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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Will Abortion Be Enough to Save Democrats in November?</strong> - With Republicans strong on the economy, it’s not clear how much any other issue will matter. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/will-abortion-be-enough-to-save-democrats-in-november">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Terrifying Car Crash That Inspired a Masterpiece</strong> - Fifty years ago, a Kansas family picked up a hitchhiker on their way to Iowa. What happened on that drive became part of literary history. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/american-chronicles/the-terrifying-car-crash-that-inspired-a-masterpiece">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Stunning Neglect and Racist Politics Behind Alabama’s Prison Strike</strong> - In 2020, the Department of Justice sued the state for running prisons that were “riddled” with violence. Since then, things have got worse. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-stunning-neglect-and-racist-politics-behind-alabamas-prison-strike">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>David Gilbert Reads “Come Softly to Me”</strong> - The author reads his story from the October 17, 2022, issue of the magazine. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-writers-voice/david-gilbert-reads-come-softly-to-me">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Long March Toward a National Latino Museum</strong> - A community whose role in U.S. history has been too often ignored is telling its story at the Smithsonian. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-long-march-toward-a-national-latino-museum">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>These spectacular deep-sea creatures live in a potential mining hot spot</strong> -
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Relicanthus daphneae, an anemone-like organism in the CCZ, stuck on top of the stalk of a dead sea sponge. Its tentacles can extend several feet long. | Diva Amon and Craig Smith/University of Hawaiʻi
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The world needs more metals for batteries to fight climate change. Should it come at the cost of these animals?
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If you were to dive to the bottom of the ocean somewhere between Hawaii and Mexico, you might see a field of sunken treasure. Here, in what’s called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), much of the seafloor is covered with fist-sized rocks that contain valuable metals like cobalt, manganese, and nickel.
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These dull-looking rocks formed over millions of years, as metal that was dissolved in seawater grew around a bit of matter, such as a shark tooth (similar to how a pearl grows around a grain of sand). Known as polymetallic nodules, they are abundant in the CCZ, though you can find them in <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2017.00418/full">several regions</a> of the ocean. And you don’t have to dig to reach them; they sit on or near the ocean floor, looking plump for the picking.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/l_9i8l6UiIXI3E7PefYIgpan8vs=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24082364/Nodules_recovered_from_box_core_sample_from_4200_m_depth_in_eastern_CCZ___ABYSSLINE_Project.JPG"/> <cite>Abyssline Project</cite>
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Metallic nodules recovered from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone.
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For years now, a handful of companies and foreign governments have been pushing to mine nodules in the CCZ and elsewhere. These rocks contain metals needed to build batteries for electric cars and other clean-energy technologies for which demand is surging. (Worldwide, consumers bought <a href="https://www.iea.org/news/global-electric-car-sales-have-continued-their-strong-growth-in-2022-after-breaking-records-last-year">6.6 million</a> electric vehicles last year, and analysts expect sales to <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/ev-sales-tripling-by-2025-still-leaves-world-short-of-net-zero">triple</a> by 2025.)
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Those metals — particularly cobalt — are currently mined from the ground, and have been linked to <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/15/9545">environmental destruction</a> and <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr62/3183/2016/en/">human rights abuses</a>. That’s why proponents of deep-sea mining see harvesting nodules as a good thing; they claim it can be less harmful than stripping metals from the Earth.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/BYfUCPmG8NRpI7zuExJ8yva_7yQ=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24087025/deep_sea_2.gif"/> <cite>DeepCCZ Project</cite>
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The claw of a deep-sea submersible picks up a kind of sea cucumber called a gummy squirrel in the CCZ.
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But by mining the ocean floor, the industry could just be swapping one form of environmental destruction for another.
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Scientists still don’t know much about the impacts of deep-sea mining, and what they do know suggests that it could be incredibly destructive, underscoring a core tension in the race to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: Some technologies come at the expense of biodiversity and it’s often not clear how to weigh the trade-offs.
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What is certain is that the CCZ is full of life, and much of it remains undiscovered. The images below, which come from research expeditions in the CCZ, reveal some of its most mind-bending creatures, from sponges that look like light fixtures to worms that shimmer as they swim. Mining could put many of them at risk.
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Companies want to mine one of the richest ecosystems in the deep sea
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Reaching depths of <a href="https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/18ccz/background/mining/mining.html">18,000 feet</a> and spanning <a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/-/media/assets/2017/12/sea_the_clarion_clipperton_zone.pdf">1.7 million square miles</a>, the seabed of the CCZ is unmatched in species diversity, compared to other regions of the ocean known as abyssal zones that have depths between roughly 10,000 and 20,000 feet.
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“The CCZ has the highest biodiversity of any abyssal area that’s been sampled in the ocean,” said Craig Smith, a professor emeritus at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, who’s been studying fauna in the CCZ for more than three decades. “That’s significant because abyssal habitats cover more than half of the solid surface area of the Earth.”
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Some of the most spectacular creatures in nodule fields are sea cucumbers, wormlike creatures related to sea stars and urchins. Exhibit A: Psychropotes dyscrita, a.k.a. the gummy squirrel.
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A type of sea cucumber seen in the CCZ known familiarly as a gummy squirrel. It’s (far less exciting) scientific name is Psychropotes dyscrita.
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Resembling a squirrel-shaped gummy candy, this deep-sea organism — which comes in different colors — may use its “tail” as a sail, Smith said. “We think that it may move around the bottom by putting this tail up and catching very weak currents that move it along the bottom.”
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Another type of gummy squirrel found on an expedition in the CCZ called Psychropotes semperiana.
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To dive the CCZ is to experience a foreign planet, where many creatures appear “otherworldly,” Smith said.
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One example? The squidworm.
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With 10 tentacle-like appendages protruding from its head, this dazzling, free-swimming worm — which was first described <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/nov/24/squid-worm">in 2010</a> — looks part-worm and part-squid and 100 percent alien.
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A squidworm in front of a deep-sea submersible in the CCZ.
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“When you start getting down to deeper depths, you’re involving biology that is alien to humans,” the deep-sea explorer and investor Victor Vescovo, an outspoken opponent of seabed mining, told me. “You feel like an astronaut. It’s like going to another planet.”
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A closer view of the squidworm.
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Equally strange are the sponges that look nothing like … sponges.
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Consider Chondrocladia lampadiglobus, the ping pong tree sponge (or what I would call the mid-century-modern-light-fixture sponge). A carnivore, it uses these gelatinous balls to trap and eat little critters floating by.
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A carnivorous marine organism known as a ping pong tree sponge.
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Other sponges form stalks out of glass-like particles called spicules. “They literally look like glass fibers in a fiber optic cable,” Smith said of the glass-like stalks. The stalks make useful foundations for sea anemones, like the white one on top of the sponge below.
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A sea anemone attached to the tip of a dead sponge stalk.
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A live glass sponge in the CCZ. The bulbous white part is the animal’s fleshy body.
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Some animals in the abyssal zone resemble those in shallower waters but are just a bit extra. This urchin in the CCZ, for example, has incredibly long spines, many inches long.
