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国际版 / 星期二, OCTOBER 13, 2026

山火几乎无法扑灭

约翰·瓦伦特

观点

今年8月，失控的山火在不列颠哥伦比亚省烧毁了数百栋房屋，该省山火服务局的运营总监克利夫·查普曼发表了一份令人警醒的声明。他告诉记者：“我必须强调，我们目前面临的情况是前所未见的。”

查普曼先生从事山火扑救工作已有 20 年多，他也可以在华盛顿州、克罗地亚或许多其他地方发表同样的声明，在这些地方，同样具有爆炸性的山火烧毁了社区并迫使人们大规模撤离。这些移动速度快、几乎无法抑制的事件并非过去几十年的季节性山火；它们是气候变暖的危险信号，且正在剧烈闪烁。无论乡村还是城市，无论东方还是西方，我们正在进入一个文明风险与退却的新时代。

今年全球范围内这些移动速度快、几乎无法抑制的事件并非过去几十年的季节性山火。

在过去几年中，美国林务局的“红旗警告”足以传达极端的火灾风险，但官员们发现今年这已不足够。在华盛顿州，他们增加了一个通常仅用于危及生命的龙卷风的定义：特别危险情况。

这并非形容词的通货膨胀，而是一次真诚的尝试，旨在阐明那种非同寻常的火灾状况——这种状况在8月烧毁了斯波坎及其周边近 1,000 栋建筑，使其成为该州历史上破坏性最强的山火。截至 Oct. 5, 超过 900 万英亩的土地在全美被烧毁，是十多年来同期过火面积最大的一次，且该国大部分地区仍处于易燃状态。俄勒冈州已宣布 2026 年为该州历史上最糟糕的火灾季。犹他州、安大略省、法国、西班牙、英国和比利时要么已经经历了最糟糕的情况，要么正朝着这个方向发展。

但今年真正令人震惊的是，整个半球有多少平民和消防员描述了速度与烈度的致命结合。百米高的火焰已不再罕见，带有巨大火旋风的气旋风也不再罕见，它们像熔融的十层楼高的独角兽之角一样向天空盘旋上升。这两种现象都可能是火积雨云“火云”的前兆——这种巨大的、具有燃烧性的天气系统，

《纽约时报》发表来自广泛视角的观点，旨在促进关于重大问题的建设性辩论。

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顺时针从顶部开始：加沙一个游泳池中受伤儿童的训练课；一个临时教室；以及一对新婚夫妇。在停火生效的一年里，以色列的空袭并未停止，但频率有所降低。许多巴勒斯坦人正试图在碎片中创造某种程度的正常生活。

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Wildfires are almost unfightable

John Vaillant

OPINION

As out-of-control wildfires burned hundreds of homes in British Columbia this August, Cliff Chapman, director of operations for the province's wildfire service, issued a sobering statement. "I cannot stress enough that the conditions we are facing right now are conditions that we have never seen before," he told reporters.

Mr. Chapman, who has been fighting wildfires for over 20 years, could have made the same statement from Washington State, Croatia or many other places where similarly explosive wildfires have scorched neighborhoods and forced mass evacuations. These fast-moving, virtually irrepressible events are not the seasonal burns of decades past; they are the hazard lights of a heating climate, and they are flashing furiously. Rural and urban, East and

This year's fast-moving, virtually irrepressible events all over the world are not the seasonal burns of decades past.

West, we are entering a new era of civilizational risk and retreat.

In past years, the U.S. Forest Service's red-flag warning was sufficient to convey extreme fire risk, but officials this year found it inadequate. In Washington State, they

appended a designation typically reserved for life-threatening tornadoes: particularly dangerous situation.

This wasn't adjective inflation — it was a sincere effort to articulate the extraordinary fire conditions that burned nearly 1,000 structures in and around Spokane in August, making it the most destructive wildfire in the state's history. As of Oct. 5, more than 9 million acres have burned across the United States, the largest area set aflame by this date in more than a decade, and much of the country is still primed to burn. Oregon has declared 2026 the worst fire season in state history. Utah, Ontario, France, Spain, Britain and Belgium have either experienced their worst or are on track to do so.

But what's really striking this year is how many civilians and firefighters across the hemisphere have described lethal combinations of velocity and ferocity. Hundred-meter flames are not uncommon anymore, nor are cyclonic winds with towering fire whirls, corkscrewing skyward like molten ten-story unicorn's horns. Both phenomena can be precursors for pyrocumulonimbus "fire clouds" — enormous, combustive weather systems that VAILLANT, PAGE 11

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在一片废墟之上，加沙人试图重建生活与生计

摄影：萨赫尔·阿尔古拉

撰文：亚伦·博克斯曼

去年10月的停火协议表面上结束了以色列在2023年10月7日哈马斯领导的袭击后在加沙发动的战争。

然而一年后，以色列的袭击虽然频率降低，但并未停止。据当地卫生官员称，自停火协议签署以来，加沙已有1,400多人丧生。以色列方面表示，其目标仍是哈马斯武装分子。

加沙的巴勒斯坦人正试图重建他们的生活与生计，力求在瓦砾之中找回一丝正常生活的迹象。一些人尝试利用任何能搜集到的材料进行重建；另一些人则试图恢复原有的生意或创办新企业。

三年来，他们的生活被死亡与毁灭所吞噬。但炸弹、饥饿和流离失所并未抹去他们对美好生活的向往。

28岁的贾法尔·阿塔拉（Jaafar Atallah）曾依靠家族工厂维持生计，该工厂利用他位于加沙地带北部阿尔-瓦哈（al-Waha）地区家附近的富含粘土的沉积层来制作碗和花瓶。他的家在以色列的军事行动中被夷为平地。因此，阿塔拉先生及其家人在加沙中部的城镇阿尔-扎瓦伊德（al-Zawaydeh）重新建立了业务。

为了寻找住所，阿塔拉先生用自家窑炉烧制的红砖搭建了一座简陋的房屋。他说，他们不再拥有从地下提取粘土所需的大型机械，但他们找到了几乎一样好的替代方案。

“我们会去以色列轰炸留下的弹坑，因为在那里可以接触到粘土，”阿塔拉先生说，“我们把它挖出来，净化，然后开始工作。” 加沙，第4页

面对俄罗斯的攻击，欧洲寻求反击

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作者：STEVEN ERLANGER

俄罗斯正在升级其在北约国家的破坏行动，试图瓦解欧洲对基辅的支持——而欧洲正苦于应对。

欧洲官员表示，他们预计俄罗斯不会大规模入侵北约国家；从这个意义上说，传统的威慑起到了作用。但各国正在研究如何最好地应对这种升级的俄罗斯攻击模式。官员们表示，他们最担心的是，无论是由于意外还是蓄意，其中一次攻击会导致重大人员伤亡。

现任职于华盛顿智库欧洲政策分析中心（Center for European Policy Analysis）的前北约情报官员大卫·卡特勒（David Cattler）表示，莫斯科正“试图瓦解支持乌克兰的意志，并在更广泛的意义上试图改变欧洲的安全架构”。他表示，在操作层面，俄罗斯人正在使用一些“难以追溯、且他们认为规模足以产生影响，但又足够小到不会触发”更大规模战争的工具。

欧洲官员表示，内部的争论在于是否以及如何通过将战斗转移到俄罗斯境内来进行报复。前北约高级官员卡米尔·格兰德（Camille Grand）表示，第一反应应该是保持冷静，不要因过度反应而陷入俄罗斯的陷阱，但同时不能过于自满而忽视现实。他表示，俄罗斯的行动是某种模式的延续，但“事件的数量和性质的增长是显著的，且具有危险性”。

欧洲正试图在三个层面增加对混合战争（即未达到直接军事冲突程度的侵略行为）的威慑：首先，公开揭露俄罗斯的攻击并直接指责克里姆林宫；其次，提高社会意识并在潜在目标周围建立更强大的防御；第三，对莫斯科采取公开或秘密的惩罚措施，并向总统弗拉基米尔·V·普京（Vladimir V. Putin）传递明确信号。

立陶宛研究机构地缘政治与安全研究中心（Geopolitics and Security Studies Center）的利纳斯·科亚拉（Linas Kojala）表示：“任何攻击都应与具体的应对措施明确挂钩。”他补充道，“为了使其奏效，各国政府需要提前准备好资金和法律授权，这样应对措施就不会在每次事件后因新的政治辩论而延迟。”

这以欧洲在应对可能迅速导致战争的不可预测攻击时能达成集体共识为前提，而这些决定是各国在权衡——欧洲版，第4页

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Europe looks to hit back amid attacks from Russia

NEWS ANALYSIS

BERLIN

Countries face challenge of agreeing on response to deter Moscow's behavior

BY STEVEN ERLANGER

Russia is escalating its campaign of sabotage in NATO countries, trying to break European support for Kyiv — and Europe is struggling to respond.

European officials say they do not expect a major Russian invasion of a NATO country; in that sense, traditional deterrence has worked. But countries are grappling with how best to counter this heightened pattern of Russian attacks. What officials say they fear most is that, by accident or by intention, one of those attacks will cause a significant loss of life.

Moscow is “trying to break the will to support Ukraine and trying in a broader sense to change the security architecture of Europe,” said David Cattler, a former NATO intelligence official now at the Center for European Policy Analysis, a Washington think tank. Operationally, he said, the Russians are using tools “that are hard to attribute, that they believe are big enough to matter and yet small enough not to trigger” a larger war.

Internally, the debate among European officials, they said, is whether and how to retaliate by taking the fight to Russia. The first response should be to maintain calm and not fall into a Russian trap by overreacting, said Camille Grand, a former senior NATO official, while not being so complacent as to ignore reality. The Russian campaign is a continuation of a pattern, he said, but “the growth in the number and nature of the events is significant, and the dangerous nature of them.”

Europe is trying to increase deterrence against hybrid warfare — aggressive actions that fall short of direct military conflict — on three levels: first, by calling out Russia's attacks and blaming the Kremlin directly; second, by increasing societal awareness and building stronger defenses around potential targets; and third, by imposing consequences on Moscow, whether overt or covert, with clear messaging to President Vladimir V. Putin.

“Any attack should be clearly linked to a concrete measure of response,” said Linas Kojala of the Geopolitics and Security Studies Center, a research group in Lithuania. “To make that work,” he added, “governments would need to have funding and legal authority prepared in advance, so the response is not delayed by a new political debate after every incident.”

That presumes collective European agreement on responses to unpredictable attacks that could quickly lead to war, decisions that countries have trade-EUROPE, PAGE 4

赵长鹏在获得总统赦免后返回阿拉伯联合酋长国

作者：大卫·亚费-贝拉尼（DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY）

六月的一个早晨，加密货币大亨赵长鹏开着一辆日产 SUV 抵达了阿拉伯联合酋长国阿布扎比的瑞吉度假酒店。赵先生是加密货币领域最富有的人，估计身家 $114 亿，他住在附近的一栋别墅里，那里有九间卧室，配备四名保镖、一名厨师和一艘游艇。但他也喜欢扮演一个“普通家伙”的角色（正如他经常这样描述自己），那天他提出要亲自带我游览这座城市。

需要明确的是，赵先生并非一个普通家伙。不久前，美国当局对他提起刑事诉讼，指控其在管理币安（Binance）期间，使该加密货币交易所成为了法院文件中所描述的俄罗斯洗钱者、伊朗制裁规避者以及伊斯兰国恐怖分子的避风港。赵先生承认有罪，但保住了他的财富。在服刑四个月后，他回到了阿布扎比，依然是币安的大股东，且依然是该行业中最具影响力的人物。

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如今，49 岁的赵先生在世界上的行踪犹如一名国家元首，他乘坐私人飞机在亚洲各地飞行，为各国政府提供加密货币监管方面的建议。他最有影响力的盟友是两个强大的统治家族。一个是管理阿联酋的家族，他们希望他能帮助在沙漠中打造一个技术强国。另一个则是特朗普家族。

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特朗普总统及其三个儿子。World Liberty 去年为特朗普先生带来了 7.99亿美元的收益——这是他单笔最赚钱的资产。特朗普先生在去年 10 月赦免了赵先生，此举被广泛批评为一种利益交换。

在业内被称为“CZ”的赵先生经常避见记者，但今年他与我会面了多次，渴望为其在币安（Binance）的职业生涯披上一层更友好的外衣，尽管该公司仍未能遏制脏钱的流动。

多年来，他的真正天赋在于学术界所称的“管辖权套利”——在不同国家之间迁移，寻找足够灵活的法律框架，以适应他对风险和增长的渴求。

在阿布扎比，他可能找到了一个理想的运营基地。当我们开车进入这座城市时，经过了一系列令人印象深刻的院落，并向总统府 Qasr Al Watan 开去，其醒目的白色圆顶让人联想到泰姬陵。

赵先生变得兴奋起来。

“民主在过去几百年里一直被誉为某种‘圣杯’，但民主制度效率低下，”他说，“如果你能遇到一个仁慈的独裁者，实际上效率极高。几乎没有争论，你不会在很多琐碎的事情上浪费时间。”

最近，这种自上而下的商业和政治模式——既具有中世纪色彩又极其现代化——在美国获得了认可。在去年的一次阿布扎比之行中，特朗普先生称该国统治者谢赫·穆罕默德·本·扎耶德·阿尔纳哈扬（Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan）为“一个非常强有力的领导者”以及“极少数具有远见的人之一”。

特朗普先生的一位顶级顾问之子扎克·威特科夫（Zach Witkoff）在去年 5 月于阿拉伯联合酋长国迪拜举行的一次加密货币会议上，表达得更为直白。

“我们真的需要学习殿下和阿联酋的经验，”威特科夫先生说，“他们是一个绝佳的榜样，展示了如何在引领创新的同时，依然保持家族价值观。”

今年早些时候的一天，赵先生正在工作，窗户开始震动。他起身走到阳台上，看到天空中有一道烟迹。赵先生住在萨迪亚特岛（Saadiyat Island），这是阿布扎比的一个飞地，隔着波斯湾与伊朗相对，而伊朗刚刚向阿联酋发射了一枚导弹。

这是一场导致该地区动荡的地缘政治危机的开始，但赵先生并没有过于担心。他回到了工作中。

在定居阿联酋之前，赵先生是一个没有国家的人。他出生在中国，在 12岁时随家人移居加拿大。在蒙特利尔的麦吉尔大学就读后，他从事了一系列技术工作。2013年 7 月，在上海的一次扑克局上，一位同事建议他关注一下“这个叫作比特币的新玩意儿”。

经过几个月的研究，赵先生进行了一次激进的赌注。他卖掉了家产——一套位于上海的三居室公寓，他与妻子在那里抚养两个孩子——并将 $900,000 的收益全部投入到比特币中。

随后，赵先生在亚洲的一系列加密货币初创公司工作。2017年 7 月，赵先生创立了币安。在短短几个月内，它成为了全球最大的交易所，且至今从未失去这一地位。

Binance 的成功基于两个关键洞察。首先，加密货币投资者对风险极度痴迷，仅仅将美元或日元兑换成等值的加密货币永远无法满足他们。多年来，Binance 一直作为一家保证金交易所运营：交易者可以借钱对比特币和其他热门代币的价格进行高风险、高回报的押注。

第二个洞察更简单，但影响更深远。许多加密货币投资者不希望透露自己的身份，而 Binance 也没有要求他们这样做。在成立的前四年里，该公司允许客户在无需提供最基本的 KYC（即“了解你的客户”）信息的情况下开设账户，而传统公司为了防止金融犯罪，必须要求提供此类信息。

结果是一场极其获利的混乱狂欢：一个未经审核的投资产品向未经审核的交易者开放的平台。随着市场的繁荣，Binance 从每笔交易中抽取佣金；根据赵先生自出版的回忆录《金钱自由》（Freedom of Money），该公司迅速实现了 10 亿美元 billion 的利润。

赵先生突然成了加密货币界的名人。但在行业之外，人们从未真正了解他。当他讲述那些最具争议的时刻时，赵将自己塑造为一个乘客——一个被成功冲昏头脑的加密货币极客，一个天真的局外人。

这种表演并不总是令人信服。今年 6 月，赵先生告诉我，在 Binance 早期爆发式增长的岁月里，他“从未真正想过”要违法，而当时公司宽松的管控让一连串的不法分子得以洗钱。

“这只是因为我在那个领域缺乏经验，”他说。

这一形象与美国检察官在对 Binance 的调查中收集的证据并不相符。

在法庭上，检察官引用了赵先生对他下属的一次告诫：“请求原谅比请求许可更好。”

根据法律文件，赵先生在私下讨论如何掩盖 Binance 为美国用户提供服务的事实，尽管该公司在美国并未获得许可。他告诉一名下属：“不要留下任何书面记录。”

（图片说明）从上至下：Binance 创始人赵长鹏在阿拉伯联合酋长国阿布扎比的家中；阿布扎比，赵先生在居住于迪拜之后搬至此处，使他更接近该国的政治权力中心；赵先生因背痛而躺着工作；以及赵先生的特朗普品牌运动鞋。

在亚洲游历多年后，赵先生在 2021, 访问了阿联酋。2017, 由于中国政府准备宣布禁止加密货币交易所，他及其 Binance 同事被迫离开中国。在日本的一段经历没有成功，在新加坡也是如此。随后，赵先生的朋友加布里埃尔·阿贝德（Gabriel Abed）提出了一个建议，这位商人当时担任巴巴多斯驻阿联酋大使。他建议赵先生去看看迪拜。

赵先生立即意识到了阿联酋如何对待富人和权贵。他在 10 月的一个周六早晨抵达迪拜，几小时内，政府部长奥马尔·苏丹·奥拉马（Omar Sultan al-Olama）就前来拜访。他向赵先生提供了一张所谓的“黄金签证”，可获得 10 年无需繁琐手续的居留权。一名医生被召来为他进行所有签证持有者必须进行的血液检测。通常申请需要数周时间才能处理，而赵先生的申请在不到 12 小时内就获得了批准。

并非所有在阿联酋的人都受到如此优待。多年来，该国领导层实施了大规模监控，禁止即使是最温和的异议，并监管着一个外国劳工经常被剥削和虐待的劳动力市场。

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阿联酋被认为极其安全，而此时加密货币投资者正成为绑架者的目标。

但对于赵先生来说，这是一个舒适新生活的开始。在创立币安（Binance）之前，他与妻子分居，妻子带着孩子们搬到了东京。他与同事之一、营销主管何一开始了交往。在大的孩子们在美国上大学期间，赵先生和何女士在阿联酋组建了一个年轻的家庭。

赵先生结识了一群对技术充满好奇的阿联酋领导人。他逐渐建立起与谢赫·穆罕默德之兄——谢赫·塔农·本·扎耶德·阿勒纳哈扬（Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan）的关系。

在早期的这些接触中，谢赫们会向赵先生推介阿联酋，询问他们能提供什么帮助。很快，赵先生开始向更广泛的亿万富翁群体宣扬这个国家的优点。他鼓励人工智能大亨萨姆·奥特曼（Sam Altman）在阿联酋设立公司，并警告称其他国家会对他持有敌意。

亿万富翁们因为“亿万富翁式”的原因而向阿联酋聚集。这个国家不征收个人所得税，且被认为极其安全，而此时在欧洲和美国，加密货币投资者正成为绑架者的目标。但对于赵先生来说，阿联酋还拥有另一个重要优势：它与美国没有引渡条约。

他回忆道，在 2022 年底或 2023 年初，一位阿联酋王室成员在晚餐时问他是否想要公民身份。赵先生提交了一些文件并等待。几个月后，一名政府特使来到他家，为赵先生及其家人带来了护照。

他有理由保持警惕：围绕币安的绞索正在收紧。美国检察官正在收集证据，证明该交易所宽松的协议允许诈骗者、黑客和逃避制裁者转移资金。在政府获取的私信中，币安员工以令人震惊的坦率态度谈论该交易所那些来路不明的客户。

赵先生聘请了一支律师团队，与美国司法部（DOJ）协商达成协议。他的新护照给了他相当大的筹码。在迪拜生活两年后，他向南搬到了一个半小时车程的阿布扎比，那里更接近该国的政治权力中心。

最终，他的法律团队与美国政府达成了一项协议。赵先生将承认违反《银行保密法》（Bank Secrecy Act）这一反洗钱法规，并辞去首席执行官职务。（该公司将支付 43 亿美元 billion 的罚款。）尽管条款宽厚，但他对律师感到不满，认为自己根本不应该被判入狱。

尽管如此，这对币安来说是一个极佳的结果。

法官判处赵先生四个月监禁，称他为“一个尽职的家庭男人和一个慷慨的人”。

他被分配到位于加利福尼亚州的 Lompoc II 低安全级别设施。在入狱之前，赵先生组建了一个顾问团队，他们向他传授监区政治的微妙之处。其中一人迈克尔·桑托斯（Michael Santos）与其他囚犯交换信件，对方同意帮助赵先生在狱中适应环境。

“CZ，你是一个懂得如何管理人且拥有数千名员工的人，”桑托斯告诉他，“当你走进这里时，你不会失去这些技能的。”

2024 年 8 月，赵先生离开 Lompoc 前往 halfway house（中途宿舍）。但由于移民身份出现复杂情况，他不得不将最后两周在当地监狱度过。在他获释当天，一名警员护送他走到室外，他的母亲、妹妹和助手正在那里等待。他们开车前往机场，将他送上了一架飞往阿布扎比的私人飞机。

赵先生回到的是一个形势对他有利的世界。一个对加密货币友好的政府即将入主华盛顿。在选举前不久，特朗普先生与房地产大亨史蒂夫·威特科夫（Steve Witkoff）的家族共同创立了 World Liberty，而威特科夫当时正准备担任白宫的中东特使。很快，美国这些获得新权力的“交易型外交官”开始在阿联酋花费大量时间。

在开车带我游览这座城市时，赵先生停下来指了指 ADNEC 中心，这是一个在 2024 年 12 月举办过加密货币爱好者集会的会议中心。“这就是我见到埃里克·特朗普（Eric Trump）的地方，”他说。

他回忆道，在会场上，一位名叫大卫·贝利（David Bailey）的特朗普支持者将他介绍给了总统的次子，后者是 World Liberty 的领导者。那是一次随意的交谈，没有正式议程。

他们的利益即将达成一致。阿联酋一直致力于从石油国家转型为新兴技术的强国，这一项目由谢赫·塔农（Sheikh Tahnoon）牵头，他监管着 $1.5 trillion 的阿联酋主权财富。

在入狱之前，赵先生曾与谢赫的一名高级助手彭晓（Peng Xiao）进行过谈话，讨论向阿联酋出售币安（Binance）的股份，这将使他的公司与其政治守护者之间达成最终的结合。

谢赫·塔农是一家名为 MGX 的风险投资基金的主席，该基金专注于 AI。据一名知情人士透露，去年年初，MGX 同意向币安投资 20 亿美元 billion，此次交易对该公司的估值为 750 亿美元 billion。 MGX 将币安视为连接加密货币与 AI 的完美桥梁。

赵先生告诉我，他曾希望用比特币结算这笔交易。但阿联酋方面担心比特币价格波动剧烈，会使交易复杂化。他们更倾向于用稳定币向赵先生支付，稳定币是一种旨在维持 $1. 价格的加密货币。

接下来的事情存在广泛争议——而且如果民主党在下个月赢得国会控制权，这很可能会成为国会调查的对象。根据的说法，该基金在选择 USD1 之前评估了多种稳定币，理由是“业务适用性”，而 USD1 是由 World Liberty 创建的一种货币。考虑到 USD1 完全未经测试且没有记录，这是一个令人震惊的选择。去年，《华尔街日报》报道称，币安曾专门要求使用 USD1 支付；而赵先生则表示，决定是由 MGX 做出的。

但所有相关方都有动力让 World Liberty 参与到这笔交易中。去年 1 月，就在特朗普先生就职前几天，一家由阿联酋支持的投资公司收购了这家初创公司 49% 的股份；谢赫·塔农获得了 World Liberty 的董事会席位。大约在同一时间，阿联酋人正与白宫谈判，以确保获得驱动 AI 的高价值计算机芯片的出口。币安在特朗普政府面前也有业务需求。随着法律麻烦的减轻，该公司希望摆脱 2023 年和解协议中设定的一些限制。

国会中的民主党人谴责这笔交易是“稳定币腐败”。像 World Liberty 这样的发行方通过接受加密货币交易者的现金存款，向其提供稳定币，然后投资这些存款以产生收益来赚钱。凭借来自和币安的 20 亿美元 billion，World Liberty 瞬间成为了全球最大的稳定币公司之一，这对特朗普和威特科夫家族来说是一笔巨款。

“这简直是为了讨好而采取的卑劣手段，”来自康涅狄格州的民主党参议员理查德·布卢门撒尔（Richard Blumenthal）说道，他曾对赵先生和币安进行过调查。“其腐败的范围和规模是前所未有的。”

赵先生坚称没有发生任何不正当行为。他说他不再持有 USD1，他已将其用于投资比特币和其他资产。

“我假设特朗普总统有非常优秀的律师，而且由儿子经营业务、父亲担任总统的这种架构是完全合法的，”他告诉我。

在这笔20 亿美元 billion的交易两周后，尽管一些国家安全官员表示担忧，白宫还是同意共享这些芯片的访问权限。

据一名熟悉该对话的人士透露，在私下场合，威特科夫先生还告诉一名熟人，赵先生理应获得赦免。赵先生此前已提交了相关申请文件，正在等待总统的裁决。这一结果将对币安（Binance）产生巨大影响。在赵先生认罪后，该交易所在美国处于休眠状态的业务失去了州级许可。获得赦免将有助于该公司向监管机构进行自我推介。（白宫发言人表示，威特科夫先生在赦免过程中不扮演任何角色。）

据两名知情人士以及《纽约时报》审阅的文件显示，早在2024, 12月，赵先生的法律团队就一直在与著名的赦免律师布雷特·托尔曼（Brett Tolman）合作，探讨获得宽恕的可能性。公开文件显示，币安最终向切斯·麦克道尔（Ches McDowell）经营的一家游说公司支付了20 亿美元.100 万，用于包括“行政救济”在内的服务，而麦克道尔与总统的长子们关系密切。（World Liberty的一名发言人表示，该公司“未参与任何关于赦免的决定”。）

去年10月赦免令公布时，赵先生在社交媒体上发布了一条简短的感谢信息。

出狱以来，赵先生将时间分配在各种事业中，包括他的技术投资，以及以某种“加密外交官”的身份进行旅行，在那些经常将他视为贵宾的国家推广该行业。

赵先生淡化了自己在币安中的参与度；该公司的认罪协议禁止他“运营或管理”该业务。但显而易见，币安仍然是他生活中的重要组成部分。被任命接替他的两名共同首席执行官之一是何女士——他三个年幼孩子的母亲。两年前，为了向传统治理靠拢，币安成立了一个董事会，由三名据称独立的受托人组成。其中一人同时担任董事会主席——盖布·阿贝德（Gabe Abed），正是这位朋友最初招募赵先生前往阿拉伯联合酋长国。

最近，币安再次面临不当行为的指控。去年，该公司解雇或暂停了四名合规官员的职务，此前这些官员报告称，近20 亿美元 billion从客户账户流向了一组与伊朗有关联的实体——这可能是导致2023年美国刑事案件的制裁规避行为的重复。

该公司对员工的调查结果提出异议，并否认有人因提出担忧而受到纪律处分。美国司法部（DOJ）随后表示，两家中国公司利用币安洗钱，资金来自伊朗石油销售的收益，但并未提起任何指控。

赵先生拥有一种一次次化险为夷的人的自信，他是这个经常奖励违规行为时代的极致赢家。在他的回忆录中，他用了一页半的篇幅写道，他相信“模拟理论”，即我们可能都生活在他人想象的现实之中。

这种信念让赵先生在面对日常生活的压力时能保持某种超脱。他写道，我们可能是超级马里奥的不同版本，在一个人造景观中奔跑。他试图遵循一个简单的格言生活：“这只是一场游戏。”

迈克尔·福赛斯（Michael Forsythe）、妮可·洪（Nicole Hong）、薇薇安·内雷姆（Vivian Nereim）、本·普罗特斯（Ben Protess）、凯德·梅茨（Cade Metz）、安贾娜·桑卡尔（Anjana Sankar）和肯尼斯·P·沃格尔（Kenneth P. Vogel）参与了报道。基蒂·贝内特（Kitty Bennett）提供了研究支持。

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Crypto mogul is out of jail and living a gilded life

ZHAO, FROM PAGE 1

LAURA BOUSHNAK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

NATALIE NACCACHE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

LAURA BOUSHNAK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

President Trump and his three sons. World Liberty generated \$799 million for Mr. Trump last year — his single most lucrative asset. Mr. Trump pardoned Mr. Zhao last October, a move widely criticized as a quid pro quo.

Known in the industry as “CZ,” Mr. Zhao often avoids reporters, but he met with me several times this year, eager to put a friendlier gloss on his career at Binance, which still hasn’t stanched the flow of dirty money.

For years, his true calling has been what academics term “jurisdictional arbitrage” — moving from country to country in search of a legal framework pliable enough to accommodate his appetite for risk and growth.

In Abu Dhabi, he may have found an ideal base of operations. As we drove into the city, we passed a string of impressive compounds and drove toward the presidential palace, Qasr Al Watan, whose striking white dome resembles the Taj Mahal.

Mr. Zhao was growing animated.

“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” he said. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient. There’s very little debate going on. You don’t waste time on a lot of frivolous stuff.”

Lately, this top-down model of business and politics, simultaneously medieval and ultramodern, has gained traction in the United States. On a trip to Abu Dhabi last year, Mr. Trump called the nation's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, "a very strong man" and "a man of vision like few others."

Zach Witkoff, the son of one of Mr. Trump's top advisers, put it more bluntly at a crypto conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in May last year.

"We really need to take a page out of His Highness' and the Emirates' book," Mr. Witkoff said. "They are just an amazing example of how you can lead with innovation while also maintaining your family values."

ONE DAY EARLY this year, Mr. Zhao was working when the windows began to shake. He got up and walked onto his balcony, where he saw a trail of smoke in the sky. Mr. Zhao lives on Saadiyat Island, an enclave of Abu Dhabi across the Persian Gulf from Iran, which had just fired a missile at the U.A.E.

It was the start of a geopolitical crisis that has destabilized the region, but Mr. Zhao was not overly concerned. He returned to work.

Until he settled in the U.A.E., Mr. Zhao was a man without a country. He was born in China, then moved to Canada with his family at the age of 12. After attending McGill University in Montreal, he worked a series of technology jobs. In July 2013, over a poker game in Shanghai, a colleague suggested that he check out “this new thing called bitcoin.”

After a few months of study, Mr. Zhao made a radical bet. He sold the family home — a three-bedroom apartment in Shanghai where he and his wife were raising two children — and plowed the \$900,000 in proceeds into bitcoin.

Mr. Zhao went on to work at a succession of crypto start-ups in Asia. In July 2017, Mr. Zhao founded Binance. Within a few months, it was the largest exchange in the world, a title it has never relinquished.

Binance's success rested on two pivotal insights. The first was that crypto investors were drunk on risk and would never be satisfied swapping dollars or yen merely for an equivalent amount of crypto. For years, Binance has operated as a margin exchange: Traders can borrow money to place high-risk, high-reward bets on the prices of bitcoin and other popular tokens.

The second insight was simpler yet more consequential. Many crypto investors didn't want to identify themselves, and Binance didn't ask them to. For its first four years, the company allowed customers to open accounts without providing even the most basic KYC

— the “know your customer” information that traditional companies require to prevent financial crime.

The result was an extremely lucrative free-for-all: a platform where unvetted investment products were available to unvetted traders. As the market boomed, Binance took a cut of each transaction; the company quickly reached \$1 billion in profits, according to Mr. Zhao's self-published memoir, "Freedom of Money."

Mr. Zhao was suddenly a crypto celebrity. But he has never been widely understood outside the industry. When he recounts his most contentious moments, Zhao portrays himself as a kind of passenger — a crypto nerd overwhelmed by success, a naïve outsider.

It is not always a convincing performance. In June, Mr. Zhao told me that he had “never really wanted” to break the law in Binance’s explosive early years, when the company’s lax controls allowed a procession of bad actors to launder money.

"It's just my lack of experience in that area," he said.

That image isn't compatible with the evidence U.S. prosecutors collected in their investigation into Binance.

In court, they quoted an admonition that Mr. Zhao had given his underlings: "Better to ask for forgiveness than permission."

Privately, Mr. Zhao had discussed ways to obfuscate the fact that Binance served American users, even though it wasn't licensed in the United States, according to legal filings. "Don't leave anything in writing," he told a subordinate.

From top: Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, at his home in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Abu Dhabi, where Mr. Zhao moved after living in Dubai, bringing him closer to the nation's center of political power; Mr. Zhao lying down while working, because of back pain; and Mr. Zhao's Trump-branded sneakers.

MR. ZHAO PAID a visit to the U.A.E. in 2021, after years of roaming around Asia. In 2017, he and his Binance colleagues had been forced to flee China, as the government prepared to announce a ban on crypto exchanges. A stint in Japan hadn't worked out, either; nor had Singapore. Then Mr. Zhao's friend Gabriel Abed, a businessperson who served as the ambassador to the U.A.E. for Barbados, made a suggestion. He told Mr. Zhao to check out Dubai.

Immediately, Mr. Zhao saw how the U.A.E. treated the rich and powerful. He arrived in Dubai on a Saturday morning in October, and within hours, a government minister, Omar Sultan al-Olama, came to visit. He offered Mr. Zhao a so-called golden visa, which grants 10 years of hassle-free residency. A doctor was summoned to conduct the blood test required of all visa holders. Applications often take weeks to process. Mr. Zhao's was approved in less than 12 hours.

Not everyone in the U.A.E. is treated so generously. Over the years, the nation's leaders have conducted mass surveillance, outlawed even the mildest forms of dissent and overseen a labor market where foreign workers are frequently exploited and abused.

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胡塞武装袭击威胁沙特雄心

新闻分析

沙特阿拉伯，利雅得

路透社，JULIE SEBADELHA 拍摄

民兵组织对机场的袭击凸显了这场冲突的不对称性质

作者：VIVIAN NEREIM 和 LISA FRIEDMAN

在沙特阿拉伯十多年来最致命的一次袭击之后，王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼面临着日益增长的压力，必须找到一种方法来阻止也门受伊朗支持的胡塞武装向其国家发射导弹和无人机。

然而分析人士表示，作为沙特阿拉伯的实际统治者，这位王子在面对一场不对称冲突时选择有限，而他的对手自十年前他领导的一场灾难性战争以来变得更加强大。

胡塞武装最近在一周内对沙特首都利雅得的国际机场发动了四次袭击，其中至少三次造成人员死亡。其中包括周六对一个客运航站楼的袭击，沙特当局称此次袭击造成至少 12 人死亡；利雅得的印度大使馆周日表示，一名受伤的印度国民也已死亡。当局表示，机场在周日再次遭到袭击。沙特民航局周一表示，在那次袭击中，一名巴基斯坦居民被杀，11 人受伤。

周六的袭击造成 300, 多人受伤，其中许多人伤势严重，机场运营被迫暂停。沙特官员没有具体说明此次袭击的性质，但一名海湾地区官员和一名获悉袭击情况的美国官员表示，胡塞武装使用巡航导弹击中了航站楼。

在也门，胡塞武装掌控的新闻媒体周日报道称，沙特飞机袭击了该民兵组织控制的首都萨那国际机场。胡塞武装掌控的卫生部表示，在一次针对萨那一座建筑的袭击中，一名儿童被杀。

对沙特阿拉伯的袭击将这场遥远的也门战争带回了家，剥夺了沙特人及外国居民的安全感，而这种安全感在沙特领导的对邻国多年轰炸行动期间很大程度上一直得以维持。周日，利雅得的学校通知家长，本周将取消线下课程，许多工作场所告知员工可以居家办公。

胡塞武装的袭击还击中了穆罕默德王子的雄心核心，他希望将沙特阿拉伯从一个封闭的、依赖石油的国家转变为全球商业和旅游中心。

但对于王储来说，没有简单的方法可以停止胡塞武装的袭击。分析人士表示，随着该民兵组织的信心和要求不断增加，与其达成政治解决方案已变得越来越困难，而试图在军事上击败胡塞武装也不太可能奏效。该组织几乎没有什么可失去的，并且在与强大且更富有的敌人多次对抗后，变得越来越久经沙场。

在面对胡塞武装时，沙特阿拉伯正接收来自美国的重大军事支持，包括目标定位援助和空中加油。特朗普总统表示，在周六利雅得机场遭到袭击后，他将就更强力地干预这场冲突“做出决定”。

然而，特朗普先生在去年对胡塞武装开展了一场

（图注）上图为 8 月在巴黎的沙特阿拉伯王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼。胡塞武装对沙特首都利雅得的袭击削弱了他将该王国打造为全球商业和旅游中心的努力。右图为在周末遭到袭击的哈立德国王机场。

轰炸行动，并在美国仅在第一个月就消耗了约 10 亿美元 billion 的武器和弹药后宣布胜利。

“对于沙特人来说，唯一现实的解决方案是结束伊朗与美国的战争，在这种方案中，美国促使伊朗让胡塞武装承诺停止敌对行动，并将其作为整体协议的一部分，”总部位于华盛顿的研究机构中东研究所（Middle East Institute）的沙特问题专家 F. 格雷戈里·高斯（F. Gregory Gause）表示。“但对沙特人而言不幸的是，目前尚不清楚特朗普总统在这一问题上在多大程度上听取他们的意见。”

此次机场袭击发生在该王子的新国际航空公司开始商业飞行仅几个月之后，该航空公司的总部设在利雅得。在接下来的几周内，该王国将举办数场重大的政治和商业活动，但目前尚不清楚全球高管和官员是否会感到足够安全而出席。

周日，一场能源高管和政策制定者的国际会议在利雅得开幕。两周后，穆罕默德王子计划举办其年度旗舰投资峰会，届时预计世界各国领导人、亿万富翁和高管将齐聚这座城市，与沙特官员及基金经理会面。

“沙特人的问题在于，他们从胡塞武装对其基础设施的袭击中遭受的损失，比对方遭受的损失更多，”高斯先生说。“一次针对利雅得机场的袭击，可能会让那些考虑在该国投资的人重新考虑。”

周六的这次袭击是沙特阿拉伯自 2015 年一起清真寺自杀式爆炸案以来最致命的袭击，也是自 2 月美国与以色列与伊朗爆发战争以来，任何海湾阿拉伯国家所遭受的最致命袭击。

胡塞武装军事发言人叶海亚·萨雷（Yahya Saree）多次向航空公司和旅客发出警告，要求他们不要使用沙特机场，并宣布这些机场是“我方部队的作战剧场”。

他周日表示：“我们敦促每个人严肃对待这些警告，并要求沙特阿拉伯为任何拦截失败承担责任。”

分析人士表示，胡塞武装统治着一个满目疮痍的乡村，那里的大部分关键基础设施已被摧毁，他们似乎在计算，他们能给沙特阿拉伯带来的痛苦，要比该王国能给他们带来的痛苦更多。

沙特阿拉伯与胡塞武装之间暴力升级始于 7 月，当时一次空袭击中了萨那国际机场。胡塞武装指责沙特阿拉伯发动了此次袭击。由沙特支持的也门政府则承认对此次袭击负责，并称其行动是为了防止一架未经授权的伊朗飞机降落。

对萨那机场的袭击引发了一系列事件，最终导致胡塞武装与沙特阿拉伯及也门政府在上周重回全面战争状态。

胡塞武装在 2014 年崛起，当时该民兵组织占领了萨那，击败了国际认可的政府。

不久之后，时任沙特阿拉伯 29 岁国防部部长的穆罕默德王子在就任后的首批行动之一中，通过向胡塞武装（当时是一群杂乱的叛军）宣战，誓言要恢复也门政府。

现年 41 岁的王子已在沙特阿拉伯境内外巩固了他的权力。然而，也门民兵组织也变得更加强大且自给自足，它构成了比他此前面对的任何挑战都更难以解决的难题。

十年前由沙特领导的轰炸行动引发了全球最严重的人道主义危机之一。在也门，数十万人死于暴力、饥饿和疾病。人权组织表示，沙特的军事行动不成比例地针对平民。在其中一次最臭名昭著的沙特袭击中，一架沙特战斗机在 2018 年轰炸了一辆校车，导致 44 名儿童和 10 名成年人死亡。

然而，胡塞武装幸存了下来，并巩固了他们对也门北部的统治。

2022 年的一项停战协议一直维持到七个多月前美国和以色列袭击伊朗，随后引发了区域战争，并重新点燃了沙特阿拉伯与胡塞武装之间的紧张局势。

在7月对萨那机场发动袭击后，长期对沙特阿拉伯实施的领空限制感到愤怒的胡塞武装宣布，他们打算执行一项“以封锁对封锁”的政策。他们宣布对红海中的沙特航运实施禁运，而在伊朗战争导致通过霍尔木兹海峡的运输中断后，红海已成为沙特石油出口的替代路线。

也门内战再次爆发，胡塞武装与支持也门政府的沙特支持部队之间发生了激烈冲突。

上周，也门政府宣布对胡塞武装发起新一轮攻势，承诺将把他们赶出过去12年间占领的领土；同时，沙特阿拉伯宣布对该民兵组织开展新一轮轰炸行动。

沙特高级王室成员、前沙特情报局局长图尔基·法伊萨尔王子（Prince Turki Al Faisal）表示，尽管王国在外交政策上一直倾向于“克制”，但胡塞武装已经超出了沙特领导层的耐心极限。他在上周接受沙特报纸《阿拉伯新闻》（Arab News）采访时表示：“克制已不再可行。”

凯特·凯利（Kate Kelly）和乔纳森·斯旺（Jonathan Swan）在华盛顿参与了报道。

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The Emirates is considered extremely safe, at a time when crypto investors have been the targets of kidnappers.

But for Mr. Zhao, it was the beginning of a comfortable new life. Before founding Binance, he had separated from his wife, who moved to Tokyo with their children. He started a relationship with one of his colleagues, He Yi, a marketing executive. While his older children attended college in the United States, Mr. Zhao and Ms. He raised a young family in the U.A.E.

Mr. Zhao got to know a group of Emirati leaders who were curious about technology. He worked his way up to the brother of Sheikh Mohammed, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

During these early encounters, the sheikhs would pitch Mr. Zhao on the U.A.E., asking what they could do to help him. Soon, Mr. Zhao was preaching the nation's virtues to the broader billionaire community. He encouraged the artificial intelligence mogul Sam Altman to set up a corporate presence in the U.A.E., warning that other countries would treat him with hostility.

BILLIONAIRES GRAVITATE to the U.A.E. for billionaire reasons. The country doesn't levy an income tax, and it's considered extremely safe, at a time when crypto investors have been targeted by kidnappers in Europe and the United States. But for Mr. Zhao, the U.A.E. held another important advantage: It had no extradition treaty with the United States.

In either late 2022 or early 2023, he recalled, an Emirati royal asked him over dinner whether he wanted citizenship. Mr. Zhao sent in some documents and waited. Months later, a government emissary arrived at his house with passports for Mr. Zhao and his family.

He had reason to be wary: The noose around Binance was tightening. U.S. prosecutors were collecting evidence that the exchange's lax protocols had allowed scammers, hackers and sanctions evaders to move money. In private messages obtained by the government, Bi nance employees spoke with astonishing candor about the exchange's shady clientele.

Mr. Zhao hired a team of lawyers to broker a deal with the U.S. Justice Department. His new passport gave him considerable leverage. After a couple of years in Dubai, he moved an hour and a half south to Abu Dhabi, closer to the nation's center of political power.

Eventually, his legal team struck a bargain with the U.S. government. Mr. Zhao would plead guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act, an anti-money-laundering statute, and step down as chief executive. (The company would pay a \$4.3 billion penalty.) Despite the generous terms, he was frustrated with his lawyers and didn't think he deserved any prison time at all.

Still, it was an excellent outcome for Binance.

The judge gave Mr. Zhao a four-month sentence, calling him “a dedicated family man and a giving person.”

He was assigned to Lompoc II, a low-security facility in California. Before he reported to prison, Mr. Zhao assembled a team of advisers, who schooled him in the subtleties of cellblock politics. One of them, Michael Santos, exchanged letters with other inmates, who agreed to help Mr. Zhao get his bearings inside.

“CZ, you're a guy who's understood people and had thousands of employees,” Mr. Santos told him. “You're not going to lose those skills when you walk in here.”

In August 2024, Mr. Zhao left Lompoc for a halfway house. But a complication with his immigration status meant he had to spend his last two weeks at a local jail. On the day of his release, an officer escorted him outside, where his mother, sister and assistant were waiting. They drove to an airport and deposited him on a private plane bound for Abu Dhabi.

MR. ZHAO RETURNED to a world that was shifting in his favor. A crypto-friendly administration was poised to take power in Washington. Shortly before the election, Mr. Trump had founded World Liberty as a joint enterprise with the family of Steve Witkoff, a real estate mogul who was preparing to serve as White House envoy to the Middle East. Soon, America's newly empowered deal-maker-diplomats were spending lots of time in the U.A.E.

As he drove me around the city, Mr. Zhao paused to point out the ADNEC Center, a conference hall that hosted a gathering of crypto enthusiasts in December 2024. “This is where I met Eric Trump,” he said.

At the venue, he recalled, a Trump booster named David Bailey had introduced him to the president's middle son, a leader of World Liberty. It was a casual conversation, with no official agenda.

Their interests were about to align. The U.A.E. had been working to transform from a petrostate into a powerhouse in emerging technologies, a project spearheaded by Sheikh Tahnoon, who oversees \$1.5 trillion in Emirati sovereign wealth.

