Megan Thee Stallion: Why I Speak Up for Black Women | NYT Opinion
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October 20, 2020
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This U.S. Election Could Be the Most Secure Yet. Here’s Why. | 2020 Elections
With early voting underway, states are working to reassure voters that their ballots will be counted as cast. Our video shows how states’ responses to Russian hacking and the coronavirus crisis have helped make the election more secure than ever.
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October 19, 2020
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Watch Sacha Baron Cohen Get Serious in ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ | Anatomy of a Scene
Aaron Sorkin knows his way around courtroom drama theatrics. His script (adapted from his Broadway play) for the 1992 Tom Cruise-Jack Nicholson verbal slugfest “A Few Good Men,” did not shy away from gavel-banging razzmatazz. He returns to court with the docudrama “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (streaming on Netflix), which he wrote and directed.
The trial of the title involves several antiwar activists (played by several Oscar and Emmy winners) who were accused of conspiring to cause riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
The trial itself was a carnival of sometimes funny, sometimes shocking moments, which Sorkin depicts. But this scene, featuring the testimony of the usually more jokey agitator Abbie Hoffman (played by the usually more jokey Sacha Baron Cohen), turns down the volume and gives the court more of the order its judge (Frank Langella) has been seeking throughout the film.
It’s the film’s final trial scene, but it’s handled differently than usual. Narrating this video, Sorkin explains why he went in a quieter, more straightforward direction, and why all eyes were on Cohen in interpreting its tone in his performance.
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October 16, 2020
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How a U.S. Task Force Killed a Wanted Antifa Activist
President Trump praised the killing of Michael Reinoehl, suspected of fatally shooting a far-right protester, as “retribution.” Our investigation found that officers may have shot without warning or seeing a gun.
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October 13, 2020
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What's the Problem With Vote-by-Mail? | 2020 Elections
The second episode of our four-part series, Stressed Election, focuses on vote-by-mail, which has become one of the most contentious issues of the 2020 election. In Michigan, a state decided by fewer than 11,000 votes in 2016, a group of bipartisan election officials worry they won’t have the time or resources to ensure results on election night.
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October 12, 2020
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How Julie Taymor Brings Visual Flair to ‘The Glorias’ | Anatomy of a Scene
When an interviewer poses a sexist question to Gloria Steinem in the biopic about her life, a giant red tornado sweeps him away.
Or at least it does in Steinem’s thoughts. That sequence is one of a few moments of fanciful abandon in “The Glorias,” Julie Taymor’s drama that casts four actresses to play the feminist activist.
The scene begins during a television interview, with Alicia Vikander playing Gloria. But when the interviewer (Michael Lowry) says to her, “I hope you’ll forgive our masculine notion that you are an absolutely stunning sex object,” the casting of Gloria changes in the middle of the interview to Julianne Moore, then leads into the fantasy sequence of her response.
“I allow the whimsy of her imagination to say what she would say, could she say it,” Taymor said in an interview.
In this video, Taymor further explains the scene and how she put it together, from creative costuming (by Sandy Powell) to a sweeping score (by Elliot Goldenthal). And she discusses filming her performers on wires over green screen that would combine with visual effects into a sequence that pays tribute to both “The Wizard of Oz” and “Macbeth.”
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October 02, 2020
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How America Bungled the Plague | NYT Opinion
A year ago, the United States was regarded as the country best prepared for a pandemic. Our government had spent nearly two decades strategizing for a doomsday scenario. So what went wrong?
How is it that America, which wrote the global playbook for pandemic response, accounts for just 4 percent of the world’s population yet more than 20 percent of the world’s coronavirus deaths?
One of the most important functions of journalism is to provide accountability, so in the video above, Johnny Harris dives deep into an exploration of what went wrong and when, and who’s to blame and why.
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September 29, 2020
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Why Voting in This U.S. Election Will Not Be Equal | 2020 Elections
The first episode of our four-part series, Stressed Election, focuses on voter suppression in Georgia, where a growing Black and Latino population is on the precipice of exercising its political voice, if they get the chance to vote.
