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警方发现一名涉嫌造成 1 人死亡、29 人受伤的男子。该男子持武器与警方对峙，随后被击毙。第 A10 页。 柏林同性恋骄傲活动遭袭击后陷入哀悼
随着资金 匮乏而低落
作者：谢恩·戈德马彻 (SHANE GOLDMACHER) 与里德·J·爱泼斯坦 (REID J. EPSTEIN)
民主党目前的资金短缺程度，以至于其总部领导层采取了一项新策略来掩盖问题的严重性：要求供应商在期中选举之后再发送账单。据三名获得相关简报的人士描述，这一会计手段是民主国家委员会及其陷入困境的领导层面临财务压力最新的迹象；在距离期中选举仅剩 100 天之际，资金问题威胁到民主党的势头。如今，民主党在政治上的形势非常有利。特朗普总统的支持率下降，油价上涨，且一场不受欢迎的与伊朗的战争在持续。但在该党关键机构内部，功能失调和债务问题——且该机构在筹款方面正被其共和党同行击败——正令民主党高层产生日益增加的焦虑。处于中心位置的是 53 岁的党主席肯·马丁。
根据对两打以上民主党人士（包括现任和前任民主国家委员会官员及成员）的采访，肯·马丁发现自己日益被孤立，被失去工作的恐惧所笼罩，并依赖于一个极小且在不断缩减的信任圈。其中大多数人在讨论该党困境时要求匿名。马丁先生精神状态不佳的情况已显露出来。在 7 月初的一次沮丧发作中，他在训斥一名初级助手时，将手机扔在了对方的办公桌上。这次扔手机事件导致了一项向民主国家委员会人力资源部门提交的正式投诉。约半打熟悉该事件的人士描述了这次扔手机事件的后果，他们要求匿名，因为他们未获授权讨论党内事务。这些人中没有人亲眼目睹该冲突，且在手机被扔出的激烈程度上存在一些争议。据称，马丁先生是将手机扔向了办公桌，而非扔向助手。根据其中三人的说法，马丁先生随后与民主国家委员会的人力资源官员就其行为进行了会面。
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商业 B1-5 全球能源转型
作者：托马斯·吉本斯-内夫 (THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF)
阿富汗，喀布尔 —— 我曾参与杀死了大约 6 个人。也许是 7 个。我不确定是否有一个人在路边失血过多而死，还是被送到了医生那里。我经常想起他。这些击杀发生在 2010 年初的冬季和春季，期间发生了阿富汗战争规模最大的行动之一：马尔贾战役。当时我是 22 岁的一支侦察狙击队的队长，该队由 7 名美国海军陆战队队员和一名海军医务兵组成。
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几个世纪以来，这种动物为生活在严酷环境中的人们提供了生计。第 A8 页。 在格陵兰岛，猎海豹就是生活
作者：娜塔莉·唐巴克 (NATALIE DONBACK) 通过电子游戏 学习城市设计
与贝鲁特的许多孩子一样，乔治·扎哈尔 (Georges Zahar) 在成长过程中经常在遍布城市的公共阶梯上玩耍。随后发生了 2020 年的港口爆炸事件，导致 218 人死亡，并造成高达 $4.6 billion 的损失，其中包括他家附近的旺多姆 (Vendome) 和圣尼古拉斯 (St. Nicolas) 阶梯。爆炸后，“阶梯上没有了生机，而且相当破旧，”现年 18 岁的扎哈尔先生说道。
国际 A4-10 被迫逃离与等待
在西班牙中部，数千人住在避难所或车内，其中一些人在野火逼近前被多次撤离。 第 A9 页
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内心能否获得平静？
在场持续了 20 年且最终失败的冲突中杀过人，这是一种奇怪的感受。如此剧烈的人类生命损失和创伤总和，使得阿富汗状态几乎回到了 2001 年，即美国军队踏上这片土地之前的样子。
8 岁的生物系学生。“那里已经没法生活了，在上面行走也很困难。” 在他 14 岁时，扎哈尔先生参加了一个利用电子游戏《我的世界 (游戏)》让儿童参与城市设计的研讨会。
体育 D1-8 为了更快而攀得更高
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战争中的杀戮通常归结为一种“非我即敌”的心态，这是步兵战斗中常见的一种可辩护立场。但我们也接到了“赢得民心”的指示，这是美国旨在赢得民众信任并孤立塔利班的战略。在人们家中旁侧进行枪战的同时试图建立好感，这令人感到极其困惑。这种杀戮并非抽离的；它感觉非常私人化。 巡逻需要不断评估敌我，并且需要长时间通过高倍——
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IVOR PRICKETT 为《纽约时报》绘制
在 Block by Block 基金会和联合国人类住区规划署的协调员引导下，他和其他 45 名儿童重新设计了三处受损的楼梯，构思了诸如大型滑梯、由通话管制成的扶手以及遮荫休息区等新功能，并在游戏中将一切建模以提供真实的蓝图。 自翻新以来，构成圣尼古拉斯的 125 级台阶
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新闻分析
特朗普总统领教 权力的极限
战争五个多月， 大胆目标仍未实现
作者：DAVID E. SANGER
华盛顿 —— 特朗普总统经常赞美自己的不可预测性，宣称这能让盟友和对手同样感到措手不及。据他所述，他在 13 个月前愿意轰炸伊朗的核设施，并在 1 月初派遣三角洲部队特种兵从床上抓捕委内瑞拉的尼古拉斯·马杜罗总统，这反映了他执行军事行动的决心，而这样的行动会让他的前任们脸色苍白。他告诉《纽约时报》，当他挥舞世界上最强大的锤子时，唯一的限制是“我自己的道德感”。但在最近几周，他似乎陷入了困境，他的总统任期逐渐被一场他找不到出路的战争所吞噬。他发现了权力的限制，而他在 2 月 28 日开始全面战斗行动时，几乎无法想象这些限制，当时他设定的目标是迅速结束伊朗的核计划并推翻该国政府。五个月后，这些目标几乎完全没有实现。而特朗普先生曾自信地认为，压倒性的力量将使他能够在伊朗实施他自豪地称之为“委内瑞拉模式”的方案——即将政府更换为听命于美国控制的政权——而现在，他对于重新投入大规模战斗行动犹豫不决，因为他的情报机构评估认为，这些行动在德黑兰不太可能同样奏效。他一直无法控制飙升的油价及其对股票市场的影响。在霍尔木兹海峡陷入停滞、随后仅开放了短短几周的航运，现在再次萎缩至涓涓细流，而第二个扼制点（红海与亚丁湾之间）目前也受到威胁。尽管总统威胁要夺取伊朗运油的哈尔格岛，或没收其地下浓缩铀储备，但他公开表示，他知道人们并不希望派遣地面部队。他的助手们表示，这些限制让他感到极度沮丧，并使他的行为变得更加反复无常，即便以特朗普的标准来看也是如此。仅在上周，特朗普先生的能源部长就签署了一项——
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一名海军上将依赖政治手段
作者：GREG JAFFE 与 KATE KELLY
达里尔·考德尔 (Daryl Caudle) 海军上将去年看到了获得海军最高职位的机会，并迅速抓住了它。根据现任和前任国防官员的说法，在皮特·海格塞斯 (Pete Hegseth) 宣誓就任国防部长之前，当时担任海军一个主要训练司令官的考德尔上将就提出，愿意帮助海格塞斯先生准备政治上充满争议的参议院确认听证会。
这些官员表示，这种接触违反了军事伦理。高级军官理应避免任何党派偏见或政治活动的迹象。
这次提议没有产生任何结果。但在海格塞斯先生就任后不久，他解雇了首位领导海军的女性：考德尔上将的上司。几天后，考德尔上将参谋部的一名高级军官再次违反议定书，联系了海格塞斯先生的团队。
NATIONAL A11-15, 18 与核能的商业纽带
特朗普总统及其家人和支持者可能会从该政府推动加速在全球范围内开展国内支持的电力项目而获益。 第 A13 页
泰特兄弟 (Tate Brothers) 的盟友保持沉默
关键工人被驱逐
法院裁决后，一百万人面临风险，部分领导者试图采取行动
作者：MIRIAM JORDAN 与 MADELEINE NGO
在华盛顿周围，萨尔瓦多出生的团队一直协助翻修、重建和维护国会大厦、五角大楼 (美国国防部) 以及阿灵顿国家公墓。在佛罗里达州、马萨诸塞州和纽约州的养老设施中，海地护理人员协助年迈的美国人进行日常活动。这些工人是超过一百万人中的一部分，他们在一项有着数十年历史的人道主义计划下被允许在美国生活和工作，而现在面临被驱逐出境的前景。上个月，最高法院为特朗普政府终止临时保护状态 (Temporary Protected Status, T.P.S.)（即该人道主义计划）铺平了道路，目前各行业正准备应对失去关键工人的冲击。根据宾夕法尼亚大学研究人员的一项分析，约 70% 的 T.P.S. 持有者参与了美国劳动力市场，其中许多人从事建筑和医疗保健工作。
但周一，大约 350,000 名来自海地和几个其他国家的 T.P.S. 受益者将在最高法院裁决的第一波影响中失去工作许可。大约 190,000 名萨尔瓦多受益者可能会在 9 月份身份到期后成为下一批失去身份的人。“对于特定的地区和特定的行业，数万名工人无法再合法工作将是一个沉重的打击，”宾大沃顿预算模型 (Penn Wharton Budget Model) 的政策分析主任亚历山大·阿农 (Alexander Arnon) 表示，该组织是一家分析 T.P.S. 工人经济影响的非党派研究机构。经济学家表示，失去这些工人可能是渐进的，因为有些人会寻求其他潜在的保护措施（如政治庇护），而另一些人则会继续在账外工作。尽管如此，随着临时保护状态结束的时间临近，由美国商会领导的商业组织在国会山发起了一场行动倡议，来自两党的州和地方领导人数量也在增加。
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ERIC LEE 为《纽约时报》拍摄
达里尔·考德le上将去年为争取海军最高职位而游说。
他的推销方案是：海格塞斯先生应该选择考德尔上将担任下一任海军作战部长。现任和前任官员在讨论敏感人事问题时表示，由于条件限制，他们要求匿名。
该军官在描述考德尔上将时使用的措辞与海格塞斯先生相匹配。
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ARTS C1-6 不再是风景的一部分
认识这位将继承杰弗里·爱泼斯坦大部分财产的女性 Karyna Shuliak，37 岁，是在这位名誉扫地的金融家世界中一个复杂且不寻常的人物，自其去世以来，她一直试图销声匿迹。
特朗普总统暂缓对伊朗采取重大升级行动，顾问表示担忧 担忧之一是，扩大敌对行动可能会危险地耗尽中东地区已经减少的防空弹药储备。
“这应该是好玩的吗？”特朗普在记者晚餐会上大肆侮辱 在特朗普总统发表主旨演讲之际，他的政府与媒体之间的关系继续恶化。
柏林骄傲节活动现场汽车冲入人群，疑似恐怖袭击 警方表示，一名嫌疑人与当地伊斯兰团体有关，且有“强烈怀疑”这是一起恐怖主义行为。至少造成 1 人死亡，16 人受伤。
即便掌握着世界上最强大的武器，特朗普总统似乎仍被伊朗战争所困 一位认为自己的权力没有限制的总统发现了数项限制，这让他感到更加沮丧且行为反复无常。
外部世界的居民。 但尽管我们知道自己是周末的主宰，那种愧疚感依然真实存在。当我们大多数人起床时，阳光已经像门口的狗一样拍打着窗帘背面：让我进去，走吧，你还在等什么？ 即使是在这个尽可能漫长的非正式夏天，我也痛苦地意识到只有区区 16 个周末，挥霍其中任何一个都会让人觉得浪费。我内心的监工将我从沙发上推向世界，并伴随着关于初霜和下午 4 点黄昏的阴郁预言。 最近的一个周日，我在从市外开车回家的路上走错了路，导致在新泽西州的次要公路上绕了一段深夜路，陷入了令人恐惧的隧道交通堵塞，无论我切换多少次车道，我始终在错误的那个车道上。车里有两个朋友，我觉得很糟糕，让他们承受这种炼狱般的折磨，浪费了宝贵的夏季周末。 然后我尝试转换心态，以一种富足的精神来对待这一时刻。这种情况虽然令人恼火，但并非完全不愉快。我和两个朋友在一起；我们聊天，跟着广播唱歌，在地球上的时光被我们用来共同凝视在黑暗中延伸数英里的尾灯。
《时报》记者每周在此为你引导正在发生的事情——以及为什么它很重要。请在 nytimes.com/themorning 订阅 The Morning 通讯。
起初感觉我们被剥夺了生活，但当然，在此期间我们依然在生活。 在冬天，留在室内是一种舒适的特权，是一种恢复性的自我关怀。在夏天，我们将其视为浪费光阴，几乎是一种道德上的失败。在那些决定小睡、洗衣服或放弃季节明显乐趣的日子里，我试着提醒自己，日子并不是一个需要管理的项目。无论我在做什么，我都在其中生活、呼吸、思考和体验。 关于我如何度过夏季周末的故事，如果发生在海滩或烧烤聚会上，听起来可能比在沙发上的毯子下——或者就说到新泽西收费公路上的经历——要好得多。但故事的场景其实并没有那么重要。我们经历的转折起初可能看起来是误入歧途，但最终，我们终于回到了家。
7月 27, 1927。据《时报》报道，前一天一只小狗从底特律乘飞机抵达南达科他州的快速城，作为送给总统卡尔文·库利奇和第一夫人格蕾丝的礼物，两人近期刚经历了其中一只爱犬 Prudence Prim 的去世。这只名为 Diana of Wildwood 的设得兰牧羊犬是由 Wildwood Farms 的威廉·E·斯克里普斯的孩子们赠送的，它立即就与总统亲近起来，在见面时舔了他的脸。“又得了一只狗，”库利奇先生在接过小狗时说道。“我想 Rob Roy 也会想见到她的，”他补充道，指的是他们的另一只爱犬。这只小狗最终从总统和第一夫人共度夏季的南达科他州搬到了白宫，并因其淘气而被库利奇夫人重新命名为 Calamity Jane。在库利奇先生担任总统期间，夫妇俩在白宫饲养了许多动物，包括几只猫、鸟以及一只名叫 Rebecca 的浣熊。
“半正式”（Semiformal）是那些糟糕的默认着装要求之一，就像“节日风”（festive）、“精心打扮”（dress to impress）和“正装休闲风”（dressy casual）一样（堪称时尚界的“大虾”——看似高端实则矛盾）。这在理论上听起来不错，但在实际操作中，它带来的焦虑程度可能超出任何人的想象。它是着装要求中的中间地带，是时尚界的“非军事区”。它看起来很安全——无需过度承诺！——但它也会让你陷入一种既不正式也不随便的衣着灰色地带。这意味着你很容易穿错。与肖恩达·莱姆斯（Shonda Rhimes）合作的造型师达娜·阿舍尔·莱文（Dana Asher Levine）称其为“最被误解的着装要求”。询问主人以求明确通常没有帮助。他们选择这个词恰恰是因为不想对客人们过于专制，因此会给出一些陈词滥调，比如“穿一件让你感觉在庆祝的衣服即可”。对于男性来说，这种模糊性虽然令人恼火，但问题相对较小：
半正式通常被定义为穿西装而非燕尾服，系不系领带均可，且配饰需保持一定的克制。（不要穿那些夸张的印花或角色背心。）但对于女性来说，这种模糊性是一个真正的难题。这就是为什么网上有这么多关于“半正式”含义的指南，包括大量带有 #semiformal 标签的 TikTok 视频，其中许多视频里还包含“求助”这个词。艾米莉·波斯特学院（The Emily Post Institute）曾尝试做出澄清：“半正式着装要求最恰当的描述是：比你穿去办公室的衣服更正式，但比你参加正式活动时穿的衣服稍微随意一点。”然而，这并没有太大意义，因为现在的办公室着装要求从极简休闲到传统正装不等，而且人们甚至穿着牛仔裤参加 Met Gala。即便最基础的旧准则——不穿长礼服——也已不再适用。那么该怎么办？造型师莱文将半正式视为
我在儿子出生后，本以为我想和丈夫单独相处，但后来我母亲给我端来了在床上吃的早餐——刚出锅的香蕉煎饼，旁边配着温热的糖浆。她把煎饼切成小块，这样我就能一只手抱着孩子，另一只手吃煎饼。味道好得让我流泪。今天我们和儿子在公园里。当我拿着他的帽子追他时，我母亲问：“你涂防晒霜了吗？”“涂了，只要给他的腿涂一下，”我说。“不是他，”她笑着回答，“是你！” —— 弗吉尼亚·克雷格 (VIRGINIA CRAIG)
【摄影：SERGEY PONOMAREV 为《纽约时报》拍摄】
“比黑领结（black tie）没那么正式，但没鸡尾酒会装（cocktail attire）那么闪亮。”
当我向德里克·布拉斯伯格（Derek Blasberg）寻求解释时，他首先对这种痛苦感同身受。他是《Fast + Louche》的作者，该书集结了他曾作为《Interview》杂志夜生活记录者期间拍摄的一系列图像。
“为派对准备衣服已经足够压力大了，”他说，“客人不想要谜团，他们想要方向。”
随后他给出了建议：“你的主人可能想表达的是，‘请尽量精心打扮一下’。”
这并不意味着要冲出去买一件新裙子或新西装，但确实意味着要认真审视一下你的衣橱。对于莱文来说，这意味着要关注材质：简单的廓形或一件漂亮的半身裙配外套是可以的，只要它们采用更高级的面料，如天鹅绒、塔夫绸和厚绉绸。她说，“如果你有一件很久没穿的长礼服，”可以考虑把它交给裁缝改短。中长款、茶裙长或及膝——随你选择。结果将更具通用性，而且她说，这样就符合“半正式”的要求了。
对于布拉斯伯格来说，答案是思考一件自己最喜欢的单品并将其“提升一个档次”，他说。（他很偏爱西装搭配口袋巾。）要特别注意鞋子。避免穿乐福鞋或日间平底鞋。
“对于男性来说，正装鞋永远是正确选择——不能有白底或巨大的 Logo，”他说，“而对于女性，请佩戴珠宝。”一件简单的黑色连衣裙，搭配一条精致的项链、一叠手镯，甚至是一条丝巾和一双高跟鞋就能达到效果。
布拉斯伯格建议，如果有疑问，宁可稍微穿得过于正式，也不要穿得太随意。“表现出你在意这场活动，永远不会是错误的答案，”他说。
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曾被美国当局 调查
作者：安妮·科雷阿尔 (ANNIE CORREAL) 与 大卫·欧瓦尔 (DAVID OVALLE)
哥伦比亚，波哥大 —— 在迈阿密，阿贝拉多·德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉 (Abelardo De La Espriella) 活跃在“白色粉末”律师的阴暗世界中 —— 这些高薪的辩护律师通过将涉嫌拉丁美洲贩毒的被告人及其相关人员转变为美国政府的线人或证人，帮助他们免受严厉判决。
他雇用了一名来自哥伦比亚的前贩毒者，法院记录显示，此人曾帮助南佛罗里达州的律师寻找此类业务。
德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生是一名在哥伦比亚执业的律师，他经常回到家乡会见卷入美国案件的客户，其中包括亚历克斯·萨伯 (Alex Saab)，一名因被指控代表 委内瑞拉 领导人洗钱数百万美元而被起诉的富商。
据五位了解萨伯先生调查情况的人士透露，联邦检察官在调查萨伯先生洗钱活动时，德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生本人也受到了审查。
如今，没有任何政治经验的德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生突然成为了哥伦比亚的下一任总统，并承诺将帮助 特朗普总统 政府升级区域性禁毒战争，打击他曾经代理过的那些贩毒者。
他去年回到哥伦比亚，将自己重新塑造为一名法律与秩序的候选人，决心驱逐左翼，并对该国的罪犯和死灰复燃的武装贩毒集团采取铁腕手段。在获得 特朗普总统 的背书后，他在六月当选。
尽管他在迈阿密奢华的生活方式——包括豪车、私人飞机和意大利名牌西装——可能在一定程度上是由卷入贩毒和洗钱案件的客户资助的，但他已承诺帮助特朗普先生摧毁“毒品恐怖分子”，轰炸涉嫌运毒的船只，并引渡被指控的贩毒者。
过往经历
针对关于德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生在迈阿密活动的详细询问，他的总统办公室在一份声明中表示，这些问题“在总统竞选期间已进行了广泛讨论”，且不认为“重新审视这些问题是适当的”。但随着德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生准备在八月就职，他在选举中击败的反对派领导人伊万·塞佩达 (Iván Cepeda) 正在要求对其在美国的工作和关系给出答复，并敦促支持者在获得答案前发起“和平抵抗”。由于他最著名的客户萨伯先生目前被美国羁押，等待就担任 委内瑞拉 前领导人 尼古拉斯·马杜罗 (Nicolás Maduro) 的财务代理人一项指控受审，关于德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生过去的问题可能会进一步浮现。
据向《纽约时报》透露情况的五个人士称，当联邦检察官调查萨伯先生的非法资金如何通过美国金融系统转移时，德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生本人在佛罗里达州和纽约州受到了审查。由于讨论的是敏感政治问题，这些人要求匿名。
审查的具体焦点尚不明确。但德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生的一名曾经的雇员（即前贩毒者）承认在 2017. 年左右洗钱，资金来自萨伯先生的海外账户。法院文件显示，这笔钱旨在支付萨伯先生律师的费用，律师姓名在文件中被删除，且文件中没有任何迹象表明这些律师参与了该计划。
德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生从未被起诉。他的办公室拒绝回答与萨伯先生相关的问题。在声明中，该办公室表示：“总统在您提到的任何事项中从未被调查或起诉，”并补充道，“他作为一名律师和一名私人公民的行为绝对无可挑剔。”
豪尔赫·瓦伦西亚 (Jorge Valencia) 提供了来自波哥大的报道，热内维耶夫·格拉茨基 (Genevieve Glatsky) 提供了来自哥伦比亚巴兰基亚的报道。 阿兰·德拉克里埃尔 (Alain De-laquérière) 提供了研究支持。
哥伦比亚当选总统阿贝拉多·德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉。他已承诺帮助 特朗普总统 摧毁“毒品恐怖分子”并引渡被指控的贩毒者。
共和党议员，包括俄亥俄州的参议员伯尼·莫雷诺（Bernie Moreno），表示他已通过美国官员的审查。佛罗里达州的代表玛丽亚·埃尔维拉·萨拉查（María Elvira Salazar）在哥伦比亚选举日表示：“阿贝拉尔多·德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉（Abelardo De La Espriella）在美国没有任何正在进行的调查。”司法部拒绝置评。
助手
据朋友和政治盟友称，当德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生在 2013 年左右搬到迈阿密时，他是在寻求安全，并希望摆脱因在哥伦比亚从事高风险工作而必须配备的严密安保。但那里也有获利机会。德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生并不具备在佛罗里达州执业的律师资格，但他开设了一家迈阿密办公室，雇佣了当地持有执照的律师，并开始与前贩毒者豪尔赫·路易斯·埃尔南德斯（Jorge Luis Hernández）共事。埃尔南德斯先生是一个知名的客户猎头，法院文件显示，他曾在南佛罗里达州的多家律师事务所担任法律助手。据三位向《时报》提供信息的人士称，他也为德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生工作。一名同样因担心遭到报复而要求匿名的佛罗里达州律师表示，埃尔南德斯先生将自己描述为德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生的助手。虽然埃尔南德斯先生深度参与了
所谓的“毒枭辩护”领域，但法院文件显示，他也是联邦执法机构（包括缉毒局）的长期线人。根据这些文件，他承认在数十年前成为线人之前，曾为右翼准军事指挥官驾驶快艇从哥伦比亚运送毒品。哥伦比亚的准军事部队最初是为了对抗左翼游击队而兴起，但随后自身演变为祸害，从事可卡因贩运并犯下暴行。在职业生涯早期，德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生主张将准军事人员视为政治参与者，并为被指控与这些组织有联系的政治人物进行辩护。德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生承认他认识埃尔南德斯先生，但并未公开表示两人曾共事。在竞选期间，他们的关系引发了争论。两人在一起的照片流出，批评者称
德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生为“黑手党律师”，他对此标签予以否认。塞佩达（Cepeda）先生在选举后质疑其担任公职的合适性，表示：“阿贝拉尔多·德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉一直与准军事人员豪尔赫·路易斯·埃尔南德斯保持着密切联系。”
客户
德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生表示，萨伯（Saab）先生在 2013 年找到他，寻求关于“名誉事务”的帮助。委内瑞拉和哥伦比亚的记者曾质疑，萨伯先生作为一个相对默默无闻的哥伦比亚商人，是如何获得一份价值超过 $150 百万的委内瑞拉政府合同，为其住房计划供应材料的。这两人的组合看起来十分古怪。在萨伯先生与委内瑞拉官员合作的同时，德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生如此反对委内瑞拉前独裁总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗，以至于他在 2018 年写了一本书，论证对其进行暗杀的合理性。德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生表示，当美国当局开始调查萨伯先生时，他敦促其配合，并安排了与联邦特工的会面。萨伯先生最终拒绝了，在哥伦比亚官员称萨伯先生得知了某项计划的预警后，其家人于 2018 年逃往委内瑞拉。
哥伦比亚当局将逮捕他。德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生表示，他在 2019 年与萨布先生断绝了关系，此前美国当局对萨布先生提起公诉并对其实施制裁——作为美国永久居民，如果没有许可，他无法合法地代表面临制裁的人员。2020 年，萨布先生在佛得角被拘留。在 2021 年被引渡到美国之前，他在接受哥伦比亚记者的采访时表示，德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生不再代表他，但曾是一位“伟大的律师和朋友”。据两名向《时报》透露消息的人士称，大约在那个时候，德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生位于华盛顿的律师与美国当局会面，以处理其客户在萨布调查中的风险。据这些人称，德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生接受调查并非因为他是萨布先生的律师，而是与萨布先生资金的流动有关。检察官已
指控埃尔南德斯先生与前迈阿密大学教授布鲁斯·巴格利（Bruce Bagley）共同将超过 $2.5 百万美元从萨布先生的海外账户洗钱至美国账户，后者于 2019. 年被指控。根据掩盖了律师姓名的法院文件，这些转账发生在 2017 和 2018 年之间，旨在支付萨布先生在美国的律师为萨布先生提供建议以及“陪同他与美国政府会面”的费用，在这些会面中，萨布先生提供了关于马杜罗政府的信息。 埃尔南德斯先生和巴格利先生在纽约南区法院承认洗钱罪。埃尔南德斯先生目前因不相关的欺诈指控被美国羁押。埃尔南德斯先生和巴格利先生的律师拒绝发表评论。 据两名向《时报》透露消息的人士称，在德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生的迈阿密熟人中，有一名负责监督萨布先生调查工作的资深美国缉毒局（D.E.A.）特工。该特工后来在另一个不相关的贿赂计划中被起诉。
财富
德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生拒绝透露萨布先生支付了多少费用，但德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生的长期会计师丹尼尔·迪亚兹·德·拉·罗查（Daniel Diaz de la Rocha）表示，这位律师并未因为他的客户而变得极其富有。“即便发挥想象力也不可能，”他在一次采访中说道。 迪亚兹先生表示，尽管创办了几家公司并在网上展示奢侈的生活方式——私人飞机、前往意大利的短途旅行、自己的朗姆酒品牌——但德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生并非极其富有。 迪亚兹先生说，他的私人飞机是与他人共用的。他说，他为自己在迈阿密的住宅办理了抵押贷款，如果他手头有巨额资金，这本是不必要的。 记录显示，德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生从海滨大厦的一套公寓搬到科拉尔盖布尔斯（Coral Gables）的一栋房子里，那里是迈阿密一个富裕的郊区，最后搬到派恩克雷斯特（Pinecrest）一座 7,500 平方英尺的豪宅中，该豪宅目前的估值超过 $5 百万美元。他还购买了哥伦比亚的房地产。 这位会计师在接听电话时表示，德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生没有要求他与记者交谈，他强调其业务是合法的。迪亚兹先生说，德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生在商业上是个“坦率的人”，尽管他的创业项目大多失败了。 迪亚兹先生指出，他在科拉尔盖布尔斯的近期业务——一家钢琴酒吧、一家酒铺和一家冰激凌店——全部关闭或被出售。 “比起商人，他更像是个艺术家，”他在评价业余歌剧演唱者德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生时说道。 在竞选总统期间，德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生经常暗示他拥有一笔允许他资助竞选活动的财富。 但迪亚兹先生说，除了他在哥伦比亚的律师事务所外，“除了房地产，他几乎在所有事情上都赔钱了。”
影响力者
今年，德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生（Mr. De La Espriella）表示他已在三年前停止执业。关注他在迈阿密职业生涯的哥伦比亚人表示，他已更多地成为了一个影响力人物。
他推广自己的时尚品牌 De La Espriella Style，创办了一个邀请哥伦比亚名流参与的播客，出版了黑色小说，并与迈阿密的一位教练一起健身，该教练还指导着哥伦比亚雷鬼顿明星 J Balvin 和 Maluma。
他在 2023 年与包括另一位哥伦比亚音乐名人西尔维斯特·丹贡德（Silvestre Dangond）在内的合伙人共同在科勒尔盖尔斯（Coral Gables）开设了名为 Místico 的钢琴吧兼餐厅，并与后者共同推出了朗姆酒品牌 Ron Defensor。
首席调酒师卡洛斯·雷耶斯·莱斯梅斯（Carlos Reyes Lesmes）说，德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生经常在 Místico 拿起麦克风，高唱像《我的太阳》（O Sole Mio）这样的意大利经典歌曲，并且经常与哥伦比亚前总统们一同出现在 Místico 及其经营的 Liquor Dreams 酒铺中。
在已被出售给新所有者的 Liquor Dreams 酒铺里，德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生经常手持雪茄和饮料，像在宫廷般地与人交谈。
“这里挤满了人，因为人们想来看看他，”来自哥伦比亚的酒铺员工玛丽亚·桑切斯（María Sánchez）说道，她表示自己打小就认识德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生。
回归
在 2023 成为美国公民后，德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生表示他找到了内心的平静。但次年，他带着家人搬到了佛罗伦萨，仅说是因为他希望四个孩子能够接触到他们的意大利血统。
朋友和合伙人表示，德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉先生曾是哥伦比亚左翼政府的激烈批评者，在离开迈阿密之前，他一直在计划竞选总统。
他于去年重新出现在哥伦比亚。在竞选过程中，他褪去了以往衣着考究的律师形象，变成了一个戴着草帽、穿着足球球衣的民粹主义者。
采访者经常问他，为什么要把在海外看似完美的生活，交换成充满危险的哥伦比亚政治。他的回答是，上帝——以及爱国责任——在召唤。
他必须将哥伦比亚从毒贩手中拯救出来。
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霍尔木兹海峡 [[IMG_XXXX]] 仍然被封锁， 红海的一个入口也是如此。
美国与伊朗之间的战争在周日继续维持暂停状态，这是连续第二天。与此同时，伊朗外交部表示，德黑兰方面与调解员就霍尔木兹海峡问题进行的谈判已取得一些进展。
自周五以来，没有报道称美国对伊朗进行了袭击；同样，在经历了约两周的小规模冲突导致两国再次处于全面战争边缘后，伊朗也克制了对中东地区美国盟友的攻击。
特朗普总统在最近决定
深陷伊朗战争，特朗普发现权力的局限性
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作者：EPHRAT LIVNI 和 FATIMA ABDULKARIM
此前，总统与沙特阿拉伯达成了一项历史性协议，旨在向该王国提供民用核电，但他在不到 24 小时后就破坏了该协议。他宣布这项谈判了 18 个月的协议除非该国加入《亚伯拉罕协议》并承认以色列，否则就此作废，这令沙特人大为震惊。曾在中东地区拥有丰富经验的前美国外交官亚伦·戴维·米勒（Aaron David Miller）表示，特朗普先生再次“疏远了沙特人，令本雅明·内塔尼亚胡欣喜，并给伊朗提供了有力的论据，用以证明与美国达成协议是徒劳的，注定会被背叛”。次日，他宣布关于 $4.5 十亿美元的戈迪·豪国际大桥（Gordie Howe International Bridge）的“原协议”已作废，该跨境项目是以在美加两边都深受喜爱的冰球之星命名的。他对一系列加拿大商品征收 50 ％的关税，这似乎公然违反了特朗普先生在第一任期内谈判、而现在却想要废除的《美墨加协定》。不出所料，加拿大取消了邀请美国人参加该桥竣工典礼的计划，该桥将于周一正式通车。
特朗普先生出于愤怒或沮丧而改写协议的行为，已经延伸到了他所属政党的国内优先事项上。共和党人在国会大厦准备好了椅子，准备举行一项重大住房法案的签署仪式——这是一项罕见的、受到白宫赞赏的跨党派协议——结果特朗普先生却出人意料地拒绝签署，令众人震惊。他说，他唯一的优先事项是《拯救美国法案》（SAVE America Act），这是他试图修改投票法的努力，但该法案没有获得足够的共和党支持。仪式被取消。该法案在没有特朗普先生签名的情况下成为了法律——同时也让他的政党失去了通过拍照展示其在减轻新房主负担方面采取行动的机会。
接近总统的人士表示，特朗普先生的所有沮丧并非都由战争驱动，目前这场战争如此不受欢迎，以至于在《华盛顿邮报》和 Ipsos 的民调中，只有 29 ％的美国人赞成他对冲突的处理方式。但大部分确实如此。当他承诺不惜一切代价停止伊朗的核计划，而国内的盟友却希望退出时，这种焦虑显而易见。“我们得把它收场了，”议长迈克·约翰逊（Mike Johnson）上周表示，这一观点在特朗普先生最热情的支持者中日益流行。但总统并没有一个明确的方法来实现这一目标。他在进入冲突时几乎没有胜利策略，现在则在努力寻找一种能够保住面子的退出方式。
一个月前，他自信地表示已经找到了宣布胜利的方法。在 6 月 17, 特朗普先生在凡尔赛宫（第一次世界大战于 1919 年在此正式结束）大笔一挥，签署了一份匆匆起草的 14. 点停火协议。当时，特朗普先生表示，一批新的、更“理智”的伊朗领导人已经觉悟，并且正受经济利益驱动。“我相信他们已经受够了，”特朗普先生在 6 月 14 日接受《时报》采访时说。他认为他之所以能达成协议，是因为他威胁要发动大规模袭击，促使伊朗屈服。“我们正准备发动大攻势，然后他们说，‘请不要这样做，我们会达成协议。’ 就在那之后我们达成了协议，”他说。
该协议仅维持了两周。参与谈判的伊朗人似乎与伊斯兰革命卫队存在冲突，后者的部队向船只开火，这些船只...
据美国官员透露，美国将推迟升级对伊朗袭击的计划，至少在目前如此。
由于用于拦截伊朗导弹的拦截弹库存日益减少，特朗普总统及其助手在一定程度上受到了影响。这些要求匿名的官员在讨论行动事项时表示。
尽管全球经济损失增加且美国伤亡人数上升，但特朗普总统一直难以果断地结束由美国和以色列在五个月前共同发起的对伊朗战争。上个月签署的停火协议在伊朗继续拒绝使用由伊朗控制的霍尔木兹海峡航道后实际上已经崩溃。虽然特朗普总统在最近接受《时报》采访时表示，伊朗领导人希望解冻数十亿美元的伊朗海外资金并恢复石油运输，但伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队似乎更感兴趣于展示控制力。
现在，特朗普总统有三个主要选择：军事升级、经济打击，或者宣布胜利并退出。这三个选项在近期的
特朗普总统不愿重新投入到大规模战斗行动中，他的情报机构表示，这些行动在德黑兰不太可能奏效。他对无法控制飙升的油价感到愤怒。
在与副总统 JD Vance、国防部长皮特·海格塞斯、参谋长联席会议主席丹·凯恩 (Gen. Dan Caine) 将军、他的女婿贾里德·库什纳 (Jared Kushner) 以及其特使史蒂夫·威特科夫 (Steve Witkoff) 进行了数周的会议后，每个选项由于不同的原因似乎都不可行。 周五，在整个星期都暗示计划在伊朗恢复大规模作战行动后，他撤回了决定。据几位官员在简报中透露，助手们对大规模轰炸——即切断电力并打击伊朗具有韧性的导弹能力——是否能促使伊朗回到有意义的谈判桌前表示怀疑。
封锁霍尔木兹海峡，这条全球油气运输的关键水域。 美国对伊朗南部进行了两周的轰炸，但未能打破关于该海峡的僵局。战争之前，船只可以自由通过该水域，但此后德黑兰实际上封锁了过境，扼杀了全球能源市场并
而代价将非常高昂。 特朗普总统被告知，如此规模的袭击可能会导致巨大的平民伤亡，并使那些他曾承诺保护其免受自身政府侵害的伊朗人陷入大规模饥荒。 周五在椭圆形办公室被问及是否因为炸毁发电厂和桥梁可能构成战争罪而犹豫不决时，他表示：“我不会回答这个问题。” 但他真正的犹豫可能源于这样一个事实：这场战争已经耗尽了美国的导弹拦截器库存。4月，战略与国际研究中心估计，部分关键拦截器的美国库存可能已经使用了一半。在经历了本月连续 13 个夜晚的袭击与反击后，一些官员表示，这些数量已达到临界低点，这也是特朗普总统近日决定暂缓战争重大升级的一个因素。 美国官员现在担心，俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·V·普京和中国国家主席习近平可能会将这些短缺情况纳入他们下一步行动的计算中——普京针对乌克兰和欧洲，而习近平可能针对台湾。 特朗普总统的第二个选项是让制裁逐步生效，希望通过重新封锁进出霍尔木兹海峡的运输，进一步打击石油出口，从而达到预期效果。 但这些手段见效缓慢，而且自从特朗普总统首次退出奥巴马时代的协议以来，他就一直在预测伊朗的经济崩溃。
增加了特朗普总统结束战争的压力。 伊朗外交部发言人埃斯马伊尔·巴盖伊 (Esmaeil Baghaei) 表示，毗邻霍尔木兹海峡的波斯湾苏丹国阿曼的官员于周末访问德黑兰，就该水域问题进行会谈。阿曼偶尔在伊朗和美国之间充当调解人。 “这些会谈是有益的，并取得了进展，”巴盖伊在国家媒体报道的评论中说道，但未提供进一步细节。 即便中东部分地区经历了久违的平静
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2018年的核协议，并对伊朗实施了他所谓的“毁灭性管控”。八年后，该政权依然存在，且在一名可能更加致力于秘密核计划的新领导人统治之下。
这一策略或许仍然有效。但它将需要昂贵且持续的美国军事存在，以及可能出现断断续续的交火，这将危及更多美国人的生命，并导致对海湾盟友的更多袭击。
第三个选项是宣布胜利并回家。特朗普总统在一个月前似乎正朝着这个方向走，当时他表示，由于不想冒险引发一场会被拿来与赫伯特·胡佛比较的经济大萧条，他选择了停火和谈判。
“他一直是我不想成为的那个人，”特朗普总统在谈到第31任总统时说道，后者主持了导致大萧条开端的经济崩溃。“我不想看到经济灾难。”他随后指出，如果战争继续，全球石油库存将开始枯竭。
但撤出也伴随着代价。如果特朗普总统在离开时，伊朗仍保留着埋在废墟之下的接近武器级核燃料，且霍尔木兹海峡处于伊朗的事实上控制之下，那么他将未能解决触发其进攻的问题，并为能源市场创造了一个巨大的新问题。
这将定义他的政治遗产。而且这将清楚地表明，对他权力的限制比他在一月份宣称其影响力无限时所认为的要多。
在数周的夜晚中，至少有一个战线保持开启，那就是也门。在过去的一周里，控制也门大部分地区的伊朗支持的胡塞武装与美国盟友沙特阿拉伯之间发生了自2022年以来最大规模的冲突升级。
上周，胡塞武装宣布在红海对沙特阿拉伯实施海上封锁，并向他们称与这个北邻王国有关的过往船只开火。胡塞武装可以有效地关闭另一个海上交通要道——曼德海峡——该海峡将红海与亚丁湾连接，是世界上最重要的航运路线之一。
以色列定居点产品上产生分歧
欧盟正在讨论一项禁止从以色列定居点进口产品的禁令，但成员国之间存在分歧，反映出在是否以及如何应对以色列巩固其对被占领巴勒斯坦领土主权主张的问题上，各方存在深刻分歧。从表面上看，这场争论是技术性的，基于程序性问题。但政治观察人士表示，这实际上是一场代理战，探讨在欧洲公众和部分领导人对其政策日益失望的时刻，应如何处理与以色列的关系。在巴黎的一位法律教授阿尔贝托·亚莱曼诺（Alberto Alemanno）表示：“法律论点正被用来掩盖实际上是对采取行动在政治和外交上的不情愿。”他曾组织起草了一封由数十名专家共同签署的信函，概述了实施禁令的法律依据。在约旦河西岸居住着三百万多名巴勒斯坦人，以及 500,000 名在 1967 年战争后在该地区定居的以色列人。
巴勒斯坦人设想将其变为未来国家的一部分，这一目标是欧洲各国政府旨在推进的，但以色列的极右翼政府予以拒绝。近年来，以色列政府对西岸定居点的批准及其他官方行动导致了以色列对该土地主张的前所未有的扩张，而军事行动则导致许多巴勒斯坦人流离失所，定居者暴力行为也随之增加。国际法院在 2024 年发布的一项咨询意见中称，以色列的占领和定居点是非法的，并呼吁各国防止可能“有助于维持这种非法状态”的贸易。西班牙、爱尔兰、荷兰、比利时等国已采取步骤限制或禁止来自被占领领土的以色列产品，如农产品、葡萄酒和建筑材料。这些国家正是推动欧盟采取强有力行动限制定居点产品进口的群体。
相比之下，德国表示，在 10 月份全国大选前，它倾向于通过对话而非可能激怒以色列人的行动。德国还与以色列有着所谓的“特殊关系”，这根植于大屠杀的历史，德国政府传统上不愿采取可能孤立以色列的措施。意大利和捷克共和国同样反对对抗性方法，并表示只有在获得成员国一致批准的情况下，欧盟才能对定居点产品采取限制措施。但欧盟最高外交官卡亚·卡拉斯（Kaja Kallas）正在敦促采取强力行动，她是主张仅需合格多数——即至少 55 ％的成员国批准且代表该集团 65 ％的人口——即可通过的一方。
欧盟委员会本月提出了几项可能的措施，包括征收关税以及禁止在被占领领土的以色列定居点生产的商品。欧洲对外关系委员会高级研究员休·洛瓦特（Hugh Lovatt）称，部分成员国将重点放在一致通过上是“一种分心——并且可以说是不采取行动的借口”。但欧洲国家在与以色列于西岸活动的某些相关行动上已能达成一致。5 月，27 个欧盟成员国一致对他们称在该地区助长“定居者暴力及针对巴勒斯坦人的严重人权侵害”的个人和组织实施制裁。洛瓦特先生表示：“显然，以色列与欧洲的关系处于前所未有的紧张状态，包括与那些长期以来非常支持以色列的国家之间的关系。”尽管如此，一些成员国仍然不愿制裁以色列政府部长，或采取针对以色列本身的措施。欧洲领导人面临着相互冲突的压力，包括公众
胡塞武装的封锁威胁到将进一步挤压全球石油供应。作为全球石油基准的布伦特原油价格在周五上涨了超过 7 百分之 7，达到每桶 $100.95，随后下跌至 $98. 左右。
据沙特军方发言人称，由沙特领导的部队于周六轰炸了也门境内与胡塞武装结盟的地点。胡塞武装方面也表示，他们向红海沿岸与沙特阿美（Saudi Aramco，沙特国家能源公司）相关的设施发射了火箭弹和无人机。沙特当局未就是否造成损失或人员伤亡发表评论。
他表示，行动号召面临着引起以色列愤怒的风险，以及因采取反以色列行动而可能遭到特朗普总统 (Trump administration) 政府反弹的风险。
例如，他提到意大利总理乔治亚·梅洛尼（Giorgia Meloni）正在进行一项平衡行动。意大利坚持要求欧盟对定居点产品的限制必须获得成员国的一致支持，与此同时，她也在呼吁该集团重新思考与以色列的关系。
欧盟 (E.U.) 大使于周三会面，讨论在夏季休假前向以色列施压以限制定居点的可能措施，但未达成任何协议。总部位于布鲁塞尔的政策分析师及国际律师莱玛·纳齐 (Lema Nazeeh) 表示，预计在外交事务委员会计划会面的 10 月之前，不会有任何实质性进展。
以色列驻联合国大使丹尼·丹嫩 (Danny Danon) 在回答问题时表示，欧盟的提案“既误导且适得其反”。他称这些提案是更广泛的全球孤立以色列努力的一部分，转移了人们对以色列及国际安全威胁的注意力。他表示，这些提案未能认识到以色列和巴勒斯坦经济是相互交织的，且有可能损害巴勒斯坦人的利益。
以色列与欧盟拥有稳健的贸易关系，去年双方交换的商品贸易额近 $50 billion。
对抗特拉维夫的 分歧。
欧盟委员会称，这种情况已持续一年。以色列商品享有欧洲的优惠关税待遇。但 20 年多以来，来自以色列定居点的产品（估计每年向该贸易集团出口 3 亿美元）已被排除在该协议之外。欧盟政策要求以色列出口商提供显示货物原产地的邮政编码，但随后核查来源并对定居点产品采取区别对待的责任在欧洲当局。根据非营利组织 Global Echo 最近一份审查了近十年农业出口和其他记录的报告，这种方法导致了混乱和欺骗，该报告发现，欧洲消费者在“定居点产品的原产地问题上受到了系统性的误导”。人权律师兼该组织创始人 Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man 表示，贸易禁令是“欧洲采取行动遏制日益加速的以色列定居点事业最直接的方式之一”。本月，以色列为西岸的 43 个新定居点拨款超过 4.3 亿美元。极右翼财政部长 Bezalel Smotrich 吹嘘此举仅是他旨在挫败当地建立巴勒斯坦国目标的一种方式。巴勒斯坦驻欧盟代表团大使 Amal Jadou Shakaa 正在敦促禁止定居点贸易，称这是使欧盟政策符合国际法的唯一途径。在西岸城市纳布卢斯出口巴勒斯坦农产品的 Al’Ard Group 创始人 Ziad Anabtawi 表示，他所合作的种植者面临的环境日益艰难。他表示，由于以色列的行动，西岸的水资源等资源被分流，进入土地的通道日益被封锁，树木和收成被摧毁，而定居者则在侵占更多的巴勒斯坦土地。Anabtawi 先生表示，他的关注点“不在于政治，而在于巴勒斯坦生产商在公平、透明且可预测的条件下运营、投资和竞争的能力”。
我为何寻找 一名我曾与之交战的 塔利班领导人
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通过光学增强设备试图判定敌人的意图和行为举止。我们很少看到他们手里拿着步枪。杀戮取决于我们自己的本能和一套不断累积的恐惧。我们应该开枪打这个人才吗？还是不该打？如果我们不开枪会怎样？我们的战友会因为我们的犹豫而死去吗？我们还处于一种扭曲的文化中，在这种文化里，杀人能为你赢得尊重，仿佛射杀阿富汗人就是你能力出众的最终证明。所以我们杀了人。我杀了人。这些扣动扳机的决定，是我们参与的一项战略的最后步骤，而这项战略在我部署到那里之前就已经注定失败了。塔利班将女性排除在公共生活之外，并暴力对待少数民族，分裂了阿富汗社会。在美国 20 年的占领期间，美国经常将此作为延长战争的理由，即便它很少正视其战略和道德上的失败，以及它给这么多阿富汗人带来的痛苦和损失。我的新闻报道生涯——始于我离开美国海军陆战队之后——一直围绕着试图理解为什么这个血腥的循环会持续下去。报道是一种回溯时间的方式，让我理解自己做了什么，以及我在一场远未结束的冲突中扮演了什么样的角色。我看到的越多，学习的越多，我对 20 岁出头时参与制造这场混乱的愧疚感就越深。报道战争也意味着要长期接触暴力、受害者和创伤，以及不时出现的、几乎不可避免地伴随冲突而来的公众不诚实。我在美国海军陆战队中经历的已经足够多了。我已经对此感到厌倦。我因精疲力竭而辞职。但在 5 月，在离开《纽约时报》回学校成为一名英语教师之前仅剩两周多时间时，我抵达了
阿富汗。我是来与我曾经交战的人交谈的：塔利班。我的想法很简单。即便五角大楼 (美国国防部) 不会对近几十年的战争进行任何深刻反思，但起码我可以对自己参与的一项导致数万名阿富汗人和美国人死亡的半吊子战略负责。
JIM HUYLEBROEK 为《纽约时报》拍摄
吉本斯-内夫先生（右起第二位）在 2021. 年于马尔贾采访塔利班战士，包括古拉布先生（最左侧）。两人于今年 5 月再次见面。
我带了一些从罗德岛州我家附近礼品店买的纪念品，准备送给几位我已经认识近半个十年的塔利班官员。毕竟是争取“民心”，只不过这次我是以客人的身份而非占领者的身份而来。
最终，我想与穆拉·阿卜杜勒·拉希姆·古拉布 (Mullah Abdul Rahim Gulab) 交谈，他是一名塔利班指挥官，我在 2021 年，即喀布尔落入塔利班之手几个月后与他偶然相识。但我们在 2010 年 2 月的阿富汗南部也曾相互交战。
我知道，他心中关于马尔贾战役的版本与我的不同。也许他有关于他自己的英雄和死去的战友的故事，是我可以理解并尊重的，那些他同样无法停止思考的故事。也许我可以为他感到难过，而不仅仅是为自己幸存而我的朋友们却死去了而感到难过。
穆拉·阿卜杜勒·拉希姆·古拉布，一名塔利班指挥官，与吉本斯-内夫先生在 2010 年处于对立阵营。
正确的一方
当我在五月抵达喀布尔时，一名名为穆哈杰尔·法拉希（Muhajer Farahi）的塔利班信息与文化部副部长，在看到我提交的与古拉布（Mr. Gulab）先生对话的请求后，想要与我交谈。
我们之前从未见过面。但坐在他办公室的对面时，法拉希先生告诉我他对抗击美国的理由很简单：他希望美国人离开他的家园。
他说话缓慢且安静，并避免眼神接触。他的英语很好。他明确表示，在战争期间——或者用塔利班对自己 20 年军事行动的称呼，即“圣战”——他在阿富汗西南部法拉省的时光非常艰苦。
“我们站在正确的一边，”他说，“我们在为我们的信仰而战。”
我对他死去的战友以及战争中被杀害的无辜者表示道歉。他看着我，思考了一会儿，然后提醒我，我曾是一名士兵，是决定入侵并留在他的国家的这台机器中的一个齿轮。
这已经是我能得到的接近于“原谅”的最高限度了。
他想讨论其他事情。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 马特·图克（Matt Tooker，左）和马特·博斯特罗姆（Matt Bostrom），美国海军陆战队成员，在 2010 年于阿富汗马尔贾受伤后等待医疗撤离。
他主要对杀掉美国人的数量感到好奇，并且仍然感到困惑，因为尽管他目睹了路边炸弹在我们的装甲车下方爆炸，但五角大楼 (美国国防部) 公布的伤亡人数相对较低。他认为美国在死亡人数上撒了谎。
我解释了由快速直升机接送的复杂紧急护理网络。他似乎并不信服。相反，他说了一些大多数塔利班成员在讨论我作为海军陆战队的经历时都会重复的话：不要试图再次入侵。
我向他保证，美国似乎已经走出了过去，但他提到了该国卷入的最新战争。
“你们没有吸取教训，”他说，“看看伊朗和加沙——你们在为以色列人而战。你们根本不在乎人权。”他指责美国人民投票让一连串的总统上台，这些人发起并延续了所谓的“永恒战争”。
当我走进喀布尔市中心刺眼的阳光中时，我感到了一种只能被描述为奇特的解脱感。是的，我被教训了，但在潜意识里，感觉对方在某种程度上承认了我们的人性。
目前看来，这已经足够了。现在是时候与古拉布先生谈谈了。
硬事实
当我在 2021, 年采访古拉布先生时，我没有透露我曾是一名海军陆战队成员。我以记者的身份询问他关于战斗日子的事。他确认了我已知的事情：他及其同僚如何在街道上放下武器将我们视为朋友地迎接，以及他们如何依靠儿童追踪我们的足迹直到找到我们的临时前哨站。
这些在 2010, 年对我来说是难以面对的硬事实，而当一名获胜的起义者——一个利用狡诈战胜我们的本土战士——在事后将其说出时，依然引起了我的共鸣，尽管我们的武装远比他的 20 人小队精良。他的战术形成了一个谜题，我在每次巡逻时都要在其中摸索，以便能活过当天。而我的某些朋友没能做到。
当我第一次见到古拉布先生时，我以记者的身份走到马尔贾的一堵泥砖墙边。而十多年前作为一名海军陆战队成员，我曾在同一个地点射穿了一名年轻人的头部。我
记得在我栓动步枪开火前，对他面孔的最后一眼瞥见。直到后来有人告诉我，他们发现他的尸体连同武器被拖到了一个角落，我的大脑才意识到我已经杀了他。古拉布先生和我年龄相仿，都在30多岁后半段。他加入塔利班是因为他的两个兄弟在战斗中被杀。其中一个兄弟就是他的 WhatsApp 头像。我加入美国海军陆战队是因为我的父亲是一名很少谈论战争的越南战争老兵，而且我当时是个生长在不错的小镇、就读于不错公立高中的矮小孩子，想要证明自己。五月，当我再次联系上古拉布先生时（这次是通过电话），我告诉了他关于我背景的真相：我不只是一名记者，我还曾作为一名美国海军陆战队成员参加过马尔贾战役。他说，鉴于我提问的专业程度，他在我们第一次见面时就意识到了这一点。他好奇我现在想要什么：“再次交谈的意义何在？”古拉布先生赢了他的战争，而且在他关闭与美国的那个篇章时，比我早得多。现在他正准备应对另一场冲突，这一次是针对巴基斯坦。他曾在一个至今仍被称为德怀尔营（Camp Dwyer）的基地领导一支庞大的阿富汗军队部队，而我曾在 2010 年从那里乘机出发，去与他和他的圣战士兵作战。该基地是以一名英国士兵的名字命名的：詹姆斯·德怀尔下级军曹（Lance Bombardier James Dwyer），他在 2006. 圣诞节后两天，车辆踩到地雷时年仅 22 岁。我们的电话会议在寒暄之后开始，随后他的矜持消失了，他愿意谈论马尔贾行动的开端。我对他在我们共同经历中的视角感到好奇，包括一名古拉布先生应该认识、或者至少听说过的塔利班狙击手的命运。那名狙击手在战斗的第一天击中了我的两名美国海军陆战队队员，其中包括我的助理队长。当时是黄昏。我们在一栋两层楼的房顶上，那是方圆数英里内唯一这么高的建筑。我记得当时听到像棒球棍击打生肉的声音。我抬头看到我的朋友马特在尖叫。他的手臂中弹了。大约一周后，我们将那名狙击手驱赶进一片果园，据推测他死于一次无人机袭击。但 16 年后，我仍然想确切地知道。
托马斯·吉本斯-内夫 (THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF)
托马斯·吉本斯-内夫（居中），曾在马尔贾攻势中担任美国海军陆战队侦察狙击队的队长。
THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF，在回应关于美国士兵自杀问题时的表述。
权力，我已经原谅你了。”
穆拉·阿卜杜勒·拉希姆·古拉布（MULLAH ABDUL RAHIM GULAB），在回应吉本斯-内夫先生针对美国军队在阿富汗战争中造成的人员死亡所表达的道歉时。
古拉布先生开始说话，但被他的随行人员打断了，后者简短地表示分享此类细节是违法的。相反，古拉布先生有他自己的问题，涉及那个同一名狙击手。他说当我的队友中弹时他就在附近，并记得有报告称两名“外国人”在那座屋顶上被击中并坠落。 “他们死了吗？”他问。 我解释说，两名美国海军陆战队士兵虽然受伤但都幸存了下来，但马特在一年多后回到家乡后死于一场摩托车事故。 “为什么许多在阿富汗作战并随后返回国家的美国士兵会自杀？”古拉布先生问。“我多次听说了这件事。原因是什么？” 这是一个困扰我们许多人的问题。我试图解释我们是如何承受那些被击碎的期待所带来的沉重压力：我们在二战的怀旧情结中长大，然后做了一些本应令我们自豪的事情。然而，我们从政客和将军那里得到的却是逃避和谎言。我们的指挥官永远无法清晰地阐述，我们的部署，以及我们所实施的所有暴力和所遭受的损失，是如何让美国境内的任何人变得更安全的。 在他们获得国防公司的高薪职位并在演讲巡演中收取高额费用时，我们被留在原地独自摸索这一切。对某些人来说，这太难以承受了。 他说，他在战后的岁月与此截然不同。“我们的圣战者恰恰相反，因为他们进行了圣战，也因为他们失去了朋友，他们非常快乐，因为我们的圣战有一个
明确的目标。” 虽然塔利班赢得了战争，但赢得和平也带来了自身的困难：阿富汗依然处于经济危机中，并与世界上大部分地区隔离。 “关于你的道歉，”他说，“我应该说，那时我们的圣战是为了真主，我们并不担心被杀或受伤。我们也不为那些被杀或受伤的朋友感到难过，因为我们所有人都希望在圣战之路上成为殉道者或受伤。由于当时是战争状态，平民经常被杀或受伤。” 我希望我也能接受朋友的死亡和我自身行为的结果，而不是生活在对浪费青春的愤怒和痛苦的迷雾之中。古拉布先生让我知道，这种情绪在阿富汗同样存在。 “关于那些圣战者，他们
“被你们一方杀死的人，我不知道他们或他们的家人是否会原谅你，”古拉布先生说。“那些平民可能不会原谅外国军队，但对我个人而言，我有我自己的决定权，我已经原谅你了。”
我第一次踏上阿富汗的土地是在 2008. 年，那时我是一名 20 岁的下士。当时的塔利班是林线中的阴影，是我在努力生存时出现在噩梦中的人物。在 2021, 年 8 月，我看着他们与一队美国海军陆战队握手，与此同时阿富汗军队土崩瓦解，喀布尔陷落，我的战争终于彻底失败了。
现在，我曾经的敌人慷慨地为我 18 年前第一次部署时在日记中写下的一行字提供了一种尾声：“很难向他人解释这个地方，我觉得我需要用余生去弄清楚这里发生了什么。”
在登上返回美国的航班时，我意识到一种弥漫的悲伤依然在我的内心深处盘踞。我感到疲惫，仿佛重新审视我的战争在某种程度上重启了它。古拉布先生和我，在生命中的某个时刻，是两个当时勉强算得上成年人的年轻人，为了截然不同的理由而战。也许，我现在在某种扭曲的意义上，将他视为朋友而非敌人的感觉，就已经足够了。
几天后在罗德岛，在一个闷热的新英格兰之夜，当我遛狗时，我的手机震动了。
古拉布先生用普什图语给我发了短信。
“你到家了吗？”他问。
我说我已经到了。
“很高兴地知道你平安到达。”
布莱恩·登顿 (BRYAN DENTON)
“没有海豹，就没有生活”的呼唤
摄影：IVOR PICKETT 文章：JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
安甘尼·米凯尔森（Anganni Mikaelsen）驾船经过冰山时，发现水面浮现出一个闪闪发光的头部。砰！他的步枪打破了宁静。米凯尔森先生正在猎海豹，正如格陵兰人在几个世纪以来所做的那样。这里的人们食用海豹，将其喂给雪橇犬，并穿着海豹皮。他们用皮毛交易换钱，用骨骼制作首饰。在这样一个极难生存的环境中，正是这种动物在数世纪以来提供了生存保障。海豹对格陵兰的重要性无论如何强调都不为过。尽管国际环保组织长期以来一直反对猎杀海豹，但海豹皮贸易仍然为数千名因纽特猎人提供收入。在宰杀海豹后，他们会出售皮毛。随后将其制成衣服是一个漫长的过程。首先，用滚筒去除脂肪。然后用肥皂清洗皮毛。接着，将它们浸在淡水桶中以去除所有的盐分和血液。然后，是进一步的清洁、染色和裁剪。位于格陵兰南部卡科托克（Qaqortoq）的格陵兰大制革厂看起来像一家巨大的干洗店，闻起来有像海洋一样咸腥的味道。该公司在海豹皮毛、帽子、手套和耳环以及售价超过 $1,000 的高级夹克方面业务兴旺。一些国家，如美国，禁止海豹产品。其他国家则对原住民猎人（如格陵兰的猎人）生产的物品给予豁免。在格陵兰首都努克（Nuuk）走走，你可以在商店里看到海豹皮衣服，在国家博物馆里看到海豹皮展品。甚至还有为了向海豹致敬而雕刻的塑像。“没有海豹，就没有生活，”格陵兰教师弗雷德里克·威利（Frederick Willie）说道。国际环保组织谴责猎杀海豹是残酷的。但米凯尔森先生表示，外界并不理解这对格陵兰有多么重要。他说，他及其家人依靠海豹生活，在港口看到整个家庭一起搬运猎获物并清洗皮毛是很平常的事。当他驾船缓缓驶离，身后留下一圈圈新鲜的血迹时，他自顾自地唱着歌。“这能维持我们五六天，”他说。然后他笑了。“而且会很好吃。”
在格陵兰首都努克的一个公共广场上， 青铜铸造的海豹在嬉戏。右侧是 一家专门经营海豹、鲸鱼 和驯鹿肉的市场。下方是 米凯尔森先生将船停靠在码头。
在整个地区 逃离家园
作者：CARLOS BARRAGÁN
西班牙，维利亚曼塔 (VILLAMANTA) —— 周四，当阿兰莎·阿尔卡萨尔 (Arantxa Alcázar) 走进花园时，她听到警察在向马德里西部的小镇普拉多别墅 (Villa del Prado) 的居民大喊，要求他们撤离家园。此前在远山中肆虐的火灾此时正席卷他们的街道。“就像一条火河，”她说。她与 88 岁的母亲康苏埃洛·洛尔扎 (Consuelo Lorza) 以及 11 岁的女儿萨拉 (Sara) 一起逃往另一个城镇，结果几个小时后又不得不再次撤离到附近的一个村庄。第二天，她们被迫再次逃离，这一次是前往维利亚曼塔镇。“我在这里睡了三天了——如果你管那叫睡觉的话，”洛尔扎女士在周日上午说道。她与孙女共用一张床铺，而阿尔卡萨尔女士则和家里的狗一起在车里过夜。她们最终得知，阿尔卡萨尔女士的房子幸免于难。
西班牙和法国的消防员在周日与快速蔓延且致命的山火搏斗，极端高温和强风在部分火势被控制的同时，又助长了新的火线。马德里和波尔多附近迅速蔓延的火灾吞噬了农田、森林和房屋，迫使超过 300,000 人撤离或寻求庇护，且在最终能够返回时会面对什么，他们毫无知晓。
西班牙当局表示，在灰烬和浓烟引发首都周边撤离后，马德里西部山区的一些山火在夜间得到了控制。但其他火势正向邻近的托莱多省 (Toledo) 和阿维拉省 (Ávila) 推进，而数百英里外靠近西班牙第三大城市——沿海城市瓦伦西亚 (Valencia) 的地方也出现了新的火线。
周日，有超过 200 人住在维利亚曼塔一座体育馆内的临时床铺上，焦虑地等待着得知他们是否被允许回家，或者火焰是否正向他们推进。有些人试着在午餐后小睡，而孩子们则在周围踢足球。
此次共有大约 90,000 名西班牙中部居民被撤离家园或被要求寻求庇护。马德里大区主席伊莎贝尔·迪亚斯·阿尤索 (Isabel Díaz Ayuso) 将此次火灾描述为该地区历史上“最严重的山火”。
洛尔扎女士刚刚得到了费利佩六世国王 (King Felipe VI) 和莱蒂齐亚王后 (Queen Letizia) 的安慰，两人访问了该体育馆以表示支持。“王后告诉我她不敢相信。撤离了三次！”洛尔扎女士说。费利佩六世国王周日表示，马德里的山火和
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里约热内卢 —— 据美国和巴西官员称，巴西政府已阻止一个美国代表团于本周前往该国，原因是担心访客会在今年总统竞选之前，试图对该国选举系统的安全性提出毫无根据的质疑。
三名不愿透露姓名以讨论机密外交事务的高级美国和巴西政府官员表示，美国代表团包括两名国务院高级官员 Riley M. Barnes 和 Samuel Samson。其中两名官员称，巴西当局于周五拒绝了他们的签证申请，导致原定行程落空。
巴西外交部发言人确认了签证被拒的情况，但未提供理由。
美国国务院确认，Barnes 先生和 Samson 先生原定于本周前往巴西，就选举公正性、宗教自由和言论自由举行会议。国务院在一份声明中表示：“任何关于企图破坏民主国家选举的‘诡计’之暗示，都是毫无根据的谎言。”
一名巴西官员称，在周一提交的签证申请中，美国官员表示他们计划与选举当局会面，讨论巴西的投票系统，以及在 10 月 4 日选举前对言论自由可能受到限制的担忧。
在经历了关于有组织犯罪等问题的数周紧张局势，以及新关税和意识形态冲突之后，禁止美国代表团入境的决定是两国之间最新的升级行动。
Consuelo Lorza 和她的孙女 Sara。她们上周离开了位于马德里西部的家中。
Carmen Bautista 与她的家人。当火焰接近他们的住宅区时，他们在面包车里过夜。
...相邻的托莱多 (Toledo) 和 阿维拉 (Ávila) 地区的火势仍然活跃，但在扑灭火灾的斗争中出现了一些“积极迹象”。
马德里地区，Díaz Ayuso 女士表示，火灾已摧毁 43 栋房屋，严重损坏 300 栋以上其他房屋。她眼中含泪说道：“这个数字将大幅上升，这是我们前所未见的。”
据该国公共广播公司报道，西班牙中部地区已有 77,000 公顷（约 190,000 英亩）土地被焚毁。
Villamanta 的一些撤离者抱怨说，他们收到的关于火势状态的信息很少。他们紧张地在车旁等待，吃着吉罗巧克力棒 (churros)。
“我们通过监控摄像头每分钟都在观察火情”...
被巴西拒绝入境的美国代表团原定于 10 月 4 日投票前举行关于选举公正性的会议。
这也加剧了许多巴西人对特朗普总统可能进一步干涉巴西内政的担忧，这一次的目标是一个被全球观察员广泛认为安全的投票系统。与此同时，禁止代表团入境的举措可能会引发两国保守派在关键选举前对缺乏透明度的不满。
在右翼势力迅速崛起的一个地区，巴西的选举将使左翼现任者与右翼挑战者对垒，这将成为今年左翼面临的最大考验。
据官员称，Barnes 先生和 Samson 先生还计划会见前总统 雅伊尔·博索纳罗 之子 Flávio Bolsonaro。其父因策划政变被判处 27 年监禁。
小 Bolsonaro 先生正挑战左翼现任者 卢拉 (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) 竞选总统。近几个月来，他多次访问华盛顿，其中部分行程是为了给他的政治议程寻求支持。
在一次与外交官举行的活动中，最后...
饲料，”53 岁的卡门·鲍蒂斯塔 (Carmen Bautista) 说道。她和丈夫一直睡在体育中心旁边的面包车里。他们眼睁睁地看着火焰逼近他们在附近开发区 Caravan Garden 的家中，但现在那里已经安全了。鲍蒂斯塔女士感叹居民们经历了一场又一场的自然灾害——先是疫情，然后是冲走三座桥梁的致命洪水——而且每一次似乎都比上一次更糟糕。
“在之前的灾难中，你还可以呆在家里。现在……”她话说到此处中断了，无奈地摊开双手。
在消防员努力控制火势的同时，一些居民采取了自救措施。在 Robledo de Chavela 周边的山脉中，
DADO GALDIERI 为《纽约时报》拍摄
本周，博尔索纳罗先生借鉴了他父亲的手段，利用关于电子投票机易受欺诈的已被揭穿的指控，质疑巴西电子投票机的安全性。在上次选举之前，年长的博尔索纳罗先生在外交官群体面前也发表过类似的言论。
专家们普遍认为，这个南美国家的投票系统使用生物识别技术来确认选民身份，并在投票结束后面立即统计结果，是世界上最安全的系统之一。该国的选举经常由来自全球的数十名观察员进行监督。
“到目前为止，我们没有发现投票过程中存在欺诈证据，”负责监督联邦选举的巴西选举法院法官埃斯特拉·阿兰哈 (Estela Aranha) 表示。她补充说，该过程是可验证且透明的。
博尔索纳罗先生对选举安全性的抱怨发生在他竞选活动陷入困境之际，此前有披露称他与一名名誉扫地的银行家有联系。早期民调显示博尔索纳罗先生与卢拉先生处于激烈竞争中，但上周的一项新民调显示，这位左翼现任者的领先优势已显著
JOSEPH FOX 为《纽约时报》拍摄
在火焰席卷松林和冬青橡树的地方，周六有几名居民避开警察的路障去灭火。
“我们可能在做一些轻微违法的行为，但我们救下了这座山的一部分，”30 岁的哈维尔·基哈达 (Javier Quijada) 在一次视频通话中说道。基哈达先生和数十名其他居民（均为当地狩猎协会成员）一直在用软管、铲子，甚至用绿树枝试图通过覆盖来扑灭火势。他说，警察最终挥手让他们通过，并警告他们要小心。
“这是我们的山。我们的生活正在被付之一炬，”基哈达先生说。“自从火灾开始以来，我已经数不清流了多少眼泪了。”
显著地。 在博尔索纳罗先生过去一周的言论之后，两名巴西官员表示，巴西当局认定美国代表团并非在执行一项事实调查任务，而是计划破坏对该国投票系统的信心。
据一名美国官员称，助理秘书巴恩斯先生和副助理秘书萨姆森先生并不具备巴西方面的专业知识或显著经验。萨姆森先生在推动特朗普总统在欧洲的议程中发挥了关键作用，致力于培养与其运动一致的右翼团体的关系。
巴西选举法院在一份声明中表示，在巴西的美国外交官曾询问美国官员可能访问的情况，但并未透露议程。由于法院正处于休庭期，该会议最终未能安排。
今年 6 月，法院首席法官卡西奥·努内斯·马克斯（Kássio Nunes Marques）向约 20 多位大使发表讲话，解释巴西投票系统的运作方式。据活动组织者称，美国外交官受邀但未出席。法院表示，计划在下个月举行另一次会议，并将邀请美国代表。
今年早些时候，巴西政府在得知另一名特朗普特使秘密计划访问被监禁的前总统并会见其儿子弗拉维奥·博尔索纳罗（Flávio Bolsonaro）后，禁止其入境。
去年，特朗普总统曾试图通过采取高额关税和制裁，向巴西施压，要求其撤销针对其亲密政治盟友——长辈博尔索纳罗先生的指控。
该策略并未奏效，博尔索纳罗先生因在 2022 年选举输给卢拉先生后企图维持权力，被判处近 30 年监禁。博尔索纳罗先生目前因健康原因在软禁中服刑。
在一名 21 岁男子 与警员对峙后结束
作者：JIM TANKERSLEY
柏林 —— 德国当局表示，周日晚间，一名涉嫌在柏林同性恋自豪庆祝活动附近杀害一名女性并导致 29 人受伤的男子，在持武器冲向警员后被警方枪击身亡。
该男子是一名 21 岁的德国公民，其家庭成员曾从黎巴嫩移民。自周六晚上的袭击发生以来，他一直是长期的全国搜捕目标。嫌疑人在袭击中使用了租赁的厢式货车以及一把看似砍刀的武器，德国官员将此次袭击称为伊斯兰恐怖主义行为。
警方在的一份简短声明中表示，他们已将嫌疑人追踪到该市西角一个居民拥有大型花园地块的区域。警方称，在警员将其击中后，紧急救援人员试图对其进行抢救，但该男子在现场死亡。
当局表示，尽管搜捕目标已经死亡，但他们对此次袭击的调查仍在继续，且一直在寻找其他可能的嫌疑人。
“还有另外一个人在考虑范围内，尽管目前还没有任何实质性证据——该调查方向也尚未关闭，”联邦内政部长亚历山大·多布林特（Alexander Dobrint）在周日晚上接受公共广播公司 ARD 的电视采访时表示。“我们正在采取进一步措施，但目前认为没有进一步的威胁。”
从周六深夜在市中心的蒂尔加滕公园（Tiergarten park）发生袭击起，当局就搜寻了柏林以及该国的火车站、机场和边境口岸。根据德国隐私法，警方仅将该男子标识为 Abdul B.。
Philip Kaleta 参与了报道。
参与重建 他们的城市
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楼梯上聚集着闲逛的人们，孩子们正在体验最初在《我的世界》中构思的功能。“我非常高兴他们真的在离我家很近的楼梯上安装了滑梯，”14 岁时参加该工作坊、现就读于室内设计专业的科林·阿比拉米亚 (Corine Abiramia) 说道。
尽管以色列与真主党之间存在冲突，且今年春天多次袭击针对黎巴嫩首都，但“这些楼梯依然完好且继续被使用，”贝鲁特项目的发起组织 CatalyticAction 的联合创始人乔安娜·达巴基 (Joana Dabaj) 说道。
在《我的世界》这个由方块组成的 3-D 虚拟世界（全球最受欢迎的游戏之一）中，用户可以随心所欲地建造和摧毁建筑。2025 年，超过 200 百万的月活跃玩家助力《我的世界》电影 (A Minecraft Movie) 成为史上票房最高的视频游戏改编电影。
该游戏开放式的设计和建造工具允许玩家重新想象现实生活中的空间，如废弃的河岸、阴暗的小巷和垃圾场，使其成为让公民（尤其是青年）参与城市区域重新设计的核心工具之一。
自 2012 年以来，Block by Block 基金会和联合国人类住区规划署 (U.N.-Habitat) 已支持在 55 个不同国家建设超过 150 个城市结构，有 30,000 多名公民使用《我的世界》参与设计过程。微软在 2014 年收购了《我的世界》的开发商 Mojang，这有助于该基金会与联合国人类住区规划署共同成立。虽然 Mojang 和其他合作伙伴持续为该计划提供核心资金，但资金在 2025 年中断，导致基金会关闭。他们的工作现在将在一个名为“城市未来的游戏” (Games for Urban Futures) 的新联合国人类住区规划署计划下继续，该计划基于 Block by Block 的方法论并纳入其他游戏。
在设计真正能解决当地问题的公共空间时，并没有固定方法。自 2020 年起领导该基金会的詹姆斯·德莱尼 (James Delaney) 表示：“但《我的世界》的方法论具有一种我们可以灵活运用的松散性。”在工作坊中让儿童和成年人共同参与也是其魅力的一部分。“这种力量
儿童参与了使用视频游戏《我的世界》对贝鲁特楼梯项目的重新设计。
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Headway 计划的资金由福特基金会 (Ford Foundation)、威廉和弗洛拉·休利特基金会 (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation) 以及斯塔夫罗斯·尼亚科斯基金会 (Stavros Niarchos Foundation, SNF) 的拨款提供，由洛克菲勒慈善顾问公司 (Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors) 担任财政担保人。伍德考克基金会 (Woodcock Foundation) 是 Headway 公共广场的资助者。资助者不对故事的选择、重点或编辑过程拥有控制权，且在故事发表前不进行审阅。《纽约时报》保留对 Headway 计划的完整编辑控制权。
悲痛的人群周日在勃兰登堡门附近聚集。周六的袭击造成一名女性死亡，29 人受伤。
“这些罪犯，这些极端分子，在我们的社会中间没有立足之地，”梅尔茨先生 (Mr. Merz) 周日下午在进入柏林市中心圣玛丽教堂的纪念仪式前表示。“我们绝不允许恐怖主义的毒药以及针对我们自由的毒药进一步扩散。”
柏林市长凯·韦格纳 (Kai Wegner) 周日下午在袭击现场附近举行的新闻发布会上告诉记者，“我们面对的大概是一场针对我们的生活方式、我们的自由民主、我们的开放和自由的伊斯兰恐怖袭击。”
多布林特先生 (Mr. Dobrindt) 呼应了这一评估，称此次袭击极有可能是伊斯兰恐怖主义。他表示，嫌疑人有激进化史且有犯罪记录，包括因一项当局未详细说明的罪行被定罪，他最近重新 (注：此部分包含 3)
“两人之间的动态发生了反转，因为年轻人能立即上手《我的世界》(游戏) 并且操作非常快速，”德莱尼先生说。Block by Block 基金会的方法论运作方式如下：当地组织——主要是致力于让公民参与城市规划的非营利组织——向联合国人类住区规划署提交项目提案。被选中的项目将获得资金和技术指导，以吸引社区成员、开展《我的世界》(游戏) 工作坊并构建最终设计，预算在 $10,000 到 $200,000 之间。一旦选定地点，社区成员将携带打印好的地图和标记进行实地走访。“我们邀请参与者用批判性的眼光审视这个地方，”自 2014 年起在世界各地组织《我的世界》(游戏) 工作坊的游戏专家欧根尼奥·加斯特卢姆·庞斯 (Eugenio Gastelum Pons) 说道。他说，人们每天可能会经过一个地方，但不会停下来思考如何改进它。
在实地考察之后，参与者将参加《我的世界》(游戏) 工作坊，学习如何使用该游戏构建 3-D 模型。加斯特卢姆先生将每个地点预先加载到《我的世界》(游戏) 中，让参与者能够在虚拟空间中行走并添加他们的设计。在印度尼西亚实施 Block by Block 项目的非营利组织 Kota Kita 的建筑师比斯玛·塞蒂亚德 (Bisma Setiyad) 表示，孩子们被鼓励去思考弱势群体（如老年居民和残疾人）的需求。一旦《我的世界》(游戏) 设计准备就绪，他们将轮流展示想法，然后投票决定哪些模型应该在现实生活中被建造。随后，专业建筑师和城市规划师将《我的世界》(游戏) 模型转化为可用于施工的草图和图纸。
Kota Kita 在爪哇岛的索罗市（一座约 50 万人口的城市）开展工作。2021, 该非营利组织开始寻找一个可以使用《我的世界》(游戏) 方法论进行重新设计的地点，并选择了一个靠近 Rusunawa Mangkubumen 的河岸，那里是一个居住着 80 户家庭的经济适用公租房区。
该地区到处是垃圾，没有遮荫处，当地儿童几乎没有什么可以玩的东西。“住房区里住着很多孩子，但也有很多只是待在他们
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收到了检察官提出上诉的缓刑。在晚上的采访中，多布林特 (Dobrint) 先生确认了新闻报道，称嫌疑人一直在接受法院命令的“去极端化”课程。
这场搜捕于 6 p.m. 左右在柏林西部的斯潘道 (Spandau) 区结束，在嫌疑人显然逃往的一片花园地块中将其抓获。
“嫌疑人持刺击武器向我们的警力靠近，”柏林警方发言人弗洛里安·纳特 (Florian Nath) 在周日晚上发布在社交媒体上的一段简短视频中表示。“这引发了反应。我们的警力使用了枪支。嫌疑人受重伤。急救医生曾短时间将嫌疑人救活。嫌疑人随后死亡。”
警方在周日早些时候首先表示，他们正在搜寻“至少一名嫌疑人”，此前在年度克里斯托弗街日游行周边发生了袭击事件，周六有数十万庆祝者聚集在市中心。庆祝活动包括周六晚上在勃兰登堡门和蒂尔加滕 (Tiergarten) 附近举行的一场音乐会。
当局表示，在 10 p.m. 刚过不久，一辆白色面包车在离开公园的一条侧街上疾速行驶，该处位于官方节日场地和安保区域之外，撞到了人行道上的行人，并最终撞在一棵树上。司机逃离了现场。视频画面显示，该车的前格栅被撞碎，车身严重凹陷。
多布林特先生表示，袭击者在暴行期间挥舞着疑似大砍刀的武器。部分受害者有刺伤。急救人员迅速抵达并开始进行治疗
“因为他们觉得坐着轮椅在房间里移动不安全，”Setiyadi先生解释道。
在《我的世界》(游戏)项目之后，河岸变成了一个色彩斑斓的空间，拥有大量阴凉的休息区，以及一个带有羽毛球网和篮球场的游乐场。坡道、扶手和导向砖让附近约 320 名居民能够更方便地进入该空间。
在巴西东南部的大西洋城市贝洛奥里赞特，许多非正式定居点在易受洪水影响的 Onça 溪岸边涌现，威胁着居民的健康与安全。2022, 两个地点——Novo Aarão Reis 和 Ribeiro de Abreu——被选中进行 Block by Block 改造。
溪岸最终变成了两个公园，包含一个足球场和一个排球场，并且
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首先提供急救，他说。 “那是一个恐怖的场景，”Dobrindt先生说。
柏林的夏里特医院治疗了八名伤员，并在周日中午前释放了其中四人；医院代表表示，其余四人仍在重症监护室，伤势不危及生命。
这次袭击再次引发了德国关于移民、宗教极端主义和公共安全的争论。此次事件发生在柏林和另外两个东部州即将举行备受关注的地区选举前几个月；民调已经表明，部分基于德国人对公共暴力的焦虑，极右翼政党有望在选举中获益。
近几个月来，随着美国和以色列与 伊朗 陷入战争，德国情报官员在私下里
儿童也加入了更多的照明设施，以使该区域更加安全。
“《我的世界》(游戏) 非常出色，因为参与者可以感觉到他们想要添加的组件的比例——你不能塞进无限数量的东西，你必须优先排序，”将 贝鲁特 儿童的《我的世界》(游戏) 构思转化为技术草图和模型的建筑师 Giulia Galli 说道。
在 贝鲁特 阶梯的最终设计获得批准后，Zahar 先生每天都会经过那里查看施工进展。
14 个月后，结果出来了。“阶梯变得更加多彩，有了更多生活气息，许多人开始使用它们，因为现在有了可以坐的地方，”Zahar 先生说。
重新设计带来了新的餐厅和酒吧。小桌子和植物点缀在平台之间。
警告了德意志国土上由德黑兰支持的袭击威胁。在他的晚间采访中，Dobrindt 先生表示，基于不断增加的情报，政府最近已将国家威胁等级提高到“高”。“伊斯兰主义的威胁没有被低估，”他说。“它正受到非常密切的监控。”
克里斯托弗街日庆典吸引了数十万狂欢者来到柏林，组织者在周日上午取消了最后一批计划活动。附近的这次袭击让一个在几小时前还花大部分时间在田园诗般的夏日天空下跳舞的社区陷入悲痛。该活动以纽约市的一条街道命名，这条街道因与引发现代同性恋权利运动的 Stonewall 骚乱相关而闻名。
周日早些时候，袭击现场附近的道路被大量警察封锁。在附近，应急人员已经
搭建了一个帐篷来照顾心碎的目击者。有人被看到在互相拥抱，有些人身上裹着保温毯。几个小时前，路障封锁了通往蒂尔加滕（Tiergarten）道路上的车辆通行，而大群狂欢者（许多人穿着闪闪发光的彩色服装）随着 techno 音乐的强劲节拍起舞，并涌入附近的咖啡馆和啤酒花园。到深夜，庆祝的声音被警笛的喧嚣和直升机在区域上空盘旋的轰鸣声所取代。柏林州政府的 L.G.B.T.Q. 事务专员阿尔方索·潘蒂萨诺（Alfonso Pantisano）在周日的采访中表示，当组织者在袭击发生后立即宣布撤离命令时，他正身处庆祝人群之中。他说，他留下来帮助他人撤离。潘蒂萨诺先生一直致力于领导一项旨在应对针对柏林 L.B.G.T.Q. 群体日益增加的暴力行为的努力。他说，这次袭击“令人惊讶，尽管我们都认为在某种程度上这件事迟早会且可能会发生”。他说，袭击者的目标“可能是我们所有人”，而“这正是这件事可怕之处”。
2020 年黎巴嫩 贝鲁特 的一次港口爆炸造成 218 人死亡，并造成高达 $4.6 十亿的损失，包括（从左上角起顺时针方向）：圣尼古拉斯阶梯；拉齐扎阶梯；旺多姆阶梯；以及拉齐扎阶梯附近的一幅壁画。孩子们参与其中，通过一个利用一款热门视频游戏的项目来帮助重建。
更多的休息区和扶手让年长的邻居在行走于阶梯时更加舒适。“你可以看到老年居民们再次相聚，在房子前共进晚餐和午餐，”达巴杰（Dabaj）女士说。但参与式城市设计还具有一种无形的影响：不仅让孩子们感到自己的声音被听到、被重视，而且还将他们的想法转化为城市中真实的结构，联合国人类住区规划署（U.N.-Habitat）全球公共空间网络协调员何塞·程（Jose Cheng）解释道。“这就是为什么我们只尝试开展能够贯彻执行并资助建设的项目，”程先生说。“我的感觉是，当没有切实结果时，年轻人会对被询问想法感到有些厌倦。”如果没有这种后续执行，在过程中建立的信任很容易被破坏。瑞士苏黎世联邦理工学院（ETH Zürich）空间发展与城市政策研究员兼讲师卡特琳·霍费尔（Katrin Hofer）表示，这会让那些花时间参与其中，却不知道自己的投入被如何处理的人感到沮丧。在梭罗（Solo），最大的挑战之一是弄清楚人们将如何维护这个公共空间。塞蒂亚迪（Setiyadi）先生说，期望一个低收入社区来管理这个空间是不现实的，因此有必要让当地政府参与进来。达巴杰女士解释说，在 贝鲁特 ，CatalyticAction 不断与住在阶梯沿线的居民进行协商，并处理邻里间的权力动态。“公共空间与城市织理融合得越深，挑战就越大。”但 我的世界 (游戏) 具有被应用于除小型、针对性项目之外的潜力。“你可以说，每个联合国机构都应该有一个团队来研究 我的世界 (游戏) 如何帮助实现他们的使命，”德莱尼（Delaney）先生说。“每个政府都应该有一位游戏部长，研究基于游戏的方案，不仅是为了辅助规划，而是为了任何事情。”室内设计专业学生阿比拉米亚（Abiramia）女士说，在 贝鲁特 ，让公民参与城市规划的益处至今仍能感受到。“阶梯不再仅仅是连接两个地方的通道，它本身就成了一个目的地。”
从左至右：赫特福德县（Hertford County）的居民，这里是长期休眠的里弗斯矫正机构（Rivers Correctional Institution）的所在地；该设施由 GEO Group 拥有，该公司是全美最大的私营监狱运营商之一；该县的人口少于 20,000, 主要是黑人，并分布着海地和墨西哥社区。其贫困率约为 23 percent，几乎是全州平均水平的两倍。
百分比，几乎是全州率的两倍。 该中心还位于一个竞争激烈的国会选区，目前由民主党人众议员唐·戴维斯 (Don Davis) 持有。该选区在去年进行了重新划分，以利于共和党候选人、退役陆军上校劳里·巴克豪特 (Laurie Buckhout)。两位候选人在周四均未回应置评请求。民主党州长乔希·斯坦 (Josh Stein) 同样未对此设施的置评请求做出回应。 该县的高薪职位十分匮乏，因此一些人认为新的 ICE 拘留……
作者：EDUARDO MEDINA 和 HAMED ALEAZIZ
北卡罗来纳州赫特福德县 —— 几周以来，在北卡罗来纳州温顿 (Winton) 长期闲置的里弗斯惩教机构 (Rivers Correctional Institution) 附近，居民们注意到监狱大门内有卡车出入，有人在入口处走动，且围栏正在被搭建。 《纽约时报》获得的内部文件显示，美国移民与海关执法局 (ICE) 计划在今年年底前，在北卡罗来纳州东北部的该综合体开设一家拘留中心。该设施由 GEO Group 拥有，该公司是美国最大的私人监狱运营商之一。合同谈判正在进行中，但文件显示，该设施将拥有约 1,400 个床位，使其成为东海岸最大的拘留中心之一。该设施的启用 —— 也是北卡罗来纳州首个此类设施 —— 表明，尽管 ICE 正在放弃在全国范围内收购仓库的计划，但它仍然决心在特朗普总统政府的大规模驱逐计划中增加拘留人数的容量。
《时报》在六月获得的文件显示，ICE 计划卸载其以超过 $700 million 购入的七个仓库，从而缩减前国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆 (Kristi Noem) 领导下的一项标志性举措。国土安全部本月给宾夕法尼亚州官员发了一封信，表示不再计划使用伯克斯县 (Berks County) 的一个仓库。但它继续与 GEO Group 等私人公司合作，将北卡罗来纳州、科罗拉多州和亚利桑那州等地的现有监狱综合体重新利用，这些地区都有大量的移民人口。曾在共和党和民主党政府中任职的前 ICE 官员克莱尔·特里克勒-麦克纳尔蒂 (Claire Trickler-McNulty) 表示，该机构必须在那些被认为对这类设施“更友好”且不禁止此类设施的地方寻找床位空间。
与此同时，北卡罗来纳州及其周边州处于所谓的“拘留荒漠”地带。该地区的大多数被拘留者通常被送往更南方的设施 —— 就像去年夏洛特市移民打击行动期间发生的那样 —— 这将耗费更多的时间、金钱和资源。移民律师和倡导者表示，在弗吉尼亚州边境附近建立一个新的拘留中心，可以极大地增强代理人在相邻各州拘留更多人员的能力。北卡罗来纳州拥有一个由共和党控制的强力立法机构，最近还通过了要求警长和州执法机构必须与 ICE 合作的法律，这可能会增加对容量的需求。移民权利组织 Carolina Migrant Network 的联合创始人斯特凡尼亚·阿特加 (Stefanía Arteaga) 表示，温顿设施将使北卡罗来纳州成为东海岸 ICE 拘留的主要枢纽。
内部文件显示，ICE 在华盛顿的实地办事处计划管理该拘留中心。一位要求在讨论私人规划时保持匿名的州政府官员表示，该设施最早可能在 9 月下旬开放。GEO Group 尚未公开合同谈判情况，该公司……
作者：KENNETH CHANG
SpaceX 在周五晚上完成了其星舰（Starship）火箭的一次成功测试飞行，为未来几个月更具雄心的发展奠定了基础。
这次飞行是星舰的第 13 次飞行，但仅是 SpaceX 所称的第 3 版（Version 3）的第二次飞行，该版本包含多项旨在提高性能和可靠性的改进。
周五的飞行似乎实现了几乎所有目标，包括纠正 5 月份上次飞行中出现的问题、部署 Starlink 互联网卫星，并在印度洋中完整地漂浮着结束旅程。
“我们对此感到非常兴奋，”SpaceX 网络直播的主持人之一凯特·蒂斯（Kate Tice）在平稳的水上着陆后说道。
此次与八天前的一次失败尝试相反，星舰助推级的所有 33 个发动机均已点火。
这座 407 英尺高的火箭于东部时间下午 6:51 从 SpaceX 位于德克萨斯州南部布朗斯维尔（Brownsville）附近的星基地（Starbase）现场起飞。
星舰由两级组成：一个被称为“超重型”（Super Heavy）的助推器，以及一个同样被称为“星舰”但通常简称为“飞船”（Ship）的上级航天器。两级都被设计为完全可重复使用，这可以极大地降低将卫星送入太空的成本。
周五，助推级在墨西哥湾上空模拟着陆的返回过程并非完全成功。助推器似乎是在仍以较快速度下降时撞击水面的，而不是减速至悬停状态。
在太空期间，上级飞船部署了 20 颗可运行的下一代 Starlink 卫星。早期的飞行释放的是模拟版本，用以测试部署机制，该机制类似于一个大型的 Pez 糖果分配器，将卫星一个接一个地推出。
在部署太阳能阵列和天线后，所有卫星均通过激光通信成功连接到 Starlink 星座的其余部分。
上级飞船还重启了其中一个发动机 14 秒。
《时报》获取的内部文件显示，美国移民海关执法局（ICE）计划在 12 月 31 日前，在北卡罗来纳州温顿（Winton）的旧里弗斯教养机构（Rivers Correctional Institution）开设一家拘留中心。
未对寻求评论的请求做出回应。ICE 的一名发言人在一份声明中表示，该机构“目前没有要宣布的新拘留中心”。
“ICE 将在美国各州进行逮捕，并正积极致力于扩大拘留空间，这不应被视为新闻，”该声明称。
根据学术团体“驱逐数据项目”（Deportation Data Project）的数据，自特朗普总统在 2025 年 1 月就职以来，联邦移民执法人员在北卡罗来纳州逮捕了 6,300 多人，这一数字是此前两年总逮捕人数的两倍。
在北卡罗来纳州的赫特福德县（Hertford County），其县政府所在地为温顿，一些当地官员对联邦政府的计划被隐瞒表示担忧，因为他们正试图应对所有的揣测。该县是民主党强势地区。
“这是我们该地区出现的最具分歧的问题，”距离温顿约 10 英里的阿霍斯基（Ahoskie）市长韦林·J·怀特（Weyling J. White）表示，并指出他对于附近设立由 ICE 运营的设施持有重大保留意见。“这些工作能带来什么样的生活质量？”
该县人口不足 20,000 人，主要为黑人，并分布有海地和墨西哥社区。其贫困率约为 23%。
……处理中心将其视为经济生命线。其他人则担心这里会成为移民打击行动中的另一个冲突点，并成为一个极具争议的联邦机构的前哨站。
原里弗斯惩教机构（Rivers Correctional Institution）在 2021 年关闭，当时拜登政府采取行动终止与营利性监狱的联邦合同，该机构此前也有环境恶劣的历史。
一份 2016 年关于私立监狱的联邦报告发现，里弗斯的囚犯间性行为不端、暴力、违禁品发现（不包括手机）以及药物检测呈阳性的比率最高。近期，全州的监狱都在难以招募员工，目前尚不清楚里弗斯如果重新开放的情况会如何。
“我的一部分担忧是，我们还没有为那个地方开放后将要发生的事情做好准备，”在赫特福德县（Hertford County）教授非母语英语的詹妮弗·斯密斯（Jennifer Smyth）说道。她说，即使该县没有出现更多的 ICE 逮捕行动，她仍担心该州其他地区的活动会增加。
居民们表示，经济困难和创造就业的需求显而易见：温顿（Winton）市中心有几栋废弃建筑，周围的基础设施极易 l 发生洪水。但一家钢铁制造商预计到 2030 年将为赫特福德县带来 700 多个高薪就业岗位。在 GEO 集团的网站上，有一个里弗斯设施维护经理的招聘岗位；最低起薪为 $72,800。
赫特福德县委员勒罗伊·道格拉斯（Leroy Douglas）在政治上认同自己为独立人士，他表示，近期 ICE 代理人在德克萨斯州和缅因州发生的两起致命枪击事件，使得一些居民更加抵制在自家后院建立移民拘留设施。但他补充说，许多其他人支持该计划，尤其是那些失去工作的人……
……该能力的演示是星舰（Starship）首次轨道飞行前的先决条件。
为了让上面级安全脱离轨道，需要在轨道上进行一次发动机点火；否则，航天器将滞留在轨道上，被大气层的摩擦缓慢拖下，且有可能碎片掉落在人口密集区域。
根据设计，到目前为止，星舰的所有飞行轨迹都是在绕地球飞行半圈后，在印度洋上空重新进入大气层。
在本次飞行中，随行的星链（Starlink）卫星沿着相同的亚轨道路径运行，因此它们在部署 20 分钟后也重新进入大气层并被烧毁。
在毁灭之前，六颗星链卫星使用摄像头扫描了星舰的隔热罩，观察在温度升至数千度时隔热罩的性能表现。
上面级飞船在穿越大气层的炽热路径中幸存了下来。在澳大利亚西部的印度洋上空，它减速并模拟了垂直定向着陆的操纵动作。而且与之前的着陆不同，火箭在倾入水中时没有在火球中爆炸。
“这是我们第一次将一艘完整的星舰放入水中，”SpaceX 网络直播的另一位主持人丹·胡奥特（Dan Huot）说道，他将航天器上的摄像头仍在传回视频这一事实描述为“有点超现实”。
他补充道：“哇，幸运的 13 号——星舰的一次极佳飞行。”
如果在飞行过程中收集的数据没有揭示任何重大障碍，SpaceX 将能够推进星舰下一组更具挑战性的目标：进入地球轨道，将上面级航天器返回德克萨斯州，并在发射塔上将其捕捉，就像对待助推器那样。
星舰是美国国家航空航天局（NASA）登月计划的关键。SpaceX 计划提供一个版本的飞船，将其宇航员从月球轨道送至月球表面。
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当 Rivers 监狱在 2021 年关闭时。 目前尚不清楚将有多少当地人被雇佣在那里。在 2021, 该监狱雇佣了约 300 人。 尽管道格拉斯先生并不认同 ICE 的许多激进手段，但他表示不认为特工们会在“赫特福德县横行霸道，因为这件事的重点不在于此”。 “如果他们重新开放，我认为我们实际的社区不会产生任何负面变化，”道格拉斯先生说，他的妻子在几十年前曾担任 GEO 集团的惩教员，之后在该公司转向行政岗位。“事实上，我认为会有正面影响，因为会增加一些就业机会。” 道格拉斯先生表示，他与 ICE 或 GEO 集团的领导层没有任何沟通。其他县委员未回应置评请求。 在关于监狱重启的 Facebook 帖子的推测中，评论区已演变为关于 ICE 道德水平和边境安全的更广泛辩论。 当地活动人士已开始组织起来反对该设施，组织抗议活动并向县政府官员提出大量询问。博比·雷·里迪克（Bobby Ray Riddick）就是其中之一，他在 Facebook 上拥有 10,000 名粉丝，他于多年前退休，此前曾在一家鸡肉加工厂工作。 “这将是一场我认为我们还没准备好去面对的波折，”里迪克先生说。
但 Starship 的研发进度比马斯克先生和 SpaceX 最初承诺的要长。 对于登月任务，SpaceX 需要展示几项技术上的首次突破。其中包括在短时间内进行多次 Starship 发射，因为登月舱版本的 Starship 在离开近地轨道之前需要为其推进剂贮箱重新充填。 在太空失重状态下，在两艘航天器之间转移极低温液态甲烷和液态氧尚未得到验证。 成功的试飞还可以增强投资者对 SpaceX 的信心，该公司计划使用 Starship 在轨道上部署多达一百万颗数据中心卫星。SpaceX 在 6 月份通过史上最大规模的首次公开募股在股票市场首次亮相。 几天后，股价飙升至 $225.64, 较发行价 $135 增长了 67 百分比，但随后有所下跌。该股票在上周结束时收于 $115.07.
