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SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 2026

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摄影：KIANA HAYERI 为纽约时报拍摄 阿富汗一所秘密教室里的数学课，在这里，女孩接受六年级以上的正式教育已被禁止。

走进反抗塔利班禁令的女孩秘密学校

作者：埃利安·佩尔蒂埃

艾莎每周六天去一所秘密学校上学，主要是为了能继续接触家门以外的人。她说，在塔利班的统治下，这是避免完全孤立的唯一方法，也是让自己感到还活着的唯一方法。

“如果没有那种联系，”她说，“我不知道自己会变成什么样。”

现年 18, 岁的艾莎曾梦想在大学学习心理学。2022 年，塔利班禁止女孩接受六年级以上的正式教育，终结了那个梦想。

但艾莎多年来一直在反抗这些规定，她坐在隐藏在小学走廊后面的教室里。全国各地有数千个此类项目在塔利班的监视之外运行。

正在完成作业的五年级学生。目前青少年女孩唯一能就读的官方学校是宗教学校。

秘密学校曾被视为一种权宜之计，是女孩们在塔利班离去前维持学业的一种方式。但在塔利班重掌权力五年后，近 250 万 阿富汗女孩被排除在中学教育之外。

她们可以去宗教学校，或者在家里接受私人指导。但在全国各地，许多女孩冒着被逮捕的风险秘密上学。还有些人故意在六年级挂科，以便尽可能长时间地留在教室里。

校长、教师和家长通过秘密努力运营这些学校，为他们担心可能已经失败的事业而奋斗：将一代女孩从无知中拯救出来。塔利班的领导层似乎并不愿意撤销禁令，即便在

续见第 12 页

在预测市场的纷争中，各州亦与特朗普家族交战

政府与家族企业在赌注法律纠纷上达成一致

作者：大卫·亚费-贝拉尼（DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY）和莎伦·拉弗拉尼尔（SHARON LaFRANIERE）

3月初，小唐纳德·特朗普向一群聚集在新奥尔良丽思卡尔顿酒店参加为期三天静修会的共和党州总检察长们发表了一番演说。

作为总统的长子，特朗普先生多次承诺将家族的商业利益与政府工作分开。但在这次闭门活动中，他介入了一场激烈的法律斗争，争论焦点在于州政府还是联邦机构应该监管预测市场——这是一个新兴的繁荣产业，特朗普家族在其中拥有财务利益。

四名熟悉其言论的人士表示，在与蒙大拿州总检察长的问答环节中，特朗普先生坐在台上暗示，州领导人们正被某种“既得利益”所误导——即那些试图通过攻击预测市场来保护其“垄断地位”的博彩公司。他表示，事实上，这些市场已经拥有了强有力的监管，并将其描述为由联邦官员而非州总检察长监管的先进金融工具。

相关人士表示，特朗普先生的语气很友好。但他的这些言论此前尚未被报道，且与他父亲的政府向州领导人传递的信息不谋而合：退后。

在全国各地的诉讼中，红州和蓝州联合起来对抗 Kalshi 和 Polymarket 等预测市场，由此引发的一场法庭之争将决定美国人是否可以使用这些平台对体育、政治以及几乎所有其他事情进行投注。

总共有 20 个州陷入了关于预测市场是否受州体育博彩法管辖的诉讼。上个月，44 个州签署了一封信，抨击这些平台是捕食年轻人的“新型赌场”。

州领导人认为，这些市场在规避监管且未能缴纳州税

— 根据非党派研究机构税务基金会（Tax Foundation）的估计，由此造成的收入损失每年总计至少 20 亿美元 billion。

这场诉讼引发了一场异常激烈的政治博弈，使联邦政府与各州处于对立状态。特朗普总统已宣布，他希望预测市场在他的领导下蓬勃发展，而无需州政府监管。他的政府与 Kalshi 密切合作，并在法庭上主张，该行业的唯一监管机构是商品期货交易委员会（CFTC），这是一个监管石油和农产品等商品市场的小型机构。

CFTC 表示，在 1974, 年成立后的半个世纪里，它从未因监管问题起诉过任何一个州。而今年，它已经起诉了 9 个州，且全部由民主党

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选举平手，抽签决定胜负

作者：REIS THEBAULT

亚利桑那州吉拉本德 —— 上周，在一个曾经的边境前哨站发生了一场老式西部风格的僵局。

在亚利桑那州吉拉本德（Gila Bend）的镇议会选举中，两名候选人在7月的选举中获得了相同的票数，均为67票。一项拥有百年历史的州法律规定，必须通过随机游戏来打破平局。

在这场决斗中，没有枪战，但会有一次“抽签” —— 不是从枪套中拔枪，而是从一副洗好的扑克牌中抽牌。抽到点数更高牌的候选人将赢得该席位。

在选举不信任感日益增加，且该州成为投票相关阴谋论温床的时代，吉拉本德的领导人们表示，他们深知这场于周二举行的关键平局决胜必须透明且经过精心策划。

“考虑到目前发生的一切，你希望它尽可能公开，”负责监督选举的镇书记官帕特里夏·里格斯（Patricia Riggs）说道。

在这个距离菲尼克斯西南50英里、人口1,800人的社区中，这种僵局并非首次通过随机方式决定。在一个拥有数万个民选地方政府且政治分歧严重的国家，近几十年的选举竞争曾通过扑克游戏、抽签，以及本月早些时候在夏威夷通过塞在塑料蛋里的名字来决定。

作者：VANESSA FRIEDMAN 和 JACOB BERNSTEIN

大都会博物馆计划致敬设计师引发愤怒

大都会艺术博物馆（The Metropolitan Museum of Art）正面临日益严重的抵制，原因是其计划致敬约翰·加利亚诺（John Galliano）。这位才华横溢的英国时尚设计师曾因反犹太主义言论，于2011年被法国法院判定犯有仇恨罪。

加利亚诺在名誉扫地之前曾将迪奥（Dior）打造为全球巨头，他预计将成为由大都会博物馆服装学院赞助的一场为期九个月展览的主题。

批评者指出加利亚诺的反犹太主义谩骂

该展览将以大都会艺术博物馆礼服舞会（Met Gala）拉开帷幕。这场年度春季慈善活动和红毯盛会由《Vogue》全球编辑总监兼大都会博物馆受托人安娜·温图尔（Anna Wintour）监督。

在公众批评声中，大都会博物馆的受托人和董事会成员正忙于进行损害控制。首先，他们正在考虑是否将下届 Met Gala 的日期从通常的5月第一个星期一移至次周。2027, 年，大屠杀纪念日（Yom HaShoah），也被称为大屠杀与英雄纪念日，将落在原定的派对日期。

近日，纽约及其他地区的犹太领导人对博物馆致敬加利亚诺计划的反对情绪日益高涨。捐赠者已联系大都会博物馆高管，威胁称如果展览

NASUNA STUART-ULIN 为纽约时报拍摄 加拿大被盗豪车的离奇旅程 汽车正通过上图所示的蒙特利尔被走私，以满足俄罗斯激增的需求。第8页。

内容创作者是为政治人物服务，还是为了报酬？

作者：肯·本辛格（KEN BENSINGER）和斯图尔特·A·汤普森（STUART A. THOMPSON）

乔什·格林（Josh Greene）是一位崛起中的左翼社交媒体明星，拥有自己的播客，近 800,000 名追随者，并能接触到像佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）和纽约市市长佐兰·马姆达尼（Zohran Mamdani）这样的政治人物。

他利用该平台在期中选举中支持了数十名进步派候选人，范围涵盖从低知名度的基层选战到美国一些最受瞩目的民主党初选。在面对镜头的视频中，格林先生向他的追随者告知自己的倾向，称某些候选人为“最可行的人选”，而在其他情况下则宣布“这就是适合你们的候选人”。

但他并不总是告诉观众，他的支持行为是有偿的。

但记录显示，26 岁的格林先生在当前的竞选周期中，已收到至少七名政治人物或支持他们的外部团体的资金，其中包括纽约的几名国会候选人，以及一个与密歇根州参议院提名人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（Abdul El-Sayed）博士相关的超级政治行动委员会（super PAC）。加利福尼亚州前州长候选人汤姆·斯泰尔（Tom Steyer）向他支付了 $21,500.

格林先生居住在南加州，以其账号 @joshtheprogressive 闻名。他属于人数日益增多的影响者群体之一，而此时的竞选活动正日益

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美国总统称美国收购委内瑞拉石油

本文作者：丽贝卡·F·埃利奥特（Rebecca F. Elliott）、西蒙·罗梅罗（Simon Romero）和爱德华·王（Edward Wong）。

特朗普总统表示，美国已达成一项协议，将获得委内瑞拉大部分石油储量的多数控制权，这表明美国正采取全面行动，旨在确立其在西半球能源领域的主导地位。

美国国务院通过一名美国官员表示，该协议是通过与一家私营公司合作，对另一个国家的油田进行的一次极不寻常的涉足。

据两名熟悉该合作伙伴关系的人士透露，该公司与委内瑞拉商人亚历杭德罗·贝坦库尔·洛佩斯（Alejandro Betancourt López）有关联。

特朗普先生在周五的一篇社交媒体帖子中表示，该协议将使美国控制超过 650 亿桶的证实石油储量。这几乎与全球最大石油生产国美国的全部证实储量相当。

委内瑞拉总统德尔西·罗德里格斯（Delcy Rodríguez）表示，这项“历史性”协议将涉及开发 17 个油田，并将对“我们国家的复兴产生重大影响”。

她表示，这将吸引超过 1000 亿美元的投资，并为委内瑞拉资金匮乏的政府带来估计 2090 亿美元的资金，该政府一直致力于在……之后改善生活条件

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《纽约时报》的 Anupreeta Das 目击了尼泊尔和西藏在灾难性洪水后的直升机救援行动，这场洪水在几分钟内冲走了整个村庄。请在 nytimes.com / video 查看视频。

蒂姆·卡里（Tim Curry）上周去世，享年 80 岁。凭借其顽皮的英俊外貌、随性的优雅以及浑厚的嗓音，他在那些需要反派特质或卡通色彩的角色中备受青睐。请在 nytimes.com / movies 查看他的影像生平。

当杰斯·扎基拉·怀斯（Jess Zakira Wise）开始尝试群体性行为时，她很难找到一个让她感到舒适的环境。于是，她创造了一个。在“现代爱情”（Modern Love）节目中，怀斯女士解释了什么才是一场完美的乱交。nytimes.com / mlpodcast

今日金句

“被盗的车辆并非偶然。它们是按订单被盗的。”

雷纳托·斯基帕尼（RENATO SCHIPANI）负责监管国际刑警组织的被盗车辆数据库，他指的是那些在加拿大被盗，以供应俄罗斯蓬勃发展的西方车辆黑市的汽车。第 8 页。

故事背后的故事

扎齐·韦尔登（Zazie Weldgen）的草图包含了她的手写研究记录。她确定了 179 种与纽约州相关的物种和吉祥物。

一幅网球插画是如何变得如此狂野的

今日美国网球公开赛板块的封面比你预想的具有更强的生态严谨性。

作者：塔拉·泰拉诺瓦 (TARA TERRANOVA)

一项运动能否如此受欢迎，以至于动物们都想出来参与其中？

这就是体育版面设计师蒂莫西·奥利弗 (Timothy Oliver) 和自由插画师扎齐·韦尔德根 (Zazie Weldgen) 在为今年《纽约时报》的美国网球公开赛预告版面创作时所构思的。

在今年预告版的封面插画中，数十张不寻常的（且长满毛的）面孔填满了亚瑟·阿什体育场 (Arthur Ashe Stadium)；该预告版作为特别板块出现在今天的报纸中。读者可能会发现一只正在啜饮 Honey Deuce 鸡尾酒的浣熊；一只在玩接球游戏的北美河獭；或者是在人群中飞翔的弗拉科 (Flaco) —— 那只从中央公园动物园逃脱的欧亚雕鸮。

这是一幅充满了低吼、啁啾和吠叫的插画，旨在匹配大满贯网球赛中这个“野孩子”般的赛事 —— 而且其中蕴含着生态学的严谨性。封面上的许多动物都能在纽约州找到，且大多数是本土物种。

这是奥利弗先生第五次负责美国网球公开赛的预告。每年在设计封面时，他与同事们都试图捕捉这项网球大奖赛的精神，它比其他赛事更嘈杂，也更自由奔放。

“这对纽约人来说非常有吸引力，因为每个人都能感觉到自己是其中的一部分，”奥利弗先生说道。

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在这样一个已经被冬奥会、尼克斯队夺冠和世界杯填满的体育年里，奥利弗先生以及他在体育版面的合作者坎贝尔·比米勒 (Campbell Biemiller) 和萨拉·齐格勒 (Sara Ziegler) 知道，他们想要一幅能够代表体育对社区之凝聚力的插画，但又要带有一种轻松的基调。

韦尔德根女士是一位来自纽约州罗切斯特的 23 岁艺术家，她曾在其母校门罗社区学院 (Monroe Community College) 的校园里创作过一幅动物壁画。她说，她经常试图模仿儿童读物中插画的俏皮特质。自然而然地，

动物成了她作品中的常见主题。

“感觉很多人比起人类，更容易与动物产生共鸣，”她在谈到自己的壁画时说道，“动物能给很多人带来很多快乐。”

研究是韦尔德根女士艺术创作过程的核心。作为一名纽约本地人，她知道自己想要寻找纽约州特有的动物，并试图将美国网球公开赛的主球场亚瑟·阿什体育场填满，以此来捕捉这项赛事的文化现象。

韦尔德根女士筛选过程背后的哲学是什么？越多越好。

“我把纽约的动物都用光了，”她说，“这听起来很傻，因为这里的生物多样性如此丰富。”

为了寻找封面上的 179 种生物和角色，她花了数周时间翻阅百科全书，并浏览纽约市公园管理局、州环境保护部以及康奈尔鸟类学实验室的网站。

至于加入神话生物和非生物类动物的想法则是后来才有的。她陷入了谷歌搜索和新闻文章的“兔子洞”中，从而引入了像大都会博物馆的非官方蓝色吉祥物“河马威廉” (William the Hippo) 以及普罗斯佩克公园的“幽灵狗”等角色。

绘制数百种不同的动物需要三个多月的准备时间，奥利弗先生估计，这是他给过插画师的最长的预留时间。

韦尔德根女士在卧室的绘图桌上工作。一张高 28 英寸、长 17 英寸的描图纸很快成了韦尔德根女士最好的朋友 —— 也是她的克星。比米勒女士说，在纸上，她必须“根据我们的反馈，不断擦除并重新像拼图一样将碎片组合在一起”。

而这些反馈是非常、非常严肃的。

“我对网球了解不多，所以他们建议增加一些小细节，比如加一个球童。现在有一只穿着球童衣服的小松鼠正栖在栏杆上，”韦尔德根女士说道，随后补充道：“对我来说，这完全是一种乐趣。”

当韦尔德根女士从描图纸过渡到插画的最终版本时，她进行了色彩研究，以尽可能精准地捕捉体育场内黎明时分的感觉。为了达到最高精度，她将亚瑟·阿什体育场的参考照片上传到 Photoshop 中，尝试各种颜色和光照条件。最后，她使用水彩、丙烯颜料和白色凝胶笔来绘制高光。

在网球版块中，奥利弗先生及其同事列出了韦尔德根女士插画中出现的所有动物。

奥利弗先生表示，读者们每天面对着铺天盖地的沉重新闻，理应获得一点喘息之机，在这样一张“每个人都能从中看到自己”的图像中寻找快乐。哪怕是那只在球场上发球的鸽子，或是坐在看台上的东部棉尾兔。

请在今日报纸中查找美国公开赛版块。

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多莉·帕顿逝世，享年80岁，这位超级巨星的歌曲触动了数百万人。据《纽约时报》发布的讣告，多莉·帕顿于周二在纳什维尔因癌症短期病故，该讣告被数百万人阅读。我们对这位乡村音乐传奇的报道涵盖了她的商业帝国、慈善工作以及大胆前卫的风格。

Meta 就社交媒体成瘾指控达成里程碑式和解，将支付高达 171 亿美元。Facebook 和 Instagram 的母公司 Meta 与数十个州就其平台具有成瘾性的指控达成和解，并同意针对年轻用户做出重大调整，包括中断无止境的滚动浏览。来自商业、科学和风格编辑部的记者对该新闻进行了报道。

最高法院周一表示，特朗普总统可以继续执行在中期选举前限制邮寄投票的计划。今年 3 月，特朗普指示政府建立一份全国合格选民名单，并要求邮政局拒绝向任何未经批准的人员发放选票。大法官们提醒，该命令并非最终裁决。

这 20 个词胜过千言万语。《书评》特约评论员 A.O. 斯科特邀请读者思考埃兹拉·庞德的《在地铁站》，这是一部措辞极其精炼的作品，他称其为“英语中最短的伟大诗篇之一”。

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ESPN 在一座充满感激的小镇庆祝巨大成功

1999 年 8 月 30 日。当 ESPN 于 1979 年 9 月 7 日开始在康涅狄格州布里斯托尔广播时，镇上的居民并不确定如何看待这个新邻居，其卫星天线排列得“像星际接球手手套一样”，迈克·艾伦在二十年后为《时报》写道。艾伦当时正在报道该网络 20 周年庆典，在这个小镇上，不确定性已转化为感激之情。“我很荣幸他们能在这里，”时任布里斯托尔市长弗兰克·N. 尼卡斯特（父）说道。ESPN 是比尔·拉斯穆森的愿景，他曾是新英格兰鲸鱼曲棍球组织的一员，他选择这座小镇作为其创新创业项目的所在地：24 小时体育报道。这个想法获得了成功。布里斯托尔曾是全球领先的自行车铃制造地，如今却因 ESPN 而闻名，艾伦写道，ESPN 重新定义了“美国球队与其球迷之间的关系”。拉斯穆森先生本月逝世，享年 93 岁。

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时事线 《时报》记者在全球各地的报道地

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全美除阿拉斯加州外的每个州都部署了超过 100,000 台 Flock 摄像头，这是一种能够追踪车牌的 AI 赋能监控设备。反 Flock 愤怒情绪的背后究竟是什么？见《杂志》第 4 页

多莉·帕顿（Dolly Parton）小时候由母亲为她缝制的那件“多彩外套”，被《美国词曲作者》（American Songwriter）评为歌曲中最著名的三件衣物之一，另外两件分别是普林斯的树莓色贝雷帽和埃尔维斯的蓝色麂皮鞋。多莉·帕顿在造型师时代之前便已闪耀 SUNDAY STYLES，第 6 页

在物理学中，量子叠加的概念认为，像电子这样的亚原子粒子在某种程度上可以同时存在于两个地方。电影《暗黑》中的科幻设定在科学上有多可靠？

1977 年纽约州最高法院的一项裁决允许跨性别网球运动员勒妮·理查兹（Renée Richards）获得参加美国网球公开赛女子组赛事的资格。 反手截击 书评，第 18 页

根据美国情报部门的消息，中国国家主席习近平已命令世界上规模最大的常备军——中国人民解放军，使其能够在 2027 年前具备兼并台湾的能力。捍卫者《杂志》，第 30 页

音乐剧《悲惨世界》改编自维克多·雨果 1862 年的小说，于 1985 年在伦敦首演且至今仍在演出。该剧已在 57 个国家以 22 种语言上演，观众人数超过 1.5 亿。倾听：你能听到票房的钱币叮当声吗？艺术与休闲，第 6 页

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1 吉尼斯标志中的古典乐器

5 被藤蔓覆盖的

7 汽水货架上 8-Across 的竞争对手

8 汽水货架上 7-Across 的竞争对手

9 The Athletic 的所有者（简称）

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2 法语中的“with”

3 无情地嘲讽

4 像蚊子一样令人心烦

6 源自许多新年愿望的计划

前次谜题答案

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1. 阿根廷，内乌肯 —— 艾玛·布博拉前往巴塔哥尼亚西北部的沙漠，这里已成为新一轮石油和天然气繁荣的中心，阿根廷希望这将彻底改变其经济。

2. 冰岛，雷克雅未克 —— 尽管冰岛几乎没有谋杀案，但犯罪小说是当地最受欢迎的文学类型。阿米莉亚·尼伦伯格在雷克雅未克与作家们探讨了他们如何让谋杀情节显得可信。

3. 新德里 —— 印度只有 8% 的大学毕业生能找到与其学位相匹配的工作。亚历克斯·特拉韦利从首都发回报道，称全国范围内感到幻灭的青年正在要求教育改革。

4. 澳大利亚，悉尼 —— 禽流感正在澳大利亚蔓延，导致冠让自己、海鸥和企鹅死亡；甚至已经传播到了海豹身上。劳拉·钟报道了该国遏制病毒的努力。

文字游戏

今日填字游戏提示

在“文字游戏”专栏中，一名《时报》游戏专栏作家帮助读者解决当天的填字游戏。警告：下文包含剧透。

该主题组中的每个线索都是一名演员的名字，以斜体大写字母书写。谜题的标题“Written in the Stars”（星之书写 / 命中注定）大概与线索中的演员有关。此外，在 69-Across 处有一个揭秘条目，我之前没能解读出来：[定期出现的人……或者大写线索与其答案之间的联系]。

我必须把所有线索过一遍，才拼凑出几个答案。22-Across，例如：[MARTIN SHEEN] 的答案是 HENRI MATISSE，我是通过意识到交叉条目中已填入的所有字母都出现在线索的名字中而推断出来的。字母易位词？我完成的下一个条目在 48-Across，这让我的怀疑看起来完全正确：[MORGAN FREEMAN] 的答案是 GEORGE FOREMAN。将一个名字中的字母打乱就能得到另一个，对吧？

在 84-Across 的 [CHRISTIAN SLATER] 处，我终于明白了。答案是 ELAINE STRITCH，但她的名字中只有一个 R，而斯莱特先生有两个；S 和 A 也是如此。ELAINE 中有两个 E，但所有这些机关意味着她的名字少了两个字母，这意味着这两个名字根本不是易位词。48-Across 简直是恶魔级别的：线索和条目都长 13 个字母，但福尔曼先生多了一个 O、G 和 E；弗里曼先生多了一个 M、A 和 N。

这种对易位词的微调是一种不同的加密技巧，称为“字母库”（letter bank）。你从一组待重新排列的字母开始，但你可以根据需要多次使用其中的任何字母 —— 例如，将 “imps” 变成 “Mississippi”。

出题者利用字母库构建了一些很棒的谜题。我不认为我见过以如此狡猾的方式呈现的字母库配对，也没有见过如此严格限制的集合，几乎全部是流行文化中的知名人物。（我确实查了 33-Across 线索中的名人 [NORMAN REEDUS]，但查到后我立刻认出他了。）

至于那个揭秘线索，关于“定期出现”的内容让我很困惑，但答案是一个完美的双关语。字母库中所有那些重复的字母就是 RECURRING CHARACTERS（重复出现的字符 / 经常出现的角色）。CAITLIN LOVINGER

请在杂志第 46 页玩这个填字游戏。

Some Wellness Podcasts to Add to Your Queue

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几年前，我写过一篇关于我最喜爱的健康类播客的专栏。从那时起，我收到很多读者的来信，希望我能提供更多推荐。这里有几个值得关注的播客。JANCEE DUNN

《Love Factually》电影经常塑造我们对浪漫的感知。在这个系列中，两位社会心理学家通过科学视角审视热门浪漫电影。他们分享了关于这些电影在处理人际关系方面哪些是对的，哪些是错的研究。

《This Podcast Will Kill You》该系列被誉为“你最喜爱的传染病播客”，由疾病生态学家兼流行病学家埃林·威尔士（Erin Welsh）以及流行病学家兼家庭医学医生埃林·奥尔曼·厄普代克（Dr. Erin Allmann Updyke）博士共同主持。每集内容通常围绕某种特定疾病或病症的历史、研究和治疗展开。

《On the Mind》在这个引人入胜的播客中，威尔康奈尔医学院（Weill Cornell Medicine）精神科教育副主任丹尼尔·克诺普弗尔马赫（Dr. Daniel Knoepflmacher）博士和其他专家以一种令人耳目一新的直率方式，提供关于心理健康的资讯和建议。

《All There Is With Anderson Cooper》在听这个关于悲伤的播客时，我有时会不由自主地屏住呼吸。主持人是广播记者库珀先生，他曾经历过深刻的丧亲之痛。在充满情感的交流中，他与嘉宾探讨如何应对悲伤的复杂性。

《Medically Speaking With Dr. Eve Glazier》 格莱齐尔（Glazier）博士是加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校戴维·格芬医学院的医学教授，她是一位擅长分解复杂健康话题的资深主持人。她引导专家就影响患者的广泛问题进行活跃且坦诚的讨论。

《So Your Parents Are Old》作为一名曾邀请年迈父母参加临终规划午餐的 X 世代，我觉得这个播客极其有用。该系列由记者瓦妮莎·格里戈里亚迪斯（Vanessa Grigoriadis）主导，为照顾年迈父母的成年子女提供社群支持和建议。

《Maintenance Phase》由活动家兼作家奥布里·戈登（Aubrey Gordon）和记者迈克尔·霍布斯（Michael Hobbes）主持，该播客巧妙地揭穿了健康、饮食和养生趋势的谎言。两人既幽默又是勤奋的研究者，深入挖掘生物黑客（biohacking）、防弹饮食和种子油等时尚趋势背后的数据。

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莫迪在世界范围内达成惊人交易，以对冲特朗普风险

作者：ANUPREETA DAS

新德里——法国。新西兰。塞舌尔。马来西亚。斯洛伐克。意大利。在过去的一年里，印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪以令人窒息的节奏在世界各地奔波，寻求新伙伴或加强与现有伙伴的联系。促使他采取行动的是一个残酷的现实：印度应对特朗普总统引发的全球动荡并强化自身经济的唯一途径，就是广泛分散风险。

自2025年8月以来，莫迪先生已正式访问了至少20个国家，并计划在未来几天访问更多国家，包括从本周六开始的乌兹别克斯坦之行。其中许多会晤具有浓厚的商务色彩，类似于华尔街银行家在谈判交易时那种紧急的闭门讨论。

在访问乌兹别克斯坦之后，莫迪先生将前往吉尔吉斯斯坦参加上海合作组织的年度峰会。这是一个由10个成员国组成的区域安全组织，预计他将在那里与俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·V·普京举行会谈。

莫迪先生在会晤中为印度争取到的经济利益包括：来自德国的潜艇技术、来自法国的学生签证，以及来自英国的更廉价的苏格兰威士忌（这可以说是印度最受欢迎的酒精饮料）。

“随着我们经济规模的增长，我们希望与世界其他地区建立更好的关系，”马哈拉施特拉邦（印度西部的一个邦）政府发起的一项倡议——未来经济合作委员会的执行董事普里亚姆·甘地-莫迪表示。这种方法取决于“设定更小的目标、更精准的目标，并针对较少数量的国家，直到目标实现为止”。

像法国和加拿大这样的中等强国也受到了印度所面临的相同力量的打击，这使得它们更容易接受莫迪先生的接触。一些国家正主动寻求与他接触，以满足自身的战略需求，并获得进入这个全球增长最快的大型经济体的机会。

印度重新调整的外交政策在大约一年前首次亮相，此前特朗普先生在2月份宣布征收25%的全球关税。特朗普政府开始指责印度的保护主义经济，且在去年8月，特朗普先生因印度购买俄罗斯石油而对其加征了25%的额外关税，称这些采购行为在资助俄罗斯在乌克兰的战争。

在特朗普先生的第一任期内，他与莫迪先生培养了个人关系，印度原以为这将带来回报。但在特朗普先生多次声称自己在2025年5月印度与巴基斯坦之间一场为期四天的冲突结束中发挥了作用后，新德里的情绪恶化了。

由于美国曾是印度最大的单一出口市场，印度此后急于寻找新伙伴，同时也加强与日本和澳大利亚等希望遏制中国的国家的关系。伊朗战争使印度的任务变得更加紧迫：由于其80%的原油进口经过霍尔木兹海峡，印度被迫寻找其他运输路线。

莫迪在与谁达成交易？

自12月以来，75岁的莫迪先生访问了18个国家，而印度的接待名单也已排满：共有13个国家的领导人访问了印度。

许多此类会晤达成了具体协议：

- 印度和法国建立了尤为紧密的伙伴关系，重点关注人工智能与治理，以及在未来五年内将双边贸易额翻倍。

■ 莫迪先生与挪威首相约纳斯·加尔·斯托雷（Jonas Gahr Støre）重申了挪威的承诺，即根据印度10月与欧洲自由贸易联盟签署的一项协议，在印度创造100万

马来西亚 2月，莫迪先生与总理安瓦尔·易卜拉欣（Anwar Ibrahim）在首都吉隆坡附近。 AZNEAL ISHAK 拍摄的池图

韩国 总统李在明向莫迪先生承诺在印度进行投资并提供造船援助。

欧洲 欧盟委员会的乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩（Ursula von der Leyen）称与印度的协议为“所有交易之母”。 SAJJAD HUSSAIN / 法新社 — 盖蒂图片社

行动中 印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪在6月的七国集团（G7）峰会上。在过去一年中，他正式访问了至少20个国家。

个就业岗位。

■ 韩国总统李在明承诺在印度进行投资并提供造船援助。印度目标是在2047年之前成为全球前五大造船国家之一。

■ 莫迪先生成为四十年来首位访问新西兰的印度总理。此次会晤重点讨论了海上安全（基于去年签署的国防合作协议）以及将双边贸易额翻倍。

- 印度在1月与全球最大的经济体——欧盟签署了一项重大自由贸易协定。由于新近剧变的全球秩序，大约二十年的贸易谈判得以加速推进。

政策驱动因素为何？

根据对近期协议的审查，印度的优先事项可分为以下几类：国防技术、地区安全、能源进口、关键矿产、人工智能，以及其国民在海外学习和工作的能力。

分析人士表示，从广义上讲，这些事项反映了印度及其合作伙伴的目标，即创建运行良好的经济走廊，从而在其中构建应对未来地缘政治冲击的韧性。为了维持其青睐的外交政策立场——“战略自主”，莫迪先生一直致力于开展经济外交。

分析人士指出，许多协议强调了印度需要支持来创造制造业就业机会，以及需要驱动其增长的技术。但作为全球最大的仿制药制造商，印度也在与各国合作建设基础设施，并为其药品寻找新买家。与以往许多领导人会晤的分散性质不同，近期的伙伴关系更加聚焦，概述了具体的目标、指标和数字。

欧盟协议——欧洲委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩将其称为“所有协议之母”——标志着印度正摆脱其保护主义政策。作为协议的一部分，印度同意做出让步，包括削减欧洲汽车、葡萄酒及其他产品的关税。2025年，印度还与英国达成协议，后者降低了服装关税，而前者削减了酒精产品的关税。

伦敦智库查塔姆研究所（Chatham House）的南亚专家奇蒂吉·巴杰派（Chietigj Bajpayee）表示，印美关系目前处于“波动”状态，缺乏“战略重点”。巴杰派先生将莫迪先生与特朗普先生在法国G7峰会期间的会晤比作一次“临时喝咖啡”，而非建立关系的步骤。

他表示，在缺乏与美国可靠关系的情况下，“印度回到了追求一种平衡策略，即管理其与小国、像加拿大和日本这样的中等强国，以及美国和中国等全球大国之间的关系。”

但莫迪先生绝非一个在可能的情况下回避宣传个人化学反应的人，这赢得了印度同胞的欢呼。在与意大利总理乔治亚·梅洛尼（Giorgia Meloni）会面期间，莫迪先生向她赠送了一袋 Melody 糖果，这是一种在印度很受欢迎的糖果。就在当天，一家与生产 Melody 的糖果制造商名称相似但并无关联的公司，其股价在印度股市飙升。

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邮寄袋

纸箱

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灾难性洪水揭示水电赌注风险

作者：亚历克斯·特拉韦利（ALEX TRAVELLI）

新德里 —— 席卷尼泊尔一个地区的泥石流、洪水和冰川冲击，在几分钟内摧毁了该国十分之一以上的水电产能，重创了尼泊尔将其视为经济未来核心的产业。

博特科希（Bhotekoshi）和特里舒利（Trishuli）河谷的洪水损坏或摧毁了 14 个水电项目，其中包括 6 个在建项目。根据尼泊尔电力局的数据，周三的洪水过后，431 兆瓦的发电能力陷入瘫痪，超过了该国总产能的 12%。

如果将在建项目计算在内，损失则要严重得多。算上这些目前已停工或在某些情况下被冲走的电站，损失的产能将大致翻倍。其中就包括特里舒利-1（Trishuli-1）项目，在该项目的施工隧道中，63 名印度人获救，另有 100 多名工人仍然失踪。

此次破坏是一场更大规模的人道主义灾难的一部分。超过 600 人死亡，2,400 多人失踪，93,000 人需要援助。

但如此大量水电基础设施的损失，也暴露了尼泊尔经济发展战略核心的脆弱性。该国正大举押注于从喜马拉雅山脉奔流而下的河流，旨在将自己打造成为可再生电力的主要生产国和出口国，并与来自印度和中国的公司合作。

“尼泊尔面临着两个非常重要的风险，”新加坡国立大学南亚研究所的尼泊尔研究员普斯帕·夏尔马（Puspa Sharma）表示。

一个是其山地地形固有的自然灾害，随着气候变暖，这些风险似乎正在加剧。他说，另一个风险“是其对印度的依赖，因为我认为如果没有印度，其水电产业将无法取得任何进展”。

印度是尼泊尔过剩电力的核心市场，也是其接触其他买家的唯一实际途径；同时，新德里与中国的竞争也使尼泊尔吸引投资的努力变得复杂。

尼泊尔壮丽但残酷的地理环境，长期以来使水电看起来像是等待开发的天然资源。由喜马拉雅山的积雪和冰川补给的河流奔向印度平原，携带著巨大的势能。

尼泊尔拥有约 83 吉瓦的水电潜力，其中 43 吉瓦（大约相当于 30 到 40 座核反应堆的输出量）可以开发。但其中只有一小部分得到了利用，部分原因是该国需要数十亿美元用于建设大坝、输电线路和其他基础设施。在负债累累且地处内陆的尼泊尔，年平均收入约为 \$1,600。

尼泊尔的装机水电容量已从 2024 年的约 3,000 兆瓦增长到 4,000 兆瓦以上。政府的目标是到 2035 年达到 28,500 兆瓦，远超尼泊尔自身的消费量。

上个月，尼泊尔确认了一项协议，将在 10 年期间向印度输送 10,000 兆瓦的电力。随着 14 亿人口的需求增长，印度对电力的需求正在激增，尽管该国也在迅速扩大太阳能、风能和核能发电。但印度政府一直不愿依赖由其在喜马拉雅山对岸的竞争对手中国支持的水电项目。

两国在领土主张上存在竞争，其军队在 2020 年发生了一次致命的边境冲突。

“印度对中国投资的进入持犹豫态度，”夏尔马先生说。他指出了 2018 年制定并在 2020 年冲突后强化的规定，这些规定限制了涉及与印度接壤国家（包括中国）公司的投资。

印度最近显示出放宽部分限制的迹象，同时成为尼泊尔水电部门更重要的投资者。印度支持的项目包括 Arun-3，这是一个在尼泊尔东部建设的 900 兆瓦电站。

孟加拉国是另一个充满希望的客户。由于依赖进口天然气，孟加拉国在伊朗战争期间极易受到波斯湾供应中断的影响，能源短缺给其作为孟加拉国经济支柱的服装业带来了沉重压力。

然而，地理因素再次使尼泊尔依赖于印度。尽管尼泊尔和孟加拉国之间的距离仅在 14 英里以内，但一条狭窄的印度领土将两国分隔开。因此，两国之间贸易的电力必须经过印度，而印度在外交紧张时期曾限制孟加拉国获取尼泊尔的电力。

上周的破坏揭示了一个更根本的不确定性：尼泊尔能否安全地构建那些支撑其出口雄心的水电系统。

喜马拉雅山脉极易发生山体滑坡、雪崩和冰川湖溃决。随着气候变暖，其中一些灾害预计将加剧，这使得关于尼泊尔应在何处建设水电项目、应如何进行工程设计，以及小型电站是否会更具韧性的争论变得更加激烈。

尼泊尔此前已经在讨论建设水库，以便储存水分并全年提供电力，而不是严重依赖季节性的河流流量。

这场灾难还凸显了另一个艰难的权衡。尼泊尔国内需要水电，但电力出口能带来该国发展急需的资金。如果未来的灾难中断了发电，应该优先考虑哪一项？

“如果河流上的项目被冲走，”夏尔马先生说，“你是选择出口到印度，还是让自己的国家陷入黑暗？”

气候变化提出了一个更长期的疑问。夏尔马先生表示，随着喜马拉雅山脉迅速变暖，该地区最终可能不得不重新审视其关于河流本身的假设。

他说：“如果全球变暖无法得到控制，也许冰川会直接干涸，这些系统里将不再有水。”

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周五，尼泊尔德维加特（Devighat）的灾难幸存者在寻求避难所、食物和医疗护理的同时，视察了房屋的受损情况。 ATUL LOKE 为纽约时报拍摄

尼泊尔洪水幸存者面对沉痛损失

作者：ANUPREETA DAS 和 SAJAL PRADHAN

尼泊尔，德维加特（DEVIGHAT）—— 在两次不同的对话中，他们仅用两句简单的话，就道出了许多尼泊尔人的心声：他们所建立的生活在几秒钟内被抹去。

“一切都没了，”店主安朱·沙基亚（Anju Shakya）说道。

清洁工阿努什卡·塔芒（Anushka Tamang）说：“我不知道接下来该怎么办。”

周三，咆哮而至的泥石流卷走或掩埋了他们的亲人、房屋、企业和学校，让无数人陷入同样的紧迫问题中：我能吃什么，在哪里睡觉，还能抢救回什么？然后又会发生什么？

29岁的塔芒女士临时搭建了一条简易路径，以便走完这段虽短但危险的路，回到她位于尼泊尔中部城镇德维加特的家。她走在倒下的树干、屋顶的锡板和房屋废墟的混凝土地基上，避开流沙，赤脚快速走过泥泞地带。

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她和哥哥将这些财物拖到附近的一所学校，她的女儿在那里就读，她也在那里担任清洁工。她计划带着这些物品在那里住几天。在眼前的危机过去后他们将如何生活，目前谁也无法预料。

这场山洪造成至少675人死亡，据报道有超过2,400人失踪；鉴于灾难的规模，这些数字肯定还会上升。根据初步估计，这场灾难预计将给该经济体造成数十亿美元的损失，而该经济体在很大程度上依赖旅游业。修复和建设道路、桥梁和电线预计将花费数亿美元，甚至更多。

获救人员已被送往医院和救援营地，政府和非营利组织已开始为他们搭建临时避难所并提供餐食。

援助组织“好邻居尼泊尔”（Good Neighbors Nepal）的项目主任希拉拉尔·塔姆拉卡尔（Hiralal Tamrakar）表示，向人们提供食物和水以及临时避难所是当务之急。该组织正与努瓦科特区比杜尔镇的当地政府合作，比杜尔是受损严重的人口较密集地区之一。他说，幸存者们迫切需要食物，以及衣服、住所、毯子和其他基本生活用品。

但当幸存者们在为失踪的朋友和家人哀悼，并无奈接受财产和贵重物品的损失时，关于如何重建生活的问题目前还很少有答案。

“稍后，政府会制定安置他们的规定和计划，”塔姆拉卡尔先生说。

直到两天前，50岁的沙基亚女士还在比杜尔特里舒利河畔一个繁华的市场——特里舒利集市（Trishuli Bazaar）经营一家珠宝店。沙基亚女士说，她付出了很多努力，才为自己和家人创造了舒适的生活，未来前景良好。

她在一家三层楼的房子里住了二十多年，与儿子、儿媳和孙子同住。他们有两辆汽车和一辆摩托车。她说，她的家庭积累了约3.5公斤黄金，价值大约$500,000。她计划用这笔钱支付孙子的教育费用。

当泥石流冲破店铺墙壁奔向她的家时，那段精心培育的生活消失了。

沙基亚女士说，家人试图关闭窗户和门以阻挡泥浆，但几分钟内他们就被迫逃离。他们爬上山坡以避开致命的洪流，并在军队人员到达之前在那里停留了两天。

房子和车没了。店铺没了。黄金也没了。

夏基亚女士坐在行军床上，由军队医生为其提供护理并检查生命体征。她说，她不知道该如何面对未来，也不知道接下来该做什么。她穿着一件借来的 T 恤，左膝上缠着绷带，那是她在爬山时扭伤的。

她和家人计划住在尼泊尔首都加德满都的亲戚家，直到他们决定如何重新开始生活。

“想到我们失去的财富，我的眼睛就忍不住泛泪，”她说。

“你不可能从零开始重新开一家金店，”夏基亚女士补充道，她仍然不敢相信在这样的年纪，她必须重新开始。“上帝收回了他赐予我们的东西。”

救援人员在尼泊尔洪水灾区搜寻 2,400 Missing in Floods in Nepal

ATUL LOKE 为《纽约时报》拍摄 周五，在尼泊尔，寻找失踪亲属的家属与军队人员一起核对获救人员名单。

作者：BINOD GHIMIRE 和 MUJIB MASHAL

尼泊尔，加德满都 —— 整个城镇被抹去。道路、桥梁和通信线路被冲毁。在短短片刻之间，当灾难性的洪水席卷宁静的喜马拉雅山谷时，数以万计的人陷入绝望与迷茫。

四天后，随着尼泊尔及其邻国西藏的救援工作在周六继续进行，洪水造成的惊人破坏规模正逐渐清晰。

官方统计的失踪人数跃升至 2,400, 人以上，是前一天数字的两倍多。死亡人数上升至至少 675 人，且预计将继续攀升。在洪水下游的几个城镇，停尸房已被尸体数量填满，官员们被迫采取临时应急措施。

联合国负责减轻灾害风险的最高官员卡马尔·基肖尔（Kamal Kishore）周五表示：“在记忆所及的范围内，我们从未见过这样的山地灾害事件。对生命、生计、建筑、基础设施、桥梁、水电项目以及发电能力的打击确实极其巨大。”

重建工作将极其艰巨。

尼泊尔是世界上最贫穷的国家之一。其经济长期停滞，严重依赖旅游业以及工人从海外寄回的汇款。

这次灾难发生在全球人道主义资金严重短缺的背景下，因为一些最大的传统捐助国，特别是特朗普总统领导下的美国，近年来已缩减了国际援助。

例如，美国宣布将为救援工作捐助 $500,000 —— 这与 2015. 尼泊尔遭遇毁灭性地震后几天内承诺的金额相比，仅占极小一部分。仍处于自身经济崩溃恢复期的斯里兰卡承诺捐助 100万美元。

前外交部长普拉迪普·贾瓦利（Pradeep Gyawali）表示，目前的承诺对于资助重建工作来说并非好兆头。

他说：“与 2015 地震时的对比令人震惊，当时尼泊尔甚至难以处理来自世界各地的海量救援物资。援助几乎立即到来，且规模大得多。然而这一次，反应要弱得多。”

中国周五报告称，在西藏靠近洪水发源地的地方，一个由周三洪水引发的山体滑坡阻塞河系而形成的堰塞湖已开始溢流。尼泊尔当局在下游多次发布警报，警察拿着扩音器在附近城镇匆忙穿行，要求人们转移到高地。中国国家电视台 CCTV 随后报道称，堰塞湖溃决的风险已“逐渐降低”，但再次发生洪水的威胁依然存在。

在边境的尼泊尔一侧，大部分救援工作似乎集中在几座被水流和碎片冲走的水电站。在惊心动魄的场景中，军队救援队冲向泥泞的隧道，试图营救工人。

今年早些时候在 Z 世代抗议浪潮中上台的尼泊尔政府，正试图在巨大的悲剧面前掌控局面并恢复秩序。

36 岁的总理巴伦德拉·沙（Balendra Shah）尚未发表全国演讲，但人们看到他视察了受灾现场，并主持会议协调国家的应对工作。

他的政府已部署超过 30,000 名安全部队进行救援和恢复工作。当局最初拒绝了外国救援队，这可能是吸取了该国此前应对自然灾害时被批评为混乱且无组织的教训。

但到周五结束时，尼泊尔的新闻媒体报道称，政府正在放宽这一限制。

周六，尼泊尔外交部长希希尔·卡纳尔（Shisir Khanal）表示，该国正在寻求隧道救援方面的支持，一支印度团队已经抵达该国，2 支来自中国的团队也即将到来。他表示，政府还需要外部在法医能力方面的帮助，以及能够通过 DNA 采样帮助确认尸体身份的团队。

截至周六晚些时候，已有 7,000 多人获救，其中许多人被直升机从被淹的村庄中救出，随后被送往医院和救济营，并在那里获得了食物和医疗救助。

很快，重点将不得不转向重建。但对于那些在汹涌洪水中心幸存——失去亲人、生计和家园的人来说，恢复之路似乎依然遥远。目前尚不清楚许多幸存者是否能够返回家中，或者是否需要重新安置在其他地方。

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这个位于喜马拉雅山脉的小国仍然极易受到气候变化的影响。科学家们长期以来一直警告，山中由冰川融化形成的湖泊可能会引发潜在的洪水。即使在正常年份，与季风降雨相关的较小规模洪水也会导致泥石流并阻塞道路，使该国脆弱的基础设施承受压力。

新一轮洪水的威胁沉重地笼罩在救援和救济工作之上。

周五，洪水威胁暂时中断了在西藏的救援工作。但据央视报道，周六中国救援人员恢复了搜寻工作，在尼泊尔与西藏之间的吉隆口岸附近寻找幸存者。画面显示，消防员在被夷为平地的现场搜寻，用铁锹敲击地面并大喊：“有人在吗？”

在 Bhotekoshi 河及其他下游河流沿岸建设的水电项目现场，损失尤为严重。数十英里的道路和超过 40 座桥梁被摧毁。

尼泊尔政府的初步估计将实物损失成本定在 13 亿加元 billion 以上，该国财政部长预测，恢复工作可能会花费“数十亿加元”。

当俄罗斯人想要豪车时，他们向加拿大的窃贼订购

作者：简·布拉德利（JANE BRADLEY） 和迈克尔·施维茨（MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ）

NASUNA STUART-ULIN 为《纽约时报》拍摄

“禁果总是甜的。” 下方的丹尼尔·阿莱尼克（DANIIL ALEYNIK）是一名俄罗斯国民，因涉嫌走私汽车在乌克兰被监禁。 NASUNA STUART-ULIN 为《纽约时报》拍摄

BRENDAN HOFFMAN 为《纽约时报》拍摄

蒙特利尔——加拿大持续数年的汽车盗窃流行病已严重到尽管警方在严厉打击，窃贼仍闯入民宅只为偷走车钥匙。每年有数千辆汽车失踪。

记录和采访显示，这一现象部分是由一个出人意料的来源驱动的：战时俄罗斯对西方车辆激增的黑市需求。

虽然西方的出口禁令使俄罗斯与大部分汽车市场脱节，但并未削弱对品牌 SUV 和卡车的需求。这催生了一个复杂的犯罪网络，他们盗窃汽车，将其藏在集装箱中并运往俄罗斯，通常经由中东地区。

“禁果总是甜的，”俄罗斯国民丹尼尔·阿莱尼克在乌克兰的一所监狱接受采访时说道，他因涉嫌参与国际汽车盗窃计划而被羁押在那里。“加拿大有很多车，在那里偷车非常方便。”

根据《纽约时报》获得并由两名执法官员确认的数据，国际刑警组织（Interpol）在 2024 年 2 月至 2026 年 7 月期间收到了 4,798 份关于在俄罗斯发现被盗加拿大车辆的报告。由于该信息被视为敏感，这两名官员在要求匿名的条件下发表评论。

道奇公羊（Dodge Rams）、丰田坦途（Toyota Tundras）和福特 F-150 等皮卡车需求量尤其之高。

加拿大皇家骑警表示，国际刑警组织的数据严重低估了问题的严重程度，但俄罗斯目前是向国际刑警组织报告的加拿大被盗车辆最主要的国际目的地。

从加拿大的街道、停车场和车道上被盗的汽车数量，衡量了西方制裁如何产生了令人惊讶且有时是不希望看到的后果。正如走私网络和破旧油轮的扩张是为了规避石油禁运一样，当西方汽车制造商离开俄罗斯市场且许多国家禁止向其出口汽车时，犯罪集团迅速填补了这一空白。

“被盗的汽车并非偶然，”负责国际刑警组织被盗车辆数据库的雷纳托·斯基帕尼（Renato Schipani）表示，“它们是按订单盗窃的。”

阿莱尼克在乌克兰西部的乔特基夫（Chortkiv）拘留设施中表示，俄罗斯对昂贵西方汽车的需求一直很高。制裁在无意中激励了卖家寻找非法途径供应市场，从而推高了价格，使这些汽车成为更显著的地位象征。

包括国际刑警组织在内的执法官员正在调查其中一些卡车是否被用于海外战场。去年由俄罗斯国防部控制的一家电视频道播出的宣传视频显示，在一家巨大的俄罗斯无人机工厂前排着一列道奇公羊卡车。视频显示，一架无人机从其中一辆卡车的后部发射。

在伊朗，《纽约时报》审阅的卫星图像和开源图像似乎显示，丰田坦途的后部装有见证者（Shahed）无人机。迄今为止，官员们尚未追踪到这些车辆。

国际刑警组织的记录并不完美。汽车有时会被无意中重复计算，而且包括美国在内的一些国家并不可靠地向国际刑警组织报告盗窃情况。其他国家则不报告追回的车辆。但执法官员表示，这些数据反映了趋势。

自加拿大汽车盗窃疫情于 2021 年开始以来，官方推出了警务改革，并投入数千万资金以打击这一犯罪活动。盗窃率虽有所下降，但被盗车辆仍通过加拿大的港口外流。

“大多数高价值车辆仍是为了出口而被盗——因为那里才有钱可赚，”前警官、现任非营利反欺诈组织 Équité Association 情报主管的布莱恩·加斯特（Bryan Gast）表示。

加拿大官员很早就意识到被盗车辆最终流向了海外。但起初，他们关注的国家错了。

简·布拉德利（Jane Bradley）发自蒙特利尔报道，迈克尔·施维茨（Michael Schwirtz）发自乌克兰报道。

2021 年新冠疫情封锁解除后，加拿大的汽车盗窃案激增。在全球供应链动荡之际，犯罪分子发现了机会。一年之内，加拿大的汽车盗窃率达到了历史高点并持续攀升。

“那时就像美国西部开拓时期的法外之地，”多伦多市郊约克区警察局（York Regional Police）的侦探斯科特·克雷斯韦尔（Scott Cresswell）说，“有人多次被盗车。多伦多每晚会有 30 辆车被盗。”

警方尽可能频繁地追回车辆，但每年仍有数千辆车失踪。在安大略省和魁北克省的盗窃热点地区，近一半的被盗车辆消失不见。

2023 年 8 月，当局在多伦多追回了几辆被盗车辆。他们的调查将线索指向了一个利用伪造文件出口被盗车辆的跨国犯罪网络。

随后，加拿大边境服务局（CBSA）改变了策略。此前专注于进入加拿大的物品的官员们，开始密切关注离开加拿大的物品。

特工们开始突击检查集装箱。

边境局官员弗雷德里克·邦森（Frédéric Bonsaint）表示，他的团队每周在蒙特利尔港搜查约 12 个集装箱，并发现 20 到 30 辆被盗汽车，总价值高达 200万美元。其他港口也在进行类似的检查。

六月的一天，邦森先生打开一个 40 英尺的集装箱，用手电筒向内窥视。在旧床垫、家用物品箱和两辆合法车辆之间，夹着一辆闪闪发光的白色被盗路虎（Land Rover）。邦森先生说，这辆车新车价值约 $125,000，但售价很可能接近其两倍。

“车辆盗窃对犯罪分子来说利润极高，因为财产盗窃不像毒品贩运等其他犯罪那样受到严厉惩罚，”邦森先生说，“这是一种低风险、高回报的犯罪。”

邦森先生表示，这辆路虎原本目的地是西非。该地区和中东是全球二手车的的主要目的地。多年来，加拿大当局一直认为仅这些市场就在驱动着汽车盗窃产业。

但这并非故事的全貌。

汽车盗窃的激增与西方政府希望通过金融制裁和出口禁令惩罚俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰的举措在时间上相吻合。这使得西方车辆变得更有价值。

俄罗斯黑市并没有创造加拿大的犯罪团伙或走私网络。面临汽车盗窃指控的俄罗斯人阿莱尼克（Aleynik）先生表示，这些因素早已存在。制裁仅仅增加了需求和利润。

阿莱尼克先生说，这项工作的关键在于加拿大的犯罪联系人，他们伪造海关文件，并分享关于如何规避检查的最新情报。

“我不想指责任何人，”阿莱尼克先生说，“因为我自己也使用过他们的服务。这就是为什么在加拿大如此容易得手。”

（阿莱尼克先生在网上的绰号是“黄蜂杀手” [Wasp Killer]，他曾因盗窃汽车在俄罗斯服刑，但否认在过去十年中从事过任何非法活动。检察官称他参与了一个敲诈勒索团伙，通过撮合被盗车辆返还给车主来换取费用。）

现任职于 Équité 协会的前警官加斯特先生表示，国际买家会订购特定车型。阿莱尼克先生则称，这种情况是通过连接黑市买家和卖家的在线市场实现的。

如果买家订购，比如 15 辆路虎车，侦查员就会在加拿大富裕社区和购物中心搜寻这些车辆。

官员们表示，被盗车辆通常通过蒙特利尔港离开加拿大，但由于东海岸近期开展了打击行动，温哥华的车辆外流量近期有所增加。

2023 年，随着盗窃案激增，加拿大皇家骑警的官员们飞往位于法国里昂的国际刑警组织总部。他们希望在追踪被盗车辆和切断走私路线方面获得帮助，并愿意投入数百万资金来解决这一问题。

“加拿大面临着一场巨大的危机，”国际刑警组织官员希帕尼先生回忆道，“因为问题太严重了，所以他们主动联系了我们。”

国际刑警组织的数据库包含来自 137 个国家的 1100 万多辆车辆的信息。追回车辆的警员可以核查该车是否在海外被报盗。

在与加拿大方面会面后，希帕尼先生分析了数据。他表示，大量被追回的加拿大车辆出现在东欧。

国际刑警组织有一项政策，即不公开——

在蒙特利尔港被塞进集装箱的车辆。左图，加拿大边境服务局的弗雷德里克·邦桑（Frédéric Bonsaint）表示，他的团队每周能发现 20 到 30 辆被盗车辆。

——披露单个成员国的身份。但加拿大皇家骑警表示，发现数量最多的是在俄罗斯。

据骑警称，走私者经常通过阿拉伯联合酋长国将盗取的加拿大车辆运往俄罗斯。官员们表示，他们还发现了经过格鲁吉亚、哈萨克斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦和立陶宛的路线。

这条从加拿大到俄罗斯的管道之所以可见，是因为莫斯科仍然是国际刑警组织信息共享计划的积极参与者，有时甚至是滥用者。当俄罗斯当局调查一辆疑似被盗车辆时，他们会将其通过国际刑警组织的数据库进行比对。每当匹配成功，数据库就会自动更新，显示一辆被盗车辆在俄罗斯被发现。

去年，约克区警察局的克雷斯韦尔侦探团队与 Équité、国际刑警组织及其他执法部门联手，帮助加拿大人从海外追回被盗车辆。这项努力已将约 200 辆车辆送回加拿大，其中一些来自俄罗斯。

克雷斯韦尔先生表示，上个月有 6 辆被盗车辆从俄罗斯运回。

“能从俄罗斯追回车辆是突破性的，”他说，“以前人们认为，一旦车辆到达那片土地，就再也找不回来了。”

俄罗斯当局为什么要将被盗车辆归还给西方国家？一种解释是，俄罗斯法律禁止注册国际刑警组织数据库中列出的车辆。将车辆归还是防止无法使用的被盗车辆堆积的一种方式。西方官员表示，在汽车盗窃等犯罪问题上，莫斯科在很大程度上是配合的。

这种情况可能会改变。上个月，俄罗斯采取措施，允许注册从包括加拿大在内的“不友好国家”盗取的车辆。俄罗斯内政部的一项提案将保护这些车辆免于被没收。欧洲官员警告称，这可能会导致跨国汽车盗窃案增加。

加拿大最近将汽车盗窃的最高刑期增加至 14 年，并收紧了保释规定。

最近获得保释并等待审判的阿莱尼克先生对西方打击非法贸易的尝试不屑一顾。他说，这其中利润太高，人们愿意冒坐牢的风险。而盗车的俄罗斯人则面临着私刑的风险。

“在俄罗斯，没人敢偷车，因为如果你这么做，活不了多久，”他说，“在西方，人的生命比车更值钱。”

NASUNA STUART-ULIN 为《纽约时报》拍摄 被盗车辆通常通过蒙特利尔港离开加拿大，但一次打击行动导致西部的温哥华数量增加。

从集装箱中移出一辆汽车。皮卡车是热门目标，其中一些似乎最终流向了俄罗斯军队。 NASUNA STUART-ULIN 为《纽约时报》拍摄

被扣押的车辆。俄罗斯对昂贵的西方汽车的需求一直很高，但战争时期的制裁提高了风险。

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致 TikTok 和 YouTube 的公开信：请与我们一起支持青少年

我们宣布，在长期致力于赋予家长权力并支持青少年的基础上，我们已与来自美国各州、领地以及哥伦比亚特区的 52 位具有两党背景的总检察长达成一项协议。

通过这项协议，我们制定了一条实现全行业承诺的路径，旨在通过引入以下措施进一步赋予家长权力：

• 每日两小时的时间限制

• 默认在夜间关闭应用程序的访问权限

• 在上课期间不发送通知

• 每连续使用屏幕 15 分钟，向青少年发出清晰的提示和通知

• 新的家长监督控制功能，以便家长决定其青少年如何使用我们的应用程序

我们希望确保青少年能从这一新的行业标准中受益，但我们无法单独完成。只有当我们与同行——TikTok 和 YouTube——合作并实施相同的措施时，这些保护机制才能真正发挥作用。

所有平台都应以这些方式赋予家长权力并支持青少年，因为我们知道，当青少年在某个应用程序上受到限制时，他们只会转向另一个应用程序。为了取得实质性进展，我们敦促同行加入我们的行列。

特朗普称美国达成协议控制委内瑞拉石油

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6月的地震导致超过6,500人死亡。

然而，细节十分匮乏。贝坦库尔先生没有立即回应置评请求。

在委内瑞拉国内，贝坦库尔先生经常被地称为“bolichico”或“玻利瓦尔男孩”——这个词是指那些受到政府青睐，并在该国社会主义革命期间获利巨大的委内瑞拉商人。（政府以该国独立英雄西蒙·玻利瓦尔的名字为这场革命命名。）

特朗普政府在1月废黜并抓获了罗德里格斯女士的前任尼古拉斯·马杜罗，将一个曾经的敌对国家转变为类似于附庸国家的存在。作为这一进程的一部分，该政府将委内瑞拉的石油视为其扩大美国在美洲能源影响力计划的核心。在过去六个月中，由于伊朗战争导致中东石油产量下降，美洲产量的增加有助于弥补这一损失。

之前的美国领导人通常会回避任何关于“获取另一个国家自然资源是美国军事和外交政策主要目标”的暗示，因为担心引发国际反弹。

但特朗普先生及其部分高级顾问已明确表示，石油是他们涉足委内瑞拉的重要组成部分。

甚至在马杜罗先生被推翻之前，美国官员就直截了当地声称，美国创建了委内瑞拉的石油工业，而该国政府实际上通过国有化窃取了美国的油田。

在被要求置评时，国务院通过一名美国官员表示，该协议实际上将使美国获得与一家未具名的“委内瑞拉资深私人运营商”合资企业产量的55%。

特朗普先生在周五发表了这一声明，而据知情人士透露，美国第二大石油公司雪佛龙（Chevron）当时正处于深入谈判阶段，旨在显著扩大其在委内瑞拉的业务。

雪佛龙关于在委内瑞拉进行新投资的谈判此前已由《华尔街日报》报道。

特朗普政府的这项协议展示了委内瑞拉能源格局正在发生的重大转变，委内瑞拉被认为拥有全球最大的石油储量。几十年来，维持政府对石油的控制塑造了该国的政治，许多委内瑞拉人将石油视为与生俱来的权利和国家认同的基石。

在马杜罗先生被抓获仅几周后，在美国的压力下，委内瑞拉国民议会批准了对管理其石油工业的法律进行全面修订，赋予外国石油公司对其在委内瑞拉业务更大的控制权。

到周六，许多委内瑞拉人正在权衡这项石油协议，以及为了摆脱独裁者马杜罗先生而支付这一代价是否过于沉重。

在瓦伦西亚，68, 岁的退休教育工作者何塞·莱阿尔表示，与委内瑞拉放弃的石油相比，承诺的美国投资规模显得很小。但在经历了多年压制性政府毫无改变的情况后，他愿意忍受这种安排——并希望特朗普先生能推动民主变革。

“显然，美国获益匪浅，而且是巨大的获益，”他说。但他说，“美国人掌握着权力”，如果没有他们，“我们无法从查韦斯和马杜罗的社会主义中解脱出来。”

其他人则不那么乐观。委内瑞拉政府长期以来一直将有利的合同分发给富人和有关系的人，而普通委内瑞拉人则在受苦。特朗普先生周五的声明中没有提到民主转型。

在协议公布后不久，一个模因（meme）便在该地区开始流传。画中一个卡通化的委内瑞拉男子说道：“我希望你们除掉查韦斯主义，”他指的是马杜罗的运动，“把石油留给我们。”

一个卡通化的特朗普回应道：“拿走石油，把查韦斯主义留给你们，明白了吗！”

乌克兰战争

基辅郊外军械库遭袭致数十人死亡

奥列格·比柳克（Oleh Biliuk）及其家人当时正在米拉（Myla）庆祝儿子亚雷马（Yarema）两岁生日，周五附近的一处仓库遭到袭击。 JOHANNA-MARIA FRITZ 为《纽约时报》拍摄

作者：SIOBHÁN O'GRADY 和 YURII SHYVALA

乌克兰，基辅 —— 周六清晨，一名男子被送入布恰（Bucha）医院的 14 号病房，此时在基辅郊区持续数小时的爆炸才刚刚开始平息。

他被严重烧伤，呼吸困难。到了下午，附近床位上的人们注意到他停止了活动。他们赶紧检查他的脉搏并呼叫医生，但已经太晚了。医院工作人员用一张白床单覆盖在患者身上，只露出顶部少许焦黑的头发和烧伤的鼻子。

医院工作人员表示，这名老人被困在俄罗斯袭击军械库的中心地带，而该仓库危险地靠近包括养老院在内的民用建筑。在最初的袭击以及随后威力更大的二次爆炸中，至少有 37 人死亡，其中许多是老年人。周五晚上的这次袭击是今年乌克兰遭受的最致命袭击之一。

乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基（Volodymyr Zelensky）在一次视频演讲中表示，巨大的爆炸是由乌克兰存储的弹药（包括炮弹、地雷和无人机）引起的，这些弹药被不恰当地存储在繁忙的民用区域。

周六晚上，在烟雾缭绕的仓库附近仍能听到弹药爆炸的噼啪声。在依然浓烟弥漫的空气中，可以看到前一晚飞散到周围区域的武器碎片散落在附近的街道和花园里。

在对仓库进行袭击以及随之而来的灾难之前，俄罗斯对首都基辅进行了数日不停歇的无人机攻击，这使乌克兰有限的防空力量承受了巨大压力，也让民众精疲力竭。乌克兰当局称在民用区域存储武器是失职行为，并誓言将展开调查。

该仓库位于基辅西部的米拉村，用于存储乌克兰武装部队的武器，泽连斯基先生表示，这里“绝对不应该存放这些东西”。他还警告称，死亡人数可能会增加。

保罗·索内（Paul Sonne）在柏林参与了报道。

“情况非常可怕，那些将爆炸物存储在如此靠近居民区的人表现出了极其严重的失职，”泽连斯基先生说道，并补充说，针对该仓库管理部门的刑事调查已经在进行中。

俄罗斯国防部在周六的一份声明中表示，其部队袭击了位于米拉的一处弹药库，并称该仓库存储了远程无人机的组件和发射助推器。

上个月，位于基辅郊外维什涅韦（Vyshneve）的另一处乌克兰弹药设施被摧毁，导致数人死亡，并引发了针对在民用区域存储危险武器这一决定的独立调查。

乌克兰总理谢尔希·科雷茨基（Serhii Koretskyi）周六表示：“在全面入侵的第五年仍然犯同样的错误是刑事过失。所有相关责任人必须毫无例外地受到严厉惩罚，以确保此类情况不再发生。”

53, 岁的维塔利·哈尔丘克（Vitalii Halchuk）周六在同一间病房中接受溃疡治疗，正是那名男子去世的房间。他表示，他对政府在维什涅韦爆炸事件后没有采取更多措施来保护平民感到失望，而这些平民此前已经忍受着持续的俄罗斯攻—— 击。“他们把弹药存放在人们的房子旁边？又来了？”他摇着头说道。

近日，基辅的防空警报声此起彼伏，因为乌克兰军队在应对俄罗斯无人机的猛烈攻击时陷入苦战。其中许多无人机由喷气发动机驱动，飞行速度接近每小时 400 英里。周六，基辅有数人受伤，一名 2 岁男孩被坠落无人机的碎片击中身亡。

乌克兰还面临着爱国者拦截导弹的严重短缺，而这是该国唯一能够击落弹道导弹的武器。

俄罗斯在今年夏天利用了乌克兰军械库的这一漏洞，发动了闪电式袭击，目标包括仓库和购物中心。平民们正准备应对一种可能性，即近期俄罗斯无人机的波次攻击旨在为未来几天更大规模的弹道导弹袭击削弱防空部队。

49 岁的奥列（Oleh）是一家水务公司仓库的经理，他说他对最近的袭击感到沮丧，但原以为自己的工作场所不会成为目标。他完全不知道隔壁的存储设施存放着武器。因此，当该地区在周五遭到袭击时，奥列匆忙赶往现场。

直到他到达后，二次爆炸才开始发生。“我被和一些垃圾及办公桌一起掀翻，四根肋骨骨折了，”他周六在布恰的病床上说道，“因为我决定立即跑开，这可能救了我的命。爆炸一次又一次地发生。”

奥列出于安全考虑，要求仅以名字标识。他在混乱中丢失了手机，不知道他的所有同事是否都幸存了下来，包括他在爆炸开始前刚见到的一个警卫。

瓦莱里娅（Valeriia）和奥列·比柳克（Oleh Biliuk）夫妇均为 39 岁，当时他们正在位于米拉（Myla）的家中庆祝儿子亚雷马（Yarema）的两岁生日，此时俄罗斯无人机击中了几个街区外的仓库。不久之后，爆炸频率加快。这对夫妇先是躲在桌子下面，然后带着三个孩子冲向地下室。由于冲击波和碎片损坏了房子的上层，他们在地下待了一整夜。

他们从未怀疑过附近存放着弹药。“不应该是这样的，”比柳克女士说，“我们确信这里是个安全的地方，没有任何会成为目标的东西。”

周六，这对夫妇带着孩子和邻居塔蒂亚娜·亚洛夫恰克（Tetiana Yalovchak）一起去查看损坏情况。10 岁的梅丽莎（Melisa）和 8 岁的奥罗拉（Avrora）指着仓库的残骸和周围区域，问母亲为什么以前在那里的餐厅消失了。比柳克女士解释说，现在整个区域看起来都会有所不同。

对于亚洛夫恰克女士来说，清理工作尤其令人生畏。她是一位著名的乌克兰登山运动员，由于丈夫在前方参战，她必须独自面对这一切。爆炸撕裂了木护墙板并击碎了玻璃。一枚弹药残片就躺在入口附近。关于新一波无人机袭击的警告不断传来。

但当她散步回家时，一辆熟悉的车停在车道上。亚洛夫恰克女士几个月没见的丈夫被允许从前线短暂回家帮忙。他甚至设法恢复了电力供应。

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普京为何在问题日益增加的情况下仍坚持战斗

俄罗斯圣彼得堡，7月，在乌克兰袭击一家在线零售商仓库后，现场烟雾弥漫。 美联社

作者：保罗·索内 (PAUL SONNE)

柏林——在战争进入第五年之际，俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·V·普京面临的困难正日益增加。

他的军队在战场上的推进速度已经放缓。他的战争开支已膨胀至超出预期。他的国民对未来日益感到恐惧。而且，由于乌克兰在俄罗斯境内发起的袭击，他掌控局面的能力受到了削弱，电子商务仓库、炼油厂和其他设施几乎每天都在起火燃烧。

局势已恶化到如此地步，以至于美国中央情报局（C.I.A.）局长约翰·拉特克利夫（John Ratcliffe）上周罕见地访问了莫斯科，他在那里向普京的情报官员阐明了严峻的军事和经济现实，并敦促俄罗斯政府达成一项和平协议。

但普京几乎没有表现出他打算停止战斗，或者认为自己的困境已糟糕到无法承受的迹象。相反，他暗示尽管莫斯科面临挑战，但他认为基辅的情况更糟。他警告称，乌克兰通过攻击俄罗斯的平民经济“释放了瓶中的精灵”，而俄罗斯已经在升级行动，乌克兰将为此付出代价。

柏林卡内基俄罗斯欧亚中心主任亚历山大·加布耶夫（Alexander Gabuev）表示：“在他的评估中，俄罗斯只需要做得比乌克兰好一点即可，”他相信只要自己坚持下去，基辅最终“将会崩溃”。

加布耶夫先生表示，普京一直低估了乌克兰的韧性。但基辅确实面临着新的危险。

除了士兵和军事资金储备的减少，乌克兰还面临严重的防空短缺，这使得乌克兰领土在俄罗斯弹道导弹面前日益脆弱。随着伊朗战争耗尽了拦截弹库存，西方盟友在提供帮助的能力或意愿方面变得更加受限。莫斯科每月生产数十枚弹道导弹，而乌克兰缺乏这种强大的武器。根据乌克兰军事情报部门的消息，俄罗斯还在寻求朝鲜的帮助，以增强弹道导弹力量。

加布耶夫先生表示，这种不平衡可能让普京相信，尽管他在国内面临越来越多的挑战，但他正在获得关键优势。他说，这位俄罗斯领导人将试图在今年冬天通过摧毁乌克兰的民用基础设施和军事生产设施来“击垮”乌克兰。

但在推进战争的同时，普京也在采取行动，以控制国内局势，而目前的国内情况看起来明显比去年糟糕。

在2025年的大部分时间里，俄罗斯军队每月夺取数十平方英里的乌克兰土地。克里姆林宫与特朗普政府的接触，增强了俄罗斯社会内部对战争可能很快结束的希望。俄罗斯的技术官僚维持着战时经济的运转；俄罗斯互联网运行稳定；汽油供应充足；且针对俄罗斯边境以外地区的袭击相对有限。

这一切现在都改变了。

德国国际与安全事务研究所的俄罗斯分析师雅尼斯·克鲁格（Janis Kluge）表示：“普京目前面临的最大挑战是预期正在发生变化。”“现在的情况与一年前截然不同。如果你是莫斯科的精英，展望未来，思考事情的发展方向，你会发现它正朝着错误的方向发展。”

根据总部位于芬兰的安全分析公司 Black Bird Group 的统计数据，自6月1日以来，俄罗斯军队在战场上的净领土收益仅为68平方英里。

尽管拉特克利夫访问了莫斯科，但几乎没有迹象表明和平谈判很快会全面重启。克里姆林宫发言人德米特里·S·佩斯科夫（Dmitri S. Peskov）在访问后的周五表示：“关于和平谈判的问题，该话题目前处于停滞状态。”“没有新想法。”

乌克兰的远程打击导致俄罗斯人开始质疑接下来会发生什么。基辅正加速研发自己的弹道导弹，总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基本月表示，他希望在年底前取得“具体成果”。

除了对……的焦虑之外

战场进展陷入停滞，国内反对声音日益高涨。

面对俄罗斯境内进一步的破坏，许多俄罗斯人担心在下个月议会选举结束后，可能会出现新一轮征兵以补充军队。

俄罗斯仍在竭力解决全国各地加油站的短缺问题，并因其两大电子商务巨头 Wildberries 和 Ozon 的仓库遭到重复攻击而陷入混乱。

与此同时，国内的情绪发生了转变。根据独立机构列瓦达中心（Levada Center）上个月的一项民意调查，表示支持俄罗斯军队在乌克兰行动的俄罗斯人比例已降至入侵开始以来的最低水平。

人们对国家经济前景的看法也转而恶化，尤其是在提高税收以帮助覆盖战争中失控的支出生效之后。由于频繁的互联网中断阻碍了数字支付，且部分人们试图通过现金交易来规避新的税收负担，俄罗斯人已开始从银行提取更多现金。

俄罗斯精英阶层发出了一些含蓄的不满信号。

今年 6 月，国有储蓄银行（Sberbank）负责人赫尔曼·O·格列夫（Herman O. Gref）表示，俄罗斯人希望战争能尽快结束。

莫斯科市市长谢尔盖·S. 索比亚宁（Sergei S. Sobyanin）警告称，如果像一些强硬派所呼吁的那样，试图将俄罗斯经济完全置于军事体制之下，将会“彻底毁掉这个国家”。

俄罗斯国家开发银行（Vnesheconombank，简称 VEB）的首席经济学家安德烈·克莱帕奇（Andrei Klepach）在一次演讲中告诉同行经济学家，战争导致俄罗斯在技术和经济上落后，随后被解雇。

据《莫斯科时报》（The Moscow Times）率先报道的言论称，他警告说，俄罗斯人一直处于乌克兰将会崩溃的幻想之中，但“事实并非如此，而且也不会崩溃”。

虽然普京先生的机器正忙于策划一场全国性的议会选举政治戏码（这是自 2022 年入侵以来的首次选举），但政治异见遭到了镇压。俄罗斯当局非常担心不满情绪会在即将到来的议会选举中爆发，因此该国最高法院禁止了一个边缘政党“苹果党”（Yabloko）参选，因为该党的反战立场获得了超出预期的支持。

乔治·W·布什政府时期的俄罗斯专家托马斯·格雷厄姆（Thomas Graham）表示，战争中的升级循环以及双方感受到的压力，应当促使美国领导一次新的、持续的努力以结束冲突。

格雷厄姆先生表示，即使普京先生计划战斗到冬季，现在也必须与俄罗斯官员奠定基础，以便在春季达成最终协议。

“政治精英中有一个相当大的群体希望尽早结束这场冲突，”格雷厄姆先生说。

而普京先生在过去一个月的大部分时间里一直表示，俄罗斯人必须坚守阵地，团结起来对抗他所称的执意摧毁这个国家的外国敌手。

他访问了一个由日本主张主权的遥远争议岛屿，以强调俄罗斯对其主权和领土主张的坚持。

他视察了德米特里·顿斯科伊（Dmitri Donskoy）的地下室和遗骸，这位 14 世纪的俄罗斯东正教圣徒因反抗蒙古-鞑靼统治者而为许多俄罗斯人所熟知。

此外，普京先生出席了执政党“统一俄罗斯党”的代表大会以提供支持，他将国内局势的恶化归结为俄罗斯取得了成功，从而迫使乌克兰发起猛烈反击。

“前线局势对敌人来说越困难，基辅政权发起的攻击就越残暴、越野蛮，”普京先生在将乌克兰当局比作纳粹时说道。“现在，很多事情取决于我们的团结，取决于俄罗斯士兵和军官的勇气，取决于每一个在各自岗位上勤勉工作为胜利做出贡献的人。”

这里的景色十分灿烂

9月6日，辛辛那提将以一场壮丽的庆典点亮天空，这将是美国有史以来规模最大的劳动节周末烟花表演。

50年来，这一传统将我们的城市凝聚在一起，这也是我们以这里为家而感到自豪的又一个理由。

为烟花而来，为辛辛那提闪耀的一切而停留。

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考萨尔和她的母亲塔斯尼姆（一名教师）。考萨尔完成了Grade 6，这是阿富汗女孩被允许就读的最后一年。“没有Grade 7，”她的母亲说道。

深入反抗塔利班禁令的女孩秘密学校

教师们正在填写行政文件，该学校通过闭路电视屏幕监控教室。

一所宗教学校的课堂。塔利班将这些学校宣传为年长女孩的替代方案。

一些当地官员容忍这些秘密学校，因为他们担心自己的女儿也会被剥夺受教育的机会。

在对50多名学生、教育工作者、治疗师和家长的采访中，许多人表示，他们担心禁令将造成永久性的损害——不仅是对女孩，而且是对阿富汗的社会结构。由于担心遭到报复，所有受访者都要求仅使用名字标识。

即使是完成了学业的女孩，前景也十分渺茫；塔利班禁止女性从事大多数工作，出国机会也十分稀少。据教师和人道主义组织称，自杀念头、自残以及早婚率正在上升。

尽管如此，一些女孩仍拒绝放弃争取教育的斗争。

“我们也是这个社会的一部分，”艾莎说道，“就让我们成为我们想成为的人吧。”

隐藏的通道

最近的一个深夜，艾莎收到好友祖哈尔（Zuhal，17岁）发来的一条短信，说她第二天不能来上课。祖哈尔的父亲殴打她，称就读于地下学校毫无意义。

艾莎回忆说，读到祖哈尔的消息时她哭了。在朋友们心中，她成了可以倾诉的对象，一个“实习治疗师”。她说自己在卧室里祈祷，并敦促祖哈尔回来。“如果你坐在家里，你就完了，”艾莎告诉她，“没有人会为你做任何事情。”

几天后，祖哈尔回到了学校，但她说只有在父亲不在家时才能来。

艾莎的秘密教室隐藏在一所正式的小学内部。操场上充满了年幼学生的叫喊声，数百双五颜六色的小鞋子在建筑入口处排成一排。但在他们的教室之外，有一扇门通向一个隐藏在拐角后的秘密通道，那里连接着为年长女孩开设的秘密教室。

为了避免被发现，学生们会变换前往学校的路线，并避免结伴行走。尽管如此，塔利班偶尔仍会不打招呼地闯入学校，就像在7月的一个早晨，艾莎参加期中物理考试时那样。校长将学生们锁在室内，14名年轻女性在沉默中继续奋笔疾书。

这间教室至今未被发现。艾莎回忆说，有一次女孩们不在学校时，塔利班撕毁了教室附近公共休息室墙上的艺术作品。

学生和一名教师解释说，曾经有一段时间，只要塔利班来检查，他们就会从后门逃跑，或者冲向地下室，在那里把自己锁在黑暗中，并安抚那些哭泣的人。

随着学生们升入12年级，塔利班的造访不再那么令他们恐惧。许多人表示，他们对该组织感到轻蔑。

“他们难道指望通过剥夺一半人口的教育机会来发展国家吗？”艾莎的同学帕尔瓦莎（Palwasha）说道，“除了伊斯兰教赋予我们的基本权利，我们别无所求。”

在阿富汗，只有极少数女孩能通过秘密学校接受中学教育；像艾莎和帕尔瓦莎这样学习国际课程且能流利地使用英语的人则更少。帕尔瓦莎想要创立自己的服装品牌。艾莎知道，毕业后她在阿富汗的大学里无法学习心理学，因此她为同学们提供咨询。

这就是艾莎社交生活的全部，而这一切将在几个月后消失。12年级之后没有秘密学校。

“女孩们，你们现在在这里，”艾莎回忆起老师在她们坐下参加期中考试时说的话，“但明年这个时候，你们将在家里。”

计算机科学

塔利班将教育领域的一项成就归功于自己：根据联合国教科文组织（UNESCO）和联合国儿童基金会（UNICEF）的数据，女孩的小学入学率从2021年的78%上升到2024, 的87%。这主要是因为自2021. 美国撤军战争结束以来，整个阿富汗的日常安全状况有所改善。此前关闭的学校重新开放，穿过街道前往教室不再是每天都要面对的危险。

但整体情况令人担忧。根据联合国教科文组织的数据，10名10岁的阿富汗儿童中，有9名无法阅读与其年龄相适应的文字。仅有四分之一的阿富汗女性具备读写能力。想要继续学业的女孩有时还会面临来自家庭的额外阻碍。

21, 岁的莱拉（Laila）在两年前加入了一所秘密学校学习计算机科学和语言，学校距离她在阿富汗最保守省份的家有500多英里。她说，如果家人不让她就读，她就威胁要自杀。

在最近的一个早晨，她在一个秘密的11年级教室里学习计算机科学和Duolingo课程。在学校昏暗的走廊里，学生们静静地走过关于人体和太阳系的彩色演示图。地下图书馆里还有数十人在学习。

莱拉和数百名其他女孩白天参加面对面课程，晚上则与来自美国、荷兰、香港等世界各地的志愿者导师进行在线学习，其中大多数是全球点对点支持网络中的高中生。

即便在入学两年后，莱拉仍面临弟弟的突然造访，弟弟告诉她，因为表现得“如此自由”，她给家族带来了耻辱。莱拉说，她的父亲思想较为开明，但担心如果亲戚或邻居发现，会引起闲话。

十二年级学生在秘密教室里学习数学。

秘密学校的入口处。

一所伊斯兰学校（madrasa）的休息时间，这里的年长女孩可以学习科学、英语以及宗教科目，但不能学习男孩们所接触的更高级的课程。

21岁的莱拉必须克服家人的反对，才能前往距离家500英里的秘密学校就读。

莱拉现在能流利地说四种语言，包括英语，并且正在学习韩语。她说，如果毕业后能出国，她想去加拿大或韩国学习平面设计。

“我想把这些机会分享给家乡省份的其他女孩，但我做不到，”莱拉说。

在1996年至2001, 的首次统治期间，塔利班禁止女孩接受小学和中学教育，理由是世俗学校违背了他们对伊斯兰教的强硬愿景。他们称这是一项临时措施，直到他们能建立一套更兼容的教育体系，但他们从未这样做。

2021, 重新掌权后，他们对美国占领20年期间扩大的公立学校系统提出了类似的指控，并且至今仍坚称禁令是临时的。

“我们希望有一天女孩学校能重新开放，”塔利班发言人扎比乌拉·穆贾希德（Zabiullah Mujahid）在今年早些时候的一次采访中表示。“这种情况也深深影响了许多拥有女儿的伊斯兰酋长国官员，”他补充道，此处指塔利班给阿富汗起的名称。

但在第二次统治进入第五年之际，这项临时禁令再次显得像是永久性的。

禁令直接来自坎大哈，那是该组织在南部的权力中心，也是其神秘领导人谢赫·海巴图拉·阿孔扎达（Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada）的所在地。许多塔利班官员私下表示禁令应该取消，但没有人敢挑战领导人的命令。

在实践中，许多塔利班成员对秘密运营的学校睁一只眼闭一只眼。一家秘密学校的校长表示，如果部分女孩的家庭有能力，她们会支付学费；而为了维持友好关系，他免费招收了塔利班情报官员的儿子。

他们非常熟悉莱拉（Laila）的学校：塔利班警察和情报官员每周都会到访，以确保女学生正确佩戴希贾布（hijabs），并且不与合法就读于该校的男孩们混在一起。

但他们可以在任何时候下令关闭学校。阿富汗的所有学校，即使是允许年长女孩就读的宗教学校，都面临着一系列规定以及频繁的、有时是突击式的检查。

当看到塔利班靠近时，莱拉学校的守卫会通过对讲机提醒教师和校长，然后敲响一声独特的铃声以警示学生。

学校校长纳吉布（Najib）说，在最近一次到访中，当他要求几名不熟悉的塔利班官员出示身份证件时，其中一人大喊道：“我的身份证就是我的枪。”

“而我的枪就是我的笔，”纳吉布说他这样回答道。他引用了古兰经中关于必须教育所有儿童的经文，这似乎让他们满意了。

塔利班随后离开了。

为了成功而选择失败

许多年轻的阿富汗女孩试图尽可能地推迟艾莎和莱拉正在经历的处境。

去年12月，12岁的索玛雅参加了六年级期末考试，但她故意跳过了达里语、社会研究和古兰经研究的测试，希望通过不及格来留级，从而重复读最后一年。

“我热爱上学，”她说，“我只是想留下来。”

几周后，索玛雅的老师告诉她可以回来。但当时只有四年级的名额，因此她有时会协助教学，因为她已经掌握了该课程的内容。

另一所学校的12岁学生法蒂玛在去年撕掉了她的六年级期末试卷，希望老师能判定她不及格并允许她留级。但她说，老师们还是让她通过了。

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当法蒂玛在她在喀布尔家中的客厅里轻声讲述时，她的父亲阿齐祖拉流下了眼泪并离开了房间。

“每当我想到她多么频繁地表达想成为一名医生，而现在这一切都结束了，我就忍不住哭泣，”阿齐祖拉说。

但法蒂玛很快振作了起来。几周后，她通过了一所地下学校的入学考试。

一名小学教师塔斯尼姆表示，她总是离开六年级学生的告别派对，因为她无法忍受看到他们哭泣。当学生们问她“这一切是为了什么？”时，她再也无法给出答案。

当塔斯尼姆自己的女儿考萨完成六年级学业时，塔斯尼姆说服了一位同事将女儿接进自己的班级，通过顶替一名缺席学生的名额来让她留级。

她女儿的毕业证书上写着“成功升入七年级”。

“我们试图让他们开心，”塔斯尼姆说，“但根本没有七年级。”

塔利班的幻梦

对妇女和女孩的限制是世界排斥塔利班的主要原因，但塔利班将宗教学校（madrasas）作为一种替代方案予以推广。这些学校的女孩必须从头到脚穿着黑色遮盖物，除了宗教科目，她们也被允许学习科学和英语。

六年级学生扎拉计划在离开小学后进入宗教学校就读。“至少我们仍然有机会继续学习，”她说。

其他学生则表示，宗教学校是一个糟糕的替代品。那些被认为不如宗教科目重要的课程——物理、化学和数学——被合并为一门课。而且，女孩们不被允许使用为男孩设计的更先进的课程。

“这些科目在意识形态上将我们推向塔利班，”17岁的扎希达在谈到伊斯兰研究、宗教历史以及由拥护塔利班强硬观点的教师引导的关于政治和圣战的讨论时说道。

艾莎的校长埃扎特最近将隐藏着她教室的那所学校转变为了一所宗教学校，以减轻来自塔利班的压力。他表示，他希望教师们能够继续提供他所描述的“现代教育”。

至于能维持到什么程度以及多久，他并不清楚。

在塔利班于2022年正式颁布教育禁令后，许多教师失去了工作。他们继续免费教学，或者在仍开放的学校领取较低的薪水，或者在全国各地的地下课堂授课。

许多人表示他们感到幻灭。

在最近的一次教职工会议上，喀布尔一所秘密学校的员工讨论了如何保持学生的动力。“但谁在激励我们？”教师之一的卡梅拉回忆起当时的想法。

“我在梦里看到塔利班，”她说，“他们追赶我们，殴打我们，并关闭学校。”

高中女孩（左列）和背着书包的六年级学生。

中东战争

土耳其与以色列在影响力竞争中紧张局势升级

土耳其总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安（左）与以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡互换了激烈的侮辱性言辞。 ILIA YEFIMOVICH / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES UGUR YILDIRIM / DIA PHOTO, VIA AP

作者：本·哈巴德（BEN HUBBARD）

伊斯坦布尔——土耳其总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安近年来将以色列称为“恐怖国家”，将以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡比作希特勒，并暗示土耳其军队可能会在以色列境内进行军事干预。

内塔尼亚胡先生则称埃尔多安先生为“反犹独裁者”，以色列政府成员指责土耳其支持恐怖主义，行为像一个“敌对国家”。

这场口水战是土耳其与以色列之间日益增长的竞争中最显著的特征。分析人士和官员担心，这可能会加剧中东地区的动荡，而该地区已经在叙利亚、黎巴嫩、加沙和伊朗的战争及其后果中深受其害。

土耳其和以色列都是美国的盟友，并且与特朗普政府关系良好。但这两个国家都拥有强大的军队，且在国境外的活动日益频繁，它们正在追求的战略愿景使其在中东、非洲之角和东地中海地区产生分歧。

伦敦全球风险咨询公司 Raven Research and Advisory 的负责人齐亚·梅拉尔（Ziya Meral）表示，土耳其和以色列日益增强的军事强势地推动了“一场不可避免的地缘战略竞争与对抗”。

他表示，这并不意味着两国最终会陷入公开冲突，但他警告称，紧张局势增加了误判的风险，且一方为了向另一方“传递信息”而采取的有限军事行动“可能会产生非常严重的反作用”。

以色列在 8 月 18 日就采取了这样一个行动：它轰炸了叙利亚北部一个废弃的空军基地，以预先阻止以色列官员所称的土耳其军队即将在该地部署。叙利亚位于以色列和土耳其之间，两国都认为叙利亚对国家安全至关重要。

大卫·M·哈尔布芬格（David M. Halbfinger）在耶路撒冷提供了报道，萨法克·蒂穆尔（Safak Timur）在伊斯坦布尔提供了报道。

土耳其和叙利亚政府否认有任何向该空军基地调遣部队的计划。此次袭击中没有人死亡。

美国驻土耳其大使兼叙利亚和伊拉克特使汤姆·巴拉克（Tom Barrack）在社交媒体的一篇帖子中批评此次袭击是“不必要的升级”，并呼吁土耳其和以色列“优先考虑理性的对话，而非进一步的军事事件”。

土耳其与以色列的关系并非一直如此糟糕。尽管偶尔发生争端（通常与以色列与巴勒斯坦人的冲突有关），但两国长期保持着外交和贸易关系。

土耳其是以色列在 1948 年建国后第一个承认其地位的穆斯林多数国家，且土耳其军队没有参与随后与以色列的战争。土耳其是美国在北约（NATO）中的盟友，而以色列则获得美国广泛的军事支持。

然而，最近的两起事件导致两国关系急转直下。

第一起是以色列在加沙发动的战争。这场战争是为了回应 2023 年 10 月 7 日由哈马斯领导的袭击，该袭击导致以色列约 1,200 人死亡。土耳其官员批评以色列在加沙的作战方式，并经常指责以色列军队犯下种族灭绝罪。埃尔多安先生称内塔尼亚胡先生为“吸血鬼”，并对哈马斯表示支持，而以色列、美国和其他政府将哈马斯视为恐怖组织。

第二起事件是 2024 年底叙利亚独裁者巴沙尔·阿萨德被推翻，以及由总统艾哈迈德·沙拉（Ahmed al-Sharaa）领导的新政府成立，后者是一名与土耳其关系密切的前圣战分子。

土耳其向沙拉先生提供了外交和军事支持，旨在稳定其脆弱的国家。与此同时，在阿萨德先生被推翻后，以色列以不信任沙拉先生为由，通过袭击摧毁了叙利亚的大部分军事设备。以色列还占领了叙利亚南部的领土，称此举旨在防止来自伊斯兰武装分子的跨境威胁。

特拉维夫国家安全研究所的高级研究员加利亚·林登斯特劳斯表示，2023年由哈马斯领导的袭击塑造了以色列对待该地区以及对待土耳其的方式。

“我们不允许威胁增长；我们在初期就予以解决，”她说。“这是主导的安全准则，这使得以色列更愿意承担风险，而不太倾向于政治解决方案。”

她表示，以色列将土耳其视为一个日益增长的军事强国，其武器工业在某些市场上与以色列竞争，在包括叙利亚和伊拉克在内的其他国家部署军队，且其领导人的言论对以色列充满敌意。

“当你面对一个拥有能力、以某种方式说话，并且还表现出愿意部署其部队的参与者时。

两个美国盟友之间的竞争可能会增加这个紧张地区的波动性。

“当一个参与者拥有相关能力，且言论如此，并表现出愿意部署其力量到国境之外时，这是很难被忽视的，”她说道。

其他近期事件也塑造了土耳其对待以色列的方式。

土耳其领导人认为加沙战争是一场人道主义灾难。该地区的卫生部门表示，这场战争已导致 73,000 人死亡，其中包括数万名妇女和儿童，以及数量未公开的武装分子。土耳其官员称以色列在黎巴嫩和叙利亚的军事推进具有破坏稳定性。

土耳其还强烈反对美国和以色列在伊朗发动的战争，称这将引发一场危险的地区危机，并试图阻止其发生。

柏林土耳其应用研究中心访问学者萨利姆·切维克（Salim Cevik）表示，中东地区的分歧影响了两国在其他地方的互动。

“因为土耳其和以色列将彼此视为该地区的竞争对手，所以他们也将对方在其他地方的行动从‘赢与输’的角度来看待，”他说。

在非洲之角，土耳其与索马里关系密切，土耳其在该国拥有规模可观的外交和军事存在。

去年 12 月，以色列成为第一个承认索马里兰的国家，索马里兰是一个于 1991 年宣布脱离索马里独立的分离地区。当时，以色列表示此举符合《亚伯拉罕协议》，即以色列近期与几个穆斯林占多数的国家实现关系正常化的协议。埃尔多安先生称以色列的承认行为是“非法且不可接受的”。

在东地中海，以色列加强了与希腊和塞浦路斯的军事及能源合作，而这两个国家与土耳其长期存在领土争端。埃尔多安先生试图淡化去年 12 月这三个国家之间新协议的重要性，将其比作“一个叮当作响的铁罐”。

本月，土耳其与沙特阿拉伯和巴基斯坦签署了一项共同防御协议，分析人士称，此举部分旨在制衡以色列在该地区的影响力。

然而，这场竞争中最危险的闪点仍然是叙利亚。

切维克先生表示，土耳其寻求一个稳定且中央集权的叙利亚，而以色列则倾向于一个军事力量薄弱、无法构成威胁的分裂国家。

“这两种愿景存在非常根本的冲突，”他说。

本月，以色列袭击了位于阿布杜胡尔镇（Abu al-Duhur）的叙利亚空军基地，该镇位于土耳其边境以南约 40 英里处。在一次主要通过激烈言论和竞争性外交倡议展开的博弈中，这次军事行动较为罕见。

袭击次日，内塔尼亚胡先生在社交媒体上发布的视频中表示，以色列不会接受土耳其军队在叙利亚的部署，“因为如果他们向南推进，将威胁到我们”。

两天后，土耳其宣布将通过国际刑警组织寻求逮捕内塔尼亚胡先生，指控包括种族灭绝和酷刑。这是土耳其国内一起关于以色列对待在前往加沙途中被拦截的亲巴勒斯坦活动人士案件的一部分。

在此后的几天里，美国官员一直致力于恢复两国政府之间的对话。一些以色列分析人士推测，在叙利亚的袭击是内塔尼亚胡先生在 10 月以色列选举前，旨在增强其国家安全资历的一种尝试。

以色列和土耳其在对方国家的人民中都缺乏受欢迎程度，这使得两国官员可以通过批评竞争对手国家来赢得国内的政治分数。

尽管如此，切维克先生表示，激烈的措辞代表了真实的分歧。

他也表示，他不认为土耳其和以色列会发生直接的军事冲突。

“我认为可能性不大，因为首先，美国人有兴趣让这两个国家远离活跃的冲突，”他说。

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“任务完成”是基于什么定义？

作者：彼得·贝克 (PETER BAKER)

前几天，特朗普总统发布了一张自己的英雄形象照，背景是航空母舰、战机和美国国旗。左下角是前总统乔治·W·布什以及一块写着“任务未完成 2001-2021”的标牌。另一个角落则是一块指向他自己的标牌，上面写着“任务完成 2026”。

但事实并非如此。特朗普先生在伊朗发起的战争于周五达到了六个月的时间节点，而这场战争远未完成。半年以来，这场冲突已演变成一个由总统亲手制造的泥潭，没有明确的目标，没有明显的战略，也看不到尽头。特朗普先生在竞选时主张反对布什先生的“永恒战争”，而现在他却将自己的总统任期押在了他自己版本的战争之上。

对于特朗普先生来说，这可能是两头不到岸的最糟糕局面。他发现自己陷入了一种令人发狂的中间状态，处于全面战斗与真正和平之间的炼狱。尽管他发出了雷霆之怒般的威胁，但仍不愿恢复全面轰炸；然而到目前为止，他也无法就结束战争达成一份令人满意的协议。他没有可以揽功的胜利，却在为美国经济受损以及共和党在秋季选举中的胜算支付政治代价。

这种中间状态在理论上可能会持续很长时间，这与特朗普先生在2月底下令执行“史诗之怒行动”（Operation Epic Fury）时预言的四到六周闪击战相去甚远。在看不到突破的情况下，双方都在测试对方的耐力。尽管特朗普先生向来缺乏耐心，但他上周早些时候明确表示，他“并不着急”。

“没什么好谈的，”他周四告诉记者，否认目前有兴趣与伊朗谈判。“我们不想和他们说话；我们不寻求会面或任何形式的接触。海峡是开放的；我们截获了很多船只——每天有数百万桶石油从海峡流出。”

事实上，霍尔木兹海峡仍然是一个动荡的通道，战前的航运流量仅剩一小部分，导致石油市场处于波动之中。虽然战争导致伊朗最高领袖死亡，但其子接任了该职位，且六个月前掌权的残酷政权在今天依然在位。伊朗的核计划虽受损，但德黑兰方面仍拒绝放弃。

3月在华盛顿反对与伊朗战争的示威者。特朗普总统一直无法达成一项令人满意的协议。

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“这是一场惨败，”理查德·N·哈斯（Richard N. Haass）表示，他在2003年布什入侵伊拉克时担任国务院政策规划主任。“这就是残酷的现实。他可以宣布‘任务完成’，他可以像往常那样试图推销这个论点，几乎是为了创造现实。但这将是非常、非常难以让人接受的。没有任何迹象表明我们的处境有所改善，或者这场战争是值得的。”

战争的支持者则建议保持耐心，认为特朗普先生已成功地大幅削弱了一个激进且危险的伊朗，且美国人的伤亡远低于布什在伊拉克或阿富汗地面战争期间的水平。他们表示，如果特朗普先生坚持下去，他或许仍能通过军事力量或经济压力迫使伊朗屈服，从而从长远来看让美国更安全。

“我知道这违背了传统认知，但我相信特朗普总统在与伊朗政权的对抗中处于领先地位，”民主防御基金会（Foundation for Defense of Democracies）首席执行官马克·杜博维茨（Mark Dubowitz）表示。“伊斯兰共和国在其47年的历史中从未如此虚弱。而且它被迫在极其弱势的情况下，打出了它最重要的一张牌——霍尔木兹海峡。”

杜博维茨先生表示，伊朗现在必须决定是认真谈判，还是在接下来的两年里承受持续不断的压力。“我们既不在和平状态，也没有处于大规模作战行动中，”他说，“特朗普总统可能在两者之间找到了一个战略上的‘甜蜜点’：在既不引发大规模战争，也不达成不可接受的协议的情况下，维持持续的强制性压力。”

无论结果如何，伊朗战争可以说已成为特朗普总统任期内——至少在外交政策方面——最大的一场豪赌，也是一个研究他如何以不同于第一任期的方式对待第二任期的案例。

在他最初执政的四年里，为了应对布什时代的干涉主义，其特点是采取更倾向于内向的“美国优先”政策；而去年重返白宫的特朗普则更愿意在海外行使权力，并且似乎更致力于按照自己的喜好重塑世界。

他清除委内瑞拉领导层、威胁接管格陵兰岛、巴拿马运河和古巴，甚至在上周将安大略湖更名为“美国湖”，所有这些都表明这位总统在考虑其政治遗产，希望在美国国境之外留下自己的印记。然而，任何希望伊朗问题能取得快速且决定性成功的想法早已破灭，现在的首要目标是如何找到一种能够被定义为某种胜利的退出方式。

“在我看来，‘史诗之怒行动’（Operation Epic Fury）具有典型的特朗普色彩，”对外关系委员会的资深中东学者史蒂文·A·库克（Steven A. Cook）表示，“这无疑是大胆的，但其策划者大多粗心且准备不足，凭直觉和大量虚张声势来处理冲突。”

库克先生补充道：“美国最终可能会获胜，但这仅仅是因为尽管特朗普犯了错，美国依然强大，而伊朗人相对弱小，而不是因为总统采取了有效的战略。”

斯坦福大学胡佛研究所的高级研究员维克多·戴维斯·汉森（Victor Davis Hanson）对此并不认同，他表示特朗普正在采取一种他称之为“森蚺式内战战略”的方案，这将产生回报。

“他将尽可能地挤压他们，而当他们开始崩溃时，他们会从残存的舰队中发射导弹或无人机，而他会猛烈打击他们，”他在上周的一档《每日信号》（Daily Signal）播客中说道，“他希望这种情况能持续下去，希望遏制政策能持续到中期选举。”

汉森先生补充说，对伊朗的经济压力最终可能会引发民众起义，或进一步削弱该国的能力。“这算胜利吗？我不知道，”他说。但他补充说，这可以用远低于布什战争的人员和财富代价，阻止伊朗开发核武器。“把这个与 20 年间在伊拉克花费的 1 万亿加元以及在阿富汗可能花费的 $2 万亿加元相比吧，”他说。

撇开金钱不谈，特朗普战争在前六个月的故事可以用五个数字来讲述：63, 12, 1.10, 18 和 759. 第一个数字衡量的是公众对战争的反对程度。根据益普索（Ipsos）最新的调查，仅有 31 percent 支持，而 63 percent 反对，这些数据让人想起越南战争最黑暗的时期。

第二个数字反映的是每天通过霍尔木兹海峡的船只数量，平均约为 12, 相比于战前的 130。第三个数字反映的是美国的平均汽油价格，约为每加仑 $4.09，比战斗开始时高出 $1.10。

第四个数字反映的是这场战争至今已导致 18 名美国军方人员死亡。第五个数字是美国军械库中剩余的爱国者拦截弹估计数量，根据非党派智库战略与国际研究中心的数据，该数量已从 2,330 下降到一个月前的低点 759。

至于特朗普先生在开始时概述的目标，大多数仍未实现。他喜欢吹嘘自己摧毁了伊朗的空军和海军，但德黑兰依然有能力向美国在该地区的基地及其盟友开火。他曾预言伊朗人民将推翻压迫者迎来解放之日，但这一天从未到来。伊朗支持该地区代理恐怖组织的能力有所削弱，但并未被根除。分析人士认为，其核计划虽受到严重破坏，但该政权拒绝放弃，并有可能重新构建。

“特朗普总统使美国陷入了一场具有历史性后果的外交政策失败，”参议院军事委员会民主党首席参议员、来自罗德岛州的杰克·里德（Jack Reed）在周五的一份声明中表示。“六个月后，没有一个目标得以实现。事实上，他显著削弱了我们在中东及全球的地位。”

哈斯先生在布什政府任职期间曾对入侵伊拉克的计划持怀疑态度，随后写了一本关于此次失败的名为《必然之战，选择之战》（War of Necessity, War of Choice）的书。他表示，矛盾的是，那场冲突和特朗普先生的这场冲突都让伊朗变得更强大了。

哈斯先生指出，在伊拉克案例中，萨达姆·侯赛因被推翻后，伊朗成为了其邻国敌国境内的主导力量；而现在，伊朗已经证明了其通过封锁海峡航运来搅动全球能源市场的能力。“伊朗是这两场战争的战略受益者，”他说。

当然，特朗普先生会对此予以否认。事实上，他一次又一次地主张自己已经战胜了伊朗。“我们已经赢了，”他在3月7日宣布，当时战争才开始不到一周。

“我们赢得了所有一切；所有的筹码都在我们手中，”他在4月25日说道。“那场仗我们已经赢了，”他在5月4日说道。“我不知道你们是否听说了，但我们今天结束了与伊朗的战争，”他在6月11日说道，当时他在庆祝一场未能持久的停火。

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超强效街头毒品改变了巴尔的摩的局面

警察在巴尔的摩 Penn North 社区检查一名疑似药物过量的人员。右图为南巴尔的摩的一个社区，像 Pops 这样所谓的“试药者”就住在那里。下图是西巴尔的摩一条绿树成荫的街道，Boog 年轻时家人曾住在那里。她的表亲就在这个街区被杀。

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低价的高快感、神秘的混合物与更致命的剂量

作者：MATT RICHTEL

巴尔的摩 —— 2025年2月一个清爽、阳光明媚的日子里，一名绰号为 Sleepy 的当地人，44, 站在西巴尔的摩的一栋整洁白房子对面，他曾在这里由祖母抚养长大。他的父母也曾住在那里，但最终死于海洛因成瘾。

小时候，Sleepy 曾发誓要成为一名警察。（为了避免警察的审查，他要求不使用全名）。但街头在召唤，到十几岁时，他就在贩卖可卡因和海洛因。2007年，就在离他童年住所仅几个街区的地方，他向一辆载有帮派成员的汽车开枪，因为他担心这些人正在追杀他。他因涉嫌谋杀未遂入狱，并于2022年获释。

在他不在期间，外界的毒品世界发生了转变 —— 对于吸毒者来说，它变得更加致命。自2000年代初以来，美国的药物过量死亡人数激增。根据《旧金山纪事报》最近的一项分析，巴尔的摩的死亡率（每 100,000 居民中死亡 110 人）在人口50万或以上的城市中最高。

最初的原因是处方类阿片药物，然后是海洛因，接着从十年前开始，出现了新一代合成阿片类药物，主要是芬太尼。现在，新型的超强效实验室合成药物组合几乎每天都在流入街头，使得巴尔的摩及其他地区的麻醉品供应比以往任何时候都更危险、更肮脏且更不可预测。

在 Sleepy 从监狱回家后，他的侄子在公园里把他拉到一边，明确地提醒了他。

“他说，‘任何人试图卖给你海洛因，都不要相信他们，’” Sleepy 回忆道，“‘巴尔的摩市里根本没有海洛因。’”主要成分是芬太尼或其他合成阿片类药物，通常与多种其他精神活性化学物质混合，为使用者创造更强烈的体验。“关键在于药效，” Sleepy 说。

“而且他们一直在不断制造更多，并起不同的名字，” Sleepy 在谈到这些新化合物时补充道，“直到我们从新闻报道中听到，我们甚至都不知道那是什么。然后，当街头毒贩听说后，他们就想弄清楚在哪里能弄到，好让他们的货变得像那样强。”

由于实验室合成药物极易混合和更改，其效果具有不确定性；很少有买家知道自己实际买到了什么，而且可能性正在危险地扩大。去年夏天，巴尔的摩发生了几起大规模药物过量事件，原因是芬太尼与一种强效镇静剂 N-甲基克隆西泮混合。根据美国国家标准与技术研究院（NIST）的检测，在全国范围内，22 percent 的药物样本包含五种或更多种化合物，高于 2022 年的 8.8 percent。

去年2月在巴尔的摩，Sleepy 从内部人士的角度分析了街头供应的转变以及驱动这一转变的经济因素。他的童年好友、一名绰号为 Boog 的女性，40. 像 Sleepy 一样，她在青少年时期从事毒品交易。（为了避免警察的审查，她要求不使用全名。）她曾用一把 9 毫米手枪捍卫自己的地盘；她在一次抢劫中使用该枪后被捕，并于 2008 年至 2018 年期间被监禁。

“每个人都在做实验，这就是问题所在，” Boog 说，“这就是为什么这么多人死亡的原因。”

更高药效，更高利润

巴尔的摩经历了两个药物时代的糟糕局面：一个是合成阿片类药物出现之前的时代，一个是出现之后的时代。根据联邦机构国家药物情报中心（National Drug Intelligence Center）的数据，2002年，马里兰州，尤其是巴尔的摩，拥有全美“最严重的海洛因滥用问题”之一。随着随后的禁毒战争（HBO剧集《火线》记录了这一过程），这座城市成为了执法努力之徒劳以及一代人毁于毒品贩运的象征。

自2019年以来，巴尔的摩与帮派相关的谋杀案数量大幅下降，但毒品贸易依然繁荣。原因之一是获得快感的成本大幅下降。Sleepy表示，二十年前，一克海洛因的批发价可能在40美元或50美元之间；而如今，一克合成阿片类药物的价格可能只有其一半。

此时，Sleepy正驾驶着他的黑色福特SUV，车载音响播放着音乐，向巴尔的摩西南部行驶；Boog坐在副驾驶座上。

“而且你可以把它稀释得更多，而且它比海洛因更强效，”Sleepy在谈到阿片类药物时说。“利润更高，因为它更便宜，而且你可以添加更多不同的化学物质来掺假，从而赚更多的钱。如果你用镇静剂或类似的东西掺假，你可以把一克变成七八克。”

这种变化反映了药物制造和分销方式的转型。传统上，药物主要来自土地：海洛因来自罂粟，可卡因来自古柯，大麻来自大麻植物。它们的生产需要土地、劳动力和时间，而拦截手段则包括摧毁作物和中断物理供应链。

现在，药物主要来自秘密实验室，这些实验室所需的土地和劳动力少得多。在墨西哥（美国大部分芬太尼供应的来源地），生产一克芬太尼的成本最多只需几美元。而在中国（墨西哥运作所需的前体化学品在此大规模生产），据一名在中国实验室工作的人员称，生产一克芬太尼的原料成本约为83美分。

这转化为街头买家成本的骤降。考虑到通货膨胀，一个人花10美元买一份剂量——这与多年前买一份海洛因的价格相同或更低——如今能以更低的价格买到更强的药效。一项由《纽约时报》进行的分析发现，自2007年以来，获得阿片类药物快感的成本下降了93%。

当某些药物——无论是像海洛因这样的植物衍生药物，还是像芬太尼、硝氮类（nitazenes）或奥啡类（orphines）这样的实验室合成药物——附着在大脑的阿片受体上时，就会产生阿片类快感。这种机制会促使多巴胺释放并产生欣快感，但也会导致严重的成瘾。同样的10美元，比二十年前能买到更高强度且更多的快感。

专家表示，成本的剧烈下降使得更多的人能够负担并接触到毒品，这有助于解释死亡率的飙升。二十年前，当Boog和Sleepy在街头工作时，美国每年有30,000人死于致命的药物过量。到2024年，这一数字已增长至80,000人，超过了美国在越南战争中死亡的人数。

在巴尔的摩西南部的华盛顿大道上，Sleepy开车经过一个消防站。“我看着他们整天处理的除了药物过量以外什么都没有，”Sleepy说。他说，他自己的姐姐就在药物康复中心。

理论上，药物过量或死亡的威胁应该能威慑使用者。但Boog说，一个产品导致过量的毒贩实际上反而能吸引顾客；因为这表明该批次药效强。她补充说，一些不道德的毒贩有时会故意出售几个他们知道药效强到足以导致过量的胶囊——以此来招揽更多生意。

“他们管这叫‘死亡包’，”Boog说。

对测试者的全新需求

Sleepy 将车停在莫雷尔公园（Morrell Park）社区的一家酒吧后面，那里是一条狭小的商业街，周围环绕着红砖排屋住宅区，是毒品交易的场所。两人步行走过半个街区，Sleepy 和 Boog 拦住了一名穿着一件破旧长外套、站在一家小杂货店门口的灰发男子。他们介绍此人叫 Pops。

在南巴尔的摩，Pops 被称为“老炮儿”（old head），一名长期的功能性药物滥用者——一个幸存者。他贩卖毒品，主要是为了维持自己的瘾头。他同时也是一名“测试者”（tester），这个词是指那些通过提供评估来换取免费样本的人：这种药物混合物的药效是否足够强？

去年夏天，巴尔的摩发生了几起大规模药物过量事件，原因是芬太尼与强力合成化学物质混合所致。

这是否让他感觉异样？

像 Pops 这样的测试者，是街头应对日益掺假且不可预测的药物供应的一种反应。制造和包装药物混合物的实验室可能规模极小，甚至只是公寓里一个人的操作。Pops 说：“地下室、厨房桌子，无论你在哪儿弄，那就是你的实验室。”

Sleepy 表示赞同：“那就是你的实验室！”供应的药物药效如此之强，以至于在没有防护的情况下仅仅接触就可能导致成瘾。

Boog 说：“就这样你就能染上‘桌上瘾’。”

一旦产品通过测试者的认可，就会被卖给常规用户。他们处于食物链的最底层，是绝望与掺假供应相遇的地方。在 Pops 工作地点的几个街区外，Sleepy 介绍了一名被他称为 Berto 的年轻人，他当时正漫无目的地在街上行走。

Berto 穿着一件由凌乱衣物叠加而成的“拼贴装”：绿色和蓝色相间的运动裤，一件黑色连帽衫，一件挂在身体左侧的深蓝色天鹅绒长袍，右肩披着一件黑色夹克，脚穿金黑相间的篮球鞋。他用被污垢染黑的手抽着烟。他看起来像中年人。

“我 25 岁，”他说，“我已经这样生活四年了。”

他怎么知道自己拿到的是什么药？

“你根本不知道，”他说，“你试着尝尝味道，闻闻气味，看看是不是纯海洛因。”

Sleepy 插话道：“等一下，你是在告诉他你买海洛因吗？”

“不，”Berto 说。他的话语略显含糊，努力地表达自己的想法。他指的是合成鸦片类药物，通常是芬太尼。海洛因已经消失了，但这个词作为一种隐喻依然在使用。

“当我们说‘海洛因’时，基本上是在说芬太尼，”Sleepy 说，而且它通常与其它药物“混合”。这种混合以及供应药效的增强提高了 Berto 的耐药性，以至于他不能在没有药量的情况下支撑太久，因此他需要更频繁地寻找药源：Berto 说，“如果是垃圾货，每隔一到两个小时就要一次；如果是好货，每五个小时一次。”

他说，当他无法弄到药时，“我会起皮疹，出冷汗，思维飞快，无法入睡。”情况特别糟糕时，他会失禁。他说自己曾八次药物过量，其中六次被用纳洛酮（Narcan）救活。至于另外两次，他说，“靠上帝的恩典，我醒了过来。”

第 47 任总统

预测市场赌注之争亦使各州与特朗普家族对立

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州长们。该机构曾两次指示预测市场规避法院命令，援引其数十年未曾使用过的紧急权力。

这种激进的干预使该机构与特朗普家族的财务利益达成一致。去年1月，Kalshi聘请小唐纳德·特朗普担任顾问；他的报酬包括价值超过$300,000的Kalshi股份，这些股份的价值已成倍增长。去年，这位总统之子还成为了Polymarket的顾问，并通过其投资公司1789 Capital购买了该公司的股份。

小唐纳德·特朗普的一位发言人表示，他“并不代表其投资或担任顾问的任何公司与联邦政府进行接洽”。Kalshi的一位发言人则表示，特朗普先生在营销方面为公司提供建议。

这场法律之争还吸引了一个由传统博彩公司组成的强大联盟，这些公司将预测市场视为竞争威胁，并敦促各州采取行动。一个代表赌场运营商的行业团体正与前新泽西州州长克里斯·克里斯蒂（Chris Christie）合作，后者曾在电视上猛烈抨击预测市场。

“涉及的金额巨大，”说道

艾哈迈德·加伯（AHMED GABER）为纽约时报拍摄 Kalshi的联合创始人塔雷克·曼苏尔（Tarek Mansour）表示，他的公司所提供的内容并非赌博。

罗布·施瓦茨（Rob Schwartz）直到去年为止一直担任美国商品期货交易委员会（C.F.T.C.）的首席法律顾问，并一直追踪这17个月以来密集的诉讼。他说：“这肯定会提交至最高法院。现在只是时间问题。”

诉讼的核心是对什么构成“赌博”的争论。

多年来，Kalshi和其他预测市场一直在C.F.T.C.注册，并将平台上的投注分类为“事件合约”，这是一种从现实世界情况的结果中获取价值的金融工具。这些合约通常基于“是或否”的情景，例如某一天是否会下雨。这些公司表示，由于这些工具在联邦层面受到监管，预测市场应该能够自由地在全国范围内运营。

作为美国最大的预测市场，Kalshi承受了法律压力的 brunt；Polymarket的大部分投注发生在国际上，尽管它现在拥有一个小型美国应用程序。

Kalshi在的一份声明中表示，它为客户提供了保障，且其商业模式为人们提供了赢钱的真实机会。声明称，该公司拥有一个“国家监管框架，而非州与州之间碎片化的监管”，并补充说，“各州试图关闭一个获得联邦许可的交易所，这过于激进了”。

但州政府官员表示，Kalshi的立场是站不住脚的。总检察长们认为，该公司提供的产品与体育博彩几乎没有区别，并且

基蒂·贝内特（Kitty Bennett）贡献了研究。

且缺乏州政府要求的保护措施。除了少数几个州外，21岁以下的人不能进行体育博彩，但Kalshi的应用程序面向所有18岁及以上的人开放。

“你可以进入一个网站，对某些体育活动的结果下注，”华盛顿州民主党总检察长尼克·布朗（Nick Brown）说道，他本月在针对Kalshi的诉讼中赢得了初步的法院胜利。“这与赌博是一回事。”

“心照不宣”

在今年超级碗（Super Bowl）的早晨，犹他州总检察长德里克·布朗（Derek Brown）发现他那大学年龄的儿子收到了一条 Kalshi 的广告。广告邀请他“合法交易足球赛结果”。

布朗先生对此感到震惊。在他看来，Kalshi 正在利用巧妙的措辞来规避犹他州的规定，因为该州宪法禁止赌博。“这就是一种心照不宣的勾当，”他说。

在接下来的两周里，布朗先生和犹他州州长（两人均为共和党人）公开反对预测市场，称其“近乎反乌托邦”。期间，布朗先生收到了一条来自 说客的短信，请求与他交谈。他将其忽略了。

2月下旬， 在联邦法院起诉犹他州，理由是该州“意图禁止 运营”。这是 与包括 Polymarket 和交易网站 Crypto.com 在内的几家顶级竞争对手之间展开的全国性法律战的一个战线。

根据税务基金会（Tax Foundation）的数据，在美国最高法院于 2018 年推翻对体育博彩的禁令后，大多数州将该行业合法化，并征收相关税款。在上一财年，持牌运营产生的收入超过 32 亿美元。

预测市场则走了一条不同的道路。2024 年， 赢得了一项法院裁决，允许其提供关于选举的投注，为这些市场在商品期货交易委员会（C.F.T.C.）的许可下运行铺平了道路。今年， 和 Polymarket 成为了文化现象，每月吸引数百亿美元的投注。新竞争者的加入使注册预测市场的数量增加到了 13 个。

公众对这些市场的关注大多集中在它们新颖的产品上，例如对药物试验或以色列导弹袭击的投注。但根据数据提供商 The Block 的数据，今年 约 75% 的活动来自体育赛事。（据报道， 曾讨论与《体育报》（The Athletic）建立合作伙伴关系，后者是纽约时报公司旗下的体育媒体网站。）

首席执行官塔雷克·曼苏尔（Tarek Mansour）认为，他的公司所提供的内容与传统赌博有本质区别。 并不充当“庄家”去承担每笔赌注的对立面。相反，它匹配每一方的买家，并通过收取费用来产生收入，无论结果是赢还是输。

“我们的监管方式与纽约证券交易所或纳斯达克完全相似，”曼苏尔先生在 1 月的一次采访中表示。

自身的一些营销行为削弱了这一立场。在州政府诉讼中被引用的一则社交媒体广告鼓励客户“投注 NFL”（美国职业橄榄球大联盟）。（ 表示已不再使用该广告。）

不出所料， 和 Polymarket 的崛起激怒了那些缴纳州税并持有州许可证的博彩公司。其中一些公司，如 DraftKings 和 FanDuel，迅速建立了自己的预测市场。另一些公司则在代表赌场运营商和其他博彩公司的美国博彩协会（American Gaming Association）的领导下展开反击。

该协会发言人罗布·洛克伍德（Rob Lockwood）在的一份声明中表示， 是一个“违背州法的后门体育博彩机构”。

12 月，协会高管特雷斯·约克（Tres York）与肯塔基州总检察长鲁斯。

“无法在网上进行体育博彩怎么能算作市场紧急情况？”

艾坦·戈尔曼（AITAN GOELMAN），巴拉克·奥巴马总统任期内的 C.F.T.C. 执法主任。

根据《纽约时报》获取的电子邮件，约克先生在华盛顿的 Joe's Seafood 餐厅与科尔曼先生共进晚餐。随后，约克先生向科尔曼先生的办公室推销反击预测市场的必要性，并指出一个由州政府官员组成的联盟正在起草一份法律摘要。

“我很乐意为您介绍内华达州的副总检察长，他正领导着捍卫各州权利的招募工作，”约克先生在给科尔曼先生的一名副手发送的电子邮件中写道。

肯塔基州没有签署该摘要，但科尔曼先生最终在州法院起诉了 Kalshi 和 Polymarket。“这些价值数十亿美元的公司及其法律虚构之说根本经不起推敲，”他在一份声明中表示。

联邦机构介入

不久，另一方诉讼当事人加入了战局。

2025年12月，特朗普总统任命的 C.F.T.C. 负责人迈克尔·S·塞利格（Michael S. Selig）宣誓就职。现年 36 岁的塞利格先生是一位技术爱好者，曾作为公司律师与预测市场和加密货币公司合作。

在掌管 C.F.T.C. 后，塞利格先生对肯塔基州、伊利诺伊州以及其他七个与预测市场作斗争的州提起诉讼。“这对该机构来说是生死攸关的，”他在一次采访中表示，“如果各州在削减我们的法定权限，那对我们来说就是个问题。”

事实上，该机构在某些州将此问题视为紧急情况，认为值得采取非常规权力。

塞利格先生对密歇根州法院一项鲜为人知的裁决所作出的反应，凸显了现任政府在捍卫预测行业利益方面将走多远。7月，一名州法官命令 Kalshi 撤销密歇根州居民的投注，因为该公司未能获得适当的许可证。

该机构援引极少使用的紧急权力，指示 Kalshi 忽略法院命令，尽管该公司已经开始取消投注。该机构表示，密歇根州的命令“将冒着破坏公众对预测市场信心”的风险。

C.F.T.C. 上一次使用这些权力是在 1980 年，当时吉米·卡特总统禁止向苏联销售粮食。该机构暂停了粮食期货交易，以平息大宗商品市场的恐慌。

“这真的是前所未有且坦白说令人愤怒的，”巴拉克·奥巴马总统任期内的 C.F.T.C. 执法主任艾坦·戈尔曼表示，“无法在网上进行体育博彩怎么能算作市场紧急情况？”

该机构本月发起了第二次紧急干预，此前一名联邦法官拒绝阻止纽约州采取行动关闭 Kalshi 在当地的业务。C.F.T.C. 指示 Kalshi 无论如何都要继续运营。几天之内，该公司在康涅狄格州的一起平行案件中引用了这一措施。

负责监督该诉讼的联邦法官对此并不买账。他写道：“C.F.T.C. 没有权力下达一个与本法院决定相冲突的指令。”

当被问及该机构为何试图绕过法官时，C.F.T.C. 发言人扎克·富尔顿（Zach Fulton）表示，它需要“在法院仍在决定这些问题期间维持现状”。

就像一个日益壮大的蓝色州联盟一样，由共和党领导的俄亥俄州、内华达州、蒙大拿州和田纳西州要么提起诉讼，要么发布停止并终止令，以强迫预测市场服从管理。但是，虽然 C.F.T.C. 起诉了九个由民主党州长领导的州，但其针对共和党领导州最强有力的法律行动仅是提交法庭之友摘要。法官并非必须阅读此类论点。

富尔顿先生表示，政治在法律策略中没有发挥任何作用，该机构起诉的是那些最激进的州。

“C.F.T.C. 没有挑选这些州——是它们自己挑选了我们，”他说。

Kalshi 的反击

上个月，北卡罗来纳州众议院的民主党议员普莱西·哈里森（Pricey Harrison）仔细研读了州预算最新草案的打印件。她在第 626 页注意到一项令人担忧的条款。

哈里森女士最近提出了一项限制预测市场的法案。但在她看来，该预算中包含一项像是给该行业的馈赠的条款：文件中写道，获得美国商品期货交易委员会（C.F.T.C.）许可的预测市场，“由于已在委员会注册，可以在州内合法运营”。这些市场将就收入缴纳 6% 的税，低于对体育博彩公司征收的 23% 的税率。

“我不是一个观察力最敏锐的人，”哈里森女士说，“但我当时觉得，‘噢，这味道不对’。”

该条款将允许预测市场在北卡罗来纳州运营，而无需担心面临州政府的起诉。两名知情人士表示，Kalshi 的一名游说者——曾任北卡罗来纳州立法者的吉姆·哈雷尔（Jim Harrell），在与州众议院共和党领导层的讨论中协助制定了相关措辞。该公司的反馈确保了其获得的税率低于立法者最初考虑的水平。

RICARDO TOMÁS

立法者还收到了来自白宫的意见，这是行政当局参与州级争端的另一个迹象。北卡罗来纳州众议院议长、州代表德斯廷·霍尔（Destin Hall）的一位发言人表示，政府间事务办公室分享了关于“联邦政府对州政府监管预测市场的立场”的信息。该预算于 7 月 7 日获得批准。

白宫一名发言人表示，特朗普总统认为 C.F.T.C. 维持对这些市场的专属管辖权是“至关重要的”。

霍尔先生的发言人反驳称该税收条款并非馈赠，并指出预测市场此前并不被要求纳税。 表示，在北卡罗来纳州的这种安排对该行业是公平的。该公司表示，由于许多人在预测市场上赢钱，北卡罗来纳州也将对这些利润征税。

到目前为止，诉讼结果不一。C.F.T.C. 的所有九起诉讼均在联邦法院审理中。内华达州和华盛顿州等州的法官已做出不利于 的裁决，并命令其停止运营。

虽然一家联邦上诉法院在涉及新泽西州的一起案件中支持了 ，但上周五，第二家上诉法院在涉及内华达州的一起案件中做出了不利于它的裁决。上诉法院的分歧裁决通常会触发最高法院的审查。

但在北卡罗来纳州等地取得的政策胜利仍然有所帮助。在预算签署两周后， 的一名律师在其中一起上诉案件的提交文件中提到了该协议，将其描述为可应用于其他司法管辖区的折中方案。

该公司正在寻求更多进展。一名知情人士表示，截至本月， 在所有 50 个州都有游说人员在工作。

美国商品期货交易委员会负责人迈克尔·S·塞利格（Michael S. Selig）已起诉九个与预测市场作斗争的州。 JASON ANDREW 为《纽约时报》拍摄

北卡罗来纳州州代表、民主党人普莱西·哈里森提出了限制预测市场的立法。 CHRIS SEWARD / 美联社

特朗普总统与小唐纳德·特朗普，后者多次承诺将家族商业利益分开。 PETE MAROVICH 为《纽约时报》拍摄

移民援助提供者成为法案争议中心

上图：周三，YouTube影响力人物尼克·舍利（Nick Shirley）在一次集会上发言，反对一项旨在保护移民援助工作者的加州法案。左侧，警方路障将抗议者隔开。 摄影：安德里·坦布南（ANDRI TAMBUNAN）为《纽约时报》拍摄

作者：劳雷尔·罗森霍尔（LAUREL ROSENHALL）

萨克拉门托——这项法案最初旨在保护移民援助工作者。这些工作者表示，随着去年夏天移民突袭行动席卷加州，他们越来越担心被泄露个人隐私（doxxed）并受到威胁。

民主党州议员将其描述为一项长期运行的计划——“居家安全”（Safe at Home）的简单扩展。该计划此前一直通过在公共记录中屏蔽弱势居民的住址来提供保护。许多州在20世纪90年代创建了此类计划，以保护家庭暴力幸存者或被跟踪受害者。多年来，一些州将该计划扩展到了堕胎诊所工作人员或执法人员。

在加州，此类扩展从未引发过关于言论自由的争议。去年，该州将提供性别相关治疗的医疗工作者列入名单，几乎没有引起任何骚动。

直到今年州议员提议将移民援助提供者纳入其中，才引发了一场激烈的争论。而这在很大程度上是因为一名反对该法案的共和党人给它起了一个朗朗上口的绰号：“停止尼克·舍利法案”。

24岁的舍利先生迅速成为了MAGA运动中的英雄。作为一名YouTube影响力人物，他的病毒式传播视频声称揭露了民主党领导的各州的欺诈行为。他去年关于由索马里移民经营的明尼苏达州儿童看护中心的视频引起了特朗普总统的注意，当时总统正在该州打击非法移民。不久之后，舍利先生前往加州，在持证儿童看护提供者（其中大多数是移民）的家中以及临终关怀提供者的办公室外拍摄视频。

舍利先生关注的是欺诈问题，而共和党人主要在言论自由的立场上攻击该法案，称这将阻碍问题的揭露。但移民援助团体却面临来自特朗普支持者的批评，因为他们为无证居民提供从食物到法律援助的一切帮助，而这些居民在总统的第二个任期内尤其容易被驱逐出境。

今年加州的这项法案是全美首个将住址保护扩展至面临暴力威胁或骚扰的移民支持服务工作者及志愿者的法案。法案规定，从2027年10月起，住址受保护的人员在书面要求对方不要公开分享其图像或个人信息后，若对方仍将其发布在网上，则可以起诉对方。

民主党人表示，该法案仅限制人们发布带有立即造成伤害意图的暴力威胁。提出该法案的湾区议员米娅·邦塔（Mia Bonta）表示，该法案“150,000%绝对不是”受舍利先生启发而作。于8月22日签署该法案成为法律的州长加文·纽森（Gavin Newsom）的一位发言人则辩称，这不会对这位保守派影响力人物产生任何影响。

但舍利先生及其支持者声称，该法案的制定是为了阻止他发布关于移民社会服务计划中所谓欺诈行为的视频。特别是，他们对允许援助工作者起诉的条款持有异议。

舍利先生在YouTube上拥有近200万订阅者，并经营着一家他称之为“反欺诈俱乐部”的在线周边商店。他已将反对这项新法律变成了一场轰动事件，使一项原本可能默默无闻的立法引起了全国关注。通过病毒式传播的视频片段、在福克斯新闻（Fox News）上的亮相，以及上周在州议会大厦吸引数百人参加的集会，舍利先生帮助共和党人将这项住址保护法案重新定义为一场关于揭露欺诈和保护言论自由的争论。

“欢迎来到加州诈骗共和国，”周三在萨克拉门托举行的集会上，希尔利先生走到麦克风前说道，“在加利福尼亚，政客们现在不去追究诈骗者的责任，反而去追究那些揭露诈骗的人。”

在几个小时的时间里，州议会大厦外的广场给人一种 MAGA 街头集市的感觉，摊位上售卖着查理·柯克主题的 T 恤，并张贴着赞美 ICE 官员的海报。在集会开场祷告期间爆发肢体冲突后，警方将戴着面具的反抗议者限制在活动外围，这些人正吹着喇叭、敲着鼓。（据加州公路巡警称，有三人被拘留。）

在人群高喊“尼克！尼克！尼克！”之后，希尔利先生开始演讲。几位共和党议员和候选人与他一同登台。许多发言者表示，他们期待这项法律在法庭上被推翻。

在集会后的一次采访中，希尔利先生称该法案并非针对他的说法是“谎言”。他表示没有必要制定新法，因为公开他人隐私（dox）和发出暴力威胁本身就是违法的。

“他们通过专门界定‘移民支持服务提供者’，在创造一个受保护群体，”他说。

希尔利先生表示，他担心这项法律会被他人利用——比如有人雇人犯罪，然后声称是受到了他的煽动。

“那么尼克·希尔利就要负责，”他说，而且根据法律，他可能得支付至少 $4,000 的罚款。

在加利福尼亚，近期“居家安全”（Safe at Home）计划的扩展对象通常是与民主党一致的团体，而民主党控制着该州立法机构。民主党人认为，这些工作人员最容易成为反对者通过公开隐私而攻击的目标。

但目前尚不清楚判定标准应该是多少，法院可能会质疑加州是如何决定某些群体理应享有更高隐私级别的。加州大学洛杉矶分校法学院的第一修正案学者尤金·沃洛赫认为，该法案因保护一个群体而排斥另一个群体，可能会在挑战中败诉。

“法院可能会认为这是违宪的，因为它专门保护移民服务提供者，”沃洛赫先生说。他补充道，法院可能会裁定，“你不能将针对移民服务提供者的威胁和煽动，与针对其他同样脆弱的人群的威胁和煽动区分开来。”

该法案的早期版本包含更广泛的发布信息禁令，言论自由倡导者认为这将违反宪法。但该法案随后被缩减了范围。

致力于促进言论自由的组织“个人权利与表达基金会”的立法与政策总监卡罗琳·约迪斯是早期批评该法案的人之一。她表示，最终版本不应限制希尔利先生。

“根据我现在的理解，除非他发布带有威胁或煽动内容的视频——这是一个很高的门槛——否则他根据该法案不应承担责任，”约迪斯女士说。

然而，她表示，这项法律最终可能会产生寒蝉效应，因为收到法律要求不得发布图像或信息的人，可能不知道他们仅被禁止发表威胁或煽动暴力的言论。

寻求制定新法的移民服务提供者表示，自从特朗普先生开始第二任期以来，他们一直面临着激烈的骚扰。

“在他们看来，我们是必须去打击的敌人，而这被他们视为一种爱国义务，”洛杉矶人道主义移民权利联盟执行主任安杰丽卡·萨拉斯说道，该组织曾与邦塔女士合作制定该法。

邦塔女士（其丈夫是州总检察长罗布·邦塔）表示，她的法案灵感来自那些令人恐惧的遭遇故事。萨拉斯女士说，有人曾出现在她母亲家中寻找她。

邦塔女士表示，该法律不会阻止希尔利先生制作视频，也不会限制记者报道支持移民的团体。她表示，反对者将她的法案与希尔利先生挂钩，从而误导了公众，且他“对他的观众并不诚实”。

“令我深感失望的是，我们的立法进程竟然会遭到如此伏击——如果你愿意这么说的话——而这正是由那些心怀不轨的立法者以及那些可能为了个人利益而想要获取更多点击量的人所为，”她说。

在网上，希尔利先生的许多追随者似乎认为“停止尼克·希尔利法案”就是该法案的正式名称。

共和党议员卡尔·德马约（Carl DeMaio）想出了这个绰号，他表示，今年春天在一次委员会听证会上想到这个绰号时，他从未与希尔利先生交谈过。引用一个知名人物有助于他引起人们对他所关注问题的注意。

“这是简化他们试图掩盖的计划的最佳方式，”他说。

“一个糟糕的法案需要公众透明度，对此我不会道歉。”

“绝不可能，”米德尔斯特特女士说。“它永远是安大略湖。”

“接下来他们会把加拿大鹅叫成‘唐纳德鸭’了，”他说。

安大略湖的名字可以追溯到17世纪，当时制图师采用了美洲原住民的命名方式。一些法国探险家也将其称为“圣路易斯湖”。这片水域形成于上一个冰河时代，是五大湖中最小的一个。

特朗普先生在与加拿大的贸易谈判于本周破裂后，于周四签署了该行政命令。此举与总统在第二任期初期采取的行动如出一辙，当时他宣布墨西哥湾将被称为“美国湾”。这两项行政命令极有可能仅适用于联邦实体，并不要求其他国家承认名称的变更。

作者：罗妮·卡林·拉宾（RONI CARYN RABIN）

“为了成为一场毫无意义的贸易战的一部分，这简直太愚蠢了，”他说。

作者：克莱尔·法希（CLAIRE FAHY）和保罗·莱恩（PAUL LANE）

支持残障父母中心的资金被停止

沿湖地区，人们并不想动用记号笔

特朗普政府取消了一项资金流，在过去的30年里，该资金一直支持着美国唯一一家由政府支持的、专注于残障父母的国家研究中心。

“我有点惊讶，”某博士（Dr.）说道。

该中心的官员表示，国家残障父母研究中心将于周一开始逐步停止运营，届时当前的五年期拨款将到期。

该中心为波士顿及全国各地的研究人员提供资金，分析残障父母面临的医疗服务获取问题和经济困难，并追踪州法律，充当该议题的信息汇总中心。

该中心设在布兰戴斯大学的海勒社会政策与管理学院，是一个多大学协作项目，旨在改善美国450 万残障父母及其家庭的生活。

几十年来，政府一直通过一项竞争性拨款支持该中心，近年来每年提供$500,000，且原计划增加资金。中心主任莫妮卡·米特拉（Monika Mitra）表示，一年前发布了宣布拨款的初步通知，这在通常情况下是惯例。但提交申请所需的更详细信息（通常在2月前出现在拨款申请门户网站中）从未出现。7月，宣布拨款的原始链接消失了。

大卫·海德利（David Hedley），64, 是位于大湖之滨奥尔科特（Olcott）的海德利造船厂（Hedley Boatyard）的第四代所有者。他感叹总统通过重新命名湖泊，转移了人们对他认为的国家面临的真正问题（如生活成本）的注意力。他的曾祖父于1900年创办了家族企业——海德利先生表示，他不会在任何业务往来中使用该湖泊的新名称。

谢里·米德尔斯特特（Sherri Middlestate）周五在安大略湖上的香格里拉（Shangri-La）接听了电话，那里是一家位于三英里湾（Three Mile Bay）的码头、餐厅和露营地。当被问及湖泊更名以及香格里拉是否会更改名称时，她笑了。

米特拉说：“起初我以为这只是个错误。”

“……在此期间的过渡资金。”

“我给研究所的人发了邮件，但没有收到回复，”她说道，这里指的是国家残疾、独立生活与康复研究中心（National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research），该机构是联邦政府主要的残疾研究组织。“我表达了对资助机会不再可用之原因的担忧，并询问明年是否会提供，以及是否有可能

在获得多年联邦援助后，此次变动未给出任何解释。

吉姆·贝克（Jim Baker）是位于纽芬（Newfane）的尼亚加拉城堡酒庄（Chateau Niagara Winery）的共同所有者，他与妻子凯西·贝克（Kathy Baker）经营这家葡萄园已有 20 多年。他表示，他在该地区的根源可以追溯到 19 世纪初，当时他的家人搬到那里种植水果。贝克先生表示，他在引导品酒时的讲解中不会使用“美国湖”（Lake America）这个称呼。

她表示，本月，来自美国卫生与公众服务部下属的社区生活管理局（Administration for Community Living）的官员向她确认，该项资金已被取消。此后，她一直试图寻找替代的资金来源。

在距离安大略湖约 400 英里的椭圆形办公室里，特朗普先生宣布，这座大湖现在将被称为“美国湖”。他签署了一项执行命令以实现这一目标，并将其标榜为一项旨在“让五大湖变得更伟大”的努力。

周四，特朗普总统仅凭手腕的一挥和 Sharpie 记号笔的一抹，就让纽约州北部部分地区陷入了身份危机。

米特拉博士（Dr. Mitra）表示，该中心货币支持的结束意味着五名外部研究人员的资金中断，并可能影响中心内部的就业和研究，尽管部分员工的工资仅由该拨款提供部分资金。

对于 200 多万居住在安大略湖沿岸的纽约人来说，这个湖的名字源自一个易洛魁语词汇，大致翻译为“闪光之水之湖”，而这个新名字似乎是一个毫无价值的干扰。

该部门未对多次关于取消资金流的置评请求做出回应。但在《纽约时报》审阅的一封信函中，国家残疾研究所的一位官员克里斯蒂·W·希尔（Kristi W. Hill）确认，该中心的拨款资金已被取消，并表示这“不应被解读为认定关于残疾父母及其家庭的研究不再重要”。

此外，未来 10 年约 $1 trillion 的联邦医疗补助（Medicaid）支出削减，威胁到了使患有慢性疾病和残疾的美国人能够生活在机构之外并参与社区生活的医疗保健和支持服务。这些削减是特朗普总统去年签署成为法律的一项法案的一部分。

监督。

分享该信函的人要求匿名，担心遭到政府的报复。

“所有这一切都是一个非常清晰的模式，是旨在削弱残疾人权利和残疾人民权保护努力的一部分，”非营利组织美国残疾人协会（American Association of People with Disabilities）的政策副总裁迈克尔·刘易斯（Michael Lewis）说道。

政府还宣布计划将特殊教育项目和教育领域的民权执法职能移出教育部，这引起了倡导者的担忧，他们认为此举将削弱

资金的撤回发生在一系列政府公告之后，这些公告引发了残疾人的担忧。

“我认为这在很大程度上是因为本届政府将残疾人权利视为多样性、公平和包容（D.E.I.）工作的一部分，”他说道，指的是多样性、公平和包容计划。“他们明确表示不喜欢那样。”

在信中，希尔博士表示她理解对终止拨款的担忧。但她写道，研究所必须“定期评估该使命全范围内的投资，并做出艰难的资金决定”。

今年 6 月，司法部（DOJ）法律顾问办公室发布的一份备忘录指出，各州无需提供使残疾人能够留在家中而无需被强行送入机构的服务。

国家中心支持的研究发现，残疾父母面临其父母权利被终止的风险更高。

该中心的研究表明，残障父母比非残障父母更容易面临住房不足的问题，其中黑人父母面临的风险尤为增加。

据该中心称，大约 42 个州以及哥伦比亚特区将父母的残障情况列为终止父母权利的理由。

周五，格雷格·博伊德（Greg Boyd）在尼亚加拉大瀑布附近湖边的四英里溪州立公园（Four Mile Creek State Park）露营。他表示，如果有合理的理由，他不反对更改名称。

研究表明，残障父母与儿童保护服务的互动比非残障父母更多，且智力残障父母被举报至儿童福利系统的比例高于其他父母。

现任该中心研究员的 47 岁尼科尔·洛默森（Nicole Lomerson）表示，她是在 10 年前成为一名新手母亲时首次接触到该中心的工作。洛默森女士患有脑瘫，使用轮椅。

她表示，医院工作人员对她照顾新生女儿的能力表示担忧，她的女儿早产并被送入医院的新生儿重症监护室。

“我最大的恐惧是儿童与家庭部会介入，并且不允许我亲自照顾我那个医疗情况复杂的婴儿，”洛默森女士说。“对于任何新手母亲来说，这都令人恐惧，尤其是对于一个孩子在重症监护室的母亲来说。”

她说，她依靠该中心汇总的数据来主张照顾孩子的权利。但她补充道：“那次经历把我吓坏了。”

她说，如果该中心关闭，她担心处于类似境地的父母将不知向何处寻求支持。

“我担心，”洛默森女士说，“当一名父母给我们发邮件说，‘嘿，我正在经历一场监护权之争，我的丈夫告诉法官，因为我有残疾，所以我无法抚养孩子’时，将没有人能帮助他们。”

他说，任何可能在两国贸易中创造更多公平的措施都应该被考虑。

“如果这就是谈判所需的条件，那就去做吧。改名好了，”他说。“也许这会让人们极其愤怒。但目前的系统不能这样继续下去。”

在纽约州北部，选民往往比纽约市的选民更保守。在 2024 年的大选中，特朗普先生在与该湖接壤的 10 个县中，有 9 个县获得了多数选票。

来自五大湖地区的民主党领导人也加入了这场辩论。密歇根州州长格雷琴·惠特默（Gretchen Whitmer）在社交媒体上分享了一段教给小学生的儿歌视频，该歌曲使用缩写“HOMES”来帮助学生记忆这些湖泊的名字——休伦湖（Huron）、安大略湖（Ontario）、密歇根湖（Michigan）、伊利湖（Erie）和苏必利尔湖（Superior）。纽约州州长凯西·霍楚尔（Kathy Hochul）则简单地发推特称：“纽约不会那样称呼它。”

负责推广五大湖外展与教育工作的密歇根海 अनुदान（Michigan Sea Grant）主任西尔维亚·纽厄尔（Silvia Newell）表示，除非收到美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）的新指南，否则该组织不会改变对安大略湖的称呼。她补充说，将湖泊政治化威胁到了她认为的最后几个拥有跨党派支持的问题之一。

“这是一个非常伟大的社区，科学家、支持者以及每个人都团结在一起，共同保护五大湖，无论当下的政治局势如何，”她说。“它是现代的伟大统一者。”

罗伯特·巴巴（Robert Barba）参与了报道。

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愿意为在线关注度付费的人，似乎也愿意在金钱投入上采取实际行动。

随着越来越多的人花时间刷手机，竞选团队将网红的这些支持表现视为接触选民的关键途径。而且，这种方式比传统广告要便宜得多。

但与竞选宣传邮件、广告牌和电视广告不同，这些信息处于法律灰色地带。

联邦层面没有要求披露社交媒体政治支持款项的法规，且只有少数几个州拥有此类规定。这使得网红在大多数情况下可以收取费用来为候选人背书，而无需在帖子中披露这些款项。创作者们表示，一些竞选团队甚至要求他们积极隐瞒获得报酬的事实，这使得人们无法分辨哪些是真实的支持，而哪些是付费推广。

在大多数情况下，观众了解一名网红是否获得报酬的唯一方法，就是像《纽约时报》那样去搜索候选人的竞选财务报告以发现这些款项。即便如此，此类报酬通常通过中间人转账来掩盖。

“这完全失控了，”苏珊·兰伯特（Suzanne Lambert）说道，她是一位进步派网红兼喜剧演员，在 TikTok 和 Instagram 上拥有超过 130 万 名粉丝。她表示，虽然她很乐意推广自己喜欢的候选人，但她“从未收取过 1 分钱”来换取背书，并担心这种做法会扭曲民主进程。“人们不再知道什么是真实的了，”她说。

格林先生为网红通过工作获得报酬这一观点进行了辩护，并指出他仅接受那些他无论如何都会支持的候选人和竞选团队的资金。“我每天都会拒绝很多邀请，因为如果我不认同，我就不会从任何地方拿钱，”他说。（在斯泰尔竞选活动的情况下，格林先生表示他最初持批评态度，但后来认为他是最可行的人选。）

尽管如此，他建议需要有简单明了且一致的披露规则。“如果说有什么需要的话，我们确实需要更清晰的透明度法律，这样像我这样的创作者才不会感到困惑，”他说。

协同网络

这一现象具有跨党派特征。

今年6月，来自阿拉巴马州的众议员巴里·摩尔（Barry Moore）向美国联邦选举委员会（FEC）提交了一项投诉，指称在共和党初选期间，至少有八个社交媒体账号接受付费攻击他的军旅记录。4月，肯塔基州的一家报纸揭露了一个看似协同的网红网络，旨在推高内特·莫里斯（Nate Morris）的知名度——他当时正在参加共和党参议院初选——尽管其中没有人承认其行为是付费的。几年前，德克萨斯州总检察长、共和党参议院候选人肯·帕克斯顿（Ken Paxton）在州内面临弹劾时，曾从X平台上的付费宣传活动中获益。

但由于少数几位民主党候选人为争取知名网红的支持而采取的激进手段，付费影响力的问题在近几个月引起了特别关注。

竞选资金申报文件显示，在今年春季竞争激烈的加利福尼亚州初选中，斯泰尔（Steyer）先生的竞选团队向17名网红每人支付了至少$5,000，其中包括一名在TikTok上拥有超过1400 万粉丝的网红卡洛斯·爱德华多·埃斯皮纳（Carlos Eduardo Espina），他共计收到了$400,000。

同样竞选加州州长但未获成功的前众议员凯蒂·波特（Katie Porter）向12名网红共支付了$139,500。其中一名名为艾弗里·赛勒斯（Avery Cyrus）的生活方式创作者在TikTok上拥有950 万粉丝，她因发布了一条声称“凯蒂·波特的方法有效”的帖子（看似仅为单篇帖子）而获得了$25,000。

在《纽约时报》对此进行询问后，赛勒斯女士的帖子被删除了。她没有回应通过其代表的社交媒体机构UnderCurrent Media提出的置评请求，但该公司的首席执行官埃里克·博加德（Eric Bogard）在电子邮件中表示，公司“未被要求监督披露合规情况，也没有收到任何关于必要披露的指示”。

根据加利福尼亚州法律，社交媒体上的付费政治帖子必须予以披露。《纽约时报》的审查发现，在TikTok上由波特竞选团队付费的网红发布的三篇支持波特的帖子中，没有任何披露信息。在另外七个案例中，只有在点击进入TikTok一个被标记为“可能具有攻击性或令人不安”的隐藏评论区后，才能找到披露信息。

一名获得$22,000报酬的佛罗里达州网红桑德·詹宁斯（Sander Jennings）表示，“波特竞选团队和我同意在TikTok的评论区披露付款情况”，以规避该平台删除付费政治帖子的惯例。他说，他不知道为什么披露信息最终出现在评论区的隐藏部分。

TikTok的服务条款禁止所有付费政治广告，包括“创作者因制作品牌政治内容而获得报酬”。波特女士在电子邮件中表示，“没有任何内容是在未经审查、协调以及不符合所有法律的情况下付费并发布的”。

其他政治行动则采用了不同的策略，通过承包私人公司来支付那些鲜为人知的内容创作者——

为了在社交媒体上接触选民，竞选团队正悄悄向网红支付支持费用

一名密歇根州众议员 从左至右，来自其政治视频静止画面的达什·多布罗夫斯基（Dash Dobrofsky）、乔什·格林（Josh Greene）和佩奇·邓迈尔（Paige Dunmeyer）。

网红如何利用其平台传递政治信息

2月，格林先生表示，加利福尼亚州州长候选人汤姆·斯泰尔（Tom Steyer）“并非你想象中的进步主义冠军”，因为他投资了拘留设施。

5月，在收到斯泰尔先生竞选团队支付的 $21,500 前后，格林先生公开支持斯泰尔先生。他称斯泰尔先生是“此次竞选中具有可行性的进步主义候选人”，并补充说这只是“我的个人观点”。

8月，在 8 月 4, 密歇根州初选当天，邓迈尔女士在 TikTok 上表示，民主党参议员候选人海莉·史蒂文斯（Haley Stevens）将帮助“密歇根州这里”的人们。她的个人资料显示她是一名 25 岁的“密歇根州土生土长”的人。但《纽约时报》确认其身份为一名常驻密苏里州堪萨斯城的自由内容创作者。

8月，次日，她在另一个账号上发布内容，将自己描述为一名居住在威斯康星州的 25 岁人士。她表示自己的电费翻了一番。该视频由 Project Bullhorn 支付费用，这是一个倾向于民主党的政治团体，旨在网络上将“生活负担能力”推向关注焦点。

6月，多布罗夫斯基先生支持加利福尼亚州州长竞选候选人凯蒂·波特（Katie Porter）。他称她为“真正的进步主义者”，并强调了她消除政治资金影响的目标。波特的竞选团队向他支付了 $15,500。

6月，他还推广了史蒂文斯女士，即密歇根州参议院席位的民主党初选候选人。他并未披露该帖是否获得了报酬。

ators 支付较小金额，以发布大量帖子。这些被称为“用户生成内容平台”（U.G.C.s）的公司运作原则是：用数百条近乎相同的帖子对互联网进行“地毯式轰炸”，比支付同等金额给一名大网红发布单条帖子更容易产生病毒式传播内容。

今年春天，一名女性发布了数十段视频，在加利福尼亚州初选中推广斯泰尔先生。几周后，她出现在另一个账号的视频中，抱怨“密歇根州这里”的生活成本，并鼓励人们投票给众议员海莉·史蒂文斯——她是埃尔-赛义德博士在参议院竞选中的初选对手。随后，她又转向第三个账号，讨论威斯康星州的生活负担能力。

公司记录显示，这名女性佩吉·邓迈尔（Paige Dunmeyer）实际上居住在密苏里州堪萨斯城，并注册在一家名为 SideShift 的 U.G.C. 公司工作。目前尚不清楚她在密歇根州和威斯康星州视频中获得了多少报酬，但根据《纽约时报》审阅的公司记录，她在 SideShift 上参与各种政治和商业活动共赚取了超过 $30,000。斯泰尔先生竞选团队的申报文件显示，她在该场竞选中的努力获得了 $1,320 的报酬。邓迈尔女士未回应置评请求。

《纽约时报》的一项分析发现，至少有 87 人注册在 工作并发布了支持斯泰尔先生或史蒂文斯女士的帖子，或者参与了第三场活动，在 TikTok 上发布支持德克萨斯州民主党参议员提名人詹姆斯·塔拉里科（James Talarico）众议员的视频片段。这些创作者发布的大多数帖子都没有承认存在金钱交易。

在一份声明中表示，公司建议创作者遵守适用的披露要求，并呼吁制定更明确的法律来监管社交媒体上付费内容的披露方式。

“ 认为任何人都可以成为创作者，且创作者在选择从事的工作中应当获得公平的报酬，”该公司表示。

今年6月，密歇根州的一名 TikTok 博主肯德尔·博伊尔（Kendall Boyle）收到了名为 Activate HQ 的社交媒体营销机构的联系。她拥有超过 21,000 名粉丝，对方为她提供了一个付费机会，要求她发布关于“生活成本上涨如何影响密歇根州居民现实生活”的视频。

《纽约时报》审阅的电子邮件往来记录显示，当她询问谁出资时，对方告知是 Majority Forward。这是一个与民主党超级政治行动委员会 Senate Majority PAC 相关的黑金组织。博伊尔女士表示，Activate HQ 在邮件中的警告让她感到反感，对方称“无需披露，且任何帖子中都不会包含付费合作伙伴标签”，并且 Majority Forward “不会在”她的内容中被提及。

“这就是那种感觉不对劲的事情，”博伊尔女士说。

Majority Forward 在一份声明中表示，邮件中的措辞“解释了联邦选举委员会（F.E.C.）规则下必要的披露要求，且这些要求已得到完全遵守”。

监管匮乏

仅有四个州拥有要求影响力人物（influencers）披露付费政治信息的法律或法规，但这些规定仅适用于州级和地方选举，而不适用于联邦选举。尽管针对社交媒体的监管方案多次被提交给美国联邦选举委员会（F.E.C.），但该委员会从未采取行动。而要求披露社交媒体上付费商业内容的联邦贸易委员会，则将政治信息列为例外。

加利福尼亚州民主党众议员马克·塔卡诺（Mark Takano）在6月提出了一项法案，要求任何由候选人或政治委员会支付报酬的人员必须清晰地披露这一事实，其方式与传统竞选材料被要求标注此类款项的方式相同。

在一次采访中，塔卡诺先生表示，在网络侦探揭露许多影响力人物在加利福尼亚州州长竞选中进行付费背书且未按该州要求进行适当披露后，他深受启发，起草了这项立法。

他说：“当一名影响力人物被允许对其从候选人那里收取的资金保持沉默或不透明，使其所说的话看起来像是真实的而非受金钱影响时，这是不公平的。”

塔卡诺先生承认该法案存在一些潜在的漏洞。例如：竞选团队经常通过将款项隐藏在多层供应商和分包商之下，来掩盖向影响力人物支付的费用。

例如，波特女士聘请了 Activate HQ 提供“影响力营销服务”，而后者又向 13 位不同的创作者支付费用，以增强她的州长竞选活动。其中一位是洛杉矶的政治影响力人物达什·多布罗夫斯基（Dash Dobrofsky），他也曾在密歇根州发布支持史蒂文斯女士的内容，他从波特女士的竞选团队那里收到了 $15,500。多布罗夫斯基先生未回应置评请求。

就斯特耶（Steyer）先生的竞选团队而言，他们聘请了多家数字战略公司来管理社交媒体，其中包括一家名为 Group Project 的公司，该公司又聘请了一家名为 Gutsy Media 的洛杉矶公司，后者通过代表他的 UnderCurrent 向格林（Greene）先生支付费用。

这些支付链条之所以可见，是因为加利福尼亚州是少数几个要求竞选团队报告分包商付款的州之一。对于联邦职位的竞选活动则没有此类义务。斯特耶竞选团队在的一份声明中表示：“此次竞选花费的每一美元都已公开披露，任何人都可以查阅。”

“社交媒体咨询”

偶尔，竞选团队或独立支出团体会披露向影响力人物（influencers）支付的直接款项，例如超级政治行动委员会（super PAC）“自由宾夕法尼亚”（Freedom PA），该组织支持社会主义候选人克里斯·拉布（Chris Rabb）在5月份成功赢得宾夕法尼亚州众议院初选。该组织披露向近 50 名影响力人物支付了用于“社交媒体咨询”的费用，其中就包括格林先生，他收到了 $750，并发布了一段庆祝该候选人获胜的视频。

在联邦申报文件中，其他列出向格林先生支付款项的委员会使用了不那么透明的描述。今年在皇后区竞选国会议员但未获胜的查克·帕克（Chuck Park）将向格林先生支付的 $300 列为“员工工资”。格林先生发布了至少五段推广帕克先生的视频，其中没有一段提到他收到了报酬。

帕克先生在一次采访中表示，格林先生实际上并未受雇于竞选团队，但他表示“我们的竞选绝对倾向于新媒体”，并且他曾在皇后区与格林先生一起拍摄了一系列视频。

格林先生在三篇关于斯泰尔先生的帖子中披露了获得报酬的情况，并告诉《纽约时报》，这些视频是他唯一被斯泰尔竞选团队专门签约制作的。他表示，此前关于该候选人的帖子没有收到报酬。

格林先生还支持马萨诸塞州民主党参议员埃德·马基（Ed Markey），在与众议员塞斯·莫尔顿（Seth Moulton）竞争激烈的初选中为其助阵。上个月，他发布了一段视频，指责莫尔顿先生“在伪装成一个他们根本不是的人”。本月他发布了第二段批评莫尔顿的视频，这次是因为对方接受企业的政治捐款。

这两段视频都没有包含披露信息，且联邦选举委员会（F.E.C.）的申报文件中没有显示任何与马基先生连任竞选相关的向格林先生支付的款项。但支持马基先生的超级政治行动委员会“共同体在一起”（Commonwealth Together）的一位发言人表示，该组织通过格林先生的代理公司 UnderCurrent 向其支付了 $3,500，用于“数字通信咨询”。

格林先生在一条短信中承认收到了支持马基先生的款项，称他接受这笔钱是“因为我相信他是这场竞选中迄今为止最进步的候选人”。

这种模糊性让政治界的一些人士感到不安。上个月，对政治感兴趣的影响力人物组织中心“创作者大会”（Creator Congress）的创始人林·里德（Rynn Reed）为该团体引入了一套行为准则，要求创作者无论法律是否要求，都必须明确告知其是否获得了报酬。

“如果没有标准，”里德女士说，“将会出现一场‘竞相堕落’的恶性竞争。”

款项披露并不总是显眼

大多数 TikTok 用户看到的格林先生的视频就像上面的画面一样，底部有一个小标题，可以通过点击“更多”来展开。一旦展开，如下面的画面所示，会有一个小的披露说明，指出格林先生因该帖子获得了报酬。

州长反对“激进”的选举监察员

作者：蒂姆·巴尔克 (TIM BALK)

当地官员表示，两名来自司法部的选举监察员在本月怀俄明州的初选期间，试图在投票站采访选民并检查投票机，这引起了该州共和党州长的抵制。

拉拉米县书记员德博拉·李 (Debra Lee) 表示，联邦选举监察员于 8 月 18 日上午 7 点左右在未通知的情况下抵达怀俄明州首府及其最大城市夏延的一个投票点。官员们表示，他们要求采访选民并检查机器，但被拒绝了。

“这种行为很激进，出乎意料，且具有干扰性——显然没有表现出对该州的尊重，”怀俄明州州长马克·戈登 (Mark Gordon) 在周四的一次采访中表示。“我们将尽最大努力查明真相。”

司法部经常在选举期间对投票点进行监察。但此次对怀俄明州的访问发生在特朗普总统执着于寻找欺诈和篡改选票证据的背景下。特朗普及其盟友曾提出荒诞的指控，称投票机在 2020 年将原本投给他的票转移给了约瑟夫·R·拜登 (Joseph R. Biden Jr.)，而他一直试图寻找大规模欺诈或篡改选票的证据但未能成功。

特朗普在第二任期内经常重提此类阴谋论，认为欺诈可能会影响今年的中期选举。作为总统，他动用了联邦政府的资源，特别是司法部的资源，来调查他那些未经证实的指控，这在全国范围内对选举播下了更多怀疑的种子，并引起了州政府官员的警觉，担心如果共和党在 11 月失去国会多数席位，他是否会试图干预。

戈登州长是一位任期受限的共和党人，领导着美国最保守的州之一。他在周三与州选举官员的会议上表示，监察员的行为令他感到担忧。

“我对联邦政府进来没收我们的枪支感到非常强烈——我不喜欢那样，”戈登先生在会议上说。“同样，我也不喜欢联邦

纽约时报 蒋海云 (HAIYUN JIANG) 摄 怀俄明州州长马克·戈登称联邦监察员的行为“非常古怪”。

政府进来拿走我们的选票。”

戈登先生在采访中表示，这些监察员最终访问了六个投票点，且仅在被要求时才出示证件，他将他们的行为描述为“非常古怪”。他表示，他已要求州总检察长基思·考茨 (Keith Kautz) 展开调查。

戈登先生说，这些观察员引用了与《美国残疾人法案》和《民权法案》相关的法规。

今年，司法部的观察员访问了其他州的投票点，包括明尼阿波利斯地区等政治紧张地区。该机构周二表示，在初选期间向 7 个州派遣了 80 名监察员。

但在怀俄明州要求采访选民并获取机器访问权限的做法极不寻常。而且，这正值司法部与大约 30 个州陷入法律纠纷之际，司法部要求获取这些州未经脱敏的私人选民名册，以搜寻非公民投票的证据。

7 月，司法部向所有州以及华盛顿发送了信函，警告称，如果高级选举官员允许非公民投票，将面临刑事起诉。

李女士表示，在怀俄明州的监察员称，他们被派遣是为了评估选举是否符合联邦民权法和投票权法。但她在声明中表示，他们的问题似乎“超出了联邦投票权法的范围”。

“其中包括关于投票工作人员培训的性质、时长和时机的问题，”李女士说。“监察员索要培训指南，询问我们如何购置新的选举设备，并希望检查我们的计票机。”

李女士表示，他们的行为表现出“对我们州法律和选举管理的高度漠视”。

特朗普先生在司法部和其他联邦机构中安插了许多同情他关于2020年选举毫无根据之主张的官员。在佐治亚州（特朗普先生试图扭转2020年选举结果的重点关注地），联邦调查局（F.B.I.）今年夏天派遣了一支团队，审查从亚特兰大所在的富尔顿县没收的2020年记录。

怀俄明州美国检察官达林·D·史密斯（Darin D. Smith）的办公室没有立即回应关于选举监察员出现的问题。但在司法部华盛顿办公室提供的一份声明中，史密斯先生表示，选民理应拥有“绝对的信心，相信他们的选票是安全的，且他们的声音在没有干扰的情况下被听到”。

在周三的会议上，戈登先生告诉怀俄明州州务卿查克·格雷（Chuck Gray），他不认为怀俄明州的美国检察官办公室知道司法部的观察员将会到访。

但曾声称2020年总统选举“不合法”的格雷先生告诉州长，他认为史密斯先生已经收到了关于观察员的通知。

格雷先生表示，“怀俄明州的选举法确实规定了观察制度”。

司法部发言人基尔斯滕·佩尔斯（Kiersten Pels）表示，史密斯先生已收到通知。

县书记员李女士在声明中表示，一名司法部官员告诉她，向怀俄明州部署监察员的决定是在短时间内做出的。司法部在该州初选当天发表声明称，正向怀俄明州和佛罗里达州部署观察员，以确保“透明度、选票安全以及对联邦法律的遵守”。

尽管司法部的许多监察工作并未引发波澜，但其在6月发送给包括底特律在内的密歇根州韦恩县选举官员的一封信却成为了冲突点。

信中描述了一些投票站的机器无法运行，且至少有一个站点缺乏临时选票。这引起了底特律市书记员珍妮丝·温弗里（Janice Winfrey）的严厉回应。

温弗里女士在7月发给司法部官员的一封信中表示：“重要的是根据事实而非导致毫无根据之结论的谎言来探讨选举表现。”她补充说，该部门的断言构成了一个“毫无根据的结论，随后成为了对底特律选举进行额外监察的借口”。

PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANNA WATTS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES 在亚利桑那州吉拉本德（Gila Bend）这个靠近凤凰城的拥有1,800人的小镇，其600名登记选民中只有不到200人参加了7月的选举。

小镇选举平票，抽签决定胜负

帕特里夏·里格斯（Patricia Riggs，右），吉拉本德镇的镇书记，监督了雅典娜·格雷罗（Athena Guerrero）与赫苏斯·鲁巴尔卡瓦（Jesus Rubalcava）之间的高牌抽签。

并从一个编织篮中抽出。

但吉拉本德这次的平票情况可能是首例涉及一名多年前处于完全相同境地的候选人的案例。赫苏斯·鲁巴尔卡瓦在2014年与一名对手不分胜负，最终通过抛一枚1美元硬币赢得了他的首个议会任期。

在本月早些时候，经过法院认证的重新计票确认他与新人雅典娜·格雷罗陷入僵局后，里格斯女士告知鲁巴尔卡瓦先生，他的选举命运将再次取决于运气。

这让他变得幸运还是不幸？身为高中教师和前州议员的鲁巴尔卡瓦先生并不确定。

“我简直不敢相信，”他说，“我无法理解这件事。”

决定这场“决胜局”采取何种形式由里格斯女士和其他镇官员决定。亚利桑那州法律仅规定平票应“通过抽签”解决。他们排除了石头剪刀布，也排除了抽弹珠或抽签。

“我们觉得那样有点无聊，”里格斯女士说。

他们决定，抽高牌会更令人兴奋，而且公众很容易理解和跟进。

格雷罗女士起初很谨慎。“我不是那种好赌的人，”她说。

但她懂得在心中祈祷抽到一张A。格雷罗女士在一家水处理厂工作，长期以来一直关注政治，她将镇议会视为一个跳板。她说，最终她希望能够担任市长。

吉拉本德曾是19世纪著名的驿马车线路上的重要站点，现在是一座制造业和农业城镇，这里的当地政治不可避免地带有个人色彩。在分别接受采访时，格雷罗女士和鲁巴尔卡瓦先生都表示，他们对对方“只有爱”。

两人都没有进行激进的竞选，而这场扣人心弦的对决提醒人们，每一票都至关重要。

鲁巴尔卡瓦先生说，他的母亲、兄弟和侄女都没有投票。

他们并非个例。在全镇约600名登记选民中，只有不到200人参加了7月的选举。

里格斯女士花了三周时间精心策划周二的对决，咨询了律师和选举专家。她制定了一份包含19个步骤的清单，详细记录了抽签的具体流程，并写了一份在主持抽签时阅读的剧本。

周二上午，她从嫂子那里借了一个机械洗牌机，并在镇上的Dollar General商店买了两副牌，一副用于练习。那天晚上，两名候选人走到学校建筑内的一张桌子旁，在少数居民和现任议员面前紧张地相视而笑。

里格斯女士宣布了规则，拆开并摊开一副新牌，让格雷罗女士和鲁巴尔卡瓦先生检查。她洗牌后将牌堆交给格雷罗女士，由她切牌。随后鲁巴尔卡瓦先生再次切牌。

候选人们被提醒，如果抽到相同的数字——虽然这种情况极少发生——黑桃将胜过其他花色。

里格斯女士先抽出了格雷罗女士的牌，是一张梅花3。这位候选人叹了口气。

接着，里格斯女士翻开了鲁巴尔卡瓦先生的牌。

又是3，再次平局。观众发出了惊呼。鲁巴尔卡瓦先生不敢相信。“这真的发生了吗？”他心想。

但他的3是黑桃，这让鲁巴尔卡瓦先生第二次通过运气获胜。候选人们大笑并握手。

“谁能想到呢？”震惊的里格斯女士对在场的人说。

格雷罗女士周三表示，她计划再次竞选，并承诺将在“几年后强势回归”。

里格斯女士说她很高兴听到这个消息，随后补充道：“但愿不要再平票了。”

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<><>美国< / ><>昨日< / ><>今日< / ><>明日< / >< / ><><>奥尔巴尼< / ><>78 / 57 0< / ><>78 / 64 < / ><>82 / 65 7< / >< / ><><>阿尔伯克基< / ><>95 / 68 0.04< / ><>92 / 67℃< / ><>91 / 66 5< / >< / ><><>亚特兰大< / ><>64 / 53 0< / ><>64 / 53 0< / ><>64 / 52 5h< / >< / ><><>亚特兰大< / ><>87 / 72 0.04< / ><>90 / 74 7< / ><>91 / 73 7< / >< / ><><>大西洋城< / ><>78 / 67 1< / ><>82 / 74 < / ><>80 / 73 5h< / >< / ><><>波士顿< / ><>100 / 72 0< / ><>98 / 75 3< / ><>97 / 75 7< / >< / ><><>巴尔的摩< / ><>83 / 67 0< / ><>88 / 71 < / ><>90 / 72 5< / >< / ><><>巴吞鲁日< / ><>96 / 73 0.04< / ><>92 / 76 7< / ><>88 / 76 7< / >< / ><><>伯明翰< / ><>93 / 72 0.04< / ><>91 / 74 5< / ><>93 / 73 5PC< / >< / ><><>伯灵顿< / ><>84 / 67 0< / ><>75 / 63 3< / ><>69 / 64 5< / >< / ><><>波士顿< / ><>76 / 65 0< / ><>86 / 67 < / ><>76 / 65 < / >< / ><><>布法罗< / ><>78 / 64 0.03< / ><>73 / 66 5h< / ><>78 / 71 1< / >< / ><><>格伦德罗普斯堡< / ><>78 / 61 0.03< / ><>75 / 61 9< / ><>78 / 61 5h< / >< / ><><>卡斯珀< / ><>83 / 60 0.15< / ><>82 / 51 W< / ><>84 / 58 1< / >< / ><><>夏洛特< / ><>86 / 71 0.09< / ><>88 / 71 7< / ><>92 / 71 < / >< / ><><>芝加哥< / ><>72 / 65 0.03< / ><>72 / 65 3< / ><>72 / 65 5h< / >< / ><><>芝加哥< / ><>80 / 71 0.01< / ><>87 / 72 < / ><>90 / 73 5h< / >< / ><><>辛辛那提< / ><>86 / 67 0< / ><>90 / 70 5< / ><>93 / 71 5< / >< / ><><>克利夫兰< / ><>82 / 66 0< / ><>83 / 69 < / ><>86 / 72 < / >< / ><><>达拉斯斯普林斯< / ><>87 / 65 0.04< / ><>86 / 68 < / ><>87 / 68 5h< / >< / ><><>哥伦布< / ><>84 / 65 0< / ><>87 / 69 < / ><>89 / 73 5< / >< / ><><>康科德（新罕布什尔州）< / ><>79 / 51 0< / ><>85 / 58 < / ><>82 / 57 < / >< / ><><>底特律-沃伦-迪尔本< / ><>101 / 63 0.04< / ><>103 / 63 1< / ><>103 / 63 5h< / >< / ><><>丹佛< / ><>91 / 64 0.04< / ><>86 / 63 7< / ><>82 / 59 1< / >< / ><><>德梅因< / ><>88 / 74 0.25< / ><>91 / 73 7< / ><>91 / 73 7< / >< / ><><>底特律< / ><>83 / 62 0.02< / ><>82 / 68 5h< / ><>88 / 72 2< / >< / ><><>埃尔帕索< / ><>100 / 75 0< / ><>101 / 76 5< / ><>102 / 76 5< / >< / ><><>法戈< / ><>81 / 67 0.10< / ><>83 / 64 7< / ><>88 / 58 5< / >< / ><><>哈特福德< / ><>79 / 56 0< / ><>83 / 63℃< / ><>81 / 65 5h< / >< / ><><>檀香山< / ><>88 / 70 0.05< / ><>91 / 76 5h< / ><>91 / 76 5h< / >< / ><><>休斯顿< / ><>99 / 77 0.04< / ><>98 / 75 7< / ><>95 / 78 7< / >< / ><><>印第安纳波利斯< / ><>85 / 65 0< / ><>89 / 69 5< / ><>92 / 72 < / >< / ><><>伦敦< / ><>96 / 74 0.04< / ><>94 / 74 5< / ><>94 / 74

5h< / td>< / tr> 杰克逊维尔< / ><>87 / 73 0.36< / ><>87 / 74 7< / ><>89 / 73 1< / >< / ><><>堪萨斯城< / ><>95 / 74 0< / ><>98 / 76 PC< / ><>98 / 76 7< / >< / ><><>卡什湖< / ><>89 / 70 0.44< / ><>90 / 84 7< / ><>98 / 84 5h< / >< / ><><>拉斯维加斯< / ><>106 / 84 0< / ><>103 / 81 5< / ><>98 / 78 5h< / >< / ><><>列克星敦< / ><>89 / 65 0< / ><>92 / 71 5< / ><>92 / 71 5< / >< / table>

<><>小岩城< / ><>95 / 66 0< / >< / ><><>洛杉矶< / ><>94 / 72 0< / >< / ><><>路易维尔< / ><>90 / 69 0< / >< / ><><>费城< / ><>91 / 73 0< / >< / ><><>迈阿密< / ><>89 / 81 0.64< / >< / ><><>密尔沃基< / ><>80 / 69 0.04< / >< / ><><>明尼阿波利斯-圣保罗< / ><>80 / 68 0.07< / >< / ><><>纽约< / ><>94 / 75 0< / >< / ><><>新奥尔良< / ><>95 / 78 0.05< / >< / ><><>诺福克< / ><>83 / 75 0.05< / >< / ><><>俄克拉荷马城< / ><>102 / 73 0< / >< / ><><>奥兰多< / ><>94 / 76 0< / >< / ><><>芝加哥< / ><>93 / 76 0.05< / >< / ><><>费城< / ><>83 / 65 0< / >< / ><><>匹兹堡< / ><>112 / 67 0.04< / >< / ><><>匹兹堡< / ><>82 / 61 0< / >< / ><><>波特兰（缅因州）< / ><>77 / 57 0< / >< / ><><>波特兰（俄勒冈州）< / ><>74 / 55 0.03< / >< / ><><>里士满< / ><>80 / 59

0.02< / >< / ><><>罗利< / ><>83 / 71 0.47< / >< / ><><>雷诺< / ><>86 / 54 0< / >< / ><><>罗奇蒙德< / ><>80 / 62 0.04< / >< / ><><>罗切斯特< / ><>80 / 62 0.02< / >< / ><><>萨克拉门托< / ><>87 / 55 0< / >< / ><><>盐湖城< / ><>81 / 66 0.60< / >< / ><><>圣安东尼奥< / ><>99 / 77 0< / >< / ><><>圣迭戈< / ><>86 / 72 0< / >< / ><><>旧金山< / ><>67 / 57 0< / >< / ><><>圣何塞< / ><>78 / 57 0< / >< / ><><>圣胡安< / ><>93 / 82 0< / >< / ><><>西雅图< / ><>68 / 53 0.24< / >< / ><><>苏福尔斯< / ><>89 / 70 0.10< / >< / ><><>圣奥古斯丁< / ><>79 / 74 0< / >< / ><><>圣路易斯< / ><>90 / 69 0< / >< / ><><>圣托马斯< / ><>93 / 82 0< / >< / ><><>图森< / ><>86 / 68 0.04< / >< / ><><>坦帕< / ><>92 / 77 0.47< / >< / ><><>托莱多< / ><>82 / 65 0< / >< / ><><>图森< / ><>103 / 80

0.12< / >< / ><><>多伦多< / ><>102 / 76 0< / >< / ><><>弗吉尼亚海滩< / ><>82 / 75 0.04< / >< / ><><>华盛顿< / ><>86 / 70 0< / >< / ><><>威尔明顿< / ><>102 / 65 0< / >< / ><><>威尔明顿（特拉华州）< / ><>82 / 63 0< / >< / table>

<><>非洲< / ><>昨日< / >< / ><><>阿尔及尔< / ><>90 / 76 0< / >< / ><><>开罗< / ><>98 / 78 0< / >< / ><><>开普敦< / ><>59 / 54 0.07< / >< / ><><>达喀尔< / ><>87 / 75 0< / >< / ><><>约翰内斯堡< / ><>68 / 46 0< / >< / ><><>内罗比< / ><>80 / 52 0< / >< / ><><>突尼斯< / ><>105 / 80 0< / >< / ><><>亚洲 / 太平洋< / ><>昨日< / >< / ><><>巴格达< / ><>114 / 92 0< / >< / ><><>曼谷< / ><>90 / 77 0.22< / >< / ><><>北京< / ><>89 / 64 0< / >< / ><><>大马士革< / ><>93 / 70 0< / >< / ><><>香港< / ><>92 / 82 0.33< / >< / ><><>雅加达< / ><>93 / 77 0< / >< / ><><>耶路撒冷< / ><>86 / 70 0< / >< / ><><>卡拉奇< / ><>86 / 81 0< / >< / ><><>马尼拉< / ><>81 / 73 1.15< / >< / ><><>孟买< / ><>88 / 82 < / >< / table>

全国预报

雷阵雨将从落基山脉发展至五大湖地区，尤其是在下午时分。在从亚利桑那州到科罗拉多州的落基山脉部分地区，以及北达科他州，雷阵雨可能会带来洪水、冰雹和破坏性强风。

雷阵雨将在东南部地区发展，部分时段降雨可能较为猛烈。东北部大部分地区将保持干燥，但从马里兰州到马萨诸塞州西部可能会有雷阵雨。

从德克萨斯州到宾夕法尼亚州西部，白天大部分时间也将保持干燥，该地区西部部分地区天气尤为炎热。落基山脉以西同样大部分干燥，但并不特别炎热，且阳光充足。

大都市预报

今日 ......下午有零星阵雨 最高气温 82。预计晴间多云，傍晚有雷阵雨。气温接近该时段的平均水平。

最低气温 70。天气转为多云且潮湿。可能会有阵雨。西南风轻微，风速为 4 到 8 英里 / 小时。气温接近平均水平。

明日

最高气温 83。维持多云潮湿，下午有阵雨。西南风，风速 4 到 8 英里 / 小时。气温接近平均水平。

周二

天气潮湿且多云。下午有雷阵雨。南风，风速 6 到 12 英里 / 小时。最高气温 82。

周三

周三 ......周三有风暴 周三晴间多云，伴有雷阵雨。天气潮湿，最高气温 84。周四将再次出现局部晴朗且潮湿的天气。 最高气温 84，接近平均水平。

大都市历书

中央公园，截至昨日下午 4 点的 16 小时内。

水库水位（纽约市供水）

昨日< / td><>89%< / >< / tr><><>预计正常值< / ><>85%< / >< / table>

休闲预报

太阳、月亮与行星

<><><>下弦月< / ><>新月< / ><>上弦月< / ><>满月< / >< / ><><>9月4日< / ><>9月10日< / ><>9月18日< / ><>9月26日< / >< / >

<><>< rowspan="3">太阳< / ><>升起< / ><>6:21 a.m.< / >< rowspan="3">月亮< / ><>升起< / ><>8:54 a.m.< / >< / ><><>落下< / ><>7:32 p.m.< / ><>落下< / ><>8:31 p.m.< / >< / ><><>下次升起< / ><>6:22 a.m.< / ><>升起< / ><>10:03 a.m.< / >< / ><>< rowspan="2">木星< / ><>升起< / ><>4:19 a.m.< / >< rowspan="2">火星< / ><>升起< / ><>1:44 a.m.< / >< / ><><>落下< / ><>6:31 p.m.< / ><>落下< / ><>4:47 p.m.< / >< / ><>< rowspan="2">土星< / ><>落下< / ><>9:30 a.m.< / >< rowspan="2">金星< / ><>升起< / ><>10:15 a.m.< / >< / ><><>升起< / ><>9:03 p.m.< / ><>落下< / ><>8:59 p.m.< / >< / >

航海

从蒙托克角（Montauk Point）到新泽西州桑迪胡克（Sandy Hook），延伸至 20 海里，包括长岛海峡和纽约港。

风向西南，风速 6-9 节。长岛海峡波高 1-2 英尺或更低，纽约港及开阔海域波高 2-3 英尺。晚些时候雷阵雨可能会限制能见度。

高潮位< / td>< / tr><><>大西洋城< / ><>9:27 a.m.< / ><>9:43 p.m.< / >< / ><><>巴内格尔入口< / ><>9:39 a.m.< / ><>9:57 p.m.< / >< / ><><>The Battery< / ><>10:05 a.m.< / ><>10:20 p.m.< / >< / ><><>海滩海文< / ><>11:03 a.m.< / ><>11:19 p.m.< / >< / ><><>布里奇波特< / ><>1:02 a.m.< / ><>1:21 p.m.< / >< / ><><>城市岛< / ><>12:49 a.m.< / ><>1:07 p.m.< / >< / ><><>火岛灯塔< / ><>10:31 a.m.< / ><>10:47 p.m.< / >< / ><><>蒙托克角< / ><>11:12 a.m.< / ><>11:21 p.m.< / >< / ><><>北港< / ><>1:07 a.m.< / ><>1:26 p.m.< / >< / ><><>波特华盛顿< / ><>12:59 a.m.< / ><>1:17 p.m.< / >< / ><><>桑迪胡克< / ><>9:45 a.m.< / ><>10:01 p.m.< / >< / ><><>希内考克入口< / ><>9:45 a.m.< / ><>9:57 p.m.< / >< / ><><>斯坦福< / ><>1:05 a.m.< / ><>1:24 p.m.< / >< / ><><>塔里敦< / ><>11:54 a.m.< / ><>< / >< / ><><>威利茨角< / ><>12:52 a.m.< / ><>1:09 p.m.< / >< / table>

AccuWeather 气象报告

降水量（单位：英寸）

<>< rowspan="2">< / ><>昨日< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>纪录< / ><>2.68< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">过去 30 天< / >< / ><>< rowspan="2">< / ><>实际< / ><>8.52< / >< / ><><>正常< / ><>4.48< / >< / ><>< ="3">过去 365 天< / >< / ><>< rowspan="2">< / ><>实际< / ><>43.51< / >< / ><><>正常< / ><>49.52< / >< / table>

冷却度日数

<>< ="2">一项燃料消耗指数，用于追踪当日平均气温高出 65 度的幅度< / >< / ><><>昨日< / ><>7< / >< / ><><>本月至今< / ><>327< / >< / ><><>本季至今（自 1 月 01 日起）< / ><>1087< / >< / ><><>本季至今正常值< / ><>1029< / >< / table>

<>< rowspan="3" ="2">趋势< / >< ="2">温度< / >< ="2">降水量< / >< / ><>< ="2">平均< / >< ="2">平均< / >< / ><><>低于< / ><>高于< / ><>低于< / ><>高于< / >< / ><>< rowspan="4">过去< / ><>10 天< / ><>< / >< / ><><>30 天< / ><>< / >< / ><><>90 天< / ><>< / >< / ><><>365 天< / ><>< / >< / table>

图表显示了近期温度和降水趋势与过去 30 年趋势的对比情况。

海滩与海洋温度

东北部大多数海滩将保持干燥，但新泽西州沿海至罗德岛州地区在傍晚时分会有雷阵雨。海滩地区将出现周期性的多云和晴天，内陆地区的云层将更为持久。从长岛到弗吉尼亚州将较为潮湿。

报道来自 50 个州和 150 个国家。

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纽约时报

特朗普政府拟将约塞米蒂国家公园部分土地交给开发商

作者：肖恩·胡布勒（SHAWN HUBLER）和马克辛·乔塞洛（MAXINE JOSELOW）

约塞米蒂国家公园的游客。民主党人和前公园管理局官员谴责这项拟议的土地交换计划，因为该计划将使开发商更容易进入公园。 MIKE KAI CHEN 为《纽约时报》拍摄

据联邦官员以及《纽约时报》审阅的文件显示，特朗普政府提议交易掉加利福尼亚州约塞米蒂国家公园（Yosemite National Park）的一小块土地，以便一家私人开发商能够进入该公园。

这一潜在交易引起了环保人士和前国家公园管理局（National Park Service）官员的警觉，他们表示，约塞米蒂作为国家公园系统的皇冠之珠，应当禁止任何开发活动。

该提案的细节最早由新闻机构 NOTUS 报道。提案要求将约塞米蒂西部边界内的一小块土地移交给由 Kingsbarn Realty Capital（一家房地产私募股权公司）控制的公司。根据今年提交给国会并由本报审阅的文件，Kingsbarn 希望修建一条道路，并开发其在公园附近拥有的两块 40 英亩的土地。

文件显示，作为交换，该公司将购买价值相当的土地（位于约塞米蒂附近或加利福尼亚州其他地方），并将其移交给公园管理局。

“这太荒谬了，简直令人作呕，”曾在约塞米蒂担任主管、现任非营利组织“保护美国国家公园联盟”（Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks）执行委员会成员的唐·纽巴彻（Don Neubacher）表示。纽巴彻先生说，在 21 世纪初曾提出过类似的提案，但首先被公园管理局否决，随后在法院被驳回。

财产记录显示，Kingsbarn 在 2024 年初通过一家名为 Sanctuary at Yosemite 的有限责任公司，以 400万美元 的价格购买了公园附近的这两块土地。根据竞选资金记录，Kingsbarn 的首席执行官杰夫·波里（Jeff Pori）定期向特朗普总统的 2024 年竞选活动捐赠小额资金，捐款总额超过 $4,000,。

Kingsbarn 的代表、华盛顿游说者及前总统比尔·克林顿的前顾问兰尼·戴维斯（Lanny Davis）周五表示，Kingsbarn 希望建设一个包含小木屋、住宅和商业建筑的“高端”开发项目。他表示，如果居民和客户能通过土地交换实现的更短连接道路进入公园，该项目将产生更少的污染。他说，这将使开发项目在环境方面更具优势。

戴维斯先生表示，开发商最初试图直接购买该土地，但约塞米蒂官员表示，土地交换是他们唯一的合法选择。他说，在过去的两个月里，他每周通过视频与公园工作人员和官员会面。他提到，华盛顿的内政部官员没有参加会议，但波里先生有时会出席。

“我们已经完成了测量，目前处于评估价值的最后阶段，”戴维斯先生说，并补充道他们的提案“即将完成”。

公园管理局的上级机构内政部的发言人奥布里·斯佩迪（Aubrie Spady）在的一份声明中表示，尚未做出最终决定。

“任何涉及国家公园管理局土地的土地交换或准入提案都将受到所有适用联邦法律、法规和部门政策的约束，包括必要的环境审查和公众通知程序，”斯佩迪女士说。

约塞米蒂以其巨大的瀑布、高耸的红杉以及像半圆顶（Half Dome）和酋长岩（El Capitan）这样由冰川雕刻而成的单体巨岩而闻名。它是美国游客访问量最大的国家公园之一，而在特朗普政府取消夏季预约制度后，这里的拥挤程度比往常更高。

据两名因担心遭到报复而要求匿名的前公园管理局官员透露，内政部的政治任命官员已讨论拟议中的约塞米蒂（Yosemite）土地交换计划一年多，并将其称为一项首要任务。

内政部今年通知国会，正考虑通过土地与水资源保护基金（Land and Water Conservation Fund）支付与此次交换相关的任何费用。这引发了民主党人的批评，他们表示该基金旨在为公共土地上的保护项目提供资金。

加利福尼亚州的两位民主党参议员亚历克斯·帕迪利亚（Alex Padilla）和亚当·希夫（Adam Schiff）均谴责了该提议，并表示他们正与参议院拨款委员会合作，试图阻止该计划。

“这是历史上最腐败的政府，”帕迪利亚先生在的一份声明中表示。“土地与水资源保护基金的存在是为了获取土地及土地权益，以保护自然区域、水资源和文化遗产，并为所有美国人提供娱乐机会。”

西塞莉·马尔多恩（Cicely Muldoon）在 2020 年至 2025 年 2 月退休前担任约塞米蒂的主管，她表示，土地交换理应为公园管理局带来净收益，例如增加野生动物栖息地。她认为，此次交换给公众带来的益处并不明确。

马尔多恩女士还对该交易可能为全国其他 400 多个国家公园和历史遗迹开创的先例表示担忧。

“约塞米蒂在某种程度上是国家公园的风向标，”她说。“如果这件事能在约塞米蒂发生，那么它真的可能发生在国家公园系统的任何地方。”

涉事土地自 20 世纪 90 年代末以来一直陷入开发争议。当时，来自加州索尔万（Solvang）的开发商刘易斯·盖泽（Lewis Geyser）购买了约塞米蒂西侧边界的一片崎岖森林，并提议建造一个名为“海泽尔格林牧场”（Hazel Green Ranch）的度假村。

拟议项目位于加州 120 号州道上的约塞米蒂大橡树平原（Big Oak Flat）入口附近。起初，公园官员试图与业主合作建立一个场外停车场，以便游客将车辆停在约塞米蒂之外，然后乘坐接驳车进入公园区域。该计划最终破产。

根据随后长期诉讼中的法院记录，盖泽先生随后寻求在公园财产的一段四分之一英里区域内获得地役权，以便从他的土地更便捷地进入公园。

在公园方面拒绝后，他于 2007 年提起诉讼。塞拉俱乐部（Sierra Club）和其他环保组织加入联邦政府的行列反对该地役权，诉讼一直拖延到 2012 年，当时旧金山的一家联邦上诉法院做出了不利于开发商的裁决。

“那是一个很好的结局，我们都以为这件事已经结束了，”在 2010 年至 2016 年期间担任约塞米蒂主管的纽巴赫（Neubacher）先生说。“约塞米蒂是一座壮丽的大教堂，但如果要为后代保存，我们不能就这样让道路上塞满汽车。”

然而，马尔多恩女士表示，在 Kingsbarn 公司于 2024 年买下这片土地后，该公司试图重启关于私人道路的讨论，但被告知公园管理局在法律上无法允许该准入请求。

随后，特朗普先生再次就职。

据知情的前现任联邦官员透露，到 2025 年春季，内政部正在重新审视 Kingsbarn 的请求，且有传闻称该提议是华盛顿政治任命官员的优先事项。

政府请求大法官维持其跨性别禁令

作者：ANN E. MARIMOW 和 DAVE PHILIPPS

特朗普政府已请求最高法院允许美国军队全面执行其禁止跨性别者服役的禁令，这使得该政府的政策优先级在法院面前面临最新的考验。

预计大法官们将在今年秋季考虑是否审查该禁令的合法性；如果他们受理此案，可能会在 10 月开始的任期内安排口头辩论。

在重新就职几天后，特朗普先生签署了一项行政命令，禁止所有跨性别士兵服役，并将跨性别身份定性为一种“谎言”，认为这“与士兵对光荣、真实和纪律化生活方式的承诺相冲突”。

该禁令是该政府针对跨性别权利的一系列行动之一。总统还指示政府机构撤回对那些允许跨性别运动员参加女孩和女性体育赛事的学校的联邦资助。

国防部于 2025 年 2 月执行了特朗普先生的军事命令，实际上将跨性别士兵强行驱逐出军队。

“不再允许穿裙子的男人进入，”国防部长皮特·海格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）当时宣布。

跨性别服役人员迅速提起诉讼。根据政府提交给法院的文件，去年军队中约有 4,200 名公开的跨性别者，约占武装部队的 0.1%。他们担任步兵排长、飞行员、核工程师、医生、情报分析师、警察和其他关键专业人员。

一系列下级法院的裁决保护了一组挑战该禁令的跨性别士兵，使其在诉讼期间免于被解雇。但去年 5 月，最高法院的保守派多数在另一起案件中同意，原则上允许政府在诉讼期间解雇士兵。

尼古拉斯·塔博特（Nicolas Talbott）试图参军的尝试被政府关于跨性别士兵的政策所挫败。 ALYSSA SCHUKAR 为《纽约时报》拍摄

诉讼仍在继续。

总检察长 D. 约翰·索尔（D. John Sauer）在周四提交的一份文件中敦促大法官们永久性地推翻下级法院的裁决，并尊重军事领导者的意见，维持国防部的“审慎军事判断”，即接纳跨性别士兵将损害“军事效能和杀伤力”。

“美国军队决定谁可以加入国家武装部队的权力具有极其重要的意义，”他写道，并反驳了下级法院关于该政府政策具有歧视性的裁决。

在过去的一年里，许多跨性别服役人员选择自愿离开军队，而不是通过挑战新政策来面对不确定性和可能的伤害。另有数百人选择留下，坚持要求由由战友组成的军事留任委员会对其个案进行单独审议。鉴于总统的命令，被解雇通常已成定局。

在提交给大法官的案件中，28 名挑战者由美国陆军预备役少尉尼古拉斯·塔博特（Nicolas Talbott）领导。该团体声称，这项政策不公正且非法地将敌意和偏见指向一个群体。

在 6 月的一次 2 比 1 的裁决中，美国哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院支持了该团体，但他们的律师已请求下级法院将保护范围扩大到所有跨性别士兵。

罗伯特·L·威尔金斯（Robert L. Wilkins）法官写道，这项政策似乎是“纯粹出于伤害一个在政治上不受欢迎的群体的欲望”，朱迪思·W·罗杰斯（Judith W. Rogers）法官对此表示赞同。

贾斯汀·R·沃克（Justin R. Walker）法官持异议，称法院没有权力就军队做出此类决定：“宪法将该权力赋予了国会和三军统帅，”他写道。

与此同时，据这些成员的律师称，这 28 名服役人员一直处于悬而未决的状态，技术上仍属于军队，但处于休假状态。

这些服役人员的律师在周五敦促大法官们拒绝政府的请求，允许该案首先在 1 月份进行审理。GLAD Law 跨性别与酷儿权利高级总监詹妮弗·列维（Jennifer Levi）在一份声明中表示，这些服役人员符合军队的标准，政府不应“仅仅基于敌意就将数千名训练有素、技术精湛且获得勋章的士兵踢出去”。

当法院去年 5 月首次以紧急方式处理该问题时，大多数法官并未解释其理由，这在紧急命令中很常见。自由派大法官——索尼娅·索托马约尔（Sonia Sotomayor）、埃琳娜·卡根（Elena Kagan）和凯坦吉·布朗·杰克逊（Ketanji Brown Jackson）表示，她们本会维持暂停特朗普先生政策的决定。

在第一任期内，特朗普先生宣布实施跨性别禁令，但联邦法官阻止了该政策。

最高法院在 2019, 年撤销了禁令，允许一项修订后的禁令在法律挑战继续进行期间生效。在特朗普先生离任后，这些案件被撤销，约瑟夫·R·拜登（Joseph R. Biden Jr.）总统废除了该禁令。

赫格塞斯阻挠四名陆军将领晋升

本文由格雷格·贾费、埃里克·施密特和海伦·库珀撰写。

官员表示。

华盛顿——现任及前任国防官员表示，国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）正阻挠四名被选定晋升为准将（一星级）的陆军军官的晋升。这一极不寻常的举动似乎旨在针对那些曾为他不喜欢的将军工作的军官。

今年以来，赫格塞斯先生已将至少 45 名由同行评审委员会选出的军官从晋升名单中剔除。其中超过一半的军官为女性或黑人。

赫格塞斯先生的行为似乎违反了管理晋升系统的规则，而该系统本应是非政治化的且基于功绩的。

在最新名单中被剔除的部分陆军军官似乎近期曾为前陆军参谋长兰迪·乔治（Randy George）将军工作，赫格塞斯先生在 4 月份在未给出解释的情况下将其解雇。国防官员表示，其他军官则与美国陆军驻欧最高指挥官克里斯托弗·T·多纳休（Christopher T. Donahue）将军有联系，后者在今年夏天被迫离开陆军。

通常，陆军准将晋升名单包含约 30 多名军官。

乔治将军和多纳休将军领导了陆军适应由无人机和人工智能主导的未来战场的进程，而近期名单中被剔除的军官在塑造其现代化愿景方面发挥了重要作用。

官员们表示，一名被阻挠晋升的军官曾指挥陆军首批“接触中转型”旅之一。这些由 3,000 名士兵组成的单位被鼓励在进行战争训练的同时，尝试新的无人机和人工智能技术。

该军官开发了一种新编组，利用无人机、电子战系统和传统侦察兵在敌方前线深处进行侦察和打击。他的想法被陆军所有步兵旅所采用。

熟悉该名单的官员表示，该军官被针对的部分原因是他曾在研究生课程中写过一篇论文，探讨政治极化对陆军招募和留住人才能力的影响。目前尚不清楚赫格塞斯先生或其团队成员为何认为该论文令人反感。

五角大楼首席发言人肖恩·帕内尔（Sean Parnell）在的一份声明中表示：“军事晋升是授予那些凭能力赢得晋升的人的。”“在赫格塞斯部长的领导下一直如此，且不会改变。”

今年 3 月，赫格塞斯先生从一份包含 34 名军官的陆军准将晋升名单中剔除了四名军官。被赫格塞斯先生针对的军官中有两名黑人男性和两名女性，这促使一些高级军方官员质疑这些军官是否因种族或性别而被单独选中。

除了阻挠军官晋升准将以及解雇乔治将军之外，赫格塞斯先生还解雇或强制驱逐了一位

2026年，国防部长已将至少45名军官从晋升名单中剔除。

官员们表示，半打高级军官——陆军中一批最经受过战斗洗礼的领导者——被免职，这将导致该军种在未来几年的高层职级出现空缺。

此次人事动荡还在陆军最高层留下了权力真空，而此时陆军正肩负着保护部队免受廉价无人机和导弹威胁的重任。

现任及前任官员表示，自从赫格塞斯先生在4月份解雇乔治将军以来，陆军一直没有参谋长（该军种的最高军官），且没有迹象表明他近期将填补这一职位。官员们称，赫格塞斯先生选择接任陆军参谋长的克里斯托弗·拉内夫将军目前在参议院中没有足够的支持来获得确认。

拉内夫将军此前曾担任赫格塞斯先生的高级军事助手，他对赫格塞斯先生阻止合格军官晋升的决定表示沮丧，并担心这将削弱陆军经验丰富的领导者储备，国防官员

官员们表示，陆军部长丹尼尔·P·德里斯科尔（该军种的最高文职领导人）最快可能在本周离开政府。赫格塞斯先生已表示，他希望提名帕内尔先生接替德里斯科尔先生。

帕内尔先生曾在阿富汗担任军官，但他担任五角大楼首席发言人的任期一直饱受争议。帕内尔先生最近解雇了《星条旗报》（一家由联邦政府资助但独立的新闻机构）的三名记者。这些记者于周四起诉政府，声称五角大楼解雇他们是为了报复他们报道部署在中东的一艘海军航空母舰上日益恶化的状况。

帕内尔先生还领导了一项限制记者进入五角大楼内部的行动。这些举措促使《纽约时报》起诉五角大楼，理由是该政策违反了第一修正案。

2021年11月，在一名法官裁定其分居妻子应拥有三个孩子的首席监护权后，帕内尔先生退出了参议院竞选；在该案件中，其妻子指控他虐待配偶和孩子。一名五角大楼官员表示，该命令后来被撤销，帕内尔先生与妻子共同监护孩子已有数年。

赫格塞斯先生有意提名帕内尔先生的消息最早由《国会山报》（The Hill）报道。

白宫官员担心，如果德里斯科尔先生离开，帕内尔先生将无法在参议院获得足够的确认票，从而导致陆军的最高文职和军职岗位均处于空缺状态。

许多被赫格塞斯先生解雇或被迫离职的陆军高级军官周四聚集在北卡罗来纳州的布拉格堡，参加多诺休将军的退休仪式。集会的气氛十分沉重；一名出席的前军事官员将其描述为一场“国葬”。

作为陆军部长可能最后执行的职责之一，德里斯科尔先生加入了这些被解雇的军官行列，他们全部是经过实战检验且被培养为陆军领导者的将领。他们共同向多诺休将军告别。

埃尔-赛义德向犹太民主党人道歉

作者：STEVE FRIESS 和 TIM BALK

本月在他的节目中向美国犹太人道歉。

密歇根州兰辛 —— 密歇根州民主党参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（Abdul El-Sayed）博士周六向一群犹太民主党人道歉，就他今年三月针对底特律附近一座犹太会堂遭袭击发表的言论表示歉意，并称“没有人应该让自己的痛苦被践踏”。

埃尔-赛义德博士正试图争取那些对他参选表示深度怀疑的犹太民主党人。他表示，在一名男子驾驶卡车冲进犹太会堂并导致一名警卫受伤后，他在随后发布的视频声明中不应加入“受伤的人会伤害他人”（hurt people hurt people）这一短语。当局表示，这次针对密歇根州西布鲁姆菲尔德镇（West Bloomfield Township）以色列圣殿（Temple Israel）的袭击是对犹太人的针对性行为。

“我犯了一个错误，”埃尔-赛义德博士在兰辛的一次党代会上，在回答密歇根州民主党犹太党团（Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus）的问题时说道，“我本应该发表一份声明，当然地谴责这一行为，并且就此打住。”

埃尔-赛义德博士表示，他当时试图“提供更广泛的背景”，但却不经意间践踏了“那种恐惧和痛苦本应获得尊重的尊严”。他补充道：“如果我的声明造成了痛苦，我很抱歉。这并非我的本意。”

当局表示，实施犹太会堂袭击的男子艾曼·穆罕默德·加扎利（Ayman Mohamad Ghazali）是一名出生于黎巴嫩的美国入籍公民，他在三月的一次以色列袭击中失去了家人。在最初的声明中，埃尔-赛义德博士表示，“攻击无辜平民永远没有正当理由”，但他理解“暴力是一个循环”，且“受伤的人会伤害他人”。

周六，埃尔-赛义德博士表示，在袭击发生后的即时阶段，他试图将袭击背景化的做法是不恰当的。

此次道歉发生之际，埃尔-赛义德博士正因与哈桑·派克（Hasan Piker）的关系而面临压力。派克是一名极具挑衅性的主播，曾发表过关于以色列的煽动性言论。埃尔-赛义德在民主党初选期间与派克共同竞选，但最近表示在通用选举前没有这样做的打算。

埃尔-赛义德博士与共和党候选人、前众议员迈克·罗杰斯（Mike Rogers）的竞争，被视为少数几个可能决定参议院控制权的选战之一。民调显示这场竞争非常激烈。

当埃尔-赛义德博士本月险胜民主党初选时，许多犹太民主党人拒绝立即支持他，理由是他对以色列的批评（他曾称该国政府“邪恶”，并在初选期间攻击美国以色列公共事务委员会）以及与派克的关系。

派克多次成为民主党内部争论的中心，最近一次是在他发出了一段看似不祥的警告之后

埃尔-赛义德博士击败了支持以色列的民主党众议员海莉·史蒂文斯（Haley Stevens），赢得了党内提名。密歇根州民主党拥有庞大的犹太和穆斯林群体，一直被关于以色列的争论所分裂，而这一问题正是参议院初选的核心。

在党代会之前，许多犹太民主党人继续对埃尔-赛义德博士与派克的关系表示担忧。

底特律郊区的民主党州众议员诺亚·阿尔比特（Noah Arbit）创办了该州党内的犹太党团，他在周五的一条短信中表示，埃尔-赛义德博士应该与派克完全“切断联系”，并将这位主播描述为“该候选人在其联盟中接纳毫不掩饰的极端主义、威权主义政治的例证”。

Steve Friess 发自兰辛，Tim Balk 发自纽约。

密歇根州民主党犹太人党团主席杰西卡·亚历山大（Jessica Alexander）在周六的一次大会采访中表示，她与埃尔-赛义德（El-Sayed）的竞选团队保持着深度接触。她说，竞选团队深知在犹太社区方面“还有工作要做”。她表示，尽管她仍然对派克（Piker）先生感到担忧，但她并不担心埃尔-赛义德博士作为候选人的表现。

派克先生最近表示，“如果美国的犹太人继续散布这样一种观点，即他们唯一关注的是以色列，那么最终会有人采取行动——请注意，不是针对以色列国，而是针对美国犹太人。”

这段言论发表后不久，派克先生便攻击了密歇根州众议院的民主党提名人杰里米·莫斯（Jeremy Moss），原因是后者拒绝支持埃尔-赛义德博士。

莫斯先生是犹太人，他表示担心埃尔-赛义德博士在以色列问题上的立场。莫斯先生在大会的一次采访中表示，埃尔-赛义德博士为其3月份的言论所做的道歉是“真诚的”、“可信的”，并得到了党团的“认可”。

在回应派克先生言论的一份公开声明中，埃尔-赛义德博士表示，“除了我和我的竞选发言人，没有人能代表本竞选团队”，并且“所有美国人都应当拥有在无需担心暴力的情况下，为自己所信仰的事物发声的权利”。声明补充道：“我对犹太人安全的承诺，与我对自身女儿安全的承诺是一样的。”

在这位主播发表言论后，民主党内部出现了一连串谴责派克先生的声明。加利福尼亚州民主党众议员布拉德·谢尔曼（Brad Sherman）在社交媒体上表示，派克先生试图“鼓励并为针对美国犹太人的暴力行为正名”。新泽西州民主党参议员科里·布克（Cory Booker）在社交媒体上写道，派克先生已“反复且明确地”跨越了将“激烈辩论与煽动对邻里仇恨的言论”区分开来的底线。

谢尔曼先生和布克先生都没有直接批评埃尔-赛义德博士。但两人都强调，他们认为不应给派克先生提供发声平台。

埃尔-赛义德博士周六对密歇根州民主党犹太人党团表示：“我犯了一个错误”，这指的是他3月份的言论。

你可以在大学申请中使用人工智能工具吗？学校会要求提供考试成绩吗？一些学校正在改变其政策。

人工智能与政治正在改变大学录取

作者：艾伦·布林德（ALAN BLINDER）和马克·阿塞诺（MARK ARSENAULT）

在经历了数年的动荡之后，大学录取的一个新时代正在展开。

从东海岸到西海岸，标准化考试要求正在恢复，或正处于考虑之中。无论是像佐治亚大学这样的大型公立学校，还是像圣路易斯华盛顿大学这样的顶尖私立机构，招生官们都在削减部分申请论文。各地的管理人员都在担忧人工智能在申请中可能扮演的角色。

新冠疫情导致许多学校放宽了录取流程，在许多情况下，更加依赖于论文等组成部分。但人工智能的兴起、对学生准备情况的质疑、平权行动的结束，以及特朗普政府在录取中优先考虑“择优录取”的运动，正驱动着一种回归趋势。

在上一个录取周期中，由于申请学生群体更加多样化，且学生平均申请的学校数量增加，大学申请量有所上升。但预计人口结构的变化将导致未来几年的入学人数大幅下降。

与此同时，高等教育正与公众的不信任以及对大学价值的担忧作斗争，尤其是随着人工智能开始重塑劳动力市场。

在学校为学生减少和人工智能增加的未来做准备之际，那些能让大学申请变得更简单——且对家庭更有吸引力——的方法，可能有助于它们缓冲这一冲击。

附加论文被取消

个人陈述（Personal essay）在许多大学申请中依然处于核心地位。但附加论文（Supplementary essays）正逐渐失去青睐。

例如，杜兰大学（Tulane University）暂停了要求申请者撰写“为何想就读该校”的规定。该校发言人迈克尔·斯特雷克（Michael Strecker）表示，对潜在的 AI 生成论文的担忧“绝对是”做出这一决定的因素之一。

一些招生官表示，他们并不使用 AI 检测系统，因为这些系统并不总是准确。

佐 {Georgia}、康奈尔大学（Cornell University）、弗吉尼亚大学（ of Virginia）和德克萨斯基督教大学（Texas Christian ）近期都削减了论文要求。华盛顿大学（Washington ）则取消了一篇可选论文，但显然许多申请者并不认为该论文真的是“可选”的。

减少必写论文的数量使申请过程变得更简单，这往往会提高学校的申请人数。通过吸引更多申请者，学校可以降低录取率，从而使其显得更加精英化——尽管许多大学并不希望被认为是在刻意增加拒信数量。

杜兰大学发言人斯特雷克先生在电子邮件中表示，“为了显得更具选拔性而降低录取率，绝不是”暂停附加论文的原因。他表示，“为何选择杜兰？”这篇论文在近年来的学校选拔决定中权重并不高。

斯特雷克先生说，杜兰大学仍然要求申请者撰写一篇个人陈述，且学校的录取决定主要基于“申请者的学术记录、考试成绩、课外影响力和参与度、推荐信”以及个人陈述。

佐 {Georgia} 的本科招生执行主任大卫·格雷夫斯（David Graves）表示，他认为“每个招生办公室都对论文由 撰写感到担忧”。

虽然佐 {Georgia} 取消附加论文的决定更多是为了简化申请流程，但其他专家表示，学生使用 辅助撰写论文的可能性正成为一个日益严重的问题。

“ 加速了人们的意识到：在这种语境下，文字并不一定能准确代表一个人的思考方式和写作水平，”克里斯托夫·古滕塔格（Christoph Guttentag）说道。他在审阅学生申请 42 年后，于 2025 年从杜克大学（Duke ）本科招生院长一职退休。

宾夕法尼亚大学（ of Pennsylvania）最近尝试告知申请者，在使用 方面哪些可以做，哪些不可以做。该校表示，与父母或老师讨论想法，或请对方校对是允许的；使用 来梳理想法或检查语法也是允许的。

但宾大在承认将 用于招生行政而非评估目的的同时，也告知申请者，如果你“无法在面试或交谈中解释你是如何写出那些内容的，或者无法用自己的语言对其进行阐述，那么这篇论文就还没准备好提交”。

在圣路易斯，华盛顿大学长期致力于在全美最受尊敬的学校中占据一席之地。招生管理副教务长罗内·特纳（Ronné Turner）表示，校方几年前增加了一篇“可选”论文，旨在让学生展示更多自我。

在认定学生分享的大部分信息存在冗余后，该校目前正在逐步取消这一要求。

团队还从高中指导教师那里获悉，学生通常认为跳过这篇论文会对他们产生不利影响。

该校仍将要求提交一篇个人陈述，以及另一篇关于学生希望学习什么的论文。

“我们只要求他们提供我们做出正确录取决定所需的信息，”她说。

法官们的权衡

大学需要哪些数据仍然是一个重大争议点。2023年最高法院废除考虑种族的录取计划的裁决，在许多关于要求和流程的内部讨论中潜伏着影响。

在该裁决中，首席大法官约翰·G·罗伯茨（John G. Roberts Jr.）写道，申请人“必须基于其作为个人的经历受到对待，而非基于种族”。

他还表示，法院的意见不应被“解读为禁止大学考虑申请人关于种族如何影响其生活的讨论，无论这种影响是通过歧视、激励还是其他方式产生的”。

特朗普政府主张，法院的意见应被解读为禁止在录取中考虑任何种族因素。许多大学领导者和律师在私下里反对白宫的观点，但美国司法部（DOJ）针对全国录取实践的一系列调查让他们感到不安，并开始寻找避免被审查的方法。

测试强制要求回归

特朗普政府内部的许多人物希望学校依赖他们认为更基于功绩的衡量标准，例如测试分数和成绩。由于各种原因，许多在疫情期间放宽了测试强制要求的学校正在将其恢复。6月，哥伦比亚大学成为最后一所宣布计划再次要求潜在本科生提供分数的常春藤盟校。