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September 28, 2020
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I'm Not Alone. I Have My Cats. | Op-Docs
In Lasse Linder's "All Cats are Gray in the Dark," we enter the world of an older man living by himself in a small city in Austria. Only he’s not alone — he has his two Scottish Fold cats, Marmelade and Katyusha. The cats accompany him everywhere: to the bar, to the grocery store, to the ski slopes. As we watch their relationship unfold, the trio builds a world that’s exclusively and intimately theirs alone — a reminder that families are whatever we make them out to be. All that defines them is love.
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September 16, 2020
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I’m Trying to Topple Europe’s Last Dictator | NYT Opinion
In the video Op-Ed above, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya tells the story of her improbable rise from stay-at-home mom to revolutionary icon. She reluctantly became the figurehead of the Belarusian opposition movement after her husband was thrown in jail for daring to challenge Europe’s last dictator.
Belarus has been ruled by the same man, Alexander Lukashenko, since 1994. Over the past 26 years, he has violently suppressed many who challenged his rule — jailing opposition candidates or driving them into exile. So Belarusians were unsurprised when the pattern began to repeat in 2020 — democracy was being subverted once again.
But the unlikely has happened. After rallying behind Ms. Tikhanovskaya, widely believed to be the true victor of the August elections, hundreds of thousands of Belarusians have gathered in protest to make it clear they’ve had enough of Lukashenko — and they aren’t backing down.
Could this unlikely hero be bringing an end to his tyrannical rule?
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September 23, 2020
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How an Oregon Wildfire Became One of the Most Destructive | Visual Investigations
The Almeda fire left a path of destruction as it tore through the Rogue Valley in southern Oregon. About 24 hours after it started, an estimated 2,350 homes had been left in ashes. We used satellite images, videos and social media posts to track what happened.
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September 21, 2020
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Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg | NYT News
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court’s feminist icon, not only changed the law, she also transformed the roles of men and women in society, according to Linda Greenhouse, contributing writer and former Supreme Court Correspondent for The Times.
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September 18, 2020
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How Tom Holland Seeks Revenge in ‘The Devil All the Time’ | Anatomy of a Scene
“You got time for a sinner?”
That line from the vengeance-seeking Arvin Russell (Tom Holland) is delivered with a sense of both weariness and foreboding. The weight of tortured souls confronting evil from all corners is at the heart of “The Devil All the Time,” the period drama that also stars Robert Pattinson as a not-so-faithful preacher.
Antonio Campos directed the Netflix film and, in this video, walks us through a scene that begins like confession but gives way to threats of retribution. The components are simple: two characters, a church and a gun. But those spare elements lead to an extended scene of both quiet nuance and sustained tension.
Campos talks about the challenges of pulling the scene off, both in the performances and in the assembling process. His editor, Sofía Subercaseaux, is also his wife, and he says they worked on this scene, on and off, for nine months to get it right.
He also discusses how sound design played a role in portraying a character’s nervousness (amplifying the clank of the shaking gun) and how certain camera angles help to tell the story from individual characters’ perspectives.
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September 17, 2020
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When Talking to Aliens Is Your Religion | Op-Docs
In the mid-1950s, an English taxi driver named George King claimed that he had received a directive from outer space. The dispatch spurred him to establish the Aetherius Society, a religious group that believes communicating and working with aliens will better humanity. Though unconventional, the group’s practices aren’t dangerous or hateful; they often mirror those of more established religions, with an extraterrestrial twist.
In Annalise Pasztor's "Gods From Space," members of the Aetherius Society explain their mission of peace and their unique prayer method in times of crisis. We don’t know how many people this group comprises overall, but with 35 centers across five continents, it’s a small international community bonded by the belief that the earth needs extraterrestrial support to survive.
