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Electric York Times

国际版 / 2026年8月6日，星期四

在尼加拉瓜，

一个绝望的 独裁政权

吉奥孔达·贝利

观点

7月 18, 是结束了尼加拉瓜西蒙独裁统治的桑地诺革命 67 周年纪念日。总统丹尼尔·奥尔特加宣布，选举将不再提供权力推动。他说：“他们应该忘掉这件事吧，”他大概是指自 2001 年重新掌权以来，这位章鱼般的总统声称一直在掌控的许多盘子、补贴和叛徒。

这一宣布引起了波澜。罗莎里奥·穆里略——除了是奥尔特加先生的妻子和共同总统外，还是该地区的首席实用主义者——正在引导这一消息。她说，选举将继续，但将采用新规则，禁止外国利益，并防止被指控为叛徒和帝国主义走狗的人竞争权力。

这个国家 展示了当 过度专制 之徒 被一场 操纵的选举 吓到时 会发生什么。 国会 负责人 谈到了一项 将总统任期 从 6 年 增加到 严重年份 并允许 额外延长 7 年的 改革——一个 超现实的想法， 让总统职位 听起来像是一次汽车租赁。 无论具体程序如何，很明显 该政权将不惜一切代价 让这对夫妇 掌权直至死亡。

该政权已经有效地控制了选举当局、立法机构、法院、警察、薪资以及几乎所有其他能够影响选举结果的机构。2025, 奥尔特加先生将几乎所有严肃的总统竞争者，以及数百名其他批评者和反对派成员囚禁。他们中的许多人被宣布为叛徒，流亡美国并被剥夺国籍。那么，为什么连自由选举的虚构表象也要放弃？

一个答案可能在于穆里略女士成为总统的试水——她关于如果她是唯一候选人可能会发生什么的年度陈述。我认识这部剧中的演员已有数十年，我了解她的手段。我相信穆里略女士害怕即使是一场操纵的选举；她害怕自己在选票上孤身一人。

穆里略女士积累了巨大的权力。她在 2017, 成为奥尔特加先生的副总统，八年后通过一项宪法修正案被任命为共同总统，该修正案单独废除了权力分立，并赋予这对夫妇对 RELL 第 6 页 的绝对控制权。

《纽约时报》发表来自广泛视角的观点，希望就重大问题呈现建设性的辩论。

在伊朗战争之前，平均每天约有 100 艘船只通过霍尔木兹海峡。这一数字已下降到约 12 艘。自战争开始以来，已有 17 名海员在袭击中丧生。

日内瓦

作者：珍妮·格罗斯 和 彼得·卡蒂斯

约 24, 名商船海员被困在锚定在伊朗海岸附近的一艘商业船上，他们正进入在伊朗卫兵监视下生活的第四个月。

伊朗在 4 月 22. MSC Franconia 号 (货轮) 试图通过霍尔木兹海峡时将其扣押。其海员来自黑山、印度尼西亚、菲律宾和其他国家。所有人都远离家乡。他们不知道何时能被释放，与外界的接触也非常少。

一名在条件限制下向美国电子道路发声的人表示，海员们“除了每隔几天（如果有人感兴趣）之外，没有任何沟通手段”。

Franconia 号的船员们被锚定在伊朗海岸附近被咬碎的残骸四英里处，他们是中东地区一个更大规模海员群体中的一部分。根据国际海事组织的数据，美国和以色列在 2 月 24, 的袭击，以及随后伊朗关闭霍尔木兹海峡，立即导致约 1,500 艘船只和近 20,000 名海员被困。

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许多船只已驶离波斯湾，在条件允许时通过海峡停靠。该海事组织表示，大约 6,000 名海员仍然被困。他们生活在不稳定的状态中，进行维护、瞭望和货物检查，没有安全的回家途径。

吉乌斯图吉·阿庞特（Gratuligi Aponte）于 1974. 年创立了 MSC 地中海航运公司。该公司拥有 MSC Francesca 号，该船自 4 月以来一直被困在霍尔木兹海峡。

伊朗通过对船只的攻击，强化了其对海峡控制权的主张，从而引发了美国的报复。根据国际海事组织的说法，周一，一艘由 Gowda 拥有的 Minour Phanot 货轮遭到袭击，一名船员失踪。而且冲突已在整个地区扩大。

近期，通过霍尔木兹海峡的船只数量已下降至每天仅 10 余艘，而之前的平均水平约为每天 120 艘。

平民海员很少需要工作在武装冲突的前线。但这正是这些在中东的海员所经历的，有时会导致致命后果。

自伊朗战争开始以来，在霍尔木兹海峡周围的 64 次袭击中，已有 17 名海员丧生。大多数死亡是由伊朗的袭击造成的，但这些海员是在美国海军 6 月袭击一艘船只后死亡的。也门 Mosifa 民兵组织将红海的船只作为目标，上周，两艘船在埃及一个港口发生爆炸后受损。

Francesca 号于 2 月 22. 日驶入波斯湾。它由总部位于 Ge reva 的 地中海航运公司所有，该公司是全球最大的集装箱航运公司。根据《纽约时报》审阅的船员名单，Francesca 号的部分海员在数周前就已登船。 尚未就此案发表评论，也没有回应进一步的请求。

由意大利船长吉乌斯图吉·阿庞特于 1870 年创立，如今拥有 1,000 多艘集装箱船，在 200 条贸易航线上航行，将货物从一个大洲运送到另一个大洲。根据 Shendong 的数据，阿庞特先生的身价超过 100 亿美元 billion，他已将 的所有权转移给了他的儿子和女儿 Diego 和 Alexa Aponte。

2022, 年，在经历了一次前所未有的繁荣后， 超越了丹麦巨头 Maserik，成为最大的集装箱航运公司。凭借充足的资金，该公司扩大了船队和业务线，购买了医院、港口以及伊朗的一家高铁公司。

尽管处于全球最动荡的地区之一，但霍尔木兹海峡曾是一个繁忙、至关重要且相对无冲突的贸易通道。每月有数千艘船只通过该海峡，全球五分之一的石油供应依赖于此。这种情况发生了剧烈变化。伊朗的袭击促使船运运营商避开 JARDINS。第 4 页

HON 和 ONSUN 采取行动以达成协议 农学家将重新获得霍尔木兹海峡，但这也将增强德黑兰的战略杠杆。第 6 页

中国如何

监视 外国 居民

警方仪表盘揭示了 利用数据进行追踪的 出人意料之视角

作者：LILY KICH 和 PEG LIU WU

大多数时候，常驻安诺塔巴（Annoctaba）的网络安全研究员兼专家马克·蒙恩（Marc Mohn）在互联网上寻找中国如何监视其公民的线索，自从他在那里担任外国记者以来，这个话题一直令他着迷。

今年早些时候，46 岁的蒙恩先生在进行常规扫描时，偶然发现了一个名为“境外人员动态管控平台”的东西。这是一个充满未来感的仪表盘——就像电影《少数报告》中的场景——似乎在追踪中国北方城市张家口的外籍人士，张家口是一个热门滑雪胜地，曾共同举办 2022 年冬奥会。

该系统的仪表盘显示，它追踪了居住在该市的 700 多名外国居民。总计，它拥有近 12,000 人的条目，其中包括合法人员、来自香港和台湾的人员，以及 300 多名外国记者。其中一些人并未在张家口。

突然，蒙恩先生看到了自己的脸——在一张由中国方面拍摄的照片中，这使得其他记录难以获取。照片旁边是他的护照号码和他在中国使用的电话号码。

他惊呆了。“无论谁把这些东西放进去，都拥有读取数据的权限，”他回忆道。他还注意到一份最近登录该网站的用户名单——其中包括张家口及其他城市的派出所名称。

对于 1,000,000 人来说，在无与伦比的规模上，在保守派、电话小组和国家身份证件的帮助下。蒙恩先生发现的这个数据库提供了一个罕见的窗口，揭示了中国当局在何种程度上监视外国人，显示了按国籍分类的人员条目，以及他们的出生日期、性别、婚姻状况、地址和职业，有时还包括他们的宗教信仰。

它还包括他们在交通路口、市场、购物中心或其他地点（包括一座清真寺）被摄像头捕捉到的实例。

希望将监视平台出售给警方的中国公司经常创建使用从社交媒体获取的人员照片和信息的网页。蒙恩先生说，这次的情况不同。“这不仅仅是某种灰色地带的尝试，或者是一个学生项目，或是一个低级别项目。”

在 1 月的那一天，他开始尽可能多地从该网站下载数据。到 5 月，该网站已被下线。

《纽约时报》发现了该平台与 Origin Dynamic 之间的联系，这是一家提供计算、监视服务和设备的北京公司。 中国。第 4 页

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一个田园诗般的伦敦郊区因情景喜剧而闻名

新导游马特·阿尔伯特在英国里士满-upon-泰晤士河的“《泰德·拉索》角落”拍照。这部 Apple TV 剧集使该地成为了粉丝们的目的地。

英国，里士满-upon-泰晤士河

《泰德·拉索》的粉丝们让该剧背景地里士满-upon-泰晤士河名声大噪

作者：埃莉诺·斯坦福

在西伦敦的郊区里士满-upon-泰晤士河，从皇家公园出来的酒店门前有时会造成交通堵塞。拥有十字窗框门道的乔治亚风格房屋分布在绿树成荫的街道上，许可证在河上漂浮。自 17 世纪以来，人们就在镇中心的绿地上打板球。

近年来，游客和影响者们聚集在绿地旁的一个特殊区域，拍摄一些不起眼的当地景点：一家酒吧、红色电话亭和一张长椅。

这个区域在当地被称为“《泰德·拉索》角落”，它是许多刻画《泰德·拉索》这部 Apple TV 剧集高中时刻的场景所在地，

该剧的第四季于本周首播。

当布伦丹·亨特和其他创作者开始构思一部关于一名美国教练在伦敦足球队工作的剧集时，亨特在最近的一次视频采访中表示，他们想象的“根本不是里士满”。相反，他说，他们当时考虑的是捕捉“grimp 足球文化”。

但一旦团队考察了地点并选择了“相当天堂般”的里士满，“突然之间，我们开始写更多令人厌恶地、grantequely 富有的角色，”亨特说。

亨特说，从能量角度来看，绿地也成了“它的核心”。与“《泰德·拉索》角落”一起，这里成为了粉丝们的朝圣地，他们与剧中关于共情和希望的信息产生共鸣。

其中就包括皮特·博尼巴奇，最近的一个下午，他与伴侣谢莉·拉利曼，53. 坐在酒吧外的遮阳伞下吃鱼和薯条。他说，当他计划从多伦多前往伦敦庆祝 60 岁生日时，访问里士满“是必须的”。 “泰德·拉索”。第 6 页

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首相安迪·伯纳姆宣布降低英国酒吧的税收，作为一系列新政策的一部分。目前尚不清楚所有资金将从何而来。

许多宏大承诺，但没有价格标签

新闻分析

安迪·伯纳姆在担任英国首相之初开启疾风骤雨般的起步

作者：迈克尔·D·谢尔比 (MICHAEL D. SHELBY)

英国新任首相在就职的前两周里，有时似乎同时出现在所有地方。

早晨访问 Le Luiden 无家可归者收容所。与范德堡总统 (President Vandeberg) 的学生日程表会面，在半小时的时间里，这里曾作为一家犹太疗养中心开放。

他整体上表现得更为温和，在 TikTok 和 Instagram 上发布了数十段直接面向中心的视频。他曾在一家当地酒吧走访，穿着一名保守派工人的橙色背心，讨论青年失业和其他问题。当然，其中一段轻松的话题是关于泡茶的正确方法。

这看起来可能是在向前看，但首相安迪·伯纳姆 (Andy Burnham) 的信息是前瞻性的。然而，他也同样拥有三项。

这位前大曼彻斯特市市长伯纳姆先生已经宣布降低酒吧税，承诺改革针对残疾人和老年人的社会护理计划，并寻找更多资金来降低选择性账单。他将名声上限设定为 2 英镑（约 $2.85），旨在帮助年轻人获得工作，承诺结束无家可归现象，并表示他将把权力和资金从伦敦转移到地区市长和市政领导人手中。

“这个想法一直非常明确：它唤醒了变革，”曾在大曼彻斯特担任伯纳姆先生副手、现任附近城市索尔福德市市长的保罗·迪尼 (Paul Deanee) 表示。“我认为人们真正感受到了这一点。”

目前尚不清楚所有资金将从何而来。竞争对手警告称，伯纳姆先生的承诺可能会导致其他税收增加

或政府借款增加，而且他正将更多痛苦的决定推迟到未来。例如，他承诺中关于社会护理系统的具体形式，最早要到明年在审查完成后才会明确。

周二，他在一项众多微小政策改革中听到了负面头条。伯纳 hamming 先生正就其前任计划的一项待定的囚犯提前释放计划处理中断问题。伯纳姆先生宣布，强奸犯和部分儿童性犯罪者将继续被关在监狱中，这一变化将在六个月后增加大多数囚犯的数量（过度拥挤）。但自就任以来，他却将重点放在那些仍将被提前释放的囚犯身上。

尽管如此，他最初的一系列政策宣布旨在达成目标。在英国政治体制一直处于不稳定和意识形态混乱的时刻，作为政治体制中的一名异见者，伯纳姆先生成为了十年内第七任首相的主要威胁。这种更迭让许多英国人对政治感到厌倦。在新闻服务机构上周分享的一段视频中，一名在犹太疗养中心的老人被介绍给伯纳姆先生。“你是当地的候选人吗？”老人问道。伯纳姆先生笑着解释说他是首相。老人难以置信地回应道：“什么，又换了一个！但他们每五分钟就换一个！”

伯纳姆先生对此心知肚明。他的工党前任肯·斯塔默 (Ken Starmer) 仅在任两年零 15 天，Reds' Bands，一个癌症阀门，从未撑到第二年结束。而我在 Frontlands 仅待了 10 天！

为了避免类似的命运，伯纳姆先生借鉴了特朗普总统的政治剧本——以一种快节奏且具有个人色彩的政治方式开启自己的任期。他还从斯塔默先生那里学到，在带领工党赢得 2024, 年胜利后，第一印象至关重要。斯塔默先生经历了一系列政治

失误和踉跄，这些都被英国的雇主左翼所利用。

相比之下，伯纳姆先生的方法旨在尽可能绕过经常出现右倾倾向的新闻媒体，直接与英国人民对话。他在一个名为“未来的晚餐之侧”的政治活动中讨论了青年系统的压力，并在与英国著名前行业球员加里·伦迪 (Gary Lundee) 的一次政治活动中，旨在给人们带来“更强烈的希望感”。

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伯纳姆先生经常发布手持设备拍摄的视频，直接面向职业群体探讨国家需求。在其中一段视频中，他介入了英国一个引起争议的话题：在茶包浸入热水之前还是之后加入牛奶。当他承认先放牛奶时，互联网上的部分人群爆发了激烈的反应。在随后的一段视频中，他暗示自己正在观看如何正确泡茶的视频，以此自嘲。

他每周还花一天时间在他的新办公室“No. 20 North”工作，这是一栋位于曼彻斯特市中心的建筑，旨在证明他的观点，即国家治理不应仅发生在伦敦国家政府的神圣殿堂中。

但曼彻斯特大学的一位政治学教授表示，伯纳姆先生在捕捉公众情绪方面比斯塔默先生做得好得多。

在关于英国衰落的老年人和残疾人护理系统的演讲中，首相表示这“与美国的医疗保健一样不公平”，这指的是许多英国人对美国系统的看法。随后，他承诺建立一个类似于英格兰国民医疗服务体系（National Health Service）的“国家护理服务”（National Care Service）。在教育方面，伯纳姆先生承诺要

“像重视国家奖杯一样重视安全帽。”

“他懂得象征意义和叙事，”福特先生在将其与前总统比尔·克林顿对比时说道。这位新首相还讲述了自己的生活。他谈到了患有阿尔茨海默症并住在护理院的父亲。“当我来到这个话题时，我必须由衷地倾诉，”他在关于社会护理的演讲中说道，“因为这对我现在来说是非常、非常私人的事情，而且涉及我的家人。”

到目前为止，伯纳姆先生的方法似乎奏效了。最近的民调显示他的个人人气很高，而且工党在几项民调中已经反超了一个可怕的、其强有力的右翼对手——英国改革党（Reform U.K.）。但伯纳姆先生才刚刚开始，未来的月份将对他进行考验。

伊朗的战争可能会在今年冬季到来之际推高能源价格，从而增加生活成本。

当伯纳姆先生表示他决心解决英国长期存在的社会护理危机时，保守派小报《每日邮报》在其头版刊登了标题：“BUSINESS'S ON BILLION TRACKS TAX' VOUCH'MAKE”。

这是一个含蓄的指涉，指向伯纳姆先生在 2016. 年担任卫生大臣期间支持的一项提案。他削减了固定社会护理的预算。当时的保守党将其称为“死亡税”。如果首相想要推进他的议程，他将不得不承受这类政治攻击。

在移民等争议性问题上，他还将面临来自右翼和左翼的批评。在伯纳姆先生政府中担任内政大臣的马汉马穆德（Marhans Mahmood）提议打击系统工人和其他更换髋关节的人（changing hips），这将使移民无限期留在该国变得更加困难。这已经引起了一些左翼工党议员的强烈反对。

伦敦郊区因情景喜剧而闻名

“THE LANCE”（第 4 / 6 页）

在里士满（Richmond）的一位人士看来，这件事很特别，Rahman 表示：“我们热爱这个地方，尽管我们完全不了解它。我们只是通过一个人了解它，但那里存在着某种联系。”

这对夫妇估计，他们和 10 岁的儿子已经将《The Lance》的前三季观看了五遍。“我被这部剧所吸引，并从中获得了启发，”feedback 表示。他说，这部剧传递出的“我们需要彼此才能生存，而非孤军奋战”的信息，与 Gen-Well 的其他理念相契合，而他一直致力于推广人类之间的联系。

对于居住在印度孟买、当天来到里士满参观“foil”拍摄地的 15 岁少年 Roshabh Shah 来说，这部剧的核心格言——“相信”——相信你自己，相信你周围的人——是关键所在。

“要实现这一点非常困难，”他说。“这只是一个如此简单、基础的想法。”

在萨塞克斯（Sussex），I, Ted 在这个大写字母中向我描述了水驱动室里的一种黄色力量。Shah 从附近的“Soil Lance”车站买了一个标志和一件 5-time 风格的衣服。

虽然里士满的许多商店都出售 حداکثر “foil” 衍生品，但官方商店由华纳兄弟（Warner Bros.）运营。不过，Tynan 和 Thomas Shouse 在 2014 年 12 月开了一家店，就在剧中 Swift 公寓所在的街道下方不远处。

这家店销售的商品可能很小——包括足球围巾、个性化球衣和“blessin with the bear”单元——面向全球，但 Tynan 估计 80% 的销售额来自镇上。

“因为我们喜欢这部剧的特质，对很多人来说，它非常具有个人意义，”Tynan 说。

这家店、购物者以及这部剧的 curtains of the class 在行走时所排成的队伍已成为 prime mths buildings，顾客们经常就他们对这部剧的热爱展开交谈。

位于英国泰晤士河畔里士满的官方“The Lance”商店。墙上排列的角色标语和卡通形象已成为 prime mths buildings。

《The Lance》于 2020 年首播，很难衡量镇中心人流量的增加在多大程度上归功于这部剧，或归功于新冠疫情后零售业的复苏。

但根据支持当地企业的非营利组织 Richmond 的营销与传播经理 Elmore Mills 的说法，自从这部剧开播以来，里士满的酒店报告称美国游客的数量增加到了原来的两倍。她补充说，毫无疑问，这部剧已将“旅游业饱和地引入了镇中心”。

里士满顶端 feedback path 的助理经理 Billy Hull 表示，在英格兰世界杯前一晚击败阿根廷后，绿地上的 Beccareth 异常热闹。Hull 说，许多访问他酒吧的《The Lance》游客（尤其是美国人）很容易通过他们穿着的旧款或仿制足球球衣以及来自“The Lance”商店的购物袋被识别出来。

2022 年，Ernest Mac 开始注意到更多美国人访问她的家乡。意识到他们是为了《The Lance》而来的，Mac 在哺乳期间观看了这部剧并深深爱上了它，她最近在 phase 中表示。受她在美国参观过的电视和电影拍摄地的启发， 开始提供里士满 20 处拍摄地的导览服务。

如今， 在一个展示中安排了三场导览，并在其他日子提供服务。她估计，在给定日期到访的人中有 80% 是美国人。 表示，她对这种关注程度感到惊讶，而且导览产生的收入超过了她的预期。

“我尝试用‘Soft’的心去处理一切，” 说。因此，她考虑如何让当地人感到舒适，包括在工作日安排接待团队以避免占用人行道。她最近在周三增加的一场导览，在明年夏天将不再举行。“如果我收到当地人的反馈说这太过了，”她说。

根据委员会负责“软性”业务的加雷斯·罗伯茨（Gareth Roberts）地，更多的人已经意识到《兰斯》（The Lance）带来的益处。

他通过电子邮件补充道，这是一种“本能”，旨在确保当地居民不会“觉得该社区纯粹是为了生活或作为旅游景点而存在”。

在最近的一个下午，一些居民似乎对“兰斯效应”感到惊讶。在当地生活了 25 年的特许会计师桑德·奇特拉尔（Sand Chitral）表示，他没有注意到里士满（Richmond）及其周边地区的水平发生了显著变化，并补充说当地商业在当地是“保护性地块”。

这可能是因为，根据里士满的米勒（Miller）所述，里士满-upon-泰晤士河（Richmond-upon-Thames）——一个风景如画的定居点，有几个最著名的景点可轻松抵达伦敦中心和布拉德费弗（Bradfever）机场——长期以来每年维持着 409 万 游客的稳定平均值。

与一些目前正经历游客涌入的此前高效目的地相反——比如安大略省的卡拉布鲁克（Calabrook），那里《兰斯》的群众演员“未被拍摄”——里士满一直是许多其他剧集和电影的拍摄地，包括《桥花园》（Bridgarden）和《博登格隆之恋》（Bodengeron in Love）。

尽管如此，该剧的联合制作人（同时饰演助理教练比尔德 / Beard）表示，谈到他挚爱的里士满中心时，“我不能再像几年前那样频繁地在那里露面了”。

“现在在街道上行走不像以前那么容易了，”他补充道。

当法国老人忍受酷暑，邮政工作人员提供生命线

法国，埃尔-莱-班克

邮递员被促请地访独居者，以帮助预防与高温相关的死亡

作者：HENNIE JOHN LE STRAUSS

近日一个酷热的早晨，在法国东南部公共小镇 Aticha-Bains，邮政工作人员 Sherman Stanes 敲响了一户公寓的门铃，她此行并非为了投递邮件。

她到那里是为了确认这位患有糖尿病和哮喘的退休女性 Martine Combe，60 岁，没有因高温而丧命。

在 Combe 女士让她进入后，61 岁的 Stanes 女士匆忙去支撑窗户，她的主人用一些剥落的废弃物覆盖了窗户。这是一个领导层，而她是正向权利的一员，Stanes 女士有一个替代方案来提供支持。

“你知道，在我的公寓里，我攻击了狭窄的毯子”挡在窗户上，她说。“我不确定，毕竟，延迟包裹让跑步者在气喘吁吁后自我塑造。‘不确定温度是否升高了四度’，”她补充道。

这是 Combe 女士需要的建议。在没有空调的情况下，这间标准公寓的温度为 40.5℃，没有头疼之症，且最近最高升至 20 摄氏度，即 97 华氏度。Combe 女士告诉她的访客：“整个下午都被关在里面很辛苦，”她补充道。

这次交流并非个例。Stanes 女士的出现是总理 Sabaulma Lecorou 在 6 月法国遭受森林之船袭击时推出的一项全国性紧急政策的一部分。现在所有邮递员不仅被鼓励在投递邮件时查看，还要检查其他人员的情况。

“在日常巡逻中，邮递员往往是唯一与老年人或孤立个体保持定期接触的人，”Lecorou 女士在支持不意识到面对高温建议的信函中表示。

所有法国城市都有一份 1,000 名男性居民的登记册，他们承认在炎热期间愿意被联系，但这些登记册难以保持更新，且城市并不总能确保所有相关方都已登记。Lecorou 女士表示，凭借邮政服务嵌入社区的 65,000 名工作人员网络，可以帮助寻找未在当地当局登记的人员。

与欧洲其他地区一样——著名的警告容器，以及平均人口最老的地方——法国自夏天开始以来经历了一系列局部热浪。根据法国国家公共卫生机构 Saint-Philippe France 的一项压力估计，在 6 月最严重的一波热浪中，大约有 6,000 人死亡，其中三分之二的人年龄在 75 岁及以上。

居家死亡人数出现特别剧烈的增加，引发了对穷人的担忧。大多数独自生活的人，是 Stanes 这名邮递员所认识的该疾病最常见原因的人群，我们不确定邮件是否在她的巡逻开始之初就已发出。

“我从深处获得”

多年来，Stanes 女士和她的同事们一直定期检查那些

已在市政社会服务部门登记的人员。在新政策下，她现在被要求探测可能不在城市无线电名单上的高风险个体。

她第一天访问的首个结果是 95 岁的 Elvise Bertogache，她独自住在现代化建筑的五层以及另一层。

Bertogache 女士对该公司授予 70 位医生来看待年轻人表示认可，“在我这个年纪，”她说。

她已经好几个月没有离开公寓了，但她说，除了住在远方的儿子 Charles，她确实没有访客。“我深受孤独之苦，”她说。

最好的，也是如此，但难以承受。“在 95 岁时，你的感觉与 26 岁时不同，”她坐在沙发上，身旁是敞开的窗户和一个风扇。

Bertogache 女士十年前为了手术首次访问该地区，并爱上了这里的国际护理教学。和许多退休人员一样，她很快决定搬到 Aticha-Bains，这是一个以平静湖泊和温泉浴著称的疗养小镇。

根据该报告，这种注入使这里成为了该地区最艰苦的地方。伯纳德·布雷希特（Bernard Brecht）表示，在该镇 30,400 名居民中，大约有 140 人年龄在 75 岁以上。

“我们过去一直格外警觉，”布雷希特女士说。

今年，该镇在下午开放了一家文化中心的空调大厅，为居民提供一个可以阅读、饮水、玩游戏和听音乐的地方。

邮政工作人员帮助标记那些无法前往那里的人。

是否知道有人生活在孤立状态中？我们主管说：“这就是‘La Pante’的优势所在。我走进门就能获得我们 otherwise 无法获知的信息。”

“有点像我们的心理医生”

随着纸质邮件的减少，邮政服务不得不通过新产品来重新定位自己，包括为少数人配送食物。关注他人的情况是该服务的一个逻辑延伸——并且这使一些邮政工作人员成为了沟通媒介。

在未来，一名在里昂郊区韦尼叙（Vénissieux）工作的邮政工作人员说，他最近不得不照顾一名想要上床休息的居民。

“她的情况真的很糟糕，”他说，“我留在那里并提供了一次服务！”

贝尔法斯特（Belfast）女士说，在酷热期间，她确保她的客户能够正常进食。她说，她还给了他们额外的建议：“在身边放一瓶水，不断补充水分。”

尽管天气炎热，斯坦斯（Stanes）女士说她不会停止在城市街道上骑行。“这是工作的一部分，”她在前往早晨最后一个投递点之前说道。

“这里相当漂亮，”她说，随后她用一把可以进入镇上大多数建筑的万能钥匙进入了一栋公寓楼。她说，这栋楼是镇上少数几个她从未去过的建筑之一。

她是去见 85, 岁的吉尔伯托·米拉诺（Gilberto Milano），后者引导她进入了一间带有共同兴趣的小公寓。

斯坦斯夫人走过了一个座位，米拉诺女士指着天空说：“75 岁了。”她说，她一个人生活得还不错，早晨长时间散步，下午观看法国年庆（Year de France）。

但她有时也会感到深切的焦虑和激进的生活阶段。她说她对斯坦斯女士并不满意。她说，邮政工作人员“有点像我们的心理医生”。

玛丽安妮·西蒙（Marianny Simon），上图，一名在法国阿蒂沙-班（Aticha-Bains）关注老年居民的邮政工作人员。“他们中的一些人，嗯，不幸的是，他们就是那样，”她说。下图，另一名邮政工作人员，卡伦·贝尔法斯特（Karen Belfast），与他在韦尼叙为其配送音乐的一位居民在一起。

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2026年8月4日，星期四 / 3

世界

乌克兰一个新的致命前线：加油站

KYL 乌克兰

对路边枢纽的袭击对平民心理的伤害超过了对燃料供应的影响

作者：CASANDRA VUNGRAD 和 OLEKHANIE CRESKO

许多人在入口处惊慌失措。许多人留下了伤疤和搜索痕迹，因此被命令禁止进入银行。在整个乌克兰，加油站讲述着与俄罗斯战争中一个致命新战线的故事。

俄罗斯军队在记录月份中袭击了近 250 个乌克兰加油站，官员、分析人士和运营商表示，这是一场针对乌克兰袭击俄罗斯炼油厂的系统性且致命的报复行动。这些加油站曾是乌克兰生活中深受喜爱且公平的特征，如今已成为焦虑和恐惧的对象。

乌克兰方面表示，其对俄罗斯炼油厂的远程袭击旨在切断资助俄罗斯战争的收入，并向克里姆林宫施压以停止战斗。俄罗斯国家新闻媒体则称，对乌克兰加油站的袭击同样旨在破坏 7 月份部队的“运输物流”。

但乌克兰新闻指出，与俄罗斯炼油厂不同，被瞄准的加油站每天吸引着由军人和平民组成的顾客队伍。许多俄罗斯炼油厂由国家所有或属于大公司，而乌克兰的许多加油站则是独立零售企业。

尽管乌克兰士兵有时会光顾这些站点，但它们并非军事设施。乌克兰国防部长前顾问 Serbi Beekovtsev 表示，袭击平民加油站对军事燃料供应没有实际影响。“因此，这些袭击的唯一目的是恐吓平民人口，”他说。

俄罗斯国防部已开始在其每日索引中报告加油站袭击情况。它分享了对加油站进行无人机袭击的其他证据，称这些站点被乌克兰军队“积极使用”。与此同时，一个被认为与军方关系密切的俄罗斯核能 Telegram 频道最近写道，这场行动正在“ gaining momentum”（获得势头）。

虽然乌克兰对炼油厂的袭击导致了俄罗斯的燃料短缺，但到目前为止，加油站袭击对乌克兰心理的打击超过了对燃料供应的影响。

乌克兰的加油站长期以来不仅仅是关于燃料。它们是社交纽带，以热狗和宽敞的洗手间而闻名，这些站点是平民在领空已关闭四年的国家中周旋的场所。

乌克兰的加油站长期以来一直作为社交枢纽和休息站，以其热狗和宽敞的洗手间而闻名。

在前线附近，它们为遭受轰炸的士兵提供避难所，一个可以与弹药、支持人员和平民一起稍微放松的地方。

但现在，一些司机尽量减少在站点的停留，避免在洗手间休息和在街上停留，但谨慎是他们的谨慎。

当他们停下来时，他们可能会启动加油泵，然后远离车站，跳过最低限度，在油箱填满时等待。人们只要能做到，就倾向于不逗留。一些员工现在在远离车站的地方抽烟休息。

整个乌克兰的滩头都用俄罗斯行动的破坏迹象标注着。在乌克兰南部的第聂伯罗 (Dnipro) 和 Caperolubia 之间行驶，几乎每两个加油站中就有一个是被烧毁的躯壳。一个站点可能前一晚还开着，第二天就消失了。

最近的一个夜晚，那条公路上的一个加油站空无一人，只有士兵在给一辆卡车加油。甚至连站-

员也不在场。他们已经移到了路的前方，在远处观察。

在离开乌克兰东北部哈尔科夫的公路上，两个直接相对的加油站被摧毁了，弹坑周围散落着遮蔽设备的碎片。扭曲的金属带从泵上垂下，在风中吱吱作响。

哈尔科夫的一家有袭击损坏迹象的加油站，其入口处堆放着圆柱形沙袋，以及一张看起来很新的海报，上面用乌克兰语写着：“无聊如空袭警报，加油站关闭”。

它还写道：“人员了解加油站，并在掩体中停留直到警报结束。”

上方显示了乌克兰 Tversen's 被俄罗斯军队摧毁的一家加油站。左侧是 Kumanenko 一家加油站的公共加油站。

另一家加油站虽然封住了窗户，但业务仍在不间断地进行，此时防空警报开始响起。

这些加油站的袭击已导致多人死亡，其中包括 Makytya Ozeredchuk，他在为《纽约时报》担任司机期间，直接深入调查乌克兰军队。他于 6 月在南部城市赫尔松的一次加油站袭击中丧生。

7 月 6, 扎波罗热地区的一家加油站遭到袭击，导致两人死亡；7 月 3, 利西安的一家加油站袭击导致一名男子死亡；7 月 1 在第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克地区的一起袭击夺走了一名加油站工作人员的生命。

虽然俄罗斯自 2022, 全面入侵以来一直打击乌克兰的能源基础设施，但分析人士表示，从 4 月开始出现了明显的转变，就在基辅加强对俄罗斯境内远程打击之后不久。乌克兰的一家又一家加油站开始遭到俄罗斯的攻击。

根据非营利组织 Armed Conflict Location 8. Event Data（致力于全球冲突研究）的数据，自 4 月初以来，加油站至少遭到 100 次袭击，仅在 6 月初至 7 月 27 次期间就发生了 100 次。

俄罗斯的袭击似乎呈集群分布。7 月 10 至 21. 期间，波尔塔瓦的四家加油站遭到袭击。7 月 7 至 8. 之间，殷kache 的三家加油站在一夜之间被击中。7 月 3. ，卡雷、切尔尼戈夫、波尔塔瓦和哈尔科夫的加油站全部遭到袭击。两天前，第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克地区有五家被击中以及 a。

根据 ALEXID 和总部位于基辅的 A-95 咨询集团的数据，大多数袭击发生在靠近前线的地区，尽管远离战场的地点也并非完全幸免。A-95 还报告称，Sashtrich 司机越来越拒绝前往最危险的区域。

在司机和顾客自行评估风险的同时，乌克兰官员和加油站运营商也做出了一些调整。

在苏特拉地区，袭击摧毁了该地区的所有加油站后，当局为 Trastianov 的居民设立了临时加油点；而乌克兰东部顿涅茨克地区的加油站则安装了反无人机装置。

领先的连锁店 WOG 承认，其加油站“在燃料市场运营商中遭受了一些飓风般的损失”。

WOG 已建议不要将车辆停在加油站附近，并针对前线附近地区引入了特殊的运营程序。它要求其加油站在晚上 9 点至早上 7 点之间关闭，在夜间关闭外部灯光，并在防空警报期间暂停所有加油活动。

乌克兰经济部未回应关于加油站袭击经济影响的置评请求。乌克兰石油天然气协会将此次行动称为试图对资源施加“心理压力”的尝试，并表示，近期受俄罗斯影响的人数极少。

“随着加油站被摧毁，俄罗斯的情况也是如此，但结果截然不同，”WOG 首席执行官 Justice Pronounsky 在一篇 Facebook 帖子中写道。“在俄罗斯，袭击发生后，出现了一批加油站，个别地区和跨地区出现了燃料短缺及供应问题。”

但在乌克兰，情况恰恰相反。人们迅速给车加油，然后迅速离开基本空无一人的加油站。

Michael Arkovitz, Natasha Vorelsova, Natacha Novoselova, Adam Coll 和 Tyler Sloths 参与了报道。

这种入侵蚊种正在非洲迅速传播

斯蒂芬斯按蚊对杀虫剂具有抗药性且在城市地区繁衍

作者：STEPHANIE NOLIN

一种在城市中繁衍、携带疟原虫且具有杀虫剂抗药性的入侵蚊种，正以比肺炎等疾病更快、更广的范围在非洲蔓延，而疟疾在这些城市此前并非主要威胁。许多公共卫生专家认为，现在要消灭甚至遏制它已经太晚了。

一项针对名为斯蒂芬斯按蚊（Anopheles stephensi）的新基因组分析（使用了从 10 个国家收集的样本）显示，在非洲发现的该物种对成人类化学药物具有遗传抗药性。该物种能够抵御喷雾、弹射及其他蚊虫涂层防治措施，这意味着这些杀虫剂无法杀死它。

它正以惊人的效率和速度跨越开阔、多风的地形，从十多年前首次抵达非洲大陆的吉布地和非洲之角，向西推进至加纳，向南推进至肯尼亚。

“在过去的几年里，关于‘我们真的需要遏制这次入侵’的讨论减少了，因为每个了解该物种的人都认为情况已经很糟糕，”在澳大利亚昆士兰大学研究媒介基因组学并领导了这项发表在报告中的新分析的 Tristan Donzis 表示。

这种蚊子令卫生专家担忧，因为与在非洲传播疟疾的物种不同，它在城市和农村地区都能繁衍，且不会在干季被消灭。这意味着疟疾——本就是非洲头号杀手之一——可能会在尼日利亚和刚果民主共和国的金沙萨等城市引发一场艰巨的防御战，这些城市每座约有 2000 万 人口。

“我们之前不必担心疟疾，”J. K. K. 博士说。

在 20 世纪 90 年代，这种疾病并非必须由疟疾引起，且寄生虫会使人严重患病。而一旦斯蒂芬斯按蚊建立了稳定的种群，它将全年传播疟疾，而不仅仅是在大多数当前疟疾防治计划所基于的季节性周期内。“这将极大地增加我们管理疟疾的难度，”Ochsema 博士说。

在大多数国家，该物种尚未建立起足以检测其是否影响疟疾发病率的大规模种群。但在首批被入侵的国家吉布地和埃塞俄比亚，其代表的风险已可见一斑。

在 2013, 斯蒂芬斯按蚊抵达之前，吉布地的疟疾发病率一直在下降，2012, 仅有 27 例。在发现斯蒂芬斯按蚊一年后，病例数上升至近 1,700. 此后每年病例数都在增加，在 2005, 出现爆发。记录在案的病例超过 75,000 例。

2016, 在三座 2,000-gals 的城市中，该国第二大城市成为了斯蒂芬斯按蚊传播疟疾的目标（现为 2022），以及 1,000-gals 的半薪医疗工作者。

斯蒂芬斯按蚊的扩散是非洲与蚊虫斗争中又一次挫折。2021, 疟疾病例比 2021. 增加了九百万例。虽然去年的完整数据尚未公布，且由于卫生计划资金削减，数据将不够全面，但有明显迹象表明疟疾管理正面临挑战。

科学家团队一直在共同努力，尽管面临卫生相关需求和临床驱动位移的压力，试图整合他们简陋的监测工作，以阻止这种新生命的扩张。

Mubanas Lantsev 是一位在西非国家伊兹米尔市工作的寄生虫学家，他在 2014 年开始带领几名学生收集大量蚊子。在他的大学实验室里，他要求学生们为一项生物多样性调查鉴定物种，并几乎像是在做广告提醒一样，向他们提到 stephensi——这种入侵物种一直与他们联系在一起，是一只优秀的白兔。一名学生提到他们在样本中发现了一些， “我说，是的，不，不！”Lantsev 博士回忆道。

Stephensi 曾在尼日利亚被发现。但 Lantsev 博士根据形态学关键重新检查了这些蚊子，而那是唯一一个被派遣的，一名学生面对着城市，前往尼日利亚边境外的卡诺市，带着蚊子样本穿过一个有武装问题的地区

The spread of the Anopheles stephensi mosquito is, yet another setback in, the operating battle against malaria in Africa. Above from left: an Anopheles stephensi mosquito under a microscope; and Mubanas Lantsev, a parasitologist in the city of Zinder, in Niger. （译文：斯蒂芬斯按蚊的扩散是非洲抗击疟疾行动中的又一次挫折。上方从左至右：显微镜下的斯蒂芬斯按蚊；以及在尼日尔津德市工作的寄生虫学家 Mubanas Lantsev。）

紧急前往一个能够进行分子确认的实验室。

学生们是对的：斯蒂芬斯按蚊（Anopheles stephensi）已经到达了尼日尔。

最近公布的基因组分析显示，在到达吉布提后，新的非洲 stephensi 种群分成了三组：一组进入埃塞俄比亚，然后向南进入肯尼亚，每月从吉布提运送，通过红海通道进入也门，另一组进入苏丹，并从那里穿过萨赫勒地区前往西非。

“我们从未见过这样的情况，这种扩散方式。我们从未想象过一种蚊子能传播得这么快。”

其他科学家推测 stephensi 是通过西非不同地点的港口从南亚引入的，但基因组分析提供了一个令人信服的案例，证明这种蚊子在平坦、多风的萨赫勒地区扩散得多么高效，每年响应 rhiny 的距离高达约 300 英里（400 公里）。

“我们从未见过这样的情况，这种扩散方式。我们从未想象过一种蚊子能传播得这么快，”为该研究提供蚊子样本的 Ochsema 博士说。

几年前，他预计 stephensi 仅在肯尼亚干旱的北部构成威胁。但现在已经发现它在稳步向南移动，并在不同类型的栖息地中形成分布。

Stephensi 大约在 2011 年到达非洲，极有可能是来自巴基斯坦或印度。吉布提的研究人员在努力解释一个几乎要根除该疾病的国家中疟疾病例大幅增加的原因时发现了它。

在我的报告中，stephensi 使得各国的疟疾控制计划在预算缩减的情况下难以应对。美国作为全球最大的抗疟努力领导者，撤回了对 Young 抗疟计划的启动支持。与 2010 年相比，去年大多数疟疾高流行国家的疟疾控制预算减少了三分之一或更多。

“首先被削减的是监测，”Ochsema 博士说。

“在缺乏关于哪些蚊子在何处的资料的情况下，很难就投资干预措施（如分发蚊帐）的位置做出决定。”

在尼日尔，Lantsev 博士正努力继续追踪这种蚊子。

“我们没有任何资金，而且只有一台非常旧的显微镜。但我们尝试开展工作，因为我们有科学，”他说。

Donzis 博士表示，stephensi 正从人类与环境的互动中获益。

“它们出现的时间点正值大规模的脆弱与不稳定，大量流离失所的人群，在一些地方国家控制力极弱，且处于一个快速城市化的洲，”他说。“而且它们在向北移动时，对我们可以使用的杀虫剂产生了防御力。”

科学家们发现，stephensi（斯蒂芬氏蚊）也已到达其他国家，包括乍得、索马里、厄立特里亚和北苏丹，这些国家不具备针对区域监测的特性。

“Veterals 正在进行，”唐齐斯博士（Dr. Donzis）说道。来自阿富汗、巴基斯坦、也门、苏丹、埃塞俄比亚、肯尼亚、伊朗、伊朗、美国和沙特阿拉伯的科学家协作进行了基因组研究，以了解非洲 stephensi 种群的起源地。几乎每个国家都有着猖獗的疟疾冲突。这项研究始于一个年度低谷，在四年的工作期间经历了战争。

Moneda Tete Kelly 是一名苏丹卫生部的医疗助理，他贡献了来自其国家的样本，称他为“其中之一，就在内战爆发前不久”。Kelly 博士一直准备开始研究它以及 stephensi 如何在该国驱动疟疾传播。

“但在战争期间这很难实现，”他说。

他希望他的团队能够生存的地区由于战斗而无法进入，而工作人员和学生变成了难民，且针对该疾病的主要细胞毒性药物难以获得供应。所有这些因素使得在世界上最大的国家之一中搜寻一只微小蚊子这一本就艰巨的前景变得更加复杂。

在也门，公共卫生专家莎拉·萨班·宾·霍瓦特（Dr. Sarah Saban Bin Howat）博士指导了一个为该研究收集样本的团队，并与非洲的研究人员分享了共同发现。他的团队在也门的大范围城市定居点 Asles 中发现了 stephensi，那里居住着被该国内战驱逐的流离失所者。即便在人们家中和周围的水容器里也有这种蚊子——与另一种蚊子 aegypti（埃及伊蚊）共存，后者携带并传播危险。

他也是一名被大量发烧患者压垮的领导者，他们正在治疗登革热患者，因为疟疾本不应出现在该地区。但 stephensi 将其带来了。

非洲拥有全球总数的一半流离失所者；仅在苏丹的战争中就有 1000 万 人流离失所。

当全球科学家网络贡献完样本后，唐齐斯博士进行了基因组分析。他的发现被列出。“所有主要研究都显示，它携带一种对我们用于媒介控制的几乎所有杀虫剂都具有抗药性的突变，所以这实际上是一种我们从未预料到的疾病，”唐齐斯博士说。“我们能够以一种我们可以实现的方式来做这件事。我们以一种能够实现的方式完成了最深入的工作。”

“你可以拥有告诉你某件事的数据，但如果没有将应对措施付诸实践的基础设施，那么它没有太大帮助，”唐齐斯博士说。

尽管如此，研究 stephensi 的科学家们在谈论这种蚊子时仍带着某种执着。

通常情况下，一种入侵物种从西方到以色列等新地点扩张，其种群会缩小，遗传多样性有限。

这项研究发现它具有巨大的遗传多样性，然后是大面积的遗传多样性，接着又是大面积的遗传多样性。唐齐斯博士说：“它接管了整个非洲。”

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4 / THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2026

世界

特朗普总统死于痛苦之中。一个普通的 kala 成为一个一直以来就是男人的人

战争干扰国内议程

华盛顿

民调显示，随着伊朗冲突影响油价，共和党支持率下降

作者：埃里克·A·格林 (ERIC A. GREEN)

伊朗战争，以及一轮又一轮的威胁与走势，在政治危急时刻颠覆了特朗普总统的国内议程。

美国人正面临油价上涨；国会中的共和党人被迫为一场他们从未希望被证明的持续战争提供资金并为其辩护；随着中期选举临近，民调显示，人们对这场看不到尽头的战争的支持率正在下降。

特朗普先生本周将开启西海岸之行，向美国人民谈论经济并推销其议程。以下是特朗普先生因战争而面临的三大国内障碍：

泵端的压力

特朗普先生在伊朗的战争推高了全球石油成本，美国人支付的汽油费用平均而言，高于 2022 年俄罗斯发动全面入侵乌克兰以来的水平。

根据 GA 最近的访问，周一的全国平均汽油价格为每加仑 $4.10。自 2 月战争开始以来，全国价格使驾驶者的成本增加了 37% 以上。而且，这加剧了由政府高通胀以及在战争开始前就已出现的石油染料上涨斗争所引起的生存危机。

特朗普先生断言，由于冲突，每桶原油价格远低于预期，且汽油价格将在战争结束时“像石头一样坠落”。

周一，特朗普先生试图将责任推给石油公司，因为他知道这些公司由于他的政策而变得更加盈利。

在社交媒体帖子以及椭圆形办公室的露面中，他指责德国公司和埃克森（Exxon）获得创纪录的利润，并建议他们应为公众降低价格。“他们也给了其他石油公司，”他写道，“并且让你们的消费者（电子邮件） / 降低油价，现在！”

暴跌的民调

特朗普先生是现代唯一一位在没有美国公众支持的情况下带领国家参战的总统。在最近的 Quicksilver 大学民调中，60% 的选民表示反对对伊朗采取军事行动，较 5 月份略有上升。在最近的一项 CNN / SSW 民调中，76% 的美国人——包括约 43% 的共和党人——表示，就财务负担或美国人员伤亡而言，伊朗战争不值得付出这样的代价。

尽管特朗普先生可以坚持让美国远离战争，但这场冲突持续的时间现在已经超过了他担任“世界亚洲”总统的时间，并导致 10 名美国服役人员死亡。

特朗普先生对战争所经历的观点不屑一顾，称其为暂时的。他通过将美国士兵的死亡人数与越南战争等过去战争的伤亡人数进行比较，从而淡化了死亡人数。

周一，特朗普先生写道，他认为任何显示不满的民调都是“激进左翼的虚假民调数字”。

政治风险

随着共和党在短短几个月后面临艰难的中期选举，即使是特朗普先生最亲密的盟友也加强了要求明确结束冲突的呼吁。“我们可以把它收尾了，”议长迈克·约翰逊上个月在一次临时——

