Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
C M Y K Nxxx,2021-05-23,A,001,Bs-4C,E2
U(D547FD)v+$!=!/!?!#How George Floyd Changed UsSUNDAY REVIEW
Cannabis companies are rushing tomeet what is expected to be a “tidalwave” of demand for medical marijuanain New York and New Jersey. PAGE 18
NATIONAL 18-25
A Scarcity of Pot
The 50-year-old, who is a shot ahead ofBrooks Koepka, would become theoldest pro golf major winner if he hangson in Sunday’s final round. PAGE 30
SPORTS 29-31
Mickelson Clings to P.G.A. Lead
Looking to post-pandemic life, the artworld sees its purpose in a new light.
SPECIAL SECTION
Museums Reimagined
Smart preparation can make a post-quarantine visit with aging parents lesstense and more joyful. PAGE 8
AT HOME
Anticipating Needs
As more states legalize cannabis, candymakers are suing over sophisticatedlook-alikes. They say they’re protectingtheir brands — and your kids. PAGE 1
SUNDAY STYLES
High Stakes
At 94, the magician David Berglas sayshis renowned effect can’t be taught. Ishe telling the truth? PAGE 1
‘The Holy Grail’ of Card Tricks
Looking to artists, one year afterGeorge Floyd’s murder. PAGES 5-9
ARTS & LEISURE
What Can Art Bear?
The pandemic created a child carecrisis, and mothers became the defaultsolution. Losing a paycheck also costwomen a part of their identities. PAGE 1
SUNDAY BUSINESS
Out of Work, Paying a Price
An army of volunteers is trying to makethe best of a wasteful grocery system toget eight tons of scavenged food a dayto those who are in need. PAGE 1
METROPOLITAN
The Food RescuersAs rising temperatures thaw a once-frozen area, Russia is moving soldiersand equipment to the Far North. PAGE 9
INTERNATIONAL 9-17
Kremlin’s Arctic Deployment
Daniel Ellsberg has revealed a 1966study showing how close the U.S. cameto a nuclear strike on China. PAGE 12
In 1958, at the Brink
SURAT, Australia — Ian Whitedrove slowly over the red dirttrack, past wheat stubble and intothe long grass, where he glimpseda tuft of white fur moving near thewoods to his left.
It was a warm autumn night inthe Australian outback. He turnedon the spotlight sitting atop histruck, finding a kangaroo 150yards away.
“See, that’s a doe,” he said. “Idon’t especially want to shoot adoe.”
A doe usually has a joey in herpouch. He and others who huntkangaroos bear this in mind, Mr.White said, despite claims to thecontrary by American activistswho are trying to shut down theirlivelihood, calling it inhumane.
These critics, he said, just don’tunderstand how life actuallyworks here in the middle of Aus-tralia. Kangaroos have beenhunted on the continent for thou-sands of years, “and there are stillmore of them than people,” Mr.White said.
He insisted that Australia’scommercial kangaroo industryisn’t like a John Wayne Western
with guns blazing. It’s a regulatedbusiness that works with the gov-ernment. Hunters must pass asharpshooting course to ensure ahumane kill, and kangaroo num-bers are closely monitored bystate and federal officials, who setquotas to ensure sustainable pop-ulations.
Most important, said Mr. White,58, a third-generation full-timeshooter who goes by “Whitey,”kangaroos produce healthy meat,strong leather and the jobs thatkeep small towns whole.
“I don’t like killing things,” hesaid. “I only do it if I want to eat
Saving Kangaroos EndangersA Way of Life in the Outback
By DAMIEN CAVE
A commercial hunter takingaim at a kangaroo from his car.
MATTHEW ABBOTT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page 16
All over the world, countries areconfronting population stagnationand a fertility bust, a dizzying re-versal unmatched in recorded his-tory that will make first-birthdayparties a rarer sight than funerals,and empty homes a common eye-sore.
Maternity wards are alreadyshutting down in Italy. Ghost cit-ies are appearing in northeasternChina. Universities in South Ko-rea can’t find enough students,and in Germany, hundreds ofthousands of properties havebeen razed, with the land turnedinto parks.
