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There are roughly 600 short-line railroads in the United States. These small businesses operate nearly 50,000 miles of track, about 30% of the national freight rail network, and handle one out of every five rail cars moving on the system. Many were family-owned for decades. Many still are. But the ownership map is being redrawn, fast, and the capital doing the redrawing doesn’t come from railroad families. It comes from London, New York, and the Cayman Islands. The deal ...

Israeli carrier Zim has appointed Chen Lichtenstein (above) as its new president and CEO, to replace Eli Glickman. Mr Glickmanresignedon 15 April, and Dr Lichtenstein will take up the role on 1 July, providing his appointment is approved by shareholders. His appointment followed an executive search process conducted by chairman Yair Seroussi and directors Yoram Turbowicz and Yair Avidan in the wake of Mr Glickman’s departure. “Chen Lichtenstein is a highly experienced top-tier international executive, with a unique combination of extensive managerial experience, financial depth, strategic insight, and the ability to lead complex global organisations,” said Mr Seroussi. “His broad experience in managing international companies, working with global markets, shareholders, and boards of directors, together with his judgment and experience in leading transformation and integration processes, make him the right executive to lead Zim at this time. “We thank Eli Glickman for his significant contribution to the company and wish Chen great success in his role,” he added. Dr Lichtenstein began his career as a senior banking executive with Goldman Sachs in New York in 1999. From 2006 to 2013 he served in a variety of senior management roles at Makhteshim Agan Industries, “where he led, among other things, broad areas of activity including global operations, business development, integration in China, R&D, supply chain, purchasing and manufacturing”, and stayed with the company as president and CEO after it had been renamed Adama. From 2020 to 2023, he served as CFO at agricultural technology company Syngenta. “I thank Zim’s board of directors for its confidence and for the opportunity to lead a global Israeli company with a meaningful legacy, growth and business success, broad international operations, and outstanding people,” Dr Lichtenstein said. “Zom operates in a dynamic, competitive, and complex market, and I attach great importance to maintaining the company’s stability, strengthening its performance and business capabilities, and continuing to create value for customers, employees, partners, and shareholders,” he added.

This week onThe Loadstar News in Brief Podcast, Charlotte Goldstone is joined by Noatum Logistics’ Stephanie Loomis to unpack the shifting dynamics in ocean freight, from the disappearance of traditional peak season patterns to evolving carrier behaviour amid persistent overcapacity. They also discuss how tariff-driven supply chain adaptations are reshaping global trade routes – and which changes may be here to stay. Later,The Loadstar‘s Alex Lennane returns to examine the latest fallout from Middle East disruption, including the growing pressure on air cargo from the AI boom and helium shortages, why jet fuel fears have eased but costs remain elevated, and the safety allegations facing cargo handler AGI at New York airports. Plus, a roundup of this week’sLoadstar Premiumstories. Watch the episode on YouTubeand subscribe so you never miss an update! Click here to receive an email notification every time we release a podcast.

Despite a year-on-year decline in overall US cargo theft – for the first time since 2021 – supply chain security specialists are warning that organised criminal groups are becoming more sophisticated, with fraud-based schemes and high-value targeting continuing to drive risk higher. Overhaul’s Q1 26 US Cargo Theft Report notes 574 cargo thefts – an average of 6.4 incidents a day over the first three months of the year, and a 6% decrease year on year. However, the company cautioned that the apparent improvement masked a more troubling shift in criminal tactics. “Cargo theft usually goes down at the start of the year, but the drop in 2026 was smaller than expected, and risk levels did not go down as much as in previous years,” the report noted. Compared with Q4 25, incidents fell 25%, significantly below the 34% seasonal decline recorded during the same period a year earlier. Overhaul said it continued to consider the cargo theft threat in the US to be “high, and on the rise”, due to the “continued increase in the level of organisation and sophistication” of criminal groups focusing on high-value cargo. One of the clearest signs was the growth in ‘deceptive pick-up’ thefts, which rose 31% year on year. These involve criminals using fake identities, forged credentials and carrier impersonation to fraudulently collect freight. It accounted for 10% of all incidents in Q1, with California the site of nearly half the reported cases, and Illinois, Indiana, and New Jersey notable hotspots. “The growth in deceptive pick-up schemes tells us that organised networks are investing in fraud infrastructure,” said Overhaul chief executive Barry Conlon.“When criminals are forging identities and impersonating carriers, a padlock on a trailer isn’t going to stop them.” The report warned shippers to strengthen verification processes across all shipment-related activity, particularly when working with new carriers or drivers, and recommended detailed documentation at origin points, including photographs of drivers, licences, trailer seals, and vehicle markings, alongside checks for warning signs such as temporary placards, altered logos, or missing licence plates. “Driver and business verification, prior to releasing any shipment, is paramount,” Overhaul said. Electronics remained the most frequently targeted cargo, accounting for 17% of all thefts, although theft involving automotive cargo rose 142% compared with Q4 25 and 51% year on year, making it the only category to increase across both comparison periods. Meanwhile, cargo theft also spread beyond the traditional hotspots. California accounted for 36% of all reported thefts, followed by Texas at 17%, but Illinois surged from 6% to 13% this Q1, with electronics accounting for 45% of those thefts. And Memphis has emerged as an area of growing concern, the city recording a 27% increase in incidents, driven largely by pilferage from unattended shipments overnight. Overhaul added that cargo theft patterns were becoming more evenly distributed throughout the day, suggesting criminals were adapting beyond traditional low-visibility operating windows. “Driver and business verification, prior to releasing any shipment, is paramount,” it said. Overhaul recommends shippers be extremely diligent in vetting all carriers and drivers, particularly those operating out of Southern California, and those handling highly targeted products such as electronics. “Additionally, tracking technology should be used to its fullest extent on the conveyance power unit, cargo area when separate, and the cargo itself, maintaining visibility of the shipment to identify suspicious route deviations, unauthorized stops, and separation of the cargo from the conveyance.”

The normally staid transatlantic trade has recently experienced a tumultuous period of uncharacteristically volatile pricing, by its standards at least, largely as result of capacity injections and subsequent removals. Throughout last year, and up to the outbreak of the US/Israel-Iran conflict, volumes have been flat, tempered by tariffs, while rates continually weakened. Meanwhile, the Container Trades Statistics Price Index has been in steady decline since the beginning of 2025. The Europe-North America route’s price index was 102 in January 2025, and had fallen to 88 by December. January this year saw it at 84 and it further declined to 83 in February, before capacity reductions managed to stabilise prices at 83 in March. Source: Container Trades Statistics Meanwhile, volumes in Q1 26 remained weak, with some 40,000 teu fewer shipped in the first three months compared with Q1 25, representing a market decline of just over 3%. Source: Container Trades Statistics The weakness of earnings on the transatlantic was one of the chief reasons cited by Hapag-Lloyd last week when it reported a $174m EBIT loss in its liner activities. “[We had] significant exposure to the Atlantic freight, which was very weak in the first quarter, in particular. And as a consequence of that we have had to take some capacity out because it was simply no longer possible to provide those services at a reasonable cost,” chief executive Rolf Habben Jansen told financial analysts. In April, it closed its CES transatlantic service, on which Maersk had been a slot charterer. The string deployed seven ships with an average capacity of 2,700 teu and connected Northern Europe with Saint John, Philadelphia, and Port Everglades, along with Moin, Santa Marta, and Cartagena in the Caribbean. According to Xeneta’seeSealiner database, at this point last year the number of monthly transatlantic services stood at 55, with 44 being direct services into North America from North Europe and the Mediterranean, with the remaining 11 made up of Europe-Latin America and Europe-Oceania services that included wayport calls in North America. Last month, that tally was down to 50 services a month, with pure transatlantic services standing at 38, meaning carriers have withdrawn six services over the past 12 months alone. Spot rate recovery However, since the onset of April, spot rates on the trade have staged a surprising recovery, driven by two factors – reduced capacity, and the imposition of new emergency fuel surcharges following the outbreak of the Iran conflict, which under Federal Maritime Commission regulations had to wait 30 days until being applied, along with opportunistic peak seasons surcharges And not just in quoted spot rates, but actual rates paid, as shown by the latest data from NYSHEX, which manages the New York Freight Index. Last week saw its transatlantic westbound rate grow 12% on the previous week, to finish at $2,253 per 40ft, compared with the low point of the past 12 months, which was 7 November, when the reading stood at $1,342 per 40ft. Source: NYSHEX Meanwhile, forwarders on the trade are now closely watching vessel deployment to ascertain how spot rates may develop up to the peak season. “I did notice one of the Premier Alliance sailings coming into to Europe is not going back to Asia, but will move to the transatlantic, it was theONE Satisfaction,” one forwarder toldThe Loadstar. “The additions to that Liberty [service] should have an impact on rates, and I expect us to get close to somewhere near the levels we saw in February this year, allowing for higher BAF etc. but it will just take a while to get there,” he said. The 13,700 teuONE Satisfactionwas removed from the Premier Alliance FE3/MSC Condor Asia-Europe service and deployed to the Ocean Alliance’s transatlantic Liberty service, where ONE has moved from being a slot charterer to a tonnage provider. It has also meant Liberty now has seven ships compared with six before, according to eeSea. TheONE Hammersmith, previously on the Premier Alliance’s FE1 Asia-Europe service, was also assigned to Liberty at the beginning of May, but it replaced theEver Faithwhich left the string in early March. Throughout 2025, monthly proforma westbound transatlantic capacity remained remarkably stable, at between 240,000 teu and 250,000 teu of slot capacity, with actual offered capacity ranging between 230,000 teu and 240,000 teu a month. That changed in April, when proforma capacity dropped to 220,000 teu and offered capacity amounted to 210,000 teu, according to eeSea. According to the latest data from Linerlytica, there is 462,412 teu of capacity across 78 ships deployed on the Mediterranean-North America trade, which is up 4.4% on last month, and 3.4% over the same point last year; while on the North Europe-North America trade, capacity is down 9.8% year on year and 3% month on month, to currently stand at 544,194 teu across 93 vessels. The recent behaviour of spot rates suggests this probably about the right level, but now that those rates are well into profit-making territory for carriers, the key question is how disciplined they will remain in withholding further capacity additions. Listen to our recent podcast with Container Trades Statistics to hear a deep-dive into the Q1 ocean freight dynamics!

Alliance Ground International (AGI), one of the largest outsourced cargo and ground handlers in North America, is facing a wave of safety allegations from workers at New York’s JFK and LaGuardia airports, including claims of malfunctioning brakes, runaway tugs, flooding cargo areas, and inadequate training. SEIU Local 32BJ said on Friday it had filed formal complaints with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on behalf of 21 AGI workers — 14 at JFK and seven at LaGuardia — covering cargo warehouse, ramp and ground-handling operations. The allegations span AGI cargo facilities at JFK Buildings 21 and 77, Post Office Building 250, and cargo and former passenger operations at LaGuardia. According to the union and NYCOSH, workers reported malfunctioning brakes and emergency brakes on airport tugs, missing seat belts and mirrors, non-functioning alarms, unsafe forklifts, flooding in cargo facilities, inadequate PPE, insufficient heat protections and a lack of hands-on industrial vehicle training. One worker claimed parked tugs could begin rolling even with emergency brakes engaged. “The tugs have problems with the brakes,” said an anonymous JFK warehouse and mail handler quoted in the complaint materials. “Even when they’re in ‘park’, with the emergency brake on, they will move.” Another worker, former LGA ramp agent Josh Edwin, described an incident in which workers allegedly had to chase a runaway tug after the emergency brake failed. The complaints also allege multiple workplace injuries, including forklift strikes, falls and a heat-related hospitalisation in summer 2024. Workers further allege “persistent pressure to rush and complete jobs with insufficient staff”. An email reviewed byThe Loadstarshows OSHA’s Queens district office has confirmed receipt of the complaints and said it was “reviewing” them. The allegations come as AGI faces broader scrutiny over labour and workplace practices. A separate wage-and-hour lawsuit filed in Virginia this month by current and former AGI workers at Washington Reagan National Airport alleges supervisors instructed employees to work ‘off the clock’ and reduce recorded hours before payroll processing. The company denies any wrongdoing. According to a union fact sheet, AGI and related entities have accumulated 37 OSHA or state-plan violations since 2014. The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health earlier this year included AGI in its “Dirty Dozen” list of employers associated with significant workplace safety concerns. AGI, which was acquired by private equity firm Lone Star in March, said it had not yet received formal notification from OSHA and therefore was “not in a position to respond to the allegations”. However, the company toldThe Loadstarit “takes all safety and regulatory matters seriously” and would “fully investigate and respond to any OSHA inquiries we receive”. While AGI outlined its formal safety systems and training programmes, the company did not specifically rebut individual allegations contained in the OSHA complaints, including claims involving malfunctioning brakes, missing safety equipment and inadequate training. AGI said it maintains “a robust safety management system, certified under the IATA ISAGO framework”, along with preventative maintenance programmes, safety committees and comprehensive employee training systems. The company also said all required PPE was provided to employees and that its stations were “fully compliant with OSHA recordkeeping, posting, and reporting requirements”. AGI provides cargo, mail, security and ground-handling services at more than 60 airports across North America. Airlines serviced by AGI workers at JFK include Delta Air Lines, KLM, Virgin Atlantic, LATAM and China Southern, according to the union fact sheet. , Catch up with the latest News in Brief podcast, with exclusive insights from Xeneta.