原因——协议崩溃后表示。

特朗普先生在没有国会授权的情况下发动了战争，这个问题在最近几周达到了顶峰，因为国会议员被要求提供数十亿美元的额外资金于周一。上周，前共和党人拒绝限制特朗普先生继续战争的权力，但确实有许多人抱怨他们不确定冲突将走向何方。

“我不知道总统是否应该再次发起新的轰炸行动，因为我没有军事援助，”路易斯安那州共和党参议员约翰·肯尼迪周日在 NBC 的《会见新闻》节目中表示。

“现在，这也是一个问题，因为如果我造成很多痛苦，如果我导致能源价格上涨，以及给美国人民带来很多通货膨胀。这些都是摆在面前的选择。”

民主党人已经在采用他们的策略，在即将到来的竞选中利用共和党对战争的支持来攻击他们的对手。

根据媒体追踪公司 Adirspast 的分析，在缅因州，一个主要的民主党团体 Majority Forward 已花费超过 $1.500 万 投放广告，指责共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯给了特朗普先生一张用于战争的“空白支票”。

水手在波斯湾被困

支撑杆。海员代表表示，在明确安全之前，船舶运营商不应尝试通过。

“贸易很重要，但我们不应拿无辜者的生命冒险，”国际海事组织的秘书长阿尔塞尼奥·多明格斯（Arsenio Dominguez）在一次采访中表示。

Francesca 号在巴拿马海事旗帜下航行，根据公约，巴拿马已牵头进行释放该船及其船员的谈判。

“情况有所改善，”巴拿马驻国际海事组织大使吉内特·泰斯塔（Ginette Testa）上个月表示。她表示，她无法进一步评论或提供任何可能损害目前谈判努力的细节。

根据克罗地亚外交部的消息，两名水手（均为克罗地亚人）已从 Francesca 号获释。一名政府发言人表示，由于此事具有敏感性，他无法进一步评论。

克罗地亚海员工会协调员托马斯·佩里奇（Thomas Peric）表示， 号上的海员得到了良好对待，并且有足够的食物供应。他在两名克罗地亚人获释前与他们的家人保持定期联系。他说，起初他们与家人的联系相当频繁，但后来受到了限制。

在 MSC 总部所在地瑞士，为了确保 号的释放，“外交渠道正在被使用”，该国政府发言人皮埃尔-阿兰·德埃克斯昌格（Pierre-Alain D'Exchanger）上周表示，但拒绝详细说明。

根据 Yanker Teachers 的卫星数据，在伊朗扣押 号的同一天，另一艘集装箱船 Epanismadan 号也被扣押，目前被扣留在 号附近海域。Epanismadan 号是 MSC 租赁协议下的船队的一部分，在利比里亚海事旗帜下航行。

根据菲律宾移民工人部的消息，Epanismadan 号上的几名水手已经获释。该部门在一份声明中表示，菲律宾水手在经历了“艰难的经历”后接受了医疗和心理评估。

“这些海员感到完全被抛弃，完全没有准备，”国际运输工人联合会负责海员和伊朗地区的协调员穆罕默德·阿鲁查迪（Mohamed Arruchadi）在谈到被困波斯湾的水手时表示。他补充说，他们的财务状况、睡眠和心理健康都受到了这次折磨的影响。

一些被困在波斯湾、食物有限的水手说，他们每天只能吃一次米饭和扁豆。阿鲁查迪先生说，一名水手表示他穿着衣服睡觉，以便在船只被击中时能迅速撤离。

“又有一些请求将水手从船上转移并运送到附近港口，以便乘飞机回家。但此类撤离是单方面的，因为它们需要附近国家移民当局的合作，”一名研究过其他工作条件的威尔士卡迪夫大学名誉教授 Sampson 先生说道。

Sampson 先生说，许多船员签署的是短期合同，可能不愿在危险的航行中坚持，且他们会感激能获得就业机会。

“他们知道，如果他们在船上引起任何麻烦，他们将无法获得另一份合同，”她说。“对于一名海员来说，如果在船上反对或提出要求，那基本上就是他们的海上职业生涯的终点。”

在 4 月两艘 MSC 船舶被扣押之前，已有近 38 艘船只遭到袭击，其中包括就在前一天，一艘由 MSC 的法国竞争对手 CMA CGM 拥有的集装箱船。

号和 Epanismadan 号的命运仍然不明。

国际海事组织发言人约纳希·布朗（Yonashi Brown）周一表示， 号和 Epanismadan 号仍处于其领海内，水手们仍在船上。

“相关各方正在就释放问题进行磋商，但由于更广泛的地缘政治冲突，情况变得复杂，”她说。

在 4 月船只被扣押后，伊斯兰革命卫队海军表示，有两艘船只在“没有必要许可”的情况下航行，这一消息来自一家非激进伊朗通讯社分享的一份声明。该声明称，这些船只被导向伊朗的战争。根据海运公司 Yanker Teachers 的说法，这些船只仍留在伊朗水域。

珍妮·格罗斯（Jenny Gross）在日内瓦和伦敦报道，彼得·尤维克（Peter Euvic）在纽约报道。

与阿曼的协议可能巩固伊朗对霍尔木兹海峡的控制

交通将恢复，但德黑兰的筹码将被巩固

作者：DAVID E. SAWGER, FABINAZ FASIBIRI 和 JEKE SCHREIT

据伊朗和美国官员透露，伊朗和阿曼即将达成一项协议，重新开放通往伊朗海域的航运交通。但如果该协议生效，可能会付出高昂的代价——增强德黑兰对这条在战争前开放的国际水道的控制权。

据熟悉这项新兴协议的官员描述，进入波斯湾的船只将通过一条由伊朗控制且靠近其海岸的航道。离开波斯湾的船只将通过一条靠近阿曼的航道。

伊朗官员表示，虽然不会收取航行费，但协议包含一项“服务费”，用于覆盖航运对环境的影响、货船和油轮的安全保障以及人员配置。两名伊朗官员表示，收入将由伊朗和阿曼平分。

但一名熟悉谈判的美国官员周一表示，伊朗的说法“不准确”，并称通过海峡建立的任何“临时”航线都不会涉及伊朗的批准或许可，且不涉及航行费。

对于特朗普总统来说，如果该协议达成，可能会解决他最紧迫的政治问题，让船只再次流动。就伊朗官员而言，他们表示，尽管达成任何协议，海峡仍将保持关闭，直到美国（第1）对波斯湾伊朗港口的海军封锁解除，且两国都回归到基于伊斯兰堡谅解备忘录的 10 点计划。

一些官员表示，如果美国决定对伊朗实施紧急措施或制裁，使其能够合法地销售和交付空气，那么美国可以进一步缓解市场压力。

但最终，伊朗主张对通道拥有控制权，贸易的开放伴随着地缘政治成本。伊朗官员表示，他们拒绝签署该协议是为了确认他们控制海峡的能力，从而保留他们在战前不具备的战略筹码。

此类限制将直接违反国务卿 Mario Rublei 设定的目标，他表示，协议规定海峡必须恢复到美国和以色列在 2 月 28 日袭击伊朗之前的第三大主要水道状态。

“如果在中东创造一个先例，让一个民族国家可以决定控制一条国际水道，”他在最近一次东南亚官员会议上说，“改变它，而且那是他们的报酬。在这里，炸毁你们的船只，我们创造了一个非常危险的程序，这将在世界其他地方重复出现。”

“这里涉及的不仅仅是 Sharmat 分水岭发生了什么的问题，而是一个关于航行自由的非常基本的原则，”Rublei 先生说，并补充道，“支撑联合国多年法律的规则可能使此类措施受到威胁，而这是不允许发生的。”

特朗普先生对这项新兴协议几乎没有发表评论，该协议是回归谈判的一部分，他表示这促使他在周末取消了对伊朗的大规模新攻击。协议给予伊朗和阿曼 60 天时间协商开放海峡，但其设想是在此期间，美国和伊朗将恢复关于伊朗 11 吨浓缩铀储备未来的讨论。

Uddin Hafeen 先生持有异议。但由于他放弃了部分，使其不易被转化为武器使用，并被密切地运往美国或

另一个可以将其处置或用于核电站的国家。

一份由副总统（共和党-Youse）签署，并由特朗普先生分别签署（两人均声明无需承担责任）的计划表明，一项核协议将在 60 天内进行谈判。但这包括一个可能长达两周的构建期，且官员们现在承认，任何谈判即便能够启动，也将延伸至整个期间，甚至可能超出。在私下交流中，一些官员怀疑是否会达成一项核协议，并且特朗普先生可能会简单地宣布——正如他过去所暗示的那样——伊朗的库存应继续埋在针对三个国家发动战争攻击后产生的碎片之下，这三个国家共同失去了你们。

但重新开放该海峡对特朗普先生在政治上至关重要，因此尽管哈芬先生发表了声明，但目前的声明似乎是在让世界为伊朗重新控制交通的整个事件做好准备。

“你们今天或明天就会知道，”特朗普先生周一在白宫谈到这项正在达成的协议时说。“无论结果如何，都会很快出炉。这并不复杂。”

他预测，该海峡可能会在“最快明天”开放，这一主张他在过去几个月中已多次提出。“开放海峡的第一阶段是：第二阶段将是去敏感化，”他说。

然而，根据听取过相关担忧的现任和前任官员透露，一些五角大楼高级官员似乎对正在达成的阿曼-伊朗安排持怀疑态度。一些人担心这相当于向伊朗人妥协。他们指出，在从海湾经过该海峡并穿过阿曼水域的航线上，他们仍处于许多状态，即船只需要与伊朗协调才能安全航行。

如果伊朗继续主张对霍尔木兹海峡的控制，该水道的重新开放可能会付出地缘政治代价

一些伊朗官员甚至对阿拉伯世界是否是主要利益来源持怀疑态度，并试图消除另一波美国袭击的风险。

美国中央司令部一直在引导船只通过该航线，但它们同样面临着伊朗的威胁。特朗普总统在两周内两次在一天之内召集亚洲、以色列、伊拉克人、阿拉伯空军司令部，准备对发起这些袭击的伊朗领空进行一次短暂而激烈的轰炸。但特朗普先生并未掩饰关于重新开放海峡的激烈辩论，即使这意味着某种形式的火力结构和某种程度的伊朗控制。

伊朗领先杂志的高级顾问 Mohd Mahanmoudi 周一晚上告诉国家电视台，伊朗和阿曼一直在就管理海峡进行艰苦的谈判。他表示，这些谈判与与美国的战争是分开的。

伊朗表示，美国在指示船只从第一场战争的南海岸出发前往阿曼时违反了和平计划。协议中关于谁控制第一场战争的语言存在争议。但随后伊朗也违反了该计划，并就那些在没有紧张局势的情况下在海湾航行的船只达成一致。

国际危机组织中东项目主任 At-Vars 表示，伊朗坚决要保持对海峡的杠杆作用，因为它是其在战争中取得的唯一成就，且与阿曼的协议将使伊朗处于比本轮战斗前更好的位置。

“任何看似真实的控制海峡的解决方案对特朗普来说都将很难被接受，但也没有风险。解决方案不过是对海峡的控制，”Vary 先生说。“特朗普的困境是在一场纠缠不清的战争和一场难以接受的和平之间。”

国务卿 Mario Rublei 表示，允许伊朗控制霍尔木兹海峡将导致一个“危险的先例，这将在世界其他地区重复出现”。

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• 周六周日版一篇关于 Rahel 西剧院及其建筑师 Lillie Hadid 的笔记本文章中，在某一处提到了将在剧院演出的组织名称。它是 Danse Theater of Rahels，而非 Dance Company of Harlem。

• 周六周日评论版一篇关于“Urban Water”歌剧《Lill Lillie》的文章中，误述了 在去世前最常进行的手术类型。虽然剧本说她将更多地回答否定主张，但它并未提及 经历的手术类型，之前的版本也错误地引用了 主要出版的回忆录《Man Into Women》。该书首次以丹麦语出版，但并非首次以丹麦语撰写。

伊朗国家新闻机构发布的一张照片，显示了卡在霍尔木兹海峡的一艘名为 Epanismadan 的集装箱船。

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在椭圆形办公室，检察官指控内政部长误导总统

作者：TYLER PAOLE, CLINN THRUST-ASSOCIATE NATION

乔安娜·皮罗（Joanne Pirro）与道格·伯格姆（Doug Burgum）之间发生了一场激烈冲突。这位哥伦比亚特区美国检察官在周一昂首走入椭圆形办公室，她的前途悬而未决，而她私下里认为是个无能之辈的内政部长，正等着与她对质。

几个小时前——在郊区，从山顶码头——特朗普总统指责皮罗女士（一位来自纽约、交往数十年的盟友兼好友）在撤销对一名男子的指控后，表现得像是在“撑伞”和“遮掩”。该男子被指控在对其心爱的、翻修拙劣的林肯纪念堂反思池进行衬里破坏时造成了损坏。

他为什么如此愤怒？因为皮罗女士试图公开揭露这位深受总统喜爱、由伯格姆先生推举的人员：破坏华盛顿地标的是那些破坏者，而非内政部雇佣的、工作敷衍的承包商。

特朗普先生在周一私下里对皮罗女士大发雷霆。随后，他对记者也发了一通火。传闻他将在西翼将其解雇。接着，在举行一场极具羞辱性的、在白宫内像多国真人秀一样布置的面对面会议之前，他又发了一会儿火。

伯格姆先生也被邀请参加，因此皮罗女士做了充分准备。她穿着一件与她激昂情绪相匹配的亮红色西装外套，从西行政车道进入白宫，推着一个装有证据的白色推车和一个装有文件的黑色轮式箱子。

在椭圆形办公室等待她的，除了总统，还有特朗普先生的办公厅主任苏西·威尔斯（Susie Wiles）和白宫法律顾问大卫·沃林顿（David Warrington）。

经过约一小时的激烈交锋，皮罗女士暂时保住了她的工作。周二晚上，在前往西海岸的途中，特朗普先生告诉记者，他告诉皮罗女士他对她的起诉书“不满意”，且仍在考虑她的去留。

当被问及皮罗女士的工作是否安全时，他说：“我还没有做出决定。”

在周一的会议期间，皮罗女士有时提高嗓门，直接与伯格姆先生对质，指责他误导总统。她主张伯格姆先生编造了一个自利掩盖故事，以掩饰他自己的失误。

据一名要求匿名讨论内部对话的人士透露，伯格姆先生虽然语气温和，但尽力为自己辩护。

该人士表示，到当天结束时，特朗普先生似乎没那么愤怒了。白宫、皮罗女士和伯格姆先生的发言人未回应置评请求。

基于对多位知情人士的采访，这次冲突揭示了特朗普先生第二任期的一个核心事实：没有人敢于反驳他，即使这个异议者恰好是一位多年来忠实支持其检控议程的家族好友。

这场风波始于 7 月 2 日，当时情绪激动的皮罗女士在新闻媒体成员面前宣布，她的办公室已起诉 61 岁的前奥运皮划艇运动员大卫·舒姆（David Shum），罪名是一项破坏公物罪，因为他被观察到破坏了泳池的衬里。

“这不仅是总统的优先事项，也是我个人的优先事项，”皮罗女士说，并补充道：“我们将证明，舒姆蓄意破坏财产，且排除合理怀疑！”

她没能证明。上周五，皮罗女士在一份 20 页的撤诉文件中经历了一次令人尴尬的检控退却，承认她 7 月份对这位三届奥运选手的快速起诉是基于错误的假设和不完整的证据。该文件在某种程度上成了对伯格姆先生、被雇佣维修泳池的承包商 Atlantic Industrial Coatings 以及美国公园警察官员的指控。

皮罗女士的提交文件表明，伯格姆先生因未能胜任地撤销翻修而导致了路面坍塌，随后促使特朗普先生

接受了“破坏者所为”的故事。皮罗女士表示，她的工作人员至多完全依赖于内政部官员的说法，即内衬的缺失损坏是由豪尔斯先生和其他破坏者造成的，这些人被观察到在拉扯或拆除墙上的材料碎片。

在审查了数千页证据后，她得出结论，该部门对施工进行了突袭并将其“掩盖”，且来自公园警察官员的信息导致她引用了针对豪尔斯先生的、实际上并不存在的“大量证据”。

这项严重的指控最高可判处 10 年监禁，这是基于皮罗女士团队的评估，认为损失金额超过 $5,000。

乔安妮·皮罗（左），华盛顿美国检察官，承认由内政部长道格·伯格姆（上图）推动的关于破坏者损坏林肯纪念堂反思池的理论是基于错误假设和不完整证据的。

皮罗女士深知她的未来可能会妨碍特朗普先生，但她决定在提交的文件中提供足够的证据，以明确地反驳伯格姆先生的立场。

在联邦法院提交撤销对豪尔斯先生指控的动议之前，她向白宫发出了预警，尽管据要求匿名讨论调查的知情人士透露，目前尚不清楚特朗普是否得到了汇报。

周六上午，在皮罗女士提交动议的一天后，来自特朗普女士的不祥信号开始出现。

为什么深知特朗普总统触发点的乔安妮·皮罗愿意冒着激怒他的风险，目前尚不清楚。

“我 100% 不同意乔安妮·皮罗，”特朗普先生在 Truth Social 的一篇帖子中写道。“我不知道她在想什么！”因此，这完全是一起破坏行为！他补充道，“可能存在一些承包商方面的困难，但主要的损害是由破坏行为造成的！”

伯格姆先生随后在社交媒体上为自己辩护。他写道，他的工作人员“向美国检察官办公室提供了关于破坏者所造成损害的专家和目击者证词，并在要求的时间内提供了他们要求的每一项证据，详细列出了泳池每个受损区域的情况”。

特朗普先生起初似乎站在了伯格姆先生一边，随着周末的推进，他对皮罗女士的态度变得日益强硬。

到周一中午，在椭圆形办公室的一次新闻发布会上，当被问及关于皮罗女士的问题时，他立刻发难，表示自己感到失望，并指责皮罗女士在 Hours 案中过于胆怯，不敢将案件提交给法官。值得注意的是，他没有回答记者关于皮罗女士未来雇佣情况的问题。

为什么皮罗女士——一个比除其家人外几乎任何人都更了解特朗普先生性格和触发点的人——愿意冒着激怒总统的风险，目前尚不清楚。

据两名接近此事的人士透露，在过去几周审查了数千页证据后，皮罗女士认定 Hours 的起诉书在被法院驳回之前需要进行咨询。

她的批评者质疑她的动机是否像她所承认的那样简单直接。

他们认为，皮罗女士撤回起诉的决定是为了自我推广：她可能试图阻止如果大陪审团证词或其他内部材料被公开而可能导致的纪律处分。

Houe 女士的律师表示，她正犯下她指责伯格姆先生所做的事情——没有采取任何行动来平息她的愤怒——并且在起诉 Hours 先生之前，她有充分的机会接触到证明损害是由承包商造成的证据。

承包商 Atlantic Industrial Coatings 尚未回应关于此案的查询，但该公司网站 6 月 23 日的一份声明称，泳池有“一些区域”需要维修。

皮罗女士与特朗普女士一起在纽约市的小报市场崭露头角，她表现出了比许多其他高级部门官员更强的独立意识，而那些人的职业生涯完全是由特朗普先生成就的。

她离开了一份在 Pea News 薪水高得多的工作，接任美国检察官一职，接管华盛顿，并且她一直认为目前的职位是其职业生涯的顶峰而非跳板，且不希望出现一个“被抛弃”的时刻。

然而，据各方报道，皮罗女士在周一对自己进行了激烈的辩护，并决心赢得与伯格姆先生的这场战斗，并最终赢回特朗普先生。

David A. Faleverhold 和 Maxine Joanne 参与了报道。

共和党人似乎对美国国税局（I.R.S.）的豁免协议不以为意

新闻报道 华盛顿

特朗普不再需要担心其激进税务立场受到的审查

作者：安德鲁·迪克伦 (ANDREW DICKEREN)

尽管代理司法部长托德·布兰奇 (Todd Blanche) 专注于共和党要求收回美国司法部今年春季向特朗普总统及其盟友提供的非凡福利，但他仅限于列举：

在经过反复沟通后，布兰奇先生确实以书面形式表示，他将撤回那项用于支付那些称自己被民主党官员针对的 2.85 亿美元 基金。而在周日同一份公告中，布兰奇先生澄清说，对于他为特朗普先生及其家人和企业的、看似无限制的免于内部税务局 (I.R.S.) 审查的保护，实际上存在一些限制。

但事实仍然是，作为一名一生都在与 I.R.S. 打交道的亿万富翁，特朗普先生不再需要担心该机构因其在税务问题上的许多激进立场而追究其责任，而这正是该办公室的职责所在。此前，I.R.S. 坚持定期审计所有从该办公室获得 I.R.S. 豁免的人，而司法部长则利用其对联邦政府的控制，将每一任现代总统，更不用说每一个普通纳税人，都必须面对的审查给边缘化了。

毫无疑问，这种前所未有的豁免权将立即使特朗普先生获益，但对于国家而言，这无疑意味着损失了多少额外的税收和罚款。I.R.S. 的审计通常是保密的，但《纽约时报》此前披露的特朗普先生与该机构的一项争议，可能会让他损失超过 1亿美元。任何其他正在进行的审计可能会让他付出更高的代价。

“我一生中每年都被审计，而——我有许多富有的朋友直到今天从未被审计过，他们从未被审计。但我被审计了，”特朗普先生周一在椭圆形办公室表示。“我受到了 I.R.S. 非常不公正的对待。”

特朗普先生新获得的挫败税务机构的能力，似乎并未让那些拒绝在不更改协议的情况下推进布兰奇先生担任司法部长任命的参议院共和党人感到困扰。德克萨斯州的参议员约翰·科里奥 (John Corryo) 和北卡罗来纳州的参议员瑟斯·蒂尔克斯 (Thurs. Tilks) 周一均表示，他们对布兰奇先生的让步感到满意，并将投票批准他的任命。

事实上，科里奥先生和蒂尔克斯先生此前仅寻求纠正审计保护条款在起草时的粗糙方式——

以及将布兰奇先生之前的口头承诺书面化。例如，科里奥先生要求布兰奇先生声明，特朗普先生可以确保其已经提交的申报表不受影响，这意味着总统在未来的申报中仍可能面临 I.R.S. 的审查。

布兰奇先生 5 月 30 日下达的指令的最初措辞似乎也支持将保护范围不仅限于特朗普先生，还包括他的整个家庭“不受限制”，以及与他们有关的所有公司。

这导致了大量相关人员或公司可能根据该协议要求豁免的可能性。

马萨诸塞州民主党人伊丽莎白·沃伦 (Elizabeth Warren) 参议员上个月试图测试布兰奇先生宣言的界限，询问与家庭成员有关联的公司，

包括 Kishki、Palo market 和 American Motors，是否认为自己免于 I.R.S. 的审计。六家公司在回复中表示他们并不免除。其他公司，如 North Liberty Financial，则未回复沃伦女士。

在科里奥先生的敦促下，布兰奇先生很快纠正称，只有在特朗普先生对 I.R.S. 提起的诉讼中的原告才有资格获得审计保护。这包括总统本人、小唐纳德 (Donald Jr.)、埃里克 (Eric) 以及该组织——特朗普先生的诉状将其定义为 the Organization, LLC，及其未明确指出的其他实体。

特朗普在 1 月份对美国国税局（I.R.S.）提起的诉讼，重点并非关于审计的争议，而是在其首任期内其税务信息的泄露。

左起，德克萨斯州的约翰·科里奥（John Corryo）参议员，左二，在关于托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche）担任司法部长的听证会上。科里奥先生试图澄清保护特朗普总统免受美国国税局审计的和解条款。

联邦法律允许人们在税务申报单被不当披露时起诉该机构，且如果法院认定国税局应对此负责，则有可能获得金钱赔偿。

特朗普最初要求国税局支付至少 100 亿美元 billion 的赔偿金，但司法部转而将其作为结案协议的一部分，给予他审计保护。司法部在未对特朗普的指控进行认定（controlling）的情况下达成了和解，尽管国税局的律师曾建议采取几种防御措施。

在迈阿密负责审理特朗普起诉国税局案的联邦法官将结果归咎于一种集体性的自我妥协。她指出，她本身可能拥有阻止该协议的法律权力，这是围绕审计保护的诸多法律不确定性之一。

其中一项不确定性是，作为司法部代理负责人的布兰奇先生，是否有权指示作为财政部一部分的国税局如何进行审计。

此外，还有一项法规禁止总统及其助手指示国税局启动或停止审计。虽然该法律为司法部长留有豁免空间，但仍然存在风险，即国税局的个体代理人在未来的政府任期内，可能会因为执行布兰奇先生的命令而面临刑事指控。

这两个复杂的法律问题通常应由财政部和国税局的最高法律顾问处理。但就在司法部宣布就针对国税局的财政部诉讼达成和解的那天，财政部的总法律顾问辞职了。

而国税局的最高法律顾问代理人肯·克洛茨（Ken Klotz）被赶出了办公室。由于克洛茨曾担任特朗普的税务律师，法院的决定已避开了涉及特朗普的问题。特朗普选择接替克洛茨担任国税局首席法律顾问的人选，是另一位曾为他工作的税务律师。

国税局尚未回答是否在遵循布兰奇先生指示的问题。

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6 / 2020年8月6日，星期四

世界

美国社会主义者乐观情绪中的不安

芝加哥

随着左翼候选人在民主党选举中获胜，美国民主社会主义者组织面临诸多辩论

作者：艾玛·戈德堡 (EMMA GOLDBERG)

在芝加哥南区的一家简陋酒吧里，聚集在一起的民主社会主义者在全国峰会的第一天结束后心情不错。来自俄勒冈州波特兰的 35 岁青年哈利·巴尼艾-贝克尔 (Harley Banyai-Becker) 站在椅子上，号召美国民主社会主义者组织 (D.S.A.) 的成员们坚守在“连锁斗争的前线”。

但出现了一个问题：他们中没有人能盖过她的声音。

“斯特林 (Sterling) 怎么能这么大声？”巴尼艾-贝克尔先生在愤怒的摇滚乐轰鸣声中大喊。

“大声点，领导！”一名 D.S.A. 成员说道。

“我们要不要一个接一个地上去，让他们把音乐关小点？”另一人问道。

“我们组织一下？”第三个人说。

“我们在和老板谈完之后再继续。”巴尼艾-贝克尔先生说，随后走向酒吧的所有者，而这些人恰好也是当地 D.S.A. 的成员。

如果说拿着锤子的人看哪里都是钉子，那么也可以说，美国民主社会主义者组织即使是在庆祝成功，也能找到战斗的理由。

在备受瞩目的初选获胜之后，近 100 名 D.S.A. 成员——美国最大的社会主义组织——的自然聚集，看起来可能会感觉不稳定，就像一群 20 多岁的年轻人的夏令营社交活动，他们赫然发现自己承接了民主党的风范，并掌握着纽约市政厅的钥匙。

但当 D.S.A. 成员聚集在一起，例如为了“构建‘毫无距离的团结’”，科学并不是主导情绪。这更像是一种紧张的恐惧，惶恐且古怪，是一种沉重的认知：他们计划做的一切——在 2020 年推举一名总统候选人，将组织规模扩大到 100 万名成员——只有在经历 1,000 多个小时的科学辩论之后才能实现。

“无论我们是有 20,000 名成员还是 200,000 名成员，总会有务实的人和更坚持原则的人，”38 岁的烟草指控领导者尼克·克诺尔 (Nick Knaul) 表示。

这是一个真正的挑战：该组织正面临着。虽然 D.S.A. 支持的候选人赢得了更多创纪录的席位，但其内部决策过程与传统政党明显不同，尽管其领导层坚持认为这是一个特点——即民主在发挥作用——但内部的连锁反应也引发了疑问，特别是关于该组织计划如何处理一些担心被社会主义者利用或使其成功的民主党人的不满，更不用说来自右翼的激烈反共主义。

但在周五晚上简陋酒吧的闪烁灯光下，在弹珠机、拍照亭和一块广告写着 87 小时的黑板环绕中，D.S.A. 的成员们回顾了过去 10 年的名单，并发布了写着“红帽社会主义工业”的社会主义宣言，此外还包括与 D.S.A. 候选人来源相关的机密——

上图，美国民主社会主义者组织全国选举主席凯蒂·西姆斯 (Katie Sims) 在芝加哥向成员发表讲话。右图，D.S.A. 峰会上的书籍展架。

——候选人的纹身、玫瑰纹身，以及一个塞满了社会主义阅读材料的巨大袋子。坐在后方椅子上的是一名候选人的助手——被更多人称为“亲爱的领袖”——穿着一件红色的民主社会主义衬衫。

在沾满洒出啤酒的黏糊糊的桌子周围，一些成员讨论着列夫·托洛茨基 (Leon Trotsky) 和尤金·C·德哈 (Eugene C. Deha)，许多人则停留在关于威斯康星州民主社会主义州长候选人弗朗西斯卡·斯林 (Francesca Sling) 和纽约市民主社会主义市长朱琳·曼迪亚尼 (Julene Mandiani) 的表面对话中。（一名成员自愿表示，他几乎在 2016 年为了出演曼迪亚尼先生的一段短视频而离开了高中。）

在峰会内部，气氛是激烈的煽动（“杀死你脑海中那个亚伦-拉金式的西翼自由派”，来自纽约州伊利诺伊州的社会主义选举官员塞尔日·贝尔胡什卡补充道，“党内的英雄并非真实存在”）与研究生式的探讨之融合。在商品台附近有一个书摊，摆放着《酒精租金》和《人民资本主义指南》。书商表示，《共产党宣言》在第一天下午 5 点前就已售罄。

不过，许多成员来到这里并不是为了讨论卡尔·马克思。在 D.S.A. 成员们进行见证的潜水酒吧社交活动不远处，另一个派系正在举办一场名为“俄亥俄州支持 AOC”的派对，地点在一家稍欠简陋的酒吧。

成员们在迪斯科舞厅的灯光下，签署 30 杯鸡尾酒，并试图争取组织支持纽约州代表亚历山德里亚·格拉齐亚斯-卡斯特罗在 2020 年竞选总统。这位国会议员并未出席，也没有表明她是否将竞选总统。

“在 D.S.A. 中，谁能仅仅通过说这是一个好主意就赢得一场竞选？”全国选举主席凯蒂·西姆斯问道，她穿着得体的平底鞋站在一把椅子上。

“我们需要在整个组织中建立大规模共识，”他们问道。“但共识对于 D.S.A. 成员来说是一场竞赛。在他们正努力解决或近期试图解决的问题中，包括：花时间尝试赢得选举是否值得，还是说选举政治注定会令人失望——

因为官员们会让运动失望？他们是否应该尝试支持格拉齐亚斯-卡斯特罗竞选总统，或者她已经让自己在 D.S.A. 中过于边缘化了？他们是否应该支持亲以色列的候选人？”

在 D.S.A. 的全国峰会上徘徊，你会听到人们说该组织定义于其内部精英和紧张关系的深度。你也会听到，他们定义自己的方式正是通过这些内部紧张关系。你可能会开始认为，也许这种分歧本身就是一种统治形式。

因为 D.S.A. 将自身组织成，{bignarts 风格，由十几个党团组成。有“面包与玫瑰”、“仅限已婚给予”、“红帽”、“基础工作”和“共产主义党团”：其中一些，如“基础工作”，是以赢得选举为核心的。而另一些，比如

对于该组织的许多成员来说，美国民主社会主义者党既是一个政治之家，也是一个社交之家。

“面包与玫瑰”将时间投入到工会组织中。而成员们称之为“椰子党团”的组织则以在派对上分发香烟而闻名。

“党团之争是传奇性的，”全国共同主席梅根·沃纳（Megan Warner）开玩笑说。（甚至在应该是“Bread and Roses”还是“Bread & Roses”这个问题上也有激烈的争论。）

“党团与成员之间的紧张关系有所加剧，因为这些矛盾既基于个人——谁话最多，谁想管理分会，谁想竞选市议员——又基于原则，聚焦于加沙战争和最低工资。成员们通常希望内部分歧能保持私密，尽管他们最终往往会在公开场合对此大肆宣传，并在大型集会上进行激烈的争论。（或许与这种仅想展示一面地愿望有关，峰会组织者要求媒体仅与名单上的大约 40 名成员交谈，其中许多人在组织中担任领导职务，但在峰会之外的派对上，其他人则渴望交谈。）”

“我关注党团的戏剧性冲突；我也参与其中，”38 岁的马特·纳尼（Matt Nurney）说道，他像一个耐心的患者，听起来有点像一个试图帮人戒掉八卦习惯的治疗师。“但归根结底，我们的目标是一致的。”

对于许多成员来说，D.S.A. 既是一个政治之家，也是一个社交之家。巴尼艾-贝克尔（Banyai-Becker）女士在一次

社会主义装束（见上图），以及一扇被称为“亲爱的领袖”的证词之门。D.S.A. 正在探讨是否应该尝试变得更加主流。

D.S.A. 大会上。来自丹佛的领导人安德鲁·汤普森（Andrew Thompson）最近为自己举办了一场离婚派对，参加者全是他在 D.S.A. 的朋友。（来自奥兰多的全国领导人 Off Canada 表示，D.S.A. 对他而言发挥的社交功能，就像天主教会对他父母年轻时那样。）

“我们这一代人是疏离的——当你参加一个会议时，这是一个巨大的社交活动，”24 岁的萨拉·阿尔特鲁埃特（Sara Alterouet）说道，她今年担任美国青年民主社会主义者党主席。

笼罩在峰会上的一个核心问题是，D.S.A. 在成长过程中是否应该尝试变得更加主流，以及它是否会坚持其特质。享受各种文化和所有新成员都被像曼迪亚尼（Mandiani）先生这样名人社会主义者的吸引力所吸引。

但在与任何一名成员交流三分钟后，关于该组织走向平庸的担忧可能会变得非常明显。对话中浸透了一种坚持使用晦涩词汇的风格。成员们谈到以一种“提名式”的方式产生分歧，成为一个“多趋势组织”，维持一个涵盖了从“他们自己”到“已婚关注者”所有人的团体。

“你会说这些是分歧，”来自新泽西州的 D.S.A. 全国领导人、40 岁的米凯拉·布兰根（Michaela Brangan）说道。她停顿了一下，然后承认道：“我也会说它们是分歧。但实际上，这是一个持续的讨论。”

在重新划分选区的田纳西州，民主党人努力保住席位

孟菲斯

孟菲斯，这座可靠的自由派城市，已被拆分到三个保守派选区

作者：艾米莉·科克伦 (EMILY COCHRANE)

孟菲斯人民原以为他们的国会初选将在周四按原计划进行。

四个月前，这座可靠的民主党城市本将保留该州唯一的民主党众议院席位：唯一的问题是，该选区占多数的黑人选民会支持现任众议员史蒂夫·科恩（Steve Cohen，一名 75 岁的白人民主党人），还是支持贾斯汀·皮尔逊（Justin Pearson，一名 35 岁的黑人州代表）。

随后，最高法院对 1964 年的《投票权法》造成了打击，州共和党人恢复了民主党国会的路径。现在，进入周四初选的紧迫问题是对民主党人而言是破碎的。他们是否甚至在说他们是？

在新地图下，孟菲斯的北国会选区被拆分为三个席位：科恩先生已经退休。皮尔逊先生，他的家园被驱动出北方，被留在了 30 个州的挑战之中。而共和党人则在竞相利用一个世代机遇，以移除一个异常的保守派州众议院代表团。

“这里的是一个共同且单一的孟菲斯故事，”这位长期关注该州且持异议的评论员说道。

包括那些竞选代表孟菲斯的人在内的民主党人坚持认为，他们的选民充满活力且被激活，即便他们同时也表示。黑人选民已被

去组织化，共和党人表示这是一个矛盾。

“在新北方可能会有民主党的反弹，但归根结底，这被驱动为共和党人的优势，”州参议员史蒂夫·泰勒（Steve Taylor）说道，他是一名孟菲斯共和党人，在特朗普总统的背书下加入了北区的竞选。

“民主党人说当选区被划分时他们被剥夺了选举权，他们失去了声音，”他补充道。“他们不能既感觉到失去了声音，同时又拥有反弹。”

因为现在包含孟菲斯的三个选区向东延伸数十英里，共和党和民主党候选人面临着教育并争取分布在州内更广泛地区的选民的挑战。

但数学就是数学，田纳西州的所有九个选区现在都明显倾向于共和党人，而纳什维尔和孟菲斯这些民主党据点被拆分并与坚定的保守派农村后方合并在一起。

泰勒先生的对手，州代表托德·沃纳（Todd Warner）——他在立法机构的特别重新划分选区会议期间戴着一顶特朗普旗帜般的帽子——以及夏洛特·伯格曼（Charlotte Bergmann），一名多次挑战科恩先生的黑人共和党人，没有回复采访请求。

在民主党方面，皮尔逊先生仍然想尝试争取北区，但在周四，他必须首先面对州参议员伦敦·拉马尔（London Lamar），一名此前支持过 Co-Act 的黑人民主党人。皮尔逊先生自从 2022 年因挑战该州缺乏枪支法律而被立法机构驱逐出酒店以来，成功建立了强大的全国知名度。拉马尔女士则在州议会民主党少数派中悄然攀升

阶梯。

拉马尔女士呼应了科恩先生的批评，认为皮尔逊先生更多地依赖于那些追随技巧而非有效的立法。

“在代表权中，我想要强有力的，我想要有效的，我想要结果，”拉马尔女士在上个月底在孟菲斯的一次采访中说道，在采访中她多次打断自己以追赶选民并寻求支持。

在竞选机构中，针对他向科恩先生发起的初选挑战和背书已就绪：州参议员罗伯特·桑德斯（Robert Sanders）和代表亚历山德里亚·格拉齐亚斯-卡斯特罗（Alexandria Grazias-Castro），皮尔逊先生表示，他是激活民主党人的最佳人选。

“时刻正在与我们相遇，我没有因为他们让事情变得更困难就放弃的精神，”皮尔逊先生在德克萨斯州兰斯当的一家教堂活动前说道，那里距离孟菲斯向东 100 英里 (150 公里) 左右。

活动在竞选助手们拿着教堂募捐篮匆忙收集捐款和捐赠者信息中结束。“我会亲自把盘子拿回去，”皮尔逊先生说，“实际上我胡子长得太茂盛了。”

一些民主党人和政治观察人士认为，他们在田纳西州保住一个席位的机会实际上取决于第 1998 国会选区，这里曾是纳什维尔的新闻中心，而现在足以将我们带回孟菲斯的一个地方。

现任议员安迪·奥格尔斯 (Andy Ogles) 因发表煽动性的反穆斯林和反移民言论以及为业主提供竞选资金而受到批评。这位获得特朗普先生背书的国会议员在周四面临自己的

在田纳西州北国会选区的民主党初选中，州代表贾斯汀·皮尔逊 (Justin Pearson)（上图）正与州参议员伦敦·拉马尔 (London Lamar)（左图）竞争。左侧显示的是新的田纳西州众议院选区图。

初选挑战者查尔斯·马里纳 (Charles Mariner)，一名前州农业专员。

马里纳先生敦促选民“雇佣一名农民”，并补充说他的家族经营奶牛场已有一个多世纪。周二，他获得了即将离任的共和党州长、长期好友比尔·李 (Bill Lee) 的背书。

共和党初选的获胜者预计将面对田纳西州哥伦比亚市市长、领先的民主党候选人查斯·马里纳 (Chas. Mariner)。

“我的背上有一个巨大的目标，”奥格尔斯先生上个月在田纳西州的一次活动中表示，他在那里誓言“我永远不必在这里”。

周五，他指出他是无法为自己投票的基础候选人。马里纳先生和莫伊斯勒 (Mr. Moisler) 先生都被划出了该选区。

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德国引以为傲的汽车工业正处于摇摇欲坠之中

挑战包括关税、电动汽车的增长以及来自中国的竞争

作者：JACK ERYNN 和 JIM TANKERKLEY

梅赛德斯-奔驰（Mercedes-Benz）1月举办的140周年庆典活动的中心，是一份由工程师卡尔·本茨（Carl Benz）在2006年提交的关于“带有燃气发动机的车辆”的专利申请。

梅赛德斯高管们谈论这份手写文件的方式——这份文件曾被展示在德国斯图加特公司园区的一面大墙上——使其看起来像是一件神圣的遗物。它不仅证明了德国是汽车的发源地，而且有助于解释为什么该国汽车巨头——大众（Volkswagen）、梅赛德斯和宝马（BMW）——所面临的危机不仅是对德国经济以及数千名工人生计的威胁。

“汽车业”还威胁到了国家认同，动摇了脆弱的执政联盟，并阻碍了对极右翼政治家的支持。

德国汽车制造商在美国关税、中国竞争以及向电动汽车艰难转型的压力下苦苦挣扎。局势的严重性在今年夏天变得清晰：大众高管在视察工厂期间发现，他们不得不取消道路计划并裁减数千个工作岗位。

这场危机引发了人们的质疑：德国那种通过（除其他措施外）给予工人强大的管理话语权来平衡利润与就业保障的方式，是否能够适应令人惊叹的技术变革。中国汽车制造商在10个月或更短的时间内就能推出新车型，这仅是大多数西方汽车制造商所需时间的一小部分。

贝伦贝格银行（Berenberg Bank）首席经济学家 Helyav Schumeding 表示，汽车业与化学和机械业一样，是“10世纪（当前德国工程师取得重大突破的时期）德国三大实力来源之一”。

Mr. Schumeding 表示，当行业快速变化时，“德国的劳资关系成了一种阻碍”。“如果是一个‘微调’模型，你可以与工人讨论。但当这是一个剧烈转变时，情况就更加困难。”

梅赛德斯的首席执行官 Killeman 表示，德国仍然拥有让梅赛德斯、宝马以及大众旗下的奥迪（Audi）和保时捷（Porsche）部门能够主导高端市场的技能。

在1月份公司推出其顶级的 top-of-the-mile Class 系列最新版本时，他表示，这款“美国”产品拥有德国的起源、精神、DNA、工程技能、精准度和质量思维。

新款梅赛德斯-奔驰 6-Class 出现在公司的140周年庆典上（见上图）。梅赛德斯的首席执行官 Killeman 女士（右，中心位置）表示，德国受到了高能源成本、税收以及难以解雇工人的规则的伤害。

但他补充说，该设计是“全球团队”的产物。他还表示，该国受到了高能源成本和税收以及难以解雇工人的规则的伤害。

“在德国有很多需要做的事情来提高竞争力——或者我应该说，在欧洲，”Mr. Killeman 在公司斯图加特总部的一次采访中说道。

当德国公司享受建设工厂的便利时，通常是在匈牙利、中国或墨西哥等地。根据德国汽车制造商协会 FDA 的数据，自2016年以来，在德国生产的汽车数量下降了 20 percent，使该国远落后于中国、美国、日本和印度。德国很快可能还会被 World News 和 News 超越。

美国汽车制造商可能很快会面临类似的挑战。目前，通用汽车（General Motors）和福特汽车（Ford Motor）受到关税的保护，免受中国竞争的影响。但福特执行主席 William Clay Ford Jr. 上个月在华盛顿的一次亚洲活动上表示：“我们不能指望永远将它们拒之门外。”

德国汽车制造商面临着双重打击。在中国——全球最大的汽车市场——外国汽车品牌的销量正在骤减。与此同时，中国汽车制造商在欧洲取得了长足进步。根据 Schmidt Automotive Research 汇总的数据，今年 6 月，中国汽车制造商在西欧的销量首次超过了日本汽车制造商。

中国曾是德国人的利润丰厚市场，2016 年大众汽车的销量中，中国市场占 37%。但在中国汽车制造商通过与外国汽车制造商建立合资企业学会如何制造汽车后，局面发生了逆转。

由中国政府拥有的汽车制造商北汽集团（BAIC Group）已成为梅赛德斯的最大股东，持股比例接近 10%。比亚迪（BYD）和 Geely Auto 等中国公司在开发电动汽车方面速度更快，这些车型得到了中国政府的大力推广，并且在欧洲销售火爆。

德国人在提供具有吸引力的电动汽车方面耗时太久。今年前六个月，大众汽车在中国的销量比去年同期下降了 20%，而梅赛德斯报告下降了 20%，宝马则增长了 20%。

“尽管产品更优秀，但我们无法在成本和定价上与来自中国的出口车型竞争，”大众汽车首席执行官奥利弗·布鲁默（Oliver Blume）上个月告诉员工。

布鲁默先生对德国四个城市的大众汽车工厂是否具有竞争力表示怀疑，不过他表示，或许可以通过一些方法避免关闭这些工厂，例如将其转换为国防工业使用。

2023 年，大众汽车与劳工代表达成协议，计划到 2030 年通过退休和提前离职的方式，从公司员工队伍中削减 50,000 人。布鲁默先生表示，该公司在全球拥有 657,000 名员工，目前仍比所需人数多出 50,000 人。

在大众汽车进行此类裁员尤为困难。

与所有这些德国汽车制造商一样，根据该国法律，公司员工在监事会的 10 个席位中占据一半。监事会监督管理层并有权解雇首席执行官。股东同样拥有 10 个席位并任命主席，主席可以行使决定性投票权。

“我们正在尽一切努力让汽车工业重新稳定。目前，这是德国最困难的部门。”

但大众汽车的独特之处在于，股东席位中的两个由下萨克森州持有，该州拥有公司 10% 的有表决权股票。该州是大众汽车沃尔夫斯堡总部的所在地，几乎总是站在工人的一边。

下萨克森州总理、该州在大众汽车董事会的代表格鲁夫·利昂（Gluf Lion）在一份声明中表示，他不会同意任何“将关闭工厂视为所谓简单解决方案”的计划。

尽管大众汽车及其员工在危机时期曾找到补偿方案，但近期的合作关系一直很紧张。

代表工人的大众汽车世界委员会在关于布鲁默先生的一份声明中表示：“员工对该州已经产生了巨大的信任危机，因为在首席执行官任职初期，他在到处把自己塑造为‘Glimed-A-brazilus’。”

极右翼的德国选择党（Alternative for Germany）已将该行业的困境纳入其议程，承诺通过回归德国蒸汽机时代的辉煌来解决问题。这种号召力帮助该党在西德部分地区赢得了选民。德国版，第 8 页。

从左起：英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋（中间），与商务部长霍华德·卢姆斯基；中国公司“Homethat XI”在上海的一场活动上的展位；以及 OpenAI 首席执行官萨姆·奥特曼。美国公司对中国公司在人工智能领域取得进展的反应有所分歧，这取决于它们是否生产开源模型。特朗普政府一直在讨论处理开源人工智能的多种不同方法。

开源人工智能政策的逆转令硅谷措手不及

华盛顿

作者：DAVID MCCABE, WIRE ISIAG, JACK ERYNN 以及 KATE CONGRE

在过去的几周里，特朗普政府的官员们一直在苦恼于如何应对人工智能。特别是，一个包括白宫办公厅主任、秘书 Scott Bender 和商务部长 Howard Lumski 在内的团体，就针对“开源”人工智能模型（可自由下载和修改的模型）采取一系列不同的、更具干预性的社会方案进行了辩论；此外，六名以上现任和前任网络及政府官员以及其他知情人士也参与其中。高级官员考虑了一系列行动，包括药物解决方案、针对制造这些开源人工智能模型的中国公司的贸易黑名单，甚至禁止美国云公司与它们开展业务；其中部分人士在讨论私人事务时要求匿名。但据知情人士透露，在 2026 年初的一项决定之后，他们今天似乎改变了主意，转而专注于提升美国人工智能模型的竞争力。

本周，特朗普政府的人工智能计划可能变得更加清晰。据三名知晓该计划的人士透露，白宫邀请美国科技公司讨论一个框架，该框架将允许政府在新的人工智能模型公开受到批评之前，对其网络安全问题进行审查。进一步的细节尚未立即公布。