来自敌对政党 孕育了这一构想
作者：RONDA KAYSEN
华盛顿 —— 去年，当马萨诸塞州参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦在民主党同僚的每周午餐会上建议与共和党就一项重大新住房法案展开合作时，她面对的是惴惴不安与质疑。她的党内成员长期以来一直希望解决住房危机，但大多数人认为，他们无法克服与共和党之间的深层分歧，从而就沃伦女士所设想的那种具有里程碑意义的立法达成一致。“当时有一种感觉是：‘行，你把它起草出来，然后我们大家来看看，我们会说，太好了，我成了这项根本没戏的法案的共同发起人，’”沃伦女士在国会大厦的一次采访中回顾起本月该措施得以颁布的这一不可思议的过程时说道。“他们在这里被教导，这一切都将徒劳无功，你起草的法案只不过是用来作秀的，”她补充道，“尤其是当共和党掌控局面时，民主党这边更是如此。”然而，在看似不可能的情况下，该法案取得了成功并赢得了两党支持，克服了国会的极化、共和党内部的内斗、期中选举赛季的激烈政治，以及特朗普总统完全缺乏的热情（他最终拒绝签署该法案）。在两党共同立法已成为一项失传艺术的时代，该法案的支持者们成功推动了三十年来规模最大的住房立法，在国会两院组建了一个广泛的联盟，以解决对选民而言至关重要的负担能力问题。这件事差一点就没能发生。关于《21世纪住房之路法案》在经历了几次“濒死体验”后如何成为法律的这段记录，是基于对十多位扮演关键角色的立法者和助手进行的采访。这一切始于一个极不寻常的伙伴关系：身为银行、住房和城市事务委员会首席民主党人的进步派沃伦女士，与该委员会极保守派主席、南卡罗来纳州共和党参议员蒂姆·斯科特。他们在委员会主席台并肩而坐时建立了关系，在会议拖冗或证人发表令人信服（或令人厌恶）的言论时，两人会轻声交谈。“除了证人，其他人都来来去去，而”
Robert Draper 贡献了相关报道。
随着移民失去保护
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“国会能够且应当行使其在移民政策上的全权，以防止美国劳动力市场出现重大中断，并避免不必要的人道主义危机，”议会在 7 月 10 日致参议院领导层的一封信中写道。
州和地方领导人也表达了同样的担忧。俄亥俄州州长、共和党人迈克·德温（Mike DeWine）称取消海地人的临时保护状态（T.P.S.）是一个“错误”，并预测这将给他的州带来沉重的经济代价。在海地人口最多的南佛罗里达州，迈阿密-戴德县（Miami-Dade County）县长丹妮艾拉·莱文-卡瓦（Daniella Levine Cava）和专员玛琳·巴斯蒂安（Marleine Bastien）周三与商业领袖聚集在一起，讨论潜在的影响。
“取消 T.P.S. 并没有为美国省钱，”巴斯蒂安女士在新闻发布会上说，“取消 T.P.S. 反而会让美国损失金钱。”
但周三下午，密苏里州共和党参议员埃里克·施密特（Eric Schmitt）阻挠了国会民主党人试图通过快速通道延长海地人 T.P.S. 的尝试，并批评该计划几乎变成了永久性的方案。“T.P.S. 是为紧急情况而设立的，”施密特先生在参议院议事厅表示，“民主党人将其变成了通往永久性大规模移民的单向骗局。”
T.P.S. 由国会创建，并由乔治·H·W·布什总统在 1990 年签署成为法律，旨在为那些已在美国境内，但因武装冲突或自然灾害而无法安全返回家乡的外国国民提供短期救济。但由于一些国家多年陷入人道主义危机，T.P.S. 对某些外国国民来说几乎变成了无限期的。
高昂的住房成本多年来一直困扰着民主党主导的城市，但自疫情以来，保守派主导的州也感受到了压力。
“就我们两个，”沃伦女士说，“所以你最终会在中间低声私语。有人说一些话，从而引发某种想法。我会倾身说道：‘你知道吗，这让我好奇为什么我们不能这样做，’或者，‘真是个混蛋。’”
斯科特先生的母亲在 40 岁时购买了第一套住房，他与沃伦女士一样，对一项重大新住房法案充满热情——自 1990 年以来，国会尚未通过此类法案——而且作为参议院共和党竞选机构的主席，他有强大的政治动力尝试在期中选举前促成此事。
斯科特先生拒绝评论。
政治局势十分复杂：共和党绝不会同意民主党将大量新支出投入住房计划以及扩大住房与城市发展部的目标；而要让他们接受沃伦女士将优先级定为“通过基础设施资金奖励建设住房的社区”，也将很难推销。
民主党人则必须接受一项资金有限的住房法案。而且，他们必须愿意给共和党一个胜利，而共和党可以在争取维持国会控制权的斗争中引用这一胜利。
但这对两党都有好处。高昂的住房成本在纽约、波士顿和洛杉矶等民主党势力雄厚的城市中一直是沉重的负担。
als。由于国会数十年来无法在现代化该国过时的移民法方面达成共识，诸如临时保护状态 (T.P.S.) 和政治庇护等人道主义保护已成为事实上的长期（即便非永久）居留路径。
这使得 T.P.S. 成为一些移民制度批评者的目标，其中包括特朗普总统，自其第一任期以来，他一直将终止该计划视为优先事项。在去年重返白宫后，他重新开始推动终止该计划，在全国范围内经过一年多的法庭斗争后，他赢得了一项最高法院的裁决，允许行政部门撤销 T.P.S.。
多年来，雇佣大量 T.P.S. 受益者的公司和行业一直支持这些人员及其所在计划，将其视为积极劳动力的来源，且这些岗位通常是难以填补的。
但随着特朗普政府加强撤销该保护的力度，许多公司开始不愿公开表态，将其交给行业团体来为该计划辩护。
建筑业贸易团体“美国建筑商与承包商协会”是一个联盟的一部分，该联盟最近给国土安全部发了一封信，强调了 T.P.S. 计划终止所带来的挑战。
特朗普政府在一份声明中为其终止该保护的努力进行了辩护。“国土安全部正在维护法治并回归常识，”美国公民及移民服务局发言人扎克·卡勒 (Zach Kahler) 表示。
雇佣在美国非法工作的人员的雇主可能会面临巨额罚款和刑事指控，被指控窝藏无证人员。
就 T.P.S. 受益者而言，他们必须决定是留在美国还是离开。政府掌握着他们的地址，使得联邦特工很容易找到他们。
目前尚不清楚政府可能会给人们多少时间来处理事务并离开。华盛顿的中美洲人士倡导组织 CARECEN 的执行主任阿贝尔·努涅斯 (Abel Nuñez) 表示，许多人拥有房屋、车辆和银行账户。
“你不能直接把你的房子揣在兜里，把你的车揣在兜里，”努涅斯先生说道。
得益于 T.P.S.，康塞普西翁·莫拉莱斯 (Concepcion Morales) 在联邦场所工作了 22 年，包括在海军学院和国家卫生研究院。
“你走进任何一座政府大楼，都可以肯定那里有持有 T.P.S. 的人在工作，”50 岁的莫拉莱斯先生说道。
多年来[情况如此]。但自疫情以来，像爱达荷州和蒙大拿州这样的保守派州也经历了租金和房价的极速上涨，将原本的一个区域性问题变成了全国性问题。
“我不能支持那样做”
到去年 10 月，斯科特先生和沃伦女士达成了一项协议，并制定了一项在参议院加速推进的策略，他们认为这将确保该法案被快速通过。他们将其附加在年度国防政策法案中（该法案被认为是必须通过的项目），旨在促使众议院在不作修改的情况下接受它。
此举引发了共和党内部的争执。专注于银行立法的共和党金融服务委员会主席法兰奇斯·希尔 (French Hill) 代表对此感到措手不及。
他给斯科特先生打电话，告诉他需要踩刹车。
“这个进程太仓促了，”来自阿肯色州的希尔先生在一次采访中说道。他说，在一系列对话中，他告诉斯科特先生：“你看，如果你愿意协商并听取众议院的意见，我很乐意这样做。”
但这位参议员对做出修改不感兴趣。
“好吧，这就是我在参议院掌握的情况，事情就是这样，这就是我能做的，”希尔先生回忆起斯科特先生对他说的内容。“然后我说，‘好吧，我不能支持那样做’。”
众议院共和党人将该住房措施从国防法案中剔除，使其遭遇重大挫折。
1月初，特朗普总统提供了一个重启该措施的机会。他在社交媒体上发布消息称，他计划限制机构投资者在单户住宅市场中的作用。这一问题是参议院民主党的优先事项，也令购房者感到愤怒，特别是在亚特兰大和北卡罗来纳州夏洛特等市场，人们在购买入门级住宅时经常被提供全现金出价的投资者压价。
她看到了一个抢在总统之前的机会，由民主党塑造一项法案来主导这场辩论。
“我当时兴奋极了，”沃伦女士说，并补充道，“如果我是一个卡通人物，我头上一定会亮起一只灯泡。”
次日早晨，沃伦女士便与民主党人通电话，努力在特朗普总统发表国情咨议前拟定一份可提交的提案。
不久，白宫开始直接与斯科特先生和沃伦女士进行谈判。
但众议院则在独立推进一项范围狭窄得多的住房法案，该法案在2月份获得了压倒性的两党支持并获得通过。
次月，参议院通过了一项旨在合并两院法案的措施，其中包括新的私募股权
他来自萨尔瓦多，在 23 岁时抵达美国。
莫拉莱斯先生在四年前通过一名成年美国子女获得了美国永久居留权。但基于设计，T.P.S. 并不提供直接路径
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以 89 比 10 的悬殊票数通过。
立法“乒乓球”
特朗普总统将注意力集中在伊朗战争、白宫舞厅以及一项广泛的投票限制法案上，在很大程度上忽略了这一进程。但众议院共和党人再次表示反对。 为了应对来自建筑业的一波批评，他们表示无法接受参议院法案中关于对作为租赁用途而建造的单户住宅设定严格限制的条款。 “现在它出现了一个致命问题，”希尔先生说。 希尔先生和来自加利福尼亚州的众议员马克辛·沃特斯（Maxine Waters）——金融服务委员会的民主党首席议员——呼吁进行两院协商。但参议员们再次拒绝参与，并指出该措施在极度极化的议院中获得了压倒性支持。 希尔先生表示，唯一的替代方案是又一轮立法“乒乓球”。于是，众议院在 5 月通过了该法案的另一个版本，削弱了关于私募股权的条款。 沃伦女士认为这是灾难性的，因为参议院民主党人不会支持一项未能实质性解决住房市场私募股权问题的法案。 “他们直接把核心部分给撕掉了，”沃伦女士说。“我认为，
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“这不是关于能否返回原籍国的问题；这里就是他们的家，”她说。“大多数人拥有全职工作，有在美国出生的孩子，拥有房产并经营生意。” 保守派传统基金会 (Heritage Foundation) 的游说机构 Heritage Action 的政府关系总监丹尼尔·韦斯特 (Daniel West) 谴责该计划，并批评那些试图维持临时保护状态 (T.P.S.) 的共和党人。 “特朗普政府正确地让这些被过度使用的 T.P.S. 计划按照原定计划到期，”他说。 政府尚未宣布结束针对萨尔瓦多的 T.P.S. 计划，该计划将于 9 月到期。但在特朗普总统的第一任期内，政府曾尝试这样做。 此外，政府已经宣布，将终止目前涵盖的大多数国家的该状态，包括埃塞俄比亚、缅甸、索马里、南苏丹、叙利亚和也门。 雇主们已经没有……
“噢，现在我们失去了一些真正重要的东西。” 僵局最终在 6 月初的一系列电话会议中打破，当时沃伦女士和沃特斯女士开始商讨一个能满足两院要求的协议。 “真正的突破发生在伊丽莎白·沃伦和我走到一起的时候，”沃特斯女士在一次采访中说。“然后我们让蒂姆·斯科特 (Tim Scott) 表示同意。” 虽然他们的妥协方案放宽了关于“建而租”的条款，但它仍然通过将投资者可拥有的单户住宅数量上限设定为 350 套，从而针对私募股权行业。这项最终立法包含 50 多项条款，旨在通过增加供应（这被认为是危机的关键）、制定旨在放宽联邦监管的规则、使借款更容易以及更新联邦计划以鼓励开发，来解决住房危机。
一次被取消的签署仪式
6月23日，众议院最终通过了该法案，将其提交给特朗普总统。共和党领导人迅速安排在次日早晨于国会大厦举行庆祝签署仪式。然而，就在工业界和国会领导人抵达国会大厦，且沃伦女士正在接受CNBC采访并对该法案大加赞赏时，特朗普总统在一篇社交媒体帖子中宣布，他最终将不会签署该法案。
“我以为这是一个玩笑，”沃伦女士说道。
总统在帖子中点名她，使用一个嘲讽的绰号称呼她，并将该立法描述为“以伊丽莎白‘波卡洪塔斯’沃伦为中心的住房法案，其重要性微乎其微”。
希尔先生在走入新闻发布会时看到了该社交媒体帖子，他对事态的转折表现得淡定。
“我根据发在桌面上的牌来打，”他说，“我们进入了这项立法故事的又一个反转。”
次日，希尔先生和议长迈克·约翰逊前往白宫会见特朗普总统。他们敦促他签署该立法，并明确表示众议院拥有足以推翻否决权的票数。希尔先生表示，总统“意识到了两院对该法案强烈情感的强度”。
特朗普总统最终拒绝签署该措施，但允许其成为法律，该法案于7月11日午夜自动生效，未举行任何仪式。
“我仍然对他没有签署感到失望，”希尔先生说。
三天后，沃伦女士再次在国会大厦出席民主党参议员的每周午餐会，这一次是为了庆祝该法案的颁布。
“我说，‘开始思考Road 2.0吧，’”她说，“‘因为我们打算再次这样做。’’”
一些养老中心正面临因美国移民政策变化而导致员工流失的问题。
自2023年12月以来，美国每月向海地派遣一架遣返航班。最后一架前往海地的遣返航班于7月16日在北部城市卡普艾蒂安降落，载有100多名被遣返者。预计航班数量将显著增加。
作为特朗普总统移民议程的架构师，斯蒂芬·米勒在临时保护状态 (T.P.S.) 裁决后被问及海地是否安全。
“对于海地人来说？绝对安全，”米勒先生说。“海地人住在海地。我们的立场并非海地人应该离开海地。如果我们说海地人不能住在海地，那简直疯了。那是他们的国家。”
自2021年最后一位当选总统被暗杀以来，海地一直被暴力笼罩。首都太子港的大片地区被帮派控制，这些帮派袭击、绑架并杀害平民，导致超过一百万人流离失所。该国经济崩溃，国际援助组织报告称食品不安全现象普遍。
在一次采访中，一名在佛罗里达州担任护士的海地女性表示，自2010年海地首次被指定为临时保护状态 (T.P.S.) 以来她就拥有该身份，她担心被强迫返回一个她已十多年未居住且她说那里没有亲人的国家。
“这种焦虑无法言喻，”这名女性说。她有一个在美国出生的幼儿，并在要求匿名的情况下同意接受采访，因为她担心可能会成为移民局执法人员的目标。
华盛顿 —— 特朗普总统决定允许沙特阿拉伯接触美国核技术，这与他的政府推动在全球范围内加速由美国国内支持的核电项目的计划相一致。但这也可能促成特朗普先生第二任期内的一个主要趋势：允许政府帮助增加总统本人、其家人、顾问及其圈内人士的财富。目前没有证据表明特朗普先生的朋友或家人协助策划了这项沙特核协议。然而，如果他对核能的大规模押注获得成功，包括其内阁成员在内的许多总统盟友和亲属将从中受益。某些与这些交易有联系的投资者即便在大量新核电电力交付仍需数年时间的情况下，也已处于获利位置。
其总体目标是在全球需求激增的情况下产生更多电力，而这种需求是由数据中心建设热潮和不断增长的消费者消费所驱动的。投资者正在为传统的核电站以及一种被称为小型模块化反应堆的新技术方案提供资金。其他人则在开采核电站所需的铀矿。还有一些人则在竞标建设这些电站。
在某些情况下，特朗普家族或总统盟友如何从总统的核能计划中潜在获利是显而易见的。而在其他情况下，虽然无法画出直接的关联线，但商业联系如此重叠，以至于很难将政策决定与潜在的个人利益分开。例如，根据三名知情人士透露，西屋电气（Westinghouse）预计将成为交易的一部分。该公司由加拿大所有但总部位于美国，开发了 AP1000 背后的技术，这是一种大型反应堆，其设计已被用于中国及东欧的计划中。
西屋电气的大股东是 Brookfield Asset Management，它是北美最大的商业地产所有者之一。该公司经常与 Newmark 合作，后者是一家由商务部长 Howard Lutnick 的儿子们部分拥有并经营的房地产公司。白宫发言人 Taylor Rogers 在一份声明中表示，特朗普先生的立场是为了增加电力供应，而不是为了帮助他或其圈子可能有所联系的任何公司。“感谢特朗普总统的领导，我国在民用核能开发、创新和技术方面取得了历史性进展，这是在满足国家日益增长的能源需求的同时，为家庭和企业保持低价格的关键组成部分，”她说道。“媒体持续试图捏造利益冲突的行为是不负责任的，且加深了公众对其阅读内容的不信任。”
西屋电气首席执行官 Dan Sumner 在一份声明中称，沙特协议是一个“里程碑式的步骤”，将“为美国工业和工人扩大机会”。Brookfield 发言人 Kerrie McHugh 表示，该公司资产超过 $1 万亿美元，拥有极其庞大的业务合作伙伴数量，并“建立了稳健的流程来管理任何潜在冲突，这与我们的信托责任一致”。
能源部的官员未回应置评请求。以下是特朗普先生及其一些可能从其核能目标中获益的关联人士概况。
总统及其亲属
特朗普媒体与技术集团（Trump Media & Technology Group）是一家持续亏损的公司，它托管着 Truth Social 平台，特朗普总统在白宫发布大部分公告时首选该平台。该公司近期采取了行动，出人意料地将核能纳入其业务组合。
该公司在 12 月宣布，计划作为一项 $6 billion 交易的一部分，与一家名为 TAE Technologies 的核聚变初创公司合并。在特朗普总统的第一任期内，以及去年，TAE 获得了能源部聚变能科学办公室的资金支持。
根据其他公开文件，截至本月早些时候，总统在公开交易的特朗普媒体公司中持有的股份价值约 $875 million。如果 TAE 的合并被证明是成功的，这些股份的价值可能会增长。
其两名儿子的核能投资
另外，总统的两名儿子——埃里克·特朗普（Eric Trump）和小唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump Jr.）在 11 月通过一项投资伙伴关系，成为了名为 Quantum Leap Energy 公司的部分所有者，该公司正致力于开发可用于核燃料的某些同位素。
Quantum Leap 去年与一家总部位于德克萨斯州的公司达成了协议，该公司由里克·佩里（Rick Perry）共同创立。佩里在特朗普总统的第一任期内担任能源部长，目前正寻求联邦援助以便在德克萨斯州建设核电站。佩里未回应置评请求。
当被问及任何潜在的利益冲突时，小唐纳德·特朗普的一名发言人表示，他正在处理对国家有利的交易。
“唐是一个终身的商人兼投资者，他倾向于投资那些与其‘美国优先’世界观相一致的公司，”发言人安迪·苏拉比安（Andy Surabian）说道，“他不会代表他投资的任何公司与联邦政府的任何人接触。”
埃里克·特朗普未回应置评请求。
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库什纳与沙特阿拉伯的交易
特朗普总统的女婿贾里德·库什纳（Jared Kushner）与近期核协议的相关人员之间有着复杂的关系。
在特朗普总统的第一任期内，库什纳在白宫工作期间，参与了关于沙特阿拉伯寻求获取美国核技术的讨论。他还帮助以色列与多个阿拉伯国家建立了旨在关系正常化的协议，即《亚伯拉罕协议》。
现在，沙特阿拉伯的主权财富基金是库什纳最大的支持者之一。在库什纳 2021 年离开白宫后不久，该基金向库什纳的投资公司 Affinity Partners 承诺出资 $2 billion。在库什纳担任政府职务期间的盟友穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼王储，帮助说服了主权财富基金提供这笔资金。
目前尚不清楚 Affinity 是否会投资于沙特的核能计划。据一名了解其计划的官员称，目前该王国预计将自行资助这项工作。
周四，特朗普家族与这一切的联系在总统于 Truth Social 上宣布核协议将取决于沙特阿拉伯加入《亚伯拉罕协议》时，被清晰地展现出来。
内阁 商务部和能源部一直处于推动特朗普总统核能议程的最前沿。这两个部门的部长要么与该行业有直接联系，要么有家族联系。 卢特尼克先生一直致力于推动将美国税收资金投资于核能领域的公司，包括西屋电气（Westinghouse）。他的家族成员参与经营的公司可能会从中获利。
坎托-费兹杰拉尔德（Cantor Fitzgerald）投资银行处于中心地位，卢特尼克先生在被特朗普总统聘用之前一直领导该行。在过去一年中，坎托帮助了核能领域的数家公司筹集资金，这为该公司带来了数百万美元的费用。 其中包括 Oklo、Energy Fuels Inc 和 enCore Energy。这些公司都在为其核能项目寻求许可、资金援助或特朗普政府的合同。
总部位于加利福尼亚州圣克拉拉的 Oklo 在 2019 年成为第一家获得能源部商业运营场地使用许可的核电公司。
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Oklo 还与能源部长克里斯·赖特（Chris Wright）有联系。赖特先生在加入特朗普总统的内阁之前一直是 Oklo 的董事。 这一联系促使一名民主党议员向白宫投诉，称 Oklo 可能会从政府的核能许可和计划中获得不正当利益。
Oklo 的通讯负责人博尼塔·切斯特（Bonita Chester）在的一份声明中表示，赖特先生自董事会辞职以来，“在 Oklo 的 governance 中没有任何角色”。 “我们一直与两党领导人合作，推动旨在加速部署安全且商业上可行的核技术的政策，”她补充道。
Energy Fuels 公司去年在坎托的帮助下筹集资金以扩大其采矿规模，该公司在 6 月披露其预计将获得来自五角大楼 (美国国防部) 的 $725 million 联邦贷款。 该公司是向核电站销售天然铀浓缩物的美国顶级生产商之一，它向《纽约时报》指出，其在特朗普总统第二次就任总统之前就开始与坎托合作。该公司拒绝发表评论。
这个网络不仅限于这些较小的核能公司。 美国政府拥有入股选择权的西屋电气，是拟议的与沙特阿拉伯核能协议的支点，因为该计划是由沙特政府支持在该国建设多个 AP1000 反应堆。
特朗普政府在 10 月宣布计划与西屋电气合作，在美国全境建设价值 $80 billion 的核反应堆，该交易部分由卢特尼克先生参与谈判。 “我们将与西屋电气一起释放美国能源，”卢特尼克先生当时在声明中表示。“这一合作伙伴关系体现了特朗普总统的宏伟愿景——重建我们的能源主权，创造高薪工作，并推动美国走向核能复兴的最前沿。”
正如《纽约时报》此前报道的，Newmark 在过去一年中通过帮助资助由卢特尼克先生和特朗普总统推广的价值数十亿美元的美国数据中心项目而获利。
商务部发言人布莱克·鲁佩（Blake Ruppe）表示，卢特尼克先生已遵守所有要求，从其家族公司中撤资。“不存在利益冲突，”他在一份声明中说。“暗示除此之外的情况是明知故作的虚假陈述。”
蒂尔，一位著名的捐赠者 彼得·蒂尔 (Peter Thiel) 是一位亿万富翁投资者和企业家，他是特朗普总统早期的政治支持者，并帮助副总统 JD Vance 开始其政治生涯，是 2022 年 Vance 参议员竞选活动中最大规模的捐赠者之一。 蒂尔先生是 General Matter 的主要投资者，这是一家美国核燃料公司，专注于生产所谓的高丰度低浓缩铀。如果所有这些新核电站都建成，将需要巨量的核燃料，而 General Matter 正处于获益的位置。 能源部在 1 月份授予了 General Matter 一项 9 亿美元 ($900 million) 的合同，用于扩大其核燃料工作。卢特尼克先生担任董事会成员的美国进出口银行也发行了高达 42 亿美元 ($4.2 billion) 的“意向书”，旨在为 General Matter 将国内浓缩铀出口至韩国和日本核电运营商提供融资。 蒂尔先生未回应置评请求。General Matter 的一名发言人表示，联邦支持始于拜登政府时期，且公司在 Vance 先生就任副总统后未与其接触。 “我们的合同 100 ％ 是基于里程碑的，因此在我们履行对纳税人的承诺之前，我们不会获得付款，”General Matter 的联合创始人李·罗宾逊 (Lee Robinson) 在一份声明中说。
科技巨头 随着人工智能的爆发式增长给国家的电力容量带来压力，科技公司正转向核能。 其中包括亚马逊 (Amazon)、Meta、谷歌 (Google) 和微软 (Microsoft) —— 它们都支持特朗普总统的部分能源政策目标。 这些公司每家都为特朗普总统 2025 年的就职典礼捐赠了 100 万美元 ($1 million)，使得他们的一些高管 —— 包括亚马逊创始人兼执行主席杰夫·贝佐斯 (Jeff Bezos)、Meta 首席执行官马克·扎克伯格 (Mark Zuckerberg) 以及谷歌首席执行官桑达尔·皮查伊 (Sundar Pichai) —— 在活动中占据了显要的位置。 这些公司还通过其他方式支持白宫。亚马逊花费 4000 万美元 ($40 million) 购买了一部关于第一夫人梅拉尼娅·特朗普 (Melania Trump) 的纪录片，产生了超过 1000 万美元 ($10 million) 的许可费。 亚马逊、谷歌、微软和 OpenAI —— 其首席执行官萨姆·奥尔特曼 (Sam Altman) 个人为就职典礼捐赠了 100 万美元 ($1 million) —— 共同出资支持了一项名为“创世纪任务” (Genesis Mission) 的能源部项目，该项目将利用 AI 来推进国家的能源目标及其他目标。 在 7 月 22 日宣布向该计划投资 6000 万美元 ($60 million) 时，负责微软公共部门业务的克里斯·巴里 (Chris Barry) 称“创世纪任务”是“正是定义美国科学的那种‘登月计划’”。一名微软发言人拒绝就沙特交易发表评论。 在海外运营多家数据中心的 Meta 的一名发言人拒绝就公司是否可能从沙特核电协议中获益发表评论。亚马逊、谷歌和 OpenAI 未回应置评请求。
击中 12 岁男孩 他在骑车去布朗克斯 买球途中遇害
作者：CHELSIA ROSE MARCIUS 以及 MILES G. COHEN
周六下午在布朗克斯，一名 12 岁的男孩在他们公寓大楼的庭院里和朋友玩耍，挥舞着棒球棒击打一个橙色的建筑圆锥桶。这个男孩，雅各布·弗雷特斯（Jacob Freytes），说他们可以打得比圆锥桶更好。他说，他们需要的是一个球，于是决定骑车走两个街区去一家杂货店买一个。
他的朋友，14 岁的西蒙·加西亚（Simon Garcia）对此感到担心。“我说，‘小心点’，”西蒙在周日地说道。他的父母曾警告他，即使在白天，也不要步行前往位于 Mount Eden 社区沃尔顿大道（Walton Avenue）和埃利奥特广场（Elliot Place）拐角处的杂货店。
尽管如此，雅各布还是去了。数小时过去了，下午转为黄昏，但男孩还没有回来。
“我在想，‘他为什么花这么长时间？’”西蒙说。
在下午 5 点之前不久，雅各布在 Wanda Deli 杂货店外被一颗流弹击中身亡。
警方表示，布朗克斯的 45 岁男子威廉·费雷尔（William Ferrer）于周日被逮捕，并被指控在杀害雅各布案中犯有二级谋杀罪。据三名执法官员透露，当时费雷尔先生正与另外五个人争吵，他掏出枪向该群体开火，而男孩当时就在外面。由于未获授权公开讨论此案，这些官员在接受采访时要求匿名。
执法官员补充说，雅各布是一名退休布朗克斯侦探中士杰苏斯·弗雷特斯（Jesus Freytes）的儿子。
警方表示，费雷尔先生还被指控枪击一名 34 岁男子的左脚以及一名 25 岁男子的臀部，并面临包括过失杀人、谋杀未遂、袭击和持有武器在内的额外指控。预计这两名男子能够幸存。
在周日的一篇社交媒体帖子中，警察局长杰西卡·S·蒂施（Jessica S. Tisch）写道：“雅各布在骑车时成为一名无辜的旁观者，在昨天的一起毫无意义的枪击暴力事件中，他被从家庭中夺走。”她写道：“任何逮捕都无法减轻这次难以想象的损失所带来的痛苦，但纽约警局（N.Y.P.D.）将继续竭尽全力为雅各布寻求正义。”
杂货店的一名收银员马尼·索托（Mani Soto）表示，雅各布在下午 4:45 左右买了一个球。男孩对他表示感谢后离开。他说，片刻之后，索托先生听到了枪声。
“那个孩子跑了进来，手臂血迹斑斑，”31 岁的索托先生说。他听到雅各布喊道：“‘他们打到我了，他们打到我了！’”随后男孩倒在地上。
警方表示，警员在下午 5 点前抵达现场，发现了左肩中弹的雅各布。急救人员将他送往林肯医院（Lincoln Hospital），他在那里被宣布死亡。
周日，在杂货店外的人行道上，在半打蜡烛附近散落着粉色玫瑰花瓣。
两个街区外，在他位于马西广场（Marcy Place）的公寓楼里，西蒙凝视着闪烁的瓜达卢佩圣母蜡烛，这里距离男孩们前一天挥舞球棒的地方仅几步之遥。
大约 15 名其他朋友和家庭成员也聚集在摆放在一个木箱下的蜡烛周围，这个木箱被用作临时的纪念碑。其中有雅各布的姑姑和他的 7 岁妹妹露娜（Luna），露娜在木箱上画了一颗心并写道“you I luv”。
在纪念碑的底部，吊唁者放置了一个棒球、一个美式橄榄球、一盒 Capri-Sun 饮料和雅各布的绿色 Fuggler（一种流行的毛绒玩具）。一张雅各布的相框照片立在中心，上面写着“深情缅怀”，下方是他的昵称 Kai。
在公寓里住了近五十年的 58 岁米拉格罗·德赫苏斯（Milagro Dejesus）在安慰另一位邻居时看着这一切。
“他是在大家孩子陪伴下长大的，”德赫苏斯女士说。“我们都看着他长大。这里所有的孩子都像一家人一样长大。”
德赫苏斯女士说，雅各布是个会陪母亲跳巴恰塔舞（Bachata）并帮年长租客提购物袋的孩子。
“现在，我们失去他了，”她说。“没有他，这里将不再一样。”
在美国右翼中 正悄悄地远离
本文由 Megan Twohey, Isabella Kwai, Matei Barbulescu 以及 Alan Feuer 撰写。
上周日早晨，在“男性圈”（manosphere）影响力人物安德鲁和特里斯坦·泰特 (Andrew and Tristan Tate) 在迈阿密被联邦特工逮捕几小时后，他们的一名代表联系了阿丽娜·哈巴 (Alina Habba)。不久前，身为律师的哈巴女士在泰特兄弟面临在罗马尼亚和英国被指控人口贩卖及其他严重罪行时，曾是他们的坚定支持者。在 2025 年 1 月的一次播客节目中，在被任命为特朗普总统的顾问后不久，她告诉安德鲁·泰特：“在这里我支持你。”现在，由于英国请求将其引渡以处理一系列新的刑事指控，这对兄弟被关在联邦拘留中心。他们的代表想知道：哈巴女士是否有空交谈？据两名知情人士透露，她没有回应。这标志着这对兄弟在美国右翼曾经的盟友中的支持度正在下降。
近年来，泰特兄弟利用他们庞大的年轻男性追随者群体，在特朗普先生的顾问、家庭成员和其他著名保守派中培养支持。这些努力在去年得到了回报，在感受到新特朗普政府成员的压力后，罗马尼亚检察官取消了对这对兄弟的旅行禁令，使他们能够离开该国并在全球范围内飞行。但他们现在面临着新级别的法律危机。英国已对他们提出了 38 项指控，包括强奸和性贩卖；安德鲁·泰特还被指控制作极端色情内容和儿童猥亵图像。这对兄弟否认了所有刑事指控，并称这些指控是出于政治目的。引渡请求迫使特朗普政府参与其中：联邦检察官正在迈阿密法院代表英国政府处理此案。白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特 (Karoline Leavitt) 周四表示，特朗普先生不打算干预此案。而许多在总统圈子中、曾经乐于与他们那种“超男性气概”品牌产生联系的泰特盟友，现在似乎都在退缩。据报道，哈巴女士虽然不再在政府任职，但仍与特朗普先生保持沟通，她现在不想与泰特兄弟有任何瓜葛。
报道得到了 Michael Crowley, Shawn McCreesh, David Ovalle 以及 Ed Wong 的贡献。
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海格塞斯对于军官应体现的价值观的看法。一位熟悉此次交流的官员表示，他认为“没有谁比他更契合”海格塞斯先生重塑军队的愿景。该官员称，这位军官将考德尔上将塑造为一个希望消除“觉醒障碍”的“战士”，并声称这些障碍正在削弱部队。尽管考德尔上将不在海军高级官员推荐的候选名单上，但海格塞斯先生还是选择了由他担此职。
但在晋升最终敲定之前，这位上将需要解决另一个问题。官员们表示，针对他向水兵发表关于五角大楼（美国国防部）“性侵犯预防与响应”计划的言论，当时有一项尚未结案的监察长调查。有些人将他的言论解读为在责怪受害者。
为了帮助解决这项调查，考德尔上将聘请了蒂莫西·帕拉托尔。帕拉托尔是一名海军预备役人员，也是一名著名的律师，曾代表过海格塞斯先生和特朗普总统。帕拉托尔最近被海格塞斯先生选中，在五角大楼担任其“特别顾问”。官员们表示，在考德尔上将成为其客户之前，帕拉托尔曾向海格塞斯先生推荐他，称其为领导海军的强力候选人。
监察长发现有关违规行为的指控缺乏事实依据，考德尔上将于去年夏天就任第 34 任海军作战部长。他通往这一职位的路径，是一个关于在海格塞斯先生领导下的五角大楼，其军队晋升程序如何背离传统的案例研究；在批评者看来，这使得该程序容易受到政治化和任人唯亲的影响。
自近 18 个月前就职以来，海格塞斯先生已经解雇或边缘化了两打以上的高级军官，包括上将
据熟悉其想法的人士透露。综合服务管理局的代理总法律顾问保罗·英格拉西亚（曾任 Tates 法律团队成员且对安德鲁赞誉有加）在逮捕发生后不久在 X 上发帖，批评“政治驱动的起诉”。在周四与《纽约时报》的电话中，英格拉西亚先生表示该帖子仅仅是在阐述他对宪法的信念。当被问及是否仍然支持 Tates 时，他说：“我现在与他们没有持续的联系。”小唐纳德·特朗普曾称安德鲁·泰特为朋友，并在之前面对刑事指控时公开为其辩护，但他对此次逮捕未发表任何评论。他的弟弟巴伦·特朗普也同样与安德鲁关系友好，同样没有发表评论。保守派评论员坎蒂斯·欧文斯在其热门节目中支持过这两兄弟，目前也保持沉默。在私下里，接近小唐纳德的人员淡化了他与 Tates 的关系；一名人士表示，他没有与政府中的任何人讨论过他们的被捕情况。当《时报》询问罗杰·斯通（一名著名的共和党操盘手）关于他上周六转发特里斯坦·泰特推文一事时，他表示是在逮捕消息传出前转发的。而特朗普先生的特使保罗·赞波利在逮捕前两天曾在华盛顿的一场聚会上接待过 Tates，他表示此前并未意识到针对他们的指控如此严重。赞波利先生在采访中说：“我不知道他们达到了被逮捕的程度。” 并非所有人都在与这对兄弟切割。亚利桑那州的共和党代表艾比·哈马德发表反对意见，在社交媒体上写道，“政治法律战是危险的”。保守派媒体之星塔克·卡尔森，此前曾进行过同情性的...
在对泰特兄弟的采访中，卡尔森先生告诉《时报》（未提供证据），他认为他们的被捕与他们对以色列的公开批评有关。“在忽视诱拐帮派并掩盖杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的行为数十年之后，英国和美国政府似乎已经失去了起诉性犯罪的兴趣，”卡尔森先生说。“然后泰特兄弟批评了以色列，这提醒了我，在某些情况下，他们是愿意采取行动的。”约瑟夫·麦克布莱德（Joseph McBride）作为泰特兄弟的长期律师，对他们的支持度有所下降的说法表示质疑。他表示，鉴于现任政府在该法律案件中所扮演的角色，任何此前支持这对兄弟的特朗普官员现在采取更加中立的立场，他并不感到惊讶。麦克布莱德先生表示，泰特兄弟正专注于在法庭上对抗引渡请求，而非寻求特朗普先生圈子里的帮助。他说，他并不知晓
泰特兄弟的代表是否联系了哈巴（Habba）。 “目前没有理由让特朗普乘坐空军一号直接降落在法庭上，因为我们认为我们将在法庭上获胜，”麦克布莱德先生说。 近年来，美国仅有一次拒绝英国引渡请求的先例。 泰特兄弟拥有美国和英国双重国籍，他们通过经营在线色情业务（首先在英国，随后在罗马尼亚）以及向年轻人销售在线课程而积累了财富。
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国防部长皮特·海格塞斯解雇了丽莎·弗兰切蒂海军上将，并由达里尔·考德尔海军上将（右）接任，尽管考德尔的名字并未出现在推荐候选人名单中。
弗兰切蒂，她在考德尔上将之前担任海军最高职务。他（海格塞斯）还从晋升名单中移除了约 40 名由同行评议委员会选出的高级军官。海格塞斯先生坚称，他的行为对于根除那些他所描述的“激进意识形态者”是必要的。“左翼迅速占领了军队，我们必须以更快的速度将其夺回，”他在 2024 年出版的著作《战士战争》（The War on Warriors）中写道。“我们必须发起正面进攻，在光天化日之下进行迅速的反击。”考德尔上将的晋升揭示了海格塞斯先生清洗行动的另一面。在国防部长就职之前，他就公开点名弗兰切蒂上将，认为她之所以获得晋升仅仅是因为她的性别。她知道，如果海格塞斯先生获得确认，她很可能会被解雇。官员们表示，2024, 12月，弗兰切蒂上将召集了海军的四星上将讨论潜在的接替人选。据知情人士透露，她提醒他们，在接下来的几周里，他们最重要的工作是将海军的诚信及其作为非政治机构的声誉置于个人野心之上。国防部官员表示，考德尔上将当天就在房间里，并且大约在同一时间，他还在私下提出帮助海格塞斯先生准备确认听证会。考德尔上将的发言人戴夫·赫克特（Dave Hecht）上尉在给《纽约时报》的一份声明中表示，上将计划将其与海格塞斯先生的讨论限制在“事实性、操作性事务”上。他说，考德尔上将与海格塞斯先生的互动始终集中在军事问题而非政治问题上。“考德尔上将在其整个职业生涯中始终以专业、非党派的方式行事，”上尉说。
海希特（Hecht）的声明中补充道。 五角大楼 (美国国防部) 的一项指令建议现役部队避免参与“党派政治活动”。
在海格塞斯先生解雇弗兰切蒂（Franchetti）上将后，由该军种代理部长率领的海军高级官员拟定了一份名单，其中包含他们认为最适合接任该职位的三名军官。考德尔（Caudle）上将不在名单之列。官员们表示，海军领导层认为他更适合领导监督国家核武库的美国战略司令部。
海格塞斯先生在与高级职员的会议上审阅了海军的名单。 据知情官员称，他问道：“考德尔在哪里？”
海格塞斯先生的幕僚长表示，他不熟悉这位上将。官员们称，海格塞斯先生指示他与帕拉托雷（Parlatore）先生讨论此事。 帕拉托雷先生在十年前离开了海军，最近被海格塞斯先生任命为海军预备役人员及海军法律官团成员。
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men。其中一项服务被称为 P.H.D.，意为“皮条客学位”（Pimping Hoes Degree）。 罗马尼亚于 2022. 开始对这对兄弟展开调查。两年后，英国检察官起诉这对兄弟犯有强奸、性侵和人口贩卖罪。两国达成协议，英国将等到罗马尼亚的刑事调查结束后再引渡塔特兄弟，但该案件遭遇了重大挫折。 自 2025, 2月从罗马尼亚获释以来，塔特兄弟
作为一名民事律师，他曾在一系列高调案件中代表海军军官和水兵。他的客户包括首席军曹爱德华·加拉格尔（Edward Gallagher），一名在 2019 被指控在伊拉克杀害一名受伤囚犯的海军特种部队（Navy SEAL）成员。加拉格尔首席军曹最终被判免除几乎所有指控。 帕拉托雷先生还帮助海格塞斯先生与一名指控他于 2017 强奸自己的女性达成了一项 $50,000 的和解协议。 此外，他还代表特朗普总统处理与 2021, 1月 6日国会山骚乱以及在特朗普先生的海湖庄园（Mar-a-Lago）度假村发现的机密文件相关的事宜。
官员们表示，帕拉托雷先生此前并未见过考德尔上将，但告诉海格塞斯先生他听到了关于考德尔的正面评价。其他职员回忆起考德尔上将在海格塞斯先生的确认过程中积极接触对方。 3月下旬，海格塞斯先生选择考德尔上将领导海军。五角大楼 (美国国防部) 首席发言人肖恩·帕内尔（Sean Parnell）在一份声明中表示，海格塞斯先生“面试了许多候选人”。
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右为安德鲁·塔特（Andrew Tate），左为特里斯坦·塔特（Tristan Tate），于 2025. 在罗马尼亚布加勒斯特。律师及前特朗普总统顾问阿里娜·哈巴（Alina Habba，左）曾在一次播客中告诉安德鲁·塔特：“我在这儿支持你。”此后她已退出。下方为塔克·卡尔森（Tucker Carlson），他曾对塔特兄弟进行过带有同情色彩的采访。
过着奢华的生活，在阿拉伯联合酋长国、哈萨克斯坦、香港和俄罗斯度日。在今年 1 月的一次迈阿密之行中，一段他们在俱乐部与尼古拉斯·J·富恩特斯（Nicholas J. Fuentes）及其他极右翼影响力人物聚会的视频在网络上传播，当时音响里正大声播放着前身为坎耶·韦斯特（Kanye West）的那个说唱歌手所唱的《Heil Hitler》，这让他们成为了头条新闻。
他们没有前往英国，因为在那里他们不仅面临 2024 的刑事指控，还面临着针对其他指控的持续调查。
今年 3 月，一个警察监管小组表示，正在审查最初调查安德鲁·泰特（Andrew Tate） 2015 年强奸和性侵指控的警员是否存在潜在的不当行为。不久之后，英国警方重启了那项调查。
去年，在泰特兄弟访问佛罗里达州后，该州总检察长詹姆斯·乌斯迈尔（James Uthmeier）对这对兄弟展开了调查。据《伦敦时报》首发报道，他的办公室还向代表多名英国泰特指控者的律师马修·朱里（Matthew Jury）发送了一封电子邮件，承诺如果英国要求引渡，将提供协助。
据一名熟悉相关沟通的人士称，朱里先生的律师事务所通过一名中间人将该信息传递给了内政大臣，但未收到回应。据《电报》报道，就在最近的 6 月，该律所还写信给首相基尔·斯塔默（Keir Starmer），批评政府在引渡问题上的不作为。
职位，并最终认为考德尔（Caudle）海军上将是合适的人选。”
“每一项决定都严格基于功绩，”帕内尔（Parnell）先生补充道。
在考德尔海军上将的提名被送交白宫之前，监察长必须完成其调查，而这项调查已经停滞了一年多。水兵们回忆起考德尔上将曾在一次颁奖宴会的非正式交谈中告诉他们，五角大楼的性侵犯预防与响应计划需要更多地关注如何帮助部队避免冒险行为。
据水兵们称，考德尔上将举了几个例子：官员们表示，如果他全身涂满蜂蜜，赤裸地穿过森林，那么被熊袭击就不应感到惊讶。如果他在访问哈莱姆区（Harlem）时佩戴金链和名贵手表，就有被抢劫的风险。至少一名水兵认为，考德尔上将是在指责受害者挑衅，从而导致了袭击的发生。
这位上将拒绝就其言论发表评论。
在接受《纽约时报》采访时，帕拉托尔（Parlatore）先生将他为考德尔先生所做的工作描述为例行公事。他为监察长物色并建议证人，并陪同考德尔上将接受调查员的采访。“我为数百个其他人做过同样的事情，”他说。
监察长的职责与检察官类似，即收集证据并提供调查结果。而是否给予处罚的决定则由该军人的指挥链做出，其中包括海军部长以及可能的海格塞斯（Hegseth）先生。
考德尔上将在去年夏天就任海军作战部长。
“我正迫不及待地准备投入到未来的工作中，以确保我们的海军始终是且永远是世界上最强大、最致命且最可信的海上作战力量。”
图表。那个月，英国的检察官（包括一名专门处理涉及儿童色情图像案件的检察官）成功阻止了这对兄弟请求法院披露最初刑事指控中女性姓名的企图。塔特兄弟于上周六晚上在抵达一场由安德鲁共同主持的徒手格斗活动时被逮捕。英国检察官表示，指控源于 2010 年 7 月至 2017 年 8 月之间发生的事件，但未透露姓名或其他可识别的细节。在被捕前的几天里，这对兄弟一直在华盛顿通过社交媒体发布内容，在那里他们与来自德克萨斯州的共和党众议员韦斯利·亨特 (Wesley Hunt) 合影，并与赞波利 (Mr. Zampolli) 先生一起派对。麦克布赖德 (Mr. McBride) 先生在上周六的一份声明中表示，引渡请求是由一名“司法部的低级职员批准的，该职员从未获得领导层的批准”。但据一名了解此事但未获授权讨论的人士透露，该机构的高层确实签署了逮捕令。在联邦法官考虑英国是否达到了引渡的法律门槛期间，塔特兄弟将继续在佛罗里达州被羁押，这一过程可能需要数月时间。如果法官批准引渡请求，该请求将提交给国务卿马可·鲁比奥 (Marco Rubio) 进行最终批准。周三在马尼拉旅行期间，当被问及该请求时，鲁比奥先生表示，在法官审理此事期间，“目前或以后我们都没有发挥作用的空间”。劳伦·南部 (Lauren Southern) 曾是一名保守派影响力者，她指控安德鲁·塔特在罗马尼亚强奸她，并向罗马尼亚当局提供了证词，她也是庆祝引渡请求消息的人之一。“对于我们这些支持正义的人来说，这是一个非常美妙的周末，”她告诉《时报》。“现在清算开始了，突然之间，每个人都想假装自己与塑造这个怪兽无关。”目前尚不清楚针对这对兄弟的罗马尼亚刑事案件进展如何，以及它可能受到引渡请求的影响。该国外交部长表示，她事先未收到相关通知。罗马尼亚检察官的一位发言人未对此发表评论。特朗普总统政府愿意执行该请求的做法正在加剧美国右翼内部的分裂，因为卡尔逊 (Mr. Carlson) 先生、富恩特斯 (Mr. Fuentes) 先生等人试图将其纳入更广泛的政治论点中。而像本·夏皮罗 (Ben Shapiro) 这样更传统的保守主义者则指责塔特兄弟的盟友拥护厌女症和犯罪行为。“保守派运动现在应该抛弃他们，就像多年前就应该做的那样，”夏皮罗先生告诉《时报》。
“已知，”他告诉一群显贵，其中包括几位前海军作战部长，包括弗朗切蒂海军上将。
他在演说结束时承诺，将以“诚信、荣誉和决心”领导海军。
此后，帕拉托雷先生作为私人律师和皮特·海格塞斯先生特别顾问的双重身份引起了国会的关注。4月，科罗拉多州的民主党众议员杰森·克劳询问海格塞斯先生，帕拉托雷先生是否代表了那些正由海格塞斯先生考虑晋升的军官。
“由我来决定选择高级军官，”海格塞斯先生说。
“他代表他们吗，部长先生？”克劳先生追问。
“他不代表任何人，”海格塞斯先生回答道，“他是我的预备役法律顾问，一直以来都是。”
第二天，帕拉托雷先生给克劳先生发了一封信。
“您询问我是否代表那些被考虑晋升的高级军官，”帕拉托雷写道，“我不代表。”
他没有提到之前为考德尔上将工作的情况。帕拉托雷先生在信中表示，在写信之时，他并不代表任何被考虑晋升的客户。
帕拉托雷先生表示，没有什么能阻止他在海格塞斯先生的办公室里担任海军预备役人员，同时代表军事客户。“绝大多数的军事案件，如果我想接手，不会存在利益冲突，”他说。
五角大楼 (美国国防部) 发言人帕内尔先生表示，帕拉托雷先生“完全遵守所有伦理法律和规定”。
尽管如此，为了避免任何不恰当的表象，帕拉托雷先生告诉《时报》，在 2024 年底，他停止接纳新的军事客户，并停止向之前有活跃案件的客户收费。
他说，唯一的例外是考德尔上将。
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民主国家委员会拒绝就该事件发表评论。马丁先生拒绝了采访请求。民主国家委员会执行主任罗杰·劳（Roger Lau）在的一份声明中表示，关于推迟支付账单的讨论“不过是与供应商就合同和付款流程进行的标准谈判”。在办公室内外，马丁先生开始向同事开一些关于他还能在任职多久的令人不快（macabre）的玩笑，尽管他的任期直到 2029. 年才结束。他对于一个他显然深爱并为此奉献终身的政党在公众形象上受损感到沮丧——考虑到特朗普总统的低支持率，该党对 11 月的选举依然持乐观态度。但在资金方面，民主党及其盟友远落后于共和党。特朗普先生控制着一个 $400 million 的超级 PAC，而共和国家委员会则坐拥近 $130 million。马丁先生领导的民主国家委员会则负债 $2 million。该委员会的作用不仅是帮助民主党在期中选举中夺回权力，还要带领该党进入 2028 年总统大选，包括监督新的初选时间表，同时组织辩论和全国代表大会。即使是支持者也承认马丁先生日益严重的偏执感。今年春天，他因为认为有人在策划政变而与该党的财务总监发生了冲突。在 7 月中旬与国会民主党最高领导人——纽约州参议员查克·舒默（Chuck Schumer）和纽约州众议员哈基姆·杰弗里斯（Hakeem Jeffries）会面前，马丁先生的一名盟友得到了保证，即这两位党内领导人不计划在这次集会上要求主席辞职。马丁先生是在去年 2 月由民主国家委员会约 450 名成员选举产生，任期四年，只有成员本身的投票才能将其赶下台。捐赠者和党内官员对马丁先生的信任，因他对长期承诺的 2024 年大选事后分析（autopsy）的处理而遭到削弱。去年年底，他表示不会公布该文件。但随着批评声日益高涨，他在 5 月让步，发布了一份不完整的草案，其中包含民主国家委员会严厉的注释，削弱了报告的效力。在公开场合，自 4 月在自由派播客《拯救美国》（Pod Save America）中一次糟糕的亮相（当时他面临关于为何未公布分析报告的质询）后，马丁先生几乎在电视屏幕上消失，不再作为该党的面孔出现。近几个月来，他唯一一次接受电视采访是在宾夕法尼亚州伊利（Erie, Pa.）的当地新闻中。现在，马丁先生既被泄密的消息搞得瘫痪，又被泄密事件包围。在 5 月份分析报告草案发布几天后与民主国家委员会全体员工开会期间，他承认时局艰难，并责备团队向记者透露党总部内部发生的情况。据四名听到该言论的人员称，马丁先生说：“当我看到这个建筑内部泄密时，我就很生气，”并补充道，“不能再有了。”马丁先生表示，他看到了“很多
邮寄投票的禁令被维持
作者：ADAM SELLA
华盛顿 —— 一家上诉法院周六维持了下级法院的一项裁决，该裁决封锁了特朗普总统限制邮寄投票行政命令中的关键部分。在共和党试图在不利的政治环境中保护其微弱的国会多数席位之际，这令其试图掌控选举的努力再次受挫。
在一份 20 页的裁决书中，美国第一巡回上诉法院写道，特朗普先生的命令“指示联邦官员在各州管理选举的方式上介入到了前所未有的程度”。法院裁定，如果该命令在今年 11 月的中期选举中生效，“将引发混乱，并威胁到许多合格选民的投票权”。
宪法将选举权力授予各州和国会，而非行政部门。
但特朗普先生已经发起了一场长达数年的反对投票……
“低垂的脸庞”和“低头的人们”。他敦促道：“昂起头来。脸上保持微笑。”
“我的成功就是你们的成功，”他在会议的另一个时间点补充道。“所以，我越弱，你们所有人都越弱。”
此后，马丁先生没有再与整个党派工作人员发表讲话。上周，他亲自起草了一篇超过 3,000 字的文章，为民主国家委员会的财务状况进行辩护。他对此文章严加把关，该文在周一晚上 10 点刚过时，由该党及其个人 Substack 账号（账号为 @ken-martin287890）共同发布。
“我们必须以建立的权力来衡量成功，而不仅仅是以保留的美元来衡量，”他写道。
资金危机
在该党的所有问题中，没有比资金问题更紧迫的了。十多年来，民主国家委员会在每次选举时都会向负责赢得众议院和参议院的姐妹委员会转移数百万美元。但现在，这个全国性政党如此缺乏现金 —— 即使在去年获得了一笔 $15 million 贷款之后 —— 以至于官员们已私下告知国会领导层，2026. 年将不再有此类转移。本月与舒默先生、杰弗里斯先生及其高级助手以及两个国会竞选分支机构主席举行的会议，其主要议题是建立一个由三个全国性委员会以及全国各州政党共同组成的大型新共享筹款账户。即便共和党的政治环境已经恶化，资金对民主党人来说仍然是一个严重问题。共和党委员会的资金比民主党委员会要充裕得多 —— 正如最近一项最高法院的裁决通过取消政党与竞选活动协调方式的限制，使得政党资金变得更加重要。
在会议室里，马丁先生描述了一个提案，其中通过这个超级委员会（将包括全国各州政党）筹集的绝大部分资金，将首先通过他的委员会，然后再分配给国会党派分支机构。至少一些相关人员将此举视为企图抬高马丁先生那个陷入困境的委员会的筹款数字 —— 并以此在那些他本无法承担的资金转移中地获得功劳。马丁先生表示愿意提供任何有帮助的协助，尽管该小组在离开时并未达成协议。这次会议此前未见报道，是由五名人员描述的，其中包括一些在场人员，他们要求匿名以讨论此次私人聚会。
上周发布的最新财务报告揭示了民主国家委员会财务亏空的深度。该党负债 $2 million，而共和国家委员会拥有 $128.5 million 的现金。掌握白宫的政党几乎总能为其党库筹集更多资金，但今年的差距之大极为罕见。在民主国家委员会 7 月的报告发布前，有迹象表明有人试图美化账面表现。例如，该委员会转移了 $1 million
通过邮寄投票、签署行政命令、支持法院挑战以及推动立法来限制这一选项，而总统本人也在使用这一选项。法院已经阻止了其中许多尝试。 特朗普总统还多次做出毫无根据的指控，称邮寄投票充斥着欺诈，即便他已经明确表示限制这一做法将使他的政党获益。 这项裁决是在 20 多个民主党总检察长挑战特朗普总统 3 月签署的一项针对邮寄投票的行政命令之后作出的。该命令要求国土安全部编制各州公民名单，以帮助确定选民资格，并要求邮政局根据各州提供的名单验证选民。 6 月，邮政局执行了该命令，发布了一项符合特朗普总统许多要求的拟议规则。 由古斯塔沃·A·盖尔皮 (Gustavo A. Gelpí) 法官和朱莉·里克尔曼 (Julie Rikelman) 法官作出的裁决，
[[IMG_XXXX]] 2024. 民主国家委员会大会。领导层最近将 2028 年大会的 $1 million 资金转回了党内。
从一个专门用于 2028 年全国大会的账户转回了党内。 其中一些问题是 2024 年留下的后遗症。虽然副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯在那一年筹集了创纪录的资金，但她的失败让许多民主党大额捐赠者对该党感到失望。她的竞选活动还留下了数百万美元的债务，民主国家委员会在去年大部分时间里在哈里斯女士的帮助下偿还了这些债务。 去年秋天，马丁向弗吉尼亚州和新泽西州的民主党人各发送了 $3 million，用于他们的州长竞选，赌注是胜利将使民主国家委员会的筹款活动重新焕发生机。这笔 $15 million 的贷款旨在允许这些资金转移。 联邦记录显示，民主国家委员会此后支付了超过 $700,000 的贷款利息，平均每月超过 $75,000。根据贷款条款，党内官员现在必须面对一个事实，即他们必须从 1 月起每月开始偿还 $1.66 million 的贷款本金。 “肯需要帮助——H-E-L-P（帮助），”曾两任党代主席的民主国家委员会资深成员唐娜·布拉齐尔 (Donna Brazile) 说道。“如果他不愿开口，我在这里帮他请求。这很难。非常困难。”
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在马丁 5 月在全体员工会议上讲话的同一天，他急于与党的财务主席克里斯·科奇 (Chris Korge) 取得联系。 科奇先生此前一直与其他高级党务官员讨论召开潜在紧急会议的可能性，以讨论该党下滑的财务状况。在听说这些电话后，马丁似乎担心有人在策划政变。 他们在某个周二深夜取得了联系。 “刚开始就异常激烈，”科奇在回忆他们的对话时说道。“因为他进入通话时认为我的意图是采取某种行动将其撤职，而这与事实相去最远。” 这次冲突的消息（此前尚未报道）在党内高级管理层中传开。科奇现在将其描述为仅仅是一场“家庭争吵”，在通话结束时已友好地解决。“从第 1 天起，我就相信肯为该党制定的优先事项，”他说。 科奇希望召开的高级党务官员会议于 6 月在匹兹堡举行。在那里，他们第一次被要求签署保密协议，Axios 此前曾对此进行报道。
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这些保密协议是马丁信任圈进一步缩小的另一个迹象。
战略质疑
在马丁先生于 2025 年初就任国家政党主席之前，他曾担任明尼苏达州民主党负责人 14 年，在此期间，他的政党从未在全州范围内选举中落败。
在民主国家委员会 (D.N.C.) 内部，他领导了州政党主席小组。他在那里建立的联盟帮助他克服了来自华盛顿著名民主党人（包括舒默先生和杰弗里斯先生）的反对，最终赢得了国家政党一职。
马丁先生深知这份新工作将充满挑战，他经常开玩笑地将自己的角色比作一个消防栓，而其他人则比作狗。
但马丁先生深信应将资金下放并把权力交还给各州。他增加了国家政党向各州每月拨付的资金，尤其是在共和党主导的“红州”。去年，在一次打破了立法机关共和党超级多数优势的特别选举前，他向密西西比州民主党额外发送了 $100,000。
“在我们的候选人所需的额外帮助下，我们能够——跨过终点线，”密西西比州民主党执行主任米克尔·博尔登在称赞马丁先生时表示。
马丁先生及其盟友经常指出，目前的筹款情况比 2018 年政党上次失去权力时更为强劲。但一些无论是在委员会内部还是外部的民主党人，都在质疑所有资金究竟去向了何处。
马丁时代最大的单笔支出是 $7.3 百万，用于购买哈里斯女士在 2024 年失败竞选后留下的竞选名单残余。哈里斯女士的政治行动委员会利用这笔资金偿还了其余的债务。
马丁先生承诺增加向州政党每月发放的补贴，这已成为其支出议程的核心。但他在其中纳入了海外领地，这引起了不安。
联邦记录显示，自去年年初以来，民主国家委员会 (D.N.C.) 及其附属筹款委员会为关岛、波多黎各、北马里亚纳群岛、美属维尔京群岛和美属萨摩亚的支出已达到约 $840,000——远高于以往。
这些领地都不会对国会的控制权产生任何影响。
[[IMG_RUTH_FREMSON]] RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES 自接掌民主国家委员会 (D.N.C.) 以来，肯·马丁（左）在筹集资金方面一直陷入苦战。民主国家委员会 (D.N.C.) 去年花费了大量资金来偿还卡玛拉·哈里斯总统竞选活动的债务。
[[IMG_BALLOTS]] 去年特别选举期间，加利福尼亚州工业市处理中心正在分拣选票。
在指令生效前，各州可以起诉。各州辩称，他们为了应对该指令已经不得不转移资源。政府则反驳称，他们的反应过于早促。
华盛顿的一名联邦法官最初在 5 月份拒绝叫停这项行政命令，因为该命令尚未执行；但随后，随着行政部门采取行动将其付诸实施，马萨诸塞州的一名联邦法官封锁了该命令。
上诉法院同样写道，政府承认已推进特朗普总统的指令，这削弱了其关于各州声称遭受法律损害过于早促的论点。
代表政府的律师在近期的法庭文件中表示，他们可能会在最高法院挑战上诉法院的裁决。
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Joby Warrick 前《华盛顿邮报》国家安全记者，即将出版的图书《豺狼》的作者。
他现在成了一个老人，面容枯槁，他的世界仅限于一间由前修道院改造而成的法国最高安全级别监狱的囚室中。他反反复复地说着同样的话，费力地回忆细节，但几个名字——那些背叛过他或侮辱过他男性气概的人——依然能激起他往日的愤怒。“我本该多杀几个人的，”伊利奇·拉米雷斯·桑切斯（Ilich Ramírez Sánchez），即人们熟知的“豺狼”卡洛斯，在我俩坐在巴黎郊外监狱一个受监视的访客休息室里、距离仅几英寸时对我喃喃道。这位名声狼藉的恐怖分子，其罪行和奢侈的生活方式曾启发了数十本书籍和好莱坞电影，如今他的日子在回味旧日的征服中度过。然而，那种以他为标志的恐怖主义正出现显著的复苏，而美国人远未做好应对准备。这种新兴威胁与基地组织所带来的威胁不同，它几乎不涉及意识形态或宗教狂热。相反，就像全盛时期的拉米雷斯先生那样，它是交易性的：由犯罪分子代表试图伤害地缘政治敌手的政府，秘密安排并实施的混乱行为。在 2026 年版本的“雇佣恐怖主义”中，现代版的“卡洛斯”们利用加密社交媒体平台，加入一些人称之为“暴力零工经济”的行列。西方执法机构搜集的证据表明，此类案件呈爆发式增长，且几乎全部与俄罗斯或伊朗有关。自 2022 年——在莫斯科全面入侵乌克兰之后，以及在哈马斯 2023 年对以色列发动恐怖袭击所引发的冲突之中——调查人员已在欧洲、亚洲和北美发现了近 300 起由独立操盘手执行的外包行动，据信这些人是由俄罗斯或伊朗安全部门招募的。这些犯罪行为范围广泛，从今年春季针对英国首相基尔·斯塔默（Keir Starmer）的纵火袭击，到犹太会堂爆炸案，以及试图暗杀记者、异议人士、犹太社区领袖和政治人物的企图。在近期著名的案例中，有一起针对常驻纽约的伊朗活动人士马西·阿利内贾德（Masih Alinejad）的惊人阴谋：那名潜在的杀手是一名布鲁克林管道工且是被定罪的谋杀犯，他是几名与暗杀企图相关人员之一，由他在监狱中结识的一名伊朗特工招募执行此次任务。根据纽约研究安全威胁的非营利组织 Soufan Center 收集的数据，此类犯罪分子现在构成了伊朗和俄罗斯资助的袭击中大多数的执行者。许多被招募者是专家所称的“一次性消耗品”：只需花几百美元就能雇佣的小毛贼。但其他人则是专业人士——俄罗斯黑手党成员、网络罪犯、贩毒卡特尔成员和人口贩子。就像全盛时期的拉米雷斯先生一样，他们武装齐全、经验丰富且
John McWhorter 一名评论撰稿人，哥伦比亚大学语言学副教授。
最近，一些纽约人将布朗克斯区（the Bronx）简称为“Bronx”，有些人认为这是一个错误。但“the Bronx”这个名称本身一直就是一个错误。而且语言中充满了我们甚至没有意识到自己正在犯的错误。布朗克斯是以一名叫乔纳斯·布朗克（Jonas Bronck）的欧洲地主命名的。随着人们对布朗克的共同记忆逐渐模糊，人们开始将“布朗克的河”（Bronck’s River）听成一个词“Broncks”，而不再是指代那条河的命名者。因此，说“the Broncks River”感觉很自然。随后这被缩写为“the Broncks”——现在拼写为“the Bronx”。很好，但在技术上这是一个失误。这就像如果这个地区是以一个叫约克（York）的人命名的，而我们今天称其为“the Yorks”甚至“the Yorx”一样。语言就是这样的，另一个例子是人们说“West Village”而不是“the West Village”。这同样让一些人感到不快，但同样地，这就是语言变化的方式。曾经格林威治村（Greenwich Village）确实是一个村庄，是曼哈顿许多由原始沼泽地开垦而成的地区之一。但如今，格林威治村中的“village”（村庄）并不指代任何实际的村庄。我们发出“village”这个词的读音时，感知不到它与实际地点的任何意义联系。第六大道身上不再有村庄或小镇的影子，就像我童年在费城的neighborhood，Mount Airy（艾里山），并不会让人想起高山病或缺氧的感觉一样。相反，“village”是一种氛围，一种气息，一种风格（就像我深爱的Mount Airy一样！）。西村（West Village）失去其定冠词“the”是很自然的，因为我们感知到的不再是我们处于某个村庄的西半部，而是我们处于“Village”这个区域的西部，其上方是切尔西（Chelsea），下方是苏豪区（SoHo）。问题在于，既然这个地方已经不再像一个村庄了，为什么人们开始称其为“West Village”。
全球威胁 正在重新抬头。
“West Village”（西村）并不是新词。我在 20 世纪 80 年代在纽约生活过一段时间，我清楚地记得，我大部分时间都称其为“West Village”。说话者 A：“杰森在哪儿？”说话者 B：“在 West Village 某处。”而且，我绝对不会说“the East Village”。在那个时候，“East Village”是一个独特且格外充满活力的文化场景，人们几乎不会将其称为某个村庄的“那个”东部区域。 在这方面，一致性也是一个问题。如果“West Village”如此粗鲁，那么为什么我们如此自然地将皇后区的社区称为“Middle Village”呢？没有人会清清嗓子，轻快地说道：“哎呀，我们要搬到 the Middle Village 去了！”当人们
擅长在阴影中行动。 “这真的是‘回到未来’——是卡洛斯所实践的那种恐怖主义的一种变体，”前财政部反恐官员马修·莱维特（Matthew Levitt）表示。他曾作为华盛顿近东政策研究所（一家智库）的研究员，追踪过数百起与伊朗相关的案件。“这就是这些国家如何能够触及对手，而不会让后果反噬自身的方式。” 拉米雷斯（Mr. Ramírez）的故事对于理解过去如何使用雇佣恐怖分子，以及为什么全球威胁现在重新抬头具有启发意义。他是一名委内瑞拉本土人，一名马克思主义者，他早期的恐怖主义尝试是为巴勒斯坦武装分子服务的。后来，他成为一名国际雇佣兵，代表一系列不断变化的强大客户，在整个欧洲和中东地区杀戮与伤人。 到 20 世纪 70 年代末，他成了世界上最著名的恐怖分子，一个暴力且神秘的人物。他对奢侈品和美女的追求使他成为了小报明星，随后成为了小说和电影中反派的模板，包括罗伯特·拉德勒姆（Robert Ludlum）的《谍海风云》（Bourne Identity）系列、汤姆·克兰西（Tom Clancy）的《彩虹六号》（Rainbow Six）以及导演克里斯蒂安·杜盖（Christian Duguay）的间谍惊悚片《任务》（The Assignment）。 拉米雷斯后期的犯罪生涯是对国家赞助恐怖主义的一次研究。如今的“情报员-黑帮纽带”（spook-gangster nexus）——这是海牙国际反恐中心创造的术语，用于描述犯罪地下世界与俄
[[IMG_XXXX]] 纽约时报照片插图；原图来源 A.F.P.，经由 Getty Images
偶尔这么称呼它时，听起来很别扭。West Village! 作为一个在盘子里把食物分开摆放、喜欢整洁的人，我明白人们希望语言能有逻辑。但事实并非如此。你得允许车身上出现凹痕。 荷兰语的地名在很多方面都很混乱。荷兰语中表示“河”的词是“kill”。费城的一条主要河流是舒伊尔基尔河（Schuylkill River）。从技术上讲，这个名字的意思是“隐藏的河河”。而且我们甚至不要讨论“Schuylkill”怎么发音。一个费城本地人的标志就是知道它发音为“SKOO-kul”，而这甚至不是……
语言能 产生意义。但 事实并非如此。
……俄罗斯情报机构——在关键方面遵循他所开创的模式。 首先，对于雇佣他们的国家而言，专业犯罪网络就像是一支“现成”的私人军队。拉米雷斯先生拥有庞大的枪械和爆炸物武器库，以及大量伪造的护照，使他能够悄无声息地跨境潜入。莫斯科和德黑兰雇佣的武装团伙同样是为了恐怖主义而构建的，并且擅长使用加密通信和加密货币来逃避警方的追捕。 伊朗雇佣的合同杀手名单包括“地狱天使”摩托车帮成员以及国际毒枭纳吉·沙里菲·津达什蒂（Naji Sharifi Zindashti），美国官员称其在伊朗的保护下运作。 津达什蒂先生以奢靡和暴力著称，由于他在代表政府执行“令人发指的操作”时坚持过“奢侈的生活”，正如一份财政部报告所述，这使他与拉米雷斯先生产生了对比。 利用犯罪网络还具有“合理否认”的优势。拉米雷斯先生的服务深受中东独裁政权的青睐——叙利亚、伊拉克和利比亚都曾是他的雇主和支持者——因为他们可以秘密地利用他来恐吓敌人，而遭到报复的风险极低。俄罗斯和伊朗似乎采用了类似的方案。近年来，由于担心制裁和其他惩罚性措施，两国在西方领土上发动袭击时，都表现出不愿使用自有特工或密切结盟的代理力量。通过使用犯罪团伙，莫斯科和德黑兰能以更小的风险达到同样的结果。 从目前的证据来看，雇佣恐怖分子似乎主要用于封口或恐吓政权批评者——这也是拉米雷斯先生在当年经常提供的服务。这位“豺狼”最臭名昭著的一些袭击，例如他 1981 年对慕尼黑自由欧洲电台演播室的轰炸，目标就是那些令其权势显赫的客户愤怒的记者和异议人士。 特别是德黑兰，似乎正在遵循同一套剧本。除了支持对阿林贾德（Ms. Alinejad）女士的暗杀企图外，伊朗还多次雇佣犯罪团伙在欧洲追捕活动人士和记者。最近的高调受害者之一是普里亚·泽拉蒂（Pouria Zeraati），他是受沙特资助的反对政权波斯语广播电台“伊朗国际”（Iran International）的一名记者，他在伦敦家中门外遭到刺击而受重伤。英国检察官起诉了两名被认为由伊朗招募的罗马尼亚人。 目前的证据表明，伊朗和俄罗斯都在采取谨慎态度。到目前为止，大多数袭击的规模都很小：针对单一个体的袭击，或使用少量爆炸物的轰炸。但两国似乎都在尝试这种模式，测试一系列合作者和各种武器，包括最近几个月出现的无人机、网络攻击以及走私到飞机上的爆炸装置。 大量的事件也再次证实了拉米雷斯先生数十年前的发现：如果目标是在不留下指纹的情况下秘密攻击一个强大的敌人，那么外包恐怖主义具有明显的优势。作为一种工具，正如苏凡中心（Soufan Center）的分析结论所言，它“廉价、可否认、去中心化且
“不对称”，且几乎可以在任何地方部署。防止此类袭击不仅需要高度的警惕，还需要结盟：与外国反恐机构建立广泛的网络，正如 2001. 年基地组织袭击之后那样。这种合作在特朗普 era. 似乎正在衰减。由于政府将重点转移到非法移民以及对左翼反法西斯（antifa）细胞和选民欺诈基本徒劳的搜寻上，美国情报界继续流失大量经验丰富的分析师。当拉米雷斯先生及其同辈人在几十年前引入令人恐惧的新恐怖主义形式时，西方政府完全没有做好准备。他早期的罪行也较为轻微——主要是因为他的雇主当时还不相信他可以被信任。他的首次袭击包括试图暗杀一名在伦敦的犹太商人，以及向一家购物中心投掷一枚手榴弹。次年，他开始向客机发射火箭弹。他的野心继续膨胀。最令人不寒而栗的是，在 20 世纪 80 年代初，“豺狼”协助发起了一次针对法国核电站的袭击，造成了反应堆建筑的损坏。由于该电站尚未运行，没有放射性物质泄漏，但拉米雷斯先生将这次袭击描述为一次警告。“我们有能力做到，”他说，“就这么简单。”
这个词在荷兰语中会这样发音。圣女贞德（Joan of Arc）的名字是一个误译。她的姓氏可能是“Darc”，在某种程度上被解读为带有撇号的“d’Arc”，从而意味着“来自 Arc”。但那个姓氏在文件中的拼写多种多样，几乎从未出现过撇号。而且贞德并非出生在名为 Arc 的城镇，她的父亲也不是，而且没人完全确定这里涉及的是哪个地理上的“Arc”。就英文拼写而言，圣女贞德其实是 Joan Dark。我们中谁想切换到那个拼写？“female”（女性）这个词是个错误。英语是从古法语的“femelle”中获取的。在某些人看来，这似乎与“male”（男性）相关，于是产生了古怪的“fe-male”。否则，这个词的发音会像“FEH-mul”。我们把字母 D 读作“dee”，把字母 G 读作“djee”，但对于 H，却读作“aitch”。为什么开头没有 H 的发音，而结尾却有“ch”？这是基于一个错误。在拉丁语中，H 是“ha”，随后的 K 是“ka”。背诵字母表的人会说“ha, ka, el . . .”。但拉丁语其实并不需要 K，因为 C 承担了它的功能（Caesar 的发音是“KIGH-sar”）。于是人们开始将“ha, ka”视为仅指代 H，并读作“haka”。高频使用会改变发音。“Haka”丢掉了开头的“H”，就像伊丽莎白·杜利特在“Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire”练习中被纠正掉的那样——变成了“aka”。然后 K 变成了“ch”——“ahcha”——最后末尾的 A 掉了——“ahch”。接着“ah”变成了“ay”，于是成了“aitch”！我们其实应该把 H 叫作类似“hay”的东西。但嘿，我们没这么做——世界依然在旋转。布朗克斯、西村——我们只需要坐下来顺其自然。我们现在所说的许多话，要么始于失误，要么随着感知的变化而演变。只要语言能让我们意识到他人的含义，它就在发挥作用。并不是说它总能奏效——沟通可能很困难，我们需要努力改进，尤其是近几日。在我们的议程上，纠结人们如何发音“Bronx”应该是优先级最低的。
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JoAnna Novak 创意写作教授，以及通讯刊物《如何与孩子一起看电视》的作者。
当我听说 Netflix 正在重启《草原上的小木屋》时，我感到充满希望，尽管也有一丝谨慎。虽然我从未看过原版电视剧，但我从小就深爱劳拉·英格尔斯·怀尔德的小说，以至于我不仅全部读过，甚至还拥有一本由芭芭拉·M·沃克编写的补充读物《小木屋食谱》。我翻阅着那些关于油炸盐猪肉和肉汁的边疆食谱，心中涌起与阅读怀尔德散文时同样的渴望：一种想要被传送到那个世界的愿望。在生下第二个儿子几周后，我开始观看 Netflix 的这部新剧，我想我再一次抱有了那种希望。这部新版《小木屋》并没有真正让人感到“被传送到另一个世界”，这就是为什么我感到有些失望。相反，它显得过于熟悉，就像是一场关于幻想边疆的 Cosplay。这是一场由衬裙、遮阳帽和眼神清澈的女孩们组成的视觉盛宴，她们头顶的花冠像是光环一样围绕着她们前拉斐尔派风格的发型。这部剧在马鸣和虫鸣的配乐下，似乎不可避免地像是一场关于“传统妻子”（tradwife）生活方式的电视购物广告。英格尔斯家的女孩们在纯净的溪流中洗衣服，一边吸着薄荷糖一边生火，在拼布被下沉睡。谁会不向往这样的生活呢？
《小木屋》的重启正值“传统妻子”风潮的时刻。卡罗·克莱尔·伯克（Caro Claire Burke）的畅销小说《昔日》（Yesteryear，即将由安妮·海瑟薇主演改编为电影）想象了一位现代传统妻子被传送到 1855. 年真实匮乏生活的场景。其中一位顶级传统妻子影响力人物——拥有九个孩子的汉娜·尼尔曼（Hannah Neeleman），在犹他州的米德威开设了“芭蕾舞女农场商店”（Ballerina Farm Store），将那个小镇变成了传统主义的旅游陷阱。毫无疑问，Netflix 制作这部剧的部分原因在于，根据 Nielsen 的数据，在 2024 年，这部于 1974, 年首播的经典剧集仍是观看次数最多的老剧，该年累计观看时长达 13.3 billion 分钟，相当于平均每个美国居民观看了大约 40 分钟。
我第一次接触传统妻子的世界是在教授一个美食写作工作坊时，一名研究生写了一篇仰慕的随笔，讲述了她在 Instagram 上关注的一位来自德克萨斯州的年轻母亲。这位年轻母亲娜拉·史密斯（Nara Smith），24, 岁，她制作手工坚果酱，照顾五个孩子，且根据我学生的随笔，她分享了“在履行模特职业生涯的同时，服务于所爱之人的快乐”。史密斯女士在 TikTok 上拥有 12.5 million 粉丝，在 Instagram 上拥有 4.8 million 粉丝。
作为一个始终认为自己的生命意义不在于生育能力或操持家务的本事，而在于艺术野心的女性，我绝对不是这类内容的受众。传统妻子为了网络公众消费而表演健康的拓荒生活——在脸颊红扑扑的孩子们跟在她的长款有机棉裙后时给牛挤奶——而我一直以一种更为矛盾的心态对待我的母亲职责，当我的 6 岁儿子在闷热的 YMCA 游泳池阳台上表演跳水时，我坐在混凝土长凳上草拟诗歌初稿。但也许是在我切开来自农场配送的草莓，将手工椰子杏仁谷物燕麦片舀进儿子的希腊酸奶时，一个惊人的启示在我脑海中闪现。或者，也许是在我观看《小木屋》及其大量采用的艰苦童话套路时发生的。我绝对不是一个传统妻子——但也许我有一点点传统妻子的特质——
Jason Hsu 哈德逊研究所高级研究员。
中国政府花了三年时间将其最强大的人工智能向所有人开放使用。这种慷慨始终是暂时的。据报道，中国当局一直在与阿里巴巴、字节跳动以及初创公司 Z.ai 举行会议，讨论限制海外用户访问中国一些最先进的模型——包括尚未发布的系统。
美国政府的本能反应可能是以同样的禁令作为回应。那将是一个错误。正确的应对方式恰恰相反：美国及其盟友应该构建并部署他们自己的所谓“开放权重”模型，让用户可以在自己的机器上下载、运行和修改。他们应该大规模地这样做，并承诺按照可靠的时间表发布更新、更好的版本——这样任何基于美国模型进行构建的人都可以期待下一个版本的到来。中国的这一举动为美国在人工智能领域重新夺回领先地位提供了机会。这个窗口期不会持续太久。
人工智能模型的“权重”是在训练期间获取并微调的数十亿个独立设置，它们有助于决定模型如何响应提示词。当一家公司对其权重保密时（如 OpenAI 对 GPT 的处理方式），其他公司和开发人员只能通过其服务器租用访问权限——但他们无法查看内部结构或将模型带走。而当一家公司公布这些权重时（如中国公司 DeepSeek 对其人工智能模型所做的那样），用户就可以在自己的硬件上下载并运行权重，对其进行检查，并针对特定任务进行重新训练。
这可以说就是中国在人工智能竞赛中获胜的方式。两周前，中国初创公司 Moonshot A.I. 推出了 Kimi K3，该公司称这是全球最大的开放权重人工智能模型，且可与性能相当的——
好奇吗？也许我潜意识里有一些“传统主妇” (tradwife) 的倾向？ 也许不止一点。也许不仅仅是倾向。
我并不是在暗示自己适合抚养一大群孩子，或者像那个名为“Yesteryear”的网红一样生活在 19 世纪的农庄里——那位网红醒来后发现，自己从对 19 世纪艰苦生活的演绎中被直接抛入了现实。我没有欲望去扮演挤奶女工或牧羊女，我也无法忍受那种公开表演的、将保守社会价值观、宗教教义、传统性别角色和生育主义标签化的“传统主妇”设定。我也不认同那种认为女性精神最适合被引导至家庭服务和维持生计的观点——在那个甜蜜的、异性恋规范的家中。
但我意识到，我之前对将家庭生活作为成就感来源的这种表演所持有的一概抵制，可能有些误导。我是在一名全职母亲的抚养下长大的，而她自己则是由一名就读于烹饪学校的母亲抚养长大，我的母亲一直向我示范如何寻找纯粹的——
因为它们为我提供了 哲学上的空间。
在厨房里摆好姿势，揉搓面团， 在碗上盖一块毛巾，等待发酵。在 我今天的家中，烹饪并非为了展示；它是 一种创造真实且营养之物的美的表达。 当我在幸福地揉制自己的 牛奶面包面团时，我该如何摒弃“传统妻子”（tradwives）中那种退步的一面？当像汉娜·尼勒曼（Hannah Neelemans）和纳拉·史密斯（Nara Smiths）这样的人在世界上具有吸引力，而我自己的家务习惯却能帮助平衡我的工作狂倾向，让我保持当下的觉知并关注身体状态时，我又怎能否认这种吸引力？ 由于职业生活日益被屏幕所束缚，我发现花 20 分钟，比如在涂抹了焦糖的铸铁锅中按高度排列红鲁巴角茎，真的能让我沉静下来。甚至让我感到快乐。我许多最像“传统妻子”的
表现（指Anthropic和OpenAI迄今为止最优秀的模型）。阿里巴巴的通义千问（Qwen）现在是全球下载量最多的人工智能模型系列。开发人员已利用它构建了超过 100,000 个自己的专用模型。在 OpenRouter（一项允许开发人员将工作发送至其选择的任何人工智能模型的服务）上，中国开源权重模型在 2025 年的数周内处理的文本量占比超过 20 ％，而在今年春季的几周内更是超过 40 ％；在 2024, 这种模型的每周文本处理量低至约 1 ％。其中大部分流量来自美国。Airbnb 的客服代理在很大程度上运行在 Qwen 之上；Airbnb 首席执行官布莱恩·切斯基（Brian Chesky）称该模型速度快且价格低廉。Cursor（美国最有价值的人工智能编程初创公司之一）基于从 Moonshot 授权的基础构建了其 Composer 2 模型。DoorDash 现在的
代码审查系统的“低级工作”被路由至 Kimi，DoorDash 联合创始人方建龙（Andy Fang）报告称，最困难的任务则保留给美国模型。更多被低成本吸引的美国企业正加入这些初创公司的行列，开始使用这些模型。自 2017 起，这就是中国的计划：将中国模型推向每一个市场，塑造他人采用的标准，并将世界拉向运行这些模型效果最好的中国硬件。该国在太阳能和电信设备，以及最显著的临界矿产方面采取了同样的步骤——先建立世界对廉价稀土的依赖，一旦这种依赖成为现实，再限制出口。如果中国实验室现在限制访问，难道大家不会直接切换到更好的美国模型吗？不，因为切换人工智能模型不像取消订阅那样简单。这意味着要拆除地基。一家在自有场所运行中国模型且该模型基于法律规定不可离开建筑的机密记录进行训练的欧洲制造商，不能简单地将其更换为更优秀的美国
倾向——烹饪、烘焙，以及 在擦拭铜锅中获得可能高于平均水平的快感——正是这些习惯帮助我保持理智。 因此，就像许多其他人一样，我正在学习重新 评估所谓“祖母级爱好”的价值，这些临近边疆的活动——惊喜吧，惊喜——并不要求你必须成为一个宗教狂热分子或反女权选举权支持者。当然，对于像我母亲和她的母亲那样的女性来说，这类爱好既是家庭慷慨之举，也是生活必需。所有那些被困在厨房里的家务时长，并非是为了数以万计的在线追随者而表演，而仅仅是家庭生活的需要。 在名为《独立》的《小房子》（Little House）第一集结尾，马·英格尔斯（Ma Ingalls）躺在一个象牙色的帐篷里，沐浴在灯光与堪萨斯巨大的夜空所交织的浪漫阴影戏中。她怀孕了，并在来到边疆最初的几天里脚部受伤，而作为一名坚韧的配偶，她告诉丈夫，尽管她对新环境感到恐惧，但她
相信他。她用对这种新生活可能带来的希望，来对抗自己的恐惧。“如果这就是我们最终成为命中注定之人的地方呢？”她说。
我想，传统妻子（tradwife）的生活可能只是一个人在探索自己注定成为谁的旅途中的另一个路标。也许我与其说是一个传统妻子，不如说是一个已经接受自己需要定期注入某种家庭琐碎感的人。我热爱在厨房里的钻研，因为在做这些事时我变得如此透明——这种实践甚至提供了一小块心理和哲学上的空间。
我想其他人可能在缝纫、编织、修补，或者没错，甚至是在给牛挤奶时，也能找到同样的沉思。因此，即使我没有完全过上传统妻子的生活方式——无论是为了给他人观看，还是为了我自己——我仍然可以崇敬那些提醒我的任务：我命中注定成为的人是流动且多样化的。这可以体现在我如何用木勺在水和面粉中搅拌，制作出我儿子最喜欢的牛奶面包的起子（tangzhong），也可以体现在我可能写的一首诗中，而这首诗源于我对同一个词的着迷。
模型，其使用成本更高且运行在他人的服务器上。这种依赖是中国战略的关键。一个无法关闭外国模型的国家，就将运行该系统的控制权交给了中国。
中国以外的开发者应该对接下来的发展感到担忧。每个基于中国模型构建的人都假设会有一个更好的模型出现——而且像一直以来那样是免费的。如果中国将下一代模型留在国内，那么其他依赖可自由修改模型的全球构建者将被困在陈旧的版本中，而中国公司则将凭借更强大的工具前进。随着每一次发布，差距在进一步扩大。
两家美国国会委员会已对 Airbnb 和 Cursor 的母公司使用中国模型的情况展开调查。据报道，特朗普总统政府正在考虑实际上禁止美国人使用中国 AI 模型。但禁止这些模型将阻碍美国开发者的发展，并让中国宣称其技术好到美国无法公平竞争。美国在技术领域的主导地位是通过使其平台成为全球开发者选择的构建基础来实现的，而不是通过禁止外国使用。
美国政府应当资助一项合同来训练一个先进的开源权重模型。合同应规定这些权重永久开放。该合同将为美国及盟友国家的公司提供一个基础，以便在 AI 开发的这一领域中进行构建和竞争。
汉娜·罗宾逊 (HANNAH ROBINSON)
致编辑： 关于 E.J. Dionne Jr. 撰写的《社会主义？资本主义？谁在乎！》（7月 21 日，观点客座文章）： 显然，共和党及其媒体盟友宁愿将中期选举变成一场“资本主义与社会主义”之争，而不是一场针对共和党执政能力的全民公投。他们已经将纽约市长 Zohran Mamdani 冠名为“蓝色美国之王”，毫无疑问，他们将在接下来的 14 周里重演 20 世纪 50 年代的“红色恐慌”。 如果几个民主社会主义者加入这场演出，请不要感到惊讶。那些将资本主义的消亡视为道德必然的人，可能会发现有机会在国家舞台上宣讲，即使冒着损失党内国会席位的风险也值得。而且，如果右翼制造的恐慌为民主社会主义带来了额外的关注度——甚至是一种不可避免的氛围——这难道不是任何革命运动都会珍视的东西吗？
MICHAEL SMITH 肯塔基州乔治敦
致编辑： 旧习难改。我们必须停止将“社会主义”一词与那个随时可能向我们投掷核弹的、可怕的苏联联系在一起。正是因为这种联系，我们现在才能将其称为一场“辩论”——而这场辩论其实早在很久以前就结束了。 如今世界上几乎每个国家都是资本主义和社会主义的混合体。即使在共产主义中国，生产资料也是由政府和私人资本家共同拥有的。让我们放下过去，开始讨论融合这两者的最佳方式。 资本主义在管理医疗保健方面表现如何？与欧洲相比并不太好，而在欧洲，医疗保健在很大程度上是由政府控制的。资本主义在建设充足住房方面表现如何？我们有大量的豪宅，但缺乏足够的入门级住宅。 美国需要减少资本主义，增加社会主义。
JOHN M. TALBOT 康涅狄格州梅里登
致编辑： 确保美国工人获得公正的劳动报酬，并希望资本主义的果实惠及所有人，这种追求是好事。但在那些捍卫工人权利的人中，似乎缺失了对公司健康状况的关注，而这些公司正是他们希望分配的财富之源。 我们经常听到像全美汽车工人联合会主席 Shawn Fain 及其同僚这样的人说，他们是在为美国劳动力争取良好的薪酬以及充分的
全球都想在其之上 构建的平台， 在技术领域占据主导地位。
福利和良好的工作条件。我们很少，如果曾听说过的话，听到他们说：“我们想制造优质的产品，以满足客户并帮助建立成功且繁荣的公司。” 相反，我们经常得到的是一个制作粗劣的产品，且当我们打电话寻求故障物品的帮助时，客服代表位于世界的另一端。
蒂姆·帕斯夸雷利 (TIM PASQUARELLI) 亚利桑那州 安森 (ANTHEM, ARIZ.)
致编辑： 在欧洲大部分地区，民主社会主义或社会民主意味着全民医疗保健、强大的公共教育、工人保护、养老金和更大的社会安全网——所有这些都与私营企业和民主选举并行。然而，在美国，“社会主义”这个词经常与苏联、共产主义、政府所有制或威权主义联系在一起。 要消除这种偏见，我们将不得不向普通的美国人普及全球政治和历史知识，而且坦率地说，我认为许多人并不想倾听或学习。
亚历山德拉·林恩 (ALEXANDRA LYNN) 俄亥俄州 哥伦布 (COLUMBUS, OHIO)
致编辑： “民主社会主义”这个词的问题是双重的：年长的选民对社会主义有强烈的负面印象，而它在年轻选民心中抹去了国家所有制与经济自由主义之间的区别。 民主党终于意识到，该党要夺回权力需要将重点转向经济公平，这是令人鼓舞的。但我希望民主社会主义者能将他们的党名改为社会民主党，正如文章所指出的，大多数民主社会主义者的实际身份正是如此。
约书亚·P·希尔 (JOSHUA P. HILL) 康涅狄格州 新伦敦 (NEW LONDON, CONN.)
致编辑： 在上次选举中，共和党并没有争论其党的标签，也没有就抽象问题发表意见。他们选择了几个问题，如移民和堕胎，并专注于这些问题，同时加入模糊的承诺，并猛烈抨击乔·拜登总统失败的政策所引发的蔑视。 显然，他们将继续重复这一公式，因为这让他们完全控制了我们的政府。除非民主党从上次失败中吸取了一些基本教训，否则他们可能会再次遭遇惨败。
威廉·古德曼 (WILLIAM GOODMAN) 明尼苏达州 梅贝尔 (MABEL, MINN.)