In a nutshell: Amazon has threatened to pull delivery operations out of New York City rather than comply with a prospective law – which looks like it has a good chance of getting the green light – that would force it to directly hire thousands of drivers. The Delivery Protection Act has mayoral backing; strong Council support; and the potential to reshape last-mile economics far beyond the five boroughs. By the way, my previous, related coverage for Premium is ...

Texas-headquartered Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) has taken delivery of Acadia, the first U.S.-flagged, Jones Act-compliant subsea rock installation vessel (SRIV). GLDDordered the vessel from Philly Shipyard, Inc.in 2021, with thefirst steel cutin July 2023 and thekeel laidin May 2024. Acadiawas then launched into the waterof the Delaware River at the Hanwha Philly Shipyard in July 2025 andstarted sea trialsthis March. “Taking delivery of Acadia represents a transformative moment for Great Lakes and underscores our dedication to installing and protecting domestic and international offshore energy infrastructure,”saidLasse Petterson, President and Chief Executive Officer of GLDD. “This highly specialized vessel positions us at the forefront of subsea rock installation in the U.S. and international markets and enables us to play a critical role in major projects such as Empire Wind 1 and Sunrise Wind that offer a reliable, affordable, clean energy solution to the State of New York.” The SRIV, of the S211 design by Ulstein, is capable of transporting and installing up to 20,000 metric tons of rock on the seabed, used as critical scour protection for subsea infrastructure such as power transmission cables, telecommunications cables, oil & gas pipelines, offshore wind turbine foundations, among other things. With an overall length of 140.5 meters and a breadth of 34.1 meters, the vessel can accommodate 45 people. Following delivery, Acadia will mobilize for Equinor’s Empire Wind 1 offshore wind project in New York, after which it is expected to proceed directly to Ørsted’s Sunrise Wind project, also located offshore New York. After these two U.S. projects, the vessel will mobilize to Europe to begin rock installation for a“major offshore wind developer”, staying busy for the majority of 2027, GLDD said. Take the spotlight and anchor your brand in the heart of the offshore world! Join us for a bigger impact and amplify your presence at the core hub of the offshore energy community!

Denmark-headquartered power cable manufacturer and installation player NKT, alongside other players breathing life into an underwater high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable project between the U.S. and Canada, has participated in the launch of the cross-border transmission development, which opens a clean energy corridor between New York City and Québec, bringing renewable Canadian hydropower to feed the Big Apple’s green transition. NKT has confirmed its participation in the official inauguration of the 400 kV HVDCChamplain Hudson Power Express (CHPE)transmission line in New York City in the United States, with its customers,Transmission Developers (TDI), a Blackstone company, andHydro-Québec. The interconnector spans more than 600 kilometers (372 miles) from Québec, Canada, to the heart of New York City, representing what is considered to be a major step in transforming the city’s energy system capable of supplying enough Canadian hydropower to cover up to 20% of electricity demand. This is equivalent to power approximately one million households. Following thecontract awardin 2022, the Denmark-headquartered firmexecutedthe turnkey project that comprised engineering, manufacturing as well as installation of the 400 kV HVDC power cable system. Claes Westerlind, President and CEO of NKT, commented:“The inauguration of the Champlain Hudson Power Express is a tremendous milestone for NKT and the transition to renewable energy in New York City. “It reflects the value of strong collaboration and long-term partnerships, and it has been a privilege to work with TDI, Hydro-Québec and our partners to realise this important project contributing to the energy transition in the United States.” This content is available after accepting the cookies. ‘Great progress’ in cable laying ops at mega $6 billion US-Canada subsea link to power Big Apple with renewables The transmission line, which reached commercial operation ahead of schedule in May, involved extensive manufacturing as well as large-scale onshore and offshore installation works across multiple environments, including Lake Champlain and the Hudson and Harlem rivers. NKT previously completed the grid connection on the Canadian side of the border, enabling a fully integrated transmission link to New York City. The commissioning follows years of planning, development and installation, and was marked at the official inauguration event held in New York City on June 16, 2026. The $6-billion Champlain Hudson Power Express is now capable of transmitting up to 1,250 megawatts of renewable hydropower from Canada to New York City as a substantial contribution to the city’s energy transition. Justin Sauber, CEO of TDI, highlighted:“You cannot build a world-class transmission line that transforms the lives of millions of New Yorkers without world-class cable. NKT’s partnership on CHPE, from the early days of development through testing and commissioning, was critical to the success of CHPE. “On behalf of the entire TDI team, I want to thank NKT for its contributions to this landmark moment for New York City.” Take the spotlight and anchor your brand in the heart of the offshore world! Join us for a bigger impact and amplify your presence at the core hub of the offshore energy community!

When the Houseof Representatives voted on a long-term extension of a controversial surveillance law in April, House Democratic leaders were content to let their members vote as they wished, dealing a blow to privacy advocates seeking reforms to a provision that allows domestic spying without a warrant. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., had said he personally supported reforms, for instance, butdeclined to whip votes against the law. “Voting for a clean reauthorization of Section 702 is co-signing the Trump administration’s mass surveillance agenda.” President Donald Trump’s appointment of housing czar Bill Pulte to be the nation’s spy chief, however, appeared shore up Democratic leaders’ spines — for now. Citing Pulte’s lack of experience and fealty to Trump, Jeffries on Thursday corralled his members into opposing a short-term extension of the law, leading to a 218–198 defeat of the measure. Democratic leaders did not issue a formal whip notice, but they did release aforceful statement against ithours before the vote was set to take place. The different approach from leadership between the two votes was “night and day,” one Democratic staffer told The Intercept. Dozens of the 42 Democrats who had voted for the “clean” renewal last time reversed their positions, dooming an attempt by Speaker Mike Johnson. R-La., to pass the short-term extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act before it expires Friday. The hardened line was welcomed by advocates, but in a letter penned by dozens of civil society groups they told Democrats not to flip back without changes — whether Pulte is slated to take the helm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence or not. Hours after the failed vote, Trump said he would nominate Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, to serve as national intelligence director. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard had resigned, saying her husband had been recently diagnosed with bone cancer, and isexpected to departon June 19. There are bedrock policy problems with the surveillance law that go much deeper than the personnel Trump installs atop spy agencies, the groups said in the letter. They asked Democrats to block a long-term renewal of Section 702 unless it includes major reforms. “Voting for a clean reauthorization of Section 702 is co-signing the Trump administration’s mass surveillance agenda,” the groups said in the letter. “Key administration officials — including Stephen Miller, FBI Director Kash Patel, and outgoing DNI Tulsi Gabbard — have made it clear that this reauthorization fight is a White House priority, and that reform is an unacceptable impediment to the administration’s agenda.” The letter targeted 42 Democrats — including House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Jim Himes, D-Conn. — whovoted in Aprilfor a “clean” three-year renewal of Section 702 with onlyminor tweaks. Himes was among those who, citing Trump’s appointment of Pulte to replace Gabbard, changed positions and voted against the extension Thursday. Most ReadTop Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human TraffickingNick TurseThey Were Serving the Longest Federal Sentence of Any 2020 BLM Protester. Then They Vanished in Prison.Jessica WashingtonA Point-by-Point Breakdown of Trump’s Failed Iran War ObjectivesNick Turse The fight over FISA has roiled Congress for months. Following the “clean” renewal’s failure and lawmakers’ inability to agree on a compromise for a longer extensions, more than 90 Democrats voted for the shorter-term postponement of Section 702’s expiration. Since then, advocacy groups have kept up their pressure on Democrats. Thursday’s vote suggests they are making progress. Only seven Democrats voted for the short-term renewal of the law on Thursday, compared to 199 opposed. The split was reversed in the Republican caucus, with 190 votes in favor and 19 against. The Democrats voting in favor of the short-term extension were Reps. Henry Cuellar of Texas; Donald Davis of North Carolina; Jared Golden of Maine; Vicente Gonzalez of Texas; Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey; Susie Lee of Nevada; and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington. While the privacy advocates said reforms shouldn’t hinge on any spy official’s fate, they did say their preexisting concerns about the spying law were heightened by Trump’s appointment of Pulte and the administration’s recent release of acounterterrorism strategycalling for acrackdown on “left-wing extremists.” “It is alarming that, under these conditions in particular, any Democratic members of Congress would vote to extend a warrantless surveillance authority for this administration to wield with no meaningful oversight,” the groups said. “The case for reforming Section 702 has never been more urgent. It is critical that you protect your constituents from the Trump administration’s mass surveillance agenda.” The groupssigning the letter Thursday— including the American Civil Liberties Union, Common Cause, and many local chapters of the organizing group Indivisible — support requiring intelligence officials to obtain judicial approval for searches of American communications. Debates over the law, which was first passed in 2008, have occasionally flared thanks to events such as the disclosures of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden and Trump’s complaints about a “deep state” intelligence conspiracy against him — though GOP opposition to the spy lawdwindledwith Trump taking power. The privacy advocates, however, said they have never seen left-leaning organizers as fired up as the current round of debate over the spying law — organizing that helped precipitate the turnaround by some Democrats. 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NEW YORK,June 11, 2026/PRNewswire/ -- The New Terminal One at JFK, the company delivering the new, world-class international terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport, recently announced the release of its inaugural Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report,From the Ground Up,with support fromSE Advisory Services, Schneider Electric's global consulting practice. The report underscores the New Terminal One's continued progress in building climate-resilient infrastructure, expanding energy efficiency initiatives, and investing in innovative technologies to support long-term sustainable airport operations. The ESG report highlights key milestones across environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and governance as the New Terminal One advances construction toward its first phase opening in 2026. Central to these efforts is an innovative microgrid energy system – among the largest in the New York City area – and one of the largest solar arrays installed on any U.S. airport terminal. The energy infrastructure, designed and being delivered by AlphaStruxure and featuringSchneider Electricequipment, will enhance resiliency, reduce environmental impact, and support reliable operations amid regional grid disruptions and extreme weather events. The ESG report highlights key milestones across environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and governance as the New Terminal One advances construction toward its first phase opening in 2026. Central to these efforts is an innovative microgrid energy system – among the largest in the New York City area – and one of the largest solar arrays installed on any U.S. airport terminal. The energy infrastructure, designed and being delivered by AlphaStruxure and featuringSchneider Electricequipment, will enhance resiliency, reduce environmental impact, and support reliable operations amid regional grid disruptions and extreme weather events. "As we build a transformational international travel experience in the United States, sustainability and resilience are not add-ons; they are foundational," said Uzoamaka N. Okoye, Chief of Staff, The New Terminal One at JFK. "This ESG report also showcases our commitment to integrating innovation, energy efficiency and responsible development into every phase of the project, from construction through future operations." Designed to serve up to 23 million passengers annually upon full completion, the new terminal will span 2.6 million square feet across a 134-acre footprint at completion and represents a $9.5 billion investment. The New Terminal One is a key component of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's $19 billion transformation of JFK Airport into a world-class gateway, with two new terminals, two expanded and modernized terminals, a new ground transportation center and an entirely new, simplified roadway network. Once complete, the New Terminal One will feature 23 gates and support more than 10,000 jobs, including over 6,000 union construction positions throughout the life of the project. Environmental progress detailed in the report includes: The New Terminal One has partnered withTCR, a global leader in ground support equipment (GSE) solutions, to provide an all-electric GSE fleet at the new world-class international gateway. The New Terminal One is the first airport terminal in the world to commit to a centralized fleet of all-electric ground support equipment. Operating a fully electric GSE fleet through an innovative pooling model is a key part of the New Terminal One's sustainability strategy, which supports the Port Authority's goal to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions across the agency's airports and facilities by 2050. The ESG report also outlines the New Terminal One's role in supporting the local economy and community, including a $1.72 million investment in outreach programs focused on business development, education, workforce development, and environmental stewardship. Additionally, the organization has issued more than $3.9 billion in green bonds across 2024 and 2025 to finance sustainable infrastructure, supported by third-party verification to ensure transparency and accountability. Schneider Electric has played a key role in enabling the New Terminal One's energy and digital infrastructure strategy, helping embed digitalization across critical terminal systems – from passenger-facing technologies to operational and energy management platforms. "JFK New Terminal One is setting a new benchmark for sustainable, future-ready airport infrastructure," said Chris Collins, Senior Vice President, Digital Buildings, Schneider Electric. "Through innovation, electrification and resilient energy systems, New Terminal One shows how advancing energy technologies can help large-scale infrastructure reduce environmental impact and enhance operational reliability." With construction advancing and major systems coming online, the ESG report marks an important milestone on the New Terminal One's roadmap to opening and ongoing operations. The full report offers a comprehensive snapshot of progress to date and outlines how each initiative supports the terminal's broader climate and resilience goals. The full ESG report is available online at:https://online.flippingbook.com/view/999668634 About JFK New Terminal One The New Terminal One at John F. Kennedy International Airport is a bold and exciting project to develop a best-in-class international terminal that will serve as an anchor terminal in the Port Authority's $19 billion transformation of JFK into a global gateway to the New York metropolitan area and the United States. The New Terminal One will set a new standard for design and service, aspiring to obtain a top 5-star Skytrax rating. The New Terminal One is being built on sites now occupied by Terminal 1 and the former Terminal 2 and Terminal 3, where it will anchor JFK's south side. Construction is taking place in phases. 