Economic Strain Seen in Forecast Through Autumn: China Targeted As U.S. Weighs Ban On Visitors

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China Targeted ECONOMIC STRAIN

As U.S. Weighs SEEN IN FORECAST
Ban on Visitors
THROUGH AUTUMN
Focus Is Said to Be on
Communist Loyalists BARRIERS TO RECOVERY
By PAUL MOZUR
and EDWARD WONG
Uncertainty Grows Amid
The Trump administration is New Cases, Layoffs
considering a sweeping ban on
travel to the United States by and Closures
members of the Chinese Commu-
nist Party and their families, ac-
cording to people familiar with the By JIM TANKERSLEY
proposal, a move that would al- and BEN CASSELMAN
most certainly prompt retaliation WASHINGTON — The United
against Americans seeking to en- States economy is headed for a tu-
ter or remain in China and exacer- multuous autumn, with the threat
bate tensions between the two na- of closed schools, renewed gov-
tions. ernment lockdowns, empty stadi-
The presidential proclamation, ums and an uncertain amount of
still in draft form, could also au- federal support for businesses
thorize the United States govern- and unemployed workers all
ment to revoke the visas of party clouding hopes for a rapid re-
members and their families who bound from recession.
are already in the country, leading For months, the prevailing wis-
to their expulsion. Some proposed dom among investors, Trump ad-
language is also aimed at limiting ministration officials and many
travel to the United States by economic forecasters was that af-
members of the People’s Libera- ter plunging into recession this
tion Army and executives at state- spring, the country’s recovery
DEMETRIUS FREEMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
owned enterprises, though many would accelerate in late summer
of them are likely to also be party
members.
Protesters, Police and Video and take off in the fall as the virus
receded, restrictions on com-
Details of the plan, described by Police officials say there were “isolated cases” of inappropriate force. But 64 videos show seemingly unwarranted attacks. Page A18. merce loosened, and consumers
four people with knowledge of the reverted to more normal spending
discussions, have not yet been fi- patterns. Job gains in May and
nalized, and President Trump June fueled those rosy predic-
might ultimately reject it.
While the president and his Clashing Environmental Views Protests Against Racism Reveal tions.
But failure to suppress a re-
campaign strategists have been
Define a Presidential Contest Hidden Diversity in Small Towns
surgence of confirmed infections
intent on portraying him as tough is threatening to choke the recov-
on China for re-election purposes, ery and push the country back
Mr. Trump has vacillated wildly in into a recessionary spiral — one
both his language and actions on that could inflict long-term dam-
the Chinese government since
By LISA FRIEDMAN
and KATIE GLUECK
Biden’s Clean Energy By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON Wave of Activism Rises age on workers and businesses
taking office in 2017. He has criti- CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — large and small, unless Congress
cized China on some issues, par- President Trump traveled on Overhaul vs. Trump’s Nikki Wilkerson was used to as Neighbors Learn reconsiders the scale of federal
ticularly trade. But he has also Wednesday to the new political thinking of herself as the “small aid that may be required in the
lavished praise on President Xi battleground of Georgia to blast Regulatory Cuts brown girl” growing up in rural They’re Not Alone months to come.
Jinping, pleaded with Mr. Xi to away at one of the nation’s corner- Pennsylvania. The looming economic pain was
help him win re-election and re- stone conservation laws, vowing She has been eyed skeptically evident this week as big compa-
mained silent or even explicitly to speed construction projects by cal battleground states, including while out shopping and ques- ever,” Ms. Wilkerson, 34, said. nies forecast gloomy months
approved of the repression in limiting legally mandated envi- Pennsylvania and Florida. tioned by the police for no clear “This was not the Chambersburg I ahead and government data
Hong Kong and Xinjiang. ronmental reviews of highways, Mr. Biden is trying to win over reason at all. But she had resigned grew up in. I had no idea. All of showed renewed struggles in the
There are practical issues as pipelines and power plants. young voters and supporters of herself to keeping quiet about rac- these people are just coming out of job market. A weekly census sur-
well. The Chinese Communist One day earlier, his Democratic his vanquished rival, Senator ism, which her white friends the woodwork.” vey on Wednesday showed 1.3
Party has 92 million members. Al- presidential rival, Joseph R. Biden Bernie Sanders of Vermont, by never seemed to notice even when The sight was inspiring, she million fewer Americans held jobs
most three million Chinese citi- Jr., took a different tack, releasing showing an aggressive awareness it happened right in front of them. said. But also frustrating. “Why last week than the previous week.
zens visited the United States in a $2 trillion plan to confront cli- of climate change and promising Nobody around here ever talked weren’t we doing this a long time A new American Enterprise Insti-
2018, though the numbers have mate change and overhaul the na- to move urgently to combat it. At about any of this. It’s just what it ago?” tute analysis from Safegraph.com
plummeted because of the coro- tion’s infrastructure, claiming he the same time he has sought to was. Black Lives Matter could be re- of shopper traffic to stores showed
navirus pandemic and the current would create millions of jobs by maintain his promised connection And yet there one afternoon in sponsible for the largest protest business activity had plunged in
ban on most travelers from China. building a clean energy economy. to white, working-class voters, es- early June, right in the middle of movement in U.S. history, which the second week of July, in part
The U.S. government has no In that period, the major party pecially in the Upper Midwest, the county seat, she happened sprang up in countless cities and from renewed virus fears.
Continued on Page A11 candidates for the White House who swung to Mr. Trump four upon it: a crowd of white people small towns after George Floyd Amazon on Wednesday ex-
displayed in sharp relief just how years ago and are leery of what demanding justice for Black lives. was killed by the police in May. tended a work-from-home order
far apart they are ideologically on they see as threats to their liveli- They would be joined by Black While the street protests have ta- for eligible employees from Octo-
MAKING ITS CASE TikTok beefs up infrastructure and environmental hood, especially jobs in the oil and high school students, children of pered off in most places, newly ber to January, and Delta Air
its Washington lobbying in a bid matters of vital importance to gas industry. Latino farmworkers, “gays, lesbi- minted activists in small towns Lines said on Tuesday it was cut-
to preserve its future. PAGE A10 many voters, particularly in criti- Continued on Page A14 ans, queer, transgender, what- Continued on Page A16 Continued on Page A8
Twitter Accounts of Biden, Gates,

Obama and Others Are Hacked
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Barack Obama, Kanye West, Bill ers to tweet, for a couple of hours
Gates and Elon Musk — posted as it scrambled to prevent the
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Send Bitcoin and the famous peo- company sent a tweet saying that LISA LUCAS AMY EINHORN DANA CANEDY REAGAN ARTHUR
ple would send back double your it was investigating the problem Pantheon and Schocken Books Henry Holt Simon & Schuster Knopf
money. and looking for a fix. “You may be
It was all a scam, of course, the unable to Tweet or reset your
result of one of the most brazen password while we review and ad-
online attacks in memory.
A first wave of attacks hit the
dress this incident,” the company
said in a second tweet. Service
Plotting the Future of Publishing, Now Under New Management
Twitter accounts of prominent was restored around 8:30 fling have made way for new lead- cessor at Knopf; Susan Kamil,
cryptocurrency leaders and com- Wednesday night. ers, more diverse and often more
panies. But soon after, the list of The hackers did not use their By ALEXANDRA ALTER commercial than their predeces-
Sea Change of Gender, publisher at Random House; and
the longtime Simon & Schuster
victims broadened to include a access to take aim at any impor- and ELIZABETH A. HARRIS
Who’s Who of Americans in poli- tant institutions or infrastructure Getting to the top in book pub-
sors, as well as people who have
never worked in publishing be-
Race and Sensibility editor Alice Mayhew, American
publishing has lost some of its
tics, entertainment and tech, in a — instead just asking for Bitcoin. lishing has traditionally been a fore. Those appointments stand to most prominent leaders.
major show of force by the hack- But the attack was a concern to se- plodding and prolonged climb — fundamentally change the indus-
curity experts because it sug- Not only did they define con-
ers. and once you got there, you didn’t try, and the books it puts out into and will change,” said Reagan Ar-
gested that the hackers could temporary literature, they
Twitter quickly removed many leave. Knopf has had four publish- the world. thur, who was named publisher at
have easily caused much more steered an industry not known for
of the messages, but in some cases ers in its 105-year history. Farrar, The latest move came on Knopf in January. “Ten years from
similar tweets were sent again havoc. now, I don’t think anything will its agility through such seismic
Straus and Giroux has been run Wednesday, when Pantheon and
from the same accounts, suggest- There was little immediate evi- by only two people since John C. Schocken Books announced that it look the same.” shifts as the digital revolution, the
ing that Twitter was powerless to dence for who conducted the at- Farrar, Roger W. Straus and had hired Lisa Lucas, the execu- With the deaths of industry ti- rise of Amazon and online retail,
regain control. tack. One of the most obvious cul- Robert Giroux. tive director of the National Book tans like Carolyn Reidy, the chief the 2008 financial crisis, the rise
The company eventually dis- prits for an attack of this scale, But over the last year, deaths, Foundation, to be its publisher. executive of Simon & Schuster; and subsequent decline of Barnes
abled broad swaths of its service, Continued on Page A15 retirements and executive reshuf- “Everything is up for change, Sonny Mehta, Ms. Arthur’s prede- Continued on Page A17
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trader had been toppled. PAGE A9 acquisition of a rarely seen work. PAGE C1 candidate for the U.S. Senate in pher — Dario Calmese, above — in an
TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-8 Alabama, had a roller-coaster ride as image meant to be a protest. PAGE D1
Auburn’s head football coach. PAGE B9
Israel’s Gay Rights Food Fight Fauci Says ‘Stop This Nonsense’ Struggling to Meet the Moment
An Arab tahini magnate’s donation to a The White House denies attacking the In Nashville, only country music’s out- EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23
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Garden that ended up being an hourlong “presidential stream senator and attorney general, and Tommy Tuberville, a for-
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Coronavirus Update Hot Spots in the United States

As of Wednesday evening, more than 3,495,200 people across every state, plus Washington, D.C., and four U.S. territories, have tested positive for
the coronavirus, according to a New York Times database. More than 136,900 people with the virus have died in the United States.
Daily Record for Infections in California
How the number of new cases
Houston Schools to Start Fall Term Online has changed over the last two weeks
Wash.
Lockdown Orders in India and Australia Falling Rising ĺ Few or same
number of cases Maine
Mont. N.D.
Minn.
By JAMES BARRON Minn.

Vt.
Ore. Idaho Wis. N.Y. N.H.
The hot spots are in different places, but in many ways, mid-July
S.D. Mass.
looks as bleak as March. Businesses are closing. Hospitals are run- Mich.
ning short of beds or protective equipment or both. Test results are Wyo. Conn. R.I.
taking days to process. Economists sound less and less certain
about a rebound. And officials are warning yet again that the worst Pa.
Iowa N.J.
may be ahead. Nev. Neb.
Ohio
The present is disturbing: 65,000 new cases of the coronavirus Ind. Md.
Del.
were reported in the United States on Tuesday, 31 percent more than Ill. D.C.
Utah Colo.
on July 1. Compared with mid-March, when the Northeast was the W.Va.
Va.
center of the outbreak, surges have now spread across more of the Kan. Mo.
country. By early summer, the virus had whipped through every Calif. Ky.
state, infecting more people than the combined populations of South N.C.
Tenn.
Dakota, Wyoming and Washington, D.C. Okla.
There have been no indications this week that the surges will let Ariz. Ark.
S.C.
up. California set a daily record on Tuesday with more than 10,000 N.M. Miss. Ga.
new cases, and Florida added just under 9,200, bringing its total to Ala.
more than 300,000.
Places that were spared when the Northeast was living with La.
stay-at-home orders are straining. Missouri added more than 1,000
Texas
cases in a day for the first time on Tuesday. In Kentucky, where
Fla.
cases are rising and masks are now required, Gov. Andy Beshear Alaska
said on Tuesday that residents’ own actions in the coming days
would determine whether “we go the route of Arizona,” which has
reported the country’s highest per capita growth in coronavirus
cases over the past two weeks. Hawaii Puerto Rico
School reopenings remain a question mark, despite pressure
from the White House to bring students back to brick-and-mortar
classrooms in September. On Wednesday, the Houston Independent
School District, the nation’s seventh largest, became the latest dis-
trict to announce that the school year would start online. Sources: State and local health agencies. The map shows where the average number of reported cases over the past two weeks is increasing, decreasing or
about the same. Counties with fewer than 20 cases over the past two weeks and parts of a county with a population density lower than 10 people per square mile
The decision reflected the numbers: The Houston area has a are not shaded. Data for Rhode Island is shown at the state level because county data is infrequently reported. Data is as of July 15, 2020, at 5:00 p.m., Eastern. THE NEW YORK TIMES
positive test rate of 14 percent. Public health experts say that com-
munities with positive test rates above 5 percent are not ready to
reopen. Only two of the 10 largest school districts, the school sys-
tems in New York City and Chicago, have reached that point, ac-
cording to a New York Times analysis.
In Houston, students will spend at least six weeks learning A CHANGING SUPERMARKET
remotely. In-person classes are tentatively scheduled to begin in
Missing Your Favorite Chips? Get Used to It

mid-October. In Philadelphia, school officials announced that most
students would go to class in person only two days a week.
Prominent Patient in Oklahoma By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK

Governors have been at the forefront of the response to the Shoppers no longer stare at
pandemic but have apparently avoided contracting the virus — until aisles devoid of toilet paper. Pasta,
now. Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma said that he had tested positive, in many shapes and sizes, is back
becoming the first governor known to have been infected. Mr. Stitt, in abundance. And eager home
a Republican, said that he had felt “a little achy” on Tuesday but that bakers can restart their mixers
he did not know when, where or how he had contracted the virus. and ovens now that flour and
He and Dr. Lance T. Frye, the state health commissioner, maintained yeast have finally reappeared.
that it could not have happened at President Trump’s indoor rally in “I was thrilled to see King Ar-
Tulsa on June 20, which Mr. Stitt attended, because the event was thur whole wheat in good supply
too long ago. at Fairway,” David Toberisky, 68, a
retiree who lives on Manhattan’s
Tulsa’s top health official said last week that a surge in cases in Upper East Side, said of one
and around the city was probably tied to the rally. Oklahoma has highly desirable brand of flour.
averaged more than 640 new cases a day in the past week, a new But while the bare shelves
high, and the state set a single-day record on Tuesday with more brought on by the coronavirus
than 990 new cases. pandemic have largely been re-
stocked across New York City and
New Coronavirus Cases Announced Daily in U.S. the country, times are still far from
normal at supermarkets, which
As of Wednesday evening, more than 3,495,200 people across every face less pronounced but poten-
state, plus Washington, D.C., and four U.S. territories, have tested tially more enduring shifts.
positive for the virus, according to a New York Times database. Americans have become accus-
tomed to enjoying an extraordi-
60,000 nary variety of choices — some-
times a dozen or more brands of
everything from ketchup to potato
chips to, yes, toilet paper.
New cases The pandemic changed all that.
Many companies have “really
30,000 curtailed the number of different
offerings” they produce in order
to focus on their best sellers and JUAN ARREDONDO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
7-day meet the spike in consumer de- A City Fresh Market in Brooklyn. The pandemic has led food companies to reduce certain brands.
average mand, said Scott Mushkin, the
chief executive for R5 Capital, a said. “In this case, it’ll take two to While some shoppers have protein part of our diet,” Ms. Ca-
consulting firm focused on retail three months to recover.” turned to Amazon and Fresh Di- det, 68, said. “With the pandemic,
March 1 July 15 and consumer research. Changes in inventory differ rect for groceries, others have we didn’t want to travel to China-
Note: Wednesday’s total is incomplete because some states report cases Companies like Coca-Cola and from store to store. Some items grown more reliant on local stores town to try to find fresh tofu in
after press time. Data is as of July 15, 2020, at 5 p.m. Eastern. Pepsi have reduced the number of are still widely in short supply, in- as they have become everyday shops.”
Sources: State and local health agencies; hospitals; C.D.C. THE NEW YORK TIMES
products they make, and during cluding some popular disinfectant home cooks by necessity, Mr. Ms. Cadet said that she had
the pandemic some manufactur- products. Mushkin, of R5 Capital, said. turned to tempeh, a fermented
ers have stopped producing some “You can’t get Lysol for any He said that even when restau- soy bean product, as a substitute
Plea in Philippines for ‘Dignity’ varieties of recognizable brands, money,” said John Catsimatidis, rants are eventually fully opened, and that she planned to stockpile
like lightly salted Lay’s barbecue the owner of the Gristedes and a sizable number of people will freeze-dried tofu.
The Philippines is sending the police door to door in search of potato chips and reduced-fat Jif D’Agostino supermarket chains in likely be reluctant to return to en- Many shoppers said they were
people with the virus, and human rights groups are accusing Presi- peanut butter. New York. “It ends up on the black closed places and will continue going to the store less frequently
dent Rodrigo Duterte’s government of using repressive tactics. Chel “We’ve adjusted our operations market somehow and they’re making meals at home. and buying more when they did.
Diokno, a Filipino human rights lawyer, said people with the coro- to be as efficient as possible — and overcharging customers.” The pandemic has also forced Stockpiling has become common-
navirus “are not police targets, they are medical patients” and they in some cases, we’re making Mr. Toberisky’s search for flour, some shoppers with especially se- place.
“should be treated with dignity and care.” Health officials have been fewer varieties of some products,” while ultimately successful, was Beth Anderson-Harold, a 70-
under tremendous pressure from a public increasingly wary of Mr. said Lynne Galia, a spokeswoman still more work than he bargained year-old composer from Prospect
for Kraft Heinz. for. Looking for King Arthur bread Heights, Brooklyn, said that her
Duterte’s brutal antidrug campaigns, which have left thousands
dead. He threatened in April to have the police and the military
Hershey’s has had to adjust to
consumers wanting more choco-
flour, his top choice, was “like Keeping the shelves husband stocked up on green
beans, pineapple, mushrooms and
searching for the Holy Grail.” Re-
shoot people protesting lockdown orders.
In India, where the case count has passed 936,000, local govern-
late bars and less gum. peat visits to local supermarkets full, but with fewer even Spam to help them cope with
“If you think about mint and were fruitless, and he couldn’t quarantine.
ments are moving to impose new restrictions in hopes of tamping gum, it’s very much a social cour- even order any directly from King choices than before. “When it first started, my hus-
down outbreaks. The state of Bihar, to which nearly 2.5 million tesy, so when you’re home for Arthur’s website. band bought 86 cans of tuna,” Ms.
migrant workers have returned after losing jobs in other parts of the whatever reason people are less Grocers are experimenting Anderson-Harold said, “of which
country, has begun a two-week lockdown. Bihar has recorded more concerned about minty fresh with new suppliers and goods to we have used two.”
breath than when they are out and make up for shortfalls, like toilet lective tastes to adapt to the short- Lorraine Pastore, an executive
than 1,000 new cases a day since Saturday. ages and change their buying and
about,” said Susanna Zhu, the paper made for commercial vice president at a health care ad-
States in Australia have also locked themselves down since the eating habits.
Hershey Company’s vice presi- customers instead of more luxuri- vertising firm who lives in Carroll
coronavirus flared anew in the state of Victoria and crept into neigh- dent of commercial planning and When Kyle Hamilton, a 31-year-
ous, softer options. Gardens, Brooklyn, said she was
boring New South Wales. Victoria began a six-week lockdown, bar- supply chain. Some cuts of meat have also still old art dealer from Bedford- stocking up long before the virus
ring people from gathering in large groups and banning travel to But now, as states have loos- not fully returned to many stores, Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, could not arrived in New York.
most of the rest of the country. That has not stopped everyone — ened their lockdowns, interest in in part because of meatpacking fa- find organic meat, he started em- “I am of Italian heritage, so we
including railroad stowaways and Pokémon Go players — from gum seems to be rebounding, Ms. cilities that closed because of the bracing more vegetarian options. stockpile normally,” Ms. Pastore
trying to evade the restrictions. Zhu said. One Hershey’s brand, virus. The shortages have also led “I’m definitely eating different said. “I do have about 50 pounds of
Ice Breakers, has started an ad- to an increase in prices. types of mushrooms,” he said, “as pasta at all times, and the pan-
Four men in their 20s were caught on an interstate freight train
vertising campaign built around Stephen Corradini, the chief well as more vegetarian and or- demic hasn’t changed that. Heav-
heading from Melbourne, Victoria’s capital, to Perth on the country’s ganic meat substitutes like faux-
the slogan “Mint Before You merchandising and marketing of- en forbid if I don’t have the right
west coast, officials said this week. They were discovered when chicken tenders.”
Mask.” ficer for Balducci’s and Kings shape for the sauce I am making.”
officers with dogs searched the train during a stop in Adelaide, in The shifts in production have Mr. Hamilton said the empty
Food Markets, said supply issues Still, Ms. Pastore misses the ex-
South Australia. The four men appeared in court on Wednesday and reduced options at stores in New had led him to sell different cuts meat freezers turned out to be a perience of shopping for food and
were released on the condition that they commit no other offenses York and New Jersey. Shops that and to buy from unusual suppli- boon because it “made me realize perusing the aisles.
I was overeating meat.”

for 12 months. might have stocked six types of ers, like purveyors of expensive “I never thought I’d say this, but
Rick Nugent, the deputy police commissioner in Victoria, said canned tuna fish are down to three Wagyu beef that he typically only Tofu has been the most sought- I miss browsing in the grocery
that more than 500 summonses totaling more than 880,000 Austral- or two, said Nelson Eusebio, the stocks for certain holidays. after food for Nancy Cadet, a restore and seeing my cashier and
ian dollars (about $617,000) had been issued to people who broke legislative director at the National “We’re still going to see chal- tired professor of modern lan- delivery guy that I see every
Supermarket Association. lenges getting all of the meat we guages at the City University of week,” she said. “I miss chatting
stay-at-home orders or gathered in groups.
“What we’re going through is need, and the variety, especially in New York who splits her time be- with the local shopkeepers in the
an extended period, like when the summer months when the tween Brooklyn and East Hamp- small local family-owned stores
Coronavirus Update wraps up the day’s developments with infor- there’s a huge snowstorm it takes grills are fired up,” Mr. Corradini ton, N.Y. that I am too afraid to shop in any-
mation from across the virus report. two or three days to recover,” he said. “As vegans, fresh tofu is a main more.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020 N A5
Tracking an Outbreak Global Response
RACIAL INEQUITIES
Economic Damage of Lockdown Lingers for Minority Women in Britain

By CEYLAN YEGINSU they’re still going to work.”
LONDON — Within 10 days of A day later, Ms. Rind said, she
the British government’s lock- was laid off. “When you have
down announcement in late brown skin, when you have an ac-
March, one woman lost all nine of cent and when you don’t have a
her cleaning jobs. Another was high education, you don’t have
laid off from a laundromat after choices,” she said. “And this is a
she requested a mask, and a live- very dangerous situation to be in
in nanny was fired for using public during Covid.”
transport on her day off. The laundromat where she
In separate interviews, the worked did not respond to a re-
three women said that they had quest for comment.
expected to confront hardships Ms. Rind was recently offered a
during the lockdown. But as the cleaning job in a hotel but was
economy starts to reopen, they forced to turn it down because she
and other women on the lower lives 40 minutes away and, as a
rungs of the economy say they are precaution against the virus, the
still struggling, weighed down by employer did not want her to take
debts accumulated during the public transport.
freeze and often facing pay cuts or Black and ethnic minority wom-
en also generally have much
forced to do more work for the
lower levels of savings and assets
same wages.
than white Britons, according to
The three have one other thing
the Runnymede Trust study. So
in common. They are all women of
those who lost their jobs in the
color, a group that has long faced
pandemic have had to seek new
economic and racial inequality in
employment straight away, forc-
Britain and is now being hit dis-
ing some of them to take lower-
proportionately by the financial paid, higher-risk posts.
and psychological impacts of the
Verona Pollard, an experienced
coronavirus pandemic, according nanny and maternity nurse, has
to a recent study by a group of taken up part-time child care work
British universities and women’s since she was fired from a full-
charities. time nannying job, after her em-
“Covid-19 has brought the harsh ployer found out she had taken
realities of pre-existing racial in- public transport on her days off.
equalities into sharp relief, and no- “She was ruthless about it and
where is this more manifest than wouldn’t take me back, even when
the disproportionate social and the lockdown was lifted,” she said
economic impact of Covid-19 on in a phone interview. “ It’s been
ANDREW TESTA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Black and ethnic minority wom- brutal since then, I’m just doing
en,” said Zubaida Haque, the in- South London in May. A study said Black and ethnic minority women in Britain are being hit disproportionately by the pandemic.
odd jobs here and there.”
terim director of the Runnymede And in the Fawcett Society’s
Trust, a London-based organiza- ans and other Black people, had the city of Manchester, in north- cause her employers fear that she out menial tasks that can be per- survey, work-related anxiety was
tion advocating racial equality. from 10 percent to 50 percent western England. “Each call was could contract and spread the vi- ilous in a pandemic, a recent study highest among Black and minor-
The main reason that people of higher risk of death than white like a bomb, blasting every bit of rus by working between multiple by the Runnymede Trust found. ity ethnic women, with 65.1 per-
color are so vulnerable, experts Britons. my livelihood until I had no work households. Zuhr Rind, 48, a Pakistani laun- cent of women employed outside
say, is that they are more likely to “There’s often a risk when peo- left.” “I don’t know how much longer dromat worker in East London, the home reporting that they felt
be in precarious employment or to ple start talking about the under- For two months she tried to I can go on like this,” she said. “In was asked to work the last shift apprehensive as a result of having
become unemployed, making it lying causes of death because of navigate the government’s finan- the first month, I was worrying when the pandemic broke out so to go to work during the pan-
harder for them to qualify for gov- the assumption that the reason is cial support system for those af- about how to pay my rent and my that she could wash the uniforms demic.
ernment support and to protect related to genetics or poor diets,” fected by the pandemic, and even bills, now I can’t sleep worrying of the front-of-house employees, Ms. Brown, the cleaner in Man-
themselves from the virus. said Bridget Byrne, director of the about how to feed my children.” who collected laundry from cli- chester, said that she was still
Minji Paik, a Korean beautician Center on Dynamics of Ethnicity A survey published by the ents. waiting for her unemployment
who works in a hair salon in East at the University of Manchester. Fawcett Society, a women’s rights “I was not happy about it, but benefits to come through and that
London, said she made 15 pounds
an hour before the pandemic,
“But actually, you need to look at Stress manifesting charity, found that nearly 43 per- what could I do? Work is work and she had been borrowing money
the wider process of racism and cent of Black and ethnic minority I was afraid to lose my job if I from a friend and from a former
about $19 dollars, plus tips. Now the structuring of race and depri- itself through rashes women believed that they would made an argument,” she said. employer to get by. In recent
she is making £10 an hour, and has vation.” be in more debt than before the When she asked for a face weeks, she said she has become so
been working longer shifts be- The precarious nature of the and hair that falls out. pandemic, compared with 37 per- mask, her manager chided her, stressed and anxious that rashes
cause of staff shortages. current labor market is a contrib- cent of white women and 34 per- she said. have broken out over her body
“My manager says this is tem- uting factor as well, Ms. Byrne cent of white men. More than four “That is pathetic Z,” her man- and she has noticed her hair fall-
porary and she will give me more said. “It makes people less willing in 10 of the women said they would ager wrote back in a text message ing out.
borrowed money from a friend to
money when we make money,” to voice their concerns, they struggle to make ends meet over she showed to The New York “I promise you, what I am going
Ms. Paik said. “But actually, I hire an accountant to help. But
worry that if they say, ‘I don’t feel the next three months. Times. “Doctors and nurses do not through now is worse than any vi-
should be paid more because I’m safe, I don’t think I should be com- eventually, she found out that she
Many are tasked with carrying even have enough masks and rus,” she said.
working inside and risking my ing in,’ they will be the first to be was not eligible for any aid be-
health.” laid off.” cause she lacked the paperwork to
A government review of the dis- Candice Brown, 48, a cleaner prove her employment history.
parities in the risk and outcomes who is of Jamaican descent, said “I applied for universal credit,”
from the coronavirus found that she had lost all her clients when she said referring to the govern-
death rates have been higher in lockdown measures were im- ment’s income support program.
Black, Asian and other minority posed in March. “But I am still waiting. I haven’t
ethnic groups than in white “They phoned me one by one to received a penny.”
groups. The review found that say don’t come,” she recalled, re- Even with the easing of the lock-
Chinese, Indian, Pakistani and ferring to the owners of the nine down measures, Ms. Brown has
other Asians, as well as Caribbe- houses she cleaned each week in not been invited back to work be-
CYCLING HOME
48 Days and Too Many Sardines

By ILIANA MAGRA tant, milestone: Stuttgart, where
LONDON — Nearly a month his grandmother lives.
into the coronavirus lockdown, “It was very important to me; it
Kleon Papadimitriou, a Greek stu- was like a checkpoint,” he said. “I
dent in Aberdeen, Scotland, was hadn’t seen my grandma for so
feeling homesick. many years, and the only thing I
Restless — and with flights to cared about was, if something
much of Europe canceled — he were to happen to me, I didn’t
was looking for a way home to want it to happen before I got to
Athens. His father joked that he Stuttgart.”
could simply walk, and a light bulb He stayed with her for a week to
went on. What if he cycled? rest and refuel, his first time eat-
ing a proper homemade meal af-
“I wanted something big, a
ter weeks of a meager diet.
project for the year,” the younger
After Germany came Italy,
Mr. Papadimitriou said by phone
where businesses were gradually
on Tuesday.
reopening after the first wave of
What followed was a cycling
the pandemic. He had a pepperoni
journey across Europe that KLEON PAPADIMITRIOU
pizza and a beer in the Italian Alps
spanned five countries, more than Kleon Papadimitriou rode his before heading to Venice, where
2,000 miles and 48 days, with Mr. bike from Scotland to Greece. It he stayed for a day. Then it was on
Papadimitriou finally arriving was harder than he expected. to Ancona, a seaside city on the
home in Athens late last month. Adriatic coast, where he boarded
Mr. Papadimitriou, 20, studies a ferry to Patras, in the Pelopon-
electrical and electronic engineer- low morale, and how important
some relationships are,” he said. nese region of Greece.
ing at the University of Aberdeen, “The moment I believed I could
but when classes stopped, he Besides getting lost, the first
days of his trip were full of difficul- make it was when I boarded the
found himself with a sudden sur- ferry from Ancona,” Mr. Papadim-
plus of time and energy. So, turn- ties that included flat tires, bad
ing the strictures of the pandemic
into an opportunity and motiva-
weather and steep climbs. When
he set out, he planned to cover
itriou said, adding that before he
had begun his journey he had esti- Bearing Gifts
tion, he began planning his trip by about 125 miles a day. But he soon
mated that it would take a maxi- the Laocoön sculpture
mum of 30 days.
bike across a coronavirus-hit Eu- realized that such a goal would be
unlikely. Instead, he covered
That turned out to be optimistic. Legendary sculpture. Important bronze.
rope. Mr. Papadimitriou finally made it
Less than a month later, on May about 75 miles a day at most. Historic masterpiece. Believed by the
to Greece on June 25, 46 days after
10, he was packed and ready to A week into his journey, he ar- leaving Aberdeen. His parents
iconic Michelangelo to be “the greatest piece
leave Aberdeen, in northeastern rived at a friend’s house in Leeds, met him in Patras, where he was of art in the world,” this breathtaking bronze
Scotland, with a handful of essen- a city in northern England, where tested for the coronavirus — the of the powerful Laocoön is one of the handful
tial supplies. Making the cut: he stayed for two days. He also result was negative — and the
phone, power bank, some tools, took his first shower since leaving of bronze examples known to exist and one
three of them cycled the final
two changes of clothes, a raincoat, Scotland. Departing again was a stretch together.
of the rare few not currently in a museum.
a windbreaker, a tent, sleeping challenge. On June 27, they arrived home Based upon the ancient marble that resides
bag, food for four days and water. “I was thinking ‘God, what am I in Athens. at the Vatican, Laocoön stands among the
A book he had wanted to bring doing with my life,’ ” he said. “I think that if I had not already
took up too much space, so had to But his spirits lifted when he
most famous works of art in the world. Circa
done it, and if someone were to tell
be left behind. reached his first milestone: me I could do it, I wouldn’t believe
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In the beginning, he had daily boarding a ferry from Britain to it,” he said. “I had no idea that I
regrets about his self-inflicted od- the Netherlands, and crossing his had the patience and the
yssey, he said. His first day on the first national border. “It was the willpower.”
road proved trying. point of no return,” he said. He hopes to take another jour-
“My parents did not know Four days later, and after stay- ney along the same lines — or big-
where I was, I started crying,” he ing at campsites, he made it to ger — in the future, he said. For
said. “I didn’t know where I’d stay Germany. Friends of friends let now, he is resting at home and en-
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Tracking an Outbreak Planning for the Fall
EDUCATIONAL RISKS
Around the U.S.
Scientific Panel Urges Opening Schools to Younger Pupils And the World
By APOORVA MANDAVILLI
Wading into the contentious de- NATIONAL HOT SPOTS
bate over reopening schools, an
influential committee of scientists States and Cities Issue
and educators on Wednesday rec-
ommended that, wherever possi-
Warnings as Cases Surge
ble, younger children and those As the pandemic worsens in the
with special needs should attend United States, with caseloads
school in person. increasing in 41 states over the
Their report — issued by the past two weeks, leaders are
prestigious National Academies scrambling to try to contain it.
of Science, Engineering and Medi- In Alabama, which broke its
cine, which advises the nation on record Wednesday for the most
issues related to science — is less coronavirus deaths reported in a
prescriptive for middle and high single day — 47 — Gov. Kay Ivey,
schools, but offered a framework
a Republican, issued an order
for school districts to decide
requiring people to wear masks in
whether and how to open, with
help from public health experts, public. In Montana, Gov. Steve
families and teachers. Bullock, a Democrat, said he was
The committee emphasized issuing one, too.
common-sense precautions, such Others were reimposing restric-
as hand-washing, physical dis- tions or considering doing so. In
tancing and minimizing group ac- Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Wolf, a
tivities, including lunch and re- Democrat, moved to reduce seat-
cess. ing capacity in restaurants. May-
But the experts went further or Lori Lightfoot of Chicago said
than guidelines issued by the Cen- she was willing to tighten restric-
ters for Disease Control and Pre- tions again in the city.
vention and other groups, also “I won’t just turn the car
calling for surgical masks to be around,” she said. “I’m going to
worn by all teachers and staff shut it off, I’m going to kick you
members during school hours, out, and I’m going to make you
and for cloth face coverings to be
walk home.”
worn by all students, including
Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio
those in elementary school.
Regular symptom checks warned his state’s 11 million resi-
should be conducted, the commit- dents that if they do not act to
tee said, and not just temperature curb the virus’s spread, “the
checks. In the long term, schools tragedy that we see playing out
will need upgrades to ventilation on our television screens every
and air-filtration systems, and day in Florida, Texas, Arizona and
federal and state governments California may well be our reality
must fund these efforts, the report in just a matter of weeks.”
said. Quoting from Ronald Reagan
Online learning is ineffective and the Bible during an address
for most elementary-school chil- from his office in Columbus, with
dren and special-needs children, an American flag in the back-
the panel of scientists and educa- ground, Mr. DeWine pleaded with
tors concluded. residents to make “once-in-100-
To the extent possible, “it year sacrifices,” to stay at home
should be a priority for districts to
and to wear masks in public.
reopen for in-person learning, es-
pecially for younger ages,” said
Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist
at Johns Hopkins and a member of EDUCATION DELAYS
the committee.
Mary Kathryn Malone, a
Districts Announce Plans
mother of three children, has been For Phased-In Approach
eager for schools to reopen in
A growing number of education
Mount Vernon, Ohio, where she
officials have announced delays to
lives. Her 9-year-old daughter is
pining for her friends, and her 3- the start of in-person instruction,
year-old has only part-time day despite pressure to get students
care — and not while Dr. Malone back into classrooms this fall.
works. The Houston Independent
But she was most worried about School District, the country’s
her 7-year-old son, who needs help seventh-largest, said Wednesday
for his attention deficit hyperac- that it would start its school year
tivity disorder and dyslexia. PHOTOGRAPHS BY HAIYUN JIANG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
virtually on Sept. 8. Students will
“At one point, we were three full have at least six weeks of online
weeks behind on schoolwork,”
said Dr. Malone, who teaches
‘At one point, we were three full weeks behind on schoolwork.’ classes, with a tentative plan to
begin in-person classes on Oct. 19.
French at Kenyon College. “I was Mary Kathryn Malone, a mother of three children, including Molly and Benjamin, above. The San Francisco Unified
working through my own job, and School District said the coming
when I looked at this mountain ac- school year would start with
cumulating, it was so stressful.” distance learning, with plans to
Beers, who co-wrote the acade- replace heating, ventilation and particular teacher. with 7 percent of white families
The American Academy of Pe-
my’s guidance. “The only nu- air-conditioning systems in at Some 28 percent of the more and 4 percent of Asian families. “gradually phase in a staggered
diatrics last month also recom-
anced difference is that they have least half of their schools, accord- than 3.8 million full-time teachers Adults in these communities return” when appropriate.
mended that schools reopen, a po-
acknowledged the disproportion- ing to an analysis by the Govern- in the country are older than 50, are also more likely to be essential San Francisco’s decision fol-
sition widely cited by the Trump
ate impact on younger kids of not ment Accountability Office. and about a third of school princi- workers who cannot stay home lowed an announcement on Mon-
administration, which has been
being in school,” he said. “One of the shocks to me is that pals are over 55, age groups at with their children, Dr. Scarlett day by Los Angeles and San
pushing hard for a return to some-
While teenagers may be better over 50 percent of the school high risk of severe illness from the said. Rates of hospitalization for Diego, the two largest public
thing resembling normal life de-
able to learn online, they suffer buildings are awful,” Dr. Bond coronavirus. Covid-19 are four to five times school districts in California, that
spite soaring infection rates in
the social and emotional conse- said. In one survey, 62 percent of edu- higher in Black, Latino and Indig- they would be online-only in the
many states.
quences of being separated from New evidence suggests that the cators and administrators re- enous populations than among
Most studies suggest the virus fall. Eleven of the 15 largest dis-
their peers, Dr. Beers said. coronavirus may be airborne, and ported that they were somewhat whites.
poses minimal health risks to chil- tricts in California have now
“Adolescence is a period of time that many indoor spaces may or very concerned about return- “Covid-19 exacerbates those
dren under 18. And the report said announced they will reopen with
in life when you are to be explor- need better air filtration to pre- ing to school while the coro- disparities,” Dr. Scarlett said.
that evidence for how easily chil- 100 percent remote instruction.
ing your own sense of self and de- vent infections. “Between now navirus continues to be a threat, The report also noted signifi-
dren become infected or spread In Kansas, Gov. Laura Kelly, a
veloping your identity,” he said. and September, you’re not going according to the report. “The cant differences between rural
the virus to others, including “It’s difficult to do that if you are at Democrat, announced that she
to be able to put in a new ventila- school work force issue is really and urban schools. Some 26 per-
teachers and parents, is “insuffi- home with your parents all the would delay the opening of
tion system,” she added. not discussed that much,” Dr. cent of people in rural districts
cient” to draw firm conclusions. time.” Bond said. schools in her state by several
In the meantime, schools may and 32 percent of those living on
Outside experts said they ap- Daniel A. Domenech, executive be able to opt for simpler solu- Racial and socio-economic ineq- tribal lands do not have reliable in- weeks, until after Labor Day, to
preciated the report’s distinction director of the American Associa- tions: Before the weather cools, uities are another prominent con- ternet access. give the schools time to purchase
between younger and older chil- tion of School Administrators, they might emulate their counter- cern. The communities where Samuel Berry-Foster Sr., a masks, thermometers, hand sani-
dren. “I think that’s really smart,” said school superintendents were parts in Europe and move classes children struggle to learn in dilap- sixth-grade science teacher, lives
said Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the tizer and other supplies.
“already prioritizing in-person outdoors, set up tents or build out- idated, understaffed schools are just outside Asheville, N.C., in a And all students in Prince
Harvard Global Health Institute. learning for the youngest learn- door classrooms, said Jennifer also those hit hardest by the pan- pocket of the Appalachian Moun-
“The risk is different for a third George’s County, Md., will contin-
ers.” Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at the demic, said Keisha Scarlett, a tains, with his wife and two school-
grader than for a 10th grader, and ue distance learning through
The new report is not “ground- Johns Hopkins Center for Health committee member and chief of age children.
I say that as the dad of a third February.
breaking,” he said, “but it is help- Security. equity, partnerships and engage- For his family and for those of
grader and a 10th grader.” ful in affirming the touchy job Schools may also need to hire ment at the Seattle Public Schools. many of his students, Mr. Berry-
But Dr. Jha and other experts ahead and the need for additional additional staff to replace educa- Remote learning is often diffi- Foster said, even a simple phone
noted that the committee did not resources to do right by kids, edu- tors or other staff members who cult for children in low-income call can be plagued with delays BABY WITH COVID-19
address the level of community cators and communities during may not wish to return, the report families. Nationwide, about 30 and hangups. For more than one
transmission at which opening this school year.” noted, and to implement some of percent of Indigenous families family member to be online at the
Study Suggests Virus
schools might become unsafe sim- Some 54 percent of public the recommendations, such as en- and about 20 percent of Black and same time is “impossible.” Can Be Passed to Fetus
ply because too much virus may school districts need to update or forcing social distancing in the Latino families do not have access “What we end up doing is driv-
be circulating. “They punted the replace facilities in their school classroom or ensuring that to the internet or have it only Researchers have reported strong
ing about eight miles to a little
most critical question,” he said. buildings, and 41 percent should groups of children remain with a through a smartphone, compared bitty library for broadband,” he evidence that the coronavirus can
Committee members said the said. “We sit in the parking lot and be transmitted from a pregnant
decision not to recommend a cut- do our meetings and such.” woman to a fetus.
off was deliberate. “There is no The C.D.C. has provided limited A baby born in a Paris hospital
single prevalence or threshold guidance on reopening schools in March to a mother with
that would be appropriate for all and largely puts the onus on dis- Covid-19 tested positive for the
communities,” Dr. Rivers said. trict leaders to make judgments virus and developed symptoms of
Dr. Rivers said schools would they may be unequipped to make. inflammation in his brain, said Dr.
need to decide how and when to The new report offers more de- Daniele De Luca, who led the
open, close and reopen schools by tailed guidance for how to reopen, research team and is chief of the
taking into account many factors, including a list of the kinds of ex- division of pediatrics and neonatal
including disease levels in the perts to consult — such as epide- critical care at Paris-Saclay Uni-
community — and should plan for miologists who can interpret dis-
what to do when students or versity Hospitals.
ease transmission rates. Local The baby, now 3 months old,
teachers become infected. task forces should take into ac-
“Even with extensive mitiga- recovered without treatment and
count the number of coronavirus
tion measures, it’s not possible to infections, hospitalizations and is “very much improved, almost
reduce the risk to zero, and that deaths, and the percentage of di- clinically normal,” Dr. De Luca
has to be part of the discussions,” agnostic tests that are positive. said, adding that the mother, who
Dr. Rivers said. President Trump has said that needed oxygen during the deliv-
Reopening schools should be a even the C.D.C.’s less detailed rec- ery, is healthy.
priority because schools fulfill ommendations were “very tough Dr. De Luca said the virus
many roles beyond providing an and expensive.” But the new reappeared to have been transmit-
education, the authors said. “It’s port’s recommended retrofits are ted through the placenta of the
child care, it’s nutrition, it’s health likely to be out of reach for most 23-year-old mother. Since the
services, it’s social and emotional school districts, costing roughly pandemic began, there have been
support services,” said Dr. Enri- $1.8 million for a school district isolated cases of newborns who
queta Bond, the committee’s chair. with eight school buildings and have tested positive for the coro-
“These functions are really un- about 3,200 students. navirus, but there has not been
dervalued, I think, in the conver- “In my view, this has to be a top
enough evidence to rule out the
sation that’s been taking place.” priority,” Dr. Nuzzo said. “The
possibility that the infants became
The report’s recommendations economy depends on this, the fu-
are largely consistent with those Dr. Malone, who teaches French at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, with her husband, ture of our country depends on infected by the mother after they
from the A.A.P., said Dr. Nathaniel Brandon Emig, and their children, from left, Benjamin, 3; Molly, 9; and Patrick, 7. this.” were born, experts said.
K THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020 N A7
Tracking an Outbreak The Administration
POLITICAL DISTRACTION
Fauci, Attacked by Trump’s Aides, Fires Back: ‘Let’s Stop This Nonsense’
By KATIE ROGERS terms of looking at the science is
WASHINGTON — After sev- that I’m a social scientist,” Mr.
eral days spent weathering at- Navarro told CNN’s John Berman
tacks from White House officials, in April. “I have a Ph.D. And I un-
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci hit back on derstand how to read statistical
Wednesday, calling recent efforts studies, whether it’s in medicine,
to discredit him “bizarre” and a the law, economics or whatever.”
hindrance to the government’s Mr. Navarro is known to go
ability to communicate informa- around official channels to make
tion about the coronavirus pan- sure his opinions are aired. In his
demic. op-ed article, he wrote that “I con-
“I cannot figure out in my wild- fronted him with scientific studies
est dreams why they would want providing evidence of safety and
to do that,” Dr. Fauci said in an in- efficacy,” and he promoted a new
terview with The Atlantic pub- study that he said showed a 50
lished on Wednesday, speaking of percent reduction in the mortality
recent attempts by President rate when the medicine was used.
Trump’s aides to undermine him. Medical experts have criticized
“I think they realize now that that that study, published by the Henry
was not a prudent thing to do, be- Ford Health System in Detroit, as
cause it’s only reflecting nega- incomplete.
tively on them.” Mr. Navarro also wrote that he
It was the latest salvo in a war had warned officials in late Janu-
that has broken out in the middle ary of the threat posed by the co-
of a pandemic between Dr. Fauci, ronavirus, while Dr. Fauci had
the government’s top infectious “fought against the president’s
disease expert, and a White courageous decision” to close
House that has never evolved be- American borders to travelers
yond the bare-knuckle tactics of from China.
the 2016 campaign. It is true that a memo that Mr.
On Wednesday, Peter Navarro, Navarro wrote outlining the
Mr. Trump’s top trade adviser, threat of the virus was the earliest
published a brazen op-ed article in high-level alert known to have cir-
USA Today describing Dr. Fauci culated inside the West Wing dur-
as “wrong about everything.” ing the early days of the adminis-
Over the weekend, another of Mr. tration’s response. It is also true
Trump’s top advisers shared a that Dr. Fauci was initially skepti-
mocking cartoon that portrayed cal of closing the country’s bor-
Dr. Fauci as a leaky faucet. Other ders, over concerns such an action
White House officials have tar- SAMUEL CORUM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES could limit the movements of doc-
geted Dr. Fauci by distributing op- tors and other health profession-
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci in May. Despite evidence to the contrary, White House officials assert there is no concerted effort to criticize him.
position research-style docu- als trying to contain the disease.
ments to reporters that detail But by the end of January, Dr.
what they say are his mistakes. op-ed or whatever you want to work with Dr. Deborah L. Birx, make any sense,” Dr. Fauci said. Navarro,” he said. “He’s in a world Fauci and other public health ex-
All the while, White House offi- classify it as was an independent who helps coordinate the adminis- “We’ve got to almost reset this by himself.” perts were on board with the deci-
cials — including the president action that was a violation of well- tration’s coronavirus response, or and say, ‘OK, let’s stop this non- The White House sought to dis- sion.
and the press secretary — assert established protocols that was not to send his messages through Vice sense.’ We’ve got to figure out, tance itself from the attack by Mr. Despite the continuing attacks
in the face of the evidence that supported overtly or covertly by President Mike Pence. how can we get our control over Navarro, but so far has not at- by administration advisers and
there is no concerted effort to at- anybody in the West Wing,” Mr. Without directly criticizing the this now, and, looking forward, tacked the substance of his piece. the attempts to limit his television
tack Dr. Fauci. Meadows said. “I think Peter president — both men have em- how can we make sure that next And officials declined to comment appearances, Dr. Fauci has not
“We’re all on the same team, in- Navarro spoke for himself.” phasized their personal fondness month, we don’t have another ex- when one of the president’s clos- stopped other public appear-
cluding Dr. Fauci,” Mr. Trump told Dr. Fauci, 79, the director of the for each other — Dr. Fauci has be- ample of California, Texas, Florida est advisers, Dan Scavino, posted ances. On Tuesday, he urged
reporters on Wednesday as he left National Institute of Allergy and gun fighting back. and Arizona?” a mocking cartoon of Dr. Fauci to Georgetown University students
the White House for Atlanta. Infectious Diseases, a post he has On Monday, he met with Mr. He added, “So rather than these social media. to trust public health experts over
When he was asked about Mr. held since 1984, is no stranger to Meadows to discuss his ability to games people are playing, let’s fo- Tension between Mr. Navarro politicians, without criticizing the
Navarro’s choice to go around criticism. He oversaw much of the speak about the virus on televi- cus on that.” and Dr. Fauci has been brewing administration he works for di-
White House channels to publish government’s response to the sion — his broadcast appearances In the interview, Dr. Fauci dis- since the early days of the pan- rectly.
the op-ed article in USA Today, the AIDS epidemic, weathering criti- have been sharply curbed in re- cussed the op-ed article by Mr. demic this year. In a coronavirus “You can trust respected medi-
president added that Mr. Navarro cism from activists like Larry Kra- cent weeks by Mr. Meadows and Navarro, which had the stark task force meeting that Mr. cal authorities. I believe I’m one of
“shouldn’t be doing that.” mer, who called him a “murderer” members of the communications headline, “Anthony Fauci Has Navarro asked to attend, the two them. So, I think you can trust
Mark Meadows, the White and an “incompetent idiot.” staff. And in The Atlantic inter- Been Wrong About Everything I argued over the efficacy of hy- me,” Dr. Fauci said. “I would stick
House chief of staff, told reporters Mr. Trump’s administration view, Dr. Fauci complained that Have Interacted With Him On.” In droxychloroquine, a drug that Mr. with respected medical authori-
traveling aboard Air Force One presents a different challenge. Be- the administration’s actions had the piece, Mr. Navarro presented Trump has promoted as a cure for ties who have a track record of
that he had not read the piece, but cause Dr. Fauci is a career civil made it difficult for health officials what White House officials have the virus. telling the truth, who have a track
criticized Mr. Navarro’s decision servant, his job is not in jeopardy, to communicate accurate infor- been saying privately about Dr. Mr. Navarro, an economist by record of giving information and
to publish it without allowing and it is unlikely that Mr. Trump mation. Fauci, and what Mr. Trump has training, has since defended his policy and recommendations
other officials to vet the content. can completely exile him, given “It distracts from what I hope said publicly: They like Dr. Fauci credentials when it comes to spar- based on scientific evidence and
“Peter Navarro’s statement or his emergence as the govern- would be the common effort of get- personally, but he has made mis- ring with Dr. Fauci over possible good data.”
ment’s most credible voice on the ting this thing under control, takes. medical treatments. He added, “Don’t get involved
Noah Weiland contributed report- pandemic. He has not briefed Mr. rather than this back-and-forth Dr. Fauci responded with bewil- “Doctors disagree about things in any of the political nonsense,”
ing. Trump in weeks, preferring to distraction, which just doesn’t derment. “I can’t explain Peter all the time. My qualifications in calling it a “waste of time.”
OPERATION WARP SPEED ‘SOLE SOURCE’ DEAL
Chief Vaccine Scientist Can Avoid Disclosures Virus Database Contract

By NOAH WEILAND
WASHINGTON — The scien-
panies pursuing coronavirus vac-
cines. Last week, H.H.S. an- Scrutinized by Democrats
tist leading the Trump administra- nounced that the federal govern-
tion’s coronavirus vaccine pro- ment will pay Novavax, a Mary- By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG ready had its own data-gathering
gram will be allowed to remain a land company that has never WASHINGTON — A $10.2 mil- system, the National Healthcare
government contractor, a decision brought a product to market, $1.6 lion “sole source” contract to run a Safety Network.
that permits him to avoid ethics billion to expedite the develop- centralized Covid-19 database for “C.D.C. has had a system in
disclosures required of federal ment of a coronavirus vaccine. the Trump administration drew place for over a decade to track in-
employees and maintain his in- Dr. Slaoui spent his first days on sharp criticism on Wednesday fection data, and hospitals and
vestments in pharmaceutical the job in May trying to disentan- from congressional Democrats, states know and trust this sys-
companies. gle pieces of his stock portfolio who demanded that the federal tem,” Ms. Murray said Wednes-
and other ties to pharmaceutical Centers for Disease Control and day in a statement. “So it’s en-
Two prominent watchdog
interests. Before working for the Prevention be reinstated as the tirely unclear why the Trump ad-
groups as well as some Demo-
Trump administration, he sat on primary repository of coronavirus ministration has asked states and
crats in Congress had called for
the board of Moderna, a biotech- data. hospitals to upend their reporting
the Department of Health and Hu-
nology firm pursuing a coro- The contract drew scant public systems in the middle of a pan-
man Services to require that the
navirus vaccine. He sold his demic — in 48 hours nonetheless
scientist, Dr. Moncef Slaoui, a ven- attention when it was awarded in
shares in the company after the — without a single explanation as
ture capitalist and a former execu- April to TeleTracking Technolo-
value of his stock holdings soared to why this new system is better
tive at the pharmaceutical giant gies, a Pittsburgh company whose
following the release of prelimi- or necessary.”
GlaxoSmithKline, fall under the core business is helping hospitals
nary vaccine trial data. Another top Democrat, Senator
same ethics rules as federal em- manage the flow of patients. But it
The Trump administration said Bob Menendez of New Jersey, told
ployees. drew scrutiny after the adminis-
at the time that Dr. Slaoui would reporters in Hoboken that if the
The office of the inspector gen- tration ordered hospitals, begin-
donate the increased value to can- administration did not reverse it-
eral at H.H.S. responded this ning on Wednesday, to report co-
cer research. self and put the C.D.C. back in
week that it could not require such ronavirus information, including
In an interview in May, Dr. charge, “we will look at withhold-
a shift, citing the unusual role that bed availability, to the new data-
Slaoui said he was determined to ing funding until the administra-
Dr. Slaoui was playing in the ad- SAMUEL CORUM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES base, housed at the Department of
tion changes course.”
ministration during the pan- Dr. Moncef Slaoui, a former pharmaceutical executive, leads the avoid conflicts and would re-eval- Health and Human Services in
uate any remaining associations if The switch in reporting ex-
demic. Trump administration’s effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Washington, instead of to the
his financial interests stood to posed deep flaws in the way the
As the chief adviser for the vac- C.D.C.
government collects health data,
cine program — called Operation gain more from his new post. Two top federal health officials
vides Slaoui with the opportunity Prices Now. “Everyone can ap- and the C.D.C. has been no strang-
Warp Speed — Dr. Slaoui is work- An H.H.S. spokeswoman reiter- — Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the
to enrich himself, his colleagues preciate that Slaoui has expertise er to criticism. Congress has long
ing on a contract that pays him $1. ated on Wednesday that Dr. Slaoui C.D.C. director, and José Arrieta,
and his employers.” in the development of vaccines, been asking the agency to mod-
Under the arrangement, he is ex- resigned from Moderna’s board the chief information officer for
In its reply to the groups, an offi- but expertise and ethics should ernize its data collection, and
empt from federal disclosure rules and divested his equity, in addi- the Department of Health and Hu- passed laws in 2006, 2013 and 2019
cial in the inspector general’s of- not be mutually exclusive.” tion to leaving advisory boards of man Services — defended the de-
that would require him to list his requiring a system that could col-
outside positions, stock holdings fice said that Dr. Slaoui’s appoint- A group of Democratic lawmak- companies “with even the appear- cision in a conference call with re-
ment is expected to stretch beers, including Senator Elizabeth lect data in near-real time.
and other potential conflicts of in- ance of conflict.” porters, saying that the new data- The C.D.C. has yet to establish
terest. yond 200 days, well past what it Warren of Massachusetts, sepa- “H.H.S. ethics officers have de- base was necessary to expedite
said was the “applicable statutory rately wrote last month to Alex M. such a system, which would spare
That arrangement has alarmed termined Dr. Slaoui’s contractor and streamline data, which is used hospital employees from having
time limit” for a special govern- Azar II, the health secretary, ask- status, divestiture and board res- to help the government make de-
lawmakers, who have accused to enter data manually. But the
ment employee. ing for Dr. Slaoui to be designated ignations put him in compliance cisions about where to deploy per-
H.H.S. of helping Dr. Slaoui, an ex- TeleTracking system also re-
pert in molecular biology and im- The inspector general’s office with our robust department ethi- sonal protective gear or medicine. quires manual entry, said Dr.
munology, duck the usual ac- “is not in a position to determine cal standards,” the spokeswoman Dr. Redfield said C.D.C. experts Lissy Hu, the chief executive of
countability required of govern- that the department’s decision said. would still have access to the data.
ment employees. was unreasonable when it pur- Exempt from ethics Soon after Dr. Slaoui was “This access is the same today as
CarePort Health, a technology
firm. She said the new arrange-
sued options other than an S.G.E.
The groups that filed the May
complaint, Public Citizen and appointment,” the letter, dated reporting rules under brought on to Project Warp Speed,
its leadership underwent further
it was yesterday,” he said.
But the officials had no explana-
ment made little sense.
“This whole thing is bizarre,”
Lower Drug Prices Now, argued July 13, concluded.
In his role, Dr. Slaoui has signifi-
a contract paying $1. upheaval, in part because of his tion for the TeleTracking contract, she said. “The White House is say-
for Dr. Slaoui to be classified as a holdings, according to senior ad- which was awarded on a sole- ing collecting real-time informa-
“special government employee,” a cant influence over financial com- ministration officials. source basis, federal records tion is problematic, and I agree
tag that allows the federal govern- mitments made by the govern- Dr. Peter Marks, a renowned show. Mr. Arrieta said he was not with that. But with TeleTracking,
ment to hire outside experts for up ment, which has so far provided a special government employee. federal scientist who devised and involved in the negotiations. The it’s still going to be manual entry,
to 130 days. The title would make little information about Warp They called Dr. Slaoui’s contract initially oversaw the Warp Speed company did not respond to so how is that better than the cur-
him subject to ethics rules that Speed’s resources, which agen- “an attempted end-run around project at the Food and Drug Ad- emails seeking comment. rent manual entry system?”
also apply to regular government cies the funding is coming from or federal ethics rules.” ministration, stepped aside from Senator Patty Murray of Wash- Addressing concerns about
employees. how decisions are being made. Ms. Jorge said that her organi- his role as its lead vaccine special- ington, the senior Democrat on transparency, Mr. Arrieta said the
The $1 contract, the groups said, “The basic idea that he’s in a re- zation and other watchdog groups ist, in part because of concern the Senate health panel, has been Department of Health and Human
appears “designed primarily to al- ally privileged position with lots of were planning to meet Wednes- over what he saw as Dr. Slaoui’s seeking an explanation for the Services was considering giving
low Slaoui to maintain an exten- resources to command and that he day afternoon to discuss new potential conflicts of interest, the contract, which she argues is du- members of Congress access to
sive web of conflicting financial in- has a personal financial stake in ways to challenge Dr. Slaoui’s sta- officials said. Dr. Marks is the di- plicative because the C.D.C. al- the new database and was “ex-
terests without the need to divest the industry is really challenging,” tus. rector of the F.D.A.’s Center for Bi- ploring the best way” to make in-
of, recuse from or disclose those said Margarida Jorge, the cam- The Trump administration has ologics Evaluation and Research, Chris Hamby contributed report- formation from it available to the
conflicting interests” and “pro- paign director for Lower Drug invested nearly $4 billion in com- the office that approves vaccines. ing. public.
Tracking an Outbreak U.S. Response
THE STATES
In Oklahoma, the First Governor in the Nation Known to Test Positive

By MANNY FERNANDEZ America’s governors, who have looked to him as if the governor at
and SARAH MERVOSH been at the forefront of respond- times could have been closer than
Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma ing to the crisis but have so far six feet.
announced on Wednesday that he largely avoided personally con- Mr. Monies tested positive for
has tested positive for the coro- fronting the virus. the virus after covering the presi-
navirus, becoming the first gover- In late March, Gov. Tim Walz of dent’s rally in Tulsa, and had re-
nor in the United States known to Minnesota quarantined himself cently returned to work. He said
have been infected during the after coming in contact with that although he was wearing a
pandemic. someone who tested positive for mask at the meeting, he is now
Mr. Stitt told reporters in a vid- the virus, but the governor did not considering getting tested again.
eo news conference that he was develop symptoms. Gov. J.B. “It was my first in-person meet-
feeling fine and that he did not Pritzker of Illinois isolated at ing back from quarantine,” Mr.
know where, when or how he had home in May after a senior staff Monies said.
become infected. member tested positive, and the Oklahoma was among the first
Mr. Stitt, a Republican, said that governor later tested negative af- states to reopen its economy, with
his own infection had not ter attending anti-racism protests stores, barbershops and salons
prompted him to second-guess his and coming into contact with opening back up on April 24. At
response to the virus, which has someone who was infected. Gov. the time, the state had just 3,100
been less aggressive than in many Steve Sisolak of Nevada at one cases. New infections were hold-
other states, including some led point also tested negative. ing steady — with an average of 94
by fellow Republicans. The gover- A number of politicians and new cases a day — but not on a
nor has resisted issuing a state- prominent figures have had the vi- sustained decrease, the path that
wide mask order, and continued to rus, from the lieutenant governor is recommended by public health
do so on Wednesday. He faced crit- in Mississippi to members of Pres- experts before reopening.
icism early on in the outbreak, in ident Trump’s campaign staff. At Restaurants, movie theaters,
March, when he posted a photo of least three senators, Rand Paul of gyms and houses of worship were
himself with his children inside a Kentucky, Tim Kaine of Virginia, allowed to reopen shortly after-
crowded restaurant at a time and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, SUE OGROCKI/ASSOCIATED PRESS ward, on May 1. Bars — a known
when many people in the state have said they tested positive for source of new infections across
Gov. Kevin Stitt at a campaign rally for President Trump at an arena in Tulsa, Okla., last month.
were following social distancing the virus or antibodies. the country — reopened on May
protocols. Mr. Stitt, 47, said he did not think 15.
“I’m probably getting tons of that he had a serious case. not wearing a mask, at public to health officials, he was likely and it should absolutely be taken On Wednesday, the governor
texts right now from other gover- “It just kind of feels achy, like events, meetings and at Mr. not contagious before Saturday seriously.” said he had no plans to roll back
nors around the country,” he said. maybe the start of a little cold is Trump’s rally. But he said he could and that he did not have “the tradi- Mr. Stitt said he was tested for the state’s reopening or to man-
“I was pretty shocked that I was what it feels like right now, but re- have been exposed anywhere at tional symptoms” of Covid-19. the virus on Tuesday but it was un- date the use of masks, which he
the first governor to get it.” ally I feel fine,” Mr. Stitt said dur- any time. On Tuesday morning, hours be- clear what time. Asked why he said are matters of personal re-
Oklahoma has averaged more ing the Zoom call while sitting at “You just never know where it fore he received his test results, had not worn a mask at the morn- sponsibility and not within the
than 640 new cases per day over home. is,” he said, adding, “I gassed up at Mr. Stitt attended a special meeting Land Office meeting, Mr. Stitt purview of government. “You
the past week, more than at any He said that he received his test a gas station and we could have ing of the state’s Land Office in a said he has since notified the two can’t pick and choose what free-
point in the pandemic. On the results at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, touched the gas pump. You start conference room at the State Capi- people he sat closest to, Mr. Pin- doms you are going to give peo-
same day the governor an- and that given the timing, he did second-guessing and wondering tol building in Oklahoma City. He nell and Blayne Arthur, the state ple,” Mr. Stitt said. “This is some-
nounced he tested positive, the not believe his infection was all those different things and how did not wear a mask. agriculture secretary, that he had thing that could be with us for the
state reported 1,075 new coro- linked to President Trump’s rally you could have gotten it.” The vi- Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell, who tested positive for the virus. next 24 months. I don’t think
navirus cases, surpassing the sin- in Tulsa on June 20. Mr. Stitt was rus spreads mainly from person to serves in the governor’s cabinet “Those two were probably six Americans, Oklahomans particu-
gle-day record set on Tuesday. one of thousands who attended person, rather than via contami- as secretary of tourism and brand- feet away from me,” Mr. Stitt said. larly, want to bunker in place for
The county that includes Okla- the rally, where many officials and nated surfaces, according to pub- ing and who sat unmasked at a Photographs of the meeting the next 24 months.”
homa City, the state capital, has Mr. Trump’s supporters decided lic health experts. conference table across from Mr. show Mr. Stitt sitting at the head of Mr. Stitt said he did not have a
seen some of the swiftest growth, not to wear masks. A surge in co- Mr. Stitt’s announcement set off Stitt at the Land Office meeting, a conference table, with the lieu- fever, was self-isolating away
with more than 200 daily cases on ronavirus cases in and around a flurry of testing and self-isolat- said in a Facebook post that he tenant governor leaning in to his from his family and would be
average, more than double the Tulsa was most likely tied to the ing among state and local officials was going to be tested after learn- immediate left and the agriculture working from home. His wife, Sar-
rate of two weeks ago. rally, the city’s top health official who had been in close contact with ing the news and was self-isolat- secretary to his right. Mr. Stitt ap- ah, and their six children have
The positive test for Mr. Stitt said last week. him or had recent meetings with ing at home. pears to be sitting closer than six tested negative.
represents a new frontier for “I don’t think there was any way him. The governor’s busy, in-per- “No one in Oklahoma can say feet to them. Paul Monies, a re- A member of the Cherokee Na-
it was at the president’s rally,” Mr. son schedule in recent days will they don’t know anyone who has porter for Oklahoma Watch, a tion, Mr. Stitt is the first tribal citi-
Ben Fenwick and Mitch Smith con- Stitt said Wednesday. complicate contact tracing efforts. had it,” Mr. Pinnell wrote on Face- nonprofit online news outlet, cov- zen to become governor of Okla-
tributed reporting. Mr. Stitt has not been shy about The governor said that in talking book. “We all know someone now ered the meeting, and said it homa since the 1950s.
THE ECONOMY
Economic Pain Is Seen