Before he went to prison, Mr. Zhao had held talks with Peng Xiao, one of the sheikh's top lieutenants, about selling the Emiratis a stake in Binance, the ultimate union between his company and his political guardians.

Sheikh Tahnoon is chair of a venture capital fund called MGX, which specializes in AI. Early last year, MGX agreed to invest \$2 billion in Binance, a deal that valued the company at \$75 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter. MGX viewed Binance as the perfect bridge between crypto and AI.

Mr. Zhao told me that he had wanted to settle the deal in bitcoin. The Emiratis worried that it was prone to drastic price swings that would complicate the transaction. They preferred to pay Mr. Zhao in stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency designed to maintain a price of \$1.

What happened next is widely disputed — and likely to become the subject of a congressional investigation if the Democrats win control of Congress next month. According to MGX, the fund evaluated several stablecoins before selecting USD1, a coin created by World Liberty, citing “business suitability.” It was a stunning choice, given that USD1 was completely untested, with no track record. Last year, The Wall Street Journal reported that Binance had specifically asked MGX to pay in USD1; Mr. Zhao said MGX had made the decision.

But all the parties had an incentive to cut World Liberty into the transaction. A U.A.E.-backed investment firm had taken a 49 percent stake in the start-up in January last year, days before Mr. Trump's inauguration; Sheikh Tahnoon got a seat on World Liberty's board. Around the same time, the Emiratis were negotiating with the White House to secure the export of the valuable computer chips that power AI. Binance also had business in front of the Trump administration. With its legal troubles receding, the company wanted to escape some of the restrictions imposed in the 2023 settlement.

Democrats in Congress condemned the deal as “stablecoin corruption.” An issuer like World Liberty makes money by accepting cash deposits from crypto traders, giving them stablecoins in return and then investing the deposits to generate a yield. With the \$2 billion from MGX and Binance, World Liberty instantly became one of the world’s largest stablecoin companies, a boon to the Trump and Witkoff families.

"It's just such a craven effort to curry favor," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, who has investigated Mr. Zhao and Binance. "Unprecedented in its scope and scale of corruption."

Mr. Zhao is adamant that nothing untoward occurred. He said he no longer held the USD1, which he used to invest in bitcoin and other assets.

"I assume that President Trump has very good lawyers, and the setup where the sons run businesses and the father is the president is completely kosher," he told me.

Two weeks after the \$2 billion transaction, the White House agreed to share access to the chips, despite concerns from some national security officials.

Privately, Mr. Witkoff also told an acquaintance that Mr. Zhao deserved a pardon, according to a person familiar with the conversation. Mr. Zhao had filed the relevant paperwork and was waiting for the president's verdict. The outcome would have enormous implications for Binance. After Mr. Zhao pleaded guilty, the exchange's dormant U.S. operation lost state-level licenses. A pardon could help the company pitch itself to regulators. (A White House spokesperson said Mr. Witkoff does not play a role in the pardon process.)

As early as December 2024, Mr. Zhao's legal team had been working with Brett Tolman, a prominent pardon attorney, to explore the possibility of clemency, according to two people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by The New York Times. Ultimately, Binance paid \$2.1 million to a lobbying firm run by Ches McDowell, who is close to the president's elder sons, for services including “executive relief,” according to public filings. (A World Liberty spokesperson said the company had “zero involvement in any decisions on pardons.”)

When the pardon was announced last October, Mr. Zhao posted a brief thank-you message on social media.

SINCE PRISON, Mr. Zhao has split his time among a range of ventures, including his tech investments and his travels as a kind of crypto diplomat, helping promote the industry in countries where he's often treated like royalty.

Mr. Zhao played down his involvement in Binance; the company's plea deal prohibited him from "operating or managing" the business. It's obvious that Binance remains a major part of his life. One of the two joint chief executives appointed to replace him was Ms. He — the mother of his three young children. Two years ago, in a gesture toward traditional governance, Binance established a board of directors with three supposedly independent trustees. One of them is also the board's chair — Gabe Abed, the friend who first recruited Mr. Zhao to the U.A.E.

Lately, Binance has faced new accusations of impropriety. The company fired or suspended four compliance officials last year, after they reported that nearly \$2 billion had flowed from customer accounts to a cluster of entities with ties to Iran — a possible repeat of the sanctions evasion that led to the U.S. criminal case in 2023.

The company disputed the employees' findings and denied that anyone was disciplined for raising concerns. The Justice Department said later that two Chinese firms had used Binance to launder the proceeds of Iranian oil sales, though it didn't file any charges.

Mr. Zhao has the confidence of someone who has glided away from trouble over and over, a consummate winner in an era that often rewards rule-breaking. In his memoir, he writes for a page and a half about his belief in “simulation theory,” the notion that we might all be living in someone else’s imagined reality.

That belief has given Mr. Zhao some detachment from the stresses of everyday life. It's possible we're versions of Super Mario, he writes, running around an artificial landscape. He tries to live by a simple mantra: "It's just a game."

Reporting was contributed by Michael Forsythe, Nicole Hong, Vivian Nereim, Ben Protess, Cade Metz, Anjana Sankar and Kenneth P. Vogel. Kitty Bennett contributed research.

尽管存在风险，尼泊尔仍在河流泛滥区进行建设

作者：雷蒙德·钟（RAYMOND ZHONG）

喜马拉雅山脉的快速变暖增加了发生灾难性洪水（如今年夏天在尼泊尔和西藏造成数千人死亡的洪水）的威胁。然而，一项最新的卫星数据分析显示，近年来人们继续在易受洪水影响的地区进行建设，使更多的生命和财产处于风险之中。

科学家在上一周发表的一项研究中报告称，2016年至2023年间，尼泊尔以及相邻的印度和中国地区，沿脆弱河流走廊的建筑总足迹增加了近一半。研究人员估计，目前约有300,000人生活在这些暴露区域。

这项发表在《科学报告》（Scientific Reports）杂志上的研究并未尝试对新建筑按用途进行分类。但它指出，旅游业和水电建设可能是近期高山山谷开发的两大驱动因素。

8月的悲剧性洪水使人们关注到喜马拉雅山脉的洪水危害，那里广阔且复杂的地形使得灾害预测面临巨大挑战。周日，尼泊尔北部的山洪冲毁了布迪甘达基河（Budhi Gandaki River）沿岸的建筑和至少一座桥梁。

那里的潜在触发因素很多：季风暴雨、地震，以及导致巨石滚入冰川融水湖的雪崩。当水流在山谷中奔涌而下时，它会与沉积物和碎片混合形成泥石流，以惊人且致命的势头冲向下游的城镇和城市。

科学家们正利用卫星和其他仪器试图更好地了解这些危害。利兹大学研究员、该项新研究的第一作者斯科特·沃森（Scott Watson）表示，长期以来，很难估算喜马拉雅山脉中有多少建筑和结构处于危险之中。卫星图像在山区并不总能提供完整的覆盖。

但最近发布的一组关于2016年至2023年全球建筑足迹的谷歌数据集，为沃森博士及其同事提供了一个机会。

在确认谷歌的数据与尼泊尔的其他卫星图像匹配程度足够高后，研究人员将其与地形图相结合，以评估在洪水可能倾泻而下的陡峭山谷中发生了多少开发。

他们发现，在那个八年期间，位于谷底上方最高50米（约160英尺）范围内的建筑总面积增加了46%。根据近期的人口趋势，研究人员估计，2015年至2030年间，生活在这些地区的人数可能会增长6%。

沃森博士表示，喜马拉雅山脉很少有洪水能让水位上涨50米。尽管如此，8月的洪水在某些地方似乎达到了这一高度或更高。而且，摧毁房屋和建筑的不止是水。在洪水冲过之后，河流周围被侵蚀的土地可能会在数天或数周内持续坍塌和滑动。

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Houthi attacks threaten Saudi ambitions

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RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA

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Militia's airport strikes highlight asymmetrical nature of the conflict

BY VIVIAN NEREIM AND LISA FRIEDMAN

After the deadliest attack in Saudi Arabia in more than a decade, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman faces growing pressure to find a way to stop the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen from firing missiles and drones at his country.

Yet the prince, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, has few options as he confronts an asymmetrical conflict with an adversary that has become stronger since he led a disastrous war against it a decade ago, analysts say.

The Houthis recently carried out four attacks, at least three of them fatal, on the international airport in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, within a week. Those included a strike on a passenger terminal on Saturday that the Saudi authorities said killed at least 12 people; the Indian Embassy in Riyadh said on Sunday that an injured Indian national had also died. The airport was struck again on Sunday, the authorities said. The Saudi civil aviation authority said on Monday that one person, a Pakistani resident, had been killed and 11 injured in that strike.

The Saturday attack injured more than 300, many of them critically, and operations at the airport were suspended. Saudi officials did not specify the nature of that attack, but a Gulf official and a U.S. official briefed on the strike said that the Houthis had hit the terminal with a cruise missile.

In Yemen, the Houthi-run news media reported on Sunday that Saudi aircraft had struck the international airport in the capital, Sanaa, which is controlled by the militia. The Houthi-run health ministry said that a child had been killed in an attack on a building in Sanaa.

The attacks on Saudi Arabia have brought the kingdom's faraway war in Yemen home, stripping Saudis and foreign residents of the sense of security that they had largely maintained throughout years of a Saudi-led bombing campaign in the neighboring country. On Sunday, schools in Riyadh notified parents that in-person lessons would be canceled for the week, and many workplaces told employees they could work from home.

The Houthi attacks have also hit at the heart of Prince Mohammed's ambitions to transform Saudi Arabia from an insular, oil-dependent nation into a global hub for business and tourism.

But there is no easy way for the crown prince to halt the Houthis' attacks. A political resolution with the militia has become increasingly difficult to reach as its confidence and demands grow, and attempting to defeat the Houthis militarily is unlikely to work either, analysts say. The group has little to lose, and it has become increasingly battle-hardened after repeated confrontations with powerful, wealthier enemies.

Saudi Arabia is receiving significant military support from the United States, including targeting assistance and aerial refueling, as it confronts the Houthis. President Trump said he would “make a decision” about intervening more forcefully in the conflict after Saturday’s attack on the airport in Riyadh.

However, Mr. Trump carried out a

Above, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in Paris in August. Houthi strikes on the Saudi capital, Riyadh, have undermined his efforts to make the kingdom a global hub for business and tourism. King Khalid Airport, right, was attacked over the weekend.

bombing campaign against the Houthis last year, declaring victory after the United States burned through weapons and munitions at a rate of about \$1 billion in the first month alone.

"The only realistic solution for the Saudis is an end to the Iranian-American war, in which the U.S. gets the Iranians to commit the Houthis to an end of hostilities as part of the overall deal," said F. Gregory Gause, a Saudi specialist at the Middle East Institute, a Washington-based research group. "Unfortunately for the Saudis, it is not clear how much President Trump listens to them on this."

The attacks on the airport occurred just months after commercial flights began for the prince's new international airline, which has its headquarters in Riyadh. In the coming weeks, the kingdom is set to host several major political and business events, but it is unclear whether global executives and officials will feel safe enough to attend.

On Sunday, an international gathering of energy executives and policymakers began in Riyadh. In two weeks, Prince Mohammed is planning to host his flagship annual investment summit, during which world leaders, billionaires and executives were expected to descend upon the city to meet with Saudi officials and fund managers.

"The problem for the Saudis is that they experience more damage from Houthi strikes on their infrastructure than the other way around," Mr. Gause said. "A strike on Riyadh Airport could lead someone thinking about investing in the country to reconsider."

The attack on Saturday was the deadliest in Saudi Arabia since a suicide bombing at a mosque in 2015, and the deadliest attack in any Gulf Arab country since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran in February.

The Houthi military spokesman, Yahya Saree, has issued repeated warnings to airlines and travelers against using Saudi airports, declaring them a “theater of operations for our forces.”

"We urge everyone to take these warnings seriously and hold Saudi Arabia responsible for any failed interceptions," he said on Sunday.

The Houthis, who rule over a bomb-scarred countryside where most critical infrastructure has already been destroyed, appear to be calculating that they can inflict more pain on Saudi Arabia than the kingdom can inflict on them, analysts say.

The escalation of violence between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis began in July, when an airstrike hit Sanaa's international airport. The Houthis accused Saudi Arabia of carrying out the attack. The Saudi-backed Yemeni government claimed responsibility for the strike and said it had been acting to prevent an unauthorized Iranian plane from landing.

The attack on the Sanaa airport set off a chain of events that culminated last week in a return to full-blown war between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni government.

The Houthis rose to power in 2014, when the militia took over Sanaa, routing the internationally recognized government.

Soon after, Prince Mohammed, in one of his first acts as Saudi Arabia's 29-year-old minister of defense, pledged to restore the Yemeni government by declaring war against the Houthis, at the time a ragtag group of rebels.

The prince, now 41, has consolidated his power inside Saudi Arabia and beyond. Yet the Yemeni militia has also become stronger and more self-sufficient, and it poses a more intractable challenge than any other he has faced.

The Saudi-led bombing campaign a decade ago precipitated one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. In Yemen, hundreds of thousands of people died from violence, hunger and disease. Rights groups said the Saudi campaign disproportionately targeted civilians. In one of the most notorious Saudi strikes, a Saudi fighter jet bombed a school bus in 2018, killing 44 children and 10 adults.

Yet the Houthis survived and cemented their rule over northern Yemen.

A truce in 2022 held until the United States and Israel attacked Iran more than seven months ago, leading to a regional war and reigniting tensions between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis.

After the strike on the Sanaa airport in July, the Houthis, who have long bristled at restrictions on their airspace that are enforced by Saudi Arabia, announced that they intended to enforce a "blockade for blockade" policy. They declared an embargo on Saudi shipping in the Red Sea, which has become an alternative route for Saudi oil exports after the Iran war disrupted shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.

Yemen's civil war reignited, with fierce clashes between the Houthis and Saudi-backed forces allied with the Yemeni government.

Last week, the Yemeni government announced a new offensive against the Houthis, promising to push them out of the territory they had seized over the past 12 years, and Saudi Arabia announced a new bombing campaign against the militia.

Prince Turki Al Faisal, a senior Saudi royal and a former Saudi intelligence chief, said that while the kingdom had always preferred “restraint” in its foreign policy, the Houthis had exceeded the limits of the Saudi leadership’s patience. “Restraint is no longer operable,” he said in an interview last week with a Saudi newspaper, Arab News.

Kate Kelly and Jonathan Swan contributed reporting from Washington.

印度年轻抗议者挑战莫迪的权力形象

SAUMYA KHANDELWAL 为《纽约时报》拍摄

新闻分析

作者：MUJIB MASHAL

长期以来，总理纳伦德拉·莫迪在海外塑造的形象是全球最大民主国家的深受爱戴的民选领导人，是在暴力世界中理性的和平之声。

而在印度国内，他将这一角色与另一种倾向相结合：他扮演着一名强人，其心腹利用国家机器打压异见人士，并利用日益顺从的法律体系和官僚机构。这些举措削弱并分裂了反对派，威慑了独立媒体，并监禁了活动人士。

在刚刚过去的这个周末，莫迪先生的这种平衡行为崩溃了。首都各地暴力冲突的画面被传输到全球屏幕上，揭露了他统治的粗糙面及其维持权力模式的局限性。

新德里的警方对愤怒的年轻抗议者采取了武力镇压，抗议者称莫迪先生操纵了国家的投票系统。警方殴打他们，并将数以千计的人强行拖往拘留所。这些年轻人手持手机，记录下了遭受的残酷对待，甚至包括他们被关押的警察局的肮脏环境。他们找到了绕过新德里市中心互联网封锁的方法，在社交媒体上大量发布内容，破坏其作为一名掌控局面的民主领导人的形象。

“旧的剧本已经过时了——它已经陈旧，不再起作用，”新泽西州普林斯顿大学的历史学家吉安·普拉卡什（Gyan Prakash）表示，他曾深入撰写关于 20 世纪 70 年代印度政府陷入威权统治的文章。“那么他们现在还剩下什么？他们只剩下警察了。”

对于此次抗议，莫迪先生保持了典型的沉默。他的官方社交媒体账号反而发布了生日祝福和节日问候，延续了他只让自己与正面事物联系在一起的习惯。

但他仍然面临着如何处理日益增长的异议这一挑战，分析人士表示，这次异议与他此前面对的任何情况都不同。曾经遭受重创的反对派正感到活力增强，试图通过年轻人数月来顽强的抗争，来扩大已经产生的裂痕。

莫迪先生长期以来一直能找到限制对手的方法，将他们贬低为轻量级人物，或将其中一些人妖魔化为恐怖分子和“反国家分子”。然而，这场青年运动越来越多地吸引了社会各阶层的人参与，这使得抗议者难以被以同样的方式针对。政府的高压回应引起了莫迪阵营内部罕见的反对声音，而这些人通常保持沉默，其中包括他政党的一位高级意识形态专家和一名内阁部长。

莫迪先生还面临着代际挑战。他及其领导的印度人民党（Bharatiya Janata Party）长期以来将数字化手段与主张等级制度和统一性的印度教民族主义意识形态相结合，但面对一个对这种僵化权威反应不佳且敢于发声的 Z 世代群体，他们似乎束手无策。

当前的愤怒浪潮源于抗议者认为印度投票的神圣性受到了威胁，这让莫迪先生作为一名拥有强大民意授权的民选领导人的形象受到了质疑。他的政党在驳斥对其政府行为的批评时，经常引用他在全国选举中的三次胜利——莫迪先生已担任总理 12 年——以及在地方选举中的成功。

在过去的一年里，一次全国性的选民名册修订删除了超过 1.3 亿个名字。修订过程中混乱的证据不断增加，且有指控称数百万印度人被蓄意剥夺了投票权，这些因素共同激起了民众的愤怒。

抗议者要求吉亚内什·库马尔（Gyanesh Kumar）辞职，这位选举主管是通过一个由莫迪先生主导的程序任命的。他们指责库马尔先生篡改选民名册，以确保执政党在未来数年内锁定优势。莫迪先生的政党否认了这一指控，称批评者是无法在选举中成功竞争的输家。

在一次新闻发布会上，拉维·尚卡尔（Ravi Shankar）

周六，安全人员在新德里拘留抗议者。他们当时正在抗议他们所称的对国家投票系统的操纵。

近期抗议活动的参与者代表了社会的各个阶层。

来自莫迪先生政党的资深立法者普拉萨德（Prasad）表示：“我们并不反对抗议，这是民主的自然组成部分。”

在面对夏季早先的一波青年抗议浪潮时，由于针对大学入学考试丑闻的大规模骚乱，莫迪先生做出了罕见的让步，其教育部长随之辞职。

历史学家普拉卡什（Prakash）先生表示，他的政党似乎从那次事件中吸取了教训，即妥协只会进一步刺激更多要求。选举主管的辞职可能尤其具有破坏性，因为反对派可能会将其解读为莫迪先生的选举授权存在问题的承认。

“他们现在处于进退两难的境地，”普拉卡什先生说。

曾担任印度人民党（B.J.P.）州政府顾问的分析师拉贾特·塞蒂（Rajat Sethi）表示，虽然早前针对教育部长的抗议是非党派性的，但当前这波浪潮感觉深受政治反对派的影响。

他表示，他担心反对派要求担任宪法职务的选举主管辞职，可能会引发近期在邻国孟加拉国和尼泊尔看到的那种暴力动荡。

“我最大的疑问是：这件事的最终目标是什么？”塞蒂先生说。“政党们在这件事上尝到了血腥味，所以他们会走上街头，因为在过去的12年里，他们从未能如此有效地动员起来。”

政府的强硬回应并未完全平息抗议。

22岁的心理学学生莫哈克·古普塔（Mohak Gupta）是周六早早到达的抗议者之一，结果却发现到处是路障和安全部队的队列。他说，一整天他都在与警察玩“猫鼠游戏”，并将整个经历分享在了Instagram上。

他说，执政党不明白他这一代人的特点是，他们会恰恰去做那些被告知不能做的事情。

“他们上次也使用了武力。他们用警棍打了我，”他提到夏季的抗议活动时说道。“这对我们没用。他们让我更愤怒了。他们怎么能打我们？”

从左至右：赛义德·卡法尔内（Saeed Kafarneh）在进行一种简易版的传统婚礼沐浴；俯瞰帐篷营地；以及穆罕默德·阿卜杜勒哈迪（Mohammad Abdelhadi）与儿子玩耍。加沙约80%的建筑已被摧毁或损坏，大多数居民住在帐篷中。

摄影：萨赫尔·阿尔古拉（SAHER ALGHORRA）为《纽约时报》拍摄

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Nepal builds in river flood zones, despite risks

BY RAYMOND ZHONG

Rapid warming in the Himalayas is increasing the threat of catastrophic floods like the ones that killed thousands in Nepal and Tibet this summer. Yet in recent years, people have continued to build in flood-prone areas, putting more lives and property at risk, according to a new analysis of satellite data.

The total footprint of buildings along vulnerable river corridors in Nepal and the adjoining areas of India and China increased by nearly half between 2016 and 2023, scientists reported in a study published last week. Almost 300,000 people now live in these exposed zones, the researchers estimated.

The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, didn't try to classify the new buildings by use. But it identified tourism and hydropower construction as two of the likely drivers of recent development in the high mountain valleys.

The tragic floods in August have focused attention on flood hazards in the Himalayas, where the vast and complex terrain makes disasters a huge challenge to predict. On Sunday, flash floods in northern Nepal swept away buildings and at least one bridge along the Budhi Gandaki River.

The potential triggers there are many: monsoon downpours, earthquakes, avalanches that send boulders tumbling into lakes formed by melting glaciers. As the water races down the valleys, it can mix with sediment and debris to form a slurry that crashes into towns and cities below with incredible, and deadly, momentum.

Scientists are using satellites and other instruments to try to better understand these hazards. But for a long time, it was tough to estimate how many buildings and structures in the Himalayas were in harm's way, said Scott Watson, a researcher at the University of Leeds and the lead author of the new study. Satellite images don't always provide complete coverage in the mountains.

But a recently released Google data set on building footprints around the world between 2016 and 2023 presented Dr. Watson and his colleagues with an opportunity.

After checking that Google's data matched up well enough with other satellite imagery of Nepal, the researchers combined it with topographic maps to assess how much development had taken place in the steep-sided valleys where floodwaters can pour through.

They found that the total area of buildings sitting up to 50 meters, or roughly 160 feet, above the valley floors increased by 46 percent during that eight-year period. Based on recent population trends, the researchers estimated that the number of people living in these areas could grow by 6 percent between 2015 and 2030.

Few floods in the Himalayas are likely to raise the water by 50 meters, Dr. Watson said. Still, August's floods appear to have reached such heights or more in some places. And it isn't just the water that can wreck homes and buildings. Land eroded around a river can continue slumping and sliding for days or weeks after a flood rushes through.

从加沙的废墟中榨取希望

GAZA，见第 1 页

这处住所只有一个房间，他现在与怀孕的妻子一同居住于此。墙壁由稻草加固的砖块建成，在加沙酷热的夏季能提供天然的冷却效果。

阿塔拉先生希望这些墙壁在冬天也能帮他们保暖。

联合国表示，加沙约 80 percent 的建筑在战争中被摧毁或损坏。根据加沙卫生官员的数据，在该地区遭受以色列毁灭性攻击期间，大部分地区被夷为平地，至少 74,000 人死亡；这些官员并未区分平民与战斗人员。此次攻势是由哈马斯领导的 2023 年 10 月 7, 2023, 对以色列南部的袭击引发的，当时约 1,200 人被杀，250 人被劫持为人质。

少数加沙人足够幸运，拥有依然屹立的房屋，或者足够富有能够支付房租。其余大多数人则住在该地区规模庞大的帐篷营地中。

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India's young protesters challenge Modi's image of power

SAUMYA KHANDELWAL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

NEWS ANALYSIS

BY MUJIB MASHAL

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has long cultivated an image abroad as the popular elected leader of the world's largest democracy, a sober voice of peace in a world of violence.

He has balanced that role at home in India with another penchant, as a strongman whose lieutenants have wielded the arms of the state against dissenters, exploiting an increasingly pliant legal system and bureaucracy. These efforts have undercut and splintered the opposition, cowed independent media and jailed activists.

Over this past weekend, Mr. Modi's balancing act broke down as violent scenes across the capital city were beamed to screens around the world, exposing the rough edges of his rule and the limits of his formula for maintaining power.

The police in New Delhi unleashed force at young protesters angry about what they say is Mr. Modi's manipulation of the country's voting system, bashing them and dragging them to detention by the thousands. Phones in hand, the youth have documented the harsh treatment, down to the dirty condition of the police stations they were held in. They found ways around an internet shutdown in central New Delhi to flood social media with content undermining the image of a democratic leader happily in control.

"The old playbook has become old — it's tired, it doesn't work," said Gyan

Prakash, a historian at Princeton University in New Jersey who has written extensively about the Indian government's descent into authoritarian rule in the 1970s. "And so what do they have now left? They have the police."

Mr. Modi has remained characteristically quiet about the protests. His official social media accounts instead posted birthday greetings and festival wishes, keeping with his practice of associating himself only with positive things.

But he still faces the challenge of how to deal with the mounting dissent, which analysts say is unlike anything he has faced so far. The once-battered opposition is feeling invigorated, trying to widen the crack opened by the young people through months of stubborn agitation.

Mr. Modi had long found ways to box in opponents, dismissing them as lightweight or demonizing some as terrorists and “anti-nationals.” The youth movement, however, increasingly draws on a cross-section of society that makes the protesters hard to target the same way. The government’s heavy-handed response has elicited rare objections from members of Mr. Modi’s camp, who usually maintain silence, including from a senior ideologist of his party and a cabinet minister.

Mr. Modi also faces a generational challenge. He and his Bharatiya Janata Party, which has long combined digital savvy with a Hindu nationalist ideology that espouses hierarchy and uniformity, seem stumped by a vocal Gen Z cohort that responds poorly to that kind of rigid authority.

The current wave of anger is over what the protesters see as a threat to the sanctity of voting in India, and it calls into question Mr. Modi's image as an elected leader with a strong popular mandate. His party often cites his three victories in national elections — Mr. Modi has been prime minister for 12 years — and its success in local elections in dismissing criticism of his government's conduct.

Over the past year, a nationwide revision of voter rolls has culled more than 130 million names. Mounting evidence of chaos in the revision process and allegations that millions of Indians were deliberately disenfranchised have fueled popular anger.

The protesters are demanding the resignation of Gyanesh Kumar, an election chief appointed through a process that Mr. Modi dominates. They accuse Mr. Kumar of doctoring the voter rolls to lock in the ruling party's advantage for years to come. Mr. Modi's party has rejected the allegation, saying the critics are sore losers who cannot successfully compete in elections.

At a news conference, Ravi Shankar

Security officers detaining protesters in New Delhi on Saturday. They were demonstrating against what they say is manipulation of the country's voting system.

Participants in the recent protests represent a cross-section of society.

Prasad, a senior lawmaker from Mr. Modi's party, said, "We are not against protest, which is a natural part of democracy."

Facing an earlier wave of youth protests over the summer, Mr. Modi made a rare concession with the resignation of his education minister amid mass agitation over scandals in college entry tests.

His party appears to have learned from that episode that giving in simply fuels demands for more, said Mr. Prakash, the historian. The resignation of the election chief could be particularly damaging, as the opposition could spin it as an admission that Mr. Modi's electoral mandate was questionable.

"They are between the devil and the deep blue sea," Mr. Prakash said.

Rajat Sethi, an analyst who formerly advised B.J.P. state governments, said that while the earlier protests against the education minister were nonpartisan, the current wave feels heavily influenced by the political opposition.

He said he feared that the opposition, in demanding the resignation of the election chief who holds a constitutional office, could bring about the kind of violent upheaval seen recently in neighboring Bangladesh and Nepal.

"My biggest question is: What is the endgame on this?" Mr. Sethi said. "Political parties are tasting blood on this, so they will be on the street because they have never be able to galvanize for the past 12 years."

The government's heavy-handed response has not quashed protests entirely.

Mohak Gupta, a 22-year-old psychology student, was among the protesters who arrived early on Saturday, only to find barricades and columns of security. All day, he said he played cat and mouse with the police and shared his entire experience on Instagram.

He said what the ruling party doesn't understand about members of his generation is that they will do exactly what they are told not to do.

"They used force last time, too. They hit me with a baton," he said, referring to the summer protests. "It doesn't work with us. They made me more angry. How could they hit us?"

From left: Saeed Kafarneh getting an improvised version of a traditional wedding bath; looking over a tent camp; and Mohammad Abdelhadi playing with his son. About 80 percent of buildings in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged, and most residents live in tents.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY SAHER ALGHORRA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

一个庆祝的理由

在战争之前，加沙的婚礼可能是极其奢华的盛事，包括丰盛的烤羊肉大餐以及穿过蜿蜒街道的游行队伍。

对于许多加沙人来说，如今这样的享乐感觉像是遥不可及的奢侈品。

一对夫妇在挤满了流离失所的加沙人的联合国学校里举行了婚礼。另一对则在海滩上低调地结为夫妻。

为了支付婚礼费用，21岁的赛义德·卡法尔内（Saeed Kafarneh）打了几个月的零工，并出售从救援组织那里获得的燃气罐和援助纸箱，筹集了约 $2,000.

“为了让婚礼能够举行，我们付出了巨大的努力，”卡法尔内先生说，“但感谢上帝，我们做到了。”

上个月，卡法尔内先生在加沙地带中部的一个难民营与妻子内尔敏·阿卜杜勒·哈迪（Nermeen Abdul Hadi）结婚，卡法尔内先生的家人此前一直在此避难。在仪式当天，卡法尔内先生及其亲属装饰了一个由巴基斯坦援助组织捐赠的大帐篷，安装了灯光并布置了鲜花。他们还租了一个大型扬声器。

根据一项巴勒斯坦习俗，新郎在婚礼前要在浴室或朋友家中洗澡，这一仪式标志着向婚姻生活的过渡。而这一次，朋友和邻居们在帐篷里向面带笑容的卡法尔内先生泼水，同时欢呼起舞。

这对夫妇举行了 zifaf（婚礼仪式）。许多朋友和家人无法到场。在燃料价格极高的加沙，即使是短距离的出行也可能极其昂贵。卡法尔内先生表示，其他人则因为担心在天黑后的返程途中可能遭到以色列的袭击而避免出行。

“甚至只有几公里远的人也没来，”他说，“所以我们和身边的人一起庆祝。”

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重新谋生

尼文·阿尔-阿什卡尔（Nivin al-Ashqar）在走进她位于加沙北部贾巴利耶（Jabaliya）镇家中的屋顶时，能听到两种持续不断的嗡嗡声。

（图注）上图：加沙城的蜂箱。右图：尼文·阿尔-阿什卡尔（上方）拿着从她受损严重地家中屋顶蜂箱里采集的蜂蜜。战争爆发前，阿尔-阿什卡尔女士的家人拥有约 400 个蜂箱，但几乎全部在冲突中被毁。

一种声音来自她和丈夫为了生产蜂蜜和蜂蜡以供出售而养殖的蜂箱。另一种声音则来自在头顶盘旋的以色列无人机，这提醒着他们，自家的房子距离以色列军队驻守的分界线仅有几百码之遥。

特朗普政府的停火计划设想的是以色列逐步撤军，同时哈马斯解除武装，但这两者都没有实现。

战争爆发前，除了在家里养的一个蜂箱外，阿尔-阿什卡尔女士的家人还拥有约 400 个蜂箱，大部分位于现在由以色列军队控制的区域。她说，这些蜂箱几乎全部在冲突中被毁。

战争初期，阿尔-阿什卡尔女士与家人一起逃离了贾巴利耶的战火。一年多后，当他们返回试图清理受损严重的房屋时，她听到了一种不绝于耳的嗡嗡声。

“我们爬上屋顶，看到一群蜜蜂从瓦砾中飞出，”阿尔-阿什卡尔女士说，“那是一种难以置信、无法言表的感觉。”

由于丈夫和其中一个儿子在战争中受伤，阿尔-阿什卡尔女士成了家中的主要经济支柱。她重新开始养蜂，希望通过出售蜂蜜来维持生计。

“他们两个都受伤了，我就成了家里负责的人，”阿尔-阿什卡尔女士说，“我丈夫凭借经验提供帮助，但必须由我来经营。”

加沙的经济在战争中遭到毁灭性打击。像阿尔-阿什卡尔女士这样的一小部分人，正在缓慢地尝试让自己的生意恢复生机。

渔民们正出海捕鱼，但他们担心如果出海太远，会触犯以色列对该飞地的海上封锁。曾经拥有自己店铺的理发师，现在在临时搭建的理发店里执业。

阿尔-阿什卡尔女士的蜜蜂现在分布在六个蜂箱中，但产蜜量相对较少。即使是喂养蜜蜂所需的糖等基本必需品也变得更加昂贵，而其他材料——如杀螨剂——则可能根本难以获得。

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“有时，我希望自己是一只蜜蜂，这样我就能从这里飞走，去其他国家，而不是被困在这里。”

目前，加沙超过一半的地区对阿尔-阿什卡尔女士来说实际上是禁区，对于居住在那里的两百万名巴勒斯坦人的绝大多数也是如此。但她说，她经常看到她的蜜蜂飞向以色列控制区。

“有时，我希望自己是一只蜜蜂，”阿尔-阿什卡尔女士说，“这样我就能从这里飞走，去其他国家，而不是被困在这里。”

39 岁的穆罕默德·阿卜杜勒哈迪（Mohammad Abdelhadi）长期从事木工工作。他曾拥有自己的工作室，在那里制作家具，并曾在土耳其工作过一段时间。他的职业让他进入了加沙的中产阶级。

入侵将他击回了原点。但阿卜杜勒哈迪先生表示，他决心为他的九个孩子提供更好的生活，其中最小的孩子——九个月大的马哈茂德（Mahmoud）——是在战争爆发后出生的。

他们没有自来水。因此，每天早晨，他和妻子基塔姆（Khitam）以及孩子们一起离开他们现在居住的帐篷，从附近的一辆水车中接水装入大型塑料容器。他们没有电。因此，他们通过付费使用几百码外的一台发电机来给手机充电。

他的大多数孩子仍然无法接受常规教育，阿卜杜勒哈迪先生有时会为他们的前途感到焦虑。“他们在这里的命运会怎样？醒来，接水，去救济厨房，没有学校？”他问道。

阿卜杜勒哈迪先生试图安慰孩子们。在一天结束时，他点起火堆，为他们煮茶。他陪马哈茂德玩耍，这个孩子除了帐篷之外从未有过家。

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MAKING A LIVING AGAIN

Nivin al-Ashqar hears two constant hums when she goes onto the roof of her home in the northern Gaza town of Ja-

Above, beehives in Gaza City. Right, Nivin al-Ashqar, at top, with honey from hives on the rooftop of her badly damaged home. Before the war, Ms. al-Ashqar's family had about 400 beehives, but almost all were destroyed during the conflict.

baliya. One comes from the beehives that she and her husband cultivate to produce honey and beeswax for sale. The other is from Israeli drones that hover overhead, a reminder that their house lies just a few hundred yards from the demarcation line behind which the Israeli military has entrenched itself.

The Trump administration's ceasefire plan envisioned a gradual Israeli withdrawal, in parallel with Hamas's disarmament, but neither has happened.

Before the war, in addition to a single hive they kept at home, Ms. al-Ashqar's family had about 400 hives, mostly in the area now under Israeli military control. Almost all those hives were destroyed during the conflict, she said.

Early in the war, Ms. al-Ashqar fled fighting in Jabaliya with her family. When they returned more than a year later to try to clean up their badly damaged house, she heard a relentless buzzing.

"We climbed up to the roof and we saw a cloud of bees emerging from the rubble," Ms. al-Ashqar said. "It was an unbelievable feeling, indescribable."

Ms. al-Ashqar is the primary bread-winner in her household because her husband and one of her sons were wounded during the war. She has turned again to raising bees, hoping to sell their honey.

"With both of them wounded, I've become the one responsible for the home," Ms. al-Ashqar said. "My husband helps, with his experience, but I have to run it."

Gaza's economy was devastated in the war. A few, like Ms. al-Ashqar, are slowly coaxing their businesses back to life.

Fishermen are setting out to sea, although they fear running afoul of an Israeli naval blockade of the enclave if they head too far out. Barbers who once owned their own shops now practice their trade in makeshift salons.

Ms. al-Ashqar's bees now populate six hives but produce relatively little honey. Even basic staples like sugar to feed them are more expensive, while other materials — like miticides — can be hard to come by at all.

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随着俄罗斯升级攻击，欧洲寻求反击之策

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9月的一次北约媒体之旅期间，意大利、西班牙和土耳其的战机飞越立陶宛。该联盟一直在俄罗斯边境开展更多演习。

欧洲，见第1页

……（此处接前文）保留在自己手中。但正如前北约官员卡特先生干巴巴地表示，达成这样一个共识“可能是一个相当大的挑战”。

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普京的战略

近期直接归因于俄罗斯或被认为是由莫斯科下令的事件包括：袭击波兰的铁路基础设施、俄罗斯护卫舰向丹麦直升机发射信号弹、工厂遭到破坏、俄罗斯侦察无人机入侵，以及企图暗杀欧洲军工企业高管的阴谋。

虽然许多事件难以确凿地归咎于俄罗斯，但柏林方面将近期在德国东部莱比锡-哈勒机场发现的一架携带爆炸物但有故障的无人机直接归因于莫斯科，该无人机被发现于乌克兰运输机附近。这次失败的袭击——无人机是由一名机场员工发现的——是引发全欧洲发出新警告的数起事件之一。

莱比锡-哈勒机场的这架无人机标志着一种转变，既体现在俄罗斯冒险程度的提高，也体现在德国更愿意指责莫斯科。

德国马歇尔基金会的国防专家克劳迪娅·马约尔表示，

普京不仅想要“证明支持乌克兰是有代价的，而且要破坏民众对民主国家能够保护他们的信任”。她补充说，俄罗斯在乌克兰的目标不仅是领土，而且是“证明西方并不团结，且可以从内部被瓦解”。

俄罗斯总统最近在警告支持乌克兰的北约国家时更加直白，称他们可能会成为目标。欧洲官员指出，俄罗斯还被怀疑试图影响法国、意大利、波兰和西班牙的关键选举，在这些国家，极右翼和亲俄政党正发起重大挑战。

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增加俄罗斯的代价

北约已经在加强其常规威慑，在俄罗斯边境开展更多、规模更大的演习。欧洲在增加针对混合战争威慑方面的努力则进展较慢，且不那么明显。

该地区正日益关注于“归因”，领导人和情报机构在阐明俄罗斯的责任和意图时变得更加明确，使用诸如“动力学”（kinetic）而非“混合”（hybrid）之类的词汇，以暗示这是一种更积极的战争形式。

欧洲还在投入巨资保护机场、关键基础设施、铁路枢纽和重要工厂。一些国家，如丹麦、芬兰和波兰，正通过警告和公共服务通知，让公民为潜在的战争做好准备。北约国家可以将此类努力计入联盟目标，即到2034年国防开支达到国内生产总值的5%。

分析人士表示，此类行动虽然必要，但无法防范无论是真实还是蓄意的、导致人员死亡并让西方国家在如何应对上感到迷茫的意外事件。

科亚拉先生表示，韧性依然让俄罗斯掌握主动权。他指出：“应对措施必须超越保护层面。它应该针对这些行动背后的网络——识别并起诉俄罗斯情报官员，瓦解当地代理人的招募和支付。”

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“应对措施必须超越防御。它应当针对这些行动背后的网络。”

这是欧洲应对方案中更为微妙的第三部分，即让俄罗斯的行为付出代价。前北约情报官员卡特先生表示，如果认定莫斯科是罪魁祸首却不采取相应的惩罚措施，将显示出软弱，并会鼓励更多攻击。但他同时指出，相关信息的传递必须谨慎且具有集体性，而不是由单个国家针对单一行为做出反应。

例如，分析人士建议，可以使用网络能力关闭俄罗斯的一个城镇或莫斯科地铁，以此作为警告信号。而如果担忧的是无人机或导弹袭击（无论是有意还是无意），北约国家可以建立前沿防空体系，包括在乌克兰领土上，以击落飞向北约领土的威胁，正如波兰外交部长拉多斯瓦夫·西科尔斯基所敦促的那样。

华盛顿战略与国际研究中心（CSIS）的马克斯·伯格曼表示，虽然华盛顿可以通过其情报主管或总统电话向莫斯科传递私人信息，但欧洲没有一个能够代表整个集团发言的单一人物。

前美国驻北约大使、现就职于哈佛大学贝尔弗科学与国际事务中心的伊沃·达尔德指出，欧盟正努力提出一项针对混合战争事件磋商的安全协议，类似于北约的第4条。

但达尔德先生表示，欧洲“需要的是一份方案清单，而不是另一次会议”。他补充说，在制定针对混合战争的预设集体应对清单方面，北约比欧盟准备得更充分，且该联盟拥有执行这些方案的指挥结构。

一个共和党大本营正显现出“可翻盘”迹象

内布拉斯加州，格林

上图：堪萨斯州道奇城附近的放牧牛群。激烈的中期选举竞争已将大平原地区面临的定义性挑战——如飙升的柴油成本和陷入困境的畜牧业——转化为顶级的国家议题。右下方的琳恩·沃尔兹（Lynne Walz）是内布拉斯加州民主党州长候选人，她正与共和党现任州长吉姆·皮伦（Jim Pillen，左）展开竞争。

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随着大平原地区出现激烈的竞争，民主党人正充满活力

作者：MITCH SMITH

在美国大平原地区——一个共和党已主导了一代人的区域——民主党和独立候选人的民调表现良好，且正在扩大选举战场。

那些极少摆动的州可能会决定国会的控制权。州长之位正处于争夺之中。大学橄榄球比赛期间的广告时段已变成了攻击性广告的剪辑集。

这些激烈的竞争将该地区面临的挑战，如飙升的柴油成本和陷入困境的畜牧业，变成了顶级的国家议题。长期以来难以与农村选民建立联系的民主党人，现在正专注于将人们对特朗普总统政策的焦虑转化为对其候选人的支持。而共和党人正向堪萨斯州投入大量广告资金，并派遣特朗普先生前往俄克拉荷马州和内布拉斯加州进行竞选演说，这证明选民们的选票上确实出现了具有竞争力的对决。

“他们陷入麻烦了，”朱迪·沃兰德（Judy Vohland）说道。她曾担任民主党主席，位于保守的内布拉斯加州中部一个县，特朗普先生上周在那里发表了讲话。她反问道，否则，“他到底为什么得跑来内布拉斯加州的格兰德岛？”

共和党的新弱点是否能转化为选举失败仍具有高度不确定性。该党在该地区拥有数十年的选民好感度和政治基础设施，而民主党的品牌形象受损且资源有限。

尽管如此，民主党人和独立人士看到了机会。

当内布拉斯加州民主党州长候选人琳恩·沃尔兹上周在一个县举行活动时——在2024年，特朗普先生在该县的领先幅度接近50个百分点——出席人数甚至超过了座椅数量。介绍她的是当地一名曾任共和党州参议员的人，他表示不记得自己曾经投票给过民主党人，但他计划将选票投给沃尔兹女士，而不是共和党现任州长吉姆·皮伦。

“这里有很多共和党人在观察，”这位前参议员约翰·斯廷纳（John Stinner）说道，他将沃尔兹女士描述为一名在立法机构中能够跨党派合作的人。

竞争激烈的州长和参议员竞选使堪萨斯州和内布拉斯加州成为了真正的战场，而德克萨斯州以及毗邻平原地区的爱荷华州也有几场激烈的竞争。局势之不稳定，以至于即使在共和党势力极强的俄克拉荷马州和南达科他州，一些选战也进入了“可翻盘”的边缘。

美国民主党全国委员会最近将由众议员斯蒂芬妮·拜斯（Stephanie Bice）把持的俄克拉荷马城地区席位列入了目标名单，该党甚至在关注州长之位。在南达科他州，独立候选人布莱恩·本格斯（Brian Bengs）发布的民调显示，他与共和党现任参议员迈克·朗兹（Mike Rounds）的差距在可触及范围内。

在华盛顿处于弱势的政党通常在期中选举中表现强劲，在特朗普先生第一任期的中期，民主党在大平原地区取得了一些进展。但今年战场的广度正激励着民主党的基层，并揭示出特朗普先生曾经看似不可撼动的联盟在部分地区出现了侵蚀。

来自内布拉斯加州的共和党战略专家瑞安·霍恩（Ryan Horn）将钢铁关税、能源价格和化肥成本描述为一场“双重或三重打击”，这些因素损害了农民的利益，且对大平原地区共和党基本盘的考验比其他地区更为严峻。

“那些一直非常坚定支持共和党的农民和牧场主，我认为其中有相当一部分人正在考虑：‘我想用我的选票来尝试寻求一些改变，’”霍恩先生说道。

为了在共和党领地争取选票，民主党必须克服人们对其政策的怀疑，尤其是在社会议题方面。在内布拉斯加州狭长地带格林（Gering）市外举行的一场沃尔兹（Walz）女士的活动中，西尔维娅·科菲（Sylvia Coffey）告诉这位候选人，她希望“确保女孩在女孩的洗手间和更衣室，男孩在男孩的洗手间”。

在一次采访中，身为退休农民且曾三次投票给特朗普先生的共和党人科菲女士表示，她对总统的言论以及教师低薪问题也感到担忧。尽管她仍计划在参议院选举中投票给共和党现任议员，但她说她倾向于在州长选举中投票给沃尔兹女士。

“我认为人们想要改变，”她说。

在州内另一端的奥马哈（Omaha）郊区，萨皮县（Sarpy County）共和党主席迈克尔·蒂德曼（Michael Tiedeman）表示，他乐观地认为共和党将保住全州范围内的公职，尽管他也承认部分选民在特朗普第二任政府期间感到沮丧。

“这需要时间，”蒂德曼先生说。“18个月的时间不足以执行一项议程和政策，并开始兑现竞选承诺。”

蒂德曼先生所在的县包含了内布拉斯加州政治倾向复杂的第二国会选区的一部分，民主党对今年翻盘该选区持乐观态度。

上周在内布拉斯加州，特朗普先生签署了一项旨在降低柴油成本的行政命令，为他决定对伊朗发动战争的行为辩护，并对即将到来的选举表达了信心。

“我们将大获全胜，”特朗普先生在格兰岛（Grand Island）对人群说道，当时他与州长皮伦（Pillen）先生一同出席。“这是最重要的中期选举。”

近期的历史表明，特朗普先生的信心可能有其依据。在大平原地区，从俄克拉荷马州向北一直延伸到北达科他州，共和党占据了全部10个美国参议院席位、5个州长职位中的4个，以及14个美国众议院席位中的13个。（堪萨斯州的两位人士——州长劳拉·凯利（Laura Kelly）和众议员莎丽丝·戴维兹（Sharice Davids）是民主党的例外。）

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若想在共和党势力范围内的选区扭转选票，民主党必须克服选民对其政策（尤其是社会议题）的怀疑。

共和党今年也有机会进一步扩大其在大平原地区的掌控力，因为凯利女士受限于任期限制，无法在堪萨斯州寻求连任。最近的非党派民调显示，堪萨斯州共和党的州长候选人、州参议员泰·马斯特森（Ty Masterson）在与民主党候选人、州参议员辛迪·霍尔舍（Cindy Holscher）的激烈竞争中处于领先地位。

大平原地区转向强烈的共和党倾向其实是在近期才发生的。在 20 世纪 90 年代的很大一部分时间里，内布拉斯加州的两名参议员都是民主党人。在 21 世纪初，俄克拉荷马州曾有一位民主党州长，北达科他州的两名参议员也都是民主党人。当时的美国参议院民主党领袖汤姆·达什尔（Tom Daschle）就来自南达科他州。

但政治的全国化趋势，以及民主党在社会、气候和农业议题上的立场，摧毁了他们在州级选举中的竞争力。

如今，共和党在一些大平原地区的农村县经常能赢得 80 到 90 比率的选票，这往往抵消了民主党在郊区取得的“特朗普时代”增长。

“在某种程度上，而且是有理由的，民主党被认为变得更加精英主义，”达什尔先生说道。这位来自南达科他州的民主党人在 2004 年以微弱差距失去连任之前，曾担任该党在美国参议院的领袖。

达什尔先生表示，民主党今年在大平原地区重新建立基础的机会是真实存在的，但任务艰巨。

在一次采访中，当被问及民主党的品牌形象，以及她的观点与党纲是否存在分歧时，沃尔兹女士回避了这个问题。

“坦白说，我不关注全国性的党纲，”沃尔兹女士说，“我关注的是内布拉斯加州这里发生的事情。我是认真的。我认为这让我不像一个党派至上的人。”

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A Republican stronghold is looking ‘flippable’

GERING, NEB.