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We are witnessing a perfect 10 out of 10NBA Finals, and 28 other teams in the league can only watch and imagine what they're missing to be on this stage. That process is happening now with negotiations forGiannis Antetokounmpo, player workouts across the country and debates within front-office boardrooms. The first round of the2026 NBA Draftis June 23 in New York. The second round will be on the following day. Here's my full two-round mock draft with analysis for every choice based on all the latest intel. "Ask Kevin O'Connor"Check out our new interactive feature on theNBA Draft Guide, which delivers AI-powered answers to your NBA Draft questions written in Kevin O'Connor's style and drawing from his in-depth analysis. Dybantsa could become one of the NBA's most unstoppable shot-creators. At 6-foot-9, he has a special blend of athletic tools with the way he bends, shifts, and explodes with the ball in his hands. He gets to the rim at will, cooks in the midrange, draws fouls at a high rate, and displays point-forward potential. In Washington, the pressure will be alleviated on him early in his career, now that he's teammates with veteransTrae YoungandAnthony Davis. In the longer term, Dybantsa fits:Alex Sarralready looks like an effective two-way big, while guards and wings likeKyshawn George,Tre Johnson,Will Riley, andBilal Coulibalyhave all shown flashes. But none of them project to be a superstar like Dybantsa, whose upside will be determined by whether he can become a knockdown 3-point shooter, as well as a more impactful defender to take full advantage of his physical tools. But even with those areas for improvement, Dybantsa has an MVP ceiling. I'm moving Boozer into this slot, and it's not based on any intel at all. It's just a gut feeling based on history. Once upon a time, theCelticshad the first pick in the draft. Then they traded it!Bostonworked outMarkelle Fultz, the consensus first pick in 2017, and something was just off. Fultz didn't perform well at the workout, but he also didn't display leadership qualities. Alarm bells went off. So the Celtics traded down and landedJayson Tatumin what has gone down as one of the greatest trades in the history of basketball. So, you're telling me that a Jazz front office, now led by Danny Ainge and Austin Ainge, will take Darryn Peterson? Peterson has the whole cramping saga. He also missed 11 of 35 games, and one of them came against undefeated Arizona when he pulled himself 15 minutes before the game because of "flu-like symptoms." Peterson sits out of the biggest game of his life, and he calls himself an "anti-social loner." I just don't buy it when the alternate choice is one of the greatest college freshmen in recent history: Cam Boozer. NBA mock drafts:7.0•6.0•5.0•4.0•3.0•2.0•1.0 So that's why I've movedBoozerinto this slot. And here's why he's a fit in Utah: At 6-8 and 253 pounds, Boozer is the most polished player in the class. He scores from the post with both footwork and power, hits 40% of his 3s on high volume, and has enough handle to run offense as a point forward. He shifts between those modes based on what the defense gives him, and that adaptability led to a 35-win season at Duke and the Naismith Player of the Year award.Jaren Jackson Jr.andLauri Markkanenare both more perimeter-based players, so Boozer can play inside with them.Walker Kessler, who could be re-signed, is an interior player, so Boozer can create. The Jazz would be massive across positions, especially since this group could even moveAce Baileyto shooting guard. Jackson and Kessler could both support Boozer on defense, alleviating concerns about his explosiveness and size to protect the rim full time and his lateral quickness to switch onto guards. With the bloodline of two-time All-Star Carlos Boozer, the team that drafts him is betting that skill, adaptability and a track record of winning at every level all lead to superstardom. And the Jazz have the right pieces to make that future a reality for Boozer. Peterson is a buttery smooth scorer with a blend of fluid body control and positional size that gives him the ingredients to become an elite NBA player. At the high school level, he was a dynamic playmaker who used his burst to get into the teeth of defenses and generate buckets for himself and his teammates, while also showing off the kind of shot-making that draws comparisons to Hall of Famers. At Kansas, he thrived in an off-ball role, stroking jumpers out of movement actions and showing he can scale up or down depending on what a roster needs. Even when he isn't scoring, he's a high-impact defender who causes chaos off-ball and has the 6-11 wingspan to switch screens. The concern isn't his game. It's his body, which is why he slipped to third in this mock. Peterson missed 11 of 35 games and pulled himself out of others due to cramping, capping off one of the weirdest freshman seasons in recent memory. Questions about his burst, his availability, and what exactly is going on under the hood are going to define how NBA front offices feel about him at the top of this draft. But maybe that could work to the benefit of the Grizzlies given the need for a guard and his fit as a big guard alongsideCedric Cowardand the two-man actions that could develop with a skilled center likeZach Edey. Wilson is the most gifted athlete in the draft. He's 6-9 with springs for legs. When he's flying above the rim, finishing through contact, and chasing down every shot in his area code, he looks like a future franchise cornerstone. That's exactly what the Bulls need in the frontcourt. But Wilson isn't a sure thing. He made too many aloof rotations as an off-ball defender at North Carolina, and the speed of NBA offenses will test him even more. He also won't be sharing the floor with two bigs like he often did in college. On offense, Wilson has never shot jumpers with any consistency at any level, so it'd be a bonus if he can figure that out. And he might have to forJosh GiddeyandMatas Buzelisto be optimized. Still, even without the jumper, he has star upside. I mentioned last week that the Clippers are widely considered the most likely team to trade down from this range, and the expectation is that the teams moving up are — unsurprisingly — the teams with multiple firsts:Atlanta(8th and 23rd),Dallas(9th and 30th),Oklahoma City(12th and 17th), and Charlotte (14th and 18th).Milwaukeecould be added to that list if Giannis Antetokounmpo is traded toMiami. That doesn't mean anything will happen, but it's noteworthy that different teams could swoop up and target different players, which could disrupt any board. If the Clippers stay put, maybe Brown could be the pick. Brown has an unstoppable pull-up jumper, an ambidextrous finishing ability, and the quick reads to rifle passes before the defense has time to react. He had a 45-point breakout performance in February after a back injury dogged him all freshman year and then ended his year later in the month. The absences muddy the evaluation and leave real questions about his consistency that may not get answered until he's fully healthy. But right now, he is, and all indications are that he is dominating workouts. ForwardsNate Amentand Karim Lopez worked out against each other in Brooklyn on Tuesday, Lopez revealed on my podcast. Projected lottery picksKeaton Waglerand Kingston Flemings were originally scheduled to attend that workout, but dropped out after a group workout in Chicago that both also attended, according to league sources. There is a sense in opposing front offices that Brooklyn could trade down from this spot, whether it's with a team trying to leap way up the board or even up just one spot in the Kings or two spots in theHawks. Weeks ago I reported the Kings are widely believed to be targeting Acuff, so that's in part why he's the pick here for Brooklyn. Want your guy? Trade for him. Acuff would make sense for the Nets anyway given the need for a face of the franchise. Acuff is not the biggest guard or the most explosive athlete, but he reads defenses like someone who's been in the league for a decade. He emerged as a freshman as a skilled, low-turnover playmaker. And that's not even what he's best at. Acuff is a wiry scorer who can get a bucket from anywhere on the floor with a quick trigger, slippery handle, and a feel for manipulating defenses. He has a knack for clutch moments too. The question that follows every undersized guard into the draft is whether the brilliance survives contact with bigger, longer, faster defenders. The Kings are working out Keaton Wagler next week, according to league sources. Though Acuff remains the favorite for this choice, the franchise of course is doing its due diligence and Wagler could be available after he was previously expected to be the fifth choice. There was a bit of shock on social media when I moved Wagler down last week. But inevitably, someone will slip on draft night. And it could be Wagler, since league sources say the Clippers aren't head over heels in love with him for the fifth pick and Wagler's group canceled his workout this week with the Nets, who have the sixth pick. But Wagler is still a lottery lock. Someone will scoop him up if he does fall to this range after he became the orchestrator of a high-powered Illinois offense with his high-IQ playmaking and crafty scoring. After he showed up at Illinois as a four-star recruit with no expectations of becoming a one-and-done, he scored 46 at Purdue against a top-ranked team in the country, then kept rolling and led the team to an unexpected Final Four appearance. But he's a quirky player in that he logged zero dunks. To become an NBA star, Wagler needs to overcome a lack of traditional athleticism. And teams question just how special he is as a shooter too. The Hawks could use a true center and the best one in this class is Mara, who stepped on UCLA's campus as a lottery-projected center from Spain. Then he fell off draft boards during two forgettable seasons there before transferring to Michigan and becoming one of the best true 5s in the country on his way to winning the national championship. He reads the floor like a guard, finishes with both hands, and swats shots with elite timing. Quin Snyder will love using him as a facilitator from the wings and elbows. The complication is he doesn't shoot from outside, makes below 60% of his free throws, and opponents are going to attack him on the perimeter. But the Hawks are building a team littered with size, length and versatility. If there's anywhere that Mara could best reach his potential, it might be Atlanta. Adam Finkelstein of CBS Sports reported that Burries hasn't taken many workouts and there is speculation that he's trying to angle his way to Dallas. I also have heard that same chatter, which is why he lands here. To add some more color to that reporting: Burries is represented by Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul, who steered Dereck Lively to the Mavericks with the 12th pick in the 2023 draft, even though some teams picking higher wanted to select Lively. It would make perfect sense for Klutch to want Burries to be the guard paired withCooper Flaggfor many years to come. Burries is a physical, versatile scorer who can beat you from all three levels, rebounds like a forward and competes hard on defense. But he's a methodical creator rather than an explosive one, and his shooting history before Arizona gives scouts reason to wonder whether the efficiency is real or a blip. The Bucks have been signaling to people around the league that they could have multiple first-round picks on draft night. While this could be a leverage tactic in trade talks with teams interested in Giannis Antetokounmpo — and a negotiation tactic with agents as an attempt to schedule more workouts — there certainly are a lot of signals that Milwaukee does indeed have some strong offers on the table for Giannis. The Bucks should take a swing to jump start their new era, whether or not Giannis is part of it. Flemings could be that type of bet since he plays with surgical midrange touch, an explosive first step and the passing vision of a true point guard who can run an offense. But Flemings is also 183 pounds and midrange-heavy in a 3-point league, and he watched his efficiency crater against the stiffest competition late in the season. The question is whether his scoring package translates against NBA length and spacing, or whether opposing scouts figure him out the same way late-season defenses did. Still, he brings incredible effort and passion to the floor and will likely maximize whatever he's going to become. It was a brutal season. The Warriors lostJimmy Butlerto a torn ACL andMoses Moodyto a torn patellar tendon, watchedSteph Currymiss 27 games with knee issues, and finally gave up onJonathan Kuminga. Golden State has been desperately searching for a young star to extend Curry's championship window, and bridge into whatever comes next. It will be harder to do that here after not getting lucky in the lottery. But maybe the Warriors will find a star. Players who can handle, shoot off the dribble, and stand at 6-10 don't grow on trees. This physical foundation kept Ament in lottery consideration even after a dreadful start to his freshman season when he struggled to score efficiently and make an impact defensively. But over the second half of the year for Tennessee, he flipped a switch and shots began to fall. He averaged 23.8 points over a six-game stretch in January and February that reminded everyone why he was a top recruit in the country. Then he dealt with an ankle injury that ruined his momentum entering March and severely struggled during the tournament. Steve Kerr re-signed for a two-year deal and would probably rather have a pro-ready player, but maybe Ament will be the young guy who exceeds expectations and turns into a star. It has been widely reported that the Thunder could look to move up from this 12th choice. But if they stay put, López checks a lot of boxes with his excellent physical tools, hard-nosed approach, well-rounded ability to defend multiple positions and handle