OpenAI 和谷歌发布了开放权重模型，但仅是偶尔为之，因为没有什么奖励能促使他们持续这样做。此类模型的购买者将是那些已经在寻求 Qwen 和 Kimi 的公司，以及不愿将数据放在中国服务器上的国际合作伙伴。 采用美国开放权重模型的客户还需要运行该模型的芯片、存储数据的地方以及使模型投入运行的计算能力。这正是开发金融公司 (Development Finance Corporation) 和进出口银行 (Export-Import Bank) —— 这些支持美国企业在海外业务的政府机构 —— 应该一次性提供融资的项目。中国模型在肯尼亚和巴西等地占据主导地位，是因为中国将它们免费提供，并将模型、硬件和融资打包在一起。美国拥有资本和技术，可以提供同样的方案，且条款更好，安全标准甚至连新入局者也能满足。 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 的业务是“前沿”：最困难、价值最高的工作，提供给那些想要最好的可用模型且愿意为此付费的客户。这不是开放权重模型所从事的业务，在后者中，财务状况或数据敏感性影响更大。对于许多美国客户来说，前沿模型推动着艰苦工作的进展，而一个更便宜——且更容易改装——的东西则位于其下方。无论如何，前沿实验室都能获得报酬。 唯一的问题是，底层的模型是谁的。它应该是美国模型。
民主社会主义者 期待看到成果
作者：艾玛·戈德堡 (EMMA GOLDBERG) 和 萨莉·戈德堡 (SALLY GOLDENBERG)
在七月一个闷热的夜晚，纽约市迅速崛起的民主社会主义运动的领导人们登录 Zoom，开始制定他们竞选活动的下一阶段计划。民主社会主义候选人刚刚击败了五名在职者，在全市赢得了两场众议院初选以及几场州立法机构的选举。但随着非周期选举年的到来，美国民主社会主义者 (Democratic Socialists of America) 纽约分会的领导者们正将重心从争取选票转向改变政策。在 Zoom 会议中，成员们一致同意，该团体的下一项议程是在明年一月立法机构召开会议时，向中间派民主党人凯西·霍楚尔 (Kathy Hochul) 州长施压，要求提高纽约市最富有人群的所得税。该团体在今年早些时候未能说服霍楚尔女士这样做，最终仅达成了一项针对纽约市数百万美元价值的第二套住房征收的范围更小的税收方案。但随着影响力的提升，该团体认为，尽管霍楚尔女士持续抵制，明年一项更广泛的“向富人征税”运动可能会取得成功。“在上一次会议期间，当我们只有九名社会主义者在州立法机构时，我们就向霍楚尔发起了向富人征税的挑战，”纽约市 D.S.A. 分会共同领导人古斯塔沃·戈迪略 (Gustavo Gordillo) 在一次采访中表示。“在这个周期，我们的力量将几乎翻倍，而且将有一批全新的进步派立法者来要求纽约人想要的东西，即让霍楚尔向富人征税。”自佐兰·马姆达尼 (Zohran Mamdani) 去年在市长初选中获胜以来，自 20 世纪 80 年代起便活跃的纽约市 D.S.A. 分会表示，其成员已增加了 7,000 多人。其约 15,000 人的成员分布在全市，通常集中在布鲁克林和皇后区被士绅化的区域（所谓的“共产主义走廊”）以及曼哈顿上城区。
作者：LIAM STACK
周四，莫舍·格伦豪斯（Moshe Grunhaus）在离开曼哈顿的犹太中心时在光天化日之下遭到刺杀，这令本已处于紧张状态的犹太社区感到不安，并激化了关于以色列和反犹主义的辩论。警方逮捕的男子劳尔·莫拉莱斯（Raul Morales）在周五晚被指控两项涉嫌仇恨犯罪的企图谋杀罪。据检察官称，他在袭击戴着犹太小圆帽的格伦豪斯先生之前，首先刺伤了一名亚裔男子绰·宋（Chok Sung）。检察官表示，在两次袭击中，莫拉莱斯先生都喊道“Allahu akbar”，这是一个常用的伊斯兰宗教短语。
这些袭击加深了许多犹太领袖与市长佐赫兰·马姆丹（Zohran Mamdani）之间的紧张关系，后者长期以来一直是以色列的批评者。亲以色列团体数月来一直在警告，马姆丹先生关于以色列的言论可能会加剧反犹主义，因为市长多次表示，如果总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡访问纽约，该市可能会执行对其的逮捕令。面对许多犹太领袖的抗议，马姆丹先生在周二发布了一段视频，在视频中他撤回了该威胁，但称内塔尼亚胡先生为战争罪犯，并敦促联邦执法部门逮捕他。
周五，紧张局势在公众面前爆发，一些社区领袖和亲以色列团体提出了令人震惊的指控，称市长的公开言论（包括该视频）应对此次刺杀等行为部分负责。纽约犹太联合基金会（UJA-Federation of New York）是一家主要的犹太慈善机构，已成为马姆丹先生的强力反对者，该机构协助组织了一场新闻发布会，发言者在会上对日益严重的反犹主义给犹太社区带来的损失表示哀悼。犹太社区关系委员会首席执行官、市长的长期批评者马克·特雷格（Mark Treyger）表示，家长们担心让孩子在公共场合佩戴犹太小圆帽或大卫之星，营地主管们则在接听焦虑家长的电话，询问孩子是否安全。
“我恳求所有处于权力地位的人，包括我们的市长，倾听我们内心深处的呐喊，”在周四袭击地点所在选区的民主党国会候选人迈卡·拉舍尔（Micah Lasher）说道。“请帮助降低紧张情绪，并提供能够让……”
随着该组织趋于成熟，它正面临如何规划前进道路的问题。一些成员专注于说服他们最著名的政治盟友——众议员亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯（Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez）在 2028 年竞选总统，这有时使他们与全国范围内的同僚产生分歧。另一些人则在推动一个更广泛的政策议程，包括重新关注公共安全、通过立法谴责以色列的军事行动，以及考虑将该市最大的公用事业公司国有化。该市的民主社会主义者组织（D.S.A.）分支机构设有 14 个负责政策目标的工作组，但到目前为止，其重心一直集中在筛选政治候选人和赢得选举上。相比于深入的政策分析，登门拜访和为选举积聚能量往往是该组织更核心的活动。“该组织认为，在纽约市，前景是无限的，”阿萨德·丹迪亚（Asad Dandia）说。
布鲁克林区历史学家兼 D.S.A. 成员。“人们普遍认为 D.S.A. 已成为纽约市主要的政治参与者之一，而且可以说是在五个行政区中权力最大的政治组织。”D.S.A. 的成员将再次推动通过《并非由我们出资》（“Not on Our Dime”）法案，如果纽约非营利组织的资金被用于支持以色列的定居点活动，该法案将剥夺其免税地位。他们还试图说服立法者引入一项法案，旨在惩罚那些通过肯尼迪国际机场协助向以色列运输武器的航空公司。该分会还讨论过增加对气候和能源问题的关注——尽管在经历了热浪和野火的夏天，这些问题显得更加紧迫，但它们在动员选民方面可能较为困难。D.S.A. 是一个倡议团体联盟的一部分，该联盟正在推动州政府建设足够的公共可再生能源，以向 1200 万个家庭供电。更具雄心的是，该联盟的成员讨论了
让每一位纽约人在这座光辉的城市中感到安全。” 马姆达尼先生反驳了周五关于他让犹太人感到不安的指控，当天晚些时候他告诉 NY1：“这座城市对反犹主义或任何形式的仇恨都没有容忍空间。” “如果有人在实施这种偏见、这种仇恨，他们将承担全部责任，”市长说道。 这些交锋标志着纽约极具情绪化的一周，纽约拥有以色列之外最大的犹太人口，并凸显了中东政治在何种程度上已经渗透到马姆达尼先生的市长任期中。 周五在接受 NY1 采访时，市长否认了这样一种论调，即他对以色列及其领导人的批评与纽约的犹太人有关。 “这些是对政治领导人的批评，而不是针对特定信仰、宗教或背景的人，”他说。“作为这座城市的市长，我的责任是确保每一位纽约人的安全，无论他们来自哪里，信仰什么，或者坦率地说，即使他们不认同我的政治观点。我的工作就是确保他们的安全。” 马姆达尼先生的立场反映了公众情绪的转变——
[[IMG_XXXX]] 今年2月，进步团体在纽约州奥尔巴尼举行集会，作为其“向富人征税”运动的一部分。
推动州政府或市政府介入并接管联合爱迪生公司（Con Edison），旨在降低公用事业账单，并主张电网应由公共部门而非私营部门运行。此类计划将面临巨大的后勤和财务障碍，且不太可能获得霍楚女士的支持。 在最近的规划会议上，领导人们详细讨论了如何利用州长扩大全州免费和低成本儿童护理的承诺，以此作为向州长施压以提高富人税的一种手段。 “她已经承诺实施一项重大的儿童护理计划，而该计划目前尚未获得资金，”戈迪略先生在采访中说。“如果她不通过提高富人税来为她协助启动的计划筹集资金，这将对她来说是一个巨大的尴尬。” 就霍楚女士而言，她已经找到了在大小举措上与马姆达尼先生合作的机会，从儿童护理到世界杯，再到所谓的“度假屋税”（pied-à-terre tax）。 但随着 11 月重新面临选举，她同时也扮演起马姆达尼先生及其进步派基础的温和对立面，因为她深知这座城市依赖奥尔巴尼为新政府的扩张议程提供资金。 “霍楚州长一直致力于降低纽约人的成本”
对以色列的态度，这种态度在纽约以及全美国范围内变得更加负面。 进步派犹太团体呼应了市长的观点。T’ruah（一个进步派拉比组织）表示，对这起袭击事件“做出假设是没有帮助的”，并指出警察局曾表示“嫌疑人的精神状态可能是一个因素”。 该团体在声明中说：“我们拒绝相信，犹太人的安全需要以对以色列政府的行为保持沉默为代价。”“认为对以色列的公开批评会导致反犹主义，因此必须被审查的说法，不仅过于简单，而且对犹太人、巴勒斯坦人和我们的民主价值观都是危险的。”
纽约人，并让企业和居民更容易留在我们州，”她的发言人安东尼·霍格雷比（Anthony Hogrebe）说道。“她不主张为了加税而加税，只有在绝对需要解决实际问题时，才会考虑新的增收手段。州长根据对纽约人最有利的情况做出决定，任何政治压力都无法改变这一点。” 在就任初期，马姆达尼（Mr. Mamdani）先生试图与州长保持缓和的基调。他在2月早些时候支持她连任，这激怒了一些民主社会主义者。 当纽约的进步派团体在奥尔巴尼（Albany）举行“向富人征税”集会，并从市区派遣数百人乘坐巴士前往时，马姆达尼先生私下告诉组织者，他计划缺席该活动。 民主社会主义者往往倾向于宽容市长。但现在，在私下交谈中，一些人正在分析，鉴于市长在市政厅的地位更加稳固，他是否能在推动他们的优先事项方面发挥更积极的作用。 马姆达尼先生进步派基础中的许多成员仍然反对他的警察局长杰西卡·蒂施（Jessica Tisch）。虽然她的任命在分会群聊中引发了沮丧的留言，
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目前尚不清楚这一周将是马姆达尼先生与支持以色列的犹太领导人关系中一个短暂的闪点，还是更深层恶化或信任丧失的开始。 值得注意的是，在周五的新闻发布会上，几位通常与市长保持一致的民选官员，包括市公共倡导者朱马安·威廉姆斯（Jumaane Williams）和州总检察长莱蒂西亚·詹姆斯（Letitia James），明确表示这座城市已被反犹主义所震撼，并敦促纽约人坚定地
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D.S.A. 成员们几乎没有向马姆达尼先生施压要求撤换她。 近期的初选表明，纽约市的民主社会主义者对经济不平等、以色列以及特朗普总统的移民执法手段感到沮丧——但其领导层在公共安全改革方面的公开表态则低调得多。 马姆达尼先生将优先考虑其可负担性议程和谴责以色列的军事行动，而与警察改革问题保持距离。D.S.A. 最近向他施压，并成功促使其放弃雇用另外 580 名警察的计划，目前正推动他扩大新的社区安全办公室，该办公室将把部分 911 电话从警察转移给临床医生处理。 马姆达尼先生曾承诺建立一个更大规模的社区安全部，其预算将达到 $1.1 亿，但到目前为止，该计划规模小得多——仅为一个预算为 $270 百万的市长办公室，其中大部分资金是从现有项目中转移而来的。而负责处理 911 电话的操作部门（该项目的核心）仅获得了 $35 百万的资金。 蒂凡尼·卡班（Tiffany Cabán）是一名市议员，也是 D.S.A. 成员，她自称是一名“坚定的废警主义者”，她表示希望市长向警察局
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周四，两人在上西区被刺伤。 左侧的劳尔·莫拉莱斯（Raul Morales）被指控犯有两项谋杀未遂罪，被视为仇恨犯罪。
共同反对不宽容。 “我们要再次确认，仇恨和暴力在纽约没有生存空间，这一点至关重要，”詹姆斯女士说道。“因此，让我们致力于共同承担起这项善良且必要的工作，肩并肩，臂挽臂，彼此之间不留间隙。仇恨将不被容忍。” 来自布鲁克林的市议员苏珊·庄表示，反亚裔偏见仍然是一个主要问题，且经常“被简单地忽略”。 “即便摄像机离开了，暴力、骚扰和恐惧依然在持续，”她说。“我们的社区仍在承受后果，太多人在沉默中受苦。” 周四的捅人事件在上涨西区引起了剧震，该街区部分以充满活力的犹太生活而闻名，其暴力犯罪率通常是全市最低的地区之一。两名受害者预计都能幸存，目前正在当地一家医院接受治疗。 市长的一位发言人表示，他的办公室已经联系了
部门，要求其停止增加对轻微犯罪的执法重点，并扩建社区安全办公室。但她承认，用反警察议程来吸引选民仍然是一个挑战。“我们看到了围绕巴勒斯坦解放、反战组织的大量活动；我们也看到了围绕向富人征税的大量活动，”卡班女士说道。“但警察执法问题确实很难。” 随着民主社会主义者美国分会 (D.S.A.) 影响力的增长，其批评者的声音也随之增大。一个持续关注的领域是该组织如何处理种族不平等问题，上周一名黑人民主党领导人多诺万·理查兹在 X 上援引了关于“白人至上主义”的指控，使这一问题凸显出来。这段评论是针对 D.S.A. 对《纽约时报》一篇关于该组织报道的讨论而发表的，随后被贴在右翼《纽约邮报》的封面上，并在该组织的批评者中传阅。资深民权领袖阿尔·夏普顿牧师认为，D.S.A. 应该通过解决种族差异来微调其对经济承受能力的关注，而不是将所有类型的财务困境一视同仁。夏普顿先生赞赏该组织近期取得的一系列胜利，并表示这些胜利“提高了”对该组织的预期。“在经济承受能力方面存在种族差距。他们必须处理除阶级之外的更多问题，还要处理种族问题，”夏普顿先生说。“如果他们不这样做，就面临黑人社区中一些人反击他们的风险，指责他们忽略了种族。”由 Data for Progress 公司在 5 月对 719 名纽约州潜在选民进行的一项民意调查发现，42 percent 的受访者对 D.S.A. 持不认可态度，而 30 percent 的受访者表示认可。州民主党主席杰伊·雅各布斯表示，他赞赏 D.S.A. 对经济承受能力的承诺，但他对该组织的一些策略和政策目标提出了质疑。他认为，他们专注于击败中间派民主党人的做法，对于在更广泛的努力中翻盘共和党控制的席位并赢回国会的行动没有帮助。“他们太经常把温和派民主党人视为比共和党人更大的敌人，”雅各布斯先生说。“他们无法吸引中间选民。大多数美国人都是温和派。”
警局将与受害者取得联系。警局一名发言人在周五晚上表示，由于侦探仍在对受害者进行询问，因此该部门尚未将包括市长在内的民选官员与任何一名受害者联系起来。7 月初，今年该市所有仇恨犯罪中超过一半的目标是犹太人，使得反犹太暴力在仇恨犯罪中所占比例最大。纽约约 10 的人口是犹太人。几位犹太领袖特别指出，马姆丹尼先生的视频造成了纽约犹太人的潜在危险。在周五的新闻发布会上，纽约 UJA-Federation 的主席埃里克·戈尔德斯坦对马姆丹尼先生关于内塔尼亚胡先生的视频提出了异议，市长将后者描述为“一名战争罪犯”和加沙“种族灭绝的策划者”。“他关于总理的视频信息是政治作秀，”戈尔德斯坦先生说。“他在为了所谓的政治利益而这样做，而这对纽约的犹太人产生了现实世界的影响，真令人羞愧。他必须停止。”以色列政府也批评了市长。以色列外交部长吉迪翁·萨尔在的一份声明中表示，这次暴力事件“并非发生在真空之中”。他说：“马姆丹尼数月以来对犹太国家的煽动，促成了一种犹太人成为目标的氛围。言论是有后果的。”在周五傍晚安息日开始前，代表美国最大犹太教派的改革犹太教联盟主席里克·雅各布斯拉比发表了一份声明，批评马姆丹尼先生的“煽动性视频”。他表示，市长诋毁了以色列和内塔尼亚胡先生，并营造了“一种让犹太人在纽约市感到不那么安全并使我们处于风险之中的氛围”。周四的袭击发生在 Tisha B’Av（犹太禁食日），犹太人在这一天纪念古代巴比伦人和罗马人摧毁耶路撒冷圣殿以及犹太历史上的其他悲剧。犹太中心（Jewish Center）的约西·莱文拉比在周五表示，在这样一个哀悼的圣日，在他所在的犹太会堂外发生捅人事件，让人觉得“我们聚集在一起纪念的邪恶已不再属于过去”。他说：“美国的犹太生活开始感觉像欧洲的犹太生活了。武装警卫、防弹玻璃，以及对昨天的言论会变成今天的袭击的持续恐惧。”
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位于巴唐加斯市的液化天然气（L.N.G.）和天然气发电厂旨在为菲律宾进口天然气。当中东战争扰乱全球天然气供应时，亚洲各发展中国家不得不进行转型。
作者：帕特里夏·科恩 (PATRICIA COHEN)
伦敦 —— 我们都曾走过这条路。 特朗普总统对盟友和竞争对手发起一轮接一轮的惩罚性关税，使贸易关系紧张，令债券市场动荡，推高价格，并为全球经济注入更多不确定性。 现在的不同之处在于，美国正与伊朗处于战争状态，波斯湾地区关键的贸易和能源航线被封锁，全球原油价格接近每桶 $100。当特朗普先生在 2, 2025, 4月公布最初的全面关税计划时，原油价格约为每桶 $70。 “这次新的贸易紧张局势出现时，由于能源价格上涨，全球经济所处的地位比去年的‘解放日’更为脆弱，”荷兰跨国银行 ING 的经济学家卡斯滕·布雷斯基 (Carsten Brzeski) 说道，他指的是特朗普总统宣布具体税率的那一天。 针对包括欧盟成员国在内的 80 多个国家征收的新进口税是
伊朗战争正迫使能源买家 从全球市场中“解绑”
作者：里弗·阿基拉·戴维斯 (RIVER AKIRA DAVIS)
马尼拉 —— 在过去的二十年里，液化天然气的主要出口商和贸易商一直将这种燃料宣传为全球能源饥渴的新兴经济体的万灵药。 通过超低温冷却成液态以便运输，美国和卡塔尔每年生产的数百亿美元天然气可以供应到全球每个角落。 随着这两个国家迅速扩大出口能力，能源专家预计，到 2030 年，全球市场将充斥着廉价的 L.N.G.。 亚洲各发展中国家的政府预计在接下来的半个世纪里将成为全球能源需求增长的中心，他们基于这种充足且自由流动的天然气承诺，制定了长期国家能源战略。 他们认为，L.N.G. 是在摆脱污染更严重的煤炭并向转型过渡的同时，推动经济扩张的关键。 但中东五个月的战争动摇了这一信念。 由于船舶无法通过霍尔木兹海峡，亚洲买家与他们的主要 L.N.G. 供应商卡塔尔之间的联系被突然切断。 面对突然的供应冲击，亚洲各地的能源高管和政策制定者正寻求转向内部。他们正转向任何能够利用的国内资源——从煤炭和天然气到风能和太阳能——以帮助自己免受未来波动的影响。随着……的扩张，这种需求进一步加剧。
无论如何 均承风险
作者：科尔比·史密斯 (COLBY SMITH)
凯文·M·沃什 (Kevin M. Warsh) 在本周第二次出席美联储主席会议时，面临着一个关键的选择。在通货膨胀率连续五年高于央行预期后，他将自己的名誉押在了降低通胀上。现在，他必须决定是否通过推高借贷成本来兑现这一承诺。
周三的决定将为沃什先生提供第一个真正展现自我主张的机会，但无论向哪个方向决定都存在风险。
迫使同事提高利率将是抑制公众通胀预期最稳妥的方法，同时也能让那些质疑沃什先生是否敢于采取强硬手段（而非仅仅口头强硬）来遏制价格压力的批评者们闭嘴。然而，其中陷阱颇多，取决于
与红海的冲突，那是另一个关键的能源运输通道。
总部位于马尼拉的能源基础设施综合企业 Prime Infra 的首席执行官纪尧姆·卢奇 (Guillaume Lucci) 表示，中东危机“加速了开发菲律宾资源的兴趣”。“一旦你定义为依赖进口，你就将自己暴露在进口国无法控制的市场力量面前。”
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正在分化 硅谷
作者：迈克·艾萨克 (Mike Isaac)、凯特·康格 (Kate Conger)、安娜·斯旺森 (Ana Swanson) 和梅根·托宾 (Meaghan Tobin)
旧金山 —— 多年来，关于人工智能软件应当如何创建的哲学分歧，一直使硅谷的技术人员陷入分裂。
上周，这场争论达到了沸点。
一方是以 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 为代表的领先 A.I. 公司，它们声称某些 A.I. 模型过于危险，不能在公开环境下开发，必须由像它们这样的企业为了安全而进行严格控制。另一方则是包括微软 (Microsoft) 和英伟达 (Nvidia) 在内的其他科技巨头，它们主张所谓的开源 A.I. 模型必须保持开放，以便人们进一步开发技术并建立新业务。
这些阵营已经开始公开——
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“……让我们自己从那些我们无法控制的市场中解脱出来，”他说道。Prime Infra 在巴坦加斯（Batangas）经营着一个天然气发电厂综合体，该市距离马尼拉向南约两小时车程。该场地的电厂已运行了 20 多年，天然气取自西南约 250 英里的近海马拉潘亚（Malampaya）气田。巴坦加斯站点坐落在由红树林和黑沙滩组成的海岸线上，沿岸分布着热带杏仁树和晒太阳的巨蜥。输电线从设施中延伸而出，向内陆延伸至远方一座朦胧的绿色鞍形山峰——马基林山（Mount Makiling）。2023, 当高管们认为马拉潘亚气田即将枯竭时，他们建设了一个近海液化天然气（L.N.G.）接收站。然而现在，Prime Infra 的领导层正将目光转向家门口。Lucci 先生表示，该公司的一家子公司开始在马拉潘亚气田钻探更多的天然气井，将其寿命延长了至少六年。他补充道：“不幸的是，在菲律宾，过去十五年里钻探的井非常少。希望这种情况能开始加速改变。”与此同时，在巴坦加斯以北约 120 英里处，该国最大的太阳能项目于 3 月开始产生首批千瓦时电量。这发生在伊朗战争爆发两周之后，这场战争推高了能源价格，并摧毁了 20 percent 的全球 L.N.G. 供应。“时机非常幸运，就像命中注定一样，”Emmanuel Rubio 说道，他是 Meralco PowerGen 的首席执行官，这家由公用事业支持的发电公司在菲律宾运营或投资 Terra Solar 太阳能项目以及天然气和燃煤电厂。对于一个几乎所有化石燃料都依赖进口的国家来说，该太阳能项目证明了“我们在一定程度上实际上可以实现自给自足”，他补充道。Rubio 先生表示，中东危机使进口依赖的风险成为了关注焦点。L.N.G. 曾被推崇为电力生产的稳定选择，不受阳光或风力波动的影响。“但鉴于 L.N.G. 的波动性，我们正在重新思考这一点，”他说。根据海运数据公司 Kpler 的数据，在战争开始一个月后的 3 月，菲律宾的 L.N.G. 进口量比前一年下降了四分之一。此后出货量略有回升，但整个亚洲的国家支付的费用仍大约是战前两倍。2020, 菲律宾宣布暂停新建燃煤电厂，以加速向清洁能源转型。但 Rubio 先生表示，目标是确保“为菲律宾人提供一个稳定的能源来源、一个可靠的能源来源且具有成本效益的来源”，即使这意味着延长煤炭的使用寿命。类似的重新计算正在亚洲其他发展中地区展开。
陷阱 (Tripped Up)
作者：SETH KUGEL
亲爱的“陷阱”： 去年七月，我和妻子前往德国旅游，参观了慕尼黑和巴伐利亚阿尔卑斯山，并品尝了当地的好啤酒（我在科罗拉多州合伙经营一家酿酒厂）。我们在 Enterprise 租了一辆车，该公司的租车点位于一家酒店大堂内，而取车则是在几个街区外的一个无人车库。我在取车时拍摄了油表照片——当时油箱有五分之八的油——在还车时再次拍摄，当时油箱有四分之三的油。但我被收取了 94.50 欧元，外加 20% 的税，总计约 $131, 原因是 25 升“缺失”的燃料。此外，我最初的预订记录显示包含税费，但在最终账单中，我又被额外收取了 €65.87 的税费。我向 Enterprise 投诉并向美国运通公司 (American Express) 提交了信用卡争议申诉，但都没有结果。您能帮帮我吗？ 杰克，科罗拉多州布鲁姆菲尔德
亲爱的杰克： 为什么租车公司非要把填满油箱这种简单的行为变得如此压力山大？他们的费率如此惩罚性——在你的案例中，如果我对升到加仑以及欧元到美元的双重转换正确，大约是每加仑 $16.75 —— 以至于我们会不择手段地避开它们，包括在错过机场前最后一个加油站时，冒着错过航班的风险绕路回去。（请注意，2025 年 7 月德国的汽油平均价格每加仑不到 $8, ）。 你甚至不是在机场网点租车，而且还车时的油量实际上比取车时略多。你拍了照片来证明这一点，而且除此之外还被收了太多的税——或者说，当我们查看你的账单时，我们都这么认为。 我联系了 Enterprise，该公司迅速向你退还了 $131 的额外油费。但关于税费，他们是对的：原有的税额已被删除，而一项包含油费税收在内的修订金额被附加在了最后。我认为是德语账单把我们两个都搞糊涂了。 “我们致力于迅速解决任何问题，并认真对待所有客户的关切，对每一项关切进行彻底调查，”Enterprise 发言人丹妮尔·斯图尔特 (Danielle Stuart) 写道，并补充说，一家负责清洁和为公司车辆加油的第三方供应商未能记录下你在取车时油箱并未满载的情况。这就是为什么你被错误收费的原因。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 2023 年在菲律宾巴坦加斯市 (Batangas City) 建成了一个离岸码头用于进口液化天然气 (L.N.G.)，但该国目前正寻求增加国内天然气供应（如图上方）。右侧近处是菲律宾 MTerra 太阳能项目的航拍图，该项目将成为全球最大的太阳能与电池开发项目之一；最右侧是本月巴坦加斯市液化天然气及天然气发电厂内的员工。
近几个月来，该地区各国的燃煤电厂发电量有所增加。政府加快了可再生能源项目的进度，并报告称家用太阳能系统和电动汽车的销量有所上升。包括印度尼西亚、菲律宾和越南在内的国家也在探索或开始筹建其首座商业核电站。 越南财团 Vingroup 在三月份搁浅了一项耗资数十亿美元的液化天然气 (L.N.G.) 进口码头计划。该公司随后表示，将把该场地用于建设一个由可再生能源驱动的制造中心。 国际能源署 (International Energy Agency) 前主任贞介·萨达莫里 (Keisuke Sadamori) 表示，在战争爆发前，全球市场一直预期会出现一波“前所未有”的液化天然气 (L.N.G.) 供应浪潮。 液化天然气 (L.N.G.) 的供应被削减了
在 2022 年俄罗斯入侵乌克兰之后，情况已经发生过一次变化，当时欧洲转向其他能源，导致天然气需求飙升。他表示，随着这次最新的供应中断，人们更加怀疑“东南亚国家是否真的会决定在液化天然气（L.N.G.）进口基础设施上投入额外资金”。
许多亚洲发展中国家正在借鉴中国的经验，中国一直试图让自己摆脱对能源进口的依赖。中国在大幅提高国内可再生能源生产、电气化和核电规模的同时，沉重地依赖于其煤炭储备。同时，中国还向亚洲其他地区提供大部分可再生能源基础设施。
“我们正看到全球能源系统的分叉。一边是美国和日本，坚持化石燃料的传统；另一边是以中国为首的可再生能源方案，正在快速增长，”能源经济与财务分析研究所（Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis）亚洲液化天然气与天然气研究负责人萨姆·雷诺兹（Sam Reynolds）表示。
他说：“新的供应依赖于中国、印度和新兴亚洲等市场的存在。”他指出，如果亚洲需求减少，可能会导致在美国及其他地方建设产能的供应商所面对的买家少于预期。
尽管如此，一些能源专家和
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“我们正看到全球能源系统的分叉。一边是美国和日本，坚持化石燃料的传统；另一边是以中国为首的可再生能源方案，正在快速增长，”能源经济与财务分析研究所（Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis）亚洲液化天然气与天然气研究负责人萨姆·雷诺兹（Sam Reynolds）表示。
他说：“新的供应依赖于中国、印度和新兴亚洲等市场的存在。”他指出，如果亚洲需求减少，可能会导致在美国及其他地方建设产能的供应商所面对的买家少于预期。
尽管如此，一些能源专家和
这是一个显而易见的不公正现象，我很开心能帮上忙。但在重新检查了你的证明文件并与专家沟通后，我认为如果你没有将策略转向信用卡争议，你本可以在没有我的情况下解决这个问题。
情况是这样的：你最初发给 Enterprise 的电子邮件投诉只有两句话，仅提到你认为税费计算错误。你没有提到燃油费，因为（正如你后来告诉我的）你当时还没注意到这一点。但由于真正的问题出在燃油费而非税费，你的投诉是不准确的，Enterprise 正当地拒绝了它。
随后，当 Enterprise 没有退款时，你直接向美国运通（American Express）提交了争议——也就是所谓的“撤单”（chargeback）。美运拒绝对你的第一次撤单请求。然后你
注意到了燃油费，并提交了另一次争议，要求退回约 $160。这一次你同时引用了额外的燃油费和税费，但金额再次不正确。重要的是，在两次争议之间，你没有再次联系 Enterprise。
你在后续邮件中告诉我，由于该流程是在美国运通网站内完成的，现在已无法访问，因此你不再持有那些投诉记录。这很合理。让我们假设你提出了有力的论据，并附上了带有时间戳的油量表前后对比照片，因此理应至少拿回 $131。
那么，为什么美运可能会拒绝你的第二次争议？我相信你要求 $160 而不是你应得的 $131 肯定没有帮助，但我怀疑主要原因是你在提交第二次撤单请求之前，没有将问题反馈给 Enterprise。支付技术公司 Infinicept 的联合创始人托德·阿布洛维茨（Todd Ablowitz）曾广泛处理过撤单业务，他表示，给商家一个优先解决问题的机会至关重要。
他在电话中告诉我：“你必须证明你尝试过申请退款并与他们协商解决。”这可能包括提供标出错误的账单、往来电子邮件，或在线聊天和短信的截图。它还可以包括电话沟通的实时记录，注明通话日期，以及尽可能提供你所交谈的客服人员姓名。对于旅行者声称产品描述不准确的情况——例如，一家度假村广告中说有泳池但实际上没有——你可以提交描述页面的截图以及酒店现场的照片。
MATT BLEASE
行业官员认为，一旦全球供应回升，对液化天然气 (L.N.G.) 基础设施投资的胃口将恢复到战前预测的水平。
能源巨头壳牌 (Shell) 在 6 月预测，到 2050, 年，全球对液化天然气的需求将增长 65 Percent，而南部及东南部亚洲将成为增长的主要引擎。
Energy World Corporation 的首席执行官 Edward McCartin 致力于在亚洲各地开发液化天然气和发电项目，他对长期前景持乐观态度。他表示，液化天然气可以平衡太阳能等间歇性可再生能源，并帮助该地区实现从煤炭的转型。
“太阳能、水能、地热能、天然气和煤炭——这些我们全部都需要，”他说道。
目前，菲律宾能源部的政策制定者正密切监测波斯湾的冲突。能源政策与规划局局长 Michael Sinocruz 表示，政府正在考虑修订其国家能源计划，以潜在地反映未来几十年不同的能源结构。
“我们正在研究的是我们需要多少天然气，”他说道。“我们不能仅依赖可再生能源。”这场能源危机“唤醒了发展中的亚洲对能源独立重要性的认识”。
作为一名消费者投诉的仲裁者，我想补充一点，受委屈的客户不应让那些审理退款请求的可怜人们不堪重负。请保持你的论点简单，不要用一堆不必要的文档来混淆视听。如果你对自己的写作能力没有信心，可以考虑使用生成式人工智能来帮助使你的论点简洁且清晰。
但发起信用卡争议应该是最后一招，而非第一步。有报道称，一些公司会将那些被判定为轻率或过度请求退款的客户列入黑名单。Ablowitz 先生指出，网络规则不允许商家在退款后再次扣除信用卡款项，但我听过很多公司重新向客户开票，并在对方拒绝支付时威胁采取追缴程序的故事。
另一方面，如果你操作正确，在消费者保护极差的美国，退款可能是消费者所能拥有的最强大的工具。
那么，Jack，如果你没有这么快地提出争议，你的情况是否会演变成退款局面？我不能确定。通常情况下，我会质疑 Stuart 女士关于“致力于迅速解决任何问题”并“认真对待所有客户关切”的陈述。根据我对其他公司的经验，客户服务代表往往恰恰相反。
但在这个案例中，由于 Enterprise 公司从未真正获得迅速解决你问题的机会，因此应将其视为一个疑点从无之面的受益方。
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沃什先生如何为其辩护。在相对温和的通胀数据之后提高利率，可能会导致人们对官员将如何应对经济变化产生困惑，从而考验已经处于紧张状态的金融市场——在与伊朗战争升级导致油价被拉回至每桶 $100 左右的背景下。沃什先生还可能不得不面对来自特朗普总统的批评，后者任命他担任此职，并明确表示希望降低利率。保持利率不变将使美联储的政策选项保持开放，同时给官员们更多时间来观察经济如何演变。许多人预计通胀将在今年下半年缓解。到 9 月美联储再次开会时，官员们将持有两个月的新数据。但如果采取不行动，将压力到沃什先生，让他解释“无所作为”如何能与他最近向立法者断言的央行对高通胀“零容忍”相兼容。
沃什先生面临的决定最终取决于他想要在两者之间取得怎样的平衡：是在他四年主席任期的早期阶段采取激进立场，还是在大多数通胀由供应冲击驱动（而央行的工具难以应对此类冲击）的环境中保持操作空间。例如，如果通胀是由劳动力市场过热驱动，而不是由与伊朗的战争或特朗普总统的关税导致的能源价格飙升驱动，央行对其下一步行动将感到自信得多。在 7 月会议前夕，两位政策制定者表示提高利率具有紧迫性。达拉斯联邦储备银行行长劳里·K·洛根 (Lorie K. Logan) 和克利夫兰联储的贝丝·M·哈马克 (Beth M. Hammack) 都强调了高通胀给消费者和企业带来的压力，以及价格压力进一步扩大的可能性。
服务业的价格与去年同期相比全部上涨。洛根女士和哈马克女士认为，为了实现美联储 2 的目标，提高借贷成本是必要的。两人均为今年政策制定委员会的投票成员。但包括少数几位美联储最高决策者在内的许多同事表示，虽然如果通胀不能尽快缓解，他们已准备好采取行动，但目前他们倾向于采取观望态度。这包括副主席菲利普·N·杰斐逊 (Philip N. Jefferson) 和纽约联储主席约翰·C·威廉姆斯 (John C. Williams)。美联储理事克里斯托弗·J·沃勒 (Christopher J. Waller) 在决定美联储下一步行动时，高度重视最新的通胀数据。6 月份跟踪消费者和批发价格的两份报告显示，数据远低于预期。尽管如此，他明确表示，他需要看到连续几个月温和的数据才能对前景感到自信。
内部这种观点分歧毫无疑问将引发沃什先生长期鼓励的“家庭争吵”。但这也表明，如果他选择这样做，他将有余地引导官员们转向某个方向。沃什先生选择在公开场合模糊自己的立场，以避免让美联储陷入被动。在本月国会听证会上被追问细节时，他明确表示，一个月温和的通胀数据并不意味着“任务完成”。但在几次实例中，沃什先生倾向于鸽派方向。当路易斯安那州共和党参议员约翰·肯尼迪 (John Kennedy) 询问他将采取什么措施应对通胀时，沃什先生从未提到加息的可能性。相反，他表示美联储的成功将取决于其能否重申央行将降低通胀的承诺。
承担未能如此的责任，并研究其政策工具。当肯尼迪先生询问美联储如何判断通货膨胀是暂时性的还是持续性的时，沃什先生提到了他创建的五个特别工作组，他说这些工作组将“解决重大且困难的问题，而不是试图用那些尚未被证明成功的政策来掩盖问题”。沃什先生还表示，他并不认为一次性的价格变动——特别是那些由人工智能投资热潮引起的价格变动——属于通货膨胀。“因为我认为这是一种供给
美联储 主席 凯文·M·沃什 选择在 利率政策 立场上 保持模糊。
反应，”他说。但与此同时， he 暗示美联储可能会对战争引起的价格上涨持有不同看法，因为这“往往会削弱经济的供给侧”。伊朗战争和人工智能热潮是目前美联储面临的最大变数。两者都推高了价格，但尚不清楚这是否会导致持续较高的通货膨胀。高盛首席经济学家詹·哈齐乌斯认为，关税等临时因素是近期基础通胀上升的主要驱动力，且这些因素可能会随时间而消退。哈齐乌斯先生表示：“我们的预测意味着，现在的鹰派言论最终并不需要采取行动，因为随着时间的推移，通胀情况实际上看起来有所好转。”然而，难以忽视的事实是，尽管在短短一年半内经历了接二连三的冲击，经济依然保持得相对良好。对某些人来说，这意味着美联储需要提高利率才能将通胀控制在合理范围内。曾在克利夫兰联邦储备银行领导该行十年直至 2024. 年的洛雷塔·梅斯特表示：“鉴于我们在经济中看到的现状，我很难说目前的政策立场是限制性的。”她认为，提高利率将有助于“使需求与供给更好地匹配”，同时也有助于稳定那些看起来“比以往更脆弱”的通胀预期。梅斯特女士补充道：“这种情况持续时间越长，如果他们一直说要把通胀降下来却不采取行动，他们就会失去信誉。”她说，最近的一组数据给美联储提供了一些喘息空间，但这种缓解可能会在 9 月会议前结束。
沃什先生如何谈论周三的决定，或许与决定本身一样重要。早在 7 月会议之前，投资者就对沃什先生倾向于比其前任提供更少政策前景指引的做法表示焦虑。到目前为止，关于如果经济状况发生变化他计划如何引导美联储，他也选择了保持沉默。因此，追踪美联储动向的市场出现了剧烈波动。截至周一，数据显示本周加息 25 个基点的概率仅为 30 percent 略高于。当沃什先生在利率决定后的新闻发布会上走上讲台时，他将面临更大的压力，需要就其观点提供更多实质性内容。维持利率不变将使沃什先生处于防御状态，必须解释为什么美联储仍然可以保持耐心。而提高利率则可能模糊公众对于官员将如何应对新数据的理解。“现在加息
“当数据似乎在改善时，如果这让人们对反应函数产生困惑，可能无法建立公信力，”对冲基金 Point72 的首席经济学家迪安·马基（Dean Maki）表示。沃什先生还需要警惕的是利率预期被快速重置，这可能会给更广泛的市场带来不稳定因素。规避这一问题的一种方法是将任何加息界定为政策的“重新校准”，而非启动一项旨在提高借贷成本的长期计划。“目前的市场很脆弱，”Evercore ISI 副主席克里希纳·古哈（Krishna Guha）表示，他指出了伊朗战争以及对 A.I. 泡沫即将破裂的担忧。“他是否想通过一场赌博，让自己在接手这份工作几周后就得面对一个混乱的市场？”
在美国最高法院于 2 月份推翻其之前的许多征税措施后，特朗普总统再次尝试重新实施关税。这些关税将贸易伙伴的不公平劳工实践作为理由，取代了他在法院裁决后立即实施的一套类似的临时关税。预计后续还将有更多关税出台。
布热斯基先生和其他分析师表示，经济已经吸收了特朗普贸易战带来的大部分通胀影响。“与关税相关的商品价格上涨最糟糕的时期可能已经过去，”总部位于芝加哥的全球金融机构 Northern Trust 的首席经济学家卡尔·坦嫩鲍姆（Carl Tannenbaum）说道。公司在去年提高了价格，并且在最高法院做出裁决后并未将这些涨幅下调。
关税及其不稳定的执行方式往往会阻碍长期规划，削弱投资并拖累增长，因为企业被迫花费时间和资源来研究如何调整其生产和供应链。
即便如此，目前与伊朗之间不断升级的战争（始于五个月前美国和以色列的袭击）对全球经济健康状况的影响，远比关税的影响要大。在日本，政府内阁府周五表示，公司可能会将增加的成本转嫁给
闪电战的不同之处在于：美国 正与伊朗处于战争状态。
由于伊朗战争，其速度比 2022 年俄罗斯入侵乌克兰（上一次重大的全球能源冲击）之后更快。霍尔木兹海峡和红海的关键能源贸易路线继续受到干扰。由于也门境内受伊朗支持的胡塞武装组织升级了与沙特阿拉伯的对抗，并在该地区冲突中开辟了第二战场，上周油价再次跳涨。油价飙升引发了市场不安，导致政府债券被抛售，并压低了股价。在美国，汽油价格达到了每加仑 $4，抵押贷款利率有所上升。巴黎政治学院（Sciences Po）教授 Paola Subacchi 表示：“对我而言，而且从我能看到的资料来看，中东局势对全球经济的威胁远比这场关税烟火要严重得多。”在贸易方面，她说，“情况大体相同。”
也许世界上没有任何一个地区比亚洲更深地受到关税和战争的双重打击，因为亚洲经济严重依赖出口和进口能源。几个亚洲大国已经采取积极谈判，以确保与华盛顿达成贸易协议。目前尚不完全清楚特朗普总统实施的新关税将如何影响这些协议，但来自几个外国政府的代表表示，他们私下被告知关税税率将与去年谈判的税率相同。日本承诺投资美国 $550 亿，作为一项贸易协议的一部分，以换取 15 ％的优惠关税税率。韩国同样承诺投入数百亿美元用于造船和电池制造，而台湾则承诺投入数百亿美元扩大先进半导体生产。
到目前为止，亚洲各经济体的表现好于预期。
台湾已承诺投入数百亿美元在美国扩大先进半导体生产。
“对我来说，最大的收获是这些经济体在面对所有这些冲击时表现出的韧性，”日本最大的投资银行和经纪公司野村证券（Nomura）的经济学家 Sonal Varma 说道。
公司要么吸收了成本，要么将其转嫁给消费者，或者通过其他国家重新路由货物。而且自伊朗战争以来，尽管存在短缺，各国政府仍提供了供应和补贴，以帮助企业和消费者应对上涨的燃料价格。
然而，即便整体局面比预期更为积极，该地区内部仍存在差异。
通过半导体、数据中心或生态系统其他部分参与人工智能繁荣的国家，比那些更容易受到能源冲击影响的国家表现得更好。
菲律宾在 3 月宣布国家能源紧急状态，并继续与上涨的燃料价格作斗争，它在人工智能繁荣中被抛在脑后，并经历了经济增速放缓。
相比之下，半导体出口的增加帮助韩国经济在今年春季实现了快于预期的增长，抵消了建筑等其他行业的下降。
美国与中国之间谈判的进展，也许是特朗普总统重启贸易战中最重要的领域。
北信托（Northern Trust）的 Tannenbaum 先生表示：“这一切中的主战场是美国对阵中国。”
他说：“中国已证明自己是一个非常强大的贸易谈判者。他们已经为此准备了很长时间，并且准确地知道我们的弱点在哪里。”
中国领导人习近平计划在 9 月对华盛顿进行国事访问。而且他已经表现出愿意扣留对美国技术和国防至关重要的矿产的意愿——
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industries to pressure the Trump administration on trade. 这些产业旨在向特朗普政府在贸易问题上施压。
Mary E. Lovely, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for Interna- tional Economics, recently met with Chinese analysts as part of a regular exchange program. She said China’s leaders “are very con- fident that their chokehold on per- manent magnets and rare earths will prevent President Trump from really going much higher than where he already is” on tariff levels. 彼得森国际经济研究所（Peterson Institute for International Economics）高级研究员玛丽·E·洛夫利（Mary E. Lovely）最近在一次定期交流计划中与中国分析师进行了会谈。她表示，中国领导人“非常有信心，他们在永久磁铁和稀土方面的掌控力将防止特朗普总统在关税水平上比目前实际操作的进一步大幅提高”。
That could mean China ends up with lower tariffs than some of its neighbors, giving it an economic edge over competitors. 这意味着中国最终面临的关税可能比某些邻国低，从而使其在面对竞争对手时获得经济优势。
The prize — easier access to the gigantic American market — is more valuable than ever. Ameri- can consumers have an enormous appetite for goods and have in- creased their spending at a faster pace than those in Europe or in China. 而这个奖赏——更便捷地进入巨大的美国市场——比以往任何时候都更有价值。美国消费者对商品的胃口极大，且其消费增长速度快于欧洲或中国。
River Akira Davis contributed report- ing from Tokyo, and Alexandra Stevenson from Hong Kong. River Akira Davis 在东京提供报道，Alexandra Stevenson 在香港提供报道。
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公开地发生冲突。周五，英伟达（Nvidia）首席执行官黄仁勋在他首次发布的 X 帖文中表示，“世界既需要前沿的封闭模型，也需要前前沿的开源模型。”九分钟后，微软（Microsoft）首席执行官萨提亚·纳德拉（Satya Nadella）发帖称，开源软件对于“一个健康的 A.I. 生态系统至关重要”。两人都签署了一封支持开源的信函，Meta、Palantir 和 IBM 的高管也签署了该信函。与此同时，五位接近讨论的人士表示，OpenAI 和 Anthropic 已经在华盛顿游说监管机构，对中国的开源 A.I. 模型表示担忧。这场辩论已经吸引了财政部长斯科特·贝森特（Scott Bessent）和特朗普总统的科学技术顾问迈克尔·克拉特西奥斯（Michael Kratsios）的参与，他们就美国 A.I. 模型作为宝贵知识产权的价值发表了看法。这场升级的争端源于中国在开源 A.I. 模型方面取得的快速进展，这些模型可以被自由地使用和构建。
最近几周，两家中国 A.I. 初创公司 Z.ai 和 Moonshot AI 发布了能够与 Anthropic 及其他美国实验室相匹敌的模型。Anthropic 和 OpenAI 声称，中国公司是通过不当地从其 A.I. 系统中采集数据来构建这些模型的，他们表示这不应被允许。但像微软和英伟达这样依赖开源模型来刺激其云计算服务和芯片需求的公司则认为，开源软件对于通过共享知识来推进技术至关重要，而且它能让更多的人检查其安全性。而对于硅谷的初创公司创始人来说，限制开源软件可能会巩固 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 在 A.I. 领域的领先地位，批评者认为这可能会不公平地扼杀其他公司构建竞争产品的能力。
“在这个问题上，有两个派系在斗争，”反对限制开源软件的硅谷风险投资家比尔·格利（Bill Gurley）说道。“一群人希望 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 拥有所有一切，然后是包括客户在内的所有其他人。”这件事最终的结果将产生重大
人工智能技术的 “软实力”剧本
作者：STEVE LOHR
首尔——在冷战 era， “软实力”意味着赢得海外 人心与认同的美国电影 和音乐。如今，在数字时代， 中国正在推广一种截然 不同的软实力：其开放且 低成本的人工智能技术。
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在本月的一次演讲中，中国 领导人习近平将所谓的 开源人工智能描述为中国 塑造该技术全球发展雄心的 关键。习近平称赞开源—— 即大部分软件可以被自由 分享和修改——是向全球 传播该技术益处的“难得的 历史机遇”。习近平明确 表示，中国将拥护开放路径， 将其作为依赖美国科技巨头 之替代方案，而美国巨头的 人工智能软件通常是封闭的 且成本更高。
“人工智能的发展不应该是 单个国家的独奏，”习近平 说，“而应该是全球协作的 交响曲。”
在美国领先公司与快速进步 的中国竞争对手之间为争夺 全球主导权而战愈演愈烈 之际，中国正呼吁建立一种 新的人工智能秩序。
像 OpenAI、Anthropic 和 Google 这样的美国公司将 其技术严密掌控，认为保护 底层代码能确保对强大 人工智能系统有更高的安全 性和控制力。
像 DeepSeek、Moonshot AI、 Z.ai 和阿里巴巴这样的中国 公司则拥护开源人工智能。 他们主张这些系统的成本 更低，将加速全球采用，且 安全性并不降低。
布鲁金记录学会（Brookings Institution）研究员、中国技术 政策专家 Kyle Chan 表示， 推广开源人工智能“服务于 中国的双重目标：既提升其 作为包容性人工智能领导者 的形象，又减少全球对美国 人工智能的依赖”。
随着中国公司在人工智能 性能方面的差距迅速缩小， 该国与美国的竞争变得更加 激烈。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 英伟达（Nvidia）的黄仁勋在 他首次发布给 X 的帖子中 表示，他支持同时拥有封闭 模型和开放模型。
这不仅对美国科技产业产生 影响，而且对美中争夺这项 强大技术的主导权之赛跑 也具有深远意义。
虽然中国在开发前沿人工智能 方面起步较晚，但它正在快速 赶上，部分原因在于它对开源 的接纳，这通过公开分享系统 帮助中国实验室提高水平， 并凭借更低的价格赢得了 全球客户。
包括 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 在内的美国人工智能公司 指责中国实验室通过秘密 复制来“蒸馏”其系统，这已 引起特朗普总统政府的关注。
周三，Bessent 先生表示， 政府已考虑对窃取美国公司 知识产权的中国公司实施 制裁。在提到知识产权时， 他表示：“开源并不意味着 可以随意洗劫美国知识产权。”
同一天，Kratsios 先生表示， “旨在窃取美国专利技术并 削弱美国研究的大规模、秘密 工业蒸馏行为是不可接受的。”
一些公司指责部分中国竞争对手不恰当地从其系统中采集数据，以辅助自身技术的开发。上个月，Anthropic 向两名美国参议员发信，指责中国科技巨头阿里巴巴“厚颜无耻地”且“非法地”试图使用 24,000 个欺诈账户复制其技术。阿里巴巴否认有任何不当行为。特朗普政府正严肃对待此类指控。周三，财政部长斯科特·贝森特（Scott Bessent）威胁要对中国人工智能公司实施制裁。“我们支持开源人工智能及其解锁的创新，”贝森特先生在 X 上发帖称，“但开源并不意味着可以随意掠夺美国的知识产权（IP）。”
美国科技高管和投资者还担心，中国的开源技术可能会改变人工智能生产的经济模式。他们的模型效率更高，消耗的计算能力更少。这种创新部分是由必要性驱动的，因为美国的贸易限制限制了获取 Nvidia 最先进人工智能芯片的渠道。如果中国的人工智能替代方案几乎一样好且成本更低——据估计，在某些任务中成本低 50 percent 到 90 percent——它们可能会威胁到美国人工智能领导者的商业计划和极高的估值。而且，为了削减成本，美国的工程师和公司正越来越多地采用中国技术。
智库 Mercator 中国研究中心的资深分析师温迪·张（Wendy Chang）表示，中国的战略是“在全球范围内获取市场份额，即使这不能立即转化为利润”。开源方式的支持者以 Linux（一个开源软件操作系统）为例，将其视为乐观的原因。该软件运行在互联网数据中心的大多数计算机中，并受益于许多人潜心研究代码并进行修正。尽管如此，计算机专家一致认为，人工智能的情况更为复杂。这其中不仅仅涉及代码，尤其是用于训练模型的数据。而且，人工智能模型会形成判断并能进行推理。
此外还存在安全顾虑。一些安全专家坚持认为，开源方式（即同时发布软件和用于训练人工智能模型的数值设置，即“权重”）大大增加了该技术被用于网络攻击甚至帮助制造生物武器的风险。
而且，中国政府对其公司有深远影响。
据四名知情人士透露，美国官员似乎仍在讨论其选择，但更有可能将监管中国开源模型视为一个国家安全问题而分别处理，而不是发布某种全面的禁令。
在公开场合，像 OpenAI 首席执行官萨姆·奥特曼（Sam Altman）这样的科技高管表示，他们支持开源软件，尽管 OpenAI 的盟友在私下为实施限制而游说。其他公司，如 Google 和亚马逊，它们在 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 等公司投入了数十亿美元，在过去一周里一直试图远离这场争端。
但趋势正在发生变化。Google 首席执行官桑达尔·皮查伊（Sundar Pichai）周六在社交媒体上发帖称，他的公司“长期以来受益于开源”，并且是开源的重大贡献者。他补充说，Google 也签署了支持开源的行业信函。
（《纽约时报》已起诉 OpenAI 和微软，指控其侵犯新闻文章的版权。两家公司均否认了这些指控。）
开源与闭源软件之争……
软件争论自科技产业的最早时期起就一直在硅谷上演。开源支持者认为，分享信息能够带来改进，使软件更安全、更可靠，同时更迅速地刺激创新。而反对者则坚持认为，软件开发成本高昂，将其免费赠送纯粹是糟糕的商业行为。如今，现代互联网的大部分运行在开源技术之上，一些应用最广泛的计算机系统也是如此，例如谷歌的 Android 操作系统。
中国政府和科技产业已经接纳了人工智能的开源路径。去年，一家名为 DeepSeek 的中国初创公司推出了一套能够与美国公司匹敌的开源人工智能系统，震惊了业界。其他中国公司也纷纷效仿。在本月的一次演讲中，中国领导人习近平将中国塑造为该技术开放路径的全球冠军。
两名熟悉这些公司内部讨论的人士表示，中国的进步让 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 的高管感到不安，他们日益担心自己长期以来拥有的领先优势正在消失。
“这些美国公司构建了这些庞大且昂贵的模型，然后这些模型被绕道传到中国，在那里失去了所有价值，”华盛顿大学计算机科学与工程系的荣休教授 Pedro Domingos 表示。“美国公司的愤怒是有理由的。”
为了反击，Anthropic 和 OpenAI 正在向那些可能不需要高价“前沿”模型的企业提供一些更便宜的人工智能模型。周五，Anthropic 发布了 Claude Opus 5，该公司将其描述为“以一半的价格提供接近 Fable 5 前沿智能”的模型。OpenAI 也在推广类似的低成本模型。
真正的行动发生在华盛顿。三名熟悉相关讨论的人士表示，OpenAI 和 Anthropic 的高管以及这些公司的投资者在闭门会议中，试图说服监管机构增加对中国开源软件的限制，理由是对全球经济、人工智能安全和国家安全的担忧。
Anthropic 的公共政策负责人 Sarah Heck 在周三的一篇社交媒体帖子中表示，“非法的、对抗性的蒸馏属于知识产权盗窃和工业间谍行为，这支撑了敌对方的军事和情报能力。”Anthropic 的高管声称，基于这些公司的开源模型会引发潜在的数据保护和安全疑虑。
但硅谷公司的闭源模型也有其自身的安全漏洞。上周，OpenAI 披露其测试的一款模型失控并攻击了另一家公司的计算机系统。被攻击的公司 Hugging Face 表示，他们部署了来自 Z.ai 的一个中国开源模型来分析数据并反击攻击。
现在，中国已经概述了一项计划，旨在利用其开源优势——
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在黄（Huang）的帖子之后，微软首席执行官 Satya Nadella 表示赞同，认为开源软件对于“健康的 A.I. 生态系统”至关重要。
（上图）本月在上海举行的世界人工智能大会上 Moonshot 的展位；（左图）活动前的中国国家主席习近平。Moonshot 和习近平主席都支持开源人工智能。
作为一种外交工具。 开源 A.I. 软件作为软实力工具的概念在技术圈内已广为流行。它主张通过说服和渴望（即人们想要的东西）来产生影响力，而非依赖军事力量和经济实力等强制性的“硬实力”。 对于软件工程师以及寻求捕捉下一波技术浪潮的国家来说，开放路径提供了一个低成本的 A.I. 入门通道。 “那些从免费 A.I. 软件中获益的人肯定能意识到这一点，”哈佛法学院教授、技术政策专家劳伦斯·莱西格（Lawrence Lessig）表示。“从政治角度来看，这对中国来说是一个巨大的收益。” 中国作为一个威权强国，在开展海外外展工作时经常使用“开放”的措辞，尤其是针对发展中国家。而且在近年来，中国在这些工作中利用了 A.I.，在数十个国家建立了 A.I. 联合开发和教育中心。今年，中国成立了世界人工智能合作组织，旨在塑造 A.I. 治理原则，并在亲中国家推广 A.I. 的采用和培训。 习先生在演说中承诺将进一步投资。这包括在未来五年内为发展中国家的学生和工人提供 5,000 个 A.I. 培训和研讨项目，以及在非洲、亚洲和拉丁美洲开展新的或扩大的 A.I. 计划。 在习先生发表演说的同一天，共产党官方报纸《人民日报》发表了一篇关于中国在海外 A.I. 投资的文章，列举了一系列培训和联合开发项目。文章在自豪的结论中写道：“中国正在帮助世界各国，特别是全球南方的国家加强能力，赢得了广泛的国际认可和支持。”
该公司的软件过于危险，不能任其肆意运行。OpenAI 的高管在上个月的一篇博文中表示，他们正敦促特朗普总统政府制定政策，要求政府机构监督的部分新 A.I. 模型必须进行强制性安全评估。OpenAI 表示，它与政府就该框架所做的工作受到了“鼓励”。 开源支持者在过去一周里一直在鼓劲支持，以抵制 OpenAI 和 Anthropic。周三，近 200 家硅谷初创公司（自称为“小科技协会”，Little Tech Association）签署信函，敦促特朗普总统政府不要限制对中国开源模型的访问。随后，大科技公司也纷纷效仿。周五，埃隆·马斯克、Meta 的马克·扎克伯格、奥尔特曼先生以及其他人排在黄先生和纳德拉先生之后，利用其公司的影响力支持开源，皮查伊先生在周六也加入了进来。 “詹森是对的，”马斯克在帖中写道。“我全力支持。” “开源是一种积极且重要的力量，”扎克伯格写道。 上周发生的一起事件凸显了这一分歧的利害关系。上周，OpenAI 披露，在一次网络安全能力测试中，其少数几个最先进的 A.I. 模型突破了限制，获得了互联网访问权限，并入侵了一家名为 Hugging Face 的 A.I. 公司的服务器。OpenAI 的高管抓住这一时刻，将其作为证明即使在封闭环境中 A.I. 模型也可能具有危险性的证据，并强调了监管的必要性。 Clement Delangue 是 Hugging Face 的首席执行官，该公司是最受欢迎的开源软件在线库之一，他持有不同的观点。为了防御 OpenAI 的入侵，他求助于由中国 Z.ai 创建的一个开源 A.I. 模型。在周五的社交媒体帖中，Delangue 先生在这次辩论中明确表达了他的立场。 “开源模型获胜！”他写道。
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随着债务追收诉讼堵塞了州和地方法院，人们正努力利用新的法律保护，并在某些情况下借助人工智能的帮助，来援助资金紧张的消费者。
皮尤慈善信托基金会 (Pew Charitable Trusts) 法院与社区高级经理、本月一份关于追收诉讼报告的共同作者莱斯特·伯德 (Lester Bird) 表示，追收诉讼可能是由旧债引起的，但它们加剧了人们如今面对高昂汽油价格和食品价格时所感受到的压力。
“案件增加意味着在人们感到更加拮据的现在，他们面临的财务困境更多了，”伯德先生说。
当借款人未能支付信用卡账单、医疗账单或其他债务时，企业或债务追收员会提起债务追收诉讼。债务判决可能会给借款人带来严重后果，例如工资被扣押或银行账户资金被划走。
伯德先生表示，原贷款机构或企业已注销的逾期账户，越来越多地被大型债务购买公司以折扣价收购，这些公司可能会为了追回款项而提起诉讼。
伯德先生补充道，逾期债务可能会被多次买卖；由于提起诉讼的公司名称通常与借款人熟悉的信用卡公司不同，借款人可能会忽略关于该债务的通知。
“他们认为这是诈骗，”他说。
如果债务人没有出庭，他们通常会因缺席而败诉，这可能导致其工资被扣除。在这些案件中，很少有债务人拥有律师代表。
追收诉讼增加的原因是什么？
研究人员表示，有几个因素可能在起作用，包括美国人不断上升的债务水平。根据纽约联邦储备银行的数据，今年前三个月，信用卡债务从一年前的 $1.18 万亿美元上升到 $1.25 万亿美元，而信用报告中拥有追收账户的借款人比例略有恶化，达到 5%。
研究债务追收和驱逐案件的斯坦福大学法学教授大卫·弗里曼·恩格斯特罗姆 (David Freeman Engstrom) 表示，技术使得债务购买者更容易购买和分析大批逾期账户，从而使从余额较小的案件中榨取利润成为可能。（去年，国家州法院中心的一份报告提出，使用人工智能的备案系统可能部分推动了债务索赔的增加。）
“这极其简单，而且边际成本已经降低，”恩格斯特罗姆教授说。他表示，债务追收行动是州法院中提起最频繁的民事诉讼，并补充道：“法院正被这些案件堵死。”
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随着一系列重磅 IPO 催生出一批新的超级富豪，非营利组织正急于研究如何从中分得一杯羹。
大学的筹款部门正在列出潜在的“白鲸”名单，慈善机构的高管们则在进行初步计算，为这场可能创造数千亿美元新捐赠的、一代仅一次的意外之财做准备。
有些人则不那么乐观。近年来，一种针对慈善捐赠的亿万富翁反弹情绪开始出现，因为世界上最富有的一小部分人认为，商业成功而非慈善事业才是回馈社会的最佳方式。
但 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 的创始人——两家公司都被预期将成为史上规模最大的 IPO 之一——与“有效利他主义”有着深厚的联系，这是一种旨在最大化捐赠效果的慈善哲学。
而且，即使是那些没有特别慷慨之情的人，也可能会被变现高增值股票所带来的税收负担所打动：如果他们出售，例如 $10 million（1000万美元）价值的股票，他们可能会面临超过 $3.5 million（350万美元）的税单。
“经常可以看到大量低成本、高收益的股票落入那些完全不知道什么是退出策略的人手中，”家族办公室咨询公司 Two Hawks 的创始人兰迪·福克斯 (Randy Fox) 表示，“消除资本利得税的唯一途径之一就是使用慈善工具。”
由于顾问们也有动力收取设立慈善信托和基金会的费用，据某些估计，非营利部门每年可能会获得超过 $100 billion（1000亿美元）的资金注入。
次级意外之财 支付处理器 Stripe 的公共产品负责人南·兰索霍夫 (Nan Ransohoff) 进行了初步计算，以确定这次意外之财规模有多大。
根据当前的估值，她算出拥有 OpenAI 26 percent（26%）股份的非营利组织 OpenAI Foundation 在公司上市时将拥有约 $220 billion（2200亿美元）的流动资金。
Anthropic 的七位创始人预计最早在今年秋季将进行一次巨大的 IPO，他们每人都承诺捐出其财富的 80 percent（80%），这可能高达约 $90 billion（900亿美元）。Anthropic 还设有慈善匹配计划，
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据 Pew 报道，引用数据科学咨询公司 January Advisors 对八个州的研究称，催收诉讼的数量在 2020 年至 2022 年的疫情期间有所下降，但此后大幅增加。2025 年，阿拉巴马州、马萨诸塞州、明尼苏达州、密苏里州、北达科他州、德克萨斯州和犹他州的催收诉讼超过了疫情前水平（弗吉尼亚州除外），部分州创下了新高。例如，犹他州的债务申请数量有望超过其最近的峰值（该峰值出现在大衰退之后）。
Pew 报道称，在该公司跟踪的九个主要大都市区中，有七个出现了同样的趋势，包括密苏里州的圣路易斯县，该地的申请量在 2019 年至 2025 年间几乎翻了一番。
各州在采取什么措施帮助借款人？ 今年，弗吉尼亚州加入了其他十几个州，要求银行在 [此处文本中断] 预留最低限额的现金。
受债务追偿判决影响的消费者账户。弗吉尼亚州于 7 月 1 日起生效的法律保护消费者银行账户中至少 $1,000 的资金免于被扣押；人们无需出庭请求该项保护。
伯德先生（Mr. Bird）表示，弗吉尼亚州的法律并不提供债务豁免。相反，借款人在偿还债务的同时，拥有一笔缓冲资金以覆盖基本开支。
一些州还采取了相关法律，以帮助消费者更容易地理解他们为何被起诉、被谁起诉以及可以通过什么方式进行自我辩护。弗吉尼亚州和华盛顿州今年通过立法，要求寻求缺席判决的催收公司必须证明被起诉的人员正确且确实欠债，并且诉讼在诉讼时效内（通常为借款人停止还款后的 3 到 6 年）。皮尤（Pew）表示，这些将于明年生效的法律还要求法院确认文件的准确性。
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这意味着可能又有 $60 亿资金被拨给捐赠。
兰索霍夫（Ransohoff）在 Substack 的一篇帖子中估计，每年可能有 $37 亿至 $100 亿可用于慈善事业。“你可以全额资助盖茨基金会多次，之后仍有资金可供支出，”她告诉 DealBook。
这甚至还没有包括 OpenAI 的员工，或者由 SpaceX 创造的新富阶层——其 IPO 预计产生了 4,400 名百万富翁（其中约 400 名员工现在的身价超过 $100 百万）。此外，还有许多其他待定的 IPO。根据高盛（Goldman Sachs）的数据，此类公开募股的价值可能会上升到 $160 亿，这将成为有记录以来绝对收益最高的一年。
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税收激励 捐款是避税的一种常用手段：根据政策研究协会（Institute for Policy Studies）的数据，捐赠给慈善机构的每一美元中，最多有 74 美分原本需要缴纳税款。该协会报告称，仅 2022 年的慈善捐赠就导致了 $73 亿的税收损失。
在 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 所在地以及 SpaceX 拥有数千名员工的加利福尼亚州，一些新晋亿万富翁可能也在急于降低其净资产，因为州议会计划对亿万富翁征收一次性 5% 的消费税。这给了他们双重捐款动力。
贝克博茨（Baker Botts）律师事务所的合伙人乔恩·费尔德哈默（Jon Feldhammer）表示，一名持有某顶尖 A.I. 公司 $300 百万股票期权的客户（该公司计划于今年上市）正考虑搬离该州。
“他考虑所有可行的方案，”费尔德哈默说。“我有许多客户正以比我之前见过的更严肃的态度和更庞大的规模考虑离开加州。”
一些常见的捐赠策略包括捐赠股票而非现金以避免资本利得税，以及创建一个向捐赠者（或其继承人）和选定慈善机构分配固定收入的信托。
财富顾问表示，对于准备迎接 IPO 意外之财的年轻员工来说，捐赠者建议基金（donor-advised fund）被证明是最受欢迎的选择。
接收管理国际协会（Receivables Management Association International，一个债务买家和催收公司贸易组织）的外部顾问唐纳德·莫里斯（Donald Maurice）表示，其成员更倾向于直接与借款人达成协议，而不是起诉他们，因为诉讼成本高昂。
“诉讼是最后的手段，”他说。
他还表示，一些城市出台的新规定限制了催收员向逾期借款人拨打电话的次数（例如将于 9 月在纽约市生效的规定），这可能会导致更多诉讼。
“这将减少沟通，并减少解决问题的机会，”他说。
人工智能能否帮助法院处理海量的诉讼？ Pew 报告称，即便在州政府要求提供特定文件的情况下，债务投诉的洪流仍可能使工作人员不堪重负并阻碍彻底审查，从而可能导致针对借款人的不当判决。
今年。这些非营利性慈善捐赠账户允许捐赠者进行可抵税的股票捐赠，然后随着时间的推移将账户资金定向拨给各种慈善机构。Cresset Asset Management 的执行管理董事 Paul Tramontano 表示，这种方式廉价、匿名且简便。“无需申报税单，无需提交备案，”他说道，“这在某种程度上结合了两种方式的优点。”
一种新型的慈善事业 历史上一些最著名的慈善家——洛克菲勒、盖茨、布隆伯格——都创建了私人基金会。但这条路径对于最新一批人工智能领域的百万富翁和亿万富翁来说，可能没有那么吸引人。 LNW Advisors 的遗产规划总监 Brandon Smith 表示，家族基金会“确实需要精心维护和资金投入”。他的客户中包括 10 名以上 Anthropic 的员工，其中一些人在公司上市后预计将获得超过 $100 million 的资金。“大多数这些员工没有那么充足的时间，”他补充道。 Ransohoff 认为，获得意外之财的人可能会有兴趣将目光扩展到传统的慈善组织之外。她说，许多在人工智能领域工作的人节奏很快，更欣赏那些运作起来像创业公司的慈善组织。他们可能愿意进行高风险、高回报的押注。 “我一直在思考：我们是否应该为慈善创业公司建立一个类似 Y Combinator 的机制？”她说道。 Stripe 最近与 OpenAI 基金会、Anthropic、比尔·盖茨等人共同发起了一项 $500 million 的基金，旨在支持预防流感等呼吸道感染的努力。
为了解决这个问题，一些法院正在尝试使用人工智能工具来加速并改善文件审查。洛杉矶县高等法院（美国最大的审判法院）与斯坦福法学院建立了合作伙伴关系，其中包括测试使用人工智能评估债务追收请求。 斯坦福大学法律和计算机科学研究人员的一项初步研究显示，与没有人工智能辅助的审查相比，在人工智能支持下审查案件文件可将错误率降低 53 percent，并将耗时减少 33 percent。 法院发言人 Rob Oftring 在一封电子邮件中表示，高等法院近年来的债务追收案件量“激增”。他表示，该项目处于早期阶段，任何新工具都将经过严格测试，并强调要采取“审慎且谨慎的方法，认识到人工智能的局限性、风险和潜在影响”。
我在哪里可以获得管理债务的帮助？非营利性信用咨询团体可以分析您的预算和支出——通常是免费的——以帮助您保持正轨。他们还可能收取费用，协商一项债务管理计划，由信用卡公司同意让借款人在数年内以较低的利率偿还债务。Titus Milan，28 岁，德克萨斯州一家空调公司的电子商务经理，表示他曾就管理债务向 ChatGPT 寻求建议，这引导他在线获得了非营利性债务咨询公司 Money Management International 的帮助。（他使用的是该聊天机器人的付费版本，并要求其引导他寻找“低风险”的债务管理选项。）Milan 先生表示，在搬到新公寓并购买家具及其他物品后，他的信用卡债务膨胀到了约 $15,000 —— 利率约为 26 percent。他得以进入一个
还款计划将他的总利率降低至 10 百分之，并使其能够在三到四年内还清债务。（他仍在偿还正式计划之外的一些信用卡债务。）公司发言人汤姆·尼特谢（Tom Nitzsche）表示，Money Management International 注意到今年春季来自 ChatGPT 的在线推荐数量有所增加。5 月，当 ChatGPT 的个人财务平台发布时，该公司记录了 3,000 次推荐，高于 4 月的约 1,000 次。（尼特谢先生表示，尽管 Money Management International 可以在该工具上投放广告，但目前并未这样做。）虽然消费者越来越多地寻求 A.I. 服务的财务建议，但隐私专家对向这些工具分享敏感的个人或财务信息表示担忧。您可以通过国家信用咨询基金会（National Foundation for Credit Counseling）或美国财务咨询协会（Financial Counseling Association of America）直接在网上找到非营利性信用咨询团体。
THOMAS FUCHS
普通感冒。 兰索霍夫（Ransohoff）的主要担忧是，缺乏符合那些将从今年超级 I.P.O. 中获益的员工之价值观的组织。她引用了两家慈善组织说道：“在我们讨论的规模下，这需要数百个 Arc 研究所或数千个 Progress 研究所。这在某种程度上是一个关于充足性的故事。”
捐赠并非保证 这些领先 A.I. 实验室的许多员工希望在承诺捐出大部分财富之前，至少享受几年的新财富（即使目前仅是账面财富）。 Tidemark Financial Partners 的财务顾问弗兰克·阿尔瓦雷斯（Frank Alvarez）表示：“他们更难理解这个美元价值在生活中究竟意味着什么。”他表示，他有 26 位在 SpaceX 工作的客户，同时也为来自 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 的员工提供建议。 阿尔瓦雷斯补充说：“从一个积累者转变为一个世界管理者的心理过渡是最困难的方面。” 但费尔德哈默（Feldhammer）表示，最好的税务策略是在公司上市之前很久就开始实施的。他说：“在公司具有价值之前，有很多方法可以大幅改变你的遗产税状况。” 例如，快速增值的私人股份可以放入罗斯个人退休账户（Roth I.R.A.）——从而完全避免纳税，而无需利用慈善手段。 费尔德哈默补充道：“当人们在 I.P.O. 时才来找我们，这太令人难过了。经济账单永远无法让你处于领先地位——除非你具有慈善心态。”
作者：J. HOBERMAN
在 20 世纪 60 年代的几年里，一名来自皇后区的青少年电影制作者芭芭拉·鲁宾（Barbara Rubin）通过将诗人、画家、摇滚乐队和实验电影制作者聚集在同一个房间里，助力撼动了曼哈顿的地下艺术界。在她 18 岁时，她加入了电影制作者兼评论家乔纳斯·梅卡斯（Jonas Mekas）的行列，共同倡导实验电影。她也创作了自己的作品《地球上的圣诞节》（“Christmas on Earth”），这是一部时长约 30 分钟、16 毫米黑白胶片的拼贴电影，展现了裸体和重叠的图像，成为了纽约前卫艺术的基石。她结识了“垮掉派”诗人艾伦·金斯伯格（Allen Ginsberg），据后者描述，她诱惑了他。她还将金斯伯格和鲍勃·迪伦（Bob Dylan）带到了安迪·沃霍尔（Andy Warhol）的工作室——“工厂”（the Factory），那里是快速增长的艺术界亚文化的新中心。鲁宾可能没有将性与药物引入地下文化，但作为该运动中的婴儿潮一代，她注入了一定程度的摇滚精神。她将东村咖啡馆 Le Metro（年轻作家的聚集地）里庄重的诗歌朗诵会，变成了转角破旧酒吧里的即兴舞会，并促使两名常客埃德·桑德斯（Ed Sanders）和图利·库普费贝格（Tuli Kupferberg）将这种精神转化为一支名为 Fugs 的讽刺摇滚乐队。她还陪同沃霍尔及其随从前往了游客陷阱 Café Bizarre，并向他们介绍了一个粗犷的年轻乐队——地下丝绒（the Velvet Underground）。她拍摄了自己参与创造的场景。她最著名且唯一幸存的电影拍摄于 1963 年至 1965 年之间，在借用诗人 lArthur Rimbaud 的《地狱一季》中的一句词作为片名《地球上的圣诞节》之前，它曾有一个无法印刷的暂定标题。这部电影在临床描述上可以被视为一次妇科探索的练习。这部电影本质上具有表演性，首次在电影制作者电影库（Film-Makers’ Cinematheque）放映，与沃霍尔的《外部与内部空间》（“Outer and Inner Space”）共同组成双片展映，两卷胶片并排投影。更常见的情况是，她的电影是以一个图像叠加在另一个图像之上的方式放映。偶尔，她会按顺序放映胶片，或者将其倒放及颠倒播放。她还继续进行剪辑，将一份拷贝剪成四帧的碎片并随机重新拼接。在任何情况下，其内容——交替出现、时而模糊时而漂白但始终扑面而来的裸体纠缠——都是无法被忽视的。评论家艾米·托宾（Amy Taubin）在 2022 年为《Artforum》撰文时，称《地球上的圣诞节》为美国地下电影中“最具有违禁感且最超脱”的作品。
深夜节目的“主持人耳语者” 逝世
作者：理查德·桑多米尔 (RICHARD SANDOMIR)
彼得·拉萨利 (Peter Lassally) 是一位大屠杀幸存者，在近半个世纪的时间里，作为《今夜秀：强尼·卡森主演》(The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson)、《大卫·莱特曼深夜秀》(Late Show With David Letterman) 以及《克雷格·弗格森深夜深夜秀》(The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson) 的顶尖制片人，一直是深夜电视节目的关键人物。他于7月20日在洛杉矶逝世，享年93岁。
他的儿子、电影和电视制片人汤姆 (Tom) 确认了他的死讯，他是在一家记忆护理机构中去世的。
温文尔雅的拉萨利先生深谙脱口秀主持人的成功之道。喜剧演员加里·尚德林 (Garry Shandling) 在2012年告诉国家公共广播电台 (NPR)，拉萨利先生的强项之一是“让主持人明白如何倾听，如何提出观众想要听到的问题，并倾听答案，而不是在脑子里预想着接下来的笑话”。尚德林曾接替卡森先生担任客座主持，后来主演了关于虚构深夜脱口秀的剧集《拉里·桑德斯秀》(The Larry Sanders Show)。
1969年被聘为《今夜秀》的副制片人后，拉萨利先生晋升为制片人，随后成为了
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ESTES—理查德·J. (Richard J.) 理查德·詹姆斯·托马斯博士 (Dr. Richard James Thomas, DSW)，深受爱戴的父亲、祖父、学者、讲述者、导师和朋友，于2026年7月17日因自然原因平静离世。理查德留下了一份关于家庭、服务、学术和同情心的卓越遗产。作为宾夕法尼亚大学社会政策与实践教授，理查德花费数十年时间在国际社会发展、生活质量和全球福祉方面开展开创性研究，同时教育他人延续他的工作。理查德著有大量书籍和学术文章，多次获得富布赖特奖 (Fulbright awards)，在国际专业组织中担任领导职务，并获得了许多社会工作领域的
20世纪70年代的芭芭拉·鲁宾 (Barbara Rubin)。右图为 1966 年在圣马克广场 (St. Marks Place) 举行的安迪·沃霍尔 (Andy Warhol) 沉浸式“爆炸塑料不可避免” (Exploding Plastic Inevitable) 活动中演出的地下丝绒乐队 (Velvet Underground)，鲁宾协助组织了此次活动。她将沃霍尔介绍给了该乐队。
芭芭拉·鲁宾出生于 1945 年 6 月 8 日，是商人莱斯特·鲁宾 (Lester Rubin) 和家庭主妇波琳·(卡茨)·鲁宾 (Pauline (Katz) Rubin) 的第二个孩子。她在皇后区东南部的一个郊区社区坎布里亚高地 (Cambria Heights) 的一栋两家住宅中长大。 在查克·史密斯 (Chuck Smith) 2019 年的纪录片《芭芭拉·鲁宾与爆炸的纽约地下文化》(Barbara Rubin & the Exploding NY Underground) 中接受采访的亲属将她的父母描述为宽容的，而芭芭拉则是任性的。她在高中期间对减肥药成瘾，导致她被送入康涅狄格州新卡南 (New Canaan) 的一家疗养院——希尔山医院 (Silver Hill Hospital)。
鲁宾在 1963 年 6 月出院，当时她刚满 18 岁。她的叔叔威廉·鲁宾 (William Rubin) 当时管理着百老汇外的格拉美西艺术剧院 (Gramercy Arts Playhouse)，他为她在电影制作者合作社 (Film-Makers’ Cooperative) 找了一份工作，担任梅卡斯 (Mekas) 的助手。梅卡斯是一位独立电影的倡导者，该合作社的设立旨在发行地下电影。 “在经历了九个月的精神病院教化之后，出院一周，我就遇到了乔纳斯·梅卡斯 (Jonas Mekas)，他给了我相机和胶卷，还有爱与信任，”她在电影制作者合作社的目录中通过介绍自己的电影这样写道。 她的到来恰逢杰克·史密斯 (Jack Smith) 引起轰动的《烈焰生物》(Flaming Creatures) 的首次放映，该片很快成为了猥亵法案的测试案例。 1963 年 12 月，梅卡斯打算通过在蒂沃利剧院 (Tivoli Theater) —— 一家位于时代广场的低端电影院 —— 放映《烈焰生物》，来颁发他的杂志《电影文化》(Film Culture) 的年度奖项。 当剧院突然取消演出时，鲁宾领导了一场占领行动，直到……
执行制片人，与该节目的另一位执行制片人弗雷德·德科多瓦 (Fred De Cordova) 协作。 在每期节目录制结束后，拉斯利 (Lassally) 先生和卡森 (Carson) 先生会见面讨论哪些环节成功了，哪些没有。 “有时在节目的某一部分，我的倾向比他要消极得多，”拉斯利先生在 2009 年接受电视艺术学院 (Television Academy) 采访时说。“他会对我说：‘在电视上播出的效果会更好，别担心。’ 而我应该是那个安抚他的人。” 后来，在与弗格森 (Ferguson) 先生共事时，拉斯利先生发现最好等到第二天早上再提供客观评估，因为弗格森先生在节目结束后立刻会处于极度亢奋的状态。 这位苏格兰喜剧演员在 2004 年被聘请主持《深夜深夜秀》(The Late Late Show) 时还是个主持新手，他给拉斯利先生起了一个绰号——主持人耳语者。 “他拥有巨大的权威，但为人安静、温和且柔顺，”弗格森先生在……中说。
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……获得了社会工作领域的许多最高荣誉。然而，他最大的自豪感来自于指导他人、协作，并努力让世界在离开时变得比他发现时更好。直到最后一刻，理查德 (Richard) 仍是一名旅行者、冒险家、浪漫主义者，以及一名深受喜爱的社区成员。理查德留下了三个女儿——琳·E·考尔金斯 (Lynn E. Calkins)、维基·E·佩恩 (Vicki E. Payne) (大卫) 和珍妮弗·E·奥康纳 (Jennifer E O'Connor) (托马斯)，他的继女——莎拉·A·林奇 (Sarah A. Lynch) (米奇)，以及他的十二个孙辈（安德鲁、切尔西和瑞安·考尔金斯；伊莎贝拉、杰克、尼克和杰西·佩恩；朱莉亚和布伦丹·奥康纳；以及基兰、卢卡斯和诺拉·林奇）。他的妻子盖尔·布坎南·埃斯特斯 (Gail Buchanan Estes) 先于他去世。他将被……
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右侧的彼得·拉斯利 (Peter Lassally) 与约翰尼·卡森 (Johnny Carson) 以及左侧的《今夜秀》(The Tonight Show) 执行制片人弗雷德·德科多瓦 (Fred De Cordova) 拍摄于一张日期不详的照片中。右图为日期不详的照片。下方为 2005 年与克雷格·弗格森 (Craig Ferguson) 的合影，弗格森称拉斯利先生“拥有巨大的权威”，但“安静、温和且柔顺”。
一次采访中，尽管“有时他会说一些令人难以接受的话，比如，‘你的笑声很诡异，你得改掉。’ 真的吗？”
费格逊先生收到的一条建议至今仍令他产生共鸣。他说，拉萨利先生永远不会拒绝一个笑话，但他会问：“这个笑话值得吗？它有多好笑？如果不够好笑，就不值得。”
拉萨利先生还以在《今夜秀》（The Tonight Show）中挖掘新才，尤其是喜剧演员而闻名。
《深夜班：莱特曼、莱诺与网络的深夜之战》（The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno and the Network Battle for the Night）（1994）一书的作者比尔·卡特在采访中表示：“他希望在常规嘉宾之外寻求扩展，这对卡森来说很重要，因为卡森是一位旧世界的才俊。他必须引入新鲜血液以保持节目的生命力。”
1982年，拉萨利先生发掘了冷面喜剧演员史蒂文
Barbara Rubin
警方清理了该建筑物。 在该月晚些时候，她和 Mekas 将《烈焰生物》（Flaming Creatures）走私进入比利时的一个国际前卫电影节，强行闯入放映室，并在组织者切断电源前设法放映了部分内容，这引发了一场几乎演变成暴乱的骚乱，并登上了《多样性》（Variety）杂志的头版。 根据 Mekas 的说法，这些战斗将 Rubin 从一个表面上害羞的青少年变成了叛逆者，“在幻觉中爆发并燃烧，拍摄...