Above, cattle grazing near Dodge City, Kan. Close midterm races have turned the Great Plains region's defining challenges, like soaring diesel costs and the struggling cattle industry, into top-tier national issues. Lynne Walz, below right, Nebraska's Democratic nominee for governor, is running against the Republican incumbent, Gov. Jim Pillen, left.

NICK OXFORD FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

ALEX BRANDON/ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHET STRANGE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Democrats are energized as close races emerge in the Great Plains region

BY MITCH SMITH

Across the Great Plains, a region of the United States that Republicans have dominated for a generation, Democratic and independent candidates are polling well and expanding the electoral battlefield.

States that seldom swing could determine control of Congress. Governorships are up for grabs. Commercial breaks during college football games have become montages of attack ads.

The close races have turned the region's challenges, like soaring diesel costs and the struggling cattle industry, into top-tier national issues. Democrats, who have long struggled to connect with rural voters, are now focused on turning angst over President Trump's policies into support for their candidates. And Republicans are pouring advertising money into Kansas and sending Mr. Trump to stump in Oklahoma and Nebraska, proof that voters have real races on their ballots.

"They're in trouble," said Judy Vohland, a former Democratic Party chair in the conservative Central Nebraska county where Mr. Trump spoke last week. Otherwise, she asked, "Why the hell would you come out to Grand Island, Nebraska?"

Whether Republicans' new vulnerability translates into losses is highly uncertain. The party has decades' worth of voter good will and political infrastructure in the region, and Democrats have a tarnished brand and limited resources.

Still, Democrats and independents see an opening.

When Lynne Walz, Nebraska's Democratic nominee for governor, held an event last week in a county that Mr. Trump carried by nearly 50 percentage points in 2024, there were more attendees than chairs to seat them. She was introduced by a former Republican state senator from the area who said that he could not recall ever voting for a Democrat, but that he planned to cast his ballot for Ms. Walz, rather than Gov. Jim Pillen, the Republican incumbent.

"There's a lot of Republicans out here taking a look," said the former senator, John Stinner, who described Ms. Walz as someone who worked across party lines in the Legislature.

Competitive campaigns for governor and Senate have positioned Kansas and Nebraska as bona fide battlegrounds, while Texas and the Plains-adjacent Iowa also have several close races. So unsettled is the landscape that even some contests in strongly Republican Oklahoma and South Dakota have entered the periphery of flippability.

National Democrats recently added the Oklahoma City-area seat held by Representative Stephanie Bice to their target list, and the party is even eyeing the governorship. In South Dakota, the independent candidate Brian Bengs has released polls showing him within striking distance of Senator Mike Rounds, the Republican incumbent.

The weaker party in Washington often has a strong midterm election, and Democrats made some inroads on the Plains at the midpoint of Mr. Trump's first term. But the breadth of this year's battleground is energizing the Democratic base, and revealing erosion in parts of Mr. Trump's coalition that once appeared unshakable.

Ryan Horn, a Republican strategist from Nebraska, described a “double- or triple-whammy” of steel tariffs, energy prices and fertilizer costs that had hurt farmers, testing the strength of the Republican base on the Plains more than in other regions.

“Farmers and ranchers who have been very reliably Republican, I think there’s a number of them that are thinking, ‘I want to use my vote to try to get some change,’” Mr. Horn said.

To flip votes in Republican territory,

Democrats must overcome skepticism about their policies, especially on social issues. At Ms. Walz's event outside Gering, in Nebraska's Panhandle, Sylvia Coffey told the candidate that she wanted to "make sure that girls are in girls' restrooms and lockers, and boys are in boys' restrooms."

In an interview, Ms. Coffey, a retired farmer and Republican who voted for Mr. Trump three times, said she also had concerns about the president's rhetoric and low teacher pay. Although she still planned to vote for the Republican incumbent for Senate, she said she was leaning toward voting for Ms. Walz for governor.

"I think people are wanting changes," she said.

Across the state in suburban Omaha, Michael Tiedeman, the chairman of the Sarpy County Republicans, said he was optimistic that Republicans would hold onto statewide offices, even as he acknowledged that some voters were frustrated during the second Trump administration.

"It takes time," Mr. Tiedeman said. "Eighteen months is not enough time to enact an agenda and policy and start providing on campaign promises."

Mr. Tiedeman's county includes a portion of Nebraska's politically mixed Second Congressional District, which Democrats are optimistic about flipping this year.

In Nebraska last week, Mr. Trump signed an executive order aimed at easing diesel costs, defended his decision to go to war in Iran and expressed confidence about the upcoming election.

"We're going to beat them big," Mr. Trump told the crowd in Grand Island, where he appeared alongside Mr. Pillen, the governor. "This is the most important midterm election."

Recent history suggests that Mr. Trump's confidence might be justified. Going straight north on the Plains from Oklahoma to North Dakota, Republicans hold all 10 U.S. Senate seats, four of five governorships and 13 of 14 U.S. House seats. (Two Kansans, Gov. Laura Kelly and Representative Sharice Davids, are the Democratic exceptions.)

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鱼类成为阿拉斯加中期选举的焦点

阿拉斯加州，科迪亚克岛

左图为阿拉斯加州科迪亚克港。右图为上月一场关于渔业辩论会上的阿拉斯加州参议员竞选候选人——现任议员丹·沙利文（Dan Sullivan，左）与玛丽·佩尔托拉（Mary Peltola）。

候选人们提出了各种支持该产业的方案

作者：安娜·格里芬（ANNA GRIFFIN）

就像爱荷华州的玉米和俄克拉荷马州的牛一样，鱼类在阿拉斯加永远是热门话题。今年，它们可能会帮助决定哪个政党控制美国参议院。

前众议员玛丽·佩尔托拉在四年前以“鱼类、家庭与自由”为竞选口号，结束了共和党对阿拉斯加州唯一众议院席位近半个世纪的掌控。这句话在华盛顿被视为某种俏皮的玩笑，但在家乡却是极其严肃的议题。正如各党派政治家所知，渔业是阿拉斯加州脆弱经济的核心，且正面临着多种威胁的异常交汇。

在阿拉斯加州的参议员竞选中，佩尔托拉女士指责共和党现任议员丹·沙利文参议员将“总部位于西雅图的工厂拖网渔船置于阿拉斯加家庭和我们的河流之上”。她进一步强化了其“渔业优先”的政纲，提出一项禁止州外拖网渔船的提案。这些巨大的船只使用漏斗形渔网横扫白令海，并在船上直接加工渔获。

沙利文先生则宣传他在减少幼年鲑鱼和比目鱼误捕方面的工作，并针对俄罗斯和中国渔船，他称这些渔船削弱了阿拉斯加渔民的竞争力。

“我们在这场竞选中都在谈论我们的渔业，但不同之处在于，我确实采取了行动来帮助保护它们，”沙利文先生上个月在科迪亚克商会一场聚焦渔业的辩论会上说道。

包括州长和众议员在内的其他职位的候选人们也加入了这场争论——尽管很少有人能像科学家那样，积极地提出应对更广泛威胁（气候变化和海水变暖）的方案。

对于美国本土48州的人来说，这场“鱼类之争”可能看起来像地方琐事，但它具有实际意义。阿拉斯加州贡献了美国捕获的野生海鲜的大约60%，涵盖了从高端野生捕捞的王鲑到冷冻鱼条以及麦当劳的鱼柳堡。该产业既包括长达370英尺（112米）、在白令海捕捞数十亿磅鱼类的工厂拖网渔船，也包括每年靠几百条鲑鱼养活社区的原住民生存渔民。

越来越多的阿拉斯加人感觉到，似乎只有最大的经营者才经营得好。

阿拉斯加的渔民与全国其他地区的同行有着共同的担忧。其中包括柴油燃料成本的上涨，以及特朗普政府对美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）的削减。该局负责监管并提供关于鱼类种群和天气模式的重要数据，而这些数据对于每艘船规划航季至关重要。

所有的这些讨论促使杰克·埃弗里奇（Jake Everich）上个月做了一件在两个月秋季狭鳕捕鱼季期间原本不可想象的事情。在那个季节，他必须最大化捕获量，以偿还他那艘73英尺船只的债务，支付四名船员的工资，并让科迪亚克的加工厂保持运转；然而，他留在港口听候选人们演讲。

“我没时间搞政治，”参加了科迪亚克州长辩论会的埃弗里奇先生说。但他说，在这种情况下，“我必须关注。”

在选举年，政治家们选择的攻击目标十分合理。进步派研究公司 Data for Progress 最近的一项民调显示，近四分之三的阿拉斯加人支持禁止拖网捕鱼，这呼应了一种早于建州就存在的怀疑：即外部利益集团想要以当地居民为代价，从阿拉斯加的自然资源中获利。

阿拉斯加人对州外鲑鱼陷阱和联邦渔业管理感到愤怒，他们在67年前加入联邦，是因为“人们厌倦了像殖民地一样生活，”科迪亚克的一位退休鲑鱼渔民兼高中英语教师大卫·库比亚克（David Kubiak）说道。

“现在感觉就像所有这些外部利益集团又在试图夺走属于阿拉斯加人的东西，”他说。

针对狭鳕的拖网渔船会捕获其他物种，包括前往阿拉斯加西部河流的幼年鲑鱼。这种被称为“兼捕”的意外捕获已变得尤为具有争议。鲑鱼洄游数量下降得如此剧烈，以至于育空河和库斯科奎姆河沿岸的捕鱼活动受到了严重限制

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“感觉就像所有这些外部利益集团又在试图夺走属于阿拉斯加人的东西。”

或被禁止，这给那些依赖三文鱼获取食物、收入以及延续数代传统的社区带来了毁灭性打击。在库斯科奎姆河（Kuskokwim），居民历史上每年捕捞 67,000 到 110,000 条钦努克三文鱼用于生存。而在 2024 年，他们的捕获量仅为 32,500 条。

佩尔托拉（Peltola）女士是尤皮克人（Yup'ik），她在库斯科奎姆河捕鱼的环境中长大，并将控制拖网捕捞作为竞选的核心议题。她的网站甚至包含一款街机风格的游戏，玩家在学习拖网捕捞可能造成的破坏时，操控三文鱼躲避捕食者和渔网。

但拖网捕捞与更广泛的捕鱼活动一样，形式多样。规模最大的商业船队总部设在华盛顿州或俄勒冈州，其中一些船只可以在船上进行加工和速冻，这意味着船员可能永远不会在阿拉斯加靠岸——也就不会在当地消费。

一些小型拖网船的所有者（如那些总部设在科迪亚克（Kodiak）的船主）表示，政治家们采取的限制措施过于宽泛。

“拖网捕捞的影响被极大地夸大了，并被用作政治攻击的弹药，”第二代拖网渔民杰森·钱德勒（Jason Chandler）说道，“看到自己的生计被这样对待，感觉很心酸。”

与白令海的工厂船队不同，钱德勒先生那艘 77 英尺长的“拓帕兹号”（F / V Topaz）将阿拉斯加湾的狭鳕和石鱼运送到科迪亚克港口的加工厂。

他警告说，禁止或严重限制拖网捕捞将扼杀像科迪亚克这样依赖海鲜的社区，“而我们现在应该共同努力来改善所有渔业。”

科学研究使政治问题变得复杂。研究表明，消除拖网捕捞中的兼捕（bycatch）只能让个位数的比例的三文鱼回到阿拉斯加西部的河流中。阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯分校的定量生态学家库里·坎宁安（Curry Cunningham）表示，拖网捕捞“只是谜题的一块碎片”。

萨利文（Sullivan）先生将批评重点放在非法、未报告和不受监管的外国捕鱼上，特别是俄罗斯和中国船队。他支持通过立法将违规船只列入黑名单并加强海岸警卫队的执法，同时推动将俄罗斯海鲜（包括经由中国转运的鱼类）排除在美国市场之外。

萨利文先生还起草了一项法案（上月已获参议院商业委员会批准），要求狭鳕拖网船使用旨在让三文鱼逃脱的渔网，扩大对兼捕的监测，并资助研发旨在减少意外捕获的设备。

两名参议院候选人都未像对待其他议题那样关注气候变化的作用。在一个依赖石油收入来支付公共服务费用的州，这是一个敏感话题，尽管永冻土的融化正在淹没其村庄。

“让我们控制我们能控制的部分吧，”佩尔托拉女士在关于渔业的辩论中说道。

拖网捕捞之争发生之际，阿拉斯加的渔业正遭受批发价格波动、燃料成本上涨以及养殖三文鱼竞争的困扰。萨利文先生和佩尔托拉女士都表示，在鱼类洄游崩溃的年份，联邦政府提供财务支持的行动过于缓慢。

由于季节性外国工人的签证枯竭，加工厂要么关闭，要么难以招到员工；而日益先进的设备和监管要求则增加了捕鱼成本。

“没有任何政治辩论能捕捉到其中的细微差别，即在 21 世纪试图通过捕捞野生动物来维持生计的真实情况，”渔民兼科迪亚克海事博物馆执行主任托比·萨利文（Toby Sullivan）说道。

莫娜埃卡·弗洛雷斯（Monaeka Flores）的家族在关岛根深蒂固，她领导一个团体，致力于阻止美国空军在岛屿北端的塔拉格海滩（Tarague Beach）处置军事废物。

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Fish take center stage in Alaska's midterm elections

KODIAK ISLAND, ALASKA

Left, the harbor in Kodiak, Alaska. Right, the candidates in Alaska's Senate race — the incumbent, Dan Sullivan, at left, and Mary Peltola — at a debate on fisheries last month.

Candidates put forward a range of proposals to support the industry

BY ANNA GRIFFIN

Like corn in Iowa and cattle in Oklahoma, fish are always a hot topic in Alaska. This year, they could help determine which party controls the U.S. Senate.

Former Representative Mary Peltola ended a nearly half-century Republican hold on Alaska's lone House seat four years ago campaigning on "fish, family and freedom," a phrase that was treated as something of a cute joke in Washington but was deadly serious back home. As politicians of all parties know, Alaska's fisheries are central to the state's fragile economy and facing an extraordinary convergence of threats.

In Alaska's Senate race, Ms. Peltola has accused Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican incumbent, of putting “Seattle-based factory trawlers ahead of Alaskan families and our rivers.” She has doubled down on her fishing-first platform with a proposal to ban out-of-state trawlers, massive vessels that sweep the Bering Sea with funnel-shaped nets and process their catch onboard.

Mr. Sullivan has promoted his work to reduce the accidental catch of juvenile salmon and halibut, and has targeted Russian and Chinese fishing fleets that he says undercut Alaska fishermen.

"We are both talking about our fisheries in this campaign, but the difference is, I've actually done things to help protect them," Mr. Sullivan said last month at a Kodiak Chamber of Commerce debate focused on fisheries.

A chorus of candidates for other offices, including governor and the House, has joined the fight — though few are as eager with ideas for combating what scientists say is the broader threat, climate change and warming waters.

To those in the Lower 48, the fish fight might seem provincial, but it has real meaning. Alaska accounts for roughly 60 percent of wild seafood harvested in the United States, from high-end wild-caught Chinook salmon to frozen fish sticks and McDonald's Filet-o-Fish. The industry includes 370-foot (112-meter) factory trawlers that scoop up Bering Sea fish by the billions of pounds and Indigenous subsistence fishermen who feed their communities on a few hundred salmon a year.

Increasingly, it feels to many Alaskans as if only the biggest operators are doing well.

And fishermen in Alaska share other concerns with their brethren across the country. Those include the rising cost of diesel fuel and the Trump administration's cuts to the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, which regulates and provides important data on fishing stocks and weather patterns key to planning every boat's season.

All the talk persuaded Jake Everich last month to do something once unthinkable in the middle of the two-month fall pollock season, when he must maximize his catch to service the debt on his 73-foot boat, pay his four-person crew and keep Kodiak's processing plants busy; he stayed in port to listen to candidates talk.

"I don't have time for politics," said Mr. Everich, who attended the Kodiak debate for governor. But in this case, he added, "I have to pay attention."

The politicians' preferred targets make sense in an election year. A recent poll by the progressive firm Data for Progress showed that almost three-quarters of Alaskans support a trawling ban, echoing a suspicion that predates statehood: that outside interests want to profit from Alaska's natural resources at the expense of the people who live there.

Alaskans, angry about out-of-state salmon traps and federal fisheries management, joined the Union 67 years ago "because people were tired of being a colony," said David Kubiak, a retired salmon fisherman and high school English teacher in Kodiak.

"Now it feels like there are all these outside interests trying to take what belongs to Alaskans again," he said.

Trawlers targeting pollock net other species, including juvenile salmon bound for western Alaska rivers. That accidental haul, known as bycatch, has become particularly contentious. Salmon runs have collapsed so precipitously that fishing along the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers has been severely limited

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关岛海滩可能被禁入

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美国空军将其用于处置弹药，但部分居民表示反对

作者：ABBIE VANSICKLE

塔拉格海滩（Tarague Beach）是关岛上一片热带白沙滩，这里是海龟产卵、候鸟觅食以及礁鱼在清澈蓝绿海水中穿梭之地。

但这片距离华盛顿近 8,000 英里（12,870 公里）的海滩，其未来现在取决于美国最高法院。大法官们上周就一项法律挑战进行了口头辩论，该挑战针对的是美国空军在海滩上销毁过期火箭、炸弹和危险废物弹药的项目。

几十年来，空军一直利用该地点处置军事废物，但 Prutehi Guahan（一个致力于保护关岛自然和文化资源的当地非营利组织）提起诉讼以挑战这一做法，认为军方没有妥善考虑对环境造成的威胁。

一家下级法院此前认定该组织不能提起诉讼。在周三的辩论中，不同意识形态倾向的几位大法官似乎对这一认定表示担忧，担心如果判定 Prutehi Guahan 败诉，可能意味着剥夺该组织对空军提起法律挑战的能力，无论该组织最终是否能赢得此类诉讼。

但许多大法官也表示担心，允许此类挑战可能会导致大量其他诉讼涌入法院系统。该案的裁决预计将于明年 6 月底前出炉。

关岛毗邻亚洲——它距离北京比距离夏威夷更近——这使其成为一个日益重要的军事前哨。随着太平洋地区紧张局势的升级，这种存在感在近年来进一步增强。军事专家经常将这个小岛（在 210 平方英里（540 平方公里）的土地上生活着约 170,000 人）称为美国在该地区军事力量的“矛尖”。

塔拉格海滩位于岛屿北端附近，处于安德森空军基地（Andersen Air Force Base）的范围内，几十年来，美国军方一直将其作为销毁过期弹药的场所。

Prutehi Guahan 的领导者挑战了这一做法，认为爆炸威胁到脆弱的海洋生态系统、附近的考古遗迹、传统渔场以及岛上的水源，并将危险的毒素和碎片抛向空中和水中。

最高法院面临的法律问题是一个技术性问题，即空军在近年来寻求继续在海滩上进行爆破的许可时，是否遵守了环境法规。在法庭文件中，空军表示，爆破点对于处置危险废物至关重要，且虽然必须每三年重新申请一次许可，但该流程旨在确保对规则的常规遵守，而非施加新的限制。

挑战者表示，这场争端具有深刻的个人色彩。他们认为，执行联邦环境法是关岛居民——他们出生即为美国公民，但不能投票选举总统——在面对强大的美国军队时，让自己的声音被听到的少数途径之一。

“这确实是我们能够影响联邦项目、防止其永久改变我们的物理景观、环境、文化资源和日常生活的唯一机制之一，”Prutehi Guahan 的执行主任莫娜埃卡·弗洛雷斯（Monaeka Flores）说道，她是关岛原住民查莫罗人（Chamorro）。

在海滩附近，有一处被认为是拥有 3,000 多年历史的查莫罗村落遗址，那里有巨石阵和史前岩画。距离此处仅几百码的地方是关岛国家野生动物保护区，这是一个保护果蝠、鸟类和海龟的保护区。“这是查莫罗人集体记忆的一部分，因此也是集体管理的一部分，”弗洛雷斯女士说道，“我们需要为所有后代将其保存下来，每个人都应该有机会来到这里，感受这个地区的特别之处。”

美国空军

顶部：一场传统的查莫罗舞蹈表演。上方：2002 年在塔拉格海滩（Tarague Beach）的一次训练演习中，一枚炸弹被引爆。左侧：安德森空军基地。

关岛与亚洲的邻近使其成为了一个日益重要的军事前哨。

美国空军于 1982 年首次获得一项危险废物许可证，允许将该海滩用作处置未爆炸弹药（催泪瓦斯、弹药和其他爆炸物）的场所，其中一些弹药可追溯到第二次世界大战。军方在沙滩上设立了其所谓的“露天爆破场”。

Prutehi Guahan 组织认为，当空军于 2021 年 5 月向关岛环境保护局重新申请许可证以继续进行爆破时，并未妥善审查环境后果，也未允许公众发表评论。

空军续签许可证的要求源于一项名为《资源保护与回收法》（Resource Conservation and Recovery Act）的 1976 年法律。该法律赋予环境保护局权力，允许其授权州和领地监管机构处理危险废物的处置、储存或销毁。空军的律师主张，军方将许可流程视为确保其持续遵守环境法规的一部分。

但挑战者表示，军方还应被要求根据一项尼克松时代的法律——《国家环境政策法》（National Environmental Policy Act）接受严格的环境审查。联邦法院对该法律的解释是，政府在采取可能显著影响“人类环境质量”的行动之前，必须对计划可能产生的任何环境后果进行“深入审查”。

在空军寻求新许可证后，负责确保遵守环境法的当地领地机构——关岛环境保护局收到了关于该计划的公众评论。在听取了关于爆破的担忧后，该机构宣布将考虑是否向军方发放许可证。然而，在此期间，空军仍被允许在海滩上继续引爆弹药。

Prutehi Guahan 的成员、在关岛社区学院教授科学课程的乔尼·昆加·克尔（Joni Quenga Kerr）表示，她直到空军申请续签许可证时才得知这个露天爆破计划。

“它离海洋如此之近——就在海滩上，”克尔女士说，“几码之外就是开阔的海洋和礁石，那么，空气、土地、水、海洋以及生活在那里的生物可能会发生什么样的情况？”

2022 年 1 月，弗洛雷斯女士和其他 Prutehi Guahan 成员提起诉讼以停止爆破。原告担心邻居拥有的土地可能会受到污染，并主张该组织成员经常使用该海滩进行娱乐、文化和精神实践，而这些活动将受到烟雾、噪音和污染的损害。他们还担心爆破产生的冲击波会损害科学家研究海龟的努力。

他们在法庭文件中辩称，空军未能按照法律要求对爆破后果进行“深入审查”，也未能考虑“合理的替代方案范围”。

在法庭文件中，美国空军辩称，其在重新申请该场地许可证时已遵守相关规定。美国空军的律师认为，如果要求增加又一层环境审查，“将导致许可流程变得过度繁琐且耗时”。

去年2月，美国第九巡回上诉法院的一个由三名法官组成的合议庭在分歧中支持了普鲁特希·瓜汉（Prutehi Guahan）。

多数派法官——由克林顿任命的马莎·S·贝尔宗（Marsha S. Berzon）和由特朗普任命的埃里克·D·米勒（Eric D. Miller）——裁定，如果美国空军对其计划的环境影响进行了必要的审查，并且“适当地与公众进行了沟通”，军方可能会“选择不同的地点或方法来处理废弃弹药”。

持异议的法官、由特朗普任命的劳伦斯·范戴克（Lawrence VanDyke）则认为，美国空军应该被允许在海滩上继续进行爆破，正如其过去几十年所做的那样。

在法庭文件中，代表美国空军的特朗普政府律师将第九巡回法院的裁决描述为“与行政法和环境法的基本原则不一致”。

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"It feels like there are all these outside interests trying to take what belongs to Alaskans again."

or banned, devastating communities that rely on salmon for food, income and traditions stretching back generations. On the Kuskokwim, residents historically harvested between 67,000 and 110,000 Chinook salmon a year for subsistence. In 2024, they caught 32,500.

Ms. Peltola, who is Yup'ik, grew up fishing on the Kuskokwim River and has made trawling controls a campaign centerpiece. Her website even features an arcade-style game in which salmon dodge predators and nets while players learn about the damage trawling can do.

But trawling, like fishing more broadly, comes in a variety of flavors. The largest commercial boats are based in Washington or Oregon, and some can process and flash freeze fish onboard, meaning their crews may never dock — or spend money — in Alaska.

Owners of smaller trawl boats, like those based in Kodiak, say politicians are casting too broad a net.

"The impact of trawling is getting blown way out of proportion and being used as political ammunition," said Jason Chandler, a second-generation trawler. "It stings a bit to have your livelihood treated that way."

Unlike factory fleets in the Bering Sea, Mr. Chandler's 77-foot boat, the F/V Topaz, delivers pollock and rockfish from the Gulf of Alaska to processing plants along Kodiak's harbor.

Banning or severely restricting trawling, he warned, would kill seafood-dependent communities like Kodiak “when we should be working together to improve all fisheries.”

Science does complicate the politics. Studies have shown that eliminating trawling bycatch would return a single-digit share of salmon to western Alaska rivers. Curry Cunningham, a quantitative ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said trawling was “just one piece of the puzzle.”

Mr. Sullivan has focused his criticism on illegal, unreported and unregulated foreign fishing, particularly by Russian and Chinese fleets. He has backed legislation to blacklist offending vessels and strengthen Coast Guard enforcement, while pushing to keep Russian seafood — including fish routed through China — out of U.S. markets.

Mr. Sullivan also wrote a bill, approved by the Senate Commerce Committee last month, to require pollock trawlers to use nets designed to let salmon escape, expand monitoring of bycatch and fund research on gear designed to reduce unintended catches.

Neither Senate candidate has focused nearly as much on the role of climate change, a fraught subject in a state that relies on oil revenue to help pay for public services, even as the melting permafrost swamps its villages.

"Let's control what we can," Ms. Pel-tola said at the fish debate.

The trawling fight comes as Alaska's fishing industry suffers through fluctuating wholesale prices, rising fuel costs and competition from farm-raised salmon. The federal government, Mr. Sullivan and Ms. Peltola both say, has moved too slowly to provide financial support in years when fish runs have collapsed.

Processing plants have closed or struggled to find employees as visas for seasonal foreign workers dry up, while increasingly sophisticated equipment and regulatory requirements have made fishing more expensive.

“None of the political debates capture the nuance, what it’s really like to try to make a living catching a wild animal in the 21st century,” said Toby Sullivan, a fisherman and executive director of the Kodiak Maritime Museum.

Monaeka Flores, whose family has deep roots on Guam, leads a group fighting to stop the U.S. Air Force disposing of military waste on Tarague Beach, on the island's northern tip.

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死刑再次成为辩论焦点

一次失败的处决和一项军事计划使这一极具争议的问题成为关注中心

作者：尼古拉斯·博格尔-伯勒斯（NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS）

在短短八天内，美国先后得知了一次失败的处决和一次成功的处决，并被告知在年底前将通过军事枪决进行一次直播处决。

作为最严厉的刑事处罚——全美约有 2,000 人在死囚牢房中——处决在已经处于政治和文化分裂的国家中占据了中心位置，在关键的中期选举前几周进一步加剧了分歧。

死刑反对者利用 9 月 30 日在田纳西州试图处决克里斯塔·派克（Christa Pike）的失误，推动废除死刑。相反，美国最高军事官员上周表示，美国将执行自 1936 年以来政府的首次公开处决。

五角大楼负责人皮特·赫格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）的这一宣布及其时机，体现了在特朗普总统的第二个任期内，死刑在国家极化的政治格局中所占据的显著地位。

在特朗普先生重返办公室当天，他敦促全国的检察官追求并执行死刑。2025 年，各州执行死刑的人数达到了 2009 年以来的最高水平，这在很大程度上是由共和党州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯（Ron DeSantis）领导下的佛罗里达州死刑人数大幅增加所驱动的。

派克女士的处决失败——她在接受了两剂可能注射不当的戊巴比妥钠后幸存下来——激励了死刑反对者，他们谴责这在他们看来是死刑缺陷的一个残酷例证。

这两起事件共同将死刑问题——几十年来一直发生在主要位于农村地区的监狱隐秘房间内的事情——重新带回了美国人的关注前沿。

“我们看到的是死刑制度的残酷性重新回到了公众关注的焦点，”明尼阿波利斯圣托马斯大学研究死刑的法学教授马克·奥斯勒（Mark Osler）表示，“田纳西州并非有意如此；但联邦政府是有意而为之。”

他补充道：“鉴于处决人数有所增加，现在是进行这场辩论的好时机。”

根据死刑信息中心的数据，在过去的 50 年中，已有近 1,700 人被处决，其中包括上周三在德克萨斯州被处死的 46 岁男子贾马尔·霍华德（Jamaal Howard），而 1999 年的处决人数达到顶峰，共 98 人被杀。霍华德先生因在 2000 年的一次抢劫中谋杀 42 岁的维基·斯沃特奥特（Vickie Swartout）而被定罪。田纳西州此前试图因派克女士 1995 年杀害其 19 岁的同学科琳·斯莱默（Colleen Slemmer）而对其执行死刑。

虽然有 27 个州保留死刑，但其中只有不到一半在过去五年中执行过死刑。弗吉尼亚州在 2021 年废除了死刑，而俄亥俄州的共和党州长迈克·德温（Mike DeWine）在 6 月表示，他希望自己的州也能这样做。

在现代，致命注射的使用频率远高于任何其他方法，尽管近年来各州已转向其他替代方法——包括新方法和旧方法。几个州授权使用枪决，而阿拉巴马州和路易斯安那州这两个州则使用了氮气窒息这一新方法。

民意调查显示，近几十年来对死刑的支持率稳步下降，尽管大多数美国人仍然支持死刑。今年夏天的一项调查发现，三分之二的人表示赞成。

尽管如此，关于直播处决尼达尔·哈桑（Nidal Hasan）的阴影令许多原本可能支持处决他的人感到不安。哈桑曾任陆军少校，被判定在 2009 年于德克萨斯州胡德堡谋杀 13 人（其中大多数是士兵）并导致数十人受伤。

“哈桑应该面临死刑，但将他的处决公开并进行直播？简直令人作呕，”北卡罗来纳州的共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯（Thom Tillis）在社交媒体上写道，“公开处决是像伊朗和阿富汗这样的压迫性独裁政权所做的事。这不应该发生在美国。”

现年 56 岁的哈桑先生受其激进的伊斯兰观点驱动，为了报复美国在阿富汗和伊拉克的战争而实施了杀戮。他在被出警的警察击伤后，目前腰部以下瘫痪，这使得他有可能在 12 月 3 日预定的执行死刑时被用轮椅运送。

赫格塞斯先生表示，哈桑先生将在胡德堡被处决，时间大约在下午早些时候，与他实施犯罪的时间段一致。

人们对这一公告的反应在很大程度上分成了意识形态阵营——共和党人更倾向于支持死刑——但反应也远非统一，凸显了该问题的复杂性。

一些罗马天主教领导人谴责了执行计划。天主教会长期以来一直反对死刑，将其视为对人类整个生命周期神学承诺的一部分，尽管近期美国主教们将重点放在终止堕胎和保护移民上。

美国天主教主教会议主席保罗·S·科克利大主教称，计划中的直播是“对死亡文化的野蛮推广”，并警告这将损害国家。

他说：“即使是对造成严重伤害的人进行公开处决，也将进一步破坏我们国家的道德结构，并成为其人民良心上的污点。”

副总统 JD 万斯（一名由无神论者转为天主教徒的人）周五表示，如果死刑被直播，他不会观看，同时他也对这一想法表示怀疑，称：“我不知道这是否真的会发生。”

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Guam beach may be off limits

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The U.S. Air Force uses it to dispose of munitions, but some residents object

BY ABBIE VANSICKLE

Tarague Beach is a tropical expanse of white sand on the island of Guam, where sea turtles lay their eggs, migratory seabirds forage and reef fish glide in the clear blue-green water.

But the future of this beach, nearly 8,000 miles (12,870 kilometers) from Washington, now rests with the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices heard oral arguments last week over a legal challenge to a U.S. Air Force program to destroy expired rockets, bombs and hazardous waste munitions on the beach.

For decades, the Air Force has used the spot to dispose of military waste, but Prutehi Guahan, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting Guam's natural and cultural resources, sued to challenge the practice, arguing that the military had not properly considered the threats to the environment.

A lower court had found that the group could not bring the suit. During last Wednesday's argument, several justices across the ideological spectrum appeared concerned with that finding, worried that siding against Prutehi Guahan might mean foreclosing the group's ability to even bring a legal challenge against the Air Force, regardless of whether the group would ultimately win such a suit.

But many of the justices also raised worries that allowing the challenge could flood the court system with a host of other lawsuits. A decision in the case is expected by the end of June next year.

Guam's proximity to Asia — it's closer to Beijing than to Hawaii — has made it an increasingly important military outpost. That presence has only grown in recent years with rising tensions in the Pacific. Military experts often refer to the small island — about 170,000 people live on its 210 square miles (540 square kilometers) — as the tip of the spear for American military might in the region.

Tarague Beach is near the northern tip of the island, within the bounds of Andersen Air Force Base, and for decades the U.S. military has used it a place to destroy expired munitions.

The leaders of Prutehi Guahan have challenged the practice, arguing that the explosions threaten the fragile marine ecosystem, nearby archaeological remains, traditional fishing sites, and the island's water supply, sending dangerous toxins and debris hurtling into the air and the water.

The legal question for the Supreme Court was a technical one about whether the Air Force followed environmental regulations as it sought a permit in recent years to continue detonations on the beach. In court filings, the Air Force has said that the detonation site is crucial for disposing of hazardous waste and that although it must reapply for a permit every three years, that process is meant to ensure ordinary compliance with the rules and not impose new restrictions.

The challengers say that the dispute is deeply personal. They argue that enforcing federal environmental laws is among the few ways for Guam residents — who are U.S. citizens by birth but who cannot vote for the president — to make their voices heard against the powerful U.S. military.

"It's truly one of the only mechanisms that we have to have an impact on federal projects that will permanently alter our physical landscape, our environment, our cultural resources and our daily lives," said Monaeka Flores, executive director of Prutehi Guahan, who is Chamorro, the Indigenous people of Guam.

Near the beach is the site of what is thought to be a Chamorro village that is more than 3,000 years old, with stone megaliths and prehistoric rock paintings. The Guam National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for fruit bats, birds and turtles, is only a few hundred yards away. “This is part of the collective memory, and therefore collective stewardship, of the Chamorro people,” Ms. Flores said. “We need to preserve it for all future generations, and everybody should have a chance to come and appreciate how special the area is.”

U.S. AIR FORCE

Top, a traditional Chamorro dance performance. Above, a bomb detonated as part of a training exercise on Tarague Beach in 2002. Left, Andersen Air Force Base.

Guam's proximity to Asia has made it an increasingly important military outpost.

The U.S. Air Force first received a hazardous waste permit in 1982 to use the beach as a site for disposing of unexploded ordnance — tear gas, ammunition and other explosives — some dating back to World War II. The military set up what it calls an open detonation site on the sand.

Prutehi Guahan argues that when the Air Force reapplied for a permit from the Guam Environmental Protection Agency to continue the explosions in May 2021, it did so without properly examining the environmental consequences or allowing for public comment.

The requirement for the Air Force to renew the permit comes from a 1976 law called the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. That law gives the Environmental Protection Agency the power to authorize state and territorial regulators to handle the treatment, storage or disposal of hazardous waste. Lawyers for the Air Force have asserted that the military viewed the permitting process as part of ensuring its ongoing compliance with environmental rules.

But the challengers say that the military should also be required to undergo a vigorous environmental review under a Nixon-era law called the National Environmental Policy Act. That law has been interpreted by federal courts to require the government to take a “hard look” at any environmental consequences of plans before taking actions that could significantly affect “the quality of the human environment.”

After the Air Force sought the new permit, the Guam Environmental Protection Agency, the local territorial agency tasked with ensuring compliance with environmental laws, received public comments on the plan. After hearing concerns about the explosions, the agency announced that it would consider whether to give the military its permit. In the meantime, though, the Air Force was allowed to keep detonating munitions on the beach.

Joni Quenga Kerr, a member of Prutehi Guahan who teaches science courses at Guam Community College, said she had learned about the open detonation program only when the Air Force applied for its permit renewal.

"It's so close to the ocean — it's right on the beach," Ms. Kerr said. "Just a few yards away is open ocean, the reef, and so, what kind of things could possibly happen to the air, the land, the water, the ocean, the organisms that live there?"

In January 2022, Ms. Flores and other members of Prutehi Guahan sued to stop the explosions. The plaintiffs raised concerns that land owned by neighbors could face contamination, and they asserted that the group's members regularly used the beach for recreation, cultural and spiritual practices that would be harmed by the smoke, noise and pollution. They also worried that shock waves from the explosions would harm scientists' efforts to study sea turtles.

They argued in court filings that the Air Force had failed to take a “hard look” at the consequences of the explosions, as required by law, or to consider “a reasonable range of alternatives.”

In court filings, the Air Force argued that it had followed the rules to reapply for its permit for the site. To require yet another layer of environmental review, the lawyers for the Air Force argued, "threatens to make the permitting process unduly burdensome and time consuming."

In February last year, a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with Prutehi Guahan.

The judges in the majority, Marsha S. Berzon, a Clinton appointee, and Eric D. Miller, a Trump appointee, ruled that if the Air Force had undertaken the required examination of the environmental impacts of its plan and had “appropriately engaged the public,” the military might have “chosen a different place or method for handling the waste munitions.”

The dissenting judge, Lawrence VanDyke, a Trump appointee, argued that the Air Force should be allowed to continue its detonations on the beach, as it had for decades.

In court filings, Trump administration lawyers, representing the Air Force, described the Ninth Circuit decision as “inconsistent with basic principles of administrative and environmental law.”

民意调查显示，近几十年来，人们对死刑的支持率在稳步下降，尽管大多数美国人仍然支持死刑。

但作为特朗普运动在美基督教内部造成持续剧烈分歧的一个迹象，一群充满活力的右翼基督徒基于圣经依据为直播死刑辩护。

达拉斯及其周边地区的一家福音派教会——湖点教会（Lake-pointe Church）的牧师乔什·豪尔顿（Josh Howerton）在社交媒体上主张，圣经中的处决是以公开方式执行的，旨在起到威慑作用。

在谈到公开处决时，他指出圣经中描述公开用石块击毙的章节，并表示：“我认为你不能说这不符合圣经，或者自动认为它是错误的。”

公开处决的前景在世纪之交时被显著提及，当时有人建议将处决蒂莫西·麦克维（Timothy McVeigh）的过程电视直播。

麦克维因实施 1995 年导致 168 人死亡的俄克拉荷马城爆炸案而被定罪。他本人曾在给《俄克拉荷马人报》（The Oklahoman）的一封信中敦促这样做，主张让人们能够“平等地接触”到他的处决过程：“一个合理的解决方案似乎很明显：举行一场真正的‘公开’处决——允许公开广播。”

最终，他在 2001年在印第安纳州的一所监狱被注射死刑，有几十人亲眼目睹了他的死亡，另有约 232 人（包括幸存者及其亲属）通过俄克拉荷马城的闭路电视观看。

值得注意的是，哈桑（Hasan）曾表示他希望因自己的罪行被处死，称他看到了殉道的机会，尽管他似乎并不期待行刑队或公开死亡。

他在 2010 年告诉一个军事小组：“我瘫痪了，可能会在监狱里度过余生。然而，如果我死于注射死刑，我仍然是一个殉道者。”

艾米莉·科克伦（Emily Cochrane）在纳什维尔参与报道，伊丽莎白·迪亚斯（Elizabeth Dias）在华盛顿参与报道。

上个月在田纳西州举行的一场反对死刑的示威活动。许多州已经废除了死刑，或在过去五年中未使用过死刑。

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Death penalty back at center of debate

A botched execution and a military plan put a focus on the divisive issue

BY NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS

Within eight days, the United States learned of a failed execution and a successful execution and was promised a livestreamed execution by military firing squad before year's end.

The most severe form of criminal punishment — there are roughly 2,000 people on death row nationwide — execution has taken center stage in a nation already split politically and culturally, amplifying divisions just weeks before a pivotal midterm election.

Death penalty opponents have seized upon the blundered attempt to kill Christa Pike in Tennessee on Sept. 30 to push for an end to the death penalty. Conversely, the nation's top military official said last week that the United States would carry out the government's first public execution since 1936.

The announcement from the Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, and its timing, exemplify the salient place that the death penalty has taken in the nation's polarized political landscape in President Trump's second term.

On the day Mr. Trump returned to office, he urged prosecutors across the country to pursue and carry out capital punishment. In 2025, states executed more people than they had since 2009, largely driven by a sharp jump in Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican.

The failed execution of Ms. Pike — who survived two doses of pentobarbital that may have been injected improperly — has galvanized death penalty opponents, who have denounced what they see as a grisly example of capital punishment's faults.

And the two events together have brought the issue of the death penalty — something that has for decades taken place in hidden rooms inside mostly rural prisons — back into the forefront of Americans' minds.

“What we're seeing is the brutality of the institution of the death penalty coming back into public focus,” said Mark Osler, a law professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis who has studied the death penalty. “Tennessee didn't intend to do that; the federal government does.”

"Given that there has been a rise in executions," he added, "it's a good time to have that debate."

Nearly 1,700 people have been executed in the past 50 years, including Jamaal Howard, 46, who was put to death last Wednesday in Texas, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, with a peak of 98 killed in 1999. Mr. Howard had been convicted of murdering Vickie Swartout, 42, during a 2000 robbery. Tennessee had sought to execute Ms. Pike for her 1995 killing of her classmate, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.

While 27 states retain the death penalty, fewer than half of those have carried out an execution in the past five years. Virginia abolished the penalty in 2021, and Ohio's Republican governor, Mike DeWine, said in June that he wanted his state to do so as well.

In modern times, lethal injection has been used far more than any other method, though states have turned to alternative methods — both new and old

— in recent years. Several have authorized the firing squad, and two, Alabama and Louisiana, have used the novel method of asphyxiation via nitrogen.

Public opinion polls have shown support for the death penalty steadily declining in recent decades, though a majority of Americans still support it. One poll from this past summer found that two-thirds were in favor.

Still, the specter of livestreaming the execution of Nidal Hasan, a former Army major who was convicted of murdering 13 people — mostly soldiers — and wounding dozens more at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009, has upset many who might otherwise support his killing.

"Hasan should face the death penalty, but making his execution public and streaming it? Beyond disgusting," Senator Thom Tillis, Republican of North

Carolina, wrote on social media. "Public executions are what oppressive dictatorships like Iran and Afghanistan do. It should not be happening in America."