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September 14, 2020
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Why You Should Care About TikTok | NYT Opinion
Maybe you first learned about TikTok when your kids tried to teach you the Toosie Slide, or when you came across a kinetic Charli D’Amelio video that got millions of likes. Or was it when your nephew started a small fire because of the “outlet challenge?” In any case, you’ve definitely heard that President Trump was intent on banning it and forced it to make a deal with an American company. But who really cares about an app — used mostly by Gen Z?
You, for one, should.
In the video Op-Ed above, a group of highly influential TikTokers from around the country, with followers in the millions, demonstrate that the platform is more than cringy video for and by teenagers. It’s the most downloaded app and nearly 100 million Americans use it for a range of things — like political organizing and learning about beekeeping — and even boomers and educators are on the app. It’s also just fun.
Like any social media platform, we should keep an eye on it. But that doesn’t mean this one app should be targeted — if anything, we should be paying closer attention to other companies, like Facebook.
Even if you still don’t care about what’s happening with TikTok, you should be worried about what could be next.
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September 14, 2020
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This Doctor Wants to Humanize Death | Op-Docs
If losing a child to an illness is one of the worst things that can happen to a family, Dr. Nadia Tremonti has made it her mission to make it better.
It’s not easy. But as a pediatric palliative care physician, she works to ensure that terminally ill children receive quality end-of-life care. Palliative care is sometimes misunderstood to shorten life expectancy, but it’s a method that increases quality of life, improves symptom burden and decreases medical costs. We follow Dr. Tremonti in John Beder's "Dying in Your Mother's Arms" as she works to make death less medical and more human. In the process she asks a critical question: When a child is terminally ill, how can we make the end of life a better one?
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September 10, 2020
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How Sam Hunt Makes a Country Hit: Hip-Hop and 1950s Honky-Tonk | Diary of a Song
The Nashville boundary-pusher Sam Hunt and five all-star collaborators built “Hard to Forget,” his latest country radio No. 1, around a sample of Webb Pierce’s “There Stands the Glass,” from 1953. See how they made it sound modern in the latest Diary of a Song episode.
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September 10, 2020
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Why The Olympics Punished Me For Protesting | NYT Opinion
In sports arenas around the world, taking a knee is no longer taboo — it’s trending. But there’s at least one place where protesting is still not allowed.
The Olympic medal podium.
In the video Op-Ed above, the track and field Olympian Gwen Berry confronts Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, over what she feels is his organization’s hypocrisy: Olympians are celebrated for their courage, drive and tenacity. But if they are spurred by those same traits to demand racial justice? That’s a punishable offense.
On the podium at the 2019 Pan Am Games, Berry raised her fist. Then she paid for it. She was reprimanded by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and is now unsponsored. She is among the top hammer throwers in the world, but hasn’t received an athletic grant since protesting.
Berry is a Black woman without a safety net defying a global organization that brought in $165 million in profits in 2018. Yet athletes like her — who often scrape by — are faced with an impossible dilemma: keep their mouths shut or jeopardize their career to fight for justice.
Berry has fought to get to where she is today. She was raised by her grandmother in a household of 13 in Ferguson, Mo. After having a son at age 15, she earned a college scholarship and became a top hammer thrower. While training to qualify for the Olympics in 2016, she held down two jobs — working at Dick’s Sporting Goods during the day and delivering Insomnia Cookies at night — and helped support 10 extended-family members back home.
Last month, Team USA formed a council to make recommendations on race and social justice. But Berry says as long as free speech is censored, volunteer committees are not enough.
As for what she really wants? You’ll have to hear it from her in the video above.
This time, she won’t be silenced.
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September 04, 2020
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How ‘Mulan’ Goes to Battle | Anatomy of a Scene
For the live-action film “Mulan,” putting together a sequence where an avalanche drives back an army was no big deal. It only required two years of preparation, multiple location scouts, intense horse training and a cast of more than 80 Mongolian and Kazakh trick riders. In other words, a cinch.
