It’s Wednesday, September 9.
asserted
It → ’ → ?
Isabella Redjai interviews residents of the “data center capital of the world.”
asserted
Redjai → interview → world
Every month, a Florida man gives away $800 to ex-cons to help them regain their bearings.
asserted
them → give → bearings
It’s part of an experiment being conducted in a number of places to see if a guaranteed income, for six months or a year, will help keep those newly released from prison from winding up back inside.
asserted
income → ’ → prison
The data so far is promising, though far from definitive, writes P.G. Sittenfeld.
asserted
Sittenfeld → write → ?
The Florida man is Kevin Scott, who heads a Gainesville-based nonprofit,
asserted
who → head → nonprofit
“The joy of being free was counterbalanced by the terror of, ‘How am I going to make these probation payments?’ ” Scott said.
asserted
Scott → counterbalance → payments
Leaving prison on parole is one thing.
asserted
Leaving → leave → parole
Staying out is another matter entirely—many states charge parolees monthly fees when they leave, and of course someone with a felony on his record has a difficult time finding work.
asserted
someone → stay → work
That’s where Scott, and other private philanthropists, come in.
asserted
Scott → ’ → ?
Sittenfeld also knows what it’s like to serve time.
asserted
it → know → time
As he wrote in a Free Press article last year, he was caught up in an FBI sting and wound up in jail for four and a half months before President Donald Trump pardoned him in 2025.
asserted
Trump → write → 2025
Read his latest report on the NGOs writing the checks, the ex-cons cashing them, and whether the solution to our high recidivism rates could be as simple as a little bit of money.
uncertain
solution → read → money
—The Editors
Live in New York City: Bari Weiss and Simon Sebag Montefiore on the Making of the Modern Middle East
On October 1, Bari Weiss returns to the stage for her first live event in nearly a year, joined by renowned historian Dr. Simon Sebag Montefiore to discuss his latest book The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East.
asserted
Weiss → live → East
Paying subscribers get early access to tickets until Thursday, September 10, at 12 p.m. ET.
asserted
subscribers → pay → ET
Britain, Canada, and France issued sanctions against Israeli settlements in the West Bank on Tuesday, citing concerns of escalating settler violence.
asserted
Britain → issue → violence
In response, Israel threatened to close the British consulate in Jerusalem, which represents the UK in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza.
asserted
which → threaten → Jerusalem
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Lonnie G. Bunch announced his resignation Tuesday following clashes with President Trump over how the American museum presents its history and values.
asserted
museum → announce → history
“I have to be honest, it has been stressful,” Bunch, 73, told The New York Times.
asserted
Bunch → have → Times
“And at a certain point, I’d like to wake up in the morning and not look at my cellphone.”
asserted
I → like → cellphone
Justice Brett Kavanaugh blocked a redrawn Missouri congressional map favoring Republicans on Tuesday, deferring to the state’s Supreme Court, which said voters must approve the map in a statewide referendum.
asserted
voters → block → referendum
The map had already been used in last month’s primary election, and the state court did not specify what map would be used in November’s general election.
asserted
map → use → election
Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods took effect Tuesday in an escalation of the trade war between the two neighboring countries.
asserted
tariffs → take → countries
The tariffs span about $20 billion in American products—including milk, video game consoles, and fishing rods—which represent a small piece of the $700 billion in goods that flowed across the U.S.-Canada border last year.
asserted
that → span → border
Houthi terrorists attacked four Saudi cities on Tuesday, wounding more than 70 people and marking a major expansion of the war in Iran.
asserted
terrorists → attack → Iran
The U.S. also resumed attacks on Iranian tankers after a two-day pause, responding to attempted Iranian strikes on a U.S. Navy warship, officials said.
asserted
officials → resume → warship
Two art thieves stole four Renoir paintings Tuesday from a museum on the French Riviera, jettisoning two of the works as they fled.
asserted
they → steal → works
The heist took less than three minutes and targeted the most valuable paintings in the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, according to the office of the regional prosecutor.
uncertain
heist → take → prosecutor
A secret screening of a documentary featuring disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes stirred the Telluride film festival into a frenzy over the weekend.
asserted
screening → feature → weekend
The three-hour documentary features exclusive, at-length interviews between comedian Nathan Fielder and Holmes that were conducted months before she began her 11-year prison sentence.
asserted
she → feature → sentence
The film will debut in theaters on October 16.
asserted
film → debut → October