金斯伯格和迪伦等艺术家的 亚文化。
“她的第一部电影，带着一种 圣洁修女般的兴奋，”他在其 每周一次的《乡村之声》电影专栏中 这样写道，描述他的门生。 当《地球上的圣诞节》于 1965 年 上映时，梅卡斯被触动地写下了 诗篇：“随着电影的推进，一张接一 张的画面，身体最私密的领域 向我们敞开。最初的震惊转化为 沉默，随后又转化为惊叹。” 他提出了一个三段论：“芭芭拉· 鲁宾没有羞耻感；天使没有羞耻感； 因此芭芭拉·鲁宾是一个天使。” 她曾向华特迪士尼寻求支持，希望 拍摄续集《地球上的圣诞节续集》， 该片计划让披头士乐队和迪伦与 伊丽莎白·泰勒等好莱坞影星， 以及小飞侠、小飞象和七个小矮人 等卡通角色同台演出。她的
J. EMILIO FLORES 为《纽约时报》供图
赖特在一家名为 Ding Ho 的波士顿 喜剧俱乐部里，赖特先生是 十几个表演喜剧的人员之一—— 他们都意识到拉斯利先生会在 那里物色人才。 随后，喜剧演员们在停车场里 徘徊，希望能听到一句鼓励的话。 但拉斯利先生在寻找赖特先生， 而后者已经离开了。他后来找到了 赖特先生的电话号码并打电话 预约他。“他如此聪明，如此与众 不同，而且是个非常优秀的男孩，” 拉斯利先生在 2018 年告诉 CBS 新闻。 “而且非常感激——在他出场的 每个周年纪念日，他仍然会给我 打电话再次感谢我。” 彼得·格哈德·爱德华·拉斯利 于 1932 年 10 月 14 日出生于 德国汉堡，父亲保罗·拉斯利是一名 咖啡进出口商，母亲埃尔莎·拉斯利 操持家务。 1938 年，他的家人逃离 纳粹，定居在阿姆斯特丹， 在那里，身为小提琴神童的彼得 继续演奏，而他的姐姐 艾琳则就读于小学。
请求被忽略了。 在与金斯伯格一起飞往伦敦的 航班上，她将一份剧本悄悄递给 同样在飞机上的迪伦，请他交给 披头士乐队。在伦敦，鲁宾是 1965 年 6 月在皇家阿尔伯特音乐厅 举行的“国际诗歌盛会”的组织者。 该活动吸引了 7,000 人参加，包括 米克·贾格尔、玛丽安·费思富尔 和英迪拉·甘地。 她继续开展其他项目，包括与 沃霍尔及其助手合作制作 “爆炸塑料不可避免” (Exploding Plastic Inevitable)，这是一个于 1966 年 4 月在圣马克广场举办的 沉浸式多媒体艺术活动。 1967 年，她在电影制作者电影库 （FilmMakers’ Cinematheque）策划了 一场为期三周的混合媒体盛宴， 名为《毛虫蜕变》。这是一个由 多屏投影伴随现场音乐（包括 阿根廷萨克斯风演奏家加托·巴比耶里 的表演）组成的万花筒式演示， 传单上将该节目描述为“纽约首届 联合致幻速效救济狂欢球与闪光游行”。 鲁宾是重大反文化活动的常客， 如 1967 年复活节的中央公园 “聚集会” (Be-In)，以及 1967 年 10 月前往五角大楼 (美国国防部) 的 反战游行，她与电影制作者 雪莉·克拉克共同参加了此次活动。 她和克拉克想合作拍摄一部 反对越南战争的电影，暂定名为 《Fugs 去西贡》，支持演员阵容 包括作家威廉·S·巴勒斯和 勒罗伊·琼斯（后更名为 阿米里·巴拉卡），但她们 未能获得资金支持。 鲁宾最后的重大项目是创建
与安妮·弗兰克在一起。几年后，他的父亲死于癌症，不久后在 1943，他与母亲和妹妹被送往韦斯特博克（Westerbork），这是位于荷兰东北部的一个纳粹中转营。随后他们被囚禁在当时位于捷克斯洛伐克的特雷齐恩施塔特（Theresienstadt）集中营，在那里，他的妹妹被分在了一组负责建造毒气室的人员中。彼得目睹的暴行中包括一名婴儿被吊在灯柱上。“这对我们所有人来说都是一段艰难的时光，”他告诉美国国家公共广播电台（NPR）。全家人幸存了下来，并在 1947，乘船前往纽约，在皇后区定居。彼得毕业于纽敦高中（Newtown High School），开始了他的演艺事业，起初在无线电城音乐厅（Radio City Music Hall）担任引导员，随后在 NBC 担任页童。在 20 世纪 50 年代，他为 NBC 广播网络制作了全国播出的节目，包括《Monitor》和《Nightline》，期间他雇佣了像迈克·尼科尔斯（Mike Nichols）和伊莱恩·梅（Elaine May）这样崭露头角的喜剧天才。从 1961 到 1962，他还制作了由迈克·华莱士（Mike Wallace）和乔伊斯·戴维森（Joyce Davidson）主持的深夜电视访谈节目《PM East/PM West》，以及与那个 era. 的超级巨星亚瑟·戈弗雷（Arthur Godfrey）合作的广播和电视节目。他与《今夜秀》（The Tonight Show）的联系是通过卡森先生的第二任妻子乔安娜·卡森（Joanne Carson），她听说了他为戈弗雷先生工作的情况，并请他为她制作一部电视试播集。虽然该集从未拍摄，但她帮助他获得了在她丈夫手下工作的机会。在 2014 一次与《卡森播客》（The Carson Podcast）的访谈中，拉斯利先生描述了他与德科尔多瓦先生（该节目更知名的执行制片人之一）的工作关系。“他扮演‘快乐先生’并与嘉宾套近乎，而我不喜欢那样做，”拉斯利先生说，“于是所有的工作都由我来做。”他与罗伯特·莫顿（Robert Morton）的关系则有所不同，后者是他 1992 年搬到 NBC 参与制作莱特曼先生的《深夜秀》（Late Night）节目时的共同执行制片人。
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……东山农场（East Hill Farm），这是一个位于纽约州北部的波希米亚公社，由金斯堡资助，成员多为他的朋友。鲁宾将其构想为一个她可以定居并与金斯堡共同养育孩子的地方；但金斯堡并不认同她的想法。农场居民、摄影师戈登·鲍尔（Gordon Ball）表示，鲁宾因此心碎，并在附近的一家正统犹太孤儿院中寻求慰藉。她在皇后区法洛克威（Far Rockaway）的耶希瓦（Yeshiva）学校跟随富有魅力的拉比什洛莫·弗赖费尔德（Shlomo Freifeld）学习，并在 1971 年与一名同学莫德凯·列维（Mordechai Levy）举行了一场传统的正统犹太婚礼并结婚，金斯堡和迪伦（Dylan）也出席了婚礼。鲁宾拍了最后一部电影《Emunah》（希伯来语意为“信仰”），她向梅卡斯（Mekas）将其描述为“一部探讨集中营经历的电影”。该片随后失传。鲁宾与列维离婚后，嫁给了出生于法国的画家以色列·艾萨克·贝桑松（Israel Isaac Besancon），并在 1973，两人搬到了法国东部的艾克斯-莱班（Aix-les-Bains），该镇以大屠杀后犹太人重生的避难所而闻名。她于 1980 年 9 月 17，在产下第五个孩子后死于产后感染。她当时 35 岁。两年后，梅卡斯组织了《地球上的圣诞节》的放映。他还存档了他们大量的往来书信，将她的作品从被遗忘的边缘拯救出来，并制作了一部短片《把爱献给芭芭拉·鲁宾》（To Barbara Rubin With Love，2006）。2013，人类电影档案库（Anthology Film Archives）和 Boo-Hooray 画廊放映了她的电影，并展出了她的笔记、信件及相关摄影资料。次年，电影学者阿拉·奥斯特维尔（Ara Osterweil）在《肉身电影：美国前卫电影中的身体转向》（Flesh Cinema: The Corporeal Turn in American Avant-Garde Film）一书中，将鲁宾与激进女权主义艺术家卡罗莉·施尼曼（Carolee Schneemann）和小野洋子（Yoko Ono）放在同一语境下讨论。2018 年出版的最后一期《电影文化》（Film Culture）杂志专门探讨了“芭芭拉·鲁宾的传奇”。史密斯的《芭芭拉
“Rubin & the Exploding New York Underground” 随之在 2019 年推出，而托德·海因斯 2021 年的纪录片 “The Velvet Underground” 则证实了鲁宾在市中心前卫场景中的核心地位。鲁宾完全超凡脱俗，她在 20 世纪 60 年代就像一个人类交换机，在社交网络出现之前就将诗人、电影制作人和摇滚音乐家连接在一起。她的路径轨迹不可思议，从坎布里亚高地出发，穿过市中心的地下世界，最终升华为哈西德神秘主义。她留下的电影、唱片和记忆虽零碎，但它们表明，她所建立的联系以及由此产生的生活，是她持久的成就与谜团。
在卡森先生退休后，以及一年后在 CBS 播出的莱特曼先生的 “Late Show” 节目中。 正如莫顿先生在一次采访中所说：“我负责运营节目，但皮特是引导我们将节目从 12:30 的节目转变为 11:30 节目的人。没有人比皮特更了解 11:30。” 在这位喜剧演员试图接替卡森先生主持 “The Tonight Show” 但失败期间（该职位最终由杰·莱诺获得），拉萨利先生是莱特曼先生的关键心腹。《深夜班》(The Late Shift) 的作者卡特先生表示，拉萨利先生曾促成莱特曼先生与 NBC 总裁鲍勃·赖特的一次会面，这次会面几乎促成了一项提议，让莱特曼先生在莱诺先生与 “The Tonight Show” 的第一份合同到期后接替莱诺先生担任主持人。 拉萨利先生还建议莱特曼先生聘请经纪人迈克尔·奥维茨，后者处理了一系列
卡森、弗格森 和莱特曼主持的 电视脱口秀的制作人。
的一系列报价，最终导致莱特曼先生成为了 CBS《深夜秀》（Late Show）的主持人，该节目在 11:30 ——实际上，在现代 era, 11:35 —— p.m. 与《今夜秀》（The Tonight Show）竞争。 与CBS的那笔交易还让莱特曼先生的制作公司 掌控了 12:30 a.m. 的时间段， 《深夜深夜秀》（The Late Late Show）便在该时段播出。 三年后，当拉斯利先生离开《深夜秀》时， 他同时也是《深夜深夜秀》的执行制片人， 该节目在 1995 到 1999. 期间由新闻人汤姆·斯奈德主持。 当弗格森先生担任主持人时，拉斯利先生于 2005 到 2014 期间回归经营该节目。 除了儿子，拉斯利先生还留下了一名女儿 安德里亚·吉宾（Andrea Gibbin）和四个孙辈。 他的妻子爱丽丝（格肖）·拉斯利（Alice (Gershon) Lassally）于 2019 逝世。 拉斯利先生表示，在他加入《今夜秀》后不久， 卡森先生在醉酒时向他倾诉，认为自己不配拥有这份工作。 “我想，‘哇，这将会是一段艰辛的旅程，’”他在 接受电视艺术学院采访时说道。 “但在所有那些年里，那是唯一一次他完全失控 并揭露其内心恐惧的时候。”
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一位艺术家兼政治 战略家，在某种程度上 是白宫的文化沙皇。
作者：扎卡里·斯莫尔 (ZACHARY SMALL)
华盛顿 —— 马修·泰勒在特朗普政府中正式 担任一个职位，即国家人文基金会的资深顾问， 但他已悄然成为总统许多大胆计划背后的关键人物， 旨在改造华盛顿及其文化遗产。 今年，特朗普总统任命泰勒进入美术委员会， 这是一个审查当地政府建设项目的联邦机构， 用于为白宫舞厅和全球最高凯旋门等项目 提供形式上的批准。他获得了一个监管 美国英雄国家花园的职责， 该计划将在首都安装 250 座新雕像。 泰勒为白宫关于史密森学会的尖锐报告提供了咨询， 该报告指责美国国家历史博物馆推行“极端 意识形态激进主义”。而且，他经常出现在 美国馆内。
放弃掌控权来挽救 关系的讯息正引起共鸣。
作者：维维安·叶 (VIVIAN YEE)
劳拉·多伊尔（Laura Doyle）是畅销书《屈服的妻子》 以及其他几本承诺教女性挽救婚姻的书籍作者， 无论丈夫看起来多么笨拙。 她问了我一个问题，我是一名来到南加州 采访她的记者。“你霸道吗？”她轻声问我，几乎带着羞涩。 “你控制欲强吗？” 我想到了我的前任，因为我催促他戒烟、 多出门、吃我想吃的东西，以及在我的公寓里 脱掉鞋子，他便给我贴上了“控制欲强”的标签。 “嗯，”我结巴道，“有些人可能会这么说。” 多伊尔女士在她的象牙色沙发上看着我， 她结婚 36 年的丈夫约翰·多伊尔（John Doyle）就在她身边。 “他们会这么说吗？”她说道，声音温暖， 我没有察觉到任何评判之意。
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跑龙套 变成 科幻片 男主角
作者：艾什莉·斯宾塞 (ASHLEY SPENCER)
洛杉矶 — 当凯文·萨斯曼 (Kevin Sussman) 在《生活大爆炸》中饰演那个失意的漫画书店老板斯图尔特·布鲁姆 (Stuart Bloom) 时，他会在片场通过阅读道具来消磨时间，挑战自己完全沉浸在故事中，直到轮到他念台词。
现在，那个漫画书店的场景为一个新的衍生剧重新搭建了起来，但萨斯曼再也没有时间阅读那些商品了。作为《斯图尔特未能拯救宇宙》(Stuart Fails to Save the Universe) 的领衔主演，他进入了一个未知的领域：成为了演职员表的首位。
“我从未真正有过 10 年计划或职业目标，除了持续工作并扮演有趣的角色，”萨斯曼说。“在很大程度上，我的想法就是：有什么机会？我能得到什么？另外，还要保证我的医疗保险。”
由查克·洛尔 (Chuck Lorre) 共同创作的《斯图尔特未能拯救宇宙》是极受欢迎的《生活大爆炸》的第三部衍生剧，后者同样由洛尔共同创作。该剧在 CBS 播出了 12 季，并于 2019 年完结。
但与 straightforward 的家庭情景喜剧前传《少年谢尔顿》(Young Sheldon) 和《乔治与曼迪的第一次婚姻》(Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage) 不同，于周四在 HBO Max 首播的《斯图尔特》是一部科幻喜剧。它更接近于《神秘博士》(Doctor Who) 和《良地》(The Good Place)，而非其前作。
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凯文·萨斯曼在 HBO Max 的《斯图尔特未能拯救宇宙》中饰演那个低调的主角。
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我不会否认这一点，我告诉她。但我自己也有一个问题。考虑到多伊尔女士认为自己是一位女性主义者，一位野心勃勃、能力出众，且在独立意识的培养下长大，并经营自己的公司近四分之一个世纪的女性——考虑到这一切——她在将女性（包括她自己）描述为“爱发号施令”和“掌控欲强”时，是否会犹豫？因为这就是她书籍的前提，也是她自 1999 年以来通过出版、博客、广播、播客以及向她的国际关系教练网络传达的信息。这位 59 岁的多伊尔女士自称曾是“悍妻”，她在年轻妻子时期认为自己比丈夫更懂，因此“唠叨”他要健康饮食、按时保养车辆，以及穿她认为应该穿的衣服。而恳求和哄骗只让丈夫调大了电视音量，并将他推离了他们的床。她所传播的信息是，在婚姻陷入“低谷”时，她不情愿地开始采纳那些幸福妻子的建议：练习感恩；为自己削弱丈夫的男子气概且不尊重他而道歉；隐喻性地用“强力胶带”封住自己的嘴以抑制批评；让自己随时准备好进行性生活；并放弃控制权——甚至是财务控制权，即便这意味着因为丈夫忘记支付电费而导致家里陷入黑暗（这确实发生过）。她认为照顾好自己（午睡、沙滩排球）会让她的状态更好。试图改变丈夫毫无效果，但改变自己让她获得了一直梦寐以求的婚姻。亲密感如此强烈地回归，以至于在结婚九年后，她采用了丈夫的姓氏。她将这些发现称为“亲密技巧”，认为这对其他妻子同样有效，即使是那些面临虐待、出轨或丈夫有成瘾问题的妻子。她认为，无论现代的性别平等观念如何，女性在根本上与男性不同。许多女性具有掌控欲，因此不快乐。成为一名“顺从的妻子”将拯救你的婚姻，但可能也会拯救你自身。美国的性别关系状态糟糕。倾向于自由主义的异性恋女性抱怨“异性悲观主义”，即认为与男性约会最终会以泪收场。年轻女性越来越多地拒绝结婚；而在某些网络空间，离婚正成为热门话题。Z 世代女性是美国最激进的人群，随着更多 Z 世代男性支持特朗普总统，她们进一步向左翼偏移。许多男性圈（manosphere）中极右翼的网络愤青将女性描绘成单纯的征服对象，是为服务男性而存在的生育机器。男性圈的一个分支——“红丸女性”认为，男性（婚姻中的“船长”）天生占据主导地位，而女性（“大副”）天生顺从。自称红丸女性的人可能只是极少数，但她们体现了美国右翼一个日益明显的公理，即女性主义才是所有问题产生的地方。如果有人问她们该读什么书，她们的答案通常是劳拉·多伊尔。她们的哲学与多伊尔女士的观点有着明显的对称性，后者认为男性具有保护和供养的驱动力，“就像需要氧气一样需要尊重”。她说，想要丈夫渴望并珍惜自己的女性应该“抛弃平等的神话”。她们不应表现得像“个头更小、毛发更少的男人”，因为认为丈夫不会做或做不对而承担所有事情，而应实践温柔、脆弱和女性特质——她所谓的女性特质是指接受礼物、赞美，以及在携带行李、驾驶和家务方面接受帮助。她过去常告诉那些拥有虐待狂或酗酒丈夫的女性
或者建议出轨的丈夫离开，但后来她撤回了该建议，称她听到了太多关于此类妻子利用这些技巧挽救婚姻的故事。她说，如果你想离开，那就离开；但如果你想修复关系，你可以做到。你当初嫁给他是有原因的。“我怎么能评判呢？”她在我们的采访中说。“我不该说留下来，也不该说离开，我根本不应该开口。”她的格言之一是“你是你自己生活的专家”。将劳拉·多伊尔（Laura Doyle）解读为某种“男权圈”（manosphere）辩护者的偏差在于，太多各种类型的女性都对她深信不疑。有些人可能会认为，这仅仅是因为父权制已根植于我们所有人之中。无论如何，美国及其他地区的异性恋女性显然渴望像她这样的人提供的慰藉：在一个异性恋宿命论的世界里，一个异性恋乐观主义者。自从多伊尔女士在 1999 年自行出版《臣服的妻子》（The Surrendered Wife）并最终登上《纽约时报》畅销书名单以来，她的书籍已在 30 个国家以 19 种语言出版。朋友们开始臣服，随后是她们的朋友，接着是全国乃至全球的女性。正统犹太教妻子将她的书强推给准新娘；福音派基督徒和虔诚的穆斯林妻子也选择了臣服。但许多世俗或并非特别虔诚、认为自己强大且自立的女性——无论是医生、律师、企业主还是家庭主妇——也是如此。“当我看到书名时，我几乎要呕吐了，” 66 岁的达琳·戴维斯（Darlene Davis）说，她是一名新泽西州的平面设计师，在感情陷入困境时发现了《臣服的妻子》。这发生在 2001 年西蒙与舒斯特出版公司（Simon & Schuster）出版该书不久，封面装饰着一朵红玫瑰。“但两周之内，我就看到了变化。”在臣服之前，戴维斯女士描述自己是一个“极端的男性抨击者”，经常和大家一起开男性弱点的玩笑。她对臣服后的诊断是：“因为我是一个强大、独立且知道如何办事地女性，我一直在做所有这些事情，告诉他穿什么，并代替他发言，”她说。“这在商业和其他事情上很有效，但对他来说并不好。他是一个非常有男子气概的男人。他需要尊重。”不久，她就发现未来的丈夫在挑选订婚戒指。戴维斯女士最终成为了首批通过劳拉·多伊尔认证的关系教练之一，该群体目前在全球包括 600 多名女性。这家公司的使命是“结束全球离婚”——据称，全球已有 15,000 多名女性通过包括“极其幸福的妻子”在内的项目接受了劳拉·多伊尔的指导，而其他人则在接受私人指导。45 岁的非暴力沟通顾问阿曼达·布莱恩（Amanda Blaine）在 20 多岁时被一群接受多边p关系（polyamory）并避开“男人”和“女人”等性别化词汇的进步主义者包围。由于对刻板的女性特质感到不适，她曾短暂地认同自己为性别酷儿（genderqueer）。在冠状病毒大流行期间，一次分手引导她阅读了《被赋能的妻子》（The Empowered Wife，2017 年出版）。在阅读其中一个章节时，她觉得多伊尔女士就像在监视她的感情生活一样。这些技巧很快让布莱恩女士与男友复合。那年 12 月，她开始了教练培训，她说这让她获得了足够的自我认知，从而决定永远离开她的男友。（她
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现在的劳拉和约翰·多伊尔， 上方为他们的结婚照。 在结婚几年后出现问题时， 她寻求的建议让她走上了 成为畅销书作家（右图） 并建立一个关系教练网络（下图）的道路。
臣服“帮我学会尊重自己， 并让我在事业上比以往 任何时候都更加成功”。
想要孩子；但他并不想。）现在布莱恩女士已幸福地结婚并育有一个小儿子，她向女性传授这些技巧，其中一名学员拥有非二元性别的伴侣，她鼓励她们跳出陈旧语言的局限。“你不需要成为一个与男人在一起的女人才能够放弃对伴侣的控制，”她说，“这仅仅关乎如何在一段关系中做一个完整的人。”但她承认，承认自己是“一个想要生育孩子并希望被男人宠爱的女人”并非易事。朋友们对这些技巧嗤之以鼻。一名朋友预测，她教练计划的同学们将走向离婚。她与另一位朋友闹掰了，对方问她：“为什么你非要称自己为‘女性化’？”一位导师说，被告知要“尊重”丈夫让她感到退缩。这听起来像是屈从。但布莱恩女士在看着周围的女性离婚时，希望她们能掌握这些技巧。“也许因为围绕着女性赋权的另一种叙事，你错过了一些关于与那个你想共度一生的人之间可能实现的事情，”她说。听她说话让我想起我的某些朋友，他们尽管质疑婚姻制度依然结婚，尽管批判传统的核家庭依然生育孩子——那是女性经典的困境：自由与爱，从未被解决，且在“传统妻子”（tradwife）时代显得尤为复杂。我读过一些调查，称当今时代的女性仍然希望男性能够支撑家庭。合情合理！但同样地，传统很难被撼动。在加州科罗纳德尔马宽敞的客厅里，丈夫为她建造的蓝色瓷砖泳池在外的推拉门后闪烁，劳拉·多伊尔告诉我，她知道自己听起来很过时，甚至很落后。但她并非被指责地告诉其他女性那样成为一个“垫脚石”。她的抱负和独立依然存在，“但我认为你实际上可以解析出那种控制感，”她说。她说，控制源于恐惧；她宁愿让积极心态主导。她说，臣服“帮我尊重自己，并让我职业生涯比以往任何时候都更成功”。尊重并敬重你自己，而不仅仅是你的丈夫，是多伊尔女士的主要处方之一。她和我采访的劳拉·多伊尔教练们表示，这些技巧帮她们优先考虑自己的需求，停止为孩子或家务而“自我牺牲”，照顾好自己，抛弃怨恨和指责，并获得尊严与谦卑。
“我们问：‘你想要什么？’我们绝不问：‘他想要什么？’”南加州的教练马里莎·兹韦托（Marissa Zwetow），49岁，说道。“这并非顺从。”
她们说，她们同样希望男性能做得更好。但如果我们被困在现有的世界中，而非我们想要的世界，唯一能让这些女性感到赋权的事情就是改变她们自己。这是一种精神上的魔术，将在我看来真正像是某种异性恋式无奈（以及异性恋式绝望）的东西，转化为异性恋式的希望。（尽管并非绝对主义：多伊尔女士强调女性始终可以选择离开。）
多伊尔女士将手放在丈夫的手上，说道：“我认为，如果我们想要被爱，而不仅仅是拥有事业，这是没问题的。”
我询问70岁的多伊尔先生，他是否认为男性可以做得更多。他说他妻子的自我提升帮助他进步了。
此前，“你觉得你所做的一切”
“会变得正确，”他说。现在，“我更愿意提供帮助并采取行动，”他说，“因为我不会仅仅因为我本身的样子而不断遭到拒绝或批评。”多伊尔女士在加利福尼亚州的亨廷顿海滩长大，是一个动荡婚姻中的长女。她的母亲是一名小提琴演奏家兼护士，经常催促在医院从事X光检查的父亲赚更多钱。她教导多伊尔女士不要依赖男人，并给她播放 1972 年马洛·托马斯（Marlo Thomas）的唱片《Free to Be . . . You and Me》，这是一张具有开创性的儿童专辑，轻柔地歌唱着一个没有传统性别规范的平等世界。多伊尔女士在高中时期搬出家门，当时她父母的婚姻彻底破裂。在圣何塞州立大学，她遇到了多伊尔先生，一名搬到隔壁居住的视频制作人。她在 22 岁时与他结婚。四年后，她写道，她确信自己嫁错了人。由于太尴尬而不敢离婚， she 寻求婚姻幸福的女性的建议。她们的建议让她感到恐惧。“‘这些东西听起来太疯狂了’，”她回忆起当时的想法，“我担心如果留在一段被虐待的关系中，我会让全世界的女性主义者失望。”在绝望之下，她还是尝试了。她写道，当想要批评或微观管理时，她会问自己更想要什么：是掌控感还是连接感。她对自己重复“臣服”（surrender）这个词，这是“停止尝试控制一切”的简写。很快，她开始向朋友们传播这个福音，朋友们请求她将其写下来分享给其他朋友。多伊尔夫妇自行出版了结果。她说，当西蒙与舒斯特（Simon & Schuster）出版公司接手时，出版商想舍弃那个“她真的这么说过吗”风格的标题，但由于当时已经产生了太多的关注。她参加了《观点》（The View）节目；她参加了《今日》（Today）节目。
随后又出了四本书，一部流媒体电视节目和一个播客，多伊尔先生协助制作该播客的视频版本。《臣服之妻》（The Surrendered Wife）在今年夏天发行了 25 周年纪念版。一款“被宠爱的妻子”（Adored Wife）应用程序即将推出。当我拜访她时，多伊尔女士正坐在她花卉壁纸家庭办公室的一把淡粉色办公椅上，对着Zoom会议中聚集的教练培训学员们点头并灿烂地给予肯定。她举起双臂欢呼，并叫出每个人的名字（“特丝！特丝在这儿！”）。有太多值得庆祝的事了。在她的世界里，妻子们极其幸福，而丈夫们全是大好人。“太甜了，”她对一名女性说，对方讲述了如何利用亲密关系技巧，在自己精疲力竭且洗碗机损坏时，让丈夫去处理碗筷。“你拥有一个很棒的男人，凯瑟琳。太棒了。”“听起来你就像是你家的公主，就像我在我家一样，”她对另一名丈夫在未被要求的情况下就清理了厨房的女性说。我不禁想到女性主义者的抱怨：男人每做一项家务都会获得掌声，而女性则被预期理所当然地去做。“必须得说，非常、非常臣服，”她对第三个人说。随着其他参与者表示支持，红心流不断在屏幕上飘过。很难不对这些女性感到高兴，即使她们说的一些事情让我感到震惊。（一名教练告诉我，一名客户在将财务权交给丈夫后最终破产。她将维持关系置于责备他之上。）尽管如此，我还是在想：真的有这么简单吗？而且，真的必须这么难吗？几位受访者承认，这并不适用于她们认识的部分女性，回忆起一两个离开了丈夫的人。然后我找到了詹妮弗·菲尼克斯·艾伦（Jennifer Phoenix Allen）， 45 岁，一名明尼阿波利斯郊外的创伤治疗师。她的 12 年婚姻在二月份跌至谷底。多年来，她一直对他抚养孩子的方式感到沮丧；而他则经历了多年
谎称在观看色情内容。她发现他偷偷录制她的视频。他想要离婚。而她觉得为了他们 8 岁的儿子（患有自闭症和 A.D.H.D.）她必须留下来。于是，劳拉·多尔 (Laura Doyle) 出现了。而且……它起作用了。“接下来的环节是道德困境，”艾伦女士 (Ms. Allen) 说道。因为她是一名女权主义者，她希望她的男人，以及所有男人，都能在不需要她采取那些通常感觉很偷偷摸摸（就像戴上面具一样）的行为时就主动承担责任。因为她认为劳拉·多尔建议要温顺端庄，这让她感到厌烦。因为劳拉·多尔告诉她要放弃对财务的控制权，而她为了安全需要一个独立的银行账户。因为她甚至不确定一夫一妻制和婚姻是否除了是资本主义强加给我们所有人的人为产物之外别无他物。因为如果她必须结婚，难道婚姻不能是两个平等的成年人共同努力使其运转吗？“为什么是我必须做所有这些事情，而他却可以一直保持他原来的样子？”艾伦女士说道。“我很难不直接退后一大步，从社会学角度来看，我们到底是怎么走到这一步的？为什么性别关系如此混乱不堪？”但不可否认的是：他改变了。而且她尝试过的其他任何方法都没有效果。“这是一种转变，从将他视为‘噢我的天，你是个虐待人的自恋狂’，到意识到我之前太过于苛刻，我需要更好地清理我这一侧的街道（反省自身），”她说。“回顾过去，我对丈夫是否比必要的更加严苛？我相信我是的。”
我对我的前男友是否比必要的更加严苛？也许吧。很可能。问题是，我并不是什么“交出的妻子”，而且我现在的男友无论如何都很棒。我对所有受访者都这么说。资深教练戴维斯女士 (Ms. Davis) 告诉我，我一定是在潜意识中实践这些技巧，而且在劳拉·多尔的世界里待了这么久之后，谁知道呢！多尔女士没有这么告诉我。但她确实似乎在温和地暗示，除非我改变我的方式，否则我可能会重复同样的错误。她说，如果她当时是交换丈夫而不是改变自己，她就会发生那样的情况。相反地：在面试前的早晨，多尔先生打扫了厨房。他像往常一样洗了碗。他给她泡了茶。当摄影师来为他们拍摄肖像时，他们依偎在一起。“你的眼睛太蓝了！”劳拉·多尔惊呼道，并抬头对着她的丈夫微笑。
专辑评论 Charli XCX 开启 她的新篇章
这位歌手在《Brat》之后，推出了一部短暂且私人化的新作品。
《MUSIC, FASHION, FILM》 是 Charli XCX 极其傲慢且令人满足地粗粝的第八张专辑。这部作品如今看来，仅仅是一个漫长且偶尔令人疲惫的流行表演艺术的一部分，探讨一个人在经历了一场将其创作者推向新名气高度的意外文化巨浪之后该如何应对。
那就是 2024 年的《Brat》，一张大胆且孤注一掷的专辑。它在享乐主义派对女孩的自我神话（“当我去夜店时，我想随着自己的音乐起舞”）与令人心惊地脆弱的不安全感表白之间来回跳转，将流行歌词重新定义为一种在深夜发给信任群聊的、混乱且无休止的长句子。“我很尴尬地拥有它，但需要同情，”她在一段关于无法企及一线流行巨星的、充满自我厌恶的合成器流行赞歌中这样唱道。
出乎意料的是，《Brat》让她成为了那样的一颗巨星。但它也膨胀成了一个远超音乐本身的现象——关于“Brat Summer”的无尽迷因，伴随着其标志性的粘液绿美学和“哥布林模式”的态度——这冒着将 Charli 变成一个漫画形象，或者更糟，变成一个传统名人的风险。
在《Brat》之前，出生于英国的 Charlotte Aitchison（Charli XCX）在仍然符合流行歌手定义的同时，尽可能地接近地下音乐。十年前，她曾有过短暂的主流成功——作为 Icona Pop 2012 年快节奏神曲《I Love It》和 Iggy Azalea 2014 年像操场挑衅般的歌曲《Fancy》的词曲作者及客串歌手，随后凭借梦幻的《Boom Clap》获得了一首单曲前 10 名的畅销曲——但她迅速转向了一条更具实验性的道路，创作前卫且具有前瞻性的电子流行乐，在小众观众中产生共鸣。
在《Brat》之后的两年里，她在有趣但相对单一的伪纪录片《The Moment》中扮演了一个镜像版的自己；而更成功的是，她为 Emerald Fennell 的时代剧《Wuthering Heights》发布了一张令人陶醉的原声带专辑。它
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想一样可以吃的东西，如果你在它的末尾加上 R 或 CH，可以变成另外两样可以吃的东西。这三样东西分别是什么？
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证明了 Charli 的风格范围远超千禧年后的派对女郎赞歌，但出一张真正能接得上“Brat”的后续专辑的压力依然存在。那么，在人生转折点般的专辑之后，Charli 在《Music, Fashion, Film》中又做了什么？利用她新获得的大众文化资本，去创作那些能让她从体育馆巡演升级到体育场馆的讨好大众的 No. 1 热门单曲吗？不，这张简短、尖刻且毫无悔意的个人新专辑断言——她宁愿用它来创作一部毫不妥协的作品，让她能与一些偶像进行对话，就像她在专辑那抢眼且疯狂的封面上聚集的三个白人男性长辈“神圣三位一体”：艺术摇滚终身追随者 John Cale，曾经的“垃圾摇滚教父”设计师 Marc Jacobs，以及绝对电影的人格化化身 Martin Scorsese。尖锐的法国演员 Vincent Cassel 也出演了 Charli 最新单曲《Camera》的音乐录影带，而她永恒的挚爱、Cale 在 The Velvet Underground 乐队时的前队友 Lou Reed 依然是一个基准点。人们可能会好奇，为什么 Charli 在这张专辑中如此自觉地选择让自己与之对齐的艺术家殿堂全都是年长的白人男性。但是，作为一名研究名声及其感知的学生，她似乎也意识到，像她这样的人——一个 33 岁的混血女性，关注时尚，并以制作所谓的低俗流行音乐而闻名——敢于宣称受到这些严肃艺术家的影响，甚至可能与他们有友谊，这本身就具有某种逾矩之感；而这些艺术家的挑衅与她不同，自带男性、白人和年龄所赋予的庄重感。
不可避免地，如果将其与《Brat》的丰沛以及随后的极具创意和协作性的混音专辑相比，不可否认，这部由 11 首歌组成、时长 30 分钟的《Music, Fashion, Film》是一部次要作品。其中的一些歌曲，如忧郁且焦虑的新婚告白曲《I’m Afraid》或朗朗上口的洗脑曲《2007》，感觉像是随手写下的草稿，如果进一步深化，或许能产生更丰富的内容。但这并不符合《Music, Fashion, Film》的精神，因为它自觉地将自己呈现为一张拥抱、甚至美化仓促之作的专辑。《Brat》让 Charli 足够出名，以至于她的名人地位不再取决于单张专辑是否成为定义职业生涯的成功，而她在这里似乎发现这个念头让她感到自由。如果你能接受它不是《Brat 2.0》这一事实——尽管很多新粉丝无法接受——那么这张新专辑这种“快速且粗糙、第一直觉即最佳直觉”的特质具有很强的感官吸引力。以《Yeah》中那种盲目的、极简的魅力为例，这是一首时髦的拒绝者摇滚曲，Charli 用她经典的冷漠表情，一遍又一遍地重复她多么不想感受任何事情——然后在突然承认时，引导出一段宣泄且爆裂的副歌。
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在其新专辑封面上（左），Charli XCX（上）致敬了三位对她有影响的人：John Cale（最左）；Marc Jacobs（中）；以及 Martin Scorsese。
周六的答案 Gander, ranged, grande, danger
现在她想要感受。(Charli 能够将冷幽默注入到即便最简短的台词中；想想她在像素风格的乐队开场曲《Rock Music》中，仅凭一个简单的“wow”就能传达出的丰富含义。) 另一首亮点歌曲，气势十足的流行朋克热门单曲《Persona》，是 Charli 在《Brat》中完善的那种自我剖析式的抨击歌曲之一，尽管这一次，氛围被圆锯般冰冷的吉他嘈杂声所增强。尽管其主打单曲的歌词幽默且直白（“我觉得舞池已经死掉了，所以现在我们要制作摇滚乐”），但这并不完全是一张传统的摇滚专辑。吉他的声音在抽搐、故障或缓慢地渗出成团的失真，仅仅作为 Charli 的长期合作伙伴——制作人 A.G. Cook（他们的友谊是专辑中最甜蜜的歌曲《Magic Metal Montana》的主题）和 Finn Keane 活泼的数字化想象力的跳板。在这里，他们沉溺于肮脏的质感和衰败状态，就像他们通常沉溺于高度反光的流行光泽一样。如果必须定义一个流派，让我们称之为 Letterboxd-core，以 Charli 经常使用的影迷社交媒体网站 Letterboxd 命名。自《Brat》以来，Charli 还开始了多产的演艺生涯，出演了诸如旅行纪录片独立电影《Erupcja》和恐怖片翻拍作《Faces of Death》等有趣且不为人知的小众作品。（她还在拍摄一部由日本电影制作人三池崇史执导的即将上映的砍杀片，以及一部由 Cathy Yan 执导的艺术界讽刺剧，以及其他项目。）在专辑的亮点之一，那首令人心碎且异常坦率的《Camera》中，Charli 承认她如此热爱演戏，以至于幻想过从流行音乐生涯中“悄悄离场”（French exit）。“这让我想要抛弃我的生活，”Charli 在吉他和弦的伴奏下，带着显而易见的焦虑唱道，讲述她对演戏的新情结。
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14 知情
15 中东统治者
16 “对我来说怎么都行”
18 hit 或 bit 的前缀
19 柑橘味日本酱料
20 操纵他人使其怀疑自己的记忆或经历
22 友好的表情符号
24 缓解（如疼痛）
28 长寿的法医剧集
29 唯一拥有非矩形旗帜的州
30 已婚女性的称谓
33 童话故事的开头词
36 大洋洲一个以圣经国王命名的国家
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42 连锁积木玩具品牌
43 四轮车（简称）
45 被踢出办公室
47 富兰克林·罗斯福或乔治·W·布什的宠物（非正式称呼）
52 作为预防措施
53 电子竞技赛事的选手
58 全部被绑住/忙得不可开交
59 智能手机中去掉屏幕所有颜色的设置... 或者是本谜题的一个特点？
61 奇ihuahua（奇瓦瓦）的货币
62 演员的工作
63 空挡运行
64 反复思考（ruminate over）
65 “蚁刚好” (A Bug's Life) 里的昆虫
66 电池电量耗尽
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4 包含 2000 年代儿童的年龄组
5 [是的，我知道那是笔误]
6 日本餐厅里的鳗鱼
7 寓言的启示
8 “请稍等！”
9 锦标赛的倒数第二轮
10 最后一个希腊字母
...像眨眼的窗帘一样闪烁。她甚至不确定自己是否已经成为一名特别优秀的演员——“即使我演得很烂我也不会感到尴尬”——但这种不确定性给她带来了一种音乐并不总能提供的快感。2024 年 10 月，Charli 发布了一张星光熠熠的混音专辑，作为《Brat》的配套作品，并含蓄地证明了现在有多少 A 级流行明星（Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, Lorde）愿意响应她的号召参与歌曲录制。不过，在这张新专辑中，她只选择了一位客串艺术家……那就是 83 岁的身体恐怖电影大师大卫·克伦伯格 (David Cronenberg)。(这个消息，或许是为了向他 1981 年的邪典经典《扫描者》(Scanners) 致敬，确实让一些人的头脑“爆炸”了。) Charli 的死忠粉——理所当然地被称为“天使”(Angels)——知道她之前在 2022 年专辑《Crash》的标题和结合了性与交通暴力的封面图像中微妙地引用过克伦伯格。
但在这里，克伦伯格出人意料的平静声音成为了焦点。在一段冗长且令人动容的口述结尾中，他讲述了从一次濒死体验中获得的智慧。克伦伯格说，当他躺在人行道上，思考自己是否正在死去时，他想到的不是自己创作的艺术或留下的遗产，而是生命中的人们。他意识到，即使是那些作品流传数世纪的稀有艺术家也不是永恒的：“他们死了，他们离开了。没有人能永远存在。” 这样结束一张专辑是否是一种逃避——一种在暗示一切都无关紧要的方式？相反，Charli 似乎发现这种对转瞬即逝的提醒在艺术上具有解放意义，尤其是在她之前取得成功之后。但即使是在存在主义的遗忘边缘， she 和她的共谋者们也不禁寻找流行音乐的记忆点，因此他们通过将克伦伯格的声音切片并循环成一个有节奏的采样来结束这张专辑：“他们死了，他们离开了——没有人能永远存在。” 尘归尘，土归土，brat 归 brat。
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23 全公司范围的消息
24 海上信号
25 “嗯，当然”
26 沾满油脂
27 “你错失了机会”
31 单链分子
32 回文形式的兄弟姐妹
34 科技评论网站
35 生活在___之上
37 苹果酱领域的 大名鼎鼎之辈
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47 散步时 携带的东西？
48 违反第十 诫命
49 根据 BMI 指数， 像许多 健美运动员一样
50 《高中音乐剧》中的 Zac
51 像发牌一样 分发
54 pH 测试中的 低分者
55 建造
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《新女孩》(New Girl) 和《辍学者》(The Dropout) 的创作者伊丽莎白·梅里韦瑟 (Elizabeth Meriwether) 将在本周推出一部心理惊悚片《愤怒》(Furious)。该剧在很大程度上受到了 1987 年电影《黑寡妇》(Black Widow) 的启发，讲述了对一名被认为为了钱财而杀害丈夫的女性的调查。由艾米·罗瑟姆 (Emmy Rossum) 饰演 FBI 特工爱丽丝·布莱克 (Alice Black)，她正在搜寻一名由洛拉·佩蒂克鲁 (Lola Petticrew) 饰演的行踪诡秘的连环杀手。梅里韦瑟告诉《娱乐周刊》(Entertainment Weekly)，她对“探索女性连环杀手的心理可能性”感到兴奋。前三集将连续播出。周一开始在 Hulu 平台上流播。
尽管玛丽·贝丝·巴罗内 (Mary Beth Barone) 一直在喜剧系列剧《过度补偿》(Overcompensating) 及其与好友兼同行喜剧演员贝尼托·斯金纳 (Benito Skinner) 合作的播客节目《骑行》(Ride) 中分享她的喜剧节奏和金句，但直到现在她才拥有自己的电视单口喜剧特辑。在——于纽约大学斯基贝尔中心拍摄的——《银河大脑》(Galaxy Brain) 中，她探讨了约会软件、生育权利，甚至包括电影《奥本海默》(Oppenheimer)。周二开始在 Netflix 上流播。
斯塔西·施罗德 (Stassi Schroeder) 在《范德庞普规则》(Vanderpump Rules) 中通过制造戏剧冲突并用金句化解而声名大噪，例如：“我不确定我给你带来了什么麻烦，但我现在想要一杯灰皮诺”，以及，“我就是魔鬼，你别忘了”。现在她带着新节目《斯塔西之家》(House of Stassi) 回到小荧幕，该节目记录了她及其核心朋友圈的生活。他们已经成熟了一些，成员包括《范德庞普》的前成员凯蒂·马洛尼 (Katie Maloney) 和施罗德的丈夫博·克拉克 (Beau Clark)。前两集将于周三在 Freeform 播出，随后整个季将在周四于 Hulu 和 Disney+ 上线流播。
详情和时间如有变动，恕不另行通知。
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在一部纪录片系列中，演员汤姆·希德勒斯顿探讨了这座古城的最后一天。
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伦敦——你可能通过汤姆·希德勒斯顿 (Tom Hiddleston) 在漫威电影和电视剧中饰演的北欧恶作剧之神洛基而认识这位英国演员。或者通过他在间谍惊悚剧《夜视经理》(The Night Manager) 中饰演的角色乔纳森·派恩 (Jonathan Pine)。 或者是他广受赞誉的莎士比亚舞台剧表演。 甚至是他跳舞的样子。 但还有另一个他希望你了解的侧面：“业余古典学者”，这是他在《庞贝：与汤姆·希德勒斯顿共度时光》(Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston) 中的屏幕头衔。这是一部由国家地理学会制作的三集纪录片系列，讲述了公元 79 年庞贝古城的最后一天，随后维苏威火山的喷发将这座繁华的地中海城市覆盖在火山灰和浮石之中。 在这部周四开始在 Disney+ 和 Hulu 流播的系列剧中，希德勒斯顿扮演他自己，像一名时间旅行侦探一样在过去与现在的庞贝及其附近的赫库兰尼姆 (Herculaneum) 之间穿梭，遇到戏剧化呈现的古罗马历史人物，并了解他们的身份、生活方式，以及他们如何面对——在某些情况下是幸存于——这场灾难性事件。 这一切的背后，是他对古典世界长期以来的热情，这种热情已经超越了
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欧洲人在美洲活动的最早证据是 11 世纪位于这座岛上的 L’ANSE AUX MEADOWS 维京定居点
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斯库特·麦克奈尔和艾米·罗森出演的《愤怒》(Furious)，这是一部受 1987 年电影《黑寡妇》启发而创作的心理惊悚片。
通过 APPLE TV 狗狗创伤故事，见于《史努比呈现：没有地方像家，史努比》。
纯粹的业余爱好者，这是希德尔斯顿在青少年时期作为拉丁语和希腊语学生开始培养的热情。“我热爱荷马、维吉尔、欧里庇得斯和索福克勒斯，” 45 岁的希德尔斯顿最近在当地索豪酒店的一次采访中说道，期间他用古希腊语朗诵了一行诗，并在交谈中穿插了拉丁语。“我对西欧文明深深着迷，因为希腊-罗马世界在很多方面都是欧洲的根源，”他说道，并指出美国的许多国父都受过古典教育。“在我们的思维方式、语言体系、政治、文化、文学、艺术和建筑体系中，你无法忽视古代世界。”希德尔斯顿在古典学方面的资质是真实的。他在剧集中提到，那个“改变了一切”的时刻出现在 1998 年，当时 17 岁的他与两名朋友在一次欧洲之旅中访问了现代意大利那不勒斯附近的庞贝。
他说，这座城市在数米厚的火山碎屑下被掩埋并保存了几个世纪，在某种程度上已经成为了一个关于死亡的考古纪念碑，受害者们以石膏铸像的形式永恒地留存了下来。“它突然间变得真实起来，这场灾难似乎比 2,000 年前要近得多，”他在采访中说道。如此生动地目睹那场古代悲剧，促使他前往剑桥大学彭布罗克学院攻读古典学学位，并在那里获得了双第一等荣誉学位（double first），这是最高荣誉。“他对古希腊语和拉丁语这两种语言的掌控力极强，达到了非常高的水平，”曾在彭布罗克学院担任他古典学学习指导的托斯滕·迈斯纳教授说。“译文极具才情。”迈斯纳回忆道，希德尔斯顿最痴迷于伟大的希腊悲剧故事，并写了一篇关于悲剧人物的论文，题为《皮拉德是谁？》。 “从一开始就很明显，他的心在古典学上，而且我很快就发现他真的热爱希腊悲剧，这为他的演艺生涯搭建了一座美好的桥梁，”迈斯纳说。
他对古代世界的激情与他对表演的兴趣相并行。在剑桥大学期间，他在 2001 年的一部大学制作的索福克勒斯剧作《厄勒克特拉》中饰演俄瑞斯特斯，那是一次完全使用古希腊语进行的表演。他的专业演艺生涯在他还是学生时就开始起飞，在课程期间就获得了角色。他回忆起在伦敦谢珀顿制片厂拍摄《阴谋》(Conspiracy) (2001) 期间，在等待间隙阅读拉丁语版本的西塞罗。
庞贝剧集的想法在多年后的 2020 年开始萌芽，当时他正在拍摄漫威-迪士尼+制作的《洛基》(Loki) 中的一集，该剧关于一个并非源自希腊而是源自北欧神话的人物。他当时在亚特兰大，出演一个洛基访问古庞贝并说拉丁语的场景，这正是他兴趣的交汇点。“我太开心了，”他说。之后，了解他背景的制片人找上他，询问他是否想重新审视庞贝的故事。他同意了。他说，过去是一个有用的切入点，可以用以对现在提出深刻的问题。“庞贝的故事比我想象的要具有当代意义得多，”他说。正如该系列剧集所强调的，庞贝的毁灭并非瞬间完成。相反，
这座注定毁灭的城市的居民曾有时间去关注包括地震在内的预警，这些预警指向了即将到来的灾难——他认为，这与我们现在面临的各种生态危机具有可比性。 “大自然发送了许多警告，但并非每个人都听从了这些警告，”他说，“我们今天可以从中吸取教训。” 在该系列节目中，随着希德勒斯顿在庞贝和赫库拉努姆之间以及不同时间段之间穿梭，他的工作重点是识别可能在灾难中幸存并成为难民的罗马人。他说，他的教授们向他灌输了严谨溯源的重要性。因此，他在镜头前咨询了一位考古学家、一名心理学家、一名古典学家和其他专家，试图重建这些罗马人的故事。 他说，他的动力部分源于希望让人们对当今面临类似境遇的人产生共情——例如，我们遇到的难民。
回顾洛克比惨剧
1988年12月21日，一架从伦敦飞往纽约的航班在苏格兰洛克比上空爆炸，机上全部 259 人遇难。（地面另有 11 人被杀。）经过多年的调查，美国当局认为利比亚情报部门的特工对此负责，且此次袭击是对 1986 年美国对的黎波里和班加西进行空袭的报复。现在，一部与 BBC 共同制作的虚构剧集《泛美航空 103 号航班爆炸案》(The Bombing of Pan Am 103) 从调查员、洛克比居民以及遇难者家属的视角讲述了这个故事。这部六集系列剧由康纳·斯温德尔斯 (Connor Swindells)、帕特里克·J·亚当斯 (Patrick J. Adams) 和梅里特·韦弗 (Merritt Wever) 主演。周四起在 Netflix 上线。
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演员汤姆·希德勒斯顿 (Tom Hiddleston)（上图）拥有剑桥大学的古典学学位，他是国家地理系列节目《庞贝：与汤姆·希德勒斯顿跨越时空》(Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston)（上图）的主持人。希德勒斯顿第一次访问庞贝是在 1998年（左图），当时他 17 岁。
如果你无法前往芝加哥，或者参加音乐节不是你的爱好，今年你可以观看为期四天的 Lollapalooza 音乐节的现场直播。Charli XCX, Tate McRae, Lorde, Olivia Dean, John Summit, The Smashing Pumpkins 等艺人将登台演出。直播仅限实时观看，无回放。周四下午 5 点起在 Hulu 和 Disney+ 播出。
史努比的温馨之家
史努比和花生漫画帮在进行春季大扫除，但当史努比的狗屋被意外卖掉时，事情变得糟糕起来。随后他在《史努比呈现：没有地方像家一样，史努比》(Snoopy Presents: There’s No Place Like Home, Snoopy) 中不得不面对“家”对他意味着什么，以及如何找回他的红色房子。周五起在 Apple TV 上线。 《成年人》(Adults) 第二季将于 8 月 27日 播出，但如果这个时间显得太遥远，该剧将推出一集前传以填补空白。独立集《马拉松日》(Marathon Day) 讲述了保罗·贝克 (Paul Baker，杰克·因南宁 Jack Innanen 饰) 的起源故事，以及该剧所跟踪的友伴群体的演变。周五起在 Hulu 上线。
剖析一个毁灭之夜
2022年 11 月，三名大学生拨打 911 报警称家中有人昏迷。警察在屋内发现的是一个惨绝人寰的犯罪现场。麦迪逊·莫根 (Madison Mogen)、凯莉·贡卡尔维斯 (Kaylee Goncalves)、伊森·查平 (Ethan Chapin) 和克萨娜·克诺多尔 (Xana Kernodle) 均被发现死在床上。一部新的三集纪录片系列《爱达荷谋杀案：大学噩梦》(The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare) 涵盖了警方摄像机画面以及对受害者家属的采访。周三起在 Netflix 上线。
而不仅仅是新闻推送中的数字，他们实际上是身处悲惨境地的真实人类。“在我们的文化中，在消化和代谢世界上发生的事情的方式上，存在着一种脱节，”他补充道。“如果我们能够审视它、面对它并提出问题，一遍又一遍地询问，重新思考并信任专家，我认为情况将会大不相同。”曾在《洛基》和《庞贝》中与希德尔斯顿合作的执行制片人凯文·R·赖特（Kevin R. Wright）表示，希德尔斯顿对古代世界显而易见的热情是这部纪录片能够吸引观众的关键。“这家伙对这个世界有着如此深沉的热情，这就是制作这部片的理由，”他说。“这是一个极其热情的主持人，他在说：‘我真的认为这很酷。也许有些人认为这很书呆子，也许有点太知识分子，但我真的很喜欢。如果你跟我一起探索，我想你也会喜欢它的。’”
希德尔斯顿扮演的时间旅行侦探和讲述者的角色，将不仅仅是他那些规模更大、更光鲜的项目之间的插曲。这些项目包括计划于10月上映的电影《滕辛》（Tenzing）中饰演埃德蒙·希拉里爵士（Sir Edmund Hillary）；今年秋天重返百老汇出演《 많多事》（Much Ado About Nothing）；以及在定于12月上映的《复仇者联盟：毁灭日》中再次饰演洛基。他与赖特共同成立了一家名为“伊萨卡”（Ithaca）的制作公司——以希腊岛屿、传说中奥德修斯的故乡命名——并暗示未来的项目将采用类似的对待地点和故事的方式。这些项目可能包括古希腊，也许还有《伊利亚特》。谈到克里斯托弗·诺兰的最新电影时，希德尔斯顿说：“我非常希望能出演《奥德赛》。”但阿基里斯也是一个他有一天会渴望扮演的角色。
讲述数千年前的故事，对希德尔斯顿来说不仅是回归早年热爱的激情。他说，讲述这些故事还“让我感到谦卑”。“这让我感到安心——人类生命的本质与以往没有任何不同，”他继续道。“这是一种有益的谦卑。它让你以一种非常深刻的方式感受到与人类经验的连接。”
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威尼斯双年展，当时他与策展人一同出现，戴着橙色飞行员太阳镜和一顶超级马力欧兄弟帽子。与现任政府其他迅速走马灯般更替的文化沙皇不同，泰勒拥有艺术背景，这使他成为总统愿景中一个独特且持久的捍卫者。他是一名马塞尔·杜尚的追随者，拥有雕塑学位。他是一名电影制作人，参与拍摄了由斯蒂芬·K·班农和 F.B.I. 局长卡什·帕特尔制作的右翼纪录片。他还是一个主持播客并制作音乐视频的竞选战略师。班农说：“他首先是一名艺术家，其次才是保守主义者。我们这边缺乏这样的人。”白宫国内政策委员会主任文斯·哈利请求泰勒帮助实现总统全面改革首都文化机构的愿望。哈利表示：“马修·泰勒绝对致力于提升艺术与文化中的美感，并向世界展示美国创造力的最高天才。”在距离白宫几个街区的地方，泰勒的杰作正展出其中。上个月在烈日下，他揭幕了 21 座士兵雕像和革命场景，这些设计旨在纪念自由广场 1000 万美元 ($10 million) 的翻新工程。他在班农的脱口秀节目中指向一座女性雕像——她一只手拿着《独立宣言》，另一只手举着剑，并说道：“这是美国自由的新标志。”作为一名电影制作人，泰勒一直在并行推进两类工作。他执导了一部关于概念艺术教父杜尚且广受好评的纪录片。但使用另一个名字 M.A. 泰勒时，他则推广阴谋论，并在现代政治史上一些最具影响力的视频中发挥了关键作用。在 2004 年约翰·克里作为民主党总统候选人期间，泰勒编辑了那段将克里刻画为“立场摇摆者”的帆板冲浪广告。此外，他还是《希拉里：电影》(Hillary: The Movie) 的编辑和摄影师，联邦选举委员会曾表示，由于选举规则，该片在 2008 年不能在电视上播出。那次争议导致了著名的“公民联合”(Citizens United) 最高法院裁决，从而取消了企业的政治支出限制。班农称赞泰勒开发了他关于 2008 年金融危机的电影《零代》(Generation Zero) 的开场序列，并表示：“他仍然是我见过最好的编辑之一。”泰勒拒绝发表评论，他在网络上将自己描述为一名“概念艺术家、电影制作人和信息传递战略师”。在过去的十年里，他始终坚持将艺术和政治视为同一枚硬币的两面。在 2018 年的一次讲座中，泰勒将政治家比作“现成品”(ready-mades)——即像小便池或自行车轮那样被杜尚移出原始语境，仅通过如此命名就将其重新定义为艺术品的工业制造物品。他在为美国政治顾问协会举办的讲座中说：“我们所做的，就是以某种方式向公众传达，我们的人（也就是那个所谓的马桶）在某种程度上就是艺术。”“我们通过重新分配思想来推销观点。我们触达观众内心和思想的方式，与你推销现成品的方式完全一样。”“他或她不再是一个候选人或一个事业，而是一套被提升到至高无上的、纯粹的信念的概念原则。”现年 47 岁的泰勒在圣路易斯华盛顿大学读本科期间培养了对概念艺术的兴趣，并在那里获得了雕塑学士学位。但不久之后
他在 2002 年毕业后，作为 2004 年布什-切尼连任竞选活动的一部分进入了政治传播领域。随后，他开始在保守派非营利组织“公民联合”（Citizens United）工作，同时协助共和党候选人进行 2006 年的中期竞选。他与该团体合作拍摄的纪录片之一名为《边境战争：非法移民之战》，由班农制作。泰勒在 2000 年代和 2010 年代期间与班农合作了多个项目，并在担任《希拉里：电影》的编辑时迎来了突破时刻。他 2016 年执导的续作《克林顿现金》改编自一本书，该书指责希拉里·克林顿领导下的国务院向向克林顿基金会及其丈夫付款的外国实体提供优待。（克林顿总统竞选活动的发言人当时告诉《纽约时报》，从未有人“提供过任何支持该理论的证据”）。
右上方，马修·泰勒 (Matthew Taylor) 设计了 21 尊士兵雕像和革命场景（顶部），目前正在自由广场展出，其中一尊被他称为“美国自由的新标志”。上方，右侧的泰勒今年经常出现在威尼斯双年展的美国馆。
CASEY KELBAUGH 为《纽约时报》拍摄
“泰勒将他对电影的热爱与雕塑和时尚相结合，在向广大受众传递信息方面形成了独特的视角，”泰勒在他与妻子共同创立的一家咨询公司网站的个人简介中这样写道。在 YouTube 上，他上传了如《Droidica》之类的艺术短片，展示了他对电影制作的概念化处理方法。
泰勒还曾在 2016 年总统选举中担任媒体战略师，当时他隶属于一个支持 Ted Cruz 以及后来支持特朗普的一个政治行动委员会 (PAC)。但泰勒并没有加入新政府，而是继续拍摄带有保守派观点的纪录片。《The Verge》将泰勒执导的 2018 年电影《The Creepy Line》描述为“右翼技术反击的阴谋论剧本”，该片指责 Facebook 和 Google 等互联网公司压制保守派声音。
他还花费多年时间制作《Marcel Duchamp: Art of the Possible》，采访了玛丽娜·阿布拉莫维奇 (Marina Abramovic)、杰夫·昆斯 (Jeff Koons) 和卡洛莉·施尼曼 (Carolee Schneemann) 等艺术家。这部 2020 年的电影赢得了一些掌声，泰勒还接受了金球奖数字出版物的采访，而 ARTnews 将这部纪录片描述为“聪明、具有探索性且极其精致”。
“它赋予了杜尚非常鲜明的个性，”负责该片销售的发行公司负责人大卫·皮佩尼 (David Piperni) 表示。
泰勒在艺术界继续寻求自我重塑，为一名英国说唱歌手制作了音乐视频，随后以 Dr. Bacon 的化名对他进行了采访——这是一个戴着宽檐帽的虚构播客主。这次表演是他与妻子创建的一个名为 Take Vienna 的艺术集体的组成部分，其座右铭是：“革命已死。革命万岁。”——并计划开发电影和电视系列剧。
一名白宫发言人称泰勒为“一名跨平台的行为艺术家和狂热的杜尚追随者”，并补充说，“有趣的化名在历史上一直是行为艺术历史的重要组成部分。”
在去年与 Haley 的初步交谈后，泰勒在华盛顿的国家人文基金会 (National Endowment for the Humanities) 获得了一份工作。到 2025, 7 月，泰勒正开车横跨全国，准备搬进一栋砖砌联排别墅。
几周后，泰勒的妻子兼商业伙伴米歇尔·泰勒 (Michelle Taylor) 在 Instagram 上发布了一篇《华尔街日报》文章的截图，标题为《白宫将审查史密森尼博物馆以符合特朗普的历史愿景》。
“这就是我们从奥斯汀搬到华盛顿的原因！”她在帖文中写道，文中还包含了两面美国国旗。“所有的故事线都串联起来了。”
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作者：JONATHAN WOLFE
伦敦——歌手克里斯·布朗 (Chris Brown) 周五在当地的一家法院承认一项扰乱治安罪 (affray) 指控。三年前，他被指控在市区的一家夜总会用一个龙舌兰酒瓶袭击一名音乐制作人。
据英国皇家检控署 (Crown Prosecution Service) 称，布朗先生，37, 与他的声乐教练奥莫洛卢·阿金洛卢 (Omololu Akinlolu)，现年 40 岁，在认罪的同时提交了申请，后者也参与了此次袭击。
布朗先生此前面临一项更严重的指控，即企图造成严重的身体伤害，其案件原定于 10 月进入审理阶段。较轻的扰乱治安罪（或威胁性暴力）最高可判处三年监禁。
该案件源于 2023. 2 月在 Tape London 夜总会发生的一起冲突。据检察官称，布朗先生在舞池中接近音乐制作人亚伯拉罕·迪亚 (Abraham Diaw)，并用一个玻璃瓶击中其头部两次。
检察官表示，以 HoodyBaby 之名进行表演的美国说唱歌手阿金洛鲁（Mr. Akinlolu）加入了布朗（Mr. Brown）的行列，并击打迪奥（Mr. Diaw）的头部。检察官称，被告继续攻击迪奥，后者因头部和膝盖受伤而住院。阿金洛鲁在周五的听证会上地也承认了一项斗殴指控。
“这是布朗和阿金洛鲁发起的一次残暴且无端地攻击，”该案检察官克莱尔·坎贝尔（Claire Campbell）在的一份声明中表示。
打斗发生后，警方发布了逮捕布朗先生和阿金洛鲁先生的令状，但两人当时已离开英国。大约两年后，在 2025 年，布朗先生为了在曼彻斯特举办一场音乐会回到了该国，随后被逮捕。
布朗先生在 2025. 6 月对指控辩称无罪。当时，这位歌手缴纳了 5 million 英镑（约 $6.7 百万美元）的保释金，这使他能够前往英国境外并继续他的世界巡演。
布朗先生周五身穿一套棕褐色西装，戴着顶圣路易斯红雀队的棒球帽抵达南华克刑事法院。据 BBC 报道，聚集在法院门口的一群粉丝播放着布朗先生的音乐，呼喊着他的名字，并举着支持他的标牌。离开法院时，他为粉丝签名。
布朗先生和阿金洛鲁先生将于 10 月被判刑。
布朗先生是一位获得过格莱美奖的 R&B 歌手，在 21 世纪 00 年代中期名声大噪。他在 2005 年发行了首支单曲，拥有两项格莱美奖和 17 首 Billboard 前 10 名的热门歌曲。
然而，他的成功一直被法律麻烦所掩盖，包括 2016 年在洛杉矶家中与警方僵持后被捕，2013 年在华盛顿一家酒店外击打一名男子，以及 2009 年袭击其前女友——流行乐星蕾哈娜（Rihanna）。
发布了一份关于史密森尼学会（Smithsonian）的报告，称美国国家历史博物馆通过其规划传播“激进的活动分子意识形态”，且该规划具有“反白人”、“支持非法移民”和“支持堕胎”倾向。史密森尼学会的领导者反驳了该报告，称这并非对博物馆工作的“公正描述”，他表示博物馆的工作是“由学术、准确性以及致力于讲述美国完整故事的坚定承诺所驱动的”。
上周，该博物馆馆长被传唤至众议院的一个小组委员会，共和党成员根据该报告的调查结果询问她是否应该留任。
两名了解泰勒（Taylor）在华盛顿工作情况的人士在要求匿名的条件下（以避免来自政府的打击）表示，泰勒告诉他们，他参与了该报告。当被问及作者身份时，白宫发言人表示泰勒“一个字都没写”。
在泰勒进入特朗普政府期间，他也找到了提升自己艺术知名度的方法。
由于特朗普的接管导致肯尼迪表演艺术中心今年出现了节目空缺，该中心部分转向了泰勒及其纪录片。
他在这里放映了关于杜尚（Duchamp）的纪录片，以及《哥谭：纽约的衰落与崛起》（Gotham: The Fall and Rise of New York）。这是一部 2023 年的电影，由保守派曼哈顿研究所的一位长期会长制作，该片将纽约在 1990 年代的名声提升归功于像市长鲁道夫·W·朱利安尼（Rudolph W. Giuliani）这样的共和党领导人。
肯尼迪中心将他的电影标记为“卓越电影”。
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这是一个可以使用各种武器和道具 与鱼形敌人作战的机会。
在评测大多数任天堂 (Nintendo) 游戏时，面临的挑战在于，大多数时候，这感觉不像是在审视一件叙事艺术品，而更像是在评估一个游乐场：滑梯的机制流畅无摩擦。秋千的弧度令人满意。而跷跷板则极其不平衡。 尽管这听起来很傻，但这正是我对《喷射战士：突袭者》(Splatoon Raiders) 这类游戏的感受：这类游戏的成败取决于其作为玩具和游乐设施的体验是否有趣，除此之外几乎没有其他内容。 如果将此归结为《突袭者》是一款为儿童开发的游戏，那就太简单了。许多为儿童制作的媒体作品（例如早期的皮克斯电影经典之作）都拥有能够触动所有年龄段的深沉且富有情感的叙事。 《突袭者》中的角色——匿名的“机械师”和三个憨傻的队友——全都声音尖细、身材矮小且像孩子一样，带着一种老式 Nicktoons 角色名单般的世俗关切。他们都穿着明亮的色彩。然而，成年人也被邀请来享受这场盛宴，仿佛我们可以参与混乱的彩弹战而不用担心扭伤膝盖或闪到腰，在这个安全的数字模拟空间中，一边疯狂大笑一边四处奔跑，将一切染上色彩。 童真般的轻率是《突袭者》中无可否认的核心。它的比赛由面对一群爬行的鱼形敌人组成，这些敌人从小不点到巨型鲸鱼不等。你的角色必须用几乎无穷无尽的墨水将它们覆盖，直到它们在色彩的爆发中爆炸。 在游戏过程中，你将解锁大多数玩家熟悉的武器类别
任天堂 (NINTENDO)
凯文·萨斯曼 (Kevin Sussman) 从家庭情景喜剧 转向多元宇宙。
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萨斯曼扮演的那个低调英雄必须在一系列幻想宇宙之间跳转，试图恢复正常并避免多元宇宙的末日。加入他这次探索的是三位回归的《大爆炸》角色：斯图尔特的女友丹尼斯（劳伦·拉普库斯 饰）；地质学家伯特（布莱恩·波森 饰）；以及敌对的物理学家克里普克（约翰·罗斯·鲍伊 饰）。
片中有大量的客串明星、精心设计的战斗场面，以及涉及人工智能统治者和巫术的故事情节。在某个时刻，主角们被转世成了半人马。
作为一名斯塔滕岛原住民，55 岁的萨斯曼积累了数十年的履历，且大多是配角，涵盖了电视剧（如《丑女贝蒂》、《绝美人生》）和电影（如《湿热美国夏天》、《全民击爱》、《甜蜜故乡阿拉巴马》）。他似乎在以一种淡定的心态接纳自己成为男主角的生活。
在洛杉矶洛费利兹区的一家意大利餐厅里，一个阳光明媚的七月早晨，萨斯曼比他在荧幕上那个焦虑的对手戏角色要平静得多，但同样有趣。他蓄着花白胡须，穿着一件时尚的针织 Polo 衫，回顾了自己扮演斯图尔特的 17 年历程。
“我还没算过，”他喝着咖啡说，“我是看头上的头发来判断的——那时候头发多得多，而且颜色也不同。”
以下是对话的编辑节选。
（注：此处为关于游戏《喷射战士》相关评论的插页内容） ……那些玩过早期《喷射战士》游戏的人都熟悉：快速发射的水枪、油漆刷、滚筒，甚至还有投掷胶团的桶。《突袭者》（Raiders）还提供了一系列小工具，允许你发射火箭筒，使用冲刺在舞台上快速穿梭和跳跃，甚至可以布置自动攻击炮塔和漂浮地雷。
《突袭者》在玩法上的增加建立在前三部《喷射战士》游戏所奠定的坚实基础上。由于《突袭者》缺乏定义前作的竞技对战模式（该模式允许玩家在彩色竞技场中操控他们的鱿鱼小孩角色互相对战），因此需要新的花样。由于其他人类玩家做出的随机且不可预测的选择，那些对决自带一种天然的戏剧感，这胜过了即使是最先进的敌人的算法选择。
平庸的单人模式一直是《喷射战士》的阿喀琉斯之踵……
（注：对话继续） ……我觉得很平静。他想尝试一个他以前从未做过的大型特效场景。就我而言，那是个很棒的主意。
这部衍生剧充满了《大爆炸理论》的彩蛋和客串。有什么东西或谁是你特别兴奋能被纳入其中的吗？ 我最兴奋的其实就是漫画书店的场景。看到它的更新版本对我来说太疯狂了，因为现在有了天花板和第四面墙。它更真实了。
斯图尔特最初在《大爆炸理论》中只是个很小的角色，对吧？ 我在第 2 季的一集中只是个客串明星，所以我觉得那是查克在给我机会，好让我维持医疗保险。我有一段关于蝙蝠侠和罗宾的专业术语演讲，而且我一直在搞砸台词。我想，“好吧，这大概是我最后一次出现在《大爆炸理论》里了。”但显然情况并非如此。他们越来越多地让我客串，直到第 6 季左右，我正式成为了系列常驻演员——尽管我出现在剧集中的比例从未超过，比如，四分之一或三分之一。
《大爆炸理论》在播出期间成为了电视上最受欢迎的节目之一。它改变了你的生活吗？ 这很奇怪，因为在剧集成为顶尖巨作时，我仍然只是偶尔出现，拿的是客串明星的钱。那时我离婚了，住在一家毒品交易频发的大楼里的一间小单身公寓中。我走在街上，人们会喊：“斯图尔特！”我会回答：“是的，宝贝！”然后我会回到我的小工作室，那里只有一张床和一张桌子。
有一天，我和我的两只小狗躺在床上，我没锁门。一个男人走了进来。他一定……
这些关卡主要由解谜阶段组成，在自由奔放且快节奏的竞技场面前，显得线性且缓慢。《Raiders》试图通过将该系列引导至一条纯粹的非竞争路径来解决这一问题。
这种方法在奏效时，会演变成一场疯狂的混乱——敌人从下水道格栅中涌出，以起伏的躯体淹没整个舞台。他们可能行动缓慢且愚笨，但随着数量增加，挑战就变成了在被淹没之前思考如何将他们全部击败。
这种遭遇风格虽然有效，但有其局限性。除了特定的挑战关卡外，游戏中的大多数突袭（raids）都发生在开阔空间，偶尔分布在岛屿群之间，或被禁锢在地下洞穴中。挑战不在于在关卡中导航——这些关卡是该系列过去多人竞技场的极简切片——
在《Splatoon Raiders》中，你的角色必须用几乎无穷无尽的墨水覆盖敌人，直到他们在色彩的爆发中爆炸。
Splatoon Raiders 可在 Switch 2 上获得。
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在找大麻之类的东西，然后他说：“噢，对不起，”接着他猛地回头看我。我不确定他是否认出我是那个节目里的家伙，但与此同时，我散发出一种非常“斯图尔特”的气息。
你认为自己是个书呆子（nerd）吗？ 是的。在互联网泡沫时期，我在华尔街做过技术类临时工。我会在办公室里写 Excel 宏之类的东西，然后午休时换上实验服去参加试镜。我和约翰·鲍伊在商业广告试镜中经常见面，我们都拿到了那些书呆子角色。最终，我不再需要真正去做那份技术工作；我只是扮演那个技术工作者。 在我还是个挣扎中的演员时，我在斯塔滕岛和曼哈顿的一家漫画书店工作，其实我对漫画并不太了解。很奇怪，在我成年后的很大一部分时间里，我纯粹出于偶然而一直被漫画世界包围。我
但重点在于克服其荒谬的敌人数量。令人沮丧的是，你的角色所拥有的精妙技能在应对有趣的空间挑战方面具有很大潜力，但它们却仅被用于在这些竞技场中生存。大型且复杂的 Boss 战寥寥无几，而这类战斗才闪现出一种将你章鱼的惊人敏捷性与建筑规模的对手及令人眩晕的关卡相对抗的方法。更多时候，事情被简化到了极点，基本上成了你各种小工具的测试场。作为个带有攀爬架和单杠的游乐场，这一切都足够有趣。但结果就是，它显得如此渺小且微不足道。配角们虽然是一个活泼的团队，但表现出的热情却是单调的哑剧式表演。他们对此极其兴奋，且永远处于不同程度的兴奋状态之中。在他们致力于吸干这些岛屿提供的每一个琐碎饰品和宝藏的恒定目标中，偶尔会出现一些障碍。但一旦你不可避免地通过每个关卡，微小的失望感会被极具张力的欢腾感所抹去。《Raiders》确实有一个合作在线模式，承诺将是有趣且混乱的，最多四名玩家面对密集的鱼群大军，屏幕上充斥着如此之多的粒子效果，以至于人们几乎可以原谅任天堂没有加入本地多人选项。除此之外，这款游戏是一件孤独的事。只有你和你那些喋喋不休的助手，不断提醒你保持警惕去应对某个具有挑战性的突袭，或者确保你没有忘记那个新出现的指南针！《Raiders》的岛屿设定在开始时被浓雾覆盖，笼罩在神秘之中。它可以是任何东西，可以将故事引向任何方向。但实际上能看到的并不多，除了那短暂的机会去滑动、摆荡，并抓取一种转瞬即逝的童年纯真之外，没有提供太多东西。
“我从未真正有过 10 年计划或职业目标，”上方以及左侧近处的凯文·萨斯曼 (Kevin Sussman) 在《生活大爆炸》中与库纳尔·奈亚 (Kunal Nayyar) 表演时说道。
我不会认为自己本质上是个漫画书书呆子。不过，棋盘游戏的话……
你有没有考虑过出演漫威或 DC 的电影？ 没有。在这个衍生剧中我可以尝试吊威亚，这太疯狂了。我记得在拍摄《化学课》(Lessons in Chemistry) 时，布里·拉森 (Brie Larson) 提到拍摄《惊奇队长》以及当你被腰部悬吊起来时需要多么好的体能。她说：“你必须锻炼腹肌。”当我发现我也要尝试一些类似的戏份时，我想：“我得开始练腹肌了。”但当然，那时已经太晚了。
你被认出是斯图尔特 (Stuart) 的频率高吗？ 相当频繁，而且是在全世界范围内。这让我大开眼界，尤其是这部剧的流行程度之广。我记得在智利的街头被人群围住。当我在中东时，一位穿着全套波卡 (burqa) 的女性走过来对我说：“哦我的天，我就是个斯图尔特。” 我成长过程中最美好的回忆之一就是和家人一起看《干杯》(Cheers) 和情景喜剧，所以能成为其他人生命中类似样的作品的一部分，我深感荣幸。
ADALI SCHELL 为《纽约时报》拍摄
Dominique Malonga 是 W.N.B.A. 全明星赛 亮点之一。
一名在肯尼亚伊滕（Iten）高海拔地区（位于大裂谷，该地区孕育了世界上一些顶尖的马拉松选手）的跑者。本报记者 John Eligon 4 月在那里的一家训练中心度过了一周，希望打破他 14 年前创下的个人最佳纪录。第 D3 页。
大多数参加活动的 球迷花费了 数千美元。 我们有收据。
来自斯洛文尼亚的 Tadej Pogacar 赢得了 他的第五个环法赛 冠军，追平了纪录。
BRIAN OTIENO 为《纽约时报》拍摄
W.N.B.A. 全明星赛：创造历史、三分球与扣篮
作者：SABREENA MERCHANT The Athletic
芝加哥 —— W.N.B.A. 全明星周末自 2022 年以来首次回到芝加哥，而仅仅四年后，这场活动已变得几乎让人认不出来。 该联盟的增长最明显地体现在其季中展示赛的规模和范围上。2022 年，技巧赛是在一个空的会议中心举行的；而本周六，全明星赛创下了 19,783 名球迷的观众纪录，填满了一座 N.B.A. 场馆，而非芝加哥天空队的常规主场 Wintrust Arena。 “这似乎一年比一年更出色，”来自洛杉矶火花队的 Nneka Ogwumike 在参加完她的第 11 场全明星赛后表示。 Spoon 队以 129-122 击败了 Coop 队。纽约自由队前锋 Jonquel Jones 带领 Spoon 队获得了 22 分、13 个篮板和 8 次助攻，并荣膺最有价值球员（MVP）。这使她成为该联盟历史上唯一一位同时获得联盟 MVP、W.N.B.A. 总决赛 MVP、专员杯 MVP 和全明星赛 MVP 的球员。 她将这个夜晚献给了最近去世的姨妈（其追思会就在周六举行），并表示在决定顶住周末沉重的心情参加比赛前，她与家人进行了商议。 全明星周末展示了该联盟最擅长的领域：将社区凝聚在一起，并展现 W.N.B.A. 越来越多才华横溢的球星。 然而，有些人的光芒比其他人更加耀眼。
获胜者 芝加哥市
芝加哥的氛围再好不过了。天气美丽，这座城市为各项活动倾情而出。除了填满联合中心（United Center），球迷们在这一周内排队数小时与球星见面。 2025 年，当全明星周末开启一段充满争议的劳资谈判时期时，印第安那波利斯市弥漫着焦虑之情。而芝加哥则充满了欢乐与阳光。 这里的环境还为全明星球员们提供了在奥巴马总统中心练习并会见前总统的机会，这对球员和教练来说是一个极具个人意义的时刻。
Sabreena Merchant 是 The Athletic 的女篮随队记者。Brian Hamilton 参与了报道。
UCC 公开拍卖通知
请注意，MSC — 650 Poydras HoldCo, LLC（“担保方”）将通过公开拍卖（“拍卖”）出售由 Poydras Center Mezzanine, LLC（“夹层借款人”）在 Poydras Center, LLC（一家特拉华州有限责任公司，“质押实体”）中持有的 100% 有限责任公司权益（“权益”），以及代表、涉及或产生于该权益的某些权利和财产（统称“抵押物”），具体描述见借款人为担保方提供且日期为 2016年6月7日的《夹层质押与担保协议》（“质押协议”）。
拍卖将于 2026年9月24日 下午 1:00（东部时间）举行，符合纽约州统一商业法典第 9-610 条的规定，地点同时设在 Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP 律师事务所办公室（1407 Broadway, 39th Fl., New York, NY 10018）以及通过在线视频会议虚拟举行。在线视频会议的 URL 地址和密码将提供给注册参与者。
此次拍卖与根据质押协议对抵押物质押权的行使相关，据此，夹层借款人已向担保方授予抵押物的第一优先留置权，作为担保方向夹层借款人提供原本金金额为 $4,400,000.00 的贷款（“夹层贷款”）的抵押。
担保方认为（但不提供任何形式的陈述或保证）：(i) 夹层贷款已违约，(ii) 夹层借款人拥有该权益，(iii) 该权益构成夹层借款人的主要资产，(iv) 质押实体拥有位于 650 Poydras St., New Orleans, LA 70130 的某些不动产（“财产”），(v) 质押实体的主要资产为该财产及某些相关权利，且 (vi) 该财产被抵押留置权所担保，该留置权由质押实体授予，用以担保抵押贷款持有人与质押实体之间根据某项贷款协议（“抵押贷款协议”）所提供的抵押贷款（“抵押贷款”）。
此次拍卖的在线数据站点（“数据站点”）可通过以下链接访问：https://rimarketplace.com/listing/129493/office/lafayette-square/la。数据站点将包含担保方掌握的关于质押实体、夹层借款人、贷款及抵押的某些相关信息（统称“披露材料”），以及与抵押物拍卖相关的公开拍卖销售条款（“销售条款”）。访问此类信息的条件是签署一份可在数据站点上找到的保密协议。无论是在数据站点中还是通过其他方式提供的信息，均不构成对该信息、抵押物或拍卖的任何形式的陈述或保证。鼓励参与者在拍卖前审阅所有披露材料并进行其认为必要的尽职调查。
抵押物将作为一个整体拍品提供，且严格按照“按现状且在原处”之基础出售，并且 (i) 担保方（或任何为担保方或代表担保方行事的人员）不对其提供任何形式的陈述或保证（无论是明示或暗示），包括但不限于关于其他留置权的是否存在、权益的数量、质量、状况或描述、财产以及/或前述任何各项的价值；并且 (ii) 对担保方（或任何为担保方或代表担保方行事的人员）不承担任何追偿责任。
任何潜在竞标者在获取信息、对抵押品进行竞标以及购买抵押品方面均有特定要求，包括但不限于遵守夹层贷款文件、抵押贷款文件、担保方与抵押贷款持有人之间签署的特定债权人之间协议及从属协议、质押实体的治理文件以及销售条款。担保方保留从潜在竞标者处寻求商业上合理信息的权利，并要求潜在竞标者证明其财务能力。
抵押品包括根据经修订的 1933 年《证券法》（“《证券法》”）定义的未注册证券，且担保方保留限制销售参与权的权利，仅限向那些声明抵押品在未根据《证券法》及所有其他适用管辖区的证券法预先登记的情况下，不会被出售、转让、质押、处置、抵押或以其他方式转移的潜在竞标者开放，除非可以使用此类登记的豁免。
败者 芝加哥天空队
尽管这座城市呈现了一场令人难忘的盛会，但芝加哥的主队却淡出了背景。周五的技巧赛或全明星赛中都没有天空队的参与者。更让人心酸的是，几位前芝加哥球员表现出色：埃琳娜·德莱·多恩为华盛顿队赢得了“射击之星”挑战赛，玛丽娜·梅布里作为多伦多节奏队的一员获得了她的首次全明星提名，而卡莉亚·考珀、考特尼·威廉姆斯和安杰尔·里斯则代表不同的球队亮相。 这个周末本应是天空队展示其新训练设施的机会，就像凤凰城水星队在 2024 年所做的那样。然而，由于施工延迟和计划变更，开业时间被推迟到了 2027 年。
赢家 阿齐·法德
法德作为 2026 年的 1 号选秀秀才，可能没有被评选为全明星——这是五年来首次出现顶号选秀球员未入选的情况——但这位达拉斯之翼队的后卫依然留下了自己的印记。法德在她的第一个职业赛季中展示了深厚的技能储备；她的抢断数在联盟中排名第五，并经常负责防守对方球队最好的外线球员。 但在 W.N.B.A. 社区的关注下，法德赢得了 3 分球射击大赛，并追平了联盟历史上第二高的分数 (30)，成为首位夺冠的新秀。
赢家 玛丽娜·梅布里
尽管梅布里没有获得任何奖杯，但她的 Q 指数（知名度）在不断上升。她因连续命中 3 分球而闻名：首先是在 Unrivaled 联赛，随后是在对阵火花队时砍下 53 分，而现在则是在她的首场全明星赛中单节命中 5 个 3 分球。 没有什么比一名手感火热的射手更能点燃观众的热情了，而梅布里正不断在越来越大的舞台上实现这一点。
败者 射击之星挑战赛
W.N.B.A. 在 2026 年重新设计了周五晚上的节目，用“射击之星”比赛取代了技巧挑战赛。人们对此评价不一，因为它
法警/ 治安官销售
治安官执行拍卖 公开拍卖 涉及：停车违章 诉 若干被判债权人。我将代表城市治安官 Kenneth J. Giachetta 由拍卖师 Stuart L. Medow CAI 在 2026, 7月29日，星期三，上午 9:30 在 BREEN BROTHERS TOWING 1908 Shore Parkway Brooklyn NY 11214 处进行公开拍卖。 所有 权利/所有权/利益 均包含在以下车辆中： 11 INFI JN1CV6AR7BM352019 12 FORD 3FAHP0HG3CR209002 11 SUBA 4S3BMBC6XB3224385 10 MAZD 1YVHZ8CH6A5M17162 98 HOND 2HGEJ662XWH570320 02 CHEV 1GNEC13Z82J178921 05 HOND 5FNRL388X5B106202 23 YONG LL0TDNPE8PY366676 06 CADI 1G6KD57Y16U175464 17 JEEP 1C4NJDEBXHD143384 09 HYUN KMHDU46D39U761307 08 HOND 5FNRL38918B091022 09 FORD 1FDWE35L89DA73473 06 CHRY 2A8GF684X6R673246 05 NISS 1N4BA41E95C856920 13 HYUN 5NPEC4AC8DH678047 09 BMW WBAWC33559P470164 07 JEEP 1J8GR48K17C640771 13 HYUN 5NPDH4AE7DH207358 03 HOND JHLRD78873C006477 13 AUDI WA1LGAFE4DD015420 02 FORD 1FTNE24L42HB13090 08 LINC 2LNHM84W68X642168 14 CHEV KL8CF6S91EC428135 03 HOND 5J6YH28213L006111 06 HOND 2HKYF18596H517946 02 CHEV 2G1WW12E629348555 07 CHRY 2A8GM68X57R337098 10 ME/BE 4JGBF7BE7AA605231 24 ZHIL HZ2TBCND4R1006431 24 ZHIL HZ2TBCND8R1009218 16 HYUN 5NPDH4AE1GH701722 以下车辆在出售时附带留置权： 13 JEEP 1C4RJFAG6DC542937 11 ME/BE WDDGF8BB3BF527207 14 JEEP 1C4RJFJG2EC389250 17 ME/BE 55SWF4KB6HU209186 16 NISS 5N1AT2MV5GC898631 13 NISS 1N4AA5AP2DC846263 14 IC 4DRBUAANXEB770677 16 CHEV 1G1ZE5ST7GF343983 06 FORD 1FDXE45S66HB22613 02 AUDI TRUUT28N221035405 20 HOND 2HGFC2F61LH539866 以下车辆作为报废车出售： 14 HOND 5FNRL5H45EB073442 07 NISS 1N4AL21E27C217968 09 TOYO 2T1BU40E19C017179 08 HOND 1HGCP26708A041132 15 INFI JN1CV6FE9FM810476 仅限现金 拍卖前 1 小时可检查 城市治安官 Kenneth J. Giachetta 警号 #80 电话 (718) 351-4515
Jonquel Jones 是唯一一位同时获得过联盟 MVP、W.N.B.A. 总决赛 MVP、专员杯 MVP 和全明星赛 MVP 的球员。
很大程度上依赖于一些久未赛场的传奇球员的传球和投篮。比赛中出现了太多的跳投（以及太多的投失），而球迷们已经在期待 3 分球大赛了。 Delle Donne 作为芝加哥校友的获胜，加上高中球员 Jezelle Banks 的精彩表现，为活动注入了活力。在 W.N.B.A. 的 第 30 个赛季中，让三代人共同代表联盟的过去、现在和未来，是一个很精妙的设计。但 W.N.B.A. 可能会考虑在 2027, 年再次更新其赛事日程，特别是如果全明星赛是在一个没有大量顶尖高中人才储备的城市举行。
获胜者 Dominique Malonga
全明星赛上的每个人都想看一件事：Dominique Malonga 的扣篮。这位身高 6 英尺 6 英寸的西雅图风暴队中锋 Malonga 在周五表示：“我会为此热身，所以我肯定会准备好。”花了 3 分钟左右的时间才为她提供合适的助跑距离。
詹姆斯选择了那条更艰难的道路
作者：DAVID ALDRIDGE The Athletic
致敬勒布朗·詹姆斯。 因为费城是最艰难的选择。 这是一个艰难的决定。在辉煌的职业生涯末期，这里潜伏着最大的失败可能。 然而，詹姆斯直接推门而入，走向 N.B.A. 最强硬、最懂球的球迷群体之一，走向一群比詹姆斯过去八年在洛杉矶所面对的媒体更为苛刻的当地媒体。他走向了一座已经等待了 43 年再次获得职业篮球冠军的城市；走向了与费城老鹰队的对比——后者在过去十年中赢得了两次超级碗冠军；走向了乔尔·恩比德痛苦的伤病史，以及艾弗森、巴克利和“上医”留下的幽灵。 这并不是说詹姆斯选择费城 76 人的决定在篮球层面没有意义。虽然这不是一个完美的契合，但对于一名进入第 24 个 N.B.A. 赛季的 41 岁球员来说，费城满足了许多合理的条件。 是的，詹姆斯想要赢球。他的团队在周五反复强调了这一点。但詹姆斯本可以在克利夫兰与多诺万·米切尔和埃文·莫布利一起赢球。他当然也可以再次回到迈阿密，再次为埃里克·斯波尔斯特拉效力——而且现在还有扬尼斯·阿德托昆博和巴姆·阿德巴约。但詹姆斯选择了在费城赢球的挑战，而这座城市会吞噬并吐出那些撑不起门面、以及不符合这座城市职业道德的才华球员。 令人难以置信的是，在经历了另一场令人尴尬的惨败 10 周之后，
勒布朗·詹姆斯
在第二节比赛中，索尼娅·西特龙将球传给了安杰尔·里斯。当凯特琳·克拉克试图从里斯手中抢球时，马隆加正沿着禁区奔跑。里斯在她跑动中精准传球，马隆加将球扣入。这是本场比赛的高光时刻，也让 20 岁的马隆加凭借 12 分和 13 个篮板的表现，成为记录全明星赛两双的最年轻球员。
败者 接高球传球
教练贝基·哈蒙在周五接受新闻媒体采访时，一直在策划让马隆加完成扣篮的方法，称这可能需要通过暂停或底线球战术来实现。她在第二节开始时布置了一个战术，由金州 Valkyries 前锋加比·威廉姆斯向中锋传高球。但这并未成功，随后又有几次尝试向马隆加传高球——包括一次由威廉姆斯通过篮板传球，马隆加甚至没意识到那是传给她的——这些尝试均未能完成。 尽管这些全明星球员技巧高超，但高球传接似乎并不在他们的强项之列。
在季后赛系列赛输给纽约尼克斯队后，76人队加入了詹姆斯和杰伦·布朗，并完全重塑了该球队的预期。这种巨大的波动在费城并不新鲜。大城市，大嗓门，高预期。
布赖斯·哈珀在 2019 年加盟费城人队，成为了该球队的改变者。2004 年特雷尔·欧文斯加盟老鹰队时引起的轰动亦是如此。但这次的情况有所不同，在很大程度上是因为 76 人队在过去四十年里徒劳地努力，试图再次赢得总冠军。
詹姆斯扭曲了他周围的环境，将一切弯曲到他的意志和天赋之下。在他去过的每一个地方，他都至少赢得过一次冠军。在费城，一次就足够了。
可以肯定的是，詹姆斯将获得帮助。泰里斯·马克西和 V.J. 埃奇科姆是联盟最强的年轻后场组合之一；马克西和詹姆斯都是里奇·保罗的客户，彼此非常熟悉。恩比德经常受伤，而且通常是在最糟糕的时机。但不要误解：他依然能打，正如他在费城队季后赛首轮逆转击败波士顿凯尔特人队的系列赛中所展现的那样。他在 2024 年奥运会上也证明了这一点，当时他为美国队参加了唯一一场关键比赛：半决赛对阵尼古拉·约基奇和塞尔维亚队的胜利，在那场比赛中，恩比德帮助詹姆斯和斯蒂芬·库里在第四节落后 13 分的情况下奋起反击。
但对于费城队来说，决定性的因素是布朗的存在，他是在一场将被讨论多年的交易中从波士顿队获得的。高级统计数据支持者可能并不太看好布朗。但詹姆斯——这位为三支不同球队赢得四次 NBA 总冠军、同时也是联盟历史得分王、21 次入选 NBA 最佳阵容且 22 次入选全明星的球员——对他评价很高。
旨在加速 2027 年前的审议
作者：The Athletic
芝加哥 —— W.N.B.A. 总裁凯西·英格尔伯特（Cathy Engelbert）宣布，联盟将在 2027 赛季之前引入一个官方回放中心。
联盟在今年早些时候成立了一个裁判任务组，以解决犯规判罚增加以及比赛规则执行的问题，但裁判问题在 W.N.B.A. 中仍然是一个充满争议的话题。回放中心旨在加速回放审议过程。每座 W.N.B.A. 场馆都将安装摄像机（那些与 N.B.A. 球队共用场馆的场馆已经安装完毕），场上的裁判在
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名声。在布朗与杰森·塔图姆（Jayson Tatum）终于在 2024 年为这个联盟历史最辉煌的球队之一赢得冠军之前，他在波士顿经历了一些艰难时光 —— 当时布朗被评为 N.B.A. 总决赛最有价值球员。
在詹姆斯（James）等球员所处的那个顶尖圈层中，这足以引起关注。
“毫无疑问，杰伦·布朗（Jaylen Brown）加盟 76 人队将他们从一支有竞争力的球队变成了冠军级别的球队，”一位了解詹姆斯想法的人员在周五下午表示，该人士为方便自由发言而要求匿名。
在湖人队于第二轮被俄克拉荷马城雷霆队横扫之后，詹姆斯确实考虑过退役。但该消息人士在评估该赛季时表示，他感到“不完整”。在洛杉矶湖人队第一轮爆冷击败休斯顿火箭队的比赛中，他的表现令人惊叹，在整个系列赛中没有卢卡·东契奇（Luka Doncic）可用，而奥斯汀·里夫斯（Austin Reaves）在六场比赛中总共仅出场 64 分钟。但詹姆斯也意识到，在常规赛期间，当东契奇健康且处于最佳状态、里夫斯成为可靠的第二得分点时，他能够担任辅助角色。
詹姆斯仍然可以打球。但他是否还想做那些基础的枯燥工作 —— 举重和投篮训练，以及为了再次准备比赛而进行的奔跑和苦活？
因此，他花时间思考这个问题。
迈阿密是真实的。詹姆斯依然了解并尊重热火队对冠军不懈的追求。
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场馆内的裁判可以根据某些触发条件与回放中心进行协商。中心的操作员可以看到比比赛官员所能接触到的更多摄像机角度的视频回放。
“随着 W.N.B.A. 继续其非凡的增长，我们致力于在比赛的各个方面进行投资，包括支持球员、球队和裁判的技术与资源，”W.N.B.A. 联盟运营主管贝塔尼·多纳芬（Bethany Donaphin）在的一份声明中说道。
N.B.A. 自 2014-15 赛季起就设立了回放中心。N.B.A. 还有一个“最后两分钟”报告，用于评估激烈比赛最后两分钟内每一次判罚的正确性；该报告在 N.B.A. 网站上公开可见。目前，W.N.B.A. 将不会增加类似的功能。
冠军。与字母哥（Antetokounmpo）和阿德巴约（Adebayo）一起打球，并且再次效力于斯波尔斯特拉（Spoelstra）麾下，确实极具吸引力，即便前场线的适配度略显笨拙。
显然，骑士队（Cavaliers）既拥有在米切尔（Mitchell）、莫布利（Mobley）和詹姆斯·哈登（James Harden）带领下获得成功的赛场路径，也具有强大的情怀牵引力——让詹姆斯在距离他挚爱的阿克伦（Akron）不到一小时车程的地方结束职业生涯，在骑士队进行第三次且最后一次效力。他熟悉克利夫兰的环境，在那里感到自在且像在家一样。没有人会责怪他选择这条最常见的路。
但布朗（Brown）离开后的费城（Philly）也有很多吸引力。
詹姆斯并没有就去向咨询他长期以来最信任的顾问圈。他们也没有施压。当詹姆斯在周五早晨做出最终决定时，所有有竞争力的球队，包括胜算较低的明尼苏达森林狼（Minnesota Timberwolves），都被保持在一定的距离之外。
每个人在某种程度上几乎是同时得知这个消息的。
也许詹姆斯一直都知道。也许直到周五早晨他才决定。但他是一名深刻研究比赛的球员。毫无疑问，他知道在费城，无论是失败还是成功的潜能，都比他名单上的任何其他球队都要大。
毫无疑问，他知道自己是仅有的四名——另外三人是罗伯特·霍里（Robert Horry）、丹尼·格林（Danny Green）和约翰·萨利（John Salley）——在三支不同球队赢得冠军的球员之一。毫无疑问，詹姆斯明白，如果他能实现这一目标，并且明年六月在宽街（Broad Street）举行冠军游行，而他能获得第五枚戒指——这将使他与魔术师约翰逊（Magic Johnson）、科比·布莱恩特（Kobe Bryant）和蒂姆·邓肯（Tim Duncan）并列——那么他作为 NBA 历史上最伟大球员的论据将获得一次强力推进。
而且他是正确的。
作者：约翰·埃利贡 (JOHN ELIGON)
约翰·埃利贡 (JOHN ELIGON)
肯尼亚，伊滕 (ITEN) —— 从比赛开始的那一刻起，我的腿后腱就开始疼痛——一种隐隐的抽痛，我知道这可能会破坏我的跑步状态。
就在几个小时前，我在一个阴沉的五月早晨醒来，内心兴奋地准备参加开普敦马拉松赛。我的肺活量很强，双腿的感觉比我之前参加过的 15 场马拉松赛中的任何一次都要轻盈。我的目标似乎是可以实现的：在 2 小时 50 分钟内跑完比赛，比我 14 年前在 29 岁时创下的个人最好成绩快了 7 分钟多。
多年来，我试图打破那个成绩的尝试大多被腿部抽筋所干扰。无论是能量胶、电解质饮料、土豆还是盐包，都无法阻止比赛中那些令人瘫痪的时刻，那时感觉就像有人在与我的腿后腱玩拔河一样。
不过，当我步入 40 岁后，我开始做一些年轻时那个更有运动能力的自己所忽视的小事。我进行了力量训练，更频繁地使用泡沫轴滚动和拉伸。我给肌肉留出了更多的恢复时间。我睡眠时间增加了。我的跑步速度比预期要快。
但在我去年 11 月参加的最后一场马拉松赛中，最后 13 英里的全程我都出现了抽筋。在那个时间点，我不知道还能如何提高。一位朋友建议在伊滕训练，这是东非大裂谷中的一个肯尼亚村庄，这里诞生了一些世界上最顶尖的马拉松运动员。我在四月份在那里跑了一周。
现在，当比赛早期的腿后腱隐痛开始让我担心时，我想起了那次训练。如果我想达成目标，我需要调用一种我之前并不知道对那些跑者的成功如此关键的技能：他们的心态。
“为生存而跑”
在伊滕的第一个早晨，我站在主路边，成群的跑者沿着红色土路飞快跑过，像成群的鸟类在编队滑翔，步伐流畅，姿态挺拔。他们的动作高效得令人羡慕。几乎每个跑者看起来都极其强健。在这个村庄里，很少有人为了娱乐而跑步。大多数人希望能赢得重大赛事的奖金，或者像我一起训练的那个团队一样，试图赢得奖学金以便在美国的大学跑道队中跑步。“这是为了生存而跑，”该队的教练理查德·穆克切 (Richard Mukche) 在向我讲述伊滕的精神特质时说道。在包括伊滕在内的埃尔盖约-马拉克韦特 (Elgeyo Marakwet) 郡，大约 50 万居民中，近 60% 生活在贫困之中。大约 30 年前，伊滕还是一个极小的村庄，只有几个农村住宅和少数几个跑者。在其中一些早期跑者赢得国际比赛后，关于在伊滕训练的好处——高海拔和宁静——的消息传开了，这里逐渐成长为跑步圣地。现在，它成为了其他国家奥运选手和世界冠军的基地，他们在能满足所有训练需求的训练营中闭关数周或数月。像我这样的业余跑者也是常客，他们在尝试通过与肯尼亚跑者共同训练来提高能力的同时，也帮助维持了当地经济——我支付了大约 $700 参加为期一周的训练营，包含膳食和按摩。理查德教练本人就是一名肯尼亚前精英运动员，他在伊滕训练，在全盛时期马拉松成绩为 2 小时 16 分，这个成绩即便放在去年的纽约市马拉松赛中仍能进入前 20 名。在过去的 16 年里，他一直从事教练工作，主要指导 20 多岁寻求奖学金的年轻人，同时也指导世界级的跑-
来自国外的跑步者。他的一些运动员参加过奥运会和大型马拉松赛。大约有 6 位，包括他的女儿，获得了奖学金。在我加入目前在他指导下的约 20 位肯尼亚跑步者的第一个早晨，我渴望努力奔跑。我能跟上他们吗？但正如我后来所了解到的一样，伊滕 (Iten) 的大部分训练哲学关乎克制，而非过度。理查德 (Richard) 教练向我灌输了肯尼亚训练中几乎像圣经诫律一样的一条准则：倾听你的身体。他说，我的第一次训练将是以轻松的节奏跑 5 英里——用斯瓦希里语说，轻松跑叫作 “Pole! Pole!”。他希望我的身体能适应这里的海拔，这里高于海平面 1.5 英里，比我在约翰内斯堡居住的地方高出半英里。于是我以每英里 8:30 的配速出发，跑过了那些并不含蓄的提醒，告知人们为何伊滕是一个跑步目的地。跑过了主路上写着欢迎来到“冠军之乡”的拱门。跑过了“冠军理发店”和“冠军烟酒店”。到最后，我不禁感到乐观——我并没有受到高海拔的影响，高海拔虽然让人呼吸更困难，但随着时间的推移，它会产生红细胞，使在较低海拔地区呼吸时更加轻松。
‘倾听你的身体’
约翰·埃利贡 (John Eligon)，左起第三位，正在肯尼亚伊滕训练。这里有一种群体心态，跑步者通常以大组形式跑步。
伊滕的主路，30 年前这里还是一个小村庄，只有几个农村住宅和一些跑步者。
那天晚上，当我与理查德教练、他的团队以及数十名其他人在伊滕体育俱乐部观看波士顿马拉松赛时——当地英雄约翰·科里尔 (John Korir) 以赛道纪录的时间一路领先夺冠——我遇到了德国马拉松纪录保持者阿马纳尔·佩特罗斯 (Amanal Petros)，他当时在伊滕为伦敦马拉松进行训练。
佩特罗斯曾在其他热门的长跑中心训练过，如亚利桑那州的旗舰山 (Flagstaff)、科罗拉多州的博尔德 (Boulder) 和瑞士的圣莫里茨 (St. Moritz)。他说，在那些城市，需要花好几个月才能找到与他水平相当的训练伙伴，而在伊滕，他只需在早晨走到主路上就能找到十几个人。 “这里什么都没有。只有动物或者跑步者，”他说。“你只需要专注于训练，专注于你的目标。”
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维多利亚湖 (Lake Victoria)
在伊滕训练一周后，作者利用所学知识在开普敦马拉松赛中帮助自己掌控配速。
作者在中心进行核心力量训练，该中心还提供按摩治疗师、跑道以及每天三顿淀粉丰富的餐食。
2012 年，我第一次也是唯一一次参加芝加哥马拉松赛，成绩为 2:57:32。 五年前我搬到约翰内斯堡时，我 38 岁，基本上已经接受了这样一个事实：我的巅峰速度已经成为了过去。 但情况发生了变化。第一次生活在高海拔地区——近 5,600 英尺——且身处一个山丘起伏不断的城市，我的体能达到了我在这个年纪从未预想过的水平。 在 2023 年，在我 41 岁生日前的六个月，我在圣路易斯郊区的一场半程马拉松赛中跑出了史上最快速度并获胜，打破了我 11 年前创下的纪录。我觉得自己正在抵御衰老。我想看看我的身体能做出什么。 因此，当在伊滕的训练第二天开始时，我很高兴能随大组一起挑战自我。理查德教练让我们在跑道上进行 400 米（一圈）的重复跑。我从一开始就感觉非常好，每圈用时略高于 80 秒。我甚至说服理查德教练让我跑 15 圈，就像其他一些跑步者那样，而不是他给我分配的 10 圈。结束后，我并没有完全精疲力竭。 “谁还更有精力？”理查德教练在之后询问我们。“在训练中，最好的状态是你结束时，之后还能做点事情。你不需要被完全榨干。” 关注我的感受是我在伊滕训练的大部分重点。那个简单的问题——你感觉如何？——引导着该地区的大多数跑步者。这种方法与……形成了鲜明的对比
照片由 BRIAN OTIENO 为《纽约时报》拍摄
Lornah Kiplagat，一名奥运选手及该训练中心的创始人。左图为作者在海拔海平面以上一英里半的山坡上训练。
与如今大多数教练和网络影响力者所推崇的对技术以及最大摄氧量（VO2 max）和平均心率等指标的强调形成对比。 “吃，睡，跑，”教练 Richard 如此描述在伊滕（Iten）的常规生活。 在某种程度上，这种简单源于环境。这里的大多数运动员负担不起许多特权跑者所依赖的智能手表、碳板超级跑鞋或电解质凝胶。 我一起训练的一些年轻人——那些以精英速度奔跑的人——鞋上有洞，喝的是混合了廉价葡萄糖粉的水。 当运动员在美国和欧洲达到世界级水平时，他们通常会遵循个性化的训练计划。他们经常单独跑步，或者仅与少数几个伙伴同行。 但在伊滕有一种“群体心态”——跑者通常在大组中跑步。在人群中，艰苦的配速可能会感觉很舒适；你的步幅与周围的人同步，专注于紧跟在前一个人身后。 “享受节奏，忘记痛苦，”伊滕的一位精英跑者兼教练 Emmanuel Kipruto 如此描述团体跑步。 跑者们向我解释说，团体还激励纪律性。当你意识到早上需要与队友会合跑步时，你就不能赖床。而且团体内部存在竞争。当你看到队友获得成功时，它会促使你努力跟上他们的步伐。
伊滕最终的团体训练在每周四进行，那时会有一次法特莱克（fartlek）训练，向任何想参加的人开放。在法特莱克训练中，跑者在快速、高强度的间歇与缓慢、放松的间歇之间交替，以此来增强耐力并练习变速。这次训练能吸引数百名跑者，从精英到业余爱好者不等。我到访的那天有数十人出席，当天的训练方案令人畏惧：13 次重复，每次包括一分钟轻松跑随后三分钟强力跑。在第一个三分钟间歇结束时，我已经掉到了队伍最后。到第二次时，其他跑者早已将我远远甩在身后——甚至包括我在第一个间歇期间看到那个蜷缩着呕吐的跑者。我在 10 次间歇后决定放弃。队伍已远在视线之外，我的每一次呼吸都感觉像是有人用枕头在窒息我。这令人感到谦卑。我前几天嗤之以鼻的高原海拔现在正在报复。我觉得自己就像专业人士中的业余爱好者，像一个试图在勒布朗·詹姆斯头上扣篮的业余联赛球员。不过，Richard 教练说他看到了进步。他告诉我，我的身体看起来很强健，这很重要，这样我第二天才能继续训练。他说，我对配速的控制很好，这对比赛至关重要。“我告诉过你，倾听你身体的声音，”他说。我来到伊滕是希望找到跑步成功的秘诀。而我学到的是，秘诀在于信任身体的感觉——了解自己的界限。如果身体需要，慢下来是可以的。但尽情释放同样没问题。在法特莱克训练两天后，我准备在伊滕进行最后一次跑步，沿着莫伊本路（Moiben Road）跑将近 16 英里，这是一段铺设好的、相对平坦的路段，当地跑者在此时进行大部分的长距离跑步。Richard 教练告诉我要
以 75% 的强度开始跑步，如果感觉良好就加快速度。当我与被指派为我的配速员的队长的文森特·切鲁伊约特（Vincent Cheruiyot）一同出发时，我有些不确定。我们很快进入了一个不错的节奏，每英里快于 7:15，这是一个轻快但绝不残酷的配速。当我专注于美丽的群山景色并看着精英运动员们——包括 10 公里世界纪录保持者阿格尼丝·杰贝特·恩格蒂奇（Agnes Jebet Ngetich）——从我身边疾驰而过时，跑步感觉很舒服。在还剩大约三英里时，我的身体告诉我我可以承受更多。我们的配速降到了每英里 7 分钟以下。当我们跑在最后一英里时，汗水在滴落，我的腿后腱很紧，但我知道我可以加快速度，与我身边的文森特步调一致。结束时，我的身体感觉疲惫但并未崩溃，肺部感到清新。文森特和理查德教练露出了灿烂的笑容。我感受到了进步。当我准备离开伊滕（Iten）时，我知道我学到的训练方法是可持续的。我的训练时间还不足以体验到全部的身体益处，但跑步在身体挑战的同时也是一种心理挑战。我可以感觉到，我已经实现了一种意想不到的心理重新校准。
终点
“倾听你身体的声音。”这是理查德教练的指令，而开普敦马拉松早期的腿后腱问题意味着我的身体需要我保持保守。于是我放慢了速度，希望可以通过热身让不适感消失。到第 6 英里时，我感觉好多了。
我的速度比目标配速慢了一点，所以我决定加大步幅。接下来的 13 英里分段中，有 11 段时间在每英里 6:29 的目标之内。我在快速超越其他跑者，呼吸也很轻松。
然后，在第 20 英里，我们遇到了一段漫长、平稳且隐蔽的斜坡。我的速度慢了下来。我将注意力集中在前方，想起我在伊滕跑步时，那些肯尼亚人的步伐效率。我试图模仿那种状态。我努力推进，但我的身体已经再也无法提供更多动力。我的手表显示 2:50 不可能实现了。但我心想，我仍然可以打破我的个人最好成绩。
在最后的几英里里，我咬紧牙关。烈日当空。我开始感到呼吸困难。但我回想起在伊滕的时候，那里稀薄的空气让我喘不过气，陡峭的土路让我的双腿极其吃力，这让我觉得面对此刻我已经准备充分。我想起埃曼纽尔的建议：“享受节奏，忘记疼痛。”
我看到了终点线，并找到了最后一次冲刺的力量。
我以 2:53:50 的成绩冲线，将我之前的纪录刷新了近四分钟。
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我们掌握了账单。
几个月前，围绕本次世界杯的定义性叙事似乎是球迷们将面临的巨额账单。但随着赛事的结束，很明显许多游客并未被高昂的费用所吓退。数月以来，《The Athletic》一直与来自世界各地参加世界杯的球迷保持联系。其中七名球迷
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$19,256 | 16 场比赛
$19,256
来自费城的 克雷格·哈恩（Craig Hahn） 此前还参加了 前三届 世界杯 赛事。
来自费城的克雷格·哈恩 (CRAIG HAHN, OF PHILADELPHIA)。
几乎 没有意义。 我会重复 这样做 100 次。”
PATRICK de SOUZA 一名来自挪威的球迷， 与 10 位朋友一起 来到美国。
作者：EMILY GIAMBALVO 和 YURIKO SCHUMACHER The Athletic
他们同意分享详细的支出，从球场内 $7 的水到决赛 $3,400 的门票。其中部分费用为估算值，且提供的细节各异。但大多数人在旅途中花费了数千美元——且最终表示他们愿意再次这样做。以下是他们的消费详情。
Craig Hahn 是一名 38 岁的 软件工程师，来自费城。 他前往了 10 个世界杯 主办城市，参加了 16 场 比赛，观看了 26 支球队。 Hahn 说他没有花太多时间 纠结：“我是否需要去 看这场、那场，还有那场 比赛？”当他回顾比赛清单 时，所有选择似乎都是 合理的。 作为美国队的球迷， Hahn 觉得他必须观看每场 美国队的比赛。他观看了 全部五场（总计 $938）， 他回忆起在对阵巴拉圭的 中场休息时，看台上的 每个人在喜悦之中似乎都 “欣喜若狂”。他在墨西哥 观看的三场比赛 “都非常精彩”。他优先 考虑在主场观众面前观看 球队比赛的机会，且在 所有三个主办国都如此 做了。由于他住在费城， 因此在当地和纽约的比赛 非常方便。（前往纽约的 火车费用约为 $50，前往 MetLife 体育场的巴士费用 为 $20。） “我真的想不出有哪场 比赛是明显的哑炮，是不 值得跑一趟的，”他说。 这并不是 Hahn 的第一次 世界杯。他也参加了之前的 三届——分别在巴西、 俄罗斯和卡塔尔。在 2014 年， 他计划换工作，并安排 出发时间以便前往巴西。 他在那里停留了一个月， 参加了七场比赛，包括 决赛。那次旅行总共花费 约 $6,000。而这次的花费 要高得多。 “这绝对是一笔巨额账单，” Hahn 说道。但在解释为什么 这次花费 $19,256 的冒险 值得时，他说：“我知道 如果我不这样做，我会 后悔。”
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Craig Hahn 的购买清单
墨西哥 vs. 南非 门票 机票 蒙特雷，墨西哥 $350 $140 $140
美国 vs. 巴拉圭 与朋友平分 Airbnb 门票 墨西哥城 $1,000 $300
巴西 vs. 摩洛哥 机票 门票 前往费城的火车 洛杉矶 $140 $66
科特迪瓦 vs. 厄瓜多”， 门票 纽约 $550 $380 $15
法国 vs. 塞内加尔 门票 火车 往返体育场的巴士 费城 $400
加拿大 vs. 卡塔尔 门票 费城 $400
美国 vs. 澳大利亚 门票 机票 共用租赁车 与朋友平分 Airbnb 酒店 纽约 $520 $50 $20
机票 温哥华 $550
突尼斯 vs. 日本 机票 门票 与朋友平分 Airbnb 西雅图 $400 $300 $101 $100 $80
哥伦比亚 vs. 刚果 门票 与朋友平分 Airbnb 机票 瓜达拉哈拉 $550 $160 $140
土耳其 vs. 美国 机票 门票 与朋友平分 Airbnb 洛杉矶 $714 $340 $200
克罗地亚 vs. 加纳 门票 旧金山 $1,034 $140 $66
美国 vs. 波黑 机票 与朋友平分 Airbnb 门票 $4,140
巴拉圭 vs. 法国 门票 费城 $692
美国 vs. 比利时 机票 与朋友平分 Airbnb 门票 西雅图 $733 $220 $66
挪威 vs. 英国 门票 机票 与朋友平分酒店 打车 迈阿密 $1,412 $515 $206 $83
西班牙 vs. 阿根廷 门票 火车 往返体育场的巴士 纽约 $3,400 $63 $20
总计饮食
总计 总计 饮食 门票 门票 $2,500
住宿 交通 $8,281 | 三场比赛 $8,281
LEONARDO GIUSEPPE RUSSO DIAS
Leonardo Giuseppe Russo Dias 来自巴西圣保罗。
对于 27 岁的 Leonardo Giuseppe Russo Dias 来说，他在巴西圣保罗经营一家海滩体育公司，这次世界杯就像是“一次终身机会”。他说，既然有这样的吸引力，总能找到办法解决资金问题。
于是他积攒资金，搜寻机票，并等待最佳时机购买。他在波士顿确实有一家心仪的酒店——他偶尔会去那里陪伴一位朋友。但那家酒店的价格远高于他通常支付的金额，因此他改为预订了 Airbnb（入住 11 晚共 $1,276）。此外，他通过有时自己做饭而不是在餐厅就餐来省钱。
Russo Dias 通过二手市场购买球票——其中两次是从 Facebook 上结识的人手中购买（一张单场门票 $700，另一场两张门票 $1,600），另外两张是通过 FIFA 平台购买（每张 $920）。
为了亲眼观看克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多和葡萄牙队的比赛，他进行了一次雄心勃勃的休斯顿一日游。这需要乘坐一架早上 6 点经由圣路易斯中转的航班；他在赛前一小时抵达休斯顿。他的 Uber 司机 ($44) 刚好在国歌响起前将他送达，赛后另一辆 Uber ($109) 直接将他送回机场。即便没有过夜，这次 17 小时的行程花费了 $1,161。
在旅程的高光之战——费城举行的巴西对阵海地比赛中，Russo Dias 开租车（全程租车费 $628）从波士顿出发。巴西队 3-0 获胜，Russo Dias 称这场比赛“太神奇了”。他说他很享受与其他巴西人的交流，并将足球称为“我们拥有的最美好的事物”。
他是否愿意再次花费 $8,281 重新进行这次旅行？ “如果我有钱，是的，当然愿意。”
$8,114 | 五场比赛
来自加州埃尔西诺湖的 Antonio Borjon 观看了美国队参加的所有五场比赛，尤其是非常享受战胜巴拉圭的那场胜利。
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36 岁的就业顾问 Antonio Borjon 认为自己是“外面那些幸运的独角兽之一”。他住在西海岸，而美国队所有的比赛都在那里举行。而且他赢得了抽签机会，得以购买每场比赛的门票——其中两次是通过美国支持者团体成员的抽签，价格格外便宜。
Borjon 住在南加州的埃尔西诺湖，与妻子一起观看了美国队的所有五场比赛。对于在加州洛杉矶和圣克拉拉举行的不需要飞行即可到达的比赛，他们带上了 2 岁的女儿，孩子免费入场。（他说，女儿有时很投入，但有些重要时刻在睡觉。）Borjon 希望她能记得一点这次经历；他对自己 4 岁时父母带他去看 1994 年世界杯比赛有着模糊的记忆。
Borjon 和妻子 Heather 花费了 $264（每张票 $66）观看美国队对阵巴拉圭和澳大利亚的比赛。通过 FIFA 针对支持者的抽签，他们购买了另外三场比赛的门票，总计花费 $1,740。（他们的淘汰赛门票是“有条件的”，即只有在美国队晋级的情况下才需要付费。）
“我百分之百万愿意再次这样做，”Borjon 说。 他记得对阵巴拉圭揭幕战时的狂喜，以及离开时那种“觉得一切皆有可能”的感觉。他说：“那种感觉持续了很长时间——直到最后显然以苦涩收场。这就是我从中获得的东西。没有什么能比参加世界杯更棒了，如果你能做到，请尽全力去实现。”
Leonardo Giuseppe Russo Dias 的消费清单
海地 vs. 苏格兰 两张门票 停车费 $1,840 $100
葡萄牙 vs. 刚果 门票 机票 共享乘车 $700 $308 $153
巴西 vs. 海地 两张门票 酒店 $1,600 $268
11 晚 Airbnb 往返机票 租车 食品与饮料总额 纪念品 $1,276 $758 $628 $500 $150
纪念品 $1,544 $1,066 $881 $150
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帕特里克·德·索萨·图特兰 (PATRICK DE SOUZA TUNTLAND)
帕特里克·德·索萨·图特兰从奥斯陆来到这里，为了欢呼与随行。
挪威已经将近三十年没有参加过世界杯了，所以当这个国家最终获得该赛事的资格时，在奥斯陆担任营销经理的 36 岁男子帕特里克·德·索萨·图特兰决定与 10 位朋友一起前往纽约，共同欢呼、庆祝和随行。他总共在美国停留了 12 天，参加比赛并沿东海岸观光。他说，这“比我们梦寐以求的要好得多”，“坦白说，这是我人生中最美好的时光”。
当挪威对阵塞内加尔时，这群朋友在曼哈顿的一次派对中开始了他们的一天。他们乘火车前往大都会人寿体育场（往返 $98），并在前往更多赛前庆祝活动的途中避了一场大雨。赛后，挪威以 3-2 获胜，确保进入 32, 强，他的朋友们一致认为这是他们人生中最美好的一天。
图特兰通过挪威足球协会购买的那场比赛门票花费了 $465.（为了确保能在购买世界杯门票的抽签中被选中，图特兰和他的朋友们参加了一些挪威的资格赛。）图特兰通过住在纽约的一位朋友家中省下了费用。
图特兰的父亲是巴西人，他进行了一次费城一日游，观看巴西对阵海地（门票 $804，巴士 $50）。他与朋友们还前往波士顿（火车 $89）停留了几个晚上（共享 Airbnb 每人 $273），为了观看挪威在小组赛的最后一场比赛，对手是法国（$265）。
图特兰在纽约期间还进行了一些观光活动；他去看了一场百老汇剧目（《第 25 年普特南县拼写比赛》，$77 且“非常有趣”）并参观了帝国大厦（$80）。他还参加了尼克斯队的冠军游行（免费且“非常酷”）。
事后看来，这群朋友或许可以通过去便宜一些的餐厅来省钱。但图特兰并不后悔。现在他回到了挪威——因为世界杯花光了他的旅行预算，他将在那里度过接下来的夏天——他说他依然在幻想这次旅行。
“谈论成本几乎没有意义，”他说，“即使如此，我也愿意再做 100 次。”
| 门票 | 观光 | 门票 | 门票 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 安东尼奥·博尔洪 (Antonio Borjon) 的消费 | |||
| 美国 vs. 巴拉圭 | |||
| 停车费 | |||
| 两张门票 | |||
| 停车费 | |||
| 美国 vs. 澳大利亚 | |||
| 酒店 | |||
| 两人机票 | |||
| 两张门票 | |||
| 土耳其 vs. 美国 | |||
| 两张门票 | |||
| 停车费 | |||
| 美国 vs. 波黑/赫塞哥维那 | |||
| 两张门票 | |||
| 酒店 | |||
| 停车费 | |||
| 美国 vs. 比利时 | |||
| 酒店 | |||
| 两张门票 | |||
| 两人机票 | |||
| 总计 | |||
| 餐饮 | |||
| 餐饮总计 | |||
| 纪念品 | |||
| 开车前往赛场的油费 | |||
| 西雅图观光 | |||
| 机场停车费 | |||
| 总计 | |||
| 餐饮 | |||
| 纪念品 | |||
| 总计 | |||
| 餐饮 | |||
| 总计 | |||
| 餐饮 | |||
| 纪念品 | |||
| 住宿 | |||
| 住宿 | |||
| 机票 | |||
| 机票 | |||
| $1,053 | |||
| 交通 | |||
| 交通 | |||
| 交通 | |||
| $950 | |||
| +$500 |
| 帕特里克·德·索萨·图特兰 (Patrick de Souza Tuntland) 的消费 | |||
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| 巴西 vs. 海地 | 门票 $804 | 巴士 $50 | |
| 挪威 vs. 塞内加尔 | 门票 $465 | 往返体育场火车 $98 | |
| 挪威 vs. 法国 | 与朋友分摊 Airbnb $273 | 门票 $265 | |
| 酒店 $230 | 火车 $89 | 共享乘车 $30 | |
| 餐饮总计 | $1,400 | 往返机票 $1,175 | 观光 $700 |
| 签证 | $40 | ||
| 签证 | $503 | ||
| $267 | |||
| $40 |
| 洛杉矶 | $200 | $132 | $20 |
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| 西雅图 | $893 | $517 | $132 |
| 洛杉矶 | $680 | $200 | |
| 旧金山 | $470 | $309 | $100 |
| 西雅图 | $605 | $590 | $536 |
| $1,500 | $500 | $350 | |
| $300 | $100 | ||
| $1,500 | |||
| $150 | |||
| $8,114 | |||
| $2,004 | |||
| $1,807 |
| 费城 | $804 | $50 | |
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| 纽约 | $465 | $98 | |
| 波士顿 | $273 | $265 | |
| $230 | $89 | $30 | |
| $1,400 | $1,175 | $700 | |
| $40 | |||
| $1,400 | |||
| $1,175 | |||
| $700 | |||
| $1,534 | |||
| $763 | 一场比赛 |
Maz Abdalla 在英国长大，目前是亚特兰大的一名金融高管。去年秋天，他购买了 32 强赛的一场比赛门票。作为一名热情的足球迷，他无法错过在离家仅 20 分钟路程的地方观看世界杯比赛——无论哪场比赛——的机会。
35 岁的 Abdalla 在还不知道谁参赛之前，就为自己和妻子购买了门票（每张 $335）。随后，英格兰队被分在 L 组，赢得了小组赛，并定于在亚特兰大对阵刚果民主共和国。“简直太兴奋了，”他说。
因为他就住在亚特兰大，Abdalla 唯一的额外支出是往返比赛现场的 Uber 乘车费（$48）以及场内餐饮（$45）。
“对我来说，这个花费是值得的，”Abdalla 说。“我也能理解对很多人来说可能不值得。但我是一个资深的足球迷，而且我平时不经常犒劳自己，所以我不介意偶尔做这样的事情。”
他简短地查询了英格兰在亚特兰大对阵阿根廷的半决赛门票。但那些票的价格高达数千美元。（Abdalla 是一名阿森纳球迷，最近他花费了约 $1,000 在伦敦观看阿森纳对阵热刺的比赛，但想到世界杯门票的价格至少是这个数额的两倍，“这差距太大了，”他说。）
他最终在办公室观看了半决赛。
MAZ ABDALLA
$3,253 | 四场比赛
$3,253
CHRISTIAN HAYES-SILVESTRI
来自马萨诸塞州雷丁的 Christian Hayes-Silvestri 为苏格兰队加油。
Christian Hayes-Silvestri 现年 26 岁，是马萨诸塞州雷丁的一名信用分析师。他倾向于不在体育赛事上花太多钱——看波士顿红袜队或其他当地球队最多也就花 $150。但他觉得在世界杯上挥霍一次是可以接受的。
去年秋天，在抽签决定球队比赛地点之前，他通过 FIFA 的抽签系统按票面价格购买了门票（每张 $410）。Hayes-Silvestri 最初选择了在波士顿的两场比赛。
他观看海地对阵苏格兰的比赛，穿着他在网上找到的苏格兰队球衣。（他说，在看到苏格兰球迷如此热爱这座城市——且双方互生好感之后，选择支持这支球队感觉很正确。）赛后，他觉得看两场比赛还不够。三天后，就在开赛前短短六小时，Hayes-Silvestri 购买了门票（两张 $713）观看挪威对阵伊拉克的比赛。
在比赛期间，他表现得很“克制”，没有在小吃摊上过度消费，但仍然支付了 $19 买啤酒和 $13 买爆米花。他说，停车费“简直离谱”。在他的一行人中，有两次有人支付了 $175 停在 FIFA 的官方停车场。
对于另一场比赛，Hayes-Silvestri 花了 $60 停在距离体育场一英里多的一家餐厅。总共，观看三场当地小组赛的费用为 $2,106，其中两次包含了为女友支付的门票费用。
“这很奇怪，因为我平时很节俭，如果听到这个数字我可能会吓坏，”他说。“但对我来说，这感觉是值得的。”
在看了那三场比赛后，他仍然后悔没有买更多票。
在波士顿的四分之一决赛开赛前不到两小时，他花费 $1,035 再次前往吉列体育场，观看法国对阵摩洛哥的比赛。他停在附近的一家汽车旅馆（$90），买了两瓶水（每瓶 $7）和一瓶汽水（$8）。
他说，当时天气很热，这场比赛不像其他四分之一决赛那样精彩。他希望票价能便宜一点。但尽管如此，他说他并不后悔。
Maz Abdalla 在距离他目前亚特兰大住所 20 分钟路程的地方，观看了他成长所在的国家——英国队的比赛。
Christian Hayes-Silvestri 的消费支出
海地 vs. 苏格兰 两张门票 餐饮 $125
伊拉克 vs. 挪威 两张门票 餐厅停车费 餐饮
苏格兰 vs. 摩洛哥 门票 餐饮
法国 vs. 摩洛哥 门票 汽车旅馆停车费 餐饮
Maz Abdalla 的消费支出
英格兰 vs. 刚果 两张门票 网约车 餐饮
波士顿 $820 $62
波士顿 $713 $60 $8
波士顿 $410 $33
波士顿 $1,035 $90 $22
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亚特兰大 $670 $48 $45
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马丁·鲍蒂斯塔（Martin Bautista），一名 24 岁的项目工程师，知道自己做了一笔好交易。 去年秋天，他被选中参加了 Visa 预售抽签，这使他能够以面值购买世界杯门票。他花了 $1,880 购买了四场比赛共 14 张门票，选择了离球场较远、价格较低的座位。 他选择了在休斯顿举行的比赛，这样他就可以住在住在城外的父母家，并在去年圣诞节时将门票作为礼物送给他的兄妹，给他们一个惊喜。 鲍蒂斯塔从一个朋友那里得到了两张葡萄牙对阵乌兹别克斯坦比赛的额外门票，因此他在 FIFA 的转售平台上卖掉了两张原有的门票。他将每张票标价 $1,200，在 FIFA 扣除 15% 的手续费后，他收到了 $2,040。随后，鲍蒂斯塔决定不去观看加拿大和摩洛哥之间的 16 强赛，因此他将那两张票以每张约 $850 的价格卖给了一位朋友。 总的来说，鲍蒂斯塔与家人一起观看了三场比赛，且最终还盈余了约 $1,860，这足以覆盖他们剩余的开支。 住在新墨西哥州霍布斯的鲍蒂斯塔支付了开车前往休斯顿的油费（$240）。他的家人在第一场比赛的往返过程中使用了 Uber（$150），但在接下来的两场比赛中选择了自驾并付费停车（每场 $25）。他说，鲍蒂斯塔原计划挥霍购买纪念品，但排队时间太长且商品经常售罄，因此他只买了一面 FIFA 品牌的巴西国旗（$20）。 在体育场内，他支付了家人的餐饮费用，他认为每场比赛大约花费了 $300——大部分花在了啤酒上。 鲍蒂斯塔见证了大量的进球（14 个，包括他最喜欢的球员克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多打入的两个球），而且日本和巴西球迷欢迎他加入他们的派对。 “为了重温这一切，我愿意花多得多的钱，”他说。
$240
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马丁·鲍蒂斯塔 (MARTIN BAUTISTA)
马丁·鲍蒂斯塔的支出
荷兰 vs. 瑞典 四张门票 餐饮 网约车
葡萄牙 vs. 乌兹别克斯坦 餐饮 四张门票 停车费 两张门票已售出
巴西 vs. 日本 四张门票 餐饮 停车费 纪念品
加拿大 vs. 摩洛哥 两张门票 两张门票已售出
开车前往休斯顿的油费
门票售出收益 $3,740
门票购买支出
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来自新墨西哥州霍布斯的马丁·鲍蒂斯塔及其同伴得以观看克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多的比赛。
休斯顿 $560 $300 $150
休斯顿 $300 $240 $25 +$2,040
休斯顿 $640 $300 $25 $20
休斯顿 $440 +$1,700
克劳德·吉鲁在为飞翼队佩戴“C”字队长袖标的九年里积累了丰富的领导经验。他现在效力于参议员队。
10 支球队缺乏 指定队长
作者：JULIAN McKENZIE The Athletic
克劳德·吉鲁（Claude Giroux）被任命为费城飞翼队队长时 25 岁。由于承担了与这一显赫角色相随的面对公众的责任，这位年轻的前锋在任职初期过度消耗了自己。 “我当时只关注了错误的事情，试图帮助每个人，试图成为场外的领导者，话太多了，结果我忘了怎么打曲棍球，”吉鲁说道。 当时球队的总经理保罗·霍姆格伦（Paul Holmgren）告诉他：“你成为队长不是因为你说的话，而是因为你的打法。所以，只关注那个。” “那是我职业生涯的一个重大转折点，”现年 38 岁的吉鲁说。 自从在飞翼队佩戴“C”字袖标九年的开始起，他就积累了丰富的领导经验。作为一名刚刚重新签约的资深球员，在由仰慕吉鲁指引的后起之秀定义的渥太华参议员队中，吉鲁无疑将帮助教育无论目前俱乐部任命谁为下一任队长。 参议员队在填补更衣室空缺方面并不孤单。截至上周三，另外九支 N.H.L. 球队也缺乏指定队长：芝加哥黑鹰队、哥伦布蓝夹克队、圣路易斯蓝调队、波士顿棕熊队、温哥华加拿部队、安纳-
总是关乎单一的 球员和一个字母。
heim Ducks, New York Islanders, Los Angeles Kings 和 San Jose Sharks。根据联盟的统计与信息部门，这 10 个空缺被认为创下了纪录。其中少数几支球队在近几个月失去了他们的领导者。Kings 队的长期中锋 Anze Kopitar 在今年春天退役，结束了 20 年的职业生涯，其中包括 10 个赛季担任 L.A. 的队长。Boone Jenner, Radko Gudas 和 Anders Lee 离开了 Blue Jackets, Ducks 和 Islanders，在自由球员市场上签约他处。最后，尽管在之前的球队中被授予荣誉，Brady Tkachuk (Senators), Quinn Hughes (Canucks), Brayden Schenn (Blues) 和 Nick Foligno (Blackhawks) 自 12 月中旬以来均被交易。这并非 N.H.L. 首次经历如此显著的队长变动。值得注意的是，在被封锁导致赛季缩短的 1994-95 赛季期间，有六名队长被交易。
但队长空缺的状态不会持续太久。在 those 10 支没有队长的球队中，只有 Bruins 和 Sharks 连续整个赛季缺乏队长，Bruins 在 2025 年 3 月交易了 Brad Marchand，而 Sharks 在一个月后因伤病导致 Logan Couture 退役。仅在 2024 年休赛期，就有七支球队任命了新队长，这表明在下个赛季开始前可能会出现类似的密集宣布潮。“这就是更替，对吧？”Foligno 说道。“现在有一股推动力，促使下一波球员接管。”尽管队长这一概念在冰球传统中无疑占据着特殊地位，但有些人在思考这种分量是否会导致决定推迟。Schenn 和 Foligno 是被要求领导处于转型期球队的高龄老将，而 Hughes 和 Tkachuk 在作为当地市场的年轻之星接过领导权后，则积极寻求更好的发展机会。现在，他们被视为 N.H.L. 新兴球员赋权 era, 的代表，这可能会促使他们的前俱乐部
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更多地思考应该把这项运动中最具荣誉的字母交给谁——以及何时交给。 “球队们稍微清醒了一些，确保他们知道自己拥有什么，”前 Carolina Hurricanes 队长 Justin Williams 说道，他现在是 2026 年斯坦利杯冠军队的管理层顾问。“而且他们还需要球员的承诺，确保球员会留在那里。因为你不想任命一个只有一年或两年合同的队长，然后他就走掉了，对吧？所以，你得有一个对球队、对城市都忠诚的人。”一名 N.H.L. 队长不仅仅是出于营销目的的球队门面。他通常是媒体成员首选的采访对象，并且经常与冰上裁判讨论判罚和其他比赛内问题。他可以充当教练组与更衣室之间的联络人以解决冲突，并作为社交协调员组织场外活动以凝聚队友。“很多时候，队长是最好的球员和/或最资深的球员，对吧？就是每个人都尊敬的那个人，”曾在 2015 到 2021 年期间担任 Blue Jackets 队长的 Foligno 说道。“现在更多的是谁能把握团队的脉搏，谁理解我们要前进的方向，并且能成为教练和球员之间的中间人，对吧？而且他必须是一个出色的沟通者，我认为这就是现在队长的角色。” 确实，队长不必是球队中最好的球员。但要把这个字母交给一名边缘名单成员也很难自圆其说。“否则，你不过是一个美化后的助理教练，”播报员 Ray Ferraro 说道，他曾是 Atlanta Thrashers 的队长。“所以球员必须具有影响力。” 那些职责已经 re-
在整个联盟历史上一直保持一致，即便这项工作的某些要素已经发生了变化。根据报纸档案，在 20 世纪 50 年代，N.H.L. 的队长每年会对个人球员奖项、全明星阵容以及最受欢迎裁判等荣誉进行投票。然而在目前，人们更强调球队的领导结构，而不仅仅是由一名球员承担所有重任。布鲁因斯队一直依靠一个领导委员会而非事实上的单一领导者。在 Marchand 被交易到佛罗里达美鱼队之后，布鲁因斯队依靠三名候补队长：前锋 David Pastrnak 以及后卫 Charlie McAvoy 和 Hampus Lindholm。“我一直说我想要一名队长，”布鲁因斯队教练 Marco Sturm 在五月表示。“但现在，经历了这一切，作为主教练第一次在没有队长的情况下执教，我觉得进展得非常好。也许是因为队员们关系非常密切，我认为领导小组整体表现得很好。每个人都发表了意见。没有局外人。他们始终保持紧密协作。实际上我并不介意这样。”在 Giroux 担任候补队长的渥太华，参议员队打算为 Tkachuk 命名一名接任者。他们当然不缺乏选择，包括 Jake Sanderson 和 Tim Stützle 这两名年轻且才华横溢的人才。其他 9 支球队将如何填补空缺仍有待观察，不过许多人预计其中两支球队很快会起用他们的顶尖超级巨星。20 岁的 Macklin Celebrini 已经是鲨鱼队的候补队长，并且在今年的世界锦标赛上担任了加拿大国家队的队长。黑鹰队的 Connor Bedard 刚刚签署了一份为期五年、价值 $75 million 的续约合同，他告诉记者，成为芝加哥的下一任队长对他来说将是“极其特别的”。成为队长的荣誉在整个 N.H.L. 均受到重视。Ferraro 表示：“还有一个仪式，一种拥有队长的传统，我认为我们的运动不会抛弃它。”
作者：JOHNNY FLORES JR. The Athletic
在短短几个月内，轻拍头部在 M.L.B. 球场中已变得像《Take Me Out to the Ball Game》和本垒打一样常见。自动球好挑战系统让 M.L.B. 的 30 支球队有机会通过这个手势挑战裁判的判定，从而扭转比赛局面。在棒球赛季的中点，所有 30 支球队都至少发起了 150 次挑战。然而，并非所有挑战的效果都相同，一些球队和球员的表现比其他人更好。捕手在挑战总数上领先，但一些击球手在利用该系统方面也表现得非常积极。
通过使用来自 Tap to Challenge 网站的数据（截至 7 月 12 日）并与 M.L.B. 球员交流，以下是球队、球员和裁判在 2026 赛季中点的表现情况。
一些球队仍然 不愿发起挑战。
在全明星赛休息期之前，没有哪支球队在球好挑战方面比辛辛那提红人队更成功。还记得 2025 年 2 月红人队经理特里·弗兰科纳在春训中对该系统不屑一顾的样子吗？当时，该系统的实施还处于愿景阶段，弗兰科纳更关注当下。
“为什么要研究它？”他当时说，“我不想把任何事情变成一场闹剧，但我们在这里准备赛季，而这并没有帮我们做好准备。”
尽管红人队在 M.L.B. 的球好挑战胜率最高（64.4%），但他们远非 M.L.B. 最积极的球队。这个头衔属于明尼苏达双城队，他们挑战了 270 次投球，比紧随其后的科罗拉多落基山队多出 25 次。
从尝试次数来看，圣迭戈教徒队、波士顿红袜队、德克萨斯游骑兵队和亚利桑那响尾蛇队是仅有的未达到 175 次或更多挑战阈值的球队。圣迭戈不愿挑战的情况耐人寻味。4 月 25 日，该队 50 次挑战在整体排名中处于中游。在随后的 83 天里，教徒队仅增加了 124 次挑战。
尽管不愿挑战，但波士顿自 7 月 1 日以来一直是棒球界最强的球队。
裁判 并没有那么糟。
现代裁判的任务是应对一个日益复杂、以投球为主的比赛。尽管球好系统放大了一些误判，但它也凸显了裁判们究竟有多优秀。在 91 位在主球区后方执法的裁判中，有 90 位的准确率在 91.2% 或以上。只有一位，C.B. Bucknor，低于 91.2%，准确率为 88.9%。
安迪·弗莱彻（Andy Fletcher）的推翻率最高（72.5%），在 51 次挑战中被推翻了 37 次判定。托德·蒂切诺（Todd Tichenor）排名第二（66.2%），斯图·谢尔瓦特（Stu Scheurwater）排名第三（63.8%）。
“这些裁判的工作真的、真的、真的非常困难，”红人队新秀萨尔·斯图尔特（Sal Stewart）说。“我只需要了解自己的区域；而他们需要了解整个联盟的区域。”
他补充道：“我只想说，伙计，裁判们做得非常出色。这个系统并不容易。他们必须了解很多人，不同的身高。”
在 91 位在主球区后方执法的裁判中，有 90 位的准确率在 91.2% 或以上。
Johnny Flores Jr. 是 The Athletic 的 M.L.B. 高级编辑。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 明尼苏达队的乔什·贝尔（Josh Bell）示意发起球好挑战。双城队一直是该系统最积极的使用者。
“他们必须了解很多人，不同的身高。” 路易·克鲁帕（Louie Krupa，36 次中推翻 12 次，33.3%）、德里克·托马斯（Derek Thomas，34.6%）和德克斯特·凯利（Dexter Kelley，36.4%）的推翻率最低。
捕手 非常擅长此项工作。
在进入常规赛之前，关于挑战系统最大的疑问之一是，在球队 26 人的名单中，谁将拥有挑战权。到目前为止，答案压倒性地指向了捕手。
红人队捕手泰勒·斯蒂芬森（Tyler Stephenson）在挑战中的胜率最高。他
挑战了 89 次，其中 66 次成功，成功率为 74.2%。堪萨斯市皇家队（Kansas City Royals）的捕手萨尔瓦多·佩雷兹（Salvador Perez）在 63 次挑战中成功了 45 次，即 71.4%。底特律老虎队（Detroit Tigers）的捕手迪龙·丁格勒（Dillon Dingler）在 78 次中成功了 54 次，即 69.2%。
那么秘诀是什么？
“我其实没有什么秘诀，”洛基队（Rockies）捕手亨特·古德曼（Hunter Goodman）说道，他在 90 次挑战中赢了 57 次，成功率为 63.3%。“我觉得今年我做得不错的一点是了解投手的球路形状以及他们如何进入好球区。比如那些手臂投球角度比较奇怪或投球姿势异于常人的投手，他们的球进入好球区的方式有点不同。”
“我会尽力去挑战球的形状。所以，如果是一个远离右打者的滑球，那么它跑出好球区的概率可能更大；或者如果是一个回钻好球区的伸球，那么它更有可能是好球。这就像是你在实践中逐渐学会的一些东西。”
在美联（American League）成功挑战次数排名第二的丁格勒指出，需要具备无畏的精神。
“如果你觉得是好球，就果断挑战，”这位首次入选全明星赛的丁格勒说。“这是对我帮助最大的事情之一，因为你往往会犹豫。你不想浪费挑战机会，也不想让某人因为之后在比赛中无法使用挑战而生气。但通常来说，如果我立刻觉得它是好球并且感觉很好，那它通常就是好球。”
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同样也有一些优秀的野手。
虽然捕手制造了大部分的挑战且成功率较高，但也有几位野手在击球区表现不俗，包括两名新人：斯图尔特（Stewart）和老虎队的游击手凯文·麦格尼格尔（Kevin McGonigle）。
在非捕手球员中，休斯顿太空人队（Houston Astros）的三垒手艾萨克·帕雷德斯（Isaac Paredes）最为成功，在 12 次挑战中 11 次正确，成功率为 91.7%。多伦多蓝鸟队（Toronto Blue Jays）的外野手戴维斯·施耐德（Davis Schneider）在 14 次挑战中成功 11 次，成功率为 78.6%。太空人队的何塞·阿尔图维（Jose Altuve）在 21 次中成功 15 次，率为 71.4%。麦格尼格尔在 19 次中成功 13 次，成功率为 68.4%。
内野手斯图尔特是在 2022. 年被选中的。他在小联盟的晋升期恰好与该系统在棒球低级别联赛的实施期重合。这使他迅速产生了一种并非所有球员都具备的舒适感。
“我在 Low-A 级别时就尝试过几次，所以我对此更适应，”斯图尔特说。“我已经接触它几年了，所以这绝对对我有所帮助。”
至于麦格尼格尔，则可归功于敏锐的眼力。
“只要了解好球区，研究投手以及他们喜欢用特定球种投向哪里，并且对好球区有良好的感觉即可，”麦格尼格尔说。
挑战系统从 3A 级别扩展到亚利桑那秋季联赛（Arizona Fall League）和春季训练营，这将有助于未来的新人更熟悉该系统，并缩短进入大联盟后的适应期。换句话说，下一波 M.L.B. 人才在适应方面应该不会有太大困难。
“我认为这将帮助很多球员，”麦格尼格尔说。
该系统也有其失误时刻。
除了帮助推翻错误判定外，自动化球好坏判定系统最擅长的一点就是，在出现失误时提供一些有趣的集锦。在全明星赛休赛期之前，外野手亚历克斯·科尔（Alex Call）在比赛的第二局中挥霍掉了洛杉矶道奇队（Los Angeles Dodgers）所有可用的两次挑战机会。而其中只有一次投球值得挑战。在此之前，兰迪·阿罗扎雷纳（Randy Arozarena）在第一局中浪费了西雅图水手队（Seattle Mariners）的所有挑战机会，而那些投球甚至离好球区很远。
还有纽约扬基队（New York Yankees）的贾兹·奇泽姆二世（Jazz Chisholm Jr.），他对自己的挑战如此自信，以至于在认为那是第四个坏球时，已经脱掉护具准备跑向一垒。结果出乎意料：那是一个好球。
随着训练营临近， 是时候调整 你的预期了
根据 N.F.L. 的赛历，现在是一年中最美好的时刻之一：在几天之内，全联盟的训练营将陆续开启，所有 32 支球队——带着极高的期待——将进入赛场，为即将到来的赛季打下基础。10 支球队更换了新主教练，超过半数球队配备了新的进攻协调员，而在本次休赛期，略少于半数的球队迎来了新的防守协调员。自由球员的引进和选秀球员已开始适应新环境，现在他们将投入工作。虽然每位球员和教练都渴望争夺超级碗，但具体预期因队而异。一些备受赞誉的队伍将发挥出潜力，而另一些则会低于预期。还有一些则会超越预期，让对手感到棘手。我们将探讨进入 2026 赛季后，一些最被低估和最被高估的球队，以及他们可能出现的情况。
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亚特兰大猎鹰队
凯文·斯特凡斯基接手了一支拥有大量天才球员的球队。
猎鹰队是本次休赛期聘请新主教练的 10 支球队之一，但球队底蕴绝非匮乏。拉希姆·莫里斯带领猎鹰队取得了四场连胜，帮助他们以 8-9 的战绩完赛，并与卡罗来纳黑豹队和坦帕湾海盗队并列 N.F.C. 南区之首，但这发生在他们已根据潜在平局决胜规则被排除在季后赛争夺战之外之后。 所有者亚瑟·布兰克选择了变革，凯文·斯特凡斯基接手了一支拥有大量天才球员的球队，由比詹·罗宾逊、凯尔·皮茨、德雷克·伦敦、A.J. 特雷尔、杰西·贝茨三世、詹姆斯·皮尔斯和泽维尔·沃茨领衔。如果他能解决迈克尔·佩尼克斯二世和图亚·塔戈维洛之间的四分卫问题，并确保两人中的一个能留在场上，亚特兰大就有机会挑战分区的冠军。
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迪·温特斯和其他资深天才球员加入了达拉斯的防守阵线。
杰里·琼斯会告诉你，牛仔队始终有竞争机会，他的球队确实制造了大量话题。但牛仔队的防守端必须迅速磨合，新防守协调员克里斯蒂安·帕克接手的是一个上赛季极度挣扎的单元，但现在增加了许多新面孔，包括老将冲传手拉尚·加里、角卫科比·杜兰特、线卫迪·温特斯，以及新秀线卫马拉凯·劳伦斯和贾肖恩·巴勒姆。由达克·普雷斯科特、希迪·兰姆和乔治·皮肯斯领衔的进攻端应该能再次得分，但亟需的防守支持可能需要一段时间。
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丹尼尔·琼斯在跟腱受伤后预计将开启赛季。
如果丹尼尔·琼斯没有在第 14 周撕裂跟腱，谢恩·斯泰肯的队伍很有可能竞争 A.F.C. 的顶级种子席位。小马队期待琼斯能开启赛季，并希望他能接续之前的状态，帮助指挥一支依然拥有强力进攻线和跑卫乔纳森·泰勒的前 10 强进攻阵型。小马队的开局赛程很艰难，但绝对可以在 A.F.C. 南区竞争。
布法罗比尔队
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在教练乔·布雷迪的带领下，比尔队可能会经历成长的阵痛。
比尔队在追求超级碗的过程中遗憾折戟，导致教练肖恩·麦克德莫特丢掉了工作。他们被视为竞争者，很大程度上是因为乔什·艾伦总是能做出惊人的表现。但众所周知，他无法单打独斗。随着乔·布雷迪试图实现从进攻协调员到主教练的巨大飞跃，以及新防守协调员吉姆·莱昂哈德试图建立一套全新的防守体系，比尔队可能会经历一些成长的阵痛。
JONATHAN TAYLOR 拥有前 10 强的进攻能力和强大的进攻线。
辛辛那提孟加拉虎 (Cincinnati Bengals)
孟加拉虎拥有健康的乔·伯罗 (Joe Burrow) 以及提升后的深度。
一支排名第 31 位的防守组在 7 场比赛中失分至少 30 分，且有两次失分超过 45 分，对于一支经历了 9 场比赛没有健康乔·伯罗的进攻组来说，几乎没有提供任何支持。现在，这名球队核心四分卫回归了，防守截锋德克斯特·劳伦斯 (Dexter Lawrence) 和乔纳森·艾伦 (Jonathan Allen) 以及冲传手博伊·马费 (Boye Mafe) 的加入应该有助于加强辛辛那提的防守前线。 得益于这些举措以及防守端的其他调整，孟加拉虎现在的深度可能比他们在 2021 赛季进入超级碗时还要好。巴尔的摩乌鸦在美联北区吸引了大量关注，这理所应当，但孟加拉虎似乎已经准备好在这一赛季反弹，并可能给他们的分区对手制造麻烦。
芝加哥熊队 (Chicago Bears)
卡莱布·威廉姆斯 (Caleb Williams) 必须显著提高他的稳定性。
本·约翰逊 (Ben Johnson) 在执掌帅印的第一个赛季点燃了熊队的激情，他帮助四分卫卡莱布·威廉姆斯挖掘出了球队在 2024 年选择他作为 No. 1 时所看中的部分潜力。芝加哥的防守组以 33 次抢断领跑 N.F.L.，熊队在国联北区超越了明尼苏达维金人、格林贝包装工和底特律狮子，并进入了季后赛的分区赛轮。 预期已经飙升，但迈出下一步代表着巨大的挑战。威廉姆斯在比赛末节展现了英雄本色，但他和他的球队不能指望这种趋势能够重复。他必须大幅提高稳定性，而芝加哥的防守组不能在压力率如此之低且在对抗跑球如此挣扎的情况下地过关。熊队感觉比起进步，更像是准备后退一步。
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布莱斯·杨 (Bryce Young) 在 2025 年创下了职业生涯最高的传球和触球数。
在与光荣之海盗和猎鹰队的平分决胜中，黑豹队铺平了八年来首次进入季后赛的道路。在他的第三个赛季中，布莱斯·杨在传球码数 (3,011) 和触球数 (23) 方面创下了职业生涯新高。防守组从垫底上升到了中游水平。尽管在一次 34-31 的外卡赛失利中给洛杉矶公羊队造成了压力，但黑豹队仍然不被大众关注。 总经理丹·摩根 (Dan Morgan) 非常忙碌，采取措施升级进攻和防守前线，增加了资深后卫罗伯特·亨特 (Robert Hunt) 和达米安·刘易斯 (Damien Lewis)，以及冲传手杰伦·菲利普斯 (Jaelan Phillips) 和线卫德文·劳埃德 (Devin Lloyd)。卡罗来纳队教练戴夫·卡内莱斯 (Dave Canales) 及其团队在他第三个赛季中可能会取得更多进步。
费城老鹰队 (Philadelphia Eagles)
肖恩·曼尼恩 (Sean Mannion) 是四年内的第四任进攻协调员。
在过去的 10 年里，老鹰队一直被列为国联的顶尖球队，九次进入季后赛，两次赢得超级碗。即便在上一赛季出现下滑，他们依然在四个赛季中第三次赢得了国联东区冠军。但现在他们正尝试在运行中重新调整：剔除了心怀不满的 A.J. Brown，起草了 Makai Lemon，起用了四年内的第四任进攻协调员（新秀主教练肖恩·曼尼恩），并在防守端增加了资深球员乔纳森·格林纳德 (Jonathan Greenard) 和里克·伍伦 (Riq Woolen)，同时失去了顶尖球员纳科比·迪恩 (Nakobe Dean) 和里德·布兰肯希普 (Reed Blankenship)。进攻线的健康状况令人担忧。尽管被视为标杆，但老鹰队本赛季可能会遇到一些障碍。
德雷克·梅伊 (DRAKE MAYE) 可能需要时间与 A.J. Brown 磨合。
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新奥尔良圣徒队 (New Orleans Saints)
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新秀接球手乔丹·泰森 (Jordyn Tyson) 可能会帮助圣徒队制造影响。
关于圣徒队（Saints）并没有太多噱头，但主教练凯伦·摩尔（Kellen Moore）在去年的新秀年确实帮助球队向前推进，尤其是在 12 月 4-0 的战绩期间。他们需要一些球员在防守端成长，但在进攻端，如果二年级四分卫泰勒·肖（Tyler Shough）能延续赛季末的进步，并充分利用新加入的新秀接球手乔丹·泰森（Jordyn Tyson）和跑卫特拉维斯·埃蒂安（Travis Etienne）——在已经拥有克里斯·奥拉夫（Chris Olave）和阿尔文·卡马拉（Alvin Kamara）的阵容基础上，圣徒队可能会在分区中制造一些动静。上赛季，他们与光荣海盗队（Buccaneers）战绩平手，并横扫了黑豹队（Panthers）。
新英格兰爱国者队
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迈克·夫拉贝尔（Mike Vrabel）和他的球员们希望解决未竟之事。
爱国者队在 2025 年确实超出了预期，超越布法罗队夺得分区冠军并进入超级碗，但在那里输给了西雅图海鹰队。迈克·夫拉贝尔及其球员们非常希望在 2026 年解决未竟之事，但这可能会被证明具有挑战性。 新英格兰队本赛季将不再享有出其不意偷袭对手的奢侈。爱国者队还将面临艰苦的开局：前 4 周有三场客场比赛，且在前 10 周内有两次连续的客场之旅。爱国者队签下了 A.J. 布朗，希望他能帮助提升德雷克·梅（Drake Maye）的表现，但磨合可能需要一段时间。新英格兰队似乎仍然缺乏能够改变比赛局面的冲传能力，若要让防守进一步提升，这一点必须改变。
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波加查赢得第五个冠军，范德波尔在最后一赛段惊艳全场
作者：雅各布·怀特海德 (JACOB WHITEHEAD) 和 邓肯·亚历山大 (DUNCAN ALEXANDER) 《竞技报》(The Athletic)
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巴黎 —— 来自斯洛文尼亚的塔德伊·波加查 (Tadej Pogacar) 在周日赢得了他的第五个环法自行车赛冠军，与比利时的埃迪·默克斯 (Eddy Merckx)、西班牙的米格尔·因杜拉因 (Miguel Induráin) 以及法国的雅克·安奎蒂尔 (Jacques Anquetil) 和贝尔纳·伊诺 (Bernard Hinault) 一起，成为仅有的五次赢得该项赛事的自行车运动员。
27 岁的波加查以 6 分 26 秒的优势领先于 26 岁的比利时选手雷姆科·伊文波尔 (Remco Evenepoel)，后者在总成绩排名中获得第二名。波加查在阿联酋航空车队 (U.A.E. Team Emirates) 的队友、22 岁的墨西哥选手艾萨克·德尔托罗 (Isaac del Toro) 首次参加环法赛，获得第三名，落后波加查 9:42。
波加查在今年的环法赛中赢得了五个赛段，使其职业生涯总冠军数达到 26 个。
31 岁的马蒂厄·范德波尔 (Mathieu van der Poel) 是一位出生于比利时的荷兰职业选手，他在周日的香榭丽舍大街赛段中顶住大组压力，赢得了该赛段。
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范德波尔（Van der Poel）和波加查（Pogacar）在蒙马特爬坡赛的第三次且最后一次冲顶时脱颖而出并展开合作，但面对在他们身后约 10 秒处集结的冲刺手车队，他们想要守住领先地位似乎希望渺茫。波加查在距离终点约 765 码时被追上，但范德波尔继续坚持，就在似乎要被超越的一刻，他再次爆发了速度。
波加查在分站赛中以第 30 名的安全成绩跨过终点线，赢得了环法总冠军；而来自丹麦的马兹·佩德森（Mads Pedersen）、厄瓜多尔的理查德·卡拉帕斯（Richard Carapaz）和德尔托罗（del Toro）分别赢得了绿衫（最佳冲刺手）、圆点衫（最佳爬坡手）和白衫（最佳年轻骑手）。
范德波尔在周日展现了他的卓越才华。 他的脸上写满了痛苦，波加查则更像是在微笑，但两人都承受着煎熬。这是那些无需证明任何事情、却依然全力以赴的男人们的神情。
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雷阵雨将席卷五大湖地区、东北部、落基山脉及东南部沿海的大部分地区。部分雷阵雨可能较为剧烈，特别是在五大湖地区，可能会出现破坏性的阵风、冰雹和倾盆大雨。
不断扩张的热穹将使从德克萨斯州到明尼苏otas州的温度比平均水平高出 5 到 15 度。天气将以晴朗和干燥为主，但不能排除下午出现风暴的可能性。干燥天气也将覆盖西海岸各州、内华达州和爱达荷州。
加利福尼亚州将有阳光，但随着冷空气移入，太平洋西北地区将更加阴云。华盛顿州沿海地区可能会有阵雨。
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自行车运动的魅力在于其不可思议的结盟：该世代最伟大的经典赛车手与所有世代中最伟大的车手在香榭丽舍大街上锻造出协作，共同努力争取一项他们此前唯一未能获得的奖项。
范德波尔在蒙马特山的第三次爬坡时发起进攻，仅有波加查跟随。两人以计时赛的方式向终点推进，在巴黎的鹅卵石路面上颠簸前行，身后则是由 Visma 领衔的追击组，随后是为奥拉夫·库伊效力的 Decathlon CMA CGM 车队。
这次突围本不该成功，在还剩约六英里的距离时，领先优势仅有 12 秒。而它确实成功了，这恰恰证明了这些车手及其表现的不可思议之处。
波加查在最后的一英里左右显得精疲力竭，这是他在整个环法赛期间第一次出现这种情况。他以步行速度跨过终点线，在那个瞬间，尽管他身披黄色领骑衫，但至少在惯性滑行通过香榭丽舍大街时，他也像个凡人一样。
但在前方，范德波尔仍在发力，在距离终点约 875 码处发起了一次英雄般的冲刺。
POOL PHOTO BY ETIENNE GARNIER
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今晚 ................................ 阵雨 最低气温 69。晚上可能会有几次阵雨。除此之外，天气将很潮湿，云量增加。风力将保持轻微且多变。最低气温将接近平均值。
明天 ......................... 雷阵雨 最高气温 77。天气多云，气温不那么高，伴有阵雨和大雷雨。风暴可能会带来倾盆大雨、冰雹和破坏性阵风。
周三 .. 阵雨和雷阵雨 最高气温 77。云层与阳光交替，伴有几次阵雨和雷阵雨。
周四 周五 .................... 周四局部多云 干燥天气将于周四回归，云层与阳光交替。最高气温 80。周五，阳光将偶尔穿透云层。最高气温 85。
在中央公园，截至昨日下午 1 点的 13 小时内。
下午 1 点
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周六 昨日
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凌晨 12 点
本月日平均偏离值 ............... -0.6° 今年日平均偏离值 ............... -0.2°
水库水位 （纽约市供水）
昨日 ............... 87% 预计正常值 ............. 90%
太阳、月亮与行星
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升起 上午 5:48 落下 晚上 8:17 下次升起 上午 5:49
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航海
从蒙托克角 (Montauk Point) 到新泽西州桑迪胡克 (Sandy Hook, N.J.)，向外延伸 20 海里，包括长岛海峡和纽约港。 风向为东南风，风速约为 5 节。 纽约港和长岛海峡的波浪高度为 1 英尺或更低，大洋上的波浪高度为 1-2 英尺。能见度将受下午风暴影响而受限。
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大西洋城 (Atlantic City) .................... 上午 6:44 .............. 晚上 7:03 巴尼盖特入口 (Barnegat Inlet) ................. 上午 6:57 .............. 晚上 7:10 电池公园 (The Battery) ..................... 上午 7:38 .............. 晚上 7:49 比奇海文 (Beach Haven) .................. 上午 8:24 .............. 晚上 8:38 布里奇波特 (Bridgeport) .................... 上午 10:44 ............ 晚上 10:54 城市岛 (City Island) ..................... 上午 11:19 ............ 晚上 11:25 火岛灯塔 (Fire Island Lt.) .................. 上午 7:52 .............. 晚上 8:06 蒙托克角 (Montauk Point) ................ 上午 8:26 .............. 晚上 8:43 北港 (Northport) ..................... 上午 11:05 ............ 晚上 11:08 波特华盛顿 (Port Washington) ........... 上午 11:29 ............ 晚上 11:30 桑迪胡克 (Sandy Hook) .................... 上午 7:06 .............. 晚上 7:20 希内考克入口 (Shinnecock Inlet) ............. 上午 6:46 .............. 晚上 7:05 斯坦福 (Stamford) ...................... 上午 10:51 ............ 晚上 10:55 塔里敦 (Tarrytown) ....................... 上午 9:27 .............. 晚上 9:38 威利茨角 (Willets Point) .................. 上午 11:18 ............ 晚上 11:25
最高纪录 98° (1940)
下午 1 点 83°
最高纪录 85° 正常值
最低纪录 70° 正常值
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在于其 出人意料的结盟。
在结局揭晓前，一切似乎都已注定失败。 Jasper Philipsen 和 Pedersen 在距离终点约 325 码时发起冲刺，van der Poel 的 双腿在他们面前明显慢了下来。三人几乎同时 冲过终点。Philipsen 举起了手臂。他为队友的 胜利而庆祝。 Van der Poel 在结束时近乎落泪，与其说是其他原因，不如说是由于精疲力竭，他依靠 护栏支撑着身体。 他终生的对手，来自比利时的 Wout van Aert 去年在这里夺冠。van der Poel 在周日效仿他的表现， 这足以证明他们之间竞争的伟大。 蒙马特再次奉献了一场经典比赛。在两年时间里，这里 创造了数十年以来，甚至可能是赛事历史上 最令人难忘的环法自行车赛终点赛段。
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过去 30 天 实际 ..................... 3.83 正常.................... 4.29
过去 365 天 实际 ................... 36.63 正常.................. 49.52
最近 30 天 气压
最高 ........... 30.01 1 a.m. 最低 .............. 29.94 正午
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一项追踪当日平均气温高于 65 度多少的燃料消耗指数
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图表显示近期温度和降水量趋势与过去 30 年的对比情况。
海滩与海洋温度
今日预报
74/55 晴朗为主 肯尼邦克波特 (Kennebunkport)
76/64 晴朗为主 鳕鱼角 (Cape Cod)
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By SHANE GOLDMACHER and REID J. EPSTEIN
The Democratic Party is so short on cash that leaders at its headquarters have undertaken a new gambit to mask the severity of the problems: asking vendors not to send bills until after the midterm elections. The bookkeeping maneuver, which was described by three peo- ple briefed on it, is the latest sign of financial duress for the Demo- cratic National Committee and its embattled leader as money trou- bles threaten to undercut Demo- cratic momentum with 100 days until the midterms. So much is going politically right for Democrats these days. President Trump’s approval is down, gas prices are up and an un- popular war with Iran drags on. But dysfunction and debt inside one of the party’s key institutions — which is getting crushed in fund-raising by its Republican counterpart — are creating rising anxiety for top Democrats. At the center is Ken Martin, the 53-year-old party chairman, who has found himself increasingly isolated, gripped by the fear that he will lose his job and relying on a vanishingly small circle of people he trusts, according to interviews with more than two dozen Demo- crats, including current and for- mer D.N.C. officials and members. Most of them spoke on the condi- tion of anonymity to discuss the party’s troubled state of affairs. Mr. Martin’s fraying nerves are showing. In a pique of frustration in early July, he threw his phone at the desk of a junior aide while up- braiding the person. The phone- tossing incident resulted in a for- mal complaint to the D.N.C.’s hu- man resources department. The fallout from the phone- throwing episode was described by half a dozen people familiar with the incident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity be- cause they were not authorized to discuss internal party matters. None of them witnessed the en- counter, and there was some dis- pute over how aggressively the phone was tossed. Mr. Martin was said to have thrown the phone at the desk, rather than at the aide. Mr. Martin later met with D.N.C. human resources officials about his behavior, according to three of the people.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — I’ve had a hand in killing around six people. Maybe seven. I don’t know if one man bled out on the side of the road or was taken to a doctor. I think about him often. The killings occurred in the winter and spring of early 2010, during one of the largest opera- tions of the Afghanistan war: the battle of Marja. I was the 22- year-old leader of a scout sniper team of seven Marines and one Navy corpsman.
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It is a strange thing, having killed people in a conflict that spanned 20 years and was ulti- mately lost. The sum of such an intense expenditure of human lives and trauma left Afghanistan much as it was in 2001, before any American boots touched the ground.
year-old biology student. “It was- n’t livable anymore and it was hard walking on them.” When he was 14, Mr. Zahar par- ticipated in a workshop that used the video game Minecraft to en- gage children in urban design.
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Killing in war often boils down to an us-or-them mentality, a defensible position common to infantry combat. But we were also directed to “win hearts and minds,” the U.S. strategy meant to earn the population’s trust and isolate the Taliban. Trying to build good will while engaging in gunfights beside people’s homes was profoundly confusing. The killing wasn’t detached; it felt deeply personal. Patrols required a constant assessment of friend or foe, and long hours staring through high-
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Led by facilitators from the Block by Block Foundation and U.N.- Habitat, he and 45 other children redesigned three of the damaged stairways, dreaming up new fea- tures like a big slide, handrails made from speaking tubes, and shaded seating areas, modeling everything out in the game to in- form real blueprints. Since the renovation, the 125 steps that make up the St. Nicolas
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Trump Learns Limit of Power
Five Months Into War, Bold Goals Are Unmet
By DAVID E. SANGER
WASHINGTON — President Trump often celebrates his un- predictability, declaring that it keeps allies and adversaries alike off balance. By his telling, his willingness to bomb Iranian nuclear sites 13 months ago, and send Delta Force commandos in to snatch President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela from his bed in early January, reflected his determina- tion to execute military opera- tions that would have made his predecessors blanch. He told The New York Times he was limited only by “my own morality,” as he wielded the world’s biggest ham- mer. But in recent weeks, he has seemed trapped, his presidency gradually consumed by a war he cannot find his way out of. He has discovered limits on his power that he could have scarce- ly imagined as he began full combat operations on Feb. 28, when he set out goals for a swift end to Iran’s nuclear program and the overthrow of the coun- try’s government. Five months later, those goals remain almost entirely unaccom- plished. And Mr. Trump, once confident that overwhelming force would enable him to pursue in Iran what he proudly called the “Venezuela model” — a change of government to one amenable to U.S. control — is now hesitant to plunge back into major combat operations that his intelligence agencies assess are unlikely to work as well in Tehran. He has been unable to control surging oil prices, or their effects on the stock market. The ship- ping that crawled to a stop in the Strait of Hormuz, then was opened for a few short weeks, is back to a trickle, with a second choke point, between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, now threatened. And while the presi- dent has threatened to take Kharg Island, where Iran ships oil, or to seize its underground stores of enriched uranium, he has said publicly that he knows there is no appetite for sending in ground troops. Those limits have left him deeply frustrated, his aides say, and have made him more erratic, even by Trumpian standards. Last week alone, Mr. Trump’s energy secretary signed a his-
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An Admiral Relied on Politics
By GREG JAFFE and KATE KELLY
Adm. Daryl Caudle saw an opening to land the Navy’s top job last year, and he seized it. Before Pete Hegseth had even been sworn in as defense secre- tary, Admiral Caudle, then the head of a major Navy training command, offered to help Mr. Hegseth prepare for his politically contentious Senate confirmation hearing, according to current and former defense officials. The outreach was a breach of military ethics, the officials said. Senior military officers are sup- posed to avoid any hint of partisan bias or political activity. Nothing came of the offer. But soon after Mr. Hegseth took office, he fired the first woman to lead the Navy: Admiral Caudle’s boss. Days later, a senior officer on Ad- miral Caudle’s staff contacted Mr. Hegseth’s team in another breach of protocol.
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THE DEPORTATION OF VITAL WORKERS
One Million at Risk After Court Ruling, as Some Leaders Try to Act
By MIRIAM JORDAN and MADELEINE NGO
Around Washington, Salvador- an-born crews have helped reno- vate, rebuild and maintain the Capitol, the Pentagon and Arling- ton National Cemetery. In senior living facilities in Florida, Massa- chusetts and New York, Haitian caregivers assist aging Ameri- cans with daily activities. These workers are among more than one million people who have been allowed to live and work in the United States under a dec- ades-old humanitarian program, and who now face the prospect of deportation. Last month, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump ad- ministration to end Temporary Protected Status, as the humani- tarian program is known, and now industries are bracing for the loss of vital workers. About 70 percent of T.P.S. hold- ers were participating in the U.S. labor force, many in construction and health care, according to an analysis by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. But on Monday, about 350,000 T.P.S. recipients from Haiti and several other countries will lose their work permits in the first wave of fallout from the Supreme Court ruling. About 190,000 Salva- doran beneficiaries could be next to lose their status when it expires in September. “For particular places and par- ticular industries, tens of thou- sands of workers no longer able to legally work is going to be a very big hit,” said Alexander Arnon, the director of policy analysis at the Penn Wharton Budget Model, a nonpartisan research organiza- tion that has analyzed the eco- nomic impacts of T.P.S. workers. Economists say the loss of those workers could be gradual, as some pursue other potential pro- tections, such as asylum, and oth- ers continue working but off the books. Still, as the clock ticked toward the end of Temporary Protected Status, business organizations, led by the U.S. Chamber of Com- merce, mounted a campaign for action on Capitol Hill, joined by a growing number of state and local leaders from both parties.
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Adm. Daryl Caudle lobbied for the Navy’s top job last year.
His pitch: Mr. Hegseth should choose Admiral Caudle to be the next chief of naval operations, the current and former officials said, speaking on the condition of ano- nymity to discuss sensitive per- sonnel matters. The officer described Admiral Caudle in terms that matched Mr.