the ball, and blossoming shot. But he's thus far more of a jack of all trades since his jumper runs hot and cold and he lacks the burst to blow by defenders off the bounce. Regardless, not every player is drafted with stardom in mind. López has all the requisite skills to enhance a star teammate as a key piece on a winning team. The Heat are indeed the favorite to land Giannis Antetokounmpo, so there's a strong probability that Milwaukee could end up picking in this slot. Some league sources even expect a trade to happen as soon as the NBA Finals conclude, though the longer this series goes the more time there could be for other teams to step up their offers. Regardless, a smart choice here could be Steinbach, who will enter the NBA with some readymade skills as an interior scorer and rebounder. He has massive hands that he uses to grab every possible rebound and finish effectively around the basket. He also showed legitimate touch on 3-pointers in flashes, which would turn him into a very different player if it becomes real. But he's not quite a true 7-footer, and there are specific matchups where he gets targeted in space. It's encouraging, though, that he bulked up from 220 to 248 pounds from the start of his freshman year at Washington until now. He was already strong, and now he's making the case that he can be a true center for any team. You know the guy on a championship team who never gets enough credit nationally? The one who sets the bone-crushing screen that springs the star, then immediately sprints to the rim for the lob, then turns around and blows up the other team's pick-and-roll on the other end all in one sequence? That's Morez Johnson. He transferred from Illinois to Michigan and became the connective tissue of the national champions as a 251-pound wrecking ball with surprisingly soft hands and the defensive IQ to guard 1 through 5 in a switch-heavy scheme. And the Hornets are in need of someone with Johnson's multi-position versatility sinceMiles Bridges,Josh Green, andGrant Williamsall have just one more season on their contracts. The issue with Johnson is he's not quite big enough to be a true center and not yet proven enough as a shooter to guarantee he spaces the floor. But even without a jumper, Johnson has a long future ahead of him at the next level – and that is why league sources say his stock is on the rise into the mid-late lottery range. The Bulls have a lot of guards on their roster, but probably not the right guy for the long term. Stirtz feels the game at a different frequency than everyone else on the floor, and yet still makes scouts squint because he doesn't look the part athletically. The question isn't whether he can play, though. After transferring from Drake to Iowa, he kept cooking with bullseye passes, pump-fakes, and shooting touch off the dribble from NBA range. If he adjusts to the physicality and speed of the NBA, he could thrive as both a floor general and off-ball connector. After landing Peterson with the third pick, the Grizzlies find a backcourt partner here who complements Peterson's perimeter style. Okorie is the best driving guard in the class, a 6-1 jitterbug who manipulates defenders with a tight handle, sudden changes of speed, and an advanced feel for the game. He's not an above-the-rim athlete, though, and not long ago he was a kid from New Hampshire who ranked outside the top 100 and committed to Harvard. Then Stanford found him, he flipped his commitment, and he proceeded to lead the ACC in scoring with eight 30-point games and a habit for hitting clutch shots. NBA teams will have to decide whether what carved up the ACC will survive against bigger, longer defenders. The Thunder could combine this choice with the 12th pick to move into the top 10, or if they can't do that they could flip this first for a future first. A popular target here might be Graves, who was a point guard before a late growth spurt, and whose floor skills carried over when he sprouted to 6-8. He came off the bench at Santa Clara as a redshirt freshman and quietly became one of the most efficient producers in college basketball. While he lacks great athleticism and had some struggles against the limited top competition that he faced, the analytics love him, and he passes the eye test with his elite feel for the game. The Hornets don't necessarily need any more shot creators. But Thomas has shown the ability to thrive with and without the ball. You could see that on the court the way he never hesitated to fire, stepped right into the lead role when Darius Acuff was sidelined at Missouri to close the regular season, and willed Arkansas to the SEC championship game with 29 against Ole Miss. He's a legit NBA shooter with deep range, a quick release, and creation juice off the bounce. But he doesn't get to the rim, his shot selection drifts into hero-ball, and there are questions about how he'll deal with NBA physicality. League sources say that Anderson has worked out for multiple teams that hold top-10 picks this year. Point guards in this range are all in a fight for similar spots, though, so beauty will be in the eye of the beholder. Maybe Anderson could fit Toronto since he has an elite shooting ability and a dynamic pick-and-roll creation feel. These skills would complement Toronto's existing core, headlined byScottie Barnes. But at his small stature he hasn't shown a consistent ability to get to the rim with any regularity. And any small guard will always be a target on defense, so there's a lot of pressure on his shot translating to the next level. I genuinely don't know what to say to Spurs fans after that 29-point blown lead. The only silver lining is the fact that this team is still so young, still so good, still should conceivably be contending for many years to come, but nothing is ever certain. That's the terrifying part about being in this situation. With the chance to win a championship and then choking away the opportunity, even if you think you'll be back, you truly just don't know if you actually will be. While these Finals are ongoing, the Spurs do have to invest time into the draft, and it's very possible a potential steal could fall into their laps with this 20th pick. Lendeborg has a compelling story. Poor grades kept him off his high school varsity team. He went to a JUCO. Then UAB. Then he entered the draft, went through the combine, pulled his name back, and came back for one more year at Michigan and won a national championship. He just kept getting better every single time the competition got harder. He fills the stat sheet, he can play multiple positions, and he has a 7-foot-4 wingspan at 241 pounds with a genuine handle. But he'll be 24 as a rookie, and teams still have concerns about his maturity level. The arc is a great story. But he could slip outside of the lottery come draft night, and maybe that could be a blessing in disguise for him if he's able to land with an organization like the Spurs who need a player with his exact skill set and have the perfect infrastructure. The Pistons need more shooting and more creation. Carr checks both boxes. After two forgettable years at Tennessee, he transferred to Baylor, and led the team in scoring, shot nearly 40% from 3 on high volume, and looked like a 3-and-D role player who also has blossoming skills off the dribble. With NBA genes in his blood, as the son of former player Chris Carr, Cameron has the skills to make it in the NBA. But at 184 pounds with not a ton of games under his belt, he's going to get introduced to the NBA's physicality in a way college basketball never did. Finding a center to play behind Joel Embiid needs to be prioritized. Embiid simply cannot be trusted to stay on the floor. Cenac checks every box on paper as a superb athlete who moves like a wing, has the length to alter shots, and shoots from the perimeter. Houston handed him a starting role with national title aspirations and trusted him with heavy minutes. But the Cougars fell short again, in part because Cenac struggled to stay out of foul trouble, couldn't score efficiently, and was overeager to play on the perimeter despite having the body of a bruiser. He arrived in college with lottery expectations, and he still could become that player in the future. But the NBA team drafting him is taking a project. A guard is going to slip on draft night. In this mock, the unlucky winner is Philon, a shifty, score-first point guard who blossomed into one of the best guards in college basketball as a sophomore. He doubled his scoring output with buttery floaters, a deceptive handle, and a feel for running an offense, while also beginning to shore up the shooting questions that once clouded his projection. But maybe this could be the best for Philon, since Atlanta could surround him with long-armed perimeter players – and now a massive 7-3 center in Mara, their first choice in this mock. But why isn't Philon in the lottery with all that skill? He is a below-the-rim athlete and is listed under 180 pounds, so his slight frame remains the one thing standing between him and stardom. For all the talk about how effective Jalen Brunson has been leading the Knicks to the NBA Finals, he has 30 to 40 pounds on Philon thanks to a wider, thicker frame that can support that weight. And Hawks fans already know all about the challenges of having a small guard. I'm still in complete and utter shock about what I witnessed last night at Madison Square Garden. If there's one thing that's clear about this roster, it's the level of toughness and grit shared across positions. It's a group of resilient, hard-nosed individuals that collectively make a winning impact. With the Knicks one game away from winning their first championship in 53 years, there is still a chance that roster turnover will occur this offseason. With Mitchell Robinson entering free agency this summer, it would make sense for the Knicks to bolster the frontcourt. Peat's bloodline is so loaded with offensive linemen that it's almost funny he ended up playing basketball. His father played nine NFL seasons. His uncle was a Pro Bowl tackle. Two brothers played college ball on the line. And you can absolutely see it in how he plays: powerful, physical, relentless, and it genuinely takes something special to stop him from getting to where he wants to go. He opened the season with a 30-point game against defending champion Florida and backed it up as one of Arizona's best players all year on its way to the Final Four. Since Peat can't shoot yet, it'll be important that he's paired with a floor-spacing center like Karl-Anthony Towns. Or he could serve as a small-ball center in switchable lineups. So even though Peat entered the year with top-10 hopes, it might be a blessing in disguise for him to fall to the end of the first round. What type of support does Luka Dončić need by his side? Versatile wing defenders who can serve as connectors on offense. Swain is relentless getting to the rim, creative as a finisher, and active enough defensively to project as a switchable wing. But the reason he lives at the rim is because his jump shot is genuinely terrible. He has stiff mechanics, bad percentages, and a reluctance to even attempt it that goes all the way back to high school. He made improvements at Texas, though, so there's hope his soft touch at the line and from the paint will eventually translate. The Jonas Valančiūnas acquisition didn't go quite as planned for the Nuggets last year. Maybe they'd have better luck in the draft. Quaintance is going to get drafted based almost entirely on what he looked like before his knee exploded. As a freshman at Arizona State, he was blocking everything in sight, showing defensive instincts and mobility that players his size aren't supposed to have, and he was 17 years old while doing it. Then came the ACL, the meniscus, the fractured knee, the transfer to Kentucky, persistent swelling, and a shutdown for the remainder of his sophomore season. Now teams have to make a decision after 28 games of great defense with eyesore offense. After the Nikola Vučević experiment fell short for the Celtics, Veesaar would present a new opportunity. He is an agile big with real shooting touch, connective playmaking, and baseline skills with the ability to set screens and catch lobs. He also offers rim protection and is a locked-in help defender. In all three of his collegiate seasons, he made a massive leap in production each year. But he's 227 pounds and his lanky frame can get pushed around, plus he still hasn't fully defined his cornerstone skill. Just look at how crucial Mike Conley still was to the Timberwolves in these playoffs. But he's 38. And Ayo Dosunmu and Bones Hyland will both be upcoming free agents. The Wolves might need a secondary shot creator that can double up as a scorer. Evans is the kind of shooter that defenses guard and think they've got him contained, then he uses a screen and catches it off a full sprint, moving away from the rim, and somehow manages to rise into a perfect 3-pointer. He's a legitimate sharpshooter with the off-ball chops to thrive without even running any offense for himself, and he also has a developing handle that could unlock more creation chances. But he's still a perimeter-based player who needs to add more layers to his game to become a complete offensive talent. Keon Ellis and Dean Wade will be free agents this summer, and Max Strus will be in one year. It may be time for the Cavaliers to get a wing — one with more skill — in the developmental pipeline alongside Jaylon Tyson. De Larrea is a tall playmaking guard with major feel and a knockdown jumper who thrives within team concepts. He suffered a dislocated shoulder that ended his 2024-25 season and removed him from draft boards, but it ended up a blessing in disguise since he returned with a bigger role and stronger production for a great team in the EuroLeague. With size, smarts, and defensive versatility, he could carve out a role in the NBA if his international skill can translate. Suigo has until June 13 to decide if he's going to stay in this year's draft or commit to a college – likely Villanova. In all likelihood, he's heading to school. But there's still some chatter around the league about him sneaking into the first round. To play with that idea in this mock, let's put Suigo on the Mavericks. Suigo has said he wants to be the Italian Wemby and, at 7-3 with passing feel and shooting touch, you can see why a teenager might put that out into the universe. Suigo lacks the handle and self-creation chops to ever be the best player on a team, but his dynamic skills as a passer, shooter, and lob threat layer cleanly on top of baseline center duties as a screener, finisher, and rim protector. Becoming the Italian Marc Gasol is a more realistic goal, and would still be an excellent outcome. 31. New York Knicks Jack Kayil, 6-4, Alba Berlin international guard Kayil is a combo guard with a strong frame, a feel for the game that exceeds his youth, and the grit to become a high-level defender. He just became one of the youngest players to ever win the German League's Under-22 Player of the Year, joining Franz Wagner and Dennis Schröder on a list that bodes well for his NBA prospects. He committed to Gonzaga back in October, but has decided to stay in the draft — a decision that surprised some scouts since he has yet to prove he can shoot consistently or run an offense full-time. But there's no denying his upside and he could end up one of the late risers in this class. 32. Memphis Grizzlies Tarris Reed, 6-10, UConn senior big Reed is a throwback center who played at his best on the biggest stage on UConn's way to the national title game. He does all the dirty work inside the paint as a finisher and rebounder and shot-blocker. But beyond his ability to screen and pass, he isn't all too comfortable on the perimeter as a shooter or defender. So there are questions about his upside, especially since he'll be 23 as a rookie. 