测试之争在美国人口最多的州再次爆发，那里拥有10个校区的加州大学（University of California）系统正在考虑恢复其标准化测试的强制要求。考虑到该公立系统的声望和规模——它拥有约238,000名本科生——这一变化可能会在全国范围内产生反响。

该系统受到了特朗普政府的大量质疑，但许多压力来自教职员工，他们表示，在系统于2020年放弃标准化测试后，准备好应对加州大学严苛学业的学生似乎减少了。

“从2022年、2023年左右开始，我注意到学生们甚至在完成家庭作业时都感到吃力——而这些作业是我15年来一直布置的，”加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的工程学教授普拉迪普·森（Pradeep Sen）在7月告诉校董会。“这意味着我需要花课堂时间教学生那些他们本应已经掌握的内容，这严重影响了我涵盖必要教学内容的能力。”

森博士表示，他意识到不同人口统计特征的学生在标准化测试中的表现可能会有所不同。

“答案，”他在校董会会议期间表示，“不是取消这唯一一个能确保学生拥有成功就读大学之适当基础的衡量指标。”

在同一场会议上，总部位于加州的“大学机会运动”（Campaign for College Opportunity）主席杰西·瑞安（Jessie Ryan）警告说，恢复SAT考试“绝对是针对一个未定义问题的错误解决方案”。

她表示，自从大学系统取消标准化测试以来，留校率和毕业率一直保持稳定或有所增加。

“事实上，如果我们想解决大学准备问题，我们应该关注的不是变得更加挑剔，而是给学生提供更多支持，”她说。

校董会主席玛丽亚·安古亚诺（Maria Anguiano）表示，关于大学准备情况的公开辩论过于“狭隘地”集中在录取和标准化测试上。

安古亚诺女士表示，大学学术委员会将对标准化测试等议题进行审查，并在学年结束前提交建议。

宾夕法尼亚州两起麻疹相关死亡病例细节引发争议

作者：TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

在宾夕法尼亚州报告 35 年来首例麻疹死亡病例的一周后，反疫苗活动人士和部分公职人员就患者是死于麻疹，还是在死于其他原因时恰好携带该病毒提出了质疑，由此引发了争议。

冲突集中在其中一起死亡病例上：一名新生儿病毒检测呈阳性，并在出生后不久死亡。兰开斯特县验尸官斯蒂芬·迪亚曼托尼（Stephen Diamantoni）博士在一次采访中表示，该婴儿的母亲麻疹检测也呈阳性。

他补充说，一名法医病理学家进行了尸检，并判定直接死因是脾脏裂伤。

宾夕法尼亚州卫生部发言人尼尔·鲁兰（Neil Ruhland）表示，当身体对麻疹感染做出反应时，脾脏可能会肿大，从而使其更容易受伤和破裂。

这些死亡病例引发了宾夕法尼亚州民主党州长乔什·夏皮罗（Josh Shapiro）与国家卫生部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy Jr.）之间的公开争论。

在周二宣布死亡病例的新闻发布会上，夏皮罗先生指责肯尼迪先生通过传播错误信息，加剧了该州的麻疹危机。

次日，肯尼迪先生在 X 平台上反击，声称宾夕法尼亚州的麻疹死亡病例“甚至可能是由州长某位急于表现的工作人员完全捏造的”。

宾夕法尼亚州卫生部长德博拉·博根（Debra Bogen）博士在 X 平台上发布的一份声明中为卫生部的公告辩护，她写道，她已经“彻底审查了案件调查”，并且“遗憾地确认近期发生了两起麻疹相关死亡病例”。

但疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）发布的一份声明对肯尼迪先生的“努力”表示赞赏，称其旨在“澄清宾夕法尼亚州官员关于两起报告的死亡病例是否由麻疹引起这一相互矛盾的信息”。

声明补充道：“CDC 正在努力确定实际情况。”

使情况进一步复杂化的是，于 2023 年最后一次当选县验尸官的共和党人迪亚曼托尼博士表示，进行尸检的病理学家并未判定麻疹为死因，也没有发现脾脏肿大的证据。

鲁兰先生表示，在麻疹相关死亡病例中，即使感染可能是一个促成因素，病毒也不一定被列为直接死因。他将其比作药物过量导致死亡：直接死因可能是呼吸衰竭或心脏衰竭，但药物过量起到了促成作用。

费城儿童医院疫苗教育中心主任保罗·奥菲特（Paul Offit）博士表示，关于某人是“死于感染”还是“带着感染死亡”的讨论，是反疫苗圈子中常见的论调，这种说法在新冠疫情期间出现，旨在淡化疾病的严重性。

反疫苗圈子的几位知名人物还抓住“麻疹相关死亡”这个词不放，他们暗示卫生官员使用这个词是为了掩盖病毒在报告的死亡病例中并未起到作用的事实。

“麻疹相关死亡与死于麻疹之间的区别在很大程度上是语义上的，”犹他州的儿科传染病专家安德鲁·帕维亚（Andrew Pavia）博士说道，并补充说人们为了避免将死亡归因于麻疹而“钻牛角尖”。

根据公布的有限细节，该国几位顶尖的麻疹研究人员表示，该病毒极有可能在新生儿的死亡中起到了作用。帕维亚博士表示，麻疹会以多种方式给身体带来压力，而在这种情况下尤其吃力，因为该婴儿似乎在出生前不久在子宫内从母亲那里感染了病毒。

他说：“很难想象麻疹不是一个主要的促成因素。”

尽管如此，医生和公共卫生官员对州卫生部门提供的匮乏细节感到沮丧，他们表示，这使得人们难以了解事情的经过，并导致误导性信息和谣言肆虐。

专家们指出，其他卫生部门可以作为模范，例如德克萨斯州卫生部，该部门去年立即披露了一名“学龄”儿童在因并发症住院后死于麻疹。

起初，宾夕法尼亚州卫生部以隐私问题为由，拒绝提供有关患者年龄或死亡原因的任何细节。谣言和虚假信息迅速填补了这一真空。

在婴儿死亡的细节被披露之前，最近由肯尼迪先生任命进入联邦自闭症研究小组的金杰·泰勒（Ginger Taylor）发布了一张伪造的新闻标题图片，声称患者是 87 岁和 89 岁的男性。

反疫苗组织“捍卫儿童健康”（Children's Health Defense）的宾夕法尼亚分会——该组织由肯尼迪先生创立并领导多年——暗示这些死亡可能与该地区疫苗接种率的上升有关。

该州尚未公布关于第二起死亡事件的更多细节。博根博士在 X 上的声明中提到受害者家属时表示，她将继续“竭尽全力保护他们的隐私”。

批评者抨击大都会博物馆加利亚诺展览计划，指其涉反犹主义

按计划推进。他们已联系了温图尔、服装学院策展人安德鲁·博尔顿以及博物馆馆长马克斯·霍莱因。

市议会议长、市政府最高级别的犹太官员之一朱莉·梅宁在周四发给霍莱因、博尔顿和温图尔的一封信中，称博物馆决定重点展示加利亚诺职业生涯的决定是一个“严重的错误”。

“我们的文化机构，尤其是那些接受纽约市资助的机构，有责任证明仇恨和偏见会带来后果，”梅宁在信中写道，一名博物馆官员将此信分享给了《纽约时报》。“言语至关重要，而我们选择提升谁的地位，直接表明了我们的价值观以及我们愿意容忍什么。”

随后，梅宁敦促博物馆重新考虑赞助此次展览的决定。在电话联系中，她拒绝发表评论。

霍莱因在周五的一份声明中表示：“大都会博物馆对任何形式的反犹主义、种族主义或偏见都零容忍。我们正与犹太领袖和其他利益相关者进行密切磋商，并且非常严肃地对待我们听到的担忧。”

他补充说，大都会博物馆的领导层“正在为明年的展览和盛会制定一项周详的计划，以符合博物馆设定的道德和伦理标准”。

梅宁并非唯一一名与博物馆对峙的高知名度人士。艺术界巨头阿尔内·格林彻最近向霍莱因和大都会博物馆策展人戴维·布雷斯林发送了一封批评该计划的电子邮件。

“我认为你们没有考虑到这一行动的代价及其将产生的反响，”格林彻在邮件中写道，该邮件已由《时报》审阅。他补充说，他及其妻子“正在认真重新考虑在遗嘱中指定捐赠给大都会博物馆的其他藏品”。

赞助团体“服装学院之友”的长期成员吉尔·卡格曼表示，她将因为这场展览而辞去职务。

92NY犹太生活高级总监兼布朗夫曼中心高级总监、Romemu犹太会堂创始拉比戴维·英格伯表示，博物馆制造了一个棘手的问题。“通过将加利亚诺置于中心，”他说，“大都会博物馆将犹太社区置于一个无法获胜的境地。要么我们被指责过于敏感，不允许他获得荣誉；要么我们成了共犯。问题不在于他们是否能这样做，而在于他们是否应该这样做。”

2011年，法国一个法庭认定加利亚诺在巴黎一家酒吧的两次独立事件中发表了针对犹太人和亚洲人的仇恨言论。大约在同一时间，伦敦小报《太阳报》发布了另一段酒吧咆哮视频，其中加利亚诺说“我爱希特勒”，并告诉某些顾客，他们的“母亲、祖先”都将被“毒气处决”。当这段视频曝光时，他被解雇了担任15年的迪奥创意总监一职。

加利亚诺将自己的咆哮归结为对药物和酒精的依赖，并为自己的言论道歉。他进入了康复中心，并在伦敦跟随拉比巴里·马库斯学习。他还会见了反诽谤联盟前国家主任亚伯拉罕·福克斯曼，以了解犹太教、反犹主义和犹太人大屠杀。

2014年，他成为 Maison Margiela 的创意总监，并担任该职十年。他为该品牌举办的最后一场秀——2024年的高级定制系列，是年度最受赞誉的展览，包括赞达亚和金·卡戴珊在内的名人们在当年的大都会艺术博物馆盛装舞会（Met Gala）上穿着他的作品。

康登纳斯特（Condé Nast）的全球首席内容官兼艺术总监温图尔在加利亚诺经历困境期间一直支持他。她帮助他获得了 Maison Margiela 的工作，并出现在由康登纳斯特部分制作的2023年纪录片《高与低——约翰·加利亚诺》中。在电影中，加利亚诺称自己的反犹言论是“卑劣的”且“恐怖的”。

上个月，当大都会博物馆表彰他的计划公开后，温图尔表示：“没有人比约翰·加利亚诺更配得上如此规模的展览。”她补充道：“他的职业生涯并非由单一时刻所定义。”

大都会博物馆意识到，表彰他的决定充满了争议。为了预先遏制反弹，在过去一年里，加利亚诺、温图尔和博尔顿与纽约市各教堂的拉比以及反诽谤联盟现任首席执行官乔纳森·格林布拉特进行了会面。大多数犹太领袖告诉《纽约时报》，他们认为加利亚诺的忏悔是真诚的，对此感到满意。他们进一步得到保证，展览将坦率地探讨其仇恨言论的问题。

博尔顿在周五的一份声明中表示，对这位设计师职业生涯的“任何批判性评估”如果“没有对其过失的直接描述，都是不完整的”。博尔顿补充说：“加利亚诺是否能被原谅，并不是本次展览试图回答的问题。”

温图尔在自己的声明中表示：“从一开始，安德鲁在筹备展览时就采取了协作方式，并保持了敏感度和严谨的学术态度。一如既往，我对安德鲁、马克斯以及大都会博物馆深表感激并给予支持。”

英格伯没有参加拉比、大都会博物馆领导层与设计师的会面，他并不认可计划中展览的价值。他说：“在反犹太主义敌意日益增长的时刻，将加利亚诺置于一场盛大的文化景观中心，所传达的意义已不仅仅是对其作品的艺术探讨。”

约翰·加利亚诺在2021年的照片。他将导致其被判定犯有仇恨罪的谩骂归咎于药物成瘾。 DAVE BENETT / GETTY IMAGES

2024年，赞达亚（左）、金·卡戴珊与加利亚诺（右）在大都会艺术博物馆慈善晚宴（Met Gala）上穿着该设计师的作品。去年，坚定支持他的安娜·温图尔在迪奥（Dior）时装秀上与他同坐。 SWAN GALLET / WWD, VIA GETTY IMAGES NINA WESTERVELT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES CINDY ORD / MG24, VIA GETTY IMAGES

“我绝对相信救赎的弧线，”英格伯继续说道，“但忏悔、原谅与巨大的公众荣誉是不同的事情。”他说，许多信徒曾向他询问：“为什么是现在？大都会博物馆在想什么，这才是核心问题。”他补充说，在他看来，霍莱因应该站在前台，解释该机构决定突出加利亚诺在时尚界成就的原因。

加利亚诺将成为第三位被服装学院授予个人回顾展的在世设计师。在他职业生涯的这一阶段举办回顾展的原因尚不明确。

尽管他已有两年没有举办时装秀，但他很可能会继续工作。为什么不等到他的救赎弧线能够被完整评估之后再举办呢？

诺贝尔和平奖得主埃利·维塞尔之子、其父亲慈善基金会负责人埃利沙·维塞尔周四表示，表彰加利亚诺的决定“看起来是个相当糟糕的主意”。

“如果有人尖叫出你能想象到的最恶劣的种族蔑称，说‘你是个糟糕的黑人，你的祖先会被吊在树上’，你无法想象他们会被一家著名的文化机构表彰。”他补充说，即便此人为这类言论道歉也无济于事。

维塞尔似乎怀疑加利亚诺的反犹太言论历史是否会在计划中的展览中得到有意义的处理。他预测，这最终只会变成一场致力于展示“黑领结档案高级定制服”的展览中，一段位于墙上的文字，以及一次被精心管控的与反犹太主义的接触。

朱莉·麦克洛（Julie Macklowe）是曼哈顿社交圈的常客，曾多次出席大都会艺术博物馆慈善舞会（Met Gala），她称表彰加利亚诺的决定是“彻头彻尾的耻辱”。她补充说，令她尤其不安的是，加利亚诺“甚至在近期也发表过非常反犹太主义的言论”。

麦克洛指的是一起据称发生在2019年的事件。时尚公关劳伦·伦敦（Lauren London）在8月1日发布的一篇Facebook帖子中描述了该事件。

伦敦在接受《纽约时报》采访时表示，这次遭遇发生在夏季，地点是位于意大利梅拉诺（Merano）的禁酒型亨利·舍诺（Henri Chenot）水疗中心。当时她正与朋友萨宾·辛伯·戈德堡（Sabine Cimber Goldberg）坐在公共区域。

戈德堡当时正在与女儿通话。加利亚诺就坐在

尽管他已道歉，但反对表彰该设计师的声音日益高涨。

就在附近。伦敦表示，当戈德堡从说英语切换到希伯来语时，加利亚诺开始一遍又一遍地大喊“圣诞快乐！”。

“我清楚地记得他在尖叫，”她说。

伦敦补充道，她的朋友询问加利亚诺是否对她说希伯来语有意见，而他表示确实有。

“这就是促使我写这篇文章的原因，”伦敦说。“因为这正是令人不安之处：我一直读到大都会博物馆将对他的反犹太言论予以关注，就好像那只是某种脚注，是他身上已经痊愈的一小部分。但根据我的所见，事实并非如此。”

在通过 Instagram 回应询问时，戈德堡确认了 2019 年的这次事件，并补充道：“我当时震惊了。我正和女儿进行视频通话。”在一次单独的电话采访中，她的女儿凯利·戈德堡确认听到了加利亚诺咆哮的一部分内容。

在回应《纽约时报》的查询时，加利亚诺的一位发言人表示：“约翰否认此事曾发生过。”

大都会博物馆董事会成员、作家安德鲁·索罗门计划在自己家中举办一次聚会，届时他将在一群受托人和捐赠者面前与加利亚诺交谈。索罗门支持此次计划中的展览，他表示，“面对‘取消文化’是比向其屈服更健康的前进方式。”

近日，受托人们向温图尔和博尔顿施压，要求 2027 年的大都会艺术博物馆慈善舞会（Met Gala）与加利亚诺保持距离，将其名字排除在着装要求和邀请函之外。这将与 2023 年该慈善活动对待卡尔·拉格斐的方式形成鲜明对比。那一年，拉格斐在服装学院的展览中获得表彰，舞会出席者也被要求为了向他致敬而穿着相应服装。

温图尔为服装学院筹集了如此巨额的资金，以至于该学院将其地下展厅以她的名字命名。她对加利亚诺的支持以及她在博物馆的权力现在面临考验。在公众批评日益增长的背景下，结果尚不明确。

洛杉矶西奈圣殿的荣休拉比大卫·沃尔佩在最近的一篇 Substack 文章中，称大都会艺术博物馆慈善舞会是一场“道德闹剧”。他表示，在发布文章后，一位熟人问他：“你不怕安娜·温图尔吗？”

“我想：在一个见过人们在比‘噢，我可能会被大都会博物馆拉黑’这种情形困难得多的情况下仍能保持勇气的人群中，这简直是缺乏骨气的可悲症状，”沃尔佩说。

当被问及如果一名会众咨询是否应该加入舞会的主办委员会时，他表示他会建议不要加入。

“你是在将自己的名声借给一件不配拥有你的事情，”沃尔佩说。“无论你因为这场派对而感到多么兴奋，都抵不上你灵魂上的污点。”

沃尔玛同意在阿片类药物诉讼中支付 5000万美元

作者：ISHANI DESAI

美国司法部（DOJ）表示，沃尔玛将支付 5000万美元，以解决有关其药房填写了数十万份可疑阿片类药物处方的指控，这些行为助长了全国性的药物滥用危机。

根据法院记录，政府律师在 2020 年指控这家全美最大的零售商未能检测出可疑订单并将其报告给美国缉毒局（DEA）。

美国司法部在周五的一份新闻稿中表示，当员工标记这些可疑操作时，他们被忽视了，部分原因是为了推动销售。

法院文件显示：“在大约四年的时间里，沃尔玛向其药房运送了估计 3750 万 受控物质订单，但它仅向美国缉毒局报告了 204 份可疑订单——换句话说，几乎没有报告。”

沃尔玛的一位发言人在周五的一份声明中表示，公司很高兴能解决此案。

美国司法部民事部门代理助理总检察长杰弗里·博塞特·克拉克（Jeffrey Bossert Clark）在 2020, 一份声明中表示：“作为全国最大的药房连锁店和药品批发商之一，沃尔玛有责任且有能力帮助防止处方阿片类药物的非法转移。”

周五宣布的这项和解协议是政府试图让相关公司为其在阿片类药物流行中扮演的角色承担责任的最新举措。

根据美国疾病控制与预防中心的数据，从 1999 到 2023, 大约 806,000 人死于阿片类药物过量，其中包括涉及非法和处方阿片类药物的死亡。

2022, 沃尔玛同意分发 31 亿美元 billion，以结束由地方政府和部落发起的数千起诉讼。

杂货连锁店克罗格（Kroger）在 2023 同意向各州、地方政府和部落支付 12 亿美元 billion，以解决其零售药房在助长阿片类药物危机中扮演角色的指控。

其药房被指控未能正确监控阿片类药物处方。该公司在当时表示，它并不承认有任何过错。

针对沃尔玛的联邦诉讼引用了一个案例，其中一名沃尔玛员工承认填写了非法的处方。

诉讼称，一些药剂师填写了大剂量处方，这可能会导致患者死亡。

诉讼称，佛罗里达州的药剂师向公司的合规部门提醒了一名被他们称为“可疑”的医生，该医生的患者说话含糊不清，并显示出“麻醉品滥用”的迹象。

诉讼称，沃尔玛被指控为该医生填写了 3,500 多份“受控物质处方”。新闻稿称，这些处方具有“明显的危险信号”。

新闻稿称，和解协议要求沃尔玛为员工和患者建立一条热线，以报告“涉嫌非法分发受控物质”的情况，并监控药房的“分发模式”。

极右翼挑衅者被遣返回英国

作者：麦克·利德曼（MACK LIEDERMAN）和哈梅德·阿莱齐兹（HAMED ALEAZIZ）

2021年的米洛·扬诺普洛斯（Milo Yiannopoulos）。这位右翼煽动者在被美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）官员于新奥尔良逮捕后被遣返。

根据美国国土安全部的一份声明，曾在美国推广极右翼阴谋论和种族主义的英国挑衅者米洛·扬诺普洛斯于周五被遣返回英国。

扬诺普洛斯先生是唐纳德·J·特朗普的早期支持者，后来曾涉足帮助此前被称为坎耶·韦斯特（Kanye West）的说唱歌手探索竞选总统的可能性。他于周四在路易斯·阿姆斯特朗新奥尔良国际机场被美国移民官员逮捕。

国土安全部在声明中表示，扬诺普洛斯先生于2019年合法入境，但签证到期后逾期停留。据该部门称，在他未能出席听证会后，一名移民法官于7月对他下达了最终遣返令。

国土安全部在网上公布了扬诺普洛斯先生的入狱照，并警告其他移民应通过自我遣返来“掌控自己的离境”。

特朗普政府正日益将目标指向美国机场的外国公民。移民局特工根据航空公司提供给美国运输安全管理局（TSA）的信息，在办理登机手续的柜台和到达门将人员迅速带走。

扬诺普洛斯先生未回应寻求评论的消息。他在美国生活了十多年，持有为具有“卓越能力”人士预留的非移民签证，加入了 Breitbart News 的员工队伍。

他经常通过关于伊斯兰教、女权主义和移民的煽动性言论，测试其挑衅行为的底线。

扬诺普洛斯先生还曾对特朗普先生的大规模遣返行动感到欣喜。去年，他在社交媒体上呼吁对那些无法证明自己合法在美的人员进行“现场遣返”。

在他成为特朗普先生首次竞选公职的知名支持者十年后，他被遣返了。

扬诺普洛斯先生曾是特朗普先生塑造的新保守主义文化中一颗冉冉升起的新星，但在2017年，他在嘲笑罗马天主教神父的恋童癖时，默认与低至13岁的男孩发生性关系，随后他在右翼阵营中失宠。这些言论似乎让他失去了一份图书出版合同、在 Breitbart 的工作以及在保守政治行动会议（CPAC）上的演讲邀请。

2022年，扬诺普洛斯先生声称自己促成了一场包括特朗普先生、韦斯特先生和白人至上主义者尼克·富恩特斯（Nick Fuentes）在内的晚餐会。两年后，扬诺普洛斯先生加入了一场为韦斯特先生发起的探索性总统竞选活动。

而当时的韦斯特先生正陷入关于反犹太主义言论的争议中，其中包括对阿道夫·希特勒的赞美。

那一年，扬诺普洛斯先生还因担任众议员马乔里·泰勒·格林（Marjorie Taylor Greene）的实习生而登上头条，这位共和党人因与特朗普先生闹翻而辞职。

劳拉·卢默（Laura Loomer），这位右翼

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一位与保守派反目的特朗普早期支持者。

这位活动人士兼特朗普先生的助手，自2024年下旬以来一直要求将其前盟友亚纳普洛斯先生驱逐出境。卢默女士现在声称亚纳普洛斯先生被捕是她的功劳。

“被卢默了！”她说道。她用这个词来形容那些在她呼吁采取行动后，被特朗普政府解雇、驱逐或以其他方式谴责的一群人。“我长期以来一直说这件事应该发生，现在它确实发生了。”

亚纳普洛斯先生在2016年因领导一场针对一名黑人女演员的骚扰活动而被当时名为Twitter的网站封禁，但在埃隆·马斯克购买该平台并随后将其更名为X后，于2022年恢复了账号。

亚纳普洛斯先生几乎每天在该平台上发布动态。他尚未就自己的被驱逐事件发表公开评论。

填字游戏误报了与谜题主题相关的线索数量。实际有10条，而非8条。

错误在印刷过程中只要有可能都会被修正，因此此处记录的部分错误可能并未出现在所有版本中。

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布朗队的迈克尔·科茨二世是一名未被选中的新秀，两周前在对阵熊队的比赛中完成了一次拦截和一次击飞传球。他因脚踝受伤离开了比赛，但现已恢复训练。

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NFL季前赛已演变成一种等级制度

球队最重要的球员在远离公众的地方准备，而那些处于边缘地位的球员则在进行一场高风险的试演。

作者：杰森·劳埃德 (JASON LLOYD)

The Athletic

芝加哥熊队的首发四分卫卡莱布·威廉姆斯在最近的一个周六早晨，在士兵球场的一次私人训练中演练了 60 多个战术动作。几个小时后，付费观众们则在观看他的替补球员与克利夫兰布朗队进行比赛。

如果说有什么能清晰地解释季前赛足球已变成什么样子，那就是这件事。熊队认为最有价值的训练是对公众关闭的；而它售卖的产品则是这场“试镜”。

季前赛足球已经演变成了一种等级制度。成名的球星越来越多地在私密、可控的环境中进行最有价值的训练。地位稳固的首发球员很少上场，甚至完全不上场。而那些合同金额最低、工作保障最少的球员，则在 N.F.L. 继续从中获利的比赛中，承担了绝大部分的接球次数、身体接触和身体风险。

对于全国的球迷来说，季前赛被包装并作为 N.F.L. 比赛出售。但对于大多数参与者而言，这是一场带有擒抱环节的求职面试。

熊队基本上选择私人练习而非当天下午的比赛，将其作为其球队核心四分卫的最佳准备，这并不令人惊讶。本月所有 N.F.L. 球队都在做出同样的决定。

当布朗队和布法罗比尔队准备在上周末交手时，两位主教练一致同意，由于他们在上周四联合训练期间已经完成了训练，首发球员在比赛中将不会过多上场，甚至完全不上场。此前，四分卫乔什·艾伦在比尔队的季前赛揭幕战中仅上场 15 次——这比他在去年整个季前赛中的上场次数还多 15 次。而在周四晚上对阵钢人队的比赛中，艾伦再次没有上场。

我们已经走过了很长一段路，回溯到 50 年前 N.F.L. 的巡回赛时代，那时球队会在全国各地的不同站点进行六场季前赛，其中还包括一些中立场地。

价值已经发生了迁移。比赛对于球迷想要观看的球员来说变得越来越没用，而对于大多数球迷不认识的球员来说则变得越来越重要。

对于那些在争取工作机会的球员来说，这造成了一个残酷的困境：同一场比赛既能开启一个职业生涯，也能终结一个职业生涯。

休斯顿的四分卫格雷厄姆·默茨在德州人队的揭幕战中撕裂了前交叉韧带，本赛季将缺席。他从未在常规赛中出场。他当时正在竞争一个替补位置。

比尔哈尔·科内是去年巴尔的摩乌鸦队的第六轮新秀，他在第一场季前赛中撕裂了膝盖韧带，导致他的新秀赛季化为乌有。今年他回到了赛场，试图争取一个名单席位，继续一年前被中断的试镜。

布朗队的角卫迈克尔·科茨（Michael Coats Jr.）是一名来自西弗吉尼亚州的非选秀新秀，他在两周前对阵芝加哥的比赛中拦截了一次传球并化解了另一次，增强了他争取名单席位的说服力。随后，他在同一场比赛中因脚踝受伤离场。

在熊队与布朗队的比赛之前，卡莱布·威廉姆斯进行了一次私人训练。他没有参加比赛。 JOSHUA A. BICKEL / 美联社

庆幸的是，科茨没有大碍。他已经回到了布朗队的训练中。

风险与足球密不可分。球员在联合训练期间同样容易受伤，但可控的环境至少提供了减轻风险的机会。N.F.L. 中地位最稳固的球员通常在季前赛的周末安全地站在场边，而那些试图加入他们的球员则被担架抬走。

对于名单底部的球员来说，八月份的第四节可能是他们职业生涯中在经济上最重要的足球比赛。他们需要为其他 31 支球队提供比赛录像，以防下周末被裁掉；或者为其他雇主（如联合足球联盟）提供录像，如果他们在 N.F.L. 无法获得机会的话。

根据集体谈判协议，一年级球员在训练营和季前赛期间每周可获得 $2,000 的日津贴。资深球员每周可获得 $3,500。球队还提供住房、餐饮和部分差旅费用。由于一名球员可能只上场 50 次进攻，而首发球员则在场边观看，因此没有额外的季前赛比赛奖金。

无论一年级球员是从未进入季前赛，还是参与了每一次进攻，他获得的每周日津贴都是同样的 $2,000。然而，一旦进入正式名单，一名没有计入赛季记录的球员，其最低正式名单薪水为 $885,000。对于试图跨越这一财务鸿沟的球员来说，季前赛的机会极其宝贵。但承担额外风险所获得的补偿却并非如此。

公平地说，这并非无偿劳动。球员们分享联盟的收入。在执行任务期间受伤的球员通常有权获得医疗护理，并且在受伤当季可能拥有薪水权利。部分球员符合未来伤病保护福利的条件。所有这些都是重要的背景信息。

但分级合同（split contracts）可能会减少伤病球员所获的款项。伤病能提供一定的财务和医疗保障，但不能保证持续就业。球队可以放弃伤病球员。如果一名球员通过了弃权程序（clears waivers），除非双方达成协议，否则他通常会转入伤病预备名单。

集体谈判协议可以要求球队承担医疗费用并保留部分薪水。但它无法恢复已经消失的机会。它不能还给梅尔茨（Mertz）一年的成长时间，也不能在科内（Kone）康复后确保他有一个名单席位。本月提供大部分公众产品（比赛）的球员，往往是那些合同金额最低、且在失去机会面前保护最少的球员。

答案并非取消季前赛。废除季前赛将取消那些需要机会的球员的宝贵试训机会——而正是这些球员，最没有能力承受受伤带来的后果。

答案应该是像对待表演者那样，为这些球员提供报酬和保护。参加季前赛的球员除了训练营的每周津贴外，还应获得额外的比赛补偿。一名在季前赛遭受赛季报销伤病的球员，应被保证至少获得全额的正式名单最低薪水，而非降低的分级薪水。

相当耐人寻味的是，NFL 球队认为他们最宝贵的准备工作发生在他们向公众销售的比赛之外。

球星们在练习场上准备，而顾客们看到的则是标志、制服，以及那些拼命想要在正式比赛开始时再次赢得穿着这些制服权利的球员。

季前赛并非毫无意义。它只是对那些生存能力最弱的人来说意义最重大。

ASHLEY LANDIS / 美联社 德州人队的格雷厄姆·梅尔茨（Graham Mertz）在竞争替补位置时前十字韧带（A.C.L.）撕裂，本赛季报销。

TERRANCE WILLIAMS / 美联社 比哈尔·科内（Bilhal Kone）在因伤结束新秀赛季季前赛后，今年正努力进入乌鸦队的名单。

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团结能帮助 W.N.B.A. 克服文化战争之火

作者：伊恩·奥康纳 (IAN O'CONNOR) 《The Athletic》

想象这样一个场景：安吉尔·里斯 (Angel Reese) 抢下篮板后传球给凯特琳·克拉克 (Caitlin Clark)，后者随即快速推进至前场传给佩吉·布克尔斯 (Paige Bueckers)，布克尔斯直插篮下，用一次妙传骗过协防球员，将球交给这个星球上最优秀的球员。

想象 A'ja Wilson 的一次上篮，为美国队在周五开赛的 FIBA 世界杯中锁定金牌。

对于 W.N.B.A. 而言，在柏林实现的这种最佳方案将代表一次受欢迎的逃离，在充满冲突的时刻获得一次延长的团结休整。索菲·坎宁安 (Sophie Cunningham) 的夏天加剧了现有的——且似乎永无止境的——紧张局势。我们面临着“凯特琳·克拉克体验”：一个以黑人为主、拥有显著酷儿群体且关于跨性别参赛资格的问题引发场外示威和场内骚乱的联盟。

众议院共和党人致信 W.N.B.A. 总裁凯西·恩格尔伯特 (Cathy Engelbert)，表达了对场上针对克拉克的“攻击”可能是“种族动机”的担忧。洛泽维尔 (Loserville) 的观众将性玩具扔进球场。像埃内斯·坎特·弗里덤 (Enes Kanter Freedom) 这样像马戏团小丑一样的人，在涉及联盟最大球星的全国电视直播比赛中大闹一场。

在如此动荡的政治气候中，W.N.B.A. 被恶意行为者武器化了。恩格尔伯特表示，这些人利用该联盟在种族、性别和性取向方面“播种分裂”。

针对球员的在线威胁和仇恨是不可原谅的，任何正面收益都无法弥补这一点。然而，就在所有通用兴趣指标一路攀升，且联盟最新球队之一的金州女武神队 (Golden State Valkyries) 估值达到 10 亿美元 billion 之际，这些断裂带却切断了 W.N.B.A. 的根基。

W.N.B.A. 在处理那些助长文化战争之火的极其敏感问题时需要保持聪明，但好消息是：对于一个关注并欣赏该联盟但并未对其进行报道的人来说，今年夏天关注 W.N.B.A. 的男女球迷数量确实比以往任何时候都多。

这意味着更多的人在观看印第安纳狂热队 (Indiana Fever) 的比赛，是为了看凯特琳展现自我，或是看坎宁安扮演反派，结果却在离开时感叹：“嘿，我以前不知道凯尔西·米切尔 (Kelsey Mitchell) 这么强。”

伊恩·奥康纳是《The Athletic》的高级专栏作家。

这意味着该联盟拥有一系列令人兴奋的年轻天才，克拉克拥有巨大的大众吸引力，且各大体育联盟在生存危机中幸存的历史表明，它将能够解决问题，并在另一端找到更大的繁荣。

每个成功的联盟都经历过其份额的争议和逆境，或许没有哪个比创立 W.N.B.A. 的那个联盟经历得更多。1998, 年，在迈克尔·乔丹 (Michael Jordan)、魔术师约翰逊 (Magic Johnson) 和拉里·伯德 (Larry Bird) 将 N.B.A. 变成全球巨头之后，我坐在第五大道高处的戴维·斯特恩 (David Stern) 的办公室里，回想起他的联盟在 1970 年代的样子。

“我们当时被认为太黑，毒品泛滥，”总裁那天说道。我们回忆起半空的场馆，以及在 11:30 p.m. 延迟播出的分区决赛比赛。在 N.B.A. 的 30th season 接近尾声时，1976 年在凤凰城举行的总决赛 Game 3 在 10:30 a.m. 开始——是的，就在早晨——这样 CBS 就可以在下午播高尔夫球。

联盟应当在宣传凯特琳·克拉克的同时，有意识地同样大力推广赢过 3 次 W.N.B.A. 冠军的 A'ja Wilson。 ETHAN MILLER / GETTY IMAGES

在 W.N.B.A. 的 30th season，没有人会为了一个几乎不感兴趣的网络电视台而早起观看冠军赛。你只要转身，就能在某个电视机的最抢手播出时段看到 W.N.B.A. 的比赛。

斯特恩在当年面临着繁重的工作，包括约翰逊公开患有艾滋病、拉特雷尔·斯普雷威尔袭击教练、蒂姆·多纳吉赌球丑闻，以及在2004年发生的“宫殿之乱”。那场印第安纳步行者队球员与底特律活塞队球迷之间的斗殴，迫使总裁启动了一项球员社区外展计划，并实施了一套着装规范，而这套规范在某些领域被谴责为针对艾伦·艾弗森和嘻哈文化的种族主义反击。

NBA球员最终成为了时尚偶像，人们不再讨论着装规范，这成了斯特恩的又一次艰苦胜利，他深谙如何度过风暴。

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WNBA是否拥有这种精明的领导者？毫无疑问，恩格尔伯特主导了一个令人印象深刻的增长期，而真正的问题在于外部人员在推进其议程并争取选票。但在一个世界运行速度远快于斯特恩社交媒体前鼎盛时期的时代，当恩格尔伯特提到的那些分歧力量开始发挥作用时，WNBA经常措手不及，处于被动反应而非主动出击的状态。

尽管坎宁安——一名拥有球星级粉丝数量的角色球员——有权就跨性别运动员发表意见，但一名球员在7月的一篇详尽的ESPN文章中发表的观点——坎宁安在文中表示她希望“保护更衣室里的年轻女孩，或那些不应该与生物学男性竞争的体育运动中的年轻女孩”——竟然能连续数周引发混乱，这足以说明WNBA领导层的问题。

有一点很明确：如果恩格尔伯特即将离职，WNBA绝对不能在寻找继任者时出错。赌注实在太高了。这一点在一周前布鲁克林一个令人兴奋的周六晚上显而易见，当时两支估值超过5亿美元的球队——印第安纳狂热队和纽约自由队——呈现了一个案例研究，展示了该联盟已经取得了怎样的进步，以及未来还能达到怎样的高度。

2018年，在将自由队挂牌出售约一年后，麦迪逊广场花园公司首席执行官詹姆斯·L·多兰告诉我，他不知道如何让他的WNBA球队获得成功。

“我相信自由队的产品，”他说，“如果你去看一场自由队的比赛，那些篮球赛很有趣。但我死也不明白怎么才能让人们去现场看球。”

他继续说道：“我们投入了大量的营销资金，尽了一切努力让球队成功，但人们还是不来。”

八年后，当自由队和狂热队在巴克莱中心面对17,581名狂热的售罄观众对阵时，这场紧张较量最后几分钟的感觉就像是一场生死攸关的季后赛决赛。

凯文·杜兰特、凯里·欧文和詹姆斯·哈登恐怕只希望他们在之前的篮网队时期也能拥有这种支持。

当然，这次活动不仅仅关乎篮球。赛前，对立的示威者聚集在巴克莱中心外，表达他们对坎宁安关于跨性别运动员立场的看法。他们被金属围栏隔开——支持坎宁安观点的人在这一边，不支持的人在另一边。

一名支持跨性别运动员团体成员表示，她只想在自由队的比赛中感到安全和受欢迎，而在中场休息时，正是这些信息被

该联盟已被恶意行为者武器化。

在巨大的场馆视频显示屏上滚动播放，其中一条写道：“欢迎跨性别 Liberty 粉丝！你们被爱着，你们属于这里！”

坎宁安的支持者坚称，她从未将此事与跨性别粉丝挂钩，而仅仅是关于体育竞技的公平性。布鲁克林的一名示威者赞扬这位印第安纳州后卫，称尽管知道会面临激烈的批评，她依然公开表达了自己的立场。

坎宁安认为，她帮助 W.N.B.A. 获得的所有额外关注（无论好坏）都产生了净正向影响。“我认为只要能让更多人关注 W 联赛，”她说，“那就是一件很棒的事情。”当被问及是否能想象在不久的将来，W.N.B.A. 的受欢迎程度能与主要的男子职业联赛相媲美时，坎宁安表示：“是的，我真的这么认为，”她补充道：“我真的认为我们可以成为女性联赛效仿的先驱。”

随着该联盟计划到 2030, 增加至 18 支球队，Liberty 教练克里斯·德马科（Chris DeMarco，曾担任史蒂夫·科尔的助手并随金州勇士队获得四次冠军）同意 W.N.B.A. 在未来“绝对”可以接近他之前所在联赛的吸引力，并将其原因归结为夏季赛程（此时 N.B.A. 处于休赛期）以及整个运动的竞技水平。

“现在的产品质量非常高，你可以看到每支球队都在打现代风格的篮球，”德马科说。“你希望这种篮球精神能够绽放光芒，我认为现在正是如此。”

是，也不是。篮球本身确实非常精彩，但非篮球层面的争端却让人感觉被全盘吞噬。长期从事营销和公共关系工作、曾为女子网球协会和国家女子足球联赛工作的乔·法沃里托（Joe Favorito）表示，W.N.B.A. 迫切需要所有利益相关方达成一致。

“北美职业体育中的每一个重大问题，只要联赛中的每个人达成共识，都能被克服，”法沃里托说。“目标不应该是永远没有争议，因为那是不可能的。目标应该是将这些时刻转化为可教育的契机。”

很明显，如果球员、教练、老板和真正的球迷能够意识到，在没有任何跨性别球员参加 W.N.B.A. 或主要大学篮球赛的情况下，持续就跨性别参赛资格进行相互攻击是在损害大局，那么这一进程将会加快。

在目前的新闻周期中，团结，或者至少是接近团结的状态，需要成为联盟的首要目标。

白人球星可以通过公开支持她们的黑人同事来提供帮助，因为后者更容易成为网络喷子和骚扰者的目标。联盟如果能像将克拉克塑造为联赛面孔一样，有意识地推广赢过三次 W.N.B.A. 总冠军、四次联赛 MVP 和两枚奥运金牌的威尔逊，将是正确的做法。

与此同时，所有 W.N.B.A. 球员都可以通过完全接纳克拉克来帮助促进团结。克拉克是一项极其宝贵的资产，她是对 2024 N.C.A.A. 女子决赛比男子决赛多吸引 400 万 名观众负主要责任的人，而且她一直被违心地拖入近期的纷争中，并被用作政治棋子。

当克拉克在场上大放异彩时，W.N.B.A. 会变得更好。在全明星赛期间的一段 NBC 芝加哥视频中，她向巴拉克·奥巴马保证，她不会将自己的快乐交给前总统所称的“所有这些废话”。几周后，我请克拉克向一个从未体验过的人描述那种打出超凡球技的感觉。

“你感觉就像走进糖果店的小孩子，”她回答道。

如果这个联盟能够挺过文化战争，它将回到那个状态——回到那家糖果店。当它重新回归篮球，回归在最高水平上比赛的快乐时，W.N.B.A. 将成为一股不可阻挡的力量。

GOLF

关于YouTuber广告的争议正改变该运动与影响力人物的关系

作者：GABBY HERZIG The Athletic

一群影响力人物拍摄了一则旨在模仿独立电影的广告，随后互联网上对其描绘的针对女性的随意暴力行为爆发了愤怒，高管们则发布了措辞拙劣的道歉声明。而现在，一周之后，Good Good Golf的争议仍没有放缓的迹象。

但随着大型零售商继续将色彩鲜艳的帽子从货架上撤下，粉丝们在争论这些YouTuber接下来的命运如何时，这场灾难揭示了一个更深层的问题：像Callaway这样的大型品牌——这家制造商曾批准那则现已删除的联名驱动杆广告——将从中吸取什么教训？

据多位行业专家称，这次后果将导致更广泛的企业高尔夫领域迎来一次反思。

对影响力人物，尤其是以“兄弟文化”为主的高尔夫影响力人物文化的接纳并不会完全消失。然而，公司将被迫坐下来思考，如何在不牺牲品牌价值的情况下，吸引更年轻的人群。

是否存在一种合作方式，既能与影响力人物合作，又能避免让他们对企业的声誉拥有不受限制的权力？还有哪些其他途径可以产生同样跨越世代的效果？

Gabby Herzig为The Athletic报道高尔夫赛事。

“在我看来，这正是真正需要修复的缺口——即其中一些团体确实拥有过多的创作自由，”拥有超过30年品牌合作伙伴经验且担任GSE Advisory执行副总裁的迈克尔·布朗（Michael Brown）表示。“而你天生就会面临潜在风险。”

Good Good的联合创始人加勒特·克拉克（Garrett Clark）随后解释称，涉事广告旨在恶搞今年夏天上映的超自然恐怖片《执念》（Obsession）。在广告中，克拉克从背景中冲向亚历克西斯·米斯托夫斯基（Alexis Miestowski），用前臂顶她的背。她摔在地上，当他站在她上方而她抬头看向他时，他威胁地说道：“不要碰我的新驱动杆。”

该广告在几小时内被删除。第一波道歉随后而至，紧接着一段关系的终结也随之而来。这段关系在2023, 1月开始时，曾是一个增长趋势中的重大时刻：高尔夫原始设备制造商选择与一群年轻且受欢迎的互联网创作者携手同行。

这些影响力人物中，许多人最初是从播客或YouTube起步，随后变成了拥有忠实追随者的多平台独立媒体公司。在新冠疫情引发的高尔夫热潮期间，他们的增长进一步加速。

TaylorMade此前已经拥有Barstool Sports的“Fore Play”播客，随后又签下了YouTuber格兰特·霍瓦特（Grant Horvat）。曾与Callaway合作的“No Laying Up”则与Titleist签约。为了不落后，且在电视收视率下滑的背景下，PGA Tour组建了一个创作者委员会，并推出了与顶级赛事——球员锦标赛（The Players Championship）和巡回赛锦标赛（Tour Championship）挂钩的“创作者经典赛”（Creator Classic）表演赛。

MIKE MULHOLLAND / GETTY IMAGES Good Good Golf品牌的联合创始人加勒特·克拉克（Garrett Clark）。

这些合作伙伴关系几乎立即取得了成功。

巨大的传统公司觉得他们终于找到了解决日益严重的问题的方案。他们无法破解进入尚未开发的Z世代高尔夫人群的密码，但这些小众的互联网名人可以。为什么不联手呢？

“这是商业和营销的自然演进，”高尔夫营销顾问、首批专注于高尔夫的影响力机构之一Digital Golf Collective的创始人杰斯·麦卡利斯特（Jess McAlister）表示。“创作者、影响力人物以及非行业相关合作伙伴关系已经存在很长时间了。高尔夫只是在很多方面最后才跟上，所以面对任何新事物，显然都有一个学习曲线。”

Callaway 没有错过这个机会。Good Good 以其特有的、真实且偶尔显得不成熟且始终不加过滤的方式，在其常规内容中自然地推广 Callaway 的产品。 对结果感到满意：“能让一群拥有巨大影响力且高尔夫球技精湛的 20 岁年轻人让人们对我们的产品产生热情，这是一个绝对不能错过的机会，”该公司现任全球营销副总裁 Nick McInally 在 2024 年表示。

据一名直接熟悉该制造商品牌战略且要求匿名的人士透露， 总部的共识是，对方更擅长吸引年轻粉丝，因此 的领导层应该退后，倾听这些年轻内容创作者的意见。

共同决定让这些 Z 世代专家发挥他们的作用。据该消息人士称， 在该争议广告发布到社交媒体前大约 24 小时，才首次收到并审阅了该团队提交的内容。

首席执行官 Matt Kendrick 在周五清晨发布的一条 X 账号帖子中指责 ：“有趣的是，@CallawayGolf 要求我们制作广告，然后批准它，接着要求我们承担责任，然后在一次协调一致的媒体攻势中抛弃我们，并试图通过捐赠 100 万美元来掩盖这一切，以为这样大家就没问题了。”

Kendrick 没有回应置评请求。

专家表示，这次争议很可能会导致品牌方重新考虑，这类合作伙伴关系从一开始是否就具有意义。

这或许解释了为什么后续反应如此迅速。除了 切断联系之外，Dick's Sporting Goods 及其子公司 Golf Galaxy 将相关商品从货架上撤除，Golf Channel 决定不再播出一部由其担任合作伙伴的《Big Break》竞技真人秀重启版，且 PGA Tour 宣布其将不再赞助 11 月的一场赛事。

“当你是一个在像高尔夫这样相当传统的运动领域运营的成熟消费品牌时，你必须问问自己在疏远核心消费者之前，愿意在多大程度上突破这些界限，”品牌与声誉咨询公司 Legend Labs 的创始人 Jeff Hunt 表示。“该广告暴露了这种潜在的紧张关系，而随后的反应则加剧了这一点。但我认为更大的问题在于，这两个品牌从一开始是否就足够契合。”

甚至在广告引发行业巨震之前，品牌方内部可能已经在思考其中一些问题。在 2026 年的大师赛上，奥古斯塔国家高尔夫俱乐部主席 Fred Ridley 对此前与 YouTube 团体 Dude Perfect 的合作表示遗憾。

“几年前，我们让 Dude Perfect 在 Amen Corner 玩飞盘，”Ridley 说。“回想起来，我挺喜欢那些小伙子，但这可能并不是个好主意。”

PGA Tour 将其与创作者的关系视为吸引年轻粉丝长期战略的一部分。这一点不会改变。但巡回赛的方法正在演变。“创作者经典赛”（Creator Classic）今年没有回归，而在巡回赛冠军赛中，它被一项由影响力人物与亚特兰大当地名人之间进行的“最近杆”比赛所取代。

高尔夫公司意识到的一件事是，除了“兄弟团”（bros）之外，还有其他目标人群。

“我们已经真正调整了营销部门，专注于女性战略，并支持那些准备最终投资该领域，或者可能只是在尝试应对当前环境的品牌，”McAlister 说。“你可以想象，本周我接到了许多品牌和组织的电话，询问具体该如何操作。”

冰球

工会负责人有信心 N.H.L. 球星将重返奥运会

在经历了 12 年的缺席后，N.H.L. 球员参加了今年的米兰-科尔蒂纳冬奥会。马蒂·沃尔什（左）自 2023 年起担任 N.H.L. 球员协会执行董事。 JEREMY WHITE / THE NEW YORK TIMES

作者：CHRIS JOHNSTON

The Athletic

慕尼黑 —— 在今年早些时候成功让 N.H.L. 球员重返奥运会，完成了其职责中的关键部分后，马蒂·沃尔什认为，让他们留在奥运会舞台上不会是一个巨大的挑战。

N.H.L. 球员协会执行董事沃尔什认为，米兰-科尔蒂纳冬奥会的经历极其正面，这将迫使所有利益相关者在敲定 2030 年法国阿尔卑斯山冬奥会的正式协议时，必须共同促成合作。

作为 2025 年谅解备忘录的一部分，工会已经获得了 N.H.L. 关于参加下一届冬奥会的正式承诺，尽管该协议中的条款指出，这仍“取决于各相关方（包括国际奥委会和国际冰球联合会）协商达成可接受的条款”。

在过去，这类谈判曾多次破裂。N.H.L. 在连续参加五届奥运会后，缺席了 2018 年奥运会，随后又因新冠疫情担忧退出了 2022 年奥运会。但沃尔什认为，这次不会出现类似的退步风险。

“如果国际奥委会（I.O.C.）和国际冰球联合会（I.I.H.F.）不明白他们需要我们在奥运会中，我会感到震惊，因为收视率简直爆表，”他在 N.H.L. 欧洲球员媒体巡访期间告诉 The Athletic。“国际奥委会主席在评论中提到‘奥运会帮助 N.H.L. 提高了收视率’。没错，但 N.H.L. 也帮助奥运会提高了收视率。”

Chris Johnston 是 The Athletic 的 N.H.L. 高级撰稿人。

BRUCE BENNETT / GETTY IMAGES

美国队与加拿大队之间的男子冰球金牌赛在 NBC 和 Peacock 上的美国平均直播观众人数为 1860 万。在加拿大，比赛结束时有 869 万 人在观看 CBC 的直播。而且这还是在东部时间上午 8 点刚过就开始比赛的情况下，这促使 N.H.L. 总裁加里·贝特曼后来表示，如果北美在下午开赛，收视率“将会高出两倍”。

对于沃尔什来说，更关键的一点是，如果各方无法在接待、票务、保险和营销等正式将 N.H.L. 球员送入奥运会的协议细节上达成一致，那么所有利益相关者将损失惨重。

“我们会达成协议的，”他说。“我不担心那个。协议的核心不在于球员是否参加奥运会，而在于随之而来的所有其他事项，比如住宿之类的。我不担心那个。”

在全球范围内推广这项运动并建立一个稳健的国际赛事日程是沃尔什的重点工作，在他担任 N.H.L.P.A. 期间，这些工作取得了重大成功。

在他于 2023, 2 月正式被聘用之前，他曾从康纳·麦克戴维和几位其他知名球员那里听说过重返奥运会的重要性。因此，沃尔什表示，在就职后与贝特曼的第一次对话中就提出了这个话题，而他们随后的持续讨论最终为米兰之行铺平了道路。

之前的工会领导人曾试图为会员建立一个定期的国际赛事日程，但未能真正实现。沃尔什正在取得实质性进展。在 2025, 2 月他的任期内，大获成功的 4 Nations Face-Off（四国对抗赛）顺利举行，目前工会正与 N.H.L. 计划重启冰球世界杯（World Cup of Hockey）赛事，预定于 2028 年 2 月举行。

“我们想出了一个主意，制定了一套时间表，”沃尔什说道。“我们在 24 没有足够的时间举办世界杯，所以我们举办了 4 Nations ——这算是奥运会和世界杯的一种序曲。因此我们有了 4 Nations，26 我们有奥运会——显然进展顺利——28 我们将举办世界杯，而我们的目标是参加 30 奥运会。”

支撑这一国际冰球新时代的，是工会与联盟之间的一种和谐感。随着下个月生效的新集体谈判协议，他们保证了至少到 2030 年 9 月为止的劳资和平，且自沃尔什被雇佣以来，双方建立了更强的工作关系。

在慕尼黑的媒体巡访期间，沃尔什曾与 NHLPA 和 NHL 的工作人员以及几位在场的欧洲营销人员聚集在一起。联盟和工会已承诺在未来三年将常规赛带到德国，首场比赛由芝加哥黑鹰队和渥太华参议员队于 12 月 18 和 20 在杜塞尔多夫进行。这是在一个产出约三分之一 NHL 球员的大陆上寻求更多突破的重点计划的一部分。

“我认为这里有真正的营收机会，有赞助机会，以及球员个人的成长机会，”沃尔什说。“你的祖国可能是德国，但我认为美国和加拿大的球员同样拥有这些机会。”

对于这个全球顶尖的冰球联盟来说，这是一个令人兴奋的时代。

在经历了多年的停滞后，飙升的工资帽使顶薪水准直冲云霄，而新的集体谈判协议也为球员带来了其他一些重大变化。作为将常规赛增加到 84 场（比之前多两场）以交给 NHL 的交换条件，工会成功取消了体能测试，将上赛季出场 50 场或更多球员的训练营缩短至仅 13 天，并将每支球队的季前赛场数减少到 4 场，其中出场 100 场以上的球员被限制在 2 场。

他们还取消了着装要求，沃尔什认为对于一个需要以新方式推销自己的联盟来说，这是一个重要步骤。

“我们正在加大对欧洲的投入，”沃尔什说。“我们正在加大对全球的投入。我们的赛程增加到了 84 场。我们参加奥运会。我们参加世界杯。这与 20 年前已经不是同一个行业了。所以，它在增长、演变和改变。我认为这项运动增长的一部分，还包括让球迷更多地接触他们喜爱的球员。他们穿什么，喜欢什么，吃什么。所有这些事情。这种情况正变得越来越多。”

“你已经看到了其他联盟这样做的成功经验，所以如果球员对此感到舒适，我们支持他们这样做。”

球员揭露赌博带来的代价：威胁、私信与遭遇

社交媒体提供的便捷通道让人们几乎没有地方可以躲避这些谩骂

作者：ZACK MEISEL 《The Athletic》

这已经成为了职业运动员生活的一部分，就像签名或举重一样：一名投手在比赛中丢掉领先优势，回到更衣室，检查社交媒体账号，然后发现一条来自对结果不满的用户发来的私信。

随着合法赌博的普及以及社交媒体平台提供的便捷访问，运动员们比以往任何时候都更多地听到那些将个人账户与球员表现挂钩的人的声音。

今年春天，我们询问了来自 23 支球队的 100 名大联盟球员（他们被允许匿名以坦诚交流），请他们回答一个简单但非常现代的问题：是否曾有球迷因为体育博彩损失而与你对质或联系你？

“有人会回答‘没有’吗？”一名国家联盟的投手问道，“即使你不用社交媒体，人们也能找到你。”

一名美国联盟的击球手预测 95% 的人会回答“是”。他的预测并没有差太多。

在回答问题的 100 名球员中，81 人透露他们曾因一场比赛的结果而被不满的球迷对质或联系。

随着道具投注（prop bets）和多重彩（parlays）成为任何转播或球场体验的一部分，这已演变为球员们几乎普遍的经历。M.L.B. 与一系列赌博机构建立了合作伙伴关系，包括 DraftKings、FanDuel 和 BetMGM。各球队也有自己的协议。现在，预测市场也进入了视野，Polymarket 与联盟合作，而 Kalshi 则与越来越多的球队达成协议，包括上周新增的五支球队。

现在，播报员在解说中穿插投注赔率或多重彩建议已十分常见。在球场上，你不可能在环顾四周时没看到一个广告，诱导你注册并进行首次投注以获取诱人的奖金。那些对这些企业联盟没有直接话语权的球员，最终决定了每个投注者的命运——而他们正是承受反弹的人。

Zack Meisel 是《The Athletic》的高级 M.L.B. 撰稿人。

许多回答“没有”的人表示，那仅仅是因为他们切断了与投注者的直接沟通渠道。有些人避开社交媒体，有些人则忽略私信。

另一些人则采取主动措施防止此类互动。一名国家联盟的击球手表示，他开启了 Instagram 的一项设置，除非由他发起对话，否则禁止他人向他发送消息。一名国家联盟的投手则在私信中过滤了某些与投注相关的词汇。

但这并非万无一失。

“如果你的社交媒体是私密的，”一名国家联盟的投手说，“他们会找到你的家人。”

“你会习惯的，”一名美国联盟的投手说，“但当他们开始谈论你的家人时，那就过分了。”

“这就是我退出社交媒体的原因之一，”另一名美国联盟的投手说，“有些内容完全越界了。”

一名捕手开玩笑说，他的出场次数不够多，不值得被投注或被指责。然而，大多数受访球员都经历过这类遭遇。

有些人说，他们无法分辨对方是在为最终比分、球员表现还是为自己的银行账户感到愤怒。

但对许多人来说，这已成为一种新的生活方式。

“你应该看看我的 Venmo 转账请求，”一名国家联盟的救援投手说。

“几乎每场比赛都会发生，”一名美国联盟的投手说。

“有人直接找过我，”一名国家联盟的投手说，“我点点头，然后走开。”

“总是关于让他们损失了多少钱，然后是脏话，脏话，脏话，”一名国家联盟的外野手说。

“我收到过 Venmo 转账请求，”一名美国联盟的投手说，“我还收到过一大堆威胁。”

那么，这些消息具体包含什么内容？

“没有人真的会花时间给你发消息说，‘嘿，打得太棒了’，”一名国家联盟的击球手说，“如果他们赢了赌注，那不是因为你做到了，而是因为他们预料到了。”

“我收到过这样的私信，比如‘You owe me $50’或者‘你就不能再拿下一个三振吗？’”一名国联（N.L.）投手说道，“还有一些难听的话。”

“人们总是通过私信联系你，告诉你你搞砸了，”一名国联投手说，“就像是在说，‘拜托，我知道我丢了一支本垒打。’”

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“如果你的社交媒体是私密的，”一名国联投手说，“他们会找到你的家人。”一名美联投手说，“这就是我退出社交媒体的原因之一。”他补充道：“有些内容完全越界了。”

Venmo 的转账请求很容易被忽略。

“来自一个陌生人，比如，‘Dude, you owe me $10,’”一名国联击球手说，“你直接把它当成耳边风就行。”

至少，通常是这样。

一名美联东区（A.L. East）的投手说，他曾在一次比赛后收到一笔 $3,000 的 Venmo 转账请求，并附带一条消息：“你让我输掉了串关投注。咱们得把事情处理正确。”该投手表示，他回复对方说，他最糟糕的一天“依然比你最好的一天要好”。在另一次出场后，该赌徒重复了这一套流程，再次发送了 $3,000 的请求，并附带消息：“你今天的表现太差了，你不配拿到薪水。”该投手说他满足了这一请求，并回信道：“我一天的收入远不止三千块。”

一名美联投手说，他可能会回发 50 cents，或者回一句幽默的讽刺，或者两者兼而有之。“然后他们会说：‘你其实挺酷的。抱歉，伙计。’”

然而，有时这会越界。

“当你看到对方在上面写出你的家庭住址时，事情就开始变得诡异了，”一名美联投手说。

一名国联外野手说，他经常收到威胁和诅咒。他补充道，“自从博彩合法化以来，情况变得荒谬至极。”

一名国联投手说，在今年的第一场春训比赛后，他收到了一条愤怒的私信。“就像是，真的吗？那家伙说，‘你连两个击球手都不能三振？’他在二月份的春训比赛里赌我干什么？这足以证明人们在赌一切。”

一名美联投手说，每次出场后他都会收到 5 to 10 条私信。“就像是，投了六、七、八局无失分，但人们还是生气，因为你没有三振超过六个半的人。”

每个人处理这件事的方式都不同：忽略、发笑或耸肩不在意，或者与对方交流——而对方通常是匿名的。

“他们想说什么就说什么，”一名国联外野手说，“是否让它影响到你，取决于你自己。”

在极少数情况下，也会出现积极的互动。

“在我新秀年，”一名国联内野手说，“我的九月表现非常好，很多人给我发私信说我帮他们赢得了梦幻棒球冠军。但那是体育博彩大行其道之前的事，所以我认为当时糟糕的情况可能没那么多。”

劳拉·斯佩克特逝世，享年71岁，她将令人厌恶的藤蔓转化为艺术

2008年的劳拉·斯佩克特。对于园丁和树艺师来说，亚洲苦味藤是一种祸害。而对于斯佩克特女士来说，它是一种不可抗拒的媒介。 THOMAS MCDONALD 为《纽约时报》拍摄

劳拉·斯佩克特设计 芭芭拉·以色列

她会创作像上方那样适合德鲁伊佩戴的皇冠。对于经营花园古董生意的芭芭拉·以色列来说，斯佩克特女士为她制作了一个由扭曲藤蔓组成的奇幻拱门，配有两把长凳（左图）。

作者：PENELOPE GREEN

劳拉·斯佩克特是一位艺术家，她能将苦味藤引导成迷人且古灵精怪的家具、灯具和物件（包括适合德鲁伊佩戴的皇冠），直到莱姆病限制了她的创作活动。她于7月25日在康涅狄格州费尔菲尔德的家中去世，享年71岁。

她的丈夫马克·斯佩克特宣布了她的死讯，但未提供死因。

亚洲苦味藤是一种极其令人厌恶的入侵物种，19世纪作为观赏植物从日本被引入美国。从那时起，它就在东海岸肆意生长，用其致命的卷须扼杀一切能缠绕住的东西。

这种藤蔓最快可在三年内杀死一棵树，是园丁和树艺师眼中令人厌恶的威胁和祸害。但对斯佩克特女士来说，它是一种不可抗拒的媒介。

在自然保护区、森林和后院的各个角落。

曾受舞蹈训练，她会用全身的力量来弯曲材料。

在康涅狄格州，她将纤细的舞者身躯投入交错的灌木丛中，用高枝锯收割她选中的“作物”。当地的一家土地信托机构和一家水务公司允许她在其林地中砍伐。她在2008年告诉《纽约时报》，只要她承诺在受伤时由自己承担责任，他们很乐意让她提供修剪服务。（事实证明，她从未摔倒，唯一被她切断的肢体是那些攀缘植物。）

藤蔓被收割后，她将它们堆在卡车里，卸在车道上，直到灵感迸发。藤蔓的盘绕和纠结决定了她可能创作的物件种类。她会用全身的力量将材料弯曲成乡村风格的长凳、拱门、床、桌子和镜子，并用钉枪将部件固定。（她只给自己射过几次钉子，是在手上。）

她的作品让人想起18世纪英国花园中浪漫的乡村家具——那些长凳、壁龛和拱门看起来就像是从景观中生长出来的，或是由精灵制作的——但斯佩克特女士刚开始创作时是自学成才，凭直觉工作。

“她有足够的耐力直接冲进去与藤蔓搏斗，”曾为斯佩克特女士提供工作坊的作家兼乡村家具艺术家丹尼尔·麦克在一次采访中说道，“她拥有一种令我们所有人效仿的勇气。这简直像是一场戏剧。她使用钉枪时非常自信。”

麦克先生补充道，制作乡村家具的实践“吸引了那些特立独行者和不循规蹈矩的人”。

“这不是逻辑性的东西。这是幻想家具，是不同故事线的道具。”

在开始艺术实践之前，斯佩克特女士曾接受过舞蹈训练，并在音乐行业工作，还担任过营销顾问。在1999年接受《威斯特波特新闻》采访时，她将自己的艺术实践描述为“一个人与自然之间的对话”。

她为设计师以及琼·巴埃兹和斯汀等音乐家制作作品，并为植物园、酒店和包括梅西百货在内的百货公司创作装置艺术。为纽约州庞德里奇的一位客户，她创作了一个30英尺长的螺旋楼梯。

为纽约州卡托纳的一家花园古董店店主芭芭拉·以色列，她制作了一个由扭曲藤蔓组成的奇幻拱门，并配有两张长凳。在过去的四分之一个世纪里，它慢慢腐朽，现在只剩下金属骨架。

但以色列女士说，这没关系：“当一件艺术品消失时，它变得更加特别。”

劳拉·费伊·赖特曼于1954年7月28日出生在纽约州长岛的新海德公园，是三姐妹中的中间那个。她的母亲乔治特（利伯曼）·赖特曼是一名大屠杀幸存者，抵达美国时只会说法语；她后来成为一名护士，在获得学位后，成为了纳苏郡霍夫斯特拉大学的比较文学教授。她的父亲莫顿·赖特曼是一名纺织业高管。

劳拉在同样位于长岛的梅里克长大，并在本宁顿学院和纽约大学学习舞蹈。

她在20世纪80年代中期结识了斯佩克特先生，当时两人都在音乐行业工作。他管理着像巴埃兹女士、苏珊娜·维加和格雷厄姆·纳什这样的艺术家；她则从事营销和视频工作。他们于1987年结婚。

除了丈夫，斯佩克特女士留下了儿子尼古拉斯、女儿乔丹·斯佩克特·布赫拉、一名孙辈、姐妹丽莎·赖特曼·多比和朱迪思·特克希尔，以及她的母亲。

谈到她的创作媒介，斯佩克特女士说，最优质的藤蔓是那些生长在森林深处的。她确保在头顶挥舞高枝锯时，脚下踩在最坚韧、最粗大的藤蔓上。凭借舞者的平衡感，她从未摔倒。不过，毒藤是一个问题，而且她曾两次误爬进蜂巢。

“我不得不在那儿脱光衣服，因为蜜蜂粘在我的衣服里，”她在2008年告诉《时报》，指的是那些蜜蜂，“你无法想象那种痛苦。”

然而，她真正的对手是蜱虫。斯佩克特女士在二十年前感染了莱姆病，并频繁遭受剧烈的复发，这耗尽了她的体力。

最终，她放弃了家具设计实践，开始创作Photoshop拼贴画。这些 8-by-10 英寸的作品被她称为“身份系列”（Identity Series），其中出现了她称之为“劳拉娃娃”（Laura dolls）的角色——这些是她的风格化替代品，看起来像是有着一头标志性红发的纸娃娃。她将这些娃娃置于不同的场景中——它们分别拿着除雪机、电锯、雨伞、匹克球拍或吸尘器。在其中一件作品中，她让一个劳拉娃娃在夜晚的公路上方漂浮；在另一件作品中，劳拉娃娃像马格里特画中戴圆顶硬礼帽的男人一样悬在空中。

“我依赖想象力来构建身份，这与我与自然的协作紧密相连，”她在其网站的一篇艺术家声明中写道，“如果一个人的特质是由目标和职业决定的，那么我则退缩到了一个充满不确定性和被剥夺感的悲伤之地。”

她说，劳拉娃娃是一种通过游戏体验世界的方式，并且“也是在提醒我们，当我们寻找连接时，我们在某种程度上都在应对普遍的孤独感。”

伊薇特·鲁迪，97岁，法国女权主义者及政治家

作者：亚当·诺西特（ADAM NOSSITER）

伊薇特·鲁迪（Yvette Roudy）是一位坚韧的女权主义者。在担任法国首任妇女权利部长期间，她成功推动了国家报销堕胎费用的政策。她于8月18日在法国地中海沿岸佩皮尼昂郊外的卡贝斯塔尼去世，享年97岁。

法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙宣布了她在养老院去世的消息，并赞扬她“一生致力于将男女平等变为一项真正的权利”，以及她“永不疲倦的愤慨能力”。

鲁迪女士（发音为 ROO-dee）支持的1982年法律确保了女性的堕胎费用由法国国家医疗保险覆盖，这结合了她的两个热情所在：女性权利和反对经济不平等。

堕胎在法国自1975年起就已合法，但只有具备经济能力的女性才能获得该服务。这让出身工人阶级、终身信奉社会主义的鲁迪女士感到愤怒。而作为一个新设立部门的负责人，她可以为此采取行动。

在2008年接受法国文化广播电台（France Culture）采访时，她回顾道，指的是1975年使堕胎合法化的法律，“我想，既然这部法律已经存在，它就应该向所有人开放，而不仅仅是那些负担得起的人。”

她补充道：“这是一种需要通过社会公正措施来解决的不平等。”

她说，在接下来的几个月里，她每周都会向新任法国总统、她的长期盟友弗朗索瓦·密特朗施压，提醒他履行在竞选期间承诺的为女性报销堕胎费用的诺言，即便当时罗马天主教会

阿兰·德拉克里埃尔（Alain Delaquérière）和达芙妮·昂格莱斯（Daphné Anglès）参与了研究工作。

正试图通过游说他来阻挠她的计划。

“他当时非常恼火，”鲁迪女士说，但“他最终妥协了”。

在鲁迪女士的讲述中，这种坚持是她职业生涯的标志，而她的职业生涯起步并不顺利，曾受制于一位大男子主义的父亲。她说，她的女权主义源于她早期对现状的反抗——在她成长于波尔多郊区的小镇上，男女之间那种令人窒息的不平等感。

“我必须依靠自己，才成为了后来的我，”她告诉法国文化广播电台。

鲁迪女士在密特朗总统任内发起的另外两项重大举措取得了不同的成效。一项1983年的法律要求职业

作为首任女性权利部长，她资助了堕胎。

《解放报》（Libération）上周写道，在招聘和薪资方面，男女平权在很大程度上仍然是“一纸空文”。鲁迪女士在 2019 年接受《巴黎人报》（Le Parisien）采访时表示，当时缺乏执行机制，且雇主们“根本没有意愿去执行”。

在致力于让避孕药更广泛普及方面，她取得了更好的成效。她通过一部由电影导演阿涅斯·瓦尔达（Agnès Varda）执导并在黄金时段电视播出的广告，让每个法国家庭都关注到了这个问题。这一次，天主教会再次向她施压。

但她很清楚自己面对的是什么。1985 年，她在接受《纽约时报》采访时，将本国的情况与她认为的美国情况进行了不利对比，并表示：“法国的男性至上主义（Machismo）更严重。”

即便如此，她并不认同那种认为对女性的轻视仅仅是文化问题——特别是法国文化问题——的观点。

2018 年，她告诉《新观察者》（Le Nouvel Obs）杂志：“我不知道是否存在所谓的‘法国式风度’，坦白说，我一点也不感兴趣。我想要的是男人停止在地铁里蹭女性，以及停止认为他们天生就更优越。”

伊薇特·萨尔多（Yvette Saldou）于 1929 年 4 月 10 日出生在佩萨克（Pessac），是珍妮·萨尔多（Jeanne (Dicharry) Saldou）和约瑟夫·萨尔多（Joseph Saldou）三个孩子中最小的一个。她的父亲是一名金属工，在第一次世界大战中受伤致残，后受雇于市政府。

当伊薇特 12 岁时，她的母亲去世了。在父亲的压力下（他认为她没有必要继续深造），她在 16 岁时辍学，在当地一家鱼类加工厂担任秘书。她开始在夜间学习以准备高中毕业会考（baccalauréat）——这在法国大致相当于高中毕业证书，且至关重要——最终在 26 岁时获得该证书。

1951 年，她与皮埃尔·鲁迪（Pierre Roudy）结婚，后者是一名教师，后来成为法国一所国家戏剧学校的负责人。随后他们搬到了苏格兰，因为皮埃尔在那里找到了一份教学工作。

她同时也学习了英语。1955 年他们返回法国后，她与女权主义者科莱特·奥德里（Colette Audry）成为了好友。1964 年，奥德里女士建议鲁迪女士翻译《女性的迷思》（The Feminine Mystique）。这是贝蒂·弗里丹（Betty Friedan）近期出版且极具影响力的一本书，表达了那些感到被困于或隶属于家庭角色中的女性的挫败感。

2019 年，她告诉《解放报》：“凭直觉，我那时已经是一个女权主义者了。但这次翻译让我能够将内心深处的感受转化为文字。”

通过奥德里女士，她结识了密特朗先生。1965 年，密特朗作为社会党候选人竞选总统但未能成功，而鲁迪女士的政治生涯也由此开启。到 1981 年密特朗最终就任总统并任命她为女性权利部长时，鲁迪女士已在欧洲议会担任社会党议员。她担任该部长职位直到 1986 年。

此后，她两次担任诺曼底卡尔瓦多省的法国议会议员，任期分别为 1988 年至 1993 年，以及 1997 年至 2002 年。她还在 1989 年至 2001 年期间担任诺曼底小镇利西耶（Lisieux）的市长。

鲁迪先生于 2012 年去世。鲁迪女士没有直系亲属。

在离开政府部门后，鲁迪女士经常被其部长职位的继任者以及渴望听取她对法国女性进步看法的记者们咨询。2018 年，她告诉《新观察者》，“#MeToo 运动正让父权制度颤抖”。

但她并未失去对谁在掌控法国政治的冷峻现实认知。

正如她在三十多年前，在其著作《因为她们》（À Cause d'Elles，意译为“多亏了这些女性”）出版时，在电视节目《Apostrophes》中观察到的那样：“所有的规则都是由男人制定的。他们是在小酒馆的后屋里编造出这一切的。”

ERIC FEFERBERG / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES 上图为 2006 年的伊薇特·鲁迪，以及 2013 年在巴黎的一次表彰她的仪式上与法国总统弗朗索瓦·奥朗德的合影。鲁迪女士出身工人阶级，一生都是一名社会党人。

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罗伯特·斯基德尔斯基，86岁，历史学家及凯恩斯传记作者，逝世

作者：乔纳森·坎德尔（JONATHAN KANDELL）

罗伯特·斯基德尔斯基（Robert Skidelsky）于4月15日逝世，享年86岁。他是一位英国经济历史学家和政治特立独行者，其宏大的三卷本约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯（John Maynard Keynes）传记，在自由市场思想将其掩盖数十年之后，使这位经济学家重新回到了公众辩论的中心。

华威大学确认了他的死讯。斯基德尔斯基先生于1978年开始在该校任教，并于2006年成为政治经济学荣休教授。目前未提供进一步细节。

斯基德尔斯基先生出生于日占满洲的一个俄罗斯裔家庭，童年时期在第二次世界大战期间被拘留，后在牛津大学受教育。他的活动范围广泛，涵盖了学术、新闻、政治、智库和商业领域，多年来曾隶属于多个政党。

根据观察者和议题的不同，他的独立性可能被视为有原则的、反传统的，或者仅仅是令人恼火的。他的第一部重要传记是对英国战前法西斯运动领导人奥斯瓦尔德·莫斯利（Oswald Mosley）的一项同情性的1975年研究，这几乎毁了他的学术生涯。数十年后，他因与俄罗斯公司及俄罗斯富豪的关系，以及认为包括北约扩张在内的西方政策促成了俄罗斯对乌克兰的敌意而受到批评。

但他的名声绝大部分建立在关于凯恩斯的传记之上。该传记于1983年至2000年间分三卷出版，被广泛认为是关于这位经济学家生平的权威记录，也是那个时代最重要的知识分子传记之一。

斯基德尔斯基先生启动该项目时，正值在设计战后国际金融体系中发挥关键作用的凯恩斯失宠之时。在许多经济学家和政治领导人看来，20世纪70年代的通货膨胀和停滞使凯恩斯主义管理（主张政府积极干预经济）失去了信誉。英国首相玛格丽特·撒切尔和美国总统罗纳德·里根推行去监管化、私有化、降低税收，并坚信市场的自我修正能力。

面对这股知识潮流，斯基德尔斯基先生将凯恩斯不仅呈现为政府支出的守护神，而且将其塑造为一个世故、博学且经常大胆的思考者，他意识到市场不仅受数学规则支配，同样受不确定性、信心和人类心理的影响。

Ash Wu参与了报道。

斯基德尔斯基先生的凯恩斯传记最后一卷，是那个时代最重要的传记之一。 VIKING ADULT

他还描绘了凯恩斯私人世界的丰富细节：他与布卢姆斯伯里团体（Bloomsbury Group）艺术家和作家的友谊；他与男性的多次情史；以及他与俄罗斯芭蕾舞女演员莉迪亚·洛波科娃（Lydia Lopokova）的婚姻，这导致他否认了同性关系。

“没有人能在没有精通经济学技术的情况下恰当地书写凯恩斯，”历史学家亚瑟·M·施莱辛格二世（Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.）在1994年的《纽约时报》中写道。他补充说，斯基德尔斯基先生“极好地增加了一种坚实且怀疑的政治现实感，以及对文学的敏锐鉴赏——

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一位极具争议的公共知识分子，以及一名上议院议员。

ture and the arts, sensitive insights into the individual psyche and an incisive and often witty style."（……文化与艺术，对个人心理的敏锐洞察，以及犀利且往往风趣的风格。）"

西尔维娅·纳萨尔（Sylvia Nasar）在2002年于《泰晤士报》评论最后一卷《为自由而战，1937-46》时写道，斯基德尔斯基先生“将凯恩斯从经济学家的手中拯救出来，将其置于他真正所属的历史世界之中”。

罗伯特·雅各布·亚历山大·斯基德尔斯基（Robert Jacob Alexander Skidelsky）于1939年4月25日出生在哈尔滨，当时那里属于日本傀儡政权满洲国，现为中国东北的一部分。他的父亲鲍里斯·斯基德尔斯基（Boris Skidelsky）是犹太人，母亲加莉亚·萨佩尔金（Galia Sapelkin）是基督徒。罗伯特在英格兰教会的环境下长大，后来将自己描述为半个犹太人。

他的父系家族在俄罗斯和满洲根基深厚。他的祖父曾参与建设西伯利亚大铁路通往海参崴的最后一段。家族公司 L.S. Skidelsky 租赁了满洲最大的私人煤矿之一。

鲍里斯·斯基德尔斯基在俄国革命期间逃亡，在前往满洲之前成为了英国公民。在满洲，他遇到了未来的妻子，她同样来自一个俄罗斯移民家庭。然而，家族的财富在1929年的股市崩盘中化为乌有。

在1941年12月英日开战后，斯基德尔斯基一家被拘禁，先是在满洲，随后在日本。几个月后，他们通过与英国扣押的日本公民交换而获释，并前往英格兰。罗伯特最早的记忆包括在频繁的德国轰炸期间躲在桌子下面。

他就读于布赖顿学院（Brighton College），随后于1958年进入牛津大学耶稣学院学习历史。之后，他在牛津大学纳菲尔德学院（Nuffield College）进行研究生研究。他的博士论文成为了他的第一本书——《政治家与萧条：1929-31年的工党政府》，于1967年出版。

这本书确立了他此后职业生涯中一直关注的主题：为什么民主政府在面对经济危机时，往往无法做出足够大胆的反应。

在撰写了一篇关于进步教育的研究后，斯基德尔斯基先生转向研究莫斯利先生。莫斯利先生曾是一位冉冉升起的政治人物，曾在议会中分别担任过保守党和工党成员。面对大萧条，莫斯利提出了一套极具干预主义色彩的经济计划。在提案被否决后，他创立了英国法西斯联盟（British Union of Fascists），该组织部分模仿了贝尼托·墨索里尼在意大利的运动，且他成为了阿道夫·希特勒的崇拜者。

斯基德尔斯基先生最初被莫斯利先生的经济思想所吸引——尤其是他主张正统政治家对于大规模失业没有充分的对策——并认为时间的流逝使得重新评估成为可能。他认识莫斯利先生的儿子、小说家尼古拉斯·莫斯利（Nicholas Mosley），并协助年长的莫斯利撰写回忆录。他还出入于莫斯利先生及其妻子戴安娜·米特福德（Diana Mitford）的社交圈；这对夫妇曾因其法西斯同情倾向在战争期间被拘禁，并曾在法国生活多年。

“在我看来，传记作者的角色不是原告，”斯基德尔斯基先生在序言中写道，“而是在辩护律师和法官之间。”

罗伯特·斯基德尔斯基 2015年的照片。他为奥斯瓦尔德·莫斯利撰写的带有同情色彩的传记几乎毁了他的职业生涯。 NICK MOORE / ALAMY

然而，在许多评论家看来，这本书淡化了莫斯利先生的反犹主义，并包含了一些似乎将针对犹太人的敌意归咎于犹太人自身的段落。在其中一段中，斯基德尔斯基先生写道，犹太人“必须为随后发生的事情承担很大一部分责任”。在后来的版本中，部分段落被删除或弱化，但他从未在公开场合广泛撤回该书的基本立场。

一些评论赞扬了这部传记的研究深度和叙事力量，但由此引发的争议造成了严重的后果。斯基德尔斯基先生自1970年起在华盛顿的约翰·霍普金斯大学高级国际研究学院任教，但他被拒绝授予终身教职。在牛津大学寻求永久职位的努力也以失败告终。

他回到了英国，在北伦敦理工学院度过了两年时间，对于一名雄心勃勃的牛津学者来说，这是一个沉重的打击。1978年，他被任命为华威大学国际研究教授。随后他成为了该校的政治经济学教授，并在华威大学任职直到2006年退休。

他全身心地投入到凯恩斯的传记写作中，这个项目最终耗时二十年。他和家人在萨塞克斯郡凯恩斯曾经的乡村住宅蒂尔顿屋住了多年，斯基德尔斯基先生就在凯恩斯的书桌前写作。

传记的成功使他当选进入英国国家学术院（British Academy）——英国领先的人文和社会科学学术机构；并在1991年被授予终身贵族爵位，成为蒂尔顿的斯基德尔斯基男爵。

他的政党隶属关系记录了一段不寻常的政治旅程。在1981年之前他属于劳工党，随后他与大卫·欧文及其他温和派共同创立了社会民主党。在该党于1988年解散后，他在保守党政府下接受了贵族爵位，并于1992年加入保守党。

在劳工党于1997年赢得大选后，他曾在上议院短暂担任保守党文化事务及随后财政事务的发言人。1999年，保守党领袖威廉·海格将他解职，原因是斯基德尔斯基先生公开反对北约轰炸南斯拉夫，而此次轰炸旨在停止塞尔维亚军队对阿尔巴尼亚族人的种族清洗及其他侵犯人权的行为。斯基德尔斯基先生于2001年离开该党，此后作为无党派贵族议员就座。

他在各政党之间的迁移成了一个公开的笑话。同僚贵族们会在上议院的走廊里拦住他并问道：“罗伯特，你今天在哪个党？”

2008年的全球金融危机让凯恩斯及其传记作者重新回到了公众视野。那些曾信任市场能够自我监管的政策制定者，突然转向银行救助、公共支出以及其他与凯恩斯相关的措施。

在2009年出版的《凯恩斯：大师回归》一书中，斯基德尔斯基先生认为，这场危机暴露了自由市场正统理论的核心缺陷：它无法充分解释不确定性和金融恐慌。他随后谴责了英国及其他地区采取的紧缩政策，认为在经济复苏疲软期间削减公共支出将延长停滞期。

俄罗斯对他而言既是一种情感遗产，也是争议的来源。斯基德尔斯基先生认为，西方未能认真对待俄罗斯的安全关切，且北约向俄罗斯边境的扩张加剧了对抗。在2022年俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后，他谴责了这次入侵，但反对经济制裁并敦促进行谈判，认为承诺乌克兰能获得彻底胜利会鼓励一场具有破坏性且可能无法获胜的战争。

由于他的商业关系，这些观点引起了更多的审视。他曾担任俄罗斯国家技术投资公司 Rusnano 的非执行董事，后来又担任俄罗斯私有石油公司 Russneft 的非执行董事（不要将其与规模更大、由国家控制的生产商 Rosneft 混淆）。

2023年，上议院在发现他未能正确申报其与他担任主席的智库“全球研究中心”的关系以及通过该中心获得的利益后，将其暂停职务一个月。该中心的部分资金由后来被英国制裁的俄罗斯商人提供。

斯基德尔斯基先生的妻子，原名奥古斯塔·霍普（Augusta Hope），两人于1970年结婚，她与他们的子女爱德华·斯基德尔斯基（Edward Skidelsky）、威廉·斯基德尔斯基（William Skidelsky）、朱丽叶·斯基德尔斯基（Juliet Skidelsky）以及六个孙辈在世。

他的最后一本书《适合我们时代的凯恩斯》（Keynes for Our Times）于6月出版。在他去世前不到一个月在上议院发表的最后一次演讲中，他再次援引了凯恩斯的观点，这次是关于青年失业问题的，演讲对象是英国财政大臣（chancellor of the Exchequer）。

“关注失业问题，预算自然会迎刃而解，”斯基德尔斯基先生说道，他引用了这位与他人生密不可分的经济学家的名言。“对于今天的统治者来说，这可能过于大胆，但我告诉财政大臣，如果一个人想要获得任何东西，就必须敢于尝试。”

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布拉德利（BRADLEY）——约翰·A.K.（John A.K.）。尊敬的约翰于2026年7月8日在美国安详离世。他于1934年23日出生在英格兰伦敦的奥斯特利（Osterley），父母为托马斯（Thomas）和多塞特（Dorsetts）。二战后不久，他随家人移居美国。他随后在康涅狄格州华盛顿定居。约翰是一名优秀的学生，在哈佛大学获得了学士学位（A.B., 1955），并在德克萨斯州获得了低学位（1960）。他于1961年获得纽约州律师执业资格。在德克萨斯州从事私人执业期间，他响应了公共服务的号召。此外，他曾担任民事法院法官，并于1982年被任命为纽约州最高法院曼哈顿分院的法官，并在该职任职至2004年，表现卓越。

在结束全职工作后，布拉德利继续在司法听证服务中心从事司法工作。他还负责处理由在任法官移交的争议和案件。此外，他曾是一名法官，也是一名热衷于徒步、摄影和环球旅行的人。他曾是一名议会官员，与夏尔巴人及其父亲建立了许多持久的友谊。他曾多次前往珠穆朗玛峰和查尔斯·T·肯尼迪（Charles T. Kennedy），并徒步走过了阿巴拉契亚小道的广泛路段，并担任纽约-新泽西阿巴拉契亚山脉俱乐部的特别会议成员。他长期致力于塞拉俱乐部（Sierra Club）的工作。最后，他曾在假期聚会中分享关于美国国家公园和国内冒险的生动故事和照片。约翰先于其妻子乔治·B·肯尼迪（George B. Kennedy）去世，其遗体

之托西·布拉德利（ofothy Bradley）；他的兄弟大卫·B·布拉德利（David B. ）；以及他的侄子威廉·B.布拉德利（William B. ）；他的侄子们在世，他曾与北卡罗来纳州韦克森林（Wake Forest, NC）的莫琳（Maureen）以及北卡罗来纳州罗基山（Rocky Mountain, NC）的托马斯·布拉德利（Thomas ）及其妹妹结婚。他的侄女塔拉·布拉德利（Tara ）及其丈夫尼克（Nick）在波士顿、旧金山、圣迭戈、弗朗西斯科，以及北卡罗来纳州罗基山的布拉德利在世；以及侄孙女丽贝卡·E·杨-托科夫斯基（Rebecca E. Young-Tokowski），北卡罗来纳州弗朗西斯科森林；以及温纳、弗朗西斯科、弗朗西斯科的米歇尔·布拉德利-亚历山大（Michelle -Alexander）；他由亲密好友铃木嘉路由（Karou Suzuki）陪伴。纪念仪式将在大湖区、弗朗西斯科、弗兰克·E·坎贝尔殡仪馆（Frank E. Campbell The Funeral Chapel），麦迪逊教堂1076号（1076 Madison Church），1965年下午1:30举行。服务费用为100加元。晚上22点，随后举行招待会。

布兰德利（BRANDLEY）——大卫

小福雷斯特（Forrest, Jr.），出生于1954年11月6日。2026年8月8日在曼哈顿安详离世。他是已故的大卫·福雷斯特·布兰德利（David Forrest Brandley）和琳·沃德（Lynn Ward）挚爱的儿子。他的妻子斯特凡妮·卢瑟（Stephanie Luther）与其结婚46年，两人在世；他的儿子乔治·卢瑟（George Luther）；他的女儿弗朗西斯·琳（Frances Lynn）；以及他的妹妹达娜·琳（Dana Lynn）在世。大卫在法律界拥有长期且成功的职业生涯，曾任 Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP（原名 Hunton & Williams）的合伙人。

布伦（BULLEN）——安-玛丽。

安-玛丽·布伦（Anne-Marie Bullen），1925年9月21日出生于瑞士苏黎世，2026年8月17日在其纽约家中安详离世。朋友们称她为“恰比”（Chubby），安-玛丽是一位极具风格的女性，热爱音乐，并喜欢与她已故的挚爱丈夫理查德（Richard）一起观看歌剧。安-玛丽是一位活泼的交谈者，总能结交新朋友。在晚年，她非常喜爱狗，经常在中央公园她最喜欢的公园长椅上用零食吸引它们。所有认识她的人都将深深地思念她。

讣告—威廉·富兰克林医学博士 (William Franklin, M.D.)

富兰克林医学博士， 挚爱的丈夫、父亲、 祖父、兄弟、叔伯、 医生及挚友，于2026年8月 22日安详离世，享年85岁。六十 年前，被许多人称为比尔（Bill）或比利（Billy）的威廉遇到了英格丽德（Ingrid），这位女性后来成为了他挚爱的妻子。 他们结婚59年，在罗克威（Rockaways）共同建立起生活， 并在那里抚养了五个孩子。比尔最大的快乐

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他的家人是他最大的快乐。他的遗属包括妻子英格丽德，以及子女格雷戈里（安娜）、卡里娜（Aaou）、约翰·H·史密斯（乔安娜（亚当））和杰里米（兰迪）。他是她生活的骄傲。他曾经历过一系列的人：丹尼尔、扎卡里、本杰明、汉娜、乔丹、索菲、约翰·H·史密斯、约翰·H·史密斯、德里亚、利亚姆和格雷厄姆。他是英国裔印度裔美国人（San）和苏珊·Qsiv（Indiani）挚爱的兄弟。他于1960年出生并成长于纽约布鲁克林。他曾是一位宏伟之人。比尔的生活根植于家庭、医学以及多年的学习与成长。比尔毕业于大学学院的 Yeshiva，随后在 Chico-Naher 获得了医学学位。他在美国的 Maimonides Medicine 完成了内科培训，并在 Albert Einstein 完成了胃肠病学研究员培训。他曾在以色列耶路撒冷的 Hodassah 医学中心度过了一个学术假。他曾服役于州空军，被授予少校军衔，并且是国家健康协会的成员。比尔的生活深深扎根于海洋公园大道，在那里他曾在医学领域发挥了重要作用，时间累计达 75 年。他作为医院的一部分照顾病人。他曾参与由其父亲创立的诊所。比尔热爱教学，在健康中心期间，他能够指导医学生、住院医师和研究员。他的一生充满了活力与好奇心。他是一位热衷的滑雪者，以及一万名受雇人员中的一名钢琴演奏者，并且终身热爱歌剧、海滩和这座城市无尽的音乐。他的激情带来了快乐，并成为了这份报纸织锦的一部分。这一年结束了珍视的时光。葬礼服务将于周三 12:30pm（12点）在阿姆斯特丹大道的“The Riverfront”举行。

弗罗因德（FREUND）——威廉·库尔特，于 26, 2026, 8月去世，九年前是某日的 10 周年纪念日。弗罗因德在经济学领域拥有辉煌的职业生涯，包括在美国以及普鲁登舍保险公司、普鲁登舍人寿保险公司、纽约大学大学学校、佩斯大学，以及美国居民交易所的大部分时间，他在那里担任首席经济学家，见证了一个世纪的经济增长。他因其深刻的分析和机智而广为人知，尤其是在美国经济和金融市场方面，尽管这些并不一定高度相关。库尔特·威廉·弗罗因德还是一名成员，他于 944, 成为美国公民，他于 1926. 出生在德国纽伦堡的纽约。1937 年，他随父母雨果和保罗（原姓 Grunstein）逃离纳粹德国，成为一个主要的经济群体，他曾受雇于一名擦鞋童，并在父母的面包店工作，其家族经营着在晚上专门制作德国甜点的 kuchen。他接受了良好的高中教育，并以文学学士身份毕业。他还在 1955. 获得了哥伦比亚大学的博士学位。他的老师曾称弗罗因德为“才华横溢的首席经济学家”，而他并非外汇专家。《纽约时报》观察到，他将商业与金融以及教会的研究与开发世界结合在了一起。他于 1951, 与朱迪思·斯坦伯格结婚，他们结婚 59 岁，以及那些结婚 59 岁的人。他的遗属包括子女雨果（苏珊）、南希·利弗（苏珊）和查尔斯·布拉特勒（莎拉）。他的遗属包括子女雨果（苏珊）、南希·利弗（苏珊）和查尔斯·布拉特勒（莎拉）。

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吉福德——凯尔·韦恩。 凯尔·韦恩·吉福德，弗兰克·牛顿·吉福德之子，一个在20世纪80年代成长起来的好人，于2026年8月24日安详去世。他曾与家人及挚友共同生活。他是年轻人心中深受爱戴的家庭成员。凯尔于1955年1月10日出生在加利福尼亚州贝克斯菲尔德。他的家人在约克结婚。他们曾在城市周围的许多地区生活，但他的家人在斯卡斯代尔结婚。凯尔于1973年毕业于斯卡斯代尔高中，当时并未结婚且热爱体育。他是纽约冠军赛辉煌历史中一名自豪的队友。斯卡斯代尔学院曾是一颗足球之星，随后进入科罗拉多学院，主修食品老前辈以及政治学，并获得了自己的学位。他是一位卓越的出版运动员，精通所有运动。他热爱戏剧，并曾从事天文研究。凯尔在大学毕业后的岁月在纽约市度过，时间长达数十年。凯尔热爱

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他的侄子和侄女们：维多里奥的孩子们——迈克尔、罗里和凯尔·肯尼迪，以及杰夫的孩子们——杰西卡和克里斯蒂亚诺·吉福德。他与她的家人以及霍莉·邦纳（Hollie Bonnar）关系深厚，后者是他最亲密的终身好友兼伴侣詹妮弗·康·邦纳（Jennifer Conn Bonnar）的孩子。他选择的家庭成员中还包括名为梅迪娜（Medina）的孩子及其子女朱莉娅和伊莎贝拉，她们在凯尔生命最后阶段的照顾之深难以言表。他在所有认识他的人心中所扮演的角色是无可替代的。他那温柔、聪明、幽默且平易近人的个性，以及他的睿智建议和独立见解，将被许多人怀念。他坚强、谦逊、优雅且善良，同时拥有令人惊叹的英俊。用一个词来形容：IRRE-2016；ESE 2016；亲爱的凯尔，愿你与天使同在。愿上帝保佑你，一路走好。

格拉德斯坦——埃迪丝 (GLADSTEIN—Edythe)

纽约历史学会的董事会和全体员工深切哀悼埃迪丝·格拉德斯坦的逝世。她是我们的好友、支持者，也是“马修·迈克·格拉德斯坦传记杰出讲座”的捐助者。即便在接近 100 岁高龄时，埃迪丝依然充满热情地参与并坚定地出席格拉德斯坦讲座，我们将深切怀念她。我们向约翰、吉娜、约书亚以及她所有亲爱的家人表示最深切的慰问。

许唐 (Hsu-Tang)，博士，主席 路易丝·米雷尔 (Louise Mirrer)，博士， 总裁兼首席执行官

汉密尔顿——莱曼 (HAMILTON—Lyman)

我们深爱的莱曼·汉密尔顿在2月的那一天本将迎来 100 岁生日，而他已于三年前在加利福尼亚州卡梅尔去世。他出生于洛杉矶，圣弗朗西斯科，圣何塞（Gluck）汉密尔顿，16 岁就读于哥伦比亚的普林西比亚学院，18 岁时入伍加入美国海军，并在 1945 年成为一名军官。他是玛丽·谢泼德国务院的一员，他们育有四个儿子。莱曼的预期寿命是该国被选为奖学金以将其作为主要职业的 30 名大学四年级学生之一。他在国务院工作。在硕士首次亮相后，莱曼的职业生涯开始了。莱曼总是说，该州最近的一代是在日本从事美国冲绳民政当局工作，本质上是一家国家银行，即一家中央银行，财务和政治机构部长。随后他在世界银行工作了一段时间，担任中东和非洲地区总裁。莱曼于 1962 年加入纽约国际期刊，晋升为首席财务官，并担任美国第九大企业的首席执行官。在许多国家，莱曼随后与贝弗利·兰奎斯特和查尔斯·邦特结婚，他们对投资管理感兴趣。四十多年来，他们尚未结婚，并广泛旅行（他访问了 104 个国家，其中许多是几个县），他还担任非营利组织的董事会成员，参加了无数场音乐会，并且直到今年仍保持着伟大的思想，伟大的思想，甜美的精神和良好的整体健康。前述者是贝弗利，儿子比尔、里奇、道格和戴夫，以及在美国的儿媳和朋友们。曾孙科伊蒂、埃文、亨利和詹姆斯已步入 100 岁。曾孙杰克和克莱尔。

汉德尔曼——大卫·Y. (HANDELMAN—David Y.)

大卫·Y.·汉德尔曼是一位成就极高的娱乐业高管，于 2026 年 8 月 20 日因中风后的并发症去世。他于 1959 年毕业于宾夕法尼亚大学，随后于 1962 年获得哈佛法学院的法学博士（J.D.）学位。他曾在证券交易委员会工作，并且

布拉德利，约翰 (Bradley, John) 布兰德利，大卫 (Brandley, David) 布伦，安-玛丽 (Bullen, Anne-Marie) 埃伯，威廉 (Erber, William) 弗罗因德，威廉 (Freund, William) 吉福德，凯尔 (Gifford, Kyle) 格拉德斯坦，埃迪丝 (Gladstein, Edythe) 汉密尔顿，莱曼 (Hamilton, Lyman)

随后成为 Laird, Inc. 的总法律顾问，这是一家位于美国的精品餐厅和研究公司。作为民权的热心支持者，他曾在 1965 年成为登记黑人选民的强有力领导者。1974 年，他将职业重心转移，担任 Twentieth 和 Twentieth American President 的高级副总裁兼总法律顾问，该公司致力于在总统的支持下从事娱乐法。他参与了在数字推广、娱乐和知识产权方面具有专业特长的成功私人执业。他一直工作到其职业生涯在生日之初结束。大卫曾任 KCRW 的董事会成员，那里曾是一个极好的机会部门纪念基金会——该基金会为在利益线路上被杀或受伤的人员提供至关重要的重要支持。南加州水区的总裁。一个贪婪的重新开发者拥有无法满足的好奇心，并且在过去一年里完全流利。他建立了一个不断变化的数字娱乐世界，大卫和他的家人以及在纽约市的第二住所，他也是他珍视的兴趣和城市中贾内特的祖父，他的后代有子女乔安娜（彼得）和威廉（索托），他们是官员，西里（杰西）和艾米莉。

考普尔曼——默里 (KOPPELMAN—Murray)

布鲁克林学院校长米歇尔·J·安德森 (Michelle J. Anderson)、布鲁克林学院基金会董事会主席安东尼·R·卡斯特利亚诺斯 (Anthony R. Castellanos '85)、布鲁克林学院基金会信托委员会以及布鲁克林学院社区成员，共同悼念杰出校友、尽职信托员及具有变革意义的慈善家默里·考普尔曼 (Murray Koppelman '57) 的逝世。他对教育机会的坚定承诺及其非凡的慷慨，助力塑造了布鲁克林学院的未来，并为世世代代的机遇与利益提供了发展空间。他的遗产将通过他所影响的生命以及他所热爱的机构而永存。

考曼——爱丽丝·费弗 (KORMAN—Alice Feiffer)

汉德尔曼，大卫 (Handelman, David) 考普尔曼，默里 (Koppelman, Murray) 考曼，爱丽丝 (Korman, Alice) 昆斯塔德，杰拉尔丁 (Kunstadter, Geraldine) 利特曼，艾伦 (Litman, Allen) 林奇，罗伯特 (Lynch, Robert) 麦肯纳，肯 (Mckenna, Ken) 纳什，玛戈 (Nash, Margo)

爱丽丝·费弗·考曼 (Alice Feiffer Korman)，我们怀着深切的悲痛，于 2026 年 6 月 24 日在纽约面对充满魅力的爱丽丝·费弗·考曼。她的父母大卫和罗达·戴维斯·费弗 (David and Rhoda Davis Feiffer) 居住在纽约布朗克斯区，她曾在纽约霍夫斯特拉大学获得硕士学位，并曾在长岛的岛树高中 (Island Trees High School) 任教。她是一位《纽约时报》的忠实读者，一位热情的支持者，也是一位热爱欢笑的获奖玫瑰园艺师。爱丽丝以其独特的风格，对家人和许多人展现出无尽的关爱与慷慨，她对所有人的影响是无法估量的。爱丽丝先于结婚 64 年的丈夫阿尔伯特·哈罗德·“哈尔”·考曼 (Albert Harold "Hal" Korman) 以及她珍爱的兄弟姐妹米米·穆迪 (Mimi Moody) 和保罗·F 夫人 (Mrs. Paul F.) 离世。她的儿子布鲁斯 (Bruce, 配偶米里亚姆 Miriam) 和格伦 (Glenn, 配偶凯蒂 Katie) 以及众多侄子、外甥和表亲在世。我们对过去一年中莫莉 (Molly) 历史的贡献深表感激。捐款可捐至亨廷顿医院 (Huntington Hospital)，正如爱丽丝和哈尔曾在此担任志愿者：

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内森，马歇尔 (Nathan, Marshall) 里斯蒂奇，米奥德拉格 (Ristich, Miodrag) 桑德斯，吉尔伯特 (Sanders, Gilbert) 夏皮罗，西奥多 (Shapiro, Theodore) 索利斯，托德 (Sollis, Todd) 雷恩-迈尔斯，M.-C. (Wrenn-Myers, M.-C.)

昆斯特达特——杰拉尔丁 (KUNSTADTER—Geraldine)

杰拉尔丁·S·昆斯特达特 (Geraldine S. Kunststadter)，国际人道主义者及外交参与者，于1960年8月23日在纽约市地区家中安详去世，享年98岁。她是阿尔伯特·昆斯特达特家族成员主席，该组织致力于开展国内及国际项目。她是菲律宾、中国香港和澳大利亚国家学院的成员，并与英国、柬埔寨、中美洲和南非以及美国合作，这些合作对中国香港和澳大利亚的项目规模产生了重大影响。她此前也是美国的一大重要影响力人物，是将小型国际发展引入美国的先驱，产生了显著影响，并广泛旅行以监督美国的经济发展。1960年，美国在

马萨诸塞州马尔堡和英格兰被提升，这由美国和通用工程公司在1945年承诺。1940年代后期，她被选入美国以及芝加哥大学的喷气发动机依赖项目。她也是美国电力公司的重要影响力人物。1969年，她被选入美国政府的联合国委员会和领事团（现为美国政府国际事务部）。从1971年到1986年，她担任美国政府美国项目的主任，与新到任的外交官及其家属一起工作。她也是美国的一大重要影响力人物。杰拉尔丁曾任国家社会科学研究所主席，并获得美国政府研究所颁发的杰出服务金质奖，以表彰其对

美国政府部门。通过她在麻省理工学院 (MIT) 学生时代建立的友谊，她被选入美国政府的中国国家协会（中国北京）。她还获得了总统奖章。从1988年到2005年，杰拉尔丁担任联合国国际会议经济和社会理事会的独立董事。1986年，她被选入美国政府的国际委员会。2004年，为了认可她数十年来作为美国政府国家委员会董事会成员的权威工作，杰拉尔丁被提名参加加州和华盛顿学院的庆祝活动。杰拉尔丁曾担任美国世界事务、亚洲桥梁基金会、大西洋地区以及

美国政府国家委员会董事会的董事和成员。1988年，她对耶鲁-中国协会、纽约市全球中心和吉大港市开放海洋收养服务产生了重大影响。她曾任美国政府美中艺术交流国际组织主席、倡议委员会成员，以及建筑与设计学院亚洲研究项目主席。她被选入佛蒙特州普尔尼的温德姆学院董事会，是美国政府外交关系、女性外交政策小组和美国外交联盟的成员，以及1949年国际教育的受托人。1949年，她与麻省理工学院副院长约翰·W·昆斯特达特 (John W. Kunststadter) 结婚，其后代包括儿子小约翰 (John Jr.，妻子名为Melissa)、丽莎 (Lisa，1960年Nickel等人) 和伊丽莎白·冯·哈布斯堡 (Elizabeth von Habsburg，丈夫名为Geza)，以及1949年出生的八个孙辈。

利特曼——艾伦·E. (LITMAN—Allen E.)，

于2026年8月27日逝世，享年81.岁。他是特里·M·利特曼 (Teri M. Litman) 共同生活近60年的挚爱丈夫。他是斯图尔特·J·利特曼 (Stuart J. Litman)（妻子南希 Nancy）和萨拉·丽贝卡·利特曼 (Sara Rebecca Litman)（丈夫亚当·马什 Adam Marsh）亲爱的父亲。他是杰克 (Jack)、哈里 (Harry) 和艾娃 (Ava) 疼爱的祖父，也是马克 (Mark)（妻子芭芭拉 Barbara）和拉里 (Larry) 的兄弟。他的最后时光平静且无痛苦，身边环绕着他最爱的人。他在尊严、优雅和浓浓的爱中离世。追思服务将于2026年8月30, 2026, 10日星期日上午10:30在位于第76街和阿姆斯特丹大道的 The Riverside 举行。

讣告

LYNCH—小罗伯特·约瑟夫（Robert Joseph, Jr.）。小罗伯特·约瑟夫·林奇（Robert Joseph Lynch Jr.）是深受爱戴的丈夫、兄弟、叔伯、父亲和祖父，于2026年8月19日安详离世，享年93岁，其陪伴他53年的挚爱妻子帕特里夏（Patricia）在侧。罗伯特的生命庆典将于2026年9月25日（星期五）在纽约市第五大道1085号（邮编10128）的天国安息教堂（Church of the Heavenly Rest）举行。

McKENNA—肯（Ken）。

肯·麦肯纳（Ken McKenna），62岁，居住于纽约市和内罗堡（Narrowsburg），1890。他在约克市对肯尼斯（Kenneth）和艾琳·麦肯纳（Eileen McKenna）有着极大的意义。他在芝加哥市长大，135，他热爱他的兄弟姐妹艾薇（Ave）、雷吉娜（Regina）和詹姆斯（James）。他学习过，他曾是技术学院和首席环境朱利安·丘奇（Julian Church）的一员。两人最终都离开了摄影——朱利安去了加利福尼亚大学。技术。当朱利安从法学院毕业时，他们终于被朱利安·丘奇意识到，并最终意识到他们命中注定属于彼此。他曾是一位非常成功的摄影师，有两个出色且聪颖的孩子，德文（Devin）和艾丹（Aidan），以及非常可怕的伙伴洛基（Loki）和巴基（Bucky）。一个真正的漫威家庭，是一位优秀的攀登者、认证潜水员、自律的泰拳练习者，并且一直是一位非常坚强且给予无尽支持的足球爸爸。他

沉溺于第一天的年度报告，以庆祝与朱利安庞大（且迅速）的活动。他真正的超级力量是他的史诗级能力，虽然不是一个强有力的领导者，但却拥有更多的幸福、共情和如此多的优雅。他长期在政府工作，起初在信息技术部及其相关部门，最近转移到了网络安全部。他曾是一名主要的网络安全专家。他热爱他在州外的房子，在那里他拥有伟大的事业。他是一个新的滑雪者，为朱利安种花园，用双手工作并帮助他人。他曾非常简短地与家人和朋友分享。在所有居住在芝加哥市的人中，他拥有一颗完整的、英雄般的心，他热爱他的生活，在深沉的数十年里，他为她制作礼物和卡片、图画书和书籍。他一直对她非常宽容；忍受她的

韧性和凶猛，甚至面对她。他曾与各种各样的人在一起，将孩子们视为他们对她之爱的身体体现。他曾为她做过很多小事，尽管在一起时很明亮，而且他们慷慨地与她分享。他一直充满温暖。接纳、正直、平和、谦卑、一代人，并且在各方面都尽了最大努力。当他与父母以及朱利安的生活汇合时，他的遗产和记忆将在我们心中延续。他的精神将永远与我们所有人在一起。爸爸，我们如此想念你，她迫不及待想再次见到你。愿你安息。她说：“我要去见我。” 11:30am-3pm ET 吊唁于弗兰克·E·坎贝尔殡仪馆（Frank E. Campbell Funerman）。他曾拥有极好的机会，位于纽约市的大道。仪式将于下周下午4:00在纽约市举行。纽约市。直播和录像将在

https: / vimeo.com / event / 6140171 提供。1980年9月12日，他曾在夏威夷檀香山南金街1054号的基督教会（Church of Christ）出现，旧金山，圣迭戈，旧金山，夏威夷标准时间（HST）上午9:00。随后在总统纪念公园公墓（President Memorial Park Cemetery）举行仪式，位于加利福尼亚大学旧金山分校45-425 Kamehameho，夏威夷标准时间（HST）下午1:00。请以捐款代替鲜花，捐款可交给纪念斯隆-凯特林癌症中心（Memorial Sloan Kettering）。

NASH—Margo.

玛戈·纳什（Margo Nash）于1941年11月13日出生，2026年7月18日在其曼哈顿家中安详离世。她的丈夫布莱恩特·杜普雷（Bryant DuPre）在去世时陪伴在侧。玛戈曾是一名记者（就职于《纽约时报》和《卑尔根记录报》），一名作家（1983年出版《自由女神像，梦想的守护者》），也是犹太移民的孙女。玛戈通过采访移民，协助启动了国家公园管理局的埃利斯岛口述历史项目。

逝世

她曾在曼哈顿社区学院任教，毕业于纽约市音乐与艺术高中、美国国际学院（英语学士）和亨特学院（社会学硕士）。玛戈因其独特的笑声和幽默感而深受喜爱，她曾俏皮地拒绝了一次展示其意第绪语能力的请求，说道：“我不是你的意第绪语妈妈！”人们将深切怀念玛戈。

NATHAN—Marshall.

马歇尔·内森（Marshall Nathan）于1962年获得哈佛大学应用物理学学位。在1962年的半导体激光器事件中，他于2020年8月23日去世。如今，半导体激光器的半导体和洲际水平得到了最广泛的应用。它占据了超过580亿米的，并且还实现了光纤电信，半导体的商业电力是几个工业部门和工业实验室之间的竞争。马歇尔及其在IBM研究中心（IBM）的同事（由纽约州Heights出版）在工业界首次演示了此类。在最后三天，通用电气公司（General Electric Company）的一个小组在1964年（由罗伯特·N·霍尔记载）也实现了第二个，两组人在同一天，即1962年12月1日发表了他们的结果。一个月后，一周前，在马萨诸塞州莱克星敦的实验室中，也成功在工业界制造了此类。这种近红外光肉眼不可见，A. H. H. H H. H. H. H。

RISTICH—Miodrag,

米奥德拉格·里斯蒂奇（Miodrag Ristich），88岁，纽约市人，2026年8月21日去世。他的女儿凯瑟琳（Katharine）和伊丽莎白（Elizabeth）以及孙子扎卡里（Zachary）在世。追思礼将于9月26日星期六下午3:00在新泽西州Ho-Hokus的谢里登大道70号圣巴塞洛缪教堂举行。家属请求以向SOS Beagles（地址：814 Judith Lane, Atco, NJ 08004）捐款代替送花。办理事宜由C.C. Van Emburgh殡仪馆负责，网址：www.vanemburgh.com

SANDERS—Gilbert E.,

吉尔伯特·E·桑德斯（Gilbert E. Sanders），96岁，曼哈顿人，2026年8月26日去世。他是已故妻子里娃（Reva，原姓Minkin）的忠实丈夫。他是戴安娜（Diana）和吉尔（Jill，配偶丹尼斯）挚爱的父亲。他是深爱的祖父及曾祖父。

SHAPIRO—Theodore.

西奥多·萨法克罗（Theodore SARFAKRO），1984年，年逾94岁，于2026年8月11日安详离世，其相伴71年的挚妻琼（Joan）及子女在侧。他也告别了他在医学领域独特且卓越的职业生涯，作为护理从业人员的一员，成为了儿童和青少年精神病学领域的重要人物。他留下了激励人心的领导力、先驱性的学术研究、知识创造力、深思熟虑的领导力，以及与家人、朋友和同事的长期关系。西奥多将被他的妻子琼、女儿Suhrman（在下）、女婿丹尼尔·伯曼（Daniel Berman）、儿媳苏珊娜·赛雷夫曼（Susanna Sirefman）、孙辈雅各布（Jacob）、索菲（Sophie）、萨拉（Sara）、莎拉（Sarah）以及母亲深切怀念并永远爱戴。他还有曾孙玛雅（Maya）和西尔（Syl）

逝世

vie。韦尔康奈尔医学中心（Weill Cornell Medicine）精神病学系将于秋季举行纪念活动以向西奥多致敬。

SOLLIS—Todd Bryant,

SOLLIS—Todd Bryant，79岁，于2026年8月11日因帕金森病并发症平静离世。他出生于埃文斯顿，在当地高中就读，以荣誉毕业生身份毕业于普林斯顿大学，并在就读期间被命名为哈兰·菲斯克·斯通（Harlan Fiske Stone）学者。Todd曾在该市从事商业贸易。他真正的志向是唱歌，包括无伴奏合唱和轻歌剧。他是该公司以及蓝山剧团（Blue Hill Troupe）的坚定成员。作为一名鹰级童子军，Todd在研究鸟类方面获得了功勋章，而另一项则由其妻子担任。他的家人包括妻子Carolyn，儿子Edwin和Jo-aryn，儿子John Sollis，兄弟John Sollis以及姐妹Coralie Solls。请考虑向其母校（donations@michaelifox.org）或罗杰·托里·彼得森河口中心（Roger Tory Petersen Estuary Center）捐款。该“教育捐款”

ctaudubon.org / donate / RTPEC。

WRENN-MYERS—Marie-Claude Palmieri.

Maurice-Claude Palmieri Wrenn-Myers于2014年8月1日逝世，享年87岁。她就读于纽约的查平学校（Chapin School），毕业于蒙特霍利欧克学院（Mount Holyoke College），并在纽约的华盛顿大学学习一年。她的职业生涯早期在美联邦州立大学工作，是该州驻巴黎的成员。她曾担任《生活》（Life）杂志的记者，随后在美联邦州立大学以出版书籍作者的身份发表作品。在抚养两个孩子期间，她出生于1965年，从犹他大学S.J. Quinney法学院返回，并于1991年通过内华达州律师协会考试，1995年通过纽约州律师协会考试。她曾与一名联邦法官结婚，Marie-Claude加入了纽约金县地区法院及纽约布鲁克林地区法院，担任美国政府助理检察官二十年。Marie-Claude还担任美国总统儿童委员会董事，并从事了一些公益工作，获得了纽约统一法院系统的认可。她此前与家人（已故的J.博士，其丈夫之父）及其妻子结婚，并于2007年与Robert A. Myers结婚。她的丈夫先于她去世，她由丈夫Robert A. Myers、父亲Wrenn III及其妻子Malin M. Wrenn、孙辈、儿子、姐妹Michelle P. Warren以及兄弟Alison S. Palmieri继承遗产。葬礼将于周二、周六、周三、周四、周五、周六在圣约瑟夫教堂（Saint Joseph Church, 404 E 87th St.）举行。请以捐款代替花圈，捐款可赠予法美居民，详情见 https: / localhost.org / donate / 。

纪念

EDELSTEIN—Robert S. 1928年10月29日 - 2020年8月30日 爸爸，永远想念。永远爱您。永不忘记。亲亲，Cari 和 Amy

HOWE—William Peter. 2 / 3 / 1944 - 8 / 31 / 2024 企业家与说书人。 你被深爱着。 Chris, Eric 和 Kristen

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《悲惨世界》 是救星 地区剧院可以再次制作这部“即时赚钱之作”。 作者：迈克尔·保尔森 / 第 6 页

今年由犹他州艾文斯图卡恩艺术中心（Tuacahn Center for the Arts）制作的《悲惨世界》，有望成为该中心 31 年历史上票房最高的演出。

罗杰·基斯比 为《纽约时报》拍摄

4 古典音乐

在创作一部新芭蕾舞曲时，DJ Floating Points 从地下俱乐部和潘多拉之盒中汲取灵感。作者：休·莫里斯

5 电视

物理学家就《暗物质》（Dark Matter）中的科幻成分在多大程度上夸大了科学事实发表看法。作者：康妮·张

9 电影

真人与动画混合电影《郊狼对阵 Acme》（Coyote vs. Acme）在经历了制片厂之争后终于得以在影院上映。作者：杰森·T·贝利

10 艺术

三家博物馆正在展出先驱加州建筑师保罗·R·威廉姆斯（Paul R. Williams）的作品。作者：乔里·芬克尔

纽约 爱乐乐团 古斯塔沃·杜达梅尔

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文化内幕 本周艺术版

本期重点

MAXIMILIAN MANN 为《纽约时报》拍摄 在普通城市居民的认知中，楼梯和脚手架不应该是舞伴。但精通街舞、杂技，尤其是跑酷的表演者们正将这些技巧应用于不寻常的环境中——创造出富有诗意且荒诞的病毒式舞蹈。有时，一道链条围栏就像在邀请人们用翻滚跳跃地跨越它，正如法国动作艺术家查尔斯·奥古斯特（Charles Auguste）的最新项目《碎片》（Lambeaux）中所展现的那样。第 8 页

流媒体

各种来源的战栗感

作者：SCOTT TOBIAS

史蒂文·索德伯格（Steven Soderbergh）具有预见性的 2011 年大流行惊悚片、乔丹·皮尔（Jordan Peele）在《逃出绝命镇》（Get Out）之后推出的高概念恐怖续作、一部由赞达亚（Zendaya）和罗伯特·帕丁森（Robert Pattinson）主演的并非纯粹浪漫喜剧的电影，以及关于哈维·米尔克（Harvey Milk）和 Earth, Wind & Fire 乐队的纪录片，目前均在 HBO Max 上线。

《我们》（Us）（2019）

编剧兼导演乔丹·皮尔凭借其长片处女作《逃出绝命镇》树立了极高标准，该片被誉为即时的恐怖经典，而他的续作在增强紧张感的同时，提供了另一个极具吸引力的高概念切入点。《我们》作为一部家庭入侵惊悚片已经足够恐怖，由露皮塔·尼永奥（Lupita Nyong'o）饰演一名保护家人免受潜伏在度假屋外的四名蒙面陌生人侵害的母亲。然而，当入侵者揭开面具，揭露自己是来源不明的暴力分身时，情况变得更加诡异。《纽约时报》影评人马诺拉·达吉斯（Manohla Dargis）称其“比《逃出绝命镇》更具野心，且在某些方面更令人不安”。

《传染病》（Contagion）（2011）

尽管《传染病》中席卷全球的大流行病具有比新冠肺炎（Covid-19）更具末日感的死亡率，但看到史蒂文·索德伯格的电影如何如此精准地预见了病毒重塑社会的后果，依然令人着迷。影片从一名在香港出差期间感染神秘疾病并很快去世的美国人（格温妮丝·帕特洛 饰）开始，细致地追踪了疾病的传播以及公共卫生官员的反应。马诺拉·达吉斯称其为一部“关于当代瘟疫丛林的聪明且阴森的惊悚片”。

《戏剧》（The Drama）（2026）

将一部电影命名为《戏剧》至少可以说是非常大胆的，但一场酒精催化下的“你做过最糟糕的事是什么？”游戏确实引发了大量的戏剧冲突，其回答令友谊陷入紧张，并威胁要破坏一场婚礼。赞达亚和罗伯特·帕丁森饰演一对情侣，当一个惊人的过去秘密浮出水面，两人在与之搏斗时，他们的订婚陷入了混乱。《戏剧》在冲突延伸到与婚礼摄影师和 DJ 的会面时真正爆发，而后者完全不知道发生了什么。

《哈维·米尔克时代》（The Times of Harvey Milk）（1984）

罗布·艾普斯坦（Rob Epstein）这部获得奥斯卡奖的纪录片不仅为 2008 年古斯·范·桑特（Gus Van Sant）的传记片《米尔克》（Milk）提供了绝佳素材，还唤起了导致 1978 年哈维·米尔克被刺杀的紧张政治氛围，米尔克是加利福尼亚州首位公开出柜并当选公职的男性。这部由哈维·菲尔斯坦（Harvey Fierstein）旁白的纪录片，赞美了这位旧金山监事会成员的热情和政治直觉，他在被竞争对手监事枪杀以及市长乔治·莫斯科尼（George Moscone）遇害之前，成功游说通过了一项旨在结束基于性取向歧视的法案。

《愚蠢之钱》(2023)

众所周知，股票市场对散户投资者并不友好。对于任何投资者来说，购买 GameStop 的股票似乎都违背直觉，因为这家电子游戏回收店正面临数字下载兴起的冲击。但这部极具娱乐性的弱者喜剧《愚蠢之钱》详细讲述了基思·吉尔（保罗·达诺 饰）那不可思议的成功。他领导 r / WallStreet-Bets 子版块，在一次针对 GameStop 的“大卫挑战歌利亚”式轧空行动中，打破了现状，并让陷入昏睡的市场监管机构惊醒。本·肯尼格斯伯格表示：“很难不去支持戴着呆板头带的吉尔，去击败那些对他所热爱的股票下巨额反向押注的人。”

《地球、风与火（成为天体 vs. 世界之重）》(2026)

在凭借《灵魂之夏》获得奥斯卡奖四年后，被人们称为 Questlove 的阿米尔·汤普森再次挖掘档案，打造了另一部内容丰富、充满活力且极具娱乐性的音乐纪录片。单凭汤普森的组织能力就值得称赞，因为他能围绕一支经历过无数次成员更替和概念演变的乐队，构建出一个连贯的故事。汤普森及其受访嘉宾有力地证明了该团体是融合放克（fusion-funk）的先驱。格伦·肯尼称这部电影是“一部令人惊叹的电影，完全配得上它那个刻意起得冗长累赘的标题”。

待阅清单

我是《纽约时报》驻柏林的记者，负责报道德国、奥地利和瑞士的政治、社会与犯罪新闻。在北美生活数十年后回到出生地，我觉得自己仿佛一直在努力追赶那些错过的现代德国文化。以下是我清单中的一些内容。——克里斯托弗·F·舒策

VON WEGEN LISBETH 乐队

想象一下，如果 Franz Ferdinand 乐队有一个年轻 20 岁的德国表亲，那就是 Von Wegen Lisbeth。他们的音乐简单、幽默且富有律动感，最重要的是，我的孩子们不会立刻对此嗤之以鼻。在乐队极具柏林特色的歌曲中，有一首讲述了埃隆·马斯克试图进入电音圣殿 Berghain 却以失败告终的故事。

尼尔斯·卢卡斯 Von Wegen Lisbeth，一支德国独立流行乐队。

THE BUGLE 播客

这部喜剧播客以不羁、聪明且令人捧腹大笑而著称，多年前成名部分是因为约翰·奥利弗曾担任其共同主持人。他的前喜剧搭档安迪·扎尔茨曼现在与一群机智的轮换嘉宾共同主持。他们对世界政治的全球化视角（且大多非美国中心主义）总是值得一听。

《LÁZÁR》书籍

内利奥·比德曼写的这本薄书对德国读者来说极具吸引力。它讲述了一个匈牙利贵族家庭在 20 世纪上半叶的经历。与托马斯·曼的《布登布鲁克家》——一部《Lázár》常被拿来比较的经典之作——不同，这本书读起来快捷且有趣。难怪这位 23 岁的作者被认为是德国语系最前途无量的年轻作家之一。

《天空之队》桌游

我居住地的一件绝妙之处在于其繁荣且具有创新精神的桌游文化。在《天空之队》（Sky Team）中——该游戏被这里的评论家评为 2024 年德国年度游戏——两名队员利用一块棋盘、一堆卡牌和筹码，在各种条件下引导一架客机降落。如果这听起来非常极客，那么事实确实如此。

犯罪电视局

《犯罪》（Criminal）实际上是由四部不同的剧集组成，分别设定在法国、西班牙、德国和英国，且全部在同一个审讯室中拍摄。这听起来像是剧组为了省钱而采取的一种古怪方式，但事实证明，通过审视这四个国家最严重的罪行，这成了一次有趣的欧洲四大社会之旅。

JOSE HARO 《犯罪：西班牙》，由艾玛·苏亚雷斯（Emma Suárez）主演。

流行歌手蒂法尼仍眷恋 80 年代

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流行歌手蒂法尼（Tiffany）在 20 世纪 80 年代从购物中心演出起步，她对那个大波浪发型和 MTV 的时代有着深厚的情感。“那时候穿衣是为了被看见，”她说，“那是追求闪耀的时代。”下个月，她将重温那个十年，在《氨纶音乐剧》（Spandex the Musical）中饰演一名参加有氧操锦标赛的家庭主妇，完成她的外百老汇首秀——她 12 岁时曾出演过《猫》。她的热门翻唱歌曲《我想我们现在单独在一起》（I Think We’re Alone Now）已被改编进该剧中。蒂法尼（姓氏：达尔维什 Darwish）在从加拿大巡演回程的途中接受了我们的采访。以下是编辑后的摘录。DARRYN KING

1 米米（Mimi）的厨房

我的祖母主要做南方菜：炸鸡、黑眼豆、斑豆、玉米面包。她让我帮她切菜和烹饪。当我开始旅行时，我回家后会尝试还原在世界各地吃到的菜肴。这成了我们在米米厨房里玩的一个有趣的小游戏。

2 《周六夜狂热》原声带

我的第一张专辑。我的家人大多听乡村音乐或摩城音乐（Motown），所以我一直没有一张真正想在家里的大唱机上播放的唱片。这张就是我的心头好。我会把它放起来，在客厅里跳舞。它让我感到充满活力。随后，音乐带我进入了一个不同的世界，我想这也是我开始关注时尚的起点。

3 早晨的咖啡

我起床，喝杯咖啡，然后进行 15 到 20 分钟的冥想——为一天奠定基调，做一点祈祷，练习感恩。这让我立刻想起了我的祖父。他以前总是起得很早，煮一壶咖啡，然后坐在门廊上。那时我大约 4 岁，有一天我问：“我能喝点咖啡吗？”他给我倒了一点点，说：“别告诉米米。”这成了我们的秘密。

禅意花园

我的禅意花园是我的避风港。我在那里写歌、写日记、冥想。我种了不同的树，树上挂着夜晚会发光的球灯。这里没有光鲜亮丽。我扎着马尾辫，没化妆。这里就是我的私人空间。

5 复古牛仔夹克

我 14 岁时签了第一份唱片合约，直接从学校赶到第一次拍摄现场。唱片公司没给我准备任何服装，摄影师走到她的车里给我拿了一件牛仔夹克。就这样，我成了“牛仔夹克女孩”。我现在依然热爱夹克。我会给它们绘画、装饰、点缀水钻。我现在是一个夹克鉴赏家女孩。

“唱片公司没给我准备任何服装，摄影师走到她的车里给我拿了一件夹克。就这样，我成了夹克女孩。我现在依然热爱夹克。”

6 《星球大战》

我是《星球大战》的超级粉丝。我们在旅途中经常引用《星球大战》的台词，所以如果你想加入我的乐队，你基本上必须是个粉丝。坐在副驾驶位置的人就是“楚巴卡”（Chewy）。我们的其中一辆面包车被叫做“千年隼号”，因为它就是一直开，一直开，一直开。

7 真实犯罪电视节目

我经常看《日期线》（Dateline）、《48小时》（48 Hours）和《法医档案》（Forensic Files）。在全职巡演期间，偶尔会看到某集故事就发生在你所在的城市。但这并没有阻止我继续观看。我也是《法律与秩序》（Law & Order）的忠实粉丝。在我的食谱书《流行生活》（Pop Life）中，我写了一道名为“卷心菜与秩序”（Slaw and Order）的菜，这是对我最喜欢的剧集的一个幽默暗示。

8 英国

从15岁起我就经常往返于英国，而且曾经在那里生活过一段时间。现在我部分时间住在那里。我在那里有朋友和家人，并且已经与一名英国男子订婚。现在我可以独自乘坐火车，这让我觉得自己像个成熟的大姑娘，因为在大约四年前之前，我这辈子从未独自坐过火车。秘密公开了。

菲律宾宿务

宿务是一个让我立即产生共鸣的地方。那里如此美丽，人们如此快乐，而且我吃到了非常美味的菲律宾家常菜，这对我来说完全改变了认知。那里有一种我非常喜爱的纯真感。宿务的人们总是面带微笑地表达一切，这深深触动了我的心。我非常期待能再次回去。

10 重塑自我

对我而言，这就像是一根救命稻草。我一直经营着这些小生意。我曾拥有两家服装店。现在我有烹饪俱乐部、食谱书以及“蒂芙接管”（Tiff Takeovers）活动，在那里美食与音乐交融。探索自己的不同侧面至关重要。我只是在大声地生活。

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为芭蕾舞曲注入新鲜活力

DJ 兼作曲家 Floating Points 在新专辑《凡人》（Mere Mortals）中，将古典音乐与对舞厅的热爱相结合。

作者：休·莫里斯 (HUGH MORRIS)

伦敦——“我唯一保存的谷歌搜索记录就是关于亨利·杜蒂耶（Henri Dutilleux）的，”DJ、制作人兼作曲家 Floating Points 在他位于伦敦的家中说道，“我一直在寻找——比如，下周末我能不能去芬兰听他的音乐？”

Floating Points 的原名是萨姆·谢泼德（Sam Shepherd），在他的家庭工作室里，他保存着一份利盖蒂（Ligeti）《发音》（Artikulations）的纯净图形谱，以及梅西安（Messiaen）、斯特拉文斯基（Stravinsky）和武满彻（Takemitsu）等 20 世纪大师的其他杰作。但有一份乐谱与其余的截然不同，就放在他沙发触手可及的地方：那是杜蒂耶的小提琴协奏曲《歌曲之树》（L'Arbre des Songs）的一份副本，上面写满了注释，并贴满了便利贴。

对于一名经常出现在全球最大音乐节上的 DJ 来说，这种小众的选择可能会令人惊讶。但奥古斯汀·哈德利希（Augustin Hadelich）在 2015 年与西雅图交响乐团合作录制的《歌曲之树》是谢泼德去年在 Spotify 上播放次数最多的专辑。

“在和声上，它存在于自己的空间里——既能被理解，又恰好在触及范围之外，”谢泼德在谈到这部协奏曲时说，“在过去的几年里，这是对我来说最令人兴奋的音乐。”

现年 40, 岁的谢泼德在最近的一次采访中，经常离开餐桌，兴致勃勃但大多徒劳地试图在他巨大的黑胶唱片收藏中寻找音乐。他多样化的音乐生涯在舞曲和作曲的连续光谱中寻找小众切入点，其特点正是这种类似的驱动力。他的合作者之一、合成器先驱苏珊娜·西亚尼（Suzanne Ciani）在电子邮件中写道：“毫无疑问，他拥有一个才华横溢且好奇的心灵，以及追求新方向和新项目的无穷精力。”

他曾为弦乐、合成器、键盘以及法老·桑德斯（Pharoah Sanders）在专辑《承诺》（Promises）中创作；在专注于舞池的《级联》（Cascade）中，他更倾向于创作他所谓的“劲歌”（bangers）；他还监督了一套名为 Sunflower 的便携式高保真音响系统的创建，该系统曾巡演至 Dek-

以及他参与过芭蕾舞剧。他为《凡人》（Mere Mortals）创作的全长配乐在 2024. 年于旧金山芭蕾舞团首演，该剧是阿什雷·巴顿（Aszure Barton）对潘多拉神话的重新演绎。该音乐的录音于周五发行，这部芭蕾舞剧将于 8 月底前往爱丁堡，随后在 9 月第二周前往伦敦。

曼特尔（Dekmantel）和格拉斯顿伯里（Glastonbury）音乐节。

上图为 Floating Points，原名萨姆·谢泼德。下图为他的家庭工作室以及他为《凡人》创作的芭蕾舞配乐。该剧是对潘多拉神话的重新演绎。

这部芭蕾舞剧的灵感来自古典学者娜塔莉·海恩斯（Natalie Haynes）的书《潘多拉之罐：希腊神话中的女性》（Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths）。谢泼德说：“我们并不真正理解潘多拉最初被设定的样子，”他补充说，希腊人“并没有如此轻视潘多拉”。她一直被与夏娃、伊甸园和原罪联系在一起，并被用作警示女性好奇心的一种手段。

旧金山芭蕾舞团艺术总监塔玛拉·罗霍（Tamara Rojo）表示，《凡人》“剥离了几个世纪以来各种解读的累积，回到了这种创造之美——即便它可能具有致命性”。最初，谢泼德想讲述 J·罗伯特·奥本海默和原子弹的故事，但随后克里斯托弗·诺兰的《奥本海默》公布了。尽管如此，类似的主题在潘多拉神话中依然出现，尤其是在那个罐子（通常被称为盒子）被打开的高潮时刻，释放出了世界上所有的邪恶。

谢泼德将那个时刻描述为一场“灾难性的核事件，一个蘑菇云时刻”的开始。旧金山芭蕾舞团的音乐总监马丁·韦斯特（Martin West）将这种音乐纹理——由猛烈的合成器和全编制的愤怒组成——比作施托克豪森（Stockhausen）或布列兹（Boulez）。“这完全关乎声景，”韦斯特在一次采访中说，“它真的在尝试将管弦乐能发出的声音推向极致。它旨在听起来令人痛苦。”

乐谱中也有更丰盈的时刻；在核心的“潘多拉”主题中，埃尔加式的浪漫与邦德电影般的丰沛交织在一起。旧金山芭蕾舞团管弦乐团的首席小提琴手科杜拉·默克斯（Cordula Merks）演奏了华丽的小提琴终曲《希望起飞》（Hope Takes Flight）。她说，在这一时刻，她不仅听到了梅西安和杜蒂耶，还听到了“整个丰富的独奏小提琴写作历史”，其中带有沃恩·威廉姆斯和阿尔沃·帕特的身影。

但《凡人》（Mere Mortals）中那些更具棱角的高潮部分代表了谢泼德（Shepherd）的新突破。在多年创作以严谨控制为特征的音乐之后，有些时刻让人感觉是首次地呈现出一种野性。

谢泼德在英格兰西北部长大。少年时期，他是曼彻斯特大教堂的唱诗班成员，随后在隔壁的切瑟姆音乐学校（Chetham's School of Music）学习钢琴和作曲。在午休时间，他会步行前往皮卡迪利唱片店（Piccadilly Records）和黑胶交换店（Vinyl Exchange）等唱片店挖掘旧货，而当时音乐迷们正纷纷抛弃黑胶唱片而拥抱CD。“我大获全胜，”他说。

在切瑟姆就读期间，谢泼德发现了许多影响他的音乐家，包括梅西安、德彪西、比尔·埃文斯，当然还有杜蒂耶。他曾考虑进一步深造作曲，但最终在伦敦大学学院选择了药理学。“那是我认为丛林音乐（jungle）是史上最棒之物的时候，”他说道，指的是 1990 年代流行的一种快速舞曲风格。Goldie 和 LTJ Bukem 所代表的这个音乐世界，似乎与研究巴赫圣咏格格不入。

在伦敦，谢泼德开始创作电子音乐，并开始收集黑胶唱片和音乐硬件。他也开始出入派对，并被 Plastic People 所吸引——那是位于肖尔迪奇（Shoreditch）的一家小型地下俱乐部，拥有一个传奇般的音响系统。

在劳伦·马丁（Lauren Martin）近期关于 dubstep 的口述历史《余震》（Aftershock）中（dubstep 是一种在千禧年前后兴起于克罗伊登、以低频为主的流派），DJ Kode9（原名史蒂夫·古德曼）将 Plastic People 那套沉重且晶莹剔透的 Funktion-One 系统描述为 dubstep 声音的催化剂和生成器。“你可以制作如此极简的曲目而不会出问题，”古德曼在书中写道，“几乎只有军鼓和踩镲，中间填充大量超低音。这在任何其他系统上都行不通。”

在俱乐部里，谢泼德参加了像 FWD>> 这样具有影响力的 dubstep 之夜，尽管他早期创作的舞曲更倾向于 house 和爵士，并融入了 boogie 和 disco 的影响。Plastic People 对他产生了深远影响。他认为空间决定了你创作的音乐，他对声学的兴趣，以及他在 DJ 演出之外构建绝美听觉体验的热情——这一切都源于那里。

“我是声学处理的忠实粉丝，”谢泼德说，“扬声器很容易制造，声学处理也相对简单，但这都需要一些基础设施的构建。Plastic People 对于理解这一点至关重要。”

《凡人》最明显的先驱作品是《承诺》（Promises），但在他的音乐中随处可见这部近期配乐的痕迹。在他 2024 年专辑《级联》（Cascade）的主打单曲《声码器》（Vocoder）的核心重复段（riff）中，有一种持续变异的感觉，并配以微妙且精致的和声。在他早期的作品中，作为《粉碎》（Crush，2019）开篇的、具有古典质感的《悬崖》（Falaise）引入了 Buchla 合成器。自从在 the xx 2017 年体育场巡演中担任一次具有转型意义的开场嘉宾后，Buchla 就成了谢泼德音乐的主干；在《凡人》中，Buchla 为音乐赋予了脉动的生命力，并将“幻象”作为一种结构理念引入其中。

“你永远不会真正意识到他的音乐中有什么在改变，”韦斯特说，“但如果你把两段内容拼接在一起，听起来会完全不同。”

为了创作《凡人》（Mere Mortals），谢泼德回溯到了他音乐发展的早期阶段。“其实我从小之后就没研究过作曲了，但我还保留着那时候所有的书，上面都有批注，”他说。他重新翻阅了里姆斯基-科萨科夫的《管弦乐法原理》以及他一直保存的乐器音域表。“这些东西，”他说，“我敢肯定专业作曲家都是信手拈来的。”而他当时却在思考：“双簧管最高能吹到什么音？”

作曲过程对谢泼德来说是一项挑战。“我没有老师，没有人可以交流想法，”他说。“我觉得有点孤独。”支持来自著名作曲家托马斯·阿德斯（Thomas Adès），他在几年前首演了自己的第一部芭蕾舞剧《但丁》（Dante）。

“他是我从小就崇拜的英雄，”谢泼德说，尽管阿德斯给他的主要建议就是坚持下去。“在这种情况下，别人能给出的最令人宽慰的建议就是：你做得不错。”

谢泼德表示，在创作《凡人》的过程中，他“学到了很多”，尤其是关于管弦乐录音混音的知识。《承诺》（Promises）花了他四天时间混音；而这部作品则花了六个月。但这也让他渴望进行更多的作曲创作。他目前正在创作一部电影配乐，并希望为管弦乐队写一部宏大的作品，在芭蕾舞剧中最响亮的部分基础上进一步拓展。

“我想在那个方向上尝试，但规模要更大，”谢泼德说。“要比那个‘核爆事件’更震撼。”

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《暗物质》中的科幻设定在科学上有多真实？

照片由 Apple TV 提供

物理学家在其中看到了经过验证的概念，以及大量的文学虚构。

作者：康妮·张（CONNIE CHANG）

“我脑海中出现了一个仓库里的盒子，上面有一扇门。就这么简单。”

那是 2014 年，布莱克·克劳奇（Blake Crouch）在刚刚出版完其悬疑惊悚三部曲《迷失之松》（Wayward Pines）的最后一本书后，正在为一部新小说构思创意。

他花了近十年的时间研究量子力学——物理学中通常用于描述极小粒子行为的一个分支——等待一个合适的故事将其串联起来。

“我对某个话题产生兴趣，”他在最近的一次视频采访中说道，“这就是一切的开始。”

在随后的小说《暗物质》（Dark Matter，2016年）以及克劳奇随后创作并主导的 Apple TV 系列剧中，那个盒子成为了核心装置。在盒子内部，一个人可以进入量子叠加态：这是一个根植于真实科学的想法，基于一个非直觉的概念，即像电子这样的亚原子粒子在某种程度上可以同时存在于两个地方。

而其中的推测性飞跃在于：你可以进入这个看似不可摧毁的盒子，然后进入一个平行现实，在那里，另一个版本的你走上了不同的道路——这个概念根植于物理学家休·埃弗里特（Hugh Everett）首次提出的“多世界”理论。

“纯科学与戏剧之间最好的互动需要一定的妥协，”Apple TV 系列剧的科学顾问、加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的物理学教授克利福德·V·约翰逊（Clifford V. Johnson）表示。他继续说道，那个盒子“是一个完全虚构的装置，我认为它有助于连接这两个世界”。

《暗物质》中的科幻设定在多大程度上反映了科学事实？在周五开播的该剧第二季（Season 2）中，观众可能会再次产生这样的疑问。作为一名受过专业训练的物理学家，我自己有一些初步的想法，但我希望从剧组主创以及制作组之外的科学家那里了解更多信息。

正如一部沉浸在量子物理学中的剧集所应有的那样，答案有时很复杂。而且，脱离原著的第二季（Season 2）提出了一系列在小说中未曾详细讨论过的科学挑战——更不用说必须将这一切视觉化呈现。

克劳奇及其创意伙伴兼妻子、该剧的制片人和共同编剧杰奎琳·本-泽克里（Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry）发现自己进入了未知领域。

“在第一季（Season 1）结束之后，我们面对的真的是一张白纸，”克劳奇说，“但我们拥有角色，”他补充道，“而且我们知道演员们能做什么，以及我们想要写向何方。”

克劳奇与约翰逊的关系可以追溯到 2015 年，当时他请求教授审阅《暗物质》小说中的部分内容。克劳奇说，他当时写了几个草稿，并且只分享了“书中含有专业术语的科学片段”。随着时间的推移，两人的合作关系变得更加紧密。

“我们写的每一份剧本他都会阅读，”克劳奇在谈到约翰逊的角色时说道。

第一季（Season 1）紧跟原著，讲述了大学教授杰森·德森（Jason Dessen，乔尔·埃哲顿 饰）的故事，他的一个跨世界分身（同样由埃哲顿 饰）发明了那个盒子，并窃取了原版杰森的生活，将他困在多重宇宙中。在结尾处（以下含剧透）——他与妻子丹妮拉（Daniela，詹妮弗·康纳利 饰）以及儿子查理（Charlie，奥克斯·费格利 饰）重聚，三人即将步入一个新世界。

从戏剧角度来看，第一季（Season 1）本质上是一个关于爱与选择的故事。丹妮拉的生活因为其中一个杰森所做的选择而崩塌；尽管如此，丹妮拉依然选择她的家庭。

“这部剧很大程度上是在讲述人们渴望能够走上其他道路，而她是一个真正致力于自己在婚姻中所处道路的人，”康纳利在谈到她的角色时说道，并补充道：“她会非常努力地奋斗，以留在其中。”

至于科学层面，我采访的科学家们一致认为，其基本前提源自可靠的理论。通过将一个物体置于完全隔离状态——这意味着将其与所有干扰隔绝，包括杂散振动、杂散光和宇宙射线——科学家确实可以像约翰逊所描述的那样，保留一个物体的“量子特性”，并使其保持在叠加态。

但这些实验中的物体通常是小分子或原子。叠加态也被用于量子计算机，以实现经典计算机无法完成的信息处理方式，但其规模仍然是微观的。约翰逊表示，将其推演至人类的尺寸和复杂度，代表了“一种在科学实验室中常规探索之物的理想化、人类尺度版本”。

换句话说：就目前而言，这完全超出了可能性的范围，几乎是不可能的。

“从实际操作来看，你无法真正将一个人与其环境隔离，”约翰斯·霍普金斯大学和圣菲研究所的物理学家肖恩·卡罗尔在电子邮件中写道。在提到红外光时，他继续说道：“仅仅通过呼吸和辐射红外光，任何宏观生物都会创造出自己的环境。”（他补充道：“但在面对电视剧里的科学时，我非常宽容！”）

在 Season 2 中，杰森意识到理解“盒子”对于保护家人至关重要。但这意味着需要拆解并检查盒子本身——而在 Season 1 中，它就像是一个所谓的“黑匣子”。对克劳奇来说幸运的是，约翰逊此前已经考虑过这个问题。

面对这项任务，约翰逊表示，他钻研了“大量非常、非常有趣的当代科学”。例如，为了屏蔽所有潜在的干扰，盒子必须适应不断变化的环境。可以将其想象成增强版的噪声消除耳机，通过产生反向信号来抵消进入的声音。

在 Season 2 的一集早期剧集中，杰森将盒子拆解到了骨架程度，露出了层层电路、同轴电缆和发光面板。细节必须具有说服力。为了寻找灵感，特效和美术设计团队参考了量子计算机和其他前沿技术的内部图像，“比如 SpaceX、蓝色起源（Blue Origin）和美国国家航空航天局（NASA）推出的一些东西，”本-泽克里说道。

但拆解盒子引发了另一个问题：如果盒子几乎不可摧毁，杰森是如何拆除外部面板的？“道具组的马特·卡瓦列罗大约一个月以来每天都在问我这个问题，”本-泽克里说，“我们的美术指导帕特里西奥·法雷尔也是。”

为了解决这个难题，本-泽克里寻求了该剧声音工程师科马克·芬格的帮助。在《暗物质》的世界观中，解决方案涉及电磁铁及其微弱的共振嗡鸣声。

然而，无论设计多么精巧，这样的盒子在现实世界中都无法运作。首先，任何具有能量的物体（如人类）都会与周围的任何事物产生引力相互作用。一个巨大的盒子会增加一个人需要与之相互作用的物质总量。

“如果你想将人们与宇宙隔离，以便他们能更长时间地维持量子叠加态，我认为用某种非常、非常、非常致密且沉重的东西将他们包围并不是个好主意，”西北大学物理学教授约翰·约瑟夫·卡拉斯科说道。

如果说 Season 1 的主题是寻找回家的路，那么 Season 2 则强调将我们彼此连接在一起的纽带。创作者们借鉴了另一个来自量子力学的概念——纠缠。该理论认为，系统中看似不相连的部分可能是相互关联的，有时甚至跨越遥远的距离。

与叠加态一样，纠缠通常适用于极小的物体。但该剧将其扩展到了盒子、世界，甚至角色身上。

没有证据表明这种联系是可能的。对于埃杰顿来说，他承认自己对科学的理解与他的角色截然不同，但这似乎并不重要。这部剧是科幻作品：他说，剧中对量子纠缠的运用是魔幻现实主义的一个绝佳例子。

上图为负责《暗物质》并撰写了 2016 年原著小说的布莱克·克劳奇，以及他的妻子兼创意伙伴杰奎琳·本-泽克里。上方从左至右依次为乔尔·埃杰顿、奥克斯·费格利和詹妮弗·康纳利。在第 2, 季中，埃杰顿饰演的角色必须拆除那个实际上充当通往其他世界门户的巨大盒子。

他说，这种“两个深爱彼此的人无论在哪个宇宙相遇，都会以某种方式交织、纠缠在一起”的想法，“我认为这源于内心深处，而非科学期刊”。

从两端剖析中期选举

2026年中期选举正呈现出至关重要的态势，它将成为对特朗普 2.0 执政前两年的一次全民公投，也将决定分裂的民主党能否重新夺回众议院和参议院的控制权。这八档播客提供了来自党派两端的深度分析，由政府、国家安全和美国历史领域的内部人士及专家协助听众理解当前时刻及其利害关系。作者：艾玛·迪布丁（EMMA DIBDIN）

《左、右与中间》（'Left, Right & Center'） 这档每周一次的政治讨论节目于 1996 年在加利福尼亚州圣莫尼卡的 KCRW 电台作为短篇广播节目起步。全国范围的联合播出和播客形式帮助它赢得了更广泛的受众。许多政治播客以及更广泛的新闻节目往往会变成自我筛选的“回声室”。而在这里，这种风险通过将每集重点放在两名评论员（一名自由派和一名保守派）之间关于热门话题的辩论而得到了抵消。自 2022 年起担任节目主持人的大卫·格林（David Greene）代表政治中间立场。 入门集：“让我们理清民主党相互矛盾的初选结果”

《与斯泰西·亚伯拉姆斯一起组装》（'Assembly Required With Stacey Abrams'） 这档每周播客由投票权活动人士斯泰西·亚伯拉姆斯（Stacey Abrams）主持。该节目强调集体行动的力量，剖析美国民主面临的最大挑战并寻找解决方案。亚伯拉姆斯的专业知识和活力使她成为一名极具激励力的主持人，该节目也是一种对抗沉溺于坏消息诱惑的良药。该播客隶属于 Crooked Media，这是一家由前奥巴马政府工作人员创办的进步派媒体公司，体现了该网络旨在激励听众参与社区活动，而非被动消费政治评论的目标。

入门集：“南方是民主政治的未来吗？”

《堡垒日报》（'The Bulwark Daily'）

《堡垒》（The Bulwark）于 2018 年起步，最初是“绝不支持特朗普”的共和党人的一个热情项目，这些人感到自己在现代共和党内部日益被边缘化；其创始编辑是资深保守派战略家莎拉·隆韦尔（Sarah Longwell）以及保守派评论员比尔·克里斯托尔（Bill Kristol）和查理·赛克斯（Charlie Sykes）。其每日播客由《堡垒》特约撰稿人蒂姆·米勒（Tim Miller）主持，他邀请记者、评论员和官员共同分析政治世界的突发新闻和趋势。近期的嘉宾包括《纽约时报》评论员大卫·华莱士-韦尔斯（David Wallace-Wells），探讨对数据中心日益增长的两党共同抵制情绪；隆韦尔探讨民主党传声筒采取攻势的必要性；以及《堡垒》撰稿人汤姆·尼科尔斯（Tom Nichols）分析特朗普政府在伊朗及其他地区看似混乱的外交政策手段。

入门集：“大卫·华莱士-韦尔斯：人工智能的政治格局正在实时转变”

《了解你的敌人》（'Know Your Enemy'）

这档播客始于特朗普总统第一任期中期，自称为“左翼人士的保守主义运动指南”。其主持人采取了不同的路径抵达目前的自由派立场：马修·西特曼（Matthew Sitman）成长于“上帝与枪支”的保守主义环境，并在 20 多岁时从中脱离；而萨姆·阿德勒-贝尔（Sam Adler-Bell）则是终身进步主义者。他们截然不同的经历使得每集每周的对话具有细微的差别，在节目中，他们探索多年来定义美国保守主义的历史、思想和人物，追溯从威廉·F·巴克利（William F. Buckley Jr.）和罗纳德·里根（Ronald Reagan）等人物到当代共和党的平行线。

入门集：“美国英雄花园的午夜”

《理性安全》（'Rational Security'）

这部每周一次的圆桌播客由非营利组织 Lawfare 制作，该组织就当前的政策和法律问题提供多媒体评论。每集节目由 Lawfare 高级编辑 Scott R. Anderson 以及一组轮换的同事和专家嘉宾共同主持，探讨安全、外交政策以及高关注度法律战的进展。考虑到第二任特朗普政府的诉讼倾向如此之强（他在重返办公室的第一年里，其议程就面临了 600 多起诉讼，更不用说特朗普本人发起的法律行动），对于任何试图跟进情况的人来说，《理性安全》都是极具价值的听读材料。 入门集：“‘来自妈妈地下室的直播’篇”

《NPR 政治播客》（'The NPR Politics Podcast'）

《 政治播客》 这部来自 的工作日系列节目是获取细致政治新闻和分析的必备资源。它由一组轮换的 政治记者主导，无论讨论什么议题，都能让深厚的专业知识得以充分展现。每集节目聚焦于华盛顿的进展、政府三个分支的决策过程，以及地方、州和国家层面的选举结果。每集节目既探讨新闻本身，也分析其对国家产生的影响。

入门集：“周二初选的启示”

《安德鲁·萨利文的 Dishcast》（'The Dishcast With Andrew Sullivan'） 2020 年，英美保守派作家安德鲁·萨利文（Andrew Sullivan）创办了 “The Dishcast”，旨在为跨越意识形态分歧的对话提供空间。尽管整体倾向于中右翼、自由意志主义和独立观点，但他经常邀请观点与自己相左的嘉宾。最近的一个例子是保守派法律学者罗伯特·P·乔治（Robert P. George），萨利文与他讨论了自然法、基督教以及他们在同性婚姻问题上长期存在的分歧。对于任何寻求扩大对国家选民理解的人来说，这都值得一听。

入门集：“查理·赛克斯谈黑帮老大式的总统任期”

《美国来信》（'Letters From an American'）

在 2019 年特朗普首次弹劾的前夕，波士顿学院的历史学家兼教授希瑟·考克斯·理查森（Heather Cox Richardson）开始在 Facebook 上撰写每日随笔，旨在为密集的新闻提供背景分析，像在课堂上分析历史事件那样将其拆解。这些帖子后来发展成了如今大获成功的时事通讯《美国来信》，使理查森成为 Substack 早期的突破性人物。2024 年，她启动了这部衍生播客，以长远视角提供简洁、精炼的政治新闻每日分析。通过展示美国历史上如何出现类似的冲突和争论，该节目为惊恐主义和点击诱饵式标题提供了一剂舒缓的解药。 入门集：“这就是三军统帅正在做的事情”

剧院

倾听：你能听到票房的叮当声吗？

《悲惨世界》全国巡演结束，为遭受重创的戏剧行业创造了获利良机。

这部剧“吸引了许多原本可能没有意愿走进剧院的人。” 戴维斯·麦考伦 (DAVIS McCALLUM) 哈德逊河谷莎士比亚剧团艺术总监

作者：迈克尔·保尔森 (MICHAEL PAULSON) 摄影：罗杰·基斯比 (ROGER KISBY)

犹他州，艾文斯 —— 从一开始就很明显，在犹他州峡谷口的一座露天剧场上演的这部《悲惨世界》将具有鲜明的特色。

演出始于囚犯们在酷热难耐的沙漠中砸石头，他们身后就是高达1,500英尺的红岩峭壁，显得身材格外矮小。贾维尔，这位声音低沉的剧中反派、冷酷的警官，骑着一匹高大的黑色克莱兹代尔马登场，马的长尾巴在沙地中甩动。现场有活山羊、空包弹枪，而当贾维尔演唱《Stars》时，头顶则是璀璨星空的奇观。

每年这个时候的犹他州南部极其炎热，以至于这场时长三小时的演出直到晚上8:45 p.m.才开始。在40名表演者中，约有一半在戏服下佩戴了冰袋，许多观众则佩戴着便携式挂脖风扇。无论是温度还是偶尔出现的塔兰图拉蜘蛛，似乎都没有造成太大阻碍。在最近一个气温高达102华氏度的日子里——直到开演时仍有95华氏度——有2,300人到场观看。

当地图阿坎艺术中心（Tuacahn Center for the Arts，犹他州最大的非营利专业剧院）的运营者选择在今年上演《悲惨世界》，是因为他们热爱这部剧——其音乐、传递的信息以及戏剧冲突。但他们也知道这部剧能卖出票来。该剧的票房预计将成为图阿坎31年历史上最高的一部。

由于机遇与需求的罕见交汇，北美各地正在掀起一场《悲惨世界》的制作热潮。一场长期的巡演刚刚结束，使得该剧可以授权给其他机构演出。同时，许多地区剧院正处于财务困境，因此渴望能够吸引购票者的剧目。

“它如此受欢迎且深受喜爱，我认为从商业角度来看，它能立即带来收益，”兰德尔·基思 (Randal Keith) 表示。这位资深的《悲惨世界》演员在巡演和百老汇版中饰演主角让·瓦尔让超过2,900场后，现在在图阿坎饰演贾维尔。“人们可以看20遍，每次都能发现新东西。”

《悲惨世界》基于维克多·雨果1862年的小说，是一部以1832年在法国被镇压的一次短暂的反君主制起义为背景的史诗故事。

这部剧最初在法国制作，1985年在伦敦首演且至今仍在演出；原版百老汇制作于1987年至2003年期间上演，并获得了托尼奖最佳音乐剧奖，至今仍是百老汇历史上演出时间第六长的剧目。这部音乐剧已在57个国家以22种语言演出，观众人数超过1.5 亿。2012年还推出了一部星光熠熠的电影改编版。

最近的一次全国巡演——特朗普总统是该剧的粉丝，曾在肯尼迪中心观看演出——于6月结束。授权《悲惨世界》的音乐剧国际公司 (Music Theater International) 表示，该公司已经批准了107部新制作，其中约一半是在专业地区剧院上演。

“这是有史以来最受欢迎的音乐剧之一，地区剧院和优秀的业余剧团需要制作这部作品，”英国超级制作人卡梅隆·麦金托什 (Cameron Mackintosh) 说道。自20世纪80年代与皇家莎士比亚公司合作制作首个英文版以来，他一直监督着《悲惨世界》在全球范围内的广泛生命力。“存在着巨大的积压需求。”

与大多数百老汇大型音乐剧和戏剧一样，《悲惨世界》在商业巡演期间严格限制授权，以防止分流观众。但也有例外：《悲惨世界》长期以来即使在巡演期间也允许学生剧团进行制作。

（左）饰演让·法尔让的戴维·图尔，以及在图阿坎（Tuacahn）制作版中饰演沙威的兰德尔·基思。基思在谈到《悲惨世界》时表示：“这是一个能迅速赚钱的项目。”

现在，闸门已经开启。除了犹他州，亚利桑那州、加利福尼亚州、科罗拉多州、乔治亚州（两场）、伊利诺伊州、堪萨斯州、肯塔基州和马里兰州今年都计划推出专业制作版。在纽约，一场制作于 8 月 12 日在哈德逊河谷莎士比亚剧院（Hudson Valley Shakespeare）开演，另一场将于 11 月 27 日在雪城舞台（Syracuse Stage）开演。

“就演员规模和完整的歌剧式管弦乐编曲而言，这绝对是一部大戏，因此对于非营利剧院来说是一次巨大的尝试，”哈德逊河谷莎士比亚剧院的艺术总监戴维斯·麦卡勒姆（Davis McCallum）表示。“但它也能吸引许多原本可能没有意愿去剧院的人，而当剧院们在论证我们持续的相关性和吸引力时，《悲惨世界》提供了一个强有力的证明。”

明年，从德克萨斯州到缅因州，从佛罗里达州到不列颠哥伦比亚省，计划中的制作版将更多。麦金托什（Mackintosh）表示，他预计该剧将在次年回到纽约市，尽管他尚未准备好分享具体细节，仅表示那不是他的制作版。

许多计划制作《悲惨世界》的非营利剧院表示，他们多年来一直期待能对这部由克劳德-米歇尔·勋伯格（Claude-Michel Schönberg）、阿兰·布布里尔（Alain Boublil）和赫伯特·克雷茨默（Herbert Kretzmer）创作的作品进行自己的诠释。

“我们以前从未演出过，因为我们一直无法获得版权，”马里兰州奥尔尼剧院中心（Olney Theater Center）的艺术总监杰森·洛维斯（Jason Loewith）说道，该剧院计划今年首次上演这部剧。

洛维斯表示，这部剧不仅是粉丝的最爱，也是许多表演者的“人生必演清单”之作。“我们收到了 400 多份当地演员的申请，他们都想出演这部剧——我们甚至不得不拒绝部分人的试镜——这告诉我，这些角色是人们渴望扮演的，而他们此前从未有机会，”洛维斯说。

犹他州是《悲惨世界》热潮的一个典型例子。图阿坎艺术中心及其观众对这部作品并不陌生——该剧院曾在 2008 年上演过一个规模较小的版本并取得了巨大成功——该非营利机构的管理人员对其持续的吸引力充满信心。

该剧院每年轮演三部剧目，预计本季将吸引 360,000 名观众；其《悲惨世界》的制作于 5 月开始，将一直演出至 10 月。

在本记者观看演出的那个夜晚，观众中有一位穿着印有 24601 T恤的女性——那是让·法尔让的囚犯编号——以及一名戴着印有该剧百老汇标志帽子的男子。苏珊·史密斯（Suzanne Smith）本季已经是第 14 次到场；她是在 2008 年在图阿坎接触到《悲惨世界》的，那个季度她看了大约 15 次，此后还在纽约和伦敦看过。

“某种东西触动了我的灵魂，”她说，“我想，‘我必须再次观看。一遍又一遍，一遍又一遍。’”

她对这部剧的热爱培养了她对戏剧的热爱；她带着孩子和孙辈一起来，现在她和丈夫已成为主要捐赠者。

“我非常热爱让·法尔让所感受到的那份善意，以及它如何深刻地改变了他的生活，”她说，“我只是在想，‘这种善意在今天依然可以延续。’”

图阿坎于 1995 年开始制作，前几年只演一部关于当地历史的剧目《犹他》。但在 1999 年，它开始制作自己的百老汇剧目——它认为这对生存至关重要——自此，其资源、专业水平和观众规模一直在增长。

该剧院由海勒姆·史密斯（Hyrum Smith）和盖尔·史密斯（Gail Smith）捐赠的 3000万美元 启动资金建立；海勒姆·史密斯创办了后来成为富兰克林科维（FranklinCovey）的公司之一。盖尔·史密斯记得 1990 年代初在峡谷中徒步时，对天然露天剧场的音响效果感到惊叹。她说，《悲惨世界》预期的成功将有助于确保剧院的持续运营。

“我通常尽量在 H 排找个座位，这样我就能回头看到那些眼中含泪的人，或者那些充满喜悦、在欢笑且如此幸福的人，”她说。“然后我会告诉自己：‘就是这样：你在让人们快乐，你在为人们服务，你在通过他们观看的演出向他们传达价值观。这才是最重要的。’”

该公司的年度预算为 2600万美元，高于二十年前的 $1.500 万。如今，它已成为犹他州南部这个依赖旅游业的地区（锡安国家公园所在地）的主要经济驱动力。

然而，自新冠疫情以来，制作成本上涨了 50 percent 以上。今年的《悲惨世界》制作花费了图阿坎剧院（Tuacahn）约 400万美元，而 2008. 年这一数字为 $1.500 万。剧院预计将售出价值约 $6.500 万 的门票，票价在 $36 到 $142. 之间。

“六年前，我们的票务人员起薪可以是每小时 $10，而现在，如果起薪不到 $15 或 $16, 他们就会去 In-N-Out 汉堡店工作，”剧院首席执行官、海勒姆·史密斯和盖尔·史密斯的侄子凯文·史密斯（Kevin Smith）说道。

剧院约 90 percent 的收入来自顾客——通过门票销售、特许经营摊位和礼品店——另 10 percent 来自慈善捐赠。管理层非常关注票价的可负担性问题，这意味着他们需要不断地从捐赠者那里筹集更多资金。

“我们必须找到一种方法来服务我们的社区，而不能将价格提高到没人想来的地步，”图阿坎董事会主席乔纳森·O·哈芬（Jonathan O. Hafen）表示。

哈芬说，在过去的几十年里，曾有那么几个时刻他并不确定剧院能否生存下来。但现在剧院已经稳定——状况比许多同行都要好——并且坚信《悲惨世界》将加强其地位。

“我们拥有绝佳的地理位置，拥有一个尽职的董事会团队，而且人们就是热爱来到这里看戏，所以我认为我们会没问题的，”哈芬说，他的祖父曾拥有帕德雷峡谷（Padre Canyon）的一块土地，那里现在就是剧院的所在地。“但如果我们只是用同样的方式重复同样的事情，我们就不会没问题。我们必须创新，必须扩建我们的开发团队，预见成本的增加，以确保我们能够取得成功。”

该公司专注于适合家庭观看的演出——犹他州有很大比例的人口是耶稣基督后期圣徒教会的成员——因此周日没有演出，且组织在剧本中严格把控性爱和脏话的内容。每个季度，剧院都不得不因为大雨、强风或山火烟雾导致空气质量差而取消少数几场演出。

去年，剧院上演了《新闻少年》（Newsies）、《小美人鱼》和《绿野仙踪》，销售情况一般。“很棒的剧目，很棒的制作，但销售情况并没有达到我们的预期，”首席财务官加里·卡胡恩（Gary Cahoon）说，“实际上我们还稍微退步了一点。”

图阿坎剧院约 80 percent 的观众来自犹他州，10 percent 来自内华达州；每个季度有超过 30,000 人来自美国其他地区及其他国家。

“这里有很多人热爱戏剧，”制作艺术总监斯科特·S·安德森（Scott S. Anderson）说。“同时也有很多人负担不起去纽约看百老汇的旅费。而我们喜欢这样说：‘我们将百老汇带到你们身边，而且是在一个真正令人难以置信的地方。’”

上图为犹他州南部图阿坎艺术中心（Tuacahn Center for the Arts）上演的《悲惨世界》。从最左侧起依次为：演出中使用的假发；一名年轻演员在签名；以及剧院内出售的周边商品。

上图为图阿坎艺术中心《悲惨世界》的演员在谢幕时的场景。左图来自该剧院近期的一场演出。这部音乐剧最初在法国制作，随后于1985年在伦敦首演且至今仍在演出。原版百老汇制作的演出时间为1987年至2003年。该音乐剧已在57个国家以22种语言上演，观众人数超过1.5 亿。

MAXIMILIAN MANN 为纽约时报拍摄 AMELIE SACHS 为纽约时报拍摄

MAXIMILIAN MANN 为纽约时报拍摄

舞蹈

将围栏与阶梯变为他们的舞台

跑酷、街头舞和杂技塑造了与城市景观之间无拘无束的互动。

作者：玛格丽特·富勒（MARGARET FUHRER）

对我们大多数人来说，一段混凝土阶梯意味着简单的选择：走上去，或走下来。

但对于某些类型的舞者而言，城市的阶梯在低语着无尽的可能性。

法国动作艺术家查尔斯·奥古斯特（Charles Auguste）将室外阶梯变成了倾斜的舞台，用身体的弧度缓冲了阶梯的陡峭角度。表演者克洛伊·雷诺兹（Chloe Reynolds）发布的视频中，她通过优雅地在金属扶手周围和其中穿梭来走下楼梯。

22岁的雷诺兹曾在萨拉索塔芭蕾舞团（Sarasota Ballet）跳舞，随后开始涉足其他肢体训练。她在跑酷中找到了特殊的自由，这是一种大胆的城市杂技形式，其中没有任何障碍是不可逾越的（“Parcours”在法语中意为“通过的路径”）。在一段来自英国布里斯托的视频采访中——她坐在逃生梯上，用沾满污垢的手比划着——她描述了跑酷如何教会她一种不同的观察方式。

她说，芭蕾舞培养了她的“舞者视觉”，即对身体在空间中如何移动的敏锐意识。而一旦她的“跑酷视觉”开启，她便开始意识到日常空间如何能带动她的身体。

“就像我以前与芭蕾舞伴建立联系一样，我现在与我的环境发展出一种给予与接纳的关系，”她说，“我对这个地方的信任，就像我信任舞伴将我举起并接住我一样。”

现代舞和后现代舞在特定场域编舞（site-specific choreography）方面有着丰富的历史，在这种形式中，意想不到的地点变成了舞台。在20世纪70年代，特里莎·布朗（Trisha Brown）让舞者在曼哈顿的屋顶上表演并攀爬博物馆的墙壁；默斯·坎宁汉舞蹈公司（Merce Cunningham Dance Company）长期运行的“事件”（Events）系列将舞团带到了威尼斯的圣马可广场和澳大利亚珀斯的一处海滩。

像雷诺兹和奥古斯特这样的艺术家所创作的作品，或许更准确地应被描述为“场域响应式”（site responsive）：地点既是舞台，也是合作者。

在一段来自巴黎郊外机场的视频采访中，25岁的奥古斯特表示：“这种感觉不是‘我们如何在这里创造某些东西？’而是‘我们的周围环境为我们创造了什么？’我们试图提出某种方案，而不是强加于它。”

多种运动技巧的熟练运用——包括街舞、杂技，尤其是跑酷——使这些舞者能够与环境塑造出看似无拘无束的互动。那道链条围栏是否在邀请人们用翻滚跳过？那四层脚手架能否变成一个创意攀爬架？在他们精通多种语言般的身体里，一切似乎皆有可能。

这些场域响应式舞蹈的片段——令人惊叹、荒诞且富有诗意——在TikTok和Instagram上多次走红。在某种程度上，手机屏幕是接触这种深植于物理场所的艺术形式的一个奇怪媒介。但舞者兼视觉艺术家克里斯蒂安·门萨（Kristián Mensa）表示，社交媒体的平等性质与他的编舞实验相契合。无论是在城市中行走还是在网上浏览，你永远不知道何时会偶然邂逅一场舞蹈。

“我一直觉得舞台应该无处不在，”28岁的门萨说，“舞台将观众和表演者分开的方式——也就是说，如果你在舞台上，就意味着你成功了，或者你更优秀，或者你是专业的——我从未相信过这一点。”

场地响应型舞者往往倾向于避开诸如“场地响应”甚至“舞者”之类的标签和分类。在我采访的一些人中，有些人并不太确定该如何定义他们所创作的艺术，或者随着时间的推移调整了定义。（尽管奥古斯特最近与跑酷艺术家白井龙也合作，但他在一封电子邮件中表示，“跑酷”这个词具有一种“语义权重，我觉得它不能准确反映我目前的路径”。）这些创作者中的许多人是半游牧式的。“你住在哪里？”往往是一个难以回答的复杂问题。

同样，他们倾向于对“中间空间”感兴趣。他们的视频经常设定在那些旨在被通过而非被占据的地方（如人行横道、走廊），或者呈现城市景观中那些只有在以不寻常方式使用时才会引起注意的日常部分（如楼梯、旋转闸门、门口）。

左上，桑蒂·埃斯维萨

他们的作品可能带有哲学色彩。奥古斯特的新项目《Lambeaux》（意为“碎片”）探讨了旨在阻止移动的围栏如何反而能成为编舞的提示。他与爱尔兰动作艺术家马特·麦克里亚合作拍摄的视频中，寻找那些虽然痛苦但

查尔斯·奥古斯特在德国汉堡的一处围栏前进行的新项目《Lambeaux》，见上方、右上及左上。左上中心，克洛伊·雷诺兹在慕尼黑的一条河边表演。桑蒂·埃斯维萨在阿根廷（最左）和蒙特利尔（左）。

“这种看待城市的方式有一种孩子气。”桑蒂·埃斯维萨，舞蹈与马戏艺术家。尽管精巧，但这些在城市人行道和室内穿行的路径——是在一个充满障碍的世界中进行的一次次静默而英勇的旅程。

其他创作者则更具顽皮精神。33岁的桑蒂·埃斯维萨是一位来自布宜诺斯艾利斯的舞蹈与马戏艺术家，他创作一些查理·卓别林风格的短片，在其中他围绕着游乐场设备跳跃和旋转。他可能会在双手插兜的情况下，对着镜头投以一个冷漠的眼神作为结尾。

“这种看待城市的方式有一种孩子气，”埃斯维萨在一次来自蒙特利尔的视频采访中说道，“不是它被设计用来如何使用，而是它可以被如何使用。成年人保持玩心是有好处的。”

这些艺术家中的许多人是朋友。他们有时会出现在彼此的视频中。然而，即使在独立创作时，他们的动作也具有一种相似的、像融化了的布娃娃般的流畅感。这种效果是一种臣服——是对一个地点的完全顺从。

门萨在接触街舞和现代舞之前学习过柔道并踢过足球，他说他的场地响应作品经常探索坠落和坍塌。他的动作研究可能包括在穿过人行横道时反复绊倒，或者挑战自己不从码头上跌落。

“坠落的身体，属于它的环境，”他在一次来自布拉格的视频采访中说道，“它唯一能做的就是对使其移动的力量做出反应。”

那种无摩擦的特质具有欺骗性。表演场地响应舞蹈通常需要极强的力量和专注力。而观看这种舞蹈可能会产生一种认知摩擦：在普通城市居民的意识中，楼梯和脚手架不应该是舞蹈伙伴。雷诺兹表示，虽然大多数旁观者对她的编舞实验感到惊喜，但有些人则反应惊恐或愤怒。

“有些时候，比如我在公园的野餐桌上做倒立——这是最公共的地方，也是最无害的行为——但我仍然会遭到反对，因为我不是在健身房做杂技，也不是在工作室跳舞，”她说。

奥古斯特表示，现代城市景观限制了我们的想象力。他说，棱角分明的城市建筑可能让人感到敌意和专制，将身体限制在狭窄的移动方式中（向上走，向下走）。

透过这个视角，场地响应舞蹈带上了一种政治色彩。对于像奥古斯特这样的创作者来说，与这些空间共同编舞，就是对一个城市规模的机器进行反抗。

MAXIMILIAN MANN 为《纽约时报》拍摄

“我们如何在环境和政治中构建一些旨在促进人类活动、但实际上却在抵制我们人性之物，这简直太疯狂了，”奥古斯特说道。

即使是那些在场地响应式作品中采取更具趣味性方法的舞者，通常也在实践一种形式的创造性不服从。我采访的艺术家们表示，他们很少能获得使用户外空间的许可证或官方许可。风险——无论是身体上的还是法律上的——都已融入到他们的作品之中。

雷诺兹表示，参与这一领域的女性相对较少。在许多强调胆量和冒险的运动形式中都是如此，包括跑酷，这类运动可能带有极强的男性色彩。而且，创作游击表演艺术的风险对于女性来说可能感觉有所不同。

“作为一个女人独自身处陌生地点，是的，可能会感到不安全，”雷诺尔兹说，“我曾陷入过一些相当‘糟糕’的境地。”

与此同时，场地响应式舞蹈作品增强了她的身体自信。“这些动作技巧基本上就是末日生存技巧，”她笑着说，“我知道如何安全地从建筑外墙下降。我可以身处一个极具挑战性的环境中，并百分之百自信地认为我的身体能够应对。”

雷诺兹与我采访的几位艺术家一样，有时会将她的非传统技能带入更传统的剧场环境。她最近与总部位于洛杉矶的 Diavolo 舞团合作演出，该舞团的杂技作品融入了建筑布景。奥古斯特在 2024 年为时尚品牌爱马仕（Hermès）编排了一场迷幻的表演。几个月后，埃斯维萨将在赫尔辛基的年度冬季马戏团演出，饰演一名通过在舞台上“睡梦中跌落”来移动的发作性睡病患者。

不要指望他们中的任何一个人会长期致力于一场演出或一个地点。一旦你学会了如何与一个地方共舞（pas de deux），寻找新地点——即寻找新的舞伴——就成了一场无止境的探索。

“我认为我们所生活的世界就是有点不同，”埃斯维萨说，“我们总是在搜寻下一个可能激发我们灵感的地点。”

电影

《郊狼对阵 Acme》终于迎来转机

照片由 KETCHUP ENTERTAINMENT 提供

一部处于灭绝边缘的坚韧喜剧赢得了院线发行机会。

从上至下：真人与动画混合电影《郊狼对阵 Acme》中的原告威利·郊狼（Wile E. Coyote）；饰演公司律师的约翰·塞纳（John Cena）；以及该片的一个场景。该片在上周上映前经历了一场磨难。

作者：JASON T. BAILEY

这一切原本看起来如此简单。

当华纳兄弟首次宣布电影《郊狼对阵 》（Coyote vs. ）——一部受该工作室《乐一通》（Looney Tunes）短片启发、结合真人与动画的混合电影——时，这听起来像是一个无需多虑的决定。这是对华纳兄弟最受喜爱的部分知识产权的一次新鲜诠释，这种适合家庭观看的怀旧之作既能产生巨大的票房回报，又能将经久不衰的角色介绍给新观众，使他们成为该工作室作品库的忠实消费者。（华纳兄弟此前就通过《乐一通》实现过这一点，1996年的电影《空中大灌篮》便赚得盆满钵满。）

该项目在启动时就有一个极具吸引力的切入点：它灵感来自伊恩·弗雷泽（Ian Frazier）1990年在《纽约客》上发表的幽默文章《郊狼诉 》（Coyote v. ）。文章想象了《乐一通》的常驻角色威利·郊狼将 公司告上法庭，理由是该公司众多缺陷产品多次阻碍了他对路跑鸟（Road Runner）的追击。

“我其实知道这篇文章，因为我在华纳兄弟工作多年，一直接触动画部门，那篇文章在圈子里简直像个传奇，”该片制片人之一克里斯·德法里亚（Chris de-Faria）在一次采访中说道。

电影导演戴夫·格林（Dave Green）之所以能获得这个职位，是因为他精准地找到了如何将弗雷泽地道的法律术语转化为电影语言的方法，并将其与《少数几个好男人》（A Few Good Men）等法庭剧以及《内部人士》（The Insider）等公司惊悚片进行类比。

格林的加盟于 2019, 12月宣布，随后他与德法里亚开始寻找合适的编剧。包括《银河护卫队》和《超人》导演詹姆斯·冈恩（James Gunn）在内的几位编剧都拒绝了邀请（不过他后来以另一位制片人的身份加入了该片）。团队最终选定了萨米·伯奇（Samy Burch），这位由选角导演转型的编剧其剧本《五月十二月》（May December）虽最终获得了奥斯卡提名，但当时尚未拍摄。

威尔·福特（Will Forte）被选为郊狼的律师，约翰·塞纳则签约饰演 公司冷酷的公司律师；拍摄于 2022 开始。“那是一次美妙的拍摄，”格林说，“演员、剧组，每个人都全力投入这个项目，理解它的基调，并且对合作感到兴奋。”华纳兄弟似乎也对该项目寄予厚望； 2020, 《Deadline》和《Variety》报道称，该工作室已将上映日期定在 July 21, 2023. 但华纳兄弟探索公司（Warner Bros. Discovery）的一位代表在最近的一次电话采访中表示，“行业媒体在很大程度上误报了其中的重要部分”，并坚持认为，该片在 2020, 12月获得绿灯通过时，是计划在公司的流媒体服务 HBO Max 上发布的。（格林和德法里亚均表示，他们被告知该片将在院线发行。）

无论情况如何，在 April 2022, 该工作室宣布将于 July 21, 2023, 改为在院线发行格蕾塔·格威格（Greta Gerwig）的《芭比》（Barbie）——这引发了一场观影热潮。

但随着日子一天天过去，几周过去了，《郊狼对阵 》仍没有公布新的日期，“这让我立刻感到担忧，”德法里亚说。然而，直到 Nov. 8, 2023, 当他在华纳片场为几天后面向演职人员的成片放映活动做准备时，电话响了。

“那次过程极其简单粗暴，而且速度极快，”他回忆道。“那是当时工作室的两名负责人通知我的，他们只是简单地说：‘嘿，克里斯，想让你知道我们不会在电影院上映《郊狼对 Acme》，这部电影的未来还不确定。’就这么简单。而我的反应是：‘我不明白这意味着什么。’”据德法里亚（deFaria）称，他们几乎没有提供任何细节或充分的解释；当他询问这部电影将如何处置时，“他们说：‘我们不知道。它可能根本不会上映。’”

第二天，这个消息传到了行业贸易刊物上。业内观察人士指出，该片是在之前的领导层任期内获得批准的，当时华纳媒体（WarnerMedia）尚未与探索频道（Discovery）合并，也尚未任命大卫·扎斯拉夫（David Zaslav）为首席执行官；人们还将此与工作室前一年决定无限期搁置《蝙蝠女》（Batgirl）和《史酷比！节日惊魂》（Scoob! Holiday Haunt）这两部作品的决定相类比。但那两部电影当时尚未完工，取消它们可以为工作室节省额外的后期制作成本。而《郊狼对 Acme》已经完工，仅剩下发行和营销成本，而这些成本本可以通过在 HBO Max 上线来降至最低。官方解释则采用了企业公关措辞。华纳兄弟电影集团的一位发言人在一份声明中表示：“随着华纳兄弟动画工作室在 6 月份的重新启动，工作室已将全球战略转向专注于院线发行。基于这一新方向，我们做出了一个艰难的决定，不再推进《郊狼对 Acme》。”

格林（Green）没有得到更多细节。“我只被告知他们的战略改变了，基本上就说到这里为止了，”他说。

“显然，我个人感到很受打击，”编剧萨米·伯奇（Samy Burch）在一次采访中表示，随后她表达了与格林和德法里亚相同的担忧。“当你想到参与这部电影的人数，想到那些手工艺人的心血——他们研究如何用实拍特效撞毁这辆车，以便随后能用动画呈现钢琴掉落的场景——戴夫（Dave）在电影中投入了如此之多，所以这真的是一件令人震惊且悲伤的事情。”

这种震惊感在整个行业中蔓延，电影制作人和粉丝们对此感到愤怒，他们认为工作室为了短期财务底线而愿意搁置一部已完工电影的行为令人无法接受。四天后，华纳兄弟探索公司试图遏制负面舆论，宣布将考虑将《郊狼对 Acme》出售给其他发行商；据报道，Netflix、苹果、亚马逊 Prime Video 和派拉蒙都表达了兴趣。

但当时并未达成任何交易。“我不知道这种努力有多真诚，”德法里亚说。而在 2024 年 2 月，华纳兄弟探索公司在 2023 年第三季度计入了 1.15亿美元 的资产减值，这是与“华纳兄弟动画工作室相关的战略调整计划”的一部分。扎斯拉夫（据报道其 2023 年的薪酬接近 5000万美元）表示，搁置像《郊狼对 Acme》这样的电影需要“真正的勇气”。

这件事似乎就这样结束了。“有一年时间里，我想我给自己找的心理安慰是，这部电影会在 2058 年的特纳经典电影节（Turner Classic Movies Festival）上展出，”伯奇说。

但格林拒绝认输。“也许是我很不擅长理解‘不’这个词，或者类似的原因，”他说，“但我们从未觉得没有希望，或者没有办法。”

随着时间推移，一线微弱的希望出现了。2024 年 8 月，独立电影制作与发行公司 Ketchup Entertainment 宣布收购《地球爆炸之日》（The Day the Earth Blew Up），这是另一部被华纳放弃的《乐一通》（Looney Tunes）长片。这部电影比《郊狼对 Acme》规模更小、成本更低，最初被构思并执行为 HBO Max 的原创作品。该片在 2025 年春季在电影院上映后，为 Ketchup 公司带来了小规模的成功。（讽刺的是，这部电影目前正在 HBO Max 上流媒体播放。）

就在《地球爆炸之日》（The Day the Earth Blew Up）上映几天后，格林在离开电影院时打开手机，“我发现有一个制片厂高管的未接电话，”他回忆道，“他们告诉我，‘明天会有个大新闻’。”

这就是他等待了一年半的消息：Ketchup公司预计将出价 5000万美元 购买《郊狼对阵 Acme》（Coyote vs. Acme）的发行权。不久后，向 Ketchup 公司的出售工作完成。2025 年夏天，该公司将该片的上映时间定在 2026 年 8 月；当第一支预告片于 4 月在网上发布时，在最初的 24 小时内就获得了超过 2500 万 次观看。营销活动巧妙地利用了幕后的争议，其宣传语为“Acme 公司不想让你看到的电影”，强调了电影关于企业渎职、利益高于人性以及垄断危险的主题——这些观点在如今的环境下比在毫无阻碍的正常发行中可能更具冲击力。

这一切麻烦值得吗？“我们一直梦想着观众能以一种方式与它产生联系：既是对记忆的怀旧，又与他们今天的经历相关，且温暖而富有情感，”德法里亚（deFaria）说道。“我们现在满足了所有这些条件，而且如果这部电影本身没有经历过这种‘殉道者兼弱势英雄’的故事，我们可能无法满足其中的几项。那么我现在怎么想？我认为这是一个完美的结果。大概吧。”

格林——他曾在 2023 年 11 月发帖称“秉持郊狼的精神，韧性和坚持终将获胜”——对此表示赞同。“从根本上说，这是一个关于弱势者被巨头公司碾碎后重新崛起的故事，”他说。“简而言之，这就是这部电影所经历的如此美妙的过程，这真的很不可思议。很难真正地表达我此刻的感受，因为这一切完全像是超现实的。”

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包容性洛杉矶的档案

建筑师保罗·R·威廉姆斯打破了加利福尼亚州的肤色壁垒；三家博物馆将其作品予以纪念。

作者：乔里·芬克尔（JORI FINKEL）

洛杉矶——多年来一直有传闻称，已于1980年去世的洛杉矶建筑师保罗·里维尔·威廉姆斯（Paul Revere Williams）的档案在1992年该市的骚乱中被大火摧毁。

威廉姆斯的档案曾存放于百老汇联邦储蓄贷款大楼（Broadway Federal Savings and Loan building）的地下室——这是他在作为该市最成功的黑人建筑师、开启先河的50年职业生涯中所设计的数千栋建筑之一。当警察因对罗德尼·金（Rodney King）使用过度武力而被判无罪，且该建筑被大火吞噬时，人们认为他一生工作的记录也随之化为灰烬。

事实证明，只有几个主要包含商业记录的文件柜被摧毁了。其余遗产被妥善保存在家中，由他的遗孀，随后由他的孙女凯伦·E·哈德逊（Karen E. Hudson）照管。后来，哈德逊将这些资料展示给了盖蒂研究学院（Getty Research Institute）的建筑策展人马里斯特拉·卡西亚托（Maristella Casciato）以及领导其非裔美国人艺术史计划的勒隆·P·布鲁克斯（LeRonn P. Brooks）。

盖蒂的策展人们于2020年初在热门购物中心格罗夫（the Grove）的一个存储单元见到了哈德逊，他们记得在展开一张又一张细致的威廉姆斯图纸时那种激动的心情。总计约有1,800个项目的原始图纸、效果图、平面图或蓝图，盖蒂随后与该建筑师的母校南加州大学（University of Southern California）达成共同协议将其收购。

现在，这些来自盖蒂的策展人，以及来自南加州大学和洛杉矶郡立艺术博物馆（LACMA）的其他人员，首次利用这些资料来帮助讲述一个关于黑人建筑师的更丰富、更深刻的故事。尽管身处那个种族主义公开盛行的时代，他通过建立一个繁荣的事务所——并设计非凡的住宅、医院等建筑——打破了南加州肤色壁垒。

本季，每家机构都将举办关于威廉姆斯的展览：南加州大学费舍尔艺术博物馆（USC Fisher Museum of Art）的展览于8月18日开幕；洛杉矶郡立艺术博物馆（LACMA）的展览于11月15日开幕；盖蒂的展览则于12月15日开幕。

大多数策展人承认，在搬到加利福尼亚州之前，他们从未听说过威廉姆斯。布鲁克斯说：“我们的希望是，在未来，如果你不提及保罗·R·威廉姆斯，就无法撰写美国建筑史。”

威廉姆斯在20世纪30年代和40年代设计了他在贝尔艾尔（Bel Air）和比弗利山庄（Beverly Hills）的一些最伟大的庄园，而当时由于房产契约中写明的种族限制条款，他无法在这些地区拥有房产。他甚至不能使用自己设计的一些建筑的正门。

“比弗利山庄酒店的标志就是他的手写体，但他却不能从那里的正门走进去，”布鲁克斯说。“他在走过施工现场时甚至把手插在口袋里，因为他知道有些建筑工人不想与他握手。”

威廉姆斯最著名的绝活是：他自学了倒着画图，这样他就可以坐在那些不舒服地坐。

第28街基督教青年会（Y.M.C.A.） 南洛杉矶，1926

该基督教青年会分会被称为“有色人种Y”，曾为黑人群体提供重要的社交、娱乐和居住中心——并且在泳池实行种族隔离的时代，这里提供了一个游泳池。

威廉姆斯从小就是该会的成员（后来成为了执行委员会成员），他设计了一座庄重的四层西班牙殖民复兴风格建筑，拥有红瓦屋顶和带有文艺复兴元素的立面。他在建筑的饰带中加入了布克·T·华盛顿和弗雷德里克·道格拉斯的赤陶胸像，以起到激励作用。

“他以多种方式为黑人洛杉矶的建设做出了贡献，”盖蒂博物馆的布鲁克斯在提到威廉姆斯在黑人经营的银行和非营利组织董事会担任领导职务时说道。该建筑由 Koning Eizenberg Architecture 事务所于 2012 年进行修复和扩建，至今仍作为青年中心和经济适用房在使用。

杰·帕莱住宅 霍姆比山，1936

威廉姆斯为 CBS 创始人杰·帕莱设计了一座拥有 13 间卧室和 12 间浴室的乔治亚殖民复兴风格豪宅，这可以说是他设计的所有宏伟庄园中最奢华的一座。这座房子低调而高贵，配有精致的锻铁阳台，而泳池从一开始就令人惊叹：池底镶嵌着数千块从法国采购的绿松石色、金色、黄色和蓝色的手绘瓷砖，构成了一个包含黄道十二宫符号的星爆图案。

“当我第一次看到泳池房的照片时，我还以为那就是主屋，”威廉姆斯的孙女哈德逊说道。目前的业主是谷歌前首席执行官埃里克·施密特，他于 2021 年以 61.5 百万美元的价格从希尔顿家族手中买下了这处房产。

比弗利山庄酒店 20 世纪 40 年代至 50 年代

从 1941 年开始，威廉姆斯为比弗利山庄酒店承担了如此之多的不同翻新和扩建项目，以至于盖蒂博物馆的策展人卡西亚托称他实质上就是“该酒店的建筑师”。这座始建于 1912 年的原始酒店是由埃尔默·格雷以传教区复兴风格（Mission Revival Style）建造的。威廉姆斯的工作是对其进行翻新、重新构思和扩建。

他最受推崇的贡献之一是马球休息室（Polo Lounge），这是一个优雅、绿意盎然的室内外餐厅，几十年来一直是好莱坞交易者的心头好。他为其设计了绿与三文鱼色的色调，这种配色贯穿于整个物业。哈德逊表示，绿色绝对是他最喜欢的颜色，她记得他曾向她展示一棵树如何包含多种深浅不一的绿色，并暗示自然界懂得如何吸引我们的注意力。

他在 1949 年建造了一个扩建部分——新月翼楼（Crescent Wing），并在其正面使用了他自己的手写体作为“比弗利山庄酒店”的标志。这个标志从日落大道（Sunset Boulevard）清晰可见，并出现在一系列周边商品上，包括钢笔和睡衣。

艺术

J. PAUL GETTY TRUST

DELLA M. WILLIAMS TRUST AND J. PAUL GETTY TRUST

J. PAUL GETTY TRUST

最左侧是保罗·R·威廉姆斯于 1952 年为家人建造的房屋中的一个房间，图中为现任业主管理下的现状。从左侧附近起顺时针方向依次为：一张未注明日期的照片中的威廉姆斯，无论以何种衡量标准，他都是 20 世纪洛杉矶最成功的黑人建筑师；约 1952 年在建筑工地上的威廉姆斯（指点方向）；以及他为洛杉矶第一非洲卫理公会（A.M.E.）教堂绘制的渲染图。

站在一名黑人男子身边。或者正如他在 1937 年的一篇论文中所指出的，“种族缺陷的沉重负担迫使我不得不发展出销售技巧。”

威廉姆斯在洛杉矶市中心一个多元化的社区长大，早年就展现出绘画天赋，并梦想成为一名建筑师。高中毕业后，他在不同的艺术学校学习设计，在南加州大学（U.S.C.）学习工程，随后在 1919 年获得了一份建筑入门工作。他在 1921 年获得了执业执照，两年后成为美国建筑师学会（American Institute of Architects）的成员，也是该学会首位有记录的黑人成员。

詹内尔·方 为《纽约时报》供稿

他通过为权势显赫的客户设计梦想之屋来建立自己的事业，客户包括芭芭拉·斯坦威克、伯特·拉尔、弗兰克·辛纳屈、露西尔·鲍尔和德西·阿纳兹。哈德逊在 2012 年与 Rizzoli 出版了一本豪华的咖啡桌书，帮助确立了他在该领域的作品地位。但新的展览计划超越他作为“明星建筑师”的名声。

盖蒂博物馆的展览展示了威廉姆斯对历史上黑人社区（如西亚当斯区）的贡献，他在那里为第一 A.M.E. 教堂（洛杉矶最古老的非裔美国人会众）和金州共同人寿保险公司（Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company）设计了建筑。

南加州大学的展览则侧重于这位建筑师的经济适用房项目，以及他如何“为集体生活构思创新且体面的可能性”，三位策展人之一的米尔顿·S·F·库里表示，他们还邀请了当代艺术家和建筑师对威廉姆斯的作品做出回应。

洛杉矶县立艺术博物馆（LACMA）的回顾展规模最大、范围最广，将他的一些好莱坞宫殿式庄园与市政和宗教建筑一同展出。该展览的策展人斯塔西·斯坦伯格将其描述为：“他的作品触及了生活的方方面面。你可能出生在保罗·威廉姆斯设计的医院，在保罗·威廉姆斯设计的学校受教育，在保罗·威廉姆斯设计的教堂结婚，最后被安葬在保罗·威廉姆斯设计的殡仪馆里。”

博物馆的参观者很快就会发现，威廉姆斯并没有一种单一的标志性风格。他会根据客户的需求，以他们所青睐的宽松美学来设计住宅或总部，无论是都铎式、乔治亚式还是西班牙殖民风格。

但他的许多建筑确实拥有经典的威廉姆斯元素。从营造出戏剧感或浪漫氛围入口的优雅弧形楼梯，到他用自己的手写体为比弗利山庄酒店设计的时尚标志，他的印记以不同的方式出现在洛杉矶市的各个角落。以下是他的五座标志性建筑。

威廉姆斯家族住宅 拉法叶广场，1952年

与他为客户设计的庄园不同，威廉姆斯为自己的家人在拉法叶广场设计的这座简朴住宅具有一种温暖的现代主义感。这是一座白色的水平结构建筑，其将房间构思为独立亭阁的设计呼应了柯布西耶的风格。

“这座房子以一种非常优雅的方式，将他在大型住宅中采用的一些特点——美学、流动感、曲线——与更现代的形式结合在一起，”南加州大学（U.S.C.）展览的策展人、建筑师瓦莱里·奥古斯汀（Valéry Augustin）说道。

“住在这座房子里就像生活在梦中，”现任业主达伦·沃克（Darren Walker）说道。这位前福特基金会主席在接管娱乐公司 Anonymous Content 的掌舵权后，于5月买下了这座房子。

“虽然它是在1950年构思的，但它拥有所有便利设施。我觉得它比我住过的任何新房子都更时髦、更精致。”

沃克特别喜欢那个带有绿色石板地板的地面曲墙房间，他将其称为“德拉·梅的兰那（lanai）”。这个房间的灵感来自威廉姆斯与妻子德拉·梅·吉文斯（Della Mae Givens）的一次牙买加之旅，她想要一个充满植物的空间。（威廉姆斯在墙内安装了用于灌溉的水龙头。）

沃克还安装了诺亚·戴维斯（Noah Davis）和卡拉·沃克（Kara Walker）的艺术品。“我喜欢坐在打开滑动门的兰那里，”他说，“这就是洛杉矶那种室内外融合生活的理想状态。”

沃克是从画廊主汉娜·霍夫曼（Hannah Hoffman）手中买下这座房子的，后者在 Escher GuneWardena 建筑师事务所的帮助下对其进行了修复。在此之前，这座房子属于威廉姆斯家族，哈德逊将其描述为充满活力，尤其是在假期期间。

比如威廉姆斯作为楼梯扶手一部分而设计的三个青铜瞪羚。“一年之中有11个月它们是瞪羚，”她说，“到了圣诞节，它们会戴上红色天鹅绒蝴蝶结，身上挂着灯，像驯鹿一样。”

第一非洲卫理公会教堂 (A.M.E.) 西亚当斯，1969年

威廉姆斯从小就参加第一 A.M.E. 教堂（当时在市中心）；在他父母都死于肺结核后，大约4岁时，一个教会家庭收养了他。因此，他在去世前一直积极参与教会活动也就不足为奇了。1980年，他的葬礼就在他为西亚当斯区设计的这座建筑中举行。

哈德逊说，正是听了演员兼慈善家丹尼·托马斯（Danny Thomas）对他祖父的悼词时，她意识到自己需要承担起家族档案管理员的责任。托马斯讲述了威廉姆斯不仅在1962年设计了位于孟菲斯的圣犹达儿童医院原址，而且还是免费设计的。“对我来说，这就是关键。我想，‘如果作为孙女我都不知道这件事，那我还不知道些什么？’我知道我必须守护他的遗产。”

这座教堂长期以来以其激昂的福音合唱团而闻名，威廉姆斯利用这一优势，设计了一个之字形屋顶以改善音响效果。

“那种之字形给人一种来自内部的震动感，”布鲁克斯在描述合唱团和信徒如何随音乐而律动时说道，“这不是一座让人静坐的教堂。”

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3. 《字母之歌》的第一个单词。

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一位被抹去的经济学家

玛丽亚·埃奇沃思（Maria Edgeworth）通过将经济学课程潜入小说中，帮助推广了经济学。两个世纪后，一本新书赋予了她应得的认可。 作者：JEANNA SMIALEK / 第 6 页

这是一款玩家无法获胜的成瘾性“技巧游戏”

作者：NICK KEPPLER

在又一个安装干壁的单调周之后，大卫·佩克（David Peck）在最近的一个周五开车回家，经过宾夕法尼亚州米尔海姆（Millheim）唯一的加油站时，感到了一种熟悉的冲动。

米尔海姆食品超市（Millheim Food Mart）是附属于加油站的便利店，其店面设有 6 台视频屏幕自助终端，每台终端

在宾夕法尼亚州，问题赌徒们希望这些机器能尽快倒闭。

都配有一把可旋转的吧台椅。口袋里只有 $8，46, 岁的佩克先生在店里停了下来，将钱投入其中一台机器中。

他的 $8 被转换为 800 个积分，他按下自助终端上的一个按钮，让彩色的图标掉进一个类似井字棋的网格中。这款游戏名为“幸运小妖精”（Lucky Leprechaun），图标是俗气的幸运符号：四叶草、金色马蹄铁、白兔、金罐、小妖精。每当 3 个相同的图标排成一行时，积分就会累积。

这台自助终端看起来像一台老虎机，运作起来也像一台老虎机。但其设计者精心加入了一项功能，并据此主张该终端不应被视为赌博设备：如果玩家在一次旋转中输了，他们可以选择切换到另一个游戏以赢回积分。

这些游戏基于某种技巧（例如记忆模式），而非运气。但它们可能非常乏味，许多玩家选择不去尝试赢回积分——以及金钱。

正因为存在这种选择，这些自助终端被称为“技巧游戏”，且长期以来在宾夕法尼亚州被认为是合法的，从而使其能够绕过该州关于 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

3 SHOP TALK 人工智能可以做很多事，但不能做所有事。总得有人处理客户支持。作者：LORA KELLEY

3 WORK FRIEND 如果你那个爱聊天的隔壁工位邻居不明白你的暗示，也许是时候调大音量了。作者：MAX READ

5 STRATEGIES 这次牛市可能有足够的耐力在下一个十年继续运行。作者：JEFF SOMMER

Industries

$17.1B

Meta 表示其可能支付的金额，用于解决一起关于社交媒体成瘾的里程碑式案件。

Instagram 和 Facebook 的母公司 Meta 面临着来自各州、学区和个人的系列诉讼，指控其将社交媒体平台设计成具有成瘾性。周三，在一项触及 维持用户参与度这一业务核心的里程碑式裁决中，该公司同意向 47 个州、哥伦比亚特区以及美国领地支付最高 171 亿美元 billion，并对产品进行修改。

《纽约时报》的塞西莉亚·康（Cecilia Kang）和埃利·坦（Eli Tan）报道称，这一结果实际上结束了一场联邦审判，在之前的审判中，加利福尼亚州、科罗拉多州、肯塔基州和新泽西州因指控 伤害儿童而寻求约 2000 亿美元 billion 的赔偿。在一次重大妥协中，该公司同意就违反各州消费者保护法和联邦儿童安全法支付罚款。此外，它还将对年轻人每天使用平台的时间设定限制，在学校上课期间静默通知，并中断无尽滚动浏览，以及实施其他变更。

将立即支付 120 亿美元 billion，如果 TikTok 和 Snap 等其他社交媒体平台也与各州达成和解并对其产品做出修改， 将额外支付 50 亿美元 billion 的罚款。“只有当所有同行都加入我们时，这个框架才能发挥作用，” 首席法务官 C.J. 马奥尼（C.J. Mahoney）在博文中写道。“因为青少年在数十个应用程序之间流畅地切换，我们需要一个全行业范围的解决方案。”

的这次和解是其他主张这些平台使儿童及其心理健康处于风险之案件的风向标。

斯坦福大学法学教授诺拉·弗里曼·恩格斯特罗姆（Nora Freeman Engstrom）告诉康女士和坦先生：“除非 看到了大势所趋并感到风险极高，否则它不会选择和解。” 周三另行宣布，将支付近 10 亿美元 billion 以解决德克萨斯州一起基于类似主张的案件。 LORA KELLEY

SO FAR THIS YEAR

股票上涨。 S&P 500, +12.7%

抵押贷款利率上涨。

30-YEAR FIXED, 6.79%, +0.59 POINTS

失业金申请人数下降。 FOUR-WEEK MOVING AVERAGE, -6.2%

“数据中心将在短期内成为驱动力。”

投资公司 Aptus Capital Advisors 的股票主管大卫·瓦格纳（DAVID WAGNER）谈论英伟达创纪录的营收。

“这一决定证实了我们从一开始就说过的话：我是在履行评论员的职责，这次解雇是不公正的。”

卡伦·阿提亚（KAREN ATTIAH）在去年因社交媒体帖子被解雇后，被法院命令由《华盛顿邮报》重新雇佣。

“我们从未见过如此糟糕的情况。”

前职业安全与健康管理局首席科学家亚当·芬克尔（ADAM FINKEL）谈论过去六年中去世的 NFL 球员中极高比例的大脑疾病率。

从每个大洲报道气候。

加利福尼亚州的山火。刚果民主共和国的森林砍伐。南极洲的冰川融化。我们的记者报道全球，以帮助读者了解我们不断变化的星球。

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JACKSON GIBBS

当隔壁工位的话痨完全不听暗示时

我的隔壁工位有个没完没了的人。她要么隔着工位墙大喊我的名字，要么绕过转角站在我的办公桌前，然后对着我滔滔不绝地讲 40 分钟甚至更久。我希望我是在夸张，但这每周都会发生。根本没有办法阻止她，甚至无法在她在那里喋喋不休时忽略她并继续工作。在她的附近只有我的一个工位，所以我成了她唯一的受害者。她的直接同事和主管都在另一个州，而她把我们的办公室当作她的基地。

好几次我都直接告诉她：“我必须集中精力工作，你跟我说话的时候我没法工作。”但她只会简单地用这句话开始她的下一次“对话”：“我知道你很忙，我在打扰你，但是——”，然后继续聊很长一段时间。我申请了降噪耳机并尝试忽略她，但她会粗鲁地拍我的肩膀。我恳求我的主管——他不是她的主管，对她没有管理权——告诉她让我一个人待着，因为这确实影响了我的工作效率。我多次恳求调换办公桌。全部被拒绝。我没有办法与她的主管沟通。我已经没主意了。

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MARGEAUX WALTER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

请告诉我，是否有什么我还没想到的神奇解决方案！—— 匿名

请将关于办公室、金钱、职业和工作与生活平衡的问题发送至 workfriend@nytimes.com。请附上您的姓名和所在地，即使您希望隐去这些信息。来信可能会经过编辑。

令人惊讶的是，我在本专栏中给出的建议，经常可以简化为类似这样的话：“你试过直接与办公室里那个行为让你感到烦恼的人沟通吗？”人们在职场中害怕显得粗鲁的心理极其强大，这让他们避开了解决问题最明显的一步——但这也让我有了工作，所以我猜我不能抱怨。

但是，当有人（比如你）已经尝试了这种基础的默认建议，并且直接向那个令人烦恼的同事表达了挫败感，而且还尝试了许多其他方法时，我该怎么办？无论好坏，我将坚持我的观点：我认为你需要比现在更加直接地与这个人沟通。

你的同事如此深切地意识不到你对她单方面对话的缺乏兴趣（更不用说挫败感），这向我表明，她不是一个能敏锐捕捉社交信号的人。与此同时，我怀疑你通常是一个礼貌且温和的人。像你这样社交敏感的人认为的“几乎过于响亮且清晰”的离开信号，在她的雷达上可能根本没有显示。

这意味着你可能需要将音量（打个比方）调得比你平时感到舒适的程度高得多。对于绝大多数人来说，“你跟我说话时我没法工作”很容易被理解为一项指令。但像这样的人似乎将其解读为一个中立的事实陈述。在这种情况下，你需要表达得毫无歧义。

你试过说类似这样的话吗：“请现在停止跟我说话——我需要回去工作了”？这种直接程度或许能帮她更好地理解你的需求。如果她根本不给你插话的机会，那么：你试过打断她来说这句话吗？你试过一遍又一遍、一遍又一遍地说，直到她停止吗？这样做（或类似的行为）对你来说可能感觉极其粗鲁——对我来说也是！——但考虑到你们对什么是礼貌行为的理解存在巨大差异，

我不确定你的同事是否会以同样的方式来解读。

平庸 / 稳定 vs. 满足 / 有毒

我是一名 40 多岁的非营利组织专业人士。自从大学毕业以来，我换过九份工作，经历了两种基本类型的职场。在一种职场中，我喜欢我的团队和主管，但工作内容平庸、令人沮丧或不令人满意。在另一种职场中，我对工作充满热情，但我的团队糟糕透顶。

后者描述了我目前的职位。我热爱我的客户，我所做的工作具有巨大的价值。但我的主管没有沟通，没有支持，没有清晰度，没有一致性，也没有尊重。我能完成工作是尽管有这些主管，而不是因为他们。

现在我有机会接手一个新职位，它符合前者的描述——极佳的老板和同事，小型办公室，大量的开放式沟通与协作，以及成长潜力。但这是一项高度技术性的工作，不需要创造力，而且会让我在屏幕前独自度过更多时间。哪一个更糟？哪一个更好？你会选择哪一个，为什么？ ——匿名读者

尽管我很想针对这样一个哲学问题，就追求一份稳定、健康、有创造力且充满意义的工作发表一篇学识渊博的论述，但对我来说，回答你这个问题的唯一真实答案就是耸耸肩说：视情况而定。

事实上，我认为你已经知道这一点了，因为你已经非常清晰地概述了权衡利弊的情况，而且在你的职业生涯中，你已经在“平庸但稳定”和“满足但有毒”的工作之间切换过好几次了。如果其中一个始终是更好的选择，那么在某个时间点，你难道不会选择一直留在那个赛道上吗？

在某种程度上，我很惊讶你竟然会联系我，因为我认为你可能比任何人都更清楚其中的道理。如果在同一份工作中几乎不可能同时获得成就感和幸福感——根据我收到的信件，我认为确实如此，尤其是在非营利部门——那么为什么不在两者之间交替切换，从而确保在整个职业生涯中，你的压力、枯燥、热情和创造力能达到一个令人羡慕的整体平均水平呢？

这就是为什么在这种情况下，我会建议你抓住这个新机会的原因之一。最近你已经在等式中“有价值但具有腐蚀性”的一半中度过了足够的时间；现在是时候用几年时间在“枯燥乏味但健康”的一边来平衡一下了。如果你发现自己开始怀念目前工作的成就感——并且在记忆中淡化了你所遭受的沟通缺失和支持匮乏——那么你就知道，又是时候再次切换了。

这些行为正常吗？

我最近参加了第一轮求职面试，是通过 Microsoft Teams 与该公司的五名员工进行通话。在整个半小时的通话过程中，他们全部关闭了摄像头，且没有给出任何解释。

作为一个从未在 Teams 上进行过面试的人，我想请问（所有人关闭摄像头）这种情况常见吗？我觉得这很缺乏人情味——更不用说在面试过程中一直盯着自己的脸看，既奇怪又让人分心。

我应该向一位在该公司工作且认识的人提供关于这次奇怪面试的反馈吗？她的职位很高，可能不知道员工们在这么做。我不想让这件事看起来像是在“酸葡萄”——因为我没有进入第二轮面试——但我真心希望其他潜在的面试者能免于这种诡异的经历。 ——匿名读者

我非常认同你的感受。就惯例而言，关闭摄像头的面试并非闻所未闻，但它们也并未被广泛接受为正常或恰当的行为。（Reddit 等求职者聚集的在线平台上有大量关于这种令人产生疏离感的“关灯面试”的故事。）尤其是你的这次面试——会前没有提醒，会中没有解释，甚至没有给你提供关闭自己摄像头的机会——听起来尤其糟糕。除了会让你觉得对方认为你不值得招聘小组全神贯注地对待之外，在“无面孔的 Microsoft Teams 审判庭”面前看着自己紧张得满头大汗，这件事本身就带有某种深刻的不适感和反乌托邦色彩。

但即便如此，我认为你不应该向你的联系人提及此事。你说你不想让这听起来像是在“酸葡萄”，但我不确定这还能像什么。你不欠这家公司任何东西，而“让假设中的未来面试者免于 30 分钟的尴尬”这个理由，不足以支撑你利用与该公司高层的关系去反映问题。如果她问起，不要撒谎，但很难想象会有什么样的结果值得你去冒风险破坏与这个人的良好关系。相反，你可以养成一个习惯，在面试前询问是开启还是关闭摄像头——并熟悉在 Teams 中隐藏自己摄像头视图的方法。

“前线部署”（Forward Deployed）

/fôrwərd-də'ploid/

初创公司正使用这个源自军事的术语，将面向客户的工作美化，因为客户在寻求人员帮助他们部署人工智能（A.I.）工具。

“前线部署工程师”（forward-deployed engineer）这个职位名称——指与客户合作部署技术、收集反馈并解决问题的人员——已经存在十多年了。

但最近，随着公司编写代码所需的人员减少，而需要奔波于客户办公室以帮助其集成新人工智能工具的人员增加，这种用于各种技术岗位的描述词的使用量正在爆炸式增长。

一家公司的发言人表示，在 LinkedIn 上，前线部署工程师的职位招聘在过去一年中增长了 12 倍。此外，像前线部署产品经理、前线部署战略师和前线部署架构师这样的新职位名称也出现在了该平台上。

在招聘网站 Indeed 上，寻求前线部署工程师的招聘信息在过去一年中增长了 730%。Indeed 招聘实验室（Indeed Hiring Lab）的经济学家斯内哈·普里（Sneha Puri）表示，此类职位的增长率明显高于其他技术岗位——尽管这类招聘信息的绝对数量仍然相当低，在数千个左右。她说，对这类支持人员的需求增加，部分原因是“企业正在购买人工智能系统，但他们不一定知道如何以最佳方式进行部署”。

斯坦福大学经济学家尼克·布鲁姆（Nick Bloom）表示，在快速变化的就业格局中，前线部署类角色至少在目前看来是一个相对稳妥的选择。人工智能在许多日常工作任务方面正变得出色。然而，前线部署人员负责的是人工智能无法替代的功能：面对面的客户支持。