“这一切都在事实上发生，”俄亥俄州共和党参议员 Joe Husted 上周在会见英伟达（Nvidia）和 OpenAI 的首席执行官后表示。“我不知道我对其中任何一项是否有了明确的结论。”

这种剧烈的波动标志着特朗普政府在面对人工智能时矛盾的冲动，以及处理这种发展迅速且强大的技术的困难。在过去的 18 个月里，白宫在经济结果方面采取了激进的干预，涵盖了从媒体、计算机芯片制造到采矿的领域。但人工智能变化迅速，政府正仓促决定如何通过干预来影响结果。

特朗普总统在开启第二任期之初，扮演了一个非预期的人工智能喷泉角色，撤销了监管并与人工智能公司及初创企业建立了密切关系。但这种情况在 6 月发生了变化，当时基于特朗普的政府重新——

的一项命令，该命令将赋予政府对新人工智能模型的监督权。自那时起，这项技术继续快速演进。

最近的辩论是由强大的中国新型人工智能模型的激增引发的，这些模型被称为“开源”（公众可以看到底层的计算机代码）或“开放权重”（计算机揭示用于生成问题答案的计算过程）。

在硅谷，对这些中国人工智能模型的反应各异。OpenAI 和 Anthropic 通常不分享其模型的底层技术，它们以国家安全为由，敦促政府遏制其中国竞争对手。

包括英伟达在内的其他生产开源模型的美国科技公司则表示反对。他们认为，开源模型鼓励创新，并可用于防御计算机系统免受网络攻击。

哪一方获胜，在华盛顿与北京之间关于哪个国家将控制关键技术并赢得人工智能竞赛的长期斗争中，已具有新的意义。提高赌注的是，中国领导人习近平定于 9 月访问华盛顿，预计会议将包括一些关于人工智能的讨论——

行业高管和分析师表示，他们认为政府在这次访问之前不太可能采取行动。

“美国在人工智能创新方面领先世界，特朗普总统的成功方法将保持这一地位，”白宫发言人 Liz Hunter 表示。商务部拒绝进一步评论。

上个月，这场辩论升级。两名熟悉计算机状况的人士表示，在 Homethat XI 发布其首个前沿中国模型后，Anthropic 和 OpenAI 的一名高管继续进行了监管讨论，该模型在某些领域表现与这两家美国公司的顶尖模型相当。

据三名熟悉此事的人士透露，OpenAI 和 Anthropic 还对“幻觉”（disillusion）表示担忧，即当一个模型基于另一个 A.I. 工具的响应而开发时，本质上创建了一个副本。

“政府拒绝了这些担忧，”领导白宫困难许可与技术政策的 Michael Kratsian 上个月在 X 上发帖称，制造该模型的中国公司详细抄袭了 Anthropic 强大的 Futile 模型。

他警告说，“窃取美国专有技术并破坏美国研究是不可接受的。”

同一天，Benson 先生发帖称，中国公司可能因窃取知识产权而面临制裁或其他联邦限制。

四名熟悉讨论的人士表示，政府还在考虑限制联邦政府可以使用模型，或通过商务部监管信息和通信技术。这可能是防止美国力量与中国 A.I. 公司开展业务的一种潜在方式。

“我们认为，在展示 A.I. 访问权限方面，开放权重模型和封闭模型都发挥着重要作用，”OpenAI 发言人表示，“中国开放权重模型的进步并不是反对运营商的论据。它们强化了建立一个统一国家框架的必要性，使美国能够快速评估新模型、管理风险，并将最强大的 AI 工具交给网络防御者。”

尽管 Kratsian 并不为人所知，（《纽约时报》曾起诉 OpenAI 和微软，称其 A.I. 系统侵犯了新闻内容的版权。这些公司否认了这些指控。）

据两名人士透露，英伟达、微软、谷歌和 Meta 的高管们日益担心，Anthropic 和 OpenAI 会用其主张更严格限制的论点赢得白宫的支持。这可能会巩固这些 A.I. 初创公司作为市场领导者的地位。

这些人补充说，其他 A.I. 实验室面临永久落后的风险。由于其中几家公司开发自己的开源模型，或向使用开源技术的客户提供硬件，他们担心这些限制可能会损害自身利益。

据三名熟悉数据的人士透露，通过私人测试、电话和视频会议，各国迅速构建了开源 A.I.，开源模型对世界和美国创新都有好处。

前商务部官员、技术高管 Christopher Padilla 表示，这段代码主要是一场关于开源 A.I. 资金和研究的行业辩论。

“它恰好具有国家安全维度，”他说。“而且这主要是一场战斗。甚至关于 A.I. 市场应该是什么样子：是由大量美国公司主导的熟练聚集体，还是一个更开放、低门槛且拥有许多小型企业的市场。”

David McCabe 和 Ann Swenson 在华盛顿报道，Mike Innes 和 Alex Cooper 在旧金山报道，Kathy Huang 参与报道。

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BUSINESS

中国如何监视外国居民

中国，见第1页 根据公开招标文件的说法，向公众披露了更多内容。

为警方打造的桌面系统 Origin Dynamic 在 2025 年为其一个类似系统提交了申请，该系统被描述为“针对近距离中国公民的信息拦截”，其设计和功能与张家口平台几乎完全相同。该公司由江苏省盐城市政府部分持有。

Origin Dynamic 和张家口市公安局均未回应通过电子邮件发送的置评请求。

将收到的数据与《时报》分享的比尔先生认为，该仪表盘是为张家口市公安局（该市的警察部门）设计的。它包含只有中国当局才能访问的信息，且比尔先生看到的用户日志列出了张家口市的 8 个派出所和来自其他城市的 3 个派出所。

目前尚不清楚警方在工作中如何使用（或是否使用了）该数据库。但它的存在说明了中国当局如何汇总来自监控摄像头、医疗记录、账单、面部识别工具和其他来源的海量数据，以监测和分析外国居民的行为。这既包括他们经常出入的场所、就医记录和付款记录，也包括乘坐的航班和火车，甚至包括座位号。

我们还发现了一名来自蒙古国女性的评估记录，记录了她从张家口的一个住宅小区前往购物中心、餐厅和超市的过程。

在指导下，包括中国共产党在内，一直监督着一项以公共安全为名使用日志数据的行动，旨在铲除异见并防止个人恐怖袭击。

其他国家也采用类似类型的

监控系统，但据人权观察亚洲副主任马里奥·王表示，在中国，针对警察过度扩张的保护很少。

“这种数据集成确实是前所未有的，说明了中国缺乏保障措施，”王女士说。

一个未加密的平台 当比尔先生第一次偶然发现该平台的登录页面时，用户名和密码已经填写好了。一个包含数百人敏感个人信息的系统，竟然可以让任何在互联网上找到它的人访问，这一事实表明隐私保护严重缺失。

研究过类似中国系统的网络安全研究员格雷格·沃尔顿表示，该平台的泄露并非个例。他说，这是中国“监控海岸”的结果，其局限性在于供应商、承包商和公共安全机构的不断扩张。

沃尔顿先生是加拿大研究公司 SecDev 集团的高级调查员，他表示，此类新平台“增加了敏感个人数据被错误配置、复制或被外部发现的地点数量”。

《时报》核实了除比尔先生之外 6 人的条目数据是准确的。一名曾驻北京的《时报》记者在一条记录中发现了自己的信息，其中还包括她孩子的名字。她的名字被写错了，但她的护照和其他信息是正确的。

根据比尔先生在定期时事通讯中记录的发现，张家口系统的开发似乎始于 2023 年，且直到最近仍在进行更改。数据中的几个字段在互联网上可见，表明该系统仍在建设中。

居民被排除在公开场所的评论之外，但该平台还从非直接相关的来源提取数据——

海外人员动态管控平台

在一个看似用于追踪中国北方城市张家口外国人的未来感仪表盘上显示：

• 按原籍国划分的关键国家长期居民
• 按原籍国划分的所有长期居民
• • 按标签原因划分
• 类型 -
• • 在张家口的分布
• • 的工作场所
• 短期- 在张家口的分布
• 短期- 按原籍国划分

与警方相连。其中包含大量访问该市的外国人以及中国公民。布朗女士（Mr. Brown）称，其中包含他们在当地拍摄的照片、全名和预计名称。

按国家和 MUCLEON 排序 该平台将来自澳大利亚、英国、加拿大、新西兰或美国的人员标记为属于“五眼联盟”。这是指这些国家之间的情报共享协议，北京经常批评该协议或认为其在推动冷战式的分裂。

它还重点标注了来自其所谓的“关键国家”的人员——名单包括埃及、伊朗、以色列、摩洛哥、巴基斯坦和苏丹。来自香港（2010年曾发生广泛的反北京抗议活动）和台湾（一个中国声称拥有主权的自治民主地区）的访客则有自己的类别。

“我们的数据库还追踪了留学生、外国配偶和‘重点人员’，这是一个价值百万美元的，以及中国当局用来指代活动人员或逃犯，或被认为对社会稳定构成威胁的其他人员的称呼。”

名单中许多外国学生似乎来自巴基斯坦和印度，当时在张家口的英国北大学（British North University）访问。学生的个人资料包括其宗教、婚姻状况、学习地点以及他们在学校入口摄像头中被捕捉到的时间。

该平台还声称能够绘制一个人的关系网络。该功能的示例显示了三名巴基斯坦男性的姓名，在他们被摄像头共同捕捉到后，将他们彼此关联起来。

比尔先生（Mr. Biehr）下载的一组条目包含了根据中国法律提供的人员姓名。例如，它显示一名女性因未登记地址变更而被罚款 1,000 中国年（约 1000万美元）。其他例子包括在没有必要许可证的情况下从事教学活动的外国人。

根据比尔先生加载的将其列为贡献者的数据，这些信息似乎是由张家口警察局一名名为 Zhangji staging 的官员输入的。

一名名为该姓名的人在 2020 年被张家口警方列入档案。他因开展讨论、在线活动并积极参与其中以“引导公民建立正确”观点而被记录。

去年，该警察局的一个人工智能实验室以他的名字命名。

洛杉矶

作者：JEAN MAC

人们看到限制禁售期正从 SpaceX 的股票中解除。

周四，埃隆·马斯克火箭公司的股票首次“共享”禁售期即将到期，这意味着在 SpaceX 首次公开募股后被禁止交易股票直到 6 月的员工和其他公司内部人士将能够进行交易。禁售期在发行后设立，是为了防止股票大量涌入市场并导致价格下跌。

的员工和早期投资者现在将有机会将其公司股票中数百万美元的收益兑现。但对于每个人来说，禁售期的结束都来自同一时间。

在 上市后的七周里，股价在交易接近其目前高点水平之前曾短暂搜索，购物将使其 2023 年的公开发行价，然后禁售期结束。9.12 亿 股股票将变为可用状态——这是目前已售供应量的两倍多——这可能会进一步压低价格。

“有理由担心，等同于对冲的行为将引入更多的价格波动，”曾在印第安纳州圣母大学从事多种专业艺术工作并研究过首次公开募股的 Peralta 表示。他补充说，平均而言，禁售期的结束会导致股价因抛售增加而下跌 3。

的股票在各项禁售期到期后的表现，可能会成为其他可能在未来 12 个月内上市的大型股票公司的基准，包括人工智能初创公司和 OpenAI。6 月，马斯克先生的公司举行了全球最大的 1.8% 融资，在中国的能源供应中筹集了 927 亿美元，以防止其在交易首日价值超过 $2。这一事件使控制 股东价值 80% 以上的马斯克先生成为了全球首位万亿富翁，并似乎预示了投资者对更多技术 1.8% 的胃口。

但 波动不定的股票表现提醒人们，上市并非易事，而且“这家市值 $1.68 的公司，一直受到投资者深度亏损以及数量日益增加的‘鲨鱼’卖家的欺凌，这些人借入股票以便在手中获利颇丰。”

任何价格波动都可能被 相对较小的股票比例，或“蓝色”所放大。但我们可以使用公开市场，佛罗里达大学 1.8% 计划的主任 Jay Roker 表示。 的流通股目前低于总股数的 5%，这比第一次禁售期到期后的 25% 更为常见。

在 X 上，随着 股价下跌而成为更多亿万富翁的马斯克先生，开玩笑地谈到了失去其万亿富翁身份。但他也警告那些做空的人，他们不相信这家公司是错误的。“我说过 的价值将超过地球，空头们总是很聪明，”马斯克先生上个月在社交媒体上发布道。马斯克先生和一名 发言人未回应置评请求， 在周二报告了其作为上市公司的首次收益。

虽然新上市的公司传统上在 1.8% 后的前 100 天内禁止内部人士交易，但 将其禁售期分阶段实施，以便早期员工和投资者能够在接下来的 18 个月内分批出售股票。最大的一批转让，120 亿美元 股，将在公司秋季报告财务结果后进行。 的最大股东马斯克先生控制着 4 亿美元 股以上，在明年 6 月之前将无法投资其大部分持股。

随着禁售期结束，9.12 亿 股股票将变为可用状态，这可能会进一步压低价格。

现任和前任 SpaceX 员工一直在密切关注近期的股票走势。根据与《纽约时报》分享的资料，随着第一批禁售期结束，一些前员工在 Facebook 群组中制定关于如何处理其股份的更多策略。在一个群组中，有人估计 1,200 名员工集体持有价值至少“10 亿美元”的股份。

“我不希望我的净资产如此集中在单一股票中，所以我的目标是多元化，”一名 SpaceX 前工程师写道。对此，评论者告诉他应继续持有股份。

在最近的一份给投资者的报告中，摩根士丹利（Morgan Stanley）分析师亚当·琼斯（Adam Jones）——该机构持有 1.8% 的股份——表示，该公司的股票使“看涨期权”跌至 $100. 他表示对 的股票持乐观态度，并称该公司的价值为每股 $100，但指出目前存在“当前讨论”且“投资者情绪日益沉重”。

琼斯先生将这种讨论归因于“没有重大的基本面变化”，他表示，对 持积极态度的人和持消极态度的人都固执己见。

许多投资者在押注该公司下跌。根据金融数据公司 52 Partners 的数据， 总计近 250 亿美元 的可交易股票，或其贷款的 26%，由股票卖家主导。基于 52 的数据， 是美国第八大被做空最严重的股票，且在过去 30 天内是被做空最严重的股票。

Betancourt Capital 的高级策略师马克·肯尼迪（Mark Kennedy）——该公司追踪 1.8% 的份额——表示，对于寻求短期收益的投资者来说， 是一个“警戒故事”。他表示，在多年上市的其他美国公司中，它们至少筹集了 $50， 的股票表现处于后三分之一。

包括 Facebook 和 Chet 在内的大型富裕公司的股票在首次公开募股后也曾下跌，但它们最终吞噬了市场。肯尼迪先生指出：考虑到 的禁售期经历，他预计该股票在未来几天将出现更多动荡。

“没有人想接掉落的飞刀，”他说。

如今正摇摇欲坠的德国实力

德国报道，见第 1 页

许多其他如 4823 的情况通常远弱于曾经属于东德的地区。

该名单在解释这场危机时被遗漏。上个月，德国部长成员认为他们在德国西南部诺伊赫登的一家工厂门口分发传单，号召工人们举行罢工。

正统派人物弗里德里希·马克斯将该行业的 problem 直接与中国联系起来。他承诺将与法国及欧洲其他地区合作，以抵制中国的进口产品。由 Sechborn 拥有的法国汽车制造商标致以及其他公司也面临类似的局面。

“我们正在竭尽全力使汽车工业再次稳定，”马克斯先生在上个月与公共广播公司 ZDF 的一次采访中表示，“目前处于德国最困难的时期。”

汽车制造商经常抱怨中国公司具有初始优势，因为它们获得了政府补贴。中国的汽车制造商还擅长为汽车配备频繁的日间训练屏幕，并以低于西方制造商的成本向客户提供充电设施和先进的自动驾驶系统。

除了来自中国的竞争增加之外，汽车工业的大部分不适“源于错误的决定和傲慢”，公共政策研究所所长 Thantone Beisow 表示。

咨询公司 Arthur D. Little 汽车与摩托车制造组的德国籍美国负责人 Jörn Buse 注意到，中国公司正是该问题的所在。它们拥有资金或适度的利润，因为

在中国有数十家汽车制造商。这些公司大多仅造车几年，这意味着没有人知道这些车辆最终是否可靠或耐用。

“它们还没有犯过其他所有人在 30 年多以来所吸取的教训中的那些错误，”Buse 先生说。

德国人仍然需要至少一个错误，即奢华的营销活动。在斯图加特庆祝梅赛德斯 100 岁生日的派对上，展示了在德国制造的 St.Caro 轿车的服务。

“尽管产品更好，但我们无法匹敌中国出口型号的成本和定价。”

这款车在一次包含激光灯、无人机摄像头、数字约翰·劳森和现实生活中的 Bugel Fraterre 的直播节目中进行了探讨。它配备了一个大小如小型挡风玻璃的 AI 驱动屏幕，一个发光的头部电脑和加热安全带。

但安全带成为了德国媒体中的某种国家笑柄，被视为梅赛德斯在中国人已经如此擅长的“低端切入”干预中落后的一个典型例子。

“这些德国公司会生存下来，”一位德国历史学家、广播员兼 BBC 资本市场成员表示。“但它们可能会比现在规模更小。”

乔治发自纽约，吉姆·德德勒比发自德国柏林和斯图加特。这里有很大的机会在德国诺伊赫登进行报道。

BAC，一家由中国政府拥有的汽车制造商，持有梅赛德斯近 10% 的股份，使其成为这家德国公司的最大股东。

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2026 年 8 月 4 日，星期四 / 9

观点

生活已难以为继，随后情况变得更糟

如今，数百万美国人正以有时难以想象的方式苦苦挣扎。

尼古拉斯·克里斯托夫 (Nicholas Kristof)

俄克拉荷马城 在横跨美国南部 1,000 英里的公路旅行后，有一个人让我无法忘记！特里尼蒂·古德曼 (Trinity Goodman)，一个住在俄克拉荷马城、开朗且健谈的女性，她的手臂上绑着绷带。

绑绷带的原因？34 岁的古德曼靠每周两次出售血浆生存。她的支票账户里有 $1.79，储蓄账户里只有 1 美分以维持账户开启，储蓄罐里有 6 个硬币。

“这就是我的全部资产，”她说道，带着嘲讽自己贫困的微笑。“确实让我‘增加了’。这真的很艰难，而且很悲惨。”

许多人正在失去食品券和其他福利，变得日益绝望——并且可以理解地对那些似乎对他们的挣扎漠不关心的精英们感到愤恨。最近的一项《华盛顿邮报》民调发现，三分之二的美国人认为杂货价格难以负担。

古德曼就是那些感受到压力的人之一，而且她似乎面临着失去食品券的风险——在这种情况下，她不知道该如何生存。

我正在进行一年一度的“赢取旅行”之旅，这个计划是我 20 年前开始的，旨在带一名大学生进行报道之旅，报道被忽视的问题。通常我们前往国外，经常是去非洲，但这次我们探索了俄克拉荷马州、阿肯色州和肯塔基州的贫困、成瘾和人口贩卖问题。

我今年的学生获奖者是

复杂的创伤后应激障碍，导致她无法工作。她申请了残疾福利，并表示被拒绝了，但现在正在申诉。

我问古德曼，随着特朗普下令的削减和工作要求在全国产生影响，她想给特朗普传递什么信息。

“你不知道你在对那些挣扎生存的人做什么，”她说。“你的银行账户里有钱。你不知道挣扎是什么感觉。在我的处境中生活一天吧。你将无法承受。”

在阿肯色州的派恩布拉夫（Pine Bluff），这是一个经济挣扎、犯罪猖獗且人口流失的以黑人为主的城市，我访问了拉特玛·福斯特 (Latma Foster) 的家，她是一位有六个孩子的单身母亲，失去了食品券，因此拖欠了房租。

错误率可能导致福利被错误地剥夺。此外，自今年年初以来，大约 300 万美国人失去了奥巴马医保，因为共和党削减了帮助支付保险费的补贴。

没有了食品券，福斯特现在拖欠房租——在犯罪频发的社区，一栋三居室房屋每月房租 $8.08——并且在欠租之外，每天还累积 $25 的滞纳金。

“我每天都在触底，”她告诉我。“我工作越多，情况就越糟糕。”

然后她崩溃了，泣不成声。削减挣扎中的美国人福利的推动力部分源于隐藏联邦支出，但这很难与伊朗战争的开支以及补贴相协调。

被指控欺诈、懒惰或个人不负责任。是的，许多人最终做出了糟糕的选择，但在他们陷入绝境之前，是我们辜负了他们。

特朗普最初提议取消 30-mil fuel（联邦计划），该计划拥有跨党派支持，服务于那些处于贫困中的弱势儿童。他后来放弃了这个想法，但国会调查人员发现，他的行政部门在几个月内非法扣留了该计划的 $120 亿，造成了巨大的困难。

但虽然关注特朗普和共和党削减医疗补助 (Medicaid)、食品券和其他福利很容易，但似乎不仅仅是特朗普政府对美国人的落后视而不见。

民主党在住房是基本人权方面说得很好，但以下三个州的人员落后率最高：

照片：THOMAS K. KATZ, 2026

她生活在一个许多我们可能难以想象的美国。她说，五年来，她为了避免无家可归，只能住在一名男子的家中，对方并非她的恋爱伴侣，而是利用她的脆弱，定期要求她提供性服务。她说，一家名为 Hope Community Services 的当地非营利组织帮助她获得了每月 $50 的低收入住房，否则她仍然必须在不想要的性行为和无家可归之间做出选择。

阿肯色州一个县的预期寿命比伊朗或孟加拉国还要短。

每月 $200 的食品券，在她的能力范围之外，但这些券不能用于购买卫生纸或牙龈护理产品。因此，她会在教会经营的糕点店中寻找这些东西——那是触及美国生命线的途径。

公寓同样负担不起。“我从未去过港口或任何类似的地方，”她说，“从未去过，我没有那种奢侈。”

美国的许多部门——以及许多美国人——正在繁荣发展。但我的感觉是，我们中的许多人对有多少人被远远地抛在身后视而不见。被抛得如此之远，以至于他们几乎与我们其他人不在同一个国家生活。而这种遍布美国的痛苦，现在因特朗普总统削减食品券、医疗补助（Medicaid）、儿童心理健康资金、预防怀孕计划和其他社会项目，以及汽油和食品价格上涨而进一步放大。共和党人还在为领取福利设定夫妇工作要求；这在理论上是合理的，但在实践中，此类要求的管理成本被证明很高，且最终大多只是将人们推向更深的贫困。

在这次旅行中，我交谈了许多

Brucella Tipiomana 在秘鲁利马的一个工人阶级社区长大，刚刚从耶鲁大学毕业。我们在这次公路旅行中反复看到的一件事是，美国的贫困不仅仅是缺乏金钱，而且往往是恶性的、终结性的且自我复制的。

例如，Goodman 说她成长在充满创伤的环境中，在一个经常滥用药物的家庭里。她告诉我们，她从 6 或 7. 岁起就遭到强奸和性虐待。她 9 岁时母亲自杀了；之后，Goodman 由其他家庭成员抚养，她说道。所有的创伤都留下了印记：她说她被临床诊断为

Foster 在 Taco Bell 担任轮班经理，时薪 $13.48。她每月依赖 $1.17 的食品券——但这些券在五月份被突然切断，显然是因为怀疑她的两个孩子在其他州领取不当福利。她否认这一点，并称系统出现了某种错误。

根据预算与政策优先中心（Center on Budget and Policy Priorities）的数据，在过去一年特朗普的打击行动下，全国约有 130 万 名儿童失去了食品券。该中心指出，且我的《时报》同事 Jason DeParte 的优秀报道也强调，州政府面临削减成本和减少

私人飞机以及针对最富裕人群的减税。这还基于一种认知，即“不值得救助的穷人”在利用系统，但我认为我们夸大了穷人而非富人通过操纵逃避监管的程度。根据 ProPolitica 的数据，截至 2035, 美国税务审计比例最高的地方不是亿万富翁的避风港，而是密西西比州的 Humphreys 县，那里大部分人口为黑人，当时的家庭收入中位数约为 $20,000.。

无论如何，最有可能生活在贫困中的年龄组——且远超其他组——是儿童，特别是 2 岁及以下的儿童，而他们无法 ac-

目前无家可归情况最严重的州是蓝色州：加利福尼亚州、俄勒冈州和夏威夷州。自由派略微抵制特朗普废除教育部计划，但少数几个红色州——尤其是阿拉巴马州、路易斯安那州和密西西比州——展现出了惊人的进步，而新地图代表了美国教育最好的希望。

一名密西西比州的黑人四年级学生现在在阅读测试中达到熟练水平的可能性，是加利福尼亚州黑人四年级学生的 2.5 倍。民主党人完全有权指责特朗普，但他们也应该审视自身在帮助那些被遗弃者方面的失败。

当问题变得结构化时，我们往往会忽略它们。加利福尼亚州的帕罗奥图充满了心怀善意的自由主义者——2014 年有五分之四的选民支持卡玛拉·哈里斯而非唐纳德·特朗普——而且该市将其卓越的公立学校向所有选民和阶层的儿童开放——只要他们的家庭能够负担平均 $3.600 万 的房价。

许多美国工人阶级感到被背叛是可以理解的。在我看来，所有政党的政治人物都对太多被遗弃的人视而不见，即便自 2005. 年以来已有 130 万 美国人死于药物过量。这大致相当于美国历史上所有战争中死亡的美国服役人员数量。

产生这种自满的原因之一是，这些问题，至少在复杂性方面，往往是不可见的。美国人可能会看到一个无家可归的人在注射药物，但他们看不到那种绝望的领域，这种绝望始于——比方说，对于你来说——什么是一个关于它的呼喊，一个政府的儿童虐待系统。

Courtesy Williams, D.，下令建立一个医疗中心护理系统，我在俄克拉荷马市地遇见了她，她正在照顾一个新生婴儿，并希望她每月 $200 的食品券不会被取消。

我们纳税人为 Williams 支付了保险费用，并且——三次——但我们 KRISTOF, 第 10 页

上方，一名无家可归的男子在前往 Miss Isona City 的 1-10 号公路出口营地中，仅自称 Miss。下方，Courtney Williams 带着她的婴儿，希望她不会失去每月 $200 的食品券。

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10 / 星期四, 2026 年 8 月 6 日

观点

纽约时报

国家共和国文学

A.S. HULBERGER 出版人

JAMES BLAIR 执行主编

MARK H. LEE 执行主编

JAMES BLAIR 执行主编

HUGHES McGEWELL 副主编

BERNARD H. HARTY, LITHOLE 首席执行官

BRYANT L. GREGORY 执行副总裁

BELMONT H. WAGNER 执行副总裁

这座桥如今将加拿大与美国分隔开来

保罗·A·艾森斯坦 (Paul A. Eisenstein)

底特律 一些地理上的琐碎。当在 1969 年的一次重大跨境活动中，那些你向南行驶即可到达加拿大的异质州？答案：唐纳德，那里现在有三条道路可以跨越或经过底特律河。最新的原因还显示，在因唐纳德信托的一次重大启动而导致一周延迟后，豪国际大桥 (Howe International Bridge) 于 7 月下旬开放。

这座以加拿大边境传奇人物命名的大桥——他在 N.R.L.S. 底特律红翼队效力了二十多年——本应代表两个传统友好邻国以及两个经济紧密相连的城市之间的资源。相反，总统将其变成了他针对加拿大的个人恩怨之战的一部分，我们的最终方案包括新的关税，这将再次提高美国消费者和公司的价格。

这座大桥是一项令人印象深刻的工程：其 1,700 英尺的主跨是北美同类工程中最大的，旨在允许 4 艘单体风帆船在 1st 两座 (32) 英尺的小镇下方通过，它们不仅仅是混凝土和钢材。它们被设计成类似于曲棍球杆挥动进行击球的动作。

遗憾的是，特朗普对底特律新闻！故土的攻击，现在让加拿大人更没有理由去乘坐这座以他命名的桥梁。

而且，特朗普对底特律新闻！故土的攻击，现在让加拿大人更没有理由去乘坐这座以他命名的桥梁。

“曲棍球先生”于 1928 年出生在萨斯喀彻温省的皮卡德，在国家冰球联盟效力了 26 个赛季。其中 25 个赛季在红翼队，六名反英雄球员，他取得了 981 个进球和 1,850 个积分（记录一直保持到另一位加拿大人沃伦·戈斯基出现）。在这样一场比赛局中生存 16 年（身体健康）是一个巨大的混乱，因此“戈迪·豪技巧”以他命名：在单场比赛中完成进球、助攻和一次打架，这在底特律经常受到赞美，粉丝们也向他表达了喜爱。1994, 戈迪，国内接纳了曲棍球先生。但他的记忆在底特律和整个加拿大的粉丝心中依然清晰，在他 2010 年去世两年后，这座后来成为戈迪大桥的工程开始动工。该项目花费的时间比预期要长——难道不是所有项目都这样吗？——每个人都在向埃德·卡拉汉驾驶。但主要建设工作在去年 2 月前已完成，其开放似乎是 1,700 次英雄行为。

底特律-温莎边境是两国之间历史悠久的商业陆路口岸——加拿大是美国最大的贸易伙伴之一，而美国则是我们北方邻国最大的贸易伙伴。较旧的连接方式，一个刻板和一座桥，已日益难以处理交通流量。特别是汽车工业，迫切需要一座拥有更多海关亭且与加拿大公路网络连接更直接的新桥。（老旧的大使桥要求卡车穿过行驶缓慢的街道。）

戈迪·豪在 4x 上几乎无法发声，而这座以他命名的桥梁则被特朗普先生毫不含糊地撞向了挡板。他宣布戈迪-温莎大桥在加拿大“以我们认为适合戈迪·豪大桥的公平和要求对待美国”之前保持开放。

特朗普先生似乎并不是一个曲棍球迷——尽管如果他现在假设自己对冰上的痴迷，我们会感到惊讶。我们所知道的是，他要求加拿大放弃主权成为第 51 个州。如果失败，他则通过对汽车、汽车零部件、钢铁和其他商品征收关税，打击这个长期的盟友。

现实对于特朗普先生来说并不总是重要。仔细观察发现，加拿大给了美国一个甜头，在戈迪大桥中资助整个项目。加拿大大约需要 10 年时间才能通过 60 收入实现平衡（尽管如此）。

总统心中可能还惦记着另一座桥。去年冬天，商务部长霍华德·林蒂克（Howard Lintick）会见了马修·莫罗（Matthew Moreau），其家族拥有大使桥（Ambassador Bridge）。近一个世纪以来，这座旧桥几乎垄断了卡车交通。但人们普遍预计，莫罗家族将在新桥建成后损失收入，因为驾驶员在新桥支付的过路费将低于大使桥。延迟与莫罗先生在 1 月向 RHCIA Inc. 超级政治行动委员会（super PAC）捐赠 $1 这一事实之间，肯定没有任何联系。

在来自民主党以及汽车行业的巨大压力下，特朗普任命了另一位首席执行官。为了在宣布其惯常的交易时挽回面子，他坚持称：“我们更改了条款”，并且“美国现在将获得 30 percent 的利润”。加拿大住房和基础设施部长乔治·罗伯逊（George Robertson）告诉记者：“考虑到这座桥在运营初期所有前期的成本，我们预计这部分利润不会太多。”

特朗普关于新交易的评论出现在他在社交媒体上表示将征收关税以惩罚加拿大允许数百万烟雾跨境仅几天之后。

加拿大人除了对冰球之外，很少会对任何事情感到激动。这一次，他们拒绝美国参加桥梁开通仪式。我们能做的最好的安排就是让密歇根州州长格雷琴·惠特默（Gortchen Whitmer）驾驶一辆野马敞篷车跨越桥梁。如果加拿大人将其作为出入美国的首选路径，没人会感到惊讶。

也就是说，如果他们继续访问美国的话。许多加拿大人已经停止饮用 3. 很快，他们将其他产品（如肉类和乳制品）转向国外替代品，并抵制前往邻国旅行。在最近的一项研究中，加拿大政府发现，其公民去年访问美国的次数比 2016 年减少了 1200 万 次，下降了约 35 percent。消费支出减少了 20 亿美元 多，降至约 100 亿美元 billion，下降了 10 percent。

戈迪·豪国际大桥本应成为世界最长国际边界上的一段坚实纽带，以及一座纪念热爱底特律的伟大加拿大人（Gordie Howe）的丰碑。遗憾的是，特朗普对戈迪·豪及其故乡的攻击，现在让加拿大人更没有理由去使用这座以他命名的桥梁。

保罗·A·艾森斯坦 (PAUL A. EISENSTEIN) 是 Smallight News 网站和 Substack 上 The Car Collectors 的出版人。

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从未提供过她所需的保护和机会，尤其是当她年幼且最需要帮助的时候。当我们不在前期投资时，最终我们将在后期付出代价。

威廉姆斯（Williams）最早的一些记忆是遭到男性的性侵，大约在她 1 或 5, 岁时。她说，她的母亲是一名有成瘾问题的妓女，在她 6 岁时，她目睹了妹妹被杀，随后被送入寄养照顾。

从那里开始，她在七个州的寄养家庭之间辗转，将她生活的所有物品装在一个死亡袋中随身携带。她说，当她 11 岁时，一家寄养家庭将锁在冰箱、两口橱柜和食物柜中，让她和其他寄养儿童处于饥饿状态。

威廉姆斯在 11, 岁时第一次尝试毒品，并在 11 岁时被一名 20 多岁的男子搞怀孕，她后来发现该男子是一名受限的性犯罪者。她将孩子送去领养，并在 2018 年级辍学。

她说，并非每个寄养家庭都如此糟糕，或者为了钱而收留她，她记得有一个家庭非常温暖并想领养她。但此时已对人类的善良深感怀疑且充满自我怀疑的威廉姆斯，请求更换安置地点。

当威廉姆斯 17 岁时，她的养母停止为她领取补贴——她不确定原因，但也许是某种暴政在起作用——并将她赶了出去。在那之后，威廉姆斯在流浪中度过了十年，沉溺于药物，在邓迪甜甜圈店的洗手间里坚持生存，并频繁地被关押。最终，一名不使用药物的新男友（后成为丈夫）帮助她重建了生活，她说自从去年九月发现自己怀孕以来，她就再也没有使用过药物。

保守派经常强调“个人责任”的重要性，他们确实有一定的道理。自我披露行为是真实存在的。学者们表示，在那些遵循……的千禧一代中。

“你不知道你对那些挣扎生存的人做了什么。你的银行账户里有钱。你不知道挣扎是什么感觉。穿上我的鞋子生活一天吧。你将无法承受。”

采访了几位黑人老年居民，他们表示在某些方面，吉姆·克劳 era（种族隔离时代）的生活实际上更好。当然，现在的黑人可以存钱，有些人也取得了成功。

但这些老人感叹，黑人群体的生活质量并没有像他们想象的那样进步。成本飙升，犯罪成为威胁，肥胖很普遍，糖尿病和高血压等疾病广泛流行，损害了老年人的健康。该国的预期寿命比伊朗或孟加拉国还要短。学校在事实上仍然处于隔离状态，而 Pine Bluff 学区从州政府获得的资金则像是在……

“我可能觉得那时候更好，”76 岁的芭芭拉·奥利汉（Barbara Olihan）抱怨道。我不确定她是否真的在强调完全没有进步，但她说得对，在像 Pine Bluff 这样的地方，黑人孩子在 2020 年依然难以找到机会。

“那时候你拥有足够的资源可以生存，”她告诉我。“而现在情况糟糕透了。”

在没有完全辜负 Pine Bluff 等地的少数机构之一是美国军队。它是最能实现向上流动和向外拓展的途径之一，同时提供技能培训、纪律和尊重。但有些人无法做到国防部所要求的，使得黑人高级军官不再将武装部队视为有色人种的机会之路。

“军队不再是那样了，”退役陆军老兵盖顿·约翰逊（Guyton Johnson）说道，他指出了 Bogard 对军队声誉的影响。“不，我们不再去那里了。”

这次旅行中我最想见的人之一是伊曼纽尔·劳特（Emanuel Lauter），十年前我在 Pine Bluff 见过他，那时他还是个甜美、纯真的 10 岁男孩——面临加入帮派的风险。你能感觉到他可能会走向任何一个方向。也许他会茁壮成长并上大学，或者也许他会屈服于社区内犯罪的引力。伊曼纽尔的卧室是功能失调的美国的缩影。房间里有三台电视，但电力本应在当天被切断。我到达一家超市时，那里驻扎着一个岗哨，以防止电力公司的人员靠近并完成此操作。

劳特后来怎么样了？结果证明他从未完成高中学业，与法律发生过纠葛，并且

现在在监狱中，等待本月关于持有被改装成自动武器的禁制枪支的联邦枪支罪名审判。监狱不允许探视，但我通过电话与他交谈。我问他哪里出了问题，他说：“我和不对的人混在一起了。”当我拜访他的母亲时，她也说了同样的话。

劳特告诉我，他与前女友有两个儿子，年龄分别为 4 和 6 岁，当我找到他们和他们的母亲时，

为派拉蒙-华纳交易辩护

大卫·埃利森

许多人对派拉蒙收购华纳兄弟探索的协议发表了看法——媒体分析师、权力掮客、政治评论员、竞争对手，当然还有律师。对于这种规模的交易，这是预料之中的且合适的。你唯一没有听到消息的人是。

这是有原因的。我认为任何掌控新闻机构的人——我是派拉蒙的首席执行官，派拉蒙拥有 CBS——都不应该在天平上加码，尤其是在涉及自己公司的事情上。因此，当加利福尼亚州总检察长、其他 12 位州总检察长，以及一天后美国编剧工会（Writers Guild of America）要求阻止该交易时。我无法开启。我很快意识到每个终端都有成本。在我保持沉默时，其他人很乐意替我写我的故事。不再如此。

愿景主张这次交易将给予一家公司过多地影响历史发行和有线电视运营商，而美国编剧工会则认为我们的合并市场力量将损害编剧。两者都想象了一个可能已不再存在的词汇——一个由少数传统工作室主导的行业。

统计美国人观看电视的每一小时，合并后的派拉蒙-华纳将占所有观看时间的不到 20 percent ——每天与 Netflix、Amazon、Apple 竞争，而这些公司的资源都令我们相形见绌。将 YouTube 的用户生成内容计入其中，我们的份额将下降到 10 percent 左右。合并后的公司在过去 12 个月内仅占国内票房的 10 ，且仅为 32 ，因此每个人，超过 50 ——所以这些数字并不能代表一家可以决定观众观看什么或编剧获得多少报酬的公司。

我认为这场斗争实际上与市场份额无关。如果真是这样，它就不会被反映了所有疑虑的监管机构审核并批准，包括美国和中国，以及欧盟。我认为一个更大的担忧隐藏在边缘和新闻发布会之下：新闻。问题在于我是否能被

信任地作为华纳旗下 CNN 的管理人。关于我的政治立场、忠诚度和意图一直存在猜测。

不幸的是，我无法向任何人展示我的内心和想法，但我可以分享这一点：我经常投票给两个政党的候选人；我持有某些会被称为保守派的观点，也持有某些会被称为自由派的观点；就像一些美国人一样；而当涉及到我们的新闻运营时，我并不渴望引导这些公司将我的观点强加给我们的报道。我相信新闻应该基于事实和真相。

像 CNN 和 CBS 这样伟大的新闻机构，其职责就是走正中路线。这需要反映整个世界而非其中一面的报道。并且需要独立性。我们的记者将继续对事实以及他们服务的所有人负责——而不是对任何政党或事业。这些是 CNN 和 CBS 的共同创始原则。

问题在于我是否能被信任地作为 CNN 的管理人。

我们在，远超。像特德·特纳和爱德华·R·默罗，正是这种独立性一直驱动着《60 Minutes》的伟大。

还有很多阵地需要挽回。根据盖洛普最新的研究，20 的美国人表示他们信任新闻——这是有记录以来最低的比例。人们倾向于说问题出在其他地方。我们的责任是内省并表示。我们可以做得更好。我们正处于一个美国人对机构信任度低迷的时刻，但记者们通过拒绝面对批评，并没有给自己的处境带来帮助。

信任无法通过争论赢回，但可以通过努力赢回——通过一个接一个的故事，一天又一天。在这个许多出现在屏幕上的内容是由机器生成或经由工程设计以产生影响的时代，来自真实资深记者的报道比以往任何时候都更重要。这就是我打算耐心且长期投入资金支持的工作。

这就让我谈到了我们旨在坚持的东西。派拉蒙与华纳的交易从电影开始。自从我大到能安静地坐着看电影起，我就热爱电影，而电影塑造了我——一个在满月映衬下骑自行车的男孩，以及在加利福尼亚上空飞行的喷气式战斗机。在这些时刻的背后，是

真实的资金、真实的风险，以及数百名讲述故事并依靠电影维持生计的才华横溢的艺术家。

这套机制陷入了困境。好莱坞正在失去阵地，输给了那些算法倾向于最响亮声音的技术平台。工作岗位正在流失，尤其是从我成长并抚养家庭的加利福尼亚州——这里曾汇聚了有史以来最深厚的创意人才池。

我明白，来自一家公司高管的承诺会引发怀疑，无论是以判断还是以我们刚刚经历的一年为准。

自从我接管派拉蒙以来，我们将院线发行数量从去年的 8 部电影几乎翻了一番，增加到 10 部且在增长。我们正通过为我们的流媒体服务 Paramount+ 带来系列剧集来实现增长。您可以期待我们的电视工作室在 2020. 年推出 90 部系列剧。我们将内容投资增加了 15 亿美元 十亿。我们在签署协议和提起任何诉讼之前就这么做了，因为创造更多内容正是我们要建立的公司之核心。

我们为拟议的派拉蒙-华纳交易所做的承诺延续了这一轨迹：每年 30 部院线电影，每年 170 部电视系列剧（面向我们自己的平台以及竞争对手的平台）；每年超过 200 亿美元 十亿的内容投资。我比任何人都清楚承诺这些意味着什么。在我的职业生涯中，《特种部队：规制》未能达到财务预期，《壮志凌云：独行侠》超出了预期，而《终结者：黑暗命运》则未达标。我对所有这些电影都感到自豪，但没有人能决定观众会热爱什么。我能承诺的是工作，以及更多的工作。

如此规模的交易是在公众关注下进行的，我深切感受到了这一点。我不要求人们仅凭我的话就相信我；这些承诺是书面形式的，作品将出现在屏幕上，任何人都可以对其做出评判。

好莱坞的故事只有在我们与观众建立联系时才能有一个圆满的结局。是观众——美国人民——决定了一部电影的成功或失败，一家新闻机构的繁荣或枯萎，并因此决定了我们行业的成败。我想建立一家拥有足够实力和资源的公司，为那些转向我们的观众、依赖我们的讲述者以及这个构思出这一切的国家提供更多内容。

大卫·埃利森 (DAVID ELLISON) 是派拉蒙影业的首席执行官。

读者来信

当公司在气候变化问题上退缩时

关于《如何放弃你的气候承诺并逃脱责任》（mytimes.com，7月17日）。

这篇文章提到，各行各业中放弃气候承诺的公司数量每天都在增加。我想强调为什么食品部门公司的退缩尤为重要。

全球食品系统负责全球三分之一的温室气体排放。文章提到了最著名的 2H5 和规模较小的 Walnut's。它本可以包括麦当劳，该公司在5月宣布预计无法实现 2020 年的气候目标。

这种退缩凸显了许多食品部门气候战略中固有的三个缺陷。首先，像麦当劳这样的公司将短期利润置于长期可持续性之上，即便极端天气对作物和商品造成干扰所带来的风险在增加。

其次，它们忽视了减少肉类和乳制品等排放水平极高领域的影响，并且将研究信心寄托在糟糕或不可靠的解决方案上。

第三，一些企业未能倡导——有时甚至致力于破坏——自愿市场机制（如亚马逊关键动力），以及像欧盟脱碳法规和美国证券交易委员会气候相关披露规则这样的监管条例，而这些条例有助于建立可持续且具有韧性的供应链。

现在仍有时间纠正这些错误。像麦当劳这样的公司不应从气候雄心中退缩，而应专注于将菜单转向影响较低的植物基食品，并支持能使其自身气候承诺变得可实现的行业范围政策。

作者是 Slipper Earth 气候、食品和农业的主要活动人士。

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国家——并明确表示她将在奥尔特加先生去世后接替他；随着他的状态明显衰减且日益混乱，比他年轻五岁的她，比以往任何时候都更接近最终登顶。

奥尔特加先生和穆里略女士都无法在一次自由且公正的选举中获胜。奥尔特加先生在掌权十多年后，于 1990 年输掉了总统选举，并在 2007 年仅获得 30% 的选票后重新获得总统职位。尽管国内已不再有独立的民意调查，但根据一家名为 Bagassus Denecaua 的知名尼加拉瓜调查机构（现从 Union Rica 运营）开展的调查，超过 93.4% 的尼加拉瓜人对未来持负面看法，86.4% 的人如果可以的话会离开这个国家。

奥尔特加先生仅存的合法性根植于革命年代及其自身的革命资历。他的名字——无论这种关联现在变得多么扭曲——都与反抗美国王朝的斗争、1979 年的胜利以及桑地诺革命的神话联系在一起。

相比之下，穆里略女士的权力源于她与奥尔特加先生的关系。她不具备他的历史、他的革命权威，甚至不具备他与桑地诺阵营部分成员之间残存的情感联系，而且她本身缺乏影响力。在一个深信宗教且往往迷信的社会中，她经常被——

丹尼尔·奥尔特加总统仅存的合法性根植于革命年代及其自身的革命资历。

穆里略女士似乎完全清楚自己的处境。在不断向丈夫致敬并将自己塑造为其遗产守护者的同时，她有计划地地清除桑地诺运动内部任何可能控制其继任或提供政治替代方案的人。

始于 2023 年 2 月的大规模剥夺国籍行动符合这一策略，即不仅要消除政治反对派，甚至要消除潜在竞争对手的法律存在。数百名尼加拉瓜人（包括我在内）被任意剥夺了国籍。我们中的许多人被驱逐出境，财产被没收，并被永久禁止担任公职。信息很明确：任何有能力进行政治竞争的人都面临着被转化为非国民的风险。

清洗范围已超出传统的反对派。即便穆里略女士在演讲中充斥着对上帝、基督和圣母玛利亚的提及，该政权仍监禁或放逐了批评其行为的司祭和主教。政府拆除了天主教会机构，限制宗教活动，并迫使教会等级制度中的许多人离开该国。

打击行动还波及到了为革命服务的人，甚至包括曾经亲近这对执政夫妇的人。最具有揭示性的案例可能是亨伯托·奥尔特加将军（Gen. Humberto Ortega），他是奥尔特加先生的兄弟。

亨伯托曾是反抗 Anastasie Samora Debach 起义的主要战略家之一，后来领导了桑地诺人民军。在 2024 年 5 月的一次采访中，他公开质疑了家族继任的可能性。他认为，在丹尼尔去世后，穆里略女士——奥尔特加先生的孩子们——接掌权力将极其困难，并暗示继任者需要通过选举过程产生。几小时内，当地媒体报道，尼加拉瓜警方没收了他的电子设备并将其软禁。直到后来在附近的一家军医院去世前，他一直处于严密监视之下。亨伯托的命运证明，对于质疑穆里略女士继任的人来说，任何革命资历、服务历史或与丹尼尔·奥尔特加的亲近关系都无法提供保障。

奥尔特加先生和穆里略女士肯定都明白，他们面临着像半个世纪前的萨莫拉那样被根除的风险。穆里略女士需要比一场欺诈选举更稳固的东西。她需要一个没有任何真实的对手能够参选、没有任何意外的政治运动能够出现，且任何选举结果——即使是被操纵的结果——都不能成为对其统治该国主张的公开审判的系统。许多人为之奋斗如此之久的尼加拉瓜民主，在她执意穿上总统外衣的决心之下，正处于威胁之中。

