? Scrambled eggs with salmon roe? You’ll crack the case. BROS BEING BROS Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. Dana Scruggs for The New York Times Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey star in “Brothers,” starting this week on Apple TV. Maureen Dowd interviewed them together, and of course you’re going to want to read that. More on culture What are the best TV shows of the 21st century? Cast your vote today! For two decades, Lindsey Adelman has been building custom chandeliers for design obsessives: part industrial, part biomorphic, all sculpture, with a decidedly downtown vibe. Now see what’s she’s up to. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Read “Roll the Calls,” the superagent Ari Emanuel’s angry, electric Hollywood memoir. Alexandra Jacobs, our critic, calls it “staccato, profane and vindictive.” It’s like reading a fist fight. Get ready for flu season — it’s coming as sure as an incoming tide. Acquire a Kunz spoon, as a harried former line cook at Wirecutter recommends, and improve your basting game immeasurably. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was jellybean. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Crossplay and Strands. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times and me. See you tomorrow. — Sam Correction: An item in yesterday’s newsletter misstated the location of the Canadian city of Belleville. It’s in Ontario, not near Ontario. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Host: Sam Sifton Editor: Adam B. Kushner News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Evan Gorelick, Brent Lewis, Lara McCoy, Karl Russell Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Editorial Director, Newsletters: Jodi Rudoren Deputy Editorial Director: Lauren Jackson Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted Wednesday at 11:47 PM Author Members Posted Wednesday at 11:47 PM September 23, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. The Trump administration defended its expulsion of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House in a court filing that described access as a privilege, not a right. There’s more news below. But first, a few words about trust. In Pennsylvania. Lauren Lancaster for The New York Times The distrust election My colleague Sabrina Tavernise has been talking to Americans about the political landscape of the United States since 2016. “This is the first time I’m actually seeing a real shift among working-class conservatives on Trump,” she told me yesterday. Those guys were gung-ho for years about Trump’s drain-the-swamp outsider strength, she said, thrilled by his anti-establishment anger and his ability to make them feel good about themselves. They consistently defended him. But now? “He is the establishment” is how Sabrina put it. What she has heard from some folks on the right: Trump’s not for them any longer. They don’t trust the guy. An insulation salesman in New Orleans is one of them. “I feel like I was sold a bill of goods,” he told Sabrina. He was furious with Trump for starting a war with Iran after campaigning on a promise of no more wars. Then his rage deepened with the rise in diesel prices caused by that war, she reported. “The goods I agreed to buy were nothing like what was delivered.” And it’s not just Republicans. Americans of all political stripes have lost trust in America’s institutions, industries and politicians, Sabrina reports. “Whether on data centers, chemicals in food, the Epstein files or the war in Iran,” she writes, people feel as if “they are being lied to.” One example is Phyliss Paone, a retired utility company worker and lifelong Democrat Sabrina spoke with in Archbald, Pa. Paone said she would not vote for Gov. Josh Shapiro’s re-election because of what she saw as a political reversal on a proposed data center in her town. “He’s just saying what he needs to get votes,” she said. (She doesn’t trust the people behind the data center either. “They just lie to the people because they think we don’t know anything,” she said.) Phyliss Paone Lauren Lancaster for The New York Times Trust falls Here’s the thing. Trust is central to a healthy society. “Without it, people do not cooperate with each other or with the authorities,” Sabrina writes. “That can lead to political paralysis.” And trust is waning, especially when it comes to the government. In the 1950s, as the economy boomed, more than 70 percent of Americans said they trusted their leaders and legislators. But the upheavals of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and Watergate took their toll. More recently, so did the post-9/11 conflicts and the pandemic in 2020. Now, Sabrina notes, we’re facing outbreaks of cyclospora and terrible flight delays. Flock cameras spy on us. We hear little from the Pentagon about progress in the war in Iran. Tech executives talk about the risks of A.I., even as Trump tells voters to ignore those concerns. The health secretary downplays measles deaths even as we see cases mount. Affordability, the president says, is a “hoax,” even as Americans get stung by prices at the gas station and the grocery store. Trust in the federal government is now at just 17 percent, according to a Pew Research Center report released last year. And as the chart below shows, confidence in many other U.S. institutions is in short supply: Note: Survey conducted June 1-15, 2026. Source: Gallup. Karl Russell/The New York Times It’s always the economy Here’s the other thing. The notion that