33. Brooklyn Nets Zuby Ejiofor, 6-8, St. John's senior forward After Ejiofor's freshman year at Kansas, Bill Self told him he wasn't good enough to play major minutes on any Big 12 team. Three years later, he became the unanimous Big East Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Tournament MVP, and Scholar-Athlete of the Year — the first player in the league's history to sweep all four in a single season — and he helped St. John's bounce his former team in the Round of 32 on the way to the program's first Sweet 16 in 25 years. Ejiofor found success with foundational skills: motor, length, and defensive versatility. The question with Ejiofor is the fact he's undersized for a center and his jumper is still a work in progress. But he's developed enough to deserve a chance to figure it out in the league. 34. Sacramento Kings Alex Karaban, 6-7, UConn senior forward Karaban makes defenses pay the moment they relax on him. He relocates for a 3, cuts when nobody's watching, and does everything efficiently. He's a similarly high-effort, high-IQ player on the defensive end, which helps him overcome his average athleticism. But he'll be 24 as a rookie, and hasn't shown much upside. He rarely shoots off the dribble because of his funky mechanics. So if his role-player skills are slow to translate, his margin for error is narrower than for most. 35. San Antonio Spurs Joshua Jefferson, 6-8, Iowa State senior forward Some players are drafted for their ceilings. Others for their floor. Jefferson lands in the latter category as a 22-year-old senior who spent four years in college getting better at everything to the point he's a steady, high-feel forward. He can pass out of the post, make connective reads, and guard multiple positions. He just needs his shooting progress to prove to be real, and right now there's not enough of a sample to be sure it is. 36. Los Angeles Clippers Baba Miller, 6-11, Cincinnati senior forward Miller is a fluid athlete who grew up playing guard before a late growth spurt. He retained his perimeter skills given the way he can handle in the open floor and make advanced moves. He's also an equally compelling defensive player who can switch across positions. The big issue, and the main reason why he has spent four years in college, is that he still can't shoot. 37. Oklahoma City Thunder Dillon Mitchell, 6-7, St. John's senior forward Mitchell showed up at Texas as a McDonald's All-American, and back then it looked like a jump shot was the only thing standing between him and stardom. Four years and three schools later, the jumper is still nonexistent. And yet, he's played his way onto boards anyway as a left-handed power player who finishes everything around the rim, wrecks games on defense, and blossomed into a high-feel passer as a senior at St. John's. The non-shooting is a problem, but on the right team his athleticism on offense and defensive versatility could allow him to carve out a long career. 38. Chicago Bulls Ryan Conwell, 6-2, Louisville senior guard Conwell's college career took him from South Florida to Indiana State to Xavier, and then to Louisville, and he got better at every stop. By the end of his senior year he was the leading scorer for the Cardinals at 18.8 points per game. He's a stocky 6-2 lefty with broad shoulders, no real first step, and exactly one dunk in four years of college basketball. But he's a knockdown shooter with deep range and a bruiser at the rim who absorbs contact like a fullback. The question is whether the climb continues at the next level, when he can't muscle his way to the cup or shoot over the top of smaller defenders the way he could in college. 39. Houston Rockets Bruce Thornton, 6-0, Ohio State senior guard Thornton is a three-level scorer with playmaking feel and the competitive fire that lifts a locker room. But he's short and not a bursty athlete, which means he projects as a reserve point guard. Players with his intangibles can prove to be important to winning teams, though. He was a four-year captain at Ohio State, and improved every year on his way to becoming the school's all-time leading scorer. 40. Boston Celtics Richie Saunders, 6-5, BYU senior wing Saunders is a hard-nosed, two-way wing who plays with manic energy, hustling around the floor hunting for steals on defense and jumpers on offense. The team that gets him knows exactly what they're gonna get out of him. He's also skilled, though, with a quick-trigger jumper, soft touch on floaters, and a feel for moving the ball. With less than ideal size and athleticism, he more likely projects as a solid role player. But he's not a guarantee to succeed at age 25 after tearing his ACL in February, ending his four-year career at BYU. 41. Miami Heat Ugonna Onyenso, 6-11, Virginia senior big Onyenso has bounced from Kentucky to Kansas State to Virginia, finally finding a home in Charlottesville where he turned into one of the most feared shot-blockers in college basketball. He had 21 blocks across three ACC tournament games, including nine against Cam Boozer and Duke in the championship. He lays a brick wall around the basket, though he has heavy feet when guarding on the perimeter and is still developing his offensive skill set. 42. San Antonio Spurs Maliq Brown, 6-8, Duke senior forward Brown guards all five positions and has both the length and IQ to anchor the defense when he's on the floor. As a 6-8 senior, he was named ACC Sixth Man of the Year and won the Lefty Driesell Award as the nation's top defender. But he struggles to shoot the ball, which will make his offensive fit a difficult one. Regardless though, his defense could be that special that his team can't help but put him on the floor. 43. Brooklyn Nets Braden Smith, 5-10, Purdue senior guard Smith left Purdue as the NCAA's all-time assists leader, breaking a 33-year-old record. He's arguably the highest-IQ player in the draft who could orchestrate an offense at the college level while also providing scoring off the bounce. But the issue is the one every 5-10 guard faces: he isn't a plus athlete, and bigger guards are going to hunt him the moment he steps on an NBA floor. That's precisely why he is a projected second-rounder and will need to work his way up. 44. San Antonio Spurs Nick Martinelli, 6-7, Northwestern senior forward Martinelli is a lefty who hunts mismatches in the post, uses footwork and physicality to compensate for his average athletic profile, and plays with a fire in his belly. He arrived at Northwestern as a three-star recruit, got notably better in each season, and proceeded to become the back-to-back Big Ten scoring champion. There are no questions about his work ethic. The real concern is about whether he can adapt at the next level when he can't feast on smaller players, and when he'll be targeted on defense. But he's beaten the odds so far and will receive chances to prove he belongs in the NBA. 45. Sacramento Kings Jaden Bradley, 6-3, Arizona senior guard Bradley is a combo guard with a strong frame, a calm demeanor, and a knack for clutch moments. After arriving in college as a McDonald's All-American, he lost his starting spot as a freshman at Alabama then transferred to Arizona, where he got better every year and became the team's trusted leader. As a senior, he won Big 12 Player of the Year, Big 12 Tournament MVP, and led the Wildcats to their first Final Four since 2001. There are questions about whether he can be a lead guard at the next level, but his connective passing, improved shooting, and gritty defense all give him the potential to play big minutes. 46. Orlando Magic Emanuel Sharp, 6-3, Houston senior guard Sharp's calling card is his shooting ability. He can catch fire from 3-point range and be utilized as a weapon off screens. He plays with a high IQ even though he isn't a primary shot creator as well. On defense, he plays extremely hard to help compensate for the fact he's on the smaller side at only 6-3. 47. Phoenix Suns Ja'Kobi Gillespie, 6-0, Tennessee senior guard Gillespie spent two seasons at Belmont, transferred to Maryland for a year, then came home to Tennessee as a senior and helped lead the Volunteers to the Elite Eight. In the NBA, he projects as less of a lead guard and more of a spark plug who comes off the bench and fires jumpers and reliably runs the offense. The NBA's track record with guards his size is the obvious concern, but anyone who shoots like Gillespie and processes the game at his level deserves a real chance. 48. Dallas Mavericks Izaiyah Nelson, 6-8, South Florida senior big Nelson is a 6-8 athlete with a 7-3 wingspan who feasts on lobs, rebounds in traffic, and disrupts everywhere on defense. He sets a tone any time he's on the floor. After three years at Arkansas State, he followed his coach to USF and proceeded to put up one of the most decorated mid-major seasons in recent memory by becoming the first player in American Conference history to win Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and Newcomer of the Year. Even though he lacks creation and shooting abilities, he made jaw-dropping plays at the Portsmouth Invitational, then earned an NBA Draft Combine invite, and now has a chance to go in the second round. 49. Denver Nuggets Felix Okpara, 6-10, Tennessee senior big Okpara knows his role as a player who protects the paint, runs the floor, finishes lobs, sets screens, and doesn't try to be more than that. He spent two years at Ohio State, transferred to Tennessee, and helped take the Vols to the Elite Eight as their defensive backbone. He had four blocks in the Round of 32 with clutch defense down the stretch, then a 12 and 10 double-double in the Sweet 16. 50. Toronto Raptors Bryce Hopkins, 6-6, St. John's senior forward Hopkins is a big wing who bullies smaller defenders with hard drives to the rim. But he's not a one-trick pony. He also passes with feel, rebounds, and offers highly versatility defense. He's a do-it-all player who could've been in the NBA by now if it weren't for injuries. He was a first-team All-Big East talent at Providence before a torn ACL ended one season and a bone bruise in the same knee wiped out most of the next, limiting him to 17 games over two years. He finally got a full, healthy run at St. John's, regained his explosiveness, and became a pivotal piece on a team that won the Big East title and made a tournament run. 51. Washington Wizards Tobe Awaka, 6-8, Arizona senior forward Awaka was college basketball's best rebounder and helped energize Arizona's bully-ball style over the past two years. At 6-8 with a brickhouse frame and an unrelenting style of play, he set a tone off the bench and earned Big 12 Sixth Man of the Year. The problem is everything else. He doesn't shoot. He doesn't pass. And he doesn't have a clearly defined position on defense. The team that drafts him is betting it can find enough of a defensive role to keep that elite rebounding and relentless motor on the floor. 52. Los Angeles Clippers Tyler Nickel, 6-6, Vanderbilt senior forward Nickel has a flamethrower jump shot that Vanderbilt used in a wide array of actions to consistent success all season long. The questions about him are the ones every specialist faces: Does he offer enough other than shooting? Will he survive defensively? But anyone who shoots like Nickel and stands at 6-6 will get a shot to make it in the NBA. 53. Houston Rockets Tyler Bilodeau, 6-7, UCLA senior forward Bilodeau was one of the most efficient stretch-4s in college basketball. With his 6-7 frame, he could bring real value with his size and spacing ability at the next level. But no one should mistake Bilodeau for Tyler, The Creator, since he rarely takes shots off the dribble or serves as a playmaker for teammates. He also struggles as a defender, which is truly the big question about his ability to make it in the modern NBA. 54. Golden State Warriors Milos Uzan, 6-3, Houston senior guard Uzan is a high-IQ combo guard who knits teams together with his playmaking skills and defensive hustle. Those are the translatable skills that made him a fixture in Houston's rotations for back-to-back 30-win seasons. But then there's the nagging question about what he actually offers as a primary shot creator and as a shooter. Uzan could've answered that question with a big senior season, but he didn't take the leap that scouts hoped for. 55. New York Knicks Otega Oweh, 6-4, Kentucky senior wing As a 6-4 wing with a strong frame, Oweh became one of the best slashing wings in college basketball and had one of the great games of the season with 35/8/7 against Santa Clara in the opening round of March Madness with a buzzer-beater to force overtime. At the next level, though, he doesn't project to be a primary creator because of his shaky handle and jumper, so the odds are he'll need to adapt as a role player. Fortunately, he has a ton of those skills as a cutter, connective passer, and versatile defender. 56. Chicago Bulls Trevon Brazile, 6-10, Arkansas senior big Brazile was a projected first-rounder before tearing his ACL nine games into his sophomore year at Arkansas, and the next two years were spent rebuilding the explosiveness that made him a prospect in the first place. He finally put it together as a fifth-year senior with a career year by anchoring Arkansas' defense. His long wingspan, explosive vertical, switchability, and perimeter jumper, all give him the potential to have a long NBA career. But at this point, he's already 23 and still projects only as a role player. 57. Atlanta Hawks Tobi Lawal, 6-7, Virginia Tech senior forward Lawal is a London-born forward with elite athleticism, but he didn't start playing basketball until age 16 and it shows with his underdeveloped skills. He's still figuring out his jumper and doesn't do much off the dribble. But with NBA-ready hops and a strong frame, he has the tools to be a highly versatile defender who serves as a role player on offense. 58. New Orleans Pelicans Keyshawn Hall, 6-6, Auburn senior forward Hall has been to UNLV, George Mason, UCF, and Auburn, and at every stop he just keeps scoring as a 6-6, 227-pound lefty wing by knocking down 3s and overpowering smaller defenders inside. But everywhere he's gone, his defense has been shaky and his decision-making has left a lot to be desired. After bouncing through four programs without seeing those flaws get resolved, he'll need to figure it out in the NBA. There's certainly a lot of talent worth betting on. 59. Minnesota Timberwolves Darrion Williams, NC State senior forward Williams is a broad-shouldered wing with the versatility to run point or do the dirty work as a power forward. A lack of top-end athleticism puts him in a role player bucket, but he brings winning qualities. During a stretch in which Williams was struggling to score, his college coach Will Wade said: "What'd he have? Six rebounds, four assists, zero turnovers. Everybody needs to shut the hell up about him. He's a damn good player and the shot's going to fall." 60. Washington Wizards Aaron Nkrumah, 6-5, Tennessee State senior wing Nkrumah is a 6-5 wing with a 6-10 wingspan and has the motor to cause havoc on defense. His jumper is still developing, but it was quite a journey to even get to this point. He started his college career at Division III Nichols College, transferred to Division III Worcester State and won MASCAC Player of the Year, then jumped to Tennessee State and became the Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year while leading the Tigers to the NCAA tournament as a 15-seed. He got a late invite to the G League Combine, dropped 33 points across two scrimmages to earn a call-up to the NBA Combine, and kept producing once he got there. He still needs to add muscle and tighten up his jumper, but nothing has stopped him yet.