布鲁姆先生表示，这个最初由 Palantir 公司推广的职位名称之所以具有吸引力，既反映了现实，也反映了炒作。诚然，能够指导客户集成新工具的人目前确实非常有用。但他指出，其传播的一个主要因素仅仅是因为“它听起来很酷”。这个头衔让人联想到军事力量，而不是会议室和幻灯片。

公司更容易招募到那些能让朋友和父母感到自豪的人，布鲁姆先生反思道，“对许多人来说，‘前线部署工程师’听起来比‘基于客户的工程师’好得多”。这类工作的不同版本——通常带有不那么花哨的头衔，如“顾问”——已经存在多年。“你是在通过头衔进行溢价销售，”他说。

这似乎奏效了。布鲁姆先生表示，人们不仅在寻求这个角色，有些人甚至在修改他们在 LinkedIn 上的过往工作描述，他的团队一直在收集关于员工如何编辑该网站工作经历的数据。他们的数据显示，今年将软件工程师、数据工程师和解决方案架构师等头衔更改为“前线部署工程师”的情况大幅增加（尽管这样做的人总数仍然很少，在数百人左右）。

这个职位的热度还体现了硅谷近期对军事文化的接纳和美化。布鲁姆先生暗示：“如果可行的话，科技公司可能会尝试把员工称为‘特种作战部队’（Special Ops）或‘三角洲部队’（Delta Force）。”他说，最近感觉公司就像是在把动作电影里的酷头衔复制粘贴到招聘公告中。“这是‘壮志凌云：硅谷版’的一代。”

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安德烈斯·库达基（ANDRES KUDACKI）为《纽约时报》拍摄 尽管在收入最高的一年里赚了约 $375,000，但沉迷于“技巧类游戏”的大卫·佩克（David Peck）没有任何积蓄。他说，在其中一个六个月的时间段里，他损失了 $60,000。

这是一场玩家无法获胜的“技巧游戏”

在宾夕法尼亚州，便利店、酒吧、啤酒分销商、杂货店、电子烟和烟草店，甚至洗衣店里都能找到技巧游戏。

汉娜·拜尔 为《纽约时报》拍摄

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赌博。但宾夕法尼亚州最高法院最近的一项裁决将这些游戏重新分类为一种赌博形式，迫使立法者决定如何对其进行监管。

根据该州游戏控制委员会的数据，宾夕法尼亚州已聚集了 70,000 到 100,000 台此类游戏机。它们分布在便利店、酒吧、啤酒分销商、杂货店、电子烟和烟草店，甚至洗衣店中。这些零售店通过协议保留玩家损失资金的一部分，一些店主表示，这些收入和客流量对他们的底线至关重要。

佩克先生一直玩到输光所有积分，结果导致他失去了所有钱。整个过程大约花费了 25 分钟。

在其他日子里，佩克先生坐在米尔海姆食品超市（Millheim Food Mart）里，经历着持续数小时的起起伏伏，最终损失数百美元。“我赢了，”他说，“我赢了很多，但我从未兑现。”

他说，在一次为期六个月的时间里，他损失了 $60,000。

感到挫败的立法者

各州对这些挑战赌博法精神（即便没有违反法律条文）的技巧游戏反应不一。伊利诺伊州和佐治亚州对其采取了兼容态度，并通过法律对其进行监管和征税。弗吉尼亚州和北卡罗来纳州则试图禁止它们。在威斯康星州和德克萨斯州，它们仍处于法律灰色地带。

引领技巧游戏行业的 Pace-O-Matic 公司于 2013 年将其自助终端引入宾夕法尼亚州。州警迅速没收了这些机器，该公司随后提起诉讼以追回机器——这成了测试这些游戏合法性的试金石。次年，一家州法院做出了有利于 Pace-O-Matic 的裁决，认定这些机器上的游戏“主要”基于技巧。2023 年，另一家州法院得出了相同的结论。

这些游戏让当地立法者感到挫败，其中一些人提到，在相对缺乏安保的商业场所放置装满现金的机器存在安全隐患。2020 年，一名抢劫犯在海泽尔顿（Hazelton）的一家便利店抢夺技巧游戏机中的现金时，杀害了一名店员。州立法者提出了各种监管方案。Pace-O-Matic 在游说活动上花费了数百万美元，导致没有一项法案成为法律。

该州最高法院在 6 月份的最新裁决中表示，如果一个设备被部分用于赌博，那么它就是赌博设备。除非立法者决定为这些游戏通过新的保护措施，否则它们将在 10 月份变为非法。

成瘾者的诱饵

对于佩克先生来说，技巧游戏是他长期依赖史中的最新一环。在过去的十年里，他戒掉了可卡因、海洛因、酒精和冰毒。2021年，为了彻底戒毒，他与当时的妻子从费城地区搬到了米尔海姆，因为在那里他们不认识任何毒贩。

佩克先生表示，他使用药物是为了逃避与童年创伤（包括性虐待）相关的焦虑和创伤后应激障碍。在四年前实现化学意义上的戒断后，技巧游戏成了他屏蔽痛苦想法的新方式。

“我就是一个成瘾者，简单直接，”他说，“它们是我逃避一切的方式。”

几十年的依赖管理经历让他培养出了一些自律。他会预留足够的钱用于食物、房租、水电费、税款，以及支付给与母亲同住的两个孩子的抚养费。他说，剩下的钱“全部投入到了那些机器里”。尽管在他收入最高的一年里赚了约 375,000 美元，但他没有任何积蓄。

宾夕法尼亚州强迫性赌博委员会执行主任乔什·埃尔科莱表示，该非营利组织每年收到约 100 个寻求帮助的电话，其中对方将技巧游戏列为其最严重的问题赌博类型。

佩克先生说，他无法准确指出为什么技巧游戏对他有如此独特的吸引力。部分原因在于其无处不在。米尔海姆是一个面积 1.3 平方英里、人口 831 人的小镇。镇上只有一个带有红绿灯的十字路口，但在五个地点至少分布着 16 台技巧游戏机。

在佩克先生公寓对面是一家名为“This Is It”的草坪与园艺店，不过店外一块写着“宾夕法尼亚技巧游戏，在此畅玩-在此赢奖！！！！”的广告牌比店名更显眼。

26 岁的米尔海姆本地人杰森·蒂克纳于 2024 年与一名拥有景观公司的商业伙伴共同开设了这家店。他说，他们安装这些游戏是为了在冬季月份维持盈利。

在向 Pace-O-Matic 支付许可费后，利润由 This Is It 店铺与该店机器的所有者兼运营商 Meile Amusements 平分。蒂克纳先生表示，这些游戏占该店收入的 25% 到 30%。

蒂克纳先生偶尔会玩技巧游戏。他说，这些游戏能让他“很快陷入一个深不见底的黑暗深渊”。但他对于从中获利没有任何顾虑。“我总是说，‘请理性博彩’，”他说。

游说与倡导团体宾夕法尼亚州酒馆与玩家协会主席道格·斯普兰克尔表示，技巧游戏“应该是现有业务的辅助，旨在帮助维持经营、支付部分业务费用并创造娱乐”。

斯普兰克尔先生是宾夕法尼亚州西部一家小型连锁店 Sprankle's Neighborhood Markets 的第二代共同所有者之一。他说，这些技巧游戏旨在吸引顾客选择 Sprankle's 而非其他超市。

他将这些游戏比作“旧时代的台球和街机游戏”，并补充说，“这只是在活动之间用来消磨一点时间的东西。”

熟悉的循环

在新冠疫情最严重期间，詹妮弗·高尔（Jennifer Gower）感到一种难以言表的沉闷。她大部分时间都把自己封闭在位于宾夕法尼亚州斯克兰顿（Scranton, Pa.）附近与丈夫和幼子共住的房子里。

她偶尔会去赌场或购买宾夕法尼亚州彩票，但在疫情之前，赌博从未给她带来过麻烦。每次去超市买菜时，她开始购买刮刮乐彩票。随后，她在手机上发现了赌场游戏应用程序。多巴胺的循环令人无法抗拒。

“我早晨醒来，脚刚落地，就会伸手拿手机，在网上旋转老虎机，”她说。

54岁的高尔女士拒绝透露具体的赌博损失金额，但她表示，这些损失迅速累积到了“数万美元”，对于一个中等收入家庭来说，“是非常沉重的打击”。

这些损失最终促使她拨打了 1-800-GAMBLER，这是由国家问题赌博委员会（National Council on Problem Gambling）运行的热线，该热线将她与在线的匿名赌徒（Gamblers Anonymous）会议以及一名治疗师联系在一起。

她说，自我排除（self-exclusion）对她的康复至关重要。与大多数州一样，宾夕法尼亚州维持着一个登记册，问题赌徒可以自愿将自己加入其中。赌场有义务禁止他们进入，且游戏控制委员会（Gaming Control Board）会将他们的姓名发送给在线赌博公司，命令其查找并删除相关账户。法律的规定是，如果有人

策略 / 杰夫·索默（JEFF SOMMER）

如果这次市场反弹才刚刚开始会怎样？

可逆的。

李梦欣（MENGXIN LI）

一位战绩卓越且乐观的策略师预计未来将有更多好时光。

当股市冲向云霄时，我的本能是寻找降落伞。

因此，在经历了三年多巨大的涨幅之后，我一直在检查我的安全设备是否完好——确保我有足够的现金和高质量债券，以帮助抵御股市的重大挫折。

即便如此，我立即承认，我不知道股票将走向何方。由投资者对人工智能的狂热所驱动的牛市，有可能还会持续数年。

虽然我依然是一个根深蒂固的怀疑论者，但一些冷静且敏锐的人比我更加看好。

其中就包括爱德华·亚德尼（Edward Yardeni），一位拥有耶鲁大学博士学位的独立策略师和经济学家。他通常倾向于乐观，而且在预测市场底部方面——正如他在 2009 年以及 2020 年与我的对话中所做的那样——比预测崩盘更擅长。

六年来，他一直是态度最积极的策略师之一，他在本十年之初宣布，我们即将经历他所谓的“咆哮的 2020 年代”——一个最终以技术驱动的生产力提升和股市牛市为特征的时期。

现在，他进一步强化了这一评估，称好时光有 80% 的概率将持续数年，股市将一直咆哮到 2030 年代至少的前半段。

我最近与亚德尼先生会面，他解释了他的乐观想法。

咆哮的十年

目前，亚德尼先生对“咆哮的 2020s”的大胆预测似乎显得保守，因为对于股市而言，这已经是一个伟大的十年。

从长远来看，他表示，除非“地缘政治”问题使经济和市场脱轨，否则股市往往呈上升趋势。他表示，不要低估“极具韧性的美国经济”，尽管存在障碍，它仍在持续增长。

如今，华尔街的大多数人也持看涨态度。而在 2020 年新冠疫情初期，气氛要阴郁得多。当时，亚德尼先生准确预判了 3 月份熊市的底部，并在几个月后的 8 月宣布，“咆哮”的十年已经开启。

在他做出这一预判时，疫情死亡人数仍在攀升，新冠疫苗尚未发布，股市和经济正从一场严重但短暂的衰退中恢复。

亚德尼先生表示，积压的需求起初将刺激经济，而随着这十年的展开，技术进步将推动其发展。2022 年 11 月 ChatGPT 的发布令他感到惊讶，他将人工智能视为美国公司提高生产力和获得超额利润的来源。

到目前为止，他对 2020s 的判断是正确的。

截至周三，标普 500 指数自 Dec. 31, 2019 以来已上涨 138%。

“我认为这一切将继续，”他告诉我，“很有可能这仅仅是个开始。”

如果标普 500 指数在十年结束前达到 10,000 点（正如亚德尼先生所预期），其涨幅将达到 209.5%。根据亚德尼研究公司（Yardeni Research）首席量化策略师乔·艾博特（Joe Abbott）的计算，这将使 '20s 在 1870s 以来所有十年中的排名位列第三。

这并不算太牵强。要在十年结束前达到 10,000 点的目标，仅需要美国股市以二战结束以来的平均速度增长——价格年增长率略高于 7%，而包括再投资股息在内的总回报年增长率则超过 10%。

“在经历了过去几年惊人的回报之后，这种速度仅仅是回归‘正常’，”亚德尼先生说。

以下是艾博特先生对标普 500 指数及其前身在 1870s 以来其他五个股市大十年中的计算结果。这些是价格涨幅，而非包含股息的总回报（总回报会更高）。数据始于每年的 Dec. 31。对于 1957, 标普 500 指数启动之前的数字，他使用大致等效的数据构建了回报率： ■ 1989-99: 315.7% ■ 1949-59: 257.3% ■ 1979-89: 227.4% ■ 2009-19: 189.7% ■ 1919-29: 139.9%

因此，目前的这个十年到目前为止，其表现与 1920s 非常接近。

“历史表明，‘咆哮的十年’对于股市来说其实并非特例，”亚德尼先生说。他说，当市场下跌时，人们才会觉得它是特例。

担忧的空间

一个世纪前的最初的“咆哮二十年代”以股市崩盘和大萧条告终。亚德尼先生充分意识到耶鲁大学著名经济学家欧文·费舍尔（Irving Fisher）那句不幸的断言——费舍尔在1929年10月15日曾表示，股市已经达到了“看起来像是一个永久高位平台”的状态。1929年的崩盘在两周后开始。费舍尔教授的名声再也没有完全恢复。

虽然亚德尼先生认为当前的股市表现卓越——这主要是由企业利润的激增而非单纯的非理性繁荣所驱动——但他谨慎地表示，这次上涨并非不可—

相反，他表示，地缘政治随时可能扰乱市场和经济，即便人工智能（A.I.）仍然是推动股市的巨大正面力量。令他担忧的威胁包括伊朗和乌克兰的战争、最新的关税冲突、美国与中国之间潜伏的竞争，以及失控通胀的可能性。

债券收益率上升也是一个潜在的严重问题，但目前尚未让他过于担心。他假设收益率处于一个他称之为正常的交易区间——10年期国债收益率为4%至5%——且不会大幅升高或使经济脱轨。

尽管如此，这些指标仍需密切关注。早在1983年，亚德尼先生就创造了“债券义警”（the Bond Vigilantes）这个词，当时他警告说：“如果财政和货币当局不监管经济，债券投资者将会监管。经济将由信贷市场中的义警来运行。”

现在，他告诉我，“债券义警回来了”。收益率的上升是多种因素共同作用的结果：赤字增加；来自特朗普政府以及美联储及其新任主席的不确定政策；以及财政部和建设人工智能基础设施的公司发行的海量债券。

但他预计，在情况进一步恶化之前，政治家们会退让，市场将找到一个允许经济强劲增长的平衡点。

亚德尼先生认为短期内不会出现经济衰退，并且在对市场进行评估时尽量不考虑政治因素。他说：“我发现，无论在哪个政党执政期间，美国经济都具有惊人的韧性。”

乐观的视角

“市场的好时光之后总会跟着坏时光，”他说。“在好时光里，人们会忘记坏时光。然后他们会再次做出愚蠢的事情。”

就此而言，他表示，虽然特朗普政府的去监管议程“刺激了市场”，但风险承担有可能走得太远，从而导致企业滥用行为，就像21世纪初演变成安然（Enron）和世界在线（WorldCom）丑闻那样的欺诈事件。

即使人工智能继续成为推动股市的巨大正向力量，地缘政治仍可能在任何时候扰乱经济。

目前，很难看空股市。亚德尼先生显然没有这么做。

如果你从事长期股票投资，你可能会发现自己认同他的许多假设：从长远来看，经济将增长；企业利润将增加；股市将会上涨。

美国市场是否能够继续以其历史平均速度上涨——大约在不到十年的时间里让投资者的持仓翻倍，并在一生中创造惊人的复利收益——这是一个重大问题。

我不确定它是否能做到。我比亚德尼先生更担心。

但通过持有广泛且低成本的指数基金股票，我打赌股市的表现会相当不错，尽管不一定像过去几年或过去一个世纪那样辉煌。

亚德尼先生是以十年为周期来观察的。他说：“如果标准普尔 500 指数在 2029 年底前达到 10,000 点，我们可能会进一步提高目标。”

詹妮弗·高尔在发现技巧类游戏之前，曾戒掉了赌博习惯。 安德烈斯·库达基 为纽约时报 拍摄

如果名单上的某些方式绕过了这些障碍，博彩公司可以拒绝支付其奖金。

高尔女士曾申请自我禁赌一年，但她很快就复赌了。随后，她选择了终身自我禁赌。

她成功戒掉了赌博习惯——直到有一天，在一家加油站便利店里，她注意到一个摆满技巧类游戏的奇怪区域。她坐下来投入了一张钞票。她说，这种体验与赌博毫无二致。“灯光是一样的，”她说，“噪音是一样的。多巴胺的激增也是一样的。”

由于技巧类游戏不被视为赌博，因此自我禁赌规定并不适用。

高尔女士开始几乎每天玩这些游戏。她告诉家人自己在办杂事。这很容易，因为这些机器就设在她加油或买杂货的地方。

除非立法者决定为这些游戏通过新的保护法案，否则它们将在10月变为非法。

她意识到自己在这些游戏上亏掉的钱和在赌场应用程序上一样多。在经历了八个月的沉溺后，她戒掉了。

她说，技巧类游戏“绝对需要像任何赌博一样受到监管”。

Pace-O-Matic 的公共事务官员迈克·巴利（Mike Barley）表示，这些游戏对强迫性赌徒的潜在影响是“有问题的”，并且是“我们意识到的事情”。他表示，如果各州通过关于技巧类游戏的监管条例，公司希望能够解决这一问题。

弗吉尼亚联邦大学康复咨询教授、弗吉尼亚游戏与健康伙伴关系（Virginia Partnership for Gaming and Health）主任卡罗琳·E·霍利（Carolyn E. Hawley）表示，技巧类游戏消除了赌博空间与非赌博空间之间的物理或心理障碍。

霍利博士表示，“技巧类游戏”的标签以及这些游戏出现在日常场所，赋予了它们一种具有欺骗性的平庸感。“这降低了人们意识到这可能会造成伤害的可能性，”她说。

这些机器曾一度充斥在弗吉尼亚州，但该州议会在 2020. 年投票决定禁止它们。执法工作一直暂停，直到该州最高法院在 2023. 年维持了禁令。这些游戏依然难以捉摸。一些企业拒绝移除它们，而 Pace-O-Matic 则推出了一款新机器，声称符合弗吉尼亚州法律，再次挑战缉赌小队将其没收，并可能重新开启由法院和立法者研究如何监管这些自助终端的循环。

有证据表明，尽管有禁令，技巧类游戏仍在吸引更多弗吉尼亚州的问题赌徒。在弗吉尼亚游戏与健康伙伴关系针对寻求其计划帮助的人员进行的年度调查中，2024. 年有 4% 的人将技巧类游戏列为其主要的赌博形式。这一数字在 2025 年增长到了 10%。

在宾夕法尼亚州，最高法院基本上给了立法者一个选择：在 10 月 13 日之前通过一项处理技巧类游戏的法律，否则它们将变为非法。

州参议员、参议院民主党领袖杰伊·科斯塔（Jay Costa）表示，立法者正试图制定一项计划。他说，他认为技巧类游戏和老虎机之间没有区别，但他认为该州目前最好的选择是对其征税并进行监管。

目前，企业在被强制要求移除之前，仍保留着这些机器。

佩克先生不确定自己是否能离开。对他来说，最好的情况是最近的法院裁决得不到处理，从而使技巧类游戏在宾夕法尼亚州变为非法。他认为这样他基本上能戒掉赌博。

已经有几次，他似乎已经彻底告别了技巧类游戏。在婚姻结束之后，他禁欲了三个月。每当需要加油或买烟时，他脑海中都有一张没有这些机器的场所地图。但他发现自己又回到了 Food Mart 的旋转椅上。（该店店主未回应置评请求。）

他不确定自己是否能戒掉另一种瘾。他说，每次这个过程似乎都会消耗掉他体内一些有限的力量。

“我没有力气再进行一次康复了。”

上方为 19 世纪小说家、现代经济学理论家玛丽亚·埃奇沃思（Maria Edgeworth）及其家人的照片，拍摄于爱尔兰埃奇沃思镇的玛丽亚·埃奇沃思中心（右侧），该中心收藏有其作品的首版书（右上）。

思想的财富，被男性掩盖

在 19 世纪，玛丽亚·埃奇沃思写了大量充满经济理论的小说。为什么她对该领域的贡献被轻视了？

作者：珍娜·斯米亚莱克 (JEANNA SMIALEK)

大约十年前，我发现自己无法停止思考罗伯特·海尔布罗纳 (Robert Heilbroner) 的现代经济学开创性历史著作《世俗哲学家》(The Worldly Philosophers) 中的一段旁注。书中提到，该领域的一位先驱曾与一位名叫玛丽亚·埃奇沃思 (Maria Edgeworth) 的女性交好。

“作为一名经济学家的女儿，她或许是第一位对经济运作发表见解的女性，”海尔布罗纳写道。

我不知道为什么这样一个微小的细节会吸引我。也许是因为公认的经济学历史中如此缺乏女性，以至于违背了所有常理：标准的叙述全部是亚当·斯密 (Adam Smith)、托马斯·马尔萨斯 (Thomas Malthus)、大卫·李嘉图 (David Ricardo)，然后是一长串名为詹姆斯、约翰和罗伯特的人。也许是因为我自己当时是一个报道宏观经济学的 25 岁女性，而这个领域依然由男性主导且充斥着性别歧视。

我查询了埃奇沃思。在 19 世纪之交，她曾是一位著名的爱尔兰小说家，其声望之高，收入远超同时代的简·奥斯汀 (Jane Austen)。沃尔特·斯科特爵士 (Sir Walter Scott) 是她的笔友和门生。拜伦勋爵 (Lord Byron) 羡慕她。李嘉图和马尔萨斯称她为密友。这一切都令人惊讶。我既痴迷于摄政时期的小说，又是经济记者，然而我竟然从未听说过埃奇沃ث的名字。我想知道，为什么我从未听说过这位女士？

我尝试购买埃奇沃思最著名的著作—— 1800 年出版的《拉克伦特城堡》(Castle Rackrent)，但该书的印刷版极难找到，最终我在亚马逊上买了一本制作粗糙的副本，页边距诡异且有空白部分。我在那些混乱的页面中读到的内容令我震惊。

在这部关于一个爱尔兰地主家庭没落的喜剧小说中，埃奇沃思不仅仅是轻微地提及经济学。大量篇幅显然是围绕斯密 1776 年的奠基之作《国富论》(The Wealth of Nations) 构建的。埃奇沃思在探讨定价、垄断、高效土地管理——这些正是早期经济学家关注的核心观点。经济学甚至就体现在标题中：斯密将不合理的高额地租称为“racked rent”（敲诈性租金）。

我想知道是否还有其他人注意到这一点。在学术期刊中的搜索显示，少数专业人士已经察觉到了埃奇沃ث的贡献。经济历史学家威廉·亨德森 (William Henderson) 曾将《拉克伦特城堡》称为斯密著作的“文学延伸”，认为它通过激励其他作家将经济理论应用于社会领域，从而“扩大了早期经济学的影响力”。包括圣安德鲁斯大学的苏珊·曼利 (Susan Manly) 在内的其他学者也写过关于埃奇沃ث大量运用经济学的内容。

我订购并阅读了埃奇沃ث的其他书籍，其中许多书包含着几乎没有掩饰的早期政治经济学教训。埃奇沃ث于 1795 年出版的第一部全长作品《给文学女士的信》(Letters for Literary Ladies) 主张将女性纳入知识领域。在书中，她将斯密对垄断的批评应用于性别化的劳动力市场。埃奇沃ث通过类比《国富论》中的例子来论证，男性通过将女性排除在文学和学术之外，阻碍了思想经济的发展——这是一种保护主义。

“那些为了防止所交易商品价格下跌而焚毁整船香料的荷兰商人，表现出一种无法用任何合理借口辩解的卑劣垄断精神，”一个角色在给另一个角色的信中写道，这段话直接引用自斯密。“我希望你对此毫无共鸣”

“你的目标应该是播种，而非展示成年植株。”

玛丽亚·埃奇沃思 19世纪作家兼经济学家， 在给一位女性同事的建议中写道

“荷兰式的嫉妒，”她继续写道，“当你试图将女性才华排除在文学市场之外时。”

埃奇沃思在1809年出版的关于一名不幸的英爱地主的小说《倦怠》（Ennui）中，进一步基于斯密和马尔萨斯的观点，主张普及教育和自由贸易，并探讨实现持久经济发展所需的条件。埃奇沃思为儿童创作的作品中，充满了关于贸易收益和分工的故事。

到这时，我已完全痴迷其中。我提交了一本关于埃奇沃思的书稿提案，并开始认真研究，希望能查明是否还有其他女性在经济学创立的历史叙事中失踪。我认为有两个谜团需要解开：为什么埃奇沃思在小说中隐藏了如此多的经济学内容——以及为什么世界竟然如此彻底地忘记了她？

大众教育

第一个问题的答案在一个阴雨绵绵的牛津冬日变得清晰起来。我当时在那里阅读埃奇沃思档案的一部分——这些档案是她家族书信的庞大集合，散落在爱尔兰、英国、瑞士和美国的文学收藏馆中。博德利图书馆（Bodleian Libraries）保存了其中很大一部分，因此我每天蜷缩在木质书桌前，小心翼翼地翻阅着脆弱的 250 年前的文件，尽力解读埃奇沃思那倾斜的潦草字迹。

那天我专门研究一篇未发表的关于教育的论文，这篇论文似乎是埃奇沃思和她的父亲在 1800. 左右共同撰写的。当我翻阅那本手工缝制的笔记本时，我意识到：这不仅仅是一篇说服性的文章，而是一篇宣言。它准确地解释了埃奇沃思试图做什么，以及她为什么要这么做。

该论文主张教育贫困阶层和中产阶级，以此作为促进社会流动以及使其成员成为更合格的投票公民的一种手段。在当时，现代代议制民主尚处于起步阶段，工厂也才刚刚开始涌现，这些都是当时关注的重大议题。埃奇沃思写道：“减轻穷人的悲惨境遇并增加他们分享生活乐趣份额的最确定且最安全的方法就是教育他们。”

特别是，该论文主张向底层阶级教授政治经济学的基本原理，因为这些原理在日常生活中有着广泛的应用，并且可以引导人们在服务于公共利益的同时追求自身利益。在亚当·斯密《国富论》出版大约四分之一个世纪后，经济学在埃奇沃思及其身为发明家的父亲所往来的启蒙运动圈子中风靡一时。

纽约时报摄影师 PAULO NUNES DOS SANTOS 拍摄

下方为位于埃奇沃思镇的埃奇沃思家族墓室，玛丽亚·埃奇沃思安葬于此。其下方为该镇公共图书馆内玛丽亚·埃奇沃思的胸像。

然而，将前卫的哲学和科学思想普及给大众存在一个明显的障碍。这些内容可能

上方为位于埃奇沃思镇的埃奇沃思家族原宅。其上方为玛丽亚·埃奇沃思的往来书信。她与那个时代的许多顶尖思想家通信。

复杂且难以理解。埃奇沃思父女注意到，将“一些政治和商业知识与能取悦想象力的虚构故事相结合”可能会很有用。事实上，这正是埃奇沃思已经开始尝试做的事情。

埃奇沃思正致力于一项比她个人作品集更宏大的计划。她开始指导其他女性文学作家如何在作品中融入经济学。她与简·马塞特（Jane Marcet）建立了友谊，后者是一位写过化学入门书的伦敦社交名媛，两人就经济话题展开了通信。当马塞特撰写那本可被视为第一部经济学教科书的作品时，埃奇沃思为其初稿提供了详尽的批注。

埃奇沃思在编辑方面的才干与她的写作能力一样出色。她告诉马塞特，亚当·斯密应该被删节，因为他“非常需要这样做”；而功利主义哲学家杰里米·边沁（Jeremy Bentham）则“绝对不可能”用更少的文字来概括，因为他需要的是“被稀释”。

“你能在扎实的信息中加入越多有趣的轶事和例证就越好，”埃奇沃思在给马塞特的信中写道，“你的目标应该是播种，而不是展示长成的植物——你的作品应该激发人们进一步探索的好奇心。”

马塞特的教科书于 1816 出版，题为《政治经济学对话》，形式被设定为一名学生与老师之间的对话。马塞特笔下的一个角色对女性

应该——或者说孩子们能够——学习经济学这样复杂且枯燥的知识。故事的女主角坚持认为，他们其实已经学过了。她举了埃奇沃思的短篇小说《樱桃园》为例，这部作品在当时已成为英国托儿所的标准读物。

“作者审慎地避免提及这门科学的名字，”该角色说道，“但那个小故事包含了一个关于分工简单而优美的阐述。”

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埃奇沃思（Edgeworth）的项目——将经济学传播到爱丁堡和伦敦的精英圈子之外——取得了成功。

她的书籍和故事在世界各地的识字阶层中广为阅读，语言涵盖英语和法语。据报道，乔治三世在阅读完《拉克伦特城堡》（Castle Rackrent）后表示：“我现在对我的爱尔兰臣民有所了解了。”包括维多利亚女王在内的几代孩子，都是在埃奇沃思与她父亲共同编写的教育文本中成长起来的。（10岁时，维多利亚甚至写过一个模仿埃奇沃思的故事，题为《索菲亚与阿道夫：以埃奇沃思小姐的〈哈里与露西〉风格创作》。）随着整个帝国规模的读者群体吸收她的故事，他们同时也汲取了其中包含的教训。

克拉拉·伊丽莎白·科莱特（Clara Elizabeth Collet）在 1890 年代出版的一部最早的经济学历史著作中写道，由于埃奇沃思作品的“极高普及度”，她对“英国在经济问题上的思想态度产生了相当大的影响”。（科莱特是卡尔·马克思家族的朋友，也是英国首批获得学士学位的女性之一。）

埃奇沃思还引发了一场连锁反应。马塞特（Marcet）随后启发了另一位作家哈丽特·马蒂诺（Harriet Martineau），后者继续将经济学写作融入小说之中。

随着 19 世纪的推进，以及对法国大革命和工业时代的反应迫使富裕女性进一步退缩到家庭角色中，这些态度变得更加僵化。与此同时，到 1850 年代，经济学已在知识舞台上牢牢确立了自己的地位。它不再是一套雏形阶段的哲学，其追随者希望将其巩固为一门学术科学。

未来的达德利伯爵约翰·沃德（John Ward）批评埃奇沃思在书中加入政治经济学，称其为“卑劣、冷酷的垃圾”。

政治经济学被视为一项极具男性色彩的追求，将其包裹在故事中使其既更容易被消化，也更容易被社会接受。然而，即使是小说的伪装，也无法让那些早期的女性经济作家免于最终的谴责。

根据一位传记作者的记载，马塞特的丈夫担心她会给家庭带来耻辱。他在日记中写道：“人们有时说他们不喜欢政治经济学，他们说这是一个有害的问题。难道追求真理是有害的吗？”关于妻子日益增长的文学名声，他补充道：“这种对妻子和母亲常规追求的剧烈偏离，可能会产生不可估量的后果。”

当时的人们私下议论，女士们写这种粗鄙且公开贪婪的话题是否合适。读者们推测，是埃奇沃思的父亲将经济内容放入她的书中的。

随着该领域的专业化，第二代和第三代经济学家开始与那些曾经帮助普及和解释其思想的女性及小说保持距离。毕竟，严肃的科学不可能面向所有人。经济学家阿尔弗雷德·马歇尔（Alfred Marshall）在他极具影响力的教科书《经济学原理》（Principles of Economics，首次出版于 1890 年并在整个 20 世纪广受欢迎）的一个脚注中，将那些试图简化经济学理论的女性称为“寄生虫”。

到 1951 年，经济学家兼经济史学家约瑟夫·熊彼特（Joseph Schumpeter）在一段随笔中（死后出版）指出，马塞特在发表某些观点方面比李嘉图（Ricardo）更快。但他对马塞特呈现信息的方式嗤之以鼻。他嘲讽那种认为“真理如此令人愉悦地简单，以至于能够教给每个女学生”的想法。他暗示，要理解“资本主义社会这个无限复杂的有机体”要复杂得多。

在这种嘲讽中，至少部分地隐藏着我第二个谜团的答案。埃奇沃思并非偶然地从我们的历史中消失。她的文学作品之所以失传，部分原因是其笨拙——随着更轻盈、更自然主义的故事成为主流，其中的经济学课程使其变得更难被消化。

她的经济学著作被遗忘则是出于另一个原因。随后的影响力学者们贬低早期女性经济学家呈现该领域的方式。他们对被简化感到反感，并否定了这些女性能够做出有意义贡献的可能性。

然而，记住现代经济学的女性共同创始人具有其价值。作为一名经济学作者，我认为特别地复兴埃奇沃思（Edgeworth）的研究是值得的——因为她试图做的事情适用于我们的现代时代。

如今，经济学仍然经常被描绘成——有时是由记者，有时是由经济学家本人——一个几乎无法理解的话题，只有持有硕士和博士学位的专家才可能掌握。

但正如在埃奇沃思的时代一样，经济素养仍然是社会福祉的关键。选民需要了解关税和经济增长的基础知识，才能在投票箱前做出深思熟虑的选择。对价格和工资制定机制的掌握有助于我们在日常生活中做出明智的选择。

许多经济学家意识到了这一点，并尝试将他们的研究转化为通俗语言。我是在一本关于该领域、行文优美且易懂的书籍中了解到埃奇沃思的。

然而，当经济学领域忘记解释自身时——当它用术语和数学来掩饰自己以显得权威时——它就面临着将人们排除在那些能让他们受益的思想之外的风险。在这个过程中，它可能会创造一个精英回声室，一个只放大其自身误区的回声室。

玛丽亚·埃奇沃思认为经济学应该是面向所有人的。也许记住她的故事可以帮助我们回想起原因。

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广告客户经理 III (Job ID: AM215683.9)。负责规划并交付高质量的广告主互动方案，就 100% 规模的广告实践对广告主进行教育，以积极影响活动效果。项目管理美国市场复杂广告的执行，包括 AdOps、销售、质量保证和客户管理团队以及外部利益相关者。该职位在纽约市的基本薪资范围基于薪酬级别，薪酬级别基于市场地点，并可能根据与工作相关的知识、技能和经验而有所不同。签约奖金和受限股票单位不一定用于支付长期薪酬方案，此外还提供全方位的医疗、财务或其他福利，具体取决于亚马逊内部和外部职业网站上的职位。

Amazon.com Services LLC 现招聘以下岗位（设有多个职位），工作地点为纽约州纽约市。申请地址：https: / www.amazon.jobs / en / referencing.job ID AMZ21725.3：

财务分析师 (Job ID: AMZ12725.3)。创建并开发复杂的税务模型，并向税务和 / 或财务领导层简明地总结结果。在所有税务组中开展工作，包括并购 (M&A)、税务规划、税务政策、报告与合规以及其他财务服务，涵盖本年度的全范围。该职位在纽约市的年薪为 $146058 - $179500 (yr)。薪资基于市场地点，并可能根据与工作相关的知识、技能和经验而有所不同。签约奖金和受限股票单位可能作为公司内部业务薪酬的一部分提供。财务、财务或其他福利，取决于所提供的职位。申请人应通过亚马逊内部或外部职业网站申请。

分析解决方案 [设有多个职位] - 纽约州纽约市。实现定期报告和仪表板生成的自动化。年薪范围：$143,000 - $165,000。如需查看要求并申请，请访问 https: / careers.jpmorgan.com 并申请职位编号：210779179。机会均等 (EOE)，少数族裔及亚裔机会均等 (AAE)，男女 / 残疾 / 退伍军人 (M / F / D / V)。摩根大通 (JPMorgan Chase & Co.) 版权所有。

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自己的专业以及 / 或者他们的 自己的专业以及 / 或者其职业岗位。薪资：每年 $ 293,46。工作地点：纽约州纽约市。电子邮件：http: / www.nseer.com.cn

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应用程序开发人员，新泽西州埃迪森：需在全国范围内前往各种不可预见的客户地点进行有限的国内出差，远程办公和 / 或偶尔搬迁，以在多平台环境下使用 Java、基于 Java 的技术、Spring、Maven、Hibernate、22EE、J.PA、MYSQL、Eclipse、HTML、CSS、JQuery 分析、设计并开发软件应用程序。测试、排除故障并维护现有应用程序。薪资：\$193,461 / 年。福利：401(k)、医疗、牙科、视力、带薪休假（PTO）。该职位不享受奖金。请回复至：Iris Software, Inc., 200 Metroplex Drive, Suite 300, Edison, NJ 08817

建筑设计师：准备建筑设计图纸、施工文档和 3D 渲染图；与客户、顾问和承包商协调；进行现场访问；确保符合适用的建筑规范和项目要求。必须拥有建筑学或相关专业的学士学位。请将简历及求职信发送至 Studio AI Architects PLLC, 124 West 30th St, Ste 205, New York, NY 10001 Attn: Ms. Lily Lim，以安排面试。

建筑设计师 - Dean Maltz Architect PLLC - 纽约州纽约市。建筑学或相关领域硕士学位；精通 Rhinoceros、AutoCAD 和 Photoshop；具备出色的口头和书面沟通能力。请将简历发送至 dmaltz@dma-ny.com；地址：330 W 38th Street, Suite 811, New York, NY, 10018。薪资：\$79,123 / 年

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建筑员 I 级（纽约州纽约市）：雇主：Wake Design Architecture PLLC——在执业建筑师的指导下协助概念设计并提供技术支持；根据建筑规范和许可要求，使用 CAD 准备建筑图纸和施工计划；准备用于客户审查和监管批准的图纸和文档；使用 CAD 创建 3D / 交互式设计；进行分区分析和现场评估，以确定项目的可行性和合规性；就潜在商业项目的功能性专项任务与客户协商。薪资范围 \$67.5k 至 \$75k。最低要求：建筑学或类似领域学士学位 + 6 个月建筑设计相关职位经验，包括大学期间 / 后期的实习。联系人：Nathan Manett, wake@wake-dd.com 参考号：ASL1

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助理组教师。纽约布鲁克林。负责规划儿童创意活动；组织团体游戏；在用餐时间、午睡时间和游戏时间监督儿童；协助儿童使用洗手间或更换尿布；清洁公共区域。要求：高中学历；2年相关工作经验。工作时间：周一至周五，8:30-4:30。年薪$44,100。请将简历发送至 Red Hat Day Care Center, Inc., 1317 E 15th St., Brooklyn, NY 11230。

Arizona Beverages USA, LLC 现招聘 SAP 功能分析师- FICO，工作地点在纽约伍德伯里：分析财务业务流程，并在 SAP S / 4HANA Finance 系统内提供功能解决方案，以支持日常会计、报告和财务运营，同时确保系统使用的高效性和合规性。年薪 $178,402 - $188,402。请在 www.jobpostingtoday.com 申请，参考编号：96707

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A. Morgan Securities Services LLC (纽约州纽约市) 旨在深入理解工程细胞器，并受其围绕雄心勃勃的业务优先级和机遇（包括创新、转型及合作伙伴关系）而增长的行业部门影响。与工程领导层合作，加速美国市场的有机增长，从而推动实证与专业社区的发展。公司旨在增强团队参与度。要求：拥有美国或同等外国机构 / 组织在运营、信息与公司（美国或同等）等行业领域的硕士学位，或在相关岗位提供此类学位，或拥有金融管理（Fts. Mrmtt, M.A.，美国或同等）等相关领域的学士学位（美国或同等），或在

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高盛公司（Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC）在新泽西州泽西市招聘数据治理与管理助理（Associate, Data Governance & Stearship）。负责为业务及 / 或其业务利益相关者和高级管理层构建指标与统计数据，包括创建关于经济部门的管理信息，以及按部门划分的全球或全球相关信息，并考虑影响客户行为、服务管理、组织管理及报告的其他参数。在影响数据计划的战略方向方面发挥核心作用。要求：拥有行业研究、信息服务、通信工程或相关领域的硕士学位，且在所提供职位或该行业拥有 1 年经验；或在所提供职位或相关数据治理或分析岗位拥有额外职责经验。职位代码：1041905。Sol. 2018；1041906。JNJ-Asia：1041907。基于JNJ的岗位薪资为 $116,000 - $126,000。合格申请人：请申请 https: / doi.org / 10.103 / j.jnl.com / j.jnl 请勿电话咨询。高盛集团（The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.），2026。保留所有权利。高盛是一家平等机会雇主，禁止基于种族、肤色、宗教、性别、国籍、opv. 电视、电视、广播以及适用法律保护的广播特征而产生歧视的员工。

高盛公司（Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC）在纽约州纽约市招聘量化工程助理（Associate, Quantitative Engineering）。开发、实施并记录审查，和 / 或寻求为公司内部业务的经济与金融变量执行业务。与专业利益相关者协作，分析用户需求和机会，以便解决数据、模型和实施问题。要求：拥有金融工程、'l Ecoreg, 'l Ecoreg 'l , 'l 'l , 'l Enar 研究或相关领域的硕士学位（美国或国外同等学历），且在所提供职位或相关量化岗位拥有 1 年经验，或拥有 2 年 在所提供职位或相关量化岗位拥有 2 年 在所提供职位或相关量化工程岗位拥有 2 年 经验。职位代码：10453262。薪资范围：该纽约市岗位的年度基本工资为 $150,000–$189,000；年度基本 为 $150,000–$189,000；为 $150,000–$189,000；为 $150,000–$21 9,000；为 $219,000–$21 9,000；为

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在纽约市（NY, NY）的高盛公司（Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC）担任投资银行行业 / 国家覆盖组助理（Associate, Banker-Industry / Country Coverage）。负责创建并分析针对1980年代第10个世纪的复杂解决方案，以评估和检查拟议的客户替代方案在金融交易中的影响，重点关注并购（M&A）以及2000s、3000s、4000s（IPO）列表。使用数学模型和统计技术分析数据，并准备报告、图表和表格以总结分析和研究结果。申请人需在金融、经济、数学、工商管理或相关领域拥有主要专业背景，并在所提供职位或相关岗位拥有 2 (2 yrs) 年经验。职位代码：9904688。这是一个独立分析师的职业岗位。纽约职位的薪资为$175,000-$225,000。合格申请人：请在 ga.com 申请并点击“Careers”。高盛集团（Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.），2026。版权所有。高盛是一家机会均等的雇主，不因宗教、性别、国籍、年龄、退伍军人身份、残疾或任何其他适用法律保护的特征而歧视任何一方。

合规副总监（Associate Director, Compliance），纽约市（New York, NY）（多个职位）。允许混合办公。对《银行保密法》 / 反洗钱（BSA / AML）及金融犯罪合规（FCC）模型进行全面的验证、测试和审查——包括交易监控（TM）系统、制裁筛选 / 外国资产控制办公室（OFAC）工具以及了解您的客户（KYC）风险评分模型。要求拥有金融、量化金融或相关领域的硕士学位或同等学历，以及在模型风险管理（MRM）验证 BSA / AML 模型方面拥有 2 年工作经验。混合办公：要求每周 3 天在办公室办公；每周最多可远程办公 2 天。薪资为每 $112.75 至 $122.778（针对必须项）。必须具备相关工作经验。请将简历 / 求职信发送至 Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Attn: K. Decker, #GRP2026, Kristy.decker@opco.com。请勿致电。机会均等雇主（EOE）。

战略与运营助理经理（Associate Manager, Strategi & Operations），DoorDash, Inc.，纽约市（New York, NY）。开发并执行战略，以确保 DoorDash 上的每家杂货店都能达到或超过其增长目标。要求拥有商业分析（Bsnsss salylytics.com）、DDI Sc 或相关量化领域学士学位（或同等学历），以及在战略、运营、生产运营、产品管理或相关职业领域拥有 3 年经验。允许最高 80% 的远程办公。根据业务需求，国内出差最高可达 10%。年薪范围：$139,506-$186,000 / 年。申请请将简历发送至 workwithus@doordash.com 并注明 AMSO-S-203-NY (203)。

保证顾问，气候变化与可持续发展服务（CCASS）- 气候变化与脱碳（经理）（Assurance Advisor, Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCASS) - Climate Change and Decarbonization (Manager)）（多个职位）（1736508），安永美国有限责任公司（Ernst & Young U.S. LLP），纽约市（New York, NY）。解决具有挑战性的 ESG 和气候变化问题。要求出差最高可达 60%，其中 10% 可能是国际出差，以满足客户需求。雇主将接受教育、培训或经验的任何合适组合。年薪 $120,130.00。如需完整的职位描述、要求列表及在线申请，请访问：ey.com / en_us / careers 并点击“Careers - Job Search”，“See All”，然后选择“Experienced Professionals”（职位编号- 1736508）。

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律师 - 杠杆与企业融资，纽约州纽约市。为私募股权赞助商及其投资组合公司、私募信贷基金和企业债券发行人，以及 / 或其关联公司或其他金融产品或复杂债务融资交易提供建议。要求拥有法律博士（Juris Doctor）或法学硕士（Master of Laws）学位，或同等外国学位。必须在过去三年中拥有 3 年的成熟经验。包括以下方面：为金融机构（包括银行和私募信贷贷款人）、私募信贷发行人以及 / 或其关联公司或其他金融投资者提供设置与建议；参与复杂的收购、杠杆融资和企业融资交易；监管复杂的融资活动；以及 / 或起草协议、信托契约和担保协议，以及起草辅助融资文件并进行尽职调查；以及 / 或在投资银行广泛的复杂融资交易中（如收购与杠杆融资、企业融资以及 / 或其他相关证券）；以及 / 或在跨境融资交易中的其他金融交易。必须拥有在纽约州提供法律服务的执业资格，\4500万美元。本文件还包括一项决议和其他参考资料。申请编号 #394，请发送至 Nicole Behar, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, 66 Hudson Street, Suite 1100, Chicago, Resumesmallbox@debevoise.com。

审计助理（纽约州格雷特内克）执行内部和外部审计。在 BSA-AML（银行保密法-反洗钱）、贷款、BCP（业务连续性计划）、贸易融资、风险管理、资金管理和特殊资产管理方面开展 / 审查审计测试；执行审计业务；起草管理层评语、内部控制观察结果及审计报告章节；执行并评估审计程序；前往曼哈顿客户处出差。会计或金融专业学士学位或同等外国学位 + 1 年经验。具备内部和外部审计记录、风险评估、财务分析 / 报告、Excel 高级函数、RIA Checkpoint 和 QuickBooks 的经验 / 培训。福利：带薪休假（PTO）、联邦法定节假日、医疗保险。薪资 \$75.5K-\$76K。请将简历发送至 SC & Associates LLP, 111 Great Neck Rd, Ste 412, Great Neck, NY 11021

银行业：德意志银行证券公司（Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.）寻求战略发展解决方案以及可持续系统的服务，或环境保护，这是一个可持续框架（金融业的证据与赋能）。本文件包括一个广泛的框架、市场洞察以及各种公司的估值，运营模型覆盖 100% 的收入目标和监管预期。Rev's Masters 是 Ecore, Inc. (2008), 365-400-000。该公司是一个战略决策框架及实施方法论，将服务应用于覆盖 100% 收入目标和战略的运营模型业务，包括决策框架、实施方法论，以及将服务应用于运营技术业务，包括预测、情景分析和战略规划。在战略规划、优先级排序和决策中，支持多 rv

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巴克莱资本公司（Barclays Capital Inc.）在纽约州纽约市招聘结构化产品信用分析师（多个职位）。负责承销、结构化及执行贷款，涵盖大型合同、研究生文学及结构化信用，包括组合融资、延续基金、资产净值（NAV）融资、资产抵押贷款、证券化、结构化回购及总收益互换。年薪 $178,402.00 - $250 / year。上述最低和最高薪资 / 费率信息仅包含基本工资或基本时薪，不包括可能提供的任何其他类型的薪酬或福利。申请请至

https: / home.barclays / careers / (职位 ID JR-0000129614)。

BEUMER 正在新泽西州萨默塞特（Somerset, NJ）招聘一名控制工程师，负责 BEUMER 分拣机的机器控制设计与编程，要求具备高水平专业知识。控制设计 100% 要求拥有控制工程、电气工程或计算机工程学位，或同等外国学位；具备 2 年相关工作或相关职业经验；具备 PLC 和 HWI 的诊断、开发 / 增长、测试及商业化经验，以及相关领域、系统 / 工作负载、内部接口、外部接口、t、分发接口、t、分发接口、t、t、t、divs 的经验。

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BEUMER 现于新泽西州萨默塞特（Somerset, NJ）招聘一名测试经理（Test Mgr），负责在现场进行集成与可靠性调试，该职位与 BEUMER 在北美的行李处理解决方案部署及执行相关，包括调试资源分配及全范围的项目工作。要求：在相关岗位或相关职业中拥有至少 5 年经验；在机场行李处理的独立承运人系统（ICS）方面拥有 5 年经验，包括直接管理经验，且具备高层和底层关键活动的经验；以及使用调度软件 / 调度员进行详细的内部 / 外部测试序列及规划的经验。需在美国国内出差，地点、时长及出差频率不一。薪资：年薪 \$134K。可获得奖金、年度奖金。BEUMER 提供医疗和牙科保险、含匹配资金的 401K 计划、人寿保险及带薪休假（PTO）。请发送电子邮件至 BNA. People Culture@BEUMER.com，并在主题栏注明“Test Manager”。

BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. 在纽约州纽约市（New York, NY）有以下职位空缺：

助理，技术产品支持：与 Aladdin 用户就特定产品的工作流、产品、流程和服务进行沟通。通过定期与开发团队接触来推动支持计划。（参考代码 R266101：\$150550 - \$160000）。

助理：使用 Core Java、Spring Boot 和 Hibernate 设计、开发、增强并维护企业级金融应用程序。（参考代码 R266142：\$160000 - 160000）。

助理：审查现有的国库期货和收益率曲线模型方法，并改进用于内部和外部使用的分析模型及流程的文档。（参考代码 R265001：\$150000 - \$170000）。

总监，美洲私募市场产品战略：与领导层合作，识别并开发创新与增长的战略机会。（参考代码 R266054：\$216000 - \$270000）。

欲了解完整信息并在线申请，请访问我们的网站 https: / careers.blackrock.com / 并搜索上述参考代码。

BlackRock Corporation US, Inc. 在纽约州纽约市（New York, NY）有以下职位空缺：

助理：负责监督 ETF 一级市场活动的端到端工作流，包括篮子生成、接单、订单履行、异常监控和查询管理。（参考代码 R26S692：\$140000 - \$155000）。

建筑围护结构建筑师（纽约市）：为多样化的设计和设计机会执行项目管理。该项目包含建设工程。执行 2 / CD 墙体系统设计的热分析，以建立一个新的设计。该设计旨在提供潜力。要求：建筑学、土木工程或混凝土硕士，以及相关设计经验。设计、工程及建设设计、en-glc 及建设设计、en-glc 等范围不限于墙体、预制混凝土、砌体和其他建筑材料，以及关键服务的应用、实施、分区、安装标准，围护系统——包括空气屏障、蒸汽反转和气体存储系统、水淹、防水及其他设备。材料设计应用于单热建筑、光学、窗户、旋转（针对巨型）：WUFH水热（WAF）、WAF ()，(), (), (), ()。() 是该部分的第一部分。WRFingwig 建筑科学、原则、相关法规和标准。该职位还需参考 ABAA、ASHRAE 关于建筑围护结构 prltrmct 的指南。每次执行均以形式进行，并使用模拟软件，包括 Trisco（热分析）、（含模拟软件）、（含模拟软件）、（含模拟软件），且需持有纽约州专业建筑师执照。该商业试用为一家独立公司，年薪 \$10,690 - \$112,000。申请请联系：Heigntes Consulting Aircraft Systems, Human Resources, HFI@heinertes.com。

业务数据分析师，新泽西州埃迪森：Li-li 负责国内前往各未修正车辆的差旅。该项目涵盖广泛的电信和 / 或偶尔的公司间关系，通过将运营专业知识与先进的技术股票相结合，利用 RPA (UiPath)、Power Platform 和 IT 服务驱动行业运营。该项目旨在实现技术物流优化、技术支持工作流，以及为 RPA 和 IT 服务开发可扩展的解决方案与技术。薪资：$172,944 / 年；福利：$158,335 / 年；利润：$158,335 / 年。此职位不具备奖金资格。房地产公司。适用于 Software, Inc., 200 Metro Service LLC, 200 Metro Technology LLC, 200 Metro Information LLC。

Snap Inc. 在纽约州纽约市招聘高级商业智能工程师 (4 名)。*允许混合办公 —— Snap 采取“默认在一起”的方式，并期望团队成员在纽约州纽约市的办公室工作时间至少占 80%（平均每周 4 天）。分析并整合多个来源的数据，薪资 $169,541 - $196,000 / 年。有资格获得受限股票单位 (RSU) 形式的股权。我们的福利：https: / careers.snap.com / benefits。请通过此网站链接申请：https: / tinyuri.com / 2299npb3。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。

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业务分析师 - ADM，IBM公司；ARMK，纽约及各类组织；微软，马萨诸塞州及其他公司；允许 100% 远程办公：从事各项复杂的增强业务项目。与客户医疗服务 (MIAMS) 业务团队协调，允许 100% 远程办公：从事各项复杂的增强业务项目。与客户医疗服务 (MIAMS) 业务团队协调，以理解业务需求并主导公司的战略发展职位，并为理赔处理和营销开发技术解决方案和知识。这是一个独立的成员资格和财务管理岗位。在客户会议上代表公司的战略发展和业务团队的开发，以收集运营情况并开展自身的战略活动，评估所请求变更的适用性和范围。

与专业开发团队协作，以理解复杂的业务实践和策略，理解复杂的业务实践和策略，以进行所需的系统变更和影响分析。参与并继续开发行业在解决关键业务需求方面的作用，包括实施决策、软件开发和开发规划、关键项目估算、交付物以及 SDCL 中的相关工件。根据商定的业务需求开发一套新的技术系列，这些需求将被实施为标准。管理符合敏捷 (Agile) 方法论的项目，以提高集成技术的性能。对 CA-MMIS 框架进行详细修正，使用各种项目管理和交付物跟踪工具进行开发。共同地，我们还将能够为规划和执行开发测试团队

CA-MMIS 框架。使用 SIT、用户验收测试 (UART)、软件开发 (SDF)、各种 CA-MMIS 应用程序的软件开发集成测试。采用 CA-MMIS 框架的组织或运营模式、生命周期方法论以及适当的生命周期工具的实施。遵守服务水平系统、研究和培训技术，并确保提供适当的服务，以根据定义的 SLA 实现适当生命周期工具的全面实施。遵守服务水平系统、研究和培训技术，并确保提供适当的服务，以根据定义的 SLA 实现全面实施。利用医疗补助 (Medicaid) 系统用于临床。使用临床方法论项目系统，用于临床、研究和培训流程需求、计算机科学或相关服务

用于临床。构建持续集成 / 持续部署 (ICCD)、所需季度登记 (QFII)、季度登记 (QFII)、运营 (OMM )、运营

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字节跳动 (ByteDance Inc)，解决方案工程师（多个职位），纽约州纽约市。通过在指定合作伙伴 / 机构的平台和需求方面展示深厚的技术专业知识，开发并维护与关键战略合作伙伴及机构的关系。需要国内出差，最高达 15%。薪资：每年 \$15600 - \$316800。请在 joinbytedance.com / 申请并查看提供的福利，搜索职位 ID A43573A。如果申请困难，请发送电子邮件至 lpresumes@bytedance.com。

字节跳动（ByteDance Inc），代理合作伙伴（多个职位），纽约州纽约市。分析市场情报和案例研究，以识别市场趋势并向代理机构和品牌提供业务建议。需要国内出差，比例最高达 25%。薪资：\$122824 - \$134629 / 年。请访问 joinbytedance.com / 并搜索职位 ID A74557℃ 申请并查看提供的福利。如申请遇到困难，请发送电子邮件至 Ipresumes@bytedance.com。

Caremark LLC（CVS Health旗下公司）正在纽约州纽约市招聘以下职位：数据科学家 (R1011940)，负责制定并应用数学和计算建模方法进行数据提取和处理。支持远程办公。薪资范围：\$109491.00 / 年 至 \$173040.00 / year。营销经理 (R1010829)，负责为 CVS Health 识别、开发和评估营销策略。混合办公职位。薪资范围：\$156894.00 / 年 至 \$159120.00 / year。

多个职位。所有职位均要求相关学位和 / 或经验和 / 或技能和 / 或执照。公司提供全方位的福利。有关可用福利的更多详细信息，请访问 https: / links-purHealth.com / vision

请在 http: / jobs.cvshealth.com / 在线申请 或将简历发送至 istappintake@cvshealth.com。必须注明职位名称、地点和需求 ID (Req ID)。

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CIBC Bank USA 招聘一名高级审计师，负责评估和验证复杂的财务模型，以识别模型风险，评估模型设计，并确定模型的运行有效性。对定量和定性模型进行控制测试。根据既定的审计方法识别差距并验证缺陷。记录审计结果，并向利益相关者沟通风险及其影响。领导持续监控活动。利用数据分析和人工智能工具提高审计效率。#L1-DNI

该职位要求拥有统计学、数据科学或相关定量领域的硕士学位，以及在金融服务行业 3 年的模型风险经验。经验必须至少包括：3 年开发、验证或审计财务模型的经验；3 年应用美国模型风险监管指南的经验；2 年风险评级模型的经验；2 年管理项目和协调利益相关者沟通的经验；2 年使用 Python、SAS 或 R 编程的经验；以及 1 年利用数据分析工具审查财务模型的经验。允许部分时间远程办公。

工作地点：纽约州纽约市。薪资标准：每年 \$125,000.00 - \$130,000.00。申请请访问

en / about-cibc / careers.html 并输入职位申请 ID 2617258。或者，请将您的简历、求职信和广告副本发送至：CIBC, Attn.: H. Lazzaro, 300 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017.

CICC US Securities Inc. 在纽约州纽约市招聘一名美国经济学家，主要对美国经济和全球资本市场进行研究。薪资：每年 \$182,000 - \$210,000。候选人必须通过电子邮件申请至

CICCUS_recruiting@ciccus.com 必须注明职位编号 20395.26。平等机会雇主：男 / 女 / 残疾人 / 退伍军人。

Circle Internet Management Services 在纽约州纽约市有以下空缺职位：

高级分析师，FP&A：设计、构建、改进并维护复杂的公司财务模型，以支持预算编制、预测和长期规划。100% 远程办公。薪资：每年 \$128,800-\$148,800。参考编号 #5029。

申请请将简历发送至 talent-operations-job-postings@circle.com 并注明职位编号。EOE。

临床实验室技术员（血液学部门），纽约州布朗克斯。对血液和其他体液进行实验室测试。维持实验室测试的质量控制 (QC)。维护设备 / 机器的清洁。记录实验室结果。周一至周五，凌晨 12 点至早上 8 点，并设有轮替周末时间表，需拥有临床实验室科学医疗技术学士学位 或物理科学学士学位。必须符合纽约州临床实验室技术员执照的资格。年薪：\$99,020.21。将简历和求职信发送至 Leticia Roldan, Senior Medical Centre and Montefiore and Montefiore Medical Center。主题：Applying for Clinical Laboratory Technologist, Einstein, 12a-8a。

云数据平台工程师，新泽西州泽西市地区。使用现代微服务、无服务器架构和符合 ELT 的集成模式，设计并扩展云原生数据平台和分析基础设施。100% 远程办公职位。薪资：\$131,997 - \$158,000。简历发送至：Stratacent, Inc., jobs@stratacent.com。

商业经理：S&P Global Inc. 现招聘一名商业经理，工作地点在纽约州纽约市，负责领导战略商业业务和交易策略、监管及大宗商品。允许在纽约州纽约市办公室的正常通勤距离内远程办公。REQ 2017 符合 30-40 年的工作机会或相关职位的申请资格，包括开发、开发以及收入与市场策略。该职位要求 30-40% 的国内出差，以参加客户会议和行业会议。S&P Global Inc. 负责 30-40% 的职位，薪资为 \$243,859 至 \$250,300。该职位的最终基本工资将根据经验水平、技能组合、培训、执照和认证等信息及薪酬而定。除基本薪酬外，该职位有资格获得 30-40% 的职位补贴。该职位有资格获得额外的 S&P Global 福利。有关员工的更多信息，请参阅：https: / spp benefits.com / benefit plummetaries / ies。请将简历发送至 PeopleMovementSupport@163.com（注明：商业经理）。

计算机IT：Java 开发人员。架构师，工作地点在纽约州纽约市。Globant IT Srvc Corp. 重点是通过收集技术需求并利用团队开发工作与客户进行沟通。实施公司标准和 Agile POD 方法，在团队内部执行标准和流程。要求：计算机工程、计算机科学或相关专业学士学位或美国同等学历 + 5 年相关工作经验（如软件工程师、Java 开发人员或相关职位）。必须包括 3 年使用 Java、Spring Framework、Hibernate、Oracle、Rest APIs、微服务、AWS、JQuery、TDD 和 Scrum 实施解决方案的经验。允许远程办公。薪资：\$150,301 / 年。简历发送至：no_hrt@globant.com。参考编号：Job#000124

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计算机：DB USA 核心应用部门在纽约州纽约市招聘一名副总裁，负责与专业人员及银行 IT 平台与基础设施相关的业务，包括技术解决方案的分析、开发与管理。要求学士学位，2015；38: 46-59。https: / www.db.com / . https: / www.it / risv.org / sprvs.norslt 具有支持基于主数据库平台的 Apache, Cir., NET, Java 和 JBoss 的经验；使用 Balch, Shell, Shell, , , , , Sh 构建自动化脚本和报告。

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咨询 - 技术咨询 - SAP - 扩展供应链 - 运输管理 (TM)（经理）（多个职位）（1736231），安永美国有限责任公司 (Ernst & Young U.S. LLP)，纽约州纽约市。为客户提供独特的业务视角，指导其如何根据自身运营利用技术，出差频率高达 80%，其中 20% 可能是国际出差，以满足客户需求。雇主将接受教育、培训或经验的任何合适组合。年薪 \$135,055.00。如需完整的职位描述、要求清单以及支付就业薪资，请访问公司 email.com / en / sres / careers 并点击 “Careers - Job Search”，“See All”，然后点击 “Experienced Professionals”（职位编号 - 1736231）。

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新泽西州埃迪森及美国境内多个未预定地点（全职；5 个空缺），旨在构建高可用性和高质量的数据库系统。根据用户需求和视图设计、实施并维护数据库。管理数据库安全 / 完整性及备份程序。创建并实施元数据流程、参考数据和框架。必须具有 2 年 IT 或数据库管理经验。在 2 年经验中，必须包含 1 年使用 SharePoint, Bentley Construct Sim, SPF, Assai On Prem (Cloud), Live Link, Aveva Net 的经验。

要求出差和搬迁。无需国际出差。需出差至各 LTTS 及客户设施。所有经验可同时获得。工资：\$142,958 / 年。带薪休假、医疗和团体人寿保险、伤残保险、401(K)。平等就业机会 / 男性 / 女性 / 残疾人 / 退伍军人。请将简历发送至 L&T Technology Services Ltd, 2035 Lincoln Hwy, Edison Square W, Ste. 3002, Edison, NJ 08817。请注明参考号 LTTS36。

某汽车销售与服务公司招聘数据分析师。必须提供在美国合法工作的授权证明。周一至周五，每周 40 小时。工作地点为 1026 East Jericho Turnpike, Huntington Station, NY 11746 USA。提供年薪：\$109,491.00。如需申请及了解该职位的详细信息，请参阅互联网发布内容：https: / jobs.keldair.com / empireautomotive / jobs / 101234 / data-analyst。参考职位编号：DA73126。

德勤咨询有限公司（Deloitte Consulting LLP）在新泽西州泽西市招聘一名高级顾问，以推动基于云的技术开发，包括数据清洗和转换、接口设计 / 开发以及系统开发生命周期。要求全国出差 50%。允许远程办公。年薪：\$137,717.00 - \$218,300.00。申请请访问 apply.deloitte.com。在“搜索职位”栏输入 XB27℃106951。

德勤咨询有限公司（ Consulting LLP）在纽约州纽约市招聘一名高级经理，以领导信息技术项目，包括为客户创建能够满足其下一代需求的创新且具有变革性的技术解决方案。要求全国出差 50%。允许远程办公。年薪：\$260,000.00 - \$322,100.00。申请请访问 apply..com。在“搜索职位”栏输入 XB27℃76501。

德勤咨询有限公司（ Consulting LLP）在新泽西州莫里斯敦招聘一名高级经理，以领导 SAP 软件咨询和实施服务，帮助公司通过独立服务或综合解决方案释放技术投资的价值。要求全国出差 50%。允许远程办公。年薪：\$193,300 - \$322,100。申请请访问 apply..com。在“搜索职位”栏输入 XB27℃91942。

德勤咨询有限公司（ Consulting LLP）在新泽西州泽西市招聘一名高级顾问，以推动为客户提供能够满足其下一代需求的创新且具有变革性的解决方案。要求全国出差 50%。允许远程办公。年薪：\$151,500.00 - \$252,500.00。申请请访问 only .com。输入 XB26℃120602 apply..com。在“搜索职位”栏输入 XB26℃120602。

德勤咨询有限公司（ Consulting LLP）在纽约州纽约市招聘一名高级顾问，担任企业和私募股权领域客户的信任顾问。要求全国出差 50%。允许远程办公。年薪：\$151,500.00 - \$252,500.00。申请请访问 apply..com。在“搜索职位”栏输入 XB27℃119841。

Deluxe Financial Services 在纽约市招聘一名数据驱动营销高级分析师 II - 创意策略，与高级客户管理团队合作，创建并执行有针对性的多渠道营销活动。要求拥有营销、传播或相关专业的学士学位或同等外国学历，以及 2 年相关经验。要求国内出差时间最高可达 24%。可在工作地点通勤范围内居家办公。年薪在 \$100159.45 - \$161256.71 之间。福利：可能根据角色、地点或小时数而有所不同；医疗保健（医疗、牙科、视力）；带薪年假、志愿者假和法定节假日；退休金公司匹配；短期和长期伤残险；不孕不育治疗、领养和代孕援助；学费报销。如需详细信息并申请，请联系 Josie Twait @

位于纽约市的 Davidson Kemner Capital Management, L.P. 的开发人员：https: / www.ewb.com / 163.com / 163. / 163 / 163. / 163 / 163. / 163. 163

6757249002?gh_src=03e8b4102us & 表示参考 DB9785210。

高级开发与青年领袖经理（纽约市）。为青年领袖（纽约市）和第12届党派 RL 委员会设计并实施年度筹款计划和参与策略，以推进项目目标和筹款计划。制定并管理预算、时间表和其他支出，以参与各项合同和场地安排。培养并维护与捐赠者的关系。担任通信组员，负责公司的网站开发及品牌重塑。确保所有捐赠者互动及数据均记录在组织的 CRM 中。代表组织参加 https: / www.crm.gov.au / crm.org / en / 。参与营销和外展。需具备传播学、公共关系或密切相关专业（或同等外国学历）的学士学位，以及 3 年经验和 100% 的经验。旨在非营利部门提供捐赠者关系协调员、筹款通信协调员或相关职位。必须具备证明过的经验和拨款资金要求。必须具备使用非营利组织客户关系管理（CRM）系统的证明经验。薪资：每年 \$151,929。简历发送至：2018 2020. 发送给 Ireland Freeland Frankfurt@irrelandfunds.org。

招聘启事

纽约州里弗黑德（Riverhead, NY）的一家销售自动化技术公司现招聘数字营销战略师，负责开发并优化数字营销策略。要求：拥有媒体管理、市场营销、传播学、公共关系或相关领域的学士学位，且具有 2 年的内容专员、内容经理或相关职位的工作经验。薪资：$125,000 / 年。相关经验必须包括：跨多渠道（包括网站、电子邮件营销、社交媒体及数字广告）的内容营销漏斗与内容分析；WordPress 等 CMS 术语；AAT 测试或性能优化。该职位 100% 全远程办公。允许在美国境内任何地点远程办公。简历请寄至：M. Abraham, 1up Corp, 66 Pier Ave, Riverhead, NY 11901. 参考编号 #101

商业智能与分析总监（J. Crew Group, LLC - 全职；纽约；J. Crew Group, LLC - 全职；纽约；J. Crew Group, LLC - 全职；纽约）是一项业务战略，其通勤距离在工作地点可达范围内（符合公司政策）。领导并开发高-100000000000000000000 0000000

jobs.com / JcrewCareers & 搜索职位编号 REQ # 126881.EOE

总监，FTI, LLC，纽约州纽约市。 ，包括领先的个人价格模型和工作流，以帮助团队公司扩展到数字服务、AL 并收集跟踪资产以用于 Tcc. Cos. Reg.。要求：会计学、金融学、经济学、工商管理、工程学、管理信息系统或相关领域的学士学位或同等外国学位，以及在电信媒体与技术 (TMT) 部门专业服务领域 60 个月以上的经验；或者，会计学、金融学、经济学、工商管理、工程学、管理信息系统或相关领域的硕士学位或同等外国学位，以及在电信媒体与技术 (TMT) 部门专业服务领域 24 个月的经验。适用以下规则：要求最高 32% 的国内出差。薪资：每年 \$185,000；\$205,000。请发送求职信和简历，并注明职位代码 #2225 至

GMJobs@FTIConsulting.com。请勿致电。

区域经理 - 新泽西州福特李。要求：管理学、工商管理以及食品科学与技术学士学位，以及在烘焙和甜点制造行业拥有 2 年的门店运营管理或业务咨询经验。薪资：每年 \$82K - \$100K。福利：医疗、牙科、人寿和视力保险，公司匹配的 401k，带薪假期和节假日。请将简历邮寄至：CJ Foodville USA, Inc., 6131 Orangethorpe Ave, Suite 501, Buena Park, CA 90620

高级教育顾问；纽约州纽约市：监督公司为国际学生提供的教育咨询服务，指导教育顾问。最低要求：教育学或密切相关领域的硕士学位。一年半的教育顾问或相关职业经验，且具备以下所有条件：1) 关于项目选择、课程注册和职业规划的建议；2) 关于学术挑战和个性化培训计划的建议；3) 大学申请准备，包括考试准备、表格填写、论文和推荐信。薪资：每年 \$70,000。发送简历至：Yifei Sang, IVY ELITE INC, mark@ivyelite.net。职位参考号：1001。

工程师：标准普尔全球金融服务有限公司 (Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC) 正在新泽西州普林斯顿招聘一名站点可靠性工程师 (Site Reliability Engineer)，负责公司的设计与开发。公司将消除我们工作流应用程序中的现有缺陷。混合办公模式。在不在办公室的日子里，可以通过电话和电子邮件联系，适用于普林斯顿，新泽西州办公室的通勤距离。要求：计算机科学、电子工程或相关 IT 领域的学士学位，不限于员工以及支持企业级 Java 应用程序。该职位的预计基本薪资范围为 \$155,100 至 \$170；员工薪资为每年 \$200–\$250，基于个人的地理位置以及经验水平、技能集、培训、执照和认证。此外，公司的高薪职位有资格参加年度激励计划并获得额外的标普全球 (S&P Global) 福利。有关标普全球指数的更多信息，员工可以查阅；请参阅：https: / spg benefits.com / benefit-summaries / us，简历发送至 People / MovementSupport #33116 (Site Reliability Engineer)。

工程师：Etsy, Inc. 在纽约州布鲁克林招聘机器学习工程师 II (Machine Learning Engineer II)，负责设计、开发和改进用于广告推荐和排名系统的机器学习模型，以支持买家和卖家的体验。远程职位。薪资范围：每年 \$160,805 - \$199,000。申请人：将简历发送至

apply@etsy.com。申请时参考代码：#10202101。

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Modern Treasury Corp. 在纽约州纽约市有职位申请：软件工程师。设计并开发支付产品的软件基础设施。薪资：每年 \$150,000 至 \$160,000。申请请发送简历至 applicants@moderntreasury.com 并注明 Req. #SWE26

环境服务专家（硕士学位且有 5 年经验，或学士学位且有 7 年经验）以及生物技术公司或同等学历 - 纽约。纽约的工作内容包括且要求经验包括：Assuritans, JPM, N.Y., 2010; ECO, 2010; ECO 2010; ECO, 2010; ECO

残障人士。

EXLService.com, LLC - 纽约州纽约市 - 参与经理 (Engagement Manager) - 与客户沟通以确定关键业务问题和改进机会。提供分析产品和服务的日常项目管理与执行。要求：硕士学位+5 / 学士学位+7. 该职位可能会在美国境内不同的且不可预见的工作地点工作。允许远程办公。年薪范围：$183,000 至 $190,000。申请方式：将简历和求职信发送至 us.careers@exlservice.com。回复时必须注明职位名称和代码 EXL95。本通知受 ExlService.com, LLC 员工推荐计划约束。平等就业机会 / 少数族裔 / 女性 / 退伍军人 / 残障人士。

Walieve Capital LLC (纽约州纽约市) 寻求分析师，与投资组合经理紧密合作，负责投资指数的所有方面。这是一个用于研究和分析投资想法的 100 点价差图表，负责出价并维护详细的财务模型、交易量，以及参加财务投资行业确认会。要求：拥有金融、金融工程、经济学和市场营销专业的学士学位（美国或同等外国学位）。在本报告中，我们基于作为研究分析师、增长分析师或相关职位的经验价格。2 年绩效数据，包括行业估值，将收入和盈利能力与股价相结合；综合公司的战略产品和架构与宏观多样性以识别市场机会；分析不同定价并使用广泛的价差产品；使用模拟、LTVCAC 分析和成本分析为新定价结构建模收入影响和利润敏感度；创建高质量成本；执行跨部门指标跟踪或评估技术增长曲线；操作电子商务技术；操作办公平台以整合行业内的投资数据、客户行为和分销分析。我们还向量化投资模型和建议提供行业专家的见解。薪资：$200,000 / 年。薪资：$200,000 / 年。

招聘启事

桑坦德美国资本市场有限公司（纽约州纽约市）招聘执行董事，拉丁美洲债务资本市场，伦敦、纽约，1600。工程专业（任何领域）+ 5年本科后专业经验，职位为全球债务融资公司（NCO Inc.），且属于国际公司及投资银行的 APV 部门。2年所需经验必须包括组织与执行，这对于债务资本市场（DCM）而言并非难事，包括多层结构融资方案，如 AB 债券合同、区域担保、双边及结构化融资合同、其他金融工具、银行以及中美洲和加勒比地区的关联方；负责 1亿美元 的国际化工作；\1亿美元；\1亿美元；\1亿美元；\1亿美元；\1亿美元；\1亿美元；\1亿美元；\1亿美元；\1亿美元；\1亿美元；\1.05亿美元；\1.05亿美元；\1.05亿美元；\1.05亿美元；\1.05亿美元；\9700万美元；\9700万美元；\9700万美元；\9700万美元；\9700万美元；\9800万美元；\9800万美元；\9800万美元；\9800万美元；\9800万美元；\9700万美元；\9700万美元；\9700万美元；\9700万美元；\9600万美元；\9600万美元；\9600万美元；\9600万美元；\9600万美元；\9500万美元；\9500万美元；\9500万美元；\9500万美元；\9500万美元；\$945.3 市场销售：保留所有权利。

年薪 \$330,000。请将简历发送至 Christianne. Harpster@santander.us。参考号 #32。

桑坦德银行（纽约州纽约市）招聘执行董事，基础设施运营。要求拥有计算机科学、计算机系统工程、数学或物理软件公司（MSW）的学位，Inc. (SPL) 银行 / 金融证券领域高级分析师。所有相关经验必须包括：为大型全球企业银行的 CIB 部门构建和管理技术基础设施及运营环境；管理 geni prn 范围；管理 nrgs；管理 resr reggs；协调企业内基础设施领域的注册登记及外部 / 内部方的恢复工作；管理企业内基础设施领域的端到端（E2E）风险；管理资产辅助端的端到端（E2E）风险；技术基础设施企业政策的实施与升级；定义并实施 KPILs 和 KRIs；运用基础设施领域的知识，包括 100% 的 300% 的 3 00% 的 30

年薪 \$205,000。请将简历发送至 Christianne. Harpster@santander.us。参考号 #246。

金融：MSCI, Inc. 招聘高级助理。对冲基金指数销售，工作地为纽约州纽约市，旨在通过识别、开发和创造扩大 MSCI 市场影响力的机会来推动新业务增长。要求：金融、商业分析或相关领域的学士学位或同等外国学位，以及 3 年在所提供职位或相关职业中的经验：分析对冲基金的投资目标和策略，包括多头和空头股票、系统化、宏观、多资产，以推荐适当的机构解决方案。根据公司政策，可能允许远程办公和 / 或居家办公。在非远程办公期间，必须前往工作地点报到。提供的薪资在 \$130,312 至 \$130,312 / 年之间，每周工作 40 小时。请将电子邮件简历发送至 Marie.Stech@msci.com 并注明职位代码 AL082126AD。机会均等雇主 / 残疾人 / 退伍军人（EOE / D / V）。

金融：AllianceBernstein L.P. 正在纽约市招聘助理副总裁 / 投资策略师。负责增强并简化跨部门优化流程。主导相对价值框架，包括相对价值工具的维护与创新，并领导投资组合管理团队讨论和辩论跨部门相对价值的会议。每周必须在办公室出勤 4 天；每周 14-FH 或每周。允许远程办公。年薪 $142,000-$174,000。请发送简历至 AB Applications@alliancebernstein.com，并注明职位代码 10238655。

金融：Itau BBA USA Securities, Inc. 正在纽约市招聘股票销售交易员。负责管理 ADR 风险并推动资金流。管理计划 / 篮子订单及再平衡。覆盖机构客户群。职位要求：在任何涉及金融市场、交易、货币及拉丁美洲市场的岗位拥有 2 年经验。因客户会议需要，国内及国际出差比例最高可达 15%。允许最高 10% 的远程办公。年薪：$171,723.00。申请方式：发送简历至 isabela.gomes@Itau.us，注明职位代码 IBBA100。请勿致电。

金融：Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc. 正在纽约市招聘入职分析师，作为覆盖官员的代表，审查新的监管入职流程，重点关注金融机构。允许每周最多 2 天远程办公。每月必须至少有 2 个周五在办公室工作。年薪：$130,000 - $150,000。 申请方式：发送简历至 CAREcruitmentUS@ca-cib.com 并 re-

申请方式：发送简历至 CARecruitmentUS@co-cib.com 并注明参考代码 18543.00381。

金融：Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank 正在纽约市招聘交易员，在授权交易限制（即风险参数及指定的货币与产品限制）内交易非线性外汇期权，以便在预设的限制和目标内实现收入最大化。年薪：$135,000 - $170,000。申请方式：发送简历至 CARecruitmentUS@co-cib.com 并注明参考代码 18543.00387。

纽约市某全球数字大宗商品市场招聘高级金融系统分析师。要求会计学、金融学或相关领域学士学位 + 18 个月会计、审计或相关经验。可在美国境内任何地点远程办公。协助会计部门的日常、每月及年终运营。年薪：$73,070-$97,406。简历发送至：Emily Szeto, HR Mar., Xpansiv Data Systems, Inc., 500 Fifth Ave., Ste. 26, New York, NY 10110。

SG Americas Securities, LLC 正在纽约市招聘融资专家，负责参与融资文件的起草 / 谈判，包括条款清单、承诺函、信贷协议等。允许部分远程办公；非远程办公时在纽约市 Park Ave. 245 号 (New York, NY 10167) 现场办公。年薪 $200K-$300K。发送简历至 us - humn - recruitment@sgcib.com。必须在邮件主题中注明广告代码 TNCD。

全球文化与参与负责人（新泽西州布里奇沃特）协调员工参与招聘、员工发展 / 总额及 15 年。商业、职位薪酬，3 年。员工参与。帮助各地区和国家体现公司愿景与计划。商业在行业教育与参与的发展中起关键作用。要求：人力资源、工商管理、项目管理或相关专业学士学位 + 1 年人力资源或员工参与经验，或替代方案 3 年 vcs。商业在影响大规模转型计划中起关键作用。开发 / 实施人力资源 / 全球流程与倡议，项目管理（范围界定、利益相关者）以及 15 年。商业在变革、变革管理（与组织多层级沟通）、行业整体增长中起关键作用，以及增长领导 / 参与 / 影响多项管理；将业务目标转化为人力资源计划需求：报告人力资源数据；识别 / 生成内容 / 培训技能；2018-2020。商业在领导跨职能团队中起关键作用；与员工管理及公司文化变革合作（例如 2019-2020）。商业在领导跨职能团队中起关键作用；年薪 $195,520. 福利：医疗、牙科、视力、短期伤残险 (STD)、人寿险、带薪休假 (PTO)、长期伤残险 (LTD, 自愿)、401(k)、符合奖金资格。简历发送至：Messer North America, 2018-2020。商业在职业生涯中起关键作用，职位 ID：LEAD609666。

Grant Thornton Advisors LLC 正在招聘多名会计咨询经理（Accounting Advisory Manager），工作地点在纽约州纽约市，负责提供会计咨询服务。客户在监管或战略业务变更中会产生复杂的会计技术问题。要求至少 3 或 4 年经验，拥有会计、金融、经济、数学或相关领域学士学位，或外国交易商（或任何其他人员）提供报价或任何会计 / 金融 / 咨询相关领域职位。根据需要监督 2-5 名高级助理。该职位的薪资为：每年 \$158,976 – \$150,000。TPA 不是公司的唯一评估（或其自身的管辖权）。调整后，要求最多 5% 的国内差旅，以前往美国各地的不同客户现场。必须居住在可通勤至指定 Grant Thornton 办公室的距离内，每周到岗 3 天。这是会计咨询经理 (115617) 在客户中的最高薪资，申请路径：https: / www.grant.thornton.com / careers.aspx

GTM 战略与运营分析师，Stripe, LLC，纽约州纽约市。为区域销售负责人提供情报和洞察以加速增长。通过标准化目前在全球和区域通用流程中存在正相关关系的股票或特许权价格的全球和区域通用流程，支持销售战略和运营同事。要求拥有工商管理、金融、经济、管理与系统或相关领域的同等学位。+7 年销售、战略和运营相关经验，其中至少 5 年必须是本科学历后的渐进式工作经验。我们的硕士组织或外国经验。战略与运营，其中至少 5 年必须是本科学历后的渐进式工作经验。我们的硕士组织或外国经验。管理与系统或相关领域。+5 年销售、战略和运营相关工作经验。允许 50% 远程办公。薪资：每年 \$155,800.00 - \$233,600.00。设有多个职位，额外福利可能包括股权、公司奖金或销售佣金 / 奖金；例如，牙科和视觉福利，健康津贴。NY65。请在线申请：

https: / stripe.com / careers / listing / gtm-strategy-operations-analyst / 8145119?gh_jid=8145119 并点击“Apply for this role”提交您的申请。

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新泽西州爱迪生及美国境内其他若干未预见地点（全职；5 个空缺），负责研究、设计、开发及测试硬件与硬件系统。编写详细的功能规范书，以记录硬件设计与开发过程并支持硬件引入。规定电源要求与配置、系统性能预期及设计规范。该系统旨在实现硬件与软件之间、以及整体系统的运行与性能要求之间的分层接口。执行功能测试、集成测试及系统级测试。必须具备 2 年工程经验。在 2 年经验中，其中 1 年必须包括使用 Zuken、通信项目、MART、S-USB & CAN、L.Tspice - analog Devices、TINA Texas Instruments LabVIEW、MPP Microsoft Project Plan 的经验。

要求出差及搬迁。无需内部出差。需前往各 LTTS 及客户设施进行国内出差。所有经验可同时获得。工资：\$139,797 / 年。带薪休假、医疗与团体人寿保险、残疾保险、401(K)。机会均等 / 男性 / 女性 / 残疾人 / 退伍军人。请将简历发送至 L&T Technology Services Ltd, 2035 Lincoln Hwy, Edison Square W, Ste. 3002, Edison, NJ 08817。请注明参考号 LTTS38。

市场营销负责人，Cloaked, Inc.，纽约州纽约市。领导战略营销计划，运用数据驱动的洞察来优化定位、优化客户获取与留存，并监督跨数字和线下渠道的综合品牌与绩效活动。要求：工商管理、市场营销或相关专业的硕士学位（或同等外国学位）及 5 年市场营销、产品战略或类似经验。15% 的国内及国际出差。薪资：\$246,500-\$265,000。完整职位描述、要求及申请请访问 https: / jobs.ashbyha.com / cloaked，查看“Head of Marketing”项下内容。

在“Head of Marketing”项下

医疗保健投资银行总监（纽约州纽约市）—— 允许远程办公（多个职位）。在高级银行家的指导和支持下，领导日常交易执行、客户演示、发行备忘录、内部委员会备忘录、管理层与董事会演示、提案起草及交易营销文件。薪资：\$200,000 / 年。要求经济学、金融或相关领域的学士学位或同等外国学位，以及 5 年在所提供职位或相关投资银行职位中分析医疗保健行业的工作经验。必须持有 SIE、Series 63 及 Series 79 执照。必须具备相关工作经验。请将简历 / 求职信发送至 Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.，收件人：J Bridges，参考号：#TEK2026, Jaime.Bridges@opco.com。请勿致电。机会均等。

Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc. 寻求一名位于纽约州纽约市的高级设计专业人员，负责准备 2D 和 3D 演示 / 设计图纸并构建模型，以供客户 / 项目团队评审。接受美国境内的远程办公。年薪 \$88,899 - \$110,000。请在 jobpostingtoday.com 申请，参考号 48472。

Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc. 寻求一名位于纽约州纽约市的设计专业人员，负责根据既定标准开发技术和设计问题的解决方案。允许远程办公。年薪 \$69,985.50 - \$81,744。请在 jobpostingtoday.com 申请，参考号 14327。

IMC Americas, Inc. 在伊利诺伊州芝加哥和纽约州纽约市有多个宏观新闻分析师空缺（职位编号 REQ# 4512584101；薪资 \$188,000-\$254,000），负责为 IMC 的交易团队研究、分析、建模和解读宏观经济事件。职位可设在任一城市。要求相关学位和 / 或经验和 / 或技能。福利：基本工资仅是总薪酬的一部分；所有全职永久职位均有资格获得酌情奖金和福利，包括带薪休假和保险。请访问

以获取更多信息。欲了解更多详情并在线申请，请访问

www.imc.com / careers

请访问 www.imc.com / careers 搜索宏观新闻分析师（职位 ID：4512584101），或发送邮件至 talent@imc.com，并在主题栏注明职位名称和职位编号。

IT：RBC Capital Markets LLC 正在新泽西州泽西市招聘一名副总监兼首席软件开发人员，负责协作开发一项关于固定收益和股票交易处理变更的新技术。软件开发的首席应用不限于技术解决方案。设计、开发及其他服务和其他终端应用程序。管理马来西亚离岸开发人员，负责软件开发及其他轻量级开发。与技术团队协作，从行业中获取可靠信息，以助力构建进一步的可复用技术产品。开发一个不断增长的清理、维护且高效的代码库。指导参与开发规划、每日站会及回顾会议的初级开发人员和供应商，涉及物理学和 3D 打印工具。开发独特的自动化测试，以确保代码的质量和可靠性。混合远程设备和 / 或设备由应用计算机科学或相关领域的学位以及 8 年经验的人员开发。公司目前处于全栈软件开发（软件开发生命周期）阶段，并专注于处理生命周期、敏捷软件开发生命周期流程、文件管理和代码。管理与代码控制。薪资：\$195,401 / 年。此薪资不包括任何额外补偿，包括由申请公司匹配缴款的员工支付的酌情奖金和福利；健康、牙科、视力、人寿和残疾保险；以及其他服务，可访问 itc.com 的“corers”搜索 \$1,000,000。点击：“立即申请”。

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Institutional Capital Network, Inc.

纽约州纽约市

职责：在一个分布式金融技术平台中，架构并实现模块化、高性能的 React 组件和完整的 UI 流程。利用产品设计经验，在前端与 UX 和产品团队协作，将功能从线框图转化为执行，并高度关注行为细节。负责前端系统的测试策略，使用 Jest、Playwright 和 React Testing Library 等工具，确保关键业务工作流稳定且覆盖全面。

要求：计算机科学、信息技术或相关领域学士学位，以及 4 年企业级 SaaS 或受监管软件环境经验。经验必须包括以下各项各 4 年：使用 React 进行前端开发；状态管理工具如 Redux / React 和 Web / CAM；2017 年 5 项；2018 年 6 项；2019 年 7 项；2020 年 8 项；2021 年 9 项；2022 年 10 项；2023 年 11 项；2024 年 12 项；2025 年 13 项；2026 年 14 项；2027 年 15 项；2028 年 16 项；2029 年 17 项；2030 年 18 项；2031 年 19 项；2032 年 20 项；2033 年 21 项；2034 年 22 项；2035 年 23 项；2036 年 24 项；2037 年 25 项；2038 年 26 项；2039 年 27 项；2040 年 28 项；2041 年 29 项；2042 年 30 项；2043 年 31 项；2044 年 32 项；2045 年 33 项；2046 年 34 项；2047 年 35 项；2048 年 36 项；2049 年 37 项；2050 年 38 项；2051 年 39 项；2052 年 40 项；2053 年 41 项；2054 年 42 项；2055 年 43 项；2056 年 44 项；2057 年 45 项；2058 年 46 项；2059 年 47 项；2060 年 48 项；2061 年 49 项；2062 年 50 项；2063 年 51 项；2064 年 52 项；2065 年 53 项；2066 年 54 项；2067 年 55 项；2068 年 56 项；2069 年 57 项；2070 年 58 项；

薪资：\$189,600 - \$194,600

请通过电子邮件申请：

talentacquisition@icapitalnetwork.com 或邮寄至：Institutional Capital Network, Inc. c / o Talent Acquisition 60 East 42nd Street FL 26 NY NY 10165（请注明：VP, Distributed Ledger）

International Flavors and Fragrances, Inc. 正在新泽州代顿（Dayton, NJ）招聘高级风味专家（Sr Floraviat），负责开发风味解决方案，包括风味复制、新创作及风味修改（例如 1980 年代）、产品、产品最终用途以及监管和法律要求，以满足客户和内部的优先请求。要求：食品科学、生物化学专业学士或同等外国学位，2003；https: / doi.org / 10.100456789 / 10.100456800. https: / doi.org / 10.100457333 / 10.100462226A / D。 提供的年薪在 \$148,048 至 \$182-560 之间。每周工作 40 小时。竞争性福利（美国）：我们的福利方案包括医疗、牙科、视力、401(k)、假期、整体健康等。2 年经验。2 年经验 2 年经验。2 年经验 2 年 (II) 一项专业工作计划（产假和陪产假）以及年度奖金计划。IFF 还被《新闻周刊》（Newsweek）评为美国最佳福利与证书工作场所之一，包括电子邮件简历。 Cheryl.Hurst@iffit.com 并注明职位代码 JB072226ADC

Intone Networks, Inc.（经营名为 Intone）- 新泽州伊瑟林（Iselin, NJ）- 高级软件开发人员 I - 设计、开发、实现、测试并部署软件应用程序。研究、分析并确定信息需求和数据流要求。要求硕士学位+0。需前往美国境内各种不可预见的地点执行长期和短期客户现场任务。有多个职位空缺。薪资：\$189,592 - \$189,592 / 年。适用标准福利。请将简历及求职信发送至 hr@intone.com，职位 INT30:FOE

职位 INT30；EOE。

投资银行 [有多个职位空缺] - 纽约州纽约市。该职位要求最高 10% 的国内出差。执行深入分析以支持新业务开发、交易发起和执行。薪资范围：每年 \$200,000 - \$200,000。有关要求及申请方式，请访问

https: / careers.jpmorgan.com 并申请职位编号：210779847。EOE, AAE, M / F / D / V。摩根大通（JPMorgan Chase & Co.）保留所有权利。www.jpmorgan Chase.com

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投资银行权益资本市场（有多个职位空缺）- 纽约州纽约市。该职位要求最高 10% 的国内出差和 5% 的国际出差（前往 JPMC 站点）。参与交易执行的“全周期”，包括准备营销材料、审查并制定财务分析、向内部及外部客户进行演示，并推动日常交易执行。薪资范围：每年 \$225,000 - \$225,000。如需申请此职位，请将简历发送至 my resumes@jpmchase.com，并清晰注明以下职位 ID：[MR-IBEc-RN-045331.100995]。

IT 专业人员：Neurealm（新泽西州普林斯顿）：

高级技术经理（$139,547.00）：利用商业智能，开发 ETL。构建将交易金额加载到不同数据库并使用报告工具进行可视化的流水线，并使用先进技术创建可作为应用程序一部分重复使用的通用代码。与 Data TEL 团队协调，实施带有数据仓库控制的 ETL 程序，以根据要求标准有效掌握所有生产活动并为所有现有应用程序提供支持。领导并监控实施后的批处理作业执行，以确保流程执行成功且准确。包括从源系统到应用程序的数据流。职位代码：1001627082026。

高级工程师 - 基础设施服务（$136,947.00）：监控并支持业务关键型运营与基础设施，确保制造质量、技术作业及整体系统性能保持 24 / 7. 全天候运行。通过 ITTL 管理、其他评估进行事件和问题管理，开展根因分析、客户沟通并实施预防措施。通过开发工作功能和工作流、执行系统调优、容量规划以及寻找提升运营效率的机会，实现 IT 运营的自动化与优化。提供领导力、文档记录和收入管理，以及出口团队，维护工作指令和流程文档，进行管理审查，并提交性能研究协作，减少 IT 技术利益相关者的困扰，排除复杂系统问题，改善服务交付，确保客户满意度，并推动持续的流程改进。职位代码：1003979082026

项目负责人（$141,398.00）：定义项目范围、目标、时间线、预算、交付物、风险及利益相关者依赖关系，并与业务团队及内部利益相关者协调需求、优先级和项目执行。启发、分析、排列优先级并记录业务与技术需求。创建新团队在维护仪表板设计、KPI 定义和技术规范中的角色，以解决业务需求和客户痛点。分析并准备数据，开发 SQL 查询和计算，构建多协议数据库，实现交互功能，并将解决方案发布到 Tableau Server，同时确保适当的安全和访问控制。执行测试、验证、调优和监控功能，以确保准确性和仪表板可靠性。支持客户，维护文档，跟踪 KPI 结果，并促进知识转移、学习培训以及工具和激励措施的界定。职位代码：1003196082026

要求：所有职位均要求拥有技术、计算机科学、工程、电子工程、IT、ECE、CIS 或相关专业的学士学位，且在该领域拥有 5 年经验，并具备多种编程语言、工具和计算机技能的经验。提供医疗 / 牙科 / 视力保险，短期 / 长期残疾险，401k，带薪休假（PTO）。需要出差。请将简历发送至 caroline.mistry@neurealm.com

IT 专业人员：Incedo, Inc. (新泽西州弗洛拉姆公园)

副总监：领导信息技术项目的规划、设计、执行、监控及成功交付。管理项目范围、时间表、预算、质量标准、资源、风险、供应商以及利益相关者沟通，以确保项目满足业务目标和客户需求。协调跨职能团队，并监督整个项目生命周期内的项目计划、实施策略和交付成果。$150,301.00。

高级首席业务分析师：收集需求并创建业务需求文档 (BRD)、功能需求文档 (FRD) 和用户故事；管理 Jira 待办事项列表以及 Agile / Scrum 交付。执行 SQL / 数据分析、对账、影响评估和根因分析以解决数据问题。支持 EDH 和报告平台上的用户验收测试 (UAT)、缺陷分拣、部署和验证。推动主数据管理 (MDM)、数据治理、数据质量和数据监控，以确保报告的完整性。$169,541.00

医疗 / 牙科 / 视力 / 人寿保险，HSA / FSA，意外死亡及残疾 / 短期伤残 / 长期伤残 (AD&D / STD / LTD)，带薪休假 (PTO)，技术认证，国际流动性，员工援助，周年奖金。要求：数据科学、计算机科学、物理学、信息技术、计算机信息系统或相关专业学士 / 硕士学位，且具有 5 年 IT 领域经验，以及多种编程语言、工具和计算机技能的经验。简历发送至

MEMX LLC (纽约州纽约市) 招聘高级全栈开发人员。要求：计算机科学或计算机工程硕士学位 + 3 年相关岗位或全栈开发角色经验，或计算机科学或计算机工程学士学位 + 5 年毕业后渐进式经验。所有股票均按 100% 价格持有。所有相关经验必须包括在金融交易所环境中开发和维护全栈 Web 应用程序；开发 AI 驱动的系统，能够自动抓取并处理 2000 年代的数据。BDO 包括 Web 抓取以及基于处理后的现实内容生成自定义通告；开发和自动化安全文件传输应用程序，包括设计和实施基于 SFTP 的交付系统，用于通过新电子邮件将财务文件传输至免费交易。Node.is 和 Express.is 包括构建 RESTful API 和自动化脚本；使用 Reactis.l 构建 UI，遵循现代前端架构，包括创建可重用组件、状态和其他服务。负责生产系统的开发、维护、部署和故障排除的重要部分。#L-DNI。仅允许从美国部分州远程办公，且 subject to rigtry 变更。薪资：$1,000,000

年薪 $193,500-$200,000。简历发送至 10 Ali Nowka, careers@memx.com。

某国际会计师事务所纽约市分所招聘意大利会计专员，负责分析并维护意大利公司美国子公司及关联公司的财务记录，包括资产、负债、损益、税收责任及其他财务活动记录。年薪：$97,053。要求：经济学、金融学、会计学或相关专业学士学位 + 2 年该岗位或审计师、财务分析师或相关经验。相关经验必须包括以下内容：根据国际财务报告准则 (IFRS) 编制财务报表；意大利公司税务报告与合规；以及意大利公认会计原则 (GAAP)。简历发送至：F. Trinetta, G.C. Consultants LLC, C.44 Madison Ave, Ste 1206, NY, N.Y., 10022. 参考号 #106

Langan Engineering and Environmental Serv., LLC 在新泽西州帕西普尼招聘环境工程师 (REF# NP0826)。允许每周最多 3 天远程办公。领导环境工程项目的现场调查规划与执行。要求最高 50% 的本地出差。薪资：$97,000 - $110,000。提供的预计薪资范围旨在遵守当地法规，代表该岗位的潜在基本薪资范围。实际薪资可能根据地点、资历和市场而有所不同。提供全面的福利和奖金计划。更多信息及申请，请将简历和求职信发送至 careers@langan.com，并在邮件主题栏注明 REF#NP0826。

Langan Engineering and Environmental Serv., LLC. 现为纽约市办公室招聘环境工程师（参考号：VK0826）。允许每周最多 3 天远程办公。负责领导环境工程项目的现场调查规划与执行。要求最高 50% 的本地出差。薪资：$98,000 - $110,000。所提供的预计薪资范围旨在遵守当地法规，并代表该职位的潜在基本薪资范围。实际薪资可能根据所在地、资历及市场情况而有所不同。提供全面的福利和奖金计划。欲了解更多信息并申请，请将简历和求职信发送至 careers@langan.com，并在邮件主题栏注明参考号 VK0826。

法律：Elsberg Baker & Maruri PLLC 现为纽约市招聘中级律师，负责监督案件管理，并确定与大型争议诉讼相关的法律问题及策略。要求：拥有法学博士（JD）或外国法律学位，且在律师事务所拥有 2 年工作经验；参与涉及多项主张、多方当事人及代表的商业与投资仲裁；和 / 或参与起草文件；在复杂的多方争议中确定法律问题；与专家证人合作，包括协助准备专家报告、录取证词及审判其他事项；和 / 或在审判及仲裁听证会上负责交叉询问、起草交叉询问大纲及提交证据。必须获得纽约州执业律师资格。提供的年薪在 $270,000 至 $270,000 之间，根据公司政策，可能允许 40 居家办公。在非远程办公期间，必须前往公司办公地点报到：https: / florecruit.com / v2 / app / elsberg https: / florecruit.com / v2 / app / elsberg / gw / iohs / MiUwNTR-

apply / 。职位代码：RF070826NYT。

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP 律师事务所现招聘一名公司 / 金融方向关联律师（纽约市），负责参与涉及杠杆收购和收购融资的各类法律活动，包括公司业务的复杂债务管理及其他资本结构交易、公司设立、公开发行、合并与收购、资产剥离、股权衍生品、尽职调查以及股票购买协议。要求具有 2 年相关经验。在所提供职位或相关职业的 2 年经验中，需具备起草、谈判并敲定与金融交易及协议相关文件的能力。部分岗位可能允许远程办公和 / 或居家办公。对于非远程办公岗位，必须前往工作地点报到。必须获得纽约州执业律师资格。提供的年薪在 $260,000 至 $310,000 之间。每周工作 4 小时。请发送电子邮件至 www.jjcom.cn。完整联系方式如下：

法律类：White & Case LLP 律师事务所现招聘一名中级关联律师（美洲并购 / 公司法方向，纽约市），负责支持并执行传统及替代资产管理公司之间的转型类国内及跨境合并、收购、GP 份额交易、少数股权投资、分拆以及战略合作伙伴关系。必须获得纽约州律师协会执业资格。每周最多允许 1 天远程办公。非远程办公期间，必须前往位于 1221 Avenue of the Americas; New York, NY 10020. 的 White & Case LLP 报到。年薪：$310 至 $390 (k / yr)。请在 https: / www.whitecase.com 在线提交简历，或发送电子邮件至 lateralrecruiting@whitecase.com。必须注明广告代码 MOEK。

招聘持证 / 认证社会工作者 (LCSW) Jerry Drive Inc - 纽约州皇后区

Mercy Drive Inc - 纽约州皇后区 优先考虑具有社会工作 / 临床经验者。请致电 718-793-2158 申请。 住家雇员（纽约市）——负责洗衣、跑腿 / 偶尔购物、烹饪无麸质饮食（需演示）。要求：高中学历或同等外国学历，以及 1 年相关经验。年薪 $60,195。雇主为 Donna Landa；请将简历发送至

LandaHousehold@gmail.com

伦敦证券交易所集团控股有限公司（纽约市）招聘一名复杂证券定价高级专家，负责开发、维护并应用量化定价模型和数据分析工具，以对固定收益证券、衍生品和结构化产品进行估值和验证；在与跨职能团队协作以确保估值结果准确、透明且有据可查的同时，执行独立价格验证、风险分析和模型监控。允许远程办公。要求：量化领域学士学位；外加 5 年相关领域本科后专业经验，其中包含结构化产品经验、4 年衍生品经验以及 3 年 Python 经验。薪资为 $179,088。请将简历发送至

resumes@lseg.com 引用职位 ID SSCSP0312。

机器学习工程师（Bloomberg L.P.，纽约州纽约市）全职。Dson。 机器学习工程师（Bloomberg L.P.，纽约州纽约市）使用数据的特定棱镜：Petr 排名和 100 分的评分。分析师，涵盖中心、工程师、机器学习、数学、统计学、物理学、定量与分析、研究与开发，或软件开发或 Energrine 的开发，经理，执行官，管理，执行官，营销 执行官，营销 执行官，

www.1800flowersinc.com / careers 引用编号 22896，或将简历发送至 wpoole@harryanddavid.com 并在主题栏注明职位名称。

数据与分析经理 - 数据分析，普华永道咨询服务有限公司（PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services LLC），纽约州纽约市。利用数据驱动洞察并做出明智的商业决策。利用高级分析技术帮助客户优化运营并实现战略目标。要求：工商管理、商业分析、管理信息系统、计算机科学或相关领域的学士学位或同等外国学位，外加 5 年学士毕业后的渐进式相关工作经验。或者，工商管理、商业分析、管理信息系统、计算机科学或相关领域的硕士学位或同等外国学位，外加 3 年学士毕业后的经验，允许远程办公。必须能够通勤至指定的当地办公室。要求国内和 / 或国际出差比例高达 80%。有多个职位空缺。薪资范围：每年 \$196,000 - \$213,000。请通过将您的简历发送至以下地址申请：

US_PwC_Career_Recruitment@

请在邮件主题栏中注明职位代码 NY4987。

高级网络经理，汇丰技术与服务（美国）有限公司（HSBC Technology & Services (USA) Inc.），纽约州纽约市。为全球关系经理、客户支持团队、运营和产品开发管理人员、员工和 / 或职员提供全面的利益相关者支持，且需精通拉美语言西班牙语。允许每周最多 3 天远程办公。需要进行国际和国内出差，比例最高 6%。薪资范围：每年 \$157,092.00 至 \$167,092.00。申请方式：访问公司企业评级 / 招聘 ID (# 56334)。在汇丰，我们的总体目标是提供具有竞争力的综合薪酬方案，其中包含固定薪资和可变薪资的适当组合，作为员工整体总薪酬和福利的一部分。自愿性补偿可能来自酌情发放的年度奖励（有时称为“奖金”）。

Vestwell Inc. 招聘运营财务与分析经理，工作地点纽约州纽约市。担任运营关键绩效指标（KPI）的所有者。与首席运营官（COO）合作，利用数据和性能建模评估运营流程。为运营变更制定商业案例，并量化其对效率、成本、产能和收入的影响。要求：财务、经济或相关领域的学士学位或同等外国学位。外加 5 年通胀、战略咨询或相关职位的经验，以及在定量和财务劣势、预测和美国通用会计准则（US GAAP）原则方面的经验。此外，要求（可能同时获得）：Salesforce, Rippling, Cube, Sage Intact, Tableau。薪资：\$94,910 - \$125,000。请在 https: / www.vestwell.com / careers 申请。参考号 J-L-711029。

市场研究分析师，纽约州纽约市。开展市场研究并分析市场状况，以识别客户偏好、行业趋势以及银行产品 / 服务的商业机会；收集 / 分析有关竞争对手、定价、销售方法、营销趋势的数据；评估消费者和市场数据以评估需求并改善产品定位；为管理层准备关于市场状况和商业机会的报告和建议，以提供支持银行产品 / 服务推广的覆盖。市场营销或市场营销管理学士学位 + 6 个月相关职位或信贷管理助理经验。年薪 \$64,834。将简历传真至 Woori America Bank, 212-244-6957。

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市场研究分析师（酒店业），（纽约州纽约市），分析当前及未来产品供应的市场匹配度。进行市场研究分析，以确定当前和未来的营销与业务开发机会及绩效。要求市场营销、酒店管理学士学位 + 相关经验。薪资 - \$85,467。简历请寄至：SJ Sawhney, Canary Technologies Corp, 300 Park Ave, Floor 15, NY, NY 10022。

营销经理

项目管理副总监。监督营销项目、活动、计划和团队。要求学士学位 + 2 年经验。薪资：每年 \$129,251-\$192,000。国内出差至办公地点（最高 5%）。公司：R / GA Media Group, Inc, 1245 Broadway, 4th Flr, New York, NY 10001。远程办公：可在美国境内任何地方居家办公。向位于纽约州纽约市的 R / GA Media 办公室汇报。将简历发送至：AttrS.Ramaswamy / RE: ADPM, Sujatq.Ramaswamy@rag.com。

医疗助理

位于纽约州埃尔姆赫斯特（Elmhurst, NY）的 Leva Medical P.C. 招聘一名医疗助理，在医生监督下执行行政和临床职责，包括运送血液、检查准备、心电图（EKG）等。最低要求：护理或医学预科专业学士学位。替代要求：医疗助理证书，高中毕业证书及 12 个月经验。精通西班牙语。年薪 $ 53,768。请通过电子邮件申请：levamedical@gmail.com。

Morningstar Investment Management LLC 招聘一名位于纽约州纽约市（New York, NY）的高级软件工程师，负责按照行业最佳实践（包括测试驱动开发 (TDD) 和编码标准）编写简洁、可维护且高效的代码 (15%)。要求计算机科学或相关领域学士学位，或同等外国学位，并具有 4 年相关经验。接受教育、培训和经验的任何合适组合。远程工作申请将根据公司的远程工作政策予以考虑。需具备其他特定技能。基本工资：$128,353 / 年。有关职位详情及申请，请访问：https: / www.morningstar.com / careers；参考职位 ID REQ-057486。

Mount Sinai Hospital (NY, NY) 招聘技术专家 IV。要求计算机科学、工程（电子或计算机或计算机）硕士学位，或工程（电子或计算机系统）硕士学位，或工程（电子或 DevOps 工程师或 Engrase 工程师）硕士学位；或者计算机科学、工程（电子或计算机系统）学士学位，或工程（电子或 DevOps 或 Engrase）学士学位；或者在所提供职位上的 DevOps 或 Engrase 后学士经验。所有相关经验必须包括 以在 Cnd-native 和 PaoS 上使用 100% 的价格点，并使用 Cnd 网络 inc i

Mount Sinai Hospital (NY, NY) 招聘技术专家 III。要求计算机科学或计算机工程学士学位 + 5 年在所提供职位或作为 Svs Svs Svs Svs Sv s Sve 的递进后学士经验。 相关经验必须包括为医疗保健或医疗网络设计和开发软件架构及设计，且符合 HIPAA、NIST、PCI、SOC 和 FERPA 安全标准；在数据架构中应用脚本；数据建模和数据集成；集成 3D CTN1024-3D CTN1024- 6M Azure ID 和 EMR 系统；以及使用 / 操作以下技术 / 工具：Azure, PySpark, SQL, 后端语言 (Python, Scala & Java / Node.is), UI 栈 (JavaScript, HTML & CSS), 数据库系统 (Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, IBM, , , , , , ,

april.aningolan@mountsinai.org。必须参考 #2196001。

Mount Sinai Hospital (NY, NY) 招聘高级 IT 总监。要求计算机科学、信息系统或工程（计算机、电子或机械）学士学位 + 5 年在所提供职位、ERP 云专家或项目交付经理（Proj Divry Mar）方面的递进后学士经验。所有相关经验需涉及医疗 / 医疗部门的 ERP 云 IRTS 第 12 实例；管理和领导 ERP 功能机构、方案交付、配置、应用程序定制、集成、数据迁移和用户验收测试 (UAT)；架构化部署方法；pro-magulam adirmenti；医疗行业中的 arhmadshikdsh；管理项目指标和里程碑，突出风险并确保采取适当行动且风险得到缓解；以及领导并开展 ERP 云 IRTS 的 rammit gathrog wkhatus。以下：允许从美国任何地点远程办公。必须愿意每年至少 1 次前往纽约市办公室参加部门会议。薪资：$244,400-$289,990 / 年。发送简历至：

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MrWorld Accessories LLC 招聘包装设计师，工作地点：纽约州纽约市 5000。该公司主要从事插画、基于网络的平台及营销活动的产出。负责根据数字图形设计、品牌展架及美学设计概念创建设计方案和样本布局。确定设计的尺寸与容量，并准备用于印刷和生产的数字文件及最终布局。审查并修改布局，以纳入客户及内部技术设计。我们还负责组织设计的发布。与客户及内部团队协商以确定项目试剂（reagents）、研究目标受众以及设计质量。我们在所有包装和营销材料中使用视觉品牌。应聘者必须在相关领域拥有 1 或 2 级的评级证明，且至少具有 1 年图形设计的专业经验。必须具有 1 年数字广告材料设计经验。我们必须具有 1 年数字广告材料经验。我们必须具有 1 年内部团队图形元素经验，并确保数字平台的一致性。必须具有 1 年数字广告材料经验。我们必须具有 1 年内部团队创意元素经验。必须精通 Fiamo、Illustrator、InDesign 和 Photoshop。年度报告包括：$300。请将简历发送至 juddhi@iml.com/

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Palantir Technologies, Inc. 在纽约州纽约市招聘部署战略师 (2987)。定义数据需求，收集并验证信息，运用判断力并进行统计测试。为复杂的客户项目提供战略支持。需要出差。允许部分远程办公。薪资范围：$131997 至 $160000 / 年。请将简历发送至：

GM-SA-PalJobs@Palantir.com。申请时必须注明职位名称 / #。机会均等（EOE）。

Technologies, Inc. 在纽约州纽约市招聘前线部署工程师 (#3767)。修改现有软件以提高性能。识别并诊断软件缺陷和局限性。需要出差。允许部分远程办公。薪资范围：$165,000.00 - $200,000.00 / 年。请将简历发送至：GM-SA-PalJobs@.com。申请时必须注明前线部署工程师 / #3767。机会均等（EOE）。

Technologies, Inc. 在纽约州纽约市招聘前线部署工程师 (#2899)。修改现有软件以提高性能。需要出差。允许部分远程办公。薪资范围：$140,000 - $190,000 / 年。请将简历发送至：

GM-SA-PalJobs@.com。申请时必须注明前线部署工程师 / #2899。机会均等（EOE）。

PayPal, Inc. 在纽约州纽约市招聘资深软件工程师：分析需求，准备设计，并使用面向对象编程和后端语言开发健壮、可扩展的软件应用程序和功能。允许在通勤距离内部分远程办公。薪资：每年 $193,461.00 - 300,500.00。申请请将简历发送至 paypaljobs@paypal.com，并注明需求编号 #L25-160936 (160936)。机会均等（EOE），包括残疾人 / 退伍军人。

Peregrine Technologies, Inc. 在纽约州纽约市招聘部署战略师。年薪 $175 - $190 / year。请将简历发送至 perm-recruiting@peregrine.io 并注明职位代码 #DS。

Agape Studio Inc (经营名称：Agape Music and Arts Center) 在纽约州埃姆赫斯特招聘钢琴教师 (职位 ID#: PK0715)，年薪 $71,261：为学生提供私人钢琴指导；使用工作室提供的材料和教学计划教授识谱、节奏和曲目等基础至中级技能；监控学生进度并提供反馈；为学生的独奏会和考试做准备；以及与家长沟通出勤情况和总体进度。要求：音乐表演、音乐教育、音乐学或相关领域的学士学位。12 个月的钢琴教学或其他

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音乐相关领域工作经验。接受实习经验。具备教授初级至中级音乐理论与视唱练耳的能力。申请请将简历及职位ID邮寄至：Xiayun, 83-27 Broadway, Flr 2, Elmhurst, NY 11373。

Pinterest, Inc. 招聘纽约市高级数据科学家：进行深度战略分析以回答核心业务及可选问题，包括评估指标变化之间的权衡，评估广告生态系统变化的整体影响。允许远程办公和 / 或远程雇佣。薪资 $226,089 to $287,749. 请通过 Pinterest 职业页面提交简历（请注明注册号 L25-172716）：

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项目总监 - 可持续性与韧性，Thornton Tomaszetti, Inc.，纽约，1970；https: / www.tomazetti.org / 10384562.com ；https: / www.broadway, NY, NY 10271 并注明职位代码 S7D130226AD。

量化研究 [有多个职位空缺] — 纽约州纽约市。负责衍生品保证金模型的研究与开发，包括市场压力校准、历史回测、系统设计及实施。薪资范围：每年 \$205,000 - \$285,000。欲了解详情并申请，请访问 https: / careers.jpmorgan.com 并申请职位编号：210784662。机会均等，反歧视，男女 / 残疾 / 退伍军人，摩根大通（JPMorgan Chase & Co.）。版权所有。

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量化研究员：CTC Trading Inc. (CIT) 正在纽约州纽约市招聘分析师，直接与交易部门合作，将市场过时信息转化为投资组合。允许远程办公。薪资范围：\$200,000-\$250,000；申请请访问 job Spotingtoday.com / 参考编号 = 46677。

研究分析师：NIX Capital LP (NIX) 正在招聘分析师，负责投资组合的股票市场扩张，包括识别和执行新的投资操作及其他投资，包括股票价格目标、来源、评估及执行投资操作。综合研究以制定新投资和 / 或新资产分析及数据，以识别信号、测试假设、产生洞察。研究公司的分析表现或相关领域，且在相关职位或相关领域拥有 3 年经验，包括 3 年对冲基金经验。研究公司的投资分析和研究工作流，在技术分析投资并构建模型方面进行分析；选择并面试前 EE 的催化剂；考虑编写目标的竞争定位，以及研究和财务建模。必须能够将新产品构建到可扩展的数据基础设施和分析工具的构建与维护中；引用并审查公司的财务相关性 / 分析。薪资：\$102,334 / 年。简历请在 1 个月截止日期前发送至 NIX Capital LP (NIX)。

研究分析师（X Corp.；纽约州纽约市）：通过查询数据存储库并生成定期报告，提供财务和市场情报。根据公司政策，允许在美国境内远程办公。参考编号：00101169。薪资：每年 \$129,600 至 \$158,400。请在 https: / job-boards.greenhouse.io / xai / jobs / S208808007 在线申请，或将简历发送至：globalhr@x.ai

重组高级助理，纽约州纽约市，且有潜力在全美范围内前往客户现场出差，时间最高可达 80%。为“债务人”、“贷款人”和“UCC”类型的项目创建推介材料。开发清算分析。创建三表财务模型。在所有类型的项目中执行数据分析。编写并沟通业务状况及其他财务分析。在可计费项目中直接与客户联络。进行市场研究并提交结论。薪资 \$178,402。请将简历发送至 MJ Advisory Partners, LP 的 careers@m3-partners.com

Safeway Inc. 在加利福尼亚州普莱森顿招聘员工软件工程师 / IT 数字营销。远程办公职位。可以在美国境内任何地方工作。实施并支持可扩展的营销系统。福利：医疗、牙科、视力、残疾、人寿保险、病假工资、带薪休假 / 假期、法定节假日、丧假及退休金。必须拥有在美国工作的合法权利。机会均等，薪资 \$168,991-217,140 / 年。简历发送至：

Aftn. B. Verona, Refa 0802PBF. 高级网络安全 合规 / 风险 科学公司 Jane Street 多个空缺 @www.csc.org/ 战略网络安全供应商风险 管理计划，旨在增强公司的 财务框架。要求 3 或 4 年金融、工程、计算机科学或相关专业学士学位 @www.csc.org/ +3 年作为网络安全 GRC 分析师或类似职位的专业责任经验 occult@fi- sinc.com, Inc. & Co., Inc. 包括 2 年应用相关知识的经验

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关键性及可选依赖项；以及 1 年 执行供应商评估的经验 针对住院服务 使用 C++ 和 Python。该职位的所有技术要求 可能需要接受 ERI 行为测试 在经理监督下可能允许远程办公。基本薪资 \$20000-8250000 / 年 基本 其中包括年度酌情奖金，简历发送至 参考编号 SCGRCS26

高级量化研究员

多个 100,000.000.000.000.000 000

Nyc - job - applications@janestreet.com. 参考编号 SQR26

高级软件工程师 Jane Street Group, LLC (纽约州纽约市) 现有多个空缺。20世纪80年代的 Devio 软件是财产交易公司的一项主要基础设施。要求 3 或 4 年学士学位或经验。Systel & Co. (纽约州纽约市) 是一个房地产部门，且在房地产量化领域具有经验 + 2 年任何能够获得房地产开发经验的职业经验。该房地产使用 OCaml 软件，包括利用代数数据类型和模式匹配，将函数式编程应用于房地产。在运营中，基于对 OCaml 运行时行为的理解来优化代码；以及优化设计、优化工具和周期性 QA 流程；1 年使用 Mercarial 区域版本控制经验和 2 年使用 Ogamma、hypeful 软件设计及单子编程（monadic programming）经验；1 年在房地产中快速诊断并解决软件问题的经验。同时具备 Linux 平台编程经验，包括网络编程和其他服务。这是一个关键问题，可能会接受 ER 行为测试以评估最低熟练度。兼职表现不限于我们自己的批准。基本年薪 $300,000。基本年薪仅是 JS 总薪酬的 1 部分，其中包含年度酌情奖金。简历发送至房地产项目是一个免费网络。

Nyc-job-applications@janestreet.com. 参考编号 SSE26

高级分析工程师 - StubHub, Inc. (纽约州纽约市) 招聘，负责设计、实施并增强复杂的财务数据模型和分析流水线，使用编排框架应用先进技术和最佳实践。每周最多允许 2 天远程办公。非远程办公期间，必须前往位于 3 World Trade Center - 175 Greenwich Street, 59th Floor, New York, NY 10007 的 StubHub Inc. 报到。薪资：每年 $200-$250。在线申请地址：https: / jobs.jever.co / StubHub

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高级总监，Technical Integrationists, Inc.，纽约州纽约市。103 / 2017。以下职位：1) 高级总监；2) 成员人员；3) 执行总监；4) 执行官；5) ；6) ；7) ；8) ；9) ；10) ；11) ；12) ；13) ；14) ；15) ；16) ；17) ；18) ；19) ；20) ；21) ；22) ；23) ；24) ；25) ；26) ；27) ；28) ；29) ；30) ；31) ；32) ；33) ；34) ；35)

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高级客户助理，Marsh USA LLC（全职；纽约州纽约市 - 根据公司政策，无论是否持有信用卡，均可能允许混合办公时间表）。发起并协调跨多个司法管辖区的保险安置，包括：伦敦和百慕大，用于大型风险管理。https: / doi.org / 10.1039 / j.1039.com 在美国市场调节。要求：任何领域的学位或同等外国学历 + 7 年美国经验和 2 年美国经验。https: / doi.org / 10.1039 / j.1039.com 经验要求：执行项目和账户管理，针对大型风险管理账户在全球范围内以客户为中心，并有效地执行行政项目。https: / doi.org / 10.1039 / j.1039.com 就全球保险方案和续保提供建议，重点关注北美、欧洲和百慕大市场。最高 25% 的美国卫生部（US Department of Health, Inc.）。https: / doi.org / 10.1039 / j.1039.com 以及不可预见的公司和客户现场。基本年薪范围：\$207,500 - \$328,400 / 年。根据

传真和 / 或专业收入水平逐案确定。该职位还可能有资格获得基于绩效的激励。我们提供广泛的健康和福利保障、学费补助、401K 储蓄、其他退休计划和员工援助计划。https: / doi.org / 10.1039 / j.1039.com global / en 使用关键词 R_362733。机会均等雇主（EOE）

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Squarespace Inc. (纽约州纽约市) 招聘高级软件工程师。构建并扩展支持高度交互式网络及监控产品的服务，包括 3D 视频制作产品。要求拥有计算机科学、计算机工程或相关领域 / 国外同等学历的学士学位，以及 3 年编程经验和 2 年编程经验。必须具备：5 年在 PHP、Java、Python、Go 或其他目标语言中进行多团队、多服务软件开发的经验。我们将创建一款拥有 10k+ 活跃用户的新产品；5 年计算机科学经验，包括数据结构、算法及软件设计流程。为了编写产品代码、实现数据库模式、教练方案及培训工具，并使用 React / 综合 JavaScript 框架开发高质量软件；5 年在跨职能工程团队中协作的经验，包括 3D 视频制作产品及对工程师的指导；5 年设计、构建及运行分布式系统的经验，包括面向服务的设计工具，并创建结果表变更及性能优化。年薪基准 61. 简历发送至

saspapply@squarespace.com，参考编号 YS1。

TD Securities (USA) LLC (纽约州纽约市) 招聘高级专业财务分析师，全职。提供评级交付及专有评级，包括每月、年度及年度计划与初步保险的对比。要求拥有会计、财务或相关领域的学士学位或国外同等学历，以及 5 年金融部门的对比经验。在金融服务行业中使用美国监管标准的特殊或相关职位。或者，雇主将根据合同进行 100% 指数的初步评级：具备美国通用会计准则 (US GAAP) 会计与财务知识，包括资产负债表核对及一般方向计提；金融工具中的跟踪及其他相关投资；数据协议与计提；以及使用 Microsoft Excel 进行财务分析。合格经验必须要求信用卡用于权益工具；以及审查和测试税务或其他监管价格（例如 SOX 404）的合规性评估。公司并非企业高管、董事、执行或经验。可根据公司政策在通勤距离内允许远程办公。薪资：\$298.00 / 年。现任简历发送至 TD.SecuritiesUSAHRadmin@tdsecurities.com。参考编号：TD-928613。

BDO USA, P.C. (纽约州梅尔维尔) 招聘高级审计经理，全职。开发方案以改善客户内部控制及会计程序。要求拥有会计、税务、工商管理、财务、分析或相关领域的硕士学位（或国外同等学历）及 1 年相关经验；或者，雇主将接受拥有会计、税务、工商管理、财务、分析或相关领域的学士学位（或国外同等学历）及 5 年在所提供职位、审计师或相关领域担任渐进式责任职位的经验。必须拥有使用 GAAS、GAAP、SEC 和 PCAOB 的经验，报告风险，政策会计；审查项目盈利能力，包括开票与收款；Microsoft Office 产品，包括构建；以及 https: / www.mcpb.org / 103.com；美国签证审计应用及研究工具。必须拥有 CPA 证书，或具备（由州会计委员会决定）在入职后 24 个月内获得 CPA 的足够教育 / 经验要求或许可。雇主将提供任何必要的支持以使其能够收到副本。薪资：\$150,000-\$185,000 / 年。简历发送至：BDO JobApplications@BDO.com

注明“CY-NY”。机会均等 (EOE)。

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H2M Architects, Engineers, Land Surveying and Landscape Architecture (以 H2M Architects + Engineers 名义经营) 在纽约州纽约市招聘高级项目设计师 1。

与项目中的建筑师、工程师及技术人员协调。培训并指导初级设计师及建筑实习生。管理工作量调度、预算及规划。监控项目财务状况并执行百分比及开票。面试设计师或实习建筑师候选人。与客户确定范围及概念设计。撰写提案的技术章节。为潜在客户创建演示文稿。开发施工文档。

年薪：\$105,040.00。

职位要求：城市规划或相关领域的硕士学位。要求在所提供的职位或项目管理 / 设计方面具有 2 年经验。必须在以下软件的使用方面具有 2 年工作经验（可同时获得）：

*Autodesk Revit, *Autodesk AutoCAD, *Photoshop, *Indesign, 以及 *Sketchun

请在以下网址在线申请

https: / www.h2m.com / careers-main / 也可以通过将简历发送至 Amanda Vardakas, 职位代码 # [2791], H2M Architects + Engineers, 538 Broad Hollow Road, 4th Floor East, Melville, NY 11747 申请。

高级经理，财务风险管理，普华永道 (PricewaterhouseCoopers) 咨询服务有限公司，纽约州纽约市。 支持客户识别、评估和管理风险，同时确保符合监管要求，提供实用指导和战略解决方案。要求具有会计、金融、商业、行政、管理或相关专业的学士学位或同等外国学位，以及 6 年经验。其中至少 5 年必须在获得学士学位后从事渐进的相关工作经验；或者具有会计、金融、商业、行政、管理或相关专业的硕士学位或同等外国学位 + 4 年相关工作经验。允许 50% 远程办公。必须能够通勤至指定的当地办公室。国内和 / 或国际服务的使用率最高可达 75% 是必需的。 有多个职位空缺。薪资范围：\$188,178 - \$210,000 / 年。请通过发送简历至

US_PwC_Career_Recruitment @pwc.com

并在主题行中注明职位代码 NY4989。

高级商业智能架构师（多个职位），美国银行 (US Bank)，新泽西州爱迪生，利用商业智能应用为技术计划做出贡献。这要求 100% 具备公司或应用数据分析经验，以及 3 年计算机系统工程或相关职业经验。必须包括在以下各项中各具有 3 年经验：1. 开发商业智能应用的设计与架构；2. 开发策略并使用主数据管理集成数据；3. 数据管道的 ETL 和 ELT；4. 数据管道的 AnoL 和 BAN；5. AI & AI & & & & & & & & &

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recruiting.excellence@usbank.com，请在邮件主题栏中注明职位需求编号 2026-0016775。 联邦快递公司（Federal Express Corporation）纽约市招聘高级战略销售分析师。在有限的监督下，制定业务战略，对预算、销售业绩、收入、利润率及 / 或其他分析进行相对分析，以支持能为公司投资银行部门创造价值的销售或解决方案战略。请在关键词栏输入职位 ID P25-357443 并按照提示申请。机会均等（EOE M / F / D / V）。薪资范围：\$18,000–\$28,000（年薪 187,000+），除提供具有竞争力的薪资外，我们还提供股票期权、奖金、残疾和人寿保险以及匹配的退休储蓄。该职位要求候选人必须居住在 50 英里半径范围内。该职位为混合办公模式，这意味着员工每周需多次前往办公地点支付更多费用。

汇丰技术与服务（美国）有限公司（HSBC Technology & Services (USA) Inc.）纽约市招聘高级业务经理（PG&C 及法律首席运营官）。为 PG&C 和法律首席运营官提供战略支持。允许最高 50% 的远程办公。要求最高 5% 的国际出差。全职雇佣，周一至周五，每周 40 小时，年薪 \$265,001 至 \$275,001。申请方式：访问 https: / rmvcareer.hsbc.com，需求 ID # 56329。在汇丰，我们的总体目标是为公司提供具有竞争力的总报酬，其中包含适当的固定薪酬和可变薪酬，作为员工整体总薪酬和福利的一部分。可变薪酬通常采取酌情年度奖励（有时被称为“奖金”）的形式。

Shopify（美国）有限公司（Shopify (USA) Inc.）纽约市招聘高级技术项目经理（多个职位）。在信任与平台基础设施领域，与跨职能工程团队共同推动、规划并跟踪高优先级计划。要求：计算机科学、工程、信息技术 / 系统或相关领域的学士学位或同等外国学位，以及 2 年相关工作经验。允许在美国境内任何地点进行最高 100% 的远程办公。基本年薪：\$177,100 - \$209,880。申请方式：将简历发送至 shopify-iigh@shopify.com

并在主题栏注明需求编号 # 304873。 Audible, Inc. 新泽西州纽瓦克招聘高级技术项目经理。与利益相关者和产品经理协作，将报告转化为技术规范，并推动软件开发从设计到部署的执行。该职位固定在纽瓦克，新泽西州的办公室；但可能也允许在家庭办公室远程办公。年薪：\$189,592 - \$201,200。提供标准公司福利。多个职位。在线申请：www.amazon.jobs 职位代码：ADBL176。

纽约市招聘高级股票研究分析师。对上市公司和行业进行深入的基本面研究。要求：金融、经济学或相关领域的学士学位或同等外国学位，以及 7 年金融和经济学经验。年薪范围：\$175,000 至 \$250,000。请向 Samlyn Capital, LLC 行政首席执行官 Rebecca Leifer 申请，地址：500 Park Ave, Floor 2, New York, NY 10022, rleifer@Samlyncapital.com

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高级分析师 —— 由 The Carlyle Group Employee Co LLC（纽约州纽约市）提供。审核多个信用策略的每日现金和头寸对账，以识别差异并确保投资组合记录的准确性，包括及时解决对账差异。年薪 125,000 美元。请将简历发送至 HR3@carlyle.com。参考职位 ID：10238228。

数字化转型高级总监，纽约州纽约市（Six Sigma Academy International, L.L.C）。领导针对保险、金融服务及其他行业客户的咨询项目。使数据计划与业务目标保持一致。允许在当地区域远程办公时间 > 50%。前往美国客户现场的不可预见出差比例最高可达 80%。年薪 270,000 美元。申请地址：https: / ssaandco.com / careers

高级项目运营分析师：Sunrun Inc. 寻求一名高级项目运营分析师在纽约州纽约市办公室工作。可远程办公时间最高可达 50%。要求：计算机科学、信息系统或电子工程学士学位 + 3 年 BI 分析师和 / 或数据分析师经验。年薪：115,835 美元。申请地址：https: / careers.sunrun.com。

软件开发人员：新泽西州费尔菲尔德及多个未分配地点。Microsoft SQL Server 是关键员工，每日技术、访问及 minth tv 应用。开发 1600-1605。Microsoft SQL Server 是一个数据输入工具，数据位于 b / w obs。Ctrl chr cr dr dogs 及数据映射文档。开发 tv 系统测试并在下一季度内完成。Microsoft 是关键职位 #e，Java, Python, Web Services, Angrist, 以及一个 Web 服务团队。Microsoft 是一个 Kubernetes, & Oracle, JOB 软件 & Oracle, & Oracle & Aesos, HTML / CSS / XML / IBM

软件开发工程师 II，Audible, Inc.，新泽西州纽瓦克。使用 Apollo 和 AWS 云服务（Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Functions, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, & Kinesis）设计、开发并维护大规模分布式 5W 应用，同时管理部署流水线和基础设施配置。该职位向新泽西州纽瓦克办公室汇报；但也可允许远程办公。年薪：160,805-213,800 美元。提供公司标准福利。多个职位。在线申请：www.amazon.jobs 职位代码：ADBL190。

软件开发工程师 II，Audible, Inc.，纽约州纽约市。参与使用 Java, Python, C# 或 C++ 及面向对象设计进行嵌入式或分布式软件应用、工具、系统和服务的设计、开发、实现、测试和文档编写。该职位向纽约州纽约市办公室汇报；但也可允许远程办公。年薪：158,100 - 213,800 美元。提供公司标准福利。多个职位。在线申请：www.amazon.jobs 职位代码：ADBL186。

软件开发工程师 III，Audible, Inc.，新泽西州纽瓦克。在整个软件开发生命周期的端到端过程中担任技术负责人，涵盖开发范围、实施、测试、文档编制、交付及维护。该职位向新泽西州纽瓦克办公室汇报；但亦可允许远程办公。薪资：$189,592 - $250,200 / 年；其他收入：$167,439 - $220,000 / year。多个职位。在线申请：www.amazon.jobs 职位代码：ADBL189。

软件开发工程师 II，Audible, Inc.，新泽西州纽瓦克。参与使用 Java, Amazon, Ctr 或其他语言 / 工具的嵌入式或分布式软件应用、工具、系统及服务的设计、开发、实施、测试和文档编制。向新泽西州纽瓦克办公室汇报；但亦可允许远程办公。薪资：$158,100 - $213,800 / 年。提供标准公司福利。多项技术职位：www.amazon.jobs 职位代码：ADBL178。

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软件开发工程师 III，Audible, Inc.，新泽西州纽瓦克。在整个端到端的软件开发生命周期中担任技术负责人，涵盖范围界定、规划、构思、设计、实现、测试，以及文档编制、交付和维护。该职位向新泽西州纽瓦克办公室汇报；但也可允许远程办公。薪资：\$189,592-\$250,200 / 年。提供标准公司福利。多个职位。在线申请：www.amazon.jobs 职位代码：ADBL187。

软件开发工程师 II，Audible, Inc.，新泽西州纽瓦克。参与使用 Java, Python, C#, 或 C++ 以及面向对象设计（Object-Oriented Design）的嵌入式或分布式软件应用、工具、系统和服务的设计、开发、实现、测试和文档编制。该职位向新泽西州纽瓦克办公室汇报；但也可允许远程办公。薪资：\$158,100 - \$213,800 / 年。提供标准公司福利。多个职位。在线申请：www.amazon.jobs 职位代码：ADBL188。

Sport Information Analysis LLC 招聘软件工程师（新泽西州马纳拉潘镇）——设计、开发并维护支持实时体育数据分析和预测服务的后端软件应用。开发并维护 RESTful API 和后端服务，以支持内部系统和平台功能。要求计算机科学或相关专业学士学位。薪资：每年 \$103,210。申请请将简历发送至：info@info.com / informationappolysis.com

info@sportsinformationanalysis.com

统计学：Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC 在新泽西州拉威招聘统计编程副首席科学家，旨在为我们研发部门的全球利益相关者提供高质量的统计编程分析和报告交付物。薪资：\$145,475 - \$224,100 / 年。https: / jobs.merck.com / us / en。参考职位号 R412943。

战略规划与企业发展负责人，Audible, Inc.，新泽西州纽瓦克 & 纽约市。制定统一的战略计划以实现业务目标，通过定量和定性分析识别具体的机遇领域，并制定实现目标的目标和里程碑。允许部分远程办公；员工要求每周最多到岗 3 天。薪资：\$179,088 - \$220,100 / 年。提供标准公司福利。在线申请：www.amazon.jobs 职位代码：ADBL174。

EY-Parthenon - 战略与执行 - 企业与增长战略 - (经理) (多个职位) (1736559)，安永美国有限责任公司 (Ernst & Young U.S. LLP)，纽约州纽约市。为交易生命周期各阶段的客户提供以企业战略为核心的咨询服务。根据客户需求，要求出差比例最高达 40%，其中 5% 可能为国际出差。雇主将接受任何合适的教育、培训或经验组合。年薪 \$205,005.00。如需查看完整的职位描述、要求清单并进行在线申请，请访问：

ey.com / en_us / careers 并点击 “Careers - Job Search”（职业 - 职位搜索）、“See All”（查看全部），然后选择 “Experienced Professionals”（资深专业人士) (职位编号 - 1736559)。

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架构师，花旗银行（Citibank, N.A.，纽约市）北美技术开发与技术解决方案负责人：开发相关计划，包括资金解决方案、无追索权融资、结构化金融服务及机构客户。根据花旗政策，远程办公服务由距离工作地点在通勤范围内的公司开发。该公司拥有 100% 的资源份额，涵盖金融经济学、数学、经济学、物理学和计算机科学。分析师仅在 3 年前担任构建者；量化分析师、助理或相关从事结构化金融服务及首家机构服务的职位。所有人员在销售时均接受投资银行业务；这包括利率衍生品定价、掉期概况分析、CVA、曲线分析及其他金融产品；其中包括带有 \$150,000 的非标准技术条款清单；这包括信用回购交易的价值；领导首创方法的审批流程，引导项目和服务；其中包括在谈判中拥有贸易权限以交付新业务；设计并定价衍生品收益作为收益增强工具；6 年债务发行经验；信用卡发行、追索权及结构化回购偿付方案；信用卡销售工具；信用卡销售；易于上市的证券；设计并执行前景清算解决方案；监管文件；信用卡，美国关于 RWA 结构转录的规则（例如，例如，例如，例如 例如，例如，例如。请访问 https: / jobs.citi.org / 查看职位 ID #2892138。花旗提供的方案可能包括交易活动以及涉及 400,000 股的交易关系；为符合条件的员工提供奖励。花旗还提供关于公民福利的附加信息。© EMD 雇主。技术运营助理 - 1997-1998。位于纽约市，网址为 https: / www.citi.org / 。职责包括：协助关于数据收集、开发、开发及其他保险承保流程的工作流优化。客户角色的信息旨在帮助监控承保绩效指标、确定优化策略并为职能团队（运营、保险科技、IT）提供支持，并主持专业团队会议以确保项目一致性与进度。定价并管理报告以及公司的金融服务管理，确保符合现行的非合并监管条例与标准。跟踪并记录监管修订，维持审计就绪状态、质量保证、底层系统及规则印迹。技术和运营能力以及决策与支持客户参与。执行其他类似的业务实践和需求。要求：必须至少拥有副学士学位或认证，以及 / 或由研究分析师或评估员根据特定标准确定的外国同等学历。必须具有在商业组织中从事 FIT 的大部分先前经验。研究服务是一个主要的中端领域。简历发送至美国各州 / 马萨诸塞州 / 纽约州进行分发。承办方：美国亚马逊开发中心（AMAZON DEVELOPMENT CENTER U.S., INC.）及 AMAZON.COM (http: / www.amazon.com.cn)。https: / www.amazon.com.cn 研究分析师：J.P 研究分析师：J.P 研究分析师：

J.P. 研究分析师：J.P. 研究分析师 ：J.P. 技术人员：亚马逊美国开发中心（AMAZON DEVELOPMENT CENTER U.S., INC.）及亚马逊（AMAZON.COM，网址：http: / www.amazon.com.cn）。https: / www.amazon.com.cn

技术与法律：BOP LLC 及

AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC，亚马逊公司 - 纽约州纽约市。

商业智能工程师 II：通过管理指标报告并进行数学和统计建模以产生业务预测，为高级管理层提供支持。薪资范围：每年 $127,447 至 $185,000。职位编号：AMZ10318168。

首席法律顾问：在重大战略交易中担任负责人，涵盖从条款清单前阶段、尽职调查、起草 / 谈判直至交易完成后的全过程，包括与其他法律团队及业务部门协调任何必要的监管备案。履行岗位职责可能需要高达 25% 的国内和国际出差。薪资范围：每年 $237,999 至 $272,500。职位编号：AMZ10322418。

有多个职位空缺。提供公司标准福利。请在线申请：www.amazon.jobs — 按职位编号搜索。机会均等雇主（EOE）。

技术：AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC，一家亚马逊公司 - 纽约州纽约市。设计技术专家 II：负责某个功能或计划的端到端原型设计，将想法从探索阶段转化为驱动产品决策的交互式演示。履行岗位职责可能需要高达 25% 的国内和 / 或国际出差。薪资范围：每年 $145,000 至 $196,100。职位编号：AMZ9802831。有多个职位空缺。提供公司标准福利。请在线申请：www.amazon.jobs - 按职位编号搜索。机会均等雇主（EOE）。

技术：AMAZON ADVERTISING LLC，一家亚马逊公司 - 纽约州纽约市。软件开发工程师 III：领导在 AWS 云环境中使用 Microsoft SQL Server 的大规模分布式数据库系统的架构与设计。薪资范围：每年 $184,900 至 $250,200。职位编号：AMZ10119675。有多个职位空缺。提供公司标准福利。请在线申请：www.amazon.jobs — 按职位编号搜索。机会均等雇主（EOE）。

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技术类：AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC.（Amazon.com旗下公司）- 新泽西州泽西市。专业服务 II：与 AWS 现场销售、售前、培训及支持团队协作，在 AWS 技术云计算的关键项目中为客户和合作伙伴提供帮助。薪资范围：每年 \$144,500 至 \$195,400。职位编号：AMZ10237589。有多个职位空缺。提供公司标准福利。请在 www..jobs 在线申请——通过职位编号搜索。机会均等（EOE）。

技术类：.COM SERVICES LLC（.com旗下公司）- 纽约州纽约市。数据工程师 II：为商业智能分析设计、开发、实施、测试、记录并运行大规模、高容量、高性能的数据结构。薪资范围：每年 \$158,436 至 \$196,600。职位编号：AM29956938。有多个职位空缺。提供公司标准福利。请在 www..jobs 在线申请——通过职位编号搜索。机会均等（EOE）。

技术类： ADVERTISING LLC（.com旗下公司）- 纽约州纽约市。技术产品管理负责人：定义战略愿景，掌控长期路线图，并驱动团队执行该愿景。薪资范围：每年 \$197,900 至 \$267,800。职位编号：AMZ9971316。有多个职位空缺。提供公司标准福利。请在 www..jobs 在线申请——通过职位编号搜索。机会均等（EOE）。

技术风险与控制（有多个职位空缺）- 新泽西州泽西市。开发并实施技术风险管理策略、政策和流程，以识别、评估和减轻风险。薪资范围：每年 \$177,500 - \$200,000。有关要求及申请方式，请访问 http: / www.ispress.com

并申请职位编号：210779050。机会均等（EOE），少数族裔就业机会均等（AAE），男女 / 残疾 / 退伍军人机会均等（M / F / D / V）。摩根大通（JPMorgan Chase & Co.） 保留所有权利。

www.jpmorganchase.com 我们提供具有竞争力的综合奖励方案，包括根据岗位、经验和薪酬确定的基本工资。我们还为符合条件的岗位提供酌情激励薪酬，以表彰个人成就和贡献。我们还根据资格提供一系列福利和计划以满足员工需求。这些福利包括公司特定政策、社交、现场健康与健身中心、退休储蓄计划、备用儿童看护、学费报销、心理健康支持、财务指导等。关于综合薪酬和福利的更多详情将由公司的招聘流程提供。此外，请访问：

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TT Commerce & Global Services LLC，项目经理（多个职位），纽约州纽约市。利用数据分析、建模及 / 或其他优化方法，为内部 CRM 平台制定并实施治理政策和运营框架。需要进行最多 15% 的国内和国际出差。年薪：\$120973 - \$168000。请在 lifeattiktok.com 申请并查看提供的福利，搜索职位 ID A197767A。如申请困难，请发送电子邮件至 lpresumesttc@tiktok.com。

TT Commerce & Global Services LLC，数据解决方案分析师（多个职位），纽约州纽约市。设计、开发并实施数据模型与技术，并将原始数据转化为洞察和建议，以影响业务决策和战略。需要进行最多 5% 的国内出差。年薪：\$115835 - \$151200。请在 lifeattiktok.com 申请并查看提供的福利，搜索职位 ID A215540。如申请困难，请发送电子邮件至 lpresumesttc@tiktok.com。

TT Commerce & Global Services LLC，战略助理（多个职位），纽约州纽约市。开发可扩展的分析解决方案，为合作伙伴提供关键业务洞察，并为货币化产品生态系统的战略计划提供信息。需要进行最多 10% 的国内和国际出差。年薪：\$112819 - \$151200。请在 lifeattikTok.com 申请并查看提供的福利，搜索职位 ID A163828。如申请困难，请发送电子邮件至 lpresumesttc@tiktok.com。

Twitch Interactive, Inc. 正在纽约州纽约市招聘以下人员（有多个职位空缺）。 申请地址：https: / www.amazon.jobs / en / referencing.job ID AMZ27592.1：

技术业务开发人员 III（职位 ID：ANZ27592.1）。参与中级客户会议，讨论客户的业务问题，并探讨新的云服务如何帮助应对和解决这些问题。建立衡量和跟踪与服务应用相关指标的方法，并根据这些衡量结果改进方法。该职位在纽约市的底薪范围为 USD \$182208 - \$202000（年薪）。薪资基于市场地点，并可能用于管理服务价格，以及根据优势、技能和经验而定。除了全面的医疗、财务或其他福利外，签约奖金和受限股票单位可能作为薪酬方案的一部分提供。如果您对任何其他方式不感兴趣，申请人应通过亚马逊内部或外部职业网站申请。

United Parcel Service General Services Co. 在新泽西州帕西帕尼有以下职位空缺。

*高级软件开发工程师（需求编号 L24-149655）：应用软件工程原理来设计、开发、维护、测试和评估提供业务能力、解决方案和产品套件的计算机软件。100% 的工作在位于新泽西州帕西帕尼的 UPS 办公室部分时间执行。要求：硕士（或同等学历）+ 1 年经验。年薪：\$311,997 - \$191,700。 *高级软件开发工程师（需求编号 L24-149658）：指导组件和数据架构设计，为 100% 的开发计划提供技术和设计服务，以满足业务需求并确保合规。可以选择部分时间远程办公。在新泽西州帕西帕尼的 UPS 办公室混合办公。要求：硕士（或同等学历）+ 5 年经验。年薪：\$189,592 - \$191,700。 *高级软件开发工程师（需求编号 L24-149667）：提供福利。请将附有参考资料的简历提交至：（请注明需求编号）ATTN:UPS。

UPSONLINEJOBPOSTINGS@ups.com

M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates, Inc. 招聘城市规划师（全职，多个空缺），在纽约州纽约市工作，旨在针对广泛的大规模项目开发强大、创意且创新的设计概念，包括混合用途开发、办公和高等教育校园、住宅社区的规划与设计，以及公共领域规划和城市交通概念与系统。底薪范围为 \$85,800.00 至 \$86,000.00。将提供标准福利，且员工将有资格获得奖金。可能适用偶然电信。机会均等（EOE）。申请请访问：

https: / gensler.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com / genslercareers / job / New-York-NY-US / Urban-Planner_R-17413

US Beverage Packers 招聘新泽西州 Keasbey 的高级控制系统工程师：设计并实施使用 RSLogix 500、Studio 5000 的 PLC 编程策略。福利：401(k)、医疗 / 牙科 / 视力保险、带薪休假 (PTO)、短期和长期残疾保险、灵活支出账户 (FSA)、通勤福利、终身寿险、自愿寿险、意外险、特定疾病和住院补偿险，以及 LegalEASE 法律援助计划。年薪 \$110,000.02 - \$120,000.。申请请访问

www.jobpostingtoday.com 参考号 68869

Verition Group LLC 招聘纽约市的一名开发人员，负责为国库操作设计并实施业务模型，集成系统，并维护纯净代码核心及技术文档。要求在纽约市拥有学士学位，且为一名在金融领域具有相对负责任的大规模低密度实时合约测试组件经验的员工；开发包括 SLA 警报，并维护高保真技术文档，包括 SW Arth & Co., Inc. 和 S.AL 报告以及新账簿。提供薪资：\$179,461。申请请将简历邮寄至 Leslie Solario Gonzalez, Verizon Group LLC, Attn. D. 2003。该公司是一家注册公司。NYBR 现有一个副总裁——业务发展与控制职位。纽约分行位于纽约市，是一个拥有自有子公司的主要业务中心，并根据研究团队和经纪交易商监督活动维护相关的实验室数据。该公司是一家通用分行，负责掉期交易员员工活动（例如：交易、通信、内部关系等），以及根据其运行状态对公司运营采取的其他相关行动方案。该公司拥有员工，以及一年内公司运营的其他相关考量。允许最高 40% 的远程办公。申请方式：请发送收入至电子邮件 https: / www.frm.com.recruiters@robanbank.com 咨询联系信息和 CEOE。

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高盛公司（Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC）在纽约、新泽西及其海外业务部门招聘销售副总裁，负责开发新客户及维护现有客户，涉及宏观产品或证券、结构化产品及回购协议的相关服务。作为固定收益、货币及其他所得税的一部分，(a) 10% 国际服务及日本销售业务涉及亚太地区、亚太、大洋洲的全球投资以及亚洲本地市场的其他产品。针对外国公司的产品尚未购买，因此要求 90% 具备日语能力并能在日本进行交易电话沟通。公司成员可来自任何原产国，要求：在日本拥有硕士学位（美国或外国同等学历）；在日本拥有硕士学位（美国或外国同等学历）；要求：拥有硕士学位（美国或外国同等学历）以及 3 年在所提供职位或与美国贸易相关（或外国同等学历）的工作经验；要求：在日本拥有硕士学位（美国或外国同等学历）；经济学、国际研究或相关领域，以及 5 年在所提供职位或与美国贸易相关（或外国同等学历）的工作经验；要求：在日本拥有硕士学位（美国或外国同等学历）；CS 618。日语流利，以便与占美国或外国同等学历 90% 的客户群进行沟通。公司还需前往日本拜访客户。职位代码：10-12-2000, 10-12-2001, 10-12-2002, 10-12-2003, 10-12-2004, 10-12-2005, 10-12-2006, 10-12-2007, 10-12-2008, 10-12-2009, 10-12-2010, 10-12-2011, 10-12-2012, 10-12-2013, 10-12-2014, 10-12-2015, 10-12-2016, 10-12-2017, 10-12-2018, 10-12-2019, 10-12-2020, 10-12-2021, 10-12-2022, 10-12-2023, 10-12-2024,

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BNRE US Services LLC（纽约州纽约市）招聘一名副总裁，负责领导资产管理部门的开发和 / 或其支持新保险业务、年金第三方再保险、第二方收入、第一方收入及第一方 M5（美国或外国同等学历）的投资组合。要求拥有工商管理、金融、经济或相关领域的硕士学位（美国或外国同等学历）以及 Z 年 100%（总额的 100%）经验（美国或外国同等学历），专业为工商管理、金融、经济或相关领域，以及 Z 年 100%（总额的 100%）经验（美国或外国同等学历），负责未来保险支付并建议有助于实现新财务计划的投资分配。该计划旨在为新保险业务提供支持，包括预期投资收益、所需资本、定价回报及关键薪酬成本，且驱动因素和保险资本监管的风险可能要求每股支付超过 \$100；收入与盈利能力；审查并评估私人投资机会是否适合保险覆盖。该计划旨在提供概况、资本使用情况及投资组合需求；与精算、财务、应计项目及其他服务部门协调。新投资假设用于程序、估值、报告及管理视图；准备并重新品牌化新投资。新投资总结利润建议、假设、风险（RSKS）、预期回报及其他服务。新投资业务程序和资产配置流程，包括现代框架、时间表及质量标准。S4。新投资已由 Taylor leonhardt@brookfield.com 发布。

副总裁：股票衍生品结构化，就职于法国巴黎银行证券（BNP Paribas Securities）（IIP）及纽约市。分析师为：新价格高效指数。职位要求：拥有美国股票指数硕士学位（美国或同等学历），其价格 100% 从自身价格上涨至每股 $500。估值为 $2500，且拥有股票衍生品结构化或奇异交易（Exotics Trdg）相关经验。必须具备 3 年公司（随机）波动率补偿经验。美国蒙特卡罗模拟、槽位分析；Quari & Symtistic Materials Inc. 专长于股票衍生品结构化产品；能够清晰且高效地处理，以便为结构化产品和保险深度知识支付溢价。FINRA 证书：STE, Series 7, SIC, , , , , , ,

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副总裁，信贷 @ TD Securities (USA) LLC（纽约市）全职 - 领导并管理 crate & levog rod & invigmt & invigmt & & & & invignt & & invigm t & invig mt & & invig mt & invigm & & & & & invig m& 拥有 2 年经验。全职经验必须包括：Crat 及财务分析技术，包括“出于买入或卖出兴趣”这一术语，以及涉及直接管理和债券尽职调查的交易关系 & 客户分级与公司对比 & 在 btrrde 介绍中；中国；中国；中国 ；中国；中国；Chngltda 提供建议；分析季度限制以维持贷款人工制品用于

年度最后一周的销售，包括到期和 vivlunts，以及现金 ffw 制作和 revimp 预测；体育投资，包括股票市场（仅限于债券、过桥贷款、衍生品设施和 trang lins, s.）；使用 Capital IQ 平台和基金管理，包括股票市场（仅限于可信的教育者社区、trOmega 或经验）。最高 25% 国内 + 国际差旅要求，至该期限 100% 的 1亿美元 债务。该期限不仅在通勤差异呈现于公司 clvc 时可能获利。薪资率：$200-$225-$230, 将简历发送至 ：$200-$225-$230, 发送简历至：$200-$225-$230, 发送简历至：$200-$225-$230 发送简历至：$200-$225-$23

Moelis & Company Group LP 现招聘一名投资银行副总裁（VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENT BANKING），工作地点为纽约州纽约市。要求：拥有工商管理、经济学、金融学硕士学位。会计学或相关专业，且在私募股权、二级市场或投资银行行业拥有 3 年财务管理或相关分析经验。（替代方案：学士学位 + 5 年经验）。需持有 Series 7 和 63 执照。该职位的预期年薪为 $250,000。基本工资基于市场地点，并可能根据经验、技能、教育及其他与工作相关的原因而有所不同。请将简历提交至：www.moelis.com / careers 并按照提示在线申请 / 提交简历。

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TD Securities (USA) LLC (纽约州纽约市) 招聘技术解决方案副总裁 (Vice President, Technology Solutions) 全职：-开发软件应用，将定价和风险模型整合至电子交易 工程师。100000000000000000000 0

参考编号：TD-9746170。

Virtu Financial Operating 招聘一名软件开发人员 (SD-CMK)，工作地点在纽约州纽约市。负责开发高频交易 (HFT) 系统、金融数据分析工具及全栈开发。要求：硕士学位及 2 年相关经验，或学士学位及 5 年编程相关经验。年薪 193,461 美元 - 208,461 美元。请将简历发送至 HR@virtu.com。邮件主题必须注明职位名称及代码 SD-CMK。

VM Consolidated, Inc（以 Verra Mobility 名义经营）招聘一名高级软件开发人员（商业服务），工作地点在纽约州纽约市，负责开发、验证和维护使用微软技术及关系型 / 非关系型数据库编写的大型企业级应用程序。在拟定就业区域内允许每周最多 3 天远程办公。年薪：189,592 - 224,640 美元。基本工资可能根据相关经验、技能、地理位置及业务需求而有所不同。请将简历发送至

VerraMobilityRecruiting@verramobility.com。

参考编号 #RS0625

BofA Securities, Inc. 招聘一名量化金融分析副总裁 (VP)，负责增强定价和风险模型，以纳入新市场或其他金融产品。对当前市场、趋势和交易策略进行共同量化分析。在可通勤至工作地点的距离内可能允许远程办公。要求：硕士或同等学历及 3 年经验。领域：金融与市场。共同构建量化模型以分析市场行为、预测趋势并评估经济情景；应用统计和计量经济学技术解决复杂问题、验证假设并支持风险管理。年薪：200,000 美元 - 225,000 美元。工作地点：纽约州纽约市。职位编号 #26031121。有意者请在 www.bankofamerica.com / careers 在线申请，或将简历发送至 https: / bobbbs.org / acs.com 并注明职位名称及申请编号。请勿致电。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。

运营副总裁 (VP of Operations)（Maia Management, LLC；纽约州纽约市 *可从任何地点远程办公*）。工作职责：确保公司运营的整体有效性，改进运营系统和业务流程以支持组织使命。确定、制定并执行最可行的政策和业务战略，提供旨在最大化财务绩效、降低成本并完成董事会设定目标的指导。每年国内和国际出差比例最高为 15%，包括在纽约市总部参加会议。请将简历发送至 mainagement@maiamf.com 并注明 VPO2601。薪资为 241,238 美元。

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AUBREY TRINNAMAN 为《纽约时报》拍摄 近日在加利福尼亚州皮兹堡（Pittsburg, Calif.）一场反对计划建设的数据中心集会上的年轻人。

青少年挑战数据中心

许多年轻人担心计算设施带来的健康风险和成本。

作者：CALLIE HOLTERMANN

几年前，当塞迪·西斯内罗斯（Sadie Cisneros）第一次听说 ChatGPT 时，她认为它是无害的。和许多其他高中生一样，17 岁的西斯内罗斯开始经常将这个聊天机器人作为搜索引擎和学习辅助工具。

随后，她在朋友的 Instagram 动态中看到了令人不安的消息。一座占地 300,000 平方英尺的数据中心——这种为人工智能技术提供动力的庞大且嗡嗡作响的设施——计划建在加利福尼亚州皮兹堡她的社区附近，该地位于湾区东缘。

随着对该项目的深入了解，她开始担心其耗水量以及可能加剧该地区空气污染的风险。她担心数据中心持续不断的噪音会干扰到距离拟建地点不到半英里的一所中学的学生。

于是，她写下了自己的反对意见，并在上个月的一次皮兹堡市议会会议上发表了三分钟的演讲——这是她第一次真正接触公民参与。

“我当时染着粉色的头发，穿着像个典型的青少年，”她在上个月的一次采访中说道，“我想他们没料到我真的会提出一些正在发生的实际问题。”

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这种颜色看起来可能很轻盈，但它包含着丰富内涵。

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震撼粉是其政治品牌的不可或缺之部分

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MIKE STEWART / ASSOCIATED PRESS 上方：安吉·尼克松（Angie Nixon）在8月的一次教堂礼拜活动中。粉色在其政治生涯中扮演了重要角色，无论是在佛罗里达州众议院（远景左侧），还是在竞选活动中（左侧）。这种颜色具有一种简写式的象征意义，被用于像2017年女性大游行（Women's March）这样的事业（见上方）。

竞选美国参议员的佛罗里达州众议员安吉·尼克松拥有一种标志性的色调。

在上周佛罗里达州民主党参议员初选中，州众议员安吉·尼克松决定性地击败了亚历山大·温德曼（Alexander Vindman）。此后出现了大量的赛后分析与剖析——在所有关于这对进步主义者和民主社会主义者意味着什么，以及它可能反映出这个“阳光之州”以及国家政治现状的沉思中——有一个因素很少被提及。那就是粉色。

并非任何普通的粉色：而是一种格外亮眼的色调，有时被称为紫红色（fuchsia），有时被称为亮粉色（hot pink），但实际上最接近于埃尔莎·夏帕瑞丽（Elsa Schiaparelli）将其命名为“震撼粉”（shocking pink）的那种颜色。（考虑到人们对尼克松获胜的反应，这个命名极其恰当。）

虽然在激烈的政治竞争中，这似乎是一个几乎无关紧要的细节，但它在尼克松的竞选活动中发挥了非常真实的作用——甚至可能促成了她的胜利。随着她准备迎接11月的普选，思考其作用方式是值得的。

自2020年首次竞选公职以来，尼克松一直穿着粉色，但这种颜色在全国意识中与她画上等号是在4月下旬，当时她身着一件紫红色连体裤，拿着一个亮粉色扩音器走在州议会大厦的地板上，抗议佛罗里达州的选区划分不公。尽管有些人将其斥为噱头，但这张照片极具冲击力，以至于它几乎成了尼克松政治主张——以及她挑战建制派意愿的简写符号。从那时起，这基本上成了一场“粉色马拉松”。

尼克松的竞选巴士？震撼粉。她的草坪标牌和车贴？震撼粉。她的运动鞋？Skechers（亮粉色）。在一段“穿搭检查”视频中，她穿着的夹克和衬衫也是亮粉色和震撼粉。此前，她的对手之妻瑞秋·温德曼（Rachel Vindman）似乎暗示尼克松的衣服不够“专业”，这一评论引发了如此巨大的抵制，以至于温德曼最终将其删除并道歉。（尼克松指出，这两件衣服均来自Goodwill二手店，价格分别为$6.99和$4.99）。

事实证明，抱怨“专业性”完全没抓到重点。通过在整个竞选期间如此一致地穿着粉色，人们在想到这种颜色时，不可能不想到尼克松。

这本质上是一种巴甫洛夫式的政治策略，导致她的支持者被敦促在投票时“穿粉色前往投票站”，以便向所有人宣告他们的支持。州众议员特拉瓦里斯·麦考迪（Travaris McCurdy）在Instagram上宣布8月18日为“全国‘为@angieforfl穿粉色’日”。

在社交媒体时代，在资金成为问题且对手拥有显著更多战争基金的选举中，这是一种低成本、高回报的方法。

至于为什么在所有可能的颜色中选择了粉色，尼克松说：“我一直喜欢粉色带给我的感觉：明亮、充满希望且快乐。”

尽管她的竞选经理尤妮克·埃普斯坦-奥尔蒂斯（Eunic Epstein-Ortiz）补充说，竞选团队正式采用这种颜色并非基于任何市场研究、民意调查或政治计算，但它毫无疑问地服务于一个政治目的。毕竟，粉色是一种承载了特别深厚含义的颜色。它看起来可能轻飘飘的，但它包含着多元的意义。很多人能产生共鸣。

在现代的性别刻板印象中，粉色是少女时代的颜色。在色彩心理学中，它代表柔软、同情，而在更浓烈的形式中，则代表激情与大胆。粉色玫瑰代表感激与欢欣。粉色丝带代表乳腺癌防治。粉色也曾是一种与同性恋和女权主义事业相关的抗议形式。

粉色最近一次大规模出现在政治场合是在2025年的国情咨文发表会上，当时新墨西哥州众议员特蕾莎·莱格·费尔南德斯（Teresa Leger Fernández）敦促她的女性议员同事们穿着这个色调，以代表她所谓的“女性力量”以及她们掌控自己身体的权利。

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此前，众议员南希·佩洛西（Nancy Pelosi）曾尖锐地运用粉色：她在2019年就任众议院议长宣誓就职时选择了一件洋红色连衣裙，在委员会主席照片中则穿着一套亮粉色西装。这两套服装在周围深色西装的海洋中犹如灯塔般醒目，将所有目光引向她的女性特质及其权力地位，并将其载入史册。而这又追溯到2017年女性大游行（Women's March）时的粉色“小猫帽”，那是作为对特朗普总统当选的一种反击而选择的。

尼克松可能并未依赖于上述任何一种关联，但她显然理解这种策略。事实上，尼克松并非第一个意识到为自己创建视觉速记符号的政治弱势者，尤其是当这种符号能够利用一个既有且被广泛理解（尽管在很大程度上未被明确表达）的价值体系时，它便成了一种有效的品牌塑造工具。

这与阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（Abdul El-Sayed）在赢得密歇根州民主党参议院初选期间所使用的剧本相同，尽管他的颜色是黑色，并且他将自己的标志性造型——黑色V领T恤和牛仔裤——使其在竞选主张中占据了更核心的地位。在某种程度上，这是希拉里·克林顿（Hillary Clinton）在接受民主党总统提名时穿着选举权支持者标志性的白色服装这一策略的下一次演变，从而开启了一场时断时续的服饰政治运动。

尽管尼克松从未像埃尔-赛义德对待自己的造型那样，将她对粉色的使用变成一个讨论话题，但她确实在一次Facebook帖子中专门探讨了“有点时髦”（kinda chic）这个概念。

“为了捍卫投票权和公平选区图而关闭佛罗里达州立法机关，有点时髦，”她在自己穿着（没错）标志性粉色造型并拿着扩音器的照片上这样写道。“为劳动家庭而战，而不是为亿万富翁捐赠者而战，有点时髦，”她在自己穿着一件洋红色挂脖上衣的照片上写道。以此类推。

最终，埃普斯坦-奥尔蒂斯（Epstein-Ortiz）表示，尼克松对粉色的使用是对“标准政治竞选中标准的红、白、蓝”——或者至少是对标准特朗普政治竞选——的一种回应——“因为这不是一场标准的政治竞选”。她接着说，毫无疑问，这将继续成为尼克松方法的一部分。考虑到结果，这很可能也会成为其他候选人方法的一部分。

穿着紧身胸衣自在从容的时尚先驱

蒂姆·卡里在《摇滚恐怖画展》中饰演的异装疯狂科学家超越了那个时代。

作者：盖伊·特雷贝（GUY TREBAY）

是否曾有男人穿起紧身胸衣和吊袜带比蒂姆·卡里（Tim Curry）更迷人？是否还有其他人比他更致力于将中性风推向主流？

在音乐喜剧《摇滚恐怖画展》（The Rocky Horror Picture Show）中，卡里饰演的异装疯狂科学家的表演如此深入人心，其诸多元素已被文化所吸收，以至于人们很难记得这个角色在 20 世纪 70 年代中期显得多么具有颠覆性。

在西尔维斯特·史泰龙、罗伯特·雷德福和伯特·雷诺兹统治票房的那个年代，一个模糊性别界限的主角拥有令人震惊的力量。

诚然，大众娱乐领域此前也出现过类似情况，例如 20 世纪初主要饰演女性角色的朱利安·埃尔廷格（Julian Eltinge）等如今已被遗忘的百老汇明星。

然而，卡里饰演的角色——来自特兰西瓦尼亚星系（galaxy Transylvania）中跨性别星球（planet Transsexual）的弗兰克-N-弗特博士（Dr. Frank-N-Furter）——是一种全新的存在。他处于一个模糊地带，在那里，性取向是流动的，口红几乎不构成男性气概的障碍，而性别拒绝被固定。

这位周二去世、享年 80 岁的英国演员卡里，在舞台和银幕上都塑造了弗兰克-N-弗特博士。与之前许多主要为了制造笑料而扮演异装角色的演员不同，卡里穿着紧身胸衣、鱼网袜和高跟鞋时显得完全自在。

为什么不呢？正如他曾在一次采访中所说，来自跨性别星球的所有人都那样打扮。因此，如果穿着这身行头时向观众眨眼示意，反而违背了角色设定。

人们告诉这位演员，他帮助他们“认清了自己的性取向”。

卡里将这个角色归功于给人们提供了一个“认清自己性取向”的机会。

在接受国家公共广播电台（National Public Radio）特里·格罗斯（Terry Gross）的采访时，他表示：“我认为在这方面它起到了有益的作用。我也确实收到过一些非常有趣且令人感动的信件，人们在信中说，谢谢你帮我认清了我是谁。”

这种大胆的表演成为了他职业生涯的标志，而他的演艺生涯似乎既汲取了英国传统剧团（panto shows）的养分，也经过了经典的英国戏剧训练。卡里始终用坎普风（camp）来抵消严肃感。他能将挑眉和心领神会的旁白演绎成一种高级艺术。

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在 1976 年的一部迷你剧中，他饰演一名年轻的莎士比亚；在《雾都孤儿》中，他饰演恶魔般的比尔·赛克斯（Bill Sikes）；在《安妮》（Annie）中，他成为了抢戏的合作演员卡罗尔·伯内特（Carol Burnett）和伯纳黛特·彼得斯（Bernadette Peters）的绝佳陪衬。他也能演绎恐怖角色，在斯蒂芬·金作品《它》（It）的电视版中饰演一名杀手小丑。

在 1988 年一部被忽视的电影《传递弹药》（Pass the Ammo）中，他饰演一名福音派传教士，得到了《纽约客》严苛评论家波琳·凯尔（Pauline Kael）的高度赞赏。她在评论中写道，“他眼下的眼袋鼓起，那卷曲且带有酒窝的微笑如此妖异地肮脏，仿佛他被地狱之火照亮一般。”

当卡里同意饰演弗兰克-N-弗特博士时，他原以为这个角色会像弗兰肯斯坦博士那样，是一个穿着白色实验袍、说着德语口音的精神失常的科学家。

得益于苏·布莱恩（Sue Blane）设计的服装以及在伦敦公交车上的一次偶然相遇，这个角色在他心中逐渐成型。卡里以演员的敏锐观察着周围的乘客，他很愉快地偷听了两名女性用一种上流社会的腔调交谈。

有了这套服装和模仿上层社会的措辞，他立刻知道该怎么做了。现在人们想起他时，脑海中浮现的正是那种低沉的低语——在《摇滚恐怖画展》中，他全身涂满油彩，在关闭旧式笼式电梯门时，露出一个诱人的撇嘴表情。

“来吧，”他说，“地板秀准备开始了。”

一家几乎与美国同龄的杂货店

摄影：JILLIAN FREYER 为《纽约时报》拍摄

马萨诸塞州 Davoll's 店的店主渴望回归另一个 era 的零售世界。

作者：STEVEN KURUTZ

马萨诸塞州，南达特茅斯 —— Davoll's 杂货店在乔治·华盛顿的第二个总统任期内开业。它的历史如此悠久，以至于 20 世纪 40 年代的报纸文章就曾赞美其具有“往昔岁月的氛围”。

Davoll's 位于当地的一个十字路口，销售从园艺锄头到当地蜂蜜的所有商品，店后还设有一家咖啡馆。

自 1793 年以来，这家店先后由 13 位店主经营。目前的业主是沙特克兄弟：42 岁的本（Ben）和 44 岁的威尔（Will）。

本·沙特克是一名作家，一年中的大部分时间与他的妻子——演员、喜剧演员兼作家珍妮·斯莱特（Jenny Slate）以及他们 5 岁的女儿住在布鲁克林。但他对这家店的所有权是名副其实的。他在沿海农业社区南达特茅斯长大，其家族与该地区的联系可追溯到五代之前。沙特克和斯莱特在夏季会住在那里，住在一座由他的曾祖父设计的改造舞厅里。

经营一家杂货店所需的技能与他作为作家时所使用的完全不同。当厨师在夏季结束时离职，而你需要寻找替代者时，你不能沉溺于灵感或忙于推广自己的作品。

在最近的一天，沙特克的两个角色几乎发生了碰撞。

下午，他正弯腰在杂货店的洗手间里，试图修理一个损坏的冲水阀。不久之后，他站在附近纽贝德福一个座无虚席的场馆前，参加他根据 2024 年出版的短篇小说集改编的电影《声音的历史》（The History of Sound）的放映会。随后，该片的一位主演克里斯·库珀（Chris Cooper）加入了他的对话。

沙特克对这家店的记忆可以追溯到他被那些分装在桶里的廉价糖果吸引的时候。“我成长期间，这家店由格伦农夫妇经营，”他说道，指的是当地的一位眼科医生及其妻子。“我不知道当时的店主是怎么维持经营的。我想是因为那时还没有网上购物。”

他的母亲德迪·沙特克（Dedee Shattuck）记得很久以前，Davoll's 曾有一个步入式冰柜，里面挂满了整块的牛肉。“我妈妈会订购三英寸厚的牛排，然后我爸爸会在我们路尽头农场的烤架上烹饪，”德迪说。“我们那辆旧旅行车会在外面怠速运转，50 磅重的谷物袋会被扔进后备箱用来喂鸡。我还能记得那种粗麻布和谷物的味道。”

近年来，长期以来作为美国农村生命线的杂货店经历了一次复兴 —— 同时伴随着高端化。

在卡茨基尔山脉、缅因州沿海和纳什维尔等地，那些储备了有机农产品和手工制品的现代版杂货店生意兴隆。去年，明迪·格雷（Mindy Gray）接管了汉普顿的萨加波纳克杂货店（Sagaponack General Store），她嫁给了投资公司黑石（Blackstone）的亿万富翁总裁乔纳森·格雷（Jonathan Gray）。她在店里售卖查尔斯顿咀嚼糖、走地鸡、售价 $159 的连帽衫和一套 $300 的鸡尾酒套装。

这种吸引力很简单：杂货店提供了对往昔 era 的怀旧感，并为社交媒体提供了极具吸引力的背景。

沙特克似乎对这种复古潮流不感兴趣。但他怀念人们将可支配收入花在镇上，而不是花在网上或企业连锁店的那些日子。

“资本主义的利齿撕碎了小企业，”他说。“取而代之的是麦当劳、家得宝、邓肯。而这些曾经都融合在一种被称为‘杂货店’的美好事物之中。”

“并不是说新英格兰的杂货

店过时了，”他继续说道。“它是永恒的。”

“闲逛与逗留”

在很长一段时间里，Davoll's 是附近农民获取物资的来源。老人们坐在门廊上嚼着烟草，下着跳棋。一名裁缝在二楼工作。这家店还设有邮局。

“Davoll's 总是关注的焦点，”在南达特茅斯长大、现住在对面一座 19 世纪农舍里的简·塔克曼（Jane Tuckerman）说道。

如今，大型奶牛场几乎消失殆尽，这里变成了一种充满艺术气息的农业地带，周五晚上人们会聚集在一起，听一场关于传家宝种子的讲座。

许多低调富有的房主没有将土地卖给开发商，而是尝试通过向土地信托捐赠大片土地来保留该地区的乡村特色，就像夏塔克（Shattuck）的祖母和姑婆在 1978 年所做的那样，从而创建了劳埃德环境中心（Lloyd Center for the Environment）。

夏塔克经营的 Davoll's 体现了当下的时代与地域特征。它销售玻璃瓶装水，而非塑料瓶。牛肉是草饲的，来自路尽头的乔丹农场（Jordan Farm）。在这里，你找不到在卡车停靠站（或者说在旧时的 Davoll's）能见到的加工零食或高果糖苏打水。但它的定价并未脱离当地经济。你可以花 10 美元买一束鲜花，花 20 美元买一份餐食。

顾客群体由当地居民、在巴泽兹湾（Buzzards Bay）沿岸拥有房产的周末度假者以及游客组成。在最近的一个周五午餐时间前后，泥土停车场停满了车。夏塔克在店内的收银台旁，一名白发男子手里拿着三明治，轻快地走过。

“嘿，爸，”夏塔克说。

这名男子是他的父亲比尔·夏塔克（Bill Shattuck），一名在附近设有工作室的风景画家。儿子盯着那个三明治。“你付钱了吗？”

父亲告诉他记在账单上。

在新冠疫情期间，夏塔克和斯莱特（Slate）住在乡村的夏塔克家中。有一天，他在与当时拥有 Davoll's 的夫妇吉姆·舒纳德（Jim Chouinard）和金·阿鲁达（Kim Arruda）交谈时，感叹缺乏社交聚集空间。他们建议他提出收购报价。（夏塔克拒绝透露他购买这家店的价格。）

舒纳德和阿鲁达此前已采取许多措施让这里步入 21 世纪，包括增设咖啡馆。夏塔克保留了餐厅并获得了酒类销售许可证。他扩大了原本规模较小的当地历史书籍选集，在 Davoll's 中心创建了一家书店。他邀请住在俄勒冈州并从事咖啡行业的兄弟威尔（Will）作为合伙人加入。

为了管理这家店，夏塔克雇佣了

顾客自 1793 年起就在 Davoll's 购物。店主本·夏塔克（Ben Shattuck，见上图）表示，杂货店是“永恒的”而非“过时的”。他和兄弟威尔共同拥有这家位于马萨诸塞州南达特茅斯的商店，店内售卖书籍、传统糖果和玻璃瓶装水等商品。 这个社区中心提供苍蝇拍、含羞草鸡尾酒以及怀旧情怀。

玛丽·安·巴克利（Mary Ann Buckley），她在当地出生长大，此前曾管理过一家有机市场和咖啡馆。

“有些产品高端，有些则低端，”巴克利在谈到产品组合时说道。她展示了其中一件她最喜欢的商品：一个售价 3.99 美元的可重复使用欧式厨房清洁垫。“在人们意识到需要某样东西之前就预见到他们的需求，对我来说是一种快感。”

随着巴克利承担更多职责，夏塔克的作用随时间而减轻。但有时他仍会深陷琐事之中。“我 1 点得见一个人谈谈步入式冰箱，”他说，“关于那个我完全一窍不通。”

Davoll's 每周营业六天，即使在空旷的冬季，这里也会举办每月一次的读书会，并邀请像纳撒尼尔·菲尔布里克（Nathaniel Philbrick）这样著名的作家来朗诵。它还赞助编织小组、爱尔兰音乐会以及伯恩斯之夜（Burns Night）——一个年度庆祝苏格兰诗人罗伯特·伯恩斯（Robert Burns）的节日。

“我希望这里感觉像是一个你可以闲逛、逗留并与人们不期而遇的地方，”沙塔克说道。

传统的延续

这与往昔的 Davoll 商店形成了鲜明对比。那时，商店由一系列节俭且沉默寡言的扬基人经营。当地的传说中充满了关于威尔弗里德（Wilfrid）和弗吉尼亚·莫里森（Virginia Morrison）的故事，他们从 20 世纪 50 年代一直经营 Davoll 商店到 70 年代中期。据说，威尔弗里德曾向一名车坏了的男子收取 10 美分电话费。当那名受困的司机说他没有零钱时，威尔弗里德为他开了一个记账账户。

在格伦农（Glennons）家族经营期间，这家店全年销售陶瓷圣诞村模型，并售卖用 Wonder Bread 面包做的波隆那香肠三明治。“很多时候，你询问某样东西，他们会说：‘I'm pretty sure we don't have it，’”自 1985 年起就住在南达特茅斯的作家德博拉·科瓦克斯（Deborah Kovacs）说道，“然后他们会去检查一遍，回来后说：‘Yep. We don't have it。’”

科瓦克斯补充道，现在的 Davoll 商店更像是一个社区中心。“我最近参加了一个图书活动，”她说，“如果你家鸡蛋没了，可以在那里买到。厨房在过去几年里扩大了。它变成了我们很久以前希望它成为的样子。”

斯莱特（Slate）不在店里工作，但她的书被摆在显眼位置销售。墙上挂着她标志性角色“贝壳马塞尔”（Marcel the Shell）的海报，这个可爱的软体动物是热门 YouTube 系列剧和一部长篇电影的主角。

斯莱特在一条短信中表示，她在波士顿郊区长大时，周围没有任何像 Davoll 这样的地方。“我现在是在弥补失去的时间，”她说，“我大部分时间都在店里。我非常喜欢那种 10, 之八九能撞见我岳父的感觉。”

沙特克（Shattuck）始终记得，Davoll 商店不应只吸引 Instagram 上的网红群体，而应同样吸引长期的老顾客。“我可以理解这种杂货店美学是如何被提取并移植到其他地方，以模拟一种精致的新英格兰风格的，”他说，“我试图让这家店与其起源保持一致。”

秉持这种精神，货架上摆放着实用的物品，从厨房细绳到苍蝇拍应有尽有。和以往一样，糖果桶依然具有吸引力，尽管每颗糖的价格在 10 到 30 美分之间，而不再是一便士。

一些老顾客抱怨说，夏季的街道交通已变得难以忍受。这或许正是商店成功的证明。更多的证据是：最近一个周六早晨，排队购买咖啡和早餐三明治的长龙。

在室外，男女顾客坐在野餐桌旁，在跑步后享用含羞草鸡尾酒。他们说，锻炼后在 Davoll 停靠已成为一种传统。

在室内，两个白发苍苍的男人在喝咖啡时闲聊——这一场景在 200 多年里一直以某种形式上演着。

“那么，保罗，”一段时间后，其中一人插话道，“我们解决完这个世界的难题了吗？”

这两个人似乎并不急于离开，也没有人催促他们。

现代爱情

这并非我向他承诺的婚姻

布莱恩·里亚 (BRIAN REA)

在母亲去世后，一名女性在丈夫的帮助下坚持生活。

作者：凯特·戈登 (KATE GORDON)

近四年前，当我和丈夫读结婚誓词时，他说：“我誓言在余生的每个早晨都为你准备咖啡。”

他确实做到了。如果我们在外旅行，他会找咖啡店；如果在家里，他会亲手制作并默默地放在我的床头柜上。甚至在我母亲自杀后的那个早晨，他依然如此。

我们第一次见面是在沃顿商学院新生的一次尴尬的鸡尾酒聚会上，他说：“我是马特，但朋友们都叫我戈多。”

他被我的自信和敢于挑起事端的性格所吸引。而我则被他的幽默感、善良和进取心所吸引。我们迅速坠入爱河，一起读完了商学院，然后跨越半个国家搬到了旧金山。我们周五喝太多的波本威士忌，周六睡到很晚，周日做煎蛋三明治。那段日子的生活里只有我们两个人。

直到我们养了狗，布鲁斯，它倔强且精力充沛——这成了为人父母的完美预演。不久后，我们向南搬到了30英里外的郊区，并有了儿子韦斯。戈多轻松地适应了父亲的角色，且从未忘记给我送咖啡。

当你结婚时，你会承诺“无论好坏”以及“无论顺逆”，但我们没有意识到糟糕的时光会来得如此之快。当大多数朋友还在沉浸在幸福的新婚阶段时，我们却被抛入了战壕。在儿子满7个月大之前，我的母亲在她的车库里自杀了。

我的母亲曾是湾区一名充满生活热情、极具影响力的房地产经纪人。我们是一对每天通话的母女，在我25岁、她50岁时，我们共同举办了一场生日派对。我们看起来就像彼此的镜像，只不过她比我矮4英寸，且总是穿着得体。

大约在韦斯出生前后，她开始陷入困境。作为她的独生女，我和我们的大家族成员开始担心她。我尽了最大努力，在照顾不断增长的家庭和事业的同时，兼顾她的需求。在她去世前不久，她似乎有所好转，这让所有爱她的人都松了一口气。当然，现在我知道，这种好转在一个人决定结束生命之前是很典型的。

失去她，意味着失去了那个陪我度过生命中每一个艰难时刻的人。然而，戈多一直在我身边。

一天晚上，在韦斯睡着后，当我等待淋浴水变热时，我瘫倒在浴室的地板上，我的抽泣声如此之大，以至于我听不见淋浴的声音。如果痛苦有声音，那就是这种声音。戈多冲进来，默默地抱着我。

他比我更早地掌握了我悲伤的节奏——在某些夜晚我需要不停地倾诉，而在另一些夜晚我需要看电视且一言不发。他知道什么时候该揉我的背，如何应对我的悲伤爆发和惊恐发作，以及什么时候该点披萨或卷饼。

在最初的几周和几个月里，我们会带着韦斯和布鲁斯去散步。有一次散步时，我正为这一切是多么艰难以及我觉得自己多么不幸而痛苦，这时他说：“你并不特殊，”这是我母亲最喜欢的一部剧里的台词，她以前经常对我这么说。

凯特·戈登 (KATE GORDON) 是加利福尼亚州圣马特奥的一名技术高管。

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我笑了。他总是知道什么时候该开玩笑。

“有什么是我能做的，能让你好受一点吗？”他接着问道。

在我们的婚姻中，一直是我在维持生活的正轨。我打理家务。但在母亲去世后，我能勉强做到的只有起床和给韦斯喂奶。在处理新工作的同时，戈多承担了所有其他事情：买菜、规划晚餐、预约医生、照顾狗。他没有抱怨。他默默地完成了这一切，仿佛这些一直以来就是他的责任。

“去洗澡吧，”他会说，“晚餐我来搞定。”

“我爱你，”我会这样说。

我会直接从浴室走到沙发上。我没有多余的话语或精力去做任何其他事情；在陪伴 Wes 的过程中，我已经耗尽了所有精力。我会打开电视，但随后便不记得自己看了什么。

电视播放时，我能听到另一个房间里厨房传来的嘈杂声——烤盘落在炉灶上的声音，沙拉夹撞击金属碗的声音，水龙头开关的声音。我想帮忙，但做不到。

我的愧疚感在增加——这一次不是因为没能尽到女儿或母亲的责任，而是作为一名妻子。这种

他掩埋了自己的悲痛，好让我的悲痛有足够的空间。

这并非我承诺过的婚姻。这也不是我承诺过的那个我。我们曾是最佳的搭档，分工协作，攻无不克。然而现在，他独自撑起了我们的整个世界，而我却在沙发上旁观。

过了一会儿，戈多（Gordo）给我端来了晚餐。他摆好我们看电视之夜常用的餐盘，给我倒满水，铺好一块干净的布餐巾，端上一盘热腾腾的食物。我开始吃了起来，很想念我们吃鸡肉时喜欢的盐和秘制辣酱（peri-peri sauce），但我保持沉默，不想再要求其他东西。片刻之后，戈多带着这两样东西出现了。

“太谢谢你了，”我说，努力忍住眼泪，“真的很抱歉。”

“你没什么好道歉的，”他一边说，一边亲吻我的额头。他坐在我身边，开始用餐。

吃完后，他把盘子拿到厨房开始清理。他没有对我提出任何要求，也没有请求我帮忙。我听到他往洗碗机里放餐具，刷锅的声音。洗碗机启动后，我听到他用喷雾瓶擦拭台面时发出的嘶嘶声。他不仅在清理，而且是按照我的标准在清理。

当我们从验尸官那里拿到自杀遗书时，我能感觉到戈多很紧张。起初，我以为是因为他刚刚去领取一份留给妻子的自杀遗书，这种差事之诡异足以让任何人不安。但在回家之前，他读了信，发现信中缺失了我们天真地认为自杀遗书中应该包含的内容——一些关于这不是我的错的安慰。相反，信中说她一直觉得与我们之间很疏远。

“我不敢相信她会对你写这些话，”他说，“这太不公平了。”

他试图不去指责那个我比任何人都要深爱的女人，因为她显然一直处于病痛和折磨之中，我很感激这一点。但与此同时，能让他不仅分担我的悲伤，还分担我的愤怒，这种感觉很好。在愧疚与愤怒中，我不再是孤身一人。

除此之外，我很少看到他的愤怒、悲痛或恐惧。他将情绪深藏在心底，因为他知道我无法承受。他掩埋了自己的悲痛，好让我的悲痛有足够的空间。即便如此，我依然感到恐惧。

我一直在等待我们的婚姻出现裂痕，等待早晨的咖啡不再出现，因为失去她让我变得面目可憎。在母亲去世前，我就是个固执且难伺候的人。去世后，我变成了自己都不认识的人——反应激烈、刻薄、无法沟通。有一天晚上，我说了些残酷的话，就像悲痛会让人变得残酷那样，我观察着他的脸，等待他告诉我这太过分了，或者告诉我我这个人的问题太大了。然而，他却将我紧紧搂在怀里。

我最终相信，我的母亲知道我们的婚姻能够维持，即便我不这么认为。我的母亲非常欣赏戈多。我们以前经常开玩笑说，她喜欢他胜过喜欢我。在婚礼上的致辞中，她说：“我崇拜你，马修·戈登（Matthew Gordon）。”

她最信任的一件事是：戈多深爱着我，并且知道如何陪伴在我身边。我相信她在临终前对此感到宽慰。相信他能带我走出困境。相信在她无法陪伴我时，他会留下。

在母亲自杀不到 24 小时后，我醒来去接韦斯（Wes）。他对我微笑，并不知晓我们共同失去了什么。我抱起他，感受到他身体在我手臂中的重量。我给他换了尿布，把他带到床上开始哺乳。当我凝视着他，手指抚过他那一簇簇头发时，戈多端着我的咖啡走进来，把它放在我的床头柜上，亲吻了我的额头。

他履行了她无法兑现的每一个承诺。

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微型爱情故事：对他而言，我谁也不是

她开门时只穿着内裤和文胸。那是凌晨1点！她不认识我，但我认识她。她是他的前妻，而现在看来，她似乎不再是“前”妻了。“他在吗？”我问。他本该在我家；他是我的男朋友。她让事实变得不容置疑。“我们刚做完爱，”她说，随后问道，“你是谁？”一年多以来，我一直相信他，相信每一个谎言。这就是为什么我开车去她家，去验证我内心早已知晓的真相。“我谁也不是，”我说，转身离去。 DEBORAH CLARKE

今天多云，且有“好心情”概率

左图：雅虎（YAHOO）；右图：莉莉·罗瑟（LILLY ROSER）

新一批媒体创作者提供的更新信息，已不再局限于气温和降水量。

作者：ALISHA HARIDASANI GUPTA

7月底，来自 Bravo 系列剧集《夏季之屋》（Summer House）的凯尔·库克（Kyle Cooke）承担起了一个不寻常的角色：天气预报员。

在一段发布于 Instagram 的视频中，库克身着西装外套、衬衫、领带和牛仔短裤，在完全没有任何气象学经验的情况下，站在绿幕前，指出哪些地区的天气足够“给力”（sick）可以举办派对。

这段视频是雅虎（Yahoo）推广其重新设计的天气应用程序的营销活动的一部分。但它同时也旨在挖掘观众日益增长的需求：一种既有趣又实用的天气预报。

由于气候变化，极端天气变得更加普遍，网络观众正在寻求超越气温和降水量的更新信息。少数社交媒体创作者通过填补这一特定生态位而迅速走红，他们为追随者提供“氛围检查”（vibes check），或给出实用的提醒，比如因为预报有雨，建议不要去做吹风造型。这些创作者可以被描述为 2004 年高中喜剧电影《贱女孩》（Mean Girls）中由阿曼达·塞弗里德（Amanda Seyfried）饰演的凯伦·史密斯（Karen Smith）的远亲——那个古怪的女孩曾宣称她的胸部能够预测下雨。

凯尔·库克的天气报告，以及莉莉·罗瑟在地铁中发出的气象快讯。

“感觉每次我们眨眼，就会出现另一次历史性的洪水、一次龙卷风预警，或者气温达到 105 度，我认为人们正试图在面对这些情况时至少找点乐趣，”约翰·霍梅努克（John Homenuk）说道。二十年前，他在纽约市读高中时创办了博客“纽约大都会天气”（New York Metro Weather）。

大约五年前，在基恩大学（Kean University）学习气象学的霍梅努克开始在社交媒体上发布每日“氛围检查”，并附带一个 10 分制的评分。

例如，在上周一，他给天气打了 3 分（满分 10 分），并宣布氛围不稳定。在二月的某一天，

莉莉·罗瑟在去年冬天纽约出现创纪录降雪时，偶然开始发布关于天气的内容。

“我当时想，‘如果有人感兴趣的话，这是目前的暴风雪更新’，”她回忆道，“现在是下午 1:28，雪的情况是这样的。”

在恶劣且危险的天气情况下，这些内容创作者会敦促人们查看美国国家气象局（National Weather Service）——这也是他们获取信息的渠道——并遵循建议的行动方案。

但除此之外，在大多数日子里，关注这些创作者的感觉就像是“在和朋友聊天”，罗瑟说。“如果我的朋友要访问纽约市，我会打电话告诉他们，‘好吧，你可能得带几件毛衣，以防我们晚上出门’，”她说，“这比看着天气应用却完全不知道纽约的 75 度是什么感觉要让人安心得多。”

雅虎新闻（Yahoo News）负责该应用演进的总经理凯特·唐斯·穆尔德（Kat Downs Mulder）表示，社交媒体上的所有这些讨论影响了雅虎对应用的重新设计，使其倾向于“人们想要的不止是数字”这一理念。

现在，除了常规的天气指标外，该应用还会在特别潮湿的日子提醒用户穿着“透气面料”，或在紫外线指数较高时涂抹防晒霜。而在整个八月，库克一直以“派对天气报告”的形式出现在应用中。

该公司报告称，自从推出新版本应用以来，用户每天打开应用的次数是之前版本的两倍。

“天气是我们日常生活中至关重要的一部分，”唐斯·穆尔德说，“它影响着我们所做的一切。无论走到哪里，我们都会谈论它。”

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多莉·帕顿在造型师时代之前便已光彩照人

“她制定了所有的基本规则，”她的创意总监说道。

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EDWARD KEATING / THE NEW YORK TIMES CBS, VIA GETTY 从左上角起顺时针方向：多莉·帕顿，约 1992 年；1979, 当时市长汤姆·布拉德利在洛杉矶宣布“多莉·帕顿日”；在 1979 年电视特辑《多莉与卡罗尔在纳什维尔》中与卡罗尔·伯内特同框；1984 年上映的《莱茵石》宣传照；1992, 与蛋糕同框；在 1980 年电影《 9 to 5 》中，这是她的首部电影。

“绝不放过任何一颗莱茵石”是这位巨星经常使用的一句简洁俏皮话。

作者：凡妮莎·弗里德曼 (VANESSA FRIEDMAN)

在多莉·帕顿 (Dolly Parton) 所说过的所有格言中——《访谈》(Interview) 杂志称她为“来自田纳西州的闪耀乡村女神”，她于周二在纳什维尔去世——或许最能说明问题的是她在 1995 年为大卫·莱特曼 (David Letterman) 的 Top 10 最讨厌之事名单贡献的一句话。

帕顿开玩笑说，最让她恼火的事情之一是“那些不明白让我看起来这么‘廉价’需要花多少钱的会计师”。当时她站在自己多莉伍德 (Dollywood) 游乐园的阳台上，身穿一件黑金相间的钥匙孔领上衣，勾勒出她的事业线，头发被烫成一圈铂金色的光环，脸上带着灿烂的笑容。

事实上，没有人比多莉·帕顿更了解要如何才能像多莉·帕顿那样，也没有人比她更深入地思考这意味着什么，以及服装如何能赋予声音以性格。她身高可能只有五英尺，但她让自己变得比生命本身更宏大。在这样做的时候，她用一个眨眼、大量自觉的讽刺以及对自身欲望的毫不妥协，挑战了关于女性、外貌与内涵的所有刻板印象。

从 1965, 年与纪念碑唱片公司 (Monument Records) 签署第一份录音合同起，她不仅在创造自己的声音，还在塑造自己的公众形象：一个戴着巨大的铂金假发、穿着六英寸高跟鞋、穿着聚拢胸罩并缀满水钻的卡通傻妞，她后来在歌曲中将其命名为“山区芭比” (Backwoods Barbie)。

这种标志性的风格从未动摇。据报道，在去世时，帕顿拥有 350 多顶假发（几乎一年中每天都有一顶）、2,000 多双鞋，以及一个面积达 50,000 平方英尺的缀满亮片的舞台服装档案馆。事实上，她的服装多到她为此写了一整本书。这本书名为《缝隙背后：我的水钻人生》(Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones)，是一部关于服装的自传，与她的歌曲自传《多莉·帕顿，歌曲讲述者：我的歌词人生》(Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics) 相辅相成。对她而言，这是同一个故事的两面。

她不仅激励了她的粉丝——他们穿着全套多莉装备参加“水钻节” (Rhinestone Fest) 和“多莉日” (Dolly Day) 等多莉模仿者大会——还激励了像麦莉·赛勒斯 (Miley Cyrus)、凯西·马斯格雷夫斯 (Kacey Musgraves) 和凯莉·安德伍德 (Carrie Underwood) 这样的艺术家，她们都经历过自己的“水钻牛仔女郎”阶段。更不用说 Good American 品牌的艾玛·格雷德 (Emma Grede) 和克洛伊·卡戴珊 (Khloé Kardashian)，她们与帕顿合作推出了 Joleans 牛仔装和服装系列（这是一个典型的多莉式双关语）。

正如她在首张专辑的歌词中所写，“这个金发傻妞可不是谁都能糊弄的”。

现在，这种独特的形象塑造似乎已成为任何性别艺术家的标准做法，但帕顿在造型师和品牌代言时代之前就这么做了。而且她经常在面对激烈的批评时这样做：小时候面对震惊的牧师祖父；面对认为她是“坏影响”的同学父母（她在书中如此写道）；以及面对唱片公司高管，他们认为她不会被严肃对待，因为她后来转述道，他们说“你看起来更像个妓女而不是歌手”。

stood exactly what she was doing: tapping into clichés rooted deep in the cultural hive mind while confronting them at the same time. She wasn't just going to outwork and out-sing everyone, was going to outsparkle them, too, subverting the very expectations was creating.