Niki Caro, the director of the anticipated film (finally on a home screen near you via Disney+), worked tirelessly with a large team of crew and cast to pull off a sequence many will remember from the animated version. But the new scenes have some narrative updates.
In this video, she discusses the moment when Mulan (played by Yifei Liu) comes into her own as a warrior and uses her smarts with an assist from nature to beat back an aggressive army.
“The key for me to creating and executing a sequence of this size, scale and complexity was the collaboration of some really singular women,” Caro said. That collaboration included her cinematographer Mandy Walker, and one of her first assistant directors, Liz Tan.
They found the right location, one with multiple levels to stage a battle, in the Ahuriri Valley, on the South Island of New Zealand. In managing all of the moving parts, like extras, stunts and the use of a trebuchet to fire a real flaming cannonball, Caro said “it was like being the conductor of a really brilliant orchestra.”
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September 03, 2020
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How to Stop the Next Pandemic | Coronavirus News
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It’s not just Covid-19. Pathogens once confined to nature are making their way into humans on a more regular basis. And it’s our fault.
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September 01, 2020
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Former President Barack Obama returned to the campaign trail Wednesday, ridiculing President Trump for complaining about campaigning in Pennsylvania, contracting the coronavirus and hiding business dealings with China.
“We know that he continues to do business with China because he has a secret Chinese bank account. How is that possible?” Obama asked supporters who had been invited to hear him speak at a drive-in rally in the parking lot of a Philadelphia sports complex.
He was referring to a recent New York Times report that revealed previously unknown financial holdings of the president’s — at a time when Trump is criticizing Joe Biden’s ties to China.
“Can you imagine if I had a secret Chinese bank account?” said the former president, his voice straining. “Can you imagine if I had a secret Chinese bank account when I was running for re-election?
He added, “They would’ve called me Beijing Barry.”
Obama’s long-anticipated speech, the first of several he intends to deliver on behalf of Biden and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, over the next 2 weeks, represented a complete reversal of his reluctance to engage Trump directly.
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The parents of 545 migrant children separated at the border by the Trump administration still haven’t been found, court documents show.
Efforts are underway in Mexico and Central America to track down parents separated from their children at the U.S. border beginning in 2017 under the Trump administration’s most controversial immigration policy. About 60 of the children were under the age of 5 when they were separated., according to court documents filed this week in a case challenging the practice.
Though attempts to find the separated parents have been going on for years, the number of parents who have been deemed “unreachable” is much larger than was previously known.
Tap the link in our bio for the story. Photo of a border fence near Brownsville, Texas, by @matthewbusch
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Tens of thousands of Nigerians have been demonstrating for weeks against a notoriously brutal and corrupt police agency, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad — a show of popular anger, fueled by longstanding grievances over corruption and lack of accountability, that posed the biggest challenge to the government in years.
Nigerian security forces opened fire on Tuesday night at a demonstration in Lagos against police brutality, hitting several people according to witnesses, in a major escalation of the unrest that has gripped the country for 2 weeks.
The extent of the casualties was unclear, but some witnesses reported seeing people who were killed. Videos posted to social media crackled with apparent gunfire and showed people who were wounded and uniformed forces shooting into the air.
A police officer who witnessed the episode and spoke on condition of anonymity said that 11 people had been killed. But that report that could not be immediately corroborated.
Tap the link in our bio for the latest in this developing story.
Photo taken Tuesday after police fired tear gas at a crowd of protesters near Abuja by Kola Sulaimon/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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The basketball star LeBron James, fresh off his 4th NBA championship, has set his sights on a new challenge — combating misinformation targeted at Black voters.
@morethanavote, the collective of athletes headlined by James, on Wednesday introduced its final political push before Election Day, a rapid response and advertisement operation meant to combat the spread of misinformation among younger Black voters.
“I’m in a position where I can educate people and, through More Than a Vote, educate people on how important this movement is, and how important their civic duty is,” James told us in a phone interview. “Not only to empower themselves, but to give back to their community as well.”