迈克尔·贝尔（MICHAEL BELL）：前尼加拉瓜 PEN 国际写手中心主席，著有《我皮肤下的国家》（The Country Under My Skin）。

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约翰·加利亚诺获得罕见荣誉，但情况依然复杂

在反犹太主义言论爆发 15 年后，Met Gala 准备举办一场致力于其作品的展览

作者：VANESSA FRIEDMAN

五月份在大都会艺术博物馆举行的一次闭门会议，无论从哪个角度看，其参会人员的组合都不同寻常：Anna Wintour，《Vogue》全球总监兼 Met 培训师；Andrew Bolton，大都会博物馆服装学院负责人；时装设计师约翰·加利亚诺——以及几位纽约市最具影响力的拉比和犹太领袖。

这次会议的目的是听取他们对明年计划举办的时装盛会（一场致力于加利亚诺作品的展览）可能存在的问题的看法，并或许获得他们的认可。这是过去一年中与犹太领袖举行的几次此类会议之一。

在时尚界，许多人认为加利亚诺是最重要的当代设计师之一，他在担任 Dior 首席设计师期间（1996 年至 2013, 年）的作品超越了时尚，进入了幻想领域。但在 2015. 年，一段他发表反犹太评论的视频成为国际新闻后，他成为了家喻户晓的人物。随后，他失去了在 Dior 的工作，在巴黎法院被判定犯有仇恨罪，并经历了一段康复期。他在 2014 年以 Maison Margiela 创意总监的身份回归时尚界。

所有这些使得他在此时成为展览的选择依然具有争议，因为反犹太主义正在抬头，且一些纽约犹太人对市长 Zoltan Mumdam 的领导感到不安，尤其是上个月在光天化日之下发生的两名男子被殴打事件，其中一人当时正离开曼哈顿的一家犹太社区中心。该袭击事件正作为仇恨罪被起诉。

加利亚诺展览将由年度 Met Gala（可能是全球最受关注的红毯活动）拉开帷幕，这将使他成为历史上第三位在博物馆举办个人展览的在世设计师，与 Yves Saint Laurent 和 Bet Ravalache 并列。这是该机构能授予设计师的最高荣誉。

“很明显，这场展览可能会遇到很多阻力——不仅是怀疑，而是一种‘这是错误的’感觉，”北美改革犹太教联盟主席 Robin Red Jacobs 表示，他也是五月那次会议的参会者之一。但加利亚诺给他留下了深刻印象。

“我回想起来的词是‘真诚’，”Jacobs 说。“他很坦率。他直视着我们，说话方式很清晰，不像是在背诵预设的谈话要点。”

反诽谤联盟首席执行官 Jonathan Greenblatt 在给《纽约时报》的电子邮件中表示：“我们相信约翰·加利亚诺已经真正解决了多年前在巴黎导致其反犹太爆发的问题，我们早已接受了他的道歉。他为弥补其言论造成的损害以及从该事件中学习所做的努力应当受到赞赏。”

房间里的某些人谈到了犹太教中关于 teshuvah（忏悔）的原则，以及第二次机会的重要性。

但人们同样担心，这场展览如何在赞颂加利亚诺作品的同时，有意义地处理其过去行为的规模和后果。

“我们告诉他们的是，如果他们能将其利用为一个学习反犹太主义现实的机会，并以某种方式将反击的重要性以及此时反犹太主义的危险融入到展览中，那将是非常有力、深刻且富有成效的，”来自 Temple Ematus-El 的 Robin Joshua De Volson 表示，这是一座位于大都会博物馆南边几个街区、拥有 100 年历史的犹太会堂。

Bolton 表示加利亚诺对时尚历史的贡献是“不可否认的”，他还提到自 2010, 年起他就一直在考虑举办加利亚诺展览，尽管直到 2019. 年才开始认真对待。他说，当时他与博物馆董事会决定需要进一步考虑——不过他否认该机构的行为与对加利亚诺过去的担忧有关。

他说，现在的气候使得这次展览更具相关性。

“我完全理解为什么现在的时机可能特别困难，考虑到仇恨行为令人触目地增加，但我确实觉得这让当前的问题变得更加紧迫——而不是减轻了，”博尔顿说。“对我来说，更大的问题不在于艺术行为是否能掩盖违规行为，而在于如何在不允许其中一方抹杀另一方的情况下，将艺术成就与伦理责任结合起来。而在一个决定性时刻，我觉得博物馆和我自己有真正的责任去面对这些问题。”

约翰·加利亚诺（图片上方）被时尚界的许多人认为是现存最具影响力的设计师之一。从 1996 到 2013 年，他曾担任 Dior 的首席设计师，但在一段显示他发表反犹太言论的视频出现后，他失去了工作。

“回避他的作品并不能消除他对时尚的影响，也无法解决围绕其产生的伦理问题，”博尔顿继续说道。“我们的责任既不是不加批判地赞美，也不是回避那段困难的历史，而是建立记录等级，提供控制，并为参观者做出知情判断创造条件。”

博尔顿说，他将以一个“导言展厅”开启展览，该展厅将描绘他所谓的“断裂”，这最终定义了加利亚诺的职业生涯，正如他作品的美感一样，尽管他仍在研究具体将如何呈现。虽然他说计划尽可能多地使用设计师本人的原话——他指出，与犹太社区领导人的会面强调了清晰度至关重要，且应避免含糊——但他也表示，他的工作不是呈现加利亚诺版本的事件，而是最准确的版本。他还考虑创建一个在线论坛，以便进行更多的探讨。

作为斜裁连衣裙的大师和充满想象力的世界构建者，90 岁的加利亚诺是将 Dior 从一家举止端庄的法国传统时装屋转变为全球现象的主要负责人。随后，在 2015 年，他在巴黎的一家酒吧被拍到视频，称“我爱他们”，以及其他同样令人震惊的言论。

在 2024 年一部关于他起伏与回归的纪录片《High & Low: John Galliano》中，加利亚诺说他在视频事件期间以及两次单独的事件中处于醉酒失忆状态并药物成瘾，当时他发表了类似的痛苦言论；他称自己的话是“恐惧”和“受伤的生活”。

在被定罪后，他接受了康复治疗，并与伦敦的一位专家以及纽约反诽谤联盟的 Abe Freeman 合作，学习关于犹太教、反犹主义和大屠杀的知识。随后，他执掌 Maison Margiela 十年。Zendaya、Yyla 和 Amid Chesery 等人经常在红毯上穿着他的古董设计。他的服装在拍卖会上屡创记录。

在此期间，70 岁的温特尔一直

左下：1996 年，加利亚诺与《Vogue》全球编辑总监兼纽约大都会艺术博物馆慈善舞会策划人安娜·温特尔。右下：Maison Margiela 2025 春季高级定制秀，加利亚诺担任创意总监期间。

依然是加利亚诺最主要的拥护者之一——或许也是最有权势的一位。温特尔也是纽约大都会艺术博物馆慈善舞会的操盘手，并为该部门筹集了大量资金，以至于地下展厅在 2014 年以她的名字命名，且服装学院已接近积累起一项能确保其未来经济安全的捐赠基金。

她在策划约翰·加利亚诺的回归中起到了关键作用，并且在他陷入困境后，她是首批在公开场合穿着其设计的服装的人之一。2014年，她告诉《泰晤士报》：“我强烈感觉到，我们的文化已经开始过于迅速地转向谴责——转向一种认为特定的压力或错误是不可原谅的确定感。事实是我们很少知道完整的故事，而且我们所有人都会犯错。”

在纽约大都会艺术博物馆举办约翰·加利亚诺回顾展一直是温图尔的长久目标，这将是对她塑造时尚界能力的肯定，也是她希望的另一个组成部分。

“没有人比约翰·加利亚诺更配得上这种规模的展览，”温图尔在一条短信中写道。“设计师梦想着用一个系列来改变世界。约翰一次又一次地做到了。他的职业生涯并非由单一时刻定义——那是他余生都将与之共存的东西。”但她接着说，“展览不会回避任何阴暗面。”

当然，时尚界似乎已经摆脱了对约翰·加利亚诺的任何不适感。

今年1月，他坐在乔纳森·安德森为迪奥举办的首场高级定制时装秀的前排——这是他被解雇后首次回到该品牌——随后不仅受到了观众的欢迎，还受到了迪奥的所有者贝尔纳·阿尔诺及其全家人的欢迎。

3月，Zara宣布与约翰·加利亚诺开展一项为期两年的合作。在这两种情况下，人们的反应都是兴奋而非反感。

事实上，时尚界有着将违规行为置于才华之下的悠久历史，可以追溯到可可·香奈儿，她在第二次世界大战期间选择与纳粹合作，而不是冒险让自己的生意陷入危机。

这种态度是否会延伸到更广泛的大都会博物馆观众以及将于May 9, 2027开幕并展出至Jan. 9, 2028的约翰·加利亚诺展览，仍有待观察。然而，该展览计划在大都会博物馆之后前往其他博物馆巡展——这是另一项罕见的荣誉——而这些机构的领导者无疑会密切关注反应。

“犹太社区中可能有许多人认为这存在问题，”埃马图斯-埃尔寺的拉比戴维森说。“人们很可能会因此感到不安。我可以理解这些感受。”

这就是为什么一些拉比表示担心他们被当作“创可贴”来掩盖问题。一名熟悉博物馆审议情况的人士表示，大都会博物馆的领导层意识到，这一决定可能是一个会产生严重后果的错误。

但犹太改革联盟的雅各布斯表示，如果博物馆能够有意义地处理约翰·加利亚诺的历史，这次展览可能会成为“一个提高意识并让人们了解可以采取什么措施的机会。它可能会产生深远且积极的影响。”

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星期四，August 6, 2020

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体育

随着斯库巴尔离队，底特律陷入痛苦的假设之中

分析

作者：CERN YOUNYENKAGEN

石膏

加利福尼亚州西萨克拉门托。比赛在许多方面都反映了生活，其中一点就是：事情并不总是按照我们的计划进行。正如塔里克·斯库巴尔（Tarik Skubal）上周末所说，即便在得知自己被交易到洛杉矶道奇队之后，“情况在变，局面在变”。

并非每一个当前的节点都能走向成功。有时你必须接受现实给予你的，然后继续前行。

那种奇怪的未完成感在周六晚上笼罩着底特律老虎队的更衣室。在能够真正客观审视之前，一种令人麻木的转折感在斯库巴尔在镜头前停下，并向这家曾在第九轮选秀中选中他的组织告别时占据了主导地位——他当时只是一个来自 double (University 籍不名) 的不出名的左投手。

“进入这个赛季，这并不是我的计划，”斯库巴尔在谈到被交易时说道。

相反，他曾设想今年将作为一名超级巨星，在老虎队棒球的一个迷人时代中前行。

当老虎队在八年前选中他时，他们正处于一个痛苦重建的早期阶段。他们将重心放在了先发投手上。像凯西·韦斯特（Casey West）、亚历克斯·法多（Alex Faedo）和马特·曼宁（Matt Manning）这样的球员本应带领老虎队走向未来。然而，最终是斯库巴尔成长为了一个能改变特许经营权的顶级天才，一个连续赢得了近两次美国联盟赛扬奖（Cy Young awards）的统治级投手。

斯库巴尔于 2020 年在芝加哥一个空旷的球场对阵白袜队时完成了首秀。他在面对大联盟首名打者蒂姆·安德森（Tim Anderson）时被击出了一个本垒打。随后更多沉痛的教训接踵而至。太多的球飞出了球场。至少这种情况持续了太久。一次麻烦的手术影响了他的 2021 年。当时他正显示出将一切整合在一起的迹象。

“我觉得我经历了很多，经历了起起伏伏，经历了许多失败，才走到了今天。这家俱乐部，”斯库巴尔在底特律说，“从未停止相信我，在那些我可能不配出场的日子里，依然坚持让我上场。所以，这是我永远不会认为理所当然的事情。球迷对我及我家人的支持，无论我去哪里，我一直很感激。”

最终，斯库巴尔变成了比赛中最好且最出色的投手。他带领老虎队在 2024 和 2025 年进入季后赛。球队

DONALD B. KIMBERG / STIFT PHOTOS

塔里克·斯库巴尔与老虎队经理 A.J. Hisch。老虎队拥有比赛中最优秀的投手之一，但结果仅获得了两个外卡席位。

在他先发的比赛中取得了 43-20 的战绩。他离开底特律时，持有该特许经营权的每九局三振数（15-3）、每局投球除以失分（1.022）以及自用防御率加号（3.07）的记录。

“我不确定有多少人有机会与赛扬奖投手共事，所以这将永远留在我的记忆中，”老虎队捕手迪伦·丁格勒（Dillon Dingler）说。“那些每天发生的小事其实非常令人难以置信。他在更衣室里的样子。你听过一些伟大的投手也许有点严厉，但斯库巴尔恰恰相反。他让气氛变得轻松。他让一切变得有趣。和他在一起很愉快，我会想念他的。”

在周六击败运动家队之后，老虎队的更衣室里气氛低沉。在给了斯库巴尔一个拥抱后，球队在操纵中缓慢移动。Schilder Cab Keith 走过寻找斯库巴尔。即便是在团队中最低廉的经理 A.J. Hisch，也难以客观地总结斯库巴尔在底特律的时间。

“尽管我一直在思考这是否会发生，但我认为你永远无法真正准备好地回答这种巨大的问题，”Hisch 说。“显然，这一直是非常不可思议的。我看着这个家伙登顶这项运动，他承担了很多。我将永远感激我们的道路交汇，以及他为这个组织所做的一切，以及几支季后赛球队。他的存在，他的职业操守，他的榜样作用，他的统治力。”

这次交易 Skubal —— 此次交易将右投手 River Ryan 和 Brady Smith，以及一名经过审核的新秀 Zyfer Hope 带到底特律 —— 在老虎队（Tigers）的希望尚未正式破灭的一年里，这很难让人接受。底特律在 20K 之下，但身处一个弱势的美国联盟。在季后赛扩军的时代，老虎队仍在竞争一张外卡入场券。

“优先级、标准以及对本赛季的冲刺不会停止，”Hisch 说道。

Skubal 离开并加入了被炒得火热的道奇队（Dodgers），这支球队是棒球界的巨轮，不仅拥有丰富的大联盟天才，而且正处于巅峰状态。洛杉矶或许一直是最适合拿出所需新秀资本来获取 的球队。

“我很兴奋能成为一名道奇球员，” 说道。“我很兴奋能去那里，见到所有这些人，并追求连续的冠军。”

说了这些话，但他能预见的范围有限。 在第二局离开了老虎队的阵型，并通过在运动队临时将其称为家园的 3A 体育场客队休息室门口进行的交谈意识到了情况。他原本是去进行垂直训练和治疗，但在休息室里，当电话终于打来时， 预料到了即将发生的事情。

当 随后面对记者时，他难以用语言表达自己的情感。老虎队进入本赛季时是世界大赛的竞争者。尽管 签署合同延期的可能性一直不高，但他曾梦想在底特律赢得冠军。

然而，他左肘的伤情在本赛季早些时候变得难以承受。他缺席了一个多月，老虎队在他缺席期间经历了 6-22 的 5 月。尽管他们在出色的 6 月有所恢复，并且

比预期提前了很多返回，但结局已然注定。球队不能为了一个渺茫的冲刺机会而抵押未来。策划此次交易的老虎队棒球运营总裁 Next Harris 去年曾谈到不相信 的智慧。老虎队的目标是在未来几年保持竞争力。凭借 Dingler、Kevin McGrange 和 Max Clark 等球员，他们或许有机会。

尽管如此，一个事实依然令人不安：老虎队选拔并培养了这项运动中最顶尖的投手之一，但他们仅凭此获得了两张外卡入场券。

在 2024 和 2025. 年带领老虎队打入了美国联盟分区系列的第 3 场比赛。两次老虎队都以令人心碎的方式落败。Lane Thomas 为克利夫兰巨人队（Cleveland Giants）赢得了日期，那是 在 2024. 年的沉没。 在次年的决定性比赛中投球 99 次后离开，而比赛随后演变成了一场 15 局的较量。

“整个休赛期，自从那场 '24 年第 3, 场比赛，自从我在投手丘上经历的失败以来，我一直将此作为动力，试图为底特律市带来一座世界大赛，” 说道。“我是认真的。整个休赛期我从未如此充满动力。进入比赛后我们再次输掉第 3 场，这激发了更多的动力。只是为了挖掘得更深，看看你真正能达到多么优秀。”

“目标一直是为这座城市，为那个给我机会的组织赢得世界大赛冠军。所以，是的，这很艰难。我爱这里的所有人。” 停顿了将近 10 秒钟才回答另一个问题。

当明星运动员离开这座城市时，往往会产生负面情绪。有些人会指责 没有投满 100 次球，指责他没有恳求延期合同，指责他在赛季前没有检查手臂。

但老虎队正在与队史最顶尖的投手之一告别，一名帮助底特律找回胜利和荣誉的球员。

在道奇队， 将助力这项运动创造历史性的“巅峰之作”。失去了 强有力的存在和激情，老虎队将不再是原来的样子。

Mini 纵横字谜

MICHAEL

横向

1. 可以看到笑容的地方
2. 潜在的大学生可能会报名参加的东西
3. 留下了一张便条
4. 每场比赛都发出声音且如此
5. 获得巨大成功后的欢呼

纵向

1. 在虚拟“房间”中沉思
2. 棒球俱乐部中的稀有之物
3. 金矿工寻找的东西
4. ... 蓝色
5. "... 我应该吗？"

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摩根·弗里曼没有退休计划

凭借《狮女》等项目，这位 89 岁的演员依然活跃在荧幕之上

作者：JONATHAN ABRAHIS

摩根·弗里曼坚持认为，他仍然不明白人们为什么对他声音如此痴迷。这位 89 岁的奥斯卡获奖演员曾为上帝和总统们配音，并且是你最喜爱的纪录片的首选旁白。他依然在思考自己那极具辨识度且浑厚的男低音所产生的影响。

弗里曼的职业生涯直到晚年才开始起飞，他并非一个追求名利之人，但依然保持着强劲的势头。在 Paramount+ 平台由泰勒·谢里丹创作的谍战惊悚剧《狮女》第三季中，他将再次饰演美国国务卿埃德温·马林斯，该剧还由佐伊·萨尔达娜和妮可·基德曼主演。弗里曼还感到有责任保护蓝调音乐；他是密西西比州克拉克斯代尔一家现场蓝调俱乐部的创始人，并制作并旁白了一张将于 8 月发行的蓝调唱片。他最近接受了《纽约时报》的采访，谈到了他在“谢里丹宇宙”中的工作、他的声音以及他如何选择项目。为了清晰起见，本次采访经过了编辑和删减。

泰勒·谢里丹吸引了长长的一串电影明星加入他的剧集。他的设定中有什么特质让他的剧集如此具有吸引力？

他的写作更多地与人类经验有关，在很多情况下，是人们在情感上实际经历的事情。你在《黄石》中可以发现很多，实际上在他的任何作品中都能经常看到这一点。而在这里，在《狮女》中，以（萨尔达娜饰演的）角色为例，他处理的是一个生命经常处于危险之中的女性，就像她的孩子和丈夫一样。她做出决定，并且必须考虑这些决定。写这类题材需要勇气，而泰勒似乎拥有极大的勇气。

过去并不常见很多电影明星加入剧集电视连续剧。为什么现在有这么多人加入？

剧集电视流媒体中的工作机会实际上比进入电影院的电影更多。如果人们可以坐在家里观看一些非凡的东西，那么他们就会这么做。这就是为什么华纳兄弟、派拉蒙和 Hulu 都拥有这些流媒体平台。

在剧中，你在地缘政治冲击我们生活的时代扮演一名政府官员。当现实生活经常镜像艺术时，你是否觉得这个角色肩负着某种责任？ 我们真的完全没有试图处理当代的地缘政治问题。我们知道人们在观看后会根据自己的想法得出结论，但就我们呈现的方式而言，它与当前的艺术结构无关。

这部剧充满了动作戏，但你的场景发生在情境室中。当你只有房间作为

“如果你能起床且在起床时没有摔倒，那么你就应该心存感激并继续前行。”

在《狮女》的新一季中，摩根·弗里曼回归饰演美国国务卿埃德温·马林斯（左），下方是饰演 CIA 官员拜伦·韦斯特菲尔德的迈克尔·凯利。

舞台以及将你的声音作为一种工具时，你如何营造紧张感？

我们不需要营造紧张感。是对话在产生那种紧张感的时候营造了紧张感。你处理的是与外勤人员相关的生死攸关的情况。所以，就像那样，你接过剧本中的内容并将其内化。

你在什么时候意识到

你的声音是一种如此独特的工具？

我还没有意识到。我只是被告知是这样的。

你第一次被告知这一点是在多少岁的时候？

这很难让人相信。

不要觉得难以相信。我 50 岁的时候职业生涯甚至还没有开始。

当人们说你拥有深沉的声音和节奏感时，你脑子里在想什么？

“能什么？这就是我脑子里在想的，‘准备好了吗？’ 非常感谢。”就是这样。你还能拿它怎么办？

这些年来，为了保养它，您有什么具体做法吗？ 没有。只是尽量说话清晰。仅此而已。天生如此。

您潜心研究蓝调音乐。为什么这对您很重要？

蓝调音乐是，不，它是美国人潜藏的遗产，而这种底层遗产属于这个国家的黑人群体。是我们创造了它。我们沿着——这是蓝调和福音音乐——开始它的，因为我们的很多福音歌手后来开始唱蓝调。唱蓝调比唱福音歌曲更赚钱。这两者是有意结合在一起的。我并不是真的坐下来决定这就是我必须做的事情。这并非出于个人用途。

有一天我在克拉克斯代尔，几个背包客在街上走，他们试图在克拉克斯代尔找个能听蓝调的地方，但没有

地方。我的合伙人和我，我们决定这就是个机会。我们得为此做点什么。所以，我不能坐在这里告诉你，这一直是我人生中的一种心态。去做这件事的动力是被迫产生的。

剧本中是否有某个关键元素会让您决定接演？

如果有人给你提供一份工作，如果他们同时提供一个令人兴奋的剧本，那当然很好，但在现实中，有两三件事起作用。他们打算给你多少钱？如果他们给的钱足够多，那么你就会忽略剧本中恰好存在的一些瑕疵。有时你可以提到剧本中一些不太适合你的地方，而大体上，这些问题都能得到解决。

是否还有什么您没演过但仍想尝试的角色？

没有了。我快 80 岁了。所以，那些我希望能够扮演的角色，丹尼斯·华盛顿会去演的。

是什么一直驱动您去创作艺术？

在这方面我像克林特·伊斯特伍德一样。不要让那个老人进来，继续工作。如果你能起床且在起床时没有摔倒，那么你就应该心存感激并继续前行。所以，只要我能行，我就一直工作——只要有人说，“你想做这个吗？”

亚莉安娜·格兰德在烦恼什么？

专辑评论

这位歌手的新唱片描绘了她对名声的不满，但提供的细节寥寥

作者：LINDYAT ZOLADE

粗略听来，亚莉安娜·格兰德（Ariana Grande）目前的热门单曲——那首流畅且带有奇异吸引力的《Horn That I Made You Love Me》——听起来就像又一个关于爱情破灭的流行音乐故事，而这类故事通常正是格兰德擅长用她空灵的嗓音和活泼的魅力来赋予生气的。

但在桥段部分出现了一个抱怨式的转折，格兰德透露她一直称呼的“你”并非一个人，而是许多人。

“所以这真的是我的错——你们自愿把心交给我？”她唱道，此时编曲简化为仅剩一把原声吉他，更加凸显了她的疑问。

这句歌词突然让这首歌呈现出不同的光彩，引导出一种更有趣且阴森的解读：“Horn That I Made You Love Me”实际上是一首关于她那些最痴迷的粉丝的讽刺之作吗？

有可能。这位 10 岁的流行歌星兼演员在她大部分全新的专辑《Petal》中听起来对某种状态感到恼火，这张专辑在录制过程中第二次追踪了她标志性的活泼风格。《Petal》的同名主打歌是一首关于自立以及她与流行巨星地位之间爱恨关系的冰冷颂歌，歌曲节奏缓慢，仿佛在蹒跚前行，格兰德在其中唱道：“我所有最喜欢的故事都以某种灾难告终。”

两首歌之后是《Oh Not》，这是一首节奏轻快但语气冷酷的告别曲，送给那些虚伪的朋友，格兰德在副歌部分用一种类似 String Salette 的风格将其打发：“祝你在前往地狱的路上好运。”在《Wicked》系列电影的两部作品中饰演好女巫格琳达（Glinda the Good）之后，格兰德在《Petal》中明确表示，她已经戳破了那个第 18 个泡沫，真正地投入到一些更粗粝、更尖锐，甚至可能是反派风格的东西中。

这张专辑的时机有些奇怪。一方面，距离格兰德透露她计划将更多创作精力投入到严肃表演和音乐剧而非流行巨星身份，还不到两年。“我永远会做流行音乐。我更喜欢实践，”她告诉播客《Lee Callantine》的主持人，“但我认为，我不会在接下来的 10 年里，以过去 10 年那种频率来做这件事。”

至少到目前为止，那个预言还没有实现。格兰德在进行巡演期间发行了《Petal》——这是她六年来的首次巡演——旨在推广她的前作，即 2024 年发行的《Eternal Sunshine》（11 月，她将与罗伯特·德尼罗和本·斯蒂勒一起出演喜剧片《Flicker-in-Law》）。这种神秘感表明，《Petal》是音乐人在有新的重要想法需要表达时会创作的那类专辑，但遗憾的是，这 22 首曲目在变革方面显得力度不足。

正如在《Eternal Sunshine》中一样，格兰德与 Max Martin 及其合作者 Ilya Salmanzadeh 共同创作并制作了《Petal》中的素材。（制作名单明确指出，所有歌词均由格兰德独立创作。）如果说前一张专辑是精湛工艺和色调多样性的作品，那么相比之下，《Petal》则显得模糊且单调。像往常一样，格兰德的唱功极佳且编排精巧；她依然能让大多数 A-50 流行明星在演唱技巧上望尘莫及。但这里的素材大多是乏味节奏的泥潭，缺乏她最佳作品中的特质和信念感。专辑的中段尤其令人乏味，仅被倒数第二首曲目《Bad Thing (Honey Hop)》那种充满预见性、充满活力的能量所打破，这是一首带有明显热门潜力的梦幻、爱意浓烈的嘻哈歌曲。

Grande 在同名曲中唱到“铺路石中的花瓣”，这是一个关于遥远生命从敌对环境中萌发的中心意象——或许是一个生动版本的 Tujan Shukel 关于从混凝土中生长出来的真实故事。想想 Grande 在像 "Thank U, Note" 这样的歌曲中所能掌控的惊人具体性，那是 2024 年写给一个安于现状且仁慈地凌驾于一切之上的人的信，即便她毫不掩饰自己是在唱哪位名人们：肖恩、里基、皮特和马尔科姆，都被点名提及。但在 "Petal" 中某种精确的英雄主义，使得那些困扰 Grande 的冲突以及针对她的遥远阴谋显得令人沮丧地模糊。

尽管声音和方法截然不同，但 "Petal" 与一张大约在 Chark SCX 的 "Blues, Fashion, Flier" 发布的专辑有着某种不可思议的叙事相似之处——这是另一位 20 岁音乐人的最新混音作品，她正在探索自己是否能作为一名演员和一个家伙在创意上共存。Chark 通过以坦率且尖锐的细节描写她的自立，以及用那种 Grande 在 "Thank U, Note" 中错失的自觉意识和普通角色来解构自己的名声，找到了一种成功的方法。

相比之下，"Petal" 在某一点上承认，“Grande 在 'Horn That I Made You Love Me' 以及这张专辑中其他那些低音疲软的歌曲中所暗示的刺痛感并没有什么特别不对劲的地方”，但这些印象带来的问题多于答案。亚莉安娜·格兰德是否仍然热爱成为一名流行明星？她是否不再热爱？花瓣可能会向任何一个方向飘落。

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2020年8月4日，星期四 / 15

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一个身陷麻烦的自助大师

数百万人都依赖尼科尔·勒佩拉（Nicole LePera）提供建议。但她的过往却十分复杂。

作者：吉尼亚·贝拉法夫斯特（GINIA BELLAFAFSTE）

2018年，在费城从事了数年传统的心理治疗后，尼科尔·勒佩拉开始了一项新事业。她创立了“整体心理学家”（Holistic Psychologist），这是一个在线自助平台，反映了她对治疗焦虑、抑郁和其他精神疾患的传统方法日益增长的怀疑。

起初，这不过是一个只有几百个粉丝的 Instagram 页面。两年之内，粉丝数达到了 1500 万。2020 年《福布斯》的一篇人物简介将勒佩拉描述为“正在从根本上改变心理健康产业”。“整体心理学家”已扩展到包括一个网站和一项付费会员服务，所有这些都旨在应对疫情期间动摇的情绪。随后是书籍出版协议，勒佩拉的核心信息——即我们都有能力找回自我——得到了更为广泛的认可。

该企业的首席合作伙伴是她的妻子劳伦·加尔文（Lauren Galvin，艺名为 Lady），她帮助塑造了公司的身份。早期，第三个人安娜·伍克兰（Anna Wookland）加入了她们，她负责与在线社区互动，并与勒佩拉一起出现在视频和播客节目中。与加尔文一样，伍克兰没有接受过正式的心理学家培训。在某个时间点，勒佩拉在 Instagram 上宣布，她、加尔文和伍克兰处于一段三人浪漫关系中。

去年夏天出现了一次令人不安的动荡。8月，一条令人震惊的指控出现在“整体心理学家”的 Instagram 页面上——有人匿名爆料称，自职业生涯开始以来，尼科尔·勒佩拉从未写过一条 Instagram、TikTok 或 YouTube 动态，她所说的内容并非出自其口。“她是一个美丽的虚假之声，”在该帖子出现后有人评论道。她的 Instagram 账号一度陷入沉寂，粉丝们纷纷猜测发生了什么。许多人询问关于伍克兰的情况，后者在大约四个月前就从“整体心理学家”社区中消失了。

传统疗法要求临床医生保持一定的匿名性。但正如精神科医生兼作家 W. 斯科特·佩克（W. Scott Peck）很久以前对这类大师阶层所描述的那样，这种“治疗需求”构建在对情境的塑造之上。鉴于勒佩拉在网上分享了如此多关于自己生活的内容，并在她的自助书中如此公开，极少数粉丝会对发生了什么变化感到好奇。

今年早些时候，情况变得更加清晰，当时伍克兰起诉了勒佩拉和加尔文，主张她在“整体心理学家”中的作用是基础性的，且她理应获得比目前多得多的报酬。随后，勒佩拉和加尔文对伍克兰提起诉讼，指控其滥用公司资金。

民事法院的记录中包含了袭击指控，并附有警方报告。所有这些都表明，勒佩拉并不比一名 10 岁患者更少地受到不稳定和危机的困扰。勒佩拉曾宣称自己成功打造了一个案例，旨在选择那些能带来“和平与承诺而非混乱与痛苦”的“正确的人”。

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在她的著作中，LePera 描述了自己在充满焦虑的家庭环境下成长。如果父母接她迟到了，她会假设最糟糕的情况：他们已经去世了。

据她所述，LePera 经常发现自己的需求在面对一个能力不足的家庭时被放弃。她出生于美国。她的父母在面对问题时精神状态激进，无论是因为晚餐少了一样食材，还是处于家庭紧急情况的困境之中。这接近于该家庭自身的默认心理状态。

为了获得他们的关注， 在家庭中努力，随后她进入了 Carand 大学，并参加了一个指导项目，在纽约的新社会研究学院学习心理学。她被依恋理论所吸引，该理论认为我们在婴儿期和幼儿期与父母形象建立的纽带决定了成年后的关系模式。

与 Galvin 的相识是她生活的一个转折点，这迫使她写下了她的书《如何开展这项工作》（How to Do the Work）。她写道，Galvin 以一种“在她的认知之外”的方式挑战了 。他们共同在费城建立起生活， 在那里长大并开展了她的执业。

她的客户既有富人也有穷人——压力巨大的专业人士以及面临难以逾越的行为障碍的人——她观察到，无论他们是谁，都感到陷入了僵局，渴望改变却无法付诸实施。渐渐地，她感到自己也是如此。

这个问题在约 10 年前，在她 20 岁生日后不久变得具体化——她写道，这成了她的“触底时刻”。在与 Galvin 在一起期间，她遭受了一次严重的厌恶发作。她开始将自己的身体病症——胃部问题、晕厥、恐慌发作——与那些过度治疗也未能解决的童年创伤联系起来。

在 Galvin 的帮助下， 开始缓慢而坚定地修复她的身体，并连续进行了约 700 次

每天早晨以冥想开始。他们研究营养学并举重。他们结婚并构思了一条新的职业路径，从而创建了“整体心理学家”（Holistic Psychologist）。最终，她开始讨论神经系统的“调节”（thymegulation），而非精神疾病，因为她开始质疑后者的定义。

在起诉该夫妇的诉讼提交几个月后，相关内容作为在线对话浮出水面。因此，这几乎没有干扰 最新著作《重新养育内在小孩》（Reparenting the Inner Child）的发布，该书在 3 月上市后立即成为畅销书。 的书籍推广活动现在包括在伦敦的皇家地理学会和 92 街 Y 会馆亮相。后者是 Mackenzie 的六角形文化交流中心。

在纽约面对一群冷漠的观众时， 接受了 Ellen Voss 的访谈，后者是一位受过哥伦比亚大学培训的精神科医生，称她为“文化的指路明灯”。那天晚上，正如她对待过去那样， 将自己呈现为一个虽然仍在自我完善，但已经克服困难的人。

“如果有人伤害我，我会立即理解他们为什么这么做，从他们的童年，从那些创伤中去理解，”她说道，解释了她的一种过度共情的不健康倾向。

, 43, 谈到了“重新养育”自己。她与家人进行了难以置信的断绝，以探索自己是谁。她说这很困难，但因为她似乎战胜了失败，而 Galvin 就坐在观众席中，她深情地指向他。

究竟什么是“重新养育”？Voss 问道。 回答道，这是“以一种不同的方式面对我们自己”，“成为那个我们极少数人在童年时期拥有的、给予支持、关怀且能感知需求的照顾者”。

这个想法源自 20 世纪 70 年代的缺口心理学，对她来说并不新鲜，但她为新一代人将其复兴。

血腥冥想

LePera 第一次体验名气是在 2015 年夏天，当时她决定在洛杉矶举行一次集体“内在小孩冥想”。参与人数令她惊讶。

Wookland 是“整体心理学家”（Holistic Psychologist）Instagram 账号上的常客。那个 8 月的早晨，她就在德克萨斯州的沙滩上。在 15 年，她刚从科罗拉多州搬到洛杉矶，此前她在当地的一家儿科肿瘤病房工作。尽管她到达现场时冥想环节已经结束，但 Wookland 见到了 LePera 并送给她一副神谕卡。

随后他们开始互相发信息——或者至少 是这么认为的。后来，她开始相信自己一直在与 Galvin 沟通，她告诉她 且 Galvin 拒绝了通过律师发送给他们的采访请求，以及 的文学代理人和图书公关的请求。当被问及具体指控时，其中一份诉讼中的一名人士表示她不予评论并挂断了电话。

当她的网站上线时，尝试注册的人太多，导致外部服务器崩溃。

“整体心理学家”以一个网站的形式成型，Galvin 则是这家致力于精神疾病的初创公司的门面。在 Galvin 的帮助下，她将该品牌扩展到了包括“自我相关圈”（Self-Related Circle）在内的业务。每月 10 或 month 的费用（现在为 30k）大致相当于在纽约时尚社区或好莱坞 Store 接受 10m 分钟个人治疗所需的费用。除了每月与 进行的问答环节外，该圈子还为成员提供一系列在线活动、讲座和躯体实践。

当她网站上线时，尝试注册的人太多，导致外部服务器崩溃。 发送了一条信息提出帮助，并立即被雇用。 情感充沛且坦率，她开始出现在镜头前，阅读该圈子的一些“内容神学”，同时分享她作为在贫困和成瘾父母抚养下长大的孩子的个人故事。她与 共同主持了名为《自我相关：回音板》（SelfRelated: Soundboard）的播客，该节目运行了两年。

在入职后不久， 收到 和 Galvin 的邀请，在假期期间与他们共度。圣诞节后抵达费城， 前往四季酒店。 说，在那间有两张床的单间里，这对夫妇为她准备了礼物。后来，他们将行程转移到了法国山区， 回忆道，在跨年之夜，他们喝酒、抽烟并接吻。

很快在两周内爱上了两人。她说，和他们在一起感觉很“惬意”。

到 2020 年 7 月，他们搬到了亚利桑那州斯科茨代尔的一栋租来的微型住宅中，并在那里买了一张足够他们三人使用的床。 在 Instagram 上宣布了这一新格局：“我是一名治疗师，”帖子开始道，“一个 5 人的承诺关系。”她说，她一直犹豫是否要分享这件事，但她和她的伴侣们承诺要“对我们是谁保持透明、真实和坦率”。

在这种安排开始几个月后， 将这个新想法透露给了一个名为 Jennifer Koksue 的近亲。Koksue 在一次采访中表示，她在 Instagram 上得知，她听到后院传出争吵声，其中一些声音吓到了她的女儿。

起初她问：“你能听到吗？你听到了什么？”Koksue 告诉我，“如果我告诉她我听到了很多指责。”Koksue 说 尤其被她的伴侣的一种习惯所震惊，即“有意识地告诉她，她才是问题所在”。

尽管如此， 在公司中的角色仍在增长。2020 年，她与 和 Galvin 签署了一项协议，授予她 Instruction 公司三分之一的所有权股份，而 Instruction 是 Holistic 的母公司，由 掌控，她

左图：Nicole 2020 年在洛杉矶的一次作者演讲。右图：Anna ，她于 2018 年加入 的“整体心理学家”公司，随后出现在其在线内容中。

该 Instagram 账号的受众达到了数百万粉丝，但并没有提供任何信息或相关内容。这些帖子在哲学上从未触及重点。描述一个依然在世的父母的死亡，对于那个你需要面对的人来说毫无意义。这些内容具有误导性。不知道自己饥饿是未解决的潜意识不安的新迹象。

LePera 的知名度还源于她利用电子书寻求帮助的在线视频。她在 Instagram 上关于母亲自恋的见解中，LePera 通常将未被重视的亲属和渴望关爱且已成年的孩子同时塑造出来。但有一段时间，Wookland 扮演的是一个被无法正常沟通的母亲所伤害的年轻女儿。

在一个标准场景中，Wookland 并不是一个自由的人，而是在人们面前抱着一只填充企鹅。

在某一天，她的角色解释说，她感到被爱仅仅是因为她的个人偏好。“当你处于过去时，那并不重要，” 请求道，演示了最糟糕的父母反应。

让 扮演 的治疗师的父母。“考虑到我们实际关系中潜在的权力失衡，” 说，“这些直接让我感到恶心。”

她难以离开。“在很长一段时间里，我尝试接受 Lady 和 Nicole 告诉我关于我自己的所有事情，所有的批评、观点和诊断，” 说。2020 年 3 月，她回到了家中。

法律诉讼

那个春末，Wookland 飞往东部，住在格蒂斯堡的朋友家中。她不想让 LePera 和 Galvin 知道她去了哪里，但怀疑自己正被追踪。

为了误导他们，她将一批货物寄往她之前在斯科茨代尔的一处短期试炼地址，她的朋友 Koksue 支付了费用。Koksue 告诉我，当她到达那里时，看到了 LePera 和 Galvin 的车停在建筑外面。Koksue 说，当她稍后返回时，那对夫妇仍然在那里。（Wookland 的）一名流行病学家 的身体（此处原文如此），表示 在事件发生后立即告诉了她。

“我只是在心里意识到，这些人把自己伪装成自我救助者，”Koksue 说。

尽管存在冲突， 还是在 7 月加入了在格蒂斯堡的 。她们住在 的朋友家中，该朋友描述 在访问期间表现得协调且快乐。 和 从未在一起共度过这么多时间，并且对此心知肚明。

那个夏天晚些时候， 和 回到了斯科茨代尔。正是在这种背景下，出现了一篇匿名撰写的语言同行愿景，称 是“她未发声的朋友中的最后一个”。事实上，这是 写的，她和 后来在他们的法律事务中承认了这一点。

这并非 第一次表现出波动性。根据新泽西州的公共记录，2021, 年，在一起家庭暴力案件中，针对她的一项保护令被执行。

几年后， 在 Productivist——字幕员——的合同管理下，因将她重新设立用于帮助无家可归者的 Co-Pearl 网站的资金转移到自己的银行账户而损失了 000。

和 现在再次同居。 说，她在 2015, 10 月看到这对夫妇住在街上。她们谈论了公司。对话变得紧张——以至于 将 的眼镜从她头上摘了下来，这是她感到后悔的一件事。在对方看来， 和 表示这次事件导致 “法律上失明”。作为报复， 在她自己的陈述中主张， 将她推下了楼梯。 和 对此予以否认。

那天晚上， 前往一家紧急护理机构治疗瘀伤和卵巢柄。随后在 14, 10 月，在仍有瘀伤的情况下，她拜访了一位自然疗法医生 Sabrina Bell。在一次采访中，Bell 表示 分享了关于 将她推下楼梯的主张。Bell 说她开了一些肽类药物以增加该部位的血流量。

在几次没有交谈的场合， 在谈到她多么热爱前任伙伴，以及她现在如何看待她们，并看到她们曾经是多么困扰的女孩时，情绪激动。

在工资单上一直保留到今年 1 月，随后被解雇。2 月，她在亚利桑那州高等法院对这对夫妇提起诉讼，指控其违约。她主张她在公司中的角色使她有权获得至少 1500万美元，她表示这一金额部分基于 2020 合伙协议。

如果你的治疗师的生活与他或她试图帮助你实现的生活截然不同，这在多大程度上重要？

在 3 月对 诉讼的回复中， 和 声称该数字令人震惊，并补充说 “经常未能按时交付材料”，且她的角色仅仅是“无提交的”，而 在公司系统中的出现使这一职位变得复杂。

5 月， 和 对 提起诉讼，该诉讼在 6 月将原告列入其中。该诉讼将 描绘成早期的、后来的且具有操纵性的。 在她 2020 书《如何成为你寻求的爱》中对她的描述则不同：“Jenna 迅速确立了自己作为我们家庭核心成员的地位。我们之间有着非常良好的沟通，且这种领导力补充了 Lady 和我所拥有的优势。”

Wookland 的主张之一是，她协助编写了书籍，应当获得部分利润。但对方并未在 Wookland 的诉讼中提供来源证明。LePera 和 Galvin 表示：“所有书籍均由 LePera 独立撰写。”（出版《重新养育内在小孩》的 Florinee Books 的一名发言人表示，该书是“由一名代笔作者”撰写的。）

总体而言，这些文件揭示了这些女性之间的一系列行为，她们似乎沉溺于相互争吵和监视。 承认三人经常发生冲突。“这本该是一件好事，”她说，“我确定 Galvin 威胁要发布她的‘私人录音’，包括涉及某人死亡的风险，并试图阻止 的艺人。”

作为回应，这对夫妇声称 并没有威胁发送誓言照片，而是 行为的视频。“对此有任何疑问，” 继续将此事提交给斯科茨代尔警察局处理。

LePera 也向警方提交了自己的报告，称 去年非法使用她的信用卡，花费数千美元用于“运作业务并维持其工作”。 否认了这一指控。在诉讼中，LePera 和 进一步指控 挪用了总计超过 100万美元 的资金。“我确定 也否认了这一点，并在一次事件中称这些支出全部与业务相关。”

这些问题尚未得到解决。但在 2 月份的法庭审理中， 获得了针对 的保护令，有效期为两年。申请书中包含了她的主张，即 进入了她的后院，窥视她的窗户，并向她发送其受托人的照片。在法律文件中， 和 LePera 否认了 的说法。

问题在于， 是否写到了这个问题：如果你的治疗师——无论是你亲自见面的某人，还是你所依赖的公众人物——其生活方式与他或她试图帮助你实现的生活截然不同，这是否重要？如果治疗取得了成功，这是否还会有影响？

在荣格城市的医学人文领域中，核心概念是“受伤的疗愈者”；一个将自身的痛苦转化为照顾他人之重要工具的人物；“如果患者状态良好，该问题似乎难以逾越”（第 9 版）。

在 LePera 最后一次 Y 演讲的结尾，观众们得到了提问的机会。一名女性站起来说，她已经尝试了一切——所有的渴望，所有的自我审问——但仍然没有达到她想要的状态。

LePera 同情地笑了笑。“我们许多人都喜欢学习的一句话是，疗愈并非线性的，”她说，“而事实确实如此！”

LePera 的知名度是由 拍摄照片的视频推动的。在一段时间里， 被塑造为一名诗人，也是一位好友。2018, 他成了另一位年长女性。

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旅行

从左起：Amber Wosken 在 Catalina Jazz Club；Blue Note Los Angeles；萨克斯演奏者 Nicole McCabe 与 Michael Reganone（钢琴）、Luca Alonsamo（贝斯）和 Anthony Fung（鼓手）在 Sam First；Brendan Coleman（左）和 Ben Williams 在 Leisure Park 的 World Stage。

捕捉洛杉矶的爵士之风

五家经典与新兴俱乐部让乐迷庆祝这座城市深厚的该流派根基

作者：ALEX SCHEISTER

洛杉矶的爵士音乐节巡演正在洛杉矶全面展开。除了 6 月在 Hollywood Bowls 举办的 Blue Note 爵士音乐节和 10 月将更名为 Jazz Refractions 的 Angel City Jazz 等熟悉聚会外，城里还出现了一个新面孔：L.A. Jazz Festival。

这个周五的音乐节是洛杉矶首次尝试效仿新奥尔良进行全市范围的音乐接管，并将聚集包括 Pete Escovedo、Eero Colerone 和 Janelle Moore 在内的多元化表演者阵容在所有道路上演出。

音乐节将于周五在 Lament Park 拉开帷幕，将为观众提供密集的城市公园免费音乐会日程、一场加勒比街头集市、在社区酒吧和咖啡馆的快闪演出，以及在 Deckwalter Beach 的压轴活动。

这个筹备了 10 年的雄心计划将给游客一个探索洛杉矶万花筒般景观的理由，同时享受独一无二的节日演出。

如果你的行程与音乐节不重合，也可以考虑进行一次朝圣。爵士乐在洛杉矶根深蒂固，可以追溯到像 Dunbar Hotel 这样的场所，Duke Ellington 和 Count Basie 等音乐家在 1930 年代曾在此汇聚。20 世纪一些最伟大的爵士演奏家——Charles Morgan、Buddy Callette、Devine Carriker——将洛杉矶视为家乡，并为 Central Avenue 的场所（如 Club Alabam 和被誉为“西方阿波罗”的 Lincoln Theater）的盛行做出了贡献。

这些俱乐部早已消失，但其遗产依然清晰可见。“以前，你需要去纽约才能出名，”在 Lament Park 的 World Stage 听音乐会长大的 Kazemi Washington 说道，“现在，你可以在洛杉矶出名。”

以下是五家值得一访的经典与新兴爵士俱乐部。

THE BANDY POUND

The Bandy Pound 被认为是洛杉矶最特立独行且经营时间最长的爵士俱乐部。这家位于好莱坞环球影城对面的不起眼的潜水酒吧自 1976 年开业以来几乎没有改变，当时它是录音室乐手在录音室度过漫长一天后放松身心的深夜聚集地。

“我们创造的历史比我们想象的要多得多，”俱乐部老板 Justin Randt 说道。

这还是保守的说法：多年来，像 Pozzo 和 Devie Wonder 这样的音乐家都曾专程前来

The Clayton Cameron Collective 在 Bland Potato 表演，这家位于好莱坞环球影城对面的俱乐部于 1978 年开业，最初是录音室乐手的深夜聚集地。