Like an avalanche, the demo-graphic forces — pushing towardmore deaths than births — seemto be expanding and accelerating.Though some countries continueto see their populations grow, es-pecially in Africa, fertility ratesare falling nearly everywhereelse. Demographers now predictthat by the latter half of the cen-tury or possibly earlier, the globalpopulation will enter a sustaineddecline for the first time.
A planet with fewer peoplecould ease pressure on resources,slow the destructive impact of cli-mate change and reduce house-hold burdens for women. But thecensus announcements thismonth from China and the UnitedStates, which showed the slowestrates of population growth in dec-ades for both countries, also pointto hard-to-fathom adjustments.
The strain of longer lives andlow fertility, leading to fewerworkers and more retirees,threatens to upend how societiesare organized — around the no-tion that a surplus of young peoplewill drive economies and help payfor the old. It may also require areconceptualization of family andnation. Imagine entire regionswhere everyone is 70 or older.Imagine governments laying outhuge bonuses for immigrants andmothers with lots of children.Imagine a gig economy filled with
WORLD IS FACING FIRST LONG SLIDEIN ITS POPULATION
FERTILITY RATES PLUNGE
Implications for Climate,Education, Land Use
and Economies
This article is by Damien Cave,Emma Bubola and Choe Sang-Hun.
Continued on Page 17
WASHINGTON — McDonald’s,Chipotle and Amazon are all rais-ing pay as companies try to filljobs faster than they can findworkers. Airplane tickets and ho-tel rooms are becoming more ex-pensive as demand reboundsthanks to newly widespread vac-cinations. Supply shortages aremaking it tougher to buy a houseor a new car.
Republicans look at the econ-omy and see a political liability forthe Biden administration. Infla-tion is taking off, they warn, andworker shortages are threateningthe viability of long-sufferingsmall businesses.
President Biden and his advis-ers assess the same set of condi-tions and reach a vastly differentconclusion. The dislocations thatare causing prices to rise quicklyare likely to be temporary, theysay. And while both the speed ofthe economic snapback and thepower it has conferred on workershave come as something of a sur-prise, White House economic offi-cials see a lot to like in the evolv-ing trends.
That disconnect in views couldshift as the reopening proceedsand it becomes clearer how theeconomy is doing. But the dis-agreement is already helpingshape the political debate over Mr.Biden’s infrastructure and jobsproposals, which would inject an-other $4 trillion into the economy,offset by tax increases on corpora-tions and high earners.
Four months into Mr. Biden’sterm, Republicans say his eco-nomic agenda is already failingthe country. The president’s teamsays the state of the economyshows how he can deliver forworkers.
“It is good policy and good foreveryone to increase those wagesa little,” Anita Dunn, a senior ad-viser to Mr. Biden, said in an inter-view. “You see some very largeemployers already starting to dothat, and that’s good for the coun-try. And that is certainly in linewith what President Biden be-lieves, which is that workingAmericans, middle-class Ameri-cans who haven’t been the benefi-ciaries of trickle-down economicsfor the last 40 years, deserve a
As Prices Rise,Biden and FedSee a Rebound
G.O.P. Warns InflationWill Hurt Businesses
By JIM TANKERSLEYand JEANNA SMIALEK
Continued on Page 22
JERUSALEM — MuhammadSandouka built his home in theshadow of the Temple Mount be-fore his second son, now 15, wasborn.
They demolished it together, af-ter Israeli authorities decided thatrazing it would improve views ofthe Old City for tourists.
Mr. Sandouka, 42, a countertopinstaller, had been at work whenan inspector confronted his wifewith two options: Tear the house
down, or the government wouldnot only level it but also bill theSandoukas $10,000 for its ex-penses.
Such is life for Palestinians liv-ing under Israel’s occupation: al-ways dreading the knock at thefront door.
The looming removal of six Pal-estinian families from their homesin East Jerusalem set off a roundof protests that helped ignite thelatest war between Israel andGaza. But to the roughly three mil-lion Palestinians living in the West
Bank and East Jerusalem, whichIsrael captured in the 1967 warand has controlled through dec-ades of failed peace talks, thestory was exceptional only be-cause it attracted an internationalspotlight.