Into Fall as Cases Surge
he had been pushing administra-
From Page A1 tion officials and members of Con-
ting back plans to add flights in gress to begin phasing out an ex-
August and beyond, citing flag- tra $600 per week for unemployed
ging consumer demand. workers — perhaps replacing it
The nation’s biggest banks also with an incentive payment for
warned this week that they are Americans who return to work —
setting aside billions of dollars to and to shift spending toward tax
cover anticipated losses as incentives.
customers fail to pay their mort- The last two weeks of coro-
gages and other loans in the navirus data changed his mind.
months to come. He is now calling for another large
May and June will prove to be economic rescue package from
“easy” in terms of recovery, Jenni- Washington, including extending
fer Piepszak, the chief financial of- the enhanced unemployment
ficer of JPMorgan Chase, said benefits, offering more aid to
during an analyst call on Tuesday. small businesses and perhaps
“We’re really hitting the moment sending another round of stimulus
of truth, I think, in the months checks to American households.
ahead,” she said. “We have to go back to liquidity
Jamie Dimon, the bank’s chief mode. I know in Congress there’s
executive, said much of the eco- not a lot of appetite for that,” Mr.
nomic pain had been blunted by Smith said. “But there’s still a
chance it could be a horrible fall,
federal spending, which was now
and the legislative calendar is not
running out. “You will see the ef-
set to deal with that.”
fect of this recession,” he said.
Trump administration officials
Some companies that used
have suggested a willingness to
small-business loans to retain or
negotiate with Democrats on un-
rehire workers are now beginning JEFF ROBERSON/ASSOCIATED PRESS
employment benefits, small-busi-
to lay off employees as those
ness aid and possibly another A diminished summer and the possibility of more of the same in
funds run out while business ac- the fall. Empty seats during practice for the St. Louis Cardinals
round of stimulus checks, while
tivity remains depressed. Ex- last week. In the Bronx, the locked doors of Public School 23.
also pushing for business tax cuts
panded benefits for unemployed
that have found little traction in
workers, which research shows Congress. Some Senate Republi-
have been propping up consumer adults — have at least one child through the pandemic: shutting
cans want to cut off pandemic under age 13 at home. The share is down commerce to slow the
spending throughout the spring spending increases entirely,
and early summer, are scheduled higher among so-called essential spread and rapidly lifting restric-
though their leadership has ex- workers who are required to re- tions on activity to get business
to expire at the end of July, while pressed openness to a deal if it in-
more than 18 million Americans port to their jobs during lock- humming again. It has not fol-
cludes protections from lawsuits downs, and it rises to one-third for lowed through on either approach.
continue to claim unemployment. for businesses that reopen.
Many states are already renew- workers in low-income families. Officials in Florida, Texas and
Small businesses around the Only 16 percent of all workers other states began a rapid reopen-
ing lockdowns, including Califor- country say that if lockdowns per-
nia, where officials have ordered with a young child have a non- ing of their economies in May,
sist without some type of addi- working spouse at home who while the nation’s infection rate
indoor bars, restaurants, gyms tional financial cushion from Con-
and other establishments to close. could care for children who are not remained higher than those of
gress, they will be faced with a in school in order for a spouse to other wealthy nations — and well
College sports conferences are be- dire choice.
ginning to cancel fall sports, in- report to work, Ms. Kearney said. before the federal government
At Sonoma Fit, a three-gym VICTOR J. BLUE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES “There’s millions of workers had a plan to ensure the safety of
cluding the lucrative football sea- chain in Northern California, busi-
son, and concert tours are out of that can’t go back to work if their anything resembling normal busi-
ness was finally starting to stabi- to change at a moment’s notice. diately return to in-person in- kids don’t have a safe place to be, ness activity. An ensuing surge of
the picture. lize this month after weeks of lost “I really cannot express the lev- struction when the new school most days a week,” Ms. Kearney cases in the Southeast and South-
“The earlier-than-anticipated revenue and extreme uncertainty. el of fear and frustration and help- year begins. In New York and said. “This is not, get schools open west has forced some governors
resumption in activity has been Old customers were starting to lessness that we feel,” Ms. Kovacs other large public school districts or don’t get schools open. We need to reimpose limits.
accompanied by a sharp increase come back. New ones were sign- said. “This slow reopening isn’t around the country, officials are to figure out a way to get schools Restaurants, retailers and other
in the virus spread in many ar- ing up. The thousands of dollars working. Shut down everything, preparing to bring students back open safely.” businesses that have partly
eas,” Lael Brainard, a Federal Re- that Jennifer and Adam Kovacs, shut down every single thing, and for only part-time instruction and Even for workers who are able adapted to the new realities of the
serve governor, said on Tuesday. the owners, had spent to overhaul keep us home for three weeks. I’d have warned parents they could to work from home, having to jug- crisis, often by moving some oper-
“Even if the virus spread flattens, their facilities to allow for social rather do that than this off-on, off- shut down again if cases rise. gle parenting responsibilities dur- ations outdoors, must now brace
the recovery is likely to face head- distancing seemed to be paying on, off-on. Because every time we Those announcements have not ing the day reduces productivity for the prospect of at least several
winds from diminished activity off. do that, we’re losing thousands of been accompanied by govern- and hurts the economy, Ms. Kear- more months of constricted reve-
and costly adjustments in some Then on Monday, a friend called dollars.” ment-funded programs that econ- ney added. “It’s hard to work at nues as colder weather sets in.
sectors, along with impaired in- to tell Ms. Kovacs that the gover- Mr. Trump’s advisers continue omists say would help schools home when kids are at home.” Broadway has shuttered until
comes among many consumers nor had just ordered gyms in to predict the economy will reopen safely or ensure access to Driving all that damage is the 2021. Popular music groups have
and businesses.” much of California to close again. bound sharply in the months child care for millions struggling resurgence of the virus. The fed- canceled tours, leaving independ-
Most economists abandoned Ms. Kovacs said she was “blind- ahead, and the president has to juggle parenting and work — a eral government is nowhere close ent concert venues with no way to
hope for a “V-shaped” recovery sided," but tried to hide it from her made increasingly insistent calls group that is disproportionately to the testing and tracing capacity earn money to survive.
long ago. Now they are warning of 17-year-old daughter, who was for a full reopening of schools this made up of women who are not that some economists have long “I am normally a very opti-
an outright reversal, with mount- working at the front desk. fall. Many economists agree that white. Even as Mr. Trump pushes warned are needed to restore con- mistic person, and I have never
ing job losses and business fail- About three-quarters of Sono- the economy cannot fully recover a return to classrooms, many dis- sumer confidence until a vaccine seen an entire industry face an ex-
ures. And this time, much of the
ma Fit’s nearly 5,000 members — let alone grow — if millions of tricts are facing pandemic-in- is found. The White House and istential struggle like we are fac-
damage is likely to be permanent. stuck with them through the first young children remain at home duced budget shortfalls. lawmakers at every level, on ing right now,” said Audrey Fix
“Our assumption has to be that shutdown, but Ms. Kovacs said without viable child care options. Census figures from 2019 ana- school boards and in Congress, Schaefer, a communications direc-
we’re going into re-lockdown in she thought they would be lucky Yet failure to control the virus has lyzed by Melissa S. Kearney, a have not coalesced around a uni- tor for music venues in Washing-
the fall,” said Karl Smith, the vice to retain half their members this made reopening a risky trade-off. University of Maryland econo- fied approach to getting as many ton, D.C., including The Anthem
president of federal policy at the time. She said she could not imag- Some of the nation’s largest mist who directs the Economic Americans as possible back to and the 9:30 Club, and for a newly
conservative Tax Foundation in ine business returning to normal school districts, including Los An- Strategy Group at the Aspen Insti- work safely by the fall. formed trade group called the Na-
Washington. as long as rules differed by county geles and San Diego, have an- tute, show that nearly one-quarter The country has now tried two tional Independent Venue Associ-
Until recently, Mr. Smith said, and industry — and were subject nounced that they will not imme- of workers — about 38 million strategies to raft its economy ation. “It is that dire.”
THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020 A9
N
Where British Slave Trader’s Statue Stood, Black Protester’s Image Rises
By MARK LANDLER
LONDON — Jen Reid had
never marched in a Black Lives
Matter protest before she took to
the streets of Bristol, England, on
June 7. By the end of that angry
day, she had clambered up to
stand in the place of a 17th-cen-
tury slave trader, whose bronze
statue had been pulled down and
dumped in the city’s harbor.
The image of Ms. Reid, her fist
clenched, her right arm thrust up-
ward in a gesture of defiance,
spread widely on social media.
For many, it seemed the perfect
replacement for the notorious
merchant, Edward Colston — a
flesh-and-blood rebuke to the
trader’s cruel legacy, which still
hangs over modern Bristol.
At dawn on Wednesday morn-
ing, Ms. Reid was up there again
in the form of a resin-and-steel
sculpture by Marc Quinn. A prom-
inent British sculptor known for
his provocative works, Mr. Quinn
said that when he saw the image
of Ms. Reid on the plinth, he
sensed the opportunity for an act
of guerrilla art.
He got in touch with Ms. Reid
and proposed a clandestine
project, in which she would pose
for a sculpture that he would in-
stall where the Colston statue had
stood. Working with a team of 10
people, Mr. Quinn swiftly erected
the piece without the approval of
city authorities. How long it will
be allowed to stay there was not
clear.
“She created this iconic image,”
Mr. Quinn said in an interview.
“I’m just amplifying the moment
she created.”
He said he viewed the sculpture
as a complement to the protests,
one that he hoped would provoke MATT DUNHAM/ASSOCIATED PRESS
debate about “how we commemo- Jen Reid posing in Bristol, England, on Wednesday in front of
rate people in statues.” While he
Marc Quinn’s new statue portraying her. In a June 7 demonstra-
said he did not expect city officials
to leave the work in place perma- tion at the site, which Ms. Reid attended, protesters, left, toppled
nently, he hoped they would leave a statue of the 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston.
it long enough to prompt a conver-
sation. a cast of his head, made from his Bristol’s links to the slave trade.
Ms. Reid, who works as a fash- own frozen blood. He also drew at- Mr. Rees has gotten plenty of
ion stylist, said she found it “surre- tention for a marble sculpture, other suggestions already.
al” to have an artist memorialize “Alison Lapper Pregnant,” which Banksy, the elusive street artist
her spontaneous decision to climb depicted a woman with a condi- who became famous for his graf-
up on the plinth, a moment she re- tion that left her with no arms and fiti paintings on the sides of build-
calls with a mix of exhilaration shortened legs. It was placed on a ings in Bristol, posted a sketch on
and fear, given her worries about plinth in Trafalgar Square in Lon- Instagram of a proposed memori-
falling off. don from 2005 to 2007. al depicting Colston in the act of
“Looking back on that moment, “I’m interested in how society is being toppled, with protesters
it just gives me goose-pimples,” moving, and bringing it into the tugging on ropes around his neck.
she said. “Marc has just captured world of art, which is kind of anti- For Ms. Reid, a descendant of
all of it in the statue.” septic,” Mr. Quinn said. “It’s be- Jamaican immigrants, the debate
Even before that moment, Ms. cause I’m a successful artist, I can over the statue symbolized Bris-
Reid said she had misgivings get this up. It’s a temporary sen- tol’s reluctance to confront the sin-
about going to the march. She is tence in the conversation.” ister past of one of its biggest
taking care of aging parents and The debate over what should benefactors. Colston’s name is still
was worried about the risk of con- permanently replace the Colston on a school, a performing arts cen-
tracting the coronavirus in the statue has percolated since last ter and several other institutions
crowds. But her outrage at the month. Historians have sug- in the city, though some are in the
murder of George Floyd at the gested a statue of Paul Stephen- process of removing it.
hands of the police in Minneapolis son, a Black activist who orga- “I walked past his statue every
overrode her trepidation, she said, BEN BIRCHALL/PRESS ASSOCIATION, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
nized a successful boycott of a day for the last five years,” she
and she decided to go, even buy- Bristol bus company in the 1960s. said. “It’s an effrontery to have a
ing a black beret and glove for the “It wasn’t as easy as it looked posed the project. She traveled to while memories of that day were A mannequin of Jimmy Savile, the slave master you have to walk
occasion. because it was a lot higher than I a film production studio outside fresh. disgraced BBC television host — past everyday.”
Ms. Reid and her husband, thought it was,” Ms. Reid said. London and recreated the pose for Mr. Quinn is part of a cohort of dressed in a blonde wig and neon Ms. Reid said she had no idea
Alasdair Doggart, listened to “My legs were jelly. It was a slow Mr. Quinn, who arrayed 200 cam- British visual artists, known as tracksuit — was placed on the whether the city would let the
speeches before joining a march rise, but when I stood up and eras to shoot her from every an- Young British Artists, or Y.B.A.s, plinth for a few days. statue of her stay in place for sev-
to the site of the Colston statue. Af- raised my fist, the crowd cheered gle. who came to prominence in the As for the statue of Colston, eral months — or a single day. But
ter they watched the crowd tear it like crazy.” After he made a three-dimen- 1980s. The group, which includes Bristol’s mayor, Marvin Rees, or- she confessed to being tickled
down and dump it in the water, the Mr. Doggart snapped a photo, sional scan, Mr. Quinn created the Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, is dered it fished out of the harbor about being a part of Bristol’s ur-
couple returned to the empty which he posted on his Instagram sculpture from resin. Working in known for the shock value of their and stored for safekeeping while ban landscape in a time of social
plinth, where — helped up by Mr. account. The next morning, after a bronze, he said, would have added works, like Mr. Hirst’s display of a the public debates what to do with change.
Doggart — she stood on the plinth colleague of Mr. Quinn’s showed it several months to the project, and shark preserved in formaldehyde. it. It is likely to end up in a local “I’ll tell people to meet me by
and struck her pose. to him, he called Ms. Reid and pro- he wanted to install the piece Mr. Quinn’s best known work is museum that has an exhibit about my statue,” she said laughing.
Tahini Becomes Flashpoint

In a Gay Rights Struggle
By ADAM RASGON transgender members of Israel’s
TEL AVIV — When Julia Zaher, Arab minority, who say they are
the owner of a company that discriminated against and mar-
makes some of the most popular ginalized twice over.
tahini in Israel, made a donation to “This is a huge event,” said
an Israeli gay rights group re- Khader Abu-Seif, 33, an L.G.B.T.
cently, she saw it as an unremark- rights activist in Tel Aviv. “Of
able act. course, we’re seeing ugliness, but
“When I see people in a tough we’re also seeing support from
place, I always like to help them,” people who never spoke out
Ms. Zaher, 65, an Arab citizen of openly for us in the past.”
Israel, said in an interview. “If ev- Ms. Zaher, a mild-mannered,
eryone turns their back on this strong-willed mother of two from
community, who is going to help?” Nazareth, may seem an unlikely
But after the gay rights organi- catalyst for the controversy. SAMAR HAZBOUN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES ARIEL ROSENTHAL
zation publicly thanked her, the A schoolteacher for decades, A donation to a gay rights group by Julia Zaher, the Israeli Arab owner of a tahini producer, led to a backlash and a counter-backlash.
backlash in Israel’s socially con- she took over her husband’s tahini
servative Arab community was business when he died after a
The donation she made to when Arabs are participating in to remain on the sidelines when last August, hundreds of people
swift and unforgiving. heart attack in 2003.
Aguda, a national L.G.B.T. rights these efforts,” said Mr. Khateb, L.G.B.T. people were attacked. protested in Haifa after the stab-
Activists called for a boycott of The company was in poor finan-
organization, was to help set up a who has used derogatory terms to Aside from the anti-gay back- bing of a young transgender Arab.
her company, Al Arz. Videos circu- cial shape, she said in an inter-
hotline for Arabic-speaking Is- describe members of the L.G.B.T. lash, some gay Arabs also criti- “What we have been seeing is
lated on Facebook and Twitter of view on Saturday in Tel Aviv. But
she poured herself into it, paying raelis. community and asserted that cized the donation for going to an the taboo slowly being broken
Arab shopkeepers pulling Al Arz’s
off debts, persuading the bank to The group’s C.E.O., Ohad Hizki, they had “psychological dis- Israeli organization, which they down,” said Fady Khoury, 35, a
tahini from their shelves and
lend her more money and upgrad- declined to say how much Ms. Za- orders” requiring “treatment.” contend supports policies that gay civil rights lawyer from Haifa.
throwing it in the garbage. An ex-
ecutive at one of the largest Arab- ing the manufacturing process. her had given but called it “signifi- But the boycott has also drawn work to erase the Palestinian ex- “Everything that happened in the
owned grocery chains in Israel, Al Today, her company’s two cant.” He said the hotline would be public opposition from supporters perience, instead of a Palestinian past year is the culmination of the
Mashadawi, said it was consider- plants in the Nazareth area open for calls by next month. of gay rights. one. Aguda denies the accusation, work that has been done over the
ing dropping Al Arz from its 14 produce 20 to 25 tons of tahini a The controversy erupted when “I’m with Al Arz against the saying it advocates equal rights past two decades — all the efforts
stores. day. The paste they make from Aguda thanked Ms. Zaher on Twit- boycott,” Hana Amoury, a resident for all gay and transgender people activists have made to promote
“We have values that we fol- Ethiopian sesame seeds is nearly ter on July 1. of the port city of Jaffa, wrote on in Israel, regardless of their reli- social change on this issue.”
low,” said Jabr Hejazi, a super- ubiquitous at supermarkets and Mouad Khateb, one of the most Facebook. “Those still saying and gious or national background. But Ms. Zaher, whose phone has
market owner in the northern restaurants in Israel and is ex- prominent opponents of the dona- thinking gay people are ‘abnor- Al Arz’s donation was only the been ringing constantly over the
town of Tamra who abruptly ported to 18 countries, including tion, expressed the views of many mal’ need to do some reading.” latest in a series of public demon- past week, said she was still puz-
stopped carrying the brand. “It’s a the United States. And Ms. Zaher critics, saying that he had no ob- Mr. Abu-Seif, the activist, noted strations of support for Arab gays zled by the uproar.
simple matter.” became the rare woman to lead a jection to whatever gay and trans- that an Arab lawmaker from Acre, and lesbians, activists say. “I never could have imagined
But gay rights activists say the major Arab-owned company. gender people do in private but Aida Touma-Sliman, had spoken In May, thousands of mourners that something like this would
controversy has had the welcome No stranger to philanthropy, that the donation would contrib- out in defense of the L.G.B.T. com- attended the funeral of Ayman happen,” she said. “It doesn’t
side effect of focusing attention on she had made previous donations ute to “normalizing” their “unnat- munity — a rare instance, he said, Safiah, a gay dancer who drowned make sense: You do something
a group whose problems have to benefit women’s rights and peo- ural” way of life to the Arab public. and a sign that it was becoming in the Mediterranean after help- positive, and then you get some-
been ignored for too long: gay and ple with disabilities. “What’s most problematic is more difficult for Arab politicians ing save the life of a friend. And thing negative in return.”
A10 N THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020
TikTok’s All-American Bid to Calm Fears on China: Lobbyists Shipyard

This article is by Cecilia Kang,
Lara Jakes, Ana Swanson and Da-
company officials have also raised
the possibility of changes to Tik-
Is Latest Site
Tok’s corporate structure that
Hit by Fires
vid McCabe.
WASHINGTON — TikTok, the could include moving its global
wildly popular social media app headquarters, these people said.
known for its viral dance and lip
sync clips, has been embraced by
millions of students, celebrities
The company has added well-
connected lobbyists, including Mr.
Beckerman, the former president
Across Iran
and young adults across the of the Internet Association and a By FARNAZ FASSIHI
United States. But the company’s longtime Republican congres-
A large fire broke out at a ship-
ties to China could cripple its ex- sional aide, and David J. Urban,
yard in the southern Iranian port
istence. who ran Mr. Trump’s campaign in
Pennsylvania and has been de- city of Bushehr on Wednesday,
TikTok, which is owned by the burning seven ships and sending
China-based ByteDance, has be- scribed by the president as “one of
my good friends.” He was also a plumes of black smoke billowing
come the latest target in the above the city skyline, according
Trump administration’s long-sim- West Point classmate of Mr. Pom-
peo and Mark T. Esper, the de- to videos and Iranian media re-
mering security and economic
fense secretary. ports.
battle with Beijing. It is now des-
perately trying to convince law- Mr. Beckerman has hired 15 lob- The fire followed dozens of re-
makers and administration offi- byists and communications staff cent fires and explosions across
cials that its allegiance lies with members for ByteDance, includ- Iran’s forests, factories and mili-
the United States, not China. ing former aides to Paul Ryan, the tary and nuclear facilities in the
The social media company, former Wisconsin lawmaker and past three months that have rat-
which one year ago had virtually speaker of the House, and Repre- tled ordinary Iranians. Iranian of-
no lobbying presence in the na- sentative Jim Clyburn of South ficials have said that some of the
tion’s capital, has hired a small Carolina, the Democratic whip. episodes may have been acts of
army of more than 35 lobbyists to ByteDance has also tapped its sabotage but blamed weather, ac-
work on its behalf, including one prominent investors for help. cidents and equipment malfunc-
with deep ties to President Trump. General Atlantic, whose chief ex- tions for the others.
GREG BAKER/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
Behind that buildup is a grow- ecutive, William E. Ford, sits on On Tuesday an aluminum fac-
ing threat to one of TikTok’s most ByteDance, TikTok’s owner, spent $300,000 on U.S. lobbying in the first three months of 2020. ByteDance’s board, has been ad- tory in the industrial city of
important markets. Secretary of vising TikTok on lobbying strat- Lamard in Fars Province caught
State Mike Pompeo has threat- its roots in China. The company viding a conduit for the Chinese secure Chinese telecommunica- egy, and SoftBank, which invested fire. On Sunday, a fire broke out at
ened to ban Chinese apps like Tik- stressed TikTok was not available government to infiltrate Ameri- tions companies in the name of in ByteDance in 2018, has sug- petrochemical plant in Khuzestan
Tok, which are downloaded to mo- in China — it offers a similar app can technology. Out of national se- protecting Americans’ private in- gested Washington hires, said two
Province.
bile phones, over concerns that called Douyin there instead — and curity concerns, the United States formation, according to officials people familiar with the matter.
An explosion at the country’s
they could be used for surveil- said user data was stored in Vir- has already barred dozens of Chi- familiar with the discussions. For the first three months of
2020, ByteDance spent $300,000 top nuclear facility in Natanz two
lance by the Chinese government. ginia, with a backup in Singapore. nese companies — including TikTok would be considered
on lobbying, double the amount it weeks ago damaged the structure
Peter Navarro, the White House “There’s a lot of misinformation those specializing in supercom- among those apps, although offi-
had spent in the previous quarter where centrifuges were assem-
trade adviser, called TikTok’s new about TikTok right now,” said Mi- puters, artificial intelligence and cials said the State Department
chief executive an “American pup- and the equivalent of its two quar- bled and has been attributed to Is-
chael Beckerman, vice president facial recognition — from gaining had not yet designated companies
pet” during a Fox Business inter- to be included in the expansion. ters of lobbying in 2019. TikTok’s raeli sabotage.
and head of U.S. public policy for access to American technology.
view on Sunday and said the ad- the company. “TikTok is led by an “Whether it’s TikTok or any of lobbying force is not as large as There have also been explo-
ministration would take “strong “What the American people those of other tech giants, like Am- sions at two power plants, a chlo-
American C.E.O., with hundreds the other Chinese communica-
action” against the company and have to understand is all the data azon, Facebook and Google, but it rine gas leak at a chemical plant
of employees and key leaders tions platforms, apps, infrastruc-
other Chinese social media apps. across safety, security, product that goes into those mobile apps has deployed a defensive army and an explosion at a missile pro-
ture, this administration has tak-
A powerful U.S. panel has and public policy in the U.S.” that kids have so much fun with en seriously the requirement to with astonishing speed. duction factory at a military com-
opened a national security review But some members of Congress and seem so convenient, it goes protect the American people from Efforts to sway lawmakers plex in Tehran.
into Bytedance’s 2018 purchase of still have suspicions. An aide to right to servers in China, right to having their information end up in have not always gone smoothly. Some Iranian officials have said
Musical.ly, an app that was Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida the Chinese military, the Chinese the hands of the Chinese Commu- The company scheduled meetings privately that they suspected that
merged to form TikTok. The Com- Republican who requested the Communist Party and the agen- nist Party,” Mr. Pompeo said last December between its head at at least some of the fires and ex-
mittee on Foreign Investment in CFIUS review of TikTok, said Wednesday in an interview with the time, Alex Zhu, and lawmak- plosions were part of an American
the United States is examining ByteDance had provided conflict- the newspaper The Hill. ers who had criticized of the com- and Israeli military campaign
whether the merged companies ing information in a meeting with He said he had heard from par- pany. It then canceled the meet- against Iran but no official has
could give the Chinese govern- representatives of Mr. Rubio’s of- A viral social media ents eager to see TikTok banned: ings, which irritated lawmakers, publicly said whether any of the
ment access to vast amounts of fice about where its data was “That’s for the parents to decide who promptly shared news of the
American data, including videos stored, as well as insufficient in- app fights for its their kids’ usage on their cell- canceled meetings on Twitter.
incidents are linked or blamed any
country or group for them.
that would be useful for training (TikTok told reporters at the time
facial recognition software. And
formation about how it controls
and censors its content.
future in Washington. phones. It’s our task to make sure
that their children’s information that the meetings had been post-
Some analysts speculate that
various enemies of the Iranian
the Trump administration is “It is no coincidence that every doesn’t end up in the hands of the poned until after the holidays.)
government — not just the United
weighing action against Chinese day more companies and organi- Chinese Communist Party.” In meetings with lawmakers,
social media services like TikTok lobbyists insist that the app is States and Israel but possibly do-
zations are asking employees to cies that want to steal our intellec- Officials have also been consid-
under the International Emer- mainly for entertainment and mestic groups as well — may be
delete TikTok,” Mr. Rubio said in a tual property,” Mr. Navarro said ering potential national security
gency Economic Powers Act, does not involve the type of con- seizing the opportunity to stoke
statement, referring to moves by over the weekend. risks from other Chinese internet
which allows the president to reg- tent that is normally targeted for the chaos.
Wells Fargo and others to bar the The issue of whether TikTok and social media services, includ-
ulate international commerce in app from company devices. “Tik- ing Tencent’s WeChat, which had government surveillance, accord- “There is a belief that those who
response to unusual and extraor- should be curbed in the United ing to two people with knowledge want regime change in Iran are
Tok has yet to provide a real expla- more than a billion active monthly
dinary threats, people familiar States has taken on new urgency, of TikTok’s lobbying activities. throwing everything they have at
nation to Americans about how users worldwide in the first quar-
with the deliberations say. in part because of India’s decision They point out that the most popu- Iran to see which one would stick,”
they protect their data and how ter of 2020.
In the past three months, lobby- in late June to ban TikTok and lar clips are by young influencers said Foad Izadi a conservative po-
much of it could be made available “These companies cannot claim
ists working on behalf of TikTok nearly 60 other Chinese apps, a like the 16-year-old dancer Charli
to the Chinese Communist Party.” that they don’t follow the orders of
have held at least 50 meetings Trump administration official D’Amelio of Connecticut.
The United States provides a the party; that’s just not credible,”
with congressional staff members said. TikTok has been downloaded The company has also high-
crucial audience for TikTok. said Derek Scissors, a resident
and lawmakers, including those American influencers have global two billion times, with its biggest
markets in India, the United
scholar at the American Enter- lighted its American investors, Forests, factories and
on top committees like those relat- followings, and the app has be- prise Institute who tracks Chinese like the Chinese arm of the ven-
ed to commerce, the judiciary and come a center of conversation States and Brazil, according to investment worldwide. “Chinese ture capital firm Sequoia and the military facilities have
intelligence. Those meetings have SensorTower. private equity firms KKR and
featured a slick presentation that
about politics, the pandemic and
racial inequality. TikTok users Last December, the Pentagon
firms don’t have a choice.”
TikTok and the venture funds it General Atlantic, one person fa- burned recently.
includes an organizational chart claimed credit for reserving thou- ordered military personnel to de- counts as its major investors have miliar with the matter said.
showing that TikTok does not op- sands of seats for Mr. Trump’s lete the TikTok app from their tried to reassure the Trump ad- Mr. Beckerman’s staff sends an
erate in China and that most of its campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., last phones, and some administration ministration — including Treas- email newsletter to Capitol Hill
officials have argued that the litical analyst in Tehran. The
top leaders reside in the United month — and then not showing ury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, with uplifting stories about Tik-
States and are American citizens. United States should retroactively waves of explosions and fires he
up. who is in charge of the national se- Tok. The newsletters have high-
For instance, TikTok’s new chief block ByteDance’s acquisition of said are “creating this sense of in-
But it remains a high bar for curity review panel — that it has lighted fun videos about the Net-
executive, Kevin Mayer, a former Musical.ly, which could force the flix series “Tiger King” and clips stability and chaos and insecuri-
ByteDance to convince the U.S. walled off its China operations
executive at Disney, lives in Los company to divest its American related to Covid-19 prevention. ty.”
government that it is not suscepti- from other global activities, peo-
Angeles, they say. ble to the directives of the Chinese assets, or at least make changes to ple familiar with the conversa- But in recent days, they have No casualties were reported for
ByteDance denies that it shares government. Mr. Trump and his the way it moves and stores data. tions said. The company pulled its taken a more defensive tone. In the shipyard fire on Wednesday.
data with the Chinese govern- top advisers have increasingly fo- The State Department is con- operations out of Hong Kong after the newsletter sent Friday, Mr. Local officials said the flames
ment and is distancing itself from cused on Chinese technology sidering expanding its so-called the city imposed new security Beckerman highlighted TikTok’s were so extensive that they had to
companies, including Huawei and clean networks program to in- laws that would bring Chinese- decision to leave Hong Kong. call in additional fire engines from
Raymond Zhong contributed ZTE, saying those companies clude apps as it tries to steer for- style censorship to residents. Dur- “We put action behind words,” the navy, the Revolutionary
reporting. threaten national security by pro- eign governments away from un- ing discussions with U.S. officials, he said. Guards Corp and a nearby nucle-
ar plant.
The fire was tamed after about
Monsoon Floods in South Asia Kill Hundreds and Displace Millions

five hours, local media reported.
Jahangir Dehghan, Bushehr’s
top crisis official, said the cause of
the fire was unclear but high
By SAMEER YASIR increased the frequency of ex-
treme rains, which are more likely winds and the fiberglass used in
When heavy floods started in- boat construction at the shipyard
undating her riverside home last to cause flooding.
Last year, at least 600 people had contributed to its rapid
week in the village of Madarganj, spread, according to the Tasnim
northern Bangladesh, Habiba Be- were killed and more than 25 mil-
lion affected by flooding because news agency. Fiberglass, howev-
gum chose to stay put with her
of the torrential monsoon rains in er, is not generally flammable.
family instead of moving to shel-
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and While government officials
ter.
Nepal, according to the United have not linked the fires and ex-
Ms. Begum’s family, desperate
to save what few possessions they Nations. And in 2017, more than plosions, they have acknowledged
had, chained their only suitcase to 1,000 people died in floods across that the number and frequency
their house, a makeshift structure South Asia. are unusual.
of bamboo and banana leaves con- Rainfall has been heaviest this Aside from military and indus-
structed after the last devastating year in northeast India, Bangla- trial fires, there have been more
flood in the area, just two years desh, Bhutan, Myanmar and Ne- than 1,000 separate forest fires in
ago. pal, according to the Southeast the past three months. Parliament
As the waters rose, the house Asia Flash Flood Forecast Sys- called in the ministers of envi-
was marooned in muddied waters, tem, which is affiliated with the ronment and intelligence to ques-
and the family had to cook meals United Nations. tion them about the forest fires, at
on a raised area of dry ground The Bangladeshi authorities least a fifth of which were believed
nearby. say that the flooding started in to be arson.
Then tragedy struck. Ms. Be- late June, inundations are ex- Many Iranians and some offi-
gum left her 1-year-old daughter, pected to continue this month, and cials suspect that the fires and ex-
Lamia Khatun, on a patch of more areas will be affected. plosions are part of a coordinated
higher ground while she washed Enamur Rahman, the Bangla- covert operation by the United
clothes in floodwaters on Tuesday. deshi minister for disaster man- States and Israel to pressure the
But the waters kept rising. agement, said the inundations Islamic Republic government to
“When I came back, she was were the worst in decades and negotiate a new nuclear deal or to
gone,” Ms. Begum, 32, said. “We that hundreds of thousands of MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
provoke a response and start a
found her body hours later.” families had been marooned, forc- In Sunamgong, Bangladesh, this week. Monsoon floods killed 600 in southern Asia last year. military confrontation.
Across southern Asia, more ing the authorities to open more
The July 2 explosion at Natanz
than four million people have been than a thousand emergency shel-
districts across Assam. homeless by the floods. was part of a yearlong covert op-
hit hard by monsoon floods that ters. Bangladesh, Bhutan, In Nepal, 67 people have died “It is as if we have committed eration by Israel and the United
have destroyed homes and struc- “We are fighting the catastro-
tures, drowned entire villages and phe with every possible resource India, Myanmar and and 40 others are missing, accord-
ing to the National Emergency
some sin,” Mr. ul-Islam said. “This
is the third time in the last few
States, American and Middle
Eastern intelligence officials have
forced people to crouch on available,” Mr. Rahman said. “It
rooftops hoping for rescue. seems rains and floods will be pro- Nepal are inundated. Operation Center. years that we will have to rebuild said. Intelligence officials said the
longed this year.” That is in additional to the mon- our lives from scratch.” blast may have set the Iranian nu-
The monsoon season — usually
June to September — brings a tor- Researchers have warned that soons that have battered Bangla- Ms. Begum, who lost her 1-year- clear program back as much as
rent of heavy rain, a deluge that is within a few decades, Bangladesh, million affected by the deluge. desh. Low-lying and densely pop- old, said her life had been com- two years.
crucial to South Asia’s agrarian with a population of more than 160 In the northeastern state of As- ulated, the country is chronically pletely destroyed. She has now Israel and the United States
economy. million people, may lose more sam, Kaziranga National Park, a ravaged by flooding. moved to a nearby shelter, a have sabotaged Iran’s nuclear
But in recent years, the mon- than 10 percent of its land to sea- World Heritage site that is a home In Jamalpur, in the north, the school building, where hundreds program in the past.
soon season has increasingly level rise, caused by a warming to the one-horned Indian rhinoc- flood situation has become criti- of people were crammed in. Fear But officials from both coun-
brought cyclones and devastating climate, displacing as many as 18 eros, a species listed as vulnerable cal, with rivers flowing well above of the coronavirus spreading in tries said they had nothing to do
the danger level. Muneeb-ul-Is- such cramped quarters looms with the explosion at a missile pro-
million.
floods, causing the internal dis- by the WWF, has been completely
placement of millions of people in India has also suffered im- inundated. Officials said that lam, 42, who lives in the area with large. Ms. Begum’s family said duction facility near Tehran in late
low-lying areas, particularly in mensely. Floods have swept more than 50 animals had died in his wife and three children, said he there had not been enough warn- June.
Bangladesh. across the states of Assam, Bihar, the flooding, though some wildlife had lost his home several times in ing about the magnitude of the
Scientists say global warming Odisha, West Bengal and other ar- had been rescued. 10 years, leaving him with nothing flooding.
has played a role by affecting rain- eas in the eastern part of the coun- With more than a dozen rivers but the clothes he was wearing. “I will never go back to the No day is complete
fall patterns across the subconti- try. The authorities in the country and tributaries swelling above the Mr. ul-Islam and his family are place where we used to live,” she without
nent. Instead of more constant but have said that at least 85 people danger mark, rescue operations among more than a million people said, “The water has snatched ev-
less intense rains, warming has have died, with more than three have been carried out in at least 22 in Bangladesh left displaced or erything from us.” The New York Times.
THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020 N A11
China Vows Retaliation for Latest Trump Moves North Macedonia Election
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
China on Wednesday sharply
Produces No Clear Winner
criticized President Trump’s By PATRICK KINGSLEY tors from addressing other ten-
moves to strip Hong Kong of its sions in the Balkans, like the still
preferential trading status with BERLIN — The first general
election in North Macedonia since unresolved dispute between Kos-
the United States and clear the ovo and Serbia.
way for new sanctions on officials the country changed its name and
resolved a longstanding dispute While Mr. Zaev has been
and companies there, vowing to praised as a statesman outside the
retaliate with punitive measures with neighboring Greece has
ended with no clear winner, leav- country, within North Macedonia
of its own. he divides opinion, partly because
The response from the Ministry ing the country’s future diplomat-
ic trajectory in the balance. of a step his government took to
of Foreign Affairs in Beijing prom- end its diplomatic isolation: add-
ised to continue a pattern of tit- The center-left Social Demo-
crats emerged as the strongest ing the word “North” to the coun-
for-tat punishments that have ac- try’s name. That reassured
companied the sharp downward party, taking 36.3 percent of the
vote with nearly 90 percent of bal- Greece that its neighbor no longer
turn in relations between the two harbored any secret claims over
lots counted. That leaves the
countries on a variety of fronts, the Greek region also named
party several seats short of the 61
from trade to technology to hu- Macedonia.
it needs to form a majority in the
man rights. But the decision left many in the
120-seat Parliament, and facing
China was swift to criticize Mr. small Balkan nation feeling their
several days of tense coalition
Trump’s latest actions, which he identity had been erased. Many
talks with smaller parties.
announced at a rambling White also resented the way Mr. Zaev
The Social Democrats’ closest
House news conference on Tues- pushed the amendment through
rival, the nationalist VMRO- Parliament, though a majority of
day. Those moves, along with his DPMNE, won 34.9 percent, mean-
remarks, underscored the extent citizens boycotted a referendum
ing it could still gain power with on the subject.
to which relations with Beijing the support of smaller parties rep-
have become intertwined with the Mr. Zaev entered office in 2017
resenting the country’s ethnic Al- after a government led by VMRO-
American presidential election. LAM YIK FEI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
banian minority. “It’s still on the
Mr. Trump said he had issued an A float in Hong Kong harbor on July 1 welcoming the enactment of China’s national security law. DPMNE collapsed amid a series
precipice,” said Petar Arsovski, a of protests against corruption, ju-
executive order revoking the spe- political analyst and polling ex-
cial trading status that Hong Kong dicial interference and govern-
ing status, calls for sanctions aimed at attacking China. the intent of the United States, pert based in North Macedonia. ment surveillance. His predeces-
had enjoyed for more than two against people deemed to have The impact of the new powers drive the territory closer to main- The muddy result reflects the
decades, following the Chinese sor, Nikola Gruevski, later fled the
been involved in a variety of acts detailed in the American law and land China. ambivalence many Macedonians country to escape corruption
government’s imposition of a in Hong Kong, including arrests Mr. Trump’s executive order re- “The overall damage to Hong feel toward Zoran Zaev, the Social charges.
sweeping new national security made under the new security law mains to be seen. Congress has Kong and to China is rather min- Democrats’ leader. As prime min-
law there. Mr. Zaev resigned from the pre-
and actions that undermine demo- authorized similar measures be- imal and can be absorbed,” said ister, he angered some voters by miership in January to allow a
The law came into force on June cratic processes or limit the news fore, only to have the administra- Mr. Lau, a former senior Hong changing the country’s name and caretaker government to oversee
30, and its chilling effect on politi- media’s freedoms. tion delay imposing them as it Kong government official who is by what they saw as foot-dragging the election campaign.
cal freedoms in the city — which, Officials in Beijing had clearly weighed other foreign policy con- now with the Chinese Association on an overhaul of the judicial sys- The quality of democracy in
under a formula called “one coun- anticipated the moves, but they siderations, including Mr. Trump’s of Hong Kong and Macau Studies. tem. But Mr. Zaev did raise wages, North Macedonia improved
try, two systems,” is supposed to reacted harshly nonetheless. signature trade deal with China. He said Hong Kong was becom- led North Macedonia into NATO slightly during Mr. Zaev’s tenure,
have a high degree of autonomy “The act on the United States With relations deteriorating ing “increasingly detached from and cleared the way for its Euro- according to annual ratings issued
from China — has already been side maliciously denigrates Hong badly and the pandemic’s toll the United States and the West, pean Union application by settling by Freedom House, a Washing-
evident in a series of arrests and Kong’s national security legisla- mounting in the United States, the and increasingly attached to longstanding disputes with ton-based rights watchdog, but
police raids. tion, threatens to impose sanc- administration has acted more ag- China and Asia.” Greece and Bulgaria. his critics believe he has not done
Mr. Trump also signed legisla- tions on China and gravely vio- gressively in recent weeks. Others said the American ac- While Mr. Zaev’s nationalist op- enough to strengthen the judicia-
tion, adopted overwhelmingly in lates international law and basic When the United States im- tions could have more significant ponents support the country’s ry or to combat corruption.
May by Congress, that authorizes rules of international relations,” posed sanctions on four Chinese effects by hurting the city’s repu- membership in NATO and its E.U. Just over half of voters turned
the administration to impose the Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials over China’s crackdown tation for openness and rule of application, they also want to re- out, about 15 percentage points
sanctions on officials or institu- said in a statement posted on Uighurs and other Muslims in law. visit aspects of the deals with less than in 2016, partly because of
tions, including banks, found to Wednesday morning in China, not the far western region of Xinjiang, “The only way we can regain Greece and Bulgaria. fears over the spread of the coro-
have undermined Hong Kong’s long after Mr. Trump spoke. Beijing reciprocated by announc- the respect and favorable condi- That would be likely to cause a navirus, analysts said.
semiautonomous status. “It is gross interference in Hong ing travel bans and sanctions on tions that we deserve is if Beijing diplomatic row, raising the risk The election was initially sched-
His executive order, besides re- Kong affairs and China’s internal prominent Republican members fulfills its original promise to the that Greece and Bulgaria, both uled for April but was postponed
voking the territory’s special trad- affairs,” the ministry said. of Congress. world and Hong Kong people, E.U. members, could hinder North to avoid the peak of the pandemic.
The Hong Kong government Lau Siu-kai, a senior adviser to which is the genuine implementa- Macedonia’s application. It could The election authority delayed the
Reporting and research were con- said in a statement that the United the Chinese government on Hong tion of ‘one country, two systems’ also distract international media- announcement of initial results
tributed by Keith Bradsher and States was “using human rights, Kong policy, said the American ac- and our high degree of autonomy,” because of problems with its web-
Claire Fu in Beijing and Elaine Yu democracy and autonomy as an tions would have limited effect on said James To, a pro-democracy Alisa Dogramadzieva contributed site, which the authority attribut-
in Hong Kong. excuse” to introduce measures Hong Kong and would, contrary to Hong Kong lawmaker. reporting. ed to a possible hacking attack.
U.S., Targeting China,

Weighs a Ban on Visits
By Communist Loyalists
get a leg up in a wide range of sec-
From Page A1 tors: business, academia and
knowledge of party status for a even the arts. Many party mem-
vast majority of them. So trying to bers do not conform to official
immediately identify party mem- ideology; some are Christians
bers to either prevent their entry who attend underground
or expel those already in the churches, for example.
United States would be difficult. Many Chinese outside the party
The presidential order would praise the top leadership but com-
cite the same statute in the Immi- plain about corruption among lo-
gration and Nationality Act used cal officials.
in a 2017 travel ban on a number of Counting party members as
predominantly Muslim countries well as their families, the ban
that gives the president power to could technically bar travel to the
temporarily block travel to the United States for as many as 270
U.S. by foreign nationals who are million people, according to one
deemed “detrimental to the inter- internal administration estimate.
ests of the United States.” The “The overwhelming majority of
2017 ban was fought in the courts C.C.P. members have no involve-
and expanded this year. ment or input into Beijing’s policy-
Such a broad ban would be the making, so going after the entire
most provocative action against party membership is like China
China by the United States since sanctioning all Republicans be-
the start of the trade war between cause of frustrations with Trump,”
the two countries in 2018. It would said Jude Blanchette, a China
further poison U.S.-China rela- scholar at the Center for Strategic
tions, even after several years of and International Studies in
open clashes over economics, Washington. “Such a move would PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROMAN PILIPEY/EPA, VIA SHUTTERSTOCK
technology and global influence inflame public opinion in China, as
have led some diplomats and ana- this would target nearly 10 per- President Xi Jinping of China,
lysts to draw comparisons to a cent of the entire Chinese popula- above, at the Great Hall of the
new Cold War. tion and would do so based on People in May. Left, morning
Officials at the White House, blanket assertions of guilt.” rush hour in Beijing. The Com-
State Department and Depart- Besides the iterations of the
2017 travel ban, the Trump admin-
munist Party is a powerful yet
ment of Homeland Security have
been involved in the discussion istration has put in place other en- mundane part of Chinese life.
over the ban. Spokesmen for the try restrictions. This year, during An American proposal would
White House National Security the pandemic, it has banned entry cite the same statute used in a
Council and the State Department for most citizens of China as well 2017 travel ban on several pre-
declined to comment on Wednes- as those from the European Union dominantly Muslim nations.
day, and one for the Department of and some other nations. And last
Homeland Security did not return month, it blocked employment vi-
a request for comment. sas and extended restrictions on poses other than maintaining law
Officials at those agencies also issuance of green cards, moves and order,” which could include
continue to debate a variety of for- that would keep as many as “detention and the use of exit
mulations for banning Chinese 525,000 foreign workers out of the bans.”
travel to the United States short of United States for the rest of the On Tuesday, the Trump admin-
barring all party members, such year. istration reversed course on an or-
as targeting only the 25 members The State Department has also der that would have subjected in-
of the ruling Politburo and their announced visa restrictions on ternational students to deporta-
families. various categories of Chinese citi- tion if they did not physically at-
In recent months, top adminis- zens. These include officials re- tend classes during the pandemic,
tration officials have tried to draw sponsible for the mass internment after American universities filed a
a distinction between party mem- and surveillance of Muslim ethnic lawsuit.
bers and other Chinese, saying minorities in the Xinjiang region Still, the administration has
the party must be punished for its and journalists working in the stood by its visa actions focused
actions — and its global ambitions United States. more narrowly on China. The Chi-
must be thwarted. They have In May, American officials said nese government has continued
loudly denounced what they call the government was canceling the with its own harsh visa actions,
the evils of the Chinese Commu- visas of graduate or higher-level tions companies around the world to China, warning of further dam- Security would share responsibil- and even widened them to the
nist Party, pointing to the role of students in the United States who should consider themselves on age to the world economy and fall- ity for carrying out the ban. nonrenewal of work permits for
its officials in the cover-up of the had ties to certain Chinese mili- notice: If they are doing business ing stock markets. Those advisers Several Chinese citizens who Western journalists in Hong
initial coronavirus outbreak, the tary institutions. with Huawei, they are doing busi- and allies among American exec- have traveled to the United States Kong.
detentions of one million or more After Mr. Trump signed the ness with human rights abusers.” utives are likely to oppose a broad in recent years said they did not At a speech in Beijing this
Muslims in internment camps and Hong Kong Autonomy Act on Despite Mr. Trump’s admiration visa ban on Communist Party recall any questions on visa appli- month, Wang Yi, the foreign min-
the dismantling of civil liberties in Tuesday, the State Department for Mr. Xi, national security offi- members, some of whom do busi- cations asking if they were party ister of China, said the China-U.S.
Hong Kong. was expected to propose names of cials have tried to push tough poli- ness with American corporations. members. relationship was facing its “most
The Communist Party is both a Chinese officials overseeing re- cies on China that are designed to A broad ban would give the Language in the draft procla- severe challenge” since the nor-
powerful and mundane part of life pression in Hong Kong for visa counter what they view as dan- State Department new powers to mation stresses recent egregious malization of diplomatic ties in
in China. While its leaders main- and economic sanctions. gerous expansionist actions by block top Chinese political and behavior by China, in particular 1979.
tain control of domestic and for- And on Wednesday, Secretary Chinese leaders and agencies. business leaders and their fam- theft of intellectual property by “Some say that China-U.S. rela-
eign policy, those on lower rungs of State Mike Pompeo announced The pandemic and Beijing’s re- ilies from entering the United Chinese state actors and so-called tions will not be able to return to
do everything from supervising a ban on some employees of Chi- cent actions on Hong Kong have States. It would also allow the de- exit bans used by security officials its past,” he said. “But that should
schools to managing neighbor- nese technology companies, in- helped push relations between the partment to formalize a process to prevent some U.S. citizens from not mean ignoring the history al-
hood-level governance. In recent cluding Huawei, that “provide ma- two nations to the lowest point in by which American officials could leaving China. This month, the together and starting all over
decades, many citizens joined to terial support to regimes engag- decades. inquire about party status during State Department renewed a trav- again, let alone impractical decou-
ing in human rights abuses glob- At the same time, some of Mr. visa application interviews and on el warning, saying the Chinese au- pling. It should mean building on
Julian E. Barnes contributed really.” Trump’s top economic advisers forms. Under the draft proclama- thorities engaged in “arbitrary en- past achievements and keeping
porting. He added, “Telecommunica- have promoted a softer approach tion, the Department of Homeland forcement of local laws for pur- pace with the times.”
PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fiery, Tempestuous Birth The atomic device detonated

at the Trinity test site in New
Mexico on July 16, 1945, ex-
For a Global Nuclear Age

ploded with the force of
21,000 tons of TNT, creating a
giant fireball, left, and blasting
the desert surface, above.
By MARIA CRAMER the small towns within 40 miles of the
It was 1 a.m. on July 16, 1945, when J. testing site. A scientist who was seven
Robert Oppenheimer met with an Army months pregnant and her husband, who
was also a scientist, were sent to a motel developments in 1945 that would have
lieutenant general, Leslie Groves, in the avoided dropping those bombs,” Mr. Ol-
parched landscape of Jornada del in one of the towns with a Geiger counter,
a device used to detect radioactive emis- son said. “Truman wanted to end the war
Muerto — Dead Man’s Journey — a re-
sions, to measure the radiation. If the as quickly as possible.”
mote desert in New Mexico.
needle hit a certain mark, she was in- The United States wanted “uncondi-
A group of engineers and physicists
structed to alert officials so that they tional surrender” from Japan, he said.
was about to detonate an atomic device
could evacuate the town, Professor Wel- “Government leaders thought that was
packed with 13 pounds of plutonium, a
nuclear weapon that the government lerstein said. going to require a psychological shock.”
hoped would bring an end to World War Officials did not warn any of the resi- There were repercussions and regret.
II. dents — many of them ranchers, Nava-
jos, Mexican settlers and their descend- The bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima
Some scientists on the project worried
ants who raised cattle and drank water are believed to have killed up to about
that they were about to light the entire
from cisterns — about the test. Should 200,000 people, with many of those vic-
world on fire, according to researchers.
anyone ask about the blast, officials had tims succumbing to radiation poisoning
Others worried that the test would be “a
complete dud.” proposed several cover stories, includ- in the weeks that followed.
thousands of people living within a 50- using a nuclear bomb to end the war. Scientists “were totally shocked when
Mr. Oppenheimer, who was tasked ing telling the public that a remote am- mile radius of the blast, Ms. Cordova A month before the test, a committee,
with designing an atomic bomb for the munitions depot had exploded, Profes- the Japanese reported radiation sick-
said. which included Dr. Szilard and was ness at Nagasaki,” said Professor Wel-
Manhattan Project, had not slept. sor Wellerstein said. “Ash fell for days afterward in the headed by the German scientist James
At 5:29 a.m. local time, the device ex- “They took some effort” to protect the lerstein, who has written about what the
landscape and in every direction and in Franck, issued the Franck Report, urg- United States knew about the long-term
ploded with a power equivalent to 21,000 public, he said. “Would we consider it ad- amazing quantities,” she said. ing the United States to first demon-
tons of TNT and set off a flash of light that equate today? No, not at all. It’s not con- consequences of using the weapons.
strate the power of the weapons to mem- While scientists were concerned about
would have been visible from Mars, re- sidered adequate to set off a nuclear Warnings went unseen and ignored. bers of the United Nations.
searchers said. bomb, not tell anyone about it and set up the possible effects of radiation on their
The day after the blast, Leo Szilard, a Such a demonstration, the report said,
It was the first nuclear test in history. a pregnant scientist in a motel with a Gei- own staff, they showed little interest in
Hungarian physicist who worked on the would say to the world: “You see what
Less than a month later, the United ger counter to monitor radiation.” calculating what that damage could be
Manhattan Project, sent a petition weapon we had but did not use. We are
States would drop a nearly identical The blast stunned bewildered resi- for the Japanese, Professor Wellerstein
signed by 70 scientists to President ready to renounce its use in the future
weapon on the city of Nagasaki in Japan. dents of the small towns within a 50-mile said.
Harry S. Truman, urging him to give Ja- and to join other nations in working out
The bomb, named Fat Man, fell three radius of the site. He added that they expected “the blast
pan a chance to surrender before drop- adequate supervision of the use of this
days after Americans dropped a ura- “It produced more light and heat than and fire effects of the atomic bomb would
ping the bombs. nuclear weapon.”
nium bomb, called Little Boy, on Hiroshi- the sun,” said Tina Cordova, a founder of greatly overshadow any radiation casu-
“Thus a nation which sets the prece- Mr. Truman did not see Dr. Szilard’s
ma. Both weapons immediately killed the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Con- alties.”
dent of using these newly liberated petition and he most likely did not see the
tens of thousands of Japanese people sortium, which has urged the govern- forces of nature for purposes of destruc- The destruction of the cities would
Franck Report, said Steve Olson, who
and forced Japan’s surrender on Aug. 14, ment to conduct more research about the tion may have to bear the responsibility has written a book about the develop- haunt Mr. Oppenheimer, who worried he
bringing an abrupt end to the war. aftermath of the blast and to compensate of opening the door to an era of devasta- ment of plutonium at the Hanford nucle- had set a course for a future apocalypse.
Since the Trinity test 75 years ago, at the affected communities. tion on an unimaginable scale,” the peti- ar reservation in southeastern Washing- “Mr. President, I feel I have blood on
least eight countries have conducted Based on census data at the time, the tion cautioned. ton State. my hands,” he said to Mr. Truman later
more than 2,000 nuclear bomb tests, said consortium estimates there were tens of It was not the first plea to reconsider “It’s very hard to conceive of a set of that year.
Jenifer Mackby, a senior fellow at the The true effects of the test on the peo-
Federation of American Scientists. More ple who lived near the test site remain
than half of those tests have been con- unclear.
ducted by the United States, a legacy of The government never conducted a
the Trinity explosion, as the United full investigation into the effects of the
States and several other countries have radiation, even after the communities
continued to refuse to ratify the treaty downwind of the blast saw an unusual
prohibiting nuclear weapon test explo- spike in infant deaths in the months after
sions. the explosion, said Joseph J. Shonka, a
“You could say it unleashed the nucle- scientist and one of the authors of a 2010
ar age, really,” Ms. Mackby said. “It un- study about the effects of nuclear testing
leashed a whole new class of destruc- for the Centers for Disease Control and
tion.” Prevention.
Many of the scientists who witnessed “The Trinity downwinders have not
the blast quickly realized the “foul and been treated in either a fair or a just man-
awesome” power they had set free, ac- ner,” he said.
cording to historians.
Ms. Cordova, who grew up in Tularosa,
Mr. Oppenheimer said a Hindu scrip- N.M., said cancer had been pervasive in
ture ran through his mind at the sight of
the towns near the Trinity test site,
the explosion: “Now I am become Death,
where everyone can name someone who
the destroyer of worlds.”
died of the disease.
Kenneth T. Bainbridge, the test direc-
“We know that the government basi-
tor, was less poetic.
cally walked away and has taken no re-
“Now we are all sons of bitches,” he
sponsibility for the suffering and the dy-
said.
ing,” said Ms. Cordova, who has survived
The top secret test was heard and seen thyroid cancer and has several relatives
for miles. who died of various forms of cancer.
The goal of the test was to see if the mili- Members of Congress from New Mex-
tary could harness plutonium into a ico have introduced legislation that
weapon that would destroy whole cities, would expand the Radiation Exposure
said Alex Wellerstein, a science historian Compensation Act, which compensates
at the Stevens Institute of Technology in uranium miners and people who lived
downwind from nuclear testing sites, to
Hoboken, N.J., who studies the history of

nuclear weapons. include the residents who lived around

The effects of radiation were not well Trinity.
understood by most scientists on the In 2014, the National Cancer Institute
project at the time, according to histori- began interviewing people who lived in
ans, and the preparations that were the towns near the testing site to try and
made to keep civilians safe reflected that document the effects of the blast. The in-
ignorance. stitute said it anticipated publishing the
They placed crude monitors around The device, containing 13 pounds of plutonium, was hoisted to the top of a 100-foot tower days before the test. results “within the next few months.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020 N A13
Wilting Heat, Intensified by Climate Change

High Temperatures
In Southern U.S.
Raise Virus Risks
For the Vulnerable
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
For much of the United States,
the last several days have been
brutal: record temperatures re-
corded around the country, and
coronavirus case numbers are on
the rise as well, complicating ef-
forts to protect people at risk.
The weekend set temperature
records in the South and South-
west, which continued into this
week. On Monday, the National
Weather Service warned that
“The relentless heat and humidity
across the south-central U.S. will
continue to make weather head-
lines going through the middle of
the week.” On Wednesday, the
Weather Service said that the
most punishing heat would begin
to abate across the South, but, like
a hot bubble under the nation’s
wallpaper, “will be on the increase
for the eastern U.S. and for the
northern High Plains.
Greg Carbin, the chief of the
forecast operations branch at the
National Oceanic and Atmos-
pheric Administration’s Weather
Prediction Center, said, “It’s July
— you kind of expect this, to some
TAMIR KALIFA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
extent. But the magnitude of it is a
little severe.” 108° Zilker Park in Austin, Texas, where Monday’s high set a record by three degrees. The weather was expected to cool off, to the high 90s, by the weekend.
This is the beginning of a sum-
mer that NOAA has warned is
likely to have many more scorch-
ing days.
The combination of heat and hu-
Punishing Weather in Siberia
midity sent heat indexes in places
like central Oklahoma above 115
That Didn’t Have to Happen
degrees, and “that is just really
By JOHN SCHWARTZ The heat in Siberia has
dangerous to spend any time out-
This year’s startling heat across produced conditions both hellish
doors in, unless you’re standing
much of Siberia would have been and bizarre, with spreading wild-
under a cool waterfall some-
all but impossible without human fires, ravening mosquitoes, and
where,” Mr. Carbin said, who also destabilized permafrost that
noted that the heat index in New influence on climate change, re-
searchers have concluded. caused infrastructure damage in-
Orleans on Monday was 120 de- cluding a burst tank that released
grees. The tremendous heat and The scientists looked at two re-
cent examples of exceptional about 140,000 barrels of diesel into
moisture can also set the stage for a river. The fires have put more
severe weather. “When you have heating in Siberia, one long-term
and the other more brief. The first greenhouse gases into the atmos-
that much energy available for phere than in any other month in
those storms, it can be very dan- was the overall rise in tempera-
ture across the region from Janu- 18 years of data collection, accord-
gerous,” he said. ing to one report.
ary to June, which was more than
The heat wave is consistent Zeke Hausfather, a climate sci-
nine degrees Fahrenheit above
with what scientists say to expect entist with the Breakthrough In-
average temperatures recorded
from climate change, said J. Mar- stitute who was not involved with
between 1951 and 1980. The sec-
shall Shepherd, a meteorologist at the paper, said that the new re-
ond was the astonishing spike on
the University of Georgia and a search underscores the changes
June 20 that put temperatures at
former president of the American the Russian town of Verkhoyansk in the frequency of extreme
Meteorological Society. He took at a reported 100.4 degrees, which weather events. “What was a one-
part in a 2016 report by the Na- the Russian Meteorological Serv- in-100-year event a century ago,
tional Academy of Sciences that ice said is a record for tempera- would be a one-in-20- or a one-
found that, of the weather phe- tures anywhere north of the Arctic in-10-year event now,” he said.
nomena affected by climate BRANDON THIBODEAUX FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Circle. While the Siberian heat is unusual
change, heat waves show the In their analysis, the scientists today, if high greenhouse gas
strongest signal of the warming 104° (heat index). On Tuesday in New Orleans, where virus cases were rising with the tempera-
said climate change made the pro- emissions persist, by the end of
planet. ture. “Any day that we’re working with multiple emergencies is a difficult one,” a city official said. the century this year’s horror
longed heat event 600 times as
He compared the process to fer- likely to occur as it would be with- story could be “an average sum-
tilizing a lawn. Grass will grow out climate change. In a state- mer in Siberia,” he said.
naturally, but “when we put fertil- ment, Andrew Ciavarella, the lead Without climate change, the
izer in the soil, it grows differ- author of the research and senior temperatures during the hot spell
ently,” he said, and so “the natural detection and attribution scientist would have been at least 2 de-
cycle of heat waves is fertilized by at the Met Office, the national me- grees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahr-
anthropogenic climate change.” teorological service for Britain, enheit, cooler if it had occurred in
The heat wave has been playing called the result “truly stagger- 1900 instead of today. By 2050, the
out across the South and South- ing.” researchers said, the temperature
west in shared misery. On Mon- For all practical purposes, said increase in the Siberian region
day, the National Weather Service Friederike Otto, acting director of since 1900 could be between 4.15
in San Antonio announced the the Environmental Change Insti- and 12.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
temperature reached 106 degrees, tute at the University of Oxford As for the June 20 spike at
tying the July temperature and an author of the paper, “you Verkhoyansk, the researchers
record. Monitors at Phoenix’s Sky would not have gotten an event noted that it is hard to quantify the
Harbor airport hit a blazing 114, like this without climate change.” influence of climate change with
matching a record hit previously In a world without climate as much statistical confidence as
in 2005, 2003, 1989 and 1939. change, the prolonged Siberian the effect on long-duration heat-
In Houston, Matt Lanza, a me- heat wave would only occur less ing. The high one-day tempera-
teorologist for Space City than once every 80,000 years, ture, the scientists said, was made
Weather, reported the tempera- “which is not anything you reckon many thousands of times more
ture at Bush Intercontinental Air- with or are expecting to see in likely than such an event would be
port reached 100 degrees, with a anyone’s lifetime,” Dr. Otto said. without climate change.
heat index of 111. How does that Even under current climate condi- In a briefing with reporters on
feel? Such temperatures over- tions, such prolonged warming Tuesday about the study, Sarah F.
whelm the everyday vocabulary; could only be expected to recur Kew of the Royal Netherlands Me-
in an exchange of Twitter mes- less than once every 130 years. teorological Institute said that the
sages, he called the combination The research, conducted by sci- Siberia findings are “among the
of heat and humidity “terribad.” entists from in Germany, the strongest results of any attribu-
For many cities, the heat is part Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland tion study so far.”
of a double whammy as they try to and Britain, employs the tech- She added that without strong
deal with the novel coronavirus ADRIANA ZEHBRAUSKAS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES niques of the emerging field of action against climate change,
pandemic. 111° On Tuesday at a water park in Chandler, Ariz. Officials in Maricopa County are creating more rapid attribution science, which “we have little time to stabilize
cooling centers, and setting aside temporary camp sites with portable toilets for homeless people. involves computer models and global warming” at the levels
Matthew Lara, a spokesman for
rich troves of data to determine called for in the Paris accord, lim-
the City of Austin Office of Home-
how much of a weather phenom- iting the temperature rise to two
land Security and Emergency
enon may have been caused by degrees Celsius since the begin-
Management, said that Monday’s blast. Many cities have typically rec centers and pools are closed
human activities that have gener- ning of the industrial age.
high of 108 degrees — a record for had cooling centers, where people down for the moment” because
that day by three degrees — un- can get out of the heat, often in ‘An overnight low of 81 the virus case count is rising. And
ated planet-warming greenhouse In his statement, Dr. Ciavarella
gases. The scientific initiative, said, “This research is further evi-
derplayed the compounding ef- places like community recreation is not as sexy as an of course, with a New Orleans
known as World Weather Attribu- dence of the extreme tempera-
fects of a city’s heat islands, where centers. The coronavirus has in- summer can come hurricanes,
buildings and paved surfaces can troduced complications, Mr. Lara
afternoon high of 106 rains that bring street flooding
tion, has found human finger- tures we can expect to see more
prints on disasters like Australia’s frequently around the world in a
amplify heat, temperatures can be said, because the city’s cooling but in a lot of ways it can and more. “Any day that we’re brush fires and the drenching warming global climate. Impor-
much higher. centers now require visitors to working with multiple emergen-
Energy demand goes up during maintain social distancing and to
be more damaging, cies is a difficult one,” she said.
rainfall from Hurricane Harvey. tantly, an increasing frequency of
The Siberia research has not these extreme heat events can be
heat waves, and with so many wear masks. “You don’t want to more expensive, more Deke Arndt, chief of the moni- yet been submitted for peer re- moderated by reducing green-
people working from home that cram 30 people into a room and influential.’ toring section for NOAA’s Na- view. house gas emissions.”
surge may be compounded by the call it a cooling center,” he said. tional Centers for Environmental
rise in residential energy use, said In Maricopa County, Ariz., DEKE ARNDT, chief of the monitoring Information, said that the day’s
Christopher Jones, director of the county spokesman Ron Coleman section for NOAA’s National Centers highest temperature is not neces-
CoolClimate Network, a research said that the county has added to for Environmental Information sarily the most dangerous ele-
consortium at the University of its collection of daytime cooling ment of the heat waves. “An
California, Berkeley. That would stations and land set aside for overnight low of 81 is not as sexy
add to the power load, especially homeless people to pitch tents as an afternoon high of 106 but in a
city issued warnings, along with
since so many of the office build- where they can have access to lot of ways it can be more damag-
tips on staying cool, with special
ings people work in are still being hand washing stations and port- attention to those without air-con- ing, more expensive, more influ-
cooled, as well. Heat waves lead to able toilets. The county has also ditioning or who were experienc- ential,” in disrupting people’s lives
peak energy use, he said, which is opened a temporary overnight ing a financial squeeze. “A lot of and health. “Folks who don’t have
“dirtier energy” since the plants cooling shelter, and for those who people worry about running air- A.C., that overnight heat, they
that power companies bring on- appear to be at high risk for the co- conditioning because of the cost,” don’t get a chance for their bodies
line only when they need them ronavirus or who may have been she said. to reset,” he said. “It’s really tax-
tend to pollute heavily. The extra exposed, the county has more The city advises residents who ing.”
stress on the system also raises, than 200 hotel rooms “so we can can’t run their air-conditioners all Mr. Lara, the Austin official,
“the potential for outages that can have those individuals out of the day to run them at night, to keep said that relief, at least for his city,
shut down the economy even fur- heat and away from the congre- costs down and to help their bod- was on the way, for now. “We’re
ther,” he said. gate living,” he said. ies recover from the heat of the supposed to get a nice, breezy cold
Weather like this disproportion- In New Orleans, Sarah Bab- day. “People do best if they are front to cool us down to the high
YEVGENY SOFRONEYEV\TASS, VIA GETTY IMAGES
ally affects the vulnerable: people cock, deputy director of policy and able to cool down at night,” she 90s by the end of the week,” he
without the means to buy an air- emergency preparedness for the said. Opening cooling centers is said, “Which is more normal for 100.4° The remains of a forest fire in the Yakutia region of Siberia
conditioner or crank it up to full city’s health department, said the difficult, she said, since “libraries, this time of year.” in June. Warmer summers have made such fires more frequent.
A14 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020
Clash Over Environment