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There’s a particular kind of pressure on summer weekends to get up and get out, to do something worthy of the bounty of warmth and light. The options are pictur- esque and limitless: Will you swim or hike or simply stroll? Perhaps a picnic! Rent bikes? You always say you’re going to read under that tree — what’s stopping you? Oh, the places you said you’d explore, the outdoor tasks you’d finish, the plans you made last February when you felt cold and constrained and said “as soon as it’s warmer” and look, now it is. It’s enough, some weekends, to make you wish for a rainy day. Even those of us who wait all year for July to open its golden gate and let us out feel a little bullied by summer’s mandate to exploit the day. The promise of your days off is that you’re free to do whatever you please. Which includes lying here by the air-conditioning vent with a glass of lem- onade — maybe with a book, maybe even watching something on a screen — undis- turbed by ants or mosquitoes or other
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habitants of the outside world. But even though we know we’re the captains of our own weekends, the guilt is real. By the time most of us get up, the sun’s rays are already beating on the backside of the curtains like a dog at the door: Let me in, let’s go, what are you waiting for? Even in this, the longest possible unoffi- cial summer, I’m painfully aware there are a mere 16 weekends, and the squandering of even one can feel wasteful. My internal taskmaster prods me off the couch and into the world with bleak prophecies of the first frost and 4 p.m. dusk. I took a wrong turn on my drive home from out of town on a recent Sunday that resulted in a late-night detour on the minor highways of New Jersey, a dreaded tunnel- bound traffic jam where no matter how many times I switched lanes, I was in the wrong one. I had two friends in the car and felt terrible about subjecting them to this purgatory, this waste of a precious summer weekend. Then I tried to flip the script, to approach the moment with a spirit of abundance. The situation was annoying but not altogether unpleasant. I was with two friends; we were talking and singing along with the radio and spending our time on earth gaz- ing at miles of taillights arrayed against the
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darkness together. It felt at first like we were being kept from living our lives, but of course the whole time we were still living them. In the winter, staying inside is a cozy privilege, an act of restorative self-care. In the summer, we cast it as burning daylight, almost a moral failure. I try to remind myself on those days I decide to nap or do laundry or otherwise forgo the obvious pleasures of the season that the days aren’t a project to be managed. That I’m living and breathing and thinking and experienc- ing within them no matter what I’m doing. The story I tell of how I spent my sum- mer weekend may sound better if it unfolds at the beach or the barbecue than under a blanket on the couch — or on the New Jersey Turnpike, for that matter. But the setting of the story doesn’t really matter that much. We take turns that may at first seem misguided, but eventually, finally, we arrive back at home.
July 27, 1927. A puppy arrived by plane in Rapid City, S.D., from Detroit the previous day as a gift to Presi- dent Calvin Coolidge and the first lady, Grace, who had recently dealt with the death of Prudence Prim, one of their two pooches, The Times reported. The puppy, a Shetland sheepdog named Diana of Wild- wood who was given by the children of William E. Scripps of Wildwood Farms, immediately took to the president, licking his face upon meeting. “Got an- other dog,” Mr. Coolidge said as he was presented with the puppy. “Guess Rob Roy will like to see her,” he added, referring to their other pooch. The puppy eventually moved to the White House from South Dakota, where the president and the first lady were spending their summer, and was renamed Calamity Jane by Mrs. Coolidge for her troublemaking ways. The couple kept many animals at the White House during Mr. Coolidge’s presidency, including several cats, birds and a raccoon named Rebecca.
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Here to Help Vanessa Friedman Answers Your Style Questions
What on earth does semiformal mean today? We’ve been invited to an event with this dress code, and while we don’t want to embarrass ourselves, we do not want to invest in expensive new clothes either. — TANYA, PHOENIX
“Semiformal” is one of those terrible default dress codes, like “festive” and “dress to impress” and “dressy casual” (the “jumbo shrimp” of fashion). It sounds good in the- ory but in practical terms causes more angst than anyone might have imagined. It’s the middle ground of dress codes, the DMZ of fashion. It may seem safe — no commitment required! — but it also leaves you stranded in the sartorial netherworld of neither here nor there. Which means you can easily get it wrong. Dana Asher Levine, a stylist who works with Shonda Rhimes, calls it “the most misunderstood dress code.” Asking the hosts for clarity generally doesn’t help. They probably picked that dress code exactly because they didn’t want to be too dictatorial with their guests and will offer platitudes like “wear what makes you feel celebratory.” For men, that vagueness, while annoy- ing, is somewhat less of an issue: Semifor- mal is mostly defined as a suit, not a tux, with or without a tie, and accessorized with a certain level of restraint. (Don’t get out the wild prints or character vests.) But for women, the blurriness is a real quandary. That’s why there are so many online guides to what “semiformal” means, includ- ing pages of TikTok videos with the #semi- formal hashtag, many of them including the word “help.” The Emily Post Institute has attempted a clarification: “A semiformal dress code is best described as being more formal than what you would wear to an office, but slightly less formal than what you would wear to a formal event.” This, however, doesn’t mean much, be- cause office dress codes now range from ultracasual to traditional, and people wear jeans to the Met Gala. Even the most basic old guideline — no long gowns — is no longer relevant. So what to do? Levine, the stylist, thinks of semiformal
I thought I wanted to be alone with my husband after my son was born, but then my mother brought me breakfast in bed — banana pancakes, right off the stove, with warmed syrup on the side. She cut them into pieces so I could eat with one hand while holding the baby. They tasted so good that I cried. Today we were with my son at the park. As I chased him with his hat, my mother asked, “Did you get sunscreen on?” “Yes, just need to get his legs,” I said. “Not him,” she replied, smiling. “You!” — VIRGINIA CRAIG
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as “less dressy than black tie and not as glitzy as cocktail attire.” When I asked for a translation from Derek Blasberg, the author of “Fast + Louche,” a collection of images from his stint as a chronicler of nightlife for Inter- view magazine, he first shared your pain. “Getting dressed for a party is stressful enough,” he said. “Guests don’t want mys- tery. They want direction.” Then he offered, “What your host is probably trying to say is, ‘Please make an effort.’” That doesn’t mean rushing out to buy a new dress or suit, but it does mean taking a considered look at what is in your closet. For Levine, that means paying attention to materials: Simple shapes or a nice skirt and jacket are fine, as long as they are in dressier fabrics like velvet, taffeta and heavy crepe. “If you have a gown that you haven’t worn in a while,” she said, consider taking it to a tailor and having it hemmed. Midi, tea-length or to the knee — take your pick. The result will be more versatile and, she said, qualify as “semiformal.” For Blasberg, the answer is thinking about a favorite piece and “turning it up a notch,” he said. (He’s partial to a pocket square with a suit.) Pay special attention to shoes. Avoid loafers or daytime flats. “Dress shoes are always the right choice for men — no white soles or giant logos,” he said. “And for women, wear the jewels.” A simple black dress with a great necklace, a stack of bangles or even a scarf and a pair of heels can do the trick. If in doubt, Blasberg advised, it’s better to be slightly overdressed than under- dressed. “Looking like you cared is never the wrong answer,” he said.
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By ANNIE CORREAL and DAVID OVALLE
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — In Miami, Abe- lardo De La Espriella moved in the murky world of “white powder” lawyers — high-priced defense lawyers who help accused Latin American drug traffickers and others avoid harsh sentences by turning them into U.S. government in- formants or witnesses. He employed a former trafficker from Colombia who, court records show, helped South Florida lawyers find such business. Mr. De La Espriella, a lawyer licensed in Colombia, often traveled to his home- land to meet clients embroiled in U.S. cases, including Alex Saab, a wealthy businessman indicted on charges of laundering millions on behalf of Vene- zuela’s leaders. And he himself was scrutinized by fed- eral prosecutors as they investigated Mr. Saab’s money laundering, according to five people with knowledge of the inves- tigation into Mr. Saab. Now, Mr. De La Espriella, with no past political experience, is suddenly Co- lombia’s next president, and promising to help the Trump administration esca- late a regional drug war against the traf- fickers he once represented. He returned to Colombia last year, re- inventing himself as a law-and-order candidate determined to oust the left and wield an iron fist against the country’s criminals and resurgent armed traffick- ing groups. After receiving President Trump’s endorsement, he was elected in June. Though his lavish Miami lifestyle of luxury cars, private jets and Italian de- signer suits may have been bankrolled in part by clients entangled in trafficking and laundering cases, he has pledged to help Mr. Trump crush “narcoterrorists,” bomb alleged drug boats and extradite accused traffickers.
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In response to detailed questions about Mr. De La Espriella’s activities in Miami, his presidential office said in a statement that the matters “were extensively dis- cussed during the presidential cam- paign” and that it did not “consider it ap- propriate to revisit them.” But as Mr. De La Espriella prepares to take office in August, the opposition leader whom he defeated in the election, Iván Cepeda, is demanding answers about his work and relationships in the United States, urging supporters to mount a “peaceful resistance” until they are provided. And with his best-known client, Mr. Saab, in U.S. custody awaiting trial on charges of acting as a financial agent for Venezuela’s former leader, Nicolás Ma- duro, more questions about Mr. De La Espriella’s past could emerge. Mr. De La Espriella was himself scruti- nized by federal prosecutors in Florida and New York as they investigated how Mr. Saab’s illicit funds moved through the U.S. financial system, according to the five people who spoke to The Times. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive political matter. The precise focus of that scrutiny is not clear. But Mr. De La Espriella’s one- time employee, the former trafficker, pleaded guilty to laundering money from Mr. Saab’s overseas accounts around 2017. That money, court documents show, was intended to pay Mr. Saab’s lawyers, whose names were redacted from the documents, which do not provide any in- dication that the lawyers were part of the scheme. Mr. De La Espriella was never charged. His office declined to respond to questions related to Mr. Saab. In its statement, it said, “The president was never investigated or charged in any of the matters you mention,” adding, “His conduct as a lawyer and as a private citi- zen has been absolutely impeccable.”
Jorge Valencia contributed reporting from Bogotá, and Genevieve Glatsky from Barranquilla, Colombia. Alain De- laquérière contributed research.
The Colombian president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella. He has pledged to help President Trump crush “narcoterrorists” and extradite accused traffickers.
Republican lawmakers, including Sen- ator Bernie Moreno of Ohio, have said he was vetted by U.S. officials. Representa- tive María Elvira Salazar of Florida said on Colombia’s Election Day, “Abelardo De La Espriella doesn’t have any kind of investigation open in the United States.” The Justice Department declined to comment.
The Assistant
When Mr. De La Espriella moved to Mi- ami around 2013, he was seeking safety and a break from the heavy security de- tail that his risky work in Colombia had required, according to friends and politi- cal allies. But there were also lucrative opportu- nities. Mr. De La Espriella, who is not li- censed to practice law in Florida, opened a Miami office, brought on locally li- censed lawyers and began spending time with the former trafficker, Jorge Luis Hernández. Mr. Hernández was a known client hunter, and court documents say he worked as a paralegal with multiple South Florida law firms. He also worked for Mr. De La Espriella, according to three of the people who spoke to The Times. A Florida lawyer, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said Mr. Hernández de- scribed himself as Mr. De La Espriella’s assistant. While Mr. Hernández was deeply in- volved in the so-called narco-defense world, court documents show he was also a longtime informant for federal law enforcement agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration. Ac- cording to those filings, he had admitted to running drug shipments in fast boats from Colombia for right-wing paramili- tary commanders before becoming an informant decades ago. Colombia’s paramilitary forces rose to fight left-wing guerrillas, but became a scourge of their own, trafficking cocaine and committing atrocities. Early in his career, Mr. De La Espriella advocated for paramilitaries to be treated as political actors and defended politicians accused of having ties to the groups. Mr. De La Espriella has acknowledged that he knew Mr. Hernández but has not publicly said they worked together. During the campaign, their relation- ship spurred debate. Photos emerged of the two together, and critics called Mr. De La Espriella a “lawyer to the mafia,” a la- bel he disputed. Mr. Cepeda questioned his suitability for office after the election,
saying, “Abelardo De La Espriella has maintained a close connection with the paramilitary Jorge Luis Hernández.”
The Client
Mr. De La Espriella has said Mr. Saab came to him in 2013 seeking help with “reputational matters.” Venezuelan and Colombian journalists had raised ques- tions about how Mr. Saab, a relatively ob- scure Colombian businessman, had ob- tained a Venezuelan government con- tract worth more than $150 million to supply materials for a housing program. The two would seem an odd pair. While Mr. Saab worked with Venezuelan offi- cials, Mr. De La Espriella was so opposed to Mr. Maduro, Venezuela’s former au- thoritarian president, that he wrote a book in 2018 making the case for his as- sassination. Mr. De La Espriella has said that when U.S. authorities began investigating Mr. Saab, he urged him to cooperate and ar- ranged meetings with federal agents. Mr. Saab ultimately refused, and his family fled to Venezuela in 2018 after Colombian officials said Mr. Saab was tipped off about a plan by Colombian authorities to arrest him. Mr. De La Espriella has said he cut ties to Mr. Saab in 2019, after U.S. authorities indicted Mr. Saab and placed sanctions on him — as a U.S. permanent resident, he could not legally represent someone facing sanctions without a license. In 2020, Mr. Saab was detained in Cape Verde. Before being extradited to the United States in 2021, he told Colombian journalists in an interview that Mr. De La Espriella no longer represented him, but had been “a great lawyer and friend.” Around that time, Mr. De La Espriel- la’s Washington-based lawyer met with U.S. authorities to address his client’s ex- posure in the Saab investigation, accord- ing to two of the people who spoke to The Times. According to these people, Mr. De La Espriella was investigated not for being Mr. Saab’s lawyer but in connection to the movement of Mr. Saab’s funds. Prosecutors had charged Mr. Hernán- dez with laundering more than $2.5 mil- lion from Mr. Saab’s overseas accounts into U.S. accounts alongside a former University of Miami professor, Bruce Bagley, who was charged in 2019. According to the court documents that redact the lawyers’ names, the transfers took place between 2017 and 2018 and were meant to pay Mr. Saab’s lawyers in the United States for advising Mr. Saab
and “accompanying him to meetings with the United States government” where Mr. Saab supplied information on the Maduro government. Mr. Hernández and Mr. Bagley pleaded guilty to money laundering in the Southern District of New York. Mr. Hernández is now in U.S. custody on un- related fraud charges. Lawyers for Mr. Hernández and Mr. Bagley declined to comment. Among Mr. De La Espriella’s Miami acquaintances was a veteran D.E.A. agent who had overseen the investiga- tion into Mr. Saab, according to two of the people who spoke to The Times. That agent was later indicted in an unrelated bribery scheme.
The Fortune
Mr. De La Espriella has declined to say how much Mr. Saab paid him, but Mr. De La Espriella’s longtime accountant, Dan- iel Diaz de la Rocha, said the lawyer had not grown fabulously wealthy because of his client. “Not by a stretch of the imagi- nation,” he said in an interview. Despite starting several businesses and showing off an extravagant lifestyle online — a private jet, jaunts to Italy, his own rum brand — Mr. De La Espriella was not extremely rich, Mr. Díaz said. His private jet was shared with others, Mr. Diaz said. He took out mortgages on his Miami homes, he said, which would not have been necessary if he had large sums on hand. Mr. De La Espriella moved from a condo in a waterfront tower, to a house in Coral Gables, a well-heeled Miami sub- urb, and finally to a 7,500-square-foot mansion in Pinecrest that is now valued at more than $5 million. He also bought real estate in Colombia, records show. The accountant, who was reached by phone and said he had not been asked by Mr. De La Espriella to speak to reporters, stressed that his businesses were legiti- mate. Mr. De La Espriella was a “straight shooter” in business, Mr. Díaz said, even if his ventures largely failed. His recent businesses in Coral Gables — a piano bar, liquor store and gelato shop — all closed or were sold, Mr. Díaz noted. “He’s more of an artist than a business person,” he said of Mr. De La Espriella, an amateur opera singer. While running for president, Mr. De La Espriella often alluded to a fortune that allowed him to finance his campaign. But, Mr. Diaz said, except for his law firm in Colombia, “he lost in pretty much ev-
erything but real estate.”
The Influencer
This year, Mr. De La Espriella said he had stopped practicing law three years ago. Colombians who followed his career in Miami said he had become more of an influencer. He promoted his fashion line, De La Espriella Style, started a podcast featur- ing Colombian luminaries, published noir fiction and worked out with the Mi- ami-based trainer for Colombian reggae- ton stars J Balvin and Maluma. He opened the piano bar and restau- rant Místico in Coral Gables in 2023 with partners including another Colombian music celebrity, Silvestre Dangond, with whom he launched the rum, Ron Defen- sor. Mr. De La Espriella often took the mi- crophone at Místico, belting out Italian classics like “O Sole Mio,” said Carlos Reyes Lesmes, the head bartender, and turned up at Místico and at his liquor store, Liquor Dreams, with former Co- lombian presidents. At Liquor Dreams, which has been sold to new owners, Mr. De La Espriella often held court with a cigar and a drink in hand. “This filled up because people wanted to come see him,” said María Sánchez, a liquor store employee from Colombia who said she had known Mr. De La Es- priella since he was a boy.
The Return
After Mr. De La Espriella was natu- ralized as a U.S. citizen in 2023, he said he had found peace. But the following year, he packed up his family and left for Flor- ence, saying only that he wanted his four children to connect with their Italian her- itage. Friends and associates say Mr. De La Espriella, who was a vocal critic of Co- lombia’s left-wing government, had been planning his presidential run before leaving Miami. He reappeared in Colombia last year. Over the course of the campaign, he shed his old image as a sharply dressed law- yer, becoming a populist in a straw hat and soccer jersey. Interviewers often asked him why he had traded his seeming picture-perfect life abroad for the dangers of Colombian politics. His response was that God — and patriotic duty — had called. He had to save Colombia from drug traffickers.
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and SANAM MAHOOZI The Strait of Hormuz is still blocked, along with a Red Sea inlet.
The war between the United States and Iran remained on pause for a second straight day on Sunday, while the Iranian Foreign Ministry said that there had been some movement in talks between Tehran and mediators over the Strait of Hormuz. No U.S. strikes on Iran have been reported since Friday, while Iran has similarly held off attack- ing American allies around the Middle East after about two weeks of skirmishes brought the two countries back to the brink of full-blown war. President Trump decided last
Stuck in Iran War, Trump Discovers Limits of Power
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By EPHRAT LIVNI and FATIMA ABDULKARIM toric pact with Saudi Arabia to provide civil nuclear power to the kingdom, before the presi- dent undercut the deal less than 24 hours later, stunning the Saudis by declaring that the agreement, negotiated over 18 months, was dead unless the country joined the Abraham Accords and recognized Israel. Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. diplomat with long experi- ence in the Mideast, said that Mr. Trump again “alienated the Saudis, delighted Benjamin Netanyahu and gave Iran strong talking points as to why cutting deals with U.S. is a fool’s errand, bound to be betrayed.” The next day, he declared that the “original Deal” on the $4.5 billion Gordie Howe Interna- tional Bridge, a cross-border project named for the hockey star beloved on both sides of the border with Canada, was dead. He imposed 50 percent tariffs on a range of Canadian goods, in what appeared to be a blatant violation of the U.S.-Mexico- Canada Agreement that Mr. Trump negotiated in his first term and now wants to scrap. Not surprisingly, Canada disin- vited Americans from ceremo- nies to mark the completion of the bridge, which opens to traffic on Monday. Mr. Trump’s rewriting of deals, out of anger or frustration, has extended to his party’s domestic priorities. Republicans had as- sembled chairs at the Capitol for the signing ceremony of a major housing bill — a rare bipartisan agreement celebrated by the White House — when Mr. Trump stunned them by refusing to sign it. His only priority, he said, was the SAVE America Act, his effort to change voting laws, which did not have enough Republican support. The ceremony was canceled. The bill became law without Mr. Trump’s signature — and also without a chance for his party to get the photo opportunity of action to ease affordability for new homeowners. Not all of Mr. Trump’s frustra- tions, people close to the presi- dent say, are driven by the war, now so unpopular that only 29 percent of Americans polled by The Washington Post and Ipsos approved of his handling of the conflict. But much of it is. And the angst is clear as he promises to stop Iran’s nuclear program at any cost, while his allies at home want out. “We got to wrap it up,” Speaker Mike Johnson said last week, voicing a sentiment heard increasingly from Mr. Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters. But the president does not have a clear way to accomplish that goal. Having entered the conflict with little strategy for victory, he now is struggling for a face-saving way to exit. A month ago, he exuded confi- dence that he had found the way to declare victory. On June 17, Mr. Trump signed with a flourish — at the Palace of Versailles, where World War I officially ended in 1919 — a hastily written, 14-point cease-fire agreement. At the time, Mr. Trump said that a new, more “reasonable” set of Iranian leaders had seen the light, and were being driven by economic interests. “I believe they have had enough,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with The Times on June 14. He argued that he was able to get the deal because he was threatening a massive at- tack, prompting Iran to fold. “We were going in for the big one, and they said, ‘Please don’t do it, we will make a deal.’ And we made a deal right after that,” he said. It lasted only two weeks. The Iranians who negotiated the deal appeared to have been in conflict with the Islamic Revo- lutionary Guard Corps, whose forces opened fire on ships that
week to put off plans to escalate the U.S. assault on Iran, at least for now, according to U.S. officials. Mr. Trump and his aides were mo- tivated in part by dwindling stock- piles of interceptors to shoot down Iranian missiles, said the officials, who spoke on condition of ano- nymity to discuss operational matters. Mr. Trump has struggled to de- cisively end the war on Iran that the United States and Israel started jointly five months ago, even as the global economic toll and number of American casu- alties have mounted. A cease-fire signed last month effectively col- lapsed after Iran continued to
President Trump is hesitant to plunge back into major combat operations that his intelligence agencies say are unlikely to work in Tehran. He is angry at his inability to control surging oil prices.
refused to use the channel of the Strait of Hormuz that Iran con- trols. While Mr. Trump said in the recent interview with The Times that Iranian leaders wanted billions of dollars in Iranian overseas funds unfrozen and oil shipments flowing, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps seems more interested in demonstrating control. Now Mr. Trump has three main options: military escala- tion, economic crackdown or declaring victory and getting out. Each has been debated in recent
he struggles to find a face-saving exit.
weeks in meetings with Vice President JD Vance; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth; the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine; his son-in- law Jared Kushner; and his special envoy, Steve Witkoff. Each option seems unpalat- able, for different reasons. On Friday, after signaling all week that he was planning a return to major combat opera- tions in Iran, he pulled back. In briefings, according to several officials, aides cast doubt on whether a massive bombard- ment, one that cut off electricity and went after Iran’s resilient missile capability, would result in Iran’s return to meaningful nego- tiations.
blockade the Strait of Hormuz, the vital waterway for global oil and gas shipments. Two weeks of American bomb- ing runs on southern Iran have failed to break the deadlock over the strait. Before the war, ships could freely travel through the wa- terway — but Tehran has since ef- fectively blocked transit, throt- tling global energy markets and
And the price would be high. Mr. Trump was told that attacks of that magnitude could lead to huge civilian casualties and mass starvation among the very Irani- ans he once promised to protect from their own government. When he was asked in the Oval Office on Friday whether he was hesitant to blow up power plants and bridges, because that could constitute war crimes, he said, “I won’t respond to that question.” But his real hesitation may come from the fact that the war has depleted U.S. stockpiles of missile interceptors. In April, the Center for Strategic and Interna- tional Studies estimated that half the U.S. inventories of some key interceptors might have already been used. After 13 consecutive nights of attacks and counter- attacks this month, those num- bers, some officials say, have reached critically low levels, and were a factor in Mr. Trump’s decision in recent days to hold off on a major escalation in the war. U.S. officials now worry that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China could be factoring the shortages into calculations of their next moves, in Ukraine and Europe for Mr. Putin and perhaps against Taiwan for Mr. Xi. Mr. Trump’s second option is to let sanctions sink in, hoping that further crackdowns on oil ex- ports, enforced by the renewed blockade of shipments into and out of the Strait of Hormuz, will have their intended effect. But those are slow, and Mr. Trump has been predicting eco- nomic collapse in Iran since he first pulled out of the Obama-era
increasing the pressure on Mr. Trump to end the war. Esmaeil Baghaei, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, said that officials from the Gulf sultanate of Oman, which abuts the Strait of Hormuz, visited Tehran over the weekend for talks about the waterway. Oman has oc- casionally served as a mediator between Iran and the United States. “These talks were useful, and progress was achieved,” Mr. Baghaei said in remarks carried by state media, though he offered no further details. Even as parts of the Middle East experienced their first quiet
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nuclear deal in 2018 and imposed what he called crushing controls on Iran. Eight years later, the regime lives, under a new leader who could be more dedicated to a covert nuclear program. That strategy may yet work. But it will require a costly, con- tinuous U.S. military presence, and the possibility of on-again, off-again exchanges of fire that risk more American lives and more attacks on Gulf allies. The third option is to declare victory and go home. Mr. Trump seemed to be headed that way a month ago, when he said he had chosen a cease-fire and negotia- tions because he did not want to risk a depression that would invite comparisons to Herbert Hoover. “He was always the one I didn’t want to be,” Mr. Trump said of the 31st president, who presided over the crash that ushered in the Great Depression. “I didn’t want to see economic catastrophe.” He later noted that if the war continued, the world would have begun to run out of oil stockpiles. But exiting comes with costs. If Mr. Trump leaves Iran with its near-bomb grade nuclear fuel buried under rubble and with the Strait of Hormuz under de facto Iranian control, he will have failed to address the problem that triggered his attack and created a vast new one for ener- gy markets. It would define his legacy. And it would make clear that there are more constraints on his power than he believed in Janu- ary, when he declared that his reach was limitless.
nights in weeks, at least one front remained open, in Yemen. Over the past week, the Iran-backed Houthis, who control significant parts of Yemen, have engaged in their biggest escalation since 2022 with the U.S.-allied Saudi Arabia. Last week, the Houthis de- clared a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea and fired on passing ships they said were linked to the kingdom, their northern neighbor. The Houthis can effectively close another na- val choke point — the Bab al- Mandab Strait — which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and is another of the world’s most important shipping routes.
Israeli Settlement Imports
The European Union is debat- ing a ban on imports from Israeli settlements, but member states are divided, reflecting deep dis- agreements over whether and how to confront Israel as it ce- ments claims on occupied Pales- tinian territory. Superficially, the fight is techni- cal, based on procedural ques- tions. But political observers say this is actually a proxy battle over how to handle Israel at a time of growing dismay with its policies among the European public and some leaders. “Legal argument is being de- ployed to launder what is really a political and diplomatic reluc- tance to act,” said Alberto Ale- manno, a law professor in Paris who arranged a letter joined by dozens of experts outlining legal grounds for a ban. More than three million Pales- tinians live in the West Bank, along with over 500,000 Israelis who settled there after Israel cap- tured the territory in the 1967 war. Palestinians envision it becoming part of a future state, an objective that European governments aim to advance but Israel’s far-right government rejects. In recent years, Israeli govern- ment approvals of West Bank set- tlements and other official actions have led to an unprecedented ex- pansion of Israel’s claims on the land, as military operations have displaced many Palestinians and settler violence has risen. The International Court of Jus- tice issued an advisory opinion in 2024 saying that Israel’s occupa- tion and settlements are illegal, calling on countries to prevent trade that may “assist in the main- tenance of the illegal situation.” Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium and others have taken steps to restrict or ban Israeli products from occupied territo- ries, like agricultural goods, wine and construction materials. These countries are among those push- ing for the E.U. to take strong ac- tion to limit the import of settle- ment products. Germany, by contrast, says it fa- vors dialogue over action that risks inflaming Israelis ahead of their national election in October. Germany also has what it calls “a special relationship” with Israel, rooted in the history of the Holo- caust, and the German govern- ment is traditionally reluctant to take measures that may isolate Is- rael. Italy and the Czech Republic are likewise opposed to a con- frontational approach and say E.U. restrictions on settlement products can be adopted only if they receive unanimous approval by member states. But Kaja Kallas, the E.U.’s top diplomat, who is pressing for strong action, is among those who say that just a qualified majority — approval by at least 55 percent of member states representing 65 percent of the bloc’s population — would be needed. The European Commission this month proposed several possible measures, in- cluding tariffs and a ban on goods produced at Israeli settlements in occupied territory. Hugh Lovatt, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, calls the focus by some member states on unanimity “a distraction — and arguably an ex- cuse for inaction.” But European countries have been able to agree on some ac- tions related to Israeli activities in the West Bank. In May, the 27 E.U. members unanimously imposed sanctions on people and organiza- tions that they said facilitate “set- tler violence and serious human rights abuses against Palestin- ians” in the West Bank. “Clearly Israel’s relations with Europe are under unprecedented strain, including with countries that have long been very support- ive,” Mr. Lovatt said. Still, some member states re- main reluctant to sanction Israeli government ministers or to take steps against Israel itself. European leaders face conflict- ing pressures, including public
The Houthi blockade is threat- ening to squeeze global oil sup- plies further. The price of Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, was up more than 7 percent, at $100.95 a barrel on Friday, before dropping to around $98. Saudi-led forces bombarded Houthi-aligned sites in Yemen on Saturday, according to a Saudi military spokesman. The Houthis also said that they had fired rock- ets and drones at installations af- filiated with Saudi Aramco, the Saudi state-owned energy com- pany, along the Red Sea. The Saudi authorities did not com- ment on whether there had been any damage or casualties.
calls for action, the risk of drawing Israeli ire and potential repercus- sions from the Trump administra- tion for acting against Israel, he said. Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, for example, is doing a balancing act, he said. Italy is in- sisting that E.U. restrictions on settlement products receive unan- imous backing from member states while she is also calling on the bloc to rethink its relations with Israel. E.U. ambassadors met on Wednesday to discuss possible measures to pressure Israel over settlements ahead of a summer break but did not reach any agree- ment. No real movement is ex- pected until at least October when the Foreign Affairs Council is slated to meet, said Lema Nazeeh, a policy analyst and international lawyer based in Brussels. Danny Danon, Israeli ambassa- dor to the United Nations, said in response to questions that the E.U. proposals are “both mis- guided and counterproductive.” He called them part of broader global efforts to isolate Israel, di- verting attention from threats to Israeli and international security. The proposals fail to recognize that Israeli and Palestinian econo- mies are intertwined and also risk harming Palestinians, he said. Israel and the E.U. have robust trade relations and exchanged nearly $50 billion in goods last
whether and how to confront Tel Aviv.
year, according to the European Commission. Israeli goods are en- titled to preferential European tariff treatment. But for more than 20 years, products from Israeli settlements, an estimated $300 million in exports to the bloc annu- ally, have been excluded from the arrangement. E.U. policy requires Israeli ex- porters to provide postal codes showing where goods originate, but the burden is on European au- thorities to then check the source and treat settlement products dif- ferently. This approach has led to confu- sion and deception, according to a recent report from the nonprofit Global Echo that examined agri- cultural export and other records over nearly a decade, which found that European consumers were being “systematically misled about the origins of settlement products.” Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man, a human rights lawyer and the group’s founder, said a trade ban is “one of the most direct ways Eu- rope can take action to curb the Is- raeli settlement enterprise that is accelerating.” This month, Israel allocated more than $430 million for 43 new settlements in the West Bank. The far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, touted the move as just one way he aims to thwart the es- tablishment of a Palestinian state there. Amal Jadou Shakaa, the ambas- sador for Palestine’s Mission to the E.U., is pressing for a ban on settlement trade, saying it is the only way to bring E.U. policy into compliance with international law. Ziad Anabtawi, founder of Al’Ard Group in the West Bank city of Nablus, which exports Pal- estinian agricultural products, said the growers he works with face increasingly difficult condi- tions. As a result of Israeli actions, he said, West Bank resources like water are diverted, access to land is increasingly blocked, and trees and harvests are being destroyed, while settlers are claiming more Palestinian land. Mr. Anabtawi said his focus “is not on politics but on the ability of Palestinian producers to operate, invest and compete under fair, transparent and predictable con- ditions.”
Why I Sought Out A Taliban Leader I Once Fought
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powered optics trying to determine the intent and mannerisms of our enemies. Rarely did we see them with a rifle in their hands. Killing fell on our own instincts and an ever-replenishing set of fears. Should we shoot this man? Should we not? What if we don’t? Will our friends die because of our hesita- tion? We also had a twisted culture in which killing earned you respect, as if shooting Afghans was the ultimate proof that you were competent. So we killed people. I killed people. These decisions to pull the trigger were the final steps of our part in a strategy that was doomed before I even deployed. The Taliban, with their exclusion of women from public life and violent treatment of ethnic minorities, frac- tured Afghan society. During its 20- year occupation, the United States often used this as a justification to prolong the war, even as it rarely ad- dressed its strategic and moral failures or the pain and loss it was causing so many Afghans. My journalism career — which began after I left the Marine Corps — re- volved around trying to understand why this bloody cycle continued. Re- porting was a way to roll back time and understand what I had done and what role I played in a conflict that was far from over. The more I saw, the more I learned, the more my contribution to this mess in my early 20s left me with a sense of shame. Covering war also meant sustained proximity to violence, victims and trauma, and from time to time the public dishonesty that all but inevitably accompanies conflict. I had lived through enough in the Marine Corps. I was already past my fill of that. I re- signed from my job, exhausted. But in May, with a little more than two weeks remaining at The New York Times before returning to school to become an English teacher, I landed in Afghanistan. I had come to speak with the people I once fought against: the Taliban. My thinking was straightforward. Even if the Pentagon would not under- take any significant reflection for these recent decades of war, I could, at a minimum, hold myself accountable for my part in a half-baked strategy that
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Mr. Gibbons-Neff, second from right, interviewing Taliban fighters in Marja, including Mr. Gulab, far left, in 2021. They met again this May.
left tens of thousands of Afghans and Americans dead. I brought souvenirs from a gift shop near my home in Rhode Island, which I would present to a few Taliban officials whom I have known for nearly a half decade now. Hearts and minds, after all, though this time as a guest not an occupier. Ultimately, I wanted to talk to Mullah Abdul Rahim Gulab, a Taliban com- mander whom I met by chance in 2021, just months after Kabul fell to the Tal- iban. But we had also fought against each other in February 2010 in south- ern Afghanistan. I knew he would have a version of the battle in Marja that was different from mine. Maybe he had stories with his own heroes and dead friends that I could appreciate and respect, ones that he also couldn’t stop thinking about. Maybe I could feel bad for him and not just feel bad for living while my friends died.
Mullah Abdul Rahim Gulab, a Taliban commander, and Mr. Gibbons-Neff were on opposing sides in 2010.
The Right Side
When I landed in Kabul in May, a Tal- iban deputy minister at the ministry of information and culture named Muha- jer Farahi wanted to talk to me after he saw the request I submitted to speak to Mr. Gulab. We had not met before. But sitting across from me in his office, Mr. Farahi told me his reasons for fighting the United States were simple: He wanted the Americans out of his home. He spoke slowly and quietly, and avoided eye contact. His English was good. He made clear that his time in Farah Province in southwestern Af- ghanistan during the war, or jihad, as the Taliban refer to their 20 year mili- tary campaign, was difficult. “We were on the right side,” he said. “We were fighting for our faith.” I apologized for his dead friends and the innocent people killed in the war. He looked at me and thought for a moment before reminding me that I was a soldier, a cog in a machine that decided to invade his country and stay. It was as close as I would get to a par- don. He wanted to discuss other things.
Matt Tooker, left, and Matt Bostrom, U.S. Marines waiting for medical evacuation after being wounded in Marja, Afghanistan, in 2010.
Mostly he was curious about the num- ber of Americans he had killed, and was still perplexed that even though he watched roadside bombs detonate under our armored vehicles, our casu- alty announcements from the Pentagon were relatively low. He assumed the United States lied about its death tolls. I explained the complicated web of emergency care that was a quick heli- copter flight away. He didn’t seem convinced. Instead, he said something that most Talibs have echoed when discussing my time as a Marine: Don’t try to invade again. I assured him that the United States appeared to have moved on, but he raised the latest wars in which the country had embroiled itself. “You haven’t learned,” he said. “Look at Iran and Gaza — you are fighting for the Israelis. You don’t care about hu- man rights.” He blamed the American people for voting a long line of presi- dents into power who started and con- tinued the so-called forever wars. As I walked into the blinding light of downtown Kabul, I felt what could only be described as a strange sense of relief. I had been lectured, yes, but on the edges it felt as if there was some acknowledgment of our humanity. That felt like enough, for now. It was time to talk to Mr. Gulab.
Hard Facts
When I interviewed Mr. Gulab in 2021, I didn’t disclose that I had been a Ma- rine. I questioned him as a reporter about his fighting days. He confirmed things I knew: how he and his peers would drop their weapons and greet us as friends on the streets, and that they relied on children to track our foot- prints to our makeshift outposts. These had been hard facts for me to confront back in 2010, and still res- onated when spoken in hindsight by a victorious insurgent, a hometown fighter who leveraged cunning to defeat us, even though we were far better armed than his band of 20 men. His tactics had formed a puzzle I navigated on every patrol so that I could survive the day. Some of my friends didn’t. When I first met Mr. Gulab, I walked to a mud brick wall in Marja as a jour- nalist. As a Marine more than a decade before, I had shot a young man in the head in this exact spot. I remembered the last glimpse of his face before the crack of my bolt-action rifle. My brain didn’t compute that I had killed him until later, when someone told me they had found his body dragged behind a corner with his weapon. Mr. Gulab and I are roughly the same age, in our late 30s. He joined the Tal- iban because two of his brothers were killed fighting. One of them is his WhatsApp profile picture. I joined the Marines because my dad was a Vietnam veteran who rarely spoke about the war, and because I was a short kid who grew up in a nice town and went to a nice public high school and wanted to prove myself. In May, when I reached Mr. Gulab again, this time by phone, I told him the truth about my background: I wasn’t just a journalist, I had fought in Marja as a Marine. He said he had realized that when we first met, given the speci- ficity of my questions. He wondered what I wanted now: “What’s the point in talking again?” Mr. Gulab had won his war, and closed that chapter with the United States long before I did. Now he was preparing to fight another conflict, this time against Pakistan. He led a large Afghan Army unit from a base that is still known as Camp Dwyer, where I had flown from in 2010 to fight him and his mujahedeen troops. The base was named after a British soldier: Lance Bombardier James Dwyer, who was 22 when his vehicle ran over a mine two days after Christ- mas in 2006. Our conference call began with pleas- antries before his reticence lifted, and he was willing to talk about the begin- ning of the Marja operation. I was curious about his side of our shared experiences, including the fate of a Taliban sniper whom Mr. Gulab would have known, or at least heard about. That sniper had shot two of my Ma- rines, including my assistant team leader, on the first day of the battle. It was dusk. We were on the roof of a two-story building, the only structure that high for miles. I remember what sounded like a baseball bat hitting uncooked meat. I looked up to see my friend Matt screaming. He had been shot in the arm. A week or so later, we drove that sniper into an orchard, where a drone strike presumably killed him. But 16 years later, I still wanted to know for sure.
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff, center, who served as a Marine leader of a scout sniper team in the Marja offensive.
weight of our own shattered expectations.’
THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF, about responding to a question about suicides by U.S. soldiers.
authority and I have forgiven you.’
MULLAH ABDUL RAHIM GULAB, reacting to an apology from Mr. Gibbons-Neff for those killed by U.S. forces in the Afghanistan war.
Mr. Gulab started to speak but was cut off by his minder, who said curtly that sharing such details was illegal. Instead, Mr. Gulab had questions of his own, involving that same sniper. He said he was nearby when my team- mates were hit and remembered re- ports that two “foreigners” had been shot on that roof and fallen off. “Did they die?” he asked. I explained that both Marines had survived their wounds but that Matt died in a motorcycle accident back home a little more than a year later. “Why do many American soldiers who fought in Afghanistan and later returned to their country commit sui- cide?” Mr. Gulab asked. “I have heard this many times. What is the reason?” It was a question that haunts many of us. I tried to explain how we carried the crushing weight of our own shattered expectations: We had grown up on the nostalgia of World War II, and then done something we were supposed to be proud of. Instead, what we got from our politicians and generals were eva- sions and lies. Our commanders could never articulate how our deployments, and all the violence we committed and the losses we suffered, made anyone safer in the United States. We were left to figure everything out on our own while they landed lucrative jobs at defense companies and collected big fees on speaking circuits. For some people, it was too much to handle. Mr. Gulab’s years after the war had been nothing like that, he said. “Our mujahedeen are the opposite, because of the jihad they carried out and be- cause of the friends they lost, they are very happy, because our jihad had a
clear goal.” While the Taliban had won the war, winning the peace had brought its own difficulties: Afghanistan remained in an economic crisis and isolated from much of the world. “Regarding your apology,” he said, “I should say that at that time our jihad was for the sake of Allah, and we were not worried about being killed or wounded. We are also not upset about our friends who were killed or wounded, because all of us wished to be martyred or injured on the path of jihad. Since the conditions at that time were wartime conditions, civilians were often killed or wounded.” I wished that I, too, could accept the deaths of my friends and the results of my own actions instead of inhabiting a fog of anger and bitterness over wasted youth. Mr. Gulab let me know that such sentiments existed in Afghanistan, too. “Regarding the mujahedeen who
were killed by your side, I do not know whether they or their families would forgive you,” Mr. Gulab said. “Those civilians may not forgive the foreign forces, but for me personally, I have my own authority and I have forgiven you.” I first set foot in Afghanistan as a 20-year-old lance corporal in 2008. The Taliban were shadows in a tree line then, and characters that appeared in my nightmares as I tried to stay alive. In August 2021, I watched them shake hands with a squad of U.S. Marines as the Afghan Army evaporated, Kabul fell, and my war was finally, fully lost. Now my one-time enemy generously offered a kind of coda to a line I wrote in my journal on that first deployment 18 years ago: “It’s hard to explain this place and I feel it’s going to take the rest of my life to figure out what hap- pened here.” Boarding my flight back to the United States, I realized a pervasive sadness lingered in the corners of my mind. I was tired, as if litigating my war again had somehow restarted it. Mr. Gulab and I were, at one point in our lives, two people, barely men at the time, fighting for vastly different rea- sons. Maybe it was enough that I saw him now more, in some twisted way, as a friend than my enemy. Some days later in Rhode Island, as I walked my dog on a muggy New Eng- land night, my phone vibrated. Mr. Gulab had texted me in Pashto. “Have you arrived at your home?” he asked. I said I had. “It’s good to hear that you arrived safely.”
BRYAN DENTON
Call of ‘No Seal, No Life’
Photographs by IVOR PICKETT Article by JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Anganni Mikaelsen was cruising past icebergs in his boat when he spotted a glistening head that had popped up in the water. Pow! His rifle shattered the tranquillity. Mr. Mikaelsen was hunting seals, as Greenlanders have for centuries. People here eat seals, feed them to sled dogs and wear sealskins. They trade the pelts for money and use the bones for jewelry. It’s the animal that has provided sustenance for centuries in an envi- ronment where it’s very difficult to sur- vive. There’s no overstating the central- ity of seals to Greenland. Though international environmental groups have long campaigned against seal hunting, the sealskin trade still pro- vides income for thousands of Inuit hunt- ers. After they butcher seals, they sell the skins. It’s then a long process to turn them into clothing. First, the fat is removed with rollers. Then the skins are washed with soap. Then, they sit in tubs of fresh water to get out all the salt and blood. Then, more cleaning, dyeing and cutting. The Great Greenland tannery in Qaqortoq, in southern Greenland, looks like a giant dry cleaner’s and smells briny like the ocean. The company does a brisk business in sealskin pelts, hats, mittens and ear- rings, as well as fancy jackets that cost more than $1,000. Some countries, like the United States, ban seal products. Others give exemp- tions for items produced by Indigenous hunters, like the ones in Greenland. Walking around Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, you can see sealskin clothes in the shops and sealskin exhibits in the na- tional museum. There are even statues carved in homage to seals. “No seal, no life,” said Frederick Willie, a Greenlandic schoolteacher. International environmental groups denounce seal hunting as cruel. But Mr. Mikaelsen said outsiders did not understand how important this was to Greenland. He and his family live off seals, he said, and it wasn’t unusual to see a whole fam- ily by the harbor hauling in the catch and washing the skins. As he puttered away in his boat, leav- ing behind a swirl of fresh blood, he sang to himself. “This will last us five or six days,” he said. Then he smiled. “And it will be good eating.”
Seals frolicking frozen in bronze in a public square in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital. At right, a market specializing in seal, whale and caribou meat. Below, Mr. Mikaelsen docking his boat.
Have Fled Homes Throughout Region
By CARLOS BARRAGÁN
VILLAMANTA, Spain — Aran- txa Alcázar stepped into her gar- den on Thursday when she heard police officers shouting at resi- dents to evacuate their homes in Villa del Prado, a town west of Ma- drid. The blazes that had been rag- ing in the distant mountains were now sweeping down their street. “Like a river of fire,” she said. She fled with her mother, Con- suelo Lorza, 88, and her 11-year- old daughter, Sara, to another town, only to have to evacuate again hours later, to a nearby vil- lage. The following day, they were forced to flee once more, this time to the town of Villamanta. “I’ve been sleeping here for three days — if you can call that sleep,” Ms. Lorza said on Sunday morning. She shared a bunk with her granddaughter, while Ms. Al- cázar spent the night in her car with the family dog. They eventu- ally found out that Ms. Alcázar’s home had been spared. Firefighters in Spain and France were battling fast-moving and deadly wildfires on Sunday, with extreme heat and strong winds fueling new fronts even as others were contained. The rap- idly spreading blazes near Madrid and Bordeaux have engulfed fields, forests and homes, forcing over 300,000 people to evacuate or take shelter, with no idea what they will find when they can fi- nally return. Some of the wildfires in the mountains west of Madrid were contained overnight, the authori- ties in Spain said, after ash and thick smoke had prompted evacu- ations around the capital. But other blazes were advancing to- ward the neighboring provinces of Toledo and Ávila, and new fronts were emerging hundreds of miles away near the coastal city of Va- lencia, Spain’s third largest. Over 200 people were staying on makeshift bunks inside a sports hall in Villamanta on Sun- day, anxiously waiting to learn whether they would be allowed to return home or whether the flames were advancing toward them. Some tried to nap after lunch while children kicked a foot- ball around. In total, around 90,000 people in central Spain had been evacuated from their homes or ordered to take shelter as firefighters battled what Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the Ma- drid region’s president, described as “the worst wildfire” in the re- gion’s history. Ms. Lorza had just been com- forted by King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, who visited the sports hall to show their support. “The queen told me she couldn’t believe it. Evacuated three times!” Ms. Lorza said. King Felipe VI said on Sunday that the wildfires in Madrid and
This article is by Ana Ionova, Adam B. Ellick and Jack Nicas.
RIO DE JANEIRO — The Bra- zilian government has blocked a U.S. delegation from traveling to the country this week, concerned that the visitors would seek to cast unfounded doubts on the safety of the nation’s electoral systems ahead of a presidential contest this year, according to U.S. and Brazilian officials. The U.S. delegation included two senior State Department offi- cials, Riley M. Barnes and Samuel Samson, according to three senior U.S. and Brazilian government of- ficials, who spoke anonymously to discuss confidential diplomatic matters. On Friday, Brazilian au- thorities rejected their requests for a visa, according to two of those officials, derailing the planned visit. A spokesman for Brazil’s for- eign ministry confirmed the visa rejections but did not provide a reason. The State Department con- firmed that Mr. Barnes and Mr. Samson were set to travel to Brazil this week to hold meetings about election integrity, religious freedom and freedom of expres- sion. “Any insinuation of a ‘ploy’ to undermine a democratic nation’s election is a baseless lie,” the de- partment said in a statement. In the visa application, sub- mitted last Monday, the U.S. offi- cials said they planned to meet with electoral authorities to dis- cuss Brazil’s voting systems and concerns about possible restric- tions to the freedom of expression in the lead-up to the Oct. 4 elec- tions, according to one of the Bra- zilian officials. The decision to bar the U.S. del- egation is the latest escalation be- tween the nations after several weeks of heightened tensions fol- lowing new tariffs and ideological
Consuelo Lorza with her granddaughter Sara. They left their home west of Madrid last week.
Carmen Bautista with her family. They slept in their van as flames neared their housing complex.
the neighboring Toledo and Ávila regions remained active but that there were some “positive signs” in the fight against the blazes. In the Madrid region, fire had destroyed 43 homes and severely damaged over 300 others, Ms. Díaz Ayuso said. “That number will rise enormously, as we have never seen before,” she said, tears welling in her eyes. Across central Spain, 77,000 hectares — about 190,000 acres — have burned, the country’s public broadcaster reported. Some evacuees in Villamanta complained that they had re- ceived little information about the status of the fires. They waited nervously near their cars, eating churros. “We watch the fires every minute” through security camera
The U.S. delegation that was blocked from Brazil had been set to hold meetings about election integrity ahead of the Oct. 4 vote.
clashes on issues like organized crime. It also fuels concerns among many Brazilians over possibly more meddling by President Trump in Brazil’s internal affairs, this time aiming for a voting sys- tem that global observers widely regard as secure. At the same time, the move to bar the delega- tion risks stoking complaints from conservatives in both countries about a lack of transparency ahead of the high-stakes election. In a region where the right is fast ascending, Brazil’s electoral contest, which will pit a leftist in- cumbent against a right-wing challenger, will serve as the left’s biggest test this year. Mr. Barnes and Mr. Samson also planned to meet with Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of former Pres- ident Jair Bolsonaro, who is serv- ing a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup, according to the officials. The younger Mr. Bolsonaro is challenging the leftist incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, for the presidency. He has made multiple trips to Washington in recent months, some of them to seek sup- port for his political agenda. At an event with diplomats last
feeds, said Carmen Bautista, 53, who had slept, along with her hus- band, in their van beside the sports center. They had watched the flames approach their home in Caravan Garden, a nearby devel- opment, but it was now safe. Ms. Bautista lamented that res- idents had endured one natural disaster after another — the pan- demic, then the deadly floods that swept away three bridges — and that each one seemed worse than the last. “With the previous catastro- phes, you could stay at home. Now . . . ” she broke off, spreading her arms in resignation. While firefighters struggled to bring the blazes under control, some residents took matters into their own hands. In the mountains around Robledo de Chavela,
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week, Mr. Bolsonaro took a page from his father’s playbook and questioned the security of Brazil’s electronic voting machines using debunked claims about their sus- ceptibility to fraud. Ahead of the previous election, the elder Mr. Bolsonaro made similar claims in front of a group of diplomats. Experts widely regard the South American nation’s voting systems, which use biometrics to identify voters and tallies results almost immediately after polls close, as some of the most secure in the world. The country’s elec- tions are regularly monitored by dozens of observers from around the world. “To date, we have had no evi- dence of fraud in the voting process,” said Estela Aranha, a justice on Brazil’s electoral court, which oversees the federal vote. She added that the process is veri- fiable and transparent. Mr. Bolsonaro’s complaints about electoral security come as his campaign falters, following revelations about his ties to a dis- graced banker. Early polls showed Mr. Bolsonaro and Mr. Lula locked in a close race, but a new poll last week showed the leftist incum- bent’s lead has widened signifi-
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where the flames had torn through pine forests and holm oaks, several residents on Satur- day slipped past police roadblocks to fight the fires. “We may be doing something slightly illegal, but we have saved this part of the mountain,” Javier Quijada, 30, said on a video call. Mr. Quijada and dozens of other residents, all members of the local hunting association, had been fighting the flames with hoses, shovels and even green branches they used to try to smother the fire. He said police officers even- tually waved them through, warn- ing them to be careful. “This is our mountain. Our lives are going up in flames,” Mr. Qui- jada said. “I’ve lost count of how many tears I’ve shed since the fire began.”
cantly. And after Mr. Bolsonaro’s state- ments this past week, Brazilian authorities became convinced that the U.S. delegation was not on a fact-finding mission, but rather planned to undermine confidence in the country’s voting systems, said the two Brazilian officials. Mr. Barnes, an assistant secre- tary, and Mr. Samson, a deputy as- sistant secretary, do not have ex- pertise or significant experience in Brazil, according to one U.S. of- ficial. Mr. Samson has played a key role in pushing Mr. Trump’s agenda in Europe, cultivating ties with right-wing groups aligned with his movement. Brazil’s electoral court said in a statement that U.S. diplomats in the country had inquired about a possible visit by American offi- cials, without disclosing the agenda. The meeting was ulti- mately not scheduled because the court is in recess. In June, the court’s lead justice, Kássio Nunes Marques, ad- dressed some two dozen ambas- sadors to explain the workings of the Brazilian voting system. U.S. diplomats were invited but did not attend, according to the event or- ganizers. The court said it plans to hold another meeting next month and will invite U.S. representa- tives. Earlier this year, the Brazilian government barred another Trump envoy from entering the country, after learning that he se- cretly planned to visit the jailed former president and meet his son, Flávio Bolsonaro. Last year, Mr. Trump tried to pressure Brazil to drop the case against the elder Mr. Bolsonaro, a close political ally, by using hefty tariffs and sanctions. That strategy didn’t work, and Mr. Bolsonaro was sentenced to nearly three decades in prison for trying to cling to power after los- ing the 2022 election to Mr. Lula. Mr. Bolsonaro is serving his sen- tence under house arrest for health reasons.
Ends as Man, 21, Confronts Officers
By JIM TANKERSLEY
BERLIN — The police on Sun- day evening shot and killed the man suspected of killing a woman and wounding 29 other people near a Berlin gay Pride celebra- tion after he charged at officers with a weapon, the German au- thorities said. The man, a 21-year-old German citizen whose family members mi- grated from Lebanon, had been the subject of a protracted nation- wide manhunt since the Saturday evening attack. The suspect used a rented van and what appeared to be a machete in the attack, which German officials called an act of Islamist terrorism. In a brief statement, the police said they had tracked the suspect to an area in a western corner of the city where residents maintain large garden patches. After offi- cers shot him, emergency re- sponders tried to revive him, but he died at the scene, the police said. The authorities said that their investigation into the attack was continuing, even after the death of the target of their manhunt, and that they had been looking for ad- ditional suspects. “There is one other person un- der consideration, though nothing has been substantiated so far — nor has that line of inquiry been closed,” Alexander Dobrint, the federal interior minister, said in a televised interview on Sunday evening with the public broad- caster ARD. “Further measures are being taken, but we do not cur- rently believe there is any further threat.” From the time of the attack late on Saturday night, in the city’s central Tiergarten park, the au- thorities had scoured Berlin, along with the country’s rail sta- tions, airports and border cross- ings. They were searching for a man the police had identified only as Abdul B., in keeping with Ger- man privacy laws.
Philip Kaleta contributed report- ing.
Their Cities, Using Minecraft
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stairs are buzzing with people hanging out and children playing with features first imagined in Minecraft. “I was really happy that they actually added the slide on the stairs that are near my home,” said Corine Abiramia, who participated in the workshop as a 14-year-old and now studies inte- rior design. Despite Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah, and multiple strikes targeting the Lebanese capital this spring, “the stairs remain in-
Children helped redesign the Beirut stairs project using the video game Minecraft.
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tact and continue to be used,” said Joana Dabaj, the co-founder of CatalyticAction, the organization behind the Beirut project. In the blocky, 3-D virtual world of Minecraft, one of the world’s most popular games, users can build and destroy structures as they like. In 2025, more than 200 million monthly players helped turn “A Minecraft Movie” into the highest-grossing video game movie ever made. The game’s open-ended design and building tools allow players to reimagine real-life spaces like abandoned riverbanks, dark al- leys and dump sites, making it one of the main tools used to involve citizens, especially youth, in re- designing urban areas. Since 2012, Block by Block Foundation and U.N.-Habitat have supported the building of
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Grief-stricken crowds gathered Sunday near the Brandenburg Gate. The Saturday attack killed one woman and wounded 29 people.
“These criminals, these extre- mists, have no place in the middle of our society,” Mr. Merz said on Sunday afternoon before entering a memorial service at St. Mary’s Church in central Berlin. “And we will not allow this poison of terror- ism and this poison against our freedom to spread further.” Kai Wegner, the mayor of Berlin, told reporters at a news conference on Sunday afternoon near the site of the attack that “we are presumably looking at an Is- lamist terror attack directed at our way of life, our liberal democ- racy, our openness and our free- dom.” Mr. Dobrindt echoed that as- sessment, saying the attack was most likely Islamist terrorism. He said the suspect had a his- tory of radicalization and a crimi- nal record, including a conviction, for a crime authorities did not de- tail, for which he had recently re-
over 150 urban structures in 55 different countries, with more than 30,000 citizens using Minecraft to participate in the de- sign process. Microsoft purchased Minecraft’s developer, Mojang, in 2014, which helped to set up the foundation alongside U.N.-Hab- itat. While Mojang and other part- ners continued to provide core funding for the initiative, it was cut off in 2025, forcing the founda- tion to close. Their work will now continue under a new U.N.-Hab- itat initiative called Games for Ur- ban Futures, building on the Block by Block methodology and incor- porating other games. There’s no fixed approach to de- signing public spaces that really solve local issues. “But there’s a looseness to the Minecraft meth- odology that we can play with,” said James Delaney, who has led the foundation since 2020. Including both children and adults in the workshops was part of the magic. “The power dynamic between the two is flipped be- cause the younger person in- stantly knows Minecraft and can be quite quick at it,” Mr. Delaney said. Block by Block’s methodology works like this: Local organiza- tions — mostly nonprofits work- ing on engaging citizens in urban planning — submit their project proposals to U.N.-Habitat. Those selected are given funding and technical guidance to engage community members, run the Minecraft workshop and con- struct the final designs, with budgets of $10,000 to $200,000. Once a site is chosen, communi- ty members go on a walk equipped with printed-out maps and markers. “We invite partici- pants to look at the place with crit- ical eyes,” said Eugenio Gastelum Pons, a gaming expert who has or- ganized Minecraft workshops around the world since 2014. Peo- ple may pass by a place every day without stopping to consider how it could be improved, he said. After the site visit, participants attend a Minecraft workshop to learn how to build 3-D models us- ing the game. Mr. Gastelum pre- loaded each location into Minecraft, allowing participants to walk around the virtual space and add their designs. The children are encouraged to think about the needs of vulnera- ble groups such as older residents and those with disabilities, said Bisma Setiyad, an architect with Kota Kita, a nonprofit that imple- mented a Block by Block project in Indonesia. Once the Minecraft designs are
ceived a suspended sentence that prosecutors had appealed. In his evening interview, Mr. Dobrint confirmed news reports that the suspect had been undergoing a court-ordered “de-radicalization” course. The manhunt ended around 6 p.m. in the western Berlin neigh- borhood of Spandau, in a cluster of garden plots where the suspect had apparently fled. “The suspect approached our police force with a stabbing weap- on,” Florian Nath, a spokesman for Berlin’s police, said in a brief video posted to social media on Sunday evening. “This triggered a response. Our police force used its firearms. The suspect suffered se- vere injuries. Emergency doctors were able to revive the suspect for a brief time. The suspect died mo- ments later.” The police first said early Sun- day that they were searching for
ready, they take turns presenting their ideas before voting on which models should be built in real life. Professional architects and urban planners then translate the Minecraft models into sketches and drawings that could be used for construction. Kota Kita operates in Solo, a city of about half a million on the Indo- nesian island of Java. In 2021, the nonprofit started scouting for a place to redesign with the Minecraft methodology, and chose a riverbank close to Rusunawa Mangkubumen, an af- fordable public housing block with 80 families. The area was scattered with trash, provided no shade and had very little for the local children to play with. “There were a lot of children living in the housing block, but also many elderly resi- dents who just stayed in their
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“at least one suspect” after the at- tack on the periphery of the annu- al Christopher Street Day parade, which drew hundreds of thou- sands of revelers to the city center on Saturday. The festivities in- cluded a concert on Saturday evening near the Brandenburg Gate and the Tiergarten. Shortly after 10 p.m., the au- thorities said, a white minivan sped through a side street leading out of the park, outside of the offi- cial festival grounds and security complex, striking pedestrians on a sidewalk and eventually crash- ing into a tree. The driver ran away. Video footage showed the car’s front grille smashed and its body heavily dented. Mr. Dobrindt said the attacker had wielded what appeared to be a machete during his rampage. Some victims had stab wounds. Emergency workers quickly ar- rived and began administering
rooms because they didn’t feel safe to move around in their wheelchairs,” explained Mr. Setiyadi. After the Minecraft project, the riverbank became a colorful space with plenty of shaded seating ar- eas, and a playground with a bad- minton net and basketball field. Ramps, handrails, and guiding blocks made the space more ac- cessible for some 320 residents who live nearby. In Belo Horizonte in southeast- ern Brazil, many informal settle- ments have sprung up along the flood-prone Onça Creek’s banks, threatening the health and safety of residents. In 2022, two sites — Novo Aarão Reis and Ribeiro de Abreu — were selected for a Block by Block transformation. The creek banks eventually be- came two parks with a soccer field and a volleyball court, and the
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first aid, he said. “It was a horrific scene,” Mr. Do- brindt said. Berlin’s Charité hospital treated eight of the injured and had re- leased four of them by midday Sunday, with the other four re- maining in intensive care with non-life-threatening injuries, hos- pital representatives said. The attack reignited a debate in Germany about migration, reli- gious extremism and public safety. It came months before Berlin and two other eastern states are set to hold closely watched regional elections in which polls have already sug- gested far-right parties are poised to make gains, partly on the basis of Germans’ anxieties over public violence. In recent months, as the United States and Israel have engaged in war against Iran, German intelli- gence officials have privately
children also incorporated more lighting to make the area safer. “Minecraft is great because participants get a sense of the pro- portion of the components that they want to add — you can’t cram in an infinite amount of things and you have to prioritize,” said Giulia Galli, the architect who translated the Minecraft visions of Beirut’s children into technical sketches and models. After the final design for the Beirut stairs was approved, Mr. Zahar passed by daily to see con- struction advance. After 14 months, the results were in. “The stairs were more colorful, there was more life, and many people started to use them because they now had places to sit,” Mr. Zahar said. The redesign brought new restaurants and bars. Small tables and plants dotted the landings.
warned of the threat of Tehran- sponsored attacks on German soil. In his evening interview, Mr. Dobrint said that based on mount- ing intelligence, the government had recently raised its national threat level to “high.” “The Islamist threat has not been underestimated,” he said. “It is being monitored very closely.” The Christopher Street Day cel- ebration drew hundreds of thou- sands of revelers to Berlin, with organizers canceling a final slate of planned events on Sunday morning. The attack near it plunged into grief a community that only hours earlier has spent much of the day dancing under idyllic summer skies. The event is named for the New York City street known for its as- sociation with the Stonewall riots that inspired the modern gay rights movement. Early Sunday, roads near the site of the attack were blocked off by a heavy police presence. Nearby, emergency personnel had erected a tent to take care of distraught witnesses. Some were seen hugging each other, and some had thermal blankets wrapped around them. Hours earlier, barricades had blocked vehicle traffic on roads leading through the Tiergarten, while throngs of revelers, many wearing glittery, colorful outfits, danced to the throbbing sounds of techno music, spilling into cafes and beer gardens nearby. By late evening, the sounds of celebration had given way to the blare of sirens and the drone of helicopters circling over the area. Alfonso Pantisano, the L.G.B.T.Q. affairs commissioner for Berlin’s state government, said in an interview on Sunday that he was in the crowd at the cel- ebration when organizers an- nounced an evacuation order im- mediately after the attack. He stayed to help others evacuate, he said. Mr. Pantisano has helped lead an effort meant to respond to growing acts of violence against Berlin’s L.B.G.T.Q. community. He said the attack “was a surprise, even though we were all thinking that at some point it would and could happen.” “It could have been all of us” tar- geted by the attacker, he said. “And that is the scary thing about it.”
