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哈基姆·杰弗里斯能否带领民主党夺回众议院？
唐纳德·特朗普主导的一场史无前例的选区重划行动，加上民主党内部的裂痕，让这位少数党领袖的胜利之路比以往任何时候都更加艰难。
Can Hakeem Jeffries Lead a Democratic Takeover of the House?
An unprecedented gerrymandering effort led by Donald Trump—and internal divisions among Democrats—has made the Minority Leader’s path to victory harder than ever.
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为夏日辩护/反对夏日，一段咒语
“在悲伤的会费中，在树液里，在松树的针叶上，／尽管心已入冬，夏日依然来临。”
For/Against Summer, a Spell
“In sorrowship dues, in sap, on the spines of pines, / despite the winter of hearts, summer came.”
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《零售天使》，罗伯特·平斯基
“你优雅的灵在太妃糖机的铬臂间／于莫里斯糖果店跳着萨拉班德／拆解又编织无瑕的甜蜜。”
“The Angel of Retail,” by Robert Pinsky
“Your spirit of grace in the taffy machine’s chrome arms / At Morris’s Candy performing a sarabande / Unknitting and knitting again immaculate sweets.”
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邻家的人口贩卖受害者
一名年轻女孩从几内亚被带到达拉斯附近的一个富裕郊区。她在强迫奴役中度过了接下来的十六年。
The Human-Trafficking Victim Next Door
A young girl was brought from Guinea to a wealthy suburb near Dallas. She spent the next sixteen years of her life in forced servitude.
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真实的高中年鉴题词
“你会在今天下午读一次，然后直到五十多岁才会再看，但到那时，我已经死了，独自在我的公寓里，一丝不挂，除了我的脚踝监视器。”
Realistic High-School-Yearbook Inscriptions
“You will read this once this afternoon and not again until you’re in your fifties, but, by that time, I will have already died, alone in my apartment, totally nude, except for my ankle monitor.”
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人工智能垃圾的前史
在ChatGPT之前，有情节机器人、自动节拍器，以及一个世纪以来各种自动化写作的企图。
The Prehistory of A.I. Slop
Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.
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Shaggy的动感普拉提课
这位格莱美获奖雷鬼明星来到城里谈论他的新专辑《彩票》，并在前往与斯汀合作的途中，在一堂塑身机训练课上伸展和摇摆。
Shaggy’s Boombastic Pilates Session
In town to talk about his new album, “Lottery,” and en route to a collaboration with Sting, the Grammy-winning reggae star stretches and shakes at a reformer workout class.
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查娅·切尔诺温为受伤的世界发声
这位作曲家的作品在德国近期的一个音乐节上展出，其中包括对针对儿童的战争罪行的咆哮谴责。
Chaya Czernowin Gives Voice to a Wounded World
The composer’s work, featured at a recent festival in Germany, includes a howling denunciation of war crimes against children.
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“有意识”饮酒的时代
美国人对酒精的兴趣正在消退。迷你马提尼能让他们重拾酒杯吗？
The Age of “Intentional” Drinking
Americans are losing their appetite for booze. Could the mini Martini lure them back?
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莫扎特与萨列里能否和解？
在摩根图书馆的莫扎特展览上，威尔·夏普和保罗·贝坦尼畅谈在Starz新版《莫扎特传》中饰演古典音乐界最著名宿敌的幕后故事。
Can Mozart and Salieri Work It Out?
At the Morgan Library’s Mozart exhibition, Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany dish about playing classical music’s most notorious rivals, on Starz’s new “Amadeus” reboot.
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棒球大宪章的新归宿
1999年，弗兰克·默里在苏富比拍卖会上竞得一份十九世纪文献《棒球法则》，其中详述了美国国民消遣的早期规则。如今，其价值已是他当年出价的二百五十倍。
Baseball’s Magna Carta Finds a New Home
In 1999, Frank Murray bid in a Sotheby’s auction and nabbed the “Laws of Base Ball,” a nineteenth-century document detailing early rules of America’s pastime. Now it’s worth two hundred and fifty times what he paid.