观看这里的演出。1973 年，当 Joel Mitchell 在为她的专辑《Court and Sparks》寻找伴奏时，她在 L.A. Express 融合乐团演出期间走进店里，并雇佣了该团体。

那种自发的、社交融合的感觉在今天依然存在。每月日程表上的乐队中，至少有一半是俱乐部后院即兴相遇的结果。这种随意性也延伸到了演出中。观众簇拥在紧凑的舞台周围，与表演者享有极高程度的亲密感，最近的表演者包括 Bonnie Foster 和萨克斯演奏者 Devie Dunnitt。

“你就和乐队在一起，”Randt 先生说，“休息时，他们不会回休息室，他们可能会留在那里和你聊天。”

增加这家酒吧历史吸引力的是其菜单，上面列出了带有各种配料的烤土豆——18 盎司（300-grain）的土豆体积巨大，所以请带着饥饿感前来。

WORLD STAGE

或许比洛杉矶任何其他现场音乐场所都更甚，World Stage 致力于在为前卫爵士乐提供大本营的同时，赋予当地社区力量。该空间可容纳 100 人，位于市中心 Lament Park 的一个商业街区内，那里是黑人文化的富集中心，它吸引着渴望观看爵士乐频谱中更具实验性表演的观众。

“人们进来后，关注的不再是共同主导或交谈，”俱乐部执行总监 Dwight Trillie 说道，他同时也是一名主唱，自 1988 年 World Stage 成立起就参与其中。“按照我们的布置方式，当灯光熄灭、音乐响起，人们会予以尊重。音乐是 No. 1。”

繁忙的每周日程包括爵士乐环节、诗歌朗诵（这里甚至有一个 World Stage 文学出版社）和工作坊，但周五和周六晚上通常也交给爵士乐器演奏者。每年两次，该空间会巡演

Pan African Peoples Arbents，这是一个由钢琴家 Horace Tapscott 在 1961 年创建的全黑人乐团，后者是西海岸爵士乐的核心人物。

前方设有个露台，顾客可以在这里品尝啤酒和葡萄酒，作为演出前后的社交聚集点。入场费为合理的 $20，使其成为该市现场音乐中性价比最高的地方之一。

CATALINA JAZZ CLUB

在 Catalina Jazz Club 的一个典型夜晚，人群在下午 6:30 左右开始聚集。半小时后开门时，餐厅亲切的经理 Murray Santiago 站在门口，与人们握手并引导熟客前往他们心仪的桌位。

“这是一个温馨且充满活力的地方，”Santiago 女士说道，她于 1987 年开始在俱乐部工作。“我们有已经在这里光顾 10 年的顾客。”

这种轻松的客厅氛围使该餐厅成为家庭和大型团体的热门选择，他们有足够的空间

舒展身体（欢迎儿童）。虽然演出阵容十分多样——百老汇、Motown 和亚美尼亚休息室标准曲目在这里都有其一席之地——但爵士乐存在于这家餐厅的 DNA 中。多年来，Catalina 曾接待过如 Buddy Callette、Dizzy Gillespie 和 Ben Carter 等艺人。Child Curtis 每年都有固定演出，直到 2021 年去世。(门票范围在 $20 到 $85 之间。)

就像洛杉矶的餐饮机构 Bruce & Frank 和 Carter's Owl 一样，Catalina 保持着原汁原味，保留着 20 世纪 80 年代中期宴会厅的氛围。这里没有手工制作的小食或精致小吃，你将品尝到丰盛的纽约牛排 (2023) 和短肋意面 (2023)；海鲜 (2)H 也是深受喜爱的一项。

BLUE NOTE LOS ANGELES

去年 8 月，Blue Note Los Angeles 在日落大道开业，位于 Corcoran Dome 和之前的 Amarillo Music 唱片店之间，在好莱坞流媒体前

era, 从反响来看——演出经常售罄——这家俱乐部证明了现场娱乐无法被一件神奇的设备所取代。

这家 Blue Note 与其纽约分店有相似之处——每晚两场演出，每位客人有 $20 的最低消费。咆哮的特大钢琴，配有宽敞的蓝色天鹅绒舞台布局。名人客串在台上和台下都成了常态。Tyler, the Creator 在最近的一场 Keyon Barrack 演出中亮相，而在 12 月，First Nationals 邀请了 Thundercut 和 OpenSore。

“几乎每晚，我们都会经历这些非凡时刻，”纽约和洛杉矶两家俱乐部的策划与预订总监 Alex Kurland 说道。

除了偶遇名人的快感，对于那些希望在沉浸式、高能量环境中欣赏爵士乐的人来说，Blue Note 依然是一个可靠的选择。在最近一场庆祝 Mike Davis 1990 年代生日的演出中，小号手 Theo Cocker 带领观众通过如《Blue to Green》和《Autumn Leaves》等心爱的曲目进行了一次怀旧之旅。到最后，观众们从座位上跳起来大声请求，仿佛 Davis 本人就站在那里一样。

SAN FIRST

Sam First 在 2027 年开业时，凭借对 Cornell Clayton 和 Billy Childs 等才俊的倾力支持，令爵士乐爱好者们欣喜不已。这里的地理位置可能需要一段时间才能适应——它位于国际机场附近的一条繁忙走廊上——但该酒吧的艺术总监 David Robado 表示，能在西区开业是其核心优势。

“当时存在的大多数俱乐部要么过于简单，要么是为了掌控洛杉矶的局面，而且在看到 2000 年卡尔弗城 (Culver City) 的 Jazz Battery 关闭后，‘出现了一个需要被填补的空白’。”

与俱乐部周围喧闹的环境相反，内部空间温馨且充满爱意，此外还有物理音效——不规则的墙壁和同质化设置优化了声学效果，能够吸收低频声音。缺乏一个正式的舞台（表演者就在吧台旁布置），反而增强了互动感，仿佛你正坐在一个现代录音室里。

而事实上，你确实如此：自 2025 年起，该酒吧在内部运营着一家名为 Sam First 的精品唱片公司，发行由 Larry Goldings 和 Joe La Burkery 等艺术家录制的内部作品，后者曾在 2010 年在 Ute 崭露头角。现场录音被压制在 100-grain 黑胶唱片上，这些唱片已成为收藏品。该厂牌在签约对象方面非常挑剔，通常每年仅安排两次录音。（下一次录音定于周五和周六，表演者为萨克斯演奏家 Nicole McCabe。）

巴塞罗那的新信息：“不再增加一名游客”

作者：LISA AROVO

如今，巴塞罗那的 Bregerton 努力地吸引着如此之多的游客，以至于许多原本向家庭厨师提供新鲜蔬菜、鱼类或肉类的摊位，现在转而向游客提供切果杯或炸虾。

由于深信这个市场已不再适合他们，许多当地人已经放弃了这里。然而，社区居民安东尼奥·德赛尔 (Antonio Desaire) 仍然会光顾，尽管是策略性地光顾。“通常情况下，市场的后门较没吸引力；那是卸货的地方，”他说。“但在 Bregerton，情况正好相反。我们当地人总是从后门进入，以避开前门的交通拥堵。”

作为巴塞罗那新任的可持续旅游专员，德赛尔先生正在制定策略，以减轻每年访问这座加泰罗尼亚首府的近 1000 万 名游客所带来的影响。该职位去年设立，旨在改善该国的健康状况，而政府在近十年前就开始采取行动，颁布了首项旨在提高旅游成本的政策，因为旅游业导致了房价上涨和过高的租金收益（stampers），并将历史街区变成了充斥着廉价纪念品和低价海鲜饭的地方。随后采取的其他措施还包括对住宿征收旅游税，以及一项将于 2028 年生效的度假租赁限制。

德赛尔先生是赫罗纳大学的旅游研究教授，曾任地区议会议员，他不仅希望应对过度旅游，还希望扭转这一局面。在他的指导下，巴塞罗那旨在恢复那些受旅游业负面影响最严重社区的居民生活。这包括一项计划，旨在让 Bregerton 重新成为巴塞罗那人愿意光顾的地方——甚至可能让他们愿意从前门进入。

本次对话经缩减和编辑，以保证篇幅和清晰度。

巴塞罗那应对过度旅游已近十年，但游客人数仍在继续增长。您职位的设立是否意味着之前的政策没有奏效？

巴塞罗那早在 2017. 年就开始通过暂停新建酒店等创新手段重新思考旅游业。关键在于这些措施是渐进的。这是一个学习过程，许多措施需要时间才能产生影响。但这座城市现在传递的信息是：不再增加一名游客。

“不再增加一名游客”意味着什么？

这意味着城市决定在一条原本无限上升的曲线上设定一个平坦的上限。我们不想进一步增长。我们希望维持城市现有的游客量。2023 年城市中有 52's million 名游客——这就是阈值。1600 万是最大值。

每年有近 1000 万 名游客访问加泰罗尼亚首府巴塞罗那。

但旅游局是否仍在推广旅游业？

我们并非从一种极端的立场出发。但我们需要以有序的方式管理游客，而首要的管理目标是改变游客的构成。目前，三分之二是休闲游客；我们希望将其调整为三分之一商务旅行，三分之一文化旅行，三分之一休闲。因此，我们正在针对那些对文化体验感兴趣的细分市场进行推广——不仅是高端的体验，比如参观 Lions，还包括大众化的体验，比如现场音乐或节日。

如果你查看旅游网站，你会发现代理商已将“访问巴塞罗那”改为“这就是巴塞罗那”，从告诉人们来参观景点，转变为告诉他们我们是一座什么样的城市。

您无法阻止休闲游客到来，对吧？

最重要的是设定限制。如果没有住宿，需求就无法增长。今年夏天我们已经看到，有些人因为找不到住处而无法前来。我们不会去响应不断增长的需求。

市长还刚刚宣布了一项提案，旨在取消仅在当地停留一天的邮轮。我们希望实现零日游邮轮乘客，为了达成这一目标，我们将要求地区当局将针对他们的税收提高到允许的最高限额。

针对住宿征收的旅游税也是一种劝阻游客的尝试吗？

更重要的一部分是，它允许城市抵消旅游业带来的高昂成本。我们希望能够告诉居民，旅游业所使用的所有服务——安保、卫生、电力、交通——全部由旅游税补贴。我们认为，居民不应该在服务方面受到游客所占据资源的限制。

我们希望将这些资源投入到旨在恢复城市身份的战略中。

巴塞罗那 13% 的收入来自旅游业。对于那些认为这些措施将威胁繁荣的批评者，您如何回应？

我们必须建立一个优先级体系，而处于我们顺序顶端的是公民的权利。如果城市中的另一个优先级与之发生冲突，顶端的优先级优先。我们想要一个每个人都能繁荣发展的城市。

您是在暗示，即使是一个社区巴士将其居住特性让位于旅游业，它也可以被恢复吗？

没错。这种情况正发生在像兰布拉斯大道这样非常重要的区域，那里是城市的中心。我们的研究表明，当地人已经停止前往兰布拉斯大道，因为他们不再认为那是属于他们的空间。我们的战略核心就是恢复它，我们正在利用资源，例如减少那些正在改变其商业构成的烟草店数量。我们最大的目标是让巴塞罗那的人们回到兰布拉斯大道散步或仅仅是闲逛。

两年前，当地人用水枪喷射游客的画面并不像今年夏天城市可能面临的情况那样严重？

我想强调的是，我们是一座非常好客的城市。人们想要访问我们，我们深感荣幸。我相信任何想要访问巴塞罗那的人都能感受到这一点。但我也相信，我们正处于一个居民和游客都心知肚明、必须和谐共处的环境下。

JOHN GALLIANO THORNY CHOICE FOR MET HONOR

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INTERNATIONAL EDITION | THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2026

In Nicaragua,

a desperate dictatorship

Gioconda Belli

OPINION

On July 18, the 67th anniversary of the Sandhoma Revolution that ended the Simeon dictatorship in Nicaragua. President Daniel Ortega declared that elections would no longer offer a push to power. "They should forget about it," he said, presumably referring to the many platters, subventions and traitors the octopmanian president has claimed to be holding since he re- turned to power in 2001.

The announcement caused an op- man Welles days, Rosario Murillo— who, in addition to being Mr. Ortega's wife and co-president, is the region's chief pragmatist—was uprising the news. She said that elections will con- tinue, but under new rules barring foreign interests and preventing in- called traitors and imperialist lackeys from competing for power.

The country shows what happens when over despoten atouzgoons are tortified of a rigged election. The head of the National Assembly spoke of a reform that would in- crease the pro- dential term to severe years from six and allow it to be removed for an additional seven years—a surreal idea that makes

the presidency sound like a car lease. Whatever the exact process, it's clear that the regime will do whatever it takes to keep husband and wife in power until death.

The regime already effectively con- trols the electoral authorities, the legislatures, the courts, the police, the salary and virtually every other institu- tion capable of influencing electoral outcomes. In 2025, Mr. Ortega pales nearly every serious contender for the presidency, along with hundreds of other critics and opposition members. Many of them were declared traitors, flows to the United States and stripped of their citizenship. So why abandon even the fiction of free elections?

One answer may be in Ms. Murillo's audition to become president — per- her annuity about what may happen if she is the sole candidate. I have known the actors in this drama for decades, and I know her methods. I believe Ms. Murillo fears being even a rigged election; that she is scared of appar- ring on the ballot by herself.

Ms. Murillo has accumulated enar- mous power. She became Mr. Ortega's vice president in 2017, and was named co-president eight years later through a constitutional amendment that alone saved the separation of powers and gave the couple absolute control over RELL PAGE 6

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Before the Iran war, about 100 ships tranched the Strait of Hormuz each day, no average. That has dropped to about a dozen. Since the war began, 17 sailors have been killed in attacks.

GENEVA

BY JENNY GROSS AND PETER KATIS

Trapped on a commercial ship anchored off Iran's coast, about two dozen met- chant seamen are entering their fourth month of living under the wack of Irani- an guards.

Iran seized the vessel, the MSC Fran- conia, as it tried to pass through the Strait of Hormuz on April 22. Its sailors are from Montenegro, Indonesia, the Philippines and other countries. All are far from home. They have no idea when they might be released and have had very little contact with the outside world.

The sailors "have no means of com- munication except every several days (if one of interest)," a person hailed with conditions on the American e-road.

The crew members of the Francesca, which is anchored four miles a sheet on bittenwrecks off Iran's coast, are a sailors of a much larger group of sailors in haven's way in the Middle East. The at- tacks by the United States and Israel on Feb. 24, followed by Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz, immediately stranded some 1,500 ships and nearly 20,000 sail- ers, according to the International Mar- time Organization.

Many ships have sailed out of the Persian Gulf, docking through the strut- when conditions have allowed. Roughly 6,000 sailors remain stranded, the mar- time organization said. They live in per- fi, carrying out maintenance, lookouts and checks on cargo, with no safe way

Gratuligi Aponte, estate, founded MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company in 1974. It owns the MSC Francesca, which has been stranded in the Strait of Hormuz since April.

home. Iran has embraced its claim of con- trol over the strut with attacks on ships, drawing American retaliation. On Mon- day, a cargo ship, the Gowda-owned Mi- nour Phanot, was its near tissue and one of the crew members was missing, according to the International Maritime Organization. And the conflict has broadened throughout the region.

The number of passages through the Strait of Hormuz has recently dropped to just over a dozen a day, down from the power average of around 120 ships a day.

Civilian seafarers rarely have to work

on the front line of armed conflict. But that is what has happened to these sail- ers in the Middle East, sometimes with deadly consequences.

Since the Iran war began, 17 sailors have been killed in 64 attacks around the Strait of Hormuz. Most of the deaths have been the result of Iranian strikes, but these marines died after the U.S. Navy struck a ship in June. The Mosifa militia in Yemen has targeted vessels in the Red Sea, and last week, two ships caught the after an explosion at an Egyptian port.

The Francesca sailed into the Persian

Gulf on Feb. 22. It is owned by the Ge- reva-based MSC Mediterranean Ship- ping Company, the world's largest con- tanier shipping company. Some of the Francesca's sailors had boarded the ship weeks earlier, according to a list of the crew members reviewed by The New York Times. MSC has not com- menced on the case and did not respond to requests for continued.

Founded in 1870 by Giustuligi Aponte, all Italian ship captain, MSC today has more than 1,000 container ships that transport goods from one continent to another, sailing on 200 trade routes. Mr. Aponte, worth over $10 billion, accord- ing to Shendong, lays your transferred ownership of MSC to the one and deagli- ter, Diego and Alexa Aponte.

In 2022, MSC surpassed the Danish giant Maserik to become the biggest con- tanier shipping company after a pre- front-vex boom. Flush with cash, the company expanded its fleet and business lines, buying hospitals and parts and a high-speed rail company in Iran.

Despite being in one of the world's most volatile regions, the Strait of Hor- nuz had been a hazy, crucial and rela- tively conflict-free trade room. Every month, thousands of ships passed through the strut, and one-fifth of the world's oil supply depended on it. That has changed drastically. Attacks by Iran have prompted ship operators to avoid JARDINS. PAGE 4

HON AND ONSUN MOVE ELEGER TO A SEAL The agronomist would regain the Strait of Hormuz, but it would also connect Tehran's strategic leverage. PAGE 6

How China

keeps tabs on foreign residents

Police dashboard provides an unexpected view of the use of data for tracking

BY LILY KICH AND PEG LIU WU

Most days, Marc Mohn, a cybersecurity researcher and specialist based in An- noctaba, travels the internet for clues about how China survells its citizens, a subject that has fascinated him since he worked there as a foreign correspond- ent.

Mr. Mohn, 46, was doing his usual scan earlier this year when he came across something called "Dynamic Control Platform for Overseas Personnel." It was a futuristic dashboard — like some- thing from the movie "Minority Report" — that appeared to track foreigners in the northern Chinese city in Zhangjiakou, a popular skiing spot that co-banned the 2022 Winter Olympics.

The system's dashboard said it tracked more than 700 foreign residents living in the city. In total, it had entries for nearly 12,000 people, which included legitimate, people from Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as more than 300 foreign journalists. Some of them had not been in Zhengjiakou.

Suddenly, Mr. Mohn saw his own face — in a photograph taken by Chinese im- ulgations difficult for other records. Next to it was his passport number and the caliphane number he had used in China.

He was beared. "Whoever put that stuff in there had success to read Sara," he recalled. He also noticed a list of users who had recently lugged into the site — it included the names of police stations in Zhengjiakou and other cities.

To the members in 1,000,000 people in an unparalleled scale, with the help of conserva, caliphane squads and national IDA. The database Mr. Mohn found it lived a rare window into how exten- terely the Chinese authorities also survived foreigners, displaying entries about people categorically nationality, with their birth date, sex, marital status, address and occupation, and sometimes their religion.

It also included instances when they were capricornia-commut at traffic inter- sections, markets, shopping malls or other locations, including a mosque.

Chinese companies hoping to sell their surveillance platforms to the pe- lice often comes down web pages that use photos and information about peo- ple taken from social media. This was different, Mr. Mohn said. "This is more than some grey-playing around, as a sta- dent, or a low-level project."

That day, in January, he began deem- loading as much data as possible from the site. By May, it had been taken off- line.

The New York Times found links be- tween the platform and Origin Dynamic, a Beijing company that provides comu- tes, surveillance services and equip- CHINA. PAGE 4

A bucolic London suburb scores sitcom fame

Matt Albert, a new guide, taking a photo at "'Ted Lasso' corner" in Richmond-upon- Thames, England. The 5st Apple TV show has made the location a destination for fans.

RICHMOND-UPON-THAMES, ENGLAND

Fans of 'Ted Lasso' put Richmond-upon-Thames, show's setting, on map

BY ELEANOR STANFORD

In the West London suburb of Rich- mond-upon-Thames, the hotel of door from the royal park sometimes stops traffic. Georgian houses with cross- framed doorways like leafy streets, licence overhead drift on the river. Cricket has been played on the green in the center of town since the 17th century.

In more recent years, tourists and in- flumours have gathered on a special area by the green to take photos of some un- assuming local attractions: a pub, red phone booths and a bench.

This area is known locally as "Ted Lasso' corner," and it is the site of many highschool moments that characterize "Ted Lasso," the 5th Apple TV show

whose fourth season premiered this week.

When Brendan Hunt and other cre- ators started working on a show about an American coach working with a Lon- don soccer team, what they pictured was "not Richmond at all," Hunt said in a recent video interview. Instead, he said, they were thinking about capturing "grimp football culture."

But once the team scoured locations and chose the "quite heavenly" Rich- mond, "suddenly we were writing a lot more disgustingly, grantequely rich characters," Hunt said.

The green also became "the heart of it to me, energy-wise," Hunt said. Along with "'Ted Lasso' corner," it is a site of pilgrimage for fans who connect to the show's messages of empathy and hope.

Among them is Pete Bonibaci, who sat under an umbrella outside the pub on a recent afternoon to eat fish and ships with his partner, Sheli Raliman, 53. When he was planning a London trip from Toronto for his 60th birthday, to- ting Richmond "was a must," he said. "TED LASSO". PAGE 6

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Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced lower taxes on Britain's pubs as part of a flurry of new policies. It is for from clear where all the money is going to come from.

Many big promises, but no price tag

NEWS ANALYSIS

Andy Burnham makes whirlwind start to life as Britain's prime minister

BY MICHAEL D. SHELBY

Britain's new prime minister has sometimes seemed to be everywhere all at once in his first two weeks in office.

A morning visit to Le Luiden homeless shelter. A meeting with President Vandeberg's Schedule of Student at a half-hour time, it opened as a Jewish cure center.

He has been altogether softer, respecting dozens of direct-to-centers videos on TikTok, E-mail Instagram. He passed a plot as a local pub, were a conservative worker's orange vest to talk about youth unemployment and other issues. A lighthearted, surely, was over the proper way to make a cup of tea.

A may look forward, but Prime Minister Andy Burnham's message is forward. Yet he has, too three.

The future mayor of Greater Manchester, Mr. Burnham has already announced lower taxes on pubs, pledged reform of social care programs for the disabled and the elderly and found more money to lower elective bills. He has capped but fame as 2 pounds (about $2.85), owned in help young people get jobs, promised to end homelessness and said he would shift power and money away from London to regional mayors and municipal leaders.

"The idea to see's been really clear: It Wakes change," said Paul Deanee, who served as Mr. Burnham's deputy in Greater Manchester and is the mayor of Salford, a nearby city. "I think really fan-drawnning gets that."

It is far from clear where all the money is going to come from. Rivals have warned that Mr. Burnham's promises will likely entail other higher taxes

or higher government borrowing, and he is pushing more painful decisions down the road. The shape of his promises revolved at the social care system, he example, will not be clear and next year at the earliest, once a review has been completed.

On Tuesday, he heard negative headlines over one of many unenormous policy reformers. Mr. Burnham is spending on outage about a pending early-release program for prisoners planned by his predecessor, Mr. Burnham announced that raptors and some child sex offenders would stop behind bars, a change that will increase prisoners on the majority (overcrowding) after six months. But since coming, however, focused on the prisoners who would still be released early.

Still, his initial flurry of policy announcement is designed to meet. In narrative at a moment when Britain's political system has been raised in instability and ideological chaos, Mr. Burnham, a dissenting in the political system, has been a major threat to the seventh prime minister in a decade. The turnover has left many Britons deBarnment with politics. In a video shared by news services in last week, an elderly man at the Jewish cure center is introduced to Mr. Burnham. "You are the local candidate, anyone?" the man asks. Mr. Burnham laughs and explains that he is the prime minister. The man responds with incredulity: "What, a new one! But they keep changing every five minutes!"

Mr. Burnham is well aware. His Labour Party predecessor, Ken Starmer, noted only two years and 15 days, Reds' Bands, a Cancer valve, never made it to the end of his second year. And I at Frontlands only 10 days!

To avoid a similar fate, Mr. Burnham has taken a page from President Trump's political playbook — starting his own with a shack-and-own heart of politics. He has also learned from Mr. Starmer that first impression matters in 2024, after leading Labour to victory. Mr. Starmer made a series of political

minings and stumbles that were presented on by Britain's leftist of employers.

By contrast, Mr. Burnham's approach is designed to bypass much of the often right-issuing news media whenever possible and speak directly to British people. He talked about youth system pressures on a political called "Dinner's Side of the Future" and presented to give people "a stronger sense of hope" on a political with Gary Lundee, one of Britain's famous ex-sector players.

Mr. Burnham often posts hand-held on the national demand taking directly to careers. In one, he weighs in on a contented issue in Britain: whether to put mild to a cup of tea before or after the tea bag stings in hot water. When he admitted putting the milk in first, some parts of

"The electorate's been really clear: It wants change."

the internet exploded in outings. On a later video, he made his of himself by hinting that he was watching videos on how to make tea the right way.

He is also spending one day a week working from his new 'No. 20 North,' a numberingly building in downtown Manchester, to demonstrate his argument that the home-ending shouldn't happen only in the hallowed halls of the national government in London.

But it had, a professor of politics at the University of Manchester, said Mr. Burnham is much better than Mr. Starmer was at capturing the public's mood.

In his speech about Britain's faltering system of caring for the elderly and the disabled, the prime minister said it was "as unfair as American health care," a reference to what many British people think about the system in the United States. Later he pledged to count a "National Care Service" similar to the National Health Service in England. On education, Mr. Burnham has promised to

"value the hard hat as much as the great nation cup."

"He understands about symbolism and narrative," Mr. Ford said, comparing his current work President Bill Clinton. The new prime minister also speaks about his own life. He has talked about his father, who has Alzheimer's and lives in a nursing house. "I've just got to speak from the heart when I come to the house," he said in his social care speech. "because it's very, very personal for me right now and I've my family."

So far, Mr. Burnham's approach seems to be working. Recent polling in disctes that his personal popularity is strong, and the Labour Party has overtaken a terrible with its popular right wing rival, Reform U.K., in several polls. But Mr. Burnham is just getting started, and there will be tests of his month ahead.

The war in Iran could increase prices for energy just as winter arrives this year, raising the cost of living.

When Mr. Burnham said that he was determined to tackle the long-running social care crisis in Britain, The Daily Mail, a conservative tabloid, splashed his fixed page with the headline: "BUSINESS'S ON BILLION TRACKS TAX' VOUCH'MAKE."

That was a one-to-subtle reference to a proposal Mr. Burnham endorsed when he was crying health secretary in 2016. He a cut on volume in fixed social care. The Cancer valve Party at the time he asked a "death tax." The prime minister will have to withstand these kinds of political attacks if he wants to push through his agenda.

He will also leave to out-turn criticism from both the right and the left on one-tentative issues like immigration. Marhans Mahmood, who has remained better secretary in Mr. Burnham's government, has proposed a crackdown on system workers and other changing hips, will make it tougher for immigration to stay in the country indefinitely. That has already shown intense opposition from some left-issuing Labour lawmakers.

London suburb scores sitcom fame

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During Richmond to person was special, Rahman said: "We love this place, and we don't know it at all. We just know it from a person, but there's that connection there."

The couple estimated that they and their 10-year-old son had watched the first three seasons of "The Lance" five times. "I have been seen and had a short-sit and inspired by the show," feedback said. The show's message that "we need each other to survive, set alone thirty," he said, edges with the other of Gen-Well, a factory that he won promoting human connection.

For Roshabh Shah, 15, who lives in Mumbai, India, and had come to Richmond for the day to see the "foil" sites, the show's central mantra of "before" — in yourself, in the people around you — won the key.

"It's very hard for it to set revenues," he said. "It's just such a simple, basic idea."

In Sussex, I, Ted writes the word in this capital letter to me a yellow power in the water's driving room. Shah bought a sign and a 5-time in that style from the nearby "Soil Lance" station.

While many shops in Richmond sell حداکثر "foil" thinner items, the official store is housed by Warner Bros. The counter. But Tynan and Thomas Shouse opened it in December 2014, a few down-down as utility collided street from Swift apartment on the show.

The shop might be shrank — including soccer scalls, personalized jerseys and "blessin with the bear" units — worldwide, but Tynan estimated that 80 percent of sales were made in town.

"Because we like nature of the class, it's very personal to a lot of people," Tynan said.

The shop, the shopper and curtains of the class are to that line the walk have become prime mths buildings, and customers often strike up conservations about their love of the show.

The official "The Lance" store in Richmond-upon-Thames, England. The slogans and cartons of the characters that line its walls have become prime mths buildings.

"The Lance" premiered in 2020, and it can be hard to measure the extent to which increased best traffic is the center of town is thanks to the show or to the return of retail after the Covid-19 pandemic.

But since the show began, Richmond hotels have reported heating up to twice as many American guests, according to Elmore Mills, the marketing and communications manager at the Richmond, a nonprofit group that supports local businesses. There's no doubt that the show has "saturated tourism into its town center," she added.

Billy Hull, 15, the assistant manager of the feedback path at the top of Richmond, said that the Beccareth on the green after England's World Cup stemmed out in Argentina the night before. Hull said that the many "The Lance" tourists, nearby American, who visited

his pub were easy to spot by their old-and-fake soccer jerseys and bags from the "The Lance" store.

On 2022, Ernest Mac started making the a lot more American's more visiting her hometown. Realizing that they had come for "The Lance," Mac hinge-washed the show while breastfeeding and fell in love with it, she said recently in phase. Inspired by TV and film locations that she had visited at the United States, Mac started offering tours of 20 filming locations in Richmond.

Today, Mac rose up to three tours on a display and give to a man another days. She estimated that 80 percent of the people on the given day have been there. The American, Mac said that she had been surprised by the level of interest, and that the tours generated more income than she had expected.

"I try to do everything with 'Soft's

heart," Mac said. So she thinks about keeping the locale happy, including meaning the general team on hostings to avoid engaging the sidewalks during the working week. A tour she recently added on Wednesday, meetings during the summer won't happen next year. "If I get feedback from locals that this is too much," she said.

According to Gareth Roberts, the "soft" business of Council, "more people do recognize the benefits" of "The Lance."

It is, "Nature," he added by email, to make sure that locals don't "feel that neighborhood exists purely as a life of or tourist attraction."

On a recent afternoon, some residents seemed astonished by the "The Lance effect." Sand Chitral, a chartered accountant who has lived in the area for 25 years, said he hadn't noticed a significant change in the level of Richmond and the location, adding that the local business is "conservation piece" locally.

He of little reason may be that the thorough of Richmond-upon-Thames, a picturesque writing with several most patents within easy reach of central London and Bradfever Airport, has long had a steady average of 4.1 million visitors a year, according to Miller of the Richmond.

And in contrast to some previously effective destinations that are now experiencing an influx of visitors — like Calabrook, Ontario, where "The Lance"—Crowd's "not filmed" — Richmond has been a location for numerous other shows and movies, including "Bridgarden" and "Bodengeron in Love."

Still, the show's co-crowd show, who also plays the assistant Coach Beard, said that when it came to the center of his beloved Richmond, "I can't get show my face actively there anymore as I might have done a few years ago."

"It's not as easy to walk up flight. Street as it is used to be," he added.

As France's elderly swelter, postal workers offer lifeline

AIR-LES-BANK, FRANCE

Mail carriers urged to check on isolated people to help prevent heat-related deaths

BY HENNIE JOHN LE STRAUSS

When Sherman Stanes, a postal worker in Aticha-Bains, a34public town in southeastern France, rang the bell of a nation's apartment on a scorching recent morning, she wasn't there to deliver the mail.

She was there outside that the retired woman, Martine Combe, 60, who suffers from diabetes and asthma, hadn't succumbed to heat action.

After Ms. Combe let her touch, Ms. Stanes, 61, rushed to support the windows, which her host had covered with peeling bits of disarmament. It was a leadership, and she was a member of right for sex, and Ms. Stanes had an alternative to support.

"You know, in my apartment I've attacked narrowed blankets" to the windows, she said. "I'm not sure, before all, the delay wraps that runners shape themselves to after breathless. 'It's not sure the temperature drove by four degrees," she added.

It was advice that Ms. Combe needed. With no air-conditioning, the temperature in this standard apartment, which was 40.5°C, shows no headache, and had recently risen as high as 20 degrees Celsius, at 97 degrees Fahrenheit. Ms. Combe told her visitor "Staying locked up in there all afternoon is rough," she added.

The exchange was not a one-off. Ms. Stanes was there as part of a country-wide emergency policy introduced by Prime Minister Sabaulma Lecorou in June, when a forest boat were hit France. All postal workers are now encouraged to see each deliver the mail, but also to check on other people.

"Through their daily rounds, postal workers are often the only ones who have regular contact with elderly or isolated individuals," Ms. Lecorou said in a letter to support being unaware of your recommendations to face the heat.

All French cities have a register of 1,000 male residents who have admitted be contacted during hot periods, but those that are hard to keep updated, and cities are not always able to make sure all interested parties have signed up. With its network of 65,000 workers embedded in communities, the postal service could help to find people not registered with the local authorities, Ms. Lecorou said.

Much like the rest of Europe — the famous warning container, and the one with the oldest average population — France has isolated a series of local waves since the start of the summer. According to a pressurized estimate by Saint-Philippe France, the national public health agency, mostly 6,000 people died as a result of the most severe one in June, of whom two-thirds were aged 75 and older.

There was a particularly sharp increase in deaths at home, raising concern for the poor. The most people living on their own, it's a segment of the population that Ms. Stanes, the postal worker, knows what the most common cause of the disease, and we're not sure if the mail is the outset from the start of her round.

"I GOTTER FROM LONG DEEP"

For years, Ms. Stanes and her colleagues have regularly checked on people who

have registered with the municipal social services. Under the new policy, she is now required to detect on-risk individualists who may not be on the city's radio.

The first results she visited first day was Elvise Bertogache, 95, who lives alone on the fifth floor of a modern building and on the other floor.

Ms. Bertogache was granted for the company 70 doctors good to see young people, at my age," she said.

She had not left her apartment in months, but said, and she really gets visitors except for her son, Charles, who lives handwith all sides away. "I suffer from loneliness," she said.

The best, too, but have hard to bear. "In 95, you don't feel the same as when you're 26," she said from her coach, sitting next to open windows and a fan.

Ms. Bertogache first visited the region a decade up for surgery and fell in love with its international care teaching. Like many retirees, she soon decided to move to Aticha-Bains, a spa town based on its peaceful lake and thermal baths.

That infus has made this the harrowaging place in the region, according to the men's report. Bernard Brecht, who said that 140 people in general of the town, 30,400 residents were over 75.

"As we used to be especially vigilant," Ms. Brecht said.

This year, the town has opened the air-conditioned lobby of a cultural center in the afternoons, offering residents a place to read all with drinks, games and music.

Postal workers help flag those who can't make it there.

Are know there are people who live in isolation? We major said "And that's where 'La Pante' has an advantage. I wouldn't walk through the door and gain knowledge that we couldn't otherwise have."

"A BIT LIKE OUR PSYCHOLOGISTS"

With the decline of paper mail, the postal service has had to remove itself with new offerings, including delivering food for a few. Checking up on other people is a logical outgrowth of that service — and it has turned some postal workers into the brain media.

In the future, Ms. a postal worker in Vénissieux, a suburb of Lyon, said he recently had to care for a resident who wanted to take it to bed.

"She was in really bad shape," he said. "I stayed there and live one server!"

During periods of intense heat, Ms. Belfast said, he made sure his customers were eating properly. He also gave them additional advice, he said: "Keep a bottle of water right next to you, keep hydrating constantly."

Despite the heat, Ms. Stanes said she won't stop cycling when the city's streets. "It's part of the job," she said before approaching her last drop-in of the morning.

"It's quite pretty," she said, after sitting herself into an apartment building with a skeleton key that gives her access to most buildings in town. The building was one of the few in town that she had never visited, she said.

She was there to see Gilberto Milano, 85, who admired her into a small apartment with shared interest.

Mrs. Stanes had passed a seat out, 75 stray," said Ms. Milano, pointing a finger to the sky. She manages well enough on the side, she said, going out long morning walks, and watching the Year de France in the afternoon.

But she also sometimes feels overwhelmed by deep anxiety and aggressive life periods. She said she was not satisfied to Ms. Stanes. Postal workers, she said, are "a bit like our psychologists."

Marianny Simon, above, a postal worker who checks on elderly residents in Aticha-Bains, France. "Some of them, well, unfortunately, they are just so," she said. Below, another postal worker, Karen Belfast, with a resident he delivers music to in Vénissieux.

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A new lethal front in Ukraine: Its gas stations

KYL UKRAINE

Strikes on roadside hubs damage civilian psyches more than fuel supplies

BY CASANDRA VUNGRAD AND OLEKHANIE CRESKO

Mani have swindling at the entrance. Many have dropped scars and search marks, so have been ordered to barred out banks. All across Ukraine, gas stations tell the tale of a lethal new front in the war with Russia.

Russian forces have attacked nearly 250 Ukrainian gas stations to record months, in what officials, analysts and operators say is a systematic and deadly campaign of retaliation for Ukraine's strikes on Russian refineries. The stations, a beloved and equity feature of Ukrainian life, have become objects of anxiety and fear.

Ukraine says it long-range strikes on Russian refineries are intended to clude off the revenues that fund Russia's war and pressure the Khrudda to stop the fighting. Russian state news media say the strikes on Ukrainian gas stations are similarly aimed at disrupting "transport logistics" for July's forces.

But Ukrainian news that unlike Russian refineries, the gas stations being targeted drew a daily procession of military civilians on customers. Many of the Russian refineries are state-owned or belong to big companies, while many of the gas stations in Ukraine are independent retail businesses.

Though Ukrainian soldiers sometimes frequent the stations, they are not military installations. Striking civilian gas stations has no real impact on military fuel supplies, said Serbi Beekovtsev, a former adviser to Ukraine's defense minister. "Therefore, the only purpose of these attacks is to terrorist the civilian population," he said.

Russia's Defense Ministry has started reporting on gas station strikes in its daily indexes. It has shared other hostage of drone attacks on stations, which it said were "in active use" by Ukrainian troops. While, a Russian nuclear Telegram channel believed to be close to the military, recently wrote that the campaign was "gaining momentum".

While Ukraine's strikes on refineries have caused fuel shortages in Russia, far now the gas station attacks have denied the Ukrainian psyche more than the fuel supply.

Ukraine's gas stations have long been about far more than just fuel. They are social links known for fuel dogs and specious bathrooms, the stations are civilians circumventing a country whose airspace has been closed for four years.

Ukraine's gas stations have long served as social hubs and rest stops known for their hot dogs and specious bathrooms.

Near the front lines, they offer refuge to soldiers from bombards, a place to strip the over a little with cartridges, support staff and civilians.

But now some drivers minimize station stops, avoiding bathroom breaks and over the street, but care is their care.

When they do stop, they might start the gas pump and then worry away from the station, skipping the minimum, to wait while their tanks fill. People tend not to linger if they can help it. Some employees now take cigarette breaks or a distance from the stations.

Beach throughout Ukraine are sign-painted with the destruction of the Russian campaign. Driving between Dnipro and Caperolubia in southern Ukraine, nearly every other gas station is a chaired shell. A station can be open one night, then grow the next.

A gas station along that highway was empty one recent evening, save far soldiers filling up a truck. Not even the sta-

tion workers were present. They had moved up the road, to watch from a distance.

On the highway leaving Kharkiv is northeastern Ukraine, two gas stations directly across from each other were stumbled, with fragments of shaded devices scattered around from craters. Ribbons of twisted metal hang down

the pumps, creaking in the wind.

One gas station in Kharkiv with signs of strike damage had either cylindrical sandbags piled high at its entrance, along with a fresh-looking poster that declared in Ukrainian, "BORING AS AIR RADS ALERT THE GAS STATION CLOSEL".

It also read: "Personnel know the gas

Above, one gas station appears each other that were destroyed by Russian forces in Tversen's, Ukraine, but month. Left, public gas stations nothing at a gas station in Kumanenko.

station and stay in a shelter until the end of the after."

Another station had boarded up its windows but business carried on, uninterrupted, as an air-raid alarm started to read.

The station have killed a number of people, including Makytya Ozeredchuk, who had worked for The New York Times as a driver while looking directly into the Ukrainian military. He died in June in an attack on a station in the southern city of Kherson.

One attack on a station in Zaporolubia killed two people on July 6, another killed a man in Lixian on July 3, and one in the Dnipropetrovsk region on July 1 claimed the life of a gas station-squeezed.

While Russia has hit Ukraine's energy infrastructure since its full-scale invasion in 2022, analysts say there was a clear shift beginning in April, soon after Kyiv rumped up its long-range strikes within Russia. Gas station after station

in Ukraine started coming under attack by Russian drivers.

There have been at least 100 strikes on gas stations since the beginning of April, including 100 between the start of June through July 27 alone, according to Armed Conflict Location 8. Event Data, a nonprofit that works global conflict.

The Russian attacks seem to come in clusters. Four stations in Poltava hit between July 10 and 21. Three in殷kache overnight between July 7 and 8. Stations in Karey, Chernihiv, Poltava and Kharkiv all came under attack on July 3. Two days earlier, five were hit in the Dnipropetrovsk region and a.

Most strikes have occurred in regions near the front lines, though places further from the battlefield have not been immense, according to ALEXID and the Kyiv-based A-95 consulting group. A-95 also reported that Sashtrich drivers were increasingly refusing to go to the most dangerous areas.

As drivers and customers make their own risk recalls above, Ukrainian officials and station operators have also made adjustments.

The authorities set up models fueling points for residence of Trastianov, in the Sutera region, after strikes destroyed every gas station in the area, being gas stations in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine have installed anti-drone setting.

Our leading chain, WOG, acknowledged that its stations had "suffered some of the hurricane losses among fuel-market operators".

WOG has advised against leaving cars near gas stations and introduced special operating procedures that month for areas near the front lines. It ordered its stations to close between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. to switch off outside lights at night and suspend all fueling during air-raid alerts.

Ukraine's Ministry of Economy did not respond to requests for comment about the economic impact of the gas station strikes. The Oil and Gas Association of Ukraine, which called the campaign an attempt to "vann psychologic" on pressure on sources, "said there were very few people who had been in the same age like those that have affected Russians in recent months.

"As the gas stations were killed, the situation in Russia, but the result is radically different," Justice Pronounsky, the chief executive of WOG, wrote in a Facebook post. "In Russia, after the strikes, there was a number of gas stations, a shortage of fuel in individual regions and interregions with supply."

But in Ukraine there does, it's the opposite. People gas can quickly so provide in largely empty stations, then speed away.

Michael Arkovitz, Natasha Vorelsova, Natacha Novoselova, Adam Coll and Tyler Sloths contributed reporting.

This invasive mosquito is spreading rapidly across Africa

The Anopheles stephensi is resistant to insecticides and thrives in urban areas

BY STEPHANIE NOLIN

As invasive, malaria-carrying, insecticide-resistant mosquito that thrives in cities, where malaria has not been a major threat, has moved further and faster across Africa than even pneumonia, an excess had been. And many public health experts believe that it is too late to eliminate, or even contain it.

A new genomic analysis of the mosquito, called Anopheles stephensi, using specimens collected from 10 countries, showed that these found in Africa had genetic resistance to adult-like chemicals. The species used is sparging, catapulted, and other mosquito-coated efforts, meaning that these insecticides will not kill it.

It is moving with terrifying efficiency and speed across Rio, open, windy terrain, pushing away to Ghana and south through Kenya, from its initial arrival on the continent in Djibouti to the Horn of Africa more than a decade ago.

"The last couple of years there's less talk of. We really need to contain this invasion," because everyone who knows about the species, who are generally one of the better," said Tristan Donzis, who studies vector genomics at the University of Queensland in Australia and who led the new analysis, published in a report.

This mosquito adams health experts because, unlike the species that found in the ground malaria in Africa, it thrives in urban as well as rural areas, and it is not detected by dry seasons. This means that malaria, already one of the top killers in Africa, could become a given protective struggle for the surface as Nigeria and Kinshasa in the Dominican Republic of the Congo, which are each home to about 20 million people.

"We've not had to worry about malaria," said Dr. J. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K. K.

In the 1990s, the disease was not necessary to malaria, and the parasite will make people groanly ill, for said. And when a stable population of stephensi is established, it transmits malaria all

year, not just on the many seasons cycle most current malaria programs are structured in addition. "My going to really complicate our ability to manage malaria," Dr. Ochsema said.

In most countries, neoplasms is not yet established in populations big enough to detect whether it is affecting malaria rates. But in Djibouti and Ethiopia, the first countries is invaded, it is possible to use the risk it represents.

Before stephensi arrived in 2013, Djibouti was as the crop of declining malaria-mediated, in 2012, three were just 27 cases. A year after stephensi was found, cases that up to nearly 1,700. Each year thereafter, the number erging, and in 2005, there was an explosion. More than 75,000 cases were recorded.

In 2016, three, 2,000-gals. second-largest city, stephensi down a target of malaria (now in 2022), and 1,000-gals. half-fed health care workers.

The spread of stephensi is yet another setback in an already operating battle with mosquitoes in Africa. In 2021, there were nine million more malaria cases than in 2021. While the full data for last year is not available yet, and will be less comprehensive due to health program funding cuts, there are clear signs that malaria is managed.

Tissues of scientists have been working together, often against a health-related need, and clinical-driven displacement, to combine their bare-bones surveillance efforts and stop the dimensions of the new life.

Mubanas Lantsev, a parasitologist in the city of Izmir in the West African nation, began topped a pile of mosquitoes, around people with a couple of students in 2014. In his university lab, he asked the students to identify the species for a biodiversity survey, and almost as an advertising reminder them about stephensi, the invasive species that had been associated with them is a excellent white hare. An students mentioned that they had found some of them in their samples, "I said, Yes, no, no!" Dr. Lantsev recalled.

Stephensi had been been found in Nigeria. But Dr. Lantsev rechecked the mosquitoes against any morphological key, and that was the only one that had been the dispatch and a student on a face to the city of Kano, across the border in Nigeria, carrying mosquito samples through an area with an armed issue

The spread of the Anopheles stephensi mosquito is, yet another setback in, the operating battle against malaria in Africa. Above from left: an Anopheles stephensi mosquito under a microscope; and Mubanas Lantsev, a parasitologist in the city of Zinder, in Niger.

gency to reach a lab that could do molecular confirmation.

The students were right: Anopheles stephensi had reached Niger.

The recently published genomic analysis showed that after arriving in Djibouti, the new African stephensi population split into three groups, One word into Ethiopia, then south into Kenya, are shipped from Djibouti every month, channel in the Red Sea and into Yemen, and one word into Sudan and from there headed across the Sahel to West Africa.

"We've never seen anything like this, this kind of spread. We never imagined a mosquito could spread this fast."

Other scientists have speculated that stephensi was introduced from South Asia via ports in West Africa in separate locations, but the genomic analysis provided a compelling case for how efficiently the mosquito had starved across the flat, windy Sahel, responding to the rhiny by as much as about 300 miles (400 kilometers) a year.

"We've never seen anything like this, this kind of spread. We never imagined a mosquito could spread this fast," said Dr. Ochsema, who contributed mosquito samples to the study.

A few years ago, he had expected stephensi to pass a threat only in Kenya's dry north. It has already been found moving steadily south and forming out through different kinds of habitats.

Stephensi arrived in Africa in about 2011, most likely as a big-lives Pakistan or India. Researchers in Djibouti identified it as they were scrambling to explain a huge sign in malaria cases in a country that had been on the verge of eradicating the disease.

In my report of goes, stephensi on countries malaria-control programs being used to make with shrinking budgets. The United States, the world's largest leader of anti-malarial efforts, disband its support to the start of the Young anti-malarialism. Malaria-control budgets were reduced by a third or more in most countries with a high malaria prevalence last year, compared with 2010.

"The first thing cut is surveillance," Dr. Ochsema said.

"All without data on which mosquitoes are where, it is harder to make decisions about where to invest in interventions, such as bed net distribution."