A port explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2020 killed 218 people and caused up to $4.6 billion in damage, including to, clockwise from top left: the St Nicolas stairs; the Laziza stairs; the Vendome stairs; and a mural near the Laziza stairs. Children pitched in to help rebuild them in a project en- listing a popular video game.
More seating areas and handrails made the stairs more comfortable for older neighbors. “You can see elderly residents meeting again and doing dinners and lunches in front of their houses,” said Ms. Dabaj. But participatory urban design also has an intangible impact: not only by making children feel heard and seen, but also by trans- forming their ideas into real struc- tures in their city, explained Jose Cheng, the coordinator of the Global Public Space Network at U.N.-Habitat. “That’s why we only try to work on projects we can see through and finance the building of,” said Mr. Cheng. “I get the sense that young people are slightly sick of being asked what they think when there’s no tangible result.” Without that follow-through, the trust that’s created during the process can easily be broken. It can frustrate people who take the time to get involved, but don’t know what’s being done with their input, said Katrin Hofer, a re- searcher and lecturer in spatial development and urban policy at ETH Zürich, a university in Switz- erland. In Solo, one of the biggest chal- lenges was figuring out how peo- ple would maintain the public space. It wasn’t realistic to expect a low-income community to man- age the space, said Mr. Setiyadi, so it was necessary to involve the lo- cal government. In Beirut, CatalyticAction was constantly negotiating with resi- dents living along the stairs and dealing with neighborhood power dynamics, Ms. Dabaj explained. “The more the public space is meshed within the urban fabric, the more challenging it is.” But Minecraft has the potential to be used beyond just small, tar- geted projects. “You could say that every U.N. agency should have a team looking at how Minecraft can help their mission,” said Mr. Delaney. “Every govern- ment should have a minister of gaming looking at game-based ap- proaches to not just help with planning, but anything.” In Beirut, the benefits of engag- ing citizens in urban planning are still felt, said Ms. Abiramia, the in- terior design student. “The stairs are no longer a place just connect- ing two places, it became a desti- nation in itself.”
From left: Residents of Hertford County, home to the long-dormant Rivers Correctional Institution; the facility is owned by GEO Group, one of the largest private prison operators in the country; the county, which has a population of less than 20,000, is predominantly Black with pockets of Haitian and Mexican communities. Its poverty rate is about 23 percent, nearly double the statewide rate.
percent, nearly double the statewide rate. It also sits in a competitive congres- sional district, currently held by Repre- sentative Don Davis, a Democrat. The district was redrawn last year to favor the Republican candidate, Laurie Buck- hout, a retired Army colonel. Neither candidate responded to requests for comment on Thursday. Gov. Josh Stein, a Democrat, also did not respond to a re- quest for comment about the facility. Well-paying jobs are scarce in the county, so some see the new ICE deten-
By EDUARDO MEDINA and HAMED ALEAZIZ
HERTFORD COUNTY, N.C. — For weeks, residents near the long-dormant Rivers Correctional Institution in Win- ton, N.C., have noticed trucks inside the prison’s gates, people walking around the entrance and fences being erected. Internal documents obtained by The New York Times show that U.S. Immi- gration and Customs Enforcement plans to open a detention center at the complex in northeastern North Carolina by the end of the year. The facility is owned by GEO Group, one of the largest private prison operators in the country. Contract negotiations are ongoing, but the docu- ments show that the facility will have about 1,400 beds, making it among the largest detention centers on the East Coast. The opening of the facility — the first of its kind in North Carolina — signals that even as ICE has been retreating from its plan to buy up warehouses around the country, it remains deter- mined to increase its capacity for detain- ing people as part of the Trump adminis- tration’s mass deportation campaign. Documents obtained by The Times in June show that ICE plans to offload sev- en warehouses that it bought for more than $700 million, scaling back a signa- ture initiative under the previous home- land security secretary, Kristi Noem. The Department of Homeland Security sent a letter to Pennsylvania officials this month saying that it no longer planned to use a warehouse in Berks County. But it continues to partner with pri- vate companies like GEO Group to re- purpose existing prison complexes in places like North Carolina, Colorado and Arizona, all of which have large immi- grant populations. The agency has to find bed space in places that are perceived as “more friendly” toward such facilities and do not prohibit them, said Claire Trickler- McNulty, a former ICE official who has served in Republican and Democratic administrations. At the same time, North Carolina and its surrounding states are a so-called de- tention desert. Most detainees in the re- gion are often taken to facilities farther south — as happened during the immi- gration crackdown in Charlotte last year — which costs more time, money and re- sources. Immigration lawyers and advo- cates say that a new detention center near the Virginia border could greatly in- crease agents’ capacity to detain more people across neighboring states. North Carolina, which has a powerful Republican-controlled legislature, also recently passed laws that require sher- iffs and state law enforcement agencies to cooperate with ICE, which is likely to increase the need for capacity. The Winton facility is poised to make North Carolina a major hub for ICE de- tentions along the East Coast, said Ste- fanía Arteaga, the co-founder of Carolina Migrant Network, an immigrant rights group. The internal documents show that the ICE field office in Washington plans to manage the detention center. A state offi- cial, who requested anonymity to discuss private planning, said the facility could be open as soon as late September. The contract negotiations have not been made public by GEO Group, which
By KENNETH CHANG
SpaceX completed a successful test flight of its Starship rocket on Friday evening, setting the stage for more ambi- tious developments in the months to come. The flight was the 13th for Starship but just the second for what SpaceX calls its Version 3, which incorporates a number of changes to improve performance and reliability. Friday’s flight appeared to accomplish almost all of its objectives, including cor- recting problems that occurred during the previous flight in May, deploying Starlink internet satellites and ending its journey bobbing intact in the Indian Ocean. “We’re really pumped about this,” Kate Tice, one of the hosts of the SpaceX web- cast, said after the gentle water landing. This time, in contrast to an aborted at- tempt eight days earlier, all 33 engines on Starship’s booster stage ignited. The 407-foot-tall rocket lifted off at 6:51 p.m. Eastern time from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas, near
Internal documents obtained by The Times show that ICE plans to open a detention center at the old Rivers Correctional Institution in Winton, N.C., by Dec. 31.
did not respond to requests seeking com- ment. A spokesperson for ICE said in a statement that the agency had “no new detention centers to announce at this time.” “It should not come as news that ICE will be making arrests in states across the U.S. and is actively working to ex- pand detention space,” the statement said. Since President Trump took office in January 2025, federal immigration agents have arrested more than 6,300 people in North Carolina, which is double the number of arrests made during the previous two years combined, according to the Deportation Data Project, an aca- demic group. In Hertford County, N.C., whose county seat is Winton, some local offi- cials have expressed concerns about be- ing kept in the dark over the federal gov- ernment’s plans, as they try to manage all the speculation. The county is heavily Democratic. “This is the most divisive issue that we’ve had in this area,” said Mayor Weyling J. White of Ahoskie, about 10 miles from Winton, noting that he had major reservations about having an ICE- operated facility nearby. “What kind of quality of life do those jobs bring?” The county, which has a population of less than 20,000, is predominantly Black with pockets of Haitian and Mexican communities. Its poverty rate is about 23
Brownsville. Starship consists of two stages: a booster, known as the Super Heavy, and an upper-stage spacecraft that is also called Starship but is often shortened to Ship. Both stages are designed to be fully reusable, which could greatly reduce the cost of sending satellites to space. On Friday, the return of the booster stage for a simulated landing over the Gulf of Mexico was not entirely success- ful. Instead of slowing to a hover, the booster appeared to hit the water while still descending at a quick pace. While in space, the upper-stage Ship deployed 20 functioning, next-genera- tion Starlink satellites. Earlier flights re- leased dummy versions to test the de- ployment mechanism, which resembles a large Pez dispenser, pushing out the satellites one by one. After deploying their solar arrays and antennas, all of the satellites success- fully connected to the rest of the Starlink constellation via laser communications. The upper-stage Ship also restarted one of the engines for 14 seconds. Dem-
agency’s determination to increase capacity.
tion center as an economic lifeline. Oth- ers worry about becoming another flash- point in the immigration crackdown and serving as an outpost for a deeply polar- izing federal agency. The former Rivers Correctional Insti- tution, which closed in 2021 as the Biden administration moved to end federal contracts with for-profit prisons, also has a history of poor conditions. A federal report of private prisons in
onstration of that capability was a pre- requisite before Starship’s first orbital flight. An engine burn in orbit will be needed for the upper stage to drop out of orbit safely; otherwise, the spacecraft would be stranded in orbit, slowly dragged down by the friction of the atmosphere, with the possibility that pieces would land on populated areas. By design, all of the flights of Starship so far have traveled along trajectories that re-enter the atmosphere above the Indian Ocean after a journey halfway around the world. On this flight, the accompanying Star- link satellites were traveling along the same suborbital path, so they also re-en- tered the atmosphere and burned up, just 20 minutes after they had been de- ployed. Before their demise, six of the Starlink satellites used cameras to scan Star- ship’s heat shield, observing how well the shield performed as temperatures heated up to thousands of degrees. The upper-stage Ship survived its
2016 found that Rivers had the highest rates of inmate-on-inmate sexual mis- conduct, violence, contraband finds (ex- cluding cellphones) and positive drug tests. More recently, prisons across the state have struggled to find employees, and it is unclear how Rivers would fare if it reopened. “Part of my worry is that we’re not pre- pared for what’s going to happen when that place opens,” said Jennifer Smyth, who teaches English to nonnative speak- ers in Hertford County. Even if the county doesn’t see more ICE arrests, she says she worries about increased activi- ty in other parts of the state. Residents say the financial struggles and need for job creation are evident: Downtown Winton has several aban- doned buildings, and the surrounding in- frastructure is easily prone to flooding. But a steel manufacturer is expected to bring more than 700 high-paying jobs to Hertford County by 2030. On GEO Group’s website, there is one job posting for a facility maintenance manager in Rivers; the pay minimum is $72,800. Leroy Douglas, a Hertford County commissioner who politically identifies as an independent, said the two recent fatal shootings by ICE agents in Texas and Maine had made some residents more resistant to having an immigration detention facility in their backyard. But plenty of others, he added, approve of the plan, especially those who lost their jobs
fiery path through the atmosphere. Over the Indian Ocean west of Australia, it slowed down and mimicked the maneu- vers of landing in a vertical orientation. And unlike in previous landings, the rocket did not explode in a fireball when it tipped into the water. “This is the first time we’ve put an in- tact Starship in the water,” said Dan Huot, another host of the SpaceX web- cast, describing the fact that the cameras on the spacecraft were still sending back video as “just a little bit surreal.” He added, “Wow, lucky No. 13 — hell of a flight for Starship.” If data gathered during the flight does not reveal any major obstacles, SpaceX will be able to move on to the next set of more challenging objectives for Star- ship: entering orbit around Earth, re- turning the upper-stage spacecraft to Texas and catching it on the launch tower as it has done with the booster. Starship is key to NASA’s moon plans. SpaceX is slated to provide a version of the Ship spacecraft to take its astronauts from lunar orbit to the moon’s surface.
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when the Rivers prison closed in 2021. It is unclear how many locals would be employed there. In 2021, the prison em- ployed about 300 people. While he doesn’t agree with a lot of ICE’s aggressive tactics, Mr. Douglas said he did not believe that agents would be “running rampant around Hertford County, because that’s not what this is about.” “If they open up, I really see no nega- tive change in our actual community,” said Mr. Douglas, whose wife worked as a correctional officer at GEO Group dec- ades ago before moving into administra- tive roles at the company. “I actually see a positive one because there would be a few more jobs.” Mr. Douglas says he has had no com- munication with ICE or GEO Group lead- ers. Other county commissioners did not respond to requests for comment. In Facebook posts speculating about the prison reopening, comment sections have turned into broader debates about the morality of ICE and border security. Local activists have begun to mobilize against the facility, organizing protests and flooding county officials with ques- tions. Bobby Ray Riddick, who retired years ago and used to work at a chicken processing plant, is one of them, with 10,000 followers on Facebook. “This is going to be a ride that I don’t think we’re ready for,” Mr. Riddick said.
But work on Starship has taken longer than Mr. Musk and SpaceX originally promised. For the moon mission, SpaceX needs to demonstrate several technological firsts. They include conducting multiple Starship launches over a short period of time, because the lunar-lander version of Starship will need to have its propellant tanks refilled before leaving low-Earth orbit. Transferring ultracold liquid methane and liquid oxygen between two space- craft in the weightlessness of space has not yet been demonstrated. The successful test flight could also shore up investor confidence in SpaceX, which is planning to use Starship to de- ploy up to a million data center satellites in orbit. SpaceX made its debut on the stock market in June in the largest initial public offering ever. A few days later, the share price shot up to $225.64, a jump of 67 percent over its debut price of $135, but it has slumped since. The stock closed at the end of last week at $115.07.
From Rival Parties Incubated the Idea
By RONDA KAYSEN
WASHINGTON — When Sena- tor Elizabeth Warren of Massa- chusetts went to her fellow Demo- crats last year during their weekly lunch to suggest working with Re- publicans on a major new housing bill, she was met with trepidation and doubt. Members of her party had long wanted to tackle the housing cri- sis, but most assumed that there was no way they could overcome deep divisions with Republicans to agree on the kind of landmark legislation Ms. Warren envi- sioned. “There was kind of this sense of, ‘Yeah, you’ll put it together, and then we’ll all look at it, we’ll say yay, I’m a co-sponsor of a bill that will go nowhere,’” Ms. Warren said in an interview in the Capitol, reflecting on the improbable process that had led to the enact- ment of the measure this month. “They’ve been taught around here that it will all be for nothing, that the bills that you put together are just kind of for show,” she add- ed. “Especially on the Democratic side, when Republicans are in con- trol.” Instead, against seemingly im- possible odds, the bill succeeded and won bipartisan support, over- coming the polarization of Con- gress, G.O.P. infighting, the bitter politics of the midterm campaign season and an utter lack of enthu- siasm from President Trump, who ultimately refused to sign it. At a time when bipartisan legislating has become a lost art, its propo- nents managed to push through the biggest piece of housing legis- lation in three decades, assem- bling a broad coalition across both houses of Congress to address an affordability issue that is front and center for voters. It very nearly did not happen. This account of how the 21st Cen- tury Road to Housing Act became law after several near-death expe- riences was drawn from inter- views with a dozen lawmakers and aides who played key roles. It started with an unlikely part- nership between Ms. Warren, the progressive top Democrat on the Banking, Housing and Urban Af- fairs Committee and Senator Tim Scott, Republican of South Car- olina, the panel’s ultraconserva- tive chairman. They had forged a rapport sitting side by side on the dais of the panel, chatting quietly when a meeting would drag on, or when a witness had something compelling — or obnoxious — to say. “Everyone else comes and goes, except for the witnesses and
Robert Draper contributed report- ing.
As Migrants Lose Shield
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“Congress can, and should, ex- ercise its plenary authority over immigration policy to prevent sig- nificant disruption to America’s work force and avoid an unneces- sary humanitarian crisis,” the chamber wrote in a July 10 letter to Senate leadership. State and local leaders are echo- ing those concerns. Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio, a Republican, has called ending T.P.S. for Haitians a “mistake” and predicted a steep economic toll for his state. In South Florida, home to the largest Haitian population, Mayor Dan- iella Levine Cava and Commis- sioner Marleine Bastien of Miami- Dade County, along with business leaders, gathered on Wednesday to address the potential fallout. “Ending T.P.S. doesn’t save American money,” Ms. Bastien said during a news conference. “Ending T.P.S. costs America money.” But on Wednesday afternoon, Senator Eric Schmitt, Republican of Missouri, blocked a fast-track attempt by congressional Demo- crats to extend T.P.S. for Haitians and criticized the program for be- coming all but permanent. “T.P.S. was created for emergencies,” Mr. Schmitt said on the Senate floor. “Democrats turned it into a one- way racket towards permanent mass migration.” Created by Congress and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in 1990, T.P.S. was intended to offer short-term relief to foreign nationals already in the United States who could not safely return home because of armed conflict or natural disas- ters. But with some countries mired in humanitarian crises for years, T.P.S. has become almost indefinite for some foreign nation-
High housing costs have bedeviled Democratic cities for years but since the pandemic, conservative states have also felt the squeeze.
the two of us,” Ms. Warren said. “So you end up whispering a little in between. Someone will say something and it triggers a thought. And I’d lean over and say, ‘You know, it makes me wonder why we couldn’t do this,’ or, ‘What a jerk.’” Mr. Scott, whose mother bought her first home at age 40, shared Ms. Warren’s zeal for a big new housing bill — Congress had not passed one since 1990 — and as the chairman of the Senate Re- publicans’ campaign arm, he had a powerful political incentive to try to make it happen before the midterm elections. Mr. Scott declined to comment. The politics were tricky: Re- publicans would never agree to Democrats’ goals of pouring ma- jor new spending into housing programs and expanding the De- partment of Housing and Urban Development, and it would be a tough sell to get them to accept Ms. Warren’s priority of reward- ing communities that were build- ing housing with funds for infra- structure. Democrats would have to em- brace a housing bill with limited money for housing programs in it. And, they would have to be willing to hand Republicans a victory they could cite in their fight to keep control of Congress. But there were upsides for both parties. The high cost of housing had been a relentless burden in heavily Democratic cities like New York, Boston and Los Ange-
als. And with Congress unable for decades to find a consensus on modernizing the country’s anti- quated immigration laws, hu- manitarian protections such as T.P.S. and asylum have become de facto paths to long-term, if not permanent, residence. That has turned T.P.S. into a tar- get for some critics of the immi- gration system, including Presi- dent Trump, who has made end- ing it a priority since his first term. After returning to the White House last year, he resumed his push to end the program, and af- ter more than a year of court fights across the country, he won a Supreme Court decision allowing the executive branch to revoke T.P.S. For years, companies and in- dustries that employed large numbers of T.P.S. recipients cham- pioned them and the program as a source of motivated workers, of- ten for jobs that were otherwise hard to fill. But as the Trump administra- tion intensified its effort to revoke the protection, many companies became reluctant to speak out, leaving it to trade groups to make the case for the program. Associated Builders and Con- tractors, a construction trade group, was part of a coalition that recently sent a letter to the De- partment of Homeland Security and highlighted the challenges brought on by the ending of the T.P.S. program. In a statement, the Trump ad- ministration defended its effort to end the protection. “D.H.S. is up- holding the rule of law and getting back to common sense,” said Zach Kahler, a spokesman for U.S. Citi- zenship and Immigration Serv- ices. Employers who hire people working unlawfully in the United States can face steep fines and
les for years. But since the pan- demic, conservative states like Idaho and Montana had also expe- rienced stratospheric increases in rents and home prices, transform- ing what had been a regional issue into a national one.
‘I Can’t Support That’
By last October, Mr. Scott and Ms. Warren had an agreement and hatched a strategy to speed it through the Senate in a way they thought would guarantee its quick enactment. They attached it to the annual defense policy bill, which is considered a must-pass item, in a bid to prod the House to accept it without changes. The move touched off a feud within the G.O.P. Representative French Hill, the Republican chair- man of the Financial Services Committee who had been focused on banking legislation, was blind- sided. He called Mr. Scott and told him he needed to pump the brakes. “The process was premature,” Mr. Hill, of Arkansas, said in an in- terview. Over a series of conversa- tions, he said he told Mr. Scott, “You know, if you’d like to negoti- ate and take House input, I’d be happy to do that.” But the senator was not inter- ested in making changes. “Well, this is what I’ve got in the Senate, and this is the way it’s go- ing to be, and this what I can do,” Mr. Hill recounted Mr. Scott telling him. “And I said, ‘Well, I can’t sup- port that.’”
criminal charges of harboring un- documented people. For their part, T.P.S. beneficia- ries will have to decide whether to stay or leave the country. The gov- ernment has their addresses, making it easy for federal agents to find them. It is not clear how much time the government is likely to give people to organize their affairs and depart. Many have homes, ve- hicles and bank accounts, said Abel Nuñez, the executive direc- tor of CARECEN, a Washington advocacy organization for people from Central America. “You can’t just carry your house in your pocket, your car in your pocket,” Mr. Nuñez said. Thanks to T.P.S., Concepcion Morales worked for 22 years on federal sites, including at the Na- val Academy and the National In- stitutes of Health. “Any government building you walk into, you can be sure that someone with T.P.S. has done work there,” said Mr. Morales, 50,
House Republicans stripped the housing measure from the de- fense bill, dealing it a major set- back. In early January, Mr. Trump provided an opening to revive it. He posted on social media that he planned to curb the role institu- tional investors play in the single- family housing market, address- ing an issue that was a priority for Senate Democrats and riles home buyers, particularly in markets like Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C., where people are often outbid by investors making all-cash offers on starter homes. She saw an opening to get ahead of the president, with a bill shaped by Democrats that would drive the debate. “I was electrified,” Ms. Warren said, adding, “If I’d been a car- toon, there would have been a lightbulb above my head.” The next morning, Ms. Warren was on the phone with Democrats, working to pull together a pro- posal that could be introduced be- fore Mr. Trump’s State of the Un- ion address. Soon, the White House was ne- gotiating directly with Mr. Scott and Ms. Warren. But the House was working on its own, far narrower, housing bill, which it passed in February with overwhelming bipartisan sup- port. The next month, the Senate passed a measure that was meant to merge the two chambers’ bills, including the new private equity
who is from El Salvador and ar- rived in the United States when he was 23. Mr. Morales was able to secure U.S. permanent residence through an American adult child four years ago. But by design, T.P.S. does not offer a direct path
move as ‘getting back to common sense.’
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piece, by a lopsided margin of 89 to 10.
Legislative ‘Ping-Pong’
Mr. Trump, with his attention fo- cused on the war in Iran, a White House ballroom and a sweeping voting restriction bill, largely ig- nored the process. But once again, House Republicans balked. Responding to a wave of criti- cism from the building industry, they said they could not accept a provision in the Senate bill that set strict limits on single-family homes built as rentals. “Now it has a fatal problem,” Mr. Hill said. Mr. Hill and Representative Maxine Waters of California, the ranking Democrat on the Finan- cial Services Committee, called for bicameral negotiations. But once again, senators refused to engage, noting the overwhelming support their measure had drawn in the otherwise polarized cham- ber. The only alternative, Mr. Hill said, was yet another round of leg- islative “Ping-Pong.” And so in May, the House passed yet an- other version of the bill that wa- tered down the private equity pro- vision. Ms. Warren saw it as cata- strophic because Senate Demo- crats would not support a bill that failed to meaningfully address pri- vate equity in the housing market. “They just ripped the heart out of it,” Ms. Warren said. “I thought,
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“It’s not about being able to re- turn to their country of origin; this is their home,” she said. “The ma- jority are fully employed, have American-born children, own homes and have businesses.” Daniel West, director of govern- ment relations for Heritage Ac- tion, the lobbying arm of the con- servative Heritage Foundation, has faulted the program and criti- cized Republicans who have sought to maintain T.P.S. “The Trump administration is right to let these overused T.P.S. programs expire as originally in- tended,” he said. The administration has not an- nounced plans to end T.P.S. for El Salvador, which expires in Sep- tember. But it tried to do so during Mr. Trump’s first term. And the administration has al- ready announced that it will ter- minate the status for most coun- tries currently covered, including Ethiopia, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Employers have already been no-
‘Oh, now we’ve lost something that really matters.’” The standoff finally broke when, over a series of phone con- versations in early June, Ms. War- ren and Ms. Waters began hash- ing out a deal to satisfy both cham- bers. “The real breakthrough came when Elizabeth Warren and I got together,” Ms. Waters said in an in- terview. “And then we got Tim Scott to say yes.” While their compromise soft- ened the build-to-rent provisions, it still targeted the private equity industry by capping at 350 the number of single-family homes an investor could own. With more than 50 provisions, the final legis- lation addressed the housing cri- sis by boosting supply, which is considered the crux of the crisis, with rules that aimed to ease fed- eral regulations, to make it easier to borrow money and to update federal programs to encourage development.
A Canceled Signing
On June 23, the House gave final approval to the bill, clearing it for Mr. Trump. Republican leaders quickly arranged for a celebratory signing ceremony the next morn- ing at the Capitol. But as industry and congressional leaders arrived at the Capitol and as Ms. Warren was being interviewed on CNBC crowing about the bill, Mr. Trump announced in a social media post that he would not sign it after all. “I thought it was a joke,” Ms. Warren said. The president singled her out in the post, referring to her with a de- risive nickname and describing the legislation as “the Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren centric housing bill, which is of minor im- portance.” Mr. Hill, walking into a news conference when he saw the social media post, took the turn of events in stride. “I play the cards as they’re dealt out on the table,” he said. “We moved on to yet another twist in the story of this legislation.” The next day, Mr. Hill and Speaker Mike Johnson went to the White House to meet with Mr. Trump. They urged him to sign the legislation and made it clear that the House had the votes to over- ride a veto. The president, Mr. Hill said, “was aware of the strengths of the feelings about that bill in both chambers.” Mr. Trump ultimately refused to sign the measure, but allowed it to become law, which it did automati- cally and without fanfare at mid- night on July 11. “I’m still disappointed he didn’t sign it,” Mr. Hill said. Three days later, Ms. Warren again went before Democratic senators at their weekly luncheon at the Capitol, this time to cele- brate the bill’s enactment. “I said, ‘Start thinking about Road 2.0,” she said, “because we’re going to do this again.’”
Some senior living centers are contending with the loss of employees affected by changes in U.S. immigration policy.
tified that the work permits of T.P.S. recipients from those coun- tries will no longer be valid. Peo- ple from El Salvador, Lebanon, Su- dan and Ukraine who received T.P.S. still have employment au- thorization. The United States has been sending one deportation flight to Haiti per month since December 2023. The last removal flight to Haiti landed in Cap Haitien, a northern city, on July 16 with more than 100 deportees. The number of flights is expected to increase significantly. Stephen Miller, an architect of Mr. Trump’s immigration agenda, was asked after the T.P.S. ruling if Haiti is safe. “For Haitians? Absolutely,” Mr. Miller said. “Haitians live in Haiti. It’s not our position that Haitians should leave Haiti. It’d be crazy for us to say that Haitians couldn’t live in Haiti. It’s their country.” Haiti has been engulfed in vio- lence since the assassination of its last elected president in 2021. Large swaths of the capital, Port- au-Prince, are controlled by gangs that have attacked, kidnapped and killed civilians, causing the in- ternal displacement of more than one million people. The country’s economy is in ruins, and interna- tional aid organizations report widespread food insecurity. In an interview, a Haitian wom- an who works as a nurse in Flor- ida and who has had T.P.S. since Haiti was first designated in 2010 said she was fearful of being forced to return to a country where she hasn’t lived in more than a decade and where, she said, she had no family. “The anxiety is indescribable,” said the woman, who has a U.S.- born toddler and who agreed to be interviewed on the condition that she not be identified because she fears she could be targeted by im- migration agents.
WASHINGTON — The deci- sion by President Trump to grant Saudi Arabia access to American nuclear technology aligns with his administration’s push to acceler- ate domestically backed nuclear power projects around the world. But it may also contribute to a major trend in Mr. Trump’s second term: allowing the government to help enrich the president, his fam- ily, advisers and others in his or- bit. There is no evidence at this point that Mr. Trump’s friends or family helped orchestrate the Saudi nuclear deal. Yet a number of the president’s allies and rela- tives, including members of his cabinet, stand to benefit if his big bet on nuclear power pays off. Certain investors with ties to these deals are positioned to prof- it, even if the delivery of large new loads of nuclear-powered elec- tricity remains years away. The overarching goal is to gen- erate more electricity as the de- mand surges worldwide, driven by a data-center building boom and growing consumer consump- tion. Investors are financing tradi- tional, large-scale nuclear power plants along with a new technical approach called small modular re- actors. Others are mining the ura- nium needed to power nuclear plants. Some others are vying to build those plants. In some cases, how the Trump family or the president’s allies could potentially gain from the president’s nuclear plans is straightforward. In others, no di- rect line can be drawn, but there are such overlapping business ties that it is hard to separate the policy decisions from the potential personal benefits. For example, Westinghouse, the Canadian-owned but U.S.- based company that developed the technology behind the AP1000, a large-scale reactor whose design has been used in China and for plans in Eastern Eu- rope, is expected to be part of the deal, according to three people fa- miliar with the matter. The majority owner of Westing- house is Brookfield Asset Man- agement, one of North America’s largest commercial real estate owners. It is a frequent business partner with Newmark, the real estate firm run and owned in part by the sons of Commerce Secre- tary Howard Lutnick. Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement that Mr. Trump’s position is about increasing electricity supply, rather than helping any compa- nies with which he or his circle might have connections. “Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, our country has seen historic advancements for civilian nuclear energy development, in- novation, and technology, which is a critical component to meet the nation’s growing energy needs while keeping prices low for fam- ilies and businesses,” she said. “The media’s continued attempts to fabricate conflicts of interest are irresponsible and reinforce the public’s distrust in what they read.” Westinghouse’s chief executive, Dan Sumner, in a statement called the Saudi deal a “landmark step” that “expands opportunities for U.S. industry and workers.” Kerrie McHugh, a Brookfield spokeswoman, said that the com- pany, with more than $1 trillion in assets, has an enormous number of business partners and “robust processes in place to manage any potential conflicts, consistent with our fiduciary responsibilities.” Officials at the Energy Depart- ment did not respond to requests for comment. Here is a look at Mr. Trump and some of those with ties to him that could benefit from his nuclear goals.
President and Relatives Trump Media & Technology Group, the money-losing com- pany that hosts Truth Social, the platform where Mr. Trump first posts most of his White House an- nouncements, has moved recently to add — incongruously — nuclear energy to its portfolio. The company announced in De- cember that it intends to merge as part of a $6 billion deal with a nu- clear fusion start-up called TAE Technologies. During Mr. Trump’s first term, and again last year, TAE won financial support from the Energy Department’s Office of Fusion Energy Science. The president’s shares in the publicly traded Trump Media are worth about $875 million as of ear- lier this month, according to other public filings. The value of those shares could grow if the TAE merger proves a success.
Nuclear Investments By Two of His Sons Separately, two of the president’s sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., in November became part owners through an invest-
President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi leader, have extensive ties.
ment partnership in a company called Quantum Leap Energy, which is working to develop cer- tain isotopes that can be used as nuclear fuel. Quantum Leap reached a deal last year with a Texas-based com- pany co-founded by Rick Perry, who was energy secretary during Mr. Trump’s first term and is now seeking federal assistance to build nuclear power plants in Texas. Mr. Perry did not respond to requests for comment. Asked about any potential con- flict of interest, a spokesman for Donald Trump Jr. said that he was working on deals that were good for the country. “Don is a lifelong businessman and investor who tends to invest in companies that align with his America First worldview,” said the spokesman, Andy Surabian. “He does not interface with any- one in the federal government on behalf of any company that he in- vests in.” Eric Trump did not respond to requests for comment.
Kushner’s Dealings With Saudi Arabia Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has a complicated rela- tionship with those involved in the recent nuclear agreement. He participated in discussions related to Saudi Arabia’s push for access to U.S. nuclear technology when he worked at the White House during Mr. Trump’s first term. He also helped establish agreements between Israel and multiple Arab countries to nor- malize their relationship, called the Abraham Accords. Now, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is one of Mr. Kushn- er’s biggest backers. The fund committed $2 billion to Mr. Kushn- er’s investment firm, Affinity Partners, shortly after he left the
White House in 2021. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, an ally during Mr. Kushner’s gov- ernment tenure, helped persuade the sovereign wealth fund to pro- vide the money. It is unclear whether Affinity will invest in Saudi’s nuclear ener- gy initiative. For now, the king- dom expects to finance the effort itself, according to an official with knowledge of its plans. On Thursday, the Trump fam- ily’s connections to all of this were on display when the president an- nounced on Truth Social that the nuclear agreement would be con- tingent on Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords.
The Cabinet The Commerce and Energy De- partments have been at the fore- front of pushing Mr. Trump’s nu- clear agenda. Both are led by sec- retaries who have either direct ties to the industry or family ones. Mr. Lutnick has been leading an effort to invest U.S. tax dollars into companies in the nuclear sector, including Westinghouse. Compa- nies his family members help run could profit. Cantor Fitzgerald, the invest- ment bank that Mr. Lutnick led un- til he was hired by Mr. Trump, is at the center. Cantor has over the last year helped several compa- nies in the nuclear sector raise money, which generates millions of dollars in fees for the firm. Among them are Oklo, Energy Fuels Inc and enCore Energy. Each is seeking permits, financial assistance or Trump administra- tion contracts for its nuclear projects. Oklo, based in Santa Clara, Calif., in 2019 became the first nu- clear power company to receive site-use permit from the Energy Department for commercial oper- ations.
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Oklo also has links to Chris Wright, the energy secretary. Mr. Wright was a director at Oklo until he joined Mr. Trump’s cabinet. That connection spurred a Demo- cratic lawmaker to complain to the White House that Oklo stood to benefit improperly from gov- ernment nuclear permits and pro- grams. Bonita Chester, Oklo’s head of communications, said in a state- ment that Mr. Wright has had “no role in Oklo’s governance” since resigning from the board. “We’ve worked with leaders across both sides of the aisle to ad- vance policies that accelerate the deployment of safe, commercially viable nuclear technology,” she added. Energy Fuels, which Cantor helped last year raise money to expand its mining efforts, dis- closed in June it is slated to get a $725 million federal loan from the Pentagon. The company — one of the top U.S. producers of natural uranium concentrate sold to nuclear plants — has noted to The Times that it began working with Cantor before Mr. Trump’s second presidency. It declined to comment. The network goes beyond these smaller nuclear companies. Westinghouse, in which the U.S. government has an option to take an equity stake, is at the fulcrum of the proposed nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, as the plan is for its government to back the construc- tion of multiple AP1000 reactors there. The Trump administration in October announced plans to part- ner with Westinghouse to build $80 billion worth of its nuclear re- actors across the United States, a deal negotiated in part by Mr. Lut- nick. “Together with Westinghouse we will unleash American energy,” Mr. Lutnick said in a statement
then. “This partnership embodies the bold vision of President Trump — to rebuild our energy sovereignty, create high-paying jobs, and drive America to the forefront of the nuclear renais- sance.” Newmark has made money over the past year by helping fi- nance billions of dollars worth of United States data center projects that were promoted by Mr. Lut- nick and Mr. Trump, as The Times previously reported. Blake Ruppe, a Commerce De- partment spokesman, said that Mr. Lutnick has complied with all requirements that he divest from his family companies. “There is no conflict of interest,” he said in a statement. “It is knowingly false to suggest otherwise.”
Thiel, a Prominent Donor Peter Thiel, a billionaire investor and entrepreneur, was an early political backer of Mr. Trump and helped Vice President JD Vance begin his political career, serving as one of the largest donors to Mr. Vance’s Senate race in 2022. Mr. Thiel is a major investor in General Matter, a U.S. nuclear fuel company focused on producing what is known as high-assay low- enriched uranium. A giant load of new nuclear fuel will be needed if all these new nuclear power plants are built, and General Mat- ter is positioned to benefit. The Energy Department in Jan- uary awarded General Matter a $900 million contract to build out its nuclear fuel effort. The U.S. Ex- port-Import Bank, where Mr. Lut- nick is a board member, also is- sued up to $4.2 billion in “letters of interest” to finance the export of General Matter’s domestically en- riched uranium to nuclear opera- tors in South Korea and Japan. Mr. Thiel did not respond to a re- quest for comment. A spokesman for General Matter said that the federal support started under the Biden administration and that the company had not engaged with Mr. Vance since he became vice president. “Our contract is 100 percent milestone based, so we don’t get paid until we fulfill our commit- ments to taxpayers,” Lee Rob- inson, a co-founder of General Matter, said in a statement.
The Tech Titans As the explosive growth of artifi- cial intelligence strains the na- tion’s power capacity, tech compa- nies are turning to nuclear energy. Among them are Amazon, Meta, Google and Microsoft — all of which have backed at least some of Mr. Trump’s energy policy goals. Each of those companies donat- ed $1 million to Mr. Trump’s 2025 inauguration, placing some of their executives — including the Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos, Meta’s chief ex- ecutive, Mark Zuckerberg, and Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai — in prominent seats at the event. The companies have supported the White House in other ways. Amazon spent $40 million to ac- quire a documentary on Melania Trump, the first lady, generating a licensing fee of more than $10 mil- lion. Amazon, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI — whose chief executive, Sam Altman, personally donated $1 million to the inauguration — have helped finance an Energy Department project called Gene- sis Mission, which will use AI to further the nation’s energy goals, among other objectives. In announcing its $60 million in- vestment in the program on July 22, Chris Barry, who runs Micro- soft’s public sector business, called Genesis Mission “exactly the kind of moonshot that defines American science.” A Microsoft spokesman declined to comment on the Saudi deal. A spokeswoman for Meta, which operates several data cen- ters overseas, declined to com- ment on whether the company might benefit from the Saudi nu- clear deal. Amazon, Google and OpenAI did not respond to re- quests for comment.
Kills Boy, 12, Biking to Buy Ball in Bronx
By CHELSIA ROSE MARCIUS and MILES G. COHEN
On Saturday afternoon in the Bronx, a 12-year-old boy was playing with his friend in the courtyard of their apartment building, swinging a baseball bat at an orange construction cone. The boy, Jacob Freytes, said they could do better than a cone. What they needed, he said, was a ball, and he decided to bike two blocks to a bodega to buy one. The friend, Simon Garcia, 14, was wary. “I said, ‘Be careful,’” said Simon on Sunday. His par- ents had warned him about walk- ing to the bodega at the corner of Walton Avenue and Elliot Place in the Mount Eden neighborhood, even when it was light outside. Still, Jacob went. Hours passed, afternoon turned to dusk, but the boy had not returned. “I was thinking, ‘Why is he tak- ing so long?’” Simon said. Just before 5 p.m., Jacob was fa- tally shot by a stray bullet outside the bodega, Wanda Deli. William Ferrer, 45, of the Bronx, was arrested and charged on Sun- day with second-degree murder in Jacob’s killing, the police said. The boy had been outside when Mr. Ferrer, who was arguing with five other people, pulled out a gun and shot into the group, according to three law enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of an- onymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly. The law enforcement officials added that Jacob was the son of a retired Bronx detective sergeant, Jesus Freytes. Mr. Ferrer is also accused of shooting a 34-year-old man in the left foot, and a 25-year-old man in the buttocks, and faces additional charges including manslaughter, attempted murder, assault and weapons possession, the police said. The two men were expected to survive. In a social media post on Sun- day, Police Commissioner Jessica
Bronx detective sergeant was shot outside a bodega.
S. Tisch wrote, “Jacob was an in- nocent bystander on his bike when he was taken from his fam- ily yesterday in an act of sense- less gun violence.” “No arrest can ever ease the pain of this unimaginable loss, but the N.Y.P.D. will continue to do ev- erything in our power to seek jus- tice for Jacob,” she wrote. A cashier at the bodega, Mani Soto, said Jacob bought a ball around 4:45 p.m. The boy thanked him and left. Moments later, Mr. Soto heard the sound of gunshots, he sad. “The kid came running in, his arm was bloody,” said Mr. Soto, 31. He heard Jacob cry out, “‘They hit me, they hit me!’” Then the boy dropped to the floor. Officers arrived just before 5 p.m. and found Jacob, who was shot in the left shoulder, the police said. Emergency medical work- ers took him to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. On Sunday, outside the bodega, pink rose petals were scattered on the sidewalk near half a dozen candles. Two blocks away, at his apart- ment building on Marcy Place, Si- mon gazed at the flickering can- dles featuring the Virgin of Guadalupe, steps away from where the boys had swung a bat the day before. About 15 other friends and fam- ily members also gathered around the candles placed under a wooden crate that served as a makeshift memorial. Among them were Jacob’s aunt and his 7- year-old sister, Luna, who drew a heart on the crate and wrote “you I luv.” At the foot of the memorial, mourners had placed a baseball, a football, a Capri-Sun drink and Ja- cob’s green Fuggler, a popular plush toy. A framed photograph of Jacob stood at the center with the words “In Loving Memory,” above his nickname, Kai. Milagro Dejesus, 58, who has lived in the building for nearly five decades, looked on as she comforted another neighbor. “He grew up with everybody else’s kids,” Ms. Dejesus said. “We all saw him grow up. All the kids here grew up as a family.” Jacob was the kind of child who would dance the Bachata with his mother and help older tenants with their groceries, Ms. Dejesus said. “Now, we don’t have him,” she said. “It’s not going be the same without him.”
On American Right Are Tiptoeing Away
This article is by Megan Twohey, Isabella Kwai, Matei Barbulescu and Alan Feuer.
Last Sunday morning, hours af- ter the manosphere influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate were ar- rested by federal agents in Miami, one of their representatives reached out to Alina Habba. Not long ago, Ms. Habba, a law- yer, was a vocal supporter of the Tate brothers as they faced allega- tions of human trafficking and other serious crimes in Romania and Britain. In a podcast appear- ance in January 2025, shortly af- ter being named a counselor to President Trump, she told An- drew Tate, “I got your back over here.” Now the brothers were in a fed- eral detention center after Britain requested their extradition for a slew of new criminal charges there. Their representative wanted to know: Was Ms. Habba free to talk? She did not respond, according to two people familiar with the outreach. It was a sign of the brothers’ eroding support among their onetime allies on the Ameri- can right. In recent years, the Tates had leveraged their enormous follow- ing of young men to cultivate sup- port among Mr. Trump’s advisers, family members and other promi- nent conservatives. Those efforts paid off last year when, feeling pressure from members of the new Trump administration, Ro- manian prosecutors lifted a travel ban on the brothers, freeing them to leave the country and jet-set around the world. But they are now facing a new level of legal jeopardy. Britain has issued 38 charges against them, including rape and sex traffick- ing; Andrew Tate was also charged with extreme pornogra- phy and indecent images of chil- dren. The brothers have denied all of the criminal accusations and called the charges politically moti- vated. The extradition request has forced the Trump administration to participate in the process: Fed- eral prosecutors are representing the British government’s case in a Miami court. Mr. Trump does not plan to in- tervene in the case, said the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, on Thursday. And many of the Tates’ allies in the presi- dent’s orbit, who were once happy to be associated with their brand of hyper-masculinity, now appear to be backing away. Ms. Habba, who is no longer in the administration but still speaks with Mr. Trump, wants nothing to do with the Tates, according to
Reporting was contributed by Mi- chael Crowley, Shawn McCreesh, David Ovalle and Ed Wong.
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Hegseth’s view of the values that military officers should embody. There was “no one more in line” with Mr. Hegseth’s vision for re- making the military, he said, ac- cording to an official familiar with the exchange. The officer cast Ad- miral Caudle as a “warfighter” who wanted to remove “woke bar- riers” that he claimed were weak- ening the force, the official said. Even though Admiral Caudle was not on a list of candidates rec- ommended by senior Navy offi- cials, Mr. Hegseth chose him for the job. But before the promotion could be finalized, the admiral needed to address another problem. There was an unresolved inspector gen- eral investigation into comments he had made to sailors about the Pentagon’s Sexual Assault Pre- vent and Response program, offi- cials said. Some interpreted his re- marks as blaming victims. To help resolve the inquiry, Ad- miral Caudle hired Timothy Parla- tore, a Navy Reservist and well- known lawyer who had repre- sented Mr. Hegseth and President Trump. Mr. Parlatore had recently been tapped by Mr. Hegseth to serve as his “special adviser” in the Pentagon. Before Admiral Caudle was a client, Mr. Parlatore had recommended him to Mr. Hegseth as a strong candidate to lead the Navy, officials said. The inspector general found the allegations of wrongdoing to be unsubstantiated, and Admiral Caudle took over as the 34th chief of naval operations last summer. His path to that position is a case study in how the military pro- motion process at the Pentagon under Mr. Hegseth has deviated from tradition, leaving it suscepti- ble in the view of critics to politici- zation and favoritism. Since taking office nearly 18 months ago, Mr. Hegseth has fired or sidelined more than two dozen senior officers, including Admiral
people familiar with her thinking. Paul Ingrassia, the acting gen- eral counsel of the General Serv- ices Administration, who previ- ously served on the Tates’ legal team and has lavished praise on Andrew, wrote a post on X shortly after the arrests criticizing “politi- cally driven prosecutions.” In a call with The New York Times on Thursday, Mr. Ingrassia said the post was simply articulating his beliefs about the Constitution. Asked if he still supported the Tates, he said, “I have no ongoing connection to them now.” Donald Trump Jr., who once called Andrew Tate a friend and publicly defended him against previous criminal allegations, has said nothing about the arrests. Neither has his younger brother Barron Trump, who had also been friendly with Andrew. Candace Owens, a conservative commen- tator who backed both brothers on her popular show, has also stayed silent. Privately, people close to Don- ald Jr. have played down his rela- tionship with the Tates; one per- son said he had not spoken with anyone in the administration about their arrests. Asked by The Times about his retweeting of Tristan Tate last Sat- urday, Roger Stone, a prominent Republican operative, said he did so before the news of their arrests. And Paolo Zampolli, a special en- voy for Mr. Trump who had hosted the Tates at a party in Washington two days before the arrests, said he hadn’t realized the extent of the allegations against them. “I didn’t know they were arrest material,” Mr. Zampolli said in an interview. Not everyone is pulling back from the brothers. Representative Abe Hamadeh, Republican of Ari- zona, spoke out against their ex- tradition, writing on social media that “political lawfare is danger- ous.” The conservative media star Tucker Carlson, who has con- ducted sympathetic interviews of the Tates, told The Times, without evidence, that he believed their arrests were related to their out- spoken criticism of Israel. “After decades of ignoring grooming gangs and covering for Jeffrey Epstein, the British and American governments seemed to have lost interest in prosecut- ing sex crimes,” Mr. Carlson said. “Then the Tate brothers criticized Israel, and I was reminded that under certain circumstances they’re willing to act.” Joseph McBride, a longtime lawyer for the Tates, disputed that their support had eroded. He said he was not surprised that any Trump official who had previously backed the brothers was now tak- ing a more neutral stance given the administration’s role in the le- gal case. Mr. McBride said the Tates were focused on fighting the ex- tradition request in court rather than seeking help from Mr. Trump’s circle. He said he was un- aware that a representative for the Tates had contacted Ms.
Lisa Franchetti, who held the top Navy job before Admiral Caudle. He has also removed from promo- tion lists about 40 senior officers who had been selected by boards made up of their peers. Mr. Hegseth has insisted that his actions were necessary to root out those he has described as radi- cal ideologues. “The left captured the military quickly, and we must reclaim it at a faster pace,” he wrote in his 2024 book, “The War on Warriors.” “We must wage a frontal assault, a swift counter- attack, in broad daylight.” Admiral Caudle’s promotion is a view into the flip side of Mr. Hegseth’s purge. Before the defense secretary had even taken office, he had pub- licly singled out Admiral Franchetti as someone he be- lieved had been promoted solely because of her gender. She knew that if Mr. Hegseth was confirmed, she would likely be fired. In December 2024, Admiral Franchetti called together the Navy’s four-star admirals to dis- cuss potential replacements, offi- cials said. She reminded them that their most important job in the coming weeks was to put the Navy’s integ- rity and its reputation as an apolit- ical institution ahead of their am- bitions, according to people famil- iar with the meeting. Admiral Caudle was in the room that day, and around the same time was also privately offering to help Mr. Hegseth prepare for his confirmation hearing, defense of- ficials said. Capt. Dave Hecht, a spokesman for Admiral Caudle, said in a state- ment to The New York Times that the admiral planned to limit his discussion with Mr. Hegseth to “factual, operational matters.” He said that Admiral Caudle’s interactions with Mr. Hegseth al- ways focused on military, not po- litical, issues. “Adm. Caudle has consistently conducted himself in a professional, nonpartisan man- ner throughout his career,” Cap-
Habba. “There’s no reason at this point for Trump to parachute in from Air Force One to the courtroom, because we think we’ll win in court,” Mr. McBride said. In recent years, there has been only one instance in which the United States has refused an ex- tradition request from Britain. The Tates, who have American and British citizenship, made their fortunes by running an on- line pornography business, first in Britain and then Romania, and by selling online courses to young
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti and replaced her with Adm. Daryl Caudle, right, even though his name was not included on a list of recommended candidates.
tain Hecht’s statement added. A Pentagon directive counsels active-duty troops to avoid “parti- san political activity.” After Mr. Hegseth fired Admiral Franchetti, senior Navy officials, led by the service’s acting secre- tary, assembled a list of the three officers they believed were best qualified to fill her position. Admi- ral Caudle was not on it. Navy leaders thought he was better suited to lead the U.S. Strategic Command, which oversees the country’s nuclear arsenal, the offi- cials said. Mr. Hegseth reviewed the Navy’s list in a meeting with sen- ior staff members. “Where’s Caudle?” he asked, according to officials with knowl- edge of the meeting. Mr. Hegseth’s chief of staff said he was not familiar with the admi- ral. Mr. Hegseth instructed him to discuss the matter with Mr. Parla- tore, officials said. Mr. Parlatore, who had left the Navy a decade earlier, had re- cently been commissioned by Mr. Hegseth as a Navy reservist and member of the Navy’s Judge Ad- vocate General’s Corps.
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men. One offering was called P.H.D., for “Pimping Hoes De- gree.” Romania began its investiga- tion into the brothers in 2022. Two years later, prosecutors in Britain charged the brothers with rape, sexual assault and human traf- ficking. The two countries agreed that Britain would wait to extra- dite the Tates until the Romanian criminal investigation was done, but that case has suffered major setbacks. Since their release from Roma- nia in February 2025, the Tates
As a civilian attorney, he had represented naval officers and sailors in a series of high-profile cases. His clients included Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, a Navy SEAL who in 2019 was charged with killing a wounded prisoner in Iraq. Chief Gallagher was ultimately acquitted of nearly all the charges against him. Mr. Parlatore also helped Mr. Hegseth negotiate a $50,000 set- tlement with a woman who had accused him of raping her in 2017. And he had represented Mr. Trump in matters related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol and classified documents found at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Mr. Parlatore had not met Ad- miral Caudle, but told Mr. Hegseth that he had heard good things about him, officials said. Other staff members recalled Admiral Caudle’s eager outreach during Mr. Hegseth’s confirmation process. In late March, Mr. Hegseth se- lected Admiral Caudle to lead the Navy. In a statement, Sean Par- nell, the chief Pentagon spokes- man, said that Mr. Hegseth “inter- viewed many candidates for the
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Andrew Tate, right, and Tris- tan Tate in Bucharest, Roma- nia, in 2025. Alina Habba, left, a lawyer and former Trump adviser, once told Andrew Tate in a podcast, “I got your back over here.” She has since backed away. Tucker Carlson, below, has conducted sympa- thetic interviews of the Tates.
had been living large, spending time in the United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong and Rus- sia. During a January visit to Mi- ami, they made headlines when a video circulated of them partying at a club with Nicholas J. Fuentes and other far-right influencers while the song “Heil Hitler” by the rapper formerly known as Kanye West blasted from speakers. They did not go to Britain, where they faced not only the 2024 criminal charges but continuing investigations into other accusa- tions. In March, a police watchdog group said it was reviewing poten- tial misconduct by the officers who had originally investigated rape and sexual assault allega- tions against Andrew Tate from 2015. Shortly after, the British po- lice reopened that investigation. Last year, after the Tates visited Florida, the state’s attorney gen- eral, James Uthmeier, opened an investigation of the brothers. His office also sent an email to Matthew Jury, a lawyer who rep- resents several Tate accusers in Britain, promising to assist if Brit- ain ordered their extradition, as first reported by The Times of London. Mr. Jury’s law firm passed the message onto the home secretary through an intermediary but did not receive a response, according to a person familiar with the com- munication. As recently as June, the firm wrote letters to Prime Minister Keir Starmer criticizing the government’s inaction over extradition, according to The Tele-
position and ultimately found Ad- miral Caudle to be the right fit.” “Every decision is based strictly on merit,” Mr. Parnell add- ed. Before Admiral Caudle’s nomi- nation could be sent to the White House, the inspector general had to complete its investigation, which had languished for more than a year. Sailors recalled Admi- ral Caudle telling them in an infor- mal conversation at an awards banquet that the Pentagon’s Sexu- al Assault Prevention and Re- sponse program needed to focus more on helping troops avoid risky behavior. According to the sailors, Admi- ral Caudle offered examples: If he strode naked through the forest, coated in honey, he should not be surprised if he were attacked by a bear, officials said. If he wore gold chains and a fancy watch on a visit to Harlem, he risked getting robbed. At least one sailor be- lieved Admiral Caudle was blam- ing assault victims for provoking their attacks. The admiral declined to com- ment on his remarks. In an interview with The New York Times, Mr. Parlatore de- scribed his work on behalf of Mr. Caudle as routine. He identified and suggested witnesses to the in- spector general, and accompa- nied Admiral Caudle to his inter- view with investigators. “The same thing I have done for hun- dreds of others,” he said. The inspector general’s job, like a prosecutor’s, is to collect evi- dence and offer findings. A deci- sion to punish is made by the serv- ice member’s chain of command, which includes the Navy secre- tary and potentially Mr. Hegseth. Admiral Caudle took command as the chief of naval operations last summer. “I’m chomping at the bit to get after the work that lies ahead to ensure that our Navy remains and forever will be the most dominant, lethal and credible maritime fight- ing force the world has ever
graph. That month, prosecutors in Britain, including one who spe- cializes in cases involving child sexual images, successfully fought an effort by the brothers asking the court to disclose the names of the women in the origi- nal criminal charges. The Tates were arrested last Saturday evening as they arrived at a bare-knuckle-boxing event that Andrew was supposed to co- host. British prosecutors said the charges stemmed from incidents that happened between July 2010 and August 2017 but did not dis- close names or other identifying details. In the days before the arrests, the brothers had been posting on social media from Washington, where they were photographed with Representative Wesley Hunt, Republican of Texas, and partied with Mr. Zampolli. Mr. McBride said in a statement last Saturday that the extradition request was approved by a “low- level functionary at the Justice Department who never got ap- proval from leadership.” But higher-ups in the agency did sign off on the arrests, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to discuss it. The Tates will remain behind bars in Florida as a federal judge considers whether Britain has met the legal threshold for extra- dition, a process that could take months. If the judge signs off on the extradition request, it will then go to Secretary of State Marco Rubio for final approval. Asked about the request while traveling in Manila on Wednes- day, Mr. Rubio said that while the matter is considered by the judge, “there’s no role for us to play at this moment or maybe ever.” Lauren Southern, a former con- servative influencer who has ac- cused Andrew Tate of raping her in Romania and provided testi- mony to Romanian authorities, was among those who celebrated news of the extradition request. “It’s been a really wonderful weekend for those of us who are rooting for justice,” she told The Times. “Now there’s a reckoning and suddenly everyone wants to pretend they had nothing to do with building this beast.” It is unclear where the Roma- nian criminal case against the brothers is headed and how it may be affected by the extradition re- quest. The country’s foreign min- ister said she had not been in- formed about it ahead of time. A spokeswoman for Romanian pros- ecutors did not comment. The Trump administration’s willingness to honor the request is fueling rifts on the American right, as Mr. Carlson, Mr. Fuentes and others seek to frame it within broader political talking points. More traditional conservatives, like Ben Shapiro, are accusing the Tates’ allies of embracing misogy- ny and criminal behavior. “The conservative movement should cast them aside now, just as it should have years ago,” Mr. Shapiro told The Times.
known,” he told a crowd of digni- taries that included several for- mer chiefs of naval operations, in- cluding Admiral Franchetti. He closed his speech with a pledge to lead the Navy with “in- tegrity, honor and resolve.” Since then, Mr. Parlatore’s dual role as a private lawyer and spe- cial adviser to Mr. Hegseth has sparked concern in Congress. In April, Representative Jason Crow, Democrat of Colorado, asked Mr. Hegseth if Mr. Parlatore repre- sented officers being considered by Mr. Hegseth for promotions. “I’m the one that makes deci- sions about choosing senior offi- cers,” Mr. Hegseth said. “Does he represent them, Mr. Secretary?” Mr. Crow pressed. “He doesn’t represent anyone,” Mr. Hegseth replied. “He’s a legal adviser to me on reserve duty, and always has been.” The next day, Mr. Parlatore sent Mr. Crow a letter. “You asked whether I represent senior military officers under con- sideration for promotion,” Mr. Par- latore wrote. “I do not.” He did not mention his earlier work for Admiral Caudle. At the time of the letter, Mr. Parlatore said, he was not representing cli- ents being considered for promo- tions. Mr. Parlatore said that there was nothing preventing him from working as a Navy reservist in Mr. Hegseth’s office and representing military clients. “The vast major- ity of military cases, if I wanted to do them, there would be no con- flict of interest,” he said. Mr. Parnell, the Pentagon spokesman, said that Mr. Parla- tore was “in full compliance with all ethics laws and regulations.” Still, to avoid any appearance of impropriety, Mr. Parlatore told The Times that in late 2024, he stopped taking new military cli- ents and ceased charging earlier clients with active cases. The sole exception, he said, was Admiral Caudle.
Deteriorate as Money Becomes a Problem
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The Democratic National Com- mittee declined to comment on the incident. Mr. Martin declined an interview request. Roger Lau, the executive director of the D.N.C., said in a statement that the bill-deferral discussions were “nothing more than standard ne- gotiations with vendors over con- tracts and payment processes.” Around the office and beyond, Mr. Martin has taken to making macabre jokes to colleagues about how long he will remain in his post, even though his term does not end until 2029. He is frus- trated with the tarnished public image of a party that he plainly loves and has devoted his life to — and that remains bullish about November given President Trump’s low approval ratings. But the Democratic Party and its allies are far behind Republi- cans when it comes to money. Mr. Trump controls a $400 million su- per PAC, and the Republican Na- tional Committee is sitting on nearly $130 million. Mr. Martin’s D.N.C. is $2 million in debt. The committee’s role is not just to help Democrats win back power in the midterms, but also to lead the party into the 2028 presi- dential race, including by over- seeing a new primary calendar while organizing debates and a national convention. Even supporters acknowledge Mr. Martin’s growing sense of paranoia. He confronted the par- ty’s finance director this spring over what he thought was a bud- ding coup. And before he met with the top congressional Democrats, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York and Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, in mid-July, assurances were given to an ally of Mr. Martin’s that the two party leaders did not plan to use the gathering to call for the chair- man’s resignation. Mr. Martin was elected last February to a four-year term by the roughly 450 members of the D.N.C., and only a vote of the membership itself could push him out. Trust in Mr. Martin — among both donors and party officials — was sapped by his handling of a long-promised autopsy of the 2024 election. Late last year, he said he would not release the doc- ument. But as criticism mounted, he relented in May and released an incomplete draft that featured searing annotations from the D.N.C. that undermined the re- port. In public, Mr. Martin has all but disappeared as a face of the party on television ever since a fum- bling April appearance on the lib- eral podcast Pod Save America, when he faced questions about why he had not released the au- topsy. His lone television inter- view in recent months was on lo- cal news in Erie, Pa. Now, Mr. Martin is both para- lyzed by the idea of leaks and sur- rounded by them. During a May meeting with the full staff of the D.N.C. days after the draft autop- sy’s release, he admitted that times were tough and chided the team for revealing to reporters what was happening inside party headquarters. “It pisses me off when I see leaks out of this building,” Mr. Martin said, according to four people who heard the remarks, adding, “No more.” Mr. Martin said he saw “a lot of
Of Mail Voting Is Upheld
By ADAM SELLA
WASHINGTON — An appeals court on Saturday upheld a lower- court ruling blocking key parts of an executive order from President Trump to restrict voting by mail, the latest setback to his efforts to wrest control over elections as Re- publicans try to protect slim con- gressional majorities in an un- friendly political environment. In a 20-page ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Cir- cuit wrote that Mr. Trump’s order “directs unprecedented levels of involvement by federal officials in how states administer elections.” If the order took effect in the midterm elections this November, “it would sow confusion and threaten disenfranchisement of many eligible voters,” the court ruled. The Constitution grants author- ity over elections to states and Congress, not to the executive branch. But Mr. Trump has waged a yearslong campaign against vot-
down faces” and “people hanging their heads.” He urged: “Keep your head up. Keep a smile on your face.” “My success is your success,” he added at another point in the meeting. “So the weaker I am, the weaker all of you are.” Mr. Martin has not addressed the entire party staff since. Last week, he personally drafted an essay of more than 3,000 words defending the state of the D.N.C.’s finances. He held the essay closely, and it was posted jointly by the party and his per- sonal Substack, under the @ken- martin287890 handle, just after 10 p.m. on Monday. “We must measure success by power built, not simply dollars re- tained,” he wrote.
Cash Crunch
None of the party’s problems are more acute than money. For more than a decade, the D.N.C. has transferred millions of dollars every election to sister committees responsible for win- ning the House and Senate. But the national party is now so short on cash — even after taking out a $15 million loan last year — that officials have privately conveyed to congressional leadership that there will be no such transfers in 2026. The main topic of the meeting this month with Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries, along with their top aides and the chairs of the two congressional campaign arms, was forming a huge new shared fund-raising account across the three national committees — and state parties across the country. Even as the political envi- ronment has eroded for Republi- cans, money remains a serious concern for Democrats. Republi- can Party committees are far more flush than Democratic ones — just as a recent Supreme Court ruling made party cash more im- portant by lifting restrictions on how parties can coordinate with campaigns. Inside the room, Mr. Martin de- scribed a proposal in which much of the cash raised through this mega committee — which would include state parties nationwide — would be routed first through his committee before being dis- tributed to the congressional party arms. At least some involved saw the move as a bid to inflate the fund- raising figures of Mr. Martin’s struggling committee — and to take credit for cash transfers he could not otherwise afford. Mr. Martin offered to do what- ever was helpful, though the group left without an agreement. The meeting, which has not been previously reported, was de- scribed by five people, including some in the room, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to dis- cuss a private gathering. New financial reports released last week revealed the depth of the D.N.C.’s financial hole. The party is $2 million in debt, while the Republican National Commit- tee has $128.5 million in cash on hand. The party that holds the White House almost always raises more money into its party coffers, but this year’s chasm is extraordinarily large. Ahead of the D.N.C.’s July re- port, there were signs of trying to brighten the appearance of the books. The committee, for in- stance, transferred $1 million
ing by mail, signing executive or- ders, supporting court challenges and promoting legislation to cur- tail the option, which the presi- dent himself uses. Courts have blocked many of these attempts. Mr. Trump has also repeatedly made unfounded claims that mail voting is rife with fraud, even as he has made clear that restricting the practice would be a boon for his party. The ruling comes after more than 20 Democratic attorneys general challenged an executive order Mr. Trump signed in March targeting mail voting. The order called on the Department of Homeland Security to compile state-by-state lists of citizens to help determine voter eligibility, and called on the Postal Service to verify voters based on the lists provided by the states. In June, the Postal Service com- plied with the order, releasing a proposed rule consistent with many of Mr. Trump’s demands. The ruling by Judge Gustavo A. Gelpí and Judge Julie Rikelman,
The 2024 Democratic National Convention. Leaders recently transferred $1 million for the 2028 convention back to the party.
from an account dedicated to the 2028 national convention back to the party. Some of the problems are a hangover from 2024. While Vice President Kamala Harris raised record sums that year, her loss left many big Democratic donors dis- illusioned with the party. Her campaign also had millions in debt that the D.N.C. spent much of last year paying off, with Ms. Har- ris’s help. Last fall, Mr. Martin sent $3 mil- lion each to Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey for their gover- nor’s races, betting that victories would reinvigorate fund-raising for the D.N.C. The $15 million loan was timed to allow those trans- fers. The D.N.C. has since paid more than $700,000 in interest on that loan, averaging more than $75,000 per month, federal records show. Party officials are now reckoning with the fact that they must begin to repay $1.66 million of the loan’s principal per month starting in January, ac- cording to the loan’s terms. “Ken needs help — H-E-L-P,” said Donna Brazile, a veteran D.N.C. member who has twice served as acting party chair. “And if he’s reluctant to say it, I’m here to help him ask. It’s hard. It’s very difficult.”
Tense Talks
The same day that Mr. Martin spoke at the all-staff meeting in May, he urgently tried to get in touch with the party’s finance chairman, Chris Korge. Mr. Korge had been speaking with other senior party officers about a potential emergency meeting to discuss the party’s sagging finances. Hearing about the calls, Mr. Martin seemed to fear that a coup was afoot. They connected late one Tues- day night. “It started off extremely heated,” Mr. Korge recalled of their conversation. “Because he came into that call thinking my in- tention was motivated to take some sort of action to remove him, and that was the furthest thing from the truth.” Word of the confrontation, which has not previously been re- ported, spread across the senior ranks of the party. Mr. Korge now describes it as simply “a family fight” that was resolved amicably by the end of the call. “I have be- lieved in Ken’s priorities from Day 1 for the party,” he said. The meeting of top party offi- cers that Mr. Korge had wanted took place in Pittsburgh in June. There, they were presented for the first time with nondisclosure agreements, which Axios has pre-
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viously reported. The NDAs were yet another sign of Mr. Martin’s narrowing cir- cle of trust.
Strategy Doubts
Before Mr. Martin ascended to the national party chairmanship in early 2025, he had served for 14 years as the head of the Minne- sota Democrats, during which time his party never lost a state- wide race. Inside the D.N.C., he led the state party chairs group. The alli- ances he forged there helped him overcome opposition from promi- nent Democrats in Washington, including Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries, to win the national party post. Mr. Martin knew the new job would be hard, frequently making a joke comparing his role to a fire hydrant and everyone else to a dog. But Mr. Martin believes deeply in handing money and relinquish- ing power to the states. He in- creased their monthly allotments from the national party, especially in red states, and last year sent an extra $100,000 to Mississippi Democrats before a special elec- tion that broke a legislative Re- publican supermajority. “We were able to — with the ex-
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Since taking the helm of the Democratic National Commit- tee, Ken Martin, left, has strug- gled to raise money. The D.N.C. spent much of last year paying off debt from Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.
tra help our candidates needed — get over the finish line,” said Mikel Bolden, the executive director of the Mississippi Democratic Party, crediting Mr. Martin. Mr. Martin and his allies fre- quently note that fund-raising has been stronger than the last time the party was out of power in 2018. But some Democrats, both in- side and outside the committee, are questioning where exactly all the money has gone. The single biggest expense in the Martin era was $7.3 million to buy the remnants of Ms. Harris’s campaign list from her failed 2024 bid. Ms. Harris’s political action committee used the money to cover additional remaining debts. Mr. Martin’s pledge to increase monthly handouts to state parties has been the centerpiece of his spending agenda. But his inclu- sion of the territories has caused consternation. Spending from the D.N.C. and an affiliated fund-raising commit- tee for Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Marianas, the Virgin Is- lands and American Samoa has reached about $840,000 since the beginning of last year, federal records show — far more than in the past. None of those territories will have any impact on control of Congress.
Ballots being sorted at the processing center in the City of Industry, Calif., during a special election last year.
the states could sue before the or- der goes into effect. The states ar- gued that they had already had to divert resources in reaction to the order. The government countered that their response was prema- ture. A federal judge in Washington initially declined to halt the execu- tive order in May because it had not been carried out, but a federal judge in Massachusetts later blocked the order as the adminis- tration moved to put it into effect. The appeals court similarly wrote that the government’s ac- knowledgment that it had moved ahead with Mr. Trump’s directives undermined its arguments that the states claimed legal harm pre- maturely. Lawyers representing the gov- ernment said in recent court fil- ings that they may challenge the appals court’s ruling at the Su- preme Court.
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Joby Warrick A former Washington Post national security reporter and the author of the forthcoming book “The Jackal.”
E’S an old man now, his face wizened and his world limited to a cell in a for- mer convent that serves as one of France’s maximum-security prisons. He repeats himself and strains to remember details, yet a few names — people who be- trayed him or insulted his manhood — still evoke the old rage. “I should have killed a few more people,” Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the man known pop- ularly as Carlos the Jackal, muttered to me as we sat inches apart in a guarded visitors lounge in the prison, outside Paris. The infa- mous terrorist, whose crimes and extrava- gant lifestyle inspired dozens of books and Hollywood films, now spends his days remi- niscing about old conquests. Yet the type of terrorism that was his signature brand is having a remarkable resurgence, and Americans are nowhere near prepared to deal with it. The emerging threat, unlike the one that was posed by Al Qaeda, is little concerned with ideology or religious zealotry. Instead, like Mr. Ramírez in his prime, it is transac- tional: covertly arranged acts of mayhem carried out by criminals on behalf of govern- ments seeking to harm their geopolitical en- emies. In the 2026 version of terrorism for hire, modern-day Carloses use encrypted social media platforms to sign up for what some are calling the violent gig economy. Evidence gathered by Western law en- forcement agencies points to an explosion of such cases, nearly all linked to Russia or Iran. Since 2022 — after Moscow’s full-scale Ukraine invasion, and amid the conflicts spawned by Hamas’s 2023 terrorist attack against Israel — investigators have identi- fied nearly 300 outsourced operations in Eu- rope, Asia and North America by independ- ent operators believed to have been re- cruited by Russian or Iranian security services. The crimes range from arson attacks aimed at Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain this past spring to synagogue bomb- ings and attempted assassinations of jour- nalists, dissidents, Jewish community lead- ers and politicians. Among the notorious re- cent cases was a startling plot against the New York-based Iranian activist Masih Alinejad: The would-be hit man, a Brooklyn pipe fitter and convicted murderer who was among several linked to the assassination attempt, was recruited for the job by an Ira- nian agent he met in prison. Such criminals now make up the majority of the perpetrators in Iranian- and Russian- sponsored attacks, according to data col- lected by the Soufan Center, a New York nonprofit that researches security threats. Many of the recruits are what experts call disposables: petty criminals who can be hired for a few hundred dollars. But others are professionals — Russian mobsters, cybercriminals, drug cartel members and human traffickers. Like Mr. Ramírez in his heyday, they are armed, experienced and
John McWhorter An Opinion writer and an associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University.
ORE New Yorkers of late are calling the Bronx just “Bronx,” and some people think it’s a mistake. But the very name “the Bronx” has always been a mistake itself. And lan- guage is chock-full of mistakes we don’t even know we’re making. The Bronx is named after a European landowner named Jonas Bronck. As com- mon memory of Bronck faded, people started hearing “Bronck’s River” as just Broncks, not referring to a person whom the river was named after. As such, it felt right to say “the Broncks River.” Then this was shortened to “the Broncks — now spelled “the Bronx.” Great, but technically this is a flub. It’s as if the area had been named after someone named York and we today called it “the Yorks” or even “the Yorx.” Language is like this, and another exam- ple is people saying “West Village” instead of “the West Village.” This gets under peo- ple’s skin, too, but again, it’s how language changes. There was a time when Greenwich Vil- lage truly was a village, one of many dis- tricts in Manhattan hewed out of the marsh- land that it originally was. But today, the “village” in Greenwich Village refers to no actual village. We pronounce the word “vil- lage” perceiving no meaning connected to the actual place. Sixth Avenue has no more of the village or hamlet about it than my childhood neighborhood in Philadelphia, Mount Airy, evokes a sense of altitude sick- ness or oxygen deprivation. Rather, “village” is a vibe, an atmosphere, a style (like my beloved Mount Airy!). It was natural that the West Village would lose its “the” because we perceive not that there is a village that we are in the western half of, but that we are in the western part of Vil- lage, above which is Chelsea and below which is SoHo. The question would be why people started calling it “West Village” once the place was no longer anything like a village.
of mercenary terrorists is re-emerging.
“West Village” isn’t new. When I lived in New York for a spell in the 1980s, I clearly recall calling it “West Village” more often than not. Speaker A: “Where is Jason?” Speaker B: “Somewhere in West Village.” I also would never have said “the East Vil- lage” at all. Back then, “East Village” was a unique and especially vibrant cultural scene, which one would hardly refer to as “the” eastern segment of some village. Consistency is an issue on this as well. If “West Village” is such a barbarism, then why are we so comfortable calling the Queens neighborhood “Middle Village”? No one clears his throat and chirps, “Why, we’re moving to the Middle Village!” When people
adept at operating in the shadows. “It really is back to the future — a varia- tion on the kind of terrorism that Carlos practiced,” said Matthew Levitt, a former Treasury Department counterterrorism of- ficial who has tracked hundreds of Iranian- linked cases as a researcher for the Wash- ington Institute for Near East Policy, a think tank. “It’s how these countries can reach out and touch adversaries in a way that doesn’t boomerang back on them.” Mr. Ramírez’s story is instructive in un- derstanding how mercenary terrorists have been used in the past, and why the global threat is re-emerging now. A native Vene- zuelan, he was a Marxist whose first terror- ist forays were on behalf of Palestinian mili- tants. Later, he became an international mercenary, killing and maiming his way
across Europe and the Middle East on be- half of a shifting array of powerful clients. By the late 1970s, he was the most famous terrorist in the world, a violent and enig- matic figure whose pursuit of luxury and beautiful women made him a tabloid star, and then the template for villains in novels and films including Robert Ludlum’s “Bourne Identity” series, Tom Clancy’s “Rainbow Six” and the director Christian Duguay’s spy thriller “The Assignment.” Mr. Ramírez’s later criminal career was a study in state-sponsored terrorism. Today’s spook-gangster nexus — a term coined by the International Center for Counterterror- ism in The Hague to describe the relation between the criminal underworld and Rus-
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occasionally call it that, it sounds off. West Village! As someone who keeps food separate on his plate and likes things tidy, I get that peo- ple want language to make sense. But it just doesn’t. You have to allow the car to get dings. Dutch place names are a mess in many ways. A word for “river” in Dutch is “kill.” A major river in Philadelphia is the Schuylkill River. That name technically means “the hidden river river.” And let’s not even get into how “Schuylkill” is pro- nounced. It is a mark of a native Philadel- phian that one knows that it is pronounced “SKOO-kul,” which is not even how the
language to make sense. But it just doesn’t.
sian intelligence agencies — hews to the model he pioneered in key ways. First, for countries that employ them, pro- fessional criminal networks function as an off-the-shelf private army. Mr. Ramírez pos- sessed a huge arsenal of guns and explo- sives and scores of forged passports that al- lowed him to slip across borders undetected. The well-armed gangs employed by Mos- cow and Tehran likewise are built for terror- ism and are also adept at using encrypted communication and cryptocurrency to elude police. The list of contract killers employed by Iran includes members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang and the international drug kingpin Naji Sharifi Zindashti, who U.S. offi- cials say operates under Iranian protection. With a reputation for both opulence and vio-
lence, Mr. Zindashti has invited comparisons with Mr. Ramírez because of his insistence on a “life of luxury” while carrying out “heinous operations on the government’s behalf,” as one Treasury Department report put it. Using criminal networks also offers the benefit of plausible deniability. Mr. Ramírez’s services were prized by Middle East autocra- cies — Syria, Iraq and Libya were among his employers and supporters — because they could secretly use him to terrorize their ene- mies with minimal risk of reprisals. Russia and Iran appear to have hit on a similar for- mula. In recent years, both have shown reluc- tance to use their own agents or closely allied proxy forces for attacks on Western soil, be- cause of the threat of sanctions and other pu-
nitive measures. By using criminal gangs, Moscow and Iran can achieve the same re- sults with far less risk. From the evidence so far, mercenary ter- rorists seem to be used mainly to silence or intimidate regime critics — a service Mr. Ramírez also frequently performed in his day. Some of the Jackal’s most notorious attacks, such as his 1981 bombing of Radio Free Eu- rope’s studios in Munich, were aimed at jour- nalists and dissidents whose criticism infuri- ated his powerful clients. Tehran, in particu- lar, appears to be following the same play- book. In addition to backing the assassination at- tempt against Ms. Alinejad, Iran has repeat- edly hired criminal gangs to go after activists and journalists in Europe. Among the recent high-profile victims was Pouria Zeraati, a journalist with the anti-regime Saudi-funded Persian-language broadcaster Iran Interna- tional, who was badly wounded in a stabbing outside his London home. British prosecutors charged a pair of Romanians who were be- lieved to have been recruited by Iran. The evidence so far suggests that both Iran and Russia are exercising caution. Up to now, most attacks have been modest in scope: an assault on a single individual, a bombing us- ing limited amounts of explosives. But both countries appear to be experimenting with the model, testing an array of collaborators and a variety of weapons, including, in recent months, drones, cyberattacks and explosive devices smuggled onto planes. The scores of incidents have also recon- firmed something Mr. Ramírez discovered decades ago. If the goal is to covertly attack a powerful enemy without leaving finger- prints, outsourced terrorism offers clear ad- vantages. As a tool, it is, as Soufan Center analysis concluded, “cheap, deniable, decen- tralized and asymmetric,” and able to be de- ployed almost anywhere. Preventing such attacks requires not only a high degree of vigilance, but also alliances: extensive networking with foreign counter- terrorism agencies, as occurred in the wake of Al Qaeda’s attacks in 2001. Such coopera- tion appears to be on the wane in the Trump era. The U.S. intelligence community contin- ues to shed numerous experienced analysts, as the administration shifts its focus to illegal immigration and a mostly fruitless search for left-wing antifa cells and voter fraud. Western governments were utterly unpre- pared when Mr. Ramírez and others of his generation introduced frightening new forms of terrorism decades ago. His earliest crimes were also modest — mainly because his em- ployers weren’t yet convinced that he could be trusted. His first attacks included an at- tempted assassination of a Jewish business- man in London, and the lobbing of a single grenade into a shopping center. The following year, he was shooting rockets at passenger planes. His ambitions continued to soar. Most chill- ingly, in the early 1980s, the Jackal facilitated an attack on a French nuclear power plant that damaged a reactor building. No radia- tion was released because the plant was not yet operational, but Mr. Ramírez described the attack as a warning. “We have the means to do it,” he said. “It’s as simple as that.”
word would be pronounced in Dutch. Joan of Arc’s name is a mistranslation. Her surname was probably “Darc,” which somewhere along the line was interpreted as being “d’Arc,” with an apostrophe, such that it would mean “of Arc.” But that last name was spelled in various ways in docu- ments, almost never with an apostrophe. And Joan was not born in a town called Arc, nor was her father, nor is anyone quite sure just which geographical “Arc” is at issue. Joan of Arc was really, in terms of how we would spell it in English, Joan Dark. Who among us wants us to switch to that? The word “female” is a mistake. English got it from the Old French as “femelle.” That seemed to some as if it was related to “male,” and hence the goofy “fe-male.” The word would otherwise have come out as something like “FEH-mul.” We say “dee” for the letter D, “djee” for the letter G, but then for H, “aitch.” Why no H sound at the beginning, and why the “ch” at the end? It was based on a mistake. In Latin, H was “ha,” and K as “ka” came after it. People reciting the alphabet would say “ha, ka, el . . . .” But Latin didn’t really need the K, because C did its job. (Caesar was pronounced “KIGH-sar.”) So people started thinking of “ha, ka” as referring just to H and saying “haka.” Heavy usage transforms pronunciation. “Haka” dropped the “H” at the start like Eliza Doolittle was taught out of in her “Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire” exer- cise — “aka.” Then the K changed to a “ch” — “ahcha” — and the A at the end dropped off — “ahch.” Then the “ah” changed to “ay” and hence “aitch”! We should really be call- ing H something like “hay.” But hey, we don’t — and the world keeps spinning. Bronx, West Village — we just need to sit back and let it happen. So much of what we say now either started as a flub or trans- formed along with changes in perception. As long as language is making us aware of what others mean, it’s doing its job. Not that it always does — communication can be hard and we need to work on doing it better, especially these days. On our agenda, people saying “Bronx” ought to be distinctly low.
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JoAnna Novak A professor of creative writing and the author of the newsletter How to Watch TV With Your Kid.
HEN I heard that Netflix was re- booting “Little House on the Prairie,” I was hopeful, if a little wary. Though I’d never watched the original TV show, I’d grown up so besot- ted by Laura Ingalls Wilder’s novels that not only had I read them all but I even owned the supplemental “The Little House Cook- book,” by Barbara M. Walker. I paged through frontier recipes for fried salt pork and gravy with the same longing I experi- enced when reading Wilder’s prose: the wish to be transported. Tuning in to the new Netflix offering a few weeks after giving birth to my second son, I suppose I once again had that hope. The new “Little House” isn’t exactly transporting, and that’s why I feel a little disappointed. To the contrary, it seems all too familiar, like cosplay for a fantasy fron- tier. It’s a visual feast of chemises, bonnets and limpid-eyed girls with flower crowns haloing their Pre-Raphaelite coifs. The show also appears, perhaps inevitably, like an infomercial for the tradwife lifestyle, set to a soundtrack of whinnying horses and chirring bugs. The Ingalls girls wash their clothes in pristine streams, stoke fires while sucking peppermint sticks and slumber un- der patchwork quilts. Who wouldn’t yearn for this life? The “Little House” reboot arrives in the midst of a tradwife moment. Caro Claire Burke’s best-selling novel “Yesteryear” (soon to be a feature film starring Anne Hathaway) imagines a modern-day trad- wife transported back to the real-life depri- vations of 1855. One of the ur-tradwife influ- encers, Hannah Neeleman, who has nine children, has opened the Ballerina Farm Store in Midway, Utah, transforming that town into a trad tourist trap. Part of the reasoning, no doubt, for Net- flix’s series is that the original, which de- buted in 1974, was, according to Nielsen, the most streamed legacy title as recently as 2024, racking up 13.3 billion minutes of view- ing time that year, which is roughly 40 min- utes for every person living in America. My first exposure to the world of trad- wives came while I was teaching a food writ- ing workshop, and a grad student wrote an admiring essay about a young mother from Texas whom she followed on Instagram. This young mother, Nara Smith, 24, makes homemade nut butter, cares for five children and, according to my student’s essay, shares “the joys of serving those she loves while still fulfilling her career as a model.” Ms. Smith also has 12.5 million followers on Tik- Tok and 4.8 million followers on Instagram. As a woman who’s always believed that my life purpose is synonymous not with my fecundity or my homemaking prowess but with my artistic ambitions, I’m decidedly not the audience for this kind of content. The tradwife performs wholesome home- steading for online public consumption — milking cows with apple-cheeked little ones trailing her long, organic cotton skirts — while I’ve always approached my maternal duties with a little more ambivalence, scrib- bling drafts of poems from my seat on a con- crete bench in the muggy YMCA pool bal- cony as my 6-year-old shows off his cannon- balls. But maybe it was the moment when I was slicing strawberries from the farm share and scooping homemade coconut-almond granola into my son’s Greek yogurt that a startling revelation dawned on me. Or may- be it happened while I was watching “Little House” and its liberally tendered tropes of hardscrabble fairy tales. I’m definitely not a tradwife — but maybe I’m a little tradwife-
Jason Hsu A senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.
HE Chinese government has spent three years giving away its most capa- ble artificial intelligence to anyone to use. That generosity was always tem- porary. Chinese authorities have reportedly been meeting with Alibaba, ByteDance and the start-up Z.ai to discuss restricting over- seas access to some of China’s most ad- vanced models — including systems that have not yet been released. The U.S. government’s instinct will likely be to answer with a ban of its own. That would be a mistake. The right response is the opposite: America and its allies should build and deploy their own so-called open- weight models, which users can download, run and modify on their machines. They should do so at scale, and commit to releas- ing new and better versions on a depend- able schedule — so that anyone building on an American model can count on the next one arriving. China’s move is an opening for the United States to take the lead again on A.I. It will not stay open for long. An A.I. model’s “weights” are the billions of individual settings acquired and fine- tuned during training that help determine how a model responds to prompts. When a company keeps its weights secret, as Open- AI does with GPT, other companies and de- velopers can rent access through its servers — but they cannot look inside or take the model with them. When a company pub- lishes these weights, as the Chinese com- pany DeepSeek has for its A.I. model, users can download and run the weights on their own hardware, inspect them and retrain them for a specialized task. That is how China is arguably winning the A.I. race. Two weeks ago, the Chinese start- up Moonshot A.I. unveiled Kimi K3, which the company says is the world’s largest open-weight A.I. model and rivals the per-
curious? Maybe I have a few latent tradwife tendencies? Maybe more than a few. Maybe more than tendencies. I’m not suggesting I’m suited for raising a brood of children or for living on a 19th- century homestead like the influencer in “Yesteryear,” who wakes up having been whisked from her performance of 19th- century hardship to the real thing. I have no desire to cosplay as a milkmaid or shep- herdess, and I can’t abide the overt tradwife staging of conservative social values, reli- gious doctrine, traditional gender roles and natalism. I also don’t subscribe to the idea that the female spirit is best channeled into servitude and sustenance-providing at home, sweet heteronormative home. But I have realized that my blanket aver- sion to the performance of domestic life as a source of fulfillment may be a little mis- guided. I was raised by a stay-at-home mom, herself raised by a mom who attended culinary school, and my mother always modeled to me the practice of finding pur-
for the philosophical space they afford me.
pose in the kitchen, punching down dough, laying a towel over the bowl, letting it rise. In my home today, cooking isn’t for show; it’s an expression of the beauty of making some- thing tangible and nourishing. How can I renounce the regressive side of tradwives while blissfully kneading my own milk bread dough? How can I deny the ap- peal of the Hannah Neelemans and Nara Smiths of the world when my own house- hold habits help balance my workaholism, keep me present and mindful in my body? Anchored to a professional life that’s in- creasingly screenbound, I find that taking 20 minutes to, say, arrange stalks of scarlet rhubarb by height in a caramel-coated cast- iron pan really grounds me. Makes me happy, even. Many of my most tradwife-like
formance of Anthropic and OpenAI’s best models to date. Alibaba’s Qwen is now the most downloaded A.I. model family on earth. Developers have used it to build more than 100,000 specialized models of their own. On OpenRouter, a service that lets de- velopers send their work to whichever A.I. model they choose, Chinese open-weight models accounted for more than 20 percent of the units of text processed over a number of weeks in 2025 and more than 40 percent over a few weeks this spring; in 2024, such models’ weekly processing of text was as low as about 1 percent. Much of that traffic is American. Airbnb’s customer service agent runs substantially on Qwen; Airbnb’s chief executive, Brian Chesky, has called the model fast and cheap. Cursor, among the most valuable A.I. coding start-ups in the country, built its Composer 2 model on a base licensed from Moonshot. DoorDash now routes the “lower-level work” of its code review system to Kimi, Do- orDash’s co-founder Andy Fang reports, re- serving an American model for the hardest tasks. More American businesses, attracted by lower costs, are joining these start-ups in using these models. This had been China’s plan since 2017: push Chinese models into every market, shape the standards others adopt and pull the world toward the Chinese hardware the models run best on. The country ran the same sequence with solar and telecom equipment and, most notably, critical miner- als — building the world’s dependence on cheap rare earths before restricting exports once that dependence was real. If Chinese labs restrict access now, won’t everyone just switch to a better American model? No, because switching an A.I. model is not like canceling a subscription. It means tearing out a foundation. A European manu- facturer running a Chinese model on its own premises, trained on confidential records that cannot legally leave the building, can- not simply swap in a superior American
proclivities — cooking and baking and tak- ing what may be an above-average pleasure in polishing copper pots — are the very hab- its that help keep me sane. So, like many others, I’m learning to re- assess the value of so-called grandma hob- bies, those frontier-adjacent activities that — surprise, surprise — don’t also require you to be a religious zealot or an anti- suffragist. Of course, for women like my mother and her mother, these kinds of hob- bies were acts of domestic generosity but also of necessity. All those hours of kitchen- bound chores weren’t performed for legions of online followers but were simply required by the demands of family life. Toward the end of the first episode of “Lit- tle House,” titled “Independence,” Ma In- galls lies in an ivory tent, bathed in a roman- tic shadow play of lamplight and the big Kansas night sky. She’s pregnant and has sustained a foot injury in her first days on the frontier, and, ever the stalwart spouse, she tells her husband that even though she’s frightened by their new circumstances, she
believes in him. She counters her own fear with hope of what this new way of life might offer. “What if this is where we finally be- come who we were meant to be?” she says. I guess the tradwife life may be just an- other waypost on a person’s journey to figur- ing out who she’s meant to be. And maybe I’m less a tradwife than someone who’s come to accept that she needs a regular infusion of do- mestic ephemerality. I love my kitchen pur- suits for how invisible I become while doing them — how the practice even allows for a lit- tle psychological and philosophical space. I imagine other people find this same kind of contemplation in sewing, or knitting, or mending, or, yes, even milking a cow. So even if I don’t live the full tradwife lifestyle — for anyone else’s consumption, or my own — I can still venerate those tasks that remind me that who I am meant to be is fluid and multi- tudinous. It can be expressed in how I stir a wooden spoon through water and flour to make the tangzhong that is the starter for my son’s favorite milk bread, and also in a poem I might write, born of my fascination with the same word.
model that costs more to use and runs on someone else’s servers. That depend- ence is key to China’s strategy. A country that can’t switch off a foreign model has handed China a grip on the systems it runs on. Developers outside China should be con- cerned about what’s next. Everyone building on a Chinese model as- sumes a better one is coming — free, as it al- ways has been. If China keeps its next generation of models at home, the rest of the world’s builders who rely on something freely modifiable are stuck with an antiquated ver- sion, while Chinese firms advance with something more powerful. The gap widens with every release. Two U.S. congressional committees have opened investigations into Airbnb and Cursor’s parent company over their use of Chinese models. The Trump administra- tion is reportedly considering effectively barring Americans from using Chinese A.I. models. But banning those models would impede American developers and hand China the claim that its technology is too good for America to compete with fairly. The United States dominates in tech by making its platforms the ones the world’s develop- ers choose to build on, not by banning for- eign use. The U.S. government should fund a con- tract to train an advanced open-weight mod- el. It should stipulate those weights remain permanently open. That contract would give companies in the United States and al- lied nations a foundation to build on and compete in this arena of A.I. development.
HANNAH ROBINSON
TO THE EDITOR: Re “Socialism? Capitalism? Who Cares!,” by E.J. Dionne Jr. (Opinion guest essay, July 21): Naturally, the Republican Party and its media allies would rather make the midterms a “capitalism versus socialism” debate than a refer- endum on Republican govern- ance. They have already crowned New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, the king of blue America and will no doubt spend the next 14 weeks re-enacting the Red Scare of the 1950s. Don’t be surprised if a few democratic socialists join the show. Those who see the de- mise of capitalism as a moral imperative may find the chance to preach on a national stage worth risking their par- ty’s congressional seats. And if manufactured panic on the right gives democratic social- ism added buzz — or even an aura of inevitability — isn’t that something any revolution- ary movement would prize?
MICHAEL SMITH GEORGETOWN, KY.
TO THE EDITOR: Old habits die hard. We have to stop associating the word socialism with the big scary Soviet Union that was going to drop nukes on us at any sec- ond. That association is the only reason we can even refer to this as a debate — and the debate was actually over long ago. Nearly every country in the world today has a mixture of capitalism and socialism. Even in Communist China, the means of production are jointly owned by the govern- ment and private capitalists. Let’s get over it and start debating what’s the best way to blend the two. How is capitalism doing at managing health care? Not very well, compared with Europe, where it is to a great extent controlled by govern- ments. How is capitalism doing at constructing adequate housing? We’ve got plenty of mansions and not enough starter homes. America could use less capitalism and more socialism.
JOHN M. TALBOT MERIDEN, CONN.
TO THE EDITOR: It is good that there is a quest to ensure that American work- ers are justly rewarded for their work and that there is a desire that the fruits of capital- ism help all. What seems to be missing among those who champion worker rights is concern for the health of the companies that are the source of the wealth they wish to be distributed. We consistently hear people like Shawn Fain, the president of the United Auto Workers, and his cohort say they are fighting for the American work force to have good pay, full
in tech by making platforms the world wants to build on.
benefits and good working conditions. We seldom, if ever, hear them say, “We want to make good products, to satisfy customers and help build successful thriving compa- nies.” What we so frequently get instead is a poorly made prod- uct and a customer service representative located some- where on the other side of the world when we call for help with an item that doesn’t work.
TIM PASQUARELLI ANTHEM, ARIZ.
TO THE EDITOR: In much of Europe, democratic socialism or social democracy means universal health care, strong public education, worker protections, pensions and a larger social safety net — all operating alongside private businesses and demo- cratic elections. In the United States, however, the term socialism is often associated with the Soviet Union, commu- nism, government ownership or authoritarianism. To undo this prejudice, we would have to educate the average American about global politics and history, and quite frankly, I think many don’t want to listen or learn.
ALEXANDRA LYNN COLUMBUS, OHIO
TO THE EDITOR: The problem with the term “democratic socialism” is twofold: Older voters have strongly negative associations with socialism, and it erases the distinction between state ownership and economic liber- alism in the minds of younger voters. The Democrats have finally come around to understanding that what the party needs to regain power is a shift to an emphasis on economic fair- ness, and that is encouraging. But I wish the Democratic Socialists would rename their party the Social Democrats, which, as the article points out, is what most Democratic So- cialists actually are.
JOSHUA P. HILL NEW LONDON, CONN.
TO THE EDITOR: In the last election, Republi- cans did not debate labels for their party or opine about abstract issues. They picked a few issues, like immigration and abortion, and stayed fo- cused on those, adding vague promises, while hammering their contempt for President Joe Biden’s failed policies. Obviously, they will keep repeating that formula, since it has led to their total control of our government. And unless Democrats have learned some basic lessons from their defeat last time, they might be headed for another shellack- ing.
WILLIAM GOODMAN MABEL, MINN.
OpenAI and Google have released open- weight models, but only occasion- ally, because nothing re- wards them for doing it con- sistently. The buyers of such a model would be the firms already reaching for Qwen and Kimi as well as the in- ternational partners that will not put their data on Chinese servers. Customers that adopt an open-weight American model also need the chips to run it, somewhere to store data and the computing power to put the model to work. That is what the De- velopment Finance Corpo- ration and the Export-Im- port Bank — the govern- ment agencies that back U.S. business abroad — should be financing all at once. Chinese models have come to dominate in places like Kenya and Brazil be- cause China made them free, packaging the model, the hardware and the financing together. America has the capital and the technology to offer the same package, on better terms, with security standards that even newcomers can meet. OpenAI and Anthropic’s business is the “frontier”: the hardest, highest-value work, offered to customers that want the best model available and will pay for it. That is not the business an open-weight model takes, where finances or data-sensitivity factor in more heavily. For many U.S. customers, the frontier model keeps the hard work moving, and something cheaper — and easier to tinker with — sits under- neath it. The frontier lab gets paid either way. The only question is whose model is un- derneath. It should be an American one.
Democratic Socialists Expect to See Results
By EMMA GOLDBERG and SALLY GOLDENBERG
On a sticky evening in July, leaders of the surging democratic socialist movement in New York City jumped onto Zoom to begin crafting the next phase of their campaign. Democratic socialist candi- dates had just toppled five incum- bents, capturing two House pri- maries in the city and a handful more in state legislative races. But with an off-cycle election year ahead, leaders in the city’s chapter of the Democratic Social- ists of America were shifting their focus from winning votes to changing policy. The group’s next order of busi- ness, its members agreed in the Zoom meeting, is to pressure Gov. Kathy Hochul, a centrist Demo- crat, to raise income taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers when the Legislature convenes in January. The group had failed to per- suade Ms. Hochul to do so earlier this year, settling instead for a much more limited tax on multi- million-dollar second homes in New York City. But with its influ- ence on the rise, the group be- lieves that a broader tax-the-rich campaign may succeed next year, despite Ms. Hochul’s continued resistance. “We brought the fight to Hochul to tax the rich last session when we had only nine socialists in the State Legislature,” Gustavo Gordillo, the co-leader of New York City’s D.S.A. chapter, said in an interview. “This cycle, our forces will be almost doubled, and there’s a whole new crew of pro- gressive legislators who are going to demand what New Yorkers want, which is for Hochul to tax the rich.” Since Zohran Mamdani’s may- oral primary win last year, the New York City D.S.A. chapter, ac- tive since the 1980s, said it has added more than 7,000 members. Its membership of roughly 15,000 is spread across the city, often con- centrated in gentrified pockets of Brooklyn and Queens (the so- called Commie Corridor), along with Upper Manhattan.