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When an urchin has longer spines, they are more easily moved by currents, and more easily damaged, Smith said. But down in the CCZ, the currents are mellow, and so sprawling spines are less of a hazard, he suspects. Long spines may only be able to evolve where the current is weak.
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An urchin with exceptionally long spines at roughly 1,600 feet down in the CCZ.
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Importantly, many critters also attach themselves directly to the polymetallic nodules, and appear to rely on them for survival, Smith said.
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In 2016, Smith and marine biologist <a href="https://divaamon.com/">Diva Amon</a>, among other researchers, published a study <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/srep30492">documenting</a> about 170 species of megafauna (i.e.<strong> </strong>large animals) in a 30-square-kilometer area in the eastern CCZ. Half the animals were found only on nodules.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/6hGK7pZx9WPyavS4ktL7RedwKTo=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24087051/Sea_cucumber_Amperima_sp_among_small_nodules_in_eastern_Clarion_Clipperton_Fracture_Zone___D_Amon_and_C_Smith.jpg"/> <cite>Diva Amon and Craig Smith/University of Hawaiʻi</cite>
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A kind of sea cucumber in the genus Amperima near small polymetallic nodules in the eastern CCZ.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/mq37Je1S3zKOKiZSV9JXdRjhWZk=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24089675/Brisingid_asteroid_on_manganese_encrusted_rock_with_nodules_around___4400_m_western_CCZ___DeepCCZ_Project.png"/> <cite>DeepCCZ Project</cite>
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A brisingid sea star on a rock encrusted with manganese near polymetallic nodules in the western CCZ.
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What’s more, the vast majority of species that researchers have collected in the CCZ are new to science, according to a <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X22000537">recent review</a> led by Amon. Estimates suggest that anywhere between 25 percent and 75 percent of species remain unaccounted for in areas that scientists have <em>already studied, </em>the review found. So there’s much more to discover, even in areas that scientists have already explored.
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How mining the CCZ could impact these creatures
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To harvest polymetallic nodules, companies will likely drop large tractor-like devices into the water that have caterpillar treads (like those you might see at a construction site). They’ll drive around the seafloor, vacuuming up nodules and pumping them back up to a ship on the surface through what’s called a riser pipe.
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Beyond killing life on the nodules, the operation will likely release plumes of sediment from the collection device and from a discharge pipe, and it will make a lot of noise. Together, these disruptions<strong> </strong>are likely to be a big problem for marine life, Smith said.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/7N-St3UmUjwW6R1fCYX6DYnpTU4=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24082343/Sea_cucumber_at_5000_m_2__DeepCCZ_Project.jpg"/> <cite>DeepCCZ Project</cite>
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Is it a spiky potato? Nope, another sea cucumber, 5,000 meters down.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/fziSgZOY10qTCEknwmLG1nUua3Q=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24089343/Oneirophanta.JPG"/> <cite>Diva Amon and Craig Smith/University of Hawaiʻi</cite>
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A sea cucumber in the genus Oneirophanta.
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Ecosystems in the abyssal zone are incredibly sensitive to disturbance, he said. Creatures here grow very slowly — meaning, they take a long time to recover after injury or repopulate an ecosystem. They’re perfectly adapted to an environment that’s more or less pristine: The water is usually completely clear. There’s no fishing and little human-caused noise.
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Sediment plumes could make it harder for animals to feed or communicate with each other, according to <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X22000537">Amon’s review</a>. “This could ultimately result in significant changes in entire ecosystems and the services they support,” she and her co-authors write. Meanwhile, noise from the machines <a href="https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2022/07/08/deep-sea-mining-noise-pollution/">could impair</a> animals’ ability to detect prey, avoid predators, and find mates.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/zvsM5bPXuNtBFc1JB4OioqX4wh0=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24086943/Bassozetus_sp_1.JPG"/> <cite>Diva Amon and Craig Smith/University of Hawaiʻi</cite>
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A kind of fish called a cusk-eel in the CCZ.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/luQ-8ABysS-UDoJhKG-F40HiwkM=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24086968/Bassozetus_nasus.JPG"/> <cite>Diva Amon and Craig Smith/University of Hawaiʻi</cite>
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A cusk eel found in the CCZ known by the scientific name Bassozetus nasus.
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“We don’t really know how sensitive these communities are to noise, but we expect they are likely very sensitive because this is a quiet environment,” Smith said.
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Is mining the land really worse than disturbing these special creatures?
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The effect of noise on life in the abyssal zone is among the many potential impacts that researchers still don’t understand. Even a lot of baseline information is missing, such as how rare the CCZ’s species might be.
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“If we want to apply the precautionary principle, we have to assume that most of the species are not very broadly distributed and are potentially susceptible to extinction from large-scale disturbances,” Smith said. “It’s reasonable to say that if all the mining license areas are mined there would be a pretty high risk of species extinctions for a number of species.”
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Climate change damages the environment, too, and the world will need a lot more batteries to fight it. But experts point out that there are other ways to develop clean technologies that don’t involve harvesting the seabed, such as cobalt-free batteries, which some major EV manufacturers <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/17/samsung-panasonic-and-tesla-embracing-cobalt-free-batteries-.html">have started to embrace</a>.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/KDnuxdCbt2evbgkgHZauvl31A1U=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24087087/Brisingid_asteroid_with_small_nodules_and_xenophyophore__5000_m_western_CCZ___DeepCCZ_Project.png"/> <cite>DeepCCZ Project</cite>
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Another brisingid sea star, about 16,400 feet down in the western CCZ.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/ccCn2z5IzmB9n1LSyLZphkpd6vQ=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24087041/Sea_cucumber_at_5000_m___DeepCCZ_Project.jpg"/> <cite>DeepCCZ Project</cite>
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Another kind of sea cucumber recorded at ~5,000 meters in the CCZ.
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More than 650 marine and policy experts have now signed <a href="https://www.seabedminingsciencestatement.org/">a letter</a> calling for a pause on deep-sea mining until there’s more science to back up the case for it. Major car manufacturers including BMW and Volvo, as well as tech giants Google and Samsung, have <a href="https://www.noseabedmining.org/">also backed</a> a moratorium on seabed mining.
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“I’m neither for nor against mining,” Smith said. “I’m a scientist, and I’m for making our knowledge and data available. We need to have people that can talk about the science that don’t have an agenda.” But, Smith says, “we do know that mining will cause massive damage.”
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<li><strong>Here are 29 new movies to get excited about</strong> -
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<img alt="The full cast of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery sitting at a long table." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/PqH6WVUF8iLJtQLqDts1KywWfTw=/333x0:1588x941/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71476315/glassonion.0.jpg"/>
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<em>Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery</em> is just one of many great upcoming movie releases to look forward to. | Netflix
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Fall has arrived. Here’s everything to know about the year’s upcoming releases.