Defines Presidential Race
sider the cumulative environmen-
From Page A1 tal effects of projects, like their
The president, in contrast, is contribution to climate change.
pretty much where he has been Mr. Trump said the current
for more than a decade: intermit- lengthy process “has cost of tril-
tently acknowledging global lions of dollars over the years for
warming and calling it a hoax; our country and delays like you
making spurious accusations that wouldn’t believe.”
windmills cause cancer, energy ef- In past campaigns, candidates
ficient appliances are “worthless” shied away from bold proposals on
and zero-emissions buildings “ba- the environment, especially on cli-
sically have no windows.” At ev- mate change, but Patrick Murray,
ery turn and on every regulatory director of the Monmouth Univer-
decision, the administration em- sity Polling Institute, said Mr. Bi-
braces business over envi- den has more political space to
ronmental interests. pursue his agenda amid the na-
“Biden wants to massively re- tion’s economic and public health
regulate the energy economy, re- crises. “With the pandemic shak-
join the Paris climate accord, ing up the core of people’s lives,
which would kill our energy to- they are much less worried about
tally, you would have to close 25 bold and radical change right
percent of your businesses and now,” he said, “because that’s
kill oil and gas development,” Mr. what they want in some way.”
Trump said on Wednesday as he Those political dynamics have
announced a “top to bottom over- freed Mr. Biden to pursue policies
haul” of the National Envi- that his allies hope will electrify
ronmental Policy Act, a bedrock younger, more liberal voters who
environmental law since its pas- were skeptical of him during the
sage in 1969. He offered no evi- Democratic primaries, without
dence to back up his statistics. automatically alienating more
“When I think about climate moderate voters, Mr. Murray said.
change,” Mr. Biden said on Tues- Mr. Biden’s allies also see politi-
ANDREW SENG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
day as he outlined his plan, “the cal risks, should he be perceived
word I think of is ‘jobs,’ good-pay- as moving too far left on issues like
Poorer New Yorkers Yearn for a Grassy Oasis ing union jobs that will put Ameri-
cans to work, making the air
cleaner for our kids to breathe, re-
natural gas hydraulic fracturing,
or fracking, a practice tied to
many jobs in states like Pennsyl-
vania. Unlike many of his primary
storing our crumbling roads, and
By WINNIE HU opponents, he does not support a
bridges and ports.”
and NATE SCHWEBER total ban on fracking. “Fracking is
The events captured the two
Governors Island, a 172-acre oa- not going to be on the chopping
candidates’ radically different be-
sis in the middle of New York Har- block,” he said in an interview last
liefs about the global threat of the
bor, has become one of New York’s week with WNEP-TV, an ABC af-
planet’s warming, and offered a
filiate serving Northeastern and
City’s most popular summer play- glimpse of how they would lead a
Central Pennsylvania.
grounds, with hammocks, biking nation confronting a climate crisis
In a call with reporters on Tues-
and spectacular water views. over the next four years. For Mr.
day, Biden campaign officials
But the island’s managers want Trump, tackling global warming is
stressed that his long-held view on
it to be a greater resource for a threat to the economy. For Mr.
the issue stands: “No new frack-
those who need it the most, espe- Biden, it’s an opportunity.
ing on federal lands.”
cially during the pandemic — poor “They are polar opposites on al- Mr. Trump is betting that his un-
and nonwhite New Yorkers who most everything to do with the en- compromising, unchanging
often lack parks in their neighbor- vironment but particularly cli- stands will appeal to business-
hoods. mate change,” said Christine Todd minded voters and people who
So the island, which reopened Whitman, the former Republican distrust government. But there is
on Wednesday, has for the first governor of New Jersey and ad- a risk to him, too.
time adopted a ticketing system ministrator of the Environmental Carlos Curbelo, a former Re-
aimed at prioritizing those park- Protection Agency under George publican congressman from Flor-
goers while sharply reducing the W. Bush. ida who has championed a carbon
number of overall visitors to en- Mr. Biden’s plan would spend $2 tax to combat climate change, said
sure social distancing. trillion over four years to put the he believes Mr. Trump’s disregard
“Our goal this year is really to United States on an “irreversible for the issue and his handling of
make sure New Yorkers in need path” to net-zero emissions of the coronavirus are becoming
are able to access the island,” said planet-warming gases before linked to part of “the broader char-
Clare Newman, the president and ANDREW SENG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES 2050, meaning that carbon diox- acter question.”
chief executive of the Trust for ide and other pollutants would be Such character questions res-
Governors Island, which man- With outdoor space completely eliminated or offset by onate with “not just young voters
ages the park. crucial for physical removal technology. who have rejected his stance on
The coronavirus pandemic, and mental health He called for clean energy climate for quite some time but
which has hit the poor and people during the pandemic, standards to achieve a carbon- also middle-aged and older voters
of color the hardest, has laid bare Governors Island, free power sector by 2035; the en- who now in the context of Covid
another glaring inequity: park ac- top and above, has a ergy efficiency upgrade of four prioritize leaders who are good
cess. new ticketing system million buildings in four years; crisis managers,” he said.
In a city with some of the most and the construction of 500,000 Mr. Biden’s campaign criticized
that prioritizes un- electric-vehicle charging stations.
famous green spaces in the world, the president’s gutting of the envi-
many low-income New Yorkers
derserved residents. He also vowed to bring the United ronmental policy act as a way to
live in virtual park deserts and are At playgrounds in States back into the Paris Agree- distract from Mr. Trump’s failure
largely shut out of a sprawling net- Brownsville, Brook- ment, reinstate climate regula- to deliver an infrastructure plan.
work of more than 2,300 parks lyn, left, and else- tions that Mr. Trump has repealed In some ways, the climate de-
that has become more important where, social distanc- and put more restrictions on bate reflects the broader realign-
than ever for physical and mental ing can be difficult. things like vehicle emissions. ment in both parties that defined
well-being. Mr. Trump has already moved the 2016 race: working-class white
Many Black and Hispanic fam- to roll back virtually every effort voters, especially in rural areas,
ilies squeezed into cramped apart- by the federal government under have moved farther from their un-
ments in the South Bronx, one of HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES President Barack Obama to com- ion Democratic roots to embrace
the poorest sections of the city, bat climate change, from restrict- Mr. Trump and his energy policies.
have to fight for every bit of green His daughter, Brianna, 6, usu- open streets have been placed in Park Alliance, the park’s conser- ing emissions from power plants Educated, affluent white subur-
space, while less than five miles ally plays in Prospect Park three neighborhoods with high rates of vancy. and vehicles to curbing methane ban voters, once staunchly Repub-
away, residents of the affluent Up- miles away, but he worried that the virus and few parks. from the oil and gas sector. He lican, drift toward the Democrats
The Riverside Park Conser-
per West Side of Manhattan have taking two buses to get there even rescinded an Obama-era ex- and appear increasingly open to
Even though New York City’s vancy has replaced its annual
both the lawns and ball fields in would expose them to the virus. “I ecutive order that urged federal ambitious efforts to combat cli-
network of parks is one of the spring gala with a two-month
the 840-acre Central Park, and the agencies to take into account climate change.
don’t go to the park at all,” said Mr. country’s largest, it was created fund-raising campaign for pro-
playgrounds, dog runs and water- mate change and sea-level rise Scientists said the next four
Cerisier, 56, who works as a taxi piecemeal as real estate develop- grams and activities in the north
front views in the 310-acre River- when rebuilding infrastructure. years could be critical to whether
driver. “It’s tough for the kids. ers built up neighborhoods, said end of the park, which draws
side Park. Really tough.” Mr. Benepe, the former parks nearby residents of lower-income The Trump administration’s lat- greenhouse gas emissions from
At the height of the pandemic, commissioner. communities, including Harlem est overhaul to the National Envi- the United States rise or fall. “We
City officials said they had sig-
more than 1.1 million New Yorkers and Washington Heights. The ronmental Policy Act highlighted are on a trajectory to a hotter plan-
nificantly expanded access to The result, he said, is some of
did not have access to any park park also recently hired an out- their differences still more. et,” said Waleed Abdalati, director
parks in recent years, refurbish- the city’s most crowded neighbor-
within a 10-minute walk of where hoods were left with no parks or reach coordinator to work with The changes finalized on of the Cooperative Institute for Re-
ing small parks and remaking
they lived, according to an analy- only pocket-size parks and play- those communities. Wednesday include a limit of two search in Environmental Sciences
larger parks into community an-
sis by the Trust for Public Land, a grounds squeezed between build- Farther south, Hudson River years to conduct exhaustive envi- at the University of Colorado,
chors in the South Bronx;
conservation group that helps cre- ings. Small parks often lack the Park runs free science and tech- ronmental reviews of infrastruc- Boulder. Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden,
ate public parks across the coun- amenities found in larger parks, nology camps — which have gone ture projects. They also revoked a he said, “represent two very diver-
try. Many of those without access like athletic fields, jogging and virtual this summer — for chil- requirement that agencies con- gent paths.”
were in densely packed and low-
income Black and Hispanic neigh-
Tackling an inequity biking paths, and natural areas dren from two public housing
like woodlands. projects.
borhoods outside Manhattan. in access, large parks And many small neighborhood Governors Island has a long Corrections
Nearly all these New Yorkers parks have been neglected for working history as a training
lost the only outdoor space they try to attract people decades, while Central Park and ground for soldiers, a hospital site
FRONT PAGE
An article on Monday about oil
distancing and frequent hand-
washing at its plants. Those prac-
had when the city shut down play-
grounds and small recreation ar- from packed areas. other well-known parks have con-
servancies that help pay for their
for yellow fever and a Coast Guard
base. Since opening as a park in
and gas companies that are head- tices are required by the com-
ing toward bankruptcy misidenti- pany, not simply encouraged.
eas to prevent the virus from operations and upkeep. 2005, it has offered attractions in-
spreading. Since then, play- Tina Omoighe, a union supervi- cluding the city’s longest slide, at fied the scientific agency where
grounds have officially reopened, Claus Zehner works. It is the ARTS
Brownsville, Brooklyn; and other sor in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and 57 feet, down a hillside. It has also
but many parents said they had her sister recently tried to have hosted Jazz Age lawn parties and European Space Agency, not the A television entry in the Listings
low-income neighborhoods. They
stayed away because of crowding. have added parks to public hous- lunch at Betsy Head Park near even luxury overnight glamping SRON Netherlands Institute for Pages misstated the given name
“The Covid-19 pandemic has ex- ing complexes and pressed more their home, only to find part of it in Frette robes. Space Research. of the host of “Hot Ones.” He is
posed flaws in the park system schoolyards into service as neigh- closed for construction. They Last year, the park had about Sean Evans, not Seth.
that I don’t think we understood,” borhood parks. ended up at a small playground 800,000 visitors, up from 8,000 INTERNATIONAL
said Adrian Benepe, a senior vice During the pandemic, the city over a mile away. “We didn’t have when it opened. OBITUARIES
An article on Wednesday about a
president for the Trust for Public also opened 67 miles of streets for other options,” she said. “What Though the island draws people An obituary on Tuesday about the
Land and a former city parks com- new Cold War between the United
walking and biking. “To protect are we supposed to do?” from all over the city, a significant South African activist and poet
missioner. “Not all parks are cre- percentage comes from affluent States and China misstated the
health and safety, we had to tem- In the South Bronx, Rick Fran- Zindziswa Mandela misstated her
ated equal. Small parks do not cis, 58, said he had to watch three neighborhoods, including Brook- name of the group that James A.
porarily shut down playgrounds husband’s surname and omitted
have room for lots of people to ex- of his eight grandchildren play on lyn Heights and Park Slope in Lewis writes for. It is the Center
and other park amenities, but we the name of another survivor. He
ercise and socially distance.” also opened up miles of streets the concrete pavement because Brooklyn, and Lincoln Square and for Strategic and International
Many large parks are heavily Studies, not the Center for Stra- is Molapo Motlhajwa, not Motl-
across the city for pedestrians to there was no good, big park the Upper West Side in Manhat-
used by nonwhite New Yorkers. nearby. “You’re kind of just stuck tan, according to recent surveys. tegic Studies. hawa. And in addition to the
enjoy, with a focus on neighbor-
But across the city, parks in poor walking around the neighbor- The new ticket system will limit survivors named, she is survived
hoods that did not have access to
and nonwhite neighborhoods are hood,” he said. An article on Saturday about a by a half sister, Makaziwe Man-
open space,” said Jane Meyer, a the ferries to 5,000 people per day
smaller and have to serve far Leaders of some of the city’s on weekends, or roughly half the decree that will allow the Hagia dela-Amuah.
spokeswoman for Mayor Bill de
more people than in wealthy Blasio. signature parks have acknowl- typical ridership. “The pinch point Sophia to operate as a mosque
misstated Cevdet Yilmaz’s role in An obituary on Friday about Ola
neighborhoods. The average park A stretch along 34th Avenue in edged the inequities in park ac- is the ferry,” Ms. Newman said.
size is 6.4 acres in poor neighbor- the Justice and Development Mae Spinks, who helped organize
Jackson Heights, Queens, now cess. And some park leaders have “Once you get to the island, it’s a
hoods, compared with 14 acres in stepped up their efforts to make huge amount of open space.” Party. He is the party’s deputy an archive of interviews with
serves the overflow crowd from a
wealthy neighborhoods, accord- large parks more accessible to Ferry tickets, which cost $3, are chairman responsible for foreign former slaves, misstated how old
busy park. “This open street has
ing to an analysis by the Trust for been such a wonderful respite for poor and minority visitors. being made free to public housing affairs, not its spokesman. she was when her family left
Public Land. the neighborhood,” said Martha Prospect Park, a 585-acre oasis, residents and some community Louisiana for the all-Black town
Similarly, the average park size Lopez Gilpin, 60, an actress who is building two new entrances to organizations. The ferry stop to of Vernon, Okla. She was 7 or 8,
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is 7.9 acres in predominantly walks there every day. connect directly with lower-in- the island from Brooklyn has also not 2.
Black neighborhoods, compared come communities along its east- been moved from Brooklyn An article on Wednesday about
Still, some park advocates said
the effect of the latest surge in
with 29.8 acres in predominantly many park-starved neighbor- ern edge, including Flatbush and Bridge Park to Red Hook, which is Errors are corrected during the press
white neighborhoods. hoods were left out of the city’s Crown Heights. home to one of the city’s largest coronavirus cases on automakers run whenever possible, so some errors
For Michel Cerisier, a Haitian open streets program. Adam “As neighborhoods change and public housing complexes. described incorrectly General noted here may not have appeared in
immigrant, the closest thing his Ganser, the executive director of there’s more gentrification, I think “The pandemic has, for us, re- Motors’ policy on masks, social all editions.
family had to a park during the New Yorkers for Parks, said that it’s imperative that we make sure ally raised an urgency to redouble
pandemic was a patch of sidewalk while he supported the open the park continues to feel open our efforts to make sure we reach Contact the Newsroom: Editorials: [email protected]
in front of their house in a predom- streets, “they were not equitably and accessible to all,” said Sue disadvantaged New Yorkers,’’ Ms. [email protected] Newspaper Delivery:
inantly Black area of the Flatlands distributed based on need.” Donoghue, the park administra- Newman said, “and New Yorkers or call 1-844-NYT-NEWS [email protected] or call
neighborhood in Brooklyn. City officials said more recently, tor and president of the Prospect with less access to green space.” (1-844-698-6397). 1-800-NYTIMES (1-800-698-4637).
Trump Replaces Campaign Manager in a Bid to Regain His Footing

By MAGGIE HABERMAN forts to combat the pandemic. typically aren’t, appearing in a
President Trump on Wednes- “I am pleased to announce that campaign ad and having his name
day shook up his re-election team Bill Stepien has been promoted to listed on fund-raising events.
with less than four months until the role of Trump campaign man- The president at times berated
November’s vote, replacing his ager,” Mr. Trump said in a state- Mr. Parscale over real and per-
campaign manager, Brad ment. “Brad Parscale, who has ceived transgressions, sometimes
Parscale, in an acknowledgment been with me for a very long time screaming at him and once threat-
of the president’s diminished and has led our tremendous dig- ening to sue him.
standing in nearly all public and ital and data strategies, will re- Mr. Parscale, who was hand-
private polling. main in that role, while being a picked by Mr. Kushner and who is
senior advisor to the campaign. close to the Trump family, lasted
Mr. Parscale, who was named
Both were heavily involved in our longer in the job than most of the
campaign manager unusually
historic 2016 win, and I look for- people who led various iterations
early, in February 2018, will step
ward to having a big and very im- of Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign.
out of the job and Bill Stepien, the
portant second win together.” And campaign aides emphasized
deputy campaign manager and a
Mr. Trump is often described as that Mr. Parscale was being asked
veteran political operative, will
his own campaign manager, and to stay on, unlike others who have
take over. Mr. Parscale will stay on
his political operation, which is been let go from the Trump orbit.
with the campaign, becoming a
overseen by Jared Kushner, his
senior adviser for data and digital But Mr. Parscale has no back-
son-in-law and a senior White
operations. ground in politics, and he suffered
House adviser, has been tailored
The move comes as Mr. Trump’s something of a mortal wound in
to his desires.
advantages as an incumbent pres- the role three weeks ago when a
In recent weeks, as the Trump
ident have eroded in the face of a much-hyped rally in Tulsa, Okla.,
team has tried to regain its foot-
pandemic that has killed over to “reboot” Mr. Trump’s campaign
ing, Mr. Trump brought back Ja-
137,000 Americans and battered was sparsely attended. After
son Miller, a communications and
the nation’s economy — once Mr. political strategist who was a key boasting of nearly one million
Trump’s most powerful argument figure on his 2016 campaign. The ticket requests, just over 6,000
for re-election. The president has president also elevated Mr. people attended the June 20
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been heavily criticized for his han- Stepien, who had been a top advis- event, an embarrassment that Mr.
dling of the coronavirus and the er, to deputy campaign manager.
President Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, above in 2019, faced scrutiny over the money Trump could not let go of.
halting federal response to it, and Mr. Stepien maintains a low pro- his operation was making, and tensions were inflamed after the letdown of a “reboot” rally in Tulsa. The campaign changes had
Mr. Trump’s own public com- file, which Mr. Trump prefers, and been settled on over the last two
ments have deepened the hole in something Mr. Parscale did not back to the campaign. Among the campaign compo- operation and whether he was days and were set to be an-
which he finds himself in national do. A person familiar with the plan- nents that Mr. Parscale set up was making an outsize amount of nounced on Thursday morning at
and battleground state polling. Mr. Miller and Mr. Stepien have ning said there might still be an- the digital fund-raising apparatus, money from the campaign. Those a 10 a.m. staff meeting, but word of
Several new polls released been working closely with another addition to the campaign, which gave the president a cush- articles have focused attention on the moves began reaching report-
Wednesday showed Mr. Trump other 2016 veteran, Hope Hicks, a such as a campaign chairman. ion over the last few months, his purchases of property and ers on Wednesday evening. Mr.
trailing the presumptive Demo- senior adviser to Mr. Trump in the Mr. Kushner, in a brief inter- when in-person, high-dollar cars in Florida, where he lives, Parscale was said to have been
cratic nominee, Joseph R. Biden White House who handles his view, described both Mr. Parscale events were impossible to hold be- and became a source of irritation caught by surprise, and learned of
Jr., by double digits, and in one of schedule. Another veteran of 2016 and Mr. Stepien — both of whom cause of the virus. for the president, who saw them them only a short time before they
them, 62 percent of respondents whom Mr. Trump likes, Susie he hired — as key pieces of the But for over a year, Mr. Parscale as a distraction. became public.
said they believed Mr. Trump was Wiles, a Florida-based Republican 2016 campaign and the current has been the focus of intense scru- Mr. Parscale was also visible in Other senior staff members
“hurting rather than helping” ef- operative, was recently brought one. tiny and news coverage about his ways that campaign managers were also caught by surprise.
G.O.P. Political Newcomer in Alabama Puts President at Center of a Senate Race

By ELAINA PLOTT navigate the in-between realm paign on substantial television ad with positive ads, which the Re-
and JEREMY W. PETERS where he is both a loyal Democrat buys that reiterated his endorse- publicans have left unanswered.
MOBILE, Ala. — On Tuesday and someone who has no prob- ment from Mr. Trump. The Tu- In one such ad, Mr. Jones
evening, addressing supporters lems boasting that working with berville aide said the campaign speaks tenderly about how
and the news media after his run- Republicans and the president is would most likely do more news George Floyd “cried for his
away victory in the Alabama Sen- often in Alabama’s interest. In an media and public appearances mama” as the police suffocated
ate Republican primary, Tommy interview on Wednesday, he during the general election, but him in Minneapolis. “As we wit-
Tuberville wasted no time in piv- name-dropped the state’s senior said it would largely depend on nessed his death together,” Mr.
oting toward his general-election senator, Richard Shelby, as some- whether internal polling sug- Jones says, looking into the cam-
opponent this fall, Senator Doug one whose record of representing gested they were necessary. era, “the world changed.”
Jones. In Mr. Jones’s Alabama, he Alabama in Washington he has If Mr. Tuberville’s campaign is The Jones campaign appears to
said, “You don’t work for the tried to emulate, and pointed to still lingering in the afterglow of have enough money to keep the
United States of America — you the 17 bills he sponsored that Mr. Tuesday’s victory, Mr. Jones and television ads coming. On
spend your first three years trying Trump has signed into law. the Alabama Democratic Party Wednesday it said it had raised
to impeach the best president “I have the luxury of telling peo- have hit the ground running. For $2.7 million from the beginning of
we’ve ever had. And he voted to ple in Alabama, ‘Look, I’m going Mr. Tuberville’s first morning as April through the end of June, and
impeach him!” to be for President Trump on is- the Republican nominee, the sena- had $8.8 million in cash on hand.
As for how Mr. Tuberville will sues that are good for Alabama, tor unleashed a combative Twitter The Tuberville campaign, by com-
try to frame the race against the and I’ve done that,’ ” Mr. Jones burst, and the state party let loose parison, had just $448,000 on
Democratic incumbent in the said “But on the other hand, I’m a torrent of criticism directed at hand, according to the most re-
months to come, his message is going to speak out when he’s do- Mr. Tuberville’s political positions cent campaign report it filed, at
unlikely to get more complicated ing things that are not good for and (highly successful, on the the end of June.
than that. Alabama.” BUTCH DILL/ASSOCIATED PRESS whole) football record. Mr. Jones has been a prodigious
And he said he was betting that The morning outburst quickly
Mr. Tuberville succeeded in his Tommy Tuberville, above, a former Auburn football coach, aims fund-raiser, bringing in more than
primary campaign against Jeff voters would appreciate his inde- sent the Alabama Democrats’ $18 million over all, among the
pendence from the president, to unseat Senator Doug Jones, the Democratic incumbent. Twitter account trending nation-
Sessions in large part by keeping highest of any Democrat running
the race simple. His strategy be- which is not something they can ally; the group tried to capitalize
for Senate this year. That should
gan and ended with President expect from Mr. Tuberville. on the popularity of its tweets by
help cushion him in the likely
Trump, arguing in a bevy of televi- Even in Alabama, a deeply con- including links to its ActBlue fund-
event that the Democratic Party
servative state where Mr. Trump raising page.
sion ads that a vote for his oppo- and its Senate campaign arm, un-
nent was a vote against the presi- has an approval rating that is reg- Many Democrats and progres-
der the guidance of Senator Chuck
dent. And according to early con- ularly the highest of any state sive activists celebrated Mr.
Schumer of New York, devote few
among registered voters, a min- Jones’s successful 2017 campaign
resources to Alabama, choosing
imalist campaign strategy could as a teachable moment for the
instead to boost candidates in
undermine even a heavily favored party. But Mr. Jones probably
Republican candidate. would not have become the first states where Mr. Trump is less
A Democrat holds a For many Republicans here, the Democrat elected to the Senate popular.
Regardless of Mr. Jones’s
sizable advantage in wounds of the last Senate race, in
2017 — in which the Republican
from Alabama in a generation
were it not for a unique turn of prospects or national support, po-
fund-raising. Roy S. Moore lost a special elec- events, above all the fact that litical observers in the state ex-
pect the race will heat up quickly,
tion, to replace Mr. Sessions, to many Republicans found his op-
Mr. Jones after being accused of ponent, Mr. Moore, so distasteful as Mr. Jones begins to aim his ad-
molesting underage girls — are that they voted for write-in candi- vertising efforts at his newly
versations with his campaign still fresh. And while virtually ev- dates instead. anointed general election oppo-
staff, Mr. Tuberville plans to keep ery Alabama Republican believes And Ms. Lathan, the Alabama nent’s scant experience in politics,
Mr. Trump front and center in the the party will prevail in Novem- Republican chair, was quick to shallow ties to the state and trou-
general election, reminding vot- ber, some fear that Mr. Tuberville, note that an overwhelming num- bled business record.
ers of moments like Mr. Jones’s a former Auburn University foot- ber of the state’s Republicans sim- Palmer Hamilton, a lawyer in
vote against Brett M. Kavanaugh, ball coach who has never held ply hadn’t voted in the election at Mobile who has supported Ala-
Mr. Trump’s nominee to the Su- elected office, is vulnerable to the
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all. bama Republicans like Mr. Shelby
preme Court, in 2018, and his more kind of scrutiny that could make “If our voters show back up” in and Mr. Sessions, recalled in an in-
helm of a hedge fund that ended in tivate voters above all else. terview how Howell Heflin, the
recent vote against the president the path more difficult. November, she said, “we’re un-
charges of financial fraud. Mr. Tu- “It’s pretty simple, actually,” last Democrat to represent the
during his impeachment trial. If he receives that sort of atten- stoppable.” (Mr. Jones, in the in-
berville’s partner in the venture Ms. Lathan said. “Doug Jones state in the Senate before Mr.
But one aide for Mr. Tuberville, tion, “then Doug Jones is going to terview, noted that in fact Republi-
was sentenced to 10 years in pris- only votes with the president 36 Jones, once described Alabama’s
speaking on the condition of ano- get back in office,” predicted Cody cans did not show up on Tuesday,
nymity, added the caveat that the Phillips, a member of the Republi- on; accused of fraud as well, Mr. percent of the time.” when statewide turnout did not merciless brand of politics.
campaign had yet to hold many can Executive Committee for Tuberville reached a private set- Mr. Tuberville was able to avoid even reach 20 percent of regis- “Heflin used to say, ‘Politics in
meetings about its strategy Baldwin County, east of Mobile. tlement with investors in 2013, the on-the-spot questions about the tered voters.) Alabama is dirty business.’ Pause.
against Mr. Jones. As with most “Because the Democratic Party is details of which have not been hedge fund — about most things, Mr. Jones’s considerable finan- ‘When it’s done properly,’ ” Mr.
races against Democrats in Ala- going to attack him on all these is- made public. really — throughout the primary cial advantage in this year’s race Hamilton said. “We have a history
bama, the aide joked, there wasn’t sues.” But Terry Lathan, the chair of race. He rarely held public events is one of the brightest spots for his of hardball politics. Doug and his
a whole lot to talk about. Those issues include questions the Alabama Republican Party, or agreed to interviews with re- campaign, and it has allowed him people understand that. And they
But Mr. Jones has managed to about Mr. Tuberville’s time at the said that one factor would still mo- porters, instead focusing his cam- to get in front of the public early don’t plan to go soft on Tuberville.”
Twitter Accounts of Biden, Gates, Obama, and Other Famous Americans Are Hacked
wide-ranging attacks hinted that some rookie errors. Mr. Stamos ledger of transactions, which is count of Twitter’s chief executive, complaint brought by the Federal
From Page A1 the problem was caused by a secu- said that because the attackers known as the blockchain. Jack Dorsey, and posted racist Trade Commission, in which the
North Korea, has been docu- rity flaw in Twitter’s service, not had sent identical messages from Twitter initially handled the at- messages and bomb threats. Mr. regulator claimed that the com-
mented to have used Bitcoin ex- by lax security measures used by the compromised accounts, they tacks by taking down the offend- Dorsey’s account was taken over pany did not do enough to protect
tensively in the past. But its na- the people who were targeted. were easy to detect and delete. ing tweets. A spokesman for the after hackers transferred his users’ personal information. The
ture — “effective, but also ama- Alex Stamos, director of the Stan- The decision to ask for money Biden campaign said that Twitter phone number to a new SIM card, F.T.C. charged that “serious
teurish” in the words of one senior ford Internet Observatory and the through Bitcoin, he added, had removed the tweet promoting lapses” in Twitter’s security al-
American intelligence official — former chief security officer at showed that the attackers were the scam and locked down Mr. Bi- lowed hackers to take control of
led American intelligence agen- Facebook, said one of the leading most likely unable or unwilling to den’s account. company systems and send out
theories among researchers was launder money or use their access But the hackers kept control of phony tweets from high-profile ac-
cies to an initial assessment that
this was most likely the work of an that the hacker, or hackers, had for a more sophisticated scam. many of the accounts, such as Celebrities’ followers counts, including Mr. Obama’s. As
obtained the encryption keys to The messages were a version of those of Mr. Musk and Mr. West,
individual hacker, not a state.
the system, which enabled them a long-running scam in which and sent out new messages as receive a fake offer to part of the settlement, Twitter
agreed to undergo security audits
Had it been Russia, China,
North Korea or Iran, said the offi-
to essentially imitate or steal the
“tokens” that grant access to indi-
hackers pose as public figures on
Twitter, and promise to match or
soon as the old ones were taken
down.
double their money. for 10 years.
cial, who would not speak on the On Wednesday evening, Sena-
vidual accounts. even triple any funds that are sent As Twitter locked down verified
record because they were not au- tor Josh Hawley, a Republican
There were a range of other the- to their Bitcoin wallets. But the at- accounts in an attempt to stop the from Missouri, wrote a letter to
thorized to discuss an intelligence ories, he said, but all suggested tacks Wednesday were the first attack, the company also ham-
investigation, the effort would which stores a phone’s number. Mr. Dorsey asking for information
that the attackers got inside Twit- time that the real accounts of pub- pered its function as a real-time The practice, known as SIM-
have probably focused on trying on the attack, including how many
ter’s system, rather than stealing lic figures were used in such a news service. Derrick Snyder, a swapping, allowed hackers to
to trigger stock market havoc, or users were compromised.
the passwords of individual users. scam. meteorologist in Kentucky, said in
perhaps the issuance of political tweet from Mr. Dorsey’s account. Shares in the social media com-
One American official called that a Bitcoin is a popular vehicle for a series of tweets that the National
pronouncements in the name of “scary possibility” in a world In 2017, a rogue worker at the pany fell 3 percent in after-hours
this type of scam because once a Weather Service could not issue
Mr. Biden or other targets. where national leaders, some- victim sends money, the design of warnings about a tornado in Illi- company used their access to trading.
Twitter’s systems to briefly delete Cybersecurity experts said the
Officials also noted that the times imitating Mr. Trump’s tech- Bitcoin, with no institution in nois because its account, one that
breach did not affect the account niques, have adopted Twitter as a charge, makes it essentially im- Twitter had verified, was shut President Trump’s Twitter ac- attack showed how vulnerable so-
of one of the most watched and primary source of unfiltered com- possible to recover the funds. down. count. The account was restored cial media remains to attacks.
powerful users of Twitter: Presi- munications. By Wednesday evening, the Bit- “What a mess,” Mr. Snyder within minutes, but the incident “This demonstrates a real risk
dent Trump. Mr. Trump’s account “It could have been much coin wallets promoted in the wrote. “There is a tornado warn- raised questions about Twitter’s for the elections,” Mr. Stamos said.
is under a special kind of lock-and- worse. We got lucky that this is tweets had received over 300 ing in effect.” security as it serves as a mega- “Twitter has become the most im-
key after past incidents, the offi- what they decided to do with their transactions and Bitcoin worth Twitter has fallen victim to phone for politicians and celebri- portant platform when it comes to
cial noted. power,” Mr. Stamos said. over $100,000, according to web- breaches before. Last August, ties. discussion among political elites,
Security experts said that the The hacker or hackers made sites that track Bitcoin’s public hackers compromised the ac- And in 2010, Twitter settled a and it has real vulnerabilities.”
Struggle for Racial Justice Evidence and Emergence
Body Camera Video Provides a Devastating Account of the Floyd Killing

This article is by Tim Arango, after Mr. Floyd is driven away in officers than the man dying under and an interview Mr. Lane gave to
Matt Furber and Nicholas Bogel- an ambulance. At one point, in his knee. investigators, Mr. Lane suspected
Burroughs. footage not previously seen, the “You guys all right, though?” he that Mr. Floyd was having a medi-
MINNEAPOLIS — Almost officers are shown dragging Mr. said. cal emergency and asked Mr.
from the moment George Floyd Floyd to the ground after he re- “My knee might be a little Chauvin if they should turn Mr.
encountered the police on May 25, sisted being put in the squad car. scratched, but I’ll survive,” re- Floyd on his side as he was face-
with a gun pointed at him, he ap- Once he was on the ground, as sponded another officer, Thomas down and gasping for breath. Mr.
peared terrified and emotionally Mr. Floyd again said he couldn’t Lane. Lane rode along in the ambulance
distraught, according to police breathe, and asked for water, and The footage was made available to the hospital with Mr. Floyd, ad-
camera footage that was newly begged for his life, Derek Chauvin, for viewing Wednesday to the ministering chest compressions
made available for viewing the senior officer on the scene, public and media by appointment in an attempt to revive him.
Wednesday at a courthouse in said, in a nonchalant, almost at the Hennepin County Govern- Mr. Chauvin, a 19-year veteran
downtown Minneapolis. mocking, tone, “takes a heck of a ment Center in downtown Minne- of the Minneapolis Police Depart-
Mr. Floyd was visibly shaken, apolis — in a conference room ment, faces the most severe crimi-
with his head down, and crying, as with a dozen laptop stations — but nal charges, and three other offi-
if he were in the throes of a panic was not allowed to be copied or re- cers are charged with aiding and
attack, as he put his hands on the Visibly shaken and corded.
A coalition of media organiza-
abetting second-degree murder.
All four were fired shortly after
steering wheel in response to a
frantic order from an officer. distraught when the tions, including The New York Mr. Floyd’s death. Their trial is
He told the officers over and Times, has petitioned the court to CAROLINE YANG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
scheduled to begin March 8.
over that he was claustrophobic, police first arrive. obtain the footage, which would The Cup Foods grocery store in Minneapolis, where a call to the Once an ambulance arrived —
as two officers struggled to push allow for release to the public. police led to the killing of George Floyd on May 25. late, because paramedics had
him to the back seat of a police ve- Judge Peter Cahill, who is over- gone to a wrong location — Mr.
hicle. Throughout the video, he seeing the case, will hold a hear- Lane went inside and adminis-
lot of oxygen to say that.” team of prominent lawyers argue city attorney, said the city would
never appeared to present a phys- ing on the matter on Tuesday. tered chest compressions on Mr.
The footage provides more de- that Police Department policies review and respond to the lawsuit.
ical threat to the officers, and even Mr. Floyd’s family on Wednes- Floyd, whose face appeared
tail into the action of Mr. Chauvin, had allowed for officers to use A spokesman for the Police De- bloodied.
after he was handcuffed and day filed a lawsuit against the four
who has been charged with sec- “neck restraint” techniques that partment did not respond to an in-
searched, the officers seemed to officers at the scene and against In the ambulance, at first, there
ond-degree murder and second- could be deadly even when they quiry about the lawsuit’s claims. appeared to be little sense of ur-
be more concerned with control- the City of Minneapolis, arguing
ling his body than saving his life, degree manslaughter for keeping that the police had violated the were not in life-or-death situa- Transcripts of the body camera gency, according to the new
the footage showed. his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck for Fourth Amendment in killing Mr. tions. It also said that training ma- footage, from two of the four police footage, with minutes passing be-
The video offers the fullest por- more than eight minutes while he Floyd and that the city had failed terials given to officers in 2014, in- officers charged in the killing, fore anyone tended to Mr. Floyd.
trait yet of the tragic events gasped for life. He was later pro- to properly dismiss problem offi- cluding Mr. Chauvin and another were released last week as part of Later, they strapped a mechan-
around Mr. Floyd’s killing. It be- nounced dead at the hospital. cers and train recruits about the officer charged in Mr. Floyd’s a motion on behalf of one of the ju- ical chest compression device on a
gins with officers driving to the As the minutes ticked by, and dangers of neck restraints. killing, show an officer placing a nior officers, Mr. Lane, to have the nearly naked Mr. Floyd, which
scene, after a convenience store Mr. Floyd became quieter and his “It was not just the knee of knee on the neck of a person being case against him dismissed. kept pumping as Mr. Floyd’s body
clerk called 911 and said a man had body went limp, one officer Derek Chauvin on George Floyd’s arrested and is handcuffed in a Mr. Lane, 37, was a rookie offi- was rising and falling.
used a counterfeit $20 bill, and it checked his pulse and said he neck for 8 minutes and 46 sec- prone position, as Mr. Floyd was. cer, and one of the first officers on Back at the scene, Mr. Chauvin,
ends showing officers on the couldn’t find one. onds,” Ben Crump, a lawyer repre- The lawyers said in the lawsuit the scene. His lawyer, Earl Gray, who had arrived later than Mr.
street discussing what happened, Mr. Chauvin’s response, uttered senting Mr. Floyd’s family, said at that the policies and training, ap- has sought to shift the blame to Lane and another junior officer, J.
with no emotion, was, “uh huh.” a news conference. “But it was the proved or condoned by the mayor, Mr. Chauvin, a senior officer who Alexander Kueng, stood erect, his
Tim Arango and Matt Furber re- Just before, after being told that knee of the entire Minneapolis Po- City Council and police chief, trained new recruits to the force, lips pursed, with his hands on his
ported from Minneapolis, and Mr. Floyd appeared to be passing lice Department on the neck of “were the moving force behind arguing that Mr. Lane was follow- hips as Mr. Kueng, who called his
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs from out, Mr. Chauvin appears to ex- George Floyd that killed him.” and caused” Mr. Floyd’s death. ing the lead of Mr. Chauvin. superior, “sir,” showed him what
New York. press more concern for his fellow In the lawsuit, Mr. Crump and a Erik Nilsson, the Minneapolis According to the transcripts he believed was the fake $20 bill.
Maricruz Cabrera, a Mexican-American who waits tables at the “I couldn’t believe it,” said Linda Thomas Worthy, left, with her Matt Fogal, the Republican district attorney of Franklin County,
Falafel Shack in Chambersburg, Pa., a town of about 20,000. daughter and husband, of the protests in Chambersburg. Pa. sent out a statement reading, “Black lives matter. Period.”
Protests Against Racism Reveal a Long-Hidden Diversity in Small Towns

ment “thoroughly disgusting.”
From Page A1 Few involved in the protests be-
are still discussing plans for new lieve that the politics of the county
events or standing in the back of had somehow been transformed
otherwise empty City Council overnight. Trump flags still hang
meetings to make their demands from front porches all over the
for police reform. county, and on local Facebook
But beyond any policy changes, pages, many commenters mock
which could be slow in coming, a the protesters as ignorant and
significant consequence of recent wasting their time. Many of the
weeks could be the realization for young people doubt much will
many Americans in small towns come of this at all. “Once every-
that their neighbors are more thing slows down,” said Ms. Ley-
multiracial and less willing to be dig, “people will just go back to
quiet about things than most peo- their ways.”
ple had assumed. Still, there are some develop-
Across the state in Lehighton, ments. The district attorney is
Pa., a town that is 95 percent forming an advisory group on ra-
white, Montreo Thompson, 26, cial matters. The meetings of Ra-
pulled a lawn chair into his drive- cial Reconciliation, which held a
way in early June and held up a large demonstration in late June,
Black Lives Matter poster. Within are markedly bigger than they
days he was helping lead marches were. The liberal groups have be-
in towns all over the region, and gun letter-writing campaigns to
also protesting alongside Black downtown businesses, urging
people he had never seen before them to publicly support Black
— some of whom lived down the Lives Matter.
street. “They were literally walk- The protests themselves, fueled
ing distance from our house and I by the young and often working
never knew they were there.” class, have been hard to keep go-
Small-town America has never ing. A young woman who had tak-
been racially or politically mono- en over the organizing in Cham-
lithic. After the 2016 election and bersburg soon found her days
especially in places where Presi- growing too complicated, espe-
dent Trump romped, thousands of cially after her mother was sud-
women who were aghast at the re- denly evicted from public hous-
sult became politically active for ing.
the first time in their lives, meet- The task of organizing trans-
ing in library basements and or- PHOTOGRAPHS BY VALERIE PLESCH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
ferred to a local graduate student,
ganizing small but regular rallies. A protest last month in downtown Chambersburg, which sits in a county that Donald J. Trump won by more than 45 points in 2016.
Kristi Rines, 30, who tries to keep
Still, that movement, powered
a regular appointment in front of
chiefly by middle-aged, middle- to 25 percent. to understand who all of the peo- the students in the local schools major party or electoral politics at the church, taking meticulous
class women in the suburbs and But the election also revealed a ple coming out to denounce rac- are minorities. Lexi Leydig, 23, all. In Shippensburg, a young notes about the ratio of honks to
exurbs, was in many ways just a silent minority, long quiet about ism were. “I wanted to see how who is mixed race and was raised Black nursing assistant who an- jeers (“3 p.m.-4 p.m.; 9 incidents
preamble to the mass wave of pro- their politics. Many already knew this unfolds.” by a Guatemalan stepfather, was nounced the rally there was joined of backlash, 77 incidents of sup-
tests after Mr. Floyd’s death. one another (“the usual suspects,” It started with Shiloh Hershey, there, as was Maricruz Cabrera, by a Republican, a libertarian, a port”) but often standing by her-
For weeks, protesters in Cham- Mr. Bowerman said) but they be- 24, who had never done anything 26, a Mexican-American who Democrat and a young man who self in the sweltering heat.
bersburg gathered on the side- gan forming overtly liberal groups like this and declined to be inter- described himself as a “radical
waits tables down the street at Ms. Wilkerson has tried to show
walk in front of Central Presby- — Franklin County Coalition for viewed. She is white. But, said Christian,” all committed to de-
Falafel Shack. up, but it is hard with children and
terian Church, a bronze-steepled Progress, Community Uniting, Amy Stewart, her mother, Ms. funding the police.
Protests followed in nearly ev- a full-time job. She teaches teen-
landmark dedicated in 1871, just Concerned Citizens of Franklin Hershey knows something about The most unexpected cham-
seven years after the town was ery town in Franklin County: agers at a private juvenile deten-
County — planning events to cele- being marginalized, having come Shippensburg up the road, little pion, perhaps, has been the tion center in the county, and as
burned to the ground by Confeder- brate Pride month, for instance, out as transgender several years Franklin County district attorney,
ate soldiers. The Rev. Scott Bow- one of the few Black employees,
and digging into issues like redis- ago. “I know what it’s like to have Matt Fogal, a Republican. For
erman, who has been pastor of the has been among the few who will
tricting reform. A new organiza- a child who can be hated for who weeks he had been stewing, un-
church for eight years, called Mr. talk with the boys there about
tion called Racial Reconciliation they are,” Ms. Stewart said.
Trump’s election “an apocalyptic began holding discussion groups On the last afternoon in May, ‘All of these people happy about how partisan the
pandemic response had become
what has been happening outside.
“They heard how they’re
moment.” It was a deliberate word
choice, he said, based in the root
at the Presbyterian church, with
mostly white attendees.
Ms. Hershey and her mother
walked downtown after gathering
are just coming out of and about the president’s provo-
cations. Then one afternoon he changing names of syrup bottles
meaning of apocalypse: a revela-
tion.
But then the George Floyd dem- up markers, poster board and a the woodwork.’ heard the protest out of his office and they’re canceling TV shows,”
Ms. Wilkerson said. Her students
onstrations began. These pro- concoction of baking soda and wa- window.
The 2016 election, Mr. Bower- testers were not the Trump faith- ter to pour in their eyes if they “I’m listening to them out there tell her that they had never asked
man said, revealed that Franklin ful, nor were they members of the were tear gassed. The protest and just people honking in sup- for any of those things, instead
wanting “an end to watching my
County, where Chambersburg so-called resistance. At first, no- soon became a standing appoint- Greencastle and Mercersburg, port, absolutely peaceful, a con-
sits, was not only conservative but body recognized them at all. ment, growing larger and more and Waynesboro, where a Grand trast to some of the images that friends get beat up and watching
enamored of a brand of America- “I couldn’t believe it,” said eclectic by the day, filled mostly Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan we had been seeing,” he said. He my uncles and fathers and broth-
first politics that truly electrified Linda Thomas Worthy, a founder by people who did not know one showed up to jeer. sent a statement to local media. ers get arrested over small
many of the white voters, who un- of Racial Reconciliation and one of another and had never protested The politics of the protesters “Black lives matter. Period,” it amounts of marijuana.”
furled flags for Mr. Trump in a way the county’s most outspoken fig- before. were deeply eclectic. Many of said, going on to urge people to put “They don’t have much faith in
they never had for any another ures on racial issues. She would The protesters were mostly those at the demonstrations in country over party in November. the system changing,” Ms. Wilker-
candidate. Mr. Trump won the drive through downtown during white but not exclusively so, not in Chambersburg were avowedly The former chairman of the local son said. She tells them she hopes
county by more than 45 points, 71 the first week of the protests to try a town where more than a third of apolitical, with little faith in either Republican Party called the state- it will. “That’s all I can really say.”
Struggle for Racial Justice The Conversation
A Scholar Entangled in the Cultural Clash Over Free Speech and Race
By MICHAEL POWELL the financier Jeffrey Epstein on
Steven Pinker occupies a role sex trafficking charges. He has
that is rare in American life: the said he did so free of charge and at
celebrity intellectual. The Har- the request of a friend, the Har-
vard professor pops up on outlets vard law professor Alan Der-
from PBS to the Joe Rogan pod- showitz, and regrets it.
cast, translating dense subjects The clash may also reflect the
into accessible ideas with enthusi- fact that Professor Pinker’s rosy
asm. Bill Gates called his most re- outlook — he argues that the
cent book “my new favorite book world is becoming a better place,
of all time.” by almost any measure, from pov-
So when more than 550 aca- erty to literacy — sounds discord-
demics recently signed a letter ant during this painful moment of
seeking to remove him from the national reckoning with the still-
list of “distinguished fellows” of ugly scars of racism and inequal-
the Linguistic Society of America, ity.
it drew attention to their provoca- The linguists’ society, like many
tive charge: that Professor Pinker academic and nonprofit organiza-
minimizes racial injustices and tions, recently released a wide-
drowns out the voices of those ranging statement calling for
who suffer sexist and racist indig- greater diversity in the field. It
nities. also urged linguists to confront
But the letter was striking for how their research “might repro-
another reason: It took aim not at duce or work against racism.”
Professor Pinker’s scholarly work John McWhorter, a Columbia
but at six of his tweets dating to University professor of English
2014, and at a two-word phrase he and linguistics, cast the Pinker
used in a 2011 book about a cen- controversy within a moment
turies-long decline in violence. when, he said, progressives look
“Dr. Pinker has a history of suspiciously at anyone who does
speaking over genuine griev- not embrace the politics of racial
ances and downplaying injustices, and cultural identity.
frequently by misrepresenting “Steve is too big for this kerfuf-
facts, and at the exact moments fle to affect him,’’ Professor
when Black and Brown people are McWhorter said. “But it’s de-
mobilizing against systemic rac- pressing that an erudite and rea-
ism and for crucial changes,” their sonable scholar is seen by a lot of
letter stated. KAYANA SZYMCZAK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES intelligent people as an under-
The linguists demanded that Professor Steven Pinker of Harvard in 2018. He has been accused of racial insensitivity by people he described as “speech police.” cover monster.”
the society revoke Professor Because this is a fight involving
Pinker’s status as a distinguished linguists, it features some ex-
fellow and strike his name from its left’s insistence that certain sub- Pinker tweeted with a link to the Pinker’s critics say, is contained in Several department chairs in pected elements: intense argu-
list of media experts. The society’s jects are off limits contributed to article. “Problem: Not race, but his 2011 book, “The Better Angels linguistics and philosophy signed ments about imprecise wording
executive committee declined to the rise of the alt-right. too many police shootings.” of Our Nature: Why Violence Has the letter, including Professor and sly intellectual put-downs.
do so last week, stating: “It is not Reached at his home on Cape The linguists’ letter noted that Declined.” In a wide-ranging de- Barry Smith of the University at Professor Pinker may have in-
the mission of the society to con- Cod, Professor Pinker, 65, noted the article made plain that police scription of crime and urban de- Buffalo and Professor Lisa Da- flamed matters when he sug-
trol the opinions of its members, that as a tenured faculty member killings are a racial problem, and cay and its effect on the culture of vidson of New York University. gested in response to the letter
nor their expression.” and established author, he could accused Professor Pinker of mak- the 1970s and 1980s, he wrote that Professor Smith did not return that its signers lacked stature. “I
But a charge of racial insensitiv- weather the campaign against ing “dishonest claims in order to “Bernhard Goetz, a mild-man- calls and an email and Professor recognize only one name among
ity carries power in the current cli- him. But he said it could chill ju- obfuscate the role of systemic rac- nered engineer, became a folk Davidson declined to comment the signatories,’’ he tweeted. Such
mate, and the letter sounded an- nior faculty who hold views ism in police violence.” hero for shooting four young mug- when The Times reached out. an argument, Byron T. Ahn, a lin-
other shot in the fraught cultural counter to prevailing intellectual But the article also suggested gers in a New York subway car.” The linguists’ letter touched guistics professor at Princeton,
battles now erupting in academia currents. that, because every encounter The linguists’ letter took strong only lightly on questions that have wrote in a tweet of his own,
and publishing. “I have a mind-set that the with the police carries danger of issue with the words “mild-man- proved storm-tossed for Profes- amounted to “a kind of indirect ad
Also this month, 153 intellectu- world is a complex place we are escalation, any racial group inter- nered,” noting that a neighbor lat- sor Pinker in the past. In the de- hominem attack.”
als and writers — many of them trying to understand,” he said. acting with the police frequently bate over whether nature or nur- The linguists insisted they were
politically liberal — signed a letter “There is an inherent value to free risked becoming victims of police ture shapes human behavior, he not trying to censor Professor
in Harper’s Magazine that criti- speech, because no one knows the violence, due to poorly trained of- has leaned toward nature, arguing Pinker. Rather, they were intent
cized the current intellectual cli- solution to problems a priori.” ficers, armed suspects or overre-
action. That appeared to be the
Racial insensitivity or that characteristics like psycho- on showing that he had been de-
mate as “constricted” and “intol- He described his critics as logical traits and intelligence are ceitful and used racial dog whis-
erant.” That led to a fiery response “speech police” who “have trolled point of Professor Pinker’s tweet. an intellectual will to to some degree heritable. tles, and thus, was a disreputable
through my writings to find offen- The linguists’ letter also ac- He has also suggested that un- representative for linguistics.
from opposing liberal and leftist
writers, who accused the Harper’s sive lines and adjectives.” cused the professor of engaging in entertain ideas? derrepresentation in the sciences “Any resulting action from this
letter writers of elitism and hypoc- The letter against him focuses racial dog whistles when he used could be rooted in part in biologi- letter may make it clear to Black
risy. mainly on his activity on Twitter, the words “urban crime” and “ur- cal differences between men and scholars that the L.S.A. is sensi-
In an era of polarizing ideolo- where he has some 600,000 fol- ban violence” in other tweets. er said that Goetz had spoken in women. (He defended Lawrence tive to the impact that tweets of
gies, Professor Pinker, a linguist lowers. It points to his 2015 tweet But in those tweets, Professor racist terms of Latinos and Black Summers, the former Harvard this sort have on maintaining
and social psychologist, is tough of an article from The Upshot, the Pinker had linked to the work of people. He was not “mild-man- president who in 2005 speculated structures that we should be at-
to pin down. He is a big supporter data and analysis-focused team at scholars who are widely de- nered” but rather intent on con- that innate differences between tempting to dismantle,” wrote
of Democrats, and donated heav- The New York Times, which sug- scribed as experts on urban crime frontation, they said. the sexes might in part explain Professor David Adger of Queen
ily to former President Barack gested that the high number of po- and urban violence and its de- The origin of the letter remains why fewer women succeed in sci- Mary University of London on his
Obama, but he has denounced lice shootings of Black people may cline. a mystery. Of 10 signers contacted ence and math careers. Mr. Sum- website.
what he sees as the close-minded- not have been caused by racial “‘Urban’ appears to be a usual by The Times, only one hinted that mers’s remark infuriated some fe- That line of argument left Pro-
ness of heavily liberal American bias of individual police officers, terminological choice in work in she knew the identity of the au- male scientists and was among fessor McWhorter, a signer of the
universities. He likes to publicly but rather by the larger structural sociology, political science, law thors. Many of the linguists several controversies that led to letter in Harper’s, exasperated.
entertain ideas outside the aca- and economic realities that result and criminology,” wrote Jason proved shy about talking, and his resignation the following “We’re in this moment that’s
demic mainstream, including the in the police having disproportion- Merchant, vice provost and a lin- since the letter first surfaced on year.) like a collective mic drop, and ci-
question of innate differences be- ately high numbers of encounters guistics professor at the Univer- Twitter on July 3, several promi- And Professor Pinker has made vility and common sense go out
tween the sexes and among differ- with Black residents. sity of Chicago, who defended nent linguists have said their high-profile blunders, such as the window,” he said. “It’s enough
ent ethnic and racial groups. And “Data: Police don’t shoot blacks Professor Pinker. names had been included without when he provided his expertise on to cry racism or sexism, and that’s
he has suggested that the political disproportionately,” Professor Another issue, Professor their knowledge. language for the 2007 defense of that.”
Publishing Industry Plots Its Future American publishing has lost

several prominent leaders,
including Carolyn Reidy, presi-
With Newfound Diversity at the Top dent and chief executive of

Simon & Schuster, who died in
May, and Sonny Mehta, of
week, Simon & Schuster brought what gets published, and the abil- Knopf, who died in December.
From Page A1 on Dana Canedy, a former New ity to recruit new authors and edi-
& Noble, the collapse and subse- York Times editor and the admin- torial talent, at a moment when versifying their work forces a pri-
quent resurgence of independent istrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, as the publishing industry is strug- ority. Penguin Random House
bookstores, and the explosive the new publisher of its namesake gling to diversify both its work said it would share statistics on
growth of audiobooks. imprint. force and the titles and authors it the racial makeup of the company,
It was a generation that pub- Ms. Canedy, 55, will become the champions. require antiracist training among
lished some of the most influential first Black person to lead a major They join a small but influential its workers and pledged to publish
books and authors of the 20th cen- publishing house. She said she’s group of Black editors and pub- more books by people of color. Ha-
tury. Mr. Mehta, whose taste and aiming to acquire books that are lishers at major publishing chette Book Group also said it
commercial acumen were legend- houses, including Dawn Davis, would share demographic infor-
ary, published literary giants like who heads the 37 Ink imprint at Si- mation about its work force inter-
DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES
Kazuo Ishiguro, John Updike and mon & Schuster; Tracy Sherrod, nally and create diversity goals
Salman Rushdie. Ms. Mayhew, editorial director of the Amistad for both its publishing programs
who died in February after a imprint at HarperCollins; Erroll and its staff.
nearly 50-year tenure at Simon & McDonald, the longtime execu- Michael Pietsch, the chief exec-
Schuster, shaped the work of Bob tive editor of Pantheon; and Chris utive of Hachette Book Group,
Woodward, Walter Isaacson, Dor- Jackson, the publisher and editor said that the lack of diversity
is Kearns Goodwin and Stephen in chief of the Random House im- within publishing houses has
print One World. made it difficult to recruit people
A. Ambrose.
Publishing employees often toil of color for leadership positions.
Other industry icons are mov-
for decades as assistant editors
ing on, leaving a vacuum. Last “Everyone is going to be much
and vice presidents, gradually
week, Nan Talese, publisher of her more open looking outside the in-
working their way up the ladder.
own imprint at Doubleday, said dustry to find people who have the
The fact that both Simon & Schus-
she would retire in December af- right business skills and sensibil-
ter and Knopf appointed leaders
ter a trailblazing career that ities, and who can grow into the re-
who had never worked in the in-
spanned six decades and shaped lationships,” he said. “Everyone is
dustry suggests that companies
the careers of writers like Mar- are prepared to overthrow old hir- going to have to widen their lens.”
garet Atwood and Ian McEwan. ing practices that rely on insider Ms. Lucas, who will take over at
At the same time, some of the JAI LENNARD
networks and paying your dues Pantheon and Schocken next year,
editors and publishers who were Chris Jackson, publisher and over the decades. said in an interview that she tried
viewed as rising stars and pre- to get a publishing job fresh out of
editor in chief of the Random Mr. Jackson said that the REBECCA SMEYNE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
sumptive heirs in recent years scarcity of Black executives in college but couldn’t. She went on
have been overlooked for top jobs,
House imprint One World. to positions in theater and film, be-
publishing makes it hard for com- try.” facing louder calls to deliver con-
and even let go amid corporate panies to recruit from within their While publishers have made crete plans. fore becoming the publisher of the
streamlining. “completely out of the box.” own ranks and imperative that strides in elevating women into Last month, a crowdsourced arts magazine Guernica.
Some of the people who have “The most obvious element of they look to other industries when executive positions in recent campaign to reveal racial dispari- In 2016, she was named the ex-
been brought in as replacements diversity I bring is being a Black hiring. years — with leaders like Mad- ties in author advances, using the ecutive director of the National
for those senior positions have woman, but I also grew up in a “So much of the discussion we eline McIntosh at Penguin Ran- hashtag #PublishingPaidMe, Book Foundation, where she
markedly different sensibilities small town in Kentucky. I’m also have about things like diversity dom House, Ms. Arthur at Knopf, swept Twitter. More than 1,300 raised the profile of the organiza-
than their predecessors. Ms. Ar- of a military family. I’m also a sin- and inclusion is about hiring at the Ms. Einhorn at Henry Holt and employees of major publishing tion, helped to elevate the work of
thur at Knopf and Amy Einhorn, gle mother,” she said in an inter- entry level, and so we’re really Mitzi Angel at Farrar, Straus and companies called for a day of ac- writers of color and directed an ef-
the new publisher of Henry Holt, view. “I think I will be more open, talking about a 20- or 30-year Giroux — the industry still lags far tion to highlight the industry’s di- fort to make 1.4 million books
are both known for having a perhaps, than some to taking a project to get those people into behind in terms of racial diversity. versity problem, signing a letter available to children in public
strong commercial sense, an eye chance on unknown authors.” senior positions as they work Publishing’s work force is more citing their opposition to the “in- housing.
for what sells and for knowing Ms. Lucas and Ms. Canedy, both dustry’s role in systemic racism, “I always joke that I’m like a
than 75 percent white, according

their way up,” he said. “These

what women want to read. While newcomers to publishing, are now openings happening at this mo- to a survey released earlier this its failure to hire and retain a sig- house renovator,” Ms. Lucas said.
the ranks of the publishing indus- poised to become two of the most ment create an opportunity to year by the children’s book pub- nificant number of Black employ- “You go into a classic old beautiful
try skews heavily female, and powerful Black women in the liter- look outside of our industry — be- lisher Lee & Low Books. Compa- ees or publish a significant num- house that’s totally fine, and you
women tend to buy more books, ary world, with the ability to alter cause we have to, because there’s nies that have long made vague ber of Black authors, and its pur- figure out how to bring it into the
men have often held the top jobs. the culture of the divisions they been no cultivation of any kind of a promises about recruiting more suit of profit through books that future and make sure it’s steady
Ms. Lucas’s new role comes on lead and shape the landscape. diverse group of senior executives people of color, in some cases incite racism.” and strong and modern. The idea
the heels of another big hire in Both are taking on roles that give who are ready to move into those prompted by the nationwide pro- In response, major publishing is loving tradition but also loving
publishing’s executive ranks. Last them discretion over who and positions from within the indus- tests against systemic racism, are houses said they would make di- the future.”
Struggle for Racial Justice Law Enforcement
SOURCE: NY1 SOURCE: REQUESTED ANONYMITY SOURCE: SHIMON PROKUPECZ SOURCE: JOHN PHILP
Union Square, Manhattan Union Square, Manhattan Union Square East and East 17th Street, Manhattan Classon and Lafayette Avenues, Brooklyn
May 28. An officer grabs someone by their backpack, May 28. Two officers lift their bicycles and push May 28. An officer hits someone in the leg with a May 29. An officer shoves at least three people,
and several officers engage in a struggle as other them repeatedly into a group of people, knocking baton, and the baton breaks. one of whom is also shoved in the chest by a
people join to pull the person away. one person over. white-shirted officer.
Punches, tackles,
beatings and shoves.
SOURCE: REQUESTED ANONYMITY SOURCE: ZACH WILLIAMS SOURCE: @CRANKBERRIES
DeKalb and Classon Avenues, Brooklyn Greene and Classon Avenues, Brooklyn Fifth Avenue and Bergen Street, Brooklyn
May 29. An officer shoves two people, and one falls May 29. An officer runs up and shoves someone sev- May 29. A white-shirted officer shoves someone, who
to the ground. eral times, and then shoves a second and third person falls backward.
standing nearby.
SOURCE: NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS/THE NEW YORK TIMES SOURCE: WHITNEY HU SOURCE: JON CAMPBELL SOURCE: DONALD MARTELL
Classon and Gates Avenues, Brooklyn Barclays Center, Brooklyn Barclays Center, Brooklyn Flatbush Avenue Extension
May 29. A passenger in a moving unmarked police May 29. An officer shoves a protester, who falls to May 29. Officers repeatedly hit two people with ba- and Willoughby Street, Brooklyn
car opens the car door to strike someone standing the ground. tons. Another officer pushes someone to the ground. May 30. An officer shoves someone, who pushes
on the street. back, and a second officer shoves the person over.
SOURCE: P. NICK CURRAN SOURCE: BRANDON SCOTT SOURCE: SEAN PICCOLI/THE NEW YORK TIMES SOURCE: DOUG GORDON
Church and Rogers Avenues, Brooklyn 395 Flatbush Avenue Extension, Brooklyn Bedford and Tilden Avenues, Brooklyn Bedford and Tilden Avenues, Brooklyn
May 30. An officer pepper-sprays a crowd after two May 30. An officer runs up and shoves a person who is May 30. An officer shoves a protester twice. May 30. An officer pushes through a crowd and grabs
people in the crowd throw things at a line of officers. backing away, then chases the person down. a person by the neck to push them aside. Another
officer knocks the person over, and the first officer
throws the person down again when they try to get up.
The department said

it exercised restraint.
The videos tell a
different story.
SOURCE: ANJU J. RUPCHANDANI SOURCE: @PGARAPON SOURCE: DAVID SIFFERT
Bedford and Tilden Avenues, Brooklyn Flatbush and St. Marks Avenues, Brooklyn Broadway and East 12th Street, Manhattan
May 30. An officer pulls down a protester’s mask and May 30. Protesters block the path of a police car and May 31. An officer pepper-sprays a crowd, then
pepper-sprays the person’s face. pelt it with garbage. Two police cars then drive into the knocks someone down with an elbow to the face.
crowd, knocking over several people.
Caught on Over 60 Videos: Police Using Force on Protesters

This article is by Allison McCann, show the police using force on proportionate to the threat or looted businesses, burned police Officers charged into peaceful lead to interactions where force
Blacki Migliozzi, Andy Newman, protesters during the first 10 resistance at hand at the mo- cars and attacked officers with crowds and pushed people to the is used.”
Larry Buchanan and Aaron Byrd. days of demonstrations in the ment it is applied. bricks, bottles and in one case a ground. The police said that nearly 400
It was two hours after curfew city after the death of George In instance after instance, the fire extinguisher. The unrest Sometimes, they appeared to officers were injured during the
on the sixth night of protests Floyd. police are seen using force on prompted Mayor Bill de Blasio to lash out at random. protests, and that 132 of the more
against police brutality in New A review of the videos, shot by people who do not appear to be impose an 8 p.m. curfew. Devora Kaye, the Police De- than 2,500 people arrested re-
York City. protesters and journalists, sug- resisting arrest or posing an “I think the officers used an partment’s assistant commis- ported injuries, but that they did
An officer in Brooklyn pushed gests that many of the police immediate threat to anyone. incredible amount of restraint in sioner for public information, not have records of injured peo-
a protester so hard that she fell attacks, often led by high-ranking Officers attacked people who terms of allowing people to vent,” declined repeated requests to ple who were not arrested. Pro-
officers, were not warranted. had their hands up. Commissioner Shea said on June review the full set of videos testers have described and docu-
backward on the pavement. Then
A video of five or 10 or 30 sec- They hit people who were 22. “I am proud of their perform- provided by The Times and to mented at least five broken or
he shoved someone on a bicycle
onds does not tell the whole walking away from them. ance in policing these protests, explain the use of force in them. fractured bones and four concus-
and picked up and body-
story, of course. It does not depict They grabbed people from ending the riots and upholding She reiterated that “isolated sions.
slammed a third person into the the rule of law.”
what happened before the cam- behind. incidents” of misconduct were When presented with the
street. era started rolling. It is unclear And they repeatedly pum- Yet for just about each viral being addressed, noted that four videos collected by The Times,
Nearby, a man fell running from the videos, for instance, meled people who were already moment that emerged from the officers had already been disci- Kapil Longani, counsel to Mr. de
from the police. Officers
what the officers’ intentions were on the ground. protests — officers violently plined, and said that the depart- Blasio, said, “These incidents are
swarmed him and beat him with or why protesters were being Police Commissioner Dermot shoving a woman to the ground ment’s Internal Affairs Bureau disturbing and New Yorkers
batons. A commanding officer, in arrested or told to move. F. Shea has maintained that or beating a cyclist who seemed was investigating 51 cases of use deserve a full accounting of these
his white-shirted uniform, joined But the Police Department’s misconduct during the protests to be doing nothing more than of force during the protests. matters and access to a transpar-
the fray and stepped on the patrol guide says officers may was confined to “isolated cases” trying to cross the street — The “The N.Y.P.D. has zero toler- ent disciplinary process.”
man’s neck. use “only the reasonable force and that officers were confronted Times turned up multiple exam- ance for inappropriate or exces- But he cautioned that the
All of it was caught on video. necessary to gain control or with violence by protesters. ples of similar behavior. sive use of force,” she wrote, “but police disciplinary system
In fact, The New York Times custody of a subject.” Force, He noted that during the first The police responded to words it is also critical to review the needed time to carry out thor-
found more than 60 videos that policing experts say, must be week of demonstrations, people with punches and pepper spray. totality of the circumstances that ough investigations.
Struggle for Racial Justice Law Enforcement
SOURCE: NOAH GOLDBERG/THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS SOURCE: CARLOS POLANCO SOURCE: NATE IGOR SMITH SOURCE: AARON BLANTON
Atlantic Center, Brooklyn F.D.R. Drive and Houston Street, Manhattan Church and Canal Streets, Manhattan 41 East 57th Street, Manhattan
May 31. Someone runs toward a person who is on May 31. An officer walks along a roadway pepper- May 31. Officers rush a crowd and knock down a June 1. An officer running by a group of bystanders
the ground being detained by officers, and several spraying protesters. protester whose hands are up. A white-shirted officer pepper-sprays them and keeps running.
people in blue uniforms beat the person on the drags another protester on the asphalt.
ground with batons.
SOURCE: REQUESTED ANONYMITY SOURCE: BRANDON REMMERT SOURCE: REQUESTED ANONYMITY SOURCE: ALI WINSTON
West and Rector Streets, Manhattan 17 Battery Place, Manhattan West and Rector Streets, Manhattan West and Morris Streets, Manhattan
June 2. An officer approaches someone with a bicycle, June 2. A white-shirted officer pushes one person June 2. An officer orders someone to put down a bicy- June 2. A protester is on the ground surrounded by
striking the person in the legs with a baton. down, and then shoves another. A second officer grabs cle. The protester is then shoved to the ground before multiple officers. An officer then strikes the person in
a protester by the hair to bring her to the ground. another officer approaches and pushes the protester’s the legs with a baton.
head toward the pavement.
At the height of the

recent Black Lives
Matter marches in
New York City, the
police were repeatedly
recorded using force
SOURCE: ALLISON MCCANN/THE NEW YORK TIMES
against protesters. SOURCE: KARLA MORENO SOURCE: AXEL HERNANDEZ
Fourth and Atlantic Avenues, Brooklyn Third Avenue and 50th Street, Manhattan Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn
June 2. Several officers chase down and beat a person June 3. Multiple officers, including one in a white shirt, June 3. An officer approaches a person walking with a
with their batons. A white-shirted officer runs up and hit a cyclist with their batons. bicycle, grabs the cyclist around the neck and pushes
steps on the person’s neck. them to the ground.
SOURCE: AXEL HERNANDEZ SOURCE: SIMRAN JEET SINGH SOURCE: AXEL HERNANDEZ SOURCE: JORDAN JACKSON
Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn 54th Street and Lexington Avenue, Manhattan Washington Avenue and Fulton Street, Brooklyn East 136th Street and Brook Avenue, Bronx
June 3. Three officers use riot shields to shove a June 3. An officer tries to restrain a protester who is June 4. An officer grabs someone, then shoves an- June 4. Multiple officers strike a group of protesters
protester who is astride a bike, and the protester holding on to a bicycle. The officer drags the protester, other person twice into a car. with their batons.
falls down. and the bicycle, until both fall to the ground.
SOURCE: JOHN KNEFEL SOURCE: RAY MENDEZ SOURCE: REQUESTED ANONYMITY SOURCE: MIKE HASSELL
Washington Avenue and Fulton Street, Brooklyn East 136th Street and Brook Avenue, Bronx 885 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn Nassau and Gold Streets, Brooklyn
June 4. A white-shirted officer uses a baton to strike a June 4. An officer throws a protester to the ground to June 5. An officer shoves someone on a bicycle, June 6. A person is tackled to the ground by a group of
person on a bike. arrest the protester. Another person then interferes who falls over. officers and punched in the head multiple times.
with the arresting officer. The officer turns, hits the
person and shoves him.
“To conclude that these offi- the police, offered a blunt assess- “Some of the stuff that they do commander shoved a protester secret and New York City cut its
cers or any American committed ment of the behavior shown in is so sloppy,” he said. “Some of it and another pulled her down by police budget and broadened a ONLINE: VIDEOS
a crime without due process is these videos. is just downright criminal.” the hair. ban on chokeholds. Last week, The Times sought and verified
inconsistent with the fundamen- “A lot of this was ‘street jus- Scott Hechinger, a public de- A civil rights lawyer with the New York’s attorney general, 64 videos of police officers
tal fairness that underlies our tice,’ ” he said, “gratuitous acts of fender for nearly a decade in legal aid group the Bronx De- Letitia James, called for an inde- using force at protests in New
judicial system,” Mr. Longani extrajudicial violence doled out Brooklyn, said he found it strik- fenders, Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, pendent commission to perma-
said. by police officers on the street to ing that being filmed by crowds said she saw violations of consti- York City from May 28 to June 6,
nently oversee the Police Depart-
The Police Benevolent Associ- teach somebody a lesson.” of protesters did not seem to tutional rights in nearly all the from which 37 still images are
ment.
ation, the union that represents Sometimes, the police went inhibit some officers’ conduct. videos, including the rights to shown here. Watch all of the
But acts of force by the police
most N.Y.P.D. officers, declined to after people already in custody. “That the police were able and free speech and due process. videos at nytimes.com/newyork
are still being caught on video,
comment on the videos. Sometimes officers went after willing to perform such brazen “The primary question is more than six weeks into the
The episodes in the videos The people they did not appear inter- violence when surrounded by whether the force is reasonable,
protests. Troy Closson contributed
Times reviewed were spread ested in arresting at all. cellphone cameras and when the but you have to remember, if
they’re not arresting someone, Axel Hernandez, a high school reporting.
across 15 neighborhoods in three Mr. Stinson said that in some whole world was watching at this
boroughs. Several videos each of the videos, the police used moment more than any other, they shouldn’t be using any teacher in New York City who on
were taken June 3 in Cadman force permissibly. He saw noth- underscores how police feel and force,” Ms. Borchetta said. June 3 filmed an officer throwing
someone down by the neck, said Note: The videos were compiled
Plaza in Brooklyn and on June 4 ing inappropriate, for example, know they will never be held to At several protests, the police from Times reporting and lists
in Mott Haven in the Bronx, in a widely viewed video of offi- account in any meaningful way used bicycles as weapons. he felt it was important to contin-
ue to keep watch over the police. shared by T. Greg Doucette, Corin
when officers “kettled” pro- cers using batons on people who even for the most egregious acts More often, they used their
testers into tight spaces and then appeared to be trying to evade of violence,” Mr. Hechinger said. hands. “Part of the reason we’re out Faife, a crowdsourced effort
beat them with batons. arrest. Many of the videos show vio- The protests, and the outcry here is because they were on started on Reddit and public
Philip M. Stinson, a Bowling In many other videos, though, lence led by officers in white over the policing of them, have George Floyd’s neck,” said Mr. responses to requests by the New
Green State University criminol- he said he believed that force shirts, signaling a rank of lieu- already led to changes. State Hernandez, 30. “This is exactly York attorney general’s office and
ogist and former police officer had been applied without disci- tenant or higher. legislators overturned a law that why we are protesting in the first the city’s Civilian Complaint
who studies the use of force by pline or supervision. In Manhattan on June 2, one kept police discipline records place.” Review Board.
Killing of Tech Executive in Manhattan Appears to Be ‘Hit,’ Official Says