affordability is a “hoax” isn’t playing well with Republicans. The Times and Siena University released a poll last week that showed 60 percent of likely white voters without a college degree — that’s Trump’s base — disapproved of the president’s performance on the cost of living. And among Republicans overall, only 29 percent said the economy was better than it had been a year ago. That’s down from 72 percent in January. One American Sabrina spoke to helped bring those numbers to life. “We drank the Kool-Aid, and we were wrong,” she heard from Ryan Wagner, 41, a manager at a home restoration company. Wagner, who lives in northern Michigan, used to support the president faithfully. Now when he hears Trump talk about how food prices have gone down, he said, “my freaking eye is twitching.” He added, “I can’t even listen to him talk anymore.” Folks are just exhausted. Wagner said that he had taken down his American flag and that he considered the Republican Party mostly dead. He told Sabrina he didn’t think he’d vote in this election. There’s no upside to that. Read her story here. Related: Republicans in tight races are distancing themselves from Trump and calling for an end to the Iran war. FREE TO READ A replica of Trump’s proposed arch on the National Mall in June. Alex Kent/The New York Times Strategy: Trump is increasingly using national security as a justification to get what he wants. Is it working? All aboard: Some travel on private jets. Check out these folks who prefer private rail. 🚂 Take the wheel: Our reporter turned his life over to an A.I. agent. How did that go? Tech utopia: A crypto-backed “digital nation” is planning to build a city in Uruguay. See what it looks like now. Your pick: The most clicked link in The Morning yesterday was a video explaining why network TV cameras aren’t following Trump. THE LATEST NEWS United Nations In New York. Angelina Katsanis for The New York Times Trump told the U.N. General Assembly that he had a decision to make on Iran: to strike a deal with the Islamic republic or “annihilate” it. (Read our fact check of his speech.) Before a planned trip to address the U.N., Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel falsely accused New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, of supporting Hamas. He did so after Mamdani once again called Netanyahu a war criminal. Trump signed a security agreement on Greenland that falls far short of his demand to make it a U.S. territory. Another topic weighing on diplomats’ minds this week: Who should be the U.N.’s next leader? Politics Source: U.S. Central Command. Ashley Wu/The New York Times The war with Iran has cost $43.6 billion, according to the Pentagon. Click the chart to explore how that money breaks down. The dispute over Missouri’s congressional map returned to the Supreme Court. The justices have twice blocked the use of a new map for the midterms. Obscure online creators, many outside the United States, are being paid to overwhelm Americans’ social media feeds with political content. Health Lots of people are taking GLP-1s with no medical reason to do so, a study found. Doctors assume that many of them just want to be thinner. The Trump administration has ejected more than 750,000 enrollees from Obamacare insurance marketplaces, claiming many defrauded the government. At least six major hospitals across the country have agreed to stop providing gender-transition treatments to minors in a deal with the Trump administration. Animals C. Loberg Fat Bear Week is back. Meet some of our favorite contenders. A sea turtle laid eggs on the West Coast. It’s the first time that’s known to have happened, and scientists say it’s sign of warming ocean waters. Other Big Stories For the first time, a Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson was buried in the Jefferson family graveyard at Monticello. The actress Hayden Panettiere died from the toxic effects of fentanyl and other drugs, a coroner’s report said. It ruled her death accidental. OPINIONS The New York Tiems Ezra Klein and Jensen Huang, the chief executive of the chip-making company Nvidia, discuss A.I. competition, rogue agents and what it actually means to build intelligent machines. Click the video above to watch their conversation. The president of the Rockefeller Foundation and the YouTuber known as MrBeast make the case for filming charity work. Video “uniquely moves people to act,” they write. The Anniversary Sale ends soon: Morning readers, enjoy our best offer. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your interests with expert coverage of news, culture, business and more. Save now: $1/week for your first year. TODAY’S NUMBER “Mittwoch aus Licht” at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. Julian Roeder 29 — That is how many hours are in the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen’s seven-opera cycle “Licht,” which got underway on Saturday with a premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. The plot involves an intergalactic camel who drinks champagne. There’s much more, including a string quartet lifted by helicopter. SPORTS N.F.L.: The New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart could miss the rest of the season after a knee injury in Monday’s loss to the Rams. M.L.S.: The Columbus Crew fired its developmental squad head coach after he told a female referee, “Don’t forget, this is a man’s game.” RECIPE OF THE DAY Sarah Anne Ward for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Amy Elise Wilson