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Fall’s crop of films is here, <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/23387652/ruben-ostlund-triangle-of-sadness-interview">many of which</a> <a href="https://www.vox.com/e/23149512">played at the various festivals</a> that kick off the season. Some are on the road to awards season; others are seeking fun-loving holiday audiences. Most of them steer away from the IP-driven fare that clogs up the rest of the season. Keeping on top of the glut can be a challenge.
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But I’ve seen most of them, so I’m here to help. Here are 29 films from the fall season — most of which will be out by the end of the year — that are worth looking for and talking about afterward, whether at your regional film festival, your local cinema, or your home streaming service. Some are great; others are merely buzzy. I think they’re all worth your notice.
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I’ll see you at the movies.
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<em><strong>A Couple</strong></em>
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The great filmmaker <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/5/3/16184642/frederick-wiseman-films-list-best-titicut-high-school-central-park-jackson-heights-welfare-streaming">Frederick Wiseman</a> has made nearly 50 documentaries since the 1950s, but once in a great while he plunges into something a little more fictionalized. <em>A Couple</em> is such a movie, adapted by Wiseman and actress Nathalie Boutefeu from the letters of Sofia Tolstaya, wife of Leo Tolstoy. The film (which comes in just over an hour) is entirely performed by Boutefeu, who walks through gardens and forests as she narrates a letter to Tolstoy, reminiscing and reflecting upon both their relationship and the idea of marriage in general. It’s haunting and odd, and also mesmerizing.
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<strong>How to watch it: </strong><em>A Couple</em> is awaiting a US release date.
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<em><strong>Aftersun</strong></em>
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One of the year’s breakouts is <em>Aftersun</em>, from first-time director Charlotte Wells and starring <em>Normal People </em>heartthrob Paul Mescal. In the 1990s, 11-year-old Sophie (first-timer Francesca Corio) is on holiday with her father, Calum (Mescal), and for a long time <em>Aftersun</em> seems like it’s merely about the memories of a happy childhood. But we slowly come to realize that we’re seeing those memories as an older Sophie tries to process her relationship with her father, who, while loving and supportive, is fighting his own demons. <em>Aftersun </em>is directed with a sure, empathetic hand by Wells. We’re all just trying to do our best; what is left in Sophie’s memories is immense grace.
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<strong>How to watch it: </strong><em>Aftersun</em> opens in theaters on October 21.
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<em><strong>All That Breathes</strong></em>
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Delhi’s rapidly worsening air quality and religious violence form the backdrop for <em>All That Breathes</em>, Shaunak Sen’s lyrical portrait of two men who work to save injured and sick birds in the city. Their quest to find resources for their perpetually underfunded operation winds together with meditations on the nature of the birds, particularly kites — birds of prey that have been forced to adapt to the changing city. “Delhi is a gaping wound, and we’re a Band-Aid on it,” one of them says. Their work stands as a metaphor for the huge task that bringing healing to the city’s human residents might be, too. After all, we all breathe the same air.
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<strong>How to watch it:</strong> <em>All That Breathes</em> is awaiting a US release date.
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<em><strong>All the Beauty and the Bloodshed</strong></em>
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/uSv2uo7z1-6F7CutKcb-2--ZKiw=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24081794/1973_NanGoldin_Picnic_on_the_Esplanade.jpg"/> <cite>Neon</cite>
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Photographer and artist Nan Goldin rose to fame in part for her raw, intimate images of her friends, often in the midst of addiction, in museum works like <em>The Ballad of Sexual Dependency </em>(1985). But in recent years, she’s risked her reputation to protest art world institutions that have accepted money and named spaces for the Sackler family, who own Purdue Pharma, which for decades has produced opioids that have been routinely overprescribed, causing an acute addiction crisis. For <em>All the Beauty and the Bloodshed</em> — only the second documentary ever to win the famed Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival — Goldin and director Laura Poitras (<em>Citizenfour</em>) weave together her family’s story with the larger cultural narrative. Deceptively simple, <em>All The Beauty and the Bloodshed </em>is<em> </em>a movie about the things we prefer to leave unsaid, and the true cost of dragging them into the light.
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<strong>How to watch it:</strong> <em>All the Beauty and the Bloodshed</em> will open in theaters on November 23.
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<em><strong>Amsterdam</strong></em>
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“A lot of this really happened,” <em>Amsterdam</em>’s opening titles announce. Presumably the parts that didn’t happen are what furnish the core of the tale: Three people, a nurse (Margot Robbie) and two soldiers (Christian Bale and John David Washington) meet and form a close friendship that’s interrupted when World War I ends. But 12 years later, the trio are reunited when they find themselves in the middle of a plot linked to the rising tide of fascism in Europe (that’s the true part). With an absurdly stacked cast and a caper-like vibe, David O. Russell’s film is mostly diverting, rather than profound. But when the pieces come together, it really sings.
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James Gray’s <em>Armageddon Time</em> is a semi-autofictional story of a sixth grader named Paul (Banks Repeta) growing up in Queens in the 1980s who, after some trouble in his public school, ends up at a private academy at the behest of his grandfather (Anthony Hopkins). The film features a jolt of a cameo with political implications that appear midway through — I don’t want to ruin it — but the film’s broader aim is to excavate the layers of privilege that the protagonist, whose ancestors fled the Holocaust, is slowly coming to realize. Paul’s family is navigating the gluey border between being the target of antisemitism and enjoying the opportunities and social standing that their Black neighbors will never have. Meanwhile, Paul is caught between his left-leaning family and the children at his new school who casually drop racial slurs, or pump their fists and chant “Reagan! Reagan!” at the mention of an upcoming election. It’s a truly poignant, troubling, and ultimately brilliant work of memory and self-implication.
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<strong>How to watch it: </strong><em>Armageddon Time</em> opens in limited release on October 28 and wide on November 11.
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Damien Chazelle’s film hasn’t been shown yet, so everything we know at the moment is still speculative. But here’s what we know. It has an enormous cast (including Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Jean Smart, Olivia Wilde, Samara Weaving, Max Minghella, Tobey Maguire, Katherine Waterston, Spike Jonze, and many more). It weaves together stories from Hollywood’s early decades, which were rather debaucherous. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7HT83wkVss">And it looks wild</a>. Chazelle’s previous outings (including <em>Whiplash, First Man</em>, and <em>La La Land</em>) have been kinetic and thoughtful on the nature of fame, and it seems likely he’s poised to continue in the same vein.
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<strong>How to watch it: </strong><em>Babylon </em>is set to open in theaters on Christmas Day.
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<em><strong>The Banshees of Inisherin</strong></em>
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Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson previously teamed up for director and writer Martin McDonagh’s riotous and sneakily profound <em>In Bruges</em>. Now they’re back in a thoroughly Irish outing. Set on a remote island off the Irish coast a century ago, <em>The Banshees of Inisherin</em> is about two best friends whose relationship is ripped apart when one of them decides he just can’t stand the other, and expresses it in the most unhinged way possible. The story plays like a fable, the sort of thing you’d hear recounted late at night at the pub. And while it’s thoroughly comical, it’s also got a serious core — the ongoing fights between friends and brothers that have been such an integral part of Irish history are always lurking around the edges.