For the most part, they endurethe frights and indignities of theIsraeli occupation in obscurity.
Even in supposedly quiet peri-ods, when the world is not payingattention, Palestinians from allwalks of life routinely experienceexasperating impossibilities and
petty humiliations, bureaucraticcontrols that force agonizingchoices, and the fragility and cru-elty of life under military rule, nowin its second half-century.
Underneath that quiet, pres-sure builds.
If the eviction dispute in EastJerusalem struck a match, the oc-cupation’s provocations cease-lessly pile up dry kindling. Theyare a constant and key driver ofthe conflict, giving Hamas an ex-cuse to fire rockets or lone-wolf at-
PHOTOGRAPHS BY SAMAR HAZBOUN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Clockwise from top left: Badr Abu Alia, whose home was raided by Israeli soldiers; Majeda al-Rajaby, a West Bank teacher separatedfrom her children; Nael al-Azza, who must pass a checkpoint to get to work; Sondos Mleitat, who operates a psychotherapy website.
The Misery of Life Under OccupationDaily Indignities Mount for Palestinians, Steadily Fueling a Conflict
By DAVID M. HALBFINGERand ADAM RASGON
Continued on Page 14
LaGRANGE, Mo. — ShadeLewis had just come in from feed-ing his cows one sunny spring af-ternoon when he opened a letterthat could change his life: Thegovernment was offering to payoff his $200,000 farm loan, part ofa new debt relief program createdby Democrats to help farmerswho have endured generations ofracial discrimination.
It was a windfall for a 29-year-old who has spent the past decade
scratching out a living as the onlyBlack farmer in his corner ofnortheastern Missouri, wheresignposts quoting Genesis line thesoybean fields and traffic signalswarn drivers to go slow because itis planting season.
But the $4 billion fund has an-gered conservative white farmerswho say they are being unfairlyexcluded because of their race.And it has plunged Mr. Lewis andother farmers of color into a newculture war over race, money andpower in American farming.
“You can feel the tension,” Mr.Lewis said. “We’ve caught a lot ofheat from the conservative Cau-casian farmers.”
The debt relief is redress setaside for what the governmentcalls “socially disadvantagedfarmers” — Black, Hispanic, In-digenous and other nonwhiteworkers who have endured a longhistory of discrimination, from vi-olence and land theft in the JimCrow South to banks and federalfarm offices that refused them
Windfall for Black Farmers Roils Rural AmericaBy JACK HEALY
Shade Lewis’s biggest challenge as a Black man raising cattle in Missouri was finding financing.NEETA SATAM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page 21
Her voice heavy with emotion,Letitia James, New York’s attor-ney general, stepped onto achurch dais in Rochester in Febru-ary to announce that a grand juryhad declined to indict the police of-ficers who were involved in thedeath of a Black man in their cus-tody.
“I’m disappointed — extremelydisappointed,” Ms. James said.Her office had presented the ju-rors with what she called an ex-tensive investigation into thedeath of the man, Daniel Prude,whom the police pinned face downon the pavement until he lost con-sciousness.
“We sought a different outcomethan the one the grand juryhanded us today,” Ms. James said.
But transcripts of the grandjury proceedings, released pub-licly by a judge last month at Ms.James’s request, tell a more com-plicated story.
Grand jury proceedings almostalways remain secret, and thetranscripts of the inquiry into Mr.Prude’s death provide a rare viewinto the inner workings of thecriminal justice system at a piv-otal moment in the continuing na-tional debate over police account-ability.
In a grand jury proceeding,prosecutors typically present aone-sided case in hopes of secur-ing a criminal indictment. But
How the PoliceAre ExoneratedBy a Grand Jury
By NICOLE HONGand SARAH MASLIN NIR
Continued on Page 20
Late Edition
VOL. CLXX . . . No. 59,067 © 2021 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2021
Today, clouds and sunshine, hot,high 90. Tonight, increasing clouds,not as mild, low 60. Tomorrow, ablend of clouds and sunshine, cooler,high 66. Weather map is on Page 24.
$6.00