What they didn't know is that under-

“永远不要漏掉一颗水钻，”她经常打趣道。每一道光芒都在提醒人们，基于外貌而低估或将其刻板化所带来的危险。或者，正如她唱的那样，“不要根据封面评判我，因为我是一本真正的好书”。

当然，她的风格灵感可能来自镇上的流浪女，“穿着紧身裙，踩着高跟鞋，涂着红指甲和红唇，染着过氧化氢色的头发”（她在时尚书中这样写道）。但她一生只嫁给了一个男人。当然，她的衣服确实有些俗气，但正如她的歌曲《五彩衣》(Coat of Many Colors)——关于她母亲在童年时期用碎布为她缝制的一件外套——所证明的那样，绚丽的羽毛中蕴含着共鸣。

（以至于这件“多彩外套”最终被《美国词曲作者》杂志评为歌曲中最著名的三件衣物之一，另外两件分别是普林斯的树莓色贝雷帽和埃尔维斯的蓝色麂皮鞋。）

当然，正如她在莱特曼的节目中所说，她的头发假到简直成了“火灾隐患”，但这也很实用。帕顿表示，戴假发意味着她可以避免对真发进行漂白和倒梳（这些操作可能会毁掉头发），同时还能确保自己“永远不会有糟糕的发型日”。

而且，正如她在 1982 年接受芭芭拉·沃尔特采访时所说，她确实可以“穿得简单点”。但她为什么要这么做呢？“我喜欢更华丽的，”她说。

在她追求华丽之路上，她的合作伙伴包括露西·亚当斯（Lucy Adams），后者为她 20 世纪 60 和 70 年代的专辑封面制作了镶满水晶的喇叭裤连体衣；鲍勃·麦基（Bob Mackie），他为 1979 年的电视特辑《多莉与卡罗尔在纳什维尔》打造了更加闪耀的造型；托尼·蔡斯（Tony Chase，同样是格洛丽亚·盖诺的最爱）；安·罗斯（Ann Roth），她为多莉的第一部电影《9 到 5》担任服装设计师；以及设计师史蒂夫·萨默斯（Steve Summers），他于 1991 年开始与帕顿合作，并在多莉伍德工作室担任了三十年的创意总监。“多莉创造了这个形象，”他在 2023 年说道，“她制定了所有基本规则，我只是执行。”

她说，这些规则总是始于“极紧身且极闪亮”。无论是在她闪亮且色彩柔和的“蝴蝶阶段”，还是在她的流苏水钻“牛仔女郎时代”，亦或是她在拉斯维加斯的“女神化身”时期。

“我从未在意别人怎么做，也从未在意别人对我穿着的评价，”帕顿在她的时尚回忆录出版时告诉《Vogue》杂志，“对我来说，在自己的衣服里感到舒适，在自己的内心感到自在，这更为重要。”

世界的其他部分可能在追随垃圾摇滚、极简主义、视觉冲击或品牌代言，但她从未背离那个在她少女时代就令她如此心动的闪耀美学。尽管她曾开玩笑说：“我不是时尚偶像，我是个碍眼的人”，但她的形象确实令人难忘。

以机智化解一个个“金发笨蛋”笑话

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评论家对多莉·帕顿（Dolly Parton）的评价，在她的自嘲面前根本不值一提。

作者：AMANDA HESS

今年五月，多莉·帕顿在社交媒体上乐观地宣布，由于健康状况不佳，她将取消原定在拉斯维加斯的驻场演出。她用一段五分钟的自黑视频来传达这个坏消息，在视频中，她拿自己的假发、肾结石、演出服以及胸部尺寸开玩笑。在视频结尾，她承认自己不再年轻了。但她补充道：“只要这个世界上还有整形医生，我就永远不会变老。”

帕顿于周二去世，享年 80 岁。她深谙“参与自嘲”的力量。在职业生涯初期，她面对的是初现雏形的名人八卦媒体，他们称她俗气、花哨且虚假——这些词几乎是“工人阶级”的委婉说法。他们让她的名字成了胸部植入手术的代名词。但无论专栏作家、评论家或喜剧演员如何评价帕顿，都无法与她对自己的评价相媲美。她抢在所有人之前说出那些笑点，从而夺走了对方的攻击力。

当雷德·福克斯（Redd Foxx）在 1977 年播出一个关于帕顿在曼中文剧院混凝土前庭留下胸部印记的短剧时，她给他发了一封电报，要求他提供“两份同样丰满的道歉”。而当

以机智著称的多莉·帕顿。上方为 1994 年与杰·雷诺（Jay Leno）合影，上方为 1977 年与强尼·卡森（Johnny Carson）合影。她曾告诉《新闻周刊》：“我的内心悲欢，就像我的头发和指甲一样假，都是真实的。这就是我喜欢的地方——看起来像这样，实际上却是那样。” 这种自嘲是一种极其高明的颠覆性技巧。

时尚评论家理查德·布莱克威尔（Richard Blackwell）在 1978 年将帕顿列入其“10 位穿着最糟糕的女性”名单之首时，她通过媒体回应道：“我还以为他永远不会注意到呢。”面对人们对其胸部尺寸的痴迷，她准备了一整场脱口秀分量的反击；她开玩笑说：“我烧掉了我的胸罩，结果他们不得不叫消防队来。”

在 20 世纪 70 和 80 年代渗透在文化中的那些关于多莉·帕顿的陈词滥调，试图将她塑造成一个“金发笨蛋”。而她的回应更有趣，这使得她的做法堪称天才。她将自嘲作为一种颠覆性的技巧。那些笑话本不配与她相提并论，但当她配合演戏时，她实际上并没有在贬低自己。她将自己的身体和审美重新定义为一种自豪感，化解了任何对阿巴拉契亚工人阶级的隐含侮辱，并且在优雅地允许评论家们与她一同欢笑的同时，揭露了这些评论家的愚蠢。

很快，公众对帕顿的叙事重心转移到了她的机智上。对其形象的嘲讽让她能够将自己定位为一个不断带来惊喜的人。“有些人看到我的人工外貌，就认为我没有深度，”她在 1977 年告诉《新闻周刊》，“但我的内心悲欢，就像我的头发和指甲一样假，都是真实的。这就是我喜欢的地方——看起来像这样，实际上却是那样。”

在同年的一篇专栏中，乔治·F·威尔（George F. Will）称帕顿为美国最“显眼”的女性之一，并表示：“从生物学上讲，没有女性应该长成那样，而且考虑到时代精神，没有女性应该想长成那样。”威尔试图将帕顿定位为女性特质和女性主义的耻辱，但事实上，她后来成为了两者的捍卫者。她在所有意义上都是白手起家的。就像她的电影处女作、办公室讽刺剧《9 到 5》一样，她将严肃的信息包裹在闪闪发光的包装中，从而吸引了人们的注意。

尽管帕顿本人对“女权主义者”这个标签不以为意，但女权主义者们却将她视为自己的一员。1987年，当《女士》（Ms.）杂志将帕顿评为年度女性之一时，格洛丽亚·斯泰纳姆写道，“她那华丽的风格将所有被贬值的女性化符号转化为她自己的目的”，并赋予它们“幽默感和一种自觉的力量”。

帕顿外在形象的大部分力量在于，她是如此坦率地塑造了它。作为在大烟山贫困环境中长大的12个孩子之一，她没有电影明星可以效仿，甚至没有电影可看。当采访者围绕着帕顿“低俗”外表的嘲讽性问题打转时，她告诉他们，小时候她会去附近的城镇，在那里她会看到一名性工作者穿着高耸的透明高跟鞋，顶着一头金黄色头发走在街上。人们同样称那个女人低俗，但在帕顿看来，她就是美的化身。在关于帕顿假发、假胸和假指甲的笑话背后，是一个真诚的成长故事，以及对根源持久的忠诚。在这一切之下，她天生就是如此。

在帕顿去世后，粉丝们转发了一段1977年芭芭拉·沃尔特斯的采访视频，在视频中，帕顿化解了沃尔特斯关于其外貌的一系列质问。沃尔特斯询问帕顿是否是个山顶穷人，询问她的胸部是否真实，然后告诉帕顿：“你不必长成这样。”

“不，这绝对是一种选择，”帕顿轻松地回答，接着补充道，“演艺事业就是一个赚钱的笑话，而我一直很喜欢讲笑话，你懂吗？”

在2026年观看这段片段时，令人惊讶的是帕顿当时的造型竟然如此克制。她的审美对流行文化和数字媒体产生了如此深远的影响，以至于这种人工雕琢感几乎难以察觉。反而是沃尔特斯显得虚伪。她僵硬地将提出关于帕顿胸部问题的责任推给助手，而提出这个问题本身就让她显得尴尬。“这么多年来，人们以为笑话是我，”帕顿告诉沃尔特斯，“但实际上，笑话是公众。”

与小姐猪和科米特之间的一种特殊纽带

DONNA SVENNEVIK / DISNEY, VIA GETTY IMAGES 多莉·帕顿（Dolly Parton）与小姐猪（Miss Piggy）在帕顿那档短命的综艺节目《多莉》（Dolly）中经常共同表演并打趣。科米特（Kermit）与这位乡村音乐偶像的关系也十分亲近。

这位歌手与她的无生命助手之间有一种天然且看似真实的自在感。

DONNA SVENNEVIK / DISNEY, VIA GETTY IMAGES

作者：JESSE McKINLEY

她们是两个张扬的金发女郎，直言不讳且不拘小节——在那个男人通常掌控全局的世界里，她们是开拓之女性。她们都钟爱华丽的装扮，并得到性格较为安静的男人们的支持；她们都将真情毫无保留地展露在缀满亮片的衣袖上并将其唱成歌曲，尽管——事实上——其中一个通常比另一个更合拍。

周二去世的乡村音乐传奇多莉·帕顿与小姐猪之间拥有人类与木偶之间可能存在的最温暖的友谊，其中包含了真诚的交谈、共同的时尚品味、充满活力的二重唱，以及偶尔的争执。

相比于其他与木偶秀（Muppets）共同出场的艺人，帕顿与这些无生命的助手之间似乎有一种天然的自在感，她与他们聊天、欢笑时所展现出的严肃、魅力和活力，与她的音乐和职业生涯如出一辙。而她与小姐猪的关系似乎比任何关系都更真实，其中融合了同等分量的姐妹竞争、巨星间的尊重，以及——看起来最重要的一点——真正深厚的情感。

虽然帕顿从未在 1976 年至 1981 年播出的《木偶秀》（The Muppet Show）中出现，但这两位名伶在 20 世纪 80 年代后期，在帕顿那档短命的 ABC 综艺节目《多莉》中经常共同表演并打趣。小姐猪并不是唯一与这位偶像亲近的木偶：小姐猪那长期忍受她的男友科米特，于 1987 年 11 月首次出现在《多莉》的一集中，翻唱了斯莱与家庭之石乐队（Sly and the Family Stone）的《每一个普通人》（Everyday People），尽管帕顿当时说她“嗓子像塞了只青蛙”（a frog in her throat）。

不愿落后，向来虚荣且偶尔任性的小姐猪在约一个月后的演出中，实际上试图接管帕顿的节目。根据木偶创作者吉姆·亨森（Jim Henson）的档案记录，她出现在歌手的浴缸里——没错，这是《多莉》中的一个固定环节——并抢走了她原定的独唱部分。但两人最终达成和解，在情绪多变的小姐猪恳求原谅并获准表演后，共同演唱了科尔·波特（Cole Porter）的《友谊》（Friendship）。

几个月后，小姐猪在另一集中再次出现——而且是在帕顿的巡演巴士上，宣布“小姐猪要走乡村风了”。

帕顿始终保持耐心，她向戴着牛仔帽、穿着缎面亮片衬衫的小姐猪解释，成为一名乡村之星不仅仅是外表像那么简单，并指出她的猪同伴“就像一件丝绸背带裤一样‘乡村’”（意指完全不乡村）。

尽管如此，她给小姐猪的建议既温柔又残酷地诚实，就像一个大姐姐在告诉小妹妹这个世界以及它所激发的艺术是如何运作的。

“你得让那颗小小心碎一次。你得失去一段伟大的爱情。你得受点苦，”帕顿解释道，“艰苦的努力和心碎，才是乡村音乐的全部意义。”

在 1988 年人民选择奖（People's Choice Awards）中，帕顿获得新电视节目最受欢迎女演员奖后，小姐猪拍摄了一段向她致敬的视频，两人在其中继续互相打趣。

“是我，另一个金发尤物，”小姐猪说着，使用了她标志性的蹩脚法语，并加了一个低俗的胸部笑话，“我为你的胜利感到自豪，并且非常高兴被认为是你的最亲密朋友之一。

同等分量的竞争、尊重和真正深厚的情感。

你的胜利就是我的胜利。你的奖赏就是我的奖赏。所以我明早会过去把它领走。”

木偶剧团与其他表演者之间也保持着深厚的感情，其中包括周二同样去世的演员蒂姆·卡里（Tim Curry）。周三，这个木偶剧团宣布卡里为“荣誉木偶”，与此同时，网上流传着一段旧片段，视频中这位演员在配合演戏，回应关于他与皮吉（Piggy）在拍摄《木偶宝岛》（Muppet Treasure Island）期间曾有私情的传闻。

与此同时，帕顿在 2012 年再次与科米特（Kermit）在《早安美国》（Good Morning America）节目中合作，在一群咯咯叫的鸡群合唱伴奏下，演唱了无伴奏版本的《溪流之岛》（Islands in the Stream）。（当那群鸡突然落在她身边时，帕顿轻笑了起来。）

多年来，其他木偶也向帕顿致敬，包括在《芝麻街》（Sesame Street）中，一个名叫波莉·达顿（Polly Darton）的角色顶着金色的蓬松发型演唱乡村歌曲。

在这位歌手去世后，该节目发布了一段波莉演唱的旧片段：“现在尽管我深陷悲痛 / 我仍用我的心向你挥手告别。”

包括皮吉和科米特在内的木偶们称帕顿为“极致的歌手、词曲作者、演员、表演者和慈善家”，并暗示这位歌手与她的泡沫橡胶共演者之间存在着一种极其真实的关系。

“再也不会有另一个像多莉·帕顿这样的人了，”木偶们在声明中表示，并补充道，“我们非常感激能与她在舞台内外共度的每一秒。”

当混音带风靡一时

这些精心制作的、时长90分钟的模拟之爱，让音乐爱好者能够以策展人的身份表达自我。

作者：KERA BOLONIK

抢劫犯用一片剃须刀片抵在我的脸上。

那是1992年，我在纽约度过的第一个夏天，我们两人正站在一部电梯里。我当时处于半失业状态，在经济衰退期间刚从大学毕业，这意味着我没有什么能给袭击者提供的东西。

当他评估我的财物——一块精工（Seiko）手表、7美元现金，以及一个塞满了杂志和卫生棉条的皮包时，他的脸上闪过一丝失望。

他拿走了手表和钱。然后，他看向我颤抖的手中拿着的那台破旧的索尼（Sony）Walkman。

“我的意思是，你可以拿走它，”我说，“但我需要里面的磁带。”

那是我为了处理与前女友分手后的一些情绪而制作的一盘90分钟混音带。歌曲清单——包括帕蒂·史密斯（Patti Smith）的《Distant Fingers》、Deee-Lite的《Love Is Everything》和迪昂·华威（Dionne Warwick）的《He's Movin' On》——唤起了一种写了却从未寄出的信件般的心境。

我在这上面花了很多心血，连续几个小时坐在室友的立体声系统旁，将歌曲从唱机上旋转的黑胶唱片转移到录音机中的磁带里。

我用右手轻轻地将唱针落在每首选定歌曲凹槽前的光亮带上。一旦唱针就位，我就用左手按下录音机已设为录音状态的暂停按钮。在模拟时代，这就是为了创造一段记录内心动荡的原声带而必须经历的过程。

因此，面对现在拿着我Walkman的抢劫犯，我别无选择，只能据理力争。“你只会把磁带扔掉的，”我对他说，“这对你来说可能太古怪了。”

“里面是什么？”他问。

我提到了几个艺术家的名字。他皱了皱眉。

令我大为宽慰的是，他按下了弹出按钮，取出磁带并交还给我。在他走出电梯时，他祝我周末愉快。

家庭DJ

空白磁带曾主要被办公室职员用于口述录音。但在

“你事先考虑过顺序。”

社交问答 / PHILIP GALANES

姻亲的“说教”

我丈夫和我想尽快组建家庭，但我很害怕告诉我的公婆我是否或何时怀孕。我的公公是一名退休医生，而且是个习惯于以男性视角说教（mansplainer）的人。我不希望任何男人——尤其是他——对我怀孕提供不请自来的解释，或对我身体发表评论。我的婆婆是一名退休护士，是个世界级的忧虑者。她忍不住将焦虑分享给他人，而我认为，我自己已经足够焦虑了，不需要再去应对她的恐惧。我们住在他们附近，经常见面。我该如何设定界限，或者礼貌地告诉他们，将关于我怀孕的想法留在心中？

儿媳

在你们结婚的过程中，你可能已经发展出了一套应对公公的“男性说教”和婆婆的焦虑的策略。但一旦你成为了他们未来孙辈的母亲，你怀疑之前的所有经验都将失效，而你将成为一个被高度关注的焦点。（我可以想象那个画面。）

现在，我忍不住注意到你在信中几乎没有提到你的丈夫。是因为他已经证明了自己无法指望他去顶住父母的压力？或者——

也许他已经如此习惯于他们的行为，以至于觉得这并不麻烦？无论如何，先从争取他的参与开始。作为你的伴侣，帮助你是他的职责。

我还怀疑，如果由他们的儿子而不是由你来说出类似“谢谢您的关心，但我们能处理好”这样的话，你的公婆可能会更容易接受。但如果你的丈夫不能挺身而出，那么这个回应就得由你来承担。让这句话成为你友好的口头禅并随意重复——同时迅速将话题转移到其他事情上。你无法重塑公婆的性格，但通过一致地拒绝陷入这种互动，你可以减轻他们那些令人厌烦的行为。

惊喜，我到了

我的朋友给我留了一条语音留言，邀请我去她朋友家参加派对。她还留了地址和公寓号。我告诉她我不确定是否能参加，而她将其误解为：我不参加。当我去参加派对并按门铃时，没有人回应。我给朋友打电话，但没打通。最后，一个女人开门告诉我，主人不住在这里。我的朋友给了我一个错误的地址！于是我给她发了一条愤怒的短信然后回家了。她也回了一条愤怒的短信。在随后的对话中，我告诉她她欠我一个道歉：这能让社交契约的运转更顺畅。但她拒绝了。我们现在该怎么办？ ——朋友

真诚的道歉确实是社交契约的一部分——在可能的情况下缓解冲突以及避免发送愤怒的短信也是如此。如果我邀请某人参加派对，而对方说“我不确定能否赶到”，我会将其视为拒绝——除非对方随后给我回电说最终还是能参加。你似乎跳过了这一步。

对于一个你从未接受过的派对邀请而产生的地址混乱发送尖刻的短信，这看起来具有攻击性——而且更有可能激怒你的朋友，而不是让她感到抱歉。让这场冲突冷却几天，然后打电话给你的朋友，为你在出席问题上不够明确而道歉，这可能会促使她为地址问题道歉。

主队

在一次全球体育赛事期间，我的配偶表达了对我们朋友所在国家国家队的极度厌恶。我的配偶仅是指球队——而非那个国家。尽管如此，我们的朋友感到深受冒犯，这次事件导致我们的友谊破裂。作为一名没有发表意见的旁观者，我试图解释我的配偶只是在谈论体育。我对这种情况感到深切的悲伤。我还能做些什么？ ——配偶

与其花费更多精力试图解决一个并非由你造成的问题，不如敦促你的配偶为那些言论道歉。没有什么比由错误的一方提供道歉和解释更令人不满的了。你的配偶可能无法让你的朋友完全满意，但至少他们能直接听到道歉。

店家红酒 $\neq$ 请客红酒

几位老朋友来纽约访问并邀请我们共进晚餐。我们在餐厅会面。丈夫宣布他将支付餐费，但不支付饮料费——尽管我们用餐时都喝了葡萄酒。结账时气氛变得尴尬，我们觉得这次经历是对我们的侮辱。您怎么看？ ——CABERNET

所以这里的“侮辱”在于你朋友的慷慨不够完整：他们付了餐费，但没付酒钱。为什么到此为止？你干脆再抱怨他们没付你往返餐厅的车费好了！很抱歉，这封信让你显得很小气。应当感激他人的慷慨，而不是要求更多。

如需针对尴尬处境的帮助，请发送问题至 SocialQ@nytimes.com，或在 Facebook 上联系 Philip Galanes，或在 X 上联系 @SocialQPhilip。

20世纪70年代，年轻的音乐迷开始使用它们来复制自己喜爱的歌曲，通常是通过录制广播节目。

创作歌手埃莉诺·弗里德伯格（Eleanor Friedberger），49岁，她与哥哥马修（Matthew）组成了一支名为“Fiery Furnaces”的乐队。她回忆起8岁时录制广播歌曲的经历。“就是那样开始的，对吧？”她说，“从广播录音。我也和朋友们一起这么做。我们就像在制作自己的广播节目。”

小说家兼随笔作家乔纳森·莱瑟姆（Jonathan Lethem）记得小时候从纽约地区的 FM 电台 WFMU 录制歌曲。“你希望在想听的时候能听到那首歌，”他说，“我们中有些人会录下整个广播节目。”

62岁的莱瑟姆表示，他喜欢与年轻人讨论磁带，因为他们中的大多数人已经习惯于使用手机几乎瞬间就能查到歌曲或乐队的名字。

“但你必须想象一个音乐像传闻一样的空间，”他继续说道，“你可能会听到某些东西却无法知道它是什么，而且没人能告诉你，这会让你抓狂。”

音乐迷还使用空白磁带录制完整专辑或单曲。这些唱片可能是你自己的收藏，也可能是别人的。

1979年，随着索尼 Walkman 的推出，家庭录音爆发式增长。 BILL ALLER / 纽约时报

路易威登 (LOUIS VUITTON)

自制混音带在音乐品味、时尚感和求爱方式上留下了不可磨灭的印记。它们在派对上充当了 DJ 的替代品。

随着索尼 Walkman 的推出，家庭录音在 1979 年爆发式增长。终于，人们可以在移动时聆听自己想听的内容。

音乐产业对这一发展并不满意，并将其归咎于黑胶唱片销量的明显下降。伦敦的一个贸易协会——英国唱片工业协会（British Phonographic Institute）发起了一场活动，口号带有责备意味：“家庭录音正在杀死音乐。而且这是违法的。”在美国，音乐高管们敦促立法者对空白磁带和家庭录音设备征收费用。

但这都没能阻止年轻的 X 世代将自己变成业余的声音策展人。虽然这种新的消遣让他们有机会按照自己选择的顺序聆听最喜欢的歌曲，但它还具有其他用途。

“我即我所播”（I am what I play），大卫·鲍伊在 1979 年的歌曲《D.J.》中这样唱道。20 世纪 80 年代的客厅 DJ 们利用混音带这一媒介来塑造自己的身份，展示他们的音乐知识，传递信息，甚至调情。

在我开始制作和交换混音带 40 年后，我仍然记得是哪个朋友向我介绍了哪个艺术家。这些自制磁带能够以某种方式在我们的音乐品味、时尚感——甚至我们的世界观中留下不可磨灭的印记。

莱瑟姆（Lethem）回忆起他在 20 世纪 80 年代听过的一盘混音带。那是朋友的朋友制作的，对方将歌曲以一种看似“违背直觉，随后却变得神奇”的方式并列在一起，他说道。

特别是，他记得从比尔·拉斯韦尔（Bill Laswell）的《Work Song》到德斯蒙德·德克尔与王牌乐队（Desmond Dekker and the Aces）的《Israelites》的过渡。他说，制作这盘磁带的人“对我来说一直令人生畏，因为那盘磁带自带的光环”。

混音带在派对上还充当了 DJ 的替代品。正如莱瑟姆所说：“我想要 90 分钟连续的、可舞曲的音乐，这样人们在气氛达到高潮时就不会坐下来或离开舞池。”

一门失传的艺术

制作混音带（mix tape）是一项充满爱心的苦差事。它需要时间、思考，以及一种超越制作 Spotify 播放列表所需的肢体协调能力。

双面磁带最常见的规格是 60 分钟和 90 分钟，这为创造两种不同的氛围提供了机会。也许你想要一个忧郁的 A 面和一个欢快的 B 面，这种辩证关系是后来连续 80 分钟的 CD-R 混音无法实现的。

我至今还保留着一张 1993 年秋天制作的混音带。制作它时我正处于抑郁之中，将其命名为“改变我的心情”。浏览曲目列表，我能察觉到其中的挫败感、愤怒以及一些讽刺的自嘲。

A 面包括涅槃乐队（Nirvana）的《Heart-Shaped Box》、Stereolab 的《Avant Garde M.O.R.》和 P.J. Harvey 的《Sheela-Na-Gig》。B 面则以希望的基调结束，曲目是 Digable Planets 的《Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)》。

磁带的时间限制给家庭录音者带来了挑战。如果你发现某一面的结尾还剩下不到两分钟，你必须找到一首恰到好处的歌——既不能被截断，也不能留下 30 秒的空白，否则会破坏整体的流畅感。

演员、作家兼歌手约翰·卡梅隆·米切尔（John Cameron Mitchell）也是一名熟练的混音带制作者。“你会提前考虑曲目顺序，而不是随意堆砌，”63 岁的米切尔说，“这有点像电影剪辑。”

他指出，混音带通常是求爱仪式的一部分。

“我曾经追求过一个年轻小伙子，他喜欢现代 R&B 但对老 R&B 一窍不通，”米切尔说，“我是 Stax Records 的忠实粉丝，所以给他录了一盘老歌带。”他笑着补充道，“我想这最终结出了果实。”

弗里德伯格（Friedberger）还保留着一张大学时期暗恋对象送给她的混音带。“这甚至比他约我出去简直更棒，”她说，“上面的音乐对我影响很大，因为这就像他在分享一些我认为极其宝贵的信息。”她补充道，其中的艺术家包括多诺万（Donovan）、the Moles 和布莱恩·伊诺（Brian Eno）。

53 岁的嘻哈电台主持人兼评论员杰伊·斯穆斯（Jay Smooth）在青少年时期就开始制作复杂的混音带，当时 Run-DMC 正处于巅峰，嘻哈艺术家们纷纷发行 12 英寸单曲。

“对于我们这些买不起两台唱盘的人来说，我们发现如果你在第一首歌的节拍上按下暂停，并在下一首歌的节拍上立即取消暂停，你就能实现这种无缝衔接，听起来就像你真的在用两台唱盘进行 DJ 混音一样，”他说，“我属于那一代为了完善‘暂停键’混音带而付出大量心血的人。”

一些混音带制作者会录入自己的声音。13 岁时，创作歌手汉密尔顿·莱瑟豪瑟（Hamilton Leithauser）为一名第一次要去参加寄宿夏令营的表亲制作了一盘带子。“第一首歌是 Cypress Hill 的，在歌曲开始之后，我开玩笑地录了一段自己的说唱，为了让他措手不及，”48 岁的莱瑟豪瑟说，“当他跟新室友一起听的时候，他尴尬极了。”

没有封面艺术的混音带是不完整的——手绘插图或拼贴画装饰着磁带盒的纸质内页。除了用细小字体潦草写下的歌曲标题和艺术家姓名外，一个独特的标题也很有帮助。我制作的一盘混音带叫作《Gay 调之歌》。我的朋友克里斯托弗·谢林（Christopher Schelling）制作的另一盘则名为《恰恰鸡尾酒单身女派对》。

索尼在 2010 年停止生产 Walkman，但今年，Maxell 为怀旧主义者推出了一款具有蓝牙功能的便携式磁带播放器——而且据推测，是为了向那些已经表现出对黑胶唱片热爱的新一代听众介绍磁带。莱瑟豪瑟、弗里德伯格和泰勒·斯威夫特（Taylor Swift）是那些在演出中销售限量版磁带的艺术家。

我曾尝试用复古设备播放一些旧磁带。遗憾的是，磁带随着时间的推移已经磨损。因此，最近我尝试在流媒体平台上重建我 20 世纪 80 年代的混音磁带，参考我手写的曲目清单，结果却发现不少当年的心头好尚未进入数字化世界。

但我成功拼凑出的那些混音辑唤起了强烈的记忆，勾起了一些我从未想过会再次体验到的情感和心境。混音磁带不仅仅是遗物，它们更是通往特定时刻的门户。或许比旧照片更能让过去重现生机。

有一盘混音磁带我一直没能找到。你敢相信吗，那正是我 30 多年前被抢劫时拒绝交出的那一盘。

青少年抗议者正与数据中心展开对抗

摄影：AUBREY TRINNAMAN 为《纽约时报》拍摄

近十年前，Z世代的活动人士走出校园，要求采取行动应对气候变化，并举行游行抗议枪支暴力。如今，一些高中活动人士正面对一个新的敌人：人工智能数据中心的激增。他们认为，为了跟上国家对计算能力的贪婪需求，这些数据中心带来的健康和环境威胁正被人们所忽视。

这些学生加入了一波反对数据中心的当地抵制浪潮，这股浪潮横跨东西海岸，涵盖了背景和政治信仰截然不同的美国人。根据皮尤研究中心（Pew Research Center）的数据，年轻人对数据中心的看法往往比年长者更负面。

但许多人也在与自己对聊天机器人的依赖作斗争，因为这些机器人需要数据中心持续运转才能维持。根据盖洛普（Gallup）和沃尔顿家族基金会（Walton Family Foundation）今年春天进行的一项调查，生活在美国的Z世代中，有超过一半的人经常使用生成式人工智能。对于其中一些年轻人来说，参与反对数据中心的斗争引发了一个棘手的问题：你能在利用这项技术的同时，抗议人工智能的物理足迹吗？

西斯内罗斯（Cisneros）现在经常参加反对皮兹堡（Pittsburg）计划建设的数据中心的社区会议和集会，该项目于2024年获得批准。她在社交媒体上发布视频，敦促其他年轻人参与其中；她的一段演示如何在市议会会议上发言的TikTok视频播放量已超过1000万次。

“这就是真正的影响力！”纽约民主党代表亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯（Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez）在一条Instagram帖子的评论中写道，并加上了三个火焰表情符号。

皮兹堡项目的开发商Avaio Digital的一位代表在声明中表示，许多对该项目的反对意见源于对该中心闭环冷却系统的误解，该系统会持续循环利用水，此外还源于对Avaio限制噪音污染努力的误解。

左侧及上方，BENJAMIN RASMUSSEN 为《纽约时报》拍摄

西斯内罗斯尝试减少使用人工智能。她下载了一个不会在搜索结果前提供人工智能摘要的浏览器，并停止将随口提出的问题输入ChatGPT。“我之前使用人工智能处理的一半事情，其实根本不需要人工智能，”她说。

科罗拉多斯普林斯（Colorado Springs）一名14岁的少年凯尔·麦格菲（Kyle McGuffey）表示，任何拥有智能手机的人已经在无数方面依赖人工智能，且并非所有依赖都显而易见。例如，在iPhoto中，这项技术被用于识别地标和植物。

“人工智能已经成为我们生活的一部分，而且是我们无法逆转的事情，”麦格菲说。“我的担忧是，它在缺乏公众监督的情况下发展得太快了。”

在初中和高中之间的暑假期间，麦格菲大部分时间都在提交与“金牛座项目”（Project Taurus）相关的公共记录请求，这是一个获准在他家约三英里处建设的人工智能数据中心项目。他有很多问题，他说在网上找不到令人信服的答案：是否有减轻噪音或评估对当地野生动物影响的计划？如果发生漏水怎么办？

5月，他通过《科罗拉多州公开记录法》申请到了与该项目相关的二十多页规划文件和电子邮件通信。其中一份早期报告指出，该场地的电力需求可能高于公开宣传的水平——为 300 兆瓦，而非 50 兆瓦。他将这些记录分享给了两个反对团体；其中至少有一个团体在针对该数据中心提出的上诉中使用了他的研究结果。

负责“金牛座项目”（Project Taurus）的公司 Raeden 的联合创始人兼总裁杰森·格林（Jason Green）在一次电话采访中表示，公司已尽最大努力解决社区的担忧，包括重新设计数据中心的墙壁，以尽可能减轻噪音。他表示，麦格菲（McGuffey）发现的文件是在对该场地进行正式尽职调查之前编写的，而由市政府批准的最终开发计划仅允许 50 兆瓦的电力。

“我赞赏这种关注，即使是对我们所做之事的批评，”格林说。

专注于 Z 世代的研究和媒体公司 Up and Up 的创始人瑞秋·詹法扎（Rachel Janfaza）表示，自 1 月以来，在她与该世代成员进行的焦点小组讨论中，她一直听到关于数据中心的激烈辩论。许多年轻人觉得，随着社交媒体的出现，他们的年龄组已经成为大科技公司的实验品：他们不想在人工智能领域重蹈覆辙。

“人们低估了 Z 世代对地方政治的渴望和兴趣，”她说，并补充道，“对他们来说，在社区中建立数据中心不仅是他们深切意识到的事情，而且他们明白，他们将是受其影响的人。”

年轻人似乎对人工智能长期如何影响他们的生活持悲观态度。今年春天，在全国各地的毕业典礼上，大学生们对那些表达人工智能乐观前景的演讲者发出嘘声。在盖洛普（Gallup）的调查中，只有不到 20% 的 Z 世代受访者表示对这项技术感到希望——较前一年大幅下降。

如果说数据中心是 Z 世代对人工智能广泛不安情绪的一个强有力且具体的攻击目标，那么对于一个政治分歧严重的世代来说，它们也可能成为一个共同的敌人。上个月，德克萨斯州一名 15 岁的少年马尔科·桑切斯（Marco Sanchez）成立了“埃尔帕索青年联盟”（El Paso Youth Alliance），组织青少年反对 Meta 在当地建设的耗资数十亿美元的数据中心。

他表示，目前已有近 100 名当地高中生加入——而且参与其中不需要经过政治立场审查。“我不在乎有人在谁应该成为下一任总统的问题上与我意见不合，”

许多年轻人组织起来反对在加利福尼亚州皮茨堡计划建设的数据中心，包括上图最右侧的 17 岁少女塞迪·西斯内罗斯（Sadie Cisneros）。在科罗拉多斯普林斯，14 岁的凯尔·麦格菲（Kyle McGuffey，中排最左侧和左二）收集了关于其家附近获批的数据中心的信息和公共记录。

桑切斯说，“只要我们双方都认同这个数据中心是有害的。”

当他第一次听说埃尔帕索要建设数据中心时，他曾希望这能成为对这座城市及其居民的一项有意义的投资。但当他得知 Meta 因在该地建设而获得了 80% 的房产税减免后，他的想法发生了转变。他现在担心，在 Meta 获利的同时，该项目将推高能源成本并增加污染。

“你们在给马克·扎克伯格的公司提供数亿美元税收返还的同时，却在坑害劳动家庭，”桑切斯说。

针对近期一篇关于人工智能数据中心快速发展所带来污染的文章，Meta 的一名发言人告诉《纽约时报》，公司“致力于用清洁和可再生能源抵消我们在埃尔帕索 100% 的电力使用”，并且 Meta “不会将这些成本转嫁给德克萨斯州人”。

一些 Z 世代的年轻人几乎在整个成长过程中都在了解数据中心的成本与收益。17 岁的米希尔·尼姆卡尔（Mihir Nimkar）在弗吉尼亚州劳登县长大，那里有一个被称为“数据中心巷”的区域，因其支持互联网流量和云计算的设施密集而闻名。在一次视频采访中，他表示，数据中心对于我们数字化生活中几乎所有喜爱的事物都是必不可少的：“如果没有它们，我们现在就无法进行这次通话。”

尽管如此，他对自己认为的一项近期数据中心建设规划不周感到沮丧，而人工智能（A.I.）进一步加速了这一进程。去年，当地一家公用事业公司提出了一条新高压电线的路线，该路线直接穿过尼姆卡尔就读的高中校园。

作为回应，他和朋友乔什·韦伯（Josh Weber）成立了一个名为“反对高压电扩张学生会”的社团。该社团鼓励青少年分发传单并参加学校董事会的会议。（该项目面临激烈的当地抵制，目前正提交至弗吉尼亚州最高法院。）

尼姆卡尔仍然使用 A.I. 来获取写作反馈，并在学校考试前用它来自测。他认为，无论电线问题如何解决，这场斗争都让人们对 A.I. 的普遍假设变得复杂了——人们曾认为 A.I. 就像某种魔法，是一个闪烁的光标，能毫无阻碍地吐出答案。

“我确实变得更加意识到当我使用 A.I. 时发生了什么，”尼姆卡尔说，“有很多你看不见的后果。”

索菲亚·弗兰克林 (SOFIA FRANKLYN) 和 约翰·梅萨莫尔 (JOHN MESSAMORE)

“Call Her Daddy”？不，就叫她浪漫吧。

作者：SADIBA HASAN

摄影：LILLY RED

2021年，当索菲亚·凡宁娜·弗兰克林（Sofia Vaninna Franklyn）经历分手时，她在婚介机构 Maclynn International 工作的朋友莎拉·鲍威尔（Sarah Powell）说服她注册加入。

“我从未那样看待婚介，”弗兰克林说，“我以为那是某种‘旧式’的约会方式。”

弗兰克林通过该机构进行了一次约会，但随后她“人间蒸发”，不再联系那位“非常善良的男人”，她说这是因为她和前任复合了。但次年他们再次分手，直到2024年，弗兰克林才再次收到该服务的消息。“我以为我可能被封号了，”她说。

她的媒人推荐的人选是约翰·本杰明·梅萨莫尔（John Benjamin Messamore），他在约会软件上寻找真爱的运气并不太好。一位朋友向他推荐了这家婚介服务，于是他决定尝试一下。

在与媒人的访谈中，梅萨莫尔解释了他认为自己能产生共鸣的人群类型：从事法律、会计或金融工作，能够理解他的世界的人。（他的整个职业生涯都在金融领域工作。）但他说，他与符合这些条件的人约会结果“极其不成功”。于是，该机构尝试了不同的方向。

2024年9月，在他从伦敦家中前往纽约出差之前，他的媒人询问他是否愿意见一位在曼哈顿名为索菲亚的企业家。在前往他们第一次约会地点——曼哈顿 Fouquet's 酒店内酒吧的路上，他搜索了她的信息。

“我想，‘天呐，这可能会糟糕透顶’，”梅萨莫尔说。从纸面资料来看，他们完全不同。她是播客主持人；他在私募股权公司工作。她的生活是公开的；而他的则不是。此外，她还卷入了相当多的戏剧性纷争中。

那些纷争是指她与前最好的朋友兼室友亚历克斯·库珀（Alex Cooper）公开决裂。2018年，两人推出了关于性、约会、文化和纽约生活的播客《Call Her Daddy》。该节目迅速走红，拥有数百万听众。当他们与发行商 Barstool Sports 的合同进入重新谈判阶段时，双方在条款上产生了激烈的分歧，导致库珀在2020年成为了该播客的唯一主持人。此后，弗兰克林创建了自己的播客《Sofia With an F》。

尽管最初有所担忧，但39岁的梅萨莫尔称这次约会是“我人生中最棒的一次约会”。

“我们在许多意想不到的层面上产生了共鸣，”他说。他们发现两人都成长于中产阶级家庭——她来自盐湖城，他来自北卡罗来纳州的费耶特维尔——并且两人都会说西班牙语。

“我们聊了书、哲学、宗教，以及自由意志是否存在，”他说。随着对话的展开，他们的联系也日益深厚。“并不是说我们在所有事情上都达成一致，”34岁的弗兰克林说，“而是一种协同效应，一种化学反应——那种你无法真正描述或解释的化学反应。”

他们还谈到了各自的约会目标。他正在寻找终身伴侣。她说她的下一个男朋友将会是最后一个。

第一次约会的真诚对弗兰克林来说是一种改变，她说自己曾“靠约会游戏维持生计”，事实上经常把约会当成游戏。“过去，我的套路一直是：‘千万不要让男人听到你说这种话。尽量表现得随意且有趣，也许那样会让他们感到压力。’”

“但后来我成熟了，”弗兰克林说，“我进行了一些疗愈和灵魂探索。我想，我不想再玩游戏了。”

那天晚上，他们通过信息聊到了弗兰克林小时候读的一本名为《缺失的一块遇见大圆圈》（The Missing Piece Meets the Big O，作者谢尔·西尔弗斯坦）的故事书。这让梅萨莫尔觉得与她更亲近了，他认为她可能真的是那个对的人。但他也表示，他有一种感觉，“她可能是一个有点不稳定的人。”

“可能有很多男生在尝试约约索菲亚出去，”他说，“所以我真的很担心没能获得第二次见她的机会。”

为了防止她试图取消第二次约会，他买了一本书作为礼物，这样他至少可以顺道过去把书交给她。

在他们尝试安排第二次约会时，弗兰克林确实表现得有点犹豫。她说，尽管她很喜欢他，但她是个居家的人。于是梅萨莫采取了备选方案，请求顺道去她在东村的公寓送礼物。她在楼下接了他，两人坐在公交车站聊天。

“我们进行了一次极其坦率的对话，”梅萨莫说。他们承认，如果追求一段认真的关系，未来意味着要面对异地恋。

他回到了伦敦，两人通过短信和长时间的通话保持联系。第 3 次约会是在10月的巴黎，那是他在一时兴起之下邀请她去的。他们在巴黎手牵手漫步。

“她激发了我身上缺失的一面，”他说，“我不是世界上最感性的人，但她激发了我内心的一种连接和生命力，这是其他人从未做到的。”

部分原因在于弗兰克林的共情能力影响了他。“而且还有一种熟悉感，”他说，“我们热爱一些极其随机且相同的事物。比如，我们都痴迷于 Postal Service 和 Death Cab for Cutie”——两支乐队——“电影、电视剧、音乐，以及对快餐的偏好。”

他们的第四次约会是在那个月晚些时候的迈阿密，第五次则是在12月的纽约，当时他在她那里住了一周。梅萨莫送给她一棵放在公寓里的小圣诞树作为惊喜。他们去了 F.A.O. Schwarz 玩具店，在她的沙发上看浪漫喜剧，并第一次说了“我爱你”。

他们开始每月见一次面，约会地点包括西班牙的马略卡岛和巴塞罗那，以及瑞士的采尔马特和圣莫里茨。但在两人共处的安静时光里，他们的关系才得以深化。“真正的连接是在沙发上看电视、点外卖、一起居家时形成的，”他说。

弗兰克林保留了她在纽约的住所，梅萨莫则保留了他在伦敦的住所。两人希望组建家庭。“我想以传统的方式，先结婚，然后组建家庭，”她说。

弗兰克林的职业生涯始于挑战约会和关系领域的传统——她在《Call Her Daddy》节目中提供一种女性版本的“更衣室谈话”，像男性一样公开讨论性，同时拥抱约会、快感和乐趣。

但她说：“人是可以成长的，女性也可以成长，观点也会改变。当我开始从事公众职业时，我 25, 岁，那是很久以前的事了。”

她说，在那段时间里，她对爱情感到厌倦：“我的意思是，你好，我的回忆录就叫《Daddy Issues》。我带着过去的一些心理包袱进入感情。”但她说，梅萨莫对她非常有耐心且体谅。

《Daddy Issues》将于11月由 Simon & Schuster 出版。在书中，她反思了

索菲亚·弗兰克林和约翰·梅萨莫于 7 月 31 日在意大利布鲁纳特结婚。“她激发了我身上缺失的一面，”新郎说道。

一位播客主持人的成长、疗愈与灵魂探索。

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时间：2026年7月31日 地点：意大利布鲁纳特（Brunate）的 Villino Rubini

经典时刻：8月2日的仪式结束后，梅萨莫尔（Messamore）和弗兰克林（Franklyn）——她身着一件 Vera Wang 的存档礼服——乘坐木制快艇在科莫湖上游览。他们希望在婚礼当天拥有一个安静的共处时刻。

俱乐部：在随后的派对上，他们的朋友、一名叫 Gallivanter 的 DJ 将婚礼场地变成了俱乐部，现场播放 House 音乐并伴有风笛。“我说，‘把它变成一套 DJ 现场演出，’ ”弗兰克林说，“我想让人们感觉自己身在俱乐部中。”

她在《Call Her Daddy》节目中的时光，与库珀（Cooper）的决裂，以及此后重塑自我的旅程。弗兰克林毕业于犹他大学，获得经济学学士学位。梅萨莫尔毕业于弗吉尼亚大学，获得金融和西班牙语学士学位。

2025年8月，在法国普罗旺斯地区戈尔德（Gordes）的 Airelles La Bastide 酒店，他在一份客房服务煎饼和一瓶桃红葡萄酒的陪伴下求婚。

7月31日，在婚礼庆祝活动开始前，这对夫妇在两名证人的见证下，于意大利布鲁纳特的 Villino Rubini 别墅正式登记结婚。布兰登·贝尔·邦格斯（Brandon Bear Bangs）是一家名为 $99 Weddings 的犹他州婚礼主持服务机构的授职牧师，他通过 Zoom 从犹他州主持了仪式。由于主持人在犹他州（这对夫妇办理结婚证的地方），此次远程仪式根据犹他州法律具有法律效力。

当天晚些时候，这对夫妇在意大利阿尔杰诺（Argegno）的罗马广场（Piazza Roma）举行了户外欢迎晚餐。第二天，他们在别墅为宾客安排了活动，包括制作意面、品酒和水彩画。

8月2日，他们在伦巴第的 Villa Pizzo 举行了婚礼庆典，约有 140 位宾客参加。谢莉·J·怀特海德（Shelley J. Whitehead）是一位关系教练，曾在两人订婚前引导弗兰克林和梅萨莫尔参加过一次密集的伴侣静修营，由她主持了仪式。

“在这个世界上，没有什么比找到那个命中注定的人更美好的了，”弗兰克林说，“我简直不敢相信我现在在说什么，因为我从未这样说话。”

特里·韦德（Terri Wade）， 克里斯托弗·冯（Christopher Fung）

一位让她感到安全的副警长

在2020年7月的一个周六早晨徒步时，特里·尼科尔·韦德（Terri Nicole Wade）的朋友们发起了一次温和的干预。他们告诉她，是时候就她那位分分合合六年的男友做出决定了。

韦德已经知道自己想怎么做，但朋友们的话给了她所需的推动力。当天晚些时候，她抱着满臂的杂货走进加利福尼亚州贝尔蒙特（Belmont）一位朋友家的烧烤聚会。一个陌生人克里斯托弗·KS·方（Christopher KS Fung）走上前，提出帮她拎东西。

“一旦我做出了这个明确的决定——我要向前看，突然之间，克里斯出现了，”韦德说道。

韦德是一位演讲者和人生教练，她的2023年著作《A-Z Happy》提供了培养积极心态和韧性的策略，她坚信“显化”和心态的力量。方是旧金山警长办公室的一名副警长，他立刻就感受到了她乐观的态度。

他最近刚结束一段短期关系。“特里就像一阵清新的空气，”他说。

这对两人均为38岁的伴侣计划在接下来的周日去徒步，但方渴望能早点见到韦德，于是他在那个周五晚上给她发信息，邀请她一起看日落。当太阳在旧金山湾缓缓落下，他们聊到了家庭、精神信仰、旅行以及旧金山巨人队；当方陪韦德走回车边时，他们分享了初吻。不到两周后，在她的生日那天，他请求她成为自己的女朋友。

次月，正当两人处于热恋初期时，韦德的母亲——同时也是她的挚友和室友——在60岁时突然去世。方是第一个到达韦德家安慰她的人，并在整个哀悼过程中一直陪伴在她身边，甚至陪她前往加利福尼亚州圣克鲁斯（Santa Cruz）的海滩，将母亲的骨灰撒入太平洋。

“他能如此全身心地投入，这很特别，”韦德说。“我觉得这太美了，也充分体现了他的为人。”

在8月16日的婚礼誓言中，情绪激动的韦德告诉方：“在遇到你之前，我不知道浪漫的爱可以如此轻盈、如此俏皮、如此舒适且如此安全。当世界感到混乱时，你就是我的安全空间。”

韦德在加利福尼亚州福斯特城（Foster City）长大，获得了加州大学河滨分校的工商管理学士学位。她获得了圣母德纳穆尔大学（Notre Dame de Namur University）的工商管理硕士（M.B.A.）学位，直到今年6月为止，她一直在该校的招生部门工作。她离职是为了专注于她的教练

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业务，并撰写一本回忆录，讲述即使在人生最艰巨的挑战中，如何践行她所学习的积极心理学概念。

方在旧金山长大，父母是二十多岁时来到美国的中国移民。抵达美国后，他的母亲先是担任清洁工，随后学习成为一名土木工程师。他的父亲在中国曾是一名机械师，后来开设了自己的汽车修理店。

“他们实现了美国梦，”方说道，并补充说父母教会了他设定目标并耐心地朝着目标努力。方通过南湾区域公共安全培训联盟在圣马特奥学院（College of San Mateo）学习执法，在疫情期间，他通过北德克萨斯大学获得了应用艺术与科学的在线学士学位。除了担任副警长外，他还经营一家销售宝可梦卡牌和周边商品的在线业务。

这对伴侣在2025年5月与韦德的父亲和继母一起前往巴黎旅行期间订婚。晚餐后，在埃菲尔铁塔闪烁的夜景映衬下，方单膝跪地，请求韦德成为他的妻子。

他们的婚礼在圣拉蒙水域（San Ramon Waters）举行，这是一个位于旧金山湾区的婚礼场地。这对新人选择在 8 月 16 日结婚，是因为这个日期在中国数字命理学中具有重要意义：数字 8 与财富、繁荣和好运相关，而数字 16 则象征着顺遂的人生道路。

由世界基督教事工（World Christianity Ministries）授职的专业司仪史蒂夫·西格林（Steve Siglin）主持了仪式。在仪式接近尾声时，他邀请了方（Fung）之前感情中所生的三个孩子（年龄在 10 到 16 岁之间）来到户外祭坛与这对新人汇合。在 140 位宾客的注视下，方、韦德（Wade）和孩子们每人点燃一支细长的蜡烛，然后将各自的火焰触碰到一支大蜡烛的烛芯上，以象征他们作为一个家庭的统一。

在另一个体现这对新人对家庭共同承诺的举动中，他们在招待室的壁炉架上摆放已故亲人的照片，以纪念他们。

韦德说，她的母亲并不总是喜欢女儿的伴侣，但在认识方的短暂时间里，她很喜欢方。在去世的前一天晚上，她给韦德发了一条短信：“我很高兴你接纳了爱。” LESLIE KATZ

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卡米·克劳福德（Kamie Crawford）， 泽维尔·香槟（Xavier Champagne）

“我那天晚上就想嫁给他”

那是卡梅兰·克劳福德（Kameran Crawford）使用约会软件 Raya 的第一天——准确地说是 2022年4月30日——她在软件上与泽维尔·香槟（Xavier Champagne）匹配成功。

“我之所以用 Raya，是因为我那个 22 岁的助手告诉我：‘你这样永远遇不到合适的人，试试 Raya 吧，’”克劳福德回忆道。

当克劳福德（她习惯被称为卡米）第一次在软件上看到香槟时，她被惊艳到了。“他太迷人了，”她说，“我点赞点得太用力，手机屏幕都快被我戳破了。”

他们住的地方仅相隔三个街区，但此前从未见过面。

香槟在看到克劳福德时同样被深深吸引——直到今天，两人仍无法就谁先点赞达成一致。但香槟确定的一点是，他想尽快地进一步了解她。

“我想在同一天就约她出去，”他说，“匹配后我们发了大约 20 分钟的短信，紧接着又在电话里聊了一个小时。”他们约定次日在洛杉矶的意大利餐厅 Bacari 的 West Third 分店见面。

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她说，那是她经历过的最棒的一次约会。

“当我见到他时，我就知道了，”克劳福德说，“那是一种无法用语言形容的感觉。他不仅长得帅且身高 6英尺4英寸，还能让我开心地笑。感觉我们聊遍了所有话题，但依然有说不完的话。”

这种好感是相互的，而香槟被吸引的不仅仅是克劳福德的外貌。

“我对外表之下的特质非常感兴趣，”香槟说，“我对她这个人的内在非常好奇。在洛杉矶，人们倾向于泛泛而谈而非深入交流。我对此感到精疲力竭。”

她表示，两人后来发现，在约会结束后，他们都在“偷偷给朋友发短信，说觉得自己遇到了‘真命天子 / 天女’”。

第一次约会后，他们在接下来的那一周里又约会了两次，第一次是在加州西好莱坞的意大利餐厅 Terroni，第二次是在 Jones Hollywood。

两人共同决定在 2022年8月退出 Raya。两个月后，“泽维尔在出差时给我打电话说：‘我能预见到我们共同的未来，如果你愿意接受我，我想现在就开始’，”克劳福德说。

在克劳福德回应之前，香槟先后三次向她表白。 “我知道一旦我说出那句话，我将永远地坚守它，所以我真的想确定，”克劳福德说，“从那以后，我每隔五分钟就会告诉他我有多爱他。”

33 岁的克劳福德是一名电视和播客主持人兼制作人。她曾是美国青少年小姐（Miss Teen USA）和《体育画报》泳装模特，主持过多部电视系列节目，包括《Catfish: The TV Show》、《Are You the One?》和《Ex on the Beach》。她还制作并主持一个关于情感关系的播客。她拥有福特汉姆大学（Fordham University）的传播与媒体研究学士学位。她出生于克利夫兰，在马里兰州波托马克长大。

38 岁的香槟是华纳查佩尔音乐（Warner Chappell Music）纽约分公司的 A&R 高级总监。他获得了费城艺术学院的数字电影制作副学士学位。他出生于新泽西州卡姆登，在新泽西州威灵博罗和西费城长大。他与前任育有一个 18 岁的女儿。

2024年7月3日，在香槟调职到华纳查佩尔纽约办公室后，两人在布鲁克林威廉斯堡搬到一起居住。在接下来的 15 个月里，他们继续在纽约和洛杉矶之间往返。

2025年8月，他们购买了一栋位于新泽西州北部的 1900 年代早期都铎风格房屋，目前正在进行全面翻修。他们计划同时保留在洛杉矶的住所。

2025年9月27日，在曼哈顿金融区的一家名为 Saga 的餐厅里，香槟在假装与老板和公司总裁共进工作晚餐的情况下求婚。香槟甚至向领座员提供了他老板的名字，以防止克劳福德察觉。

但当她走到楼梯顶端时，“我因为爬楼梯以及当时的情况而过度换气，”她说道。

求婚结束后，这对情侣与在那里等待给她惊喜的家人和亲密朋友一起，在 Saga 餐厅楼下共进晚餐。随后，他们在熨斗区（Flatiron district）的一家名为 Amber Room 的俱乐部兼活动空间庆祝。

“太完美了，”克劳福德说。“如果可以的话，我当晚就想嫁给他。”

两人于 8 月 13 日在家中举行了婚礼，由克劳福德五个妹妹之一的米隆·克劳福德主持，后者为了这次仪式通过美国婚姻部（American Marriage Ministries）获得了在线授职。克劳福德的另一位妹妹维多利亚和香槟的女儿担任证婚人。

随后在 8 月 15 日，他们在费城的 Water Works 举行了一场庆祝婚礼，共有 205 位宾客出席。仪式由马里兰州最高法院法官彼得·基洛（Peter Killough）主持，他是克劳福德父亲儿时的好友。

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他们的第一次约会就在香槟已故父亲生日的前一天。“虽然我没有荣幸见过他，但我们一直在这个时间点中寻找慰藉，”克劳福德说。“这感觉像是一个安静的提醒，告诉我们他从一开始就在守护着我们的爱情故事。” 珍妮·布洛克（JENNY BLOCK）

艾莉森·比克（Alison Bick）， 马克西姆·扎斯拉夫斯基（Maxim Zaslavsky）

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在宾客的欢呼声中，艾莉森·达娜·比克（Alison Dana Bick）和马克西姆·埃利沙·扎斯拉夫斯基（Maxim Elisha Zaslavsky）在8月15日的仪式后完成了他们的第一次大跳水。

“八月份还有什么比跳进泳池更有趣的呢？”比克说道。她选择在半奥林匹克泳池中进行“首泳”，而不是跳“首舞”——当时她穿着一件 Jenny Yoo 的白色缎面踝长连衣裙，而他穿着 Banana Republic 的海军蓝色西装裤和衬衫。（随后，她换上了一件价值 $600 的 Eres 米色一件式泳衣，价格是她裙子的两倍；他则换上了泳裤，两人都穿上了 Havaianas 泳池拖鞋。）

两人于2019年9月相识。当时比克和一名朋友在斯坦福大学为当地的普林斯顿大学校友组织了一场欢乐时光聚会。扎斯拉夫斯基整个晚上都在关注比克，并在聚会快结束时走到了她身边。

两人都拥有普林斯顿大学的学士学位，她于2015年获得化学工程学位，他于2017年以最高荣誉获得计算机科学学位，但此前两人从未见过面。

“我觉得他大学毕业后演奏爵士乐并在初创公司工作这一点很令人耳目一新，”32岁的比克说。她在新泽西州的肖特希尔（Short Hills）长大，当时正在斯坦福大学完成博士学位，她在那儿获得了机械工程的硕士和博士学位。

29岁的扎斯拉夫斯基来自圣迭戈的拉霍亚（La Jolla）地区。与她不同，他当时正处于在斯坦福大学博士项目第一周的适应期，他后来在那里获得了计算机科学的硕士和博士学位。

虽然他当时没有拿到她的电话号码，但那天晚上和他在一起的一位朋友住在比克的公寓楼里，并且知道她的姓氏。第二天，扎斯拉夫斯基在 Facebook 上向她发送了好友请求。

一个半月后，在拒绝了她邀请参加的动感单车活动后，他邀请她去听斯坦福管弦乐团的万圣节音乐会。尽管她更喜欢百老汇和流行音乐，但她非常喜欢他的陪伴，所以两人全程听完了演出。之后，她骑自行车去实验室继续她的博士项目——为一项关于微小液滴的微流控研究制作一次性设备。

“这个可能更符合你的风格，”他通过 Facebook 写道，并附上了一个“马友友演奏埃尼奥·莫里康内”电影配乐的录音链接，她一直听到午夜离开实验室为止。

那周晚些时候，他邀请她去观看一场校园内的环境纪录片；又过一周，他带她去校园美术馆，在那里他从一个自动售货机装置中花 $1 给她买了一个画在软木塞上的小螃蟹。这个小螃蟹至今仍放在她的床头柜上。

那两个夜晚都以拥抱结束，次周在他家共进晚餐时也是如此，这让她怀疑他们是否仅仅是朋友。

“能遇到像你这样聪明、幽默且美丽的人是很罕见的，”晚餐后他在 Facebook 上给她发信息，这让她欣喜地解开了心中疑惑。

在比克与住在哥本哈根的姐姐共度感恩节，而扎斯拉夫斯基与拉霍亚的家人共度节日之后，她加入了他的朋友们，一起在圣何塞工业区的那些不起眼的小店里进行“塔可美食之旅”。

之后，在她的公寓里，他们在电影《黑客帝国》的片头字幕出现前完成了初吻。

“你愿意做我的女朋友吗？”他随后问道。

詹·谢（JEN HSIEH）

到2020年8月，他们搬进了研究生宿舍。他说那里有种“军营的感觉”，周围种满了尤加利树，他们还经常在那里看到狐狸和火鸡。

“第一个早晨我醒来时，”他说，“鸟儿在鸣叫，阳光洒进来，我睁开眼，看到她戴着安全护目镜，拿着电钻，”准备开始处理项目。

他们还一起旅行，他适应了她家的一项核心准则——每人只能带一个背包——并走访了四个大洲的 14 个国家。

2024年3月，他们搬到了新泽西州泽西市的一套公寓里。去年年初，他创立了 Immunera，这是一家诊断初创公司，利用基因测序中的人工智能技术开发自身免疫性疾病的血液检测方案。

比克（Bick）在新泽西州拉里坦的强生医疗技术公司（Johnson & Johnson MedTech）担任研发工程师。

今年4月，当他们坐在新泽西州隆布兰奇海滨步道的长椅上时，他们回顾了那个周末的一些亮点——骑行、赏樱和看电影。

“我们再这样度过60年，怎么样？”他单膝跪地说道。

随后，她给了他一个惊喜。

她已经预订了夏季末在新泽西州西考德威尔的山脊乡村俱乐部（Mountain Ridge Country Club）举行婚礼的日期，她的家人长期以来一直是该俱乐部的会员。

8月15日，在希伯来联合学院获得授职的拉比丽贝卡·考夫曼（Rebecca Kaufman）在他们的泳池派对上，在胡帕（huppah）顶篷下主持了仪式，现场共有50名宾客。

为了向新郎的乌克兰-俄罗斯背景致敬，他们在鸡尾酒时间供应了俄式饺子（pelmeni），随后是烤制汉堡和热狗，以及包括圣代冰淇淋和一块写着“新婚快乐 艾莉森 + 马克西姆”的香草糖霜巧克力片状蛋糕在内的甜点。

“我们的朋友们接受了这场非传统的婚礼，并在泳池里尽情嬉戏，”她说。在泳池中，这对浑身湿透的新人被人们用椅子抬起，大家一起跳起了霍拉舞（hora）。 ROSALIE R. RADOMSKY

克雷格·格雷韦（Craig Greiwe）， 特伦特·基尔（Trent Keel）

事实上，远不止是“稍微感兴趣”

摄影：琳恩·夏皮罗（LYNN SHAPIRO）

2023年9月，在洛杉矶的一家餐厅里，克雷格·格雷韦（Craig Greiwe）坐在特伦特·艾伦·基尔（Trent Alan Keel，照片右侧）对面，当时他深信他们的第一次约会不会有任何结果。

“我记得当时在想，他甚至对我一点兴趣都没有，”格雷韦说。

但在现已关闭的 Petty Cash Taquería & Bar 喝完饮品后，基尔短暂地陪同格雷韦去了 Hi Tops——一家同性恋体育酒吧，格雷韦在那里与朋友会面。

对于基尔决定随行这件事，“我很困惑，”格雷韦说。“我问他今晚剩下的时间是不是要一起待着，他说：‘不，我想进行第二次约会。’”

两人于8月在 Hinge 上结识。基尔表示，尽管他在第一次见面时很愉快，但“在刚开始了解我的时候，我的心思很难被读懂。”

“后来我才意识到，那不是没兴趣，而是一种宁静的湖泊，”格雷韦说。“他是一口永恒的平静之泉。”

36岁的基尔在俄克拉荷马州摩尔市长大，并在埃德蒙的中央俄克拉荷马大学学习舞蹈表演。他在毕业前离开大学，前往洛杉矶追求歌手和舞者的职业生涯。与此同时，他成为了一名发型师。如今，他是美发护理公司 Amika 的营销总监。

44岁的格雷韦在印第安纳州格林斯堡出生并长大。他拥有印第安纳州格林卡斯尔的德波大学的法语学士学位，以及南加州大学的戏剧学士学位，此外还拥有哥伦比亚大学的法律学位。他是媒体技术公司 GoDigital 的首席增长官。

在2023年秋季约会后，格雷韦和基尔因工作职责分赴不同大洲。基尔在整个12月都在澳大利亚，而格雷韦在1月份的大部分时间都在欧洲。但他们保持着定期联系。在除夕夜，身在悉尼的基尔在当地时间上午9点设置了闹钟，以便在午夜之前给身在伦敦的格雷韦打电话。

1月下旬，在旅行归来几小时后，格雷韦与基尔在洛杉矶的一家名为 Sugarfish 的寿司店共进晚餐。

“我说：‘我要停止称呼你为我正在交往的人，开始称呼你为我的男朋友了，’”基尔说。“关于这一点，你有什么疑问吗？”

“我们的想法是一致的，”格雷韦说。“当然，我们并非在所有事情上都观点相同。我更倾向于宗教，而他倾向于灵性。他热爱音乐，而我连一首歌的歌词都说不出来。他是一名非常娴熟的舞者，而我经常摔跤。”

但他补充道，他与基尔对想要的生活有着相似的愿景。

“一夫一妻制、孩子，建立这种朝着宇宙中比自身更宏大的事物共同生存的感觉，以及认为自己有义务让这个世界变得比发现它时更好，”格雷韦说。

2024年12月6日，在一年一度的节日派对之前，格雷韦雇了一位私人厨师在家里准备晚餐。这顿饭是一个让彼此父母互相认识的机会。

在所有人到达之前装饰圣诞树时，格雷韦告诉基尔他买了三个新的装饰球。第一个球里装着一个来自 Sugarfish 的清酒瓶盖，第二个球里装着格雷韦家的钥匙。第三个装饰球挂在树上，里面只有一张纸条问基尔：“你愿意嫁给我吗？”

当基尔转身时，格雷韦正单膝跪地，拿着一个戒指盒。在基尔答应后，他们告知了父母。次日的节日派对变成了一场惊喜的订婚派对。几个月后，在2025年4月，两人搬到了洛杉矶的汉考克公园社区共同生活。

这对夫妇在2024年3月进行的第一次共同度假（在他们订婚前几个月）是前往格雷韦所描述的他“地球上最喜欢的地方”：位于伦敦西部的豪华乡村酒店 Coworth Park。当他带基尔去那里时，工作人员用气球、彩带、一个三英尺高的巧克力蛋以及根据他们喜好定制的鸡尾酒给了他们惊喜。随后，格雷韦向基尔展示了该物业，并告诉他希望有一天能在这里举行婚礼。

这一愿景在8月15日成为了现实，基尔和格雷韦在 Coworth Park 结婚，由温莎和梅登黑德自治市的首席登记官卡罗琳·戴维森女士（Lady Caroline Davison）主持。他们与124位宾客一起，在仪式前后共度了四天时间，参与了典型的当地活动，包括击球环、射箭、猎鹰——以及雪貂赛跑。 VALERIYA SAFRONOVA

誓言

当婚礼邀请函附带高昂代价时

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机票、租车和酒店费用累积得很快。这里有一些削减开支的方法。

作者：莎拉·莱昂（SARAH LYON）

安德鲁·施莱特（Andrew Schleeter）会尽一切努力参加朋友的婚礼——即使庆典在海外举行。

“我热爱婚礼，我认为婚礼是一种非常有趣的旅行方式，”现年 32 岁、居住在曼哈顿且担任商品营销机构 MerchCamp 首席营收官的施莱特说道。“人们花一整年的时间来筹划婚礼，并且希望你参与其中。我认为这非常特别，所以我总是尽量参加。”

美国人希望参加婚礼。在 PayPal 5 月进行的一项调查中，90% 的受访者表示，他们宁愿削减外出就餐、购物和健身房会员费用，也不愿错过挚友的婚礼。但参加婚礼并不便宜：根据蒙特利尔银行（Bank of Montreal）的一项美国调查，美国宾客估计每次庆典的平均花费约为 1,400 美元。

虽然减少日常开支有助于减轻负担，但像施莱特这样注重预算的婚礼宾客正在采用其他巧妙的技巧，以削减在住宿、机票和服装上的支出。

自 2025 年 5 月以来，居住在布鲁克林的内容创作者卡罗琳·萨克斯（Caroline Sacks）参加了 16 场婚礼。现年 30 岁的萨克斯将大多数此类庆典视为与远方朋友重新建立联系的机会，而非她与未婚夫——客户执行官杰克·布舍尔（Jack Bushell）的浪漫度假。因此，两人经常与另一对夫妇分摊酒店房间费用，以控制开支。

“酒店房间真的是优先级最低的，”萨克斯说道，她更愿意将资金分配给机票、租车或庆典前的美容护理等其他费用。此外她补充道，合住房间通常更有利，因为这里可以成为其他在整个周末期间“想要融入其中”的人的聚集地。

对于那些对入住酒店不感兴趣的宾客来说，像 Kindred 这样的房屋交换社区正变得越来越受欢迎。Kindred 采用“以给得换取”的系统，成员每接待宾客一晚即可获得一个积分。他们可以使用这些积分预订欧洲和北美的住宿，仅需支付少量的服务费和清洁费。Kindred 成立于 2021 年，近期经历了快速增长——在其 400,000 名成员中，有 150,000 人是去年加入的。

自 2023 年起成为 Kindred 成员的施莱特，最近兑换了他在平台上积累的积分，以确保在巴黎的两场婚礼和墨西哥的一场婚礼中有处可住。当他得知其他宾客在巴黎难以找到负担得起的住宿时，“我就说：‘不，不，不，你们得来跟我一起住——我这儿有免费的地方，’”他回忆起在将他们注册为账户宾客前对他们说的话。

对于一些参加多场婚礼，或者认为缺席庆典绝非选项的宾客来说，策略性地办理一张具有高额现金返还或奖励优惠的新信用卡，可以帮助抵消部分成本。萨克斯和布舍尔在去年夏天参加希腊和墨西哥的婚礼前就这么做了。“我们知道我们

郁郁葱葱的场所可能是交换誓言的完美地点。但你的宾客可能不得不投入更多资金才能到场。

需要在一定天数内达到最低消费额，”萨克斯说。“我们觉得：‘太完美了。反正这钱得花。现在就是最佳时机。’”

但考虑采取这种方式的参与者应首先仔细评估自己的整体财务状况。“尽量避免让次要利益成为做出关键财务决策的主要动力，”加利福尼亚州长滩市 Halbert Hargrove 公司的资深财富顾问文森特·比拉尔迪（Vincent Birardi）表示。“人们应该留意不要在短时间内开设过多的新信用卡账户，因为这样做可能会暂时降低你的信用评分。在多张卡上持有未偿还余额对信用评分的负面影响会更大。”

萨克斯在选择航班时也尽量有意识地规划。“目前我们忠于达美航空，”她说。如果婚礼次日早晨出发比当天晚上出发便宜得多，她建议选择前者，即使这意味着会错过告别早午餐。“除非你是首席伴娘，否则我保证没有人会在房间里四处寻找你，”她说。

旅游建议网站 Points Guy 的创始人布赖恩·凯利（Brian Kelly）表示，认为在一周中的某些特定日期购买机票更经济的想法已经过时了。相反，凯利说，“这完全取决于需求。”他补充道，提前四到六周预订国内航班是“最佳时机”。“航空公司会惩罚那些过度焦虑的人，然后又会惩罚最后一刻才预订的旅客。”

除了预订住宿和交通，婚礼宾客还必须考虑 ap。

在选择某些方案前，请先考虑您的财务状况。

服装。PayPal 的一项调查显示，千禧一代和 Z 世代认为参加婚礼时，服装是最大的开支。许多宾客选择在多次庆典中重复穿着心仪的服装，有些人甚至将服装借给朋友。

在过去的两年里，29 岁的莫拉·贾奇（Maura Judge）参加婚礼时大多只穿两件裙子：一件来自 Reformation 的黑色抹胸长裙，以及一件来自 Hill House 的蓝色薄纱裙。居住在曼哈顿的贾奇最初购买这件蓝色裙子是为了在 2024 年参加好友凯蒂·斯威尼（Katie Sweeney）的婚礼并担任伴娘。斯威尼最近在 6 月份参加贾奇的婚礼时也穿了这件裙子。

2021 年，37 岁的作家凯特琳·普尔（Caitlin Poole）在二手交易市场 Poshmark 上订购了一件 Farm Rio 的亮粉色连衣裙，此前一位朋友要求亲密好友穿着亮粉色或红色。居住在北卡罗来纳州达勒姆的普尔表示：“裙子寄到后非常完美且舒适，穿上它让我感到愉悦和自信。”她为这件裙子支付了 250 美元。裙子当时带有吊牌且是全新的，她已经穿着它参加了 8 场婚礼。

对于普尔来说，重复穿着同一件裙子不仅仅是一种省钱技巧。“我一直对可持续和伦理时尚感兴趣，”她说。拥有一个固定选项还能减轻决策疲劳。“在参加婚礼之前，我过去会感到巨大的压力，”普尔说，“‘我会穿得舒服吗？这件衣服合适吗？看起来会怎么样？’现在，大家都知道，‘哦，那就是凯特琳的婚礼宾客裙。’”

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热爱多莉·帕顿（Dolly Parton）——这位在水钻世界中的钻石——很容易。但要理解她却很难。作者：特雷西·麦克米伦·科顿（TRESSIE McMILLAN COTTOM） / 第 12 页

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专栏与评论

开发中：艺术、新闻与生活交汇处的新作。

克里斯·佩雷斯（CHRIS PEREZ），通过联系照片

当摄影师克里斯·佩雷斯在 2021 年访问他父亲位于多米尼加共和国农村地区的祖籍地时，他被那里社区的温暖与美丽所震撼。在他的展览“El Campo：多米尼加乡村影像”中，佩雷斯先生重新连接了一种他成长过程中一直与之保持距离的文化。“现在我有了儿子，”他说，“我可以带他去那个属于他血统的地方，告诉他，‘这个地方就在你的血液里。’”

脚注：民调的问题

JANIK SÖLLNER

在几乎每个选举周期之后，新闻报道都会回顾民调在多大程度上出现了偏差。2016年，希拉里·克林顿被预测将赢得总统大选，但最终败给了唐纳德·特朗普；乔·拜登曾被预期在威斯康星州以17个百分点的优势击败特朗普先生，但最终仅以微弱优势获胜。民调一直是一门不精确的科学：根据《银色简报》（Silver Bulletin）时事通讯，约63%的调查正确预测了2024年总统大选的结果。这可以归咎于低响应率，以及难以接触到不参与投票的选民和改变主意的选民。以下是关于民调的一些阅读和听力推荐。

聆听《民调又错了……吗？》

Crooked Media 播客节目《我们如何走到今天》（How We Got Here）的这一集探讨了诸如特朗普先生对政治规范的颠覆、疫情以及对工人阶级选民投票率的低估等因素，如何使得准确捕捉公众舆论变得更加困难。

阅读

《数量的力量：民调如何运作以及为什么我们需要它们》

在这本2022年的著作中，数据记者 G. 埃利奥特·莫里斯（G. Elliott Morris）认为，如果操作正确，民调可以成为揭示人民意愿并让选民在民主制度中发声的强大工具。

阅读

《迷失在盖洛普中：美国总统大选中的民调失败》

在这本2020年的著作中，历史学家 W. 约瑟夫·坎贝尔（W. Joseph Campbell）记录了政治民调的早期历史，并认为媒体和公众不应赋予这类调查如此之高的权威性和意义。

聆听《我们能信任选举预测市场吗？》

在在线投注网站正确预测特朗普先生将击败卡玛拉·哈里斯之后，人们对其预测能力的信任度激增。彭博社播客节目《大解读》（Big Take）的这一集警告称，这些市场可能被用来操纵选举。

JAMELLE BOUIE

想要成为国王的人

犯下“冒犯君主罪”（lèse-majesté），在过去以及某些地方的现在，是指对皇室尊严实施犯罪。

其基本理念是，在君主制——尤其是绝对君主制——下，国家的完整性取决于国王（或女王或同等人物）的威望。侮辱、诋毁甚至质疑君主，就是在破坏国家本身。在欧洲中世纪和近代早期的绝对主义国家中，冒犯君主罪是一项重罪，可处以死刑。

在美国，很难想象“冒犯君主罪”的情况，因为我们有着悠久且喧闹的政治嘲讽传统，以及对当选领导人的公开蔑视，而这些都受到我们宪法赋予的言论自由权的保护。同样重要的是，即使是我们政府中最高级别的官员，其权力也源于人民，而非血统传承或神授权力。

那么，在具有君主幻想的总统唐纳德·特朗普领导下，美国正深刻体会到当统治者的名字不可侵犯时是怎样的感觉，这真是太讽刺了。

在我的新闻部门同事玛吉·哈伯曼（Maggie Haberman）和乔纳森·斯旺（Jonathan Swan）合著的《政权更迭：唐纳德·特朗普的帝国总统制内幕》（Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump）一书中，他们讲述了与特朗普的一次会面。在会面期间，特朗普自豪地向他们展示了一份由一名高尔夫球童兼商人撰写的文档，该文档声称他比许多臭名昭著的独裁者和军阀更强大，包括斯大林、毛泽东、希特勒、匈奴王阿提拉和成吉思汗。

特朗普非常享受这种比较。

在注意到这一切之后，特朗普一世国王寻求利用国家力量来惩罚那些

特朗普走到这一步是不可避免的。

那些质疑他、侮辱他或挑战他对事件叙述的人——这便是美式“冒犯君主罪”。

他最近的目标是自由派智库“美国进步中心”（Center for American Progress）。由于该中心最近发布的一份报告批评并谴责他在美国城市部署国民警卫队的行为，特朗普威胁要对其提起一项 50 亿美元 billion 的诽谤诉讼。特朗普声称向华盛顿等城市派遣警卫队是为了解决犯罪问题。但根据该中心的报告，没有统计学上的显著证据表明这些部署——如果持续到 2026 年底，成本将超过 17 亿美元 billion ——降低了全国的犯罪率。作者认为，部署的目的不是为了应对犯罪，而是为了恐吓并从民主党领导的城市中夺取权力。总统的律师称该报告具有恶意且充斥着虚假陈述。

公平地说，确实没有哪位总统喜欢这份工作的这一部分。而且，确实存在过总统在国家利益的掩护下，试图利用国家机器打击批评者的时刻。但大多数总统在面对一个以广泛致力于言论自由和新闻自由而定义的国家时，深知自己能做的事情不多，因此选择承受压力并继续前行。

然而，特朗普并不认为自己仅仅是一个受公众舆论制约的总统。他也不认为他的职位与他个人是分开的。他确实将自己视为某种君主，认为普通公民的公开批评破坏并威胁到了他的政府，尽管他声称自己代表着被“遗忘”的人并引导着大众意志。

这种皇室般的受损感不仅限于特朗普与政治对手的关系。你在他处理与其他国家关系的方式中也能看到这一点——他将任何少于完全服从的行为视为对他个人的伤害，从而将其视为对国家的伤害。

以总统与我们最紧密的经济合作伙伴之一——加拿大的贸易战为例。这场冲突没有任何逻辑上的理由，也不符合边界两边人民的利益。这主要是特朗普无边无际的自我意识，以及他将关税视为国家繁荣之路的单狂痴迷的结果。

一年多以来，特朗普一直试图通过关税、关税威胁以及对加拿大主权的攻击，强迫加拿大在经济上屈服，并经常惯常地开玩笑说要让加拿大成为第 51 个州。这种情况延续到了最近的贸易谈判中，政府向加拿大施压，要求其放弃对自己贸易政策重要方面的控制，并停止支持那些受到美国关税损害的产业。当加拿大谈判代表拒绝屈服于这些要求且谈判破裂时，特朗普发起了猛烈抨击。

于是我们陷入了现在的局面：与一个曾经是盟友和朋友的邻国陷入一场毁灭性的贸易战，而该国现在将美国视为危险且不可信的。

君主制的致命缺陷在于，国家的强度取决于君主的性格和能力。它使整个民族受制于那一个男人或女人的病理状态：受制于他的功能失调、他的适应不良以及他扭曲的自我认知。

特朗普是通过民主选举产生的。但无论是他单方面行使权力，还是他的君主野心，都至少提醒人们，将如此巨大的权力交给一个人——交给一个自我意识——是制造灾难的可靠途径。

专栏与评论

布雷特·斯蒂芬斯（BRET STEPHENS）

暴风雨将至，阴云密布

THOMAS PETER / 路透社

在2022年俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰后不久，我写了一篇标题为《这就是第三次世界大战开始的方式》的专栏文章。四年多后的今天，我想知道自己预测对了多少。

我的论点基于第二次世界大战的起源。二战并非简单地始于Sept. 1, 1939德国入侵波兰，相反，这场战争是区域性战争和危机的累积，始于1931年日本入侵满洲，随后逐渐汇聚成一场单一的全球冲突。

在极权主义国家野心的汇合，以及民主国家的分歧与犹豫的推波助澜下，这种汇聚导致了灾难。此外，军事技术和战术的革命使独裁政权在进攻性战斗中占据了早期优势。另一个优势是：他们愿意施加——并忍受——一种其对手最初不愿匹配的残酷程度和痛苦。

在2022年，我看到了类似的模式在展开：西方对弗拉基米尔·普京数十年的绥靖政策，让这位俄罗斯强人产生了一种认为自己几乎可以为任何行为脱罪的感觉。他与朝鲜、伊朗，尤其是中国日益增长的关系——在入侵前几周宣布的与北京建立“无上限”伙伴关系的承诺便是明证——给了他额外的信心。而在仅仅六个月前，美国在从阿富汗混乱撤军期间表现出的软弱景象，同样起到了这种作用。

但乌克兰并没有像我担心的那样，变成1940年的法国。它更像英国，准备好战斗，正如丘吉尔在当年5月所说，“无论道路多么漫长且艰辛”。拜登政府尽管在允许基辅将战争延伸至俄罗斯境内的问题上存在致命的犹豫，但至少帮助确保了乌克兰没有战败。乌克兰还保持了技术优势，率先采用了相关设备和战术，这最终促使人们对未来的战争将如何进行进行一次迟到已久的重新思考。

这是好消息。而坏消息则要多得多。

首先，就像在20世纪30年代和40年代一样，冲突领域正在成倍增加并相互融合。

俄罗斯在战场上的挫败似乎并未削弱普京冒险的胃口。他正在扩大其针对摩尔多瓦、波兰、德国等国家的行动，其攻击和威胁几乎毫不掩饰；与此同时，他的政治盟友反复呼吁直接打击欧洲，并对乌克兰使用核武器。哈马斯在2023年对以色列的袭击分阶段演变成了以色列与真主党、胡塞武装以及伊朗之间的战争；随后演变为伊朗、美国与海湾国家之间的战争。最近，乌克兰在里海发动了远程打击，以干扰伊朗向俄罗斯提供的军事供应。而且，一个战区的决定直接影响另一个战区的结果：在中东消耗的导弹拦截弹意味着现在几乎没有多少可以分给乌克兰。

其次，独裁者轴心已成为一个全面运作的军事联盟。

俄罗斯正在为朝鲜军队的现代化提供帮助，而

第三次世界大战是否已经开始？

朝鲜通过发送数百万发炮弹予以回报，据报道目前正准备派遣数千名额外部队前往乌克兰为俄罗斯作战。中国为俄罗斯的无人机及其他军事硬件提供了大部分电子元件。俄罗斯则向伊朗提供了关键的目标情报，用于打击美国在中东的基地和舰船。正如澳大利亚战略政策研究所（Australian Strategic Policy Institute）的一篇新论文中所详述，如果中国攻击台湾，北京可能会通过寻求俄罗斯强大的太平洋潜艇舰队的援助，来向莫斯科兑现其筹码。

第三，西方陷入混乱。

特朗普总统抱怨我们的盟友软弱。盟友们则抱怨特朗普的霸凌、反复无常、幼稚、谎言以及无能。双方都说对了。美国最近对加拿大发起的关税攻势就是一个典型的例子：在政治上是不明智的，在经济上是自毁的，在战略上是削弱力量的。

然而，这一切都无法抹杀这样一个事实：加拿大作为一个依赖贸易且拥有全球最长海岸线的国家，几乎没有像样的海军；或者说，其政府与中国建立的“新战略伙伴关系”是不道德、不明智且不可靠的——除非总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）真的认为，特朗普那些愚蠢的爆发，比中华人民共和国耐心的布局对加拿大以及广义上的自由世界构成更严重的长期威胁。

第四，我们在军事上准备不足。

针对伊朗的战争不仅揭示了弹药短缺（这导致战争过早结束），还揭示了美国对军事伤亡和经济痛苦的极度敏感，鉴于伊朗领导层对人类苦难的耐受力，这给了他们一种不对称优势。乌克兰战争表明，由于人工智能辅助无人机战争的出现，即使是最先进的美国军事装备也正进入过时阶段。正如《时报》上周报道的那样，我们在拜登政府期间向基辅提供的坦克“现在大多处于闲置状态，隐藏在森林中，布满了蛛网”。

然而，我们那位痴迷于睾酮的国防部长皮特·海格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）最近决定逐步取消一个陆军无人机单位，似乎是因为该单位是由他不喜欢的将军们支持的。“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号航空母舰在长期部署期间所经历的艰辛是一场国家丑闻。但这应当引起人们对舰队规模处于历史低位，以及难以建造和维护舰船的枯竭工业基础的关注。阻挠国防拨款法案的民主党人也没有帮上忙。

第五，我们可能接近经济边缘。1930年代与现在的一个重大区别在于，与当时不同，我们目前并未处于全球大萧条之中。但剧烈且突然下滑的预警信号无处不在。如果或者当人工智能繁荣像本世纪初的互联网泡沫那样开始失去动力时，会发生什么？或者如果日本的货币危机导致其开始抛售美国国债会怎样？传奇投资者斯坦利·德鲁肯米勒（Stanley Druckenmiller）最近在《华尔街日报》上警告称，财政部的债券回购几乎注定会失败：最终，\$40 trillion国家债务的价格将体现在大幅提高的利率上，以及这些利率给每一个长期依赖廉价信贷的经济部门带来的风险。

一场严重的美国经济衰退或全球金融恐慌，将不可避免地恶化上述每一个趋势。在经济困境时期，民主国家几乎总是变得更加厌恶风险，而独裁政权则变得倾向于冒险。当我们继续在模糊的意识中漂向这场聚集的风暴时，这是一个值得回顾的历史模式。

卡洛斯·洛萨达（CARLOS LOZADA）

在我们迈向“觉醒 2.0”之前，我对“觉醒 1.0”仍有疑问

改变心意与调整策略之间存在差异，观点的演进与因观点变得不受欢迎或具有政治风险而将其抛弃之间也存在差异。

当众议员亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯（Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez）最近在接受 ABC 新闻采访时，引用一位政治盟友的话，带着笑意暗示“Woke 1 太疯狂了”时，她成为了最著名的、在微妙或公开地与所谓“觉醒主义”（wokeism）保持距离的进步派人物——即在过去十年左右时间里，构成进步派正统观念的关于种族、警务、性别、身份、社会正义和语言的严苛立场。那些曾经以教条方式维护、将异见者斥为懒惰（“去做功课”）或不人道（“你简直是不想让我存在”）的观点，现在被视为一个尴尬的阶段，是文化和政治进步主义在成长过程中笨拙的形成期。

竞选美国参议院席位的德克萨斯州民主党人詹姆斯·塔拉里科（James Talarico）承认，“我确实说过一些让自己后悔的话”，并且他过去的一些言论现在看来可能很“尴尬”（cringey）。（这一切发生在一名记者询问他过去关于上帝是“非二元性别”的断言时，塔拉里科现在称这一主张是“故意挑衅”。）左翼的一些评论员也加入了这种修正主义，例如承认“取消文化”有时可能走得太远，并且承认觉醒议程中的某些元素在事后看来确实显得愚蠢。

这是一个值得关注的演变，尤其是对于任何曾见证觉醒时代巅峰期——比如 2020 年夏天左右——那种“死守阵地”式教条主义的人来说。（如果 Woke 1 真的如此疯狂，那么曾呼吁废除监狱并采用“月经期人士”等术语的奥卡西奥-科尔特斯，无疑是该精神病院的一名资深住院患者。）

因此，在那个时代被彻底丢进记忆黑洞、被视为众多“氛围转变”（vibe shifts）中的一次之前，我想问那些曾经“觉醒”的人一个问题：如果你现在能如此随意地将其否定——所有关于削减资金和废除制度、使用 BIPOC 和 Latinx 等术语、取消文化、去中心化以及“我的真相”（my truth）——那么在当时，你真正相信其中的多少？其中多少是信念，多少是姿态，多少是群体思维，又有多少是恐惧？

如果你当时确实相信，那么现在将其抛弃时不应仅仅是露出一个腼腆的微笑。如果你并不相信，却以如此的热情、如此的道德优越感以及对相反观点的如此轻蔑来宣称它，那么你现在至少应该承认这种认知失调。你应该解释这种转变，而不仅仅是将其搪塞过去。

一些作家和思想家承认，他们支持某些进步派的真理——或者没有反对此类真理——是因为他们感到被受众威慑，或者担心自己的职业生涯。我希望政治阶层也能有那么一点点这样的知识分子责任感，至少能有勇气感到脸红。

例如，当曾经“觉醒”的人回顾那段时光时，他们现在具体认为哪些部分是疯狂的、尴尬的或愚蠢的？他们是后悔特定的信念，还是仅仅后悔表达这些信念的挑衅方式？他们是认定之前的某些立场是不切实际或错误的，还是仅仅认为在公开场合表达这些立场在选举上风险太高？

我知道，期待政治家具有知识分子的责任感可能是愚蠢的，而且政党和运动被允许且被预期会发生演变。例如，右翼经历了从戈德华特（Goldwater）和里根革命，到纽特·金里奇（Newt Gingrich）和《与美国签约》，再到乔治·W·布什（George W. Bush）的“同情保守主义”，接着是茶党，最后演变为 MAGA，其间既有延续性也有断裂性。并非每个政治家都必须明确否认之前的一切。

但是，当政治领导人拒绝的不仅是一种旧意识形态，而且是他们自己曾经体现并维护的旧意识形态时，这种掩盖行为所应付出的代价应当更高。

在采访中，奥卡西奥-科尔特斯将“觉醒时代”的过激行为部分归因于疫情限制带来的压力，她表示：“当然，那个时期的措辞并不是我们今天会使用的措辞。”但这仅仅是对她立场转变的一种精明的重新表述，而非对此的解释。奥卡西奥-科尔特斯今天不再使用同样的措辞，是因为她不再认同它——还是因为她再也无法将其推销出去了？

长期以来，我一直对文化战争争论中固有的动机和激励机制感到担忧。文化战争的主要目的并非讨论议题，而是选择一个

那些立场中是否有些是不切实际或错误的，还是说现在它们只是风险太高？

一方面，是加入一个团队。而加入团队的麻烦在于，不可避免地，某些队友会走得比你愿意走得更远。他们会占据你可能不认同的立场，或在你不甚了解的话题上制定教条。但当然，你不希望对方获胜，所以你随波逐流，激烈地维护你团队的各种立场，并追捕背教者。在某个时间点，你不再是在思考问题；相反，你是在捍卫领地。

亲特朗普的右翼政治人物也经历了一场类似的舞步，无论是在为他们领导者的每一次腐败和独裁冲动寻找借口，还是在公开的忠诚中掺杂一些尽职但毫无意义的私下担忧。他们是真正的信徒，还是仅仅因为恐惧？是正当的忠诚者，还是胆怯的机会主义者？特朗普主义的右翼可能会演变成一个更具危害性的版本，或者有一天，其目前的帮凶和支持者可能也会微笑并说，MAGA 只是在一段时间内有点疯狂。如果他们真的这么做，

我无法想象曾经的“觉醒派”会让他们如此轻易地脱身。

在她的采访中，奥卡西奥-科尔特斯表示她没有“排除”在 2028 年竞选总统的可能性——而将她修正后的意识形态立场与这一野心联系起来是很简单的。奥卡西奥-科尔特斯说，现在是民主党的“更新时期”，并解释道，“我们关注的范围涵盖了从医疗保健到杂货账单的所有事情。”她称该党为“大帐篷”，并确认“我们的优先级是工人阶级”。

当这位美国民主社会主义者（D.S.A.）纽约市分会成员的国会议员被问及 D.S.A. 要求削减五角大楼资金、废除警察制度和参议院以及建立关键产业公有制的呼吁时，她回答说，“人们对这些学术争论不那么感兴趣，他们更感兴趣的是我们将如何降低他们的账单，并确保他们能负担得起看医生的费用。”（对于一个自称尊重科学和专业知识的左翼，以及一个将“交叉性”和“白人脆弱性”推向日常用语的运动来说，这种对学术的轻视显得尤为巧妙。）

那么，这是一个 Woke 2, 专注于工人阶级经济挑战、生活负担能力和医疗保健，并将身份政治抛在脑后的版本吗？这很可能被证明是一个在选举上更讨喜的版本，如果受 D.S.A. 影响的民主党渴望获得国家权力，那么这样做是有意义的。如果说 Woke 1 是由特朗普最初崛起为总统而加速的，那么他的重返白宫则揭示了其政治上的缺陷。

如果事实确实如此，奥卡西奥-科尔特斯和其他人完全有权寻求新的框架和信息，改变他们的想法。但在 Woke 2 接管之前，让其前身的支持者解释一下他们是如何以及为何决定前行的。

他们应该完成这项工作。

观点

加拿大贸易战的真正赢家？中国。

查德·P·鲍恩 (Chad P. Bown)

为《纽约时报》提供图片

彼得森国际经济研究所高级研究员，《如何赢得贸易战》一书作者。

对美国与加拿大之间全面贸易战最敏锐的观察者无疑是中国国家主席习近平。如果华盛顿不改变方向，他很可能也将成为这场战争的赢家。

习近平已经对数以十万计的美国和加拿大就业岗位至关重要的零部件拥有垄断权力。他在 2025 年 4 月对稀土磁铁实施的限制，导致芝加哥的一家福特探险者 (Ford Explorer) 工厂暂时关闭。同年晚些时候在安大略省，在他切断半导体供应并导致零部件供应中断后，本田公司短暂地削减并暂停了思域 (Civic) 和 CR-V 的生产。

这类攻击以及这类脆弱性应当让盟友团结起来。在正常的世界里，华盛顿和渥太华会高度关注他们能共同制造多少产品以及制造速度有多快，以防止这种来自中国的经济胁迫。

然而，特朗普总统将他与加拿大的争端定性为一场关于加拿大应准备向美国让出多少制造业的斗争。而特朗普想要的是几乎全部。

加拿大总理马克·卡尼 (Mark Carney) 拒绝了特朗普最新的提议，随后通过实施新关税升级了对抗。前副总理克里斯蒂亚·弗里兰 (Chrystia Freeland) 说这甚至是对“美国不利的交易”，这一点是正确的。

特朗普不能允许加拿大放弃谈判。无论是否愿意，在与中国市场主导地位进行更大规模且更具影响力的较量中，华盛顿需要一个具有韧性的加拿大制造业部门与美国公司协同工作。

渥太华拒绝特朗普最新提议的部分原因是，该提议保留了过多针对加拿大汽车、重型卡车、钢铁和铝的进口关税。在如此高关税的情况下，美国人最终将停止购买加拿大组装的车辆，底特律将重新调整其供应链以排除加拿大零部件。汽车和零部件曾像在美国-墨西哥边境一样，在供应商和买家之间无缝地跨越美加边境流动。

被隔绝在邻国市场之外将使加拿大汽车工业遭受毁灭性打击。加拿大距离亚洲或欧洲不够近，无法作为其供应链的一部分而生存。

根据澳大利亚在汽车制造商消失后发生的情况，我们大概知道接下来会发生什么。到 2017 年，丰田、通用汽车和福特关闭了他们在澳大利亚的最后几家工厂，向经济现实低头：澳大利亚市场规模太小且过于偏远，无法支撑全球竞争制造业所需的规模。

澳大利亚人起初从日本、韩国、泰国、欧洲和美国的制造中心进口汽车。

不到 10 年后，澳大利亚的情况大不相同。2026 年上半年在澳大利亚购买的新车中，近三分之一是中国制造，而 2017 年这一比例还不到 250 分之一。（2026 年前五个月，澳大利亚消费者的购买中只有 50 分之一是美国制造。）

特朗普应当预料到加拿大消费者也会走这条路。今年 1 月，卡尼宣布加拿大将允许 49,000 辆中国电动汽车在境内销售——不足新车销量的 3%——并将缓慢增加这一数量。任何进一步开放加拿大市场的决定都可能会导致中国进口产品的激增。

其原因纯属经济学 101 常识。当国家经济能获得抵消性收益（如组装岗位、国内零部件供应商的利润以及围绕钢铁或铝厂建立的社区）时，购买成本更高的美国汽车在政治上更容易被证明是合理的。如果本地制造业消失，加拿大人接受支付更高价格的理由也将随之消失。

将加拿大客户输给中国对美国而言将是糟糕的，原因有两点。

首先，对于汽车等具有高固定成本和较高新进入者门槛的行业来说，买家的总数至关重要。拥有更多的消费者意味着公司可以学习如何降低成本并提供更低的价格，从而吸引更多客户。失去加拿大的汽车买家，将是向中国让出全球汽车工业的又一步。

如今，中国公司销售低价汽车。到了明天，该国可能会将其新获得的垄断权力武器化。中国此前也曾向全球提供价格极具竞争力的稀土磁铁和低端半导体。这些价格使其能够积累市场主导地位，并最终使习近平先生在去年有能力切断福特、本田以及许多其他公司的供应。

中国在钢铁、铝、造船和电信设备等领域的市场份额不断增加。经济合作与发展组织（OECD）最近的一份报告表明，自2005年以来，中国在全球市场份额增长中，有60%可归因于其通过慷慨补贴支持工业的政策。

其次，失去加拿大的商业基础可能会彻底推开华盛顿仅存的少数几个经济支。

美国在需要尽可能多盟友的时候，却瞄准了错误的经济体。

curity allies. 盟友。在特朗普先生于 2025 年开始对加拿大挥舞关税大棒之前，渥太华在针对中国电动汽车、钢铁和铝的许多关税措施上与华盛顿保持一致。他迫使加拿大人思考的是如何与美国分离，而不是与美国合作以脱离中国。

为了与中国进行真正的贸易战，加拿大消费者必须继续选择北美产品，即便中国版本的价格更低。华盛顿需要加拿大人接受目前将制造业与美国整合所带来的成本。

就特朗普先生而言，他必须缓和其“美国制造”的要求。他不能在摧毁加拿大制造业的同时，还希望能够接触到加拿大消费者。

为了应对中国的挑战，西方所需的制造业影响力甚至超过了整合后的北美经济所能提供的规模。华盛顿需要集结所有潜在盟友，共同对抗中国的市场主导地位，而这些盟友正在观察，特朗普先生是否能在其误入歧途的贸易战造成不可挽回的后果之前，找到一个退出通道。

Meta 的和解协议总比没有好

朱莉娅·安格温 (Julia Angwin)

特约评论员及调查记者。

money and beset by tech lobbyists, repeatedly failed to regulate the sector. 资金充裕且深受科技游说者困扰，多次未能对该行业实施监管。

长期以来，大型科技公司一直势不可挡。国会早在 1996 年就赋予了该行业法律保护，使得在法庭上追究这些公司的责任几乎变得不可能。尽管有越来越多的迹象表明科技如何助长谎言、歧视、骚扰和诈骗，但两党立法者在科技资金的浸染下，

现在，我们终于在跌跌撞撞中进入了一个问责时代。这并不像我们如果效仿几乎所有其他国家、通过全面立法来保护隐私和数据安全并遏制算法操纵那样深思熟虑且全面。相反，我们采取的是一种“千刀万剐”的方式。随着法官和陪审团越来越怀疑大型科技公司关于其应承担零责—。

科技公司在不受约束的状态下运行太久了。终于，出现了一点问责。

sponsibility for consumers harmed by its products, the lawsuits and fines are piling up.其产品对消费者造成伤害的责任，诉讼和罚款正在堆积。

上周，47 个州、哥伦比亚特区以及一些美国领地对 Meta 发起了猛烈抨击，促使这家 Facebook 和 Instagram 的所有者同意支付高达 171 亿美元 billion 的罚金，此前有指控称该公司故意误导公众，掩盖其平台对青少年用户造成的伤害。

虽然这笔罚金数额巨大，但远低于 Meta 所称的各州寻求的 $1.4 trillion。与烟草业在 1998. 年达成的 2060 亿美元 billion 和解协议相比，这简直微不足道。而且，只有在 的死对头 YouTube、TikTok 和 Snap 同样限制儿童在应用上的使用时间时， 才会支付全额款项——考虑到青少年在其中一些平台上的花费时间已经超过了 自己的平台，这是一个高明的举措。这或许解释了为什么在和解协议公布后， 的股价几乎没有受到影响。我对此持怀疑态度，认为它承诺给年轻用户的保护措施不会给青少年的心理健康带来实质性的改变。

但随着 进入其 zombie era,，每一次打击都至关重要。目前该公司面临着用户增长停滞、利润下降、法律责任增加，以及试图闯入 AI 市场所带来的天文数字般的成本。

这次和解虽然不完美，但可能表明 有多么渴望在另一场雪崩般的诉讼到来之前卸掉部分法律责任。这场诉讼涉及超过 100,000 起个人起诉，用户声称该公司的平台被刻意设计成具有成瘾性且缺乏儿童安全保护。法院已将这些诉讼打包，可能会达成另一项全球性和解。

在面对这些案件、且旧的法律辩护手段日益失效的情况下， 已同意对 Facebook 和 Instagram 进行实质性修改。它与总检察长们达成协议，将青少年的社交媒体使用时间限制在每天两小时，在夜间和上课期间屏蔽通知，关闭算法推荐馈送，并禁止使用美颜滤镜，以及其他一些变更。父母将有权绕过或调整这些限制，这终于让他们在孩子账户上拥有了首批实质性的控制权。

尽管我很想为任何旨在减轻伤害的努力鼓掌，但仅仅给父母增加几个控制旋钮和按钮，不太可能导致青少年社交媒体行为发生实质性转变。

一方面，青少年可能会发现新的限制很容易规避。当澳大利亚在 12 月禁止 16 岁以下儿童使用社交媒体时，许多人简单地通过使用虚拟专用网络（VPN）来绕过禁令，使他们看起来像是从澳大利亚境外连接，并创建虚假账户。一份澳大利亚政府在 3 月发布的报告声明：“很大一部分 16 岁以下的澳大利亚儿童继续保留账户、创建新账户或通过平台的年龄验证系统。”

在和解协议中， 谨慎地避开了对规避限制的青少年的任何问责。该公司同意确保其年龄评估工具（虚拟 ID 检查和面部扫描）的错误率低于 10 percent。但 仅同意在打击流行的规避手段方面尽“最大努力”。

此外，该和解协议未能解决社交媒体中两种最阴险的设计选择：一是“无限滚动”，即无止境地展开内容以让用户上瘾；二是他人点赞和评论带来的“可变奖励”，这促使用户不断刷新页面，以期获得新的多巴胺快感。

事实上，Meta 的这些改动对成年用户毫无帮助，而成年用户同样容易受到大型科技公司的操纵。我明白，将重点放在保护孩子身上在政治上很受欢迎，因为孩子的大脑处于发育阶段，因此更容易受到操纵；但有充分的证据表明，社交媒体也伤害了许多成年人——根据联邦调查局（F.B.I.）的数据，尤其是老年人，他们遭遇网络诈骗的比例正日益升高。

对年龄验证的关注也危及我们在网络上保持匿名的能力——这是一种我们在现实世界中认为理所当然的关键自由，但在虚拟世界中却过于轻易地将其放弃。我们绝不会同意在阅读贴在当地公告栏上的传单之前出示护照。那么，为什么我们在网上要做等同于此的事情？我们生活在一个这样的时代：一名娶了 1CE 抗议者的德克萨斯州父亲，可能因为共谋隐匿文件而被判处 30 年监禁（他只是搬了一个装有家用打印杂志的盒子）。我们需要在不受监视的情况下分享和消费信息的自由。

虽然我很高兴 Meta 为儿童创建了一些最基本的安全功能，但更好的选择应该是让这些平台对每个人都安全。我们都能从汽车的安全带或建筑工地的安全帽中获益。难道我们不也应该受到保护，免受大型科技公司的掠夺吗？

观点

大规模 AI 建设正危及经济

罗宾·威格尔斯沃思 (Robin Wigglesworth)

纳丁·雷德利奇 (NADINE REDLICH)

《金融时报》金融博客 Alphaville 的编辑，以及即将出版的图书《辉煌的债务：债券如何构建现代世界的史诗故事》的作者。

尽管关于英伟达成为首家市值超过 $5 trillion 的公司、埃隆·马斯克的 SpaceX 上市，以及 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 即将进行的首次公开募股而闹得沸沸扬扬，但人工智能已不再主要是一个股市故事。这是一个关于债务的故事，而这应该让我们感到担忧。不幸的是，主要由信贷驱动的狂热几乎不可避免地会以糟糕的结局收场。

目前，且先撇开关于 AI 驱动的经济奇迹或 引发的“就业大灾难”的预测。没有人真正知道思考机器时代将产生多么深远的影响——这项技术与之前的任何事物都截然不同。众所周知，计算机时代在经济数据中显现也花费了很长时间。

但我们对于债务驱动的投资热潮有着丰富的经验，例如 19 世纪的铁路狂热、20 世纪的电信革命，以及最近 21 世纪的住房繁荣。即使底层的技术被证明具有变革性，这些热潮最终都导致了严重的经济衰退。

为什么债务在 中变得如此核心？此前，大多数对数据中心及相关基础设施的投资是由 Facebook 或谷歌搜索等公司产生的充沛现金流支付的。但大规模 模型依赖于巨大的计算能力。而构建这种能力所需的投资规模，正日益迫使那些“超大规模运营商”——即那些在激进增加 数据中心投资的小圈子公司——转向贷款、债券和其他各种形式的财务义务来为这场狂欢买单。

这种债务狂饮甚至让业内人士感到震惊。

去年，英国巴克莱银行的分析师在参加的一次 数据中心会议上，收集了一系列未注明出处的评价，其内容从“享受一场没有安全带的火箭之旅”到“描述这个市场的最佳词汇是‘疯了’”。

从那时起，情况变得更加疯狂。根据摩根士丹利的统计，美国 公司去年已经从债务市场筹集了 2170 亿美元 billion。到 8 月中旬，他们已经打破了这一总额，发行的债务达到 4450 亿美元 billion，且该投资银行预计 2026 年的整体债务挥霍将达到近 6000 亿美元 billion。这比美国司法部、交通部和教育部 2026 年的预算总和还要多。

而且，根据超大规模运营商告诉投资者的内容，这仅仅是个开始。他们未来的资本支出计划总额高达

由信贷驱动的狂热几乎不可避免地会以糟糕的结局收场。

根据投资公司阿波罗（Apollo）首席经济学家托斯滕·斯洛克（Torsten Slok）的计算，在 2027 到 2029, 年间，这一数额每年约为美国国内生产总值（G.D.P.）的 3%。粗略计算表明，这相当于每年近 $1 trillion。而且，从相对角度来看，其相对增长的规模和速度甚至超过了 2008 年崩盘前几年的美国住宅房地产市场。

换句话说，如果 2025 年的 AI 狂热仅仅是疯狂，那么我们现在正进入“疯狂的平方”——甚至可能是“疯狂的立方”领域。

在很大程度上，投资者目前似乎并未感到担忧。互联网泡沫及其破裂通常被视为当前 AI 繁荣的最佳类比，这让人们希望破裂带来的经济后果将是可控的。美国股市在 2000 年的顶峰到 2003 年的低谷之间损失了近一半的市值，但美国经济仅遭受了轻微且短暂的挫折。而且，从最终结果来看，计算机确实彻底改变了世界。

人们很容易期待 AI 繁荣能以类似的方式演进，释放出巨大的繁荣。毕竟，超大规模云服务商拥有极高利润的核心业务，因此他们或许能够轻松应对债务。

但仍有理由担忧。那些曾经精干且高效的赚钱机器（科技公司），突然变成了贪婪的资本吞噬者。仅举一个财富剧变的例子：谷歌在 2004 年上市以来累计创造了近 6000 亿美元 billion 的现金流，但在 2026, 年第二季度，其自由现金流首次出现负值。

此外，还存在更隐蔽的负债问题。债券销售易于追踪，债务在公司的资产负债表上透明地报告，所有人可见。但超大规模云服务商正变得在财务上更加“灵活”，他们越来越多地通过将数据中心投资结构化为租赁承诺，从而将债务移出账外。

以 Meta 在路易斯安那州巨大的 Hyperion 数据中心项目为例。该公司没有发行债券，而是通过承诺租赁该数据中心 20 年来获得大部分融资。结果，这笔 273 亿美元 billion 的贷款在 Meta 的资产负债表上完全没有出现——尽管在实践中，该公司必须承担这些未来的租赁付款责任。

高盛分析师最近统计出，AI 超大规模云服务商的租赁承诺总额达 $1.5 trillion。其中，约 $1 trillion 与尚未开始的租赁相关，这意味着即使是单笔租赁付款在公开披露中也几乎不出现，尽管与之相关的债务在未来往往会产生不可避免的成本。正如高盛平淡地指出：“由于这些义务最终会被确认且合同付款到期，这种处理方式可能会低估杠杆率和未来的流动性需求。”此外，据估计还有 $1.5 trillion 的“采购承诺”——即购买芯片和电力的承诺。这些承诺同样没有出现在资产负债表上。

更危险的是，AI 生态系统已变得异常“内卷”，商业、投资和贷款关系交织成一张极其复杂的网，将大多数公司捆绑在一起。即使是某个角落出现的特有问题，也可能轻易地波及整个行业。

目前已经有一些迹象表明，债券市场投资者——他们比那些更为乐观的股票投资者更擅长嗅出潜在麻烦——正变得焦虑不安。投资者开始购买保险，以在超大规模云服务商破产时获得保护。根据目前的保险成本，投资者仍然认为这些 AI 公司有能力还钱，但对于像 Alphabet 或微软这样的公司，仅仅是存在此类保险这件事，在两年前几乎是不可想象的。

在19世纪70年代铁路狂热的顶峰时期，据说一位美国金融家曾打趣道：“任何铁路在经历接管程序之前，都无法进入盈利状态。”或许，现在全球各地正在建设的人工智能数据中心也会被如此评价。

这可能会给我们留下廉价且充足的计算能力——即便许多破产的铁路最终也被证明是长期的福祉——但在短期内，美国人将不得不面对痛苦的经济挫折。1873年一场史诗级的铁路债券崩盘引发的崩溃，长期以来一直被称为“大萧条”——直到这个标签在20世纪30年代被取代。如今，它通常被称为“长期萧条”，它证明了即便是有坚实基础的技术繁荣，如果过度依赖债务，也会带来危险。而且，铁路轨道的寿命比芯片长得多。

民主党温和派需要做的不仅仅于此

HAIYUN JIANG / 纽约时报

夏洛特·阿尔特 (Charlotte Alter)

《我们一直在等待的人：新一代领导人将如何改变美国》的作者。

塞斯·莫尔顿 (SETH MOULTON) 曾被认为将成为新一代民主党的面孔。作为一名好斗且精力充沛的退伍军人，他将自己定位为制衡进步左翼的温和力量，一个从意识形态光谱中间地带带来新能量的反建制异类。

如今，这位连任六届的众议员正参加马萨诸塞州 9 月 1 日的参议院初选，竞争对手是现任议员埃德·马基 (Ed Markey)。目前看来情况并不乐观。

你可能会认为现在应该是莫尔顿先生的机会。民主党选民正处于一种反现任、反建制的氛围中，而乔·拜登在 2024 年的惨败让他们对高龄候选人日益感到不安。然而，民调显示莫尔顿先生落后于马基先生两位数，而后者是一位在华盛顿工作了半个世纪的 80 岁老人。

在进步派似乎接连获胜的一年里，莫尔顿先生的竞选揭示了中左翼的困境。温和派民主党人必须在不激怒充满活力的民主党基本盘的情况下，将自己与左翼区分开来。他们正艰难地试图阐述一种不一定是“进步主义变革”的变革信息。而 2024 年的惨剧使得人们更难主张温和主义是赢得选举的唯一途径。

莫尔顿先生在一次采访中向我指出，民主党人并没有“在尖叫着说我们想要社会主义者”。相反，他说，“有一大群民主党人在说，‘党内建制派辜负了我们’。”但进步派民主党人确实拥有清晰度的优势：美国选民知道他们代表什么，无论选民是否喜欢。中左翼候选人倾向于提供进步主义思想的更务实版本，或者通过繁琐的政治策略来实现渐进式变革。这迫使选民在如何真正地把事情办成方面进行令人精疲力竭的计算。

对于在深蓝色的马萨诸塞州竞选的莫尔顿先生来说，这一挑战尤为严峻。他的策略是将对马基先生的初选挑战塑造为一场世代之争，而非理念之争。“这取决于你是否认为舒默-马基 (Schumer-Markey) 的老人政治在对抗特朗普总统方面一直有效，”他说，“或者你认为你需要一些可能更有活力、更有能力去对抗他及其亲信的人。”

莫尔顿先生在医疗保健、住房和能源成本等问题上与马基先生的立场高度一致。“我竞选参议员并不是因为我不认同马基参议员的政策，”他在接受《波士顿环球报》采访时表示。除了指出对手年事已高，他最强有力的批评似乎是马基先生在这些问题上取得的进展不足。但凭借伯尼·桑德斯 (Bernie Sanders) 和伊丽莎白·沃伦 (Elizabeth Warren) 两位参议员的背书，以及长期为进步事业奋斗的记录，马基先生显然是这场竞选中真正的进步派；莫尔顿先生的竞选看起来就像是试图与可口可乐经典款竞争的低糖可乐。

从一开始，莫尔顿先生就应该大胆地讨论一套完全不同的议题，从而定义一个能够强力替代日益崛起的民主党左翼的方案。

莫尔顿先生最大的理念是，新的人才比宏大的理念更重要。

他第一次对华盛顿精英感到沮丧是在伊拉克服役四次期间，“当时我正承受着华盛顿那些完全脱离基层实际的人所做出的糟糕决定的后果，”他说。

在 2008 年离开海军陆战队后，莫尔顿先生获得了哈佛大学的研究生学位，随后在一家开发连接休斯顿和达拉斯的高铁项目的公司担任董事总经理。2014 年，他作为一名 35 岁的挑战者竞选国会议员，击败了一位连任九届的现任议员。

在接下来的12年国会生涯中，他将自己塑造为一个局外人，挑战那些他认为在华盛顿待得太久的资深民主党人。在民主党赢得2018年中期选举并掌控众议院后，穆尔顿先生协助领导了反对南希·佩洛西出任议长的竞选活动（尽管她最终仍以压倒性优势当选议长）。他是首批呼吁拜登先生退出2024年竞选的知名民主党人之一，且穆尔顿先生已誓言不会投票支持查克·舒默担任参议院多数党领袖。

穆尔顿先生反对什么一直很明确：年迈的华盛顿建制派、现任者的惯性，以及无论谁在掌权的那些老朽之辈。但他一直忙于对抗建制派，却未能准确解释他究竟在争取什么。

穆尔顿先生是温和派“新民主党人”党团的一员，从投票记录来看，他在以进步派为主的马萨诸塞州民主党代表团中处于右翼。作为中左翼的“造王者”，他取得了一定成功，利用自己的政治行动委员会（PAC）来提升下一代国会候选人的地位。

最近，穆尔顿先生试图顺应他认为的政治风向。他坚称自己不是中间派。“我不会使用那个词，”他告诉我，“但我能够开展跨党派合作。”

“塞斯不是一个进步主义者，但他试图以进步主义者的形象进行竞选，并试图重新定义它，”马萨诸塞州资深民主党战略专家玛丽·安·马什表示。

于是我问他：除了新一代的领导层，他的竞选主张究竟是什么？

“嗯，我的意思是，这是新一代的思想，”他说。尽管他和马基先生有许多共同目标，但穆尔顿先生认为自己更务实。马基先生主张全民医疗保险（Medicare for all），而穆尔顿先生则倾向于扩大公共医疗保险选项。穆尔顿先生表示，马萨诸塞州的住房危机意味着，“显然，无论马基参议员在住房问题上做了什么或没做什么，都没有奏效。”他认为，扩大铁路运输可以提高住房的可负担性，而马基先生提出的交通计划还停留在“20世纪10年代”。

塞斯·穆尔顿在马萨诸塞州低迷的竞选活动表明了该党面临的挑战。

这一切都没有什么特别新鲜或令人振奋之处。

公平地说，如果穆尔顿先生是在一个“紫色州”（势均力敌的州）竞选，我们可能会将他视为今年民主党的前线冠军之一。但穆尔顿先生必须在马萨诸塞州的民主党初选中挑战一名现任议员，而他选择在一条微妙的钢丝上行走——进步，但不能太进步。

正如《广告狂人》的主角唐·德雷珀曾说过的那样：“如果你不喜欢人们在谈论的内容，那就改变对话的主题。”虽然进步派在过去十年中通过鼓吹反对企业捐款和支持全民医疗保险而获益，但他们的强势也可能成为弱点：一些选民可能已经厌倦了关于医疗保健的陈词滥调。穆尔顿先生的问题在于，他改变对话主题的程度还不够。

这让人倍感沮丧，因为在他的网站深处隐藏着关于另一组议题的资料，这些内容本可以为选民提供一个比“像马基一样但更年轻”更具吸引力的替代方案：他承诺向全国高速铁路网络投资 2050 亿美元 billion；他计划在全国学校禁用手机；他承诺对社交媒体公司征税，并将收益用于投资公共空间和青年组织；他提议监管人工智能以保护个人数据、维护美国就业机会，并惩罚向儿童提供危险内容的 AI 公司。

这些聪明的想法可以成为中左翼议程的基础，从而与进步左翼形成真正的对比。它们甚至可以凝聚成一个支持人类、支持社区且反对大型科技公司的未来愿景。

可惜的是，穆尔顿先生几乎不提及这些内容。

诚然，穆尔顿先生仍有可能爆冷获胜。最近密歇根州和威斯康星州民主党初选的民调失误，显著高估了对进步派的支持，而低估了那些能为他提供狭窄获胜路径的中温选民。即便穆尔顿先生落败，中左翼依然会保有一定的影响力。如果民主党在今年赢回参议院，那将要归功于像德克萨斯州的詹姆斯·塔拉里科、北卡罗来纳州的罗伊·库珀和阿拉斯加州的玛丽·佩尔托拉这样的候选人。

但如果像这样的候选人能从穆尔顿先生 12 年挑战建制派的职业生涯中汲取任何教训，那么应该是这一点：仅仅反对现状是不够的。选民还需要看到你究竟在为什而战。

大英帝国在遏制巨头方面有可借鉴之处

威廉·达尔林普尔 (William Dalrymple)

《无政府状态》(The Anarchy) 及其他关于东印度公司历史书籍的作者。

1788年2月13日正午，大批人群聚集在议会大厦外，见证上议院议员们进入威斯敏斯特大厅。他们聚集于此，是为了弹劾那个以东印度公司孟加拉总督身份统治印度大部分地区的男人。在那一刻，英国政府终于展现其力量，去对抗当时最强大的企业寡头——一个18世纪伦敦的埃隆·马斯克。

除了出席的约170名贵族外，现场还有法官、律师以及众多下议院议员。根据一份著名的开庭记录，女王“身着浅褐色缎面礼服，头饰简洁，点缀着极少量的钻石”，她与三个孩子一同在观众席就座。主持审判的爱德华·瑟洛 (Edward Thurlow) 用一段话总结了此次诉讼，这段话在今天看来与当时一样正确。他说：“公司既没有可以被惩罚的肉体，也没有可以被谴责的灵魂。因此，它们随心所欲。”

我们至今仍在谈论英国征服印度。但实际上，1756年至1803年间对印度次大陆的征服并非由一个民族国家完成，而是一家私营公司——东印度公司的杰作。该公司总部设在伦敦的一间小办公室里，除了股东，它不对任何人负责。

虽然其最初的重点是香料贸易，随后是印度纺织品的出口，但从一开始，其特许状就授权其建立并管理殖民地以及发动战争。从1601年的首次航行起，它就利用暴力来开展业务并增加利润。到1788年，它不仅是英国最大的公司和最大的雇主，更是征服了当时地球上最富有的国家——莫卧儿帝国时期的印度的公司。那些珠宝累累的掠夺品，助力英国进入了工业革命。

在这里，正如在许多帝国历史中一样，商业、殖民化和粗暴的企业权力步调一致。正如托尔斯泰后来在甘地发表的一封信中所写：“一家商业公司奴役了一个拥有2 亿人口的国家。”所有这些因素使东印度公司成为历史上最强大的公司——直到现在。因为在过去的十年里，大型科技公司也开始具备主权国家的属性，并且在许多方面，现在的它们与东印度公司鼎盛时期一样强大。

英伟达 (Nvidia) 是一家拥有约 42,000 名员工的芯片制造商，其估值超过 5 万亿加元，大致相当于全球第三大经济体德国（人口 8400 万）的国内生产总值。只有美国和中国的国内生产总值高于这家公司的市值。苹果公司的估值高于英国的年产值，Alphabet 则高于法国。

这些公司控制全球关键扼制点的方式，呼应了东印度公司及其欧洲同类公司在权力巅峰时期的政治和经济权力。正如 1710 年代的荷兰东印度公司控制了约 72% 的绕过非洲好望角的海运贸易，以及 1820 年代鼎盛时期的英国东印度公司控制了欧洲与亚洲之间约四分之三的运输吨位一样，SpaceX 在人类所有进入轨道的份额中，已从 2014 年的 10% 以下上升到去年的约四分之三。它在轨道上有超过 10,000 颗卫星——在环绕地球运行的所有功能性航天器中，几乎每三个就有两个是它的。

正如东印度公司的历史所表明的那样，企业可能会发展到一个临界点，不再仅仅是一家公司，而开始攫取通常与民族国家相关的权力与特权。诚然，如今的科技巨头没有常备军，也没有征服领土。然而，与东印度公司一样，它们与本国的军队结合得日益紧密，并影响了战场上的局势，尤其是在乌克兰。

东印度公司利用其政治支出，在当时最强大的立法机构中购买决策权。科技巨头们正处于类似的轨迹上。马斯克在花费数百万美元帮助特朗普总统当选后，在担任所谓的政府效率部期间，将通常授予国会的权力据为己有。

规模最大的科技公司在某些方面变得极其强大，而我们现在才开始理解这一点。历史可以帮助我们理清现状——包括我们面临的危险，以及民主制度在寻找出路时可采取的选择。

英国花费了数十年时间才约束住东印度公司，并获得对其帝国皇冠之珠（印度）的直接控制，其起点是对该公司在印度的负责人沃伦·黑斯廷斯（Warren Hastings）发起的弹劾尝试。正如英国印度总督兼外交大臣乔治·柯宗（George Curzon）所指出的，只要英国统治印度（这意味着国家直接控制其财富来源），它就是世界上最强大的国家。

今天的问题是：美国是否有意愿和能力来制约科技公司的权力，还是说它们将像之前的东印度公司一样，日益不受限制或毫无边界地运作？

东印度公司于1600年在伦敦成立，垄断了所有英国在好望角以东的贸易。到18世纪中期，该公司开始征服莫卧儿帝国最繁荣省份的大片地区，该帝国涵盖了现在印度的大部分地区、整个巴基斯坦和孟加拉国，以及一半的阿富汗。

不久之后，东印度公司便跨越全球。它几乎凭一己之力扭转了贸易平衡，而自罗马时代以来，这种平衡一直导致西方金银向东方流失。现在，资金流向伦敦，使政府和国家都变得富裕。

到1780年代，东印度公司将鸦片运往东方的中国，其军队参与了鸦片战争，以夺取香港这一离岸基地。很快，该公司成为了历史上最大的毒品卡特尔；到1860年代，英属印度大约六分之一的收入来自麻醉药品，是除土地税之外最大的收入来源之一。

到18世纪末，东印度公司在印度建立了一个庞大且复杂的行政体系，并建设了伦敦码头区（London Docklands）的大部分区域。它在英国的年度支出约为850万英镑，相当于英国政府年度总支出的约四分之一。在印度，它征收税款、铸造钱币、管理司法、运行自己的法院和外交服务、悬挂自己的旗帜、谈判条约并向主权国家开战，所有这一切都是为了增加股息。一家最初从事香料贸易的国际公司，最终将自己转型为一个殖民超级大国。

东印度公司的总部位于伦敦的利登霍尔街（Leadenhall Street）。在18世纪的大部分时间里，其员工人数少至35人，办公楼仅有五扇窗户宽。然而在印度，东印度公司拥有一支私人军队，到1803年人数达到约200,000人——大约是英国常备军规模的两倍。其股票是英国公共财政的支柱，其盈利能力和偿债能力被视为国家事务。

议员兼哲学家埃德蒙·伯克（Edmund Burke）领导了对黑斯廷斯的弹劾，他极其清晰地洞察到了问题所在。伯克表示，这家公司是“伪装成商人的国家”，“公司的体制始于贸易，终于帝国”。

人们通常认为东印度公司的首要目标是征服印度，但事实上，它一直有两个目标。一个是开展业务的土地；另一个是孕育它的母国。

其律师、说客以及身为议员的股东们，缓慢而微妙地利用其巨额财富，影响并颠覆立法以使其有利于公司。1693年，该公司被发现利用股票收买议会显要成员和大臣。随后的议会调查——这也是世界上首起企业游说丑闻——认定东印度公司犯有贿赂和内幕交易罪。

此后，该公司的手段变得更加隐蔽，转而支持那些对其政策有利的候选人。可以说，它发明了企业游说，这种“炼金术”能让公司的利益某种程度上神奇地转化为国家的政策。大约每20名议员中就有一人在东印度公司的董事会任职，而公司董事中曾有超过五分之一的人在议会就职；约40%的议员是该公司的股东。

仅在2025年上半年，当今最大的几家科技公司在联邦游说上的总支出就达到了3600万美元，且大约每两名国会议员就配备一名游说人员。根据 Issue One 的报道，Meta 每六名国会议员就配备一名游说人员。

科技公司及其高管（不包括加密货币领域）为特朗普先生创纪录的2.39亿美元就职基金捐赠了3500万美元；仅马斯克先生一人就在2024年的美国选举中花费了2.9亿美元，并因此在政府内部获得了一个权力巨大的职位。回报迅速到来：一项限制国家人工智能监管的行政命令出台，而关税豁免则通过投资承诺得到了偿还。反对监管人工智能的风险投资家大卫·萨克斯（David Sacks）被任命负责特朗普政府的人工智能政策。

2019年，当我完成关于东印度公司的四本书中的最后一本《无政府状态》（The Anarchy）时，我写道，庆幸的是，如今的公司没有私人军队。沃尔玛的“资产中并不包含一支核潜艇舰队；无论是 Facebook 还是壳牌公司，都没有拥有步兵团”。现在看来，这段话本身就像是一段历史，是一个更纯真时代的天真结论。

因为虽然科技公司没有200,000人的常备军，但它们越来越多地拥有其他军事能力。在乌克兰，2022年俄罗斯的袭击摧毁了地面通信网络后，马斯克先生的星链（Starlink）成为了将乌克兰战争努力凝聚在一起的技术：它控制着无人机、炮火校正和前线通信。当时的乌克兰数字化部长（后任国防部长）米哈伊洛·费多罗夫（Mykhalo Fedorov）称其为该国通信基础设施的血液。

2022年，当马斯克先生拒绝在俄罗斯占领的克里米亚附近启用覆盖时，这对乌克兰来说是灾难性的。据报道，这纯粹基于他对升级风险的评估，从而挫败了一次乌克兰海军无人机行动。SpaceX 在不同阶段一直根据马斯克先生的心血来限制该网络的军事用途。

换句话说，战争与和平的决定，现在部分由一名私人所有者根据其个人判断做出，正如东印度公司的董事会曾从利登霍尔街（Leadenhall Street）决定是与孟加拉纳瓦布或莫卧儿皇帝开战、结交还是贿赂一样。当公司高层做出此类决定时，至少还有特许状和王室在背后支持。而马斯克先生只对股价和自己的信念负责。

2025年6月，美国陆军将Palantir和Meta的首席技术官以及OpenAI的首席产品官任命为一个新预备役部队的中校。东印度公司曾用退休军官和大股东填满议会。而如今的新体制直接将科技高管置于联邦权力的位置上，在某种程度上，这让他们领先于18世纪的同行。因为在那个时代，公司人员至少还需要通过购买被称为“衰败选区”的受操纵席位，花钱买路进入议会。

这家公司最初是一家贸易企业，但在一个世纪的时间里，它变成了地球上最强大的军事力量之一。硅谷正以不断加速的速度走在同样的道路上。Palantir超过40%的收入来自美国政府，其估值已超过所有传统武器制造商，目前持有五角大楼一项价值13 亿加元 billion的AI目标定位计划合同。2024年1月，该公司与以色列国防部签署了一项升级的战略合作伙伴关系，以提供支持战争相关任务的技术。

本月早些时候，一段视频片段流出，甲骨文（Oracle）执行副董事长萨夫拉·卡茨（Safra Catz）在其中自豪地表示，她的公司为以色列提供了“真正令人深感恐惧的技术”，并评论说她最自豪的时刻是走出以色列国防军总部时，恰好有五名身着制服的员工进入。

据报道，包括国防部和以色列国防军在内的以色列政府在列。五角大楼已分别向OpenAI、Anthropic、谷歌和xAI授予了每项最高达$200 million的合同。OpenAI已经取消了禁止从事军事工作的禁令。谷歌也放弃了不为武器或监控构建AI的承诺。

无论过去还是现在，毫无疑问，大型企业能够使国家富强。但它们也可能将国家拖垮，而此时，国家利益与企业利益便开始分歧。

1772, 夏天，地球上最大的公司资金耗尽。东印度公司征服了孟加拉，但这次征服带来了毁灭性的后果。一场由公司疏忽加剧的饥荒导致该省约五分之一的人口死亡，公司的股价也随之崩盘。

6月8日，一名名为亚历山大·福戴斯（Alexander Fordyce）的苏格兰银行家在大量投机东印度公司股票后，从办公室失踪，留下了550,000英镑的债务。他的银行很快宣布破产，次周另一家银行紧随其后，引发了一场蔓延至英国乃至欧洲的金融危机。到秋天，公司董事们开始请求救助。

议会救了东印度公司，因为它无法承受不救的后果。就像雷曼兄弟一样，这家公司确实“大到不能倒”。公司股票是英国公共信用的支柱，约40%的下议院议员持有该公司股票。1773年，国家向东印度公司预付了£140 万，随后，在寻找回收这笔资金的方法时，想到了那些未售出的茶叶

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堆积在伦敦的仓库里。《茶税法》允许该公司将茶叶直接运往美国，从而削弱了此前处理该贸易的殖民地商人的竞争力。

这是一项为了解决一家公司的库存问题而制定的立法。它让英国失去了 13 个殖民地。那年 12 月，波士顿的人们将茶叶扔进了海港。在美国革命爆发前夕，美国爱国者们的主要担忧之一就是，议会会在美洲释放东印度公司，让其像在印度那样进行掠夺。

美国人约翰·迪金森写道，这家“几乎破产的公司”此前一直忙于在孟加拉地区实施“最无与伦比的野蛮行径、敲诈和垄断”，而现在他们已将“目光投向美国，将其视为一个新的舞台，用以施展其抢劫、压迫和残酷的才干”。三年之内，美国宣布独立。

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这就是一家公司如何跨越界限，从与国家做生意变为与国家不可分割；当公司规模足够大时，国家如何发现自己在代表该公司制定法律；以及当账单寄到时，是由国家而非股东来买单。在首相弗雷德里克·诺斯（Frederick North）领导下的政府，其初衷并非失去美国，而是为了维持一家公司的偿债能力。结果对英国国家造成了灾难性的影响，并在很大程度上削弱了其权力。

这一切都提出了一个问题：可以采取什么措施来驯服当今的公司。英国政府最终反击了其最大的企业竞争对手，因为政府意识到，该公司已经强大到足以战胜整个民族国家，并且不仅能决定其

我们深知企业权力的风险，且此前曾与其对抗。

不仅是经济，甚至包括其军队。

伯克在威斯敏斯特大厅花费了七年时间试图弹劾黑斯廷斯，但失败了。英国又花了 63 年时间，并经历了 19 世纪规模最大的反殖民起义（导致数十万人死亡），才证明只有强有力的立法才能驯服企业。

这一切发生在东印度公司的冷漠引发 1857 年的一场血腥起义之后，这场战争在英国被称为“印度兵变”，在印度则被称为“第一次独立战争”。维多利亚时代的政府在意识到贪婪和私利所带来的危险后，采取行动驯服这家历史上最贪婪的企业，出台了一系列立法，实质上废除了该公司，并将其职能纳入帝国文官系统的管辖范围。

该公司的海军被解散，其军队移交给王室。1858 年，印度总督宣布该公司的印度领地将被国有化，并移交给英国王室控制。此后，由君主而非公司董事会统治印度。东印度公司在被“截肢”的状态下勉强维持了 15 年，直到其特许状到期，最终于 1874 年关闭。一位评论员指出，这次关闭的“轰动程度还不如一家地区铁路公司的破产”。

这不仅打破了该公司在东方贸易上的经济垄断，还使英国能够控制其最赚钱的殖民地，为国家带来了巨大的利益（但应当指出，这对印度而言并非如此，为了服务于英国利益而对其进行的经济剥削在很大程度上与此前无异）。

在对待大型企业方面，中国采取了类似的做法。十年前，许多人认为阿里巴巴和腾讯将成为未来的企业之王。如今，中国的经济或许仍能超越美国，但其企业则不能，因为习近平主席决定它们不能。2020 年 10 月，阿里巴巴联合创始人马云批评中国的金融监管机构具有“当铺心态”。几天之内，马云旗下的金融服务部门蚂蚁集团超过 3100 亿美元 billion 的上市计划——这在当时将成为历史上规模最大的 IPO——在交易开始前两天被取消。

随后，中国企业史上最广泛的监管打击开始了。阿里巴巴被罚款 27.5 亿美元 billion，蚂蚁集团被强制重组，针对中国经济整个行业的平行整治行动也随之展开。作为此次打击中知名度最高的受害者，马云在很大程度上从中国的公众生活中消失，直到 2025 年 2 月才在一次电视转播的企业家座谈会上重新出现，与习近平主席握手。星链（Starlink）是一个人的公司，而中国的应对方案是国网（Guowang），由一家直接向北京汇报的国有企业运营，以及由上海支持的千帆（Qianfan）。他们计划共同部署超过 27,000 颗卫星。

最近的一起事件表明，美国政府在决定挥鞭时依然掌握主导权。Anthropic 是一家深入参与政府机密工作的 AI 实验室，但它坚持两项约束：不对美国人进行大规模监控，且不开发完全自主的武器。去年冬天，五角大楼命令其允许其模型被用于“所有合法目的”。它拒绝了。总统指示所有联邦机构停止使用其技术，国防部将 Anthropic 贴上了“供应链风险”的标签——换句话说，将其视为重大安全威胁，这一认定此前从未公开应用于一家美国公司。（Anthropic 已就该认定起诉五角大楼；诉讼仍在进行中。）

东印度公司的董事们在1773年也面临过类似的情况，当时议会通过了《监管法案》，这是国家控制的早期尝试。在议会的情况下，其干预是为了遏制一家公司的暴力行为。而特朗普政府的干预则是为了剥离一家公司对暴力行为的自我约束。

某种类似于民众反抗的迹象已初现端倪。正如东印度公司的过度扩张最终不仅在议会中，而且在整个国家引发了反弹一样，一种广泛且具有显著两党共识的对大科技公司的敌意正席卷美国。

盖洛普（Gallup）发现，近四成美国人认为人工智能带来的害处多于好处，这一比例较一年前大幅上升，且近八成的人预计它将减少美国人的就业岗位。这种愤怒在数据中心中找到了最具体的发泄目标，因为数据中心是人工智能繁荣的物理体现。仅在2026年的前三个月，有组织的当地反对活动就阻碍或延迟了75个主要项目，价值约1300 亿美元 billion；同一项盖洛普民调发现，超过七成的选民（包括民主党和共和党的大多数人）表示不希望在自家附近建设此类设施。

参议员伯尼·桑德斯和众议员亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯已呼吁在全国范围内暂停建设新数据中心。学生们在毕业典礼上对人工智能公司的高管发出嘘声。而在部分由科技公司对电力贪婪需求驱动的电费上涨，助力民主党在弗吉尼亚州、佐治亚州和新泽西州赢得胜利。就在上周，Meta与47个州、哥伦比亚特区及美国领地的诉讼达成和解，同意支付高达171 亿美元 billion的罚金，并对其平台的运作方式做出重大调整。

这一切是否能转化为最终驯服东印度公司那样的立法，则是另一个问题，尤其是当一名将家族企业与共和国事业视为同一整体的大企业巨头占据总统之位时。

东印度公司的教训不仅在于公司在海外可能表现得极其残暴，更在于它们在本土同样能挥舞权力。就像之前的东印度公司一样，如今的巨头们正利用其游说资金以及与权力的亲近关系来扭曲我们的政治和经济，同时接管国家层面的权力与职能。伯克在18世纪80年代就意识到了这一点。他最大的焦虑并非该公司在孟加拉做了什么，而是它的金钱会对英国产生什么影响。

历史表明，当一家公司开始获得国家的属性——收入、法院、条约、发动战争与缔结和平的能力——其转型对母国的损害至少与对被剥削领土的损害一样大。它的游说腐蚀了立法机构。它掌控了财政部，因为公司的偿付能力变成了公共利益。它将外交政策变成了资产负债表的延伸。而且它证明，一旦跨过这个门槛，就极其难以回头。撤销这一切的窗口期正在迅速关闭。

国家可以掌控公司。驯服强大的东印度公司证明了这一点，北京最近的强硬姿态同样证明了这一点。由于该公司企业游说团体的权力，英国议会花费了85年时间，经历了三次议会干预、一场饥荒、一次破产以及本世纪最血腥的殖民起义，才将其重新控制，而到那时，印度已经遭受了不可挽回的损失。

手段依然存在。缺乏的是使用这些手段的政治勇气。

每一天的必备应用。

观点

童星们承受着同样的伤痕

艾莉森·皮尔（Alison Pill）

曾出演《斯科特皮尔格林大战全世界》和《新闻编辑室》的演员。她在 11 岁时开始从事专业表演工作。

我一点也不太了解海登·帕内蒂尔（Hayden Panettiere）。我们曾在一部电视剧中短暂交集，在 2005 年左右的洛杉矶国际机场有过更短暂的相遇，就在我们合作之前。我记得在一家杂志店对着她点头并打了个招呼。当时我和我的朋友、同样是前童星的安娜·帕奎因（Anna Paquin）在一起旅行。安娜后来问我是否认识她。我不认识，但我认出了她，或者我认为我认出了她。

无论是通过工作还是生活，我无法准确地说清楚。她当时正与一名看起来像是监护人的人同行。大约 15 岁的她，既不是孩子，也不是成年人。我从她的仪态中认出了她，在这种“我是否在某处见过你”的模糊感中认出了她，在那些让我们显得特别却又并不特别的方式中认出了她。她对我点头并微笑回应，但我不知道她只是在出于礼貌，还是她像我们看待她那样，将我们视为同行童星。

我们可能在不同的片场工作，面对不同的导演，处于不同的时代，但我们都承受着同样可辨识的伤口。无论工会的保障措施变得多么完善，无论对诱导行为（grooming behavior）的监管如何严格，都无法改变这样一个事实：在如此年幼时从事表演剥夺了我们的童年，让我们独自承受后果。具体情况可能会有所不同，但我们陷入的这种不道德的循环不会改变。至少在行业、观众和文化意识到我们都在参与某种榨取、剥削且非自愿的行为，并采取行动之前，情况不会改变。

近 100 年前，美国在很大程度上禁止了童工。我们不再容忍年幼的孩子在工厂长时间工作；我们认同孩子应该在学校。我小时候的经历告诉我，那些本应保护我的法律，其重要性远不如完成一天的拍摄任务。在 11, 岁时，我开始在多伦多出演电视电影。许多经历是神奇的，比如与娜奥米·贾德（Naomi Judd）一起唱歌，或者坐在西西·斯派克（Sissy Spacek）的拖车里听她弹吉他。

但较低的预算意味着时间紧迫。通常，拍摄仅持续四到六周，每一秒都至关重要。我被成年人包围，而期望依然是片场的那一套——无论是否是童星，演出必须继续。

在 12 岁时的一次工作中，我每天工作 12 小时，并明白了什么是“地下工作”（working under the table）。在那些我病到几乎无法站立的日子里，我在镜头外安置了一张折叠床，以便在拍摄间隙瘫在上面。说“不”可能意味着被贴上“难以合作”的标签，并可能导致以后不再被雇佣。

让大多数童星获得成功的特质，正是让我们容易受到剥削的特质：渴望取悦他人，渴望获得积极的关注，以及至关重要的一点——渴望被认为比同龄人更成熟。我们太年轻，无法理解周围的成年人之所以对我们友善，部分原因仅仅是为了完成工作、拍好场景、卖出电影——我们年轻生命中最具塑造力的时刻之一，在他们终身职业生涯中不过是六周的短暂插曲。我们对尚未拥有的成熟度的渴望，往往意味着太多的决定被留给了我们。

就我的情况而言，第一个决定是我坚持想要表演。我热爱扮演另一个人，并以他人的身份置身于紧张的境地。在片场有一种美妙的感觉：有人会告诉你站在哪里，说什么，而每个人都会对我觉得相当简单的事情感到深深的钦佩。

那时我告诉自己，我已经足够成熟，可以面对这种压力。我相信自己能够应对不断的拒绝、被物化，以及那个打击自尊的事实——作为一名青少年，我经常被选为那个不讨喜的配角（其中一个角色叫查克特，像“呕吐”一样）。我的家人支持我：我母亲作为监护人陪我旅行，我的父亲和姐姐为我加油。我还有工会的保护。三十年后，我仍在纠结于一个伦理问题：当时的我，是否真的足够成熟到可以自行同意承受这一切。

但我并不是在做所有的决定。在孩子们本该塑造自我认同的年纪，童星的身份是由经纪人、选角导演和公众为我们选定的。我们被定格为“性感的那一个”、“书呆子”、“坏种子”或“可爱的纯情女郎”。当整个世界似乎都在因为你偏离设定而公开羞辱你，而当你符合设定时又对你赞赏有加，在这种环境下，想要培养独立的自我意识是非常困难的，甚至是不可能的。对于那些职业地讨好他人的人来说，为什么不给人们他们想要的东西呢？

我经常想起童年失去的部分，那些在放学后开车去试镜、背台词所花费的小时，以及

海登·帕内蒂尔以及我们为了让美国获得娱乐而付出的代价。

我曾无数次为了工作而毫不犹豫地抛弃朋友、假期和课堂。我在学校里是个格格不入的人，因为我缺课太多；而在片场，我扮演的也同样是格格不入的角色。因此，我很难想象在这个世界上，如果我不做一个不合群的人或被排挤的人，我还能在哪里找到自己的位置。

我还经常想到我的身体是如何被当作商品对待的。未经允许，我不能剪发或染发。我不能体重增加或长痘，因为这不仅会被身边的人注意到，还会被远在工作室办公大楼里的人注意到。在很多方面，我很庆幸自己避开了许多同龄人所经历的过度性化，但我无法逃避剧组工作人员——那些成年男性——询问我是否有男朋友。

最让我耿耿于怀的是一些更难理解的事情：在童年时期，我花费如此之多的时间生活在一个虚构的世界里，在那里发生着虚构的糟糕事情，周围是同样在演戏的成年人，这一切是如何塑造我的心理的？

我并不完全知道答案。但我确实知道，当孩子们失去了童年时会发生什么：当我们步入成年，通常会陷入挣扎。伴随着药物滥用、饮食失调、精神疾病。伴随着破碎的家庭、发育迟缓的自我意识，以及各种形式的自残。作为成年人，我们有时可能连开车或支付账单都做不到，但我们也无法忍受这样一个想法：我们的演艺生涯和个人价值可能在少年时期就已经达到了顶峰。

我想现在我们都知道，在经历了无数的回忆录、纪录片以及公众对 2000 年代众多年轻明星待遇的重新审视之后，当一名曾经的童星自我毁灭或销声匿迹时，我们每个人在某种程度上都负有责任。但我们并没有禁止童星，也没有制定足够严格的劳动保护措施。我们依然购买小报，点击关于戒毒所疗养、酒驾、药物过量以及过早死亡的标题。

我们以商业和艺术之名，接受了这一切。商业理由是无法辩护的。毫无疑问，一个依赖童工生存的行业应该受到约束，无论是通过法律还是通过行业内强大的工会。

有一些显而易见的地方可以开始做出改变。医生在进行保险体检时必须对童星进行全面评估。导演和剧组人员必须在发现孩子在父母或照顾者身边显得不安全时及时报告，并且在报告时受到保护，免受报复。如果孩子最终不愿意完成某个特技或场景，或者只是需要更多睡眠和一天休息，行业应当能够坦然地取消整个拍摄日或拍摄周。如果孩子的安全（心理或其他方面）面临风险，整个剧组应当停工。

即使有了这样的保障措施，在我认识的任何一个有童年演艺经历的人中，没有一个人会在孩子成年之前让他们从事专业表演，这足以说明早年成名的危险。我知道任何形式的警告都无法阻止父母强迫孩子进入这个行业，也无法阻止观众对他们的生活产生一种奇怪的所有权感。那么，我们该如何保护那些没有得到保护的孩子？

我们需要的不止是行业的改变或更强大的工会。我们需要一场文化转变。所有曾为曾经的青少年偶像或最喜爱的迪士尼之星的人生轨迹而感到悲伤的观众都应该问问自己：一件艺术品——即使是最伟大的艺术品——真的值得用一个孩子的未来去交换吗？在经历了这一切之后，我的答案是：大概不值得。

为了我们所有人的利益，最伟大的讲述者应该找到一种无需童星就能捕捉我们所生活世界的方法。最近，我和我的孩子一起看了两个现代版本的《小妇人》，我的孩子现在快到我开始专业工作时的年龄了。在我成长过程中反复观看的那个版本中，12 岁的克尔斯滕·邓斯特饰演年幼的艾米，随后由萨曼莎·马蒂斯接手饰演成年后的她。

但在格蕾塔·葛威格的电影中，弗洛伦斯·皮尤饰演的艾米跨越了从童年到青年时期的整个阶段。起初，要相信这个女人是个孩子会让人感到违和，但这部电影相信观众能够抛开演员的实际年龄，去相信所讲述的故事。这是一个优雅的解决方案，在捕捉这部深受喜爱的成长小说时，并不需要一个正处于成长阶段的演员。

如果这仅仅是电影领域，我相信改变是有可能的，但我不知道在10年甚至5年后，保护我们行业中年轻演员的举措还会具有多少相关性。年轻观众的大部分娱乐时间都花在 YouTube 上，而那里年轻的主播和创作者的生计，恰恰依赖于我认为极具破坏性的那种准社会关系。这些孩子在扮演一个被美化后的自我，通过评论区和直播与他人建立联系。他们完全没有任何工会保护，并且承受着一种我永远无法体会的、截然不同的表演压力。

现在，我与童星合作，扮演母亲的角色。我告诉他们的父母，我觉得自己童年时期的职业生涯很难应对，他们或许应该让孩子离开这个行业，转而尝试寻找一个优秀的学校戏剧系。对于孩子们，我保持友好但有距离感，这样他们会对我留下美好的印象，但希望在工作结束后不会想念我。我尽我所能，但这依然远远不够。

我希望他们能平安长大。希望在电影或电视剧中的短暂露面，仅仅成为他们有一天向孙辈讲述的一段轶事，成为他们平凡生活中的一个小插曲。但最重要的是，我只希望他们能活到 30 岁。

ERIN JIA

我们正处于阶级斗争的新时代。历史指明了出路。

金·菲利普斯-费恩 (Kim Phillips-Fein)

哥伦比亚大学历史学教授，《领主之国：新贵族、社会达尔文主义者、技术乌托邦主义者以及美国反对平等之长期斗争》一书的作者。

“你们唯一需要做的就是支付足够的薪水让我们生存。”

视频中年轻人的声音诚恳且清晰，有力但克制。他的脸没有出现，但拿着打火机的手在微微颤抖。“你们的库存就这么没了。”在造成超过 6亿美元 的损失后，一座金佰利-克拉克（Kimberly-Clark）仓库化为一片浓烟滚滚的废墟。视频中被指认为该年轻人的查梅尔·阿卜杜勒卡里姆（Chamel Abdulkarim）——他曾就职于一家为该仓库提供服务的配送公司——被指控犯有纵火罪。

阿卜杜勒卡里姆先生已否认指控；他可能的动机很快将在法庭上进行辩论。但即便如此，4 月初发生在加利福尼亚州安大略市的仓库纵火案，似乎捕捉到了一种政治情绪。同一周，有人向 OpenAI 首席执行官萨姆·奥特曼（Sam Altman）的豪宅投掷了莫洛托夫鸡尾酒。6 月，检察官透露，他们针对一名被指控引发加州致命帕利塞德（Palisades）大火的男子的起诉，其核心论点在于该男子是受阶级愤怒驱动而行凶。（而未能达成一致裁决的陪审团对此并不太信服。）

笼罩在所有这些袭击之上的，是 2024, 12 月在曼哈顿街道上光天化日之下发生的对联合健康集团（UnitedHealthcare）首席执行官布莱恩·汤普森（Brian Thompson）的枪击案，路易吉·曼吉奥内（Luigi Mangione）本月承认了这起罪行。对曼吉奥内先生的追捕，以及随后对其逮捕和审判的报道，帮助将其塑造为一个为所有被私人医疗保险伤害之人复仇的形象。但曼吉奥内先生的知名度引发了恐惧：公司正投入更多资金为高管提供安保。据《拦截者》（The Intercept）报道，今年一个执法情报中心发布了一份公告，称由于越来越多的人将经济困境归咎于富人，富人正面临“升级的威胁环境”：“公众舆论日益将中下层阶级面临的挑战归因于富有企业高管的行为和影响力。”

阶级不平等在近年来已冲入美国政治的视野，但这并非这个国家经历的第一次阶级暴力。在 19 世纪末和 20 世纪初，当时每天工作 12 小时是常态，童工合法且不存在联邦最低工资，没有任何一个政党能提供实质性的救济，将工人阶级逼入绝境。随后，暴力——破坏活动、炸药袭击、暗杀——接踵而至。

但有一个关键区别。在那个早期的 era, 实施暴力行为的无政府主义者和工会主义者这样做，无论多么鲁莽，都是希望能够促成变革。更重要的是，当时存在致力于为工人阶级争取更好条件的劳工组织和政治运动。随着时间的推移，他们至少实现了其中的部分目标。

如今的阶级暴力缺乏逻辑；它似乎仅由复仇、愤恨和绝望驱动。这里没有阴谋，也没有政治动员。实施这些行为的人都是单独行动。他们孤立无援的事实本身，就暗示了一个开始放弃变革希望的社会。

虽然如今极端的财富集中可能会让人想起工业资本主义的黎明时期，但当时的阶级对抗条件截然不同。那时，工作场所本身就极其危险：在 20 世纪的前几十年里，每年有数千名工人死于工业事故。警察和国民警卫队介入以强行终止罢工，而公司则雇佣私人民兵来防止工人组织起来。

激进的工人以自身的暴力予以回应，在当时的精英阶层中引起了巨大的恐惧。在宾夕法尼亚州西部的煤矿区，爱尔兰矿工在 1860 年代和 1870 年代期间杀害了至少 14 名矿场管理人员。当西方矿工联合会（Western Federation of Miners）试图在 1899 年组织起来时，工会支持者使用炸药摧毁了公司财产。作为回应，爱达荷州州长弗兰克·斯图嫩伯格（Frank Steunenberg）监禁了约一千名工人。1905 年，在他离职后，一枚炸弹在他家中将其炸死。工会领导人威廉·海伍德（William Haywood）在被起诉的人员之列。（一名矿工工会成员承认了该罪行并牵涉到工会领导层；但陪审团裁定海伍德无罪。）1901 年，美国总统威廉·麦金莱（William McKinley）被一名在经济崩溃期间失业的无政府主义者刺杀。1910 年，两名工会成员用炸药炸毁了《洛杉矶时报》的办公室，该报被广泛认为敌视有组织的劳工。

在这段暴力历史中，有一次袭击让人感到与今天的情况惊人地相似：在 1892 年的霍姆斯特德罢工期间，针对卡内基钢铁公司（Carnegie Steel）宾夕法尼亚州霍姆斯特德钢厂总经理亨利·克莱·弗里克（Henry Clay Frick）的刺杀企图。当时，代表安德鲁·卡内基行事的弗里克先生似乎试图用雇佣的罢工破坏者来取代工厂工人，于是整个霍姆斯特德镇陷入了反抗。

在公众舆论的法庭上，霍姆斯特德的工人原本占据上风，直到一名年轻的无政府主义者亚历山大·伯克曼（Alexander Berkman）闯入弗里克先生的办公室，用左轮手枪向他开枪，随后又捅了他两刀。弗里克先生幸存了下来；伯克曼先生被逮捕。工会领导层通过了一项谴责此次刺杀企图的决议，但媒体、政治家和许多公众将这次暴力行为归咎于工会，尽管伯克曼先生是单独行动。不久之后，罢工便瓦解了。

从表面上看，伯克曼先生的行为可能与曼吉奥内先生的行为相似。他是一个试图通过实施刺杀来抗议当时极端经济不平等和不公正的年轻人。他的袭击是一次令人恐惧的证明，即在致命武力面前，无论一个人掌控多少财富或聚集多少私人卫兵，所有人都是脆弱的。

但两者的区别要深刻得多。伯克曼先生是在整个社区为了捍卫经济保障、平等、民主和自由的理想而动员之后，才试图刺杀弗里克先生的。他不是工会成员，但在他看来，他的暴力行为显然是更大规模武装号召的一部分。伯克曼先生被定罪并被判处 14 年监禁。

相比之下，曼吉奥内先生被认为是个体行动，在撰写其“宣言”时没有与同志或朋友交流。他此前并未参与旨在改变美国保险制度的政治活动。他已就导致死亡的联邦跟踪指控认罪，且没有提供广泛的政治辩护（他在纽约州的一起案件中仍面临谋杀指控）；一度，他的律师曾考虑主张他遭受了“极端的精神紊乱”。虽然他似乎与任何政治动员都没有联系，但他的暴力行为引发了政治反应：一种似乎被许多经济精英认同的解读认为，驱动他的是阶级分化而非精神困扰。

伯克曼先生的刺杀企图很可能唤醒了安德鲁·卡内基内心的恐惧与愧疚。在霍姆斯特德罢工期间他身在欧洲，他发现这件事令他深感不安：“永远不要雇佣这些暴徒中的任何一个，”他写信给弗里克先生道。但甚至在霍姆斯特德事件之前，卡内基就已经确信，财富的极端集中将不可避免地滋生“社会不信任”。正如他在 1889 年的一篇论文中所述：“每个阶层都对另一个阶层缺乏同情，并且随时准备相信任何关于对方的贬低之词。”

卡内基认为，解决阶级愤怒的方法是让富人将资金投入到慈善项目中，从而使穷人相信富人们内心是仁慈的，能够管理好社会资源。正如他所言：“即使是最贫穷的人也可以被引导去看到……由部分公民聚集并用于公共目的的大量资金……比在多年间以微小金额分散给他们更有价值。”换句话说，图书馆、音乐厅和大学比更高的工资更重要。

卡内基的努力是否成功缓解了工人阶级的愤怒，这一点令人怀疑。卡内基身上最令人瞩目的并非社会责任感，而是他意识到穷人的认知可能会影响他自身的舒适度以及社会的稳定性。这种认知在今天似乎缺失了。

相反，恐惧正促使富人们投资于字面意义上的防御工事。豪华住宅建筑商在建造的豪宅中加入了大量新的安保功能，从安全室、视网膜扫描仪到岗哨塔和护城河。迈阿密像印第安溪岛（Indian Creek Island）这样的岛屿社区（也被称为“亿万富翁碉堡”）据报道吸引了像马克·扎克伯格和杰夫·贝佐斯这样的超富裕居民，因为这里实际上是对公众关闭的。由于只有一座设有警卫的桥梁作为唯一的出入口，该岛将封闭社区的概念提升到了一个新的高度。还有为恐惧的富人改装的路虎车，配备了胡椒喷雾枪；以及专门培育旨在攻击入侵者的犬类繁育者。

但很难想象这些措施除了加剧富人的偏执之外还能起到什么作用。如果说有任何影响的话，它们创造了视觉上的提醒，揭示了一个深度碎片化且分裂的社会，成为了分隔拥有者与匮乏者的物理见证。就像 20 世纪 80 年代秘鲁利马建造的臭名昭著的“耻辱之墙”一样——它将一个特权封闭社区与一个贫困社区隔离开来——这些创造安全感的尝试最终反而让恐惧变得具象化。

第一次世界大战后，美国阶级关系依然极其暴力，公司与政府合作打击劳工运动。正如历史学家贝弗利·盖奇（Beverly Gage）所写，在一系列爆炸事件（包括一起发生在美司法部长 A. 米切尔·帕尔默家中的爆炸案）之后，数百名激进的移民面临被驱逐出境的局面。

但当工人们最终能够在 1941 年一次由联邦监督的选举中就该问题进行投票时，97% 的人投票支持加入工会。

第二次世界大战后，最低工资的定期上涨、医疗保险和养老金的扩大、减少极端不平等的税收政策以及对高等教育的公共投资，共同构成了一个对工人阶级需求反应更迅速的经济体。这些措施的政治环境各异，但它们普遍源于支持 20 世纪 30 年代“新政”的政治组织活动。它们是在响应劳工运动的新政民主党人的帮助下实现的，而劳工运动不仅代表了职场上的工人，还将他们的利益带入了政治生活。

19世纪末和20世纪初的阶级暴力在20世纪20年代的西弗吉尼亚州矿工战争中得以延续，并持续到30年代，当时许多公司囤积催泪瓦斯设备和枪支以抵制反抗。1932年，福特汽车公司的公司安保部队向参加“饥饿行军”的失业工人开火。1934年，警察在旧金山海滨杀害了罢工工人，引发了一场总罢工。三年后的芝加哥，警察枪杀了10名支持劳工的行进者，这次事件后来被称为“阵亡将士纪念日大屠杀”。就在几天前，福特公司的安保人员在镜头前残暴地殴打联合汽车工会（United Automobile Workers）的领导人，包括工会主席沃尔特·鲁瑟（Walter Reuther）——这些画面被全国各地的报纸广泛报道。

但这些年劳工运动的增长开启了新的可能性。独立机构（如工会和消费者合作社）的创建，让工人们在基本工作条件上有了发言权，赋予了他们更多的自主权和自由。引用经济学家约翰·肯尼斯·加尔布雷斯（John Kenneth Galbraith）的话，这种“抗衡力量”也减轻了雇主和富人的绝对权力。亨利·福特在他公司内部激烈地反对工会，

简而言之，富人

与底层阶级之间的距离缩小了，阶级之间的敌意也随之减轻。

然而，在过去的50年里，政治领导人们诋毁政府项目，试图瓦解公共部门的罢工，削减福利国家的资金，并改造税收制度使其向富人倾斜。组织劳工工会变得困难得多，而赢得第一份合同也变得更加艰难。我们正切身感受到卡内基很久以前所警告的“种姓”僵化现象。

那些最富有者与其余人群之间存在极端分化的社会，往往在政治上也极不稳定。由于人们在苦苦思索自己为何挣扎，以及为何民主机制似乎无法响应他们的需求，这类社会为阴谋论的滋生提供了肥沃的土壤。不平等使得人们几乎不可能维持一种“我们都属于同一个政治项目”的感觉，因此人们很难相信民主政府是可能的——相信我们在社会中拥有共同的利益。极少数拥有巨额财富的人开始行使不成比例的政治权力。

但高度不平等的社会也会变成一个极富者恐惧其所处世界的社会。他们禁不住以怀疑的眼光看待优步（Uber）司机、分包的仓库员工，以及那些生计被其技术所取代的人。

他们恐惧这些被剥夺群体的愤怒并非没有道理，而这些被剥夺者感到愤怒也并非没有道理。但关键在于这种阶级愤怒如何表达，是导致虚无主义还是团结，是导致孤立的愤怒还是集体行动。通过深刻地削弱许多曾经培育集体行动的机构——劳工工会、政治组织、抗议团体——我们的社会让自己变成了一个人们纵火烧仓库的社会。我们需要的是一条通往更美好世界，或者至少是更平等世界的更可行路径。

观点

要想遏制校园作弊，必须解决根源问题

亚当·格兰特 (Adam Grant)

但他们并非作弊者。他们只是在做为了成功而必须做的事。

彼得·加姆伦 (PETER GAMLEN)

特约评论员，宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院组织心理学家。

在我于沃顿商学院教授的本科课程中，在一次开卷考的前一天，几名学生给我发来焦急的消息，称一些同学计划利用人工智能作弊。在整个学期里，我一直试图挖掘每个学生的最佳潜能，而现在却发现他们最糟糕的一面，这令我深感沮丧。这感觉就像是一种背叛。

然而，当 95 名学生登录参加考试时，他们收到了一个惊喜。我舍弃了通常会包含的选择题和简答题。相反，我要求学生们运用他们一直在学习的组织心理学原理写一篇论文，探讨如何激励学生停止作弊。

他们的回答令我震惊。几乎没有学生将作弊视为对诚信的违背。大多数人在找借口：我们压力很大。其他人都在这么做。我们别无选择。他们听起来就像是类固醇 era. 的大联盟棒球运动员。ChatGPT 就是他们的性能增强药物。

在学校面对这一问题时，许多教师正转向课堂论文和口试。仅仅制造障碍永远是不够的。我们需要通过改变学生潜在的动机，从根源上解决问题。

在一系列涵盖广泛背景的研究中，心理学家发现，随着竞争挑战的赌注增加，作弊行为也会随之增加。有些人很大程度上能免疫这种影响。他们并不遵循通过计算作弊收益是否超过成本的后果逻辑。他们问自己：像我这样的人在这种情况下做正确的事应该怎么做？他们拥有强大的道德认同感。

这是心理学家用来描述一个人深切关注于成为一个正直且诚信之人的术语。大量证据表明，道德认同感可以帮助人们抵御作弊、撒谎和偷窃的诱惑。

当人们拥有强大的道德认同感时，他们将不道德行为视为一种违背——不仅是违背规则，更是违背他们自己的价值观。想到做错事，他们会预感到更多的愧疚；而想到做正确的事，则会预感到更多的自豪。他们相信自己的选择反映了自己的性格。这非常强大。而培养这种认同感的最佳方式，就是让学生持续思考其行为的伦理后果。开始得越早，效果越好。

许多学校试图通过要求学生遵守荣誉准则或签署诚信承诺来激活道德认同感。诚信誓言通常无效，有时甚至会产生反作用。在一次实验中，要求学生在考试前签署诚信承诺，导致作弊率翻了一番。承诺书的存在本身就向学生暗示了不诚实行为可能是普遍现象，因此他们觉得作弊也无妨。

过去的研究表明，作弊的学生对此感到愧疚。这被视为最后的手段，且带有足够的污名，以至于许多人不敢承认。为了估算作弊的普遍程度，研究人员必须询问学生其班级的作弊率或进行匿名投票。去年，当我调查顶尖大学学生对作弊的看法时，许多人承认为了考入大学而作弊，并且他们在调查问卷上签署了自己的全名。

人工智能不仅让作弊更难被发现，它还让作弊变得如此轻而易举，诱。

学生需要被强烈的道德认同感所激励

[接前文]……且如此便捷，以至于许多学生不再认为这样做是错误的。在我调查的一名常春藤盟校学生写道：“作弊是一种创造性的表达和一种解决问题的方式。如果你能绕过既定限制且不被抓到，那么就说明你很出色。”真的吗？如果你发现你的外科医生是通过作弊才进入医学院——或者在医学院期间作弊——你会有什么感觉？

心理学家发现，许多人使用一套“信用与借记”系统来衡量自己的正直程度。在做了一件美德之事后，人们往往觉得他们获得了一张可以纵容恶习的“许可证”。他们将此合理化为：“我是一个好人，所以做一件坏事也没关系”，或者更糟糕的是，“我是一个好人，所以这不算是一件坏事”。在我的调查中，许多学生通过将作弊“分区化”来为其辩护。是的，他们有时会作弊，

但具有强烈道德认同感的人并非如此。他们感到有责任去做正确的事。这就是为什么我的某些学生会联系我，警告我他们的同学计划作弊，而不是直接加入其中。帮助更多学生培养道德指南针的一种方法，是将伦理学纳入他们的课程体系。

最强有力的证据来自财务顾问，他们必须通过执业资格考试才能进入该领域。在一项针对超过一百万名顾问的里程碑式分析中，那些在考试权重向伦理问题倾斜的年份参加考试（因此必须大量学习该主题）的人，随后的年度违规率低了 25%。即使在三年后，接受过更多伦理教育的顾问比接受培训较少的同事违规次数更少。

这不仅仅是因为他们学习了规则。通过花更多时间研究相关材料，通过真正地深入钻研，他们在职业生涯中内化了更强烈的是非感。而且，如果他们的雇主陷入丑闻，这些顾问更有可能离职，因为他们不想为违反个人价值观的公司工作。

伦理教育可以产生影响，但我们需要深思如何交付这种教育。正直并非通过训斥或说教而根植。财务顾问们需要做的不仅仅是记忆规则；他们学习的是一整套道德准则。在他们苦苦思索什么是伦理时，他们说服了自己，认为这是至关重要的。

时机也很关键。对于缺乏经验的顾问（以及那些没有违规记录的人）来说，学习伦理学的影响尤为显著。如果我们想在学生心中植入强烈的道德认同感，理想情况下，我们应该在他们面对作弊诱惑之前就开始引导他们。匿名调查估计，到小学阶段，约有三分之一的学生已经作弊，且这一比例在初中和高中期间持续攀升。而当他们面对作弊诱惑时，强化道德认同感会有所帮助。

在一项涉及超过 20,000 人的实验中，当诚实誓言能帮助参与者意识到其行为的道德影响时，效果最好。在被提醒诚实是一个“全或无”的概念，且做正确的事能培养一种信任、社会责任和正直的文化后，人们作弊的可能性降低了。

在每个家庭和每所学校，我们都应该引导孩子们思考作弊如何对他们的朋友不公平，如何削弱构建公正社会的努力，以及如何破坏成为一个有原则之人的追求。

正直的核心在于认识到目的不能证明手段的正当性。我们取得了什么可能定义我们的成功，而我们如何取得它则决定了我们的品格。

像男人一样放弃的理由

林赛·克劳斯 (Lindsay Crouse)

曾任评论版编辑，她对女性体育的报道帮助职业运动员争取到了生育权利。她是即将出版的图书《放弃的理由》(The Case for Quitting) 的作者，本篇随笔改编自该书。

我再也撑不下去了。我要追着蹒跚学步的孩子跑，要喂养婴儿，要打理家务，要写书，面对一个让自己感到陌生的身体，以及一种感到被窒息的生活。我只想让这一切停下来。于是，每当我面对那些被我乐观地称为“挫折”的事情时，我总是采取同样的反应：更加努力地工作。

某种类型的女性（比如我）热爱挑战。我们在工作中努力，在家里努力，在社交中努力。我们为家人和朋友努力。我们在心理治疗中努力。并且我们相信，只要付出所有这些努力，最终一切都会好起来。我们可以应对困难。

那么男人呢？尽管有所有那些“像个男人一样承受”的叙事，但男人经常选择放弃，尤其是在条件艰苦且赌注很高的时候。2018年，我在恶劣的天气中观看了一场波士顿马拉松赛，我注意到，随后也证实了，女性的坚持率高于男性。（后来一项针对近一百万名马拉松跑者的研究发现，男性更容易崩溃。）我为此在《纽约时报》写了一篇随笔，标题带有胜利色彩，名为《为什么男人放弃而女人不》。

显然，并非所有男人如此（女性亦然）。但这种倾向得到了研究的支持。在压力之下，女性会降低节奏但能坚持到底。而压力下的男性则走向极端。他们承担更多风险，结果要么一无所有，要么赢得全部。这与男性气质学者理查德·里夫斯 (Richard Reeves) 关于成长方式的论点一致：男孩像兰花，脆弱且受到保护。他说，女孩则像蒲公英——出奇地坚韧。

在我人生的大部分时间里，我都是那种乐观地在尝试中精疲力竭的“蒲公英”类型。如果有人试图帮我把行李箱放进头顶行李架，我会拒绝并为此感到自豪。在高中时期，我周六先花时间准备 SAT 考试，然后去操场跑步。我贴了一张

女性是“永不放弃”教条的热切信徒。但这是一种注定失败的策略。

我的书桌上贴着一张海报，上面写着：“痛苦是暂时的，荣耀是永恒的。”诚然，我输掉了那些比赛，也没有在考试中拿高分。但难道每个最终的冠军不都得先经历失败吗？

随后，我步入了 40 岁，本以为能收获一生努力的果实，结果却在失败次数增加的同时，更加疯狂地自我鞭策。

现在我认为，那些男人察觉到了我所忽略的东西。过强的韧性反而会产生反作用。我曾认为无论如何都要坚持推进的意愿是勇敢（且高尚）的。但如果这种努力让你精疲力竭且陷入僵局，那么克服每一个障碍又有什么意义？马拉松有终点线，而生活中的苦撑可以永无止境。

社会不断向我们灌输坚持不懈的信息。像我这样的女性是“永不放弃”教条的热切（且有能力）的信徒。我们或许能从选择退出中获益，但在考虑这个选项之前，我们就已经将其否定了。然后，我们为此付出代价。我们起初像坚韧的蒲公英，但如果这只是为了让自己被践踏，那又有什用处？

平均而言，女性比男性长寿，但我们的生活质量未必更好。我们的抑郁和焦虑率（以及相关的精神健康药物处方量）远高于男性。虽然美国整体的酗酒问题在下降，但近年来 30 岁和 40 岁女性的酗酒率显著上升，而这恰恰是我们应对职业、母亲身份和婚姻压力的时期。将酒精作为自我治疗手段在高收入女性中尤为普遍——这些女性负担得起医疗帮助，但未必会寻求帮助。

我们这种埋头苦干的倾向始于早年。当研究人员观察儿童对无效教学方法的反应时，他们发现男孩倾向于放弃那些毫无进展的方法并寻找更好的选择。而女孩更有可能继续遵循指令，即使这些指令导致她们失败。女孩学会的是工作，男孩学会的是赢。

女性高中和大学的毕业率高于男性。但一旦进入职场，我们进入高管层的可能性较低。当然，对此有许多解释（比如父权制）。但看看我们的反应：研究人员追踪了近 30,000 名目标为管理层的员工，发现当女性被拒绝晋升时，她们比处于类似情况的男性更有可能留在原公司。而男性则更有可能选择离开。而且他们因此得到了回报：要么在原处获得留任福利，要么直接离职。

女性更有可能留在萎缩的行业和低薪的岗位上。根据麦肯锡全球研究院的预测，到 2030 年，只有不到三分之二的女性将在增长领域工作，而男性则超过四分之三。正如诺姆·谢伯（Noam Scheiber）最近在《纽约时报》中所解释的：“一份工作在某些方面变得糟糕——比如薪水降低，或者变得更艰苦、更单调，或者整体声望下降——此时男性会对这份工作失去兴趣。雇主随后便转向女性来填补空缺。”女性需要记住，我们也可以在其他地方寻找工作。

女性经常在糟糕的关系中苦苦支撑。凌晨 3 点，我们可能会对着天花板自我安慰：“约会很难。”一个过早结束关系的女性被认为太挑剔；而一个迅速意识到自己没兴趣的男性则被认为有标准。在说出“我愿意”之后也是如此。我们中许多人选择在婚姻中“安静地退出”，而不是申请离婚。既然可以忍受，为什么要离开？

上个月，日本首相高市早苗（Sanae Takaichi）分享说，她在假期周末重新阅读政策文件、清理收件箱，并抽出时间熨烫内衣——最后只睡了 5 个小时，而不是她平时习惯的“0 到 3 小时”。

一个选择休息的男人可能根本不会把这种选择视为放弃。但对于女性来说，选项之间似乎是自我矛盾的：要么休息并感到愧疚，要么放弃休息并感到精疲力竭——且愤怒。

这成了我们的笑话。我们的生活不会由我们为了回复所有电子邮件而熬夜到几点来衡量。我们忘记了，生存并不等同于成功。

放弃那些行不通的事情，是寻找更有效的方法或比以往走得更远的唯一途径。如果我们将“放弃”和“坚持”视为对立面，那么我们就输了。

去年，当我正从裙子上擦掉 3 岁孩子的呕吐物时，手机上的日历弹了出来。我的日程表上写着一次与朋友阿姨的邻居的儿子（或者是谁）的信息访谈，以及参加一个我完全没有必要出席的在线小组讨论。我可以请别人去做这些事，或者更好的是，直接拒绝。然而，我把所有事情都做了。（真是个英雄！）而且每件事都没做好。

回想起来，我意识到：女性确实在放弃，而且一直如此。我们放弃的是我们自己。

我并不假装拥有什么神奇的解决方案。我无法让男性减少退出，也无法解决资本主义问题。但起码我可以意识到，既然放弃是一种选择，那么不放弃同样也是一种选择。

现在，当我在苦苦支撑，坚信终点线就在最后一次冲刺之后时，我会问自己一个简单的问题：我为什么还在做这件事？“因为我能做到”并不自动意味着我“必须做到”。

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插画：REBECCA CHEW / THE NEW YORK TIMES；原图来源：ETHAN MILLER 和 BAHADIR TANRIOVER，通过 GETTY IMAGES

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特朗普关税背后荒谬的论点

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一个由观点记者组成的团体，其观点基于专业知识、研究、辩论以及某些长期坚持的价值观。该团体独立于新闻编辑部。

特朗普总统多次尝试征收关税，这已成为他第二任期的缩影。这些举措损害了美国经济，也损害了他自身的支持率。而且，这些举措在法律上要么可疑，要么公然非法。

随着特朗普先生现在与加拿大陷入贸易战——而加拿大已决定挺身反抗他的霸凌——我们希望退一步，解释其关税带来的经济和法律损害。我们同时敦促国会和法院采取行动，停止这场疯狂。关税问题为联邦政府的其他两个分支提供了一个标志性的机会，让他们能够坚持要求特朗普先生遵守宪法，停止惩罚美国工人和消费者。

最高法院此前已经拒绝过特朗普先生的大部分关税方案。今年2月，法院裁定这些关税非法，而他立即明确表示自己不会因此而退缩。在裁决公布后的几小时内，他说：“他们的决定是错误的，但这无关紧要。”

诚然，其他总统有时在面对最高法院的裁决时也会采取类似的强硬态度。他们会放弃被法院否决的政策，并制定尝试以不同方式实现相同目标的替代方案。就在几年前，乔·拜登总统在处理学生债务问题时就这样做过。拜登先生说：“最高法院阻止了我减轻学生债务，但他们没有能拦住我。”

尽管如此，特朗普先生的蔑视之举依然格外突出。他两次试图规避法院关于关税的裁决，通过援引显然荒谬的法律理由，强行实施新一轮的进口费。

这在两个方面体现了一种更广泛的模式。首先，他试图规避法院裁决的频率远高于其前任。在面对下级法院时，他公开蔑视法官的决定，包括在1月份，他违反了近100项与移民相关的法院命令。在面对最高法院时，他的态度较为恭敬，但仍然在进行“法律主义的不合规”，正如学者丹尼尔·T·迪肯（Daniel T. Deacon）和利亚·M·利特曼（Leah M. Litman）所写的那样。这涉及“一系列似是而非的法律论点和法律术语，试图掩盖实际上是对司法监督的广泛抵制”。特朗普先生在关税、移民和资金冻结问题上都采取了这种做法。

其次，特朗普先生的几项具体理由比以往总统尝试的理由要单薄得多。他最新一轮的全球关税就是一个例子。政府为此提供的理由是1974年的一项法律条款，该条款授权总统可以对进口强迫劳动产品的国家征收关税。上个月，政府引用该法律，对几乎所有进入美国的商品征收关税。这一轮关税是最高法院在2月份否决的同等规模关税水平的继任者，也是特朗普先生在裁决后实施的一项临时关税的延续。一个联邦法官小组同样裁定该临时关税非法。

某些国家确实因为进口强迫劳动产品而应受到审查。强迫劳动的一个主要来源是中国，中国强迫穆斯林占主导地位的地区——新疆的居民生产棉花、汽车零部件和其他物品。然而，联邦法律已经授权政府通过其他方式解决强迫劳动问题，包括简单地禁止此类劳动产品入境。特朗普先生利用一个真实存在的问题作为借口，将关税应用于80多个国家，而这些国家共同贡献了美国进口额的99%以上。

他实际上是在声称，强迫劳动制造的产品在加拿大、日本、韩国、英国、法国以及其他数十个国家是一个重大问题。这些关税甚至适用于挪威，而挪威一直是全球打击强迫劳动的先驱。

此外，他针对加拿大商品征收的最新关税，其理由也十分可疑。总统援引了一部 1930 年法律中从未被用于征收关税的部分条款，却忽略了更近期的法律，以及他的第一任政府与加拿大协商达成的贸易协定。他声称加拿大歧视美国商品，从而对许多加拿大商品征收 50% 的关税，尽管这场贸易争端是由他的政府发起的。而且，近几十年来美国贸易政策中存在的合法问题，并不完全由加拿大负责。加拿大是美国出口产品最大的买家。

国会在此可以发挥至关重要的作用。

即使在国会中，许多共和党人也对这些关税感到不满，而且他们有权将其停止。他们可以从公开批评开始，这将提高特朗普维持关税的政治成本。如果他仍不让步，他们应该通过新法律来堵住他所利用的漏洞。在针对加拿大的关税案例中，国会应通过立法明确他不能利用 1930 年的法律来实施大规模关税。

法官也可以采取行动，尤其是在强迫劳动关税方面。这些案件目前提交到了联邦机构国际贸易法院，该法院应迅速做出裁决。正如 25 个美国州的领导人在一份法律文件中所主张的那样，“此次关税行动是任意的、反复无常的且违法的。”政府关于强迫劳动的主张“是对用于证明其合法性的法规的嘲弄”。

虽然联邦法官在尝试应对特朗普的非法政策方面经常做得令人钦佩，但关税案件凸显了一个核心问题：特朗普那种利用法律形式进行违规的操作，其速度比法院更快。当一名法官裁定特朗普的一项政策非法时，他会用一项实现类似目标的政策来取代它。

最终，强迫劳动关税可能会回到最高法院，而最高法院需要变得更加灵活，以保护宪法免受特朗普对政府三权分立平衡之轻视的影响。

国会和司法机构都有权对总统破坏性的经济政策做出回应。

ment。大法官们已经证明，他们愿意在关税、出生公民权以及关于选举舞弊的虚假指控等问题上，抵制特朗普先生最严重的权力滥用行为。然而，他们有时对他表现出一种令人遗憾的顺从，甚至削弱了那些试图维护法律的下级法院法官的权力。

在拜登先生担任总统期间，法院迅速采取行动，停止了其认为非法的几项政策，包括他第二次尝试的学生贷款豁免。然而，在面对特朗普先生公然蔑视法律的行为时，由共和党任命的法院多数派有时会拖延时间或犹豫不决。与此同时，特朗普先生的政策正在造成损害。

根据耶鲁预算实验室（Yale Budget Lab）的数据，在最高法院推翻了特朗普先生最初的关税政策后，美国进口商品的平均有效关税率从 14% 下降至 7%。此后，该税率已上升至 11%。

从经济角度来看，这项政策到目前为止令人失望。关税提高了许多商品的价格，但并未带动制造业就业的复苏。近几个月来，整体就业增长和经济增长均有所放缓。特朗普先生不仅没有做出相应调整，反而加倍推进他的贸易战。令人难以置信的是，他用来证明对加拿大征收关税正当性的 1930 年法律是《斯穆特-霍利关税法》（Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act），这是一部因加剧大萧条而臭名昭著的法律。

然而，更为重要的原则是宪法原则。特朗普先生正在违法。国会和司法机构需要做出回应。

TIM LAHAN

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对“觉醒文化”之对错的清算

读者对布雷特·斯蒂芬斯（Bret Stephens）呼吁为那些受到纪律处分或惩罚的人提供补偿的专栏文章做出回应。

致编辑：

关于布雷特·斯蒂芬斯 8 月 19 日的专栏文章《是的，“觉醒 1.0”很疯狂。那么现在问责制在哪里？》：

斯蒂芬斯先生认为，“觉醒文化”（wokeness）之所以糟糕，是因为在应用过程中存在一些过激行为。但任何政策或思想体系中都能找到过激的例子。

“觉醒”不过是指意识到我们歧视不同人群的方式以及随之而来的不公正。它是良好且必要的，我们不应该让右翼将其变成一个负面概念。

种族偏好同样具有负面含义，但我们的国家一直以来都在种族上表现出偏好；只要这些偏好有利于白人和男性，那些获得优势的人似乎并不在意。我们不应回避那些让我们更具意识和包容心的语言与思想，而需要接纳它们，并朝着一个更完美的联邦努力。

卡琳·克拉默·鲍德温（KARIN KRAMER BALDWIN） 加利福尼亚州，佩塔卢马

致编辑：

是否曾有一段时间，进步左翼的部分成员变得痴迷于意识形态的纯洁性，并排挤那些违背禁忌的人？绝对有。人们受到了可耻的对待，失去了他们不该失去的工作或名誉。进步主义者应该承认这一点。

但我厌倦了将“觉醒文化”等同于压制，仿佛糟糕的想法和懦弱的机构决定就等同于现代的麦卡锡主义。尽管布雷特·斯蒂芬斯举了些例子，但在 Woke 1.0 的高峰期，受其过激行为伤害的美国人，是否比受进步主义者所对抗的种族主义、性别歧视和歧视伤害的人更多？

对某些走极端的人进行问责是合理的。但促使进步主义清算的不公正现象，并没有在钟摆回摆时消失。早在推特暴民出现之前，边缘化的美国人就面临着由社会习俗、法律以及通常是暴力所强制执行的歧视。这些力量并未消失。

如果 Woke 1.0 是一次错误的清算，那么正确的清算应该是怎样的？

在评估这一时期发生的事情及其代价时，这一点在很大程度上被忽视了。

马克·沃尔夫格拉姆（MARK WOLFGRAM），渥太华

“觉醒”不过是一个被右翼挪用的词汇，用来将各种罪名归于左翼。布雷特·斯蒂芬斯的专栏呼吁对其中一组精心挑选的罪名进行问责。但究竟是要谁来问责？

20 世纪 50 年代“红色恐慌”时期的取消文化是通过国家机构策划的，特别是众议院非美活动委员会、联邦调查局（F.B.I.）等。在这种情况下，责任是明确的。

但在斯蒂芬斯先生举的例子中，责任在于一组分散的参与者——大学、媒体企业和个人。如果确实需要道歉，那么应该由这些实体来道歉，因为并没有一个可以指责的“觉醒文化”中央机构。

杰里米·布鲁姆（JEREMY BLOOM） 加利福尼亚州，桑尼维尔

布雷特·斯蒂芬斯本人就犯了他所归咎于 “Woke 1.0” 运动的那种过激行为。他声称“非自由主义”在“近年来席卷了左翼的大部分”，并且认为“无论是来自右翼的 MAGA 还是左翼的觉醒文化，那种道德上的绝对自信和肆意的妖魔化”都是“疯狂的”。

这是虚假的等同。说左翼的极端主义在任何方面能与右翼的 MAGA 相比，这是错误的。他给出了他认为的左翼极端主义例子，但来自右翼的日常诋毁要糟糕得多。

“觉醒”这个词不应成为一种蔑称。保持“觉醒”并非“疯狂”。这是一个光荣的词汇，承认并认可至今仍充斥在社会中的严重不公正和歧视，而 MAGA 和其他信奉者则在其中推波助澜。

我们需要追究责任的，不是那些睁开眼睛看世界的人，而是那些闭目塞听、积极支持并纵容歧视和厌女行为的人。这才是造成真实且持久伤害的真正根源。

罗伯特·H·帕尔默（ROBERT H. PALMER） 纽约

致编辑：

詹姆斯·A. 勒蓬（JAMES A. LEPONE） 宾夕法尼亚州蒙顿

致编辑：

无论我们想用什么词来定义这个疯狂的十年，我都认同布雷特·斯蒂芬斯（Bret Stephens）的震惊与失望——那些参与这场广泛文化运动的人缺乏问责意识或自我反省。

格雷格·卢基亚诺夫（Greg Lukianoff）和乔纳森·海特（Jonathan Haidt）在 2015 年发表于《大西洋月刊》的一篇广为阅读的文章《美国心灵的娇惯》（The Coddling of the American Mind）中，重点揭示了高等教育向“安全至上主义”（safetyism）转变的关键转折点，随后这种倾向在社会中更广泛地传播，并导致了斯蒂芬斯先生在专栏中指出的许多滥用现象。

这一时期的特点是进步左翼对传统自由主义价值观的冲击。功绩被重新定义为特权。对普世价值的坚守被视为父权制。对个人尊严的尊重被认为阻碍了革命。

传统自由主义重视自我反省，并且

我通常很喜欢布雷特·斯蒂芬斯的专栏，并同意他的警告，即道德上的绝对自信和不分青红皂白的妖魔化对自由社会是危险的。

但对我来说，这篇专栏做得不够。勇敢的新闻报道和批判性思维是我们抵御意识形态一致性最重要的两道防线。然而，斯蒂芬斯先生将截然不同的争议归为一类，而没有充分考虑背景或反方论点。

他最有力的论据涉及强制手段：公开羞辱、不成比例的惩罚、压制异议以及对正当程序的抛弃。但通过将所有这些贴上“觉醒”（wokeness）的标签，他将这些滥用行为与打击种族主义、歧视和性行为不端的正当努力混为一谈。

斯蒂芬斯先生指出了一个重要问题。但我希望他能更全面地定义这个问题、原因、罪魁祸首以及解决方案。

福雷斯特·帕多克（FORREST PADDOCK） 休斯顿

观点

TIMOTHY WHITE / AUGUST

专栏作家 / 特雷西·麦克米伦·科顿（TRESSIE McMILLAN COTTOM）

多莉·帕顿教会我如何占据空间

热爱多莉·丽贝卡·帕顿（Dolly Rebecca Parton）是一件简单的事。她美丽、幽默且善良。传闻她是个爱开玩笑的人，能讲出精彩的荤段子。她是乡村音乐的原创者，是闪耀的流行巨星，是抢镜的女演员，是文化偶像，也是无与伦比的人道主义者。在她超过60年的职业生涯的最后十年里，热爱她几乎成了一种公众仪式。但多莉并不认为自己是圣人；她将自己定义为某种我们更需要的人：一名作家。

尽管我们都热爱多莉，但我认为我们中并没有多少人真正理解她这一点。

我们沉溺于她讲述的成长故事——关于她如何在充满爱但缺乏金钱的环境中长大。我们知道她敬畏父亲，尊崇母亲。我们知道她曾告诉埃尔维斯·普雷斯利（Elvis Presley）他不能拥有她的一首歌的版权，而且令人惊讶的是，“歌王”似乎并没有因此而心怀不满。我们知道她希望孩子们阅读，希望酷儿群体受到赞赏，希望乡村人们感到被关注。

她如此频繁且真实地讲述这些故事，以至于我们大多数人没有意识到，这些是她真正告诉我们的关于自己的全部故事。正是这种在60年间、尽管语调不同、表达方式不同地重复，使她被无限热爱，却又令人眩晕地难以捉摸。这是一个优秀作家的手法。

要理解多莉，你必须将她视为一名作家来阅读。在一个不断试图将她禁锢在某个框架中的世界里，书写自己的故事是定义自己最激进、最精准的方式。她不仅仅是南方人，不仅仅是乡村人。她来自阿巴拉契亚（Appalachia）——这个地方就像多莉一样，被神话化、被嘲讽且被误解。在那里，人们很少被允许为自己发声。相反，他们被沿海地区关于“白垃圾”和“红州”的偏见所定义。如果运气好，阿巴拉契亚人会被刻板地描绘成初识现代世界的山顶村民。太种族主义而无法救赎；如果不是，则太愚蠢而不足以成为问题。

多莉在数千首歌、表演和书籍中为自己书写的故事，是一部关于阿巴拉契亚的反叙事。她将其描述为一个充满巍峨山脉和狭窄山谷、地质奇观和独特文化、充沛爱意与世代贫困的地方。

阿巴拉契亚人习惯了被城市人嘲笑。人们很容易忘记，多莉也并非免于这种嘲讽。在她职业生涯的大部分时间里，男人嘲笑她的身材，女人挖苦她低俗的时尚品味。评论家经常贬低她的艺术造诣。无论她变得多么有名，无论有多少新观众爱上她，无论她的才华多么无可否认，她的职业道德多么惊人，多莉都不得不浪费时间去应对那些狭隘之人的愚蠢笑话。

当人们因为她看起来像她所说的“镇上的荡妇”而低估她时，她接纳了这一点。2009年，她告诉莫利·塞弗（Morley Safer）：“当他们认为我不知道发生了什么的时候，我已经拿到了钱并离开了。”在我家乡，我们将这种特定的技巧称为“乡村式装傻”。多莉是这方面的大师。

嘲笑她的深V领口？你最好讲一个比她自己讲的更有趣的笑话。想因为她目光狭隘而轻视她？你得先面对她卓越的商业头脑。在女性和穷人为了获得成名机会而签署放弃知识产权协议的时代，多莉创办了一系列成功的出版公司以保留自己的权利。

这并不是说多莉的骄傲，尤其是对她工艺的骄傲，没有显现出来。她对自己作为一名创意工作者的不懈认同，以及按照自己的意愿创作艺术的权利，源于她的地域感。她在阿巴拉契亚的韵律、格律、诗意和政治中塑造故事。她对蓝草音乐的诠释可能是我最喜欢的，尤其是当她在琳达·朗斯塔特（Linda Ronstadt）和艾米露（Emmylou）身上找到创意契合点时

哈里斯。1970年的歌曲《来自多佛》（Down From Dover）是南方哥特式叙事的典范——一个关于年轻孕妇在众目睽睽之下隐匿的故事，在后罗诉韦德案时代的美国，它与创作之初一样令人心碎。《乔琳》（Jolene）中所展现的脆弱感，使得任何翻唱版本都无法超越原唱。

但直到我30多岁时，多莉的一个故事才与我的经历完美契合。我经历了一次毁灭性的流产，而我知道，那是我最后一次生育孩子的机会。有一天，我打开大学广播电台，试图用声音掩盖死寂。当时播放的是多莉1968年的歌曲《桥》（The Bridge）。

这并非我第一次听到这首歌。但这是我第一次理解歌中那个年轻女孩——怀孕、被抛弃，为了结束痛苦而考虑自杀。那种痛苦与多莉高亢、孤独的嗓音之间的并置

一位偶像并不将自己视为圣人，而是一种我们更需要的东西：一名作家。

将我彻底击碎。我第一次为所有我将无法拥有的东西而哭泣。当哭完之后，我成为了那个在经历丧失之后的自己。

尽管光彩夺目，但多莉是个简单的女孩。她写简单的歌词和旋律，讲述关于人类经验的故事。

她的歌词之所以如此，是因为在阿巴拉契亚生活可能非常艰辛。出于同样的原因，她的作品往往具有激进色彩。在她的大热单曲《9 to 5》中，像“他们只利用你的头脑，却从未给你认可 / 如果你任由其发展，这足以让你发疯”这样的句子，忠实于民谣音乐中的工人阶级政治，但它是通过女性而非男性来讲述故事。评论家们一直难以欣赏这种诗意。他们会对鲍勃·迪伦或布鲁斯·斯普林斯汀做出例外。当男人这样做时，简洁被视为智慧。

而当女人这样做时，我们被要求将其视为运气。

但对于多莉来说，这不是运气；这仅仅是对她故乡最真实的表达，而她从未——一次也没有，甚至在成为百万富翁之后——摒弃过故乡。

她知道我所知道的事：阿巴拉契亚的食物、文学和音乐是普世的。这就是为什么在世界上任何一个人们被驱逐出家园或陷入剥削循环的地方，你都能找到多莉·帕顿的粉丝。

我想我在 9 岁那年第一次靠近电视机时就意识到了这一点，当时我被那个顶着大头发的金发女郎演唱《Two Doors Down》的样子深深吸引。这首歌与我无关，与我的生活无关，与我的族群无关。但优秀的写作不需要想象每一个人。它只需要想象出我们所有人身上都存在的最真实的东西。

这就是为什么那个来自山谷（holler）的女孩对我来说是有意义的，尽管世界（以及我的母亲）认为她不应该是。在多莉成为圣人之前，当她还只是一个戴着假发、带有浓重乡音的流行明星时，我在她占据空间的方式中看到了一些召唤我的东西——一个世界对其期望不高，但却知道——确信——自己是一名作家的野心女孩。

多莉拥有书写我们美国故事的权利。这比她的头发和胸部更宏大，比亮片更闪耀，比一千件被焚烧的胸罩更具女权主义色彩，比公众生活中几乎任何人在不出卖灵魂的情况下能达到的程度都更诚实。

多莉的歌曲将流传下去。它们通过那些不常有机会讲述自己故事的美国人的眼睛，记录了美国历史。她还为那些有野心的小女孩留下了遗产。无论种族，无论阶层。她的生活和工作方式，她闪耀与谦逊的方式，她占据空间并为自己过于传奇的人设而承受打击的方式，都证明了一个好故事可以改变我们看待世界的方式。

多莉·帕顿是一名作家。最终，多莉·帕顿就是多莉写过的最伟大的故事。

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著名的现代主义基普住宅（Kip House）现已上市。 4. 租客

60 年来，一座建筑一直是纽约人的精神支柱。

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一位配音演员的加州住宅充满了色彩。

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打造 她 渴望的 家

女演员艾米·罗瑟姆（Emmy Rossum）在上东区长大期间见过许多令人惊叹的公寓。现在她拥有了自己的公寓。 作者：艾迪·莫福特（ADDIE MORFOOT） / 第 10 页

女演员艾米·罗瑟姆在她与丈夫萨姆·埃斯梅尔（Sam Esmail）以及两个孩子共同居住的上东区公寓里，坐在她童年时期的钢琴前。她目前主演 Hulu 的犯罪剧《Furious》。

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房租分摊计算器

合租公寓的价值所在

MINDY SCHAUER / DIGITAL FIRST MEDIA / ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, VIA GETTY IMAGES 一项研究显示，像加利福尼亚州欧文（Irvine）这样的郊区城镇通常能提供最高的合租价值。

在如今昂贵的租赁市场中，找个室友已成为一种日益普遍的现实。在过去的十年里，全美合租的租赁家庭数量增长了 20% 以上。考虑到节省的资金和其他益处，合租能带来多少价值在不同地区差异很大。

根据在线仓储空间市场 StorageCafe 对美国 100 个最多人口城市的调研，平均而言，两名租客合租一套两居室公寓，每人每年可比单独租一套一居室节省 \$6,700。但在某些城市，节省的金额可达两倍。在新泽西州的泽西市（Jersey City），节省金额最高，每年接近 \$13,100。

在被发现年度合租节省金额最高的 10 个城市中，有 6 个位于加利福尼亚州：欧文排名第二，每年节省约 \$12,800，其次是丘拉维斯塔（Chula Vista），节省近 \$12,700。

除了经济利益外，其他生活质量指标也影响了该研究对最佳合租城市的排名。

这些指标包括该地区合租的普遍程度、人均平均居住空间，以及健身中心、游泳池、停车位和储物空间等配套设施。

综合来看，欧文排名第一。除了高额的房租节省外，该市的公寓每位室友平均拥有 510 平方英尺的空间，且约 97% 的租赁房源可以使用游泳池。数据显示，像欧文这样的郊区城镇通常能提供最高的合租价值。该市是几个合租租赁家庭数量在十年间大幅增加的郊区之一。新开发项目和较低的租金是这些地区的主要吸引力。

对室友寻找平台 SpareRoom 上超过 1600 万 次搜索的独立分析也印证了这一趋势。分析发现，在纽约市郊区——纽约州的塔里敦（Tarrytown）、新泽西州的联合市（Union）和新泽西州的纽布朗斯维克（New Brunswick）（均在距离市区 60 分钟车程内）——人们对寻找室友的搜索兴趣从 2024 年到 2025 年几乎翻了一番，而对纽约市各区（boroughs）的兴趣则有所下降。 VINCE DIXON

不仅仅是钱的问题

城市的排名是基于合租两居室公寓相比租一居室所节省的资金，以及包括人均平均居住空间和健身中心、游泳池、停车位及储物空间等配套设施在内的其他指标。

城市< / td><>合租年度节省金额< / ><>每位室友居住面积< / >< / tr><><>1. 加利福尼亚州，欧文< / ><>$12,800< / ><>510 sq. ft.< / >< / ><><>2. 亚特兰大< / ><>$8,900< / ><>535 sq. ft.< / >< / ><><>3. 北卡罗来纳州，罗利< / ><>$8,100< / ><>515 . .< / >< / ><><>4. 佛罗里达州，坦帕< / ><>$9,200< / ><>501 . .< / >< / ><><>5. 圣迭戈< / ><>$9,900< / ><>491 . .< / >< / ><>< colspan="3">来源：StorageCafe< / >< / table>

<><>城市< / ><>合租年度节省金额< / ><>每位室友居住面积< / >< / ><><>6. 德克萨斯州，奥斯汀< / ><>$7,700< / ><>503 . .< / >< / ><><>7. 丹佛< / ><>$8,000< / ><>511 . .< / >< / ><><>8. 亚利桑那州，钱德勒< / ><>$9,600< / ><>512 . .< / >< / ><><>9. 纳什维尔< / ><>$7,600< / ><>510 . .< / >< / ><><>10. 科罗拉多斯普林斯< / ><>$8,300< / ><>477 . .< / >< / table>

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房地产咨询：跨代社区

老年人与不同年龄群体共同生活的选择有哪些？

表演艺术和体育运动。

NADIA PILLON

我对老年人可以与大学生甚至更年幼的孩子共同生活的区域很感兴趣，但我对此了解不多。这类社区被称为“跨代共居社区”或“大学退休社区”。它们分布在全国各地吗？价格是否实惠？关于这些社区，我还应该了解什么？

不同代际的人有意识地共同生活的社区正变得越来越受欢迎，这被视为一种让老年人在退休后蓬勃生活，同时让年轻人向经验丰富者学习的方式。

“这是一种参与感更强、社交孤立感更低的生活方式，”宾夕法尼亚州立大学跨代项目与老龄化教授马修·卡普兰（Matthew Kaplan）表示。

分布在全国各地大学校园内的大学退休社区是这类环境的一种流行形式。其成本可能与传统的养老社区相当。它们允许老年人在参与校园课程、

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“他们不想住在‘老人岛’上，”资深养老顾问、UniversityRetirementCommunities.com（一个提供此类场所信息的网站）创始人安德鲁·卡尔（Andrew Carle）说道。

其他社区也允许跨代共居，老年人住在有孩子的家庭附近。在全国范围内，有数百个“共居”（cohousing）开发项目，其中许多旨在促进不同年龄组之间的人员互动。在这些项目中，私人住宅单元共享室内和室外空间，价格与其他当地住房相当。一般来说，跨代共居可以是市场价，也可以是补贴价。

对这种居住安排感兴趣的老年人应该考虑他们希望与他人产生多少互动。社区是否允许不同年龄组的人近距离居住或共同生活？社区是否提供旨在促进互动的项目？是否要求必须参与？

务必明确财务条款：在跨代社区中，安排可能截然不同，专门帮助老年人做出住房决策的房地产经纪人朱莉·福特（Juli Ford）表示。

在一些社区中，需要预先支付一笔高额费用，当你离开时会退还其中一部分。在其他社区中，人们购买以后可以出售的合作社股份。还可能有月费。如果你是在新开发项目中购买，请务必询问如果项目失败或你搬走，你的投资会如何处理。当然，租赁是一种更灵活的安排。

“对于大多数老年人来说，这是一个巨大的转变，因为我们通常在自己的房子里住了几十年，”福特女士说。

但住在这些社区也有好处。“你的生活会变得更有趣，”卡普兰博士说。 JILL TERRERI RAMOS

梅德福湖滨牧场（MEDFORD LAKEFRONT RANCH）

PHOTOGRAPHS BY STEPHEN EDWARDS PHOTOGRAPHY

$1,575,000

新泽西州 1 Braddocks Mill Court

一座占地 2.42 英亩的住宅，面积 3,864 平方英尺，设有四间卧室，四个全卫和两个半卫，一个三季阳台，一个完工的地下室，一个相连的三车位车库，一个带顶棚的户外厨房及娱乐空间，一个带火坑的石板露台，并临湖。代理人：Marianne Post, Berkshire Hathaway; bhhs.com

税费：每年 $24,081；业主协会（HOA）会费：每年 $1,400

优点：房屋拥有多个水景视角，以及 400 英尺长的湖岸线，可用于游泳或停靠小型船只。

缺点：部分浴室需要翻新。地下室家庭房没有窗户。

VIA ALCHEMIST PHOTOGRAPHY

纽堡前马车房 $1,199,000

橙县 249 Grand Street

一座由砖砌马车房改造而成的住宅，面积 3,740 平方英尺，设有三间卧室，两个全卫和两个半卫。房屋拥有 15 英尺高的天花板、裸露的砖墙、手工砍伐的木梁，以及一个配备电动充电桩的车库和一个大型工作坊建筑，占地 0.39 英亩。代理人：Sidney Goto, Ronin Real Estate; roninre.com

税费：每年 $30,240

优点：设有燃木炉、带地暖的抛光混凝土地板、蒸汽供暖系统以及高端电器。

缺点：房屋分为两个翼楼，由一个小楼梯连接两侧。紧邻一座墓地和一座教堂。

由 JILL P. CAPUZZO 参与报道。 鉴于当前市场的快速节奏，部分房产在出版时可能已不再可用。

房产上市

HEATHER SENISON

PHOTOGRAPHS BY COLDWELL BANKER WARBURG

曼哈顿 230 East 50th Street, No. 4℃

一套面积约 825 平方英尺的单元，设有一间卧室，一个半卫，一个步入式衣橱，一个带窗的套内浴室，一个燃木壁炉和一个地下室储物笼。该单元位于一栋设有门卫、住家管理员和屋顶露台的大楼内。代理人：Evita LaSasso 和 Charles Holmes, Coldwell Banker Warburg; cbwarburg.com

管理费 每月 $3,042

优点：仅有一套其他单元共用电梯组。厨房电器为全新。允许作为临时寓所（pied-à-terre）使用。在居住两年后，每六年允许转租两年。

缺点：公寓需要进行一些翻新。

上东区复式公寓 $2,250,000

曼哈顿 2 East 80th Street, No. 2

一套 1,300 平方英尺的合作公寓（co-op），设有两间卧室和两个卫浴。第一层为客厅，第二层为卧室，并配有两个储物单元和一个花园，位于一栋设有共享洗衣房的联排别墅中。代理人：Judith B. Thorn 和 Joy Grossman, Coldwell Banker Warburg; cbwarburg.com

管理费 每月 $3,500

优点：允许转租。靠近中央公园和大都会艺术博物馆。

缺点：主入口直接进入公寓内部楼梯的上层平台，导致人行交通交汇处较为拥挤。

PHOTOGRAPHS BY COLDWELL BANKER WARBURG

PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID FINLAY

$1,050,000

布鲁克林 斯特林广场 834 号，PH3 室

一套两室一卫、面积 900 平方英尺的单元，配备洗衣机 / 烘干机、中央空调、抛光混凝土地板、一个产权存储柜和一个露台。该单元位于一座七层建筑的顶层，楼内设有自行车房和健身房。代理人：Michael Popovsky, the Agency; theagencyre.com

公共费用每月 $732；税费每月 $664

优点 卧室采光良好，并配备分体式空调暖气。通往露台的玻璃折叠门可欣赏到优美景色。

缺点 公寓的工业风设计可能并不适合所有人的口味。

租客

隐居于上西区，且依然生存

摄影：GRAHAM DICKIE 为纽约时报拍摄

作者：D.W. GIBSON

艾拉·格茨（Ira Goetz）失去了大部分视力。“我能看到人，”他说，“但只能看到形状和颜色。我认不出脸。”为了维持残存的视力，他需要定期在眼睛里注射药物。

他的听力也几乎丧失了。对于格茨先生来说，只有那些用大声且清晰的语调直接对着他的左耳说话的人才能与其交流，因为他还能通过助听器捕捉到那里的声音。

尽管面临这些挑战，将在12月满98岁的格茨先生依然住在自己的公寓里。

“我的朋友们都去世了，”他说，“只剩下我一个人。”

在很多方面，格茨先生从 12. 岁起就是一个幸存者。那时，他在波兰比奇镇（Biecz）的所有直系亲属都被德国士兵杀害了。

作为家里最大的男孩，格茨先生回忆起母亲告诉他快跑的情景。“那个城镇正在被清洗，”他说，“我们知道德国人在杀掉所有人。我是唯一一个成功逃脱的人。”

他跑向乡村，睡在洞穴里。“我有三四天没吃东西，”他说。

格茨先生设法联系上了一位叔叔和几个表亲，但最终他们所有人，包括艾拉在内，都被关进了集中营。

格茨先生表示，他能快速掌握德语是他生存下来的重要原因。他能够与士兵沟通，于是他们给他分配了一项工作，给了他一把钥匙，让他为他们开关一间受保护的洗手间。

解放后，格茨先生搬到了纽约。“我在这儿有一位姑姑和一位叔叔，”他说，“他们带我去詹姆斯·门罗高中（James Monroe High School）注册。我完全不知道高中是什么，也不懂英语。”

他遇到了优秀的老师，发挥了自己在语言方面的天赋，在不到两年的时间里拿到了高中毕业证。随后他进入大学和研究生院深造，最终获得了哥伦比亚大学的外语硕士学位。

他在曼哈顿独立生活的最初几年特点是频繁搬家，在不同的公寓之间辗转。当他在哥伦比亚大学获得一份教学工作后，他想在附近找个住处，但正如在纽约经常发生的那样，格茨先生的找房过程一点也不快捷或容易。“我在任何地方都找不到房子，”他说，“要么就是太贵了。”

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在 97, 岁时，艾拉·格茨已经在同一栋曼哈顿公寓楼里住了60年。尽管视力和听力受限，他依然独自生活，这在很大程度上要归功于一个名为“晚年生命力”（lifeforce in Later Years）的基层组织。虽然已经退休，但他仍保留着一张办公桌和工作空间（见右上图）。

有一天，在开车四处寻找公寓——再次徒劳无功——之后，他把车停在河滨大道（Riverside Drive）上，精疲力竭地瘫在方向盘后面。他抬头看向街对面的那栋砖房。

“我不知道为什么，但我就是进去了，”他说。

格茨先生在门厅里看到一个男人，询问他是否是管理员。然而，那个男人没有回应。

“他没太听懂，”格茨先生回忆道，“然后——我到现在还不敢相信——我用波兰语问了他同样的问题，他说：‘是的’。”

他们聊了一会儿，最终格茨先生询问大楼里是否有空房。当天晚些时候，他签署了一套一居室单元的租约。租金每月 $80 。“我觉得自己很幸运，遇到了一个给我房子的波兰人。”

戈茨先生仍然保留着他在1966年5月签署的那份已经泛黄的原始租约。在过去的60年里，他这套租金稳定公寓的租金上涨到了$1,500。他曾在不同楼层的单元之间搬过两次家，每次都是为了追求更大的空间，以及光线更好、哈德逊河吹来的微风更强劲的窗户。然而，同一栋建筑始终是他的家。

这栋建筑见证了他的生活，贯穿了一段婚姻、另一段长期关系以及他在语言领域卓越的职业生涯。除了在哥伦比亚大学和其他高等教育机构任教外，他还曾担任纽约新美国人协会（New York Association for New Americans）的负责人，在那里他开发了教授移民英语的新模式。

他从20世纪70年代起就住在目前的公寓里——他记不清具体年份了——半个世纪后，他之所以仍能住在自己的屋檐下，主要原因是得到了一个名为“晚年生命力”（Lifeforce in Later Years）的基层组织的帮助。

该组织简称为LILY，总部位于上西区，致力于帮助像戈茨先生这样的大多数情况下仍能独立生活，但可能需要一点帮助来度过每一天的老年人。

67岁的阿齐布·格布雷（Azieb Ghebre）是LILY的长期志愿者，她几乎每天都花时间陪伴戈茨先生，和他一起吃早餐，并帮他出门散步。有一次戈茨先生感觉不舒服就寝了，她担心把他一个人留下，甚至在他的沙发上过夜。

不过她表示，在生活的绝大多数方面，戈茨先生都极其独立。“他不让我碰他的衣服，”她笑着说，“他自己洗，自己打理——他坚持要这么做。”

LILY从不为其志愿者提供的服务收费。“我们没有管理费用，没有办公室，”LILY的社区外展协调员乔纳森·斯隆（Jonathon Slon）说道。该组织服务于106街至145街之间的人群。

该组织的许多志愿者是学生，其中一些是希望与这个国家更多人建立联系的外国留学生，而且在学校放假期间，他们往往负担不起回国的机票。“我们走访人们，看望他们，和他们一起消磨好几个小时，”斯隆先生说。

该组织提供志愿者来帮助完成任务，让日子显得不那么孤独。这意味着陪人们去看医生、吃午餐、逛博物馆和看百老汇剧目。“有时我们会去看爵士乐演出，”斯隆先生说。

“我们还有一个Zoom电影小组，因为有些人行动不便，但他们都可以登录Zoom。”

2022年，斯隆先生开始在自己的公寓里为一群男性举办每周一次的午餐会，这些人大多在80或90岁。“还有几个70多岁的‘年轻人’，”他说，“气氛非常热闹且随性。”

72岁的斯隆先生就住在戈茨先生家拐角处，他在2024年邀请戈茨先生参加其中一次午餐会。但结果并不太理想。

“之后，我陪艾拉走回家，”他回忆道，“他说他听不清那些男人在说什么，他们说话太快了。就在那时，艾拉教会了我如何放慢语速，并把每个词分开说，这样才不会混在一起。”

在公寓里与像斯隆先生这样耐心的邻居进行一对一的交谈最适合戈茨先生。这种个性化的响应正是LILY的定义所在。“我们努力让人们觉得他们依然掌控着自己的生活，”斯隆先生说，“并且他们没有失去所有的尊严。”

寻房记

当移居意大利的计划落空，一对夫妇决定在曼哈顿买房

KATHERINE MARKS 为《纽约时报》拍摄 “我们想要享受这座城市，并且想要再次认真地为退休储蓄，”帕奇蒂先生说道。

凭借 $600,000 预算，两名前舞者希望在地铁附近找一个住处。

作者：AIMEE ORTIZ

乔丹·帕奇蒂（Jordan Pacitti）和他的丈夫本·格里菲斯（Ben Griffiths）已经准备好搬家了。这对夫妇曾是专业舞者，在西雅图为太平洋西北芭蕾舞团（Pacific Northwest Ballet）舞动多年后，于 2020 年来到纽约。不久，他们开始寻找下一次冒险，最好是在意大利。

这对夫妇非常热爱意大利。45, 岁的帕奇蒂先生是第三代意大利裔美国人，当时他正在办理意大利国籍。然而在 2025, 3 月，意大利更改了法律，规定只有第一代和第二代意大利裔可以通过血缘获得国籍。

买房者：左侧为乔丹·帕奇蒂，以及本·格里菲斯和他们的猫福雷斯特（Forrest）在他们的新家。

帕奇蒂先生在 2013 年创立了一个护肤品牌，可以在任何地方工作，而 42, 岁的格里菲斯先生则在帕奇蒂先生的公司工作。由于他们位于萨顿广场（Sutton Place）的公寓租约将于 3 月到期，这对夫妇推迟了出国居住的计划，决定在纽约市买一套房子。

凭借 $600,000, 预算，他们希望找到一套不需要大修的两室两卫公寓。他们还希望靠近地铁，且物业维护费用合理。

“我们来到纽约市就是为了享受纽约市，”帕奇蒂先生说，并补充道，虽然他们能负担得起更高价格的房子，但“我们想要享受这座城市，并且想要再次认真地为退休储蓄。”

起初，两人在皇后区和布鲁克林寻找，但帕奇蒂先生说：“我们的生活大部分时间都在曼哈顿。”于是，他们将目光转向北部的华盛顿高地（Washington Heights）和因伍德（Inwood）。

“他们非常清楚自己想要什么，也知道什么样的房子合适，什么样的不合适，”与这对夫妇合作的 R New York 助理经纪人劳伦斯·P·米切尔（Laurence P. Mitchell）说道。

他们的选项包括：

1. 华盛顿高地三楼 这套翻新过的两室一卫公寓是华盛顿高地一家合作公寓（co-op）三楼的开发商单位（sponsor unit）。这里有充足的壁橱空间，但大楼没有电梯。挂牌价为 $529,000, ，物业维护费为 $1,379.

2. 华盛顿高地五楼

2. 华盛顿高地五楼 这对夫妇参观了同一栋华盛顿高地大楼中的第二套公寓。这套

选项概览

华盛顿高地的一套三楼步行公寓是翻新过的开发商单位，拥有两间卧室、一间浴室和充足的壁橱空间。

2 同一栋华盛顿高地大楼中的一套五楼步行公寓是开发商单位，拥有相同的两室布局，但采光更好。

3 因伍德一套电梯大楼五楼的两室公寓拥有翻新过的厨房，但该单位需要经过董事会批准。

这套两室一卫开发商单位的布局与第一套公寓完全一致，但它位于步行大楼的五楼。其挂牌价较低，为 $489,000, ，物业维护费为 $1,379.

3. 因伍德电梯大楼单位

这套两室一卫公寓位于因伍德的一栋电梯大楼五楼。它靠近 1 号线和 A 线地铁，但这对夫妇不喜欢在前往车站时需要走好几层楼梯。公寓有一个翻新过的厨房，但它不是开发商单位，这意味着这对夫妇需要获得董事会的批准。挂牌价为 $575,000, ，物业维护费为 $1,635.