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<strong>How to watch it:</strong> <em>The Banshees of Inisherin</em> opens in theaters on October 21.
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Timothée Chalamet re-teams with <em>Call Me by Your Name</em> director Luca Guadagnino for <em>Bones and All</em>, but the real star is Taylor Russell. She plays Maren, a teenager who has since birth harbored an unignorable desire to consume human flesh. Alone and on the run across the Midwest, she meets a number of others like her, including Lee (Chalamet). Though <em>Bones</em> has acquired a reputation as “the cannibal movie,” it’s less about that than about looking for a community as an outsider. (Set in the 1980s, it’s also clearly a veiled allegory about being queer in Reagan’s America.) The film leans into being overwrought and overly sentimental, sadly; its metaphor seems muddled. But it’s true that the romance at its heart is touching, and Russell is a revelation.
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<strong>How to watch it: </strong><em>Bones and All </em>opens in theaters on November 23.
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Lena Dunham’s sensibility proves a perfect match for this adaptation of Karen Cushman’s 1994 young adult novel — wry, a little rude, and a great deal of fun. Bella Ramsey stars as the 14-year-old protagonist, a girl in medieval England whose parents (Andrew Scott and Billie Piper) need to marry her off to save their financially insolvent estate. Catherine loves her knight uncle (Joe Alwyn) and her friends, but mostly she just wants to be herself, and nobody’s wife. It’s romping and hilarious, with 13th-century fart jokes and terrific performances from Scott and Ramsey. Mostly, it’s just a lot of fun.
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<strong>How to watch it:</strong> <em>Catherine Called Birdy</em> opened in theaters on September 23 and begins streaming on Amazon Prime Video on October 7.
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One of the festival’s most blistering and brilliant documentaries, <em>Descendant</em> tracks the attempt to find and surface the Clotilda, the last ship carrying enslaved people to arrive in the United States, long after the slave trade (but not slavery itself) was made illegal. Director Margaret Brown weaves together the stories of the descendants of those who arrived on the Clotilda with the history of the region, and of the powerful family that’s tried to bury and deny its story for so long. It’s an engrossing, often thrilling story with implications that echo across America today.
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<strong>How to watch it:</strong> <em>Descendant</em> premieres on Netflix on October 21.
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It’s the 1980s, and in a seaside town on the British southern coast, Hilary (Olivia Colman) manages the concessions at a once-great cinema. Now owned by Mr. Ellis (Colin Firth) and in a mild state of disrepair, the movie theater is Hilary’s main source of community, especially in the wake of some mental health difficulties. One day, Stephen (Micheal Ward), who’s much younger than her and the son of an immigrant mother, arrives looking for a job, and Hilary’s life changes. But unrest is roiling just outside the walls. Written and directed by Sam Mendes, <em>Empire of Light</em> is one of the year’s most anticipated dramas. Despite a characteristically great performance from Colman, the story takes some baffling turns and ends feeling tin-eared. But if you want melodrama, you’ve come to the right place.
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<strong>How to watch it: </strong><em>Empire of Light</em> opens in theaters on December 9.
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Tilda Swinton stars in Joanna Hogg’s <em>Souvenir</em> follow-up, but she’s playing Julie, Hogg’s avatar from those movies. Brain broken yet? Swinton <em>also </em>plays Julie’s mother. The pair have gone on a nostalgic vacation to a hotel housed in an estate that used to belong to a family member. Memories fill the place; you might even say ghosts. But mostly, <em>The Eternal Daughter</em> is a movie about Hogg’s trepidation regarding the idea of making a movie about her own mother. It feels like a chamber piece, tight and restrained, full of devastating feeling.
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<strong>How to watch it: </strong><em>The Eternal Daughter</em> will open in theaters in December.
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Steven Spielberg, no stranger to drawing on his own life for his films, has finally just made a memoir with <em>The Fabelmans</em>, exploring his parents’ divorce and his youthful attempts to understand the world, and his own fears, through movies. Starring Paul Dano and Michelle Williams as his parents, as well as Seth Rogen as their close family friend, it’s best viewed as a memory piece, Spielberg trying to recreate not just what happened but what it felt like to live through it. Throughout the tale is his struggle to confront his fears — of losing the security of his childhood, of being the only Jewish family in town — through the medium of moviemaking. It’s funny, and weepy, and it winks to his future occupation. For a modern master of the form, it’s a perfect memoir.
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<strong>How to watch it: </strong><em>The Fabelmans </em>opens in limited theaters on November 11 and wide on November 23.
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Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) returns with a new mystery in Rian Johnson’s <em>Glass Onion</em>, a hilarious movie about how much a certain sort of rich person sucks. Boasting a stacked cast — including Ed Norton as a kind of Elon Musk type and Kate Hudson, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Janelle Monáe, and Dave Bautista as his annoying friends — it’s a movie that once again plays on the old-school detective mystery with confidence and aplomb. Filled with puzzles and loaded with charm, <em>Glass Onion</em> all but ensures we’ll be following the adventures of Detective Blanc for a long time to come.
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<strong>How to watch it:</strong> <em>Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery</em> opens in limited theaters in November and begins streaming on Netflix on December 23.
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Staggeringly bleak and gorgeous, the Danish film <em>Godland</em> follows a late-19th-century priest named Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove), sent to Iceland to build and pastor a church there. Guided by a gruff Icelander named Ragnar (Ingvar Sigurðsson), he opts to cross the country on foot, assuming it will help him gain a pious understanding of its inhabitants. What he discovers is a land as fearsome as God, full of physical trials far beyond his imagining. And when he finally arrives, the limits of his devotion are sorely tested. Reminiscent of recent films about presumptuous clergy (like Martin Scorsese’s <em>Silence</em>), Hlynur Pálmason’s film is brilliantly shot and as deadly as a poison pill.
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Zarifa Ghafari was Afghanistan’s youngest woman mayor, elected in the months before the Taliban’s recapturing of Afghanistan. Filmmakers Tamana Ayazi and Marcel Mettelsiefen start out by chronicling the challenges she faced in governing, advocating for women’s equality — and then geopolitics intruded. <em>In Her Hands</em> (executive produced by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton) follows Ghafari and her associates through the fallout, especially as they try to decide, in the face of impossible circumstances, whether it’s prudent to leave the country or if it’s their duty to remain.
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Mr. Williams (Bill Nighy) is a soft-spoken bureaucrat who spends his days pushing around paperwork in a 1950s London office and finds out that he has a terminal illness; that realization changes his life. <em>Living</em> is based on Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 masterpiece <em>Ikiru</em>, which was itself based on Leo Tolstoy’s 1886 novella <em>The Death of Ivan Ilyich</em>. Directed by Oliver Hermanus with a screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro, <em>Living —</em> which looks like it was made in the 1950s, all film grain and vibrance — is an immensely moving memento mori, anchored by Nighy’s breathtaking performance, and a call to live a life with purpose.