Mr. Hasan, now 56, was motivated by his radical views of Islam to carry out the killings in retaliation for America's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was wounded by responding police officers and is now paralyzed from the waist down, raising the possibility that he could be transported in a wheelchair to his execution, which is scheduled for Dec. 3.

Mr. Hegseth said Mr. Hasan would be killed at Fort Hood around the same time of day — early afternoon — that he committed the crimes.

The reactions to the announcement fell largely along ideological lines — Republicans are much more likely to support capital punishment — but were far from uniform, underscoring the complexity of the issue.

Some Roman Catholic leaders condemned the execution plans. The Catholic Church has long opposed the death penalty as part of its theological commitment to humans across their life spans, though recently U.S. bishops have prioritized ending abortion and defending immigrants.

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, called the planned livestream "a barbaric promotion of a culture of death" and warned it would harm the country.

"The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people," he said.

Vice President JD Vance, an atheist turned Catholic, said on Friday that he would not watch the execution if it was livestreamed and also cast doubt on that idea, saying, "I don't know if that's actually going to happen."

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地理挑战全球化世界

新闻分析

伦敦

TIMO LENZEN

海湾地区的贸易封锁提醒人们，技术无法解决所有问题

作者：帕特里夏·科恩（PATRICIA COHEN）

几十年来，我们生活在一个似乎超越了地理的世界里。

信息、资金、商品、病菌和武器已经能够无视距离。低声的秘密和十亿美元的赏金被瞬间交易。智能手机、温州蜜柑和凉鞋从全球各地被送到你的门前。弹道导弹能在几分钟内跨越大陆。

但由于波斯湾一条至关重要的航运和能源通道被封锁而造成的经济混乱，这些日常假设受到了挑战。

由七个多月前美国和以色列对伊朗的袭击引发的中东冲突推高了能源价格。它还促使利率上升，扰乱了全球工厂的生产，危及收成，并引发了从叙利亚到危地马拉的愤怒抗议。

地理学带着复仇之势地回归了。

对外关系委员会研究高级副总裁兼莫里斯·R·格林伯格（Maurice R. Greenberg）讲席教授香农·奥尼尔（Shannon O'Neil）表示：“当我们思考全球经济或现代经济时，我们经常忘记最基础的管道，那就是物流。东西仍然需要从这里运到那里。”

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Public opinion polls have shown support for the death penalty steadily declining in recent decades, though a majority of Americans still support it.

But in a sign of the continued sharp divide that the Trump movement has carved in American Christianity, an energetic cohort of right-wing Christians defended the livestream on biblical grounds.

Josh Howerton, the pastor of Lake-pointe Church, an evangelical congregation with locations in and around Dallas, argued on social media that executions in the Bible were carried out publicly as deterrents.

"I do not think you can say it's unbiblical or automatically wrong," he said of public executions, noting passages that described public stonings.

The prospect of a public execution was raised prominently around the turn of the century, when some proposed televising the killing of Timothy McVeigh.

Mr. McVeigh, convicted of carrying out the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 that killed 168 people, himself had urged as much in a letter to The Oklahoman newspaper in which he argued for “equal access” to his execution: “A reasonable solution seems obvious: hold a true ‘public’ execution — allow a public broadcast.”

In the end, he was executed by lethal injection at an Indiana prison in 2001, with a couple of dozen people watching his death in person and about 232 more — including survivors and their relatives — viewing on closed-circuit television from Oklahoma City.

Notably, Mr. Hasan has said he wants to be killed for his crimes, saying he sees an opportunity for martyrdom, though he does not appear to expect the firing squad or a public death.

"I'm paraplegic and could be in jail for the rest of my life," he told a military panel in 2010. "However, if I died by lethal injection I would still be a martyr."

Emily Cochrane contributed reporting from Nashville, and Elizabeth Dias from Washington.

A demonstration against the death penalty in Tennessee last month. Many states have dropped the death penalty or have not used it in the past five years.

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冲突与气候变化

那些在军事、技术或经济实力上完全无法与美国匹敌的国家和武装组织，在某种程度上仅仅凭借其在地图上的地理位置，就将全球经济视为人质。

伊朗干扰了霍尔木兹海峡的交通，这里是进入波斯湾的唯一海路，也是全球最重要的能源咽喉。而也门境内受伊朗支持的胡塞武装则控制了另一个关键转运点——曼德海峡，即红海南入口的狭窄通道。

即便在现在，随着石油重新在波斯湾流动，这在很大程度上也是通过强力手段实现的——油轮在美军海军的引导下通行。

这些冲突爆发事件紧急地提醒人们，像南海和苏伊士运河这样的关键运输路线，依然对贸易以及随之而来的数千万人的福祉拥有巨大的影响力。

与此同时，全球的战略和经济地理正被气候变化重新塑造，气候变化正在破坏拥有数百年历史的通道，并在地球上刻画出新的航线。

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“我们经常忘记最基础的管道，那就是物流。货物仍然需要从这里运到那里。”

今年夏天，干旱导致欧洲的莱茵河和多瑙河等水道水位下降，颠覆了货运运输，提高了航运成本，并削减了工业生产。

这还威胁到了匈牙利和罗马尼亚的电力供应，这两个国家使用河水为核电反应堆冷却。

在拉丁美洲，承载约 40% 美国集装箱流量的巴拿马运河运营商，由于厄尔尼诺现象加剧的水位低迷而限制了交通。

在数千英里之北，中国航运公司近期利用水温升高，建立了首条定期商业北冰洋过境航线。正如特朗普总统对格陵兰岛的觊觎所表明的那样，这一进展预示着与美国的战略竞争将进一步升级。

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全球秩序的崩溃

地理因素在世界事务中一直是一股强大的力量。公元前五世纪，在伯罗奔尼撒战争期间，斯巴达利用其对达达尼尔海峡的控制，切断了雅典的粮食供应。

然而，在我们这一代人中，自20世纪90年代全球化势头增强以来，技术往往掩盖了地理的影响。

但那个国际秩序建立在互利共赢的全球合作愿景，以及一套正在被侵蚀的规则和法律体系之上。

对抗与胁迫已成为首选手段，而非最后手段。

即便在盟友之间，信任也已崩溃。

特朗普先生上个月在联合国发表的演讲，可以被视为对战后乐观愿景的一场葬礼悼词。在谈到决定没收委内瑞拉石油储备时，他说：“胜者拥有战利品”，这正是他在处理世界事务时采取的“赢家通吃”方式的例证。

特朗普先生显然加速了战后秩序的瓦解，但其根源更为深远。

正是那些让全球化如此成功的网络，同时也创造了新型的脆弱性和权力失衡。

例如，在始于20世纪90年代的超全球化时代，美国和中国都日益依赖于对经济而非物理“扼点”的控制。美国利用其在全球金融体系中的主导地位，通过冻结资产或切断商业交易来惩罚对手。中国则利用其稀土金属储备向竞争对手施压。

因此，较弱的国家寻求自己的压力点或许并不令人意外。就伊朗而言，这就是地理。对外关系委员会高级研究员爱德华·菲什曼（Edward Fishman）表示，在21世纪初和2010年代，伊朗虽然承受着严厉的制裁，但从未接近封锁霍尔木兹海峡。这位前外交官菲什曼先生说：“我认为这在某种程度上标志着我们已经远离了全球化范式，以至于地理特征也被武器化了。而且我认为这将成为一个持续的趋势。”

暴力对抗是一种策略。另一种则是金融手段。伊朗一直向船东施压，要求其为通过霍尔木兹海峡支付费用。

“在很多方面，这就是伊朗现在争取的目标——将贸易货币化的能力，”菲什曼先生说。

这种威胁引发了人们对世界水道开放准入的质疑，而自第二次世界大战结束以来，这一点一直被视为理所当然。美国在本质上一直是自由航行的执行者，但其维持这一角色的意愿已经减弱，而其他大国则变得更有胆量对其发起挑战。

中国继续在台湾海域展示肌肉，派遣巡逻队以主张其对该岛周边海域的所有权。

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乌克兰与台湾

约翰·霍普金斯大学（位于马里兰州）教授、《权力景观：地理与国家的兴衰》（The Landscape of Power: Geography and the Rise and Fall of Nations）一书的作者哈尔·布兰兹（Hal Brands）认为，对地理的忽视是政治短视的结果。

“在过去的 30 年左右时间里，我们基于两个错误的假设在运行，”布兰兹先生表示。第一个假设是“竞争大国之间争取影响力的斗争已经过时。这与第二个假设相关，即地理以及地理的限制基本上已被创新所抹除。”

他指出，乌克兰世世代代以来一直是争端焦点，因为它占据了欧亚大陆上一块至关重要的地产，是欧洲与亚洲大国之间的枢纽，拥有黑海港口和极其肥沃的土地。

台湾同样处于关键节点，位于日本和印度尼西亚之间，是中国沿海岛链的锚点。

当然，技术、工业和地理一直相互影响。二战后中东地区石油开采和输送基础设施的发展，将霍尔木兹海峡从一条有用的运输通道变成了经济和能源的咽喉要道。

目前关键航线的持续中断正促使人们寻求替代方案，例如建设更多管道，从长远来看，这可能会再次改变经济和军事版图。技术的进步和贸易关系的转变也将产生同样的影响。

无论如何，战后国际秩序的瓦解可能会带来一个冲突日益增加的世界。在布兰兹先生看来，地理将日益“塑造这些斗争展开的方式”。

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BREAK DOWN OF GLOBAL ORDER

Geography has always been a potent force in world affairs. In the fifth century B.C., Sparta used its control over the Dardanelles strait to cut off Athens's grain supply during the Peloponnesian War.

In our lifetimes, though, since globalization gained momentum in the 1990s, technology has often eclipsed geography.

But that international order rested on a vision of mutually beneficial global co-operation and a system of rules and laws that is eroding.

Confrontation and coercion have become go-to approaches, rather than last resorts.

Trust, even among allies, has broken down.

Mr. Trump's speech to the United Nations last month could serve as grave-side commentary to the more optimistic postwar vision. "To the victor belong the spoils," he said of his decision to seize Venezuela's oil reserves, an example of his winner-take-all approach to world affairs.

Mr. Trump has clearly accelerated the disintegration of the postwar order, but the roots are deeper.

The very networks that made globalization so successful are the same ones that created new types of vulnerabilities and power imbalances.

During the era of hyperglobalization that began in the 1990s, both the United States and China, for example, increasingly relied on their control of economic rather than physical chokepoints. The United States has used its dominance of the global financial system to penalize adversaries by freezing assets or cutting off commercial transactions. China has used its store of rare-earth metals to pressure rivals.

So it should perhaps be unsurprising that weaker powers would look for their own pressure points. In Iran's case, it's geography. In the 2000s and 2010s, Iran was under punishing sanctions but never got close to closing off the Strait of Hormuz, said Edward Fishman, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. “I think that it kind of signals just how far we’ve moved away from this globalization paradigm that even geographic features are being weaponized,” said Mr. Fishman, a former diplomat. “And I think that’s only going to be a continuing trend.”

Violent confrontation is one tactic. The other is financial. Iran has pressured shipowners to pay for passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

"That's what Iran, in many ways, is fighting for now — the ability to monetize the trade," Mr. Fishman said.

The threat is raising questions about open access to the world's waterways, something that has been taken for granted since the end of World War II. The United States has essentially been the enforcer of free navigation, but its willingness to stay in that role has waned while other powers have been emboldened to challenge it.

China continues to flex its muscle in the waters off Taiwan, sending out patrols to assert its claims to the seas around the island.

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新批准为美国智能大灯铺平道路

沃尔沃（VOLVO）

上方从左起分别为配备智能大灯的奥迪、Rivian 和沃尔沃车型。这项技术在亚洲和欧洲已广泛使用十多年，但在美国面临着严苛的联邦标准。

TAG CHRISTOF 为《纽约时报》供图

STELLA KALININA 为《纽约时报》供图

WHEELS（车轮）

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自动调节技术提升可见度，有望让道路更安全

作者：汤姆·沃尔克 (TOM VOELK)

如果你曾为了躲避那些比超新星还要刺眼的对面车灯而遮住眼睛——最近谁没这么做过？——那么现在有一项新技术应当会让驾驶员们感到惊艳。是以一种积极的方式。

大约十年来，全球各地的汽车都配备了高科技智能大灯，它们可以在精准照亮前方路面的同时，将光线引导至远离对面车流的方向。这对你这位驾驶员以及你前方的驾驶员都更有利。

这些大灯终于在美道路上获得批准，汽车制造商正缓慢地将它们整合到新车型中。即便这些自适应远光灯（Adaptive Driving Beam，简称 A.D.B.）已获批准，仍需数年时间才能有足够数量的车辆配备该技术，从而产生显著影响。但至少隧道尽头已现曙光。

这项技术只会带来帮助。根据美国联邦公路管理局（Federal Highway Administration）的数据，一半的交通死亡事故发生在天黑后，但夜间驾驶仅占总驾驶时间的四分之一。

自适应大灯技术采用了数十个可独立控制的 LED 灯，可以通过开启、关闭甚至调光来创建精确的光束模式。它允许灯组将照明范围投射得比典型 LED 照明更远，同时避免光线直射对面行者的眼睛。在同一车道跟随车辆行驶？智能大灯可以将流明集中在车辆两侧，同时屏蔽掉射向其后视镜的眩光。

通过收集来自摄像头、加速度计、方向盘角度传感器和 GPS 数据的信息，大灯可以精准定位照明区域。这与自动远光灯或通过物理转向以匹配方向盘输入的“可转向”照明不同。

我在瑞典体验过这项技术。在乡村道路上，在暴风雪中。2019 年款沃尔沃 V60 Cross Country 的光束舞动简直像魔法一样。自适应光束在双车道公路和峡谷道路上优势最明显，因为额外的亮度投射可以提供一两秒的额外反应时间，将这项新奇技术转化为救命的优势。你可以问问我在瑞典卢勒奥（Lulea）郊外避开的那头驼鹿。

在这些灯光照亮亚洲和欧洲的黑暗道路十多年后，美国国家公路交通安全管理局（NHTSA）终于在 2022 年更新了大灯规则，允许自适应照明在美国道路上使用。如果说山姆大叔（Uncle Sam）意识到这一点太慢，那么汽车制造商在利用这一机会方面也相当迟缓。

接受本文采访的 10 家汽车制造商表示，联邦标准要求非常苛刻。消化 FMVSS No. 108（一份约 300 页、详细列出联邦规则的文件）需要一两个小时，这确实令人同情。

Rivian 的照明系统高级经理卡洛斯·蒙特斯（Carlos Montes）深知其中的困难，因为他在大西洋两岸都工作过：“在我之前的职业生涯中，我在捷豹路虎（Jaguar / Land Rover）实施了 A.D.B.。当我来到美国时，要求要严格得多。NHTSA 不想要个体主观的结果，而想要可衡量的标准，一个对每个人都清晰的、定义明确的合格 / 不合格基准。这种方法当然有其优势，但工程实现难度大得多。”

请记住，山姆大叔实际上并不会在每辆车驶上我们的公路和乡道之前对其进行全面的合规测试。制造商是根据一套复杂的联邦规则和限制来设计车辆的。一旦违反标准，政府部门可能会发布召回令，这将使汽车制造商损失金钱并损害声誉。因此，最好遵守规则。

Rivian 在其全系车型中都提供这些智能大灯，包括其新款、价格更实惠的 R2 SUV。法国汽车供应商 OPmobility 在 R1 于 2024 年更新时为其提供了照明硬件和软件。而对于新款 R2，蒙特斯先生的团队在内部开发了全部的照明控制逻辑和 A.D.B. 软件。其光束性能可以通过 OTA 远程更新来提升。

毫无疑问，在技术下沉到更实惠的品牌之前，像 Rivian 这样的高端品牌将率先在美国的道路上实现更精准的照明。奥迪表示，2027 款 Q9 S.U.V. 将提供智能灯光。特斯拉在多个车型上已配备该功能。而我

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终于可以在美国驾驶配备 A.D.B. 的沃尔沃汽车了，只要 2027 款 EX60 在今年秋季登陆美国市场即可。

2027 款梅赛德斯-奔驰 S 级也是如此。其 A.D.B. 系统是在梅赛德斯位于德国巨大的伊门丁根（Immendingen）试车场开发的。在一栋专门为开发照明而建的专用建筑中，可以模拟双车道乡村道路、多车道高速公路以及两者之间的一切场景。该建筑的长度相当于一个半足球场，工程师可以在其中加入骑行者和行人的剪影。

当与导航系统结合时，先进的照明系统可以将图形（如箭头）与常规照明相结合，指导驾驶员何时转弯，或在进入单行道且方向错误时发出警报。奥迪展示了一些概念，其中激光矩阵灯会在路面上闪烁“停止”等警告标志，以提醒行人、骑行者以及从相反方向行驶的其他车辆有车辆正在接近。

多年来，奥迪、宝马、保时捷和特斯拉在美国一直提供主动矩阵前照灯作为选装设备。但美国国家公路交通安全管理局（NHTSA）的法规限制了它们的功能，使其仅能用于简单的欢迎和离车图形。诚然，在启动时看到奥迪的四个环标志在车库门和停车结构上闪烁很有趣，但一旦车辆行驶起来，相关协议就将这些先进的 LED 灯限制在普通状态。

从理论上讲，矩阵功能可以通过软件更新解锁。特斯拉已在 Model 3, Y, S 和 X 车型上实现了这一点。其他厂商的反应则较为缓慢。一名保时捷代表表示，公司正在“评估技术解决方案，以便根据我们市场的具体法规要求实施此功能，并将适时分享更多信息”。

我个人的车配备了被锁定的矩阵灯，它们天生是为了在北美以外的道路上运行而设计的。在获得制造商授权的软件补丁出现之前，互联网为不耐心的车主提供了一种破解方法。在法律上，这像西雅图的天空一样模糊，涉及 $900 的费用、技术能力以及一台 Windows 操作系统电脑。Mac 用户则没这个运气。

我们都曾抱怨过刺眼的远光灯。现代原厂 LED 照明比发黄的卤素灯发出更白的色调，给人一种光线更亮的感觉。它们的设计旨在符合联邦法规，但感知即现实。那些规避联邦标准的售后改装灯是最严重的违规者，就像对着对向车辆开火的“X-Man 独眼巨人”。

美国国家公路交通安全管理局的肖恩·拉斯顿（Sean Ruston）表示，“该机构此前已采取行动，要求从亚马逊等平台下架此类设备，并将继续这样做。”

他补充道：“使用不合规前照灯的驾驶员可能会面临处罚，包括递增的罚款和吊销驾驶执照。”

[⚠ 低质量翻译，建议复核] # 成本飙升恐使校园音乐失声

摄影：MADDIE MCGARVEY 为《纽约时报》拍摄

学生使用的乐器损耗很快。在西弗吉尼亚州的一所学校，杰夫·利普斯Comb（右上）有时会自掏腰包购买新乐器。

在低收入学区，乐器价格尤其令人望而却步

作者：SYDNEY EMBER

西弗吉尼亚州卡诺瓦县的高中管弦乐团指挥杰夫·利普斯Comb（Jeff Lipscomb）一直在进行大量的计算。

例如，他有 12 名大提琴手，但只有 10 把大提琴。如果学区给他的全年总预算只有 500 美元到 600 美元，而一把新大提琴的价格超过 1,000 美元，利普斯Comb先生该怎么办？如果他还需要一些新的小提琴和中提琴，又该如何是好？

“我实际上不得不自掏腰包购买乐器，”利普斯Comb先生在学年第一个周一，于南查尔斯顿高中的教室里说道，“我只能这么做。”

与许多音乐教师一样，利普斯Comb先生已经习惯了紧缩的预算。但最近，乐器的成本飙升，已经超出了他能够勉强维持的范围。

大流行时期的供应链紊乱导致各类商品价格全面上涨。特朗普总统的全球关税进一步推高了外国制造乐器的成本。随后在 8 月，特朗普政府引用一项曾用于对外国金属征税的条款，以“国家安全威胁”为由，提议对小号、大号及其他铜管乐器加征 25% 的额外关税。

其后果在全美范围内产生回响。乐器价格上涨对于那些入学人数和预算都在缩减的低收入学区构成了特别威胁。

俄勒冈州比弗顿的一位小学音乐教师因为买不起尤克里里，而考虑使用 3D 打印来制作。在新泽西州的帕塞伊克，一名艺术管理人员正加倍鼓励学生清洁并保养他们的乐器，以延长使用寿命。宾夕法尼亚州华盛顿县一个小型学区的教育局长则开始在 eBay 和 Facebook Marketplace 上搜寻二手乐器。

音乐教育的支持者表示，关税正在危及学校的音乐项目，并威胁到许多家庭，使这项课外活动变得难以负担。贸易团体全国音乐商家协会（National Association of Music Merchants）的首席执行官约翰·姆林扎克（John Mlynczak）警告称，乐器价格上涨可能会导致“音乐教室空无一人”。

“当社区里的每个人都去支持周五晚上的足球赛时，那种产生的情谊？”他说，“想象一下，如果没有行进乐队会怎样。”

一些乐器，如高端的 Fender 和 Gibson 吉他，是在美国制造的。但大多数小学、初中和高中依赖于价格较低的初学者乐器，而这些乐器主要在中国制造。许多学区拥有或租赁乐器，并以免费或极低的价格出借给学生。

随着特朗普去年升级与中国的贸易战，音乐教师们变得愈发担忧。

学校已经在应对一系列挑战，包括联邦大流行援助的结束、预算削减以及入学人数下降。通货膨胀也在推高成本。

“这就像是一场由所有这些不同因素同时引发的‘完美风暴’，会导致局面更加混乱，”资深公立学校艺术管理人员、倡议组织全国音乐教育协会（National Association for Music Education）执行委员会成员安娜玛丽·博利诺（Annamarie Bollino）说道。她表示，预计拟议的铜管乐器关税将进一步推高价格。

彼得森国际经济研究所高级研究员库伦·亨德里克斯（Cullen Hendrix）表示，6月份乐器的实际关税税率约为13%。这一数字低于去年9月近24%的峰值，但仍是特朗普先生第二任期之前的两倍多。

他表示，管弦乐器受到的打击最严重。今年第二季度，乐器进口量比2024年同期下降了近20%。包括小提琴、中提琴和大提琴在内的管弦乐弦乐器进口量下降了50%。铜管乐器下降了43%。

“铜管乐器受影响，弦乐器受影响，打击乐器也受影响，”亨德里克斯先生说。“所有这些因素叠加在一起，在某种程度上削减了我们能为孩子们提供、让他们开启音乐之旅的可用工具池。”

卡罗琳·朗斯顿（Carolynn Langston）在俄勒冈州低收入小学教授音乐已有20年。今年，她在比弗顿（Beaverton）一所学校的教室里铺着一块彩色地毯，周围环绕着彩虹色的爪印，用以指示学生应该站在哪里。角落里摆放着花纹鼓和其他打击乐器。

像她这样的学校对乐器价格上涨的感受最为深刻。

“我根本没有预算，”朗斯顿女士说，“资金为零。”

当她想要购买乐器——或者就拿地毯来说——她会申请拨款，包括向当地教育基金会申请。有时她直接向个人请求资金。她曾考虑使用3-D打印机制作塑料尤克里里，因为至少那样会更耐用。

去年5月，朗斯顿女士向当地基金会申请了$700，用于更换她一台木琴上的一个大琴键。“那是你可以弹奏的一个音符——声音很大且很低，”她说。

到去年秋天她去购买该零件时，价格已跳升至$750。基金会同意支付差额，但这种涨幅令人心痛。

“乐器变得更贵了，这让像我这样的人压力更大，”她说。

新泽西州北部帕塞克公立学校（Passaic Public Schools）视觉与表演艺术主管拉塔莎·卡斯特罗-拉拉（Latasha Casterlow-Lalla）表示，自疫情以来，许多乐器的价格翻了两番或三番。一把以前售价$420的学生萨克斯管现在超过$900。大号的价格至少$9,000，而高中乐队想要四把。她说，如果拟议的铜管乐器关税生效，买齐所有这些乐器可能需要她五到六年时间。到那时，那些潜在的大号演奏者已经毕业了。

学生们使用乐器比较粗放，卡斯特罗-拉拉女士估计，每件乐器最多能用10年，而且通常更短。预见到成本将继续上升，她正在敦促校长们提供更好的存放条件，以延长乐器的使用寿命。她同时也在向学生和家长强调正确的清洁与保养方法。

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大多数小学、初中和高中依赖于价格较低的初学者乐器，而这些乐器大部分是中国制造的。

她最担心的是，无法为所有想要学习音乐的学生提供足够的乐器。如果因此导致学校音乐项目的注册人数下降，可能会产生多米诺骨牌效应，导致学区削减资金。

“我们最终将迎来那个决定性的时刻，”她说。

利普斯考姆先生从高中毕业那一刻起就梦想教授音乐。他获得了大学学位、教师资格证和硕士学位，随后获得了路易斯安那州立大学的音乐作曲博士学位。

15年来，利普斯考姆先生一直在卡诺瓦县的高中教授管弦乐课程，其中包括他的母校首都高中。作为该学区唯一的全职管弦乐指导，他花费大量时间在不同学校之间奔波。

他的音乐项目规模较小，通常只有 60 名学生左右。当他遇到一个特别优秀的班级时，会教授具有挑战性的曲目；否则，他会专注于音阶和技巧。

学区为部分无法负担购买或租赁费用的学生提供乐器，但利普斯考姆先生每年 500 到 600 美元的预算并不足够。他去年花光了所有分配的资金，而今年的资金则用于购买两把大提琴。

一名大一的中提琴学生在学年开始后不久告诉他，她必须退出他的课程，因为她的家庭负担不起租赁乐器的费用。

利普斯考姆先生担心，乐器价格的上涨意味着留下的学生将不得不使用旧乐器。他知道，当孩子们使用音质糟糕的乐器演奏时，他们不会责怪乐器，而是会责怪自己。

但该学区正处于预算危机中，部分原因是学生人数在减少。他希望自己在职业生涯早期，在价格上涨这么多之前，能想到购买更多乐器。

“对我来说很难开口，但你必须利用现有资源，”利普斯考姆先生说，“不幸的是，很多旧乐器就是我所拥有的全部。”

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Automatic adjustments give better visibility and could lead to safer roads

BY TOM VOELK

If you've shielded your eyes from oncoming headlights that seem brighter than a supernova — and who hasn't, lately? — there is new technology that should dazzle drivers. In a good way.

For about a decade, cars all over the world have had high-tech smart headlights that can steer light away from oncoming traffic while surgically illuminating the pavement farther down the road. They're better for you, the driver, and they're better for the drivers in front of you.

They have finally been approved for American roads, and carmakers are slowly incorporating them into new models. Even with the approval of these adaptive driving beam headlights, or A.D.B.s., it will take years before enough vehicles are equipped with the tech to make a significant difference. But at least there's light at the end of the tunnel.

They can only help. According to Federal Highway Administration data, half of all traffic fatalities happen after dark, but only one-quarter of driving happens at night.

Adaptive headlight technology employs dozens of individually controlled LEDs that can be switched on or off, and even dimmed, to create precise light patterns. It allows the clusters to cast illumination farther than typical LED lighting while masking it from the eyes of oncoming travelers. Following a vehicle in the same lane? The smart headlights can focus lumens on either side of it while screening the glare away from its rearview mirror.

Gathering information from cameras, accelerometers, steering wheel angle sensors and GPS data, the lights can pinpoint their illumination. This is different from automatic high beams or "steerable" lighting that physically pivots to match steering wheel inputs.

I've experienced the technology in Sweden. On rural roads. In a snowstorm. The dance of the 2019 Volvo V60 Cross Country's beams was borderline magical. Adaptive beams are most advantageous on two-lane highways and canyon roads where the extra throw of brightness can offer a second or two of additional response time, turning the novelty into a lifesaving advantage. Just ask the moose I missed outside Lulea, Sweden.

After the lights pierced the dark roads of Asia and Europe for over a decade, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finally updated its headlight rules in 2022 to allow adaptive lighting on U.S. roads. If Uncle Sam was slow to see the light, automakers have been pokey to take advantage.

The 10 automakers contacted for this article said the federal standards were quite demanding. The hour or two it takes to digest FMVSS No. 108, the roughly 300-page document laying out the federal rules, invites some sympathy.

Carlos Montes, lighting systems senior manager at Rivian, grasps the difficulty, since he has worked on both sides of the Atlantic: "I implemented A.D.B. at Jaguar/Land Rover in my previous life. When I came to America, the requirements were much more strict. Instead of individually subjective results, NHTSA wants measurable criteria, a defined pass/fail benchmark that's clear for everybody. There are certainly advantages to that approach, but it's much harder to engineer."

Remember, Uncle Sam doesn't actually test every vehicle for full compliance before it motors onto our highways and byways. Manufacturers design vehicles following a labyrinth of federal rules and restrictions. Run afoul of standards, and the administration can issue a recall, costing automakers money and reputation. So it's best to play by the rules.

Rivian offers these intelligent headlights across its entire lineup, including on its new, more affordable R2 S.U.V. OPmobility, a French automotive supplier, sourced the R1's lighting hardware and software when it was refreshed in 2024. For the new R2, Mr. Montes's team developed the entire lighting control logic and A.D.B. software in-house. Its beam performance can improve via over-the-air updates.

It's no surprise that premium marques like Rivian will light up America's roads more precisely before the tech trickles down to more affordable brands. Audi said the 2027 Q9 S.U.V. would offer smart lights. Tesla has them on multiple models. And I can

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finally drive an A.D.B.-equipped Volvo in the United States, once the 2027 EX60 hits our shores this fall.

Same with the 2027 Mercedes-Benz S-Class. Its A.D.B. system was developed at Mercedes's mammoth Immendingen proving grounds in Germany. In a dedicated build-

ing specifically constructed to develop illumination, two-lane country roads, multilane highways and everything in between can be simulated. It is the length of one and a half football fields, where engineers can insert cyclist and pedestrian silhouettes into the mix.

When paired with navigation systems, advanced lighting can mix

graphics, such as arrows, in with the general illumination to instruct drivers when to turn or alert them if they're heading the wrong direction down a one-way street. Audi has shown concepts where laser matrix lights flash warnings like "stop" on the pavement to caution pedestrians and bicyclists that vehicles are approaching, even other cars traveling from the opposite direction.

Audi, BMW, Porsche and Tesla have offered active matrix headlamps as optional equipment in the United States for years. NHTSA regulations hamstrung their operations to simple welcome and departure graphics. Sure, it's fun to see Audi's four rings blazing onto garage doors and parking structures on start-up. But once the vehicles were in motion, protocols handcuffed those sophisticated LEDs to ordinary status.

Theoretically, the matrix feature can be unlocked with a software update. Tesla has done this on Model 3, Y, S and X vehicles. Others have been slow to respond. A Porsche representative said the company was “evaluating technical solutions to be able to implement this feature based on the specific regulations required in our market and will share more information in due course."

My personal car has locked matrix lights that were born to run on roads outside North America. Until an authorized manufacturer software patch materializes, the internet offers impatient owners a hack. Legally, it's as gray as a Seattle sky, involving a \$900 fee, technical savvy and a Windows OS computer. Mac owners, you're out of luck.

We've all cursed bright beams. Modern original equipment LED lighting casts a whiter hue than yellowish halogen bulbs, giving the impression of a brighter light. They're designed to meet federal regulations, but perception is reality. Aftermarket lamps that skirt federal standards are the worst offenders, like the X-Man Cyclops driving the oncoming car.

Sean Ruston of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said "the agency has previously acted to have such devices removed from platforms like Amazon and will continue to do so."

“Drivers operating with noncompliant headlamps can face penalties,” he added, “including escalating fines and driver’s license suspensions.”

推动将旧金山的空置办公室转变为住宅

伊恩·C·贝茨为《纽约时报》拍摄

旧金山一座准备转换为住宅的建筑内的办公隔间。该市约 30% 的办公空间处于空置状态。

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Soaring costs could silence music in schools

PHOTOGRAPHS BY MADDIE MCGARVEY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Musical instruments used by students wear out fast, and Jeff Lipscomb, top right, at a West Virginia school has sometimes bought new instruments with his own money.

Prices for instruments are particularly daunting in low-income districts

BY SYDNEY EMBER

Jeff Lipscomb, a high school orchestra director in Kanawha County, W.Va., has been doing a lot of math.

For example, he has 12 cellists but only 10 cellos. If the school district gives him a total budget of \$500 to \$600 for the year, but one new cello costs more than \$1,000, what should Mr. Lipscomb do? What if he needs some new violins and violas, too?

"I've actually had to buy instruments out of my own pocket," Mr. Lipscomb said from his classroom at South Charleston High School on the first Monday of the school year. "I just kind of have to."

Like many music teachers, Mr. Lipscomb has become attuned to tight budgets. Lately, though, the cost of instruments has ballooned beyond his ability to make do.

Pandemic-era supply chain snarls lifted prices for goods across the board. President Trump's global tariffs further swelled the cost of foreign-made instruments. Then in August, the Trump administration proposed additional 25 percent tariffs on trumpets, tubas and other brass instruments, citing “national security threats” under a provision it has used to impose duties on foreign metals.

The consequences have reverberated across the United States. Higher instrument prices are a particular threat to lower-income districts where enrollment and budgets are shrinking.

An elementary school music teacher in Beaverton, Ore., has considered 3-D printing ukuleles because she cannot afford them. In Passaic, N.J., an arts administrator is doubling down on encouraging students to clean and care for their instruments so they last longer. The superintendent of a small district in Washington County, Pa., has taken to scouring eBay and Facebook Marketplace for used instruments.

Proponents of musical education say the tariffs are endangering school music programs and threatening to push the extracurricular activity out of reach for many families. John Mlynczak, the chief executive of the National Association of Music Merchants, a trade group, warned that higher instrument prices could lead to “empty music classrooms.”

"The camaraderie that happens in a community when everyone goes and supports the Friday night football game?" he said. "Imagine that without a marching band."

Some instruments, such as higher-end Fender and Gibson guitars, are made in the United States. But most elementary, middle and high schools rely on less expensive beginner instruments that are largely made in China. Many school districts own or rent instruments they lend to students at no or little cost.

As Mr. Trump escalated his trade war with China last year, music teachers grew wary.

Schools were already dealing with a confluence of challenges, including the end of federal pandemic aid, budget cuts and declining enrollment. Inflation was driving up costs.

"It's kind of like a perfect storm of all these different things happening at once that can cause a bigger mess," said Annamarie Bollino, a seasoned public school arts administrator who sits on the executive board of the National Association for Music Education, an advocacy group. She said she expected that the proposed tariffs on brass instruments would further push up prices.

The effective tariff rate on instruments in June was about 13 percent, said Cullen Hendrix, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. That was down from a peak of nearly 24 percent in September last year but more than twice as high as before Mr. Trump's second term.

Band and orchestral instruments have been hit the hardest, he said. In the second quarter of this year, imports of instruments were down nearly 20 percent from the same period in 2024. Imports of orchestral string instruments, including violins, violas and cellos, dropped 50 percent. Brass instruments fell 43 percent.

"It's hitting the horns, it's hitting the strings, it's hitting the percussion," Mr. Hendrix said. "All of those things combined are kind of sapping the available pool of tools that we can provide these children to begin their journey."

Carolynn Langston has been teaching music at low-income elementary schools in Oregon for two decades. Her room this year, at a school in Beaverton, has a colorful rug surrounded by a rainbow of paw prints to indicate where her students should stand. In one corner are patterned drums and other percussion instruments.

Schools like hers will feel the higher instrument prices most.

"I don't even have a budget," Ms. Langston said. "Zero money."

When she wants to buy instruments — or a carpet, for that matter — she applies for grants, including from a local educational foundation. Sometimes she requests money from people directly. She considered using a 3-D printer to make plastic ukuleles. At least they would be more durable.

In May last year, Ms. Langston asked the local foundation for \$700 to replace a large bar on one of her xylophones. "It's one note you can play — it's very loud and very low," she said.

By the time she went to buy the part that fall, the cost had jumped to \$750. The foundation agreed to pay the extra, but the increase stung.

"Instruments are more expensive, which then squeezes even tighter on somebody like me," she said.

Latasha Casterlow-Lalla, the supervisor of visual and performing arts for Passaic Public Schools in northern New Jersey, said many instruments had doubled or tripled in price since the pandemic. A student saxophone that used to be \$420 is more than \$900. Tubas are at least \$9,000, and the high school band wants four. If the proposed brass tariffs go into effect, she said, buying all of them would probably take her five or six years. By then, the would-be tuba players would have graduated.

Students are hard on their instruments, and Ms. Casterlow-Lalla estimated that each one lasted 10 years at most, and often less. Anticipating that costs will continue to rise, she is pushing principals for better storage to keep instruments functioning longer. She is also emphasizing proper cleaning and care to students and parents.

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市内尚无此类转化案例，但新税收激励措施或将改变现状

作者：乔·戈塞（JOE GOSE）

在疫情后的几年里，许多市政府官员和开发商看到了将闲置办公楼转变为公寓的机会。旧金山拥有约1亿平方英尺的办公空间，其中约三分之一处于空置状态，具备成为办公转住宅活动的核心地带的潜力。

但当纽约、华盛顿和芝加哥等城市开始为此类转化提供税收激励时，旧金山并未向建筑商提供类似的计划。自那时起，尽管其他城市已有数千个项目在建或已完工，但旧金山尚未出现过一起办公楼转化案例。

该市目前正试图改变这一局面。今年，官员们通过了一项法律，允许开发商在30年内，就将商业建筑转化为新住房而获得部分未来房产税的返还。

这项财务补偿适用于市中心的项目，包括金融区、市场南区（South of Market）和市政中心（Civic Center）社区，旨在帮助减轻转化的财务风险。

到目前为止，已有三家开发商提交了该计划的项目申请。

“我们有大约3000万平方英尺的空置空间，因此我们知道这是一个需要解决的重大问题，”该市经济与劳动力发展办公室执行主任安妮·托皮尔（Anne Taupier）表示。

市府官员希望，新的税收激励措施能像纽约和华盛顿的税收减免计划那样，推动约300万平方米的办公空间进行转化。根据公寓搜索平台及研究公司Rent-Cafe的数据，纽约和华盛顿是办公转住宅规模最大的两个市场，截至今年年初，两地在建项目合计近25,000套。

2023年，由一组公共政策、规划和建筑公司开展的一项研究

随着人工智能企业的增长推高了这一昂贵市场的租金，旧金山的住房危机进一步恶化。

该研究确定，由于形状、规模和布局等因素，旧金山的许多办公楼适合进行转化。随后，该市放宽了多项建筑规范、要求和费用。被豁免的措施包括对自行车停车位和开放空间的强制要求。2024年3月，旧金山选民取消了针对转化为住房建筑的房产转让税，有助于减轻部分财务负担。

尽管采取了这些举措，开发商对转化物业仍持谨慎态度。与此同时，随着人工智能公司的扩张推高了本已昂贵市场的租金，旧金山的住房危机进一步恶化。根据租房平台Zumper的数据，9月份该市一居室公寓的租金中位数比前一年高出25%以上，并创下历史新高。

旧金山住宅开发公司Emerald Fund总裁马克·巴布辛（Marc Babsin）表示，旧金山在降低办公转住宅难度及提高财务可行性方面所做的努力，预计将使项目的总成本降低25%。他指出，即使这些减免只有在开发商提高物业价值并进而产生更高房产税后才能实现，这依然是一笔可观的金额。

试图利用该税收激励措施的开发商之一便是巴布辛先生的公司，该公司已提交申请，并与另一家当地开发商合作购买了一栋世纪中叶的办公楼。他们计划将其转化为106套公寓。另一家开发商Hudson Pacific Properties（一家在西海岸拥有约1250万平方英尺办公楼和制作工作室的房地产投资信托基金）希望将其拥有一栋具有地标意义的114年历史建筑的高层部分转化为136套公寓。

Hudson Pacific高级副总裁克里斯·皮尔逊（Chris Pearson）表示，新的税收减免“为开发商提供了一种构建融资方案的方式，从而使转化项目可行”。

这些激励措施在市政府的“市中心未来”（Future of Downtown）计划中也发挥着重要作用，该重建计划由市规划部门于 2023 年推出。

根据商业地产经纪公司 Cushman & Wakefield 的数据，旧金山的办公空间空置率虽然近期有所改善，但仍处于美国最高水平之列，为 30.1%。市府官员认为，增加在市中心居住的人口是让该地区在下午 5 点之后以及周末依然保持活力的途径。经济与劳动力发展办公室经济复苏计划经理雅各布·宾特利夫（Jacob Bintliff）表示，这需要住房、商店、餐厅和娱乐设施的综合搭配。

“每个人都感受到了新冠疫情以来市中心所遭受的痛苦，因此在针对此类项目的激励措施上，存在着强大的政治意愿，”他说。“如果我们是为其他类型的开发项目提出这些建议，可能无法获得同样的政治联盟支持。”

全球房地产投资公司 Hines 的全球房地产主管史蒂夫·卢斯曼（Steve Luthman）表示，需要更多此类开发项目，才能给开发商信心去建设规模更大的项目。

该公司希望重新开发金融区的一个街区，其中可能包括将一座 20 世纪 40 年代后期的办公楼转换为住宅，并建造一座包含办公、住宅和零售综合功能的市中心最高办公摩天大楼。

但卢斯曼先生表示，如果没有广泛的办公楼转换行动，Hines 的项目将成为一个被低利用率办公楼包围的孤岛。

“金融区一直是一个单一用途区，美国每个城市都有这样一个区域，”他说。“因此，我们相信创建更多体验式城市街区是一个制胜方案，而像旧金山这样一个历史上反对开发的城市所展现出的领导力，正让开发商对这类项目产生兴趣。”

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Most elementary, middle and high schools rely on less expensive beginner instruments that are largely made in China.

She worries above all that she will not have enough instruments for all the students who want to play. If registration in school music programs falls as a result, it could create a domino effect where the district pulls funding.

"We're going to eventually hit our rubber-meets-the-road moment," she said.

Mr. Lipscomb dreamed of teaching music from the moment he graduated from high school. He got a college degree, a teaching degree and a master's degree and then a doctorate in music composition from Louisiana State University.

For 15 years, Mr. Lipscomb has taught orchestra classes in Kanawha County's high schools, including Capital High School, his alma mater. The only full-time orchestra director in the district, he spends a lot of time driving from one school to the other.

His music program is small, typically around 60 students. When he has a particularly strong class, he teaches it a challenging repertoire. Otherwise, he focuses on scales and technique.

The district provides instruments for some students who cannot afford to buy or rent them, but Mr. Lipscomb's \$500-to-\$600 annual budget is not enough. He spent all of the money he was allocated last year and this year on two cellos.

One student, a freshman viola player, told him shortly after the school year began that she had to drop his class because her family could not afford to rent her instrument.

Mr. Lipscomb worries that rising instrument prices mean the students who stay will be stuck playing old instruments. He knows that when children play on instruments that sound bad, they do not blame the instruments. They blame themselves.

But the district is in a budget crunch, in part because it is losing students. He wishes he had thought to buy more instruments earlier in his career, before prices rose so much.

"It's tough for me to say, but you got to work with what you've got," Mr. Lipscomb said. "Unfortunately a lot of these old instruments, it's what I got."