This article is by Michael Gold, him.” for technology to transform lives
William K. Rashbaum and Daniel E. Mr. Rametra, 31, also lauded Mr. in Bangladesh and beyond,”
Slotnik. Saleh’s business acumen, saying Pathao said in a statement.
The killer, dressed entirely in that his friend was a visionary Fueled by his success in Bang-
black and wearing a black mask, who was always looking to his ladesh, Mr. Saleh tried to launch a
followed the young technology en- next idea. similar venture in Nigeria. That
trepreneur from the elevator of “He was a machine, dude, he company, Gokada, began operat-
his luxury condo building into his never stopped,” Mr. Rametra said. ing as a motorcycle ride-hailing
apartment. “He was always trying to make company in Lagos, Nigeria’s most
Detectives believe he then used money.” populous city, in 2018.
an electrical stun gun to immobi- Mr. Saleh grew up near Pough- Motorcycle taxis, called okada
lize the entrepreneur, Fahim keepsie, N.Y., according to public in Nigeria, have long been popular
Saleh. records. As a teenager, he learned in Lagos and many other African
Some time after, the assailant to code and began to develop web- cities as a way to circumvent traf-
killed Mr. Saleh, decapitated him sites, his friends said. He graduat- fic jams. Gokada raised $5.3 mil-
and dismembered his body with ed from Bentley University, a lion in venture capital in June
an electric saw. small college in Waltham, Mass., 2019, according to the website
in 2009 with a degree in computer TechCrunch.
The investigation was in its
information systems, according to But Mr. Saleh’s business hit a
early stages, but that was the
his LinkedIn profile. major stumbling block in Febru-
chilling account that a law en-
On social media, in interviews ary, when state officials banned
forcement official briefed on the
and blog posts, Mr. Saleh depicted motorcycle taxis from operating
inquiry gave on Wednesday as de-
himself as an entrepreneur driven in major commercial and resi-
tectives continued scrutinizing
by passion. dential parts of Lagos.
evidence in the killing of Mr.
“Entrepreneurs are the ones Gokada was forced to halt its
Saleh, 33. His body parts were
that really change countries, that ride-hailing business. In a video
found Tuesday in plastic garbage
really change cities,” Mr. Saleh discussing the ban, Mr. Saleh, the
bags in his apartment on Manhat-
said in a YouTube video in Febru- company’s chief executive, ap-
tan’s Lower East Side.
ary. “They’re the ones that bring peared crestfallen.
On Wednesday, the police con- JOHN TAGGART FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
the vision.” “This has definitely been a
tinued their investigation at the The condo building on the After college, Mr. Saleh turned blow,” Mr. Saleh said in the video,
building and inside Mr. Saleh’s
apartment, a seventh-story unit
Lower East Side of Manhattan, his love for practical jokes into a which he posted to YouTube and
where Fahim Saleh was dis- prank-calling app named social media platforms on Feb. 2
that he bought last year for $2.25 PrankDial, which allowed users to and titled “Gokada is not okada.”
million, public records show, and covered decapitated and dis-
buy prerecorded calls to send to Mr. Saleh was forced to lay off
for which he expressed his affec- membered. Mr. Saleh, 33, had friends. workers, friends said. But he tried
tion on Instagram. founded several tech compa- Writing years later about the to rebound, saying he still be-
The investigation included a re- nies, including a motorcycle business, Mr. Saleh said that it lieved that Nigeria had enormous
view of surveillance video from ride-hailing service in Nigeria. eventually generated millions and economic potential and that he
Mr. Saleh’s apartment building led him to realize that he could could provide jobs to young Ni-
and an interview with his sister. keep turning his passions — in gerians.
Investigators believe the fund based in Manhattan that in-
vested largely in companies in the this case, for practical jokes — into In February, Gokada pivoted
killer’s work dismembering the big bucks. quickly to a food and package de-
body was interrupted when the developing world.
“If you go into a project entirely livery service. After the change,
victim’s sister entered the apart- On Wednesday, Bangladesh’s
focused on making money, you’re Mr. Saleh sounded an optimistic
ment to check on him after not minister for information and com-
going to be disappointed,” he note.
hearing from him for a day, an- munication technology, Zunaid
wrote in a post on Medium. In April, as the pandemic up-
other law enforcement official Ahmed Palak, expressed his con-
Still, PrankDial had its stum- ended New York and Nigeria
said. dolences and said on Twitter that
bles. On his LinkedIn profile, Mr. alike, he noted on Twitter that his
Detectives think that the assail- Mr. Saleh’s death was a great loss Saleh boasted that while his com- company was well positioned to
ant fled through the apartment’s for the country. pany had millions of downloads, it adapt to the economic shift.
back door and into the building’s “The unit owners, residents, had been identified. Mr. Saleh’s family has declined also drew more than 100 subpoe- “Now it seems like we had a
stairwell when she arrived, the of- board and management are all On Tuesday night and Wednes- to speak to the press. nas. two-month head start in one of the
ficial said. quite upset,” the statement said. day morning, detectives were Sumeet Rametra, who met Mr. At the time of Mr. Saleh’s death, few thriving business sectors,” he
A Police Department spokes- On Tuesday, a law enforcement scouring the neighborhood for Saleh in college and has been in PrankDial and its owners faced an said.
man said he could not comment on official said that the electric saw surveillance video from outside close communication with his active civil suit from a New Jersey The law enforcement official
how the killer entered the build- was still plugged into an electrical local stores, residential and com- family since his death, described jail worker who was convicted in said that investigators were ex-
ing. The property’s management outlet when the police arrived, mercial buildings and area traffic his friend as someone who in- 2015 of using the site to illegally ploring on Wednesday whether
company said that the building and the killer had left some clean- cameras to see if cameras had dulged in kind gestures, like buy- wiretap his co-workers. Mr. Saleh’s killing might be relat-
did not have a doorman but had ing supplies behind. It appeared captured the killer coming or going his parents a home and a After PrankDial, Mr. Saleh ed to his business, noting the indi-
extensive security in place. that some effort had been made to ing or waiting for his prey, several Tesla. turned his attention to Bangla- cations that his company had
The management company, in a clean up the evidence. law enforcement officials said. On one recent occasion, Mr. desh, where he co-founded the been hurting.
statement, said Mr. Saleh was an The official who spoke on The grisly death has attracted Saleh asked Mr. Rametra to join ride-sharing company Pathao in Even as his start-up encoun-
active member of the condomini- Wednesday said that the killing international attention given Mr. him for a game of tennis, but Mr. 2015. The business, which Mr. tered setbacks, Mr. Saleh had re-
um board. “looks like a professional job,” re- Saleh’s global connections. The Rametra said he didn’t have a Saleh left in 2018, started as a bike- mained both hopeful and persist-
ferring to it as a “hit.” A Police De- son of Bangladeshi immigrants, racket, he recalled. sharing company but now offers ent.
Juliana Kim contributed report- partment spokesman said he Mr. Saleh founded ride-hailing “He was like, ‘I already got you transportation, delivery and busi- “Have a very good feeling about
ing. Sheelagh McNeill and Kitty could not comment on a possible companies in Bangladesh and Ni- one, let’s go,’ ” Mr. Rametra said, ness logistics. 2020,” he said on Twitter on June
Bennett contributed research. motive or whether any suspects geria as well as a venture-capital crying. “I never got to play with “Fahim believed in the potential 2.
Asylum Officers Condemn Chihuahua, Mexico, in April.

Once in the United States,
migrants have a legal right to
Trump’s ‘Draconian’ Plans apply for asylum, regardless of
how they entered.
By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS seeker to even have a fair process mediately block migrants, includ-
WASHINGTON — A Trump ad- much less getting asylum,” said ing children traveling alone, from
ministration plan to overhaul the Michael Knowles, a spokesman obtaining asylum and return them
asylum system in the United for the National CIS Council, to Mexico or their home countries.
States would subject vulnerable which represents employees with
The administration built on that
families to danger and violate in- United States Citizenship and Im-
effort with another proposal that
ternational law, officers who migration Services, the legal im-
would allow the government to
would carry out the policy said migration agency. “How they
think they can do it without vio- deny a migrant asylum if they had
Wednesday. traveled from or through a coun-
In its public comment on the lating their own laws and conven-
tion is beyond us.” try that the administration had
proposed regulation, the union classified as in the midst of a pub-
representing federal asylum offi- Migrants have a legal right to
apply for asylum in the United lic health emergency. That rule
cers said it would effectively deny would also disqualify a migrant
most migrants pursuing protec- States once they step on U.S. soil,
regardless of whether they from what’s known as a “with-
tion the right to have their claims holding of removal,” which can de-
of fear or persecution assessed. crossed the border legally or ille-
gally. An officer from Citizenship lay deportation and provide an op-
“In the last three years, the ex-
and Immigration Services portunity for a full hearing before
ecutive branch of our government
screens applicants to verify their an immigration judge. The burden
has sought to turn the asylum sys-
claims of being persecuted based of proof is much higher for that
tem on its head,” the union repre-
senting the officers said. “The on race, religion, political beliefs screening than a typical asylum
most extreme in a recent series of or a number of other factors. interview.
draconian changes to the Ameri- The proposal put forward in PAUL RATJE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES Under the proposed rule, even
can asylum process, the proposed June by the Department of Justice migrants at the border who can
their claims under the proposal. tections there, reviving a similar cent of its work force as the immi- prove they were tortured in their
regulation dismantles our care- and the Department of Homeland
Security would significantly raise And it would give officers ex- measure that was recently gration fees that fund the agency home country and would nor-
fully crafted system of vetting
the standard that migrants would panded authority to declare asy- blocked by a federal judge in plummet. mally receive some protection
asylum claims, and with it, Ameri-
ca’s position as a global leader in have to meet. Those claiming to be lum applications “frivolous,” bar- Washington, D.C. The departments of Homeland would most likely be sent to a third
refugee assistance.” targeted by gangs or “rogue” gov- ring migrants from seeking other “It will burn down the American Security and Justice did not im- country to seek sanctuary in-
The proposal, filed last month, ernment officials would be more forms of immigration relief in the refugee protection system,” said mediately respond to requests for stead.
is one of a slew of policies the likely to be denied, and those seek- United States. Jason Marks, a steward for the comment. President Trump has signed ac-
Trump administration has pushed ing protection on the basis of their The new proposal would also American Federation of Govern- The proposal is part of a web of cords with Guatemala and Hon-
forward to seal the border to asy- gender would see their ability to empower the Trump administra- ment Employees Local 1924, restrictions intended to wall off duras that allow the United States
lum-seekers even after the coro- seek asylum further limited. tion to deny asylum to migrants which also represents some em- asylum seekers. The Trump ad- to deport migrants to those Cen-
navirus pandemic subsides. Migrants also would not be enti- who spent two weeks in another ployees with Citizenship and Im- ministration is currently using an tral American countries, where
“They would close off every tled to a full hearing in which an country on their way to the United migration Services, which is pre- emergency authority granted to they would have to seek asylum
possibility for the average asylum immigration judge could hear States and did not apply for pro- paring to furlough nearly 70 per- top federal health officials to im- from those governments.
After Supreme Court Ruling, Trump Lawyers Renew Effort to Block Release of Tax Returns
By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM sire to harass or is conducted in come public any time soon. If they rule on the merits of either side’s which had been delayed for al- campaign. He later pleaded guilty
and BENJAMIN WEISER bad faith,” and that it would im- are turned over to prosecutors, position on the subpoena itself. most a year by the president’s le- to federal campaign finance vio-
Days after the U.S. Supreme pede his constitutional duties. they will remain shielded under Last October, Judge Marrero gal challenge, would resume. lations for his role in that deal and
Court delivered a defeat to Presi- The president and the district grand jury secrecy and may rejected Mr. Trump’s initial argu- The president’s lawyers did not another hush-money payment.
dent Trump, clearing the way for attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., a emerge only if charges are ment that he was immune from all offer much detail about the Mr. Cohen, serving a three-year
the Manhattan district attorney to Democrat, have been locked in a brought and they are introduced investigation, calling it “repug- grounds for their new objections sentence at a federal prison in
seek his tax returns, his lawyers battle over the records for almost as evidence at a trial. nant to the nation’s governmental in the filing on Wednesday, but Otisville, N.Y., implicated the
on Wednesday renewed their ef- a year. The flurry of legal activity over said they were likely to pursue president, saying in court that he
forts to block or at least narrow ac- The district attorney issued the how quickly Mr. Vance would be several arguments about the sub- had acted on Mr. Trump’s orders.
cess to the records. subpoena to the president’s ac- able to access some or all of the poena’s scope and purpose. After federal prosecutors con-
Mr. Trump’s lawyers wrote to counting firm last August, seeking
records dating to 2011 as part of an
records — and to what extent Mr.
Trump could block them — came
The president tries to Mr. Vance’s office made clear it
intended to push back against Mr.
cluded their investigation last
year, Mr. Vance’s office began ex-
the federal judge in Manhattan
who originally presided over the investigation into hush-money after the lower-court judge, Victor fend off Manhattan’s Trump’s position. Citing Judge amining whether New York State
case, saying they planned to ar- payments made to an adult film Marrero, asked both sides to in- Marrero’s opinion last October, it laws had been broken when Mr.
gue that the district attorney’s actress who said she had an affair form him of whether further ac- district attorney. argued he had found “no demon- Trump and his company, the
subpoena seeking eight years of with Mr. Trump. The president tion was needed in light of the Su- strated bad faith” or harassment Trump Organization, reimbursed
his corporate and personal tax re- has denied the affair, and he has preme Court’s landmark decision. in the decision to issue the grand Mr. Cohen. The subpoena was is-
turns was too broad and politically fought the request for his financial In a response on Wednesday, jury subpoena. Mr. Vance’s pros- sued as part of that inquiry.
records, contending presidents Mr. Trump’s lawyers said they structure and constitutional val- ecutors also said Judge Marrero On Wednesday, Mr. Vance’s of-
motivated.
were immune from state criminal planned to argue that the sub- ues.” After a federal appeals court had rejected the president’s claim fice asked the judge to order Mr.
The filing came less than a week
after the Supreme Court struck investigations. poena should be blocked, while panel unanimously upheld the that there was “any evidence of a Trump to file any additional argu-
judge’s ruling, the president
down Mr. Trump’s previous argu- On Thursday, the Supreme Mr. Vance’s office told the judge ‘secondary motive’ that goes be- ments quickly in light of the risk of
ment — that the subpoena was in- Court rejected his position by a 7- that the issues had largely been sought review in the Supreme yond good-faith enforcement of losing evidence “as a result of fad-
valid because a sitting president to-2 vote, but it left open the possi- decided. The two sides wrote to Court. the criminal laws.” ing memories or lost documents,”
could not be criminally investi- bility that he could raise new argu- the judge in a joint letter outlining After the Supreme Court deci- The dispute emerged out of the or the possibility that statutes of
gated. In the new filing, Mr. ments against Mr. Vance’s sub- their positions. sion was announced last week, case of Michael D. Cohen, the limitations would expire.
Trump’s lawyers noted that the poena in the lower court. Judge Marrero is set to hold a Mr. Vance, in a statement, called president’s onetime lawyer, who “If the president has anything
high court’s decision allowed him No matter who ultimately wins hearing on Thursday to discuss a the ruling “a tremendous victory paid the adult film actress Stormy left to say,” Mr. Vance’s office
to raise other objections: that the the battle, it is unlikely that Mr. schedule for further arguments. for our nation’s system of justice.” Daniels $130,000 to buy her si- wrote, “the ball is now in his
subpoena was “motivated by a de- Trump’s financial records will be- He is not expected to immediately He said his office’s investigation, lence during the 2016 presidential court.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020 N A21
Blaine Kern, 93, Visionary Builder

Of Lavish Mardi Gras Floats, Dies
By STEVEN KURUTZ ons. cial clubs that discriminated in
Blaine Kern, who helped turn “A dynamic force” was how Ar- their membership ranks, Mr.
Mardi Gras in New Orleans into a thur Hardy, publisher of the annu- Kern, who belonged to a krewe
huge event known around the al Mardi Gras Guide, described with Black members, supported
world, most notably through the Mr. Kern in a phone interview. Mr. the law, which passed. (He did not,
innovative and spectacular pa- Kern was, he added, “one of the however, want all-male krewes to
rade floats he designed and built, most significant people in the welcome women.)
died on June 25 at his home in the whole history of the event.” In 1984, Mr. Kern opened Mardi
city. He was 93. Mr. Kern supersized Mardi Gras World, giving tourists the op-
His son Barry, who confirmed Gras with his floats, but he also portunity to visit the 300,000-
the death, said he had developed enlarged the celebration by pro- square-foot warehouse where his
an infection after falling from an moting it tirelessly and democra- floats were built and, in a sense, to
exercise bike. tizing it. In the mid-19th century, experience Mardi Gras year-
Like Walt Disney, to whom he Mardi Gras, with its parades and round. The gift shop does a robust
was often compared, Mr. Kern social balls, was the province of business.
was an artist, a businessman and the well-off white men who con- Having grown up in the city’s
a showman all in one. He was also trolled New Orleans’s business Algiers neighborhood, a histori-
a visionary designer: His parade cally poor area on the West Bank
floats had double decks, multipart of the Mississippi River, Mr. Kern
structures, lights, animation and delighted in the local fame and
many other features that later be- A New Orleans native wealth he achieved. He “lived un-
came common in the various pa-
rades in the city. often compared to apologetically large and loud,” as
The Times-Picayune put it — driv-
Two of his most famous floats
are the Bacchasaurus, a nearly
Walt Disney. ing a Mercedes, handing out busi-
ness cards that referred to himself
life-size dinosaur, and the Baccha- as “Mr. Mardi Gras” and traveling
gator, a 105-foot-long alligator, the world. He married four times,
both built for the Krewe of Bac- and society. To get a parade per- most recently in 2010, when he
chus, one of the social groups be- mit, an organization needed to was in his 80s, to a woman 49
hind the celebration and one stage more than a dozen floats, years his junior.
known for its elaborate parade which were expensive to build, “He ran all the gas out of the
floats. store and insure. tank, so to speak,” said Barry
Since the late 1960s, Bacchus “What Blaine did was, he creat- Kern, who today runs Kern Stu-
has invited celebrities, including ed a pool of rental floats so many dios, the parade attraction busi-
Bob Hope, Hulk Hogan and Will ness he and his father had formed.
groups could participate without
Ferrell, to reign as king of the He added: “My dad had a big
being a blue blood or having a zil-
krewe and ride its float in the pa- ego. But nothing was more impor-
lion dollars,” Mr. Hardy said.
rade. The parade’s organizers tant to him than the adoration of
“turned my dad loose to do what- “Now, this was a business move. I
don’t think Blaine was trying to people who would see his pa-
ever he wanted to do,” Barry Kern rades.”
said. “There was no budget.” save the world by doing this. But it
made it available to more people.” Blaine Salvador Kern was born
Mr. Kern’s roots as a float build- in New Orleans on May 17, 1927.
er went back, if not to the begin- In 1968, Mr. Kern lobbied suc-
cessfully for one krewe to appoint His mother, Josephine (Gendusa)
nings of Mardi Gras, then at least
a Jewish parade marshal, some- Kern, was a homemaker. His fa-
to its days as a more modest cele-
thing unheard-of at the time. And ther, Roy, was a sign painter who
bration. He recalled that as a boy
in 1991, when a Black City Council spent more time fishing and
in the 1930s he helped his father
member introduced a law that drinking than working.
build a float for the Krewe of
Choctaw out of six old trash wag- would deny parade permits to so- At one point the family was un-
able to pay rent, and Blaine, along
with his mother and three sisters,
moved in with neighbors, who
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHELLE V. AGINS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
were retired schoolteachers. In
their book-filled house he read Blaine Kern in 2005 at Mardi Gras World, the New Orleans tourist attraction he opened in 1984.
H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs
and other authors and later cred- animatronics that he had ob- to serve theme parks and parades home city, where he instead be-
ited that experience with awak- served in Europe, forever chang- in other parts of the world and came the “Walt Disney of Mardi
ening his imagination. ing the look of Mardi Gras. even to help with billboards for Gras,” as The New York Times
Mr. Kern was not long out of the By 1981, his company was turn- Chick-fil-A: His firm made the fi- once proclaimed him. By his own
Army when, in the 1950s, he began ing out 350 to 400 floats a year and berglass cows that adorned them. account, it worked out pretty well.
building floats for Rex, the most had contracts to produce 30 of the In addition to his son Barry, Mr. “Life’s been good,” Mr. Kern told
prominent and well-funded Mardi 51 parades that rolled during the Kern is survived by his wife, Holly U.S. News and World Report in
Gras organization. Its captain, Mardi Gras season that year. Kern; two other sons, Blaine Jr. 1986. “I have met three or four
Darwin Fenner, sent Mr. Kern to Competitors soon emerged, but and Brian; two daughters, Thais presidents, dozens of governors.
Europe (paying his way) to study Mr. Kern retained his market Barr and Blainey Kern; 10 grand- I’ve been everywhere.”
artistic techniques in Valencia, share. Ultimately, his son said, in children; and one great-grandson. “And,” he added, “I’m a float
Spain; Viareggio, Italy; and other the 1990s when the superkrewes Early in his career, the story builder.”
places known for parades and fes- accelerated their float rivalry, the goes, Mr. Kern was recruited by
tivals. On his return, Mr. Kern be- cost of some Kern floats exceeded Walt Disney himself to work in
gan incorporating into his floats a million dollars. California. He passed up the op- More obituaries appear on
Mr. Kern’s Mardi Gras work. He was called “a dynamic force.” the bright colors, large props and He later expanded his business portunity and chose to stay in his Page A24.
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Adler, Norman Gordon, Gerald Tobar, Mario Stephen Lash & unconditional love, and GORDON—Gerald, ham Manor, NY. Prede- MARANS—Rabbi Arnold B.
for your generous and ZANN—Nicholas T.
Judy Steinhardt, devoted husband, father, ceased by her parents, her The Sephardic Foundation on Unique, original, ever gene-
Amir, Pual Henningsen, Mayde Zann, Nicky Board Co-Chairs, AFIM meaningful life example. brothers William F. Luding- Aging mourns the loss of our
grandfather and greatgrand- rous and unforgettable.
Braunstein, Ruth Levine, Gladys Jill Bernstein, Private family interment at father passed away after a ton and Francis H. Ludington most esteemed Board mem-
Beth David Cemetery. Brian Large
President, AFIM brief illness. He was born in Jr., and her beloved husband ber, Chaplin at our former Kristin Schuster
Cole, Gladys Marans, Arnold Ido Bruno, Anne & of 57 years, Victor William Sephardic Home for the Aged
Brooklyn in 1927 to Louis and Linda Petrikova
Goodison, Jules Samberg, Arthur Jerome Fisher Dir., IMJ COLE—Gladys Douglas. Irene. A veteran, he served in Henningsen Jr. Survived by and President of the Sephar-
I was so blessed to have had Jack Mastroianni
Leah Siegel, Exec Dir, AFIM the military during WW2 in her children: Vic (Susan) of dic Geriatric Foundation. His
you for my mother. You were the signal corps in the Philip- Thetford Center, VT, Kit (Ca- wisdom and guidance en-
swimming, hiking, traveling, a strong and guiding light for pines. Upon his return, he gra- roline) of Stony Creek, CT, hanced our spirit of giving
ADLER—Norman. which I will be forever grate-
Norman Adler died peaceful- and exploring. He much pre- BRAUNSTEIN—Ruth duated from NYU. Jerry met Mary Collins (Chris) of North and caring. His participation
ferred to give than to take, Nagashima. ful. I can now rest knowing the love of his life, Marlene Stamford, CT, and Tim and leadership will be sorely
ly at age 96 on July 15. He was
In Memoriam
and he regularly offered Died July 14, 2020 in Phoenix, you are at peace and with Rabinowitz who he married (Anne) of Wexford, PA; eight missed. The Board extends
mentally sharp and emotion- Daddy, and will continue
ally strong to the end, using knowledge, wisdom, and love age 80. Mother of Chris and in 1952 and had three child- grandchildren and two great- our deepest sympathy to the
- as well as the biggest slice of Dawn Matus. Services pend- looking over us and guiding ren. Gerald had great success grandchildren. A wise and Rubisa and his entire family.
his last days to share his me in the right direction. You
deeply held feelings toward pie, the most comfortable ing. in the business world joining loving parent and staunch Michael Lopez, President
chair, or the best view from a gave me the greatest gift I Accurate Casting Corp, a me- friend, she was one of the last Louis Rousso, Chair
his family, whom he loved so can now have with Georgie
much. For decades, Norman scenic overlook. He was, on tals casting manufacturer, of a generation that endured Joe Halio, M.D., Secretary
every day of his life, a good, and I will cherish him and where he soon became a much but always faced life's Joshua Hoffman, Executive
taught Shakespeare to high COLE—Gladys, take care of him for you. I HANDLER—Mark S.
school students, inspiring kind man who will be partner. Through his leader- joys and disasters with humor Director
age 90, passed away peace- love you Mom. It's been 4 years - and we still
them with his love of reading, sorely missed. ship Accurate became a re- and courage and kept mov-
fully at home on Tuesday, With love forever, miss you very much.
and he later chaired the spected leader in the indus- ing forward. “Never be proud SAMBERG—Arthur J.,
July 14, 2020, surrounded by Abbie, Brad, Glenn & Georgie Barbara, Jon and Jody
English and History depart- try. He was active in local pol- - always be grateful” was her born on February 6, 1941, died
AMIR—Paul. her loving family. Cherished
ments at Aviation High itics serving as a committee motto. Those she leaves be- July 14, 2020. Son of the late
The Board and staff of the wife of the late Charles J. COLE—Gladys Levine.
School in Long Island City. He man. He was also actively in- hind are both. Funeral and in- Rena and Philip Samberg; be-
American Friends of the Is- Cole and the late Albert Le- High Ridge Country Club
was a natural teacher and volved with the South Bald- terment private; memorial loved husband of Rebecca;
rael Museum and of the Is- vine, daughter of Dr. William acknowledges with sorrow
an eloquent speaker, ever- win Jewish Center serving as service date to be announced brother of Edwin; devoted
rael Museum, Jerusalem Douglas and Carrie Douglas, the passing of our esteemed
enthusiastic about discussing an officer. He was prede- later. Memorial contributions father of Jeff (Debbie),
mourn the death of our dear sister of Dr. Bruce Douglas member, Gladys Cole Levine.
books, politics, music, educa- ceased by his daughter Amy to Sweet Briar College, PO Laura Faino (Mike), and Joe
friend Paul Amir, beloved and wife Jan, adored mother We extend our deepest
tion, and culture with family and survived by his wife of 68 Box 1057, Sweet Briar, VA (Sandy); adored grandfather
Board and Executive Com- of Abbie (Glenn), Kenneth sympathy to her family.
and friends, reveling in all in- years, Marlene and children 24595, or to the Bartow-Pell of Heather, Josh and Danielle
mittee member. Paul's com- (Maria), Neil (Elizabeth), Alan Osofsky, MELTZER—Peter Lael
tellectual exchanges. For 73 Melanie (Michael) and Conservancy, Bartow - Pell Samberg; Rachel and Mat-
mitment to the Museum was Evan (Sherry), and loving President;
years, he was the loving hus- Robert, four grandchildren, Mansion, 895 Shore Road, thew Faino; Zack and Max
exceptional. Paul and his wife grandmother of Tara (Mat- Barbara Dilsheimer,
band, travel companion, and Heather (Josh) Marc (Aman- Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, NY Samberg. A graduate of MIT
Herta have been deeply loyal thew), Bradley, Brandon, Secretary
best friend to Mildred, whose da) Benjamin and Alex and 10464. (B.S.), Stanford (M.S.) and Co-
and generous supporters who Cory (Alyssa), Emily (Mat-
death preceded his by two have enabled the Museum's thew), Alexander (Morgan), four great-grandchildren, Dy- lumbia (MBA), he had a 40
GOODISON—Jules. lan, Gryffin, Liam and Leight-
years. He was a devoted, growth by enriching the col- Amanda, Catherine, Charley, The partners, counsel, asso- year career as an investor
deeply engaged father to lection, gifting generously for and great-grandchildren on. Upon retirement, Gerald during which he founded
ciates and staff of the firm of resided in Boynton Beach, FL
Charles and Stephen; loving the renewal of the Shrine of Blake, Max, Ellie, and Simon. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton Pequot Capital, a preeminent
grandfather to Martin, Susan, the Book, and were lead do- Stepmother of Richard Le- enjoying painting, golf, and hedge fund. His sharp mind,
& Garrison LLP express pro- investing. For those who wish LEVINE—Gladys Cole.
Elizabeth, and Jonathan; and nors of the Museum's Cam- vine and the late Dr. Robert found sorrow at the death on It is with deep sorrow that the humility and generosity leave
delighted great-grandpa to pus renewal project among Levine and family. They say to make a donation, Gerald's a legacy treasured by his
July 12th of Dr. Jules Goodis- preferred charity is the Unit- Officers, Board of Governors,
Parker, all of whom survive many other things. Our heart- it's not what you have at the on, beloved father of our members and staff of Fresh children and grandchildren.
him. Norman loved Aque- felt condolences to Herta, end of life, but what you ed Jewish Appeal. We miss him dearly and will
friend and partner, Eric Meadow Country Club mourn
bogue and Vermont, boating, Orna and Keenan, and the en- leave behind that matters. Goodison. He was prede- the loss of our esteemed love him forever. A celebra-
tire family. Thank you, Mom, for your ceased by his wife of 61 member, Mrs. Gladys Cole tion of his life will be held
years, Marlene, on July 5th. Levine. Mrs. Levine was a at a later time. In the
We express our deepest sym- member of Fresh Meadow meantime, please share
HENNINGSEN—Mayde L.
pathies to Eric, his wife Lisa, for 50 years. We extend our memories and stories at:
July 12, 2020, in her 94th year,
their children Sara and Har- heartfelt sympathy to her en- www.beecherflooksfh.com
after a long period of declin- Sept. 1, 1942 - July 16, 2017
ris, Eric's sister Lisa and her ing health cheerfully borne. tire family.
husband Roy Faden and their Born November 4th 1926 to Harvey B. Kadden TOBAR—Mario Arturo. “My true-love hath my heart,
children Danielle and Mat- Francis Henry and Mary Bed- President July 13, 2020. Querido esposo, and I have his”
thew, and to all other mem- ford Harris Ludington, she Steven Mitchell papa, abuelo. Our courage-
bers of the family. was a lifelong resident of Pel- Secretary ous fighter, we love you. Mark Di Giulio
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EDITORIAL LETTERS
N.Y.P.D. Seeks to Limit Press Scrutiny A Vaccine: The Waiting and the Worries
TO THE EDITOR: and doctors who are working on
this. But the last few months have
Re “A Vaccine Doesn’t Work if
Increased public scrutiny of American policing — through “misrepresenting the press credential” or a perceived “at- People Don’t Take It” (Sunday given me no reason to trust the
cellphone videos, social media and mass protests — has re- tempt to interfere” with police officers’ work. Such rules are Review, July 12): government that regulates their
vealed in recent weeks an urgent need for sustained and written far too broadly and could easily be used to penalize I thank Dr. Phoebe Danziger for work. I have given my young
systemic reform. The New York Police Department has cho- journalists who are simply observing and documenting po- her thorough and persuasive argu- daughter every vaccine recom-
ment in favor of a more concerted mended by her pediatrician, with-
sen to respond by pressing ahead with new rules to grant lice actions. out a second thought. I will most
effort to educate the population
wider latitude to bar journalists from covering official police It’s little surprise, then, that the rules quickly drew ire about the importance of vaccina- definitely not be first in line for this
activity. from other New York officials. tions. I wholeheartedly agree that one — not until Mr. Trump and his
The department.’s proposed regulations would add new “Let’s revoke the NYPD’s ability to issue press creden- the approach needs to change, crooked team are swept out of
tials entirely. They’ve repeatedly proven that they are un- engaging social and religious lead- office. I believe in science. This
reasons to revoke reporters’ credentials that allow them
ers as well as medical profession- administration does not.
past police lines. In a news release Wednesday, the depart- willing and unable to oversee a legitimate process,” Scott
als. PIAN ROCKFELD, NEW YORK
ment outlined a litany of offenses that can cost reporters Stringer, the city’s comptroller, tweeted. Keith Powers, a
However, her article identifies —
their credentials, including being arrested, being perceived City Council member, tweeted that he was considering legis- but never provides an answer for
lation that would move credentialing to a new agency. TO THE EDITOR:
not to be complying with police orders or conduct that “in- — the primary reason I will wait
before vaccinating myself and my Dr. Phoebe Danziger lays out a
terferes with legitimate law enforcement needs.”
family: the deeply corrupt, anti- number of difficulties in recruiting
The timing of the changes, in the works for years, sends science government that President the large numbers of people
a message that police officials are trying to hinder an impor- Trump has created. needed to accept a Covid-19 vac-
tant check on their conduct. The new rules themselves are Through intimidation, bullying cine, and thus make it truly effec-
an affront to both good government and common sense. As and threats to fire those who dis- tive.
agree, he has created a Centers for Sorry to add to the problems she
proposed, they are too broad and clear the way for the de-
Disease Control and Prevention outlines, but I would include older
partment to act capriciously in retaliation against the press. that is amending its health guide- Americans among those with
The city has included journalists on the list of essential lines within hours of an angry concerns. Many drug trials have
workers in the pandemic, allowing them to be on the streets tweet, he has promoted harmful historically eschewed using older
even during Covid-19 lockdowns and out after curfews. In and phony “cures,” and he has people or those with any pre-exist-
awarded a $1.6 billion vaccine ing conditions during drug trials.
practice, however, the police have too often treated report- As a result, we have little way of
contract to a pharmaceutical com-
ers as a nuisance. In New York City and beyond, reporters pany that has never successfully knowing if a positive effect in
were a frequent target of retaliation by police officers during brought a product to market. children and younger adults will
the protests that followed the killing of George Floyd. Jour- Under these conditions, who can hold true with senior citizens.
nalists were pushed, bludgeoned and shuffled away as cam- possibly trust that the first vaccine I believe in vaccines and I see
to emerge from Operation Warp the complexities. Transparency,
eras rolled. In June, for instance, two Associated Press re- clarity about risks and benefits,
Speed (a name that also does not
porters were shoved and berated by officers and ordered to imply careful and meticulous and a medical-political alliance in
go home shortly after a curfew went into effect, though they work) will have undergone the communicating are essential. We
were permitted to be there. proper testing and scrutiny that don’t have that now, not even close.
Despite those efforts, journalists still documented how other vaccines have? MARY ANNE LUSHE
I do not doubt the hard work and WALLED LAKE, MICH.
the police often treated peaceful protesters more like enemy integrity of the many scientists
combatants. Video and news stories showed officers strik-
ing back at demonstrators with pepper spray, batons and TO THE EDITOR:
rubber bullets. I agree with Dr. Phoebe Danziger

that some strategies, such as
A Police Department official noted that the proposed Athletes’ Covid-19 Tests “green vaccines” or coalitions of
rule changes were drawn up before the protests following TO THE EDITOR: persuasive leaders, may influence
Mr. Floyd’s killing. The changes are the culmination of a Re “Coronavirus Briefing: The some of those whose distrust of
lawsuit filed in 2015, when the photojournalist Jason Nicho- Dire State of Testing” (ny- science, government or the world
las sued over the repeated revocation of his credentials. Mr. times.com, July 7): in general would lead them to
avoid vaccination. I think what will
Nicholas said at the time that police officials tried to prevent Older, symptomatic, high-risk
work to persuade hard core anti-
him and other reporters from witnessing police activity by NICHOLAS KONRAD patients sit in cars for hours hop-
vaxxers is a daily scorecard: Of
penning them in far from unfolding events and by selec- ing to be able to get tested for
It’s time to consider more seriously the comptroller’s the people who present with dis-
Covid-19 and possibly get results ease, how many of the sick were
tively pulling their press passes, which would bar them from proposal. Revoking credentials “goes against everything we back in a week (if they are still
access. vaccinated against the disease
believe in,” said Mr. Stringer in an interview. “We should al- alive). Young healthy athletes get versus how many were not? If you
The proposed rules are being released now for public ways side with the free press — it’s all we’ve got.” frequent if not daily tests and want to protect yourself and your
scrutiny and comment after delays in the court system dur- quick results to make sure that child, which group do you think
Credentialing in 2020 is difficult enough as it is. Many
ing the coronavirus pandemic, a police official said. A public they can keep getting paid to play you should join?
journalists rely on credentials to do their jobs. Revocation a game. It’s ridiculous.
hearing on them is set for next month. But the announce- can threaten that livelihood. Smaller media outlets have JOYCE ADAMS, PORTLAND, ORE.
To all the N.B.A., M.L.B. and
ment and potential impact cannot be viewed out of the con- been sidelined by the process, particularly criteria that re- N.H.L. players claiming to be
text of the weeks of demonstrations: Now is not the time to quire clips from events where a credential is needed to champions of social justice: Give TO THE EDITOR:
shield the police from the press’s watchful eye. cover them. Rather than sliding backward, New York can be up your “athletes’ privilege.” Do- I know several people who refuse
Even in more tranquil periods, the police have used cre- a leader for other cities by establishing clear standards for nate the thousands of tests you will to take vaccines. Sadly, I will miss
dentials to bully reporters into compliance, threatening to credentialing that make arbitrary revocation more difficult. receive to people who really need them!
them.
revoke them on the spot for minor infractions — real or The department is in need of immediate reform, includ- I. MILTON KARABELL
imagined. ing changing tactics and procedures that put lives in danger. LEE GOLDBERG, NAPERVILLE, ILL. PHILADELPHIA
Particularly troubling in the proposed regulations are But for a department also in dire need of more transparency
several that grant officers too much leeway to take a report- and oversight, making it easier for police officers to punish
er’s credentials. The rules govern, for instance, a reporter’s journalists is a foreboding development. Bari Weiss: A Fiery Parting Shot at The Times
TO THE EDITOR: Want to know how to sell more
Re “An Opinion Editor and Writer papers? Publish a greater diversity
at The New York Times Quits” of ideas, generate more conversa-
(Business Day, July 15): tion and, every once in a while,
I read Bari Weiss’s resignation make a Jacobin mad.
letter with . . . well, a sense of resig- CARL LOEB, FAIRFAX, CALIF.
nation. And elation. Resignation
FARHAD MANJOO because you’re losing a fresh, skep-
tical voice. Elation because she TO THE EDITOR:
Please Don’t Call Them Heroes

called you out on your new toxic There is suddenly a great deal of
woke culture and put her money concern being expressed over
where her mouth is. “cancel culture” on the left, general-
I identify as a left-leaning cen- ly ignoring that the right has been
IN AMERICA, you should always get a little gests that classrooms can be safe when office buildings or gyms for the space re-
trist. My education trained me to suppressing dissent and penalizing
suspicious when politicians suddenly the virus is contained or declining, and so quired to teach students while social dis-
greet the world with an open mind. nonconformity for decades. Still, it
start calling you a hero. It’s a well-worn long as schools take necessary precau- tancing.
I believe in dialogue, not debate. cannot be denied that many on the
trick; they’re buttering you up before sac- tions to minimize the chance that class- In May, Democrats in the House passed
And as a Times reader since col- left have adopted an intolerant
rificing you to the gods of unconstrained rooms become superspreaders. But in a bill that calls for $58 billion in new funds
lege, I can see it plain as day: The posture toward those in their own
capitalism and governmental neglect. much of the nation, the virus remains un- for schools. But the Republican Senate has
Times has largely abandoned dia- ranks who deviate from what is
A few months ago, it was nurses, doc- contained, and so we face a grim future. not taken up the measure, and President
logue when it comes to cultural currently considered politically
tors and other essential workers who There is likely to be danger and chaos if Trump has done little more than post sev-
issues and ideas. You’ve handed the correct opinion. Free expression is
were hailed as heroes — a perfectly accu- the schools do not reopen, and there will eral all-caps tweets demanding that they
keys to America’s greatest paper to the centerpiece of liberal politics,
rate and heartwarming sentiment, but be danger and chaos if they do. reopen. In cable-news interviews this a strident, new orthodoxy that will and its defense must be a priority.
also one meant to obscure the sorry reali- The needs of children and working par- weekend, Betsy DeVos, the education sec-
ents have long been ignored by American not tolerate intellectual diversity. Two points must be noted. First,
ty that the world’s richest country was retary, refused to say if schools should fol- God, how sad.
lawmakers, but I’ve never felt the govern- it is not bullying or harassment to
asking health care workers to treat coro- low the Centers for Disease Control and I used to love reading William
ment’s neglect as viscerally as in its inabil- have people disagree with your
navirus patients without providing ade- Prevention’s health guidelines, which Safire’s column in The Times; I
ity to make school safe again during a pan- opinions or to be made the subject
quate protective gear. calls for strict social distancing, masks didn’t agree with his politics, but I
demic. of criticism for expressing views
“Please don’t call me a hero,” a nurse in and the installation of physical barriers celebrated his dexterity with the
Shouldn’t getting our kids back to that others find morally reprehensi-
Brooklyn wrote on a protest sign at the and improved ventilation to reduce the language.
school have been a primary goal of the fed- ble. Too often those who complain
time. “I am being martyred against my spread of the virus. I never thought I’d turn to The about “cancel culture” seem suspi-
will.” eral government throughout the sum- DeVos’s plan, like Trump’s, appears to American Conservative for comfort, ciously thin-skinned, at least when
Now it’s America’s parents and teach- be little more than wishful thinking: Go to but at least it has the guts to pub- it’s their opinions or the opinions of
ers who are being valorized for doing a job school. Don’t worry about it. Things will lish controversial opinions that run people they agree with that come
be fine. You’re a hero!
that really should not require putting their
lives on the line.
Parents and teachers Forgive me if I feel less like a hero than
counter to conservative orthodoxy.
I used to get that from The Times.
under attack.
Second, speech is not violence.
At a White House event last week to en- need a real plan like a chump. This week several large
school districts, including Los Angeles
Undoubtedly, words can sting. They
courage the nation’s schools to reopen, can be hurtful and offensive. But
Vice President Mike Pence laid the hero- to reopen schools safely. and San Diego, announced that it’s too the best remedy for the wounds
ism on thick. Parents and teachers, he dangerous to open for in-person instruc- Paean to a Reporter inflicted by words consists of words
said, were “two categories of heroes that tion. I expect that we’ll see a wave of oth- spoken in rebuttal.
emerged” in the crisis. Since the pan- mer? What possible excuse can anyone ers deciding the same, leaving parents TO THE EDITOR:
muster for falling down on this job? Bari Weiss was not forced to
demic is all but over, at least in the magical across the country in an impossible bind. “As Paper Withers, a Reporter
I’m reminded of that famous presiden- leave The Times; she chose to
thinking of the Trump administration, There is a danger that frustrated par- Dares to Ask Why” (front page,
tial call to sacrifice: Ask not what your resign in protest. She also chose to
Pence wants parents and teachers to ents blame teachers for the crisis. After July 11) was an obituary for small-
country can do for you . . . because hon- make her resignation an indictment
again put on their capes and save the day. all, distance learning has been a disaster. town journalism. Thank you for
estly, it probably won’t do much of any- of The Times and its workplace
“To open up America again, we got to open It’s unfair, and likely impossible, for kids to having Dan Barry write it.
thing, and your best bet when facing a cri- culture. Fair enough. But in the
up America’s schools,” he said. learn by themselves off a screen, and in Reporters, photographers and escalating war over “cancel culture”
I want schools to reopen as much any sis is to just learn to live with it. (This my experience, remote learning requires editors nodded in shared experi-
sounds like a joke, but it’s the actual plan: there is a danger that both sides are
parent does. My wife and I were driven to a great deal of parental oversight, which is ence, laughed occasionally and, seeking to stigmatize each other.
the verge of breakdown this spring while “The virus is with us, but we need to live difficult or impossible for most overbur- maybe, shed a few tears. I’ve And this mutual application of tar
trying to home-school our kids while with it,” an anonymous administration of- dened parents. known dozens of Evan Brandts (the and feathers will not do the cause of
working from home, and I am freaking out ficial recently told NBC News.) But as I tried and failed to educate my reporter featured in your article) in free expression any good at all.
about having to do that again in the fall. Experts say there are many ways to kids during months under quarantine, I my career. Maybe I’m even one.
But parents and teachers would be wise mitigate the risks of the coronavirus while gained new appreciation for my children’s We’ve made a difference, I like to STEPHEN NEWMAN, TORONTO
to reject any invitation to unnecessary reopening the schools. The most obvious teachers, and I’m wary of asking more of think, a chance that today’s young The writer is an associate professor of
heroism. I don’t want educating my kids to of these would have been to reduce the them. Spending a day teaching kids has journalists, better educated, just as politics at York University.
be a heroic act of American defiance — I spread of the virus, but you know how well got to be one of the most difficult and most diligent, might not have. All of us
want it to be ordinary. And I’d rather not that’s going. thankless jobs our society asks profes- will be the worse for the official
sacrifice my children’s teachers, either, so The federal government could also sionals to do. It doesn’t strike me as fair to never questioned and the article
that America’s economy can begin hum- have provided the hundreds of billions of demand that teachers now risk their lives, not written. The Times welcomes letters from read-
ming once more. dollars that school district officials say is too, just because our government couldn’t ers. Letters must include the writer’s
TIMOTHY J. COTTER
Again and again in this crisis, the fed- necessary to remake education during a be bothered to protect them. Teachers name, address and telephone number.
CHARLESTOWN, R.I.
eral government’s callous incompetence pandemic. We could have funded hazard shouldn’t have to be heroes to do their Those selected may be edited, and short-
has left Americans with no good options. pay for teachers and paid time off for par- jobs; educating our children should be The writer is managing editor of The ened to fit allotted space. Email: letters
Early research on school reopening sug- ents, and come up with a plan to repurpose heroism enough. 0 Day newspaper in New London, Conn. @nytimes.com
THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020 N A23
When America Bombed Itself We Need

GAIL COLLINS
Who Can
Depress Trump
Joshua Wheeler
1992. But today the Trump administration is floating the idea of
resuming such testing — even though America is, after more than
1,000 tests, already the most nuclear-bombed country in the
Foreign
Students
world.
W
HEN America detonated the world’s first atomic
This Fall?
“We maintain and will maintain the ability to conduct nuclear
bomb at 0529 hours on July 16, 1945, it was an attack
tests if we see any reason to do so, whatever that reason may be,”
on American soil.
President Trump’s nuclear negotiator said last month.
The blast melted the sand of southern New Mex-
Mr. Trump campaigned in 2016 saying he wanted to be “unpre-
I HOPE BY NOW you’ve managed to come to ico and infused it with the bomb’s plutonium core — 80 percent of L. Rafael Reif
dictable” with nuclear weapons. He went on to antagonize North
grips with the fact that we’re no longer go- which failed to fission — scattering radioactive material across
Korea in 2017 by tweeting, “My first order as President was to
ing to have Jeff Sessions in our lives. the desert. The first atomic bomb was both a feat of engineering
C
renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal.” According to Ax- ONFRONTED with a deadly vi-
“It’s been a real adventure for me,” Ses- and, by today’s standards, a crude dirty bomb.
ios, he suggested “multiple times” the use of “nuclear bombs to rus, many American colleges and
sions said in his concession speech this After riding the fireball over seven miles into the sky, as much
stop hurricanes from hitting the United States.” universities are choosing to pro-
week, after he lost the Republican Senate as 230 tons of radioactive sand mixed with ash and caught the
He withdrew from many arms agreements, including the Iran tect their communities by teach-
nomination to a former football coach breeze of a cool summer morning. It floated 15 miles northwest to
nuclear deal, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and ing fall classes largely or entirely online.
whose biggest campaign moment proba- the Gallegos Ranch, where it fell and bleached the cattle. The
the Open Skies Treaty. And he raised the budget of the National Last week, the federal government delib-
bly came when his bus caught on fire. dirty ash floated 20 miles northeast to the
Nuclear Security Administration by more erately disrupted those plans by propos-
Not clear which adventure Sessions M.C. Ratliff Ranch, where that family
than 50 percent.
was referring to — scampering out of the
Senate to become Donald Trump’s attor-
would spend days cleaning it off their roof,
off their crops and out of their water cis-
An anniversary What’s next? An explosive nuclear test
ing a new rule that would have prevented
potentially hundreds of thousands of for-
ney general and wage his long-dreamed- tern. Thirty-five miles southeast, at the that’s a warning, can be orchestrated in as little as six
months. And with a president whose lust
eign students from studying in the United
of war against immigrants? Accepting the Herreras’ home in Tularosa, the radioac- States this fall if their classes were taught
advice of Justice Department lawyers and tive soot stained the white linens drying on not a celebration. for nuclear weapons is as evident as his
lust for showmanship, that should terrify
remotely.
recusing himself from the Russia investi- the clotheslines. Harvard’s president, Larry Bacow,
gation? Being attacked by a furious all of us. Resumed explosive testing, even termed this move “cruel and reckless,” a
The fallout from that detonation, code-
Trump who had purposely put Sessions in underground, will undoubtedly encourage other nations to follow ploy to force institutions to open classes as
named Trinity, floated over a thousand square miles and exposed
the job to get protection from the forces of suit. if the pandemic had vanished. On Tuesday,
thousands of families to radiation levels that “approached 10,000
. . . justice? Any explosive nuclear test is an escalation toward global anni- responding to a joint lawsuit led by Har-
times what is currently allowed,” according to the Centers for Dis-
Truly, he’s been badly treated by the hilation. vard and my institution, the Massachu-
ease Control and Prevention.
man who he helped propel into the presi- Congress is now so concerned that Democrats in the House setts Institute of Technology, as well as
In the hours after the explosion, 185 Army personnel chased
dency. Hehehehe. have proposed a bill that would prohibit Energy Department pressure from many other quarters, the
the fallout to monitor its extent. They chased it so far that their
It’s a little weird contemplating Ses- funds from being used for nuclear weapons testing, while the Sen- government revoked the policy.
communications radios stopped working. Some who were sta-
sions now. Trump’s treatment of him was ate has introduced a bill to make any nuclear testing require a Yet the larger battle is far from over.
tioned a few miles north of Trinity looked anxiously at their
outrageous, but if anybody’s going to suf- joint resolution. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada said, This misguided policy was one of many
whirring Geiger counters and decided to bury their now-irradiat-
fer a political stab in the back, you have to “The decision to conduct an explosive nuclear test should not be signals that the administration wants for-
ed breakfast steaks.
be glad it’s the guy whose policies as attor- made without congressional approval and should never be made eign students to stay away — an attitude
Those soldiers had been given respirators, but at least
ney general ranged from keeping more by a president hoping to gain political points.” that reflects a stark misreading of our na-
one forgot his and was forced to take the offi-
people in prison longer to “good people But the decision to resume explosive nu- tional interest.
cially sanctioned precaution of breathing
don’t smoke marijuana.” clear tests should never be made at all.
through a slice of bread. Others were In any long-running competition, no
Tommy Tuberville, the football coach We can and do perform successful
sent out with vacuum cleaners in one understands your strengths better
who beat Sessions, doesn’t seem to have tests in virtual-reality chambers
a futile attempt to suck up the than your rivals. At a dinner I attended a
any ideas beyond flexing his muscles and using advanced supercomput-
fallout. few years back, Chinese tech leaders con-
promising to do whatever President ers. Explosives tests of any
In short, the Army was tended that China’s most important eco-
Trump likes. Alabamians have no idea kind carry magnitudes
woefully unprepared and nomic advantage is scale: China’s vast
what he would do if Joe Biden was presi- more risk, and the conse-
even willfully negligent population and market offer a permanent
dent, since Tuberville will never acknowl- quence of that risk has
about the fallout of its leg up. But they also remarked on Ameri-
edge such a possibility. historically fallen on
first atomic bomb. It ca’s advantage in scientific creativity.
The nominee will go on to fight against the most vulnerable
warned no resi- What gives our country this advan-
Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat who Americans.
dents. It ordered no tage? Their explanation surprised me. Be-
you’ll recall won his seat in a race against It should come as
evacuations. It cause the U.S. is heterogeneous, these
a judge with a history of making improper no surprise that the
maintained that leaders told me, it draws the best and
advances to teenage girls. Tuberville will downwinders of
the area around brightest from all over the world to work
presumably be more of a challenge. Trinity were large-
Trinity was safe, and create together. This, they said, was
I guess we’ll have to chalk the Alabama ly impoverished
even when it much more difficult for China.
primary up as a win for Trump, who as- agricultural fam-
knew it was not. This astute observation captures why
sured voters that Sessions was “not men- ilies, mostly His-
So Americans forcing foreign students to abandon their
tally qualified.” (This was before the presi- panic and Native.
went on living in studies here would be disastrously self-
dent gave that wild, rambling press con- New Mexico, one
the fallout, work- defeating for America: Precisely at a time
ference in which he claimed Biden was op- of the poorest
ing in the fallout, of sharp economic rivalries, we are sys-
posed to windows.) states in the na-
eating from the tematically undermining the very
We’re deep into the Senate election sea- tion, is the only
dirty soil. strength our competitors envy most.
son now, with primaries right and left, set- one with a cradle-
Downwind of Why is foreign talent so important to
ting the stage for the Democrats’ attempt to-grave nuclear
the blast, the in- the United States? For the same reason
to take control of the majority in 2021. Ev- industry, where
fant mortality the Boston Red Sox don’t limit themselves
erything is on the line — taxes, economic weapons are de-
rate, after declin- to players born in Boston: The larger the
recovery, Supreme Court justices. signed, uranium is
ing in previous pool you draw from, the larger the supply
Let’s look at a few of the battles brew- mined, and waste is
years, spiked. It in- of exceptional talent. Moreover, America
ing. You’ll be able to discuss them with stored. This is “ra-
creased by as much gains immense creative advantage by ed-
your friends over virtual cocktails. And if dioactive colonial-
as 52 percent in 1945,
ism,” with minority and
with the highest in-
crease occurring in Au-
impoverished communi- They are vital to
Goodbye, Jeff Sessions, gust through October, the
ties forced to suffer the costs
of the nuclear industry. American innovation
months immediately after Trinity. Re-
hello . . . Heir Archy. cent research suggests that when America deto-
Henry Herrera, whose family’s drying linens
were stained by the fallout on that July morn- and competitiveness.
nated the world’s first atomic bomb, its first victims
ing in 1945, told me: “We were lab rats. That
were American babies.
you want to send a donation or two to can- ought to make us hero patriots or
Though there is no conclusive data about the rise ucating top domestic students alongside
didates who strike your fancy, go for it. something. Which we are. But no-
in cancer rates after Trinity, largely be- top international students. By challeng-
In Maine, Republican Senator Susan body gives a damn.” Mr. Her-
cause of a lack of government funding ing, inspiring and stretching one another,
Collins is fighting for survival. You may re- rera, his brother and his two sis-
for such studies, stories collected they make one another better, just as star
member Collins as the self-styled brave ters all had cancer.
by the Tularosa Basin Down- players raise a whole team’s level of play.
independent moderate, who spends most If Congress truly wants to
winders Consortium reveal gen- Unfortunately, when you turn away
of her working days caving in. awaken Americans to the dan-
erations ravaged by nearly ev- great players, rival teams sign them.
Her opponent will be Sara Gideon, the gers of nuclear testing, it should start
ery cancer. An Army doctor later Other countries are working hard to at-
speaker of the state House. Gideon won by finally telling the truth about the disas-
wrote about Trinity: “A few people tract students who have soured on the
the Democratic primary Tuesday over ter at Trinity. Bills to acknowledge and com-
two lesser-known women who seemed to were probably overexposed, but they United States because of growing anti-im-
pensate Mr. Herrera and other Trinity downwinders
spend much of their time attacking her for couldn’t prove it and we couldn’t prove it. So we just migrant hostility or bureaucratic road-
have lingered in legislative purgatory for over a decade.
not agreeing to enough debates. assumed we got away with it.” blocks. As a nation, when we turn our
Passing them would help establish what should be ob-
That’s an important rule for political It has been 75 years and the American govern- backs on talented foreign students, we not
vious: The shameful legacy of nuclear weapons
campaigns: When all else fails, demand ment still refuses to admit that the detona- only lose all that they bring to our class-
testing is something we should never at-
more debates. John McCain insisted that tion of the “gadget,” as the Trinity rooms and laboratories, we also give up a
tempt to revive. 0
he and Barack Obama have 10. Trump is bomb was called, was a nucle- strategic asset.
already complaining about Biden’s refusal ar disaster. We also lose the kind of personal drive
JOSHUA WHEELER, the author
to go beyond the three scheduled. Aboveground nuclear that built this country: the life force of bril-
testing was halted in of the essay collection
Gideon showed up for two, which “Acid West,” teaches in liant young people with the courage and
seemed OK given the fact that she was 1963. Underground ambition to leave everything familiar in
testing, which is com- the creative writing
about a mile ahead in the polls. But it’s per- program at Louisiana search of a better future. What’s more,
fectly fair to have your doubts about a can- parably safer but still JESSE AUERSALO most students who come here to earn a
State University.
didate who won’t debate at all. Coach Tu- terrifying, was stopped in Ph.D. stay to build their families and ca-
berville, for instance, said he backed out of reers, and often companies that create
any new encounters with Sessions be- thousands of jobs.
cause of: The latest data show, for example, that
A) The coronavirus.
B) Donald Trump already having
praised his mental capacity.
C) Lack of attractive cheerleaders.
Helping States Helps the Whole Nation 83 percent of Ph.D. students from China,
the kind of highly trained scientists and
engineers who drive American innova-
tion, were still in the United States five
Yeah, he blamed the coronavirus. and large potential job cuts. Furloughs Those numbers are particularly dire for years after completing their degrees.
Ben S. Bernanke have already begun in New Jersey. Since people of color. They not only face a far
Hardly exists at all for the Trump camp, The percentage would be higher if long-
unless somebody is asking you to do February, state and local governments greater health risk from Covid-19, they standing U.S. policies did not require
collectively have laid off close to 1.5 mil- also have higher rates of unemployment
T
something you don’t want to do. HE coronavirus pandemic has many students to return home after fin-
Moving west there’s Arizona, which set loose a recession of shocking lion workers. than white families. ishing their education. Recently, the per-
looks like it’s going to be huge. This is the speed and severity. In the coming We have been here before. I was the States and localities are in desperate centage of doctoral graduates remaining
one that could tip the balance for the Sen- months, the actions taken by both chairman of the Federal Reserve during need of additional federal intervention be- here has begun to decline, in part because
ate Democrats. The Republican incum- the global financial crisis and the subse- fore the bulk of the CARES Act funding ex- our national message is that they are not
the public and the private sectors will
bent is Martha McSally, who lost a Senate quent Great Recession. As part of the re- pires this summer. Budget gaps like the welcome.
have economic and public health reper-
race in 2018, but then was appointed to the covery effort, Congress responded with a one in New Jersey cannot be closed by As some in Washington have sought to
cussions that will reverberate for years.
state’s second seat after John McCain died stimulus package of nearly $800 billion. austerity alone. Multiply New Jersey’s limit foreign students, especially those
and his successor quit. You could argue As a member of Gov. Phil Murphy’s Re- problems to reflect the experiences of all
But that package was partly offset by from China, that hostile message has
that she’s been through a lot. Everything, start and Recovery Commission in New state governments and thousands of local
cuts in spending and employment by state grown louder.
really, except being elected to her job. Jersey, I have worked to help put together governments and the result, without more
and local governments. With sharp de- Of course the United States must screen
We’re pretty sure McSally’s Democratic a reopening strategy, one that not only will help from Congress, could be a signifi-
clines in tax revenue as the economy students seeking visas and keep out those
opponent is going to be former astronaut allow the state’s economy to move for- cantly worse and protracted recession. with dubious backgrounds. But even the
Mark Kelly, even though Kelly first has to ward but also will address the glaring in- The CARES Act allocated $150 billion to fiercest China hawks acknowledge that
weather a primary against someone equalities the pandemic has revealed. state and local governments. This new aid when foreign interests engage in espio-
named Bo Garcia. All we know about Bo is The experience has been eye-opening. Without aid from package must be significantly larger and nage or intellectual theft, they seek to re-
that his nickname is “Heir Archy” and he’s It’s become abundantly clear that the re- provide not only assistance for state and
running as a write-in candidate. Really, sponsibility for responding to the pan- Congress, the country local governments but also continued sup-
cruit senior scientists.
I believe that we must increase the
that’s all. No campaign website, no noth-
ing. But if you write in his name on your
demic cannot lie only with local and state
governments. Congress must act deci-
will linger in recession. port for the jobless, investments in public
health and stimulus payments to encour-
number of Americans pursuing training in
science and engineering. But we must
ballot, they’ll count the vote. sively — and it must act in ways that don’t age household and business spending and also understand that America’s strength
Do not be dispirited because some of repeat mistakes of the recent past, during slowed, states and localities were con- restore full employment. in science and engineering is central to
the people running for high office in Amer- the Great Recession. I know that states such as New Jersey the nation’s strength, period — and that a
strained by balanced-budget require-
ica appear to be phantom candidates from Our state governments serve a dual are grateful for the aid they have received core element of that strength has been our
ments to make matching cuts in employ-
nowhere. Think of it this way: It’s sort of role as providers of critical services — so far — without it, their fiscal reality ability to lure the world’s finest talent.
ment and spending, as they are still today.
inspiring how wide open the system health care, public safety, education and would be much more grim. But much of I first came to America in 1974 from
sometimes is, as long as you don’t expect This fiscal headwind contributed to the
mass transit — as well as large employers. high unemployment of the Great Reces- the aid already provided has come with Venezuela, where my parents finally set-
to actually get elected to anything. tight restrictions, which means that it can- tled as refugees from Hitler’s Europe. I
Many states, including New Jersey, are re- sion, which peaked at 10 percent in late
One of my favorite meaningless races not be used to offset budgetary shortfalls came to improve my own prospects
was for an Idaho Senate seat in 2010. No- sponsible for tens of thousands of jobs and 2009.
the paychecks that go with them. Together with a subsequent turn to aus- resulting from the recession and pan- through a graduate degree. But I found a
body had any doubt that Mike Crapo, the demic-related shutdowns. culture of openness, boldness, ingenuity
Republican incumbent, was going to win. Since a raging outbreak in March, New terity at the federal level, state and local
Jersey has flattened the curve of new budget cuts meaningfully slowed the re- To continue to provide services that its and meritocracy — a culture that taught
Eventually Democrat William Bryk vol- citizens need and to avoid severe budget me that in coming to America, I had truly
Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations. But
covery.
unteered to oppose him, just so Crapo

since it had to virtually shut down in order and employment cuts that will drag down come home.
would have some competition. This came In the current recession, unemploy-
to control the spread, that success has the economy, states and localities need Our competitors openly envy our ca-
after he noticed that you did not actually ment rates have been much higher than 10
come at a staggering cost: The state faces more federal help. Providing that help is in pacity to welcome and adopt talent from
have to live in Idaho in order to run there. percent, and even with recent job gains
everyone’s interest. 0 everywhere. I fear lately that we will rec-
Bryk was, in fact, a bankruptcy lawyer in a revenue shortfall in the billions of dol- the Congressional Budget Office esti-
ognize this strategic U.S. strength only
Brooklyn. His campaign slogan was, “If lars. mates that, without further action from BEN S. BERNANKE, a former chairman of
once it is lost. 0
Elected, I Will Move.” Many other states face ominous budg- Congress, the unemployment rate at the the Federal Reserve, is a distinguished
Right now, that sort of sounds better etary outlooks, too, implying the need for end of 2020 will most likely be close to 11 fellow in residence at the Brookings L. RAFAEL REIF is president of the Massa-
than Make America Great Again. 0 draconian reductions in essential services percent. Institution. chusetts Institute of Technology.
A24 N THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020
Those We’ve Lost