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<em>The Menu</em> lands flatter than you might hope from a film aiming to satirically skewer the rich in the world of fine dining. Ralph Fiennes, playing a world-renowned chef, runs a restaurant situated on a remote island; Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy) goes there with Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) for a once-in-a-lifetime meal, along with an assortment of the wealthy and terrible. Of course, danger lurks around every corner. <em>The Menu</em> feels both weirdly out of touch with the culinary world and strangely half-assed in the end; it’s very bent on making sure you know the manner and details of the bad people’s badness. On the other hand, if you just want a burn-it-down movie, then it does the job nicely.
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Iranian director Jafar Panahi (<em>This Is Not a Film</em>) is currently imprisoned by his government, a state he’s endured, in various iterations, for decades now. The reasons why are apparent when you see his films, and <em>No Bears</em> might be one of his best. Panahi tirelessly throws himself (sometimes literally, as he often appears in his own movies) in the way of criticizing traditions and institutions that oppress those without power in his country. In <em>No Bears</em>, he plays a version of himself, a filmmaker who can’t leave the country because he’s not allowed, but is trying to direct a film just across the border in Turkey. It’s characteristically sardonic and spot-on, particularly about the ways traditions hamper real freedom.
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<strong>How to watch it: </strong><em>No Bears</em> is awaiting a US release date.
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In a quietly devastating expose, Sinéad O’Shea explores religious abuse in her native Ireland by telling the stories of people from her small hometown who mounted resistance against the powerful. What does it look to stand up to longstanding policies of separating unmarried pregnant women from their families, or allowing children to be the target of brutal corporal punishment in school? In so doing, she dismantles the mythologization and fetishization of Irish society by outsiders, and still manages to show immense love for the people she came from.
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A kind of modern-day adaptation of the story of Medea, <em>Saint Omer</em> is the rare fiction film from celebrated French documentarian Alice Diop. It’s a courtroom drama in which journalist Rama (Kayije Kagame) travels to observe the proceedings in the case of Laurence Coly (a devastating Guslagie Malanda), who is accused of having killed her 1-year-old daughter. The story mostly unfolds in testimony, as Laurence responds to questioning from the judge. But her tale starts to dig into Rama’s personal fears — and take apart assumptions of the nature of guilt, innocence, and motherhood.
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<strong>How to watch it:</strong> <em>Saint Omer</em> is awaiting a US release date.
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Writer and director Todd Field (<em>In the Bedroom</em>, <em>Little Children</em>) returns after a years-long absence from film with <em>Tár</em>, a stunner of a drama about world-famous conductor Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), whose world is coming apart at the seams. Living in a tightly controlled world of her own making, Lydia is at her peak, but a chaotic revelation threatens to unravel it all, and unravel her as well. <em>Tár</em> demands your attention with scenes that often only reveal themselves in retrospect, and that’s what makes it great. Class anxiety, hidden secrets, and power struggles make for a potent combination; the result is explosive, deadly, and incredible to watch. <em>Tár</em> might be one of the best films of the year.
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<strong>How to watch it: </strong><em>Tár </em>opens in theaters on October 7.
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Werner Herzog loves nothing more than a giant unexplainable mystery (volcanoes, cave drawings, the internet), and the human brain might be the biggest one of them all. For <em>Theater of Thought</em>, he travels the world talking to experts in neuroscience, quantum mechanics, and various other disciplines who are plumbing the depths of what our minds can do. It’s not a stylish film, per se, but it’s a rather hypnotizing one, full of ideas that are so complex that Herzog occasionally pops in via voiceover to remind us that he has no idea what’s going on either. That makes it gently humorous, and a worthy tribute to the fantastic organ we’re all carrying around in our skulls.
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<strong>How to watch it: </strong><em>Theater of Thought</em> is awaiting a US release date.
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Robert Caro, author of <em>The Power Broker</em> (the book about Robert Moses) and the ongoing Lyndon B. Johnson biography, has been working meticulously and tirelessly for decades. His editor, Robert Gottlieb, is one of the most legendary editors in the history of American letters. The two are old now, but still going, and in the documentary <em>Turn Every Page</em>, Gottlieb’s daughter Lizzie Gottlieb gives an invaluable (and often hilarious) look into their mutual careers and working processes. You don’t have to be a writer or a nerd to love the movie, but it doesn’t hurt; <em>Turn Every Page</em> (named for advice given long ago to Caro as a young investigative reporter) dips deeply into how you write a book, the relationships you need to sustain a lifelong work, and why you’d do it in the first place.
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<strong>How to watch it: </strong><em>Turn Every Page</em> opens in theaters on December 30.
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Brace yourself. The latest satire from Swedish director Ruben Östlund (<em>Force Majeure</em>, <em>The Square</em>) is uproarious, bleak, drenched in bodily fluids, and practically emblazoned with “Eat the Rich” in neon lights. It starts, briefly, in the world of modeling (the “triangle of sadness” being an area between the brows often tinkered with by plastic surgeons), but soon we’re on a luxury yacht populated by the worst people in the world. From there, things go nuts. <em>Triangle of Sadness</em> draws on everything from Roman vomitoriums to <em>Lord of the Flies</em>, skewering with equal force those who make their money without scruples and those who lack the courage of their convictions to do anything about it. It’s frequently gross, blunt as a battering ram, and very, very 2022.
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<strong>How to watch it:</strong> <em>Triangle of Sadness</em> opens in theaters on October 7.
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<img alt="A man looks sadly off camera." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/PM8UJRc6BI0T0OtR3ctreqlnANs=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24019165/the_whale_brendan_fraser.jpg"/> <cite>Courtesy of TIFF/A24</cite>
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Brendan Fraser delivers a brilliant, gutting performance as Charlie, an online college professor who, out of great grief, has developed an eating disorder that has left him immobilized. He can’t leave his home; he can barely leave the couch, and he keeps the camera off when he teaches, afraid of his students’ gaze. He’ll be dead by the end of the week if he doesn’t seek medical attention, and that’s the one thing he refuses to do. Based on Samuel D. Hunter’s award-winning play and directed by Darren Aronofsky, <em>The Whale</em> is messy and tricky in places — but it also has <a href="https://www.vox.com/23351293/whale-movie-review-fraser-aronofsky">something very wise</a> to say about religious trauma.
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<strong>How to watch it: </strong><em>The Whale</em> opens in theaters on December 9.
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Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel has been considered more or less unfilmable, and so it’s to Noah Baumbach’s credit that he’s proven the axiom definitively wrong. Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig star in the unconventional result, which veers — quite purposely — from family drama to disaster movie to noir without skipping a beat. The film exorcises much of the novel’s material dealing directly with media theory, preferring instead to focus on the assertion that every plot, whether it’s a plot to murder someone or the plot of a movie, eventually leads toward death. The white noise that surrounds us in omnipresent TVs and incessant advertising can only drown out our dread of mortality for so long. At times it’s tedious (that’s on purpose, too), but <em>White Noise</em> maintains a sense of humor as it tackles some of the hardest stuff we deal with as humans in what often feels like a slowly disintegrating society, and it ends by joyfully playing in the ruins.
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<strong>How to watch it: </strong><em>White Noise </em>opens in limited theaters on November 25 and begins streaming on Netflix on December 30.