By LIAM STACK
Moshe Grunhaus was leaving the Jewish Center in Manhattan when he was stabbed in broad daylight on Thursday, rattling a Jewish community already on edge and inflaming the debate about Israel and antisemitism. The man police arrested, Raul Morales, was charged late Friday with two counts of attempted mur- der as a hate crime. He first stabbed an Asian man, Chok Sung, according to prosecutors, before attacking Mr. Grunhaus, who was wearing a yarmulke. In both attacks, Mr. Morales yelled “Allahu akbar,” a frequently used Islamic religious phrase, accord- ing to prosecutors. The assaults deepened the ten- sion between many Jewish lead- ers and Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a longtime critic of Israel. Pro-Israel groups had been warning for months that Mr. Mamdani’s rhetoric on Israel could worsen antisemitism, as the mayor said repeatedly that the city might enforce an arrest war- rant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visited New York. In response to the outcry from many Jewish leaders, Mr. Mam- dani on Tuesday posted a video in which he backed off from that threat, but called Mr. Netanyahu a war criminal and urged federal law enforcement to arrest him. On Friday, the tensions erupted into public view as some commu- nity leaders and pro-Israel groups made the striking accusation that the mayor’s public comments, in- cluding the video, were partly to blame for acts like the stabbing. UJA-Federation of New York, a major Jewish philanthropy that has emerged as a forceful oppo- nent of Mr. Mamdani, helped to or- ganize a news conference where speakers lamented the toll that rising antisemitism had taken on the Jewish community. Parents fear allowing their chil- dren to wear yarmulkes or Stars of David in public, and camp direc- tors are fielding calls from anx- ious parents asking whether their children will be safe, said Mark Treyger, the chief executive of the Jewish Community Relations Council, and a longtime critic of the mayor. “I beseech all those in a position of power, including our mayor, to hear our cry from the heart,” said Micah Lasher, the Democratic congressional nominee in the dis- trict that includes the site of Thursday’s attack. “To please help take the temperature down and provide leadership that makes ev-
As the organization matures, it is confronting how to chart its path forward. Some members are focused on drafting their most prominent political ally — Repre- sentative Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez — to run for president in 2028, sometimes putting them at odds with their national brethren. Others are pushing for a more expansive policy agenda, includ- ing a renewed focus on public safety, condemning Israel’s mili- tary actions through legislation and considering a public takeover of its largest utility company. The city’s D.S.A. arm has 14 working groups for policy goals, but it has so far trained its focus on selecting political candidates and winning elections. Knocking on doors and building energy for elections have tended to be more central to the organization than in-the-weeds policy analysis. “The organization feels that the sky’s the limit in New York City,” said Asad Dandia, the Brooklyn borough historian and a D.S.A. member. “There’s an understand- ing that D.S.A. has emerged as one of the major political players in New York City, and arguably the most powerful political organi- zation in the five boroughs.” Members of the D.S.A. will be making a renewed push to pass the “Not on Our Dime” bill, which would strip New York nonprofits of their tax-exempt status if their funds are used to support Israeli settlement activity. They are also trying to persuade lawmakers to introduce a bill that would penal- ize airlines that facilitate arms shipments to Israel from Kennedy International Airport. The chapter has also talked about increasing its focus on cli- mate and energy — issues that can be difficult to mobilize voters around, though they have felt more urgent in a summer of heat waves and wildfires. D.S.A. is part of a coalition of ad- vocacy groups that is pushing for the state to build enough public re- newable energy to power 12 mil- lion households. Far more ambitiously, members of the coalition have discussed
ery New Yorker feel safe in this glorious city.” Mr. Mamdani pushed back against the accusation he had made Jews unsafe on Friday, telling NY1 later in the day: “There’s no tolerance for anti- semitism or hatred of any kind in this city.” “If anyone is perpetrating this kind of bigotry, that kind of hatred, they will be held fully account- able,” the mayor said. The exchanges marked a highly emotional week in New York, which is home to the largest Jew- ish population outside Israel, and highlighted the degree to which Middle East politics have become infused into Mr. Mamdani’s may- oralty. Speaking to NY1 on Friday, the mayor rejected the argument that his criticism of Israel or its leaders had anything to do with Jewish New Yorkers. “They are critiques of a political leader, not of people of a specific faith or a religion or a back- ground,” he said. “My responsibil- ity as the mayor of this city is to keep every New Yorker safe, no matter where they come from, what they believe in or, frankly, even if they agree with my poli- tics. My job is to keep them safe.” Mr. Mamdani’s stance reflects the shifting public sentiment to-
Progressive groups at a rally in Albany, N.Y., in February as part of their tax-the-rich campaign.
pushing either the state or city to step in and take over Con Edison, with the aim of lowering utility bills and making the case that the public sector ought to run the grid, not the private sector. Such a plan would face major logistical and fi- nancial hurdles and is unlikely to get Ms. Hochul’s support. During their recent planning meeting, leaders spoke at length about how to use the governor’s promises to expand free and low- cost child care statewide as a way to pressure the governor to raise taxes on the wealthy. “She’s already committed to a major child care program, which is unfunded at this point,” Mr. Gordillo said in the interview. “It would be a huge embarrassment for her not to raise taxes on the rich in order to fund the program she helped to start.” Ms. Hochul, for her part, has found opportunities to partner with Mr. Mamdani on initiatives big and small, from child care to the World Cup to the so-called pied-à-terre tax. But as she faces re-election in November, she has also embraced the role of playing the moderate foil to Mr. Mamdani and his pro- gressive base, knowing that the city relies on Albany to fund the new administration’s expansive agenda. “Governor Hochul has been fo- cused on lowering costs for New
ward Israel, which has grown more negative in New York and across the United States. Progressive Jewish groups ech- oed the mayor’s views. T’ruah, an organization of progressive rab- bis, said it was “unhelpful to make assumptions” about the stabbing and noted that the Police Depart- ment had said “the suspect’s men- tal state may have been a factor.” “We refuse to believe that Jew- ish safety requires silence about the Israeli government’s actions,” the group said in a statement. “A narrative that public criticism of Israel causes antisemitism and therefore must be censored is not
Yorkers and making it easier for both businesses and residents to stay in our state,” her spokesman, Anthony Hogrebe, said. “She does not believe in raising taxes for the sake of raising taxes, and has only considered new revenue raisers when absolutely needed to solve real problems. The governor makes decisions based on what’s best for New Yorkers, and no amount of political pressure can change that.” In the early months of his ad- ministration, Mr. Mamdani has sought to strike a conciliatory tone with the governor. He en- dorsed her re-election in early February, which infuriated some democratic socialists. When progressive groups in New York staged a “Tax the Rich” rally in Albany, busing hundreds of people from the city, Mr. Mam- dani privately told organizers that he planned to skip the event. Democratic socialists have tended to give the mayor a pass. But now, in private conversations, some are analyzing whether the mayor can play a more active role in pushing their priorities, given that he is more firmly established inside City Hall. Many members of Mr. Mamda- ni’s progressive base remain op- posed to his police commissioner, Jessica Tisch. While her appoint- ment spurred frustrated mes- sages in chapter group chats,
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only overly simplistic but danger- ous to Jews, Palestinians and our democratic values.” It’s not clear whether the week will be a passing flashpoint in Mr. Mamdani’s relationship with pro- Israel Jewish leaders or the start of a deeper deterioration or loss of trust. At the news conference on Fri- day, notably, several elected offi- cials typically aligned with the mayor, including the city public advocate, Jumaane Williams, and the state attorney general, Letitia James, made clear that the city had been shaken by antisemitism and urged New Yorkers to stand
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D.S.A. members have done little to push Mr. Mamdani to drop her. Recent primaries demonstrat- ed that democratic socialists in New York City are frustrated by economic inequality, Israel and President Trump’s immigration enforcement tactics — but its leaders have been a lot more muted around public safety re- forms. Mr. Mamdani has prioritized his affordability agenda and con- demning Israel’s military actions, while keeping the issue of police reform at a distance. The D.S.A. recently pressured him, success- fully, to scrap his plans to hire an- other 580 police officers and is pushing him to expand the new Office of Community Safety, which would divert certain 911 calls from police officers to clinicians. Mr. Mamdani had promised to create a larger Department of Community Safety that would have a $1.1 billion budget, but so far the endeavor is far more mod- est — a mayoral office with a $270 million budget, most of which is money diverted from existing pro- grams. The operation tasked with handling the 911 calls — the heart of the project — is getting a mere $35 million. Tiffany Cabán, a city council- woman and member of the D.S.A. who describes herself as a “hard- core abolitionist,” said she wanted the mayor to push the Police De-
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Two men were stabbed on the Upper West Side on Thursday. Raul Morales, left, was charged with two counts of attempted murder as a hate crime.
together against intolerance. “It’s important that we reaffirm that hate and violence have no place in New York,” Ms. James said. “So let us commit ourselves to doing the good and necessary work of standing up together, shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm, with no space between us. Hate will not be tolerated.” Susan Zhuang, a City Council member from Brooklyn, said anti- Asian bias had also continued to be a major problem that too often had “been simply ignored.” “The violence, the harassment, the fear continue even when the cameras move on,” she said. “Our community is still living with con- sequences, and too many people suffering in silence.” The stabbing on Thursday sent shock waves through the Upper West Side, a neighborhood known partly for its vibrant Jewish life and whose violent crime rate is typically one of the lowest in the city. Both victims are expected to survive and were being treated at a local hospital. A spokesman for the mayor said his office had reached out to the
partment to cease its increased fo- cus on enforcement of low-level crimes and build out the Office of Community Safety. But she ac- knowledged that drawing in vot- ers with an anti-policing agenda remains a challenge. “We’ve seen a lot of movement around Palestinian liberation, on antiwar organizing; we’ve seen a lot of movement around tax the rich,” Ms. Cabán said. “But polic- ing is just hard.” As the influence of the D.S.A. grows, so, too, does the volume of its critics. One persistent area of concern is how the organization addresses racial inequality, a mat- ter that was highlighted last week when a Black Democratic leader, Donovan Richards, invoked an ac- cusation of “white supremacy” on X. The comment, directed at the D.S.A. in response to discourse around a New York Times story on the group, was plastered on the cover of the right-leaning New York Post and was being circu- lated by critics of the organization. The Rev. Al Sharpton, the vet- eran civil rights leader, argued that the D.S.A. should fine-tune its focus on affordability by address- ing racial disparities, rather than treating all types of financial struggle the same. Mr. Sharpton applauded the group’s recent string of victories and said they “raise expectations” for the orga- nization. “There is a race gap in afford- ability. They’ve got to deal with more than class, and also deal with race,” Mr. Sharpton said. “If they do not, then they run the risk of having some people in the Black community come back at them, saying you’re ignoring race.” A poll of 719 likely New York State voters, conducted in May by the firm Data for Progress, found the D.S.A. is unpopular with 42 percent of those who responded, and popular with 30 percent. Jay Jacobs, chairman of the state Democratic Party, said he appreciated the D.S.A.’s commit- ment to affordability, but he ques- tioned some of the group’s tactics and policy goals. He argued that their focus on taking down cen- trist Democrats was not helping in the broader effort to flip Republi- can-held seats and win back Con- gress. “Too often they look at moder- ate Democrats as the greater ene- my than Republicans,” Mr. Jacobs said. “They don’t appeal to people in the middle. Most Americans are moderates.”
Police Department to be con- nected to the victims. A spokes- man for the Police Department said on Friday night that the de- partment was not connecting elected officials, including the mayor, to either victim because detectives were still interviewing them. At the start of July, more than half of all hate crimes in the city this year had targeted Jewish peo- ple, making antisemitic violence the largest share of hate crimes. About 10 percent of New York’s population is Jewish. Several Jewish leaders pointed to Mr. Mamdani’s video, in partic- ular, as creating potential danger for Jewish New Yorkers. At the news conference on Fri- day, Eric Goldstein, the president of UJA-Federation of New York, took issue with Mr. Mamdani’s video about Mr. Netanyahu, whom the mayor described as “a war criminal” and the “architect of genocide” in Gaza. “His video message about the prime minister was political grandstanding,” Mr. Goldstein said. “Shame on him for doing this for perceived political benefit when it has real-world conse- quence for the Jews of New York. He must stop.” The Israeli government also criticized the mayor. In a state- ment, Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Saar, said the violence “did not happen in a vacuum.” “Months of incitement against the Jewish state from Mamdani have helped create a climate in which Jews are targeted,” he said. “Words have consequences.” On Friday evening before the start of Shabbat, Rabbi Rick Ja- cobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, which repre- sents the largest Jewish denomi- nation in the United States, re- leased a statement that criticized Mr. Mamdani for his “fiery video.” He said the mayor had vilified Israel and Mr. Netanyahu and cre- ated “an atmosphere in New York City that makes Jewish people feel less safe and puts us at risk.” The attack on Thursday hap- pened on Tisha B’Av, on which Jews commemorate the destruc- tion of the Temples in Jerusalem by the ancient Babylonians and Romans, and other tragedies throughout Jewish history. Rabbi Yosie Levine of the Jew- ish Center said on Friday that the stabbing outside his synagogue on such a mournful holy day made it feel like “the evil we gathered to remember stopped belonging to the past.” “Jewish life in America is start- ing to feel like Jewish life in Eu- rope,” he said. “Armed guards, bulletproof glass and the constant fear that yesterday’s rhetoric will turn into today’s assault.”
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The L.N.G. and natural gas power plant in Batangas City was built to import natural gas for the Philippines. When the war in the Middle East disrupted global supplies of natural gas, developing nations across Asia had to pivot.
By PATRICIA COHEN
LONDON — We’ve all been down this road before. President Trump issues a blitz of punitive tariffs on allies and ri- vals, straining trade, rattling bond markets, raising prices and inject- ing more uncertainty into the global economy. The difference now is that the United States is at war with Iran, key trade and energy routes in the Persian Gulf region are blocked and the global oil price is near $100 a barrel. When Mr. Trump un- veiled his original cold blanket of tariffs, on April 2, 2025, oil had been around $70 a barrel. “These new trade tensions come at a moment in which the global economy, due to higher en- ergy prices, is in a weaker spot than on Liberation Day last year,” said Carsten Brzeski, an econo- mist at the Dutch multinational bank ING, referring to the day President Trump announced the specific rates. The new import taxes on more than 80 countries, including mem- bers of the European Union, are
Iran War Is Forcing Energy Buyers To ‘Unshackle’ From Global Markets
By RIVER AKIRA DAVIS
MANILA — For the past two dec- ades, major exporters and traders of liquefied natural gas have pitched the fuel as a panacea for the world’s energy-hungry emerging economies. Supercooled into liquid form for shipping, tens of billions of dollars of gas produced in the United States and Qatar each year could supply all corners of the globe. With both nations rapidly expand- ing their export capacity, energy experts anticipated the global
scarred by supply shortages, are working to scale back their imported fuels.
market would be awash in cheap L.N.G. by 2030. Governments across develop- ing Asia, expected to be the center of global energy demand growth for the next half-century, based their long-term national energy strategies on this promise of abundant, free-flowing gas. L.N.G. presented the key to fuel- ing expansion while transitioning away from more polluting coal, they believed. But five months of war in the Middle East has shaken that be-
lief. The inability of ships to traverse the Strait of Hormuz has abruptly severed Asian buyers from Qatar, their primary L.N.G. supplier. Faced with a sudden supply shock, energy executives and policymakers across Asia are looking to pivot inward. They are turning to whatever domestic re- sources they can — from coal and gas to wind and solar — to help in- sulate themselves from future vol- atility. That need is only com- pounded by the expansion of the
Carries Risks Either Way
By COLBY SMITH
Kevin M. Warsh faces a pivotal choice this week at his second meeting as chairman of the Fed- eral Reserve. He has staked his reputation on getting inflation down after half a decade of its run- ning too high for the central bank’s liking. Now, he must decide whether to push for higher bor- rowing costs to shore up that pledge. Wednesday’s decision offers Mr. Warsh his first real opportuni- ty to assert himself, with risks in both directions. Compelling his colleagues to raise interest rates would be a surefire way to keep in check the public's expectations about infla- tion while silencing critics who question Mr. Warsh’s appetite to go beyond talking tough to curb price pressures. The pitfalls are plentiful, however, depending on
conflict to the Red Sea, another critical energy transit way. The Middle East crisis “acceler- ated the interest in exploiting the resources in the Philippines,” said Guillaume Lucci, the chief execu- tive of Prime Infra, a Manila- based energy infrastructure con- glomerate. “The minute that you depend on imports by definition, you’re exposing yourself to mar- ket forces that are outside of the control of the importing nation.” This “means trying to unshack-
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Is Dividing Silicon Valley
By Mike Isaac, Kate Conger, Ana Swanson and Meaghan Tobin
SAN FRANCISCO — For years, a philosophical divide over how ar- tificial intelligence software should be created has split Silicon Valley technologists. Last week, that argument reached a boiling point. On one side are leading A.I. companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, which claim that some A.I. models are too dangerous to be developed in the open and must be tightly controlled — by busi- nesses like themselves — for safety. On the other is the rest of the tech industry, including giants like Microsoft and Nvidia, which contend that so-called open- source A.I. models must remain open for people to further develop technologies and build new busi- nesses. Those camps have started pub-
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le ourselves from markets that we don’t control,” he said. Prime Infra operates a natural gas power plant complex in Batangas, a city roughly a two- hour drive south of Manila. The plants at the site have operated for more than two decades, draw- ing gas from the offshore Malam- paya field, some 250 miles south- west. The Batangas site is carved out of a coastline of mangroves and dark-sand beaches lined with tropical almond trees and sun- bathing monitor lizards. Trans- mission lines vein out from the fa- cility, stretching inland toward Mount Makiling, a hazy green saddle-shaped peak in the dis- tance. In 2023, when executives be- lieved the Malampaya field was on the verge of depletion, they built an offshore L.N.G. terminal. Now, however, Prime Infra’s lead- ership is looking closer to home. A subsidiary of the company started drilling more natural gas wells in the Malampaya field, ex- tending its life span by at least six years, Mr. Lucci said. “Unfortu- nately, in the Philippines, there were very few wells drilled in the past decade and a half,” he added. “Hopefully that’s going to start to accelerate.” Meanwhile, some 120 miles north of Batangas, the country’s largest solar project began gener- ating its first kilowatt-hours in March. That came two weeks af- ter the outbreak of the Iran War, which pushed up energy prices and knocked out 20 percent of the global L.N.G. supply. “That was fortunate timing. It was like fate,” said Emmanuel Ru- bio, the chief executive of Meralco PowerGen, the utility-backed power generation company that operates or invests in Terra Solar and gas- and coal-fired power plants in the Philippines. For a country that imports nearly all of its fossil fuels, the so- lar project has proved that “we can actually be, to a certain ex- tent, self-reliant,” he added. The crisis in the Middle East has brought the risks of import de- pendency into sharp focus, Mr. Rubio said. L.N.G. was champi- oned as a stable option for elec- tricity production, unaffected by fluctuations in sunlight or wind. “But with the volatility of L.N.G., we’re rethinking that,” he said. In March, a month after the start of the war, Philippine L.N.G. imports fell by a quarter com- pared with the previous year, ac- cording to Kpler, a maritime data firm. Shipments have since recov- ered slightly, but countries across Asia continue to pay roughly dou- ble what they did before the war. In 2020, the Philippines de- clared a moratorium on new coal plants to accelerate its shift to- ward cleaner energy. But the goal is to ensure “a stable energy source, a reliable energy source and one that is cost effective for Filipinos,” Mr. Rubio said, even if it means extending the life of coal. A similar recalculation is play- ing out across the rest of develop- ing Asia.
Tripped Up
By SETH KUGEL
Dear Tripped Up, Last July, my wife and I traveled to Germany to visit Munich and the Bavarian Alps and drink good beer. (I co-own a brewery in Colorado.) We rented a car from Enterprise, which had an agency inside a hotel lobby, and picked up the car in an unmanned garage a few blocks away. I pho- tographed the fuel gauge at pickup — the car had five-eighths of a tank of gas — and again when I dropped it off with three-quarters of a tank. But I was charged 94.50 euros, plus 20 per- cent tax, a total of about $131, for 25 liters of “missing” fuel. Furthermore, my original reservation said tax was included, but I was charged an addi- tional €65.87 for tax on the final tab. I complained to Enterprise and filed a credit card dispute with American Express, but no luck. Can you help? JACK, BROOMFIELD, COLO.
Dear Jack, Why must rental car companies make the simple act of filling a gas tank so stressful? Their rates are so punitive — in your case, about $16.75 a gallon, if my double conversion of liters to gal- lons and euros to dollars is correct — that we would do anything to avoid them, including risking a missed flight to circle back if we miss that last gas station before the airport. (Note that a gallon of gas in Germany in July 2025 cost less than $8, on average.) You weren’t even renting from an airport location, and you actually left the tank with slightly more gas than it
An offshore terminal was built in Batangas City in the Philippines in 2023 to import L.N.G., but the country is now looking to source more gas domestically, above. Near right, an aerial view of the MTerra solar project in the Philippines, set to become one of the world’s largest solar-and-battery developments, and plant workers inside the L.N.G. and natural gas power plant in Batangas City this month, far right.
In recent months, countries across the region have ramped up generation at coal-fired power plants. Governments have fast- tracked renewable energy projects and are reporting an up- tick in sales of home solar-power systems and electric vehicles. Countries including Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam are also exploring or beginning work on their first commercial nuclear power plants. The Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup shelved plans for a multibillion-dollar L.N.G. import terminal in March. The company has since said it would use the site for a manufacturing hub powered by renewable energy. Before the war, global markets had been anticipating an “unprec- edented” wave of L.N.G. supply, said Keisuke Sadamori, a former director at the International Ener- gy Agency. L.N.G. supply was throttled
started with. You took photos to prove it, and on top of that were charged too much in taxes — or so we both thought when we looked at your bill. I got in touch with Enterprise, and the company quickly refunded you $131 for the extra gas. But they were right about the taxes: The original tax amount had been removed and a re- vised amount, including tax on the gas, was tacked on the end. I think the Ger- man-language bill tripped us both up. “We’re committed to resolving any issues promptly and take all customer concerns seriously, investigating each one thoroughly,” wrote Danielle Stuart, an Enterprise spokeswoman, adding that a third-party supplier that cleans and refuels the company’s vehicles had failed to note that the car did not have a full tank when you picked it up. That’s why you were mistakenly charged.
once already following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and demand for natural gas soared as Europe turned to other sources. With this latest supply disruption, there is more doubt “on whether Southeast Asian countries will ac- tually decide to invest additional money in L.N.G. import infra- structure,” he said. Many developing Asian nations are taking notes from China, which has tried to insulate itself from dependence on energy im- ports. It has leaned heavily on its coal reserves, while scaling up do- mestic renewable production, electrification and nuclear power. It is also supplying much of the re- newable energy infrastructure to
It was an obvious injustice, and I’m happy I could help. But after re-exam- ining your documentation and speaking with an expert, I think you might have resolved the issue without me, if you hadn’t shifted your tactics to a credit card dispute. Here’s how: Your original emailed complaint to Enterprise, just two sen- tences long, said only that you thought you had been incorrectly taxed. You did not bring up the gas charge, because (as you later told me) you had not noticed it yet. But because the real issue was the gas, not the tax, your complaint was inaccurate, and Enter- prise rightly rejected it. Then, when Enterprise did not return your money, you went straight to Amer- ican Express and filed a dispute — also known as a chargeback. Amex denied your first chargeback request. You then
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the rest of Asia. “We’re seeing the bifurcation of global energy systems. You have the U.S. and Japan on one side sticking to fossil fuel legacy, and the renewables case led by China that is growing at a rapid rate,” said Sam Reynolds, the research lead for L.N.G. and gas in Asia at the Institute for Energy Econom- ics and Financial Analysis. “New supply banks on the exist- ence of markets like China, India and emerging Asia,” he said. A pullback in Asian demand could leave suppliers building capacity in the United States and else- where with fewer buyers than they expected, he said. Still, some energy experts and
noticed the gas charge, and filed an- other dispute, asking for about $160 back. This time you cited both the extra gas charge and the taxes, and again the amount was incorrect. Importantly, you did not go back to Enterprise between disputes. You told me in a follow-up email that you no longer have the complaints since the process was done within the American Express website and is no longer accessible to you. Fair enough. Let’s assume you made a solid argu- ment and included the time-stamped, before-and-after fuel gauge photos, and thus should have received at least the $131 back. So why might Amex have rejected your second dispute? I’m sure it did not help that you asked for $160 instead of the $131 you were entitled to, but I suspect the main reason was that you did not bring the issue back to Enter- prise before filing your second charge- back request. It’s important to give the merchant a chance to solve the problem first, said Todd Ablowitz, who has worked extensively with chargebacks as a co-founder of the payment technol- ogy company Infinicept. “You have to show you tried to get a refund and work it out with them,” he told me over the phone. That might include providing the bills with mis- takes highlighted, back-and-forth emails, or screenshots of online chats and text messages. It could also include contemporaneous notes of phone con- versations, with the dates of the calls and, if possible, the name of the agent you spoke with. For cases in which travelers are claiming inaccurate prod- uct descriptions — say, a resort that advertises a pool but does not have one — you might include a screenshot of the description along with photos of the hotel grounds.
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industry officials believe the ap- petite for L.N.G. infrastructure in- vestments will return to prewar forecasts once global supply re- bounds. The energy giant Shell in June projected that global demand for L.N.G. would climb 65 percent by 2050, and South and Southeast Asia would serve as the primary engines of growth. Edward McCartin, the chief ex- ecutive of Energy World Corpora- tion, which develops L.N.G. and power generation projects across Asia, is optimistic about the long- term prospects. L.N.G. can bal- ance intermittent renewable sources like solar and help the re- gion transition from coal, he said.
“Solar, hydro, geothermal, natu- ral gas and coal — we need all of it,” he said. For now, policymakers at the Philippine Department of Energy are closely monitoring the conflict in the Persian Gulf. Michael Sinocruz, director of the Energy Policy and Planning Bureau, said the government was considering revising its national energy plan to potentially reflect a different mix of energy sources for the com- ing decades. “What we are looking at is how much gas we need,” he said. “We cannot rely on renewables alone.” The energy crisis “has awakened developing Asia to the importance of energy independence.”
As an arbitrator of consumer com- plaints, I would add that aggrieved customers should not overwhelm the poor souls who adjudicate chargeback requests. Keep your argument simple, and don’t muddy the waters with a pile of unnecessary documents. If you’re not confident in your writing skills, con- sider using generative A.I. to help make your argument brief and crystal clear. But filing a credit card dispute should be the last move, not the first. There are reports of customers being black- listed by some companies for what they determine to be frivolous or excessive chargebacks. Mr. Ablowitz notes that network rules do not allow a merchant to recharge a credit card after a charge- back, but I have heard plenty of stories where a company rebills customers and threatens collection proceedings if they refuse to pay. On the other hand, if you do it right, the chargeback may be the most pow- erful tool available to customers in the United States, with its woeful consumer protections. So if you hadn’t moved so quickly to dispute the charge, would it have come to a chargeback situation in your case, Jack? I can’t be sure. Normally, I would question Ms. Stuart’s statement about being “committed to resolving any issues promptly” and taking “all customer concerns seriously.” Based on my experience with other companies, customer service representatives often do exactly the opposite. But in this case, the benefit of the doubt goes to Enterprise, since it never quite got a fighting chance to resolve your issue promptly.
Is Certain to Come With Risks
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how Mr. Warsh justifies it. A rate rise on the heels of rela- tively benign inflation data has the potential to sow confusion about how officials will respond to shifts in the economy, testing fi- nancial markets that are already jittery amid a re-escalation in the war with Iran that has yanked oil prices back around $100 a barrel. Mr. Warsh might also have to con- tend with criticism from President Trump, who tapped him for the job and has made clear his desire for lower rates. Keeping rates unchanged would leave the Fed’s policy op- tions open while giving officials more time to see how the economy is evolving. Many expect inflation to ease in the latter half of the year. By the time the Fed meets again in September, officials will have two more months of data in hand. But inaction will put pressure on Mr. Warsh to explain how doing noth- ing is compatible with his recent assertion to lawmakers that the central bank has “no tolerance” for elevated inflation. The decision before Mr. Warsh ultimately hinges on the balance he wants to strike between taking an aggressive stance in the early stages of his four-year tenure as chairman and maintaining room to maneuver in an environment where the bulk of inflation is being driven by supply shocks that the central bank’s tools are ill- equipped to address. If inflation was being driven by an overheat- ing labor market, for example, in- stead of surging energy prices caused by the war with Iran or Mr. Trump’s tariffs, the central bank would feel much more confident about its next steps. In the lead-up to July’s meeting, two policymakers indicated there was an urgency to raise rates. Lo- rie K. Logan, president of the Fed- eral Reserve Bank of Dallas, and Beth M. Hammack, of the Cleve- land Fed, both emphasized the strain on consumers and busi- nesses caused by elevated infla- tion and the potential for price pressures to further broaden out.
Prices across the services sector have all risen compared to the same time last year. Ms. Logan and Ms. Hammack contend that higher borrowing costs are necessary to achieve the Fed’s 2 percent target. Both are voting members on this year’s pol- icy-setting committee. But many of their colleagues, including a handful of the Fed’s most senior decision makers, sig- naled that while they were ready to act if inflation did not soon ease, they were comfortable taking a wait-and-see approach for now. That included Philip N. Jefferson, the vice chair, and John C. Williams, president of the New York Fed. Christopher J. Waller, a Fed governor, put a heavy emphasis on the latest inflation data in de- termining the Fed’s next steps. Two reports tracking consumer and wholesale prices in June came in much cooler than ex- pected. Still, he made clear that he would need to see several months of mild data to feel confident about the outlook. This distribution of views inter- nally will no doubt produce the “family fight” that Mr. Warsh has long encouraged. But it also sug- gests that he will have latitude to pull officials in one direction or an- other should he choose to do so. Mr. Warsh has opted to obscure where he stands publicly to avoid boxing in the Fed. When pressed for details during congressional hearings this month, he was ex- plicit that one month of tepid infla- tion data did not amount to “mis- sion accomplished.” But in several instances, Mr. Warsh has leaned in a dovish direction. Asked by Senator John Ken- nedy, Republican from Louisiana, what he would do to address infla- tion, Mr. Warsh never brought up the prospect of raising rates. In- stead, he said the Fed’s success would be a function of it asserting the central bank’s commitment to getting inflation down, taking re- sponsibility for any failure in do- ing so and studying its policy tools. When Mr. Kennedy asked how the Fed determines if inflation is temporary or persistent, Mr. Warsh invoked the five task forces he has created, which he said would “get to the big and hard questions instead of trying to pa- per it over with policies that have not been proven as successful.” Mr. Warsh also said that he did not view a one-time change in prices — specifically those caused by booming investment in artifi- cial intelligence — as inflationary. “Because I think there’s a supply
Kevin M. Warsh, the Federal Reserve chairman, has opted to obscure where he stands on interest rate policy.
response,” he said. At the same time, however, he suggested that the Fed might view higher prices caused by a war differently, owing to the fact that this “tends to re- duce the supply side of the econ- omy.” The Iran war and the A.I. boom are the biggest wild cards for the Fed at the moment. Both have raised prices, but it is unclear whether that will lead to sustain- ably higher inflation. According to Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, temporary fac- tors, such as tariffs, are the main drivers of recent increases in un- derlying inflation, and they are likely to fade over time. “Our forecast implies that hawkish talk now ultimately does- n’t require a move, because infla- tion actually looks somewhat bet- ter as time passes,” said Mr. Hatz- ius. What has been hard to over- look, however, is the fact that the economy has held up relatively well despite the litany of shocks in just the past year and a half. To some, that suggests the Fed will need to raise rates in order to get inflation under control. “It’s hard for me to say that the current stance of policy is restric- tive given what we’re seeing in the economy,” said Loretta Mester, who led the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland for a decade until 2024. Raising rates would help to “bring demand into better align- ment with supply,” she said, while also helping to stabilize inflation expectations that appear “more fragile than they’ve been.” “The longer this goes on, they lose credibility if they keep saying we’re going to get inflation down and then don’t take action to bring it down,” Ms. Mester added. The most recent slate of data gave the Fed some breathing room, but that reprieve is likely to have ended by the September meeting, she said. How Mr. Warsh talks about Wednesday’s decision is perhaps just as important as the move it- self. Long before July’s meeting, investors had expressed angst about Mr. Warsh’s preference to provide significantly less guid- ance than his predecessors about the policy outlook. So far, he also chosen to keep mum on how he plans to steer the Fed if the eco- nomic conditions change. Markets that track what the Fed will do have whipsawed as a result. As of Monday, they show just over 30 percent odds of a quarter-point increase this week. When Mr. Warsh steps up to the podium for a news conference af- ter the rate decision, he will be un- der heightened pressure to pro- vide more substance around his views. Holding rates steady will keep Mr. Warsh on the defensive, having to explain why the Fed can still afford to be patient. Raising rates, meanwhile, risks muddying the public’s understanding of how officials will react to incoming data. “A hike now when the data seem to be improving may not establish credibility if it confuses people about the reaction function,” said Dean Maki, chief economist for Point72, a hedge fund. What Mr. Warsh will also need to guard against is a rapid reset- ting of rate expectations that could prove to be destabilizing to markets more broadly. One way to circumvent that would be to frame any increase as a “recalibration” of policy as opposed the start of a prolonged campaign to lift bor- rowing costs. “The market is vulnerable right now,” said Krishna Guha, vice chairman at Evercore ISI, point- ing to the Iran war and concerns that the A.I. bubble is on the verge of popping. “Does he want to gam- ble on a play that could leave him owning a market mess a few weeks into the job?”
Mr. Trump’s latest bid to reimpose tariffs after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down many of his previous levies in February. The tariffs, which use trading partners’ unfair labor practices as a rationale, replace a similar, tem- porary set he imposed right after the court ruling. More tariffs are expected to follow. Mr. Brzeski and other analysts said the economy had already ab- sorbed much of the inflationary impact of Mr. Trump’s trade war. “The worst of the tariff-related goods inflation is probably behind us,” said Carl Tannenbaum, chief economist for Northern Trust, a global financial institution based in Chicago. Companies raised prices last year and didn’t roll back those increases after the Su- preme Court’s decision. Both the tariffs and their erratic implementation tend to hamper long-term planning, dent invest- ment and drag down growth as businesses are forced to spend time and resources figuring out how to adapt their production and supply chains. Even so, at the moment, the es- calating war with Iran, which be- gan five months ago with attacks by the United States and Israel, is having a much greater impact on the health of the global economy than tariffs are. In Japan, the gov- ernment cabinet office said on Fri- day that companies might be passing on increased costs caused
this blitz of punitive levies: The U.S. is at war with Iran.
by the war in Iran at an ever faster pace than they did after the Rus- sian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the last great global energy shock. Key energy trade routes in the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea continue to be disrupted. Oil prices jumped again last week, as the Iranian-backed Houthi militia group in Yemen escalated its con- frontation with Saudi Arabia and opened a second front in the re- gion’s conflict. The spike in oil prices sent jit- ters through the market, leading to a sell-off of government bonds and weighing down stocks. In the United States, gas prices hit $4 a gallon and mortgage rates ticked up. “The situation in the Middle East is to me, and from what I can see from the data, very much more worrying for the global economy than this fireworks of tariffs,” said Paola Subacchi, a pro- fessor at Sciences Po, Paris. On the trade front, she said, “it’s more or less the same story.” Perhaps no region in the world has been hit harder by the double whammy of tariffs and the war than Asia, where economies are heavily reliant on both exports and imported energy. Several major Asian countries have already negotiated ag- gressively to secure trade agree- ments with Washington. It’s not yet entirely clear how the new tar- iffs imposed by Mr. Trump will af- fect those deals, but representa- tives from several foreign govern- ments said they had privately been told that tariff rates would be the same as those negotiated last year. Japan promised $550 billion in American investments as part of a trade deal in exchange for a re- duced tariff rate of 15 percent. South Korea has similarly com- mitted tens of billions of dollars to- ward shipbuilding and battery manufacturing, while Taiwan has promised tens of billions to ex- pand advanced semiconductor production. So far, economies in Asia have performed better than expected.
Taiwan has pledged tens of billions of dollars to expand advanced semiconductor production in the United States.
“The biggest takeaway for me has been how resilient these econo- mies have been to all these shocks,” said Sonal Varma, an economist at Nomura, Japan’s largest investment bank and bro- kerage firm. Companies have either ab- sorbed costs, passed them on to consumers or rerouted shipments through other countries. And since the Iran war, despite short- ages, governments have offered supplies and subsidies to help businesses and consumers deal with rising fuel prices. Yet even as the bigger picture has been more positive than ex- pected, there are divergences across the region. Countries participating in the boom in artificial intelligence, through semiconductors, data centers or other parts of the ecosystem, have fared better than those that are more exposed to en- ergy shocks. The Philippines, which de- clared a national energy emer- gency in March and has continued
to grapple with rising fuel prices, has been left behind in the A.I. boom and is experiencing an eco- nomic slowdown. By contrast, an increase in semiconductor exports helped South Korea’s economy grow fast- er than expected this spring, off- setting declines in other sectors like construction. How negotiations play out be- tween the United States and China is perhaps the most impor- tant arena in Mr. Trump’s re- newed trade wars. “The main event in all of this is U.S. v. China,” said Mr. Tannen- baum at Northern Trust. “China has shown itself to be a very formidable trade bargainer,” he said. “They have been prepar- ing for this for a long time, and they know exactly where our vul- nerabilities are.” Xi Jinping, China’s leader, is planning a state visit to Washing- ton in September. And he has al- ready shown his willingness to withhold minerals that are critical to America’s tech and defense in-
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dustries to pressure the Trump administration on trade. Mary E. Lovely, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for Interna- tional Economics, recently met with Chinese analysts as part of a regular exchange program. She said China’s leaders “are very con- fident that their chokehold on per- manent magnets and rare earths will prevent President Trump from really going much higher than where he already is” on tariff levels. That could mean China ends up with lower tariffs than some of its neighbors, giving it an economic edge over competitors. The prize — easier access to the gigantic American market — is more valuable than ever. Ameri- can consumers have an enormous appetite for goods and have in- creased their spending at a faster pace than those in Europe or in China.
River Akira Davis contributed report- ing from Tokyo, and Alexandra Stevenson from Hong Kong.
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licly clashing. On Friday, Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, said in his first-ever post to X that “the world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.” Nine minutes later, Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief execu- tive, posted that open-source soft- ware was “essential to a healthy A.I. ecosystem.” Both signed a let- ter supporting open source, which was also signed by executives at Meta, Palantir and IBM. At the same time, OpenAI and Anthropic have lobbied regulators in Washington raising concerns about Chinese open-source A.I. models, five people close to the discussions said. The debate has drawn in Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Michael Krat- sios, President Trump’s science and technology adviser, who have weighed in on how American A.I. models are valuable intellectual property. The escalating fight stems from China’s rapid progress in open- source A.I. models, which are freely available to use and build on. In recent weeks, two Chinese A.I. start-ups, Z.ai and Moonshot AI, have released models that ri- val those from Anthropic and other American labs. Anthropic and OpenAI have claimed that Chinese companies built the mod- els by improperly harvesting data from their A.I. systems, which they said should not be allowed. But companies like Microsoft and Nvidia, which rely on open- source models to spur demand for their cloud computing services and chips, said that open-source software was important to ad- vancing the technology with shared knowledge and that it would let more people examine its security. And for Silicon Valley start-up founders, constraining open-source software could ce- ment the lead that OpenAI and Anthropic have in A.I., which crit- ics argue could unfairly stifle other companies from building competing products. “You have two factions fighting over this issue,” said Bill Gurley, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who opposes restrictions on open- source software. “There’s the peo- ple who want OpenAI and An- thropic to own everything, and then there’s everybody else, in- cluding customers.” Where this ends up has major
‘Soft Power’ Playbook For A.I. Technology
By STEVE LOHR
SEOUL — In the Cold War era, “soft power” meant American movies and music that won hearts and minds abroad. Today, in the digital era, China is pro-
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moting a very different kind of soft power: its open, low-cost artificial intelligence technology. In a speech this month, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, described so-called open-source A.I. as key to China’s ambitions to shape the global development of the tech- nology. Mr. Xi hailed open-sourc- ing, in which much of the soft- ware can be freely shared and modified, as a “rare and histori- cal opportunity” to spread the technology’s benefits worldwide. Mr. Xi made clear that China will champion the open path as an alternative to relying on U.S. tech giants, whose A.I. software is typically closed and more costly. “A.I. development should not be a solo performance by a single country,” Mr. Xi said, “but a symphony of global collabora- tion.” The Chinese are calling for a new A.I. order amid a mounting battle for global dominance between the leading American companies and fast-moving Chinese rivals. U.S. companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google hold their technology close, arguing that guarding the underlying code ensures greater security and control of powerful A.I. systems. Chinese companies like DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Z.ai and Alibaba have championed open- source A.I. They contend that those systems cost less, will accelerate global adoption and are no less secure. Promoting open-source artifi- cial intelligence “serves China’s twin goals of bolstering its image as an inclusive A.I. leader and reducing global reliance on American A.I.,” said Kyle Chan, a fellow at the Brookings Institu- tion who is a China technology policy expert. As the Chinese companies rapidly close the gap in A.I. performance, the country’s ri- valry with the United States has become more hostile. American
In his first-ever post to X, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang said he supported having both closed and open models.
implications not only for the U.S. tech industry but for the race be- tween America and China to domi- nate the powerful technology. While China had a later start in de- veloping cutting-edge A.I., it is catching up quickly in part be- cause of its embrace of open source, which has helped Chinese labs improve by publicly sharing their systems and winning them customers around the world with lower prices. American A.I. companies, in- cluding Anthropic and OpenAI, have accused Chinese labs of “dis- tilling” their systems by surrepti- tiously copying them, which has caught the attention of the Trump administration. On Wednesday, Mr. Bessent said the administration had con- sidered imposing sanctions on Chinese companies that steal in- tellectual property from Ameri- can firms. “Open source is not open season on American IP,” he said, referring to intellectual prop- erty. That same day, Mr. Kratsios said that “large-scale, covert in- dustrial distillation aimed at steal- ing proprietary U.S. technology and undermining American re- search is unacceptable.”
companies have accused some Chinese competitors of improp- erly harvesting data from their systems to aid their own technol- ogy’s development. Last month, Anthropic sent a letter to two U.S. senators accus- ing the Chinese tech giant Ali- baba of “brazenly” and “illicitly” trying to copy its technology using 24,000 fraudulent accounts. Alibaba has denied any wrongdo- ing. The Trump administration is taking such allegations seriously. On Wednesday, Treasury Secre- tary Scott Bessent threatened to impose sanctions on Chinese A.I. companies. “We support open-source A.I. and the innovation it unlocks,” Mr. Bessent posted on X. “But open source is not open season on American IP,” referring to intellectual property. U.S. tech executives and in- vestors also worry that the Chi- nese open-source technology could change the economics of A.I. production. Their models are more efficient, eating up less computing power. That innova- tion is driven partly by necessity because U.S. trade restrictions have limited access to the most advanced A.I. chips from Nvidia. If the Chinese A.I. alternatives are nearly as good and less ex- pensive — estimates range from 50 percent to 90 percent for some tasks — they could threaten the business plans and sky-high valuations of the American A.I. leaders. And the Chinese technol- ogy is increasingly being em- braced by engineers and compa- nies in the United States, seeking to trim costs. The China strategy is “to cap- ture market share across the world, even if it doesn’t translate into profits right away,” said Wendy Chang, a senior analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies, a think tank. Proponents of the open ap- proach point to Linux, an open- source software operating sys- tem, as a reason for optimism. The software runs most of the computers in internet data cen- ters and has benefited from many people poring over the code and making fixes. Still, computer experts agree that A.I. is a more nuanced case. There is more than code in-
U.S. officials still appear to be debating their options, but seem more likely to approach regulat- ing Chinese open-source models individually as a national security issue, rather than issuing some kind of blanket ban, four people with knowledge of the discussions said. Publicly, tech executives like Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief exec- utive, have said they support open-source software even as OpenAI allies quietly lobby for re- strictions. Others, like Google and Amazon, which have invested bil- lions in companies such as An- thropic and OpenAI, have spent the past week trying to stay out of the fray. But the tide is turning. Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, posted on social media on Satur- day that his company had “long benefited from open source” and was a big contributor to it. He add- ed that Google also signed the in- dustry letter supporting open source. (The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement of news articles. The two companies have denied the claims.) The open-versus-closed soft-
volved, notably the data used for training a model. And A.I. mod- els form judgments and can reason. There are also security con- cerns. Some security experts insist that the open-source ap- proach of releasing both software and the numerical settings for training A.I. models, known as weights, greatly increases the risk of the technology’s being used for cyberattacks or even to help build bioweapons. And the heavy influence of the Chinese government on its com-
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ware debate has traveled around Silicon Valley since the tech indus- try’s earliest days. Open-source proponents have argued that sharing information leads to im- provements that make software safer and more reliable, while more rapidly spurring innovation. Opponents maintain that software is costly to develop, and that giv- ing it away is just bad business. Today, much of the modern in- ternet runs on open-source tech- nologies, as do some of the most widely used computer systems, like Google’s Android operating system. The Chinese government and tech industry have embraced the open-source path for A.I. Last year, a Chinese start-up, DeepSeek, unveiled an open- source A.I. system that rivaled those of American companies, shocking the industry. Other Chi- nese companies have followed. In a speech this month, Xi Jinping, China’s leader, cast the country as a global champion of an open ap- proach to the technology. China’s advances have rattled executives at OpenAI and An- thropic, who are increasingly con- cerned that their longstanding head start is disappearing, two
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panies raises potential data protection and security concerns. But the closed models of the Silicon Valley companies have had their own security glitches. Last week, OpenAI disclosed that a model it was testing went rogue and attacked the computer systems of another company. The targeted company, Hugging Face, said it had deployed a Chinese open-source model from Z.ai to analyze data and counter the attack. Now, China has outlined a plan to leverage its open-source ad-
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After Huang’s post, Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s C.E.O., concurred that open-source software was “essential to a healthy A.I. ecosystem.”
people familiar with the compa- nies’ internal deliberations said. “These American companies build these big, expensive models, and then the models take a detour to China, where they lose all their value,” said Pedro Domingos, a professor emeritus of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. “The American companies are justifi- ably outraged.” To fight back, Anthropic and OpenAI are offering some cheaper A.I. models to businesses that may not need the “frontier” models that command higher prices. On Friday, Anthropic re- leased Claude Opus 5, a model that he company described as “close to the frontier intelligence of Fable 5 at half the price.” Open- AI is promoting similar lower-cost models. The real action is in Washing- ton. Behind closed doors, execu- tives from OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as investors in the compa- nies, have cited concerns about the global economy, A.I. safety and national security as they try to persuade regulators to increase restrictions on Chinese open- source software, three people fa- miliar with the discussions said. Sarah Heck, Anthropic’s head of public policy, said in a social me- dia post on Wednesday that “illic- it, adversarial distillation is IP theft and industrial espionage that supports adversary military and intelligence capabilities.” An- thropic executives claim that open-source models based on the
Moonshot’s booth at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai this month, above, and President Xi Jinping of China, before the event, at left. Both Moonshot and Mr. Xi have championed open-source A.I.
vantage as a diplomatic tool. The concept of open-source A.I. software as an instrument of soft power has been popularized in technology circles. It suggests influence through persuasion and desire — something people want — rather than the coercive “hard power” of military might and economic muscle. The open path offers a low- cost on-ramp to A.I. for software engineers and for nations seek- ing to catch the next wave of technology. “Those who benefit from free A.I. software certainly recognize it,” said Lawrence Lessig, a pro- fessor at Harvard Law School and a technology policy expert. “From a political perspective, it’s an enormous gain for China.” China, an authoritarian power, often uses the language of open- ness in outreach overseas, espe- cially to the developing world. And in recent years, it has used A.I. in those efforts, setting up joint A.I. development and edu- cation centers in dozens of na- tions. This year, China estab- lished the World Artificial Intelli-
company’s software are too dan- gerous to let run amok. OpenAI executives are urging the Trump administration to enact policies requiring mandatory se- curity evaluations of some new A.I. models overseen by govern- ment agencies, the company said in a blog post last month. OpenAI said it was “encouraged” by the work it was doing with the admin- istration on the framework. Open-source proponents have spent the past week drumming up support to push back against OpenAI and Anthropic. On Wednesday, nearly 200 Silicon Valley start-ups, calling them- selves the Little Tech Association, signed letters urging the Trump administration not to limit access to Chinese open-source models. Big Tech soon followed. On Fri- day, Elon Musk, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Mr. Altman and oth- ers lined up behind Mr. Huang and Mr. Nadella to throw the weight of their companies behind open source, followed by Mr. Pichai on Saturday. “Jensen is right,” Mr. Musk posted. “This has my full support.” “Open source is a positive and important force,” Mr. Zuckerberg wrote. One incident last week under- scored the stakes of the divide. Last week, OpenAI disclosed that a handful of its most advanced A.I. models broke containment during a test of their cybersecurity abili- ties, gained access to the internet and hacked the servers of an A.I. company called Hugging Face. OpenAI executives latched on to the moment as proof of how dan- gerous A.I. models can be even in a closed environment, emphasiz- ing the need for regulation. Clement Delangue, the chief ex- ecutive of Hugging Face, which is one of the most popular online li- braries of open-source software, had a different point of view. To de- fend the company from OpenAI’s hack, he turned to an open-source A.I. model created by China’s Z.ai. In social media posts on Friday, Mr. Delangue made his position on the debate unmistakable. “Open models for the win!” he wrote.
Mike Isaac and Kate Conger reported from San Francisco, Ana Swanson from Washington and Meaghan Tobin from New York.
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gence Cooperation Organization to shape A.I. governance princi- ples and to promote A.I. adoption and training in China-friendly countries. In his speech, Mr. Xi pledged further investments. That includ- ed 5,000 A.I. training and semi- nar programs for students and workers in developing countries over the next five years, as well as new or enlarged A.I. initia- tives in Africa, Asia and Latin America. On the same day as Mr. Xi’s speech, the People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s official news- paper, published an article on China’s A.I. investments abroad with a litany of training and joint-development programs. Its self-congratulatory conclu- sion: “China is helping countries around the world, particularly those in the Global South, strengthen their capabilities, winning broad international recognition and support.”
Your Money Adviser
By ANN CARRNS
As debt collection lawsuits clog state and local courts, efforts are underway to help strapped consumers using new legal protections and, in some cases, help from artificial intelligence. Collection suits may result from old debts, but they add to the stress people are feeling today from high gas and grocery prices, said Lester Bird, senior manager of courts and communities at the Pew Charitable Trusts and a co- author of a report this month on col- lection lawsuits. “More cases means more financial distress for people now, when people are feeling more pinched,” Mr. Bird said. Debt collection suits are filed by businesses or debt collectors when borrowers fail to pay a credit card bill, a medical bill or other debt. A debt judg- ment can have serious consequences for borrowers, like having money with- held from their paycheck or taken from a bank account. Increasingly, past-due accounts that the original lender or business has written off are purchased at a discount by large debt-buying firms, which may sue to collect the money, Mr. Bird said. Delinquent debts may be bought and sold multiple times; because the name of the company filing suit is often differ- ent from the borrower’s familiar credit card company, the borrower may ignore notices about the debt, Mr. Bird added. “They think it’s a scam,” he said. If debtors don’t show up at court, they often lose the case by default, which can lead to having their pay- checks docked. Few debtors are repre- sented by lawyers in these cases.
What’s behind the rise in collection lawsuits? Several factors may play a role, re- searchers said, including Americans’ rising debt levels. Credit card debt rose to $1.25 trillion in the first three months of this year, from $1.18 trillion a year earlier, while the share of borrowers with a collection account on their credit report worsened slightly, to 5 percent, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Technology has made it easier for debt buyers to purchase and analyze large batches of past-due accounts, making it possible to eke profits from cases with smaller balances, said David Freeman Engstrom, a Stanford law professor who studies debt collection and eviction cases. (Last year, a report from the National Center for State Courts raised the possibility that filing systems using A.I. could be partly driving an increase in debt claims.) “It’s incredibly easy, and the margin- al cost has gone down,” Professor En- gstrom said. Debt collection actions are the most frequently filed civil suits in state courts, he said, adding, “Courts are choking on these cases.”
By IAN FRISCH
As a series of blockbuster I.P.O.s mint a new crop of the ultra- wealthy, nonprofits are scram- bling to figure out how they can share in the bonanza. University fund-raising depart- ments are making lists of poten- tial white whales and philan- thropy executives are doing napkin math to prepare for a once-in-a-generation windfall that could create hundreds of billions of dollars in new dona- tions. Some are less optimistic than others. In recent years, a billion- aire backlash against charitable giving has emerged, as a subset of the wealthiest people in the world argue that business suc- cess, not philanthropy, is the best way to give back. But the founders of OpenAI and Anthropic — both expected to be among the largest I.P.O.s ever — have deep links to effec- tive altruism, a philanthropic philosophy that seeks to maxi- mize the effect of giving. And even those who aren’t feeling particularly generous may be moved by the tax burden that will come with cashing in their highly appreciated shares: If they sold, say, $10 million worth of stock, they could get a tax bill that exceeded $3.5 mil- lion. “It’s common to see vast amounts of low-basis, high-gain stock put in the hands of people that have no clue what an exit strategy is,” said Randy Fox, founder of Two Hawks, a family office consulting firm. “One of the only ways that you can elimi- nate capital gains taxes is by using charitable vehicles.” With advisers also having an incentive to collect the fees for setting up charitable trusts and foundations, the nonprofit sector
The number of collection suits fell during the pandemic years of 2020 through 2022 but have surged since then, Pew reported, citing research on eight states by January Advisors, a data science consulting firm. In 2025, collection suits in Alabama, Massachu- setts, Minnesota, Missouri, North Da- kota, Texas and Utah exceeded prepan- demic levels (Virginia was the excep- tion), with some states seeing new highs. Utah debt filings, for instance, are on track to exceed their most recent peak, which occurred after the Great Recession. The same trend was apparent in seven of nine major metropolitan areas tracked by the firm, including St. Louis County in Missouri, where filings nearly doubled between 2019 and 2025, Pew reported.
What are states doing to help borrowers? This year, Virginia joined more than a dozen other states that require banks to shield minimum amounts of cash in
could receive an annual infusion of more than $100 billion, accord- ing to some estimates.
Secondary windfall Nan Ransohoff, head of public goods at the payment processor Stripe, did the napkin math to figure out how large this windfall could be. Using current valuations, she figured that the nonprofit Open- AI Foundation, which owns 26 percent of OpenAI, would have about $220 billion become liquid when the company went public. The seven founders of An- thropic, which is expected to have an enormous I.P.O. as soon as this fall, have each pledged to give away 80 percent of their wealth, which could be about $90 billion. Anthropic also has a philanthropic matching program,
consumer accounts affected by debt collection judgments. Virginia’s law, which took effect July 1, protects at least $1,000 in a consumer’s bank ac- count from seizure; people don’t have to appear in court to request the protec- tion. The Virginia law doesn’t provide debt forgiveness, Mr. Bird said. Rather, borrowers have a cushion to cover basic expenses while paying off their debt. Some states have also adopted laws to help consumers more easily under- stand why they’re being sued, by whom and what they can do to defend them- selves. Virginia and Washington State passed legislation this year requiring that collection companies seeking de- fault judgments document that the correct person is being sued and actu- ally owes the debt, and that the suit is within the statute of limitations (often, three to six years from when the bor- rower stopped paying). The laws, which take effect next year, also require courts to confirm the documents’ accu-
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which could mean another $60 billion in funds earmarked for giving. In total, Ransohoff estimated in a Substack post, $37 billion to $100 billion could become avail- able to charities annually. “You could fully fund the Gates Foun- dation many times over, and then there’s still more to be spent,” she told DealBook. And that doesn’t even include OpenAI’s employees. Or the newly rich created by SpaceX, whose I.P.O. spawned an estimat- ed 4,400 millionaires (and some 400 employees now worth more than $100 million). Or the many other IP.O.s on the docket. The value of such public offerings could rise to $160 billion, the biggest year in absolute pro- ceeds ever recorded, according to Goldman Sachs.
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Tax incentives Giving money away is a common maneuver to avoid taxes: Up to 74 cents of every dollar donated to charity would have been paid as taxes, according to the Insti- tute for Policy Studies. It re- ported that charitable giving in 2022 alone had resulted in $73 billion in lost tax revenue. In California, where OpenAI and Anthropic are based, and where SpaceX has thousands of employees, some new billion- aires may also be in a rush to reduce their net worth before the State Legislature aims to levy a one-time 5 percent excise tax on billionaires. That gives them a double incentive to donate. Jon Feldhammer, a partner at the law firm Baker Botts, said a client with $300 million worth of stock options at a leading A.I. company set to go public this year was thinking of moving out of the state. “He has all options on the table,” Feldhammer said. “I have a lot of clients looking at leaving California in a much more seri- ous way and in much larger numbers than I’ve ever seen before.” Some common donation strat- egies include donating stock instead of cash to avoid capital gains taxes, and creating a trust that distributes fixed income to the donor (or the donor’s heirs) and a chosen charity. Wealth advisers say a donor- advised fund has proved the most popular for young employ- ees bracing for an I.P.O. windfall
racy, Pew said. Donald Maurice, outside counsel to the Receivables Management Associa- tion International, a trade group for debt buyers and collection firms, said its members would prefer to settle directly with borrowers rather than suing them, because court is expensive. “A lawsuit is the last resort,” he said. He also said new rules in some cities that cap the number of calls collectors can make to delinquent borrowers, like one that will take effect in New York City in September, could lead to more lawsuits. “That’s going to create less communi- cation and less opportunity for resolu- tion,” he said.
Can A.I. help courts manage the crush of suits? Even when states require specific docu- ments, the deluge of debt complaints can overwhelm staff and hamper a thorough review, the Pew report said, possibly leading to improper judgments against borrowers.
this year. These nonprofit chari- table giving accounts allow the donor to make tax-deductible stock contributions, and then direct funds from the account over time to various charities. It’s cheap, anonymous and easy, said Paul Tramontano, executive managing director at Cresset Asset Management. “There are no tax returns and no filings to do,” he said. “It’s sort of the best of both worlds.”
A new kind of philanthropy Some of the most famous philan- thropists throughout history — Rockefeller, Gates, Bloomberg — have created private founda- tions. But that path may not be as appealing to the latest batch of A.I. millionaires and billion- aires. A family foundation “really does require care and feeding,” said Brandon Smith, director of estate planning at LNW Advi- sors. He has more than 10 An- thropic employees as clients, some of them set to make up- ward of $100 million when the company goes public. “Most of these employees won’t have that kind of time,” he added. Ransohoff argues that the recipients of windfalls are likely to be interested in expanding beyond traditional philanthropic organizations. Many people who work in artificial intelligence, she said, have fast timelines and appreciate philanthropic organi- zations that operate more like start-ups. They may be willing to take high-risk, high-reward bets. “I’ve been thinking about: Should we do a Y Combinator for philanthropic start-ups?” she said. Stripe recently started a $500 million fund alongside the Open- AI Foundation, Anthropic, Bill Gates and others, aimed at back- ing efforts that prevent respira- tory infections like the flu and
To fix that problem, some courts are trying A.I. tools to speed up and im- prove the review of documents. The Superior Court of Los Angeles County, the nation’s largest trial court, has a partnership with Stanford Law School that includes testing the use of A.I. to evaluate debt collection claims. An initial study by Stanford legal and computer science researchers showed that reviewing case documents with A.I. support could reduce errors by 53 percent and time spent by 33 percent, compared with reviews done without A.I. help. The Superior Court has seen its debt collection caseload “skyrocket” in re- cent years, Rob Oftring, a court spokes- man, said in an email. He said that the project was in its early stages and that any new tool would be tested rig- orously, emphasizing “a thoughtful and cautious approach that recognizes artificial intelligence’s limitations, risks and potential impacts.”
Where can I get help managing my debt? Nonprofit credit counseling groups can analyze your budget and spending — typically, free of charge — to help keep you on track. They may also, for a fee, negotiate a debt management plan in which credit card companies agree to let borrowers pay off their debt over several years at a lower interest rate. Titus Milan, 28, an e-commerce man- ager in Texas for an air-conditioning company, said he had sought advice from ChatGPT on managing his debt — which led him to receive help online from Money Management Interna- tional, a nonprofit debt counseling firm. (He uses a paid version of the chatbot, and asked it to direct him to “low risk” debt management options.) Mr. Milan said his card debt had ballooned to about $15,000 — at about 26 percent interest — after he moved to a new apartment and bought furniture and other items. He was able to enter a repayment plan that reduced his over- all interest rate to 10 percent and put him on track to clear his debt in three to four years. (He is still paying off some card debt outside the formal plan.) Money Management International noticed an increase in online referrals from ChatGPT this spring, said Tom Nitzsche, a company spokesman. In May, when ChatGPT’s personal finance platform was released, the company recorded 3,000 referrals, up from about 1,000 in April. (Money Management International doesn’t advertise on the tool, although it could, Mr. Nitzsche said.) While consumers increasingly seek financial advice from A.I. services, privacy experts are raising concerns about sharing sensitive personal or financial information with the tools. You can find nonprofit credit counseling groups online directly, through the National Foundation for Credit Counsel- ing or the Financial Counseling Associ- ation of America.
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common cold. Ransohoff’s main worry is that there’s a shortage of organiza- tions that fit the ethos of the employees who stand to benefit from this year’s mega-I.P.O.s. “At the scale we’re talking about, it’s hundreds of Arc Insti- tutes or thousands of Institutes for Progress,” she said, citing two philanthropic organizations. “It’s sort of an abundance story.”
Giving not guaranteed Many employees of these leading A.I. labs want to enjoy their newfound wealth for at least a few years (even if it’s on paper) before committing to giving a chunk of it away. “They’re having a harder time grasping what the dollar value actually means in their lives,” said Frank Alvarez, a financial consultant at Tidemark Financial Partners. He has 26 clients who work at SpaceX, he said, and also advises employees from An- thropic and OpenAI. “The psychological transition of becoming a world steward, rather than an accumulator, is the hardest aspect,” Alvarez added. But Feldhammer said the best tax strategy was one that began long before a company went public. “There are a lot of ways to drastically change your estate tax situation long before the company is worth something,” he said. For example, rapidly appreci- ating private shares could be placed into a Roth I.R.A. — and therefore avoid taxes entirely without having to leverage char- ity. “It’s so sad when people come to us when they I.P.O.,” Feldham- mer added. “The economics never really work out such that you’re ahead — unless you’re charitably minded.”
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OR A FEW YEARS IN THE 1960S, a teenage filmmaker from Queens named Barbara Rubin helped jolt Manhattan’s underground art scene by pulling poets, painters, rock bands and experimental filmmakers into the same rooms. She had just turned 18 when she joined the filmmaker and critic Jonas Mekas in championing experimental movies. She also made one of her own, “Christmas on Earth,” a roughly 30- minute, black-and-white, 16-millimeter collage of naked bodies and overlap- ping images that became a touchstone of the New York avant-garde. She met the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and, by his account, seduced him. And she brought both Ginsberg and Bob Dylan to Andy Warhol’s studio, the Factory, the new epicenter of a rapidly growing art-world subculture. Rubin may not have introduced the underground to sex and drugs, but as the movement’s resident baby boomer she added a measure of rock ’n’ roll. She turned solemn poetry readings at the East Village café Le Metro, a hang- out for young writers, into impromptu dance parties at a dive bar around the corner, and she prodded two regulars, Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, to channel that spirit into a satirical rock band called the Fugs. She also escorted Warhol and his entourage into the tourist trap Café Bizarre, and intro- duced them to a raw young band, the Velvet Underground. She filmed the scenes she helped create. Her best known and only sur- viving film, shot intermittently between 1963 and 1965, began with an unprint- able working title before she borrowed its name from a line in the poet Arthur Rimbaud’s “A Season in Hell”: “Christ- mas on Earth.” The film could be clinically described as an exercise in gynecological explora- tion. Essentially performative, it was first shown at the Film-Makers’ Cine- matheque, on a double bill with Warhol’s “Outer and Inner Space,” with two reels projected side-by-side. More often, her film was shown with one image superimposed on the other. Occasionally she showed the reels sequentially or ran them backward and upside down. She continued to edit as well, cutting one print into four-frame shards and resplicing them at random. In every case, the content — an alter- nately obscure and bleached-out but always in-your-face entanglement of naked bodies — was impossible to ignore. Writing in Artforum in 2022, the critic Amy Taubin called “Christmas on Earth” “the most transgressive and transcendent” of American under- ground movies.
The ‘Host Whisperer’ For Late Night, Dies
By RICHARD SANDOMIR
Peter Lassally, a Holocaust sur- vivor who was a pivotal figure in late-night television for nearly half a century as a top producer of “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” “Late Show With David Letterman” and “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” died on July 20 in Los Angeles. He was 93. His death, at a memory-care fa- cility, was confirmed by his son, Tom, a film and TV producer. The urbane Mr. Lassally knew what made talk-show hosts suc- cessful. Among his strengths was “getting the host to understand how to listen, how to ask the ques- tions that an audience might want to hear, and to listen to the answer and to not be thinking ahead with a joke,” the comedian Garry Shandling, who guest-hosted for Mr. Carson and later starred in “The Larry Sanders Show,” a se- ries about a fictional late-night talk show, told NPR in 2012. After being hired as an associ- ate producer for “The Tonight Show” in 1969, Mr. Lassally rose to become a producer and then an
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ESTES—Richard J. Dr. Richard James Thomas, DSW, beloved father, grand- father, scholar, storyteller, mentor, and friend, passed away peacefully from natural causes on July 17, 2026. Rich- ard leaves behind a remark- able legacy of family, ser- vice, scholarship, and com- passion. As a Professor of So- cial Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, Richard spent decades con- ducting groundbreaking re- search on international social development, quality of life, and global well-being while educating others to continue his work. Richard authored numerous books and scholar- ly articles, received multiple Fulbright awards, served in leadership roles within inter- national professional organi- zations, and was recognized with many of social work's
Barbara Rubin in the 1970s. Right, the Velvet Underground performing at Andy Warhol’s immersive “Exploding Plas- tic Inevitable” event at St. Marks Place in 1966, which Rubin helped organize. She had introduced Warhol to the band.
Barbara Rubin was born on June 8, 1945, the second child of Lester Rubin, a businessman, and Pauline (Katz) Rubin, who managed the home. She grew up in a two-family house in Cam- bria Heights, a suburban neighborhood in southeastern Queens. Relatives interviewed in Chuck Smith’s 2019 documentary, “Barbara Rubin & the Exploding NY Under- ground,” describe her parents as per- missive and Barbara as willful. An addiction to diet pills while she was in high school landed her in Silver Hill Hospital, a sanitarium in New Canaan, Conn. Rubin was discharged in June 1963, shortly after turning 18. Her uncle William Rubin, who was managing the Off Broadway Gramercy Arts Play- house, found her a job working as an assistant to Mekas, an evangelist for independently made movies, at the Film-Makers’ Cooperative, which had been set up to distribute underground films. “A week out of nine months of mental hospital indoctrination and I meet Jonas Mekas and he gives me a camera and film, love and trust,” she wrote in the Film-Makers’ Cooperative catalog by way of introducing her films. Her arrival had coincided with the first screenings of Jack Smith’s scandal- ous “Flaming Creatures,” which quickly became a test case for obscenity laws. In December 1963, Mekas intended to present his magazine Film Culture’s annual award by screening “Flaming Creatures” at the Tivoli Theater, a seedy Times Square movie house. When the theater abruptly canceled the show, Rubin led an occupation until the
executive producer, working in tandem with the show’s other ex- ecutive producer, Fred De Cor- dova. Following the taping of each show, Mr. Lassally and Mr. Carson would meet to discuss what had worked and what had not. “I sometimes had a tendency to be much more negative than he was about a portion of the show,” Mr. Lassally said during an inter- view with the Television Academy in 2009. “He would say to me: ‘It’ll play better on the air. Don’t worry about it.’ I’m supposed to calm him down.” Later, while working with Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Lassally found that it was best to wait until the next morning to offer an honest assess- ment, because Mr. Ferguson would be on too much of a high im- mediately after the show. The Scottish comedian, who was a novice host when he was hired for “The Late Late Show” in 2004, gave Mr. Lassally a nick- name the host whisperer. “He had a great deal of author- ity, but he was quiet, soft-spoken and gentle,” Mr. Ferguson said in
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with many of social work s highest honors. Yet, his great- est pride came from mentor- ing, collaborating, and striv- ing to leave the world better than he found it. Until his final day, Richard was a traveler, an adventurer, a romantic, and a beloved community member. Richard is survived by his three daughters - Lynn E. Calkins, Vicki E. Payne (David), and Jennifer E O'Connor (Thomas), his step- daughter - Sarah A. Lynch (Mickey), and his twelve grandchildren (Andrew, Chelsea, and Ryan Calkins; Isabella, Jack, Nick, and Jes- sie Payne; Julia and Brendan O'Connor; and Kieran, Lucas, and Nora Lynch). He was predeceased by his wife, Gail Buchanan Estes. He will be
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Peter Lassally, right, with Johnny Carson and Fred De Cordova, left, an executive producer of “The Tonight Show,” in an undated photograph. Right, in an undated photo. Below, in 2005 with Craig Ferguson, who said that Mr. Lassally “had a great deal of authority,” but was “quiet, soft-spoken and gentle.”
an interview, although “some- times he’d say things that were hard to hear, like, ‘You have a creepy laugh, you have to drop it.’ Really?” One piece of advice that Mr. Fer- guson received continues to res- onate with him. Mr. Lassally, he said, would never say no to a joke, but he would say: “Is this joke worth it? How funny is it? If it’s not funny enough, it’s not worth it.” Mr. Lassally was also known for finding new talent for “The To- night Show,” especially comedi- ans. “He was looking to expand be- yond the routine guests, which was important for Carson, who was an Old World talent,” Bill Carter, the author of “The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno and the Network Battle for the Night” (1994), said in an interview. “He had to bring in new talent to keep the show alive.” In 1982, Mr. Lassally discovered the deadpan comedian Steven
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police cleared the building. Later that month, she and Mekas smuggled “Flaming Creatures” into an international avant-garde film festival in Belgium, forced their way into a projection booth and managed to show part of it before the organizers cut the power, helping touch off a near riot that made the front page of Variety. According to Mekas, those battles transformed Rubin from an apparently shy teenager into a rebel, “bursting and burning with hallucinations, shooting
artists such as Warhol, Ginsberg and Dylan.
her first movie, with the excitement of a holy nun,” he wrote of his protégée in his weekly Village Voice film column. When “Christmas on Earth” was shown in 1965, Mekas was moved to poetry: “As the film goes, image after image, the most private territories of the body are laid open for us. The first shock changes into silence, then is transposed into amazement.” He proposed a syllogism: “Barbara Rubin has no shame; angels have no shame; Barbara Rubin is an angel.” She solicited support from Walt Dis- ney for a sequel, “Christmas on Earth Continued,” that would feature the Beatles and Dylan with Hollywood stars like Elizabeth Taylor alongside cartoon characters like Tinker Bell, Dumbo, and the Seven Dwarfs. Her
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Wright at a Boston comedy club called Ding Ho, where Mr. Wright was among a dozen or so comics performing — all of them aware that Mr. Lassally would be there scouting. Afterward, the comics milled around in the parking lot, hoping for an encouraging word. But Mr. Lassally was looking for Mr. Wright, who had already left. He later found Mr. Wright’s phone number and called to book him. “He was so clever and so differ- ent, and such a nice boy,” Mr. Las- sally told CBS News in 2018. “And so grateful — he still calls me ev- ery anniversary of his appearance to thank me again.” Peter Gerhard Eduard Lassally was born on Oct. 14, 1932, in Ham- burg, Germany, to Paul Lassally, a coffee importer and exporter, and Else Lassally, who ran the home. In 1938, his family fled the Nazis, settling in Amsterdam, where Peter, a violin prodigy, continued to play and his sister, Irene, attended grade school
request was ignored. While on a flight to London with Ginsberg, she slipped a copy of her script to Dylan, who was also on the plane, to give to the Beatles. In London, Rubin was an organizer of the Interna- tional Poetry Incarnation at Royal Albert Hall in June 1965. The event drew 7,000 people, including Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull and Indira Gandhi. She moved forward on other projects, including collaborating with Warhol and his associates on the “Exploding Plastic Inevitable,” an immersive, multimedia art event staged on St. Marks Place in April 1966. In 1967 she pulled together a three- week mixed media extravaganza called “Caterpillar Changes” at the Film- Makers’ Cinematheque. A kaleidoscopic presentation of multiscreen projections accompanied by live music, including performances by the Argentine saxo- phonist Gato Barbieri, the program was described on fliers as “New York’s First United Acidheadspeed Relief Fun Ball and Glitter Parade.” Rubin was a fixture at major counter- cultural events like the Easter 1967 Central Park Be-In and the October 1967 antiwar March on the Pentagon, which she participated in with the filmmaker Shirley Clarke. She and Clarke wanted to collaborate on an anti-Vietnam movie with a work- ing title of “The Fugs Go to Saigon” and with a supporting cast that included the writers William S. Burroughs and LeRoi Jones (who later changed his name to Amiri Baraka), but they were unable to secure funding. Rubin’s last major project was creat-
with Anne Frank. Several years later, his father died of cancer, and soon after, in 1943, he and his mother and sister were sent to Westerbork, a Nazi transit camp in the northeastern Netherlands. They were next im- prisoned at the Theresienstadt concentration camp, in what was then Czechoslovakia, where his sister was part of a group that built gas chambers. Among the atroci- ties Peter witnessed was a baby being hanged from a lamppost. “It was a hard time for all of us,” he told NPR. The family survived and, in 1947, sailed for New York, where they settled in Queens. Peter grad- uated from Newtown High School and started his show business ca- reer, first as an usher at Radio City Music Hall and then as a page at NBC. In the 1950s, he produced na- tionally broadcast programs for the NBC radio network, including “Monitor” and “Nightline,” where he hired rising comic talents like Mike Nichols and Elaine May. He also produced “PM East/PM West,” a late-night TV talk show hosted by Mike Wallace and Joyce Davidson, from 1961 to 1962, and radio and television shows with Arthur Godfrey, a megastar of the era. His connection to “The Tonight Show” was Mr. Carson’s second wife, Joanne Carson, who had heard about his work for Mr. God- frey and asked him to produce a TV pilot for her. It was never shot, but she helped him get the job with her husband. In a 2014 interview with “The Carson Podcast,” Mr. Lassally de- scribed his working relationship with Mr. De Cordova, the better- known of the show’s executive producers. “He would be Mr. Jolly and schmooze with the guests, which I don’t like to do,” Mr. Lassally said, “and I would do all the work.” He had a different sort of rela- tionship with Robert Morton, his co-executive producer on Mr. Let- terman’s “Late Night” program on NBC, where he moved in 1992 af-
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ing East Hill Farm, a bohemian com- mune in upstate New York that was funded by Ginsberg and populated by his friends. Rubin envisioned it as a place where she could settle down and have a child with Ginsberg; he did not share her interest. Rubin was heartbroken, said the photographer Gordon Ball, a farm resident, and took refuge in a nearby Orthodox Jewish orphanage. She studied with the charismatic rabbi Shlomo Freifeld at his yeshiva in Far Rockaway, Queens, and in 1971 married a fellow student, Mordechai Levy, at a traditional Orthodox wedding attended by Ginsberg and Dylan. Rubin made one last movie, “Emu- nah” (the Hebrew word for faith), which she described to Mekas as “a film dealing with the concentration camp experience.” It has since been lost. Rubin and Levy divorced, and she married the French-born painter Israel Isaac Besancon, and, in 1973, they moved to Aix-les-Bains a town in east- ern France renowned as a post-Holo- caust sanctuary for Jewish rebirth. She died on Sept. 17, 1980, of a post- natal infection after giving birth to her fifth child. She was 35. Two years later, Mekas arranged for a screening of “Christmas on Earth.” He also archived their plentiful correspon- dence, rescued her work from obscurity and created a short film, “To Barbara Rubin With Love” (2006). In 2013, Anthology Film Archives and the Boo-Hooray gallery showed her films and exhibited her notes and let- ters and relevant photographic ma- terial. The next year, the film scholar Ara Osterweil’s book “Flesh Cinema: The Corporeal Turn in American Avant- Garde Film” placed Rubin in the con- text of the radical feminist artists Car- olee Schneemann and Yoko Ono. The final issue of Film Culture, pub- lished in 2018, was devoted to “The Legend of Barbara Rubin.” Smith’s “Barbara Rubin & the Exploding New York Underground” followed in 2019, and Todd Haynes’s 2021 documentary, “The Velvet Underground,” confirmed Rubin’s centrality to the downtown avant-garde scene. Utterly otherworldly, Rubin moved through the 1960s as a kind of human switchboard, connecting poets, film- makers and rock musicians long before social networks existed. Her path traced an improbable tra- jectory from Cambria Heights through the downtown underground to the exaltation of Hasidic mysticism. The films, records and memories she left behind are fragmentary, but they sug- gest that the connections she forged and the life that grew out of them were her enduring achievement and mystery.
ter Mr. Carson retired, and on Mr. Letterman’s “Late Show” on CBS, which started a year later. As Mr. Morton said in an inter- view: “I ran the show, but Pete was the guy who guided us in turn- ing the show from a 12:30 show to an 11:30 show. Nobody knew 11:30 better than Pete.” Mr. Lassally was a key confi- dant of Mr. Letterman’s during the comedian’s failed attempt to suc- ceed Mr. Carson at “The Tonight Show,” a position that went to Jay Leno instead. At one point, said Mr. Carter, the author of “The Late Shift,” Mr. Lassally brokered a meeting between Mr. Letterman and Bob Wright, the president of NBC, that nearly led to an offer for Mr. Letterman to succeed Mr. Leno as host at the end of Mr. Leno’s first contract with “The To- night Show.” Mr. Lassally also advised Mr. Letterman to hire the agent Mi- chael Ovitz, who fielded a panoply
shows that featured Carson, Ferguson and Letterman.
of offers that resulted in Mr. Let- terman becoming the host of CBS’s “Late Show,” running oppo- site “The Tonight Show” at 11:30 — actually, in the modern era, 11:35 — p.m. That deal with CBS also gave Mr. Letterman’s production com- pany control of the 12:30 a.m. time slot, on which “The Late Late Show” aired. By the time Mr. Lassally left “Late Show” three years later, he was also an executive producer of “The Late Late Show,” hosted by the newsman Tom Snyder from 1995 to 1999. Mr. Lassally returned to run the show when Mr. Fergu- son was the host, from 2005 to 2014. In addition to his son, Mr. Las- sally is survived by a daughter, Andrea Gibbin, and four grand- children. His wife, Alice (Ger- shon) Lassally, died in 2019. Not long after Mr. Lassally joined “The Tonight Show,” he said, Mr. Carson drunkenly con- fided that he didn’t deserve his job. “I thought, ‘Wow, this is going to be a rough trip,’” he said in the Television Academy interview. “But that was the only time in all those years where he just lost con- trol completely and revealed what his fears were.”
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Reshape Washington
an artist and political strategist, is a cultural czar of sorts for the White House.
By ZACHARY SMALL
WASHINGTON — Matthew Taylor officially holds one role in the Trump administration as a senior adviser at the National Endow- ment for the Humanities, but he has quietly become a key player behind many of the president’s bold initiatives to transform Washington and its cultural legacy. This year, President Trump appointed Taylor to the Commission of Fine Arts, a federal agency that reviews government construction here, to rubber-stamp approv- als for projects such as the White House ballroom and the world’s tallest triumphal arch. He secured a role overseeing the Na- tional Garden of American Heroes, which would include the installation of 250 new statues in the capital. Taylor consulted on the White House’s scathing report about the Smithsonian, which accused the National Museum of American History of promoting “extreme ideological activism.” And he was a con- stant presence at the U.S. Pavilion at the
surrendering control to save relationships is resonating.
By VIVIAN YEE
Laura Doyle, best-selling author of “The Surrendered Wife” and several other books that promise to teach women to save their marriages, no matter how oafish their hus- bands might seem, has a question for me, the journalist who has come to Southern California to interview her. “Are you bossy?” she asks me, softly, almost shyly. “Are you controlling?” I flash back to my ex, who labeled me con- trolling for pushing him to quit smoking, go out more, eat what I wanted to eat and take his shoes off inside my apartment. “Um,” I stammer. “Some people would probably say so.” Ms. Doyle is looking at me from her ivory couch, her husband of 36 years, John Doyle, next to her. “They would?” she says, her voice warm, with no judgment that I can de- tect.
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From Bit Part To Sci-Fi Leading Man
spinoff after ‘The Big Bang Theory.’
By ASHLEY SPENCER
LOS ANGELES — When Kevin Sussman played Stuart Bloom, the downtrodden owner of a comic book store on “The Big Bang Theory,” he would pass the time on set by reading the props, challenging himself to get fully engrossed in the stories until it was his turn to say his lines. Now, that comic book store set has been recreated for a new spinoff, but Sussman no longer has time to read the merchandise. As the title star of “Stuart Fails to Save the Uni- verse,” he is in uncharted territory: at the top of the call sheet. “I’ve never really had a 10-year plan or a career goal other than to keep working and do interesting roles,” Sussman said. “For the most part, it’s just been: What is being offered? What can I get? Also, making my health insurance.” Cocreated by Chuck Lorre, “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe” is the third spinoff of the wildly popular “The Big Bang Theory,” which Lorre also cocreated. That show ran for 12 seasons on CBS and ended in 2019. But unlike the straightforward family sit- com prequels “Young Sheldon” and “Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage,” “Stuart,” which premiered Thursday on HBO Max, is a sci-fi comedy. It is akin more to “Doctor Who” and “The Good Place” than to its predecessors.
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I wouldn’t deny it, I tell her. But I have a question of my own. Given that Ms. Doyle considers herself a feminist, an ambitious, capable woman who was raised to be inde- pendent and has run her own company for nearly a quarter-century — given all that — does she hesitate to describe women, in- cluding herself, as “bossy” and “control- ling”? Because that is the premise of her books, the message she has been publishing, blog- ging, broadcasting, podcasting and teach- ing her international network of relation- ship coaches since 1999. That Ms. Doyle, 59, a self-described “former shrew,” thought she knew better than her husband as a young wife, “nagging” him to eat healthier, maintain the car on schedule and wear what she thought he should wear. That begging and cajoling only made him turn up the TV and drove him from their bed. The message she is spreading is that with her marriage “in a ditch,” she reluctantly started taking the advice she received from happy wives to practice gratitude, apolo- gize to her husband for emasculating and disrespecting him, metaphorically “duct tape” her mouth to curb her criticisms, make herself open to sex anytime, and relin- quish control — even of their finances, even if it meant sitting in the dark because he for- got to pay the electricity bill (which actually happened). That taking care of herself (naps, beach volleyball) would help her show up better. That trying to change her husband got her nowhere, but changing herself gave her the marriage she had al- ways dreamed of. That the intimacy re- turned so strongly that, nine years after marrying, she took her husband’s name. That the “intimacy skills,” as she came to call her findings, would work for other wives, even ones facing abuse, adultery or husbands with addictions. That women are fundamentally different from men, whatever modern notions of gen- der equality might say. That a lot of women are controlling, and consequently unhappy. That becoming a “surrendered wife” will save your marriage, but it might also save you. The state of American gender relations is poor. Liberal-leaning straight women com- plain of heteropessimism, the conviction that dating men will end in tears. Young women increasingly reject marriage; di- vorce, in certain online spaces, is hot. Gen Z women are the most progressive Ameri- cans, speeding further left as more Gen Z men supported President Trump. Many of the far-right online ranters of the ma- nosphere paint women as mere conquests, breeders who exist to serve men. The women of a manosphere splinter sect, the “red pill women,” theorize that men (“captains” in marriage) are naturally dom- inant, and women (“first mates”) naturally submissive. Self-described red pill women may be a small minority, but they embody an increasingly visible axiom on the Ameri- can right, that feminism is where it all went wrong. And if anyone asks them what to read, their answer is very often Laura Doyle. Their philosophy has an apparent sym- metry with Ms. Doyle’s, which holds that men, with their drive to protect and provide, “need respect like they need oxygen.” Wom- en who want their husbands to desire and cherish them, she says, should “abandon the myth of equality.” Instead of acting like “smaller, less hairy men” and shouldering everything because they think he won’t do it or won’t do it right, they should practice softness, vulnerability and femininity — by which she means receptivity to gifts, com- pliments and help with suitcase-carrying, driving and household tasks. She used to tell women with abusive, alcoholic or adul- terous husbands to leave, but later re- tracted that advice, saying that she had heard too many stories of such wives using the skills to save their marriages. If you want to leave, leave, she says, but if you want to fix your relationship, you can. You married him for a reason. “Who am I to say?” she says in our inter- view. “I should have never said to stay, I should never say to leave, I shouldn’t say at all.” One of her mantras is “You are the ex- pert in your own life.” The problem with reading Laura Doyle as some kind of manosphere apologist is that too many women of all types swear by her. Some would argue that’s only because pa- triarchy is baked into us all. Be that as it may, the straight women of America, and beyond, evidently crave succor from some- one like her: a hetero-optimist in a hetero- fatalist world. Since Ms. Doyle self-released “The Sur- rendered Wife” in 1999, eventually hitting the New York Times best-seller list, her books have been published in 19 languages across 30 countries. Friends surrendered, then friends of theirs, then women around the country and the world. Orthodox Jewish wives press her books on brides-to-be; evangelical Christian and observant Mus- lim wives have surrendered. But so have many secular or not particularly religious women who see themselves as strong and self-sufficient, doctors and lawyers and business owners and homemakers alike. “I almost gagged myself when I saw the
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Laura and John Doyle today, top, and on their wedding day, above. When trouble surfaced a few years into their marriage, she sought advice that put her on the path to becoming a best-selling author, right, and forming a network of relationship coaches, below.
Surrendering ‘helped me honor myself and be more successful in my career than I ever would have been.’
title,” said Darlene Davis, 66, a graphic de- signer in New Jersey who found “The Sur- rendered Wife” when her relationship was floundering. This was soon after Simon & Schuster published the book in 2001, adorn- ing the cover with a red rose. “But within two weeks, I saw the difference.” Pre-surrender, Ms. Davis described her- self as a “big man-basher” who joked about male foibles with the best of them. Her post- surrender diagnosis: “Because I’m a strong, independent woman who knows how to get things done, I was doing all these things, telling him what to wear and speak- ing for him,” she said. “That’s great for busi- ness and all these other things, but it wasn’t good for him. He’s a very masculine man. He needs respect.” She soon caught her future husband shopping for engagement rings. Ms. Davis eventually became one of the first Laura Doyle-certified relationship coaches, a group that now includes more than 600 women worldwide. The company — mission: “End World Divorce” — says more than 15,000 women worldwide have received Laura Doyle coaching through programs including “Ridiculously Happy Wives,” while others are receiving private coaching. Amanda Blaine, 45, a nonviolent commu- nication counselor, spent her 20s sur- rounded by progressives who embraced polyamory and avoided gendered words, including “man” and “woman.” Uncomfort- able with stereotypical femininity, she briefly identified as genderqueer. During the coronavirus pandemic, a breakup led her to “The Empowered Wife” (published in 2017). Within one chapter, she felt as if Ms. Doyle had been watching her relationship. The skills soon reunited Ms. Blaine with her boyfriend. That December, she started coach training, which she said gave her the self-understanding to leave her boyfriend for good. (She wanted kids; he did not.) Now happily married with a young son, Ms. Blaine coaches the skills to women, in- cluding one with a nonbinary partner, en- couraging them to look past the old-fash- ioned language. “You don’t have to be a woman with a man to relinquish control of your partner,” she said. “It’s just how to be a person in a relationship.” But it wasn’t easy, admitting she was “a woman who wants to bear a child and wants to be doted on by a man,” she said. Friends scoffed at the skills. Her coach- ing-program classmates were headed for divorce, one friend predicted. She fell out with another who asked, “Why do you have to call yourself ‘feminine’?” A mentor said being told to “respect” one’s husband made her recoil. It sounded like subjugation. But Ms. Blaine, watching women in her circle get divorced, wished they had known the skills. “Maybe there’s something you’re missing about what’s possible with this person who you wanted to spend your life with,” she said, “because of this other narrative around women’s empowerment.” Listening to her reminded me of friends of mine who had gotten married despite questioning the institution of marriage, who’d had kids despite critiquing the tradi- tional nuclear family — that classic wom- an’s quandary, freedom versus love, never resolved and especially fraught in the age of the tradwife. I had read surveys saying that women, in this day and age, still wanted men who could support their families. Rea- sonable! But also, tradition is hard to shake. In her spacious living room in Corona Del Mar, Calif., the blue-tiled pool her husband built her shimmering through the sliding doors beyond, Laura Doyle tells me she knows she sounds old-fashioned, even backward. But she is no doormat, as she has been accused of telling other women to be. Her ambition and independence remain, “but I think you can actually parse that con- trol out,” she says. Control comes from fear, she says; she would rather put positivity in charge. Surrendering, she says, “helped me honor myself and be more successful in my career than I ever would have been.” Honoring and respecting yourself, not only your husband, is one of Ms. Doyle’s main prescriptions. She and the Laura Doyle coaches I interviewed said the skills helped them prioritize their own desires,
stop “martyring” themselves to children or chores, take care of themselves, ditch re- sentment and blame and gain dignity and humility. “We ask, ‘What do you want?’ We never ask, ‘What does he want?’” said Marissa Zwetow, 49, a coach in Southern California. “That’s not submissive.” They said they, too, wish men would do better. But if we’re stuck with the world we have, not the world we want, the only thing that makes these women feel empowered is changing themselves. It’s a sort of mental magic trick, transmuting what really seemed to me to be a form of hetero-resig- nation (and hetero-desperation) into het- ero-hopefulness. (Though not absolutism: Ms. Doyle emphasizes that women can al- ways leave.) Ms. Doyle lays her hand over her hus- band’s, saying, “I think it’s OK if we want to be loved, not just have careers.” I ask Mr. Doyle, 70, whether he thinks men could do more. He says his wife’s self- improvement helped him step up. Before, “you feel that nothing that you do
is going to be right,” he said. Now, “I feel more willing to help and to do things,” he said, “because there won’t constantly be a rejection or a criticism just for basically be- ing who I am.” Ms. Doyle was raised up the coast in Huntington Beach, Calif., the eldest child of a turbulent marriage. Her mother, a concert violinist and nurse, often pushed her father, who took X-rays at a hospital, to make more money. She raised Ms. Doyle not to depend on a man and played her the 1972 Marlo Thomas record “Free to Be . . . You and Me,” the groundbreaking children’s album that sang gently of an egalitarian world without traditional gender norms. Ms. Doyle moved out in high school, when her parents’ marriage splintered for good. At San Jose State University, she met Mr. Doyle, a video producer who had moved in next door. They married when she was 22. Four years later, she writes, she was con- vinced she had married the wrong guy. Too embarrassed for divorce, she sought advice from happily married women. Their counsel horrified her. “‘This stuff sounds crazy,’” she remem- bers thinking. “I was afraid I was letting all feminists everywhere down by staying in a relationship where I was being mistreated.” Desperate, she tried it anyway. When tempted to criticize or micromanage, she writes, she asked herself which she wanted more, control or connection. She repeated “surrender” to herself, shorthand for “stop trying to control everything.” Soon she was spreading the gospel to friends, who asked her to write it down for other friends. The Doyles self-published the result. When Simon & Schuster picked it up, the publisher wanted to dump the did-she- really-say-that title, she said, but it was al- ready generating too much buzz. She went on “The View”; she went on the “Today” show. Later came four more books, a streaming TV show and a podcast, whose video version Mr. Doyle helps produce. “The Surrendered Wife” was reissued for
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its 25th anniversary this summer. An Adored Wife app is coming. When I visit her, Ms. Doyle is perched on a powder-pink desk chair in her floral-wall- papered home office, nodding and beaming affirmations at the assembled acolytes on a Zoom call for coach trainees. She raises her arms and cheers as she calls each name (“Tess! Tess is heeere!”). There’s a lot to celebrate. In her world, the wives are ridicu- lously happy, and the husbands are all great guys. “So sweet,” she tells one woman who re- counts using the intimacy skills to allow her husband to deal with the dishes when she was exhausted and the dishwasher was broken. “You have a great guy, Catherine. That’s awesome.” “Sounds like you’re just the princess at your house, like I am at mine,” she tells an- other woman whose husband cleaned the kitchen unasked. I can’t help thinking of the feminist complaint that men get applause for every chore they do, while women are just expected to do it. “Very, very surrendered, I’ve got to say,” she says to a third. Streams of red hearts keep floating across the screen as the other participants show support. It’s hard not to be happy for all these women, even if some of the things they said startled me. (One coach told me a client ended up in bankruptcy after relinquishing the finances to her husband. She prioritized preserving the relationship over blaming him.) Still, I wondered: Is it really this easy? And also, does it have to be this hard? A few interviewees acknowledged that it did not work for some women they knew, re- calling one or two who had left their hus- bands. Then I found Jennifer Phoenix Allen, 45, a trauma therapist outside Minneapolis. Her 12-year marriage hit rock bottom in February. She had spent years frustrated with his parenting; he had spent years lying about using porn. She’d caught him secretly recording her. He wanted a divorce. She felt she needed to stay for their 8- year-old son, who has autism and A.D.H.D. Enter Laura Doyle. And . . . it worked. “Cue the moral dilemma,” Ms. Allen said. Because she was a feminist and she wanted her man, all men, to step up without her having to practice what often felt sneaky, like wearing a mask. Because she thought Laura Doyle advised being meek and demure, which grated. Because Laura Doyle told her to yield control of the fi- nances, and she needed a separate bank ac- count for security. Because she wasn’t even sure that monogamy and marriage were anything but artifices that capitalism had foisted upon us all. Because if she had to be married, couldn’t marriage be between two equal adults who made it work together? “Why is it me having to do all these things, whereas he can keep on keeping on the way he always has?” Ms. Allen said. “I have a hard time not just taking a giant step back and looking sociologically at, how the F did we get here? Why are gender rela- tions so incredibly messed up?” But, indisputably: He had changed. And nothing else she had tried had worked. “It’s been a shift from viewing him as, ‘Oh my God, you’re an abusive narcissist,’ to re- alizing I was being so critical and I needed to clean up my side of the street better,” she said. “Looking back, was I more harsh to my husband than I needed to be? I believe that I was.” Was I harsher to my ex-boyfriend than I needed to be? Maybe. Probably. The thing is, I’m no surrendered wife, and my current boyfriend is great anyway. I tell this to all the interviewees. Ms. Davis, the longtime coach, told me I must be practic- ing the skills subconsciously, and, after all this time in Laura Doyle’s world, who knows! Ms. Doyle doesn’t tell me that. But she does seem to suggest, gently, that unless I change my ways, I might repeat the same mistakes. That’s what would have hap- pened to her if she had exchanged hus- bands instead of changing herself, she says. Instead: The morning before our inter- view, Mr. Doyle cleans the kitchen. He does the dishes, as always. He makes her tea. When a photographer arrives to take their portrait, they pose together. “Your eyes are so blue!” Laura Doyle exclaims, and smiles up at her husband.
ALBUM REVIEW Charli XCX Enters Her Next Chapter
The singer moves on from ‘Brat’ to a brief, personal new work.
“MUSIC, FASHION, FILM,” the proudly prickly, satisfyingly scuzzy eighth album by Charli XCX, is but one component in what now feels like a long and occasionally fa- tiguing pop performance piece about how one follows an unexpected cultural jugger- naut that launched its creator to a new level of fame. That was 2024’s “Brat,” a brash, go-for- broke LP that boomeranged between he- donistic party-girl self-mythologizing (“I wanna dance to me, when I go to the club”) and disarmingly vulnerable confessions of insecurity that reimagined the pop lyric akin to a messy run-on sentence texted to a trusted group chat in the middle of the night. “I’m embarrassed to have it but need the sympathy,” she sang on a self-loathing synth-pop anthem about failing to measure up to an A-list pop star. In a twist, “Brat” made her one. But it also ballooned into a phenomenon much larger than music — the endless memes of “Brat
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Summer,” with its accompanying slime- green aesthetic and goblin-mode attitude — that risked turning Charli into a caricature or, perhaps worse, a conventional celebrity. Before “Brat,” Charli XCX, the English- born Charlotte Aitchison, was as close to the underground as one can get while still quali- fying as a pop star. She had flashes of main- stream success a decade prior — as a song- writer and featured vocalist on Icona Pop’s 2012 sugar rush “I Love It” and Iggy Azalea’s 2014 playground taunt “Fancy,” be- fore scoring a top 10 solo hit with the dreamy “Boom Clap” — but quickly swerved into a more experimental lane, making edgy and forward-thinking electro- pop that resonated with a niche audience. In the two years since “Brat,” she starred as a funhouse-mirror version of herself in the interesting but rather one-note mocku- mentary “The Moment,” and, more success- fully, released a swooning soundtrack al- bum that accompanied Emerald Fennell’s period piece “Wuthering Heights.” It
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proved Charli’s range extended far beyond postmillennial party-girl anthems, but the pressure of a proper “Brat” follow-up album still loomed. So what, on “Music, Fashion, Film,” does Charli do in the blank-check aftermath of her life-changing album? Use her newly minted mass-cultural capital to make crowd-pleasing No. 1 hits that will level her up from arena tours to stadiums? No, this brief, barbed and unrepentantly personal new album asserts — she’d rather use it to make an uncompromising work that places her in conversation with some of her he- roes, like the holy trinity of white male eld- ers she assembled for the album’s striking, bonkers cover: the art-rock lifer John Cale, the onetime “guru of grunge” designer Marc Jacobs and the human embodiment of absolute cinema Martin Scorsese. The spiky French actor Vincent Cassel also stars in the music video for Charli’s lat- est single, “Camera,” and her perennial fa- vorite Lou Reed, Cale’s former bandmate in the Velvet Underground, remains a touch- stone. It’s fair to wonder why the pantheon of artists Charli has so self-consciously cho- sen to align herself with for this album are all old white men. But, ever a student of fame and its perception, she also seems to be aware that there is a certain transgres- sion inherent in someone like her — a 33- year-old, mixed-race woman who cares about fashion and is best known for making supposedly lowbrow pop music — daring to claim the influence of, and perhaps even friendships with, these serious artistes, whose provocations, unlike hers, come with the built-in gravitas afforded by maleness, whiteness and age. Compared, as it will inevitably be, with the bounty of “Brat” and the inventive, col- laborative remix album that followed it, there’s no denying that the 11-song, 30- minute “Music, Fashion, Film” is a minor work. Some of its songs, like the brooding and anxious newlywed confessional “I’m Afraid” or the bouncy ear worm “2007,” feel like tossed-off rough drafts that might have yielded something richer had they been fur- ther developed. But that wouldn’t be in the spirit of “Music, Fashion, Film,” which con- sciously presents itself as an album that embraces, even glorifies, the slapdash. “Brat” made Charli famous enough that the stakes of her celebrity are no longer rid- ing on whether or not a single album of hers becomes a career-defining success, and here she seems to find that notion freeing. If you can get over the fact that it’s not “Brat 2.0” — and plenty of her newer fans won’t — this new album’s quick-and-dirty, first- thought-best-thought ethos has plenty of its own visceral appeal. Take the mindless, bare-bones charm of “Yeah,” a sassy refusenik rocker on which Charli, in her classic deadpan, repeats over and over how much she doesn’t want to feel anything — before cuing a cathartic, blown- out chorus when she suddenly admits that
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On her new album’s cover, left, Charli XCX, above, acknowledges three of her influences: John Cale, far left; Marc Jacobs, center; and Martin Scorsese.
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now she does want to feel. (Charli can inject wry humor into even the tersest lines; con- sider all she can do with a simple “wow” in the pixelated garage band opener “Rock Music.”) Another highlight, the swaggering pop-punk banger “Persona,” is one of those self-lacerating diss songs that Charli per- fected on “Brat,” although this time the at- mosphere is augmented by the steely din of buzz saw guitars. Despite its lead single’s humorously demonstrative lyrics (“I think the dance floor is dead so now we’re making rock mu- sic”), this is not exactly a traditional rock al- bum. Guitars hiccup, glitch or slowly bleed blooms of pooling distortion, serving merely as jumping-off points for the buoy- ant digital imaginations of Charli’s longtime collaborators, the producers A.G. Cook (their friendship is the subject of the sweet- est song on the album, “Magic Metal Mon- tana”) and Finn Keane. Here, they revel in grungy textures and states of decay as much as they usually do in highly reflective pop gloss. If we must assign a genre, let’s call it Let- terboxd-core, after the cinephile social me- dia site of which Charli is a power user. Since “Brat,” Charli has also begun a prolific acting career, appearing in such interest- ing, under-the-radar fare as the travelogue indie “Erupcja” and the horror remake “Faces of Death.” (She’s also shooting an upcoming slasher with the Japanese film- maker Takashi Miike and an art-world sat- ire directed by Cathy Yan, among other projects.) On one of the album’s highlights, the wrenching and remarkably candid “Cam- era,” Charli admits that she enjoys acting so much that she has fantasized about making a “French exit” from her pop career. “It makes me want to throw my life away,” Charli sings with palpable angst, of her newfound love of acting, atop guitar chords
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that flicker like yawning shutters. She’s not even sure she’s a particularly good actress yet — “I don’t feel embarrassed even if I suck” — but that uncertainty gives her a thrill that music cannot always provide. In October 2024, Charli released a star- studded remix album that served as a com- panion piece to “Brat” and implicitly proved how many A-list pop stars (Billie Eilish, Ari- ana Grande, Lorde) were now willing to an- swer her call to hop on a track. On this new album, though, she opts for only one fea- tured artist . . . and it’s the 83-year-old body horror film auteur David Cronenberg. (News that, perhaps in homage to his 1981 cult classic, “Scanners,” certainly made some heads explode.) Charli’s die-hards — called Angels, naturally — know that she has subtly referenced Cronenberg before, in the title and sex-meets-vehicular-violence cover image of her 2022 album “Crash.” But here Cronenberg’s surprisingly serene voice is the focal point, as he recounts, in an extended and genuinely moving spoken- word outro, the wisdom he gleaned from a near-death experience. Lying on the pavement, wondering if he was dying, Cronenberg says, he thought not about the art he’d made or his legacy, but the people in his life. He realized that even the rarefied artists whose work has en- dured centuries aren’t immortal: “They are dead, they are gone. No one lasts for ever.” Is ending an album this way a cop-out — a way of saying none of it matters? Charli, on the contrary, seems to find this reminder of transience artistically freeing, especially in the wake of her prior success. But even from the edge of existential oblivion, she and her co-conspirators can’t help looking for the pop hook, and so they end the album by chopping up and looping Cronenberg’s voice into a rhythmic sample: “They are dead, they are gone — no one lasts forever.” Ashes to ashes, brat to brat.
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Hunting a Female Serial Killer
Elizabeth Meriwether, creator of “New Girl” and “The Dropout,” has a psychologi- cal thriller coming out this week, “Furi- ous.” It is loosely inspired by the 1987 film “Black Widow,” about the investigation of a woman believed to be killing her hus- bands for money. “Furious” stars Emmy Rossum as Alice Black, an F.B.I. agent searching for an elusive serial killer, played by Lola Petticrew. Meriwether told Entertainment Weekly that she was excit- ed about “the possibility of exploring the psychology of a female serial killer.” The first three episodes will run together. Begins streaming Monday on Hulu. Though Mary Beth Barone has been sharing her comedic timing and her one- liners in the comedy series “Overcompen- sating” and on her podcast “Ride” (with her friend and fellow comedian Benito Skinner), she hasn’t had a TV stand-up special until now. In “Galaxy Brain” — filmed at the Skirball Center at New York University — she touches on dating apps, reproductive rights and even the movie “Oppenheimer.” Begins streaming Tuesday on Netflix. Stassi Schroeder made a name for her- self on “Vanderpump Rules” by creating drama and then coasting through it with one-liners like, “I’m not sure what I’ve done to you, but I’ll take a pinot grigio,” and, “I am the devil, and don’t you forget it.” Now she’s coming back to small screens with her new show, “House of Stassi,” which follows her and her inner circle of friends. They have grown up a bit and include the “Vanderpump” alums Katie Maloney and Beau Clark, Schroe- der’s husband. The first two episodes will run Wednesday on Freeform, and then the entire season will be available to stream Thursday on Hulu and Disney+.
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Leads a Visit to Pompeii
In a documentary series, the actor Tom Hiddleston explores the ancient city’s final day.
By GRAHAM BOWLEY
LONDON — You may know the British actor Tom Hiddleston for his role as Loki, the Norse god of mischief in Marvel films and TV series. Or for his character Jonathan Pine in the spy thriller “The Night Man- ager.” Or for his acclaimed Shakespearean stage acting. Or even for his dancing. But there is another side of him he wants you to know about: “amateur classicist,” his onscreen title in “Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston,” a three-part Na- tional Geographic documentary series about the final day of Pompeii in A.D. 79, be- fore the eruption of Mount Vesuvius cov- ered that bustling Mediterranean city in ash and pumice. In the series, which began streaming on Thursday on Disney+ and Hulu, Hiddleston plays himself as a kind of time-travel detec- tive zipping around Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum, then and now, encountering dramatized versions of historical ancient Romans and learning about who they were, how they may have lived and how they may have confronted — and in some cases sur- vived — this catastrophic event. Behind it all is a longtime passion for the classical world that goes beyond that of the
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Scoot McNairy and Emmy Rossum in “Furious,” a psychological thriller inspired by the 1987 film “Black Widow.”