他们的选择

那套位于因伍德（Inwood）的公寓需要经过董事会批准，这是一个艰巨的过程，可能会比这对夫妇希望的时间更长，因为他们的租约即将到期，而且他们并不喜欢前往地铁站需要爬的许多层楼梯。

在华盛顿高地（Washington Heights），这对夫妇发现这里是一个充满独立店铺且有大量绿地可供探索的社区。

“被公园环绕的感觉真的太棒了，”帕奇蒂先生（Mr. Pacitti）说道。

这对夫妇选择了位于华盛顿高地三层的开发商单位（sponsor unit），而不是五层的。虽然他们很喜欢高层公寓遍布全屋的自然光线，但这对夫妇承认，随着年龄增长，爬楼梯可能会变得有些困难。

除了楼梯较少，三层的开发商单位还拥有较低的每月维护费、宽敞的卧室、充足的自然光，并且方便前往地铁。

经过一番协商，他们以 $515,000 的价格成交，在获得了结案费用和转让税方面的让步后，他们同意了这一价格。

他们在 2 月 25 日完成了交易，并在不到一个月后搬入。

这对夫妇在邻居中找到了社区归属感。

“我们这一层的所有人，就像是有音乐家和摄像师，有在《红磨坊》演出的人，还有自己经营小生意且在家工作的人，”帕奇蒂先生说。“所以大家都在我们的年龄段。”

格里菲斯先生（Mr. Griffiths）表示：“我觉得搬到这里让我们摆脱了疫情期间的习惯。我觉得在疫情期间，每个人的生活圈都变小了，而且一直保持那样。”

“搬家在某种程度上帮我们重新拓展了社交圈，”他补充道。

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两位现代主义者——一位是著名的物理学家，一位是崭露头角的建筑师——在 20 世纪 50 年代初合作打造了基普住宅 (Kip House)。这座位于加利福尼亚州伯克利的住宅深受包豪斯风格启发，是著名的国际风格建筑。随后，他们成为了终身邻居。

如今，位于圣地亚哥路 775 号、就在约翰·辛克尔公园 (John Hinkel Park) 对面的基普住宅在其近 75 年的历史中第二次上市。这座拥有三间卧室和两间浴室的住宅挂牌价为 $1.4.25 亿，由 District Homes 的安娜·贝洛莫 (Anna Bellomo) 负责销售。

该住宅设计于 1952 年，由亚瑟·弗雷德里克·基普 (Arthur Frederic Kip) 委托建造。基普是一位先驱性的固体物理学家，他的研究为计算机和智能手机的发展奠定了基础。住宅的设计师唐纳德·奥尔森 (Donald Olsen) 当时是一名年轻的建筑师，刚搬到伯克利开始其建筑实践。1954 年基普住宅完工后，奥尔森先生及其妻子海伦·奥尔森 (Helen Olsen) 在隔壁建造了一座同样受包豪斯影响的住宅。奥尔森夫妇与基普先生及其妻子琼·基普 (Joan Kip) 在此度过了余生。

“在买下这栋房子之前的很多年里，我就一直关注它，所以当它上市时我非常兴奋，”现任业主苏西·因吉吉安 (Susie Injijian) 表示。她是一名湾区律师，于 2013 年 7 月从基普遗产管理方手中买下了这座住宅。

“最初吸引我的是这个社区——我和年幼的孩子经常来这里，因为这里有一个隐藏起来的迷人公园，”因吉吉安女士说。“公园边上就有两栋宏伟的房子：奥尔森住宅和基普住宅。”

奥尔森先生于 1946 年从哈佛大学设计研究生院毕业，获得建筑学硕士学位。在校期间，他师从德国包豪斯艺术设计学院的共同创始人沃尔特·格罗皮乌斯 (Walter Gropius)。在基普住宅的设计中，他采用了格罗皮乌斯所倡导的简洁、逻辑且实用主义的原则。

顶部及上方为基普住宅的三张室内视图。透过窗户，可以看到环绕住宅的高大树木和茂盛的植被。

“基普住宅的重要性体现在两个方面，”建筑历史学家、《唐纳德·奥尔森：可居住抽象空间的建筑师》(Donald Olsen: Architect of Habitable Abstractions) 一书的作者皮埃尔路易吉·塞赖诺 (Pierluigi Serraino) 表示。他解释说，首先，这座房子是分层——

中左为房子的早期草图。中右为外观图。近右为厨房，最右侧为主卧室。下方为加利福尼亚州北伯克利的景观。

布局的早期范例。“这里没有走廊，”他说，“全部都是可用空间。”

1,904 平方英尺的室内空间分布在三个楼层中。主层分为上层（设有客厅和书房）和下层（设有主入口、厨房、餐厅，以及一间卧室、一间浴室和一间洗衣房）。主卧室、浴室和第三间卧室位于更低的一层。

塞赖诺先生表示，这种设计让奥尔森先生能够在坡地上建造房屋，且“土方工程量极小”。“这在当时是一个挑战，也是奥尔森先生当时研究的一部分。请记住，这座房子是他作为建筑师确立自身身份的起点。”

完工后，基普住宅因这两项创新在 1954 年获得了《艺术与建筑》(Arts & Architecture) 杂志的认可。

但对于一些人来说，这座房子最显著的特征或许是那个精致地悬挂在顶层、位于落地窗立面之上的悬臂阳台。奥尔森先生在阳台底部添加了一抹亮眼的深红色，以此向法国极简主义现代主义建筑师勒·柯布西耶 (Le Corbusier) 致敬。

“它被称为‘红色阳台’，”因吉吉安女士说。“琼实际上为《贝尔维尤文学评论》(Bellevue Literary Review) 写过一个关于她在这里生活的动人故事，名为《公园对面的房子》。她写到，在公园里的树还没有那么高的时候，他们会端着马丁尼走到红色阳台上，眺望海湾。”

阳台是因吉吉安女士在任职期间修复的特色之一。那项工作还包括重建前阶梯和车棚，以及增加抗震加固。含有石棉的亚麻油地毡瓷砖（20世纪早中期亚麻油地毡瓷砖的常见添加剂）被拆除，并更换为木地板。不过总体而言，这座房子保存得异常完好，因吉吉安女士的目标是致敬奥尔森先生的设计。

“我非常有动力去保护它，而不是改变任何东西，”她说。“成为业主后，我真的觉得自己想要成为一名守护者。我想忠实于奥尔森的设计。”

然而，因吉吉安女士在底层浴室中加入了自己的风格。“那里的翻新基本上撤销了基普一家所做的改动，他们之前的风格更现代一些，”她说。“我所做的是更多地向包豪斯设计致敬。我热爱那个浴室。效果很不错。”

现在是时候交给新的守护者了。“我的孩子们长大了，一座近 2,000 平方英尺的房子，维护起来压力很大，”因吉吉安女士说。不过，离开基普故居并非易事。“这座房子有一种庄严感，即便其线条极其简朴。它非常严谨，但自然的壮美却从中透出。这其中有一种艺术感，”她说。“它真的是一件艺术与科学的结合作品。”

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在黛安·基顿 (Diane Keaton) 去世数月后，她位于洛杉矶萨利文峡谷 (Sullivan Canyon) 的“Pinterest”住宅于本月以 $1800 万 的价格售出。

这座占地广阔的庄园拥有超过 9,000 平方英尺的居住空间，是这位出演过约 100 部电影和电视作品的女演员倾注心血的项目。基顿女士花费数十年时间翻修这座房子，这一过程在她 2017 年出版的著作《Pinterest 打造的房子》(The House that Pinterest Built) 中有详细记载。

“曾经，像我这样热爱剪贴簿、拼贴艺术、被图像驱动的成瘾者和借鉴者都是孤独的猎人，”基顿女士在书的引言中写道，“而现在，我敢说有数十亿人通过他人分配的各种美感，来发现、获取并扩大他们的参考库。”

根据房源信息，该物业是她拥有但未出售的少数房产之一，设有五间卧室、八间浴室，拥有砖墙、大教堂式拱顶天花板以及一套“回收的灯具收藏”。室外有一个独立的客房、一个地埋式加热泳池和一个水疗中心。

基顿女士于 2025 年 10 月因细菌性肺炎去世，享年 79, 岁，她曾是一位高产的房屋翻修投资者。作为一名房地产经纪人的女儿，基顿女士记得 20 世纪 50 年代在加利福尼亚州圣安娜 (Santa Ana) 参观价值 $15,000 的样板房时，她曾牵着父亲的手。

在采访和回忆录中，她经常回想起这段记忆，因为她试图解释对梦想之家的追求是如何在她的描述中变成一种“执念”的。

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《亚瑟》创作者出售马萨诸塞州马莎葡萄园住宅

艾美奖得主、儿童系列剧《亚瑟》(Arthur) 的创作者马克·布朗 (Marc Brown) 本月以 $6.400 万 的价格售出了他在马莎葡萄园 (Martha's Vineyard) 的房产。

该物业位于葡萄园港 (Vineyard Haven)，占地近 8 英亩，包含一座翻修过的农舍、一个盐水泳池、一个艺术工作室以及一个可容纳三辆车的马车房。

根据房源信息，主住宅可追溯至 1730, 年，设有五间卧室和四间浴室，以及“精心保存的原始细节”，包括手绘的西伯利亚榆木地板、枪托式立柱、一扇荷兰门和四个壁炉。该物业的泳池房提供了额外的住宿选择。

布朗先生和他的妻子劳伦·克拉斯尼·布朗 (Laurene Krasny Brown) 花了 37 年时间修复该物业。据《华尔街日报》报道，该房产去年最初挂牌价为 $6.900 万。该报当时报道称，这对夫妇“花费了数年时间和数百万美元修复该物业，随后决定他们想要一个离纽约市主要住所更近的项目”。

Tea Lane Associates / Forbes Global Properties 的亚历克西斯·霍尔登 (Alexis Holden) 和埃尔·拉什 (Elle Lash) 负责此次挂牌。

拉什女士在周四的一份声明中表示，这对夫妇“创造了一个让他们的艺术和故事能够繁荣发展的避风港”，漫步在房产中就像是“参观一座迷人的花园”。

她说：“他们的心血之作既是一次修复，也是一次翻新，”并补充说，“在那里度过时光是一种享受。”

萨利文峡谷的这处房产最初于 2025 年 3 月以 $28.900 万 的价格挂牌，随后在同年 5 月降价至 $27.500 万。该房屋在 9 月被完全撤出市场，就在基顿女士去世前不久。随后，它于 2025 年 12 月再次挂牌，价格为 $26.900 万，直到 6 月再次降价至 $22.900 万。

负责此次挂牌的 Compass 公司经纪人乔什·弗拉格 (Josh Flagg) 拒绝透露买家的身份。

一位 Facebook 创始人出售华盛顿住宅

Facebook 联合创始人克里斯·休斯（Chris Hughes）以 $8.5900 万 的价格出售了他在华盛顿特区备受追捧的卡洛拉马（Kalorama）社区的住宅。

根据房源信息，这座住宅建于 1905 年，采用罗马复兴风格，原为林肯国家银行（Lincoln National Bank）行长而建。该住宅拥有六间卧室和八间浴室，面积超过 8,000 平方英尺。

该房产还配备了一个厨师级厨房、一个大理石壁炉，以及一部覆盖房屋全部四层的电梯。

室外设有一个私人花园，包含用餐区、火坑、内置烧烤站、凉亭、喷泉和景观绿化。

Coldwell Banker Realty 的马林·哈根（Marin Hagen）和西尔维亚·伯格斯特罗姆（Sylvia Bergstrom）负责此次挂牌销售。

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凯文·加内特的马里布前庄园出售 一座曾属于篮球名人堂成员凯文·加内特（Kevin Garnett）的马里布房产现已上市，开价 $4800 万。

加内特先生于 2003 年购入该房产，并于 2021. 年将其出售。现任业主、VIG Private Lending 首席执行官弗拉基米尔·瓦尔斯基（Vladimir Valsky）于 2022 年买下该房产，并花费数年时间对其进行翻修。

根据房源信息，这座宏伟的庄园占地近七英亩，由屡获殊荣的瑞士建筑师罗杰·库拉斯（Roger Kurath）设计。庄园的主宅面积超过 11,000 平方英尺，设有六间卧室、八间浴室和一个厨师级厨房。其他设施包括私人电影院、专用酒窖，以及独立的瑜伽室和健康空间。室外则设有无边泳池、皮克球场、烧烤区和 50 棵牛油果树。

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为了在休斯顿寻找一个负担得起的住所，卢克·赞普雷利（Luke Zamprelli）和穆里尔·海格（Muriel Hague）远离了市中心，也摒弃了传统的房屋设计理念。2020年，这对夫妇——当时是指导高中行进乐队的音乐教育工作者——在休斯顿市界西北边缘的 Acres Homes 社区买了一块地。他们支付了 $46,000。

“我们在时机上非常幸运，因为我们在新冠疫情爆发前一周完成了地块的交易，”现任公司律师的海格女士（34岁）说道。（赞普雷利先生，35岁，创办了一家从事行进乐队设计的公司。）她说，在那之后，“价格就一路飙升”。

Acres Homes 以其通常较大的地块而得名，二战后这里支撑着一个庞大的黑人社区，并在数十年间保留了大部分乡村特色。但该地区随后陷入了衰落。当这对夫妇第一次看到这块四分之一英亩的房产时，植被几乎将其掩埋，路边还躺着一具牛尸。“我想就是这里了，”海格女士在穿过杂草时对着赞普雷利先生喊道。她并不是在讽刺。这块地位于一条尽头是一个小型马围栏的街道上。直到今天，偶尔还会有马溜进他们的院子。

他们的下一步是寻找一位建筑师，能够按照每平方英尺约 $150 的节俭建筑预算来设计房屋。在朋友的建议下，他们计划面试至少五位候选人，但他们最终选择了见到的第一个人：休斯顿 Content Architecture 事务所的杰西·哈格（Jesse Hager）。

尽管这对夫妇负担不起在 Content 网站上看到的许多心仪设计，但他们直觉地认为，哈格先生——他将自己的方法描述为“以智能的方式使用普通材料，使它们看起来很美”——不会在一个规模较小的项目中在创意上偷工减料。或者正如赞普雷利先生回忆建筑师所说的那样：“嘿，如果你们愿意尝试一些古怪的东西，那么我们的合作就能成行。”

在这种情况下，“古怪”意味着一座 Y 形、1,800 平方英尺的建筑，其弧形外墙覆盖着波纹金属板，后方则有一排长长的落地窗——而在这个城市，夏季气温经常飙升至 90 华氏度中段，一年平均有 204 天阳光普照。

但成长于太平洋西北地区的哈格先生非常看重阳光。他说，典型的德克萨斯人对大窗户的反应让他感到困惑：“噢，我的天，阳光太多了！”通过使用大量的绝缘材料、水汽屏障、高效能隔热玻璃和混凝土地板，他打造出了一座舒适且充满光线的房子，它与周围葱郁的环境紧密相连，以至于白色的内墙经常被染成绿色。该房屋按照德克萨斯州法规建造，具备安装太阳能设备的条件，其屋顶

阵列降低了电费成本。赞普雷利先生说，他们的电费每月只有几美元。“但我并不觉得白天会出汗，”他说。

在室内，构成“Y”形的三块基本空间——一个带有天窗浴室的客厅；一个带有套内浴室和洗衣房的主卧室；以及一个兼作客房的办公室——围绕着中央厨房组织。这种核心布局反映了烹饪和款待客人在这对夫妇心中的重要性；他们要求将炉灶集成在岛台中，而不是靠墙放置，这样他们就永远不必背对着客人。防溅板是一块顶天立地的石英岩面板，同时也是将厨房与卧室分隔开的隔断。

家具大多来自休斯顿的 Native Citizen 店，选择这些家具是为了匹配周围轻盈且无遮挡的感觉。“没有任何地方是被封闭的，”海格女士说。

这对夫妇于2024年7月搬入后不久，周围便出现了一批低层住宅，仿佛在垄沟中播种般迅速拔地而起。赞普雷利先生最近估计，自从他们动工以来，其邮政编码区域内新增了700到900栋新建筑。

在房地产繁荣的浪潮中，残存的乡村氛围正逐渐消失。但哈格先生表示，新邻居们遛狗和推婴儿车的出现，意味着有了更多具有保护作用的“眼睛”。（因此，他最初设计中用于安保的周界围栏最终并未建成。）这对夫妇表示，他们喜欢随新开发而来的社区精神，并且很感激房屋价值可能会因此而上涨。

最近的一张航拍照片展现了这座房子的独特个性，它在那些矩形邻居之间像一个游戏棋子一样漂浮着。“看向窗外，我能看到很多绿色，”赞普雷利先生说，“我们知道这不会永远持续下去，但在这一区域拥有我们自己的独立小天地感觉很酷。”

左图，卢克·赞普雷利和穆里尔·哈格位于休斯顿的家中，采用了落地窗。第二排，从左起：这对夫妇；两张视角图显示该房屋的设计在 Acres Homes 社区中脱颖而出；房屋还包括一个带有火坑的木镶板后廊。第三排：厨房位于房屋中心；简朴的材料和高效的存储是该设计的标志。底部，从左起：现代风格的家具让空间得以呼吸；卧室视角绿意盎然。 摄影：卡梅隆·布莱洛克

大量的窗户让一座房子免于变得千篇一律。

实地报道 加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳

这栋房子已有主

摄影：NOAH WEBB 为《纽约时报》拍摄

大胆的色彩和一个木制牛仔装饰着配音演员格蕾·德利斯（Grey DeLisle）的家。

作为动画电视剧、电影和电子游戏中 2,500 多个角色的配音演员，包括《喧闹屋》（The Loud House）、《史酷比》（Scooby-Doo）和《辛普森一家》（The Simpsons），格蕾·德利斯的作品充满活力且引人入胜。她在加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳的家也是如此。

作者：TIM McKEOUGH

这座 1908 年建的工艺美术风格（Craftsman）房屋的外墙被刷成了鼠尾草绿和三文鱼粉。室内保留了原有的深色木质护墙板，但通过覆盖大胆图案壁纸的墙壁和天花板进行了增强。她的厨房设计是以一台红色的 20 世纪 40 年代 O'Keefe & Merritt 炉灶为核心的。而她的餐厅中心则是一尊名为 Slim 的等身木制牛仔雕像，那是她在 24 岁时买的。

右侧起顺时针方向：配音演员格蕾·德利斯的厨房配备了一台复古的 O'Keefe & Merritt 炉灶和来自 Fireclay Tile 的彩色陶瓷；洗衣机和烘干机被窗帘遮挡；主卫和儿童卫浴形成了鲜明的对比；两个儿童卧室被赋予了与房子其他部分一样浓厚的复古气息；而为德利斯女士设计的是“一间阴暗且性感”的卧室。

“这是我与男人之间最长久的一段关系，”现年 52, 岁的德利斯女士说道，因为她经历过三次结婚和离婚。

德利斯女士同时也是一名出色的创作歌手，她与 22 Interiors 的创始人露西·艾尔斯（Lucie Ayres）共同改造了这栋房子。22 Interiors 是一家设计公司，其作品集多为高端且精简的项目，通常偏好中性色。

“她有一种极简且非常精准的氛围，”德利斯女士在谈到艾尔斯女士时说，“而我有一个药店风格的牛仔。”

然而，在为德利斯女士位于洛杉矶和纳什维尔的几处房产合作 12 年后，设计师和业主似乎在彼此身上找到了平衡。

“她并不害怕色彩，”艾尔斯女士说，并提到德利斯女士收集古董和艺术品，包括一套不断扩充的裸体画收藏。“与她合作总是如此愉快且具有启发性。”

当她们开始在帕萨迪纳开展最新的项目时，“我知道这个空间必须拥有像她一样鲜明的个性，”艾尔斯女士说。“它必须色彩丰富、明亮且快乐，而这在保留所有原始深色木作的工艺美术风格房屋中并非易事。”

德利斯女士最初在 2007 年与她的第二任丈夫以 $1.500 万 买下了这栋 2,000 平方英尺的房子。几年后，当他们经历了一场被德利斯女士描述为“极其友好”的离婚时，她不想让大儿子搬家，于是她搬了出去，而她的儿子和前夫继续住在房子里。

德利斯女士最终再次结婚，又生了两个孩子，并搬到了加利福尼亚州格伦代尔一栋大得多的房子里，面积约为 4,300 平方英尺。那处房产如此之大，以至于她在后院有空间建造两个附属居住单元，并将其出租以抵消部分抵押贷款成本。

然而，几年前，多种因素的共同作用让德利斯女士确信，是时候缩小居住规模并回到帕萨迪纳的房子里了。

其中一个原因是她厌倦了由于有多个租客而导致的隐私缺失。她的前夫也计划搬出帕萨迪纳的房子，而当德利斯女士考虑将其出售时，她的长子表达了一些保留意见。

[⚠ 低质量翻译，建议复核] 上方图片（从左上角起顺时针方向）：德利尔女士与卢瑟在家中；色彩浓郁的客厅；餐厅里傲然伫立的木制牛仔 Slim；房屋外部已重新粉刷，并布置了一个由本土植物、石头和碎石组成的节水庭院；德利尔女士在 22 Interiors 设计公司创始人露西·艾尔斯的帮助下，对这座 1908 年的住宅进行了改造。

“他当时刚去上大学，我想他感到非常怀旧，于是他说：‘天哪，我希望我们能把它留下来。失去我成长的地方感觉很奇怪，’”德利尔女士说道。“而我想：‘你知道吗？没错，这里规模小得多，也更容易打理。’”

她卖掉了格伦代尔的房子，并于 2024 年 9 月带着她现在 9 和 12, 岁的两个小孩子搬回了这座旧宅。

她将房屋外部重新粉刷成了粉色和绿色的新配色，并铲除了草坪，取而代之的是由本土植物、石铺路面和碎石组成的节水景观。在室内，她与艾尔斯女士在门厅的上墙面和天花板上贴上了鲜艳的“金银花与郁金香”壁纸，这是 1876 年的一款威廉·莫里斯设计。

在摆放着点唱机的客厅里，她们安装了图案让人想起常春藤藤蔓的 Zak + Fox 壁纸，并增加了一组深红色天鹅绒沙发和一把采用受 ikat 启发而设计的 Pierre Frey 面料扶手椅。

在餐厅里，除了安置 Slim 之外，她们还在天花板上贴了 Scalamandré 的几何壁纸，并悬挂了一盏来自 SoHo Home 的由绿色玻璃管组成的大型吊灯。在厨房里，她们选购了 Smeg 的复古红色冰箱和洗碗机，以配合那台复古炉灶，并在墙上安装了蓝色和红色调的 Fireclay 定制瓷砖，地面则采用了黄色和白色调。

艾尔斯女士通过移动墙壁，打造了一个正式的主卧套房，而这座房子此前一直缺乏这样的空间。她将主卧设计得较为昏暗，墙壁为茄紫色，天花板覆盖了更多花卉壁纸，床头则采用了簇绒青色天鹅绒床头板。墙上挂着许多德利尔女士收藏的裸体画。

“当你见到她时，有些特质会让你觉得，‘这个女人值得拥有一个昏暗且性感的卧室，’”艾尔斯女士说。“我不知道还能怎么形容。”

事实上，整座房子的翻新费用（包括新家具）约为 $400,000，呈现出一种奢华且私密的氛围，这对于一个在他人选择运动休闲装时更倾向于穿着复古晚礼服的女性来说，似乎非常合适。

“我告诉我的孩子们，‘我知道运动裤是什么，但我一件也没有，’”德利尔女士说。“这是事实。”

居家生活 艾米·罗瑟姆

在她的梦想公寓里，万物各得其所

餐厅

作者：ADDIE MORFOOT 摄影：KATHERINE MARKS

当艾米·罗瑟姆（Emmy Rossum）在上东区长大，与母亲共住一套一室一厅的公寓时，她一直渴望拥有自己的空间。

“我记得在 8, 9, 10 岁的时候，看着邻里间那些令人惊叹的公寓，心想：‘总有一天’，”现年 39 岁的罗瑟姆女士说道。

那一天在 2018 年到来了。当时，这位女演员和她的丈夫——《黑客军团》（Mr. Robot）的创作者萨姆·埃斯梅尔（Sam Esmail）在上东区买了一套五居室公寓，离她成长的地方不远。“能回到我成长时的那些地方及其周边，并能与我的孩子们一起重现我童年的记忆，对我来说真的非常重要，”她说。在经历了一次彻底的翻修后，这对夫妇在 2021 年第一个孩子出生前一个月搬进了这座 4,400 平方英尺的家。他们的第二个孩子在 2023 年出生。

罗瑟姆女士的职业生涯始于上西区。当时她 7 岁，被选入林肯中心大都会歌剧院的儿童合唱团。那份工作为她带来了在《后天》、《歌剧魅影》和《神秘河》中的电影角色。目前，她主演 Hulu 系列剧《愤怒》（Furious），讲述一名 FBI 特工寻找连环杀手的故事。

客厅

罗瑟姆女士最著名的角色是在电视剧《无耻之徒》（Shameless）中饰演的菲奥娜·加拉格尔（Fiona Gallagher）。2010 年，她为了拍摄该剧全职搬到洛杉矶，但在拍摄期间的某些年份里，她在萨顿广场（Sutton Place）保留了一处临时住所。“我始终在纽约保留着一份牵挂，”她说。

在俯瞰餐厅餐桌的一面墙上，挂着一张名为《凯特·摩丝在巴黎利普咖啡馆》的亚瑟·埃尔戈特（Arthur Elgort）摄影作品（右图）。这是《无耻之徒》的节目统筹约翰·威尔斯（John Wells）送给她的礼物。“他说这张照片传递出的能量让他想到了我，”罗瑟姆女士说。

罗瑟姆女士出演了该剧 11 个季中的 9 个。2016 年，她成功争取到消除她与合作演员威廉·H·梅西（William H. Macy）之间的薪酬差距，从而成为新闻焦点。上个月，罗瑟姆女士在播客节目《Call Her Daddy》的一集中讨论了此事，使得这场薪酬公平之争再次成为新闻。“我觉得这是一个人们需要思考的重要问题，”她说。“我为能成为积极变革的一部分而感到自豪和快乐，但我们还有很长的路要走。”

在罗瑟姆女士的财产中，有一架雅马哈立式钢琴。它曾放在她与母亲共住的公寓里。“那套公寓太小了，没法同时摆放玄关桌和钢琴，所以它兼具了两者的功能，”这位女演员说。“我们的钥匙就放在钢琴顶上的一个碗里。”

钢琴对面是一件因纽特文物和两只石熊，是她与母亲去阿拉斯加旅行时购买的（右图，上下两件）。“我们参加了这次邮轮旅行，船上有一个才艺表演，”罗瑟姆女士说。“我当时 7 岁，演唱了《绿野仙踪》中的《如果我是森林之王》。邮轮旅行结束后，我们背起行囊旅行了大约三周。”

咖啡桌上放着一本首版《斯坦利·库布里克档案》（上方，最右侧）。罗瑟姆女士和她的丈夫在 2013 年洛杉矶郡立艺术博物馆的斯坦利·库布里克展览会上购买了这本 Taschen 出版社的书。

“那是我们第一次真正一起出去玩，”罗瑟姆女士说。“他非常热爱库布里克。”

罗瑟姆女士说她的公寓总是很整洁。“我是处女座，”她说。“每样东西都需要有自己的位置。我丈夫也是处女座。我们喜欢贴标签。”

厨房

罗瑟姆女士和她的家人大部分时间都在厨房度过。这个房间不仅干净且井井有条——冰箱里的每件物品都摆放整齐并贴有标签——而且对儿童很友好。“地板和厨房中岛台面是复合材料，不是真正的大理石，”罗瑟姆女士说。“它不会被弄脏，而且很难开裂。我希望它非常、非常耐用。”

罗瑟姆女士 5 岁女儿的一幅画贴在墙上（右侧）。这是她在一次家庭奥兰多之旅后画的。

“画的是她和她的哥哥在漂流河上骑着一个甜甜圈，”罗瑟姆女士说。

“在晚上他们睡觉之前，我会问他们：‘你的甜甜圈是什么颜色的？’然后他们会选一个想象中的甜甜圈颜色。接着我会说：‘好的，我会在漂流河上找到你们的。’”

电影院

这个四口之家在厨房 L 形的角落卡座用餐。“我们的设计师称之为长凳座，但我们叫它卡座，”罗瑟姆女士说。“萨姆非常希望它感觉像一家老式餐厅。我们两个都喜欢餐厅。”

一间小卧室、一间半卫和一座图书馆被拆除，用以建造这座隔音电影院。

她的衣橱

“我们喜欢邀请很多朋友来参加观影派对，”罗瑟姆女士说。“我有许多小玻璃碗，我会往里面装不同的糖果，我们还有爆米花。我们在这里看了世界杯决赛。”埃斯梅尔先生当时在为西班牙队加油。罗瑟姆女士则在为她的丈夫加油。“我对比赛结果并不在意，”她说。“老实说，我这辈子一天足球都没看过。”

电影院里挂着一张库布里克 1968 年电影《2001：太空漫游》的原版法国海报（带框）。罗瑟姆女士是在中心街的复古电影海报画廊 Posteritati 购买的。“实际上我们从未一起看过那部电影，但那是丈夫最喜欢的电影之一，所以我买了它，”罗瑟姆女士说。

罗瑟姆女士的衣橱反映了她对家居的极简主义态度。“我没有比这更多的东西了，”她说。

在圣罗兰（Yves Saint Laurent）设计的作品旁边，有两个拉夫劳伦（Ralph Lauren）制作的复古手袋（右上）。罗瑟姆女士在 2004 年宣传《歌剧魅影》期间使用了这两个手袋。“我当时几乎全程穿着拉夫劳伦的衣服，”她说。“有时他们会让你保留配饰。”

衣橱里还有一个由约翰·斯塔克斯签名的纽约尼克斯队帽子（右上方）。“我小时候就很喜欢他，”她说。“他非常有表现力，这引起了我的共鸣。”

在罗瑟姆女士带她的狗 Pepper 去散步之前，她的母亲顺道拜访了她。她的母亲仍然住在这位女演员成长时的那套公寓里。这是回到这个社区的众多好处之一。

“我童年最好的朋友以前住在街对面，现在就住在我的下面三层，”她说。“我们坐在厨房餐桌旁就能看到邻居。这有一种社区感。这也是我热爱住在这里的原因之一。”

2 常规

她在《每日秀》（The Daily Show）中帮助将坏消息变得幽默。

3 日记中

“在你的步伐中加入一份强硬的自信，在脸上挂上一抹冷笑。”

8 从这里开始

这座城市的街道标志，在皇后区焕发生机。

5 打烊时间

当寿司半价时，他们愿意排队等待。

大都市

纽约时报

纽约市

从“傲慢之丘”到“邋遢之丘”

2026年8月30日，星期日 MB

照片由 LIAM KENNEDY 为纽约时报拍摄

在私募股权接管后，雪城一个令人向往的公寓综合体陷入了恶化。

作者：CHRISTOPHER MAAG

奥古斯都·格里塞特（Augustus Grissett）在皇后区一家医院的药物滥用诊所工作了三十年。他的妻子贝弗利（Beverly）曾作为一名民谣歌手在世界各地巡演 20 年。在抚养一个儿子和贝弗利第一段婚姻中的两个孩子之后，他们于 2005 年从纽约市搬到了雪城。

他们很高兴能搬进诺布希尔（Nob Hill），这是一个位于城市南缘的庞大租赁综合体。该物业在 28 英亩的土地上分布着四栋建筑，共有 761 套公寓，并配备了游泳池、健身房和维护良好的草坪。

他们的邻居是政治家、律师、大学教授和工厂经理。

在雪城周边，诺布希尔甚至有一个绰号：“傲慢之丘”（Snob Hill）。

“那是个绝佳的地方，”他们的儿子小古斯·格里塞特（Gus Grissett Jr.）说道，他曾帮助父母搬进 3 号楼的一楼公寓。“那里似乎是精英阶层居住的地方。”

但在 15 年后，诺布希尔的情况开始走下坡路。

今年 1 月，格里塞特女士入院治疗。她的丈夫现年 78 岁，仍在工作——续见第 7 页

在诺布希尔公寓综合体发生一起致命的凌晨火灾六个月后——这里曾是“精英阶层似乎居住的地方”——3 号楼依然空置。

公寓出售。仅供您的爱车。

一些纽约人愿意为黄金停车位支付相当于公寓的价格。

作者：伊莉莎·夏皮罗 (ELIZA SHAPIRO)

这个房源看起来好得令人难以置信。

位于帕克坡 (Park Slope) 的黄金地段，一座战前建筑，靠近公共交通和绝佳餐厅，售价仅为 $250,000，每月物业费 $400。

但在纽约市的房地产市场中，总有陷阱。

“这是一个出售的停车位，而不是一间单—”

在纽约市停车是出了名的令人烦恼，许多拥有汽车的居民注定要永无止境地在街区地盘打转（西西弗斯，请接管方向盘）。因此，一群房地产开发商、经纪人和企业家渴望帮助纽约人寻找让停车更便捷的方法——当然，是要付费的，这或许并不令人惊讶。

在艾丽莎·莫里斯 (Alyssa Morris) 那家在小报上出名的、位于布鲁克林联合街 (Union Street) 841号的“独立专用公寓车库”中，这个价格是 25 万美元或更多。Compass 公司的经纪人莫里斯女士表示，一个能停更大车辆的更大车位可能需要 $350,000。她说，在过去一年里，她在帕克坡这座建筑中卖出了五个停车位。而最新的这个房源将使数量达到 6 个。

莫里斯女士表示，买家大多是附近的联排别墅业主，他们在购房上花费了数百万美元，因此不想再处理路边停车的问题。毕竟，一旦你投入了在展望公园 (Prospect Park) 附近购买联排别墅所需的资金，再多花十几万美元又算什么？“这看起来像是一大笔钱，事实也确实如此，”莫里斯女士说，“但在他们整体购买计划的大局中，也许并不算多。”

MICHELLE V. AGINS / THE NEW YORK TIMES 一座“独立专用公寓车库”。

其他布鲁克林的车主可能会选择在 Parking Club 租一个车位，这是一个位于科布尔山 (Cobble Hill)、拥有庄重砖墙外立面且专门为车辆预留的公寓式建筑。该俱乐部将自己宣传为“豪华停车设施”，并鼓励潜在会员“给您的爱车一个它应得的家”。目前其中一个可用车位的售价为 $195,000，每月费用约为 $300。

该俱乐部的网站上写道：“让您的车库空间成为布鲁克林最负盛名社区中一项增值的资产。”

Parking Club 由 LAZ 运营，

常规 詹·弗兰兹 (JEN FLANZ)

PHOTOGRAPHS BY SHURAN HUANG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

在《每日秀》中，维持士气与应对喧嚣

詹·弗兰兹（Jen Flanz）经常开心地大笑。在《每日秀》（The Daily Show）工作的 28 年里——她从一名制作助理起步，自 2018 年起担任节目执行制片人（showrunner）——她能一眼识破一个好笑话。“我过去常对特雷弗说，如果我们在这里玩得开心，观众在屏幕前也能感受到，” 弗兰兹女士，50, 说道，她指的是前主持人特雷弗·诺亚（Trevor Noah）。

从醒来的那一刻起，她就在处理各种消息：笑话的点子、正在发酵的新闻、当天谁要请病假——运行节目的任何细节都没有太小的。 “我想我永远无法放弃这份工作，”她说。

她与她的爱犬“维维安·马斯塔德上校”（Colonel Vivian Mustard）住在曼哈顿东区，并与她的伴侣 50, 岁的安德鲁·斯卡拉（Andrew Skala）及其两个孩子共度时光。最近的一个周二，她陪同《纽约时报》经历了现场录制和深夜买零食的过程。 塔莉亚·巴灵顿（TALIA BARRINGTON）报道

5:09 P.M. 从周一到周四，弗兰兹女士的一天主要被规划“笑后（laughternoon）会议”、批准剧本修改以及与各部门负责人进行最后一刻的微调所占据。“我开玩笑说，我整天就在一个大房间、一个小房间、一个大房间、一个小房间之间来回穿梭，”她说。“一整天都是如此。”

5:35 P.M. 乔恩·斯图尔特（Jon Stewart）曾称弗兰兹女士为“团队的核心与灵魂”，而在许多人看来，她还是节目的心理治疗师，兼任团队医生。她的办公桌后面堆满了各种感冒和流感药物。“我们有点‘病耻感’文化，”她笑着说。如果有人听起来“哪怕只有一点点鼻音”，维生素 C 和生姜原液就会被拿出来。

弗兰兹女士来自罗克兰县（Rockland County），她与童年时期的一个庞大朋友圈依然保持着密切联系，其中包括她交往 5 年的伴侣安德鲁·斯卡拉。弗兰兹女士说，每当他们向没在那儿生活过的人讲述高中生活时，对方都会说听起来像电影一样。“那是一个非常特别的地方，”她说。

多年来，弗兰兹女士参与过其他项目，但她的心始终在《每日秀》。尽管她参与了笑话的创作过程，但弗兰兹女士明确表示自己不是一名喜剧演员。“我是一个非常优秀的喜剧编辑，”她说。“我不想上台。”

在《每日秀》于新冠疫情期间转向居家模式时，弗兰兹女士处于领导地位。在节目应对特雷弗·诺亚离职、经历客座主持人时期，直到目前的轮值主持人与记者模式的过程中，她同样负责统筹。

尽管经历了所有这些变化，她觉得几乎不需要进行微观管理。“每个岗位上的每一个人都是该岗位的合适人选，”她说。

自 1998, 年加入该节目以来，弗兰兹女士在各个层级担任过多种角色。她说，如果有人提醒她，她几乎能记得他们拍摄过的所有内容。虽然重点是新闻和时事，但弗兰兹女士表示，这首先是一档喜剧节目。“我认为人们渴望找到一个理由，来嘲笑这个世界上正在发生的事情，”她说。

6:30 P.M. 《每日秀》在本季获得了七项艾美奖提名，在其 30 年的运行过程中共获得了数十项奖项。弗兰兹女士说，节目的文化以及背后的团队让她感到最自豪。

弗兰兹女士将前 Comedy Central 总裁米歇尔·加内莱斯（Michele Ganeless）视为其领导哲学的一种启发。“大家都喜欢她，但她依然聪明、掌控全局、做出正确的决定且务实，”弗兰兹女士说。“于是我觉得，哦，这两者是可以兼得的。”

“6 点钟，我们开始，”弗兰兹女士说。她解释道，有现场观众能让每个人保持专注。你不能迟到——观众坐在那里的时间越长，笑得就越少——而且你必须遵循素材的节奏。在节目进行期间，弗兰兹女士一边处理 Slack 消息和短信，一边在每个环节完成时盯着剧本。

尽管在现场录制前已经阅读过剧本并观看过排练，但执行制片人兼编剧弗兰兹女士和祖宾·帕朗依然像观众一样大笑。弗兰兹女士表示她很现实：并非每晚都完美，但绝对出现过一些“爆款”。“你总是在尝试打破自己的最高分，对吧？”她说。

下午 6:58。节目结束后，弗兰兹女士、主持人乔丹·克莱珀以及节目的导演和制片人通常会回到会议室，对任何出现“严重失误”的情况进行事后分析，并讨论如果录制时间超过了分配的 24 分钟，哪些内容将上传到网上。

另一个惯例是：在每次现场录制之前，弗兰兹女士和帕朗先生会挑选几个

（图注）顶部：节目统筹詹·弗兰兹，被描述为这座获得艾美奖的《每日秀》幕后团队的“核心与灵魂”。右中：与节目主持人乔丹·克莱珀在一起。上方：回家后与她的爱犬维维安·马斯塔德上校在一起。

一位电视高管将糖果、幽默感和一只狗带到了工作中。

他们最喜欢的几块糖果，以便带进演播室。

7:58 P.M. 尽管工作强度极高，弗兰兹女士仍然会抽出时间陪伴朋友和家人——他们只是习惯了她有时会迟到。“我想她在节目组待了太久，这已经成了她 DNA 的一部分，”斯卡拉先生说道，他与她在上东区的 Anita Gelato 冰淇淋店汇合。

斯卡拉先生的孩子，17, 岁的埃默森（Emmerson）和 19, 岁的布罗迪（Brody）也来了。“我很幸运，”弗兰兹女士说。她没有自己的孩子，但与她的侄子、侄女以及斯卡拉先生的家人关系密切。

8:20 P.M. 五年前这对情侣刚开始约会时，他们的社交圈对此感到难以置信。“我们成了 45 岁人群中的热门八卦，”弗兰兹女士开玩笑说。他们在初中相识，他在高中时是学生会主席，而她是秘书。他们现在在纽约州恰帕夸（Chappaqua）和纽约市之间两地居住。

维维安·马斯塔德上校（Colonel Vivian Mustard）是一只 5 岁的救援犬。《每日秀》（The Daily Show）的员工可以将狗带到工作场所，弗兰兹女士认为这一做法有助于减轻整个团队的压力。她的办公室里有狗床、玩具和零食，还有一个定制的围栏，方便弗兰兹女士在开门的同时将狗留在室内，这一切都表明维维安是这里的常客。

8:35 P.M. 弗兰兹女士喜欢住在东河边安静的环境中。这个重组家庭在维维安进行晚间散步前坐了一会儿。斯卡拉先生和布罗迪在玩井字棋。“砰！”布罗迪在第二次连成一线后喊道。斯卡拉先生笑了。“作为父亲，我是让你赢的，”他说。

8:50 P.M. 当弗兰兹女士从宾汉姆顿大学毕业时，她从未想过自己会成为一名节目统筹（showrunner）。“我当时只想在电视行业工作，”她说。回想起来，这很合理。快节奏、截止日期——这一切都比她能想象到的任何其他事情都更适合她。“人们经常问我：‘之后你想做什么？’但为什么非得有‘之后’呢？”

大都市日记

最好的建议

亲爱的日记：

在 20 世纪 70 年代初，大学毕业一年后，我搭乘一趟深夜航班飞往纽约。

当那架 747 飞机开始向肯尼迪国际机场（J.F.K.）下降时，我转向身边的男人。

“纽约是您的家乡吗？”我问。

“是的，”他回答道，“我一辈子都住在这座城市。”

我问他对于初次到访的人是否有任何建议。

他停顿了一下，打量了我一番。

“听着，”他说，“你听过的关于纽约市的所有传闻都是真的，无论好坏。”

他用一种父亲般的口吻继续说道：“我最好的建议是，天黑后远离时代广场。”

下飞机后，我在机场找到了一家住宿服务机构来帮我找酒店。

“必须便宜，”我对接待员强调道。

她告诉我，她这里有一个符合我标准的空房。我记下了名称和电话号码。

“你们还有空房吗？”我问接电话的店员。“酒店在哪里，我怎么过去？”

“很简单，”他说，“我们就位于时代广场正中心。”我倒吸了一口凉气。

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“有人告诉我，深夜在时代广场不安全，”我说。

“没错，”店员说，“听着，你得这么做：站直，让自己看起来高大强壮。肩膀后展，下巴抬高。走路时带上一种强悍的 swagger 姿态，脸上挂着一丝轻蔑的笑。任何看到你的人都会认为你才是那个会惹麻烦的人。”

我挂断电话，看着昏暗窗玻璃上的倒影。我站起身，挺起肩膀，练习了几次硬汉表情。我看了看时间。

已经过了午夜。 托马斯·达比（THOMAS DARBY）

大风之日

亲爱的日记：

那是一个炎热且风力极强的夏日傍晚，我正顶着潮湿的阵风走在去吃饭的路上

一些健康的东西

亲爱的日记：

我去探望我的儿子，他被一个他可能认为有一天会与之结婚的女人甩了。他不吃东西，也不睡觉。我当然很担心。

我住在距离他在基普斯湾（Kips Bay）合租的小公寓南边几个街区的一家酒店里，在逗留期间，我经常在附近走来走去。

有一天深夜，我带着外卖晚餐前往电池公园城滨海大道（Battery Park City Esplanade）。

在等待穿过西街（West Street）时，我停了下来。在我对面的一个延伸路肩上，一名穿着运动服的男子正背对着风原地慢跑。

在路上，我停在一家地下店买零食。

“你有苹果、酸奶，或者类似健康的东西吗？”我问柜台后面的男人。

“无花果？”他建议道，“无花果非常健康。”

他递给我一袋无花果。然后他问：“你想试试这个吗？”

他从加热玻璃柜里递给我一个萨莫萨三角饺。我觉得拒绝会很不礼貌。他也拿了一个，并在上面抹了一些罐装的东西。

“试着蘸这个酱吃，”他说。味道非常好。

我们吃掉了三角饺，我付了无花果的钱，然后继续赶路。

我儿子打算尽快搬离基普斯湾。那里有太多回忆。但我会保留我的回忆——那个蘸了酱的温暖的萨莫萨三角饺。

萨曼莎·斯帕克斯（SAMANTHA SPARKS）

在路肩上，风在他背后吹。

当信号灯变换时，我开始过马路。我注意到那个男人一直在原地慢跑，而没有恢复奔跑。

就在这时，一名推着婴儿车的男子进入了路肩，风同样在他背后吹。跑步者在继续原地慢跑的同时，优雅地伸出手，手里拿着顶棒球帽。推婴儿车的男子感激地接过了帽子。

风继续吹着，两个男人继续朝着同一个方向前行，跑步者在前面冲刺，而推婴儿车的男子则紧紧抓着那顶帽子。

玛丽莎·洛伦佐（MARISA LORENZO）

在F线列车上

亲爱的日记：

我正坐在疾驰向杰克逊高地（Jackson Heights）的F线列车上。

在我的身后，我听到一个女人问某人：“到底是什么让你在做番茄酱的时候弹尤克里里？”

然后，仿佛为了强调这种行为有多么不合时宜，她补充道：“我们在纽约的皇后区，而不是在火星上。”

虽然我很想知道是谁在对谁说话，但我克制住了回头看的冲动。将这段纽约插曲笼罩在神秘之中似乎是最好的选择。

斯蒂芬·布鲁尔（STEPHEN BREWER）

包检

进入大都会艺术博物馆时，我被引导至一张桌子前进行包检。

保安将她的探测棒伸进包里，在里面戳了很久。

“一切都还好吗？”另一名保安问。

“还好，”第一名保安说，“我喜欢这个包，我在找标签。” 安吉尔·齐米克（ANGEL ZIMICK）

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修女们为了共同使命而团结

读者在 nytimes.com 上对上周日约翰·利兰（John Leland）关于接管养老中心的修女们的文章做出了回应。评论经过编辑。

如此动人的故事；我流泪了。我在费城从一年级到大学都就读于天主教学校，随后进入曼哈顿的企业生活，在所有能想象到的科目上都打下了坚实的基础，这都归功于修女们的无私奉献。很多人没有意识到的是，在 20 世纪早期，许多想要领导企业（尤其是大学）的女性是通过进入修道院来实现的。修女们是现代女性的先驱，职业生涯赋予了她们非凡的个人能动性和专业影响力，而无需通过婚姻来获得。在 9 / 11 的恐怖事件之后，我离开了企业界进入非营利组织，并有幸在佛蒙特州鲁特兰的一所小型学院里，与圣约瑟夫修女会的一组修女共事。那些女士们非常热爱生活！而且她们才华横溢——有数学家、科学家和商业专家。其中一位还通过敲开当地商人的家门，用愧疚感促使他们捐款，从而帮我们筹集资金！

利兹·迪马科·韦恩曼，佛蒙特州鲁特兰

极佳的文章。修女们在非洲依然活跃且繁荣，延续着教育、医疗和社服的传统。大约 44 年前在乌干达，一位爱尔兰修女兼医生培训并指导我，让我成为了更好的自己。衰老和病痛终将追上我们每一个人，很高兴能读到这样一个能够通过调整来为生命最后几年提供更多尊严和目标的社区。

亚历克斯·库蒂尼奥博士，乌干达坎帕拉

从幼儿园到八年级，我一直就读于由修女执教的天主教学校。到了高中，我由爱尔兰基督兄弟会执教。我将我取得的所有学术成就归功于与修女们共处的时光。虽然她们有时很严厉，但也非常关怀学生。我们在学校里有极强的纪律性。我养成了良好的习惯，这种结构化的生活方式一直延续到我的成年生活中。我的所有孩子都就读于天主教学校，我的女儿就读于圣母大学。这个世界如果能有更多修女和更多天主教学校，情况会好得多。

约翰·德菲利波，休斯顿

我自豪地毕业于全美唯一的黑人天主教大学——路易斯安那州泽维尔大学，这是一所一个世纪前由圣凯瑟琳·德雷克塞尔在新奥尔良创立的历史性黑人机构。我住在学习之家，那里有 40 个女孩和

罗什尼·卡特里 为《纽约时报》拍摄

从左起，乔安娜·法伦修女、玛丽·斯蒂芬·希利修女、玛丽·爱丽丝·奥布莱恩和简·基根。她们在纽约州蒙特弗农的沃特堡护理中心找到了新家。

40 位修女，我的英雄是来自至圣圣体修女会的比阿特丽斯·杰弗里斯，或者像我们称呼她的那样，叫她比阿。她会在我们的门上留下鼓励的小纸条，尽管那是 80 年代末，但我依然珍藏着她给我留的一张，上面写着：“好日子和坏日子之间唯一的区别就是你的心态。”她因癌症过早地离开了我们，但读到这篇文章让她回来了，即便只是在精神上。

娜塔莉·凯什，纽约

一篇关于一群正在消失的、令人钦佩的人类的优美文章。在混乱、贪婪和自恋如此盛行的当下，知道仍然存在这样一群以每日稳定地奉献自我为目标的人，真是令人振奋。她们祝福被服务的人，而她们本身就是一种祝福。把酒端上来吧：每一滴都实至名归！阿门！

雪莉·迈耶-索洛拉诺，北卡罗来纳州罗利

我在 20 世纪 60 年代就读于丹佛一个小型社区的一所天主教学校，我觉得我们很幸运，能遇到一些非常有趣且优秀的修女教师。朱莉娅修女管理着一个 60 人的五年级班级，而且处理得游刃有余。在肯尼迪总统遇刺那天，她是我们的老师，并在课程取消时确保我们有一个安全的去处。在学校和家中养成的纪律意识伴随了我多年。我现在 73 岁了，非常珍惜我从大学到生活中的教育经历。而这一切都始于那些修女。

安·摩尔，俄勒冈州尤金市

我在 20 世纪 60 年代就读于一所天主教学校，当时只有修女，没有世俗教师。当我的女儿们在 90 年代中期就读于天主教学校时，只有两名修女，玛丽·马丁·德拉汉蒂修女就是其中之一。她深受大家喜爱。丹妮丝·亚历山大，罗德岛州波塔基特

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摄影：MADISON SWART 为纽约时报拍摄 Everette Green 位于布鲁克林的一处住宅后院，他在这里与发育障碍人士一起工作；作为一名在贫困中长大且曾被监禁的纽约人，他经常为他人提供建议。

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作者：ELIZA SHAPIRO

Everette Green 从没想过自己能活到 60 岁生日。36 年前，他离开了一家药物康复中心，此前他因贩毒入狱数月，随后在康复中心住了几年。

为了让生活重回正轨， 先生选择了社会工作作为职业，这样他可以将每天的时间用来帮助其他像他一样挣扎的纽约人。他能够攒够钱在布鲁克林的卡纳西（Canarsie）买一套房子，并在那里抚养两个孩子。

“‘六十岁’这个词以前不在我的词典里，” 先生说。“我现在生活在一个全新的章节中。现在我需要做的就是生活，并享受其中。”

如今，63 岁的 先生正接近退休年龄，他开始思考一些他从未想象过有机会考虑的问题。

为了能舒适地退休，同时依然能享受这座他出生并长大的城市，他需要多少钱？他知道这比他现在的收入要多——他目前年薪约 \$40,000，时薪 \$21。在工作中，他为生活在布鲁克林的一处住宅中的发育障碍人士提供支持，该住宅由社会服务组织 New York Foundling 运营。

他希望政治家们能支持近期的一项推动方案，将像他这样直接服务于纽约人的非营利组织员工的时薪提高到 \$29。

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一个持久的家

在孩子们长大之前，你永远不知道他们如何看待自己的童年。因此，当格林先生在六月份纽约尼克斯队的胜利游行中，无意间听到儿子告诉朋友们，他每个夏天都在自家后院的泳池里游泳时，格林先生感到一阵自豪。

格林先生在斯塔滕岛的公共住房中长大，家里有三个姐妹和一个单亲母亲。他说，小时候他“没什么钱”。“我确保我的孩子们拥有比我当年更多的东西。”

这需要数十年的艰苦努力。格林先生说，他在30多年前以约 $235,000 的价格买下了这栋房子，现在它的价值已超过 100 万美元。

他勤奋地维护这个家，以便能与家人共同分享。他说，他从未需要过租客来赚取额外资金。

格林先生说他讨厌支付账单，但他确保从未拖欠。

在经历了约三十年每月 $1,400. 的还款后，他去年刚刚还清了抵押贷款。

他的房产税和保险费每年合计约 $10,000，因此他确保在年初就预留出这笔钱。在夏季，当他的 ConEd 电费最高时，每月电费支出约为 $200；而在冬季，燃气费最高可达 $800。

在夏季和秋季，他支付约 $600 请人修剪草坪，但尽管家人反对，他大多坚持在雪后亲自清理车道上的积雪。

格林先生小时候通过铲雪赚外快，他说他拒绝支付 $100 请别人来剥夺他一次良好的锻炼机会。他戴上耳机，在舞蹈中完成这项任务。他说，他跳得如此热情，经常引起邻居的注意，他们会走到窗前观看。

艰辛换来的职业道德

格林先生帮助残障成年人的大部分工作围绕着帮助他们完成日常任务，以及帮助他们设定长期目标，尤其是关于金钱的目标。作为一名曾被监禁且出身贫寒的纽约人，他有很多智慧可以传授。

“我学到了什么，我就教给他们什么，”他说。“我告诉他们我的生活故事，我告诉他们我曾无家可归，曾吸毒，曾入狱。这就是我拥有这种职业道德的原因。”

多年来，格林先生每天从布鲁克林通勤到布朗克斯工作，先坐公交车，再坐地铁，然后换乘另一辆公交车。他为自己的孩子们也成为了勤奋工作的人而感到自豪；他的儿子从宾夕法尼亚州通勤到皇后区，在消防局担任工程师。

他尝试将自己对打折商品和比价购物的热爱灌输给客户和孩子。

“如果不打折，我就不买，”格林先生说。他说，上个月他在 BJ's 买了一盒牛奶，价格是 $3.09, 而最近再去时，价格变成了 $4.49. 于是他开始在其他地方寻找更低的价格。

成为一名坚定的优惠券剪辑者让他能够省钱用于挥霍。他已经为女儿九月份的生日晚餐存了钱，届时他将请全家人在长岛或布鲁克林的一家海鲜餐厅用餐，他预计费用将在 $700 到 $1,000. 之间。

“账单不是问题，”他说。

夏日是木炭的时间

夏天是格林先生的季节。对他而言，判断这座城市是否真正进入夏季的标准，就是他开始和儿子一起购买户外音乐会的门票。

他的哲学是购买昂贵音乐会中相对便宜的门票——“只要能让我进场就行，”他说。他在 8 月的一场布鲁诺·马尔斯（Bruno Mars）演唱会上花费了 $200 买票。

这也是一年中格林先生可以投身于他最喜爱的消遣——烧烤的时候。他在夏天伊始利用家得宝（Home Depot）阵亡将士纪念日促销活动，囤积了 80 磅木炭。在接下来的劳动节促销活动中，他将再次大量采购明年的木炭。

他在邻里间以制作牙买加风味烤鸡和汉堡而闻名，并且坚决拒绝烹饪火鸡或任何其他瘦肉。他过去常在儿子就读的卡纳西高中（Canarsie High School）的足球赛上志愿担任烧烤员；而如今，朋友们偶尔会花钱雇他，每天支付 $200，在他们组织的社区篮球赛或后院大型派对上掌勺。如果他在周末工作，且同一天还要帮派对忙，他会在凌晨 5 点前起床，为邻居们的烧烤准备腌制肉类。

“偶尔我会重操旧业，”他说，为了在重大场合下厨，比如他姐姐即将到来的特拉华州生日派对。

他已经在期待明年夏天了。在孩子们长大搬走多年后，他希望为了他 5 岁的孙女，再次把泳池整修好。

“我有个孙辈，”他说，“那就是我的全世界。”

“我确保我的孩子们拥有比我当年更多的东西。”

从上至下：格林先生在乘车前往工作途中刷手机；展示他的烤炉，这里是他最喜爱的消遣之地，有时也是额外收入的来源；在步行上班途中领取优惠券；在公交站附近的熟食店购买饮料。

纽约人正排队抢购最后机会寿司

PHOTOGRAPHS BY KAREEM BLACK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

在越来越多的商店，为了在 8 p.m. 后获得折扣，人们需要早早抵达。

作者：EMMETT LINDNER

今年夏天一个温暖的周四，晚上 7:45 p.m. 左右，曼哈顿一家小店内开始排起长队。顾客们在货架间蜿蜒穿行，手中拿着少量的战利品。很快，店里挤进了 50 多人，等待着时钟敲响 8。

他们并非在追逐最新的网络美食热潮，也不是在抢购某个独立时尚品牌的周边产品。

他们想要的是寿司，而且是 50 percent off。

纽约人已经习惯了为了用餐而排那些“是否真的值得”的长队，或者花 $20 买一份沙拉或一杯奶昔。但在日益增多的销售新鲜日式餐食的东亚连锁超市中，城市居民和游客们可能终于找到了真正的实惠。

前提是，他们愿意等到 8 p.m.，以半价购买寿司、刺身和饭团。

“在纽约市，这绝对划算，”34, 岁的乔迪·戈德堡（Jodie Goldberg）说道。她在晚上 7:40 p.m. 左右抵达了 Ten Ichi Mart（该店在曼哈顿、布鲁克林和皇后区均有分店），篮子里已经放了几卷包装好的寿司卷。

Ten Ichi Mart 内部的这一场景在大多数工作日的夜晚，于类似的商店——如 Hashi Market、Sakura Market、Genkiya Mart 等——重复上演。

当排在前面的顾客结账时，排在后面的人（有些人甚至溢出到街道上）会迅速抢走冷藏货架上剩余的商品。这些产品在白天一直保持新鲜，但如果没能在打烊前售出，它们的最终归宿将是垃圾桶底。

人群聚集。收银员示意。队伍开始移动。

“在这个到处都是想坑你钱的世界里，8 p.m. 后的 Ten Ichi Mart 除外，”她补充道。

为了抢到最好的寿司和握寿司，你必须早点到。

这种寿司与那些你可能需要花费数百美元的 omakase（主厨精选）吧台上的寿司不同。但由于太受欢迎，一些商店专门为晚上的顾客准备寿司。饥饿的纽约人花 $6 买一份辣脆三文鱼卷，而几分钟前这份卷的价格还是 $12。

寿司在美国已经从 20 世纪 80 年代的神秘感转变为——

一种主食。餐厅里的寿司晚餐可能依然昂贵——在人气餐厅 Sugarfish，食客需要等待一个多小时才能就座，最便宜的一餐成本为 $34.

许多美国食客愿意从各种杂货店购买便捷、简朴的日式风味餐食。

这被称为零售寿司，或“熟食店寿司”。根据研究公司 Circana 的数据，去年它是超市中增长最快的产品之一。在 2024, 零售寿司是一个 28 亿美元 billion 的产业，比 2023, 增长了 7 percent，根据 Circana 的数据。在 2025, Kroger 超市连锁店表示，其销量已达到每天 100 万卷。

但并非每家店都提供能吸引大批顾客的折扣。

杂货商的利润空间虽小，但每个人都是赢家。

“持有食物的时间越长，潜在风险就越大，”罗格斯大学食品科学系主任唐纳德·沙夫纳（Donald Schaffner）表示，“但如果这些寿司经过适当的冷藏，那么应该是没问题的。”

Ten Ichi Mart 的一名经理比尔·陈（Bill Chen）表示，在门店开始促销之前，寿司在夜间会被丢弃。这家店于 2021 年开设了首家分店。他说：“结果这项活动变得受欢迎。我们现在专门为了促销而制作寿司。”

他说，折扣销售很难放弃。陈先生表示，公司在这些餐食上仅能维持收支平衡，但在等待期间，顾客在购物篮中放入饮料或零食的行为有助于业务增长。

Hashi Market 的情况与之类似，该店即将开设第七家分店。其部分门店的折扣仅为 30%。

“我们甚至考虑过不再进行这项促销，因为利润空间真的非常薄，”运营负责人艾娃·刘（Ava Liu）说。

（左下图：Ten Ichi Mart 半价寿司引发的长队移动速度很快。上图：晚上 8 点未被买走的寿司，最终可能会被扔进垃圾桶。）

“但人们一直在寻找它。他们等着买寿司，所以我们很难说不能做了。”

毕竟大多数寿司是生食，那么顾客是否需要带着他们的辣金枪鱼或玉子寿司匆忙回家？

在 Ten Ichi Mart 排队的末端，20 岁的法国游客保罗·卢顿（Paul Luyton）拿着一盒三文鱼牛油果卷，他在家乡很少吃寿司。排在他身边的伴侣告诉了他这个折扣。

“她告诉我这周我们需要去买寿司，”卢顿先生说，“她在 TikTok 上看到了这些寿司，看起来很不错。”

29 岁的瑞秋·陈（Rachel Chen）拿着一份黄尾鱼-墨西哥辣椒和三文鱼寿司。她说，在每月比平时下班晚的时候，她会三次利用这个优惠。

她说，如果队伍太长，就不值得等待了。

大多数门店在大多数夜晚大约 8:20 p.m. 左右，唯一能证明曾有寿司美食家排队的迹象，就是一个空空如也的冷藏柜。

它在等待第二天的丰收，以及一群渴望进食、寻求优惠的纽约人排队光临。

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梅西百货感恩节：网红们的夏季盛宴

摄影：GRAHAM DICKIE 为纽约时报拍摄

在备受喜爱的游行迎来第100次举办的几个月前，一场参观活动、香槟与红毯。

作者：SARAH MASLIN NIR

从现在到11月底，我们还有劳动节、万圣节、退伍军人节，甚至国家塔可日（National Taco Day）可以庆祝。

但在8月的一个周二晚上，36个人（其中大多数是网络网红）聚集在一场华丽的感恩节盛宴周围。在纽泽西州一个工业区内一个飞机库大小的仓库里，他们享用了绿豆砂锅、填料、蔓越莓酱、蜜渍山药，当然还有火鸡。

“我太喜欢这个了，”拥有180万 TikTok 粉丝的百老汇网红迪安娜·朱列蒂（Deanna Giulietti）在晚餐时惊呼道，“为什么我在一年中的其他时间不吃这个？”梅西百货在周二主持并举办了这场晚餐——距离梅西百货感恩节大游行（Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade）第100次巡游正好还有100天。

活动在零售商位于纽泽西州穆纳奇（Moonachie）的游行工作坊举行。这是一个面积达72,000平方英尺的奇幻之地，到处是史努比（Snoopy）的模型、花车的骨架，以及一个缺失眼睛且尚未完工的气球，公司坚持该气球的身份必须保密。

在一张40英尺长的餐桌旁，坐着一群由梅西百货高管和社会媒体网红组成的多元群体，他们品尝着激光刻有自己名字的晚餐面包卷。有些人，比如 TidyDad（又名泰勒·摩尔 Tyler Moore），是游行的超级粉丝。摩尔先生曾担任罗纳德·麦当劳（Ronald McDonald）气球的操作员，今年他申请成为游行中的一名小丑。（梅西百货表示，他的申请仍在审核中。）

其他晚餐参与者，如大卫·古塔格（David Guttag），则是现任或潜在的品牌大使。他的 TikTok 账号 StoopandtheCity 记录了古塔格先生和妻子装饰他们位于上东区棕色住宅楼楼梯的过程，该账号已与乐高（Lego）和海尔曼蛋黄酱（Hellmann's mayonnaise）等品牌达成合作。

参与者首先聚集在梅西百货位于先驱广场（Herald Square）的旗舰店，随后宾客们分乘一批梅赛德斯-奔驰 Sprinter 面包车，挡风玻璃上贴着游行历史人物的名字，例如在1928年引入如今已成为标志性气球的木偶师托尼·萨格（Tony Sarg）。

在一辆面包车内，一名31岁的导游费尔南多·莫亚·德尔加多（Fernando Moya Delgado）在行驶过程中向乘客们出题，考查他们对游行的了解程度。（例如：“什么是 trycaloon？”答案：一种气球与三轮车的混合体。）

红毯两旁站满了提供香槟和蜜渍山药开胃小食的服务员，迎接这些正准备巡。

“九十九年前，梅西百货的一个团队有了一个想法和一个梦想。”

他们走进了仓库，熟练地将 iPhone 对准自己的脸，记录下每一个瞬间。

在内部，游行创意制作总监布伦丹·肯尼迪（Brendan Kennedy）带领大家参观了车间。第一个展品是一只拥有电子机械眼的巨型火鸡，名叫“小汤姆”（Tom Jr.）——梅西百货的代表解释说，它是“大汤姆火鸡”（Tom Turkey Sr.）的儿子，后者是游行中身高 21 英尺的总指挥，也是队列中运行时间最长的花车。

接下来是木工车间，这里通常由前造船工约翰·切尼（John Cheney，79 岁）主持，51 年来，游行中的几乎所有物品都经过他的锤击、钉钉和雕琢。

网红们时刻准备着手机相机，但他们被严厉警告不得在下一个房间偷偷拍照，那里有处于不同充气阶段的气球被系在地面上。其中一些生物最近刚在 7 月份于纽瓦克的普天寿中心（Prudential Center）完成了一次秘密试飞。当人群走过一个仍在等待安装眼睛的绝密气球时，禁止自拍的规定再次被强调。

随后，就在车间地板上，摆放着一顿仿制的感恩节晚餐。就座的宾客大多比典型的点击诱饵创作者更温婉；一些是所谓的“妈妈网红”，她们赞赏桌上的布置，并询问砂锅菜的食谱。这时，一根黄油棒沿着桌边跳舞而来，长得与面包车上的出题人德尔加多先生极其相似。

“九十九年前，梅西百货的一个团队有了一个想法和一个一个梦想，”游行执行制片人威尔·科斯（Will Coss）说道，此时宾客们正饮着名为“34街奇迹”的鸡尾酒。“这不是我们会轻视的事情。”

他随后极其庄重地讲述了游行中一项早已退休的传统：在终点释放巨大的气球，每个气球上都贴有一张梅西百货的礼品券。

只有一个气球——一只蓝色河马——从未被找回。1931 年的一篇《纽约时报》标题写道：“飞行的‘蓝色河马’在海上被追猎”，它的失踪引发了一场对 2,000 美元奖金（相当于今天的约 45,000 美元）的疯狂搜寻。

在科斯先生讲述到此处时，一群服务员突然出现，端着微型——

本月在纽泽西州穆纳奇（Moonachie）的梅西百货游行车间地板上举行的一次感恩节预热庆祝活动，包括一顿带有激光雕刻餐包的火鸡大餐、一支行进乐队以及气球预览。那只神话般的蓝色河马——唯一一只被释放且从未被找回的梅西百货气球——被重新制作成了甜点。

杏仁膏河马。网红们举起手机欢呼。

1926 年，游行中只有三支当地行进乐队；而今年将有来自全美各地的十二支乐队参加。

周二，当宾客们吃完他们的河马甜点时，一支微型铜管乐队抵达，演奏了一曲激昂的弗兰克·辛纳屈（Frank Sinatra）的《纽约，纽约》主题曲。领队并挥舞指挥棒的是一名鼓手长，他也与导游德尔加多先生长得极其相似。

“距离感恩节还有一百天，”德尔加多先生在房间里行进时欢呼道，“我等不及了！”

待售公寓，但仅供您的爱车居住

位于布鲁克林 Cobble Hill 的 Parking Club，该机构自称为“豪华停车设施”。 MICHELLE V. AGINS / THE NEW YORK TIMES

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该公司在全市设有车库，其中许多提供按小时计费的停车服务，并承诺通过相关安排提供便利，允许车主订购现场洗车和州政府规定的车辆年检。

最近一个下午，走进这座建筑内部可以看到一个外观相当标准的车库，车辆整齐地排列着，其中不乏路虎（Land Rover）和揽胜（Range Rover）。在室外的街区，即使是在一个夏季的周五，每一个空余的停车位都被占满了。

另一家私人停车“公寓”的网站位于曼哈顿上东区，其平面图标明了可用的停车位。该建筑目前有 6 个车位待售，每个价格在 $165,000 到 $175,000 之间，每月管理费约为 $500。

Corcoran 的经纪人 Kirsten Jordan 表示，这不算是一笔糟糕的交易，她曾在该车库售出约 20 个车位。她表示，曼哈顿私人停车位的市场价格在 $350,000 到 $750,000 或更高之间。（在西村的一栋名为 150 Charles Street 的公寓楼中，去年有一套单元以 6000万美元 成交，那里的私人车位售价约为每个 $500,000。而在 SoHo 区的一栋豪华建筑 42 Crosby Street 在十多年前刚开业时，其停车位售价曾高达 100万美元。）

Jordan 女士表示，私人停车位现在的需求量与 24 / 7 小时门卫和高端健身房等其他豪华建筑配套设施一样大。她说，人们是为了便利而付费。此外，如果有人将房屋与附近的停车位一起出售，可能会使房屋更加增值。

但这并非每个人的选择。

“这些停车位的持有成本意味着，你通常要比租一个车位多支付 40 到 100 percent 的费用，”Jordan 女士说。“人们购买这些车位，是因为拥有自己的车位确实是一种奢侈。”

对于普通人来说，租赁可能是更明智的财务选择。尽管如此，租赁也不是一笔小数目。在中城等高需求地区，租赁车位的价格每月从几百美元到 $1,000 不等。

而且，即使是那些愿意花钱的人，也无法保证附近有可用车位。一些车库普遍存在候补名单。Spacer 是一个列出月租停车位的网站，它提供一个注册链接，潜在租客可以通过该链接接收通知，“以便优先查看该地区新出的停车位”。

在纽约，如果你不能富有，那么有个“熟人”会有所帮助。对于一些居民——那些负担不起给爱车买一套“公寓”的人来说，这个熟人就是 Rishi Ganesh。

23, 岁的 Ganesh 先生在 2024, 年就读于纽约大学大四时，创办了总部位于布鲁克林的代客停车雇佣团体 Valet Network。该公司移动一次车辆收费 $10——如果是在街道清扫车经过时移动车辆并在之后将其移回，则收费 $15。

Ganesh 先生表示，他及其代客司机（其中许多是网约车司机或前车库管理员）最近一直在为外出度假的纽约人移动车辆。代客司机领取车钥匙，发送车辆被移至位置的照片，并将钥匙归还至安全地点。

布鲁克林的调酒师 Andrew Lyle 准备去意大利度假，正为车怎么处理而发愁，这时他在社区里看到了 Valet Network 的广告牌。

Lyle 先生很乐意花 $10 请代客司机在度假期间移动他的车，但他说，在城里时，他宁愿自己处理交替侧停车（alternate-side parking）。

“在街道清扫日，双排停车并给亲友打电话消磨时间已经成了我的习惯，”他说。

使用代客泊车是相对于拥有私人车位而言的一种相对廉价的替代方案，而且在纽约市这样一座城市里非常实用。在这里，交替侧停车规则经常让焦虑的纽约人不得不坐在车里参加早上的 Zoom 会议，以避免在扫路车工作时收到一张 $65 的罚单。

悉尼·夏莱（Sydney Charlet）自称是“汽车看护员”，她在失业期间开始通过帮人挪车来赚取额外收入。她的故事被几家当地新闻媒体报道，她在社交媒体上表示，她的生意随后“彻底爆火”。目前，一款手机应用程序正在开发中。

夏莱女士特别向那些整天开车穿梭于城市各处的房地产经纪人推销她的服务。

“在我们将为您看管车辆时，请专注于您的带看，”夏莱女士的网站上写道，“在禁停区停车，无需担心。”

莫里斯女士是 Compass 公司的一名经纪人，她在帕克坡（Park Slope）销售汽车“公寓”，她是无需此类服务的房地产专业人士之一。几年前，由于厌倦了每隔几天就得挪车，她放弃了自己的私家车。如今，她只使用 Uber。

一个令人向往的雪城公寓综合体变成了“邋遢山”

摄影：Liam Kennedy 为《纽约时报》拍摄

他在一家非营利机构全职工作，其余时间则在妻子的病榻前陪伴。他们需要儿子的帮助，于是小格塞特（Gus Jr.）从皇后区飞了过来。

他被眼前的景象震惊了。校园里杂草丛生。室外的垃圾桶里散发出恶臭且垃圾溢出，在父母房门外的走廊里，垃圾袋和披萨盒堆积如山。附近的单元本应是空置的，但小格塞特听到里面有人在走动。他认为那些是擅自占用房屋的人，利用损坏的门在雪城严酷的冬天寻找避难所。

在父母的公寓里，水龙头流出黑色和绿色的黏液，暖气片则是冰冷的。大楼管理人员提供了一个空间加热器，但老格塞特先生拒绝了，因为担心有火灾风险。公寓里冷到他穿着衣服睡觉，甚至戴着冬帽。

“这简直太丢脸了，”小格塞特先生说。“我们简直就像在户外睡觉一样。”

格塞特夫人于情人节去世。她的儿子又留了两周，然后飞回纽约，在皇后区准备她的追思会。他的父亲将在三天后，即 2 月 28 日，乘火车前往纽约。

就在那天清晨，在租户多年来一直投诉火灾风险日益增加之后，诺布山（Nob Hill）Building 3. 内部发生了火灾。在起火的公寓里，消防员发现了一具尸体。

纽约州最大且最令人向往的公寓综合体之一，是如何如此迅速地恶化的？

对于几乎所有见证其衰落的人来说，答案很明确：一家私募股权公司在 2018 年将其买下，并将其经营到了崩溃边缘。

租户和市政府官员表示，当诺布山被一家总部位于加利福尼亚州圣莫尼卡（Santa Monica）的投资集团收购后，一切都开始发生变化。

租户们说，起初是一些小事：草坪不再修剪，游泳池经常关闭。随后在 2022, 情况显著恶化。未清理的垃圾从垃圾桶和垃圾道中溢出，电梯发生故障。损坏的锁从未被修理，导致擅自占用房屋的人占据空置公寓，并在大堂里吸毒。

诺布山得到了一个新的绰号：“邋遢山”（Slob Hill）。

与此同时，在四年时间里，有五家不同的管理公司负责维护。租户们说，每当有新经理接手，他们那些被长期忽视的维护请求似乎就消失了。

“那里的情况崩溃了，”雪城市市长莎伦·F·欧文斯（Sharon F. Owens）说道，她在 1990 年代曾去探望住在诺布山的亲戚。

这种情况在 2025. 变得无法维持。租户起诉诺布山的业主，称居住条件不合格；雪城市政府则起诉其违反建筑法规。上个月，纽约州总检察长莱蒂西亚·詹姆斯（Letitia James）也介入并提起另一项诉讼，指控其“猖獗的疏忽并侵犯租户权利”。

业主则以反诉回应，指责其中一名物业经理导致诺布山失控，并指责市政府阻碍了修复工作。

“我的儿子和我都是认真、审慎的房地产所有者、投资者和经营者，”诺布山最大股东、以及在 2018, 购买该综合体的私募股权公司负责人帕特里克·内斯比特（Patrick Nesbitt）在电子邮件中表示。在法庭文件中，他强调所有权团体对物业的实际状态被蒙在鼓里。“不幸的是，诺布山从我们拥有它之初起，就一直是一场彻头彻尾的灾难。”

在法庭上，租户们表示担心，非法占用者、电线故障以及失效的消防安全系统相结合，可能会导致灾难发生。

在一次听证会上，与格里塞特一家住在同一栋建筑的租户肖恩·斯坦顿（Sean Stanyon）作证称，火灾报警器和烟雾探测器经常失效。

“我害怕在晚上睡觉，担心会发生火灾，”他告诉法官。

几周后，就在斯坦顿先生熟睡时，他居住的建筑发生了火灾。

利益相关

诺布希尔（Nob Hill）建于 20 世纪 70 年代初。到 2018 年，长期业主打算出售。来自布法罗的房地产开发商尼古拉斯·西纳特拉（Nicholas Sinatra）表示，他是通过一家当地房地产公司得知这一机会的。一名投资经纪人将他介绍给了内斯比特（Mr. Nesbitt）先生，后者是一位强势的房地产开发商，其公司温莎资本集团（Windsor Capital Group）在全国范围内拥有购物中心、酒店、公寓和办公楼。他住在加利福尼亚州蒙特西托一个占地 43,000 平方英尺的庄园里，那里有可容纳 17 匹马的马厩和一个标准马球场。

在听完西纳特拉先生关于诺布希尔的推介后，内斯比特先生招募了两名朋友共同投资。特奥多罗·卡列（Teodoro Calle）的家族拥有一家厄瓜多尔建筑公司，他持有 13% 的股份。佛罗里达州西棕榈滩的投资者弗雷德·费洛斯（Fred Fellows）购买了 8% 的股份。西纳特拉先生也成为了少数股东，持有 4% 的股份。他的公司西纳特拉公司（Sinatra & Co.）承担了监管该物业的角色。

总部位于芝加哥的非营利组织“私募股权利益相关者项目”（Private Equity Stakeholder Project）执行董事吉姆·贝克（Jim Baker）表示，诺布希尔的收购是 2018 年大量类似交易的一部分，在这些交易中，私募股权公司在全国范围内收购公寓综合体。

诺布希尔 $58.5 百万美元的售价使其成为雪城历史上最昂贵的交易之一。但由于 90% 的资金来自政府控制的抵押贷款金融公司房利美（Fannie Mae）提供的 $51 百万美元贷款，如果投资失败，内斯比特先生及其合伙投资者面临的财务风险很小。

“这就是住房被私募股权所有权的典型特征，因为从一开始，所有者团队的利益相关度就很低，”贝克先生说。“他们没有什么可失去的。大部分风险由居民和更广泛的公众承担。”

据其中一名投资者称，这种商业计划在私募股权公司中很常见：进行一些改进，然后在五到七年内获利出售。卡列先生在最近的一次电话采访中表示：“目标不是削减成本，而是投入大量资金使其变得更好，并尝试提高入住率和改善租户质量。”

然而，不久之后，诺布希尔便分崩离析。

“这不对劲”

布鲁斯·黑尔（Bruce Hare）一直对诺布山（Nob Hill）有着美好的回忆。2001年，他以1,200美元的价格搬到那里，住进了一套带两个洗手间和一个露台的一居室公寓。那里维护得很好，且靠近他担任社会学教授的雪城大学。

“游泳池很漂亮，”黑尔先生最近回忆道。

他在2020年结婚时离开了诺布山，随后在2022年离婚后搬了回来。在回来后不久，他意识到情况发生了变化。他所在建筑的两部电梯中有一部无法运行。草坪杂草丛生，游泳池也很少开放。

“我想，‘这不对劲’，”他说。

同样在2022年，内斯比特（Nesbitts）家族撤换了作为物业经理的西纳特拉（Sinatra）先生，尽管他仍是一名少数股东。在不到四年的时间里，诺布山的业主又更换了四家管理公司。

“我不再负责运营了，”西纳特拉先生说，“也就是从那时起，这处房产开始走下坡路。”

在采访和法庭上，租户们一致认为，在西纳特拉先生不再参与管理后，情况变得更加糟糕。由于垃圾数月未被清理，害虫开始入侵。公共区域很少被清洁，电梯里弥漫着猫尿味。

更严重的是，消防安全系统失效。租户们表示，一些防火门几乎无法打开，而另一些则很难保持关闭。整个园区内的烟雾探测器、火灾报警器和应急灯纷纷损坏。消防部门已经习惯了诺布山频繁的误报。雪城消防局局长迈克尔·蒙兹（Michael Monds）下令为诺布山的四栋建筑分别制定专门的应急响应计划。

“我们知道，如果真的发生火灾，情况将会非常棘手，”蒙兹先生说。

2025年4月，雪城市政府对诺布山的业主提起首起诉讼，次月，大批租户也随之提起诉讼。

诺布山的业主在2025年6月停止支付抵押贷款，房利美（Fannie Mae）随即寻求行使抵押品处置权。2026年2月，雪城市法院的沙迪亚·塔德罗斯（Shadia Tadros）法官命令业主进行维修，并裁定租户在问题解决前可以扣留租金。

“对于许多租户来说，诺布山与其说是家，不如说是一场噩梦，”塔德罗斯法官写道。“记录在案的一些情况是本法院见过的最糟糕的情况。如果不是因为公司保护机制，这种对租户生活条件的完全漠视将被视为犯罪。”

塔德罗斯法官在2月27日签署了命令。而在次日太阳升起之前，诺布山的3号楼就陷入了火海。

恐惧、寒冷、证明

肖恩·斯坦顿（Sean Stanyon）公寓里的烟雾探测器是坏的。因此，当火灾发生时，他一直在熟睡。

直到半小时后，当他的博美犬杰克（Jack）不停地吠叫时，他才意识到出了问题。当斯坦顿先生起床时，他的公寓里已经弥漫着浓烟。

“我们得离开这里！”他对室友说，然后将杰克放进一个袋子里，向出口走去。走廊里是

（图片说明，顺时针从顶部开始）：布鲁斯·黑尔，雪城大学的资深教授，他在搬回诺布山后对其恶化程度感到震惊；肖恩·斯坦顿，就危险状况作证；垃圾道溢出的垃圾；奥古斯都·格里塞特（Augustus Grissett）及其妻子贝弗利（Beverly）在他们的公寓里；在管理人员停止更换门锁后，非法占用者占据了车库和空置公寓。

一个漂亮的泳池，优越的地理位置，修剪整齐的草坪。然后，这一切都崩塌了。

黑暗且寂静。没有火警报警器，没有应急灯。他缓慢地摸索着走下三层昏暗的楼梯，逃到了停车场。

他感到恐惧、寒冷，但同时也感到自己的预判得到了证实——他此前在法庭上关于火灾风险的警告，现在看来准确得令人不安。

当消防员在2月 28, 凌晨 4 点左右抵达时，他们搜查了 3 号楼的周边，发现一楼一套公寓的窗户中火光冲天。诺布希尔（Nob Hill）的管理人员提供了一份租户名单，但消防官员很快意识到这份名单是错误的——许多逃出大楼并蜷缩在停车场里的居民并未出现在名单上。

在他母亲追思礼的前一天晚上，小格里塞特（Mr. Grissett）给父亲打了电话，核对了前往纽约的行程计划。他父亲的深色西装已经铺好；他将在早晨收拾笔记本电脑和充电器。他将开车前往火车站，一名同事会在那里为他送行。儿子知道，父亲仍处于哀悼之中，但很期待在纽约见到亲戚和老友。

“一切看起来都很好，”儿子说道。

格斯（Gus）在早上 7 点给父亲打电话，以确保他已经醒来并准备就绪。格里塞特先生没有接电话。几个小时后，格斯接到了一个来自雪城（Syracuse）的电话。那是他父亲的一位同事从诺布希尔打来的。发生了火灾。她正站在停满消防车的停车场里。

在起火的 128, 号公寓内，消防员发现了一具尸体。诺布希尔的登记表将该公寓描述为无人居住，因此消防官员推测这具尸体是一名非法占用者。

格斯知道：那是他的父亲。

根据消防部门调查人员的说法，格里塞特先生在公寓内因吸入烟雾和遭受热损伤而死亡。格斯和贝弗利（Beverly）于 3月 31, 合葬，那天是他们结婚57周年的纪念日。

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在一百万块街道标志背后，有一种驱动力

另一面。

在皇后区的一家工厂里， 46 名工人让引导这座城市的文字和符号变得鲜活。

作者：温妮·胡 (WINNIE HU)

在这家工业工厂内，坚固的铝板被堆叠至接近天花板的高度，纽约市几乎所有的街道标志都诞生于此。

即便在数字化时代，位于皇后区的马斯佩斯中央工厂（Maspeth Central Shop）每年仍在切割、印刷和组装超过 70,000 块市政标志，从每个社区都能见到的街道清洁标志，到引导主要公路交通的大型绿色标志，均在此制作。

这家标志工厂隶属于纽约市交通局，拥有 46 名员工，其中包括七名负责手工排版的字体设计员，以及一名负责制作定制支架以将标志牢固安装在交通杆上的铁匠。

这些工人负责维护分布在五个区的一百万多个街道标志。当停止标志损坏时，由他们负责制作替换件。当街道更名或停车规则变更时，他们会更新标志以使其正式生效。

今年 6 月，当纽约尼克斯队赢得美国职业篮球联赛（NBA）冠军时，他们迅速制作了 30 块蓝色和橙色的“冠军之路”（Champions Way）街道标志，安装在百老汇沿线，用于庆祝纸屑大游行。甚至市长佐兰·马姆达尼（Zohran Mamdani）也来到工厂，协助制作尼克斯队的标志。

“这里是一切的起点，”马斯佩斯运营副主管、49 岁的迈克·弗拉蒂安尼（Mike Fratianni）说道，“这座城市里的每一块标志都始于这里。”

在这座红砖仓库里，每块标志都始于一张 12 英尺乘 4 英尺的铝板。公路标志则使用更厚版本的铝板，这些标志安装在交通上方的门架上，必须能够安全地抵御强风和暴雨。

需要两名工人才能将一张重达 80 磅的铝板搬进机加工车间。在那里，铝板被推入金属剪切机，该机器像一把巨大的剪刀一样将其切成较小的碎片。

“这就是我们在这里的生活——切割金属，并让它看起来漂亮，”标志工厂内部运营副主任、38 岁的瑞安·梅德拉诺（Ryan Medrano）说道。

每块标志都附有一份详细的工作单——“这就是我们在这里的生活——切割金属，并让它看起来漂亮。”

工作单规定了标志的形状、精确尺寸以及上面要放置的字母和符号。对于公路标志，铝板会被拼接在一起以制作更大的尺寸。

在最近的一个早晨，60 岁的交通设备维护员马龙·西利（Marlon Sealy）按下金属剪切机的控制面板按钮。他戴着手套，将一张铝板送入嗡嗡作响的机器前端。几分钟后，铝板被从后端吐出，分成了三块。

西利先生表示，他喜欢制作能帮助人们在城市中穿行的标志。“我在间接地为每个人提供服务，”他说，“包括迷路时的我自己。”

铝板被切割至合适尺寸后，会被送到房间里的另一台机器上，用于将锋利的边角磨圆，并冲出用于安装在交通杆和柱子上的孔洞。

随后，铝板分为两条路线。那些承载停车和街道清洁规则的铝板被送往走廊尽头的丝网印刷室。它们被挂在顶部的旋转传送带挂钩上，被运送到一台巨大的灰色机器中，以涂抹硬珐琅饰面。

工人将每块铝板放在一个带有折叠盖的印刷台上，盖子内固定着用于制作该标志的丝网印刷框架。最常见标志（如“禁止随时停车”）的框架经过编号，并保存在附近的架子上。

工人踩下脚踏板，将盖子压在铝板上，并启动泛滥条（flood bar）铺开溶剂型油墨以印刷标志。之后，标志被放置在架子上晾干，然后翻转过来进行印刷*

顶部：在皇后区马斯佩斯中央工厂组装的纽约市街道标志。中间（从左起）：凯特·格里芬（Kate Griffin），负责工厂中要求极高的字体设计工作；以及马龙·西利（Marlon Sealy），负责切割用于制作标志的金属模具。上方：完成使命后被送回工厂的标志。

那些将被制成公路、交通和街道标志的金属板会被送到艺术室而非筛选室。它们被覆盖上一层具有高反射性的乙烯基材料——其中嵌入了微小的玻璃碎片——以便驾驶员能更轻松地看到。

工人使用滚压机将一张带有预先切割或打印的字母和数字乙烯基贴纸的薄片贴在涂有乙烯基的金属板上。多余的材料会被撕掉，或用美工刀修剪。

这是一项精准且严苛的工作。38岁的排字工凯特·格里芬（Kate Griffin）曾不小心用手碰到了乙烯基的锋利边缘。“这有点像你能遇到的最糟糕的纸割伤，”她说。

制作大多数标志通常需要20分钟到几个小时不等，具体取决于类型和尺寸，不过最大的标志可能需要更长时间。

标志工厂有一个储藏室，数以千计最常见的街道标志被放置在架子上，准备发出。附近有一个标志回收桶，里面放着那些已经出街，但因被碾压、弯曲、损毁或被涂鸦而返回的标志。

街头的一个停止标志曾被贴上白色贴纸，改为：“我将永远不会停止爱你（I will Never STOP Loving You）”。现在，那个标志就挂在储藏室里。

其他无法修复的标志将被回收。

自2024年6月以来，该工厂为在线发售制作了热门标志的复制品。纽约尼克斯队的球迷最近在几分钟内抢购了200块“冠军之路（Champions Way）”标志，每块售价100美元。其他热门标志包括康内利亚街（Cornelia Street），这是泰勒·斯威夫特的一首歌的名字；以及克里斯托弗街石墙广场（Christopher Street Stonewall Place），它是以1969年的石墙暴动命名的。

标志工厂本身已成为这座城市历史的存储库。一面墙上展示着前任市长时期订购的标志，用于庆祝特殊场合，例如1990年纳尔逊·曼德拉的访问和1998年纽约洋基队的世界大赛冠军。其他标志则向格莱美奖和“沙漠风暴行动”的部队致敬。

当然，最新的标志是在庆祝尼克斯队。

“这座城市为了尼克斯队真正团结在了一起，能成为其中的一小部分感觉很酷，”制作了“冠军之路”标志的格里芬女士说，“我制作的是庆祝标志。而所有的努力则是他们做出的。”

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A math class in a secret classroom in Afghanistan, where formal education beyond sixth grade has been banned for girls.

Inside Secret Girls' Schools That Defy Taliban Rules

By ELIAN PELTIER

Ayesha goes to a secret school six days a week, mainly to keep seeing people outside her home. It's the only way to avoid total isolation under Taliban rule, she says. It's the only way to feel alive.

“Without that connection,” she said, “I don’t know what would happen to me.”

Now 18, Ayesha once dreamed of studying psychology at university. The Taliban ended that dream when they banned formal education for girls beyond sixth grade in 2022.

But Ayesha has been defying the rules for years, sitting in a classroom hidden behind the corridors of a primary school. Thousands of such programs operate across the country under the Taliban's radar.

Fifth graders working on an assignment. The only official schools for teenage girls are religious schools.

Clandestine schools were once seen as a stopgap, a way for girls to keep up with their education until the Taliban were gone. But five years after the Taliban's return to power, nearly 2.5 million Afghan girls have been locked out of secondary school.

They can go to religious schools or study at home with private instruction. But across the country, girls are risking arrest by going to school in secret. Others fail sixth grade on purpose, to remain in their classrooms for as long as possible.

Principals, teachers and parents operate the schools through a clandestine effort, fighting for what they fear may be a lost cause: to save a generation of girls from ignorance. The Taliban's leaders do not appear willing to rescind the ban, even while

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In Prediction Market Fray, States Also Battle Trumps

Administration and Family Business Align on Legal Disputes Over Wagers

By DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY and SHARON LaFRANIERE

In early March, Donald Trump Jr. made a pitch to a crowd of Republican state attorneys general who had gathered for a three-day retreat at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in New Orleans.

Mr. Trump, the president's eldest son, has repeatedly promised to keep his family's business interests separate from the work of the administration. But at the closed-door event, he stepped into the middle of a ferocious legal battle over whether states or federal agencies should police prediction markets, a booming new industry in which the Trumps have a financial stake.

Sitting onstage for a question-and-answer session with Montana's attorney general, Mr. Trump suggested that state leaders were being led astray by a "vested interest" — gambling firms that wanted to protect their "monopolies" by attacking prediction markets, four people familiar with his remarks said. In reality, he said, the markets already had robust oversight, describing them as a sophisticated financial tool overseen by federal officials, not state attorneys general.

Mr. Trump's tone was friendly, the people said. But his comments, which have not been previously reported, dovetailed with a message his father's administration has sent to state leaders: Back off.

In lawsuits across the country, red and blue states have united to take on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket, setting up a courtroom battle that will determine whether Americans can use them to bet on sports, politics and virtually everything else.

In total, 20 states are locked in litigation over whether the prediction markets are subject to state laws governing sports betting. Last month, 44 states signed a letter attacking the platforms as a "new form of casino" preying on young people.

State leaders have argued that the markets are dodging regulations and failing to pay state taxes

— estimated to total at least \$2 billion a year in lost revenue, according to the Tax Foundation, a non-partisan research group.

The litigation has unleashed an extraordinary blitz of political maneuvering, pitting the federal government against the states. President Trump has declared that he wants prediction markets to

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Red and blue states found common ground in lawsuits across the country against prediction markets like Kalshi.

thrive under his leadership, without state oversight. Working side by side with Kalshi, his administration has argued in court that the industry's sole regulator is the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a small agency that governs markets for commodities like oil and farm goods.

In the half-century after it was set up in 1974, the C.F.T.C. says, it had never sued a state over regulatory issues. This year, it has sued nine, all led by Democratic

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In Election Tie, Luck of Draw Picks Winner

By REIS THEBAULT

GILA BEND, Ariz. — There was an old-fashioned Wild West standoff last week in a onetime frontier outpost.

Two candidates for Town Council in Gila Bend, Ariz., finished with the same number of votes in July's election, 67 each. A century-old state law mandated breaking the tie with a game of chance.

In this duel, there would be no gunslinging, though there would be a draw — not from a holster, but from a shuffled deck of cards. The hopeful with the higher card would claim the seat.

In an age of increasing distrust in elections and a state that has been a hotbed for voting-related conspiracy theories, Gila Bend's leaders said they knew the high-stakes tiebreaker, which took place Tuesday, would need to be transparent and carefully choreographed.

"With everything that's going on, you want it as open as you can possibly get it," said Patricia Riggs, the town clerk, who oversees elections.

The stalemate in this 1,800-person community, 50 miles southwest of Phoenix, was hardly the first to be decided by chance in a country with tens of thousands of elected local governments and closely divided politics. Races in recent decades have come down to poker games, straw-drawing and, earlier this month in Hawaii, names tucked into plastic eggs

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By VANESSA FRIEDMAN and JACOB BERNSTEIN

Furor Builds Over Met's Plan to Honor Designer

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is facing a growing backlash because of its plan to honor John Galliano, the accomplished British fashion designer who was convicted of a hate crime by a French court in 2011 for his antisemitic outbursts.

Galliano, who transformed Dior into a global powerhouse before his disgrace, is scheduled to be the subject of a nine-month exhibition sponsored by the Met's Costume

Critics Cite Galliano's Antisemitic Tirades

Institute. The show is to kick off with the Met Gala, the annual springtime benefit and red carpet extravaganza overseen by Anna Wintour, Vogue's global editorial director and a Met trustee.

Amid the public criticism, Met trustees and board members have been scrambling to do damage control. For starters, they are mulling whether to move the date of the next Met Gala from its usual slot, the first Monday in May, to the week after. In 2027, Yom HaShoah, also known as Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day, will fall on the scheduled party date.

In recent days, opposition to the museum's plan to honor Galliano has grown among Jewish leaders in New York and beyond. Donors have contacted Met executives and threatened to rescind gifts to the museum if the exhibition

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Unlikely Journey of Luxury Cars Stolen in Canada
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Are Creators For Politicians, Or Payments?

By KEN BENSINGER and STUART A. THOMPSON

Josh Greene is a rising left-wing social media star with his own podcast, nearly 800,000 followers and access to politicians like Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York.

He has used that platform to support dozens of progressive candidates in the midterm elections, ranging from low-profile, down-ballot contests to some of the nation's marquee Democratic primaries. In camera-facing videos, Mr. Greene informs his followers of his preferences, calling some candidates “the most viable” and, in other cases, declaring that “this is the candidate for you.”

He does not always tell his viewers that he is being compensated for his support.

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U.S. Acquires Venezuelan Oil, President Says

This article is by Rebecca F. Elliott, Simon Romero and Edward Wong.

President Trump said that the United States had struck a deal to take majority control of a huge portion of Venezuela's oil reserves, pointing to a sweeping effort to assert U.S. dominance over energy in the Western Hemisphere.

The agreement amounts to a highly unusual foray into another country's oil fields through a partnership with a private company, the State Department said through a U.S. official.

That firm is affiliated with a Venezuelan businessman, Alejandro Betancourt López, according to two people familiar with the partnership.

The deal would give the United States control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, Mr. Trump said in a social media post on Friday. That is almost as much as all of the proven reserves in the United States, which is the world's biggest oil producer.

Venezuela's president, Delcy Rodríguez, said that the "historic" agreement would involve developing 17 oil fields and have a "significant impact on our nation's revival."

It would draw more than \$100 billion of investment, she said, and generate an estimated \$209 billion for Venezuela's strapped government, which has been struggling to improve living conditions after

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Zazie Weldgen's draft sketches include her handwritten research. She identified 179 species and mascots associated with New York State.

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The cover of today's U.S. Open section has more ecological rigor than you might expect.

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Can a sport be so popular that even animals want to come out and play?

That's what Timothy Oliver, a print sports designer, and Zazie Weldgen, a freelance illustrator, imagined while working on The New York Times's U.S. Open tennis preview this year.

Dozens of unusual (and furry) faces fill Arthur Ashe Stadium in the cover illustration of this year's preview, which appears as a special section in today's newspaper. Readers may spot a raccoon quaffing a Honey Deuce cocktail; a North American river otter juggling tennis balls; or Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped the Central Park Zoo, flying in the crowd.

It is a growling, chirping, barking illustration to match the wild child of Grand Slam tennis — and there is ecological rigor to it. Many of the animals on the cover can be found in New York State. Most are native.

This is Mr. Oliver's fifth U.S. Open preview. Each year, for the cover, he and his colleagues have tried to capture the spirit of the tennis major that is noisier and more free-spirited than the others.

"It's so engaging for New Yorkers that everybody can feel a part of it," Mr. Oliver said.

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In a sports year already busied by the Winter Olympics, a Knicks championship and the World Cup, Mr. Oliver, along with his collaborators on the sports pages Campbell Biemiller and Sara Ziegler, knew they wanted an illustration that could represent the unifying power that sports has on communities, but with a lighthearted touch.

Ms. Weldgen, a 23-year-old artist from Rochester, N.Y., had created a mural of animals on the campus of her alma mater, Monroe Community College. She said she often aims to emulate the playful nature of illustrations in children's books. Naturally,

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animals are a common motif in her work.

"It feels like a lot of people can relate to animals more than humans," she said of her mural. "Animals just bring a lot of joy to a lot of people."

Research is central to Ms. Weldgen's artistic process. As a New York native herself, she knew she wanted to locate animals specific to the state, and sought to pack Arthur Ashe Stadium, the U.S. Open's center court, as a way to capture the cultural phenomenon of the tournament.

The philosophy behind Ms. Weldgen's selection process? The more the merrier.

"I ran out of animals in New York," she said. "Which sounds silly, because there's so much biodiversity."

To locate many of the 179 critters and characters pictured on the cover, she spent weeks leafing through encyclopedias and browsing websites for the New York City

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The idea of adding mythological creatures, and animals of the inanimate sort, arrived later. She went down a rabbit hole of Google searches and news articles to bring in the likes of William the Hippo, the unofficial blue mascot of the Metropolitan Museum, and the “ghost dog” of Prospect Park.

Sketching hundreds of different animals required more than three months of preparation, a lead time Mr. Oliver estimated was the longest he had provided an illustrator.

Ms. Weldgen worked on the drafting table in her bedroom. A piece of tracing paper, 28 inches in height and 17 inches in length, soon became Ms. Weldgen's best friend — and nemesis. On it, she had to "erase and repuzzle the pieces together based on our feedback," Ms. Biemiller said.

And the feedback was very, very serious.

"I don't know much about tennis, so they suggested small details like adding a ball boy. Now a little squirrel is perched on the railing dressed like a ball boy," Ms. Weldgen said, later adding: "It's been complete fun for me."

Once Ms. Weldgen transitioned from tracing paper to the illustration's final iteration, she conducted color studies to best capture the feeling of dawn inside the stadium. To be as precise as possible, she uploaded reference photos of Arthur Ashe Stadium into Photoshop to experiment with various color and lighting conditions. She finished with watercolor, acrylic paint and white gel pens for highlights.

Inside the tennis section, Mr. Oliver and his colleagues list every animal in Ms. Weldgen's illustration.

For Mr. Oliver, readers under daily barrages of difficult news deserve a little respite to find joy in an image “everyone can see themselves in,” he said. Even as the pigeon serving on the court, or the eastern cottontail sitting in the stands.

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Each clue in this theme set is an actor's name, written in italicized uppercase letters. The puzzle's title, "Written in the Stars," presumably relates to the actors in the clues. There's also a revealer entry at 69-Across that I had no luck interpreting: [Ones making periodic appearances ... or the link between the capitalized clues and their answers].

I had to make a full round through the clues before putting together a couple of answers. 22-Across, for example: [MARTIN SHEEN] solves to HENRI MATISSE, which I deduced by recognizing that all of the letters in place from crossing entries were in the name in the clue. Anagrams? The next entry I completed, at 48-Across, made that suspicion look perfectly apt: [MORGAN FREEMAN] solves to GEORGE FOREMAN. Scramble the letters in one name and get the other, right?

At 84-Across, [CHRISTIAN SLATER], I finally got wise. The answer is ELAINE STRITCH, but she has only one R in her name, while Mr. Slater has two; same with the letters S and A. There are two E's in

ELAINE, but all this machination means she has two fewer letters in her name, which means that these two names aren't anagrams at all. 48-Across is diabolical: Both clue and entry are 13 letters long, but Mr. Foreman has one more O, G and E; Mr. Freeman has one more M, A and N.

This tweak on the anagram is a different cryptic technique called a letter bank. You start with a set of letters to rearrange, but you are allowed to use any of them as many times as you'd like — for example, to turn “imps” into “Mississippi.”

Constructors have built some great puzzles using letter banks. I don't think I've ever seen letter bank pairs presented in such a sly way, nor have I seen such a tightly constrained set, almost all well-known figures in pop culture. (I did have to look up the celebrity in the clue at 33-Across, [NORMAN REEDUS], but I recognized him as soon as I did.)

As far as that revealer clue, something about “periodic appearances” threw me off, but the solution is a perfect pun. All those repeated letters from the bank are RECURRING CHARACTERS. CAITLIN LOVINGER

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NEW DELHI — France. New Zealand. The Seychelles. Malaysia. Slovakia. Italy. In the past year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India has zigzagged around the world at a breathless pace, pursuing new partners or bolstering ties with existing ones, jolted into action by a grim reality: India's only way to combat the global turbulence unleashed by President Trump and fortify its economy is to spread its bets widely.

Since August 2025, Mr. Modi has paid official visits to at least 20 countries, and is set to visit more in the coming days, including a trip to Uzbekistan that starts on Saturday. Many of these meetings have been businesslike, resembling the urgent, closed-door discussions of Wall Street bankers negotiating deals.

After Uzbekistan, Mr. Modi will visit Kyrgyzstan for the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a 10-member regional security group, where he is expected to sit down with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

Among the economic benefits for India that Mr. Modi has scored in his meetings are submarine technology from Germany, student visas from France, and cheaper Scotch whisky — arguably India's most popular alcoholic beverage — from the United Kingdom.

"We want to build better ties with the rest of the world as the size of our economy grows," said Priyam Gandhi-Mody, an executive director of the Future Economic Cooperation Council, an initiative of the government of Maharashtra, a western Indian state. The approach hinges on "smaller goals, more targeted goals and a smaller set of countries, until the time that goal is achieved."

Middle powers like France and Canada have been kneecapped by the same forces India faces, making them more amenable to Mr. Modi's overtures. Some are seeking him out to meet their own strategic needs and to get access to the world's fastest-growing large economy.

India's recalibrated approach to foreign policy made its debut about a year ago, following the 25 percent global tariffs Mr. Trump announced in February. The Trump administration began calling India out for its protectionist economy, and last August Mr. Trump slapped India with an additional 25 percent tariff for buying Russian oil, saying the purchases were helping finance its war in Ukraine.

During Mr. Trump's first term, he and Mr. Modi cultivated a personal relationship that India expected to yield dividends. But New Delhi's mood soured after Mr. Trump claimed repeatedly that he played a role in ending a four-day conflict between India and Pakistan in May 2025.

India has since rushed to find new partners, as the United States was its largest single export market, as well as to bolster relationships with countries like Japan and Australia that want to contain China. The Iran war has made India's mission only more urgent: With 80 percent of its crude oil imports coming through the Strait of Hormuz, it has been forced to find other transport routes.

Who Is Modi Doing Deals With?

Since December, Mr. Modi, 75, has visited 18 countries, but India's dance card has filled up, too: The leaders of 13 countries have visited India.

Many such meetings produced specific agreements:

- India and France have developed an especially close partnership, centered on artificial intelligence and governance, and on doubling bilateral trade within the next five years.

■ Mr. Modi and Norway's prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, reaffirmed Norway's commitment to creating one mil-

MALAYSIA Mr. Modi and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim near the capital, Kuala Lumpur, in February.
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SOUTH KOREA President Lee Jae Myung promised Mr. Modi investment in India and shipbuilding help.

EUROPE Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission called a pact with India "the mother of all deals."
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ON MOVE Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India at June's Group of 7 summit. In the past year, he's had official visits to at least 20 countries.

lion jobs in India under an agreement India signed in October with the European Free Trade Association.

■ President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea promised investment in India and shipbuilding assistance. India aims to become one of the world's top five shipbuilders by 2047.

■ Mr. Modi became the first Indian prime minister to visit New Zealand in four decades. The meeting focused on maritime security, building on a defense cooperation agreement signed last year, and doubling bilateral trade.

- India signed a major free trade agreement with the European Union, the world's largest economic bloc, in January. Roughly two decades of trade negotiations had been sped up by the newly up-ended world order.

What's Driving the Policy?

India's priorities can be grouped into categories: defense technology; regional security; energy imports; critical minerals; artificial intelligence; and the ability of its people to study and work abroad, based on a review of recent agreements.

Broadly, they reflect India and its partners' goal of creating well-functioning economic corridors within which they can build resilience to future geopolitical shocks, analysts said. To maintain its "strategic autonomy" — a favored foreign policy stance — Mr. Modi has pursued economic diplomacy.

Many of the pacts underscore India's need for support to create manufacturing jobs and technology to drive its growth, analysts said. But India is also working with countries to build infrastructure and find new buyers for its pharmaceuticals, as the world's biggest maker of generic drugs. Unlike the diffuse nature of many previous meetings with leaders, the recent partnerships are far more focused, outlining specific goals, targets and numbers.

The E.U. deal — which Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, labeled the “mother of all deals”

— marked a move away from India's policy of protectionism. As part of the agreement, India agreed to make concessions, including slashing tariffs on European cars and wine, among other products. In 2025, India also struck a deal with the United Kingdom, where the latter reduced tariffs on garments, and the former slashed duties on alcohol.

The India-U. S. relationship is in “flux” and lacks “strategic focus” at the moment, said Chietigj Bajpayee, a South Asia expert at Chatham House, a London-based think tank. Mr. Bajpayee compared a meeting between Mr. Modi and Mr. Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit in France to a “one-off coffee” rather than a relationship-building step.

Without a dependable relationship with the United States, he said, "India is back to pursuing a strategy where it balances and manages its relationships with both smaller countries, middle powers like Canada and Japan, and the global powers, U.S. and China."

But Mr. Modi is hardly one to shy away from advertising personal chemistry where he can, to the cheers of his fellow Indians. During a meeting with Giorgia Meloni, Italy's prime minister, Mr. Modi presented her with a bag of Melody toffee, a popular Indian candy. That very day, shares of an unrelated company with a name similar to the candy maker that produces Melody shot up on the Indian stock market.

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Disastrous Flood Exposes Risks of Hydropower Bet

By ALEX TRAVELLI

NEW DELHI — The blast of earth, water and ice that rushed through a region of Nepal knocked out more than a tenth of the country's hydropower capacity within minutes, striking at an industry Nepal has made central to its economic future.

The floods in the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli valleys damaged or destroyed 14 hydroelectric projects, including six under construction. After the deluge on Wednesday, 431 megawatts of generating capacity had gone dark, according to the Nepal Electricity Authority — more than 12 percent of the country's total capacity.

The toll was far greater when including projects under construction. Counting those plants, now halted or in some cases swept away, would roughly double the capacity lost. Among them was the Trishuli-1 project, where 63 Indians were rescued from a construction tunnel and more than 100 workers remain unaccounted for.

The destruction was part of a much larger human catastrophe. More than 600 people were killed, more than 2,400 remained missing, and 93,000 needed assistance.

But the loss of so much hydropower infrastructure also exposed a vulnerability at the heart of Nepal's economic development strategy. The country is betting heavily on the rivers plunging from the Himalayas to turn itself into a major producer and exporter of renewable electricity, joining companies from India, China.

“Nepal sits on two very important risks,” said Puspa Sharma, a Nepali research fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore.

One is the natural hazards inherent in its mountainous terrain, risks that appear to be worsening as the climate warms. The other, he said, "is its dependence on India, because without India I don't think its hydropower can go anywhere."

India is Nepal's essential market for surplus electricity and its only practical route to other buyers, while New Delhi's rivalry with China has also complicated Nepal's efforts to attract investment.

Nepal's spectacular but unforgiving geography has long made hydropower seem like a natural resource waiting to be exploited. Rivers fed by Himalayan snow and glaciers plunge toward the plains of India, carrying enormous amounts of potential energy.

Nepal has about 83 gigawatts of hydropower potential, of which 43 gigawatts — roughly the output of 30 to 40 nuclear reactors — can be developed. But only a fraction of that has been harnessed, partly because the country would need billions of dollars for dams, transmission lines and other infrastructure. In Nepal, indebted and landlocked, the average annual income is about \$1,600.

Nepal's installed hydropower capacity has grown to more than 4,000 megawatts from about 3,000 megawatts in 2024. The government aims to reach 28,500 megawatts by 2035, far more than Nepal itself would consume.

Last month, Nepal confirmed a deal to send 10,000 megawatts of electricity to India over a 10-year period. India's demand for electricity is surging as the needs of its 1.4 billion people grow, even as the country rapidly expands solar, wind and nuclear power generation. But the Indian government has been reluctant to depend on hydropower projects backed by China, its rival across the Himalayas.

The two countries have competing territorial claims, and their troops fought a deadly border clash in 2020.

“India is hesitant about Chinese investment coming in,” Mr. Sharma said. He pointed to rules established in 2018 and strengthened after the 2020 clash that restricted investments involving companies from countries sharing a land border with India, including China.

India has recently shown signs of easing some restrictions, while becoming a more important investor in Nepal's hydropower sector. Indian-backed projects include Arun-3, a 900-megawatt plant under construction in eastern Nepal.

Bangladesh is another hopeful customer. Its reliance on imported gas has left it vulnerable to disruptions in Persian Gulf supplies during the war in Iran, with energy shortages weighing on its garment industry, the backbone of the Bangladeshi economy.

Yet geography again leaves Nepal dependent on India. Although Nepal and Bangladesh come within 14 miles of each other, a narrow strip of Indian territory separates them. Electricity traded between the two countries must therefore cross India, which has restricted Bangladesh's access to Nepali power during periods of diplomatic tension.

Last week's destruction exposes a more fundamental uncertainty: whether Nepal can safely build the hydropower system on which those export ambitions depend.

The Himalayas are highly vulnerable to landslides, avalanches and glacial outbreaks. As the climate warms, some of those hazards are expected to intensify, sharpening debate over where Nepal should build hydropower projects, how they should be engineered, and whether smaller plants might prove more resilient.

Nepal was already debating building reservoirs, which could store water and provide electricity year-round, rather than relying heavily on seasonal river flows.

The disaster also highlighted another difficult trade-off. Nepal needs hydropower at home, but electricity exports bring in money that the country badly needs for development. If future disasters disrupt generation, which should take priority?

"Projects on a river, if they get washed away," Mr. Sharma said, "do you export to India, and keep your own country in the dark?"

Climate change raises an even longer-term question. With the Himalayas warming rapidly, Mr. Sharma said, the region may eventually have to reconsider its assumptions about the rivers themselves.

"If global warming will not be contained," he said, "maybe the glaciers will just dry up, and we will not have water in these systems."

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Disaster survivors in Devighat, Nepal, on Friday surveyed the damage to their homes while seeking shelter, food and medical care.
ATUL LOKE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Nepali Flood Survivors Confront Profound Loss

By ANUPREETA DAS and SAJAL PRADHAN

DEVIGHAT, Nepal — In just two simple sentences, in separate conversations, they gave voice to the many Nepalis who have seen the lives they had built wiped away in seconds.

"Everything is gone," said Anju Shakya, a shopkeeper.

Anushka Tamang, a janitor, said, "I don't know what to do next."

The roaring cascade of mud that on Wednesday carried away or buried their loved ones, homes, businesses and schools left countless people struggling with the same urgent questions: What can I eat, where can I sleep and what can I salvage? And what happens then?

Ms. Tamang, 29, improvised a makeshift path to make the short but perilous walk to the home she had fled in Devighat, a town in central Nepal. She walked on a fallen tree trunk, a tin plank from a roof and the concrete foundation of the ruins of a house, avoiding the quicksand and stepping quickly through muddy patches in her bare feet.

Inside her partly buried home, Ms. Tamang found the silver suitcase that she rarely opened with her dressy saris, stuck in her door and covered in mud, but intact. She located some of her 6-year-old daughter's clothes that the sludge, four feet deep, had not reached because they hung from her ceiling. She also spotted her cylinders of cooking gas — one empty, one partly full — that might fetch around \$14 each.

She and her brother dragged the haul to a nearby school that her daughter attended and where she worked as a janitor. She planned to stay there for a few days with her belongings. How they will live after the immediate crisis is anyone's guess.

At least 675 people were killed in the flash flood, and more than 2,400 are reported missing, numbers that are sure to rise given the immensity of the disaster. According to early estimates, the catastrophe is expected to cost the economy, which is largely dependent on tourism, billions of dollars. Repairing and building roads, bridges and power lines is expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more.

Rescued people have been sent to hospitals and relief camps, and the government and nonprofit groups have begun building temporary shelters and delivering meals to them.

Delivering food and water to people and providing temporary shelter are the top priorities, said Hiralal Tamrakar, program director of an aid group, Good Neighbors Nepal, which is working with the local government in the town of Bidur, in the district of Nuwakot, one of the more populated regions that suffered extensive damage. Survivors have urgently asked for food, along with clothes, shelter, blankets and other basic needs, he said.

But as survivors grieve missing friends and family and reconcile themselves to the loss of property and valuables, the question of how to rebuild their lives has few answers yet.

“Later on, the government will make the provision, the plan to settle them,” Mr. Tamrakar said.

Until two days ago, Ms. Shakya, 50, ran a jewelry store in Trishuli Bazaar, a bustling market in Bidur, by the Trishuli River. Ms. Shakya said it had taken a lot of effort, but she had managed to make a comfortable life for herself and her family, with good prospects for their future.

She had lived for more than two decades in a three-story home she shared with her son, daughter-in-law and grandson. They had two cars and a motorcycle. She said her family had amassed about 3.5 kilograms of gold, worth roughly \$500,000. She planned to pay for her grandson's education.

That carefully nurtured life vanished when mud burst through the shop walls on its way to her home.

Ms. Shakya said family members tried to close the windows and doors to keep the slurry out, but within minutes they were forced to flee. They clambered up a hillside to stay above the deadly torrent, and stayed there for two days before army personnel arrived.

The house and cars are gone. The shop is gone. The gold is gone.

Sitting on a cot as army doctors administered care and checked her vitals, Ms. Shakya said she didn't know how to feel about her future or what to do next. She wore a borrowed T-shirt and a bandage around her left knee, which she sprained scrambling up the hill.

She and her family plan to stay with relatives in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, until they decide how to begin pulling together their lives.

"My eyes keep welling up thinking about the wealth we've lost," she said.

"You can't build a gold shop from scratch," Ms. Shakya added, still in disbelief that at her age, she had to begin again. "God has taken what he has given us."

Rescuers Search for 2,400 Missing in Floods in Nepal

ATUL LOKE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Family members looking for missing relatives checked lists of rescued individuals with Army personnel in Nepal on Friday.

By BINOD GHIMIRE and MUJIB MASHAL

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Entire towns wiped out. Roads, bridges and communication lines washed away. In just a matter of moments, tens of thousands of people were left devastated and disoriented as catastrophic floodwaters tore through the tranquil Himalayan valley.

Four days later, as the rescue efforts in Nepal and neighboring Tibet continued on Saturday, the staggering scale of the flood's devastation was coming into focus.

The official count of missing people jumped to over 2,400, more than double the figure from a day before. The death toll rose to at least 675 and was expected to keep climbing. The morgues in several of the towns downstream from the deluge have been overwhelmed by the number of bodies, with officials forced to improvise makeshift arrangements.

"In living memory, we haven't seen a mountain hazard event like this," Kamal Kishore, the United Nations' top official for disaster risk reduction, said on Friday. "The impact on lives, livelihoods, buildings, infrastructure, bridges, hydroelectric projects, power generation is really immense."

The recovery will be daunting.

Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world. Its economy, long stagnated, is heavily reliant on the tourism industry and the remittances its workers send from abroad.

The catastrophe comes amid a drastic shortfall in global humani-

Binod Ghimire reported from Kathmandu. Anupreeta Das and Lily Kuo contributed reporting.

tarian funding, as some of the largest traditional donors, particularly the United States under President Trump, have pulled back from international aid in recent years.

The United States, for example, has announced that it will contribute \$500,000 to the rescue effort — a small fraction of what it had promised in the days immediately after a devastating earthquake hit Nepal in 2015. Sri Lanka, still emerging from its own economic crash, has pledged \$1 million.

The pledges so far do not bode well for funding the reconstruction effort, said Pradeep Gyawali, a former foreign minister.

"The contrast with the 2015 earthquake is staggering, when Nepal struggled even to manage the huge volume of relief materials that arrived from around the world. Assistance came almost immediately, and on a much larger scale," he said. "This time, however, the response has been much weaker."

China reported on Friday that a barrier lake, created when the landslide that started Wednesday's deluge blocked the river system, had begun overflowing in Tibet, near where the floods originated. Nepali authorities issued repeated alerts downstream, and police officers hurried through nearby towns with megaphones, asking people to move to higher ground. China's state broadcaster, CCTV, later reported that the risk of a breach at the barrier lake had "gradually decreased," though the threat of another flood remained.

Much of the rescue effort on the Nepali side of the border appeared focused on several hydropower plants that were swept away by the torrent of water and debris. Army rescue teams rushed to recover workers from around the muddy tunnels in dramatic scenes.

The government in Nepal, which swept to power earlier this year on the back of Gen Z protests, is trying to assert control and restore order in the face of the overwhelming tragedy.

Balendra Shah, the 36-year-old prime minister, has not addressed the nation but has been seen visiting the sites of destruction and leading meetings to coordinate the country's response.

His government has deployed over 30,000 security forces for rescue and recovery efforts. Possibly drawing on lessons from the response to a previous natural disaster in the country, which was criticized as chaotic and disorganized, the authorities initially declined foreign rescue teams.

But by the end of Friday, news media in Nepal reported that the government was easing that restriction.

On Saturday, Shisir Khanal, Nepal's foreign minister, said the country was seeking support for tunnel rescues, with an Indian team already in the country and two teams from China also coming. He said the government also required outside help with forensic capabilities, and teams that can help identify bodies with DNA sampling.

More than 7,000 people had been rescued by late Saturday, many of them pulled out of flooded villages in helicopters before being sent to hospitals and relief camps, where they have been given meals and medical help.

Soon, the focus will have to shift to rebuilding. But for those who survived the surging waters — losing loved ones, livelihoods and homes — a path to recovery may seem distant. It is unclear whether many survivors will be able to return home or if they will need to resettle elsewhere.

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The threat of fresh flooding hangs heavy over the rescue and relief efforts.

The threat of flooding temporarily paused the rescue efforts in Tibet on Friday. But on Saturday, Chinese rescue workers resumed their search efforts, looking for survivors near the Gyirong border crossing between Nepal and Tibet, CCTV reported. The footage showed firefighters combing the leveled site, tapping on the ground with shovels and shouting, “Is anyone there?”

The damage has also been particularly heavy at the site of hydropower projects built along the Bhotekoshi and other rivers downstream. Tens of miles of roads and over 40 bridges have been destroyed.

Initial government estimates in Nepal have put the cost of physical damage at over \$1.3 billion, and the country's finance minister has predicted that recovery efforts could run into "a few billions."

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When Russians Want a Fancy Car, They Order It From Thieves in Canada

By JANE BRADLEY and MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ

NASUNA STUART-ULIN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

'A forbidden fruit is always sweet.'
DANIIL ALEYNIK, below, a Russian national who was jailed in Ukraine on suspicion of smuggling cars.
NASUNA STUART-ULIN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

BRENDAN HOFFMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

MONTREAL — A yearslong car theft epidemic in Canada has gotten so bad that despite a police crackdown, thieves break into homes just to steal car keys. Thousands of cars vanish each year.

The phenomenon, records and interviews show, is driven in part by an unexpected source: a booming black market for Western vehicles in wartime Russia.

While Western export bans have severed Russia from much of the auto market, they have not tempered the demand for brand-name SUVs and trucks. That has given rise to a sophisticated network of criminals that steals cars, hides them in shipping containers and sends them to Russia, often by way of the Middle East.

"A forbidden fruit is always sweet," Daniil Aleynik, a Russian national, said during an interview from a Ukrainian jail, where he was being held on charges of participating in an international car theft scheme. "There are a lot of cars in Canada, and stealing them there is very convenient."

Interpol, the international police organization, received 4,798 reports that stolen Canadian vehicles had been found in Russia from February 2024 to July 2026, according to data obtained by The New York Times and confirmed by two law enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because it is considered sensitive.

Pickup trucks like Dodge Rams, Toyota Tundras and Ford F-150s are in particularly high demand.

The Interpol figures significantly undercount the problem, but Russia is by far the top international destination for Canadian cars reported to Interpol, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The number of cars stolen from Canadian streets, parking lots and driveways is a measure of how Western sanctions have had surprising, and at times undesired, consequences. Just as a network of smugglers and dilapidated tankers expanded to evade oil embargoes, criminal groups moved to fill the void when Western automakers left the Russian market and many countries banned auto exports there.

"The stolen cars are not by chance," said Renato Schipani, who oversees Interpol's stolen vehicle database. "They are stolen to order."

Demand for pricey Western cars has always been high in Russia. The sanctions unintentionally incentivized sellers to find illicit ways to supply the market, driving up prices and making the cars even more of a status symbol, Mr. Aleynik said at the Chortkiv detention facility in western Ukraine.

Law enforcement officials, including at Interpol, are investigating whether some of those trucks are being used in overseas battlefields. A propaganda video broadcast last year by a TV channel controlled by the Russian Defense Ministry showed a line of Dodge Ram trucks at a huge Russian drone factory. The video showed a drone being launched from the back of one of the trucks.

In Iran, satellite and open-source imagery reviewed by The Times appears to show Shahed drones on the back of Toyota Tundras. To date, officials have not tracked those vehicles.

The Interpol records are imperfect. Cars can sometimes be inadvertently counted twice, and some countries, including the United States, do not reliably report thefts to Interpol. Others do not report recovered cars. But law enforcement officials say the figures reflect trends.

Since Canada's car theft epidemic began in 2021, officials have introduced policing overhauls and invested tens of millions in tackling the crime. Theft rates have fallen, but stolen vehicles still flow through Canadian ports.

"The majority of the high-value vehicles are still being stolen for export — that's where the money is," said Bryan Gast, a former police officer who is now intelligence lead for the nonprofit anti-fraud group Équité Association.

Canadian officials recognized early that stolen cars were ending up overseas. But at first, they eyed the wrong countries.

Jane Bradley reported from Montreal, and Michael Schwirtz from Ukraine.

Car thefts surged in Canada after Covid lockdowns were lifted in 2021. With the global supply chain in turmoil, criminals spotted an opportunity. Within a year, auto theft rates in Canada had reached historic highs and continued to climb.

"It was the Wild West," said Scott Cresswell, a detective at York Regional Police just outside Toronto. "People were having multiple cars stolen. Toronto would have been having 30 cars stolen a night."

The police recovered cars as often as they could, but thousands disappeared every year. In the hot spots of Ontario and Quebec, nearly half of the stolen cars vanished.

In August 2023, the authorities recovered several stolen cars in Toronto. Their investigation led them to a transnational crime network that was exporting stolen vehicles using bogus paperwork.

The Canadian border agency then shifted its approach. Officials who had focused on what was arriving in Canada began taking a closer look at what was leaving.

Agents began raiding shipping containers.

Frédéric Bonsaint, an officer at the border agency, said that every week, his team searched around a dozen containers at the Port of Montreal and discovered 20 to 30 stolen cars worth in total up to \$2 million. Similar checks are carried out at other ports.

One day in June, Mr. Bonsaint cracked open a 40-foot shipping container and peered in with a flashlight. Sandwiched between old mattresses, boxes of household goods and two legal cars was a gleaming white stolen Land Rover. The vehicle was worth around \$125,000 new but would most likely sell for nearly double that, Mr. Bonsaint said.

"Vehicle theft is so lucrative for criminals because property theft is not as penalized like other crimes, say, trafficking drugs," Mr. Bonsaint said. "It's a low-risk, high-reward crime."

The Land Rover had been bound for West Africa, Mr. Bonsaint said. That region and the Middle East are major destinations for used cars from around the world. For years, the Canadian authorities believed those markets alone were driving the car theft industry.

But it was not the whole story.

The flood of car thefts coincided with the financial sanctions and export bans that Western governments hoped would punish Russia for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. That made Western vehicles more valuable.

The Russian black market did not create Canada's criminal gangs or smuggling networks. Those ingredients were already in place, said Mr. Aleynik, the Russian who faces car theft charges. The sanctions merely increased demand and profits.

Key to the effort, Mr. Aleynik said, are criminal contacts in Canada who falsify customs documents and share the latest intelligence on how to evade checks.

"I'm not going to point any fingers," Mr. Aleynik said, "because I've used their services myself. But that's why it's so easy in Canada."

(Mr. Aleynik, who goes by the online moniker Wasp Killer, has served prison time in Russia for car thefts but denies doing anything illegal in over a decade. Prosecutors say he participated in an extortion racket, brokering the return of stolen cars to owners in exchange for fees.)

Mr. Gast, the former police officer now at Équité Association, said that international buyers placed orders for specific cars. Mr. Aleynik said that happened through online marketplaces that connect black-market buyers and sellers.

If a buyer orders, say, 15 Land Rovers, scouts will scour affluent Canadian neighborhoods and shopping malls for those vehicles.

Stolen cars usually leave Canada through the port of Montreal, but Vancouver has seen a recent uptick in response to an east coast crackdown, officials said.

In 2023, with thefts skyrocketing, officials from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police flew to Interpol's headquarters in Lyon, France. They wanted help tracking stolen vehicles and disrupting smuggling routes. They were willing to invest millions to fight the problem.

"Canada faced a big crisis," Mr. Schipani, the Interpol official, recalled. "We were approached because the problem was so high."

Interpol's database contains information on more than 11 million vehicles from 137 countries. Officers who recover a car can check to see if it was reported stolen abroad.

After meeting with the Canadians, Mr. Schipani ran the figures. Huge numbers of recovered Canadian cars, he said, were arriving in Eastern Europe.

Interpol has a policy of not pub-

Vehicles stuffed into a shipping container at the Port of Montreal. Left, Frédéric Bonsaint of the Canadian border agency said his team found 20 to 30 stolen cars a week.

licly identifying individual member countries. But the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said that the largest number were found in Russia.

Smugglers often moved stolen Canadian cars to Russia via the United Arab Emirates, according to the Mounties. Officials said that they had also identified routes through Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Lithuania.

The Canada-to-Russia pipeline was visible because Moscow remains an active participant in — and sometimes abuser of — Interpol's information-sharing programs. When the Russian authorities investigate a possible stolen car, they run it through Interpol's database. With each hit, the database automatically updates to say that a stolen car was found in Russia.

Last year, Detective Cresswell's team at York Regional Police joined forces with Équité, Interpol and other law enforcement authorities to help Canadians retrieve their stolen cars from overseas. The effort has returned around 200 vehicles to Canada, including some from Russia.

Last month, Mr. Cresswell said, six stolen cars arrived from Russia.

"It's groundbreaking to get cars repatriated from Russia," he said. "The idea was once that if a car reaches that soil, the car is gone."

Why would the Russian authorities return stolen cars to Western countries? One explanation is that Russian law prohibits the registration of vehicles listed in Interpol's database. Returning them is one way to prevent unusable stolen cars from piling up. Western officials say that Moscow is broadly cooperative when it comes to crimes like auto theft.

That could change. Last month, Russia took steps to allow the registration of cars stolen from “unfriendly countries,” including Canada. A proposal by the Russian Interior Ministry would protect those cars from seizure. European officials have warned that this could fuel a rise in transnational car thefts.

Canada recently increased prison sentences to up to 14 years for auto theft and tightened bail rules.

Mr. Aleynik, who was recently released on bail and is awaiting trial, was dismissive of Western attempts to clamp down on the illicit trade. There is too much money to be made, he said, and people will risk prison. Russians who steal cars risk facing vigilante justice.

"In Russia, no one steals cars, because if you do, you won't live long," he said. "In the West, a human life is worth more than a car."

NASUNA STUART-ULIN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Stolen cars usually leave Canada through the Port of Montreal, but a crackdown led to an increase in Vancouver, in the west.

Removing a vehicle from a container. Pickup trucks are popular targets, and some appear to end up with Russia's military.
NASUNA STUART-ULIN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Seized vehicles. Demand for pricey Western cars has always been high in Russia, but wartime sanctions raised the stakes.
NASUNA STUART-ULIN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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earthquakes in June left more than 6,500 people dead.

Details were sparse, however. Mr. Betancourt did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Inside Venezuela, Mr. Betancourt is often called a “bolichico” or “Bolivarian boy”—a term used to refer to Venezuelan businessmen who are favored by the government, and who have profited immensely during the country’s socialist revolution. (The government named the revolution for the country’s independence hero Simón Bolivar.)

The Trump administration deposed and captured Ms. Rodríguez's predecessor, Nicolás Maduro, in January, transforming a country that had been an adversary into something resembling a client state. As part of the process, the administration made Venezuela's oil central to its campaign to expand U.S. influence over energy in the Americas, where rising production has helped blunt the loss of oil coming out of the Middle East over the past six months because of the Iran war.

Previous U.S. leaders often shied from any suggestion that gaining sway over another country's natural resources was a primary objective of U.S. military and foreign policy, wary of the international backlash.

But Mr. Trump and some of his top advisers have made it clear that oil is an important part of their foray into Venezuela.

Even before the removal of Mr. Maduro, American officials bluntly claimed that the United States had created Venezuela's oil industry and that the country's government had effectively stolen U.S. oil fields through nationalizations.

Asked for comment, the State Department said through the U.S. official that the deal would in effect give the United States 55 percent of the output of a joint venture with an unidentified “experienced private operator in Venezuela.”

Mr. Trump made his announcement on Friday as Chevron, the second-largest U.S. oil company, was in advanced talks to signifi-

Anatoly Kurmanaev, Julie Turke- witz and Lisa Friedman contribut- ed reporting.

cantly expand its operations in Venezuela, according to people familiar with the negotiations between the oil company and Venezuelan officials.

Chevron's negotiations over new investments in Venezuela were reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal.

The Trump administration's deal showcases the major shift underway in the energy landscape of Venezuela, which is thought to have the world's largest oil reserves. Maintaining government control over oil has shaped the country's politics for decades, and many Venezuelans view oil as a birthright and a cornerstone of national identity.

Under U.S. pressure just weeks after the capture of Mr. Maduro, Venezuela's National Assembly approved an overhaul of legislation governing its oil industry, granting foreign oil companies greater control over their operations in the country.

By Saturday, many Venezuelans were grappling with the oil deal and whether it was a dear price to pay for ridding the country of the autocratic Mr. Maduro.

In Valencia, José Leal, 68, a retired educator, said the promised U.S. investment sounded small compared with the oil Venezuela was giving up. But after years with no change of the repressive government, he was willing to put up with this arrangement — and hope that Mr. Trump would push for democratic change.

"Obviously, the United States comes out ahead, enormously so," he said. But "the Americans hold the power," he said, and without them "we won't manage to break free from the socialism of Chávez and Maduro."

Others were not so optimistic. The Venezuelan government has a long history of doling out beneficial contracts to the wealthy and connected, while everyday Venezuelans suffer. Mr. Trump's announcement on Friday included no mention of a democratic transition.

A meme began circulating in the region almost as soon as the deal was announced. “I want you to get rid of Chavismo,” says a cartoon Venezuelan man, referring to Mr. Maduro’s movement, “and leave us our oil.”

A cartoon Mr. Trump responds: "Take the oil and leave you with Chavismo, got it!"

War in Ukraine

Attack on Arms Depot Outside Kyiv Kills Dozens

Oleh Biliuk and his family were celebrating the second birthday of his son, Yarema, in Myla when a nearby depot was hit Friday.
JOHANNA-MARIA FRITZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

By SIOBHÁN O'GRADY and YURII SHYVALA

KYIV, Ukraine — The man arrived to Room 14 in the Bucha hospital early on Saturday morning, just as the explosions that had rocked the Kyiv suburbs for hours were starting to subside.

He was badly burned and struggling to breathe. By afternoon, the men in beds nearby noticed that he had stopped moving. They rushed to check his pulse and called for a doctor, but it was too late. Hospital workers pulled a white sheet over the patient, leaving just bits of his singed hair and burned nose sticking out at the top.

The old man had been trapped near the center of a Russian strike on a weapons depot that was dangerously close to civilian buildings, including a nursing home, hospital staff said. He was one of at least 37 people — many of them older adults — killed in the initial strike and the even more powerful secondary explosions that followed. The attack late on Friday was one of the deadliest on Ukraine this year.

The huge detonations were caused by stocks of Ukrainian munitions, including shells, mines and drones, that were improperly stored in a busy civilian area, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said in a video address.

The popping sound of exploding ordnance could still be heard near the smoldering warehouse on Saturday night. Through air still thick with smoke, pieces of the detonated weaponry that flew into the surrounding area the night before could be seen scattered across nearby streets and gardens.

The strike on the warehouse and the disaster that followed came after days of nonstop Russian drone attacks on the capital, Kyiv, which have strained Ukraine's limited air defenses and exhausted the population. The Ukrainian authorities called the storage of weapons in civilian areas negligent and vowed to investigate.

The depot, which stored weapons for Ukraine's armed forces in

Paul Sonne contributed reporting from Berlin.

the village of Myla, west of Kyiv, "definitely shouldn't have been there," Mr. Zelensky said. He also warned that the death toll could increase.

"The situation is horrific, and it's a terrible display of negligence on the part of those who stored explosive materials so close to people," Mr. Zelensky said, adding that a criminal investigation was already underway into the management of the warehouse.

Russia's Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Saturday that its forces had struck an ammunition depot in Myla, which it said was storing components and launch boosters for long-range drones.

Another Ukrainian ammunition facility in Vyshneve, an area outside Kyiv, was destroyed last month, killing several people and prompting a separate investigation into the decision to store dangerous arms in civilian areas.

"Making the same mistakes for the fifth year of the full-scale invasion is criminal negligence," Serhii Koretskyi, Ukraine's prime minister, said on Saturday. "And all those responsible, without exception, must face severe punishment so that such situations do not happen again."

Vitalii Halchuk, 53, who was being treated for an ulcer in the same hospital room where the man died on Saturday, said he was disappointed that the government had not done more after the explosions in Vyshneve to protect civilians, who had already been with- standing continual Russian at- tacks. "They stored ammunition next to people's houses? Again?" he said, shaking his head.

Air raid sirens have wailed non-stop in Kyiv in recent days as Ukrainian forces have struggled to counter an onslaught of Russian drones, many of which are powered by jet engines that allow them to fly at nearly 400 miles per hour. Several people were wounded in Kyiv on Saturday, and a 2-year-old boy was killed by debris from a falling drone.

Ukraine also faces a dire shortage of Patriot interceptor missiles, the only weapon the country has that can shoot down ballistic missiles.

Russia has seized on that gap in Ukraine's arsenal this summer, launching blitzes of attacks, including those targeting warehouses and shopping centers. Civilians are bracing for the possibility that the recent waves of Russian drones are intended to wear down air defense units before an even larger ballistic attack in the coming days.

Oleh, 49, a manager at a water company warehouse, said he had been frustrated by the latest attacks but assumed his workplace would not be a target. He had no idea the storage facility next door housed weapons. So when the area was hit on Friday, Oleh rushed to the scene.

It was only after he arrived that the secondary blasts began. "I was thrown with some garbage and desks, and four of my ribs were broken," he said from his hospital bed in Bucha on Saturday. "Because I decided to run right away, that probably saved my life. The explosions were happening again and again."

Oleh, who spoke on the condition he be identified only by his first name out of concern for his safety, lost his phone in the chaos and does not know if all of his colleagues survived, including a guard he saw just before the detonations began.

Valeriia and Oleh Biliuk, both 39, were celebrating their son Yarema's second birthday at their home in Myla when the Russian drone struck the warehouse a few blocks away. Soon after, the explosions accelerated. The couple first hid under their table, and then rushed to the basement with their three children. They stayed underground all night as the shock waves and debris damaged the upper floors of their house.

They had never suspected that ammunition was stored nearby. "It shouldn't be like that," Ms. Bil- iuk said. "We were sure it's a safe place and there was nothing here that would be a target."

On Saturday, the couple walked with their children and neighbor, Tetiana Yalovchak, to examine the damage. Melisa, 10, and Avrora, 8, pointed to the shell of the warehouse and the surrounding area and asked their mother why the restaurant that used to be there had disappeared. Ms. Biliuk explained that the whole area would look different now.

The cleanup process was especially daunting for Ms. Yalovchak, a well-known Ukrainian mountain climber, who would have to tackle it solo, with her husband off fighting in the war. The blasts had ripped out wood paneling and broken glass. A piece of ammunition sat near the entrance. Warnings about new waves of drones kept coming.

But when she returned home from her walk, a familiar car was in the driveway. Ms. Yalovchak's husband, whom she had not seen in months, had been allowed to come home briefly from the front to help. He even managed to switch the electricity back on.

It was a bittersweet wartime visit, she said, but she'd take it.

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Why Putin Fights On, Even as His Problems Multiply

Smoke in St. Petersburg, Russia, in July after a Ukrainian strike on an online retailer's warehouse.
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By PAUL SONNE

BERLIN — In his fifth year of war, difficulties are mounting for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

His troops have slowed on the battlefield. His spending on the war has ballooned beyond expectations. His population is increasingly fearful of what's next. And his ability to project control has been undercut by Ukrainian strikes across Russia, with e-commerce warehouses, oil refineries and other facilities going up in flames on a near daily basis.

The situation has deteriorated to the point that the C.I.A. director, John Ratcliffe, made a rare visit last week to Moscow, where he laid out a bleak military and economic reality for Mr. Putin's intelligence officials and urged the Russian government to cut a peace deal.

But Mr. Putin has shown little indication that he intends to stop fighting or believes his predicament is too gloomy to bear. Instead, he has suggested that despite Moscow's challenges, he believes Kyiv's situation is worse. He has warned that Ukraine "let the genie out of the bottle" by targeting Russia's civilian economy and will get its due with a Russian escalation already underway.

"In his assessment, Russia needs to do just better than Ukraine," believing that Kyiv "is going to crumble" eventually if he just holds on, said Alexander Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin.

Mr. Putin has consistently underestimated Ukrainian resilience, Mr. Gabuev said. But Kyiv is indeed facing new perils.

Beyond its dwindling reserves of soldiers and military funds, Ukraine is experiencing severe air-defense shortages that leave Ukrainian territory increasingly vulnerable to Russia's ballistic missiles. As the war in Iran has depleted interceptor stockpiles, Western allies have become far more constrained in their ability or willingness to help. Moscow each month is churning out dozens of ballistic missiles, formidable weapons that Ukraine lacks. According to Ukrainian

military intelligence, Russia is also turning to North Korea for added ballistic missile power.

Mr. Gabuev said the imbalance may be convincing Mr. Putin that he is gaining a critical advantage, despite his increasing challenges at home. The Russian leader, he said, will seek to "break" Ukraine this winter by decimating its civilian infrastructure and military production facilities.

But as he presses on in the war, Mr. Putin is moving to contain a situation at home that looks markedly worse than last year.

For much of 2025, the Russian military was taking dozens of square miles of Ukrainian land each month. The Kremlin's engagement with the Trump administration buoyed hopes within Russian society that the war could soon end. Russia's technocrats were keeping the wartime economy humming; the Russian internet was consistently operational; gasoline was uniformly available; and strikes on Russian territory outside border regions were relatively contained.

All of that has now changed.

"The biggest challenge for Putin right now is that expectations are shifting," said Janis Kluge, a Russia analyst at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. "The situation is just very different from a year ago. If you look into the future, if you're Moscow elites, and you think about where this is going, you will notice it is going in the wrong direction."

On the battlefield, the Russian military's net territorial gain has amounted to just 68 square miles since June 1, according to statistics from the Black Bird Group, a Finland-based security analysis firm.

Despite Mr. Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow, there is little indication that peace talks will be fully revived soon. "Regarding the issue of peace talks, that topic is currently firmly on hold," the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, said on Friday, after the visit. "There are no new ideas."

Ukraine's long-range strikes have led Russians to question what might come next. Kyiv is rushing to develop ballistic missiles of its own, with President Volodymyr Zelensky saying this month that he hoped to have “concrete results” by the end of the year.

On top of the anxieties about

Battlefield gains have stalled, and domestic opposition is rising.

further destruction on Russian territory, many in Russia are worried about a possible new draft to replenish the military once a parliamentary election concludes next month.

Russia is still scrambling to solve shortages at gas stations across the country and is reeling from repeated attacks on the

warehouses of its two e-commerce giants, Wildberries and Ozon.

All the while, the mood in the country has shifted. The percentage of Russians expressing support for the actions of the Russian military in Ukraine has dropped to its lowest level since the start of the invasion, according to a poll last month by the independent Levada Center.

Feelings about the country's economic prospects have also soured, particularly after higher taxes came into effect to help cover runaway spending on the war. Russians have begun withdrawing more cash from banks, as regular internet outages stymie digital payments and some people look to avoid the new tax burden by transacting in cash.

Russian elites have sent some muted signals of discontent.

In June, Herman O. Gref, the head of the state-owned Sberbank, said Russians wanted the war to end as soon as possible.

Sergei S. Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, warned that attempting to put the Russian economy entirely on a military footing, as some hard-liners have called for, would “kill the country altogether.”

Andrei Klepach, the chief economist at the Russian state development bank, Vnesheconombank, known as VEB, was fired after telling fellow economists in a speech that Russia was falling behind technologically and economically as a result of the war.

He warned that Russians were under the illusion that Ukraine would collapse, but “it hasn’t and it won’t,” according to remarks first reported by The Moscow Times.

While Mr. Putin's apparatus is busy orchestrating the nationwide political theater of a parliamentary election, the first since the 2022 invasion, political dissent has been met with repression. The Russian authorities were sufficiently concerned that discontent could boil over in the coming parliamentary election that the country's Supreme Court barred a marginal party, Yabloko, from the ballot as its antiwar stance gained traction beyond expectations.

Thomas Graham, a Russia expert in the administration of George W. Bush, said that the escalatory cycle in the war and the strains being felt by both sides should prompt the United States to lead a new, sustained push to end the conflict.

Even if Mr. Putin plans to fight through the winter, Mr. Graham said, the groundwork must be laid with Russian officials now for a final agreement to be reached in the spring.

"There is a substantial element of the political elite that would like to end this conflict sooner as opposed to later," Mr. Graham said.

Mr. Putin, for his part, has spent much of the past month saying that Russians must dig in and rally against the foreign adversaries he says are bent on destroying the nation.

He visited a faraway disputed island claimed by Japan to underscore Russia's assertion of its sovereignty and territorial claims.

He inspected the crypt and remains of Dmitri Donskoy, a 14th-century Russian Orthodox saint whom many Russians know for his crusading against Mongol-Tatar overlords.

And Mr. Putin appeared at the congress of the ruling United Russia party to offer his endorsement, presenting the situation at home as worsening because of Russia's success, which has pushed Ukraine to lash out.

"The more difficult the situation on the front lines becomes for the enemy, the more brutal and barbaric are the attacks carried out by the Kyiv regime," Mr. Putin said, comparing the Ukrainian authorities to the Nazis. "Now, a lot depends on our unity, on the courage of Russian soldiers and officers, on everyone who works assiduously in their own role to contribute to victory."

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Kowsar and her mother, Tasnim, a teacher. Kowsar completed Grade 6, the last year that Afghan girls are allowed to attend school. "There's no Grade 7," her mother said.

Inside Secret Girls' Schools That Defy Taliban Rules

Teachers filling out administrative paperwork, in a school where a CCTV screen monitors the classrooms.

Class at a religious school. The Taliban have promoted these schools as an alternative for older girls.

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some local officials tolerate the secret schools, worried about denying their own daughters an education.

In interviews with more than 50 students, educators, therapists and parents, many said they feared the ban would do permanent damage — to girls and to Afghanistan's social fabric. All asked to be identified only by their first names, for fear of retaliation.

Even girls who finish their education have few prospects; the Taliban have banned women from most jobs, and opportunities to go abroad are scarce. Reports of suicidal thoughts, self-harm and rates of underage marriage are on the rise, according to teachers and humanitarian organizations.

Nevertheless, some girls refuse to give up their fight for an education.

"We are also part of this society," Ayesha said. "Just let us be who we want to be."

The Hidden Passageway

Late one night recently, Ayesha received a text from her friend Zuhal, 17, who said she would not be coming to class the next day. Zuhal's father had beaten her, saying that there was no point in attending an underground school.

Ayesha recalls crying as she read Zuhal's message. She has become known among her friends as the one they can confide in, the apprentice therapist. She said she prayed in her bedroom and urged Zuhal to come back. "If you sit at home, it's finished for you," Ayesha told her. "Nobody else is going to do anything for you."

Zuhal returned to school a few days later but said she would be able to come only when her father is away.

Ayesha's secret classroom is concealed inside an official primary school. The playground is filled with the shouts of younger students, and hundreds of tiny, colorful shoes are lined up at the entrance to the building. But beyond their classrooms, a door leads to a hidden passageway tucked behind a corner, which leads to the secret classroom for older girls.

To avoid detection, the students vary their routes to the school and avoid walking in groups. Still, now and then, the Taliban burst into the school unannounced, as they did one morning in July during Ayesha's midyear physics exams. The principal locked the students inside, and 14 young women kept scribbling in silence.

The classroom remains undiscovered. On one occasion, when the girls were not at school, the Taliban tore down the artwork on the walls in a common room near the classroom, Ayesha recalled.

There used to be a time, students and a teacher explained, when a Taliban inspection would send them fleeing through the back door, or rushing to the basement, where they would lock themselves in the dark and shush those who cried.

As the students moved up to Grade 12, Taliban visits don't frighten them as much anymore. Many said they feel contempt for the group.

"Are they expecting the country to develop by depriving half of the population of education?" said Palwasha, one of Ayesha's classmates. "We don't want anything other than the basic rights Islam gave us."

Only a tiny fraction of girls in Afghanistan can receive a secondary education through secret schools; even fewer, like Ayesha and Palwasha, study an international curriculum and speak English fluently. Palwasha wants to launch her own clothing brand. Ayesha knows she won't be able to study psychology at a university in Afghanistan when she graduates, so she counsels her classmates.

This is the extent of Ayesha's social life, and it will vanish in a few months. There is no secret school after Grade 12.

"Girls, you are here now," Ayesha recalled their teacher saying as they sat down for their midyear exam. "But at this time next year, you will be at home."

Computer Science

The Taliban have taken credit for one measure of success in education: Primary school enrollment for girls rose from 78 percent in 2021 to 87 percent in 2024, according to UNESCO and UNICEF. That's mainly because day-to-day security has improved across Afghanistan since the war ended with the U.S. withdrawal in 2021. Schools that had been closed reopened, and crossing a street to reach a classroom no longer presents a daily danger.

But the overall picture is alarming. Nine out of 10 Afghan children age 10 cannot read an age-appropriate piece of writing, according to UNESCO. Only one in four Afghan women is literate. Girls who want to continue their education sometimes face additional obstacles from their families.

Laila, 21, joined a secret school to study computer science and languages two years ago, more than 500 miles from her home in one of Afghanistan's most conservative provinces. She said she threatened to kill herself if her family did not let her attend.

On a recent morning, she worked on computer science and Duolingo lessons in a clandestine Grade 11 classroom. In the school's darkened corridors, students walked silently past colorful presentations on the human body and the solar system. Dozens more studied in the basement library.

Laila and hundreds of other girls take in-person classes by day and online by night with volunteer tutors around the world, from the United States to the Netherlands to Hong Kong, most of them high school students in a global network of peer-to-peer support.

Even two years after enrolling, Laila faces surprise visits from her younger brother, who tells her she has dishonored the family by being “so free.” Her father is more open-minded but fears gossip if a relative or neighbor finds out, Laila said.

Twelfth graders studying math in a secret classroom.

At the entrance to a secret school.

Break time at a madrasa, where older girls can study science and English as well as religious subjects, but not the more advanced curriculum for boys.

Laila, 21, had to overcome the objections of her family to attend a secret school 500 miles from her home.

Laila now speaks four languages fluently, including English, and is learning Korean. If she can leave the country after graduation, she said she will study graphic design in Canada or South Korea.

"I want to share these opportunities with other girls from my province, but I can't," Laila said.

During their first rule, between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban banned both primary and secondary education for girls, arguing that secular schools were contrary to their hard-line vision of Islam. They said it was a temporary measure, until they could establish a more compatible education system, but they never did.

After coming back to power in 2021, they made similar claims about the public school system that expanded during the 20-year U.S. occupation, and still maintain that the ban is temporary.

"We hope that one day girls' schools will reopen," the Taliban's spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said in an interview earlier this year. "This situation also deeply affects many officials of the Islamic Emirate who have daughters," he added, referring to the name the Taliban have given to Afghanistan.

But five years into their second rule, the temporary ban once again appears permanent.

The ban comes directly from Kandahar, the group's seat of power in the south and home to its secretive leader, Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada. Many Taliban officials privately say it should be lifted, but no one challenges their leader's order.

In practice, many Taliban turn a blind eye to schools operating in secret. The principal at one secret school, where some girls pay fees if their families are able, said he had enrolled the sons of Taliban intelligence officers for free to maintain a cordial relationship.

They know Laila's school well: Taliban police and intelligence officers visit weekly to ensure that female students wear their hijabs correctly and don't mix with boys, who attend the same school legally.

But they can order the school shut at any time. All schools in Afghanistan, even religious schools, which are permitted for older girls, face an array of rules and frequent, sometimes surprise, inspections.

When they see the Taliban approach, the guards at Laila's school warn the teachers and the principal by walkietalkies and then sound a distinctive bell to alert the students.

Najib, the school principal, said that when he asked some unfamiliar Taliban officers to show him their ID on a recent visit, one shouted, "My ID is my gun."

“And my gun is my pen,” Najib said he replied. He cited Quranic verses about the imperative to educate all children, and that seemed to satisfy them.

The Taliban left.

Failing in Order to Succeed

Many younger Afghan girls try to delay as long as possible what Ayesha and Laila are going through.

In December, Somaya, 12, took her sixth-grade final exams but skipped the tests in Dari language, social studies and Quran studies, hoping to fail and repeat her final year.

"I love going to school," she said. "I simply wanted to stay."

Weeks later, Somaya's teacher told her she could come back. There was only room for her in Grade 4, so she sometimes helps teach since she already knows the curriculum.

Fatima, 12, a student at another school, tore up her final sixth-grade tests last year, hoping that her teachers would fail her and let her repeat the grade. But they passed Fatima anyway, she said.

As Fatima spoke softly in her family's

Photographs by KIANA HAYERI for The New York Times

living room in Kabul, her father, Azizullah, wept and left the room.

"I cry when I think about how often she says she wants to be a doctor, and how now it's all over," Azizullah said.

But Fatima bounced back. Weeks later, she passed an entrance exam for an underground school.

Tasnim, a primary schoolteacher, said she leaves the farewell parties for her Grade 6 students because she can't bear seeing them cry. She no longer has an answer when they ask her, "What was this all for?"

When her own daughter, Kowsar, completed sixth grade, Tasnim convinced a colleague to take her into her class so she could repeat by taking the spot of an absent student.

Her daughter's graduation certificate reads "Successfully promoted to Grade 7."

"We try to make them happy," Tasnim said. "But there's no Grade 7."

Dreaming of the Taliban

The restrictions on women and girls are the primary reason the world has shunned the Taliban, but they have promoted religious schools, or madrasas, as an alternative. The girls in those schools must wear black coverings from head to toe, and they are allowed to study science and English as well as religious subjects.

Zala, a sixth-grade student, plans to enroll in a religious school after leaving primary school. "At least we still have an opportunity to keep studying," she said.

Other students say the madrasas are a poor substitute. Classes deemed less important than religious ones — physics, chemistry and mathematics — are merged into one. And girls are not permitted to use the more advanced curriculum for boys.

"These subjects are pushing us ideologically toward the Taliban," Zahida, 17, said of Islamic studies, religious history and discussions about politics and jihad led by teachers who embrace the Taliban's hard-line views.

Ezat, Ayesha's principal, recently turned the school where her classroom is hidden into a madrasa to ease pressure from the Taliban. He said he hopes teachers can keep providing what he described as a "modern education."

To what extent and for how long, he does not know.

After the Taliban formalized their ban on education in 2022, many teachers were left without jobs. They kept teaching for free, or for smaller salaries at schools that remained open, or in underground classes across the country.

Many say they feel disillusioned.

At a recent staff meeting, employees in a secret school in Kabul talked about how to keep motivating students. "But who is motivating us?" Kamela, one of the teachers, remembered thinking.

"I see the Taliban in my dreams," she said. "They're running after us, beating us and closing the school."

Girls in high school, left column, and sixth grade with their backpacks.

War in the Middle East

Tensions Spike Between Turkey and Israel as They Compete for Influence

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel have traded harsh insults.
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By BEN HUBBARD

ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has in recent years referred to Israel as a "terror state," compared its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to Hitler and suggested the possibility of Turkish military intervention inside Israel.

Mr. Netanyahu, for his part, has called Mr. Erdogan an “antisemitic dictator,” and members of the Israeli government have accused Turkey of supporting terrorism and acting like “an enemy state.”

This war of words is the most visible feature of a growing rivalry between Turkey and Israel that analysts and officials fear could exacerbate volatility in the Middle East, a region already reeling from wars and their aftermath in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and Iran.

Both Turkey and Israel are allies of the United States and have warm relations with the Trump administration. But the countries, boasting strong militaries that are increasingly active outside their borders, are pursuing strategic visions that put them at odds in the Middle East, the Horn of Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean.

The heightened military assertiveness by Turkey and Israel has fueled “an inevitable geostrategic competition and rivalry,” said Ziya Meral, the director of Raven Research and Advisory, a global risk consultancy in London.

That does not mean the two countries will end up in open conflict, he said, but he warned that the tensions increased the risk of miscalculation and that limited military action by one side to "send a message" to the other "could really, really backfire."

Israel made just such a move on Aug. 18, when it bombed a defunct air base in northern Syria to pre-empt what Israeli officials said was the imminent deployment there of Turkish forces. Syria sits between Israel and Turkey, and both consider it crucial to national security.

David M. Halbfinger contributed reporting from Jerusalem, and Safak Timur from Istanbul.

The Turkish and Syrian governments denied plans for any such troop movement to the air base. No one was killed in the attack.

Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria and Iraq, criticized the strike in a post on social media as an “unnecessary escalation” and called on Turkey and Israel to “prioritize logical discourse over further military incidents.”

Relations between Turkey and Israel have not always been so bad. They have long had diplomatic and trade relations despite occasional disputes, usually related to Israel's conflict with the Palestinians.

Turkey was the first Muslim-majority country to recognize Israel after its founding in 1948, and Turkish forces did not participate in the subsequent wars with Israel. Turkey is a U.S. ally in NATO, and Israel receives extensive military support from the United States.

Two recent events, however, have driven the relationship's acrimonious turn.

The first was Israel's war in Gaza, launched in response to the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023, that killed about 1,200 people in Israel. Turkish officials criticized how Israel fought in Gaza and routinely accused Israeli forces of committing genocide. Mr. Erdogan called Mr. Netanyahu a "bloodsucking vampire" and voiced support for Hamas, which Israel, the United States and other governments consider a terrorist organization.

The second event was the ouster of the dictator Bashar al-Assad in Syria in late 2024 and the creation of a new government headed by President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former jihadist with strong ties to Turkey.

Turkey has provided Mr. al-Sharaa with diplomatic and military support aimed at stabilizing his fragile state. In the wake of Mr. al-Assad's ouster, meanwhile, Israeli strikes have destroyed much of Syria's military equipment, citing distrust of Mr. al-Sharaa. Israel has also occupied territory in southern Syria, saying this aims to prevent cross-border threats from Islamic militants.

The Hamas-led attack in 2023 shaped Israel's approach to the region and to Turkey, said Gallia Lindenstrauss, a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.

"We do not allow threats to grow; we tackle them in the beginning," she said. "That's the leading security doctrine, and that makes Israel more willing to take risks and less open to political settlements."

Israel views Turkey as a growing military power with a weapons industry that competes in some markets against Israel's, with troop deployments in other countries — including, in part, Syria and Iraq — and with leaders who speak of Israel in a hostile fashion, she said.

"When you have an actor that has capabilities and is talking in a certain way and is also showing its willingness to employ its forces

Two U.S. allies' rivalry could add to volatility in a tense region.

beyond its borders, that's something hard to ignore," she said.

Other recent events have also shaped Turkey's approach to Israel.

Turkish leaders see a humanitarian catastrophe in the war in Gaza, which the enclave's health authorities say has killed 73,000 people, including tens of thousands of women and children and an undisclosed number of militants. Turkish officials have called Israel's military advances in Lebanon and Syria destabilizing.

Turkey also strongly opposed the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, saying it would provoke a dangerous regional crisis, and sought to prevent it.

Disagreements in the Middle East color interactions between the two countries elsewhere, said Salim Cevik, a visiting fellow at the Center for Applied Turkish Studies in Berlin.

“Because Turkey and Israel consider themselves rivals in the region, they consider each other's movements in other places also from a win-and-lose perspective,” he said.

In the Horn of Africa, Turkey has a close relationship with Somalia, which hosts a substantial Turkish diplomatic and military presence.

In December, Israel became the first nation to recognize Somaliland, a breakaway region that declared independence from Somalia in 1991. At the time, Israel said the move was in line with the Abraham Accords, Israel's recent normalization of relations with a few other Muslim-majority states. Mr. Erdogan called Israel's recognition “illegal and unacceptable.”

In the Eastern Mediterranean, Israel has stepped-up military and energy cooperation with Greece and Cyprus, both of which have longstanding territorial disputes with Turkey. Mr. Erdogan sought to play down the importance of new agreements between the three countries in December, comparing them to “a rattling tin can.”

This month, Turkey signed a mutual defense pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, which analysts said was partly intended to create a counterweight to Israeli influence in the region.

The rivalry's most perilous flashpoint, however, remains Syria.

Turkey seeks a stable, centralized Syria, Mr. Cevik said, while Israel prefers a divided state with a weak military that cannot pose a threat.

"These two visions conflict very fundamentally," he said.

The Israeli strike this month on the Syrian air base, in the town of Abu al-Duhur about 40 miles south of the Turkish border, was a rare military act in a competition that has largely played out in harsh statements and rival diplomatic initiatives.

The day after the strike, Mr. Netanyahu said in a video posted on social media that Israel would not accept a Turkish military presence in Syria “that descends south because it threatens us.”

Two days later, Turkey announced that it would seek the arrest of Mr. Netanyahu through Interpol on charges including genocide and torture as part of a domestic case in Turkey over Israel's treatment of pro-Palestine activists intercepted at sea on their way to Gaza.

In the days since, U.S. officials have worked to restore dialogue between the two governments. Some Israeli analysts have speculated that the attack in Syria was part of an effort by Mr. Netanyahu to shore up his national security credentials ahead of Israeli elections in October.

Israel and Turkey are each unpopular among people in the other country, allowing officials to earn political points at home by criticizing the rival country.

Still, Mr. Cevik said, the heated language represents real disagreements.

He, too, said he did not expect Turkey and Israel to engage in direct military clashes.

"I don't see it as likely because, primarily, the Americans have an interest in keeping these two countries away from active conflict," he said.

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'Mission Accomplished' Under What Definition?

By PETER BAKER

President Trump the other day posted a heroic image of himself backed by an aircraft carrier, warplanes and American flags. In the lower left corner was former President George W. Bush and a sign, “Mission Not Accomplished 2001-2021.” In the other corner was a sign referencing himself saying “Mission Accomplished 2026.”

Except that it is not. Mr. Trump's war in Iran, which hit the six-month mark on Friday, is anything but accomplished. Half a year in, the conflict has deteriorated into a quagmire of the president's own making with no clear goals, no obvious strategy and no end in sight. Mr. Trump, who came to power running against Mr. Bush's "forever wars," has staked his presidency on his own version.

For Mr. Trump, it may be the worst of both worlds. He finds himself stuck in a maddening purgatory between full-fledged combat and genuine peace. He is reluctant to resume an all-out bombardment despite his thunderous threats, yet has been unable so far to broker an agreement to end the war on satisfactory terms. He has no victory to take credit for, yet is paying the political price in terms of the toll on the American economy and his party's chances in the fall elections.

This sort of in-between stasis could in theory extend for a long time, a far cry from the four-to-six-week lightning strike that Mr. Trump predicted when he ordered Operation Epic Fury at the end of February. With no breakthrough in sight, both sides are testing the other's staying power and Mr. Trump, despite a history of impatience, has made clear that he is "not in a hurry," as he put it earlier last week.

"There's not a lot to speak to," he told reporters on Thursday, disavowing interest in negotiating with Iran at this point. "We don't want to speak to them; we're not looking to meet or anything. The strait is open; we're taking a lot of boats — millions and millions of barrels of oil are coming out of the strait every day."

In fact, the Strait of Hormuz remains a volatile passage with only a fraction of its prewar shipping traffic, leaving oil markets in flux. While the war killed Iran's supreme leader, he was replaced by his son and the brutal regime in charge six

Demonstrators opposing the war with Iran in Washington in March. President Trump has been unable to broker a satisfactory deal.

months ago remains in charge today. Iran's nuclear program has been damaged but Tehran still refuses to give it up.

ERIC LEE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

"This has been a fiasco," said Richard N. Haass, who was director of policy planning at the State Department when Mr. Bush invaded Iraq in 2003. "That's the harsh reality. He can declare 'mission accomplished.' He can try to sell the argument as he often tries to, almost to create reality. But it's going to be a hard, hard sell. There's nothing to point to that will suggest either that we are better off or that the war was worth it."

Supporters of the war have counseled forbearance, arguing that Mr. Trump has succeeded in substantially weakening a radical and dangerous Iran with far fewer American casualties than during Mr. Bush's ground wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. If Mr. Trump sticks with it, they said, he may yet force Iran to back down through military force or economic pressure, making America safer in the long run.

"I know this cuts against the conventional wisdom, but I believe President Trump is winning the confrontation with the regime in Iran," said Mark Dubowitz, chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. "The Islamic Republic has never been weaker in its 47-year history. And it was forced to play its most important card — the Strait of Hormuz — from a position of extraordinary weakness."

Mr. Dubowitz said that Iran now is left deciding whether to negotiate seriously or spend the next two years under relentless pressure. "We are not at peace, and we aren't in major combat operations," he said. "President Trump may instead have found the strategic sweet spot between the two: sustained coercive pressure without either a major war or an unacceptable agreement."

However it turns out, the war in Iran has become arguably the biggest gamble of Mr. Trump's presidency, at least in foreign policy, and a case study in how he has approached his second term differently than his first.

While his original four years in power were defined by a more inward-looking America First policy in reaction to Bush interventionism, Mr. Trump returned to the White House last year more willing to wield power overseas and seemingly more

intent on reshaping the world to his liking.

His decapitation of Venezuela's leadership, his threats to take over Greenland, the Panama Canal and Cuba, even his renaming of Lake Ontario as Lake America last week all speak to a legacy-minded president looking to leave his mark beyond U.S. borders. Any hopes that Iran would be a quick and decisive success, however, have long since been dispelled and now the main aim is how to find a way out that can be framed as a victory of some sort.

"It strikes me that Operation Epic Fury is quintessentially Trump," said Steven A. Cook, a longtime Middle East scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations. "It is no doubt bold, but its orchestrator is mostly careless and unprepared, prosecuting a conflict on the seat of his pants and a lot of bluster."

Mr. Cook added: "The U.S. could win in the end, but it would only be because it is powerful despite Trump's mistakes and the Iranians are relatively weak, not because the president pursued an effective strategy."

Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, disagreed, saying that Mr. Trump is pursuing what he called “an anaconda Civil War strategy” that will pay off.

"He's going to squeeze them as much as he can, and as they start to pop, they will send off missiles or drones from their vestigial fleet, and he'll hit them hard," he said in a Daily Signal podcast last week. "And he hopes that will continue, that containment will continue to the midterms."

Mr. Hanson added that the economic pressure on Iran could ultimately generate popular uprisings or further depress the country's capacity. "Is that victory? I don't know," he said. But he added that it could stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon at a cost in lives and treasure far below Mr. Bush's wars. "Take that versus a trillion dollars in Iraq and probably \$2 trillion in Afghanistan over 20 years," he said.

Putting aside dollars and cents, the story of Mr. Trump's war in its first six months can be told in five numbers: Sixty-three, 12, 1.10, 18 and 759. The first measures public opposition to the war. Just 31 percent support it, while 63 percent are against it, according to the latest Ipsos survey, the kind of figures reminiscent of the darkest days of the Vietnam War.

The second reflects the number of ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz each day, averaging about 12, compared with 130 before the war. The third

reflects the average price of gas in the United States, which is about \$4.09 a gallon, or \$1.10 higher than it was at the start of fighting.

The fourth reflects the 18 American military personnel killed so far in the war. And the fifth is the estimated number of Patriot interceptors left in U.S. arsenal, down from 2,330 to as low as 759 a month ago, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a nonpartisan think tank.

As for the goals that Mr. Trump outlined at the start, most remain unmet. He likes to boast that he has destroyed Iran's air force and navy, but Tehran remains capable of firing at U.S. bases and allies in the region. The day of liberation he forecast for the Iranian people throwing off their oppressors never arrived. Iran's ability to support proxy terrorist groups in the region has been diminished but not eliminated. And its nuclear program has been seriously damaged but the regime refuses to abandon it and could reconstitute it, according to analysts.

"President Trump has entangled the United States in a foreign policy failure of historic consequence," Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a

statement on Friday. “Six months later, not a single objective has been achieved. Indeed, he has weakened our position in the Middle East and the world significantly.”

Mr. Haass, who was skeptical of Mr. Bush's plan to invade Iraq while working in his administration and later wrote a book about its failure called "War of Necessity, War of Choice," said that paradoxically both that conflict and Mr. Trump's have left Iran stronger.

In the case of Iraq, Iran became a dominant force inside its next-door enemy after Saddam Hussein was toppled, Mr. Haass noted, and now Iran has demonstrated its ability to roil world energy markets by choking off shipping through the strait. “Iran is the strategic beneficiary of both wars,” he said.

Mr. Trump, of course, would dispute that. In fact, he has argued time and again that he has already prevailed against Iran. "We've already won," he declared on March 7, barely a week into the war.

"We won everything; we have all the cards," he said on April 25. "We've already won that," he said on May 4. "I don't know if you heard, but we ended the war with Iran today," he said on June 11, celebrating a cease-fire that did not last.

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Ultrapotent Street Drugs Have Changed the Game in Baltimore

Police officers checking on someone suspected of an overdose in the Penn North neighborhood of Baltimore. Right, a South Baltimore neighborhood where so-called testers like Pops live. Below, a leafy West Baltimore street where Boog's family lived when she was younger. Her cousin was killed on this block.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY KT KANAZAWICH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Cheap Higher Highs, Mystery Concoctions And Deadlier Doses

By MATT RICHTEL

BALTIMORE — On a crisp, sunny day in February 2025, a local nicknamed Sleepy, 44, stood across the street from the neat white house in West Baltimore where he had been raised by his grandmother. His parents had lived there, too, lost to heroin addiction.

As a boy, Sleepy vowed to become a police officer. (He asked not to use his full name to avoid police scrutiny.). But the streets called, and by his early teens he was selling crack and heroin. In 2007, just a few blocks from his childhood home, he fired a gun into a car carrying gang members whom he feared were hunting him. He went to prison on an attempted murder charge and was released in 2022.

In his absence, the drug world outside transformed — and for drug users, it has become far deadlier. Since the early 2000s, the number of fatal overdoses in the United States has soared. And the rate in Baltimore — 110 deaths per 100,000 residents, according to a recent analysis by The San Francisco Chronicle — is the highest among cities with a populations of a half-million or more.

The initial cause was prescription opioids, then heroin, and then, starting a decade ago, a new generation of synthetic opioids, mainly fentanyl. Now, new combinations of ultrapotent lab-made drugs reach the street almost daily, making the narcotics supply — in Baltimore and beyond — more dangerous, polluted and unpredictable than it has ever been.

After Sleepy came home from prison, his nephew pulled him aside in a park and put a fine point on it.

"He said, 'Anybody tries to sell you heroin, don't believe 'em,'” Sleepy recalled. “‘There's no heroin in Baltimore City.’” The main ingredient is fentanyl or other synthetic opioids, typically mixed with multiple other psychoactive chemicals, which creates a more intense experience for users. “It's all about potency,” Sleepy said.

"And they are steadily making more, with different names," Sleepy added of the new compounds. "We don't even know what it is until we hear it from the newspeople. Then, when the street dealers hear about it, they want to figure out where they can get it to make their stuff better like that."

Because lab-made drugs are so easily mixed and altered, their effect is uncertain; few buyers know what they're actually getting, and the possibilities are expanding dangerously. Last summer, several mass overdoses in Baltimore resulted when fentanyl was mixed with N-methylclonazepam, a powerful sedative. Across the country, 22 percent of drug samples contained five or more compounds, an increase from 8.8 percent in 2022, according to testing done by the National Institutes for Science and Technology.

Last February in Baltimore, Sleepy offered an insider's perspective on the shifting street supply and the changing economics driving it. He was joined by his best friend from childhood, a woman nicknamed Boog, 40. Like Sleepy, she had spent her teenage years selling drugs. (She asked to not use her full name, to avoid police scrutiny.) She had defended her turf with a 9-millimeter handgun; she was arrested after using it in a robbery, and was incarcerated from 2008 to 2018.

"Everybody's experimenting, that's the problem," Boog said. "That's why so many people are dying."

Higher Potency, Higher Profit

Baltimore has endured the worst of two drug eras: the one before synthetic opioids and the one since. In 2002, Maryland, particularly Baltimore, had one of the nation's "most serious heroin abuse problems," according to the National Drug Intelligence Center, a federal agency. With the ensuing drug war, captured in the HBO series "The Wire," the city came to symbolize the futility of law enforcement efforts and a generation lost to drug trafficking.

The number of gang-related homicides in Baltimore has dropped sharply since 2019, but the drug trade has continued to thrive. One reason is the sharply falling cost of getting high. Two decades ago, Sleepy said, a gram of heroin might cost a dealer \$40 or \$50 wholesale; today, a gram of synthetic opioid might cost half as much.

Sleepy was driving now, the stereo playing in his black Ford S.U.V., in the direction of southwest Baltimore; Boog sat in the passenger seat.

“And you can stretch it more, and it’s going to be stronger than heroin,” Sleepy said of opioids. “The profit is bigger because it’s cheaper and you get to add more, different chemicals and cut it to make more money. You can turn a gram into seven or eight grams when you cut with a tranquilizer or whatever.”

The change reflects a transformation in how drugs are made and distributed. Traditionally, they came mainly from the land: heroin from poppies, cocaine from coca, marijuana from cannabis. Their production required acreage, labor and time, and interdiction involved destroying crops and interrupting the physical supply chains.

Now, drugs come largely from clandestine labs, which require far less land and labor. In Mexico, where much of the fentanyl supply in the United States originates, one gram of fentanyl costs a few dollars at most to produce. In China, where the precursor chemicals for Mexico's operation are made in enormous batches, the ingredients for one gram of fentanyl can be produced for around 83 cents, according to a person who works at one of the Chinese labs.

This translates to plummeting costs for street buyers. Accounting for inflation, a person spending \$10 for a dose — the same price, or lower, for a heroin dose years ago — today is buying greater potency for far less. An analysis by The Times found that the cost of an opioid high has fallen 93 percent since 2007.

An opioid high results when certain drugs — either plant-derived drugs, like heroin, or lab-made ones, like fentanyl, nitazenes or orphines — attach to opiate receptors in the brain. This mechanism prompts the release of dopamine and produces a sense of euphoria but can also lead to severe addiction. The same \$10 buys a higher high, and more of it, than two decades ago.

The dramatic drop in cost has allowed more people to afford and access drugs, and helps explain the soaring death rate, experts said. Two decades ago, when Boog and Sleepy worked on the streets, 30,000 people died in the United States each year from fatal overdoses. By 2024, the figure had grown to 80,000, more Americans than died in the Vietnam War.

In southwest Baltimore, on Washington Boulevard, Sleepy drove past a fire station. "I watch them handle nothing but ODs all day," Sleepy said. His own sister was in drug rehab, he said.

In theory, the threat of an overdose or death should deter users. But, Boog said, a dealer whose product causes an overdose can actually attract customers; it indicates a strong batch. She added that unscrupulous dealers sometimes deliberately sell a few capsules that they know are potent enough to cause an overdose — to invite more business.

"They call 'em 'death packs,' " Boog said.

The New Need for Testers

Sleepy parked behind a bar in the Morrell Park neighborhood, a small commercial strip amid residential blocks of red brick rowhouses, where drug transactions take place. On foot, half a block on, Sleepy and Boog flagged down a gray-haired man in a long, worn coat who stood in the doorway of a small grocery. They introduced him as Pops.

Pops was what is known in South Baltimore as an “old head,” a longtime functional substance abuser — a survivor. He sold drugs, mostly to support his own habit. He was also a “tester,” the term for someone who received free samples in exchange for his assessment of them: Was the drug mixture strong enough?

Last summer, Baltimore had several mass overdoses, the result of fentanyl mixed with powerful synthetic chemicals.

Did it leave him feeling weird?

Testers like Pops are the street's response to an increasingly adulterated and unpredictable drug supply. The labs, where the drug mixtures are made and packaged, can be as small as a one-person operation in an apartment. "Basement, kitchen table, wherever you do it, that's your lab," Pops said.

Sleepy agreed: "That's your lab!" The supply is so potent that simply touching it unprotected can result in addiction.

"You can get a table habit like that," Boog said.

Once a product is approved by testers, it is then sold to regular users. They represent the bottom of the food chain, where desperation meets the adulterated supply. A few blocks away from where Pops was working, Sleepy introduced a young man he called Berto, who had been aimlessly walking the streets.

Berto wore a collage of unkempt layers: green and blue sweatpants, a black hoodie, a dark blue velvet robe that hung off the left side of his body, a black jacket slung over his right shoulder, gold-and-black basketball sneakers. He smoked a cigarette with hands darkened by grime. He looked middle-aged.

"I'm 25," he said. "I've been doing this for four years."

How did he know what drugs he was getting?

"You really don't," he said. "You try to taste and smell it and see if it's raw heroin."

Sleepy jumped in: "Hang on a second, are you telling him you buy heroin?"

“No,” Berto said. He slurred slightly and worked to get out his thoughts. He meant synthetic opiates, typically fentanyl. Heroin is gone, but the word lives on as a kind of metaphor.

"When we say ‘heroin,’ we’re basically talking about fentanyl," Sleepy said, and it was typically “scrambled” with other drugs. The scrambling and the increased potency of the supply raised Berto’s drug tolerance such that he could not last long without a dose, so he looked to score more often: “every one to two hours, if it’s garbage, and every five hours, if it’s good,” Berto said.

When he was unable to score, he said, "I get rashes, hot and cold sweats, racing thoughts, can't sleep." When it's particularly bad, he soiled himself. He overdosed eight times, he said, and has been revived six times with Narcan. As for the other two, he said, "by the grace of God, I woke up."

The 47th President

Prediction Market Fight Over Wagers Also Pits States Against Trumps

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governors. Twice, the agency has instructed the prediction markets to sidestep court orders, invoking emergency powers that it hadn't used for decades.

That aggressive intervention has aligned the agency with the financial interests of the Trump family. In January last year, Kalshi hired Donald Trump Jr. as an adviser; his compensation included more than \$300,000 in Kalshi shares, which have multiplied in value. Last year, the president's son also became an adviser to Polymarket and bought a stake in the company via 1789 Capital, his investment firm.

A spokesman for Donald Trump Jr. said he “does not interface with the federal government on behalf of any company he invests in or advises.” A Kalshi spokeswoman said Mr. Trump advises the company on marketing.

The legal battle has also drawn in a powerful coalition of traditional gambling firms, which view prediction markets as a competitive threat and have pressed states to take action. One industry group that represents casino operators is working with the former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who has railed against prediction markets on TV.

"A lot of money is at stake," said

AHMED GABER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Tarek Mansour, a co-founder of Kalshi, says what his company offers is not gambling.

Rob Schwartz, who served as the C.F.T.C.'s general counsel until last year and has tracked the 17-month barrage of lawsuits. "It will certainly go to the Supreme Court. It's just a matter of when."

At the heart of the litigation is a debate over what constitutes gambling.

For years, Kalshi and other prediction markets have been registered with the C.F.T.C. and classified the bets on their platforms as “event contracts,” a type of financial tool that derives value from the outcomes of real-world situations. Often the contracts are based on yes-or-no scenarios, like whether it will rain on a certain day. Because these tools are regulated at the federal level, the companies say, prediction markets should be free to operate nationwide.

As the largest prediction market in the United States, Kalshi has faced the brunt of the legal pressure; most of the betting on Polymarket happens internationally, though it now has a small U.S. app.

In a statement, Kalshi said that it offered safeguards for customers and that its business model gave people a real opportunity to win money. The company has a “national framework of regulation, not a state-by-state patchwork,” the statement said, adding that it was “overly aggressive for states to try to shut down a federally licensed exchange.”

But state officials say Kalshi's position is untenable. The company offers a product nearly indistinguishable from sports betting, the attorneys general argue, and

Kitty Bennett contributed research.

without the protections that states require. In all but a few states, no one younger than 21 can place sports bets, but Kalshi's app is available to anyone 18 and over.

"You can go onto a site and place money on the outcome of some sports activity," said Nick Brown, the Democratic attorney general of Washington, who won a preliminary court victory over Kalshi this month. "That's the same thing as gambling."

'A Wink and a Nod'

On the morning of this year's Super Bowl, Derek Brown, the attorney general of Utah, saw a Kalshi ad served to his college-age son. It invited him to "legally trade on football outcomes."

Mr. Brown was appalled. In his view, Kalshi was using clever wording to get around the rules in Utah, where the State Constitution outlaws gambling. "It's a wink and a nod," he said.

Over the next two weeks, Mr. Brown and the governor of Utah, both Republicans, spoke out against prediction markets, calling them “almost dystopian.” At one point, Mr. Brown got a text from a Kalshi lobbyist, asking to speak with him. He ignored it.

In late February, Kalshi sued Utah in federal court, citing the state's "intent to prohibit Kalshi from operating." It was one front in a nationwide legal battle involving Kalshi and several top competitors, including Polymarket and the trading site Crypto.com.

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ban on sports betting in 2018, most states legalized the industry, imposing taxes that generated more than \$3.2 billion in revenue from licensed operations in the last fiscal year, according to the Tax Foundation.

Prediction markets have taken a different path. In 2024, Kalshi won a court ruling that allowed it to offer bets on elections, paving the way for the markets to operate with licenses from the C.F.T.C. This year, Kalshi and Polymarket became cultural phenomena, drawing tens of billions of dollars in monthly betting. New competition has brought the number of registered prediction markets to 13.

Much of the public attention on these markets has focused on their novel offerings, like bets on drug trials or Israeli missile strikes. But about 75 percent of the activity on Kalshi this year has come from sports, according to The Block, a data provider. (Kalshi has reportedly discussed a partnership with The Athletic, the sports media site owned by The New York Times Company.)

Tarek Mansour, the chief executive of Kalshi, argues that what his company offers is fundamentally different from traditional gambling. Kalshi does not serve as the "house," taking the opposite side of every wager. Instead it matches buyers on each side and generates revenue by charging fees, regardless of whether someone wins or loses.

"We're similar to exactly how the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq is regulated," Mr. Mansour said in a January interview.

Some of Kalshi's own marketing has undermined that position. One social media ad, cited in the state litigation, encouraged customers to "bet on the NFL." (Kalshi said it no longer uses that ad.)

Not surprisingly, the rise of Kalshi and Polymarket has enraged gambling companies that pay state taxes and operate with state licenses. Some of them, like DraftKings and FanDuel, quickly set up prediction markets of their own. Others fought back, led by the American Gaming Association, which represents casino operators and other gambling firms.

Kalshi is a "backdoor sports betting operation" that is defying state law, Rob Lockwood, the group's spokesman, said in a statement.

In December, Tres York, an association executive, dined with Kentucky's attorney general, Rus-

'How is being unable to gamble on sports online a market

emergency?' AITAN GOELMAN, the C.F.T.C.'s enforcement director under President Barack Obama.

sell Coleman, at Joe's Seafood in Washington, according to emails obtained by The Times. Afterward, Mr. York pitched Mr. Coleman's office on the need to fight back against prediction markets, noting that a coalition of state officials was putting together a legal brief.

"I'd be happy to connect you with the Deputy AG in Nevada who is leading the recruiting efforts to defend states' rights," Mr. York emailed one of Mr. Coleman's deputies.

Kentucky did not sign the brief, but Mr. Coleman eventually sued Kalshi and Polymarket in state court. "These multibillion-dollar corporations and their legal fictions don't pass the sniff test," he said in a statement.

A Federal Agency Steps In Soon another litigant entered the fray.

In December 2025, President Trump's pick to lead the C.F.T.C., Michael S. Selig, was sworn in. A technology enthusiast, Mr. Selig, 36, had worked with prediction markets and cryptocurrency firms as a corporate lawyer.

At the helm of the C.F.T.C., Mr. Selig has filed lawsuits against Kentucky, Illinois and seven other states that have battled the prediction markets. "It's existential for the agency," he said in an interview. "If the states are taking pieces out of our statute, that's a problem for us."

In fact, the agency has treated the issue as an emergency in some states, worthy of extraordinary use of its powers.

Mr. Selig's response to a little-noticed state court ruling in Michigan underscored how far the administration will go to defend the prediction industry's interests. In July, a state judge ordered Kalshi to unwind bets from Michigan residents because the company had failed to obtain the proper license.

Invoking rarely used emergency authorities, the agency instructed Kalshi to ignore the court order, even though the company had already started canceling bets. The Michigan order “would risk shattering public confidence” in prediction markets, the agency said.

The C.F.T.C. had last used those powers in 1980, when President Jimmy Carter banned grain sales to the Soviet Union. The agency suspended trading in grain futures to calm a panic in the commodities markets.

"This is really unprecedented and frankly outrageous," said Aitan Goelman, the C.F.T.C.'s enforcement director under President Barack Obama. "How is being unable to gamble on sports online a market emergency?"

The agency launched a second emergency intervention this month, after a federal judge refused to stop New York from moving to shut down Kalshi's business there. The C.F.T.C. instructed Kalshi to continue operating anyway. Within days, the company cited the measure in a parallel case in Connecticut.

The federal judge overseeing that lawsuit was unimpressed. "The C.F.T.C. lacks the authority to dictate an order that conflicts with this court's decision," he wrote.

Asked why the agency had sought to bypass the judges, Zach Fulton, a C.F.T.C. spokesman, said it needed to “preserve the status quo while the courts are still deciding these issues.”

Like a growing coalition of blue states, Republican-led Ohio, Nevada, Montana and Tennessee have either sued or issued cease-and-desist orders to force prediction markets to fall in line. But while the C.F.T.C. has sued nine states with Democratic governors, its strongest legal action against states led by Republicans has been to file friend-of-the-court briefs. Judges are not required to read such arguments.

Mr. Fulton said that politics played no role in the legal strategy and that the agency sued the states that were most aggressive.

"The C.F.T.C. didn't pick these states — they picked themselves," he said.

Kalshi Fights Back

Last month, Pricey Harrison, a Democrat in North Carolina's House of Representatives, pored over a printout of the latest draft of the state budget. She noticed a concerning provision on Page 626.

Ms. Harrison had recently introduced a bill restricting prediction markets. But the budget contained what looked to her like a handout to the industry: A prediction market licensed by the C.F.T.C., the document said, "may operate within the state lawfully as a result of its registration with the commission." The markets would pay a 6 percent tax on revenue, lower than the 23 percent rate imposed on sports gambling firms.

"I'm not the most observant person," Ms. Harrison said, "but I was like, 'Oh, this smells bad.'"

The provision would allow prediction markets to operate in North Carolina without the threat of a state lawsuit. A Kalshi lobbyist who is a former North Carolina legislator, Jim Harrell, helped shape the language in discussions with the State House's Republican leadership, two people with knowledge of the conversations said. The company's feedback secured a lower tax rate than legislators had initially considered.

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The legislators also received input from the White House, another sign of the administration's role in the state-level disputes. The Office of Intergovernmental Affairs shared information about "the federal government's position on state regulation of prediction markets," said a spokesman for State Representative Destin Hall, the speaker of the North Carolina House. The budget was approved on July 7.

A White House spokesman said President Trump believed it was "essential" for the C.F.T.C. to maintain exclusive authority over the markets.

Mr. Hall's spokesman disputed that the tax provision was a giveaway, noting that prediction markets hadn't been required to pay taxes before. Kalshi said the arrangement in North Carolina was fair to the industry. Because many people win money on prediction markets, the company said, North Carolina will collect taxes on those profits, too.

So far, the litigation has yielded mixed results. All nine of the C.F.T.C.'s lawsuits are pending in federal court. Judges in states like Nevada and Washington have ruled against Kalshi and ordered it to cease operations.

While one federal appeals court sided with Kalshi in a case involving New Jersey, on Friday a second appeals court ruled against it in a case involving Nevada. Split appeals court decisions often trigger Supreme Court review.

But policy victories in places like North Carolina can still be helpful. Two weeks after the budget was signed, a lawyer for Kalshi referred to the agreement in a filing in one of the appellate cases, describing it as a compromise that could apply in other jurisdictions.

The company is pushing for more. As of this month, Kalshi has lobbyists working in all 50 states, a person familiar with the matter said.

Michael S. Selig, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has sued nine states battling the prediction markets.
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North Carolina State Representative Pricey Harrison, a Democrat, introduced legislation to restrict prediction markets.
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President Trump with Donald Trump, Jr., who has repeatedly promised to keep the family's business interests separate.
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Immigrant Aid Providers at Center of Dispute Over Bill

Above, Nick Shirley, a YouTube influencer, spoke at a rally on Wednesday opposing a California bill aimed at protecting immigrant aid workers. At left, a police barrier separated protesters.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDRI TAMBUNAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

By LAUREL ROSENHALL

SACRAMENTO — The bill began as an effort to protect immigration aid workers, who said they were increasingly fearful of being doxxed and threatened as immigration raids swept through California last summer.

Democratic state lawmakers presented it as a simple expansion of a longstanding program, Safe at Home, that had shielded the addresses of vulnerable residents in public records. Many states created such programs in the 1990s to protect survivors of domestic violence or stalking victims. Over the years, some states expanded the programs to include abortion-clinic workers or law enforcement officers.

In California, such expansions never became free speech controversies. Last year, the state added health workers who provide gender-related treatment to the list, with little hubbub.

It wasn't until state lawmakers moved this year to include immigration aid providers that a firestorm ignited. And that largely occurred after a Republican opponent of the bill gave it a catchy nickname: "The Stop Nick Shirley Act."

Mr. Shirley, 24, has quickly become a hero in the MAGA movement as a YouTube influencer whose viral videos claimed to expose fraud in Democratic-led states. His videos last year on Minnesota child care centers run by Somali immigrants caught the attention of President Trump, who was cracking down on illegal immigration in the state. Soon after, Mr. Shirley made his way to California, where he recorded videos outside the homes of licensed child care providers, most of whom were immigrants, and the offices of hospice care providers.

Mr. Shirley has focused on fraud, and Republicans have mostly attacked the bill on free speech grounds, saying that it would prevent problems from being exposed. But immigrant aid groups have faced criticism from supporters of Mr. Trump because they provide everything from food to legal aid to the undocumented residents who have become especially vulnerable to deportation in the president's second term.

The California bill this year was the first in the nation to expand address protection to workers and volunteers for immigration support services who face threats of violence or harassment. It says that, starting in October 2027, a person whose address is protected can sue someone who posts their image or personal information online after being asked in writing not to share it publicly.

Democrats say the bill only restricts people from posting violent threats with the intent to do imminent harm. Mia Bonta, the Bay Area assemblywoman who introduced the bill, said it was “150,000 percent absolutely not” inspired by Mr. Shirley. A spokeswoman for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who signed it into law on Aug. 22, argued that it would have no impact on the conservative influencer.

But Mr. Shirley and his supporters claim that the bill was written to deter him from posting videos about what he says is fraud in social service programs for immigrants. In particular, they take issue with the provision allowing aid workers to sue.

Mr. Shirley, who has nearly 2 million YouTube subscribers and an online merch shop he calls the "Anti Fraud Club," has turned fighting the new law into a cause célèbre, drawing national attention to what might otherwise be an obscure piece of legislation. Through viral video clips, appearances on Fox News and a rally last week at the State Capitol that attracted hundreds of people, Mr. Shirley has helped Republicans reframe the address bill into an argument over exposing fraud and protecting free speech.

"Welcome to the Cali-fraudia Republic," Mr. Shirley said as he stepped to the microphone at the rally on Wednesday in Sacramento. "Here in California, the politicians, instead of going after the fraudsters, they've now gone after those that are going to expose the fraud."

For a few hours, the plaza outside the State Capitol had the feel of a MAGA street fair, with booths selling Charlie Kirk-themed T-shirts and posters celebrating ICE officers. Trumpets and drumming blared from masked counterprotesters that the police kept on the perimeter of the event after a fistfight broke out during the rally's opening prayer. (Three people were detained, according to the California Highway Patrol.)

Mr. Shirley began speaking after the crowd chanted, "Nick! Nick! Nick!" He was joined on stage by several Republican lawmakers and candidates. Numerous speakers said they looked forward to the law being overturned in court.

In an interview after the rally, Mr. Shirley said it was a "lie" that the bill was not directed at him. He said there was no need for the new law because it's already illegal to dox people and make violent threats.

"They're making a protected class by specifically saying 'immigration support service providers,' he said.

Mr. Shirley said he worried that the law could be used against him by people who hire someone to commit a crime and say they were incited by him.

"Then Nick Shirley is responsible," he said, and, under the law could have to pay a fine of at least \$4,000.

In California, recent expansions of Safe at Home have generally gone to groups aligned with Democrats, who control the state legislature. Democrats argue that these workers have been most targeted through doxxing by opponents.

But it is not clear what the threshold should be, and courts could ask how California has decided certain groups deserve a higher level of privacy. Eugene Volokh, a First Amendment scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, thought the bill could be vulnerable to challenge for protecting one group over another.

"It might be the case that a court would say this is unconstitutional because it specially protects immigration service providers," Mr. Volokh said. He added that a court could rule that "you can't single out threats and incitement against immigration service providers from threats and incitement against other people who might be just as vulnerable as they are."

Early versions of the bill included broader prohibitions on posting information that free speech advocates said would have violated the Constitution. But the bill was later narrowed.

Carolyn Iodice, legislative and policy director with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a group that promotes free speech, was among those who criticized the bill in its early stages. She said the final version shouldn't inhibit Mr. Shirley.

"The way I read it now is, unless he posts videos with threats or incitement, which is a very high bar, he should not face liability under the bill," Ms. Iodice said.

However, she said, the law could wind up chilling some speech because people who receive legal demands that they not post images or information may not know that they are only prohibited from making comments that threaten or incite violence.

Immigration service providers who sought the new law said they have been facing intense harassment since Mr. Trump began his second term in office.

"We are an enemy that they feel is their patriotic duty to go after," said Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, which worked with Ms. Bonta to develop the law.

Ms. Bonta, who is married to Rob Bonta, the state attorney general, said her bill was inspired by stories of fearful encounters. Ms. Salas said that someone showed up at her mother's home looking for her.

Ms. Bonta said the law would not stop Mr. Shirley from making videos or inhibit journalists from covering groups supporting immigrants. She said her bill had been misrepresented by opponents who attached it to Mr. Shirley and that he was “not being honest with his viewers.”

"I am greatly disappointed that our legislative process can be so ambushed, if you will, by ill-intended legislators and people who are likely wanting to get more clicks for their own personal gain," she said.

Online, many of Mr. Shirley's followers seemed to believe "Stop Nick Shirley Act" was the bill's formal title.

Carl DeMaio, the Republican assemblyman who came up with the moniker, said that he had never talked to Mr. Shirley when the nickname occurred to him during a committee hearing this spring. Invoking a popular figure helped him draw attention to his concerns.

"It's the best way to simplify the scheme that they're trying to hide," he said.

"A bad bill needs public transparency, and I'm not going to apologize for that."

"No way," Ms. Middlestate said. "It's always Lake Ontario."

"Next they'll be calling Canada geese 'Donald ducks,' he said.

Lake Ontario's name dates to the 17th century, when mapmakers adopted the Native American nomenclature. Some French explorers had also referred to it as "Lake St. Louis." The body of water was formed during the last ice age and is the smallest of the Great Lakes.

Mr. Trump signed the executive order on Thursday after trade talks with Canada fell through that week. The move mirrored one that the president made early in his second term, when he declared that the Gulf of Mexico would be called the “Gulf of America.” Both executive orders will most likely only apply to federal entities and do not require other countries to recognize the name changes.

By RONI CARYN RABIN

"To be part of a senseless trade war, this is tremendously silly," he said.

By CLAIRE FAHY and PAUL LANE

Funding Halted for Center Supporting Parents With Disabilities

Along Lake, Little Desire To Bust Out The Sharpie

The Trump administration has eliminated a funding stream that for the last 30 years has supported the only U.S. government-backed national research center focused on parents with disabilities.

"I was kind of surprised," Dr.

The National Research Center for Parents with Disabilities will begin to phase out its operations on Monday, when the current five-year grant ends, officials from the center said.

The center, which funds researchers in Boston and around the country, analyzes health care access and economic hardships faced by parents with disabilities and tracks state laws, serving as a clearinghouse for information on the issue.

The center, based at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management, is a multiple university collaboration aimed at improving the lives of the 4.5 million U.S. parents with disabilities and their families.

The government has supported the center for decades through a competitive grant that has provided \$500,000 a year in recent years and was slated to increase. Monika Mitra, the center's director, said that an initial notice announcing the grant was posted a year ago, as is usually the case. But the more detailed information required to submit an application, which normally arrives in the grant application portal by February, never appeared. In July, the original link announcing the grant vanished.

David Hedley, 64, is the fourth-generation owner of Hedley Boatyard in Olcott on the shores of the Great Lake. He lamented that the president was distracting from what he saw as the real issues facing the country, such as affordability, by renaming the lake. His great-grandfather started the family business in 1900 — and Mr. Hedley said he would not be incorporating the lake's new name into any business dealings.

Sherri Middlestate, who answered the phone on Friday at Shangri-La on Lake Ontario, a marina, restaurant and campground in Three Mile Bay, laughed when asked about the lake's name change and whether Shangri-La would be changing its name.

Mitra said. "Initially I thought it was just a mistake."

of bridge funding between now and then."

“I emailed people at the institute, and I didn't hear back,” she said, referring to the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research, the federal government's primary disability research organization. “I expressed my concern about why the funding opportunity is no longer available, and asked if it would be available next year and if there was a possibility

No explanation given for the move after years of federal help.

Jim Baker, co-owner of the Chateau Niagara Winery in Newfane, has run his vineyard with his wife, Kathy Baker, for more than 20 years. He said his roots in the region dated back to the early 1800s when his family moved there to grow fruit. Mr. Baker said he would not be using the “Lake America” moniker in the spiel he gave during guided tastings.

This month, she said, officials from the Administration for Community Living, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed to her that the funding had been eliminated. She has since been trying to find alternative sources of funding.

Sitting some 400 miles away from Lake Ontario in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump declared that the Great Lake would now be known as “Lake America.” He signed an executive order to that effect, billed as an effort toward “Making the Great Lakes Even Greater.”

President Trump plunged parts of upstate New York into an identity crisis on Thursday with a flick of his wrist and a scribble of his Sharpie.

The end of monetary support for the center means an end to the funding for five external researchers, and may affect employment and research within the center as well, though some staff members have salaries that are only partly funded by the grant, Dr. Mitra said.

For some of the over two million New Yorkers who live along the shores of Lake Ontario, named for an Iroquoian word that roughly translates to “lake of shining waters,” its new name seemed like an unworthy distraction.

The department did not respond to repeated requests for comment on the elimination of the funding stream. But in a letter reviewed by The New York Times, Kristi W. Hill, an official at the national disability institute, confirmed that the grant funding for the center had been eliminated, saying it “should not be interpreted as a determination that research concerning parents with disabilities or their families is no longer important.”

In addition, about \$1 trillion in federal Medicaid spending cuts over the next 10 years have threatened the health care and support services that enable Americans with chronic conditions and disabilities to live outside institutions and participate in community life. The cuts were part of a bill that President Trump signed into law last year.

oversight.

The person who shared the letter asked not to be identified, fearing retaliation from the administration.

"All of this is a very clear pattern, part of an effort to roll back disabilities rights and civil rights protections for people with disabilities," said Michael Lewis, vice president of policy with the nonprofit American Association of People with Disabilities.

The administration also announced plans to move special education programs and civil rights enforcement in education out of the Education Department, which raised concerns among advocates who said the step would weaken

The withdrawal of the funding comes in the wake of a series of administration announcements that have raised concerns for people with disabilities.

"I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that this administration considers disabilities rights to be part of D.E.I. work," he said, referring to diversity, equity and inclusion programs. "They made very plain that they don't like that."

In the letter, Dr. Hill said she understood the concern about the termination of the grant. But, she wrote, the institute must “periodically assess investments across the full scope of that mission and make difficult funding decisions.”

In June, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel issued a memo indicating that states were not required to provide services enabling people with disabilities to remain in their homes and not be forced into institutions.

Research supported by the national center has found that parents who are disabled are at greater risk of having their parental rights terminated.

Parents with disabilities are also more likely to have inadequate housing than parents without disabilities, with Black parents at particularly increased risk, the center's research shows.

Some 42 states and the District of Columbia include parental disability as grounds for terminating parental rights, according to the center.

On Friday, Greg Boyd was camping at Four Mile Creek State Park along the lake near Niagara Falls. He said he didn't object to the name change if there was a good rationale for it.

They have more interactions with child protective services than parents without disabilities, and parents with intellectual disabilities are reported to the child welfare system at higher rates than other parents, research has shown.

Nicole Lomerson, 47, who is now a research associate at the center, said she first became familiar with its work 10 years ago, when she was a new mother. Ms. Lomerson has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair.

Hospital personnel, she said, expressed concerns about her ability to take care of her newborn daughter, who was born prematurely and admitted to the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit.

"My biggest fear was that the Department of Children and Families would get involved and not allow me to take care of my medically complex infant myself," Ms. Lomerson said. "That is terrifying for any new mother, but especially for a mother with a baby" in intensive care.

She said she relied on data the center had compiled to argue for her right to care for her child. But, she added, "That experience scared the heck out of me."

If the center were to close, she said, she worried about where parents in similar situations would turn for support.

"I'm worried," Ms. Lomerson said, "that when a parent emails us and says, 'Hey, I'm going through a custody battle and my husband is telling the judge that I can't parent my kid because I have a disability,' that no one is going to be there to help them."

Anything that could potentially create more equity in trade between the two countries should be considered, he said.

"If that's what it takes to bargain, go ahead. Change the name," he said. "Maybe it would aggravate people to no end. But the system as it's going now cannot continue."

In upstate New York, voters tend to be more conservative than in New York City. In the 2024 election, Mr. Trump received a majority of the votes in nine of the 10 counties that border the lake.

Democratic leaders from the Great Lakes region also joined the debate, with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan sharing a video on social media of a children's song taught to grade schoolers that uses the acronym "HOMES" to help students remember the names of the lakes — Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior. Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York simply tweeted, "New York won't be calling it that."

Silvia Newell, the director of the Michigan Sea Grant, which promotes outreach and education for the Great Lakes, said the group would not change how it referred to Lake Ontario unless it received new guidance from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She added that politicizing the lake threatened what she considered one of the last issues with bipartisan support.

"It's this really great community where scientists, supporters, everyone pulls together to really protect the Great Lakes, regardless of the politics of the day," she said. "It's the modern great uniter."

Robert Barba contributed reporting.

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willing to pay for online attention, appear willing to put their mouth where the money is.

As more people spend time scrolling on their phones, campaigns view these shows of support from influencers as a vital way to reach voters. They are also significantly less expensive than traditional advertising.

But unlike campaign mailers, billboards and television spots, these messages fall into a legal gray area.

There are no federal regulations requiring disclosure of payments for political support on social media, and only a few states have such rules. That allows influencers, in most instances, to endorse candidates for a fee without ever disclosing those payments in their posts. Creators say some campaigns have even asked them to actively conceal the fact that they're being compensated, making it impossible to know what's genuine support — and what is pay-for-play.

In most cases, the only way a viewer would know an influencer is being paid would be to search a candidate's campaign finance reports, as The New York Times did to discover the payments. Even then, such compensation is regularly obscured by funneling the payments through middlemen.

"It's completely out of control," said Suzanne Lambert, a progressive influencer and comedian with more than 1.3 million followers between TikTok and Instagram. She said that while she happily promotes candidates she likes, she has "never taken a cent" in exchange for an endorsement and worries that the practice distorts the democratic process. "People don't know what's real anymore," she said.

Mr. Greene defended the idea of influencers getting paid for their work and noted that he accepts money only from candidates and campaigns that he would support anyway. "I turn down offers every single day because I'm not going to take money from any place if I don't agree with it," he said. (In the case of the Steyer campaign, Mr. Greene said he was initially critical but came to see him as the most viable candidate.)

Still, he suggested there was a need for straightforward and consistent rules on disclosure. "If anything, we do need more clear transparency laws so that creators like myself aren't confused," he said.

Coordinated Networks

The phenomenon is bipartisan.

In June, Representative Barry Moore of Alabama filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, alleging that at least eight social media accounts were being paid to attack his military record during the Republican primary. In April, a newspaper in Kentucky revealed what appeared to be a coordinated network of influencers boosting Nate Morris — at the time running in a Republican Senate primary — even though none acknowledged being paid for their efforts. Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas and the Republican nominee for Senate, benefited from a paid campaign on X when he was facing impeachment in the state several years ago.

But the question of paid influence has gained particular attention in recent months thanks to aggressive efforts by a handful of Democratic candidates to secure support from well-known influencers.

During California's hard-fought primary this spring, Mr. Steyer's campaign paid 17 influencers at least \$5,000 apiece, including one, Carlos Eduardo Espina, who has over 14 million followers on TikTok and received a total of \$400,000, campaign finance filings show.

Former Representative Katie Porter, who also ran unsuccessfully for California governor, paid 12 influencers a total of \$139,500. One of them, a lifestyle creator named Avery Cyrus with 9.5 million followers on TikTok, received \$25,000 for what appeared to be a single post claiming “Katie Porter’s thing works.”

Ms. Cyrus's post was deleted after The Times inquired about it. She did not respond to a request for comment made through the social media agency that represents her, UnderCurrent Media, but the firm's chief executive, Eric Bogard, said in an email that it "was not asked to oversee disclosure compliance, nor were we provided instructions concerning any required disclosures."

Under California law, paid political posts on social media must be disclosed. A Times review found three posts supporting Ms. Porter on TikTok from influencers who were paid by her campaign that did not include any disclosures. In seven other instances, the disclosures could be found only after clicking through to a hidden section of TikTok for comments flagged “as potentially offensive or disturbing.”

Sander Jennings, an influencer based in Florida who was paid \$22,000, said "the Porter campaign and I agreed to disclose the payment" in TikTok's comments section in order to get around the site's practice of removing paid political posts. He said he did not know why the disclosures ended up in the hidden section of the comments.

TikTok's terms of service bar all paid political advertising, including “creators being compensated for making branded political content.” In an email, Ms. Porter said that “nothing was paid for and posted without review and coordination and compliance with all law.”

Other political efforts have employed a different strategy, contracting private firms that pay little-known content cre-

To Reach Voters on Social Media, Campaigns Are Quietly Paying Influencers for Their Support

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From far left, Dash Dobrofsky, Josh Greene and Paige Dunmeyer in still images from their political videos.

How Influencers Used Their Platforms for Political Messaging

FEBRUARY Mr. Greene said Tom Steyer, a candidate for California governor, "isn't the progressive champion you might think" because of his investments in detention facilities.

MAY Around the same time that he received \$21,500 from Mr. Steyer's campaign, Mr. Greene endorsed Mr. Steyer. He called Mr. Steyer "the progressive viable candidate in the race," adding that it was "my opinion."

AUGUST On Aug. 4, the day of the Michigan primary, Ms. Dunmeyer said on TikTok that Haley Stevens, a Democratic candidate for Senate, would help people "here in Michigan." Her profile said she was a 25-year-old who was "Michigan born & raised." The Times identified her as a freelance content creator based in Kansas City, Mo.

AUGUST The next day, she posted on another account and described herself as a 25-year-old who lives in Wisconsin. She said that her electricity bill had doubled. The video was paid for by Project Bullhorn, a Democrat-aligned political group that was pushing “affordability” as a concern online.

JUNE Mr. Dobrofsky endorsed Katie Porter, a candidate in the California governor's race. He called her a "legitimate progressive" and highlighted her goal of removing money from politics. He was paid \$15,500 by her campaign.

JUNE He also promoted Ms. Stevens, the Democratic primary candidate for Michigan's Senate seat. He did not disclose whether he was compensated for the post.

ators smaller sums to put out a large volume of posts. Those companies, known as user generated content platforms, or U.G.C.s, operate on the principle that carpet bombing the internet with hundreds of nearly identical posts is more likely to generate viral content than paying one large influencer the same amount of money to make a single post.

This spring, a woman posted dozens of videos promoting Mr. Steyer in the California primary. Weeks later, she appeared in videos from a different account complaining about the cost of living "here in Michigan" and encouraging people to vote for Representative Haley Stevens, Dr. El-Sayed's primary opponent in the Senate race. Then she pivoted to a third account talking about affordability in Wisconsin.

Corporate records show that the woman, Paige Dunmeyer, actually lives in Kansas City, Mo., and is registered to work with a U.G.C. company called SideShift. It's not clear how much she was paid for her Michigan and Wisconsin videos, but she has earned more than \$30,000 on SideShift for a variety of political and commercial campaigns, according to company records reviewed by The Times. Filings from Mr. Steyer's campaign showed she received \$1,320 for her efforts in that race. Ms. Dunmeyer did not respond to requests for comment.

A Times analysis found that at least 87 people registered to work with SideShift had made posts backing Mr. Steyer or Ms. Stevens, or participated in a third campaign to post video clips on TikTok supporting Representative James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee from Texas. Most of the posts by those creators included no acknowledgment that money changed hands.

In a statement, SideShift said that it advised creators to follow applicable disclosure requirements, and called for more explicit laws governing how paid content is disclosed on social media.

"SideShift believes anyone can be a creator and that creators should get paid fairly for work they choose to do," the company said.

In June, Kendall Boyle, a TikToker in Michigan with over 21,000 followers, was contacted by a social media marketing agency called Activate HQ offering her a paid opportunity to post videos about "how rising costs are affecting Michigan residents in real life."

When she asked who was footing the bill, she was told it was Majority Forward, a dark money group linked to the Senate Majority PAC, a Democratic super PAC, email correspondence reviewed by The Times shows. Ms. Boyle said she was turned off by warnings in those emails from Activate HQ that “disclosure is not required and the paid partnership label will not be included in any posts” and also that Majority Forward “will not be mentioned” in her content.

"It was one of those things where something isn't fitting right," Ms. Boyle said.

In a statement, Majority Forward said the language in the email “explains disclosure requirements necessary under F.E.C. rules, which were fully followed.”

Little Regulation

Just four states have laws or regulations requiring influencers to disclose paid political messaging, but they apply only to state and local races, not federal contests. Although regulations for social media have been proposed multiple times to the F.E.C., it has never taken action. The Federal Trade Commission, which requires disclosure of paid commercial content on social media, makes an exception for political messaging.

Representative Mark Takano, a California Democrat, introduced a bill in June that would require anyone paid by a candidate or political committee to clearly disclose that fact in the same way that traditional campaign materials are required to note such payments.

In an interview, Mr. Takano said he was inspired to draft the legislation after online sleuths revealed that numerous influencers had been making paid endorsements in the California governor's race without proper disclosure, as required in that state.

"It's unfair when an influencer is allowed to be silent or not transparent about money they're taking from a candidate, making it seem like what they're saying is authentic and not influenced by money," he said.

Mr. Takano acknowledges that there are some potential loopholes in the bill. For instance: Campaigns often obscure payments to influencers by hiding them under layers of vendors and subvendors.

Ms. Porter, for example, hired Activate HQ for “influencer marketing services,” and it in turn paid 13 different creators to bolster her campaign for governor. One of them, a political influencer in Los Angeles named Dash Dobrofsky, who also posted in support of Ms. Stevens in Michigan, received \$15,500 from Ms. Porter’s campaign. Mr. Dobrofsky did not respond to a request for comment.

Mr. Steyer's campaign, for its part, hired multiple digital strategy firms to manage social media, including one called Group Project, which hired a Los Angeles company, Gutsy Media, which paid Mr. Greene through UnderCurrent, which represents him.

Those payment chains are visible because California is one of a handful of states that require campaigns to report payments to sub-vendors. There is no such obligation for campaigns for federal office. “Every dollar spent by this campaign is publicly disclosed and available for anyone to see,” the Steyer campaign said in a statement.

'Social Media Consulting'

Occasionally, campaigns or independent expenditure groups will reveal direct payments to influencers, such as the super PAC Freedom PA, which supported the socialist candidate Chris Rabb's successful bid to win a Pennsylvania House primary in May. It has disclosed payments to nearly 50 influencers for "social media consulting," among them Mr. Greene, who received \$750 and posted a video celebrating the candidate's victory.

Other committees listing payments to Mr. Greene in federal filings employed less illuminating descriptions. Chuck Park, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in Queens this year, listed a \$300 disbursement to Mr. Greene as “staff salary” Mr. Greene posted at least five videos promoting Mr. Park, none of which state that he had received payment.

Mr. Park, in an interview, said that Mr. Greene was in fact not employed by the campaign, but said that “our campaign absolutely leaned into new media” and that he spent time with Mr. Greene in Queens filming a series of videos.

Mr. Greene disclosed being paid on three of his posts about Mr. Steyer and told The Times that those videos were the only ones that he was specifically contracted by the Steyer campaign to produce. He said he didn't receive compensation for prior posts about the candidate.

Mr. Greene has also supported Senator Ed Markey, the Massachusetts Democrat in a competitive primary against Representative Seth Moulton, and last month, he posted a video accusing Mr. Moulton of “posturing to be someone they really aren’t.” He posted a second video this month critiquing Moulton, this time for taking corporate political money.

Neither video includes disclosures and F.E.C. filings don't show any payments to Mr. Greene related to Mr. Markey's re-election bid. But a spokesman for Commonwealth Together, a super PAC that is supporting Mr. Markey, said it had paid Mr. Greene \$3,500 for "digital communications consulting" through his agency, UnderCurrent.

Mr. Greene, in a text message, acknowledged the payment to support Mr. Markey, saying he took it "because I believe he is by far the more progressive candidate in the race."

The murkiness has left some in the political world uneasy. Last month Rynn Reed, the founder of Creator Congress, an organizing hub for influencers interested in politics, introduced a code of conduct for the group that would require creators to make clear when they're paid, whether required by law or not.

"With no standards," Ms. Reed said, "there's going to be a race to the bottom."

Disclosures of Payments Aren't Always Prominent

Most TikTok users would encounter Mr. Greene's video like the frame above, with a small caption at the bottom that can be expanded by tapping on "more." Once expanded, as seen in the frame below, there is a small disclosure that Mr. Greene was compensated for the post.

Governor Objects to 'Aggressive' Election Monitors

By TIM BALK

Two election monitors from the Justice Department tried to interview voters and examine voting machines at polling places during Wyoming's primaries this month, local officials said, drawing pushback from the state's Republican governor.

The federal election monitors arrived at a polling site in Cheyenne, Wyoming's capital and its largest city, without notice around 7 a.m. on Aug. 18, said the Laramie County clerk, Debra Lee. They asked to interview voters and inspect the machines, but were denied, officials said.

"It was aggressive, unexpected, disruptive — certainly didn't seem to show respect for the state," Gov. Mark Gordon of Wyoming said in an interview on Thursday. "We're going to get to the bottom of it as best we can."

The Justice Department often monitors polling sites during elections. But the visits to Wyoming came amid President Trump's fixation with finding evidence of fraud and vote tampering. Mr. Trump and his allies made fantastical claims that voting machines had switched votes for him to Joseph R. Biden Jr. in 2020, and he has tried and failed to find evidence of widespread fraud or vote tampering.

Mr. Trump has often returned to such conspiracy theories in his second term, arguing that fraud could affect this year's midterm elections. As president, he has deployed the resources of the federal government, notably the Justice Department's, to investigate his unsubstantiated claims, sowing more doubt in the nation's elections and raising alarm among state officials about whether he will try to intervene if Republicans lose their congressional majorities in November.

Governor Gordon, a term-lim-

Nick Corasaniti contributed reporting.

ited Republican who leads one of the country's most conservative states, said at a meeting with state election officials on Wednesday that he had been concerned by the behavior of the observers.

"I feel very strongly about the federal government coming in and taking our guns — I don't like that," Mr. Gordon said at the meeting. "And I don't like the federal

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Gov. Mark Gordon of Wyoming called the behavior of the federal monitors "very odd."

government coming in and taking our votes, either."

The monitors ultimately visited six polling places, showing their credentials only when asked for them, Mr. Gordon said in the interview, describing their behavior as "very odd." He said he had asked the state attorney general, Keith Kautz, to investigate.

The observers had cited statutes related to the Americans With Disabilities Act and the Civil Rights Act, Mr. Gordon said.

This year, the Justice Department's observers have visited polling places in other states, including politically tense regions such as the Minneapolis area. The agency said on Tuesday that it had sent 80 monitors to seven states during primary season.

But the requests to interview voters and gain access to machines in Wyoming were unusual. And they come at a moment when the Justice Department has been locked in a legal battle with roughly 30 states, demanding their private, unredacted voter rolls in a hunt for evidence of non-citizen voting.

In July, the Justice Department sent letters to every state and Washington, warning that top election officials would be criminally prosecuted if they allowed ballots to be cast by noncitizens.

The monitors in Wyoming said they had been sent to assess whether the election was in compliance with federal civil rights and voting rights laws, Ms. Lee said. But their questions appeared to be “outside the scope of federal voting rights laws,” she said in a statement.

"They included questions about the nature, length and timing of poll worker training," Ms. Lee said. "Monitors requested training guides, asked how our new election equipment was acquired and wanted to examine our tabulators."

Their conduct, Ms. Lee said, displayed a “complete disregard for our state laws and administration of our elections.”

Mr. Trump has filled the Justice Department and other federal agencies with officials sympathetic to his baseless claims about the 2020 election. In Georgia, the focus of many of Mr. Trump's efforts to reverse the 2020 election, the F.B.I. this summer assigned a team to examine 2020 records seized from Fulton County, home of Atlanta.

The office of the U.S. attorney in Wyoming, Darin D. Smith, did not immediately respond to questions about the election monitors' appearance. But in a statement provided by the Justice Department's Washington office, Mr. Smith said that voters deserved "absolute confidence that their ballots are secure and their voices are heard without interference."

At the meeting on Wednesday, Mr. Gordon told Chuck Gray, the Wyoming secretary of state, that he did not believe the U.S. attorney's office in Wyoming was aware that the Justice Department observers would be visiting.

But Mr. Gray, who once claimed the 2020 presidential election was “illegitimate,” told the governor that he understood that Mr. Smith had been given notice about the observers.

Mr. Gray said that "Wyoming election law does provide for observation."

A spokeswoman for the Justice Department, Kiersten Pels, said Mr. Smith had been given notice.

Ms. Lee, the county clerk, said in her statement that a Justice Department official had told her the decision to deploy monitors to Wyoming was made on short notice. The Justice Department issued a statement on the day of the state's primary saying that it was deploying observers to Wyoming and Florida to ensure “transparency, ballot security and compliance with federal law.”

Although many of the Justice Department's monitoring efforts have been uneventful, a letter it sent in June to election officials in Wayne County, Mich., which includes Detroit, became a flashpoint.

The letter described polling sites with machines that were not working and at least one site with a shortage of provisional ballots. It drew a scathing response from Janice Winfrey, the Detroit city clerk.

"It is important to address election performance based on facts rather than falsehoods that lead to baseless conclusions," Ms. Winfrey said in a letter sent to Justice Department officials in July. She added that the department's assertions form "a baseless conclusion that then becomes the pretext for additional monitoring of Detroit elections."

PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANNA WATTS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
In Gila Bend, Ariz., an 1,800-person town near Phoenix, fewer than 200 of its 600 registered voters participated in July's election.

In Town Election Tie, Luck of the Draw Picks a Winner

Patricia Riggs, right, the town clerk of Gila Bend, oversaw the high-card draw between Athena Guerrero and Jesus Rubalcava.

From Page 1

and picked from a woven basket.

But Gila Bend's tie might have been the first involving a candidate who had been in the exact same position years before. Jesus Rubalcava finished neck and neck with an opponent in 2014 and won his first term on the Council with the flip of a \$1 coin.

After a court-certified recount earlier this month confirmed his deadlock with the newcomer Athena Guerrero, Ms. Riggs informed Mr. Rubalcava that his election fate would once again come down to chance.

Did that make him lucky or unlucky? Mr. Rubalcava, a high school teacher and former state legislator, wasn't sure.

"I was in disbelief," he said. "I couldn't wrap my head around it."

It was up to Ms. Riggs and other town officials to choose what form the rubber match would take. Arizona law stipulated only that the tie be broken "by lot." They ruled out rock-paper-scissors or drawing marbles or straws.

"We thought that was kind of boring," Ms. Riggs said.

High-card draw would be more exciting, they decided, and it would be easy for the public to understand and follow.

Ms. Guerrero was initially wary. "I'm not a gambling type of person," she said.

But she knew enough to pray for an ace. Ms. Guerrero, who works for a water treatment plant, had long eyed politics, and she imagined the Town Council as a launching pad. Eventually, she said, she would like to be mayor.

Gila Bend, an important stop on a storied 19th-century stagecoach line, is now a manufacturing and farming town where local politics is unavoidably personal. In separate interviews, Ms. Guerrero and Mr. Rubalcava each said they "have nothing but love" for the other.

Neither campaigned aggressively, and the nail-biter was a reminder that every vote counts.

Mr. Rubalcava's mother, brother and niece all failed to cast ballots, he said.

They were not alone. Fewer than 200 of the town's roughly 600 registered voters participated in the July election.

Ms. Riggs spent three weeks painstakingly planning Tuesday's showdown, consulting with lawyers and election experts. She devised a list of 19 steps that documented exactly how the draw would go, and she wrote a script to read while she conducted it.

On Tuesday morning, she borrowed a mechanical card shuffler from her sister-in-law and bought two decks at the town's Dollar General, one for practice. That night, the two candidates sidled up to a table in a school building and exchanged nervous smiles in front of a handful of residents and the sitting Council members.

Ms. Riggs stated the rules, opened and spread a new deck of cards and let Ms. Guerrero and Mr. Rubalcava inspect them. She shuffled and presented the stack to Ms. Guerrero, who cut it. Mr. Rubalcava then cut it again.

The candidates were reminded that, in the event they drew the same number — like that would ever happen — spades would trump other suits.

Ms. Riggs pulled Ms. Guerrero's card first, a three of clubs. The candidate sighed.

Ms. Riggs flipped Mr. Rubalcava's card next.

Another three, another tie. The audience gasped. Mr. Rubalcava couldn't believe it. "Did this really just happen?" he thought.

But his three was a spade, delivering Mr. Rubalcava a chance victory for the second time. The candidates laughed and shook hands.

"Who would have thought?" a stunned Ms. Riggs said to the room.

Ms. Guerrero said on Wednesday that she planned to run for office again, pledging to "come back strong in a couple years."

Ms. Riggs said she was glad to hear it, then added: "God forbid there's a tie."

Avg. daily departure from normal this month...... -0.3°

Avg. daily departure from normal this year...... -0.2°

Weather Report

Highlight: Downpours in the Northeast

From Monday night

From Monday night through Wednesday night, much of the Northeast will have periodic downpours. This zone will stretch from southern Wisconsin east through northern New Jersey, all the way north into Maine. The showers and thunderstorms that will develop will pose a flash flooding risk. The precipitation in the north will keep the hot and humid air mass to the south of the region.

Cities

High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in inches) for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. Expected conditions for today and tomorrow.