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/23345084/women-talking-review-tiff-augustine">The story of <em>Women Talking</em></a> springs out of a <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-14688458">horrifying true story</a> from 2011, in which seven men from an ultra-conservative Mennonite colony in Bolivia (populated by the descendants of the Eastern Europeans who settled there in 1874) were convicted of drugging and serially raping over 100 women from their community. For the film version, writer and director Sarah Polley did what every good adaptation should do and found her version of the story inside the original. With a cast that includes Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, Ben Whishaw, and Frances McDormand (in a tiny but thematically crucial role), she tells a story about learning to unlearn oppression, about embracing freedom after violence, as the women of the colony decide whether to stay, fight, or flee. It’s a skillfully made, conversation-forward movie that unpacks various ways women have responded to violence and abuse over centuries and across the world: living with subjugation, fighting it, fleeing it, or trying to reform society from within. It imagines a feminist future.
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A protester holds aloft a Puerto Rican flag during a demonstration outside the governor’s mansion in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on January 23, 2020, after a warehouse full of emergency aid was discovered undistributed to those in need. | Ricardo Arduengo/AFP via Getty Images
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For Puerto Rico — where over <a href="https://www.eenews.net/articles/grid-anger-rises-in-puerto-rico-as-massive-outages-remain/">3 million</a> people were left without electricity and <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/09/20/1123984002/hurricane-fiona-puerto-rico-lost-more-than-power-vast-majority-no-clean-water">760,000</a> without clean water after <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2022/9/19/23360769/puerto-rico-hurricane-fiona-flooding">Hurricane Fiona</a> flooded the archipelago last month — talking about solutions yet again can feel like déjà vu.
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It’s no wonder. Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico in mid-September, right before the <a href="https://gizmodo.com/hurricane-maria-five-years-later-photos-puerto-rico-1849531794">fifth anniversary</a> of Hurricane María, the Category 4 storm that led to the death of <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00442-0">thousands</a> of people in 2017 and knocked out the power grid for many islanders for <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/8/15/17692414/puerto-rico-power-electricity-restored-hurricane-maria">nearly a year</a>. In the immediate aftermath of María, politicians, NGOs, and economists rushed to craft potential solutions to make Puerto Rico more resilient against future climate events, ranging from <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/23362974/puerto-rico-fiona-blackout-outage-power-electricity">privatizing the electrical grid</a> to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding approximately <a href="https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20220803/fema-approves-its-10000th-projects-hurricane-maria-recovery-project">$28 billion for construction and economic revitalization projects</a>. Yet despite the damage and the death toll, only $5 billion of that money was actually disbursed and spent. And four-fifths of that went not to broader resiliency for future disasters but to emergency relief, according to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/climate/puerto-rico-hurricane-fiona.html">New York Times</a>. That pattern holds true for other federal funds, such as the <a href="https://www.hudoig.gov/reports-publications/report/review-huds-disbursement-grant-funds-appropriated-disaster-recovery-and">Housing and Urban Development department</a> (HUD), too.
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So when President Joe Biden visited the island Monday to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/hurricanes-floods-biden-government-and-politics-caribbean-17d745e30b022fdf5b41c93ab55fa751">announce $60 million</a> in flood protections, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/politics/biden-puerto-rico-hurricane-fiona.html">he emphasized</a> that Puerto Rico will receive “every single dollar promised.” There will also be a “grid recovery modernization team,” led by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, to help usher Puerto Rico toward progress, <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1577019683768672256?s=20&t=0HMWHiDOEgtrOLSot5gzag">Biden said</a>. Biden’s trip provided a clear contrast to the previous administration’s efforts. When former President Donald Trump visited after María, he threw <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/politics/donald-trump-paper-towels-puerto-rico">paper towels</a> into a crowd of hurricane survivors. Later, he <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-called-puerto-rico-a-place-with-absolutely-no-hope-book-2022-10">told</a> New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman that he saw the island as a place with “absolutely no hope.”
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Beyond Trump’s opposition to funding disaster recovery, a major reason why Puerto Rico’s uptake on adaptation plans has been slow lies with the <a href="https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1533&context=wmjowl">unique bureaucratic obstacles</a> it faces because of its territorial status and pre-existing debt. Despite the money it did ultimately receive, Puerto Rico’s infrastructure is no better today than it was before María. In fact, it’s <a href="https://infrastructurereportcard.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2019-Puerto-Rico-Report-Card-Final.pdf">even worse</a>. While Fiona was a much smaller storm than María, the hurricane <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2022/9/19/23360769/puerto-rico-hurricane-fiona-flooding">revealed just how vulnerable</a> the island remains. “Given that our collective ability to overcome these events has actually diminished since Hurricane María in 2017,” Raúl Santiago-Bartolomei, a professor of urban planning at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, told me by email, “both federal and local government policies in these areas have proven to be failures.”
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Puerto Rico’s vulnerability to hurricanes goes beyond its location on a highway of tropical storms. The island is a poor place by any calculation — with a median household income at $21,000 and a <a href="https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/PR">poverty rate</a> hovering around 40 percent, Puerto Rico <a href="https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/puerto-rico-us-territory-crisis">is twice as poor</a> as Mississippi, the most impoverished American state. And poverty is what can help make natural disasters <a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/world/poverty-causes-disasters-and-disasters-cause-poverty">so deadly and dangerous</a>. But much of the reason why Puerto Rico is so poor boils down in large part to the long-term consequences of colonialism, which has held the territory back from making progress.
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Although Biden likely has a better-intentioned game plan in mind for Puerto Rico’s recovery than his predecessor, the problems on the island run much deeper than poor electricity infrastructure and sea walls.<strong> </strong> According to activists and scholars in Puerto Rico and in the diaspora, adaptation plans alone won’t be enough to improve the lives of everyday people living on the island. There will need to be a major reevaluation of the colonialist underpinnings — the debt crisis and Puerto Rico’s political structure, for one — in order for any kind of climate-resilient infrastructure to happen.
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From its 400 years as a colony of Spain to its ceding to the US after the Spanish-American War in 1898 to its organization as a US territory in 1917, there hasn’t been a moment where Puerto Rico has been independent as a nation-state. That might be surprising for almost half of Americans, who did not know that Puerto Ricans were US citizens at all, according to a 2017 survey by the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/upshot/nearly-half-of-americans-dont-know-people-in-puerto-ricoans-are-fellow-citizens.html">Morning Consult</a>.
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In fact, Puerto Ricans have been American citizens since the Jones-Shafroth Act was signed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1917 (which also meant that Puerto Rican men were eligible for <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/puerto-ricans-become-u-s-citizens-are-recruited-for-war-effort">conscription</a> — convenient timing given the US entrance into World War I that year). The act also established the Puerto Rican Senate,<strong> </strong>which has 27 elected members who work to pass laws. Despite having citizenship, Puerto Ricans have never been able to vote in general presidential elections and have no voting representative in Congress. Puerto Ricans also do not pay federal income taxes, but they do have to pay,<strong> </strong>and are eligible for, social security and Medicare taxes.