Faces From the Coronavirus Pandemic
Jose Morón, 54 Michael W. Lewis, 65

Welder and Businessman Volunteer Counselor of Newly Released Inmates
Whose Metal Creations
By NEIL GENZLINGER
Adorn Chicago Buildings
After her father, Michael W.
Lewis, died of the coronavirus on
By EMMETT LINDNER May 14 in Fort Worth, Tamara
When Jose Morón, known as Griffin was sorting through the
Fredo, first came to the United belongings in his home. One dis-
States from Mexico at 18, the only covery puzzled her.
word he knew in English was “As I’m cleaning up his things, I
“cheeseburger,” and he ate a lot of see all these backpacks,” she said
them. He was working construc- in a phone interview. “And I
tion jobs in Texas and would es- thought, ‘Why are these back-
cape the relentless heat by going packs here?’ And you’d open it up
to restaurants and giving the and see food and toothpaste.”
same order, day after day. One of his friends explained the
His job was tiring, the pay mea- mystery.
ger and the climate brutal. Mr. “He would ride around and give
Morón (pronounced more-OWN) these backpacks to homeless peo-
had larger ambitions. ple,” said Ms. Griffin, who con-
Decades later, swaths of up- firmed his death.
scale neighborhoods and low-in- That man distributing back-
packs to the less fortunate had
come housing across Chicago dis- VIA LEWIS FAMILY
VIA NUNES FAMILY come a long way from the father Michael W. Lewis forged a
play iron gates, metal stairwells
Dulce Nunes was best known for the 1964 album “Poor Little Rich Girl.” Ms. Griffin knew — or, often, did-
and window bars installed by Mr.
n’t know — when she was growing new life after prison and
Morón and the employees of the up. He frequently wasn’t around helped other former inmates.
company he founded, New Town because he was in prison.
Iron Works.
He was proud of the mark he Dulce Nunes, 90 “He spent several decades in
and out,” Ms. Griffin said, “and I want to die in jail,” she said.
had made. “We would go out and
drive around,” Luisa Mendoza,
Actress and Bossa Nova Star of the 1960s know this to be true because he After completing his degree he
was in and out of my life.” worked as a mental health re-
Mr. Morón’s partner of 28 years, But in recent years Mr. Lewis, source assistant. He also had a
said. “He would say, ‘Oh, look, I By MICHAEL ASTOR Gismonti, her ex-husband’s nephew, who
who was 65 at his death, had business selling and delivering
did this,’” pointing to the fruits of Dulce Nunes seemed poised to become a became a successful musician in his own
turned things around. In addition smoked meats as well as a lawn-
his labor. “It was just beautiful movie star, with her face plastered on the right. The couple divorced in 1976, but Ms. to his personal backpack project, care business.
work.” covers of national magazines and a high- Nunes continued to sing on Mr. Gismonti’s he had for some six years been “He was a hard worker and
Mr. Morón died on June 16 at profile marriage to one of Brazilian cine- records into the early 1990s. volunteering with Welcome Back wasn’t afraid of a little dirt,” Ms.
University of Illinois Hospital in ma’s leading men. She had made several Dulce Pinto Bressane was born on June Tarrant County, a nonprofit orga- Griffin said.
Chicago. He was 54. Ms. Mendoza films in her early 20s and found a place in 11, 1929, in Rio de Janeiro to Fernando Bres- nization that helps newly released Mr. Cabluck said Mr. Lewis had
said the cause was respiratory the society pages thanks to her storybook sane, a merchant, and Euridyce de Oliveira inmates readjust to life outside made a particularly strong im-
failure and pneumonia brought on marriage. The public eagerly awaited her Pinto, a painter. She grew up in an uncon- prison. pression when he spoke to groups
by Covid-19. next movie. ventional family, in which the women Jerry Cabluck, founder and di- of the newly released because of a
Jose Alfredo Morón was born Then she disappointed them, taking a de- worked, smoked and associated with the rector of that group, said Welcome keepsake of sorts that he had re-
on July 7, 1965, to Elias Morón and tour into singing and releasing a trio of al- city’s bohemian set. Back had helped Mr. Lewis when tained from his own incarceration.
bums in the 1960s that capitalized on the Ms. Nunes was expelled from a presti- he was released from his latest “Upon release, they give you an
surging popularity of bossa nova. gious Roman Catholic school in Rio for bad prison stay, at Huntsville, Texas. orange bag,” Mr. Cabluck said,
She died of Covid-19 on June 4 in a Rio de behavior, and she began acting while still in The organization found a bicycle something to hold an inmate’s few
Janeiro hospital, her cousin Sergio Bres- her teens. She would complain about how for him so that he could get to belongings. “He kept that, and he
sane said. She was 90. all the male leads tended to be older men, work, and soon Mr. Lewis com- would always use that. He’d be
but then married one of them: the actor, pleted a long-interrupted college talking to a group of 20, 30, 40
Ms. Nunes is best known for the 1964 al-
composer, pianist and notorious lady’s man degree at Tarrant County College. men, and he’d pull that bag out,
bum that launched her singing career,
Bené Nunes, in 1956. The couple separated And he became a volunteer at and he’d say: ‘Do you want this
“Poor Little Rich Girl,” with songs arranged
in 1963 but remained close until his death in Welcome Home, counseling oth- bag again? Do you want to go
by Antonio Carlos Jobim from a musical by ers coming out of prison.
1997. back? Do you want to go through
Vinicius de Moraes, who wrote the book, “We saw 2,000, 2,500 a year, and all the drudgery of being incarcer-
and Carlos Lyra, who composed the music Ms. Nunes’ first movie, “Woman From
this man was the exception,” Mr. ated?’
— three of the biggest names in bossa nova, Afar,” came out in 1949, and in 1950 she ap-
Cabluck said in a phone interview. “And that got their attention.
which combined samba rhythms with jazz. peared in two more films, “Morning Star”
“He became a role model.” Most of the guys, they threw that
A year later, Ms. Nunes released her first and “My Wife’s Fiancé.” Her last role was in bag away.”
Michael Wayne Lewis was born
solo record, “Dulce,” featuring composi- “The ABC of Love,” in 1967. on July 24, 1954, and grew up in In 2016, when Welcome Back re-
tions by up-and-coming bossa nova com- She is survived by her sisters, Heloisa Oklahoma City. Ms. Griffin said he ceived a state award for its work,
posers, including Mr. Jobim. In 1967, she Bressane Neno Rosa and Amélia Bressane had fallen in with the wrong crowd Mr. Lewis was among the volun-
came out with her only other solo record- Pontes. there and had first gone to prison teers and staff members who trav-
ing, “Writers’ Samba,” in which she sang Ms. Nunes began working as an interior on a minor drug charge. That be- eled to Austin to accept it.
her own settings of contemporary Brazilian designer in the early 1990s, spending her fi- gan a cycle of repeated incarcera- Ms. Griffin summed up her fa-
VIA MORÓN FAMILY poetry. nal years in Rio’s beachside Ipanema dis- tions that continued until, she ther’s life.
Jose Morón ran a metalwork That same year she married Egberto trict. said, he made a conscious deci- “It’s not how you start the race,”
business in Chicago. Behind sion to break it. she said, “it’s how you finish the
him is a gate fabricated by the “He honestly said he didn’t race.”
company he started in 2005,
New Town Iron Works.
Richard di Liberto, 82
Amparo Herrera in Morelia, Mex- Expert Photographer of Museum Artworks James Harrison, 84
ico, in the Pacific Coast state of Mi- Longtime Music Professor and Piano Lover
choacán west of Mexico City. He By STEVEN KURUTZ
went to Chicago in the mid-1980s
after being offered a job at his un- As the chief of photography at the Frick By ANTHONY TOMMASINI it included stints as chair of the
cle’s welding shop, then enrolled Collection on the Upper East Side of Man- The piano was at the center of music department and dean of
in English-language courses and hattan, Richard di Liberto was one of the James Harrison’s life. arts and humanities.
at a trade school to perfect his “upstairs” employees — the curators, con- For his classes in music theory In addition to his daughter, Mr.
servators and administrators who run the at Hunter College in Manhattan, Harrison is survived by his wife; a
craft. To earn extra money, he
museum. he did a great deal of teaching son, Phil; a sister, Sue Rodgers;
worked for Amtrak as a track
But Mr. di Liberto, the son of an Italian while sitting at it, playing musical and three grandchildren.
maintainer.
immigrant bricklayer, liked to hang out excerpts as he explained the inner Mrs. Harrison grew up near
Mr. Morón left Amtrak and the
downstairs — in the basement billiards workings of harmony and coun- Genoa, Italy, in her family’s splen-
welding shop in 2005 to establish did villa, which has been turned
room, with the custodians, gardeners, terpoint.
New Town Iron Works, and he guards, art movers and maintenance work- into the grounds of a residential
quickly acquired clients, who A Steinway grand piano was the
ers who shot pool in the afternoons. centerpiece of Mr. Harrison’s fellowship program for the arts
came to admire his dedication and A musician since his teens, he used lunch and humanities run by the
home in Palisades, N.J. He turned
skill. He fostered intense loyalty breaks to play drums at Jazz at Noon, a Bogliasco Foundation, which Mr.
a commodious room with strik-
among his workers and taught long-running weekly jam session in Man- Harrison co-founded in 1991. He
ingly tall ceilings into an inviting,
them the trade. He had three full- hattan. acoustically lively space. He became its director after retiring
time employees, but he would of- And when his granddaughter visited him hosted regular informal perform- from Hunter College. His daugh-
fer part-time work to anyone who at work, Mr. di Liberto would lift the velvet ances there, inviting instrumen- ter now runs it.
came to him in need. rope and whisk her upstairs to show off the talists and singers to make music In a 2011 interview with RAI,
Mr. Morón also helped others opulent rooms forbidden to museumgoers. for gatherings of 20 or so friends. the Italian broadcaster, Mr. Harri-
outside of work. Several of Ms. Mr. di Liberto photographed the Frick’s Mr. Harrison died on May 24 at
Mendoza’s friends were the vic- collection of paintings, drawings, sculpture, a rehabilitation facility in
tims of domestic violence, and Mr. decorative objects and furniture from 1974 Cresskill, N.J., of complications of
Morón would put them up in his until his retirement in 2004. He also shot in- VIA DI LIBERTO FAMILY Covid-19, his daughter, Laura
home for as long as necessary. terior and exterior architectural images of Richard di Liberto photographed works Harrison, said. He was 84.
In addition to Ms. Mendoza, he the museum, and any traveling exhibits of art for the Frick museum. He also James Stanley Harrison was
is survived by his brothers, that came there. His photographs illustrate played drums and restored old cars. born on Aug. 29, 1935, in St. Louis
Manuel, Rafael, Lino and David; many of the Frick’s books, catalogs and to Stanley Leonard Harrison, a
his sisters, Emelda, Angeles, press materials. physician, and Garnet (Toalson)
Etelvina, Rosa and Lourdes; two Mr. di Liberto died on April 1 at North objects and surfaces in their best light. Us- Harrison, an administrative as-
stepchildren, Angela Lopez and Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, ing a medium-format film camera, Mr. di sistant in her husband’s practice.
Richard Reyna; a son, Samuel N.Y., on Long Island. He was 82. His grand- Liberto captured the subtle veining of a An exceptional student who ex-
Mendoza; and two step-granddaughter, Nika Sabasteanski, said the marble bust, the patterns of an 18th-cen- celled at football and soccer at
children. cause was Covid-19. tury Flemish tapestry, the craquelure of a John Burroughs School in St. Lou-
Mr. Morón delighted in making Goya canvas. He printed the images in a is, he then attended Harvard Col-
Richard Peter di Liberto was born on
darkroom on-site. lege, graduating with a bachelor
his signature dish, ceviche, for his Feb. 7, 1938, in Manhattan to Gaetano di
Outside of work, Mr. di Liberto restored of arts degree in music in 1957. He
family. A fan of Spanish-language Liberto, who had emigrated from Sicily, and
continued his training under the
soap operas and a music lover, he Mildred (Macaluso) di Liberto. The family old sports cars. He and Galen Lee, the
renowned musical pedagogue VIA HARRISON FAMILY
met Ms. Mendoza after a concert. soon moved from a tenement on the Lower Frick’s horticulturist, rented a garage in
Nadia Boulanger at the American James Harrison taught at
He was leaving the hall when he East Side to Corona, Queens. Queens with other gearheads.
Conservatory in Fontainebleau,
encountered her — she had left Mr. di Liberto dropped out of high school “Richard had an obsession with cars and France. There he met Marina Bi- Hunter College in Manhattan.
through the wrong door and got- at 17 and enlisted in the Air Force. After his convertibles,” Mr. Lee said. “We’d go out aggi de Blasys, a gifted Italian pi-
ten lost — and kept her company discharge, he returned to the city and fin- there and figure out why they never ran anist and another Boulanger stu-
until she was able to locate her ished his G.E.D., working a series of hum- right.” son spoke of the foundation’s role.
dent. They married in 1961.
friends. The two parted ways, but drum jobs before pursuing photography. He Mr. di Liberto spent his retirement at Mr. Harrison was invited to “If, for example, a philosopher
not before Ms. Mendoza gave Mr. took courses at RCA Institutes in Manhat- home in Beechhurst, Queens, with his wife, from Israel and an Australian
teach at Fontainebleau, and he
Morón her phone number. tan and the Rochester Institute of Technol- Irene di Liberto, and at their rural cabin composer can become friends
and his wife lived for several
Mr. Morón closed New Town ogy, apprenticed himself to the fine-art pho- west of Albany. The couple met as teen- through a daily exchange of
years in France and in Switzer- ideas,” he said, “we feel we are do-
Iron Works in mid-March out of tographer Scott Hyde and began shooting agers when he was stationed at Mitchel Air
land, where Mr. Harrison was an ing something important for
concern for his employees’ safety art and architecture for corporate clients, Force Base on Long Island.
apprentice to the influential Ger- global culture.”
during the coronavirus pandemic. galleries and museums. “We would have been married 62 years,”
man conductor Hermann At an awards ceremony for the
By the end of April, reports of the The Brooklyn Museum hired him as its Ms. di Liberto said. “If you want to call it
Scherchen.
city’s imminent reopening cou- chief of photography in 1971. But two years love at first sight, sure, that’s what it was. foundation in 2007, Mr. Harrison
We always made a good partnership.” Mr. Harrison had originally in- described the study center as a
pled with mounting financial pres- later, when a dispute broke out between
museum staff members and a new director, tended to become an orchestra paradise “where time seems to
sure led Mr. Morón to reconsider. In addition to his granddaughter and his
Mr. di Liberto sided with the staff, resigned wife, Mr. di Liberto is survived by two conductor. But, encouraged by stand still, and the creativity of
“That same week he opened up, Boulanger, he followed her path our fellows is boundless.”
he got sick,” Ms. Mendoza said. and went to work for the Frick. daughters, Lisa di Liberto and Carolyn di
Photographing art is a specialty, requir- Liberto, and a grandson, Harper di Liberto- and became a teacher of music
“He was always helping and try- theory and counterpoint. His time
ing to help others.” ing the technical skill to show a variety of Bell. More obituaries appear on
at Hunter College began in 1969
and lasted nearly three decades; Page A21.
3 MEDIA 5 TECH FIX 8 SPORTS
Margaret Sullivan, a former In a pandemic that forces us The Washington Bullets took
Times public editor, saw the to stay home, doomscrolling two years to change their
crisis of the newspaper has taken over. Health name. The city’s N.F.L. team
industry from within. experts want us to stop. will have to move faster.
TECH ECONOMY MEDIA FINANCE THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020 B1

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Troubled Jet
HOW THE RIOTS OF YESTERYEAR Plots Return
To Industry
In Turmoil
Airlines may have good
reason to reconsider the
Boeing 737 Max.
By NIRAJ CHOKSHI
The first half of the year was not
kind to the 737 Max. Boeing froze
production of its beleaguered
plane from January through much
of May as customers canceled
hundreds of orders, and deals for
hundreds more were put at risk by
delays in the plane’s return to the
skies and the coronavirus pan-
demic.
But Boeing is back to work on
the Max, and if it passes regula-
tory scrutiny, the plane could fly
again as soon as the end of the
year. When it does, it will return to
an industry that was hammered
by the coronavirus and faces a
yearslong recovery.
The Max crisis has already
wrecked Boeing’s bottom line. In
January, the company said it ex-
pected the grounding to cost more
$135M
The list price of the latest model
MATTHEW LEWIS/THE WASHINGTON POST, VIA GETTY IMAGES
Max, though it can sell for 50
percent of that figure.
than $18 billion, which didn’t ac-

count for the ruinous effect the
pandemic would have on airlines.
In April, it announced plans to cut
about 16,000 jobs, or a tenth of its
work force, because of the pan-
demic’s impact.
The aerospace manufacturer
said this week that its customers
had canceled 373 Max orders in
the first six months of the year.
Another 439 are considered at
risk, including nearly 100 that
Norwegian Air, a struggling low-
cost carrier, recently said it no
longer planned to buy.
Boeing still has several thou-
sand pending orders for the Max,
but analysts expect that to shrink
somewhat as more customers
back out of deals. And even
though the company plans to in-
crease production of the jet and
other 737 variants to 31 planes per
month sometime next year, that is
CONTINUED ON PAGE B5
Attention,
Shoppers:
T.J. KIRKPATRICK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Wear a Mask
SEEDED THE SOIL FOR LUXURY LIVING At Walmart
By MICHAEL CORKERY
By EMILY BADGER Christian Leadership Conference office, in Top, H Street NE
the days before the Rev. Dr. Martin Lu- in Washington In perhaps the strongest state-
‘Racism and murder’ and QUOCTRUNG BUI
after the ment yet by a major American
WASHINGTON — At the corner of 14th ther King Jr.’s assassination, organizers
cleared the way for had been planning his Poor People’s Cam- assassination of company about the importance of
and U Streets Northwest, where the an- the Rev. Dr. Martin masks, Walmart said it would re-
wealth opportunists. ger first simmered in what became Wash- paign.
Luther King Jr. in quire that all of its customers wear
ington’s devastating 1968 riots, the going That history clashes with what’s in the face coverings starting next week.
area now: the modern luxury apartments, 1968. Above, the
rent for a one-bedroom today is about same area, five The new rule from the nation’s
$2,500 a month. That sum buys concierge the Lululemon. Yet across Washington largest retailer, with more than
decades later, is
services, rooftop terrace access and prox- and in other American cities, high-end 5,000 stores nationwide, comes as
much changed.
imity to any number of niche fitness stu- development rises directly on top of Black health officials and scientists
dios. neighborhoods that suffered the greatest point to wearing masks as a way
In 1968, the intersection was the gate- damage during civil unrest decades ago. to slow the spread of the coro-
way to the city’s segregated Black com- And there is an economic logic to it: navirus. But Walmart’s new pol-
munity, and it was home to several civil The sheer scale of harm to Black neigh- icy, which goes into effect on Mon-
rights organizations. In the Southern CONTINUED ON PAGE B6 day, also means the company is
wading into the kind of culturally
and politically divisive issue that
it has a history of avoiding.
Already, companies like Apple,
Best Buy, Costco and Starbucks
require customers wear masks.
The retailer Kohl’s said on
Wednesday that its customers
would be required to wear masks
Hollywood Noticeably Silent About Facebook Advertising Boycott starting Monday, and the grocery
chain Kroger announced on Twit-
ter that its customers would, too,
By BROOKS BARNES The pharmaceutical giants Pfi- But one of Facebook’s most im- what civil rights groups are call- time for them to say that Face- starting July 22. But the ubiquity
and NICOLE SPERLING zer and Bayer have joined the portant advertising categories — ing the #StopHateForProfit boy- book needs to stop hate for profit.” of Walmart stores in parts of the
LOS ANGELES — More than anti-Facebook campaign. So have Hollywood — has been noticeably cott. Crickets. country where masks are unpopu-
1,000 companies have halted their Microsoft and Verizon. Also repre- silent even though stopping hate “Where is Hollywood?” asked “I’m not sure why they are still lar make the giant retailer’s move
Facebook advertising over the sented are industries like apparel speech is one of the entertainment Jonathan Greenblatt, chief execu- silent,” Mr. Greenblatt said in an particularly significant.
past month as part of a protest (Levi Strauss, Eddie Bauer), au- industry’s longtime causes. As of tive of the Anti-Defamation interview. “You’ll have to ask “We know some people have
over the social network’s handling tos (Ford, Honda), household Tuesday, only Magnolia Pictures, League, during a discussion on them.” differing opinions on this topic,”
of hate speech, with most major products (Unilever, Kimberly- a small distributor of foreign films July 2 with The Wrap, an enter- Netflix, ViacomCBS, Disney, Walmart said in blog post on
industries represented in the boy- Clark) and beverages (Coca-Cola, and documentaries, and the non- tainment news site. “It’s time. It’s WarnerMedia, Lionsgate, STX Wednesday. “We also recognize
cott. Starbucks). profit Sesame Street had joined time for them to take a stand. It’s CONTINUED ON PAGE B7 CONTINUED ON PAGE B4
B2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020
The Digest
MANUFACTURING
Surge in Factory Output

last month after climbing 3.8 per-
cent in May.
Still, factory output was 11.1 per-
Markets Rise on Hopes of Covid-19 Vaccine
Trails Pre-Virus Levels cent below its level in February. By The Associated Press
Businesses have resumed oper- S&P 500 INDEX Markets worldwide rallied on ris-
ations after being shuttered in The S& P 500 Index
Factory output in the United +0.91% ing hopes for a Covid-19 vaccine
States increased for a second mid-March in an effort to slow the Wednesday, and the S&P 500- Position of the S& P 500 index at 1-minute intervals on Wednesday.
spread of the coronavirus. 3,226.56
straight month in June as motor stock index climbed back to where 3,240
vehicle production accelerated Production at factories con- it was a few days after it set its
tracted at a 47 percent annualized record early this year.
amid the reopening of businesses,
rate in the second quarter after Investors see a vaccine as the
3,230
but the improvement in manufac- falling at a 5.5 percent pace in the
turing activity was overshadowed January-to-March period. Manu-
by surging new Covid-19 infec- facturing, which accounts for 11
STOCKS & BONDS 3,220
tions. percent of the American economy, best way for the economy and hu-
The Federal Reserve said on is also being constrained by the man life to get back to normal, and 3,210
Wednesday that manufacturing fallout from the trade war with DOW JONES INDUSTRIALS researchers said late Tuesday that
production increased 7.2 percent China. REUTERS one developed by the National In-
+0.85% stitutes of Health and Moderna 3,200
26,870.10
revved up people’s immune sys- Previous close
tems in early testing, as hoped. 3,197.52 3,190
AIRLINES
The S&P 500 rose 0.9 percent to
American Airlines Warns pull within 4.7 percent of its all- 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m.
time high set in February. Source: Reuters THE NEW YORK TIMES
25,000 Could Lose Jobs The Dow Jones industrial aver-
age climbed 227.51 points, or 0.9
American Airlines is notifying percent, to 26,870.10, and the Nas- economic recovery collide with
about 25,000 workers that their Industrial Production continuing increases in coro-
daq composite gained 61.91, or 0.6
jobs could be eliminated in Octo- NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX navirus counts.
percent, to 10,550.49. During the Index of total industrial production,
ber because of plunging demand morning, the S&P 500 touched its The nation’s industrial produc-
for air travel.
+0.59% 2012 = 100, seasonally adjusted. tion improved more in June than
10,550.49 highest level since Feb. 25, and it
American’s top executives said APRIL MAY JUNE economists expected. So did man-
ended the day at 3,226.56, up
Wednesday that the number of 110 –12.7% +1.4% +5.4% ufacturing in New York state ear-
29.04.
layoffs or furloughs could be lower lier this month.
Several things helped lift the
if enough workers take buyouts or JOSHUA ROBERTS/REUTERS Goldman Sachs rose 1.4 percent
market, including stronger-than-
accept partially paid leave for up 105 after it reported much stronger re-
expected reports on the economy
to two years. sults for the latest quarter than
Air travel has picked up slowly and on corporate profits from
Airline officials thought they analysts expected. Financial
since mid-April, but remains se- Goldman Sachs and others. But 100
might avoid any furloughs “be- verely depressed. American’s pas- stocks in general did well, with
the vaccine hopes were at the cen- those in the S&P 500 up 1.9 per-
cause we believed demand for air senger revenue in June was down ter of the rise, which meant the
travel would steadily rebound by more than 80 percent from the
10-YEAR TREASURY YIELD 95 cent.
market’s leader board was domi- Other areas of the market
Oct. 1 as the impact of Covid-19 dis- same month last year. 0.64% nated by companies that would
sipated. That unfortunately has Airlines accepted up to $25 bil- +0.01 points where profits are closely tied to
benefit most from a return to nor- 90 the strength of the economy were
not been the case,” American’s lion in federal aid to help cover mal life. They included cruise-ship also particularly strong. Industri-
chief executive, Doug Parker, and payroll costs in exchange for not ’19 ’20
operators, airlines, retailers and al stocks rose 2.6 percent for the
its president, Robert Isom, said in cutting jobs until October.
hotel chains. Source: Federal Reserve THE NEW YORK TIMES
biggest gain among the 11 sectors
a memo to employees. ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stocks of smaller companies that make up the S&P 500, and en-
also leapt much more than the rest ergy producers gained 2 percent.
Winners of the stay-at-home
of the market, an indication of ris- Royal Caribbean Cruises
economy created by quarantines
ing expectations for the economy. surged 21.2 percent to lead a
EXECUTIVES sides would take over as chief and lockdowns, meanwhile,
The Russell 2000 index of small- lagged behind. Clorox, Netflix and group of stocks that stand to gain
space officer.
Virgin Galactic Names The move comes after Virgin
CRUDE OIL (U.S.) cap stocks jumped 3.5 percent, a Amazon all fell. if shoppers and travelers get back
New Leader From Disney $41.20 turnaround from earlier months Wednesday’s lift for markets, to life as it was before the pan-
Galactic in June announced it had
+$0.91 when big, tech-oriented compa- though, came only after another demic. American Airlines rose
successfully completed the sec-
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic nies were carrying the market. day of choppy trading. The S&P 16.2 percent, Gap jumped 12.7 per-
ond SpaceShipTwo test flight from
Holdings on Wednesday named “Investors are gaining more 500 shot to a quick 1.3 percent gain cent, Live Nation Entertainment
Spaceport America, as the com-
the Walt Disney executive Mi- confidence of the longer-term di- shortly after trading began, only rose 11.7 percent, and Hilton
pany prepares for commercial
chael Colglazier as its new chief rection of the market,” said Sam to give up nearly all of it before Worldwide added 10.1 percent.
service.
executive officer. Stovall, chief investment strat- swinging a couple more times. The yield on the 10-year Treas-
The space tourism company of-
Mr. Colglazier, who was previ- egist at CFRA. “It’s not just the be- It’s the latest bout of erratic ury rose to 0.64 percent from 0.63
fers zero-gravity experiences to
ously president and managing di- hemoth tech stocks that are likely trading for a market that has been percent late Tuesday. It tends to
rector at Disney Parks Interna- customers and has long-term
to lead share prices higher, but largely churning in place for move with investors’ expectations
tional, will replace George White- point-to-point travel plans to
that mid- and small-cap stocks weeks. The S&P 500 is almost ex- for the economy and inflation.
sides, who joined the company in quickly transport passengers GOLD (N.Y.)
will also benefit, not only from an actly where it was on June 8. Of- Benchmark U.S. crude oil rose
2010 as its first chief executive. from city to city at near-space alti- $1,811.40 economic recovery, but also from ten, it has swung sharply within a 91 cents to settle at $41.20 per bar-
Virgin Galactic said Mr. White- tudes. REUTERS +$0.80 very low interest rates.” single day as hopes for a budding rel.
What Happened in Stock Markets Yesterday

POWERED BY
S&P 500 3226.56 0.9% Nasdaq Composite Index 10550.49 0.6% Dow Jones industrials 26870.10 0.9%
10,500 29,000
3,400
+20% +20% 28,000 +20%
10,000
3,200 +15% +15% 27,000 +15%
9,500
26,000
+10% +10% +10%
3,000
9,000 25,000
+ 5% + 5% + 5%
24,000
2,800 8,500
0% 0% 0%
23,000
May June July May June July May June July
TOTAL
Best performers Worst performers Most active TOTAL RETURN
ASSETS
VOLUME
S&P 500 COMPANIES CLOSE CHANGE S&P 500 COMPANIES CLOSE CHANGE S&P 500 COMPANIES CLOSE CHANGE IN MIL. Regional and emerging markets 1 YR 5 YRS IN BIL.
1. Royal Carib C (RCL) $58.36 +21.2% 1. Ball (BLL) $69.52 –5.6% 1. American Airl (AAL) $13.44 +16.2% 131.8 1. Fidelity Series Emerging Markets Opps(FEMSX) +8.6% +7.7% $24.7
2. Nrwn Crs Ln (NCLH) 18.50 +20.7 2. BONY Mellon (BK) 36.86 –5.4 2. Ford Motor (F) 6.74 +6.0 101.5 2. DFA Emerging Markets Core Equity I(DFCEX) –3.0 +3.4 23.5
3. Carnivl (CCL) 17.48 +16.2 3. Fortinet (FTNT) 129.32 –3.8 3. GE (GE) 7.14 +3.8 89.6 3. Invesco Oppenheimer Developing Markets Y(ODVYX) +3.0 +5.9 17.4
4. American Airl (AAL) 13.44 +16.2 4. Edison Intl (EIX) 55.28 –2.5 4. Nrwn Crs Ln (NCLH) 18.50 +20.7 85.1 4. DFA Emerging Markets Value I(DFEVX) –12.8 +1.8 13.3
5. United Arlns (UAL) 36.37 +14.6 5. Amazon.com (AMZN) 3008.87 –2.4 5. United Arlns (UAL) 36.37 +14.6 83.5 5. Vanguard Emerging Mkts Stock Idx Adm(VEMAX) +3.0 +4.3 13.3
6. HanesBrands (HBI) 14.34 +14.3 6. KLA Corp (KLAC) 196.04 –2.4 6. Carnivl (CCL) 17.48 +16.2 71.7 6. American Funds New World A(NEWFX) +8.2 +7.6 12.5
7. Gap (GPS) 12.57 +12.7 7. Campbell Soup (CPB) 49.21 –2.2 7. Wells Fargo (WFC) 25.35 +4.5 61.5 7. DFA Emerging Markets I(DFEMX) –1.9 +3.9 5.6
8. MGM Resorts I (MGM) 18.20 +12.6 8. Clorox (CLX) 225.50 –2.2 8. BofAML (BAC) 24.60 +1.9 57.0 8. DFA Emerging Markets Small Cap I(DEMSX) –4.6 +2.7 5.0
9. H&R Block (HRB) 15.26 +12.1 9. Citrix Syste (CTXS) 150.82 –1.9 9. Boeing (BA) 187.94 +4.4 47.7 9. Virtus Vontobel Emerging Markets Opps I(HIEMX) –1.9 +3.7 5.0
10. Live Nation (LYV) 51.84 +11.7 10. Evergy (EVRG) 61.23 –1.8 10. Delta Air (DAL) 28.60 +9.5 47.1 10. Baron Emerging Markets Institutional(BEXIX) +6.2 +5.7 4.4
Source: Morningstar
Sector performance How stock markets fared yesterday in Asia … … in Europe … and in the Americas.
S&P 500 SECTORS
+3.0
Industrials +2.6% +2.5
Energy +2.0 +2.0
Tokyo +1.6% Frankfurt +1.8%
Financials +1.9 +1.5
Toronto +1.0%
Materials +1.7 +1.0
Health care +1.3 +0.5
London +1.8% New York +0.9%
Information technology +0.5 0.0
Real estate +0.5 –0.5
Shanghai –1.6%
Consumer discretionary +0.5 –1.0
Communication services +0.3 –1.5
Consumer staples +0.01 –2.0

Major stock market indexes
–0.4 Utilities –2.5
6 p.m. E.T. 8 10 12 a.m. 2 4 6 a.m. 8 10 12 p.m. 2 4 6 p.m.
What Is Happening in Other Markets and the Economy

Bonds Currencies Consumer rates Commodities Economy
10-year Treas. Key rates 1 euro = $1.1412 Crude oil Unemployment Rate Consumer confidence
3% $1.3
6% $100 a barrel
10% 120
1.2 Borrowing rate
2
30-year fixed mortgages
5 50
2-year Treas. 1.1 5 100
1
Fed Funds 1.0 4 0 0 80

0
’19 ’20 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’12 ’14 ’16 ’18 ’20 ’16 ’18 ’20 ’16 ’18 ’20
3
Yield curve $1 = 106.94 yen Corn New-home sales Industrial production
3% 120 $6 a bushel
2 700 thousand
1-YEAR AGO 260
2 110 Savings rate 4
600
1 1-year CDs
240
1 YESTERDAY 100 2 500
0 Maturity 90 0 0 400 220

3 6 2 5 10 30 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’10 ’15 ’20 ’12 ’14 ’16 ’18 ’20 ’16 ’18 ’20 ’16 ’18 ’20
Months Years
THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020 N B3
MEDIA | EDUCATION
The Decline of Local News, Dissected by a Newspaper Veteran

By MARC TRACY there a moment where things as a service that I wanted to do as
Before she became a media col- could have gone differently? well as I could. And it was very
umnist, Margaret Sullivan saw Traditional media companies tough, at times, to come into the
the crisis in the American news- could have responded to the building every day and feel part of
paper industry from within. changes much more nimbly. a great institution, but also know
She spent roughly three dec- There was a whole thing about that your role was to critique and,
ades at The Buffalo News and was “Should we or shouldn’t we charge to some extent, to find fault. But I
the first woman to serve as its top for the content of the paper?” For tried to keep in mind that the peo-
editor, a job she held from 1999 to a long time, local newspapers de- ple I was really working for were
2012. “For years, it seemed like it cided not to. It never made any the readers of The Times, so that it
had a license to print money,” Ms. sense, because it costs lots of wasn’t about making people
Sullivan writes in her first book, money to produce this journalism. within the institution happy.
“Ghosting the News: Local Jour- We were very slow to take advan-
tage of the particular strengths of The Post also did away with its
nalism and the Crisis of American
the internet in a way that might ombudsman. Are outlets well
Democracy,” which was published
have made a real difference. The served by having such a position?
Tuesday.
But like many papers, the Buf- kind of work we do now — some Some places are. I think for very
falo daily has become a reduced newspapers, including The Times large, influential media organiza-
version of what it once was. Berk- and The Post, present things in a tions, it is a service to the reader-
shire Hathaway sold it to the Lee way that’s much better than the ship to have someone in that role. I
Enterprises chain this year after way they’re presented in print. see it as unfortunate, but not a
Berkshire’s multibillionaire chief But for the longest time, newspa- tragedy, that these roles have
executive, Warren E. Buffett, said pers, especially local newspapers, been discontinued.
most newspapers were “toast.” were just shoveling their content
onto the web and expecting peo- What have you made of the pushes
Ms. Sullivan went on to be the
ple to like it. It was smug. It was in newsrooms to have better
public editor of The New York
slow. And it hurt us. representation of previously
Times, a post that put her close to
TAYLOR GLASCOCK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES marginalized voices, as well as to
the journalists and newsroom
Margaret Sullivan, a former public editor at The Times, has published a book on the struggles of local news outlets. Does some blame lie with the Wall rethink journalistic objectivity?
leaders whose work she scruti-
nized as a representative of the Street-backed companies that It’s extremely important to have
paper’s readers. The Times elimi- have become newspaper owners? real diversity, not tokenism, in
the Watergate hearings were tak- and I was the editor at that time. drama critic, an art critic, plus re- newsrooms. You get different im-
nated the position, in a much-de- Hedge-fund ownership is one of, if
ing place, and my family was gath- We were doing round after round porters who wrote about other el- portant perspectives and internal
bated move, about a year into the not the, worst developments that
ered around the TV in the living of buyouts throughout the com- ements of the community that had have occurred for newspapers. criticism and points of view when
tenure of her successor, Liz Spayd.
room and we were mesmerized. pany, including the newsroom. We nothing to do with watchdog jour- These companies don’t care about you have a diverse population in
Since leaving the paper in 2016,
could no longer cover things the nalism. There was a section that, journalism. They care about strip- the newsroom — at the top levels,
Ms. Sullivan has kept watch over How did your time in Buffalo
the news industry as The Wash- way we used to. I could see first- with the help of staff, I founded, mining what’s left for whatever too. I was proud at The Buffalo
inform your outlook on the local hand that these changes were Life & Arts. That section, which
ington Post’s media columnist. profits can be squeezed, not with News to name the first person of
news crisis? hurting the community. was in the paper Monday through
She spoke from her cottage in Ev- an eye to a sustainable future. color, a Black man, Rod Watson, to
ans, N.Y., near Lake Erie and not The newsroom that I came to was Friday, no longer exists. When I newsroom management. I was
thriving, vibrant. It had newspa- There’s a lot in your book about stay at my cottage near Lake Erie How do you look back on your four
far from her hometown, Lack- also very proud to name a woman,
per competition down the street. the importance of community. years as public editor of The Lisa Wilson, as our executive
awanna. This interview has been in the summer, and I get the print
And, fairly quickly, the competi- Why is that function of Times? sports editor. She was one of only
edited and condensed. edition, I always feel like some-
tion went out of business. We had newspapers important to you? I’m sure this may sound sappy or a few women sports editors in the
thing’s missing.
When were you first bitten by the a number of very profitable years, I was the features editor for sev- sentimental or pandering or country, not to mention a Black
journalism bug? and then structural changes came eral years. We had a pop music Was what happened to local something bad, but I really found woman. This is a needed correc-
When I was in early high school, about, starting in 2008 or 2009, critic, a classical music critic, a journalism inevitable? Or was it to be a privilege. I approached it tive, and overdue.
Times to Relocate Office States Sue Education Dept.

From Hong Kong to Seoul For Revising Rules on Fraud
By STACY COWLEY ing, politically driven lawsuit
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM Mr. Buckley’s investigative re- meant to grab a cheap headline,
Twenty-two states and the Dis-
The New York Times said on Tues- porting on China has made him and the media seems to always
trict of Columbia sued the Educa-
day that it would relocate its Hong the target of criticism by state oblige. To any objective observer,
tion Department on Wednesday,
Kong-based digital news opera- news outlets in mainland China. our borrower defense rule clearly
claiming it broke federal law in
tion to Seoul, South Korea, a sig- Since joining the paper in 2012, he protects students from fraud, en-
adopting new rules for a program
nificant shift by an American has extensively covered China’s sures they are entitled to financial
meant to wipe out the student loan
news organization as China has elite politics, the party’s expan- relief if they suffered harm and
debt of borrowers whose schools
stepped up its efforts to impede sive crackdown on Muslims in the holds schools accountable.”
defrauded them.
the affairs of the Asian metropolis. far western region Xinjiang and, State attorneys general have
most recently, the government’s The new rule also “unreason-
Hong Kong, a former British ably favors the interests of preda- successfully challenged some of
initial mishandling of the coro- Ms. DeVos’s efforts to strip down
colony, has served for decades as tory schools over students and
navirus pandemic. the borrower-defense system. In
an Asian headquarters for Eng- ANTHONY WALLACE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES would deny relief to borrowers
He had to leave Beijing in May 2018, a federal judge ruled in their
lish-language news outlets drawn A new national security law for Hong Kong passed by China has created who have been indisputably
after the Chinese government de- favor in a lawsuit over a delay im-
to the city’s openness to foreign uncertainty about the city’s prospects as a hub for journalism. harmed by their schools,” accord-
clined to renew the journalist visa plementing a rule created during
companies, proximity to the Chi- ing to the complaint filed in San
that allowed him to work in the the Obama administration that
nese mainland and rich tradition Francisco federal court.
mainland. Beijing said only that Kong as China has moved to con- protects the vast majority.” made claims easier to pursue. The
of a freewheeling press. The suit was the latest legal bat-
Mr. Buckley would have to reap- solidate power in the former colo- “The rights and interests en- ruling forced the department to let
But a sweeping national securi- tle over the decades-old program, the delayed rule to take effect,
ply for his credentials outside the ny. There is concern over the ease joyed by the majority of Hong
ty law passed by China in June — mainland — a requirement incon- known as Borrower Defense to clearing the way for thousands of
of obtaining future work permits, Kong citizens, foreign institutions
aimed at stymieing opposition sistent with past practice. Repayment, which allows stu- students enrolled at ITT Technical
a quality that made Hong Kong and personnel including foreign
and pro-democracy forces in dents to ask that their federal Institute when it closed to have
Besides serving as a base for re- particularly desirable to foreign media in Hong Kong in accord-
Hong Kong — has unsettled news porters and editors covering Asia, companies. loans be eliminated if their their loans eliminated.
ance with law are not affected in
organizations and created uncer- The Times’s Hong Kong bureau any way,” she said. schools seriously misled them or The revised rule reversed most
Some journalists also worry
tainty about the city’s prospects became an integral part of the violated state laws. Education of the Obama-era changes and ap-
that Beijing will crack down on ac- With the full impact of China’s
as a hub for journalism in Asia. newspaper’s 24/7 digital opera- Secretary Betsy DeVos has called plies to all federal student loans
tivism and speech in ways more new security law still unclear,
Some Times employees in Hong tion in recent years. Editors there some outlets say they are staying Borrower Defense a “free money” made from this month onward. It
akin to how the news media is
Kong have faced challenges se- oversee The Times’s online report put for now. Bloomberg News and giveaway and repeatedly tried to survived a bipartisan effort in
treated on the Chinese mainland.
curing work permits, hurdles that when staff members in New York CNN, both of which maintain slash the relief available. Congress to overturn it: Mr.
The United States and China
are commonplace in China but and London, the paper’s other two large teams in Hong Kong, have Last year, her agency finalized Trump vetoed the bill, and law-
have been engaged in a diplomatic
were rarely an issue in the former global headquarters, are signed no current plans to leave the city, a policy revision that significantly makers couldn’t override him.
standoff over media organiza-
colony. With the city facing a new off. tions, with China expelling Ameri- according to people familiar with raised the bar for new claims. The states’ lawsuit says the re-
era under tightened Chinese rule, The Times said it would move can reporters for The Wall Street internal discussions. Among other changes, the new vision violated the Administrative
Times editors determined they that digital team of journalists — Journal, The Washington Post and The Times, in seeking a suitable rule eliminated a group-discharge Procedure Act, a law that guides
needed an additional base of oper- roughly one-third of its Hong The Times. When they were ex- location outside Hong Kong, con- process, forcing each borrower to the federal government’s rule-
ations in the region. Kong staff — to Seoul over the pelled, they were told that they sidered Bangkok, Seoul, Singa- pursue relief individually, and remaking process, by imposing “ar-
“China’s sweeping new national course of the next year. Corre- could not report in Hong Kong. pore, Tokyo and other cities in the quired applicants to prove both bitrary and capricious” require-
security law in Hong Kong has spondents will remain based in (Mr. Buckley, an Australian citi- Asia-Pacific region. South Korea that their school had knowingly ments. The Trump administration
created a lot of uncertainty about Hong Kong to cover the city and zen, was not among the expelled proved attractive, among other lied to them and that the deception has lost dozens of federal court
what the new rules will mean to region. “We have every intention reporters.) reasons, for its friendliness to for- caused them financial harm. cases on similar grounds.
our operation and our journal- of maintaining and even increas- “Hong Kong has been a leader eign business, independent press, Those requirements “are so A second lawsuit challenging
ism,” Times editors and execu- ing our coverage of the city’s in supporting the rights of a free and its central role in several ma- onerous that they make this de- the Education Department’s bor-
tives who oversee the paper’s in- transformation, as well as using it press in Asia for decades, and it is jor Asian news stories. fense impossible for a student rower-defense rule revision is al-
ternational coverage and opera- as a window on China,” the memo essential that it continues to do In the memo on Tuesday, lead- loan borrower to assert success- ready underway in federal court
tions wrote in a memo to staff on said. so,” a Times spokeswoman, Ari ers at The Times said they would fully,” the state attorneys general in Manhattan. That complaint,
Tuesday. “We feel it is prudent to Hong Kong also houses the Isaacman Bevacqua, said in a “remain deeply invested in Hong wrote. brought by the New York Legal
make contingency plans and be- print production team for The statement on Tuesday. Kong — as a focus of our journal- Angela Morabito, an Education Assistance Group, says the rule
gin to diversify our editing staff New York Times International In response to questions on ism and as a place to do business.” Department spokeswoman, said: “imposed herculean standards”
around the region.” Edition, and those staff members Wednesday about The Times’s de- But the uncertainties, they “This is yet another grandstand- that would block nearly all claims.
Last week, the authorities in will remain. Advertising and mar- cision, a spokeswoman for the wrote, required action. “Any dis-
Hong Kong refused to renew a keting staff are also expected to Chinese Foreign Ministry, Hua ruption to the operation has the
IN THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT or unexpired lease must file a Proof of Claim by the later of (a) the Claims
work permit for Chris Buckley, a stay. Chunying, said it did not comment potential to undermine our jour- FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE Bar Date or the Governmental Bar Date, as applicable, or (b)
veteran China correspondent of nalism, which is now more impor- In re: MAINES PAPER & FOOD ) Chapter 11 5:00 p.m. prevailing Eastern Time on the date that is thirty days
Western businesses, including on the “internal arrangements of SERVICE, INC., et al. ) Case No. 20-11502 (KBO) following entry of an order approving such rejection (the“Rejection
The Times. The city’s immigration banks, technology firms and ma- foreign media.” She noted that the tant than ever,” the memo said. Debtors. ) (Jointly Administered) DamagesBarDate”).
NOTICE OF DEADLINES FOR THE FILING OF ANY PERSON OR ENTITY WHO FAILS TO FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM,
department offered Mr. Buckley, jor news organizations, have national security law “punishes a (I) PROOFS OF CLAIM, INCLUDING REQUESTS FOR INCLUDING ANY REQUEST FOR PAYMENT UNDER SECTION
503(B)(9) OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE, OR WHO FAILS TO FILE WITH
52, no explanation. weighed their presence in Hong very small number of crimes and Claire Fu contributed research. PAYMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 503(B)(9) OF THE
THE COURT AN ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIM ARISING ON OR PRIOR
BANKRUPTCY CODE, (II) ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMS,
AND (III) REJECTION DAMAGES CLAIMS TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMS DEADLINE, IN EACH CASE ON OR
BEFORE THE APPLICABLE BAR DATE, SHALL NOT BE TREATED AS A
PLEASETAKE NOTICE OFTHE FOLLOWING: CREDITOR WITH RESPECT TO SUCH CLAIM FOR THE PURPOSES OF
NOTICE OF DEADLINES FOR THE FILING OF PROOFS ANY PERSON OR ENTITY WHO FAILS TO FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM,
OF CLAIM, INCLUDING REQUESTS FOR PAYMENTS INCLUDING ANY REQUEST FOR PAYMENT UNDER SECTION Deadlines for Filing Proofs of Claim and Administrative Claims VOTINGANDDISTRIBUTIONONANYCHAPTER11PLAN.
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE defined in the UCC,to the extent applicable),and,including the proceeds Arising Prior to the Administrative Claim Deadline.On July 9,2020,the
UNDER SECTION 503(B)(9) OF THE BANKRUPTCY 503(B)(9) OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE ON OR BEFORE THE GENERAL andrecoveriesfromAvoidanceActions. Filing a Proof of Claim. Each Proof of Claim must be filed, including
CODE WITH RESPECT TO INTELSAT S.A. AND ITS CLAIMS BAR DATE OR GOVERNMENTAL BAR DATE, AS APPLICABLE, PUBLIC TELEPHONIC AUCTION DATE AND TIME: July 31, 2020 at United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Court”) supporting documentation,so as to be actually received by the Debtors’
The public auction sale will take place telephonically on July 31, entered an order [Docket No. 152] (the “Bar Date Order”) establishing
AFFILIATED DEBTORS SHALL NOT BE TREATED AS A CREDITOR WITH RESPECT TO SUCH 10:00 a.m. (EDT).Dial-in to access the telephonic auction may 2020 at 10:00 a.m. (EDT). Dial-in to access the telephonic auction may notice and claims agent, Stretto, on or before the Claims Bar Date or the
be requested by emailing Robert M.Hirsh,Esq.and Phillip Khezri, certain dates by which parties holding prepetition claims against the Governmental Bar Date (or, where applicable, on or before any other bar
THE GENERAL CLAIMS BAR DATE IS SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 CLAIM FOR THE PURPOSES OF VOTING AND DISTRIBUTION ON ANY be requested by emailing Robert M.Hirsh, Esq.and Phillip Khezri, Esq.at above-captioned Debtors must file (a) proofs of claim (“Proofs of Claim”),
CHAPTER11PLAN. Esq.at the following email addresses by July 30,2020 at 4:00 p.m. the following email addresses by July 30,2020 at 4:00 p.m.(EDT):rhirsh@ date as set forth herein) either 1) electronically through the interface
THE GOVERNMENTAL CLAIMS BAR DATE IS includingclaimsbygovernmentalunits,claimsarisingundersection503(b) available at https://cases.stretto.com/Maines/file-a-claim or (2) by first
Filing a Proof of Claim. Each Proof of Claim must be filed, including (EDT): [email protected] and [email protected]. [email protected]. (9) of the Bankruptcy Code,and Rejection Damages Claims,and (b) requests
NOVEMBER 16, 2020 class,overnight U.S.mail,or by other hand delivery system at the following
supporting documentation, by electronic submission through PACER JMB Capital reserves the right to change the date and time of the for payment of Administrative Claims (as defined herein) arising on or prior
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE OF THE FOLLOWING: (Public Access to Court Electronic Records at https://ecf.vaeb.uscourts. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT BY VIRTUE OF CERTAIN EVENTS OF auction. Parties interested in attending the auction should contact address: Maines Paper & Food Service Claims Processing Center,c/o
Deadlines for Filing Proofs of Claim. On June 30, 2020, the United DEFAULT under that certain Senior Secured, Super-Priority Debtor-In- to the Administrative Claims Deadline (as defined herein) in the chapter 11 Stretto,410Exchange,Suite100,Irvine,CA92602.
gov), or if submitted through non-electronic means by U.S. Mail or other counsel to JMB Capital, provided below, on July 30th to confirm the date cases of the following debtors and debtors in possession (collectively, the
States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (the “Court”) hand delivery system,so as to be actuallyreceived by Stretto on or before Possession Loan and Security Agreement dated as of December 20,2019 Contents of Proofs of Claim. Each Proof of Claim must: (i) be written
andtimeoftheauction. “Debtors”): Maines Paper & Food Service,Inc.; Maines Funding Corporation; in English; (ii) include a claim amount denominated in United States
entered an order [Docket No. 421] (the “Bar Date Order”) in Case No. the General Claims Bar Date or the Governmental Bar Date at the following (the “Security Agreement”), among NPXE PLC, NeuroproteXeon, Inc., Terms and Conditions of Sale.
20-32299 (KLP) establishing certain deadlines for the filing of proofs NeuroproteXeon Limited, and NeuroproteXeon GmbH (collectively, the Maines Paper & Food Service - Chicago,Inc.;Maines Paper & Food Service - dollars;(iii) conformsubstantiallywith the Proof ofClaim Form provided by
address: Intelsat S.A., et al., Claims Processing, c/o Stretto, 410 Exchange, 1. TheCollateralshallbesoldasawholelotorinmultiplepartiallots, Dallas,Inc.;Maines Paper & Food Service - Great Lakes,Inc.;Maines Paper &
of claim, including requests for payment under section 503(b)(9) of the Suite100,Irvine,California92602. “Borrowers”), and JMB Capital Partners Lending, LLC (“JMB Capital”), as the Debtors or Official Form 410;and (iv) be signed by the claimant or by an
as determined in the sole discretion of JMB Capital, on an“AS IS,WHERE Food Service - Maryland, Inc.; Maines Paper & Food Service - Mid-Atlantic,
Bankruptcy Code, in the chapter 11 cases of the following debtors and Lender,1 JMB Capital will foreclose and sell, at public auction, pursuant IS” basis, with all faults, and without recourse to JMB Capital, and JMB
authorizedagentorlegalrepresentativeoftheclaimant.
PROOFSOFCLAIMSUBMITTEDBYFACSIMILEOR to the Security Agreement and Section 9-613 of the Uniform Commercial Inc.;Maines Paper & Food Service - New England,Inc.;Maines Paper & Food Section 503(b)(9) Requests for Payment. Any Proof of Claim
debtors in possession (together, the “Debtors”): DEBTOR, CASE NO.: ELECTRONICMAILWILLNOTBEACCEPTED. Capital makes no representations or warranties,express or implied,as to
Intelsat S.A.,20-32299 (KLP);Intelsat (Luxembourg) S.A.,20-32296 (KLP); Code as adopted under applicable law, for cash, all of Borrower’s right, Service - NY Metro, Inc.; Maines Paper & Food Service - Ohio, Inc.; Maines asserting a claim entitled to priority under section 503(b)(9) must also:
Contents of Proofs of Claim. Each proof of claim must:(i) be written title and interest in and to some or all of the following Collateral (the the value, condition, merchantability, quality or fitness for use of any of Paper & Food Service - Tennessee, Inc.; Maines Paper & Food Service - (i) include the value of the goods delivered to and received by the Debtors
Intelsat Align S.à r.l, 20-32305 (KLP); Intelsat Alliance LP, 20-32324 (KLP); the Collateral or any other representation or warranty with respect to the
in English; (ii) include a claim amount denominated in United States “Collateral”): (a) Borrowers’ Executory contracts and unexpired leases; Worcester,Inc.;andWarehouse&Logistics,Inc. in the twenty days prior to the Petition Date;(ii) attach any documentation
Intelsat Asia Carrier Services LLC,20-32328 (KLP);Intelsat Connect Finance Collateral whatsoever. JMB Capital does not claim title to the Collateral The Bar Dates. Pursuant to the Bar Date Order, all entities (except
S.A., 20-32295 (KLP); Intelsat Envision Holdings LLC, 20-32297 (KLP); dollars;(iii) clearly identify the Debtor against which the claim is asserted; (b) Borrowers’ name and related trademarks; (c) All other intellectual identifying the particular invoices for which the 503(b)(9) claim is being
(iv) conform substantially with the Proof of Claim Form provided by being sold hereunder and disclaim any warranty of title, possession or governmental units), including individuals, partnerships, corporations, asserted;and (iii) attach documentation of any reclamation demand made
Intelsat Finance Bermuda Ltd., 20-32309 (KLP); Intelsat Genesis GP LLC, property related to the performance of the Borrowers’business;(d) Such quietenjoymentoftheCollateralandthelikeinanysale.
the Debtors or Official Form 410; (v) be signed by the claimant or by an business and regulatory licenses and/or any other regulatory approvals joint ventures, estates, and trusts who have a claim or potential claim totheDebtorsundersection546(c)oftheBankruptcyCode(ifapplicable).
20-32318 (KLP);Intelsat Genesis Inc.,20-32323 (KLP);Intelsat Global Sales 2. The Collateral will be sold at public foreclosure auction at the time against the Debtors, that arose prior to June 10, 2020, no matter how
& Marketing Ltd, 20-32313 (KLP); Intelsat Holdings LLC, 20-32308 (KLP); authorized agent or legal representative of the claimant on behalf of the as are necessary to the performance of the Borrowers’ business; (e) All Additional Information. If you require additional information
claimant, whether such signature is an electronic signature or is ink; and and date set forth herein to the bidder with the highest or otherwise best remote or contingent such right to payment or equitable remedy may regarding the filing of a proof of claim,you may contact the Debtors’claims
Intelsat Holdings S.A.,20-32301 (KLP);Intelsat International Employment tax refunds and refundable VAT related to the Collateral; (f) All books bid(asdeterminedbyJMBCapital),forcashexceptasotherwiseexpressly
(vi) include as attachments any and all supporting documentation on and records related to the Borrowers’ from the two year period prior to be, including requests for payment under section 503(b)(9) of the agent, Stretto, directly by writing to: Maines Paper & Food Service Claims
LLC, 20-32316 (KLP); Intelsat International Systems, LLC, 20-32314 (KLP); agreed by JMB Capital,in its sole discretion, at or prior to the date of the Bankruptcy Code, MUST FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM on or before August
Intelsat Investment Holdings S.à.r.l.,20-32300 (KLP);Intelsat Investments which the claim is based. Please note that each proof of claim must state the Closing Date, in whatever form (with copies to be retained by the Processing Center, c/o Stretto, 410 Exchange, Suite 100, Irvine, CA 92602,
a claim against only one Debtor and clearly indicate the specific Debtor sale, and on other such commercially reasonable terms as JMB Capital 21, 2020, at 5:00 p.m., prevailing Eastern Time (the “Claims Bar or contact the Debtors’restructuring hotline at: (855) 295-3672 (toll free)
S.A., 20-32302 (KLP); Intelsat Jackson Holdings S.A., 20-32304 (KLP); Borrowers’ for the purposes of administering a wind down and filing may determine in accordance with JMB Capital’s bid procedures (the
against which the claim is asserted. To the extent more than one Debtor is of final tax returns); (g) All software related to the administration of Date”). Governmental units who have a claim or potential claim against and(949)266-6335(international). Pleasenotethat Strettocannotoffer
Intelsat License Holdings LLC, 20-32306 (KLP); Intelsat License LLC, “Bid Procedures”),a copy of which is available upon request from counsel the Debtors that arose prior to the Petition Date, no matter how remote
20-32311 (KLP);Intelsat Satellite LLC,20-32310 (KLP);Intelsat Service and listed on the proof of claim,a proof of claim is treated as if filed only against the Borrowers including, without limitation, all accounting software, legaladviceoradvisewhetheryoushouldfileaproofofclaim.
Intelsat S.A., or if a proof of claim is otherwise filed without identifying a to JMB Capital listed below.JMB Capital reserves the right, on or prior to or contingent such right to payment or equitable remedy may be, MUST ClaimAgainstMultipleDebtorEntities.Unless otherwise ordered by
Equipment LLC, 20-32319 (KLP); Intelsat Subsidiary (Gibraltar) Limited, historical accounting and other information, in whatever form; (h) the date of the sale, to modify, waive or amend any terms or conditions
specific Debtor, the proof of claim may be deemed as filed only against Borrowers’prepetition and postpetition commercial tort claims, and the FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM on or before December 7, 2020, at 5:00 p.m., the Court,each Proof of Claim must state a claim against only one Debtor
20-32307(KLP);IntelsatUKFinancialServicesLtd,20-32303(KLP);Intelsat of the sale, or to withdraw all or part of the Collateral from the public prevailingEasternTime(the“GovernmentalBarDate”).
IntelsatS.A. proceeds thereof, including but not limited to all claims and causes of and clearly indicate the Debtor against which the claim is asserted. To the
US Finance LLC, 20-32325 (KLP); Intelsat US LLC, 20-32298 (KLP); Intelsat foreclosure sale,or impose any other terms or conditions on any sale and, Administrative Claims Bar Date. Parties asserting Administrative extent more than one Debtor is listed on the Proof of Claim,such claim may
Ventures S.à r.l.,20-32312 (KLP); Intelsat Virginia Holdings LLC,20-32294 Electronic Signatures Permitted. Proofs of claim signed action (i) against the Borrowers’ officers and directors, and (ii) all other if JMB Capital deems appropriate,to reject any bids and/or to continue or Claims against the Debtors’ estates arising on or prior to July 10, 2020 betreatedasiffiledonlyagainstthefirst-listedDebtor.
(KLP); PanAmSat Europe Corporation, 20-32317 (KLP); PanAmSat India electronically by the claimant or an authorized agent or legal prepetition tort claims, and the proceeds thereof (regardless of whether adjournanysalewithoutpriornotice.
representative of the claimant may be deemed acceptable for purposes of such proceeds arise from damages to the Prepetition Collateral); (i) (the “Administrative Claims Deadline”) (but excluding claims for fees Supporting Documentation. Each Proof of Claim must include
LLC, 20-32326 (KLP); PanAmSat India Marketing L.L.C., 20-32327 (KLP); 3. JMB Capital reserves the right to bid for the Collateral (or any and expenses of professionals retained in these proceedings and claims supporting documentation in accordance with Bankruptcy Rules 3001(c)
PanAmSat International Holdings LLC, 20-32315 (KLP); PanAmSat claims administration. Copies of proofs of claim or proofs of claim sent by Borrowers’avoidance claims and causes of avoidance actions under and portion thereof) at any sale and to credit bid all or any part of the total
facsimileorelectronicmailwillnotbeaccepted. related recoveries under the Bankruptcy Code; and, (j) to the extent not asserting priority pursuant to section 503(b)(9) of the Bankruptcy Code), and (d). If,however,such documentation is voluminous,upon prior written
International Sales, LLC, 20-32322 (KLP); Southern Satellite Licensee LLC, amount of its secured claims in satisfaction (or partial satisfaction) of the are required to file a request for payment of such Administrative Claim consent of Debtors’ counsel, such Proof of Claim may include a summary
Section 503(b)(9) Requests for Payment. Any proof of claim already including in (a) – (i),Borrowers’prepetition and postpetition real
20-32321(KLP);SouthernSatelliteLLC,20-32320(KLP). purchasepriceassetforthintheBidProcedures. arising on or prior to the Administrative Claims Deadline with the Court on of such documentation or an explanation as to why such documentation is
The Bar Dates. Pursuant to the Bar Date Order, all entities (except asserting a claim entitled to priority under section 503(b)(9) of the property and all prepetition and postpetition tangible and intangible 4. Requests for information concerning the Collateral, Bid
Bankruptcy Code must also (i) include the value of the goods delivered to personal property of each Borrower, in each case wherever located and orbefore August21,2020,at5:00 p.m.,prevailing EasternTime(the not available;provided that any creditor that received such written consent
governmental units), including individuals, partnerships, estates, and Procedures,and other related documents and the terms of the sale should “AdministrativeClaimsBarDate”). shall be required to transmit such writings to Debtors’ counsel upon
trusts who have a claim or potential claim against the Debtors that arose and received by the Debtors in the 20 days prior to the Petition Date; (ii) whether now owned or hereafter acquired, including, but not limited beaddressedto,orinquiriesregardinglegalissues,pleasecontactcounsel
attach any documentation identifying the particular invoices for which to, all accounts, contracts rights, Copyrights, Copyright Licenses, Patents, Amended Schedules Bar Date. All parties asserting claims against the requestnolaterthantendaysfromthedateofsuchrequest.
prior to May 13, 2020, no matter how remote or contingent such right to for JMB Capital, Lowenstein Sandler LLP, Attn: Robert M. Hirsh, 1251 Debtors’ estates that are affected by a previously unfiled Schedule or an Receipt of Service. Claimants wishing to receive acknowledgment
such 503(b)(9) claim is being asserted; and (iii) attach documentation of Patent Licenses, Pledged Debt, Pledged Equity Interests, Pledged LLC Avenue of the Americas,New York,New York 10020,Telephone:212-419-
payment or equitable remedy may be, including requests for payment Interests,Pledged Stock,Trade Secrets,Trade Secret Licenses,Trademarks, amendment or supplement to the Schedules are required to file Proofs of that their Proofs of Claim were received by Stretto must submit (i) a copy
under section 503(b)(9) of the Bankruptcy Code, MUST FILE A PROOF OF any reclamation demand made to the Debtors under section 546(c) of the 5837,Facsimile: 973-597-2400,Email: [email protected]. Claim by the later of (a) the Claims Bar Date or the Governmental
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CLAIM on or before September 9, 2020, at 5:00 p.m., prevailing 5. All bidders and others requesting confidential information Bar Date, as applicable, or (b) 5:00 p.m., prevailing Eastern Time, sent to Stretto) and (ii) a self-addressed,stamped envelope.
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VIRUS FALLOUT | TECHNOLOGY
Attention, Shoppers: Walmart Will Require Masks Virus Briefing