C....Clouds	S....Sun
F....Fog	Sn....Snow
H....Haze	SS....Snow showers
I....Ice	T....Thunderstorms
PC....Partly cloudy	Tr....Trace
R....Rain	W....Windy
Sh....Showers	-....Not available

N.Y.C. region	Yesterday	Today	Tomorrow
New York City	80/ 64 0	83/ 70 PC	82/ 71 Sh
Bridgeport	83/ 71 0	81/ 68 PC	78/ 69 Sh
Caldwell	84/ 65 0	82/ 68 PC	82/ 68 Sh
Danbury	81/ 67 0	78/ 64 PC	79/ 67 Sh
Islip	83/ 71 0	80/ 68 PC	78/ 70 Sh
Newark	87/ 69 0	85/ 71 PC	85/ 71 Sh
Trenton	83/ 66 0	84/ 66 PC	83/ 68 Sh
White Plains	83/ 68 0	79/ 66 PC	79/ 67 Sh

United States	Yesterday	Today	Tomorrow
Albany	78/57 0	78/64 PC	82/65 7
Albuquerque	95/68 0.04	92/67 C	91/66 5
Atlanta	64/53 0	64/53 0	64/52 5h
Atlanta	87/72 0.04	90/74 7	91/73 7
Atlantic City	78/67 1	82/74 PC	80/73 5h
Boston	100/72 0	98/75 3	97/75 7
Baltimore	83/67 0	88/71 PC	90/72 5
Baton Rouge	96/73 0.04	92/76 7	88/76 7
Birmingham	93/72 0.04	91/74 5	93/73 5PC
Burlington	84/67 0	75/63 3	69/64 5
Boston	76/65 0	86/67 PC	76/65 PC
Buffalo	78/64 0.03	73/66 5h	78/71 1
Gren dropsburg	78/61 0.03	75/61 9	78/61 5h
Casper	83/60 0.15	82/51 W	84/58 1
Charlotte	86/71 0.09	88/71 7	92/71 PC
Chicago	72/65 0.03	72/65 3	72/65 5h
Chicago	80/71 0.01	87/72 PC	90/73 5h
Cincinnati	86/67 0	90/70 5	93/71 5
Cleveland	82/66 0	83/69 PC	86/72 PC
Dallas Springs	87/65 0.04	86/68 PC	87/68 5h
Columbus	84/65 0	87/69 PC	89/73 5
Concord, N.H.	79/51 0	85/58 PC	82/57 PC
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn	101/63 0.04	103/63 1	103/63 5h
Denver	91/64 0.04	86/63 7	82/59 1
Des Moines	88/74 0.25	91/73 7	91/73 7
Detroit	83/62 0.02	82/68 5h	88/72 2
El Paso	100/75 0	101/76 5	102/76 5
Fargo	81/67 0.10	83/64 7	88/58 5
Hartford	79/56 0	83/63 C	81/65 5h
Honolulu	88/70 0.05	91/76 5h	91/76 5h
Houston	99/77 0.04	98/75 7	95/78 7
Indianapolis	85/65 0	89/69 5	92/72 PC
London	96/74 0.04	94/74 5	94/74 5h
Jacksonville	87/73 0.36	87/74 7	89/73 1
Kansas City	95/74 0	98/76 PC	98/76 7
Kash Lake	89/70 0.44	90/84 7	98/84 5h
Las Vegas	106/84 0	103/81 5	98/78 5h
Lexington	89/65 0	92/71 5	92/71 5

Little Rock	95/66 0
Los Angeles	94/72 0
Louisville	90/69 0
Philadelphia	91/73 0
Miami	89/81 0.64
Milwaukee	80/69 0.04
Mpls-St. Paul	80/68 0.07
New York	94/75 0
New Orleans	95/78 0.05
Norfolk	83/75 0.05
Oklahoma City	102/73 0
Orlando	94/76 0
Chicago	93/76 0.05
Philadelphia	83/65 0
Pittsburgh	112/67 0.04
Pittsburgh	82/61 0
Portland, Me.	77/57 0
Portland, Ore.	74/55 0.03
Richmond	80/59 0.02
Raleigh	83/71 0.47
Reno	86/54 0
Rochmond	80/62 0.04
Rochester	80/62 0.02
Sacramento	87/55 0
Salt Lake City	81/66 0.60
San Antonio	99/77 0
San Diego	86/72 0
San Francisco	67/57 0
San Jose	78/57 0
San Juan	93/82 0
Seattle	68/53 0.24
Sioux Falls	89/70 0.10
St. Augustine	79/74 0
St. Louis	90/69 0
St. Thomas	93/82 0
Tucson	86/68 0.04
Tampa	92/77 0.47
Toledo	82/65 0
Tucson	103/80 0.12
Toronto	102/76 0
Virginia Beach	82/75 0.04
Washington	86/70 0
Wilmington	102/65 0
Wilmington, Del.	82/63 0

Africa	Yesterday
Algiers	90/76 0
Cairo	98/78 0
Cape Town	59/54 0.07
Dakar	87/75 0
Johannesburg	68/46 0
Nairobi	80/52 0
Tunis	105/80 0
Asia/Pacific	Yesterday
Baghdad	114/92 0
Bangkok	90/77 0.22
Beijing	89/64 0
Damascus	93/70 0
Hong Kong	92/82 0.33
Jakarta	93/77 0
Jerusalem	86/70 0
Karachi	86/81 0
Manila	81/73 1.15
Mumbai	88/82 Tr

National Forecast

Thunderstorms will develop from the Rockies through the Great Lakes, especially during the afternoon. Across a portion of the Rockies from Arizona through Colorado, as well as across North Dakota, thunderstorms could bring flooding, hail and damaging wind gusts.

Thunderstorms will develop across the Southeast, where they may become heavy at times. The Northeast will end up mainly dry, but some thundershowers will be possible from Maryland through western Massachusetts.

From Texas through western Pennsylvania, it will also end up mainly dry during the day, and especially hot for western portions of the region. West of the Rockies, it will also end up mainly dry, but not particularly hot. There will be plenty of sunshine as well.

New Delhi	96/83 0	95/81 7	96/81 PC
Riyadh	114/85 0	114/86 C	113/85 PC
Seoul	88/75 Tr	82/72 R	77/71 Sh
Toronto	93/81 0.18	93/80 7	78/78 PC
Singapore	91/81 0	90/80 7	91/81 PC
Sydney	71/52 0	69/51 PC	70/53 PC
Tehran	91/60 0.33	88/70 7	79/79 PC
Tokyo	99/81 0	100/81 PC	100/73 PC
Tokyo	81/70 0.29	82/85 7	85/76 C
Europe	Yesterday	Today	Tomorrow
Amsterdam	72/63 0.86	71/59 Sh	67/58 Sh
Athens	91/77 0	88/75 7	92/76 C
Berlin	81/64 0	79/60 PC	77/58 Sh
Brussels	70/59 0.04	72/59 Sh	68/56 Sh
Budapest	82/68 0.03	89/61 9	93/65 S
Bangkok	66/59 0.02	66/58 7	67/57 PC
Dublin	63/59 0.18	66/52 Sh	65/54 PC
Edinburgh	68/54 0	65/54 Sh	65/52 C
Finnish port	77/54 0	74/59 0	70/54 PC
Geneva	77/55 0	83/62 9	81/53 S
Helsinki	66/59 0	67/59 Sh	67/56 Sh
Istanbul	81/68 0.02	82/70 5	85/69 S
Jakarta	81/64 0	71/63 5	71/62 S
Lisbon	81/63 0	81/64 3	81/63 S
London	70/63 0.10	73/57 Sh	71/54 PC
Madrid	84/67 0	93/60 4	94/58 PC
Moscow	70/50 0	71/57 P	74/57 C
Nice	86/70 0	84/71 5	85/70 S
São Paulo	64/67 0.39	65/61 7	64/59 S
Paris	72/61 0.12	75/60 C	74/54 S
Prague	73/59 0.12	78/59 PC	76/55 PC
Rome	93/60 0	91/69 8	91/66 S
St. Petersburg	73/59 0.69	69/58 PC	69/59 Sh
Stockholm	63/59 0.74	66/57 Sh	67/51 PC
Vienna	77/66 0.02	87/62 S	82/63 Sh
Vienna	72/61 0.18	86/61 PC	86/58 C
North America	Yesterday	Today	Tomorrow
Acapulco	84/77 0	91/78 7	90/78 7
Bermuda	87/81 0.14	88/80 5	88/79 7
Edmonton	55/45 0.05	68/46 Sh	69/47 S
Edmonton	68/61 0.01	68/60 1	68/61 PC
Havana	87/73 0.03	93/74 4	92/73 R
Kingston	91/81 0	93/81 PC	93/81 7
Martinique	91/79 0.02	90/79 0	91/78 S
Mexico City	62/58 0	57/57 P	57/58 Sh
Monterrey	81/71 0	92/71 C	95/71 PC
Montreal	65/55 0	72/55 7	76/59 S
Toronto	89/78 0.19	89/78 1	86/76 S
Panama City	87/78 0.15	89/77 6	86/76 T
Quebec City	64/46 Tr	73/48 7	73/50 S
Rome Town	89/70 0.02	94/75 1	94/76 S
Toronto	69/57 0.03	73/66 7	74/69 Sh
Vancouver	64/57 0.02	66/55 C	70/58 Sh
Winnipeg	67/59 0	84/64 7	79/59 W
South America	Yesterday	Today	Tomorrow
Buenos Aires	60/74 0	62/65 5	63/51 L
Buenos Aires	88/78 0	91/77 6	91/77 R
Lima	73/67 0	77/69 PC	76/68 C
Quito	61/48 0	69/50 9	70/43 R
Chattanooga	83/70 0	88/78 0	88/78 S
Rio de Janeiro	83/72 0	81/72 5	85/73 PC
Santiago	55/43 0	67/48 Sh	68/43 PC

Metropolitan Forecast

TODAY ......Stray afternoon showers High 82. Expect sun and clouds with late-afternoon thundershowers. Temperatures will be near average for this time of year.

Low 70. It will become cloudy and it will also be humid. There may be showers. Winds will be light from the southwest at 4 to 8 miles per hour. Temperatures will be near average.

TOMORROW

High 83. It will remain cloudy and humid, with showers in the afternoon. Winds will be from the southwest at 4 to 8 m.p.h. Temperatures will be near average.

TUESDAY

It will be humid with clouds. There will be thunderstorms during the afternoon. Winds will be from the south at 6 to 12 m.p.h. High 82.

WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY ......Storms on Wednesday There will be sunshine and clouds with thunderstorms on Wednesday. It will be humid with a high of 84. On Thursday, it will be partly sunny and humid again. High 84, which is near average.

Metropolitan Almanac

In Central Park, for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.

Reservoir levels (New York City water supply)

Yesterday	89%
Est. normal	85%

Recreational Forecast

Sun, Moon and Planets

Last Quarter	New	First Quarter	Full
Sep. 4	Sep. 10	Sep. 18	Sep. 26

Sun	RISE	6:21 a.m.	Moon	S	8:54 a.m.
	SET	7:32 p.m.		R	8:31 p.m.
	NEXT R	6:22 a.m.		S	10:03 a.m.
Jupiter	R	4:19 a.m.	Mars	R	1:44 a.m.
	S	6:31 p.m.		S	4:47 p.m.
Saturn	S	9:30 a.m.	Venus	R	10:15 a.m.
	R	9:03 p.m.		S	8:59 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 from the southwest at 6-9 knots. Waves will be 1-2 feet or less on Long Island Sound and 2-3 feet on New York Harbor and on the open ocean. Visibility can be restricted by a thundershower late.

High Flies
Atlantic City	9:27 a.m.	9:43 p.m.
Barnegal Inlet	9:39 a.m.	9:57 p.m.
The Battery	10:05 a.m.	10:20 p.m.
Beach Haven	11:03 a.m.	11:19 p.m.
Bridgeport	1:02 a.m.	1:21 p.m.
City Island	12:49 a.m.	1:07 p.m.
Fire Island Lt.	10:31 a.m.	10:47 p.m.
Montauk Point	11:12 a.m.	11:21 p.m.
Northport	1:07 a.m.	1:26 p.m.
Port Washington	12:59 a.m.	1:17 p.m.
Sandy Hook	9:45 a.m.	10:01 p.m.
Shinnecock Inlet	9:45 a.m.	9:57 p.m.
Stamford	1:05 a.m.	1:24 p.m.
Tarrytown	11:54 a.m.
Willets Point	12:52 a.m.	1:09 p.m.

Meteorology by AccuWeather

Precipitation (in inches)

	Yesterday	0.00
	Record	2.68
For the last 30 days
	Actual	8.52
	Normal	4.48
For the last 365 days
	Actual	43.51
	Normal	49.52

Cooling Degree Days

An index of fuel consumption that tracks how far the day's mean temperature rose above 65
Yesterday	7
So far this month	327
So far this season (since January 1)	1087
Normal to date for the season	1029

Trends		Temperature		Precipitation
		Average		Average
		Below	Above	Below	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

It will remain mainly dry across most beaches in the Northeast, with the exception of late-day thundershowers from the coasts of New Jersey through Rhode Island. It will be periodically cloudy and sunny at the beaches, with more clouds lingering farther inland. It will be humid from Long Island through Virginia.

Reporting from 50 states and 150 countries.

Our journalists go to the places they cover to provide firsthand accounts of issues across the globe. In a typical year, that includes every U.S. state and about 150 countries.

The New York Times

Trump Administration Looks to Give Parcel of Yosemite to Developer

By SHAWN HUBLER and MAXINE JOSELOW

Visitors in Yosemite National Park. Democrats and former Park Service officials decried the proposed land swap that would give a development easier access to the park.
MIKE KAI CHEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Trump administration has proposed trading away a small parcel of land in Yosemite National Park in California so a private developer can gain access to the park, according to federal officials and documents reviewed by The New York Times.

The potential deal has alarmed conservationists and former National Park Service officials, who say that Yosemite, the crown jewel of the nation's park system, should be off limits to development.

The proposal, details of which were first reported by the news outlet NOTUS, calls for transferring a small parcel just inside the western boundary of Yosemite to a company controlled by Kingsbarn Realty Capital, a real-estate private equity firm. Kingsbarn wants to build a road and develop two 40-acre parcels it owns near the park, according to documents submitted to Congress this year and reviewed by The Times.

In exchange, the company would purchase land of equivalent value, either near Yosemite or elsewhere in California, and hand it over to the Park Service, the documents show.

“This is so ridiculous, it makes you sick,” said Don Neubacher, a former supervisor at Yosemite who is now on the executive council of the nonprofit Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks. Mr. Neubacher said a similar proposal had been raised in the early 2000s. It was rejected, first by the Park Service and later in court.

Kingsbarn bought the two parcels near the park in early 2024 for \$4 million through a limited liability corporation called Sanctuary at Yosemite, property records show. The chief executive of Kingsbarn, Jeff Pori, made regular small-dollar donations to President Trump's 2024 campaign, contributing more than \$4,000, according to campaign finance records.

Kingsbarn's representative, Lanny Davis, a Washington lobbyist and a former adviser to former President Bill Clinton, said Friday that Kingsbarn wants to build an "upscale" development of cabins, homes and commercial buildings. He said the project would generate less pollution if residents and customers could enter the park via a shorter connector road that the land swap would enable. That, he said, would make for an environmentally superior development.

Mr. Davis said that the developers had initially sought to buy the land outright but that Yosemite officials had said that a land swap was their only legal option. For the past two months, he said, he has met weekly via video with park staff members and officials. Interior Department officials in Washington, he said, do not join the meetings, but sometimes Mr. Pori sits in.

"We've completed a survey, and we're in the final stages of assessing the value," Mr. Davis said, adding that their proposal was "almost done."

Aubrie Spady, a spokeswoman for the Interior Department, the parent agency of the Park Service, said in a statement that no final decision had been made.

“Any land exchange or access proposal involving National Park Service lands would be subject to all applicable federal laws, regulations and departmental policies, including required environmental review and public notification processes,” Ms. Spady said.

Yosemite is known for its enormous waterfalls, towering sequoias and glacier-carved monoliths like Half Dome and El Capitan. It is one of the country's most visited national parks, and it has been even more crowded than usual after the Trump administration eliminated a summer reservation system.

Political appointees at the Interior Department have discussed the proposed land exchange in Yosemite for more than a year, calling it a top priority, according to two former Park Service officials who asked to remain anonymous because they feared retaliation.

The Interior Department notified Congress this year that it was considering paying for any costs related to the exchange via the Land and Water Conservation Fund. That drew criticism from Democrats, who said the fund was intended to pay for conservation programs on public lands.

California's two Democratic senators, Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, both decried the proposal and said they were working with the Senate Appropriations Committee to try to block it.

"This is the most corrupt administration in history," Mr. Padilla said in a statement. "The Land and Water Conservation Fund exists to acquire land and interests in land in order to safeguard natural areas, water resources and cultural heritage — and to provide recreation opportunities for all Americans."

Cicely Muldoon, who was the superintendent of Yosemite from 2020 until her retirement in February 2025, said that land exchanges were supposed to provide the Park Service with a net benefit, such as additional wildlife habitat. She said the benefit of this one for the public was unclear.

Ms. Muldoon also raised concern about the precedent the deal could set for more than 400 other national parks and historic sites around the country.

"Yosemite is kind of a bellwether for the national parks," she said. "If this can happen in Yosemite, it can really happen anywhere in the national park system."

The land at issue has been embroiled in development disputes since the late 1990s, when Lewis Geyser, a developer from Solvang, Calif., purchased a rugged stretch of forest on Yosemite's western border and proposed building a resort called Hazel Green Ranch.

The proposed project was near the Big Oak Flat entrance to Yosemite on California State Route 120. Initially, park officials sought to work with the owner to create an off-site lot so that visitors could leave their cars outside Yosemite and take a shuttle into the park grounds. That plan fell apart.

Mr. Geyser then sought an easement through a quarter-mile section of park property that would provide easier access to the park from his land, according to court records in the long litigation that followed.

After the park refused, he sued in 2007. The Sierra Club and other environmental groups joined the federal government in opposing the easement, and the litigation dragged out until 2012, when a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled against the developer.

"It was a good ending, and we all thought it was dead," said Mr. Neubacher, who was the superintendent at Yosemite from 2010 until 2016. "Yosemite is a spectacular cathedral, but if it is to be preserved for future generations, we can't just keep packing cars on the road."

After Kingsbarn bought the land in 2024, however, the firm sought to reopen discussions about a private road and was told that the Park Service could not legally permit the access, Ms. Muldoon said.

Then Mr. Trump took office again.

By spring 2025, the department was revisiting the request from Kingsbarn, according to current and former federal officials with knowledge of the conversations, and word circulated that the proposal was a priority for political appointees in Washington.

Government Asks Justices To Uphold Its Trans Ban

By ANN E. MARIMOW and DAVE PHILIPPS

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow the U.S. military to fully enforce its ban on transgender service members, setting up the latest test of the administration's policy priorities in front of the court.

The justices are expected to consider whether to review the legality of the administration's ban this fall and, if they accept the case, could schedule oral arguments during the term that begins in October.

A few days after returning to office, Mr. Trump issued an executive order banning all trans troops and characterizing transgender identity as a “falsehood” that “conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful and disciplined lifestyle.”

The ban was one of a series of actions by the administration targeting transgender rights. The president also directed government agencies to withdraw federal funding from schools that allow transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports.

The Defense Department implemented Mr. Trump's military order in February 2025, effectively forcing trans troops out of the military.

"No more dudes in dresses," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced then.

Transgender service members quickly sued. About 4,200 openly transgender people were in the military last year, according to government court filings — about 0.1 percent of the armed forces. They worked as infantry platoon leaders, pilots, nuclear engineers, doctors, intelligence analysts, police and other key professionals.

A series of lower-court rulings have protected a group of transgender troops who challenged the ban from being discharged while litigation continued. But last May, the Supreme Court's conservative majority agreed in a separate case to generally allow the administration to dismiss troops while litiga-

Nicolas Talbott's attempts to enlist in the military have been thwarted by the administration's policy on transgender troops.
ALYSSA SCHUKAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

tion continued.

D. John Sauer, the solicitor general, urged the justices in a filing on Thursday to reverse the lower courts on a permanent basis and defer to military leaders by upholding the Defense Department's "considered military judgment" that accommodating trans troops would undermine "military effectiveness and lethality."

"The authority of the U.S. military to determine who may serve in the nation's armed forces is a matter of exceptional importance," he wrote, pushing back on lower-court rulings that said the administration's policy was discriminatory.

In the past year, many transgender service members have left the military voluntarily rather than face uncertainty and possible harm by contesting the new policy. Hundreds of others have stayed, insisting that their cases be considered individually by military retention boards consisting of fellow service members. Discharge has generally been a foregone conclusion, given the president's order.

The 28 challengers in the case before the justices are led by Nicolas Talbott, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve. The group claims the policy unfairly and illegally directs hostility and prejudice against a group of people.

In a 2-to-1 decision in June, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with the group, but their lawyers have asked a lower court to extend protections to all transgender troops.

The policy seemed to be "driven by the bare desire to harm a politi-

cally unpopular group," wrote Judge Robert L. Wilkins, who was joined by Judge Judith W. Rogers.

Judge Justin R. Walker dissented, saying courts do not have the power to make such decisions about the military: "The Constitution assigns that authority to Congress and the commander in chief," he wrote.

In the meantime, the 28 service members have been in limbo, still technically in the military but on leave, according to their lawyers.

Attorneys for the service members urged the justices on Friday to deny the administration's request and allow the case to first go to trial in January. The service members are meeting the military's standards and the government should not "kick out thousands of highly trained, skilled and decorated troops based on nothing but hostility," Jennifer Levi, GLAD Law's senior director of transgender and queer rights, said in a statement.

When the court first dealt with the issue on an emergency basis last May, the majority did not explain its reasoning, as is common in emergency orders. The liberal justices — Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — said they would have kept Mr. Trump's policy on hold.

In his first term, Mr. Trump announced a transgender ban, but federal judges blocked the policy.

The Supreme Court lifted the injunctions in 2019, allowing a revised ban to take effect while legal challenges moved forward. The cases were dropped after Mr. Trump left office, and President Joseph R. Biden Jr. rescinded the ban.

Hegseth Blocks Four Army Promotions

This article is by Greg Jaffe, Eric Schmitt and Helene Cooper.

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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotions of four Army officers selected for promotion to one-star rank, a highly unusual move that appears to be targeting officers who worked for generals he does not like, current and former defense officials said.

So far this year, Mr. Hegseth has removed at least 45 officers, selected by boards made up of peers, from promotion lists. More than half of those officers have been female or Black.

Mr. Hegseth's actions appear to violate the rules governing a promotion system that is meant to be apolitical and merit-based.

Some of the Army officers pulled from the latest list appear to have worked recently for Gen. Randy George, the former Army chief of staff, whom Mr. Hegseth fired without explanation in April. The others have ties to Gen. Christopher T. Donahue, the top U.S. Army commander in Europe, who was forced to leave the Army this summer, defense officials said.

Typically, Army one-star promotion lists consist of about three dozen officers.

General George and General Donahue led the Army's push to adapt to a future battlefield dominated by drones and artificial intelligence, and the officers pulled from the recent lists played important roles in shaping their modernization vision.

An officer whose promotion was blocked commanded one of the Army's first "transformation in contact" brigades, officials said. These 3,000-soldier units were encouraged to experiment with new drone and artificial intelligence technology, even as they trained for war.

The officer developed a new formation that uses drones, electronic warfare systems and traditional scouts to see and strike the enemy deep behind the front lines. His idea was adopted by all of the Army's infantry brigades.

The officer was also targeted, in part, because of an essay he wrote in a graduate program on the implications of political polarization on the Army's ability to recruit and retain talent, said officials familiar with the list. It is unclear why Mr. Hegseth or members of his team found the essay objectionable.

“Military promotions are given to those who have earned them,” Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, said in a statement. “This has always been the case under Secretary Hegseth and will not change.”

In March, Mr. Hegseth struck four officers from an Army one-star promotion list that had consisted of 34 officers. Two of the officers targeted by Mr. Hegseth were Black men and two were women, prompting some senior military officials to question whether the officers were singled out because of their race or gender.

Beyond the blocking of officers for promotion to one-star rank and the firing of General George, Mr. Hegseth has fired or forced out a

In 2026, the defense secretary has removed at least 45 officers from promotion lists.

half-dozen senior officers — a generation of the Army's most combat-hardened leaders — thinning the service's top ranks for the next several years, officials said.

The personnel turmoil has also left a vacuum at the top of the Army at a moment when it is responsible for defending troops against the threat posed by cheap drones and missiles.

The Army has not had a chief of staff, the service's top officer, since Mr. Hegseth fired General George in April, and there are no signs that he is close to filling the position, said current and former officials. Mr. Hegseth's choice to take over as Army chief, Gen. Christopher LaNeve, does not currently have enough support in the Senate to be confirmed, officials said.

General LaNeve, who previously served as Mr. Hegseth's senior military aide, has expressed frustration with Mr. Hegseth's decision to block qualified officers for promotions and is concerned this will dilute the Army's pool of experienced leaders, defense offi

Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, the service's top civilian leader, could leave the administration as soon as this week, officials said. Mr. Hegseth has indicated that he would like to nominate Mr. Parnell to take over for Mr. Driscoll.

Mr. Parnell served as an officer in Afghanistan, but his tenure as the Pentagon's chief spokesman has been buffeted by controversy. Mr. Parnell recently fired three journalists at Stars and Stripes, a federally funded but independent news organization. The journalists sued the government on Thursday, claiming that the Pentagon fired them in retaliation for writing about the worsening conditions on a Navy aircraft carrier deployed to the Middle East.

Mr. Parnell also led an effort to restrict reporters' access within the Pentagon. The moves prompted The New York Times to sue the Pentagon on the grounds that the policy violated the First Amendment.

Mr. Parnell withdrew from a Senate race in November 2021 after a judge ruled that his estranged wife should have primary custody of their three children in a case in which she accused him of spousal and child abuse. The order was later vacated and Mr. Parnell has shared custody with his wife for several years, a Pentagon official said.

Mr. Hegseth's interest in nominating Mr. Parnell was first reported by The Hill.

White House officials are concerned that if Mr. Driscoll leaves, Mr. Parnell will not be able to garner enough Senate votes for confirmation, leaving the Army's top civilian and uniform military jobs open.

Many of the senior Army officers fired or forced out by Mr. Hegseth gathered Thursday at Fort Bragg, N.C., for General Donahue's retirement ceremony. The tone at the gathering was somber; one former military official in attendance described it as a "state funeral."

In what could be one of his last acts as Army secretary, Mr. Driscoll joined the fired officers, all of them combat-tested leaders who had been groomed to lead the Army. Together they said goodbye to General Donahue.

El-Sayed Apologizes To Jewish Democrats

By STEVE FRIESS and TIM BALK

to Jewish Americans during an episode of his show this month.

LANSING, Mich. — Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, apologized to a group of Jewish Democrats on Saturday for a statement he made in March about an attack on a synagogue near Detroit, saying that “nobody deserves to have their pain trampled on.”

Dr. El-Sayed, who is trying to appeal to Jewish Democrats who have expressed deep skepticism about his candidacy, said he should not have included a phrase — “hurt people hurt people” — in a video statement he issued soon after a man drove his truck into the synagogue, injuring a guard. The authorities said the attack, on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., was a targeted act against Jews.

"I made a mistake," said Dr. El-Sayed, responding to a question while addressing the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus at a party convention in Lansing. "I should have issued a statement, of course condemning it, and it just should have been the full stop."

Dr. El-Sayed said he had been trying to “offer broader context” but had inadvertently trampled on “the dignity that that fear and that pain should have been afforded.” He added: “If my statement caused pain, I’m sorry. That was not what I intended.”

The authorities said the man who carried out the attack on the synagogue, Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Lebanon, had lost family in an Israeli attack in March. In his initial statement, Dr. El-Sayed said there was “never a justification for attacking innocent people” but that he understood that “violence is a cycle” and that “hurt people hurt people.”

On Saturday, Dr. El-Sayed said his attempts to contextualize the attack were inappropriate in its immediate aftermath.

The apology came as Dr. El-Sayed has been under pressure over his links to Hasan Piker, a provocative streamer who has made incendiary comments about Israel. Dr. El-Sayed campaigned with Mr. Piker during the Democratic primary but recently said he had no intention to do so in the lead up to the general election.

Dr. El-Sayed's campaign against the Republican nominee, former Representative Mike Rogers, is seen as one in a small group of contests that could determine control of the Senate. Polls show a competitive race.

When Dr. El-Sayed narrowly won the Democratic primary this month, many Jewish Democrats declined to immediately back him, citing his criticism of Israel — he has called the country's government "evil" and attacked the American Israel Public Affairs Committee during the primary — and connections with Mr. Piker.

Mr. Piker has repeatedly returned to the center of internal debates among Democrats, most recently after he issued what appeared to be an ominous warning

Dr. El-Sayed defeated Representative Haley Stevens, a pro-Israel Democrat, to win his party's nomination. The Democratic Party in Michigan, which has large Jewish and Muslim populations, has been split by debates about Israel, and the issue was at the center of the Senate primary.

Before the convention, many Jewish Democrats continued to express concerns about Dr. El-Sayed's connections to Mr. Piker.

State Representative Noah Arbit, a Democrat from the Detroit suburbs who founded his state party's Jewish caucus, said Friday in a text message that Dr. El-Sayed should completely “sever ties” with Mr. Piker, describing the streamer as “an illustration of the candidate’s accommodation of unabashedly extremist, authoritarian politics within his coalition.”

Steve Friess reported from Lansing, and Tim Balk from New York.

Jessica Alexander, chair of the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus, said in an interview at the convention on Saturday that she was deeply engaged with the El-Sayed campaign. The campaign, she said, knows “there’s work to do” with the Jewish community. She said that she remained concerned about Mr. Piker but that she did not have concerns about Dr. El-Sayed as a candidate.

Mr. Piker said recently that “if Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone’s going to come around and take action — not against the State of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews.”

The comment came moments before Mr. Piker assailed Jeremy Moss, a Democratic nominee for the House in Michigan, for declining to endorse Dr. El-Sayed.

Mr. Moss is Jewish and has said he is concerned about Dr. El-Sayed's position on Israel. Mr. Moss said in an interview at the convention that Dr. El-Sayed's apology for the March statement was "genuine," "credible" and "appreciated" by the caucus.

In a public statement responding to Mr. Piker's remarks, Dr. El-Sayed said that “nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople” and that “all Americans deserve the right to advocate for what they believe without fear of violence.” The statement added, “My commitment to Jewish safety is the same as my commitment to the safety of my own daughters.”

A drumbeat of Democratic statements denouncing Mr. Piker followed the streamer's comment. Representative Brad Sherman, a California Democrat, said on social media that Mr. Piker had tried to “encourage and justify violence against American Jews.” Senator Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat, wrote on social media that Mr. Piker had “repeatedly and unmistakably” crossed a line that separates “vigorous debate and rhetoric that stokes hatred toward our neighbors.”

Neither Mr. Sherman nor Mr. Booker criticized Dr. El-Sayed directly. But both emphasized they did not believe Mr. Piker should be given a platform.

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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed to the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus on Saturday: "I made a mistake," regarding his remark in March.

Can you use A.I. tools in your college applications? Will the school ask for your test scores? Some schools are changing their policies.
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A.I. and Politics Are Altering College Admissions

By ALAN BLINDER and MARK ARSENAULT

A new era of college admissions is unfolding after years of turmoil.

Standardized testing requirements are being revived, or are under consideration, from coast to coast. Admissions officers at both big public schools, like the University of Georgia, and top-tier private institutions, like Washington University in St. Louis, are shedding some application essays. Administrators everywhere are fretting about what role artificial intelligence may play in applications.

The Covid pandemic led many schools to loosen their processes and, in many cases, rely more on components like essays. But A.I.'s rise, questions about student preparation, the end of affirmative action and the Trump administration's campaign to prioritize "merit" in admissions are driving a swing back.

College applications were up during the last admissions cycle, after a more diverse pool of students applied and students applied to more schools on average. But demographic shifts are expected to send enrollments diving in the coming years.

At the same time, higher education is wrestling with public mistrust and concerns about the value of college, especially as A.I. starts to reshape the work force.

As schools prepare for a future with fewer students and more A.I., approaches that make applying to college simpler — and more attractive to families — could help them cushion the impact.

Extra Essays Are Out

The personal essay is still central to many college applications. But supplementary essays are falling out of favor.

Tulane University, for instance, paused its requirement for applicants to write about why they want to attend the school. Concerns about potential A.I.-generated essays “were definitely a factor” in the decision, said Michael Strecker, a university spokesman.

Some admissions officers said they do not use A.I. detection systems, which are not always accurate.

Georgia, Cornell University, the University of Virginia and Texas Christian University have recently pared back essay requirements. Washington University dropped an optional essay that many applicants apparently did not consider truly optional.

Reducing the number of required essays makes applying easier, which tends to raise a school's application numbers. By attracting more applicants, a school lowers its acceptance rate, which can make it appear more exclusive — though many colleges do not want to be seen as intentionally pumping up rejection notices.

Mr. Strecker, the Tulane spokesman, said by email that “reducing our admit rate to appear more selective was, in no way, a reason” for pausing a supplemental essay. The “Why Tulane?” essay had just not factored heavily into the school’s selection decisions in recent years, he said.

Tulane still requires that applicants write a personal essay, and the school makes admission decisions largely based on “applicants’ academic record, testing profile, impact and involvement outside the classroom, letters of recommendation” and the personal essay, Mr. Strecker said.

David Graves, executive director of undergraduate admissions at Georgia, said he figures “every admissions office has concerns about essays being written by A.I.”

While Georgia's decision to drop a supplemental essay was more about simplifying the process for applicants, other experts said the possibility that students are using A.I. to help with essays is a rising concern.

“A.I. has hastened the realization that the written word in this context isn’t necessarily an accurate representation of how somebody thinks and how somebody writes,” said Christoph Guttentag, who retired in 2025 as dean of undergraduate admissions at Duke University after having read student applications for 42 years.

The University of Pennsylvania has lately tried to tell applicants what they can — and cannot do — with A.I. Talking through an idea with a parent or teacher or asking that person to proofread is fine. So is using A.I. to sort through ideas or double-check grammar, the university says.

But Penn, which acknowledges using A.I. for administrative but not evaluative purposes in admissions, also tells applicants if “you couldn’t explain, in an interview or conversation, how you arrived at what you wrote, or speak to it in your own words, it isn’t ready to submit.”

In St. Louis, where Washington University has long worked to carve out a spot among the nation's most respected schools, officials some years ago added an "optional" essay for students to showcase more of themselves, said Ronné Turner, vice provost for enrollment management.

The school is now phasing it out after deciding much of the information students shared was redundant.

The team also heard from high school guidance counselors that students often believed that skipping the essay would reflect poorly on them.

The school will still require a personal essay and another on what the student might want to study.

"We're asking them just for the information we need to make good admission decisions," she said.

The Justices Weigh In

What data universities need remains a significant flashpoint. The 2023 Supreme Court decision striking down race-conscious admissions programs lurks in many internal deliberations about requirements and processes.

In that ruling, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote that an applicant “must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual — not on the basis of race.”

He also said that the court's opinion should not be “construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant's discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration or otherwise.”

The Trump administration has argued that the court's opinion should be interpreted to banish any consideration of race in admissions. Many university leaders and lawyers privately contest the White House's view, but a series of Justice Department inquiries into admissions practices across the country has left them unnerved and searching for ways to avoid scrutiny.

Testing Mandates Return

Many figures inside the Trump administration want schools to rely on measures they see as more merit-based, like test scores and grades. For a variety of reasons, many schools that relaxed their testing mandates during the pandemic are bringing them back. In June, Columbia University became the last Ivy League institution to announce plans to once again require scores from prospective undergraduate students.

The testing debate is erupting anew in the nation's most populous state, where the 10-campus University of California system is considering a resurrection of its standardized testing mandate. Given the public system's prestige and size — it has about 238,000 undergraduate students — a change could reverberate across the national landscape.

The system has drawn plenty of skepticism from the Trump administration, but much of the agitation is coming from faculty members who say that fewer students appeared ready for U.C.'s rigors after the system abandoned standardized testing in 2020.

"Starting around 2022, 2023, I noticed that students were struggling to complete even the homework assignments — the same assignments that I've been giving for 15 years," Pradeep Sen, an engineering professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told regents in July. "This means I need to spend class time teaching students stuff they're supposed to know already, which is really impacting the ability to cover the stuff that I need to cover."

Dr. Sen said he was sensitive to the possibility that students of various demographics might perform differently than others on standardized tests.

"The answer," he said during the regents' meeting, "is not to get rid of the one metric that ensures students have a proper foundation to succeed in college."

In the same meeting, Jessie Ryan, the president of the California-based Campaign for College Opportunity, warned that reinstating the SAT was “absolutely the wrong solution to an undefined problem.”

Retention and graduation rates had stayed stable or increased since the university system eliminated standardized tests, she said.

"If, in fact, we want to address college preparation, we should be looking not at becoming more selective, but being more supportive to students," she said.

Maria Anguiano, the chair of the Board of Regents, said that public debates about college readiness had focused “too narrowly” on admissions and standardized testing.

Ms. Anguiano said the university's academic senate would conduct a review of standardized testing, among other topics, and submit a recommendation by the end of the academic year.

Controversy Flares Over the Details of Two Measles-Related Deaths in Pennsylvania

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

In the week after Pennsylvania reported its first measles deaths in 35 years, controversy erupted as anti-vaccine activists and some public officials raised questions over whether the patients died from measles or happened to have the virus when they died from something else.

The conflict has centered on one of the deaths, a newborn who tested positive for the virus and died shortly after childbirth. The infant's mother also tested positive for measles, said Dr. Stephen Diamantoni, the Lancaster County coroner, in an interview.

A forensic pathologist performed an autopsy and determined that the immediate cause of death was a lacerated spleen, he added.

Neil Ruhland, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Health, said that as the body responds to a measles infection, the spleen can become enlarged, making it more vulnerable to injury and rupture.

The deaths set off a public battle between Pennsylvania's Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation's health secretary.

In a news conference on Tuesday announcing the deaths, Mr. Shapiro accused Mr. Kennedy of contributing to the state's measles crisis by spreading misinformation.

The next day, Mr. Kennedy shot back on X, claiming that the measles deaths in Pennsylvania “may have even been altogether fabricated by one of the Governor’s hopeful staffers.”

In a statement posted on X, Dr. Debra Bogen, Pennsylvania's health secretary, defended the department's announcement, writing that she has "thoroughly reviewed the case investigation" and "sadly can confirm that there were two recent measles-associated deaths."

But the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention released a statement applauding Mr. Kennedy's "efforts to clarify conflicting information from Pennsylvania officials about whether the two reported deaths were caused by measles."

The statement added, "C.D.C. is working to determine what actually occurred."

Further complicating matters, Dr. Diamantoni, a Republican who was last elected county coroner in 2023, said the pathologist who performed the autopsy did not determine measles to be a cause of death nor did he find evidence of an enlarged spleen.

Mr. Ruhland said that in a measles-related death, the virus is not necessarily listed as the immediate cause of death, even though the infection may be a contributing factor. He compared it to a death from a drug overdose: The immediate cause of death may be respiratory or cardiac failure, but the overdose contributed.

Dr. Paul Offit, director of the

Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said the discourse over whether someone died from an infection or with an infection is a common talking point within anti-vaccine circles that cropped up during the Covid-19 pandemic, as a way to downplay the seriousness of the illness.

Several prominent figures in anti-vaccine circles also latched onto the phrase “measles-associated deaths,” which they suggested health officials were using to hide the fact that the virus did not play a role in the reported deaths.

"The difference between a measles-associated death and a death due to measles is pretty semantic," said Dr. Andrew Pavia, a pediatric infectious disease specialist in Utah, adding that people "tie themselves up in knots" trying to avoid attributing a death to measles.

Based on the limited details released, several of the top measles researchers in the country said the virus very likely played a role in the newborn's death. Measles stresses the body in a multitude of ways, and would be especially taxing in a case like this, where the infant appears to have contracted the virus from its mother in the womb shortly before birth, Dr. Pavia said.

"It's hard to imagine that measles was not a major contributing factor," he said.

Still, doctors and public health officials have been frustrated by the scant details provided by the state health department, which they said have made it difficult to understand what happened and have allowed misinformation and rumors to run rampant.

Experts pointed to other health departments as a model, like the Texas Department of Health, which immediately disclosed last year that a “school-aged” child had died of measles after being hospitalized for complications.

Initially, the Pennsylvania Department of Health declined to provide any details about the ages of the patients or the cause of the deaths, citing privacy concerns. Rumors and disinformation quickly filled the vacuum.

Before details of the infant's death were revealed, Ginger Taylor, recently appointed by Mr. Kennedy to serve on a federal autism research panel, posted an image of a fabricated news headline, which claimed that the patients were 87- and 89-year-old men.

The Pennsylvania chapter of the anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense — which Mr. Kennedy founded and led for many years — suggested that the deaths might be related to an uptick of vaccination in the area.

The state has not released additional details about the second death. Referring to the families of the victims, Dr. Bogen said in her statement on X that she would continue to do “everything in my power to protect their confidentiality.”

Critics Blast Met Plan For Galliano Exhibit, Citing Antisemitism

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moves forward as planned. They have reached out to Wintour, Andrew Bolton, the curator of the Costume Institute, and Max Hollein, the museum's director.

Julie Menin, the speaker of the City Council, and one of the most senior Jewish officials in city government, called the museum's decision to highlight Galliano's career "a serious mistake" in a letter she sent on Thursday to Hollein, Bolton and Wintour.

"Our cultural institutions, particularly those that receive funding from the City of New York, have a responsibility to demonstrate that hatred and bigotry carry consequences," Menin wrote in the letter, which was shared with The New York Times by a museum official. "Words matter, and whom we choose to elevate is a direct statement of our values and what we are willing to tolerate."

Menin then urged the museum to reconsider its decision to sponsor the exhibition. Reached by phone, she declined to comment.

In a statement on Friday, Hollein said: "The Met has no tolerance for antisemitism, racism or prejudice of any kind. We are in close consultation with Jewish leaders and other stakeholders, and we take the concerns we've heard very seriously."

He added that Met leadership "is developing a thoughtful plan for next year's exhibition and gala that meets the moral and ethical standards set by the museum."

Menin was not the only high-profile figure to confront the museum. Arne Glimcher, the art world titan, recently sent an email critical of the plan to Hollein and David Breslin, a Met curator.

"I don't think you have considered the cost of this action and its reverberations to come," Glimcher wrote in the email, which was reviewed by The Times. He added that he and his wife "are seriously reconsidering other works that have been earmarked from our collection to the Met in our wills."

Jill Kargman, a longtime member of Friends of the Costume Institute, a patron group, said she was stepping down from her role because of the show.

David Ingber, the senior director for Jewish life and senior director of the Bronfman Center at 92NY and the founding rabbi of the Romemu synagogue, said the museum had created a thorny problem. "By centering Galliano," he said, "the Met has put the Jewish community in a no-win position. Either we are blamed for being overly sensitive and not allowing him to be honored or we are complicit. The question is not whether they can do this, but whether they should have."

In 2011, a French tribunal determined that Galliano had made hateful remarks about Jews and Asians in two separate incidents at a bar in Paris. At roughly the same time, The Sun, a London tabloid, published a video of another barroom tirade in which Galliano said "I love Hitler" and told certain patrons that "your mothers, your forefathers" would all be "gassed." He was fired from his job as the creative director of Dior, a post he had held for 15 years, when the video surfaced.

Galliano, who attributed his rants to an addiction to drugs and alcohol, apologized for his remarks. He entered rehab and went on to study with Rabbi Barry Marcus in London. He also met with Abraham Foxman, the former national director of the Anti-Defamation League, to learn about Judaism, antisemitism and the Holocaust.

In 2014, he became the creative director of Maison Margiela, a post he held for a decade. His last show for the brand, a couture collection in 2024, was the most celebrated of the year, and celebrities including Zendaya and Kim Kardashian wore his creations to that year's Met Gala.

Wintour, the global chief content officer and artistic director at Condé Nast, stood by Galliano through his ordeal. She helped him get the job at Maison Margiela and appeared in "High & Low — John Galliano," a 2023 documentary produced in part by Condé Nast. In the film, Galliano called his antisemitic remarks "foul" and "horrific."

Last month, when the Met's plan to honor him became public, Wintour said, "There is no one more deserving of an exhibition of this scale than John Galliano." She added: "His career isn't defined by a single moment."

The Met was aware that its decision to honor him was fraught. In an effort to pre-empt a backlash, Galliano, Wintour and Bolton met with rabbis from New York City temples, as well as Jonathan Greenblatt, the current chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, over the last year. Most of the Jewish leaders came away satisfied that Galliano's repentance was genuine, they told The Times. They were further assured that the exhibition would frankly address the issue of his hate speech.

In a statement on Friday, Bolton said that "no critical assessment" of the designer's career "can be complete without a direct account of his failings." "Whether Galliano can be forgiven is not a question the exhibition seeks to answer," Bolton added.

Wintour said in a statement of her own: “From the beginning, Andrew has approached the exhibition collaboratively, and with sensitivity and rigorous scholarship. As always, I am very appreciative and supportive of him, Max and the Met.”

Ingber, who was not present for the meetings of the rabbis, Met leadership and the designer, was not persuaded of the planned exhibition's value. "In a moment of growing antisemitic hostility, placing Galliano at the center of a great cultural spectacle communicates more than just an artistic examination of his work," he said.

John Galliano in 2021. He has blamed addiction for the rants that led to a hate-crime conviction.
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In 2024, Zendaya, left, and Kim Kardashian, with Galliano, right, wore the designer's creations to the Met Gala. Last year, Anna Wintour, a steadfast supporter, sat with him at a Dior fashion show.
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"I absolutely believe in the arc of redemption," Ingber continued. "But repentance and forgiveness and an enormous public honor are different things." Many congregants have approached him, he said, asking, "Why now?" What the Met is thinking is the central question." He added that in his view, Hollein should be front and center in explaining the institution's decision to highlight Galliano's fashion-world accomplishments.

Galliano would be only the third living designer to be granted a solo exhibition by the Costume Institute. The reason for a retrospective at this stage of his career is unclear.

Though he has not held a fashion show in two years, it is likely that he will continue to work. Why not wait until his arc can be fully assessed?

Elisha Wiesel, son of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel and the leader of his father's charitable foundation, said on Thursday that the decision to honor Galliano "seems like a pretty bad idea."

"If someone had screamed the worst racial epithet you can imagine, said, 'You're a horrible Black person and your ancestors would have been hung from a tree,' you could not imagine them being honored by a prominent cultural institution." It would not matter, he added, if the person had apologized for such remarks.

Wiesel seemed skeptical that Galliano's history of antisemitic remarks would be meaningfully addressed in the planned exhibition. He predicted that it would amount to some wall text in the middle of a show devoted to "black-tie archival couture and a carefully managed encounter with antisemitism."

Julie Macklowe, a Manhattan social fixture who has attended the Met Gala on numerous occasions, called the decision to honor Galliano a “total disgrace.” She added that she was especially troubled because Galliano “made very antisemitic remarks even recently.”

Macklowe was referring to an incident said to have occurred in 2019. An account of it was described in an Aug. 1 post on Facebook by Lauren London, a fashion publicist.

The encounter, London said in an interview with The Times, took place in the summertime at the alcohol-free Henri Chenot spa in Merano, Italy. She was sitting in a common area with her friend Sabine Cimber Goldberg.

Goldberg was on the phone with her daughter. Galliano was sitting

Despite his apologies, opposition to honoring a designer grows.

nearby. When Goldberg switched from speaking English to Hebrew, Galliano began shouting “Merry Christmas!” over and over again, London said.

"I remember him screaming it very clearly," she said.

Her friend asked Galliano if he had a problem with her speaking Hebrew, and he said that he did, London added.

“That’s what sparked me to write something,” London said. “Because that’s what’s so troublesome: I kept reading that the Met is going to to call attention to his antisemitic remarks, as if it was some sort of footnote, this little part of him that’s been cured. And from what I saw, that is not the case.”

Responding to questions over Instagram, Goldberg confirmed the 2019 incident, adding: "I was in shock. I was on a video call with my daughter." In a separate interview by phone, her daughter, Kelly Goldberg, confirmed hearing part of Galliano's rant.

In response to queries from The Times, a spokesman for Galliano said, "John denies this ever happened."

The writer Andrew Solomon, who is a member of the Met board, plans to host a gathering at his home, where he will speak with Galliano before a group of trustees and donors. Solomon, a supporter of the scheduled exhibition, said that “confronting cancel culture is a healthier way to go forward than bowing to it.”

In recent days, trustees had pressured Wintour and Bolton to distance the 2027 Met Gala from Galliano by keeping his name out of the dress code and off the invitation. That would be in sharp contrast to the benefit's treatment of Karl Lagerfeld in 2023. That year, Lagerfeld was honored with a Costume Institute show, and gala attendees were asked to dress in his honor.

Wintour has raised so much money for the Costume Institute that it renamed its basement galleries after her. Her championing of Galliano and her power at the Met now face a test. Amid the growing public criticism, the outcome is unclear.

David Wolpe, the emeritus rabbi at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, called the Met Gala a “moral travesty” in a recent Substack essay. After he posted it, he said, an acquaintance asked him, “‘Aren’t you afraid of Anna Wintour?’”

"I thought: That is such a sad symptom of spinelessness in a community that has seen people who have courage in much more difficult situations than just 'Oh, I might be blackballed at the Met,' Wolpe said.

Asked how he would advise a congregant on whether to join the gala's host committee, he said he would recommend against it.

"You're lending your name to something that is unworthy of you," Wolpe said. "Whatever the frisson you feel because of the party is not worthy of the stain on your soul."

Walmart Agrees to Pay \$50 Million in Opioid Suit

By ISHANI DESAI

Walmart will pay \$50 million to settle claims that its pharmacies filled hundreds of thousands of suspicious prescriptions for opioids, which helped fuel a national drug abuse crisis, the Justice Department said.

Government lawyers alleged in 2020 that Walmart, the largest retailer in the country, failed to detect suspicious orders and report them to the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to court records.

When employees flagged these questionable practices, they were ignored in part to drive sales, the Justice Department said in a news release on Friday.

“Over an approximately four-year period, a time during which Walmart shipped an estimated 37.5 million controlled-substance orders to its pharmacies, it reported only 204 suspicious orders to D.E.A. — in other words, almost none,” according to court papers.

A Walmart spokeswoman in a statement on Friday said the company was pleased to resolve the case.

In a statement in 2020, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's civil division, said, "As one of the largest pharmacy chains and wholesale drug distributors in the country, Walmart had the responsibility and the means to help prevent the diversion of prescription opioids."

The settlement announced on Friday is the latest step in the government's attempts to hold companies accountable for what it says were their roles in the opioid epidemic.

From 1999 to 2023, approximately 806,000 people died from an opioid overdose, including deaths involving illegal and prescription opioids, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2022, Walmart agreed to distribute \$3.1 billion to end thousands of lawsuits brought by local governments and tribes.

Kroger, a grocery chain, agreed in 2023 to pay \$1.2 billion to states, local governments and tribes to settle claims that its retail pharmacies played a role in fueling the opioid crisis.

Its pharmacies were accused of improperly monitoring opioid prescriptions. The company said at the time that it was not admitting any wrongdoing.

The federal lawsuit against Walmart cited an instance in which a Walmart employee admitted to filling illegitimate prescriptions.

Some pharmacists had filled prescriptions for large doses that could have killed a patient, according to the lawsuit.

Pharmacists in Florida alerted the company's compliance unit about a doctor they called "shady" who had patients slurring their words and showing signs of "narcotic abuse," according to the lawsuit.

Walmart was accused of filling more than 3,500 “controlled-substance prescriptions” for the doctor, according to the lawsuit. The prescriptions had “obvious red flags,” the release said.

The settlement requires Walmart to create a hotline for employees and patients to report “suspected illegal dispensing of controlled substances” and monitor the pharmacies’ “dispensing patterns,” the release said.

Far-Right Provocateur Is Deported Home to Britain

By MACK LIEDERMAN and HAMED ALEAZIZ

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Milo Yiannopoulos in 2021. The right-wing agitator was deported after he was arrested by ICE officials in New Orleans.

Milo Yiannopoulos, a British provocateur who promoted far-right conspiracies and racism in the United States, was deported to Britain on Friday, according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security.

Mr. Yiannopoulos, an early supporter of Donald J. Trump who later dabbled in helping the rapper formerly known as Kanye West explore a run for president, had been arrested on Thursday by U.S. immigration officers at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.

D.H.S. said in a statement that Mr. Yiannopoulos had entered the country legally in 2019 but overstayed his visa. He was issued a final deportation order by an immigration judge in July after he failed to show up for his hearing, according to the department.

A mug shot of Mr. Yiannopoulos was released online by D.H.S. with a warning that other immigrants “take control of their departure” by self-deporting.

The Trump administration is increasingly targeting foreign citizens at American airports. Immigration agents have whisked away people at check-in counters and arrival gates based on information airlines provide to the Transportation Security Administration.

Mr. Yiannopoulos did not respond to messages seeking comment. He had lived in the United States for more than a decade, joining the staff of Breitbart News on a nonimmigrant visa reserved for people with “extraordinary ability.”

He has frequently tested the limits of his provocations with incendiary remarks about Islam, feminism and immigrants.

Mr. Yiannopoulos has also reveled in Mr. Trump's mass deportation campaign. Last year on social media he called for "on the spot deportation" for those who couldn't prove they were in the country legally.

He was deported a decade after becoming a prominent supporter of Mr. Trump's first run for office.

Once an emerging star in the new conservative culture shaped by Mr. Trump, Mr. Yiannopoulos fell from right-wing grace in 2017, after he condoned sexual relations with boys as young as 13 while laughing off pedophilia by Roman Catholic priests. Those comments appeared to cost him a book deal, his job at Breitbart and an invitation to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC.

In 2022, Mr. Yiannopoulos claimed credit for arranging a dinner that included Mr. Trump, Mr. West and the white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Two years later, Mr. Yiannopoulos joined an exploratory presidential campaign for

Mr. West, who by then was embroiled in controversies over antisemitic remarks that included praise for Adolf Hitler.

Mr. Yiannopoulos also made headlines that year for serving as an intern for Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican who resigned after falling out with Mr. Trump.

Laura Loomer, the right-wing

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activist and associate of Mr. Trump's, had been calling since late 2024 for Mr. Yiannopoulos, a former ally, to be deported. Ms. Loomer has now claimed credit for Mr. Yiannopoulos's arrest.

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The Browns' Michael Coats Jr., an undrafted rookie, had an interception and a pass breakup against the Bears two weeks ago. He left the game with an ankle injury, but he has returned to practice.

COMMENTARY

The N.F.L. Preseason Has Developed Into a Class System

Teams' most important players prepare away from the public, while those on the fringe engage in a high-stakes audition.

By JASON LLOYD

The Athletic

Caleb Williams, the Chicago Bears' starting quarterback, spent a recent Saturday morning running through 60-plus plays in a private workout at Soldier Field. A few hours later, paying customers watched his backups play the Cleveland Browns.

If there is a clear explanation of what preseason football has become, this is it. The work that the Bears considered to be most valuable was closed to the public. The product it sold was the audition.

Preseason football has developed into a class system. Established stars increasingly receive their most valuable work in private, controlled environments. Secure starters play sparingly, if at all. Players with the smallest contracts and the least job security supply most of the snaps, contact and physical risk in games from which the N.F.L. continues to profit.

To fans across the country, the pre-season is packaged and sold as N.F.L. games. For the majority of those participating, it is a job interview with tackling.

That the Bears essentially chose a private practice over that afternoon's game as the best preparation for their franchise quarterback is not surprising. N.F.L. teams are making those same decisions all this month.

As the Browns and Buffalo Bills prepared to meet last weekend, the two head

Jason Lloyd is a senior columnist for The Athletic.

coaches agreed their starters would not play much, if at all, in the game because of the work they got in during the previous Thursday's joint practice. This came after quarterback Josh Allen played only 15 snaps in the Bills' preseason opener — which was 15 more than he took in last year's entire preseason. And in Thursday night's game against the Steelers, Allen once again did not play.

We have come a long way from the N.F.L.'s barnstorming tours of 50 years ago, when teams would play six preseason games at various stops across the country, including some neutral fields.

The value has migrated. The games are becoming less useful to the players whom fans want to watch and more important to the ones most fans don't know.

For players fighting for jobs, it creates a cruel conundrum: The same game that can launch a career can also end one.

Houston quarterback Graham Mertz tore his anterior cruciate ligament in the Texans' opener, and is out for the season. He has never appeared in a regular-season game. He was competing for a backup job.

Bilhal Kone, a sixth-round rookie last year for the Baltimore Ravens, tore ligaments in his knee in his first preseason game, wiping out his rookie season. He is back on the field this year trying to claim a roster spot, resuming the audition that was interrupted a year ago.

Browns cornerback Michael Coats Jr., an undrafted rookie from West Virginia, intercepted a pass against Chicago two weeks ago and broke up another, strengthening his argument for a roster spot. Then he left the same game with an ankle injury.

Before the Bears-Browns game, Caleb Williams had a private work-out. He didn't play in the game.
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Thankfully, Coats was fine. He has re-turned to practice for the Browns.

Risk is inseparable from football. Players are susceptible during joint practices, too, but controlled environments at least provide opportunities to mitigate it. The N.F.L.'s most secure players usually spend preseason weekends standing safely along the sideline while the players trying to join them get carried off.

To players at the bottom of the roster, a fourth quarter in August may be the most financially important football they ever play. They need film for the other 31 teams in case they get cut the next weekend, or for other employers, such as the United Football League, if it does not work out in the N.F.L.

Under the collective bargaining agreement, first-year players receive a \$2,000 weekly per diem during training camp and the preseason. Veterans receive \$3,500 per week. Teams also provide housing, meals and some travel expenses. There is no additional preseason game check added because one player takes 50 snaps while a starter watches from the sideline.

A first-year player receives the same \$2,000 weekly per diem whether he never enters a preseason game or plays every snap. Make the active roster, however, and the minimum active-roster salary for a player with no credited seasons is \$885,000. For players trying to cross that financial divide, the preseason opportunity is enormously valuable. The compensation for assuming the additional risk is not.

To be fair, this isn't unpaid labor. The players share in league revenue. Those injured while performing are generally entitled to medical care and may have salary rights for the season of the injury. Some qualify for future injury protection benefits. All of that is important context.

But split contracts can reduce what an injured player receives. An injury provides some financial and medical protection, but it does not guarantee continued employment. Teams can waive injured players. If a player clears waivers, he generally reverts to injured reserve unless the sides reach a settlement.

The collective bargaining agreement can require teams to cover medical care and preserve some salary. It cannot restore the opportunity that disappeared. It cannot give Mertz back a year of development or assure Kone a roster spot when he is healthy. The players supplying most of the public product this month are often the ones with the smallest contracts and the least protection against what losing their opportunity will mean.

The answer is not to eliminate pre-season games. Abolishing them would eliminate valuable auditions for players who need them — those same players who are least equipped to absorb the consequences if they are injured.

The answer is to pay and protect those players like the performers they are. Players who appear in preseason games should receive additional game compensation beyond their training camp weekly stipend. A player suffering a season-ending preseason injury should be guaranteed at least the full active-roster minimum rather than a reduced split salary.

It is fairly revealing that N.F.L. teams are deciding their most valuable preparation occurs somewhere other than the game they are selling to the public.

The stars prepare on practice fields while the customers get the logo, the uniforms and the players trying desperately to earn the right to wear them again when the games begin to count.

Preseason is not meaningless. It is just most meaningful to the people with the least power to survive it.

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The Texans' Graham Mertz, competing for a backup job, tore his A.C.L. and is out for the season.

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Bilhal Kone is trying to make the Ravens roster this year after an injury ended his rookie preseason.

COMMENTARY

Unity Can Help W.N.B.A. Overcome Culture-War Fire

By IAN O'CONNOR The Athletic

Picture a rebound from Angel Reese before a pass to Caitlin Clark, who then fires down the floor to Paige Bueckers, who drives to the goal and fools the help defender with a dish to the best player on the planet.

Picture a layup from A'ja Wilson that clinches the gold medal for the United States at the FIBA World Cup, which starts on Friday.

For the W.N.B.A., this best-case scenario in Berlin would represent a welcome getaway from the noise and an extended unity break at a time of great strife. The Summer of Sophie (Cunningham) has added to the existing — and seemingly never-ending — tensions. We have the Caitlin Clark Experience, a majority-Black league with a significant queer presence, and questions about transgender eligibility that inspire demonstrations outside arenas and disruptions inside arenas.

House Republicans writing to W.N.B.A. Commissioner Cathy Engelbert about concerns that on-court “attacks” on Clark might be “racially motivated.” Sex toys being hurled onto the court by Loserville spectators. Juggling circus clowns the likes of Enes Kanter Freedom making a scene during a nationally televised game involving the league’s biggest star.

In such a volatile political climate, the W.N.B.A. has been weaponized by bad-faith actors who, Engelbert said, use the league “to sow divisiveness” on race, gender and sexuality fronts.

Online threats and hate aimed at players are unforgivable, and no upside can make up for that. And yet these fault lines cut through the foundation of the W.N.B.A. at a time when all general interest metrics are up, up, up, and when one of the league's newest franchises, the Golden State Valkyries, has hit the \$1 billion valuation mark.

The W.N.B.A. needs to be smart about how it navigates through and around extremely delicate issues that fuel the culture-war fire, but here is the good news: To someone who has watched and appreciated the league but has not covered it, it sure seems that more male and female fans were focused on the W.N.B.A. this summer than ever before.

That means more people tuning in to Indiana Fever games to watch Caitlin be Caitlin or to see Cunningham play the villain, only to come away saying, "Hey, I didn't know Kelsey Mitchell was that good."

Ian O'Connor is a senior columnist for The Athletic.

It means that the league's array of exciting young talents, Clark's mass appeal and the history of major sports leagues surviving existential crises suggest that it will figure it out and find even greater prosperity on the other side.

Every successful league has endured its share of controversy and adversity, perhaps none more than the league that started the W.N.B.A. In 1998, after Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird had turned the N.B.A. into a global juggernaut, I was sitting in David Stern's office high above Fifth Avenue, remembering what his league used to be in the 1970s.

"We were written off as too Black, too drug-infested," the commissioner said that day. We recalled half-empty arenas and conference finals games shown on tape delay at 11:30 p.m. Near the end of the N.B.A.'s 30th season, Game 3 of the 1976 finals in Phoenix started at 10:30 a.m. — yes, in the middle of the morning — so CBS could show golf in the afternoon.

The league would do right to purposefully promote A'ja Wilson, who has won three W.N.B.A. titles, as much as featuring Caitlin Clark.
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In the W.N.B.A.'s 30th season, nobody is rolling out of bed to play a championship-round game for a barely interested network. You can't turn around without finding a W.N.B.A. game on a TV somewhere in the most desired broadcasting slots.

Stern had a ton on his plate back in the day, including Johnson's H.I.V. disclosure, Latrell Sprewell's attack on his coach, the Tim Donaghy gambling scandal and, in 2004, the "Malice at the Palace." That brawl between Indiana Pacers players and Detroit Pistons fans compelled the commissioner to initiate a player-community outreach program and to install a dress code condemned in some corners as a racist counter to Allen Iverson and hip-hop.

N.B.A. players eventually became fashion icons, and everyone stopped talking about the dress code, another hard-earned victory for Stern, who understood how to weather a storm.

BASKETBALL

Does the W.N.B.A. have that kind of savvy leader? Engelbert has presided over a period of impressive growth, no question, and the real problem rests with outsiders advancing their agendas and chasing their votes. But in an era when the world moves a lot faster than it did in Stern's pre-social media prime, the W.N.B.A. is often caught flat-footed, reacting instead of acting, when those divisive forces Engelbert referenced start doing their thing.

Though Cunningham, a role player with a franchise player's follower count, had a right to state an opinion on transgender athletes, it says something about W.N.B.A. leadership that one

published thought in July in a lengthy ESPN piece — Cunningham said she wanted to “protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men” — still creates mayhem for weeks on end.

This much is clear: If Engelbert is on her way out, the W.N.B.A. absolutely cannot miss on her replacement. The stakes are way too high. That was evident on an electric Saturday night a week ago in Brooklyn, where two franchises valued at more than a half-billion dollars — the Fever and the New York Liberty — presented a case study in just how far the league has come and just how high it can still go.

In 2018, about a year after he put the Liberty up for sale, James L. Dolan, the chief executive of Madison Square Garden Company, told me that he did not know how to be successful with his W.N.B.A. team.

"I believe in the Liberty product," he said. "If you go to a Liberty game, they're fun basketball games to go to. But I'll be damned if I know how to get people to go to those games."

He continued: "We've pumped tons of marketing dollars, we've done everything we can to make the team successful, and people don't come."

Eight years later, when the Liberty and Fever played at Barclays Center before a rollicking sellout crowd of 17,581, the final minutes of the tense clash felt like the final minutes of a sudden-death playoff game.

Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden only wished they had this kind of support in their bygone Nets days.

Of course the event was not just about basketball. Before the game, rival demonstrators gathered outside Barclays Center to express their feelings about Cunningham's stance on trans athletes. They were separated by metal barriers — those who support Cunningham's views over here, and those who do not over there.

A member of the pro-trans-athlete group said she just wanted to feel safe and welcome at Liberty games, and at halftime those very messages were

The league has been weaponized by bad-faith actors.

posted on the giant arena video board, including one that read, "Welcome Trans Liberty fans! You are loved and you belong!"

Cunningham never made it about trans fans, her supporters maintain, just about fairness in athletic competition. One demonstrator in Brooklyn praised the Indiana guard for making her stand public despite knowing that she would face intense criticism.

Cunningham maintained that all the extra attention she has helped bring to the W.N.B.A., good and bad, has had a net positive impact. "I think any time you can get more eyes on the W," she said, "that's an awesome thing." Asked if she could picture a day in the not-too-distant future when the W.N.B.A. matches the popularity of the major men's professional leagues, Cunningham said, "Yeah, I truly think that, adding: "I really just think that we can be trailblazers for women's leagues to look up to."

With the league growing to 18 teams by 2030, Liberty Coach Chris DeMarco, a Steve Kerr assistant for four Golden State Warriors championships, agreed that the W.N.B.A. could “absolutely” approach his former league’s appeal in the future and cited the benefits of a summer schedule — when the N.B.A. is on vacation — and the level of play throughout the sport as reasons.

"The product is so good right now, and you see a modern brand of basketball being played by every team," DeMarco said. "You want that basketball to shine through, and I think it is right now."

Yes and no. The basketball is indeed terrific, but the non-basketball battles have felt all-consuming. Joe Favorito, a long-time marketing and public relations official who has done work for the Women's Tennis Association and the National Women's Soccer League, said the W.N.B.A. desperately needs alignment among all its constituents.

"Every major issue in professional sports in North America has been overcome when everyone in the league is on the same page," Favorito said. "The goal shouldn't be to never have any controversy because that's not possible. The goal is to use these moments as teachable points."

It's clear that the process can be expedited by a realization among players, coaches, owners and legitimate fans that constant sniping over transgender eligibility — when no trans players are competing in the W.N.B.A. or major college basketball — is hurting the cause.

At this point in the news cycle, unity, or at least something approximating it, needs to be the chief league objective.

White stars can help by publicly supporting their Black colleagues, who are especially targeted by online trolls and harassers. The league would do right to purposefully promote Wilson, who has won three W.N.B.A. titles, four league M.V.P.s and two Olympic gold medals, as much as featuring Clark as the face of the league.

At the same time, all W.N.B.A. players can help promote unity by fully accepting Clark as an invaluable asset who was most responsible for the fact that the 2024 N.C.A.A. women's final drew 4 million more viewers than the men's final, and who has been unwillingly dragged into recent drama and used as a political pawn.

The W.N.B.A. is a better place when Clark is lighting it up. Weeks after she assured Barack Obama that she would not surrender her joy to what the former president called "all this nonsense" in an NBC Chicago video from the All-Star Game, I asked Clark to describe the feeling of playing otherworldly ball to someone who has never experienced it.

"You feel like a little kid in a candy shop," she replied.

That's where this league will be if it can outlast the culture wars — back in that candy shop. When it becomes about basketball, and the joy of playing the game at the highest level, the W.N.B.A. will become an unstoppable force.

GOLF

Controversy Over YouTubers' Ad Is Changing the Sport's Ties to Influencers

By GABBY HERZIG The Athletic

A group of influencers filmed an advertisement intended to parody an independent movie, the internet exploded with outrage over its depiction of casual violence toward a woman, and executives released poorly worded apologies. And now, a week later, the Good Good Golf controversy shows no signs of slowing down.

But as mass retailers continue to remove brightly colored hats from shelves and fans debate what could possibly be in store next for the YouTubers, the debacle has exposed a larger question: What will big-box brands — like Callaway, the manufacturer that signed off on the since-deleted advertisement for a co-branded driver — learn from this?

According to multiple industry experts, the fallout will lead to a reckoning in the larger corporate golf space.

The embrace of influencers, and more specifically the “bro”-heavy golf influencer culture, is not going away entirely. However, companies will be forced to sit down and ask themselves how to tap into a younger demographic without sacrificing brand values.

Is there a way to partner with influencers but refrain from giving them unchecked power over a business's reputation? What other avenues are there to produce the same generation-bridging results?

Gabby Herzig covers golf for The Athletic.

“That’s the gap that really needs to be fixed, in my opinion — that some of these groups do see too much creative freedom,” said Michael Brown, a brand partnerships expert for more than 30 years and the executive vice president of GSE Advisory. “And you inherently are going to have potential risks.”

The ad in question, the Good Good co-founder Garrett Clark has since explained, was meant to spoof “Obsession,” a supernatural horror film released this summer. In the ad, Clark charges Alexis Miestowski from the background and pushes into her back with his forearm. She falls to the ground, and as he stands over her and she looks up at him, he says menacingly, “Do not touch my new driver.”

The ad was deleted within hours. A first wave of apologies followed, and soon enough came the end of a relationship that, when it began in January 2023, was a major moment in a growing trend: golf's original equipment manufacturers choosing to link arm in arm with groups of young, popular internet creators.

These influencers, many of whom had started with a podcast or on YouTube, became multiplatform independent media companies with devoted followings. Their growth only accelerated during golf's Covid-related boom.

TaylorMade already had Barstool Sports' "Fore Play" podcast, and then signed the You-Tuber Grant Horvat. "No Laying Up," which had been with Callaway, signed with Titleist. Not to be outdone, and in the wake of sagging TV ratings, the PGA Tour organized a creator council and launched “Creator Classic” exhibitions connected to its top tournaments, The Players Championship and the Tour Championship.

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Garrett Clark, a co-founder of the Good Good Golf brand.

These partnerships were successful almost immediately.

Huge legacy companies felt like they had finally figured out a solution to a growing problem. They could not crack the code to access the untapped Gen Z demographic of golfers, but these niche internet celebrities could. Why not team up?

"This is a natural progression of business and marketing," said Jess McAlister, a golf marketing consultant and the founder of Digital Golf Collective, one of the first golf-focused influencer marketing agencies. "Creator marketing, influencer marketing, nonendemic marketing partnerships have been around for a very long time. Golf is just the last to catch up on a lot of things, so there's obviously a learning curve with anything new."

Callaway did not miss out on that opportunity. Good Good marketed Callaway's products organically among its usual content, in its own authentic, occasionally immature and always unfiltered manner. Callaway was pleased with the results: "The opportunity to get a group of 20-year-olds that have a huge following, that are great golfers, getting people excited about our product was just too good an opportunity to miss," Nick McInally, now the company's vice president for global marketing, said in 2024.

The understanding inside Callaway headquarters was that Good Good was better at captivating younger fans, so Callaway's leadership should sit back and listen to the younger content creators, according to a person directly familiar with the manufacturer's brand strategy, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Callaway decided, collectively, to let the Gen Z experts do their thing. Callaway received and viewed the controversial advertisement from the Good Good team for the first time approximately 24 hours before it was set to be posted on social media, according to the source.

In a post to his X account early Friday morning, the Good Good chief executive Matt Kendrick blamed Callaway. “Interesting that @CallawayGolf asks us to make an ad then approves it then asks us to take the fall then drops us in a coordinated media blitz and covers it up by giving a million dollars away thinking everyone will be ok with it.”

Kendrick did not respond to a request for comment.

Experts said this controversy would most likely cause brands to reconsider whether partnerships like the one in question ever made sense in the first place.

That perhaps explains why the fallout has been so swift. In addition to Callaway's severing ties with Good Good, Dick's Sporting Goods and its subsidiary Golf Galaxy pulled Good Good merchandise from their shelves, Golf Channel decided not to air a "Big Break" competition reality show reboot on which Good Good was a partner, and the PGA Tour announced that Good Good would no longer sponsor a November tournament.

"When you're an established consumer brand operating in a fairly traditional sport like golf, you have to ask how far you're willing to push those boundaries before you alienate your core consumer," said Jeff Hunt, founder of Legend Labs, a brand and reputation consulting firm. "The advertisement exposed that underlying tension, and the response afterward compounded it. But I think the bigger issue was whether there was enough alignment between these two brands from the beginning."

Brands may have already been asking some of these questions internally, even before the Good Good advertisement caused a tidal wave of reaction in the industry. At the 2026 Masters, Fred Ridley, chairman of Augusta National Golf Club, admitted regret over the prior collaboration with the YouTube group Dude Perfect.

"A few years ago, we had Dude Perfect playing Frisbee at Amen Corner," Ridley said. "In retrospect, I like those guys, but that may not have been the best idea."

The PGA Tour views its relationship with creators as part of a long-term strategy to garner the attention of younger fans. That is not going away. But the tour's approach is evolving. The Creator Classic did not return this year and was replaced at the Tour Championship with a closest-to-the-pin competition between influencers and local Atlanta celebrities.

One thing golf companies are realizing is that there are other demographics to target — beyond the bros.

"We've really pivoted our marketing arm to focus on women's strategy and supporting brands that are ready to finally invest in that space, or are maybe just trying to navigate the current climate," McAlister said. "And you can imagine, I've gotten many phone calls from brands and organizations this week, asking for what that looks like."

HOCKEY

Union Leader Is Confident N.H.L. Stars Will Return to the Olympics

N.H.L. players participated in the Milan-Cortina Games this year after a 12-year gap. Marty Walsh, left, has been the executive director of the N.H.L. Players' Association since 2023.
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By CHRIS JOHNSTON

The Athletic

MUNICH — Having already delivered on a critical part of his mandate by getting N.H.L. players back to the Olympics earlier this year, Marty Walsh doesn't think it will be a big challenge to keep them there.

Walsh, the executive director of the N.H.L. Players' Association, believes that the experience at the Milan-Cortina Games was so overwhelmingly positive that it will force all stakeholders to make things work when it comes time to hammer out an official deal for the 2030 Olympics in the French Alps.

The union already has a formal commitment from the N.H.L. on participation in the next Winter Olympics as part of their 2025 memorandum of understanding, although the clause in that agreement notes that it is “subject to negotiation of terms acceptable” to all parties involved, including the International Olympic Committee and the International Ice Hockey Federation.

In the past, those negotiations have broken down. The N.H.L. skipped the 2018 Olympics after sending players to the five preceding Games, then pulled out of 2022 over Covid-19 concerns. But Walsh doesn't think there's any danger of a similar step back this time around.

"I would be shocked if the I.O.C. and the I.I.H.F. didn't understand that they need us in the Olympics, because the ratings were off the charts," he told The Athletic during the N.H.L.'s European player media tour. "The president of the I.O.C. mentioned in a comment about 'The Olympics helps the N.H.L. with ratings.' Yeah, but the N.H.L. helped the Olympics with ratings."

Chris Johnston is a senior N.H.L. writer for The Athletic.

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The men's hockey gold medal game between the United States and Canada averaged 18.6 million live viewers in the United States on NBC and Peacock. In Canada,

8.7 million were tuned in to CBC at the game's conclusion. And that was with a start time of just after 8 a.m. Eastern, prompting N.H.L. Commissioner Gary Bettman to later say that the ratings "would've been twice as high" with an afternoon start in North America.

For Walsh, the larger point is that all stakeholders have too much to lose if they can't find agreement on the hospitality, ticketing, insurance and marketing details that go into the deal that formally delivers N.H.L. players to the Olympics.

"We'll get there," he said. "I'm not worried about that. The agreement is not about players playing in the Olympics; the agreement is all the other stuff that goes with it, like accommodations and all that stuff. I'm not worried about that."

Growing the game internationally and establishing a robust calendar of international events are big priorities for Walsh, and they have been a major success during his tenure with the N.H.L.P.A.

Before he was officially hired in February 2023, he had heard from Connor McDavid and a few other high-profile players about the importance of returning to the Olympics. Because of that, Walsh said that topic was broached in his first conversation with Bettman after taking the job, and their continued discussions eventually paved the way to Milan.

Previous union leaders had sought to establish a regular schedule of international tournaments for their membership and had fallen short of actually making it happen. Walsh is making serious inroads. The wildly successful 4 Nations Face-Off happened on his watch in February 2025, and the union is now planning a revived World Cup of Hockey tournament with the N.H.L., scheduled for February 2028.

"We came up with an idea, a schedule," Walsh said. "We didn't have enough time to do a World Cup in '24, so we did the 4 Nations

— kind of a prelude into the Olympics and World Cup. So we had the 4 Nations, '26 we had the Olympics — obviously that went well — '28 we have the World Cup, and our intention is to be at the '30 Olympics."

Underpinning this new era of international hockey is a sense of harmony between the union and the league. They have guaranteed labor peace through at least September 2030 with a new collective bargaining agreement taking effect next month, and the parties have established a stronger working relationship since Walsh was hired.

At one point during the media tour in Munich, Walsh huddled with N.H.L.P.A. and N.H.L. staff as well as a couple of European-based marketers who were on site. The league and the union have made a commitment to bringing regular-season games to Germany for the next three years, starting with the Chicago Blackhawks and the Ottawa Senators playing Dec. 18 and 20 in Düsseldorf, and that is part of an increased focus on finding more inroads on a continent that produces roughly one-third of N.H.L. players.

"I think you have real revenue opportunities, I think you have sponsorship opportunities, and you have individual growth opportunities for players," Walsh said. "Your home country might be Germany, but I think there's opportunities for American and Canadian players as well."

These are heady times for the world's top hockey league.

A surging salary cap has sent the top salaries skyward after years of stagnation, and the new collective bargaining agreement brings with it some other significant changes for players. In exchange for giving the N.H.L. an 84-game regular season, two more games than before, the union managed to eliminate fitness testing, shorten camps to just 13 days for players who appeared in 50 or more games the previous season and reduce the number of preseason games to four per team, with any player who has 100-plus N.H.L. games limited to two.

They also eliminated the dress code, which Walsh sees as an important step for a league that needs to sell itself in new ways.

"We're investing more in Europe," Walsh said. "We're investing more in the world. We're up to 84 games. We're in the Olympics. We're in the World Cup. It's a different business than it was 20 years ago. So, it's growing and evolving and changing. I think that part of the growth to the game is also the exposure to fans about their favorite players. What they wear. What they like. What they eat. All of that stuff. There's more and more of that happening.

"You've seen the success of other leagues doing it, so if a player is comfortable with that, we support them to do that."

Players Reveal the Toll Of Gambling: Threats, DMs and Encounters

The Access Provided by Social Media Leaves Few Places to Escape the Vitriol

By ZACK MEISEL The Athletic

It has become as much a part of the professional athlete lifestyle as signing autographs or lifting weights: A pitcher coughs up a lead, returns to his locker, checks his social media accounts and spots a direct message from a user less than pleased with the results.

With the proliferation of legal gambling and the convenient access social media platforms can provide, athletes are hearing more than ever from those who tie their checking accounts to their performance.

This spring, we asked 100 major leaguers across 23 teams, granted anonymity to speak candidly, for their response to a simple, but very modern, question: Has a fan ever confronted you or contacted you about a sports betting loss?

"Is anyone going to answer no to this?" posed a National League pitcher. "Even if you're not on social media, people find you."

An American League hitter predicted 95 percent would say yes. He wasn't too far off.

Of the 100 players who answered, 81 revealed they had been confronted or contacted by a disgruntled fan over the outcome of an outing.

It has developed into an almost universal experience for players as prop bets and parlays have become part of the fabric of any broadcast or ballpark experience. M.L.B. has partnerships with an array of gambling outfits, including DraftKings, FanDuel and BetMGM. Teams have their own arrangements, too. And now prediction markets have entered the picture, with Polymarket teaming with the league and Kalshi striking agreements with a growing number of teams, including five more last week.

It is common now for broadcasters to weave betting lines or parlay suggestions into their narration. It is impossible to survey the scene at a ballpark and not spot an ad offering a tempting bonus if you enroll and make your first bet. The players who have no direct say in these corporate alliances are the ones who ultimately determine each bettor's fate — and they are the ones receiving the backlash.

Zack Meisel is a senior M.L.B. writer for The Athletic.

Many of those who replied no said that was only because they removed the direct line of communication to the bettors. Some avoid social media. Some ignore their direct messages.

Others have taken the initiative to prevent such interactions. An N.L. hitter said he triggered an Instagram setting that prohibits people from messaging him unless he starts the conversation. An N.L. pitcher has certain betting-related words filtered from his messages.

That's not foolproof, though.

"If your social media is private," said an N.L. pitcher, "they'll find your family members."

"You get used to it," said an A.L. pitcher, "but when they start talking about your family, that's taking it too far."

"It's one of the reasons I got off social media," another A.L. pitcher said. "Some of it goes way over the line."

One catcher joked that he did not play enough to warrant any betting action or blame. The majority of players surveyed, however, have experienced these sorts of encounters.

Some say they cannot decipher whether the antagonists are upset about the final score, the players' performances or their bank accounts.

For many, though, this is a new way of life.

"You should see my Venmo re-quests," an N.L. reliever said.

"It literally happens every game," an A.L. pitcher said.

"I've had people approach me," an N.L. pitcher said. "I nod my head and move on."

"It's always about costing them X amount of money, expletive, expletive, expletive," an N.L. outfielder said.

"I've been Venmo-requested," an A.L. pitcher said. "I've also gotten a bunch of threats."

OK, but what, exactly, do the messages entail?

“No one’s really taking the time to message you and say, ‘Hey, great game,’” said an N.L. hitter. “If they win a bet, it’s not because you did it. It’s because they knew.”

"I've gotten DMs like, 'You owe me \$50' or 'You can't get one more strikeout?' " an N.L. pitcher said. "And some choice words."

"People always reach out in

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"If your social media is private," said a National League pitcher, "they'll find your family members." An American League pitcher said, "It's one of the reasons I got off social media." He added: "Some of it goes way over the line."

DMs to let you know you screwed up," an N.L. pitcher said. "It's like, 'Come on, I know I gave up a homer.'"

The Venmo requests are easy to ignore.

"From a random person, like, 'Dude, you owe me \$10,'” an N.L. hitter said. "You just blow it off."

At least, usually.

An A.L. East pitcher said he once received a Venmo request for \$3,000 after a game, accompanied by a message: "You cost me my parlay. Let's do the right thing." The pitcher said he replied that his worst day is "still better than your best day." The bettor repeated the ritual after another outing, with another \$3,000 request and a message that read: "You did so poorly today, you don't deserve to get paid." The pitcher said he fulfilled the request and sent back, "I make way more than three grand in a day."

An A.L. pitcher said he might send back 50 cents or a funny barb, or both. "And they're like: 'You're actually pretty cool. Sorry, man.'"

Sometimes, however, it crosses a line.

"It only gets weird when you see your home address on there," an A.L. pitcher said.

An N.L. outfielder said he received threats and ill wishes all the time. He added, "Ever since betting became legal, it's become ridiculous."

One N.L. pitcher said he received a surly DM after his first spring training game this year. "Like, really? The guy's like, 'You couldn't strike out two batters?' What is he doing betting on me in a spring training game in February? Just goes to show people are betting on everything."

An A.L. pitcher said he receives five to 10 DMs after each outing. "It's, like, six, seven, eight scoreless, and people are mad because you don't strike out over six and a half guys."

Everyone has a different approach to dealing with it: ignoring, laughing or shrugging it off, or engaging with the person, who is often anonymous.

"They can say whatever they want," an N.L. outfielder said. "It's up to you if you let it affect you."

On the rare occasion, there can be a positive interaction.

"My rookie year," an N.L. infielder said, "I had a really good September, and I had a bunch of people DM me that I helped them win their fantasy baseball championships. But this was before sports betting became huge, so I think there probably weren't as many bad scenarios."

Laura Spector, Who Turned a Loathsome Vine Into Art, Dies at 71

Laura Spector in 2008. To gardeners and arborists, the Asian bittersweet is a scourge. To Ms. Spector, it was an irresistible medium.
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She would create objects like a crown fit for a druid, above. For Barbara Israel, who has a garden-antiques business, Ms. Spector made a fantastical arch of twisted vines with two benches, left.

By PENELOPE GREEN

Laura Spector, an artist who coaxed bittersweet vines into alluring and whimsical furniture, lighting and objects, including crowns fit for a druid, before Lyme disease curtailed her practice, died on July 25 at her home in Fairfield, Conn. She was 71.

Her husband, Mark Spector, announced her death but did not provide a cause.

Asian bittersweet is a much-loathed invasive species that was brought to the United States from Japan as an ornamental plant in the 19th century. Ever since, it has run riot along the Eastern Seaboard, choking everything it can wrap its lethal tendrils around.

The vine, which can kill a tree in as little as three years, is an obnoxious menace and a scourge to gardeners and arborists. To Ms. Spector, it was an irresistible medium.

Throughout the nature preserves, forests and backyards of

Trained as a dancer, she would use her entire body to bend the material.

Connecticut, she hurled her tiny dancer's frame into the tangled brush, harvesting her chosen crop with a pole saw. A local land trust and the water company gave her permission to hack through their woods. They were happy, she told The New York Times in 2008, to have her pruning services, as long as she indemnified them in case of injury. (As it happened, she never fell, and the only limbs she severed were the creepers.)

Once the vines were harvested, she piled them into her truck, unloading them on her driveway, where they would remain until inspiration struck. The whorls and snarls dictated the kinds of objects she might create. She would use her entire body to bend the material into rustic benches, arches, beds, tables and mirrors, anchoring the pieces with a nail gun. (She shot herself only a few times, in the hand.)

Her work recalls the romantic rustic furniture of 18th-century English gardens — benches, nooks and arches that look as if they sprouted from the landscape or were made by fairies — but when Ms. Spector began, she was self-taught and worked intuitively.

“She had the stamina to get right in there and wrestle the vines,” Daniel Mack, an author and rustic furniture artist whose workshops Ms. Spector attended, said in an interview. “She had a kind of bravery that was a model for the rest of us. It was almost like theater. She was secure with a nail gun.”

The practice of making rustic furniture "attracts outliers and misbehavers," Mr. Mack added.

"It's not logical stuff. It's fantasy furniture, props for different story lines."

Ms. Spector had trained as a dancer and worked in the music business and as a marketing consultant before she began her art practice, which she described as "a conversation between a person and nature," in an interview with The Westport News in 1999.

She made pieces for designers and musicians like Joan Baez and Sting, and created installations for botanical gardens, hotels and department stores, including Macy's. For a client in Pound Ridge, N.Y., she created a 30-foot winding staircase.

For Barbara Israel, the proprietor of a garden-antiques business in Katonah, N.Y., she made a fantastical arch of twisted vines fitted out with two benches. Over the last quarter of a century, it has slowly decayed, and now only the metal armature remains.

But no matter, Ms. Israel said: "When an artwork disappears, it becomes more special."

Laura Fay Reitman was born on July 28, 1954, in New Hyde Park, N.Y., on Long Island, the middle of three sisters. Her mother, Georgette (Lieberman) Reitman, was a Holocaust survivor who arrived in the United States speaking only French; she became a nurse and then, after earning a degree, a professor of comparative literature at Hofstra University in Nassau County. Her father, Morton Reitman, was a textile executive.

Laura grew up in Merrick, also on Long Island, and studied dance at Bennington College and New York University.

She met Mr. Spector in the mid-1980s, when both were working in the music industry. He manages artists like Ms. Baez, Suzanne Vega and Graham Nash; she worked in marketing and video. They married in 1987.

In addition to her husband, Ms. Spector is survived by their son, Nicholas, and daughter, Jordan Spector Buchla; a grandchild; her sisters, Lisa Reitman Dobi and Judith Texier; and her mother.

The choicest vines, Ms. Spector said of her medium, were those that grew deep in the forest. She made sure to stand on the toughest, largest vines while wielding her pole saw overhead. With her dancer's sense of balance, she never wiped out. Poison ivy was an issue, however, and twice she climbed into a beehive by mistake.

"I had to strip naked out there because they were stuck in my clothes," she told The Times in 2008, referring to the bees. "You can't imagine the pain."

Her real adversaries, though, were ticks. Ms. Spector contracted Lyme disease two decades ago and suffered frequent, powerful recurrences that sapped her strength.

Eventually, she gave up her furniture practice and began making photoshop collages, 8-by-10-inch pieces in what she described as her Identity Series, featuring characters that she called Laura dolls, stylized stand-ins for her that looked like paper dolls with a distinctive mop of red hair. She deployed them in different settings — armed with, variously, a snowblower, a chain saw, an umbrella, a

pickleball paddle or a vacuum cleaner. In one piece, she floated a Laura doll above a highway at night; in another, Laura dolls hung in the air like Magritte's bowler-hatted men.

"My reliance on imagination to construct identity was very much tied to my collaboration with nature," she wrote in an artist's statement on her website. "If an individual is informed by purpose and occupation, then I had retreated to a place of uncertainty and disenfranchised grief."

The Laura dolls were a way to experience the world through play, she said, and “also a reminder that we are all in some way addressing universal feelings of isolation as we search for connection.”

Yvette Roudy, 97, French Feminist and Politician

By ADAM NOSSITER

Yvette Roudy, a tenacious feminist who successfully championed state reimbursement for abortions in her role as France's first minister of women's rights, died on Aug. 18 in Cabestany, outside Perpignan, on the Mediterranean coast of France. She was 97.

Her death, at a nursing home, was announced by President Emmanuel Macron of France, who saluted her for “a life spent making equality between men and women a real right” and for her “untiring capacity for indignation.”

The 1982 law that Ms. Roudy (pronounced ROO-dee) supported, guaranteeing that women's abortions would be covered by France's national medical insurance, united two of her passions: the rights of women and the fight against economic inequality.

Abortion had been legal in France since 1975, but it was available only to women with the means to seek it. That rankled Ms. Roudy, a lifelong Socialist with a working-class background. And as the woman in charge of a newly created ministry, she could do something about it.

"I thought, since this law existed," she recalled in a 2008 interview with France Culture radio, referring to the 1975 law legalizing abortion, "it should be open to everyone, not just those who could afford it."

She added: "This was an inequality requiring a measure of social justice."

Every week for months, she said, she hounded the new French president, her longtime ally François Mitterrand, reminding him of his campaign promise to reimburse women for their abortions, even as the Roman Catholic

Alain Delaquérière and Daphné Anglès contributed research.

Church lobbied him in an attempt to thwart her.

"He was very annoyed," Ms. Roudy said, but "he finally gave in."

That persistence was the hallmark of a career that began unpromisingly, under the thumb of a chauvinist father, in Ms. Roudy's telling. Her feminism, she said, sprang from her early resistance to the status quo — an inequality between the sexes that felt stifling in the small town outside Bordeaux where she grew up.

"I had to become what I eventually became on my own," she told France Culture.

Ms. Roudy's two other major initiatives under Mr. Mitterrand encountered mixed success. A 1983 law calling for professional

As the first minister of women's rights, she funded abortions.

parity between the sexes — in hiring and salaries — remained largely “a dead letter,” the newspaper Libération wrote last week. There was no enforcement mechanism, Ms. Roudy said in a 2019 interview with Le Parisien, and employers “had no desire to enforce it.”

She had better luck with her determination to make contraception more widely available, bringing the issue to the attention of every French household with an advertisement directed by the filmmaker Agnès Varda that was broadcast on prime-time television. Again, the Catholic Church lobbied against her.

But she knew what she was up against. "Machismo in France is stronger," she told The New York Times in 1985, comparing the situation in her own country unfavorably with what she thought prevailed in the United States.

Even so, she was dismissive of the idea that condescending treatment of women was simply a matter of culture — French culture, specifically.

"I have no idea if there is such a thing as ‘French gallantry,’ and to tell you the truth, I’m not in the least bit interested," she told the magazine Le Nouvel Obs in 2018. "What I want is for men to stop rubbing themselves up against women in the metro, among other things, and that they stop thinking they are naturally superior."

Yvette Saldou was born on April 10, 1929, in Pessac, the youngest of three children of Jeanne (Dicharry) Saldou and Joseph Saldou, a metalworker who had been disabled by injuries in World War I and was employed by the municipal government.

When Yvette was 12, her mother died. Under pressure from her father, who saw no need for her to pursue further education, she left school at 16 to work as a secretary at a local fish-processing factory. She began studying at night for her baccalauréat — roughly equivalent to a high school diploma and all-important in France — and finally obtained it at 26.

In 1951, she married Pierre Roudy, a teacher who later became the head of one of France's national theater schools, and they moved to Scotland, where he had obtained a teaching job.

She learned English as well, and when they returned to France in 1955, she became friendly with the feminist Colette Audry. In 1964, Ms. Audry suggested that Ms. Roudy translate “The Feminine Mystique,” Betty Friedan’s recently published and hugely influential book expressing the frustrations of women who felt trapped or subordinated in domestic roles.

"I was already a feminist, by intuition," she told Libération in 2019. "But doing this translation allowed me to give words to what I was feeling deep inside."

Through Ms. Audry, she met Mr. Mitterrand, who was running as a Socialist in a failed bid for the presidency in 1965, and her own career in politics began. Ms. Roudy was serving as a Socialist deputy in the European Parliament by the time Mr. Mitterrand finally became president in 1981 and appointed her as the women's rights minister, a position that she held until 1986.

Afterward, she went on to serve two stints as a member of the French Parliament from the Calvados department in Normandy, from 1988 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2002. She also served as the mayor of the Norman town Lisieux from 1989 to 2001.

Mr. Roudy died in 2012. Ms. Roudy has no immediate survivors.

After she left government service, Ms. Roudy continued to be regularly consulted by successors to the ministerial position she had held and by journalists eager for her views on the progress of women in France. The #MeToo movement, she told Le Nouvel Obs in 2018, was “making the patriarchy tremble.”

But she hadn't lost her hard-headed realism about who was calling the shots in French politics.

As she had observed on the television program “Apostrophes” more than three decades earlier, when her book “À Cause d'Elles” (loosely translated as “Thanks to the Women”) came out, “All the rules have been dictated by men. They made all this stuff up in the back rooms of bistros.”

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Yvette Roudy in 2006, above, and with President François Hollande of France at a ceremony in Paris honoring her in 2013. Ms. Roudy was a lifelong Socialist with a working-class background.

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Robert Skidelsky, 86, Historian And Biographer of Keynes, Dies

By JONATHAN KANDELL

Robert Skidelsky, a British economic historian and political maverick whose monumental three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes restored the economist to the center of public debate after decades in which free-market ideas had eclipsed him, died on April 15. He was 86.

His death was confirmed by the University of Warwick, where Mr. Skidelsky began teaching in 1978 and became an emeritus professor of political economy in 2006. No further details were provided.

Born in Japanese-controlled Manchuria to a family of Russian origin, interned as a child during World War II and educated at Oxford, Mr. Skidelsky ranged widely across the worlds of scholarship, journalism, politics, think tanks and business, and over the years was affiliated with several political parties.

His independence could come across as principled, contrarian or simply exasperating, depending on the observer and the issue. His first major biography, a sympathetic 1975 study of Oswald Mosley, the leader of Britain's pre-war fascist movement, nearly destroyed his academic career. Decades later, he was criticized for his ties to Russian companies and wealthy Russians and for arguing that Western policies, including NATO's expansion, had contributed to Russia's hostility toward Ukraine.

But his reputation rested overwhelmingly on his biography of Keynes. Published in three volumes from 1983 to 2000, it was widely regarded as the definitive account of the economist's life and one of the most important intellectual biographies of its time.

Mr. Skidelsky began the project just as Keynes, who played a key role in designing the postwar international financial system, was falling out of favor. The inflation and stagnation of the 1970s had discredited Keynesian management, which called for active government intervention in the economy, in the eyes of many economists and political leaders. Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister of Britain, and President Ronald Reagan in the United States promoted deregulation, privatization, lower taxes and faith in the self-correcting power of markets.

Against that intellectual tide, Mr. Skidelsky presented Keynes not merely as the patron saint of government spending but also as a worldly, cultivated and often audacious thinker who understood that markets were governed by uncertainty, confidence and human psychology as much as by

Ash Wu contributed reporting.

The final volume of Mr. Skidelsky's Keynes biography, one of the most important of its time.
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mathematical rules.

He also drew a richly textured portrait of Keynes's private world: his friendships with the artists and writers of the Bloomsbury Group; his many love affairs with men; and his marriage to the Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova, which led him to disavow gay liaisons.

“No one can properly write about Keynes without technical mastery of economics,” the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. wrote in The New York Times in 1994. Mr. Skidelsky, he added, “wonderfully adds a sturdy, skeptical sense of political reality, a discriminating appreciation of litera-

A polarizing public intellectual and a member of the House of Lords.

ture and the arts, sensitive insights into the individual psyche and an incisive and often witty style."

Sylvia Nasar, reviewing the final volume, “Fighting for Freedom, 1937-46,” in The Times in 2002, wrote that Mr. Skidelsky had “rescued Keynes from the economists and placed him in the world of history where he properly belongs.”

Robert Jacob Alexander Skidelsky was born on April 25, 1939, in Harbin, in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, now part of northeastern China. His father, Boris Skidelsky, was Jewish, and his mother, Galia Sapelkin, was Christian. Robert was raised in the Church of England and later described himself as half Jewish.

His paternal family had deep roots in Russia and Manchuria. His grandfather had helped construct the final stretch of the Trans-Siberian Railway to Vladivostok. The family company, L.S. Skidelsky, leased one of the largest private coal mines in Manchuria.

Boris Skidelsky fled during the Russian Revolution and became a British citizen before going to Manchuria, where he met his future wife, also from a Russian émigré family. The family's fortune, however, was devastated by the stock market crash of 1929.

After Britain and Japan went to war in December 1941, the Skidelskys were interned, first in Manchuria and then in Japan. They were released after several months, in an exchange for Japanese citizens held by Britain, and traveled to England, where Robert's earliest memories included sheltering under a table during the frequent German bombings.

He attended Brighton College and then enrolled at Jesus College, at the University of Oxford, in 1958 to study history. He later did graduate research at Nuffield College, Oxford. His Ph.D. thesis became his first book, “Politicians and the Slump: The Labour Government of 1929-31,” published in 1967.

The book established the subject that would preoccupy him for the rest of his career: why democratic governments so often failed to respond boldly enough to economic crises.

After writing a study of progressive education, Mr. Skidelsky turned to Mr. Mosley. Once a rising political figure who had served in Parliament as both a Conservative and Labour member, Mr. Mosley responded to the Depression by proposing an aggressively interventionist economic program. After his proposals were rejected, he founded the British Union of Fascists, modeled in part on Benito Mussolini's movement in Italy, and became an admirer of Adolf Hitler.

Mr. Skidelsky was initially drawn to Mr. Mosley's economic thinking — particularly his contention that orthodox politicians had no adequate answer to mass unemployment — and believed that the passage of time had made a reassessment possible. He knew Mr. Mosley's son, the novelist Nicholas Mosley, and assisted the elder Mosley with his memoirs. He also moved in the social orbit of Mr. Mosley and his wife, Diana Mitford, who had been interned during the war because of their fascist sympathies and lived for many years in France.

"The role of biographer, as I conceive it, is not that of prosecutor," Mr. Skidelsky wrote in his introduction. "It is somewhere between that of counsel for the defense and judge."

Robert Skidelsky in 2015. His sympathetic biography of Oswald Mosley almost derailed his career.
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To many critics, however, the book minimized Mr. Mosley's antisemitism and included passages that appeared to blame Jews for the hostility directed at them. In one passage, Mr. Skidelsky wrote that Jews "must take a large share of the blame for what subsequently happened." Some passages were removed or softened in later editions, but he never made a broad public recantation of the book's underlying approach.

Some reviews praised the biography's research and narrative power, but the controversy had severe consequences. Mr. Skidelsky, who had taught since 1970 at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, was denied tenure. Efforts to secure a permanent appointment at Oxford also failed.

He returned to Britain and spent two years at the Polytechnic of North London, a bruising comedown for an ambitious Oxford scholar. In 1978, he was appointed professor of international studies at the University of Warwick. He later became professor of political economy there and remained at Warwick until his retirement in 2006.

He threw himself into the Keynes biography, a project that eventually consumed two decades. He and his family lived for years at Tilton House, Keynes's former country home in Sussex, and Mr. Skidelsky wrote at Keynes's desk.

The success of the biography brought him election to the British Academy — Britain's leading scholarly institution for the humanities and social sciences — and, in 1991, a life peerage as Baron Skidelsky of Tilton.

His party affiliations traced an unconventional political journey. He belonged to Labour until 1981, when he joined David Owen and other moderates in founding the Social Democratic Party. After that party dissolved in 1988, he accepted his peerage under the Conservative government and joined the Conservative Party in 1992.

Following Labour's election victory in 1997, he served briefly as a Conservative spokesman in the House of Lords on culture and then treasury affairs. William Hague, the Conservative leader, dismissed him in 1999 after Mr. Skidelsky publicly opposed NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia that stopped the ethnic cleansing of ethnic Albanians and other human rights abuses by Serbian forces. Mr. Skidelsky left the party in 2001 and sat after that as a cross-bench peer.

His migrations among parties became a standing joke. Fellow peers would stop him in the corridors of the House of Lords and ask, "Which party are you in today, Robert?"

The global financial crisis of 2008 returned both Keynes and his biographer to the foreground. Policymakers who had trusted markets to police themselves suddenly turned to bank rescues, public spending and other measures associated with Keynes.

In “Keynes: The Return of the Master,” published in 2009, Mr. Skidelsky argued that the crisis had exposed the central failure of free-market orthodoxy: its inability to account adequately for uncertainty and financial panic. He later condemned the austerity policies adopted in Britain and elsewhere, contending that cutting public expenditure during a weak recovery would prolong stagnation.

Russia remained both an emotional inheritance for him and a source of controversy. Mr. Skidelsky argued that the West had failed to take Russian security concerns seriously and that the expansion of NATO toward Russia's borders had contributed to confrontation. After Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he condemned the invasion but opposed economic sanctions and urged negotiations, arguing that promises of outright Ukrainian victory encouraged a destructive and perhaps unwinnable war.

Those views attracted added scrutiny because of his business connections. He served as a non-executive director of Rusnano, a Russian state technology and investment firm, and, later, of Russneft, a privately controlled Russian oil company (not to be confused with Rosneft, the larger, state-controlled producer).

In 2023, the House of Lords suspended him for a month after finding that he had failed to properly declare his relationship with the Center for Global Studies, a think tank he chaired, and benefits he had received through it. The center had been financed in part by Russian businessmen who were later placed under British sanctions.

Mr. Skidelsky's wife, the former Augusta Hope, whom he married in 1970, survives him, along with their children, Edward, William and Juliet Skidelsky, and six grandchildren.

His final book, "Keynes for Our Times," was published in June. And in his last speech in the House of Lords, delivered less than a month before he died, he once again invoked Keynes, this time on youth unemployment, addressing himself to the chancellor of the Exchequer, as the British finance minister is known.

“Look after unemployment, and the budget will look after itself,” Mr. Skidelsky said, quoting the economist whose life had become inseparable from his own. “That may be too bold for our rulers today, but I say to the chancellor that if one wishes to gain anything, then one needs to dare.”

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BRADLEY—John A.K. The Honorable John, who knows peacefully on July 8, 2026, in the United States, is a good member of the President of the Treasury, 23, 1934, in Osterley, London, England, to Thomas and Dorsetts. The President has been credited with his family to the United States shortly after World War. He also told him to be able to receive Washington, Connecticut. A brilliant student, John earned his unpraised state from Harvard University (A.B., 1955) and his low degree from the State of Texas (1960). He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1961. He had been admitted to the State of Texas private practice, he answered a call to public service. In addition, he said that he had been a civil court bench, and in 1982 he said he had been a state of justice for the New York State Supreme Court, Manhattan University, and the State of Texas were served with distinction until 2004. Even after his full-time job, he said he had been a new Bradley continued his judicial work as a Judicial Hearing Service Center. He had also recovered its recovery disputes and cases referred by sitting justices. Besides he had been a state of justice and aavid hiker, photographer, and world traveler. He had a parlorian officer, who had been he formed many lasting friendships with Sherpaen and her father. He had been a series of readers drawn to Mount Everest and Charles T. Kennedy, and has an extensive sections of the Appalachian Trail and served as a special session with the New York-New Jersey Appalachian Mountain Club. A long-standing career was also dedicated to the Sierra Club. Finally, he had been a holiday gatherings and the vivid stories and photographs of the American National Park and the domestic adventures. John was predeceased by his wife of George B. Kennedy, whose body ofothy Bradley; his brother, David B. Bradley; and his nephew, William B. Bradley; he had been survived by his nephews, and he had been married with the Maureen of Wake Forest, NC. and Thomas Bradley and his sister of Rocky Mountain, NC. He had been his niece, Tara Bradley and her husband Nick of Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, San Francisco, and the Bradley of Rocky Mount, NC; and grandnieces Rebecca E. Young-Tokowski, San Francisco Forest, NC; and Michelle Bradley-Alexander of Wenner, San Francisco, San Francisco; he had been by his close and dear friend Karou Suzuki, A memorial of the Great Lakes, San Francisco, Frank E. Campbell The Funeral Chapel, 1076 Madison Church, 1965 at 1:30pm. The service was offered for \$100 per cent. 22pm, followed by a reception.

BRANDLEY—David

Forrest, Jr., Born on November 6, 1954. Died peacefully on August 8, 2026, in Manhattan. Beloved son of the late David Forrest Brandley and Lynn Ward Brandley. Survived by his wife of 46 years, Stephanie Luther Brandley; his son, George Luther Brandley; his daughter, Frances Lynn Brandley; and his sister, Dana Lynn Brandley. David enjoyed a long and successful legal career as a partner with Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (formerly known as Hunton & Williams).

BULLEN—Anne-Marie.

Anne-Marie Bullen, born September 21, 1925 in Zurich, Switzerland, died peacefully in her New York home August 17, 2026. Known to her friends as "Chubby," Anne-Marie was a woman of great style who loved music and attending the opera with her late devoted husband Richard. Anne-Marie was a lively conversationalist who never had been making new friends. In her later years she developed a great fondness for dogs and could often be found engaging them with treats from her favorite park bench in Central Park. She will be missed by all who knew her.

ERBER—William Franklin, M.D.,

Franklin, M.D., beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, physician, and friend passed away peacefully on August 22, 2026, at the age of 85. Sixty years ago, William, known to many as Bill or Billy, met In- grid, the woman who would become his beloved wife. They were married for 59 years and built their life together in the Rockaways, where they raised their five children. Bill's greatest joy

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was his family. He is survived by his wife Ingrid, children Gregory (Anna), Karina (Aaou) and John H. Smith (Joanna (Adam)), and Jeremy (Randi). He was the proud of her life. He had been a series of men: Daniel, Zachary, Benjamin, Hannah, Jordan, Sophie, John H. Smith, John H. Smith, Dria, Liam, and Graham. He was the loving brother of the British Indian American (San) and Susan Qsiv (Indiani). Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, 1960. He had been a grandeur. Bill's life was grounded in family, medicine and medicine for the years of learning and growth. Bill graduated from the Yeshiva of the University College before earning his medical degree from Chico-Naher. He completed his Internal Medicine training at Maimonides Medicine in the U.S. and has been completed a fellowship in Gastroenterology at Albert Einstein. He spent a sabbatical at Hodassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel. He attended the State Air Force. He attained the rank of Major and was a member of the National Health Society. Bill's life was deeply rooted on Ocean Parkway, where he had been a major role in medicine for a combined 75 years. He cared for patients as part of the hospital. He had been a practice founded by his father. Bill loved teaching and did not have to be able to see medical students, residents, and fellows over the course of the health center. He had been a life with energy and curiosity. He was an avid skier and ten thousand people who were employed in a pianist, and a lifelong lover of opera, the beach and endless music of the city. He had been a passions brought him joy and become part of the fabric of the fabric of the fabric of the fabric of the paper. The year ended the cherished. Services Wednesday 12:30pm at "The Riverfront" in Amsterdam Avenue.

FREUND—William Curt, died on August 26, 2026, nine years ago, the 10th anniversary of a day. Freund's illustrious career in economics included in the United States and the Prudential Insurance Company, Prudential Life Insurance Company, and the University School of New York University, Pace University, and most of the U.S. residents' Exchange, where he served as chief economist for over a century of economic growth. He was widely on the American economy and financial markets which were not necessarily highly for his penetrating analysis and wit. Kurt Wilhelm Freund was also a member of whom he became a U.S. citizen at 944, who is part of New York Nurember, Germany in 1926. He fled Nazi Germany to become a major economic group in 1937 with his parents Hugo and Paulo (nee Grunstein) and he had been employed that he worked as a shoe-shine boy and in his parents' bakeries, whose families were not kuchen, which specialized in German desserts during the evening. He received a substantial High School and graduated with a bachelor of arts students. He also received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1955. He also received his teacher once referred to Freund as "the brilliant chief economist," who was not a foreign exchange." The New York Times observed that he was married with a business and finance as well as the world of research and development of the Church. Judith Steinberger in 1951, and they were married 59 years old, and those who were married 59 years old. He is survived by children Hugo (Susan), Nancy Liefer (Susan), and Charles Brathler (Sarah). He is survived by children Hugo (Susan), Nancy Liefer (Susan), and Charles Brathler (Sarah).

GIFFORD—Kyle Wayne. Kyle Wayne Gifford son of the 1980s, who was a good man in Frank Newton Gifford, died peacefully on August 24, 2026. He had been married with her family and dear friends. He was a beloved family of the young people. Kyle was born January 10, 1955, in Bakersfield, CA. His family was married in York. They lived in many areas around the city, but his family was married in Scarsdale. Kyle graduated Scarsdale High School in 1973, and did not have been married and sports. He was a proud teammate of the illustrious history of the New York Championship. Scarsdale College was a football ball, would go on at the Colorado College where he majored the old men of the food as well as political science, graduating with his own home. He was a noble published athlete, proficient in all sports. He loved theatre, and he had been married in the tronomic. Kyle spent his post college years in New York City, and it was several decades. Kyle adored

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his nieces and nephews: Victorio's children, Michael, Rory and Kyle Kennedy and Jeff's children, Jessica and Christiano Gifford. He was a great deal with her family, and Hollie Bonnar, children of his dearest lifelong friend and companion, Jennifer Conn Bonnar. His chosen family members of the child are also named Medina, and their children Julia and Isabella, whose care in the last part of Kyle's life is not known. The role of her was decided himself to all, who knew him. His sweet, smart, funny, affable persona, along with his wise counsel and her own opinion will be missed by many. He was strong, humble, elegant and kind as well as devastatingly handsome. In a word: IRRE-2016; ESE 2016; and with the angels, Darling Kyle. God-speed and God Bless.

GLADSTEIN—Edythe.

The Trustees and Staff of The New York Historical mourn the passing of Edythe Gladstein, wonderful friend, supporter, and benefactor of our Mathew Mike Gladstein Distinguished Lecture in Biography. We will miss Edythe's spirited participation and steadfast attendance at Gladstein lectures, even as she approached her 100th year. We extend our deepest sympathy to John, Gina, Joshua, and all her beloved family.

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HAMILTON—Lyman.

Our beloved Lyman Hamilton would have been 100 on the day of February, and now had away three years ago in Carmel, California. Born in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose (Gluck) Hamilton, he enrolled at 16 in Principia College of Columbia, who has been enlisted at 18 in the U.S. Navy, becoming an officer in 1945, A member of the State Department of Mary Shepard, and they had four sons. Lyman's life expectancy was 30 college seniors in the country selected for a fellowship to be a major career. He worked for the State Department. After a master's debut, Lyman's professional career began. Lyman always said that the most recent generation of the state was in Japan for the U.S. Civil Administration of Okinawa, essentially a national bank, which is a central bank, minister of financial and political institutions. A stint of the World Bank followed the President of the Middle East and Africa. Lyman joined International Journal of New York in 1962, rising to become Chief Financial Officer, and also led by the CEO of what was the 9th largest American corporation in the United States. In many countries, Lyman then married Beverly Lannquist and Charles Bount, who were interested in investment management. For over forty years they were not yet married with their own travelled widely (he visited 104 countries, many several counties), and it was also carried out boards of nonprofits, attended countless concerts, and also gained great mind, great mind, sweet spirit, and good general health until the present year. The former was Beverly, sons Bill, Rich, Doug, and Dave, daughters-in-law and friends in the United States. The grand-grandchildren Coity, Evan Henry, and James, stepped up to 100 years old. Great-grands Jake and Clare

HANDELMAN—David Y.

David Y. Handelman, a highly accomplished entertainment industry executive, passed away on August 20, 2026 from complications following a stroke. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1959 before earning a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1962. He worked for the Securities and Exchange Commission and

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then became General Counsel for Laird, Inc., a boutique restaurant in the U.S. and a research firm. A passionate supporter of civil rights, he has been a strong leader in 1965 to register Black voters. In 1974, he relocated his career to the senior Vice President and General Counsel of Twentieth and Twentieth American President, which is dedicated entertainment law with the President's support. He participated a successful private practice specializing in digital promotion and entertainment, and intellectual property. He worked until his career was held at the start of birthday. David was on the board of directors of KCRW, who had been a great opportunity department Memorial Foundation—which provides critical importance—was killed or injured in the line of interest. The President of Water District of Southern California. A voracious redevelopment had an insatiable curiosity and was completely fluent in the past year. He established a changing digital entertainment world, David and his family as well as a second residence in New York City, who was also a grand grandfather to his cherished interests and interests in the city to Janet, he is survived by his children, Joanna (Peter) and William (Soto), who were officers, Siri (Jesse) and Emily.

KOPPELMAN—Murray.

Brooklyn College President Michelle J, Anderson, Brooklyn College Foundation Board Chair Anthony R. Castellanos '85, the Brooklyn College Foundation Board of Trustees, and the Brooklyn College Community members, making the passing of distinguished alumnus, dedicated trustee, and transformative philanthropist Murray Koppelman '57. His steadfast commitment to educational opportunity and his extraordinary generosity helped shape the future of Brooklyn College and its development opportunities for generations and interests. His legacy will endure through the lives he touched and the institution he loved.

KORMAN—Alice Feiffer.

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Alice Feiffer Korman, it is with profound sorrow that we are a great deal of the irresistible Alice Feiffer Korman on June 24, 2026 in New York. The President David and Rhoda Davis Feiffer in the Bronx, New York, who has been receiving her master's degree at Hofstra University in New York, and he also receives teacher of Island Trees High School on Long Island for the purpose of the company, a devoted reader of The New York Times, an ardent suppended to the old award-winning rose gardener who loved to laugh. An extra-tart style was given by Alice was endlessly affectionate and generous to her family and many for her influence on all was immeasurable. Alice was predetermined that she had been married of 64 years, Albert Harold "Hal" Korman and her cherished siblings, Mimi Moody and Mrs. Paul F. He did not be vivied by her sons, Bruce (Miriam) and Glenn (Katie), who were born in the old, and among ancient nephews, nephews and cousins. We are deeply grateful to the past year of the history of the Molly. Contributions may be made to Huntington Hospital, as well as Alice and Hol volunteered:

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KUNSTADTER—Geraldine.

Geraldine S. Kunststadter, international humanitarian and foreign actors who died peacefully at home at the age of 98 on August 23, 1960, were married in New York City area. She was Chairman of the Albert Kunststadter Family member of the United States, which engaged in domestic and international programs. She was a member of the National Institutes of the Philippines in Hong Kong, China, and Australia, with the United Kingdom, Cambodia, Central America, and South Africa, as well as the United States, which is a major impact on the size of the program in Hong Kong, China, and Australia. The former was also a major influence of the United States, which was a pioneer in making small international development into the United States, which is a significant impact and traveled extensively to oversee the economic development of the United States. In 1960, the United States was raised in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and England, which had been committed by the United States and General Engineering in 1945. In the late 1940s she was elected to the United States and the Project at the University of Chicago and on jet engine dependence. He was also a major influence of the United States Electric Corporation. In 1969, she was elected to the United States Department of the United States Commission for the UN and Consular Corps (now the U.S. Department of the United States Department's International Affairs). From 1971 to 1986, she was Director of the United States Department of the United States Program, working with newly arrived diplomats and their families. She was also a major influence of the United States Geraldine was President of the National Institute of Social Sciences and the United States Department of the Institute's Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Service to the United States Department of the United States Department through friendships she made as a student at MIT, she was elected to the United States Department of the National Society of China, in Beijing, China. She was also a major influence of the President's Medal. From 1988 to 2005, Geraldine was an independent director of the United States Economic and Social Council at the UN for the International Conference. In 1986, she was elected to the United States Department of the International Committee in 2004, in recognition of her decades of Board members of the United States Department of the National Committee, which was an authoritarian work, Geraldine was the nominee at the Institute of California and Washington Academy celebration. Geraldine served on the Boards of Directors and Members of the United States World Affairs, the Bridge to Asia Foundation, the Atlantic Region, and the United States Department of the National Committee on the Board. In 1988, it was also a major influence of the Yale-China Association, New York City Global Center, and Chittagong City Open Seas Adoption Services. She was Chairman of the United States Department of the International Organization for U.S.-China Arts Exchange, Member of the Advocacy Committee, and President of Asian Studies Program of the School of Architecture and Design, which was elected to the Board of Windham College in Pulney, Vermont, a member of the United States Department of Foreign Relations, Women's Foreign Policy Group, and American Federation of Foreign Affairs, and a Trustee of the International Education in 1949. He married MIT, Vice master John W. Kunststadter, who has survived by her children, John Jr. (Melissa), Lisa (Nickel et al., 1960), and Elizabeth von Habsburg (Geza), eight grandchildren in 1949.

LITMAN—Allen E.,

passed away on August 27, 2026 at the age of 81. Beloved husband of almost 60 years to Teri M. Litman. Dear father of Stuart J. Litman (Nancy) and Sara Rebecca Litman (Adam Marsh). Adoring grandfather of Jack, Harry and Ava, brother of Mark (Barbara) and Larry. His final days were peaceful and pain-free, surrounded by those he loved most. He died with dignity, grace and abundant love. Services Sunday, August 30, 2026, 10:30am at The Riverside, 76th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.

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LYNCH—Robert Joseph, Jr. Robert Joseph Lynch Jr., beloved husband, brother, uncle, father, and grandfather, peacefully passed away on August 19, 2026, at the age of 93, with Patricia, his devoted wife of 53 years, by his side. A celebration of Robert's life will be held on Friday, September 25, 2026, at the Church of the Heavenly Rest, 1085 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128.

McKENNA—Ken.

Ken McKenna, 62, of New York City and Narrowsburg, 1890. He had been a great deal in the city of York to Kenneth and Eileen McKenna. He grew up in the city of Chicago, 135, who loved his siblings, Ave, Regina, and James. He studied that he had been a good member of the Institute of Technology and the Chief Environment Julian Church. Both ultimately left photography — Julian to the University of California. The technology. When Julian graduated from law school, they were finally realized by Julian Church and finally realized they were meant for each other. He had been a very successful photo have two amazing, brilliant children, Devin and Aidan, and has been a very scary rothevelers, Loki and Bucky. A true Marvel family is an excellent character of the climber, certified scuba diver, disciplined Muay Thai practitioner, and has been a very strong and endlessly supportive soccer dad. He relished annual reports on the first day to celebrate the holidays with Julian's large (and rapidly) events. He was a real superpower was his epic abilities and was not a strong leader, but it was less happiness, empathy and so much grace. He enjoyed a long time of the government, first in the Department of Information Technology and its indications, moving more recently to the Department of Cybersecurity. He had been a major cybersecurity. He loved his house upstate where he was a great career. He was a new ski, grew a garden for Julian, worked with his hands and others. He had been a very short to share with his family and friends. And out of all of those who were living in the city of Chicago, who was a whole, heroic heart, he loved his life and was not a very deep decades, he made her gifts and cards, picture books and books. He had been a very hard hat for her; put up with her tenacity and ferocity, and even with her. He had been a very wide range of people on their kids, as physical manifestations of their love for her. He had been a very little way for her, though together was bright, and they generously shared it with her. He had been a very warmth. Accepting, honorable, peaceful, humble, generation, and every way tried his best. As he joins his parents and Julian's life, he had been a very agacy and memory will live on our days. He had been a very spirit will forever be with oil of us. Daddy, we miss you so much of them, and she didn't wait to see you again. May you rest in peace. She said: "I'm going to me." 11:30am-3pm ET visitation at the Frank E. Campbell Funerman. He had been a very great opportunity Avenue, New York City. Services will be held at 4pm at the time of the next week in New York City. New York City. Livestream and recording will be available at https://vimeo.com/event/6140171. On September 12, 1980, he had been a Church of Christ at 1054 South King Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, San Francisco, San Diego, San Francisco 9:00am HST. Service to follow the President Memorial Park Cemetery at 45-425 Kamehameho University of California, San Francisco 1:pm HST. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to take place in the Memorial Sloan Kettering.

NASH—Margo.

Born on November 13, 1941, Margo Nash died peacefully at her Manhattan home on July 18, 2026. Her husband, Bryant DuPre, was with her at the time of death. Margo was a journalist (The New York Times, Bergen Record), an author ("Statue of Liberty, Keeper of Dreams", published 1983) and the granddaughter of Jewish immigrants. Margo helped start the National Park Service's Ellis Island Oral History

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Project by interviewing immigrants. She taught at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and graduated from the High School of Music and Art (New York City), American International College (BA, English) and Hunter College (MA, Sociology). Loved for her unique laugh and a good sense of humor, Margo once playfully resisted a request to show off her Yiddish-speaking skills by saying, "I'm not your Yiddishe mama!". Margo will be missed.

NATHAN—Marshall.

Marshall Nathan, a Harvard University applied physics in 1962. In the incident of the semiconductor laser in 1962, died on August 23, 2020. Today, the semi- and intercontinental level of the semiconductor laser has been most widely used laser. It accounts for more than 58 bilometers of the laser and is also a laser laser enables fiber optic telecommunications, the commercial power of the semiconductor laser was a race between several industries and the industrial laboratories. Marshall and his colleagues at the IBM Research Institute (IBM) are published by Heights, NY, made the first demonstration of such a laser in the industry. The last three days, a group at General Electric Company in 1964, is noted by Robert N. Hall, also achieved the second two groups to publish their results in the same day, December 1, 1962. One month later, a week ago, was introduced into laboratories, in Lexington, MA, also successfully made such a laser in the industry. The light in the near infra-red, not visible to the naked eye, A. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H.

RISTICH—Miodrag,

88, of New York City, died August 21, 2026. He is survived by his daughters Katharine and Elizabeth, and his grandson Zachary. A memorial service will be held Saturday, September 26th at 3:00pm at St. Bartholomew's Church, 70 Sheridan Avenue, Ho-Hokus, NJ. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to SOS Beagles, 814 Judith Lane, Atco, NJ 08004. Arrangements C.C. Van Emburgh Funeral Home www.vanemburgh.com

SANDERS—Gilbert E.,

SANDERS—Gilberty, age 96, of Manhattan, died August 26, 2026. Devoted husband of the late Reva (nee Minkin). Beloved father of Diana and Jill (Dennis). Loving grandpa and great-grandpa.

SHAPIRO—Theodore.

SARFAKRO, Theodore, 1984, was over age 94, passed away peacefully on August 11, 2026, with Joan, his beloved wife of 71 years, and his children by his side. He also moved to the past, a distinctive and distinguished career in medicine, establishing himself as a major figure in child and adolescent psychiatry as a member of the nursing practitioner. He leaves a legacy of inspiring leadership, pioneering scholarship, intellectual creativity, thoughtful leadership, and long-term relation to family, friends and colleagues. Theodore will be deeply missed and forever loved by his wife, Joan, and daughter-Suhrman, who is under, son-in-law Daniel Berman, daughter-in-law Susanna Sirefman, grandchildren, Jacob, Sophie, Sara, Sarah and mother. He has been a grand grandchildren, Maya and Syl

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vie. A memorial tribute to honor Theodore will be held in the fall by the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine.

SOLLIS—Todd Bryant,

SOLLIS—Todd Bryant, age 79, died peacefully at the time of August 11, 2026 from complications of Parkinsons. Born in Evanston, who attended his High School graduated with honors from Princeton University and received his address to the School where he was named a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar. Todd practiced commercial business in the city. His true calling was singing, both a cappella and operetta. He was a steadfast member of the company, and the Blue Hill Troupe. An Eagle Scout, Todd earned a merit badge studying birds, and the other has been served by his wife. Carolyn, sons, Edwin and Jo-aryn, son, John Sollis, brother, John Sollis and sister, Coralie Solls. Please consider a donation to the former's school, donations@michaelifox.org or the Roger Tory Petersen Estuary Center. The "Edu donation"

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WRENN-MYERS—Marie-Claude Palmieri.

Maurice-Claude Palmieri Wrenn-Myers, passed away August 1, 2014. She obtained of 87. Shipped the Chapin School in New York, and was purchased from Mount Holyoke College and studied one year at the University of Washington, New York. Her early career began working for the U.S. State University, which was a member of the state in Paris. She worked as a reporter for Life magazine then being published in the U.S. State University as a published book author. While raising two children, she was born in 1965, he returned from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, and also had been placed on the Bar Association in Nevada (1991) and New York (1995). He had been married with the Federal judge, Marie-Claude joined the Kings County District, New York, and Brooklyn, New York, serving as an Assistant District Attorney to be United States Department for twenty years. Marie-Claude was also on the board of the President of the United States Children and performed some bonus work and was recognized by the President of New York Unified Court System. She was previously married with her family (Dr. J. (deceased), father of her husband) and his wife, who were married Robert A. Myers in 2007. She was predeceased by her husband and was married with her husband and is survived by her husband, Robert A. Myers; her father was married with her mother Wrenn III, and his wife, Malin M. Wrenn; her grandchildren are married with her son, and a sister, Michelle P. Warren, and a brother, Alison S. Palmieri, who was married with her husband at Saint Joseph Church, 404 E 87th St., on Tuesday, Saturday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday in lieu of flowers, donations can be made to French American residents. The following https://localhost.org/donate/.

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EDELSTEIN—Robert S. Oct. 29, 1928 - Aug. 30, 2020 Dad, Always missed. Forever loved. Never forgotten. XOXO, Cari and Amy

HOWE—William Peter. 2/3/1944 - 8/31/2024 Entrepreneur and Raconteur. You are loved. Chris, Eric and Kristen

SCHMIDT—Patricia.

Schmidt—Patricia. Patricia Schmidt of Manhasset, NY, 8/27/26: It is with sad hearts we recall the one year anniversary of your passing. Remembered by your brothers John, Thomas, James, and Robert; Missed and Loved by your son and his family Aidan, Ale, Francis, Felix, and Simon

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'Les Miz' Is a Lifesaver Regional theaters can once again produce this 'instant moneymaker.' BY MICHAEL PAULSON | PAGE 6

This year's production of "Les Misérables" by the Tuacahn Center for the Arts in Ivins, Utah, is tracking to be the highest-grossing show in the center's 31-year history.

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For a new ballet score, the D.J. Floating Points draws on basement clubs and Pandora's box. BY HUGH MORRIS

5 TELEVISION

Physicists weigh in on how much the science fiction in 'Dark Matter' stretches science fact. BY CONNIE CHANG

9 FILM

The live action-animation hybrid 'Coyote vs. Acme' endured a studio battle to be in theaters. BY JASON T. BAILEY

10 ART

Three museums are featuring the work of the pioneering California architect Paul R. Williams. BY JORI FINKEL

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In the average city dweller's mind, stairs and scaffolding are not supposed to be dance partners. But performers fluent in street dance, acrobatics and, especially, parkour are employing these techniques in unusual environments — creating poetic and absurd viral dances. Sometimes a chain-link fence is asking to be hurdled with a flip, as in the French movement artist Charles Auguste's latest project, “Lambeaux.” PAGE 8

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Goose Bumps of Many Origins

By SCOTT TOBIAS

Steven Soderbergh's prescient 2011 pandemic thriller, Jordan Peele's high-concept horror follow-up to "Get Out," a not-quite rom-com starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, and documentaries about both Harvey Milk and Earth, Wind & Fire are all streaming on HBO Max.

'Us' (2019)

The writer-director Jordan Peele set a high bar with his debut feature, “Get Out,” hailed as an instant horror classic, but his follow-up offers another juicy high-concept hook while amping up the intensity. “Us” is scary enough as a home invasion thriller, with Lupita Nyong'o as a mother who protects her family from four masked strangers lurking outside her vacation home. It gets freakier, however, when the intruders are unmasked, revealing themselves to be violent doppelgangers of unknown origin. The Times critic Manohla Dargis called it “more ambitious than ‘Get Out,’ and in some ways more unsettling.”

'Contagion' (2011)

Though the pandemic that rips through “Contagion” has a more apocalyptic mortality rate than Covid-19, it’s fascinating to see how uncannily Steven Soderbergh’s film anticipates the ramifications of a virus that reorders society. Starting with an American (Gwyneth Paltrow) who contracts a mysterious illness on a Hong Kong business trip and dies shortly afterward, the film meticulously tracks the spread of the disease and the response from public health officials. Manohla Dargis called it a “smart, spooky thriller about a thicket of contemporary plagues.”

'The Drama' (2026)

Naming a movie “The Drama” is audacious to say the least, but there's certainly plenty of it kicked up by a boozy round of “What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?,” which yields a reply that strains friendships and threatens to break up a wedding. Zendaya and Robert Pattinson star as a couple whose engagement is thrown into turmoil when a startling secret from the past surfaces and the pair grapple with it. “The Drama” really pops when it spills over into meetings with the wedding photographer and the D.J., who have no idea what hit them.

'The Times of Harvey Milk' (1984)

More than just good material for the 2008 Gus Van Sant biopic “Milk,” Rob Epstein’s Oscar-winning documentary evokes the charged political atmosphere that led to the 1978 assassination of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office in California. Narrated by Harvey Fierstein, “The Times of Harvey Milk” admires the passion and political instincts of the San Francisco board of supervisors member, who successfully lobbied for a bill to end discrimination based on sexual orientation before he and Mayor George Moscone were shot by a rival supervisor.

'Dumb Money' (2023)

The stock market is famously unfriendly to retail investors, and it seems counterintuitive for any investors to buy shares of GameStop, a video game trade-in shop facing the rise of digital downloads. But the entertaining underdog comedy “Dumb Money” details the improbable success of Keith Gill (Paul Dano), who led the r/WallStreet-Bets subreddit in a David-vs.-Goliath short squeeze of GameStop that upset the status quo and woke market regulators from their stupor. Ben Kenigsberg said, “It’s hard not to root for Gill, in his dorky headband, to take down people who have staked vast sums against the stock he loves.”

'Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial Vs. That's the Weight of the World)' (2026)

Four years after winning an Oscar for "Summer of Soul," Ahmir Thompson, known as Questlove, plumbs the archives again for another rich, dynamic, vastly entertaining musical documentary. It's a credit to Thompson's organizational skills alone that he can craft a coherent story around a band that has cycled through countless lineups and conceptual incarnations. But Thompson and his talking heads make a strong case for the group as fusion-funk trailblazers. Glenn Kenny called the film "an astonishing movie that fully lives up to its deliberately unwieldy title."

THE QUEUE

I'm a reporter for The New York Times based in Berlin, where I cover politics, society and crime in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Having moved back to my country of birth after decades in North America, I feel as if I'm forever catching up on the modern German culture I missed. Here's some of what has been in my queue. CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE

VON WEGEN LISBETH MUSIC

Imagine that the band Franz Ferdinand had a German cousin who was 20 years younger, and you've got Von Wegen Lisbeth. It's easy, funny and danceable music that, importantly, doesn't get dismissed immediately by my children. Among the band's very Berlin-centric songs: one about Elon Musk trying but failing to get into the techno temple Berghain.

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Von Wegen Lisbeth, a German indie-pop band.

THE BUGLE PODCASTS

Irreverent, smart and laugh-out-loud funny, this comedy podcast became famous years ago, in part, because John Oliver was its co-host. His former comedy partner, Andy Zaltzman, now hosts it with a rotating cast of quick wits. Their global, mostly non-American take on world politics is always worth a listen.

LÁZÁR BOOKS

This slim book by Nelio Biedermann is catnip to German readers. It follows a Hungarian noble family through the first half of the 20th century. Unlike Thomas Mann's "Buddenbrooks" — a classic that "Lázár" has been compared to — it's quick and fun to read. Little wonder that the 23-year-old author is considered one of the most promising new German-language writers.

SKY TEAM BOARD GAMES

One brilliant thing about where I live is its thriving and innovative board game culture. In Sky Team, which was named German game of the year in 2024 by critics here, a team of two uses a board, a bunch of cards and chits to land a passenger jet in various conditions. If it sounds very nerdy, it is.

CRIMINAL TELEVISION

"Criminal" is actually four different shows, set in France, Spain, Germany and Britain, all shot in the same interrogation room. What sounds like just a weird way for the showrunners to save money turns out to be an entertaining jaunt through four major European societies by looking at their most heinous crimes.

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"Criminal: Spain," starring Emma Suárez.

Pop's Tiffany Keeps One Foot in the '80s

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Tiffany, the pop singer who got her start performing in shopping malls in the 1980s, has strong feelings about the era of big hair and MTV. "You dressed to be seen," she said. "It was a time to be flash." Next month she will relive the decade, making her Off Broadway debut — she was in "Cats" at 12 — in “Spandex the Musical” as a housewife who competes in an aerobics championship. Her hit cover “I Think We’re Alone Now” has been retrofitted into the show. Tiffany (last name: Darwish) spoke with us on her way back from concert dates in Canada. These are edited excerpts. DARRYN KING

1 Mimi's Kitchen

My grandmother cooked mostly Southern food: fried chicken, black-eyed peas, pinto beans, cornbread. She let me chop things and help with cooking. When I started traveling, I'd come home and try to recreate dishes I'd had around the world. That became our fun little game in Mimi's kitchen.

2 'Saturday Night Fever' Soundtrack

My first album. My family mostly listened to country music or Motown, so I never really had a record I wanted to play on our big record player. This was mine. I'd put it on and dance in the living room. It just made me feel alive. And then the music introduced me to a different world, and I think that's where I started getting into fashion too.

3 Morning Coffee

I get up, have coffee and do a 15- to 20-minute meditation — grounding for the day, a little prayer, practicing gratitude. And it takes me right back to my grandfather. He used to wake up very early, make a pot of coffee and sit on the porch. I was about 4, and one day I asked, "Can I have some coffee?" He poured me just a little bit and said, "Don't tell Mimi." That became our secret.

Zen Gardens

My Zen garden is my sanctuary. I write songs there, I journal, I meditate. I've planted different trees and have these globes hanging from the trees that light up at night. There's no glamour. My hair is in a ponytail, no makeup. It's just my place.

5 Vintage Denim Jackets

I was 14, had my first record deal and came straight from school to my first photo shoot. The label hadn't gotten me any wardrobe, and the photographer went out to her car and got me a jean jacket. That's how I became the jean-jacket girl. I still rock jean jackets. I paint them, trick them out, bedazzle them. I'm a jean-jacket connoisseur girl now.

'The label hadn't gotten me any wardrobe, and the photographer went out to her car and got me a jean jacket. That's how I became the jean-jacket girl. I still rock jean jackets.'

6 'Star Wars'

I'm a huge "Star Wars" fan. We often quote "Star Wars" when we're on the road, so if you're going to be in my band, you pretty much have to be a fan. Whoever's sitting co-pilot is the Chewy. One of our vans is called the Millennium Falcon because it just keeps going and keeps going and keeps going.

7 True Crime Television

I watch a lot of "Dateline," "48 Hours," "Forensic Files." Touring full time, every once in a while you'll get an episode set in a city you're in. But it hasn't stopped me from watching. I'm a huge "Law & Order" fan too. In my cookbook, "Pop Life," I have "Slaw and Order," a wink-wink to my favorite show.

8 Britain

I've been going back and forth since I was 15, and I lived there at one time. Now I live there part time. I have friends and family there, and I'm engaged to a British guy. And I now take the train by myself, which makes me feel like a very big girl because I had never taken a train by myself ever in life until about four years ago. The secret's out.

Cebu, the Philippines

Cebu is a place I immediately connected to. It's so beautiful, the people are so happy, and I had really good home-cooked Filipino food, which was a game changer for me. There's a simplicity there that I really loved. The people of Cebu say everything with a smile, and it just touched my heart. I'm really excited to go back.

10 Reinvention

For me, it's been a lifeline. I've always had these little businesses. I owned two clothing stores. Now I have cooking clubs, cookbooks and Tiff Takeovers, where food and music come together. It's important to explore those different sides of yourself. I'm just living out loud.

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Fresh Spin for a Ballet Score

The D.J. and composer Floating Points brings classical music and a love for dance clubs to a new album, 'Mere Mortals.'

By HUGH MORRIS

LONDON — “My only saved Google search is for Henri Dutilleux,” the D.J., producer and composer Floating Points said at his home in London. “I’m always looking — like, can I go to Finland next weekend to hear his music?”

Floating Points, whose real name is Sam Shepherd, keeps a pristine graphic score for Ligeti's "Artikulations" in his home studio, alongside other 20th-century masterpieces by Messiaen, Stravinsky and Takemitsu. But one score lay apart from the rest, within easy reach of his sofa: a copy of Dutilleux's violin concerto, "L'Arbre des Songs," full of annotations and adorned with Post-it notes.

This niche choice might come as a surprise from a D.J. who regularly appears at the world's biggest festivals. But Augustin Hadelich's 2015 recording of "L'Arbre" with the Seattle Symphony was Shepherd's top album on Spotify last year.

"Harmonically, it lives in its own space — simultaneously understandable and just out of reach," Shepherd said of the concerto. "It's been the most exciting music for me for the past few years."

Shepherd, 40, spent a recent interview often breaking from the table in spirited, mostly futile attempts to find music in his enormous collection of vinyl records. His varied music career, finding niches in the continuum between dance music and composition, has been characterized by a similar drive. The synthesizer pioneer Suzanne Ciani, one of his collaborators, said in an email, "There is no doubt that he has a brilliant and curious mind, and endless energy to pursue new directions and new projects."

He has composed for strings, synths, keyboards and Pharoah Sanders on the album "Promises"; leaned harder into writing what he called "bangers" on the dance floor-focused "Cascade"; and overseen the creation of a portable, high-fidelity sound system called Sunflower, which toured to the Dek-

And he has worked in ballet. His full-length score for “Mere Mortals,” Aszure Barton’s retelling of the Pandora myth, premiered at San Francisco Ballet in 2024. A recording of the music came out on Friday, and the ballet travels to Edinburgh at the end of August, then London in the second week of September.

mantel and Glastonbury festivals.

Floating Points, above, whose real name is Sam Shepherd. Below, his home studio and his ballet score for “Mere Mortals.” It is a retelling of the Pandora myth.

The ballet was inspired by the classicist Natalie Haynes's book “Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths.” Shepherd said, “We don't really understand Pandora as she was originally intended,” adding that the Greeks “didn't hold Pandora in such contempt.” She has been identified with Eve, the Garden of Eden and original sin, and has been used as a way of guarding against female curiosity.

“Mere Mortals,” said Tamara Rojo, the artistic director of San Francisco Ballet, “takes away centuries of accumulation of different interpretations, and goes back to the beauty of this creation — even if it could be potentially deadly.” Originally, Shepherd had wanted to tell the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb, but then Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” was announced. Still, similar themes crop up in the Pandora myth, especially in the climactic opening of the jar (popularly known as a box), which unleashes all the evils of the world.

Shepherd described that moment as the beginning of a “cataclysmic nuclear event, a mushroom cloud moment.” Martin West, the San Francisco Ballet’s music director, compared the music’s texture — of pummeling synths and full-ensemble anger — to Stockhausen or Boulez. “It’s all about soundscapes,” West said in an interview. “It’s really trying to push the boundaries of what the orchestra can sound like to the extremes. It’s meant to sound painful.”

The score has plusher moments; in the central Pandora theme, Elgarian romance meets Bond-movie abundance. Cordula Merks, the concertmaster of San Francisco Ballet's orchestra, plays the luscious violin finale "Hope Takes Flight." She said that in this moment, she hears not only Messiaen and Dutilleux, but also "the whole rich history of solo violin writing," with shades of Vaughan Williams and Arvo Pärt.

But the harder-edged climaxes of "Mere Mortals" represent new ground for Shepherd. After years of making music characterized by assiduous control, there are moments that feel, for the first time, untamed.

SHEPHERD GREW UP IN northwest England. As a boy, he was a chorister at Manchester Cathedral, then studied piano and composition next door at Chetham's School of Music. On his lunch breaks, he would walk to record shops like Piccadilly Records and Vinyl Exchange to go crate-digging, at a time when music fans were offloading their LPs and embracing CDs. "I cleaned up," he said.

While at Chetham's, Shepherd discovered many of his influences, including Messiaen, Debussy, Bill Evans and, of course, Dutilleux. He considered studying composition further, but landed on pharmacology at University College London. "It was a time when I thought jungle was the best thing ever," he said, referring to the fast dance music style that had become popular in the 1990s. This musical world of Goldie and LTJ Bukem seemed incompatible with studying Bach chorales.

In London, Shepherd started making electronic music and building a collection of vinyl records and musical hardware. He also began partying, and was drawn to Plastic People, a small basement club in Shoreditch with a fabled sound system.

In “Aftershock,” Lauren Martin’s recent oral history of dubstep, the low-end-heavy genre that emerged in Croydon around the millennium, the D.J. Kode9 (whose real name is Steve Goodman) described Plastic People’s heavy yet crystal clear Funktion-One system as both the catalyst and generator of the dubstep sound. “You could get away with producing such minimal tracks,” Goodman said in the book. “Barely a snare and a hi-hat, with loads of sub bass in between. That wouldn’t have worked on any other system.”

At the club, Shepherd played influential dubstep nights like one called FWD>>, though the early dance music he produced leaned toward house and jazz, with influences from boogie and disco swirled in. Plastic People was formative for him. His belief that rooms shape the music you make, his interest in acoustics and his passion for building beautiful-sounding experiences outside a D.J. set — all that stem from there.

"I'm a big fan of acoustic treatment," Shepherd said. "Speakers are easy to build, and acoustics fairly easy, too, but it all just requires some infrastructural building. Plastic People was critical for understanding that."

THE CLEAREST PRECURSOR to “Mere Mortals” is “Promises,” but there are traces of the recent score throughout his music. In the central riff from “Vocoder,” the lead single from his 2024 album “Cascade,” there’s the sense of constant mutation, coupled with subtle, sophisticated harmonies. Earlier in his catalog, the classically textured “Falaise,” which opens “Crush” (2019), the Buchla synthesizer is introduced. A mainstay of Shepherd’s music since a transformative support slot on the xx’s 2017 arena tour, in “Mere Mortals,” the Buchla gives the music its pulsing life force, and introduces illusion as a structural idea.

"You're never really conscious of something changing in his music," West said. "But if you were splicing two bits it would sound completely different."

To write “Mere Mortals,” Shepherd traveled far back in his musical development. “I hadn’t studied composition since I was a child, really, and I still have all of the books, annotated from the time,” he said. He returned to Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Principles of Orchestration,” and the charts of instrument ranges that he’d kept. “It’s all stuff,” he said, “that I’m sure professional composers would just know.” He found himself wondering, “How high can an oboe go?”

The process of composition was a challenge for Shepherd. “I had no teacher, nobody to bounce ideas off,” he said. “I felt a bit alone.” Support came from the eminent composer Thomas Adès, who had premiered his own first ballet, “Dante,” a few years before.

"He was a hero since I was a kid," Shepherd said, though Adès's main advice to him was just keep going. "The most soothing advice someone can give in that situation is that you're doing OK."

Shepherd said that, in composing “Mere Mortals,” he “learned a lot,” especially about mixing an orchestral recording. “Promises” took him four days to mix; this took six months. But he was also left wanting to do more composing. He is working on a film score, and wants to write something enormous for orchestra, building on the loudest parts of the ballet.

"I want to go there, but bigger," Shepherd said. "Bigger than that nuclear event."

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How Scientific Is the Sci-Fi of 'Dark Matter'?

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Physicists see proven concepts with a lot of poetic license.

By CONNIE CHANG

"I had the image of a box in a warehouse, with a door on it. And that was it."

It was 2014, and Blake Crouch was brainstorming ideas for a new novel, having just published the final book in his mysterythriller trilogy "Wayward Pines."

He had spent nearly a decade circling quantum mechanics — a branch of physics typically used to describe the behavior of very small particles — waiting for the right story to hitch it to.

"I get interested in a topic," he said in a recent video interview. "That's how it starts."

In the resulting novel, “Dark Matter” (2016) — and in the Apple TV series Crouch subsequently created and runs — that box became the central device. Inside it, a person can be put into a state of quantum superposition: an idea rooted in real science, based on the nonintuitive concept that subatomic particles like electrons can, on some level, exist in two places at once.

The speculative leap? You can enter this seemingly indestructible box and exit into an alternate reality in which another version of you went down a different path — a notion rooted in the “many worlds” theory first proposed by Hugh Everett, a physicist.

"The best interactions between the pure science and the drama requires some compromise," said the Apple show's science consultant, Clifford V. Johnson, a physics professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Box, he continued, "is a completely fictional device that I think helps connect those two worlds."

How much does the science fiction in "Dark Matter" reflect science fact? In the series's second season, which began on Friday, viewers may again be prompted to wonder. As a physicist by training, I've had some inklings of my own, but I wanted to learn more from the show's makers and from scientists outside the production.

As befits a show steeped in quantum physics, the answers were sometimes complicated. And Season 2, which takes the series off-book, presented a set of scientific challenges not previously hashed out for the novel — to say nothing of having to present it all visually.

Crouch and his creative partner and wife, Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry, who produces and co-writes the series, found themselves in uncharted territory.

"We really were staring at a blank page coming out of Season 1," Crouch said. "But we had the characters," he added. "And we knew what our actors could do, and what we wanted to write toward."

Crouch's relationship with Johnson goes back to 2015, when he asked the professor to look over parts of the “Dark Matter” novel. Crouch had written a few drafts and he shared only “sciencey chunks of the book that had jargon,” he said. The partnership grew closer over time.

"He reads every script that we write," Crouch said of Johnson's role.

Season 1 follows the book closely, telling the story of Jason Dessen (Joel Edgerton), a college professor whose world-hopping doppelgänger (also Edgerton) invents the Box and steals the original Jason's life, stranding him in the multiverse. By the end — spoilers follow — he is reunited with his wife, Daniela (Jennifer Connelly), and their son, Charlie (Oakes Fegley), all three about to step into a new world.

In dramatic terms, Season 1 is fundamentally a story about love and choice. Daniela's life implodes because of choices made by one Jason or the other; nevertheless, Daniela continues to choose her family.

"A lot of the show is about people wishing for other paths we could take, and she's someone who's really committed to the path that she's on in her marriage," Connelly said of her character, adding: "She's going to fight really hard to stay in it."

As for the science, the scientists I interviewed agreed that the basic premise draws from sound theory. By putting an object in total isolation — which means sealing it off from all interference, including errant vibrations, stray light and cosmic rays — scientists can indeed preserve an object's "quantum-ness," as Johnson described it, and keep it in a state of superposition.

But the objects in those experiments are typically small molecules or atoms. Superposition is also used in quantum computers to manipulate information in ways classical computers can't, but the scale is still microscopic. Extrapolating to the size and complexity of humans represents “an idealized, human-scale version of something that is routinely explored in science labs,” Johnson said.

In other words: For now, it lies so outside the range of possibility as to be virtually impossible.

"As a practical matter, you cannot actually isolate a human being from their environment," Sean Carroll, a physicist at Johns Hopkins and the Santa Fe Institute, wrote by email. Referring to infrared light, he continued, "Just by breathing and radiating IR light, any macroscopic organism creates their own environment." (He added: "But I am very forgiving when it comes to TV show science!")

In Season 2, Jason realizes that understanding the Box is crucial to keeping his family safe. But that means disassembling and examining the Box itself — which in Season 1 was a black box, as it were. Fortunately for Crouch, Johnson had already been thinking about that.

Task in hand, Johnson waded into "a lot of really, really fun contemporary science," he said. To shut out all potential interference, for example, the Box has to adapt to changing conditions. Think noise-canceling headphones, which generate countersignals to neutralize incoming sound, but supercharged.

In an early Season 2 episode, Jason dismantles the Box down to its studs, exposing layers of circuitry, coaxial cables and glowing panels. The details had to be convincing. For inspiration, members of the special-effects and production-design crews pulled images of the interiors of quantum computers and other cutting-edge tech, “like some of the stuff coming out of SpaceX, Blue Origin and NASA,” Ben-Zekry said.

But dismantling the Box raised another question: If the Box is nearly indestructible, how does Jason remove the exterior panels? "That was a question that Matt Cavaliero in props was asking me every day for like a month," Ben-Zekry said. "Patricio Farrell, our production designer, too."

To puzzle it out, Ben-Zekry enlisted the help of the show's sound engineer, Cormac Funge. The solution, at least in the world of "Dark Matter," involved electromagnets and their faint, resonant hum.

No amount of design ingenuity, however, could make such a box function in the real world. For starters, any object with energy, like a human being, interacts gravitationally with whatever is around it. A massive box would add more matter for a person to interact with.

"If you want to isolate people from the universe so that they can maintain quantum superposition for longer, I think surrounding them with something really, really, really dense and heavy isn't great," said John Joseph Carrasco, a physics professor at Northwestern University.

Where Season 1 was about navigating your way home, Season 2 emphasizes the bonds that tether us to one another. The creators leaned on another concept lifted from quantum mechanics, entanglement, which says that seemingly disconnected parts of a system can be connected, sometimes over great distances.

As with superposition, entanglement applies typically to very small objects. But the show extends it to the Boxes, the worlds and even the characters.

No evidence suggests such connections are possible. For Edgerton, who acknowledged that his grasp of the science was nothing like his character's, that hardly seemed to matter. The show is science fiction: Its use of entanglement, he said, is a beautiful example of magic realism.

Above, Blake Crouch, who oversees "Dark Matter" and wrote the 2016 novel, with his wife and creative partner, Jacquelyn Ben-Zekry. Top from left, Joel Edgerton, Oakes Fegley and Jennifer Connelly. In Season 2, Edgerton's character must take apart the giant box that acts as a de facto portal to other worlds.

The idea “that two people that deeply love each other are somehow intertwined, enmeshed, no matter which universe you meet them in — I think that comes from a heart place rather than a scientific journal,” he said.

Attack the Midterms From Both Sides

The 2026 midterm elections are shaping up to be consequential, serving as a referendum on the first two years of Trump 2.0 and whether a divided Democratic Party can reclaim control of the House and the Senate. These eight podcasts offer in-depth analysis from both sides of the aisle, with insiders and experts in government, national security and American history helping listeners make sense of this moment and its stakes. EMMA DIBDIN

'Left, Right & Center' This weekly political discussion show started life in 1996 as a short-form radio program on KCRW out of Santa Monica, Calif. National syndication and a podcast helped it find a wider audience. Many political podcasts, and news programming more broadly, can function as self-selecting echo chambers. Here, that risk is counterbalanced by focusing each episode on a topical debate between two commentators, one liberal and one conservative. The show's host since 2022, David Greene, represents the political center. STARTER EPISODE "Let's Make Sense of Democrats' Conflicting Primary Results"

'Assembly Required With Stacey Abrams' This weekly podcast is hosted by the voting rights activist

Stacey Abrams. The show emphasizes the power of collective action, breaking down the biggest challenges facing American democracy and identifying solutions. Abrams's expertise and energy make her a highly motivational host, and the show is an antidote to the temptation to wallow in bad news. The podcast is on Crooked Media, the progressive media company started by former Obama staff members, and embodies the network's goal to inspire listeners to get involved in their communities rather than passively consume political punditry.

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'The Bulwark Daily'

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the modern G.O.P.; its founding editors were the longtime conservative strategist Sarah Longwell and the conservative commentators Bill Kristol and Charlie Sykes. Its daily podcast is hosted by Tim Miller, a Bulwark writer at large, who welcomes journalists, commentators and officials to analyze breaking news and trends in the political world. Recent guests have included David Wallace-Wells, an opinion writer for The New York Times, on the emerging bipartisan backlash to data centers, Longwell on the need for Democratic messengers to go on the offensive, and the Bulwark writer Tom Nichols on the Trump administration's seemingly chaotic approach to foreign policy in Iran and beyond.

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'Know Your Enemy'

Begun midway through President Trump's first term, this podcast bills itself as “a leftist’s guide to the conservative movement.” Its hosts took different paths to their current liberal stances: Matthew Sitman was raised in “God-and-guns conservatism,” from which he broke away beginning in his mid-20s, while Sam Adler-Bell is a lifelong progressive. Their divergent experiences make for nuanced conversations in each weekly episode, during which they explore the history, ideas and personalities that have defined conservatism in the United States through the years, tracing parallels between figures like William F. Buckley Jr. and Ronald Reagan through to the contemporary G.O.P.

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'Rational Security'

This weekly round-table podcast is produced by the nonprofit Lawfare, which provides multimedia commentary on current policy and legal issues. Episodes feature Scott R. Anderson, a Lawfare senior editor, alongside a rotating group of colleagues and expert guests, exploring developments in security, foreign policy and high-profile legal battles. Given how litigious the second Trump administration has been (his agenda faced more than 600 lawsuits during his first year back in office, not to mention the legal actions Trump himself has filed), “Rational Security” is invaluable listening for anyone trying to keep up. STARTER EPISODE “The ‘Live From Mom’s Basement’ Edition”

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Theater

Listen Up: Can You Hear The Box Office Ka-Ching?

A national tour of 'Les Misérables' ends, creating a lucrative opportunity for a battered theater industry.

The show 'pulls a lot of people into the theater who might not otherwise be inclined to go.' DAVIS McCALLUM ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE

By MICHAEL PAULSON Photographs by ROGER KISBY

IVINS, UTAH — Right from the start, it is clear the production of “Les Misérables” unfolding in an amphitheater at the mouth of a Utah canyon is going to be distinctive.

It begins with prisoners busting rocks in an oppressively hot desert, dwarfed by 1,500-foot-high red-rock cliffs just behind them. Javert, the merciless officer who is the show's deep-voiced villain, makes his entrance astride a tall black Clydesdale, its long tail flicking in the sand. There are live goats, blank-firing guns and, by the time Javert sings "Stars," the wonder of dark sky, twinkling overhead.

It is so hot in southern Utah at this time of year that the three-hour show does not start until 8:45 p.m., about half of the 40 performers wear ice packs under their costumes and numerous patrons sport portable neck fans. Neither the temperature nor the occasional tarantula seems to be much of a deterrent. On a recent 102-degree day — only 95 degrees by curtain — 2,300 people showed up.

The folks who run the Tuacahn Center for the Arts here, the largest nonprofit professional theater in Utah, chose to stage “Les Miz” this year because they love the show — the music, the message, the melodrama. But they also knew it would sell tickets. The production is tracking to be the highest-grossing in Tuacahn’s 31-year history.

A surge in productions of “Les Misérables” is unfolding across North America because of a rare confluence of opportunity and need. A long-running tour has just ended, making the show available for licensing by others. And many regional theaters are in difficult financial straits, creating hunger for titles likely to attract ticket buyers.

"It's so popular and so well loved that I think, from a business standpoint, it's an instant moneymaker," said Randal Keith, the veteran "Les Miz" actor playing Javert at Tuacahn after more than 2,900 performances as the protagonist, Jean Valjean, on tour and on Broadway. "People can see it 20 times and find something new."

"Les Misérables," based on the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo, is an epic story set against the backdrop of a brief anti-monarchist rebellion that was quashed in France in 1832.

The show, first produced in France, opened in London in 1985 and is still running there; the original Broadway production, which ran from 1987 to 2003 and won the best musical Tony Award, remains the sixth-longest-running show in Broadway history. The musical has been performed in 57 countries and 22 languages and has been seen by over 150 million people. There was also a starry film adaptation in 2012.

The latest national tour — President Trump, a fan of the show, saw a performance at the Kennedy Center — ended in June. Music Theater International, the company that licenses “Les Miz,” says it has already given permission for 107 new productions, about half of which are at professional regional theaters.

"This is one of the most popular musicals ever, and the regional theaters and the great amateur companies need to produce this work," said Cameron Mackintosh, the British megaproducer who has been overseeing the extensive global life of "Les Miz" since the 1980s, when he produced the first English-language production in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company. "There's a huge pent-up demand."

Like most big Broadway musicals and plays, "Les Miz" severely restricts licensing while a commercial production is touring to prevent cannibalizing the audience. There are exceptions: "Les Miz" has long allowed student productions even during a tour.

David Toole, left, as Jean Valjean, and Randal Keith as Javert in the Tuacahn production. "It's an instant moneymaker," Keith said of "Les Misérables."

Now the floodgates are open. Besides Utah, professional productions are scheduled this year in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia (twice), Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky and Maryland. In New York, one production began on Aug. 12 at Hudson Valley Shakespeare and another starts Nov. 27 at Syracuse Stage.

"It's certainly a big show, in terms of its cast size and its full and operatic orchestration, so it's a big swing for nonprofit theaters," said Davis McCallum, artistic director of Hudson Valley Shakespeare. "But it also pulls a lot of people into the theater who might not otherwise be inclined to go, and as theaters make the case for our continuing relevance and excitement, 'Les Miz' makes that case strongly."

Next year, there are many more productions scheduled, from Texas to Maine and from Florida to British Columbia. Mackintosh said he expected the show to return to New York City the following year, although he was not ready to share details other than to say it was not his production.

Many of the nonprofit theaters planning "Les Miz" productions say they have been waiting for years to develop their own takes on the material, which was written by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer.

"We've never done it because the rights have never been available to us," said Jason Loewith, artistic director of the Olney Theater Center in Maryland, which plans to stage the show for the first time this year.

Loewith said the show was not only a fan favorite, but also a bucket list show for many performers. “We had more than 400 local submissions from actors wanting to do this show — we had to turn people away from auditions — which tells me these are roles people are desperate to play, and they’ve never had a chance,” Loewith said.

Utah is a prime example of “Les Miz” fever. The Tuacahn Center for the Arts and its audience are familiar with the title — the theater had staged a less elaborate version in 2008 to great success — and the nonprofit’s administrators were confident in its ongoing appeal.

The theater runs three shows in repertory each year and expects to draw 360,000 patrons this season; its production of “Les Miz” started in May and runs through October.

The audience on the night this reporter attended included a woman in a 24601 T-shirt — that's Jean Valjean's prisoner number — and a man wearing a hat with the show's Broadway logo. Suzanne Smith was there for the 14th time this season; she had been introduced to "Les Miz" at Tuacahn in 2008, saw the show about 15 times that season, and has since seen it in New York and in London.

"Something stirred in my soul," she said, "and I thought, 'I've got to see it again. And again. And again.'"

Her love for the show has nurtured her love for the theater; she brings her children and grandchildren, and she is now, with her husband, a major donor.

"I just love the act of kindness that was shown to Jean Valjean and how it profoundly changed his life," she said, "and I just thought, 'That could still go on today.'"

Tuacahn started producing in 1995, and spent its first few years with a single show, "Utah," about local history. But in 1999 it began staging its own productions of Broadway titles — which it deemed necessary for survival — and its resources, professionalism and audience have been growing since.

The theater was seeded with \$30 million in gifts from Hyrum and Gail Smith; Hyrum Smith had founded one of the companies that became FranklinCovey. Gail Smith remembers hiking through the canyon in the early 1990s and marveling at the acoustics of a natural amphitheater. She said the expected success of “Les Miz” would help ensure the theater’s continuity.

"I usually try to get a seat in Row H so I can turn around and see the people with tears in their eyes, or with joy and laughing and so happy," she said. "And I say, 'That's it: You're making people happy, you're serving people, you're teaching people values from the shows that they're watching. That's what's important.'"

The company's annual budget is \$26 million, up from \$1.5 million two decades ago. It is now a major economic driver in the tourism-dependent region of southern Utah, home to Zion National Park.

Production costs, though, are up over 50 percent since the coronavirus pandemic. This year's "Les Miz" production is costing Tuacahn about \$4 million to stage, up from \$1.5 million in 2008. The theater expects to sell about \$6.5 million worth of tickets, which range from \$36 to \$142.

"Six years ago, we could pay our box office \$10 an hour to start, and now, if you're not starting at \$15 or \$16, they'll go work at In-N-Out Burger," said Kevin Smith, the theater's chief executive and a nephew of Hyrum and Gail Smith.

About 90 percent of the theater's revenue comes from patrons — through ticket sales, concessions and the gift shop — and 10 percent comes from philanthropy. Administrators are mindful of affordability concerns, which means they need to continually raise more from donors.

“What we have to do is find a way to serve our community without increasing our prices to the point that nobody wants to come,” said Jonathan O. Hafen, chairman of the Tuacahn board.

Hafen said there were moments over the past few decades when he was not sure the theater would survive. But the theater is now stable — in better shape than many of its peers — and confident that “Les Miz” will strengthen its position.

“We have a great location, we have a committed group on our board, and people just love coming and seeing shows here, so I think we're going to be fine,” said Hafen, whose grandfather once owned the land in Padre Canyon that is now the site of the theater. “But if we just kept doing the same thing the same way, we wouldn't be fine. We've had to innovate, we've had to build out our development team, anticipating the cost increases to make sure we can be successful.”

The company focuses on family-friendly shows — a significant percentage of Utahns are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — so there are no performances on Sundays and the organization keeps a close eye on sex and swearing in its scripts. Each season, the theater has had to cancel a handful of performances because of heavy rain, high winds or poor air quality from wildfire smoke.

Last year, the theater staged "Newsies," "The Little Mermaid" and "The Wizard of Oz," and sales were so-so. "Great shows, great productions, but it just didn't sell like we were hoping," said Gary Cahoon, chief financial officer, "and we actually went backward a little bit."

About 80 percent of the audience at Tuacahn is from Utah, and 10 percent from Nevada; more than 30,000 people each season come from elsewhere in the United States and from other countries.

"We have a lot people that love theater here," said Scott S. Anderson, producing artistic director. "We also have a lot of people who can't afford to take trips to New York and see Broadway. And what we like to say is, 'We're bringing Broadway to you, in a place that is truly unbelievable.'"

Above, a production of "Les Misérables" at the Tuacahn Center for the Arts in southern Utah. From far left: the wigs used in the show; a young performer signs an autograph; and merchandise for sale at the theater.

Above, cast members of “Les Misérables” in Tuacahn at the curtain call. Left, from a recent production there. The musical was first produced in France, then opened in London in 1985 and is still running there. The original Broadway production ran from 1987 to 2003. The musical has been performed in 57 countries and 22 languages and has been seen by more than 150 million people.

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Dance

Turning Fences and Stairs Into Their Stages

Parkour, street moves and acrobatics shape unbounded interactions with cityscapes.

By MARGARET FUHRER

To most of us, a flight of concrete steps suggests straightforward choices. Walk up. Walk down.

But to a certain kind of dancer, city stairs whisper endless possibilities.

The French movement artist Charles Auguste has turned outdoor steps into a raked stage, softening their steep angle with the arc of his body. The performer Chloe Reynolds posts videos in which she descends staircases by twisting gracefully around and through their metal handrails.

Reynolds, 22, danced with Sarasota Ballet before branching into other physical disciplines. She found particular freedom in parkour, a daring form of urban acrobatics in which no obstruction is insurmountable. ("Parcours" means "way through" in French.) In a video interview from Bristol, England — sitting on a fire escape, gesturing with dirt-streaked hands — she described how parkour had taught her a different way of seeing.

Ballet built her “dancer vision,” she said, an acute awareness of how her body moved through space. Once her “parkour vision” switched on, she began to see how everyday spaces might move her body, she said.

"In the same way I used to connect with a ballet partner, I now develop a sort of give and take with my environment," she said. "I trust the place the same way that I would trust a dance partner to lift me and to catch me."

Modern and postmodern dance have rich histories of site-specific choreography, in which unexpected locations become stages. In the 1970s, Trisha Brown had dancers perform on Manhattan rooftops and scale museum walls; the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's long-running Events series brought the troupe to Piazza San Marco in Venice and a beach in Perth, Australia.

Artists like Reynolds and Auguste are making work that might be more accurately described as site responsive: The location is both stage and collaborator.

In a video interview from an airport outside Paris, Auguste, 25, said: "The feeling is not, 'How can we create something here?' But rather, 'What does our surrounding create for us?' We're trying to propose something, not impose it."

Fluency in a variety of movement techniques — including street dance, acrobatics and, especially, parkour — allows these dancers to shape seemingly unbounded interactions with their environments. Is that chain-link fence asking to be hurdled with a flip? Could those four stories of scaffolding become a creative jungle gym? In their polyglot bodies, anything seems possible.

Clips of site-responsive dance, impressive and absurd and poetic, have repeatedly gone viral on TikTok and Instagram. In some ways, a phone screen is an odd place to engage with a form so rooted in physical locations. But the dancer and visual artist Kristián Mensa said the egalitarian nature of social media feels in line with his choreographic experiments. Walking through a city or scrolling online, you never know when you might stumble upon a dance.

"I always feel like the stage should be everywhere," Mensa, 28, said. "The way the stage separates the viewer and the performer — meaning that if you are onstage, you made it, or you are better, or you are professional — I never believed in it."

Site-responsive dancers tend to shy away from boxes and categories including “site-responsive” and even “dancer.” Some of the ones I interviewed weren’t quite sure what to call the art they were making or have adjusted their definitions over time. (Though Auguste recently worked with the parkour artist Ryuya Shirai, he said in an email that the term “parkour” has “a semantic weight that I feel does not accurately reflect my current path.”) Many of these creators are seminomadic. “Where are you living?” was often a complicated question to answer.

Similarly, they tend to be interested in in-between spaces. Frequently their videos are set in places designed to be passed through rather than occupied (crosswalks, hallways), or feature quotidian parts of the city-scape that draw attention only when used in an unusual way (stairs, turnstiles, doorways).

LEFT AND ABOVE, SANTI ESVIZA

Their work can lean philosophical. Auguste's new project, "Lambeaux," or "Shreds," considers how fences, designed to prevent movement, can instead become choreographic prompts. He has collaborated with the Irish movement artist Matt McCreary on videos that find tortured,

Charles Auguste's new project, "Lambeaux," at a fence in Hamburg, Germany, above, top left and above left. Above left, center, Chloe Reynolds performing next to a river in Munich. Santi Esviza in Argentina, far left, and in Montreal, left.

'There's something childlike about this whole way of seeing a city.' SANTI ESVIZA DANCE AND CIRCUS ARTIST though ingenious, paths around city sidewalks and interiors — quietly heroic journeys through a world full of obstacles.

Other creators are more mischievous. Santi Esviza, 33, a dance and circus artist originally from Buenos Aires, creates Chaplinesque shorts in which he vaults and corkscrews around playground equipment. He might end with a deadpan glance at the camera, his hands in his pockets.

"There's something childlike about this whole way of seeing a city," Esviza said in a video interview from Montreal. "Not how it's meant to be used, but how it could be used. It's good for adults to keep playing."

Many of these artists are friends. They sometimes pop up in each others' videos. Yet even when they're creating independently, their movements have a similar melting, rag-doll flow. The effect is one of surrender — of submitting completely to a location.

Mensa, who studied judo and played soccer before discovering street and contemporary dance, says his site-responsive work regularly explores falling and collapsing. His movement studies might involve tripping repeatedly as he moves through a crosswalk, or daring himself not to tumble off a dock.

"The body that is falling, it belongs to its environment," he said in a video interview from Prague. "All it can do is react to the forces that are making it move."

That frictionless quality is deceptive. Performing site-responsive dance typically requires extraordinary strength and concentration. And watching it can create a sort of cognitive friction: In the average city dweller's mind, stairs and scaffolding aren't supposed to be dance partners. Reynolds said that while most onlookers are happily surprised by her choreographic experiments, some react with alarm or anger.

"There have been times where I'm, say, doing a handstand on a picnic table in a park — the most public place ever, and the least harmful thing ever — but I still get pushback because I'm not doing acrobatics in a gym, and I'm not dancing in a studio," she said.

Auguste said that modern cityscapes impose limits on our imaginations. Sharpedged urban architecture, he said, can feel hostile and authoritarian, constraining bodies to narrow ways of moving. (Walk up. Walk down.)

Seen through that lens, site-responsive dance takes on a political charge. For creators like Auguste, to choreograph with these spaces is to rage against a machine the size of a city.

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"It's crazy how we build into our environments, and into our politics, things that are supposed to facilitate human activities but actually push against our humanity," Auguste said.

Even dancers who take a more playful approach to site-responsive work are usually practicing a form of creative disobedience. The artists I spoke with said they rarely secure permits or official permissions to use an outdoor space. Risk — of both the physical and the legal variety — is built into their work.

There are relatively few women involved in this scene, Reynolds said. That's true of many forms of movement that emphasize daredevilry, including parkour, which can have a hypermasculine bent. And the stakes of creating guerrilla performance art might feel different for women.

"Being alone as a woman in a strange location, yes, it can feel unsafe," Reynolds said. "I have been in some pretty 'yikes' situations."

At the same time, site-responsive dance work has bolstered her physical confidence. "These movement techniques are basically apocalypse survival techniques," she said, laughing. "I know how to descend a building on the exterior safely. I can be in a really challenging environment and feel 100 percent confident that my body can handle it."

Reynolds, like several of the artists I spoke with, sometimes brings her unconventional skills to more conventional theatrical settings. She recently danced with the Los Angeles-based troupe Diavolo, whose acrobatic works incorporate architectural sets. Auguste choreographed a trippy show for the fashion brand Hermès in 2024. In a few months, Esviza will perform in the annual winter circus in Helsinki, playing a narcoleptic who sleep-falls his way around the stage.

Don't expect any of them to commit to one show, or one location, for too long. Once you've learned how to create a pas de deux with a place, the hunt for new places — new dance partners — becomes an endless quest.

"I think the world we live in is just a little bit different," Esviza said. "We are always scanning for the next location that might inspire us."

Film

'Coyote vs. Acme' Finally Catches a Break

PHOTOGRAPHS VIA KETCHUP ENTERTAINMENT

A resilient comedy on the brink of extinction won its theatrical release.

From top: Wile E. Coyote, the plaintiff in “Coyote vs. Acme,” a live action-animation hybrid film; John Cena, who plays a corporate lawyer; and a scene from the film, which endured an ordeal before its release last week.

By JASON T. BAILEY

It all seemed so straightforward.

When Warner Bros. first announced the film "Coyote vs. Acme"—a hybrid of live action and animation inspired by the studio's Looney Tunes shorts—it sounded like a no-brainer. Here was a fresh take on some of Warner Bros.'s most beloved intellectual property, the kind of family-friendly nostalgia that generates big box-office returns while introducing durable characters to new audiences who then become eager consumers of the studio's library. (Warner Bros. did it before with Looney Tunes, making a mint with the 1996 film "Space Jam.")

The project came with a compelling angle already in place: It was inspired by Ian Frazier's 1990 humor

piece in The New Yorker, "Coyote v. Acme," which imagined the Looney Tunes mainstay Wile E. Coyote taking the Acme Corporation to court for its many defective products that had repeatedly thwarted his pursuit of the Road Runner.

"I actually knew the article, because I had been at Warner Bros., in and around animation there for years, and that thing was kind of legend," Chris de-Faria, one of the film's producers, said in an interview.

Dave Green, the film's director, landed the job by pinpointing how to translate Frazier's authentic legalese into cinematic terms, drawing comparisons to courtroom dramas like "A Few Good Men" and corporate thrillers like "The Insider."

Green's attachment was announced in December 2019, and he and deFaria set about finding the right scribe for the job. Several writers passed, including James Gunn, the director of “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Superman” (though he joined as the film’s other producer). The team eventually landed on Samy Burch, the casting director-turned-screenwriter whose script “May December,” an eventual Oscar nominee, had not yet been produced.

Will Forte was cast as Coyote's attorney, and John Cena was signed to play Acme's ruthless corporate lawyer; filming began in 2022. "It was a wonderful shoot," Green said. "The cast, the crew, everyone was so on board for this project and understood its tone, and were just excited to collaborate." Warner Bros. seemed high on the project as well; in 2020, Deadline and Variety reported that the studio had set a release date of July 21, 2023. But a representative for Warner Bros. Discovery said in a recent telephone interview that "the trades have largely misreported significant pieces of this," and insisted that when the picture was greenlit in December 2020, it was for release on HBO Max, the company's streaming service. (Both Green and deFaria said they were told it would be released theatrically.)

Whatever the case, in April 2022, the studio announced that on July 21, 2023, it would instead release Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" in theaters — igniting a moviegoing phenomenon.

But as days and then weeks passed, no new date for “Coyote vs. Acme” was announced, “which got me concerned immediately,” deFaria said. There was nothing concrete, however, until his phone rang on Nov. 8, 2023, while he was on the Warner lot making arrangements for a screening of the completed film a few days later for cast and crew members.

“It was just remarkably unceremonial and fast,” he recalled. “It came from the two heads of the studio at the time, who simply said, ‘Hey Chris, just want to let you know we’re not going to be releasing ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ in theaters, and its future is up in the air.’ Period. And I said, ‘I don’t understand what that means.’” According to deFaria, they provided few details, or much of an explanation; when he asked what was going to happen to the film, “They said: ‘We don’t know. It may not get released at all.’”

The story hit the trades the next day. Industry observers noted that the film was greenlit under previous leadership, before WarnerMedia merged with Discovery and appointed David Zaslav as its chief executive; comparisons were also drawn to the studio's decision the previous year to indefinitely shelve its productions of "Batgirl" and "Scoob! Holiday Haunt." But those films were not yet completed, and their cancellation could save the studio additional postproduction costs. "Coyote vs. Acme" was finished and only its distribution and marketing costs remained, which could have been minimized by releasing it on HBO Max. The official explanation was couched in corporate language. "With the re-launch of Warner Bros. Pictures Animation in June, the studio has shifted its global strategy to focus on theatrical releases," a spokesperson for the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group said in a statement. "With this new direction, we have made the difficult decision not to move forward with 'Coyote vs. Acme.'"

Green was given no additional details. "I had just been told that their strategy had changed, and it was basically left there," he said.

“Obviously, I felt it personally,” the screenwriter Samy Burch said in an interview before echoing a concern shared by Green and deFaria. “When you think about the amount of people, the amount of craftsmen that worked on this movie, that are figuring out, ‘How do we crunch this car in practical effects, so then we can animate a piano falling?’ Dave had just put so much into the film, and so it was a really shocking, sad thing.”

That sense of shock was felt throughout the industry, prompting outrage from filmmakers and fans over what they saw as the studio's willingness to shelve a finished film for the sake of its short-term bottom line. Four days later, Warner Bros. Discovery tried to stem the tide of bad press by announcing that it would consider selling "Coyote vs. Acme" to other distributors; Netflix, Apple, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount all reportedly expressed interest.

But no deal was made at that time. "I don't know how sincere the effort was," deFaria said. And in February 2024, Warner Bros. Discovery took a \$115 million write-down for the third quarter of 2023, part of a "strategic realignment plan associated with the

Warner Bros. Pictures Animation group." Zaslav (whose pay for 2023 was reported as nearly \$50 million) said that it took "real courage" to shelve films like "Coyote vs. Acme."

And that, it seemed, was that. "I had a year where I think what I had rationalized was, this is going to be at the Turner Classic Movies Festival 2058," Burch said.

But Green refused to say die. "Maybe I'm really bad at understanding the word 'no' or something," he said, "but we never felt like there was no hope, or there was no way."

As the months passed, one dim ray of hope appeared. In August 2024, the independent film production and distribution company Ketchup Entertainment announced its acquisition of “The Day the Earth Blew Up,” another Looney Tunes feature abandoned by Warner. It was a smaller and less expensive picture than “Coyote vs. Acme,” conceived of

and executed as an HBO Max original. It proved a modest success for Ketchup when it was released in theaters in spring 2025. (In a twist, the movie is currently streaming on HBO Max.)

Just a few days after the release of “The Day the Earth Blew Up,” Green turned his phone on while leaving a movie theater, “and I had a missed phone call from a studio executive,” he recalled. “They told me, ‘Tomorrow there’s going to be a news break.’”

It was the news he'd been waiting a year and a half for: Ketchup was expected to make a \$50 million offer for distribution rights to “Coyote vs. Acme.” The sale to Ketchup was completed soon after. In the summer of 2025, the company scheduled the picture for an August 2026 release; when the first trailer went online in April, it racked up more than 25 million views in its first 24 hours. The marketing winked at the offscreen controversies, with its tagline, “The movie Acme doesn't want you to see,” underlining the film's themes of corporate malfeasance, profit over people and the dangers of monopolies — ideas that play more forcefully now than they might have in an unobstructed release.

Was it worth all the trouble? “We always dreamed of having the audience connect with it in ways that were nostalgic for what they remembered, relevant for what they’re experiencing today and warm and emotional,” deFaria said. “We’re checking all those boxes right now, and we probably wouldn’t have checked a couple of those boxes had it not been this martyr-slash-underdog hero story of the film itself. So where am I today? I think this is a perfect outcome. Possibly.”

Green — who posted in November 2023 that “in the spirit of Wile E. Coyote, resilience and persistence win the day” — concurred. “At its foundation, this is a story about an underdog who gets crushed by a giant corporation, and rises up,” he said. “That is, in a nutshell, what has happened so beautifully with the movie, which is really incredible. And it’s hard to articulate truly how I feel in this moment, because it is totally surreal.”

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Archives of an Inclusive Los Angeles

The architect Paul R. Williams broke California's color barrier; three museums honor his work.

By JORI FINKEL

LOS ANGELES — For years, rumor had it that the archive of the Los Angeles architect Paul Revere Williams, who died in 1980, was destroyed by fire during the 1992 riots in the city.

Williams's files were stored in the basement of the Broadway Federal Savings and Loan building — one of thousands of buildings he had designed during his pioneering 50-year career as the city's most successful Black architect. When police officers were acquitted of using excessive force against Rodney King and the building went up in flames, people assumed documentation of his life's work did as well.

As it happens, just a few file cabinets, mainly containing business records, were destroyed. The remainder of the estate was safeguarded in the family home, under the care of his widow and then with his granddaughter, Karen E. Hudson. In time Hudson would show the material to Maristella Casciato, curator of architecture at the Getty Research Institute, and LeRonn P. Brooks, who leads its African American Art History Initiative.

The Getty curators met Hudson at a storage unit at the Grove, the popular mall, in early 2020 and remember the thrill of unrolling one meticulous Williams drawing after another. In all, there were original drawings, renderings, plans or blueprints for about 1,800 projects, which the Getty soon acquired in a joint agreement with the architect's alma mater, the University of Southern California.

Now, for the first time, these curators from the Getty, joined by others from U.S.C. and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, are using this material to help tell a richer and deeper story of a Black architect who broke the color barrier in Southern California by building a thriving practice — and extraordinary homes, hospitals and more — despite the overt racism of his time.

Each institution is staging its own show this season on Williams: the USC Fisher Museum of Art's opened on Aug. 18; LACMA's opens on Nov. 15; and the Getty's on Dec. 15.

Most of the curators admitted they had not heard of Williams until they moved to California. "Our hope is that going forward you won't be able to write a history of American architecture without Paul R. Williams," Brooks said.

Williams designed some of his greatest estates in Bel Air and Beverly Hills in the 1930s and '40s, when he could not own property in the area because of racially restrictive covenants written into property deeds. He couldn't even use the front door of some of his buildings.

"The logo of the Beverly Hills Hotel is in his handwriting, but he couldn't walk into the front door there," Brooks said. "He even kept his hands in his pockets when walking through construction sites, because he knew some construction workers wouldn't want to shake his hand."

Williams's most famous flex: He taught himself to draw upside down, so he could sit across from white clients uncomfortable sit-

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The 28th Street Y.M.C.A. SOUTH LOS ANGELES, 1926

Known as the “colored Y,” this chapter of the Young Men’s Christian Association provided an important social, recreational and residential hub for the Black community — and a swimming pool when pools were segregated.

A member since childhood (and later part of its executive committee), Williams created a dignified four-story Spanish Colonial Revival building with a red tiled roof and Renaissance elements on its facade. He incorporated terra cotta busts of Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass in its frieze to serve as points of inspiration.

"He contributed to the building of Black Los Angeles in multiple ways," said Brooks at the Getty, citing his leadership on the boards of Black-run banks and nonprofits. Restored and expanded by Koning Eizenberg Architecture in 2012, the building remains in use today as a youth center and affordable housing.

Jay Paley Residence HOLMBY HILLS, 1936

Williams designed a 13-bedroom, 12-bath Georgian Colonial Revival mansion, arguably the most glamorous of his great estates, for Jay Paley, a founder of CBS. The house is quietly regal, with delicate-looking wrought-iron balconies, while the pool was from the start a showstopper: inlaid with thousands of hand-painted tiles in turquoise, gold, yellow and blue sourced from France to create a starburst pattern incorporating the signs of the zodiac.

"When I first saw pictures of the pool house, I thought it was the house," said Hudson, Williams's granddaughter. The current owner is Eric Schmidt, former chief executive of Google, who bought the property from the Hilton family in 2021 for \$61.5 million.

The Beverly Hills Hotel 1940s-'50s

Starting in 1941, Williams worked on so many different renovation and expansion projects for the Beverly Hills Hotel that Casciato, the Getty curator, called him essentially "the house architect." The original hotel, from 1912, was built in Mission Revival Style by Elmer Grey. Williams's job was to refresh, reimagine and expand it.

One of his most beloved contributions is the Polo Lounge, a gracious, leafy indoor-outdoor restaurant and favorite of Hollywood dealmakers for decades. He designed it in a green-and-salmon palette carried throughout the property. Green was by far his favorite color, said Hudson, who remembers him showing her how a single tree can contain many shades of green, suggesting that nature knows how to hold our interest.

He built an addition, the Crescent Wing, in 1949, and used his own handwriting for the “Beverly Hills Hotel” logo on its facade. The logo is visible from Sunset Boulevard and appears on an array of merchandise, including pens and pajamas.

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Far left, a room in the house that Paul R. Williams built for his family in 1952, as it looks now under the current owner. Clockwise from near left: Williams, by several measures the most successful Black architect in Los Angeles in the 20th century, in an undated photo; Williams (pointing) at a construction site circa 1952; his rendering of the First African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church of Los Angeles.

ting next to a Black man. Or as he noted in an essay from 1937, "The weight of my racial handicap forced me, willy-nilly, to develop salesmanship."

Raised in a diverse neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles, Williams had a talent for drawing and dreamed of becoming an architect early on. After high school, he studied design at different art schools and engineering at U.S.C. before taking an entry-level architecture job in 1919. He obtained his license in 1921 and two years later became a member of the American Institute of Architects, its first documented Black member.

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He built his business designing dream homes for powerful clients, including Barbara Stanwyck, Bert Lahr, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Hudson published a lavish coffee table book with Rizzoli in 2012 that helped establish his work in this area. But the new exhibitions plan to go beyond his reputation as “architect to the stars.”

The Getty exhibition showcases Williams's contributions to historically Black neighborhoods like West Adams, where he built for the First A.M.E. Church (the oldest African American congregation in Los Angeles) and the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company.

The U.S.C. show focuses on the architect's affordable housing projects and how he "imagined innovative and dignified possibilities for collective living," said Milton S.F. Curry, one of the three curators who also invited contemporary artists and architects to respond to Williams's work.

The LACMA survey, the biggest and broadest, features some of his palatial Hollywood estates alongside civic and religious buildings. As that show's curator, Staci Steinberger, put it, "There are so many aspects of life that his work touched. You could be born in a Paul Williams hospital, educated at a Paul Williams school, married at a Paul Williams church and be buried at a Paul Williams funeral home."

Museum visitors will quickly discover that Williams didn't have one signature style. He would design homes or headquarters in the loose aesthetic desired by his clients, whether Tudor, Georgian or Spanish Colonial.

But many of his buildings do have classic Williams elements. From the graceful, curved staircases that create dramatic or romantic entryways to the stylish logo that he designed for the Beverly Hills Hotel using his own handwriting, his mark appears in different ways across the city of Los Angeles. Here are five of his signature buildings.

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The Williams Family Residence LAFAYETTE SQUARE, 1952

Unlike the estates he designed for clients, the modest home Williams designed for his own family on Lafayette Square has a warm modernist feel. It's a white, horizontal structure that echoes Corbusier in its framing of rooms as separate pavilions.

“What the house does in a very elegant way is marry some of the characteristics you see in his larger residences — the aesthetic, the flow, the curves — with a more modern form,” said the architect Valéry Augustin, a curator of the U.S.C. show.

“Living in this house is living in a dream,” said its current owner, Darren Walker, the former Ford Foundation president who bought the house in May after taking the reins of the entertainment firm Anonymous Content.

“Although it was conceived in 1950, it has every convenience. It feels more stylish and chic than any new house I’ve been in.”

Walker is particularly fond of the ground-level curved-wall room with green slate floors that he calls “Della Mae’s lanai.” It was inspired by a trip Williams took to Jamaica with his wife, Della Mae Givens, who wanted a space overflowing with plants. (Williams built spigots into the walls for irrigation.)

Walker has also installed artwork by Noah Davis and Kara Walker. "I love sitting in the lanai with the sliding doors open," he said. "It's this L.A. ideal of living inside and outside."

Walker bought the house from the gallerist Hannah Hoffman, who restored it with the help of Escher GuneWardena Architects. Before that, it belonged to the Williams family, and Hudson described it as buzzing with activity, especially during the holidays.

Take the three bronze gazelles that Williams designed as part of the stairway railing. "They're gazelles 11 months of the year," she said. "At Christmas they'd wear red velvet bows and have lights on them like reindeer."

The First African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.) WEST ADAMS, 1969

Williams grew up attending the First A.M.E., then downtown; a church family took him in around age 4, after both of his parents died of tuberculosis. So it's not surprising that he stayed active with the church until his own death. His funeral services were held there in 1980, in the building he designed in West Adams.

It was during her grandfather's eulogy by the actor-philanthropist Danny Thomas, Hudson said, that she realized she needed to step up as family archivist. Thomas spoke of how Williams not only designed the original St. Jude children's hospital in Memphis in 1962, but he also did it for free. "That was it for me. I thought, 'If I didn't know that as a granddaughter, what else didn't I know?' I knew I needed to take care of his legacy."

The church has long been famous for its stirring gospel choir, and Williams played to this strength by designing a zigzag roof to improve the acoustics.

“That zigzag gives a sense of the vibrations that come from within,” said Brooks, describing how the choir and congregants come alive with movement and music. “This is not a church for sitting still.”

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It's an Addictive ‘Skill Game’ That Players Can't Win

By NICK KEPPLER

Driving home on a recent Friday after another monotonous week of installing drywall, David Peck passed by the sole gas station in Millheim, Pa., and felt a familiar urge.

The front of the Millheim Food Mart, the convenience store attached to the gas station, houses six video screen kiosks, each

In Pennsylvania, problem gamblers hope the machines will soon go bust.

matched with a swiveling bar chair. With just \$8 in his pocket, Mr. Peck, 46, stopped in the store and slipped the money into one of the machines.

His \$8 was converted into 800 points and he pressed a button on the kiosk to make colorful icons fall into a tic-tac-toe-like grid. The game was called "Lucky Leprechaun," and the icons were kitschy symbols of luck: four-leaf clovers, golden horseshoes, white rabbits, pots of gold, leprechauns. Each time three of the same icons lined up in a row, points accumulated.

The kiosk looked like a slot machine. It acted like a slot machine. But its designer had carefully included one feature that, it argued, would exempt the kiosk from being considered a gambling device: If players lose a spin, they have the option to switch to a different game to win back their points.

These games are based on a skill, like remembering patterns, rather than luck. But they can be tedious, and many players choose not to try to win their points — and money — back.

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The amount Meta said it could pay to settle a landmark case on social media addiction.

Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has faced a series of lawsuits from states, school districts and individuals that have accused it of setting up its social media platforms to be addictive. On Wednesday, in a landmark decision that cuts to the core of Meta's business of keeping users engaged, the company agreed to pay up to \$17.1 billion to 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories and make product changes.

The outcome effectively ends a federal trial in which California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey were seeking some \$200 billion over accusations that Meta harmed children, The New York Times's Cecilia Kang and Eli Tan reported. The company, in a major capitulation, agreed to pay penalties for violating states' consumer protection and federal child safety laws. It will also place limits on how long young people can use the platforms each day, silence notification during school hours and interrupt endless scrolling, among other changes.

Meta will immediately pay \$12 billion, and will pay an additional \$5 billion penalty if other social media platforms, like TikTok and Snap, also settle with states and make changes to their products. "This framework will only work if all our peers join us," C.J. Mahoney, Meta's chief legal officer, wrote in a blog post. "Because teens move fluidly across dozens of apps, we need an industrywide solution."

The Meta settlement is a bellwether for other cases arguing that these platforms put children, and their mental well-being, at risk.

“Meta wouldn’t settle unless it sees the writing on the wall and feels really exposed,” Nora Freeman Engstrom, a law professor at Stanford, told Ms. Kang and Mr. Tan. Meta separately announced on Wednesday that it would pay nearly \$1 billion to settle another case, in Texas, over similar claims. LORA KELLEY

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When the Cubicle Yakker Won't Take a Hint

I have a cubicle neighbor who never stops talking. She yells my name over the cubicle wall, or turns the corner and stands at my desk, and proceeds to talk at me for 40 or more minutes at a time. I wish I were exaggerating, but this is a weekly occurrence. There's simply no way to stop her, or even to ignore her and continue working while she chatters on. Mine is the only other cubicle near hers, so I am her sole victim. Her direct co-workers and supervisors are in another state, and she uses our office as her home base.

Several times I've told her directly, "I have to focus on work, and I can't do that when you're talking to me." But she'll simply start her next "conversation" with, "I know you're busy and I'm bothering you, but ——" and chat for huge chunks of time. I requested noise-canceling headphones and have tried ignoring her, but she simply taps me aggressively on the shoulder. I've begged my supervisor — who is not her supervisor and who has no power over her — to tell her to leave me alone, because it genuinely affects how much work I get done. I've begged to have my desk moved several times. All denied. I have no way to communicate with her supervisor. I've run out of ideas.

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Please tell me there's some magical solution that I haven't thought of! ANONYMOUS

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It's remarkable how often the advice I give in this column boils down to something like, "Have you tried speaking directly with the person in your office whose behavior is irritating you in some way?" People's fear of coming across as rude in the workplace is extraordinarily powerful and allows them to avoid taking the most obvious steps to fix problems — but it also keeps me in business, so I guess I can't complain.

But what can I do when someone (you) has already tried this basic default advice, and directly expressed their frustration to the irritating co-worker in question — as well as tried many other things besides? For better or worse, I'm just going to stand firm: I think you need to speak even more directly with this person than you already have.

The fact that your co-worker is this deeply oblivious to your lack of interest in (let alone frustration with) her one-sided conversation suggests to me that she is not a person who picks up well on social cues. At the same time, I suspect you are generally a polite and gentle person. What a socially sensitive person like yourself sees as an almost too-loud-and-clear signal to go away may not even register on her radar.

Which means you may need to turn up the volume (so to speak) much higher than you would normally be comfortable with. For the vast majority of people, “I can’t work when you’re talking to me” is easily understood as an imperative. But a person like this seems to interpret it as a neutral statement of fact. In which case you need to be unmistakably clear.

Have you tried saying some version of, "Please stop talking to me now — I need to return to work?" That kind of directness might help her better understand what you want. If she won't let you get a word in edgewise, well: Have you tried interrupting her to say it? Have you tried saying it over and over and over, until she stops? Doing this (or something similar) might feel impossibly rude to you — it would to me! — but given the vast difference between your competing understandings of what constitutes polite behavior,

I'm not sure your co-worker will interpret it the same way.

MUNDANE/STABLE VS. SATISFYING/TOXIC

I am a mid-40s nonprofit professional. At nine jobs since graduating from college, I've experienced two basic kinds of workplaces. In one, I like my team and my supervisors, but the work is mundane, frustrating or unsatisfying. In the other, I am passionate about the work, but my team is terrible.

The latter describes my current role. I love my clients, and the work I do has enormous value. But there is no communication, support, clarity, consistency or respect from my supervisors. I get my work done despite my supervisors, not because of them.

Now I have the opportunity to take a new role, one that fits the former description — a fantastic boss and colleague, small office, lots of open communication and collaboration, potential for growth. But it's highly technical work that doesn't require creativity and that puts me in front of a screen, alone, a lot more. Which is worse? Which is better? Which would you choose, and why? ANONYMOUS

As much as I would like to rise to the occasion of such a philosophical question with a learned disquisition on the pursuit of work that is consistent, healthy, creative and filled with meaning, the only truthful answer to your question is for me to shrug and say: It depends.

Indeed, I think you already know this, given that you've outlined the trade-offs quite clearly and that you have already switched several times over the course of your career between "mundane but stable" and "satisfying but toxic" jobs. If one was consistently the better option, wouldn't you, at some point, have elected to stay in that lane?

In some sense I'm surprised you're even contacting me, as I think you might have figured it out better than anyone. If it's near impossible to find both fulfillment and well-being at a single job — and based on the letters I get, I think it is, especially in the nonprofit sector — why not tack between the two, ensuring that over the course of a career, you average out to enviable overall levels of stress, boredom, passion and creativity?

Which is one reason I would suggest, in this instance, to take this new opportunity. You've done your time in the "valuable but corrosive" half of the equation recently; time to balance it out with a few years on the "mind-numbing but healthy" side. If you find yourself missing the fulfillment of your current job — and downplaying in your memory the lack of communication and support you received — you know it's time to switch yet again.

ARE THESE THINGS ON?

I recently did the first round of a job interview in which I was on a Microsoft Teams call with five employees of the company, who all kept their cameras off during the entirety of the half-hour call. No explanation was given.

As someone who has never done an interview over Teams before, is this (everyone's camera off) a common thing? I found it impersonal — not to mention weird and distracting to stare at my own face during the interview.

Should I provide feedback about this strange interview to someone I know who works at the company? She is high up and may not be aware that this is what the staff is doing. I don't want this to be a sour grapes thing — I didn't progress to Round 2 — but I honestly would like to spare other potential interviewees a bizarre experience. ANONYMOUS

I'm with you on this one. As a practice, camera-off interviews are not at all unheard-of, but they're also not widely accepted as normal or appropriate. (Reddit and other places where job seekers congregate online are crowded with stories of alienating camera-off interviews.) Your interview, in particular — no heads-up before the meeting, no explanation during it, and not even an opportunity offered to turn your own camera off — sounds particularly egregious. In addition to the general sense that you're not worth the undivided attention of the hiring panel, there's something deeply discomfiting and dystopian about watching yourself flopsweat before the Faceless Microsoft Teams Tribunal.

But even so, I don't think you should say anything to your contact. You say you don't want it to sound like sour grapes, but I'm not sure what else it could possibly sound like. You don't owe this company anything, and "saving hypothetical future interviewees from 30 minutes of awkwardness" is not particularly convincing as a reason to lean on your relationship with a senior figure at the company. If she ever asks, don't lie, but it's hard to imagine an outcome worth the risk of burning some good will with this person. Instead, make it a policy to ask before interviews if they're camera-on or camera-off — and familiarize yourself with the way to hide your own camera view in Teams.

'Forward Deployed'

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Start-ups are using the military-derived term to glorify customer-facing work as clients seek people to help set up A.I. tools.

The job title “forward-deployed engineer” — someone who works with customers to set up technology, gather feedback and iron out problems — has been around for more than a decade.

But lately, as companies need fewer people to write code, and more people to schlep to client offices to help them integrate new artificial intelligence tools, use of the descriptor for tech roles of all kinds is exploding.

On LinkedIn, job listings for forward-deployed engineers have increased twelvefold in the past year, a company spokeswoman said. And new job titles like forward-deployed product manager, forward-deployed strategist and forward-deployed architect have appeared on the platform, too.

On the job site Indeed, listings seeking forward-deployed engineers jumped 730 percent over the past year. Such openings are rising at a significantly higher rate than other tech jobs, said Sneha Puri, an economist at the

Indeed Hiring Lab — though the raw numbers for these types of listings are still fairly low, in the thousands. The need for this type of support-staff workers, she said, has risen partly because “enterprises are buying A.I. systems, but they don’t necessarily know how to set it up in the best way.”

In a rapidly shifting job landscape, forward-deployed roles are, at least for now, a relatively safe bet, said Nick Bloom, a Stanford economist. A.I. is getting good at many day-to-day work tasks. However, forward-deployed workers are responsible for a function that A.I. cannot replace: hands-on client support.

The appeal of this job title — first made popular by Palantir — reflects both reality and hype, Mr. Bloom said. To be sure, someone who can coach a client on integrating a new tool is quite useful right now. But a major factor behind its spread, he noted, is also simply that “it sounds cool.” The title conjures military might — not conference rooms and slide decks.

Companies have an easier time recruiting people into roles that impress their friends and parents, and “forward-deployed engineer sounds to many people a lot better than customer-based engineer,” Mr. Bloom reflected. Versions of these jobs — often

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with less jazzy titles, like “consultant” — have existed for years. “You are upselling through a title,” he said.

It appears to be working. Not only are people seeking out this role, but some are even revising their past job descriptions on LinkedIn, said Mr. Bloom, whose team has been collecting data on how workers edit their job history on that site. Their data shows a sharp uptick this year in changes of titles like software engineer, data engineer and solutions architect to “forward-deployed engineer” (though the overall number of people who have done this is still small, in the hundreds).

The job's buzz also captures Silicon Valley's recent embrace, and glorification, of military culture. “Tech companies would probably try to call people ‘Special Ops’ or ‘Delta Force’ if they could get away with it,” Mr. Bloom suggested. Lately, he said, it feels as if companies are copying and pasting cool titles from action movies onto job postings. “It’s the ‘Top Gun: Silicon Valley’ generation.”

Shop Talk explores the idioms of the business world. Want to nominate a word or term for the column? Email shoptalk@nytimes.com

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Despite earning about \$375,000 in his best year, David Peck, who is addicted to “skill games,” has no savings. Over one six-month period, he said, he lost \$60,000.

It's a 'Skill Game' That Players Can't Win

Skill games can be found in convenience stores, bars, beer distributors, grocery stores, vape and tobacco shops and even laundromats in Pennsylvania.

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gambling. But a recent ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reclassified the games as a form of gambling, forcing lawmakers to decide how to regulate them.

Pennsylvania has amassed 70,000 to 100,000 of the games, according to the state Gaming Control Board. They can be found in convenience stores, bars, beer distributors, grocery stores, vape and tobacco shops and even laundromats. These outlets have deals to keep a portion of the money lost by players, and some say the revenue and foot traffic is essential to their bottom line.

Mr. Peck played until he lost all his points, and as a consequence, all his money. The entire experience took about 25 minutes.

On other days, Mr. Peck sits in the Millheim Food Mart through cycles of up and down that last hours and end in losses of hundreds of dollars. "I win," he said. "I win by a lot, but I don't ever cash out."

Over one six-month period, he said, he lost \$60,000.

Frustrated Lawmakers

States have had varying responses to the skill games that challenge the spirit, if not the letter, of their gambling laws. Illinois and Georgia accommodated them and passed laws to regulate and tax them. Virginia and North Carolina have tried to ban them. In Wisconsin and Texas, they remain in a legal gray zone.

Pace-O-Matic, a company that leads the skill games industry, introduced its kiosks to Pennsylvania in 2013. State police quickly confiscated the machines, and the company sued to reclaim them — a test of the games' legality. The next year, a state court ruled in favor of Pace-O-Matic, agreeing that the games on the machines were “predominantly” based on skill. Another state court came to the same conclusion in 2023.

The games have frustrated local lawmakers, some of whom have cited safety concerns about machines stuffed with cash in relatively unguarded businesses. In 2020, a robber murdered a convenience store clerk in Hazelton while stealing cash from the store's skill games. State lawmakers have introduced various proposals to regulate them. Pace-O-Matic spent millions on lobbyists, and none of the bills became law.

The recent ruling by the state's Supreme Court, in June, said that if a device is partly used for gambling, it is a gambling device. Unless lawmakers decide to pass new protections for the games, they become illegal in October.

A Lure for Addicts

For Mr. Peck, skill games are the latest in a long line of dependencies. In the past decade, he has kicked cocaine, heroin, alcohol and meth. In 2021, in a bid to get clean, he moved with his wife at the time to Millheim from the Philadelphia area because they didn't know any drug dealers there.

Mr. Peck said he used drugs to escape anxiety and post-traumatic stress related to childhood trauma that includes sexual abuse. After he achieved chemical sobriety four years ago, skill games became his new way of blocking painful thoughts.

"I am an addict, plain and simple," he said. "They are my way of escaping everything."

A few decades of managing dependencies have instilled in him some self-discipline. He sets aside enough money for food, rent, utilities, taxes and support payments to two children who live with their mothers. The rest, he said, “is going into those machines.” Despite earning about \$375,000 in his best year, he has no savings.

Josh Ercole, executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of Pennsylvania, said that the nonprofit received about 100 calls per year from people seeking help who list skill games as their most problematic type of gambling.

Mr. Peck said he couldn't pinpoint why skill games had a unique pull on him. Part of it is their ubiquity. Millheim is a town of 831 people within 1.3 square miles. It has one intersection with a traffic light and at least 16 skill game machines in five locations.

Across from Mr. Peck's apartment is a lawn and gardening shop called This Is It, though a sign on the exterior advertising "Pennsylvania SKILL Play Here-Win Here!!!!" is more visible than its name.

Jason Tickner, a 26-year-old Millheim native, opened the shop in 2024 with a business partner who owns a landscaping company. He said they had installed the games to maintain profitability during the winter

months.

After a licensing fee is paid to Pace-O-Matic, the profits are split between This Is It and Meile Amusements, the owner-operator of the store's machines. Mr. Tickner said the games accounted for 25 to 30 percent of the store's revenue.

Mr. Tickner plays skill games casually. They can take him into a "deep, dark hole real quick," he said. But he doesn't have any qualms about profiting from them. "I always just say, 'Gamble responsibly,'" he said.

Doug Sprankle, president of the Pennsylvania Taverns and Players Association, a lobbying and advocacy group, said skill games were “supposed to be ancillary to what you already do, to help keep the lights on, help pay some of the fees around your business and create entertainment.”

Mr. Sprankle is one of the second generation of co-owners of Sprankle's Neighborhood Markets, a small chain in Western Pennsylvania. Its skill games are meant to sway customers toward Sprankle's instead of another supermarket, he said.

He compared them to “pool and arcade games of the old days,” adding that “it’s just something to do to pass a little bit of time in between activities.”

Familiar Cycle

During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Jennifer Gower felt a dullness she could not quite articulate. She spent most of her time sequestered in the house she shared with her husband and youngest child near Scranton, Pa.

She had casually visited casinos and bought Pennsylvania Lottery tickets, but gambling never created a problem for her until the pandemic. On each grocery run, she began buying scratch-off tickets. Then she discovered casino game apps for her phone. The dopamine loop was irresistible.

"I would wake up in the morning, and as soon as my feet hit the floor, I was reaching for my phone and spinning slot machines online," she said.

Ms. Gower, 54, declined to disclose her exact gambling losses, though she said they had quickly amounted to “tens of thousands” of dollars and were “very real for a middle-income household.”

The losses eventually spurred her to call 1-800-GAMBLER, the hotline run by the National Council on Problem Gambling, which connected her with online Gamblers Anonymous meetings and a therapist.

Critical to her recovery, she said, was self-exclusion. Like most states, Pennsylvania maintains a registry to which problem gamblers can voluntarily add themselves. Casinos are obligated to bar them from entry, and the Gaming Control Board sends their names to online gambling companies, ordering them to find and delete their accounts. The law is written so that if someone

STRATEGIES | JEFF SOMMER

What if This Market Rally Is Just Getting Started?

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MENGXIN LI

An upbeat strategist with an excellent track record expects more good times ahead.

WHEN THE STOCK MARKET goes sky high, my instinct is to look for a parachute.

So after more than three years of colossal gains, I have been checking that my safety equipment is in good shape — that I've got enough cash and high-quality bonds to help withstand a major setback in the stock market.

Even so, I'll concede immediately that I don't know where stocks are heading. It's possible that the bull market, powered by investor euphoria about artificial intelligence, could have years to run.

While I remain an inveterate skeptic, some sober and astute people are far more bullish than I am.

Among them is Edward Yardeni, an independent strategist and economist with a Ph.D. from Yale. He usually leans toward optimism, and has been better at calling market bottoms — as he did, in conversations with me in 2009 and again in 2020 — than at anticipating crashes.

For more than six years, he has been among the most positive of strategists, declaring at the start of this decade that we were about to experience what he calls “the Roaring 2020s”—a period ultimately characterized by tech-driven productivity gains and a bull market in stocks.

Now he's doubling down on that assessment, saying there is an 80 percent probability that the good times will continue for years, with the stock market roaring through at least the first part of the 2030s.

I recently met with Mr. Yardeni and he explained his positive thinking.

Roaring Decades

Right now, Mr. Yardeni's bold predictions of a "Roaring 2020s" seem modest, because it's already been a great decade for stocks.

Taking a long view, he says the stock market tends to rise unless “geopolitical” issues derail the economy and the markets. Don’t underestimate “the incredibly resilient U.S. economy,” which keeps growing despite impediments, he said.

Most of Wall Street today is bullish, too. The mood was vastly gloomier in 2020, early in the Covid-19 pandemic, when Mr. Yardeni correctly called the bottom of a bear market that March, and declared a few months later, in August, that the “roaring” decade was underway.

When he made that call, the pandemic death toll was still mounting, Covid vaccines had not yet been released, and the stock market and the economy were recovering from a severe but short-lived recession.

Mr. Yardeni said that pent-up demand would spur the economy at first, and that technological advances would propel it as the decade unspooled. The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 surprised him, and he has pointed to A.I. as a source of rising productivity and extraordinary profits for U.S. companies.

So far, he's been right for the 2020s.

Through Wednesday, the S&P 500 was up 138 percent since Dec. 31, 2019.

"I see all that continuing," he told me. "There's a very good chance that this is just the start."

If the S&P 500 reaches 10,000 by the end of this decade, as Mr. Yardeni expects, it will have gained 209.5 percent. That would place the '20s in third place for all decades since the 1870s, according to calculations by Joe Abbott, chief quantitative strategist at Yardeni Research.

It wouldn't be much of a stretch. Reaching the 10,000 target by the end of the decade would require only that the U.S. stock market grow at the pace it's been averaging since the end of World War II — a bit over 7 percent annually, in price, and more than 10 percent annually, in total return, including reinvested dividends.

“That pace would just be returning to ‘normal,’ after the fantastic returns we’ve had the last few years,” Mr. Yardeni said.

Here are Mr. Abbott's calculations for the S&P 500 and its predecessors for the five other great stock market decades since the 1870s. These are price increases, not total returns with dividends, which would be higher. The data starts at Dec. 31 of each year. For the numbers before 1957, when the S&P 500 started, he constructed returns using rough equivalents: ■ 1989-99: 315.7 percent ■ 1949-59: 257.3 percent ■ 1979-89: 227.4 percent ■ 2009-19: 189.7 percent ■ 1919-29: 139.9 percent

So the current decade, so far, is very close in performance to the 1920s.

"History shows that roaring decades really aren't exceptional for the stock market," Mr. Yardeni said. When the market is down, he said, it just seems that way.

Room for Worry

The original Roaring Twenties, a century ago, ended with a stock market crash and the Great Depression. Mr. Yardeni is fully aware of the unfortunate statement of Irving Fisher, an eminent Yale economist, who said on Oct. 15, 1929, that the stock market had reached “what looks like a permanently high plateau.” The 1929 crash began two weeks later. Professor Fisher’s reputation has never entirely recovered.

While Mr. Yardeni views the current stock market as remarkable — driven primarily by surging corporate earnings rather than mere irrational exuberance — he is careful to say that the rally is not irre-

To the contrary, he said, geopolitics could disrupt the markets and the economy at any time, even if A.I. remains a gigantic positive force for stocks. Threats that worry him include the wars in Iran and Ukraine, the latest conflicts over tariffs, the simmering rivalry between the United States and China, and the possibility of runaway inflation.

Rising bond yields are a potentially serious problem, too, but they don't yet worry him much. He assumes that yields are in a trading range that he called normal — 4 to 5 percent for the 10-year Treasury — and that won't go much higher or derail the economy.

Still, they bear close watching. Back in 1983, Mr. Yardeni coined the phrase “the Bond Vigilantes,” warning then that “if the fiscal and monetary authorities won’t regulate the economy, the bond investors will. The economy will be run by vigilantes in the credit markets.”

Now, he told me, “the bond vigilantes are back.” Yields are rising as a result of a combination of rising deficits; uncertain policy from the Trump administration as well as from the Federal Reserve and its new chairman; and huge quantities of bond issuance both by the Treasury and by companies building A.I. infrastructure.

But he expects that the politicians will back down before matters get much worse, and that the markets will find an equilibrium allowing robust economic growth.

Mr. Yardeni sees no recession on the horizon, and tries to disregard politics in making assessments about the markets. "Under both political parties, I've found that the United States economy is incredibly resilient," he said.

An Upbeat Perspective

"Good times in the markets are followed by bad times," he said. "During the good times, people forget the bad ones. And then they do stupid things all over again."

In that respect, he said that while the Trump administration's deregulatory agenda has “stimulated the markets,” it's possible that risk taking could go too far, leading to the kinds of corporate abuses that culminated in frauds like the Enron and WorldCom scandals of the early 2000s.

Geopolitics could disrupt the economy at any time, even if A.I. remains a gigantic positive force for stocks.

For now, it's hard to bet against the stock market. Mr. Yardeni certainly isn't.