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While Puerto Rico has power over its internal affairs — which are delegated through its own executive, judicial, and legislative branches — the US has control over its foreign relations, commerce, trade, and more, as long as there is a US law that <a href="https://welcome.topuertorico.org/government.shtml#:~:text=Puerto%20Rico%20is%20a%20self,and%20the%20Senate%2C%2027%20seats.">supersedes</a> Puerto Rican law. The same is true for states, but without voting representatives in Congress or a voice in presidential elections, Puerto Rico doesn’t have a say in federal laws that may impact its operations. Congress is also<strong> </strong>the only body that can change Puerto Rico’s political status from a territory into a state or into an independent nation, which again means that decision would be taken — or not — without the will of Puerto Rican voters.
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That’s all intentional, said Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, a professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “You will see that the reason why Puerto Ricans were not granted statehood [at the time] was precisely because the United States — including the president, congressmen, and academics as well — did not think that Puerto Ricans were fit to govern themselves.”
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This ethos of paternalism has influenced almost every aspect of Puerto Rican politics since. Starting in the 1970s, the Puerto Rican government <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/rocio-zambrana-colonial-debts/">embraced</a> a neoliberal approach to foreign investment. In addition to granting citizenship, the Jones-Shafroth Act made Puerto Rico’s bonds — which are essentially loans from an investor to a government or company — <a href="https://www.promarket.org/2018/09/11/triple-tax-exemption-puerto-ricos-bonds-financed-territorial-status-helped-spark-debt-crisis/">tax-free</a> at the local, state, and federal levels. Because Puerto Rican bonds aren’t taxed,<strong> </strong>unlike most bonds from the state or federal government, they were more appealing to investors — so Puerto Rico used them as a strategy to fund its expenses.
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So the territorial government received money from foreign investors (US investors are considered foreign), and, in return, Puerto Rico agreed to pay these investors back with interest on their investment. But the island’s ability to repay investors was hampered, since the US limited <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/opinion/puerto-rico-jones-act.html?referringSource=articleShare">other ways</a> the island could grow economically. Its <a href="https://thecounter.org/puerto-rico-food-supply-us-imports-jones-act/">agricultural industry</a> was hampered by the <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/27/16373484/jones-act-puerto-rico">1920 Jones Act</a>, which required that the transportation of goods between two US ports must be done with American-owned and operated ships. Puerto Rico, being an island, depends on ships — and Jones Act-compliant ships are expensive. And <a href="https://library.brown.edu/create/modernlatinamerica/chapters/chapter-12-strategies-for-economic-developmen/puerto-ricos-operation-bootstrap/">Operation Bootstrap</a>, led by the Puerto Rican government with support from the mainland, replaced the island’s predominantly agriculture and textile industries with manufacturing in the 1940s. But once corporations left the island for cheaper labor abroad, islanders <a href="https://lcw.lehman.edu/lehman/depts/latinampuertorican/latinoweb/PuertoRico/Bootstrap.htm">mass-migrated</a> to the mainland for work.
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Over the course of almost five decades, the island accrued more than <a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/7/10/8924517/puerto-rico-bankrupt-debt">$72 billion</a> in bond debt, leading to a major <a href="https://puertoricosyllabus.com/syllabus/explosion-of-the-debt-crisis/">debt crisis</a> in 2014 that left little room for any government spending that wasn’t directed toward repayment. The crisis came at the heels of a decade-long recession, but peaked when several creditors <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/puerto-rico-bonds-downgraded-to-junk-levels/2014/02/04/c9495a22-8ddf-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html">downgraded</a> Puerto Rican bonds to “junk status.” Investors no longer wanted to funnel money into Puerto Rico, and it had no way to fund itself, or to pay back returns. “Since 2006, we knew that the debt that Puerto Rico was accruing was unpayable,” Meléndez-Badillo said. “So this is basically the legal and economic infrastructure of Puerto Rico that has been collapsing for two decades now.”
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In response to the crisis, US Congress passed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/here-s-how-promesa-aims-tackle-puerto-rico-s-debt-n601741">PROMESA</a>) in 2016. Its main action was to establish a fiscal committee, appointed by the president, to restructure Puerto Rico’s crippling debt.
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The policy was widely supported by Congressional <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/06/29/senate-poised-to-act-on-puerto-rico-debt-days-before-debt-cliff/">politicians</a> across the aisle in Puerto Rico. After six years of work, the board finished restructuring the debt in March 2022 and Puerto Rico <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/puerto-rico-formally-exits-bankruptcy-largest-public-debt-restructurin-rcna20054">exited what was essentially bankruptcy</a> and resumed repayments to bondholders. The board will remain in power until Puerto Rico has four consecutive balanced budgets. The <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/who-are-members-puerto-rico-fiscal-control-board-n640811">seven president-appointed members</a> do not all live in Puerto Rico and are not all Puerto Rican.
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While PROMESA has been touted as a potential model for other states by publications like the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/business/puerto-rico-bankruptcy-promesa.html">New York Times</a>, it has come at a great cost to people living on the island. In order to balance the budget, the board implemented austerity measures that led to hundreds of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/12/magazine/puerto-rico-schools-hurricane-maria.html">public schools</a> closing and <a href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/guest-commentary/os-op-puerto-rico-retirees-worry-20191031-blorr7trcfdklilnw2vd6kbywe-story.html">pension cuts</a> for the elderly. Known colloquially as “<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kxxxy/puerto-ricans-arent-done-protesting-la-junta-is-why">La Junta</a>,” the board has “severely hindered” access to essential services and “extended its reach beyond fiscal policy,” said Santiago-Bartolomei, the urban planning professor. Today, any political moves made by the Puerto Rican government that require spending must have the fiscal board’s approval.
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“These sets of policies have substantially reduced local government capacity, which was made readily apparent in the aftermath of Hurricane María, the <a href="https://disasterphilanthropy.org/disasters/puerto-rico-earthquakes/">2020 southern earthquakes</a>, the Covid-19 pandemic and, now, Hurricane Fiona,” Santiago-Bartolomei said.
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Because of the sheer amount of destruction caused, Hurricane María <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/us/puerto-rico-budget-hurricanes.html">slowed down</a> Puerto Rico’s efforts to repay its existing debt. It also created opportunities for cheaper land and profit-making, and infrastructure projects for non-Puerto Rican investors with resources — the most obvious example being the 2021 privatization of the electricity grid by LUMA Energy, an American-Canadian company.<strong> </strong>
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As Vox’s Umair Irfan <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/23362974/puerto-rico-fiona-blackout-outage-power-electricity">wrote</a> last month, Puerto Rico’s public utility company, PREPA, was already bankrupt by the time Hurricane María hit. Eleven months with no power only eroded trust in a company that was already rife with <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-puertorico-prepa-probe/u-s-house-panel-probes-corruption-allegations-at-puerto-rico-utility-idUSKCN1GP03P">mismanagement and allegations</a> of corruption against it. LUMA came in at a time when faith in the electricity grid was already low. That faith has <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/19/fiona-puerto-rico-electric-grid-00057637">gotten lower</a> among Puerto Ricans, who faced an <a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-health-caribbean-power-outages-puerto-rico-b3afa248e406f33359fe3ca365dd221d">increase in blackouts</a> (to the point where reggaetón artist <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/23292674/bad-bunny-el-choli-concert-puerto-rico-politics-luma-gentrification">Bad Bunny wrote a chart-topping song</a> about it), even as Puerto Ricans were <a href="https://theamericanonews.com/floricua/2022/06/30/puerto-ricos-energy-bureau-approves-lumas-seventh-rate-increase/">charged more</a> for less reliable electricity.