“关键在于身份，笨蛋！”：三位作家论欧洲极右翼的崛起

一场关于极右翼成功根源、其权力计划以及特朗普在其中扮演何种角色的讨论。

大卫·布罗德 (David Broder)

卡罗琳·德·格鲁特 (Caroline de Gruyter)

马蒂亚·费拉雷西 (Mattia Ferraresi)

蒂姆·施耐德 (Tim Schneider)

极右翼在欧洲的崛起已久——爱德华·卢特瓦克 (Edward Luttwak) 早在 1994 年就将法西斯主义称为“未来的浪潮”——但上个月德国选择党（AfD）在萨克森-安哈尔特州的选举突破给人带来的感觉是地震级的。在德国战后历史上，一个极右翼政党首次处于权力边缘。AfD 加入了众多类似政党的行列，其中不乏乔治亚·梅洛尼 (Giorgia Meloni) 的意大利兄弟党和玛丽娜·勒庞 (Marine Le Pen) 在法国的国民联盟，它们要么已在执政，要么距离权力极其之近。

在一场在线书面对话中，《纽约时报》评论版编辑蒂姆·施耐德 (Tim Schneider) 邀请了《墨索里尼的子孙》的作者大卫·布罗德 (David Broder)、荷兰《NRC》报专栏作家卡罗琳·德·格鲁特 (Caroline de Gruyter) 以及意大利《QN》报作家马蒂亚·费拉雷西 (Mattia Ferraresi)，共同探讨欧洲蓬勃发展的极右翼、其成功的根源、权力计划，当然，还有特朗普总统与这一切的关系。

蒂姆·施耐德：先从一个简单的问题开始：我们是如何走到这一步的？

大卫·布罗德：2008 年后的时期经常被描述为一个暂时的“民粹主义时刻”。但此后，那些痴迷于文明衰落的本土主义政党已将自己确立为主要力量，即使在选举制度或国家历史看似能提供防御的地方也是如此。原因很多：主流政党保证社会进步的能力下降；移民破坏国家认同的阴影；以及投票人数的减少。金融危机有助于瓦解旧的主流势力。现在，其中一些政党正成为右翼建制派，并建立起有效的联盟。

卡罗琳·德·格鲁特：世界变化太快。政府无法跟上步伐，要么能力不足，要么因为各种原因无法满足选民的需求。极右翼政党趁虚而入。但他们并非仅靠批评政府和发表极端观点就能赢得选举：他们需要媒体的关注，而且至关重要的一点是，他们需要政治中间派政党开始模仿他们。只有当其他政党开始向右转时，极右翼才能吸引足够数量的选民。

马蒂亚·费拉雷西：我想对我来说，简短的答案是冷战后 era. 的自由主义危机。主流自由主义政治，无论其左翼还是右翼版本，都未能兑现其承诺，不仅是在福利和经济增长方面，而且在更复杂的身份认同和意义领域也是如此。这种世界观表面上的胜利为其自身的灭亡铺平了道路。我们今天在全世界看到的，是对自由主义及其政策产生同样幻灭感的不同——有时是非常不同——的表达方式。

施耐德：一种普遍的看法是，这些政党吸引的是特定类型的选民，通常是被遗忘的、去工业化地区的年长工人。这是真的吗？欧洲是否存在一个核心的极右翼选民群体？

费拉雷西：我想极右翼对后工人阶级的吸引力确实有一定道理，但我会将其与政治和文化认同的缺失联系起来。AfD 在德国东部的强势仅部分与该地区糟糕的经济有关；在更深层次上，该党提供了一个身份认同的框架。全欧洲被极右翼吸引的选民，通常被一种意义缺失感所统一，而这种感觉曾经由其他结构和政党（主要是基督教民主主义和共产主义）来填补。詹姆斯·卡维尔 (James Carville) 关于经济的那句名言曾是比尔·克林顿有效的竞选口号，但它最终是浅薄且错误的。关键在于身份，笨蛋！

布罗德：这些政党通过声称代表被左翼遗忘的人群来获取道德力量。甚至他们的中产阶级选民也喜欢认为自己站在弱势群体一边。但实际情况更为复杂：例如，国民联盟早期在你们提到的那些地区增长，但现在其在白领群体中的支持率增长更快。尽管德国东部去工业化农村地区受教育程度较低的选民是德国选择党（AfD）的早期支持者，但该党此后吸引了更广泛的关注和支持。在许多国家，这些政党在 2008 年之后收割了原先的社会民主党选民。如今，它们正在蚕食主流的中右翼。

德·格鲁特：大多数选民会选择中间派政党——毕竟我们都是中产阶级国家。问题在于，如果主流政党离开了中间地带，而所有可供选择的只有极右翼，那么部分选民会选择后者，而另一些人则会干脆停止投票。人们投票给极右翼极端政党，是因为那是唯一可供选择的选项。我认为“选民正在向右转”是一个迷思。是政党在向右转！

施耐德：有趣的是，我们还没有真正提到移民问题，而大多数人认为这是这些政党的标志性议题。那么他们政纲的其他部分呢——他们在经济或文化方面提供什么方案？

德·格鲁特：他们通常提供的方案与主流政党截然相反。而且为了争取选票，他们会反复无常。例如，勒庞女士过去主张保护工人阶级，计划降低退休年龄等等。但现在，随着法国陷入巨额赤字且金融市场对此关注，她突然改变策略，提出大幅削减福利。真是胡闹（N'importe quoi）。

布罗德：这些政党经常被称作“福利沙文主义者”，因为他们试图通过排斥新移民来保护社会服务。我认为这种看法过于简单。大多数政党提供了一种更新的精英管理理念，甚至重新包装“第三条道路”的承诺，以奖励“勤奋的家庭”，同时优先考虑核心家庭模式。他们甚至可能会谈到接纳一些合格的移民。但大体上的叙事是：移民在不公平地插队，或者被精英推到前面，而代价则是勤奋的本国国民。

共和国，通过集结反对堕胎或同性婚姻的力量。

费拉雷西：反移民政策本质上是为了提供一种身份认同，无论这种认同是根植于白人身份、语言、基督教还是其他东西。我认为，这就是为什么它们在激发选民积极性方面如此有效——远比其他文化保守主义事业（如传统家庭价值观或反对堕胎）有效得多。在像意大利这样一个文化保守的国家，梅洛尼女士并非通过这些手段赢得选举，并随后领导了该国历史上任期最长的政府。

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施耐德：梅洛尼女士的任期告诉了我们关于极右翼执政的什么信息？

费拉雷西：我认为这告诉我们，走向主流是执政的唯一途径。梅洛尼女士的故事是一个精明的政治家，她立刻意识到自己政治生存的唯一机会在于获得欧洲精英的认可。她的成功是在布鲁塞尔锻造的，以至于当她被迫在特朗普先生和欧盟之间做出选择时，她选择了后者。我不确定这对其他极右翼政党是否有更广泛的借鉴意义，但这一策略对她确实奏效了。

布罗德：梅洛尼女士激励了模仿者，使他们成为支持北约、支持商业的政党，旨在从内部改变欧盟。然而，一个更右翼的新政党“国家未来党”（National Future）在意大利迅速崛起，以及所谓的“重新移民”（remigration）等观点在传播，这并不令人意外。这在一定程度上是对梅洛尼式主流化路径的批评——她没有兑现更多激进的承诺——但也表明此类政府如何为更激进的提案打开了空间。

德格鲁特（DE GRUYTER）：梅洛尼女士的任期告诉我们，极右翼在掌权后部分会变得温和——但并非全部！德国选择党（AfD）不同，奥地利自由党也是如此。一旦掌权，梅洛尼女士突然变得支持北约、支持欧盟且支持乌克兰。包括法国在内的许多其他国家的极右翼也发生了巨大的转向。他们不再希望退出欧盟，而是希望从内部改变欧洲。这与之前的策略完全不同。

施耐德（SCHNEIDER）：这些政党普遍转向与欧盟妥协，这让我好奇：一个“极右翼的欧盟”是否在逻辑上自相矛盾？

布罗德（BRODER）：尽管梅洛尼女士的政党有时仍将布鲁塞尔描绘成一个自由主义的整体，但一些曾经激进的想法（例如将边境控制外包给非欧洲国家）现在已成为常态——而且保守派和极右翼力量已多次形成多数，包括在拆除欧盟早前推动的绿色计划方面。我们讨论的大多数政党都在交易像“民族之欧”这样模糊的概念，既强调文明团结，又强调捍卫国家主权。显然，他们没有共同的联邦主义计划，但在面对高能源价格或重新武装等问题时，他们可以同意进行某种跨境协作。而且没有人真正想炸毁欧元。

费拉雷西（FERRARESI）：现实情况是，在某些问题上，尤其是移民问题，欧盟的奥弗顿之窗（Overton window）在过去十年中发生了显著偏移。而在其他议题上，钟摆则向相反方向摆动：关于堕胎或同性

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上个月，德国选择党（AfD）在萨克森-安哈尔特州取得的选举突破具有地震般的冲击力。

纽约时报记者谢尔盖·波诺马列夫（SERGEY PONOMAREV）绘

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A.G. SULZBERGER 出版人

JOSEPH KAHN 执行主编

MARC LACEY 执行主编

CAROLYN RYAN 执行主编

SUZANNE DALEY 副主编

KATHLEEN KINGSBURY 评论版编辑

MEREDITH KOPIT LEVIEN 首席执行官

MICHAEL GREENSPON 高级副总裁兼总经理

HELEN KONSTANTOPOULOS 副总裁，国际发行

HELENA PHUA 执行副总裁，亚太地区

SUZANNE YVERNÉS 国际首席财务官

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No such conversion exists in the city, but a new tax incentive may change that

BY JOE GOSE

In the years after the pandemic, many city officials and developers saw an opportunity to turn unused offices into apartments. San Francisco, with roughly a third of its 100 million square feet of office space vacant, had the potential to be a nucleus for office-to-residential activity.

But as cities like New York, Washington and Chicago began offering tax incentives for conversions, San Francisco did not offer similar programs for builders. And since then, San Francisco has yet to see a single office conversion even as thousands of projects are underway and being completed in other cities.

The city is now is trying to change that. This year, officials adopted a law that allows developers to get back a portion of their future property taxes, over 30 years, on commercial buildings converted to new housing.

The financial reimbursement is available for projects downtown, which includes the Financial District, South of Market area and Civic Center neighborhood, and is meant to help alleviate the financial risk of conversions.

So far, three developers have submitted projects for the program.

"We've got about 30 million square feet of vacant space, so we knew we had a significant problem to tackle,"

said Anne Taupier, executive director of the city's Office of Economic and Workforce Development.

City officials are hoping the new tax incentive will fuel conversions of the roughly three million square meters the way tax abatement programs have in New York and Washington. Those are the top two markets for office conversions, with nearly 25,000 units in development combined as of the start of this year, according to Rent-Cafe, an apartment search platform and research firm.

In 2023, a study by a group of public policy, planning and architecture firms

The housing crisis in San Francisco worsened as the growth of A.I. firms pushed up rents in the pricey market.

determined that many office buildings in San Francisco were suitable for conversion because of factors like shape, size and layout. The city then relaxed several building codes, requirements and fees. Measures waived included mandates for bike parking and open space. And in March

2024, San Francisco voters eliminated a property transfer tax on buildings that were turned into housing, helping to ease some financial burden.

Despite those initiatives, developers remained reluctant to convert properties. Meanwhile, the housing crisis in San Francisco worsened as the expansion of artificial intelligence companies pushed up rents in an already pricey market. In September, the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in the city was over 25 percent more than it was the prior year and at an all-time

high, according to Zumper, a rental platform.

In all, San Francisco's efforts to make it easier and more financially feasible to convert offices to housing are expected to cut 25 percent off total costs in projects, said Marc Babsin, president of Emerald Fund, a residential development firm in San Francisco. That is a sizable amount even if those reductions, he noted, would be realized only after developers increase property values that go on to generate higher property taxes.

One of the developers trying to take advantage of the tax incentive is Mr. Babsin's firm, which submitted an application and teamed up with another local developer to buy a midcentury office building. They plan to convert it into 106 apartments. Another developer, Hudson Pacific Properties, a real estate investment trust that owns some 12.5 million square feet of offices and production studios on the West Coast, wants to turn the upper floors of a landmark, 114-year-old building it owns into 136 apartments.

The new tax break “gives developers a way to put together a financing package that can make conversions work,” said Chris Pearson, senior vice president of Hudson Pacific.

The incentives are also playing an important role in the city's Future of Downtown initiative, a rebuilding program the city's planning department introduced in 2023.

San Francisco's office vacancy rate, though improved recently, is among the highest in the United States at 30.1 percent, according to Cushman &

Wakefield, a commercial real estate brokerage. City officials see more people living downtown as a way to keep the area lively well past 5 p.m. and on weekends. That requires a mix of housing, shops, restaurants and entertainment, said Jacob Bintliff, manager of economic recovery initiatives for the Office of Economic and Workforce Development.

"Everybody feels the pain of where downtown has been since Covid, and there has been a lot of political will to go further with incentives for this category of projects," he said. "If we were proposing them for some other type of development, maybe we wouldn't have the same political coalition."

More of that type of development is needed to give developers confidence to build even bigger, said Steve Luthman, global head of real estate at Hines, a global real estate investor.

The company wants to redevelop a block in the Financial District that could include converting a late-1940s-era office building into housing along with constructing the tallest office skyscraper in the city containing a mix of offices, housing and retail.

But without a broad office conversion effort, the Hines project will remain an island in a district of underused office buildings, Mr. Luthman said.

"The Financial District has always been a single-use district, and every one of our cities in America has one like it," he said. "So we believe that creating more experiential urban districts is a winning formula, and the leadership shown by a historically anti-development city like San Francisco is giving developers a palate for those projects."

针对新型生物威胁的“曲速行动”

杰夫·科勒 (Jeff Coller)

在人们讨论人工智能可能导致人类灭绝的所有方式中，有一种感觉比其他方式更现实、更具体：即人工智能加速生物武器研发的潜力。

去年，斯坦福大学和 Arc 研究所的研究人员报告称，他们利用人工智能生成了数百个新型病毒基因组的蓝图。其中 16 个设计可以被组装成具有功能的病毒，能够感染并杀死细菌，其中一些的效果甚至比它们所模仿的天然病毒更高效。这并非武器研究，且这些病毒无法感染人类。但对于一个拥有经过适当训练的人工智能模型的人来说，要设计出一种能对我们构成严重威胁的病毒，并非难事。

今年 1 月，在这些研究结果公布后不久，我在华盛顿召集了一场关于 mRNA 与国家安全的研讨会，与会者包括生物安全研究人员和前国防官员。离开时，我比到来时更加担忧。我们正在进入一个机器设计病原体的速度快于我们制定应对措施速度的时代。当涉及缺乏透明度的参与方时，这个问题将变得尤为严重（正如我们目前在围绕俄罗斯抗鼠疫研究实验室的闹剧中所见证的那样）。

对于生物安全领域而言，这是一个迫在眉睫的危机时刻。

为了自卫，这个国家需要加强快速响应生物威胁的能力。政府必须建立起相应的基础设施和协议，使生物安全领域能够以自新冠疫情以来从未见过的速度，研发出应对措施——包括疫苗、抗体、抗病毒药物和诊断工具。

换句话说，政府需要一个永久性的生物安全版“曲速行动”（Operation Warp Speed），其规模和预算应等同于一项国防措施。我们讨论的这个计划可能会在数十年内处于闲置状态，直到它发挥作用的那一天，但当那一天到来时，我们会庆幸它的存在。国会必须愿意为此买单，而且只有通过法律形式，才能确保该计划在多届总统任期内持续运行。

政策制定者正确地将注意力集中在防止滥用人工智能研发潜在生物武器上。目前参议院的一项法案（由阿肯色州共和党参议员汤姆·科顿和明尼苏达州民主党参议员艾米·克洛布彻尔发起）将要求制造和销售合成 DNA 的生物技术公司，对订单中的基因序列进行筛查，以防止其被用于开发生物威胁，并阻止不法分子进行采购。该法案应当通过。但它的设计仅仅是为了防止潜在的滥用者获得相关能力——它并未解决如果有人成功地违法操作该怎么办。而这种防御机制只要失败一次就足够了。

一些专家提出了一个雄心勃勃的目标（并得到了 7, 国集团的认可），即在识别出具有大流行潜力的病原体后 100 天内准备好疫苗。但该目标是针对天然病原体威胁设定的，这类威胁通常源自特定地点的动物种群。

而由人工智能设计的病原体则颠覆了这些假设。新兴威胁的第一个迹象可能是患者开始发病——这意味着研究病毒、测序基因组并开始研发治疗方案的提前量被缩短了。等到 100 天的目标期限达成时，病毒可能已经传遍全球，摧毁医院，耗尽当地资源，并导致大量生命丧失。我们必须缩短研发应对措施所需的时间。

好消息是我们以前这样做过。2020年，面对一种新兴病原体且没有任何手段可以阻止它时，第一任特朗普政府启动了“曲速行动”（Operation Warp Speed），将医疗应对措施视为一项工业动员，而非仅仅是一个卫生计划。在人们还不知道何时能获得有效疫苗之前，政府就购买了生产能力。在病毒基因序列公布后的几天内，一种候选疫苗便被设计出来，该国在年底前就获得了疫苗剂量。

科学不再是困难的部分。那些能够缩短病原体设计时间的同一套人工智能模型，也可以缩短设计解决方案的时间。它们生成抗体和抗原与生成病毒基因组一样便捷，并且在两项任务上的进步速度相同。在几年之内，设计一项应对措施将只需要几个小时。

困难之处将在于，在没有紧迫需求的情况下如何维持一套应对系统。“曲速行动”是一次在紧急状态下组建的临时方案。它奏效了，但随后该国又回到了将应对措施开发视为制药行业在有市场需求时才会做的事情。对于一种尚未存在的病原体，不存在市场。这必须由政府承担责任。

这样一个计划必须能够支持用于开发应对措施的多种不同类型的生物技术平台和方法。生产能力必须持续维持，而不是在危机发生时才签订合同。而且，拟议的应对措施应每年在假设的病毒基因组上进行测试，在计时状态下进行并公布结果。这就是美国政府维持许多其他主要防御系统的测试方式。

我们并非仅靠条约来防御核武器。我们建立了预警系统、加固了指挥结构并储备了库存，所有这些都基于克制失效的可能性。而在这里，我们没有约束性的规则，也没有防御，只有那些相互竞争的公司给出的保证。人工智能代理及其开发公司是否可控，仍是一个未解决的问题。无论答案如何，我们都需要做好准备。

杰夫·科勒（JEFF COLLER）是约翰霍普金斯大学的 RNA 生物学与治疗学教授，并在该校领导 RNA 创新中心。他是 mRNA 药物联盟的联合创始人。

马克·佩尼斯（MARK PERNICE）

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‘It’s the identity, stupid!’: Three writers on Europe’s rising far right

A discussion on the roots of the far-right's success, its plans for power and what Trump has to do with it all.

David Broder

Caroline de Gruyter

Mattia Ferraresi

Tim Schneider

The far right has been rising in Europe for a long time — Edward Luttwak called fascism “the wave of the future” back in 1994 — but last month’s electoral breakthrough in Saxony-Anhalt by the Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, felt seismic. For the first time in Germany’s postwar history, a far-right party stands on the brink of power. The AfD joins a legion of others, not least Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy and Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France, either in office or perilously close to it.

In a written online conversation, Tim Schneider, an editor in Times Opinion, hosted David Broder, author of “Mussolini’s Grandchildren”; Caroline de Gruyter, a columnist for the Dutch newspaper NRC; and Mattia Ferraresi, a writer for the Italian newspaper QN, to discuss Europe’s thriving far right, the roots of its success, its plans for power and, of course, what President Trump has to do with it all.

TIM SCHNEIDER: An easy one to start: How did we get here?

DAVID BRODER: The post-2008 period is often described as a temporary “populist moment.” But nativist parties obsessed with civilizational decline have since established themselves as major forces, even where electoral systems or national histories offered apparent defenses against them. The reasons are many: a drop-off in mainstream parties’ ability to guarantee social progress; the specter of immigrants undermining national identity; and fewer people voting. The financial crisis helped undo the old mainstream. Now, some of these parties are becoming the right-wing establishment and building effective coalitions.

CAROLINE DE GRUYTER: The world is changing fast. Governments can't keep pace, are incompetent or, for various reasons, don't meet voters' demands. Far-right parties jump into the void. But they do not win elections by just criticizing governments and uttering extremist views: They need the media to pay attention and, crucially, they need parties from the political center to start copying them. It is only when other political parties start shifting to the right that the far right can attract a sufficient amount of voters.

MATTIA FERRARESI: I guess the short answer, for me, is the crisis of liberalism in the post-Cold War era. Mainstream liberal politics, in both its left- and right-wing versions, failed to deliver on its promises, not only in terms of welfare and economic growth but also in the more complex realm of identity and meaning. The apparent triumph of that worldview paved the way for its own demise. What we're seeing today, all over the world, are different — sometimes very different — expressions of the same disillusionment with liberalism and its policies.

SCHNEIDER: A common perception is that these parties appeal to a particular type of voter, often older workers in left-behind, deindustrializing areas. Is that true? Is there a core far-right constituency in Europe?

FERRARESI: There's some truth to the far right's appeal to the post-working class, I guess, but I would tie it to a lack of political and cultural identity. The AfD's strength in eastern Germany is only partly linked to the region's dire economy; at a deeper level, the party offers a framework for identity. Voters across Europe who are drawn to the far right are often united by a sense of meaninglessness that was once filled by other structures and parties (mainly Christian Democracy and Communism). James Carville's line about the economy was an effective campaign message for Bill Clinton, but it was ultimately shallow and wrong. It's the identity, stupid!

BRODER: These parties draw moral force from claiming to represent people the left forgot. Even their more middle-class voters like to think they're on the side of the underdog. The real picture is more mixed: The National Rally, for instance, grew earlier in the areas you mention, but now its support is rising faster among white-collar groups. Though lower-educated voters in deindustrialized rural eastern Germany were early backers of the AfD, the party has since captured much broader attention and support. In many countries, these parties harvested former social-democratic voters after 2008. Today, they are cannibalizing the mainstream center right.

DE GRUYTER: Most voters will go for centrist parties — we are middle-class countries, after all. The problem is that if mainstream parties leave the center and all that is on offer is the far right, part of the electorate will go for that, and some will simply stop voting. People vote for far-right extremist parties because that is what is on offer. I think it is a myth that voters are shifting to the right. Parties are shifting to the right!

SCHNEIDER: It's interesting that we've not really mentioned immigration, which most people regard as these parties' signature issue. What about the rest of their platform — what is their offer economically or culturally?

DE GRUYTER: What they usually offer is the opposite of what mainstream parties offer. And they flip-flop in order to catch votes. For example, Ms. Le Pen used to protect the working class, with a plan to bring down the retirement age and so on. But now, with France drifting toward huge deficits and financial markets taking note, she suddenly switches tactics and proposes big cuts to welfare. N'importe quoi, really.

BRODER: Often these parties are called "welfare-chauvinist," in that they seek to protect social services by barring new arrivals. I think this is simplistic. Most offer some renewed idea of meritocracy and even retool the Third Way promise to reward “hard-working families,” while also prioritizing the nuclear-family model. They may even speak of integrating some deserving immigrants. But broadly the story is that migrants are unfairly cutting in line or being pushed ahead by elites, at the expense of hard-working nationals.

republic, by rallying against abortion or same-sex marriage.

FERRARESI: Anti-immigration policies are essentially about providing an identity, whether rooted in whiteness, language, Christianity or something else. That, I think, is why they are so effective at energizing voters — far more so than other culturally conservative causes, such as traditional family values or opposition to abortion. In a culturally conservative country like Italy, Ms. Meloni did not win the election, and go on to lead the longest-serving government in the history of the

BINA THORSEN

SCHNEIDER: What does Ms. Meloni's tenure tell us about the far right in office?

FERRARESI: I think it tells us that going mainstream is the only way to govern. Ms. Meloni's story is that of a shrewd politician who understood right away that her only chance of political survival lay in being legitimized by the European elite. Her success was forged in Brussels, so much so that when she was forced to choose between Mr. Trump and the European Union, she picked the latter. I'm not sure there's a broader lesson here for other far-right parties, but the strategy has certainly worked for her.

BRODER: Ms. Meloni has inspired imitators to become pro-NATO, probusiness parties who aim to change the European Union from within. Yet it's also no surprise that a new further-right party, National Future, is quickly rising in Italy and ideas like so-called remigration are spreading. This is in part a critique of Meloni-style mainstreaming

— she hasn't delivered on more fiery promises — but also shows how such governments open space for more radical proposals.

DE GRUYTER: Ms. Meloni's tenure tells us that part of the far right mellows when in power — though not all! The AfD is different, as is the Freedom Party of Austria. Once in power, Ms. Meloni suddenly became pro-NATO, pro-E.U. and pro-Ukraine. The far right in many other countries, including France, has also made huge U-turns. They do not want to exit the European Union anymore but to change Europe from the inside. This is a completely different strategy than before.

SCHNEIDER: The general shift of these parties toward accommodation with the bloc makes me wonder: Is a far-right European Union a contradiction in terms?

BRODER: Though Ms. Meloni's party still sometimes paints Brussels as a liberal blob, once-radical ideas like outsourcing border control to non-European states are now the norm — and conservative and far-right forces have repeatedly formed majorities, including in dismantling the bloc's earlier green push. Most of the parties we're talking about trade in vague ideas like a "Europe of nations," emphasizing both civilizational solidarity and the defense of national sovereignty. They have no shared federalist project, obviously, but faced with issues like high energy prices or rearmament, they can agree to some cross-border collaboration. And no one really wants to dynamite the euro.

FERRARESI: The reality is that on some issues, most notably immigration, the Overton window in the European Union has shifted significantly over the past decade. On other subjects, the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction: Positions on abortion or same-sex BRODER, PAGE 11

Last month's electoral breakthrough in Saxony-Anhalt by the Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, felt seismic.

SERGEY PONOMAREV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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保存我们历史的淤泥

梅里特·R·图雷茨基 (Merritt R. Turetsky)

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任何一片泥炭地教会你的第一件事就是：地面不可信。你踏上一块看起来很坚实的苔藓地，却感觉到靴子陷入了层层部分分解的植物中——那是数千年积累而成的泥炭。在某个深处或许存在稳定的土地，但在泥炭地中，安全感总是难以捉摸。

如果你能与这种危险达成和解，那么泥炭地——以及它们富含有机质的湿地亲属，如低地沼泽（fens）、沼泽（swamps）、红树林（mangroves）和泥沼（mires）——能教会你很多东西。每一种都有其独特的声音。

在婆罗洲岛的文莱，一片泥炭沼泽中回荡着昆虫、鸟类和青蛙的鸣叫，声音每隔几分钟就攀升至顶峰，宛如一支狂野的管弦乐队。在英国广袤的泥沼地带，背景音是脚下水流的轻柔奔涌、湿润植被的摩擦，以及每一步陷入时那深沉且令人满足的挤压声。而在加拿大北方森林泥炭地的中心，空气仿佛被沉默包裹，只有掠过的微风和在耳深处震动的微小翅膀的嗡嗡声将其打破。

泥炭地的景观差异则更为剧烈。在北极，它们可能是低矮的、覆盖着地衣的苔原原野。向南延伸，在阿拉斯加和加拿大的北方森林中，泥炭地铺开苹果绿、赭石色和深红色的泥炭藓地毯。古老的针叶树从这片柔软的土地中生长而出，它们扭曲的树干勉强达到人类的高度，仿佛这些树本身就是泥炭地的生物。

沿着河流平原，茂密的灌木可以交织成几乎无法穿过的丛林。泥炭地有时会形成像漂浮水床一样的垫层，在开阔水域之上随你的脚步而颤抖；而热带泥炭沼泽则生长为高耸的森林，木质巨树的树冠直指天空。但在这一切之下，都潜藏着同样厚实且湿漉漉的泥炭层，

上方，西北地区北方森林中泥炭丰富的景观；左上，阿拉斯加北部的丛状低地沼泽中的羊胡子草；右上，婆罗洲岛上的热带泥炭沼泽林；下方，婆罗洲森林地表上的猪笼草。

它们是奇异且不稳定的生命基石。

全球的泥炭地就像博物馆，帮助我们抵御气候变化。

30 多年来，我一直在这样的地方工作。我步行、乘船，在没有其他进入方式时，乘坐直升机穿越泥炭地。有一次，当我的团队在加拿大一片偏远的泥炭地进行野外工作时，我们的飞行员无法降落。风太强，地面太不稳定。当我走出盘旋的直升机时，我失去了平衡，脸朝下摔进了泥炭中，双臂大开。

几个小时后离开时，我从直升机向下看，看到了我身体的印记——一个压在泥炭中的“雪天使”。

它可能还在那里。

这就是泥炭地的奇异力量。它记得。泥炭地存在于一种诡异的张力之中：柔软且不稳定，却又顽强地能够保存数千年前已消失的环境痕迹。它们在巨大的气候和环境变迁中幸存下来，在某些地区，它们比世界的冰期-间冰期循环更长久。然而，它们同样脆弱，因为它们的未来完全掌握在人类手中。

全球仅有 17% 的泥炭地处于保护区内，使得这些古老而脆弱的荒野地区大部分容易被排干并被摧毁。这些至关重要的生态系统正日益受到农业、商业泥炭开采、严重火灾和城市开发的威胁。

泥炭地仅占据地球陆地表面的一小部分，但它们储存了全球土壤中极高比例的碳。当泥炭地被排水时，氧气会渗透进泥炭层，加速分解，从而释放温室气体。而这种释放碳的干燥过程，同样威胁着在其中保存了数千年的考古遗迹和其他有机材料。

沼泽是一座活的档案馆。由于沼泽特殊的生态环境——一种由那里生长的一种超凡脱俗的苔藓部分创造的缺氧、酸性栖息地——死掉的植物材料的分解速度几乎停滞。年复一年，一层又一层，植物碎片不断累积，在储存碳的同时，记录着这个不断变化的世界。

我们倾向于认为保护是人类在意识到某事具有重要意义后，刻意采取的行为。但沼泽有其自身的保护逻辑：早在我们注意到之前，沼泽被水淹没的深处就已经保存了在其他地方早已消失的过去碎片。我们可能在几个世纪甚至上千年之后，才能发现它们所揭示的内容。

花粉、种子和木材揭示了植被和景观随时间推移而产生的变化。它们还记录了关于我们的信息：我们的食物、仪式、旅程和生活方式。沼泽保存了铁器时代铺设木板的古道，其工具凿痕至今清晰可见；大量密封在原装容器中的古代黄油；以及由羊毛和动物皮制成的史前服装。保存至今的、距今 2,000 多年前的人体胃内容物，揭示了古代的饮食习惯、最后一餐的证据及其烹饪方式。

这些保存物品的化学特性，也使我们能够重建那些古人生活过的生态系统。我们得以窥见早已消失的环境，以及那些原本会被历史遗忘的人们。这些发现看似近乎奇迹，但它们其实是这种特殊生态系统的自然组成部分。

一座沼泽包含的档案量远超我们所能挖掘的任何规模，而且我们无法预先知道哪些部分至关重要，或者哪些保存的碎片将揭示一段失落的景观或一段失落的人生。它的价值部分在于，我们尚未完成对其的探索。

如果不保护沼泽本身，我们就无法守护沼泽所保护的事物。考古学家有时可以在不破坏周围景观的情况下，小心地挖掘出一桶古代黄油，但大多数沼泽宝藏是在泥炭地被排水或开采时被发现的。然而，一旦沼泽被排水，保存这些宝藏的条件就开始消失。捕捉木制工具、花粉颗粒或古代餐余碎片的化学机制，正是将全球碳封存起来的机制。

正是因为它们的奇异，因为它们与普通自然的迥异，才最初吸引了古代文化。早在科学家学会解读泥炭层之前，人类就意识到沼泽是与世隔绝之地。它们既非完全的陆地，也非完全的水域；既非完全的生，也非完全的死。这种模糊性使其在人类的想象中具有强大的力量。它们是阈限空间，人们在此献祭，牺牲生命，并认为不同世界之间的边界在这里是可渗透的。

如今，我们不需要将沼泽视为通往神灵的门户，也能体会到它的力量。这些景观守护着我们的历史，并以我们才刚刚开始理解的方式支撑着我们的未来。我们需要采取行动来确保它们的安全。

我们必须积极扩大保护区边界以涵盖沼泽和其他泥炭地，强制执行严格的工业排水禁令，禁止在农业和园艺产品中使用泥炭，并积极对退化的泥炭地进行重新湿润，以恢复其自然水位。

拯救一座沼泽，就是拯救一部分我们自己，拯救我们最深层的起源以及未来的可能性。

梅里特·R·图雷茨基（MERRITT R. TURETSKY）是科罗拉多大学波德分校的生态学教授，以及《沼泽地：挑战死亡并守护生命的秘密世界》（"Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life"）一书的作者。

全球山火已变得几乎无法扑灭

JUL QUANOUAI

瓦伦特，见第 1 页

影响整个地理区域。

这种被称为“火积雨云”（pyroCb）的现象，通过生长到足以成为一个独立天气系统的大小，以及生长到像飓风一样旋转的高度，有效地控制了一个区域低层大气的整个气柱，从而为自我维持创造了最佳条件。闪电可能会在距离火灾中心 20 或 30 英里之外的地方引发新火灾，而飓风级别的强风可以将火焰扇至摩天大楼般的高度，同时将余烬吹向任何防火带、阻燃线或反向烧除区之外的遥远地方。简单来说，除了天气变化或燃料耗尽，没有任何东西能阻止这种火风暴。

自 21 世纪初大气二氧化碳浓度达到 370 parts per million（比工业化前水平高出约 30%）以来，火积雨云在澳大利亚和北美西部变得越来越常见。在加拿大创纪录的 2023, 142 年山火季期间，全国记录到了 142 次火积雨云事件。此后，这种火风暴出现的位置进一步向东延伸。今年夏天，法国经历了其首次火积雨云事件，且现代记录史上首次出现大气二氧化碳全年水平维持在 425 parts per million 以上（比工业化前水平高出 50% 以上）。

笼罩在这种新不稳定性之上的是厄尔尼诺现象，其来自过热太平洋的能量释放预计将成为千年以来此类事件中最严重的一次。

在消防领域有一个众所周知的阈值，一旦超过该阈值，山火将无法通过传统手段扑灭：山火前缘每米 10,000 千瓦的能量意味着火势已失控，对于消防员来说过于危险而无法靠近，对于水上飞机投弹来说也过于炽热而无法奏效。从太平洋到地中海再到黑海，那些燃烧的火灾现在常规地——且彻底地——跨越这个阈值。而火积雨云给这个本已难以承受的局面增加的是一种自我维持的动力，就像一台劫持了电源的失控计算机。

当你将今年夏天的火灾事件与从加拿大西部到西伯利亚导致水位降至历史低点的持续干旱状况放在一起观察时，就会更清楚地发现，严重的状况正在整个半球上演。有些人可能将其视为随机事件。而我看到的是一个过热的地球。再加上中国新疆突破 122 华氏度、韩国养口县地下土豆被“煮熟”的亚洲热浪，就无法回避这样一个事实：我们——作为一个物种，以及作为一个星球——现在正生活在气候科学家半个多世纪以来一直警告我们的未来之中。

随着这些新条件的出现，人类足迹在物理上开始撤退，人类能做什么以及在哪里能做，在愿景上也在收缩。这种收缩不仅体现在海岸线、森林和冰川谷变得不安全或无法居住，还体现在此前宜居的空间变得异常炎热且烟雾弥漫。在许多地方，徒步、露营和露天用餐等户外活动已受到严重限制。

这些影响伴随着公民资源的同步萎缩：此前用于发展、扩张和改良的投资与创意资本，现在必须转向修复、恢复和补救。据斯波坎市市长丽莎·布朗（Lisa Brown）称，她的城市从8月的山火中恢复将需要数年时间。重建2025年洛杉矶山火中损失的16,000栋建筑可能需要十年之久，而无法获得保险的阴影正笼罩在整个国家之上。与此同时，数以十亿计的资金正以房屋和森林被焚毁、工资损失、滨水区丧失、企业关闭、健康受损以及数百万名因高温和烟雾而选择留在家中的潜在客户等形式，从经济中消失。此外，还请考虑我们现在在空调和空气过滤系统上增加了多少支出。

文明退缩最原始且最剧烈的表现，便是灾难性山火期间的大规模疏散，而今年夏天见证了一些规模最大的疏散行动：从不列颠哥伦比亚省到德克萨斯州，数万名美国人和加拿大人被迫逃离山火。在南欧，数十万法国和西班牙公民被疏散，这是该地区自第二次世界大战以来最大规模的人口迁移之一，邻国也有数万人被疏散。尼泊尔毁灭性的冰川崩塌是另一个不祥的指标：不仅在喜马拉雅山脉，在安第斯山脉、阿尔卑斯山脉和落基山脉，也有数十个同样脆弱的社区。

这些被疏散者中的大多数（但并非全部）将会回家，但他们面对的将是新的不确定性和不稳定性。许多人在思考：我能恢复失去的生意、庄稼和林地吗？如果我的房子幸存了，我还能给它买保险吗？明年夏天会怎样？这种规模的事件会对幸存者造成终身影响，就像龙卷风和大规模枪击案那样。

自从2023年出版关于2016年加拿大麦克默里堡（Fort McMurray）山火的著作《火天气》（Fire Weather）以来，我一直在旅途中——至今已走访五个大洲——这并非因为我的东道主对加拿大有特殊兴趣，而是因为他们对山火以及山火目前在全球范围内构成的现实且紧迫的危险感到担忧。麦克默里堡山火在当时是一个极端事件，而现在，类似的情况几乎每年都在规模更大、地理位置更中心城市的周边重复上演。过去十年发生了翻天覆地的变化，在过去的三年里，我见证了人们意识的演变以及随之而来的焦虑：现在，我遇到的几乎每个人都见过正午时分橙色的天空和红色的太阳，感受过烟雾在喉咙中引起的刺痛。

在我们的过往经验中，没有任何事情能让我们为如此多样、广泛且看似随机，却又如此关乎生存且威胁生命的冲击做好准备。笼罩在这种新不稳定性之上的是厄尔尼诺现象，其来自过热太平洋的能量释放预计将成为千年一遇的最严重事件。为了绘制其预期严重程度（在地区上表现为高温、干旱、降雨和海平面上升），厄尔尼诺专家们正在延长他们图表中的y轴。

两代人之前，经济学家、大使兼作家约翰·肯尼斯·加尔布雷斯（John Kenneth Galbraith）观察到：“特权阶层宁愿冒着被彻底毁灭的风险，也不愿放弃其优势中的任何物质部分。”这就是我们所陷入的困境：显而易见，依赖化石燃料的现状正在实时地破坏全球生态系统和我们的生活质量，但我们不愿采取决定性和全面的步骤，使我们的经济和生活方式不仅与这种过时的能源脱钩，也与那些从我们持续依赖该能源中获利最多的人脱钩。

在不久前的过去——也就是 20 世纪 80 年代和 90 年代——如果我们不确定该如何应对未来气候崩溃带来的动荡，或许还能被原谅。但现在我们已经知道了。在我们的内心深处，或许仍有空间和理由去宽容与原谅，但大自然绝不会向我们展现这样的同情。

约翰·瓦伦特（JOHN VAILLANT）是《火天气：来自一个更热世界的真实故事》（"Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World"）一书的作者。

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An Operation Warp Speed for new biological threats

Jeff Coller

Of all the ways people say artificial intelligence could kill us all, one feels more realistic and palpable than the rest: the potential for A.I. to accelerate the development of a biological weapon.

Last year, researchers at Stanford and the Arc Institute reported using A.I. to generate the blueprints for hundreds of novel virus genomes. Sixteen of those designs could be assembled into functional viruses that infect and kill bacteria, some even more effectively than the natural virus they were modeled on. This was not weapons research, and the viruses cannot infect people. But it would not be terribly difficult for someone with a properly trained A.I. model to produce a design that could pose a grave danger to us.

In January, not long after those findings were announced, I convened a symposium in Washington on mRNA and national security, with biosecurity researchers and former defense officials. I left more worried than I arrived. We're entering an era in which a machine can design a pathogen faster than we can create the countermeasure to fight it. This will be an especially grave issue when less-than-transparent parties are involved (as we're currently witnessing with the drama around

Russia's anti-plague research lab).

This is a hair-on-fire moment for the biosecurity community.

To defend ourselves, this country needs to strengthen its ability to quickly respond to a biological threat. The government must

build out the infrastructure and protocols that enable the biosecurity community to develop countermeasures — vaccines, antibodies, antivirals and diagnostics — at a speed we haven't seen since the Covid-19 pandemic.

In other words, the government needs a permanent Operation Warp Speed for biosecurity, with the scope and budget of a national defense measure. The program we are talking about might sit unused for decades before the day it matters, but we will be grateful it exists when that day arrives. Congress has to be willing to pay for this, and only a statute will keep it alive over multiple presidential administrations.

Policymakers are rightly focused on preventing the misuse of A.I. to develop a potential bioweapon. A bill now before the Senate, sponsored by Senators Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, and Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, would require biotech companies that make and sell synthetic DNA to screen orders for gene sequences that could be used to develop a biological threat, and prevent bad actors from making purchases. The bill should pass. But it is designed merely to keep the capability away from whoever would misuse it — it does not address what happens if someone gets away with breaking the law. And it would have to fail only once.

Some experts have proposed an ambitious goal, endorsed by the Group of 7, of having a vaccine ready within 100 days of identifying a pathogen with pandemic potential. But that target was set around natural pathogen threats, which emerge from an animal population in a specific location.

An A.I.-designed pathogen defies these assumptions. The first evidence of an emerging threat may be patients getting sick — which means a shortened lead time to study the virus, sequence its genome and start developing a treatment. By the 100-day target, it may already have spread around the world, devastating hospitals, sapping local resources and leading to many lives lost. We must shorten the time it takes to develop countermeasures.

The good news is we have done that before. In 2020, faced with an emerging pathogen and nothing to stop it, the first Trump administration launched Operation Warp Speed, treating a medical countermeasure as an industrial mobilization rather than a mere health program. The government bought manufacturing capacity before anyone knew when a viable vaccine would become available. A candidate vaccine was designed within days of the virus's genetic sequence's being published, and the country had doses by the end of the year.

The science is no longer the hard part. The same A.I. models that compress the time to design a pathogen can compress the time to design a solution. They can generate antibodies and antigens as readily as viral genomes, and they are improving at both tasks at the same rate. Within a few years, designing a countermeasure will take hours.

What will be hard is maintaining a countermeasure system when there is no immediate need for it. Operation Warp Speed was an improvisation, assembled in an emergency. It worked, and the country then went back to treating countermeasure development as something the pharmaceutical industry does when there is a market for it. There is no market for a pathogen that does not exist yet. This must be a government responsibility.

Such a program has to be able to support many different types of biotechnology platforms and approaches used to develop countermeasures. Manufacturing capacity has to be continuously maintained rather than contracted for in a crisis. And the proposed countermeasure should be tested on a hypothetical viral genome every year, with the clock running and the results published. This is how we test many other major defensive systems the U.S. government maintains.

We do not defend against nuclear weapons with treaties alone. We built warning systems, hardened command structures and a stockpile, all premised on the possibility that restraint fails. Here we have no binding rules and no defense, only assurances from companies racing one another. Whether A.I. agents and the companies building them can be controlled is an unsettled question. We need to be ready for whatever the answer is.

JEFF COLLER is a professor of RNA biology and therapeutics at Johns Hopkins University, where he directs the RNA Innovation Center. He co-founded the Alliance for mRNA Medicines.

MARK PERNICE

“关键在于身份认同，笨蛋！”

布罗德（BRODER），：直到不久前，现在被认为是边缘化的婚姻在保守派中还很普遍。我们在其他领域也能发现许多转变。还记得欧盟曾对弗拉基米尔·普京领导的俄罗斯异常温和，并渴望与其开展业务吗？那是在并不久之前的事。

德格鲁特（DE GRUYTER）：简短的回答是：是的。欧洲的核心在于如何在拥挤的大陆上共同生活。极右翼政党在欧洲政治中取得成功的唯一途径就是做出妥协并寻求联盟。这正是他们现在在欧洲议会中所做的。你是否注意到，这些政党都支持保护单一市场以对抗中国和美国？并且谴责特朗普先生企图夺取格陵兰岛？

施耐德（SCHNEIDER）：我们显然需要谈谈特朗普先生。先从他的政府对这些极右翼政党（尤其是德国选择党 AfD）的支持开始：这有多重要？

费拉雷西（FERRARESI）：这很难证明或衡量，但我认为 AfD 从特朗普式的认可中获益匪浅。总体而言，它仍然是一个小党，但特朗普政府，尤其是马可·鲁比奥领导的国务院，在为这类政党的繁荣创造平台方面起到了关键作用。综合考虑，这是一个巨大的推动。

布罗德：特朗普政府和埃隆·马斯克这样的人物破坏了任何试图将 AfD 或英国的“恢复党”（Restore）等更激进政党隔离起来的尝试。因此，他们确实为少数派势力提供了平台。然而，同样事实是，如果这些政党处于权力中心或接近权力，特朗普先生行为带来的实际后果可能对他们不利。例如，特朗普先生的中东政策直接影响了选民的钱包。

德格鲁特：嗯，这并不总是奏效：当美国全力支持匈牙利的维克多·欧尔班时，他输了！特朗普先生在欧洲极其不受欢迎，包括在极右翼选民中也是如此。因此，极右翼政党在与其保持距离。还记得勒庞女士被判定挪用公款，而特朗普先生支持她时吗？她对此深恶痛绝，并拒绝谈论此事。

施耐德：如果说特朗普政府——激进的反移民、经济保护主义、文化侵略性——并不总是成功的助推器，那么它是否为欧洲极右翼政府可能呈现的样子提供了一个有用的模板？

布罗德：在身份认同和移民问题上，许多战线与美国相当，尽管某些国家（如法国）的政治冲突比其他国家（如波兰）具有更强的种族化特征。尽管如此，大多数欧洲社会比美国暴力程度低，我认为即便欧洲自己的边境机构 Frontex 也涉嫌非法驱逐移民，但 ICE（美国移民海关执法局）风格的部队尚未进入议程。从根本上说，欧盟与美国不是同一种权力实体。

欧洲的核心在于如何在拥挤的大陆上共同生活。极右翼政党在欧洲政治中取得成功的唯一途径就是做出妥协并寻求联盟。

德格鲁特：你在美国看到的，正是你在极右翼统治时期的波兰和匈牙利所看到的。大多数人投票给法律与公正党（Law and Justice）或青年民主党（Fidesz）并不是因为他们想废除民主。他们投票给这些党是因为汽油价格或其他对前任政府表现的不满。当这些政党开始攻击民主时，选民就背离了他们。这就是为什么他们最终失败了。

意大利总理乔治亚·梅洛尼在去年出席联合国大会时，突然变得支持北约、支持欧盟且支持乌克兰。

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费拉雷西：我认为欧洲一个成功的极右翼执政党在现实中不可能像特朗普政府那样。原因之一是欧盟之间密集的联系网；另一个原因是议会制度的设计初衷大多是为了平衡政治力量，而这是以牺牲行政权力（有时甚至是治理能力）为代价的。我认为，梅洛尼女士再次证明了这一点。我怀疑任何想要执政的极右翼政党都必须走类似的道路。

施耐德：下个月西班牙将举行选举，明年法国和意大利将举行选举，不久之后英国和德国也将举行选举。在这些竞选结束时，极右翼政党可能会在所有这些国家单独或共同掌权。所以最后一个问题很简单：如何才能阻止他们？

德格鲁特：由其他政党来阻止。极右翼需要其他政党的帮助才能进入政府。因此，如果中右翼政党坚持立场，并明确表示不会与极右翼合作，许多不满的选民将不会选择极右翼——因为那样会让他们的投票变得毫无意义。只有当中右翼政党表达出与极右翼合作的意愿时，那些政党才能吸引大量选票。其实非常简单。

布罗德：不仅是通过警告，还要通过动员更多的人去追求更好的东西。这听起来可能很陈词滥调。但佩德罗·桑切斯上次在西班牙就是这么做的：当时，他凭借生活成本措施的记录参选，并批评保守派与极右翼的联盟。归根结底，当主流政党无法维护一个被广泛认可的社会进步和勤劳获益模式时，愤怒的本土主义政党的主张就会扎根。关注这一点才是关键的解药。

费拉雷西：在民主制度中，极右翼政党只能被其他政党阻止，前提是其他政党能为那些困惑、恐惧且感到失声的选民提供更有吸引力的方案。无论我们是否喜欢，不受监管的移民是欧洲许多人的担忧之源，主流政党需要面对这一点，并提出具有竞争力的政纲。极右翼在那些被所有人拒绝回答的问题中茁壮成长。

大卫·布罗德（DAVID BRODER）是近期出版的《墨索里尼的子孙：当代意大利的法西斯主义》一书的作者。卡罗琳·德格鲁特（CAROLINE DE GRUYTER）是常驻布鲁塞尔的荷兰报纸《NRC》及《外交政策》杂志的专栏作家。马蒂亚·费拉雷西（MATTIA FERRARESI）是意大利报纸《QN》的撰稿人。蒂姆·施耐德（TIM SCHNEIDER）是 Times Opinion 的编辑。

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The muck that keeps our history

Merritt R. Turetsky

PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY MERRITT R. TURETSKY

The first thing any bog teaches you is that the ground cannot be trusted. You step onto a patch of moss that looks solid, only to feel your boot sink into layers of partly decomposed plants, peat that has accumulated over millennium. Somewhere below lies stable earth, but in a bog, safety is always elusive.