RETAIL
FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE J.C. Penney to Cut 1,000 Jobs
the role we can play to help protect
the health and well-being of the J.C. Penney, the 118-year-old re-
communities we serve by follow- tailer that filed for bankruptcy in
ing the evolving guidance of May, said on Wednesday that it
health officials.” would cut 1,000 corporate, field
The National Retail Federation management and international
said it hoped Walmart’s move was jobs, as the company shrinks and
a “tipping point in this public closes 152 stores.
health debate” and urged all other The layoffs are separate from
retailers to enact the same rule. job cuts tied to the retailer’s first
round of store closures, where
The trade group cited the dan-
most liquidation sales have
gers that customers without
started. A spokeswoman for J.C.
masks posed to retail workers.
Penney has said that the retailer
“Workers serving customers
planned to close up to 250 loca-
should not have to make a critical
tions over all, which would leave
decision as to whether they
it with roughly 600 stores.
should risk exposure to infection
J.C. Penney, which is based in
or lose their jobs because a minor-
Plano, Texas, said in bankruptcy
ity of people refuse to wear masks
filings that it had nearly 85,000
in order to help stop the spread of
associates, but did not specify
the deadly coronavirus,” the
how many were full or part time.
group said in a statement.
The cuts at the corporate level
Many of the details of Wal-
add to the broader pain in the re-
mart’s new policy are still being
tail industry, which has been left
ironed out. The company has not
reeling from the pandemic. The
described how it plans to handle a
disruption has forced a spate of
situation in which a customer re- bankruptcies since May and
fuses to wear a mask. spurred layoffs at surviving re-
But in states where masks are tailers. Macy’s said last month
already required, retail workers that it would cut about 3,900 cor-
have faced heated and even vio- porate and management jobs, or
lent confrontations when they re- 25 percent of that staff.
mind customers to cover their SAPNA MAHESHWARI
faces. At a Walmart in Florida this
week, a customer accused people Burberry Sales Plummet
who were wearing masks of being The British luxury retailer
members of a “cult.” She was told SCOTT OLSON/GETTY IMAGES
Burberry plans to cut up to 500
to leave the store. The National Retail Federation said it hoped Walmart’s move was a “tipping point in this public health debate” and urged all other retailers to follow suit.
jobs worldwide as it continues to
At another Walmart in Florida’s grapple with the impact of the co-
Palm Beach County, a man not ronavirus on its business.
pany said it was creating a new reshaped communities nation- have been criticized for not pro- governmental response.
wearing mask pulled a gun on On Wednesday, Burberry said
man who was wearing a mask on job called a “health ambassador.” wide, and in the past it has largely viding their employees with The National Retail Federation,
That person will be stationed next avoided publicly weighing in on masks soon enough into the pan- along with the Chamber of Com- sales fell 45 percent to 257 million
Sunday. The man who brandished pounds, or $324 million, in its first
the gun is wanted for assault, the to the front door and will remind any politicized debates. A notable demic. But throughout the crisis, merce, lobbied the Trump admin-
customers of the new rule. exception came last year when it retailers had been receiving istration and governors around quarter, which ended June 27.
sheriff’s department said. Across Europe and the Middle
Walmart said that 65 percent of “Ambassadors will receive spe- announced it would stop selling mixed messages from health and the country for a national mask
cial training to help make the ammunition that can be used in government officials about the ef- standard in a letter two weeks East, sales plummeted 75 percent
its stores, which include Wal- because of a steep decline in tour-
marts and Sam’s Clubs, are in ar- process as smooth as possible for military-style assault rifles and fectiveness of masks. ago. The groups asked for not only
customers,’’ Walmart said, and would discourage its customers Many stores have been requir- a national standard for when ism. Sales fell 70 percent in the
eas where there was already some Americas and 10 percent in the
form of government mandate to “will work with those who show from openly carrying guns in its ing that their employees wear masks should be worn, but also le-
Asia Pacific region — with dou-
wear masks. up at a store without a face cover- stores. It also called on Congress masks since April and May, but gal protections for businesses that
ble-digit growth, however, in
At Sam’s Clubs, the company ing to find a solution that works to increase background checks health researchers say the protec- refuse to serve customers who
mainland China.
said that it would provide compli- for everyone.” and consider a new assault rifle tive coverings are most effective will not wear masks.
Burberry’s chief executive,
mentary masks to customers who The retailer did not immedi- ban. More recently, the retailer when everyone inside an enclosed “Retailers are protecting the Marco Gobbetti, announced plans
did not already have one. (Sam’s ately identify what those possible said it would no longer sell mer- space is wearing them. health and safety of communities for “structural savings,” including
Club customers have to pay a solutions might be, nor did it say chandise associated with Wash- The nation’s business commu- they serve,” the retail trade group staff redundancies. He said the
membership fee to shop there.) that it would provide masks to ington’s professional football nity has been pushing for manda- said. “Our elected leaders need to job cuts would include 150 office
In Walmart stores — which are customers who did not have one. team before it changed its name. tory masks for weeks, and has set politics aside and follow their roles in the London headquarters
far more numerous — the com- Walmart’s enormous reach has Retailers, including Walmart, grown frustrated with the lack of a example.” as the company sought savings
“to reinvest in customer-facing
activities.”
The additional £55 million in
Black Businesses Struggled to Get Federal Aid, a Study Finds savings comes on top of £140 mil-
lion of cost cuts already an-
nounced. Last month, Burberry
By EMILY FLITTER fered different products and the employees offered and the said that its next live runway
treated significantly worse by em- type of information the employees show would take place — without
Black business owners are more
ployees than white borrowers asked the borrowers to provide. an audience — on Sept. 17.
likely to be hindered in seeking co- ELIZABETH PATON
ronavirus financial aid than their were in 43 percent of the tests, the Researchers found that white
white peers, a new study has study found. Of the 17 banks, some customers were told more fre- MEDIA
found. of which were tested through mul- quently than Black customers
BBC Cutting More Jobs
The study looked at how more tiple branches, 13 had at least one that they would qualify for a loan.
test in which a white borrower Male customers who were either BBC News is cutting 520 jobs as
than a dozen Washington-area part of a sprawling cost-cutting
was treated better than his or her Black or white were told they
banks handled requests for loans plan, 70 more jobs than previ-
Black counterpart. In the rest of would qualify for loans more fre-
under the federal government’s ously announced because the
the tests, the pairs were treated quently than female customers
Paycheck Protection Program. It pandemic has put more strain on
relatively equally or the differ- who fell into either category. Not a
was conducted by the National the British broadcaster’s budget.
ence wasn’t significant enough to single Black female customer was
Community Reinvestment Coali- count as a violation of fair lending In January, 450 job losses were
encouraged to apply for a loan by
tion, a nonprofit in Washington, in laws, in the researchers’ view. having an employee assure her announced but then postponed in
partnership with researchers March to meet the demands of
Critics of the $660 billion pro- she would qualify.
from universities in Utah and New covering coronavirus and its im-
gram — which was intended to Black customers were also of-
Jersey. pact. The reactivated plan, de-
prop up small businesses through fered different products. In one
From late April to late May, the tailed on Wednesday, will be even
forgivable loans — have said that LAYLAH AMATULLAH BARRAYN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
case, a white customer was of- more sweeping. “The Andrew
researchers and the nonprofit, its structure was likely to perpetu- fered not just a P.P.P. loan but also
which advocates better access to Spiked Spin, a Black-owned business in Brooklyn. A recent study shows that Neil Show,” hosted by the long-
ate historical inequalities in the fi- Black borrowers were at a disadvantage when applying for P.P.P. loans. a $100,000 business line of credit. time political interviewer, will be
capital for low-income and minor- nancial system, where Black The Black customer who visited
ity communities, sent pairs of cut, business news coverage will
Americans have struggled to ob- the same bank and presented the be scaled down, and there will be
would-be loan applicants to tain credit and capital. at Utah State University; Glenn crimination at any one institution. same overall borrower profile was reductions in World Service pro-
branches of 17 banks. In each pair, Since the government didn’t be- Christensen, a marketing profes- They are described in the study as not offered the additional line of gramming, among other changes.
a Black borrower and a white bor- gin collecting data on the race and sor at Brigham Young University; “randomly selected to represent a credit. In 2016, the BBC announced it
rower shared similar credit and gender of aid recipients at the out- and Jerome Williams, a business broad cross-section of the small- “These differences in treatment needed to save 800 million
asset characteristics, so the only set, it is nearly impossible to use professor at Rutgers University — business lending market” and between white and Black testers pounds, or $1 billion, with about a
difference between them was data recently released by the shows that Black borrowers were range in size from small commu- are particularly troubling because tenth of that coming from the
their race. To make the study Treasury Department to deter- at a disadvantage even before nity lenders to banks with assets the combined effect of these vari- 6,000-person news department.
more conservative, the re- mine whether Black business they submitted a loan application. of more than $10 billion. ous differential treatments may In addition to the 520 job losses in
searchers gave each Black bor- owners were approved for loans The researchers did not name The study gauged banks’ treat- lead to feelings of discouragement BBC News, the BBC said in recent
rower a slightly better financial as often as white business owners. the banks because while their ment of potential borrowers by and despondency among minority weeks it would cut 600 jobs from
profile than his or her white coun- The study published on findings were statistically signifi- how enthusiastically employees entrepreneurs in the financial regional services in England,
terpart. Wednesday — conducted by Ster- cant as a whole, they did not encouraged them to apply for var- marketplace,” the researchers Scotland, Northern Ireland and
The Black borrowers were of- ling Bone, a marketing professor amount to proof of a pattern of dis- ious loans, the kinds of products wrote. Wales. ESHE NELSON
Apple Scores a Legal Victory Against a $14.9 Billion E.U. Tax Demand
By ADAM SATARIANO what the authorities there believe competition regulator said Apple fense of Ireland’s independence. Facebook and Twitter, drawn to tered on tax law and what consti-
LONDON — Apple won a major le- is anticompetitive behavior by the had used illegal deals with the “Ireland has always been clear using an English-speaking coun- tutes illegal state aid. The court
gal victory on Wednesday against world’s largest technology com- Irish government to avoid tax- that there was no special treat- try with favorable corporate taxes said that the European Commis-
European antitrust regulators as panies. Google and Amazon have ation on profits from the sales of ment,” Ireland’s Department of as a base for operations across sion’s argument was flawed and
a European court overruled a 2016 other court appeals pending as Apple products in the European Finance said in a statement. “The Europe. that regulators were “wrong” to
decision that ordered the com- they seek to overturn decisions Union. correct amount of Irish tax was The decision on Wednesday by conclude Apple had been granted
pany to pay $14.9 billion in unpaid that they broke European compe- In 2011, for instance, Apple’s charged in line with normal Irish the General Court of the European “selective economic advantage.”
taxes to Ireland. tition laws. Irish subsidiary recorded Euro- taxation rules.” Union in Luxembourg is a blow to Based on the decision, Mr.
The decision, which can be ap- The Apple case stems from the pean profits of $22 billion, but only Apple praised the court’s deci- Margrethe Vestager, the Euro- Laprévote said the commission
pealed to the European Union’s company’s use of Ireland as its about $57 million was considered sion. The company has said that pean Commission’s top antitrust would have a “difficult but not im-
top court, is a setback for the re- base for its European operations. taxable in Ireland, regulators said. enforcer, who for years has been possible” task in winning an ap-
gion’s efforts to clamp down on In 2016, the European Union’s top The authorities said the ar- taking aggressive action against peal.
rangement amounted to an illegal A debate on how to the world’s largest technology Ms. Vestager has made target-
subsidy not available to Apple’s platforms. It shows that compa- ing what she considers unfair tax
competitors, and ordered Ireland tax multinational tech nies she has targeted can some- deals a central part of her leader-
to recover 10 years of back taxes,
worth 13 billion euros, or about
corporations. times find a more sympathetic au-
dience in courts that can overturn
ship of the European Commis-
sion’s competition office. In an
$14.9 billion at current conversion her judgments. earlier decision, a court over-
rates. because its products and services Google is appealing three an- turned her ruling that Starbucks
Apple and Ireland appealed the are made in the United States, that titrust decisions brought by Ms. must repay €30 million to the
judgment, arguing that the struc- is where it books much of its tax- Vestager that amount to fines of Netherlands. The commission did
tures were consistent with tax able income. about €8.2 billion, worth $9.4 bil- not appeal that decision.
laws. Apple called the effective “This case was not about how lion. Amazon is appealing a 2017 A broader international debate
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Doomscrolling Again? Snap Out of It

As the pandemic forces us to stay home, there are ways to break the habit of bingeing on bad news.
Brian X. Chen
TECH FIX
Your phone alarm goes off at 6 in the

morning. You check some news sites
and Facebook. It’s bad news after bad
news. Coronavirus cases keep climbing,
and so do deaths. Children can’t go
back to school. Your favorite restaurant
and barbershop are still closed. People
are losing their jobs.
Everything is awful. The world as we
remember it has ended. Next thing you
know, it’s 9 a.m. You haven’t climbed
out of your pit of despair yet to even
shower. You repeat this masochistic
exercise during your lunch break —
and again while getting ready for bed.
This experience of sinking into emo-
tional quicksand while bingeing on
doom-and-gloom news is so common
that there’s now internet lingo for it:
“doomscrolling.” Exacerbating this
behavior, shelter-in-place orders leave
us with little to do other than to look at
our screens; by some measures, our
screen time has jumped at least 50
percent.
We’re not alone, exactly, with so
many of us going through this. Yet
doomscrolling, combined with screen
addiction, could take a significant toll
on our mental and physical well-being,
according to health experts. The activi-
ty can make us angry, anxious, de-
pressed, unproductive and less con-
nected with our loved ones and our-
selves.
“It’s the path of least resistance to
keep consuming passively through GLENN HARVEY
social media,” said Dr. Vivek Murthy,
the former surgeon general, who has health, Dr. Gazzaley said. “You have to under shelter-in-place orders, browsing ■ While imagining these people, give phone while taking a walk, which lifts
written extensively about the impact of realize you don’t want to live your life in the web has become the default work them positive wishes. For example: his energy and helps him stay focused.
loneliness on personal health. “You a hamster wheel of complete news break, an obvious trap that could lead “May you be happy. May you be peace- Dr. Murthy also recommended that
have to pull yourself out of that. It’s not consumption,” he said. “It’ll take a toll to doomscrolling. ful. May you be safe. May you be people try to form a “moai,” a Japanese
just disengaging but also dealing with on you in the way that stops becoming Instead of staying glued to a screen, healthy.” word for a social support group. This
the impact that has on your mind-set, valuable, and being an informed person take a stroll around the block, hop on “You’re gift-giving,” Ms. Salzberg could be a small group of friends who
which can often last for hours.” is a diminishing return.” the exercise bike, prepare your favorite said. “It’s a different way of relating regularly convene — on the phone, in
Fret not: We aren’t doomed just yet, Step 2 is to create a realistic plan that snack. And, yes, set calendar appoint- and not feeling isolation.” video chat or in person at a safe dis-
and there are approaches to modifying you can stick with and repeat until it ments even for your breaks, Dr. Gazza- tance — and agree to look out for one
our behavior. We can create structure forms a habit. ley said. another. He and two friends formed a
in our lives, for one, and practice medi-
Connect with others moai, and, once a month, they spend
Creating a schedule is an effective
tation techniques, for another. Here’s approach. Start by making calendar Dr. Murthy’s book “Together: The two hours catching up in a frank con-
what the health and wellness experts
Practice meditation Healing Power of Human Connection in versation about personal issues related
appointments for everything from
say. Exercises in mindfulness can help us a Sometimes Lonely World” underlined to health, relationships and finances.
mundane activities, like taking a walk
break the cycle of information bingeing the importance of spending 15 minutes Changing behavior can be tough to
outside, to business matters, like video-
Control your time or prevent us from sinking into a dark a day connecting with the people we do on your own. So you could even tell
conferencing meetings. place altogether. care about most. That can help us feel your moai that you want to stop doom-
People are, by nature, information Set aside certain times of the day to Sharon Salzberg, a meditation less alone and resist doomscrolling. scrolling, and they could hold you ac-
consumers, and the news is like digital read the news, if you must — and if it teacher and author of the book “Real But how can we connect with people countable. Dr. Murthy said that his
candy being dispensed 24 hours a day. helps, set a 10-minute timer to remind Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves when we can’t easily see them? In the moai conversation with his friends was
To resist information bingeing, we can you to stop scrolling. Another trick is to and the World,” recommended this beginning of the pandemic, many of us coming up, and that he planned to talk
create a plan to control how much we wear a rubber band around your hand exercise to feel more connected with turned to videoconferencing apps to about having a cleaner relationship
consume, similar to how people can while you are reading the news, and others in a time when we can’t see virtually connect with friends, col- with social media — because he, too,
create a dieting plan to lose weight, when you believe you are succumbing many people: leagues and loved ones. Now, more occasionally gives in to doomscrolling.
said Adam Gazzaley, a neuroscientist to doomscrolling, snap the rubber band than four months into the pandemic, “The idea of carving time out for
and co-author of the book “The Dis- against your wrist, Dr. Murthy said. ■ Take some breaths and think about many are experiencing “Zoom fatigue.” people you care about, whether it’s 15
tracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High- It’s also important to rethink breaks. the people who have helped you in the Dr. Murthy said he, too, was getting minutes or more, is all the more impor-
Tech World.” Before the pandemic, one of our typical past. This could be your friends, col- tired of the neck strain from constant tant in a world where the lines between
Step 1 is to acknowledge the burden lunch breaks involved browsing Face- leagues and even the restaurant work- video calls and had begun shifting day and night, weekday and weekend,
that doomscrolling creates for our book. With nowhere to go out for lunch ers bagging your takeout food. many work and personal calls to the have been erased,” he said.
Troubled Boeing Jet May Have a Future in an Aviation Industry in Turmoil

FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE could yield double-digit increases at Credit Suisse. If the timing is expensive maintenance or re- Contracts are drawn up years in cent more when it signs a con-
about half the rate Boeing had tar- in profits for airlines, said Vitaly right, an airline might choose to placement soon. And airlines over advance of delivery and can be dif- tract, said Eddy Pieniazek, an air-
geted before the Max was Guzhva, a professor of aviation fireplace a plane in need of major the past few months have retired ficult to break, experts said. Still, line consultant at Ishka, a consult-
grounded. nance at Embry Riddle Aeronauti- repairs with a Max. older aircraft, sometimes years terms vary substantially by order, ing firm. The rest is typically paid
Globally, airlines are losing cal University. “There’s still a “When you have a brand-new ahead of schedule. so some airlines may be better po- in the year or two before a plane is
hundreds of millions of dollars by pretty strong business case for the airplane, you don’t have to think Rather than back away from sitioned than others, and con- delivered.
the day, and most experts predict Max.” about that kind of expense,” Mr. Boeing, airlines might also try to tracts for the Max typically pro- Relationships with manufactur-
it will be two to five years before Southwest, for example, has Spingarn said. negotiate compensation for the vide for some renegotiation rights ers can run deep, with long-term
the industry sees as many pas- nearly 750 planes in its fleet, each plane’s grounding and delays in if deliveries are delayed by more plans built around an all-Boeing
Strapped airlines could also see
sengers as it did in 2019. After the some version of the 737. If it had securing the jets. Customers than a year. Some airlines may or all-Airbus fleet; the two compa-
an opportunity in buying the Max,
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the fi- been able to replace part of its could demand that Boeing defer also have signed contracts that re- nies have a roughly equal share of
nancial crisis a decade ago, air- fleet last year with the more than deliveries or offer them deep dis- quire them to forfeit money the commercial plane market.e
16,000
lines recovered before the overall 275 Max jets it hopes to own, counts. After the Sept. 11 terrorist they’ve already paid if they can- would increase maintenance and
economy, according to Boeing, Southwest could have saved more attacks, the low-cost Irish carrier cel. training costs.
which expects the opposite this than $230 million in fuel costs, ac- Ryanair reportedly snapped up The Max has a list price of as “There are companies that stick
The number of workers Boeing said much as $135 million for the latest with Boeing, and there are compa-
time around. cording to Dr. Guzhva’s math. it would cut because of the 737s at a substantial discount, for
In the United States, a limited Boeing says the plane offers fuel example. When asked the price he model, but can sell for far less: as nies that stick with Airbus; you
pandemic’s impact. little as 50 percent of that figure don’t often get people jumping
recovery in domestic travel has savings of more than $10 million paid, the airline’s chief executive,
stalled in recent weeks as virus in- over its 25- to 30-year life span. Michael O’Leary, demurred: “I for a large enough order, accord- and changing,” Mr. Pieniazek
fections soared and states and cit- Airlines can also point to fuel selling it to a third party for cash wouldn’t even tell my priest what ing to experts. An airline might said. “There are people who have
savings as an indication of their and then immediately leasing it discount I got off Boeing.” pay 1 percent upfront when it bought into the Max story and will
ies reimposed restrictions on trav-
environmental stewardship to back. “They get an upfront 10, 15, Industry trends are also on Boe- signs a letter of intent and 5 per- want to fly their airplanes.”
el and business activity. And more
than a third of the world’s pas- customers who are increasingly maybe even 20 million dollars, ing’s side. For years, airlines have
senger planes — over 8,000 air- cognizant of air travel’s contribu- which helps with liquidity,” Dr. been shifting away from wide-
craft — remain parked and un- tion to climate change. Others Guzhva said. bodied planes toward narrow-
used, according to Cirium, an air- might just want to apply the Delta Air Lines did just that af- bodied ones like the Max, which
line data firm. money saved to lowering the price ter passenger traffic bottomed out are easier to fill. And the pan-
Yet experts said the 737 Max of tickets to lure business. this year. Between April and June, demic only seems to be accelerat-
would survive because many air- The jet could yield big savings the airline raised $2.8 billion by ing the shift. The rebound in air
on maintenance, too. New planes selling and leasing back planes. travel, pitiful as it is, is also being
lines still saw value in it as they
often come with warranties, and Delta is the only major U.S. airline driven by domestic flights, ex-
fought for what few passengers
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GENTRIFICATION
Riots of the Past

Cleared the Land
For Opportunists
FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE Many of these neighborhoods
borhoods — from the conditions had bargain real estate, but also
that led to unrest, from the build- grand old housing stock, close to
ings that burned then, from the downtown, close to transit, with
years of neglect that followed — built-in commercial corridors.
made it easier, when the time They also had vacant land and
finally came years later, for de- city-owned lots that could be
velopers and new businesses and assembled into larger develop-
residents to amass wealth. ments.
“You think of a forest fire, with And because entire communi-
the clearing of the land,” said ties had been devalued, it was
Nizam Ali, whose family restau- possible to redevelop at the scale
rant, Ben’s Chili Bowl, is one of of entire neighborhoods.
the rare Black-owned businesses “If you devalue the whole area,
near 14th and U to survive the you can redevelop the whole
rioting and the decline afterward. area based on a particular narra-
“Unfortunately,” he said, “it was tive of it,” said Brandi T. Sum-
racism and murder that was the mers, a professor of geography
clearing of the land.” and global metropolitan studies
It was redlining and segrega- at the University of California,
tion, then arson, depopulation, Berkeley. Her book “Black in
slumlords, the drug trade, over- Place” followed the transforma-
incarceration, inflated property tion of H Street Northeast in
taxes and denied home equity Washington after the riots. The
loans. Gentrification itself has new narrative there of “cool”
become part of the critique in a multiculturalism appeared in
new generation of protest over signs like “Chocolate City,” which
racial inequality precisely be- was mounted, to quick criticism,
cause it follows from this story in over the chocolate display in the
cities like Washington, and be- Whole Foods that opened in 2017.
cause it has brought its own set
of encounters with police. ‘Until that riot happened’
“Gentrification is on the tip of Rioting in the 1960s depressed
almost every Black person’s the value of Black-owned prop-
tongue,” said Willow Lung- erty in central cities for years
Amam, a professor of urban afterward. As a result, the racial
studies and planning at the Uni- gap in property values between
versity of Maryland, who mar- white and Black homeowners
ried into a native Washingtonian widened more in cities with
family. “People are deeply sad- severe riots, according to re-
dened about the loss of Black search by the economic histori-
ans Robert Margo and William
Collins.
“As destructive as these
events were, our interpretation
The Upshot provides news, analysis of the large and relatively lasting
and graphics about politics, policy impact of the riots on property
and everyday life. values isn’t really a story just
nytimes.com/upshot about the physical destruction of
particular buildings,” Mr. Collins
institutions, Black politics, and a said.
Black place in the city. We can’t Rather, he said, the destruction
get through a Sunday dinner combined with expectations that
without talking about the city as these communities would remain
the city that actually doesn’t risky places to invest or live in.
exist anymore.” The same pattern followed later
There are similar conversa- unrest, like the 1980 rioting in
tions in Philadelphia, where Miami’s Liberty City, set off
apartments for college students when an all-white jury acquitted
have begun to fill the vacant lots police officers in the beating
on a strip with a storied jazz past death of Arthur McDuffie.
that burned in 1964; in Miami’s “Liberty City was reeling even
Liberty City, where gentrification before the 1980 riot, but there
feels just over the horizon dec- was no specific association of the
ades after 1980 riots; in South name ‘Liberty City’ with death,
Los Angeles, where the Black with race violence, with rioting,”
population has declined signifi- said Marvin Dunn, a historian
cantly since the 1992 Rodney and professor emeritus of psy- FPG/HULTON ARCHIVE, VIA GETTY IMAGES
KATHY WILLENS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
King riots. chology at Florida International
“I think people feel that they University, who went to elemen-
have an absence of control of tary school in the neighborhood
their community,” said Damien in the 1950s. “There was no rushed to build cheap rental places of investment,” said as was shot to death by a police vouchers sold their properties.
Goodmon, an organizer in Los sense that you should be afraid housing for the crowds of renters N.D.B. Connolly, a historian at officer. And amid the decades of neglect,
Angeles and the founder of the in Liberty City any more than they knew were coming. “Con- Johns Hopkins University who Business leaders responded by the city had never bothered to
Liberty Community Land Trust, anyplace else in Black Miami. crete monsters,” those buildings has also written about the area. creating a development corpora- demolish old buildings dating to
which aims to empower Black Until that riot happened.” came to be called. “You look at the physical condition that bought and invested in the earlier German settlement in
communities in the area. Liberty City had long been the Now 40 years after the riots, tions, you think about the vacan- deteriorating buildings in the the neighborhood.
Far more of the Black neigh- destination neighborhood for an effort to replace the public cies. But what is actually hap- neighborhood. Their work got “Disinvestment is fortuitous,”
borhoods nationwide that experi- African-Americans pushed out of housing in the neighborhood pening is one form of profit- underway at a moment when said David Stradling, a professor
enced unrest, or the forces that other parts of Miami. In the with mixed-income development making and speculation and empty nesters and young profes- of urban history at the Univer-
drove it, have remained in de- 1930s, a large segregated public has made some residents ner- capitalism is replacing another, sionals were increasingly looking sity of Cincinnati. “Cincinnati
cline than have gentrified. And housing project was built there. vous. And Liberty City’s high with gentrification.” to live near downtown. And in winds up with a collection of
past unrest is no required pre- In the 1950s, when a highway ground, away from the coast, has This cycle is clearer still in the many ways, the earlier decline of 19th-century buildings out of
condition for gentrification today. was planned through the pre- suddenly enhanced its value in a Over-the-Rhine neighborhood the neighborhood facilitated its neglect rather than by purpose-
But the economics that turn dominantly Black Overtown city worried about sea-level rise. bordering downtown Cincinnati. transformation. ful preservation.”
destruction into opportunity are neighborhood to the south, white “We tend to assume that these Rioting erupted there in 2001, Landlords who had catered to The neighborhood has become
most visible in these places. landowners in Liberty City poor neighborhoods are not after 19-year-old Timothy Thom- poor tenants with Section 8 a hub of condos and restaurants,
Redevelopment Has Brought Wealthier Residents Into Neighborhoods Once Scarred by Unrest
Areas where low-income residents have moved out and higher-income residents have moved in, since 2000.
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Note: The number of middle- and higher-income households in highlighted tracts has grown by more than 10 percent since 2000, as the number and
share of poor households have declined. The University of Minnesota Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity identifies these tracts as economically Ben’s Chili Bowl in Washington, one of the rare Black-owned businesses
expanding neighborhoods experiencing low-income displacement. Source: The University of Minnesota Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity THE NEW YORK TIMES near 14th and U to survive the rioting and the decline afterward.
GENTRIFICATION | ADVERTISING
Hollywood
Stays Silent
In Facebook
Ad Boycott
FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE
and Sony Pictures Entertainment
declined to comment for this arti-
cle or did not respond to queries.
NBCUniversal, which is owned
by Comcast, said in a statement:
“We are actively engaged in con-
versations with Facebook across a
number of Comcast NBCUniver-
sal businesses to address the use
of hate speech and other objec-
tionable content on their platform.
Our brands are monitoring the sit-
uation, and each is evaluating its
next steps, including altering ad-
vertising plans, if necessary.”
The Walt Disney Company was
Facebook’s No. 1 advertiser from
Jan. 1 to June 30, spending an esti-
mated $212 million — more than
double No. 2 Procter & Gamble,
according to the advertising ana-
lytics platform Pathmatics. (Proc-
ter & Gamble has not publicly
joined the Facebook campaign.)
WarnerMedia, ViacomCBS and
Lionsgate ranked among Face-
book’s top 15 advertisers during
that period.
Hollywood is sitting out the boy-
cott for a simple reason, said
Barry Lowenthal, chief executive
of Media Kitchen, a media buying
agency: “They need Facebook too
much and don’t want to make it
mad.”
Terry Press, a former president
of CBS Films, noted that enter-
tainment companies tended to be
allergic to controversy and move
slowly even when they wanted to
participate. “It’s not surprising
that the entertainment industry
finds itself behind other giant cor-
porations on this,” Ms. Press said.
A few other industries — bank-
ing, news media, travel — are also
largely absent from the boycott
list.
Senior officials at multiple stu-
dios said they believed they could
be more effective in pushing Face-
book to police hate speech more
rigorously by working through
back channels. Besides, they said,
movie studios are not spending
much money on advertising right
$121M
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Above, fire-gutted buildings smoldering on H Street in

Washington in April 1968. Far left, the Culmer section of The Walt Disney Company’s
Miami after rioting in May 1980. Left, firemen amid the estimated spending on Facebook
rubble after the Great Boston Fire of November 1872. advertisements this year.
a success story for the city’s tax ments. now because theaters are closed.
base and the neighborhood’s “The whole is more valuable A couple of studios said they be-
population growth. But Over-the- than the sum of the parts, believed they were already doing
Rhine has lost much of its afford- cause it’s a neighborhood,” said enough on the topic of social jus-
ability. And its identity as a Black AJ Jackson, the executive vice tice, whether by increasing dona-
community has faded in the president for social impact in- tions to organizations like the Na-
revival of Over-the-Rhine as a vesting at JBG Smith, a large tional Association for the Ad-
historically German place. developer in Washington. “It’s vancement of Colored People or
Dorothy Darden, who has lived not a project, or a building, or a announcing inclusion-oriented
in the neighborhood for half a land island. You can create that hiring programs.
century, was a baby when urban ecosystem.” Other entertainment execu-
renewal displaced her family In this way, the city’s history tives noted that marketing new
from Cincinnati’s Lower West — not one single fire, but a long- movies and television shows
End, a transformation that she running destruction, punctuated would be difficult without Face-
dryly refers to as an “urban by widespread arson — made the book, which is both a hammer
renaissance.” particular kind of current devel- (huge audience reach) and a
“I’ve lived through two of opment possible. History, Mr. scalpel (offering an ability to pre-
them,” Ms. Darden, 63, said. “And Jackson said, “is constraining cisely target consumers). Holly-
neither one of them has bene- and it is creating opportunities at wood’s own advertising channels
fited anyone that looks like my- the same time.” — for instance, Paramount’s buy-
self, who doesn’t have a big pay- After the riots in Washington, ing time on its corporate sibling
check.” the city counted more than 250 CBS to promote a new movie —
lots where buildings had been have become less effective as
Opportunity after the fire entirely destroyed, primarily on viewership has eroded.
There is a lesson in another fire, the three main riot corridors. It “You can now get more reach on
the Great Boston Fire of 1872, of wasn’t until 2010 that these lots an Instagram post than through a
TOM UHLMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
what can happen when urban were as likely as other properties prime-time cable spot,” Mr.
Hauling construction debris from a building being renovated on Vine Street in the Lowenthal said. Facebook owns
land is cleared at a vast scale. on the same streets to have a
Over-the-Rhine neighborhood in Cincinnati in 2006. Rioting had erupted there in 2001. Instagram.
That fire destroyed part of down- building on top of them, accord-
town Boston, at a time when the ing to continuing research by the Facebook is not a significant
city was rapidly growing. The economists Leah Brooks, Jona- buyer of content from studios.
economists Richard Hornbeck than Rose, Daniel Shoag and Facebook Watch, the company’s
and Daniel Keniston argue in an Stan Veuger. original video service, scaled back
influential paper that the whole “In the ’70s, there’s this huge its scripted efforts this year by
area was rebuilt in a way that it disappointment, and then a huge canceling shows like “Sorry for
most likely wouldn’t have been disappointment now,” said Pro- Your Loss,” starring Elizabeth
otherwise. fessor Brooks, who teaches at Olsen.
Instead of buildings being George Washington University. But Hollywood has another self-
replaced one by one as they “Then, it was that they didn’t protective reason to avoid the
aged, there was widespread build anything. And now it’s that boycott: Most entertainment
simultaneous reconstruction. they’re building something in a companies sell advertising on
Individual property owners were way that isn’t responding to what their own platforms and — espe-
motivated to upgrade by all the the community wanted.” cially amid a recession — cannot
other reconstruction around When H Street finally began to afford to do anything that might
them. Land values rose in the redevelop, the last of the three put their own businesses at risk.
burned area, and nearby. corridors to do so, some rela- In other words, it is not in their
The lesson, Mr. Hornbeck said, tively newer residents were best interest to show how effec-
isn’t that destruction necessarily vocal about what they wanted. tive an advertiser action might be
leads to revitalization. Rather, it Ben’s Chili Bowl had planned to in forcing change.
clears the way for whatever open another location on a street Facebook has defended its poli-
forces were already bearing that felt akin to U Street. But in cies while also vowing to do a bet-
down on a place. community meetings, some ter job of combating racism and
“Reactions to these disasters neighbors pushed back: They misinformation. “We know we will
tell you what was going on other- didn’t want fast food, or carryout be judged by our actions, not by
wise under the surface,” Mr. containers littering the neighbor- our words, and are grateful to
Hornbeck said. “It gives people hood, or a noisy rooftop bar. The these groups and many others for
an opportunity to act free of restaurant wound up opening in their continued engagement,”
certain constraints that they 2015, but it has struggled in its Facebook said in a statement last
might have faced before.” new home, amid competing ideas week, referring to organizations
In Boston, the city’s swelling of what the corridor should be- behind the #StopHateForProfit
population immediately put come. campaign.
pressure on the area to rebuild. “We had great Black neighbor- But leaders of the boycott have
In Washington, that pressure did hoods and commercial districts,” ANDREW SPEAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES been unsatisfied.
not arrive for decades. Mr. Ali said, evoking a time be- The Over-the-Rhine neighborhood in 2017. After the unrest, business leaders created a “They have had our demands
When it finally did, all the fore the fires, before the aban- development corporation that bought and invested in deteriorating buildings there. for years, and yet it is abundantly
same benefits of scale were at donment, before the reinvention. clear that they are not yet ready to
play. The 40,000-square-foot “If allowed to thrive, think of address the vitriolic hate on their
grocery store anchored the where these neighborhoods platform,” Rashad Robinson,
apartment construction, which would be.” president of Color of Change, a
enabled the restaurant scene, civil rights group, said after meet-
which gave developers still more Alana Celii and Kevin Quealy contrib- ing with Facebook leaders last
confidence in yet more apart- uted production. week.
B8 THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020 SCORES ANALYSIS COMMENTARY
N
Changing a Team’s Name? Remember the Tennessee

Oilers? We didn’t think so.
Rebranding a team typically
That’s Just the Beginning

takes anywhere from six
months to a couple of years.
By KEVIN DRAPER untarily — he was concerned by an epi-

demic of gun violence in Washington and nouncing the change, the team said Sny-
When the team owner Abe Pollin de- der and Coach Ron Rivera were develop-
cided to change the name of the N.B.A.’s the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the
Israeli prime minister and a friend — ing a “new name and design approach
Washington Bullets in 1995, the two-year that will enhance the standing of our
rebranding process had the veneer of a Daniel Snyder, the owner of Washing-
ton’s N.F.L. team, was largely forced into proud, tradition-rich franchise.”
democratic undertaking. In a previous statement, Rivera said
The fast-casual restaurant chain Bos- it by sponsors who said they would end
their association with the team if the he had “hoped to continue the mission of
ton Market ran a renaming contest that honoring and supporting Native Ameri-
resulted in nearly 3,000 submissions. A name didn’t change.
The timing of Washington’s rebrand is cans and our Military.” That could prove
seven-person panel came up with five fi- problematic.
unique. “Any redesign is either done with
nalists — the Wizards, Dragons, Stal- In a letter sent to N.F.L. Commissioner
a franchise acquisition or done with a big
lions, Express and Sea Dogs — which Roger Goodell earlier this month, repre-
transition,” like relocation or the unveil-
were put to a public vote. sentatives from hundreds of Native
ing of a new stadium, said Mark Verlan-
Jody Shapiro, who at the time ran the der, who has designed the logos for a American groups demanded the league
regional sports television network that number of N.F.L. teams. require Washington cease the use of “im-
DOUG PENSINGER/GETTY IMAGES
aired Bullets games, was one of the sev- Altering a professional sports team’s agery of or evocative of Native American
en panel members. His preference, the This is particularly explicit in soccer, joined the New Orleans Saints this off- culture, traditions and spirituality,” as
identity is a huge undertaking that typi-
Monuments, was highly rated by the where team names are less prominent on season. well as change its longtime burgundy
cally takes anywhere from six months to
panel, but the N.B.A. rejected it because uniforms and supporter culture can de- What makes a good logo or name is not and gold color scheme to discourage fans
a couple of years. Research is conducted,
of trademark considerations. “I thought fine a team in the eyes of outsiders. objective, as ultimately it is art. It also from continuing to wear their old gear.
design firms are contracted, hundreds of
it had the D.C. connection and the sense logos are mooted, trademarks are se- This is not necessarily true in Ameri- isn’t static. Winning and losing, contro- But what Washington’s team will be
of towering structures and buildings or cured, merchandise is produced and can football. There are names that ex- versy and popular culture trends can al- named, and the logos and colors it uses,
individuals,” he said. marketing plans are rolled out. The plicitly refer to regional identity, like the ter meanings. Washington’s N.F.L. team isn’t up to Native American groups, de-
But Shapiro was never under any illu- N.F.L. has a creative services division to New England Patriots, but in the N.F.L. meant something different in the early sign firms or others.
sion about who was really in charge. help teams through such occasions. identity often works in reverse. Nobody 1990s, after three Super Bowl titles in a When Verlander was given the brief to
“Truth be told at the end of the day, Abe This rebrand could be particularly dif- particularly associates tigers with the decade, than in 2020, after two decades design the Tennessee Titans’ logo in the
and Susan chose whatever they wanted ficult, as the trademarks to a number of Ohio River Valley or big cats with the Ca- of mismanagement. late 1990s after the team relocated, he
to choose,” he said, referring to Pollin names that have bandied about over the nadian border, but over decades the Ben- Wolff knows that much of the success was told the Houston Oilers’ colors had
and Susan O’Malley, then the team’s years, like the Redtails and Monuments, gals have come to represent Cincinnati of his Nigeria jersey design, which sold to be used because Nancy Neville Ad-
president. “It was more public relations are owned by the same man. and the Lions Detroit. out in minutes, came from what hap- ams, the wife of the team’s owner Bud
than it was actually significant.” Matthew Wolff is a graphic designer “I think there is an inherent connec- pened after the garments were made. Ni- Adams, loved the colors.
For the second time in a quarter cen- who focuses on the visual identity of soc- tion with football still as kind of a gladia- ke’s brand design team rolled out an in- Wolff knows that no matter what the
tury, a professional sports team based in cer teams, though he has participated in tor wild animal spirit that they can’t let fluencer marketing campaign and used brief says, only one person’s opinion mat-
the Washington area will undergo a redesigns for North America’s big-four go of,” Verlander said. beautiful photographs in ads, just as as- ters. “Once it gets past legal checkpoints,
name change and rebranding, in large professional sports teams. He designed “Those N.F.L. team names are so his- pects of Nigerian culture, like film and and even if the supporters overwhelm-
part because of the name’s negative con- the uniforms France wore while winning toric that I don’t even think about their fashion, became prominent worldwide. ingly say one thing in their online poll or
notations. On Monday, Washington’s the World Cup in 2018, as well as the in- origin story,” Wolff said. “I don’t really “I felt like it was the right piece at the Twitter or Reddit, ultimately someone
N.F.L. team announced it would drop its stantly iconic Nigeria jerseys from the think about Buccaneers Buccaneering right time,” he said. “To be frank, that is bought a franchise for X million or billion
logo and “Redskins” name, with a new same men’s tournament. across the sea when I watch Jameis Win- kind of dumb luck.” dollars.”
identity to be determined. He said that a logo should be “a mirror, ston throw interceptions.” He referred to It is not clear yet in which direction That someone is Snyder. He paid
While Pollin rebranded his team vol- an avatar of self-identification” for fans. the former Tampa Bay quarterback who Washington’s football team will go. In an- roughly $800 million.
Central Ohio
Prepares
For a Party
Without Fans
By MICHAEL CROLEY
DUBLIN, Ohio — In a typical year, the
Bogey Inn would be preparing to party
this week. While PGA Tour golfers ply
their trade at nearby Muirfield Village
Golf Club, site of the Memorial Tourna-
ment, the sports bar would welcome an
overflow crowd of fans to enjoy a live
band on its expansive patio outfitted
with a disco ball.
Mark Dombek, the restaurant’s gen-
eral manager, said that in past years as
many as 30,000 guests passed through
its doors during tournament week. He
was braced for a quieter scene this year
as the event, a hallmark of central Ohio
summers, will be played this weekend
without fans because of concerns over
the rise in coronavirus infections.
“We’ll probably only do 30 percent of
what we might normally do this year,”
Dombek said. “It’s going to be a massive
hit for us.”
The tournament will again draw
marquee golfers to the course designed
by the Ohio native Jack Nicklaus and re-
configured to his specifications yearly to
flummox top players. Daniel Sullivan,
the tournament’s executive director, said
that in normal years the Memorial gen-
erated $35 million to $40 million for the
local economy, according to the most re-
cent economic study from 10 years ago.
This summer, area hotels have seen a
sharp downturn for what is usually their
biggest revenue generator of the year.
One nearby hotel estimated that it was
only at 60 percent occupancy.
In June, Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio ap-
proved a plan for the event to host a lim-
ited number of fans — around 8,000 daily
— but the PGA Tour scuttled it as infec-
tion rates climbed. Sullivan’s team had
developed a task force to address the is-
sue of fans and prepared for months to
host back-to-back tournaments on the
PGA Tour for the first time since 1957.
The reversal forced a logistical pivot at
Muirfield, which also served as the site of
last week’s Workday Charity Open. “We
had every goal and intention of having
fans,” Sullivan said. “Disappointing, no
doubt, but completely out of everyone’s
control.”
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MADDIE MCGARVEY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Memorial staff had intended to
use radio frequency identification tech- The Bogey Inn, top, will take a financial hit with no fans visiting the Memorial Tournament. Above right, Muirfield Village Golf Club, which is
nology in the badges distributed to fans, hosting back-to-back PGA Tour events. Above left, a bar and golf shop at the course, where up to 8,000 fans a day had been anticipated.
moving attendees through a system of
so-called corrals where they could watch
the action while a “patron ambassador” ference on Tuesday that playing was a the world, said last week that coming to less than what we would do for the Me- ing to try to throw the best party possi-
monitored the number of people walking risk. “I know the tour has done a fantas- Ohio felt like a reprieve after the uptick of morial,” he said. ble.
into the space using the technology. tic job of setting up the safety and trying cases in Arizona, where he lives. Rahm The tour was clear that greens would The first of three oversize screens ar-
Anticipating that large crowds would to ensure that all of us are protected and was among the tour golfers who re- run faster this week and, with a major rived at the Bogey Inn last Thursday, and
try to follow Tiger Woods, who is return- are safe,” he said. “But it is a risk that we mained in Ohio after playing the tourna- course renovation planned after the the restaurant will use its large patio to
ing from a five-month tour hiatus for the are now undertaking when we walk on ment last weekend at Muirfield, where tournament, Mark said he was hoping bring in more tables to accommodate the
event, Sullivan said they were to have “a the property and are around individuals Collin Morikawa defeated the No. 3- his team could push for more challenging golf fans who may still show up.
patron ambassador walking around with that you don’t know where they’ve been ranked Justin Thomas in a playoff. speed and firmness. For the past five years, Paul Sorvold, a
a paddle that said, ‘Be smart. Stand or what they’ve been doing.” The Workday provided a riveting Sun- “We’re going to be comfortable doing sales manager for a lighting manufactur-
apart,’ ” when Woods, a 15-time major

For players who have experienced un- day, but no one expects Muirfield to play that because we don’t have to turn the er, has been bringing clients to the Bogey
champion, came near. precedented changes to the PGA Tour as friendly as it did last weekend, when course back over to the members,” Mark to celebrate tournament week, but he ac-
Jay Monahan, the PGA Tour commis- calendar, adapted to new social distanc- the average round was a 72. The main said. knowledged that this weekend “no one is
sioner, called the plan “as thorough as it ing protocols at events and worried as challenge for this weekend, according to Outside the club’s gates, the atmos- flying into Dublin if they can’t get into the
could possibly be,” but said Wednesday peers and caddies tested positive for the the course superintendent, Chad Mark, phere around Dublin is significantly sub- tournament.”
that he ultimately decided to proceed coronavirus, the reversal on having fans was ensuring the integrity of the course dued. The Workday, fanless and stifling Still, he plans to spend Friday night at
without fans after looking at the rate of at the Memorial has been just another week-to-week. “One of my biggest wor- hot the first two days, took place in mo- the restaurant with his wife and some
cases and getting input from players. adjustment in an unusual season. ries was for our staff to let any of our egos nastic silence. But Dombek, the restau- friends. “Our local businesses need us
Woods acknowledged in his news con- Jon Rahm, the No. 2-ranked golfer in get in the way of letting the course be any rant manager, and his owner are still go- now more than ever,” he said.
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL S C O R E B OA R D
Trying for One Last Victory in Alabama SOCCER
ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE

Team GP W D L GF GA Pts
By GILLIAN R. BRASSIL t-Liverpool . . . . 36 30 3 3 77 29 93
Man City. . . . . 36 24 3 9 93 35 75
Tommy Tuberville, who made Chelsea . . . . . 36 19 6 11 64 49 63
Leicester. . . . . 35 17 8 10 65 36 59
his name as one of the most suc- Man United . . . 35 16 11 8 61 35 59
cessful football coaches at Au- Wolverhampton 36 14 14 8 49 38 56
Tottenham. . . . 36 15 10 11 57 46 55
burn, won in overtime and now Sheffield United 35 14 12 9 38 33 54
Arsenal . . . . . . 36 13 14 9 53 45 53
faces an intrastate rival in Ala- Burnley . . . . . . 36 14 9 13 40 48 51
bama. Everton. . . . . . 35 12 9 14 41 52 45
Southampton . . 35 13 6 16 45 58 45
This time, instead of recruiting Newcastle . . . . 36 11 10 15 37 55 43
players to defeat Alabama on the Crystal Palace . 35 11 9 15
Brighton . . . . . 35 8 12 15
30
36
45
52
42
36
field, he is attempting to persuade West Ham . . . . 35 9 7 19 44 59 34
Watford . . . . . 35 8 10 17 33 54 34
voters to select him for the United Bournemouth . . 36 8 7 21 37 62 31
States Senate over an incumbent, Aston Villa. . . . 35 8 6 21 38 65 30
Norwich . . . . . 36 5 6 25 26 68 21
Doug Jones, who is considered to t-clinched title
be in the weakest position of any Sunday, July 12
Senate Democrat in this year’s Wolverhampton 3, Everton 0
Aston Villa 2, Crystal Palace 0
election. Senator Jones narrowly Tottenham 2, Arsenal 1
won a special election in 2017 to fill Bournemouth 4, Leicester 1
Monday, July 13
Jeff Sessions’s seat after Presi- Man United 2, Southampton 2
dent Trump appointed Mr. Ses- Tuesday, July 14
sions the United States attorney Chelsea 1, Norwich 0
general. Wednesday, July 15
Burnley 1, Wolverhampton 1
Mr. Sessions, who fought for his Man City 2, Bournemouth 1
Newcastle 1, Tottenham 3
political life after Mr. Trump threw Arsenal 2, Liverpool 1
his full support behind Mr. Tu- Thursday, July 16
berville in the Republican prima- Everton vs. Aston Villa
Leicester vs. Sheffield United
ry, was crushed in the runoff elec- Crystal Palace vs. Man United
tion on Tuesday night, sending Mr. Southampton vs. Brighton
Tuberville’s name to the Novem- M.L.S. IS BACK
ber ballot. TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
“There’s no way he could run All Times E.D.T.
for Senate in Alabama and not All matches played at ESPN Wide World of
Sports Complex, Orlando, Fla.
align himself with Trump,” said GROUP STAGE
the Rev. Wayne Dickens, a defen- GROUP A
Wednesday, July 8
sive tackle for Auburn from 2001 Orlando City 2, Miami 1
to 2005 who is now on the coach- Thursday, July 9
Philadelphia 1, N.Y.C.F.C. 0
ing staff at Western Kentucky. Tuesday, July 14
Orlando City 3, N.Y.C.F.C. 1
“My disappointment would be his Philadelphia 2, Miami 1
actions falling in line with Trump- Monday, July 20
N.Y.C.F.C. at Miami, 9 a.m.
ism,” though he said he would vote Orlando City at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.
for “Coach Tub” if he were regis- GROUP B
Friday, July 10
tered to vote in Alabama. San Jose 0, Seattle 0, tie
Tuesday, July 14
Mr. Tuberville’s football past Chicago Fire 2, Seattle Sounders 1
has been present on the campaign Wednesday, July 15
San Jose at Vancouver
trail, and Alabama Democrats Sunday, July 19
have used his losses, abrupt job San Jose at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Vancouver at Seattle, 10:30 p.m.
changes and team decisions to call Thursday, July 23
into question his integrity and RIC FELD/ASSOCIATED PRESS Vancouver at Chicago, 9 a.m.
GROUP C
ability to win on Election Day. At 2004 Tommy Tuberville leading the Auburn Tigers onto the field before the SEC championship game against Tennessee. Thursday, July 9
New England 1, Montreal 0
times in recent days, the party’s Monday, July 13
official Twitter account has read shared his thoughts on the re-
D.C. United 2, Toronto FC 2
more like a trash-talking college assistant coaches who supported died at a training camp as a mem- University of Miami, contributing Thursday, July 16
moval of Confederate symbols Toronto FC at Montreal, 8 p.m.
football message board, speaking his team and mission. ber of the National Guard when to three championships as a grad- Friday, July 17
But some of the coach’s losses at Tommy was coaching at Her- uate assistant and later as the de- across the country in the wake of New England at D.C. United, 8 p.m.
a language familiar to many Ala- the police killing of George Floyd Tuesday, July 21
bama voters. Auburn are being used to taunt mitage High School in Arkansas. fensive coordinator. For the 1994 New England at Toronto FC, 9 a.m.
him, including the Iron Bowl wipe- It was a hard loss for the tight-knit season, he served as defensive coin Minneapolis. D.C. United at Montreal, 10:30 p.m.
“Tuberville couldn’t score a TD His campaign did not respond
GROUP D
for 2 weeks with 4 first rounders out that sealed his resignation family — Tommy, Vicki, Charles ordinator for Texas A&M, which Sunday, July 12
from Auburn in 2008. III and their mother, Olive. He was finished with a 10-0-1 record. to a request for comment. Al- Minnesota 2, Sporting Kansas City 1
on his offense,” read one message though he made his stance clear
Real Salt Lake 2, Colorado 0
Friday, July 17
posted hours after Mr. Tuberville’s an inspiration to his son’s football That propelled him into his first Colorado at Sporting Kansas City, 8 p.m.
and political careers. head coaching job at the Univer- on kneeling during the national Minnesota at Real Salt Lake, 10:30 p.m.
victory over Mr. Sessions. “He Football and Politics anthem in a recent campaign ad: Wednesday, July 22
also lost to Vanderbilt.” The children considered them- sity of Mississippi for the 1995 sea- Sporting Kansas City at Real Salt Lake, 9 a.m.
Mr. Tuberville, 65, was always Don’t.
selves “army brats,” and support- son, where he bolstered a move- Minnesota at Colorado, 10:30 p.m.
athletic, according to his sister, Despite his dedication to Mis- GROUP E
ing veterans has become central ment to bar the Confederate battle Saturday, July 11
A Bumpy Ride at Auburn Vicki Tuberville Fewell. Born and sissippi recruiting, Mr. Tuberville Red Bulls 1, Atlanta 0
to Mr. Tuberville’s campaign, flag from home games. He focused
left for Auburn before the 1999 Columbus 4, Cincinnati 0
Mr. Tuberville coached the Ti- raised in small-town Camden, along with strong Christian val- on attracting Black recruits and Thursday, July 16
season (after saying they’d have Cincinnati at Atlanta, 9 a.m.
gers from 1999 to 2008, and posted Ark., about 100 miles south of Lit- ues, instilled from the days his making them feel more welcome. Red Bulls at Columbus, 10:30 p.m.
to take him out “in a pine box” just
an 85-40 record and the universi- tle Rock, he became a quarterback family attended Maul Road “The flag is killing us,” he told Tuesday, July 21
two days before). Columbus at Atlanta, 8 p.m.
ty’s longest winning streak at Harmony Grove High School’s Church of Christ. Robert Khayat, a former univer- Wednesday, July 22
His departure from Auburn was Red Bulls at Cincinnati, 8 p.m.
against the Crimson Tide, six quarterback; his father was a ref- Mr. Tuberville played safety at sity chancellor, in a brief visit. And much more quiet: After a disap- GROUP F
straight, in the rivalry. eree. Southern Arkansas University, it worked, to an extent. Flags were pointing 2008 season, he resigned,
Monday, July 13
Los Angeles FC 3, Houston Dynamo 3
But it wasn’t a smooth ride. In “He and Tommy were very then started his coaching career. waved at the 1997 homecoming taking a year off from coaching as LA Galaxy 1, Portland Timbers 2
2003, William F. Walker, the presi- close,” Ms. Fewell said. “He and After graduation in 1976, he game, but Mr. Tuberville’s state- Saturday, July 18
an analyst for ESPN before as- Houston at Portland, 8 p.m.
dent of Auburn, and David Housel, Dad would work together because coached at nearby Hermitage ments helped eventually ban the suming the head coach role at LA Galaxy at Los Angeles FC, 10:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 23
the athletic director, flew to chat of their love of sports.” High for four years, then Arkan- flag from Vaught-Hemingway Texas Tech. Houston at LA Galaxy, 8 p.m.
with Bobby Petrino, then Lou- Charles Tuberville, a World War sas State University for five. From Stadium. “He’s unquestionably one of the Portland at Los Angeles FC, 10:30 p.m.
isville’s football coach, about re- II veteran with five Bronze Stars, 1986 to 1993, he coached at the The former coach has not greatest coaches of all time,” Mr. NATIONAL WOMEN'S
placing Mr. Tuberville after he lost Dickens said. “He should be up SOCCER LEAGUE
three Southeastern Conference there with Pat Dye and other well- CHALLENGE CUP SCHEDULE
games in which the Tigers should known coaches in Auburn his- All Times E.D.T.
have had the upper hand. That tory.” All matches played at Zions Bank Stadium,
was the same week as the highly But keeping with the flair of his
Herriman, Utah.
Quarterfinals
anticipated Iron Bowl, which Au- exit from Mississippi, after Mr. Tu- Friday, July 17
North Carolina Courage vs. Portland
burn won, 28-23. Fans found out berville had spent three years Thorns, 12:30 p.m.
after the coveted victory, spurring coaching Texas Tech, he silently Houston Dash vs. Utah Royals, 10 p.m.
Saturday, July 18
severe backlash against univer- withdrew from a recruitment din- Washington Spirit vs. Sky Blue, 12:30 p.m.
sity officials. ner to accept the head coaching OL Reign vs. Chicago Red Stars, 10 p.m.
Semifinals
Mr. Tuberville held on to his job. job at Cincinnati in December Wednesday, July 22
The incident is remembered as TBD vs. TBD, 12:30 p.m.
2012. Recruits at the time claimed TBD vs. TBD, 10 p.m.
JetGate. he took the call midmeal and Championship
Sunday, July 26
And the next season, Mr. Tu- bailed, but Mr. Tuberville said that TBD vs. TBD, 12:30 p.m. (CBS)
berville led Auburn to a 13-0 sea- simply wasn’t the case.
son, earning him Coach of the “I actually paid the bill,” he told BASEBALL
Year Awards from the SEC, his Al.com in 2019. M.L.B. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
second, and The Associated Ending with a bang in four sea- All times E.D.T.
Press. sons at Cincinnati, he won a share Saturday, July 18
Philadelphia at Washington, 6:05 p.m.
“I still think about 2004,” Mr. of the American Athletic Confer- Yankees at Mets, 7:10 p.m.
Dickens said. “For me, being an ence championship once before Sunday, July 19
Baltimore at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m.
ordained minister and under- retiring from football in 2016. Mets at Yankees, 7:05 p.m.
standing the impact faith has on a In another instance of college Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.
Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m.
person, the willingness that Coach football coming up on the cam- Monday, July 20
Tub had to share his faith in Jesus Philadelphia at Yankees, 6:05 p.m.
paign trail, Mr. Tuberville’s Washington at Baltimore, 6:05 p.m.
Christ when his team was on a na- thoughts on the coming season Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.
Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40 p.m.
tional stage, he let people see who aligned with those of Mr. Trump L.A. Angels at San Diego, TBD
he genuinely was. 2004 was prob- about getting back to school. Tuesday, July 21
Baltimore at Washington, 6:05 p.m.
ably the best year he ever had.” When asked about starting the Detroit at Cincinnati, 6:40 p.m.
As a coach, Mr. Tuberville was season on time by WNSP-FM Colorado at Texas, 8:05 p.m.
L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40 p.m.
more like a chief executive, Mr. TODD VANEMST/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sports Radio in June, he said, Wednesday, July 22
Dickens said — excellent at hiring 2008 Mr. Tuberville greeting fans before an Auburn game. He went 85-40 as the team’s coach. “You betcha.” Detroit at Cincinnati, 6:10 p.m.
Minnesota at Chicago Cubs, 7:05 p.m.
Colorado at Texas, 8:05 p.m.
Milwaukee at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.
San Diego at L.A. Angels, 9:40 p.m.
H O R S E R AC I N G HOCKEY
N.H.L. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Baffert Suspended 15 Days After Horses Test Positive for Banned Substance All Times E.D.T.
Tuesday, July 28
Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia, at Toronto, 4
p.m.
Toronto vs. Montreal, at Toronto, 8 p.m.
By JOE DRAPE oughbred Regulatory Rulings A lawyer for Baffert, W. Craig tigated the failed test for four Edmonton vs. Calgary, at Edmonton, 10:30
database maintained by the Robertson, said the trainer was months, allowing Justify to keep p.m.
The Arkansas Racing Commis- Wednesday, July 29
sion suspended the Hall of Fame Jockey Club. disappointed in the ruling and competing long enough to win the Tampa Bay vs. Florida, at Toronto, 12 p.m.
Colorado vs. Minnesota, at Edmonton, 2:30
trainer Bob Baffert for 15 days on Charlatan and Gamine had two planned to appeal. In a statement, Triple Crown. In August, after Jus- p.m.
Wednesday and vacated the vic- samples test positive for lido- he said, “This is a case of innocent tify’s breeding rights had been Carolina vs. Washington, at Toronto, 4 p.m.
St. Louis vs. Chicago, at Edmonton, 6:30
tories of two of his horses after caine, a local numbing agent, ac- exposure and not intentional ad- sold for $60 million, the California p.m.
cording to a person who spoke on ministration.” Horse Racing Board — whose Islanders vs. Rangers, at Toronto, 8 p.m.
they tested positive for a banned Vancouver vs. Winnipeg, at Edmonton,
substance. condition of anonymity because Four days after Charlatan’s chairman at the time, Chuck Win- 10:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 30
One of the horses, Charlatan, the case had not been fully adjudi- runaway victory in the Arkansas ner, had employed Baffert to train Nashville vs. Dallas, at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
won a division of the Arkansas cated. The Times reported on the Derby, the colt’s stallion rights his horses — disposed of the inqui- Boston vs. Columbus, at Toronto, 7 p.m.
Vegas vs. Arizona, at Edmonton, 10 p.m.
Derby on May 2. The colt’s owners first positive tests in late May. were sold for an undisclosed sum ry in a rare closed-door session.
will forfeit the $300,000 in prize Lidocaine can be used legiti- to Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms. The colt The board ruled that Justify’s TRANSACTIONS
money. The owner of the other mately for suturing wounds or in missed the Belmont Stakes with positive test for the banned drug
diagnosing if a horse is sound an ankle injury, and Baffert has scopolamine had been the result M.L.B.
horse, a filly named Gamine, must
forfeit a $36,000 first-place check enough to compete. It may also be said he will miss the Kentucky of “environmental contamina- American League
BOSTON RED SOX — Placed LHPs
won in an allowance race earlier present in ointments used on cuts Derby, as well. Charlatan may be tion,” not intentional doping. Baf- Eduardo Rodriguez, Josh Taylor and
or abrasions. It is regulated be- able to come back in time for the fert has denied any wrongdoing, Darwinzon Hernandez on the 10-day IL.
that day. The suspension will run Signed LHP Jeremy Wu-Yelland to a minor
from Aug. 1 to 15. cause of its potential to mask Preakness on Oct. 3. but the quantity of the drug found league contract.
HOUSTON ASTROS — Placed RHP Joe
On June 20, Gamine won the CHARLIE RIEDEL/ASSOCIATED PRESS
lameness in an unsound horse. Baffert-trained Justify failed a in Justify suggested that it was Smith on the restricted list.
Acorn Stakes at Belmont Park in In a hearing, Baffert and his drug test after winning the Santa present not because of contamina- KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Placed 1B Ryan
New York by nearly 19 lengths in a

Bob Baffert has trained the last representatives argued that the Anita Derby, nearly a month be- tion in his feed or his bedding but
O'Hearn and RHP Brad Keller on the 10-
day IL. Activated C Salvador Perez from
stakes-record time of 1 minute two Triple Crown winners. horses were accidentally exposed fore the 2018 Kentucky Derby. rather because of an effort to en- the 10-day IL.
MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed SS Wilfredo
32.55 seconds, a performance that to the lidocaine by an assistant Justify wound up winning the hance performance, according to Tovar on the 10-day IL.
National League
inspired talk of the filly taking on 1978. Baffert won his second trainer, Jimmy Barnes, who had Derby, the Preakness and the Bel- Dr. Rick Sams, who ran the drug CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms with C
males in the Kentucky Derby, Triple Crown in 2018 with Justify. applied a medicinal patch to his mont that year for the Triple lab for the Kentucky Horse Racing Jose Lobaton on a minor league contract.
COLORADO ROCKIES — Placed RF Charlie
which is scheduled for Sept. 5. Baffert has also caught the at- own back. Barnes had broken his Crown. The rule on the books Commission from 2011 to 2018. Blackmon on the 10-day IL.
METS — Placed RHP's Brad Brach and
Baffert is America’s pre-emi- tention of regulators over the pelvis, and the brand of patch he when Justify failed the test re- Mick Ruis, owner of the Santa Jared Hughes on the IL.
nent active trainer. He has won years. These are his 26th and 27th used, Salonpas, contains small quired that the horse be disquali- Anita Derby’s second-place horse,
the Kentucky Derby five times. In drug violations, according to pub- amounts of Lidocaine. The drug fied, forfeiting both his Santa is in litigation with California offi- N.F.L.
2015, he trained American lic records compiled by the Asso- was transferred from his hands Anita Derby prize money and his cials to have his colt Bolt d’Oro de- CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed DE Myles
Garrett to a five-year contract extension.
Pharoah, the first horse to win the ciation of Racetrack Commission- through the application of a entry into the Kentucky Derby. clared the winner and awarded TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms
Triple Crown since Affirmed in ers International and the Thor- tongue tie, they said. California racing officials inves- the $600,000 first-place check. with RB Derrick Henry on a multi-year
contract extension.
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Texas Says It Will Address Racism, but Keep Anthem

By MARIA CRAMER what standard they hold us to from 1899 to 1905. In the 1860s, change in our society.” He added
The University of Texas at now.” Prather was a student at Wash- that keeping the song and explain-
Austin said it would rename a Replacing the song was among ington College, in Lexington, Va., ing its origins would serve as a
building named for a racist profes- a long list of requests made by the while Lee was its president. “constant reminder to our com-
sor, erect a statue of the school’s athletes, who said that if their de- Lee would always end remarks munity that there were problem-
first Black football player and mands were not met, they would to Washington faculty members atic aspects of our past that can
commission a monument to its no longer help the university re- and students by saying “the eyes and do continue to impact the
first Black undergraduates. cruit new players or participate in of the South are upon you,” ac- present.”
donor events. cording to historians. Last month, the athletes called
What’s not changing? “The Eyes
On Monday, after the announce- When Prather became presi- on the athletics department and
of Texas,” a campus anthem with
ment was made, many athletes dent of the University of Texas, he the university to take measures
minstrel roots that student-ath-
said they were grateful for the ac- invoked the phrase and changed it including creating a permanent
letes want abolished.
tions the university had decided to to “the eyes of Texas are upon Black athletic history exhibition
Athletes at the university had take. in its Hall of Fame; donating a
you.”
called on campus officials to find a Caden Sterns, a defensive back portion of the athletics depart-
Students wrote satirical lyrics
song “without racist undertones” on the Longhorns football team, with the phrase and set them to ment’s annual earnings to Black TIM WARNER/GETTY IMAGES
in place of the anthem, which has thanked the administration on the tune of “I’ve Been Working on organizations, including Black
lyrics that were in part inspired by Caden Sterns, a safety, praised the university on Twitter.
Twitter. the Railroad.” Lives Matter; and renaming cam-
the words of Robert E. Lee, the “Great day to be a Longhorn,” A university quartet first per- pus buildings, including one hon-
Confederate general. he wrote, adding, “Looking for- formed the song around 1903, at a oring Robert Lee Moore, a mathe- Whittier, who joined the would use revenue from the ath-
“ ‘The Eyes of Texas,’ in its cur- ward to make more positive minstrel show at the Hancock matics professor who refused to Longhorns in 1970 and became letics department to invest in pro-
rent form, will continue to be our change on campus.” Opera House in Austin, where the let Black students in his class after the team’s first Black football grams that recruit Black students
alma mater,” Jay Hartzell, interim “These are great first steps!” singers are believed to have worn the university desegregated. player, at Darrell K. Royal-Texas and students from underrepre-
president of the university, said in Asjia O’Neal, a Texas volleyball blackface. The university agreed to re- Memorial Stadium. sented groups from Dallas, Hous-
a statement on Monday. player, wrote on Twitter, adding Edmund T. Gordon, a professor name that building the Physics, Joe Jamail Field, which was ton and San Antonio.
“It is my belief that we can ef- that she was proud “to be a part of in the University of Texas’ African Math and Astronomy Building. named after a white Texas billion- The university vowed to adopt a
fectively reclaim and redefine the change.” and African diaspora studies de- The university added that it aire, will be renamed to honor two plan to recruit and retain faculty
what this song stands for by first “The Eyes of Texas” can be partment, who has studied and would “provide historical expla- Black football players, Earl Camp- members “who bring more diver-
owning and acknowledging its traced back to Lee and was per- documented the campus’s racial nations within the building about bell and Ricky Williams, former sity to our research and teaching
history in a way that is open and formed at minstrel shows in the history, said he supported the de- why past university leaders chose Longhorns and Heisman Trophy missions” and to expand a com-
transparent,” he continued. “To- early 20th century. cision to keep the song in the con- to name the space for Professor winners. That change was sug- mittee that oversees campus po-
gether, we have the power to de- Lee’s connection to the song text of the university’s mission “to Moore.” gested by Mr. Jamail’s family, ac- lice to include more community
fine what the Eyes of Texas expect goes back to William Prather, the foment teaching, learning and re- University officials said they cording to the university. members and a “broader range of
of us, what they demand of us, and University of Texas’ president search in service of positive would erect a statute for Julius The university also said it students.”
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A whistle-blower asserts that conflict-of-interest rules to prevent

self-dealing have been skirted at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
BRITTANY GREESON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
The ‘Appearance of Impropriety’

blower complaint, filed with the Internal museums to engage collectors and patrons An El Greco painting lent to and his family, since a painting’s exhibition
By GRAHAM BOWLEY
Revenue Service and the Michigan attor- asking them to loan paintings,” he said in an the Detroit Institute of Arts, in the institute could burnish its value.
It was a chance to borrow a rarely seen El ney general, asserting that conflict-of-inter- interview. “St. Francis Receiving the Some ethics experts, too, said he proba-
Greco for a museum that had only a single est rules to prevent self-dealing have been But his answers have failed to satisfy the Stigmata,” belongs to the bly didn’t go far enough in disclosing his
painting by the old master. skirted. The wealthy Dallas collector, it museum employees who filed the complaint museum director’s family’s interest.
So the director of the Detroit Institute of turns out, was the director’s father-in-law. at a time when other concerns, including father-in-law. “A museum official (or close relative)
Arts courted a wealthy Dallas collector to The director, Salvador Salort-Pons, said ones about Mr. Salort-Pons’s management who loans an object to the museum for dis-
arrange for a loan of the painting, “St. Fran- that his family’s interest in the painting was style and about D.I.A.’s treatment of its play, then sells it after exhibition, would
cis Receiving the Stigmata,” and it now properly disclosed and that he followed a Black employees, are roiling the institute. likely earn an enhanced price for the ob-
hangs in the reopened museum’s medieval procedure approved by the institute’s board They say that a lack of transparency sur- ject,” said Greg Stevens, director of the In-
and Renaissance galleries. of directors for borrowing works. rounding the artwork cloaked a situation stitute of Museum Ethics at Seton Hall Uni-
That coup, however, has set off a whistle- “It’s a common practice for American that could financially benefit the director CONTINUED ON PAGE C5
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Comes to TV And These Times
In Nashville, only the genre’s outsiders are dipping
The Sims’ inclusive spirit will their toes in essential conversations about racism.
be part of the new show.
SCORNFUL AND INDIGNANT, Eric Church —
By SETH SCHIESEL the most accessible of country music’s con-
Deep down, Rayvon Owen already knew he temporary heretics — begins his new sin-
was gay when a classmate introduced him gle, “Stick That in Your Country Song,” with
to the Sims back in 2003, when they were in an image of a decayed America:
sixth grade in Richmond, Va. Take me on up to Detroit city
“I grew up in a very conservative, reli- Jails are full, the factories empty
gious home; my mom was super strict and Mommas crying, young boys dying
over my shoulder a lot, and when I started Under that red, white and blue still flying
playing the Sims I would show her this
happy typical family with a white picket Church never explicitly refers to race, but
fence,” he said in an interview last week. it’s clear the nation he’s singing about con-
“And she was like: ‘Oh good, I like this tains multitudes, and it’s failing; the song’s Eric Church has released
game. You get a job, you manage money, get lyrics are a far cry from the benign bliss that a song with a pointed
a wife and kids.’ ” suffuses the rest of the genre, even at this message for Nashville,
Owen laughed. One of the most popular very pointed moment. By the time Church “Stick That in Your
games in the world, the Sims has for two arrives at the chorus, he’s taunting his ideo- Country Song.”
decades provided young people a virtual so- logically vacuous peers: “Stick that in your
cial sandbox to explore the joys, terrors and country song/Take that one to No. 1,” he
mysteries of adult life for the first time. sneers, knowing full well they never would.
While puerile toxicity does characterize There’s similar pique in “March March,”
some precincts of gaming, the Sims has the latest single from “Gaslighter,” the
long been at the vanguard of mainstream comeback album by the Chicks (formerly
entertainment inclusion simply by giving the Dixie Chicks), the country music pa-
players choices. riahs. The lyrics deplore climate change,
“So I had one neighborhood in the game laws that seek to control a woman’s body
for when my mom was watching,’’ Owen and gun violence: “Standing with Emma
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A.J. GOLDMANN CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK
Wagner in the Parking Lot in Germany