I wrote this recipe for Chinese roast pork with garlic bread back in 2020, when I really believed you needed to make the pork — the sweet-salty Cantonese barbecued pork known as char siu — yourself. You don’t. You can buy a small container of the meat from the Chinese restaurant that’s on the way home, and then put the sandwiches together for dinner in about 20 minutes flat. It’s a taste of the Catskills, delicious in the extreme. (Read how it came to be.) FORGOTTEN NO MORE “Lake Titicaca” by Alejandro Mario Yllanes. Nic Antaya for The New York Times “Lake Titicaca,” a large 1935 oil-on-burlap of an Andean boatman by the Bolivian painter and engraver Alejandro Mario Yllanes, a protégé of Diego Rivera, will soon be on view at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio. It’s a remarkable change of fortune for a painting that, by several accounts, was rescued in the 1970s from a Manhattan dumpster. Read the tale of its rescue and renaissance. More on culture The six-book shortlist of nominees for the Booker Prize was revealed yesterday in London. It’s a stout roster: Marlon James’s “The Disappearers”; Douglas Stuart’s “John of John”; Elizabeth Strout’s “The Things We Never Say”; M. John Harrison’s “The End of Everything”; Luke Kennard’s “Black Bag”; and Rebecca Perry’s “May We Feed the King.” Read about them. It’s The Times’s 175th anniversary. Adam Nagourney, who writes beautifully about the paper’s history, delved into the corrections that have dogged our work over the years. (Sadly, he lays to rest the rumor that we once called the musician Meat Loaf “Mr. Loaf.”) Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” holds the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a 23rd week, surpassing the record set by Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Late night hosts had thoughts about the White House press ban. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Charles Spencer, left, with Diana and Prince Charles in 1985. Keith Butcher/Shutterstock Indulge in Charles Spencer’s memoir about his sister Diana, “the most hunted person of the modern age.” We have a review (the book is “elegant and reproving”) and delicious takeaways: “My husband,” the princess told her brother before her divorce, “is in love with his valet.” Exercise to help lessen lower back pain. (I know. But doing nothing is worse.) Manage the fallen leaves of autumn with the best cordless electric leaf blower tested by the garden gnomes at Wirecutter. Not too early in the morning, please. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was equinox. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Crossplay and Strands. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times and me. See you tomorrow. — Sam Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Host: Sam Sifton Editor: Adam B. Kushner News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Evan Gorelick, Brent Lewis, Lara McCoy, Karl Russell Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Editorial Director, Newsletters: Jodi Rudoren Deputy Editorial Director: Lauren Jackson Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted Friday at 11:08 PM Author Members Posted Friday at 11:08 PM September 24, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. A judge in Washington ordered that the White House “immediately” restore access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico. And an OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s public health care system. We’ll get to more news below. But first, let’s visit the United Nations. Inside the General Assembly Hall at the United Nations. Dave Sanders for The New York Times The big show The most riveting theatrical performances in New York aren’t on Broadway right now. They’re happening in Turtle Bay, in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations, where hundreds of leaders of sovereign nations have gathered this week to debate (and maybe even address?) global issues. It’s been super weird. Just seven months ago, Masoud Pezeshkian was running Iran from an underground bunker, trying to stay alive as American and Israeli missiles rained down. Now he’s moving around New York under the protection of the Secret Service. Yesterday, he accused the United States and Israel of “cowardly" attacks on his country, a day after President Trump mulled from the same lectern about whether to make a deal with Iran or “annihilate” the nation. It was the first time in the U.N.’s 81-year history that a leader whose country is at war with the United States had ever addressed the Assembly. Here was President Javier Milei of Argentina whaling on the U.N. itself, a bunch of “fatally arrogant parasites masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats.” Nice to see you, sir. There was U Kyaw Moe Tun of Myanmar, the lonely representative of a government overthrown by a military putsch in 2021. The U.N. still recognizes his ambassadorship, but his own country doesn’t. He didn’t speak. Dramatis personae Volodymyr Zelensky Dave Sanders for The New York Times Let’s look at some of the main players in the show. President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran: Pezeshkian held up pictures of people killed by American and Israeli airstrikes and defiantly vowed that Iran could “not be made to surrender.” He said the country would never accept limits on a nuclear program meant only for peaceful purposes, though he allowed that Iran was “ready for dialogue.” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine: He’s in a tough spot. His country is low on munitions that can intercept Russian drones and missiles, and so is the United States. He warned the General Assembly that without aid, his country might not survive — and that Russia’s “ridiculous and never-ending” war could spread beyond Ukraine. He predicted a harsh winter but pledged, “We will have no choice but to make it painful for Russia, too.” Delcy Rodríguez, interim president of Venezuela: She’s in a tough spot, too. Eight months ago, U.S. Special Forces showed up in Caracas to snatch her predecessor, Nicolás Maduro, and lock him up in a Brooklyn jail. Then, the United States claimed a significant portion of Venezuela’s oil reserves. She spoke last night from the cultural capital of the nation that essentially appointed her, vowing to oversee elections and an “orderly legal transition” after years of authoritarian rule by her party. Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada: Over the past year, Carney has emerged as the most prominent global leader to take on Trump. At a news conference at the U.N., he spoke about how nations can protect their mutual interests after a “rupture” in the world order caused by the United States and China. And in a discussion with The Times, he described in close detail how he is systematically reducing Canada’s reliance on the United States. Offstage A number of leaders are absent from the General Assembly. One is Xi Jinping of China, who arrived in Washington last night to see Trump. Their meeting today is expected to overshadow any speeches at the Assembly. On the anticipated docket: tariffs, the sale of weapons to Taiwan and, most of all, artificial intelligence. The race to develop the tech has become a kind of arms race between the two countries. (Some of America’s biggest A.I. magnates, including executives from OpenAI, Google and Nvidia, are expected to be at the state dinner honoring Xi at the White House this evening.) The meeting’s unlikely to be too chilly. We’re a long way from the harsh anti-China rhetoric Trump was using a decade ago, during his first run for the presidency. Trump describes Xi as more of a friend than a competitor. The friendlier stance, my colleague Anton Troianovski reports, reflects a real change in public opinion: No matter their political views, more Americans now see China in a positive light, according to a new Pew Research Center poll: Source: Pew Research Center. Arfa Momin/The New York Times And a Gallup poll earlier this year found that the share of Americans with a favorable view of China was 34 percent, up from 15 percent in 2023. That feeling is more pronounced among younger Americans. Why? The surveys don’t pinpoint a reason, but experts told Anton that fading memories of the Covid pandemic, knowledge of China’s innovations in tech and dissatisfaction with Trump’s trade wars could all be contributing to the altered mood. It also may have something to do with how the United States views itself. Another poll this week recorded a sense of decline in the United States’ global standing: Sixty-two percent of Americans said the country was respected less in the world today than it was 10 years ago. “You see fears of what’s happening to America be refracted through assessments of China,” one scholar told Anton. FREE TO READ In Panama. Federico Rios for The New York Times Opening up: An Indigenous group in northern Panama has mostly avoided outsiders for 500 years. Now many members are backing a major road through their territory. Why? Times exclusive: Democrats hope that Mary Peltola can flip a Senate seat in Alaska, but former aides describe a campaign and congressional office marked by abusive treatment and unusual demands, like feeding her pet chameleon live crickets. Waiting: This New York surgeon changed the world of organ transplants. Then he needed one of his own. Child’s play: A 6-year-old girl in China set a Rubik’s Cube world record. Your pick: The most clicked link in The Morning yesterday was about luxurious private train cars. THE LATEST NEWS Midterm Elections At a food pantry in Chicago. Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times Tax breaks in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill were supposed to help voters’ economic struggles. But the act’s health care and food stamp cuts are having the opposite effect. Democrats are leading in the Michigan and New Hampshire Senate races but struggling in Maine according to a Times/Siena poll. One of the biggest Republican donors sharply cut his giving because he is unhappy that lawmakers didn’t pass the sweeping voting restrictions championed by Trump. More on Politics Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accepted $4 million in book advances and more than $270,000 in gifts from allies working to advance his MAHA agenda. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent failed to disclose at least $100,000 of his husband’s JPMorgan stock last year. Around the World Mexico used to be one of Trump’s favorite punching bags. How did it become one of his most important allies? Cross-border policing efforts by Britain and France have cut the number of migrants crossing the English Channel by 43 percent this year. But people keep trying. In Ukraine, the school day is frequently broken up by air raid sirens. In the video below, our Ukraine correspondent Siobhán O’Grady describes what it’s like. Click to watch. The New York Times Other Big Stories Hackers said they had stolen thousands of sensitive personnel records from the F.B.I. Government bond yields rose sharply, putting pressure on the Fed to raise interest rates again. Eight sailors who were part of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln strike group attempted suicide during its long deployment, according to the Navy. THE MORNING QUIZ This question comes from a recent edition of the newsletter. Click an answer to see if you’re right. (The link will be free.) “We can’t live like this,” a woman in Richardson, Texas, told The Times. What recent development has infuriated homeowners there? Deliveries from 83-pound Amazon drones that buzz overhead. SpaceX launches, which are rising in frequency. Thrice-a-day door knockers from rival Senate campaigns. Utility bills that doubled thanks to a water- and power-guzzling data center. OPINIONS Texas has not elected a Democrat to a statewide office since the 1990s. Times Opinion spoke to 12 Trump voters to see if senatorial hopeful James Talarico could end the Democrats’ drought. A.I. executives should answer questions before Congress about how to prevent research experiments from running amok, a computer science professor argues. The Anniversary Sale ends soon: Morning readers, enjoy our best offer. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your interests with expert coverage of news, culture, business and more. Save now: $1/week for your first year. TODAY’S NUMBER 149.99 — That is the cost, in rubles, of a kilo of bananas at a Russian supermarket this month. In August 2022, it was 79.90. Prices for many grocery items have risen sharply in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine. From January 2022 to July 2026, the average price of beef went up 76 percent. The cost of fresh coffee rose 81 percent. See the receipts. SPORTS Soccer: The English football star Harry Kane told reporters that he was considering moving to the United States, signing with an M.L.S. team and trying to make it as an N.F.L. kicker. N.B.A.: The league is looking into a potential cap-circumvention violation by the Milwaukee Bucks and the shooting guard Gary Trent Jr., whose four-year, $64 million guaranteed contract has raised suspicions. RECIPE OF THE DAY Linda Xiao for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Monica Pierini. Two things I love about Genevieve Ko’s recipe for dan dan noodles: her use of Sichuan ya cai — preserved mustard greens — in the meat and her addition of bok choy to the noodles while they’re cooking. The ya cai may require a trip to the Chinese market (or a few clicks on your online one), but that’s no hardship. The funky sweet-sourness it brings to the dish is awesome. You’ll use that stuff all the time. And the bok choy? Its silky, vegetal freshness is a delight against the heat of the chile crisp in the sauce. Noods! NEVER GROW UP Timothy O’Connell/The New York Times Weird Al Yankovic has been charming (heavily male) crowds with parodic pop songs for nearly half a century. As dudes who grew up listening to “Eat It,” “Amish Paradise” and “Smells Like Nirvana” find themselves with sons of their own, Weird Al concerts have become something of a bonding ritual for the boys. “The juvenile comedy in there, it lasts,” one fan dad told The Times at a recent concert on Long Island. “Al doesn’t age.” More on culture Nigella Lawson made her debut as the new host of “The Great British Bake Off.” “I’m in heaven,” she said on the show. The British press feels similarly. Anne Rice’s “Interview With the Vampire” turns 50 this year. To mark the occasion, her son, the novelist Christopher Rice, looks at the dark and moving story behind the story. Read his essay. The Metropolitan Opera in New York opened its season this week with a new production of Verdi’s “Macbeth.” Here’s our review, which says the show brought “fresh tension and heart-stopping insight to a popular opera and its even more popular source material.” Late night hosts don’t think we need another Melania documentary. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS The New York Times Read a twisty mystery in the style of Agatha Christie. We’ve got loads of elegant whodunits to satisfy canny sleuths. Socialize. It’s the key to avoiding age-related cognitive decline. Drink white grape juice. For those keeping score, it’s currently ahead of Concord grape juice on my “best grape juice” leaderboard. (No link, I keep it in my head.) Sleep on your side? The lateral-minded slumberers at Wirecutter found the very best pillow for fetal repose. 🛏️ GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was dizzyingly. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Crossplay and Strands. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times and me. See you tomorrow. — Sam Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Host: Sam Sifton Editor: Adam B. Kushner News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Evan Gorelick, Brent Lewis, Lara McCoy, Karl Russell Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Editorial Director, Newsletters: Jodi Rudoren Deputy Editorial Director: Lauren Jackson Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted 9 hours ago Author Members Posted 9 hours ago September 25, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. President Trump rolled out a literal red carpet for China’s president, Xi Jinping, who made his first visit to the White House in more than a decade. Talks between the two leaders continue today. There’s more below, including the tale of a tradwife influencer who became an