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玛丽·托德·林肯长期遭人嘲讽。她的名誉还能挽回吗？
历史将这位第一夫人视为歇斯底里的寡妇和挥霍无度者。她最新的传记作者选择突出她的精神坚韧和政治才能。
Mary Todd Lincoln Has Long Been Derided. Is Her Reputation Salvageable?
History knows the First Lady as a hysterical widow and a lavish spender. Her most recent biographer chooses to highlight her mental fortitude and political prowess.
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NFL选秀的神秘与大众魅力
每年有数百万人观看选秀，并由一群专业和业余预测者进行分析。然而，最终仍是一场赌博。
The Mystery and Mass Appeal of the N.F.L. Draft
The annual draft is watched by millions, and analyzed by a set of professional and amateur prognosticators. Still, it comes down to a crapshoot.
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布茨·赖利，马克思主义兄弟
布茨·赖利的荒诞电影将流行美学与激进政治融为一体。
Boots Riley, Marx Brother
Boots Riley’s zany movies combine pop aesthetics with radical politics.
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《梦驾》，王苇柯著
每天早晨，他“醒来”——这不是他会用的词——筋疲力尽，整夜未眠，仿佛开了一整夜的车。
“The Dreamdrive,” by Weike Wang
Each morning, he “awoke”—not the term he would have used—exhausted, having not slept and having driven all night.
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民主党能否重夺参议院？
他们的选举前景终于有所改善，但机遇往往迅速让位于内部分歧。民主党有计划吗？
Can the Democrats Take Back the Senate?
Their electoral prospects are finally improving, but opportunities can quickly give way to divisions. Does the Party have a plan?
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Rostam Batmanglij漫游至美国音乐的边缘
这位前Vampire Weekend的多才多艺的音乐家喜欢挑战我们对流行歌曲的固有认知。
Rostam Batmanglij Wanders to the Edges of American Sound
The polymath musician, formerly of Vampire Weekend, likes to push our idea of what a pop song can be.
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Met Gala的真正起点
每年，马克酒店都会变成一个混乱的名人聚集地。
Where the Met Gala Really Begins
Every year, the Mark Hotel is transformed into a chaotic celebrity holding pen.
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绘制特朗普的美国地图
对美国的完全无党派制图学重新诠释。
Mapping Trump’s America
A totally nonpartisan cartographic reinterpretation of the United States.
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重塑身份政治的思想，背后有一段复杂往事
金伯莉·克伦肖提出了“交叉性”和“批判种族理论”这两个术语。她的新回忆录表明，她仍在为它们的含义而战。
The Idea That Reshaped Identity Politics Has a Complicated Backstory
Kimberlé Crenshaw gave us the terms “intersectionality” and “critical race theory.” Her new memoir shows that she isn’t done fighting over what they mean.
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美国革命并非那么惊天动地
美国人长期以来认为他们开启了一个全球反抗的时代。但放在当时更广阔的帝国战争背景下，这个故事看起来就大不相同了。
The American Revolution Wasn’t That Big a Deal
Americans have long imagined that they set off a global age of revolt. Seen within the era’s wider wars of empire, the story looks rather different.
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让美国看起来像应许之地的艺术家
弗雷德里克·埃德温·丘奇用神话包装了一个国家。这成就了他，也毁了他。
The Artist Who Made America Look Like a Promised Land
Frederic Edwin Church sold a nation on its own mythology. That was his making—and his unmaking.
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第二十五修正案真的是一个选项吗？
在约翰·F·肯尼迪遇刺后，一位名叫约翰·费里克的新手律师被召至华盛顿起草该条款。如今，所有人都希望他就罢免特朗普一事发表意见。
Is the Twenty-fifth Amendment Really an Option?
After J.F.K.’s assassination, a neophyte lawyer named John Feerick was summoned to Washington to draft the provision. Now everyone wants him to weigh in on booting Trump from office.
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老年折扣迪士尼乐园
准备好你的优惠券。蟾蜍先生的疯狂泌尿科之旅和午睡隧道来了。
Senior-Discount Disneyland
Get your coupons ready. Here comes Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride to the Urologist and the Tunnel of Nap.