Stripped-down productions
show how opera is gradually
re-emerging in the pandemic.
BERLIN — The Rhinemaidens lament their
lost gold on asphalt. Tristan savors doomed
love in a stately 17th-century garden. A mot-
ley crew of playboys and deposed royalty
are set adrift in an industrial harbor.
This is what opera in Germany looks like
in the midst of a pandemic.
The coronavirus outbreak has disrupted
live performance around the world. And of
all art forms, opera is particularly ill-suited
to limitations on large gatherings, by dint of
its size, complexity and cost.
But nearly three months after the virus
scuttled the remainder of its season, the
Deutsche Oper here became the first com-
pany to perform grand opera while comply-
ing with hygiene and distancing regula-
tions. In a nod to the canceled start of its
much-anticipated new “Ring” directed by
Stefan Herheim, the company mounted an
alternative “Das Rheingold” in an unex-
pected outdoor location last month.
You’ve heard of Shakespeare in the Park.
How about Wagner in the Parking Lot?
In an opera-rich city starved of the art
form for months, interest was predictably
high, and the company said the perform-
ances, each with about 200 seats for five eu-
ros (less than $6), sold out online in min-
utes. The Deutsche Oper used Jonathan
Dove’s 1990 reduction of the score for 22
musicians and 12 singers, which shaves
about 40 minutes off the two-and-a-half-
hour running time. Many of the singers
scheduled to sing in Mr. Herheim’s produc-
tion still appeared, and Donald Runnicles,
the company’s music director, remained on BETTINA STOESS
hand to conduct the diminished musical Frank Martin’s “Le Vin Herbé,” by Hanover helped make up for some discomfort caused
forces with a muscular conviction and dra- State Opera in Herrenhäuser Gardens. Left, by the inclement weather.
matic flair that made this chamber version Annika Schlicht and Derek Welton in “Das Water was also central, though intention-
sound remarkably full. Rheingold,” by Deutsche Oper in a parking lot. ally so, in the Stuttgart State Opera’s pro-
As a preamble to the “Ring,” “Rheingold”
duction of Paul Abraham’s 1931 jazz operet-
is fast-paced and witty, something of a
ta “Die Blume von Hawaii,” staged at that
punchy political cartoon. The director, Neil cumstances, the Hanover State Opera, in
southern German city’s harbor. Performed
Barry Moss, did a clever job of working northern Germany, inaugurated a virus-
over the first weekend of July, “Hawaii” was
around both virus regulations — the singers friendly summer program with a work that
the first of two harbor productions created
needed to maintain five feet of distance was ideally suited to the new restrictions:
under unusual constraints: They couldn’t
from one another — and the peculiarities of Frank Martin’s “Le Vin Herbé.”
a makeshift outdoor stage made up of little exceed 70 minutes, five cast members or 10
First performed in 1942, “Le Vin Herbé”
more than a few rows of stadium seating. days of rehearsal. (The second was Leon-
is a haunting, difficult-to-characterize work
The orchestra (which was amplified) ard Bernstein’s “Trouble in Tahiti.”)
inspired by the Tristan myth. Martin called
played from behind the singers (who were it a secular oratorio, but there’s a long tradi- Arriving at the harbor, the audience put
not), below an overhang that protected tion of staging it as an opera. Scored for sev- on wireless headphones and sat on wooden
them from the threat of rain. The parking en strings, piano and 12 singers (six men shipping pallets. A couple of hundred feet
lot, surrounded on all sides by the opera and six women) who chant a libretto that of- below, in the middle of the waterway built
house and its administrative buildings, had fers little in the way of conventional dra- along the Neckar River, the singers and mu-
remarkably good acoustics. matic development, it can feel like a rebuttal sicians occupied separate rafts while bring-
The singers entered and exited through a to the lush Romanticism of Wagner’s “Tris- ing to life this widely forgotten Weimar-era
central aisle between the rows of plastic tan und Isolde.” Martin’s austere musical work, with its infectiously tuneful score and
chairs on which the physically-distanced language, hovering on the threshold of to- firecracker lyrics.
audience sat. There was a special thrill in nality, is hypnotic. Sebastian Schwab’s reduction for an
having the cast breeze past at regular inter- The performances, beginning June 19, eclectic variety of instruments — including
vals. (The audience was required to wear took place in the Baroque “Gartentheater” banjo, violin, saxophone, vibraphone and,
masks except during the performance.) of the magnificent Herrenhäuser Gardens, briefly, steel guitar — was skillful, even if
In his metatheatrical production, Mr. which belonged to the kings of Hanover. the opulence of Abraham’s original orches-
Moss cast Wotan — the god who uses stolen There was special significance in the fact trations was lost. Marco Storman’s sparse
gold to pay for his new castle, Valhalla — in that this was the site of the first opera per- production jettisoned the convoluted plot in
the role of a stage director, and the bass- formance in Germany after the end of favor of a quick-and-dirty staging that
baritone Derek Welton played him as a World War II in Europe: “Cavalleria Rusti- winked at the work’s exoticizing tendencies
high-strung creative type overseeing re- cana” and “Pagliacci,” on July 11, 1945. and its stereotypes about Pacific Islanders.
hearsals. Loge, the fire god (the tenor The stately setting was an unexpectedly (I was amazed to find that quite a number of
Thomas Blondelle), zoomed around with apt complement to the music and Wolfgang people in the audience had donned
large Starbucks cups, personalized with the Nägele’s simple, mournful production. The Hawaiian-print shirts for the occasion.)
names of the gods, as Wotan’s put-upon per- sides of the deep stage were flanked by The image that has remained with me af-
sonal assistant. Other touches were equally golden statues and hedges. Flocks of bird ter sampling some of Germany’s intrepid
cheeky and effective: Assorted props rep- soared overhead. Even in the midst of a per- efforts to make opera in the age of the coro-
resented the gold; a bound copy of the score sistent drizzle, most of the roughly 200 navirus is the closing tableau of “Das
stood in for the ring; and, in a climactic re- spectators remained to the bitter end. Rheingold.” The gods prying open the mas-
veal, Valhalla was the opera house itself. Stephan Zilias, the company’s incoming sive door that services the stage of the
Stripped-down and irreverent, the pro- music director, stood at a podium halfway Deutsche Oper powerfully symbolized the
duction highlighted the intimate qualities of between the musicians, who were protected deep wish for this country’s — and the
“Das Rheingold” within the epic cosmos of by a tent, and the singers onstage, who were world’s — curtains to rise once again. The
the “Ring.” It never felt like a compromise. not. Despite the rain, all soldiered on with blaring chords that accompany the gods’
While the Deutsche Oper did its best to unbroken concentration. The result was a entrance to Valhalla had never sounded so
adapt Wagner to these extraordinary cir- performance whose steely excellence joyous.
BERND UHLIG
WATCHING AND MOVING
Black Artists in Motion, and an Aerobic Jolt

Standout livestreams this all ages to hear these stories and to hear
what it took for someone to come through.”
early 1980s, she began branching out in her
use of sound, if subtly at first. In “Opal Loop
week feature storytelling, The luminous lineup of future guests in- / Cloud Installation #72503” (1980), four
performances and workouts. cludes Cynthia Oliver and Marjani Forté- dancers move to the whisper of water pass-
ing through high-pressure nozzles, also the
Saunders (Thursday); Rennie Harris and J.
Bouey (July 23); and Kyle Marshall and Ok- source of the mist that fills the stage. The
By SIOBHAN BURKE
wui Okpokwasili (July 30). Episodes are visual design, by the Japanese fog artist Fu-
Here is a guide to the best dance online this streamed on Thursdays at 6 p.m. Eastern, jiko Nakaya, becomes one with Brown’s va-
week and a workout class for all ages. live on YouTube. Find details about how to porous movement.
tune in and read about the artists at Performed at the Baryshnikov Arts Cen-
WATCH: Black Dance Stories @blackdancestories on Instagram. The se- ter in 2010 by the Trisha Brown Dance Com-
In the absence of live dance performances, ries is free to watch, but donations to the pany, “Opal Loop” opens the second install-
interviews with artists in the field, Venmo account @BlackDanceStories are ment of PlayBAC, in which the center
presented online, have become a way to encouraged. presents videos from its vast archive. It will
stay connected until it’s safe to gather be available at bacnyc.org/explore from 5
again. A new series in that spirit, Black WATCH: ‘Relations’ Viewing Party p.m. Eastern on Thursday through Tuesday.
Dance Stories, favors storytelling over in- In 2018, three veteran choreographers and
terviewing, while giving artists a chance to longtime friends came together for two WATCH: A Ballet Tribute
meet and chat the way they might have in a nights of improvisation, a fleeting and mo- To Nelson Mandela
theater lobby. mentous event called “Relations.” As a Black choreographer working in ballet,
Created by the performer, producer and Presented by the Museum of Contempo- a predominantly white field that’s been
dance writer Charmaine Warren, with the rary Art Chicago, it featured Bebe Miller, slow to change, Jeremy McQueen rarely
dancers Kimani Fowlin and Nicholas Hall, Ralph Lemon and Ishmael Houston-Jones saw reflections of his own experiences on-
the series features two guests per episode sharing space for an hour, a simple frame- stage. In 2016, he founded the Black Iris
who overlap for a few minutes about half- work for their collective and complex bril- Project, which brings artists together to IAN DOUGLAS
way through. Ms. Warren, a big-hearted liance. create new ballet works celebrating diversi-
host beloved by her peers — as the delight- People who were there, and people who ty and Black history. classes of Viva Soudan, a dancer and fitness Marjani Forté-Saunders will
ful first two episodes demonstrate — mostly weren’t, wondered whether it would hap- At the invitation of Misty Copeland, the instructor whose capacity to motivate — take part in the new online
cedes the floor (or, rather, the screen) to the pen again. It didn’t, but on Saturday, the mu- American Ballet Theater star, Black Iris and to inspire with retro fashion — knows series Black Dance Stories on
artists, inviting them to tell any story, how- seum will host a “Relations” watch party on brought “Madiba,” their 20-minute work no bounds. On a recent Saturday, Ms. Thursday.
ever they wish, about their lives in dance. Facebook, with footage from the perform- about the life of Nelson Mandela, to the Ken- Soudan, in a colorful high-cut leotard over
The virtual gatherings shed light on lin- ance and a moderated live chat. (The re- nedy Center’s Ballet Across America festi- spandex shorts, led about 30 participants
eages, personal and cultural, and on the im- cording will also be available on Vimeo val in 2017. On Saturday and Sunday, in hon- through one of her signature “Bodyroll”
portance of laughter in a time of isolation. through Monday.) See mcachicago.org for or of what would have been Mandela’s workouts on Zoom. “We’re here to shed
Ms. Warren’s emphasis on levity — she details and contextualizing materials, in- 102nd birthday, Mr. McQueen’s local televi- emotional weight,” she told us.
keeps a glass of wine nearby and urges cluding a new essay by Tara Aisha Willis, a sion station, BronxNet, will broadcast the
Set to a genre-spanning playlist of 1980s

guests to do the same — goes hand in hand curator at the museum and the main organ- ballet at BronxNet.tv. The video will also be and ’90s hits, the class is for movers of all
with the project’s deeper archival and edu- izer of “Relations.” available on the Black Iris website, Monday ages, levels and body types. This week’s
cational purposes. though July 24. Details are at Thursday and Saturday sessions, both at 10
“Historically, Black stories, Black dance,
WATCH: Trisha Brown Dancers blackirisproject.org. a.m. Eastern, will be livestreamed from Ma-
are written out of dance history,” Ms. And Clouds ria Hernandez Park (weather permitting)
Fowlin, also a choreographer and educator, The great choreographer Trisha Brown cre- MOVE: Bodyroll With Viva Soudan in Bushwick, Brooklyn. A donation of $5 to
said. “And so I think it’s important, it’s em- ated her early works with no music, just the If you need a jolt of dance aerobics to jump- $25 a person is suggested. More informa-
powering, for young dancers and dancers of accompaniment of ambient noise. By the start your day, look no further than the tion is at hausofsweat.com.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020 N C3
In Theater Streams, Stars Pop Up in Unexpected Places

Live and recorded shows offer writers and performers to the fore. The pro-
duction, filmed in 2017, streams through
viewers some familiar faces. Aug. 3.
By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI What-If Scenarios

One of theater’s great pleasures is watching This summer, the Cape Cod Theater Project
actors bring characters to life. The era of on- pivoted to live readings and rustled up a dy-
line performing arts has added a remark- namic lineup that ends with a pair of prom-
ably democratic element by allowing high- ising new pieces. On Thursday and Satur-
caliber casts to pop up in everything from day, Lileana Blain-Cruz directs the “Afro-
revisited classics to fresh-from-the-oven ef- Currentist” play “Bust,” in which Zora How-
forts by young playwrights. Most stars are ard (“Stew”) imagines that Black people
available on short notice these days, after suddenly start disappearing. On July 23 and
all, and now they can take on projects that 25, Kevin Artigue’s “I, My Ruination” sets
time or financial constraints may have kept up a confrontation between Elia Kazan and
them away from. We look for whatever up- Arthur Miller in 1952; the impressive cast
side we can find, and the pleasure of fine includes Nina Arianda, Paul Giamatti, Ari-
acting in an unexpected setting has been a an Moayed and Corey Stoll. All readings are
balm. at 7 p.m.; suggested donation starts at $25.
There is no letting up in the coming
weeks, as you’ll see in the selection of Mint Condition
streaming events below. But don’t forget to Ever heard of Teresa Deevy or Harley
look for unknown actors, either — discover- Granville-Barker? No? In the Mint The-
ing new favorites is just as rewarding as ater’s world, they are stars; then again, the
checking in with old ones. New York company is dedicated to redis-
covering forgotten playwrights. Since 2013,
Everything Not-So-Old Is New Again the Mint has been recording its productions
The New Group is bringing back some of its for archival purposes, and it’s making three
recent hits and their original casts in a se- of them available for free through Sunday:
ries of benefit live readings. First out of the Harold Chapin’s “The New Morality,” Hazel
gate on Thursday (and available through Ellis’s “Women Without Men” and George
Sunday) is Sharr White’s “The True,” in Kelly’s “The Fatal Weakness.” Let’s hope
which Edie Falco reprises her juicy role as a
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more will follow.
1970s Democratic Party operator in Albany.
On July 30 (available through Aug. 2), Jesse Cold Sweats in a Hot Month
Eisenberg heads his own “The Spoils,” play- Conor McPherson’s Dylan musical “Girl
ing a spectacularly obnoxious aspiring film- From the North Country” shut down in
maker. The livestreams start at 7 p.m. with March with the rest of Broadway, but fans of
tickets $10 for the first 100, $25 after that. the Irish writer will get a quick fix when the
From Monday through July 24, the com- Irish Repertory Theater presents a “per-
pany is presenting “Facing the Rising Tide,” formance onscreen” of one his most popular
a free festival of five plays about envi- plays, the spooky tale “The Weir.” Note that
Top, Michael McKean and Edie
ronmental racism and the climate crisis. while Ciarán O’Reilly’s new production is
Falco in “The True” in 2018.
prerecorded, it will stream only at specific
They and other original cast
The Running of the Red Bull times from Tuesday through July 25, so
members will participate in a
For its 10th annual festival of 10-minute make sure to check the company’s website.
benefit live reading online
plays, Red Bull Theater selected six new A $25 donation is suggested.
starting Thursday. From far
works among submissions from around the left, Brenda Meaney, Michael
country. They will be staged and What Happens In Vegas . . .
Frederic, Ned Noyes and
livestreamed free, along with new commis- Clemmie Evans in “The New Patrick Page, who played the underworld
sions from Jeremy O. Harris and Theresa Morality” at the Mint Theater. overlord of “Hadestown,” is reliably fun to
Rebeck, on Monday at 7:30 p.m. Intrigu- watch — and listen to, with that hot-fudge
ingly, the year’s theme is “Private Lives,” in- baritone of his. Now, he and Karen Ziemba
spired by the Noël Coward comedy of that (“Prince of Broadway”) attempt to bring a
title. Can’t wait to watch Frankie J. Alvarez, touch of Elizabethan class to the Strip in a
Kathleen Chalfant, Lilli Cooper, Edmund Short plays and jukebox reading of the Suzanne Bradbeer comedy
Donovan, William Jackson Harper and musicals, by way of your “Shakespeare in Vegas.” A joint production
Charlayne Woodard work their magic. screen. with the Vegas Theater Company, this bene-
RICHARD TERMINE fit for TheaterWorks Silicon Valley streams
Hot Summer Nights July 23-27.
No Zoom window could possibly contain the Selznick (“The Invention of Hugo Cabret”) kick out of a pair of rocking and rolling pro-
outsize personality of Marga Gomez, whose and based on his book with Pam Conrad, ductions from London’s Southwark Play- There Are Worse Things They Could Do
new work, “Spanking Machine,” should be a “Doll Face Has a Party!” is a whimsical house (er, Stayhouse): a 100-minute What do Rosie O’Donnell, Joely Fisher,
highlight of Dixon Place’s Hot Festival, an show about making the most of what’s in “Twelfth Night” and the infernally catchy Mackenzie Phillips and Maureen McCor-
annual “celebration of queer culture.” The your house. The 12-minute Chicago Chil- musical “Wasted,” about the romantic head- mick have in common? They all played
show is the latest installment in a long-run- dren’s Theater production is narrated by bangers known as the Brontë siblings. Betty Rizzo in the 1990s Broadway revival
ning autobiographical project that includes James Lecesne and features low-tech, in- of “Grease.” On Saturday at 8 p.m., they
“Latin Standards,” about her father. (Al- ventive puppetry by Will Bishop and Grace All-Access reminisce about that experience in an
though primarily a solo artist, the biting Needlman. episode of Seth Rudetsky and James Wes-
writer and performer made quite an im- In San Diego, the La Jolla Playhouse con- “Hello to you out there in Normal Land!” So ley’s online talk show “Stars in the House.”
pression last fall portraying a gentle butch tinues its Digital Without Walls series with went the 1981 song “Spasticus Autisticus,” (Where art thou, Linda Blair and Lucy Law-
lesbian in the Liza Birkenmeier play “Dr. Tom Salamon’s interactive treasure hunt which is included in the Ian Dury jukebox less?)
Ride’s American Beach House.”) Perform- “The Wizards of Oakwood Drive” (Thurs- musical “Reasons to Be Cheerful.” In addition, Rudetsky’s Sunday concert
ances are Thursday through July 25 and day through July 26; $25). Parents, make Produced by the Graeae Company, which series continues with Norm Lewis (Sun-
tickets are $10-$40. sure to check out the list of items you will places “D/deaf and disabled actors center- day), Megan Hilty (July 26) and Cheyenne
need to have on hand to make the most of stage,” the raucous show is a good reminder Jackson (Aug. 2). Showtime is 8 p.m. with a
Not-Just-for-Kids Stuff this online performance. that theaters’ move to streaming has repeat Mondays at 3 p.m.; tickets are $20-
Directed by the writer-illustrator Brian Older teens and young adults may get a brought issues of accessibility for viewers, $25.
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and our sons and daughters/Watching our
youth have to solve our problems/I’ll follow
them, so who’s coming with me.”
The video amplifies the song’s lyrical
provocations, collecting protest footage
from the early 20th century to the present,
spanning various causes but heavily ad-
dressing the Black Lives Matter movement,
concluding with an onscreen roll call of
names of Black victims of police violence.
“Stick That in Your Country Song” and
“March March” aren’t directly about the
current political moment — both were writ-
ten before the recent protests sparked by
the killing of George Floyd — but they’re
about a nation that was already in turmoil,
and has been for decades. Viewed through
Caught flat-footed, that lens, they are perfectly timed.
But that the two most prominent quasi-
Nashville fumbles when protest songs to come from the extended
it should be reckoning. country music ecosystem are from artists
who, in very different ways, have made a
point of cutting against its orthodoxy only
underscores how ill-prepared country mu-
From left, Hillary Scott, sic — the genre and the industry — is for the
Charles Kelley and Dave current conversations about racial justice.
Haywood rebranded from This isn’t a surprise. For most of the last
Lady Antebellum to Lady A, decade, mainstream country music has
only to learn that a Black been distilling down to the dimmest version
blues singer in Seattle also of itself, overindexing on breezy flirtation
performs under that name. and lol-shrug rural tropes. Even the ETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAGES
brawny, quasi-militaristic chest-puffing of
the early 2000s — exemplified by Toby branding as Lady A, a nickname it has long defiant comeback album in 2006, it still Lorie Liebig, a country music publicist and
Keith, Trace Adkins and so on — has been used (and a trademark it owns), only to dis- went by the Dixie Chicks. Only now has the journalist, assembled a spreadsheet detail-
all but excised. Luke Bryan is singing about cover that a Seattle blues singer — a Black group rebranded. ing how dozens of country musicians had
drinking, Morgan Wallen is singing sweet woman — also performs under that same It’s important to remember that harmful (or hadn’t) been addressing the protests —
nothings, Justin Moore is singing about name. language can be perpetuated by cruel in- though many were silent, a not insignificant
drinking, Chris Janson is singing sweet What began as an overdue attempt at a tent, and also by deaf ears. Country music number were actively engaging with the
nothings: More than at almost any time in good-faith act has devolved into a comedy has largely aligned itself with contempo- topic.
its history, country music is a pool party. of errors. After negotiations between the rary conservative values and has consis- One easy way to make the genre less
Out in the rest of the world, industries two parties — which included the prospect tently sidelined the contributions and con- cloistered would be to simply pay more at-
that have long cruised with blinders on have of a collaborative song — broke down, Lady cerns of nonwhite and nonmale performers. tention to its Black performers, who remain
been upended. The parts of the music indus- A the blues singer asked for a payment of In this climate, it can be jolting to hear even heavily marginalized, with the very notable
try that operate out of New York and Los $10 million, half of which would be donated the faintest allusion to dissent, like on “How exceptions of Darius Rucker and Kane
Angeles have begun to take steps to redress to charity. In response, Lady A the band They Remember You,” the most recent sin- Brown.
decades of injustice, or at least have given filed a lawsuit to assert its right to use the gle from the denuded balladeer trio Rascal The singer and songwriter Jimmie Allen
lip service to the idea. name. Whether or not a judge offers the Flatts, which features this benign ponder- just released a promising EP, “Bettie
Nashville, though, has been caught flat- band relief, it has already been deeply dam- able: “Did you stand, or did you fall?/Build James,” that features his smooth voice and
footed, an outcome that was essentially pre- aged in the court of public opinion — blind to a bridge, or build a wall?”
pop instincts. Next week, the singer Rissi
ordained, given that the country music the associations its original name held, and Often, the genre finds itself dead center in
Palmer will debut a podcast, “Color Me
business has always been woefully insuffi- equally blind to the implications of attempt- the culture wars, as happened in June when
Country,” devoted to the stories of Black
cient in how it addresses race — sidelining ing to steamroll a Black artist on its path to the singer Chase Rice performed a concert
and brown women country performers.
the Black music that was essential in its for- attempted redemption. in Tennessee at which fans were unmasked
mation, overlooking the ways the genre still And last month, Mickey Guyton, a singer
This is what happens when racial aware- and not practicing social distancing, earn-
intersects with contemporary Black music ing widespread ire, including from some of who’s been knocking at the door of
ness is an afterthought. But while it’s easy
and consistently giving Black performers to malign the group for its stumbling, it is by his peers. (More promisingly, the country Nashville’s mainstream for years, released
short shrift. Building an identity premised no means alone. And the case of the former superstars Garth Brooks, Brad Paisley and a new song, “Black Like Me,” which explicit-
upon Black erasure leaves the world of Dixie Chicks is instructive here. In 2003, the Alan Jackson have all recently done ver- ly links the casually blinkered stories coun-
country music fumbling when it should be group was effectively exiled from the genre sions of drive-in concerts.) try music tells about America to the feeble-
reckoning. when Natalie Maines expressed her dis- But there are indications of changes in ness of its allyship:
Nowhere has this been more evident than pleasure with President George W. Bush. sentiment and in the ways country stars are It’s a hard life on easy street
in the case of Lady Antebellum, which fi- This was country music’s most jingoistic willing to be outspoken. The Mississippi na- Just white painted picket fences far as
nally arrived at the realization that the era, and its most overtly politically conser- tives Faith Hill and Charlie Worsham spoke you can see
name it’s been using for a decade and a half vative one. But even as liberal outcasts, the out in favor of removing Confederate If you think we live in the land of the free
carries unwelcome slavery-era connota- trio did not take steps to address the impli- iconography from the Mississippi state flag.
You should try to be Black like me
tions. The band announced that it was re- cations of its name. Even when it released a In the wake of the killing of George Floyd,
PARUL SEHGAL BOOKS OF THE TIMES
An Eye on the ‘World Capital of Self-Immolations’

Deeply reported profiles also work its granularity, but it also allows her to
crosscheck the stories of her subjects.
able vividness and horror. One man recalls
hiding himself as a little boy when his house
Korea has she witnessed such smothering
surveillance and high levels of fear, she
cover an awe-inspiring breadth “Good reporting should have the same was invaded by Chinese soldiers. He writes, accelerated by technological devel-
of Tibetan history. standard as in a courtroom — beyond a rea-
sonable doubt,” she has said. In her latest,
emerged to find his grandfather gone and
grandmother badly shaken, her scalp
opments like a social credit system in devel-
opment that will prevent “untrustworthy”
the masterly “Eat the Buddha,” she profiles bleeding. He remembers wondering: citizens from employment, buying plane
IN “THE UNWOMANLY Face of War,” an oral a group of Tibetans with roots in Ngaba Where are her pigtails? The former prin- tickets and using credit cards.
history of World War II, the Nobel Prize- County, in the Chinese province of Sichuan, cess remembers being so curious about the In Ngaba, the last Tibetan-language
winning writer Svetlana Alexievich re- which bears the gory distinction of being Chinese at first, so delighted to meet them. school — the last one in all of China — has
counts a strange little story. A woman leaps the “undisputed world capital of self-immo- Her mother joked that she offered grass to switched to teaching primarily in Chinese.
into dark water to rescue a drowning man. lations.” their trucks, the first vehicles she had ever Meanwhile, across the country, Demick no-
At the shore, however, she realizes it is not a Despite the Buddhist taboo against sui- seen. She thought they were horses. tices the same red billboards springing up,
man she has hauled from the water but a gi- cide, some 156 Tibetans — at the time of Those who self-immolate today are the proclaiming the latest propaganda: “TO-
gantic sturgeon. The sturgeon dies. Demick’s writing — have set themselves on grandchildren of those who participated in
GETHER WE WILL BUILD A BEAUTIFUL
Censors initially cut the scene from Alex- fire in recent years, protesting China’s rule. the early uprisings, Demick writes. Having
ievich’s book. You’re not asking about the HOME. BEND LOW. LISTEN TO WHAT
They have perfected their technique, wrap- imbibed the Dalai Lama’s teachings of non-
right things, they remonstrated. Focus on ping themselves in quilts and wire to pre- violence, they can only bear to hurt them- PEOPLE SAY.”
bravery, on patriotism. Let’s have less about Eat the Buddha: Life and vent rescue, dousing themselves in gasoline selves. They bear the scars of the “Demo-
fear, and less about hairstyles. There was no Death in a Tibetan Town and swallowing it, too, to ensure they will cratic Reforms” in eastern Tibet that began
place in the canon for her sort of wartime By Barbara Demick burn from the inside. Almost a third of these in 1958. “Tibetans of this generation refer to
stories, Alexievich recalled in an interview Illustrated. 325 pages. Random people — monks, mothers, ordinary citizens this period simply as ngabgay — ’58. Like
with The Paris Review. There was no place House. $28. — have come from Ngaba and the sur- 9/11, it is shorthand for a catastrophe so
for reality, which comes stuffed with stur- rounding region. overwhelming that words cannot express it,
geons and all manner of misapprehensions Why Ngaba? “Why were so many of its only the number,” Demick writes. “Some
and muddle; reality, which shows notable residents willing to destroy their bodies by will call it dhulok, a word that roughly trans-
indifference, if not outright hostility, to plot. one of the most horrific methods imagi- lates as the ‘collapse of time,’ or, hauntingly,
Perhaps an alternative canon exists, in nable?” This mystery hooked Demick, who ‘when the sky and earth changed places.’ ”
the work of oral historians like Alexievich,
and in the deeply reported narratives of
arrived in China in 2007 as the Beijing bu-
reau chief of The Los Angeles Times. On the
Tibetans were forced into cooperative liv-
ing, stripped of their herds and land. Their
CLUE OF THE DAY
journalists like Barbara Demick. The face of it, Ngaba is better off than many of its yaks were seized and slaughtered, recalling
method is programmatic openness, deep
listening, a willingness to be waylaid; the
counterparts, she observes. The residents the American government’s devastating OLD TESTAMENT
ART BOOKS
are comfortable, the infrastructure compar- policy of culling the Lakota’s bison. Daylong
effect, a prismatic picture of history as ex- atively decent. (The government invested public “struggle sessions” were instituted
perienced and understood by individuals in in a “blitz” of modernization in the hopes of — rituals of public humiliation in which
their full amplitude and idiosyncrasy. Alex- quelling the uprisings). Some attribute the those accused of perceived infractions were BY HEBREW WORD
ievich collects the daydreams of her sub- protests to the harsh and oppressive police forced to admit to crimes and submit to ver- COUNT, THE LONGEST
jects. In Demick’s impressive account of life presence. But Demick argues that the roots bal and physical abuse — with children BOOK BEARS THIS
in North Korea, “Nothing to Envy,” she de- run deeper. Ngaba was the site of Tibet’s forced to observe and cheer along. Some 20
scribed a society on the brink of starvation, first meeting with Chinese Communists, in percent of the population was arrested and NAME THAT LED TO
cut off from the world, lacking even elec- the 1930s. “The people of this region have a held in prisons that were often only pits in A WORD FOR A LONG
tricity. But she told love stories, too. Dark- particular wound causing excessive suffer- the ground filled with hundreds of people. COMPLAINT OR RANT
ness proved to be a surprising boon; some ing that spans three generations,” the monk An estimated 300,000 Tibetans died. Yesterday’s Response:
North Koreans told her they grew to need it, Kirti Rinpoche testified before a U.S. con- Demick covers an awe-inspiring breadth
as it conferred the only freedom they knew. gressional commission in 2011. “This wound of history — from the heyday of the Tibetan
Young people fell in love in the dark: is very difficult to forget or heal.” empire, which could compete with those of FOR THE CORRECT
“Wrapped in a magic cloak of invisibility, Fleeing Nationalist forces, the Red Army the Turks and Arabs, to the present day, as RESPONSE, WATCH
you can do what you like without worrying marauded through monasteries. They the movement for Tibetan independence JEOPARDY! TONIGHT
about the prying eyes of parents, neighbors burned holy books and manuscripts, and has faltered and transformed into an effort OR LOOK IN THIS
or secret police.” survived by boiling and eating the skin of at cultural and spiritual survival. She charts SPACE TOMORROW
“Eat the Buddha” is Demick’s third book, drums and the votive offerings to the Bud- the creative rebellions of recent years, the IN THE TIMES.
all of them told in rotating perspectives — a dha (from which the book gets its title). efforts at revitalizing the language and tra-
model inspired by John Hersey’s “Hiroshi- Demick traces this first encounter, and the ditions, Tibetans’ attachment to the Dalai
ma,” and one she has made her own. In “Lo- ensuing violent history, through the testi- Lama (and their criticisms). Above all, WHO IS EVANGELISTA
gavina Street,” she described daily life dur- monies of her cast of characters: students Demick wants to give room for contempo- TORRICELLI?
ing the Bosnian War through the lens of one and teachers, market sellers, the private rary Tibetans to testify to their desires.
neighborhood in Sarajevo. “Nothing to secretary to the Dalai Lama, the former They want only the rights enjoyed by the
Envy” followed six refugees from the port
city of Chongjin. The close focus gives her
princess of the Mei kingdom.
These scenes are narrated as flashes of
Han Chinese, she writes — to travel, hold a
passport, to study their own language, to
Watch JEOPARDY!
memory, anchored by the types of details educate their children abroad if they wish. 7 p.m. on Channel 7
Follow Parul Sehgal on Twitter: @parul_sehgal. children remember, giving them an unbear- Her forecast is pessimistic. Only in North
The ‘Appearance of Impropriety’

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1 Five years into his directorship, the is-
versity. “And it would also cause the appear- sues with the paintings are part of a larger
ance of impropriety to arise — namely, that pattern of dissatisfaction with Mr. Salort-
the museum used its prestige, resources Pons’s leadership, according to several cur-
and reach to enrich the official.” rent and former staff members.
The institute said it had engaged a Wash- The broader complaints describe a less-
ington law firm to review the museum’s than-collaborative management style,
loan procedures and policies to ensure that sidelining of senior staff members, and frus-
they had been followed. tration that Mr. Salort-Pons is undermining
The bonds between museums and the institute’s emphasis on community out-
wealthy collectors is one of the essential re- reach and education for which it prides it-
lationships of American museums. Without self.
the generosity of such patrons museums They also complain about a certain deaf-
could likely not afford the art that enhances ness on race at a time when questions about
the visitor experience. systemic racism are coursing through the
So, museums routinely engage in all man- country’s cultural institutions.
ner of relationship-building they hope will In June, Andrea Montiel de Shuman, a
encourage collectors to donate money or digital experience designer, quit, complain-
major works. Mr. Salort-Pons said that was ing in an online essay of “a contradictory,
his ultimate goal when he implored the col- hostile, at times vicious and chaotic work
lector, Alan M. May, a retired real estate in- environment” that censors the work of peo-
vestor, to lend the El Greco. ple of color and neglects Black communi-
The late-16th-century painting, valued at ties.
$5 million in the museum’s internal data- Two assistant curators, both Black wom-
base, shows the young saint standing alone en, who were hired for the contemporary
in a wild landscape. art department in 2016 as part of an effort to
expand diversity, left within two years.
Praising its “dynamic image of ecstasy,”
Mr. Salort-Pons said the work surpasses in One of the curators, Taylor Renee
Aldridge, said in an email that her situation
quality the institute’s existing El Greco,
“is emblematic of many abuses and sys-
“Madonna and Child,” which was donated in
temic violences that permeate from the top
1970 by a Detroit collector. (Damaged by a
down in museums, and especially the DIA.”
repaint, it has not been exhibited for dec-
The institute declined to comment on in-
ades.)
dividual personnel matters. Mr. Salort-Pons
“When I heard that he bought this paint- conceded that his European background
ing, I called him and said you need to lend meant that initially he had had a limited un-
this to the D.I.A. because it’s an amazing derstanding of the Black struggle in Amer-
painting,” he said. ica but was taking steps to improve diversi-
In the case of the St. Francis painting, ty. “I came with privilege,” he said. “I am
both Mr. May and Mr. Salort-Pons informed aware of that right now and I understand it.”
the institute’s chairman, Eugene A. Gar- Those steps include a new paid intern-
garo, about the plan to lend it to the insti- ship program and hiring a consultant to ad-
tute, and Mr. Gargaro approved the loan. “If vise on diversity and access.
it’s disclosed to me, then it’s disclosed to the He also defended his support for African-
whole board,” Mr. Gargaro said in an inter- American art and said a vote in March in fa-
view. vor of renewing the property tax ear-
The work was also listed in the usual loan marked for the museum was a strong show
agreement issued for incoming works of art of community approval for his achieve-
and was known to a circle of staff members ments.
who deal with borrowed artworks, Mr. Sa- His tenure in Detroit has coincided with
lort-Pons said. his father-in-law’s growing involvement.
The El Greco was the second painting he Mr. May became a member of the institute
had borrowed from his father-in-law. in 2009, and travels with curators to art
In 2010, Mr. Salort-Pons borrowed a 17th world events — a perk often extended to im-
BRITTANY GREESON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
BRITTANY GREESON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES CARLOS OSORIO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
century painting valued at $500,000, “An Al- The Detroit Institute of Arts, ton representing the staff members, said whistle-blower complaint about President portant collectors.
legory of Autumn,” attributed to the circle of above left, arranged to show a Mr. Salort-Pons did not take nearly enough Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. He declined He said that he believed his loans were
the French artist Nicolas Poussin. It was a borrowed El Greco painting, care. to say how many institute staff members handled properly.
painting that would help explain Poussin’s “St. Francis Receiving the He should have recused himself com- were involved in the complaint. “As a philanthropist, I can assure you that
influence; Mr. Salort-Pons, who was then a Stigmata,” top, in its medieval pletely and should have formally informed Mr. May and Mr. Salort-Pons declined to my sole motivation was to enrich the mu-
curator, said he sought the approval of Gra- and Renaissance galleries. But the entire board as well as the public about comment about the trust. seum experience to its visitors and to help
ham Beal, who was the director at the time. the painting belongs to the any family interest. Mr. Salort-Pons acknowledged that in- provide learning opportunities for students
Mr. Beal said in an email that the loans of father-in-law of the museum’s This accords with what some ethics excluding the work of, say, a young contempo- and art lovers,” he said.
such paintings to the institute’s galleries director, Salvador Salort-Pons, perts believe. Ideally, museum experts say, rary artist on the institute’s walls would be He has donated conservation equipment
represented “a hole that the curator in above right, prompting if a work is borrowed from a family member, likely to increase that work’s value. But he to the institute and has given paintings to
charge hoped the loan might fill perma- concerns about a conflict of the director should also justify why the questioned whether that held for paintings other museums like the Dallas Museum of
nently in the fullness of time.” interest. Mr. Salort-Pons said work is joining the museum’s collection. by established names like El Greco. Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
“The loan(s) from Alan May was/were that his family’s interest in the Whistleblower Aid said Mr. Salort-Pons The Spanish-born Mr. Salort-Pons, 50, But he has yet to donate a work to D.I.A.,
totally above board and benefited the DIA painting was properly ran afoul of these guidelines because the joined the institute in 2008 and became di- though he said he might donate a painting
as much, if not more, than the lender,” Mr. disclosed. paintings were owned by a family trust and rector seven years later, after a turbulent from his collection in the future.
Beal said. his wife was a beneficiary. period when the institute was saved by the The painting attributed to the circle of
The institute’s own guidelines say that “At best, Salort-Pons exercised poor judg- infusion of nearly a billion dollars from Poussin stayed at the institute until 2012,
family loans can benefit the museum but ment by entering into an opaque arrange- foundations, private donors and the state of and has now returned to its owner. Mr. Sa-
“exhibition can enhance the value of the ex- ment that financially benefits his father-in- Michigan. A deal for an annual property tax lort-Pons said he was encouraging his fa-
hibited object and care should be used to law and wife,” said John N. Tye, founder of increase paid by three Michigan counties ther-in-law to keep the St. Francis painting
achieve objectivity in such cases.” Whistle- Whistleblower Aid, which has previously continues to support its annual $38 million at the institute for much longer.
blower Aid, a nonprofit law firm in Washing- worked on high-profile cases including the operating budget. “I would like it to stay forever,” he said.
Tyra Banks Is the New Host of ‘Dancing With the Stars’

The former supermodel will fill who had hosted the show for 15 years, and
Erin Andrews, who had done so for six, ear-
“So, Danielle, you went to the dentist, but
you refused to have your gap closed,” Banks
the role that Tom Bergeron lier this week, citing a desire to take the told the contestant, Dani Evans, who is
occupied for the past 15 years. show in a new direction after several sea-
sons of sagging ratings.
Black, during the show. “Do you really think
you can have a CoverGirl contract with a
Bergeron had been outspoken about the gap in your mouth?”
By SARAH BAHR
show’s decision to cast political guests, When Evans replied that she thought she
A day after Tom Bergeron, the longtime which included Sean Spicer, the former could, Banks chided her that her tooth gap
“Dancing With the Stars” host, announced White House press secretary and communi-
on Twitter that ABC had not invited him to was “not marketable.” (Evans went on to
cations director for President Trump. “We win that cycle of the show.)
return for the show’s 29th season, the net- can agree to disagree, as we do now, but it’s
work revealed his replacement: Tyra Banks later told a white contestant on Cy-
ultimately their call,” he wrote on Twitter
Banks, the former supermodel and busi- cle 15 of the show, Chelsey Hersley, to have
last August.
nesswoman. her own gap widened to make her look
Spicer joined a number of Republican-af-
Banks, whose reality TV credits include “more edgy.”
filiated contestants who had appeared be-
hosting “America’s Next Top Model” and fore him, including Bristol Palin, the daugh- In the statement announcing the new
“America’s Got Talent,” will also serve as ter of Sarah Palin, the former G.O.P. vice- host, Karey Burke, the network’s president,
praised Banks’s broad experience. “Tyra is

the show’s executive producer, the network presidential candidate; and Rick Perry, the
announced late Tuesday night. former Texas governor who ran for presi- an award-winning multi-hyphenate whose
“Tom has set a powerful stage,” Banks dent. fierce female prowess and influence across
said in a joint statement from ABC and BBC Banks is not without controversy. She many industries have made an indelible
Studios, the show’s production company. apologized in May for comments she made mark,” she said.
“And I’m excited to continue the legacy and about a contestant’s tooth gap during the In a statement on Wednesday, Banks said
put on my executive producer and hosting 2006 season of “America’s Next Top Model,” of the show, “I will do my best to honor its
WILLY SANJUAN/INVISION, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
hats.” the TV modeling competition she created, legacy while also injecting new ideas to
The network parted ways with Bergeron, Tyra Banks has other reality TV credits. hosted and executive produced. reach new generations of audiences.”
IMAGES VIA ELECTRONIC ARTS
A Virtual Above, in the Sims, players can

create any kind of identity they
want. “The theme of the show and
Playground the game is you come as you are,’’

said Tayla Parx, far left, with, from
her left, Dave Miotke, Kelsey
Impicciche and Rayvon Owen.
Comes to TV CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1

said. “But little did she know that then I had in an effort to both energize existing players
my real neighborhood where I was married and recruit new ones. The company settled
to a guy and living in a home with a man — on a traditional reality competition format
or several men — and doing all these pro- after enlisting established reality
miscuous things that were totally unthink- producers, including Allison Tom and Rich-
able in the real world I was living in, grow- ard Hall (“The Amazing Race,” “Ex on the
ing up in the church and all that.” Beach”) — each now an executive producer
on “Spark’d.” While the Buzzfeed online dis-
Owen, 29, a singer now living in Los An- and songwriter who is one of the judges. digital characters with independent gender
options for clothing preference and physical tribution deal seemed clear once Impicci-
geles, did not discuss his sexuality publicly “For me as a bisexual Black woman, I al-
frame, the game now allows players to che signed on as a judge last year, the televi-
until 2016, after appearing as a finalist on ways found the game really valuable.
choose whether a particular Sim can be- sion deal with Turner didn’t come together
“American Idol.” This week he is scheduled “Being able to play with family dynamics
come pregnant, can impregnate other Sims until early June, Pearson said.
to debut as the host of a different reality and sexual dynamics, it’s made to explore
the boundaries of you in a way that’s really or neither, regardless of gender. The game Electronic Arts executives said that the
television competition: “The Sims Spark’d,”
beautiful. The worst that can happen is you also lets players decide whether a particu- TBS slot was meant to showcase the Sims
a new show based on the game, which ar-
rebuild again if you don’t like it.” lar Sim, regardless of gender, can use the for nonplayers and hard-core gamers while
rives Friday on TBS. New installments of
bathroom standing up. the Buzzfeed YouTube window is aimed at
the four-episode season will premiere on Will Wright, already an acclaimed game
Within the game, individual computer- the game’s core audience of young women
Fridays at 11 p.m. as part of Turner’s designer as the creator of the popular and
controlled characters interact with one an- and adolescent girls. Many designers and
ELeague brand and will arrive on Buzz- influential SimCity, first conceived the Sims
other without regard to gender or racial ap- experts believe that women gravitate to
feed’s Multiplayer YouTube channel the fol- after his family lost its home to fires in Oak-
pearance until they are prompted by a hu- simulation games like the Sims because the
lowing Mondays. land, Calif., in 1991. In its planning stage, the
man player. sense of control players have over their vir-
While competitive e-sports have long project was called simply “Dollhouse.” In
“I was in early middle school when I first tual worlds may provide respite from the
been broadcast around the globe, “Spark’d” the years since the first version of the game
played, and now I’m in my late 20s, and here challenges women often face in a male-
is poised to become the first mainstream re- was released, in 2000, the basic premise has
we are on TV,’’ said Kelsey Impicciche, a dominated society.
ality show based on an electronic game. remained the same: Give players the ability
to create some fantasy rendition of real fam- judge on “Spark’d,” best known to Sims fans Jeanette Wall, a 28-year-old music execu-
And as a reality show, it hews closely to the tive in Brooklyn who identifies as queer, be-
tried-and-true formula popularized by hits for her Buzzfeed YouTube series on the
game’s unofficial 100 Baby Challenge. (The gan playing the Sims when she was in ele-
like “Project Runway,” with 12 contestants ‘It’s all about, how do we mentary school in Oklahoma. She said it is
competing in various in-game challenges — challenge relies on extremes of fertility pos-
make the game reflect sible only in a video game.) “Over the years, the only electronic game she still plays reg-
“Design two rival families from different ularly and that her latest project in the
the world we live in?’ the core of the game has stayed the same,
neighborhoods,” for example — while vying game is a “lesbian commune.”
but the big difference is that the community
to win $100,000. “I didn’t have any dolls to play with, and
itself is more diverse and the Sims are more
For contestants — 10 women, two men — the Sims was this total digital dollhouse for
inclusive.”
the series draws mainly from Sims content The game series has sold more than 200 me, and I guess it still is,’’ she said. “The ele-
ily life. Players create various characters,
creators with significant followings on known as Sims, and homes and then direct million copies and more than 10 million peo- ments of control over the environment are
YouTube and Twitch. While there are some them as they desire. ple play every month, according to Elec- so important — especially for queer people
relatively minor conflicts, “Spark’d” is not “It’s all about, how do we make the game tronic Arts. About two-thirds of players are and women — because at various points
heavy on interpersonal drama. The cam- reflect the world we live in?’’ said Lyndsay girls and women between 13 and 30, the you feel like your life is so totally out of your
eras don’t follow the contestants back to Pearson, the general manager of the Sims company said. Craig Barry, the chief con- control, especially right now when the
their hotel and the overall vibe of the show for the video game company that publishes tent officer for Turner Sports, said the show world we live in is in shambles.”
is wholesome rather than salacious. it, Electronic Arts. “The world we live in was a good fit for TBS’s ELeague Friday “Hearing about the show," she added, “it’s
Instead, the show focuses on allowing the changes and the stories our players want to night programming window as the network like you didn’t really realize how many peo-
contestants to tell stories in the game that tell change and we embrace that. For the tries to expand its coverage of gaming cul- ple were playing the game all this time for
reflect their own lives and experiences. Is- show, that’s really what we want to come ture beyond hard-core e-sports. the exact same reasons you were.”
sues of gender, sexuality, race and class fig- through.” While a reality show based on the virtual Owen, the host, welled with tears as he
ure heavily. The game series has allowed players to world of a computer game might seem tai- discussed the program.
In that sense, the true narrative emerges pursue same-sex relationships since its in- lor-made for the quarantine era, Electronic “Honestly, the game was always a thera-
from the personal meaning the game seems ception, but did not allow all couples to Arts developed and filmed the series last peutic experience,” he said. “The show is
to hold for both contestants and judges, al- marry until the Sims 3 was released in 2009. year at the company’s Bay Area headquar- fun and it’s exciting to host, but there is a
most all in their 20s. Four years ago, Electronic Arts updated the ters. deeper meaning that relates to this whole
“The theme of the show and the game is game in its latest version, the Sims 4, to in- In early 2019, multiple teams at the com- journey of coming out and getting into a
you come as you are and play however rep- clude more flexible gender customization pany coalesced around the concept of creat- place of self-acceptance, not just for me but
resents you,’’ said Tayla Parx, 26, a singer options. In addition to letting players create ing a structured contest based on the Sims for a lot of people.”
ViacomCBS Fires Nick Cannon, Citing Anti-Semitic Podcast Remarks

The network said the TV star In a tweet on Monday, Mr. Cannon said,
“Anyone who knows me knows that I have
this.” He also said that Jews were responsi-
ble for “the majority of wickedness that
promoted ‘hateful speech.’ no hate in my heart nor malice intentions.” goes on across the globe.”
On Wednesday, Mr. Cannon said in a Speaking to Mr. Cannon, Mr. Griffin dou-
By NEIL VIGDOR statement on Facebook that he “must apol- bled down on his past remarks about the in-
The television star Nick Cannon was fired ogize to my Jewish Brothers and Sisters for fluence of Jewish people on the music and
by ViacomCBS on Tuesday for making anti- putting them in such a painful position, media industries.
Semitic remarks during a recent podcast in which was never my intention.” “I’m hated now because I told the truth,”
which he discussed conspiracy theories “Systemic racism is what this world was Mr. Griffin said.
about Jewish people and praised a minister built on and was the subject in which I was “You’re speaking facts,” Mr. Cannon said.
notorious for anti-Jewish comments. attempting to highlight in the recent clips “There’s no reason to be scared of anything Nick Cannon at a
ViacomCBS is the parent company of that have been circulating from my pod- when you’re speaking the truth.” Black Lives Matter
MTV and the cable channel TeenNick, both cast,” he said. “If I have furthered the hate Mr. Cannon said it was an honor to have protest in New York
of which prominently showcased Mr. Can- speech, I wholeheartedly apologize.” the “legend” Mr. Griffin on his podcast. He last month.
BRYAN R. SMITH/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
non for years on various platforms. In the lengthy statement, he said that he also said it was a shame that Louis Farra-
Mr. Cannon, 39, had worked as an execu- was “now receiving death threats, hate robbing our community for years, under- khan, a minister known for his history of
tive producer and chairman of TeenNick, a messages,” but also an “outpouring of love paying talent on their biggest brands.” Mr. anti-Semitic comments, had been silenced
spinoff of the network Nickelodeon geared and support from the Jewish community.” Cannon demanded an apology from Via- on Facebook.
toward teenagers. He had also been a host Mr. Cannon, who is Black, said that he had com, full ownership of the “Wild ’N Out” Responding to Mr. Griffin’s contention
and executive producer of the MTV comedy “dedicated my daily efforts to continuing brand and an end to “the hate and backdoor that six dominant media companies were
show “Wild ’N Out.” conversations to bring the Jewish Commu- bullying.” controlled by Jewish people, Mr. Cannon
A ViacomCBS spokeswoman said in a nity and the African-American community Mr. Cannon, an actor and a musician, is said it was comparable to the power of the
statement that the company categorically closer together.” also a host on the Fox show “The Masked Rothschilds, the banking scions who are a
denounced all forms of anti-Semitism. Mr. Cannon said that he had tried to Singer.” It was not immediately clear if Mr. focus of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
“We have spoken with Nick Cannon speak with Shari Redstone, the company’s Cannon’s relationship with the network was “I find myself wanting to debate this idea
about an episode of his podcast ‘Cannon’s controlling shareholder, “to have a conver- being re-evaluated. Fox did not respond to and it gets real wishy and washy and un-
Class’ on YouTube, which promoted hateful sation of reconciliation and actually apolo- requests for comment on Tuesday night. clear for me when we give so much power to
speech and spread anti-Semitic conspiracy gize if I said anything that pained or hurt On the June 30 episode of the podcast, Mr. the ‘theys,’ and ‘theys’ then turn into illumi-
theories,” the statement said. “While we her or her community.” But he said he had Cannon was interviewing the rapper Rich- nati, the Zionists, the Rothschilds,” Mr. Can-
support ongoing education and dialogue in heard “Dead Silence!” and that ViacomCBS ard Griffin, known as Professor Griff, about non said later in the podcast.
the fight against bigotry, we are deeply trou- “wanted to show me who is boss, hang me his dismissal from the hip-hop group Public He also echoed Mr. Griffin’s remarks
bled that Nick has failed to acknowledge or out to dry and make an example of anyone Enemy in 1989. about how Black people are Semitic people
apologize for perpetuating anti-Semitism, who says something they don’t agree with.” Mr. Griffin left the group after he said in by definition and that Semitic people are not
and we are terminating our relationship He also made several demands of the an interview with The Washington Times: white. “You can’t be anti-Semitic when we
with him.” company, accusing it of “mistreating and “The Jews are wicked. And we can prove are the Semitic people,” Mr. Cannon said.
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main threats from the storms will be flash Normal .................... 4.11
H flooding and damaging wind gusts. 90° For the last 365 days
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scattered about the South, with isolated 81° Normal Normal .................. 49.90
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urban flooding. As slightly cooler and less
humid air settles over the North Central 80°
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states, heat and high humidity will contin- High ........... 30.23 1 p.m. High ............. 83% 6 a.m.
Low ............ 30.09 1 a.m. Low .............. 55% 2 p.m.
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will erupt over the interior Southwest that 70° far the day's mean temperature rose above 65
Hot weather will stretch from the central Plains to the Northeast this weekend. Thunder- could spark more fires, while a few loca- 6 a.m.
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storms, some of which could be heavy and gusty, will cut into the heat across the Midwest. tions may be doused with heavy rain. So far this month...................................................... 205
60° Record So far this season (since January 1) ........................ 519
Heat will also build across the interior Northwest. low 57° Normal to date for the season ................................. 447
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p.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. Trends Temperature Precipitation
Little Rock 95/ 77 Tr 95/ 78 PC 94/ 75 T New Delhi 98/ 81 0 95/ 82 T 96/ 82 T
Cities Los Angeles 80/ 62 0 80/ 62 PC 83/ 63 PC Riyadh 115/ 87 0 113/ 88 PC 113/ 85 PC Average Average
High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4 Louisville 94/ 77 0 90/ 75 T 90/ 76 T Seoul 82/ 64 0 83/ 69 PC 84/ 69 PC Avg. daily departure Avg. daily departure Below Above Below Above
p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in inches) Memphis 95/ 78 0.04 95/ 79 C 94/ 78 PC Shanghai 75/ 70 2.22 78/ 71 T 77/ 76 T from normal from normal Last 10 days
for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. Miami 93/ 79 0 92/ 80 T 89/ 80 T Singapore 85/ 79 0.27 86/ 77 T 85/ 79 T this month
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Milwaukee 81/ 65 0.05 81/ 67 S 87/ 73 PC Sydney 60/ 52 0.15 61/ 53 W 61/ 52 PC 30 days
Expected conditions for today and tomorrow.
Mpls.-St. Paul 80/ 62 0 83/ 67 S 87/ 75 PC Taipei City 93/ 82 0 100/ 82 PC 99/ 83 T 90 days
C ........................ Clouds S .............................Sun Nashville 96/ 76 0 95/ 76 PC 92/ 75 T Tehran 95/ 75 0 94/ 75 PC 95/ 80 PC Reservoir levels (New York City water supply) 365 days
F............................. Fog Sn ....................... Snow New Orleans 91/ 80 0.34 91/ 76 PC 92/ 78 PC Tokyo 75/ 66 0.57 77/ 70 C 77/ 71 T
H .......................... Haze SS .......... Snow showers Norfolk 90/ 75 Tr 88/ 72 PC 93/ 77 S Yesterday ............... 90% Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation
Oklahoma City 96/ 74 0.03 94/ 75 PC 97/ 76 S Europe Yesterday Today Tomorrow trends compare with those of the last 30 years.
I............................... Ice T............ Thunderstorms Est. normal ............. 93%
Omaha 80/ 59 1.64 87/ 71 PC 90/ 76 PC Amsterdam 68/ 52 0.02 67/ 55 Sh 71/ 57 PC
PC ............. Partly cloudy Tr ......................... Trace Athens 86/ 69 0 87/ 72 S 88/ 70 S
Orlando 92/ 77 0.14 91/ 76 T 89/ 76 PC
R ........................... Rain W ........................ Windy Berlin 68/ 58 0.46 71/ 53 Sh 74/ 57 T
Philadelphia 88/ 69 0 85/ 70 C 89/ 74 C
Sh ................... Showers –............... Not available Brussels 68/ 54 0.05 65/ 55 Sh 72/ 57 PC
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N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Portland, Me. 75/ 59 0 71/ 60 PC 71/ 64 C Copenhagen 64/ 56 0.40 67/ 56 PC 71/ 56 PC
New York City 81/ 70 0 79/ 68 PC 80/ 72 C Portland, Ore. 86/ 63 0 83/ 63 PC 76/ 57 PC Dublin 66/ 53 0.01 69/ 56 PC 66/ 51 C Sun, Moon and Planets Beach and Ocean Temperatures
Bridgeport 79/ 68 0 78/ 68 PC 78/ 72 C Providence 78/ 62 0.01 77/ 61 PC 76/ 69 C Edinburgh 64/ 53 0.01 67/ 57 PC 65/ 50 Sh
Caldwell 85/ 67 0 81/ 69 PC 82/ 72 C Raleigh 92/ 70 0 90/ 71 PC 92/ 72 PC Frankfurt 73/ 58 0.17 65/ 55 Sh 77/ 55 T New First Quarter Full Last Quarter
Danbury 80/ 62 0 76/ 64 PC 75/ 67 T Reno 97/ 65 0 98/ 66 PC 97/ 64 S Geneva 72/ 59 0.13 75/ 58 C 76/ 58 T Today’s forecast
Islip 79/ 67 0.03 77/ 67 PC 77/ 71 C Richmond 91/ 70 0 90/ 71 PC 92/ 74 T Helsinki 72/ 48 0 73/ 54 C 75/ 55 PC
Newark 83/ 70 0 78/ 69 PC 83/ 72 C Rochester 87/ 71 0 83/ 68 R 86/ 66 PC Istanbul 77/ 68 0 81/ 67 S 81/ 70 PC
Trenton 84/ 66 0 81/ 67 C 85/ 71 C Sacramento 93/ 61 0 92/ 60 S 92/ 60 S Kiev 73/ 56 0 77/ 59 C 79/ 58 PC July 20 July 27 Aug. 3 Aug. 11
White Plains 80/ 65 0 77/ 64 PC 77/ 69 C Salt Lake City 92/ 66 0 96/ 73 PC 100/ 75 S Lisbon 93/ 66 0 97/ 74 S 95/ 68 S 1:32 p.m. 11:58 a.m.
United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow San Antonio 103/ 78 0 99/ 74 S 98/ 75 S London 66/ 54 0.14 73/ 60 PC 80/ 56 PC Kennebunkport
San Diego 76/ 66 0 76/ 67 PC 77/ 67 PC Madrid 93/ 62 0 96/ 68 S 97/ 64 S Sun RISE 5:39 a.m. Moon R 2:09 a.m. 69/60 Periodic clouds and sun
Albany 85/ 69 0 82/ 67 PC 82/ 69 C Moscow 70/ 59 0.53 61/ 56 Sh 66/ 54 C
San Francisco 74/ 57 0 73/ 57 PC 74/ 56 PC SET 8:25 p.m. S 4:53 p.m.
Albuquerque 94/ 70 0 91/ 67 PC 93/ 68 C Nice 79/ 68 0.01 80/ 69 S 80/ 71 S
San Jose 83/ 60 0 83/ 60 S 85/ 60 PC NEXT R 5:39 a.m. R 2:45 a.m. Cape Cod
Anchorage 71/ 58 0 71/ 57 C 67/ 57 Sh Oslo 66/ 55 0.31 71/ 52 PC 67/ 58 PC 60s
San Juan 90/ 78 0.02 90/ 78 Sh 89/ 78 PC 75/63 Periodic sun and clouds
Atlanta 94/ 72 Tr 92/ 74 T 94/ 73 PC Paris 72/ 59 0.06 74/ 59 PC 79/ 60 PC Jupiter S 5:36 a.m. Mars R 11:55 p.m.
Seattle 81/ 60 0 77/ 60 PC 72/ 57 PC
Atlantic City 80/ 69 0 77/ 71 PC 82/ 75 PC Prague 70/ 52 0.04 67/ 50 Sh 68/ 53 T R 8:12 p.m. S 12:08 p.m.
Sioux Falls 80/ 60 0 86/ 70 PC 89/ 74 PC L.I. North Shore
Austin 100/ 73 0 98/ 75 S 98/ 74 S Rome 81/ 67 0 82/ 64 S 82/ 65 S
Spokane 87/ 62 0 88/ 59 S 82/ 56 PC Saturn S 6:11 a.m. Venus R 2:56 a.m.
Baltimore 90/ 70 0 88/ 72 PC 90/ 74 PC St. Petersburg 67/ 52 Tr 69/ 53 C 73/ 52 S 79/68 Some sun, then clouds
St. Louis 90/ 72 0 88/ 75 PC 94/ 76 C R 8:35 p.m. S 5:12 p.m.
Baton Rouge 91/ 75 0 91/ 76 PC 93/ 75 S Stockholm 66/ 53 0.08 73/ 55 Sh 76/ 57 PC
St. Thomas 90/ 79 0.05 88/ 79 Sh 89/ 80 Sh
Birmingham 96/ 73 0.04 93/ 76 PC 95/ 74 PC Vienna 81/ 56 0.01 74/ 55 Sh 69/ 54 T L.I. South Shore
Syracuse 87/ 70 0 85/ 69 R 87/ 68 C Boating
Boise 91/ 61 0 95/ 63 S 95/ 63 PC Tampa 92/ 80 0 94/ 77 PC 92/ 78 PC Warsaw 79/ 54 0 69/ 55 R 73/ 59 C 76/70 Sunshine and clouds
Boston 69/ 60 0.01 72/ 62 PC 75/ 69 C Toledo 92/ 71 0 86/ 67 T 91/ 67 PC
North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20
Buffalo 87/ 73 0 83/ 71 T 85/ 68 C Tucson 105/ 80 0 104/ 81 PC 103/ 79 PC N.J. Shore
Burlington 83/ 65 0 83/ 67 PC 82/ 69 T nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York
Tulsa 95/ 78 0.02 93/ 77 PC 97/ 80 S Acapulco 88/ 78 0.05 89/ 77 T 90/ 79 T 77/71 Humid with clouds and sun
Casper 88/ 49 0 93/ 58 S 96/ 59 W Harbor.
Virginia Beach 86/ 73 0 84/ 72 PC 89/ 76 S Bermuda 82/ 78 0.07 84/ 77 PC 83/ 77 PC
Charlotte 94/ 73 0 91/ 74 PC 93/ 72 T Edmonton 65/ 50 0.13 73/ 50 T 69/ 51 S Wind will be from the southeast at 6-12 knots. Wave Eastern Shore 70s
Washington 92/ 74 0 90/ 75 PC 92/ 77 PC
Chattanooga 95/ 74 0 94/ 76 PC 93/ 76 PC Wichita 91/ 72 0.10 89/ 72 PC 99/ 80 PC Guadalajara 83/ 60 0 83/ 60 T 82/ 58 T heights will be 1 foot or less on New York Harbor and on 84/72 Partly sunny, humid
Chicago 88/ 68 0 85/ 70 PC 92/ 75 PC Wilmington, Del. 86/ 66 0 82/ 67 C 87/ 70 C Havana 92/ 73 0 88/ 74 T 88/ 73 T Long Island Sound and 2-3 feet on the ocean. Visibility will
Cincinnati 92/ 70 0 89/ 73 T 88/ 72 T Kingston 91/ 79 0 89/ 77 T 89/ 78 T be generally unrestricted. Ocean City Md.
Cleveland 90/ 72 0 85/ 70 T 87/ 65 PC Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow Martinique 90/ 76 0.02 88/ 77 Sh 88/ 76 Sh 79/72 Clouds and sunshine
Colorado Springs 82/ 59 0 87/ 61 T 90/ 64 C Algiers 86/ 67 0 87/ 63 S 86/ 65 S Mexico City 77/ 56 0 77/ 54 PC 74/ 54 T High Tides
Columbus 92/ 71 0 88/ 72 T 90/ 71 PC Cairo 95/ 75 0 95/ 72 S 95/ 73 S Monterrey 96/ 71 0 98/ 74 PC 96/ 72 PC Virginia Beach Color bands
Concord, N.H. 78/ 57 0 77/ 58 PC 75/ 63 C Cape Town 63/ 40 0 68/ 41 PC 73/ 47 PC Montreal 80/ 59 0 83/ 68 T 84/ 68 Sh Atlantic City .................... 4:43 a.m. .............. 5:13 p.m. indicate water
84/72 Partly sunny, humid
Dallas-Ft. Worth 97/ 79 Tr 99/ 77 S 96/ 76 S Dakar 84/ 79 0 86/ 77 PC 85/ 79 C Nassau 90/ 79 0 88/ 78 PC 87/ 77 T Barnegat Inlet ................. 4:58 a.m. .............. 5:20 p.m. temperature.
Denver 84/ 60 0 91/ 63 PC 94/ 65 PC Johannesburg 58/ 28 0 64/ 33 PC 68/ 36 PC Panama City 88/ 72 0.09 88/ 73 T 87/ 76 T The Battery ..................... 5:40 a.m. .............. 5:57 p.m.
Des Moines 76/ 65 0.96 85/ 68 S 90/ 76 PC Nairobi 72/ 52 0 68/ 53 T 73/ 51 PC Quebec City 75/ 55 0 76/ 61 T 73/ 62 R Beach Haven .................. 6:19 a.m. .............. 6:41 p.m.
Detroit 89/ 70 0 82/ 69 T 89/ 70 PC Tunis 88/ 72 0.05 90/ 70 S 88/ 70 S Santo Domingo 91/ 74 0.13 91/ 74 T 90/ 74 T Bridgeport ...................... 8:45 a.m. .............. 8:57 p.m.
El Paso 103/ 78 0 104/ 76 PC 102/ 77 PC Toronto 84/ 64 0 80/ 70 R 89/ 70 S City Island ....................... 9:23 a.m. .............. 9:14 p.m.
Tranquil and generally dry weather will
Fargo 83/ 65 0 85/ 64 PC 89/ 68 PC Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow Vancouver 66/ 54 0 72/ 58 PC 68/ 56 PC
Hartford 83/ 64 0.01 80/ 63 PC 78/ 67 C Baghdad 113/ 83 0 116/ 86 PC 115/ 84 PC Fire Island Lt. .................. 5:47 a.m. .............. 6:09 p.m. span beach locations under a mixture of
Winnipeg 75/ 59 0 78/ 58 PC 84/ 64 S
Honolulu 87/ 74 0 88/ 74 Sh 88/ 77 Sh Bangkok 92/ 78 0.03 94/ 78 T 94/ 80 T Montauk Point ................ 6:37 a.m. .............. 6:58 p.m. clouds and sunshine. There will be a
Houston 99/ 80 0 97/ 78 S 94/ 76 PC Beijing 95/ 69 0 94/ 73 C 88/ 70 T South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow Northport ....................... 8:59 a.m. .............. 9:11 p.m.
Indianapolis 89/ 71 0 85/ 71 PC 90/ 73 PC Damascus 102/ 66 0 101/ 64 PC 99/ 63 PC Buenos Aires 54/ 40 0 56/ 47 S 59/ 55 PC Port Washington ............. 9:28 a.m. .............. 9:20 p.m. gentle to moderate breeze from the east
Jackson 94/ 74 0 93/ 74 PC 94/ 74 PC Hong Kong 93/ 82 0 92/ 84 Sh 92/ 84 Sh Caracas 91/ 74 0.20 88/ 75 PC 88/ 75 T Sandy Hook .................... 5:01 a.m. .............. 5:23 p.m. to southeast across most areas while
Jacksonville 92/ 72 0 91/ 73 PC 89/ 73 PC Jakarta 88/ 75 0.16 90/ 77 Sh 91/ 75 T Lima 64/ 59 Tr 64/ 59 PC 64/ 59 S Shinnecock Inlet ............. 4:49 a.m. .............. 5:17 p.m.
Kansas City 81/ 65 1.36 86/ 68 PC 92/ 75 PC Jerusalem 88/ 65 0 86/ 67 S 84/ 66 S Quito 67/ 46 0 71/ 45 S 72/ 46 Sh Stamford ........................ 8:43 a.m. .............. 8:55 p.m.
afternoon temperatures will range from
Key West 93/ 82 0 91/ 82 T 90/ 81 T Karachi 97/ 87 0 100/ 87 PC 101/ 84 C Recife 82/ 70 0.07 83/ 72 PC 83/ 73 PC Tarrytown ....................... 7:29 a.m. .............. 7:46 p.m. near 70 in northern New England to the
Las Vegas 107/ 82 0 108/ 85 S 109/ 84 S Manila 93/ 79 0.05 96/ 80 T 94/ 79 T Rio de Janeiro 69/ 64 0.42 73/ 64 PC 78/ 68 S
Lexington 92/ 69 0 89/ 69 T 86/ 69 T Mumbai 85/ 77 1.11 83/ 79 R 87/ 79 Sh Santiago 72/ 37 0 66/ 45 PC 63/ 46 C
Willets Point .................... 9:22 a.m. .............. 9:07 p.m. middle 80s in Virginia Beach.
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A Photographic
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By JESSICA TESTA
Until about two weeks ago, Dario Calmese

didn’t know he was the first Black photogra-
pher to shoot the cover of Vanity Fair. But he
had a suspicion, so he asked the editors, who
went digging.
“To the best of our knowledge, it is the first
Vanity Fair cover made by a Black photogra-
pher,” Radhika Jones wrote in her July-Au-
gust editor’s letter. The subject of the cover is DA R IO CA L M E S E
M A K E S H ISTO RY
Viola Davis, who, in the same issue, told her WIT H H IS
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for the cover of Vanity Fair, either.
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Covid-19
Derails
The Return
Of a Pariah
Dov Charney retooled to make
masks, but his workers got sick.
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
In mid-March, as the coronavirus raged
across California, New Jersey, New York
and Washington State and the crisis in per-
sonal protective equipment shortages grew,
Dov Charney of Los Angeles Apparel was
one of the first clothing retailers to step into
the void.
In reopening his Los Angeles factory to
produce face masks, Mr. Charney, the for-
mer chief executive of American Apparel
who was ousted amid allegations of misuse
of funds and knowingly allowing sexual har-
assment, was transformed from industry
pariah to champion.
Los Angeles Apparel, his new company,
was deemed an essential business. The fed- JACKIE NICKERSON
eral government became a client, Mr. Char-

ney said. The long road to redemption
seemed, suddenly, much shorter. In Paris, Looking West
But late last week, the Los Angeles
County Department of Public Health or- Above, from Dior. The men’s wear styles this
dered Mr. Charney to close his factory: An season evoke California, Guy Trebay writes. Page 2.
investigation found over 300 confirmed co-
ronavirus infections among the garment
VIA LOS ANGELES APPAREL
workers and four deaths related to the
Dov Charney, the ousted chief executive of American Apparel, at his Los Angeles mask factory. CONTINUED ON PAGE D4
D2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020
FASHION REVIEW GUY TREBAY
Familiar
Looks,
Peculiar
Location Left, a look from
Hermès. Below left,
a look from Dior.
For Paris men’s wear virtual
shows, the dominant
California vibe is very real.
flowers, a paper mask of what looked like