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Even before Fiona made landfall, it was clear that the electricity grid had no ability to withstand the stress of another storm. (The attorney general of New York is now <a href="https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2022/attorney-general-james-calls-investigation-puerto-rico-energy-provider">calling for an investigation</a> into LUMA after the failures last month.) “In the five years since Maria, people’s lives have even been more devastated by things like the energy privatization,” said Sarah Molinari, an anthropologist studying how communities organize in the face of disaster in Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico’s “public-private partnership” strategy to attract foreign investors to assist in recovery efforts goes beyond LUMA, too. The individuals and corporations who have moved to Puerto Rico in the last year, incentivized by <a href="https://www.ddec.pr.gov/en/puerto-rico-incentives-code">friendly tax laws</a>, tend to invest in tourism rather than infrastructure. As a result, Puerto Ricans are <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/newsletter/2022-01-13/latinx-files-puerto-rico-gentrification-latinx-files">being displaced</a> because of rent increases, in large part because beneficiaries have been purchasing properties all across the island for <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/2022/07/13/puerto-rico-rental-home-tax-incentive/7826340001/">short-term rentals</a>.
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Both the tax laws and LUMA’s privatization were intended to bring outside income to the island to help it financially recover from the debt crisis and Hurricane María, but the implementation has faltered, according to experts. The gentrification has further turned Puerto Ricans against Governor <a href="https://time.com/5955629/puerto-rico-tax-haven-opposition/">Pedro Pierluisi</a>, whose <a href="https://theamericanonews.com/floricua/2022/08/19/gov-pierluisi-denounces-lumas-performance-for-the-first-time/">delayed denouncement</a> of LUMA’s continued blackouts only increased public anger.
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The prioritization of non-Puerto Ricans, time and time again, is a historical pattern. What had always felt subliminal was brought to the forefront in 2019 when Governor Ricardo Rosselló’s <a href="https://www.latinorebels.com/2019/07/13/paginasdetelegram/">incendiary group chat</a> with other Puerto Rican elites was made public, leading to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/07/22/744093831/thousands-in-puerto-rico-seek-to-oust-rossell-in-massive-ricky-renuncia-march">mass protests</a>. In the Telegram app messages, Rosselló and his allies had mocked hurricane victims, gay people, and women — <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/7/20/20701898/puerto-rico-protests-ricardo-rossello-resign-ricky-renuncia-text-scandal">reigniting resentment</a> in everyday Puerto Ricans who were already struggling with recovery. Rosselló <a href="http://nytimes.com/2019/07/24/us/rossello-puerto-rico-governor-resigns.html">resigned</a> after two weeks of escalating protests.
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After María struck, Puerto Rico did create <a href="https://prsciencetrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/pr-transformation-innovation-plan.pdf">plans</a> to rebuild infrastructure in a way that would be better prepared for climate impacts, but its government — hampered by La Junta and debt — had a slow and mangled response. It seems likely that the response after Fiona will be similar. To be certain, that’s not the fault of Puerto Ricans themselves. The island’s government has operated the only way it knows how to at this point: under the colonial rules instituted by the US. You can’t succeed when you’re set up to fail.
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It’s moments like these when calls for statehood seem pretty appealing — support for statehood <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/260744/americans-continue-support-puerto-rico-statehood.aspx">skyrocketed</a> after María — but LeBrón urges other possibilities, such as <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/11/puerto-rico-independence-not-statehood/671482/">independence</a>. “A lot of people are like, ‘This is exactly the reason why Puerto Rico needs statehood,’” LeBrón said. “As if there’s not a <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/8/31/23329604/jackson-mississippi-water-crisis">water crisis</a> in Mississippi right now, as if this didn’t happen during [Hurricane] Harvey, or through the wildfire season in California. Citizenship is not going to shield Puerto Ricans, just like it didn’t for other marginalized groups, from total government neglect.”
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But there is hope for community action. People organized mutual aid groups after María and they worked to remove Rosselló from office in 2019. In 2020, after reports that Rosselló’s replacement, Governor Wanda Vázquez, allegedly knew about <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/23/puerto-rico-protest-emergency-aid-earthquake-hurricane">unused emergency aid</a> left in a warehouse after María, Puerto Ricans returned to the streets. They wheeled out a literal <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kz8ja/puerto-rican-protesters-want-their-governor-to-resign-again">guillotine to the streets</a> in front of the governor’s mansion. (Vázquez was recently <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/08/04/1115685539/former-puerto-rico-governor-wanda-vazquez-bribery-charge">charged with bribery</a>.)
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Molinari, the anthropologist studying communities, told me that collective rage had been building for years. “It wasn’t new, but it was a manifestation of their anger, a continued activation of the ways we saw people coming together right after María,” she said. “It’s something to keep an eye on. People’s anxiety and anger is very high right now after Fiona. This might open up another political moment, where all kinds of possibilities and horizons are on the table.”
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The fate of Puerto Rico, however, shouldn’t all be left to individuals. The current approach isn’t going to bring new jobs or money, and it certainly isn’t going to reshape the systemic problems plaguing the archipelago on its own. Both the US and Puerto Rican governments must take action to reinstate local power away from La Junta. Santiago-Bartolomei suggests instituting a Puerto Rico Development Authority, like the one <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__grupocne.org_2017_12_06_expediting-2Dthe-2Drecovery-2Dprocess-2Da-2Dproposal-2Dto-2Dcreate-2Da-2Dpuerto-2Drico-2Ddevelopment-2Dauthority_&d=DwMF-g&c=7MSjEE-cVgLCRHxk1P5PWg&r=ebOVGY2QxLsvUZAbTb_7J3UEV3Hc_1iQcQ44pe2X_DE&m=Y6i9XoUuCEEp0eLYcDekCMHrKJqL1PFqH1QN1pRHUS2YIgqFrTN1ARxVm58U7_ZK&s=Vq45SobCTSWiml4gVOX8DutQX6TcCy07ocH8ka5ioaY&e=">proposed by the Center for a New Economy</a> (a nonpartisan Puerto Rican think tank), to help improve governance issues. Such a group could have representatives from local and federal agencies, as well as the civil sector, to prevent the “austerity regime” we’re seeing implemented now by the fiscal board.
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The 2023 Kia Niro proves why you stick with a winning formula</strong> - The 2nd-generation Niro comes as a hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or battery EV. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1888295">link</a></p></li>
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