The art of the American Revolution over time The United States’ founding moment fromWashington Crossing the Delawareto the paintings of Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and Kent Monkman. Although I must have visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art hundreds of times, I’ve never spared more than a glance forWashington Crossing the Delaware.The painting has always seemed to me more image than object, an untethered graphic whose transposability yields it to all sorts of uses—such as when, earlier this year, it was projected onto the Washington Monument. Having seen it on commemorative coins, ceramic plates, tea towels, and postage stamps, why would I need to seek it out in person? It is perhaps this transposability, this reproducibility, that also leavesWashington Crossing the Delawareso open to reworkings. Almost a dozen modern and contemporary artists have riffed on it, among them Jacob Lawrence, Robert Colescott, Grant Wood, Alex Katz, and Kent Monkman. Some of these artists have drawn on theCrossing’s status as an American icon to make political statements. In 2017, Kara Walker reworked the painting to comment on Trump’s inauguration. Other explorations have tended toward formal reinvention. A young Roy Lichtenstein, before his Pop Art breakthrough, painted two versions in an abstract, naïve style around the same time that Larry Rivers offered a brushy, sketchy reinterpretation, at least partly as a figurative challenge to the hegemony of Abstract Expressionism among New York painters. Each refashioning is both a departure and a return. These reworkings affirm the status of theCrossingas a foundational American image, even as they offer new visions of the nation’s past and future—and help us understand how the painting itself worked as a political intervention into both the myth and the politics of the United States. To approach the many reworkings ofWashington Crossing the Delaware, one must begin with the original. Heading to the Met’s American Wing, I spotted it practically a mile away, occupying one of the gallery’s foremost sight lines. It is oppressively large, at 12 by 21 feet, and insistently framed, in a gilded setting topped with a patriotic trophy—a replica of the frame it originally appeared in during its first showing in New York, in 1851, the year of its completion. The painting, by the German artist Emanuel Leutze, shows the crossing of the Delaware River on the night of December 25, 1776, a maneuver that allowed the Continental Army to launch a surprise attack on the Hessian forces at Trenton, yielding a victory that marked a turning point in the American Revolution. Maybe you can see it in your mind’s eye: George Washington standing in the prow of a rowboat, his raised leg firmly planted on the seat before him, gazing steadfastly ahead. All about him, soldiers strain at the oars, propelling the boat across an ice-choked river; one clutches a furled American flag. The scene is grand, the style exacting and meticulous. The tour guides (five of them, to be precise) who pass through the gallery during the half-hour I spend with the painting invariably noted its “inaccuracies.” Leutze shows Washington and his men in narrow rowboats, when in reality they made the crossing in wide, flat-bottomed freight boats. Although the crossing took place at night, Leutze shows a breaking dawn. One guide questioned whether the central figure really looked like Washington, whose likeness survives only in paintings. Another noted the “German” elements of the work, pointing out that the chunks of ice that float on the surface of Leutze’s Delaware look more like formations on the Rhine than those on the waterways of America’s Northeast. I found this strange.Washington Crossing the Delawareis a constructed representation, not a stand-in for Washington himself or a mirror of the historic crossing—an event that Leutze’s painting postdates by three-quarters of a century. While theCrossingreflects the wave of reverence for the “father of the country” that swept the United States upon the 50th anniversary of Washington’s death, another of its immediate contexts are the Revolutions of 1848. Leutze, born in 1816 in Württemberg, immigrated with his family to Philadelphia as a child. In 1841, he returned to Europe to study at the Royal Academy of Art in Düsseldorf. There, he trained in the genre of history painting, developing large-format compositions with grand and consequential themes. While in Düsseldorf, he cofounded and led Malkasten (“paint box”), a democratic organization of liberal artists who supported the struggle to establish a unified German republic. Although the fragmentary and uncoordinated German uprisings of 1848 were ultimately crushed, Leutze did not abandon his democratic commitments. HisCrossing, which toured in Düsseldorf, Berlin, and Cologne a few short years after ’48, was intended to reignite revolution in the hearts of his countrymen with its portrayal of a decisive moment in the struggle for an American republic. Astute observers, as the art historian Barbara Groseclose notes, might even have reflected on the fact that it was Hessian mercenaries whom Washington and his troops met on the shores of Trenton, hired out by the ruler of the Electorate of Hesse. During the German Revolution, the state briefly adopted democratic reforms that were soon undone in a reactionary backlash. Leutze’sCrossing, an American icon, was also a painting with a dual citizenship and an international politics. Just over 100 years later, Jacob Lawrence began a body of work he calledStruggle. The small tempera paintings in this series would chronicle the early history of the United States from the American Revolution through the early 19th century. Lawrence, quoting Leutze, called the 10th painting in the seriesWashington Crossing theDelaware. (Like Leutze’sCrossing, this work is also in the Met’s collection.) The upright Washington of Leutze’s composition, however, is nowhere to be seen. Instead, in boats rocking on choppy waves, crouched figures huddle under blankets and cloaks. Spiky bayonets and oars fill the scene with violent diagonals as blood drips from the sides of the crafts, evoking the injuries sustained and the lives lost in the major defeats that preceded the crossing. Lawrence subtitled the works inStrugglewith voices from the past. HisWashington Crossing the Delawarefeatures a quote from Tench Tilghman, an aide to Washington: “We crossed the River at McKonkey’s Ferry 9 miles above Trenton…the night was excessively severe…which the men bore without the least murmur.” While Leutze condensed American independence into the figure of Washington in an image that also evoked Europe’s revolutions, Lawrence, in his remaking of theCrossingand elsewhere inStruggle, represents revolution and nation-building as a collective project undertaken by anonymous and forgotten actors. Starting work onStrugglein 1954, the year of theBrown v. Board of Educationruling, Lawrence pointedly advanced an integrated history, foregrounding figures like Crispus Attucks, a man of African and Native descent whose death in the Boston Massacre is regarded as the first casualty of the Revolution. Two of the series’ paintings show slave uprisings, representing those internal bids for liberty and equality as equally significant to the American project as the battles against Britain. Lawrence’s inclusion of Black figures and histories feels prescient, seen through contemporary eyes. Yet a close look at Leutze’s painting shows that this practice is not so new after all. In the prow of the boat in which Washington is standing sits a Black man, rowing hard. Sometimes identified as Price Whipple, an enslaved aide-de-camp, he is the figure closest to the commander in chief, whose firmly planted leg overlaps his body in two places. The Black man in this painting points not only to the fact that Black people served in the Revolutionary War—on both sides, for that matter—but also to the fact that Leutze, a painter and propagandist, felt it important to make this known in 1851. If Lawrence advanced an integrated vision of American history against the backdrop of the early civil-rights movement, Leutze painted in a moment of impending civil war. As Southern states began to speak openly of secession and to demand the expansion of slavery into the Western territories, Leutze mustered a diverse crowd of individuals—a Black man and, near him, a fellow in a Scottish tam-o’-shanter, another in a coonskin cap (headgear associated with the Western frontier), and an Indigenous man working the tiller at the boat’s rear—who literally pull together under Washington’s steady guidance. Leutze claimed the first president as an enemy of secession, a message that would likely have resonated with the thousands of viewers who saw theCrossingat an 1864 benefit exhibition for the United States Sanitary Commission, a relief agency supporting Union soldiers. Leutze’s painting allows us to see that the ideologically motivated inclusion of Black figures in representations of American history is far from a contemporary phenomenon, despite the Trump administration’s insistence that such gestures are a woke invention. The administration’s recent attempts to purge references to the enslaved people whom Washington owned from his former Philadelphia residence is, like Leutze’s painting, an attempt to recast the revolutionary commander in chief and first president to meet contemporary political needs. Although the subject of Leutze’sCrossingwas indeed a slaveholder, all evidence indicates that the artist himself was an abolitionist. During the Civil War, he designed the banners for two Black regiments, the New York 20th and the 26th. At the time of his death in 1868, Leutze was at work on a painting of Abraham Lincoln delivering the Emancipation Proclamation. All that survives, however, is a written description of a preliminary sketch. Had Leutze fulfilled his vision, we would have another work for the American national canon and a Lincoln to stand alongside his Washington. Both Leutze and Lawrence’sCrossings, in their own ways, celebrate the democratic origins of the American republic. Robert Colescott’s reworking in the collection of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art casts a more skeptical eye on the nation’s foundations. Created in 1975 in the lead-up to the US Bicentennial,George Washington Carver Crossingthe Delaware: Page From an American History Textbookfeatures a bevy of caricatured Black figures—a cigar-smoking banjo player, a chef, a mammy, a shoeshine boy, and others—who tumble over one another in a boat steered by Carver, the agricultural scientist. Sometimes read as a statement about the exclusion of Black figures from the Western canon, the painting seems to me more of a commentary on the inclusion of racist tropes in the popular American imagination. If George Washington is one of the stock characters in our national drama, Colescott seems to say, well, then here are some others. His painting recalls the prints that circulated alongside reproductions of Leutze’sCrossingduring the 19th century. A few years after that painting made its New York debut, Currier & Ives, a local printmaking firm, released a lithographic version (which, notably, omits the Black rower from the scene). In the following decades, the company would enjoy a brisk trade in prints from its extensive “Darktown” series, which relied on racist gags about the failings of an imaginary Black community. In his reworking of theCrossing, Colescott merges these images into a single composition. To Leutze, American history is a grand theatrical tableau. In Colescott’s recasting, it is a minstrel show. Colescott’s painting deals in jokes, even if it is not exactly funny. More straightforwardly humorous is Grant Wood’s 1932 take on theCrossing, which is in the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum. In a painting he calledDaughters of Revolution, Wood (the creator ofAmerican Gothic) shows us a framed print of Leutze’s painting, as faded and spotted with age as the three thin-lipped women who sit before it. As the story goes, Wood was commissioned to create a stained-glass window for the Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids in 1927 and contracted artisans in Munich to execute his design. The local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution objected strenuously to a window manufactured in a nation with which the United States had so recently been at war. Their resistance delayed the window’s dedication until 1955. Wood’s painted riposte slyly juxtaposes the sanctimonious Daughters—one of whom primly clutches a Blue Willow teacup—with Leutze’s heroic Washington and perhaps points up the tension between their anti-German sentiment and the German origins of the iconic painting. At first glance, Alex Katz’s riff on theCrossingalso reads like satire. Katz rendered Washington, his troops, and a trio of redcoats in his signature flat and simple style, then cut them out and pasted them on plywood. These near-life-size toy soldiers originated as set pieces for a one-act play about the Delaware crossing by the New York School poet Kenneth Koch. Today, they are in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Both Katz’s painted set and Koch’s play offer a camp blending of irreverent send-up and sincere, patriotic attachment to the first president. But how tongue-in-cheek is it really when Koch has Washington, addressing General Cornwallis, declaiming, “Americans shall be masters of the American continent! Then, perhaps, of the world!” Washington’s line in Koch’s play rhymes with the covertly expansionist ideology of Leutze’sCrossing. Washington and his followers ostensibly sail toward the Jersey Shore, but they also evoke movement in a different sense. Although on the night of December 25, 1776, the Delaware River was crossed from its west bank to its east, or from left to right, in Leutze’s painting the movement is from right to left, suggesting a westward direction. This makes for a better composition—it has been suggested that we read paintings the same way we read text, from left to right, meaning that a Washington who moves in the opposite direction comes forward to meet our gaze, rather than seeming to flee from it. But Leutze’s Washington also seems to lead the nation west, reflecting the belief that America’s destiny was to expand into the inward territory of the continent. Kali Holloway Elizabeth Spiers Elie Mystal Jeet Heer Leutze’s own expansionist politics became overt in an 1862 mural created for the US Capitol:Westward the Course ofEmpire Takes Its Way, also known asWestward Ho!Both theCrossingand this later work represent a multiracial republic in the making. InWestward Ho!, figures who recall the diverse crew of Washington’s rowboat—among them a Black man—move steadily into the vastness of a golden West. Westward expansion and the government seizure of Indigenous land, as well as the ensuing conquest, colonization, exploitation, and exile—these form part of the context not only for Leutze’sCrossingbut also for its most recent reworking. At 11 by 22 feet, Kent Monkman’sResurgence of thePeopleis the only reworking to match Leutze in terms of scale. The massive painting is half of a diptych,mistikôsiwak(Wooden Boat People),commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Canadian artist in 2019. While Leutze’s painting offers a fictionalized vision of the nation’s founding, crafted by an artist looking back in time, Monkman’s articulates the possibility of a border-transcending refounding and a future that might be available to us. The boat in this painting is riding low in rising, dirty waters—the seas of climate change. It is crowded with people: Indigenous women, men, and others whose tribal identities are reflected by their clothing, tattoos, and adornments, as well as people from other backgrounds. In the same pose as Leutze’s Washington appears Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, Monkman’s longtime alter ego. She stands tall in red-bottomed Louboutins, clad only in the gauziest of chiffon draperies. Monkman has described Miss Chief, whose name puns onmischiefandegotistical, as a “time-travelling, shape-shifting, supernatural being” and an embodiment of the Indigenous Two-Spirit tradition, a third way in gender and sexuality beyond the male-female binary. Under her guidance, in Monkman’s vision, life is renewed. Children are born and cared for. Lives are saved, as a Black man leans overboard to haul a limp and pallid figure out of the water. Oarspeople steadfastly row the boat ahead as, on a rocky outcropping rising just above the water, emissaries of the state—a US soldier, a police officer—jeer, heedless of their imminent demise. It is an image of collective self-rescue. There is something on the nose about Monkman’s reinterpretation of Leutze. But the power of the appropriative gesture is impossible to deny. Unlike other reworkings of theCrossing,Resurgence of the Peopledeploys the language of 19th-century academic painting—its representative clarity, its grandeur, its theatricality—to powerful effect, wielding these techniques against the nationalism, expansionism, and America First–ism that the work evokes. Leutze, in 1851, knew that he was crafting a compelling fiction, creating a North Star in a moment that needed it. Does Monkman feel the same? It might be that each historical moment gets theWashington Crossingthe Delawarethat it needs. With the midterm elections now firmly upon us, the question is whether Democratic candidates will do more than merely occupy ballot lines as mild alternatives to the red-hot crisis that is Donald Trump. As Trump spends over $1 billion a day on a globally destabilizing war on Iran and admits that he doesn’t “think about Americans’ financial situation,” millions across the country are struggling with the surging costs of essentials. Democrats must seize this moment and advance bold, small-“d” populist ideas—not settle for cynical caution that once again snatches defeat from the jaws of victory. The Nationelevates progressive ideas, movements, and elected officials achieving real change across the country into the national conversation. At the same time, our journalists are exposing how crypto and AI-funded super PACs are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to knock out candidates they oppose, reporting on the devastating impact of the Supreme Court’s evisceration of the Voting Rights Act, and sounding the alarm on attempts by red states to quickly redraw electoral maps, disenfranchising Southern Black voters. We can play this critical role because of support from readers like you. This June, we’re raising $20,000 to powerThe Nation’s independent journalism in the run-up to November’s immensely consequential elections. 