If you engage in long-term stock investing, you may find that you share many of his assumptions: The economy, over the long run, will grow; corporate profits will increase; and the stock market will rise.

Whether the U.S. market manages to keep rising at its average historical rate — roughly doubling an investor's stake in less than a decade, and creating staggering, compounded gains over a lifetime — is a major question.

I'm not sure that it can. I'm more worried than Mr. Yardeni is.

But by sticking with stocks in broad, cheap index funds, I'm betting that the stock market will do pretty well, if not necessarily as fabulously as in the last few years or over the last century.

Mr. Yardeni is taking it decade by decade. "If the S&P 500 reaches 10,000 before the end of 2029," he said, "we'll probably raise our target further."

Jennifer Gower kicked a gambling habit until she discovered skill games.
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on the list somehow bypasses these road-blocks, gambling businesses can refuse to pay their winnings.

Ms. Gower self-excluded for a year, but she quickly relapsed. She then chose to self-exclude for life.

She successfully kicked her gambling habit — until, one day, at a gas station convenience store, she noticed a curious area full of skill games. She sat down and inserted a bill. The experience was indistinguishable from gambling, she said. “There’s the same lights,” she said. “There’s the same noises. There’s the same dopamine rush.”

Because skill games were not considered gambling, self-exclusion did not apply.

Ms. Gower began playing them almost daily. She told her family she was running errands. It was easy; the machines were in places where she went for gas or groceries.

Unless lawmakers decide to pass new protections for the games, they become illegal in October.

She realized she was bleeding as much money as she had on casino apps. After an eight-month binge, she quit.

Skill games, she said, "absolutely need to be regulated like any gambling."

Mike Barley, a public affairs officer for Pace-O-Matic, said the games' potential effect on compulsive gamblers was "problematic" and "something we're cognizant of." He said the company hoped to address the issue if states passed regulations on skill games.

Skill games remove physical or psychological barriers between gambling and nongambling spaces, said Carolyn E. Hawley, a professor of rehabilitation counseling at Virginia Commonwealth University and the director of the Virginia Partnership for Gaming and Health.

The “skill game” label and the games’ presence in everyday places lend a deceptive air of banality, Dr. Hawley said. “It minimizes the potential that this could cause harm,” she said.

The machines once saturated Virginia, but the state General Assembly voted to prohibit them in 2020. Enforcement was paused until the state's Supreme Court upheld the ban in 2023. The games remain slippery. Some businesses have refused to remove them, and Pace-O-Matic has responded with a new machine it claims is compliant with Virginia law, again daring vice squads to confiscate it and possibly restarting the cycle where courts and lawmakers figure out how to regulate the kiosks.

There is evidence that, despite the ban, skill games are enticing more problem gamblers in Virginia. In the Virginia Partnership for Gaming and Health's annual survey of people referred to its program for help, 4 percent listed skill games as their primary form of gambling in 2024. The number grew to 10 percent in 2025.

In Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court essentially gave lawmakers a choice: pass a law addressing skill games by Oct. 13 or they become illegal.

State Senator Jay Costa, the Senate Democratic leader, said that lawmakers were trying to hash out a plan. He said he did not see a distinction between skill games and slot machines, but he said he thought the state's best option now was to tax and regulate them.

For now, businesses are keeping the machines until they are forced to remove them.

Mr. Peck is unsure if he will walk away. The best scenario for him is that the latest court ruling goes unaddressed and skill games become illegal in Pennsylvania. He thinks he would quit gambling for the most part.

A few times already, it seemed as though he was finished with skill games. After the end of his marriage, he abstained for three months. Whenever he needed gas or cigarettes, he kept a map in his mind of places that did not have them. But he found himself back in the Food Mart's swivel chairs. (The store's owner did not respond to requests for comment.)

He is not sure he can quit another addiction. Each time the process seems to take a bit of some exhaustible force within him, he said.

"I don't have another recovery in me."

Above, photographs of Maria Edgeworth, a 19th-century novelist and a theorist of modern economics, and her family at the Maria Edgeworth Centre in Edgeworthstown, Ireland, right, which has first editions of her works, above right.

A Wealth Of Ideas, Muffled by Men

In the 1800s, Maria Edgeworth wrote novels full of economic theory. Why were her contributions to the field slighted?

By JEANNA SMIALEK

About a decade ago, I found that I couldn't stop thinking about an aside from “The Worldly Philosophers,” Robert Heilbroner's seminal history of modern economics. The book noted that one of the pioneers of the field had been friends with a woman named Maria Edgeworth.

"The daughter of an economist, she was perhaps the first woman to express opinions about the workings of the economy," Heilbroner wrote.

I don't know why such a minor point captured me. Maybe it was because the received history of economics was so devoid of women that it defied all reason: The standard account was all Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and then a long line of Jameses and Johns and Roberts. Maybe it was because I myself was a 25-year-old woman covering macroeconomics, a field that remained male-dominated and rife with sexism.

I looked up Edgeworth. She had been a famous Irish novelist at the turn of the 19th century, one so well regarded that she drastically out-earned her contemporary Jane Austen. Sir Walter Scott was her pen pal and protégé. Lord Byron envied her. Ricardo and Malthus called her a close friend. This was all surprising. I was both a sucker for Regency novels and an economics correspondent, and yet I had never even come across Edgeworth's name. Why, I wondered, had I never heard of this lady?

I tried to purchase Edgeworth's most famous book, "Castle Rackrent," from 1800, but it was so hard to find in print that I ended up buying a shabbily produced copy off Amazon with weird margins and blank sections. What I read in its discombobulated pages shocked me.

In the novel, a comedy about the downfall

This article is an adapted excerpt from "The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth" by Jeanna Smialek, forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House, and August Books, an imprint of DK Canelo.

of a family of Irish landowners, Edgeworth doesn't just lightly reference economics. Large chunks were clearly built around Smith's foundational 1776 text "The Wealth of Nations." Edgeworth was writing about price setting, monopolies, productive land management — ideas that preoccupied the early economists. Economics was in the very title: Smith had called irrationally high land charges "racked rent."

I wondered if anyone else had noticed. A search through academic journals showed that a specialized few had clocked Edgeworth's contribution. The economic historian William Henderson once called “Castle Rackrent” a “literary extension” of Smith's work, arguing that it had “extended the influence” of early economics by inspiring other writers to apply its theories to the social sphere. Other academics, including Susan Manly at the University of St. Andrews, had also written about Edgeworth's heavy use of economics.

I ordered and read other Edgeworth books, many of which featured barely concealed lessons in early political economy. "Letters for Literary Ladies," Edgeworth's first full-length work, published in 1795, makes a case for including women in the intellectual sphere. In it, she applies Smith's criticisms of monopoly to the gendered labor market. Edgeworth draws parallels to examples from "The Wealth of Nations" to argue that men were holding back the economy of ideas by locking women out of literature and academics — a kind of protectionism.

"The Dutch merchants, who burn whole cargoes of spice lest they should lower the price of the commodity in which they deal, show a mean spirit of monopoly which can plead no plausible excuse," one character writes to another, in a reference straight out of Smith. "I hope you feel nothing like" that

'It should be your object rather to sow seeds than to exhibit full grown plants.'

MARIA EDGEWORTH 19TH-CENTURY WRITER AND ECONOMIST, OFFERING ADVICE TO A FEMALE COLLEAGUE

"Dutch jealousy," she continues, "when you would exclude female talents from the literary market."

"Ennui," Edgeworth's 1809 book about a hapless English-Irish landlord, further built on Smith's and Malthus's ideas to argue for broad education and free trade, and to riff on the conditions needed for lasting economic development. Edgeworth's writing for children were full of tales about gains from trade and the division of labor.

By this point, I was fully obsessed. I pitched a book about Edgeworth and began to research it in earnest, hoping to find out if other women had gone missing from the story of the founding of economics. There were, I thought, two mysteries to solve. Why had Edgeworth hidden so much economics in her fiction — and why had the world so totally forgotten her?

Education for the Masses

The answer to the first question became clear on a drizzly winter day in Oxford. I was there to read through part of Edgeworth's archives — the sprawling array of her family's letters that was spread across literary collections in Ireland, Britain, Switzerland and the United States. The Bodleian Libraries host a large portion, so I was spending my days huddled over wooden desks, carefully shuffling through fragile 250-year-old documents, trying my best to decipher Edgeworth's slanting scrawl.

I had dedicated that day to an unpublished essay on education, one that Edgeworth and her father seemed to have written together around 1800. As I worked my way through the hand-sewn notebook, I had a realization. This wasn't just a piece of persuasive writing. It was a manifesto. It explained exactly what Edgeworth was trying to do, and why she was doing it.

The essay pushes for educating the poor and middle classes as a way to promote upward mobility and to make their members better voting citizens. These were big concerns at the time, when modern representative democracy was young and factories were just beginning to spring up. Edgeworth wrote, “The most certain and safe method of relieving the wretchedness of the poor & of increasing their share of the pleasures of life is to educate them.”

In particular, the essay makes the case for teaching the lower classes the basic principles of political economy, which have broad application to daily life and which might guide people toward pursuing their own interests while serving the greater good. Roughly a quarter century after the publication of Smith's "Wealth of Nations," economics was the rage in the Enlightenment circles in which Edgeworth and her father, an inventor, traveled.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY PAULO NUNES DOS SANTOS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Edgeworth family vault, below, where Maria Edgeworth is buried, in Edgeworthstown. Below that, a bust of Maria Edgeworth at the town's public library.

There was, however, an obvious barrier to bringing avant-garde philosophical and scientific ideas to the masses. They could be

Above, the original Edgeworth family home in Edgeworthstown. Above that, letters by and to Maria Edgeworth. She corresponded with many of her era's leading minds.

complicated and difficult to understand. The Edgeworth pair noted that it could be useful “to mix some political & commercial knowledge with fictions that amuse the fancy.” In fact, this was something Edgeworth had already begun to do.

Edgeworth was embarking on a project that was larger than her own oeuvre. She began to coach other literary women on how to include economics in their work. She struck up a friendship with Jane Marcet, a

London socialite who had written a primer on chemistry, and the two women corresponded about economic topics. When Marcet wrote what could be considered the first textbook on economics, Edgeworth gave her extensive notes on the rough draft.

Edgeworth was as skilled an editor as she was a writer. She told Marcet that Adam Smith ought to be abridged, because he "needs it much," whereas the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham was "absolutely impossible" to put in fewer words, because what he needed was "to be diluted."

"The more amusing anecdote & illustration you can mix with your solid information the better," Edgeworth wrote to Marcet. "It should be your object rather to sow seeds than to exhibit full grown plants — Your work should excite curiosity to go further."

Marcet's textbook, released in 1816 and titled "Conversations on Political Economy," was styled as a conversation between a student and her teacher. One of Marcet's characters expresses skepticism that women

should — or that children could — learn about something as complex and dry as economics. The story's heroine insists that they already have. She points to Edgeworth's short story "The Cherry Orchard," which was by then standard reading in English nurseries.

"The author has judiciously avoided naming the science," the character says. "But that little tale contains a simple and beautiful exposition of the division of labour."

Derisive Gentlemen

Edgeworth's project — to spread economics beyond elite circles in Edinburgh and London — worked.

Her books and stories were read by the literate classes around the world, in English and in French. King George III reportedly said, "I know something now of my Irish subjects" after reading "Castle Rackrent." Generations of children, including Queen Victoria, would be reared on the educational texts that Edgeworth wrote with her father. (At age 10, Victoria even wrote a story mimicking Edgeworth, titled "Sophia and Adolphus: In the Style of Miss Edgeworth's Harry and Lucy.") As an empire's worth of readers imbibed her stories, they also drank of the lessons they contained.

“Owing to the great popularity” of her work, Edgeworth had exerted “considerable influence on the attitude of thought in England regarding economic questions,” wrote Clara Elizabeth Collet in one of the earliest histories of economics, published in the 1890s. (Collet was a friend of Karl Marx’s family who was among the first women to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in England.)

Edgeworth also set off a chain reaction. Marcet went on to inspire another writer, Harriet Martineau, who continued the work of writing economics into fiction.

As the 19th century wore on, and as the reaction to the French Revolution and the industrial age forced wealthy women further into domestic roles, those attitudes hardened. At the same time, economics had by the 1850s firmly established itself on the intellectual stage. It was no longer a fledgling set of philosophies. Its followers wanted to cement it as an academic science.

into her books. John Ward, the future Earl of Dudley, criticized Edgeworth for including political economics in her books, calling it "vile, cold-hearted trash."

Political economics was seen as an extremely male pursuit, and cloaking it in stories made it both more digestible and more socially acceptable. Yet even the disguise of fiction was not enough to save those early female economic writers from eventual censure.

Marcet's husband fretted that she would bring shame on their household. “People sometimes say that they don't like political economy,” he wrote in his diary, according to a biographer. “They say it's a harmful matter. Is the search for truth harmful?” Of his wife's growing literary fame, he added: “Such a powerful deviation from the usual pursuits of a wife and mother may have consequences incalculable.”

Contemporaries whispered about whether it was appropriate for ladies to be writing about such a crass, openly greedy topic. Readers speculated that it was Edgeworth's father putting the economic content

As the field professionalized, the second- and third-generation economists distanced themselves from the women and the fiction that had once helped to popularize and explain their ideas. Serious science, after all, could not possibly be for everyone. The economist Alfred Marshall referred to the women who tried to simplify economic doctrine as “parasites” in a footnote to his hugely influential textbook, “Principles of Economics,” first published in 1890 and popular throughout the 1900s.

By 1951, the economist and economic historian Joseph Schumpeter noted in an aside (published posthumously) that Marcet had beaten Ricardo to publishing several ideas. But he sniffed at the way Marcet had presented the information. He mocked the idea that “truth was so delightfully simple as to be capable of being taught to every schoolgirl.” It was far more complicated, he implied, to understand the “infinitely complex organism of capitalist society.”

In that derision lies the answer, at least in part, to my second mystery. Edgeworth did not go missing from our histories by accident. Her literature was lost partly because of its clunkiness — its economics lessons made it harder to digest as lighter and more naturalistic stories became the style.

Her economics was lost for a different reason. Subsequent influential academics disparaged the ways that the early women of economics had presented the field. They bristled at being simplified, and they dismissed the idea that the women could have contributed something meaningful.

Yet there is value in remembering the female co-founders of modern economics. As an economics writer myself, I think it's worth resurrecting Edgeworth in particular

— because what she was trying to do applies to our modern era.

Today, economics is still often painted — sometimes by journalists, and sometimes by economists themselves — as a nearly incomprehensible topic that only experts wielding master's degrees and doctorates can hope to grasp.

But as in Edgeworth's day, economic literacy remains key to the well-being of our societies. Voters need to understand the basics of tariffs and economic growth to be able to make thoughtful choices at the ballot box. A grasp of price- and wage-setting helps us make informed day-to-day choices.

Many economists realize this, and try to translate their work into lay language. I learned about Edgeworth in a beautifully written and accessible book on the field.

When the field of economics forgets to explain itself, though — when it cloaks itself in jargon and math to sound authoritative — it risks excluding people from ideas that could benefit them. In the process, it can create an elite echo chamber, one that amplifies only its own misconceptions.

Maria Edgeworth believed that economics should be for everyone. Perhaps remembering her story can help us recall why.

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Accounting Manager (NY, NY) at Kookmin Bank New York Branch. BA in Finance, Acctg, or rltd field & 24 mo exp in Finance, Acctg, or rltd field. Prep fin'l stmts; maintain gl ledger, & reconciliations; manage banking-specific acctg; ensure compliance w/ Federal Reserve & FDIC reporting reqmts; support audits; coord cross-border reporting w/ HQ; dvlp & implmt internal acctg controls & procedures. Benefit pkg incl medical, dental, vision, AD&D ins, EAP, retirement, PTO. Salary: \$110,000. Email res lo hr@kookminny.com.

Acid & Demand Planning Lead (Innophos, Inc. / Cranbury, NJ) - Responsible for leada overall acid planning supply, production of 100% of the 2015 annual forecast assets associated w/ customers & products globally for the co.'s 1998-2000 year end in Supply Chain, Supply Chain & Info Sys, Applied Analytics, or closely rltd field & 2 yrs of exp in job offered or available to a 30-year period of 100% similar position(s) in supply chain. Bkard, training & exp must incl exp in analyst's analysis of the 2015 industry in economy in stats, forecast, & forecast methods w/ an understanding of their financial & operational impacts, dominant and efficient factors, and a strong correlation with teams, areas & livs of bus, affect the forecast process. Postim 2015, we will be able to provide a full office & WFH avail 2 days. Travel req'd to co.'s N.A. mfg plants & warehouses 3 to 6 days per v. Benefits incl, Med, Dev. Health, Health, Health, Health, Health tax advnted Health Svngs & Spendg Accents, 401(k) w/ co. match/annual growth of 100% due to limited leave. Fitness Membership Program bursmit & Educati Assist Programs. Bonus potential up to 7% of eligible income \$100,000 or \$135,000; v. Resp to

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Advertising: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC, an Amazon.com company - New York, New York. Prin Acct Exec 100, AdTech: Build relationships with clients to sell features, products, or an entire suite of products, to optimize the advertising process. Dom and/or interni travel up to 50% to perform role resp may be req. Salary Range: \$177,000/year to \$239,400/year. Job Number: AM29970913. Multiple job openings. Standard company benefits available. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs - search by Job Number. EOE.

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Principal Ad Sales Rep: Manage consumer electronics client relationships. Dom and/or intern't travel up to 25% to perform role resp may be req. Salary Range: \$213,054/year to \$229,400/year. Analyst: AM29926975. Multifactor openings. Standard company benefits available. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs - search by Job Number. EOE.

AECOM Technical Services, Inc., Urban Designer, New York, NY: Lead urban design & public realm planning for transportation & infrastructure projects including streetscapes, transit corridors, waterfront resiliency improvements, & multimodal public spaces. Telecommuting permitted up to 18 hours of sales. Sales: \$102668-\$149609/yr. Full Time, Equal Opportunity Employer. To apply, visit https://aecom.com/coreers/ & search Job Title

AESTHETICIAN: Silk Clinic, Staten Island, NY, seeks a Laser Aesthetic to perform laser hair removal and permitted light-based aesthetic treatments; conduct client consultations; prepare treatment equipment; monitor clients; maintain treatment records; provide pre- and post-treatment instructions; and follow applicable safety and infection-control protocols. Minimum requirements: Bachelor's degree in Health Sciences, Biology, Nursing, or a related field plus 12 months of related experience. Master's Degree of Experience: New York State Aesthetic License Work Schedule: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Mon-Fri 40 hrs. /wk Wages: \$ 52,582/year. Job Order: 844768660224642. Send resume with cover letter to: Andrey Kolesnikov, MD andreyline@gmail.com.

AL Advisors Management, Inc. has a Product Solutions Architect opening in New York, NY. Design secure, modular banking solutions across accounts, payments, treasury, lending, and capital flows embedded into fund and investor workflows. Salary: \$200,000/yr. BS+5yrs exp req'd. Apply on

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Albertson's LLC is hiring a Sr Digital Product Designer in Boise, ID. Telecommuting Position. Can work from anywhere in the US. Build customer-facing app/site experiences, drive customer-next experiments, conceive innovative products through robust design vision, & manage overall design lifecycle. Drive design vision, strategy, planning, & execution for merchant & supplier-facing end points. Domestic and/or other day durations, to company offices for meetings. Benefits: medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, sick pay, PTO/vacation, holidays, bereavement, & retirement. Must have legal right to work in US. EOE, \$131,600.00 to \$197,632.89/yr. Email resume:

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Amazon Advertising LLC seeks candidates for the following (multiple positions available) in New York, NY. Apply at: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/referencing job ID AMZ23400.4:

Ads Account Manager II (Job D: AMZ23400.4). Manage the planning and delivery of high quality advertiser engagements to educate advertisers on a 10-month basis. Applicants should practice to positively impact campaign performance. Project managing the execution of complex advertising in the U.S. market, with AdOps, Sales, Quality Assurance and Account Management teams as well as external stakeholders. The base pay range for this position in New York City is based on the company's performance, which is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on payment and restated small units of \$500,000. As part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, or other benefits, dependent on the position of the Amazon's suppliers should apply to Amazon's internal or external careers site.

Amazon.com Services LLC seeks candidates for the following (multiple positions available) in New York, NY. Australia https://www.amazon.com/en/interests/index_id:AMZ210253. In Stock Manager II (Job ID: AA220253.5). Lead demand planning and cost management of a company modeling and data analysis, coordinating with category, marketing, and finance teams to optimize inventory levels and strategies. The company targets. Analyze and enhance supply chain performance using SQL and Exchange services. A company's inventory health metrics, operational efficiency improvements. The base pay range for this position in New York is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge and compensation. The payment and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full basis of the benefits, dependent on the position offered. Applicants should apply via www.amazon.com/en/external/care-time.

Amazon.com Services LLC seeks candidates for the following (multiple positions available) in New York, NY. Apply at:

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https://www.amlazort.com/sen/ referencing.org ID AMZ27733.1: Financial data and financial reports: AMZ27733.1). Gather and analyze qualitative and quantitative economic, financial and other data to support financial planning and operating expense analysis. The company is responsible for obtaining reliable information to support both internal and external financial reporting needs, including insightful financial performance analysis to achieve business goals. The research methodology of the New York City is USD \$119234 - \$179500 (yr). Pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A skill is perceived by a person who is not only provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Applicants should apply via the Amazon's should or external career site.

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks candidates for the following (multiple positions available) in New York, NY. Apply at: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/, referencing job ID AMZ21359.6:

Professional Services III (Job ID: AMZ21359.6). Collaborate with AWS field sales, presales, training and support team to help customers and partners on key engagements in technical cloud computing using AWSs. Develop a delivery proof-of-concept process and technical workshops. Domestic travel up to 25% to perform role responsibilities may be required. The base pay range for this position in New York City is USD \$169000 - \$228600 (yr). This company may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on payment and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a portion of the company's benefits, dependent on the position offered. Applicants should apply via Amazon's internal or external careers site.

Amazon.com Services LLC seeks candidates for the following (multiple positions available) in New York, NY. Apply at https://www.amazon.jobs/en/referencing job ID AMZ15S14.7:

Design Technologist II (Job ID: AMZ15514.7). Act as a bridge between art and engineering disciplines to solve multidisciplinary problems. Seek out and develop solutions to resolve workflow bottlenecks or asset quality issues through standardization and automation. The base pay range for this position is based on the \$196100 (vr.) Pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on payment and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Applicants should apply via Amazon's internal or external careers site.

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Amazon Advertising LLC seeks candidates for the following (multiple positions available) in New York, NY. Apply at: https://www.amazon.jobs/en-referencing.job ID AMZ15683.9:

Ads Account Manager III (Job D: AM215683.9). Manage the planning and delivery of high quality advertiser engagements to educate advertisers on a 100% scale of advertising practices to positively impact campaign performance. Project managing the execution of complex advertising in the U.S. market, including AdOps, Sales, Quality Assurance and Account Management teams as well as external stakeholders. The base pay range for this position in New York City is based on the level of compensation, which is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on payment and restricted stock units are not necessarily used to pay for a long-term compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, or other benefits, dependent on the position of the Amazon's internal and external careers site.

Amazon.com Services LLC seeks candidates for the following (multiple positions available) in New York, NY. Apply at: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/referencing.job ID AMZ21725.3:

Financial Analyst (Job ID: AMZ12725.3). Create and develop complex tax models and concisely summarize results to Tax and/or Finance leadership. Work across all tax groups, including M&A, Tax Planning, Tax Policy, Reporting and Compliance, and other financial services is the full range of the current year. This position in New York City is USD \$146058 - \$179500 (yr). Pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on payment and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation of the company's internal business. The financial, financial, or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Applicants should apply via Amazon's internal or external careers site.

Analytic Solutions [Multiple Positions Available] - New York, NY. Automate the production of recurring reports and dashboards. Sal. range: \$143,000 - \$165,000 per year. For reqs. & to apply, visit https://careers.jpmorgan.com & apply to job #: 210779179. EOE, AAE, M/F/D/V. JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved.

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Anterior, Inc. has a job opening for a Member of Technical Staff in New York, NY. \$240-\$300k/year. Email: https://www.elsevier.com/10.1086/10.1095/10.1107/10.1110/10.1111/10.1112/10.1113/10.1114/10.1115/10.1116/10.1117/10.1118/10.1119/10.1120/10.1121/10.1122/10.1123/10.1124/10.1125/10.1126/10.1127/10.1128/10.1129/10.1130/10.1131/10.1132/10.1133/10.1134/10.1135/10.1136/10.1137/10.1138/10.1139/10.1140/10.1141/10.1142/10.1143/10.1144/10.1145/10.1146/10.1147/10.1148/10.1149/10.1150/10.1151/10.1152/10.1153/10.1154/10.1155/10.1156/10.1157/10.1158/10.1159/10.1160/10.1161/10.1162/10. 2023 Annual Report on the Board of Directors and the Board of Directors who are not interested in any particular professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical industry, or any other professional or technical industry, or any other professional or technical industry, or any other professional or technical industry, or any other professional or technical industry, or any other professional or technical industry, or any other professional or technical industry, or any other professional or technical industry, or any other professional or technical industry, or any other professional or technical industry, or any other professional or technical industry, or any other professional or technical industry, or any other professional or technical industry, or any othership at the 2023 Annual Report on the Board of Directors and the Board of Directors who are not interested in any particular professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical profession, or any other professional or technical industry, or any other professional or technical industry, or any other professional or technical industry, or any other professional or technical industrial, or any other professional or technical industrial, or any other professional or technical industrial, or any other professional or technical industrial, or any other professional or technical industrial, or any other professional or technical industrial, or any other professional or technical industrial, or any other professional or technical industrial, or any other professional or technical industrial, or any other professional or technical industrial, or any other professional or technical industrial, or any other professional or technical industrial, or any other professional or technical industrial, or anyother professional or technical industrial, or any other professional or technical industrial,or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/othership at the 2023 Annual Report on the Board of Directors and the Board of Directors who are not interested in any particular professional or technical profession,or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their own professional and/or their ownprofessional and/or its occupational occupation.Salary:\$ 293,46 per year.On-site in New York, NY.Email: http://www.nseer.com.cn

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Application Developer, Edison, NJ: Limited domestic travel to various unanticipated client locations nationwide, telecommute and/or occasional relocation to analyze, design, develop software applications using Java, Java-based technologies, Spring, Maven, Hibernate, 22EE, J.PA, MYSQL, Eclipse, HTML, CSS, JQuery in multiplatform environments. Test, troubleshoot, maintain existing applications. Salary: \$193,461/yr. Benefits: 401(k), Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO. This position is not eligible for a bonus. Reply to: Iris Software, Inc., 200 Metroplex Drive, Suite 300, Edison, NJ 08817

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Architecture Staff Level I (New York, NY): Employer: Wake Design Architecture PLLC-Assist w/concept design & provide technical support under lic architect; prep arch drawings & construct plans using CAD per bldg codes & permit reqs; prep drawings & docs for client review & reg approvals; create 3D/interactive design w/CAD; conduct zoning analyses & site assessments for project feasibility & compliance; consult with clients on functional special tasks for potential commercial projects. Sailing \$67.5k to \$75k. Min Req: Bach of Architect or similar field + 6 mths exp in architect design related position, incl: internships during/latter college. Res: Nathan Manett, wake@wake-dd.com Ref: ASL1

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Arizona Beverages USA, LLC seeks SAP Functional Analyst- FICO in Woodbury, NY: Analyze finance business processes & provide functional solutions within the SAP S/4HANA Finance system to support daily accounting, reporting & financial operations while ensuring efficient and compliant system usage. \$178,402/yr. - \$188,402/yr. Apply @ www.jobpostingtoday.com Ref#:96707

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Associate, Data Governance & Stearship with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in Jersey City, NJ. Build metrics & Statistics for the business and/or its own business stakeholders & senior mgmt, including creating mgmt information about the economic sector, as well as a global or global regarding by division, & considering other parameters that impact customer behavior and management of services & organisations & reporting. Poly a central role in influencing the strategic direction for data initiatives. Reqs: Master's degree of research on the industry, Info Svs, Coma Engr, or a rel field & one (1) ir of exp in the job offered or in the industry; or an additional role in the job offered or in a rel data governance or analysis role. Job Code: 1041905. Sol. 2018; 1041906. JNJ-Asia: 1041907. JNJ-based pos is \$116,000 - \$126,000. QUALIFIED EMPPLICANTS: Apply at https://doi.org/10.103/j.jnl.com/j.jnlPhone CALLS PLEASE: The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2026. All rights reserved. Goldman Sachs is an equal number of employees who are responsible for discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, opv. television, television, radio, and radio characteristic protected by applicable law.

Associate, Quantitative Engineering with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in NY, NY. Develop, implement, & document review, and/or seek to perform business for the economic & fin! variables for businesses within the Firm. Collab wint professional stakeholders, analyzing user needs and opportunities to be able to address data, model, & implementation issues. Reps: Master's deg (U.S. or foreign equiv) in Fin'l Enar, Fin'l Ecoreg, Fin'l Ecoreg, Fin'l Ecoreg, Fin'l Ecoreg, Fin'l Ecoreg, Fin'l Ecoreg, Fin'l Ecoreg, Fin'l Ecoreg, Fin'l Ecoreg, Fin'l Ecoreg, Fin'l Ecoreg, Fin'l Ecoreg, Fin'l Ecoreg, Fin'l Ecoreg, Fin'l Ecoreg, Fin'l Ecoreg, Fin'l Ecoreg, Fin'l Enar Research, or a rel field & one (1) yr of exp in job offered or a rel quantitary of 2 yrs of exp in job offered or a rel quantitary of 2 yrs of exp in job offered or a rel quantitary of 2 yrs of exp in job offered or a rel quantitary of 2 yrs of exp in job offered or a rel quantitary of 2 yrs of exp in job offered or a rel quantitary of 2 yrs of exp in job offered or a rel quantitary of 2 yrs of exp in job offered or a rel quantite Engr role. Job Code: 10453262. Salary Range: Annual base salary for this NY, NY-based position is \$150,000–\$189,000; annual base salary is \$150,000–\$189,000; annual base salary is \$150,000–\$189,000; annual base salary is \$150,000–\$189,000; annual base salary is \$150,000–\$189,000; annual base salary is \$150,000–\$219,000; annual base salary is \$150,000–\$219,000; annual base salary is \$150,000–\$219,000; annual base salary is \$150,000–\$219,000; annual base salary is \$150,000–\$219,000; annual base salary is \$219,000–\$219,000; annual base salary is \$219,000–\$219,000; annual base salary is \$219,000–\$219,000; annual base salary is \$219,000–\$219,000; annual base salary is \$219,000–\$219,0

Associate, Banker-Industry/Country Coverage w/Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in NY, NY. Create & analyze complex solutions for the 10th century of 1980s to assess to examine the effects of proposed client alternatives in fin't transactions, w/o focus on mergers & acquisitions, and a list of 2000s, 3000s, 4000s (IPOS). Use of a mathematical models & statistical techniques to analyze data & prepare reports, charts & tables summarizing analyses & research results. The company is a major component in Fin, Econ, Math, Bus Admin, or a rel field & two (2 yrs) yrs of exp in the job offered or in a rel role. Job Code: 9904688. This is an independent analyst's career. NY-based position is \$175,000-\$225,000. QUALIFIED APPLICANTS: Apply at ga.com and click on "Careers." No change in the direction of the company is from Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2026. All rights reserved. Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not differ from any other party or the religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Associate Director, Compliance (New York, NY) (Mult pos). Hybrid work permissible. Cndct comprehensive valid'n, tsf'g, & rww of Bnk Secrty Act/Anti-Mney Lnderg (BSA/AML) & FnncI Crime Compinc (FCC) mdls - incl'd Tmsc't Mntor'g (TM) systems, Sanct's Scring/Office of Frgn Asset Cntrl (OFAC) tools, & Know Your Cstmer (KYC) Risk-Scoring mdls. Req Mstrs drar or fran eqv in Finance, Quantitative Finance, or rltd fld & 2 yrs of work exp in Model Risk Mgmt (MRM) vldf'g BSA/AML models. Hybrd work: 3 days/wk in office req; telecomm'l process up to 2 days/wk. Sol \$112.75 per \$122.778 for must. Must've revt work exp. Apply res/cvr let to Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Attn: K. Decker, #GRP2026, Kristy.decker@opco.com. No calls. EOE

Associate Manager, Strategi & Operations, DoorDash, Inc., New York, NY. Devlp & excute the strtyg to ensr evry grocr on DoorDash meets or exceed its growth goals. Eq. Bach's deg (or frontr equiv) in Bsnsss salylytics.com, DDI Sc, or slvs rel quantitvity fd & 3 yrs of exp in the fd of strtyg, operatns, prdctn operatns. prdct mgmt or rel occ. Telccmmtting prmdtd up to 80%. Up to 10% dmstc trvl bsd on bsnsss needs salary Range: \$139,506-\$186,000/yr. To apply, send resumes to workwithus@doordash.com & ref AMSO-S-203-NY.

Assurance Advisor, Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCASS) - Climate Change and Decarbonization (Manager) (Multiple Positions) (1736508), Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, New York, NY. Solve challenging ESG and climate change problems. Requires travel up to 60%, of which 10% may be international, to serve client needs. Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. \$120,130.00 per year. For complete job description, list of requirements, and to apply online, go to: ey.com/en_us/careers and click on "Careers - Job Search", "See All", then "Experienced Professionals" (Job Number- 1736508).

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Attorney - Leveraged & Corporate Finance, NY, NY. Advise private equity sponsors & their portfolio companies, private credit funds & corporate bond issuers, and/or its affiliates or other financial products or complex debt finance transactions. Reqs Juris Doctor or Master of Laws des, or foreign equiv. Must have 3 yrs of maturity in the past three years. The following: Senting & advising fin'l institutions (incl banks & private credit lenders), private credit issuers, and/or its affiliates or other financial investors; rowers on complex acquisition & leveraged finance & corporate finance transactions; and regulating complex financing activities; and/or agreements, indentures & security agreements, as well as drafting ancillary financing docs & conducting due diligence; and/or investment banking broad range of complex financing transactions, such as acquisition & leveraged finance, corporate finance, and/or other related securities; and/or other financial transactions, on cross-border financing transactions. Must be licensed to provide a law for NY, \$45,000,000. This document also includes a resolution & other reference. Requisition #394 to Nicole Behar, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, 66 Hudson Street, Suite 1100, Chicago, Resumesmallbox@debevoise.com.

Audit Associate (Great Neck, NY) Perform internal & external audits. Conduct/review audit tests in BSA-AML, Lending, BCP, Trade Finance, Risk Mgmt, Treasury & Special Asset Mgmt; Conduct audit engagements; Draft mgmt comments, internal control observations & sections of audit reports; Perform & evaluate audit procedures; Travel to clients in Manhattan. Bachelor's degree or foreign equiv in Accounting or Finance +1 year exp. Exp/training in internal & external audit records, risk assessment, financial analysis/reporting, Excel advanced functions, RIA Checkpoint & QuickBooks. Benefits: PTO, federal holidays, medical insurance. Salary \$75.5K-\$76K. Send resume to SC & Associates LLP, 111 Great Neck Rd, Ste 412, Great Neck, NY 11021

Banking: Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. seeks strategic Development Solutions and Services for Sustainable Systems, or Environmental Protection, is a sustainable framework (evident & enable of the financial industry). This document includes a broad framework, mrkt insights, & valuation of various companies, operating models covering over 100% revenue objectives & regulatory expectations. Rev's Masters is a Ecore, Inc. (2008), 365-400-000. The company is a strategic decision-making framework, & implementation methodologies, applying services to the business of operating models covering over 100% revenue objectives and strategies, decision-making frameworks, & implementation methodologies, applying services to the business of operating technologies, incl forecasting, scenario analysis, and strategic planning. In a strategic planning, prioritization and decision-making, supporting multi-rv and multi-level strategies, including multi-level frameworks, incl milestone tracking, and multi-level management of the company. A change or re-optimization processes are not necessarily applied to its strategic strategy, as well as in its strategic drivers across bus lines, infrastructure functions, coordinating operations, and implementing a diverse mixtures into aligned strategic strategies. In this case we have a collective & board-level materials, incl market opportunities and other strategic updates, & decision docs that synthesize complex analyses into clear reference sets. Our research methodology is based on the salary, risk, & control considerations and the need for evaluating the results of our strategic goals and risk frameworks. Salary range: \$210,000 - \$325,000/mr. Apply to the analyst's performance at the time of the research-effects/Professional & Research division. For professional use to physical, emotional, & first wellness and scientific research, this is available.

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Barclays Capital Inc. seeks Structured Products Credit Analyst in New York, NY (multiple positions). Underwrite, structure & execute loans to alternate with large contracts and graduate literature & structured credit incl portfolio financings, continuation vehicles, NAV financings, asset-based loans, securitizations, structured repos & total return swaps. \$178,402.00 - \$250K /year. The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available. Apply at

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BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. has the following positions in New York, NY.

Associate, Technology Product Support to Engage with Aladdin users on product-specific workflows, product, process and service. Drive support initiatives by engaging regularly with development teams. (ref. code(s) R266101: \$150550 - \$160000).

Associate to Design, develop, enhance, and maintain enterprise financial applications using Core Java, Spring Boot, and Hibernate. (ref. Code(s) R266142: \$160000 - 160000).

Associate to Review existing Treasury Futures and Yield Curves model methodology and improve documentation for analytical models and processes for internal and external consumption. (ref. code(s) R265001: \$150000 - \$170000).

Director, Americas Private Markets Product Strategy to Partner with leadership to identify and develop strategic opportunities for innovation and growth. (ref. code(s) R266054: \$216000 - \$270000).

For full information & to apply online, visit us at the following website https://careers.blackrock.com/ & search by ref. code(s) above.

BlackRock Corporation US, Inc. has the following positions in New York, NY.

Associate to Provide oversight of end-to-end workflow of ETF primary market activity, including basket generation, order taking, order fulfillment, exception monitoring and inquiry management. (ref. code(s) R26S692: \$140000 - \$155000).

For full information & to apply online, visit us at the following website https://careers.blackrock.com/ & search by ref. code(s) above.

Building Envelope Architect (NY, NY) Perform project mangit for diverse design and design opportunities. The project with construct projects. Exec 2/CD Thermal analysis of wall sys designs to establish a new design project. The project is designed to provide potential. Res: MS arch, civil eng, or concrete, and the design of the project. The project design, en- & construct design, en-glc, and construct design, en-glc, are not limited to wall, peak constructed concrete, masonry and other construction materials, and the application, implementation, partition, installation criteria for key services, closure sys -incl air barriers, vapor reversal and gas storage systems, waterfloods, waterproofs, and other equipment. The design of the material is applied to the building of a single therm, Optics, Window, Rotation (for giant): WUFHHydrothermal (WAF), WAF (WAF), WAF (WAF), WAF (WAF), WAF (WAF), WAF (WAF), WAF (WAF), WAF (WAF), WAF (WAF), WAF (WAF), WAF (WAF), WAF (WAF), WAF (WAF), WAF (WAF), WAF (WAF), WAF (WAF), WAF (WAF), WAF (WAF). WAF (WAF) is the first part of the project. WRFingwig building science, principles, relevant codes and standards of the project. The project is also from ABAA, ASHRAE guidelines rltd building enclosure prltrmct. Each conduct of the project is made in a form of the project with w/ sim stwr, incl Trisco (thermal), WAF (w/ sim stwr), WAF (w/ sim stwr), WAF (w/ sim stwr), Professional Arch License in NY. The commercial trial is an independent company at \$10,690 - \$112,000/yr. Res: Heigntes Consulting Aircraft Systems, Human Resources, HFI@heinertes.com.

Business Data Analyst, Edison, NJ: Li-li died domestic travel to various unamended vehicles. The project includes a wide range of telecommunicate and/or occasional relationships between the companies and by integrating operational expertise with advanced tech stocks to drive operations in the industry using RPA (UiPath), Power Platform, and IT Services. The project is designed for technology logistics optimization, technical support workflows, work on scalable solutions and technologies for RPA and IT Services. Salary: \$172,944/yr; Benefit: \$158,335/yr; Profit: \$158,335/yr. This position is not eligible for a bonus. Realty lo. For Software, Inc., 200 Metro Service LLC, 200 Metro Technology LLC, 200 Metro Information LLC.

Senior Business Intelligence Engineer (4) sought by Snap Inc. in NYC, NY. *Hybrid work permitted - Snap practices a "default together" approach & expects team members to work in the NYC, NY ofc at least 80% of time (avg 4 days/wk). Analyze & combine data across multiple sources, \$169,541 - \$196,000/vr. Eligible for equity in form of RSUs. Our Benefits: https://careers.snap.com/benefits. Apply through this website link: https://tinyuri.com/2299npb3.EOE.

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ByteDance Inc, Solutions Engineer (Mult.Pos.), New York, NY. Develop & maintain relationships with key strategic partners & agencies through demonstration of deep technical expertise in the assigned partner's/agencies' platforms & needs. Domestic travel required up to 15%. Salary: \$15600 - \$316800/ year. Apply & see benefits offered at joinbytedance.com/ & search for Job ID A43573A. Email lpresumes@bytedance.com if difficulty applying.

ByteDance Inc, Agency Partner (Mult.Pos.), New York, NY. Analyze market intelligence & case studies to identify market trends & make business recommendations to agencies & brands. Domestic travel required up to 25%. Salary: \$122824 - \$134629/year. Apply & see benefits offered at joinbytedance.com/ & search for Job ID A74557C. Email

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Caremark LLC, a CVS Health company, is hiring for the following roles in New York, NY: Data Scientist (R1011940) to Formulate and apply mathematical and computational modeling methods towards data extraction and manipulation. Telecommuting available. Pay Range: \$109491.00/year to \$173040.00/year. Manager, Marketing (R1010829) to Identify, develop, and evaluate marketing strategies for CVS Health. Hybrid position. Pay Range: \$156894.00/year to \$159120.00/year.

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CIBC Bank USA seeks a Senior Auditor to assess and validate complex financial models to identify model risks, evaluate model design, and determine models' operating effectiveness. Perform control testing of quantitative and qualitative models. Identify gaps and validate deficiencies according to established audit methodologies. Document audit results and communicate risks and impacts to stakeholders. Lead continuous monitoring activities. Leverage data analytics and artificial intelligence tools to improve audit efficiency. #L1-DNI

Position requires a Master's degree in Statistics, Data Science, or a related quantitative field, and 3 years of model risk experience in the financial services industry. Experience must include at minimum: 3 years of experience with developing, validating, or auditing financial models; 3 years of experience with applying U.S. Model Risk regulatory guidance; 2 years of experience with risk rating models; 2 years of experience with managing projects and coordinating stakeholder communications; 2 years of experience with programming in Python, SAS, or R; and 1 year of experience with leveraging data analytics tools to review financial models. Part-time telecommuting is permitted.

Job location: New York, NY. RATE OF PAY: \$125,000.00 - \$130,000.00 per year. To apply, please visit

en/about-cibc/careers.html and enter Job Requisition ID 2617258. Alternatively, please send your resume, cover letter, and a copy of the ad to: CIBC, Attn.: H. Lazzaro, 300 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017.

CICC US Securities Inc. seeks a US Economist in New York, NY, to conduct studies mainly on the US economy and global capital markets. Salary: \$182,000 - \$210,000 per year. Candidates must apply by e-mail to

CICCUS_recruiting@ciccus.com Must reference job 20395.26. Equal Opportunity Employer: M/F/D/V.

Circle Internet Management Services has the following opening in NY, NY:

Senior Analyst, FP&A: Design, build, improve & maintain complex corp. fin. models to support budgeting, forecasting & long-range planning. 100% telecom. read. Sat: \$128,800-\$148,800/yr. Ref #5029.

To apply, send resume to talent-operations-job-postings@circle.com and reference job number. EOE.

Clinical Laboratory Technologist (Hematology Department), Bronx, NY. Perform laboratory tests on blood & other body fluids. Maintain quality control (QC) of laboratory tests. Maintain cleanliness of equipment/machines. Record laboratory results. Mon-Fri, 12am-8am w/ alternate weekend schedule, BS in Medical Technology for Clinical Laboratory Science or Clinical Laboratory Science or Clinical Laboratory Science or a physical science. Must qualify for NYS Clinical Laboratory Technologist license. Annual salary: \$99,020.21. Email resume & cover letter to Leticia Roldan, Senior Medical Centre and Montefiore and Montefiore Medical Center. Subject: Applying for Clinical Laboratory Technologist, Einstein, 12a-8a.

CLOUD DATA PLATFORM ENGINEERS Jersey City, NJ area. Design & scale cloud-native data platform & analytics infrastructure using modern microservices, serverless architectures, & ELT-aligned integration patterns. 100% telecommuting position. Salary: \$131,997 - \$158,000. Send res to: Stratacent, Inc., jobs@stratacent.com.

Commercial Manager: S&P Global Inc. seeks a Commercial Manager in New York, NY to lead strategic commercial business and trading strategy, regulatory & commodities. Telecommuting permitted within normal commuting distance of New York, NY office. REQ 2017 is eligible for a 30-40 year of job offered or rel occ. incl. development, development, and revenue & market strategies. Position requires 30-40% domestic travel to attend client meetings & industry conference. S&P Global Inc. is responsible for a 30-40% position is \$243,859 to \$250,300. Final base salary for role will be based on information and compensation as experience level, skill set, training, licenses & certifications. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for a 30-40% position. This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information about the employees, please see: https://spp benefits.com/benefit plummetaries/ies. Resume to PeopleMovementSupport@163.com (Commercial Manager).

ComputerIT: Java Developer. Architect in NY, NY. Globant IT Srvc Corp. Focii comm w/ cust by gath tech req & levging dev efforts in team. Impl co stds & Agile POD meths, exec stds & procs w/in team. Ramts: Bachelor's in computer engineering, computer science, related or US equiv + 5 yrs exp in job, as SW Engineer, Java Developer or related. Must incld 3 yrs exp implementing solutions in Java, Spring Framework, Hibernate, Oracle, Rest APIs, Microservices, AWS, JQuery, TDD & Scrum. Telecommuting permitted. Salary: \$150,301/yr. Resumes: no_hrt@globant.com. Ref: Job#000124

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Consulting - Technology Consulting - SAP - Extended Supply Chain - Transportation Management (TM) (Manager) (Multiple Positions) (1736231), Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, New York, NY. Provide clients with a unique business perspective on how to leverage the technology in accordance their operation, enough travel up to 80% of which 20% may be international, to serve client needs. Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. \$135,055.00 per year. For complete job description, list of requirements, and to pay a salary for employment. Company email.com/en/sres/ careers and click on "Careers - Job Search", "See All", then "Experienced Professionals" (Job Number - 1736231).

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Edison, NJ & various unanticipated locs throughout the US(F/T; 5 openings) to build database sys's of high availability & quality. Design, implement & maintain database in accordance w/ user needs & views. Manage database security/integrity & backup procedures. Create & implement metadata processes, ref. data & frameworks. Must have 2 yrs of IT or database administration exp.1 of 2 yrs must incl exp. w/ SharePoint, Bentley Construct Sim, SPF, Assai On Prem (Cloud), Live Link, Aveva Net.

Travel & relocation req'd. No internat'l travel req'd. Domestic travel req'd to various LTTS & client facilities. All exp. may be acquired concurrently. Wage: \$142,958/yr. Paid Leave, Health & Group life insurance, Disability, 401(K). EOE/M/F/D/V. Send resumes to L&T Technology Services Ltd, 2035 Lincoln Hwy, Edison Square W, Ste. 3002, Edison, NJ 08817. Indicate Ref LTTS36

Data Analyst sought by automotive sales & service. Co. Must have proof of legal authorization to work in the US. M-F, 40 hrs/wk. Job to be performed at 1026 East Jericho Turnpike, Huntington Station, NY 11746 USA. Offd Salary: \$109,491.00 Yearly. To Apply & for full info about the job opportunity refer to internet posting at https://jobs.keldair.com/empireautomotive/jobs/101234/data-analyst. Refer to Job #: DA73126.

Deloitte Consulting LLP seeks a Senior Consultant in Jersey City, New Jersey to drive the development of Cloud-based technologies, including data cleansing and conversions, interface design/development, and systems development life cycle. 50% travel required nationally. Telecommuting permitted. Annual Salary: \$137,717.00-\$218,300.00. To apply visit apply. deloitte.com. Enter XB27C106951 in "Search jobs" field.

Deloitte Consulting LLP seeks a Senior Manager in New York, New York to lead information technology projects, including the creation of innovative and transformative technology solutions for clients that address their next generational needs. 50% travel required nationally. Telecommuting permitted. Annual Salary: \$260,000.00 - \$322,100.00. To apply visit

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Deloitte Consulting LLP seeks a Senior Manager in Morristown, New Jersey to lead SAP software advisory and implementation services to help companies unlock the value of technology investments as discrete services or comprehensive solutions. 50% travel required nationally. Telecommuting permitted. Annual Salary: \$193,300 - \$322,100. To apply visit apply.deloitte.com. Enter XB27C91942 in "Search jobs" field.

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Senior Development & Young Leaders Manager (NY, NY). Design & implement annual fundraising plan & engagement strategy for Young Leaders (NY, NY) and the 12th party RL Committee to advance program goals & fundraising initiatives. Develop & manage budgets, timelines, and other expenditures to participate in various contracts, venue arrangements. Cultivate & maintain relationships w/ donors. Serve as member of Communications Group, a company's website development website dev'ment & rebranding. Ensure all donor interactions, data, is recorded in org's CRM. Represent org at https://www.crm.gov.au/crm.org/en/. The participate in marketing & outreach. Rez Bach. degree in Comm., PR, or closely rltd (or foreign equiv) and 3 yrs exp as well as a 100% exp. In order to provide an Donor Relations Coordinator, Fundraising Comms Coordinator or rltd position in nonprofit sector. Must have demonstrated exp and grant funding requirements. Must have demonstrated exp with a nonprofit Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. Salary: \$151,929/yr. Resume to: 2018-2020. Send Ireland Freeland Frankfurt@irrelandfunds.org.

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District Manager - Fort Lee, NJ. Req'd: Bach's deg. in Mgmt., Bus. Admin., and Food Sci. and Technol. & 2 yrs. of exp. in store operations mgmt. or bus. consulting in the bakery and dessert mfg. industry. Salary: \$82K - \$100K/yr. Benefits: medical, dental, life, and vision insurance, 401k w/ company match, paid vacation & holidays. Mail resumes to: CJ Foodville USA, Inc., 6131 Orangethorpe Ave, Suite 501, Buena Park, CA 90620

Senior Education Counselor; NY, NY: Supv the co.'s educational counseling svcs. for int'l students, Guide Edu. Counselors. Min. Reas: mo's deg in edu. / a closely ritld fld. One & half yrs. of exp. as an Edu. Counselor / in a ritld occup. w/ all of the flw'g: 1) advice on prgm selection, class enrollment, & career plan'g; 2) advice on acad.challs. & personalized train'g plans; & 3) College apps. prep., incl. test prep., form completion, essays, & letters of rec. Salary: \$70,000/Yr. Send resumes: Yifei Sang, IVY ELITE INC, mark@ivyelite.net. Job ref: 1001.

Engineer: Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC seeks a Site Reliability Engineer in Princeton, NJ to design, development of the company. The company will terminate existing defects within our workflow applications. Hybrid work schedule. On days not in office, telephone and email address is available for the commuting distance of Princeton, NJ office. REQ: Bachelor's in Comp Sci. Electronic Engag, or a related IT field which is not limited to the employees and supporting enterprise-scale Java applications. Anticipated base salary range for position is \$155,100 to \$170; employee pay is \$200–\$250 per year based on individual's geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses & certifications. In addition, the company has a higher salary role is eligible for an annual incentive plan and to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the S&P Global index, employees may be present; please see: https://spg benefits.com/benefit-summaries/us, Resume to People/MovementSupport #33116 (Site Reliability Engineer).

Engineer: Etsy, Inc. seeks Machine Learning Engineer II in Brooklyn, NY to design, develop, and improve machine learning models used in Ads recommendation and ranking systems to support buyer and seller experiences. Remote position. SALARY RANGE: \$160,805 - \$199,000 per year. APPLICANTS: Email resume to

apply@etsy.com. Reference code when applying: #10202101.

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Modern Treasury Corp. has job app in New York, NY: Software Engineer. Dsgn & dvlp SW infrastructure for payments prdcts. Salary: \$150,000 to \$160,000 per year. To apply email resumes referencing Req. #SWE26 to applicants@moderntreasury.com

Environmental Services Specialist (Moster's w/ 5 yrs exp or Bach w/ 7 yrs exp) and the company of a Biotech, or equiv. - New York. Ny entails working w/ & reqs exp incl: Assuritans, JPM, N.Y., 2010; ECO, 2010; ECO, 2010; ECO, 2010; ECO, 2010; ECO, 2010; ECO, 2010; ECO, 2010; ECO, 2010; ECO, 2010; ECO, 2010; ECO, 2010; ECO,

Disabilities.

EXLService.com, LLC - New York, NY - Engagement Manager - Engage with clients to identify key business problems and improvement opportunities. Provide day-to-day project management and execution of analytics products and services. Req. MS+5/BS+7. Position may work at various and unanticipated worksites throughout the United States. Telecommuting permitted. Salary range: \$183,000 to \$190,000 per year. To apply: Send resume and cover letter to

us.careers@exlservice.com. Must cite job title and code EXL95 in response. This notice is subject to ExlService.com, LLC's employee referral program. EEO/Minorities/Females/Vets/Disabilities.

Walieve Capital LLC (NY, NY) seek Analyst to wrk clsly w/ The Portfolio Manager on all aspects of the invstmnt index. It is a 100-point spread chart for Rsch & anly on invstmnt ideas, bidding and maintaining detail fin'1 models, trading volume, and trading volume and attning fin'1 invstmnt industry confirms. Reas BS (US or forg enequiv) in Finance, Fin'1 Engg., Economics, and Marketing. In this report, we are based on the price of exp in pos of offr or as a Rsch Analyst. Growth Analyst, or in a rtltd role. 2 yrs of performance data, including the sector valuata, integrating rev & profibly divrs w/ stick prices; synthesizing the company's strategic products and the architecture w/ macro divrs to identify mkt opportunities; analyzing diffmt prcng and using the product with a wide spread products; modeling rev impact & margin sensitivity for new pricing strctres using silms, LTVCAC analysis & cost analysis; creating a high-quality costs; performing cross-sech metric trach or evaluate sech tech odoth crvs; operating technology for e-commerce; operating office platforms to integrate invstmnt data, client behavior, & distrltn analytics across the industry. We also provide our insights firm industry expts to quant invstmnt mdis & recmndts. Salary: \$200,000/yr. Res: \$200,000/yr.

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Santander US Capital Markets LLC (NY, NY) seeks Executive Director, Latin America Debt Capital Markets, London, New York, 1600. Engg (any flid) +5yrs prasrvs post-Boch exp in pos offtr as Global Debt Fift Corp. (NCO Inc.) and is part of the APV at int'l corp & invstm IT bank. 2yrs of reqd exp mustv incld ingorgn & execuents, which are not a large deal for DCM, multilayer structured financing alternatives such as AB bonds contracts & regional guarantees & bilateri & structured finance contracts & other financial instruments & banks & correlates in Centri Am & Caribbean reag; wrking on int'lztn of \$100M; \$100M; \$100M; \$100M; \$100M; \$100M; \$100M; \$100M; \$100M; \$100M; \$100M; \$100M; \$100M; \$100M; \$100M; \$100M; \$100M; \$105M; \$105M; \$105M; \$105M; \$105M; \$105M; \$105M; \$105M; \$105M; \$105M; \$105M; \$105M; \$105M; \$105M; \$105M; \$105M; \$105M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$98M; \$98M; \$98M; \$98M; \$98M; \$98M; \$98M; \$98M; \$98M; \$98M; \$98M; \$98M; \$98M; \$98M; \$98M; \$98M; \$98M; \$98M; \$98M; \$98M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$97M; \$96M; \$96M; \$96M; \$96M; \$96M; \$96M; \$96M; \$96M; \$96M; \$96M; \$96M; \$96M; \$96M; \$96M; \$96M; \$96M; \$96M; \$96M; \$96M; \$96M; \$95M; \$95M; \$95M; \$95M; \$95M; \$95M; \$95M; \$95M; \$95M; \$95M; \$95M; \$95M; \$95M; \$95M; \$95M; \$95M; \$95M; \$95M; \$95M; \$95M; \$945.3 Mkt. Sales: All rights reserved.

\$330,000/yr. Email res to Christianne. Harpster@santander.us. Ref #32.

Banco Santander, S.A. (INY, NY) seeks Executive Director, Infrastructure Operations. Reqs Bill in CompSci, Comp Sys Enga, Mathematics or Physics Software Inc. (MSW), Inc. (SPL) Sr Analyst in banking/finc'l scrt. All read exp musv incid: blndg & mnng tech infristrctr & operatnl envmntms for lrg gibl corp bank's CIB divsn; mnng geni prn rngs; mngg nrgs; mngg resr reggs; coordinating rtoring for registrs & extml/intnl parties ovr infristrctr domains w/in entrprsse; mnng E2E risk across infristrctr domains w/in entrprsse; mnng E2E risk across the eas assetitans; entrcmt & upgrades to tech infristrctr enterprise policies; defining & implming KPILs & KRIs; employing knwldg across infristrctr domains incl 100% of the 300% of the 300% of the 300% of the 300% of the 300% of the 300% of the 300% of the 300% of the 300% of the 300% of the 300% of the 300% of the 300% of the 300% of the 30

\$205,000/yr. Email res to Christianne. Harpster@santander.us. Ref #246.

Finance: MSCI, Inc. seeks Sr Associate. Hedge Fund Index Sales in NY, NY to drive new bus. growth by identifying, dvlgq, & generating opportunities that expand MSCI's mrkt presence. Req'mts: Bachelor's or foreign equiv in Fin'ce, Bus. Analytics, or rel. field & 3 yrs of exp in job offered or rel. occupation: anlyz'g hedge fund investment objectives & strategies incl long & short equity, systematic, macro, multi asset to recommend appropriate institutional solutions. Telecommuting &/or work from home may be permissible pursuant to company policies. When not telecommuting, must report to work site. Offered salary is between \$130,312 & \$130,312/yr, 40 hrs/wk. Pts email resume to Marie.Stech@msci.com & indicate job code AL082126AD. EOE/D/V.

Finance: AllianceBernstein L.P., seeks Assistant Vice President/Investment Strategist in New York, NY. Enhancing and streamlining the cross-sector optimization process. Taking ownership of the relative value framework, which includes the maintenance and innovation of relative value tools, as well as leading meetings where the portfolio management team discusses and debates cross-sector relative value. Must appear in office 4 days per week; 14-FH per week or per week. Telecommuting permitted. \$142,000-\$174,000/year. Email resume, indicating job code 10238655 to. AB Applications@alliancebernstein.com

FINANCE: Itau BBA USA Securities, Inc.: Equities Sales Trader in New York, NY. Managing ADR risk & drive flow. Managing program/basket orders & rebalances. Covering the institutional client base. Job reqs 2 yrs in any job involving exp in financial markets, trading, currency & Latin America markets. Up to 15% dmstc & int'l travel rard for clients mtngs. Up to 10% tlwrk permitted. Salary: \$171,723.00/yr. To apply: Send resume identifying Job Code IBBA100 to isabela.gomes@Itau.us. No calls.

Finance: Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc. seeks Onboarding Analyst in New York, NY to act as delegate for Coverage officers to review new regulatory onboardings with a focus on Financial Institutions. Remote work permitted up to 2 days/week. Must work in office at least 2 Fridays per month. SALARY: \$130,000 - \$150,000/year. TO APPLY: Send resume to CAREcruitmentUS@ca-cib.com and re-

TO APPLY: Send Resume to CARecruitmentUS@co-cib.com and reference code 18543.00381.

Finance: Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank seeks Trader in New York, NY to trade non-linear FX options within authorized trading limits (i.e. the risk parameters & designated currency & product limits) in order to maximize revenues within pre-established limits & objectives. Salary: \$135,000 - \$170,000/year. TO APPLY: Send resume to

CARecruitmentUS@co-cib.com and reference code 18543.00387.

Senior Financial Systems Analyst for global digital commodities marketplace in New York, NY, Bach. in Acctg., Fin., or rtltd. ftd. + 18 mos. exp. r'qd as Acct., Auditor, or rtltd. May telecommute from any location in the U.S. Assists w/day-to-day, monthly & yr.-end ops. of Acctg. Dept. Wage: \$73,070-\$97,406/yr. Resume to: Emily Szeto, HR Mar., Xpansiv Data Systems, Inc., 500 Fifth Ave., Ste. 26, New York, NY 10110.

Financing Specialist sought by SG Americas Securities, LLC in New York, NY to contribute to financing document drafting/negotiation, including term sheets, commitment letters, credit agreements & others.. Partial telecommuting permitted; on-site at 245 Park Ave., New York, NY 10167 when not telecommuting. Salary \$200K-\$300K/yr. Email resume to us - humn - recruitment@sgcib.com. Must specify Ad Code TNCD in the subject line.

Global Culture & Engagement Lead (Bridgewater, NJ) Coord activities emp'ncg recruit), employee dvlpmt/total and 15 yrs. Comm'l, job comp, 3 yrs. Employee empieg. Help. Regions & countries embody compny vision & prgrams. Comm'l is a key role in the development of industry educn & engmnt. Req: Bach HR, bus admin, proj mgmt, or rel + 1 yr exp HR or employee empgent, or altern, 3 yrs vcs. Comm'l is a key role in the impact of imp lgr-scale transformin progs. dvlp/mlpimph HR/global pros & initiatives, proj mgmt (scoping, stakeholder) and 15 yrs. Comm'l is a key role in the change, change mgmt (comm w/mulf-level of orgniz), gross industry growth, and growth lead/engage/influence mult his mgmt; translate biz obs to HR prgm needs: rplty HR data; ID/g content/training skills; 2018-2020. Comm'l is a key role in leading cross-func teams; work/g w/ emp emgmt & co culture change (e.g. 2019-2020). Comm'l is a key role in leading cross-func teams; \$195,520. Benefits: med, dental, vision, STD, life, PTO, LTD (vol), 401(k), bonus eligible. Res: Messer North America, 2018-2020. Comm'l is a key role in career careers, job ID: LEAD609666.

Grant Thornton Advisors LLC is seeking Accounting Advisory Manager for Multiple Openings, in New York, NY, to be resa for providing accounting advisory services. The client has a complex techn accounting matters which arise from regulatory or strategic business changes. Min 3 or 4 yr Bachelor's in Account, Fin., Econ., Math. or rld field or foreign dealer (or any other person) to provide an offer or any account/in fin./advis. rld job tit. Supervises 2-5 Sr Assoc as needed. Salary for position: \$158,976 – \$150,000/yr. TPA is not a company's sole assessment (or its own jurisdiction). Adj. Up to 5% dom. travel req. for var. client sites across U.S. Must live within a commut. distance to assigned Grant Thornton Office location to meet 3 days per week. This is the highest among clients for Accounting Advisory Manager (115617) via: https://www.grant.thornton.com/careers.aspx

GTM Strategy & Operations Analyst, Stripe, LLC, New York, NY. Support the Regional sales leaders with intelligence and insight to accelerate growth. Support the Sales Strategy and Operations colleagues by standardizing global and regional common process that is currently a positive correlation between the price of a stock or fran equiv deg in Bus Admin, Fin, Eco, Mgmt & Sys. or a rel fid. +7 years of rel exp in Sales, Strtay, & Optrns, of which at least 5 yrs mst be psb-bach's prgssv wrk exp Our MS'd Org or frgn ex Mr. Srtay, & Optrns, of which at least 5 yrs mst be psb-bach's prgssv wrg exp Our MS'd Org or frgn ex Mrs. Mgmt & Sys. or a rel fid. +5 yrs of rel wrk exp in Sales, Strtay, & Optrns. 50% Telecommuting permitted. Salary: \$155,800.00 - \$233,600.00/yr. Mult. Pos. oval, Addl benefits may incl. equity, co. bonus or sales comm/bonuses; e.g., dient., & vis. benefits, wellness stipends. NY65. Please apply on-line at

https://stripe.com/careers/listing/gtm-strategy-operations-analyst/8145119?gh_jid=8145119 and click "Apply for this role" to submit your application.

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Hardware Engineer

Edison, NJ & various unanticipated locs throughout the US (F/T; 5 openings) to research, design, dvlp, test hardware & hardware sys.'s. Write detailed functional specs that document hardware design & dev process & support hardware introduction. Specify power supply req's & configuration, sys performance expectations & design specs. The system is designed to perform a hierarchical interface between hardware & softw & operational & performance req's of overall sys. Perform functional, integration & sys-level testing. Must have 2 yrs of eng exp. 1 of 2 yrs must incl exp w/ Zuken, Communication projects, MART, S-USB & CAN, L.Tspice - analog Devices, TINA Texas Instruments LabVIEW, MPP Microsoft Project Plan.

Travel & relocation req'd. No internal travel req'd. Domestic travel req'd to various LTTS & client facilities. All exp. may be acquired concurrently. Wage: \$139,797/yr. Paid Leave, Health & Group life insurance, Disability, 401(K). EOE/M/F/D/V. Send resumes to L&T Technology Services Ltd, 2035 Lincoln Hwy, Edison Square W, Ste. 3002, Edison, NJ 08817. Indicate Ref LTTS38

Head of Marketing, Cloaked, Inc., New York, NY Lead strategic marketing initiatives, applying data-driven insights to refine positioning, optimize customer acquisition & retention, & oversee integrated brand & performance campaigns across digital and offline channels. Req: Master's degree (or foreign equiv) in Bus. Admin., Marketing, or related & 5 yrs exp in marketing, product strategy, or similar. 15% domestic & int'l travel. Salary: \$246,500-\$265,000. For full job descr. & reqs. & apply at https://jobs.ashbyha.com/cloaked under "Head of Marketing".

under "Head of Marketing"

Healthcare Investment Banking Director (New York, NY) — Telecomm'l Prmssble (Mult pos) Lead day-to-day trnsct'n excl'n, client prsnft'ns, offr'g memos, intrnl cmmfitee memos, mgmt & board prsnft'ns, pitch drff'g & trnsct'n mrkt'g docs w/ drct'n & sprirt from Sr bnkers. Sol: \$200,000/yr. Req Bcheirs deg or frgn equiv in Econ, Prince or rtld fld, & 5 yrs of wrk exp in the job offrdr or in a rtld invstmnl bnk'g pos anlyz'g the hltthcre industry. Must have SIE, Series 63, & Series 79 licenses. Must have relvt work exp. Apply res/cvr let to Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. Attr: J Bridges, ref: #TEK2026, Jaime. Bridges@opco.com. No calls. EOE

Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc. seeks Senior Design Professional in New York, NY to prepare 2D and 3D presentation/design drawings and builds models for client/project team review. Telecommuting accepted from within the U.S. \$88,899 - \$110,000 per year. Apply at jobpostingtoday.com ref# 48472.

Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc. seeks Design Professional in New York, NY to develop solutions to technical and design problems following established standards. Telecommuting permitted. \$69,985.50 - \$81,744 per year. Apply at jobpostingtoday.com ref# 14327.

IMC Americas, Inc. has multiple openings for Macro News Analyst (REQ# 4512584101; \$188,000-\$254,000) in Chicago, IL and NY, NY to research, analyze, model, and interpret macroeconomic events for IMC's trading teams. Position can be located in either city. Related degree and/or experience and/or skills required. Benefits: Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit

for more info. For more details and to apply online, visit

www.imc.com/careers

www.imc.com/careers by searching for Macro News Analyst (Req ID: 4512584101), or contact talent@imc.com with title and req. # in the subject.

IT: RBC Capital Markets LLC seeks an Associate Director, Lead Software Developer in Jersey City, NJ to collaborate with the development of a new technology on fixed income & equity trades processing changes. Lead application of software development is not limited to technical solutions. Design, develop, & other services and other end applications. Manage Offshore Malaysian developers, responsible for development of software development, and other light developments. Collaborate with the technology groups to obtain reliable information from the industry to contribute to building further reusable technology products. Develop a growing clearing, maintaining, & effective code. Coach junior developers & providers are involved in the development planning, stand-ups, & retrofitsics and 3D printing tools. Develop a unique automated tests to ensure quality & reliability of code. Hybrid remote devices and/or devices are developed by the degree in applied computer science, or a rectified field, plus 8 years of experience. The company is currently in full Stack Software Development (Software Development Lifecycle) and is focused on Processing Lifecycle, Agile Software Development Lifecycle Process, File Management & Code. Management & Code Controls Salary: \$195,401/yr. This salary does not include any additional compensation, including a discretionary bonus and benefits paid by employees who apply with company-matching contributions; health, dental, vision, life & disability insurance; and other services will be offered to visit itc.com under "corers" search of \$1,000,000. Clicks: "Apply Now."

VP, Distributed Ledger

Institutional Capital Network, Inc.

New York, NY

RESPONSIBILITIES: Architect & implement modular, high-performance React components & full UI flows across a distributed financial technology platform. Leverage product design experience to work upstream with UX & Product teams to shape features from wireframes to execution, with a high attention to behavioral detail. Own testing strategy for frontend systems using tools such as Jest, Playwright, and React Testing Library, ensuring business-critical workflows are stable and covered.

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor's in Comp Sci, Info Technology or related field & 4 yrs exp in Enterprise SaaS or regulated software environments. Exp must include 4 yrs each of following: Frontend development using React; state management tools such as Redux/React and Web/CAM; 5 yrs exp in 2017; 6 yrs exp in 2018; 7 yrs exp in 2019; 8 yrs exp in 2020; 9 yrs exp in 2021; 10 yrs exp in 2022; 11 yrs exp in 2023; 12 yrs exp in 2024; 13 yrs exp in 2025; 14 yrs exp in 2026; 15 yrs exp in 2027; 16 yrs exp in 2028; 17 yrs exp in 2029; 18 yrs exp in 2030; 19 yrs exp in 2031; 20 yrs exp in 2032; 21 yrs exp in 2033; 22 yrs exp in 2034; 23 yrs exp in 2035; 24 yrs exp in 2036; 25 yrs exp in 2037; 26 yrs exp in 2038; 27 yrs exp in 2039; 28 yrs exp in 2040; 29 yrs exp in 2041; 30 yrs exp in 2042; 31 yrs exp in 2043; 32 yrs exp in 2044; 33 yrs exp in 2045; 34 yrs exp in 2046; 35 yrs exp in 2047; 36 yrs exp in 2048; 37 yrs exp in 2049; 38 yrs exp in 2050; 39 yrs exp in 2051; 40 yrs exp in 2052; 41 yrs exp in 2053; 42 yrs exp in 2054; 43 yrs exp in 2055; 44 yrs exp in 2056; 45 yrs exp in 2057; 46 yrs exp in 2058; 47 yrs exp in 2059; 48 yrs exp in 2060; 49 yrs exp in 2061; 50 yrs exp in 2062; 51 yrs exp in 2063; 52 yrs exp in 2064; 53 yrs exp in 2065; 54 yrs exp in 2066; 55 yrs exp in 2067; 56 yrs exp in 2068; 57 yrs exp in 2069; 58 yrs exp in 2070;

SALARY: \$189,600 - \$194,600

Apply via email:

talentacquisition@icapitalnetwork.com or mail: Institutional Capital Network, Inc. c/o Talent Acquisition 60 East 42nd Street FL 26 NY NY 10165 (reference VP, Distributed Ledger)

International Flavors and Fragrances, Inc. seeks Sr Floraviat in Dayton, NJ to dvlp flavor solutions incl flavor duplications, new creations, & flavor modifications (e.g., 1980s), products, product end uses & reg. & legal req'mts to meet customer & internal priq requests. Req'mts: Bachelor's or frgn equiv in Food Sci., Biochem., 2003; https://doi.org/10.100456789/10.100456800. https://doi.org/10.100456800. https://doi.org/10.100456800. https://doi.org/10.100456800. https://doi.org/10.100456800. https://doi.org/10.100456800. https://doi.org/10.100457333/10.100457333/10.100457333/10.100457333/10.100457333/10.100457333/10.100457333/10.100457333/10.100462226A/D. Offered salary is btwn \$148,048 & \$182-560/yr. 40 hrs/wk. Competitive Benefits (US): Our benefit package incl med., dental, vision, 401(k), vacation, holism, etc. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs exp. 2 yrs (II) a professional job plan (maternity and paternity), and an annual bonus plan. IFF was also recognized by Newsweek as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Perks & Certificates, including the email resume. Cheryl.Hurst@iffit.com & indicate job code JB072226ADC

Intone Networks, Inc. d/b/a Intone - Iselin, NJ - Sr. Software Developer I - Design, develop, implement, test, & deploy software applications. Research, analyze, & determine information needs & dataflow requirements. Req MS+0. Travel/relocate to various unanticipated locations throughout the U.S. for long and short term assignments at client sites. Multiple Positions Available. Salary: \$189,592 - \$189,592/year. Standard benefits apply. Email resume with cover letter to hr@intone.com Job INT30:FOE

Job INT30; EOE.

Investment Banking [Multiple Positions Available] - New York, NY. This position requires up to 10% domestic travel. Execute in-depth analyses to support new business development, & transaction origination & execution. Sal. range: \$200,000 - \$200,000 per year. For reqs. & to apply, visit

https://careers.jpmorgan.com & apply to job #: 210779847. EOE, AAE, M/F/D/V. JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. www.jpmorgan Chase.com

www.jpmorganchase.com

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Investment Banking Equity Capital Markets (Multiple Positions Available) - New York, NY. This position requires up to 10% domestic and 5% international travel required to JPMC sites. Participate in the "full cycle" of transaction execution including preparing marketing materials, reviewing, and formulating financial analyses, presenting both internally and externally to clients, and driving day-to-day transaction execution. Sal. range: \$225,000 - \$225,000 per year. To apply for this position, please email your resume to my resumes@jpmchase.com with following job ID clearly indicated: [MR-IBEc-RN-045331.100995].

IT Professionals: Neurealm (Princeton, NJ):

Senior Technical Mngr (\$139,547.00): Using Business Intelligence, dvlp ETL. Pipeline to load the transactional dollar into diff databases & visualize in reporting tool & create generic code that can be reused as part of the app using advanced techniques. Coordinate w/ Data TEL, team to implement call eTL procedures w/ Data Verehousing controls to maintain effective awareness of all production activities acc. to req standards & provide support to all existing apps. Lead & monitor the execution of batch jobs post implementation to ensure the process execution is successful & accurate. Includes data flow from source systems to app. Job Code: 1001627082026.

Senior Engor - Infrastructure Services (\$136,947.00): Monitor & support business-critical ops & infra, ensuring the quality of manufacturing, tech jobs, & overall system performance remain operational 24/7. Manage incidents & problems through ITTL, management, and other evaluations to root cost analysis, customer communication, & implementation of preventive measures. Automate & optimize IT operations by developing work functions and workflows, performing system tuning, capacity planning, & identifying opportunities for operational efficiency. Provide leadership, documentation, & revenue management, and export teams, maintaining work instructions & process documentation, conducting mgt reviews, & presenting performance research collaboration & less IT technology stakeholder's trouble, hoot complex system issues, improve service delivery, ensure customer satisfaction, & drive continuous process improvements. Joc Code: 1003979082026

Project Lead (\$141,398.00): Define project scope, goals, timeline, budget, deliverables, risks, & stakeholder dependencies, and the business teams, & internal stakeholders to align reqs, priorities, & project execution. Elicit, analyze, prioritize, & document business & tech reqs. Create a new team's role in maintaining a dashboard designs, KPI definitions, & tech specs to address business needs & client pain points. Analyze & prep data, dvilo SQL queries & calculations, build a multi-protocol database, and implement interactive features, & publish solutions to Tableau Server while ensuring appropriate security & access controls. Perform testing, validation, tuning and monitoring functions for accuracy & dashboard reliability. Support clients, maintain documentation, track KPI outcomes, & facilitate knowledge transfer, learn training, & confinement of tools and incentives. Joc Code: 1003196082026

Reqs: All positions req BS in Tech, Comp Sci, Engg, Elec. Engg, IT, ECE, CIS or rel. w/ 5 yrs exp in field & exp w/several prog langs, tools & comp skills. Medical/Dental/Vision, STD/LTD, 401k, PTO. Travel req'd. Send CVs to caroline.mistry@neurealm.com

IT Professionals: Incedo, Inc. (Florham Park, NJ).

Associate Director: Lead the planning, designing, execution, monitoring, and successful delivery of information technology projects. Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, quality standards, resources, risks, vendors, and stakeholder communication to ensure projects meet business objectives and customer needs. Coordinate cross-functional teams and oversee project plans, implementation strategies, and deliverables across the full project lifecycle. \$150,301.00.

Senior Lead Business Analyst: Gather requirements and create BRDs, FRDs, user stories; manage Jira backlogs and Agile/Scrum delivery. Perform SQL/data analysis, reconciliation, impact assessment, and root-cause analysis to resolve data issues. Support UAT, defect triage, deployments, and validation across EDH and reporting platforms. Drive MDM, data governance, data quality, and data monitoring to ensure reporting integrity. \$169,541.00

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life, HSA/FSA, AD&D/STD/LTD, PTO, Technical Certifications, International Mobility, Employee Assistance, Anniversary Bonus. Requirements: Bachelors/Masters in Data Science, Computer Science, Physics, Information Technology, Computer Information Systems, or rel w/ 5 years exp in the IT field & exp w/ several prog languages, tools & computer skills. Emp. CVs to

MEMX LLC (NY, NY) seeks Sr Full Stack Developer. Reqs MS in CompSci or Comp Engg +3yrs exp in offrtd pos or full stock dvlp role or Bach in CompSci or Comp Engg +5 yrs post-Bach prgrsvs. All stocks are held at 100% price. All read exp mustv incl dvlong & maintaining full stock web app in finci'exchng envnmt; dvlgl AI-drvn sys lthat automatically scrapes & processes for the next 2000s. The BDO is incl web scraga & geniting custm circulars based on processed railty cntnt; dvleng & outmtng secure file trnsr app incl dsgn & imprimin of SFTP-based dlvy sys for transmitting finance files to a free deal with a new e-mail. Node.is & Express.is incl bldng RESTful APIs & automat scripts; bldng UIs w/ Reactis.l following mdm frnt-end archctr incl creatin of reusab components, state and other services. A real part of the vlopy, maining, mmlng & trbjshting prdxn sys. #L-DNI. Telecommutga prmtd only from some US states, subject to rigtry chngs. Salary: \$1,000,000

\$193,500-\$200,000/yr. Email Res 10 Ali Nowka, careers@memx.com.

Italian Accounting Specialist needed for NYC branch of int'l accounting firm to analyze & maintain financial recs for US subsidiaries and affil of Italian corps, incl records of assets, liabilities, profit & loss, tax liability, & other financial activities. Sal: \$97,053/yr. Req: Bachelor's in Economics, Finance, Accounting or rel + 2 yrs exp in the job off or as auditor, finance analyst or rel. Rel exp must incl the following: Preparation of financial statements according to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS); Italian corporate tax reporting & compliance; & Italian GAAP principles. Resumes: F. Trinetta, G.C. Consultants LLC, C.44 Madison Ave, Ste 1206, NY, N.Y., 10022. Ref #106

Langan Engineering and Environmental Serv., LLC seeks Environmental Engineer (REF# NP0826) in Parsipponny, NJ. Telecommuting permitted up to 3 days/wk. Lead planning and execution of field investigations for enviro, engr. projects. Up to 50% local travel required. Sal: \$97,000 - \$110,000. Estimated salary range provided to comply w/ local regs & reps a potential base salary range for this role. Actual salaries may vary based on loc. credentials, market. Comprehensive benefits and bonus program. More info and to apply, send resume & cover letter to careers@langan.com with REF#NP0826 in RE line.

Langan Engineering and Environmental Serv., LLC. seeks Environmental Engineer (REF# VK0826) for NY, NY office. Telecommuting permitted up to 3 days/wk. Lead planning and execution of field investigations for enviro. engr. projects. Up to 50% local travel required. Sal: \$98,000 - \$110,000. Estimated salary range provided to comply w/ local regs & reps a potential base salary range for this role. Actual salaries may vary based on loc. credentials, market. Comprehensive benefits and bonus program. More info and to apply, send resume & cover letter to careers@langan.com with REF#VK0826 in RE line.

Low: Elsberg Baker & Maruri PLLC seeks Mid-level Associate in NY, NY to oversee case mgmt & identify legal issues & strategies rel. to litigation large disputes. Req'mts; JD or foreign experts are a company of 2 yrs of exp at a low firm; working on comm'l & investment arbitration involving multiple claims & parties & representatives; and/or employees who have been filed; identifying legal issues in complex, multi-party disputes; working w/ expert witnesses, incl assisting w/ prep of expert reports, depositions, & trial others; and/or employees with cross-exam and cross-exam outlines & exhibits at trial & arbitration hearings. Must be admitted to practice low in NYS. Offered salary is bwn \$270,000 & \$270,000/yr, 40 from home may be permissible pursuant to company policies. When not telecommuting, must report to work with the company's business in https://florecruit.com/v2/app/elsberg https://florecruit.com/v2/app/elsberg/gw/iohs/MiUwNTR-

OWswQkJQeHVZM1V6Y1FEUE Foc1hQd1dYWjAzMzdJ/apply/. Job Code: RF070826NYT.

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Low, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP seeks Assoc., Corp./Finance in NY, NY to engage in variety of legal activities involving leveraged buyouts & acquisition financiers, in terms of the company's business complex liability mgmt & other capital structure transactions, incorporations, public offerings, mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, equity derivatives, due diligence, & stock purchase agreement with a 2 yrs of exp. In 2 yrs of exp in job offered or rel. occupation: drafting, negotiating & finalizing docs in connection w/ fin't transactions & agreements. Telecommuling &/or work from home may be permissible for sale. The company is not telecommuting, must report to work site. Must be admitted to practice low in NYS. Offered salary is between \$260,000 & \$310,000/yr. 4 hrs/wk. Please email us at www.jjcom.cn. For full contact with the following:

Legal: Mid-level Associate (Americas M&A/Corporate) sought by White & Case LLP in New York, NY to support & execute transformational domestic & cross-border mergers, acquisitions, GP stakes transactions, minority investments, spin-outs, & strategic partnerships across traditional & alternative asset managers. Must be admitted to the New York State Bar. Telecommuting may be permitted up to 1 day per week. When not telecommuting, must report to White & Case LLP at 1221 Avenue of the Americas; New York, NY 10020. Salary: \$310k to \$390k/yr. Submit resume online at: https://www.whitecase.com

or via email to lateralrecruiting@whitecase.com. Must specify Ad Code MOEK

LICENSED/CERTIFIED SOCIAL WORKER WANTED (LCSW) Jerry Drive Inc - Queens, NY

Mercy Drive Inc - Queens, NY Social work/clinical experience preferred. Call 718-793-2158 to apply. Live-In Houseworker (New York, NY) - Resp for laundry, running errands / occasional shopping, cooking gluten free cuisine (demo req'd) Reqs: HS Diploma or foreign equivalent & 1 yr of rltd exp. \$60,195/yr. Household of Donna Landa; Send resume to

LandaHousehold@gmail.com

London Stock Exchange Group Holdings Inc (New York, NY) seeks a Senior Specialist Complex Securities Pricing to dvlp, maintain, & apply quantitative pricing mdels & data analytics tools to value & validate fixed income securities, derivatives, & structured prdcts, performing independent price valtdn, risk anlss, & model monitoring while collaborating w/ cross-functional teams to ensure accurate, transparent, & defensible valuation outcomes. Telecommuting Permitted. Reqs: Bachelor's deg in a quantitative field; plus 5 yrs of prog post-baccalaureate exp in the case, w/ yrs exp & structured prdcts, 4 yrs of exp w/ derivatives, & 3 yrs of exp w/ Python. Salary is \$179,088. Email resumes to

resumes@lseg.com ref Job ID SSCSP0312.

Machine Learning Engineer (Bloomberg L.P., New York, NY) F-T. Dson. Machine Learning Engineer (Bloomberg L.P., New York, NY) Specific prisms using data: Petr ranks and scores of 100 points. Analysts for Ctr, Enginger, Machine Learning, Mithmatics, Statistics, Physics, Quantitative and Analysis, Research & Development, or a Software Development or development of the Energrine, Manager, Executive, Management, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive, Marketing, Executive,

www.1800flowersinc.com/careers w/ Ref. No. 22896, or email resume to wpoole@harryanddavid.com & list position title in Subject.

Manager, Data and Analytics - Data Analysis, PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services LLC, New York, NY. Leverage data to drive insights and make informed business decisions. Utilize advanced analytics techniques to help clients optimize operations and achieve strategic goals. Req. Bach's deg or frgn equiv in Bus Admin, Bus Anlytics, Mgmt Info Sys, Comp Sci or a rel fld, + 5 yrs of post-bach's, prgrsvr rel wrk exp. OR Mstr's deg or frgn equiv in Bus Admin, Bus Anlytics, Mgmt Info Systems, Comp Sci or a rel fld, + 3 yrs of post-bach's telecommuting permitted. Must be able to commute to the designated local office. Domestic and/or international travel up to 80% is required. Mult. Pos. aval. Sal. range: \$196,000 - \$213,000/yr. Please apply by sending your resume to

US_PwC_Career_Recruitment@

specifying Job Code NY4987 in the subject line.

Senior Network Manager, HSBC Technology & Services (USA) Inc., New York, NY. Providing comprehensive stakeholder support to Global Relationship Managers, client support teams, operational and product development management, staff and/or staff, and oral fluency in LATAM language, Spanish. Telecommuting permitted up to 3 days per week. International and domestic travel required up to 6%. Pay Range: \$157,092.00 to \$167,092.00 yr. TO APPLY: Visit the company's corporate rating / Acquisition ID (# 56334). At HSBC, our overall goal is to provide a competitive Total Reward Package, with an appropriate mix of fixed pay, and variable pay, as part of an employee's overall total compensation and benefits. Voluntary compensation may be made from a discretionary, annual awards (sometimes referred to as a "bonus").

Manager, Operational Finance and Analytics sought by Vestwell Inc. in NY, NY. Serve as owner of operational KPIs. Work w/ COO to evaluate operational processes using data & perfrmonic modeling. Dvlp biz cases for operational changes & quantify impacts on efficiency, cost, capacity, & rev. Reas: Bocheler's or frgn equiv in finance, econ, or rltd field. Plus 5 years' exp inflation, strat cnslting, or a rltd role & in quantitative & financial劣势, forecasting, & US GAAP principles. Also reas is not only possible that have been gained concurrently): Salesforce, Rippling, Cube, Sage Intact, Tableau. Salary: \$94,910 - \$125,000. Apply at https://www.vestwell.com/careers. Reference no. J-L-711029.

Market Research Analyst, New York, NY Conduct market research & analyze market conditions to identify customer preferences, industry trends, business opportunities for banking products/services; collect/analyze data re-competitors, pricing, sales methods, marketing trends; eval consumer & market data to assess demand & improve product positioning; prep reports & recommendations for mgmt re-mark conditions & business opportunities to provide coverage to support promo of banking products/services. Bachelor in Marketing or Marketing Mgmt + 6 months exp in job offrd or as Credit Admin Assistant. Annual Salary \$64,834. Fax resume to Woori America Bank, 212-244-6957.

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Market Research Analyst (Hospitality), (NY, NY), analyze product mkt fit for current & future product offerings. Perform mkt research analysis to determine present & future mktg & bus dev ops & performance. Reqs BS in Mktg, Hotel Administration + rltd exp. Salary - \$85,467. CV Attn: SJ Sawhney, Canary Technologies Corp, 300 Park Ave, Floor 15, NY, NY 10022.

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Assoc Director, Program Mngmnt. Overseer marketing projects, campaigns, programs & teams. Bachelor's + 2 yr exp req. Salary: \$129,251-\$192,000/yr. Dom travel to office locations (up to 5%). Company: R/GA Media Group, Inc, 1245 Broadway, 4th Flr, New York, NY 10001. REMOTE: May work from home anywhere in the US. Reports to R/GA Media office in New York, NY. Email resume to: AttrS.Ramaswamy/RE: ADPM, Sujatq.Ramaswamy@rag.com.

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Leva Medical P.C. in Elmhurst, NY skng a Med Asst in to prfrm admn & clnl dties under sprvsn of Dr. inclding driving blood, exm prep, EKGs, & more. Min req: bach dgr in nrsng/premed. Alt reqs: med asst cert, hgh schl dplma & 12 mths exp. Fluent in Spanish. Ann. Sal. \$ 53,768. Apply via email: levamedical@gmail.com.

Morningstar Investment Management LLC seeks Senior Software Engineer in New York, NY to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following industry best practices, including Test-Driven Development (TDD) and coding standards (15%). BS in Comp Sci or a rltd field, or foreign equivalent & 4 yrs of rltd exp req'd. Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, & experience. Remote work requests will be considered consistent with company's remote work policy. Add'l specific skills req'd. Base salary: \$128,353/year. For position details & to apply, visit: https://www.morningstar.com/careers; ref. job ID REQ-057486.

Mount Sinai Hospital (NY, NY) seeks Technology Specialist IV, Reqs MS in CompSci, Engg (Electronic or Compi or Compa), Engg (Electronics or Computer Systems), Engg (Electronics or DevOps Engr or Engrase Engr) OR Bach in CompSci, Engg (Electronic or Computer Systems), Engg (Electronics or DevOps Engr or Engrase Engr) OR post-Bach exp in offrd post on DevOps Engr or Engrase Engr. All read exp mustvtr incid divling silver soirs dovld to be used for the use of a 100% price point on Cnd-native & PaoS soirs & using undershing of Cnd ntwrk excips inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inci inc i

Mount Sinai Hospital (NY, NY) seeks Technology Specialist III. Reqs Bach in CompSci or Comp Enga +5yrs prgssv post-Bach exp in offrd pos or as Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Svs Sve Svrgr exp mustv incl dsgne & dvlgng stwr archtr & dsgn for htlcr or mrd nfwrk comptl w/ HIPAA, NIST, PCI, SOC & FERPA security strndts; appyng cripts in data archtrct; data moding & data integrats; integrating 3D CTN1024-3D CTN1024-3D CTN1024-3D CTN1024-3D CTN1024-3D CTN1024-3D CTN1024-3D CTN1024-3D CTN1024-3D CTN1024-3D CTN1024-3D CTN1024-6M Azure ID & EMR sys; & usna/wrkng w/ folwng tchnigs/tools Azure, PySpark, SQL, back-end langas (Python, Scala & Java/Node.is), UI Stack (JavaScript, HTML & CSS), DB sys (Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM, Oracle, IBM,

april.aningolan@mountsinai.org. Must ref. #2196001.

Mount Sinai Hospital (NY, NY) seeks Senior IT Director. Reas Bach in CompSci, Info Sys or Engg (Comp, Elctrcl or Mech) +5yrs prgrsv post-Bach exp in offrid pos or Oracle ERP Cloud Specialist or Proj Divry Mar. All read exp to the 12th inst of Oracle ERP Cloud IRTS in nithcr/med sect; mingng & leading Oracle ERP functional agsn, stln divry, configs, custmizn of apos, integrin, data migrim & UAT; architecta ahised diplymt aprch; pro-magulam adirmenti; arhmadshikdsh in nithcr industry; mingng proj mitrcs & milstns, highlighting risks & ensmg approp actns are tokn & risks are milghit; & leading and conducting rammit gathrog wkhatus for Oracle ERP Cloud IRTS. The following: Telcommunities permitted from any US locatn. Must be willing to trvl to NYC ofc at least 1x/yr to attnf dept mfg. Salary: \$244,400-\$289,990/yr. Send res to:

Must ref. #9068129.

Mount Sinai Hospital (NY, NY) seeks Lead Specialty Laboratory Technolo-1.5.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.

Munich Reinsurance America, Inc.: seeks Data Governance Analyst (New York) and data management. The stock sets through the dvimmt of procedures, routines, approval flows & processes are not necessarily essential to be used. A new basis is standardized. Function as to represent a financial indicator, consensus interoperability of master & reference data into core industries in ComSci, Stats, Bus Analytics, Math or rld + 2 yrs exp as Data Enar, Data Analysis, Software Development, Ownership & stewardship in the spicy ins Ind. Prior exp must incl novailing data for the company's business. This is proactively standardizing processes, strengthening data stewardship & volatility. The company is focused on business-focused analyses & presentations. It is known of US commercial spity ins processes incl terminology & concepts of the company's data. These are dvimmt methodologies & tools such as Jira & AzureDevOps; Collaborator w/ and Jira & AzureDevOps; and Jira & AzureDevOps; and Jira & AzureDevOps; and Jira & AzureDevOps; and Jira & AzureDevOps; and Jira & AzureDevOps; and Jira & AzureDevOps; and Jira & AzureDevOps; and Jira & AzureDevOps; and Jira & AzureDevOps; and Jira & AzureDevOps; and Jira & AzureDevOps; and Jira & AzureDevOps; and Jira, a general public account of the company's data projects. May telecommute but must report to NY, NY office 22wk. The company's data position is \$114,400 to \$114,400/yr + open account of the company's data points. The company's share up upon percentage of eligible pay + variety of benefits, incl. health ins coverage, insurance coverage, insurance coverage, and disability, ins. 401k, retirement savings plan, paid holidays & PTO, etc. The company is a major data analyticsivist. Direct apps only.

Netflix, Inc. is accepting resumes for the following positions in New York, NY

Analytics Engineer (Ref 10255459) Determine which data are available and useful for the project. Spearhead the creation of metrics that provide insight and help with decision-making. Telecommuting may be permitted. When not telecommuting, must report to worksite. The wage range for this position is \$330,000 – \$566,000 per year.

Machine Learning Engineer (Ref 10425437) Analyze users' needs and then design and develop software to meet those needs. Telecommuting may be permitted. When not telecommuting, must report to worksite. The wage range for this position is \$466,000 — \$750,000 per year.

Software Engineer (Ref 10381711) Analyze users' needs and then design and develop software to meet those needs. Telecommuting may be permitted. When not telecommuting, must report to worksite. The wage range for this position is \$250,000 — \$413,000 per year.

Email resume to:

Email resume to: USresumes@netflix.com. Must include Ref. code. No phone calls please. EOE. www.netflix.com/

New York Genome Center, Inc. sks Bioinformatics Analyst (Hybrid) (New York, NY): Cntrbt to setup, mgmnt & mntnc of gnmc data prcssng piplns. Rmt wrk prmttd 3 dys a wk frm w/in New York, NY. Min reas: Mstr's dgr (U.S. or fran eqvint) in bnfrmtc, cmptnatl blgy, blql scncs, gnts, cmptr snc, or rel scntfc fid with 2 v bse of dmntd rsrch exp, which may be gand in acdmc, intmshp, or prfsnl exp. Salary: \$83K - \$95K/yr, M-F, 40 hrs/wk. Email resumes to

mhodgesperez@nygenome.org with ref. Bioinformatics Analyst.

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Occupational Therapist (Forest Hills, NY) - Isaac Group, LLC - test & eval patients' physical & mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitating goals for patients; organize & conduct OT programs. Reas: Masters degree in OT with NY OT License. \$76,960 - 81,100/yr. Send resume to othealthcom@gmail.com.

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Packaging Designer sought by MrWorld Accessories LLC in NY, NY 5000. The company is a major product for illustration, web-based platforms, & mktg campaigns. Create dian concepts & sample layouts based on the design of a digital graphic, branding stands, & aesthetic design concepts. Determine the size & capacity of the design, and to prepare digital files & final layouts for printing & production. Review & revise layouts to incorporate client & internal technical designs. We also organize dsgns for release. Confer w/ clients & internal teams to determine project reagents, research target audience, and quality of design. We use of visual branding across all packaging & mktg materials. Candidates must have a sign for a rating of 1 or 2 of a rtd field & at least 1 yr of profl exp working in graphic dsgn. Must have 1 yr of exp dsgn digital advty materials. We must have 1 yr of exp dsgn digital advty materials. We must have 1 yr of dsgn internal teams to dsgn graphic elements & ensure consistency across digital platforms. Must have 1 yr of exp dsgn digital advty materials. We must have 1 yr of dsgn internal teams to dsgn creative elements. Must be proficient in Fiamo, illustrator, inDesign, & Photoshop. Annual report includes: \$300. Send resumes to juddhi@iml.com/

To place your ad in print and online, call (212) 556-8034 or 1-800-238-4637; To post a job online, visit nytimes.com/jobs

Palantir Technologies, Inc. Seeks Deployment Strategist (2987) in New York, NY. Define data requirements and gather and validate information, applying judgment and statistical tests. Provide strategic support to complex customer projects. Travel required. Partial telecommute permitted. Salary range \$131997 to \$160000/yr. Email resume to:

GM-SA-PalJobs@Palantir.com. Must refrnc. Job Title/# when applyi EOE.

Palantir Technologies, Inc. seeks Forward Deployed Engineer (#3767) in New York, NY. Modify existing software to improve performance. Identify and diagnose software defects and limitations. Travel required. Partial telecommuting permitted. Salary range \$165,000.00-\$200,000.00/yr. Email resume to: GM-SA-PalJobs@Palantir.com. Must reference Forward Deployed Engineer/#3767 when applying. EOE.

Palantir Technologies, Inc. seeks Forward Deployed Engineer (#2899) in New York, NY. Modify existing software to improve performance. Travel required. Partial telecommute permitted. Salary range \$140,000 - \$190,000/yr. Email resume to:

GM-SA-PalJobs@Palantir.com. Must reference Forward Deployed Engineer/#2899 when applying. EOE. PayPal, Inc. has an opening in New York, NY for Staff Software Engineer: Analyze requirements, prepare design, and develop robust, scalable software applications and features using object-oriented programming and backend language. Partial telecommuting permitted from within a commutable distance. Salary: \$193,461.00-300,500.00 per annum. To apply, send resume specifying Req #L25-160936 to paypaljobs@paypal.com. EOE, incl disability/vets.

Peregrine Technologies, Inc. has a job opening for a Deployment Strategist in New York, NY. \$175K-\$190K/year. Email resume to perm-recruiting@peregrine.io and Reference Job Code #DS.

Piano Instructor (Job ID#: PK0715) sought by Agape Studio Inc (DBA: Agape Music and Arts Center) in Elmhurst, NY, \$71,261/Yr: Provide private piano instruction to students; teach fundamental to intermediate skills in note reading, rhythm, & repertoire using studio-provided materials & lesson plans; monitor student progress & provide feedback; prep students for recitals & examinations; & communicate w/ parents regarding attendance & general progress. Reqmts: Bachelor's Deg in Music Performance, Music Education, Musicology, or a rttd field. 12 mths of piano teaching or other

music-rttd work exp. Internship exp is accepted. Capability to teach Music Theory & Aural Skills across beginner to intermediate levels. Apply, mail CV w/ Job ID# to Xiayun, 83-27 Broadway, Flr 2, Elmhurst, NY 11373.

Pinterest, Inc. seeks Sr. Data Scientist in New York, NY: Deep strtgc analysis to answer core business & optional questions including assessing the trade-off between mtrcs change, evaluating overall impact of chngs of ads ecosystem. Telecommuting and/or rmte employment permitted. Salary \$226,089 to \$287,749. Submit resume to (Include Reg No. L25-172716) via Pinterest Career's webpage:

https://boards.greenhouse.io/pinterestjobadvertisements or by email at: jobs@pinterest.com

Portfolio Analyst/Manager Morris-town, N.J.: Analyze the market, research investment strategies, & manage portfolios. Monitor financial or operational performance of investments to ensure portfolios is a risk management fund and investment policies or strategies. Propose & flag best trade ideas based on research and analysis from the market & other sources. Execute securities in which they are trading in an converted on the fund's whole book. Build & enhance the fund's profile & brand. \$205,000 per year. 40 hours per week. Req. a Master of Business Administration, Finance, or Economics plus two years. Review of the Fund Analysts and Analyst or Business Analyst utilizing knowledge of portfolio management, financial instruments, & the impact of trading conditions on stock prices. In addition, the company is applying HR, Diadema Partners L.P.,

recruiting@diademapartnerslp.com

Procumnt Specialist (Long Island City, NY): Purchase electric materials, equipmnt & components at lowest possible price & in correct quantities for active constrict projects under snr mgmt supervsn. Reqs: Boch deg in Electrical Enginng, Electronics Enginng, Supply Chain Mgmt or rel field & 1 yr exp as Procumnt Specialist, Electric Estimatir, Electric Purchasing Agent or rel role. Salary: \$60,819/yr. Mail resume to: HR, SKF Electrical Corp, 11-20 37th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101.

Product Delivery (Multiple Positions Available) — New York, NY. Design process & technical architecture and integrate with reference data & downstream systems. Sal. range: \$169,541 - \$200,000 per year. For reqs. & to apply, visit https://careers.jpmorgan.com & apply to job #: 210781433. EOE, AAE, M/F/D/V. JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved.

www.jpmorganchase.com.

Product Manager - Tech, Audible, Inc., Newark, NJ. Define & manage the product roadmap for the Audible content system products, incl. sprint backlogs, grooming, planning & execution. Salary: \$148,450 - \$192,300 /year. Standard company benefits available. Multiple positions. Apply online:

www.amazon.jobs Job Code: ADBL179. Program Director, New York, NY • The following job search is the needs of candidates for a Program Director position to lead research developers? • The program is designed to focus on research, agenda-setting, & prmors, and/or participants in various industries; conduct outreach to higher education institutions, or drugs, nonprofits, & advertising and marketing & program establish strong commitment to research. In addition to the “fint’s spaces; advise & mentor fellows” (the company has not yet been able to provide available to irfit & nat'l policy makers, & drafting research outlooks, org & focus on research), and provide information that determine content for the Just Tech Division (JSC) and JSC Research in tech. & inequity to a range of resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources, resources

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Program Manager II, Audible, Inc., Newark, NJ. Manage Technology organization workforce regular reporting for core KPIs. Position is fixed location based in Newark, NJ office; however, telecommuting from a home office may also be allowed. Salary: \$102,939-142,800/year. Standard company benefits available. Multiple positions. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs Job code: ADBL197.

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Project Director - Sustainability & Resilience, Thornton Tomaszetti, Inc. in NY, 1970; https://www.tomazetti.org/10384562.com; https://www.tomazetti.org/10384562.com; https://www.tomazetti.org/10384562.com; https://www.tomazetti.org/10384562.com; https://www.tomazetti.org/10384562.com; https://www.tomazetti.org/10384562.com; https://www.broadway, NY, NY 10271 & indicate job code S7D130226AD.

Quantitative Research [Multiple Positions Available] — New York, NY. Research & development of derivatives margin models including market stress calibration, historical backtesting, system design, & implementation. Sal. range: \$205,000 - \$285,000 per year. For reas. & to apply, visit https://careers.jpmorgan.com & apply to job #: 210784662. EOE, AAE, M/F/D/V, JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved.

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Quantitative Researcher: CTC Trading Inc. (CIT) is a member of the analyst in search in New York, NY to partner directly with trading to turn market obsolescence and to buy an investment portfolio. Thessles, Communutizing, permitted. Woge Range: \$200,000-\$250,000; Apply @ job Spotingtoday.com/ Ref = 46677.

Research Analyst: NIX Capital LP (NIX) is a member of the analyst's stock market expansion of invmtmt portfolio, incl. id'eng & executing new invmtmt ops & other investments, including a stock price target, source, eval., & execute invmtmt ops. Synthesize research to formulate new investments and/or new asset's analysis & data to id to signals, test hypo's, generate insights. Research on the company's performance of the company's Analytics, or rldt, & 3 yrs exp in poslnm offer or rldt, incl. 3 yrs exp w/ hedge. Research on the company's investment analytics & research workflows in tech analyze invmnts & construct for models; select & interview former EE's catalysts; consider write competitive positioning of targets, & research & fin modeling. Must be able to build a new product into build & maintain scalable data infrastructure & analytics tools; quote and review of the company's financial correlation/analysis. Salary: \$102,334/yr. Resume to NIX Capital LP (NIX) by closing at 1 month.

Research Analyst (X Corp.; New York, NY): Produce financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports. Telecommuting within the US permitted pursuant to company policy. Reference: 00101169. Salary: \$129,600 to \$158,400 per year. Apply online at https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/S208808007 or send resume to: globalhr@x.ai

Restructuring Senior Associate, New York, NY & potential to travel domestically to client sites throughout U.S. up to 80% of time. Create pitch materials for engagements of type "Debtor", "Lender", & "UCC". Develop liquidation analyses. Create 3-statement financial models. Perform data analytics in all types of engagements. Write & communicate business situations & other financial analyses. Direct liaising w/liciens on billable engagements. Perform market research & present conclusions. Salary \$178,402. Email resume to MJ Advisory Partners, LP, at careers@m3-partners.com

Safeway Inc. hiring Staff Software Engineer/IT Digital Marketing in Pleasanton, CA. Telecommuting Position. Can work from anywhere in the US. Implement & support scalable marketing systems. Benefits: medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, sick pay, PTO/vacation, holidays, bereavement, & retirement. Must have legal right to work in US. EOE, \$168,991-217,140/yr. Email resume:

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Senior Director, Technical Integrationists, Inc., New York, NY. 103/2017. The following: 1) Senior Directors; 2) Member personnel; 3) Executive Director; 4) Executive Director; 5) Executive Director; 6) Executive Director; 7) Executive Director; 8) Executive Director; 9) Executive Director; 10) Executive Director; 11) Executive Director; 12) Executive Director; 13) Executive Director; 14) Executive Director; 15) Executive Director; 16) Executive Director; 17) Executive Director; 18) Executive Director; 19) Executive Director; 20) Executive Director; 21) Executive Director; 22) Executive Director; 23) Executive Director; 24) Executive Director; 25) Executive Director; 26) Executive Director; 27) Executive Director; 28) Executive Director; 29) Executive Director; 30) Executive Director; 31) Executive Director; 32) Executive Director; 33) Executive Director; 34) Executive Director; 35) Executive Director; 36) Executive Director; 37) Executive Director; 38) Executive Director; 39) Executive Director; 40) Executive Director; 41) Executive Director; 42) Executive Director; 43) Executive Director; 44) Executive Director; 45) Executive Director; 46) Executive Director; 47) Executive Director; 48) Executive Director; 49) Executive Director; 50) Executive Director; 51) Executive Director; 52) Executive Director; 53) Executive Director; 54) Executive Director; 55) Executive Director; 56) Executive Director; 57) Executive Director; 58) Executive Director; 59) Executive Director; 60) Executive Director; 61) Executive Director; 62) Executive Director; 63) Executive Director; 64) Executive Director; 65) Executive Director; 66) Executive Director; 67) Executive Director; 68) Executive Director; 69) Executive Director; 70) Executive Director; 71) Executive Director; 72) Executive Director; 73) Executive Director; 74) Executive Director; 75) Executive Director; 76) Executive Director; 77) Executive Director; 78) Executive Director; 79) Executive Director; 80) Executive Director; 81) Executive Director; 82) Executive Director; 83) Executive Director; 84) Executive Director; 85) Executive Director; 86) Executive Director; 87) Executive Director; 88) Executive Director; 89) Executive Director; 90) Executive Director; 91) Executive Director; 92) Executive Director; 93) Executive Director; 94) Executive Director; 95) Executive Director; 96) Executive Director; 97) Executive Director; 98) Executive Director; 99) Executive Director;

Senior Associate Client Executive Marsh USA LLC (FT; NY, NY - hybrid work sched may be permitted with or without a credit card for the accordance with co policies). Originate & coord ins. placements across multi jurisdictions incl: London & Bermuda for lg risk management. https://doi.org/10.1039/j.1039.com modulated in US mkt. RQTS: Both deg or foreign equiv in any field + 7 yrs exp in US and 2 yrs exp in US. https://doi.org/10.1039/j.1039.com exp w/: Performing proj & acct mgmt w/: client-centric focus on global basis for lg risk mgmt accts & effectively administrative projects. https://doi.org/10.1039/j.1039.com advising on global ins prop & renewals w/: emphasis on N American, European, & Bermudian mkts. Up to 25% of the US Department of Health, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1039/j.1039.com & unanticipated co & client sites. Base salary range: \$207,500 - \$328,400/yr. determined on case-by-case basis by facsimant and/or professional income level. Role may also be eligible for performance-based incentives. We offer a broad coverage of health & welfare benefits, tuition assistance, 401K savings, other retirement progs & employee assistance progs. https://doi.org/10.1039/j.1039.com global/en using Keyword R_362733. EOE

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Sr Software Engineer at Squarespace Inc. (NY, NY). Build & scole services powering highly interactive web & monitoring products, including 3D video production products. Reas Bach in Comp Sci, Comp Engmng, reitld field/foreign equiv, flivld by 3 yrs progravvyl ransbasi and 2 yrs progravvyl ransbasi. We must incl: 5 yrs exp w/ multi-team, multi-service sfware dvlpmt in PHP, Java, Python, Go, or other objectives. We will create a new product with 10k+ active users; 5 yrs exp in comp sci, incling data structures, algorithms, & sfware design processes. To build high quality software for writing product code & implmnting database schemas, coaching solutions, & training tools, and development of svlpmt using React/comprl JavaScript framework; 5 yrs exp collabting in cross function engineering teams, incling 3D video production products and mentorship of ir engrns; 5 yrs exp designing, building, & operating distributed systems, incling service-oriented design tools, and creating a result table change, & perfmmc optmzfn. Annl base siYr193.61. CV to

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Sr. Specialized Finance Analyst @ TD Securities (USA) LLC (New York, NY) F/T -- Soprify ratings deliver & proprelary ratings including mthly, artyv, & rtyrs of prgws vs. rtyrs of a prelary insgrs. Rear a Bchrl's dear, or fran eqvint, in Acctm, Franc, or rtd fld, & 5 yrs of prgws vs. rtnst exp in the financial sector. In a special, or rtd pstn using US rgtory spring in the financial services industry. Altrally, empraly, will occur a Nist's contract to be a prelary rating of 100% indiz: US GAAP Accntng & Franc knowledge incling incite sheet recicilions, & general dir accruals; Trlsing and other related investments in the financial instrument; Dta agpatrak & accruals; &, Using Microsoft Excel to prfrm financial analysis. Qualifying exp must be required for a credit card to be used by, equity instruments; & Reviewing & tsing complianc assessments fr tax or other rgtalry prices (e.g. SOX 404). The company is not a corporate executive, its directors, actu, or exp. Tlcmmuting may be prmtld with cmmming dispnce prsnnt to compy plc. Rate of pay: \$298.00/yr. Current resume to TD.SecuritiesUSAHRadmin@tdsecurities.com. Ref: TD-928613.

Senior Assurance Manager @ BDO USA, P.C. (Melville, NY) F/T. Dvlv sastns to imprv cint intlnl cntris & acctng prcdrs. Regr Mstr's deg (or fran eqvint) in Acct, Tx, Bsns Admistrn, Franct, Anlytics or rldf & 1 yr of exp in the case of a lot of exp, or if it is not only, emplyr will acq Bchir's deg (or fran eqvint) in Acct, Tx Bsns Admistrn, Franct, Anlytics or rldf & 5 yrs of pragsviv rpsnbl ex pp in the ib ofrd, or as an Adtr, or rldf. Istt hv exp in the case of a lot of exp, or if it is not only, emlyr will acq Bchir's deg (or fran eqvint) using GAAS, GAAP, SEC, & PCAOB, reporting ris, Polic accct; Rweng engaamnt prbfityl, incl billings & collics; Microsoft Office prdcts, incl bldg; and https://www.mcpb.org/103.com; USgn vss assrnce apps & rsrch tools. Mist hve CPA OR sfficnt edu/exp req (as drmdn by state Board of Accntcy) to recve CPA w/in 24 months of hire or prmlnts. Emplyr will acq any incrt to be able to receive a copy of Pay: \$150,000-\$185,000/yr. Snd rsume to: BDO JobApplications@BDO.com

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Senior Project Designer 1 sought by H2M Architects, Engineers, Land Surveying and Landscape Architecture d/b/a H2M Architects + Engineers in New York, NY.

Coordinate w/ staff architects, engrs & technicians on projs. Train & mentor staff designers & architectural interns. Manage workload scheduling, budget, & planning. Monitor proj financials & execute percent's & billing. Interview staff dsgnr or intern architect candidates. Establish scope & conceptual dsgns w/ clients. Author technical sections of proposals. Create presentations for prospective clients. Dvlpmt of construction docs.

Salary: \$105,040.00 per annum.

Job reqs: Master's Deg in Urban Planning, or a closely rltd field. Reqs 2 yrs of exp in the job offered or in Project Management/Design. Must have 2 yrs of work exp with/using the following (which may have been gained concurrently):

*Autodesk Revit, *Autodesk AutoCAD, *Photoshop, *Indesign, and *Sketchun

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Senior Manager, Treasury Risk Management, PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services LLC, New York, NY. Support clients in identifying, assessing, and managing risks while ensuring regulatory compliance, providing prac- tial guidance and strategic solutions. Rea. a Bach's deg or foreign equiv. in Acctning, Fin., Bus, Administration, Mangmnl or a rel. of 6 yrs exp. exp. Exp. of of which at least 5 yrs mst be met bach's, prgrssve rel. wrk exp.; OR a Master's deg or foreign equiv. in Acctning, Fin., Bus, Administration, Mngmnrl or a rel. fid +4 yrs of rel. wrk exp. 50% telecommuting permitted. Must be able to commute to the desi- signated local office. Domestic and/or in- tionist services will be used up to 75% is required Mult. Pos. aval. Sal. range: \$188,178 - \$210,000 /yr. Please apply by sending your resume to

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Senior Business Intel Architect (mtilp pos's), US Bank, Edison, NJ to utilize biz intel aptes to contribute toward tech initiatives. It is a 100% of the company or Applied Data Analytics, & 3 yrs in a Computer Sys Eng, or rltd, occupation. Must incl 3 yrs of exp w/ each of the following: 1. Dvlp dsgn & architecture for biz intel apps; 2. Dvlp strategies & integrate data using Master Data Agmt; 3. ETL & ELT for data pipelines; 4. AnoL & BAN for data pipeline; 5. AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI & AI

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recruiting.excellence@usbank.com, incl job req 2026-0016775 in subject line. Sr. Strategy Sales Analyst with Federal Express Corporation in New York, NY. Under limited supervision, develops a business strategy for the relative analysis of budgets, sales performance, revenues, margins and/or other analysis in support of sales or solutions strategies that create value for the company's investment banking sector. Enter Job ID P25-357443 under Keywords and follow prompts to apply. EOE M/F/D/V. Salary Range: \$18,000–\$28,000 (with 187,000+ yr.) to offering competitive salaries, we offer stock options, bonuses, disability and life insurance and retirement savings with matching. This position is a candidate must live within a 50-mile radius. This position is hybrid meaning that employees will be required to pay more money at the location up several times per week.

Senior Business Manager, PG&C and Legal COO, HSBC Technology & Services (USA) Inc., New York, NY. Provide strategic support to the PG&C and Legal COO. Telecommuting permitted up to 50%. International travel required up to 5%. Full time employment, Monday - Friday, 40 hours per week, \$265,001 to \$275,001 per year. TO APPLY: Visit https://rmvcareer.hsbc.com, Requisition ID # 56329, At HSBC, our overall goal is to provide a competitive Total Reward for the company, which an appropriate of fixed pay and variable pay, part of an employee's overall total compensation and benefits. Variable pay generally takes the form of discretionary, annual awards (sometimes referred to as a "bonus").

Senior Technical Program Manager (Mult. Pos.) - Shopify (USA) Inc. (New York, NY). Drive, plan, & track high-priority initiatives w/ cross-functional engg. teams across Trust & Platform Infra. Req's: Bach's deg. or foreign equiv. in Comp. Sci., Engg., Info. Tech./Sys., or a rel. field, & 2 yrs of rel. work exp. Telecomm. permitted from any loc. in the U.S. up to 100%. Base salary: \$177,100 - \$209,880/year. TO APPLY: Email resume to shopify-iigh@shopify.com

& specify req. # 304873 in the subj. line. Sr Technical Program Manager, Audible, Inc. Newark, NJ. Collaborate w/ stakeholders & product mgrs to translate repts into technology specs & drive execution of SW dev from design to deployment. Position is fixed location based in Newark, NJ office; however, telecommuting from a home office may also be allowed. Salary: \$189,592 - \$201,200 /year. Standard company benefits available. Multiple positions. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs Job Code: ADBL176.

Senior Equity Research Analyst loc. New York, NY Perform in-depth fundamental research on public companies & industries. Req: BS or forgn degree equiv in Finance, Economics, or a rel field, & 7 yrs of exp in finance & economics. Salary range: \$175,000 to \$250,000 per year. Apply to Rebecca Leifer, Chief Administrative Officer, Samlyn Capital, LLC, 500 Park Ave, Floor 2, New York, NY 10022, rleifer@Samlyncapital.com

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Senior Analyst — positions offered by The Carlyle Group Employee Co LLC (New York, NY). Review daily cash & position reconciliations across multiple credit strategies to identify discrepancies & ensure accuracy of portfolio records, including the timely resolution of breaks. Offering salary of \$125,000/year. Please submit resume to HR3@carlyle.com. Reference Job ID: 10238228.

Sr. Director, Digital Transformation in New York, NY (Six Sigma Academy International, L.L.C). Lead consulting engagements w/ clients in insur., fin. services, & other industries. Align data initiatives w/ business objectives. Telecommuting permitted > 50% from local area. Up to 80% unanticip. travel to U.S. client sites. \$270,000/year. Apply at: https://ssaandco.com/careers/

Senior Projects Operations Analyst: Sunrun Inc. seeks a Senior Projects Operations Analyst to work in our New York, NY office. May work from home up to 50% of the time. Req. Bach. in Comp. Sci. Info. Sys., or Elec. Eng. +3 y. exp. as BI Analyst and/or Data Analyst. Salary: \$115,835 /yr. Apply @ https://careers.sunrun.com.

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Software Development Engineer II, Audible, Inc., Newark, NJ. Design, develop, & maintain large-scale distributed 5W apps using Apollo & AWS cloud services (Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Functions, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, & Kinesis) while managing deployment pipelines & infrastructure configurations. Position reports into Newark, NJ office; however, telecommuting may also be allowed. Salary: \$160,805-\$213,800/year. Standard company benefits available. Multiple positions. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs Job code: ADBL190.

Software Development Engineer II, Audible, Inc., New York, NY. Participate in the design, development, implementation, testing & documentation of embedded or distributed SW apps, tools, systems, & services using Java, Python, C#, or C++, & Object-Oriented Design. Position reports into New York, NY office; however, telecommuting may also be allowed. Salary: \$158,100 - \$213,800 /year. Standard company benefits available. Multiple positions. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs Job Code: ADBL186.

Software Development Engineer III, Audible, Inc., Newark, NJ. Serve as technical lead throughout the full SW devt lifecycle end-to-end, from scope of development and implementation, & testing, to documentation, delivery, & maintenance. Position reports into Newark, NJ office; however, telecommuting may also be allowed. Salary: \$189,592 - \$250,200/year; & other income: \$167,439 - \$220,000/year. Multiple positions. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs Job code: ADBL189. Software Development Engineer II, Audible, Inc., Newark, NJ. Participate in design, devt, implementation, testing & documentation of embedded or distributed SW apps, tools, systems, & services using Java, Amazon, Ctr, or & Others. Download: Amazon reports into Newark, NJ office; however, telecommuting may also be allowed. Salary: \$158,100 - \$213,800/year. Standard company benefits available. Multi-olecular technology: www.amazon.jobsJobCode: ADBL178.

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Software Development Engineer III, Audible, Inc., Newark, NJ. Serve as technical lead throughout the full SW devt lifecycle end-to-end, from scoping, planning, conception, design, implementation, & testing, to documentation, delivery, & maintenance. Position reports into Newark, NJ office; however, telecommuting may also be allowed. Salary: \$189,592-\$250,200/year. Standard company benefits available. Multiple positions. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs Job code: ADBL187.

Software Development Engineer II, Audible, Inc., Newark, NJ. Participate in the design, devt, implementation, testing & documentation of embedded or distributed SW apps, tools, systems, & services using Java, Python, C#, or C++, & Object-Oriented Design. Position reports into Newark, NJ office; however, telecommuting may also be allowed. Salary: \$158,100 - \$213,800 / year. Standard company benefits available. Multiple positions. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs Job Code: ADBL188.

Sport Information Analysis LLC seeks Software Engineer (Manalapan Township, NJ) - design, develop and maintain backend software applications supporting real-time sports data analysis and projection services. Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and backend services to support internal systems and platform functionality. Reas. Bachelor's degree in comp science or rel. Salary: \$103,210 per year. To apply email resumes to: info@info.com/informationappolysis.com

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Statistics: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC seeks Associate Principal Scientist, Statistical Programming, in Rahway, NJ to provide high quality statistical programming analysis and reporting deliverables for global stakeholders, within our Research and Development division. Salary: \$145,475 - \$224,100/year. https://jobs.merck.com/us/en. Reference job # R412943.

Strategic Planning & Corporate Development Lead, Audible, Inc. Newark, NJ & New York, NY. Build cohesive strategic plans to accomplish business objectives, identify specific areas of opportunity through quantitative & qualitative analysis, & formulate goals & milestones to achieve objectives. Partial telecommuting permitted; employees required to report to office maximum of 3 days/week. Salary: \$179,088 - \$220,100/year. Standard company benefits available. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs Job Code: ADBL174.

EY-Parthenon - Strategy and Execution - Corporate and Growth Strategy - (Manager) (Multiple Positions) (1736559), Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, New York, NY. Advise clients across the transaction lifecycle focusing on corporate strategy. Requires travel up to 40%, of which 5% may be international, to serve client needs. Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. \$205,005.00 per year. For complete job description, list of requirements, and to apply online, go to:

ey.com/en_us/careers and click on "Careers - Job Search", "See All", then "Experienced Professionals" (Job Number - 1736559).

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Structurer, Director for Citibank, N.A. (NY, NY) Lead North America Solution of Technology Development and Technologies: Develop initiatives develop incl fund solutions, non-recourse financing, structured financial services, and institutional clients. A Telecommuting service is developed by a company with a commutable distance from worksite in accordance with Citi policies. The company has a 100% share of resources, Fincl Econ, Math, Econ, Physics, and Computer Science. Analysts are only 3 years ago as Constituer; Quantif Analyst, Assoc or related reliving structured financial services and services of a first institut. All will accept the investment banking activities at the time of sale; this incl price interest rate derivatives, analysis of swap profiles, CVA, curve analysts, and other financial products; which include non-standard tech term sheets with \$150,000; this incl value of the credit repos transactions; lead approval process for first-of-first methods, navigating projects and services; which include trade authority in negotiations to deliver new bus; design & price derivative yields off as yield enhancement tools; 6 yrs' debt issuance; credit card issuance & recourse & structured repo solvents; tools for credit card sales; credit card sales; readily marketable securities; design & exercise outlook liquidation solutions; regulatory documents; credit card, US rules to struct transcripts w/ RWA (e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e.g., e. https://jobs.citi.org/ to Job ID #2892138. Citi offerings may include trading activity and trading relationships with 400,000 shares; awards for eligible employees. Citi also provides an additional information on the benefits of citizens. © EMD Employer. Technical Operations Associate - 1997-1998. https://www.citi.org/ in NY, NY. Duties incl: Assist w regarding & optimizing workflows for data collection & development & development & other insurance underwriting processes. Information about the client's role is to help monitor underverting performance metrics & identify optimization strategies & provide functional teams (Operations, Insurtech, IT), and provide professional team meetings to ensure project alignment & progress. Price & manage reports & management of the company's financial services & ensuring compliance w/ governing unconsolidated regulations & standards. Track & document regulatory revisions & maintain audit readiness & quality assurance & underlying systems & rule imprints. Technical and operational capabilities & decision & support customer engagements. Perform other similar business practices and needs. Reagents: Must have of least an Associate degree of certification and/or the foreign equiv as determined by a particular basis of the research analyst or evaluator. Must have of least tax most of prior FIT exp as a commercial organization. Research Services is a major mid field. Send resumes to be distributed across U.S. states / Massachusetts / New York. Sductors: Amazon DEVELOPMENT CENTER U.S., INC. & AMAZON.COM (http://www.amazon.com.cn). https://www.amazon.com.cn Research Analysts: J.P. Research Analysts: J.P. Research Analysts: J.P. Research Analysts: J.P. Research Analysts: J.P. Research Analysts: J.P. Research Analysts: J.P. Research Analysts: J.P. Research Analysts: J.P. Research Analysts: J.P. Research Analysts: J.P. Research Analysts: J.P. Research Analysts: J.P. Research Analysts: J.P. Research Analysts: J.P. Research Analyst: J.P. Research Analyst: J.P. Research Analyst: J.P. Research Analyst: J.P. Research Analyst: J.P. Research Analyst: J.P. Research Analyst: J.P. Research Analyst: J.P. Research Analyst: J.P. Research Analyst: J.P. Research Analyst: J.P. Research Analyst: J.P. Research Analyst: J.P. Research Analyst: J.P. Research Analyst: J.P. Research Analyst: J.P. Research Analyst: J.P. Techs: AMAZON DEVELOPMENT CENTER U.S., INC. & AMAZON.COM (http://www.amazon.com.cn). https://www.amazon.com.cn

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AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC, Amazon.com companies - New York, New York.

Business Intel Engineer II: Support sr mgmt by managing metrics reporting & performing mathematical & statistical modeling to produce business forecasts. Salary Range: \$127,447/year to \$185,000/year. Job Number: AMZ10318168.

Principal Legal Counsel: Serve as lead on significant strategic transactions from pre-term sheet through due diligence & drafting/negotiations to post-closing, including coordinating any required regulatory filings with other legal teams & businesses. Up to 25% domestic and international travel may be required to perform role responsibilities. Salary Range: \$237,999/year to \$272,500/year. Job Number: AMZ10322418.

Multiple job openings. Standard company benefits available. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs — search by Job Number.EOE.

Tech: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC, an Amazon.com company - New York, New York. Design Technologist II: Own end-to-end prototyping for a feature or initiative, taking ideas from exploration to interactive demos that drive product decisions. Dom and/or interni travel up to 25% to perform role resp may be req. Salary Range: \$145,000/year to \$196,100/year. Job Number: AMZ9802831. Multiple job openings. Standard company benefits available. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs - search by Job Number. EOE.

Tech: AMAZON ADVERTISING LLC, an Amazon.com company - New York, New York. Software Dev Engineer III: Lead the architecture & design of large-scale, distributed database systems using Microsoft SQL Server in AWS cloud environments. Salary Range: \$184,900/year to \$250,200/year. Job Number: AMZ10119675. Multiple job openings. Standard company benefits available. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs — search by Job Number. EOE.

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Tech: AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC., on Amazon.com company - Jersey City, New Jersey. Professional Services II: Collaborate with AWS field sales, presales, training & support team to help customers & partners on key engagements in technical cloud computing using AWS. Salary Range: \$144,500/year to \$195,400/year. Job Number: AMZ10237589. Multiple job openings. Standard company benefits available. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs—search by Job Number. EOE.

Tech: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC, an Amazon.com company - New York, New York. Data Engineer II: Design, develop, implement, test, document, & operate large-scale, high-volume, high-performance data structures for biz intel analytics. Salary Range: \$158,436/year to \$196,600/year. Job Number: AM29956938. Multiple job openings. Standard company benefits available. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs - search by Job Number. EOE.

Tech: AMAZON ADVERTISING LLC, an Amazon.com company - New York, New York. Principal, Product Mgmt - Tech: Define the strategic vision, own the long-term roadmap, & drive teams to execute on that vision. Salary Range: \$197,900/year to \$267,800/year. Job Number: AMZ9971316. Multiple job openings. Standard company benefits available. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs - search by Job Number. EOE.

Technology Risk and Controls (Multiple Positions Available) - Jersey City, NJ. Develop & implement technology risk management strategies, policies, & processes to identify, assess, & mitigate risks. Sal. range: \$177,500 - \$200,000 per year. For reqs. & to apply, visit http://www.ispress.com

https://careers.jpmorgan.com & apply to job #: 210779050. EOE, AAE, M/F/D/V. JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved.

www.jpmorganchase.com We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, and compensation. We also provide eligible roles discretionary incentive compensation which may be awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include company-specific policies, social, site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided by the company's hiring process. In addition, please visit:

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TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, Network Security Engineer - USDS (MultiPos.), New York, NY. Design, configure, & maintain network infrastructures, including routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, & wireless networks. Domestic travel required up to 5%. Salary: \$12923 - \$19600/year. Apply & see benefits offered at careers.tiktok usds.com/usds/position & search for Job ID A199900A. Email lpresumes@tiktokusds.com if difficulty applying.

Transaction Execution (Multiple Positions Available) - Jersey City, NJ. Up to 10% international travel required to JPMC sites. Manage team of professionals that deliver end-to-end transaction execution of trade & loan transactions. Sal. range: \$179,088 - \$185,000 per year. For reqs. & to apply, visit

https://careers.jpmorgan.com & apply to job #: 210780235. EOE, AAE, M/F/D/V. JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved.

www.jpmorganchase.com. We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary differences and the benefits of the role, skill set, and location. For those in eligible roles discretionary incentive compensation which may be awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to provide better financial incentives and responsibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation are provided by benefits will be provided during the hiring process. In addition, please visit:

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TT Commerce & Global Services LLC, Senior Program & Strategy Manager (Mult.Pos.), New York, NY. Analyze, coordinate & oversee the full portfolio of partnerships & strategic programs, driving execution, tracking performance against OKRs/timelines, & delivering leadership-level reporting & insights. Domestic & international travel required up to 10%. Salary: \$155854 - \$208800 year. Apply & see benefits offered at lifeathitok.com & search for Job ID A77215. Email

Ipresumesttc@tiktok.com if difficulty applying.

TT Commerce & Global Services LLC, Measurement Partner (Mult.Pos.), New York, NY. Partner with clients & agencies to effectively measure their advertising performance on the platform by monitoring & analyzing large volumes of advertising data & presenting periodic actionable insights to clients & agencies. Salary: \$122824 - \$208800/year. Apply & see benefits offered at lifeattiktok.com & search for Job ID A220285A. Email

Ipresumesttc@tiktok.com if difficulty applying.

TT Commerce & Global Services LLC, Lead Product Manager (Mult.Pos.), New York, NY. Own & optimize global brand advertising user journey strategy, including long-term vision & product roadmap, with a focus on delivery efficiency, ad performance & revenue growth. Domestic & international travel required up to 25%. Salary: \$24192-\$37400/year. Apply & see benefits offered at lifeattiktok.com & search for Job ID A70216. Email lpresumesttc@tiktok.com if difficulty applying.

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TT Commerce & Global Services LLC, Program Manager (MultiPos.), New York, NY. Utilize data analysis, modeling &/or other optimization methods to develop & implement governance policies and operating frameworks for an internal CRM platform. Domestic and international travel required up to 15%. Salary: \$120973 - \$168000/year. Apply & see benefits offered at lifeattiktok.com & search for Job ID A197767A. Email lpresumesttc@tiktok.com if difficulty applying.

TT Commerce & Global Services LLC, Data Solutions Analyst (Mult.Pos.), New York, NY. Design, develop, & implement data models & techniques & transform raw data to provide insights & recommendations to influence business decisions & strategies. Domestic travel required up to 5%. Salary: \$115835 - \$151200/year. Apply & see benefits offered at lifeattiktok.com & search for Job ID A215540. Email lpresumesttc@tiktok.com if difficulty applying.

TT Commerce & Global Services LLC, Strategy Associate (Mult.Pos.), New York, NY. Develop scalable analytics solutions to provide partners with business-critical insights & inform strategic initiatives across monetization product ecosystems. Domestic & international travel required up to 10%. Salary: \$112819 - \$151200/year. Apply & see benefits offered at lifeattikTok.com & search for Job ID A163828. Email lpresumesttc@tiktok.com if difficulty applying.

Twitch Interactive, Inc. seeks candidates for the following (multiple positions available) in New York, NY. Apply at: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/referencing.job ID AMZ27592.1:

Tech Business Developer III (Job ID: ANZ27592.1). Engage in mid-level customer meetings to discuss customer's business issues and explores how new Cloud services can help address and resolve these issues. Establish ways to measure and track metrics related to the application of the service, and to improve improvements to the approach based on those measurements. The base pay range for this position in New York City is USD \$182208 - \$202000 (yr). Pay is based on market location and may be used to manage the price of a service, and to make an edge, skills, and experience. A sign-on payment and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, or other benefits. If you are not interested in any other method, Applicants should apply to Amazon's internal or external careers site.

United Parcel Service General Services Co. has the following jobs available in Parsippany, NJ.

*Sr. Software Development Engineer (Req.# L24-149655): Apply principles of software engineering to design, dvlp, maintain, test, & evaluate computer software that provides biz capabilities, solutions, & product suites. Part-time execution of the 100% of the 100% of the 100% of the work from the UPS office in Parsippany, NJ. Req.# MS(or equiv.)+1 yr. exp. Salary: \$311,997 - \$191,700 per annum. *Sr. Software Development Engineer (Req.# L24-149658): Direct component & data architecture design, technology and design services for the 100% development initiatives to meet biz requirements & ensure compliance. Part-time telecommuting is an option. Hybrid work from UPS office in Parsippany, NJ. Req.# MS(or equiv.)+5 yrs. exp. Salary: \$189,592 - \$191,700 per annum. *Sr. Software Development Engineer (Req.# L24-149667): Supply benefits. Submet resume w/ ref. to: (include Req. No.) at ATTN:UPS.

UPSONLINEJOBPOSTINGS@ups.com

Urban Planner(s) (f/t, multiple openings) sought by M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates, Inc. to work in New York, NY to dev strong, creative & innov dsgn concepts on a broad mg of lg-scale proj that incl the plng & dsgn of mix-use dev, off & hi educ camp, resid nghrbhds, as well as pub rlm plng & urb trans concepts & systems. Base sal mg is \$85,800.00 to \$86,000.00. Standard bens wl b offrd, & empls wl b elig for bonuses. Incid telecom may apply. EOE. To apply, please go to:

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US Beverage Packers seeks Senior Control Systems Engineer in Keasbey, NJ: Design & implement PLC programming strategies using RSLogix 500, Studio 5000. Benefits:401(k), Medical/Dental/Vision, PTO, Short & Long-term Disability, FSA, Commuter Benefits, Whole Life Insurance, Voluntary Life Insurance, Accident Insurance, Specified Disease & Hospital Indemnity Insurance, and LegalEASE Legal Assistance Program. \$110,000.02/yr. - \$120,000./yr. Apply @

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Verition Group LLC seeks Developer in New York, NY to disp & implement a business model for Treasury oas, integrating sys &, and maintaining the core of the clean code & maintaining tech documentation. Recs Bachelor's in New York, NY is an employee with relatively respolable big bid low-density data on the real-time contract-Tested components; dvlping in the financial sector, including & SLA alerts, & maintaining high-fidelity tech documentation incl SW Arth & Co., Inc. & S.AL reports, & newbooks. Offered Wage: \$179,461. To apply, mail resume to Leslie Solario Gonzalez, Verizon Group LLC, Attn. D. 2003. The company is a registered company. VP - Business Development and Controls position available with NYBR as a member of the company. New York Branch, located in New York, NY is a major business center with its own subsidiaries and reports that maintain relevant laboratory data on the basis of the research team and broker-dealer supervisory activities. The company is a general branch and swap dealer employee activities (e.g., trades, communications, internal relations, etc.), and other relevant consideration of the company's operations on course of action based on their operational status. The company has employees, and other relevant consideration of the company's operations on course of a year. Telecommuting permitted up to 40%. How to apply: please send revenue from the email at https://www.frm.com.recruiters@robanbank.com regarding contact information and CEOE.

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Vice President, Sales w/Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in New York, New Jersey and/or its foreign business as a new & existing clients, w/macro products, or related services for the Securities and Structured Products, & Repos. As part of Fixed Income, Currency and other income taxes, (a) 10% International Services & Japan sales business of global investments in Asia-Pacific region, Asia-Pacific, Oceania, and other products for local markets in Asia. Products for foreign companies are not yet purchased so that is 90% percent Japanese speaking & conduct trading calls in Japan. The company is a member of any country of origin, who are: Reas: Master's degree (U.S. or foreign equiv) in Japan; Reas: Master's degree (U.S. or foreign equiv) in Japan; Reas: Master's degree (U.S. or foreign equiv) in Japan; Reas: Master's degree (U.S. or foreign equiv) in Japan; Reas: Master's degree (U.S. or foreign equiv) in Japan; Reas: Master's degree (U.S. or foreign equiv) in Japan; Reas: Master's degree (U.S. or foreign equiv) and 3 yrs exp in job offered or relate to trade with the U.S. or foreign equiv; Reas: Master's degree (U.S. or foreign equiv) in Japan; Econ, International Studies or rel field & 5 yrs exp in job offered or relate to trade with the U.S. or foreign equiv; Reas: Master's degree (U.S. or foreign equiv) in Japan; CS 618. Fluent in Japanese to communicate w/customer base that is 90% of the U.S. or foreign equiv. The company is also known to visit clients in Japan. Job Code: 10-12-2000, 10-12-2001, 10-12-2002, 10-12-2003, 10-12-2004, 10-12-2005, 10-12-2006, 10-12-2007, 10-12-2008, 10-12-2009, 10-12-2010, 10-12-2011, 10-12-2012, 10-12-2013, 10-12-2014, 10-12-2015, 10-12-2016, 10-12-2017, 10-12-2018, 10-12-2019, 10-12-2020, 10-12-2021, 10-12-2022, 10-12-2023, 10-12-2024, 10-12-2025, 10-12-2026, 10-12-2027, 10-12-2028, 10-12-2029, 10-12-2030, 10-12-2031, 10-12-2032, 10-12-2033, 10-12-2034, 10-12-2035, 10-12-2036, 10-12-2037, 10-12-2038, 10-12-2039, 10-12-2040, 10-12-2041, 10-12-2042, 10-12-2043, 10-12-2044, 10-12-2045, 10-12-2046, 10-12-2047, 10-12-2048, 10-12-2049, 10-12-2050, 10-12-2051, 10-12-2052, 10-12-2053, 10-12-2054, 10-12-2055, 10-12-2056, 10-12-2057, 10-12-2058, 10-12-2059, 10-12-2060, 10-12-2061, 10-12-2062, 10-12-2063, 10-12-2064, 10-12-2065, 10-12-2066, 10-12-2067, 10-12-2068, 10-12-2069, 10-12-2070, 10-12-2071, 10-12-2072, 10-12-2073, 10-12-2074, 10-12-2075, 10-12-2076, 10-12-2077, 10-12-2078, 10-12-2079, 10-12-2080, 10-12-2081, 10-12-2082, 10-12-2083, 10-12-2084, 10-12-2085, 10-12-2086, 10-12-2087, 10-12-2088, 10-12-2089, 10-12-2090, 10-12

BNRE US Services LLC (NY, NY) seeks VP to lead the divpmnt of asset management and/or its portfolio portfolios backing new insurance bus & 3rd-party reunies of annulances & 2nd-party revenues & 1st-party revenues & 1st-party M5 (US or forreg equiv) in Bus Admin, Finance, Econ, or a rfd bid & Zyrs of 100% (100% of total) (US or frng equiv) in Bus Admin, Finance, Econ, or a rfd bid & Zyrs of 100% (100% of total) (US or frng equiv) in Future insurance payments & recommending invmt allocates that help meet new finance plans. The plan is to provide new insurance bus, incl expact invmt income, req capit, priced returns, & key compensation costs, and the risks of the drivers & insurance capit regulations may be required to pay more than \$100 per share; revenue & profitability; reviewing & assessing fit of private invmt opportunities for insurance coverage. The plan is to provide a profile, capit usage, & portfolio needs; coordinating w/ actuarial, finance, accruals, and other services. New invmt assumes used in prcrgs, valuations, reporting, & mgmt vw; preparing and rebranding of new investments. New invmt summarizing profitto recommendations, assumptions, RSKS, expact retims, and other services. New invmt bus prcrg and asset allocct process, incl modr fwre, timelines, & quality critn. S4. New invmt has been issued by Taylor leonhardt@brookfield.com.

Vice President: Equity Derivatives Structuring w/ BNP Paribas Securities (IIP) and NY, NY. Analysts are: New Price Efficient Indexes. Positn reqs a Master's deg (US or For Equiv) in the U.S. stock index is 100% from its own price to \$500 per share. Valuation of \$2500 in years of exp w/ Equity Derivatives Structur or Exotics Trdg. Must have 3 yrs of compensation for the company's (stochastic) volatility. Americn monte carlo, slot analysis; Quari & Symtistic Materials Inc. (SIC) is an expertise in Equity Derivatives Structur Products; Abil to res clear & efficiently to be able to pay a premium for the Structur Product & insurance deep know. FINRA Certificates: STE, Series 7, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC, SIC

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VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENT BANKING sought by Moelis & Company Group LP in New York, NY. Reg Master's deg in Bus Admin, Econ, Fin. Accta or rel + 3 yrs of financial mgt or rel analysis exp in private equity, secondaries or investmt banking industry. (Alt: Bachelor's + 5 yrs exp). Reg Series 7 & 63 licenses. Salary for this position is expected to be \$250,000/yr. Base pay is based on markt location & may vary based on exp, skills, educ & other job-rel reasons. Submit resume to: www.moelis.com/careers & follow prompts to apply/submit resume online.

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Vice President, Technology Solutions @ TD Securities (USA) LLC (New York, NY) F-T: -Dvlp sfwr applints incorting prcng & rsk mals idr fe crmic trndg. Oppr.Enggr. of 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

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Virtu Financial Operating seeks a Software Developer (SD-CMK) in New York, NY. Dev. HFT sys., fin. data anal. tools and full-stack dev. MS+2 yrs rltd exp or BS followed by 5 yrs prog rltd exp. \$193,461 - \$208,461/year. Email resumes to HR@virtu.com. Must ref title & code SD-CMK in subj line.

VM Consolidated, Inc DBA Verra Mobility seeks Sr. Software Developer (Commercial Services) in New York, NY to develop, validate & maintain large, enterprise class apps written in MS technologies & Relational/Non-Relational Databases. Telecommuting permitted within area of intended employment up to 3 days per week. Sal: \$189,592-224,640/year. Base sal may vary depending on relevant exp, skills, geographic location & biz needs. Send rsme to

VerraMobilityRecruiting@verramobility.com.

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VP; Quantitative Finance Analyst sought by BofA Securities, Inc. to perform enhancement of pricing & risk models to incorporate new market or other financial products. Co-quantitative analysis of the current markets, trends & trading strategies. Remote work may be permitted w/in a commutable distance from the worksite. Reas: Master's or equiv. & 3 yrs exp. in: Deveebrity. Sectors: Financials and Markets. Co-quantitative models to analyze market behavior, forecast trends, & evaluate economic scenarios; Applying statistical & econometric techniques to solve complex problems, validate hypotheses, & support risks. Sectors: \$200,000 - \$225,000/year. Job Site: New York, NY. Rea#26031121. If interested apply online at www.bankofamerica.com/careers or email your resume to https://bobbbs.org/acs.com & reference the job title of the role & requisition number. No phone calls. EOE.

VP of Operations (Maia Management, LLC; NY, NY *Telecommuting from any location is available*). Job Duties: Ensure the overall effectiveness of the company's operations and improve operational systems and business processes to support the organization's mission. Determine, formulate, and execute the most viable policies and business strategies, providing direction with the goal of maximizing financial performance, reducing costs, and completing objectives set by the board. Travel both domest and infill up to 15%/y, incl meetings at NYC HQ. CVs to mainagement@maiamf.com and ref VPO2601. Salary is \$241,238.

Yahoo Holdings Inc. seeks Sr Data Engineer in New York, NY. Telecommuting Permitted. Lead development of new features & critical enhancements while providing technical direction for team projects. Req's: MS(or equiv.) + 3 yrs. exp or BS(or equiv.) + 5 yrs. exp. Salary: \$193,461-\$251,250 per yr. Submit resume, specifying Req.# L25-170148 by email to:

talentacquisition@yahooinc.com

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 2026

Dolly Parton in 1976. As an entertainer, Parton was not just going to outwork and out-sing everyone, she was going to out-sparkle them, too.
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BEDAZZLED, BEWIGGED AND BODACIOUS

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Young people at a recent rally against a planned data center in Pittsburg, Calif.

Teenagers Take On Data Centers

Many young people are worried about the health risks and costs of the computing facilities.

By CALLIE HOLTERMANN

When Sadie Cisneros first heard about ChatGPT a couple of years ago, she figured it was harmless. Like many other high school students, Cisneros, 17, began using the chatbot regularly as a search engine and study aid.

Then she saw something alarming on a friend's Instagram story. A 300,000-square-foot data center — the sort of hulking, humming facility that powers artificial intelligence technology — was scheduled to be built near her neighborhood in Pittsburg, Calif., on the eastern edge of the Bay Area.

As she read more about the project, she grew concerned about the amount of water it would consume and the potential for it to worsen the area's air pollution. She worried that incessant noise from the data center would disrupt students at the middle school less than half a mile away from the proposed site.

So she wrote down her objections and read them aloud in a three-minute speech during a Pittsburg City Council meeting last month — her first real brush with civic engagement.

"I came in there with pink hair, I came in there dressed like a teenager," she said in an interview last month. "I don't think they expected me to actually bring up real stuff that's going on."

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The color may seem frothy, but it contains multitudes.

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Shocking Pink Is Integral to Her Political Brand

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Top, Angie Nixon at a church service in August. Pink has played a role in her political career, whether in Florida's State House, far left, or on the campaign trail, left. The color comes with a shorthand, used for causes like the Women's March in 2017, above.

Angie Nixon, the Florida state representative running for U.S. Senate, has a signature hue.

IN ALL THE post-mortems and analyses that have appeared since State Representative Angie Nixon's decisive win over Alexander Vindman in the Democratic Senate primary in Florida last week — in all the meditations on what this means for progressives and Democratic Socialists and what it may say about the Sunshine State as well as the political state of the country — one factor has rarely come up. The pink.

Not just any old pink: a particularly bright shade of pink sometimes referred to as fuchsia and sometimes hot pink but most akin, in fact, to the color Elsa Schiaparelli christened "shocking pink." (An awfully apropos bit of nomenclature, given the reaction to Nixon's win.)

And while that pink may seem an almost irrelevant detail in a hard-fought political race, it played a very real role in Nixon's campaign — and possibly her victory. As she gears up for the general election in November, it's worth considering how.

Nixon has been wearing pink since she first ran for office in 2020, but the color became synonymous with her, at least in the national consciousness, in late April when she marched down the State Capitol floor in a fuchsia jumpsuit with a hot pink megaphone to protest Florida gerrymandering. Though dismissed by some as a stunt, the picture was so powerful that it became practically shorthand for Nixon's politics — and willingness to take on the establishment. From then on, it was essentially a pinkathon.

Nixon's campaign bus? Shocking pink. Her lawn signs and bumper stickers?

Shocking pink. Her sneakers? Pink Skechers. The jacket and shirt she wore in a “fit check” video after her opponent’s wife, Rachel Vindman, appeared to imply that Nixon’s clothes were not “professional” enough, a comment that invited so much backlash that Vindman eventually deleted it and apologized? Pink and pink. (Each, Nixon noted, from Goodwill and costing \$6.99 and \$4.99, respectively).

Turns out whining about “professional” was missing the point. By wearing pink so consistently throughout the campaign, it became impossible to think about the color without thinking about Nixon.

It's essentially a Pavlovian political tactic that resulted in her supporters being urged to "wear pink to the polls" to proclaim their support for all to see. State Representative Travaris McCurdy declared Aug. 18 "National 'WEAR PINK' for @angieforfl DAY" on Instagram.

In a social media world, in an election in which money is an issue and your opponent has a significantly larger war chest, it's a low-cost, high-reward approach.

As to why pink of all the possible colors, Nixon said, "I've always loved the way pink makes me feel: bright, hopeful and joyful."

Though her campaign manager, Eunic Epstein-Ortiz, added that the color was officially adopted by the campaign not because of any market research, polling or political calculation, it unquestionably served a political point. Pink, after all, is a particularly freighted color. It may seem frothy, but it contains multitudes. Lots of people can relate.

In modern gender stereotype, pink is the color of girlhood. In color psychology, it represents softness, compassion and, in more concentrated forms, passion and daring. Pink roses are for gratitude and cheer. Pink ribbons are for breast cancer. Pink has been a form of protest linked to gay and feminist causes.

Pink made its last major political appearance at the 2025 State of the Union, when Representative Teresa Leger Fernández of New Mexico urged her fellow congresswomen to wear the shade to represent what she called "women's power" and their right to control their own bodies.

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That followed the pointed use of pink by Representative Nancy Pelosi, who chose a fuchsia dress for her 2019 swearing-in as speaker of the House and a bright pink suit for her committee chair photo, each of which stood out like beacons in the sea of dark suits that surrounded her, directing all eyes to both her femininity and her position of power and commemorating it for history. Which in turn followed the pink pussy hats of the Women's March in 2017, chosen as a riposte to the election of President Trump.

Nixon may not be leaning on any of these associations, but she clearly understood the tactic. Indeed, Nixon is not the first political underdog to grasp that creating a visual shorthand for yourself, especially one that can leverage an existing and broadly understood (if largely unarticulated) value system, is an effective branding tool.

This is the same playbook used by Abdul El-Sayed during his winning campaign in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary, though his color was black and he made his choice of a signature look — black V-neck T-shirt and jeans — even more central to his pitch. To a certain extent, it is the next iteration of a strategy used by Hillary Clinton when she wore suffragist white to accept the Democratic nomination for president, starting an on-again, off-again sartorial political movement.

And though Nixon never made her use of pink into a talking point the way El-Sayed did with his own look, she did devote an entire Facebook post to the idea of “kinda chic.”

“Kinda chic to shut down the Florida legislature in defense of voting rights and fair maps,” she wrote over a picture of her in her (yes) signature pink look and bullhorn. “Kinda chic to fight for working families, not billionaire donors,” she wrote over an image of her in a fuchsia halter top. And so on.

Ultimately, Epstein-Ortiz said, Nixon's use of pink was a rejoinder to “the standard red, white and blue of the standard political campaign” — or at least the standard Trump political campaign — “because this is not a standard political campaign.” Certainly, she went on, it’s going to continue to be part of Nixon’s approach. Given the results, most likely part of other candidates’, too.

The Fashion Pioneer At Ease in a Corset

Tim Curry's cross-dressing mad scientist in 'Rocky Horror' was ahead of his time.

By GUY TREBAY

Has there ever been a man who looked better in a bustier and garters than Tim Curry? Has anyone else done more to bring androgyny into the mainstream?

So many elements of Curry's indelible performance as a cross-dressing mad scientist in the musical comedy "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" have been absorbed by the culture that it can be hard to remember how transgressive the character seemed in the mid-1970s.

Back when Sylvester Stallone, Robert Redford and Burt Reynolds were the reigning box-office champs, a gender-bending protagonist had the power to shock.

True, popular entertainment had been there before, in the form of now-forgotten Broadway stars like Julian Eltinge, who performed largely in female roles early in the 20th century.

Yet Curry's character, Dr. Frank-N-Furter, who hails from the planet Transsexual in the galaxy Transylvania, was something new, a creature of that liminal zone in which sexuality was slippery, lipstick was hardly a barrier to masculinity and gender refused to stay fixed.

Curry, the British actor who died at 80 on Tuesday, portrayed Dr. Frank-N-Furter both onstage and onscreen. Unlike so many actors before him, who played cross-dressing characters mainly for laughs, Curry seemed fully at ease in a corset, fishnet stockings and high heels.

And why not? As he once said in an interview, everyone from the planet Transsexual dresses in that manner. So it would be untrue to character to wear such a get-up with a wink to the audience.

People told the actor that he helped them 'figure out their own sexuality.'

Curry credited the role with giving people a chance to "figure out their own sexuality."

"I think it has had a useful purpose in that way," he said in an interview with Terry Gross of National Public Radio. "And I've certainly had some very interesting and moving mail from people who have said, you know, thanks for helping me figure out who I was."

His risky performance remained a headline in a career that seemed to draw as much from panto shows as classic English theatrical training. Curry consistently offset gravitas with camp. He could make high art of an arched eyebrow and the knowing aside.

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He was a young Shakespeare in a 1976 mini-series, a demonic Bill Sikes in "Oliver Twist" and an adept foil to his scene stealers co-stars Carol Burnett and Bernadette Peters in "Annie." He could also do scary, playing a killer clown in a television production of Stephen King's "It."

For his role as an evangelist preacher in "Pass the Ammo," an overlooked film from 1988, he drew high praise from the exacting critic Pauline Kael of The New Yorker. She noted in her review "the bags under his eyes puffing out and his curly, dimply smile so elfishly dirty that it's as if he were lighted by hellfire."

When Curry agreed to play Dr. Frank-N-Furter, he assumed he would be something like Dr. Frankenstein, an unhinged scientist in a white lab coat with a German accent.

The performance came together for him thanks to the costume, designed by Sue Blane, and to a chance encounter on a London bus. Observing his fellow passengers with an actor's attention, Curry was delighted to listen in on two women who were conversing in a plummy accent.

With the outfit and the parodic upper-crust diction in place, he knew just what to do. And it is in that sonorous purr that one thinks of him now, slathered in paint and forming a seductive moue as he closes the gates on an old-fashioned cage elevator in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

"Come," he says. "We are ready for the floor show."

A General Store That's Almost as Old as America

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The proprietor of Davoll's in Massachusetts yearns for a retail world from another era.

By STEVEN KURUTZ

SOUTH DARTMOUTH, MASS. — Davoll's General Store opened for business during George Washington's second presidential term. It has been around so long that newspaper articles from the 1940s praised its "atmosphere of bygone days."

Davoll's, which lies at a crossroads here, sells everything from garden hoes to local honey, and it has a cafe in the back.

Since 1793, it has had 13 proprietors. The current owners are the Shattuck brothers: Ben, 42, and Will, 44.

Ben Shattuck, a writer, lives most of the year in Brooklyn with his wife, the actress, comedian and writer Jenny Slate, and their 5-year-old daughter. But he comes by his ownership genuinely. He grew up in South Dartmouth, a coastal farming community, and his family ties to the area go back five generations. Shattuck and Slate spend the summers here, in a converted dance hall designed by his great-grandfather.

Running a general store requires skills different from the ones he uses as a writer. You can't be lost in inspiration or promoting your work when the cook is leaving at the end of summer and you need to find a replacement.

On a recent day, Shattuck's two roles nearly collided.

In the afternoon, he was bending over a toilet in the general store's bathroom, trying to fix a broken flush valve. Not much later, he stood before a packed house in nearby New Bedford for a screening of "The History of Sound," which he adapted from his 2024 book of short stories. Afterward, he was joined in conversation by one of its stars, Chris Cooper.

Shattuck's memories of the store go back to when he was drawn to the bins of penny candy. "The Glennons owned it when I was growing up," he said, referring to a local eye doctor and his wife. "I don't know how the owners made it. I guess because online shopping didn't exist."

His mother, Dedee Shattuck, remembered the long-ago days when Davoll's had a walk-in icebox filled with hanging sides of beef. "My mom would order three-inch-thick steaks, which my dad would cook on the grill at our farm down the road," Dedee said. "Our old station wagon would be idling outside, and 50-pound bags of grains would be thrown in the back to feed our chickens. I can remember that smell of the burlap and grain."

In recent years, general stores, long a lifeline in rural America, have undergone a revival — along with an upscaling.

Modern iterations, stocked with organic produce and artisanal goods, are doing brisk business in places like the Catskills, coastal Maine and Nashville. Last year, Mindy Gray, who is married to Jonathan Gray, the billionaire president of the investment firm Blackstone, took over the Sagaponack General Store in the Hamptons, stocking it with Charleston Chews, free-range chicken, \$159 hoodies and a \$300 cocktail kit.

The appeal is simple: General stores offer nostalgia for a bygone era and an attractive backdrop for social media.

Shattuck seems uninterested in retro trendiness. But he misses the days when people spent their disposable income in town, rather than online or at corporate chain stores.

"The teeth of capitalism have torn through small businesses," he said. "Instead, we have McDonald's, Home Depot, Dunkin'. Those all used to be blended into this beautiful thing called a general store.

"It's not that the New England general

store is old-fashioned," he continued. "It's timeless."

'Loiter and Linger'

For a long time, Davoll's was a source of provisions for the farmers who worked nearby. Old men sat on the porch chewing tobacco and playing checkers. A tailor worked on the second floor. The store also had a post office.

“Davoll’s was always the center of attention,” said Jane Tuckerman, who grew up in South Dartmouth and lives across the street in a 19th-century farmhouse.

These days, the big dairy farms are nearly gone, and the area has become the sort of artsy agrarian place where a crowd will gather on a Friday evening to hear a talk on heirloom seeds.

Instead of selling to developers, many of the quietly wealthy homeowners have tried to preserve the area's rural character by donating huge swaths of acreage to a land trust, as Shattuck's grandmother and great-aunt did in 1978 to create the Lloyd Center for the Environment.

Shattuck's version of Davoll's embodies its current time and place. It sells water in glass bottles, not plastic. The beef, grass-fed, is from Jordan Farm just down the road. You won't find the processed snacks or high-fructose sodas you would at a truck stop (or the old Davoll's, for that matter). But it hasn't priced itself out of the local economy. You can buy a bouquet of cut flowers for \$10 and a meal for \$20.

The clientele is a mix of locals, weekenders with homes along Buzzards Bay and tourists. On a recent Friday, around lunchtime, the dirt parking lot was full. Shattuck was inside by the register as a white-haired man, sandwich in hand, breezed past.

"Hey, Dad," Shattuck said.

The man was his father, Bill Shattuck, a landscape painter who has a studio nearby. The son eyed the sandwich. "Did you pay for that?"

The father told him to put it on his tab.

During the Covid pandemic, Shattuck and Slate stayed at the rural Shattuck home. One day, he was lamenting the lack of gathering spaces in a conversation with Jim Chouinard and Kim Arruda, a couple who owned Davoll's at the time. They suggested he make them an offer. (Shattuck declined to say how much he paid for the store.)

Chouinard and Arruda had already done much to bring the place into the 21st century, including the addition of the cafe. Shattuck kept the restaurant and obtained a liquor license. He expanded the modest selection of local history books to create a bookstore at the center of Davoll's. He brought in his brother, Will, who lives in Oregon and works in the coffee business, as a partner.

To manage the store, Shattuck hired

Customers have shopped at Davoll's since 1793. Ben Shattuck, the proprietor, above, says general stores are "timeless" rather than "old-fashioned." He and his brother Will own the South Dartmouth, Mass., store, stocking items like books, old-fashioned candy and water in glass bottles.
The community hub, offering flyswatters, mimosas and nostalgia.

Mary Ann Buckley, who was born and raised in the area and had previously managed an organic market and cafe.

"You have some high, some low," Buckley said of the mix of products. She showed off one of her favorite items, a reusable Euro-scrubby kitchen pad for \$3.99. "There's a thrill for me in anticipating what people will need before they need it."

Shattuck's role has lessened over time as Buckley has taken on more duties. But he sometimes finds himself in the thick of it. "I have to meet a man to talk about walk-in fridges at 1," he said. "I know absolutely nothing about that."

Open six days a week, even in the emptiness of winter, Davoll's hosts a monthly book club and invites prominent authors like Nathaniel Philbrick to give readings. It also sponsors a knitting circle, Irish music sessions and Burns Night, a yearly celebration of the Scottish poet Robert Burns.

"I wanted it to feel like a place where you can loiter and linger and run into people," Shattuck said.

Tradition at Play

It's a sharp contrast to the Davoll's of yesteryear, when it was under the proprietorship of a series of frugal, taciturn Yankees. Local lore is filled with tales of Wilfrid and Virginia Morrison, who ran Davoll's from the 1950s through the mid-70s. Wilfrid, it is said, once charged a man whose car had broken down 10 cents to use the phone. When the stranded driver said he didn't have change, Wilfrid opened up a charge account for him.

Under the Glennons, the store sold ceramic Christmas villages year-round and bologna sandwiches on Wonder Bread. "A lot of times, you'd ask for something and they'd say, 'I'm pretty sure we don't have it,' said Deborah Kovacs, a writer who has lived in South Dartmouth since 1985. "Then they'd go check and come back and say: 'Yep. We don't have it.'

Now, Kovacs adds, Davoll's is more of a community hub. "I recently went to a book event," she said. "If you run out of eggs, you get eggs there. The kitchen has grown over the last couple of years. It's become the thing we wished it was way back when."

Slate doesn't work at the store, but her books are displayed prominently for sale. Hanging on a wall is a poster of her signature character, Marcel the Shell, the lovable mollusk who is the subject of a popular YouTube series and a feature film.

In a text message, Slate said she had nothing like Davoll's when she was growing up in a Boston suburb. "I'm making up for lost time now," she said. "I'm at the store most days. I love that nine times out of 10, I run into my father-in-law."

Shattuck keeps in mind that Davoll's shouldn't appeal more to the Instagram crowd than to the longtime regulars. "I can understand how that general store aesthetic can be taken and imported somewhere to approximate a twee New England thing," he said. "I tried to align the store with its origins."

In that spirit, the shelves contain practical items, from kitchen twine to a flyswatter. As ever, the candy bins are still a draw, though each piece costs from 10 to 30 cents, rather than a penny.

There have been complaints from long-timers that the street traffic has become unbearable in summer. That is perhaps evidence of the store's success. More evidence: the long line for coffee and breakfast sandwiches on a recent Saturday morning.

Outside, men and women sat at a picnic table, enjoying mimosas after a run. Stopping at Davoll's post-workout has become a tradition, they said.

Inside, two white-haired guys were shooting the breeze over coffee — a scene that has played out in one form or another for more than 200 years.

"Well, Paul," one broke in after a time. "Have we solved the world's problems?"

The men seemed in no hurry to leave, and no one was moving them along.

MODERN LOVE

This Wasn't the Marriage I Promised Him

BRIAN REA

After her mother's death, a woman holds on with help from her husband.

By KATE GORDON

When my husband and I read our wedding vows nearly four years ago, he said, "I vow to make you coffee every morning for the rest of our lives."

And he has. If we're traveling, he finds a coffee shop. If we're at home, he makes it himself and sets it on my night stand without saying a word. He even did it the morning after my mother killed herself.

The first time we met, at an awkward cocktail gathering of incoming Wharton School students, he said, "I'm Matt, but my friends call me Gordo."

He was attracted to my confidence and willingness to stir the pot. I was drawn to his sense of humor, kindness and drive. We fell in love quickly, went through business school together and then moved across the country to San Francisco. We drank too much bourbon on Fridays, slept in too late on Saturdays and made fried egg sandwiches on Sundays. Life in those days was all about the two of us.

Until we got our dog, Bruce, who was defiant and energetic — the perfect preparation for parenthood. And soon we moved 30 miles south to the suburbs and had our son, Wes. Gordo stepped into the role of father easily, while never failing to bring me coffee.

When you get married, you promise “for better or worse,” and “in good times and bad,” but we didn’t realize how soon the bad times would hit. While most of our friends reveled in their blissful newlywed stage, we were thrown into the trenches. Before our son turned 7 months old, my mother killed herself in her garage.

My mother was a powerhouse real estate broker in the Bay Area with a zest for life. We were the mother-daughter duo that spoke every day and jointly hosted a birthday party when I turned 25 and she turned 50. We looked like mirror images of each other except she was four inches shorter and always impeccably dressed.

Around the time Wes was born, she began to struggle, and I, her only child, along with our extended family, began to worry about her. I did the best I could, managing her needs along with those of my growing family and career. Right before she died, she had seemed to rebound, to the relief of everyone who loved her. Of course, now I know that kind of rebound can be typical just before someone takes their own life.

Losing her meant losing the one person who had gotten me through every hard moment of my life. Yet Gordo was there for me.

One night after Wes was asleep, as I waited for the shower to warm up, I collapsed on the bathroom floor, my sobs so loud I couldn't hear the shower. If pain were a sound, this was it. Gordo rushed in and held me silently.

He knew the choreography of my grief before I did — how on some nights I needed to talk in circles and on others I needed to watch TV and say nothing at all. He knew when to rub my back and how to handle my grief bursts and panic attacks, when to order pizza or burritos.

In those early weeks and months, we would go on walks with Wes and Bruce. On one walk, I was agonizing about how hard this all was and how unlucky I felt, when he said, "You are not special," which was a line from one of my mother's favorite shows, one she used to say to me often.

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I laughed. He always knows when to drop a joke.

"Is there anything I can do to make it easier?" he then asked.

In our marriage, I was the one who had kept life on track. I ran our household. Yet after my mother died, all I could manage was getting out of bed and breastfeeding Wes. While handling his new job, Gordo took on everything else: grocery shopping, dinner planning, doctors' appointments, dog care. He didn't complain. He did them all silently, as if they always had been his responsibility.

"Go shower," he would say. "I've got dinner."

"I love you," I would say.

I would go straight from the shower to the couch. I had no words or energy for anything else; I had used it up being present for Wes. I would turn on the TV and later have no memory of what I watched.

As the TV played, I could hear the kitchen cacophony in the other room — the roasting pan landing on the stovetop, the salad tongs hitting the metal bowl, the sink turning on and off. I wanted to help but couldn't.

My guilt grew — this time not for failing as a daughter or a mother, but as a wife. This

He buried his own grief so mine could have the space it needed.

wasn't the marriage I promised. This wasn't the version of me I promised. We worked best as a team, dividing and conquering. Yet here he was, holding up our entire world himself. And I was watching from the couch.

A little later, Gordo brought me dinner, setting up the dinner trays we had for TV nights, filling up my water, laying out a fresh cloth napkin and delivering a hot plate of food. I started to eat, wanting the salt and the peri-peri sauce we liked with our chicken, but I kept quiet, not wanting to ask for something else. A moment later, Gordo appeared with both.

"Thank you so much," I said, trying to

hold back tears. "I'm so sorry."

"You have nothing to be sorry for," he said as he kissed my forehead. He sat down next to me and started eating.

After we were done, he took the plates into the kitchen and started cleaning. No requests for me, no asks for help. I heard him loading the dishwasher and scrubbing pans. After the dishwasher started, I heard the hiss of the spray bottle as he wiped down the counters. He not only was cleaning up but doing it to my standards.

When we got the suicide note from the coroner, I could tell Gordo was on edge. At first, I figured it was because he had just gone to pick up a suicide note left for his wife, an errand bizarre enough to unnerve anyone. But before coming home, he'd read it and saw that it lacked what we naively had assumed a suicide note would include

— some reassurance that it wasn't my fault. Instead, it said she'd been feeling distant from us.

"I can't believe she wrote those words to you," he said. "It's so unfair."

He was trying not to criticize the woman I loved more than anyone when she clearly had been sick and suffering, and I appreciated that. Yet it also felt good to have him not just share my sadness but my anger. I wasn't alone in my guilt and fury.

Outside of that, I rarely saw his anger, grief or fear. He bottled up his emotions, knowing I couldn't take them on. He buried his own grief so mine could have the space it needed. And still, I was terrified.

I kept waiting for cracks to form in our marriage and for the morning coffee to stop coming, because losing her had made me ugly. I was opinionated and high maintenance before my mother died. After, I became someone I didn't recognize — reactive, vicious, unreachable. One night, I said something cruel in the way grief can make you cruel, and I watched his face, waiting for him to tell me it was too much. That I was too much. Instead, he pulled me close.

What I eventually came to believe is that my mother knew our marriage would hold, even if I didn't. My mother thought the world of Gordo. We always used to joke that she liked him more than me. In her speech at our wedding, she said, "I adore you, Matthew Gordon."

She trusted one thing above all else: that Gordo loved me deeply and knew how to stay. I believe she took comfort in this toward the end. That he would get me through it. That he would stay when she couldn't.

Less than 24 hours after my mother killed herself, I woke to get Wes. He smiled at me, unaware of what we both had lost. I picked him up, feeling the weight of his body in my arms. I changed his diaper, brought him into bed and started to breastfeed. As I stared at him and ran my hands through his tufts of hair, Gordo walked in with my coffee, set it on my night stand and kissed my forehead.

He has kept every promise she couldn't.

If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for a list of additional resources.

Tiny Love Stories Nobody to Him

She opened the door wearing panties and a bra. At 1 a.m.! She didn't know me. I knew her. She was his ex-wife, who was seemingly not so "ex" anymore. "Is he here?" I asked. He was supposed to be at my house; he was my boyfriend. She made what was obvious unmistakable. "We just had sex," she said, before asking, "Who are you?" I believed him for over a year. Every lie. Which is why I drove to her house to verify what my heart already knew. "I am no one," I said, walking away. DEBORAH CLARKE

Today Will Be Cloudy, With a Chance of Good Vibes

LEFT, YAHOO; RIGHT, LILLY ROSER

A new crop of media creators offers updates that go beyond temperature and precipitation.

By ALISHA HARIDASANI GUPTA

At the end of July, Kyle Cooke, from the Bravo series "Summer House," stepped into an unconventional role: a weatherboy.

In a video posted on Instagram, Cooke, dressed in a blazer, a shirt, a tie and denim shorts and armed with exactly zero experience as a meteorologist, stands in front of a green screen, pointing out areas where the weather is “sick” enough for a party.

The video was part of Yahoo's marketing campaign introducing users to its redesigned weather app. But it was also primed to tap into a growing demand from audiences: a weather forecast that is both fun and practical.

As extreme weather becomes more common, in large part because of climate change, audiences online are seeking updates that go beyond temperature and precipitation. And a handful of social media creators have surged in popularity by filling that specific niche, offering their followers a “vibes check” or helpful reminders not to get their hair blown out because rain is in the forecast. The creators could be described as distant, wonky relatives of Karen Smith, played by Amanda Seyfried in the 2004 high school comedy “Mean Girls,” who declares that her breasts have the ability to predict rain.

Kyle Cooke's weather report, and Lilly Roser's meteorological dispatch from the subway.

"It feels like every time we blink, there's another historic flood or a tornado watch or it's 105 degrees, and I think people are trying to at least have some fun with what's going on," said John Homenuk, who started the blog New York Metro Weather two decades ago while he was in high school in the city.

About five years ago, Homenuk, who studied meteorology at Kean University, started posting daily vibe checks on social media alongside a score on a scale of 10.

On Monday of last week, for example, he rated the weather a 3 out of 10 and declared the vibes unstable. One day in February,

Lilly Roser started posting about the weather by happenstance last winter, when New York got record snowfall.

"I was like, 'In case anybody's interested, this is the blizzard update right now,'” she recalled. "It's 1:28 p.m., and here's what the snow looks like."

In inclement and dangerous weather situations, the content creators urge people to check the National Weather Service, which is how they obtain their information, and to follow recommended actions.

But otherwise, on most days, turning to these creators can feel like “talking to a friend,” Roser said. “If my friend was visiting New York City, I would call them on the phone and be like, ‘OK, you’ll probably want to pack, like, a few sweaters in case we’re out in the evening,’” she said. “That’s a lot more reassuring than looking at the weather app and having no idea what 75 degrees in New York feels like.”

All of this chatter on social media informed Yahoo's redesign of its app, leaning "into this idea that people want more than just the numbers," said Kat Downs Mulder, a general manager at Yahoo News who oversaw the app's evolution.

Now, in addition to regular weather metrics, the app also prompts users to wear “breathable fabrics” on particularly humid days or lather on sunscreen when the UV index is high. And through August, Cooke has been popping up in the app with party weather reports.

The company reported that since it rolled out the new version of the app, its users are opening it two times more per day than they were the previous version.

"Weather is something that's so essential in our day-to-day lives," Downs Mulder said. "It's something that informs everything that we do. We talk about it everywhere that we go."

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Dolly Parton Sparkled Before the Age of Stylists

'She laid out all the ground rules,' her creative director said.

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Clockwise from top left, Dolly Parton, circa 1992; in 1979, when Mayor Tom Bradley proclaimed Dolly Parton Day in Los Angeles; with Carol Burnett in the 1979 television special “Dolly and Carol in Nashville”; in a publicity shot for “Rhinestone,” released in 1984; in 1992, with cake; in the 1980 film “9 to 5,” her first movie.

'Never leave a rhinestone unturned' was one pithy quip the star often used.

By VANESSA FRIEDMAN

Of all the aphorisms uttered by Dolly Parton, the “glittery country goddess from Tennessee,” as Interview magazine called her, who died on Tuesday in Nashville, perhaps the most telling was a line she uttered as part of a David Letterman Top 10 list of pet peeves in 1995.

One of the things that most irritated her, Parton cracked, standing on a balcony in her Dollywood amusement park in a black and gold top with a keyhole neckline framing her cleavage, her hair teased into a platinum nimbus and a big grin on her face, was “accountants who don’t understand how much it costs to make me look this cheap.”

In fact, no one understood what it took to look like Dolly Parton better than Dolly Parton or thought more about what it meant and how clothes could give character to a voice. She may have been only five feet tall, but she made herself larger than life. In doing so, she challenged stereotypes of all kinds about women, appearance and substance with a wink, a healthy dose of self-aware irony and a refusal to apologize for what she wanted.

From the time she signed her first recording contract with Monument Records in 1965, she was inventing not only her sound but her public self: a cartoon bimbo in a giant platinum wig, six-inch heels, a push-up bra and rhinestones whom she later christened (in song) a "Backwoods Barbie."

That signature style never wavered. At the time of her death, Parton reportedly had more than 350 wigs (one for almost every day of the year), more than 2,000 pairs of shoes and a 50,000-square-foot archive of bedazzled stage outfits. In fact, she had so many outfits she wrote an entire book about them. That book, “Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones,” was a sort of autobiography in clothes to go with “Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics,” her autobiography in song. For her, they were two sides of the same story.

And she had inspired not only her fans, who attended Dolly look-alike conventions — Rhinestone Fest and Dolly Day — in full Dolly gear, but also artists like Miley Cyrus, Kacey Musgraves and Carrie Underwood, all of whom went through their own rhinestone cowgirl phases. Not to mention Emma Grede and Khloé Kardashian of Good American, who collaborated with Parton on a Joleans denim and apparel collection (a quintessentially Dolly pun).

As the lyrics went on her debut album, "This dumb blonde ain't nobody's fool."

Now that kind of singular image-making seems like a standard approach for artists of any gender, but Parton did it before the age of stylists and brand deals. And she often did it in the face of active criticism: from her shocked preacher grandfather, when she was a child; from the parents of her school friends, who thought she was “a bad influence,” as she wrote in her book; and from the executives of her record label, who thought she wouldn’t be taken seriously because, she later paraphrased, they said “you look more like a hooker than you do a singer.”

stood exactly what she was doing: tapping into clichés rooted deep in the cultural hive mind while confronting them at the same time. She wasn't just going to outwork and out-sing everyone, she was going to outsparkle them, too, subverting the very expectations she was creating.

What they didn't know is that she under-

"Never leave a rhinestone unturned," she often quipped. Every gleam was a reminder of the dangers that came with underestimating or stereotyping based on looks. Or, as she sang, "Don't judge me by the cover, 'cause I'm a real good book."

Sure, her style inspiration may have been the town tramp, with "her tight skirts and her high-heeled shoes and her red nails and her red lipstick and her peroxided hair" (or so she wrote in her fashion book). But she stayed married to one man her entire life. Sure, her clothes were kind of gaudy, but as "Coat of Many Colors," her song about a coat made of scraps that her mother sewed for her as a child, proved, there is resonance in vibrant plumage.

(So much so that the coat of many colors ended up being named one of the three most famous pieces of clothing in song by American Songwriter, along with Prince's raspberry beret and Elvis's blue suede shoes.)

Sure, her hair was, as she said on Letterman, so fake it was "a fire hazard," but it was also practical. The wigs meant, Parton said, that she could avoid the bleach and teasing that styling her actual hair would require (and that might destroy it) while ensuring she would "never have a bad hair day."

And sure, she could "get away with less," as she told Barbara Walters in the 1982 interview. But why should she? "I like more," she said.

Her collaborators in that quest included Lucy Adams, who made the crystal-studded bell-bottom jumpsuits on her 1960s and '70s album covers; Bob Mackie, who did the even more bedazzled look for the 1979 "Dolly and Carol in Nashville" TV special; Tony Chase (also a favorite of Gloria Gaynor); Ann Roth, the costume designer for "9 to 5", her first movie; and the designer Steve Summers, who started working with Parton in 1991 and spent three decades as her creative director in the Dollywood atelier. "Dolly created the image," he said in 2023. "She laid out all the ground rules. I just followed them."

Those rules, she said, always started with "really tight and really sparkly." Whether it was in her sparkles and pastels butterfly phase, her fringed rhinestone cowgirl era or her goddess in Vegas incarnation.

"I never cared what other people did, and I never cared what other people said about what I wore," Parton told Vogue when her fashion memoir was released. "It was more important that I be comfortable in my own clothes and in my own self."

The rest of the world may have been chasing grunge, minimalism, shock or brand deals, but she never strayed from the aesthetic that glimmered so brightly for her when she was a girl. Though she once joked, "I'm not a fashion icon; I'm an eyesore," what she was was unforgettable.

Outsmarting One Dumb-Blonde Joke After Another

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Nothing a critic said about Dolly Parton compared with what she said about herself.

By AMANDA HESS

In May, Dolly Parton made a cheery social media announcement that she was canceling a planned residency in Las Vegas because of poor health. She delivered the bad news in the form of a five-minute roast of herself, in which she made fun of her wigs, her kidney stones, her costumes and the size of her breasts. At the video's end, she acknowledged that she wasn't getting any younger. But, she added: "As long as there are plastic surgeons in this world, I'm not getting any older."

Parton, who died on Tuesday at 80, knew the power of being in on the joke. From the start of her career, she was met by a nascent celebrity tabloid media that called her tacky, gaudy and fake — barely concealed euphemisms for working-class. They made her name synonymous with breast implants. But nothing a columnist, critic or comic said about Parton could compare with what she said about herself. She stepped on all of their punchlines and took away their power.

When Redd Foxx aired a 1977 skit about Parton imprinting her breasts in the concrete forecourt of Mann's Chinese Theater, she sent him a telegram requesting "two equally ample apologies." And when the

Dolly Parton, who became known for her wit, with Jay Leno in 1994, top, and Johnny Carson in 1977, above. "My inner sadness and joy are as real as my hair and nails are fake," she once told Newsweek. "That's what I like — looking like one thing and being another."
The self-deprecation was a brilliantly subversive trick.

fashion critic Richard Blackwell placed Par- ton atop his "10 Worst-Dressed Women" list, in 1978, she replied through the press, "I thought he'd never notice." She had a stand-up set's worth of retorts to fascination with her breast size; "I burned my bra," she joked, "and they had to call out the fire brigade."

The lazy Dolly Parton jokes that permeated the culture in the 1970s and '80s tried to frame her as a dumb blonde. Her responses were funnier, which made them genius. She used self-deprecation as a subversive trick. The jokes were beneath her, but when she played along, she wasn't actually debasing herself. She was reclaiming her body and aesthetic as a point of pride, vaporizing any implied insult of the Appalachian working class, and revealing her critics as fools even as she graciously allowed them to laugh with her.

Soon the public narrative applied to Parton centered on her wit. The ridicule of her image allowed her to position herself as a constant revelation. “Some folks see my artificial look and think I have no depth,” she told Newsweek in 1977. “But my inner sadness and joy are as real as my hair and nails are fake. That’s what I like — looking like one thing and being another.”

In a column that same year, George F. Will called Parton one of the country's most "visible women," and said: "Biologically, no woman is supposed to look like that, and given the zeitgeist, no woman is supposed to want to look like that." Will tried to position Parton as an embarrassment to femininity and to feminism, but in fact she would come to be known as a champion of both. She was self-made in every sense. Like the office satire "9 to 5," Parton's film debut, she wrapped her serious message in a glittery package, which got people's attention.

Though Parton shrugged off the “feminist” label, the feminists claimed her. In 1987, when Ms. Magazine named Parton one of its women of the year, Gloria Steinem wrote that “her flamboyant style has turned all the devalued symbols of womanliness to her own ends,” infusing them with “humor and a conscious power.”

Much of the power of Parton's appearance was that she came by it so honestly. As one of 12 children raised in poverty in the Great Smoky Mountains, she didn't have movie stars to emulate. She didn't have movies. When interviewers circled around jibing questions of Parton's "trashy" appearance, she told them that when she was a child, she would visit a nearby town, where she would see a sex worker walking in tall, translucent heels with a pile of yellow hair. People called that woman trashy, too, but to Parton, she was the image of beauty. Behind the jokes about Parton's fake hair and fake breasts and fake nails was a sincere origin story, and an enduring loyalty to her roots. She was, beneath it all, a natural.

In the wake of Parton's death, fans have circulated a 1977 Barbara Walters interview in which Parton defuses Walters's line of questioning about her looks. Walters asks whether Parton is a hillbilly, asks if her breasts are real, then tells Parton: "You don't have to look like this."

"No, it's certainly a choice," Parton replies easily, going on to add, "Show business is a moneymaking joke, and I just always liked telling jokes, you know?"

Watching the clip in 2026, it's striking how mildly Parton is styled. Her aesthetic has so influenced pop culture and digital media that it's barely perceptible as artifice. It's Walters who reads as false. She stiffly blames her assistant for prodding her to pose the question about Parton's chest; she embarrasses herself by asking it. "All these years, people thought the joke was on me," Parton told Walters. "But it's actually been on the public."

A Special Connection With Miss Piggy and Kermit

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Dolly Parton and Miss Piggy performed and bantered together regularly on Parton's short-lived variety show, "Dolly." Kermit was also close to the country icon.

The singer had a natural, seemingly authentic ease with her inanimate sidekicks.

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They were two brassy blondes, outspoken and no-nonsense — trailblazing women in a world where men often pull the strings. Fond of flashy outfits and supported by quieter men, they both wore their hearts on their spangled sleeves and sang about it, although — in truth — one was usually more in tune than the other.

Dolly Parton, the country music legend who died on Tuesday, and Miss Piggy had as warm a friendship as any possible between a human and a puppet, complete with heartfelt talks, a shared fashion sense, peppy duets and the occasional feud.

More than some other entertainers who appeared alongside the Muppets, Parton seemed to have a natural ease with her inanimate sidekicks, chatting and laughing with them with the same seriousness, charm and verve that marked her music and career. And no relationship seemed more authentic than hers with Piggy, combining equal parts sibling rivalry, star-to-star respect, and — more than anything, it seemed — genuinely deep affection.

While Parton never appeared on “The Muppet Show,” which ran from 1976 to 1981, the two divas regularly performed and bantered together on “Dolly,” the singer’s short-lived ABC variety show, in the late 1980s. Piggy wasn’t the only Muppet to be close to the icon: Kermit, Piggy’s long-suffering boyfriend, was the first to appear in a “Dolly” episode in November 1987, performing a cover of Sly and the Family Stone’s “Everyday People,” despite Parton saying she had “a frog in her throat.”

Not to be outdone, the always vain and occasionally bratty Miss Piggy effectively tried to take over Parton's show in an appearance about a month later, appearing in the singer's bathtub — yes, that was a recurring bit on "Dolly" — and taking over her planned solo, according to archival entries of Jim Henson, the Muppets creator. But the two eventually reconciled and sang Cole Porter's "Friendship" together, after the mercurial Piggy begged to be forgiven and allowed to perform.

Months later, Piggy would pop up on another episode — and on Parton's tour bus, announcing that "Miss Piggy's gone country."

Ever patient, Parton explained to Piggy — in a cowboy hat and satin-and-sequins shirt — that there was more to being a country star than just looking the part, noting that her porcine pal was “about as country as a pair of silk overalls."

Still, her advice to Piggy was both gentle and brutally honest, a big sister telling a littler one just how the world, and the art it inspires, works.

"You got to get that little heart broken. You got to lose a great love. You got to suffer some," Parton explained. "Hard work and heartbreak is what country music is all about."

The two entertainers also played off each other when Piggy filmed a tribute to Parton after she won the award for favorite female performer in a new television program at the 1988 People's Choice Awards.

"It is moi, the other blonde bombshell," Piggy said, using her trademark bad French and adding a bad bosom joke. "I am so proud of your victory and just delighted to be considered one of your closest friends.

Equal parts rivalry, respect and genuinely deep affection.

Your triumph is my triumph. Your reward is my reward. So I'll be over to pick it up in the morning."

The Muppets had loving relationships with other performers, too, including the actor Tim Curry, who also died on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the puppet troupe declared Curry an “honorary Muppet,” even as old clips circulated of the actor playing along with rumors that he and Piggy had an affair during the filming of “Muppet Treasure Island.”

Parton, meanwhile, would also partner with Kermit again in 2012 on “Good Morning America,” singing an a cappella version of “Islands in the Stream,” alongside a chorus of clucking chickens. (Parton giggled a bit as the flock suddenly landed alongside her.)

Other puppets would pay homage to Parton over the years, including on Sesame Street, where a character named Polly Darton sang country songs from under a blonde bouffant.

After the singer's death, the show posted an old snippet of Polly singing: "And now even though I am deeply grieving/ I'm waving goodbye to you with my heart."

The Muppets, including Piggy and Kermit, called Parton “the ultimate singer, songwriter, actress, performer and philanthropist,” and suggested an uncommonly real relationship between the singer and her foam rubber co-stars.

"There will never be another quite like Dolly Parton," the puppets said in a statement, adding, "We are so grateful for every second we got to spend with her onstage and off."

When Mix Tapes Were All the Rage

Painstakingly made, 90-minute bursts of analog love let music fans express themselves as curators.

By KERA BOLONIK

The mugger was holding a razor blade to my face.

It was 1992, my first summer in New York, and the two of us were standing in an elevator car. I was marginally employed, having just graduated from college in the middle of a recession, meaning I didn't have much to offer my assailant.

A look of disappointment crossed his face as he assessed my goods — a Seiko wristwatch, \$7 in cash, a leather bag stuffed with magazines and tampons.

He took the watch and the money. Then he considered the banged-up Sony Walkman I held in my trembling hand.

"I mean, you can have it," I said. "But I need the cassette inside."

It was a 90-minute mix tape I had made to help me process some feelings over a break-up with a recent girlfriend. The song list — including Patti Smith's "Distant Fingers,"

Deee-Lite's "Love Is Everything" and Dionne Warwick's "He's Movin' On" — evoked the mood of a letter you write but never send.

I had put a lot of work into it, spending hours parked next to my roommate's stereo system as I transferred the songs from the vinyl discs spinning on the turntable to the cassette in the tape deck.

With my right hand, I gently set the stylus down on the shiny band just before the grooves of each song I had chosen. Once the needle was in place, I used my left hand to release the pause button of the tape deck, which was set to record. In the analog days, this is what you had to go through to create a soundtrack of your inner turmoil.

So I had no choice but to take a stand with the mugger, now holding my Walkman. "You're just going to throw the tape away," I told him. "It's probably too weird for you."

"What's on it?" he asked.

I mentioned a few artists. He winced.

Much to my relief, he hit the eject button, removed the cassette and handed it over. As he exited the elevator, he wished me a good weekend.

Home D.J.s

Blank cassette tapes were once used mainly by office workers for dictation. But in the

'You thought about the sequence beforehand.'

Social Q's | PHILIP GALANES

In-Law 'Splaining

My husband and I want to start a family soon, but I dread telling my in-laws if or when I become pregnant. My father-in-law is a retired doctor and a chronic mansplainer. I do not want unsolicited explanations of pregnancy or comments about my body from any man — and especially not from him. My mother-in-law is a retired nurse and a world-class worrier. She can't help sharing her anxiety with others, and I'll be anxious enough on my own, I think, without having to manage her fears. We live close to them and see them often. How can I set boundaries or tell them politely to keep their thoughts about my pregnancy to themselves?

DAUGHTER-IN-LAW

Over the course of your marriage, you have probably developed strategies for coping with your father-in-law's mansplaining and your mother-in-law's worrying. But once you become the future mother of their grandchild, you suspect that all bets will be off, and a bright new spotlight will shine upon you. (I can picture it.)

Now, I can't help noticing that you barely mentioned your husband in your letter. Is that because he has already demonstrated that he can't be counted on to stand up to his parents? Or per-

haps he is so accustomed to their behavior that he doesn't see it as troublesome? In any event, start by engaging him. As your partner, it's his job to help you.

I also suspect that hearing some version of “Thanks for your concern, but we’ve got this covered” may be more palatable to your in-laws coming from their son than from you. But if your husband won’t rise to the occasion, this response will fall to you. Let it be your friendly mantra and repeat it freely — along with quick pivots to other subjects. You will not remake your in-laws’ personalities, but you may lessen their annoying behavior with a consistent refusal to engage it.

Surprise, I'm Here

My friend left me a voice mail message inviting me to a party at her friend's house. She also left the address and apartment number. I told her I wasn't sure I would attend, which she misinterpreted as: I will not attend. When I went to the party and rang the bell, there was no answer. I called my friend, but to no avail. Eventually, a woman answered and told me that the host did not live there. My friend had given me the wrong address! So I sent her a salty text and went home. She replied with a salty text of her own. In a follow-up conversation, I told her that she owed me an apology: This greases the wheels of the social contract. But she refused. Where do we go from here? FRIEND

Sincere apologies are, indeed, part of the social contract — as are de-escalating conflicts when possible and avoiding angry text messages. If I invited someone to a party and she said, "I'm not sure I can make it," I would take that as a no — unless she called me back to say that she would attend after all. You seem to have skipped that step.

Sending a sharp text about a mix-up on a party invitation that you never accepted seems aggressive — and more likely to aggravate your friend than to make her feel sorry. Let this conflict rest for a few days, and then call your friend to apologize for not being clearer about your attendance, which may help her to apologize about the address.

The Home Team

During a worldwide sports tournament, my spouse expressed profound dislike for our friends' national team. My spouse was referring only to the team — not to the country. Still, our friends took great offense, and the incident has severed our friendship. As a bystander who said nothing, I tried to explain that my spouse was only talking sports. I am profoundly sad about this situation. What more can I do? SPOUSE

Rather than spending more energy trying to fix a problem that you did not create, urge your spouse to apologize for the remarks. There are few things less satisfying than apologies and explanations coming from the wrong party. Your spouse may not satisfy your friends, but at least they will have heard it directly.

House Red ≠ On-the-House Red

Old friends were visiting New York and invited us to dinner. We met at the restaurant. The husband announced that he would pay for the food but not for drinks — even though we all had wine with our meal. It was awkward when the bill came, and we felt insulted by the experience. Your opinion? CABERNET

So the insult here is that your friends' generosity was incomplete: They paid for your meal, but not for your alcohol. Why stop there? Begrudge them for failing to pay your round-trip carfare to the restaurant as well! I'm sorry, but this letter makes you sound petty. Be grateful for generosity, not demanding of more.

For help with your awkward situation, send a question to SocialQ@nytimes.com, Philip Galanes on Facebook or @SocialQPhilip on X.

1970s, young music fans began using them to make copies of songs they loved, often by recording them off the radio.

The singer-songwriter Eleanor Friedberger, 49, who has a band with her brother, Matthew, called the Fiery Furnaces, recalled recording songs from the radio at age 8. "That was how it started, right?" she said. "Taping from the radio. I did that with friends, too. We'd kind of make our own radio shows."

Jonathan Lethem, the novelist and essayist, remembered taping songs from the New York-area FM station WFMU when he was a kid. "You wanted to be able to hear that song when you wanted," he said. "Some of us would tape a whole radio show."

Lethem, 62, said he liked talking to younger people about cassette tapes because most of them were used to being able to use their phone and learn the name of a song or band almost instantaneously.

"But you have to imagine a space where music was a rumor," he continued. "You might hear something and not be able to know what it was, and no one can tell you, and it's driving you crazy."

Music fans also used blank cassettes to record from full-length albums or singles. Those discs might be part of your own collection or someone else's.

In 1979, with the introduction of the Sony Walkman, home taping exploded.
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Homemade mix tapes cast an indelible imprint on musical taste, fashion sense and courtship. They served as stand-ins for D.J.s at parties.

Home taping exploded in 1979, with the introduction of the Sony Walkman. At last, you could listen to what you wanted when you were on the move.

The music industry wasn't pleased with this development and blamed it for a pronounced drop in the sales of vinyl records. The British Phonographic Institute, a trade association in London, mounted a campaign with a reproachful slogan: "Home taping is killing music. And it's illegal." In the United States, music executives pressed lawmakers to place a fee on blank cassettes and home recording equipment.

None of it stopped youthful Gen X-ers from turning themselves into amateur curators of sound. While this new pastime gave them the chance to hear their favorite songs in the order of their choosing, it served other purposes, too.

"I am what I play," David Bowie sang on the 1979 song "D.J.," and the living-room D.J.s of the 1980s used the medium of the mix tape to forge their identities, flex their musical knowledge, telegraph messages and even flirt.

Forty years after I started making and exchanging mix tapes, I still remember which friend introduced me to which artist. These homemade cassettes had a way of casting an indelible imprint on our musical taste, fashion sense — even our worldview.

Lethem recalled a mix tape he heard in the 1980s. It was made by a friend of a friend who had juxtaposed songs in a way that seemed “counterintuitive, and then it became magic,” he said.

In particular, he recalled a segue from "Work Song" by Bill Laswell to "Israelites" by Desmond Dekker and the Aces. The person who put that cassette together "remained intimidating to me, because of the aura of the tape," he said.

Mix tapes also served as stand-ins for D.J.s at parties. As Lethem put it: "I wanted 90 minutes of continuous danceable music, so people don't sit down and wander away from the floor once the thing gets good."

A Lost Art

The creation of a mix tape was a labor of love. It took time, thought and a level of physical coordination beyond what goes into the making of a Spotify playlist.

The two-sided cassette, which most frequently came in 60- and 90-minute iterations, offered opportunities to create two different vibes. Perhaps you wanted a moody Side A and an upbeat Side B, a dialectic you couldn't create with the contiguous 80-minute CD-R mixes that came later.

One mix I still have comes from the fall of 1993. I was depressed when I made it, and I titled it “Change My Mood.” Perusing the track listing, I can detect frustration, anger and some ironic self-mockery.

Side A included "Heart-Shaped Box" by Nirvana, "Avant Garde M.O.R." by Stereolab and "Sheela-Na-Gig" by P.J. Harvey. Side B ended on a hopeful note, with "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" by Digable Planets.

The time limit of a cassette presented a challenge to the home taper. If you found yourself with under two minutes at the end of a given side, you had to find just the right song, one that would neither get cut off nor leave 30 seconds of dead space, which would ruin the flow.

John Cameron Mitchell, the actor, writer and singer, was another skilled maker of mix tapes. "You thought about the sequence beforehand, instead of throwing things at the wall," Mitchell, 63, said. "It's not unlike editing on film."

He noted that mix tapes were often part of the courtship ritual.

"Once I was wooing a young lad who was into modern R&B but didn't know anything about old R&B," Mitchell said. "I'm a big Stax Records fan, so I made him a tape of old stuff." With a laugh, he added, "I believe it came to fruition."

Friedberger still has a mix tape given to her by a college crush. "It was better even than him asking me on a date," she said. "The music on it was really influential for me, because it was like he was sharing information that I found to be incredibly valuable." The artists included Donovan, the Moles and Brian Eno, she added.

Jay Smooth, 53, a hip-hop radio host and commentator, started making elaborate mix tapes as a teenager, when Run-DMC was at its peak and hip-hop artists were releasing 12-inch singles.

"For those of us who couldn't afford to have two turntables, we figured out that if you press pause on the beat of one song and unpause right on the beat of the next song, you could have these seamless mixes where it sounds like you're actually D.J.-ing with two turntables," he said. "I was of the generation that put a lot of work into perfecting

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the 'pause-button' mix tape."

Some mix tape makers would dub in their own voices. At 13, the singer-songwriter Hamilton Leithauser was making a tape for a cousin who was going to sleep-away camp for the first time. “The first song was by Cypress Hill, and after the beginning of the song, I recorded myself rapping a verse as a joke, to catch him off guard,” Leithauser, 48, said. “When he listened to it with his new bunk mates, he was so embarrassed.”

No mix tape was complete without cover art — hand-drawn illustrations or collages decorating the cassette case's paper insert. Along with the song titles and the artists' names scrawled in tiny lettering, a distinctive title also helped. One mix I made was called "Songs in the Key of Gay." Another, by my friend Christopher Schelling, was named "Cha Cha Cocktail Bachelorette."

Sony stopped manufacturing Walkmans in 2010, but this year, Maxell released a portable cassette player with Bluetooth capabilities for nostalgists — and, presumably, to introduce cassette tapes to new generations of listeners who have demonstrated a love for vinyl. Leithauser, Friedberger and Taylor Swift are among the artists who have sold limited-edition cassette tapes at shows.

I've tried to play some of my old cassettes on vintage equipment. Sadly, the magnetic tape has worn down over time. So lately I've tried to recreate my 1980s mix tapes on streaming platforms, using my handwritten track lists to guide me, only to find that quite a few of my old favorites have yet to make their way to the digital universe.

But the mixes I have managed to piece together have elicited intense memories, conjuring feelings and states of mind that I never expected to experience again. More than just relics, mix tapes are portals to specific moments. Perhaps even more than old photographs, they reanimate the past.

There's one mix tape I haven't been able to find. Would you believe it's the one I refused to give up when I was mugged over 30 years ago?

Teenage Protesters Are Taking On Data Centers

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Close to a decade ago, Gen Z activists walked out of school to demand action on climate change and marched to protest gun violence. Some of today's high school activists are taking on a new foe: the proliferation of A.I. data centers, which they argue pose health and environmental threats that are being ignored in an effort to keep up with the country's rapacious demand for computing power.

These students are joining a wave of local opposition to data centers that stretches from coast to coast and encompasses Americans of vastly different backgrounds and political beliefs. And young adults tend to have more negative views of data centers than their elders do, according to data from Pew Research Center.

But many are also wrestling with their personal reliance on the chatbots that require data centers to keep chugging along. More than half of Gen Z-ers living in the United States use generative A.I. regularly, according to a survey conducted this spring by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation. For some of these young people, getting involved in the fight against data centers has raised a thorny question: Can you protest the physical footprint of A.I. while still taking advantage of the technology?

Cisneros is now a regular at community meetings and rallies against the planned data center in Pittsburg, which was approved in 2024. She posts videos on social media urging other young people to get involved; one of her TikToks demonstrating how to speak at a City Council meeting has been viewed more than 10 million times.

"This is real influence!" Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, wrote in the comments of one Instagram post, adding three flame emojis.

A representative for Avaio Digital, the developer of the Pittsburg project, said in a statement that many of the objections to the project were a result of misunderstandings

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of the center's closed-loop cooling system, which continuously recirculates water, as well as Avaio's efforts to limit noise pollution.

Cisneros has tried to cut back on her use of A.I. She downloaded a browser that does not preface search results with A.I. summaries, and has stopped plugging offhand questions into ChatGPT. "I didn't even need A.I. for half the stuff that I was using A.I. for," she said.

Kyle McGuffey, a 14-year-old in Colorado Springs, said that anyone who had a smartphone was already relying on A.I. in countless ways, not all of them obvious. In iPhoto, for example, the technology is used to identify landmarks and plants.

"A.I. is already a part of our lives, and something we can't reverse," McGuffey said. "My concern is that it's advancing way too quickly and without public oversight."

McGuffey spent most of his summer break between middle and high school submitting public-records requests related to Project Taurus, an A.I. data center project that was approved for construction about three miles from his home. He had a lot of questions that he said he couldn't find convincing answers to online: Were there plans to mitigate the noise or evaluate the effects on local wildlife? What would happen in the case of a water leak?

In May, he received two dozen pages of planning documents and email communications related to the project that he had requested through the Colorado Open Records Act. They included an early report suggesting that the site could have higher power demands than had been publicly advertised — 300 megawatts, as opposed to 50. He shared the records with two opposition groups; at least one of them ended up using his research in an appeal filed against the data center.

Jason Green, the co-founder and president of Raeden, the company responsible for Project Taurus, said in a phone interview that the company had gone to great lengths to address the community's concerns, including redesigning the data center's walls to mitigate as much noise as possible. The document McGuffey found was from before formal diligence began on the site, he said, and the final development plan approved by the city allows for only 50 megawatts.

"I applaud the interest, even if it's critical of what we're doing," Green said.

Rachel Janfaza, founder of the Up and Up, a research and media firm focused on Gen Z, said she had been hearing spirited debates about data centers since January in the focus groups she conducted with members of the generation. Many young people feel as if their age group was already a guinea pig for Big Tech once with the advent of social media: They do not want to repeat history with A.I.

"People sleep on Gen Z's appetite for, and interest in, local politics," she said, adding, "For them, the creation of data centers in their communities is something that they're not only deeply aware of, but also understand that they are going to be the ones who are affected by it."

Young people appear bearish on how artificial intelligence will affect their lives in the long term. At graduation ceremonies around the country this spring, college students showered boos on commencement speakers who expressed optimism about A.I. Fewer than 20 percent of Gen Z respondents in the Gallup survey said they felt hopeful about the technology — a sharp decline from the previous year.

If data centers are a potent, concrete target for Gen Z's broader feelings of unease about artificial intelligence, they may also be a common enemy for a generation with deep political divides. Last month, Marco Sanchez, a 15-year-old in Texas, started the El Paso Youth Alliance to organize teenagers in opposition to the multibillion-dollar data center being built by Meta there.

Nearly 100 high school students in the area have joined so far, he said — and there's no political litmus test to participate. "I don't care if someone disagrees with me

Many young people have organized against a planned data center in Pittsburg, Calif., including Sadie Cisneros, 17, above, far right. In Colorado Springs, Kyle McGuffey, 14, center row, far left and center left, gathered information and public records about a data center that was approved near his home.

on who should be the next president if we both agree that the data center is bad," Sanchez said.

When he first heard that a data center was being built in El Paso, he was hopeful that it would be the start of a meaningful investment in the city and its residents. His feelings shifted when he learned of the 80 percent property-tax break that Meta received for building there. He now worries that the project will drive up energy costs and increase pollution while Meta reaps the benefits.

"You're screwing over working families while you give Mark Zuckerberg's company hundreds of millions of dollars in tax rebates," Sanchez said.

In response to a recent article about pollution associated with the rapid development of A.I. data centers, a spokesman for Meta told The New York Times that the company was “committed to offsetting 100 percent of our electricity use in El Paso with clean and renewable energy," and that Meta "will not pass those costs on to Texans."

Some Gen Z-ers have been learning about the costs and benefits of data centers for practically their entire lives. Mihir Nimkar, 17, grew up in Loudoun County, Va., home to a region known as Data Center Alley for its density of facilities that support internet traffic and cloud computing. Data centers are necessary for pretty much everything we like about digital life, he said during a video interview: "Without them, we couldn't be having this call."

Still, he has been frustrated by what he sees as the poor planning of a recent data center construction that has been supercharged by A.I. Last year, a local utility proposed a route for new high-voltage power lines that runs directly across the property of Nimkar's high school.

In response, he and a friend, Josh Weber, formed a club called Students Against High-Voltage Expansion. It encouraged teenagers to pass out fliers and pack school board meetings. (The project, which has faced fierce local resistance, is headed to the Virginia Supreme Court.)

Nimkar still uses A.I. for feedback on his writing and to quiz himself before tests at school. No matter what happens with the power lines, he thinks the fight has complicated the commonly held assumption that A.I. is some kind of magic, blinking cursor that frictionlessly spits out answers.

"I've definitely become more cognizant of what it is that happens when I use A.I.," Nimkar said. "There are so many consequences that you don't see."

SOFIA FRANKLYN and JOHN MESSAMORE

'Call Her Daddy'? No, Just Call Her Romantic.

By SADIBA HASAN

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When Sofia Vaninna Franklyn was going through a breakup in 2021, her friend Sarah Powell at Maclynn International, a matchmaking agency, persuaded her to sign up.

"I never thought about matchmaking in that way," Franklyn said. "I thought it was kind of this older style" of dating.

Franklyn went on a date through the agency and ghosted the "very kind man" from that date, she said, because she got back with her ex. But then they broke up again the next year, and Franklyn didn't hear from the service again until 2024. "I thought that maybe I was banned," she said.

Her matchmaker's suggestion was John Benjamin Messamore, who wasn't having much luck finding the one on dating apps. A friend had recommended the matchmaking service to him, and he decided to give it a shot.

In interviews with matchmakers, Messamore explained the type of person he thought he would connect with: someone who works in law, accounting or finance and would understand his world. (He has worked in finance his entire career.) But his dates with people who fit the bill went “wildly unsuccessfully,” he said. The agency tried something different.

Before a work trip from his home in London to New York in September 2024, his matchmaker asked if he would like to meet an entrepreneur in Manhattan named Sofia. On the way to their first date at the bar inside Fouquet's, a hotel in Manhattan, he looked her up.

“I was like, ‘Oh my god, this might go horribly wrong,’” Messamore said. On paper, they were entirely different. She’s a podcast host; he works in private equity. Her life is public; his is not. Plus, she had gotten wrapped up in quite a bit of drama.

That drama was her public split with her former best friend and roommate, Alex Cooper. In 2018, the two debuted “Call Her Daddy,” a podcast about sex, dating, culture and life in New York. It quickly became a hit with millions of listeners. When their contract with the distributor, Barstool Sports, came up for renegotiation, a messy disagreement over the terms left Cooper as the podcast’s sole host in 2020. Since then, Franklyn has created her own podcast, “Sofia With an F”

Despite his initial worries, Messamore, 39, called it "the best date of my life."

"We just connected on so many levels we didn't expect," he said. They discovered they both grew up in middle-class families — she in Salt Lake City, and he in Fayetteville, N.C. — and both speak Spanish.

"We talked about books, philosophy, religion, whether free will exists," he said. As their conversation unfolded, so did their connection. "It's not that we agreed on everything," Franklyn, 34, said. "It was just synergy, and it was just chemistry — chemistry you can't really describe or explain."

They also talked about their dating goals. He was looking for a life partner. She said her next boyfriend would be her last.

The earnestness of their first date was a change for Franklyn, who said she had “made a living off the dating game” and in fact often treated dating like a game. “In the past, my whole thing would have been: ‘Don’t ever let the guy catch you saying that. Try to just be casual and fun, and maybe that can be intimidating.’

"But then I grew up," Franklyn said, "and I did some healing and some soul-searching. And I was like, I don't want to play a game anymore."

That night, they messaged about a storybook Franklyn grew up reading called “The Missing Piece Meets the Big O” by Shel Silverstein. It made Messamore feel closer to her, and he thought she could really be the one. But he also said he had a feeling that “she’s probably somebody who could be a little flaky.”

"Probably lots of guys are trying to take Sofia out," he said. "So I was really worried that I wouldn't get that second chance to meet her."

In the event that she tried to cancel their second date, he purchased the book as a gift so he could at least drop by and give it to her.

As they were trying to set up a second date, Franklyn indeed was being a bit flaky. Even though she really liked him, she's a homebody, she said. So Messamore resorted to his backup plan and asked to drop by her apartment in the East Village to drop off the gift. She met him downstairs, and they sat at the bus stop and talked.

“We had this outrageously forward conversation,” Messamore said. They acknowledged that pursuing something serious would mean a long-distance relationship down the line.

He returned to London, and they were texting and having long calls. Date No. 3 was in Paris in October after he invited her on the spur of the moment. They walked around Paris, hand in hand.

"She brings out a side of me that was lacking," he said. "I'm not the most emotional person on earth, and there's just a connection and a life that she brings out of me that no one else ever has."

Part of that comes from Franklyn's emotional intelligence rubbing off on him. "And then there's just this familiarity," he said. "We love some of the most random same things. Like, we're obsessed with the Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie" — two bands — "movies, TV shows, music, fast food preferences."

Their fourth date was in Miami later that month and their fifth was in New York in December, when he stayed with her for a week. Messamore surprised her with a mini Christmas tree for her apartment. They went to F.A.O. Schwarz, watched rom-coms on her couch and said "I love you" for the first time.

They began seeing each other once a month, meeting in destinations like Mallorca and Barcelona in Spain, and Zermatt and St. Moritz in Switzerland. But it was during their quieter moments together that their relationship deepened. “Where the real connection was formed was watching TV on this couch, getting takeout and being homebodies together,” he said.

Franklyn has kept her home in New York, and Messamore has kept his in London. The two hope to start a family. "I did want to do it in the traditional way of getting married, and then starting a family," she said.

Franklyn started off in her career challenging traditions in the dating and relationships space — by offering a form of female locker room talk on “Call Her Daddy” that discussed sex as openly as men do while embracing dating, pleasure and having fun.

But, she said: "People can have growth, women can have growth, opinions can change. When I started having a very public career, I was 25, and that was a long time ago."

During that time, she was also jaded about love, she said: "I mean, hi, my memoir is called 'Daddy Issues.' I would go into relationships with some stuff from my past." But Messamore, she said, was patient and understanding with her.

"Daddy Issues" will be published by Simon & Schuster in November. In it, she reflects on

Sofia Franklyn and John Messamore were married in Brunate, Italy, on July 31. "She brings out a side of me that was lacking," the groom said.

A podcaster does some growing up, healing and soul-searching.

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When July 31, 2026 Where Villino Rubini in Brunate, Italy

Classic Moment After the ceremony on Aug. 2, Messamore and Franklyn, who wore an archival Vera Wang gown, took a ride on Lake Como in a wooden speedboat. They wanted a quiet moment together on their wedding day.

The Club For the after-party, their friend, a D.J. named Gallivanter, transformed the wedding venue into a club by bringing house music and bagpipes. "I was like, 'Make this a D.J. set,'" Franklyn said. "I want people to feel like they are in the club."

her time on “Call Her Daddy,” the falling-out with Cooper and the journey of reinventing herself since. Franklyn graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Messamore graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s in finance and Spanish.

In August 2025, he proposed over room-service pancakes and a bottle of rosé at Airelles La Bastide, Gordes in the Provence region of France.

On July 31, before their wedding festivities began, the couple were legally married at Villino Rubini, a villa in Brunate, Italy, with two witnesses present. Brandon Bear Bangs, an ordained minister with a Utah wedding officiant service called \$99 Weddings, officiated via Zoom from Utah. Because the officiant was in Utah, where the couple obtained their marriage license, the remote ceremony was legally solemnized under Utah law.