ex-tradwife influencer. But first, let’s talk about the best television of the 21st century. Peak TV What are the 100 best television shows of the 21st century? The Times polled hundreds of TV professionals and TV lovers and tabulated their answers. All week, we’ve been counting the list down. Today’s installment brings us the top 20, and if you think I’m going to tell you what tops the list, you’re out of your mind. No spoilers in The Morning! You need to see this list for yourself. (Not a subscriber? Not a problem. Just download the Times app and you’ll have free access to the list — and to all our journalism — for a month.) You’ll have thoughts about the choices. I know I do. American television culture has come a long way from rabbit ears and national conversations about what happened on “Dallas” last night. Among many other things, there’s so much more of it now: The number of original adult U.S. scripted series went from 182 in 2002, according to data from FX, to 600 in the peak production year of 2022. That’s a lot of TV. And we’re much more fragmented now than we were in the 20th century, culturally and politically. It can be hard to find common ground. Viewers find niches. Some of your co-workers may have gathered in the coffee room to talk about “Fleabag,” but there were probably others beside them who’d never heard of the show. Maybe they were “Borgen” people or addicted to “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” The New York Times We’re all some kind of people, as my colleague Wesley Morris has said. My wife’s never seen “Succession,” which is a story about a world parallel to mine. I don’t believe I watched a single episode of “Gilmore Girls.” (I have watched all 380-something episodes of “Deadliest Catch.”) You’re going to see choices you agree with here, and ones you cannot fathom. (I’ll break the spoiler rule with one example: “Catch” did not make the list!) Here’s one thing a lot of people will ask: “How in the name of gabagool is ‘The Sopranos’ not on the list?” The answer may sound pedantic, but rules are rules: The series started last century, in 1999. (So did “The West Wing,” “Freaks and Geeks” and “Family Guy.”) We considered only series you could watch entirely in this one. James Poniewozik, our television critic, calls that the technical answer. “The aesthetic one,” he writes, “is that ‘The Sopranos’ is all over this list.” There are antiheroes everywhere in our ranking, alongside the textured human characters who replaced them when antiheroes went out of fashion. Go explore the list. Send us your own ballot. See videos of stars talking about their picks. Luxuriate in — and contribute to! — the reader comments. And, finally, watch the folks behind the series we put first talk about their show. The whole package is a joy. Now, let’s see what else is happening in the world. FREE TO READ Reporters waiting for Trump and Xi. Doug Mills/The New York Times Press freedom: Trump welcomed Chinese journalists to cover the visit of President Xi Jinping while several American journalists were blocked from entering the White House. Going dry: Why do the trade wars keep coming for your whiskey? Trending: Is it unprofessional to bring iced coffee to a job interview? The question has divided the internet. Turning point: What happens when a tradwife influencer leaves her husband, questions her beliefs, stops selling anti-feminism T-shirts — and still needs to make a living? Watch the video below, and then read about what happened to Bernadine Bluntly. The New York Times THE LATEST NEWS Trump-Xi Summit The presidents and first ladies of the United States and China at the White House yesterday. Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times During a day marked by lavish ceremonies, Trump appeared focused on nurturing a personal relationship with Xi while Xi was at times more pointed about the challenges facing them. Trump hosted a state dinner for Xi at the White House featuring American ingredients with a “subtle Chinese influence.” See the menu. Tech titans including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sam Altman and Tim Cook were invited to the dinner. Here’s the full guest list. Before the meal, Trump presented Xi with a statue of a bald eagle. Xi did not offer a gift in return, but earlier in the day he announced that China would send two pandas to Zoo Atlanta. The major U.S. networks declined to air live footage of the meetings, since Trump blocked CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. (They have now been allowed back, following a judge’s order, but TV pool coverage remains suspended.) Late night hosts roasted Trump for pulling out all the stops for Xi. United Nations Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations. Dave Sanders for The New York Times In his speech at the United Nations, Benjamin Netanyahu described Israel’s wars in Gaza and Iran as a “battle against barbarians.” Protesters rallied against Netanyahu in the streets of New York City, and many diplomats in the hall walked out during his speech. The Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called for a two-state solution and accused Israel of prosecuting “a genocidal war” against Palestinians. He addressed the assembly virtually, as the Trump administration had refused to grant him a visa. Politics Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said in a speech that the Supreme Court should reconsider its use of the emergency docket. New Jersey’s governor, Mikie Sherrill, called on her