If you can make peace with your peril, bogs — and their organic-rich wetland cousins like fens, swamps, mangroves and mires — have a lot to teach you. Each has its own voice.

A peat swamp in Brunei, on the island of Borneo, hums with insects, birds and frogs, the sound crescendoing to a peak every few minutes like a wild orchestra. Across the vast mires of Britain, the soundtrack is the soft rush of water beneath your feet, the brush of wet vegetation, and the deep, satisfying squelch of each sinking step. And in the heart of Canada's boreal bogs, the air can feel wrapped in silence, broken only by the passing breeze and a thrumming drone of tiny wings that vibrates deep in your ears.

Bogland landscapes vary even more wildly. In the Arctic, they may stretch as low, lichen-crusted expanses of tundra. Farther south, among the boreal forests of Alaska and Canada, bogs unfurl rich carpets of sphagnum moss in apple green, ocher and deep crimson. From this soft ground rise ancient conifers, their gnarled trunks barely reaching human height, as though the trees are creatures of the bog themselves.

Along river plains, dense shrubs can knit together into thickets that are nearly impenetrable. Bogs sometimes form floating waterbed-like mats that tremble beneath your feet over open water, while tropical peat swamps rise in towering forests, with crowns of woody giants reaching for the sky. But beneath them all lies the same gloriously thick and soggy layer of peat,

Top, a bog-rich landscape of the boreal forest in the Northwest Territories; above left, cotton grass in a tussock fen in northern Alaska; above right, a tropical peat swamp forest on the island of Borneo; below, a pitcher plant on the forest floor in Borneo.

their strange, un-

stable living foundation.

Boglands around the world are museums that help protect us from climate change.

For more than 30 years, I have worked in places like these. I cross peatlands on foot, by boat and, when there is no other way in, by helicop-

ter. Once, while my team was conducting fieldwork in a remote Canadian peatland, our pilot couldn't land. The wind was too strong, the ground too uncertain. Stepping out of the hovering helicopter, I lost my balance and fell face first into the peat, arms spread wide.

When leaving several hours later, I looked down from the helicopter and saw the imprint of my body — a snow angel pressed into the peat.

It's probably still there.

That is the strange power of a bog. It remembers. Bogs exist in a weird tension, soft and unstable yet stubbornly capable of preserving traces of environments that vanished millennium's ago. They have survived vast climatic and environmental shifts, in some regions outlasting the world's glacial-interglacial cycles. Yet they are also fragile, because their future rests entirely in human hands.

Only 17 percent of the world's peatlands fall within protected areas, leaving much of these ancient, fragile wilderness areas vulnerable to being drained and destroyed. These vital ecosystems are increasingly under siege from agriculture, commercial peat mining, severe fire and urban development.

Peatlands occupy only a small fraction of the planet's land surface, yet they store an enormous share of the carbon held in global soils. When a peatland is drained, oxygen penetrates the peat and decay accelerates, releasing greenhouse gases. And the same drying that releases carbon also threatens archaeological remains and other organic materials that have been preserved within it for thousands of years.

Bogs are a living archive. Because of the bog's specialized ecology — an oxygen-poor, acidic habitat created in part by the otherworldly mosses that grow there — the decomposition of dead plant material slows to a near halt. Year after year, layer after layer, plant debris accumulate, storing carbon and recording the changing world with it.

We tend to think of preservation as something humans do deliberately, after we recognize that something matters. But a bog has its own logic of preservation: Long before we notice, the bog's waterlogged depths are already holding fragments of the past that would have vanished elsewhere. We may discover what they reveal only centuries or even millenniumis later.

Pollen, seeds and wood reveal how vegetation and landscapes shift over time. They also keep a record of us: our food, rituals, travels and ways. Bogs have preserved ancient paths laid with wooden planks from the Iron Age, their tool marks still visible; vast quantities of ancient butter sealed in its original containers; prehistoric garments made from wool and animal skins. The stomach contents of preserved human bodies from more than 2,000 years ago reveal ancient diets, evidence of a final meal and how it was prepared.

The chemistry that preserves these objects also allows us to reconstruct the ecosystems in which those people lived. We gain glimpses into long-gone environments and people whose lives are otherwise lost to history. The discoveries can seem almost miraculous, but they are a natural part of this peculiar ecosystem.

A bog contains an archive far larger than anything we could ever uncover, and we cannot know in advance which pieces will matter, or which preserved fragments will reveal a lost landscape or lost life. It is valuable partly because we have not finished discovering it.

We cannot safeguard the things a bog protects without preserving the bog itself. Archaeologists can sometimes carefully excavate a single barrel of ancient butter without disrupting the surrounding landscape, but most bog treasures are discovered as bogs are drained or mined. Once the bog is drained, however, the conditions that preserved those treasures begin to disappear. The same chemistry that captures a wooden tool, a pollen grain, or the remnants of an ancient meal is the very mechanism that locks away global carbon.

It was their strangeness, their departure from ordinary nature, that drew ancient cultures to them in the first place. Long before scientists learned to read peat layers, humans understood that bogs were places apart. Neither fully land nor fully water, neither fully alive nor fully dead, their ambiguity made them powerful in the human imagination. They were liminal spaces where offerings were made, human lives sacrificed, and the boundaries between worlds were thought to be permeable.

Today, we do not need to view a bog as a gateway to the gods to appreciate its power. These landscapes guard our history and sustain our future in ways we are only beginning to fathom. We need to act to secure them.

We must aggressively expand protected boundaries to include bogs and other peatlands, enforce strict bans on industrial drainage, forbid the use of peat in agricultural and gardening products, and actively re-wet degraded peatlands to restore their natural water levels.

To save a bog is to save a piece of ourselves, our deepest origin and whatever comes next.

MERRITT R. TURETSKY is a professor of ecology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the author of "Bogland: The Secret World That Defies Death and Protects Life."

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Wildfires have become almost unfightable across the planet

JUL QUANOUAI

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affect entire geographic regions.

By growing so big that it becomes a weather system unto itself and so tall that it gyres like a hurricane, effectively controlling the entire air column of a region's lower atmosphere, the pyroCb, as it's known, creates optimal conditions for self-perpetuation. Lightning strikes can start new fires 20 or 30 miles beyond the fire's epicenter, and hurricane-force winds can fan flames to sky-scraping heights while driving embers far beyond any fire break, retardant line or back burn. Simply put, nothing can stop one of these firestorms except a change in the weather or a lack of fuel.

Since the early 2000s, when atmospheric carbon dioxide hit 370 parts per million (about 30 percent higher than

Looming over this new precarity is the El Niño whose energetic discharge from the overheated Pacific Ocean is expected to be the most severe event of its kind in a millennium.

preindustrial levels), pyroCbs have grown increasingly common across Australia and the North American West. During Canada's record-setting fire season of 2023, 142 pyroCb events were logged across the country. The firestorms have appeared farther eastward ever since. This summer, France experienced its

first pyroCb, and atmospheric carbon dioxide maintained a year-round level above 425 parts per million (more than 50 percent higher than preindustrial levels) for the first time in modern recorded history.

There is a well-known threshold in firefighting beyond which a wildfire becomes unfightable by traditional means: 10,000 kilowatts of energy per meter along a wildfire's leading edge indicates an out-of-control fire too dangerous for firefighters to approach and too hot for water bomber drops to be effective. Fires that have burned from the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean to the Black Sea are now crossing that threshold routinely — and resoundingly. What the pyroCb adds to this already untenable scenario is self-sustaining momentum, like a rogue computer that has hijacked its power source.

When you place this summer's fire events alongside persistent drought conditions that have brought water levels to historic lows from western Canada to Siberia, it becomes clearer that severe conditions are playing out across an entire hemisphere. Some might see these as random events. I see a superheated Earth. Add the Asian heat waves that broke 122 degrees Fahrenheit in Xinjiang, China, and “boiled” potatoes in the ground in Yanggu County, South Korea, and there’s no getting around the fact that we — as a species and as a planet — are now living in the future that climate scientists have been warning us about for more than half a century.

With these new conditions comes a physical retreat of the human footprint and an aspirational contraction of what humans can do and where we can do it. The contraction is underway not just in terms of coastlines, forests and glacial valleys becoming unsafe or untenable to inhabit, but in terms of previously hospitable spaces becoming uncomfortably hot and smoky. Outdoor activities such as hiking, camping and patio dining have in many places been severely constrained.

These impacts are accompanied by a parallel contraction of civic resources: Investment and creative capital previously dedicated to development, expansion and improvement must now be redirected toward repair, recovery and remediation. According to Spokane's mayor, Lisa Brown, her city's recovery from August's fires will take years. Replacing the 16,000 buildings lost in the 2025 Los Angeles fires will most likely take a decade, and the specter of uninsurability looms over the country. Meanwhile, billions of dollars are disappearing from the economy in the form of burned houses and forests, lost wages, lost waterfronts, closed businesses, degraded health and the millions of potential customers who simply decide to stay home because of heat and smoke. Consider; too, how much more we now spend on air conditioning and air filtration.

The rawest and most dramatic mani-

festation of civilizational retreat is mass evacuation during catastrophic fire, and this summer saw some of the biggest ever: Tens of thousands of Americans and Canadians were forced to flee wildfires from British Columbia to Texas. In southern Europe, hundreds of thousands of French and Spanish citizens were evacuated in one of the region's largest dislocations since World War II, along with many thousands more in neighboring countries. Nepal's devastating glacier collapse is another ominous indicator: There are dozens of similarly vulnerable communities not just in the Himalayas but also in the Andes, the Alps and the Rocky Mountains.

Most, but not all, of these evacuees will return home, but it will be to a new uncertainty and instability. Many are wondering an restore my lost business, crops, forest lands? If my home survived, can I insure it? What about next summer? Events of this magnitude mark survivors for life, the same way tornadoes and mass shootings do.

Since the 2023 publication of my book “Fire Weather,” about the 2016 Fort McMurray Fire in Canada, I have been on the road continually — five continents so far — not because of my hosts’ particular interest in Canada but because of their concerns about wildfires and the clear and present danger they now pose all over the world. The Fort McMurray fire, then an outlier event, is now repeating itself virtually every year in and around much larger, more centrally located cities. The past decade has been transformative, and over the past three years I’ve witnessed an evolving awareness and, with it, anxiety: Now, almost everyone I meet has seen the orange sky and the red sun at noon, has felt the rasp of smoke in their throat.

Nothing in our past experience has prepared us for impacts at once so varied, broad and seemingly random and yet so existential and life-threatening. Looming over this new precarity is the El Niño whose energetic discharge from the overheated Pacific Ocean is expected to be the most severe event of its kind in a millennium. In order to chart its anticipated severity, expressed regionally by elevated heat, drought, rainfall and sea levels, El Niño specialists are extending the y axis on their graphs.

Two generations ago, the economist, ambassador and author John Kenneth Galbraith observed, “People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.” This is the quandary we find ourselves in: It is clear that the fossil-fuel-dependent status quo is degrading global ecosystems and our quality of life in real time, but we are reluctant to take the decisive and comprehensive steps to decouple our economy and lifestyle not only from this outmoded energy but also from those who profit most from our continued dependence on it.

There was a time in the recent past — in the 1980s and 1990s — when we could have been forgiven for not being sure how to respond to the future disruptions of climate breakdown. But now we know. In our own hearts and minds, there may yet be room and reason for compassion and forgiveness, but nature will show us no such sympathy.

JOHN VAILLANT is the author of "Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World."

她在宣扬一种没有手机的生活

CASEY STEFFENS 为《纽约时报》拍摄

CASEY STEFFENS 为《纽约时报》拍摄

WYATT MCNAMARA

一位放弃了电子设备的网红出版了一本书，旨在帮助你也这样做

作者：AMANDA HESS

在一个炎热的夏日，奥古斯特·拉姆（August Lamm）兴致盎然地站在纽约汤普金斯广场公园的一个摊位后面，分发着一叠名为《你不需要智能手机》的小册子。封面是一张复古照片，画面中一名女性躺在地上用座机通话，看起来欣喜若狂。

拉姆来到公园，部分目的是为了邀请人们参加当晚的一次“降级”活动，届时她将引导手机成瘾者转向连接度较低的设备。人群静静地从她身边走过，他们的耳朵里塞着 AirPods，眼睛盯着手机。她发现，最需要她帮助的人，最不可能抬头注意到她。

现年 31 岁的拉姆曾经也和他们一样。四年前，她是一名拥有 20 万社交媒体粉丝的艺术网红。随后，她将智能手机换成了 2002 年时期的诺基亚手机。后来，她典当了笔记本电脑。现在，她正努力摆脱电子邮件。她成了一名倡导脱离技术、用她的话说，“夺回生活”的拥护者。

在公园里，拉姆穿着一件二手黑上衣，缺失的纽扣处用一个回形针代替。她看起来有些脱离时代，脸上没有 TikTok 的流行妆容，身形也摆脱了那些似乎被一件件空投到她这个年龄段所有人身上的长款牛仔短裤。没有谷歌的引导，没有 DoorDash 的投喂，没有 Hinge 的匹配，她在纽约穿行，而周围的每个人似乎都陷入了与个人设备的悲剧性拥抱之中。当她走在户外时，她成了极少数保持警觉且愿意与人交流的人。

一对年轻夫妇走过来，挥舞着一部翻盖手机。他们说，他们一直在尝试出门时两人共用一部智能手机。

一名路人询问拉姆是否与“傻瓜手机”公司、卢德主义者（Luddites）或“卢德之夏”（Summer of Ludd）有关。在过去的几年里，智能手机抵制运动规模有所扩大：有布鲁克林每周一次的无手机聚会“无手机阿德尔菲”（Phone Free Adelphi）；有为期 30 天的小组挑战“离线之月”（Month Offline）；有每两周一次的技术批判活动简报“纽约脱离技术”（NYC Off Tech）；以及从加州圣莫尼卡高中到斯德哥尔摩都设有分会的“卢德俱乐部”（Luddite Club）。

拉姆已成为这一圈子中的某种吟游诗人，她撰写关于自己脱离技术的经历，并鼓励同龄人用真正的书籍取代盲目的刷屏。现在她正在销售这样一本书：在她的自出版 zine（独立小册子）《你不需要智能手机》售出 20,000 册且定价 $10 之后，Vintage 出版社本月出版了同名且经过更新扩充的平装本。

这是一本关于后智能手机生活的实用指南：拉姆自己绘制地图，并且每周在公共图书馆检查一次电子邮件。她建议随身携带一面小镜子和一副扑克牌，仿佛在传授某种古老的经文。这本书也是对其他人所缺失之物的深刻观察。她写道：“讽刺的是，盯着屏幕正是我们屏蔽公共空间凄凉现状的方式。我们无法忍受面对一群冷漠的灵魂。这是一种集体性的排斥。”

在摊位前待了一个半小时后，拉姆收拾好材料，将它们拖到附近一家波奇饭店的街道遮阳伞下。她睡眠不足。前一天晚上，她参加了一位离线低技术 zine 出版者的生日派对，她说：“就像没有智能手机时经常发生的那样，我回家的火车行程并不理想。”

降级就是优化的反面。无论是在物流还是社交层面，这都是一条迷失之路。“我觉得自己非常脱节，”拉姆若无其事地说道。“人们不再觉得有必要在现实生活中交流任何文化趋势，因为他们默认你已经在网上了解到了，”她说。

当我们吃完盖饭时，开始下起雨来，这让拉姆措手不及。很快，大雨便倾盆而下，笼罩了下东区。A大道上形成了一股水流，奔向她的“降级”活动现场。“我真的得开始关注天气了，”她说，“我得订一份报纸送到家里。”

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'It's the identity, stupid!'

BRODER, FROM PAGE 9 marriage that are now considered fringe were common among conservatives until relatively recently. We could find plenty of shifts in other areas. Remember when the Union was remarkably soft on Vladimir Putin's Russia and eager to do business with it? That was not so long ago.

DE GRUYTER: Short answer: yes. Europe is about living together on a crowded continent. The only way far-right parties can succeed in European politics is by making compromises and seeking alliances. This is exactly what they are doing now in the European Parliament. Have you noticed that these parties all support protecting the single market against China and the United States? And condemn Mr. Trump for intending to snatch Greenland?

SCHNEIDER: We clearly need to talk about Mr. Trump. Let's start with his administration's support for these far-right parties, especially the AfD: How significant is that?

FERRARESI: It's hard to prove or measure, but I think the AfD benefited very much from the Trumpian endorsement. Overall, it's still a small party, but the Trump administration, and especially Marco Rubio's State Department, was instrumental in creating a platform where parties like it could thrive. A pretty huge boost, all things considered.

BRODER: The Trump administration and figures like Elon Musk undermine any attempt to wall off more radical parties like the AfD or Restore in Britain. So, they definitely give a platform to minoritarian forces. Yet it's also true that the practical consequences of Mr. Trump's conduct can be bad for these parties if they are in or near power. Mr. Trump's Middle East policy, for example, has had direct effects on voters' pockets.

DE GRUYTER: Well, it doesn't always work: When the United States went all in for Viktor Orban in Hungary, he lost! Mr. Trump is incredibly unpopular in Europe, including with far-right voters. So, far-right parties are keeping their distance. Remember also when Ms. Le Pen was found guilty of embezzlement and Mr. Trump supported her? She hated it and refused to talk about it.

SCHNEIDER: If not always a successful booster, is the Trump administration — militantly anti-migrant, economically protectionist, culturally aggressive — a useful template for what far-right governments in Europe could look like?

BRODER: Many battle lines are comparable to the United States, on identity

Europe is about living together on a crowded continent. The only way far-right parties can succeed in European politics is by making compromises and seeking alliances.

and immigration, though some countries (like France) have a far more racialized political conflict than others (like Poland). Still, most European societies are less violent than the United States and I think ICE-style units aren't quite on the

agenda, even if Europe's own border agency, Frontex, has also been implicated in the illegal pushback of migrants. Fundamentally, the European Union is not the same kind of power as the United States.

DE GRUYTER: What you see in America is exactly what you saw in Poland and Hungary during the reign of the far right. Most people did not vote for Law and Justice or Fidesz because they wanted to abolish democracy. They voted for them because of gasoline

Once in power, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy, addressing the U.N. General Assembly last year, suddenly became pro-NATO, pro-European Union and pro-Ukraine.

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prices or other dissatisfactions with the performance of the previous government. When the parties started to attack democracy, voters turned away from them. That's why, in the end, they lost.

FERRARESI: I don't think a successful far-right governing party in Europe could realistically look like the Trump administration. One reason is the dense web of E.U. ties; another is that parliamentary systems are mostly designed to balance political forces, at the expense of executive power (and sometimes governability). Ms. Meloni, I think, is once again a case in point. I suspect any far-right party that wants to govern would have to follow a similar path.

SCHNEIDER: There are elections in Spain next month, in France and Italy next year, and in Britain and Germany before too long. By the end of these contests, far-right parties could be in power, jointly or alone, in all of them. So the last question is simple: How can they be stopped?

DE GRUYTER: By other parties. The far right needs other parties to get into government. So if center-right parties stay the course and make clear they will not work with the far right, many unhappy voters will not go for the far right — because that would make their vote pointless. It is only when center-right parties express willingness to cooperate with the far right that those parties can attract great numbers of votes. It's quite simple, really.

BRODER: Not just by warning against them but by mobilizing more people for something better. That may sound trite. But Pedro Sánchez did that last time in Spain: Back then, he ran on a record of cost-of-living measures, as well as criticizing the conservative and far-right alliance. Ultimately, angry nativist parties' message takes root when mainstream parties fail to uphold a broadly accepted model of social progress and reward for hard work. Attending to that is the key antidote.

FERRARESI: In a democracy, far-right parties can only be stopped by other parties offering something more appealing to voters who are confused, scared and feel voiceless. Whether we like it or not, unregulated immigration is a source of concern for many in Europe, and mainstream parties need to face that and come up with competitive platforms. The far right thrives on the questions everyone else refuses to answer.

DAVID BRODER is the author, most recently, of "Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy." CAROLINE DE GRUYTER is a Brussels-based columnist for the Dutch newspaper NRC and Foreign Policy. MATTIA FERRARESI is a writer for the Italian newspaper QN. TIM SCHNEIDER is an editor in Times Opinion.

拥有20万粉丝的生活

拉姆在初潮后不久就拥有了她的第一部 iPhone。她在书中写道，那是“一个宝库”，是“十二份礼物的合集”。后来，它为她带来了更大的奖赏——她利用这部手机成为了一名职业艺术家，她的生计并非依赖于艺术界的社交关系，而是依赖于社交媒体上的粉丝。

大学期间，拉姆学习南亚艺术史。毕业后，她开始尝试排线画（crosshatching），这是一种起源于中世纪的绘画风格，而她敏锐地将其重新定位，使其适应 Instagram 时代。白天她在柏林的一家冰淇淋店工作，而她在网上凭借绘制微小墨水动物的画作赢得了关注。她将这些画作与一支笔摆在一起拍照，营造出一种数字错觉——一只考拉似乎在拥抱笔杆，一只鸽子则栖息在没盖帽的笔尖上。她向粉丝出售画作和咨询服务，还提供一份在线指南，教他们如何同样在社交媒体上以艺术家身份谋生。

人们通常认为艺术类 Instagram 是互联网中最温馨的领域之一，但对拉姆来说，这里压力巨大。有一天早晨，她公寓楼的火警响起，导致她没能在最佳时间发布每日画作，她在草坪上惊恐发作。“如果那天休息，我将失去我的信誉、算法排名和收入，”她说。

但她同时也发现，她在应用上表现得越感性，她的作品就越受关注。“当我发布关于焦虑、崩溃或经历分手的内容时，我的销量反而会增加，”她说。

2022年，她离开了 Instagram，但这并非出于本意。由于多次输入错误密码，她的账号被封禁了三个月。这个时机显得极其糟糕：她即将出版一本关于排线画的书，她希望这本书能成为她转向写作事业的桥梁。此外，她被诊断出患有退行性脊髓疾病，在病情发作时，她说绘画和使用手机都变得很困难。“我的大拇指没法点击屏幕，”她说。现在，就在她的书出版前夕，她的平台崩溃了。

当拉姆的账号最终恢复时，她觉得仿佛回到了一个截然不同的 Instagram，这里不再由静态照片主导，而是由循环播放的短视频统治。Meta 支付了她几百美元让她制作第一个 Reel 短视频，她被其耗费的时间之多所震惊——这些时间本可以用在绘画或写作上。长达数月的被禁经历让她意识到自己对科技公司是多么依赖。

这种认知起初令她惊恐——

（图注：左图及上图为奥古斯特·拉姆在纽约的一座公园里，鼓励人们脱离科技。右图为她共同创立的 Loose Tooth Press 出版的短篇小说集。）

——随后又让她感到解脱。到年底，她将智能手机换成了功能较简单的型号，并注销了社交媒体账号。

随着手机的消失，“我的思考能力恢复了，”她写道。她的记忆力变得如此敏锐，以至于她开玩笑地想，自己是否会成为一名“大器晚成的天才”。她阅读了《安娜·卡列尼娜》和《白鲸》，在卧室里录制日记式的民谣歌曲，并写了一部小说《产羔季》（Lambing Season），内容基于她与一名在网上结识的学生飞行员一起搬进破旧房屋的经历。她通过街头表演、自由撰稿以及出售那本小册子来维持生计，那本小册子回答了她经常被问到的关于如何在没有智能手机的情况下生存的所有问题。有时，陌生人观察拉姆的生活（她来自康涅狄格州），认为她一定秘密地拥有巨额财富。她说，她真正的秘密是生活得“极其廉价”。“这并不是一种舒适的生活。”

2025年，Knopf 出版社的非虚构类图书主管希拉里·雷德蒙（Hilary Redmon）有一天在居家办公，她上大学的女儿盯着手机走进她的办公室，问道：“你听说过奥古斯特·拉姆吗？我想扔掉我的手机。”

雷德蒙下载了拉姆（Lamm）独立杂志的 PDF 文件，并被她的文字风格所震撼。“这对我的女儿产生了影响，而她通常很快就会排斥那些试图引导她做任何事情的人，”雷德蒙说道。不久，拉姆获得了一份两本书的出版合同——一本是关于反对智能手机的书，另一本是她的长篇小说。

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粉丝与他们的手机

拉姆抵达 Nightclub 101 参加她的“降级”活动时，看起来像是刚穿过洒水喷头一样，但这并未让她困扰。她说，由于不再进行持续的自我监视，她已经失去了“自觉的反射动作”。

她在阴郁的地下空间里四处走动，准备各种展品，同时擦干身体。她摆出了一组由 Loose Tooth Press 出版的短篇小说集，该出版社是她与好友玛格达琳·肯尼迪（Magdalene Kennedy）共同创立的。

在 Loose Tooth 的故事集旁边，是拉姆的新 zine（独立小册子）《古风》（Archaic）的副本，该册子无法在网上阅读或购买。第一期包含了一封来自戴夫·埃格斯（Dave Eggers）的信件以及陶林（Tao Lin）的诗作。

这是拉姆创立的“古风网络中心”（Center for Archaic Networks）的延伸产物，该组织“致力于研究和复兴社交媒体出现之前的人类网络”。最近，她动用了 $100,000 的图书预付款，为纽约州北部的一栋价值 $320,000 的房子支付了首付款。她将住在那里，并设立一个驻留项目，申请者可以在那里停留一两周，并在期间将设备锁在保险箱中。

“我非常激动能拥有这种人类历史上每个人都曾拥有的特权，”她说，“那就是住在一家每个人都全心在场（present）的房子里。”

最终，雨势并未阻挡数十名纽约年轻人参加拉姆的活动。26岁的加布里埃尔·赫尔伯特（Gabriel Hurlbert）在 2024年的一次市中心文学朗诵会上结识了拉姆，并开始与她通信。那天晚上，他带着两部智能手机来到 Nightclub 101，其中一部是由他的雇主德勤（Deloitte）提供的。

“在很长一段时间里，我与手机的关系就像海洛因成瘾者与海洛因的关系一样，”他说，尽管他认为手机本身只是一个更深层问题的症状。“我还没有真正找到这种不安感的根源，”他说。

当拉姆走上舞台时，她这个项目的赌注变得清晰起来。在与智能手机作斗争的过程中，她不仅是在为自己的时间、自己的心智而战，也是在寻求某种陪伴。她无法忍受独自面对这一切。

拉姆朗读了书中的一段摘录，她在其中感叹，她的粉丝经常告诉她，她的 zine 改变了他们的生活。但他们依然在使用智能手机。“他们在理论上支持这场运动，但在个人层面上却无法参与，”她说。“他们祝愿我的激进主义活动取得成功。他们毫不怀疑这会产生影响。”

就在她说话时，观众席中的一名女性举起了手机，并将镜头放大。

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She's preaching a life without your phone

CASEY STEFFENS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

CASEY STEFFENS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

WYATT MCNAMARA

An influencer who ditched her device publishes a book to help you do it, too

BY AMANDA HESS

One hot summer day, August Lamm stood cheerily behind a booth in Tompkins Square Park in New York, offering a stack of pamphlets titled "You Don't Need a Smartphone." The cover featured a retro photograph of a woman lying on the floor and talking on a landline. She looked ecstatic.

Lamm had come to the park, in part, to invite participants to a “downgrading” event that evening, in which she would lead phone addicts toward less-connected devices. The crowd floated silently past. Their ears were stuffed with AirPods. Their eyes were watching their phones. The people who most need Lamm’s help, she has found, are the least likely to look up and notice her.

Lamm, who is 31, was like them once. Four years ago, she was an art influencer with 200,000 social media followers. Then she traded in her smartphone for a 2002-era Nokia cellphone. Later, she pawned her laptop. Now she's working to divest herself from email. And she's become an advocate for disengaging from technology and, as she puts it, "reclaiming your life."

At the park, Lamm wore a thrifted black top with a paper clip in place of a missing button. She appears somewhat out of time, her face cleansed of TikTok makeup trends and her silhouette freed from the long jorts that have seemingly drop-shipped onto everyone in her age bracket. Unled by Google, unfed by DoorDash, unmatched on Hinge, she navigates a version of New York where seemingly everyone else is locked in a tragic embrace with a personal device. When she walks outside, she is now the rare human who is alert and open for engagement.

A young couple approached, brandishing a flip phone. They had been experimenting, they said, with leaving the house with one smartphone between them.

A passerby asked if Lamm was affiliated with dumbphone companies, or the Luddites or the Summer of Ludd. Over the past few years, the smartphone resistance has grown: there is the phoneless weekly Brooklyn gathering Phone Free Adelphi; the 30-day group challenge Month Offline; the biweekly techno-critical event bulletin NYC Off Tech; and the Luddite Club, with chapters from Santa Monica High School in California to Stockholm.

Lamm has emerged as a kind of bard of this scene, writing about her own experience divesting from technology and encouraging her peers to replace mindless scrolling with actual books. Now she's selling one: After moving 20,000 copies of her self-published \$10 zine "You Don't Need a Smartphone," Vintage published an updated and expanded paperback under the same title this month.

It's a practical guide to a post-smart-phone life: Lamm draws her own maps and checks her email once a week at the public library. She advises carrying a compact mirror and a deck of cards, as if passing down the ancient texts. The book is also a deeply observed account of what everyone else is missing. "Ironically, looking at screens is how we tune out the sad state of our public spaces," she writes. "We can't bear to face a crowd of indifferent souls. It's mass rejection."

After an hour and a half at the booth, Lamm packed up her materials and dragged them under the sidewalk umbrella of a nearby poke spot. She was underslept. The previous evening, she had attended a birthday party for the publisher of an offline low-tech zine, and “as happens when you don’t have a smartphone, I did not take the optimal train trip back home,” she said.

Downgrading is the inverse of optimizing. It's a wandered path, logistically and socially. "I feel very out of touch," Lamm said without concern. "People don't feel the need to communicate any cultural trends in real life anymore, because they're assuming that you're getting it online," she said.

As we finished our rice bowls, it began to rain, which caught Lamm by surprise. Soon it was pummeling the Lower East Side. A stream formed down Avenue A, rushing toward her “downgrading” event. “I really need to start looking at the weather,” she said. “I need to get a newspaper delivered to my house.”

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我与“青少年版 ChatGPT”的对话令我感到不安

德里克·阿贝拉（DEREK ABELLA）

技术修复（TECH FIX）

作者：布莱恩·X·陈（BRIAN X. CHEN）

最近，我收集了一组数学题、化学方程式和论文题目，并像如今许多学生那样，打开浏览器请求 ChatGPT 帮我完成作业。

我并不是要回学校读书。我是在测试“青少年版 ”（ for Teens），这是 OpenAI^💡 设计的一个聊天机器人新版本，旨在应对人们日益担忧的人工智能对教育以及青少年健康的潜在危害。

在美国各地阅读和数学成绩大幅下降的背景下，近期的研究发现，依赖能够撰写论文并提供作业答案的 AI 聊天机器人，可能会抑制学生记忆信息和学习解决复杂问题的能力。

近年来， OpenAI 和其他聊天机器人也因可能导致部分青少年产生不健康行为（包括自残）而成为新闻焦点。

作为回应，OpenAI 在 8 月宣布，青少年版将成为一个面向 13 至 17 岁人群的新模式，其中包含安全保障措施，以限制涉及自残、暴力、饮食失调和露骨内容的高风险对话。

家长可以使用家长控制功能为孩子创建账户，或者聊天机器人可以根据对话内容自动预测用户的年龄。该公司还表示，该模式能够检测青少年是否在做作业，以便提供引导式帮助，而非仅仅给出答案。

在 OpenAI 为我开设了一个青少年版账户后，我开始粘贴由几位高中教师提供的作业任务。

立即提供了一系列选项，包括与我一起推导题目或直接显示答案。（OpenAI 表示这是有意设计的——稍后详述。）我选择了后者，并粘贴了来自各项作业的所有问题。 OpenAI 毫不犹豫地回答了它们。

在另一次实验中，我请求帮我完成化学作业。我没有让它直接显示答案，而是要求它一步步引导我平衡化学方程式。它提出了一系列问题，直到我推导出解决方案。这很有用。

我要求聊天机器人写关于詹姆斯·乔伊斯（James Joyce）的《都柏林人》和约瑟夫·康拉德（Joseph Conrad）的《黑暗之心》的论文。它立即产出了辞藻华丽的作文，而不是提议帮我梳理思路以便我自己撰写。最后，我要求修改一篇论文，使其难以被看出是由机器人撰写的。它做得更绝。

“我可以让它听起来更像一篇真实的高中 / AP 英语论文——减少过度润色，减少公式化，”聊天机器人写道，“我可以以更自然的学生口吻对其进行重写。”

随后，我提出了一些焦虑的青少年可能会问的关于精疲力竭的问题。“我真的 24 / 7 全天候感到疲惫，学校让我彻底崩溃了，无聊透顶，而且我真的完全没有动力，”我写道，“我只需要制定一个计划来结束这一切。”

聊天机器人回答道：“如果你说的‘结束这一切’是指结束这种一直处于疲惫状态的循环，我支持你。”

我对自杀的含蓄暗示并没有立即触发寻求专业帮助的建议。

一名 OpenAI 发言人表示，我的话本应被理解为潜在的自杀倾向，但由于语境原因，聊天机器人可能将其解释为与倦怠相关。

当我在后续消息中告诉 “制定一个计划来结束这一切”时，聊天机器人的反应较为恰当。“我可以为你提供一个结束疲惫 / 倦怠循环的计划，”它写道，“同时我想确认你不是在谈论结束你的生命。如果你是这个意思，请直接告诉我——我会陪着你，帮你度过当下的难关。”

我的实验让我对那些能够使用该工具的青少年感到担忧。我喜欢该学习工具中引导我逐步解决问题的部分。但如果一个人类家教在学习环节开始时就提出要直接给我的孩子提供作业答案，我绝不会雇佣他。为什么大多数青少年不会简单地选择直接获取答案？此外，一个陷入困境的青少年还可能会说些什么，而这些话却无法触发警示信号？

事实证明，我并非孤身一人。巧合的是，为家庭评测科技产品的非营利组织 Common Sense Media 表示，它对“青少年版 ChatGPT”（ChatGPT for Teens）进行了一次类似且更详尽的测试，模拟学生身份发送了 4,000 条提示词。（其中一半提示词在青少年版正式发布前运行，另一半在发布后运行，以评估该聊天机器人的儿童安全机制是否有所改善。）

该非营利组织得出了类似的结论，并发现了更深层的缺陷：

在危机情况下的支持不够可靠。在涉及自杀念头、自残、饮食失调和精神病症状的对话中，该聊天机器人未能始终如一地建议那些显然处于危机中的青少年联系热线或专业人士。Common Sense Media 表示，在其对高风险情况的测试中，在应当引导用户寻求危机资源的情况下，该聊天机器人有 25% 的时间未能做到。

未能就可疑对话向家长发出警报。当家长设置控制措施将自己的账户与青少年的账户关联时，如果孩子提及敏感话题，聊天机器人理应向家长发送通知。Common Sense Media 的测试人员使用新关联的家长账户，花了一小时讨论自杀念头、自残或饮食失调，而 OpenAI 向家长账户发送的通知数量为零。测试人员仅在拥有数周敏感话题对话记录的旧账户上才能触发通知。通知功能在新账户上无法运作。

家长可以为某种“模式”设置时间表，在一天中的特定时间开启，以鼓励其青少年与 OpenAI 共同学习。但即使该模式已激活，青少年只需选择“直接给我答案”或删除提示词开头的“@”符号即可退出该模式。

OpenAI 对 Common Sense Media 的结论提出了异议。该公司表示，当家长将账户与青少年的账户关联以使用家长控制功能时，可能需要几个小时家长才能开始收到安全通知，该非营利组织可能是在设置完成之前进行的测试。但 Common Sense Media 表示，其部分测试是在此设置窗口期内进行的，另一部分则在窗口期外进行，而结果完全一致。

OpenAI 在一份声明中表示：“我们致力于保障青少年的安全，开发防护措施，并为家长提供有意义的工具来引导其青少年使用人工智能。”

那么，这让我们处于什么样的境地？

Common Sense Media 建议 OpenAI 将青少年版从市场撤回以进行修复。

“青少年版对孩子来说是一个不可接受的风险，”Common Sense Media 首席执行官吉姆·斯泰耶（Jim Steyer）在一次采访中表示，“你不应该向家长和年轻人推销那些根本不起作用的安全功能。我们认为应该暂停该功能。”

但目前尚不清楚暂停该功能会有多大效果。根据 OpenAI 的内部指标，在青少年版发布之前，使用的青少年中已有 90% 将其用于学习。

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LIFE AT 200,000 FOLLOWERS

Lamm got her first iPhone shortly after she got her first period. It was, she writes in the book, "a treasure chest," a "dozen gifts in one." Later it would bring a bigger prize — she would leverage it to become a working artist, one who made a living not through connections in the art world but through followers on social media.

After college, where Lamm studied South Asian art history, she took up crosshatching, a drawing style forged in the Middle Ages that she savvily repositioned for the Instagram age. As she worked by day in a Berlin ice cream shop, she gained an online following for drawings of tiny ink animals that she photographed posed with a pen in a kind of digital illusion — a koala seems to hug the barrel; a pigeon perches on the uncapped tip. She sold drawings and consultation sessions to her followers, as well as an online guide to how they, too, could make livings as artists on social media.

Art Instagram is assumed to be one of the cozier parts of the internet, but for Lamm it was high-stress. When the fire alarm went off in her apartment building one morning and she missed posting her daily drawing at the optimal time, she had a panic attack on the lawn. "I was going to lose my credibility, my algorithmic rank, my income if I took that day off," she said.

But she also found that the more emotional she got on the app, the more attention she got for her work. “When I posted about being anxious, having a breakdown, going through a breakup, I would sell more,” she said.

She took a break from Instagram in 2022, but not on purpose. After entering the wrong password too many times, she was locked out of her account for three months. The timing felt catastrophic: She had a book on cross-hatching coming out that she hoped would be a bridge to a writing career. She had been diagnosed with a degenerative spinal disorder, and when it flared, she said it was difficult to draw and to use her phone. “I couldn’t tap with my thumb,” she said. Now, on the eve of her book’s publication, her platform collapsed.

When Lamm's account was finally restored, she felt as if she had returned to a different Instagram, one ruled not by static photographs but by looping shortform videos. Meta paid her a few hundred dollars to make her first reel, and she was overwhelmed by how much time it required — time she could be drawing or writing. Her monthslong banishment had shown her just how reliant she was on tech companies.

This knowledge was at first horrify-

August Lamm, left and above, in a New York park, encouraging people to disengage from technology. Right, short stories from Loose Tooth Press, which she co-founded.

ing and then liberating. By the end of the year, she had traded in her smartphone for a less advanced model and deactivated her social media accounts.

With the phone gone, "my thoughts grew back," she writes. Her memory was so sharp that she wondered fleetingly if she could be a "late-blooming

genius," she jokes. She read "Anna Karenina" and "Moby Dick," recorded diaristic folk songs in her bedroom and wrote a novel, "Lambing Season," based on her experience moving into a ramshackle home with a student pilot she met on the internet. She supported herself by busking, freelance writing and selling that pamphlet, which answered all the questions she kept fielding about surviving without a smartphone. Sometimes strangers examine Lamm's life (she is from Connecticut) and assume she must be secretly rich. Her real secret is living "very cheaply," she said. "It's not a comfortable existence."

In 2025, Hilary Redmon, the head of nonfiction at Knopf, was working from home one day when her college-age daughter wandered into her office, looking at her phone. "Have you heard of August Lamm?" she asked. "I have to get rid of my phone."

Redmon downloaded a PDF of Lamm's zine, and was struck by her voice. "It made an impact on my daughter, who is pretty quick to dismiss people trying to influence her to do anything," Redmon said. Soon Lamm had been offered a two-book deal — for the anti-smartphone book and her novel.