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This 2016 Porsche 911 R is #538 of 991 examples manufactured during a single model year, and it was purchased in 2019 by the seller, who has added approximately 152 of its 291 indicated miles. It is finished in white with red stripes over Tarpan Brown leather and Pepita houndstooth cloth and is powered by a 4.0-liter flat-six linked with a six-speed manual transaxle and a limited-slip differential. Equipment includes the Sport Chrono Package, 20″ center-lock alloy wheels, carbon-ceramic brakes with yellow calipers, a front-axle lift system, LED headlights with PDLS, a speed-activated rear spoiler, carbon-fiber full bucket seats, and a Bose sound system. This 991 911 R is now offered in New Jersey with a window sticker, the owner’s manual, service records, an accident-free Carfax report, and a clean Montana title in the name of the seller’s LLC. The 911 R was a limited-production variant developed in the spirit of the 1967 homologation special of the same name. Styling was based on that of the contemporary 911 GT3, with construction elements borrowed from the GT3 RS including a magnesium roof panel and a carbon-fiber hood. The model also featured a carbon-fiber deck lid and front fenders, a model-specific front lip and rear underbody splitter, a retractable spoiler, and an aluminum grille. This example is finished in white with red stripes and black side graphics with red Porsche script, and additional details include LED headlights with PDLS, clear taillights, fog lights, and a speed-activated rear spoiler. Paint protection film has been applied to the front end. The 20″ alloy wheels feature center-locking hubs and are mounted with Michelin tires. Adjustable suspension underpinnings and rear-axle steering were shared with the contemporary GT3, though specially tuned for the 911 R. Stopping power is provided by yellow six- and four-piston monobloc calipers over ceramic-composite rotors at each corner. The optional front-axle lift raises the car on command to help prevent scraping. The carbon-fiber full bucket seats are upholstered in Tarpan Brown leather with Pepita houndstooth cloth inserts, “911 R” embroidery on the headrests, and contrasting stitching that extends to the center armrest, shift boot, and door panels. Carbon-fiber trim accents the cabin, and additional appointments include the Light Design Package, Voice Control, air conditioning, a Bose sound system, cruise control, and PCM infotainment with navigation. A plaque on the dashboard denotes the car as #538 of 991 examples produced for the model year. The leather-wrapped steering wheel frames a 225-mph speedometer and a 10k-rpm tachometer as well as gauges for oil temperature, oil pressure, coolant temperature, and fuel level. The optional Sport Chrono Package added a stopwatch atop the dashboard. The digital odometer indicates 291 miles, approximately 152 of which were added under current ownership. The naturally aspirated 4.0-liter flat-six was shared with the contemporary GT3 RS and was factory rated at 500 horsepower and 339 lb-ft of torque. Power is sent to the rear wheels through a six-speed manual transaxle and a limited-slip differential with Porsche Torque Vectoring. The car is equipped with a single-mass flywheel and a reinforced clutch. The window sticker shows initial delivery to Porsche of South Shore in Freeport, New York, along with factory colors, equipment, options, and a total price of $208,520. The Carfax report lists at least one open recall. The winning bid does not include shipping. It is the buyer's responsibility to arrange the details of any shipping or delivery, and to pay any taxes, duties, or charges associated with shipping or delivery.View our third-party shipper recommendations. We need to confirm your billing address in order to appropriately charge fees and taxes should you win an auction. Please provide your billing address below. Congratulations! 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Bring It To The Runway The best way to turn your TV fame into something lasting? Get the fashion world on your side. It wasn’t long ago that the fashion industry held reality television at arm’s length. When Kim Kardashian finally made it to the cover ofVoguein 2014 — after years ofreported resistance from Anna Wintour— many in the establishment saw it as pure blasphemy, and #boycottvogue became a trending topic. (Remember those?) Those days seem quaint now. Reality stars arepacking front rows at fashion weeks, makingcameos inThe Devil Wears Prada 2, and evenwalking the runwaythemselves. TakeLove Island USAbreakoutOlandria Carthen, who’s among those bridging these formerly disparate worlds: strutting inSergio Hudson’sSpring/Summer 2026 show last fall, securing a coveted seat atValentino’s Couture Showin January, collaborating with Brandon Blackwood ona sold-out handbag collection, and landing aGlamourcover alongside her boyfriend andLove Islandpartner Nic Vansteenberghe (whose own postshow resume includes aSkims holiday campaign). The shift was, at first, slow — then lightning fast. “I’d have to give credit to Bravo, specificallyHousewives,” saysTchesmeni Leonard, global fashion director ofTeen VogueandGlamour,who styledGlamour’s covers with“Nicolandria”andSummer HousestarCiara Miller. “The caliber of Housewives started to shift,” including cast members ofAtlanta, Beverly Hills, andNew York“who had the means to buy fashion in a real way. A lot of editors’ and designers’ guilty pleasure was watchingHousewives.” She adds: “I don’t know if we would’ve had Gigi and Bella Hadid if it wasn’t for Yolanda. And look at Amelia Gray now. I don’t think she would be who she is if her mother wasn’t just Lisa Rinna, but Lisa Rinna onHousewives.” Now, as reality stars break into the industry’s highly exclusive circle, fashion’s own power players are increasingly crossing into unscripted TV, too. Former J.Crew president Jenna Lyons and designer Rebecca Minkoff both stepped into theReal Housewives of New York Cityuniverse in recent years, while iconic stylist Rachel Zoe — already a pioneer in the format withThe Rachel Zoe Project, which ran on Bravo from 2008 to 2013 — is back on TV as the latestBeverly HillsHousewife. Even stars who were already working in beauty and fashion before they were on television can’t deny the boost.Emira D’Spainhad already modeled for Fenty Beauty and made history as thefirst Black transgender model to work with Victoria’s Secretby the time she joined the cast ofNext Gen NYC; she’s since added a couple more iconic brands to the mix, including that little startup you may have heard of calledGucci. “They never want you to feel like they’re only [hiring you] because of it, but I really do feel like I’ve been put on the map even greater for these brands to notice me,” D’Spain says. “That’s the most incredible and the most fun part because it’s like, ‘Oh, wow, I can’t believe you guys know I exist.’” Still, not all stars are created equal in the eyes of the fashion industry. “When I invite people to sit front row at my shows, what usually connects more with my customers is actresses,” says designer Christian Siriano, whose own career launched onProject Runway(which returns for a new seasonJuly 9). “The biggest challenge [with reality stardom] mostly is that it doesn’t always translate to sales necessarily, and I think the big fashion houses look for that usually. You could be the most famous TikToker in the world, but that doesn’t necessarily translate with Hermès.” If you can get that coveted stamp of approval, though, there are few better ways to shore up your star power as a newfound reality star. The fashion world may be (relatively) less snobby these days, but the legitimacy it confers is still undeniable: “It can make someone very successful very quickly,” Siriano says. “If you can get the industry in your corner, you’re pretty much set.” The biggest designer brands are probably not going to be blowing up your phone right away. “Obviously being seen at fashion week is important, but that’s such a small moment to cut through the noise,” D’Spain says. “You’re better off creating your own tentpole iconic moments.” Let your social media be a showcase: Do you have expert knowledge of the latest trends? Style them in your OOTD Instagrams. Loyal to a few brands? Go ahead and be loud about it. “It really is about authentically showcasing your aesthetic and your personal style,” D’Spain says. “If your budget is giving Zara and H&M, then work with that. Become a fashion icon for makingthatwork.” “Don’t partner with cheesy brands right away just for the money,” Siriano says. “You have to be smart about what you do, where you go, and who you start to partner with.” His advice? “Be picky — go for your dream brand and keep at it. Once you get there, you can go kind of anywhere. Once you get one big, really great brand on your side, you can kind of pull anyone, and that’s really the goal.” Look, being gorgeous isn’t nothing. “Sometimes for me, I just want to dress someone that’s really beautiful and looks great in a dress, and that’s it,” says Siriano, who dressedCarthen for the Golden Globesand ex-Summer HousestarPaige DeSorbo for theDevil Wears Prada 2premiere. “With Olandria, I thought she was really gorgeous. Paige, the same. Paige — she just looks great in clothes.” But for the most part, designers and brands aren’t just looking for famous faces with social media clout; they’re looking for a story. They need to be able to champion you — and that’s also based on what you stand for and represent. “What I look for, especially in regards to fashion week, is a narrative that feels super compelling, where it’s just not a regular old girl from wherever,” saysLindsey Solomon, founder of the public relations firm Lindsey Media, who often connects emerging designer clients with celebrity talent for campaigns, red-carpet dressing, and fashion-week invites. Take someone like Gabby Windey, he says, “who’s incredibly intelligent and did a lot of COVID relief work before she was even onBachelorette, and then discovering her sexuality — it’s super interesting.” Or Miller, who advocates for representation within reality TV asSummer House’s first Black cast member, orAriana Madix, whom he calls the “poster child for reinvention.” If your post-reality-TV game plan includes tons of red-carpet and fashion-week appearances, you might assume a stylist is the first person you want on speed dial. Not quite.The most important hireis actually a publicist. “You can have the greatest stylist in the world, but if a designer’s not feeling it…” Solomon says. D’Spain’s rise is proof. “I style all of my own looks, do all of my own glam. I just have someone do my hair,” she says. “The main reason why you would want to use a stylist is so you don’t have to keep buying everything yourself.” Instead, she recommends focusing on something much more valuable: finding your overall aesthetic and then playing around with it. “That’s the most fun part of this job. I can wake up one day and say, ‘OK, today we’re going to do a goth vibe.’” Not every look is going to land. That’s more than just OK — that’s kind of the point. “The people I’m drawn to aren’t afraid to take risks with fashion,” says designer Christian Cowan. And that’s exactly why he likes working with Rinna. “Lisa is fearless with fashion.” For Elton John’s Oscars afterparty this year, Cowan dressed Rinna in agown made out of 11 pounds of human hairin collaboration with Tresemmé. “She completely committed to the look, which made it even more powerful.” Avant-garde aside, what else catches his eye? “Have fun with fashion and lean into what makes you unique,” he says. “The most memorable style moments come from authenticity.” D’Spain puts it this way: “You can’t be afraid to flop because sometimes the biggest flops come up with the greatest slays. F*ck it. You’ve got to experiment.” Want style cred? Do your homework. “In order to be taken seriously in this space, it would help if reality stars showed an affinity for the industry in a meaningful way outside of ‘Oh, I’m just going to wear these Top 10 brands and call myself a fashion person,’” Leonard says. That includes familiarizing yourself with the top stylists and photographers, and being intentional about which brands and designers you wear. She especially stresses the importance of supporting emerging designers: “I would take someone seriously if I saw that they did that. Like, ‘Oh, you get it. You’re using your platform for good.’” Building a fashion identity isn’t just a switch you flip. “What’s really off-putting for me is a stylist being like, ‘Hey, we’re styling this person and completely reinventing them,’ but then there’s no personal narrative,” Solomon says. “How am I supposed to advocate for you if you have no personal relationship with fashion?” Here’s one small act that goes a long way: Buy the clothes you want to wear. Solomon recalls the early stages of trying to build a relationship betweenDeSorboand designer client Wiederhoeft. “There definitely was a level of convincing with Wiederhoeft,” he says, “but when she bought, that was really helpful and compelling.” The look she picked up? A Wiederhoeft dress she wore to the2025 Las Culturistas Culture Awards— one of her most acclaimed looks to date. Real Housewives of Salt Lake Citystar Bronwyn Newport made it to this year’s Met Gala as a red-carpet commentator for E! (alongside Miller), but she’d already won over designers like her pal Siriano as a loyal shopper first. “Bronwyn was my customer for 10 years before anybody knew who she was. She actually paid a lot of money for her clothes, and still does,” Siriano says. “Bronwyn was a Schiaparelli customer, and they’re inviting her to Paris.” In the celeb-fluencer realm, one-time projects are common. You’re sent a product, you wear it, post it, and never work with a brand again. But the real secret in the fashion industry is relationships. “Build friendships along the way with even the little guy,” D’Spain says. “People are so caught up in becoming besties with the creative director of XYZ fashion house. That’s not necessarily who’s going to get you in the door.” Some of the most important connections you can make aren’t even on the designer or brand side. “Support emerging talent — stylist, hair, makeup,” Leonard says. “If you’re on set with photographers, really engage with them on what’s the story that you’re telling or participating in. Be engaged beyond brand deals and free clothes.” Carthen and Vansteenberghe “were just so fun on set and such a vibe and also interested and down to shoot and play and converse,” Leonard says of theirGlamourcover. She also praises Miller, whose shoot took place in the middle of this spring’sSummer Housedrama. “Ciara was going through this traumatic moment, but showed up to set on time. She was engaging with the photographer and was like, ‘I want your guys’ feedback after every shot.’ She was just really such a pleasant person to work with while she was going through whatever she was going through.” A good reputation, after all, travels a lot further than a hot outfit.

Companies use seismic airguns in the Gulf of Mexico to find oil and gas deposits. The airguns deliver air blasts in the water, and the time it takes for an echo to return can be used to estimate metrics on the seabed. For the New York Times, Katherine Chui and Catrin Einhorn demonstrate, with visualization and audio,how the waves from the airguns interfere with whale communication. The Gulf of Mexico, which the Trump administration calls the Gulf of America, is one of the noisiest bodies of water in the United States. Air gun blasts are the loudest element there, according to research by scientists who monitor underwater acoustics. Shipping traffic is another major contributor. The noise could affect the ability of Rice’s whales to find food and mates, scientists say. The chronic stress of living in a loud environment could be detrimental to their health. The maps, graphics, and sounds combine well to emphasize the problem. Get access to courses, tutorials, and more resources. Become a member → New tools, refined process.