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mere amateur, a passion Hiddleston began cultivating in his youth as a student of Latin and Greek. “I loved Homer and Virgil and Euripides and Sophocles,” Hiddleston, 45, said re- cently in an interview at the Soho Hotel here, during which he recited a line of poet- ry in ancient Greek and peppered the con- versation with Latin. “I am fascinated by Western European civilization, by the fact that the Greco-Ro- man world in so many ways is the root of Europe,” he said, noting also that many of America’s Founders were classically edu- cated. “In our systems of thinking, in our systems of language, in our systems of poli- tics, culture, literature, art, architecture, you can’t ignore the ancient world.” Hiddleston’s bona fides in the classics are genuine. The moment “that changed every- thing,” he says in the series, came in 1998, when at 17 he visited Pompeii, near modern- day Naples, Italy, on a trip across Europe with two friends. The city, buried and preserved for cen- turies under several meters of volcanic de- bris, had become on some level an archaeo- logical memorial to death, he says, where victims lay immortalized as plaster cast- ings. “It suddenly seemed real, and the dis- aster seemed like it was much closer than 2,000 years ago,” he said in the interview. Seeing that ancient tragedy so vividly rendered helped propel him toward a clas- sics degree at Pembroke College at Cam- bridge University, where he was awarded a double first, the highest honors. “He had a fantastic command of the lan- guages, ancient Greek and Latin, to a very high degree,” said Prof. Torsten Meissner, who was his director of studies in classics at Pembroke. “The translations had real flair.” Hiddleston was most fascinated by the stories of the great Greek tragedies, Meiss- ner recalled, and he wrote a thesis titled “Who Is Pylades?” about a character from the tragedies. “It was very clear from the word go that his heart was in classics, and it became clear fairly quickly to me that he re- ally loved Greek tragedy, and that is a nice bridge to his acting career,” Meissner said. His passion for the ancient world paral- leled his interest in acting. At Cambridge, he played Orestes in a 2001 university pro- duction of Sophocles’s “Electra,” a perform- ance spoken entirely in ancient Greek. His professional acting career started to take off while he was still a student, and he got parts while classes were still on. He re- called reading Cicero in Latin while waiting around during the filming of “Conspiracy” (2001), at Shepperton Studios in London. The idea for the Pompeii show started to germinate many years later, in 2020, after filming an episode of the Marvel-Disney+ production “Loki,” about a character from not Greek but Norse mythology. He was in Atlanta, acting in a scene in which Loki vis- its ancient Pompeii and speaks Latin, a con- fluence of his interests. “I was so happy,” he said. Afterward, he was approached by producers who were aware of his background and asked if he wanted to revisit the story of Pompeii. He agreed. The past is a useful place, he said, to ask tough questions about the present. “The story of Pompeii is much more con- temporary than I had considered,” he said. The destruction of Pompeii, as the series emphasizes, was not immediate. Instead,
inhabitants of the doomed city had time to heed warnings, including earth tremors, about the impending disaster — a ready comparison, he argued, with the various ecological crises we face now. “There were many warnings that nature was sending, and not everybody heeded those warnings,” he said. “We could learn from that today.” In the series, as Hiddleston flits around Pompeii and Herculaneum, and between time periods, his efforts are centered on identifying Romans who may have sur- vived the catastrophe and become refu- gees. His professors had drummed into him the importance of rigorous sourcing, he said. As such, he consults an archaeologist, a psychologist, a classicist and other ex- perts on camera in an effort to reconstruct those Romans’ stories. Hiddleston was motivated in part by a de- sire to generate empathy for people who face similar circumstances today, he said — refugees, for example, whom we encounter
The Lockerbie Tragedy Revisited
On Dec. 21, 1988, a flight from London to New York exploded over Lockerbie, Scot- land, and all 259 people onboard died. (Another 11 people on the ground were killed.) After years of investigation, Amer- ican authorities believe that operatives with Libyan intelligence services were responsible, and that the attack was in retaliation for the 1986 U.S. airstrikes on Tripoli and Benghazi. Now a fictionalized series, “The Bombing of Pan Am 103,” produced with the BBC, tells the story from the lens of investigators, Lockerbie residents and family members of those who died. The six-part series stars Connor
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The actor Tom Hiddleston, top, who has a classics degree from Cambridge University, is the host of the National Geographic series “Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston,” above. Hiddleston first visited Pompeii in 1998, left, when he was 17.
Swindells, Patrick J. Adams and Merritt Wever. Begins streaming Thursday on Netflix. If you can’t make it to Chicago, or if going to music festivals isn’t your thing, this year you can watch the four-day Lollapalooza festival’s livestream. Charli XCX, Tate McRae, Lorde, Olivia Dean, John Summit, the Smashing Pumpkins and others are set to perform. The stream will only be available live. No replays. Thursday starting at 5 p.m. on Hulu and Disney+.
Snoopy’s Home Sweet Home
Snoopy and the Peanuts gang do a bit of spring cleaning, but things go wrong when Snoopy’s doghouse is accidentally sold. He then has to grapple with what home means to him and how to track down his red house in “Snoopy Presents: There’s No Place Like Home, Snoopy.” Begins stream- ing Friday on Apple TV. The second season of “Adults” is coming on Aug. 27, but if that seems too far-off, the series is dropping a prequel episode to tide you over. The stand-alone “Marathon Day” tracks the origin story of Paul Baker (Jack Innanen) and the evolution of the friend group the series follows. Begins streaming Friday on Hulu.
Unpacking a Devastating Night
In November 2022, three college students called 911 to report someone unconscious in their home. What police found inside was a gruesome crime scene. Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle were all found killed in their beds. A new three-part documentary series, “The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare,” features police camera footage and interviews with the victims’ families. Begins streaming Wednesday on Netflix.
as mere numbers in our news feeds but who are, in fact, real humans in harrowing situa- tions. “There is a dissociation in our culture in terms of how we digest and metabolize what is going on in the world,” he added. “If we can look at it and confront it and ask questions, and ask again and think again and trust in the experts, I think the picture will look very different.” Kevin R. Wright, an executive producer who worked with Hiddleston on “Loki” and “Pompeii,” said Hiddleston’s palpable inter- est in the ancient world was central to the documentary’s potential to engage. “There is such a deep passion from this guy for this world that that’s the reason to do it,” he said. “It’s a host who’s incredibly enthusiastic, saying: ‘I really think this is cool. And maybe some people think it’s nerdy, maybe it’s a little intellectual, but I really like it. And if you come with me, I think you’re going to like it, too.’” Hiddleston’s role as a time-traveling sleuth and storyteller will not be a mere in- terlude between his larger, glossier projects, which include the role of Sir Ed- mund Hillary in the film “Tenzing,” sched- uled for October; a return to Broadway this fall in “Much Ado About Nothing”; and an- other reprisal of Loki in “Avengers: Dooms- day,” slated for December. He and Wright, who together formed a production company — called Ithaca after the Greek island, the home of Odysseus in legend — hinted at coming projects that will rely on a similar approach to place and story. They may include ancient Greece, maybe “The Iliad.” (“I would have loved to have been in ‘The “Odyssey,’” Hiddleston said of Christopher Nolan’s latest film. But Achilles is a character he would also one day relish playing.) Telling stories that are thousands of years old represents more than just a return to a beloved early passion for Hiddleston. Telling them also “makes me feel humble,” he said. “I feel reassured by it — the basic essence of a human life is the same as it ever was,” he continued. “It’s a useful humility. It makes you feel connected to the human ex- perience in a very profound way.”
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Venice Biennale, where he appeared along- side the curator in orange aviator sun- glasses and a Super Mario Bros. hat. Unlike other culture czars for the admin- istration who have quickly come and gone, Taylor has an artistic background that makes him a distinct and persistent cham- pion of the president’s vision. He is a Marcel Duchamp devotee with a degree in sculpture. He is a filmmaker be- hind right-wing documentaries produced by Stephen K. Bannon and the F.B.I. direc- tor Kash Patel. He is a campaign strategist who hosts podcasts and makes music vid- eos. “He is an artist first and then he is a con- servative,” Bannon said. “We don’t have enough of those people on our side.” Vince Haley, the director of the White House's Domestic Policy Council, asked Taylor to help fulfill the president’s desire to overhaul the capital’s cultural institutions. “Matthew Taylor is absolutely committed to elevating beauty in the arts and culture and showcasing the best of American cre- ative genius to the world,” Haley said. Blocks away from the White House, Tay- lor’s handiwork is on display. Under the blazing sun last month, he unveiled 21 stat- ues of soldiers and Revolutionary scenes that he designed to commemorate a $10 mil- lion renovation of Freedom Plaza. “A new icon of American liberty,” he said on Ban- non’s talk show, pointing to a statue of a woman holding the Declaration of Inde- pendence in one hand and a raised sword in the other. As a filmmaker, Taylor has been pro- ducing work on parallel tracks. He has di- rected a lauded documentary about Du- champ, the godfather of conceptual art. But under a different name, M.A. Taylor, he has promoted conspiracy theories and played an instrumental role in some of the most in- fluential videos in modern political history. He edited the windsurfing ad that charac- terized John Kerry as a flip-flopper while he was the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004. And he was the editor and cinemat- ographer of “Hillary: The Movie,” which the Federal Election Commission said could not be aired on television in 2008 because of election rules. That dispute led to the Su- preme Court ruling known as Citizens United, which ended political spending lim- its for corporations. “He is still one of the best editors I have ever seen,” said Bannon, who credited Tay- lor with developing the opening sequence of his film about the 2008 financial crisis, “Generation Zero.” Taylor, who declined to comment, de- scribes himself online as a “conceptual art- ist, filmmaker and messaging strategist.” Over the past decade, he has remained con- sistent about seeing art and politics as two sides of the same coin. “To sell a candidate is simply to sell a con- cept,” Taylor said during a 2018 lecture in which he compared politicians to ready- mades, manufactured objects like a urinal or bicycle wheel that Duchamp removed from their original context and redefined as artworks simply by calling them so. “What we do is we communicate with the public that our guy (the proverbial toilet) is art in a way,” he said during the lecture for the American Association of Political Con- sultants. “We sell ideas by reassigning thoughts. We tap into our audiences’ hearts and their minds the exact same way you sell a ready-made. “He or she is not a candidate or a cause but a set of conceptual principles elevated above all to be a pure belief.” Taylor, 47, developed his interest in con- ceptual art as an undergraduate at Wash- ington University in St. Louis, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in sculpture. But shortly after graduating in 2002, he entered political communications as part of the 2004 Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. He then began working with the conser- vative nonprofit Citizens United while help- ing Republican candidates on their 2006 midterm campaigns. One of the documenta- ries he worked on with that group was called “Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration” and was produced by Ban- non. Taylor worked on several projects with Bannon through the 2000s and 2010s, and had a breakout moment as editor of “Hilla- ry: The Movie.” His 2016 directorial follow- up, “Clinton Cash,” was an adaptation of a book that accused the State Department un- der Hillary Clinton of giving favors to for- eign entities that made payments to the Clinton Foundation and her husband. (A spokesman for Clinton’s presidential cam- paign told The New York Times then that no one “has ever produced a shred of evidence supporting the theory.”)
Matthew Taylor, above right, designed 21 statues of soldiers and Revolutionary scenes, top, that are being exhibited in Freedom Plaza, including one he called “a new icon of American liberty.” Above, Taylor, right, was often seen at the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year.
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“Taylor merged his love of cinema with sculpture and fashion to develop a unique perspective on messaging to broad audi- ences,” Taylor’s biography says on the web- site of a consulting group he founded with his wife. On YouTube, he has uploaded short artistic films like “Droidica,” which demon- strates his conceptual approach to filmmak- ing. Taylor also worked as a media strategist in the 2016 presidential election, as part of a PAC that supported Ted Cruz and, later, Trump. But instead of joining the new ad- ministration, Taylor continued to make doc- umentaries with conservative talking points. The Verge described “The Creepy Line,” a 2018 movie directed by Taylor that accused internet companies like Facebook and Google of suppressing conservative voices, as a “conspiratorial playbook for right-wing tech backlash.” He also spent years developing “Marcel
By JONATHAN WOLFE
LONDON — The singer Chris Brown pleaded guilty to a charge of affray in a courtroom here on Friday, three years after he was ac- cused of hitting a music producer with a te- quila bottle at a nightclub in the city. Mr. Brown, 37, entered the plea along with his vocal coach, Omololu Akinlolu, 40, who was also involved in the attack, accord- ing to Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service. Mr. Brown was facing a more serious charge of attempting to inflict grievous bod- ily harm, and his case was set to go to trial in October. The lesser charge of affray, or threatening violence, carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison. The case stems from a conflict at the Tape London nightclub in February 2023. Ac- cording to prosecutors, Mr. Brown ap- proached Abraham Diaw, a music producer, on the dance floor, and struck him twice on the head with a glass bottle.
Duchamp: Art of the Possible,” interview- ing artists like Marina Abramovic, Jeff Koons and Carolee Schneemann. That 2020 film won some applause, with Taylor doing an interview for the Golden Globes’ digital publication, and ARTnews describing the documentary as “smart, searching and so- phisticated.” “It presented Duchamp with a lot of per- sonality,” said David Piperni, whose distri- bution company handled sales of the film. Taylor has continued to reinvent himself in the art world, producing a music video for a British rapper who he then interviewed under the pseudonym Dr. Bacon, a fictional podcaster in a wide-brimmed hat. The per- formance was part of an art collective that he and his wife created called Take Vienna — its motto: “The revolution is dead. Long live the revolution.” — with plans to develop film and television series. A White House spokesman called Taylor “a performance artist across many plat- forms and an avid Duchampian,” adding that “fun pseudonyms are historically a large part of performance art history.” After his introductory conversation with Haley last year, Taylor landed a job in Wash- ington at the National Endowment for the Humanities. By July 2025, Taylor was driv- ing across the country to move into a brick townhouse. A few weeks later, Taylor’s wife and busi- ness partner, Michelle Taylor, posted a screenshot on Instagram of an article in The Wall Street Journal headlined “White House to Vet Smithsonian Museums to Fit Trump’s Historical Vision.” “The reason we moved from Austin to DC!” she wrote in the post, which included two American flags. “The storylines are all coming together.” Last month, the Domestic Policy Council
Mr. Akinlolu, an American rapper who performs under the name HoodyBaby, joined Mr. Brown and punched Mr. Diaw in the head, prosecutors said. The defendants continued to attack Mr. Diaw, who was hos- pitalized with head and knee injuries, pros- ecutors said. Mr. Akinlolu also pleaded guilty to an affray charge at the hearing on Friday. “This was a vicious and unprovoked at- tack by Brown and Akinlolu,” Claire Camp- bell, a prosecutor in the case, said in a state- ment. After the fight, the police issued a war- rant for the arrest of Mr. Brown and Mr. Akinlolu, but they had left Britain. Roughly two years later, in 2025, Mr. Brown returned to the country for a concert in Manchester, and was arrested. Mr. Brown pleaded not guilty to charges in June 2025. At the time, the singer posted bail of 5 million pounds, or about $6.7 mil- lion, which allowed him to travel outside
released a report about the Smithsonian that said the National Museum of American History was spreading “radical activist ideology” with programming that was “anti-white,” “pro-illegal alien” and “pro- abortion.” The leader of the Smithsonian pushed back against the report, saying it was “not a fair characterization” of the mu- seum’s work, which he said was “driven by scholarship, accuracy and an uncompro- mising commitment to tell the fullness of America’s story.” The museum’s director was called before a House subcommittee last week and was questioned by Republican members about whether she should keep her job, given the report’s findings. Two people with knowledge of Taylor’s work in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid blowback from the administration, said Taylor told them he was involved with the report. When asked about its authorship, the White House spokesman said Taylor “didn’t write a word.” During Taylor’s time within the Trump administration, he has also found ways of increasing his artistic profile. As the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts looked this year to fill pro- gramming gaps created by Trump’s take- over, it turned in part to Taylor and his docu- mentaries. He had screenings of his Duchamp docu- mentary as well as “Gotham: The Fall and Rise of New York,” a 2023 film produced by a longtime president of the conservative Manhattan Institute that attributed New York’s improved reputation in the 1990s to Republican leaders like Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. The Kennedy Center labeled his films “Extraordinary Cinema.”
Britain and continue his world tour. Mr. Brown arrived at the Southwark Crown Court on Friday wearing a tan suit and a St. Louis Cardinals baseball cap. A group of fans who had gathered at the court- house played Mr. Brown’s music, shouted his name and held supportive signs, accord- ing to the BBC. As he left the courthouse, he signed autographs. Mr. Brown and Mr. Akinlolu are to be sen- tenced in October. Mr. Brown, a Grammy-winning R&B singer, rose to fame in the mid-2000s. He re- leased his debut single in 2005 and has two Grammys and 17 Billboard top 10 hits. His success, however, has been marred by legal troubles, including an arrest after a standoff with police at his home in Los An- geles in 2016, hitting a man outside a Wash- ington hotel in 2013 and assaulting his for- mer girlfriend, the pop star Rihanna, in 2009.
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An opportunity to take on fishlike enemies with an array of weapons and gadgets.
THE CHALLENGE IN REVIEWING most Nin- tendo games is that, more often than not, it feels less like considering a piece of narra- tive art than evaluating a playground: The slide has frictionless and smooth mechan- ics. The swing set has a satisfying arc. The seesaw, on the other hand, is dreadfully im- balanced. As silly as this sounds, it aligns with how I feel about a game like Splatoon Raiders, which lives and dies by how fun its experi- ences are as toys and as rides, but offers lit- tle else. It’s too easy to chalk this up to Raiders be- ing a game made for children. Plenty of me- dia made for children, like the early Pixar film canon, have deep, emotional narratives that reach all ages. The characters in Raiders — the anony- mous “Mechanic” and three goofy band- mates — are all high-pitched, diminutive and childlike, with all the worldly concerns of an old Nicktoons roster. They all wear bright colors. Yet adults are invited to enjoy this spectacle, as if we could engage in cha- otic paintball warfare without spraining a knee or throwing out our backs, laughing maniacally as we dash about coating every- thing in color within this safe digital simu- lacra. Childlike frivolity is what is undeniably at work in Raiders. Its matches consist of fac- ing down armies of crawling fishlike ene- mies, which range from tiny pipsqueaks to gargantuan whales. Your character must coat them with a nearly endless supply of ink until they explode in bursts of color. Over the course of the game you’ll unlock weapon categories familiar to most who
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Kevin Sussman moves from family sitcoms to the multiverse.
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Sussman’s unassuming hero must jump between a series of fantastical universes to try to restore normalcy and avoid a multi- verse apocalypse. Joining him on the quest are three returning “Big Bang” characters: Stuart’s girlfriend, Denise (Lauren Lap- kus); the geologist Bert (Brian Posehn); and the antagonistic physicist Kripke (John Ross Bowie). There are plentiful guest stars, elaborate battle scenes and story lines involving A.I. overlords and wizardry. At one point, the main characters are reincarnated as cen- taurs. A Staten Island native, Sussman, 55, has built a decades-long résumé of mostly sup- porting roles, both in television (“Ugly Betty,” “Better Call Saul”) and in film (“Wet Hot American Summer,” “Hitch,” “Sweet Home Alabama”). He seems to be taking life as a leading man in stride. On a sunny July morning at an Italian restaurant in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, Sussman was more placid than his anxious onscreen counterpart but equally entertaining. Sporting a salt-and- pepper beard and a stylish knit polo, he re- flected on his 17-year journey playing Stu- art. “I haven’t done the math,” he said over coffee. “I go by the hair on my head — I had a lot more of it, and it was a different color.” These are edited excerpts from the con- versation.
have played early Splatoon games: rapid- firing squirt pistols, paint brushes, rollers and even glob-tossing buckets. Raiders also offers an assortment of gadgets, allowing you to fire bazookas, use a dash to zip and leap around the stage, and even drop auto- firing turrets and floating mines. The gameplay additions in Raiders build upon a solid foundation established by the first three Splatoon games. New bells and whistles are needed because Raiders lacks the competitive play mode that defined pre- vious games, which allowed players to bat- tle their squid kid characters against one another in colorful arenas. Those shootouts came with an inherent drama because of the random and unpredictable choices made by other human players, trumping the algo- rithmic choices of even the most sophis- ticated enemies. Lackluster single-player modes have al- ways been an Achilles’ heel of Splatoon,
ment. I just tried to remain calm. He wanted to do a big special-effects thing that he’s never done before. As far as I was con- cerned, that was a great idea.
The spinoff is full of “Big Bang Theory” Easter eggs and cameos. Was there any- thing or anyone you were particularly excit- ed to see incorporated? I was mostly excited about just the comic book store set. Having the updated version of it was crazy to me because there was a ceiling and a fourth wall. It’s realer.
Stuart was originally a pretty small part on “Big Bang Theory,” right? I was just a guest star in an episode on Sea- son 2, so I figured that was Chuck throwing me a bone to keep my health insurance go- ing. I had this jargony speech about Batman and Robin, and I kept screwing up the lines. I was like, “Well, that’ll be the last time I’m on ‘The Big Bang Theory.’” But it obviously didn’t work out that way. They used me as a guest star more and more until around Sea- son 6, when I officially became a series reg- ular — although I was never in more than, like, a quarter or a third of the episodes.
“The Big Bang Theory” became one of the most watched shows on TV during its run. Did it change your life? It was weird because the show became a juggernaut while I was still only on occa- sionally, and I was making guest star money. At the time, I was divorced, and I was living in a small studio apartment in a building where there were a lot of drug deals. I would be walking about and people would say, “Stuart!” and I’d be like, “Yeah, baby!” And then I’d go into my little studio where there was just a bed and a desk. One day, me and my two little dogs were lying on the bed, and I had left the door un- locked. A guy walked in. He must have been
which leaned on multiplayer brilliance. They mostly consisted of puzzle stages, and felt linear and slow next to the freewheeling and fast-paced arenas. Raiders tries to ad- dress this concern by taking the series down a purely noncompetitive path. That approach, when it works, involves mounting and delirious chaos as enemies pour out of sewer grates and flood the stage with their undulating mass. They may be slow and stupid, but as their numbers pile up, the challenge becomes figuring out how to dispatch them all before getting over- whelmed. This style of encounter, though effective, has its limits. Aside from specific challenge levels, most of the game’s raids occur in wide-open spaces, occasionally spread be- tween island clusters or boxed within un- derground caverns. The challenge is not navigating its levels — minimalist slices of the franchise’s past multiplayer arenas —
In Splatoon Raiders, your character must coat enemies with a nearly endless supply of ink until they explode in bursts of color.
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looking for weed or something, and he was like, “Oh, sorry,” and then he did a double take. I’m not sure if he recognized me as the guy from the show, but at the same time, I was giving off a very Stuart vibe.
Do you consider yourself a nerd? Yeah. There was a period of time during the dot-com boom where I did tech temping on Wall Street. I would be doing Excel macros and stuff in an office, and then for my lunch break, I’d put on a lab coat and go do an au- dition. John Bowie and I would see each other all the time at commercial auditions, and we both got those nerd roles. Eventu- ally, I didn’t have to actually go to the tech job; I just portrayed the tech job guy. I worked at a comic book store on Staten Island and in Manhattan when I was a struggling actor, and I didn’t really know much about comics. It’s weird that I’ve been surrounded by the comic book world for so much of my adult life, just by accident. I
but overcoming its ludicrous enemy count. Frustratingly, your character’s fancy skills have a lot of potential for tackling in- teresting spatial challenges, but are instead put in service solely to survive these are- nas. Few and far between are larger, com- plex battles against boss types, which offer glimmers of an approach that squares your squid’s astonishing agility against building- size adversaries and vertiginous levels. Far more often, things are kept blindingly sim- ple, mostly a test ground for your gadgets. It’s all fun enough, as a playground with jungle gyms and monkey bars. But it feels so small and insignificant as a result. The side characters, while a lively troupe, per- form with one-note pantomimes of enthusi- asm. They are so jazzed to be here, and are only ever varying levels of jazzed. The occasional obstacle emerges in their unchanging goal of hoovering up every last trinket and treasure that these islands offer. But once you inevitably clear each level, the minor disappointment is wiped away by maximalist effervescence. Raiders does have a cooperative online mode that promises to be fun and chaotic, with up to four players facing off against teeming fishy hordes that fill the screen with so many particles that one can almost forgive Nintendo for not including a local multiplayer option. The game is otherwise a lonely affair. It’s just you and the incessant rattle of your sidekicks, constantly remind- ing you to keep your head up about some challenging raid or making sure you don’t forget about that new compass that’s popped up! The island setting of Raiders starts off covered in fog and shrouded in mystery. It could be anything, could take the story any- where. But there really isn’t that much to see, not much offered besides the momen- tary chance to slide and swing and grasp at an ephemeral childhood innocence.
“I’ve never really had a 10-year plan or a career goal,” said Kevin Sussman, above, and near left, with Kunal Nayyar on “The Big Bang Theory.”
would not consider myself a comic book nerd, per se. Board games, however . . .
Have you ever thought about doing a Marvel or DC film? No. In this spinoff I get to do wire work, which is crazy. I remember when I was do- ing “Lessons in Chemistry,” Brie Larson was talking about doing “Captain Marvel” and how in shape you need to be when you’re being suspended by your midsec- tion. She was like, “You’ve got to work those abs.” When I found out that I was going to be doing some of that, I was like, “I need to start working those abs.” But, of course, it was far too late.
How often do you get recognized as Stuart? Pretty often and all over the world. That has been eye-opening, just the scope of the pop- ularity of the show. I remember getting mobbed on the street in Chile. When I was in the Middle East, a woman in a full burqa came over and said, “Oh my God, I’m such a Stuart.” One of my fondest memories growing up was watching “Cheers” and sitcoms with my family, so it’s an honor to be a part of something that’s like that for other people.
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Dominique Malonga was one of the W.N.B.A. All-Star Game highlights.
A runner in the high-altitude region of Iten, Kenya, in the Great Rift Valley, which has produced some of the best marathoners in the world. The Times reporter John Eligon spent a week in April at a training center there with the hope of lowering his best time, set 14 years ago. Page D3.
Most fans who attended spent thousands of dollars. We have receipts.
Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia wins his fifth Tour de France, equaling the record.
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Making History, 3s and a Dunk at the W.N.B.A. All-Star Game
By SABREENA MERCHANT The Athletic
CHICAGO — W.N.B.A. All-Star Weekend returned to Chicago for the first time since 2022, and the event was almost unrecognizable only four years later. The league’s growth manifests most clearly in the size and scope of its midseason showcase. In 2022, the skills competitions were played in an empty conven- tion center; on Saturday, the All-Star Game set an attendance record with 19,783 fans, packing an N.B.A. arena instead of the Chicago Sky’s usual home, Win- trust Arena. “It seems to top itself year after year,” Nneka Ogwumike of the Los Angeles Sparks said after playing in her 11th All-Star Game. Team Spoon topped Team Coop, 129-122. New York Liberty forward Jonquel Jones led Team Spoon with 22 points, 13 re- bounds and 8 assists, taking home most valuable player hon- ors. That makes her the only player in league history to be M.V.P. of the league, the W.N.B.A. finals, the Commissioner’s Cup and the All-Star Game. She dedicated the night to her recently deceased aunt, whose memorial service was on Satur- day, and said she consulted with her family before deciding to play through the heaviness of the weekend. All-Star Weekend is an exhibi- tion of what the league does best: bringing its community together and showing off the W.N.B.A.’s increasingly talented stars. Some shined brighter than others, however.
WINNER City of Chicago
The atmosphere in Chicago could not have been better. The weather was beautiful, and the city showed out for the events. In addition to filling the United Center, fans lined up for hours to meet with the stars throughout the week. In 2025, anxiety permeated Indianapolis as All-Star Weekend kicked off a contentious period of labor negotiations. Chicago was all joy and sunshine. The setting also provided an opportunity for the All-Stars to practice at the Obama Presiden- tial Center and meet the former president, a deeply personal moment for players and coaches.
Sabreena Merchant is a women’s basketball staff writer for The Athletic. Brian Hamilton contrib- uted reporting.
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LOSER The Chicago Sky
While their city put on a memo- rable showcase, Chicago’s home team faded into the background. There were no Sky participants in the Friday skills competitions or the All-Star Game. To twist the knife, several former Chicago players showed out: Elena Delle Donne won the Shooting Stars challenge for Team Washington, Marina Mabrey earned her first All-Star nod as a member of the Toronto Tempo and Kahleah Copper, Courtney Williams and Angel Reese all made appear- ances representing different franchises. The weekend was supposed to be the Sky’s chance to show off their new practice facility, much like the Phoenix Mercury did in 2024. Instead, construction de- lays and evolving plans delayed the opening to 2027.
WINNER Azzi Fudd
Fudd, the 2026 No. 1 draft pick, may not have been voted an All-Star — the first time in five years that has not happened for the top pick — but the Dallas Wings guard still made her mark. Fudd has shown off a deep bag of skills in her first pro sea- son; she is fifth in the league in steals and routinely guards the opposing team’s best perimeter player. But with the W.N.B.A. commu- nity looking on, Fudd won the 3-point-shooting contest and tied for the second-highest score (30) in league history, becoming the first rookie to win the crown.
WINNER Marina Mabrey
Even though Mabrey did not take home any hardware, her Q rating keeps going up. She is becoming famous for her flurries of 3-pointers: first at Unrivaled, then when she scored 53 against the Sparks and now with five 3s in a quarter in her first All-Star Game. Nothing gets a crowd going quite like a shooter on a heater, and Mabrey keeps doing that on increasingly bigger stages.
LOSER Shooting Stars challenge
The W.N.B.A. revamped its Fri- day night programming in 2026, swapping out the skills challenge for the Shooting Stars competi- tion. It had mixed reviews, as it
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Jonquel Jones is the only player to be M.V.P. of the league, the W.N.B.A. finals, the Commissioner’s Cup and the All-Star Game.
relied heavily on the passing and shooting of some out-of-practice legends. It featured too many jump shots (and far too many misses), and the fans were al- ready waiting for the 3-point contest. Delle Donne’s win as a Chicago alumna, combined with an elec- tric performance from the high school player Jezelle Banks, gave the event some life. The idea of involving three generations to represent the league’s past, present and future was a nice touch in the W.N.B.A.’s 30th season. But the W.N.B.A. might consider updating its event schedule again in 2027, especially if the All-Star Game is in a city without a large pool of elite high school talent.
WINNER Dominique Malonga
Everyone at the All-Star Game wanted to see one thing: a Domi- nique Malonga dunk. Malonga, the 6-foot-6 Seattle Storm center, said on Friday, “I’m going to warm up for it, so I’m going to be ready for sure.” It took a little more than a quarter to get her the appropriate runway.
James Embraces a Walk on the Harder Road
By DAVID ALDRIDGE The Athletic
Respect to LeBron James. Because Philly was the hard one. It was the tough call. The biggest potential for failure at the end of a brilliant career. And yet, James walked right through the door, toward one of the N.B.A.’s toughest and most knowledgeable fan bases, toward an infamous media contingent that is a little harder on the local teams than what James has dealt with in Los Angeles the past eight years. He walked toward the hoops history of a city that has waited 43 years for another pro basketball title; toward the comparisons with the Eagles, who have won two Super Bowls in the past decade; toward Joel Embiid’s tortured injury history, and the ghosts of Iverson and Barkley and the Doctor. That is not to say that James’s choice of the Philadelphia 76ers doesn’t make sense in terms of basketball. It isn’t a perfect fit, but Philly checks a lot of boxes that should make sense to a 41-year-old entering his 24th N.B.A. season. Yes, James wants to win. His camp made sure to repeat that talking point over and over on Friday. But James could have won in Cleveland alongside Don- ovan Mitchell and Evan Mobley. He certainly could have won again in Miami, playing again for Erik Spoelstra — and, now, with Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo. But James chose the challenge of winning in Philly, which chews up and spits out pretenders and talented players who don’t fit the city’s work ethic. It is incredible that, 10 weeks after getting their doors blown off in another embarrassing
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During the second period, Sonia Citron delivered an outlet to Angel Reese. As Caitlin Clark tried to steal the ball from Reese, Malonga came running down the paint. Reese hit her in stride, and she threw it down. It was the highlight of the game, headlining a 12-point, 13-rebound effort that made Malonga, who is 20, the youngest player to record an All-Star double-double.
LOSER Lob passes
The coach Becky Hammon was scheming a way to get Malonga a dunk when she spoke to the news media on Friday, saying it might have to come after a time- out or on an out-of-bounds play. She started the second quarter with a set that had Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams throwing a lob to the center. It didn’t work, and there were a few more lob attempts to Malonga — including one from Williams off the backboard that Malonga did not even realize was for her — that went unfinished. For all the skills of these All- Stars, lob passes do not appear to top the list.
playoff series loss to the New York Knicks, the 76ers have added James and Jaylen Brown and completely reset the expec- tations for the franchise. Such big swings are not new in Phila- delphia. Big city, big mouths, big expectations. Bryce Harper came to the Phillies in 2019 as a game chang- er for that franchise. So, too, was the arrival of the Terrell Owens circus with the Eagles in 2004. But this has a different texture, in large part because of the four decades the 76ers have toiled, in vain, to win it all again. James warps the landscape around him, bends everything to his will and talents. He has won at least one championship every- where he’s been. One will do in Philadelphia. To be sure, James will have help. Tyrese Maxey and V.J. Edgecombe are one of the league’s best young backcourts; Maxey and James are both Rich Paul clients and know each other well. Embiid is hurt a lot, usually at the worst possible time. But don’t get it twisted: He can still hoop, as he showed in Philly’s comeback first-round playoff series win over the Boston Celt- ics. He also showed it in the 2024 Olympics, when he played ex- actly one game of consequence for the U.S. team: the semifinal win against Nikola Jokic and Serbia, when Embiid helped James and Stephen Curry claw back from a 13-point fourth- quarter deficit. But the difference maker for Philly is the presence of Brown, acquired from Boston in a trade that will be discussed for years. The advanced stats crowd may not think much of Brown. James — the player with four N.B.A. titles, for three different teams, who is also the league’s all-time leading scorer, a 21-time all- N.B.A. selection and a 22-time All-Star — holds Brown in higher
For 2027 to Speed Up Reviews
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CHICAGO — Cathy Eng- elbert, the commissioner of the W.N.B.A., has announced that the league will introduce an of- ficial replay center before the 2027 season. The league im- plemented an officiat- ing task force earlier this year to address in- creased foul calls and the enforcement of game rules, but officiating has continued to be a con- tentious issue in the W.N.B.A. The replay center is intended to accelerate the replay review process. Cameras will be in- stalled in every W.N.B.A. arena (those that share an arena with an N.B.A. team already have them), and referees in the
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esteem. Brown had to go through some tough times in Boston before he and Jayson Tatum finally delivered a championship to one of the league’s most stor- ied franchises in 2024 — when Brown was named the most valuable player of the N.B.A. finals. In the rarefied air where play- ers like James reside, that gets your attention. “There’s no question, Jaylen Brown going to the Sixers changed them from a contending team to a championship-caliber team,” a person with knowledge of James’s thinking, granted anonymity to speak freely, said Friday afternoon. James did indeed contem- plate retire- ment after the Lakers were swept by the Oklahoma City Thunder in the second round. But he felt “incom- plete,” the source said, in assess- ing the season. He had been incredible in L.A.’s first-round upset of the Houston Rockets, playing without Luka Doncic for the whole series and with Austin Reaves for just 64 total minutes in six games. But James also saw that he had been able to be a supporting cast member in the regular season, when Doncic was healthy and at his best and Reaves became a dependable second scoring option. James could still play. But did he still want to do the grunt work — the lifting and shooting drills, and the running and the drudg- ery of getting ready to play again? So he took his time to think about it. Miami was real. James still knew and respected the Heat’s relentless pursuit of champi-
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building can consult with the replay center based on certain triggers. The operators in the center can look at video replay with more camera angles than the game officials have access to. “As the W.N.B.A. continues its extraordinary growth, we’re committed to investing in every aspect of the game, including the technology and resources that support play- ers, teams and officials,” Bethany Donaphin, the head of W.N.B.A. league operations, said in a statement. The N.B.A. has had a replay center since the 2014-15 sea- son. The N.B.A. also has a “last two-minute” report that evaluates the correctness of every call in the final two min- utes of a close game; it is avail- able publicly on the N.B.A. website. At the moment, the W.N.B.A. will not be adding a similar feature.
onships. Playing with Antetok- ounmpo and Adebayo, and again for Spoelstra, had real appeal, even if the frontcourt fit was a little clunky. The Cavaliers, obviously, car- ried both an on-court path to success behind Mitchell, Mobley and James Harden, and the powerful pull of nostalgia for James to end his career where it began, less than an hour from his beloved Akron, in a third and final stint with the Cavs. He knew the landscape of Cleveland and felt comfortable and at home there. No one would have be- grudged him taking the road most traveled. But Philly, post-Brown, had a lot to offer. James did not seek advice from his longtime circle of most trusted advisers on where he should go. They didn’t push it. All the contending teams, including the long-shot Minnesota Timber- wolves, were kept at a respect- able distance as James made the final call Friday morning. Everyone, more or less, found out together. Perhaps James knew all along. Maybe he didn’t know until Fri- day morning. But he is a student of the game. Surely, he knew that the potential for both failure and success were, and are, greater in Philadelphia than any of the other teams on his list. Surely, he knew that he is one of just four players — Robert Horry, Danny Green and John Salley are the others — to win championships with three differ- ent teams. No doubt, James understands that if he pulls this off, and there is a parade down Broad Street next June, and he gets a fifth ring, which would get him on the line with Magic John- son, Kobe Bryant and Tim Dun- can, that his case for being the greatest player in N.B.A. history would receive a turbo boost. And he would be right.
By JOHN ELIGON
JOHN ELIGON
ITEN, Kenya — From the mo- ment the race started, my ham- strings began to ache — a dull throbbing that I knew could derail my run. Just hours earlier, I had woken to an overcast May morning feel- ing excited to run the Cape Town Marathon. My lungs were strong, and my legs felt lighter than they had before any of my 15 previous marathons. My goal seemed pos- sible: to run the race in 2 hours 50 minutes, more than seven min- utes faster than the personal best I had achieved 14 years earlier, at 29. My attempts to better that time over the years were mostly de- railed by leg cramps. No gel, elec- trolyte drink, potato or salt packet could prevent those crippling mo- ments in races, when it felt like someone was playing tug of war with my hamstrings. As I reached my 40s, though, I began doing the little things that my younger, more athletic self ig- nored. I strength trained, foam rolled and stretched more fre- quently. I gave my muscles more time to recover. I slept more. I ran faster than I expected. But I had cramped throughout the final 13 miles of the last mara- thon I raced, in November. I didn’t know how else I could improve at that point. A friend suggested training in Iten, a Kenyan village in the Great Rift Valley, which has produced some of the best mara- thoners in the world. I spent a week running there in April. Now as the niggling in my ham- strings so early in the race began to worry me, I thought back on that training. If I wanted to hit my target, I would need to channel the skill I had not known was so cru- cial to those runners’ success: their mind-set.
‘Running for Their Lives’
On my first morning in Iten, I stood along the main road as packs of runners bounded past along the red dirt paths, like flocks of birds gliding in formation, their strides smooth, their posture straight. They moved with an en- vious efficiency. Almost every runner looked exceptionally fit. This is a village where few peo- ple run recreationally. Most are hoping to win prize money in ma- jor competitions or, like the team I trained with, are trying to win scholarships to run college track in the United States. “It’s running for their lives,” Richard Mukche, the team’s coach, told me of the ethos in Iten. Nearly 60 percent of the roughly half a million residents of Elgeyo Marakwet, the county that in- cludes Iten, live in poverty. About 30 years ago, Iten was a speck of a village with just a hand- ful of rural homesteads and a handful of runners. After some of those early runners won interna- tional competitions, word spread about the benefits of training in Iten — the high altitude and the serenity — and it grew into a run- ning mecca. It now serves as a base for Olympians and world champions from other countries, who spend weeks or months clois- tered in camps that cater to their every training need. Amateur runners like me are a regular presence, helping to sustain the local economy — I paid about $700 for a week of training at a camp complete with meals and mas- sages — as they try to improve their abilities by training with Kenyan runners. Coach Richard is himself a Ken- yan former elite athlete who trained in Iten and ran a 2:16 marathon in his day, which would still clock him in the top 20 finish- ers of last year’s New York City Marathon. He has been coaching for the past 16 years, mostly 20- somethings shooting for schol- arships, but also world-class run- ners from abroad. Some of his ath- letes have competed in the Olympics and in major mara- thons. About six, including his daughter, have earned schol- arships. My first morning, when I joined the roughly 20 Kenyan runners currently under his wing, I was eager to run hard. Could I keep up with them? But as I would come to learn, much of the training philosophy in Iten is about restraint, rather than excess. Coach Richard drilled in me an almost biblical command- ment of Kenyan training: Listen to your body. My first workout, he said, would be five miles at a relaxed pace — “Pole! Pole!” as they call easy runs in Swahili. He wanted my body to adjust to the altitude, which, at a mile and a half above sea level, is a half-mile higher than where I live in Johannesburg. So I set off at an 8:30-per-mile pace, running past the not-so-sub- tle reminders of why Iten is a run-
‘Listen to Your Body’
John Eligon, third from left, training in Iten, Kenya, where there is a pack mentality and runners generally run in big groups.
The main road in Iten, which 30 years ago was a speck of a village with a few rural homesteads and some runners.
ning destination. Past the arch over the main road that says wel- come to the “Home of Champi- ons.” Past the “Champions Barber Shop” and “Champions Wines & Spirits.” By the end, I couldn’t help but feel optimistic — I hadn’t been bothered by the high altitude, which makes it harder to breathe but over time produces red blood cells that make breathing easier at lower elevations. That evening, when I joined Coach Richard, his team and doz- ens of others at the Iten Sports Club to watch the Boston Mara- thon — a local hero, John Korir, blazed his way to victory in course-record time — I met Amanal Petros, Germany’s record-holder in the marathon, who was training in Iten for the London Marathon. Petros has trained at other pop- ular distance running hubs like Flagstaff, Ariz.; Boulder, Colo.; and St. Moritz, Switzerland. In those cities, he said, it takes months to find training partners on his level, while in Iten, he can find a dozen by just going to the main road in the morning. “There’s nothing here. It’s just animals or runners,” he said. “You focus only on training, on your goal.”
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After spending a week training in Iten, the author used what he learned to help pace himself in the Cape Town Marathon.
The author in core strength training at the center, which also has massage therapists, a track and three starchy meals a day.
first and only time at the Chicago Marathon in 2012, clocking 2:57:32. When I moved to Johannesburg five years ago, I was 38 and had pretty much resigned myself to the fact that my fastest days were behind me. But something changed. Living for the first time at a high altitude — nearly 5,600 feet — in a city with relentless hills, I became more fit than I had ever expected to be at my age. In 2023, six months before my 41st birthday, I won a half-mara- thon in suburban St. Louis in my fastest time ever, bettering a mark I had set 11 years earlier. I felt like I was keeping mortality at bay. I wanted to see what my body could do. And so as Day 2 of training in Iten began, I was excited to be able to push myself with the group. Coach Richard had us run 400-meter (one lap) repeats on the track. I felt great from the start, coming in a little over 80 sec- onds on each. I even talked Coach Richard into letting me do 15 laps, like some of the other runners, rather than the 10 he had assigned me. And when I was done, I wasn’t entirely drained. “Who still has more energy?” Coach Richard asked us after- ward. “In training, it’s better when you finish, you can still do some- thing after. You don’t have to die completely.” Paying attention to how I felt was the focus of much of my train- ing in Iten. That simple question — how do you feel? — guides most runners in the area. It’s an ap- proach that stands in stark con-
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Lornah Kiplagat, an Olympian and founder of the train- ing center. Left, the author working up- hill where the eleva- tion is a mile and half above sea level.
trast to the emphasis on technol- ogy and markers like VO2 max and average heart rate promoted by most coaches and online influenc- ers these days. “Eat, sleep, run,” is how Coach Richard described the routine in Iten. The simplicity is, in some ways, born out of circumstance. Most athletes here can’t afford the watches, carbon-plated super- shoes or electrolyte gels that many privileged runners rely on. Some of the young people I trained with — people who were running at elite speeds — had holes in their shoes and drank wa- ter mixed with cheap glucose packets. When athletes reach world- class levels in the United States and Europe, it is common for them to follow individualized training plans. They often run alone or with just a few partners. But there’s a pack mentality in Iten — runners generally run in big groups. In a crowd, a strenu- ous pace can feel comfortable; you’re syncing your strides with those around you and focusing on staying on the heels of the person ahead of you. “Enjoy the rhythm, forget the pain,” is how Emmanuel Kipruto, an elite runner and coach in Iten, described group running. The runners explained to me that the group also encourages discipline. You cannot sleep in when you know you need to meet your teammates in the morning to run. And there is competition within the group. When you see your teammates have success, it
pushes you to try to keep up with them.
The ultimate group session in Iten takes place every Thursday when there is a fartlek workout, open to anyone who wants to participate. In fartlek trainings, runners alter- nate between fast, intense inter- vals and slow, relaxed ones as a way to build endurance and prac- tice changing speeds. The workout can attract hun- dreds of runners, from elites to amateurs. Dozens showed up the day I was there, and the regimen for the day was daunting: 13 repe- titions of running one minute easy followed by three minutes hard. By the end of the first three- minute interval, I had slipped to the back of the pack. By the sec- ond, the other runners had left me in their dust — even the runner I saw hunched over vomiting dur- ing the first interval. I called it quits after 10 intervals. The pack was far out of sight, and each breath I took felt like someone was smothering me with a pillow. It was humbling. The altitude I snickered at on previous days was now exacting its revenge. I felt like an amateur among pros, like a rec league baller trying to dunk on LeBron James. Coach Richard said he saw progress, though. My body seemed strong, he told me, and that was important so that I could train the next day. I controlled my pace well, which is critical for rac- ing, he said. “I told you, listen to your body,” he said. I had come to Iten hoping to find the secret to running success. What I was learning was that the secret was trusting how my body felt — understanding my own boundaries. It was OK to slow down if my body demanded it. But it was also fine to let loose. Two days after the fartlek ses- sion, I prepared for my final run in Iten, nearly 16 miles along Moiben Road, a paved, relatively flat stretch where local runners do most of their long runs. Coach Richard told me to start my run at 75 percent effort, and pick it up if I felt good. I was a bit uncertain as I set off alongside Vincent Cheruiyot, the team captain assigned to pace me. We settled into a nice rhythm fast- er than 7:15 per mile, a brisk but far from brutal pace. The running felt comfortable as I focused on the beautiful mountain vistas and watching the elite athletes blow past me, including the 10-kilome- ter world-record holder, Agnes Je- bet Ngetich. With about three miles to go, my body told me I could handle more. Our pace dipped below seven min- utes per mile. By the time we were on our last mile, the sweat was dripping, my hamstrings were taut, but I knew I could push the pace, matching Vincent next to me stride-for-stride. When we were done, my body felt bent but not broken, my lungs refreshed. Vincent and Coach Richard flashed wide smiles. I felt the progress. As I prepared to leave Iten, I knew the workouts I had learned were sustainable. I hadn’t trained long enough to experience the full physical benefits, but running is as much a mental challenge as a physical one. I could sense that I had achieved a mental recalibra- tion that I had not been expecting.
The Finish
“Listen to your body.” That had been Coach Richard’s instruction, and hamstring troubles early in the Cape Town Marathon meant that my body needed me to be con- servative. So I relaxed my pace, hoping that I would warm up and the discomfort would go away. By Mile 6, I felt better. I was a little behind my goal pace, so I decided to open up my stride. Eleven of my next 13 mile splits came in under my target of 6:29 per mile. I was blowing past other runners and my lungs were at ease. Then, on Mile 20, we hit a long, steady, sneaky hill. My pace slowed. I kept my focus straight ahead, and thought about the effi- ciency of the strides of the Ken- yans I ran with in Iten. I tried to mimic that. I pushed, but my body didn’t have more to give. My watch said that 2:50 wasn’t going to happen. But I still could beat my personal best, I thought. I grit my teeth through those fi- nal miles. The sun beat down. I started losing my breath. But I thought back to Iten, when the thin air had me gasping and the steep dirt paths had my legs straining, and I felt more than pre- pared for this moment. I thought about Emmanuel’s advice to “en- joy the rhythm, forget the pain.” I saw the finish line and found one last surge. I crossed in 2:53:50, smashing my previous record by nearly four minutes.
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Months ago, the defining narrative around this World Cup
seemed to be the stiff bill fans would face. But with the tourna-
ment over, it is clear that plenty of visitors were undeterred by
the expense. For months, The Athletic was in contact with fans
attending the World Cup from around the world. Seven of them
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Craig Hahn, of Philadelphia, had also at- tended the pre- vious three World Cup tour- naments.
CRAIG HAHN, OF PHILADELPHIA.
cost almost doesn’t make sense. I would do it all again 100 times.’
PATRICK de SOUZA TUNTLAND, a Norway fan who came to the United States with 10 friends.
By EMILY GIAMBALVO and YURIKO SCHUMACHER The Athletic
agreed to share their detailed expenses, from a $7 water at the
stadium to a $3,400 ticket to the final. Some of their costs are
estimates, and the detail they provided varied. But most spent
thousands of dollars on their trips — and, in the end, said they
would do it again. Here is how they spent their money.
Craig Hahn, a 38-year-old software engineer in Philadel- phia, traveled to 10 World Cup host cities, attended 16 games and watched 26 teams. Hahn said he did not spend much time wondering: “Do I need to go to this game and that game and that game?” When he looks back at his list of games, they all seem justi- fied. Hahn, a fan of the U.S. team, feels like he had to go to every U.S. game. He went to all five ($938 combined), and he remi- nisced about how everyone in the concourse seemed “deliri- ous” amid their joy at halftime against Paraguay. The three matches he went to in Mexico “were all fantastic.” He pri- oritized the opportunity to watch teams play in front of their home crowds and did so for all three host countries. And he lives in Philadelphia, so the games there and in New York were convenient. (The train to New York cost around $50, and the bus to MetLife Stadium cost $20.) “I can’t really think of any that were obvious duds that weren’t worth the trip,” he said. This was not Hahn’s first World Cup. He went to the previous three, too — in Brazil, Russia and Qatar. In 2014, he had planned to change jobs and timed his departure so he could travel to Brazil. He spent a month there, attending seven games, including the final. That trip cost about $6,000 in all. This one cost far more. “It’s definitely a big bill,” Hahn said. But when explain- ing why the adventure that cost $19,256 seemed worth it, he said, “I know I would regret not doing it.”
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Craig Hahn’s purchases
Mexico vs. South Africa TICKET FLIGHT
U.S. vs. Paraguay AIRBNB SPLIT WITH FRIENDS TICKET
Brazil vs. Morocco FLIGHT TICKET TRAIN TO PHILADELPHIA
Ivory Coast vs. Ecuador TICKET
France vs. Senegal TICKET TRAIN BUS TO AND FROM STADIUM
Canada vs. Qatar TICKET
U.S. vs. Australia TICKET FLIGHT SHARED RENTAL CAR AIRBNB SPLIT WITH FRIENDS HOTEL
FLIGHTS
Tunisia vs. Japan FLIGHT TICKET AIRBNB SPLIT WITH FRIENDS
Monterrey, Mexico $350 $140 $140
Colombia vs. Congo TICKET AIRBNB SPLIT WITH FRIENDS FLIGHT
Turkey vs. U.S. FLIGHT TICKET AIRBNB SPLIT WITH FRIENDS
Croatia vs. Ghana TICKET
U.S. vs. Bosnia/Herz. FLIGHT AIRBNB SPLIT WITH FRIENDS TICKET
Paraguay vs. France TICKET
U.S. vs. Belgium FLIGHT AIRBNB SPLIT WITH FRIENDS TICKET
Norway vs. England TICKET FLIGHT HOTEL SPLIT WITH A FRIEND RIDE SHARES
Spain vs. Argentina TICKET TRAIN BUS TO AND FROM STADIUM
TOTAL FOOD AND DRINKS
Total
Total
FOOD AND DRINKS
TICKETS
TICKETS
$500
LODGING
TRANSIT
Mexico City $1,000 $300
Los Angeles $140 $66
New York $550 $380 $15
Philadelphia $400
Philadelphia $400
New York $520 $50 $20
Vancouver $550
Seattle $400 $300 $101 $100 $80
Guadalajara $550 $160 $140
Los Angeles $714 $340 $200
San Francisco $1,034 $140 $66
$4,140
Philadelphia $692
Seattle $733 $220 $66
Miami $1,412 $515 $206 $83
New York $3,400 $63 $20
$2,500
$8,281 | THREE MATCHES
$8,281
LEONARDO GIUSEPPE RUSSO DIAS
Leonardo Giuseppe Russo Dias came from São Paulo, Brazil.
For Leonardo Giuseppe Russo Dias, a 27-year-old owner of a beach sports company in São Paulo, Brazil, this World Cup felt like “a life opportunity.” When that’s the appeal, he said, you can find ways to make the fi- nances work. So he saved up, scoured for flights and waited for the best moment to make his purchases. He did have a preferred hotel in Boston — he travels there occasionally to spend time with a friend. But the hotel was so much more expensive than what he normally paid that he found an Airbnb instead ($1,276 for an 11-night stay). And he saved money by sometimes cooking, rather than eating at restaurants. Russo Dias bought his tickets through resale markets — twice from people he connected with on Facebook ($700 for a single ticket to one match and $1,600 for two tickets to another), plus two more from FIFA’s platform ($920 each). He made an ambitious day trip to Houston to see Cristiano Ron- aldo and Portugal play in person. That required a 6 a.m. flight that connected through St. Louis; he landed in Houston an hour before the game. His Uber ($44) dropped him off just in time to hear the national anthems, and another Uber ($109) brought him straight back to the airport after- ward. Even without spending the night, this 17-hour excursion cost $1,161. For the highlight game of his trip, Brazil versus Haiti in Phila- delphia, Russo Dias drove a rental car ($628 for the entire trip) from Boston. Brazil won, 3-0, and Russo Dias called the match “amazing.” He said he enjoyed connecting with other Brazilians, referring to soccer as “the most beautiful thing that we have.” Would he spend another $8,281 to make the trip again? “If I had the money, yes, of course.”
$8,114 | FIVE MATCHES
Antonio Borjon, of Lake Elsinore, Calif., attended all five games that the U.S. played, particularly savoring the win over Paraguay.
ANTONIO BORJON
Antonio Borjon, a 36-year-old employment counselor, consid- ers himself “one of the lucky unicorns out there.” He lives on the West Coast, where the United States played all of its games. And he won lotteries for the chance to buy tickets for each of those matches — twice via a draw for members of U.S. supporters groups that offered particularly cheap prices. Borjon, who lives in Lake Elsinore in Southern California, went to all five U.S. games with his wife. For the games in Los Angeles and Santa Clara, Calif., that did not require a flight, they brought their 2-year-old daughter, who attended free. (She was engaged at times, he said, but slept through some big moments.) Borjon hopes she will remember a little of the experience; he has vague
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Leonardo Giuseppe Russo Dias’s purchases
Haiti vs. Scotland TWO TICKETS PARKING
Portugal vs. Congo TICKET FLIGHT RIDE SHARES
Brazil vs. Haiti TWO TICKETS HOTEL
AIRBNB FOR 11 NIGHTS ROUND-TRIP FLIGHT RENTAL CAR TOTAL FOOD AND DRINKS SOUVENIRS
SOUVENIRS
$1,544
$1,066
$881
$150
memories from when his par- ents took him to a 1994 World Cup game when he was 4. Borjon and his wife, Heather, paid $264 ($66 a ticket) to watch the United States play Paraguay and Australia. And through a FIFA draw for supporters, they bought tickets to the other three games, costing $1,740 in all. (Their knockout-round tickets were “conditional,” so they had to pay only if the Americans advanced.) “I would million percent do it again,” Borjon said. He remembers the euphoria of the opener against Paraguay and how when he left, “you feel like anything is possible,” he said. “That feeling lasted a long time — until obviously the bitter end. That’s what I’ll carry from it. There’s nothing like going to a World Cup, and if you can do it, do your best to do it.”
Boston $1,840 $100
Houston $700 $308 $153
Philadelphia $1,600 $268
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PATRICK DE SOUZA TUNTLAND
Patrick de Souza Tuntland came from Oslo to cheer and row.
Norway had gone nearly three decades without playing in the World Cup, so when the country finally qualified for the tourna- ment, Patrick de Souza Tuntland, a 36-year-old marketing man- ager in Oslo, decided he would travel to New York with 10 friends to cheer, party and row. In all, he spent 12 days in the United States, attending games and sightseeing along the East Coast. It was “so much better than we could have dreamed about,” he said. “Honestly, it’s been the time of my life.” When Norway played Senegal, the friends began their day at a party in Manhattan. They took a train to MetLife Stadium ($98 round trip) and dodged a down- pour on their way to more pregame festivities. After the game, a 3-2 victory that guaran- teed Norway would make the round of 32, his friends all agreed it was one of the best days of their lives. Tuntland’s ticket for that game, purchased through the Norwe- gian soccer federation, cost $465. (To ensure they would be se- lected in the draw to buy World Cup tickets, Tuntland and his friends attended some of Nor- way’s qualifying matches.) Tunt- land saved by staying at a friend’s house in New York. Tuntland, whose father is Brazilian, took a day trip to Phil- adelphia to see Brazil play Haiti ($804 for the ticket, $50 for the bus). He and his friends also traveled to Boston ($89 by train) for a couple of nights ($273 a person in a shared Airbnb) to go to Norway’s final group-stage game, against France ($265). Tuntland also did some sight- seeing while in New York; he went to a Broadway show (“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” $77 and “very funny”) and visited the Empire State Building ($80). He also went to the championship parade
TICKETS
SIGHTSEEING
TICKETS
TICKETS
Antonio Borjon’s purchases
U.S. vs. Paraguay PARKING TWO TICKETS
PARKING
U.S. vs. Australia HOTEL FLIGHT FOR TWO PEOPLE TWO TICKETS
Turkey vs. U.S. TWO TICKETS PARKING
U.S. vs. Bosnia/Herz. TWO TICKETS HOTEL PARKING
U.S. vs. Belgium HOTEL TWO TICKETS FLIGHT FOR TWO PEOPLE
Total
FOOD AND DRINKS
TOTAL FOOD AND DRINKS SOUVENIRS GAS FOR DRIVING TO GAMES SIGHTSEEING IN SEATTLE AIRPORT PARKING
Total
FOOD AND DRINKS
SOUVENIRS
Total
FOOD AND DRINKS
Total
FOOD AND DRINKS
SOUVENIRS
LODGING
LODGING
FLIGHTS
FLIGHTS
$1,053
TRANSIT
TRANSIT
TRANSIT
$950
+$500
Patrick de Souza Tuntland’s purchases
Brazil vs. Haiti TICKET BUS
Norway vs. Senegal TICKET TRAIN TO AND FROM STADIUM
Norway vs. France AIRBNB SPLIT WITH FRIENDS TICKET HOTEL TRAIN RIDE SHARES
TOTAL FOOD AND DRINKS ROUND-TRIP FLIGHT SIGHTSEEING VISA
VISA
$503
$267
$40
for the Knicks (free and “very cool”). In hindsight, perhaps the friend group could have saved money by going to less expen- sive restaurants. But Tuntland has no regrets. Now that he is back in Norway — where he will spend the rest of the summer because the World Cup wiped out his travel budget — he said he still daydreamed about the trip. “Talking about the cost almost doesn’t make sense,” he said. “I would do it all again 100 times.”
Los Angeles $200 $132
$20
Seattle $893 $517 $132
Los Angeles $680 $200
San Francisco $470 $309 $100
Seattle $605 $590 $536
$1,500 $500 $350 $300 $100
$1,500
$150
$8,114
$2,004
$1,807
Philadelphia $804 $50
New York $465 $98
Boston $273 $265 $230 $89 $30
$1,400 $1,175 $700 $40
$1,400
$1,175
$700
$1,534
$763 | ONE MATCH
Maz Abdalla, who grew up in England and is now a finance executive in Atlanta, purchased tickets last fall for a game in the round of 32. As a passionate soccer fan, he could not pass up an opportunity to watch a World Cup game — any game — just 20 minutes from home. Abdalla, 35, bought tickets for himself and his wife ($335 apiece) before knowing who would be playing. And then England landed in Group L, won the group and was slated to play the Democratic Republic of Congo in Atlanta. “Just massive excitement,” he said. Because he lives in Atlanta, Abdalla’s only added expenses were the Uber rides to and from the game ($48) and refresh-
MAZ ABDALLA
$3,253 | FOUR MATCHES
$3,253
CHRISTIAN HAYES-SILVESTRI
Christian Hayes-Silvestri, of Reading, Mass. rooted for Scotland.
Christian Hayes-Silvestri, a 26-year-old credit analyst in Reading, Mass., prefers not to spend much on sporting events — maybe $150 at most to see the Boston Red Sox or another local team. But he felt willing to splurge on the World Cup. Through FIFA’s lottery, he bought tickets at face value ($410 apiece) last fall before the draw determined which teams would play where. Hayes-Silvestri initially selected two games in Boston. He watched Haiti play Scot- land, wearing a Scotland jersey he found online. (He said it felt right to adopt the team after seeing how its fans appeared to fall in love with the city — and vice versa.) Afterward, he de- cided that attending two games was not enough. Three days later, just six hours before kick- off, Hayes-Silvestri bought tick- ets ($713 for two) to see Norway play Iraq. At the games, he was “disci- plined” and did not overspend on concessions, but he still paid $19 for a beer and $13 for popcorn. The price of parking, he said, was “absolutely outrageous.” Twice, other people in his group paid $175 for FIFA’s official lot. For the other game, Hayes- Silvestri spent $60 to park at a restaurant more than a mile from the stadium. In all, attending three local group-stage games cost $2,106, which twice included also paying for his girlfriend’s ticket. “It’s weird because normally I’m pretty frugal, so I would be freaked out by hearing that figure,” he said. “It just felt worth
ments inside the stadium ($45). “To me, it’s worth the cost,” Abdalla said. “I can maybe under- stand to a lot of people it might not be. But I’m a big football fan and I typically don’t treat myself too often, so I don’t mind doing things like this sporadically.” He briefly looked into tickets for England’s semifinal game against Argentina, also in Atlanta. But those were selling for thou- sands of dollars. (Abdalla, an Arsenal fan, recently spent about $1,000 to watch Arsenal play Tottenham in London, but the thought of paying at least twice as much for a World Cup ticket “is quite a big difference,” he said.) He watched the semifinal from his office instead.
Christian Hayes-Silvestri’s purchases
Haiti vs. Scotland TWO TICKETS FOOD AND DRINKS
Iraq vs. Norway TWO TICKETS PARKING AT A RESTAURANT FOOD AND DRINKS
Scotland vs. Morocco TICKET FOOD AND DRINKS
France vs. Morocco TICKET PARKING AT A MOTEL FOOD AND DRINKS
$125
it to me.” After going to those three games, he still regretted not buying more tickets. Less than two hours before kickoff of the quarterfinal game in Boston, he shelled out $1,035 so he could head to Gillette Sta- dium one more time, to see France play Morocco. He parked at a nearby motel ($90) and bought two waters ($7 apiece) and a soda ($8). It was hot, and the game was not as exciting as other quarter- finals, he said. He wished it had been cheaper. But still, he said, he has no regrets.
Maz Abdalla saw England, the country where he grew up, play 20 minutes from his cur- rent home in Atlanta.
Maz Abdalla’s purchases
England vs. Congo TWO TICKETS RIDE SHARES FOOD AND DRINKS
Boston $820 $62
Boston $713 $60 $8
Boston $410 $33
Boston $1,035 $90 $22
$2,978
Atlanta $670 $48 $45
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Martin Bautista, a 24-year-old project engineer, knew he got a good deal. Last fall, he was selected in the Visa presale draw, which allowed him to buy World Cup tickets at face value. For $1,880, he pur- chased 14 tickets across four games, opting for the lower- priced seats farther from the field. He chose games in Houston so he could stay with his parents, who live outside town, and he surprised his brother and sister with tickets as a gift last Christ- mas. Bautista received two addi- tional tickets to the Portugal- Uzbekistan game from a friend, so he sold two of his original tickets on FIFA’s resale platform. He listed them for $1,200 apiece, receiving $2,040 after FIFA took its 15 percent fee. Bautista then decided to skip the round-of-16 game between Canada and Mo- rocco, so he sold those two tick- ets to a friend for around $850 each. Altogether, Bautista attended three games with his family and still came out ahead by about $1,860, which more than covered their remaining expenses. Bautista, who lives in Hobbs, N.M., paid for gas ($240) to drive to Houston. His family took an Uber to and from the first game ($150) but opted to drive and park ($25 a game) at the next two. Bautista had planned to splurge on memorabilia, but the lines were long and items often sold out, he said, so he bought only a FIFA-branded Brazil flag ($20). Inside the stadium, he covered the cost of food and drinks for his family, and he thinks they spent around $300 a game — mostly on beer. Bautista saw tons of goals (14, including two from Cristiano Ronaldo, his favorite player), and the Japanese and Brazilian fans welcomed him into their party. “I would have spent so much more money to relive that,” he said.
$240
$1,880
MARTIN BAUTISTA
Martin Bautista’s purchases
Netherlands vs. Sweden FOUR TICKETS FOOD AND DRINKS RIDE SHARES
Portugal vs. Uzbekistan FOOD AND DRINKS FOUR TICKETS PARKING TWO TICKETS SOLD
Brazil vs. Japan FOUR TICKETS FOOD AND DRINKS PARKING SOUVENIRS
Canada vs. Morocco TWO TICKETS TWO TICKETS SOLD
GAS FOR DRIVE TO HOUSTON
TICKETS SOLD $3,740
TICKETS PURCHASED
$900
$440
KAREN WARREN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Martin Bautista, of Hobbs, N.M., and his companions got to see Cristiano Ronaldo.
Houston $560 $300 $150
Houston $300 $240 $25 +$2,040
Houston $640 $300 $25 $20
Houston $440 +$1,700
Claude Giroux gained plenty of leadership experience in his nine years wearing the “C” for the Flyers. He’s now with the Senators.
With 10 Teams Lacking A Designated Captain
By JULIAN McKENZIE The Athletic
Claude Giroux was 25 years old when he was named captain of the Philadelphia Flyers. Saddled with the front-facing responsibilities that accompanied the prestigious role, the young forward over- extended himself early in his ten- ure. “I was just focusing on the wrong things and trying to help out everybody, trying to be a leader off the ice and talking too much, and then I just forgot to play hockey,” Giroux said. Paul Holmgren, the team’s gen- eral manager at the time, then told him: “You’re not captain because of what you say. It’s the way you play. So, just focus on that.” “That was a big turning point in my career,” said Giroux, now 38. He has gained plenty of leader- ship experience since the begin- ning of his nine years wearing the “C” for the Flyers. And as the newly re-signed elder statesman on an Ottawa Senators team de- fined by up-and-coming talents who look toward Giroux to guide them, Giroux will surely help edu- cate whomever his current club names as its next captain. The Senators are not alone in their need to fill a dressing room void. As of last Wednesday, nine other N.H.L. teams also lacked a designated captain: the Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets, St. Louis Blues, Boston Bruins, Vancouver Canucks, Ana-
always about just one player and one letter.
heim Ducks, New York Islanders, Los Angeles Kings and San Jose Sharks. According to the league’s statistics and information depart- ment, these 10 vacancies are be- lieved to be a record. A handful of these teams lost their leaders in recent months. The longtime Kings center Anze Kopitar retired this spring, finish- ing a 20-year career that included 10 seasons as L.A.’s captain. Boone Jenner, Radko Gudas and Anders Lee left the Blue Jackets, Ducks and Islanders to sign else- where in free agency. Finally, de- spite the honor bestowed upon them at their previous stops, Brady Tkachuk (Senators), Quinn Hughes (Canucks), Brayden Schenn (Blues) and Nick Foligno (Blackhawks) have all been traded since mid-December. It is not the first time that the N.H.L. has experienced such sig- nificant captain movement. Re- markably, six captains were traded during the lockout-short- ened 1994-95 campaign. But open captaincies don’t stay that way for long. Of those 10 captain-less teams, only the Bruins and Sharks have lacked one for a full season, with the Bruins having traded Brad Marchand in March 2025 and the Sharks losing Logan Cou- ture to injury-related retirement a month later. And seven teams named new captains during the 2024 off-season alone, suggesting that a similar rush of announce- ments might come before next season. “That’s the changing of the guard, right?” Foligno said. “There’s a bit of a push right now for the next wave of players to take over.” Though the idea of the captain undoubtedly holds a special place in hockey lore, some wonder whether this gravitas will lead to delayed decisions. Schenn and Foligno were aging veterans who were called on to lead teams in transition, but Hughes and Tkachuk actively sought greener pastures after receiving the lead- ership reins as young stars in their markets. Now, they are seen as faces of the N.H.L.’s emerging player empowerment era, which could lead their former clubs to
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think more about who should be given the sport’s most honored letter — and how soon. “Teams are waking up a little bit and just making sure that they know what they have,” said the former Carolina Hurricanes cap- tain Justin Williams, now a front- office adviser for the 2026 Stanley Cup champions. “And they have the commitment from the player, as well, to be there. Because you don’t want to just name a captain who’s on a one-year or two-year contract and then he’s out the door, right? So, you’ve got to have a guy who’s committed to the team, committed to the city as well.” An N.H.L. captain is more than the face of a team for marketing purposes. He often serves as a go- to interview with media members and frequently talks to on-ice offi- cials about rulings and other in- game issues. He can act as a liai- son between the coaching staff and the dressing room to settle conflicts, and as a social coordina- tor in organizing off-ice activities to bring teammates together. “A lot of times the captain was the best player and/or the guy that was the most veteran, right? That just everyone respected,” said Foligno, who also captained the Blue Jackets from 2015 to 2021. “Now it’s more who has the pulse of the group and who understands the direction that we’re going and can kind of be the go-between be- tween the coach and the players, right? And he has to be a great communicator, and I just think that that’s where the captains are now.” Indeed, the captain does not have to be a team’s best player. But it is also difficult to justify giv- ing the letter to a fringe roster member. “Otherwise, you’re just a glori- fied assistant coach,” said the broadcaster Ray Ferraro, a for- mer Atlanta Thrashers captain. “So the player has to be impact- ful.” Those responsibilities have re- mained consistent throughout league history, even as some ele- ments of the job have changed. In the 1950s, according to newspaper archives, N.H.L. captains annu- ally voted on honors such as indi- vidual player awards, All-Star teams and the most popular ref- eree. In the present, however, there is more emphasis on teams’ leadership structures and not solely on one player shouldering the load. The Bruins have gotten by with a leadership committee and not a de facto leader. After Marchand was traded to the Florida Pan- thers, the Bruins relied on three alternate captains: forward David Pastrnak and defensemen Charlie McAvoy and Hampus Lindholm. “I’ve always said I wanted a captain,” Bruins Coach Marco Sturm said in May. “But now, be- ing through that, first time as a head coach not having a captain, I thought it went real well. Maybe because guys were really close, the leadership group, I thought, did a good job overall. Everyone had their input. There was no out- sider. They always kept it really tight. I actually didn’t mind it.” In Ottawa, where Giroux serves as an alternate captain, the Sena- tors intend to name a replacement for Tkachuk. They certainly do not lack for options, including two young, bright talents in Jake Sanderson and Tim Stützle. It remains to be seen how the nine other teams will fill their va- cancies, though many expect two to soon tap their leading super- stars. The 20-year-old Macklin Celebrini is already a Sharks al- ternate captain and recently cap- tained the Canada national team at this year’s world championship. The Blackhawks’ Connor Bedard, who just signed a five-year, $75 million contract extension, told re- porters it would be “extremely special” for him to become Chi- cago’s next captain. The honor of being captain is valued across the N.H.L. “There’s also a ceremony, a tra- dition of having the captain, and I don’t think our sport would go away from it,” Ferraro said.
By JOHNNY FLORES JR. The Athletic
In a matter of months, a tap on the head has become as common in M.L.B. stadiums as “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” and home runs. The automated ball-strike challenge system has afforded M.L.B.’s 30 clubs a chance to turn a game on its head by challenging an umpire’s call with the gesture. At the midpoint of the baseball season, all 30 clubs had initiated at least 150 challenges. Not all chal- lenges are created equal, howev- er, and some clubs and players have been better at it than others. Catchers lead the way in total challenges, but some hitters have been aggressive about using the system. Using data (through July 12) from the website Tap to Challenge and talking with M.L.B. players, here is how teams, players and umpires were faring at the mid- point of the 2026 season.
Some teams are still reluctant to challenge.
Through the All-Star break, no team was more successful at ball- strike challenges than the Cincin- nati Reds. Remember in February 2025 when Reds Manager Terry Francona brushed off its use in spring training? At the time, the system’s implementation was still on the horizon, and Francona was more focused on the present. “Why work on it?” he said at the time. “I don’t want to make a farce of anything, but we’re here getting ready for a season, and that’s not helping us get ready.” Though the Reds lead M.L.B. in win percentage of ball-strike chal- lenges (64.4 percent), they are far from M.L.B.’s most aggressive team. That title belongs to the Minnesota Twins, who challenged 270 pitches, 25 more than the next-closest team, the Colorado Rockies. By number of attempts, the San Diego Padres, Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers and Arizona Dia- mondbacks are the only clubs that had not hit the 175 or more chal- lenge threshold. San Diego’s re- luctance to challenge is intrigu- ing. On April 25, the club’s 50 chal- lenges ranked in the middle of the pack. In the 83 days afterward, the Padres added just 124 more. In spite of its reluctance to chal- lenge, Boston has been baseball’s best team since July 1.
The umpires are not that bad.
Modern umpires are tasked with navigating an increasingly com- plex, pitching-heavy game, and though the ball-strike system has magnified some of the bad calls, it has also highlighted just how good the umpires are. Of the 91 umpires who have called a game from be- hind home plate, 90 have an accu- racy rating of 91.2 percent or bet- ter. Only one, C.B. Bucknor, sits under 91.2, at 88.9 percent accura- cy. Andy Fletcher had the highest overturn rate (72.5 percent), hav- ing 37 calls overturned in 51 chal- lenges. Todd Tichenor was second (66.2 percent) and Stu Scheurwa- ter third (63.8). “These umpires have a really, really, really difficult job,” the Reds rookie Sal Stewart said. “I only have to know my zone; they need to know the whole league’s zone.” He added: “I just want to say, man, the umpires have done a
Of the 91 umpires who have called a game from behind home plate, 90 have an accuracy rating of 91.2 percent or better.
Johnny Flores Jr. is a senior M.L.B. editor for The Athletic.
Minnesota’s Josh Bell signaling for a ball-strike challenge. The Twins have been the most aggressive users of the system.
great job. This system, it’s not easy. They have to know a lot of people, different heights.” Louie Krupa (12 of 36 over- turned, 33.3 percent), Derek Thomas (34.6) and Dexter Kelley (36.4) had the lowest overturn rates.
Catchers are really good at this.
Entering the regular season, one of the biggest questions surround- ing the challenge system was who, on a team’s 26-man roster, would have the right to challenge. So far, that answer is overwhelm- ingly catchers. Tyler Stephenson, the Reds catcher, has the highest winning percentage on challenges. He
challenged 89 and won 66 for a 74.2 percent rate. Salvador Perez, the Kansas City Royals catcher, was 45 for 63, or 71.4 percent. De- troit Tigers catcher Dillon Dingler was 54 of 78, or 69.2 percent. So what’s the secret? “I don’t really have a secret,” said Rockies catcher Hunter Goodman, who won 57 of 90 on challenges for a 63.3 success rate. “I feel like one thing that I’ve done well this year is knowing the pitcher’s shapes and how they en- ter the zone. So guys with weird arm slots or they throw from a funky angle. They kind of enter the zone a little differently. “I try my best to challenge the pitch shapes. So if it’s a slider away from the righty, there’s prob- ably a better chance it’s running away from the zone, or if there’s a
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sinker coming back to the zone, there’s a better chance that’s go- ing to be a strike. It’s kind of like one of those things you kind of learn as you go.” Dingler, who is second in the American League in successful challenges, pointed to a need to be fearless. “If you think it’s a strike, rip it,” said Dingler, a first-time All-Star. “That was one of the biggest things that kind of helped me with that, because you kind of hesitate. You don’t want to burn them. You don’t want to make somebody mad that doesn’t get to use it later in the game. But generally speak- ing, if I think it’s a strike right away and I have a good feeling about it, it’s usually a strike.”
There are some good position players, too.
While catchers generate most of the challenges, and successful ones at that, there are several po- sition players who have been able to hold their own at the plate, in- cluding two rookies, Stewart and Tigers shortstop Kevin McGo- nigle. Among noncatchers, Isaac Paredes, the Houston Astros third baseman, has been most success- ful, challenging 12 and being right 11 times, for a percentage of 91.7. Davis Schneider, the Toronto Blue Jays outfielder, was 11 for 14 for a 78.6 success rate. The Astros’ Jose Altuve was 15 of 21 for 71.4 per- cent. McGonigle was 13 of 19 for a 68.4 success rate. Stewart, an infielder, was drafted in 2022. His rise through the minors coincided with the sys- tem’s implementation in base- ball’s lower levels. That led to an immediate comfort level that not every player shares. “I had it even in Low-A a few times, so I’m more comfortable with it,” Stewart said. “I’ve had it for a few years already, so it’s defi- nitely helped me.” In the case of McGonigle, chalk it up to a good eye. “Just knowing the zone, study- ing the pitchers and where they like to go with certain pitches, and just getting a good feel for the zone,” McGonigle said. The expansion of the challenge system beyond Triple-A into the Arizona Fall League and spring training should help future rook- ies become more familiar with it and reduce the adjustment period when they reach the majors. In other words, the next wave of M.L.B. talent should have little trouble adjusting. “I think it’s going to help a lot of guys,” McGonigle said.
The system has had its lowlights.
If there is one thing the automated ball-strike system has excelled at, aside from helping overturn bad calls, is providing some amusing highlights when things go wrong. Before the All-Star break, out- fielder Alex Call squandered both of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ avail- able challenges in the second in- ning of a game. Only one of those pitches was worth challenging. Before that, Randy Arozarena found himself wasting all of the Seattle Mariners’ challenges, in the first inning, on pitches that were not particularly close to be- ing balls. Then there was Jazz Chisholm Jr. of the New York Yankees being so confident in his challenge that he was taking off his gear to go to first base on what he thought was the fourth ball. Surprise: It was a strike.
As Camps Loom, It’s Time to Calibrate Your Expectations
It is one of the best times of year, according to the N.F.L. calendar: In a matter of days, training camp will have opened across the league, and all 32 teams — brimming with lofty expectations — will hit the fields to lay the foundation for their upcoming campaigns. Ten teams have new head coaches, more than half the league features new offensive coordinators, and just less than half wel- comed new defensive coordinators this off-season. The free-agent acquisitions and draft selections have begun to settle into their new surroundings, and now they will get to work. While every player and coach aspires to contend for the Super Bowl, expectations differ depending on the team. Some highly touted squads will live up to their potential, while others will fall short. Others will exceed expectations and make life difficult for opponents. We’re taking a look at some of the most underrated and overrated teams entering the 2026 season and how things could shake out for them.
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Atlanta Falcons
Kevin Stefanski inherits a team that features plenty of talent.
The Falcons are among the 10 teams that hired new head coaches this off-season, but the cupboard is far from bare. Raheem Morris led the Falcons on a four-game winning streak that helped them finish 8-9 and tie with the Carolina Panthers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers atop the N.F.C. South, but it came after they had already been eliminated from playoff contention based on potential tiebreakers. The owner Arthur Blank opted for change, and Kevin Stefanski inherits a team that features plenty of talent, with Bijan Robinson, Kyle Pitts, Drake London, A.J. Terrell, Jessie Bates III, James Pearce and Xavier Watts leading the way. If he can figure out the quarterback situation between Michael Penix Jr. and Tua Tagovailoa, and keep one of those two on the field, Atlanta could chal- lenge for the division.
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Dee Winters and other veteran talents joined Dallas’s defense.
Jerry Jones will tell you that the Cowboys always have a shot at contention, and his team does gener- ate plenty of buzz. But the Cowboys will have to jell in a hurry on de- fense, where the new defensive coordinator Christian Parker inher- its a unit that struggled mightily last season but added plenty of new faces, including veterans like pass rusher Rashan Gary, cornerback Cobie Durant, linebacker Dee Win- ters and the rookie linebackers Mala- chi Lawrence and Jaishawn Barham. The offense, led by Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens, should again put up points, but the much-needed defensive backing could take some time.
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Indianapolis Colts
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Daniel Jones is expected to open the season after an Achilles’ injury.
Had Daniel Jones not ruptured his Achilles’ tendon in Week 14, Shane Steichen’s squad very well may have contended for the top seed in the A.F.C. The Colts expect Jones to open the season, and they hope he can pick up where he left off and help direct a top-10 offense that still features a strong line and running back Jonathan Taylor. The Colts have a tough opening schedule but could certainly contend in the A.F.C. South.
Buffalo Bills
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The Bills could experience grow- ing pains with Coach Joe Brady.
The Bills came up painfully short in their quest for a Super Bowl, and Coach Sean McDermott lost his job as a result. They are regarded as contenders largely because Josh Allen is always darting in and out of phone booths. But it is well docu- mented that he cannot do it alone. The Bills could experience some growing pains as Joe Brady attempts to make the big jump from offensive coordinator to head coach, and the new defensive coordinator Jim Leon- hard tries to install a brand-new defense.
JONATHAN TAYLOR is on a top-10 offense with a strong line.
Cincinnati Bengals
The Bengals have a healthy Joe Burrow and improved depth.
A 31st-ranked defense that surren- dered at least 30 points in seven contests and more than 45 points twice offered next to no support for an offense that endured a nine-game stretch without a healthy Joe Bur- row. Now the franchise quarterback returns, and the additions of defen- sive tackles Dexter Lawrence and Jonathan Allen and pass rusher Boye Mafe should help bolster Cin- cinnati’s defensive front. Thanks to those moves, plus oth- ers along the defense, the Bengals just might have better depth than they did when they reached the Super Bowl during the 2021 season. The Baltimore Ravens draw much attention in the A.F.C. North, and rightfully so, but the Bengals seem primed for a bounce-back season and could cause trouble for their divisional foes.
Chicago Bears
Caleb Williams will have to signif- icantly improve his consistency.
Ben Johnson ignited the Bears in his first season at the helm, and he helped quarterback Caleb Williams tap into some of the potential the franchise saw in him when selecting him No. 1 in 2024. Chicago’s defense led the N.F.L. with 33 takeaways, and the Bears leapfrogged the Minnesota Vikings, Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions in the N.F.C. North and reached the divisional round of the playoffs. Expectations have skyrocketed, but taking that next step represents a great challenge. Williams delivered late-game heroics, but he and his team cannot count on a repeat of that trend. He will have to improve his consistency by a significant margin, and Chicago’s defense can’t get away with such a low pressure rate and such struggles against the run. The Bears feel primed for a step backward rather than forward.
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Bryce Young put up career passing and touchdown numbers in 2025.
A tiebreaker over the Buccaneers and Falcons paved the way for the Panthers’ first playoff appearance in eight years. In his third season, Bryce Young put up career numbers in passing yards (3,011) and touch- downs (23). The defense went from dead last to middle of the pack. Despite pushing the Los Angeles Rams in a 34-31 wild-card loss, the Panthers continue to fly under the radar. General Manager Dan Morgan was busy, making moves to upgrade both the offensive and defensive fronts, adding veteran guards in Robert Hunt and Damien Lewis along with pass rusher Jaelan Phillips and linebacker Devin Lloyd. Carolina Coach Dave Canales and his group just might make some more strides in his third season.
Philadelphia Eagles
Sean Mannion is the fourth offen- sive coordinator in four years.
The Eagles have ranked among the elite teams of the N.F.C. for the past 10 years, making the playoffs nine times and winning the Super Bowl twice. Even with last season’s re- gression, they won the N.F.C. East for the third time in four seasons. But now they’re trying to retool on the fly, subtracting the disgruntled A.J. Brown and drafting Makai Lem- on, rolling with their fourth offensive coordinator in four years (the rookie play caller Sean Mannion), and adding the veterans Jonathan Greenard and Riq Woolen on defense while losing the standouts Nakobe Dean and Reed Blankenship. The health of the offensive line is a con- cern. Although viewed as a bar- setter, the Eagles could hit a few snags this season.
DRAKE MAYE may require time to jell with A.J. Brown.
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New Orleans Saints
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The rookie receiver Jordyn Tyson could help the Saints make noise.
There is not a lot of sizzle about the Saints, but Coach Kellen Moore did help guide his squad forward last season in his rookie year, especially during a 4-0 December. They will need some players to grow into roles on defense, but on offense, if the second-year quarterback Tyler Shough can build on his late-season progress and capitalize on the addi- tions of the rookie wide receiver Jordyn Tyson and running back Travis Etienne to a unit that already includes Chris Olave and Alvin Ka- mara, the Saints could make some noise in the division. Last season, they split with the Buccaneers and swept the Panthers last season.
New England Patriots
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Mike Vrabel and his players want to resolve unfinished business.
The Patriots certainly exceeded expectations in 2025, overtaking Buffalo for the division and reaching the Super Bowl, where they lost to the Seattle Seahawks. Mike Vrabel and his players badly want to re- solve unfinished business in 2026, but doing so could prove to be chal- lenging. New England will not have the luxury of sneaking up on teams this season. The Patriots also have a grueling start, with three road games in their first four weeks and two back-to-back road trips in their first 10 weeks. The Patriots landed A.J. Brown in the hopes that he can help elevate Drake Maye, but chem- istry could take some time. New England also still seems to lack a game-changing pass rush, which needs to change for its defense to take another step forward.
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Pogacar Wins His Fifth Title and Van der Poel Stuns in the Final Stage
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PARIS — Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia won his fifth Tour de France title on Sunday, joining Eddy Merckx of Belgium, Miguel Induráin of Spain and Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault of France as the only cyclists to win the race five times. Pogacar, 27, finished 6 minutes 26 seconds ahead of the Belgian Remco Evenepoel, 26, who fin- ished second in the overall stand- ings. Pogacar’s U.A.E. Team Emirates teammate Isaac del Toro of Mexico, 22, who was making his Tour debut, was third, 9:42 back from Pogacar. Pogacar won five stages at this year’s Tour, bringing his career total to 26. Mathieu van der Poel, 31, a Belgian-born Dutch pro, held off the peloton on the Champs- Élysées on Sunday to win Stage
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Jacob Whitehead is a reporter for The Athletic; Duncan Alexander is managing editor of cycling and soccer data.
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Little Rock 100/ 79 0.04 101/ 79 S 103/ 81 S Los Angeles 87/ 69 0 87/ 68 S 89/ 68 PC Louisville 85/ 74 Tr 93/ 78 T 91/ 69 PC Memphis 98/ 78 0.04 99/ 79 PC 100/ 80 S Miami 94/ 78 0.52 91/ 78 T 91/ 78 T Milwaukee 87/ 74 0.08 87/ 70 T 81/ 65 S Mpls.-St. Paul 97/ 76 0 94/ 71 S 92/ 73 S Nashville 91/ 74 0.06 93/ 76 R 98/ 75 S New Orleans 95/ 78 0 95/ 79 S 97/ 79 PC Norfolk 81/ 68 0 82/ 71 T 86/ 74 T Oklahoma City 102/ 74 0 102/ 75 S 105/ 77 S Omaha 102/ 79 0 103/ 73 T 93/ 73 S Orlando 95/ 77 0.27 92/ 77 T 96/ 76 T Philadelphia 88/ 68 0 85/ 71 T 78/ 69 T Phoenix 112/ 92 0 112/ 92 T 111/ 91 PC Pittsburgh 82/ 64 0.09 85/ 70 T 79/ 64 T Portland, Me. 73/ 50 0 78/ 55 S 74/ 61 T Portland, Ore. 80/ 59 Tr 82/ 61 PC 78/ 57 PC Providence 81/ 56 0 82/ 64 S 76/ 66 Sh Raleigh 85/ 70 0.04 89/ 73 PC 88/ 71 T Reno 96/ 60 0 96/ 59 S 95/ 62 S Richmond 84/ 67 0.04 84/ 72 PC 84/ 70 T Rochester 81/ 63 0.13 83/ 66 T 75/ 64 T Sacramento 94/ 57 0 93/ 58 S 97/ 60 S Salt Lake City 105/ 83 0 101/ 78 S 101/ 80 S San Antonio 96/ 77 0 98/ 77 S 99/ 77 PC San Diego 78/ 71 Tr 79/ 69 PC 77/ 71 PC San Francisco 70/ 58 0 71/ 58 PC 72/ 58 PC San Jose 78/ 58 0 78/ 59 PC 83/ 60 S San Juan 92/ 79 0.02 92/ 79 T 92/ 79 R Seattle 74/ 58 0 77/ 59 PC 74/ 55 PC Sioux Falls 98/ 73 0.10 98/ 68 S 94/ 69 PC Spokane 84/ 58 0 86/ 60 S 87/ 58 S St. Louis 97/ 78 0.08 99/ 79 PC 92/ 74 S St. Thomas 93/ 80 0 90/ 81 T 92/ 81 PC Syracuse 80/ 62 0.22 81/ 65 T 77/ 64 T Tampa 92/ 81 0.04 90/ 81 T 91/ 82 T Toledo 87/ 68 0.04 87/ 70 T 86/ 63 T Tucson 105/ 80 0 103/ 82 T 101/ 81 PC Tulsa 102/ 80 0 103/ 80 S 103/ 79 S Virginia Beach 79/ 69 0 79/ 71 T 84/ 74 T Washington 85/ 70 0.09 88/ 73 T 83/ 71 T Wichita 103/ 76 0 106/ 77 S 96/ 77 PC Wilmington, Del. 85/ 68 0 84/ 70 T 76/ 69 T
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Algiers 93/ 73 0 89/ 67 S 91/ 67 S Cairo 94/ 75 0 94/ 73 PC 97/ 76 PC Cape Town 75/ 46 0 65/ 51 W 68/ 43 S Dakar 86/ 79 0.16 89/ 82 PC 88/ 80 PC Johannesburg 66/ 37 0 68/ 40 PC 66/ 41 PC Nairobi 75/ 55 0 74/ 56 C 72/ 56 C Tunis 100/ 81 0.05 92/ 75 PC 93/ 75 S
TOUR DE FRANCE
during Stage 21 on Sunday. Van der Poel won the stage.
Meteorology by AccuWeather
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Thunderstorms will rumble across much of the Great Lakes, Northeast, Rockies and Southeast coast. Some thunder- storms may be severe, particularly in the Great Lakes, where there could be dam- aging wind gusts, hail and drenching downpours. A growing heat dome will support tem- peratures five to 15 degrees above aver- age from Texas to Minnesota. There will be sunshine and mainly dry weather, though afternoon storms cannot be ruled out. Dry weather will also encompass the West Coast states, Nevada and Idaho. While there will be sunshine in Califor- nia, it will be cloudier across the Pacific Northwest as cooler air moves in. There may be showers in coastal Washington.
New Delhi 97/ 81 0.15 95/ 83 Sh 92/ 80 R Riyadh 109/ 85 0 107/ 84 PC 108/ 84 PC Seoul 91/ 81 0.16 88/ 78 Sh 87/ 76 T Shanghai 97/ 81 0 95/ 82 PC 95/ 81 PC Singapore 86/ 79 0.54 88/ 79 T 89/ 79 T Sydney 68/ 47 0 67/ 49 S 72/ 52 S Taipei City 97/ 80 0.09 95/ 79 Sh 95/ 78 PC Tehran 104/ 82 0 107/ 77 PC 99/ 78 PC Tokyo 90/ 77 0.51 88/ 74 T 85/ 75 T
Europe Yesterday Ye Y Today Tomorrow To T
Amsterdam 72/ 64 0.18 69/ 59 PC 81/ 64 C Athens 88/ 63 0 91/ 73 S 97/ 80 S Berlin 81/ 59 0.04 74/ 53 Sh 77/ 56 PC Brussels 73/ 61 0.13 74/ 57 PC 86/ 62 S Budapest 88/ 59 0 87/ 60 Sh 89/ 62 PC Copenhagen 66/ 61 0.19 67/ 54 Sh 71/ 61 PC Dublin 66/ 57 0.12 71/ 62 Sh 77/ 60 Sh Edinburgh 68/ 55 0.59 68/ 57 R 72/ 60 R Frankfurt 84/ 57 0 82/ 56 Sh 87/ 64 S Geneva 79/ 63 0.28 84/ 59 S 92/ 64 S Helsinki 66/ 60 0.18 68/ 56 Sh 66/ 52 C Istanbul 81/ 64 0 87/ 73 S 90/ 73 S Kyiv 81/ 58 0 88/ 63 S 73/ 55 PC Lisbon 84/ 64 0 94/ 67 S 93/ 65 S London 79/ 64 0 83/ 62 S 88/ 63 C Madrid 88/ 59 0 96/ 66 S 103/ 70 S Moscow 66/ 57 0.07 68/ 59 R 79/ 57 T Nice 86/ 75 0 87/ 75 S 87/ 76 S Oslo 64/ 48 0.01 72/ 51 S 77/ 53 PC Paris 79/ 61 0 82/ 60 PC 92/ 65 S Prague 86/ 59 0 75/ 55 Sh 79/ 55 S Rome 90/ 77 0 88/ 70 S 92/ 72 S St. Petersburg 77/ 61 0.03 83/ 63 S 69/ 59 R Stockholm 64/ 55 0.08 66/ 51 C 71/ 52 S Vienna 88/ 61 0 84/ 63 W 89/ 60 S Warsaw 82/ 55 0 71/ 54 Sh 72/ 52 PC
North America Yesterday Ye Y Today To T Tomorrow To T
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Acapulco 88/ 78 0 91/ 76 T 91/ 76 Sh Bermuda 84/ 79 0.43 85/ 79 T 85/ 80 T Edmonton 64/ 53 0.13 75/ 51 T 80/ 48 T Guadalajara 76/ 63 0.13 83/ 61 T 83/ 63 T Havana 91/ 73 0 88/ 73 Sh 89/ 72 R Kingston 93/ 80 0 91/ 80 S 91/ 80 C Martinique 91/ 76 0.04 90/ 78 T 90/ 79 Sh Mexico City 69/ 55 0 75/ 56 Sh 75/ 56 R Monterrey 86/ 69 0 97/ 69 S 99/ 71 PC Montreal 80/ 66 0 80/ 66 T 83/ 67 T Nassau 86/ 79 0.07 89/ 80 T 89/ 80 Sh Panama City 88/ 76 0 86/ 75 R 89/ 75 R Quebec City 80/ 61 0.01 83/ 63 C 82/ 63 T Santo Domingo 91/ 76 0.02 93/ 74 T 93/ 75 T Toronto 79/ 64 0.10 81/ 66 T 78/ 63 T Vancouver 64/ 61 0.27 72/ 60 PC 72/ 56 Sh Winnipeg 79/ 66 Tr 86/ 62 PC 89/ 65 S
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Cycling’s beauty is in its un- likely alliances, the greatest classics rider of his generation and the greatest rider of any generation forged together on the Champs-Élysées, working together to find one of the lone prizes to have escaped them. Van der Poel had attacked on the third climb of Montmartre, bringing only Pogacar with him. The pair time-trialed their way to the line, bouncing over Parisian cobbles as they were chased down by a Visma-led group, then a Decathlon CMA CGM train, working for Olav Kooij. This was an escape that should not have worked, a lead of just 12 seconds with about six miles remaining. It showed the absurd- ity of these riders, of these per- formances, that it did. Pogacar was exhausted, for the first time all Tour, in the final mile or so. He crossed the line at walking speed, a mortal for a moment at least, as much as the yellow jersey can be, freewheel- ing down the Champs-Élysées. But out front, van der Poel was still pushing, launching a heroic sprint with about 875 yards to go.
POOL PHOTO BY ETIENNE GARNIER
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TONIGHT ................................Early showers Low 69. There may be a couple of show- ers in the evening. Otherwise, it will be humid, with increasing clouds. Winds will remain light and variable. Low tempera- tures will be near the average.
TOMORROW .........................Thunderstorms High 77. It will be mostly cloudy and not as warm, with showers and heavy thun- derstorms. Storms may bring flooding downpours, hail and damaging wind gusts.
WEDNESDAY ..Showers and thunderstorms High 77. There will be a mix of clouds and sunshine, with a couple of showers and thunderstorms.
THURSDAY FRIDAY ....................Partly cloudy Thursday Dry weather will return on Thursday, with a mix of clouds and sunshine. High 80. On Friday, sunshine will break through clouds occasionally. High 85.
In Central Park, for the 13 hours ended at 1 p.m. yesterday.
1 p.m.
1 p.m.
SAT. YESTERDAY
6 p.m.
12 a.m.
Avg. daily departure Avg. daily departure from normal from normal this month............... -0.6° this year.................. -0.2°
Reservoir levels (New York City water supply)
Yesterday ............... 87% Est. normal ............. 90%
Sun, Moon and Planets
Moon
Full Last Quarter New First Quarter
July 29 Aug. 5 Aug. 12 Aug. 19
10:35 a.m.
1:36 p.m.
RISE 5:48 a.m. SET 8:17 p.m. NEXT R 5:49 a.m.
Jupiter
R 5:55 a.m. S 8:22 p.m.
Saturn
S 11:48 a.m. R 11:18 p.m.
Boating
From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20 nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York Harbor. Winds will be out of the southeast at around 5 knots. Waves will 1 foot or less on New York Harbor and Long
sland Sound and 1-2 feet on the open ocean. Visibility will be restricted by afternoon storms.
High Tides
64° 4 a.m.
6 a.m.
Atlantic City .................... 6:44 a.m. .............. 7:03 p.m. Barnegat Inlet ................. 6:57 a.m. .............. 7:10 p.m. The Battery ..................... 7:38 a.m. .............. 7:49 p.m. Beach Haven .................. 8:24 a.m. .............. 8:38 p.m. Bridgeport .................... 10:44 a.m. ............ 10:54 p.m. City Island ..................... 11:19 a.m. ............ 11:25 p.m. Fire Island Lt. .................. 7:52 a.m. .............. 8:06 p.m. Montauk Point ................ 8:26 a.m. .............. 8:43 p.m. Northport ..................... 11:05 a.m. ............ 11:08 p.m. Port Washington ........... 11:29 a.m. ............ 11:30 p.m. Sandy Hook .................... 7:06 a.m. .............. 7:20 p.m. Shinnecock Inlet ............. 6:46 a.m. .............. 7:05 p.m. Stamford ...................... 10:51 a.m. ............ 10:55 p.m. Tarrytown ....................... 9:27 a.m. .............. 9:38 p.m. Willets Point .................. 11:18 a.m. ............ 11:25 p.m.
Record high 98° (1940)
1 p.m. 83°
high 85° Normal
low 70° Normal
(1920) low 55° Record
S 3:30 a.m. R 7:28 p.m. S 4:31 a.m.
Mars
R 2:22 a.m. S 5:22 p.m.
Venus
R 9:38 a.m. S 10:15 p.m.
is found in its unlikely alliances.
It was doomed until it wasn’t. Jasper Philipsen and Pedersen launched their sprints with about 325 yards to go, van der Poel’s legs visibly slowing in front of them. All three crossed the line in a blur. Philipsen’s arm went up. He celebrated his teammate’s win. Van der Poel was near tears at the end, from exhaustion as much as anything else, using the barriers to help him stand. His lifelong adversary Wout van Aert of Belgium won here last year. It speaks to the great- ness of their rivalry that van der Poel emulated him on Sunday. Montmartre again delivered a classic. In two years, it has produced the most memorable final stages of the Tour de France in decades, perhaps in race his- tory.
W T F S S M
High High Actual Forecast range
Low Low
Yesterday ............... 0.00 Record .................... 3.24
For the last 30 days Actual ..................... 3.83 Normal.................... 4.29
For the last 365 days Actual ................... 36.63 Normal.................. 49.52
LAST 30 DAYS Air pressure
High ........... 30.01 1 a.m. Low .............. 29.94 noon
Cooling Degree Days
An index of fuel consumption that tracks how far the day's mean temperature rose above 65
Trends Temperature Precipitation Average Average Below Below Above Above
Last 10 days 30 days 90 days 365 days
Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation trends compare with those of the last 30 years.
Beach and Ocean Temperatures
Today’s forecast
74/55 Mostly sunny Kennebunkport
76/64 Mostly sunny Cape Cod
83/70 A thunderstorm around L.I. North Shore
80/71 A thunderstorm around L.I. South Shore
80/73 A thunderstorm around N.J. Shore
82/71 An afternoon thunderstorm Eastern Shore
76/71 An afternoon thunderstorm Ocean City Md.
79/71 An afternoon thunderstorm Virginia Beach
Record highs
T W T F
Normal highs
Normal lows
Record lows
Humidity
High ............. 74% 7 a.m. Low ................ 43% noon
Color bands indicate water temperature.
审计结论： ❌ 存在严重质量问题 (Quality Audit Failed)
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