The initiative, which is a collaboration with the political group @wewinblack and includes some celebrity partners, will seek to educate younger Black voters on how to spot false political statements spreading on social media. The goal is to provide advice that culminates in young people making a plan to vote — either by absentee ballot or in person.
It comes after the group has invested in recruiting more than 40,000 poll workers, helping formerly incarcerated people regain their voting rights and aiding the push for NBA arenas to be converted into polling locations.
Tap the link in our bio to read excerpts from our conversation with @kingjames, where he discussed the importance of voting, and how he sees his evolving role as both an athlete and a social activist.
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In a shift for the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis has voiced his support for same-sex civil unions in a new documentary that debuted in Rome on Wednesday.
Speaking about pastoral outreach and care for people who identified as L.G.B.T., Francis directly addresses the issue of civil unions in the film.
“What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered,” @franciscus said amid remarks in which he otherwise reiterated his support for gay people as children of God. “I stood up for that.”
It was not immediately clear when Francis made those remarks, but @evgeny_director, the director of the documentary, ‘‘Francesco,’’ said that Francis made the remarks directly to him for the film.
Church teaching considers homosexual acts “intrinsically disordered” and the church is opposed to gay marriage.
Tap the link in our bio to read more about Francis’ remarks, which are the strongest yet from a pontificate that has taken a more tolerant and inclusive tone toward homosexuality. Photo by Angelo Carconi/EPA, via Shutterstock.
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New York’s rooftops were made for dancing.
And on a recent Sunday, on a rooftop overlooking @lincolncenter, dancers spoke to the turmoil of the moment, with falls to the floor, deep contractions and imploring arms.
Dancers of N.Y.C.B., a new organization developed to support members of @nycballet during the pandemic, presented a benefit performance at the Empire Hotel featuring choreography by former and current company members: @prestonchamblee, @laurenlovette, @benjaminmillepied, @justin_peck, @janieclaire and @wheeldony.
It was a group effort, initiated by former dancer @melissagerstein, who, during a welcoming speech, took off her mask for a brief moment to scream, “Yes!” In one performance, the stage became a living canvas, with dancers crawling, sliding and rolling. They eventually made their way upright with a catlike stretch and their arms raised to the sky. Other times, shapes came fast, sometimes in a way that made the choreography look under-rehearsed and blurry.
Tap the link to read more about the benefit performance at @theempirehotel. Photo by @vnina.
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1.5 million New Yorkers can’t afford food.
As the pandemic settled into the city, hunger drove tens of thousands of New Yorkers into food pantry lines, many for the first time. And as federal and city benefits are tied up in politics, people are left to figure out how to get by.
We spent some time with New Yorkers who are relying on food banks to survive. They showed that at a time when we feel that nothing is in our control — not even the air we breathe — cooking can still offer comfort, relief and hope. Tap the link in our bio for their stories, in photos by @heislerphoto, and check out our Instagram Story.
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David Letterman isn’t here to cheer you up.
Though he, his wife, Regina, and their son, Harry, have remained safe, @letterman knows several people who were stricken by the coronavirus, some of whom died from it. And he is deeply frustrated by what he feels have been inconsistent, nationwide efforts to inform people about the pandemic and mitigate its spread.
“I was talking to a friend of mine, and he was furious at the mayor of his city for keeping it closed,” recalled Letterman. “And he said, ‘Well, that guy will never be re-elected.’ And I just thought, do I tell him what this really can be? We’re looking at a quarter of a million people dead soon. But I just didn’t want to have that fight.”
The coronavirus also nearly put a halt to Letterman’s Netflix interview show, “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction,” which returns this week. He had recorded 2 episodes, with Kim Kardashian West and with Robert Downey Jr., before the pandemic, and believed the season — if not the series — was finished. Instead, he was able to produce 2 more episodes over the summer, under substantially different circumstances: one with Dave Chappelle, which was recorded at an outdoor pavilion in Yellow Springs, Ohio; and one with Lizzo, at her home studio in Los Angeles, which had no audience at all.