WE HAVE SEEN the future of European fash- some rumbustious skate rat and little or-
ion, and it is California. ange cards printed with New Age dithers:
Peering out from behind the curtain of a “Never Compromise,” “The Future is Un-
long lockdown, designers in Paris and Mi- written,” “Keep Looking Up.”
lan seemed unanticipatedly hopeful during There was something irrepressibly D.I.Y.
the digital shows this past week. It was not about the collection, an effect that belied the
so much that they were willing to forgo the masterful design and construction of patch-
inimitable theater of the fashion show as work coats slit high and flared like clown
ready to embrace the accelerated alter- garments; oversize pockets ready made for
ations in everybody’s way of doing business boosting items from the department stores
forced on us by the pandemic. that no longer exist; and wallpaper prints
Being indoors, onscreen, casual to the and brocades that looked as if they were
point of forgetting to put on our hard pants swiped from Joni Mitchell’s attic in Laurel
has affected us all, not least designers. Canyon.
“I was doing all these Zoom meetings, If being sentenced to an indefinite term in
and I didn’t have the garments I wanted,” Zoom jail has taught us anything, it is that in
Alessandro Sartori, the Zegna designer, periods of prolonged exposure to tragedy
said last week by phone from northern Italy. we yearn for escape; often enough, that
What he needed was lightweight things takes the form of silliness. What else are
suited to the new exigencies of the work- people doing trading bells for hula skirts
place. What he had was summer linen jack- and Froggie dresses on Animal Crossing
ets in what he called “vacation” colors. New Horizons?
But we are not on vacation, are we? How else does one account for digital
Though we may be working 10 feet from our hordes of people picking up crochet hooks
beds, we still need uniforms that draw a after a rainbow knit sweater from the JW
clear distinction between labor and leisure. Anderson spring men’s collection went viral
We need something along the lines of a RAFFARD ROUSSEL
on TikTok? Harry Styles wore it in rehears-
formula the men’s wear consultant Josh al for a pre-lockdown performance on “To-
Peskowitz once proposed as the basis for a day.”
distinctly California style when he ran Mag- “I’ve never seen anything like it,” Mr. An-
asin, the influential (and lamented; it closed derson said. Because the nearly $1,500
in 2019) store in Culver City. hand-knit sweater is no longer available for
Take a comfortable shirt, and trousers, sale, he posted the pattern online — an act
and add something tailored. Or, swiping a of radical Etsy.
cue from the guayabera, that most ele- Even a gesture like his has roots you
gantly casual of masculine uniforms, sim- could trace, if you wished, to California
plify to a mere two pieces. The result is groups like the utopian activists, the Dig-
something that, while as presentable as a gers. Those early anticapitalists once
suit, is not one. staged semi-naked street theater happen-
The pursuit of the un-suit turned out to ings in the San Francisco of the 1960s, gave
have allied designers whose names are sel- away food, and opened a bunch of Free
dom seen in the same sentence. When Mi- Stores in Haight-Ashbury.
uccia Prada showed a loose, dropped-shoul- Is it a stretch to imagine that the stuff
der version of a chore coat or a boxy three- they gave away probably resembled Mr.
button jacket worn over a snug-fitting Anderson’s irresistibly kooky granny
sweatshirt, she wasn’t just experimenting sweater? I doubt it.
with designs intended to function as, the While Kim Jones’s show for Dior Men
show notes said, “straightforward, unosten- made reference to style gestures that most
tatious machines for living and tools for ac- likely originated on the West Coast (Teva-
tion and activity.” like sandals with socks, flap pocket shorts
She was also making unexpected com- and berets worn Eldridge Cleaver-style),
mon cause with Véronique Nichanian at the collection for the most part paid homage
Hermès, whose collection — shown in a film to the tailoring traditions of the great cou-
by the experimental director Cyril Teste ture house’s French founder.
that replicated the vibe of that electric mo- For this outing Mr. Jones collaborated
ment backstage when models dress in first with Amoako Boafo, a Ghanaian artist he
JACKIE NICKERSON
From left, looks from Isabel

Marant, Rick Owens, Prada,
Berluti and JW Anderson.
looks — was detailed at the achingly re- a Rick Owens show titled “Phlegethon,” two pretty stoners who forgot where they first met in Miami last year when a Dior
fined level of precision you’d expect after one of the five rivers that in Greek left their car in parking structure No. 6 at men’s show was staged next door to the
from a venerable luxury goods house. mythology flowed through the under- the Third Street Promenade in Santa Mon- newly opened Rubell Museum, where Mr.
(To wit: a ribbed sweater with all-but- world. (Styx, Lethe, Cocytus and Acheron ica. It was a true Reyner Banham moment Boafo was the resident artist.
invisible leather insets.) were the others, just so you know.) transplanted to the present. In design terms, the connection is super-
Despite that, Ms. Nichanian’s col- The Owens presentation, shown on And the clothes were, like so much of ficial to the point of indifference. Some of
lection remained easeful enough to the model Tyrone Dylan Susman, ended what is being designed now, based on sim- Mr. Boafo’s daubed portraits appear as
hold its own with clothes from, say, Sec- up being something you might term ple overlapping pieces that reflect the exi- prints. What is significant, though, is Mr.
ond/Layer, a young label in Los Angeles health-goth. It fused the sort of funky lay- gencies of a changing and often fickle cli- Boafo’s decision to forgo royalties from Dior
that has a lot to teach the old guard about ering and proportions you would spot on mate. That and the fact that one of the few in return for a donation to a cultural founda-
how to dress a generation that has never guys in any surf town along the state’s 840- clear ways to mark the progression of a day, tion the 36-year-old artist has set up in Ac-
worn a suit and tie. mile coastline to elements of the designer a week or a month anymore is by adding or cra, Ghana, just one element in an overdue
California felt like an uncredited collabo- Larry Legaspi’s futuristic death-metal cos- subtracting a layer.
cultural shift from appropriation to ac-
rator in many collections. It was there in tuming for Kiss. A critic for Vogue.com referred to the
knowledgment and homage.
the gorgeously gnarly shirt prints that the “I basically make cutoffs and T-shirts,” Marant collection as “L.A. meets the Ma-
Berluti designer Kris Van Assche ex- Mr. Owens, a native of Portersville, Calif., The transformation, it is worth noting, is
rais.” Yet the low-slung trousers with rolled
tracted from his collaboration with Brian said by phone before his presentation went cuffs, the low-waist flight suits, the waxed being spearheaded by Black artists like Mr.
Rochefort, a sculptor who works with ce- live online last week. “European complex- poplin trenches and the fuzzy sweaters Boafo, Kehinde Wiley and Mickalene Thom-
ramics. ity meets California simplicity — that’s my looked to be no more inherently French as. In May, Mr. Boafo raised $190,000 from
Mr. Rochefort, one of the legions of art- gimmick.” than Thomas Keller’s restaurant the French the online auction of his painting “Aurore
ists who have transplanted themselves to California was also a presence in an Isa- Laundry, which is just off State Highway 29 Iradukunda,” with the proceeds going to the
Los Angeles, traveled the world in the bel Marant collection shot at the Centre in Yountville, Calif. Museum of the African Diaspora, an institu-
days before quarantines to visit volca- National de la Danse on the outskirts of In a sense, one could even detect ele- tion whose goal is tracing the artistic and
sociocultural threads of that forcible disper-

noes, caves and sinkholes. He was seek- Paris. ments of wackadoodle California Republic
ing inspiration for works that frequently Watching the presentation of a video optimism in an exceptionally exuberant JW sion.
resemble magma samples from the core showing two young models racketing Anderson collection. It was presented to This singular museum stands not in New
of Planet Skittles. around within the corridors of this critics as a boxed set of fabric samples and York or Paris or London, but right on gritty
California was there again in spirit in Brutalist structure felt like watching photos with the addition of pressed dried Mission Street in downtown San Francisco.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020 N D3
SKIN DEEP
How to Avoid the Cro-Magnon Look

Even under lockdown, some help is needed to keep your beard from scaring your Zoom-call buddies.
“It’s really to control the bottom fringe of
By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN
my beard,” Mr. Berzinsky said of his ap-
Some men working from home and growing proach, adding that he’s not straightening
beards for the first time are coming to the his beard as much as he’s adding volume to
realization that their facial hair is a tangle of it, which is helped along by some Beard-
waves and curls. But Matt Vilanova discov- brand Sea Salt Spray.
ered how unmanageable his beard can be “Facial hair is very different from the hair
years ago. that grows on top of your head,” said Matty
“My beard is just naturally very kinky, Conrad, the founder of throwback barber-
and it kind of twists and turns,” said Mr. Vi- shops in British Columbia and a line of
lanova, 34, a manager at a software com- men’s grooming products, Victory Barber &
pany who lives in Seymour, Conn. “When I Brand. “Not to be crass or anything, but it’s
grew a beard a little longer than a five more akin to pubic hair.”
o’clock shadow, I looked like a Neander- Mr. Conrad said that about 10 percent of
thal.” his clients with beards are heat-styling
A couple of years ago, when his beard was them with a thermal brush or hair dryer, but
about two inches long, Mr. Vilanova bor- that’s not what he generally recommends,
rowed — from his girlfriend and future wife or the approach he takes with his own wavy
— a hair-straightening flatiron, the type beard.
with opposing ceramic plates. “I’m used to seeing a certain texture and
Clamping his whiskers in a flatiron hot
a certain volume to my beard,” Mr. Conrad
enough to pop popcorn “was a very delicate
said. “As soon as I groom that out, it reduces
process,” Mr. Vilanova said. “To a degree it
the volume, and it makes it really, really
helped, but it got very close to my skin. I
was like, ‘I’m going to absolutely destroy straight and almost overgroomed.”
myself if I keep on doing this.’ ” With barbershops closed, GQ recently
A year ago, Mr. Vilanova bought a featured Mr. Conrad in a beard-trimming
Kuschelbär, a heated beard-straightening tutorial video. Barbers typically take a
brush made by Masc by Jeff Chastain. It has buzz-cut approach to beards, the length de-
heated teeth that emerge from a heated termined by the guard attached to the clip-
plate, a compact version of the full-size hair- pers.
straightening brushes marketed to But Mr. Conrad takes more of an Afro-
women. trimming approach, focusing on the silhou-
“I approached it with some ette. He uses clippers with no guard going
skepticism, but the very first down the sides of his beard and along his
time I used it, I was like, ‘This chin — straight down like a ball would drop,
S ALE S O F
thing is awesome,’ ” Mr. Vi- not following the curve of the face.
ST RAIG H T E N IN G
lanova said. “Everything At the close of the video, Mr. Conrad’s
BRU S H E S H AVE PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY THE NEW YORK TIMES
looks clean and sharp and beard is less red carpet than “Game of
rigid. You feel like a badass.” BE E N H E AT IN G U P.
Thrones,” and he wouldn’t have it any other
Also a fan of the (Brushes with longer teeth “And my beard’s just super-bushy, and it Clockwise from left, beard
way.
Kuschelbär: the basketball can glide over shorter kind of goes all over the place.” straighteners by Aberlite,
“I think there’s an inherent coolness to
star Andre Drummond, who beards instead of engaging Last July, Mr. Curtis bought a beard- the Kuschelbär by Masc
having a bit of a rougher beard,” he said. “If
made a video of himself straight- them.) straightening brush on Amazon made by by Jeff Chastain and the
you are a guy that wears a suit every day
ening his beard with it. Aberlite sold almost 25,000 Arkam, $40, and left a five-star review. Beard Struggle.
and is very polished, then a straightening
Sales of beard-straightening brushes are, beard brushes in 2019 and is on pace to “It now takes me about three minutes in
brush probably makes sense with your
appropriately enough, heating up. sell as many this year, Mr. Ma said. They the morning to go from looking like a crazy
style, but I usually look like I just got off a
Jeff Chastain, who owns a salon in Green- cost $40 to $90. hobo to a whimsical woodsman,” he wrote.
horse, you know? I like to embrace that
wich Village, introduced the Kuschelbär Another brand, the Beard Struggle, also While popular, beard straighteners have
bought thousands of full-size hair-straight- wildness.”
(German for “cuddle bear”) in late 2017, and not won over everyone.
ening brushes and rebranded them as Still, for those who look in a mirror in the
he says that it is the original beard-straight- Greg Berzinsky, 59, an architect in Phila-
beard brushes. Then, in the fall of 2019, it in- delphia who makes grooming videos on the morning and see a cave man staring back,
ening brush. He has sold more than 115,000
troduced a compact straightening brush de- popular Beardbrand channel on YouTube, beard-straightening brushes have become
of the devices, he said, which he encourages
signed for beards, the Vaeringjar, $97, with has tried a beard-straightening brush on his indispensable. Mr. Vilanova never packs his
men to use on their head hair too. He now
a heated pick on one end to add volume. Ac- salt-and-pepper beard. But he prefers Dopp kit without a straightener. His
sells three models, ranging from $100 for
cording to Faiysal Kothiwala, the founder of styling with a blow dryer and a rounded Kuschelbär joined him on his honeymoon. It
the original to $140 for a cordless version.
Aberlite, a beard care brand, began sell- the Beard Struggle, the company has sold brush, which he turns downward and in- went along for a trip to India and for many
ing a heated straightening brush on Ama- about 63,000 of them. ward as he dries his beard so it follows his business trips.
zon early in 2019. Teng Ma, who owns the Judd Curtis, 37, lives in Portland, Ore., jawline. His wife likes his beard better after he
company, said that initially he bought thou- and works as a tree trimmer keeping paths Mr. Berzinsky demonstrates this method straightens it but wonders if he may be get-
sands of no-label women’s hair-straighten- clear for power lines. But while Mr. Curtis in a video that has almost 3.5 million ting a bit obsessed.
ing brushes from Alibaba, the Chinese e- has no trouble getting a Douglas fir under YouTube views and thousands of comments “If I have to get ready to go somewhere,”
commerce giant, and rebranded them as control, his beard is another story. admiring his beard. (“I don’t have daddy is- Mr. Vilanova said, “she says, ‘Oh, Matt
beard brushes. Now he sells three more “I have a cowlick on my chin, this one spot sues but . . . ” begins one comment. “Sweet needs an hour to get ready because he’s got
compact models designed for beards. where it kind of grows straight out,” he said. Lord . . . Hello Daddy.”) to straighten his beard.’”
Getting By With a Little Help From Their Edibles

Pandemic anxiety and concerns about vaping have helped shift sales of cannabis products.
year-old mother: ribs with homemade
By ALISON STINE
cannabis-infused barbecue sauce, mac and
Ben Emerson had never tried cannabis ed- cheese made with cannabis butter, and
ibles before his birthday in April. He was baked beans and collard greens cooked
raised in the Evangelical Presbyterian with cannabis sugar.
Church, which he left five years ago, and Ms. Franklin, who is in her mid-40s, re-
marijuana was “this thing that I had never ceived a medical marijuana card (another
really even thought that I was allowed to item in high demand these days) in Decem-
do,” he said. ber, after seven years of living with a dis-
“And then I’m like, ‘Wait, I can actually ability caused by a car accident. It took her a
make up my own mind about this.’ ” month to save up enough money to make a
For his first foray, Mr. Emerson, 38, chose purchase. When she first tried it, she said:
strawberry-flavored gummies, which he or- “My pain in five minutes went from a 9, 10 to
dered online and picked up curbside at a a 6, 7. Those five minutes changed my entire
dispensary near his home in Portland, Ore. life.”
“I’m not super-interested in smoking any- Ms. Franklin still uses a walker, but she
thing,” he said. “But as soon as I decided I said she could move better and stand for
wanted to try cannabis, I wanted to try longer because of the relief cannabis pro-
something edible.” vided her. “I’m not as slow,” she said. “I’m
Anxious times (say, a pandemic) call for not the Flash, but I got a little pep in my
palliatives, like meditation, exercise or, in step, and that’s all from marijuana.”
some cases, weed. More than a dozen states “It helps with depression, anxiety,
declared cannabis stores and medical mari- stress,” she said. “There is no way on God’s
juana dispensaries essential businesses, green Earth that I would be able to deal with
along with pharmacies and grocery stores, the coronavirus and the protests of George
as the coronavirus sent millions of Ameri- Floyd and just me being a Black woman, pe-
cans home, with or without jobs. riod, there’s no way.”
Since March, the cannabis industry has Ms. Franklin said edibles were the most
seen an influx of new customers: Eaze, an accessible form of marijuana for many peo-
online cannabis retailer, told The Associ- ple, but not for everyone.
ated Press that first-time purchases of Money can be a major barrier, especially
cannabis were up more than 50 percent in since some 20 million Americans are out of
early March. And as fear of inhaled prod- PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY BUCK ELLISON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES work because of the pandemic. Mr. Levine
ucts has risen — spurred partly by studies noted that at one of the Green Dragon store-
of “vaping illness” and exacerbated by res- tor in California, said that as a possible re- social reasons, including community. Marijuana edibles have fronts where he was recently working, “half
piratory risks associated with the coro- sult of “health-conscious” consumerism, his “With the pandemic, there’s not that become popular during the of the people coming in had no income. I’m
navirus — many consumers have opted to company had also seen an increase in sales same sharing of cannabis the way there coronavirus pandemic. Above sure it was even worse than that.”
enjoy cannabis in edible form. of edibles. used to be,” she said. “There’s the phrase are chocolate cannabis truffles The price of edibles can vary based on the
When the Apothecarium, an upscale dis- “I think cannabis in general is a pretty re- ‘puff, puff, pass,’ and now it’s ‘puff, puff, from Coda Signatures. (The state — and the amount of THC — but with a
pensary with locations in California and Ne- cession-proof good,” Mr. Ning said. “Much don’t pass.’” cherries, for the record, are package of 10 gummies with 100 milligrams
vada, moved from in-store retail to curbside like alcohol,” sales of which also skyrock- “Passing around a tin of gummies is go- just cherries.) per bag of THC selling for $20 in Colorado
pickup in March, Cali Manzello, the general eted as people prepared to be holed up at ing to be much more acceptable than pass- and $18 in California, the cost can be prohib-
manager of its San Francisco flagship, no- home indefinitely. ing around a joint or a vape pen,” she added. itive for some people.
ticed a change in the size of orders. Chris Beals, the chief executive of In April, Mr. Levine said that Green Drag- Mr. Emerson, in Portland, acknowledged
“One of the first orders that printed out Weedmaps, an online directory for dispen- on saw sales of edibles dip. He chalked that that his own ability to afford and have ac-
from the pickup machine said 25 packages saries, said that according to company data, up to customers buying flowers, the smok- cess to legal cannabis, for recreation, was a
of this gummy on it,” she said. “And we all overall sales of edibles in March were dou- able part of the plant (commonly called privilege. “That’s not something that a lot of
kind of giggled. We were like: ‘Ooh boy, here ble those in February. He said it could be a “bud”), which they could use to make their people have been able to do,” he said. “A lot
it goes. It’s starting.’” result of increased cannabis consumption own edibles. of damage has been done particularly to
“It did not stop,” she added. “People were among habitual users but also “new con- “People didn’t know how long this was go- Black communities, the communities of col-
ordering, you know, up to the legal limit, sumers coming in, who were working from ing to last,” Mr. Levine said. “ ‘Is cannabis or, because of something like cannabis,
which can be up to 80 edibles in some home, dealing with the stresses of Covid.” going to be unavailable for months?’ So which is pretty harmless.”
cases.” Ms. Manzello said the company’s ed- In the close quarters of quarantine, being people bought flowers. Flower is always the Ms. Franklin echoed his words, noting the
ible sales were up 16 percent, while vape stuck with roommates or family for an ex- best value. It’s like buying the raw ingredi- disproportionate incarceration rates of
sales had fallen by 19 percent. tended period of time, consumers may not ents, if you will. It’s always cheaper to buy Black people for marijuana possession.
Alex Levine, an owner and joint C.E.O. of want to smoke or vape. “When people are the flour and stuff to make cookies than “Dispensaries are an essential business,”
Green Dragon, a dispensary that operates working at home or they’re around children buying the prepared cookies.” she said. “It’s a drug-dealing business that
15 locations in Colorado, said: “Edibles ev- or family, edibles are just more discreet,” Tee Franklin, a comic book writer and is owned majority by white. But the Black
ery year have been taking up a bigger slice Mr. Beals said. novelist in New Jersey, makes edibles at people who were doing the same thing are
of the pie. Right before corona hit, edibles Lauren Gockley, a classically trained home and often uses cannabis oil in her locked up. The brown folks, same thing,
were basically at 20 percent of our sales. chocolatier, is the director of edibles at Coda cooking. “Oh, baby, I make everything,” she they’re locked up.”
That was a huge increase over the past cou- Signature, whose product line includes truf- said. “Every single thing you can think of, I “That’s the only thing about this whole
ple of years.” fles and “fruit notes” (fancy weed gum- have made within reason.” weed business that I am not of fan of,” she
Vince Ning, the founder and chief execu- mies). She said consumers might be turn- That includes “an entire soul food dinner,” added. “That’s the only thing. Everything
tive of Nabis, a wholesale cannabis distribu- ing to edibles during the pandemic for other which she cooked for herself and her 80- else, I am for it. I’m for it.”
Wherever We’re Going, It’s Not in a Handbag

The once-ubiquitous accessory has become
obsolete during lockdowns and useless at
protests. Will we ever embrace it again?
Some of the backpacks

and fanny bags seen at
a protest in New York
last month.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY AMIR HAMJA

FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
fashion history does attest to a link between

changing handbags and social shifts. “That
is an idea that can be traced back to at least
the early 20th century, when women began
carrying bags that held items such as cos-
metics, cigarettes, a wallet and keys,” she
said. “All of these signified growing free-
doms for women in public life.”
Chanel’s 2.55, for example, equipped with
By LOU STOPPARD myriad pockets and a long shoulder strap,
I feel it sometimes, like a phantom limb, “reflected Chanel’s personal, but highly in-
banging against my side as I move around fluential, design ethos that combined prac-
the house. I sense it nestled in the crook of ticality with high style,” Ms. Hill said.
my arm as I wander from room to room. It Ms. Hill said she expected to see another
was the onetime receptacle of all I held im- such shift now. “As a New Yorker, I usually
mediately important: purse, receipts, iden- carry a large bag that will hold everything I
tification, charger, books, tissues (fresh and need for the entire day — my iPad or a book,
used), flask, tampons, a card for that deli- headphones, some cosmetics, my water
cious but inexpensive Italian restaurant bottle, and maybe even a spare pair of
from that one time a few months back. shoes,” she said. “Now that I stay closer to
What was it? My surprisingly roomy yet home, I can get away with smaller and more
somehow streamlined handbag, of course. functional bags.”
She has been relying on a neat black
My bag of choice was black leather with
leather tote, purchased on Etsy, years ago:
gold hardware, made by Balenciaga,
“It’s subdued, and it feels like the right bag
bought on sale. Once upon a time I didn’t
for this moment.”
leave the house without it. Now, of course,
The question of appropriateness is para-
because of Covid-19, I no longer really leave
mount. Typically, bags have been a financial
the house. I haven’t carried my bag for
crutch for fashion brands, propping up
months.
ready-to-wear sales, and, thanks to their
Masks are the accessory of the moment, if logos, serving as a form of advertis-
one is looking to define such a thing. The ing. Whether this will remain true
tote (or clutch or saddle bag) seems a relic given the recession and the relat-
of ages past, gathering dust in bedroom cor- ed shift in attitudes toward big
ners and closet shelves. But is this a perma- business and wealth inequality is
nent change in our wardrobe? Or will the debatable.
bag live again? “I think people are becoming quite con-
Ana Kinsella, a freelance copywriter in fused about what they should buy and what
London, has relied on her pockets for most VIA LOU STOPPARD AND ANA KINSELLA
they shouldn’t buy,” said Ms. Hillier. “They
of her daily lockdown walks, or the occa- are thinking about where materials came
sional canvas tote for gathering supplies. from, whether they are eco.” She predicts
“In my pre-coronavirus life, my handbag people will be keen to “shop to support,”
The author’s Balenciaga that you take to the market or the grocery 39 percent, according to a recent report
wasn’t so much a way to carry things store or on the march.” saving their money for brands that share
handbag, which she hasn’t from McKinsey, and some of the money that
around as a way to keep things together,” their values.
carried for months. Then She observed that, throughout lockdown, might normally have gone on bags has, over
she said. Lockdown has brought about the again, she really no longer people have been finessing the minutiae of Case in point: Tree Fairfax, a small inde-
the last few months, been allocated to bikes.
inverse; that constantly accumulated junk leaves the house. their routines — the preferred shopping pendent label based in Virginia, whose
(In March, nationwide U.S. sales of bicycles
is scattered with abandon around the home, route, the ideal outdoor workout — and will handmade leather goods, designed, the
rather than stuffed in one place. “I now have and related services nearly doubled com-
most likely now shop with these in mind. pared with the same period last year, ac- website says, for “moving around lightly,”
no idea where anything is,” she added. “Functionally is going to be even more im- received numerous shout-outs on social me-
Ms. Kinsella recalled being drunk after a cording to the N.P.D. Group.) Large leather
portant than it ever was before,” she said. bags are impractical for cycling: Anything dia in the recent drive to promote Black-
late-night Zoom bachelorette party, for She predicts a market for inventive can- owned businesses.
which she had dressed up, and walking to too long swings forward and lodges be-
vas shoppers, lined in something water- tween the legs, making peddling difficult, But when contacted to discuss the effect
the end of her road for a cigarette. On the proof, or cross body bags with adjustable of the current moment on handbag trends,
way out she picked up her fanciest bag, a while shoulder styles risk slipping down.
straps for hiking or cycling — “geeky stuff the brand’s owner, Tricia Hash, replied that
small, bright orange leather satchel, de- Handbags are also unhelpful at protests,
like that.” she was too exhausted by racism, and too
spite not actually needing it. which have swelled globally. For most at-
Already, the luxury retailer worried about her son who was still work-
“I thought, ‘I owe it to the outfit to have a tendees at the recent demonstrations, backing as a delivery driver without personal
MatchesFashion.com has seen a boost in
handbag with me, even if no one is there to packs or fanny bags were omnipresent. protective equipment, to talk about leather
sales of “functional lifestyle styles such as
see it,’ ” she said. canvas totes” such as Rue De Verneuil, In various cities, as protesters marched goods. Which seemed exactly the point.
Katie Hillier knows leather goods better whose structured canvas bags cost over past luxury stores, there were also few Later, keen to remember what had once
than most, having worked as the creative $200, said Cassie Smart, head of women’s handbags to be seen. Nervous of the unrest, felt so important, I took my former favorite
director of Marc by Marc Jacobs and con- wear buying for MatchesFashion. Gucci, Chloé, Louis Vuitton and others had bag for a walk around the house. We me-
sulted for an array of luxury brands. Her Ms. Hillier said she thought future bag removed stock, their usually bombastic andered from living room to bedroom and
work at the former British brand Luella, be- purchases would be “less about bags as a window displays stripped bare. When, in back again. After weeks of living bagless,
ginning in 1999, was part of what helped status thing.” late May, despite the spreading unrest, Vuit- hands-free, my swag weighing down my bi-
kick off the “It” bag movement of the early “Some people may have realized that ton opted to unleash a widespread influenc- cycle basket rather than my shoulders, I
2000s. they actually enjoy being at home,” she con- er campaign for their new bag, the LV Pont was transported back to a time of com-
“It always used to be about the work tinued, “and that there are other things that 9, the move was criticized on social media as mutes, rushing, air travel, post-work
tote,” Ms. Hillier said. “What is that now? they can spend their money on.” tone-deaf. drinks, and a laptop ensconced in leather
The work-from-home tote is your backpack, With stores closed, fashion and acces- According to Colleen Hill, curator of cos- beneath the table. Suddenly, it all felt so
or the bag that fits on your bike, or the bag sories sales have plunged by 35 percent to tume and accessories at the Museum at FIT, heavy.
Covid-19 Derails the Return of a Pariah

CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1 not list what they were — even though they
virus. Three of the deaths were in June, and were posted up on the wall behind the
one in July. employee.
The health department, in a news release While some of the infractions were minor,
detailing the closure, cited “flagrant vio- Ms. King said, there was a sense that the
lations of mandatory public health infection company was not taking seriously the docu-
control orders” and failure “to cooperate ments the health department had sent that
with D.P.H.’s investigation of a reported listed the changes that need to be made. As
Covid-19 outbreak.” a result, the investigation team increased
This is one of the first forced closures of a from one person to about 10.
factory in Los Angeles because of out- The factory reopened briefly last week
breaks related to the coronavirus, accord- before being forced to close again.
ing to Jan King, the regional health officer Mr. Charney disputed almost all of the de-
for South and West Los Angeles. Though partment’s findings. He said that it was the
the health department conducts numerous company itself that first alerted the health
investigations, they are usually resolved department to the situation; that the com-
through action with the companies pany had been making its best effort to pro-
involved. vide the employee list requested but that
Barbara Ferrer, the department’s direc- LISA BAERTLEIN /REUTERS there were privacy issues involved; that the
tor, said in a statement about the closure, cardboard was used in addition to social dis-
which contained a timeline of the investiga- partment say they are working together to chines were spaced six feet apart. He said An American Apparel tancing protocols (and had been recom-
tion, “Business owners and operators have resolve the issues so the facility can reopen that the equipment and the space were reg- factory and store in Los mended by a consultant because the virus
a corporate, moral and social responsibility and business (and employment) can contin- ularly disinfected, and that the company Angeles in 2014, the year does not live long on cardboard).
to their employees and their families to pro- ue; both say their only concern is for the had been regularly testing employees for Dov Charney, the chief He also said that it was the responsibility
vide a safe work environment that adheres safety of the workers. the last five weeks. executive, was ousted over of the health department to translate their
to all of the health officer directives — this However, the drama is playing out under On June 19, a nurse contacted the Los An- allegations of misdeeds. documents into Spanish — not the responsi-
responsibility is important, now more than a spotlight, because of Mr. Charney’s com- geles County Department of Public Health bility of the company.
ever, as we continue to fight this deadly plicated professional history, and because about a potential outbreak at Los Angeles The legal office of the health department,
virus.” of recent revelations about the Los Angeles Apparel, according to officials. he said, had told him the factory could re-
Mr. Charney called the announcement garment sector. The health department opened an inves- open on July 9, though Ms. King said a writ-
“media theatrics” and said: “I don’t think The phrase “Made in the U.S.A.” is often tigation, which included a request that the ten document permitting reopening was re-
that press release represents the point of used as a shorthand for products that are company send over a list of all employees — quired first. Mr. Charney attributed the con-
view of the people I am working with at the ethically made. But reports over the past a request the health department said was fusion to “miscommunication” in an over-
department of health. Some of them have few years of sweatshop conditions and sala- not met even after multiple appeals. On burdened agency.
apologized to me. It’s not truthful.” ry levels — including an investigation by June 26, the health department conducted a “Three hundred is a very concerning out-
He also issued a lengthy statement of his The New York Times into factories in Los site visit, and the next day the factory was break,” Ms. King said of the individuals who
own in response, which stated, in part: “In Angeles that supply the fast-fashion brand closed. had fallen ill.
all fairness, it’s morally irresponsible for Fashion Nova — have upended that myth. According to Ms. King, the violations dis- The factory remains closed, according to
the health department to speak on the infec- Los Angeles Apparel opened in 2016 and covered included the use of cardboard bar- the health department statement, until
tion rates at our factory without also ad- employs just under 2,000 workers in three riers between worker stations, and coro- “they can show that the facility is in full
dressing its connection to the issue at large: buildings according to Mr. Charney. Since navirus guidance materials that had not compliance with public health mandates,”
that the Latino community in Los Angeles is the coronavirus began, they have produced, been translated into Spanish (the first lan- but the hope for both the health department
left vulnerable to Covid-19 in a health care Mr. Charney said, more than 10 million guage of most of the employees). An official and Mr. Charney is to reopen later this
system that provides no support with test- masks, about 80 percent of which have gone also found a lack of training on health proto- week.
ing and no support or assistance for those to government agencies. cols such that, when asked by a doctor, the Both sides are, Ms. King said, “in con-
that test positive.” Mr. Charney said that all employees had employee who was supposed to be screen- stant touch.” Mr. Charney said he was
Now both Mr. Charney and the health de- been wearing face coverings, and that ma- ing fellow employees for symptoms could “learning a lot.”
EVERYTHING MUST GO
The Writing
On the Wall
A Photographic
Read Clear Milestone
The retailer Totokaelo
shuts down, along with At Condé Nast
Need Supply Co.
By JESSICA TESTA
Jill Wenger, the founder of the bou-
tique Totokaelo, described her former
customers like this:
“Mature. Women that were not in-
terested in doing what everyone else
was doing and looking like everyone
else. They definitely had a distinct CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1
point of view. A lot of them were old
Vanity Fair published 17 solo covers featur-
punk rock.”
ing Black people. As of Tuesday, Ms. Jones
These were the shoppers in the has published eight since she took over two
early years, 2008 to 2012, when it was and a half years ago, along with two featur-
still just a store in Seattle and an on- ing interracial married couples.
line presence known for its discerning Yet this accomplishment exists within a
taste. Then Totokaelo began offering broader, more distressing reality: Accord-
men’s wear, in 2013, and opened a lo- ing to several employees who have shared
cation in New York, in 2015; in 2016 their experiences in recent weeks, some
Ms. Wenger sold the company to Her- magazines at Condé Nast, the publisher of
schel (like the backpacks) Capital Vanity Fair, are racist workplaces.
Corp. In June, The New York Times reported
But in many ways, Totokaelo that Ms. Jones’s covers were criticized in-
customers never changed. They are ternally by a white female executive for not
still luxury shoppers and fans of featuring “more people who look like us.”
brands like Acne Studios, Marni and (Through a Condé Nast spokesman, the ex-
Yohji Yamamoto — all consistent top ecutive denied making the assertion.)
sellers during the Wenger tenure. Mr. Calmese may not have realized he
They are drawn to idiosyncratic neu- was the first Black photographer to shoot
trals and quality construction and the the magazine’s cover when he got the as-
word “curation.” They are also enter- signment, and he spoke glowingly of his in-
taining for writers to describe. teractions with Vanity Fair staff. But he did
Spotted by The New York Times in not shy away from the heat of the moment,
Totokaelo’s men’s section a few in the news media and in fashion.
months ago: “Someone who looked “I did know that this was a moment to say
like a rogue K-pop star on the lam, a something,” he said in an interview the
young stylist for rappers, three men week before the cover’s release. “I knew
(shopping separately) wearing this was a moment to be, like, extra Black.”
heels.” There was an image that had long lin-
And in the women’s, five years ago: gered in Mr. Calmese’s personal reference
“The average female wore no makeup folder: “The Scourged Back,” an 1863 por-
and steeply expensive shoes that trait of an enslaved man whose back is rav-
aged by whipping scars. When Mr. Calmese
could be mistaken by the uninitiated
came across it again a few days before the
for inexpensive shoes.”
shoot, he decided to replicate it.
“When you look at it, it is gruesome and
harsh,” he said. But Mr. Calmese also saw in
it elements that could inform his upcoming
portrait. “He pushes back more toward the
camera,” he said. “His hand is at his waist —
you know that line, with his profile going
down the arm and coming back. And so I
was like: I can recreate this.”
Still, he didn’t intend the re-creation to be
the cover image. This was the summer is-
sue, and he thought the cover should have
KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES more brightness and vibrancy.
The Totokaelo store on Crosby Street in But the result was too moving for him to
Manhattan in November. The company ignore. In it, Ms. Davis sits with one hand on
first opened a New York location in 2015. her hip, like the man in the portrait. She
gazes to the left. Light gently reflects off her
exposed back, the silhouette of her face, the
At Totokaelo’s peak, Ms. Wenger corner of her lap.
said, sales were doubling year to year. “Once you sit in the chair for a while, you
“At the time, I did think it would go on start to have a sense of the pictures that JEAN-BAPTISTE LACROIX/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES (JONES); DARIO CALMESE/VANITY FAIR (DAVIS)
forever,” she said. stay in your mind,” Ms. Jones said. “When I
It didn’t, of course. The retail indus- saw the work and saw the picture, it just felt
try has been contracting for years, but right.”
the pandemic has made the financial For her, the image represented the
situation of clothing companies, par- strength it takes to tell your own story, she ‘It’s about replacing the images that have been washing over all of us
ticularly those in the brick-and-mor-
tar business, even more dire.
said. For Mr. Calmese, it is about rewriting
an old story. for centuries, telling us who we are and our position in the world.’
So it wasn’t a shock last week when “Not only around slavery, but also the
news broke that Totokaelo was shut- white gaze on Black bodies, and transmut-
ting down, along with Need Supply ing that into something of elegance and
Co., a fellow multibrand e-commerce Calmese’s first attempt at reclamation on Top left, Radhika Jones, Mr. Calmese said.
beauty and power,” he said. behalf of Black women. A year ago, for the the editor of Vanity Fair. For the image that became the cover
darling, based in Richmond, Va. In
summer 2019 cover of Numéro Berlin, he Above, one of the shot, she wore a taffeta MaxMara trench
2018, the two businesses began merg- ‘A Banal Industry Standard’ answered the prompt “What is America?” photographs of Viola dress backward so it could be unbuttoned to
ing to form the joint venture NSTO. Despite being the latest in a short line of with an image of five Black women wearing Davis, taken by Dario reveal her back. Even the deep blue color of
(Herschel Capital Corp, now called much belated firsts — he joins Tyler different hairstyles inspired by models in Calmese, that will appear the garment feels symbolic; indigo cloth
Cormack Capital Corp, but still mak- Mitchell, who in 2018 became the first Black Ebony magazine in the 1970s. in the magazine. was used as currency in the slave trade.
ing Herschel backpacks, which also photographer to shoot the cover of Vogue, “Black women have held this country to- Mr. Calmese wanted Ms. Davis’s hair to
owned part of Need Supply, is still in and Dana Scruggs, the first to shoot the gether since its inception,” he said. And yet, be natural; he had the hairstylist style three
business. Simple backpacks can have cover of Rolling Stone, in 2019 — Mr. he said, “they’re rendered invisible.” Afros of different sizes and chose the larg-
complicated back stories.) Calmese doesn’t actually consider himself a Last year he began shooting for Vanity est. Her makeup was undramatic. He did
The retailers have several brands in photographer. Fair; his first subject was Billy Porter. In not want what he called a “whole glamour
common, but aesthetically Need Sup- “I think of photography as a part of me, March, he had been assigned to photograph moment,” the aspirational default for main-
ply Co. casts a wider and generally but not me,” he said. “It’s a mode of expres- the actress Catherine O’Hara. But the shoot stream American magazines. For all of his
more affordable net, leaning further sion. It doesn’t completely fill me.” was abruptly canceled because of state re- buoyant energy, he wanted the photo to feel
into color, patterns and bared midriff He also writes, curates art shows, directs strictions on gatherings, he said. (Ms. underexposed and somber.
— the fashion most likely to make fashion shows and hosts the “Institute of O’Hara was eventually photographed via “For me, this cover is my protest,” he
your finger pause, reverse and hover Black Imagination” podcast, interviewing drone.) said. “But not a protest in ‘Look at how bad
for a few seconds while quickly other Black creatives and academics. He Then, in mid-June, Mr. Calmese got the you’ve been to me, and I’m angry, and I’m
scrolling Instagram. It was the first has been an actor and is a classically call to photograph Ms. Davis for the cover. upset.’ ” Rather, it’s: “I’m going to rewrite
North American company to stock the trained singer and dancer. In all things he is He wanted Ms. Davis to look incredible this narrative. I’m just going to take owner-
breezy Danish brand Ganni. exceptionally upbeat, and he talks ani- because, he said, she deserved to look in- ship of it.”
The writing may have been on the matedly about finding beauty at a time credible. But he also saw the assignment as It’s hard to see the cover as anything but
wall for both stores — frequent emails when many people, for a variety of reasons, an opportunity to subvert the magazine protest. Magazine covers are often planned
about 60 percent off, then 70 percent are finding that difficult. cover — a “banal industry standard,” he months in advance, but in Ms. Jones’s first
off, then 80 percent off sales are never Mr. Calmese, 38, began taking portraits of said — to imbue it with the same current issue since Condé Nast’s reckoning, she has
a good sign. (A spokeswoman for Black people around 2012, while enrolled at that ran through his runway shows with Mr. paired a Black actress (and wage-gap activ-
NSTO declined to comment on how the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Sev- Jean-Raymond. ist) with a Black photographer inspired by
long the websites would be opera- eral years earlier, while attending a small “It’s about replacing the images that have slave imagery.
tional.) But Ms. Wenger, 43, was still Jesuit college in Kansas City, Mo., he had been washing over all of us for centuries, Ms. Jones has placed a quote from Ms.
shaken when she learned about the planned on becoming a clinical psycholo- telling us who we are and our position in the Davis, “My entire life has been a protest,”
closing. gist. world and our value,” Mr. Calmese said. prominently below the Vanity Fair logo. Her
“It was the thing that I loved the But he put off grad school, leaving Mis- editor’s letter declares, “We are not bound
most in the world for 15 years,” she souri, where he grew up, to move to New ‘You Will Be Creating History’ to continue the cultural hierarchies we in-
said. York and give performing a shot. By the From the time he got the assignment, Mr. herit.”
When she started her company in time the idea of grad school appealed to him Calmese recalled, he had about nine days to And the image has been released amid
2003, she sold only local designers on again, he had decided to pursue fashion prepare. At the time, the cover was still criticism that Vogue’s choice of photogra-
consignment. D.I.Y. fashion, the kind photography at S.V.A. meant to be summery. He was imagining pher for its new Simone Biles cover, Annie
parodied on “Portlandia,” was the de- There, Mr. Calmese started photograph- Ms. Davis as the Black Athena, represent- Leibovitz, does not properly light Black
fining trend of the moment. “I sold so ing what he calls “ordinary Black people ing survival and justice, or the Black Ma- people.
many sweatshirts with birds on who were living extraordinary lives.” One donna representing the transformation of Two days before the photo shoot, Mr.
them,” she said. was Lana Turner, a collector of vintage fash- one’s internal darkness into light. Calmese emailed his friend André Leon Tal-
It was her customers who drove To- ion who Mr. Calmese first encountered at There were daily conference calls with ley, the former Vogue editor at large, to ask
tokaelo’s expansion; they kept asking Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, the magazine, and at one point he decided to for advice.
her about bringing in specific design- where he now lives. write a 500-word essay, or a treatise as he Mr. Talley, who in a recently published
ers — indie brands from across the In photographing Ms. Turner and her called it, “to define what should be and what memoir chronicled the experience of hav-
globe. It seems like a pretty big pivot Sunday best wardrobe, which he did for five shouldn’t be.” ing no Black contemporaries as he navi-
now, but to Ms. Wenger, a craftsman years, he realized that at church, “Black “I read it to everybody in the Zoom, like 10 gated fashion’s highest echelons, re-
was a craftsman. people were able to, through fashion, live people,” Mr. Calmese said, laughing at him- sponded with a pep talk. “I want to person-
“I didn’t see that big of a difference and exist and play a role that outside of self. “It’s just the way that I work, in every- ally applaud you for your continued break-
between someone that was carving those walls they couldn’t,” he said. thing.” out high-art roles in our culture,” Mr. Talley
wood in Tacoma and Dries Van In 2013, Mr. Calmese met Kerby Jean- On the day of the photo shoot in Califor- wrote back.
Noten,” she said. “Those are both Raymond, the founder of the Pyer Moss la- nia, everyone on set wore masks and signed Twenty minutes later — Mr. Talley’s
small-business owners that are ex- bel. He became the casting director for Mr. waivers and filled out questionnaires about emails tend toward stream-of-conscious-
tremely hands on — touching fabrics, Jean-Raymond’s fashion shows, then the di- potential coronavirus symptoms. There ness, Mr. Calmese said — he continued:
making decisions. To me, it made rector. Last year he directed the powerful were two medics, including one taking tem- “Soar and believe in your dream. I’m so ex-
sense.” Pyer Moss show at Kings Theater in Brook- peratures at the door. cited for you and Vanity Fair.”
lyn, which aimed to reclaim the role of Black Elbow bops replaced double cheek kiss- Mr. Calmese may not have realized then
musicians, particularly Sister Rosetta ing, and Ms. Davis was specific about not that he would be the first. Mr. Talley may
Tharpe, in American rock ’n’ roll history. wearing clothes that had been worn by any- well have. “You will be creating history,” he
His portrait of Ms. Davis was not Mr. one else in the two days before the shoot, wrote.
Someday We’ll Be Looking Back at 2020

Museums want your help in collecting ephemera from the pandemic and the racial justice movement.
York Historical Society, which has identi-

By LESLEY M. M. BLUME
fied around 25 masks that the museum will
A few weeks ago, a nerdy joke went viral on collect, including an N95 mask worn by a
Twitter: Future historians will be asked nurse in the Samaritan’s Purse emergency
which quarter of 2020 they specialize in. field hospital set up in New York’s Central
As museum curators and archivists stare Park in the spring. (The museum also col-
down one of the most daunting challenges lected a set of field hospital scrubs, and a
of their careers — telling the story of the cowbell that the medical team rang when-
pandemic, followed by severe economic col- ever they discharged a patient.)
lapse and a nationwide social justice move- “The meaning of masks has shifted over
ment — they are imploring people across the course of these past several months,”
the country to preserve personal materials Ms. Hofer said. “Early on, the ones we were
for posterity, and for possible inclusion in collecting were being sewn by people who
museum archives. It’s an all-hands-on-deck were trying to aid medical workers, when
effort, they say. there were all those fears about shortage
“Our cultural seismology is being re- of P.P.E. — last resort masks. And they’ve
vealed,” said Anthea M. Hartig, the director more recently become a political state-
of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ment.”
American History. Of these three earth-
shaking events, she said, “the confluence is Document the Back Stories, Too
THE AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST
unlike most anything we’ve seen.” Curators say that recording the personal
Museums, she said, are grappling “with Above, a Covid-19 journal replete with canceled plans. Left, the Kings County
stories behind photos, videos and objects
the need to comprehend multiple pan- Distillery pivoted to making hand sanitizer when the pandemic started.
NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY are just as crucial as the objects themselves
demics at once.” — and the more personal, the better. Muse-
ums rely on objects to elicit an emotional re-
We Are All Field Collectors action from visitors, and that sort of person-
Last August, Dr. Erik Blutinger joined the al connection requires knowing the object’s
staff of Mount Sinai Queens as an emer- back story.
gency medicine physician. He knew that his “For us, really, the artifact is just a meta-
first year after residency would be intense, phor, and behind that artifact are these
but nothing could have prepared him for the voices, and this humanity,” said Aaron Bry-
trial-by-fire that was Covid-19. ant, who curates photography and visual
Aware that he was at the epicenter not culture at the Smithsonian’s National Mu-
only of a global pandemic, but of history, Dr. seum of African American History and Cul-
Blutinger, 34, began to take iPhone videos of ture, and who is leading the Smithsonian’s
the scenes in his hospital, which was one of continuing collection response in Lafayette
New York City’s hardest hit during the early Square.
days of the crisis. Curatorial teams from many museums
“Everyone is Covid positive in these hall- are offering to interview donors about their
ways,” he told the camera in one April 9 re- materials and experiences, and encourage
cording that has since been posted on the donors to include detailed descriptions and
Mount Sinai YouTube channel, showing the back stories when submitting objects and
emergency room hallways filled with hiss- records for consideration. Many are also
ing oxygen tanks, and the surge tents set up collecting oral histories of the moment.
outside the building. “All you hear is oxy-
gen. I’m seeing young patients, old patients, How to Donate to a Museum
people of all age ranges, who are just incred- Many museums have put out calls for sub-
ibly sick.” missions on social media and are directing
KEMPER BATES
He estimated that he had recorded over would-be donors to submission forms on
50 video diaries in total. The NPR editor Nina Gregory collects their websites. The National Museum of Af-
In Louisville, Ky., during the protests and “personal ambi,” or ambient noise, from her rican American History and Culture site
unrest that followed the killings of George home. “It’s another form of diary,” she said. has a thorough form that covers items’ sig-
Floyd and Breonna Taylor, who was a resi- nificance, dimensions, condition and ma-
dent of the city, a filmmaker named Milas terials. The Civil Rights Museum is looking
Norris rushed to the streets to shoot footage paper — screengrab those, he said).
for “archival materials, books, photo-
using a Sony camera and a drone. To this end, curators said, don’t be so
graphs, clothing/textiles, audiovisual ma-
“It was pretty chaotic,” said Mr. Norris, quick to edit and delete your cellphone pho-
terials, fine art and historic objects” that
24, describing police officers in riot gear, ex- tos right now. “Snapshots are valuable,”
share civil rights history. The New-York
said Kevin Young, the director of New York
plosions, and gas and pepper bullets. He Historical Society is seeking Black Lives
City’s Schomburg Center for Research in
said that at first he didn’t know what he Matter protest materials.
Black Culture. “We might look back at one
would do with the footage; he has since “We review material, we talk about it and
and say, ‘This picture tells more than we
edited and posted some of it on his Insta- we respond to everyone,” said William S.
thought at the time.’ ”
gram and Facebook accounts. “I just knew Pretzer, a senior curator of history at the
that I had to document and see what exactly At the National Civil Rights Museum in
National Museum of African American His-
was happening on the front lines.”
JASON SPEAR/NMAAHC PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST
Memphis, the curatorial team will be evalu-
tory and Culture. “We can’t collect every-
A demonstrator photographed by a staff member of the National Museum ating and collecting protest materials such
About 2,000 miles west, in Los Angeles, thing, but we’re not limiting ourselves to
of African American History and Culture in Lafayette Square in June. as placards, photos, videos and person-
anything.”
Gathering materials from some commu-
nities is proving challenging, and curators
are strategizing collection from individuals
who may be unlikely to offer materials to
historical institutions.
“A lot of our critical collecting and gather-
ing of diverse stories we’ve been able to do
because of directed outreach,” said Ms. Ho-
fer of the New-York Historical Society.
“We’re trying to capture the experience of
all aspects of all populations in the city, in-
cluding people experiencing homelessness
and the incarcerated.”
“We want to make the barrier to entry on
this very low,” said Nancy Yao Maasbach,
the president of New York’s Museum of Chi-
nese in America, which began collecting
LISA HERNDON/THE SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE materials relating to pandemic-related rac-
Above, items at a George Floyd tribute outside the Schomburg Center in New York. Below, this cowbell was rung at a Central Park field hospital whenever a Covid-19 patient was discharged. ist attacks on Asians and Asian-Americans
in late winter, and personal testimonies
the NPR editor Nina Gregory, 45, had set up about experiences during the pandemic
recording equipment on the front patio of and protests. Because museums may not
her Hollywood home. In March and April, necessarily be obvious repositories for
she recorded the absence of city noise. “The many immigrant communities, Ms. Maas-
bach said, the museum is making transla-
sound of birds was so loud it was pinging
tors available to those who want to tell their
red on my levels,” she said.
stories.
Soon the sounds of nature were replaced
“We’re trying to make sure we’re being
by the sounds of helicopters from the Los
accessible in creating this record,” Ms.
Angeles Police Department hovering over-
Maasbach said.
head, and the sounds of protesters and po-
lice convoys moving through her neighbor- Keep Documenting
hood. She recorded all this for her personal
records. Curators recognize that their story-of-2020
collecting will continue for years; we are in
“It’s another form of diary,” she said.
the midst of ongoing events. They are ask-
Museums have indicated that these kinds
ing us to continue to document the subse-
of private recordings have critical value as quent chapters — and to be as posterity-
public historical materials. All of us, cura- minded as one can be when it comes to
tors say, are field collectors now. ephemera.
“We don’t know what the puzzle looks like
‘A National Reckoning’ yet,” said Ms. Hartig of the National Mu-
In the spirit of preservation, Ms. Hartig NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY seum of American History. “Yet we know
from the National Museum of American that each of these pieces might be an impor-
History — along with museum collectors tant one.”
fence around the perimeter, which pro-
across the country — have begun avid cam- Some museums are exhibiting submitted
testers covered in art and artifacts.
paigns to “collect the moment.” and accepted items right away on websites
Taking immediate moves to preserve
“I do think it’s a national reckoning or on social media; others are planning vir-
these materials — much of which was made
project,” she said. There are “a multitude of tual and physical exhibits for as early as
of paper and was vulnerable to the elements
ways in which we need to document and un- this autumn. The Eiteljorg Museum of
— amounted to a curatorial emergency for
derstand — and make history a service. American Indians and Western Art, for ex-
the Smithsonian’s archivists.
This is one of our highest callings.” ample, is collecting masks and oral history
Yet with many museums still closed, or in testimonies from Native American commu-
Some museums have assembled rapid-
the earliest stages of reopening, curatorial nities and is considering the creation of a
response field collecting teams to identify
teams largely cannot yet bring most objects “rapid-response gallery,” said the muse-
and secure storytelling objects and ma-
into their facilities. It is falling to individuals um’s vice president and chief curator, Elisa
terials. Perhaps the most widely publicized
task force, assembled by three Smithsonian to become their own interim museums and KYRA YIP G. Phelps.
museums working in a coalition, dispatched archives. “If art is being sparked by something
curators to Lafayette Square in Washington An antiracism poster created by 14-year-old Kyra Yip. It will be on very timely, we want to have a place where
to identify protest signs for eventual possi- The Ordinary Is Extraordinary display at New York’s Museum of Chinese in America when it reopens. we can showcase works and photos,” she
ble collection. While some curators are loath to suggest a said, adding that this process differed from
The collecting task force went into action laundry list of items that we should be sav- alized masks — and the personal stories “the elaborate, formal exhibit development
after June 1, when President Trump oring — they say that they don’t want to ma- behind them. process.”
dered Lafayette Square cleared of pro- nipulate the documentation of history, but “One activist found a tear-gas canister, Some donors, however, may not be
testers so he could pose for photos in front of take their cues from the communities they and he gave it to us,” said Noelle Trent, a di- among those to view their materials once
St. John’s Episcopal Church, clutching a document — many are imploring us to see rector at the museum. “We’re going to have they become part of institutionalized his-
Bible. Shield-bearing officers and mounted historical value in the everyday objects of to figure out how to collect items from the tory — at least not right away. Even though
policemen assailed peaceful protesters right now. opposing side: We have to have the racist Dr. Blutinger said that he sees the historical
there with smoke canisters, pepper bullets, “Whatever we’re taking to be ordinary posters, the ‘Make America Great’ stuff. value of his emergency room video diaries,
We’re going to need that at some point. The he has yet to revisit the peak-crisis videos
within this abnormal moment can, in fact,

flash grenades and chemical spray. The

White House subsequently ordered the con- serve as an extraordinary artifact to our danger is that if we don’t have somebody himself.
struction of an eight-foot-high chain link children’s children,” said Tyree Boyd-Pates, preserving it, they will say this situation “I’m almost scared to look back at them,”
an associate curator at the Autry Museum was not as bad.” he said. “I’m worried that they’ll reignite a
of the American West, which is asking the And there is perhaps no article more rep- set of emotions that I’ve managed to tuck
LESLEY M. M. BLUME is a journalist, a historian public to consider submitting materials resentative of this year than the mask, away. I’m sure one day I’ll look back and
and the author of “Fallout: The Hiroshima such as journal entries, selfies and even which has “become a really powerful visual perhaps open up one or two clips, but I have
Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It sign-of-the times social media posts (say, symbol,” said Margaret K. Hofer, the vice never watched any of them all the way
to the World,” to be published on Aug. 4. a tweet about someone’s quest for toilet president and museum director of the New- through.”
The Look
DEARBORN , MICH.
Top row from left:

Amina Abdikadir, who
represented New York
at the 2019 event;
touching things up
backstage; fashion
accessories; and an
Islamic specialty store,
which are common in
Dearborn, Mich. Nimo
Hashi, center right,
represented Kentucky.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY FARAH AL QASIMI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
LAST YEAR, ON A THURSDAY in June, long before dress (dresses that are too tight could lead to This is the only home that I know right now. I
live events and large gatherings bore the threat of disqualification) and talent, which may be a spo- passionately dream of seeing girls like me in
contagion, the ballroom of the Ford Community ken word poem or a Quran recitation. fashion books, on billboards, in Coca-Cola adver-
and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, Mich., Contestants must also answer this question: “If tisements and obviously in movies. Hopefully
was in full pageant form. you were crowned Miss Muslimah USA, how Netflix.”
For a century, the beauty pageant has embed- would you use that title to change misconceptions Just like several American beauty pageants,
ded itself in the cultural identity of America. Miss about Muslim women in the world?” Miss Muslimah has had its share of shake-ups
Muslimah USA offers a fresh take on the well- The winner holds the Miss Muslimah USA title while attempting to establish itself as a legitimate
worn event format, one that lies at the intersec- for a year, signs a contract to abide by certain organization.
tion of American cultural identity and religious codes of conduct, is managed by the organization In 2017, Dr. Khadijah Ismael, 42, won the first
freedom at a time when both seem to be in flux. and walks in a show at an annual fashion conven- pageant, in which she ran on a platform of knock-
The pageant has given Muslim women, particu- tion hosted by Perfect for Her, a modest wear ing down stereotypes about Muslim women. After
larly those who wear the hijab, the chance to brand. Ms. Shahid helps the winner navigate winning, she traveled on a speaking tour which
participate in an American rite on their own sponsorships and fashion bookings. she paid for. But disagreements between Dr.
terms, without having to compromise their faith. Running the pageant by herself, Ms. Shahid Ishmael and the Miss Muslimah organization
(Its motto: “promoting modesty and inner dipped into her savings to bring Halima Aden, a arose, and a month before her reign was over she
beauty.”) It was created by Maghrib Shahid, a Somali-American model, to the first Miss Mus- was informed that she was disqualified.
39-year-old Black Muslim mother from Columbus, limah USA. Ms. Aden was the first contestant to Dr. Ismael, a dentist, went on to create Women
Ohio, and a designer of modest clothing. wear a hijab in the Miss Minnesota pageant in of Wellness of New Jersey, an organization that
As a hijabi, a Muslim woman who wears a head 2016, and she was the first woman to wear a hijab produces the Miss Glitz, Glamour, and Brains
scarf, Ms. Shahid felt that she and other women and burkini in Sports Illustrated, in 2019. USA in S.T.E.M. pageant, which “showcases the
like her bore the brunt of discrimination against Ms. Shahid’s passion for pageants began in beauty of the mind.” She and Ms. Shahid are now
Muslims, a diverse population estimated to num- childhood; she told herself that someday she on good terms. “I thank the organization for being
the catalyst for me and many other women to do
ber more than three million in the United States. would enter a competition. “As I got older, I real-
many productive things in the community and
President Trump — a former pageant-world ized, I don’t see anybody like me — who looks like
beyond,” Dr. Ishmael said.
figure himself — has inflamed Islamophobia in me and the way I dress,” she said. “It became a
The pageant itself is adapting, defying tradi-
the nation. distant dream.”
tions it established early on to embrace the com-
“We’re visibly Muslim, it’s us who will be at- Now that she has Miss Muslimah, she said, plexity of the very community it hopes to uplift. In
Middle row from left: Andrea Rahal, who
tacked first,” Ms. Shahid said. “I wanted to give “I’m living my dream through these women.” 2018, as a way to welcome new converts and
represented Michigan; Maghrib Shahid, in blue,
Muslim women the opportunity to change mis- Backstage last year, the contestants adjusted young women who couldn’t speak Arabic, contest-
the founder of Miss Muslimah USA; and Ms.
conceptions about themselves.” the gowns they had modified and helped one ants were given the choice between reciting from
Rahal at home with her son. Above, Zeytuna
Halima Yasin Abdullahi, 23, who was crowned another tuck in their scarves. the Quran or reading a poem.
Mohamed, representing Iowa, preparing for
in the first Miss Muslimah pageant in 2017, said The contestants strutted down the catwalk in the special-occasion-wear segment. This year, nonhijabi Muslims will be allowed to
that two years on, she still felt its impact. their gowns one by one. enter and compete alongside hijab-wearing con-
“I’ve gained a really strong and consistent The women moved on to recite their speeches, testants, Two international contestants — from
confidence in myself, and learned to appreciate which touched on Islamophobia, feminism, self- Kazakhstan and Britain — will also be competing.
my flaws,” she said. “This is me. This is how I was care and the desire to be seen as multidimen- Ms. Shahid thinks there’s still work to do to
At a U.S. pageant for
born.” sional people in American society. reach the pageant’s full potential. She pointed to
To enter Miss Muslimah USA, contestants must “I am a Muslim feminist,” Zeytuna Mohamed, a the rise of the Miss USA pageant, which grew out
be practicing Muslims age 17 to 30, a range estab- 22-year-old nursing student from Des Moines, young Muslim women, of the Miss America pageant after the winner
lished after the first pageant, which accepted said onstage. “Many people think that those two Yolande Betbeze Fox refused to pose for publicity
contestants as old as 40. There’s a $250 registra- words are incompatible, but I am here to prove the complexity of shots while wearing a swimsuit in 1950.
tion fee and a screening process. They can pre- you wrong. I am not oppressed. I am not passive, “It took time for them to build,” Ms. Shahid
pare to compete in five categories: abayah (a and I am certainly not caged.” modesty is on full display. said. “If you support Miss Muslimah, in the next
loose, robelike dress), burkini (a swimsuit that Umuhani Abdullahi, 20 and representing Ohio, 10 years we’ll also have that great momentum.”
covers the whole body), modest special occasion said in her speech: “This is my home, America. LIANA AGHAJANIAN
D8N
THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2020
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