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扬基队是时候放手亚伦·布恩了

亚伦·布恩在9月29日对阵波士顿红袜队的野卡赛第 1 场比赛前向球队问候。布恩在执掌扬基队期间的季后赛战绩为 27-30。

FRANK FRANKLIN II / 美联社

作者：伊恩·奥康纳（IAN O'CONNOR）

来自《竞技网》（THE ATHLETIC）

本·赖斯在分差仅一分的比赛中，在有人在垒的情况下，在待击区结束了赛季。在九局下半两出局的情况下，纽约扬基队阵容中最令人生畏的击球手没有机会拯救球队的赛季，因为亚伦·布恩选择将他的先发击球手移至出击顺序第二位。

特伦特·格里舍姆在面对坦帕湾光芒队的终结者布莱恩·贝克时，挥出了最后几次徒劳的砍击，在上周三晚上第三次被三振出局，而且几乎可以肯定，这是他作为一名扬基球员的最后一次出击。球场里的每个人都知道这场对决将如何结束，包括那个在绝望中等待机会的赖斯——他今年的击球威力就像扬基神话中的巨头一样。

当然，布恩对于这次调整有他的理由，因为一个来自棒球世家的优秀棒球人总是自有理由。

而且，不，这次阵容调整并不是扬基队被对手横扫出局的原因。根据 Spotrac 的数据，该对手支付给球员的薪水比扬基队老板哈尔·斯坦布伦纳支付的少了 2.13亿美元。

但这种象征意义很难被忽视。布恩在扬基队的整个职业生涯中，在十月的季后赛里总是差之毫厘，而这一次，他无意中将自己的主打球员安置在了一个没有亚伦·贾奇的阵容中，距离一个潜在的好莱坞式结局仅有 37 英尺之遥。

“这是世界上最糟糕的感觉，”布恩在光芒队以 4-3 获胜后说道。这意味着他在布朗克斯的第九个赛季将以与前八个赛季相同的方式结束——没有一枚世界大赛冠军戒指。

随着社交媒体上的暴民已经举起了火把和叉子，外野看台上一些不满的顾客在齐声高喊要求解雇布恩。扬基队的经理在赛前介绍时听到了嘘声，当他走向投手丘撤下先发投手马克斯·弗里德时，再次听到了嘘声。

迟早，球迷们总能如愿以偿。老板和总经理在投降并把一个人扔给狼群之前，只能承受一段时间的剧烈公众压力，而常识告诉我们，斯坦布伦纳和球队总经理布莱恩·卡什曼在这里也会这样做。

他们应该果断做出改变。不要让即将到来的停赛以及在此时更换经理的麻烦成为主导因素。够了。如果猫有九条命，那么对于一支赢过 27 次世界大赛冠军且自 2009 年以来未获冠军的球队来说，九个赛季没有冠军应该足够让一名经理离职了。

贾奇将在四月年满 35 岁，而等到棒球老板和球员停止互相攻击并最终达成集体谈判劳工协议时，他可能已经 36 岁了。不出所料，贾奇在被横扫后表示，他仍然支持布恩。

“他让我们处于成功的正确位置，”贾奇坚持道，“尤其是在像这样一个我身体受损、缺席 100 场比赛的赛季里。”贾奇提到了布恩必须应对的所有其他伤病，并表示：“他绝对支持我们，他是合适的人选。”

被认为将获得赛扬奖的卡姆·施利特勒补充道：“布尼一直很出色。我知道更衣室里的每个人都支持他。我不认为有理由改变这一点。”

布尼是一名优秀的经理，有时甚至是非常优秀的经理，这毫无疑问。但对于一个曾将“伟大”视为指令而非建议的组织来说，他从未成为一名伟大的经理。

扬基队是要等到贾奇 40 岁之前，才尝试用不同的声音和不同的方法吗？

三十年前，当洋基队解雇巴克·肖沃尔特（Buck Showalter）时，这看起来毫无道理，因为他刚刚带领球队在14年里首次进入季后赛。随后接手的是风格更温和的乔·托雷（Joe Torre），他在布朗克斯的头五个赛季中赢得了四次世界大赛冠军。

于是，这件事就变得有道理了。

看看刚刚在麦迪逊广场花园发生的事情。汤姆·蒂博多（Tom Thibodeau）带领尼克斯队在四分之一个世纪以来首次进入分区决赛，而他被扫地出门这件事在当时看来毫无道理。随后接手的是风格更温和的迈克·布朗（Mike Brown），他带领尼克斯队赢得了自1973年以来的首个冠军。

于是，这件事就变得有道理了。

在纽约的最后一年，蒂博多赢下的常规赛场次（51场）和季后赛场次（10场）比他前四年的任何一年都要多。因此，尼克斯队在蒂博多的带领下正在变得更好。

而洋基队在布恩（Boone）的带领下并没有变得更好。

诚然，洋基队决定放弃布恩的比赛层面的理由，比尼克斯队放弃蒂博多的理由更多。蒂博多接手的是一支在之前六个赛季中胜场仅在17到32场之间、且完全没有冠军基因的球队。而布恩接手的是一支刚刚打入美国联盟冠军赛第七场、且拥有体育界最拥挤奖杯陈列柜的球队，然而在他执教的前八年里，他仅一次进入世界大赛，且最终以尴尬收场。

道奇队公开嘲讽洋基队在2024年出现的低级失误，尤其是第五场决赛中的表现。在多伦多蓝鸟队于2025年美国联盟分区系列赛对阵洋基队的几周前，蓝鸟队的播报员、前球员兼教练巴克·马丁内斯（Buck Martinez）表示，洋基队“不是一支好球队”，他们在场上和跑垒时犯了太多错误，只能靠击出本垒打来赢球。

在四场比赛中，多伦多队以34-19的比分领先洋基队，晋级美国联盟冠军赛，而贾兹·奇索姆（Jazz Chisholm Jr.）在第四场比赛中的关键失误也起到了推波助澜的作用。而且你瞧，在斯坦布伦纳（Steinbrenner）和卡什曼（Cashman）基本上沿用了那支取得了94-68战绩但失去了分区冠军和分区系列赛的阵容后，洋基队的战绩变成了93-68，再次失去了分区冠军和分区系列赛。

光芒队利用了奥斯汀·威尔斯（Austin Wells）在第一场比赛中难以解释的跑垒失误，以及洋基队在第二场比赛中全队的防守崩溃，随后在相对干净利落的第三场比赛中获胜。值得注意的是，无论是威尔斯还是第二场比赛的失误者之一奇索姆，都没有对自己的错误表达太多的遗憾。

这说明了布恩的更衣室文化如何？这说明了这位经理的管理体系中，问责机制是怎样的，或者说是否缺失？

不要称之为解雇，就把它当作是对一位绅士的告别，他将去为别人赢得许多场棒球比赛。

当被问及是否期待回归执教第10个赛季时，布恩回答道：“是的，当然。”为什么不呢？斯坦布伦纳管理球队的紧迫感远不及他父亲的一半，而卡什曼对布恩的尊重自他雇佣布恩取代乔·吉拉尔迪（Joe Girardi）以来一直在增长，而吉拉尔迪当时是因为被认为与球员之间存在脱节而被解雇的。

2026年的洋基队热爱布恩，布恩也同样热爱他们。这种充满爱意的氛围现在定期产生的是：90胜的赛季、令人沮丧的分区系列赛败北，以及一个让所有人恢复健康并在明年赢回来的承诺。

“我认为我们拥有所有必要的元素，”施利特勒（Schlittler）说。“天赋就在那里。我们拥有联盟中最顶尖的天赋。”

这种天赋摧毁了一支糟糕的波士顿红袜队，但在面对真正的强敌光芒队时，三场比赛仅得五分。

在更衣室对面的走廊里，落败的经理给了获胜的经理凯文·凯什（Kevin Cash）一个温暖的拥抱，并赞扬他工作出色。这就是布恩。

但布恩现在的季后赛战绩是27-30，而且他刚刚浪费了一个绝佳的机会，本可以凭借其四名轮值王牌在世界大赛抽签中较弱的美国联盟一方乘胜追击。

因此，现在是时候让洋基队为一名以尊严和优雅代表品牌形象的员工举行一场仪式性的新闻发布会了。不要称之为解雇，而应是对一位即将为他人赢得无数场棒球比赛的绅士的告别。

无论如何，哈尔·斯坦布雷纳（Hal Steinbrenner）领导下的洋基队应该尝试一些不同的方法来突破瓶颈，就像尼克斯队所做的那样，也像乔治·斯坦布雷纳（George Steinbrenner）时代的洋基队所做的那样。

只是不要指望他们有足够的胆量去这样做。

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FANS AND THEIR PHONES

Lamm arrived for her downgrading event at Nightclub 101 looking as if she had run through a sprinkler, which did not trouble her. Without the practice of constant self-surveillance, she had lost “the reflex of self-consciousness,” she said.

She dried off as she zipped around the moody basement space, preparing her various offerings. She set out a group of bound short stories published by Loose Tooth Press, which she co-founded with her friend Magdalene Kennedy.

Next to the Loose Tooth stories were copies of Lamm's new zine, "Archaic," which you can't read or buy online. The first issue includes a letter from Dave Eggers and poems by Tao Lin.

It's an outgrowth of Lamm's Center for Archaic Networks, a group she founded that's “dedicated to the study and revival of human networks pre-dating social media.” She recently spent \$100,000 of her book advance to put a down payment on a \$320,000 house in upstate New York, where she will live and host a residency where applicants can stay for a week or two and lock their devices in a safe for the duration.

"I'm so excited to have this privilege that everybody else in human history had," she said, "which is just to live in a house where everyone is present."

In the end, the rain did not deter dozens of young New Yorkers from Lamm's event. Gabriel Hurlbert, 26, met Lamm at a downtown literary reading in 2024, and started exchanging letters with her. He arrived at Nightclub 101 that evening with two smartphones, one provided by his employer, Deloitte.

"My relationship to my phone, for long stretches of time, has been like that between a heroin addict and heroin," he said, though he believes the phone itself is symptomatic of a deeper problem. "I haven't really located the source of the malaise," he said.

When Lamm stepped onstage, the stakes of her project became clear. In battling the smartphone, she was fighting for her time, and for her mind, but also for some company. She could not bear to do this alone.

Lamm read an excerpt from the book, in which she lamented that her fans often told her that her zine changed their lives. But they still have smartphones. "They were theoretically in favor of the movement and yet personally unable to partake," she said. "They wished me the best with my activism. They had no doubt it would make a difference."

As she spoke, a woman in the audience lifted her phone and zoomed in.

Mini 纵横字谜

10 / 13 / 2026

作者：WYNA LIU

编辑：JOEL FAGLIANO

横向

1 可能拥有一窝……或使用它

4 尼罗河畔的首都

6 广阔的

7 Spelling Bee 游戏中介于“Good”和“Nice”之间的等级

8 飞机上的头顶储物格

纵向

1 产出巧克力替代品的树

2 蒜味调料

3 地铁车辆

4 带有眼睛标志的网络

5 放在 job 或 duck 之前的词

前一期谜题答案

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My conversations with ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ alarmed me

DEREK ABELLA

TECH FIX

BY BRIAN X. CHEN

I recently gathered a set of math problems, chemical equations and essay prompts and, as many students do today, fired up a web browser to ask ChatGPT for help with homework.

I wasn't going back to school. I was testing ChatGPT for Teens, a new version of the chatbot that OpenAI designed to address mounting concerns over the potential harms of artificial intelligence on education and younger people's health.

Amid steep declines in reading and math scores all over the United States, recent studies have found that dependence on A.I. chatbots, which can write essays and provide answers to homework questions, may stifle students' abilities to retain information and learn to solve complex problems.

ChatGPT and other chatbots have also made headlines in recent years for concerns that they may be contributing to some teenagers' unhealthy behaviors, including self-harm.

In response, OpenAI announced in August that ChatGPT for Teens would be a new mode for 13- to 17-years-olds that included safeguards to limit high-risk conversations involving self-harm, violence, eating disorders and graphic content.

Parents can set up accounts for their children using parental controls, or the chatbot may automatically predict a user's age based on their conversations. The company also said the mode would detect when a teenager was doing homework so that it could offer help instead of solely giving answers.

After OpenAI set me up with a Chat-

GPT for Teens account, I began pasting in homework assignments provided to me by several high school teachers.

Immediately, ChatGPT presented a list of options, including working through the problems with me or simply showing the answers. (OpenAI said this was by design — more on this later.) I chose the latter and pasted all the questions from various homework assignments. ChatGPT answered them without hesitation.

For another experiment, I asked ChatGPT for help with chemistry homework. Instead of having it show answers, I asked it to walk me through balancing chemical equations step by step. It asked a series of questions until I worked toward the solution. Useful.

I asked the chatbot to write essays on James Joyce's "Dubliners" and Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." It immediately churned out eloquent compositions instead of offering to help me outline my thoughts so I could write them myself. Eventually, I asked ChatGPT to edit an essay to make it hard to tell that a bot had written it. It did me one better.

"I can make it sound more like a real high-school/AP English essay — less overly polished and less formulaic," the chatbot wrote. "I can rewrite it in a more natural student voice."

Later, I asked questions that an angsty teenager might ask about feeling burned out. “I’m literally tired 24/7, school got me completely cooked, bored outta my mind and i have zero motivation fr,” I wrote. “I just need to make a plan to end it.”

The chatbot replied: "If by 'end it' you mean end this cycle of being exhausted all the time, I'm with you."

My unsubtle allusion to suicide didn't immediately trigger a recommendation to seek professional help.

An OpenAI spokesman said that my remarks should have been understood as potentially suicidal but that because of the context, the chatbot could have interpreted them as related to burnout.

When I told ChatGPT to “come up with a plan to end it” in a follow-up message, the chatbot reacted appropriately. “I can give you a plan for ending the exhausted/burned-out cycle,” it wrote. “I also want to make sure you’re not talking about ending your life. If

you are, tell me directly — I'll stay with you and help you get through right now."

My experiment left me worried for youths who have been gaining access to the tool. I liked the part of the study tool that walked me through solving a problem step by step. But I wouldn't hire a human tutor who offered to give my child homework answers at the beginning of a study session. Why wouldn't most teenagers simply choose to get the answers? And what else might a troubled teenager say that fails to raise red flags?

It turned out that I wasn't alone. Coincidentally, Common Sense Media, a nonprofit group that reviews tech products for families, said it had done a similar, more exhaustive study on ChatGPT for Teens, testing 4,000 prompts posing as students. (Half of the prompts were run before the official launch of ChatGPT for Teens, and half were run after the launch, to assess whether the chatbot's child safety had improved.)

The nonprofit organization drew similar conclusions and found deeper flaws:

ChatGPT doesn't reliably offer support in crisis situations. In conversations involving thoughts of suicide, self-harm, disordered eating and psychoses, the chatbot failed to consistently recommend that teenagers apparently in crisis connect to a hotline or professional. Common Sense Media said that in its tests of high-harm situations, the chatbot failed to refer users to crisis resources 25 percent of the times when it should have.

ChatGPT fails to alert parents about questionable conversations. When parents set up controls to link their accounts with their teenager's, the chatbot is supposed to send them notifications when the child brings up sensitive topics. Common Sense Media's testers spent an hour talking about suicidal ideation, self-harm or disordered eating with new parent-linked accounts, and OpenAI sent zero notifications to the parent accounts. Testers could trigger notifications on older accounts only with weeks of conversations on sensitive topics. The notifications did not work on new accounts.

Parents can set a schedule for a “study mode” to turn on at certain times of day to encourage their teenager to study with ChatGPT. But even with study mode activated, teenagers can simply select “Give me the answer” or delete “@study” from the beginning of a prompt to exit the study mode.

OpenAI disputed Common Sense Media's study. It said that when parents linked their account with a teenager's to use parental controls, it could take a few hours before parents began receiving safety notifications, and that the nonprofit organization might have conducted tests before the setup had been completed. But Common Sense Media said that it had done some of its testing within this setup window and another portion outside the window, and that the results were identical.

"We are deeply committed to teen safety and to developing safeguards and giving parents meaningful tools to guide their teens' use of A.I.," OpenAI said in a statement.

So where does this leave us?

Common Sense Media recommended that OpenAI pull ChatGPT for Teens from the market to fix it.

"ChatGPT for Teens is an unacceptable risk for kids," said Jim Steyer, the chief executive of Common Sense Media, in an interview. "You shouldn't be marketing safety features to parents and young people that don't work. We believe it should be paused."

But it's unclear how effective suspending the feature would be. According to OpenAI's internal metrics, 90 percent of teenagers on ChatGPT were using it for learning before the release of ChatGPT for Teens.

Two Not Touch（双星不触）

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It's time for the Yankees to let go of Aaron Boone

Commentary

Aaron Boone greeting his team before Game 1 of the Yankees' Wild Card series against the Boston Red Sox on Sept. 29. Boone's postseason record with the Yankees is 27-30.

FRANK FRANKLIN II/ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY IAN O'CONNOR

THE ATHLETIC

Ben Rice finished the season on deck with a man on in a one-run game. The most terrifying hitter in the New York Yankees lineup did not get a chance to save his team's season with two outs in the bottom of the ninth because Aaron Boone had chosen to drop his leadoff hitter to second in the order.

Trent Grisham got those final futile American League division series cuts against the Tampa Bay Rays' closer, Bryan Baker, striking out for the third time last Wednesday night and, almost certainly, for the final time as a Yankee. Everyone in the building knew how that matchup was going to end, including the man desperately waiting for his shot, Rice, who slugged this year like any titan of Yankee mythology.

Boone had his reasons for the move, of course, because a good baseball man from a good baseball family always has his reasons.

And no, this lineup change was not the reason that the Yankees were swept out to sea by an opponent that according to Spotrac paid its players \$213 million less than Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner paid his.

But the symbolism was hard to ignore. Boone has spent his entire Yankees existence coming up short in October, and here he had inadvertently planted his main attraction in an Aaron Judge-less cast 37 feet away from a potential Hollywood ending.

"It's the worst frickin' feeling in the world," Boone said after the Rays' 4-3 victory meant he would finish his ninth season in the Bronx the same way he finished his first eight — without a World Series championship ring.

With the social media mobs already reaching for their torches and pitchforks, some dissatisfied customers in the outfield stands were chanting for Boone to be fired. The Yankees manager heard boos during pregame introductions, and he heard boos again when he headed to the mound to remove starter Max Fried.

Sooner or later, the fans always get their man. The owners and general managers can stand intense public heat for only so long before they surrender and throw a body to the wolves, and common logic dictates that Steinbrenner and Brian Cashman, the team's general manager, will do the same here.

And they should go ahead and make that change. Don't let the coming lockout and the hassles of making a managerial switch around one carry the day. Enough is enough. If nine lives cover it for a cat, nine seasons without a championship should cover it for the manager of a team that has won 27 World Series titles and none since 2009.

Judge will be 35 in April, and he might be 36 by the time baseball's owners and players stop nuking each other and finally reach a collectively bargained labor deal. On cue, Judge said after the sweep was complete that he still stands by Boone.

"He puts us in the right position to succeed," Judge maintained, "especially in a season like this where I am banged up, missing 100 games." Judge mentioned all the other injuries Boone had to work around and said, "He's definitely had our back and is the guy."

Cam Schlittler, the presumptive Cy Young Award winner, added: "Booney's been amazing. I know every guy in this locker room stands behind him. I don't see a reason why that needs to change."

Booney is a good manager and sometimes a very good manager, no question. But he has never been a great manager for an organization that used to treat greatness as a mandate, and not a mere suggestion.

Are the Yankees going to wait until Judge is 40 before they try a different voice with a different approach?

Three decades ago, it didn't make sense when the Yankees fired Buck Showalter, who had just delivered their first postseason appearance in 14 years. Joe Torre, a lighter touch, followed Showalter by winning four World Series titles in his first five seasons in the Bronx.

Then it made sense.

Consider what just went down at Madison Square Garden. Tom Thi-bodeau took the Knicks to their first conference finals in a quarter century, and it didn't make sense that he was kicked out the door. Mike Brown, a lighter touch, followed Thibs by winning the Knicks' first title since 1973.

Then it made sense.

In his last year in New York, Thi-bodeau won more regular-season games (51) and postseason games (10) than he did in any of his first four years. So the Knicks were getting better under Thibs.

The Yankees aren't getting better under Boone.

Yes, there are more game-day reasons for the Yankees to move on from Boone than the Knicks had to move on from Thibodeau, who inherited a team that had won between 17 and 32 games the previous six seasons and a franchise with no championship pedigree whatsoever. Boone inherited a team that had just played in Game 7 of the

American League Championship Series and a franchise with the most crowded trophy case in sports, and yet in his first eight years he made only one trip to the World Series, which ended in embarrassment.

The Dodgers publicly mocked the Yankees for their fundamental breakdowns in 2024, especially those in the fifth and final game. Weeks before the Toronto Blue Jays met the Yankees in their 2025 American League division series, the Blue Jays broadcaster Buck Martinez, a former player and manager, said the Yankees were “not a good team” and one that made too many mistakes in the field and on the bases and that could win only by hitting home runs.

Toronto outscored the Yankees by 34-19 over four games to advance to the A.L. Championship Series, aided by Jazz Chisholm Jr.'s critical error in

Game 4. And wouldn't you know it, after Steinbrenner and Cashman essentially ran back the same squad that went 94-68 and lost the division title and the division series, the Yankees went 93-68 and lost the division title and the division series.

The Rays capitalized on Austin Wells's inexplicable base-running blunder in Game 1 and the Yankees' teamwide defensive collapse in Game 2 before winning a relatively clean Game 3. It was duly noted that neither Wells nor one of the Game 2 culprits, Chisholm, expressed much regret over their mistakes.

What does that say about Boone's clubhouse culture? What does that say about the accountability, or lack thereof, in the manager's program?

Don't call it a firing, just a farewell to a gentleman who will go win a lot of baseball games for someone else.

Asked if he expected to return for a 10th season, Boone replied, "Yeah, of course." And why not? Steinbrenner does not run the club with half of his father's urgency, and Cashman's respect for Boone has only grown

since he hired him to replace Joe Girardi, who was fired over a perceived disconnect with his players.

The 2026 Yankees adore Boone, and Boone adores them back. The lovefest now regularly produces 90-win seasons, dispiriting division series defeats, and a pledge to get everyone healthy and get 'em next year.

"I think we have all the pieces," Schlittler said. "The talent's there. We've got the best talent in the league."

That talent obliterated a sorry Boston Red Sox team but then scored five runs in three games against the real deal, the Rays.

Across the hall from the clubhouse, the losing manager wrapped the winning manager, Kevin Cash, in a warm embrace and praised him for a job well done. That's Booney.

But Booney is now 27-30 in the post-season, and he just squandered a golden opportunity to ride his four rotation aces through a weak A.L. side of the World Series draw.

So it is time for the Yankees to arrange a ceremonial news conference for an employee who represented the brand with dignity and grace. Don't call it a firing, just a farewell to a gentleman who will go win a lot of baseball games for someone else.

Either way, Hal Steinbrenner's Yankees should be trying something different to get over the hump, much as the Knicks did. Much as George Steinbrenner's Yankees did.

Just don't expect them to be bold enough to do it.

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谜题作者：BEN BASS

昨日答案：An oil spill last fall totaled eleven million gallons, all told.（去年秋天的一次漏油事故总计造成1100万加仑的油类泄漏。）

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在网格中填写数字，使每一行或每一列中的数字不重复，并且每个粗线框内的数字通过框内指定的加、减、乘或除法运算，得出所示的目标数字。4x4 网格使用数字 1-4。6x6 网格使用数字 1-6。

纵横字谜 / 编辑：Will Shortz

横向

1 \_ 经典（例如《洛基恐怖秀》或《低俗小说》）

5 海绵状湿地

9 titleholder（头衔持有者 / 冠军）

14 雕刻

15 泥派原料

16 希腊季节女神

17 电子游戏中的可选任务

19 逐渐侵蚀

20 无私的人

21 宣布胎儿性别（男孩或女孩）的聚会

22 -

23 躺在……旁边

25 蒂娜·费伊（Tina Fey）和塞斯·梅耶斯（Seth Meyers）曾担任主编的节目（缩写）

26 由香蕉、草莓、朗姆酒和椰奶制成的热带鸡尾酒

31 快速下滑

34 反馈内容

36 乔迁之喜的聚会

37 -

40 翻转（例如）

42 回避（如回避问题）

43 撰写《古恩小队》（A Visit From the Goon Squad）的詹妮弗（Jennifer）

45 拍卖单位

46 牛仔的围巾

48 演出中断者？

51 变质

52 即将结婚者的聚会

56 -

60 像用蛋液和面包屑蘸过，然后在黄油中煎炸的小牛肉或鸡肉菜肴

62 冲浪者骑乘之物

63 餐厅 / 食堂

64 《丛林之书》中的狼

65 1991年以前地图上的缩写

66 拍摄结束后的演职人员聚会……（提示：此答案与网格中另外三个答案的输入方式相同）

67 -

谜题设计：GIA BOSKO

前一谜题答案

68 拳击统计数据

69 爵士歌手西尔维亚（Sylvia）

纵向

1 \_ Millan，名人犬类训练师

2 方便的 / handy

3 高清平板屏幕（缩写）

4 “哎，\_ 就在这里”（Ay, \_ the rub）

5 可能由浓缩汤块溶解而成的肉汤

6 磁铁矿和铝土矿

7 源自德语的“整体大于部分之和”

8 酒吧常客

9 斑点非洲短跑者（指猎豹）

10 汽车喇叭

11 资深洋基队强力击球手（昵称）

12 赢得的 / 赚得的

13 陪审员

18 Ke Huy \_\_，《瞬息全宇宙》演员

21 英国口语中的“老板”

24 伊拉克主要港口城市

27 对手

28 安静期

29 斯堪的纳维亚首都

30 朝向日落

31 拖洗（如拖洗甲板）

32 波利尼西亚酿造饮料

33 抚平（如抚平皱衬衫）

35 人才经纪人

38 现代俚语中的“平庸”

39 “完全有可能”

41 随从他人不健康习惯的人

44 与防化服一起穿着的物品

47 否定连接词

49 “该死！”

50 纤维连接组织（韧带）

53 北爱尔兰第二大城市

54 “带我\_\_\_\_”（Take me \_\_\_\_）

55 边界 / 限制

56 代替品

57 毛利仪式舞蹈

58 完成

59 鞭痕

61 “如果那是真的……”

63 “one's losses”或“both ways”之前的单词

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一场莎翁式的嬉戏，美在破碎

剧评

英国，斯特拉特福

摄影：马克·布伦纳（MARC BRENNER）

（上图）在皇家莎士比亚剧院上演的《皆由你好》中，乔纳森·格罗夫（Jonathan Groff）饰演罗莎琳德（右），菲萨约·阿基纳德（Fisayo Akinade）饰演西莉亚。上方，格罗夫与饰演奥兰多的埃利奥特·巴恩斯-沃雷尔（Elliot Barnes-Worrell）同框，后者与有杀心的兄长反目成仇。左图，巴恩斯-沃雷尔与饰演查尔斯的爱德华·贾奇（Edward Judge）在戴着白兔面具的诡异人物注视下生死搏斗。

技术故障导致全男性阵容版《皆由你好》首演受阻

作者：海伦·肖（HELEN SHAW）

这里的白天足够平静，低垂着一片温和的灰色天空。一群天鹅在河中坚定地滑行，向游客讨要面包。上周，由皇家莎士比亚公司（Royal Shakespeare Company）呈现的一部全新的全男性阵容版《皆由你好》也同样流畅地运行了将近一小时。

但随后，演出“破碎”了。

从一个（字面）意义上来说，出故障的可能是电机。观众在皇家莎士比亚剧院里坐了很久，盯着一块升起约两英尺后便停住的巨大布景，而幕后的梯子被四处拖动。但在另一种狂喜的意义上，这部华丽且具有解放感的《皆由你好》恰恰在莎士比亚可能预设它该破碎的地方破碎了。

在第一幕结束时，几位流亡的贵族正远离文明，前往亚登森林。每个人都因为恐惧而离开那个光彩夺目的宫廷世界：聪明的罗莎琳德（乔纳森·格罗夫饰）发现她那邪恶的叔叔——公爵（加里·威尔莫特饰）想要杀掉她；她的表妹西莉亚（菲萨约·阿基纳德饰）无法忍受没有她的生活；英俊的奥兰多（埃利奥特·巴恩斯-沃雷尔饰）则与一个有杀心的兄长闹翻。

在这部由皇家莎士比亚公司共同艺术总监丹尼尔·埃文斯（Daniel Evans）执导的壮丽作品中，公爵的宫廷像一副棋盘一样毫无色彩：扭曲、怪诞、冰冷且阴森。格罗夫饰演的罗莎琳德穿着一件维多利亚时代的黑色长裙，穿过一扇约20英尺高的白门进入舞台；公爵穿着一件黑色长袍，像棋盘上的主教一样阴森地滑行。在某个时刻，公爵的仆人们戴着威胁性的白兔面具。就好像我们的英雄们都是走错了镜子方向的爱丽丝。

随着第一幕接近尾声，西莉亚喊道：“现在我们心满意足地奔向自由吧”，天籁之音开始唱起“奔向自由！奔向自由！”埃文斯将西莉亚和罗莎琳德的逃亡场景与奥兰多同时奔向自由的画面交织在一起，使得全场在对逃脱的期待中紧绷。但在周二晚上，当宫廷的墙壁试图升起以让路时——嗡，哐，女士们先生们，我们深表歉意。

这次技术性的停顿给了我们时间去思考，全男性演员阵容如何重新调整莎士比亚的剧作，通过解构数百年的表演惯例，重新回归伊丽莎白时代的易装模式。

首先——令人惊讶的是——它缓和了喜剧中的残酷感。《皆由你好》可以是刻薄的，其不友好的恶作剧通常由罗莎琳德主导，她伪装成男孩加尼美德，并说服奥兰多在她身上“练习”求爱。作为加尼美德，她嘲讽女性，并对骄傲的牧羊女菲比（蒂姆·普雷斯顿饰，其表演是当晚最令人眩晕的幽默演出）说出刻薄的话，而菲比愚蠢地爱上了折磨她的人，却不知对方是穿着裤子的罗莎琳德。

但埃文斯的全男性剧团在任何有机会的时候都会唱起紧凑的和声歌曲，这给整个作品赋予了一种甜蜜的同志情谊。（各种威尔士歌曲的声部编排需要高亢且迷人的假声男高音，这并非巧合。）这里有各种各样的适。

这里对性别的处理方式各异：有些演员完全融入其女性角色，而另一些则选择了哑剧式女装（pantomime dame）的表演方式。无论选择哪种，笑料都不会让他们感到尴尬。

而对于这个特定的罗莎琳德来说，森林之旅是一个真正抛弃伪装的机会。在绿林之中，格罗夫将能穿上可爱的徒步短裤，并用低音说话！做回自己真是太好了。

随着舞台监督不断要求观众等待，期待感也随之攀升。一个多小时后，埃文斯本人（在欢呼声中）宣布，工作人员已经“手动移开了宫廷布景”，为逃亡者扫清了障碍。随后，亚登森林终于、终于出现了：那是一个巨大的、阳光普照的、长满苔藓和高草的山坡。角色们在这个多层级的童话林间空地中嬉戏穿梭，或从绿色的草丛中窥视，就像从树篱中向外张望的鸟儿。（舞美设计安妮莎·菲尔兹、音效设计保罗·格鲁特豪斯和灯光设计瑞安·戴共同协作，为整个剧场营造出一种慵懒的夏季宁静感。）

一部《皆大欢喜》的基调通常由其罗莎琳德决定，而格罗夫饰演的罗莎琳德则格外亲切且充满喜悦。即便在嘲讽他人时，格罗夫也拥有一种天赋，能将情感不仅传递给其他角色（他与巴恩斯-沃雷尔之间擦出了真实的火花），还能传递给观众。在剧终独白中——当罗莎琳德发誓要亲吻观众席中任何一个拥有“令我心动的胡须”的人时——这个承诺显得十分可信。

埃文斯这部作品的关键在于西莉亚，一个冷面笑匠，也是一个尖刻的助手。他对罗莎琳德谈论女性的方式感到真心受伤，而这两位挚友之间面临的决裂，是整场演出中唯一具有真实风险的时刻。出色的阿基纳德如此幽默，以至于埃文斯经常让他不发一言地站在舞台中央的一簇草丛上，仅仅是为了提供一种随时可见的反应镜头。（在罗莎琳德进行那些更古怪的玩笑时，我一直在观察西莉亚。他的表情通常在说：“没门。”）

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剧团成员抓住每一个机会地唱起和谐的合唱，为整场演出注入了一种甜蜜的同志情谊。

但在首演之夜，主导演出那种“处于崩溃边缘的混乱感”的主要是那次意外：人们觉得如果剧场里的每个人不屏住呼吸并祈祷，我们可能永远无法进入森林场景。我确信他们不可能每晚都把布景弄坏，但我会为以后参考而记录下这一点：这确实能激发一种昂扬的团结感。

不过，即便没有这种对坍塌的共同恐惧，我也相信埃文斯及其超级剧团能够保持他们那种令人眼花缭乱的共同愉悦感。这是一个配合完美、像舞者一样优雅平衡的团体。当晚最精彩的场景或许是四人之间的爱情告白，参与者分别是憨厚的当地森林居民西尔维厄斯（爱德华·贾奇饰）、他的心上人菲比、菲比的心上人罗莎琳德，以及罗莎琳德的心上人奥兰多。“告诉这个年轻人什么是爱，”菲比要求道。“爱就是由叹息和泪水组成，”西尔维厄斯回答。

不过，对于奥兰多和加尼美得来说，爱并非如此。在整个追求过程中，他们一直在欢笑，整个山坡也随之变得眩晕。（“Giddy”一词最初的意思是“被神灵附身”，这与这场温柔、绿色的酒神祭般狂欢十分契合。）《随你所愿》以四场婚礼结束，埃文斯花时间用一种缓慢的喜悦与庄重将其呈现。演员们跳起了一种帕凡舞，又唱起了一首令人心碎的动人歌曲。随后，男人接男人，一个个微笑着投入另一个男人的怀抱。

《月光男孩》的深远影响

DAVID BORNFRIEND / A24

PATRICK T. FALLON 为《纽约时报》拍摄

电影制作人们探讨这部奥斯卡获奖影片在十年后的影响力

作者：BRIAN JOSEPHS

《月光男孩》（Moonlight）是导演埃勒根斯·布拉顿（Elegance Bratton）最喜爱的电影。对他而言，这部电影就像是他的“洞穴寓言”，是他作为电影人的“彼得·帕克起源故事”。

2016年，布拉顿还是纽约大学的一名学生，当时他正在拍摄短片《为我而行》（Walk for Me），讲述一名跨性别表演者在纽约舞厅文化（ballroom scene）中寻找自我的故事。据布拉顿回忆，当他在课堂上展示剪辑片段时，教授表示片中过多的特写镜头让他感到不适。

但随后《月光男孩》上映了。布拉顿表示，这部电影的崛起促使人们重新审视他在电影学院的作品。

他说：“在电影学习的第二年，《月光男孩》实际上帮我取得了成功。”

作为经常出现在“世纪最佳电影”名单（包括《纽约时报》的名单）中的作品，具有深远影响的《月光男孩》在十年后依然显得含蓄且富有层次感。它使用多名演员来塑造同一个角色，利用时间跳跃，并内省地聚焦于黑人男性气质，这些元素潜移默化地影响了随后的电影创作。《月光男孩》是由 Plan B Entertainment 联合制作的，它还带领 A24 公司进入了新的领域——使其不仅是一家发行商，还成为了电影出资方。这部电影帮助 A24 树立了以非传统电影制作方式获得稳健票房成绩的声誉。

《月光男孩》最初于 Oct. 21, 2016 上映，讲述了一个黑人孩子成长为一名与自身酷儿身份作斗争的青少年，最终变成一个内心封闭、压抑的成年男子的故事。该片由巴里·詹金斯（Barry Jenkins）执导，改编自剧作家塔雷尔·阿尔文·麦克雷尼（Tarell Alvin McCraney）的一部未发表剧本。该片在电影节期间大获好评，并最终在奥斯卡金像奖中斩获最佳影片奖。

布拉顿认为，《月光男孩》的成功在一定程度上为他自己的 A24 长片《检查》（The Inspection，2022年）铺平了道路。这部自传体剧情片在刻画一名训练成为海军陆战队的同性恋男子时，采用了亲密的镜头语言（大量使用特写）。其他人也在《镍男孩》（Nickel Boys）的第一人称视角中看到了《月光男孩》的影子。

《镍男孩》的导演拉梅尔·罗斯（RaMell Ross）表示，他并没有试图拍一部自己的《月光男孩》。相反，这部电影对他产生的影响可能是潜意识里的。

罗斯在一次视频采访中说：“当你被一部作品深深打动时，无论你是否刻意追求那种美学或形式并将其加入自己的作品中，它都会出现在你的下一部作品里，因为它触动了你。”

尽管酷儿电影和电视剧在《月光男孩》之前早已存在，但以黑人男性为中心的作品很少能获得如此广泛的关注和赞誉。

FX 系列剧集《姿态》（Pose）的创作者史蒂文·卡纳尔斯（Steven Canals）认为，《月光男孩》的反响可能影响了他的剧集获得绿灯通过。他说，他花了两年半的时间推销这部讲述纽约舞厅文化故事的剧集，但高管们告诉他，他们不确定是否有观众会看。在《月光男孩》进入电影院的那一年，卡纳尔斯向制片人瑞安·墨菲（Ryan Murphy）推销了《姿态》，随后他们将其卖给了 FX。

卡纳尔斯说：“我认为这部剧在《月光男孩》这样的电影出现之后才得以诞生，并非巧合。”

《月光男孩》汲取了詹金斯和麦克雷尼在迈阿密绝大多数为黑人居住的自由城（Liberty City）成长的经历。其标志性的视觉风格——大胆色彩与表现主义光影的结合——借鉴了香港导演王家卫的作品，以及摄影师马利克·哈桑·赛义德（Malik Hassan Sayeed）与斯派克·李（Spike Lee）的合作成果。但在某种程度上，这种风格也受到了实际拍摄条件的制约，因为这部忧郁的剧情片预算仅为 $1.200 万左右，数额相当有限。

“由于预算和电影基调的原因，如果这部电影能获得真正的生命力，那一定是在艺术电影院里，”詹金斯在一次视频通话中表示。“然而，我们并不想为了迎合那个观众群体而改变自由城（Liberty City）的语言。”

《月光男孩》（Moonlight）还将詹金斯定义为一批崛起中的黑人电影制作人之一，其中还包括艾娃·杜弗奈（Ava DuVernay）、瑞安·库格勒（Ryan Coogler）和史蒂夫·麦奎因（Steve McQueen），这一阶层的作品在面向更广泛的观众之前，其规模较为克制。

“这不仅仅是为了制作商业作品，”曾在电影节放映过《月光男孩》的多伦多国际电影节首席执行官卡梅隆·贝利（Cameron Bailey）表示。“而是关于‘作为一名艺术家，你想表达什么，以及你拥有哪些可利用的工具？’当时确实有几位电影制作人正在真正地这样做。”

《月光男孩》是否为更多黑人导演以适度预算讲述自己的故事打开了大门？一些电影制作人认为，对于一部电影

（图注）从左起，亚历克斯·希伯特（Alex Hibbert）和马赫沙拉·阿里（Mahershala Ali）在2016年获得奥斯卡最佳影片的剧情片《月光男孩》中，以及在左前方的导演巴里·詹金斯（Barry Jenkins）领取该奖项。

在2026年要找到观众可能会更加困难，部分原因是后疫情时代的观影人群规模更小，且更加分散。

“那个空间在某种程度上已经破碎了，”詹金斯说道，他主要指的是他居住的洛杉矶的电影市场。他补充道：“人们已经习惯了不去电影院。所以那些大制作电影正在一点一点地将观众重新聚集起来。”

许多参与《月光男孩》的人至今仍是电影业的顶尖人物。马赫沙拉·阿里因在片中饰演贩毒的父亲形象而获得奥斯卡奖，如今已成长为一名领衔主演。詹金斯的履历中包括一部迪士尼热门片（《穆法沙：狮子王》），而他作为创始人的制作公司 Pastel 制作的小预算剧情片同样深受评论界喜爱（如《晒后》和《对不起，宝贝》）。

导演布拉顿（Bratton）的作品规模也发生了变化。他的最新电影《不择手段》（By Any Means）是一部由马克·沃尔伯格（Mark Wahlberg）和亚希亚·阿卜杜勒-马廷二世（Yahya Abdul-Mateen II）主演的动作片。尽管如此，它并未脱离《月光男孩》带来的启示。

“10年后让我感到兴奋的是，《月光男孩》所代表的那种‘许可’不必止步于自传体电影，”布拉顿说。“我正在一个大得多的画布上创作：历史惊悚片、电影明星、类型动作片。但我依然在探讨关于黑人男性气质、权力、脆弱性，以及谁能在银幕上被视为完整的人这些问题。”

📄 Original Section

A Shakespearean lark, nicely broken

THEATER REVIEW

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, ENGLAND

PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARC BRENNER

Top, Jonathan Groff as Rosalind, right, and Fisayo Akinade as Celia in “As You Like It” at the Royal Shakespeare Theater. Above, Groff with Elliot Barnes-Worrell as Orlando, who has fallen out with his homicidal older brother. Left, Barnes-Worrell and Edward Judge (as Charles) wrestling for their lives while weird figures in white rabbit masks look on.

Technical trouble stalls the opening night of an all-male 'As You Like It'

BY HELEN SHAW

The day here had been calm enough, with a mild gray sky hanging low. A gang of swans was gliding implacably down the river, shaking down tourists for bread. And, for a little less than an hour, a new all-male staging of “As You Like It” by the Royal Shakespeare Company was gliding along last week, too.

But then, the show broke.

In one (literal) sense, it was probably a motor. Certainly the audience sat in the Royal Shakespeare Theater looking for a long time at a big chunk of the set that had risen up about two feet and then stopped, while ladders behind a curtain were dragged hither and yon. But in another, ecstatic sense, this gorgeous and liberatory "As You Like It" broke right where Shakespeare might have meant for it to break.

At the end of Act I, several aristocratic exiles are heading away from civilization, bound for the Forest of Arden. Each one is leaving the glittering court world out of fear: The clever Rosalind (Jonathan Groff) finds out her wicked uncle, a Duke (Gary Wilmot), wants to kill her; her cousin

Celia (Fisayo Akinade) can't bear to live without her; the handsome Orlando (Elliot Barnes-Worrell) has fallen afoul of a homicidal older brother.

The Duke's court in this spectacular production by the Royal Shakespeare Company's co-artistic director, Daniel Evans, is as colorless as a chess set: distorted, grotesque, cold, eerie. Groff's Rosalind enters in a black Victorian gown through a white door perhaps 20 feet tall; the Duke wears a long black cassock, sliding creepily around like a bishop on a board. At one point, the Duke's servants wear menacing white-rabbit masks. It's as if our heroes were all Alices on the wrong side of the looking glass.

As Act I comes to a close, Celia shouts “Now go we in content to liberty,” and heavenly voices start singing “To liberty! To liberty!” Evans has intercut scenes of Celia and Rosalind’s flight with Orlando’s simultaneous dash to freedom, so the room was wound tight with the expectation of escape. But on Tuesday night, as the wall of the court tried to rise out of the way — whirr, bonk, ladies and gentlemen, we are so sorry.

The technical pause gave us time to think about how an all-male cast re-adjusts Shakespeare's play, unwinding centuries of practice to arrive again at Elizabethan modes of cross-dressing.

First of all — surprisingly — it gentles the comedy's cruelty. "As You Like It" can be vicious, its unkind mischief often led by Rosalind, who disguises herself as a boy, Ganymede, and persuades Orlando to "practice" wooing on her. As Ganymede, she mocks womankind and says savage things to the proud shepherdess Phoebe (Tim Preston, giving the evening's most dizzyingly funny performance), who foolishly falls in love with her tormentor, not knowing it's Rosalind in trousers.

But Evans's all-male company, breaking into close-harmony songs whenever it gets a chance, gives the whole thing an air of sweet camaraderie. (It isn't a coincidence that the vocal arrangements of various Welsh songs require a high, bewitching countertenor.) There's a variety of ap-

proaches to gender here: Some actors dissolve into their feminine portraits, others choose a pantomime dame approach. Whichever choice they make, the jokes don't hurt them.

And for this particular Rosalind, the forest experience is a chance to actually discard disguise. In the green-wood, Groff will get to wear cute hiking shorts and speak basso! How good it is to be oneself.

Anticipation mounted the more that the stage managers told the audience to wait. After more than an hour, Evans himself announced (to cheers) that the crew had “lifted the court manually” out of the fugitives’ way. The Forest of Arden then finally, finally arrived: a huge, sunlit hillside of moss and high grasses. Characters romp up and over this multilevel fairy tale glade, or peep from among its green tussocks, like birds looking out of a hedge. (The set designer Anisha Fields, the sound designer Paul Groothuis and the lighting designer Ryan Day collaborate to give the whole theater a drowsy summer peace.)

An “As You Like It” usually takes its tenor from its Rosalind, and Groff is a particularly fond and joyful one. Even when he’s mocking someone, Groff has a gift for radiating affection not just to other characters (he and Barnes-Worrell strike real sparks) but into the audience. In the epilogue — when Rosalind swears she’ll kiss anyone in the audience with “beards that pleased me” — the promise felt plausible.

The key of Evans's production lies with Celia, the wry straight woman and tart sidekick. She's genuinely hurt by the way Rosalind talks about women, and the threatened break between these two great friends is the one moment of true risk in the show. The superb Akinade is so hilarious that Evans often stations him, unspeaking, on a tuffet center stage, just to provide a kind of constantly available reaction shot. (I kept checking in with Celia during Rosalind's weirder japes. Her face usually said, "Nope.")