Tap the link in our bio to read more about what Letterman has to say about the pandemic, Kardashian and “the carefree days of nonsense” he dearly misses. Photo by @victor.llorente.
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Joe Biden holds a 9-point lead over President Trump amid widespread public alarm about the trajectory of the coronavirus pandemic and demand among voters for large-scale government action to right the economy, according to a national poll of likely voters conducted by The New York Times and Siena College.
With just 2 weeks left in the campaign, Trump does not hold an edge on any of the most pressing issues at stake in the election, leaving him with little room for a political recovery absent a calamitous misstep by Biden, the Democratic nominee, in the coming days. The president has even lost his longstanding advantage on economic matters: Voters are now evenly split on whether they have more trust in him or Biden to manage the economy.
Over all, Biden is backed by 50% of likely voters, the poll showed, compared with 41% for Trump and 3% divided among other candidates.
On all other subjects tested in the poll, voters preferred Biden over Trump by modest or wide margins. Biden, the former vice president, is favored over Trump to lead on the coronavirus pandemic by 12 points, and voters trust Biden over Trump to choose Supreme Court justices and to maintain law and order by 6-point margins. Americans see Biden as more capable of uniting the country by nearly 20 points.
Tap the link in our bio to see the results of our poll, which is based on 987 likely voters from Oct. 15 to 18.
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This is the perfect "I don't feel like cooking" midweek recipe. It can be ready in 20 minutes by tossing together seared gnocchi and sautéed brussels sprouts with lemon zest, red-pepper flakes and brown butter.
The key to this recipe by @itsalislagle is how you cook the store-bought gnocchi: No need to boil. Just sear them until they are crisp and golden on the outside, and their insides will stay chewy. The resulting texture is reminiscent of fried dough. Tap the link in our bio for the recipe. Photo by @jsis_cooks for @nytcooking.
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Encompassing 16.7 million acres of land, the Tongass National Forest in Alaska is both the largest national forest in America and the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest.
“Here on Prince of Wales Island, some 200 miles south of Juneau, I’m immersed in the same temperate rainforest that I came to know as a child. It feels both alien and familiar,” writes Christopher Miller, who documented his 30-mile excursion along the Honker Divide Canoe Route, the island’s longest trail.
“Because of the sluggish snow melt, our progress is slow. We weave through many shallow rocky sections, inevitably dragging, bouncing and scooching over rocks. Eventually we trudge through ice-cold water that covers our ankles and calves. The travel is unhurried; it allows us to appreciate our surroundings and take in the small lakes, streams and rivers.”
But the lifting of logging restrictions may alter the character of the forest. Earlier this year, the Trump administration, with the encouragement of successive Alaska governors and congressional delegations, finalized plans to open about 9 million acres of forest to logging and road construction. Tap the link in our bio for more from @csmphotos for @nytimestravel.
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Bruce @Springsteen is living in the moment.
“I’m at a point in my playing life and artistic life where I’ve never felt as vital,” the 71-year-old told us on a Zoom call from his New Jersey home. “My band is at its best, and we have so much accumulated knowledge and craft about what we do that this was a time in my life where I said, ‘I want to use that as much as I can.’”
His new album, “Letter to You” — his first record with the E Street Band in 6 years — and an Apple TV+ film of the same name that captures the kinetic experience of recording it last November come out on Friday.
“The record is the first record that I’ve made where the subject is the music itself,” he said. “It’s about popular music. It’s about being in a rock band, over the course of time. And it’s also a direct conversation between me and my fans, at a level that I think they’ve come to expect over the years.”
But the Boss is focused on where he stands now — and where he’s going next. We asked him how he felt about Trump fans playing “Born in the U.S.A.,” his spirituality, and what it’s like putting out a record in pandemic times. Tap the link in our bio to read excerpts from our conversation. @lovebryan made this photo of @springsteen in 2017 at his home studio in Colts Neck, N.J.
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