Later that day, the couple held a welcome dinner outdoors in Piazza Roma in Argegno, Italy. The next day, they hosted activities at the villa for their guests, including pasta making, wine tasting and watercolor painting.

On Aug. 2, they held their wedding celebration at Villa Pizzo in Lombardy with about 140 guests. Shelley J. Whitehead, a relationship coach who had guided Franklyn and Messamore through an intensive couples retreat before their engagement, led the ceremony.

"There's kind of nothing more beautiful about this life than finding your person," Franklyn said. "I can't even believe what's coming out of my mouth right now because never have I ever spoken like this."

Terri Wade, Christopher Fung

A Deputy Sheriff Who Made Her Feel Safe

On a Saturday morning hike in July 2020, Terri Nicole Wade's friends staged a gentle intervention. The

time had come, they told her, to make a decision about her on-again, off-again boyfriend of six years.

Wade already knew what she wanted to do, but her friends' words provided the nudge she needed. Later that day, she walked into a barbecue at a friend's home in Belmont, Calif., her arms full of groceries. Christopher KS Fung, a stranger, approached and offered to help carry them.

"Once I made this clear decision, I'm moving on, all of a sudden, Chris came in," Wade said.

A speaker and life coach whose 2023 book, “A-Z Happy,” offers strategies for adopting attitudes that cultivate positivity and resilience, Wade strongly believes in manifestation and mind-set. Fung, a deputy sheriff with the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department, picked up on her upbeat outlook right away.

He had recently gotten out of a short-term relationship. "Terri was a breath of fresh air," he said.

The pair, both 38, made plans for a hike the next Sunday, but eager to see Wade sooner, Fung messaged her that Friday evening inviting her to watch the sunset with him. As the sun went down along the San Francisco Bay,

they talked about family, spirituality, travel and the San Francisco Giants, and when Fung walked Wade back to her car, they shared their first kiss. Less than two weeks later, on her birthday, he asked her to be his girlfriend.

The next month, fresh into their heady early days as a couple, Wade's mother, who was also her best friend and roommate, died suddenly at 60. Fung was the first person to arrive at Wade's house to comfort her and he remained by her side throughout the grieving process, even accompanying her to a beach in Santa Cruz, Calif., to spread her mother's ashes in the Pacific Ocean.

"For him to really lean in was special," Wade said. "I thought it was so beautiful and so telling of who he is."

During her vows at the couple's Aug. 16 wedding, an emotional Wade told Fung, "Before you, I didn't know romantic love could feel this light, this playful, this comfortable and this safe. You are my safe space when the world feels chaotic."

Wade grew up in Foster City, Calif., and received a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of California at Riverside. She earned an M.B.A. from Notre Dame de Namur University, where until June, she worked in the admissions department. She left to focus on her coaching

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A PERFECT IMPRESSION

business and write a memoir about embodying the positive-psychology concepts she's trained in, even through life's most daunting challenges.

Fung grew up in San Francisco, the son of Chinese immigrants who came to the United States in their twenties. After arriving, his mother worked as a janitor and then studied to become a civil engineer. His father, a mechanic in China, opened his own auto repair shop.

"They did the American dream," Fung said, adding that his parents taught him to set goals and work patiently toward them. Fung studied law enforcement at the College of San Mateo through the South Bay Regional Public Safety Training Consortium, and during the pandemic, he got his bachelor's degree in applied arts and sciences online from the University of North Texas. In addition to working as a deputy sheriff, he runs an online business selling Pokémon cards and merchandise.

The couple got engaged in May 2025 during a trip to Paris with Wade's father and stepmother. After dinner, with the Eiffel Tower's shimmering night lights as a backdrop, Fung knelt down and asked Wade to be his wife.

Their wedding took place at San Ramon Waters, a San Francisco Bay Area wedding venue. The couple chose to marry on Aug. 16 because of the date's significance in Chinese numerology: The number 8 is associated with wealth, prosperity and good fortune and the number 16 with a smooth, flowing life path.

Steve Siglin, a professional offician ordained through World Christianity Ministries, led the ceremony. Toward the end, he invited Fung's three children from previous relationships, who range in age from 10 to 16, to join the newlyweds at the outdoor altar. As 140 guests looked on, Fung, Wade and the children each lit a slender candle, then touched the individual flames to the wick of one larger candle to symbolize their unity as a family.

In another gesture reflecting the couple's shared commitment to family, they honored deceased relatives by displaying photos of them on a mantel in the reception room.

Wade said her mother hadn't always been fond of her daughter's partners, but she took to Fung in the brief time she knew him. The night before she died, she texted Wade, "I'm so happy you let love in." LESLIE KATZ

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Kamie Crawford, Xavier Champagne

'I Would Have Married Him That Night'

It was Kameran Crawford's first day — April 30, 2022, to be exact — on the dating app Raya when she matched with Xavier Champagne.

"I only got on Raya because my 22-year-old assistant told me, 'You're never going to meet someone, try Raya,'” Crawford recalled.

When Crawford, who goes by Kamie, first saw Champagne on the app, she was wowed. "He was stunning," she said. "I almost put a hole in my phone, I hearted so hard."

They lived only three blocks from each other but had never met.

Champagne was equally knocked out when he saw Crawford — and to this day, the two can't agree on who hearted whom first. What Champagne knows for sure is that he wanted to get to know her better — and soon.

"I tried to take her out the same day," he said. "We texted for like 20 minutes after matching and then talked on the phone right after that for an hour." They made plans to meet the next day at the West Third location of the Italian restaurant Bacari in Los Angeles.

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It was the best date she'd ever been on, she said.

"When I saw him, I knew," Crawford said. "It's an indescribable feeling. In addition to being gorgeous and 6-foot-4, he made me laugh. It felt like we spoke on every topic but had so much more to talk about."

The interest was mutual, and Champagne was drawn to more than Crawford's appearance.

"I was very interested in what's beneath the looks," Champagne said. "I was very intrigued by the person she is. In L.A., people would rather go wide than go deep. I was exhausted by that."

They discovered later that after their date, they were both “secretly texting our friends that we thought we had met ‘the one,’” she said.

After the first date, they went on two more the following week, the first at Terroni, an Italian restaurant in West Hollywood, Calif., and the second at Jones Hollywood.

The two mutually decided to get off Raya in August 2022. Two months later, “Xavier called me while he was on a work trip and said, ‘I can see a future with us together, and I’d like to start that now if you’ll have me,’” Crawford said.

Champagne told Crawford he loved her three separate times before Crawford ever said it back. "I knew that when I said it, I would be saying it forever, so I really wanted to be sure," Crawford said. "I've been telling him how much I love him every five minutes since."

Crawford, 33, is a television and podcast host and producer. She is a former Miss Teen USA and Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, and has hosted several TV series, including "Catfish: The TV Show," "Are You the One?" and "Ex on the Beach." She also produces and hosts a podcast about relationships. She earned a bachelor's degree in communications and media studies from Fordham University. She was born in Cleveland and raised in Potomac, Md.

Champagne, 38, is the senior director of A&R at Warner Chappell Music, based in New York. He received an associate degree in digital filmmaking from the Art Institute of Philadelphia. He was born in Camden, N.J., and raised in Willingboro, N.J., and West Philadelphia. He has an 18-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.

On July 3, 2024, the couple moved in together in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, after Champagne was relocated to Warner Chappell's New York office. They continued to split their time between New York and Los Angeles for the next 15 months.

In August 2025, they purchased an early 1900s Tudor-style house in northern New Jersey, which they are fully renovating. They plan to maintain their home in Los Angeles as well.

On Sept. 27, 2025, at Saga, a restaurant in Manhattan's financial district, Champagne proposed, feigning a work dinner with his boss and the company president. Champagne even gave his boss's name to the maître d' to keep Crawford off the scent.

But when she reached the top of the stairs, "I was hyperventilating from the steps and the situation," she said.

After the proposal, the couple joined family and close friends, who were waiting there to surprise her, for dinner downstairs at Saga. They then celebrated at the Amber Room, a club and events space in the Flatiron district.

"It was perfect," Crawford said. "If we could have, I would have married him that night."

The two were wed at their home on Aug. 13 by Milon Crawford, one of Crawford's five younger sisters, who was ordained online by American Marriage Ministries for the occasion. Another of Crawford's sisters, Victoria, and Champagne's daughter acted as witnesses.

A celebratory wedding followed on Aug. 15 at the Water Works in Philadelphia with 205 guests in attendance. The ceremony was led by Peter Killough, Supreme Court Justice of Maryland, who was a close childhood friend of Crawford's father.

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Their very first date was the day before Champagne's late father's birthday. "Although I never had the privilege of meeting him, we have always found comfort in that timing," Crawford said. "It feels like a quiet reminder that he has been watching over our love story since the very beginning." JENNY BLOCK

Alison Bick, Maxim Zaslavsky

Trading the First Dance for a First Swim

As guests cheered, Alison Dana Bick and Maxim Elisha Zaslavsky made their first big splash after their ceremony on Aug. 15.

“What’s more fun in August than jumping into a pool?” said Bick, who opted for a first swim in a semi-Olympic pool over a first dance — she in her Jenny Yoo white satin ankle-length dress and he in navy Banana Republic suit pants and a shirt. (She then changed into a one-piece cream-colored \$600 Eres swimsuit that cost twice as much as her dress, and he into swim trunks, each complete with poolside Havaianas flip-flops.)

The two met in September 2019, at one of the happy hours that Bick and a friend had arranged at Stanford University for Princeton alumni in the area. Zaslavsky, who had been noticing Bick all evening, walked over to her at the tail end.

Each had graduated with a bachelor's degree from Princeton, she in chemical engineering in 2015, and he with highest honors in computer science in 2017, but had never met before.

"I found it refreshing that he played jazz and worked for a start-up after college," said Bick, 32, who grew up in Short Hills, N.J., and was wrapping up a Ph.D. at Stanford, where she received a master's and a doctorate in mechanical engineering.

Zaslavsky, 29, is originally from the La Jolla section of San Diego. He, unlike her, was just finding his footing during his first week of a doctoral program at Stanford, where he received a master's and a doctoral degree in computer science.

Although he didn't get her phone number, a friend with him that evening lived in her building and knew her last name. The next day Zaslavsky sent her a friend request on Facebook.

A month and a half later, after declining her invite to a spin cycle event, he asked her to the Halloween Stanford Orchestra concert. Although she preferred Broadway and pop music, she liked his company so much that they sat through it. Afterward, she rode her bicycle to a lab to work on her doctoral project — making single-use devices for a microfluidics study of microscopic drops of liquid.

"This may be more your style," he wrote via Facebook, linking to a recording of "Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone" film scores, which she played until she left the lab at midnight.

Later that week, he asked her to an on-campus screening of an environmental documentary, and then a week later to a campus art museum where he bought her a little crab painted on a cork for \$1 from a vending machine installation. It still sits on her night stand.

Both evenings ended with a hug, as did dinner at his place the next week, making her wonder if they were just friends.

"It's rare to meet someone as brilliant, funny and beautiful as you," he messaged her on Facebook after dinner, which happily cleared things up for her.

After she spent Thanksgiving with her sister, who was living in Copenhagen, and he with his family in La Jolla, she joined him on a taco crawl with his friends to hole-in-the-wall places in San Jose's industrial area.

Afterward, at her apartment, they had a first kiss before the opening credits of "The Matrix."

"Would you like to be my girlfriend?" he then asked.

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By August 2020, they had moved into graduate housing, which had “a barracks-vibe,” he said, amid eucalyptus trees where they spotted foxes and turkeys.

"I wake up the first morning," he said, "birds chirping, light's coming in, open my eyes, see her wearing safety goggles and holding a power drill," ready to tackle projects.

They also traveled, and he adapted to her family's cardinal rule — only one backpack each — and took in 14 countries on four continents.

In March 2024, they moved to an apartment in Jersey City, N.J. Early last year, he founded Immunera, a diagnostic start-up that builds blood tests using A.I. in gene sequencing for autoimmune diseases.

Bick works as a research and development engineer at Johnson & Johnson MedTech in Raritan, N.J.

This April, as they sat on a bench along the boardwalk in Long Branch, N.J., they recounted some of that weekend's highlights — biking, seeing cherry blossoms and a movie.

"How about we spend 60 more years like this?" he said as he got down on one knee.

She then surprised him.

She had already reserved a date for their wedding at the end of the summer at the Mountain Ridge Country Club in West Caldwell, N.J., where her family are longtime members.

On Aug. 15, Rabbi Rebecca Kaufman, ordained at Hebrew Union College, officiated under a huppah at their pool party before 50 guests.

As a nod to the groom's Ukrainian-Russian background, they served pelmeni, or dumplings, during cocktail hour, followed by burgers and hot dogs off the grill, and desserts including ice cream sundaes and a chocolate sheet cake with vanilla icing that said "Just Married Alison + Maxim."

"Our friends embraced this untraditional wedding and splashed around," she said. In the pool, the wet couple was lifted up in chairs as they all danced the hora. ROSALIE R. RADOMSKY

Craig Greiwe, Trent Keel

Actually, Far Beyond 'Remotely Interested'

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Seated across from Trent Alan Keel (on the right in the photo) at a restaurant in Los Angeles in Septem-

ber 2023, Craig Greiwe was convinced that their first date wouldn't go anywhere.

"I remember thinking that he wasn't even remotely interested," Greiwe said.

But after drinks at Petty Cash Taquería & Bar, now closed, Keel briefly joined Greiwe at Hi Tops, a gay sports bar, where Greiwe was meeting friends.

"I was confused," Greiwe said, of Keel's decision to tag along. "I asked if we were going to hang out the rest of the night, and he said, 'No, I want to go on a second date.'"

The two had connected on Hinge in August. Though Keel had enjoyed himself during their first meeting, he said, "I'm very hard to read when you first get to know me."

"I would later come to learn that it's not disinterest, but it's this lake of serenity," Greiwe said. "He's an eternal reservoir of calm."

Keel, 36, grew up in Moore, Okla., and studied dance performance at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. He left college before graduating to pursue a career as a singer and dancer in Los Angeles. At the same time, he became a hairstylist. Today, he is the marketing director at Amika, a hair care company.

Greiwe, 44, was born and raised in Greensburg, Ind. He has a bachelor's degree in French from DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., and another in theater from the University of Southern California, as well as a law degree from Columbia. He is the chief growth officer at GoDigital, a media and technology company.

After dating during the fall of 2023, Greiwe and Keel split off to different continents for work obligations. Keel went to Australia for the entirety of December, and Greiwe went to Europe for most of January. But they stayed in regular contact. On New Year's Eve, Keel, who was in Sydney, set an alarm for 9 a.m. local time to call Greiwe, who was in London, before midnight.

In late January, hours after returning from his trip, Greiwe met Keel for dinner at Sugarfish, a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles.

"I said, 'I'm going to stop calling you the guy I've been seeing and start calling you my boyfriend,'” Keel said. "Do you have any questions about that?"

"We were on the same page," Greiwe said. "We certainly don't have the same point of view on everything. I'm more religious, he's spiritual. He loves music, I couldn't tell you the lyrics of any song. He's a very adept dancer, I fall down a lot."

But, he added, he and Keel have a similar vision of the life they want to lead.

"Monogamy, children, building this sense of shared existence toward something bigger in the universe than yourself, and that you have an obligation to leave the world a better place than you found it," Greiwe said.

On Dec. 6, 2024, Greiwe hired a private chef to make dinner at his home before his annual holiday party. The meal was an opportunity to introduce his and Keel's parents to one another.

While decorating the Christmas tree before everyone's arrival, Greiwe told Keel that he had purchased three new ornaments. The first held a sake bottle cap from Sugarfish inside, and the second contained a key to Greiwe's house. The third ornament was hanging on the tree. There was only a note inside that asked Keel: "Will you marry me?"

When Keel turned around, Greiwe was on his knee with a ring box. After Keel said yes, they told their parents. A holiday party the next day was transformed into a surprise engagement party. Several months later, in April 2025, the two moved in together in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.

The first vacation the couple took together, in March 2024, months before they were engaged, was to what Greiwe described as his “favorite place on the planet”: Coworth Park, a luxury countryside hotel west of London. When he brought Keel there, the staff surprised them with balloons and streamers, a three-foot-tall chocolate egg and cocktails customized to their preferences. Afterward, Greiwe showed Keel the property and told him he hoped to have a wedding there one day.

That vision came to life on Aug. 15, when Keel and Greiwe were married at Coworth Park by Lady Caroline Davison, superintendent registrar of the borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. Together with 124 guests, they spent four days before and after the ceremony engaging in quintessential local pursuits, including croquet, archery, falconry — and ferret racing. VALERIYA SAFRONOVA

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Andrew Schleeter will make every effort to attend a friend's wedding — even when the celebration is taking place abroad.

"I love weddings, and I think weddings are such a fun way to travel," said Schleeter, 32, who lives in Manhattan and is the chief revenue officer of the merchandising agency MerchCamp. "People work a year of their entire lives to plan their wedding, and they want to include you in it. I think it's very special, so I always try to go."

Americans want to attend weddings. In a PayPal survey conducted in May, 90 percent of respondents said they would rather cut back on dining out, shopping and gym memberships than miss a best friend's nuptials. But attending a wedding doesn't come cheap: American guests estimate spending an average of about \$1,400 per celebration, according to a Bank of Montreal United States survey.

While reducing everyday expenses can help ease the burden, budget-minded wedding guests like Schleeter are implementing other clever hacks to trim spending on lodging, flights and attire.

Since May 2025, Caroline Sacks, a content creator living in Brooklyn, has gone to 16 weddings. Sacks, 30, views most of these celebrations as opportunities to reconnect with long-distance friends rather than romantic getaways for her and her fiancé, Jack Bushell, an account executive. So the two will often split the cost of a hotel room with another couple in order to curb their expenses.

"The hotel room is really the lowest priority," said Sacks, who would rather allocate funds toward other costs like airfare, rental cars or pre-celebration beauty treatments. Besides, she added, a shared room is often favorable because it can become a gathering place for others who "want to be in the mix" throughout the weekend.

For guests who aren't as interested in staying at hotels, home-swapping communities such as Kindred are becoming increasingly popular. Operating on a "give to get" system, Kindred members receive one credit for each night they host guests. They can use these credits to book stays across Europe and North America, paying only a small service and cleaning fee. Founded in 2021, Kindred has recently experienced major growth — 150,000 of its 400,000 members joined last year.

Schleeter, who has been a Kindred member since 2023, recently redeemed credits he had accrued on the platform to secure lodging for two weddings in Paris and another in Mexico. When he learned that fellow guests were struggling to find affordable accommodations in Paris, “I was like, ‘No, no, no, you have to come stay with me — I have a free place,’” he recalled telling them before registering them as guests on his account.

For some guests attending multiple weddings, or for whom missing the celebration is simply not an option, strategically opening a new credit card with a significant cash back or rewards offer can help offset some of the costs. Sacks and Bushell did exactly that before attending weddings in Greece and Mexico last summer. "We knew we

A lush locale may be the perfect spot to exchange vows. But your guests may have to dig a little deeper to be on hand.

needed to hit a minimum spend within a certain amount of days," Sacks said. "We're like: 'Perfect. We have to spend this money anyway. This is the best time to do it."

But attendees who are considering this route should first evaluate their overall financial situations carefully. “Try to avoid letting tangential benefits be the primary motivation for undertaking key financial decisions,” said Vincent Birardi, a senior wealth adviser at Halbert Hargrove in Long Beach, Calif. “People should be mindful of opening too many new credit card accounts too quickly, as doing so can potentially lower your credit score temporarily. Carrying unpaid balances on multiple cards can have an even larger negative impact on your credit score.”

Sacks also tries to be intentional with her flight choices. "We're currently loyal to Delta," she said. If it's significantly cheaper to depart the morning after the wedding rather than in the evening, she recommends doing so, even if that means missing a farewell brunch. "Unless you're the maid of honor, I promise no one is scanning the room looking for you," she said.

The idea that it's more economical to buy flights on certain days of the week is outdated, said Brian Kelly, the founder of the Points Guy, a travel advice website. Rather, Kelly said, “it’s all based on demand.” Booking a domestic flight four to six weeks ahead of time is “the sweet spot,” he added. “The airlines penalize nervous Nellies, and then they penalize last-minute travelers.”

In addition to booking lodging and travel, wedding guests also have to consider ap-

With some options, think of your financial situation before proceeding.

parel. The PayPal survey revealed that millennials and Gen Zers considered attire to be the biggest expense when attending a wedding. Many attendees are choosing to re-wear favorite outfits to multiple celebrations, and some of them even let friends borrow their attire.

For the past two years, Maura Judge, 29, has mostly worn the same two dresses to weddings: a black, strapless gown from Reformation, and a blue tulle dress from Hill House. Judge, who lives in Manhattan, first purchased the blue dress to wear as a bridesmaid at her friend Katie Sweeney's wedding in 2024. Sweeney recently wore the dress to Judge's wedding in June.

In 2021, the writer Caitlin Poole, 37, ordered a bright pink Farm Rio dress from the resale marketplace Poshmark after a friend requested that close friends wear either hot pink or red. "It came, and it was so perfect and comfortable, and I felt good and confident in it," said Poole, who lives in Durham, N.C., and paid \$250 for the dress. It was new with tags, and she has worn it to eight weddings.

For Poole, repeatedly wearing the same dress is more than a money-saving technique. “I’ve always been interested in sustainable and ethical fashion,” she said. Having a go-to option also alleviates decision fatigue. “Leading up to weddings, I used to feel this amount of stress,” Poole said. “‘Am I going to feel comfortable? Is this going to work?’ How is it going to look?’ Now, everybody just knows, ‘Oh, that’s Caitlin’s wedding guest dress.’”

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After almost every election cycle, news articles recount just how wrong the polls were. Hillary Clinton was projected to win the presidency in 2016 and lost to Donald Trump; Joe Biden was expected to beat Mr. Trump in Wisconsin by 17 points but barely eked out a win. Polling has always been an inexact science: About 63 percent of surveys correctly predicted the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, according to the newsletter Silver Bulletin. Blame low response rates, difficulty in reaching disengaged voters and voters who change their minds. Here are a few things to read and listen to about polling.

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The Man Who Would Be King

To commit lèse-majesté was, and in some places still is, to commit an offense against the dignity of the crown.

The basic idea was that under a monarch, and especially an absolute monarch, the integrity of the state rested on the stature of the king (or queen or equivalent figure). To insult or denigrate or even question the monarch was to undermine the state itself. In the absolutist states of medieval and early modern Europe, lèse-majesté was a high crime, punishable by death.

It is a little difficult to imagine lèse-majesté here in the United States, where we have a long and raucous tradition of political mockery and open contempt for our elected leaders, protected by our constitutional right to free expression. It matters too, on that point, that even the highest officials in our government owe their power to the people and not to the heritage of blood or divine right.

How fitting then that under Donald Trump, a president with monarchical pretensions, the United States is getting a sharp taste of what it is like when the ruler's name is inviolate.

In their book “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” my news-side colleagues Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan recount a meeting with Trump during which he proudly showed them a document, written by a golf caddy and businessman, that claimed he was a more powerful figure than a host of notorious dictators and warlords, including Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan.

Trump relished the comparison.

With all of this noted, it is appropriate that King Trump, first of his name, would also seek to use the force of the state to punish those

It was inevitable that Trump would come to this.

who question him, insult him or challenge his narrative of events — lèse-majesté, American-style.

His most recent target is the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, which he has threatened with a \$5 billion defamation lawsuit over a recent report that criticized and condemned his deployment of the National Guard in American cities. Trump claimed to send the Guard to cities such as Washington to address crime. But according to the center's report, there is no statistically significant evidence that these deployments — which will cost more than \$1.7 billion if they continue through the end of 2026 — have reduced crime across the country. The point of the deployments, the authors argue, was not to deal with crime but to intimidate and seize power from Democratic-led cities. The president's lawyer called the report malicious and full of false statements.

To be fair to Trump, it is true that no president has ever liked that part of the job. And there have been times when presidents have tried to turn the apparatus of the state against their critics, under the cover of the national interest. But most presidents have taken their lumps and moved on, knowing that there wasn't much they could do in a nation defined by its broad commitment to free speech and a free press.

Trump, though, does not see himself as a mere president subject to the public's opinion. And he doesn't see his office as separate from himself. He really does see himself as something like a monarch, whose government is undermined and threatened by open criticism from ordinary citizens, even as he claims to speak for the "forgotten" man and to channel the general will.

This sense of royal injury extends beyond Trump's relationship to his political opponents. You see it too in the way he deals with other countries — the way he treats anything short of total submission as an injury to him and thus an injury to the state.

Consider the president's trade war with Canada, one of our closest economic partners. There is no logical reason for this conflict, and it does not serve the interest of people on either side of the border. It is principally a function of Trump's boundless ego and his monomaniacal obsession with tariffs as the path to national prosperity.

For more than a year, Trump has tried to bully Canada into economic submission with tariffs, threats of tariffs and attacks on Canadian sovereignty, with regular and routine quips about making Canada the 51st state. This carried over into recent trade negotiations, in which the administration pressured Canada both to relinquish control over important aspects of its own trade policy and end support for industries harmed by American tariffs. When Canadian negotiators refused to bend to those demands and talks collapsed, Trump lashed out.

And so here we are, locked in a destructive trade war with a neighbor that was once an ally and a friend, but that now sees the United States as dangerous and untrustworthy.

The fatal flaw of monarchy is that the strength of the state depends on the personality and capacities of the monarch. It subjects an entire people to the pathologies of that one man or woman: to his dysfunctions, his maladaptations and his twisted sense of self.

Trump was democratically elected. But both his unilateral exercise of authority and his monarchical aspirations are reminders, at the very least, that putting this much power in the hands of one man — in the hands of one ego — is a reliable way to produce disaster.

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Dark Clouds Rise in a Gathering Storm

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Shortly after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, I wrote a column under the headline "This Is How World War III Begins." More than four years on, I wonder how much I got right.

My argument was based on the origins of World War II, which did not simply start with Germany's invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939. Instead, the war was an accumulation of regional wars and crises, beginning with Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931, which gradually gathered into a single global conflict.

That gathering, abetted by the converging ambitions of the totalitarian states and the divisions and vacillations of the democracies, led to catastrophe. Added to this was a revolution in military technology and tactics that gave the dictatorships an early advantage in offensive combat. Also an advantage: their willingness to inflict — and endure — a level of brutality and suffering their adversaries were initially reluctant to match.

In 2022, I saw a similar pattern unfolding: Decades of Western appeasement of Vladimir Putin had given the Russian strongman a sense that he could get away with nearly anything. His burgeoning ties with North Korea, Iran and especially China — memorialized by the pledge of a “no limits” partnership with Beijing announced weeks before the invasion — gave him additional confidence. So did the spectacle of American weakness during our shambolic withdrawal from Afghanistan just six months earlier.

But Ukraine did not, as I had feared, turn out to be the France of 1940. It was more like Britain, prepared to fight, as Churchill put it that May, "however long and hard the road may be." The Biden administration, for all its fatal hesitation about letting Kyiv take the war to Russia, at least helped ensure that Ukraine didn't lose. Ukraine has also held the technological edge, pioneering equipment and tactics that are finally stimulating a long-overdue rethink about how wars of the future will be fought.

That's the good news. There's far more by way of bad news.

First, as in the 1930s and '40s, the spheres of conflict have multiplied and are merging.

Russia's battlefield reversals seem to have done nothing to diminish Putin's appetite for risk as he expands his campaign, in barely concealed attacks and threats, against Moldova, Poland and Germany, among other states, while his political allies repeatedly call for direct strikes on Europe and the use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Hamas's assault on Israel in 2023 became, in stages, a war between Israel and Hezbollah, the Houthis and Iran; then a war between Iran, the United States and the Gulf states. More recently, Ukraine has directed long-range strikes in the Caspian Sea to disrupt Iranian military supplies to Russia. And decisions in one theater directly affect outcomes in the other: The expenditure of missile interceptors in the Middle East means that few can now be spared for Ukraine.

Second, the axis of authoritarians has become a fully operational military alliance.

Russia is providing North Korea with help to modernize its armed forces, while the

Has World War III already started?

North has returned the favor by sending millions of artillery rounds and is now reportedly prepared to send thousands of additional troops to fight for Russia in Ukraine. China supplies Russia with most of the electronic components used in its drones and other military hardware. Russia has given Iran critical targeting intelligence to strike U.S. bases and ships in the Middle East. In the event of a Chinese attack on Taiwan, Beijing could call in its chips with Moscow by engaging the aid of Russia's powerful Pacific submarine fleet, as detailed in a new paper from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

Third, the West is a mess.

President Trump complains of our allies' weakness. The allies complain of Trump's bullying, capriciousness, callowness, mendacity and incompetence. Both sides are right. The latest U.S. tariff salvo on Canada is a case in point: politically ill advised, economically self-defeating, strategically enervating.

Yet none of that erases the fact that Canada, a trade-dependent nation with the world's longest coastline, barely has a navy to speak of, or that its government's “new strategic partnership” with China is immoral, unwise and unsound — unless Mark Carney, the prime minister, really thinks that Trump's idiotic outbursts are a graver long-term threat to Canada and the free world writ large than the patient designs of the People's Republic.

Fourth, we are militarily unprepared.

The war against Iran revealed not just the munitions shortages, which helped bring the war to a premature close, but also America's acute sensitivity to military fatalities and economic pain, which gave Iran's leaders an asymmetric advantage given their own tolerance for human suffering. The war in Ukraine has demonstrated that even the most sophisticated U.S. military kit is entering obsolescence, thanks to the advent of A.I.-assisted drone warfare. The tanks we and our allies supplied Kyiv during the Biden administration "now mostly sit idle, hidden in forests and collecting cobwebs," as The Times reported last week.

Yet Pete Hegseth, our testosterone-obsessed defense secretary, recently decided to phase out an Army drone unit, seemingly because it was championed by generals he didn't like. The travails of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln during the carrier's long deployment are a national scandal. But they should call attention to the historically small size of the fleet, and a depleted industrial base that struggles to build and maintain ships. Democrats blocking the defense appropriations bill aren't helping things, either.

Fifth, we may be near the economic brink. One great difference between the 1930s and the present is that, unlike then, we are not in the midst of a worldwide depression. But the warning signs of a sharp and abrupt downturn are everywhere. What happens if or when the A.I. boom starts to run out of steam, much as the dot-com boom did at the beginning of the century? Or if the currency crisis in Japan causes it to start selling off its U.S. Treasury bonds? Stanley Drucken-miller, the legendary investor, recently warned in The Wall Street Journal that the Treasury Department's bond buybacks were all but destined to fail: Ultimately, the price of a \$40 trillion national debt will be felt in sharply higher interest rates and the risks they pose to every sector of the economy that's depended for too long on cheap credit.

A deep U.S. recession, or a global financial panic, will inevitably worsen every trend mentioned above. In periods of economic distress, democracies almost always become more risk-averse, while dictatorships become risk-prone. That's a pattern of history worth recalling as we continue to drift, only dimly aware, toward the gathering storm.

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Before We Move to Woke 2.0, I Have Questions About Woke 1.0

There is a difference between changing your mind and shifting your tactics, between evolving in your views and abandoning them because they've become unpopular or politically perilous.

When Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, quoting a political ally, recently suggested to ABC News, with a laugh and a smile, that “Woke 1 was crazy,” she became the most prominent progressive figure distancing herself, whether subtly or overtly, from what is known as wokeism — from the stringent positions on race, policing, gender, identity, social justice and language that constituted progressive orthodoxy over the past decade or so. Ideas once upheld in doctrinaire terms, with dissenters dismissed as lazy (do the work) or inhumane (you literally don’t want me to exist), are now treated as an embarrassing phase, the gawky formative years of cultural and political progressivism.

James Talarico, the Texas Democrat running for a U.S. Senate seat, has admitted that “there are some statements that I’ve made that I certainly regret,” and that some of his old comments may now seem “cringey.” (All this when a journalist asked him about his past assertion that God is “nonbinary,” a claim Talarico now says was “intentionally provocative.”) Some commentators on the left have joined in the revisionism, acknowledging, for example, that cancel culture may have occasionally gone too far and that, yes, elements of the woke agenda may appear silly in hindsight.

It's a noteworthy evolution, especially for anyone who was around to witness the die-on-this-hill dogmatism of the peak woke era — say, circa summer 2020. (If Woke I was really crazy, then Ocasio-Cortez, who called for abolishing prisons and adopted terms such as “menstruating person,” was a resident in good standing of the asylum.)

So, before that time goes farther down the memory hole, discarded as just one of so many vibe shifts, I have one question for the formerly woke: If you can dismiss it so casually now — all the defunding and abolishing, the BIPOCing and Latinxing, the canceling and decentering and my truthing — how much of it did you truly believe at the time? How much was conviction, how much was a pose, how much was groupthink, how much was fear?

If you did believe it, jettisoning it now should take something more than a sheepish grin. If you didn't believe it and yet declared it with such passion, with such pretensions to moral clarity, with such disdain for contrary perspectives, then the least you can do now is acknowledge that dissonance. You should explain the shift, not just explain it away.

Some writers and thinkers have admitted that they supported certain progressive verities — or didn't push back against them — because they felt cowed by their audiences, or because they feared for their careers. My hope is for a modicum of such intellectual accountability from the political class, too, just enough grace to blush.

When the formerly woke look back on that time, for example, what specifically do they now regard as crazy or cringey or silly? Do they regret particular beliefs, or just the provocative ways they expressed them? Have they decided that some of their previous positions were impractical or wrong, or just too electorally risky to state in public?

To expect intellectual accountability from politicians may be foolish, I know, and parties and movements are allowed and expected to evolve. The right, for instance, went from Goldwater and the Reagan Revolution to Newt Gingrich and the Contract with America, to George W. Bush and compassionate conservatism, to the Tea Party and then to MAGA, with consistencies as well as discontinuities along the way. Not every politician must explicitly disavow what came before.

But when political leaders reject not just an old ideology, but their own old ideology, one they embodied and upheld, the price of elision should be higher.

In her interview, Ocasio-Cortez attributes the excesses of the woke era in part to the pressures of pandemic restrictions, saying that “of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.” But that’s just a canny restatement of her shift, not an explanation for it. Would Ocasio-Cortez not use the same rhetoric today because she no longer buys it — or because she can no longer sell it?

I've long had concerns about the motivations and incentives inherent in culture war arguments. Culture wars are not primarily about debating issues, but about picking a

Were some of those positions impractical or wrong, or are they now just too risky?

side, joining a team. And the trouble with joining a team is that, inevitably, some teammates go further than you might want to go yourself. They stake out positions with which you may disagree or formulate tenets on topics about which you may know little. But you don't want the other side to prevail, of course, so you go along, stridently upholding your team's various positions and hunting down apostates. At a certain point, you're no longer considering the issues; instead, you're defending turf.

Politicians on the pro-Trump right have gone through their own version of this dance, whether excusing every corrupt and authoritarian impulse of their leader or leavening their public devotion with dutiful — and meaningless — off-the-record misgivings. Are they true believers or just fearful ones, legitimate loyalists or craven opportunists? The Trumpian right may evolve into an even more pernicious version of itself, or someday, its current enablers and supporters may, too, smile and say MAGA just went a little crazy for a while. If they do,

I can't imagine the formerly woke letting them off so easily.

In her interview, Ocasio-Cortez said she has not “ruled out” a run for the presidency in 2028 — and it is easy to link her revised ideological positions to that ambition. This is a “time of renewal” for the Democratic Party, Ocasio-Cortez said, explaining that “we are focused on everything from your health care to your grocery bill.” She called the party a “big tent” and affirmed that “our priority is the working class.”

When the congresswoman, who is a member of the New York City chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, was asked about D.S.A. calls to defund the Pentagon, abolish the police and the Senate and establish public ownership of essential industries, she replied that “people are less interested in these academic debates, and they’re more interested in how we’re going to bring their bills down and make sure that they can afford to see a doctor.” (That snub of academia is especially deft for a left that purports to respect science and expertise, and for a movement that propelled “intersectionality” and “white fragility” into the vernacular.)

So, is this a Woke 2, focused on economic challenges for the working class, on affordability and health care, and leaving identitarian politics behind? It may well prove a more electorally palatable iteration, one that makes sense if the D.S.A.-inflected Democratic Party aspires to national power. Whereas Woke 1 was accelerated by Trump's initial rise to the presidency, his return to the White House made clear its political shortcomings.

Ocasio-Cortez and the others have every right to seek out a new framework and message, to change their minds, if that is indeed what is happening. But before a Woke 2 takes over, let the proponents of its predecessor explain how and why they're moving on.

They should do the work.

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The Real Winner of the Trade War With Canada? China.

Chad P. Bown

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A senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and an author of "How to Win a Trade War."

THE keenest observer of the all-out trade war between the United States and Canada is surely President Xi Jinping of China. If Washington doesn't change course, he's probably going to be its winner, too.

Mr. Xi already has monopoly power over components that are vital to hundreds of thousands of American and Canadian jobs. His April 2025 restrictions on rare-earth magnets temporarily shut down a Ford Explorer plant in Chicago. In Ontario later that year, Honda briefly reduced and suspended production of Civics and CR-Vs after he closed off access to semiconductors, which disrupted parts supply.

These sorts of attacks and those sorts of vulnerabilities should bring allies together. In a normal world, Washington and Ottawa would be laser focused on how much and how quickly they could manufacture together to prevent that kind of Chinese economic coercion.

Instead, President Trump has framed his tussle with Canada as a fight over how much manufacturing the country should be prepared to yield to the United States. And Mr. Trump wants almost all of it.

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada walked away from Mr. Trump's latest offer and then escalated with fresh tariffs. Former Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was correct to say it was even “a bad deal for the United States.”

Mr. Trump cannot allow Canada to abandon the negotiations. Like it or not, Washington needs a resilient Canadian manufacturing sector working in concert with America's companies in the much bigger and more consequential battle against Chinese market dominance.

Ottawa rebuffed Mr. Trump's latest offer in part because it retained too many of his import tariffs on Canadian cars, heavy trucks, steel and aluminum. With tariffs that high, Americans will eventually stop buying Canadian-assembled vehicles, and Detroit will rework its supply chains to exclude Canadian parts. Cars and parts once moved seamlessly across the U.S.-Canada border between suppliers and buyers, much as they did over the U.S.-Mexico border.

Being shut out of the market next door will devastate the Canadian auto industry. Canada is not close enough to Asia or Europe to survive as part of their supply chains.

We know what will probably happen next based on what took place in Australia after its automakers disappeared. By 2017, Toyota, General Motors and Ford closed their last Australian plants and caved to economic reality: The Australian market was too small and too remote to support the scale needed for globally competitive manufacturing.

Australians at first imported cars from manufacturing hubs across Japan, Korea, Thailand, Europe and the United States.

Less than 10 years later, Australia looks very different. Nearly one in three new cars bought in Australia in the first half of 2026 was made in China, up from less than one in 250 back in 2017. (Only one in 50 Australian purchases in the first five months of 2026 was made in the United States.)

Mr. Trump should expect Canadian consumers to go the same route. In January, Mr. Carney announced Canada would allow 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles to be sold in the country — less than 3 percent of new car sales — and would slowly increase that number. Any decision to further open the Canadian market would probably lead to a Chinese import surge.

Why is pure Econ 101. Buying higher-cost cars from the United States is easier to justify politically when there are offsetting benefits to the national economy, such as assembly jobs, profits to domestic parts suppliers and communities built around steel or aluminum plants. If local manufacturing disappears, so will the reasons for Canadians to accept paying higher prices.

Losing Canadian customers to China would be terrible for America for two reasons.

First, the total number of buyers matters for sectors such as automobiles, which have high fixed costs and substantial barriers to new entrants. Having more consumers means companies can learn how to lower costs and offer reduced prices to get even more customers. Losing Canadian car buyers will be one more step toward ceding the global automotive industry to China.

Today, Chinese companies sell low-priced cars. Tomorrow, the country could weaponize its newfound monopoly power. China also once offered the world great deals on rare-earth magnets and low-end semiconductors. Those prices allowed it to accumulate the market dominance that ultimately gave Mr. Xi the capacity to cut off Ford, Honda and many others last year.

China has increasing market shares in sectors such as steel, aluminum, shipbuilding and telecommunications equipment. A recent Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development report suggested that 60 percent of China's global market share gains since 2005 could be attributed to its policy of supporting industries with generous subsidies.

Second, losing the Canadian commercial base could turn away, once and for all, one of Washington's few remaining economic se-

The U.S. is targeting the wrong economy when it needs all the allies it can find.

curity allies. Before Mr. Trump started whacking Canada with tariffs in 2025, Ottawa matched many of Washington's duties on Chinese electric vehicles, steel and aluminum. He has forced Canadians to ponder separating from America instead of working with America to separate from China.

To fight the real trade war with China, Canadian consumers must continue to choose North American products, even though the Chinese versions are less expensive. Washington needs Canadians to accept today's costs of a manufacturing sector integrated with the United States'.

Mr. Trump, for his part, will have to moderate his “made in America” demands. He can’t kill off Canadian manufacturing and hope to retain access to the Canadian consumer.

To tackle the China challenge, the West requires more manufacturing clout than even an integrated North American economy can offer. Washington needs to rally all potential allies in the collective fight against China's market dominance, and they are waiting to see whether Mr. Trump finds an offramp from his wrongheaded trade war before it is too late.

The Meta Settlement Is Better Than Nothing

Julia Angwin

A contributing Opinion writer and an investigative journalist.

money and beset by tech lobbyists, repeatedly failed to regulate the sector.

FOR so long, Big Tech has been unstoppable. Congress granted the industry legal protection back in 1996, making it nearly impossible to hold the companies liable in court. And despite growing signs of how tech was enabling lies, discrimination, harassment and scams, lawmakers from both parties, awash in tech

Now, we are finally stumbling our way into an era of accountability. It's not as thoughtful and holistic as it could have been if we had followed the lead of nearly every other nation and passed comprehensive legislation protecting our privacy and data security and reining in algorithmic manipulations. Rather, we are taking the approach of death by a thousand cuts. As judges and juries grow increasingly skeptical of Big Tech's claims that it should bear zero re-

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Tech companies have operated untethered for too long. Finally, a bit of accountability.

sponsibility for consumers harmed by its products, the lawsuits and fines are piling up.

Last week, 47 states, the District of Columbia and some U.S. territories took a big swipe at Meta, getting the owner of Facebook and Instagram to agree to pay up to \$17.1 billion in penalties over claims that it deliberately misled the public about the harm that its platforms were inflicting on teenage users.

The fine, while huge, is far less than the \$1.4 trillion that Meta said the states were seeking. It pales in comparison to the tobacco industry's \$206 billion settlement in 1998. And Meta will dole out the full amount only if its archrivals YouTube, TikTok and Snap also limit kids' time on their apps, a clever move given that teens already spend more time on some of those platforms than its own. That may explain why Meta's stock price barely took a hit after the announcement of the settlement. I'm skeptical that the protections it promises for young users will yield meaningful changes to teen mental health.

But every blow counts as Meta enters its zombie era, with a stagnant user base, declining profits, mounting legal liabilities and the astronomical costs of trying to break into the A.I. market.

This settlement, while imperfect, may be a sign of how desperate Meta is to unload some of its legal liabilities in advance of a separate avalanche of more than 100,000 individual lawsuits from users who claim that the company's platforms were deliberately designed to be addictive and lack child safety protections. Courts have rolled those lawsuits into a bundle that could yield another global settlement.

As it stares down the barrel of those cases, its old legal arguments growing increasingly ineffective, Meta has agreed to make substantive changes to Facebook and Instagram. It entered into an agreement with attorneys general to limit teens to two hours of social media use a day, to block notifications at night and during school hours, to turn off algorithmic feeds and to ban beauty filters, among other changes. Parents will have the right to bypass or adjust the limits, finally giving them their first meaningful controls over their kids' accounts.

As much as I'd like to applaud any effort toward harm reduction, it's unlikely that just giving parents a few more knobs and buttons will lead to meaningful shifts in teen social media behavior.

For one thing, teens may find the new limits easy to evade. When Australia banned children under the age of 16 from social media in December, many simply found ways to circumvent the ban by using virtual private networks that let them appear to be connecting from outside Australia and by setting up fake accounts. "A substantial proportion of Australian children under the age of 16 continue to retain accounts, create new accounts or pass platforms' age assurance systems," an Australian government report declared in March.

In the settlement, Meta has carefully avoided any accountability for teens who circumvent its limits. The company agreed to ensure that its tools for age assessment — virtual ID checks and face scans — have error rates lower than 10 percent. But Meta has agreed only to apply its “best efforts” to combat popular workarounds.

What's more, the settlement fails to address two of the most nefarious design choices in social media: the infinite scroll, or the endless unrolling of content to keep users hooked; and the variable rewards of other people's likes and comments that keep users refreshing their pages in the hopes of obtaining a new dopamine hit.

Indeed, Meta's changes do nothing to help adult users, who are also vulnerable to the manipulations of Big Tech. I get that it's politically popular to focus on protecting kids, whose brains are developing and therefore more vulnerable to manipulation, but there is ample evidence that social media harms many adults — particularly seniors who are getting scammed online at increasingly high rates, according to the F.B.I.

The focus on age verification is also dangerous to our ability to be anonymous online — a key freedom that we take for granted in the real world but have been too willing to give up in the virtual one. We would never agree to show our passport before reading a flier posted on a local bulletin board. So why are we doing the equivalent online? We live in an age when a Texas father married to an 1CE protester can be sentenced to 30 years in prison for conspiring to conceal documents (he moved a box of home-printed magazines). We need the freedom to share and consume information without being surveilled.

While I am glad that Meta is creating some bare-bones safety features for kids, the far better option would be to make these platforms safe for everyone. We all benefit from seatbelts in cars, or hard hats in construction sites. Shouldn't we all be protected from Big Tech's predations, too?

OPINION

The Big A.I. Build-Out Is Endangering the Economy

Robin Wigglesworth

NADINE REDLICH

The editor of The Financial Times's finance blog Alphaville and the author of the forthcoming book "A Fabulous Debt: The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World."

DESPITE all the hoopla about Nvidia becoming the first company valued at over \$5 trillion, the listing of Elon Musk's SpaceX and the looming ini-

tial public offerings of Anthropic and OpenAI, artificial intelligence is no longer primarily a stock market story. It is a story of debt, and that should worry us. Unfortunately, manias fueled mainly by credit almost inevitably end badly.

For now, set aside prognostications of either an A.I.-powered economic miracle or an A.I.-generated “jobsmageddon.” No one really knows just how impactful the age of thinking machines will prove — the technology is simply too different from anything that has come before. It famously took a long time for the computer age to appear in economic data, too.

But we do have a lot of experience with debt-fueled investment sprees, such as the railway euphoria of the 19th century, the telecommunications revolution of the 20th century and more recently the 21st-century housing boom. They all resulted in nasty economic downturns, even if the underlying technology proved transformative.

Why has debt become so central to A.I.? Previously, most investments in data centers and related infrastructure were paid for by the abundant cash flows generated by the likes of Facebook or Google Search. But large-scale A.I. models depend on immense computing power. And the resulting scope of the investments required to build that power is increasingly forcing the “hyper-scalers” — the small club of companies that are aggressively ramping up their A.I. data center investments — to turn to loans, bonds and sundry other forms of financial obligations to pay for the party.

The debt binge is astounding even industry insiders.

Last year, analysts at Barclays, the British bank, collected a string of unsourced quotes from an A.I. data center conference they attended, which ranged from “enjoy the ride on a rocket without seatbelts” to the “best way to describe the market is bonkers.”

Since then, things have become even more bonkers. American A.I. companies had already tapped debt markets for \$217 billion last year, according to Morgan Stanley. By mid-August, they had already smashed past this total, with \$445 billion of debt issued, and the investment bank expects the overall debt splurge to hit nearly \$600 billion for 2026. That is more than the combined 2026 budgets for the Departments of Justice, Transportation and Education.

And that is just the start, judging by what the hyperscalers have told investors. Their future capital expenditure plans amount to

Manias that are fueled by credit almost inevitably end badly.

roughly 3 percent of U.S. G.D.P. a year, in 2027 to 2029, according to calculations by Torsten Slok, the chief economist of Apollo, an investment firm. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that's almost \$1 trillion a year. It also would, in relative terms, represent a larger and faster relative ramp-up than even that of U.S. residential housing in the years preceding the 2008 crash.

In other words, if 2025's A.I. frenzy was merely bonkers, we are now entering the territory of bonkers squared — or perhaps even bonkers cubed.

For the most part, investors do not seem worried yet. The dot-com bubble and bust is often seen as the best parallel to the current A.I. boom, feeding hopes that the economic fallout from a bust will prove manageable. The U.S. stock market lost almost half its value between the 2000 peak and the 2003 trough, but the U.S. economy suffered only a mild, brief setback. And, ultimately, computers did revolutionize the world.

It's tempting to expect the A.I. boom to play out in a similar way, unleashing immense prosperity. After all, the hyperscalers enjoy vastly profitable core businesses, so perhaps they will be able to easily handle their debts.

But there are reasons to worry. Technology companies that were lean, mean money-generation machines have abruptly become voracious devourers of capital. To take just one example of the dramatic swing in fortunes, Google's free cash flows went negative for the first time ever in the second quarter of 2026, after cumulatively generating almost \$600 billion since the listing in 2004.

Then there is the issue of more obscure liabilities. Bond sales are easily tracked and the debt transparently reported on a company's balance sheet for everyone to see. But the hyperscalers are becoming more financially creative and are increasingly keeping the debt off their books by structuring their data center investments as lease commitments.

Take Meta's titanic Hyperion data center project in Louisiana, for example. Instead of issuing bonds, the company secured most of the financing money by promising to rent the data center itself for 20 years. As a result, the \$27.3 billion loan appears nowhere on Meta's balance sheet — even though it is in practice on the hook for making these future lease payments.

Goldman Sachs analysts recently tallied \$1.5 trillion in aggregate lease commitments by the A.I. hyperscalers. Of this, about \$1 trillion is associated with leases that haven't even started yet, which means that even the individual lease payments barely appear in public disclosures, even if the debt they are associated with will result in often unavoidable costs in the future. As Goldman blandly noted: "This treatment can underestimate leverage and future liquidity needs as these obligations are eventually recognized and contractual payments come due." Then there is another estimated \$1.5 trillion of "purchase commitments" — promises to buy chips and electricity. Those promises don't appear on balance sheets either.

Adding to the dangers, the A.I. ecosystem has become remarkably incestuous, with a wildly complicated tangle of business, investment and lending relationships tying most of the companies together. Even idiosyncratic problems in one corner could easily ripple across the whole industry.

Already there are a few hints that bond market investors — who are far more adept at sniffing out potential trouble than the more blithe equity investors — are getting antsy. Investors are starting to buy insurance to protect them if the hyperscalers go bankrupt. Based on the current cost of this insurance, investors still think these A.I. companies are good for the money, but the mere existence of such insurance for the likes of Alphabet or Microsoft would have been virtually unthinkable just two years ago.

At the peak of the 1870s railway mania, one American financier is said to have quipped that “no railroad has ever been placed on a paying basis until it has been through a receivership.” Perhaps the same will be said for the A.I. data centers now being constructed around the world.

That might leave us with cheap and abundant computing power — even many bankrupt railways proved a long-term boon — but in the short term, Americans would be left dealing with a painful economic setback. The crash that followed an epic railway bond bust of 1873 was long known as the Great Depression — until that label was usurped in the 1930s. Today, it is commonly called the “Long Depression,” and is a testament to the dangers of even well-founded technology booms that come to rely too much on debt. And railroad tracks last much longer than chips.

Democratic Moderates Need to Do More Than This

HAIYUN JIANG/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Charlotte Alter

The author of "The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America."

SETH MOULTON was once supposed to be the face of the next generation of Democrats. A pugnacious and energetic military veteran, he positioned himself as a moderate counterweight to the progressive left, an anti-establishment maverick bringing new energy from the middle of the ideological spectrum.

Now a six-term congressman, he's running for the Senate in Massachusetts's Sept. 1 primary against the incumbent, Ed Markey. It doesn't seem to be going well.

You'd think this would be Mr. Moulton's moment. Democratic voters are in an anti-incumbent, anti-establishment mood, and the disaster of Joe Biden in 2024 has made them increasingly nervous about aging candidates. Yet polls show Mr. Moulton losing by double digits to Mr. Markey, an 80-year-old who has been in Washington for half a century.

Mr. Moulton's bid exposes the dilemma of the center-left in a year when progressives seem to be notching win after win. Moderate Democrats must distinguish themselves from the left without antagonizing the energized Democratic base. They're struggling to articulate a message of change that isn't necessarily progressive change. And the 2024 fiasco has made it harder to argue that moderation is the only way to win elections.

Democrats are not “screaming that we want socialists,” as Mr. Moulton pointed out to me in an interview. Instead, he said, “there’s a whole bunch of Democrats saying, ‘The party establishment is failing us.’” But progressive Democrats do have a clarity advantage: American voters know what they stand for, whether they like it or not. Center-left candidates tend to offer more pragmatic versions of progressive ideas or wonky political strategies to achieve incremental change. This forces voters to make exhausting calculations about how to actually get things done.

The challenge is acute for Mr. Moulton, who is running in deep-blue Massachusetts. His strategy has been to cast his primary challenge against Mr. Markey as a contest of generations rather than ideas. "It's about whether you think the Schumer-Markey gerontocracy has been effective" at fighting President Trump, he said. "Or whether you think you need people who were maybe a little bit more energetic and capable at taking him and his cronies on."

Mr. Moulton has hewed closely to Mr.

Markey's positions on health care, housing and energy costs. "I'm not running against Senator Markey because I disagree with his policies," he said in an interview with The Boston Globe. Beyond pointing out that his opponent is old, his strongest critique seems to be that Mr. Markey hasn't made enough progress on these issues. But with endorsements from Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and a long track record of fighting for progressive causes, Mr. Markey is obviously the true progressive in the race; Mr. Moulton's campaign seems like Diet Coke trying to compete with Coca-Cola Classic.

From the start, Mr. Moulton should have talked boldly about a whole different set of issues that could define a strong alternative to the rising Democratic left.

Mr. Moulton's biggest idea is that new people are more important than big ideas.

He first got frustrated with the Washington elite while he was serving four tours of duty in Iraq, "living the consequences of terrible decisions made in Washington by people who were completely out of touch with what was going on on the ground," he said.

After leaving the Marines in 2008, Mr. Moulton got graduate degrees from Harvard, then was the managing director at a company developing a high-speed rail project connecting Houston and Dallas. In 2014 he ran for Congress as a 35-year-old insurgent, beating a nine-term incumbent.

Over the next 12 years in Congress, he cast himself as an outsider, taking on older Democrats he felt had been in Washington for too long. After Democrats won the House in the 2018 midterms, Mr. Moulton helped lead the campaign against Nancy Pelosi for speaker. (She was overwhelmingly elected speaker anyway.) He was among the first prominent Democrats to call for Mr. Biden to drop out of the 2024 race, and Mr. Moulton has vowed not to vote for Chuck Schumer to be Senate majority leader.

It's always been clear what Mr. Moulton is against: the geriatric Washington establishment, the inertia of incumbency, whichever oldster happens to be in charge. But he's been so busy fighting the establishment, he hasn't explained precisely what he was fighting for.

Mr. Moulton is part of the moderate New Democrat caucus, and his voting record puts him on the right flank of the largely progressive Massachusetts delegation of Democrats. He had some success as kingmaker of the center-left, using his PAC to elevate next-generation congressional candidates.

Lately, Mr. Moulton has tried to drift where he thinks the political winds are blowing. He insists he is not a centrist. "I would not use that term," he told me. "But I am able to work across the aisle."

"Seth is not a progressive, but he's trying to campaign as one and redefining it," said Mary Anne Marsh, a longtime Massachusetts Democratic strategist.

So I asked him: What does his campaign stand for, besides a new generation of leadership?

“Well, I mean, it’s a new generation of ideas,” he said. Even though he and Mr. Markey have many of the same goals, Mr. Moulton argued that he is more pragmatic. Mr. Markey is running on Medicare for all, while Mr. Moulton favors an expanded public health care option. The housing crisis in Massachusetts, Mr. Moulton said, means that “obviously, whatever Senator Markey has been doing or not doing with regards to housing hasn’t worked.” He said that expanded rail transit could improve housing affordability and that Mr. Markey’s proposed transportation plan is out of the “1910s.”

Seth Moulton's sagging campaign in Massachusetts demonstrates the party's challenges.

None of this is particularly new or inspiring.

In fairness, if Mr. Moulton were running in a purple state, we might be talking about him as one of this year's frontline Democratic champions. But Mr. Moulton must run against an incumbent in the Massachusetts Democratic primary, and he has chosen to walk a tricky tightrope — progressive, just not that progressive.

As the “Mad Men” protagonist Don Draper once said, “If you don’t like what is being said, change the conversation.” While progressives have benefited from a decade of beating the drum against corporate donations and for Medicare for all, their strength can also be weakness: Some voters may be sick of having the same old health care conversation. Mr. Moulton’s problem is that he has not changed the conversation enough.

This is doubly frustrating because buried on his website is material on a different set of issues that could offer voters a more compelling alternative than: Like Markey but young. His promise to invest \$205 billion in a nationwide high-speed rail network. His plan to ban cellphones in school nationwide. His pledge to tax social media companies and use the proceeds to invest in public spaces and youth organizations. His proposal to regulate artificial intelligence to protect personal data, preserve American jobs and penalize A.I. companies that feed dangerous content to kids.

These smart ideas could be the foundation of a center-left agenda that offers a real contrast to the progressive left. They could even coalesce into a coherent vision of a pro-human, pro-community and anti-Big Tech future.

Too bad Mr. Moulton barely mentions them.

True, Mr. Moulton could still pull off an upset. Recent polling misses in the Michigan and Wisconsin Democratic primaries significantly overestimated progressive support and undercounted the kinds of moderate voters who would provide his narrow path to victory. Even if Mr. Moulton loses, the center-left will still have some juice. If Democrats win back the Senate this year, it will be thanks to candidates such as James Talarico in Texas, Roy Cooper in North Carolina and Mary Peltola in Alaska.

But if candidates like these take anything away from Mr. Moulton's 12-year career of punching the establishment, it should be this: It's not enough to just fight against the status quo. Voters need to see what you're fighting for, too.

The British Empire Has a Lesson for Curbing Bi

William Dalrymple

The author of "The Anarchy" and other books on the history of the East India Company.

A T NOON on Feb. 13, 1788, huge crowds gathered outside Parliament to witness members of the House of Lords process into Westminster Hall. They were there to impeach the man who ran much of India as the East India Company's governor general of Bengal. This was the moment when the British state finally flexed its muscles to take on the greatest corporate oligarch of his day, the Elon Musk of 18th-century London.

In addition to about 170 lords in attendance, there were judges, lawyers and numerous members of the House of Commons. According to a celebrated account of the opening, the queen was “dressed in fawn colored satin, her headdress plain, with a very slender sprinkling of diamonds,” and took her place in the audience along with three of her children. Edward Thurlow, who presided over the trial, summed up the proceedings with a statement that is as true today as it was then: “Corporations,” he said, “have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be condemned. They therefore do as they like.”

We still speak of the British conquering India. In reality, the conquest of the Indian subcontinent between 1756 and 1803 was the work not of a nation-state but of a private company, the East India Company. Headquartered in a small office in London, it was answerable to nobody but its shareholders.

While its original focus was the spice trade and then the export of Indian textiles, it was authorized from the start by its charter to found and run colonies and wage war. From its maiden voyage in 1601, it used violence to conduct its business and enhance its profits. By 1788, it was not just Britain's biggest corporation and largest employer; it was the company that had conquered what was then the richest country on earth: Mughal India, whose bejeweled loot helped power Britain into the Industrial Revolution.

Here, as in so much of imperial history, commerce, colonization and brute corporate power walked in lock step. As Tolstoy later wrote in a letter published by Gandhi, “A commercial company enslaved a nation comprising 200 million people.” All that made the East India Company the most powerful corporation in history — until now. For in the past decade, Big Tech has, too, begun to take on the attributes of sovereign states, and in many ways is now as powerful as the East India Company at its height.

Nvidia, a chip maker with some 42,000 employees, is valued at over \$5 trillion, roughly the gross domestic product of Germany, the world's third-largest economy, with a population of 84 million. Only the United States and China have gross domestic products larger than this one company's market capitalization. Apple is valued above the annual output of Britain, Alphabet above that of France.

The way these companies control crucial global choke points echoes the political and economic power of the East India Company and its European siblings at the apex of their power. Just as the Dutch East India Company in the 1710s controlled about 72 percent of seaborne trade around Africa's Cape of Good Hope and the British East India Company at its height in the 1820s controlled about three-quarters of the tonnage transported between Europe and Asia, so SpaceX's share of everything humanity puts into orbit has risen from below 10 percent in 2014 to around three-quarters last year. It has over 10,000 satellites in orbit — almost two out of every three functioning spacecraft circling the planet.

As the history of the East India Company shows, there can come a point when a corporation stops being just a company and begins seizing for itself the powers and trappings typically associated with a nation-state. True, today's tech giants don't have standing armies, nor have they conquered territory. Nevertheless, like the East India Company, they are increasingly integrated with their country's military and have swayed events on the battlefield, particularly in Ukraine.

The East India Company used its political spending to purchase decision-making power in the most powerful legislature of its day. The tech giants are on a similar trajectory. Mr. Musk, after spending millions of dollars to help elect President Trump, arrogated to himself powers usually vested in the Congress during his stint running the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

The largest of the tech companies have grown powerful in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. History can help us untangle what's happening — both the dangers we face and the options available to a democracy for finding a way out.

It took Britain decades to rein in the East India Company and gain direct control of the jewel in Britain's imperial crown, starting with the attempted impeachment of its boss in India, Warren Hastings. As the British viceroy and foreign secretary George Curzon noted, as long as Britain ruled India (meaning, as long as the state had direct control over the source of its wealth), it was the greatest power in the world.

The question today is: Does America have the appetite and the ability to check the power of the tech companies, or will they increasingly operate without limits or boundaries, just like the East India Company before them?

THE East India Company was established in London in 1600, with a monopoly on all British trade to the east of the Cape of Good Hope. By the mid-18th century, the company had begun conquering great chunks of the most prosperous provinces of the Mughal Empire, which encompassed most of what is now India, all of Pakistan and Bangladesh and half of Afghanistan.

Before long, the East India Company was straddling the globe. Almost single-handedly it reversed the balance of trade, which from Roman times had led to a drain of Western bullion eastward. Now money flowed toward London, enriching both the government and the nation.

By the 1780s, the East India Company was ferrying opium east to China, and its troops participated in the Opium Wars in order to seize an offshore base at Hong Kong. Soon the company had become the largest drug cartel in history; by the 1860s, roughly a sixth of the revenue of British India came from narcotics, one of the largest sources of revenue after the land tax.

By the end of the 18th century, the East India Company had created a vast and sophisticated administration in India and built much of the London Docklands. Its annual spending in Britain — around 8.5 million pounds — equaled about a quarter of the British government's total annual expenditure. In India it collected taxes, minted coin, administered justice, ran its own courts and diplomatic service, flew its own flag, negotiated treaties and made war on sovereign states, all in pursuit of increased dividends. An international corporation that began trading spices ended up transforming itself into a colonial superpower.

The East India Company operated from its headquarters on Leadenhall Street in London. For much of the 18th century it was staffed with as few as 35 people, in a building five windows wide. Yet in India the East India Company owned a private army that by 1803 numbered some 200,000 men — roughly twice the size of the standing British Army. Its stock was a pillar of British public finance, and its profitability and solvency were matters of state.

The parliamentarian and philosopher Edmund Burke, who led the impeachment of Hastings, saw the problem with perfect clarity: The company was “a state in the disguise of a merchant,” Burke said. “The constitution of the company began in commerce and ended in empire.”

The East India Company is often thought of as having the conquest of India as its primary focus, but in truth it always had two targets. One was the lands where its business was conducted; the other was the country that gave it birth.

Its lawyers and lobbyists and parliamentarian shareholders slowly and subtly worked to use its immense wealth to influence and subvert legislation in its favor. In 1693 the company was discovered to be using its shares to buy influence with prominent members of Parliament and ministers. The following parliamentary investigation, the world's first corporate lobbying scandal, found the East India Company guilty of bribery and insider trading.

After that, the company became more subtle and instead backed candidates favorable to its policies. It arguably invented corporate lobbying, that alchemy by which the interests of a company somehow magically become the policies of the state. Around one in 20 members of Parliament sat on the East India Company's board, and more than a fifth of the company's directors sat in Parliament at some point; about 40 percent of members of Parliament were shareholders.

T ODAY'S biggest tech firms spent a combined \$36 million on federal lobbying in the first half of 2025 alone and retain roughly one lobbyist for every two members of Congress. Meta has one lobbyist per six members of Congress, Issue One's reporting has found.

Tech corporations and executives, not including cryptocurrency, gave \$35 million toward Mr. Trump's record \$239 million inauguration fund; Mr. Musk alone spent \$290 million on U.S. elections in 2024 and was rewarded with a powerful office inside the government. The returns arrived promptly, with an executive order curbing state artificial intelligence regulation and tariff exemptions repaid in investment pledges. David Sacks, a venture capitalist who opposed regulating A.I., was put in charge of the Trump administration's policy on A.I.

In 2019, when I finished “The Anarchy,” the most recent of my four books about the East India Company, I wrote that today’s companies do not, thankfully, have private armies. Walmart “does not number among its assets a fleet of nuclear submarines; neither Facebook nor Shell possesses regiments of infantry.” That now feels like a piece of history in itself, the innocent conclusion of a more innocent age.

For while the tech companies do not have standing armies of 200,000 troops, they increasingly have other military capabilities. In Ukraine, after Russian strikes destroyed terrestrial communications networks in 2022, Mr. Musk's Starlink became the technology binding together the Ukrainian war effort: It controlled drones, artillery correction and frontline communications. Ukraine's digital minister at the time, later its defense minister, Mykhalo Fedorov, called it the blood of the country's communications infrastructure.

It was catastrophic for Ukraine when Mr. Musk declined to enable coverage near Russian-occupied Crimea in 2022, reportedly frustrating a Ukrainian naval drone operation, purely on the strength of his assessment of the risk of escalation. SpaceX has at various points continued to restrict military uses of the network according to Mr. Musk's whims.

Decisions of war and peace, in other words, are now taken in part by a private proprietor according to his personal judgment, exactly as the East India Company's Court of Directors once decided from Leadenhall Street whether the nawab of Bengal or the Mughal emperor would be fought or befriended or bribed. When the company's brass made such decisions, charter and Crown at least stood behind them. Mr. Musk answers only to a share price and his own convictions.

In June 2025 the U.S. Army commissioned the chief technology officers of Palantir and Meta and OpenAI's chief product officer as lieutenant colonels in a new Reserve unit. The East India Company packed Parliament with retired officers and major shareholders. The new dispensation puts tech executives straight into a position of federal power, which in one way puts them ahead of their 18th-century counterparts. Then, at least, company men were required to buy their way into Parliament through purchasing a compromised seat known as a rotten borough.

The company was a trading business that became, in the course of a century, one of the most powerful military forces on the planet. Silicon Valley is making the same journey, at ever-accelerating speed. Palantir, which draws more than 40 percent of its revenue from the U.S. government and whose valuation has raced past that of every traditional arms maker, holds a \$1.3 billion contract for the Pentagon's A.I. targeting program. It signed an upgraded strategic partnership with Israel's Ministry of Defense in January 2024 to supply technology in support of war-related missions.

Earlier this month a clip emerged of Safra Catz, the executive vice chairman of Oracle, boasting that her company made “really profoundly scary technology” available to Israel and remarking that her proudest moment was coming out of Israel Defense Forces headquarters just as five of her employees were entering, in uniform.

the Israeli government, reportedly including the Ministry of Defense and the Israel Defense Forces. The Pentagon has handed contracts of up to \$200 million each to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI. OpenAI has dropped its ban on military work. Google dropped its pledge not to build A.I. for weapons or surveillance.

THEN as now, there is no question that great corporations can enrich the state. But they can also drag it down, and that is when the interests of the state and the interests of corporations begin to diverge.

In the summer of 1772, the greatest corporation on earth ran out of money. The East India Company had conquered Bengal, but the conquest had turned ruinous. A famine helped along by company negligence had killed perhaps a fifth of the province's people, and the company's share price had collapsed.

On June 8 a Scottish banker named Alexander Fordyce, having speculated heavily in East India Company stock, disappeared from his office, leaving debts of 550,000 pounds. His bank soon declared bankruptcy, followed by another the next week, initiating a financial crisis that spread across Britain into Europe. By the fall, company directors were asking for a bailout.

Parliament saved the East India Company because it could not afford otherwise. Like Lehman Brothers, the company really was too big to fail. Company stock was a pillar of British public credit and was held by around 40 percent of the members of the House of Commons. In 1773 the state advanced the East India Company £1.4 million, and then, casting about for some way to help it earn the money back, hit on the unsold tea

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sitting in its London warehouses. The Tea Act let the company ship it directly to America, undercutting the colonial merchants who had handled the trade.

This was legislation written to solve one corporation's inventory problem. It cost Britain 13 colonies. That December, men in Boston threw tea into the harbor. One of the principal fears of the American patriots in the run-up to the American Revolution was that Parliament would unleash the East India Company in the Americas to loot there as it had done in India.

This “almost bankrupt company,” having been occupied in wreaking “the most unparalleled barbarities, extortions and monopolies” in Bengal, had now “cast their eyes on America, as a new theater, whereon to exercise their talents of rapine, oppression and cruelty,” wrote the American John Dickinson. Within three years, America declared independence.

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This is how a corporation crosses the line from doing business with a state to becoming inseparable from it; how the state, once the corporation is large enough, finds itself legislating on the company's behalf; and how the bill, when it arrives, is paid by the country rather than the shareholders. The government, under Prime Minister Frederick North, did not set out to lose America. It set out to keep a company solvent. The results were catastrophic for the British state and did much to diminish its power.

A LL this raises the question of what can be done to tame today's corporations. The British state eventually fought back against its greatest corporate competitor, realizing that it was becoming powerful enough to overcome entire nation-states and to make or break not just their

We know the risks of corporate power. We've confronted them before.

economies but their militaries, too.

Burke spent seven years in Westminster Hall trying to impeach Hastings and lost. It took Britain an additional 63 years and the largest anticolonial uprising of the 19th century, which killed hundreds of thousands of people, to show that only robust legislation can tame corporations.

This happened after the East India Company's insensitivity provoked a bloody uprising in 1857, the war known in Britain as the Indian Mutiny and in India as the First War of Independence. The Victorian state, alerted to the dangers posed by greed and self-interest, moved to tame history's most voracious corporation by issuing a raft of legislation that essentially abolished the company and brought its functions under the purview of the Imperial Civil Service.

The company's navy was disbanded, and its army passed to the Crown. In 1858 the governor general of India announced that the company's Indian possessions would be nationalized and pass into the control of the British Crown. The monarch, rather than the directors of the company, would henceforth rule India. The East India Company limped on in its amputated form for an additional 15 years, when its charter expired, finally shutting down in 1874, "with less fanfare," noted one commentator, "than a regional railway bankruptcy."

This not only broke the company's economic monopoly with the trade of the East; it also allowed Britain to take control of its most profitable colony, with enormous benefits for the state (though not, it should be said, for India, whose economic exploitation in the service of British interests continued much as before).

something similar with its big corporations. A decade ago, many believed Alibaba and Tencent were the coming corporate kings. Today, China's economy may yet overtake that of the United States, but its corporations will not, because President Xi Jinping decided they would not. In October 2020, Jack Ma, a co-founder of Alibaba, criticized China's financial regulators for their “pawnshop mentality.” Within days, the over \$310 billion flotation of Mr. Ma's financial services unit, Ant Group, which at the time would have been the largest in history, was canceled two days before trading was set to begin.

The most sweeping regulatory assault in the history of corporate China followed. Alibaba was fined \$2.75 billion, Ant was forcibly restructured, and parallel campaigns were started against whole sectors of the Chinese economy. Mr. Ma, the highest-profile casualty of the crackdown, largely disappeared from public life in China, resurfacing in February 2025 to shake Mr. Xi's hand at a televised symposium of chastened entrepreneurs. Whereas Starlink is one man's company, China's answer is Guowang, run by a state enterprise reporting directly to Beijing, alongside the Shanghai-backed Qianfan. They plan to have over 27,000 satellites between them.

One recent incident shows that the American state retains the whip hand when it chooses to crack it. Anthropic is the A.I. laboratory that has gone deepest into classified government work while insisting on two restraints: no mass surveillance of Americans and no fully autonomous weapons. It was ordered by the Pentagon last winter to permit its models to be used “for all lawful purposes.” It refused. The president directed every federal agency to stop using its technology, and the Defense Department branded Anthropic a “supply chain risk”—in other words, a major security threat, a designation never before publicly applied to an American company. (Anthropic has sued the Pentagon over the designation; litigation is ongoing.)

The East India Company's directors faced something similar in 1773 when Parliament passed the Regulating Act, an early attempt at state control. In Parliament's case, it intervened to restrain a corporation's violence. Mr. Trump's administration intervened to strip out a corporation's self-imposed restraints on violence.

There are the first stirrings of something like popular resistance. As the East India Company's excesses eventually provoked a reaction not just in Parliament but also in the country at large, so, too, a broad and strikingly bipartisan hostility to Big Tech is taking shape across the United States.

Gallup found that nearly four in 10 Americans said A.I. did more harm than good, up sharply from a year earlier, and nearly eight in 10 expected it to reduce the number of American jobs. The anger has found its most tangible target in the data centers that are the physical embodiment of the A.I. boom. In the first three months of 2026 alone, organized local opposition blocked or delayed 75 major projects worth some \$130 billion, and the same Gallup poll found that more than seven in 10 voters, including large majorities of both Democrats and Republicans, said they wanted no such facility built near their homes.

Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have called for a national moratorium on new data centers. Students have booed A.I. executives at commencement ceremonies. And rising utility bills, driven in part by the tech companies' voracious demand for power, helped carry Democrats to victory in Virginia, Georgia and New Jersey. Just last week, Meta settled a lawsuit from 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories by agreeing to pay up to \$17.1 billion in penalties and make major changes to how its platforms work.

Whether any of this can be marshaled into the kind of legislation that in the end tamed the East India Company is another question, especially when a major corporate mogul occupies the presidency, one who treats his family business and that of the Republic as a single concern.

The lesson of the East India Company is not only that corporations can behave monstrously abroad. It is that they can flex their powers at home, too. Like the East India Company before them, today's giants are using their lobbying dollars and closeness to power to warp our politics and our economy as they take on the powers and functions of a nation-state. Burke understood this in the 1780s. His greatest anxiety was not what the company was doing in Bengal but what its money would do to Britain.

History shows that when a company starts acquiring the attributes of a state — the revenues, the courts, the treaties, the capacity to make war and peace — its transformation can damage the parent country at least as much as the territories it exploits. Its lobbying corrupts the legislature. It captures the treasury, because the corporation's solvency becomes a public interest. It converts foreign policy into an extension of a balance sheet. And it shows that the threshold, once crossed, is astonishingly hard to recross. The window in which any of this can be undone closes fast.

States can master corporations. The taming of the mighty East India Company proves it, as does Beijing's recent muscle flexing. Because of the power of the company's corporate lobby, the British Parliament took 85 years, three parliamentary interventions, a famine, a bankruptcy and the bloodiest colonial uprising of the century to get it back under control, and by then, the damage in India was done.

The instruments still exist. What is lacking is the political nerve to use them.

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Child Actors Bear the Same Scars

Alison Pill

An actor who starred in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" and "The Newsroom." She began acting professionally at the age of 11.

I DIDN'T know Hayden Panettiere very well at all. Our paths crossed only briefly on a TV show and even more briefly at Los Angeles International Airport in 2005 or so, just before we worked together. I remember nodding at her and saying hi at a magazine shop. I was traveling with my friend and fellow former child actor Anna Paquin. Anna asked later if I knew her. I didn't, but I recognized her, or thought I did.

Whether from work or life, I couldn't exactly say. She was traveling with what appeared to be a guardian. At around 15 years old, she was neither a kid nor a grown-up. I recognized her in the poise, in that do-I know-you-from-somewhere vagueness, in the ways that made us special and also not. She nodded and smiled back at me, but I didn't know whether she was just being polite or she saw us the way we saw her, as fellow child actors.

We might have worked on different sets, for different directors, in different eras, but we all bear the same recognizable wounds. No matter how good the union safeguards get, no matter the policing of grooming behavior, none of it will change the fact that acting while so young strips us of our childhoods and leaves us to suffer the consequences — alone. The specifics may change, but the unethical cycle we're stuck in will not. At least not until the industry, the audience and the culture recognize that we all partake in something extractive, exploitative and nonconsensual, and do something about it.

Nearly 100 years ago, the United States largely banned child labor. No longer would we abide small children working in factories for long hours; we agreed children should be in school. What I experienced as a kid showed me that the laws that were supposed to protect me were less important than the need to finish a shoot day. At 11, I began acting in TV movies in Toronto. Many of the experiences were magical, like singing with Naomi Judd or sitting in Sissy Spacek's trailer while she played guitar.

But the small budgets meant time was short. Typically, shoots would last only four to six weeks, and every second counted. I was surrounded by adults, and the expectations remained those of a set, where the show must go on — child actor or not.

On one job when I was 12 years old, I worked 12-hour days and learned what "working under the table" meant. On days I was so sick that I could barely stand, I had a cot set up off camera where I could collapse between takes. Saying "no" could mean being labeled difficult to work with and potentially not being hired again.

The qualities that make most child performers successful are the same ones that leave us vulnerable to exploitation: a desire to please, a desire for positive attention and, crucially, a desire to be thought of as mature beyond one's years. We're too young to understand that the adults around us were kind to us in part just to finish a job, to get the scene, to sell a movie — that one of the most formative moments of our young lives was just a six-week blip in their lifelong careers. Our yearning for a maturity we do not yet have often means that too many decisions are left to us.

In my case, the first decision was insisting that I wanted to act. I loved pretending to be another person and to be put in fraught situations as someone else. There was a wonderful sense on a set that someone would tell you where to stand and what to say, and everyone would be deeply impressed by something that felt quite easy to me.

I told myself then that I was grown-up enough to face the pressure. I believed I could handle the constant rejection, the objectification, the ego-battering fact that, as an adolescent, I was constantly cast as the unattractive supporting character (one named Chuckette, as in "upchuck"). My family supported me: My mom traveled as my guardian, and my dad and my sister cheered me on. I had the protection of a union. Thirty years later, I am still wrestling with the ethics of being treated as if I had been old enough to consent to all that for myself.

But I wasn't making all the decisions. At a time when kids are supposed to be forging our own identities, child actors have ours chosen for us by agents, casting directors and the public. We are stuck as the hot one, the nerd, the bad seed, the cute ingénue. It is difficult, if not impossible, to develop an independent sense of self when what feels like the entire world pillories you for deviating from your type and heaps praise on you when you conform to it. For professional people pleasers, why wouldn't we give the people what they want?

I often think about the parts of my childhood I lost, the hours spent driving to auditions and learning lines after school, the

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times I ditched friends, vacations and class at the drop of a hat for the sake of a job. I was a misfit at school because I missed so much of it, and when on set, I played misfits, too. I had trouble imagining a place for myself in the world where I wasn't a misfit or an outcast as a result.

I also think about how my body was treated as a commodity. I couldn't cut or dye my hair without permission. I couldn't gain weight or have pimples without it being noted by not only those around me but also those in studio office buildings far away. In many ways, I'm happy I avoided the sexualizing that so many of my peers experienced, but I couldn't escape crew members — grown men — asking me whether I had a boyfriend.

Mostly, I linger on something harder to understand: How did spending so much of my childhood living in a pretend world, where pretend bad things happened, with adults who were also pretending, shape my psyche?

I don't fully know the answer to that. But I do know what happens when kids don't get childhoods: We typically struggle when we make it to adulthood. With substance abuse, with eating disorders, with mental illness. With messed-up families, with a stunted sense of self, with self-harm in various forms. As adults, we often can't drive a car or pay a bill, but we also can't abide the thought that our acting careers and personal worth might have peaked when we were tweens.

I think we all know by now, after the myriad memoirs and documentaries and public rethinking of the treatment of so many young stars in the 2000s, that each of us is in some way culpable when a former child star self-immolates or disappears. But we haven't banned child actors or enacted strict-enough labor protections. We still buy tabloids and click headlines about the rehab stints and the D.W.I.s, the overdoses and the far-too-early deaths.

We accept it all, in the name of commerce and art. The commercial reasons are indefensible. There should be no debate that an industry that thrives on child labor ought to be reined in, whether by the law or by our industry's robust labor unions.

There are some obvious places to start making change. Doctors must fully evaluate child actors during insurance physicals. Directors and crew members must always report if a child seems unsafe with a parent or caregiver and be protected from retaliation when they do. The industry should be comfortable with scrapping entire shooting days or weeks if a child ends up unwilling to do a stunt or a scene or just needs more sleep and a day off. Entire productions should shut down if it seems the safety (mental or otherwise) of a child is at risk.

Even with safeguards like that in place, no one I know with childhood experience in the industry would let his or her kids act professionally until they're grown, which says a good deal about the dangers of early fame. I know that any kind of warning won't prevent parents from forcing their kids into the industry or audiences from forming a weird sense of ownership over their lives. So how can we protect children who aren't protected?

We need more than an industry change or a stronger union. We need a culture shift. All audience members who have grieved over the way life has unfolded for a onetime teen idol or favorite Disney star should ask themselves: Is a piece of art — even the greatest art — really worth a child's future? My answer, at the end of it all, is that it is probably not.

The greatest storytellers should find a way to capture the world we live in without child actors, for all our sakes. I recently watched both modern versions of “Little Women” with my kid, who’s now nearly the age I was when I started working professionally. In the one I grew up watching and rewatching, a 12-year-old Kirsten Dunst plays Amy as a young girl, and Samantha Mathis takes over as an adult.

But in Greta Gerwig's film, Florence Pugh plays Amy from childhood to young adulthood. It was jarring at first to believe this woman was a child, but the film believed an audience would be able to set aside an actress's literal age to believe in the story being told. It was an elegant solution to capturing a beloved coming-of-age novel that didn't need someone who was just coming of age herself.

If it were only film, I believe change would be possible, but I don't know how relevant safeguarding young actors in our industry will be in 10 years or even five. Younger audiences get much of their entertainment hours from YouTube, where young streamers' and creators' livelihoods are dependent on the very parasocial relationships I find so damaging. These kids are performing as elevated selves, relating to others through comment sections and livestreams. They have no union protection at all and a different kind of pressure to perform kidney than I will ever know.

Now I work with child actors, playing the mom. I tell their parents that I found my career as a child difficult to navigate, that they should probably get their kids out of the industry and work on finding a good school drama department instead. To the kids, I keep myself friendly but distant, so I'll be thought of fondly but hopefully not missed once the job is done. I do what I can, and it's still not really enough.

I hope they'll be fine. That a brief appearance in a film or TV show will simply be an anecdote they tell to their grandchildren one day, an oddity in what becomes an otherwise typical life. But mainly, I just hope they make it to 30.

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We're in a New Era of Class Warfare. History Points to a Way Out.

Kim Phillips-Fein

A professor of history at Columbia and the author of “Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America.”

"LL you had to do was pay us enough to live."

A The young man's voice in the video is earnest and clear, forceful but controlled. His face is not visible, but his hand is shaking a little as he holds a lighter. "There goes your inventory." More than \$600 million worth of damage later, a Kimberly-Clark warehouse lay in a smoking mess, and the young man alleged to be in the video — Chamel Abdulkarim, who worked for a distribution company servicing the warehouse — was charged with arson.

Mr. Abdulkarim has pleaded not guilty; his possible motivations will soon be litigated in court. But even as they are, the early April torching of the warehouse in Ontario, Calif., seems to capture a political mood. That same week, someone lobbed a Molotov cocktail at the mansion of the OpenAI chief executive, Sam Altman. In June, prosecutors revealed that their case against the man charged with setting the blaze that grew into the deadly Palisades fire in California hinged on the argument that he was motivated by class rage. (The jury, which could not reach a verdict, was less convinced.)

Hanging over all these attacks was the shooting of the UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson in broad daylight on a Manhattan street in December 2024, a crime that Luigi Mangione admitted to this month. The manhunt for Mr. Mangione, and the ensuing coverage of his arrest and trial, helped cement an image of him as an avenger of all those wronged by private health insurance. But Mr. Mangione's celebrity has spurred fear: Companies are spending more on security for their top executives. This year, a law enforcement intelligence hub put out a bulletin, as reported by The Intercept, stating that the rich are facing a “heightened threat environment” as more people blame them for economic duress: “Public discourse increasingly attributes the challenges faced by the middle and lower classes to the actions and influence of wealthy corporate executives.”

Class inequality has surged into the view of American politics in recent years, but this isn't the first bout of class violence this country has seen. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when 12-hour working days were common and child labor legal and federal minimum wages nonexistent, neither political party offered meaningful relief, pressing the working class to the wall. Violence — sabotage, dynamite, assassinations — ensued.

But there's a key difference. In that earlier era, the anarchists and trade unionists who committed acts of violence did so, however rashly, in the hopes of effecting change. What is more, there were labor organizations and political movements committed to bringing about better conditions for working-class people. In time, they achieved at least some of these goals.

Today's class violence lacks logic; it seems animated only by revenge, resentment and despair. There is no conspiracy or political mobilization. The people committing these acts are acting alone. The very fact of their isolation hints at a society that is beginning to abandon the hope of transformation.

WHILE the extreme concentration of wealth today may recall the dawn of industrial capitalism, the conditions of class confrontation then were profoundly different. Then, the workplace itself was extremely dangerous: Thousands of workers died in industrial accidents annually in the early decades of the 20th century. The police and National Guardsmen came in to break strikes, while companies hired private militias to prevent workers from organizing.

Radical workers responded with violence of their own, instilling great fear among the elites of the day. In the coal fields of western Pennsylvania, Irish miners killed at least 14 mine officials over the course of the 1860s and 1870s. When the Western Federation of Miners sought to organize in 1899, union supporters used dynamite to destroy company property. The governor of Idaho, Frank Steunenberg, imprisoned about a thousand workers in response. In 1905, after he left office, a bomb killed him at his home. The union leader William Haywood was among those charged. (A member of the miners' union had confessed to the crime and implicated union leadership; a jury found Haywood not guilty.) President William McKinley was assassinated in 1901 by an anarchist who had lost his job during an economic crash. Two union members dynamited the offices of The Los Angeles Times, widely seen as hostile to organized labor, in 1910.

There's one attack among this history of violence that feels eerily familiar to what we see today: an assassination attempt against Henry Clay Frick, the general manager of the Homestead, Pa., steel mill of Carnegie Steel, during the Homestead Strike of 1892. When it looked as if Mr. Frick, who was acting for Andrew Carnegie, was seeking to replace the factory workers with hired strikebreakers, the entire town of Homestead rose up in revolt.

The Homestead workers were winning in the court of public opinion until Alexander Berkman, a young anarchist, broke into Mr. Frick's office, shot him with a revolver, then stabbed him twice. Mr. Frick survived; Mr. Berkman was arrested. The union leadership passed a resolution condemning the assassination attempt, but the press, the politicians and many in the public blamed the union for the act of violence, even though Mr. Berkman had acted by himself. The strike fell apart not long after.

On the surface, Mr. Berkman's act might resemble that of Mr. Mangione. He was a young man seeking to carry out an assassination to protest the extreme economic inequality and injustice of the time. His attack was a frightening demonstration that all people are frail when confronted by lethal force, no matter how much wealth they might control or how many private guards they might amass.

But the differences are far more profound. Mr. Berkman attempted to assassinate Mr. Frick after an entire community had mobilized to defend ideals of economic security, equality, democracy and freedom. He was not part of the union, but his act of violence was to him apparently part of a larger call to arms. Mr. Berkman was convicted and served 14 years in prison.

Mr. Mangione, by comparison, is believed to have acted alone, writing his “manifesto” without talking to comrades or friends. He had not previously been involved in political efforts to change the American insurance system. He has entered a guilty plea to fed-

eral stalking charges resulting in death, without offering an extensive political defense (he still faces murder charges in a New York State case); at one point, his lawyers had considered arguing that he suffered an “extreme emotional disturbance.” While he seems disconnected from any political mobilization, his act of violence has prompted a political response: the interpretation, which seems to be shared by many in the economic elite, that he was driven not by mental distress, but by the class divide.

M. BERKMAN'S assassination attempt very likely awakened fear and guilt in Andrew Carnegie. He had been in Europe during the Homestead strike, and he found it deeply upsetting: "Never employ one of these rioters," he wrote Mr. Frick. But even before Homestead, Carnegie had become persuaded that the extreme concentration of wealth would inevitably breed "social distrust." As he put it in an 1889 essay: "Each caste is without sympathy with the other, and ready to credit anything disparaging in regard to it."

Carnegie believed that the answer to class rage was for the rich to invest their money in philanthropic projects so that the poor would become convinced that they were benevolent at heart, able to steward the resources of society. As he put it, “Even the poorest can be made to see . . . that great sums gathered by some of their fellow citizens and spent for public purposes . . . are more valuable to them than if scattered among them through the course of many years in trifling amounts.” In other words, libraries, concert halls and universities over higher wages.

Whether Carnegie's efforts were successful at ameliorating the anger of working-class people is doubtful. What is striking in Carnegie is not so much the sense of social obligation as his recognition that the perceptions of poor people might matter for his own comfort and the stability of his society. That acknowledgment seems lacking today.

Instead, fear is causing the wealthy to in-

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vest in literal fortifications. Luxury home builders are incorporating a vast array of new security features into the mansions they construct, from safe rooms to retina scanners to guard towers and moats. Island communities like Indian Creek Island in Miami, also known as "Billionaire Bunker," reportedly draw ultrawealthy residents like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos with the benefit of being effectively closed to the public. With one guarded bridge as the only way in or out, the island takes the idea of a gated community to a new level. There are Land Rovers remodeled for the frightened rich, augmented with pepperspray guns, and dog breeders who specialize in canines designed to attack intruders.

But it is hard to imagine these measures doing anything other than making the paranoia of the wealthy worse. If anything, they create

visual reminders of a deeply fragmented and divided society, physical testimony to the barriers that separate the haves and have-nots. Like the infamous “Wall of Shame” built in 1980s Lima, Peru, which separated a privileged gated community from an impoverished neighborhood, they are efforts to create security that wind up making fear manifest.

AMERICAN class relations continued to be fiercely violent after World War I, as companies and the government worked together to break the labor movement. Hundreds of immigrant radicals faced deportation following a series of bombings, as the historian Beverly Gage has written, including one at the home of the United States attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer.

but when workers finally were able to vote on the question in a federally supervised election in 1941, 97 percent voted to unionize.

After World War II, regular increases in the minimum wage, the expansion of health insurance and pensions, tax policies that reduced extreme inequality and public investment in higher education all added up to an economy more responsive to the needs of working-class people. The political circumstances of these measures are distinct, but they generally grew out of the political organizing that had helped support the New Deal of the 1930s. They came to be with the help of New Deal Democrats who were responsive to the labor movement, which not only represented workers on the job, but brought their interests into political life.

The class violence of the late 19th and early 20th centuries continued through the 1920s, in the mine wars of West Virginia, and the 1930s, when many corporations stockpiled gas equipment and guns to resist rebellion. Company security forces fired on unemployed workers at the Ford Motor Company in 1932 who were participating in a “hunger march.” Police officers killed strikers on the San Francisco waterfront in 1934, sparking a general strike. In Chicago three years later, police officers shot and killed 10 pro-labor marchers in what came to be called the Memorial Day Massacre. Only days before, Ford security guards savagely beat up United Automobile Workers union leaders, including the union president, Walter Reuther, on camera — images that were carried in newspapers throughout the country.

But the growth of the labor movement over these years opened up new possibilities. The creation of independent institutions, like unions and consumer cooperatives, gave workers a say over their basic conditions on the job, to grant them more autonomy and more freedom. Such “countervailing powers,” to quote the economist John Kenneth Galbraith, also mitigated the total power of employers and the wealthy. Henry Ford fought unions at his company bitterly,

In short, the distance between the wealthy

and the underclass became smaller, and the virulence between the classes did, too.

In the past 50 years, however, political leaders have vilified government programs, tried to break public sector strikes, starved the welfare state of funds and transformed the tax system so that it has tilted to favor the wealthy. Organizing a labor union has become far more difficult and a first contract much harder to win. We've seen precisely the hardening of the "castes" that Carnegie warned of long ago.

Societies in which there is an extreme division between the wealthiest and the rest tend to be politically unstable ones as well. They provide fertile ground for conspiracy theories to flourish, as people grapple with why they are struggling and why the mechanisms of democracy do not seem to respond to their needs. Inequality makes it virtually impossible to sustain the feeling that we're all part of the same political project, and so it makes it hard for people to believe that democratic government is possible — that we all have a common stake in society. Small numbers of people with great fortunes come to exercise disproportionate political power.

But highly unequal societies also become ones in which the very rich fear the rest of the world they live in. They cannot help but view the Uber drivers, the subcontracted warehouse employees and the people whose livelihoods are displaced by their technologies with suspicion.

They are not wrong to fear the anger of those dispossessed groups, and the dispossessed are not wrong to be angry. But what matters is how this class anger is expressed, whether it leads to nihilism or solidarity, to isolated rage or collective action. By so profoundly weakening many of the institutions that once nurtured collective action — labor unions, political organizations, protest groups — our society has made itself one in which people torch warehouses. What we need is a more viable path to a better world, or at least a more equal one.

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To Stop Cheating in School, Address the Root Cause

Adam Grant

but they weren't cheaters. They were just doing what was necessary to succeed.

PETER GAMLEN

A contributing Opinion writer and an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

THE day before a take-home exam in my undergraduate course at Wharton, a few students sent me frantic messages that some of their peers were planning to use artificial intelligence to cheat. Having spent the semester trying to bring out the best in each of them, I was dismayed to discover the worst in them. It felt like a betrayal.

When the 95 students logged in for the exam, however, they got a surprise. I'd ditched the multiple-choice and short-answer questions I usually include. Instead I asked the students to write an essay, using the principles of organizational psychology they'd been studying, on how to motivate students to stop cheating.

Their responses shocked me. Hardly any students saw cheating as a violation of integrity. A majority made excuses: We're under a lot of stress. Everyone else is doing it. We have no choice. They sounded like major league baseball players in the steroid era. ChatGPT was their performance-enhancing drug.

As schools confront this problem, many teachers are switching to in-class essays and oral exams. Creating obstacles is never going to be enough. We need to get at the root of the problem by changing students' underlying motivations.

Across a series of studies, in a wide range of contexts, psychologists have found that as the stakes of a competitive challenge go up, cheating does, too. Some people are largely immune to this effect. They don't follow a logic of consequence by calculating whether the benefits of cheating would outweigh the costs. They ask themselves: What's the right thing for someone like me to do in a situation like this? They have strong moral identities.

That's the term psychologists use for caring deeply about being a person of honor and integrity. Extensive evidence shows that moral identity can help people resist the temptation to cheat, lie and steal.

When people have strong moral identities, they view unethical behavior as a violation — not just of the rules but also of their own values. They anticipate more guilt at the thought of wrongdoing and more pride at the prospect of doing the right thing. They believe their choices reflect their character. It's powerful. And the best way to instill it is to get students to consistently think about the ethical consequences of their actions. The younger they start, the better.

Many schools try to activate moral identity by asking students to follow an honor code or take an honesty pledge. Integrity oaths are frequently ineffective — and sometimes they backfire. In one experiment, asking students to sign an honesty pledge before an exam doubled the rate of cheating. The mere existence of the pledge suggested to students that dishonest behavior was probably common, so they might as well cheat, too.

In the past, research showed that students who cheated felt guilty about it. It was a last resort, stigmatized enough that many wouldn't admit doing it. To estimate how common it was, researchers had to ask students about the rate of cheating in their class or run anonymous polls. Last year when I surveyed students at elite universities about their views of cheating, plenty of them admitted to doing it to get into college, and they signed the survey using their full names.

A.I. hasn't just made cheating harder to catch. It's made cheating so effortless, entic-

Students need to be motivated by a strong sense of moral identity.

ing and available that many students no longer believe it's wrong. One Ivy League student in my survey wrote: "Cheating is a creative expression and a form of problem solving. If you can get around the restrictions put in place and not get caught, then good on you." Really? How would you feel if you found out your surgeon cheated to get into medical school — or cheated in medical school?

Psychologists have found that many people judge their integrity using a system of credits and debits. After doing something virtuous, people often feel they've earned a license to indulge in a vice. "I'm a good person, so it's OK to do a bad thing," they rationalize, or, worse yet, "I'm a good person, so this isn't a bad thing." In my surveys, many students justified cheating by compartmentalizing it. Yes, they'd sometimes cheated,

That's not true of people with strong moral identities. They feel a responsibility to do the right thing. That's why some of my students reached out to warn me their classmates were planning to cheat, instead of just joining in. A way to help more students develop a moral compass is to make ethics part of their curriculum.

The strongest evidence comes from financial advisers, who have to take a licensing exam to enter the field. In a landmark analysis of over a million advisers, those who took the exam during years that it was weighted heavily toward questions about ethics — and who therefore had to study that topic a lot — went on to have 25 percent lower annual rates of misconduct. Even three years later, advisers who got more ethics education committed fewer violations than their colleagues who got less training.

It wasn't just that they'd learned the rules. By spending more time with the material, by really working through it, they'd internalized a stronger sense of right and wrong in their profession. And if their employers underwent scandals, those advisers were more likely to leave, because they didn't want to work for companies that violated their personal values.

Ethics education can make a difference, but we need to be thoughtful about how we deliver it. Integrity wasn't instilled by hectoring or lecturing. It was up to the financial advisers to do more than memorize rules; they learned a whole moral code. As they grappled with what was ethical, they persuaded themselves it was important.

Timing matters, too. Studying ethics was especially influential for advisers who were inexperienced (and for those who didn't already have a history of misconduct). If we want to instill strong moral identities in students, we should ideally start reaching them before they confront the temptation to cheat. Anonymous surveys estimate that by elementary school, about a third of students have already cheated, and the rates climb through middle and high school. And when they face temptations to cheat, it helps to reinforce moral identity.

In an experiment with over 20,000 people, honesty pledges worked best when they helped participants recognize the moral implications of their actions. People were less likely to cheat after being reminded that honesty is an all-or-nothing concept and that doing the right thing fosters a culture of trust, social responsibility and integrity.

In every home and every school, we should be inviting kids to think about how cheating is unfair to their friends, how it undercuts efforts to build a just society and how it undermines the quest to become a person of principle.

The heart of integrity is recognizing that the ends don't justify the means. What we achieve may define our success. How we achieve it determines our character.

The Case for Quitting Like a Man

Lindsay Crouse

A former editor in Opinion, where her reporting on women's sports helped bring maternity rights to professional athletes. She is the author of the forthcoming book "The Case for Quitting," from which this essay is adapted.

I COULDN'T do it anymore. I had a toddler to chase and a baby to feed and a home to manage and a book to write and a body I didn't recognize and a life I felt throttled by. I just wanted everything to stop. So I reacted the way I did whenever I faced what I optimistically called a setback: I worked harder.

A certain kind of woman (me) loves a good challenge. We work at work. We work at home. We work out. We work for our family and friends. We do the work at therapy. And we believe that with all this effort, eventually it will all work out. We can do hard things.

What about men? Despite all the “take it like a man” narratives, men often quit, especially when conditions are hard and stakes are high. In 2018, I watched a Boston Marathon in brutal weather, and I noticed, and then confirmed, that women endured at higher rates than men. (A later study of nearly one million marathoners found that men were more likely to crash.) I wrote an essay about the phenomenon for The Times with the triumphant headline “Why Men Quit and Women Don’t.”

Not all men, obviously (or women, either). But this tendency is backed up by research. Under stress, women downshift but make it through. Men under stress go to extremes. They take more risks and walk away with nothing or all. It tracks with what the masculinity scholar Richard Reeves argues about how we're raised: Boys are like orchids. They are fragile and protected. Girls, he says, are like dandelions — surprisingly tough.

For most of my life, I was the cheerfully-die-trying dandelion type. If someone tried to help put my suitcase in an overhead bin, I declined and was proud. In high school, I spent Saturdays studying for the SAT before heading off to run around a track. I taped a

MAISIE COWELL

Women are eager disciples of the 'never give up' dogma. It's a losing strategy.

poster over my desk that read, "Pain is temporary, pride is forever." Sure, I lost those races, and I didn't ace that test. But doesn't every eventual champion first endure defeat?

And then there I was, squarely in my 40s, expecting to reap the benefits of all my life's hard work but instead frenetically pushing harder as I failed more.

Now I think those men were onto something I missed. Too much grit can work against us. I thought my willingness to push, no matter what, was bold (and virtuous). But what is the point of overcoming every obstacle if the effort leaves you exhausted and stuck? In a marathon, there's a finish line. In life, we can grind forever.

Society bombards us with messages of perseverance. Women like me are eager (and able) disciples of the “Never give up” dogma. We might benefit from opting out, but we dismiss that option before we ever consider it. Then we pay the costs. We start out as resilient dandelions, but what good is that if it sets us up to be trampled on?

Women live longer than men, on average, but we do not necessarily live better. Our rates of depression and anxiety (and the related mental health prescriptions) soar above men's. While problem drinking is declining in the United States overall, it has risen significantly in recent years among women in their 30s and 40s, precisely when we're grappling with the pressures of careers and motherhood and marriage. Alcohol use as self-medication is especially pervasive among higher-income women — women who could afford help yet still don't necessarily take it.

Our head-down tendencies start early. When researchers examined children's responses to ineffective teaching methods, they found that boys tended to abandon approaches that led nowhere and seek better options. Girls were more likely to continue following directions, even when those directions led them to fail. Girls learn to work. Boys learn to win.

Women finish high school and college at higher rates than men. But once we hit the work force, we're less likely to make the C-suite. Of course, that has many explanations. (Patriarchy comes to mind.) But look at how we respond. Researchers tracked nearly 30,000 management-bound employees and found that when women were passed over for promotion, they were more likely to stick with their companies than men in similar situations. The men were more likely to walk away. And they were rewarded for it. They got retention benefits where they were, or they left.

Women are more likely to remain in shrinking industries and lower-paying roles. According to McKinsey Global Institute, projections show that by 2030, less than two-thirds of women will work in growing fields, compared with over three-quarters of men. As Noam Scheiber recently explained in The Times: "A job gets worse in some way — say, it pays less or becomes more grueling or monotonous or generally less prestigious — at which point men become less interested in doing it. Employers then turn to women to fill the ranks." Women need to remember that we can look elsewhere for work, too.

Women often persevere in bad relationships. “Dating is hard,” we might persuade the ceiling at 3 a.m. A woman who ends things early is too picky; a man who quickly realizes he isn’t interested has standards. Same after “I do.” So many of us choose quiet quitting our marriages over filing for divorce. Why leave when you could put up with it instead?

Last month Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan shared that she spent a holiday weekend rereading policy documents and clearing out her inbox, as well as making time to iron her undergarments — and finally logging five hours of sleep, instead of her usual “zero to three.”

A man who chooses to rest probably doesn't think of that choice as quitting at all. But for women, the options feel self-defeating: Take the rest and feel guilty or skip the rest and feel exhausted — and mad.

The joke is on us. Our lives won't be measured by how late we stay up answering all our email. We forget that surviving is not the same as success.

Giving up on things that don't work is the only way to find things that work better or to go farther than before. If we treat quitting and persevering as opposites, we lose.

Last year, I was wiping my 3-year-old's vomit off my dress when my calendar popped up on my phone. On my schedule was an informational interview with a friend's aunt's neighbor's son (or someone) and an appearance on an online panel where I was completely unnecessary. I could have asked someone else to do these things or, even better, simply declined. Instead, I did everything. (What a hero!) I didn't do any of it well.

Looking back, I realize: Women do quit, all the time. We quit on ourselves.

I don't pretend to have a magic solution. I can't get men to opt out less or solve capitalism. But I can at least recognize that just as quitting is a choice, so is not quitting.

Now when I'm grinding, convinced the finish line is just one push away, I ask myself a simple question: Why am I still doing this? "Because I can" doesn't automatically mean that I must.

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EDITORIAL

THE LUDICROUS ARGUMENT BEHIND TRUMP'S TARIFFS

The Editorial Board

A group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom.

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S repeated attempts to impose tariffs have become an encapsulation of his second term. They have hurt the American economy and his own popularity. They also range from legally dubious to blatantly illegal.

With Mr. Trump now engaging in a trade war with Canada — which has decided to stand up to his bullying — we want to step back and explain both the economic and the legal damage from his tariffs. We also urge Congress and the courts to take action and stop this madness. The tariffs offer a signature opportunity for the other two branches of the federal government to insist that Mr. Trump abide by the Constitution and stop punishing American workers and consumers.

The Supreme Court has already rejected most of Mr. Trump's tariffs once. In February, it ruled them to be illegal, and he immediately made clear that he would not be deterred. "Their decision is incorrect," he said within hours of the ruling's release. "But it doesn't matter."

It is true that other presidents have at times taken a similarly combative approach to a Supreme Court decision. They have abandoned policies that the court rejected and enacted alternatives that tried to accomplish the same goals in different ways. Only a few years ago, President Joe Biden did so with student debt. “The Supreme Court blocked me from relieving student debt,” Mr. Biden said. “But they didn’t stop me.”

Still, Mr. Trump's defiance stands out. He has twice tried to circumvent the court's tariff ruling, imposing new rounds of import fees by invoking legal justifications that are patently ridiculous.

This is part of a broader pattern, in two ways. First, he has tried to get around court rulings far more often than his predecessors. With lower courts, he has openly flouted judges' decisions, including in January, when he violated nearly 100 court orders related to immigration. With the Supreme Court, he has been more respectful, but has still engaged in "legalistic noncompliance," as the scholars Daniel T. Deacon and Leah M. Litman have written. It involves "an array of specious legal arguments and legalisms in an attempt to conceal what is actually widespread resistance to judicial oversight." Mr. Trump has taken this approach with tariffs, immigration and funding freezes.

Second, several of Mr. Trump's individual justifications are far flimsier than those that past presidents have attempted. His latest round of global tariffs offers an example. The administration's rationale for them is a section of a 1974 law that empowers a president to enact tariffs against countries that import goods made with forced labor. Last month, the administration cited the law to impose tariffs on nearly all goods entering the United States. That round of tariffs is a successor to the similarly sized tariff level that the Supreme Court rejected in February, as well as a temporary tariff Mr. Trump imposed after the decision. A panel of federal judges ruled that temporary tariff to be illegal as well.

Some countries do deserve scrutiny for importing goods made with forced labor. One major source of forced labor is China, which has compelled residents of Xinjiang, a predominantly Muslim region, to produce cotton, car parts and other items. Yet federal law already empowers the government to address forced labor in other ways, including by simply blocking the entry of goods made with such labor. Mr. Trump has used a genuine problem as an excuse to apply tariffs to more than 80 countries that are collectively responsible for more than 99 percent of American imports.

He is effectively claiming that products made with forced labor are a major issue in Canada, Japan, South Korea, Britain, France and dozens of other countries. The tariffs apply even to Norway, which has been a pioneer in fighting forced labor around the world.

Then there is the sketchy rationale for his latest tariff on Canadian goods. The president invoked part of a 1930 law that has never been used before to impose tariffs, while ignoring more recent laws — as well as the trade agreement that his first administration negotiated with Canada. He has imposed a 50 percent tariff on many Canadian goods by claiming that Canada has discriminated against American goods, even though his administration started the trade dispute. And Canada is not exactly responsible for the legitimate problems with American trade policy in recent decades. It is the largest buyer of American exports.

ONGRESS can play a vital role here.

Even many Republicans in Congress are unhappy about the tariffs, and they have the power to halt them. They can start with public criticism, which will raise the political cost for Mr. Trump of keeping the tariffs in place. If he does not yield, they should pass new laws closing the loopholes he has used. In the case of the Canada tariffs, Congress should pass legislation to make clear that he cannot use the 1930 law to enact sweeping tariffs.

Judges can act, too, especially on the forced-labor tariffs. They are now before the Court of International Trade, a federal body, and it should swiftly rule on them. As the leaders of 25 U.S. states argued in a legal filing, “The tariff action is arbitrary, capricious and contrary to law.” The administration’s claims about forced labor “make a mockery of the statute used to justify them.”

While federal judges have often done an admirable job of trying to respond to Mr. Trump's illegal policies, the tariff cases highlight a core problem: Mr. Trump's legalistic non-compliance moves more quickly than the courts do. When a judge rules one Trump policy to be illegal, he replaces it with a new one accomplishing similar aims.

Eventually, the forced-labor tariffs will probably go back to the Supreme Court, which needs to become nimbler about protecting the Constitution from Mr. Trump's disrespect for the balance of power among the three branches of govern-

Both Congress and the judiciary have the power to respond to the president's damaging economic policies.

ment. The justices have shown themselves willing to stand up to some of Mr. Trump's worst abuses of power, on tariffs, birthright citizenship and false claims of election fraud. Yet they have sometimes shown an unfortunate deference to him and even undercut lower-court judges trying to uphold the law.

When Mr. Biden was president, the court quickly acted to halt several policies it considered illegal, including his second attempt at student-loan forgiveness. When faced with blatant defiance of the law from Mr. Trump, however, the court's Republican-appointed majority sometimes takes its time or demurs. In the meantime, Mr. Trump's policies do damage.

After the Supreme Court threw out Mr. Trump's original tariff policy, the average effective tariff rate on U.S. imports fell to 7 percent, from 14 percent, according to the Yale Budget Lab. The rate has since risen to 11 percent.

In economic terms, the policy has so far been a disappointment. The tariffs have raised prices on many goods, without producing a revival in manufacturing employment. Overall job growth and economic growth have slowed in recent months. Instead of pulling back in response, Mr. Trump has doubled down on his trade war. Incredibly, the 1930 law that he has used to justify the Canadian tariffs is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, a law notorious for contributing to the Great Depression.

The even more important principle, though, is the constitutional one. Mr. Trump is breaking the law. Congress and the judiciary need to respond.

TIM LAHAN

LETTERS

A Reckoning With the Rights And Wrongs of Wokeness

Readers react to a column by Bret Stephens calling for restitution for those disciplined or punished.

TO THE EDITOR:

Re "Yes, Woke 1.0 Was Crazy. Now Where's the Accountability?," by Bret Stephens (column, Aug. 19):

Mr. Stephens posits that wokeness was bad because there were some excesses in its application. But examples of excess can be found in any policy or thought system.

Woke is nothing other than the quality of being awake to the ways we discriminate against those who are different and to the injustices that follow. It is good and necessary, and we should not have let the right turn it into a negative concept.

Racial preferences also have a negative connotation, but our country has always expressed preferences racially; those who gained advantages did not seem to mind as long as the preferences favored white people and men. Rather than shunning the language and ideas that make us more aware and tolerant, we need to embrace them and work toward a more perfect union.

KARIN KRAMER BALDWIN PETALUMA, CALIF.

TO THE EDITOR:

Was there a period when parts of the progressive left became obsessed with ideological purity and cast out those who transgressed? Absolutely. People were treated shamefully and lost jobs or reputations they didn't deserve to lose. Progressives should own that.

But I'm tired of wokeness being equated with repression, as if bad ideas and cowardly institutional decisions amounted to modern-day McCarthyism. Bret Stephens's anecdotes notwithstanding, during the height of Woke 1.0 were more Americans harmed by its excesses than by the racism, sexism and discrimination that progressives were confronting?

Accountability for some who went too far is warranted. But the injustices that prompted the progressive reckoning didn't disappear when the pendulum swung back. Long before Twitter mobs, marginalized Americans faced discrimination, which was enforced by social customs, the law and often violence. Those forces haven't vanished.

If Woke 1.0 was the wrong reckoning, what is the right one?

this has been largely absent when assessing what happened during this period and its costs.

MARK WOLFGRAM, OTTAWA

TO THE EDITOR:

Woke is nothing but a term appropriated by the right to attribute various sins to the left. Bret Stephens's column calls for accountability for a cherry-picked set of these sins. But accountability from whom, exactly?

The cancel culture of the Red Scare of the 1950s was orchestrated through state institutions, notably the House Un-American Activities Committee, the F.B.I. and others. In that case, responsibility was clear.

But in the examples that Mr. Stephens cites, responsibility lies with a diffuse set of actors — universities, media enterprises and individuals. If indeed apologies are warranted, it is from these entities, since there is no central organ of wokeness to point to.

JEREMY BLOOM SUNNYVALE, CALIF.

TO THE EDITOR:

Bret Stephens is guilty of the kind of excess that he attributes to the “Woke 1.0” movement. He claims that “illiberalism” has “swept so much of the left in recent years” and that “moral certitude and promiscuous demonization — whether it comes from MAGA on the right or wokeness on the left” is “crazy.”

This is false equivalence. To say that extremism of the left is anywhere near that of MAGA on the right is false. He gives what he considers examples of extremism on the left, but the daily vilification from the right is far worse.

The term “woke” should not be an epithet. Being “woke” is not “crazy.” It is an honorable term acknowledging recognition of the gross injustice and discrimination that still pervade society today, added and abetted by MAGA and other believers.

Accountability is needed not for those whose eyes have been opened, but for those who, with eyes firmly shut, actively espouse and acquiesce in discriminatory and misogynistic behavior. There lies the true source of real and long-lasting damage.

ROBERT H. PALMER NEW YORK

TO THE EDITOR:

JAMES A. LEPONE MOHNTON, PA.

TO THE EDITOR:

Whatever term we wish to apply to this decade of insanity, I share Bret Stephens's shock and disappointment with the lack of accountability or self-reflection from those who participated in this broad cultural movement.

In their widely read article in The Atlantic in 2015, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt put a spotlight on a key turning point in higher education toward safetyism, which then spread much more widely in society and led to many of the abuses that Mr. Stephens pointed out in his column.

The period was marked by an assault on traditional liberal values from the progressive left. Merit was redefined as privilege. Dedication to universal values was patriarchal. Respect for the dignity of the individual was getting in the way of the revolution.

Traditional liberalism values self-reflection, and

I normally enjoy Bret Stephens's columns and agree with his warning that moral certainty and indiscriminate demonization are dangerous to a free society.

But for me this column fell short. Courageous journalism and critical thinking are two of our most important guardrails against ideological conformity. Yet Mr. Stephens grouped together very different controversies without full consideration of the context or counterarguments.

His strongest case concerns coercive methods: public shaming, disproportionate punishment, suppression of disagreement and the abandonment of due process. But by labeling all of this “wokeness,” he blurred those abuses together with legitimate efforts to combat racism, discrimination and sexual misconduct.

Mr. Stephens identified an important problem. But I wish he would have more fully defined the problem, the causes, the culprits and the solutions.

FORREST PADDOCK HOUSTON

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Dolly Parton Taught Me How to Take Up Space

Loving Dolly Rebecca Parton was easy. She was beautiful, funny and kind. Rumor has it that she was a prankster who could tell a good dirty joke. She was a country music original, a glittering pop star, a scene-stealing actress, a cultural icon and an unparalleled humanitarian. By the final decade of her 60-plus-year career, loving her had become something of a public sacrament. But Dolly didn't see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.

Despite the way we all loved Dolly, I don't think that many of us ever really understood that about her.

We hung on to the stories she told us about how she grew up with a lot of love and not much money. We knew that she revered her father and honored her mother. We knew she told Elvis Presley he could not own the rights to one of her songs and that, amazingly, the King didn't seem to hold it against her. We knew that she wanted kids to read and queer people to be celebrated and country people to feel seen.

She told these stories so often and with so much authenticity that most of us don't realize these are the only stories that she really told us about herself. It was the repetition over 60 years, albeit in different registers, with different deliveries, that made her endlessly beloved yet dazzlingly impenetrable. It's a good writer's sleight of hand.

To understand Dolly, you have to read her as a writer. Writing her own story was the most radical, precise way to define herself in a world that kept trying to fit her into a box. She was not simply Southern, not simply country. She was from Appalachia — a place that is just as mythologized, mocked and misunderstood as Dolly was. It's a place where people are rarely allowed to speak for themselves. Instead, they are interpolated through coastal biases about white trash and red states. If they are lucky, Appalachians are stereotyped as hillbillies new to the modern world. Too racist to be redeemed. Too dumb to be a problem if they aren't.

The story Dolly wrote about herself across thousands of songs and performances and books was a counternarrative about Appalachia. She narrated it as a place filled with soaring mountains and narrow hollers, geological wonders and distinctive cultures, abundant love and generational poverty.

Appalachian people are used to city folk making fun of them. It's easy to forget that Dolly was not exempt from this sort of mockery. For most of her career, men made cracks about her figure. Women made digs about her lowbrow fashion. Critics often downplayed her artistry. No matter how famous she got, how many new audiences fell in love with her, how undeniable her talent, how ridiculous her work ethic, Dolly had to waste time with stupid jokes from small minds.

When people underestimated Dolly for looking like “the town tramp,” as she put it, she embraced it. In 2009 she told Morley Safer, “By the time they think that I don’t know what’s going on, I’ve done got the money and gone.” We call that particular trick country dumb where I am from. Dolly was a master at it.

Make fun of her cleavage? You better tell a funnier gag than one she already told about herself. Want to look down on her about being parochial? You will have to square that with her outstanding business acumen. At a time when women and poor people signed away their intellectual property for a shot at stardom, Dolly started a series of successful publishing companies to retain her rights.

That's not to say that Dolly's pride, especially in her craft, didn't shine through. Her indefatigable sense of herself as a creative person, with the right to make her art as she saw fit, came from her sense of place. She crafted stories in the rhyme, meter, poetry and politics of Appalachia. Her interpretations of bluegrass may be among my favorites, especially when she met her creative match in Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou

Harris. The song “Down From Dover,” from 1970, is an exemplar of Southern gothic storytelling — a story of young pregnant women hiding in plain sight that is as haunting in post-Roe America as it was when she wrote it. The vulnerability of “Jolene” made it impossible for any cover to transcend the original.

But it wasn't until I was in my 30s that one of Dolly's stories perfectly matched my own. I had a devastating pregnancy loss, which was, I knew, my last chance to have a baby. One day, I turned on college radio to drown out the silence. Dolly's 1968 song "The Bridge" was playing.

It wasn't the first time I heard it. It was the first time I understood the young girl in it, pregnant, abandoned, contemplating suicide to end the pain. The juxtaposition of that pain and Dolly's high, lonesome voice

An icon saw herself not as a saint, but as something we needed even more: a writer.

broke me wide open. I cried for the first time for everything I would not have. When I was done crying, I was the person I would be after loss.

For all her sparkle, Dolly was a simple girl. She wrote simple lyrics, simple melodies, told simple stories about simple human experiences.

Her lyrics were simple because the living in Appalachia can be so hard. They were often radical for the same reason. Lines like "They just use your mind, and they never give you credit / It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it," from her smash hit "9 to 5," are true to the working-class politics of folk music but tell a story through women instead of men. Critics have always struggled to appreciate that kind of poetry. They make exceptions for Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen. Brevity is wit when men do it.

When women do it, we're supposed to think of it as luck.

But for Dolly, it wasn't luck; it was simply the truest expression of the homeland she never, not once, not even after she became a millionaire, spurned.

She knew what I know: Appalachia's food, its literature and its music are universal. That's why anywhere in the world where people have been pushed from their homeland or trapped in its cycle of exploitation, you will find a Dolly Parton fan.

I think I knew that the first time I stood too close to the television, at 9 years old, transfixed by the big-haired blonde singing "Two Doors Down." The song wasn't about me, wasn't about my life, about my people. But good writing doesn't have to imagine everyone. It only has to imagine the truest thing about all of us, that exists in each of us.

That is what made the girl from the holler make sense to me even though the world (and my mother) thought she shouldn't. Before Dolly was a saint, when she was still just a popular twangy pop star in a wig, I saw something in the way she took up space that called to me, an ambitious girl the world did not expect much from but who knew — just knew — that she was a writer.

Dolly owned her right to write our American story. That was bigger than the hair and the boobs, shinier than the sequins, more feminist than a thousand burning bras, more honest than almost anyone gets to be in public life without selling a pound of flesh.

Dolly's songs will live on. They document American history through the eyes of Americans who don't often get to tell their own story. She also left a legacy for little ambitious girls. All races. All walks of life. The way she lived and worked, the way she sparkled and demurred, the way she took up space and took the hits for being larger than life is proof that a good story can change the way we see the world.

Dolly Parton was a writer. In the end, Dolly Parton is the greatest story that Dolly ever wrote.

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Having a roommate is a growing practical reality in today's expensive rental market. Over the past decade, the number of rental households in the nation sharing housing has grown by more than 20 percent. Just how much value sharing can bring when considering money saved and other benefits can vary greatly from place to place.

On average, two renters who split a two-bedroom apartment can each save \$6,700 a year compared with renting a one-bedroom alone, according to a study of the 100 most populous U.S. cities conducted by StorageCafe, an online storage-space marketplace. But in some cities, they can save twice as much. In Jersey City, N.J., the savings were greatest, nearly \$13,100 per year.

Among the 10 cities that were found to offer the most annual roommate savings, six were in California: Irvine came in second, with roughly \$12,800 a year in savings, followed by Chula Vista, with nearly \$12,700.

In addition to the financial benefits of having a roommate, other quality-of-life metrics informed the study's ranking of the best cities for roommates.

They included the prevalence of roommates in the area; average living space per person; and amenities like fitness centers, pools, parking space and storage.

Overall, Irvine ranked first. Aside from high rent savings, its apartments also offered an average of 510 square feet per roommate, and about 97 percent of rentals had swimming pool access. Suburban towns like Irvine often offer the most roommate value, the data showed. The city was among several suburbs that had great decade-over-decade increases in the number of shared renter households. New developments and cheaper rent in those areas were the main draws.

A separate analysis of more than 16 million searches on SpareRoom, a roommate-seeking platform, echoed the trend. It found that search interest for roommates in the New York City suburbs of Tarrytown, N.Y.; Union, N.J.; and New Brunswick, N.J. — each within 60 minutes of the city — nearly doubled from 2024 to 2025, while interest in New York's boroughs decreased. VINCE DIXON

It's Not Just the Money

Cities were ranked based on the money saved when sharing a two-bedroom apartment compared with renting a one-bedroom and other metrics including average living space per person and amenities like fitness centers, pools, parking spaces and storage.

City	Annual savings from sharing	Square feet per roommate
1. Irvine, Calif.	$12,800	510 sq. ft.
2. Atlanta	$8,900	535 sq. ft.
3. Raleigh, N.C.	$8,100	515 sq. ft.
4. Tampa, Fla.	$9,200	501 sq. ft.
5. San Diego	$9,900	491 sq. ft.
Source: StorageCafe

City	Annual savings from sharing	Square feet per roommate
6. Austin, Texas	$7,700	503 sq. ft.
7. Denver	$8,000	511 sq. ft.
8. Chandler, Ariz.	$9,600	512 sq. ft.
9. Nashville	$7,600	510 sq. ft.
10. Colorado Springs	$8,300	477 sq. ft.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Ask Real Estate Intergenerational Communities

What Options Exist for Older Adults To Live Among Different Age Groups?

forming arts and athletics.

NADIA PILLON

I'm interested in areas where seniors can live alongside college students, and even younger kids, but I don't know much about them. They're called intergenerational living communities or university retirement communities. Are they located across the country? How affordable are they? What else should I know about them?

Communities where people of different generations live together intentionally have been gaining in popularity as a way for older adults to thrive in retirement and younger people to learn from those with more experience.

"It's living in an engaged, less socially isolated way," said Matthew Kaplan, a professor of intergenerational programs and aging at Pennsylvania State University.

University retirement communities, found on college campuses around the country, are a popular version of this kind of setting. The costs can be comparable to those of traditional senior living. They allow older adults to have a vibrant lifestyle while engaging in on-campus classes, per-

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"They do not want to live on Elderly Island," said Andrew Carle, a senior living consultant and the founder of UniversityRetirementCommunities.com, which offers information about such sites.

Other communities also allow for intergenerational living, with older adults living near families with children. Around the country, there are hundreds of “cohousing” developments, many of them devised to foster interaction among people of different age groups. In these, private housing units share indoor and outdoor spaces, and prices are comparable with other local housing. Generally speaking, intergenerational living can be market-rate, or subsidized.

Older adults interested in such living arrangements should consider how much interaction with others they'd like. Does the community allow people of different age groups to live near one another or together? Does the community offer programming aimed at promoting interaction? Is there a requirement to participate?

Be sure to be clear on financial terms: In intergenerational communities, arrangements can vary wildly, said Juli Ford, a real estate broker who specializes in helping older adults make housing decisions.

In some communities, a large fee is paid upfront, and some of it is returned when you leave. In others, people buy co-op shares they can sell later. There can also be monthly fees. If you're buying in a new development, be sure to ask what happens to your investment if the project fails, or if you move away. Renting, of course, is a more flexible arrangement.

"It's a big switch for most seniors, when we're often living in our own homes for decades," Ms. Ford said.

But living in these communities comes with benefits, too. "Your life gets more interesting," Dr. Kaplan said. JILL TERRERI RAMOS

MEDFORD LAKEFRONT RANCH

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\$1,575,000

NEW JERSEY 1 Braddocks Mill Court

A 3,864-square-foot house with four bedrooms, four full and two half baths, a three-season porch, a finished basement, an attached three-car garage, a covered outdoor kitchen and entertainment space, a slate patio with a firepit, and lake frontage, on 2.42 acres. Marianne Post, Berkshire Hathaway; bhhs.com

TAXES \$24,081 a year; HOA dues, \$1,400 a year

PROS The house has multiple water views and 400 feet of shoreline for swimming or from which to launch a small boat.

CONS Some of the bathrooms need updating. The basement family room has no windows.

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NEWBURGH FORMER CARRIAGE HOUSE \$1,199,000

ORANGE COUNTY 249 Grand Street

A brick carriage house converted to a three-bedroom, two-full-and-two-half-bath, 3,740-square-foot home with 15-foot ceilings, exposed brick walls, hand-hewed timber beams, and a garage with an electric charger and a large workshop building, on 0.39 of an acre. Sidney Goto, Ronin Real Estate; roninre.com

TAXES \$30,240 a year

PROS There are wood-burning stoves, polished concrete floors with radiant heat, a steam heat system, and high-end appliances.

CONS The house is split into two wings, with a small staircase connecting the two sides. It sits next to a cemetery and church.

ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY JILL P. CAPUZZO. Given the fast pace of the current market, some properties may no longer be available at the time of publication.

On the Market

HEATHER SENISON

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MANHATTAN 230 East 50th Street, No. 4C

A one-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath, roughly 825-square-foot unit with a walk-in closet, a windowed en suite bath, a wood-burning fireplace and a basement storage cage, in a doorman building with a live-in super and a roof deck. Evita LaSasso and Charles Holmes, Coldwell Banker Warburg; cbwarburg.com

MAINTENANCE \$3,042 a month

PROS One additional unit shares the elevator bank. The kitchen appliances are new. Use as a pied-à-terre is permitted. Subletting is allowed for two of every six years after two years of residency.

CONS The apartment could use a few updates.

UPPER EAST SIDE DUPLEX \$2,250,000

MANHATTAN 2 East 80th Street, No. 2

A two-bedroom, two-bath, 1,300-square-foot co-op with a living room on the first level and bedrooms on the second, and two storage units and a garden, in a townhouse with shared laundry. Judith B. Thorn and Joy Grossman, Coldwell Banker Warburg; cbwarburg.com

MAINTENANCE \$3,500 a month

PROS Subletting is permitted. It's close to Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

CONS The main entry opens onto the upper landing of the apartment's interior staircase, creating a tight intersection for foot traffic.

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\$1,050,000

BROOKLYN 834 Sterling Place, No. PH3

A two-bedroom, one-bath, 900-square-foot unit with a washer/dryer, central air, polished concrete floors, a deeded storage locker and a terrace, on the top floor of a seven-story building with a bike room and a gym. Michael Popovsky, the Agency; theagencyre.com

COMMON CHARGES \$732 a month; taxes, \$664 a month

PROS The bedrooms get good sunlight and have mini-split heat and air. There are glass accordion doors to the terrace, which has a nice view.

CONS The industrial look of the apartment may not suit all tastes.

RENTERS

Nestled on the Upper West Side, and Still Surviving

PHOTOGRAPHS BY GRAHAM DICKIE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

By D.W. GIBSON

Ira Goetz has lost much of his sight. "I can see people," he said. "But only shapes and colors. I can't recognize the faces." Keeping his remaining vision requires getting regular injections in his eye.

His hearing is almost gone too. For Mr. Goetz, a conversation is possible only with those who speak in a loud, deliberate voice, directly into his left ear, where he can still pick up sounds through a hearing aid.

Even with these challenges, Mr. Goetz, who turns 98 in December, still lives in his own apartment.

"My friends all died out," he said. "I'm the one left."

In many ways, Mr. Goetz has been a survivor since age 12. That's when everyone in his immediate family was killed by German soldiers in the town of Biecz, Poland.

Mr. Goetz, the oldest boy in the family, recalled his mother telling him to run. "The town was being liquidated," he said. "We knew the Germans were killing off everybody. I was the only one who managed to get away."

He ran into the countryside and slept in caves. "I didn't eat for three or four days," he said.

Mr. Goetz managed to connect with an uncle and a few cousins, but eventually all of them, including Ira, were put into concentration camps.

Mr. Goetz said his ability to quickly master German was an important part of why he survived. He was able to communicate with soldiers and they assigned him a job, giving him a key so he could open and close a secured bathroom for them.

After liberation, Mr. Goetz moved to New York. “I had an aunt and an uncle here,” he said. “They took me to James Monroe High School to register. I had no idea what high school was. I had no idea about English.”

He found good teachers, put his proclivity for languages to work and earned his high school diploma in less than two years. He went on to attend college and graduate school, eventually earning a master's degree in foreign languages from Columbia University.

His first years on his own in Manhattan were marked by frequent moves, bouncing from one apartment to another. When he landed a job teaching at Columbia University, he wanted to find a place nearby but as is often the case in New York, there was nothing fast or easy about Mr. Goetz's apartment search. "I couldn't find anything anywhere," he said. "Or they were too expensive."

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At 97, Ira Goetz has lived in the same Manhattan apartment building for 60 years. Despite limited sight and hearing, he still lives alone, thanks, in large part, to a grass-roots group called lifeforce in Later Years. Though retired, he maintains a desk and work space, top right.

One day, after driving around looking for apartments — again, in vain — he wound up parked on Riverside Drive, slumped behind the wheel of his car, exhausted. He looked up at the brick building across the street.

"I don't know why but I just went in," he said.

Mr. Goetz saw a man inside the lobby and asked if he was the super. The man, however, didn't respond.

"He didn't quite understand," Mr. Goetz recalled. "And then — I still can't believe it — I asked him the same question in Polish and he said, 'Yes.'"

They talked for a while and, eventually, Mr. Goetz asked if any apartments were available in the building. Later that day he signed a lease for a one-bedroom unit. It cost him \$80 a month. "I felt very lucky that I went to a Polish guy who gave me an apartment."

Mr. Goetz still has the original, yellowed lease he signed in May 1966. Over the past 60 years what he pays for his rent-stabilized apartment has increased to \$1,500, and he has made two moves between units on different floors, each time chasing more space as well as windows with better light and stronger breezes coming over the Hudson River. The same building, however, has remained his home.

It has anchored his life across a marriage, another long-term relationship and a distinguished career in languages. In addition to teaching at Columbia University and other higher-education institutions, he also served as the director of the New York Association for New Americans, where he developed new models for teaching English to immigrants.

He's been in his current apartment since the 1970s — he can't recall the exact year — and half a century later the primary reason he is still able to live under his own roof is because of the help he gets from a grassroots organization called Lifeforce in Later Years.

Known as LILY, the organization is based on the Upper West Side and focused on helping older individuals like Mr. Goetz who can, by and large, still live independently but might need a little help to get through the day.

Azieb Ghebre, 67, a longtime volunteer for LILY, spends time nearly every day with Mr. Goetz, sharing breakfast with him and helping him get out for his walks. She even spent the night on his couch when he went to bed feeling unwell and she was nervous about leaving him alone.

Still, she said, in most areas of his life, Mr. Goetz is fiercely independent. "He won't let me touch his clothes," she said, laughing. "He washes them, takes care of them — he insists."

LILY doesn't ever charge for the services its volunteers provide. "We have no over-head, no office," said Jonathon Slon, the community outreach coordinator for LILY, which serves people between 106th and 145th Streets.

Many of the organization's volunteers are students, and some are foreign students who have a desire to connect with more people in this country and often can't afford to fly home when school is not in session. "We go around to people and see them and hang out with them for hours," Mr. Slon said.

The organization provides volunteers to help complete tasks and make a day feel less lonely. That means getting people to doctors' appointments and lunches, museums and Broadway plays. "Sometimes we go to jazz shows," Mr. Slon said.

"We also have a Zoom movie group, because some people aren't ambulatory but they can all get on Zoom."

In 2022, Mr. Slon started a weekly lunch in his apartment for a group of men, mostly in their 80s and 90s. "There are a few young ones in their 70s," he said. "It's pretty lively and freewheeling."

Mr. Slon, 72, lives around the corner from Mr. Goetz and invited him to one of the lunches in 2024. It didn't quite work out.

"Afterward, I walked Ira home," he recalled. "He said he couldn't hear what the men were saying; they talked too fast. And that's when Ira taught me to speak slowly and separate each word so they don't run together."

The one-on-one conversations in his apartment with patient neighbors like Mr. Slon suit Mr. Goetz best. It's the kind of individualized response that defines LILY. "We try to keep people feeling like they're in control of their lives," Mr. Slon said, "and that they haven't lost all of their dignity."

The Hunt

When Plans to Move to Italy Fell Through, a Couple Decided to Buy in Manhattan

KATHERINE MARKS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
'We want to enjoy the city, and we want to start saving more seriously again for retirement,' Mr. Pacitti says.

With a \$600,000 budget, two former dancers wanted a place near the subway.

By AIMEE ORTIZ

Jordan Pacitti and his husband, Ben Griffiths, were ready to move. The couple, former professional dancers, had landed in New York in 2020 after years of living in Seattle, where they danced for the Pacific Northwest Ballet. Soon, they were looking for their next adventure, preferably in Italy.

The couple are Italophiles, and Mr. Pacitti, 45, a third-generation Italian American, was working on getting his Italian citizenship when, in March 2025, the country changed its laws to allow only first- and second-generation Italians to obtain citizenship through ancestry.

The Buyers Jordan Pacitti, left, and Ben Griffiths, with their cat, Forrest, in their new home.

Mr. Pacitti founded a skin care line in 2013 and could work from anywhere, and Mr. Griffiths, 42, works for his company. With the lease on their Sutton Place apartment coming to an end in March, the couple deferred their plans to live abroad and decided instead to buy a home in New York City.

With a budget of \$600,000, they hoped to find a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment that wouldn't need an overhaul. They also wanted to be close to the subway and to have reasonable maintenance costs.

"We're in New York City to enjoy New York City," Mr. Pacitti said, adding that while they could have afforded more, "we want to enjoy the city, and we want to start saving more seriously again for retirement."

At first the two looked in Queens and Brooklyn, but “our life, for the most part, is in Manhattan,” Mr. Pacitti said. So they turned their eyes north to Washington Heights and Inwood.

"They knew exactly what they wanted, and they knew what would work and what wouldn't," said Laurence P. Mitchell, an associate broker at R New York who worked with the couple.

Among their options:

1. THIRD FLOOR IN WASHINGTON HEIGHTS This renovated two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment was a sponsor unit on the third floor of a Washington Heights co-op. There was lots of closet space, but the building lacked an elevator. The asking price was \$529,000, with maintenance costs of \$1,379.

2. FIFTH FLOOR IN WASHINGTON HEIGHTS

2. FIFTH FLOOR IN WASHINGTON HEIGHTS The couple toured a second apartment in the same Washington Heights building. The

The Options

A third-floor walk-up in Washington Heights was a renovated sponsor unit with two bedrooms, one bathroom and good closet space.

2 A fifth-floor walk-up in the same Washington Heights building was a sponsor unit with the same two-bedroom layout but more light.

3 A two-bedroom on the fifth floor of an elevator building in Inwood had a renovated kitchen, but the unit needed board approval.

layout of the two-bedroom, one-bathroom sponsor unit mirrored that of the first apartment, but it was on the fifth floor of the walk-up building. It had a lower asking price of \$489,000, with maintenance fees of \$1,379.

3. INWOOD UNIT IN ELEVATOR BUILDING

This two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment was on the fifth floor of an elevator building in Inwood. It was close to the No. 1 and A subway lines, but the couple didn't like that several flights of stairs were required to reach the trains. The apartment had a renovated kitchen, but it wasn't a sponsor unit, meaning the couple would need board approval. The asking price was \$575,000, with maintenance costs of \$1,635.

THEIR CHOICE

The Inwood apartment required board approval, an arduous process that could have taken longer than the couple wanted as their lease was soon ending, and they weren't fond of the many flights of stairs required to get to the subway station.

In Washington Heights, the couple found a neighborhood bursting with independent shops and plenty of green spaces to explore.

"It's just been so nice to be surrounded by parks," Mr. Pacitti said.

The couple chose the Washington Heights sponsor unit on the third floor, not the fifth. While they loved the natural light throughout the apartment on the higher floor, the couple acknowledged that as they aged, the stairs might get a little difficult.

In addition to fewer stairs, the third-floor sponsor unit had lower monthly maintenance fees, sizable bedrooms, natural light and easy access to the subway.

After some negotiation, they paid \$515,000, which they agreed to after also receiving concessions on closing costs and the transfer tax.

They closed on the sale on Feb. 25 and they moved in less than a month later.

The couple have found a community among their neighbors.

"Everybody on our floor here, it's like we have a musician and a videographer, we have somebody who's in 'Moulin Rouge,' we have somebody who is in small business themselves and works from home," Mr. Pacitti said. "So it's people all in our age range."

Mr. Griffiths said: "I feel like moving here has gotten us out of our Covid habits. I feel like during Covid, everyone's lives got smaller and they kind of stayed that way.

"Moving kind of helped us branch back out again," he added.

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In Berkeley, Calif., a House of Architectural Importance Is Priced at \$1.425 Million

DONALD OLSEN COLLECTION, ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN ARCHIVES, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

A Donald Olsen-designed home is on the market for only the second time in its history.

By LINDA LABAN

Two modernists, one a renowned physicist, one a budding architect, came together in the early 1950s to create the Kip House, a celebrated Bauhaus-inspired International Style home in Berkeley, Calif. Then they became lifelong neighbors.

Now, for the second time in its almost 75-year history, the Kip House at 775 San Diego Road, just across the street from John Hinkel Park, is on the market. The three-bedroom, two-bath home is listed at \$1.425 million, with Anna Bellomo of District Homes handling the sale.

Designed in 1952, the house was commissioned by Arthur Frederic Kip, a pioneering solid-state physicist whose work was foundational to computer and smartphone development. The home's designer, Donald Olsen, was a young architect who had moved to Berkeley to begin his architectural practice. Upon completion of the Kip residence in 1954, Mr. Olsen and his wife, Helen Olsen, built their home in similar Bauhaus-influenced style right next door. The Olsens, Mr. Kip and his wife, Joan Kip, would spend the rest of their lives in these homes.

"I was aware of this house for years before I bought it and was very excited when it came on the market," said the current owner, Susie Injijian, a Bay Area lawyer who bought the residence in July 2013 from the Kip estate.

"The neighborhood is what attracted me to begin with — we visited often, my young children and I, because there's a lovely park there, hidden away," Ms. Injijian said. "There were these two magnificent houses right on the park: the Olsen House, and the Kip House."

Mr. Olsen graduated in 1946 from the Harvard Graduate School of Design with his master's degree in architecture. While there, he studied under Walter Gropius, co-founder of Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design. In the design of the Kip House, he embraced the clean, logical, utilitarian principles Gropius espoused.

Top and above, three interior views of the Kip House. From the windows, one can view the tall trees and lush foliage that surround the house.

"The Kip House is important for two reasons," said Pierluigi Serraino, an architectural historian and the author of "Donald Olsen: Architect of Habitable Abstractions." The first of these, he explained, is that the house is an early example of a split-

Center left, an early sketch of the house. Center right, an exterior view. Near right, the kitchen, and far right, the primary bedroom. Below, a view of North Berkeley, Calif.

level layout. "There's no corridor," he said. "It's all used space."

The 1,904 square feet of interior space extends over three levels with the main floor divided into an upper level housing the living room and study, and a lower level which has the main entrance, kitchen and dining room, as well as a bedroom, bathroom and laundry room. The primary bedroom, bathroom and a third bedroom are on the floor below.

The design allowed Mr. Olsen to build the home on a slope with “minimal earth movement,” Mr. Serraino said. “This was a bit of a challenge and was part of the research Mr. Olsen was doing at the time. Bear in mind this house was the beginning of his own identity as an architect.”

Upon completion, the Kip House was recognized in Arts & Architecture magazine in 1954 for both of these innovations.

But the house is perhaps most recognizable to some for the cantilevered balcony that hangs delicately from the top floor over the facade of floor-to-ceiling picture windows. Mr. Olsen added a fun pop of crimson on the underside, a nod to the French minimalist Modernist architect Le Corbusier.

"It is known as the red balcony," Ms. Injijian said. "Joan actually wrote a lovely story called 'The House Across From the Park' about her life there for the Bellevue Literary Review. She wrote about a time when the trees in the park weren't so tall, and they would go out with their martinis on the red balcony and look out on the bay."

The balcony was among the features Ms. Injijian restored during her tenure. That work also included rebuilding the front steps and the carport and adding earthquake retrofitting. Linoleum tile containing asbestos, a common additive to linoleum tiles during the early to mid 20th century, was removed and replaced with wood flooring. Overall though, the house was exceptionally well preserved and Ms. Injijian's goal was to honor Mr. Olsen's design.

"I was so motivated to preserve and not change anything," she said. "Becoming an owner, I really felt like I wanted to be a steward. I wanted to stay true to the Olsen design."

However, Ms. Injijian did put her own spin on the lower-level bathroom. "The renovation there basically reversed what the Kips had done, which was a little more contemporary," she said. "What I did was more of a nod to the Bauhaus design. I love that bathroom. It came out nice."

Now it's time for a new steward. "My kids are grown and a house of 2,000 square feet almost, it's a lot to maintain," Ms. Injijian said. It isn't easy walking away from the Kip House though. "There is a majestic feeling to the house, even with the austere simplicity of its lines. It's really strict and yet the majesty of nature shows through. There's an art to it," she said. "It's really a work of art and science."

Big Ticket

Diane Keaton's 'Pinterest' Project Sold for \$18 Million

PAUL BARNABY

An Actress's Home Sells

Months after the death of Diane Keaton, her "Pinterest" house in Los Angeles's Sullivan Canyon sold for \$18 million this month.

The sprawling estate, with more than 9,000 square feet of living space, was a passion project for the actress, who appeared in some 100 movie and television roles. Ms. Keaton spent decades renovating the home, a process that was detailed in her 2017 book, "The House that Pinterest Built."

“Once upon a time, scrap bookers, collage artists, image-driven addicts and appropriators like me were lonely hunters,” Ms. Keaton wrote in the book’s introduction. “Now dare I say billions of people discover, seize and enlarge their reference pool with the variety of beauty allocated from others.”

The property, one of the few that she owned but did not sell, has five bedrooms, eight bathrooms, brick walls, cathedral-vaulted ceilings and a

"collection of reclaimed light fixtures," according to the listing. Outdoors, there's a separate guesthouse, an in-ground heated pool and a spa.

Ms. Keaton, who died from bacterial pneumonia in October 2025 at age 79, was a prolific house flipper. The daughter of a real estate agent, Ms. Keaton remembered holding her father's hand while touring \$15,000 model homes in Santa Ana, Calif., in the 1950s.

It's a memory she returned to often in interviews and in her memoir, as she struggled to explain how the search for her dream

MARC FAIRSTEIN

'Arthur' Creator Sells Martha's Vineyard Residence

Marc Brown, the Emmy Award-winning creator behind the children's series "Arthur," sold his Martha's Vineyard compound for \$6.4 million this month.

The property stretches over nearly eight acres in Vineyard Haven and has a renovated farmhouse, a saltwater pool, an art studio and a carriage house with room for three cars.

The main residence, which dates to 1730, has five bedrooms and four bathrooms as well as “carefully preserved original details,” including hand-painted Siberian elm floors, gunstock posts, a Dutch door and four fireplaces, according to the listing. The property’s pool house offers additional lodging options.

Mr. Brown and his wife, Laurene Krasny Brown, restored the property over 37 years. It was originally listed last year for \$6.9 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. The paper reported at the time that the couple had “spent years and millions of dollars restoring the property before deciding they wanted another project closer to their primary home in New York City.”

Alexis Holden and Elle Lash of Tea Lane Associates/Forbes Global Properties held the listing.

Ms. Lash said in a statement on Thursday that the couple "created a sanctuary where their art and stories could flourish," and that walking the property was like "visiting an enchanted garden."

"Their labor of love was as much a restoration as a renovation," she said, adding that it was "a joy to spend time there."

home became, in her words, an "obsession."

The Sullivan Canyon property was first put on the market in March 2025 for \$28.9 million before the price was lowered to \$27.5 million in May of the same year. The home was taken off the market entirely in September, shortly before Ms. Keaton's death. It was then listed again in December 2025 for \$26.9 million before the price was lowered again in June to \$22.9 million.

Josh Flagg of Compass, who held the listing, would not reveal the identity of the buyer.

A Facebook Founder Sells a Home in Washington

Chris Hughes, a co-founder Facebook, sold his residence in the coveted Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C., for \$8.59 million.

Built in 1905 in the Romanesque Revival style for the president of the Lincoln National Bank, the six-bedroom, eight-bathroom residence covers more than 8,000 square feet, according to the listing.

The property also features a chef's kitchen, a marble fireplace and an elevator that services all of the house's four floors.

Outdoors, there is a private garden with a dining area, a fire pit, a built-in grilling station, a pergola, a fountain and landscaping.

Marin Hagen and Sylvia Bergstrom of Coldwell Banker Realty held the listing.

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Kevin Garnett's Former Malibu Estate Is for Sale A Malibu property that once belonged to the basketball Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett hit the market with an asking price of \$48 million.

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SEARCHING FOR AN affordable place to live in Houston, Luke Zamprelli and Muriel Hague traveled far from downtown, and from conventional ideas of home design. In 2020, the couple — at that time music educators directing high school marching bands — bought a piece of land in the Acres Homes neighborhood at the northwestern edge of Houston's city limits. They paid \$46,000.

"We got really lucky on the timing because we closed on the plot the week before Covid hit," said Ms. Hague, 34, who now works as a corporate lawyer. (Mr. Zamprelli, 35, founded a business doing marching band design.) After that, "prices just skyrocketed," she said.

Named for its typically sizable parcels, Acres Homes supported a large Black community after World War II and kept much of its rural character for decades. But the area subsequently went into decline. When the couple first saw the quarter-acre property, vegetation all but buried it, and a cow carcass lay on the road. “I think this is the one,” Ms. Hague called to Mr. Zamprelli as she pressed through the weeds. She wasn’t being sarcastic. The lot was on a street that ended in a small horse enclosure. To this day, horses sometimes wander into their yard.

Their next step was finding an architect who would design a house on the thrifty construction budget of about \$150 a square foot. Advised by friends to interview at least five candidates, they signed on with the first one they met: Jesse Hager of Content Architecture in Houston.

Though the couple couldn't afford much of what they admired on Content's website, they intuited that Mr. Hager, who describes his method as using “common materials in an intelligent way that makes them look good,” would not skimp creatively on a modest project. Or as Mr. Zamprelli recalled the architect saying, “Hey, if you guys are willing to do some weird things, then we can make this relationship work.”

In this case “weird” meant a Y-shaped, 1,800-square-foot building with curving exterior walls clad in corrugated sheet metal and a long row of floor-to-ceiling rear windows — in a city where summer temperatures routinely soar to the mid-90s and the sun beats down an average of 204 days a year.

But Mr. Hager, who grew up in the Pacific Northwest, puts a lot of stock in sunshine. He is bemused, he said, by the typical Texan's reaction to big windows: "Oh, my God, too much sun!" Making use of copious insulation, a water vapor barrier, thermally efficient glass and concrete floors, he produced a comfortable, light-filled house that is so connected to its verdant surroundings that the white interior walls are often tinted green. Built to be solar-energy-ready, in conformity to Texas codes, it has a rooftop

array that cuts down on electricity costs. Their energy bill is only a couple of dollars a month, Mr. Zamprelli said. "But it's not like I'm sweating through the day," he said.

Inside, the three basic spaces making up the “Y” — a living room with a sky-lighted bathroom; a primary bedroom with an en suite bathroom and laundry room; and an office that is also used as a guest room — are organized around a central kitchen. This core placement reflects the importance of cooking and entertaining to the couple; they asked that the cooktop be integrated into the island rather than set against a wall so that they would never have to turn their backs on guests. The backsplash is a ceiling-high panel of quartzite that is also a partition diving the kitchen from the bedroom.

The furnishings, many from the Houston shop Native Citizen, were chosen to match the lightness and unobstructed feeling of the surroundings. "Nothing is enclosed," Ms. Hague said.

Soon after the couple moved in, in July 2024, they were surrounded by low-rise homes that sprang up as if planted in furrows. Mr. Zamprelli recently estimated that 700 to 900 new builds were added to their ZIP code area since they broke ground.

Whatever rural ambience remained was disappearing in a real estate boom. But Mr. Hager said that the presence of new neighbors walking dogs and pushing strollers had meant more protective “eyes.” (A perimeter fence in his original design that was meant for security was never built as a consequence.) The couple said they like the community spirit that had come with new development. And they appreciate that the value of their home will probably rise as a result.

A recent aerial photo celebrates the house's quirky character as it floats like a game piece among its rectilinear neighbors. "Looking out the window, I see a lot of green," Mr. Zamprelli said. "We know that's not forever, but it's kind of cool to be our own little thing in the area."

Left, floor-to-ceiling windows at the home of Luke Zamprelli and Muriel Hague in Houston. Second row, from left: the couple; from two views, the home's design stands out in the Acres Homes neighborhood; and the home includes a wood-paneled back porch with fire pit. Third row: The kitchen anchors the center of the home; humble materials and efficient storage are hallmarks of the design. Bottom, from left: Modern-style furniture allows the space to breathe; and a bedroom view is verdant.
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Bold colors and a wooden cowboy grace the home of the voice actor Grey DeLisle.

As the voice of more than 2,500 characters in animated TV shows, movies and video games, including “The Loud House,” “Scooby-Doo” and “The Simpsons,” Grey DeLisle delivers work that is lively and engaging. Her home in Pasadena, Calif., is the same way.

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The exterior of the 1908 Craftsman house is painted in shades of sage green and salmon pink. Inside, original dark wood wain-scoting remains, but is enhanced with walls and ceilings covered in boldly patterned wallpaper. The design of her kitchen is based on a red 1940s O'Keefe & Merritt stove. And her dining room is centered on a life-size wooden cowboy sculpture named Slim that she bought when she was 24.

Right, clockwise from near right: the voice actor Grey DeLisle's kitchen has a vintage O'Keefe & Merritt stove and colorful ceramics from Fireclay Tile; a washer and dryer are concealed with curtains; the primary bathroom and the children's bathroom are a study in contrasts; the two children's bedrooms were given as much vintage character as the rest of the house; and "a dark, sexy bedroom" was designed for Ms. DeLisle.

"It's the longest relationship I've had with a man," said Ms. DeLisle, now 52, because she has been married and divorced three times.

Ms. DeLisle, who is also an accomplished singer-songwriter, remodeled the home with Lucie Ayres, the founder of 22 Interiors, a design firm with a portfolio of upscale, edited projects that usually favor neutrals.

"She has this minimalist, very precise vibe," Ms. DeLisle said of Ms. Ayres, "and I have a drugstore cowboy."

Yet after working together for 12 years on Ms. DeLisle's various homes, in Los Angeles and Nashville, the designer and homeowner seem to have found balance in each other.

"She is not afraid of color," Ms. Ayres said, noting that Ms. DeLisle collects antiques and art, including an ever expanding collection of painted nudes. "It's always such a pleasure, and stimulating, to be working with her."

When they began working on their latest project in Pasadena, “I knew the space had to have as much personality as she does,” Ms. Ayres said. “It had to be colorful, bright and happy, which is not the easiest thing to do in a Craftsman where you’re keeping all of the original dark woodwork.”

Ms. DeLisle originally bought the 2,000-square-foot house in 2007 for \$1.5 million with her second husband. When they went through what Ms. DeLisle described as “an extremely amicable divorce” a few years later, she didn’t want to uproot her eldest son, so she moved out while her son and her former husband remained in the home.

Ms. DeLisle eventually remarried, had two more children and moved to a much larger home in Glendale, Calif., of about 4,300 square feet. The property was so large that she had space to build two accessory dwelling units in the backyard, which she rented out to help offset the cost of the mortgage.

A couple of years ago, however, a confluence of factors convinced Ms. DeLisle that it was time to downsize and return to the house in Pasadena.

One was that she tired of the lack of privacy that came from having multiple tenants. Her former husband also planned to move out of the Pasadena house, and when Ms. DeLisle contemplated selling it, her eldest son expressed some reservations.

Above, clockwise from top left: Ms. DeLisle at home with Luther; the living room, loaded with color; Slim, a wooden cowboy, standing proud in the dining room; the exterior has been repainted and a water-conserving yard of native plantings, stone and gravel has been put into place; Ms. DeLisle remodeled the 1908 home with the help of Lucie Ayres, the founder of the 22 Interiors design firm.

"He had just left for college, and I think he was feeling very nostalgic, and he goes: 'Gosh, I wish we could keep it. It's weird to be losing the house I grew up in,'" Ms. DeLisle said. "And I thought: 'You know what? Yeah, it's much smaller and easier to manage.'"

She sold the house in Glendale, and moved back to her old house with her two younger children, now 9 and 12, in September 2024.

She had the exterior painted with its new pink and green color scheme, and tore out the lawn, which she replaced with a water-conserving landscape of native plantings, stone pavers and gravel. Inside, she and Ms. Ayres lined the upper walls and ceiling of the foyer in vibrant Honeysuckle & Tulip wallpaper, a William Morris design from 1876.

In the living room, where Ms. DeLisle keeps a jukebox, they installed Zak + Fox wallpaper with a pattern recalling ivy vines and added a deep red velvet sofa and an armchair in ikat-inspired Pierre Frey fabric.

In the dining room, as well as installing Slim, they covered the ceiling in geometric Scalamandré wallpaper and hung a large chandelier of suspended green glass tubes from SoHo Home. In the kitchen, they sourced a retro-looking red fridge and dishwasher from Smeg to coordinate with the vintage stove, and installed custom Fireclay Tile in shades of blue and red on the walls and yellow and white on the floor.

Ms. Ayres moved walls to create a proper primary suite, which the house previously lacked. She made the primary bedroom dark, with aubergine walls, a ceiling covered in more floral wallpaper, and a bed with a tufted teal velvet headboard. The walls are hung with many of Ms. DeLisle's collected nudes.

"When you meet her, there's something that makes you think, 'This woman deserves a dark, sexy bedroom,' Ms. Ayres said. "I don't know how else to put it."

Indeed, the whole house, which cost about \$400,000 to renovate, including new furniture, has a luxurious, intimate feel that seems fitting for a woman who prefers wearing vintage evening gowns when others might choose athleisure.

"I tell my kids, 'I know what sweatpants are, but I don't own any,' Ms. DeLisle said. "And that's true."

AT HOME WITH EMMY ROSSUM

In Her Dream Apartment, Everything Has Its Place

THE DINING ROOM

By ADDIE MORFOOT Photographs By KATHERINE MARKS

When Emmy Rossum was growing up on the Upper East Side and sharing a one-bedroom apartment with her mother, she longed for her own space.

"I remember being 8, 9, 10 years old and looking at these incredible apartments in my neighborhood and being like, 'One day,' said Ms. Rossum, 39.

That day came in 2018, when the actress and her husband, Sam Esmail, the creator of “Mr. Robot,” bought a five-bedroom apartment on the Upper East Side not far from where she grew up. “Being in and around the places that I went when I was growing up here and getting to recreate the memories that I had as a child with my children was really important to me,” she said. After a long gut renovation, the couple moved into their 4,400-square-foot home a month before their first child was born in 2021. Their second child arrived in 2023.

Ms. Rossum's career began on the Upper West Side when she was 7 and cast in the children's

THE LIVING ROOM chorus at the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center. That job led to movie roles in "The Day After Tomorrow," "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Mystic River." She is now starring in the Hulu series "Furious," about an F.B.I. agent searching for a serial killer.

Ms. Rossum is best known for playing Fiona Gallagher on the television series "Shameless." She moved to Los Angeles full time to film the show in 2010, but kept a pied-à-terre in Sutton Place during some of those years of filming. "I always had one foot in New York," she said.

On a wall overlooking the dining room table is an Arthur Elgort photo titled "Kate Moss at Café Lipp in Paris," right. It was a gift from John Wells, the "Shameless" showrunner. "He said the energy reminded him of me," Ms. Rossum said.

Ms. Rossum appeared in nine of the series' 11 seasons. She made headlines in 2016 when she successfully sought to eliminate the pay gap between her and her co-star William H. Macy. The pay equity dispute made news again after Ms. Rossum discussed the matter last month on an episode of the podcast “Call Her Daddy.” “I feel like it’s an important issue for people to be thinking about,” she said. “I’m proud and happy to have been part of positive change, but we have a long way to go.”

Among Ms. Rossum's possessions is a Yamaha upright piano. It used to be in the apartment she shared with her mother. "The apartment was too small to have both an entryway table and a piano, so it doubled as both," the actress said. "Our keys would go in a bowl on top of the piano."

Opposite the piano are an Inuit artifact and two stone bears purchased during a trip to Alaska with her mother, right, top and bottom. “We went on this cruise, and they had a talent show,” Ms. Rossum said. “I was 7 at the time, and I sang, ‘If I Were King of the Forest’ from ‘The Wizard of Oz.’ After the cruise, we backpacked for about three weeks.”

On the coffee table is a first edition of “The Stanley Kubrick Archives,” above, far right. Ms. Rossum and her husband purchased the Taschen book at the Los Angeles County Museum of

Art's Stanley Kubrick exhibition in 2013.

"That was one of the first times we really hung out," Ms. Rossum said. "He loves Kubrick."

Ms. Rossum said her apartment was always tidy. "I'm a Virgo," she said. "Everything needs to have a place. My husband is also a Virgo. We like a label."

THE KITCHEN

Ms. Rossum and her family spend most of their time in the kitchen. The room is not only clean and organized — every item in the refrigerator is neatly placed and labeled — it's also child-friendly. "The floors and kitchen island countertop are composite, not a real marble," Ms. Rossum said. "You can't stain it, and it's very hard to crack it. I wanted it to be very, very durable."

A drawing by Ms. Rossum's 5-year-old daughter is taped to the wall, right. She drew it after a family trip to Orlando.

"The picture is of her and her brother riding on a doughnut on the lazy river," Ms. Rossum said.

"At night before they go to sleep, I say to them, 'What color is your doughnut?' And they pick their imaginary doughnut color. And then I say, 'OK, I'll find you on the lazy river.'"

THE MOVIE THEATER

The family of four eat their meals at the kitchen's L-shaped corner nook. "Our designer calls it a banquette, but we call it a booth," Ms. Rossum said. "Sam really wanted it to feel like an old-school diner. We both love a diner."

A small bedroom, a half bathroom and a library were knocked down to build the soundproof movie theater.

HER CLOSET

"We love hosting lots of friends for watch parties," Ms. Rossum said. "I have lots of little glass bowls that I'll fill with different candies, and we have popcorn. We watched the World Cup final here." Mr. Esmail was rooting for Spain. Ms. Rossum was rooting for her husband. "I had no dog in the race," she said. "I've honestly never watched soccer a day in my life."

A framed original French poster of Kubrick's 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey" hangs in the movie theater. Ms. Rossum bought it at Posteritati, the vintage movie poster gallery on Centre Street. "We've actually never watched that film together, but it's one of my husband's favorite movies, so I bought it," Ms. Rossum said.

Ms. Rossum's closet reflects her minimalist approach to her home. "I don't have anything more than this," she said.

Next to pieces designed by Yves Saint Laurent are two vintage purses made by Ralph Lauren, top right. Ms. Rossum wore both purses while promoting “The Phantom of the Opera” in 2004. “I got to be dressed almost exclusively in Ralph

Lauren," she said. "Sometimes they let you keep the accessories."

A New York Knicks hat signed by John Starks is also in the closet, above right. "I just loved him as a kid," she said. "He was very expressive, and that resonated with me."

Before she took her dog, Pepper, for a walk, Ms. Rossum's mother, who still lives in the

apartment where the actress grew up, stopped by. It's one of many perks of having returned to the neighborhood.

"My best friend from childhood, who used to live across the street, now lives three floors below me," she said. "We can see our neighbors from our kitchen table. It's a community feel. It's one of the reasons why I love living here."

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A desirable Syracuse apartment complex spiraled after private equity took control.

By CHRISTOPHER MAAG

Augustus Grissett spent three decades running the drug-abuse clinic at a hospital in Queens. His wife, Beverly, toured the world as a folk singer for 20 years. After raising a son and two children from Beverly's first marriage, they moved in 2005 from New York City to Syracuse.

They were thrilled to move into Nob Hill, a sprawling rental complex along the southern edge of the city. With 761 apartments in four buildings spread across 28 acres, the property featured a swimming pool, a gym and well-kept lawns.

Their neighbors were politicians, lawyers, university professors and factory managers.

And around Syracuse, Nob Hill even had a nickname: Snob Hill.

"It was a fantastic spot," said their son Gus Grissett Jr., who helped his parents move into a ground-floor apartment in Building 3. "It was where the elite seemed to live."

But after 15 years, things at Nob Hill started going downhill.

In January, Ms. Grissett entered the hospital. Her husband, at age 78, was still work-CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

Six months after a fatal early-morning fire at the Nob Hill apartment complex — where, at one time, “the elite seemed to live” — Building 3 remains empty.

Condo for Sale. It's Just for Your Car.

Some New Yorkers are willing to pay apartment-like prices for prime parking spots.

By ELIZA SHAPIRO

The listing seemed too good to be true.

A prime Park Slope location in a prewar building, close to public transportation and great restaurants, for just \$250,000, along with common charges of \$400 a month.

But in New York City real estate, there's always a catch.

"This is a parking spot for sale, not a stu-

Parking in the city is famously annoying, with many car-owning residents doomed to circle the block unto eternity (Sisyphus, take the wheel). And so perhaps it should be no surprise that a collection of real estate developers, brokers and entrepreneurs are eager to help New Yorkers find ways to make parking more convenient — for a price.

At Alyssa Morris's tabloid-famous "free-standing dedicated condominium garage" at 841 Union Street in Brooklyn, that price is a quarter-million or more. A bigger spot, for a bigger car, might cost \$350,000, said Ms. Morris, a broker for Compass. She said she had sold five parking spots in the Park Slope structure over the last year. This latest listing would make six.

The buyers, Ms. Morris said, have mostly been nearby townhouse owners who spent millions of dollars on their homes and then didn't want to have to deal with street parking. After all, once you drop the kind of money it takes to buy a townhouse near Prospect Park, what's another couple hundred grand? "It seems like a lot of money, and it is," Ms. Morris said. "But maybe in the grand scheme of their purchase, it's not."

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A "free-standing dedicated condominium garage."

Other Brooklyn car owners might opt for a spot at the Parking Club, a condominium building reserved solely for vehicles with a stately brick facade in Cobble Hill. The club advertises itself as “a luxury parking facility,” and encourages would-be members to “give your car the home it deserves.” One of its available spots is currently on sale for \$195,000, with monthly fees of about \$300.

"Let your garage space be an appreciating asset in one of Brooklyn's most prestigious neighborhoods," says the club's website.

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At ‘The Daily Show,’ Keeping Spirits Up and the Barking Down

Jen Flanz laughs a lot. And after 28 years at “The Daily Show” — where she started as a production assistant, and has been showrunner since 2018 — she knows a good joke when she hears one. “I used to say to Trevor, if we’re having fun in here, you’ll feel it onscreen,” Ms. Flanz, 50, said, referring to Trevor Noah, a former host.

From the moment she wakes up, she's fielding messages with joke ideas, news that's gaining traction, who's going to be out sick that day — no aspect of running the show is too small. "I don't think I could ever give it up," she said.

She lives on the East Side of Manhattan with her dog, Colonel Vivian Mustard, and spends time with her partner, Andrew Skala, 50, and his two children. She spent a recent Tuesday with The New York Times during a live taping and a late-night treat run. TALIA BARRINGTON

5:09 P.M. From Monday to Thursday, Ms. Flanz's days are dominated by planning the "laughternoon meeting," approving script changes and making last-minute tweaks with department heads. "I joke around that I'm always just moving from a bigger room to a smaller room, to a bigger room, back to a smaller room," she said. "All day."

5:35 P.M. Jon Stewart has referred to Ms. Flanz as “the heart and soul of the team,” and to many, she’s also the show therapist, with a side gig as team doctor. Behind her desk is a cornucopia of cold and flu remedies. “We do kind of sick shame,” she said, laughing. If anyone sounds “even a little nasal,” out come the vitamin C and ginger shots.

Originally from Rockland County, Ms. Flanz is still close with a large circle of friends from her childhood, including her partner of five years, Andrew Skala. Whenever they talk about high school to anyone who wasn't there, Ms. Flanz said, she'd been told it sounded like a movie. "It was a really special place," she said.

Ms. Flanz has worked on other projects over the years, but her heart has always been with "The Daily Show." Even though she is part of the process as jokes are being written, Ms. Flanz was very clear that she's not a comedian. "I'm a really good comedy editor," she said. "I don't want to get on-stage."

Ms. Flanz was at the helm when “The Daily Show” shifted to an at-home format during the Covid pandemic. She also was in charge while the show navigated the departure of Trevor Noah, through its era of guest hosts, to the current model of rotating hosts and correspondents.

Despite all these changes, she feels very little need to micromanage. "Every single person in their position is the right person for that position," she said.

Since joining the show in 1998, Ms. Flanz has worked in multiple roles, at every level. If someone jogs her memory, she said she could remember nearly everything they'd shot. While the focus is news and current events, Ms. Flanz said it was a comedy show first. "I think people are thirsty for a reason to laugh about what's going on in the world," she said.

6:30 P.M. "The Daily Show" received seven Emmy nominations this season, to go with dozens and dozens of awards over its 30-year run. Ms. Flanz said that the culture of the show and the team behind it were what made her most proud.

Ms. Flanz credits Michele Ganeless, the former Comedy Central president, as an inspiration for her leadership philosophy. "Everybody liked her, but she was still smart, and in control, and made good decisions, and was pragmatic," Ms. Flanz said. "And I'm like, oh, you can do both."

"At 6 o'clock we go," Ms. Flanz said. Having a live audience keeps everyone honest, she explained. You can't run late — the longer an audience sits there, the less they laugh — and you have to stick to the pacing of the material. Throughout the show, Ms. Flanz fielded Slack messages and texts, while keeping an eye on the script as each segment was completed.

Even though they had read the script and watched rehearsals before the live taping, Ms. Flanz and Zhubin Parang, co-executive producer and writer, laughed as hard as the audience. Ms. Flanz said she was realistic: It's not perfect every night, but there have definitely been some "bangers." "You're always trying to beat your own best score, right?" she said.

6:58 P.M. After the show, Ms. Flanz; the host, Jordan Klepper; and the show directors and producers typically head back to the meeting rooms for a post-mortem about anything that went "crazy wrong" and what will go online if the taping ran over the allotted 24 minutes.

Another ritual: Before every live taping, Ms. Flanz and Mr. Parang will pick out a few

Top, the showrunner Jen Flanz, described as "the heart and soul" of the team behind the Emmy-winning "Daily Show." Right middle, with the show's host, Jordan Klepper. Above, with her dog, Colonel Vivian Mustard, after returning home.

A TV executive brings candy, a sense of humor and a dog to the job.

pieces of their favorite candy to bring into the studio.

7:58 P.M. Despite a high-intensity work-life, Ms. Flanz still makes time for friends and family — they just are used to her sometimes arriving a little late. “I think she’s been at the show for so long, that it’s just part of her DNA,” said Mr. Skala, who joined her at Anita Gelato on the Upper East Side.

Mr. Skala's children, Emmerson, 17, and Brody, 19, came too. "I'm lucky," Ms. Flanz said. She didn't have her own children, but she's close with her nieces and nephews, and Mr. Skala's family.

8:20 P.M. Their social group couldn't believe it when the couple first began dating five years ago. "We were the hot goss of the 45-year-olds," Ms. Flanz joked. They met in junior high, and he was the president of their high school student council and she was the secretary. They now split their time between Chappaqua, N.Y., and New York City.

Colonel Vivian Mustard is a 5-year-old rescue. Staff members can bring dogs to work at "The Daily Show," and Ms. Flanz credits the practice with helping de-stress the whole team. Her office has a dog bed, toys and treats, and a custom gate that lets Ms. Flanz keep her door open, all indicating that Vivian is a regular visitor.

8:35 P.M. Ms. Flanz loves living near the quiet of the East River. The blended family sat for a while before Vivian's evening walk. Mr. Skala and Brody played tic-tac-toe. "Boom!" Brody said, after scoring a row for the second time. Mr. Skala laughed. "As a dad, I let you win," he said.

8:50 P.M. When Ms. Flanz graduated from Binghamton University, she didn't think she'd ever be a showrunner. "I just wanted to work in TV," she said. Looking back, it makes sense. The pace, the deadlines — it all suits her more than anything else she can imagine. "People ask me all the time, 'What do you want to do after this?' But why does there have to be an after?"

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Best Advice

DEARDIARY:

In the early 1970s, a year out of college, I flew into New York on a late flight.

As the 747 began its descent into J.F.K., I turned to the man next to me.

"Is New York your home?" I asked.

"Yes," he replied. "I've lived in the city all my life."

I asked if he had any advice for a first-time visitor.

He paused and looked me over.

"Listen," he said, "everything you have ever heard about New York City is true, the good and the bad."

In a fatherly voice he continued, "My best advice is to stay out of Times Square after dark."

After getting off the plane, I found an accommodation service at the airport to help me find a hotel.

"It needs to be cheap," I emphasized to the receptionist.

She told me she had one vacancy that met my criterion. I wrote down the name and phone number.

"Do you still have a vacant room?" I asked the clerk who answered the phone. "Where is it, and how do I get there?"

"Easy," he said. "We're right in the middle of Times Square." I gulped.

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"I've been told it's not safe to be in Times Square late at night," I said.

"Yeah," the clerk said. "Look, here's what you do. Stand up, real big and tall. Shoulders back, chin up. Put a tough swagger in your step and a smirk on your face. Anybody who sees you will think you're the one who's going to cause trouble."

I hung up and looked at my reflection in the darkened window glass. I stood up, pulled my shoulders back and practiced a few tough-guy faces. I checked the time.

It was after midnight. THOMAS DARBY

Gusty Day

DEARDIARY:

It was an early evening on a hot, extremely windy summer day, and I was walking headfirst into the humid gusts on my way to eat

Something Healthy DEARDIARY:

I was visiting my son, who had been dumped by a woman he might have thought he would marry someday. He didn't eat. He didn't sleep. Of course I was worried.

I stayed at a hotel a few blocks south of the tiny apartment he shared in Kips Bay and walked back and forth during my stay.

One night, pretty late, I headed

my takeout dinner on the Battery Park City Esplanade.

I paused while waiting to cross West Street. Across the street from me, a man in athletic clothes was jogging in place on the landout to sit with him through a fresh wave of sorrow. On the way, I stopped at a basement-level store for a snack.

"Do you have an apple, a yogurt, something sort of healthy?" I asked the man behind the counter.

"Figs?" he suggested. "Figs are very healthy."

He handed me a bag of figs. Then he asked, "Would you like one of these?"

He passed me a samosa from a heated glass case. I felt it would be rude to refuse. He took one as well and spread it with something from a jar.

"Try it with this sauce," he said. It was delicious.

We ate the samosas, I paid for the figs and went on my way.

My son is moving from Kips Bay as soon as he can. Too many memories. But I will hold onto mine of the warm samosa with sauce.

SAMANTHA SPARKS

scaped median, the wind at his back.

When the light changed, I started to cross. I noticed that the man kept jogging in place rather than resuming his run.

Just then, a man pushing a stroller entered the median, wind at his back as well. Still jogging in place, the runner gracefully extended his hand, which held a baseball hat. The man with the stroller accepted it with thanks.

The wind continued to blow, and the two men continued on in the same direction, the runner sprinting ahead and the man with the stroller gripping the hat tightly.

MARISA LORENZO

On the F

DEAR DIARY:

I was on an F train hurtling to-ward Jackson Heights.

From behind me I heard a woman ask someone, "What would ever possess you to play the ukulele while making tomato sauce?"

Then, as if to affirm just how

Bag Check

DEAR DIARY:

Entering the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I was directed to a table to have my bag checked.

The guard reached her stick into the bag and poked around for unseemly this behavior was, she added, "We are in Queens, N.Y., not on planet Mars."

Although I was curious about who was speaking and to whom, I resisted the urge to turn around and look. It seemed best to leave this New York interlude shrouded in mystery.

STEPHEN BREWER

what seemed an inordinate amount of time.

"Is everything OK?" another guard asked.

"Yeah," the first guard said. "I like the bag and I'm looking for the label." ANGEL ZIMICK

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Nuns Unite for a Shared Mission

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SUCH A MOVING STORY; I have tears in my eyes. I went to Catholic school, first grade through college, in Philadelphia, and into corporate life in Manhattan with an excellent grounding in every subject imaginable, because of the selfless dedication of nuns. What a lot of people don't realize is that, in the earlier 20th century, many women who wanted to lead enterprises, especially colleges, did so by entering the convent. Nuns were the precursors to modern women for whom careers granted them extraordinary personal agency and professional clout, without having to marry into it. After the horrific events of 9/11, I left the corporate world for nonprofits, and had the privilege of working with a group of nuns from the order of Sisters of St. Joseph, at a small college in Rutland, Vt. Now, those ladies liked to party! And, they were brilliant — mathematicians, scientists, business experts. One of them helped us raise money by knocking on doors of local businessmen and guilting them into donating!

LIZ DiMARCO WEINMANN, RUTLAND, VT.

FANTASTIC ARTICLE. The nuns are alive and thriving in Africa continuing the tradition of education, health care and social services. Some 44 years ago in Uganda, an Irish nun/doctor trained and mentored me to become a better me. Old age and infirmity catch up with all of us, and it's good to read of a community that has adapted to provide more dignity and purpose in the final years of life.

DR. ALEX COUTINHO, KAMPALA, UGANDA

I WENT TO CATHOLIC SCHOOLS taught by nuns from kindergarten to eighth grade. Then in high school, I was taught by Irish Christian Brothers. I credit the time with the nuns for any academic success that I've had. Although they were tough at times, they were also very caring. And we had great discipline in the school. I learned great habits, and there was structure that I've carried through in my life. All of my children have gone to Catholic schools, and my daughter went to Notre Dame. The world could do a lot worse than having more nuns and more Catholic schools.

JOHN DeFILIPPO, HOUSTON

I AM A PROUD GRADUATE of the only Black Catholic university in the country, Xavier University of Louisiana, a historically Black institution founded in New Orleans a century ago by St. Katharine Drexel. I lived in the House of Studies, 40 girls and

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From left, Sister Joanne Fallon, Sister Mary Stephen Healey, Sister Mary Alice O'Brien and Sister Jane Keegan. They found a new home at the Wartburg care center in Mount Vernon, N.Y.

40 nuns, and my hero was Sister Beatrice Jeffries, or Sister Bea as we all called her, from Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. She would leave little notes of encouragement on our doors, and even though this was the late '80s, I still cherish one she left me that said, "The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude." We lost her much too young to cancer, but reading this article brought her back, if only in spirit.

NATALIE CASH, NEW YORK

A LOVELY PIECE ON a vanishing group of admirable human beings. When there is such an abundance of chaos, greed and narcissism doing the rounds, it's inspiring to know there still exist humans whose purpose is a steady, daily giving of self. They bless those they serve and are a blessing themselves. Bring on the wine: Each drop is richly deserved! AMEN!

SHIRLEY MEYER-SOLÓRZANO, RALEIGH, N.C.

HAVING ATTENDED A CATHOLIC school in the 1960s, in a small neighborhood in Denver, I feel we were fortunate to have some very interesting women who were nuns and excellent teachers. Sister Julia managed a class of 60 fifth graders without a problem. She was our teacher the day that J.F.K. was assassinated and made sure we had a safe place to go when classes were canceled. The discipline learned in school and at home has stayed with me for years. I'm now 73 and value my education through university and in life. But it began with the nuns.

ANN MOORE, EUGENE, ORE.

I ATTENDED A CATHOLIC school in the 1960s, and we just had nuns, no lay teachers. When my daughters attended a Catholic school in the mid-1990s, there were only two nuns, and Sister Mary Martin Delahanty was one of them. She was well loved. DENISE ALEXANDER, PAWTUCKET, R.I.

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Everette Green in the backyard of the Brooklyn residence where he works with people with developmental disabilities, often imparting advice as a formerly incarcerated New Yorker who grew up poor.

A Rocky Start Helped Lay a Solid Foundation

By ELIZA SHAPIRO

Everette Green never thought he'd live to see his 60th birthday. Thirty-six years ago, he left a drug rehabilitation center, where he'd stayed for several years after a few months in prison for selling drugs.

To get his life back on track, Mr. Green chose social work as a career, where he could spend his days helping other New Yorkers who were struggling just as he was. He was able to save enough money to buy a house in Canarsie, Brooklyn, where he raised his two children.

"Sixty years old wasn't in my vocabulary," Mr. Green said. "This is a whole new chapter I'm living right now. Now all I need to do is live, and enjoy it."

Now that Mr. Green, 63, is approaching retirement age, he's asking questions of himself he never imagined he'd get the opportunity to consider.

How much money does he need to comfortably retire, while still being able to enjoy the city he was born and raised in? He knows it's more than what he earns now, about \$40,000 a year, making \$21 an hour. At work, he supports people with developmental disabilities living in a Brooklyn residence run by the social services organization the New York Foundling.

He is hoping that politicians will endorse a recent push to raise the hourly pay to \$29 for nonprofit employees like him, who work directly with New Yorkers.

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A Home That Will Last

You never know what your children thought about their childhoods until they're grown up. So when Mr. Green overheard his son telling friends at the Knicks' victory parade in June that he spent every summer swimming in the pool in his backyard, Mr. Green felt a jolt of pride.

Mr. Green grew up in public housing on Staten Island with three sisters and a single mother, and "didn't have much" as a child, he said. "I made sure my kids had more than what I had."

That has required decades of hard work. Mr. Green bought his house for about \$235,000 more than 30 years ago, and it's now worth more than \$1 million, he said.

He has worked diligently to maintain the home, so that he could share it with his family. He has never had to have a tenant to bring in extra money, he said.

Mr. Green says he hates paying bills but makes sure he is never late on them.

He finished paying off his mortgage just last year, after about three decades of monthly payments of \$1,400.

His property taxes and insurance cost about \$10,000 a year combined, so he makes sure to set aside that money at the beginning of the year. He spends about \$200 a month on electricity in the summer, when his ConEd bills are highest, and as much as \$800 for gas in the winter.

He pays someone about \$600 to keep his lawn trimmed in summer and fall, but he mostly insists on shoveling his own driveway after snowstorms, despite his family's protests.

Mr. Green shoveled snow for extra cash when he was a child and said he refused to pay someone else \$100 to deprive him of a good workout. He puts on his headphones and dances his way through the task. He dances so enthusiastically, he said, that he often draws the attention of his neighbors, who come to their windows to watch.

Hard-Earned Work Ethic

Much of Mr. Green's work helping adults with disabilities revolves around helping them accomplish daily tasks, as well as helping them set longer-term goals, especially around money. He has plenty of wisdom to impart as a formerly incarcerated New Yorker who grew up poor.

“What I learned, I taught them,” he said. “I told them my life story, I told them I was homeless, I was on drugs, I was in jail. That’s why I have my work ethic.”

For years, Mr. Green commuted from Brooklyn to the Bronx for work, taking a bus, then a subway, then another bus. He is proud that his children have also become hard workers; his son commutes from Pennsylvania to Queens for his job as an engineer for the Fire Department.

He has tried to instill his love for sales and comparison shopping with his clients and his children.

"If it's not on sale, I'm not getting it," Mr. Green said. Last month, he bought a carton of milk at BJ's for \$3.09, he said, and when he went back recently, it was \$4.49. So he started searching for a better price somewhere else.

Being a committed coupon cutter has allowed him to save money to splurge. He has saved up for his daughter's birthday dinner in September, when he'll treat the whole family to a meal at a seafood restaurant on Long Island or in Brooklyn, which he expects will cost \$700 to \$1,000.

"The bill is no problem," he said.

Summer Is Charcoal Time

Summer is Mr. Green's season. The way he knows it's really summer in the city is when he starts buying tickets to outdoor concerts with his son.

His philosophy is to buy relatively cheap tickets to expensive concerts — "just get me into the building," he says. He spent \$200 on tickets for a Bruno Mars concert in August.

This is also the time of year when Mr. Green can partake in his favorite pastime: grilling. He stocked up with 80 pounds of charcoal at the beginning of the summer, taking advantage of the Home Depot Memorial Day sale. He will load up on charcoal again for next summer at the Labor Day sale.

He's known in his neighborhood for his jerk chicken and hamburgers, and for his refusal to ever cook turkey or any other lean meats. He used to volunteer to grill at his son's football games at Canarsie High School, and these days friends occasionally hire him to cook for \$200 a day at basketball tournaments they organize in the neighborhood, or for big parties in their backyards. When he works over the weekend and helps out at a party on the same day, he'll be up before 5 a.m., marinating meat for his neighbors to grill.

"Every now and then I come out of retirement," he said, to cook for a big occasion, like his sister's upcoming birthday party in Delaware.

He's already looking forward to next summer, when he's hoping to get the pool in shape again, years after his own children grew up and moved out, for his 5-year-old granddaughter.

"I have a grandbaby," he said, "and that's my world."

'I made sure my kids had more than what I had.'

From above: Mr. Green scrolling on his phone while riding the bus to his job; showing off his grill, the site of his favorite pastime and sometimes a source of extra income; picking up coupons on his walk to work; purchasing a beverage at a deli near the bus stop.

New Yorkers Are Lining Up for Last-Chance Sushi

PHOTOGRAPHS BY KAREEM BLACK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Get there early for discounts after 8 p.m. at more and more stores.

By EMMETT LINDNER

On a warm Thursday this summer, the line began to form around 7:45 p.m. inside a small shop in Manhattan. Customers snaked through the aisles, small bounties in hand. Soon, more than 50 people were packed into the store, waiting for the clock to strike 8.

They weren't chasing the latest viral food craze, or a merch drop from an indie fashion brand.

They wanted sushi, and they wanted it for 50 percent off.

New Yorkers have gotten used to waiting in is-it-even-worth-it lines for meals and shelling out \$20 for a salad or a smoothie. But at a proliferating assortment of East Asian grocery chains selling fresh Japanese meals, city dwellers and visitors may have at last found a true bargain.

That is, if they're willing to wait until 8 p.m. for half-off sushi, sashimi and onigiri.

"In New York City, it's a great deal," said Jodie Goldberg, 34, who had arrived at Ten Ichi Mart — which has locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens — around 7:40 p.m. and had several packaged rolls in her basket.

The scene inside the Ten Ichi Mart is repeated nightly at similar stores — Hashi Market, Sakura Market, Genkiya Mart and others — most nights of the week.

As the customers at the front check out, people in the back of the line, some spilling into the street, grab what remains from the refrigerated shelves. The products, fresh throughout the day, would find their fate at the bottom of a trash can should they not be sold before closing time.

The crowd gathers. The cashier motions. The procession begins.

"In a world full of places that are trying to scam you, not Ten Ichi Mart after 8," she added.

To get the best sushi and nigiri, you have to get there early.

The sushi is not what you'd find at omakase counters where you might spend hundreds of dollars. But some of the stores prepare the sushi just for the evening crowd because it's become so popular. Hungry New Yorkers spend \$6 on a package of spicy crunchy salmon that would have cost \$12 minutes before.

Sushi has transitioned from its 1980s mystique in America to be-

coming a staple. A sushi dinner from a restaurant may remain pricey — at the popular restaurant Sugarfish, where diners wait more than an hour to be seated, the cheapest meal costs \$34.

Many American diners are willing to enjoy convenient, no-frills Japanese-inspired meals from all manner of grocers.

That's called retail sushi, or "deli sushi." Last year it was one of the fastest-growing products in supermarkets, according to the research firm Circana. In 2024, retail sushi was a \$2.8 billion business, up 7 percent from 2023, according to Circana. In 2025, the Kroger supermarket chain said sales were up to a million rolls per day.

But not every store offers the discounts that attract throngs of customers.

The margins are thin for the grocers, but everyone comes out a winner.

"The longer you hold the food, potentially the riskier it is," said Donald Schaffner, chair of the department of food science at Rutgers University. "But if that sushi has been properly refrigerated, then it should be OK."

Bill Chen, a manager of Ten Ichi Mart, which opened its first location in 2021, said that sushi was being tossed overnight before the store began the promotion. "It ended up getting popular," he said. "We make sushi just for the promotion."

The discount sales are hard to give up, he said. Mr. Chen said that the company breaks even on the meals but people placing drinks or snacks in their baskets while they wait help the business.

The dynamic is similar at Hashi Market, which will soon open its seventh outlet. The discount at some of its stores is only 30 per-cent.

"We were even thinking of not doing that promotion anymore because the margin is really thin," said Ava Liu, the head of opera-

Below left, the long line that results from half-off sushi at Ten Ichi Mart moves fast. Above, what isn't bought at 8 p.m., might end up at the bottom of a trash can.

tions. "But people are looking for it. They wait to buy the sushi, so it's hard for us to say we can't."

Most sushi is, after all, raw, so do customers need to rush home with their spicy tuna or tamago nigiri?

At the back of the Ten Ichi Mart line, Paul Luyton, 20, a French tourist who seldom eats sushi back home, held a box of salmon avocado rolls. His partner, next to him in line, had told him about the discount.

"She told me this week we need to go to get sushi," Mr. Luyton said. "She saw it on TikTok, the sushi, and it looked nice."

Rachel Chen, 29, held a package of yellowtail-jalapeño and salmon sushi. She said that she takes advantage of the deal three times a month when she gets out of work later than usual.

If the line gets too long, she said, it's not worth the wait.

By about 8:20 p.m. most nights, the only sign that a line of sushi gourmands had ever existed at many of the stores is a barren refrigerator.

It awaits the next day's bounty, and a queue of deal-seeking New Yorkers eager to eat.

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Macy's Thanksgiving Is a Summer Feast for Influencers

PHOTOGRAPHS BY GRAHAM DICKIE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Months before the beloved parade's 100th staging, a tour, champagne and a red carpet.

By SARAH MASLIN NIR

We still have Labor Day, Halloween, Veterans Day and even National Taco Day to celebrate between now and the end of November.

But on a Tuesday evening in August, 36 people, most of them internet influencers, gathered around a resplendent Thanksgiving feast. They tucked into green-bean casserole and stuffing, cranberry sauce and candied yams, and, of course, turkey, in a warehouse the size of an airplane hangar in an industrial pocket of New Jersey.

"I love this so much," Deanna Giulietti, a Broadway influencer with 1.8 million TikTok followers, exclaimed at the dinner. "Why don't I eat this any other time of year?" Macy's hosted and held the dinner on Tuesday — exactly 100 days out from what will be the 100th promenade of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

The event was held in the retailer's parade workshop in Moonachie, N.J., a 72,000-square-foot wonderland filled with Snoopy maquettes, skeletons of floats, and an unfinished balloon with its eyes missing whose identity, the company insisted, must remain a secret.

Seated around a 40-foot-long table was an eclectic mix of Macy's executives and social media influencers who noshed on dinner rolls laser-engraved with their names. Some, like TidyDad (a.k.a. Tyler Moore) were parade superfans. Mr. Moore has been a handler for the Ronald McDonald balloon, and this year he applied to be a clown in the parade. (His application, Macy's said, is still under review.)

Other dinner attendees, like David Guttag, were current and would-be brand ambassadors. His TikTok account StoopandtheCity, which features Mr. Guttag and his wife decorating the stairs of their Upper East Side brownstone, has landed collaborations with brands like Lego and Hellmann's mayonnaise.

The party gathered first at Macy's flagship store in Herald Square, where guests bundled into a fleet of Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans bearing names on their windshields of historical parade figures like Tony Sarg, a puppeteer who introduced the parade's now-iconic balloons in 1928.

Inside one van, a 31-year-old guide, Fernando Moya Delgado, spent the ride quizzing passengers on their parade knowledge. (For example: "What's a trycaloon?" Answer: A balloon-tricycle hybrid.)

A red carpet was lined by waiters offering champagne and an amuse-bouche of candied yams greeted the guests, who prome-

'Ninety-nine years ago, a team at Macy's had an idea and a dream.'

naded into the warehouse with iPhones expertly trained on their faces, selfie-ing every moment.

Inside, Brendan Kennedy, the parade's director of creative production, gave a tour of the workshop. The first exhibit: an enormous turkey with animatronic eyes named Tom Jr. — the son, Macy's representatives explained, of Tom Turkey Sr., the parade's 21-foot-tall grand marshal, and the longest-running float in the lineup.

Next was the wood shop, which is typically presided over by a former shipbuilder named John Cheney, 79, who has had a hand hammering, nailing and whittling nearly everything in the parade for 51 years.

Their phone cameras ever at the ready, the influencers were strictly warned against sneaking pictures in the next room, where balloons in various stages of inflation were tethered to the floor. Some of the creatures had recently returned from a secret test flight in July at the Prudential Center in Newark. As the group shuffled past the top-secret balloon still awaiting its eyes, the selfie prohibition was again stressed.

Then, right there on the shop floor, an ersatz Thanksgiving dinner. The guests who took their seats were mostly of a tamer milieu than the typical clickbaiter; some were so-called momfluencers, who admired the table settings and asked for the recipe for the casserole. At one point, dancing down table-side, came a stick of butter bearing a striking resemblance to Mr. Delgado, the van quizmaster.

“Ninety-nine years ago, a team at Macy’s had an idea and a dream,” said Will Coss, the parade’s executive producer, as guests drank cocktails with names like Miracle on

34th Street. "It's not something we take at all lightly."

With great solemnity, he proceeded to speak of the parade's long-retired tradition of releasing the enormous balloons at its terminus, each tagged with a Macy's gift certificate.

Only one balloon, a blue hippo, was never returned — “Flying ‘Blue Hippo’ Is Hunted at Sea” a New York Times headline from 1931 read — and its disappearance set off a frenzied search for its \$2,000 prize (about \$45,000 in today’s money).

At this point in Mr. Coss's story, a fleet of waiters suddenly appeared bearing mini-

A preliminary Thanksgiving celebration this month on the shop floor of the Macy's parade workshop in Moonachie, N.J., included a turkey meal with laser-engraved dinner rolls, a marching band and a peek at balloons. The mythical blue hippo — the only Macy's balloon that was released and never recovered — was recreated as a dessert.

marzipan hippopotamuses. The influencers raised their phones and cheered.

In 1926, there were just three local marching bands in the parade; this year there will be a dozen from across the United States.

On Tuesday, as guests finished eating their hippos, a miniature brass band arrived, playing a rousing version of Frank Sinatra's "Theme From New York, New York." Leading the band and waving a baton was a drum major who also bore a striking resemblance to the guide, Mr. Delgado.

"One hundred days until Thanksgiving," Mr. Delgado cheered as he marched around the room. "I can't wait!"

Condominium for Sale, but It's Just for Your Car

The Parking Club in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, which advertises itself as a “luxury parking facility.”
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which has garages across the city, many of them offering parking by the hour, and promises convenience via arrangements that allow owners to order on-site washings and state inspections.

A peek inside the building on a recent afternoon revealed a pretty standard-looking garage with a tidy row of cars, including more than a few Land Rovers and Range Rovers. On the block outside, every free parking spot was taken, even on a summer Friday.

The website for another private parking "condo," this one on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, features a floor plan noting the available parking spots. The building currently has six spaces for sale, each costing between \$165,000 and \$175,000, with monthly charges of around \$500.

That's not a bad deal, according to Kirsten Jordan, a Corcoran broker who said she had sold about 20 spots in that garage. The going rate for a private parking spot in Manhattan can range between \$350,000 and \$750,000 or more, she said. (At 150 Charles Street, a West Village condo building where a unit sold last year for \$60 million, private spots are available for about \$500,000 each. One luxury SoHo building, 42 Crosby Street, had parking spaces for sale for \$1 million when it first opened more than a decade ago.)

Private parking spots are now as in-demand as other luxury building amenities like 24/7 doormen and high-end gyms, Ms.

Jordan said. People pay for the convenience, she said. Besides, a nearby parking space could make a home even more valuable if someone were to sell them together.

But that's not exactly an option for everyone.

"The carrying costs of these parking spaces, it means you're usually paying 40 to 100 percent more than you would renting a space," Ms. Jordan said. "People buy these spaces because it is truly a luxury to own your space."

For the common folk, renting might be the savvier financial choice. Although that, too, is no small expense. Rental spots can range from a few hundred dollars to \$1,000 per month in high-demand areas like Midtown.

And even for those willing to shell out, there's no guarantee that a nearby spot will be available. Wait lists are common at some garages. Spacer, a website that lists monthly parking spots, has a sign-up link where potential renters can receive notifications "to get an exclusive first look at new parking spaces in the area."

In New York, if you can't be rich, it helps to have a guy. And for some residents — ones who can't afford to buy their car a condo — that guy is Rishi Ganesh.

Mr. Ganesh, 23, started the Valet Network, a Brooklyn-based group of parkers for hire in 2024, when he was a senior at New York University. The company charges \$10 to move a car — or \$15 to move a car while the street sweepers come through and then move it back afterward.

Mr. Ganesh said he and his valets — many of them ride-share drivers or former garage attendants — had recently been moving cars for New Yorkers who were out of town on vacation. The valet picks up the car keys, sends a photograph of the spot where the car is moved and returns the keys to a safe location.

Andrew Lyle, a bartender in Brooklyn, was about to leave for vacation in Italy and fretting about what to do with his car when he spotted a sign for the Valet Network in

his neighborhood.

Mr. Lyle was happy to spend \$10 for a val- et to move his car during his vacation, but he said he'd rather deal with alternate-side parking himself when he's in town.

"It's become part of my routine on street sweeping days to double park and call friends and family to pass the time," he said.

Using a valet is a relatively cheap alternative to having a spot of one's own, and a useful one in a city where alternate-side parking rules regularly send harried New Yorkers to take morning Zoom calls from their cars to avoid getting a \$65 ticket while the sweepers do their business.

Sydney Charlet, who calls herself “the Car Sitter,” started moving cars for extra cash during a period of unemployment. Her story was picked up by a few local news outlets, and her business “completely blew up” she said on social media. A phone app is now in the works.

Ms. Charlet advertises her service in particular to real estate brokers who spend their days crisscrossing the city by car.

"Focus on your showings while we watch your car," Ms. Charlet's website says. "Park in standing zones worry free."

Ms. Morris, the Compass broker who sells car “condos” in Park Slope, is one real estate professional who does not need that service. She gave up her own car years ago, after becoming too frustrated with having to move it every few days. These days, she just uses Uber.

A Desirable Syracuse Complex Became ‘Slob Hill’

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ing full time for a nonprofit and spending the rest of his time at his wife's bedside. They needed their son's help, so Gus Jr. flew up from Queens.

He was shocked by what he found. The campus was choked with weeds. Reeking garbage overflowed from dumpsters outside, and trash bags and pizza boxes sat in piles down the hall from his parents' door. Nearby units were supposed to be vacant, but Gus Jr. heard people inside them, bumping around. He assumed they were squatters, taking advantage of broken doors to seek refuge from Syracuse's bitter winters.

In his parents' apartment, the faucets emitted black and green ooze, and the radiators were cold. Building managers offered a space heater, but the elder Mr. Grissett refused, worried about the risk of fire. The apartment was so frigid that he slept in his clothes, including a winter hat.

"It was beyond disgraceful," the younger Mr. Grissett said. "We might as well have been sleeping outside."

Mrs. Grissett died on Valentine's Day. Her son stayed for another two weeks and then flew home to New York to prepare for her memorial service in Queens. His father would take the train to New York three days later, on Feb. 28.

Early that morning, after years of complaints from tenants about growing fire risks, a fire broke out inside Nob Hill's Building 3. In the apartment where the fire started, firefighters found a body.

How did one of the largest and most desirable apartment complexes in New York State deteriorate so precipitously?

To nearly everyone who witnessed its decline, there was a clear answer: A private equity company bought it in 2018 and ran it into the ground.

Everything started to change, tenants and city officials said, when Nob Hill was purchased by an investment group based in Santa Monica, Calif.

At first, tenants said, it was small things: The grass went uncut, and the pool was often closed. Then in 2022, conditions declined significantly. Uncollected garbage overflowed from dumpsters and trash chutes, and the elevators failed. Broken locks were never fixed, inviting squatters to occupy vacant apartments and do drugs in the lobbies.

Nob Hill acquired a new nickname: Slob Hill.

Meanwhile, maintenance was performed by five different management companies over four years. Every time a new manager took over, tenants said, their long-neglected maintenance requests seemed to disappear.

"Things there fell apart," said Syracuse's mayor, Sharon F. Owens, who visited relatives who lived at Nob Hill in the 1990s.

The situation became untenable in 2025. Tenants sued Nob Hill's owners for uninhabitable conditions, and the City of Syracuse sued for code violations. Last month, Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, weighed in with another lawsuit, citing “rampant negligence and violations of tenants’ rights.”

The owners responded with a countersuit, accusing one of the property managers of allowing Nob Hill to spiral out of control, and accusing the city of hampering efforts to fix it up.

"My son and I are serious, thoughtful real estate owners, investors and operators," Patrick Nesbitt, Nob Hill's largest shareholder and leader of the private equity company that purchased the complex in 2018, said in an email. In court filings, he stressed that the ownership group was kept in the dark about the state of the property. "Unfortunately, Nob Hill has been an unmitigated disaster from almost the beginning of our ownership."

In court, tenants expressed fear that the combination of squatters, faulty electrical wiring and failed fire safety systems could lead to disaster.

At one hearing, Sean Stanyon, a tenant who lived in the same building as the Grissetts, testified that the fire alarms and smoke detectors were regularly out of order.

"I'm afraid to sleep at night in case there's a fire," he told the judge.

Weeks later, a fire broke out in Mr. Stanyon's building as he slept.

Skin in the Game

Nob Hill was completed in the early 1970s. By 2018, the longtime owners were looking to sell. Nicholas Sinatra, a real estate developer based in Buffalo, learned of the opportunity through a local real estate company, he said. An investment broker introduced him to Mr. Nesbitt, a hard-charging real estate developer whose company, Windsor Capital Group, owned shopping centers, hotels, apartments and office buildings around the country. He lived on a 43,000-square-foot estate in Montecito, Calif., with stables for 17 horses and a regulation polo field.

After hearing Mr. Sinatra's pitch about Nob Hill, Mr. Nesbitt recruited two of his friends to invest. Teodoro Calle, whose family owns an Ecuadorian construction company, came to own 13 percent. Fred Fellows, an investor in West Palm Beach, Fla., bought 8 percent. Mr. Sinatra also became a minority investor, taking a 4 percent stake. His firm, Sinatra & Co., assumed the role of overseeing the property.

The purchase of Nob Hill was part of a flood of similar deals in 2018 in which private equity firms bought apartment complexes across the country, said Jim Baker, executive director of the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, a Chicago-based nonprofit that tracks private equity apartment deals.

Nob Hill's sale price of \$58.5 million made it one of the most expensive sales in Syracuse history. But because 90 percent of the money came from a \$51 million loan backed by Fannie Mae, the government-controlled mortgage finance company, Mr. Nesbitt and his fellow investors faced little financial risk if the investment failed.

"Why this is emblematic of private equity ownership of housing is that, from the beginning, the ownership group had limited skin in the game," Mr. Baker said. "They never had much to lose. Most of the risk falls on residents and the broader public."

The business plan was common among private equity firms: make some improvements, then sell at a profit in five to seven years, according to one of the investors. "The goal was not to cut costs," Mr. Calle said in a recent phone interview. "It was to invest a substantial amount to make it better, and try to improve the occupancy and the tenants."

Soon, however, Nob Hill fell apart.

'This Is Not Good'

Bruce Hare always had fond memories of Nob Hill. He moved there in 2001, into a one-bedroom apartment with two bathrooms and a terrace, for \$1,200. The place was well kept and close to Syracuse University, where he was a sociology professor.

"The pool was beautiful," Mr. Hare recalled recently.

He left Nob Hill when he married in 2020, then moved back in 2022, after his divorce. Soon after he returned, he realized things had changed. One of the two elevators in his building wasn't working. The lawns were overgrown, and the pool was rarely open.

"I thought, 'This is not good,' he said.

Also in 2022, the Nesbitts removed Mr. Sinatra as the property's manager, though he remained a minority investor. Nob Hill's owners would cycle through four more management companies in less than four years.

"I was no longer in charge of operations," Mr. Sinatra said, "and that's when the property went south."

In interviews and in court, tenants agreed that conditions worsened after Mr. Sinatra was no longer involved. As garbage went uncollected for months, pests invaded. Common areas were rarely cleaned, and elevators reeked of cat urine.

More seriously, fire safety systems failed. Some fire doors were nearly impossible to open, tenants said, while others rarely stayed closed. Smoke detectors, fire alarms and emergency lights broke across the campus. The Fire Department grew accustomed to frequent false alarms at Nob Hill. Michael Monds, the Syracuse fire chief, ordered special emergency response plans drawn up for each of Nob Hill's four buildings.

"We knew it was going to be challenging if there ever was a fire," Mr. Monds said.

The first lawsuit against Nob Hill's owners was filed by the City of Syracuse in April 2025, followed the next month by a raft of suits brought by tenants.

Nob Hill's owners stopped making mortgage payments in June 2025, and Fannie Mae sought to foreclose. In February 2026, Judge Shadia Tadros of Syracuse City Court ordered the owners to make repairs, and ruled that tenants could withhold rent until the problems were solved.

"For many of the tenants, Nob Hill was more of a nightmare than a home," Judge Tadros wrote. "Some of the conditions noted are the worst this court has seen. The complete disregard of tenants' living conditions would be deemed criminal if not for corporate protections."

Judge Tadros signed her order on Feb. 27. Before the sun rose the next morning, Nob Hill's Building 3 would erupt in flames.

Scared, Cold, Vindicated

The smoke detectors in Sean Stanyon's apartment were broken. So when the fire started, he slept right through it.

He realized there was a problem only a half-hour later when Jack, his Pomeranian, wouldn't stop barking. When Mr. Stanyon got out of bed, his apartment was thick with smoke.

"We've got to get out of here!" he said to his roommate before placing Jack in a bag and heading for the exit. The hallway was

Clockwise from top: Bruce Hare, a longtime professor at Syracuse University, who was shocked at how Nob Hill had deteriorated when he moved back; Sean Stanyon, who testified about the dangerous conditions; trash overflowing from a garbage chute; Augustus Grissett and his wife, Beverly, in their apartment; squatters occupied garages and vacant apartments after managers stopped replacing door locks.

A beautiful pool, good location, well-kept lawns. And then it all fell apart.

dark and silent. No fire alarms, no emergency lights. He slowly felt his way down three flights of darkened stairs and escaped to the parking lot.

He felt scared, cold and vindicated — his warning in court about the risk of fire now seemed unnervingly accurate.

When firefighters arrived, at around 4 a.m. on Feb. 28, they searched the perimeter of Building 3 and found flames leaping from the windows of a first-floor apartment. Nob Hill's managers had provided a list of tenants, but fire officials quickly realized the list was wrong — many of the residents who had fled the building and were huddled in the parking lot did not appear on it.

The night before his mother's memorial service, the younger Mr. Grissett called his father and reviewed the plan for his trip to New York. His father's dark suit was laid out; he would pack his laptop and charger in the morning. He would drive to the train station, where a friend from work would see him off. He was still in mourning, his son knew, but he was looking forward to seeing relatives and old friends in New York.

"Everything seemed to be fine," the son said.

Gus called his father at 7 a.m. to make sure he was awake and ready. Mr. Grissett did not answer. A couple of hours later, Gus received a call from Syracuse. It was his father's co-worker, calling from Nob Hill. There had been a fire. She stood in the parking lot surrounded by fire trucks.

Inside Apartment 128, where the fire started, firefighters had found a body. Nob Hill's manifest described the apartment as unoccupied, so fire officials presumed the body was that of a squatter.

Gus knew: It was his father.

Mr. Grissett died in his apartment of smoke inhalation and thermal injuries, according to fire department investigators. Gus and Beverly were buried together on March 31, their 57th wedding anniversary.

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Behind One Million Street Signs, a Driving Force

the other side.

At a Queens shop, 46 workers bring to life the words and symbols that guide the city.

By WINNIE HU

Sturdy sheets of aluminum are stacked to nearly the ceiling inside this industrial shop where almost every New York City street sign is born.

Even in a digital age, the Maspeth Central Shop in Queens is still cutting, printing and assembling more than 70,000 municipal signs a year, from the street-cleaning signs found in every neighborhood to the big green signs directing traffic on major highways.

The sign shop, which is part of the New York City Transportation Department, has a staff of 46 workers, including seven letterers who lay out signs by hand and a blacksmith who makes custom brackets to securely attach signs to traffic poles.

These workers are responsible for maintaining more than one million street signs across the five boroughs. When a stop sign is damaged, they are the ones who make the replacement. When a street is renamed or a parking rule is changed, they update the signs to make it official.

And when the Knicks won the National Basketball Association championship in June, they whipped up 30 blue and orange "Champions Way" street signs to post along Broadway for the ticker-tape parade. Even Mayor Zohran Mamdani showed up at the shop to help with the Knicks signs.

"This is the start of it all," said Mike Fratianni, 49, the deputy chief of the Maspeth operations. "This is the beginning of every sign in the city."

Inside the red brick warehouse, every sign starts from a 12-foot-by-4-foot aluminum sheet. A thicker version is used for highway signs, which are installed on gantries above traffic and have to safely withstand heavy winds and rain.

It takes two workers to carry a single sheet, weighing up to 80 pounds, into the machine shop. There, the sheet is slid through a metal shear, which acts like a pair of giant scissors to cut it into smaller pieces.

“That’s our life here — cutting metal and making it look pretty,” said Ryan Medrano, 38, the deputy director of interior operations at the sign shop.

Each sign comes with a detailed work or-'That's our life here — cutting metal and making it look pretty.'

der, which lays out its shape and exact measurements as well as what letters and symbols will go on it. For highway signs, the aluminum sheets are joined together to make larger sizes.

On a recent morning, Marlon Sealy, 60, a traffic device maintainer, pushed buttons on the control panel for the metal shear. Wearing gloves, he fed an aluminum sheet into the front of the humming machine. Minutes later, it was spit out in three pieces from the back.

Mr. Sealy said that he liked making signs that helped people move around the city. "I'm indirectly providing a service to everyone," he said. "Me too, when I'm lost."

Once cut down to size, the aluminum plates are sent to another machine in the room that rounds their sharp corners and punches holes in them for mounting on traffic poles and posts.

From there, the plates take two routes. Those that will carry rules for parking and street-cleaning go to the screening room down the hall. They are hung on hooks on an overhead carousel and carried to a large gray machine that applies a hard enamel finish.

Workers put each plate on a screening table with a folding cover, which holds the silk-screen frame for the sign they are making. The frames for the most common signs, like “No Parking Anytime,” are numbered and kept nearby on shelves.

The workers step on a foot pedal to close the cover over the plate and activate a flood bar that spreads a solvent-based ink to print the sign. Afterward, the sign is placed on a rack to dry before being flipped over to print*

Top, rows of New York City street signs, which were assembled at the Maspeth Central Shop in Queens. Center from left: Kate Griffin, who is assigned to the exacting task of lettering at the shop; and Marlon Sealy, who is responsible for cutting the metal molds to make the signs. Above, signs returned to the shop having done their duty.

Plates destined to become highway, traffic and street signs go to the art room instead of the screening room. They are covered with a vinyl material that is highly reflective — embedded with microscopic flecks of glass — so they can be seen more easily by drivers.

Workers attach a sheet with pre-cut or printed vinyl stickers of letters and numbers onto the vinyl-coated plates with a roller press. The extra material is peeled off, or trimmed with a box cutter.

It is precise, exacting work. Kate Griffin, 38, a letterer, has accidentally brushed her hand against the vinyl's sharp edges. "It's kind of like the worst paper cut you can get," she said.

It typically takes from 20 minutes to several hours to make most signs, depending on the type and size, though the largest signs may take longer.

The sign shop has a storeroom where thousands of the most common street signs are kept on racks, ready to be dispatched. Nearby is a bin of signs that have already gone out, but came back after being run over, bent, mangled or covered by graffiti.

One stop sign on the street was altered with white stickers to say: "I will Never STOP Loving You." Now, that sign hangs in the storeroom.

Other signs that cannot be repaired will be recycled.

Since June 2024, the shop has made replicas of popular signs for online drops. Knicks fans recently snatched up 200 "Champions Way" signs, at \$100 apiece, within minutes. Other popular signs were Cornelia Street, which is the name of a Taylor Swift song, and Christopher Street Stonewall Place, which is named after the Stonewall uprising of 1969.

The sign shop itself has become a repository of city history. One wall displays signs that were ordered under previous mayors to celebrate special occasions like Nelson Mandela's visit in 1990 and the New York Yankees' World Series Championship in 1998. Other signs salute the Grammys and the troops of Operation Desert Storm.

The latest signs, of course, celebrate the Knicks.

"The city really came together for the Knicks, and it was cool to be a little part of that," said Ms. Griffin, who made the "Champions Way" signs. "I make the celebration signs. They did all the work."