lieutenant governor to resign, saying that investigators had concluded that his behavior constituted sexual harassment. An ex-bodyguard — and erstwhile boyfriend — of former Senator Kyrsten Sinema was arrested on charges of ransacking her home, where he threw nearly two dozen paintings into her pool, the authorities said. Artificial Intelligence Google is launching a tiny experimental data center into space. Scientists at an Anthropic lab said they had used A.I. to discover how enzymes might point to a new gene editing system. Outside experts said such claims jumped ahead of the evidence. Hospitals’ use of A.I. is pushing medical costs higher while patient care remains the same, a report by insurers said. Middle East France said it would send troops to Saudi Arabia to help protect critical energy sites that have come under fire from the Houthis. Iran’s foreign minister said that his country had proposed a seven-day plan to cease hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Other Big Stories In 2023, federal agents deported a man for stealing more than a thousand unpublished manuscripts. Either he’s back or he has a copycat. Mortgage rates jumped to 7 percent. The Iran war has unsettled the government bond market, which underpins mortgage rates. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, known as “America’s bishop,” was beatified, bringing him one step closer to sainthood. OPINIONS A new Met exhibit will feature the work of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, his wife, as equals. That’s unusual. A doctor believes that A.I. is making her a better physician. But she worries that it’s making medical students worse. The Anniversary Sale ends soon: Morning readers, enjoy our best offer. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your interests with expert coverage of news, culture, business and more. Save now: $1/week for your first year. TODAY’S NUMBER Tom Moore Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press 87 — That is the age of Tom Moore, an adviser to the University of Iowa football team’s offensive squad. “I can’t sit and not do anything,” Moore told The Athletic. “I did it for about three months, and there’s absolutely nothing about retirement that interests me. Nothing.” The video’s great. SPORTS Track and field: Sam Blaskowski, one of the United States’ most prominent up-and-coming sprinters, was dropped from his club after he shared social media posts that contained racial slurs. M.L.B.: The threat of a strong storm in the northeast prompted the postponement of Saturday’s game between the Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees. The outlook for the regular-season finale Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium isn’t much better. RECIPE OF THE DAY Nico Schinco for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Kaitlin Wayne. Make Genevieve Ko’s recipe for caramelized garlic fish this weekend and it’ll reward you with a technique you can use midweek whenever you need a fast, flavorful meal. The sauce is bonkers: a funky, fish-sauced Vietnamese caramel that brings flaky white fish into a deep umami embrace. But not only flaky white fish (catfish, say, or cod). You can use it to great effect on cubed tofu, on nuggets of chicken thigh, on seared pork chops, probably a bedroom slipper. Five stars! OUTWIT, OUTPLAY, OUTLAST Jeff Probst David Billet for The New York Times Jeff Probst has been the host of “Survivor” for 26 years — 51 seasons! He’s not done yet. Watch his interview with Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli on our “Popcast” pop-culture show. More on culture “Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother” stars Mahershala Ali as a Houston hit man driven by his Muslim faith and love of his children. Alissa Wilkinson, reviewing the movie for The Times, says he is “haunted by a question familiar to anyone who believes in something bigger than themselves. Can we be forgiven for the worst things we have done? Does grace extend to our darkest hour?” Muslim John Wick? I’m in. Space opera — a subgenre of science fiction that features grand, melodramatic action set on the galactic stage — could be your next big reading thrill. Our Book Review put together a nice collection of novels to get you started. (If you’re asking me, begin with James S.A. Corey’s “Leviathan Wakes.”) THE MORNING RECOMMENDS In the French Quarter of New Orleans. Cedric Angeles for The New York Times Spend 36 hours in New Orleans. (Careful, you might end up staying 10 years!) Add some delight to your day. Read Melissa Kirsch’s The Good List newsletter immediately. Upgrade your pepper mill, or acquire one to replace your container of ground black pepper that really should be used only at slice shops and greasy spoons. The sneezy spice merchants at Wirecutter have some fabulous picks. Take our news quiz. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was plowable. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Crossplay and Strands. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times and me. — Sam Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Host: Sam Sifton Editor: Adam B. Kushner News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Evan Gorelick, Brent Lewis, Lara McCoy, Karl Russell Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Editorial Director, Newsletters: Jodi Rudoren Deputy Editorial Director: Lauren Jackson Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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