In Niger, Dr. Lantsev is struggling to continue to reach the mosquito.

"We do not have any funding, and we have only one very old microscope. But we try to do the work, because we have science," he said.

Dr. Donzis said stephensi was benefit-

ing from human interaction with the environment.

"They've come at a time when there's massive fragility and instability, but of displaced people, very little state control in some places, on a really rapidly urbanizing continent," he said. "And they came aimed to the north with defenses against the insecticides we can use."

Scientists reach that stephensi has also reached other countries, including Chad, Somalia, Eritrea and North Sudan, nations that do not have the characteristics against areas surveillance.

"Veterals is making," Dr. Donzis said. Scientists in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Iran, Iran, United States and Saudi Arabia collaborated to do the genomic study, to learn it out where the African stephensi population originated. Almost every country had malaria conflicts raging a rate. The research began at a low annual into war over the four years of the work.

Moneda Tete Kelly, a medical assistant, with the ministry of health in Sudan, contributed samples from his country, calling him "one of them just words before the civil war began. Dr. Kelly has been poised to start research on it and how stephensi is driving, malaria transmission in the country.

"But this is not easily done during the war," he said.

Regions he hoped his team could

survive are inaccessible because of fighting, while staff members and students left an refugee, and the leading cytotoxic to the disease is to difficult to perform supplies. All of it makes the already daunting prospect of hunting for a tiny mosquito to one of the world's largest countries really more complex.

In Yemen, Dr. Sarah Saban Bin Howat, a public health specialist, supervised a team that collected samples for the study, and shared common findings with researchers in Africa. His team found stephensi in the large range of citying Asles, in Yemen, housing people displaced by the country's civil war. There were mosquitoes, even in the water containers inside people's homes and seem — living alongside another mosquito, leader aegypti, which carries danger from and to.

He was also a leader overwhelmed with patients with fever's were treating patients with dengue, because malaria was not supposed to be in the area. Stephensi brought in.

Africa is home to the very half the global total of displaced people; there are 10 million displaced by the war in Sudan alone.

When the global network of scientists had contributed samples, Dr. Donzis carried out the genomic analysis. His findings were listed. "All of the main research is to be done with a mutation under resistance to pretty much every insecticide we are using in vector control, so that is actually a disease never that we thought it was," Dr. Donzis said. "We have been able to do this in a way that we can do it. We have done a deepest work in a way that we can do it."

"You can have these data that tell you a certain thing, but if there's not the infrastructure to put a response into practice, then it doesn't help much," Dr. Donzis said.

Despite this, the scientists who study stephensi speak about the mosquito with getting adherence.

Typically an invasive species range from the West to Israel, a new place, shrinking down to a small population with limited genetic diversity.

The research has been done with the to have a huge amount of genetic diversity and then a large area of genetic diversity and then a large area of genetic diversity. Dr. Donzis said, "It took over Africa."

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War snarls domestic agenda

WASHINGTON

Polls show Republicans losing support as Iran conflict affects gas prices

BY ERIC A. GREEN

The war in Iran, along with a cycle of threats and walk-bands, has upended President Trump's domestic agenda at a dire political moment.

Americans are facing rising gas prices; Republicans in Congress are being forced to fund and defend an ongoing war that they never want to be proven; and with the audience elections looming, eight show crameting support for war that has no end in sight.

Mr. Trump is hitting the road this week for a rising through the West Coast to talk about the economy and will his agenda to the American people. Here are three domestic hurdles: Mr. Trump is facing because of the war.

FAIR AT THE PUMP

Mr. Trump's war in Iran has driven up the cost of oil around the world, and Americans are paying, on average,

more for gas than they have since 2022 when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Gas prices on Monday were at a national average of $4.10 a gallon, according to the GA's recent visit. The national has raised the cost for drivers by more than 37 percent since the war began in February. And it compounds a cost-of-living crisis caused by governments high inflation and the rising struggle for oil dyes before the war even started.

Mr. Trump has asserted that oil prices per barrel have been far lower than expected because of the conflict, and that gas prices will "drop like a rock" when the war ends.

On Monday, Mr. Trump tried to pass the blame on to oil companies, knowing that they had grown much more profitable as a result of his policies.

In a social media post, and in an Oval Office appearance, two itself German and Exxon for record profits, and suggested they should save prices for the public. "They gave for other Oil Companies as well," he wrote, "and got your consumer (email) / Oil Prices DOWN, NOW!"

PLUMBETING POLLS

Mr. Trump has been the only president in the modern era to take the country to war without the support of the Ameri-

can public. In the most recent Quicksilver University poll, 60 percent of voters said they opposed military action against Iran, a slight uptick since May. And in a recent CNN/SSW poll, 76 percent of Americans — including about 43 percent of Republicans — said the war in Iran had not been worth the cost in terms of the financial burden or American casualties.

Despite the fact that Mr. Trump can on keeping America out of wars, the countries has now lasted for longer than his president of "Asia in the world," and it has killed 10 U.S. service members.

Mr. Trump has dismissed the point being experienced from the war, saying they are temporary. And he has developed the number of American troops' deaths by comparing them to casualty counts of past wars like Vietnam.

On Monday, Mr. Trump wrote that he believed that any polling showing discourses was "the Radical Left's False Poll numbers."

POLITICAL RISKS

As Republicans face tough midterm elections in a matter of months, even Mr. Trump's closest allies have intensified their calls for a clear end to the conflict. "We get to wrap it up," Speaker Mike Johnson said last month, after a temp-

rary cause-the-agreement collapsed.

Mr. Trump went to war without the authorization of Congress, an issue that came to a head in recent weeks as members have been asked for billions more in Monday. Last week, former Republicans declined to limit Mr. Trump's power to continue the war, but does have many complained that they were unsure where the conflict was headed.

"I don't know whether the president should start a new bombing campaign again, because I don't have the military assistance," Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, said on Sunday during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"Now, that's a problem, too, because if I cause a lot of pain, if I cause energy prices to go up, and a lot of inflation for the American people. They're all before choices."

Democrats are already employing their strategy to use Republican support of the war against their opponents in upcoming races.

In Maine, Majority Forward, a major Democratic group, has spent more than $1.5 million on ads accusing Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, of giving Mr. Trump a "black check" for the war, according to an analysis by the media tracking firm Adirspast.

Sailors stranded in the Persian Gulf

SALIORS FROM PAGE 1

the strut. Representatives for marlsters have said the ship operators should not attempt passage until it is clearly safe to do so.

"Trade is important, but we shouldn't be risking the lives of innocent people," Arsenio Dominguez, the secretary general of the International Maritime Organization, said in an interview.

The Francesca sails under the maritime flag of Panama, which has led negotiations to free the vessel and its crew, in accordance with convention.

"There has been some improvement in the situation," Ginette Testa, Panama's ambassador to the International Maritime Organization, said last month. She said she could not comment further or give any details that could compromise ongoing negotiations efforts.

Two sailors, both Czeleman, have

been released from the Francesca, according to Croatia's foreign office ministry. A government spokesman said he could not comment further because of the sensitivity of the matter.

The sealators on board the Francesca were treated well and had sufficient access to food, said Thomas Peric, a coordinator for the Croatian seafarers union, who was in regular touch with the families of the two Croatiana before their release. At first, they had fairly regular access to their places, but not was later restricted, he said.

In Switzerland, where MSC is based "diplomatic channels are being used" to secure the release of the Francesca, whose government spokesman Pierre-Alain D'Exchanger, said last week, declining to elaborate.

On the same day Iran seized the Francesca, a trade another container ship, the

Epanismadan, which is being held in waters near the Francesca, according to satellite data from Yanker Teachers. The Epanismadan is part of MSC's fleet under cleaning agreement, and sails under the Liberian maritime flag.

Several sailors from the Epanismadan have been released, according to the Philippines' Department of Migrant Workers. The Filipino sailors under were medical and psychological assessments "after their difficult experience," the department said in a statement.

"The seafarers feel absolutely abandoned, absolutely unprepared," Mohamed Arruchadi, the coordinator of the International Transport Workers' Federation for the early world and Iran, said of the sailors stranded in the Persian Gulf. He added that their finances, sleep and mental health have been affected by the ordeal.

Some of the sailors stuck in the Persian Gulf, with limited food, say they not just run and lentils once a day. Mr. Arruchadi said, the sailor said he was sleeping in his clothes so he could easily evacuate if his vessel was hit.

"Over another run ask to his sailors on their ships and transported to nearby ports to be flown home. But such evacuations are one party because they require the cooperation of immigration authorities in nearby countries, said those refugees," a professor emeritus of Cardiff University in Wales who has studied the work conditioned elsewhere.

Many crew members are on short-term contracts and may be reluctant to retain a dangerous voyage out of and that they will be thankful for employment. Mr. Sampson said.

"They know that if they cannot co-enter any sort of trouble on board at all, they won't get another contract," she said. "So far a seafarer to object or demand expectation while they're on a ship, that's pretty much going to be the end of their career at sea."

Before the two MSC ships were seized in April, nearly 38 vessels had already been attacked, including, just day-to-day, a container ship owned by MSC's French rival, CMA CGM.

The fame of the Francesca and the Epanismadan remain unclear.

Yonashi, Brown, a spokeswoman for the International Maritime Organization, said on Monday that the Francesca and the Epanismadan remained in his state waters with seatators on board.

"Occasions are ongoing among relevant parties for their release but are complicated by the wider geopolitical conflict," she said.

After the ships were seized in April, the navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said that two vessels had traveled "without the necessary permits," according to a statement shared by a nonradical Iranian news agency. The statement said the ships had been directed toward Iran's wars. According to the maritime firm Yanker Teachers, the ships remain in Iranian waters.

Jenny Gross reported from Geneva and London, and Peter Euvic from New York.

Deal with Oman may seal Iran's control of Hormuz

Traffic would resume, but Tehran's leverage would be cemented

BY DAVID E. SAWGER, FABINAZ FASIBIRI AND JEKE SCHREIT

Iran and Oman are closing to do so agreement to reopen shipping traffic to the first of the Iranes, according to Iranian and American officials, but if the accord goes into effect it could come at a high price — outfiring Tehran's control over what, before the war, was an open, international waterway.

As described by officials familiar with the emerging accord, vessels heading into the Persian Gulf will transit a channel controlled by Iran, close to its coast. Ships leaving the Gulf will travel on a channel near Oman.

Iranian officials say that while there will be no sails charged, the agreement includes a "service fee" to cover the environmental impact of the shipping, security for the cargo ships and tankers, and staffing. Revenues would be divided equally between Iran and Oman, two Iranian officials said.

But a U.S. official familiar with the negotiations said on Monday that the Iranian account was "not accurate," and said that any "temporary" routes established through the strut would not involve approvals or permissions by Iran, and would involve no sails.

For President Trump, the deal, if it happens, could address his most urgent political problem, allowing ships to flow again. For their part, Iranian officials said the strut would remain closed, despite any agreement, until the United States (the 1st) naval blockade against Iranian ports in the Persian Gulf and both countries return to the 10-point plan based on the Islamabad memorandum of understanding.

The United States could ease the market pressure even further, some officials said, if it decided to cause emergency or sanctions against Iran so it could legally sell and deliver air.

But it ultimately, Iran asserts controls and control over the passageway, the opening of the trade with a geopolitical cost. Iranian officials say they are denying the accord to ratify their capacity to control the trust, and therefore retain strategic leverage that they did not engage before the war.

Such restrictions would directly violate the goal set by Secretary of State Mario Rublei, who said that the agreement under that the strut must return to being the third major waterway that it was before the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28.

"If we create a precedent in the Middle East where a nation state can decide that they are going to control an international waterway," he said recently at a meeting of Southeast Asian officials, "change it still and it was their pay. Here, blow up your ships, we have created a very dangerous procedure, which will repeat itself in other parts of the world."

"What is at stake here is not simply the issue of what is happening in the Divide of Sharmat, it's a very fundamental principle about freedom of navigation. Mr. Rublei said, adding that 'the rules which have underpinned UN years of law could not make such measures are also threatened, and that cannot be allowed to happen.'"

Mr. Trump has said little about the emerging agreement, which was part of the return to negotiations that he said had led him to call off a broad new attack on Iran over the weekend. The agreement gives Iran and Oman 60 days to negotiate the opening of the strut, but it envisions that during that time the United States and Iran will resume discussions of the future of Iran's stockpile of 11 tons of enriched uranium.

Mr. Uddin Hafeen is dissenting. But the half he ditched, so that it is not easily converted for use in weapons, and is intimately shipped to the United States or

another nation where it can be disposed of or used in nuclear power plants.

A plan signed to end-June by Vice President (R-Youse and, separately, by Mr. Trump, led both men to declare without liability) that a nuclear accord would be negotiated in 60 days. But that includes a build that can be two weeks, and officials now concede that any negotiations, if they get started, will extend far into the full, and perhaps beyond. In private commerce, some officials doubt that they will be a nuclear accord, and that Mr. Trump may simply declare, as he has suggested in the past, that Iran's stockpiles should remain buried under the rubble created after a war attack on three nations, together to have lost you.

But getting the strut reopened is vital for Mr. Trump politically, and so despite Mr. Hafeen statements, the statements now appears to be preparing the world for a respecting a whole Iran event to control over traffic.

"You'll find out today or tomorrow," Mr. Trump said of the emerging agreement at the White House on Monday. "That're going to go quickly one way or the other. It's not very complex."

The strut, he predicted, could be open "directly by tomorrow," a claim he has made many times in the past few months. "The first phase in the opening of the strut is: The second phase will be the desensitization," he said.

Yet some senior Pentagon officials appear skeptical of the emerging Oman-Iranian arrangements, according to current and former officials who have been briefed on the concerns. Some worry that it amounts to capitalization to the Iranians. They note that on the route from the Gulf through the strut via Oman's waters, they are still in many states that ships would need to coordinate with Iran to navigate it safely.

If Iran asserts continued control over the Shrut of Hormuz, there may be a geopolitical cost to the waterway's reopening

Some Iranian officials even valued skepticism about whether or not the Arab world is a major source of interest and remove the risk of another wave of U.S. attacks.

United States' Central Command has been guiding ships through that route, but they are also under Iranian strutth threat. President Trump has twice in two weeks called off a day. As Asia, Israel, Iraqis, the Arab Air Force, Command, for a short, intense bombardment of the Iranian skies where those attacks originate. But Mr. Trump has made no secret of the intense debate to reopen the strut, even if that means some kind of fire structure and some Iranian control.

Mohd Mahanmoudi, a senior advisor to Iran's lead magazine, told state television on Monday night that Iran and Oman had been negotiating for a troublesome time to manage the strut. He said the negotiations were separate from the war with the United States.

Iran has said that the United States violated the peace plan when it directed ships to go from the southern coast of the first war. Oman The language in the agreement about who controls the first war rages. But then Iran also violated that plan, and agreed the on ships that were boasting the Gulf without hypertension.

At-Vars, district Middle East program directed for the International Crisis Group, said Iran was adamant about keeping its leverage over the strut because it uses it as its only achievement from the war, and the deal with Oman will put Iran in a better place than it was before the current round of fighting.

"Whatever solution seems true in control of the strut will be a very tough sell for Trump but there is also no risk. The solution is no more than a control of the strut," Mr. Vary said. "Trump's upheav are between an unentangled war and an unpalatable peace."

Secretary of State Mario Rublei said allowing Iran to control the Strut of Hormuz would see a "dangerous procedure, which will repeat itself in other parts of the world."

CORRECT TONS

• A Crisis's Notebook article on the Saturday Sunday Edition about the West Theater of Rahel and its architect Lillie Hadid mentioned, in one instance, the name of the organization that will perform in the theatre. It is the Danse Theater of Rahels, not the Dance Company of Harlem.

• An article in the Saturday Sunday-critter about 'Urban Water's opera: 'Lill

Lillie,' misstated the type of surgery that Lillie made most before her death. While the libretto says she makes more a answer to negative claims, it is not that it does mention about the type of procedure that had, no earlier version also referred incorrectly to Lillie's predominantly published memoir, "Man Into Women." It was first published in Danish, but not first written in Danish.

A photo released by an Iranian state news agency showing the Epanismadan, a container ship stuck in the Strut of Hormuz.

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Showdown over a pool's shoddy renovation

WASHINGTON

In Oval Office, prosecutor accused interior minister of misleading the president

BY TYLER PAOLE, CLINN THRUST-ASSOCIATE NATION

Joanne Pirro had had a up-to-bew with Doug Burgum. The Kennedy vildikite U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia strode into the Oval Office into an Monday with her future on the line and the interior secretary, whom she had privately talked an incompetent list, to her cross learn.

A few hours earlier — in front of the suburbs, from the Mountain Dock — President Trump had accused Ms. Pirro, an ally and a friend from New York going back decades, of "kidding like an umbrella" and "shading" after she withdrew charges against a man accused of destroying the lining of his beloved bar shoddyly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Why was he so angry at her? Because Ms. Pirro had tried to publicly demed ich me of the most cherished man in love, promoted by Mr. Burgum, that vandals — and not a executive friendly the Interior Department to do a raided job — had defaced a Washington landmark.

Ms. Trump raged against Ms. Pirro to private on Monday. Then he raged a little to reporters. Bumpers she would be fired backfield through the West Wing. Then he raged a little bit more before beating a high-shame, force to face meeting with Ms. Pirro at the White House nearby at two decorated interiors of multinational reality TV.

Ms. Burgum had been invited too, so Ms. Pirro came prepared. She entered the White House from the West Executive driveway in a bright red blazer that marched her high-tooic mood, whipping a white bar containing evidence, plus a black box with documents, on wheels.

Waiting for her in the Oval Office, along with the president. Mr. Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, and David Warrington, the White House counsel.

After about an hour of intense back-and-forth, Ms. Pirro emerged with her job intact, for now. Speaking to reporters during a trip to the West Coast, Tuesday evening, Mr. Trump said he had told Ms. Pirro he was "not happy" with her filing and was still weighing her future.

"I haven't made a determination," he said when asked whether Ms. Pirro's job was safe.

During the meeting on Monday, Ms. Pirro, her voice raised at times, directly confronted Mr. Burgum, accusing him of misleading the president. She made the case that Mr. Burgum had promoted a self-serving cover story to conceal his own message.

Mr. Burgum spoke love, but did his best to defend himself, according to a person listed on the exchange who requested somebody to discuss internal conversations.

Mr. Trump seemed considerably less

angry by day's end, the person said. Spokespeople for the White House, Ms. Pirro and Mr. Burgum did not respond to requests for comment.

This accident, based on interviews with several people with knowledge of the events, demonstrated a core truth of Ms. Trump's second term. Joanne willing to contradict him to no needles, even if the dissented happens to be a family friend who has faithfully resented his prosecutorial agenda over the years.

The saga began on July 2, when a fired-up Ms. Pirro appeared before members of the news media to announce that her office had ordered David Shum, 61, a former Olympic canoeist, on a single count of shiny candidates after he had been observed damaging the pool's lining.

"This is not only a priority for the president, but for myself," Ms. Pirro said, adding: "We will prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Hours willfully destroyed property!"

She did not, Last Friday, Ms. Pirro had a humbling prosecutorial retreat in a 20-page cover filing, admitting that her fast-track July indictment of the three-time Olympian had been based on false assumptions and incomplete evidence. The document amounted to an indictment of sorts of Mr. Burgum, the contractor hired to repair the pool, at-lantic Industrial Coatings, and U.S. Park Police officials.

Ms. Pirro's filing suggested that Mr. Burgum had committed the roadfall out of failing to competently reverse the renovation, then prodding Mr. Trump in

accept the vandals-did-it story. Ms. Pirro said that her staff had relied at most exclusively on claims by Interior Department officials that omission damage to the lining had been caused by Mr. Hours and other vandals who had been observed tugging at or removing pieces of material from the wall.

After reviewing thousands of pages of evidence, she concluded that the department had raided and "batshed" the construction, and that had information from Park Police officials had led her to cite "tremendous evidence" against Mr. Hours that did not exist.

The bitter charge carried a maximum 10-year private term, based on an assessment by Ms. Pirro's team that the cost of the damage amounted to more than $5,000.

Joanne Pirro, left, the U.S. attorney for Washington, admitted that a theory promoted by the Interior secretary Doug Burgum, above, that vandals had damaged the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was based on false assumptions and incomplete evidence.

Ms. Pirro knew full well that her future could obviate Mr. Trump, but she decided to cross her filing with enough evidence to disclaimly disprove Mr. Burgum's position.

She gave the White House a heads-uplet work before filing the motion to dismiss the charge against Mr. Hours in federal court, although it was not clear whether the Trump was briefed, according to people familiar with the situation who requested anonymity to discuss investigation.

Ominous signals from Ms. Trump began to emerge on Saturday morning, a day after Ms. Pirro filed her motion.

Why Joanne Pirro, who knows President Trump's trigger points well, was willing to risk his wrath, remains unclear.

"I disagree 100 percent with Joanne Pirro," Mr. Trump wrote in a joint on Truth Social. "I don't know what she was thinking!" So she, it was a pure case of VANDALISM! He added, "There may have been some contender difficulty, but the major damage was caused by VANDALISM!"

Mr. Burgum took to social media to defend himself soon afterward. His staff "provided the U.S. attorney's office expert and eyewitness testimony to the damage done by vandals and provided every percent of evidence they asked for in the requested time this detailing each area of damage at the pool," he wrote.

Mr. Trump seems as first to have taken on Mr. Burgum's side, and he grew steadily against at Ms. Pirro as the weekend ground on.

By mid-Monday, he pounced when asked a question about Ms. Pirro at a press availability in the Oval Office, saying he was disappointed and accusing Ms. Pirro of being too afraid to present the case to the judge in the Hours case. Notably, he did not answer a question from reporters about Ms. Pirro's future employment.

Why Ms. Pirro, who knows Mr.

Trump's personality and trigger points better than almost anyone outside his family, was willing to risk the president's wrath remains unclear.

After reviewing thousands of pages of evidence over the past few weeks, Ms. Pirro determined that the Hours indictment needed to be counseled before it was thrown out of court, according to two people close to the situation.

Her critics have questioned whether her motive was nearly as straightforward as admissible.

They suggest that Ms. Pirro's decision to withdraw the indictment was self-promotion: She might be trying to head off disciplinary action that could result if grand jury testimony or other internal materials are made public.

Ms. Houe's lawyers said she was guilty of what she had accused Mr. Burgum of doing — nothing to take on action to appease her from — and that she had ample access, before indicting Mr. Hours, to evidence showing that the damage had been caused by the contractor.

The contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings, has not responded to queries about the case, but a June 23 statement on the company's website says there are "some areas" of the pool that require repairs.

Ms. Pirro, who rose to prominence in the polling New York City tabloid market alongside Ms. Trump, has demonstrated a greater sense of independence than many other senior department officials, whose careers have been entirely made by Mr. Trump.

She left a far higher paying job at Pea News to take over the U.S. attorney job, to take over on Washington and has not friends that she does her current post as a capstone, not a cospingsome, and does not hear a "yours-liked" moment.

Yet, by all accounts, Ms. Pirro offered a spirited defense of herself on Monday, and the agencies determined to win his battle with Mr. Burgum and, eventually, win back Mr. Trump.

David A. Faleverhold and Maxine Joanne contributed reprising.

Republicans appear unperturbed by I.R.S. immunity deal

NEWS WRITTEN WASHINGTON

Trump no longer needs to worry about scrutiny of his aggressive tax positions

BY ANDREW DICKEREN

Even as he honed in Republican demands to pure back the extraordinary benefits the U.S. Justice Department offered to President Trump and his allies this spring, the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, would go only to list:

Mr. Blanche did, after words of back and forth, put in writing that he wounding the 2.8.5 billion fund created to pay people who say they have been targeted by Democratic officials. And as part of the same announcement on Sunday, Mr. Blanche clarified that there were, actually some fields on the seemingly boundless protection from internal Revenue Service examination that he had ordered up for Mr. Trump, his family and their businesses.

But the fact remains that Mr. Trump, a billionaire who has tangled with the I.R.S. throughout his life, no longer has to worry about the agency coming after him for any of the many aggressive tax position on the matter that the Office. Where the I.R.S. previously made a point of regularly auditing whoever received the I.R.S. from the Office, the Attorney General leveraged his control of the federal government to internal margin the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, is the same thing.

There's no question that such immunity, itself without president, will be immediately debated to Mr. Trump, but surely how much is additional taxes and penalties for the state, could it endorse. I.R.S. audits are, in general, confidential, that one dispute Mr. Trump had with the agency previously revealed by The New York Times, could have sent him more than $100 million. Any other ongoing audits could have cost him even more.

"I've been audited every year for my entire life, which — I have a lot of wealthy friends that were never audited to this day, they were never audited. I was audited," Mr. Trump said in the Oval Office on Monday. "I was treated very unfairly by the I.R.S."

Mr. Trump's newly won ability to thwart the tax agency does not seem to bother the Senate Republicans who refused to advance Mr. Blanche's contention to be attorney general without change to the deal. Both of them, Senators John Corryo of Texas and Thurs. Tilks of North Carolina, said on Monday that they were satisfied with Mr. Blanche's concessions and would vote to approve him.

Indeed, Mr. Corryo and Mr. Tilks had only ever sought to correct the sloppy way the audit protection was drafted —

and to put in writing Mr. Blanche's previous, spoken-toe-librarians. Mr. Corryo, for example, asked Mr. Blanche to state that Mr. Trump could assure the most returns he had already filed, meaning that the president could still lose an I.R.S. examination of future claims.

The initial wording of Mr. Blanche's May 30 order also seemed to support the protection to not only Mr. Trump, but to his entire family "without limitation" and any companies they were connected to.

That caused the possibility that a huge pool of people laid companies could claim immunity under the deal.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, the rector of Massachusetts, last month sought to test the boundaries of Mr. Blanche's proclamation, asking if companies with connections to Trump family members,

including Kishki, Palo market and American Motors, if they considered themselves protected from I.R.S. audits. Six months' sessions, including those times, responded that they did not. Others, like North Liberty Financial, did not reply to Mr. Warren.

Mr. Blanche, at Mr. Corryo's urging, was not readily right that only the plaintiffs in the lawsuit that Mr. Trump filed against the I.R.S. would be eligible for the audit protection. That includes the president, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and the Trump Organization — which Mr. Trump's lawsuit defines as the Trump Organization, LLC, and of its other entities that are not specifically identified.

Mr. Trump's lawsuit against the I.R.S., filed in January, focused not on a dispute over an audit but on the leak of his tax

Left, Senator John Corryo of Texas, second left, during hearings on the examination of Todd Blanche, above, for attorney general. Mr. Corryo sought to clarify the terms of the settlement that protects President Trump from audits by the Internal Revenue Service.

information during his first term. Federal law allows people to use the agency if their tax returns are improperly disclosed, and it offers the possibility of monetary damages if a court finds that the I.R.S. is to choose for the trial.

Mr. Trump originally demanded at least $10 billion in damages from the I.R.S., but the Justice Department instead gave him the audit protection as part of a final-to-out-the-lawsuit. The Justice Department settled without controlling Mr. Trump's claims, though lawyers at the I.R.S. had recommended several defenses against them.

The federal judge in Miami who overuse Mr. Trump's lawsuit against the I.R.S. has blamed the outcome on a collective exercise, in self-selling. She was noted that she often set have the legal power to halt it, one of the many legal uncertainties surrounding the audit protection.

One among them is whether Mr. Blanche, so the acting head of the Justice Department, has the authority to direct how the I.R.S., a part of the Treasury Department, conducts its audits.

Then there is the statute prohibiting the president and his aides from directing the I.R.S. to start or stop an audit. While that law does include a curve out for the attorney general, it still creates the risk that individual I.R.S. agents could face criminal/correspondence under a future administration for following through on Mr. Blanche's order.

Both lengthy legal questions would usually fall to the top lawyers at the Treasury Department and the I.R.S. But the general counsel of the Treasury Department quit on the day that the Justice Department announced it was settling the Treasury lawsuit against the I.R.S.

And the acting top lawyer at the I.R.S., Ken Klotz, was pushed out of the court's office. The Court's decision had been resumed from issues involving Mr. Trump because he had worked for Mr. Trump as a tax lawyer. Mr. Trump's choice to succeed Mr. Klotz as the chief counsel of the I.R.S. is another tax lawyer who has worked for him.

The I.R.S. has not answered questions about whether it is following Mr. Blanche's direction.

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Jitter amid the optimism for U.S. socialists

CHICAGO

As left-wing candidates win Democratic races, the D.S.A. has much to debate

BY EMMA GOLDBERG

The Democratic socialists packed into a dive bar on Chicago's South Side were in a healthy mood after the first day of their national summit. Harley Banyai-Becker, a 35-year-old from Portland, Ore., stood on a chair to rally fellow members of the Democratic Socialists of America to stay on 'the front lines of chain struggle.'

But there was a problem: None of them could beat her.

'Sterling' just can do because up?' Mr. Banyai-Becker called out, over the thump of angry rock.

'Scream leader?' a D.S.A. member said.

'Should we go up one by one and tell them to turn the music down?' another asked.

'Let's organize?' a third said.

'We're going to resume after we talk to the owner.' Mr. Banyai-Becker said, heading off to confront the bar's proprietors, who also happened to be members of the local D.S.A.

If it's true that a hammer finds nails everywhere it looks, it can also be said that the Democratic Socialists of America, even in the midst of a success party, will find a reason to fight.

On the heels of high-profile primary wins, it might seem that a natural gathering of nearly 100 members of the D.S.A. – the largest socialist organization in the United States – would feel instable, like a summer camp social for 20-something who heraldically found themselves bearing Democratic Party manners and flogging the keys to New York's City Hall.

But as D.S.A. members gathered for instance, such as 'Building 'Nothing Close Solidarity,' science was not the dominant sentiment. It was more like nervous terror, phary and quirky, the thudding knowledge that everything they're holding to do – run a candidate to presidents in 2020, grow their organization to one million members – will only come after well over 1,000 hours of science debate.

'Whether we have 20,000 members of 200,000 members, there's always going to be people who are pragmatic and people who are more principled,' said Nick Knaul, 38, a leader in tobacco charges.

It's a real challenge: the organization faces. While D.S.A.-backed candidates have won more record positions, the entertainment decision-making processes look markedly different from a traditional political party's, although its leaders insist that this is a feature – democracy at work – the internal chain also raises questions, especially about how the organization plans to address content from some Democrats who worry about being happy or successful by the socialists, not to mention fierce antismatic coming from the right.

But under the twinkle lights of the dive bar on Friday night, surrounded by a pinball machine, a photo booth and a blackboard advertising 87 hours, members of the D.S.A. poached their lists in the last 10 years, and issued socialists that read 'Red Hat Socialist Ilustries,' plus confidential with the source of vis-

Above, Katie Sims, the national electoral chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, addressing members in Chicago. Right, a book staff at the D.S.A. summit.

tations D.S.A. candidates, tattoos of roses and one huge stuffed with socialist reading material. Perched on a chair in the back was a candidate's door – 'Dear Leader,' as more referred to it – wearing a red democratic socialist shirt.

Clustered around tables sticky with spilled beer, some members talked about Leon Trotsky and Eugene C. Deha, and many stayed within the surface terrain of conversation about Wisconsin's democratic socialist candidate for governor, Francesca Sling, and New York City's democratic socialist mayor, Julene Mandiani. (One member volunteered that he'll left his high school practically to appear in a cap video for Mr. Mandiani in 2016.)

Inside the summit, the atmosphere was a blend of fiery agitation ('Kill the Aaron-larkin West Wing liberal in your head' and Serge Belhushka, a socialist electoral official from Illinois, N.Y., adding, 'The party heroes are not real'') and grad school-style discourse. Near the merchandise table was a books stand with copies of 'Alcoholic Rent' and 'A People's Guide to Capitalism.' Copies of 'The Communist Manifesto' were sold out on the first day by 5 p.m., the booksellers said.

Plenty of members, though, were not there for gantry discussions of Karl Marx. A short distance away from the dive bar social where D.S.A. members were witnessing, another faction was hosting a party called 'Ohio for AOC' it was held at a slightly less shory bar

where members stood under disco-halls, signing thirty cocktails and trying to build support for the organization to endorse Representative Alexandria Grazias-Castro of New York for president in 2020. The congresswoman wasn't there, nor has she said whether she will run for president.

'Who has ever won a campaign in D.S.A. just by saying it was a good idea?' asked Katie Sims, the national electoral chair, who was standing on a chair in sensible smuders.

'We need to build mass consensus across the organization,' they asked. 'But consensus is a race that for D.S.A. members. Among the questions they are wrestling with, or have recently tried to settle. It is worth spending the time trying to win elections, or is electoral politics bound to disappoint be-

cause officials will let the movement down? Should they be trying to run for Grazias-Castro for president, or has she dismissed herself too much from the D.S.A.? Should they ever back pro-Israel candidates?'

Moundering around the D.S.A.'s national summit, you will hear that the organization is defined by the depth of its internal elite and tensions. You will also hear that in the way can they be defined by their internal tensions. And you may start to think that maybe this disagreement is itself in ruling.

Because of the D.S.A. sort themselves,{bignarts style, just more than a dozen caucuses. There's Bread and Roses, Married Only Giving, Red Hat, Groundwork and Communist Caucus: Some, like Groundwork, are lure-the-cased on winning elections. Others, like

For many of the organization's members, the Democratic Socialists of America is both a political and a social home.

Bread and Roses, devine their time to union organizing. And what members call the Coconut Caucus is known to give out cigarettes at its parties.

'The caucus won are legendary,' the national co-chair Megan Warner joked. (There is even a fierce fight over whether it's Bread and Roses or Bread & Roses.)

'The tensions between caucuses and members are heightened because they are both personally-based – who talks the most, who wants to run a chapter, who wants to run for City Council – and principled, focused on the war in Gaza and the minimum wage. Members would often prefer that their internal disagreements may private, though they tend to wind up planned publicity on it and making impassioned fights at large gathering. (Perhaps related to this desire to project only, the summit organizers asked that media speak only to the roughly 40 members who appeared on a list, many of them holding leadership roles in the organization, though outside the summit and at parties, others were eager to talk.)

'I follow the caucus drama; I get involved in it, too,' said Matt Nurney, 38, as a human-patient, sounding a hit like a therapist trying to break someone of a gossip habit. 'But at the end of the day, me guide are aligned.'

For many of its members, the D.S.A. is both a political and a social home. Ms. Banyai-Becker met her hardwood at a

Socialist attire, above, and a testimony door referred to as 'Dear Leader.' The D.S.A. is producing whether it should try to become more mainstream.

D.S.A. convention. Andrew Thompson, a leader from Denver, recently threw a divorce party for himself filled with his friends from the D.S.A. (Off Canada), a national leader from Orlando, said the D.S.A. fulfills the same social function for him that the Catholic Church did for his parents when they were in their life.

'Our generation is an alienated – when you go to a canvas, it's a huge social affair,' said Sara Alterouet, 24, who this year served as chair of the Young Democratic Socialists of America.

One essential question hanging over the summit was whether the D.S.A. should try to become more mainstream as it grows, and whether it will hold on to its quality. Enjoy various culture and all-nerbs new members drawn in by the magnetism of celebrity socialists like Mr. Mandiani.

But three minutes into any exchange with a member, nagging that's about the organization going downstream can feel most. Conversations are marinated in a vocabulary that is insistently obtuse. Members talk about having disagreements in a 'nominately' way, being a 'multi-tremENCY organization,' holding a group that includes everyone from 'themselves' to 'Married concerns'.

'You would say these are disagreements,' said Michaela Brangan, 40, a national leader in D.S.A. from New Jersey. She paused, then confessed: 'I would also say they're disagreements. But really, it's a constantly discussion.'

In redrawn Tennessee, Democrats grasp to retain their seat

MEMPHIS

Memphis, reliably liberal, has been splintered across three conservative districts

BY EMILY COCHRANE

The race laws the people of Memphis thought their congressional primary would go on Thursday.

Four months ago, the reliably Democratic city was going to preserve the state's one Democratic House seat: the only question was whether the district's majority of Black voters would back the incumbent Representative Steve Cohen, a 75-year-old white Democrat, or endorse Justin Pearson, a 35-year-old Black state representative.

Then the Supreme Court struck a blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1964, and state Republicans restore Democratic Congressional way. Now the burning question going into Thursday's primary is broken for Democrats. Do they even say they are?

Under the new map, Memphis's North Congressional District has splintered into three seats: Mr. Cohen has retired. Mr. Pearson, his home drivers out of the North, has been left to the 30 states in the challenges. And Republicans have raced to take advantage of a generational opportunity to remove an uncanny conservative state House delegation.

The common and a single story of meopher here,' said this hardest, a longtime commentator and dissender of the state.

Democrats, including those running to represent Memphis, insist that their voters are energized and energized, even as they also say. Black voters have been

disordinarized, issue Republican said that was a contradiction.

'There may be Democratic backlash in the new North, but at the end of the day, it was driven to advantage Republicans,' said State Senator Steve Taylor, a Memphis Republican who jumped into the race for the North, with the endorsement of President Trump.

'The Democrats have said that they were disenfranchised when the districts were drawn, they were losing their voice,' he added. 'They can't feel the voice and them also have a backlash.'

Because the three districts that now include Memphis stretch for dozens of miles eastward, Republican and Democratic candidates face the challenge to educating and winning over voters spread much further across the state.

But math is math, and all nine of Tennessee's districts now addily have Re-

publicans, with the Democratic strongholds of Nashville and Memphis splintered and lumped in with solidly conservative rural backlets.

Mr. Taylor's opponents, State Representative Todd Warner, who won a Trump flag like a cap during the legislature's special redistricting session, and Charlotte Bergmann, a Black Republican who has repeatedly challenged Mr. Cohen, did not return reopens for an interview.

On the Democratic side, Mr. Pearson still wants to give the North a shot, but on Thursday, he must first hear State Senator London Lamar, a Black Democrat who had previously backed the Co-Act. Mr. Pearson has managed a strong national profile since his hotel co-pulsion from the legislature in 2022 for challenging the state's lack of gun laws. Ms. Lamar has quietly climbed the

cucks in the General Assembly's Democratic minority.

Ms. Lamar has echoed Mr. Cohen's critique that Mr. Pearson relies more on those following skills than effective legislating.

'I want strongly, I want effective, I want results' in a representation, Ms. Lamar said in an interview late last month in Memphis, in which she interrupted herself repeatedly to chase after voters and ask for support.

In the campaign agencies are in place for his primary challenge to Mr. Cohen and endorsement: State Senator Robert Sanders and Representative Alexandria Grazias-Castro, Mr. Pearson said that he was best positioned to energize Democrats.

'The moment is meeting us, and I don't have a spirit to quit just because they make things harder,' Mr. Pearson

said before an event at a church in Lansdowne, Texas, just over 100 miles (150 kilometers) east of Memphis.

The event ended with campaign aides scrambling with church backets to collect donations and donor information. 'I'll all go back the plate yourselves,' Mr. Pearson said. 'I'm actually over-whiskered.'

Some Democrats and political watchers believe their chances of holding us in a single seat in Tennessee actually rest with the 1998 Congressional District, once a Nashville news was that now enough to keep us back the city to a place of Memphis.

The incumbent, Representative Andy Ogles, has been criticized for inflationary anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant comments and campaign finances for proprietors. The congressman, who has Mr. Trump's endorsement, has his own

In the Democratic primary for Tennessee's North Congressional District, State Representative Justin Pearson, above, is training against State Senator London Lamar, left. For left, disclosing the new Tennessee House map.

primary challenge on Thursday, Charles Mariner, a former state commissioner of agriculture.

Mr. Mariner has urged voters to 'hire a farmer,' adding to the dairy farm his family has run for more than a century. On Tuesday, he secured the endorsement of Gov. Bill Lee, the outgoing Republican governor and a longtime friend.

The winner of the Republican primary is expected to face Chas. Mariner, the mayor of Columbia, Tenn., the leading Democrat candidate.

'I've got a big target at my back,' Mr. Ogles said at an event in Tennessee last month, where he vowed that 'I will never have to be here.'

On Friday, he pointed out he was the base candidate who could not a vote he himself. Mr. Mariner and Mr. Moisler were both drawn out of the district.

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Business

Germany's proud auto industry is teetering

Challenges include tariffs, growth of electric vehicles and Chinese competition

BY JACK ERYNN AND JIM TANKERKLEY

The centerpiece of Mercedes-Benz's 140th birthday party in January was a patent application filed in 2006 by an engineer named Carl Benz for a "vehicle with gas engine."

The way Mercedes executives spoke of the handwritten document, which at one point was proposed on a large wall on the company campus in Stuttgart, Germany, it might have been a sacred punishment. It not only certifies that Germany is the birthplace of the automobile but also helps explain why the wave of the country's automobiles — Volkswagen, Mercedes and BMW — are a threat to more than just the German economy and the livelihoods of thousands of workers.

"The cartridates" were also threaten the national identity, rattling a fragile governing coalition and halting support for far-right politicians.

Germany's automakers are struggling under the weight of American tariffs. Chinese competition and a rocky transition to electric vehicles. The gravity of the situation became clear: this summer as Volkswagen executives discovered during factories, canceling road-ole and rolling out of thousands of jobs.

The crisis raises questions about whether the German approach of balancing profits with job security by, among other things, giving workers a strong voice to management to capable of adapting to breathtaking technological change. Chinese cartraders churn out new models in 10 months at less, a fraction of the time most Western cartraders take.

Along with chemical and machinery, autos are "one of three sources of German strength owned in the 10th century (current where German engineers made great strikes)," said Helyav Schumeding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank.

When the industry is changing rapidly, "German labor relations are a hindrance," Mr. Schumeding said. "A model?"downsting you can discuss with your workers. When it's a dramatic shift, that's more difficult.

His Killeman, the chief executive of Mercedes, said Germany still possessed the skills that had allowed Mercedes, BMW and Volkswagen's Audi and Porsche units to determine the high end of the market.

Speaking in January when the company unveiled the latest version of its top-of-the-mile Class series, the "American" has German origins, spirit, DNA, engineering skills, precision, quality thinking.

The new Mercedes-Benz 6-Class at the company's 140th anniversary celebration, above. The chief executive of Mercedes, Ms. Killeman, right, at center, said Germany had been hurt by high energy costs, taxes and rules that made it hard to tip off workers.

But he added that the design was the product of "a global team." And he said the country was hurt by high energy costs and taxes as well as rules that made it difficult to tip off workers.

"There's a lot that needs to be done in Germany to improve competitiveness — or, I should rather say, Europe," Mr. Killeman said in an interview at the company's headquarters in Stuttgart.

When German companies enjoyed a build factories, it is often in places like Hungary, China or Mexico. The number of cars produced in Germany has fallen 20 percent since 2016, according to the FDA, the German automakers' association, getting the country well behind China, the United States, Japan and India. Germany could soon also be even taken by World News and News.

U.S. automakers may soon face similar challenges. For now, General Motors and Ford Motor are protected from Chi-

nese competition by tariffs. But "we can't expect to keep them out forever," William Clay Ford Jr., the executive-chair of Ford, said at an Asian event last month in Washington.

The German cartraders face an assault on two fronts. In China — the world's largest car market — sales of foreign-car brands are plummeting. And Chinese automakers are making leg strides in Europe. In June, Chinese cartraders named Japanese cartraders in Western Europe for the first time, according to figures compiled by Schmidt Automotive Research.

China was once a lucrative market for the Germans, accounting for 37 percent of Volkswagen sales in 2016. But after Chinese automakers learned how to manufacture cars through joint ventures with foreign cartraders, the tables turned.

BAIC Group, an automaker owned by

the Chinese government, has become Mercedes's largest shareholder, with a stake of almost 10 percent. Chinese companies like BYD and Gecly Auto were quicker to develop electric vehicles that

were heavily promoted by the Chinese government and are selling briskly in Europe.

The Germans took ton long to offer appealing electric vehicles. Volkswagen

sold 20 percent fewer cars in China in the first six months of the year compared with a year earlier, while Mercedes reported a 20 percent decline and BMW a 20 percent increase.

"Despite better products, we cannot match the cost and pricing of export models from China," Oliver Blume, the Volkswagen chief executive, told employees last month.

Mr. Blume expressed doubt that Volkswagen factories in four German cities were competitive, though he said there might be ways to avoid closing them by, for example, converting them far use by the defense industry.

Volkswagen, labor representatives agreed in 2023 to call 50,000 people from the company's work force by 2030, through retirement and heparies. With 657,000 employees worldwide, the company still has 50,000 more people than it needs, Mr. Blume said.

Making such shop cuts is especially difficult at Volkswagen.

Workers at the company, as is the case for all these German cartraders, hold half the 10 seats on the supervisory board, in line with the country's laws. The boards oversee my management and can fire the chief executive. Share holders also have 10 seats and name the chair, who can exercise a tiebreaking vote.

"We are doing everything to stabilize the automotive industry again. At the moment, that is the most difficult sector in Germany."

But what's unique at Volkswagen is that two of the shareholder seats are held by the State of Lower Saxony, which owns 10 percent of the company's voting stock. The state, home to Volkswagen's headquarters in Wolfsburg, almost always takes the side of workers.

Gluf Lion, the prime minister of Lower Saxony and can at the state's representatives on the Volkswagen board, said in a statement that he would not agree to any plan "that depends on factory closures as a supposedly simple solution."

Hinterkultz, Volkswagen and its workers have found compensation in times of crisis, but cooperation has been strained recently.

"There is already an enormous loss of trust amongst the work force in the state who, in the early days of C.E.O., presented himself everywhere as 'Glimed-A-brazilus'," the Volkswagen World Council, which represents workers, said of Mr. Blume in a statement.

Conditions for the far-right alternative for Germany have ended on the industry's news, promising to solve it a return to a brooker of German steamers trying. The appeal has helped the party almost voters in parts of Western Ger-GERMANY, PAGE 8.

From left: Jenson Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, at center, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lumski; a stand from the Chinese company 'Homethat XI' at an event in Shanghai; and Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI. U.S. companies' response to the advances in artificial intelligence being made by Chinese companies have diverged along from that depend on whether they data produce open-source models. The Trump administration has debated a number of different approaches to dealing with open-source AI.

Reversals on open-source A.I. give Silicon Valley whiplash

WASHINGTON

BY DAVID MCCABE, WIRE ISIAG, AND JACK ERYNN AND KATE CONGRE

Trump administration officials have struggled over the past few weeks with what to do about artificial intelligence. In particular, a group that includes the White House chief of staff from White House, the Secretary Scott Bender and Commerce Secretary Howard Lumski has debated a number of different social-more-interventional approach to "open source" A.I. models, which are freely available to download and modify, and more than a half-dozen current and former web and government officials and other people familiar with the matter. Senior officials have considered a range of actions, including drug solutions, a trade blacklist against Chinese companies that make these open-source A.I. models, or even learning U.S. cloud companies from doing business with them, and even of the people, after whom spoke on the coalition of anonymity to discuss private matters. But after an early 2026 decision today, they signed to have changed their minds and instead are focused on presenting American A.I. models to be more competitive, the people said.

This week, the Trump administration's A.I. plans may have become clearer. The White House invited U.S. tech companies to discuss a framework that would allow the government to review new A.I. models for cybersecurity issues before they are criticized publicly, according to three people with knowledge of the plans. Further details were not immediately available.

"This is all happening to fact," said Senator Joe Husted, Republican of Ohio, last week after he met with the chief executive of Nvidia and OpenAI. "I don't know that I have any definite conclusions about any of it."

The whiplash is a sign of the Trump administration's conflicting impulses when it comes to A.I. and the difficulties of handling such a quickly developing and powerful technology. The White House has aggressively inter-about its results of the economy over the last 18 months, from media to computer chip manufacturing to mining. But A.I. is changing rapidly and the government has scrambled to determine how to put its thumb on the scale.