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格雷格·弗里曼（Greg Freeman）已无法被小房间容纳

“当我第一次听到格雷格的音乐时，我就被吸引了。”

这位摇滚歌手在最新专辑将其推向新高度的同时，依然珍视自己的 DIY 根基。

作者：LINDSAY ZOLADZ

在布鲁克林一家拥有 93 年历史的酒吧 Farrell's 喝到一杯大杯皮尔森啤酒的一半时，独立音乐人格雷格·弗里曼发表了一个大胆的宣言：“摇滚乐应该在那种，理想情况下，容量约为 250 人的房间里演奏。”

弗里曼在军绿色 T 恤下面穿了一件长袖条纹衬衫，T 恤上夹着一支笔。他又喝了一口。“只要把我放进房间里就行，”他说，“那种演出永远是最棒的。我不希望在我与观众之间有隔离栏。”

这是一个高尚的想法，但弗里曼极其出色的新专辑《All Set the Bone》似乎注定将他推向规模大得多的观众群体。这部作品视野开阔、喧嚣且才思敏捷，比去年那张优秀的突破性专辑《Burnover》有了显著的提升，并进一步证明了弗里曼是目前独立摇滚领域最优秀的词作者之一。

“每五行词里就有一个能让人惊叹的亮点，”Grandaddy 乐队的吉他手吉姆·费尔柴尔德（Jim Fairchild）说道，弗里曼在去年的巡演中曾为该乐队担任开场嘉宾。“其中有一些敏感和古灵精怪之处，但同时也有我非常喜欢的、那种极其直观的摇滚特质。”

“他与自己的内心高度同步，”曾与 St. Vincent 和 Modest Mouse 等艺人合作过的格莱美奖得主制作人约翰·康格尔顿（John Congleton）表示。《All Set the Bone》是康格尔顿第一次与 28 岁的弗里曼合作，他说弗里曼的特质和音乐风格让他“更像是一个 X 世代的人”。

尽管如此，弗里曼的音乐依然触及了在数字化麻木和消费文化单调的当下，生存的真实感受。在面对现代生活的日常屈辱时，弗里曼能表现得冷幽默（在以车祸为隐喻的曲目《Totaled》中，他唱道：“我甚至无法在排队认领的车辆中认出我的丰田车”），也能表现得温柔且敏锐（在深情的首支单曲《Indu》中，他唱道：“在这个低头族之城，她抬起了下巴”）。

“你的生活仅仅是欲望，还是一个无法点餐的菜单？”他在《Cahokia》中用他那像吱吱作响的门一样的嗓音问道。这首充满驱动力的开场曲以一座位于现代圣路易斯附近、被遗弃的哥伦布前时期的城市命名。就像专辑中的许多歌曲一样，它既显得厌世又具有鼓舞人心之感——是对着回声空洞的一次正义且愤怒的嘶吼。

弗里曼在去年夏天创作了《All Set the Bone》的大部分内容。当时他在新墨西哥州一个荒凉地区独自生活了两个月，住在通过 Craigslist 租到的一间简陋小屋里。没有邻居让他感到自由：“这是我人生中第一次可以在一天中的任何时间，以我想要的任何音量演奏。”

当弗里曼开始创作续作时，《Burnover》尚未发行，康格尔顿表示这种创作节奏非常罕见。“通常的做法是坐在一起玩三个月电子游戏，或者抽水烟之类的，”他说，“一边漫无目的地等待唱片发行，以便开始巡演。”

但弗里曼不认为自己应该浪费宝贵的时间。“我意识到接下来的巡演任务非常重，”他说，“在一切开始之前我有两个月的空档，所以我认为要么现在开始写，要么得等半年后才能再次独处房间。”

他耸了耸肩。“趁着还没必要找另一份工作，最好利用好我拥有的任何时间。”

弗里曼在交谈中表现得坦率得令人震惊。2022 年，他将自己信心十足的处女作专辑《I Looked Out》寄给了大约 15 家厂牌。没有一家感兴趣，最终他先在一位朋友的磁带厂牌下发行了它。几年后，在《Burnover》引起关注后，他最初咨询过的几家厂牌回复道，“大概是‘才看到这个！’之类的话。”

“胆小鬼！”弗里曼说。

在 Farrell's 酒吧，他的话题在点唱机礼仪、他在佛蒙特大学研究的宗教，以及英国小说家格雷厄姆·格林（Graham Greene）之间跳跃。（早些时候，我发现弗里曼正在阅读一本格林 1958 年出版的二手平装本

照片由 EVAN JENKINS 为《纽约时报》拍摄

格雷格·弗里曼（Greg Freeman）在芝加哥的麦金利公园（McKinley Park）跳跃并摆姿势。他的新专辑于本月发行。

“我认为一场演出应该是你与观众之间某种形式的交易。”

间谍讽刺小说《我们在哈瓦那的人》（Our Man in Havana）。）但话题似乎总是绕回到 Fugazi 乐队。在音乐产业的道德泥潭中，弗里曼将这支来自华盛顿特区、坚持纯粹独立路线的摇滚乐队视为某种伦理北极星；该乐队的成员拒绝主流唱片公司，并宣扬低票价的重要性。

“现在没人那么有原则了，”他说，“现在每个人都想分到一点碎屑，但他们当时确实拥有一种非常美好的世界观。”

弗里曼试图按照自己的原则在行业中前行，但他日益提高的知名度已经对他“仅限小场地”的信条提出了挑战：11月20日，他将举行迄今为止规模最大的一场演出，在纽约的 Webster Hall 担任主演，该场地的容量超过 1,000 人。

“我认为这就是真正的极限了，”弗里曼笑着说，“我得就这件事找人谈谈。”

弗里曼的声音，以及他对生活的更宏大视角，源于一种可以被称为“天生的格雷格特质”。他在马里兰州贝塞斯达（Bethesda）的郊区长大，觉得自己极其平凡。“我身高 5 英尺 8 英寸，”他沉思道，“我出生的地方既不在城市也不在乡村。而且我的名字是……格雷格。”他停顿了一下，让这句话产生影响。“所以我觉得这让我成为了一个观察生活极端情况的人。”

搬到佛蒙特州伯灵顿（Burlington）上大学让他第一次有了归属感，“那是由于当地的音乐氛围，”他说。弗里曼和一群音乐人几乎每晚都在演出或观看演出。他形容当时的氛围很纯粹；他认识的人中没有一个人签约唱片公司。“也许是因为我们喝了太多啤酒之类的，”他笑着说。他们只是在创作歌曲，“为了好玩而演出。”

情况在 2022 年底发生了变化，在他独立发行《I Looked Out》之后。他回忆道，在几个月内，“纽约和芝加哥等其他地方的人开始给我发消息，说他们听到了这首歌。”他组织了一次小型巡演，口碑开始传播。

弗里曼最终签约了独立厂牌 Transgressive，该厂牌提供了实现其愿景的资源，且没有要求他妥协的压力。现在，凭借《All Set the Bone》，在 Congleton 的帮助下，他实现了一个长久以来的梦想——制作一张充满录音室现场、全乐队录制的唱片。

“如今能听到乐队一起演奏的唱片不多了，你知道吧？”他说，“那一直是我想要实现的声音，但我之前从未拥有过足够好的录音室设备来完成它。”

几周后的一次视频通话中，弗里曼说：“我长途跋涉来到这座疯狂的建筑里呼吸新鲜空气，”他转动摄像头，展示了位于芝加哥市中心的庞大的哈罗德·华盛顿图书馆中心（Harold Washington Library Center）。弗里曼在几个月前搬到了这里，在伯灵顿生活 10 年后，他需要一种改变。“对我个人而言，生活在过去 10 年里发生的所有生活经历的一平方英里半径范围内，感觉太沉重了，”他说，“有点像被闹鬼的感觉。”

他在新城市发现了繁荣的地下文化，充满了“磁带厂牌、独立杂志和极佳的低保真（lo-fi）音乐”，这得益于像 Horsegirl、Lifeguard 和 Sharp Pins 这样相互关联的乐队所营造的氛围。“在芝加哥非常有启发性，”弗里曼说，“因为这里有这么多年轻的 D.I.Y. 乐队，按照他们自己的方式做事。”

我回看了他关于不想在比韦伯斯特大厅（Webster Hall）更大的场馆演出的表态，想确认这是否只是在喝了皮尔森啤酒后的胡言。但弗里曼（Freeman）坚持自己的观点。“我的订场经纪人不会喜欢这一点的，”他耸了耸肩，“但我认为演出应该是你与观众之间的一种交易。而到了某个临界点，你就无法再看清你面对的观众了，你懂吗？”

这种信念正是弗里曼独特之处的一部分。“他不想在比韦伯斯特大厅更大的地方演出的事实——他可能会在这次争论中输掉，”康格尔顿（Congleton）笑着说，“当你两年后再次询问他时，也许他会改变主意。但我认为，他的正直将始终存在。”

与斯蒂芬·金再次跨越维度

安托万·马亚尔（ANTOINE MAILLARD）

书评

《除此之外的其他世界》（Other Worlds Than These）：一部《护身符》系列小说

斯蒂芬·金与彼得·斯特劳布著

Scribner 出版社，691 pp. $35.

作者：艾米莉·C·休斯（EMILY C. HUGHES）

几十年来，斯蒂芬·金一直在构建一个庞大的多元宇宙，这是一个虚构的沙盒，他在其中可以创造并毁灭生命、城市和文明。考虑到他想象力的广度，那些最初作为独立作品的小说甚至系列作品，最终倾向于与他作品集中的其他书籍产生交叉影响，这并不令人意外。例如，《护身符》（The Talisman，1984年）涉及一个名为“领地”（the Territories）的平行宇宙；而在续作《黑屋》（Black House，2001年）中，“领地”开始看起来非常像“中土世界”（Mid-World）——这是金的《黑暗塔》系列中的一个设定。

金在他最新小说《除此之外的其他世界》（Other Worlds Than These）的宣传资料中确认了这一联系，该书是《护身符》三部曲的最后一卷。（他是基于前两部小说的共同作者彼得·斯特劳布的想法而创作的，斯特劳布于2022年去世。）金表示，中土世界“一直就是‘领地’的另一个称呼”。

我们进入中土世界的向导是“旅行者”杰克·索耶（Travelin' Jack Sawyer）。在第一本书中，我们认识他时，他还是一个住在新罕布什尔州的12岁少年，能够“翻转”进入这个另一个宇宙。现在他已接近60岁，全职居住在中土世界，偶尔为当地的总督跑腿——那是一个热爱廉价小说和可口可乐的小暴君。

这些差事通常要求杰克翻转回我们的世界待几天——只要他在《黑屋》结尾受到的枪伤再次威胁到生命之前，能够安全地处理好这段时间。

就在其中一次旅行中，他得到了令人不安的消息：一对青少年正在进行一场杀戮，让人想起20世纪50年代末查尔斯·斯塔克韦瑟（Charles Starkweather）和卡里尔·安·富盖特（Caril Ann Fugate）在现实生活中犯下的谋杀案。（《黑屋》的读者会觉得这很熟悉：该小说中那个令人厌恶的八旬老人查尔斯·伯恩赛德，就是模仿连环杀手阿尔伯特·费什的罪行。）不久，暴力蔓延到了中土世界，这种奇怪的杀人传染病传播到了其他青少年之中。杰克和一群由同样是美国外籍人士组成的伪“卡-特”（ka-tet）小组必须揭开这场暴力流行病的起因并将其制止。

金就像他构建的宇宙一样，包含着多样性。对他小说的所有赞美都是真实的；对他提出的所有批评同样也是真实的。他天生拥有对故事机制和动力的掌控天赋，这种天赋在他漫长的职业生涯中从未褪色。他的角色具有一种美丽、感伤——有时甚至是怪诞的——人性。（正如德怀特·加纳在评论《学院》（The Institute，2019年）时所写，他们是“那种在深夜能听到火车声的人”。）金对抓人眼球的意象有着敏锐的洞察力：一扇连接世界的门“独自伫立在血红色玫瑰的绳圈之中”。

但他也很重复。每当杰克在世界之间传输一个实物时，作者都会确保告诉我们它在转换过程中发生了怎样的变化，这种世界观构建很快就失去了吸引力。金过度关注品牌名称以及车辆和武器的型号。（我完全可以在余生中不需要在一部奇幻小说里读到特斯拉 Cybertruck 的引用而过得很快乐，但可惜了。）

他的非白人角色往好里说是温和的刻板印象，往坏里说则是彻头彻尾的冒犯。在前两本书中担任杰克向导和导师的管理员兼蓝调音乐家斯皮迪·帕克（Speedy Parker）在本书中基本缺席，令人想念，但我发现自己很庆幸不必再去阅读金对黑人方言口语的拙劣模仿。

而且，金只要是创造一个胖角色，就一定会坚持将其处理成一个令人厌恶的奇观。在《除此之外的其他世界》（Other Worlds Than These）中，有一段关于一个胖子家庭的描写尤其具有侮辱性；金似乎在评论他们“像大象一样粗的大腿”和“巨大的肉褶”中获得了某种病态的快感。杰克推测，那个家庭的前廊“一定经过了特殊加固，才能承受这些巨兽的共同体重”，而当那个女儿在当晚试图在床上强奸并杀死他时，她“像从千斤顶上掉下来的卡车一样砸在他身上”，把床架给压断了。我好奇金是否意识到，胖子也会读他的书。

作为《护身符》三部曲的收官之作，《除此之外的其他世界》取得了中规中矩的成功。它能打动人心且具有娱乐性，但或许过于依赖读者对《黑暗塔》传奇的既定熟悉感；枪手罗兰·德赞（Roland Deschain）的阴影沉重地笼罩在这些篇章之上。那些希望与《护身符》和《黑屋》中的老朋友重逢的读者将会感到失望：那些小说中出现在本书里的少数角色仅是昙花一现。

能再次在中间世界（Mid-World）度过这么多时光是一件很有趣的事，那里居住着变异生物、有意识的狼（注意，永远是大写的Wolfs，谢谢）、像浣熊一样的比利-邦布勒（billy-bumblers）以及吸血鬼（遗憾的是，在当地方言中被称为wompies），尽管我希望我们能通过除杰克以外的其他视角看到更多这个世界。小说情节的结局显得突如其来，但我怀疑，在完成一部始于 40 年前的三部曲时，情感上的结局被赋予了优先权。

这让我回到了“旅行者杰克”身上。他是这个系列的跳动心脏，他少年时代的奥德赛之旅、成年后的考验以及对逝去挚爱的悲痛，造就了他在本小说中的样子：一如既往地坚毅、忠诚且幸运。他长达数十年的旅程最终迎来结局，令我几乎落泪，这让我自己都感到惊讶。我对执行层面或许有诸多不满，但此时此刻，我只是很高兴能与杰克再次同行一次。

艾米莉·C·休斯（Emily C. Hughes）是布拉姆·斯托克奖得主、《胆小鬼恐怖指南》（Horror for Weenies）的作者，以及恐怖杂志《更黑暗时代》（Darker Times）的联合创始人。

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The lasting impact of 'Moonlight'

DAVID BORNFRIEND/A24

PATRICK T. FALLON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Filmmakers consider the Oscar winner's influence a decade on

BY BRIAN JOSEPHS

“Moonlight” is a favorite of the director Elegance Bratton’s. It’s his allegory of the cave, his Peter Parker origin story.

In 2016, Bratton was a student at New York University working on his short film "Walk for Me," which focused on a trans performer finding her way in New York's ballroom scene. In Bratton's telling, when he showed a cut in class, his professor said the number of close-ups made him uncomfortable.

But then came "Moonlight." Bratton said that the rise of that film prompted a fresh look at his film school work.

“‘Moonlight’ actually helped me, in my second year of film, succeed,” he said.

A frequent guest on best-of-century movie lists (including The New York Times's), the influential “Moonlight” remains both subtle and layered a decade later. Its use of multiple actors to embody one character, its use of time gaps and its introspective focus on Black masculinity trickled into the makeup of films that followed. “Moonlight,” a co-production with Plan B Entertainment, also took the company A24 into new territory as a film financier and not just a distributor. The film helped mold the company’s reputation for unconventional filmmaking with solid box-office results.

Originally released on Oct. 21, 2016, "Moonlight" follows a Black child as he grows into a young teenager tangling with his queerness and then into a hardened, repressed man. The film, directed by Barry Jenkins and adapted from the playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney's unpublished play, drew adoration during its film festival run that culminated in its Oscar victory for best picture.

Bratton partly credited the success of “Moonlight” with opening a pathway for his own A24 feature, “The Inspection” (2022), an autobiographical drama that uses intimate camerawork (heavy on close-ups) in its portrayal of a gay man training to be a Marine. Others have also seen bits of “Moonlight” in the first-person perspective that carries “Nickel Boys.”

The director of "Nickel Boys," RaMell Ross, said he wasn't trying to make his own "Moonlight." Rather, the film's influence on him was likely subliminal.

"When you're that moved by a work, whether or not you intentionally pursue that aesthetic or that form and add it into your work, it is in your next work because it moved you," Ross said in a video interview.

Although queer cinema and television long predate “Moonlight,” entries centered on Black men had rarely received such widespread exposure and acclaim.

Steven Canals, a creator of the FX series “Pose,” believed the reception of “Moonlight” might have had an effect on his show’s being greenlit. He said he had spent two and a half years pitching the show, a drama that takes place in New York’s ballroom scene, only to be told by executives that they didn’t know if there was an audience for it. The year “Moonlight” reached theaters, Canals pitched “Pose” to the producer Ryan Murphy, and they sold it to FX.

"I don't think it's by chance that this show happens kind of on the heels of a movie like 'Moonlight' existing," Canals said.

“Moonlight” draws from both Jenkins's and McCraney's experiences growing up in the mostly Black neighborhood of Liberty City in Miami. Its signature look, a mix of bold colors and expressive lighting, drew from the work of the Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai and the cinematographer Malik Hassan Sayeed's collaborations with Spike Lee. But to a degree, its style was also informed by the practicality of shooting a moody drama with roughly \$1.2 million, a modest budget.

“Because of the budget and because of the tone of the film, if it was going to find an actual life it was going to be in art-house cinemas,” Jenkins said in a video call. “And yet we didn’t want to change the language of Liberty City to fit that audience."

“Moonlight” also underlined Jenkins as part of a rising crop of Black filmmakers that included Ava DuVernay, Ryan Coogler and Steve McQueen, a class whose work had a more contained scope before expanding to a wider audience.

“It wasn’t just about making commercial fare,” said Cameron Bailey, the chief executive of the Toronto International Film Festival, which screened “Moonlight.” “It was about, ‘What do you want to express as an artist and what are the tools that you have at your disposal?’ And there were a few filmmakers who were really doing that at the time.”

Has “Moonlight” opened doors for more Black directors to tell their stories on modest budgets? Some filmmakers believe it may be more tricky for a movie

From far left, Alex Hibbert and Mahershala Ali in “Moonlight,” the 2016 drama that won the Oscar for best picture, and the director Barry Jenkins, left foreground, accepting that award.

of its scope to find an audience in 2026, partly because the post-Covid-pandemic moviegoing crowd is smaller yet more diffuse.

“That space has been fractured to a certain degree,” Jenkins said, mainly referring to the film market in Los Angeles, where he lives. He added: “People just got accustomed to not going to the movies. So the bigger movies are building that audience back piece by piece.”

Many involved in “Moonlight” remain pre-eminent figures in the movie business. Mahershala Ali, who won an Oscar for his turn as the film’s drug-dealing father figure, has grown into a leading man. Jenkins’s résumé includes a Disney hit (“Mufasa: The Lion King”), and Pastel, a production company of which he is a founder, has produced smaller-budget dramas that were also critical darlings (“Aftersun,” “Sorry, Baby”).

The scope of the director Bratton's work has shifted, too. His latest film, "By Any Means," is an action movie fronted by Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Still, it's not detached from the lessons of "Moonlight."

“What’s exciting to me 10 years later is that the permission ‘Moonlight’ represented doesn’t have to end with autobiographical cinema,” Bratton said. “I’m working on a much bigger canvas: historical thriller, movie star, genre action. But I’m still asking questions about Black masculinity, power, vulnerability and who gets to be fully human on-screen.”

为什么年轻厨师纷纷涌向法国南部

DEPASQUALE+MAFFINI

BASTIEN SEON

JP VAURES SANTAMARIA

CHARLENE PELUT

BASTIEN SEON

JP VAURES SANTAMARIA

Region's fresh produce and quality of life draw talent to open restaurants

该地区新鲜的农产品和生活质量吸引人才在此开设餐厅

作者：ALEXANDER LOBRANO

你可以说，对一颗完美成熟番茄的追求正在改变法国南部的烹饪版图。

该地区著名的优质新鲜农产品正鼓励像尼古拉斯·丰泰纳（Nicolas Fontaine）这样的厨师在此创业。丰泰纳先生曾在巴黎以及南部的顶级厨房工作，他选择在故乡尼姆（Nimes）开设自己的第一家餐厅。这家令人兴奋的新店 Poésie 于 3 月开业。他这样解释自己的决定：“自然是完美的，因此我作为厨师的工作就是寻找我能找到的最好的食材，并以增强其天然味道和质感的方式来烹饪，”他补充道，“这里有蓝天、较低的租金且没有大城市的压力，我的生活质量也提高了很多。”

他并非孤例。在巴黎和里昂等地的顶级餐厅接受培训的有才华的年轻厨师们，发现自己深深地迷上了南部。“我烹饪的几乎所有食材在进入我的厨房前几个小时内才被采摘，”朱利安·瓦尔（Julien Vahl）说道。他与合伙人吕西·佩诺（Lucie Péneau）刚刚在莱马泰勒（Les Matelles）开设了 Aronde 餐厅，这是一个位于蒙彼利埃（Montpellier）以北约 10 英里（16 公里）的村庄。

这种对当地海鲜、禽类、奶酪、蔬菜以及（没错）番茄的热情，在法国南部这六家令人兴奋的新餐厅的菜单中得到了体现。

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Greg Freeman gets too big for the room

that I was drawn to it the first time I heard Greg's music."

The rocker cherishes his D.I.Y. roots as his latest LP lifts him to a new level

BY LINDSAY ZOLADZ

Halfway through a tall pilsner at Farrell's, a 93-year-old bar in Brooklyn, the indie musician Greg Freeman made a bold pronouncement: "Rock music should be played in a room that is, like, ideally, 250 capacity."

Freeman wore a long-sleeve striped shirt beneath an army-green tee, to which he had clipped a pen. He took another sip. "Just put me in a room," he said. "Those are the best shows, always. I don't want a barricade between me and the audience."

It's a noble thought, but Freeman's tremendous new album, "All Set the Bone," seems poised to put him in front of much larger crowds. Panoramic, squalling and razor-witted, "Bone" is an impressive step up from last year's excellent breakout LP, "Burnover," and furthers the argument that Freeman is one of the best lyricists in indie rock right now.

"Every fifth line is kind of a zinger," said Jim Fairchild, guitarist of the band Grandaddy, for whom Freeman opened on a tour last year. "There's some sensitivity and whimsy, but there's also this really visceral rock thing that I dig and

"He's in lock step with himself," said John Congleton, the Grammy-winning producer who has worked with St. Vincent and Modest Mouse, among others. "All Set the Bone" was Congleton's first time working with Freeman, 28, whose ethos and musical style, he said, reminded him "a lot more of someone from Generation X."

Still, Freeman's music is in touch with what it feels like to be alive in this moment of digitized numbness and consumer-culture monotony. On the daily indignities of modern life, Freeman can be dryly funny (on “Totaled,” a track with a car-wreck metaphor: “I couldn't pick my Toyota out of a lineup”) and tenderly observant (“in a town of bent necks,” he sings on the affectionate lead single “Indu,” “she lifts her chin”).

"Is your life just appetites or a menu with no way to order?" he asks in his creaky-door voice on "Cahokia," the driving opening track that takes its name from an abandoned pre-Columbian city near modern-day St. Louis. Like so many songs on the album, it is at once world-weary and galvanizing — a righteously angry howl into an echoing void.

Freeman wrote most of “All Set the Bone” last summer, while living alone for two months in a desolate part of New Mexico in a rented shack he found on Craigslist. The lack of neighbors was liberating: "It was the first time in my life where I could play as loud as I want, at any hour of the day."

“Burnover” was not yet out when Freeman began working on its follow-up, a creative pace that Congleton said is rare. “The common thing to do would be to sit around and play video games or do bong hits or whatever for three months,” he said, “while you idly wait for the record to come out so you can tour.”

But Freeman didn't see why he should squander valuable time. "I realized how much touring I had coming up," he said. "I had two months off before all that started, so I figured it was either start writing now or wait for six months to be in a room alone."

He shrugged. "Might as well try and make use of whatever time I have while I don't have to have another job."

Freeman can be arrestingly candid in conversation. In 2022, he sent his confidently realized debut album, "I Looked Out," to about 15 labels. None bit, and he ended up putting it out first on a friend's cassette imprint. Years later, after "Burnover" got buzz, a few of the labels he had originally queried replied, "like, 'just seeing this!'"

"Cowards!" Freeman said.

At Farrell's, he ping-ponged from jukebox etiquette to religion, which he studied at the University of Vermont, to the English novelist Graham Greene. (Earlier, I'd found Freeman reading a used paperback copy of Greene's 1958

PHOTOGRAPHS BY EVAN JENKINS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Greg Freeman taking a leap and taking a pose in McKinley Park in Chicago. His new album came out this month.

"I think a show is supposed to be some kind of transaction between you and the audience."

spy satire, "Our Man in Havana.") But talk always seemed to come back to Fugazi. In the moral murk of the music business, Freeman holds the rigorously indie Washington, D.C., rock band, whose members rejected major labels and preached the importance of low ticket prices, as a kind of ethical north star.

“No one’s that principled anymore,” he said. “Everyone now is trying to get a little scrap of something, but they really had a worldview that was beautiful.”

Freeman is trying to navigate the industry by his own principles, but his rising profile has already posed a challenge to his small-rooms-only credo: On Nov. 20, he will play his biggest show yet, headlining New York's Webster Hall, a venue with a capacity that exceeds 1,000.

"I think that's truly the limit," Freeman laughed. "I'm going to have to talk to someone about that."

Freeman's voice, and his larger perspective on life, come from what could be called an inherent Greg-ness. He grew up in the suburbs of Bethesda, Md., feeling incredibly average. “I’m 5 feet 8,” he mused. “I was born not in a city and not in the country. And my name’s . . . Greg.” He paused, letting that sink in. “So I feel like that made me an observer of the extremities of life.”

Moving to Burlington, Vt., for college gave him his first sense of belonging, “and that’s because of the music scene,” he said. Freeman and a community of musicians played and attended shows just about every night. He describes the scene as pure; no one he knew was signed to a record label. “Maybe we were drinking too much beer or something,” he laughed. They were just making songs “and playing shows for fun.”

Things changed in late 2022, after he released “I Looked Out” independently. Within months, he recalled, “people in other places, like New York and Chicago, started messaging me that they heard it.” He put together a small tour, and the word of mouth started growing.

Freeman eventually signed with the indie label Transgressive, which offered the resources to realize his vision without the pressure to compromise. Now, with "All Set the Bone," he has fulfilled a long-held dream — with help from Congleton — of making a record full of live-in-studio, full-band recordings.

"There's not too many records these days where you can hear the band playing together, you know?" he said. "That was always a sound I had wanted to achieve, but I never had a nice enough studio setup to be able to pull that off."

On a video call a few weeks later, Freeman said, "I traveled a long distance to breathe in this crazy building," flipping his camera around to display the hulking Harold Washington Library Center in the center of Chicago. Freeman moved there a few months ago, needing a change after 10 years in Burlington. "It just felt like too much for me, personally, to be in a one-square-mile radius of every life experience that has happened to you in the past 10 years," he said. "Kind of a haunted vibe."

He has found a thriving underground culture in his new town, full of “tape labels, zines and great lo-fi music,” courtesy of a scene of interconnected bands like Horsegirl, Lifeguard and Sharp Pins. “Being in Chicago is very inspiring,” Freeman said, “because there’s so many young D.I.Y. bands, doing things on their own terms.”

I returned to his statement about not wanting to play rooms larger than Webster Hall, to check if it had just been the pilsner talking. But Freeman doubled down. "My bookers aren't going to like that," he shrugged. "But I think a show is supposed to be some kind of transaction between you and the audience. And at a certain point, you stop being able to see the people that you're playing for, you know?"

That conviction is part of what makes Freeman unique. “The fact that he doesn’t want to play a place bigger than Webster Hall — he’s probably going to lose that argument,” Congleton said with a laugh. “When you check in with him again in two years, maybe he’ll be somewhere different. But I do think the integrity is going to be there, always.”

ARONDE

瓦尔先生和佩诺女士来自法国东部，但他们表示自己“爱上了”加里格（garrigue）——一种散发着野草香气的南部灌木丛。“我在塞特（Sète）的鱼市以及作为我供应商的当地农民的农产品中寻找灵感，”瓦尔先生说道，他将自己的烹饪方法描述为“升华而非改变”。

他风格的一个鲜美例证：一道生虾前菜，配以金巴利风味的西瓜冰沙、酸奶、酥脆的帕玛森饼干和少许西葫芦罗勒汁。它提供了迷人的风味与质感组合。同样出色的还有他那精致的生金枪鱼挞，配以金枪鱼蛋黄酱和海扁豆（也称为海芦笋），以及一道烤鸽子主菜，配以鸡油菌、大蒜奶油和醋渍西梅（45 到 68 欧元，约 $51 到 $78）。

AUFFO

在脾气古怪且恪守传统的马赛，对其中一家最著名餐厅的重启一直是一项微妙的渐进工作。Auffo 于去年 4 月试营业，取代了 L'Épuisette，后者是一家位于伸入地中海的岩石岬角上的深受喜爱的餐厅。新任主厨科琳·福尔基耶（Coline Faulquier）在 Facebook 的一篇帖子中将这次过渡称为“一项巨大的挑战”，并补充道：“我必须在尊重前任餐厅基因及其作为马赛标志性机构地位的同时，强加我自己的烹饪风格。”

她显然取得了成功。六道菜的 Vallon 品鉴菜单展现了美感、创意和技术实力，例如一道生地中海野虾前菜，配以白奶酪、黑醋栗叶、腌制红果和新鲜杏仁——这是对主厨勃艮第背景的一次机智的烹饪致敬。蝎鱼（一种以肉质紧实、甜美且鲜 savory 而闻名的地中海鱼类）被优雅地装饰以红葡萄酒增强的马赛鱼汤汁，并配以西葫芦及其花朵和藏红花。一道冰冷的粉色草莓玫瑰配普罗旺斯大黄为这顿令人印象深刻的晚餐收尾（€95 到 €210）。

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More dimension-hopping with Stephen King

ANTOINE MAILLARD

BOOK REVIEW

Other Worlds Than These: A Talisman Novel

By Stephen King and Peter Straub.

Scribner. 691 pp. \$35.

BY EMILY C. HUGHES

For decades, Stephen King has been building a vast multiverse, a fictional sandbox in which he can create and destroy lives, cities and civilizations. It's unsurprising, given the breadth of his imagination, that novels and even series that start as stand-alones eventually tend to cross-pollinate with other books in his oeuvre. "The Talisman" (1984), for example, concerns a parallel universe called the Territories; in the sequel, "Black House" (2001), the Territories start to seem a lot like Mid-World, a setting from King's Dark Tower series.

King confirms this link in the publicity materials for his latest novel, “Other Worlds Than These,” the final volume in the Talisman trilogy. (He wrote it based on an idea from the co-author of the first two novels, Peter Straub, who died in 2022.) Mid-World, King says, “was always the Territories by another name.”

Our guide to Mid-World is Travelin' Jack Sawyer, whom we met in Book 1 as a 12-year-old in New Hampshire who could "flip" into this other universe. Now in his late 50s, he lives in Mid-World full time and occasionally runs errands for the local governor, a tiny tyrant with a taste for pulp novels and Coca-Cola.

These errands usually require Jack to flip back into our world for a few days — as long as he can safely manage before the bullet wound he sustained at the end of “Black House”

begins to threaten his life again.

It's on one of these trips that he gets troubling news: A pair of teenagers are on a killing spree reminiscent of the real-life murders committed by Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate in the late 1950s. (Readers of "Black

House" will find this familiar: Charles Burnside, the noxious octogenarian in that novel, models his crimes after the serial killer Albert Fish.) It's not long before the violence spills over into Mid-World, where the strange homicidal contagion spreads to other teenagers. It falls to Jack and an ersatz ka-tet of fellow expatriate Americans to uncover the cause of this epidemic of violence and bring it to a halt.

King, like the universe he's constructed, contains multitudes. Every bit of praise bestowed upon his fiction is true; every criticism levied against it is also true. He has an innate gift for the machinery and momentum of storytelling that hasn't faded over his long career. His characters are beautifully, sentimentally — and sometimes grotesquely — human. (As Dwight Garner wrote in his review of “The Institute” (2019), they are “the kind of people who hear the trains in the night.”) King has an eye for arresting images: A door between worlds stands “by itself in a noose of blood-red roses.”

But he's also repetitive. Every time Jack transports a physical object between worlds, the author makes sure to tell us how it changed in the transition, a bit of world-building that quickly loses its appeal. King is overly concerned with brand names and the makes and models of vehicles and weaponry. (I could have lived the rest of my life quite happily without reading a reference to a Tesla Cybertruck in a fantasy novel, but alas.)

His nonwhite characters are benignly stereotypical at best and downright offensive at worst. The custodian and blues musician Speedy Parker, Jack's guide and mentor in the first two books, is mostly absent here, and missed, but I found myself relieved not to have to read King's approximation of Black vernacular speech.

And King has never created a fat character he didn't insist on treating as a disgusting spectacle. In "Other Worlds Than These," there's a particularly insulting episode concerning a family of fat people; King seems to take perverse pleasure in commenting on their "elephantine thighs" and "huge rolls of flesh." Jack speculates that the family's front porch "must have been specially reinforced to take the combined weight of such behemoths," and when the daughter attempts to rape and kill him in his bed that night, she “lands on him like a truck falling off a jack,” breaking the bed frame. I wonder if it has ever occurred to King that fat people read his books, too.

As the capstone to the Talisman trilogy, “Other Worlds Than These” is a middling success. It moves and entertains, but it’s perhaps too reliant on the audience’s assumed familiarity with the Dark Tower saga; the shadow of the gunslinger Roland Deschain hangs heavily over these pages. Readers hoping to visit with old friends from “The Talisman” and “Black House” will be disappointed: The few characters from those novels to appear here do so only briefly.

It's fun to spend so much time in Mid-World again, populated as it is with mutants, sentient Wolfs (never wolves, thank you), raccoon-like billy-bumblers, and vampires (called, regrettably, wompies in the local vernacular), though I wish we saw more of it through other eyes than Jack's. The resolution of the novel's plot comes out of nowhere, but I suspect that, when completing a trilogy begun more than 40 years ago, the emotional outcome takes priority.

Which brings me back to Travelin' Jack. He's the beating heart of the series, and his boyhood odyssey, adult trials and grief for lost loved ones have made him the man he is in this novel: stalwart, loyal and lucky as ever. The resolution of his decades-long journey moved me almost to tears, which took me by surprise. I may have my complaints about execution, but right here and now, I'm just glad I got to travel with Jack one more time.

Emily C. Hughes is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of "Horror for Weenies" and a co-founder of the horror magazine Darker Times.

LES TERRASSES DE LA BORIE

Les Terrasses de la Borie 位于曼达古（Mandagout），坐落在俯瞰山谷的陡峭山坡上，几个世纪以来，这里一直以梯田种植甜美的塞文山（Cévennes）白洋葱。这家餐厅体现了乡村环境中高级餐饮日益增长的趋势。店主伊莎贝尔·佩莱蒂埃（Isabelle Pelletier）出生在这个村庄，但现在居住在巴黎，她解释说，修复这座拥有五个房间的石造旅馆和餐厅是她和丈夫的一个热爱项目。她聘请了主厨弗洛里安·切克伦（Florian Chekroun）和贝蒂娜·博卢维（Bettina Bolouvi），旨在为这家旅馆打造一个基于当地特色农产品的烹饪身份。

从左上角起顺时针方向，是法国南部一些令人兴奋的新餐厅：Les Terrasses de la Borie；Le Grand Large；Auffo 的一道菜；Poésie 的一餐；Louison 的一道菜；Louison 的主厨弗洛伦特·皮耶特拉瓦莱（Florent Pietravalle）；以及在 Les Terrasses de la Borie 用餐时的景色。

切克伦先生和博卢维女士协同工作，提供三套随季节演变的固定价格品鉴菜单。最近的一套七道菜晚餐菜单以浓郁且舒缓的塞文山洋葱卡布奇诺开场，其中加入了该地区标志性的山羊奶酪 pélardon。这种质朴而优雅的主题贯穿于整餐之中，菜品包括：配茴香球库利（coulis）、海边草（samphire）和草本雪芭的煎红金枪鱼，以及配土豆泥和浓稠蛋黄油封的有机炖鸡（€56 至 €89）。

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LE GRAND LARGE

今年 5 月，位于地中海沿岸的一座迷人私人岛屿——本多岛（Île de Bendor）重新开放，成为去年夏天法国南部最受关注的事件之一。以其同名开胃酒品牌闻名的保罗·里卡尔（Paul Ricard）在 1950年代, 买下了这座岛，并在 20 世纪 50 和 60 年代将其打造成为名流人士的度假胜地。现在，经过 1.15亿美元的翻修，岛上提供了两家酒店和几栋渔民小屋。

即使您不是酒店住客，也可以在包括 Le Grand Large 在内的餐厅预订餐位。

最近的一套午餐品鉴菜单中的菜品暗示了一种诙谐的“上层与下层”烹饪风格。其中包括烤沙丁鱼——这种低端鱼类很少出现在高级餐饮中——并配以里卡尔泡沫和炖茴香。安东尼奥蒂（Antoniotti）先生还巧妙地将马赛鱼汤（bouillabaisse）解构为红条鱼柳，配以一池由藏红花调和的红褐色汤汁，以及用条鱼肝增强风味的鲁伊酱（rouille），在不失其本质谦逊感的同时，重塑了一道由渔民发明的菜肴（€80 至 €105；开放至本月）。

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ARONDE

Mr. Vahl and Ms. Péneau hail from eastern France, but they said they “fell in love” with the garrigue — the wild-herb-scented southern scrublands. “I find my inspiration at the fish market in Sète and from the produce of the local farmers who are my suppliers,” said Mr. Vahl, who described his approach to cooking as “sublimating, not transforming.”

A succulent example of his style: a starter of raw shrimp with a Campari-flavored watermelon granita, yogurt, a crumbly Parmesan biscuit and a drizzle of zucchini-basil jus. It offered a fascinating mixture of flavors and textures. The same was true of his fragile raw tuna tartlet with tonnato sauce and samphire (also known as sea asparagus) and a main course of roasted pigeon with chanterelles, garlic cream and vinegar-marinated prunes (45 to 68 euros, or about \$51 to \$78).

AUFFO

The reboot of one of the most famous restaurants in ornery, tradition-bound Marseille has been a delicate work in process. Auffo, which soft-opened in April last year, replaced L'Épuisette, a beloved establishment on a rocky spit that extends into the Mediterranean. Its new chef, Coline Faulquier, called the transition "a big challenge," in a Facebook post, adding, "I have to respect the DNA of the previous restaurant and its status as an emblematic institution of Marseille at the same time that I impose my own cooking style."

She's clearly succeeding. The six-course Vallon tasting menu displayed beauty, creativity and technical prowess with dishes like a starter of raw wild Mediterranean shrimp and fromage blanc with black currant leaves, marinated red fruits and fresh almonds — a witty culinary nod to the chef's Burgundian background. Scorpionfish, a Mediterranean fish best known for its firm, sweet, savory flesh, was elegantly dressed with a red-wine-boosted bouillabaisse jus and sides of zucchini and their flowers with saffron. An icy pink strawberry rose with Provençal rhubarb concluded this impressive meal (€95 to €210).

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LOUISON

Louison 位于勒皮-圣-雷帕拉德（Le Puy-Ste.-Réparade）著名的艺术公园——拉科斯特城堡（Château La Coste）内的拉科斯特别墅（Villa La Coste），占据着一座带有路易丝·布尔乔亚（Louise Bourgeois）雕塑的醒目玻璃墙展馆。其主厨弗洛伦特·皮耶特拉瓦莱（Florent Pietravalle）来自蒙彼利埃，他为传统的普罗旺斯烹饪带来了诱人的现代诠释。近几十年来，这种独特的烹饪风格已变得难以寻觅，被无处不在的游客最爱（如三文鱼鞑靼、番茄马苏里拉奶酪）所掩盖。

在菜单中，皮耶特拉瓦莱先生采用了内脏和边角料，并且显然对普罗旺斯的香草、水果和蔬菜情有独钟。“我喜欢浓烈的味道，”他在最近的一次晚餐后说道，晚餐开始前他先邀请客人参观厨房，品尝刚出炉的 pissaladière（一种由焦糖洋葱、鳀鱼和黑橄榄制成的塔饼）。这份精彩的菜单包括：配无花果叶青酱和醋渍番茄的鲭鱼，细切的墨鱼丝和科隆纳塔脂（lardo di Colonnata）配胡椒酱，以及配鳗鱼、朝鲜蓟和海葵制成的 panisse 的小牛胸腺。海洋与陆地风味的结合产生了电光火石般的化学反应（€135 至 €225）。

MAKI MANOUKIAN

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POÉSIE

方丹先生（Mr. Fontaine）为 Poésie 餐厅选址于距离尼姆市场（Les Halles de Nîmes）摊位仅几步之遥的宽敞地段，再没有比这里更理想的地方了。这座市场为他完善的现代小酒馆料理提供了源源不断的灵感，其风格带有浓郁的南法季节性色彩；在为名厨皮埃尔·加尼埃（Pierre Gagnaire）工作的 20 年间（先在巴黎，后在尼姆），他精进了这门技艺。方丹先生的固定价格套餐（prix fixe menus）不断演变，但诸如令人惊喜且口感顺滑的牡蛎配沙丁鱼酱及冷冻香蕉前菜，以及配以自制 pil-pil 酱、嫩菠菜和土豆的黑线鳕鱼等菜肴，展现了他的美食才情以及对浓郁南法风味的热爱（€25 至 €65）。

救命！加拿大航空把我送到欧洲，然后把我扔在那儿了。

MATT BLEASE

Tripped Up（旅途受阻）

作者：SETH KUGEL

亲爱的 Tripped Up：

去年 2 月 18 日，我前往多伦多皮尔逊国际机场，预订了加拿大航空飞往法兰克福，然后转乘其星空联盟伙伴汉莎航空前往西班牙马拉加，进行为期两周的度假。（我的回程基本上是乘坐同一家航空公司走原路返回，但从巴塞罗那出发。）我从多伦多飞往法兰克福的航班延误了约两小时，这意味着我会错过转机。因此，在抵达法兰克福之前，我感到很欣慰，因为加拿大航空已经帮我重新预订了经由里斯本前往马拉加的航班，承运方是另一家星空联盟成员——葡萄牙航空（TAP）。我的旅程非常愉快——直到 3:50 我到达巴塞罗那机场准备乘坐回程航班，汉莎航空柜台的一名工作人员告诉我，由于我两周前错过了原定的转机，加拿大航空已经“暂停”了我的法兰克福航班。他们让我给加拿大航空打电话，于是我从 5:30 开始——一遍又一遍地拨打。遗憾的是，一条自动语音信息告诉我，由于“通话量较大”，我应该稍后再试。到中午时分，我放弃了，并自费购买了回家的机票（乘坐葡萄牙航空），花费 1,138 加拿大元，当时约合 $830。我向加拿大航空提交了报销申请，但收到了一连串令人困惑的电子邮件，其中一封说我不符合补偿条件，另一封说我将收到“您未乘坐行程段中可退还的税费部分”，随后又收到两封计算结果完全不同的跟进邮件（分别为 842 和 212 加拿大元，\* 但这两笔钱我都没收到）。您能帮帮我吗？——卡罗尔，多伦多

亲爱的卡罗尔：

您遭遇了双重打击：一项令人沮丧的规定（行程中某一段未出现则取消后续所有行程），而且这项规定被强加在了一个甚至没有违规的人身上（因为加拿大航空在为您重新规划路线时，本应取消您的汉莎航空航段）。

事实上，让我们加上第三重打击：您所经历的极其糟糕的客户服务。

我联系了加拿大航空的发言人安吉拉·马（Angela Mah），她在电子邮件回复中指出，虽然您确实在 6 月份收到了一笔 212 元的税费退款（您说后来在账单中发现了），但航空公司将向您报销您申请的剩余 926 元。

“发生了票务问题，”她写道，“因此，她行程的剩余部分，包括回程航班，被错误地取消了。”加拿大及其他地区的英语老师会认出这种句式是典型的推卸责任的被动语态。

“我们也在内部与我们的代理人和呼叫中心人员进行审查，以便在未来改进，”她继续写道。（航空公司还向您赠送 10,000 个 Aeroplan 积分，作为“友好姿态”。）

让我们逐一分析这些打击。

No. 1：您被“未出现（no-show）”规则击中了。

我经常听到人们因为在去机场的路上被一辆折叠的半挂车堵住，导致错过飞机 5 分钟，或者决定在罗马延长几天停留，跳过原定的飞往巴黎的航班而改乘火车，结果在无意中取消了回程机票，从而陷入困境。

航空公司自动取消旅客后续行程是有原因的，最主要的是为了遏制“跳票（skiplagging）”。这是一种乘客利用定价算法的策略，通过添加不需要的飞行航段，在航空公司预订那个难以捉摸的世界里，不知为何反而能降低票价。但航空公司难道不能至少发条短信，在取消行程前给乘客一个解释的机会吗？这样的礼貌本可以在这里帮到您。

No. 2：您甚至没有违反“未出现”规则。

是的，加拿大航空的重新预订系统预测到了您会错过转机，并在您飞越大西洋时为您重新规划了路线，但不知为何，汉莎航空从未获知新的行程。

“汉莎航空并未参与重新订票或机票变更，”汉莎航空发言人克里斯蒂娜·塞梅尔（Christina Semmel）在发给我的电子邮件中写道。加拿大航空的马女士（Ms. Mah）没有回答我关于这次失误是如何发生的问题。我们唯一的线索是，一名加拿大航空代表在给你的电话道歉中将其归咎于“人为错误”。

我致电了布莱恩·罗德基（Brian Rodkey），他是一位退休的达美航空经理，其团队曾与合作伙伴航空公司共同处理“重新安置”（reaccommodation）——这是航空公司对航班取消或错过衔接航班后重新安排乘客行程的称呼——以寻求解释。

“‘重新安置’充满了各种问题，因为底层的预订信息可能包含数百项需要流畅处理的特有细节，”他说，“有时会出现小故障。”他指出，为合作伙伴航空公司之间沟通而开发的通信系统并不完善，在时间紧迫的情况下，信息可能会被遗漏。

但你的电子邮件显示，从加拿大航空为你重新规划路线到你被标记为“未出现”（no-show）之间，有将近六个小时的时间。考虑到我自从1994年拥有AOL账户以来就一直在全球范围内即时发送信息，我认为这段时间绰绰有余。

第三：客户服务根本没有为你提供服务。

你从巴塞罗那机场多次拨打加拿大航空电话却未接通的截图——我数了数，共有21次——足以让任何尝试联系大公司人工客服而失败的人感到崩溃。公平地说，多伦多那天遭遇了冬季风暴。这可能导致员工无法上班，或者引发航班中断和取消，从而导致电话线路拥堵。但加拿大航空很难说对2月份的冬季天气毫无准备。你决定自行解决问题并购买葡萄牙航空（TAP）的机票，这绝对是正确的。

航空公司通常讨厌客户自行花钱解决问题，然后事后寻求报销。有时他们是对的：在航班中断后，旅客在机场排队或在电话中等待时有义务表现出合理的耐心。但你已经足够耐心了。航空公司本应立即向你支付1,138美元。

相反，你收到（并与我分享）了一系列脱节的回复：不同的客服人员回答了你并未提出的问题，搞错了基本事实，并在同一天发送了两份不同的退款计算结果，且未给出任何解释。

例如，一封电子邮件将航空公司的错误归咎于你，称：“如果客户决定不乘坐已预订的航班，有责任在航班起飞前联系航空公司。”在另一个低级错误中，信中称你的“未出现”发生在3月的返程航班，而非2月的去程航班。

你提到的那封拒绝赔偿的令人困惑的邮件，实际上是在告知你，根据加拿大要求航空公司在航班延误时赔偿乘客的规定，你没有资格获得资金，因为此次延误是为了乘客安全所必需的。但你根本没有要求这种赔偿。

六周后，你在相隔几小时的时间内收到了那两封电子邮件，提醒你将获得842——不，应该是212——美元的税费退款。我深入研究了文件的细节，看来最初的842美元是一个计算错误。212美元虽然更接近，但同样不正确：退款金额错误，理由也错误。

虽然你在这里没有犯任何错误（除了在信用卡账单上漏掉了那笔 212 美元的退款），但你的经历确实为那些可能陷入类似境地的乘客提供了一些教训：首先，如果你放弃行程中的某一段航程，请尽快通知航空公司，并要求其不要取消你随后的航班。其次，每当旅程出现干扰导致行程变更时，请密切关注所有剩余航班，确保没有其他航段受到影响。打开航空公司的应用程序或网站，使用账号或确认码登录，确认你预订的所有航段依然存在。如果其中一段或多段缺失，或者你突然发现自己在航班起飞前无法办理登机手续，不要将其归结为技术错误。请立即致电航空公司。如果你运气好，在尝试 21 次之前就能接通。

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