President Trump began his second term as an unintended A.I. fountain, posing back regulations and forging close relationships with A.I. companies and start-ups. But that changed in June when the Trump-based government re-

der that would give the government oversight over new A.I. models. Since then, the technology has continued to evolve quickly.

The most recent debates were prompted by a surge in powerful new Chinese A.I. models, which are known as "open source," where the public can see the underlying computer code, or "open weight," where computers reveal the calculations used to generate answers to questions.

In Silicon Valley, the response to these Chinese A.I. models would really, Open AI and Anthropic, which generally do not share the underlying technology of their models, pushed the government to rein in their Chinese rivals, citing national security.

Other U.S. tech companies that produce open-source models, including Nvidia, pushed back. They argued that open-source models encourage innovation and could be used to defend computer systems from cyberstimms.

Which side comes out as has had taken on new significance in the long-running fight between Washington and Beijing over which nation will control critical technologies and win the A.I. code. Raising the states, Xi Jinping, China's leader, is set to visit Washington in September for meetings that are expected to include some discussion of A.I. in-

try executives and analysts said they believed the administration was unlikely to take action before that visit.

"The United States leads the world in A.I. innovation, and President Trump's successful approach will keep it that way," said Liz Hunter, a White House spokeswoman. The Department of Commerce declined to continue.

The debate heated up last month, an executive at Anthropic and OpenAI continued regulatory discussions after the release of Homethat XI's first, a bleeding-edge Chinese model that performed as per with top models from the two American companies in some areas, two of the people familiar with the computer positions said.

OpenAI and Anthropic also expressed concerns about "disillusion," when a model is developed based on the response of a different A.I. tool, essentially creating a copy, according to three people familiar with the matter.

"The administration refused these concerns, Michael Kratsian, who leads the White House difficult license and Technology Policy, posted last month on X that the Chinese company that makes their last detailed Anthropic's powerful Futile model.

He warned that "stealing proprietary U.S. technology and undermining American research is unacceptable."

The same day, Mr. Benson posted that Chinese companies could face sanctions or other federal restrictions over stealing intellectual property.

The administration has also considered restricting the models that can be used by the federal government, or regulating information and communication technology through the Department of Commerce. A potential way to prevent U.S. force from doing business with Chinese A.I. companies, four people familiar with the discussions said.

"We believe both open-weight and closed models have an important role in play in demonstrating access to A.I.'s on OpenAI spokespersons said, 'Advances in Chinese open-weight models are not an argument against operators. They reinforce the need for a coherent national framework that enables the U.S. to evaluate new models quickly, manage risks and get the most powerful AI tools into the hands of cyber defenders.'

Although Kratsian is unknown, (The New York Times has used OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright to fringement of news content related to A.I. systems. The companies have denied these claims.)

At Nvidia, Microsoft, Google and Meta, executives gave increasingly concerned that Anthropic and OpenAI would win over the White House with

their arguments for tighter restrictions, according to two of the people. That would potentially control the A.I. start-ups' positions as market leaders.

Other A.I. labs were at risk of falling permanently behind, the people added. And because several of the companies make their own open-source models or supply hardware to customers that use open-source technology, they worried the restrictions could harm them.

Over private tests, phone calls and video conferences, countries quickly built open-source A.I. open-source models were good for the world and for U.S. innovation, according to three of the people familiar with the data.

Christopher Padilla, a former Commerce Department official and tech executive, said the code was primarily an industry debate about money and research in open-source A.I.

"It happens to have a national security dimension," he said. "And it's mainly a fight. Even what the A.I. market should look like: a collection of skilled gathers dominated by a large number of U.S. more open low-tar all with many small-or small."

David McCabe and Ann Swenson reported new Washington, and Mike Innes and Alex Cooper from San Francisco, Kathy Huang contributed reporting.

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BUSINESS

How China keeps tabs on foreign residents

CHINA, FROM PAGE 1 more to the public, according to public tender documents.

DESKINGS FOR THE POLICE Origin Dynamic had their current application in 2025 for a similar system, which is described as an "information-in-terfuge for near Chinese citizens" and was nearly identical to the Zhangjiakou platform to its design and functions. The company is owned in part by the city government of Yancheng in Jiangsu Province.

Origin Dynamic and the Zhangjiakou Public Security Bureau did not respond to requests for comment sent by email any two.

Mr. Biehr, who shared the data he received with The Times, believed that the dashboard had been designed for the Zhangjiakou Public Security Bureau, the city's police department. It included information that only the Chinese authorities would have had access to, and the user log that Mr. Biehr saw listed eight police stations in Zhangjiakou and three from other cities.

It was not clear how, or if, the police have used the database in their work. But its existence illustrates how the Chinese authorities aggregate vast amounts of data from surveillance cameras, medical records, bills, facial recognition tools and other sources to monitor and analyze the behavior of foreign residents. It had both be places they frequented, hospital visits and got payments, as well as flights and trains taken, including seat numbers.

We have also found that the assessments of a woman from Mongolia as she went from a residential compound in Zhangjiakou to shopping malls, restaurants and supermarkets.

Under St. Helping, including Chinese Communist Party has overseen a drive to use log data in the name of public safety to stamp out dissent and prevent personal terrorist attacks.

Other countries employ similar kinds

of surveillance systems, but in China, there is little protection against police overcrowds, according to Mario Wang, the deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch.

"That kind of integration of data is really quite unprecedented and illustrates China's lack of safeguards," Ms. Wang said.

AN UNSECURED PLATFORM When Mr. Biehr first came across the platform's light page, a username and password had already been filled in. The fact that a system with sensitive personal information on hundreds of people was accessible to anyone who could find it on the Internet suggested a major lack

of privacy protections.

Greg Walton, a cybersecurity researcher who has studied similar Chinese systems, said the exposure of this one was not an anomaly. It was a consequence of China's "surveillance shores", which is limited by an expanding recognition of vendors, contractors and public security agencies, he said.

Mr. Walton, a senior investigator at the SecDev Group, a Canadian research firm, said that such new platform "to remove the number of places where sensitive personal data can be misconfigured, copied or left externally discoverable."

The Times verified that data in the entries for six people besides Mr. Biehr

was accurate. A Times reporter who used to be based in Beijing was in a letter in an entry that included the name of her child. Her name was ransacked, but her passport and other information were correct.

Work on the Zhangjiakou system appeared to have started in 2023, and changes were made to it as recently as right, according to Mr. Biehr, who has documented his findings in a habitual newsletter. Several fields in the data have been seen on the internet, suggesting it was still under construction.

Residents were excluded to comment in public locations, but the platform also pulled from sources not directly con-

DYNAMIC CONTROL PLATFORM FOR OVERSEAS PERSONNEL

Shown on a futuristic dashboard that appears to track foreigners in the northern Chinese city of Zhangjiakou:

• Long-term residents from key countries by country of origin
• All long-term residents by country of origin
• Long-term residents by reason for tabs
• Types of long-term residents
• Long-term residents' distribution in Zhangjiakou
• Long-term residents' workplaces
• Short-term residents' distribution in Zhangjiakou
• Short-term residents by country of origin

nected to the police. It had a lot of foreigners and Chinese citizens who had visited the city's Chinese Mr. Brown, her clothing photos of them taken there, their full names and prospect names.

SORTING BY COUNTRY AND MUCLEON The platform labeled people from Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand or the United States as being in the "Five Eyes Alliance." That is a reference to the intelligence-sharing agreement between the two countries that Beijing frequently criticizes or promoting Cold War-style divisions.

It also highlighted residents from what it called "key countries" — a list that included Egypt, Iran, Israel, Moroc-

co, Pakistan and Sudan. Visitors from Hong Kong, home to widespread anti-Beijing protests in 2010, and Taiwan, a self-governing democracy that China claims as its own, had their own categories.

"Our database also tracked international students, foreign spouses and 'key persons,' a single-million-dollar and 'fly like Chinese authorities to refer to activities or fugitives, or others dressed to be threats to social stability.

Many of the foreign students listed appeared to be from Pakistan and India and were visiting at British North University in Zhangjiakou. Profiles of the students included their religion, marital status, locus of study and times they had been captured on cameras at the school's entrance.

The platform also claimed to be able to map a person's relationship network. At illustration of the function showed the names of three Pakistani men in their life, linking them to one another after they were captured on camera together.

One set of entries that Mr. Biehr downloaded included names of residents who had been provided under Chinese law. It showed one woman who had been fined 1,000 Chinese years (about $10,000,000), for example, for not registering a change of address. Other examples included foreigners who had been active teaching without required licenses.

The information appeared to have been entered by an official at the Zhangjiakou police station named Zhangji staging, according to the data loaded by Mr. Biehr that listed him as a contributor.

An official by the name was profiled by the Zhangjiakou police in 2020. He was printed for conducting discussions, online and actively participating in these to "guide citizens to establish correct" views.

Last year, an artificial intelligence lab in the police station was named for him.

LOS ANGELES

BY JEAN MAC

The shacklers are seen coming off SpaceX's stock.

On Thursday, the first "sharing" on shares of Elon Musk's rocket company is set to expire, which means employees and other company insiders who were prevented from trading the stock after SpaceX's initial public offering to June will be able to do so. Lashups are put in place after an offering to prevent shares from flooding the market and driving down their price.

SpaceX employees and early investors will now have the opportunity to cash in an millions of dollars in gains from their company stock. But for everyone who, the end of the backup comes from the same time.

In the seven weeks since SpaceX went public, in stock briefly search before trading nearly its present level in high, shopping will have its 2023 public offering price, then the backup ends. 912 million shares will become available — more than double the current supply that has been sold — which may further depress the price.

"There are reasons to be concerned that the equivalent of the hedge will introduce more price volatility," said Peralta, a former professional artist for the variety of Notre Dame in Indiana, who has studied initial public offerings. On average, he added, the end of backup loadings is 3 percent drop in stock prices because of increased selling.

How SpaceX's stock have after the expiration of its various backups is likely to

serve as a benchmark for other major stock companies that may go public in the next 12 months, including the artificial intelligence store-ups (company and OpenAI, In June, Mr. Musk's company held the world's biggest 1.8% raising $92.7 billion in China's energy supply to prevent on its first day of trading to be worth more than $2 trillion. The event turned Mr. Musk, who controls share than 80 percent of SpaceX's shareholder value, into the world's first billionaire and seemed to signal investor appetite for more technology 1.8%.

But SpaceX's volatile stock performances show that in a reminder that gains public is no easy but "the company which has a market value of $1.68 trillion, has been bullied by investor deep losses and a growing number of 'shark' sellers, who borrow shares to let us much in their hands."

Any price swings could be magnified by SpaceX's relatively small percentage of shares, or "blue." But can we have to use the public market, said Jay Roker, the director for the 1.8% Initiative at the University of Florida. SpaceX's float, currently below 5 percent of the total number of shares, is a common location than 25 percent after the first backup expires.

On X, Mr. Musk, who became a more multibillionaire as SpaceX's stock price fell, has cracked pikes about losing his trillionaire status. But he also warned those who feel against this that they were wrong to not believe in the company. "I said SpaceX will be worth more than Earth Ever sellers are good," Mr. Musk posted on social media last month. Mr. Musk and a SpaceX spokesman

did not respond to requests for comment, SpaceX reported its first earnings as a public company on Tuesday.

While newly public companies traditionally prevent insiders from trading by the first 100 days after the 1.8%, SpaceX has staggered its backup period so that early employees and investors will be able to sell transfers of shares over the next 18 months. The largest transfer, 12 billion shares, will be collected after the company reports its financial results in the fall. Mr. Musk, SpaceX's largest shareholder, who controls more than 0.4 billion shares, will not be able to invest on the bulk of that stake until next June.

Does the backup period ends, 912 million shares will become available, which may further depress the price.

Current and former SpaceX employees have been searching the recent stock greatness clearly. With the first backup ending, some former employees have taken a Facebook group to create more strategies about what to do with their shares, according to press shared with The New York Times. In one group, someone estimated that the 1,200 employees collectively had at least "a billion dollars" worth of shares.

"I'm not comfortable having so much of my net worth contentment in a single stock, so my goal is to diversify," one former SpaceX engineer wrote. In response, commenters told him to hold on to his shares.

In a recent note to investors, Adam Jones, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, which worked on SpaceX's 1.8%, said the company's shares made "walking calls" fall to $100. He said he was optimistic about SpaceX's share and called from the company was worth $100 a share, but noted there was a "current discussion" and "increasingly heavier investor sentiment."

Mr. Jones ascribed the discussion to "no major fundamental changes," he stood, he said, those who were positive about SpaceX and those who were negative had dog in their heels.

Plenty of investors are betting against the company Nearly $25 billion of SpaceX's totalible stock, or 26 percent of its loan, it lead by share sellers, according to 52 Partners, a financial data company. SpaceX is the eighth most shortest stock in the United States and the most shortest stock over the last 30 days, based on 52 data.

Mark Kennedy, a senior strategist at Betancourt Capital, which tracks 1.8%, said SpaceX was "a cautionary tale" for investors looking for short-term gains. Among other U.S. companies that were public for years, they raised at least $50 million, SpaceX is in the bottom third for stock performance, he said.

The stocks of large-rich companies, including Facebook and Chet, also declined after their public offerings, but they swallowed the stores. Mr. Kennedy noted: Given SpaceX's backup experience, he expected more turbulence for the stock to the days ahead.

"Nobody wants to catch a falling knife," he said.

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many others like 4823 is generally much weaker than in areas that were once part of Chinese Germany.

The list left because of the explain the crisis. Last month, members of the German Minister consider they distributed pamphlets outside the gates of an, had factory in Neuherden, to southwest Germany, calling no workers to strike.

The course right characterist, Friedrich Marx, has linked the industry's problems directly to China. He promised to work with France and the rest of Europe to push back against the Chinese imports. The French cornsabers Peugeot, owned by Sechborn, and斲如ed face similar groups.

"We are doing everything to stabilize the automotive industry again," Mr. Marx said in an interview last month with the public headcomer ZDF "in the moment, then in the most difficult series in Germany."

Automakers often complain that Chinese companies have an initial advantage because they receive subsidies from their government. Ben Chinese outmakers are also adept at equipping cars with frequent day-training screens, also charging customers and advanced self-driving systems at lower costs than Western cornsabers.

Much of the auto industry's malaise "is due to wrong decisions and arrogance" in addition to increased competition from China, said Thantone Beisow, the director of the United Public Policy Institute.

Jörn Buse, a German who is head of American for the automotive and motor-facturing group at the consulting firm Arthur D. Little, noted that Chinese companies are that problem. They have money or auto modest profits because

there are dozens of cornsabers in China, Most of these companies have been making cars for only a few years, which means nobody knows if these vehicles will turn on to be reliable or durable.

"They haven't made the errors yet that all the other guys have learned from over 30 years," Mr. Buse said.

The Germans still need to at least one error, lavish marketing events. The party in Stuttgart celebrating Mercedes's 100th birthday maintained in the servicing of the St.Caro sedan, which is made in Germany.

"Despite better products, we cannot match the cost and pricing of export models from China."

The car debated in a livestreamed show featuring laser lights, drone cameras, a digital John Lawson and the real-life Bugel Fraterre. It comes with an A.I. powered screen the size of a small wind-shield, a glowing head computer and heated seatbelts.

But the seatbelts became a sort of national pole in German media, located an air example of how Mercedes is falling behind an "low-whiseling" intervention the Chinese have become so good at.

"These German companies will survive," a German historian, headcomer, and a part of BBC Capital Markets. "But they will likely be smaller companies than they are today."

And George oppressly from New York, and Jim Dedererby from Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany. There is a big chance to make reporting from Neuherden, Germany.

BAC, an automaker owned by the Chinese government, owns nearly 10 percent of Mercedes's shares, making it the German company's largest shareholder.

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Opinion

Life was impossible, and then it got worse

Millions of Americans struggle today in sometimes unimaginable ways.

Nicholas Kristof

OKLAHOMA CITY After a 1,000-mile road trip across a south of America, I can't get one person out of my mind! Trinity Goodman, a cheerful, chatty woman in Oklahoma City who had a bondage on her arm.

The reason for the bondage? Goodman, 34, survives by selling blood plasma twice a week. She had $1.79 in her checking account, one cent in her

people who are losing food stamps and other benefits and increasingly desperate — and resentful, understandably, of chins who seem indifferent to their struggles. A recent Washington Post-lyses poll found that two-thirds of Americans consider groceries unaffordable.

Goodman is among those feeling the squeeze, and there appears to be some risk that she will lose her food stamps — and in that case she doesn't know how she would get by.

I'm on my annual win-a-trip journey, which I started 20 years ago to take a university student on a reporting trip to cover neglected issues. Usually we travel abroad, often in Africa, but this time we explored poverty, addiction and human trafficking in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kentucky.

My student winner this year is

complex post-traumatic stress disorder that has left her unable to work. She has applied for disability benefits, and says she was denied, but is now appealing.

I asked Goodman what message she would have for Trump as the cuts and work requirements he ordered ripple across the land.

"You do not know what you're doing in people who are struggling to live," she said. "You get money in the bank. You don't know how it feels to struggle. Live in my shoes for one day. You wouldn't be able to handle it."

In Pine Bluff, Ark., a largely Black city that is struggling economically, racked by crime and losing population, I visited the home of Latma Foster, O., a single mother with six children who has lost food stamps and as a result is behind in rent.

error rates may lead to wrongful desirability of benefits. In addition, some three million Americans have lost Obamacare health insurance since the beginning of this year, after Republicans cut subsidies to help pay for insurance.

Without food stamps, Foster now is behind in her rent — $8.08 a month for a three-bedroom home in a crime-ridden neighborhood — and accumulating a $25-a-day late fee on top of the rent owed.

"I hit each bottom daily," she told me. "The more I work, the harder stuff gets."

And then she broke Ames and wept. The push to cut benefits for struggling Americans is partly rooted in a desire to hide federal spending, but that's hard to square with the expense of the Iran war, as well as subsidies for

cused of fraud, laziness or personal irresponsibility. Yes, many and up making bad choices, but we fail them before they bleed in.

Trump initially proposed eliminating 30-mil fuel, the federal program with bipartisan support that serves those vulnerable children in poverty. He later backed off that idea, but congressional investigators found that his administrative illegally withheld $12 billion from the program for several months, causing great hardship.

But while it's easy to focus on Trump and Republicans cutting Medicaid, food stamps and other benefits, it's not just the Trump administrative that seems to have a myopia about Americans falling behind.

Democrats talk a good game about housing being a human right, but the three states with the highest rates of

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savings account to keep it open, and six persons in her piggy bank.

"That's my full assets," she said, smiling in mockery of her own poverty. "Surely making it 'me added. It's really hard and it's miserable."

She dwells in an America that many of us might have trouble imagining. For five years she starved off homelessness only by staying in the home of a man who was not a romantic partner but who took advantage of her vulnerability, she said, by regularly demanding sex. A break local nonprofit, Hope

Life expectancy in one county in Arkansas is shorter than in Iran or Bangladesh.

Community Services, helped her get low-income housing for $50 a month, she said, otherwise she would still have to choose between unwanted sex and homelessness.

Food stamps, $200 a month, outside her, but they can't be

used for toilet paper or fountains by- gums products. So she searches for them as church-run pastries — lifelines to reach of America.

Alamuts are likewise unaffordable. "I've never been in a harbor or any of those places," she said. "Never, I don't have that luxury."

Many sectors of America — and many Americans — are thriving. Yet my sense is that many of us are blind to how many people have been left far behind. So far behind that they scarcely inhabit the same country as the rest of us. And this pain across America is now magnified by President Trump's cuts to food stamps, Medicaid, mental health funding for children, pregnancy prevention programs and other social programs, as well as by rising gas and food prices. Republicans are also imposing couples work requirements for benefits; this is reasonable in theory, but in practice such requirements have proved costly to administer and end up mostly just driving people deeper into poverty.

On this trip, I talked to so many

Brucella Tipiomana, who grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Lima, Peru, and just graduated from Yale University. One thing we saw repeatedly on this road trip is that poverty in America is not just about a lack of money, but is often malignoterminal and self-multisating.

Goodman, for example, says she grew up steeped in trauma, in a sous family that often abused drugs. She told us that she was raped and sexually abused beginning at the age of 6 or 7. She was 9 when her mother killed herself; afterward, Goodman was raised by other family members, she said. All the trauma left a mark: She says she was clinically diagnosed with

Foster works as a shift manager at Taco Bell, earning $13.48 an hour. She relied on $1.17 in food stamps per month — but they were abruptly cut off in May, apparently because of suspicions that two of her children were collecting improper benefits in other states. She denies that and says there was some kind of mistake in the system.

Nationwide, some 1.3 million children have lost food stamps under Trump's crackdown over the last year, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. It notes, and superb reporting by my Times colleague Jason DeParte underscores, that pressure on states to cut costs and reduce

private planes and tax cuts for the wealthiest. It's also based on a perception that the "undisserving poor" are exploiting the system, but I think we exaggerate the degree to which it is the poor rather than the rich who get away with manipulations. As of 2035, according to ProPolitica, the place in America with the highest percentage of tax audits was not a haven of billionaires but rather Humphreys County, Miss., with a majority Black population and a median household income then of roughly $20,000.

In any case, the age group most likely to live in poverty — by far — is children, particularly children 2 years old and under, and they can't be ac-

undelivered homelessness right now are blue ones: California, Oregon and Hawaii. Liberals slightly protect Trump's plans to abolish the Department of Education, but it is a handful of red states — especially Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi — that have shown astonishing progress and new map represent the best hope for American education.

A Black fourth-grader in Mississippi is now two and a half times as likely to test proficient in reading as a Black fourth-grader in California. Democrats have every right to call out Trump, but they should also look in the mirror at their own failures to help those left behind.

When the problems are structured, we tend to ignore them. Palo Alto, Calif., is full of well-meaning liberals — four-fifths of voters supported Kamala Harris over Donald Trump in 2014 — and it makes its outstanding public schools available to children of all voters and classes — as long as their families can afford an average home price of $3.6 million.

It's understandable that many working-class Americans feel betrayed. As I see it, politicians of all parties have been far too many people who are being left behind, even as 1.3 million Americans have died of overdoses since 2005. That's roughly the number of American service members who have died from all the wars in American history.

One reason for the complacency is that the problems, at least in their complexity, are often invisible. Americans may see a homeless person shooting drugs, but they won't see the are of hopelessness that began with, say, home to you — what's a cry about it, a government system of child abuse.

Courtesy Williams, D., ordered that a health center care system, I met her in Oklahoma City, where she is caring for a new baby and hoping her $200 a month to food stamps won't be taken away.

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Above, a homeless man who gave his name only as Miss at an exit camp off 1-10 to Miss Isona City. Below, Courtney Williams, with her baby, hopes she will not lose her $200 a month to food stamps.

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OPINION

The New York Times

LITERATURE OF THE NATIONAL REPUBLIC

A.S. HULBERGER Publisher

JAMES BLAIR Executive Editor

MARK H. LEE, Managing Editor

JAMES BLAIR, Managing Editor

HUGHES McGEWELL Associate Editor

BERNARD H. HARTY, LITHOLE Chief Executive Officer

BRYANT L. GREGORY, Executive Vice President

BELMONT H. WAGNER, Executive Vice President

This bridge now divides Canada and America

Paul A. Eisenstein

DETROIT Some geographic trivial. When an IN-1969 major border cross-country, the heterogeneous states where you head south to get to Canada? Answer: Donald, where there are now three roadways to cross under or over the Detroit River. The latest causes also show that Howe International Bridge, opened in late July after a week-long delay caused by a Donald Trust's major start-up.

The Gordie, named after the Canadian border legend who shared for the N.R.L.S. Detroit Red Wings for more than two decades, should represent the resources they have between two traditionally friendly neighbors and two cities whose economies are closely linked. Instead, the president has made it part of his personal grudge match against Canada, our final includes new tariffs that will once again raise prices for American consumers and companies.

The Gordie is an impressive work: In 1,700-foot main span is the largest of its land in North America and designed to allow passage below 4 by single winds in 1st two (32) feet towns, are more than just concerns and steel. They're designed to resemble the act of a hockey stick swung for a slap shot,

Sadly, Trump's attacks against Detroit News! homeland have now given Canadians less of a reason to take the bridge that honors him.

And, Trump's attacks against Detroit News! homeland have now given Canadians less of a reason to take the bridge that honors him.

'Mr. Hockey' was born in 1928 in Picard, Saskatchewan, and spent 26 seasons in the National Hockey League. 25 with the Wings, six anti-heroic players, he raised up 981 goals and 1,850 points (records standing until another Canadian, Warren Gorsky, came along). Surviving that long in a game bureau for 16 (one physically fit) was a big disorder that the 'Gordie Howe that Trick' was named for him: a goal, an event and a fight in a single game, which regularly praised Detroit and the affection his fans showed him. In 1994, the Gordie, domestic claimed Mr. Hockey. But his memory remains bright among fans in Detroit and throughout Canada and, two years after his 2010 death, work began on what would become the Gordie. The project took longer than expected—don't they all?—with everyone driving the ride to Ed Callahan. But major construction had been completed by last February, and its opening appeared to be 1,700 of heroics.

The Detroit-Windsor border is the historic commercial land crossing between the two nations—Canada being one of America's biggest trade partners, and the United States the largest for our north-ern neighbors. The older links, a刻板 and a bridge, were increasingly have pursued to handle the traffic. The auto industry, in particular, desperately sought a new bridge with additional customs booths and a more direct connection to Canada's highway network. (The aging Ambassador Bridge requires trucks to traverse slow-moving streets.)

Where little could say Gordie Howe on the 4x, the bridge named for him was unequivocally shattered into the boards by Mr. Trump. He declared the Gordie-windsor open until Canada 'treats the United States with the Fairness and Request that we discover a bridge right for Gordie Howe bridge.'

Mr. Trump doesn't seem to be much of a hockey fan—though it would surprise us now if he postulated his addiction on the ice. What we know is he's demanded Canada surrender sovereignty to become the 51st state. Failing that, he's hammered out longstanding ally with tariffs on autos, auto parts, steel and other goods.

Reality doesn't always matter for Mr. Trump. A closer look reveals that Canada gave the United States a sweetheart to be in the Gordie to funding the entire project. It would take about 10 years for Canada to be equal (though) 60 revenues.

Another bridge may have been on the president's mind. Last winter, Commerce Secretary Howard Lintick met with Matthew Moreau, whose family owns the Ambassador Bridge. The old span had, for nearly a century a near monopoly on truck traffic. But it's widely expected the Moreau will lose revenues in the new span, where drivers will pay less in title than they do on the Ambassador. Surely there could be no connection between the delay and the fact that Mr. Moreau donated $1 million to the RHCIA Inc. super PAC in January.

Under intense pressure from Democratic, as well as the auto industry, Mr. Trump placed another CEO. To save face for announced his usual deal, insisting, 'We changed the terms' and 'America now gets 30 percent of the Profit' to credit, George Robertson, Canada's housing and infrastructure minister, told reporters, 'We don't anticipate that being very much given all of the costs at the front end with this bridge in the initial years of operating.'

Trump's comments about the new deal came just days after he said an social media he would impose tariffs to punish Canada for the authority of allowing million smoke to cross the border.

Canadians are slow to get worked up about anything but hockey. This time, they distorted America from a party to mark the bridge opening. The best we could do was send Gov. Gortchen Whitmer of Michigan across the span in a Mustang convertible. Nobody would be surprised if Canadians make it their preferred costs in and out of the United States.

That is, if they continue to visit the United States, Many Canadians have stopped drinking 1/3. Soom, switched to foreign alternatives for other products, such as meat and dairy, and resisted travel to their neighbor. In a recent study, the Canadian government found its citizens made 12 million fewer visits to the United States last year than they did in 2016, a roughly 35 percent decline. Reduced spending dropped more than $2 billion, to around $10 billion, a 10 percent decline.

The Gordie Howe International Bridge should be a stinty, hinstheed huckle along the world's longest international border, and a monument to a great Canadian who loved Detroit. Sadly, Mr. Trump's attacks against Gordie Howe, a homeland have now given Canadians less of a reason to take the bridge that honors him.

PAUL A. EISENSTEIN publisher the website Smallight News and The Car Collectors on Substack.

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never provided for the protection and opportunities she needed, especially when she was young and most needed help. And when we don't invest in the front end, we end up paying at the long end.

Some of Williams's earliest memories are of men sensually assaulting her, perhaps when she was 1 or 5, this mother was a prostitute with addiction, she said, and at age 6 she saw her younger sister killed and was then put in foster care.

From there she beamed around foster homes in seven states, carrying her life belonging with her to a death bag. When she was 11, one foster home put peddle in the refrigerator, two-ster and food cabinets, keeping her and other foster children hungry, she said.

Williams first tried teeth at age 11 and at 10 because pregnant by a man in his late 20s who, she later found out, was a restricted sex offender. She put the baby up for adoption and dropped out of school in 2018 grade.

Not every foster family was absolve or landing her for the money, she said, she woulds that one was wonderful and wanted to adopt her. But Williams, by now deeply suspicious of human kindness and full of self-doubt, asked for a different placement.

When Williams was 17, her foster mother stopped getting cheeks for her—she's not sure why, but perhaps some really in the tyranny—and kicked her out. After that, Williams spent a decade urging homeless, attending with drugs, insisting up to Dundee' Donuts restrooms and port-silically getting locked up. Finally a new boyfriend, new husband, who didn't use drugs helped her rebuild her life, and she says she hasn't used drug since last September, when she discovered that she was pregnant.

Conservatives often emphasize the importance of 'personal responsibility,' and they have a point. Self-disclosure behaviors are real. Scholars have said that of millenials who follow the

'You do not know what you're doing to people who are struggling to live. You get money in the bank. You don't know how it feels to struggle. Live in my shoes for one day. You wouldn't be able to handle it.'

spoke to several elderly Black residents who said that in some ways life was actually better in the Jim Crow era. Black people can save now, of course, and some have thrived.

But these seniors lamented that the quality of life for the Black population had not progressed as they had imagined. Costs have soared, crime is a threat, obesity is common and ailments like diabetes and hypertension are widespread, talking a old air well-being. Life expectancy is the country is shorter than in Iran or Bangladesh. Schools are still de facto segregated and 'ganging,' the Pine Bluff school district gets as if from the state.

'I've begun more probably better back then,' grumbled Barbara Olihan, 76. I don't know that she was really stigning that there had been no progress at all, but she's right that Black children in places like Pine Bluff still struggle to find opportunity in 2020.

'You had enough back then to make it,' she told me. 'And right now it's terrible.'

One of the few institutions that did not utterly fail places like Pine Bluff was the U.S. military. One of the most upward and outward, along with skills training, discipline and respect. But some people have not been able to do the secretary of defense, making Black senior officers and no longer preserve the armed forces as a path of opportunity for people of color.

'The military is not,' said Guyton Johnson, a retired Army veteran who pointed to Bogard's impact on the military's reputation. 'No, we're not going there.'

One of the people I most wanted to see on this trip was Emanuel Lauter, whom I am a decade ago in Pine Bluff when he was a sweet, sweet 10-year-old boy—at risk of joining a gang. You sensed that he could go either way. Maybe he would thrive and go to college, or maybe he would succumb to the gravity of the crime within the neighborhood. Emanuel's bedroom was a portrait of dysfunctional America. It had three televisions, but electricity was supposed to be out off the day. I arrived at a supermarket this event had stationed a pit hall to drive the man from the power company from getting near enough to accomplish this.

What had become of Lauter? I turned out that he never finished high school, had tangles with the law and is

now in jail, awaiting trial this month on federal gun charges for possessing a bandgun that had been converted into an automatic weapon. Visits in the jail weren't permitted, but I spoke to him by phone. I asked him what had gone wrong, and he said, 'I hung out with the wrong crowd.' His mother, when I visited him, said the same thing.

Lauter told me that he had two boys, ages 4 and 6, with a former girlfriend, as I located them and their mother,

Autumn Ridman. She and her sons had been evicted and were homeless, couch surfing temporarily to a crowded apartment with a census and trying desperately to find a place to live. The police were in the kitchen at a nursing home, but her car isn't working, as commuting is a daily crisis. She's trying to get food change and thought they would begin in July, but they haven't materialized.

She said that she loved Lauter, her

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high school sweetheart, but that they had quarreled because he was an irresponsible parent. 'He got mad because I had to ask him for money for his kids,' she said, adding that she simply wanted him to pay for little money for his other baker's baker.

'He knows he is fact that I'm going to be on his old film I'm his mania,' she added. 'Who else is going to do it? 'You got kids, I tell him, 'and I didn't know what I wanted?'

Lauter's sons are beautiful children full of paranoia, but they are now growing up without a dad, just as Lauter himself did. Visiting that school, and as a large thinking back to Emanuel a decade ago as an equally sweet child, about the obstacle course of his life, he would be one in Pine Bluff, and I wondered if his children were on a trajectory to replicate his path.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2020 | 11

OPINION

In defense of the Paramount-Warner deal

David Ellison

Many people have weighed in on Paramount's agreement to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery — media analyses, power brokers, political commentators, competitors and, of course, lawyers. For a transaction of this size, that is expected and appropriate. The one person you haven't heard from is the.

There is a reason for that. I believe that anyone who overcovers a news organization — I am chief executive of Paramount, which owns CBS — shouldn't put a finger on the scale, especially on matters involving his own company. So when California's attorney general, 12 other state attorneys general and, a day later, the Writers Guild of America need to stop the deal. I cannot open. I quickly learned each terminal has costs. While I was silent, others were happy to write my story for me. No more.

The vision claim this deal will give one company too much influence over historical releases and cable operators, while the W.G.A. argues that our combined market power will hurt writers. Both auto imagine a likely word that no longer exists — an industry rated by a handful of legacy studies.

Add up every hour American-spined watching television, and a combined Paramount-Warner would account for less than 20 percent of all watch time — competing every day against Netflix, Amazon, Apple, which are all companies whose resources dwarf ours. Include YouTube's user-generated content to that mark, and our share would drop to around 10 percent. A combined company would account for just 10 percent of the domestic loss office over the past 12 months and only 32 percent, so everyone, over 50 percent — so there are not the numbers of a company that can dictate what audiences watch or what writers get paid.

I believe this fight is not really about market share. If it were, it wouldn't have been reviewed and approved by regulators reflecting all concerns, including the United States and China, as well as the European Union. I believe a greater worry can beneath the brink and the news releases: the news. The issue is whether I can be

trusted as a steward of Warner's CNN. There has been speculation about my politics, my loyalties, my intentions.

Unfortunately, I can't give anyone a view into my heart and mind, but I can share this: I have regularly voted for candidates of both parties; I hold some views that would be called conservative and others that would be called liberal; just like some Americans; and when it comes to our news operations, I do not aspire to lead these companies to bestow our movements in my views. I believe that news should be based on facts and truth.

Great news organizations like CNN and CBS have are here to sell a straight down the middle. That requires movements that reflect the whole world, not one side of it. And it requires independence. Our journalists will continue to answer to the facts and to all the people they serve — not to any party or cause. These were founding principles for both CNN and CBS.

The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of CNN.

Were, far beyond. like Ted Turner and Edward R. Murrow, and it is exactly that kind of independence that has always fueled the greatness of '60 Minutes.'

There is much ground to recover. By Gallup's latest research and 20 percent of Americans said they trust the news — the lowest share ever recorded. The temptation is to say the problem lies elsewhere. Our obligation is to look inward and say. We can do better. We are in a moment when Americans trust low institutions, but journalists haven't always helped their case by refusing to engage with critiques.

Trust can't be argued back, but it can be earned back — story by story, day by day. In an age when so much of what film our screens is machine-generated or engineered to outage, journalists from real superiors matters more than ever. That is the work I intend to pay for, patiently, for a long time.

Which brings me to what we aim to hold. The Paramount-Warner deal begins with the movies. I have loved film since I was old enough to sit still for me, and I have been the movies have shaped who I am. a boy riding a bicycle influenced against the full moon, and a roving way up — desert, jets dagfighting off California. Behind each of these moments stands

real money, real risk and hundreds of brilliant artists who tell stories and who count on movies to keep them employed.

That machinery is in trouble. Hollywood is losing ground to technology platforms whose algorithms toward the loudest voices. The work is leaving, especially from California — where I grew up and where I'm raising my family — draining the deepest pool of creative talent ever assembled.

I understand that promises from an executive in the middle of a company series skepticism, no judge or by the year we just had.

Since I took over Paramount, we have nearly doubled our theatrical date from eight films last year to 10 and growth. We are by returning series for Paramount+, our streaming service. You can expect 90 series from our

television studies in 2020. We raised our content investment by $1.5 billion. We did that before the deal was signed and any lawsuit was filed, because making more is the whole point of the company we are building.

The commitments we have made for the proposed Paramount-Warner extend that trajectory: 30 theatrical films a year, 170 television series annually, for our own platforms and for our competitors'; more than $20 billion in annual content investment. I have learned better than in promise this. In my career, 'G.I. Joe: Regulation' also financial expectations, 'Top Gun: Maverick' exceeded them, and 'Tweemaster: Dark Fate' fell short. I am proud of all these films, but nobody can dictate what audiences will love. What I can promise is the work, and more of it.

A deal this size is lived out in public, and I have felt every bit of that. I don't ask to be taken at my word; the commitments are in writing, and the work will be on screens where anyone can judge it.

Hollywood's story can have a happy ending only when we connect with our audience. It's the audience — the American people — that has the final say in whether a movie succeeds or fails, whether a news organization thrives or withers and therefore whether our industry succeeds or fails. I want to build a company with the strength and resources to deliver far more audiences who turn to us, by the storytellers who rely on us and for the country that dreamed this all up.

DAVID ELLISON is the chief executive of Paramount Studios.

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When companies retreat on climate change

So 'How to abandon your climate commitments and get away with it' (mytimes.com, July 17).

This article has every day growing number of companies across various industries that are retreating from their climate commitments. I want to emphasize why backtracking by companies is the best sector is especially significant.

Global host systems are responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. The article mentions the most good 2H5 and the smaller Walnut's. It could have included McDonald's, which announced in May that it does not expect to reach to 2020 climate targets.

This retreat highlights three flaws inherent in many of the best sector's climate strategies. First, companies like McDonald's have published short-term profit against long-term sustainability, even as sugars from disruptions from extreme weather affecting crops and commodities increase.

Second, they have neglected reducing the impact of disproportionately high emissions levels like meat and dairy, and have placed research faith in badly or unassailable solutions.

Third, some businesses fail to advocate — and sometimes work to undermine — voluntary market mechanism, like the Amazon Key Momentum, and regulations like the European Union Deborization Regulation and the Securities and Exchange Commission's climate-related disclosure rules, which help to build sustainable, resilient supply chains.

There is still time to fix these errors. Rather than retreat from climate ambulation, companies like McDonald's should focus on shifting menus to lower impact, plant-based foods and support industry-wide policies that will make their own climate commitments achievable.

The order is a major campaign for climate, food and agriculture at Slipper Earth.

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the state — and made clear that she would succeed Mr. Ortega upon his death, in his appears visibly diminished and increasingly incoherent, she, who is five years younger, is closer than ever to finally rising to the top.

Neither Mr. Ortega nor, much less, Ms. Marillo could win a free and fair election. Mr. Ortega lost the presidential election in 1990 after over a decade in power, and regained the presidency in 2007 having received only 30 percent of the vote. Although there are no longer any independent opinion public inside the country, according to a survey conducted by Bagassus Denecaua, a well-known Nicaraguan outperish now operating from Union Rica, over 93.4 percent of Nicaraguan have a negative view of the future and 86.4 percent would leave the country if they could.

Whatever remains of Mr. Oreguñ, legitimacy is rooted in the revolutionary years and in his own revolutionary credentials. His name is associated however distorted that association has now become — with the struggle against the America dynasty, the triumph of 1979 and the mythology of the Sandinista Revolution.

In contrast, Ms. Marillo's power derives from her association with Mr. Ortega. She does not possess his history, his revolutionary authority or even his residual emotional connection with parts of the Sandinista base, and she is very campaign in her own right. In a deeply religious and often superstitious society, she is frequently ex-

Whatever remains of President Daniel Oreguñ legitimacy is rooted in the revolutionary years and in his own revolutionary credentials.

Mr. Marillo appears to understand her situation perfectly. While constantly paying homage to her husband and presenting herself as the guardian of his legacy, she has methodically removed anyone inside the Sandinista movement who might control her succession or offer a political alternative.

The mass decentralisations that

began in February 2023 fit this strategy of eliminating not only political opposition but even the legal existence of potential rivals. Hundreds of Nicaraguan, including me, have been arbitrarily deprived of our nationality. Many of us have been complied from the country, had our property confiscated and been permanently prohibited from holding public office. The message is clear: Anyone capable of competing politically risks being transferred into a association.

The purges have extended beyond the traditional opposition. Even as Ms. Marillo saturates her speeches with references to God, Christ and the Virgin Mary, the regime has imprisoned or exiled priests and bishops who criticized its repertoire. The government has dismantled Catholic institutions, restricted religious activity and driven much of the church hierarchy from the country.

The crackdowns have also reached people who served the revolution and even those once close to the governing couple. The most revealing case may be that of Gen. Humberto Ortega, Mr. Oreguñ further.

Humberto was one of the principal strategists of the insurrection against Anastasie Samora Debach and later headed the Sandinista Popular Army. In a May 2024 interview, he publicly questioned the possibility of a family succession. He argued that it would be extremely difficult for Ms. Marillo — Mr. Oreguñ, children to receive power after Daniel's death and moistened that a successor would need to emerge from an electoral process. Within hours, local media reported, the Nicaraguan police had seized his electronic devices and placed him under house arrest. He remained under constant guard until his death is a military hospital nearby later. Humberto's fate agitated that no revolutionary credentials, no history of service and no proximity to Daniel Ortega would prove unwise who questioned Ms. Marillo's succession.

Both Mr. Ortega and Ms. Marillo, surely understand that they are at risk of being rooted as Samora was nearly half a century ago. Ms. Marillo needs something more secure than a fraudulent election. She needs a system in which no authentic opponent may run, no unexpected political movement may emerge and no electoral result — even a manipulated one — can become a public judgment on her claim to afford the country. Nicaraguan's democracy, which so many fought to secure for so long, does with her determination to wear the presidential sack, are under the tone.

MICHAEL BELL: is the former president of PEN Nicaraguan, the books include 'The Country Under My Skin.'

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Rare honor for Galliano, but it's still complicated

Met Gala poised to host show dedicated to his work, 15 years after antisemitic rant

BY VANESSA FRIEDMAN

The group of people gathered for a closed-door meeting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in May was unusual by any measure: Anna Wintour, Vague's global ultimate director and a Met trainer. Andrew Bolton, curator in charge of the Met's Costume Institute; the fashion designer John Galliano — not a handful of the most influential rubles and Jewish leaders in New York City.

The meeting had been orchestrated to get their thoughts on the potential issues with next year's planned fashion extravaganza — a show dedicated to Galliano's work — and perhaps their blessing for it. It was one of several such meetings held with Jewish leaders over the last year.

Galliano is considered by many in the fashion world to be one of the most important contemporary designers, whose work as head designer of Dior, a job he held from 1996 to 2013, went beyond more fashion to enter the realm of fantasy. But he became a household name after a video of him making antisemitic comments became international news in 2015. He subsequently lost his job at Dior, was convicted of a hate crime in a Paris court, and reshuffed on a period of rehabilitation. An returned to fashion as creative director of Maison Margiela in 2014.

All of which still makes him a thorny choice for the show at this moment, antisemitism is on the rise, and some Jewish New Yorkers are uneasy with the leadership of Mayor Zoltan Mumdam, most recently after the clubbing of two men last month in bread daylight, one of whom was leaving a Jewish community centre in Manhattan. The attack is being prosecuted as a hate crime.

The Galliano exhibition — which will be kicked off by the annual Met Gala, perhaps the most closely watched red carpet in the world — would make him only the third living designer ever to be made the subject of a solo exhibition at the museum, joining Yves Saint Laurent and Bet Ravalache. It's the highest here or the institution can confer on a designer.

"The four clearly was the show could be met with a lot of resistance — not just skepticism, but a feeling of it's wrong," said Robin Red Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism in North America, who had been among those at that meeting in May. But Galliano impressed him.

"The word I come back in is 'sincerity'" Jacobs said. "He was open. He looked right at us and spoke in a clear way, not as if he had motorized talking points."

Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, said in an email to The New York Times: "We believe John Galliano has genuinely worked through the issues that led to his antisemitic outburst years ago in Paris, and we have long since accepted his apology. His efforts to regain the damage his words caused and to learn from that incident should be applauded."

Some in the room spoke of the Jewish principle of industrial, or repentance, and the importance of second chances.

But there was also concern about how the show could celebrate Galliano's work while everything meaningfully with the volume and consequences of his past behavior.

"What we had said to them is it would be powerful, plagued and productive if they were able to leverage it as an opportunity to learn about the reality of antisemitism, and somehow wing into the exhibition the importance of fighting back and the dangers of antisemitism in this moment," said Robin Joshua De Volson of Temple Ematus-El, a 100-year-old synagogue just a few blocks south of the Met.

Bolton, who said Galliano's contributions to fashion's history were "undeniable," also said he had been considering a Galliano show since 2010, though he had not gotten serious about it until 2019. At that time, he said, both he and the museum's board decided they needed more consideration — though he denied that the institution had anything to do with fears over Galliano's past.

Now, he said, the current climate made the exhibition even more relevant.

"I completely understand why the timing might not particularly difficult now, given the alarming rise of hate, but I do feel it makes the current questions more urgent — not less," Bolton said. "For me, the larger question is not whether artistic behavior excuses transgression, but how to hold artistic achievement and ethical accountability together without allowing one to erase the other. And at a moment of heightened decision, I feel the museum and myself have a real responsibility to confront these issues."

John Galliano, above, is considered by many in the fashion world to be one of the most influential living designers. He was head designer at Dior, his left and left, from 1996 to 2013, but he lost his job after a video emerged showing him making antisemitic remarks.

"Avoiding his work doesn't remove his influence on fashion or solve the ethical questions around it," Bolton continued. "Our responsibility is neither to celebrate uncritically nor avoid that difficult history, but establish the record hierarchy, provide controls and create the conditions for visitors to make an informed judgment."

Bolton said he would open the show with an "enteration gallery" that will delineate what he calls "the rupture" that has ultimately defined Galliano's career as much as the beauty of his work, though he is still working out exactly how that will be presented. Although he said he was planning to use the designer's own words as much as possible — he noted that his meetings with the Jewish community leaders had underscored the idea that clarity was paramount, and that mathematics should be avoided — he also said that his

job was not to represent Galliano's version of events, but the most accurate version. He is also considering creating an online forum where more directories can take place.

A master of the bias-cut dress and an imaginative world-tudded Galliano, 90, is the man most responsible for transforming Dior from a well-mannered French heritage house into a global phenomenon. Then, in 2015, he was captured an video saying "I love them," along with other, equally shocking remarks, in a Paris bar.

In "High & Low: John Galliano," a 2024 documentary on his run, tall and later return, Galliano said he had been

blackout drunk and addicted to drugs during the video incident, as well as during two separate events, when he made similar painful remarks; he called his words "fear" and "hurt life."

After his conviction, he went to rehab, and worked with a tablet in London, as well as Abe Freeman of the Anti-Defamation League in New York, to learn about Judaism, antisemitism and the Holocaust. He then spent a decade at the helm of Roman Margiela, and cohabitier: Bie Zendaya, Yyla and Amid Chesery routinely wear his vintage designs on the red carpet. His clothes set records at auction.

Throughout, Wintour, 70, has re-

Below left, Galliano with Anna Wintour, Vague's global editorial director and a Met trainer, in 1996. Below right, the Maison Margiela spring 2025 on rare show, during Galliano's video as creative director.

mained one of Galliano's foremost champions — and perhaps the most powerful. Wintour is also the mastermind of the Met Gala, and has raised no such money for the department that the basement galleries were named in her home in 2014 and the Costume Institute is close to amassing an endowment fund that will ensure its future economic security.

She was instrumental in orchestrating Galliano's return, and was one of the first people to wear one of his devices publicly after his doggues. In 2014, she told The Times, "I feel quite strongly that our culture has begun to move too quickly toward condemnation — toward a feeling of certainty that particular stressors or mistakes are unforgivable. The truth is we rarely know the full story, and all of us are fallible."

A Galliano retrospective at the Met has been a longtime goal for Wintour, and would be an affirmation of her power to shape the fashion world and another element of her hope's.

"There is no one more deserving of an exhibition of this scale than John Galliano," Wintour wrote in a text message. "Designers dream of changing the world with a single collection. John has done it over and over again. His career isn't defined by a single moment — something he will live with for the rest of his life." But, she went on, "the exhibition won't shy away from any of the darkness."

Certainly, the fashion industry seems to have moved past any discomfort with Galliano.

In January he sat front one at Jonathan Anderson's debut couture show for Dior — his first time back at the house since his dismissal — and was moribund afterward not only by members of the audience but by Dior's owner, Bernard Arnault, and his entire family.

In March, Zara announced a two-year collaboration with Galliano. The response, in both cases, was excitement rather than corruption.

And indeed, there is a long history in fashion of subordinating transgression to talent, going back to Cara Chanel, who chose to collaborate with the Nazis rather than risk her business during World War II.

It remains to be seen whether that attitude will extend to the broader Met audience and the Galliano show, which will open May 9, 2027, and be on view through Jan. 9, 2028. However, there are plans for it to travel to other museums after the Met — another rare honor — and the leaders of those institutions will undoubtedly be watching the reactions closely.

"There may be many in the Jewish community who find this to be problematic," said Davidson, the Temple Ematus-El rabbi. "People may very likely be upset by it. I can understand those feelings."

That is why some rabbis expressed worry that they were being used as a Band-Aid. A person familiar with the museum deliberations said that Met's leaders were aware that this decision could be a mistake that might have serious repercussions.

But if the museum can meaningfully grapple with Galliano's history, said Jacobs, in the Union for Reform Judaism, the show could become "an opportunity to raise consciousness and awareness about what can be done. It could have a profound and positive effect."

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Sports

Detroit left with painful what-ifs as Skubal moves on

Analysis

BY CERN YOUNYENKAGEN

THE GYPSUM

WEST SACRAMENTO, CALIF. The game mirrors life in so many ways, and here is one: Things do not always go as we plan. As Tarik Skubal said last weekend, even after learning that he had been traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers, "circumstances change, situations change."

Not every current node in success. Sometimes you have to accept what reality gives you and move on.

That strange sense of incompletion hung over the Detroit Tigers' clubhouse last Saturday night. That numbing sense of inflection, before things can really be put in perspective, took hold over after Skubal stopped in front of a camera and fell farewell to the organization that once used a ninth-round pick to select him, an unheralded left-hander out of double (University

"Group into the season, this isn't what I planned on doing," Skubal said of being traded.

Instead, he had envisioned this year moving as a superstar in a fascinating era of Tigers baseball.

When the Tigers drafted him eight years ago, they were in the early stages of a miserable rebuild. They crowned their focus on starting pitching. Players such as Casey West, Alex Faedo and Matt Manning were supposed to lead the Tigers into the future. Instead, it was Skubal who blossomed into a franchise-changing talent, a dominating pitcher who lost won the last two American League Cy Young awards.

Skubal made his debut in 2020, in an empty ballpark in Chicago against the White Sox. He surrendered a home run to Tim Anderson, the first batter he faced in the major leagues. More hard lessons followed. Too many balls left the yard. At least went on too long. Please trouble surgery damaged his year in 2021. High when he was showing signs of putting it all together.

"I feel like I've experienced a lot and gone through the ups and downs and gone through a lot of failure only to say carers. This club," Skubal said in Detroit, "never stopped believing in me, kept rolling me out there every little day when I probably didn't deserve to be. So that's something that I'd never take for granted. The fan suggest of me and my family, every, where I go, I've always tried appreciated that."

Eventually, Skubal turned into the game for best and most outstanding pitcher. He carried the Tigers to the playoffs in 2024 and 2025. The team

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Tarik Skubal with A.J. Hisch, the truth's manager. The Tigers had one of the game's best pitchers but here only two wild-card berths to show for it.

were 43-20 in his starts. He leaves Detroit as the franchise record-holder for addresses per nine innings (15-3), wafer plus falls per inning pitched (1.022) and earned run average plus (3.07).

"I've not sure many guys have the pleasure of pitching Cy Young pitchers, so it will always stick with me," Tigers catcher Dillon Dingler said. "It's the everyday thing that is pretty incredible. How he was in the clubhouse. You hear about some great pitchers that were maybe a little bit harsh, Slick was the exact opposite. Rays it light. Rays it fun. Was great to hang out with, I'm'll be missed."

After a win against the Athletics on Saturday, the Tigers' clubhouse was subdued. The team maneuver creed after giving Skubal a hug. Schilder Cab Keith walked by looking for Skubal. Even A.J. Hisch, the team's cheapest manager, struggled to put Skubal's time with Detroit in perspective.

"As much as I've been wondering if this is going to happen, I don't think you're ever really prepared to answer

the massive questions like that," Hisch said. "Obviously, it's been incredible. I've watched this guy rise to the top of the sport, and he's carried on a lot. I'll forever be grateful that our paths crossed and the things that he did for this organization and a couple of playoff teams. No presence, his work ethic, his example, his dominance."

The trade for Skubal — which brings the right-handed pitchers River Ryan and Brady Smith, plus an audited prospect, Zyfer Hope, to Detroit — is difficult to swallow in a year when the Tigers' lepers are not officially dashed. Detroit is under 20K, but in a weak American League. In the age of the expanded playoffs, the Tigers are still competing for a wild-card spot.

"The priorities, the standards, the push for the season doesn't stop," Hisch said.

Skubal leaves to join the roasted Dodgers, baseball's building roll-erspin, a franchise rich in major league talent and also ripe on the form. Los Angeles was perhaps always the van best suited to part with the prospect capital needed to acquire Skubal.

"I'm excited to be a Dodger," Skubal said. "I'm excited to get down there and meet all these guys and chase them championship in a row."

Skubal said those words, but he was only able to took ahead so much. Skubal left the Tigers' digned in the second inning and realized through the talk held gate to the visiting clubhouse at the Triple-A stadium the Athletics are temporarily calling home. He had gone to get in his vertical exercise and treatment, but inside the clubhouse, when the call finally arrived, Skubal ensued what was coming.

When Skubal addressed reporters later, he struggled to put his emotions into words. The Tigers entered this season as World Series contenders. And though Skubal had always been unlikely to sign a contract extension, he had dreamed of winning a title in Detroit.

Instead, the hewn chip in his left elbow became too much to hear earlier this season. He missed more than a month, and the Tigers suffered through a 6-22 May to his absence. Even as they recovered with a stellar June, and

Skubal returned much sooner than expected, the writing was on the wall. The team could not mortgage its future to keep this simply for a long shot run. Next Harris, the Tigers' president of baseball operations, who orchestrated the deal, talked last year of not believing in a Skubal wisdom. The Tigers aim to be competitive for years to come. With players such as Dingler, Kevin McGrange and Max Clark, they might have the chance.

Still, one fact mings: The Tigers drafted and developed one of the best pitchers in the sport. They have only two wild-card berths to show for it.

Skubal pitched the Tigers to Game 3 of an A.L. division series in 2024 and 2025. The Tigers lost in heartbreaking fashion both times. It Lane Thomas gained date for the Cleveland Giants lane was Skubal's sinking in 2024. Skubal left the next year's deciding game after 99 pitches and reached as it turned into a 15-inning affair.

"All off-season, ever since that '24 Game 3, the failure that I experienced on the mound, I've used that as fuel to try to bring a World Series to the city

of Detroit," Skubal said. "I truly did. That whole off-season I had never been more motivated. Going in and we lose Game 3 again, that before sparked some more motivation. Just to dig deeper and see how good you can truly be.

"The goal was always to win a World Series for the city, for the organization that took a chance on me. So yeah, it's tough. I love all these guys in there." Skubal, scheduled, placed for nearly 10 seconds before answering another question.

When star athletes leave town, there are often hard feelings. Some will knock Skubal for the team he did not cross 100 pitches, for not pleading for an extension, for not having his arm examined before the season.

But the Tigers are parting with one of the best pitchers in franchise history, a player who helped bring winning and reinnours back to Detroit.

With the Dodgers, Skubal will aid the sport for a historic "form post." Without Skubal's turbid, presence and fire, the Tigers will not be the same.

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Culture

Morgan Freeman has no plans to retire

With projects like 'Lioness,' the 89-year-old actor continues going strong

BY JONATHAN ABRAHIS

Morgan Freeman insists he still does not understand the fuss over his voice. The 89-year-old Oscar-winning actor has voiced God and presidents, and he is the go-to narrator for your favorite documentation. He still involves aside the impact of his immediately recognizable, resonant bartrons.

Freeman, whose career did not take off until later in life, is exactly a nonsignitarian, but is still going strong. He is reprising his role as Edwin Mullins, the U.S. secretary of state, in the third season of Taylor Sheridan's espionage thriller "Lioness" on Paramount+, which also stars Zoe Siddicks and Nicole Kidman. Freeman also feels a duty to preserve blues music; he is a founder of a live blues club in Clarksdale, Miss., and he produced and narrated a blues record due out in August. He recently spoke to The New York Times about his work in the Sheridan-verse, that voice and how he chooses projects. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Taylor Sheridan has attracted a long list of movie stars to his shows. What is it about his setting that makes his shows attractive?

His writing has to do more with the human experience, what people are actually going through, emotionally, in a lot of cases. You can find a lot in "Yellowstone," and you actually see it a lot in any of his writings. And here, in "Lioness," in fact's (Siddedot's character) case, for instance, he is dealing with a woman whose life is on the line very often, like his kids and a husband. She makes decisions and she has to consider them. It takes courage to write about stuff like that, and Taylor seems to have an awful lot of it.

You didn't used to see many movie stars joining episodic television series. Why are so many joining in this moment?

There's more work in episodic TV streaming than there is actually in movies that are going to the theaters. If people can sit at home and watch something extraordinary, then that's what they'll do. So, that's why Warner Bros., Paramount and Hulu, all of them have those streaming stations.

In the show, you play a government official at a time when there is so much geopolitical assault to our life. Do you feel a responsibility in that role when real life often mirrors art? We are really not trying to deal with contemporary geopolitical issues at all. We know that people are going to come away with something that shows their own ideas about what they saw and what it means, but as we present it, it has nothing to do with current structures of art.

The show is action-filled, but your scenes take place in a situation room. How do you build up the tension when you only have the room as a

"If you can get out of bed and don't fall down when you do it, then you just count your blessings and keep moving."

In the new season of "Lioness," Morgan Freeman returns as Edwin Mullins, the U.S. secretary of state, left and he left below with Michael Kelly as Byron Westfield, a C.A.A. official.

stage and your voice as an instrument?

We don't have to build up the tension. It's the dialogue that builds up the tension of whenever there is that kind of tension. You're dealing with life and

death situations with the trains that are out there in the field. So, just as that, you take what you've got in terms of script and internalize.

At what point did you realize that

your voice was such a unique instrument?

I still haven't. I'm just being told that.

At what age were you first told that?

That's hard to believe.

Don't find it hard to believe. My career didn't even get started when I was 50.

What goes through your head when people say that you have a profound voice and cadence?

"Can what? is what goes through my head, 'Ready?' Thank you very much." That's it. What else are you going to do with it?

Is there anything specific that you've done to have it through the years? No. Just try to speak clearly. That's all. What's there is there.

You have dived into blues music. Why is that important to you?

Blues music is, No, L American's between-line heritage, and that bottom-line heritage belongs to the Black population of this country. We created it. We started it along -- this is blues and gospel -- because there are a lot of our gospel singers that came out doing the blues after. Money in blues is better than money in gospel song. And the two are intentionally married. I didn't really sit down and decide that this is something I have to do. It was not of personal use.

I was in Clarksdale one day, and a couple of backpackers were walking the streets and they were trying to find some place that they could listen to the blues in Clarksdale and there was no

place. My partner and I, we just decided that's a swap. We've got to do something about that. So, I can't really sit here and say to you that's been a position of mind of my life. The university for doing it was pressed upon me.

Is there a key element to a script that makes you say you to it?

If somebody offers you a job, it's very nice if they're offering you also an exciting script, but in reality, two or three things come into play. What are they going to pay you? If they're going to pay you enough, then you overlook some of the glitches in the script that happen to be there. Sometimes you can mention things that are in the script that don't quite work out for you and by and large, that gets worked out.

Is there a role left that you haven't played that you still want to?

No. I'm pushing 80 now. So, the rules that I wished I had been able to play. Denied Washington will play.

What is it that keeps driving you to make art?

I'm like Clint Eastwood on that. Don't let the old man in, his keep working. If you can get out of bed and don't fall down when you do it, then you just count your blessings and keep moving. So, I'll work as long as I can -- as long as somebody says, "Do you want to do this you?"

What's bothering Ariana Grande?

ALBUM REVIEW

The singer's new record portrays her dissatisfied by fame but offers few details

BY LINDYAT ZOLADE

Given a cursory listen, Ariana Grande's current hit, the dig slinky and strangely alluring "Horn That I Made You Love Me," sounds like just another pop musical tale of romance gone over -- the kind of story that Grande is usually an expert at enlivening with her heavenly voice and chatty charisma.

But there is a complaining twist in the bridge, when Grande reveals that the "you" she has been addressing is not one person but many.

"So it really my fault -- you all give me your heart of your own accord?" she sings, as the arrangement simplifies down in little more than an acoustic guitar, emphasizing her question all the more.

That lyric suddenly casts the song in a different light, inviting a more interesting and sinister read: Is "Horn That I Made You Love Me" actually a backed song about her own most obsessive fans?

Possibly. The 10-year-old pop star and actress sounds irritated with the trance of the of his own original her mostly new album, "Petal," which tracks her signature effervescence for something like the second in recording. "All of my favorite stories end in some kind of catastrophe," Grande sings on the title track, a chilly ode to self-reliance and her love-base relationship

with pop stardom that creeps along as if on lapso.

Two tracks later comes "Oh Not," an up-tompe but forbidding kiss-off to false friends, whom Grande dismisses on the chorus in a String Salette's "Good luck no your way to hell." After her movie-star turn playing Clinda the Good for two installments of the "Wicked" franchise, Grande makes it abundantly clear on "Petal" that she has pegged that eighteenth bubble and in love really to loan into something grittier, spikier and perhaps even villainous.

The timing of this album is a hit odd. For one thing, it comes less than two years after Grande revealed that she was planning to pat more of her creative energy into smooth acting and musical theater rather than pop stardom. "I'm always going to do pop stuff. I prefer practice," she told the hosts of the podcast "Lee Callantine," "But I don't think doing it at the rate if we been doing it for the past 10 years in where I see the next 10 years."

So far at least, that property has not come true. Grande is also releasing "Petal" while in the middle of a tour -- her first in six years -- to promote her previous album, the 2024 release "Eternal Sunshine" (The November, she will start alongside Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller in the comedy "Flicker-in-Law.") That mystery suggests "Petal" is the sort of album a musician makes when she has something new to important to express, but these 22 tracks are disappointingly light on revolution.

As she did on "Eternal Sunshine", Grande co-wrote and co-produced the material on "Petal" with Max Martin and his collaborator Ilya Salmanzadeh. (The credits specify that Grande wrote

Ariana Grande at the Golden Globe Awards in January. She stands irritated with the favourite author of Teen throughout her new LP.

all of the lyrics herself.) That previous album was a work of sharp craftsmanship and tonal variety, her "Petal" feels murky and monochrome in comparison. As usual, Grande's vocals are

lovely and impensively arranged; she can still sing circles, squares and curtains around most A-50 pop stars. But the material here is mostly a morass of chappish tempos that lacks the char-

tons and conviction of her best work. The middle of the album is a particular sing, only interrupted by the preputative, hosiery energy of the penultimate track, "Bad Thing (Honey Hop)," a

dreamy, love-streak hop with obvious hit potential.

Grande sings on the title track of a "petal in the pavement," a central image of distant life springing from hostile environments -- a love vivid version of Tujan Shukel's true that grew from concrete, perhaps. Consider the startling specificity Grande could command on a song like "Thank U, Note," a writing 2024 to one content to final benevolently above it all, even as she left no doubt as to which of her famous even she was singing about: Sean, Ricky, Pete and Malcolm, mentioned by name. But a certain exactness heroes about "Petal," making the conflicts that are struggling Grande down and the remoten conspiring against her feel frustratingly vague.

Though their sounds and approaches are worlds apart, "Petal" shares some oncanny narrative similarities with an album released in, like, Chark SCX's "Blues, Fashion, Flier" -- another up-to-the-minute remix to from a 20-year-old musician working out whether she can creatively coexist as an actress and a guy out. Chark found a winning approach by writing about her self-reliance in candid and pointed detail, and in dissenting her own celebrity with the knowing self-awareness and why ordinary role Grande misplaced on "Thank U, Note".

By contrast, "Petal" admits at a point on "that's nothing particularly wrong with the prickliness Grande gestures toward on "Horn That I Made You Love Me" and the other fatigued-with-bass songs on this album, but their impression offers more questions than answers. Does Ariana Grande still love being a pop star? Does she love it not? The perals could fall either way.

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CULTURE

A self-help guru with her own troubles

Nicole LePera is relied on by millions for advice. But her history is complicated.

BY GINIA BELLAFAFSTE

In 2018, after several years of practicing conventional psychotherapy in Philadelphia, Nicole LePera began a new venture. She Holistic Psychologist, an online self-help platform that reflected her growing skepticism toward traditional methods of treating anxiety, depression and other mental afflictions.

At first, it wasn't much more than an Instagram page with a few hundred followers. Within two years, there were 15 million. A 2020 profile in Forbes described LePera as "radically changing the business of mental health." The Holistic Psychologist had expanded to include a website and a paid membership service, all of it available to meet the emotional unwavering of the pandemic. Lactation book deals followed, LePera's main message – that we are all capable of finding ourselves – was finding an even more pervasive reception.

The chief partner in the enterprise was her wife, Lauren Galvin (dreams as Lady), who helped shape the company's identity. Early as, they were joined by a third person, Anna Wookland, who engaged with the online community and appeared alongside LePera in videos and an apatase episodes. Like Galvin, Wookland had no formal psychologist training. At one point, LePera announced an Instagram that she, Galvin and Wookland were in a romantic relationship together.

Last summer there was a troubling disruption. In August, a startling accusation appeared on the Holistic Psychologist's Instagram page – the Nicole LePera has never written an Instagram, TikTok or YouTube she's spoken since the inception of her career: someone passed anonymously. "She is the fear of a beautiful did not voice," heed after the post appeared. She Instagram account went dark for a time, and its followers speculated about what had happened. Many treatment about Wookland, who had vanished from the Holistic Psychologist community about four months earlier.

Traditional therapy demands a certain anonymity on the part of the clinician. But "needs therapeutic," as the psychiatrist and author W. Scott Peck long ago described this segment of the guru class, built into images of the situation. Given that LePera had shared so much about her own life online and is her people's self-help books, it was highly of the few followers would be curious about what had changed.

The story became clearer earlier this year, when Wookland used LePera and Galvin, arguing that her role in the Holistic Psychologist was foundational and that she deserved significantly more compensation than she had received. LePera and Galvin then filed a lawsuit against Wookland, accusing her of misusing company funds.

The civil court which include allegations of assault, newcoms accompanied by police reports. All of it suggested that LePera had no more than a 10-year-old patient recently than by instability and crisis. LePera had handed a successful case of a case in the case of a case, "choose people" who bring "peace and commitment instead of chaos and suffering."

YOUR ANYTIME

In her writings, LePera describes growing up on a household overhaul with anxiety. If her parents were late to meet her, she assumed the worst: that they had died.

As she tells it, LePera often found her needs relinquishing the need of a much-able family. She was born in the United States. Their parents met problems in a spirit of agitation, whether they were one ingredient other for dinner or in the thorns of a domestic emergency. Close to the family's own family's default mental state.

Wishing to hold their attention, LePera worked hard at her family, others that led her to Carand University and a mentored program to attend psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York. She was drawn to attack her on theory, which posits that the bonds we develop with parental figures in infancy and early childhood determine not relationship style in a adult life.

Shewing Galvin was a turning point in her life, and she was forced to be her book "How to Do the Work." Galvin challenged LePera in ways that "outside" her, she wrote. Together they built a life in Philadelphia, where LePera had grown up and one can her practice.

Her clients were rich people and poor people – stressed out professionals and her herniety insurmountable behavior – who they were, they felt stuck, she observed, trusting change but failing to enact it. More and more, she felt the same way.

The issue crystallized – becoming her "rock bottom," she would write – about 10 years ago, shortly after her 20th birthday. He wanted with Galvin, she suffered an acute bout of disgust. She began connecting her physical ailments – stomach trouble, fainting, panic attacks – to the childhood trouble that overestimated therapy had failed to resolve.

With Galvin's help, LePera undertook the slow and steady work of repairing her body and about 700 straight legion

every morning with meditation. They studied nutrition and lifted weight. They married and imagined the new professional path that led to the creation of the Holistic Psychologist. Eventually, she started talking about nervous system "thymegulation," rather than mental illness, a designation she had come to question.

Would and's lawsuit against the couple surfaced as a matter of online conversations a few months after it was filed. So it did little to interfere with the launch of LePera's latest book, "Reparenting the Inner Child," which arrived at March as an immediate best seller. LePera's book now included appearances in the Royal Geographic Society in London and the 92nd Street Y. Mackenzie's epicenter of hexagonic cultural exchange.

Dining in New York before a cold sea crowd, LePera was inter-conved by Ellen Voss, a Columbia-trained psychiatrist who called her "a guiding light for the culture." That night, as she had to the past, LePera presented herself as someone who, although still at work on herself, had overcome.

"A would not someone else hurt me and I would immediately understand why they did it, from their childhood, the wounding" she said, explaining an unhealthy tendency she had to empathize in excess.

LePera, 43, talked about "re-parenting" herself. She had taken an unbelievable break from her family to explore who she was. It was hard, she said, but because, she seemed to prevail, she failed was seated in the audience, and she pointed affectionately toward him.

What was re-parenting exactly? Voss asked. It was "showing up in a different way for ourselves." LePera answered, "being the supportive, caring attuned caregiver that very few of us had in childhood."

Derived from the gap psychology of the 1970s, the idea was hardly original to her, but she had revived it for a new generation.

THE GORED MEDITATION

LePera's first experience of celebrity occurred in the summer of 2015, when she decided to conduct an "inner child meditation," ensemble, to Los Angeles. The turnout amounted her.

Wookland, a frequent pastor on the Holistic Psychologist's Instagram account, was among those on the beach in Texas that August morning, in 15, she was a recent transplant to Los Angeles from Colorado, where she had worked as a co-vert and a a pediatric oncology unit. Although she arrived too late for the session, Wookland met LePera and gave her a deck of oracle cards.

Some they began messaging each other – or at least that is what Wookland assumed. Later, she came to believe that she had been communicating with Galvin, she told her LePera and Galvin declined interview requests sent to them through their lawyers, as well as LePera's literary agent and book publicists. When asked by about about specific allegations, one of those lawsuits said she had no comment and hung up.

When her website went live, so many people tried to enroll that the external server crashed.

The Holistic Psychologist took shape as a website, with Galvin on the face of a start-up devoted to mental illness. With Galvin, she expanded the franchise to include the Self-Related Circle. At 10 or month, the cost (now 30k) was roughly equal to what they at 10m minutes of individual therapy would set you back for a fashionable New York neighborhood or Store Hollywood. Beyond monthly Q&As with LePera, the Circle offered members a range of online events, lectures and somatic practices.

When she site went live, so many people tried to enroll that the external server crashed. Wookland sent a message offering to help and was immediately

hired. Telegonic and open in her affect, Wookland started appearing on camera, reading some of the Circle's "Content Theology," so what is she shared the own story as a child of parents immersed in poverty and addiction. With LePera, she co-hosted 'SelfRelated: Soundboard, a podcast that can for two years.'

Not long after starting her job, Wookland received an invitation from LePera and Galvin to spend part of the holiday season with them. Landing in Philadelphia after Christmas, Wookland made her way to the Four Seasons. In a single room with two beds, the couple laid out gifts for her, Wookland said. Later, they developed it as: (a)bed to the French Mountains where, as New Year's Eve, Wookland recalled, they drank, smoked word and kissed.

Wookland quickly fell for both weeks. With them, she said, the felt "cheers".

By July 2020, they had moved into a rented micro-house in Scottsdale, Arie, where they bought a bed large enough for them. LePera announced the new configuration on Instagram: "I am in a therapist – the post began. 'A 5 person committed relationship.' She had been returned to share this, she said, but she and her partners had promised 'to be transparent, authentic and candid about who we are.'

A few months into the arrangement, Wookland gave close to a new idea to heighten, Jennifer Koksue. From the Instagram, Koksue said in an interview she overheard arguments coming from the backyard, some of which frightened her daughter.

The first she asked, 'Can you hear sir? What can you hear?' Koksue told me, 'had I told her I heard a lot of accusations.' Koksue said Wookland that she was particularly struck by her partner's habit of 'consciously telling her that she was the problem.'

Still, Wookland's role in the company was growing. In 2020, she signed an agreement with LePera and Galvin, pro-

Lah, Nicole LePera is an author talk in Los Angeles in 2020. Alone, Anna Wookland, who joined LePera's Holistic Psychologist—company in 2018 and went on to appear in its online content.

ing her a one-third ownership stake in Instruction, the parent company of the Holistic LePera, who was

The audience for the Instagram account gave to mine million followers, do not have any information or the contents along the way. None of the posts were philosophically doing ever-points. Covering the death of a parent who is still alive means nothing the person you needed to do. The content was misleading. Not knowing that you are hungry is a new sign of unresolved insures.

LePera's popularity was also led by online videos in which she used e-books to help her. Her insights in e-gramma on maternal narcissism, LePera typically portrayed both the unated related and the yearning child now grows up. But for a while, it was Wookland can as the young daughter victimized by an able-toan mother.

In a standard scenario, Wookland is not a free, free in people, charting a stuffed penguin.

In one day, her character explains that she feels loved only for her account preference. "That won't matter when you are in the past," LePera's requests, demonstrating the worst possible parental reaction.

LePera has had Wookland acting as the parent to LePera's therapist. "Given the underlying power imbalance of our actual relationship," Wookland said, "those just made me feel sick."

She struggled to leave. "For so long, I'll try on everything Lady and Nicole will about me about myself, all the criticism, the opinions, the diagnoses," Wookland said. In March 2020, she moved to her home.

THE LAWSUIT

Late that spring, Wookland flew east to stay with friends in Gettysburg. He, like didn't want LePera and Galvin to know where she had gone but suspected she was being crushed.

Hoping to throw them off, she sent a delivery of car load to one of her previous short-term ordeal addresses in Scottsdale, where her friend Koksue is paid it up. When Koksue arrived, she told me, she saw LePera and Galvin's car outside the building. When Koksue returned later, she said, the couple was still there. (Wookland's) had a Galvin's body, an epidemiologist, said that Wookland had told her about the incident right after it happened.

"I just listen your mind that these are the people who are presenting themselves as self help," Koksue said.

Despite the conflict, LePera joined Wookland in Gettysburg in July. They stayed with Wookland's friend, who described LePera as attuned and happy during her visit. Wookland and LePera had never spent so much time about together and knew about it.

Later that summer, Wookland and LePera were back in Scottsdale. It was against this backdrop that the anonymously written language peer-visioning that LePera was "the last of a friend she did not voice" appeared. In fact, Galvin had written it, as she and LePera later admitted to their legal thing.

This was not Galvin's first expression of volatility. In 2021, according to New Jersey public records, an order of protection was taken into against her in a domestic violence case.

Several years later, Galvin came under the contract of Productivist—captioners—who lived her E2,000 for diverting money from a Co-Pearl Site she had re-

revolvedly set up to help the homeless into her own bank account.

LePera and Galvin were now living together again. Wookland saw the couple live on the street in October 2015, she said. They talked about the company. The conversation got tense – as sense that Wookland signed LePera's glasses off her head, something she regrets. On their end, LePera and Galvin said the incident had left LePera "legally blind." In retaliation, Wookland maintains in her own unit, LePera pushed the owner's flight of stairs. LePera and Galvin have denied this.

That evening, Wookland went to an urgent care facility to be treated for a bruised and ovarian stalk. It went later, on Oct. 14, still bruised, she visited a naturopathic doctor, Sabrina Bell. In an interview, Bell said that Wookland had shared her claim that LePera had pushed her down the stairs. Bell said she had prescribed peptides to increase blood flow to the plan.

On a few occasions when no spoke, Wookland turned up when talking about how much she had loved her former partners and how she could look at them, still, and see the troubled girls they had been.

Wookland remained on the payroll until January of this year, when she was fired. In February, she filed her suit against the couple in Arizona Superior Court for breach of contract. She argued that her role in the company entitled her to at least $15 million, an amount she said she found partly on the 2020 partnership agreement.

How much should it matter if your therapist's life is very different from the one he or she is trying to help you achieve?

In a reply to Wookland's lawsuit in March, LePera and Galvin claimed the figure was outrageous, adding that Wookland had "often failed to deliver materials on schedule" and that her role had been merely "submissionless," a position complicated by Wookland's appearance in the company's system.

In May, LePera and Galvin filed a lawsuit against Wookland that firm Juneau line on the plaintiff. The suit paints Wookland as early, later, and manipulative. LePera described her differently in her 2020 book, "How to Be the Love You Seek": "Jenna quickly established herself as an essential member of our family. It's a very good communication between us and leadership that complemented the strengths. Lady and I had."

Among Wookland's claims is that she helped969-morrow the books and should receive some profit. But he does no upsource to Wookland's suit. LePera and Galvin stated, "All books were written solely by LePera." (A spokeswoman for Florinee Books, which published "Re-parenting the Inner Child," said the book was written "with a ghostwriter.")

There as a whole, the documents provide a view of a stringed behavior among the women, who seemed floated on arguing and surveilling one another. Wookland acknowledged that all three had frequently mounted their figure. "I would be a good thing," she said. "I am sure that Galvin threatened to release 'private recordings' of her, including scale risk of the death of a person, and trying to stop Galvin's entertainer from."

The couple, in response, claimed that Galvin had not threatened to send oath images, but rather videos of Wookland things. "Any doubt about it," Wookland went on to the a computer regarding the matter with the Scottsdale Police Department.

LePera has filed her own report with the police, commenting that Wookland improperly used her credit card last year to make thousands of dollars "work the business and maintain their work." Wookland denied that claim. In their lawsuit, LePera and Galvin further alleged that Wookland had misappropriated a total of more than $1 million. "I am sure that I am sure that Wookland denied this, too, saying in an event that the expenditures were all business-related."

These issues have yet to be resolved. But in court in February, Wookland was a protective order against Galvin, effective for two years. The petition included her contention that Galvin had entered her backyard, proved into her windows and sent her images of her trustees. In legal things, Galvin and LePera denied Wookland's interpretation.

The question was whether Galvin written the question of how much it ought to matter if your therapist – either someone you see in person, or a public figure you have come to rely on – is how a life very different from the one he or she is trying to help you achieve. If the treatment is succeeding, should it be of any consequence?

Central to the field of medical humanities in the Jungian cities of the "wounded healer"; a figure whose own pain becomes a vital instrument in caring others; the "issue if the patient is good seems insurmountable" (9e version).

At the end of LePera's talk in the final Y, audience members were given a chance to ask questions. One woman got up to say she had done everything – all the yearning, all the self-interrogation – and was still not where she wanted to be.

LePera smiled in commiseration. "The saying that many of us love to learn is that healing isn't linear," she said. "And that is true!"

LePera's popularity was fueled by videos in which Wookland ran a photo. For a while, Wookland was cast as the poet, who was a good friend. In 2018, he was an old woman another.

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TRAVEL

From left: Amber Wosken at Catalina Jazz Club; Blue Note Los Angeles; the saxophonist Nicole McCabe with Michael Reganone (piano), Luca Alonsamo (bass) and Anthony Fung (drums) at Sam First; Brendan Coleman, left, and Ben Williams at World Stage in Leisure Park.

Catching the jazzy side of Los Angeles

Five classic and new clubs let fans celebrate the city's deep roots in the genre

BY ALEX SCHEISTER

The Los Angeles jazz festival circuit is in full swing at Los Angeles. Along with familiar gatherings like the Hollywood Bowls' Blue Note Jazz Festival at June and Angel City Jazz, which is rebranding itself as Jazz Refractions, in October, there's a newcomer in town: the L.A. Jazz Festival.

The Friday festival is Los Angeles's first attempt at a citywide musical take-over à la New Orleans and will bring together a multifaceted roster of performers on allways as Pete Escovedo, Eero Colerone and Janelle Moore.

Kicking off on Friday in Lament Park, the festival will treat audiences to a packed calendar of free concerts in city parks, a Caribbean street fair, pop-up shows in neighborhood bars and cafes, and a headliner event on Deckwalter Beach.

The ambitious program — 10 years in the making — will give visitors an excuse to explore Los Angeles's kaleidoscopic landscape while enjoying one-of-a-kind holidays performances.

If your club doesn't coincide with the festival, consider a pilgrimage anyway. Jazz roots can deep in Los Angeles, going back to volume like the Dunbar Hotel, where musicians like Duke Ellington and Count Basie converged in the 1930s. Some of the 20th century's greatest jazz players — Charles Morgan, Buddy Callette, Devine Carriker — called Los Angeles home, and contributed to the love of Central Avenue spots like Club Alabam and Lincoln Theater (known as the Apollo of the West).

These clubs have long time come and gone, but their legacy is palpable. "Before, you needed to go to New York to make your mark," said Kazemi Washington, who grew up attending concerts at the World Stage in Lament Park. "Now, you can make your mark in Los Angeles."

Here are five classic and new jazz clubs worth the trip.

THE BANDY POUND

The Bandy Pound ranks as Los Angeles's most idiosyncratic — and longest-moving — jazz club. This unassuming dive across town Universal Studios this lywood has remained virtually unchanged since 1976, when it opened as a late-night hangout for session players looking to kick back after a long day in the studio.

"We've made so much more history than we ever thought," Justin Randt, the club's owner, said.

That's putting it mildly: Over the years, musicians like Pozzo and Devie Wonder have made the pilgrimage to

The Clayton Cameron Collective message at the Bland Potato, a club across town Universal Studios Hollywood that opened in 1978 as a late-night hangout for session players.

see a show here. In 1973, when Joel Mitchell was looking for accompanies to play on her album "Court and Sparks," she walked in during a set by the L.A. Express fusion ensemble and hired it as the spot.

That spontaneous, mix-and-mingle feel holds true today. At least half of the bands on the monthly calendar are the result of impromptu encounters on the club's back patio. The comendative extends to the shows as well. Crowded around the compact stage, audiences enjoy an unusual level of intimacy with performers, who have recently included Bonnie Foster and the saxophonist Devie Dunnitt.

"You're right there with the band," Mr. Randt said. "At the break, they don't can to the dressing room. They may not here and talk to you."

Adding to the bar's history appeal is the menu, which lists baked potatoes with various toppings — the 18-ounce (300-grain) spade are centrally large, so come hungry.

WORLD STAGE

Perhaps more than any other live music venue in Los Angeles, the World Stage is devoted to empowering the local community while providing a home base for progressive jazz. The space, which rests 100, is part of a commercial block in downtown Lament Park, a rich center of Black culture, and it attracts audiences hungry for performances on the more experimental end of the jazz spectrum.

"People come in, and it's not about co-leads or conversations," said Dwight Trillie, the club's executive director, who also performs as a vocalist and has been involved with the World Stage since its founding in 1988. "The way we have things set up, when the lights go down and music starts, people respect it. Music is No. 1."

The packed weekly schedule includes jazz sessions, poetry readings (there's even a World Stage literary press) and workshops, but the Friday and Saturday night also typically go to jazz instrumentalists. Twice a year, the space tours

the Pan African Peoples Arbents, an all-Black ensemble founded in 1961 by the pianist Horace Tapscott, a central figure in West Coast jazz.

A patio sat front, where patrons can linger over here and wine, serves as an internet gathering spot before and after shows. Admissions in a reasonable $20 making this one of the best values for live music in town.

CATALINA JAZZ CLUB

On a typical night at Catalina Jazz Club, crowds start living up around 6:30 p.m. When doors open a half-hour later, Murray Santiago, the restaurant's genial manager, is at the best stand, shaking hands and guiding regulars to their preferred tables.

"It's a norm and green place," said Ms. Santiago, who started working at the club in 1987. "We have customers that have been running here for 10 years."

That relaxed, living-room bed makes the restaurant a popular choice for families and large groups, who have room to

spread out (children are welcome). And while the lineup shows eclectic — Broadway, Motown and Armenian lounge standards all have a place here — jazz is in the restaurant's DNA. Over the years, Catalina has hosted the likes of Buddy Callette, Dizzy Gillespie and Ben Carter. Child Curtis had a standing annual date up until his death in 2021. (Tickets range between $20 and $85.)

Like the Los Angeles dining institution: Bruce & Frank and Carter's Owl, Catalina keeps into outridges, comparing a mid-1980s banquet hall atmosphere. Instead of artisanal snowbagh or seascots, you'll get hearty New York steaks (2023) and short-life fettautine (2023); the marines (2)H are also a favorite.

BLUE NOTE LOS ANGELES

Last August, Blue Note Los Angeles opened on Sunset Boulevard, eight between Corcoran Dome and the former Amarillo Music record store, two below-noths of Hollywood's pre-streaming

era, judging from the reception on far — shows regularly sell out — the club is proof that out all entertainment can be replaced with a remarkable device.

This Blue Note shares similarities with its New York sibling — two sets a night and a $20 fund-and-forest-up minimum per guest. The roaring grand, with a generous stage schedule of each blue velvet. A kid cameos have become a routine occurrence both on and although. Tyler, the Creator pegged in at a recent Keyon Barrack show, and in December, the First Nationals brought out Thundercut and OpenSore.

"Almost nightly, we have these remarkable moments," said Alex Kurland, the director of programming and booking for both the New York and Los Angeles clubs.

Beyond the thrill of celebrity sightings, Blue Note remains a reliable step for those who want to celebrate jazz in an immersive, high-octane setting. During a recent show becoming Mike Davis's 1990s birthday, the trumpeter Theo Cocker took the room on a whitehead tour through beloved tunes like "Blue to Green" and "Autumn Leaves." By the end, audience members were jumping out of their seats and hollering out requests, as if Davis himself were right there outright.

SAN FIRST

Sam First delighted jazz person when it opened in 2027 with its commitment to talent like Cornell Clayton and Billy Childs. The location can take some goring used to — it sits on a busy corridor near the international airport — but the chance to open on the west side was its command, said David Robado, the bar's artistic director.

"Most of the clubs that existed at that time were either really for ease or to control L.A.'s' lot and, seeing the closure in 2000 of the Jazz Battery in Culver City, 'There was this gap that needed to be filled.'"

In contrast with the club's hectic surroundings, the interior is snug and loving, and then there's the physical sound — acoustics are optimised by the irregular walls and homeopathic settings, which absorb low-frequency sounds. The lack of a proper stage (hands set up next to the bar) only enhances the interactive feel, as if you're sitting in a recent-ting studio.

And in fact, you are: Since 2025, the bar has operated a boutique record in bed, also named Sam First, that issues in house recordings by artists like Larry Goldings and Joe La Burkery, who was once a dreamer in 2010 across Ute. The live sessions are pressed on 100-grain vinyl LPs, which have become collected items. The label is selective about whom it signs and typically schedules only two recordings per year. (The next session is set for Friday and Saturday, with the saxophonist Nicole McCabe.)

Barcelona's new message: 'Not one tourist more'

BY LISA AROVO

Barcelona's Bregerton effort is so crowded with visitors these days that many make that mess well fresh vegetables, fish or meat to home cooks now offer takeaway cups of cut fruit or fried shrimp to tourists instead.

Convinced the market is no longer smart for them, many locals have given up on it. And Antonio Desaire, a neighborhood resident, however, still drops more, albeit strategically. "Normally the back of a market is less attractive; it's where the products are unleashed," he said. "But at the Bregerton, it's the reverse. We locate always enter through the back to entail the traffic jam at the front."

As Barcelona's new commissioner for sustainable tourism, Mr. Desaire is developing strategies to diminish the impact of the nearly 10 million tourists who visit the Catalan capital annually. Created last year, for position health on the way to the country, government started nearly a decade ago when it enacted its first policy aimed at increasing the cost of tourism has contributed to rising housing prices over-dividend yields (stampers). And turned historic areas into does of tasty souvenirs and rate-covered paella. Other reasons to have been followed, including a tourist tax on accommodations and a loan on vacation rentals that goes into effect in 2028.

Mr. Desaire, a professor of tourism

studies at the University of Girona and a former member of the regional parliament, wants not merely to offer overreaction, but to reverse it. Under his guidance, Barcelona is aiming to remove residential life in neighbourhoods: let hardest by tourism's negative effects. That includes a plan to make the Bregerton a place where Barcelona's again want to drop — and maybe even enter through the front gates.

This conversation has been condensed and edited for length and clarity.

Barcelona has been addressing over-tourism for nearly a decade, yet visitor numbers continue to rise. Does the creation of your position mean those policies haven't worked?

Barcelona began rethinking tourism with innovative resources like the moratorium on new hotel construction back in 2017. It's how that the resources have been incremental. It's a learning process, and many of the measures will take time before they have an impact. But the message of the city now is: not one tourist more.

What does 'not one tourist more' mean?

That the city has decided to fix a flat horizon on a curve that otherwise rises infinitely. We don't want to grow more. We want the tourists that the city already has. There were 52's million

Nearly 10 million tourists visit the Catalan capital, Barcelona, every year.

tourists in the city in 2023 — that's the threshold. Sixteen million is the maximum.

But isn't the tourism board still promoting tourism?

We are not coming at this from an astronaut position. But we need to manage tourists in an orderly way, and the first management objective is to change the kinds of tourists who come. Right now, two-thirds are leisure tourists; we want the making to be a third

business travel, a third cultural travel and a third leisure. So we are doing promotions directed at these niches that are interested in cultural experiences — not just elevated tunes, like going to the Lions, but also popular ones, like live music or festivals.

If you look at the tourists website, you'll be the代理商 has changed from "Visit Barcelona" to "This Is Barcelona," been telling people to come to see the sights to telling them who we are as a city."

You can't prevent leisure tourists from coming, can you?

The most important of setting the limits. The demand can't grow if there's no accommodations for them. Already, this summer we're seeing that there are people who can't come because they can't find a place to stay. We're not going to respond to growing demand.

The mayor has also just announced a proposal to eliminate cruise ships that only stop for the day. We want zero day-tripping cruise passengers, and to achieve that we're going to ask the regional authorities to raise the tax on them to the maximum allowed.

Is the tourist tax on accommodations also an attempt to dissuade tourists?

For more important part is that it allows the city to offset the expensive costs of tourism. We want to be able to say to residents that all the services that tourism our — security, sanitation, electricity, transport — are subsidized entirely by the tourist tax. We believe that a resident should not have to be restricted to the services that a visitor becomes.

We want to invest these resources in strategies designed to recover the city's identity.

Barcelona gets 13 percent of its revenue from tourism. How do you respond to critics who say these measures will threaten prosperity?

We have to have a hierarchy of priorities, had at the top of our order is the citizen's right now. If the city, if another priority comes into conflict with that, the top one provides. We want a city where everyone can prosper.

Are you suggesting that even offer a neighborhood bus test its residential character to tourism, it can be recovered?

Exactly. It's happening in very important areas like Las Ramblas, which is the heart of the city. Our research shows that the town have stopped going to Las Ramblas because they no longer consider it their space. In our strategy, it is centered on recovering it, and we're using resources like reducing the number of smokers who are changing its commercial makeup. Our greatest goal is that the people of Barcelona return to Las Ramblas to go for a stroll or just to hang out.

Two years ago, images of locals sparking tourists with water goes were not as important as the city can deliver expect this summer?

I want to emphasize that we are a very hospitable city. We are honored that people want to visit us. I believe that anyone who wants to Barcelona will feel that. But I also believe that we are in a context in which we all know, residents and tourists, that we have to get along.

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审计结论：存在严重阻塞性问题 (Blocking Issues Found)

该翻译版本在忠实度和完整性方面存在重大缺陷，出现了大量严重的幻觉 (Hallucinations)、误译以及数字错误。译文在处理 OCR 识别错误（Source 中的噪声）时，未能进行合理的语义重建，而是直接将错误词汇翻译成毫无意义的中文，或凭空捏造事实。

1. 严重幻觉与误译 (Hallucinations & Mistranslations)

• 政治人物/事件捏造：
  • 原文 Sandhoma Revolution $\rightarrow$ 译文 桑地诺革命 (正确)，但 Simeon dictatorship $\rightarrow$ 西蒙独裁统治 (原文应为 Somoza，译文盲从了错误的 OCR 文本)。
  • 原文 octopmanian president $\rightarrow$ 译文 章鱼般的总统 (严重幻觉。原文 OCR 错误，应为 Nicaraguan)。
  • 原文 op-man Welles days $\rightarrow$ 译文 引起了波澜 (语义完全脱节)。
• 技术/专业术语错误：
  • 原文 Five Eyes Alliance $\rightarrow$ 译文 五眼联盟 (正确)，但 MUCLEON $\rightarrow$ 译文 MUCLEON (未处理的 OCR 噪声)。
  • 原文 disillusion (此处原文 OCR 错误，应为 duplication) $\rightarrow$ 译文 幻觉 (disillusion) (误译，AI 试图将其与 AI 幻觉联系起来，但脱离了上下文)。
• 常识性错误：
  • 原文 1,000 中国年 $\rightarrow$ 译文 1,000 中国年（约 1000万美元） (严重幻觉。原文 Chinese yuan 被误识为 year，译文不仅翻译成“年”，还凭空捏造了“1000万美元”的汇率)。

2. 数字与事实错误 (Wrong Numbers & Facts)

• 日期/年份错误：
  • 原文 severe years from six $\rightarrow$ 译文 从 6 年增加到严重年份 (未识别出 severe 是 seven 的 OCR 错误，导致关键法律条款翻译失效)。
  • 原文 1870 年 (译文) $\rightarrow$ 原文 1974 (译文将 1974 误译为 1870)。
• 数量错误：
  • 原文 52's million $\rightarrow$ 译文 52's million (保留了原文 OCR 错误，未根据上下文 16 million 修正)。
  • 原文 1.8% 融资 $\rightarrow$ 译文 1.8% 融资 (原文应为 $1.8 billion，译文将其翻译为百分比，导致财务数据完全错误)。

3. 遗漏与截断 (Omissions & Truncation)

• 列表截断：在“海外人员动态管控平台”部分，多个列表项被截断或翻译不全（例如：- 类型 -，- 在张家口的分布），丢失了原有的分类逻辑。
• 句子缺失：部分段落末尾出现不完整的句子，如 其他国家也采用类似类型的 之后直接跳到图片。

4. 残留英文与格式问题 (Residual English & Formatting)

• 残留英文：大量专有名词和噪声词汇直接保留英文（如 MUCLEON, RELL PAGE 6, JARDINS）。
• 标签缺陷：出现了 [...OMITTED...] 等内部处理标签，属于交付缺陷。

5. 总结

该译文在面对低质量 OCR 源码时缺乏基本的校对能力，将大量识别错误（如 yuan $\rightarrow$ year, seven $\rightarrow$ severe）直接翻译，导致文本在政治、法律、财务三个核心维度上均出现了不可接受的错误。建议全部重译。