New York City, NY, June 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --Summer heat doesn’t knock before entering. It just shows up, makes itself comfortable, and refuses to leave. You’re sitting at your desk, trying to get work done, but the air feels heavy. You turn on a fan, but it’s just blowing hot air around. You consider installing a window AC, but your rental doesn’t allow it, or the cost feels insane. That’s the moment you start looking for something different. Something smaller. Something that doesn’t require a permit or triple your electric bill. Glacier Breeze Portable ACis one of those options that’s been popping up everywhere this year. But before you pull the trigger, let’s talk about what it actually does—and what it doesn’t. So, What Is Glacier Breeze Portable AC? At its core, the Glacier Breeze is a portable, localized air utility device designed to lower the temperature, add a bit of refreshing moisture, and provide basic filtration for the air right in your immediate vicinity. Unlike a traditional air conditioner, it doesn’t use harsh chemical refrigerants, a heavy mechanical compressor, or a clumsy exhaust hose that you have to vent out a window. Instead, it relies on evaporative cooling principles, optimized through modern design to maximize airflow. The unit is versatile enough to sit on home office desks, nightstands, workshop benches, or patio tables. It functions as a 3-in-1 system: a personal air cooler, a targeted humidifier, and a standard circulation fan. Its biggest selling point is its independence. It’s a completely self-contained, cordless device featuring a built-in rechargeable battery and a standard USB-C charging port. This setup eliminates the need for permanent wall installations or window brackets, making it easy to move the unit from room to room throughout the day. Get the Best Portable Cooling Solution! Choose Glaier Breeze Now Technical Mechanics: How the Glacier Breeze Portable Air Conditioner Operates To understand what the Glacier Breeze can and cannot do, it helps to look at the underlying science of evaporative cooling, which the manufacturer calls Rapid Cooling™ Technology. The device works through a straightforward, multi-step process: Because this process relies entirely on the natural phase change of water from liquid to gas, electrical demands are incredibly low. The internal motor only needs enough power to spin the fan blades and run the tiny water distribution system, allowing the entire unit to run easily off a standard 5V USB-C connection. Structural Breakdown and Core Features The physical build of the Glacier Breeze balances lightweight mobility with everyday utility. Here is a breakdown of the primary engineering features built into the device. High-Velocity Twin Frost Jets The air distribution system uses two specialized fan arrays designed to maximize air velocity while keeping noise to a minimum. The design allows the device to project a steady stream of cooled air several feet away, ensuring you feel a noticeable drop in temperature even if the unit is sitting on the far side of a desk or nightstand. Top-Loading Water Reservoir Refilling small appliances can be annoying and often leads to accidental spills near electronic components. The Glacier Breeze avoids this with a top-loading water tank. You can pour water straight into the upper chamber without taking the unit apart. The opening is also wide enough to accommodate standard ice cubes, which lowers the internal temperature even more for an extra cold breeze. Integrated Rechargeable Battery & USB-C Power Interface Mobility is where this unit really stands out. While it can run continuously when plugged into a wall adapter or a computer USB port, it also contains a high-capacity internal lithium-ion battery. On a full charge, the battery can power the cooling system for up to 10 hours, depending on your fan speed, making it fully portable for outdoor use or spaces without a nearby outlet. Get the Best Portable Cooling Solution! Choose Glaier Breeze Now Multi-Stage Fan Control and Adjustable Louvers To match different comfort levels and shifting temperatures, the unit features multiple speed settings—ranging from a gentle, whisper-quiet sleep mode to a high-output performance mode. The front grill features manual horizontal louvers, letting you angle the airflow precisely toward your face, upper torso, or lap. Atmospheric LED Lighting Elements Built into the frame is an optional LED ambient light strip. It can cycle through a variety of soft colors or stay fixed on a single hue, serving as a low-intensity nightlight for bedrooms or a nursery. If you prefer absolute darkness while sleeping, you can turn this feature off completely. Where It Actually Helps: Real Use Cases The value of a localized air cooler depends entirely on where you use it. The Glacier Breeze isn't built to replace a whole-house HVAC system, but it performs incredibly well in specific setups where traditional AC is impractical or too expensive to run. For remote workers, turning on central AC for the whole house during an eight-hour shift is incredibly inefficient. Placing this compact unit right next to your laptop creates a personal comfort zone that keeps you cool and alert without skyrocketing the electric bill. Plus, it runs quietly enough that it won't interfere with Zoom calls or phone conversations. Many people struggle to sleep in stagnant summer heat, but leaving the central AC blasting all night is a surefire way to get a painful utility bill. Setting this device on a nightstand delivers a steady stream of chilled, humidified air across your bed. The added moisture is a major plus, as it helps prevent the dry throat, irritated nasal passages, and parched skin often caused by standard compressor-based AC units. If you’re in a rental that doesn’t allow window installations, or you’re in a dorm with limited space, this gives you a portable option. No screws, no permits, no permanent setup. Running Glacier Breeze instead of a full AC for part of the day reduces energy usage. If you’re cooling just yourself instead of an entire room, the savings are noticeable. Loud fans can be a dealbreaker. Glacier Breeze is quiet enough for people who work in quiet environments or have sensitive sleep patterns. Because the system can run on its internal battery, you can take it well beyond the house. It works great for backyard patios, workshops, garages, or camping trips. As long as the battery is charged or you have a portable power bank handy, you can enjoy a refreshing breeze in spots that completely lack electrical outlets. Get the Best Portable Cooling Solution! Choose Glaier Breeze Now Target Audience: Who It Is For and Who Should Avoid It A clear understanding of what the Glacier Breeze can and cannot do is key to making the right choice. It is highly effective for certain situations, but won't be a good fit for everyone. Ideal Candidates for the System Who Should Look Elsewhere Honest Assessment: Pros and Cons To help you make an objective decision, here is a straightforward look at the operational strengths and natural limitations of the Glacier Breeze. Pros Cons Get the Best Portable Cooling Solution! Choose Glaier Breeze Now Safety Profile and Daily Operation The Glacier Breeze is fundamentally safe because its design completely avoids high-pressure chemical refrigerants, exposed heating elements, or complex moving parts. However, because it combines water and electronics, a few basic tips will keep it running smoothly: The unit features a built-in safety sensor. If the water reservoir runs completely dry while you're using it, the device automatically switches over to standard fan mode. This keeps the internal pump from running dry, protecting the circuitry from unnecessary wear or overheating. It's best to place the unit on a flat, level surface away from the edge of your desk or counter. This keeps it stable and prevents any accidental tips, which could cause water to spill out of the top reservoir. Since the device relies on standing water to cool, it's a good habit to empty the reservoir and let the inner cartridge air out completely if you plan to leave it unused for a while. This simple step prevents mineral buildup from tap water and keeps the breeze smelling clean and crisp. The Market Landscape: Glacier Breeze vs. Epicooler vs. Qinux BreezaMax When looking for a compact cooling solution, navigating the marketing terms can be confusing. Devices labeled as "portable cooling units" often use completely different engineering methods to manage heat. To help clarify where the Glacier Breeze fits into the modern market, it is useful to compare it side-by-side with two other popular compact options: theEpiCoolerand theQinux BreezaMax. While all three promise relief from summer heat, they operate on entirely different mechanical principles. The Core Technology The biggest difference between these three units is how they handle air physics. Choosing the wrong type for your climate means the device simply won't perform as expected. Portability and Power Profiles How you plan to power the device—and where you want to take it—dictates which model fits your routine. Coverage Area: Personal Spot vs. Full Room Are you trying to cool just yourself at a desk, or are you looking to adjust the temperature of an actual living space? Community Feedback and Real-World Insights Looking at overall feedback from everyday users gives a reliable picture of how the device handles daily wear and tear. Positive Experiences A common theme among satisfied buyers is the drop in their monthly electric bills. Many note that turning down their central thermostat and using this compact unit directly at their desk or bedside allowed them to stay perfectly comfortable while saving a noticeable amount of money. The low noise level is another frequent highlight, with many parents using it in children's rooms as a gentle cooler and nightlight. Users in dry states frequently praise the humidifying feature, mentioning that it helped ease dry skin and morning sinus irritation. Constructive Criticisms On the flip side, less favorable feedback usually comes from misconceptions about what the device is built to do. Buyers who expected the unit to cool down a hot kitchen or a spacious living area during a heatwave were disappointed to find it didn't lower the room's overall thermometer reading. Some users in humid coastal areas noted that while the breeze felt nice and refreshing, the actual temperature drop wasn't as intense due to the moisture already in the air. These reviews highlight why understanding evaporative cooling is so important before buying. Get the Best Portable Cooling Solution! Choose Glaier Breeze Now Buying Options for Glacier Breeze Air Conditioner: The Glacier Breeze is available directly through its official online store. Buying straight from the official source ensures you get an authentic unit with all safety features intact, rather than a cheap counterfeit from an unverified marketplace. The standard retail price for a single unit is $179.98. However, the manufacturer frequently runs seasonal promotions. During these sales, a single unit can be purchased for 50% off, bringing the price down to$89.99. If you are looking to outfit multiple rooms or buy units for family members, the checkout site offers tiered bulk packages. Purchasing a few units at once lowers the per-device price even further, making it an affordable way to set up personal cooling stations around the house. Protection and Guarantee Policies To give remote buyers peace of mind, all purchases made through the official store come with a comprehensive90-day money-back guarantee. If the device doesn't fit your specific setup, or if you find that the local humidity in your area prevents the evaporative system from giving you the drop in temperature you wanted, you can contact customer support within 90 days for a return. This extended window gives you plenty of time to test the unit during real summer heat with zero financial risk. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Q1. Is Glacier Breeze a real air conditioner? No. It’s an evaporative cooler that uses water and a fan. It doesn’t use compressors or refrigerant like a traditional AC. Q2. Does the Glacier Breeze require any installation? Not at all. The device comes fully assembled and ready to go. You just charge the battery or plug in the USB-C cable, fill the top tank with water, and turn it on. Q3. Where should I place the unit for the best results? Set it on a flat surface like a desk, counter, or nightstand, with the front vents pointed directly at you. Make sure the back intake grill isn't blocked by walls or curtains so it can pull in air easily. Q4. Is it safe to leave running overnight in a kid's room? Yes. It uses low-voltage power and has an automatic shutoff sensor that safely switches the device to a regular fan mode if the water runs out, meaning there's no risk of overheating. Q5. How often do I need to refill the water tank? It depends on your fan speed and how dry the room air is. On average, a full tank provides a few hours of continuous cooling before needing a quick top-off. Q6. Can I add ice? Yes. Ice boosts cooling temporarily, but the tank still empties at the same rate. Q7. Can I run it without water? Yes. If you leave the tank empty, it works just like a standard, energy-efficient personal fan. You only need to add water and ice when you want to use the evaporative cooling feature. Q8. How fast does shipping take? Orders placed through the official fulfillment center ship quickly, with standard delivery usually arriving at your door within 2 to 5 business days. Q9. Does it work in humid climates? Less effectively. Evaporative cooling relies on dry air. In humid conditions, the cooling effect is weaker. Get the Best Portable Cooling Solution! Choose Glaier Breeze Now Q10. Do I need to clean it? Yes. Rinse the tank every few days to prevent smell or mold. Use mild soap and water. Q11. Does it filter air? No. It cools the air but doesn’t remove dust, pollen, or allergens. Q12. How quiet is it? Under 40 decibels on the lowest setting. Quieter than most standard fans. Q13. Can I use it overnight? Yes. The quiet motor and low power make it safe for overnight use. Just refill the tank before it empties. Q14. What powers it? USB (5V) or wall outlet (110V). You can use a laptop, power bank, or wall adapter. Q15. Is it worth the price? If you understand it’s a personal cooler and you’re in a dry climate, many users find it worth it. For whole-room cooling, get a traditional AC. The Bottom Line Glacier Breeze Portable AC is a legitimate personal cooling device, but you need realistic expectations. It’s not a replacement for a traditional air conditioner. It’s a compact, quiet, energy-efficient option for cooling a small personal space. It’s right for you if: Skip it if: Final thought If you need a quiet, portable way to cool yourself in a small space and you understand it’s an evaporative cooler (not a compressor-based AC), Glacier Breeze can be a practical choice. It’s affordable, easy to use, and won’t spike your electric bill. But if you’re looking for full-room cooling, air purification, or something that works equally well in humid conditions, you’ll want a traditional AC unit or air purifier instead. The 60-day money-back guarantee makes it easier to try without risk. If it doesn’t meet your needs, you can return it. Ultimately, Glacier Breeze Portable AC is worth it if it matches your specific cooling needs. It’s not a miracle solution, but for the right person in the right environment, it’s a simple, practical way to stay cooler without the cost and noise of a full AC system. Attachment

Hours before the2018 World Cup kicked off in Russia, delegates representing more than 200 FIFA member states filed into a massive conference center rising above the left bank of the Moscow River. There they would be voting to pick a host for the 2026 tournament and the ballot held just two candidates:Morocco, bidding for the World Cup for the fifth time, and ajoint bid from the U.S., Mexico and Canada, marking the first time three countries offered to share host duties. Months earlier it had appeared to be an election in name only. This World Cup, with 48 teams, would be the most complex sporting event in history and the North American bid was unique in both size and scope. The three countries had all the resources, infrastructure and logistical know-how to put on the tournament, having already combining to host six men’s and women’s World Cups. That dwarfed the offerings of Morocco, which had no existing stadiums that conformed to tournament specifications and would need to spend upwards of $15 billion to prepare for a World Cup. TheU.S., Mexico and Canada would go on to win the bid, but as the presidents of those three countries’ soccer federations, co-chairs of the so-called United Bid, took their seats in the first row of the main hall that Wednesday, the outcome was very much in doubt. “Even the night before, we never believed we had this locked up,” saidCarlos Cordeiro, then the newly-minted president of the U.S. Soccer Federation and a co-chair of the United Bid committee. “You always have doubt in those moments,” rememberedDecio de Maria, then president of the Mexican federation. “It’s like the flip of a coin.” That doubt was well-earned. Cordeiro, De Maria and Steve Reed, then president of the Canadian Soccer Association, had spent much of the last three months living together in an extended-stay hotel in London, their base for a desperate last-ditch effort to wrestle the 2026 World Cup away from Morocco. From there the three presidents traveled around the world in less than 80 days, meeting with representatives of every FIFA federation that had a vote — and some that didn’t. They coaxed, cajoled, begged and beseeched for support to bring the tournament to North America. “Nobody knew if we were behind, tied or ahead,” said De Maria, who had helped bring the 1986 World Cup to Mexico as well. “But what I learned about the process is that you have to visit everybody, talk to them and make a good presentation. Read more:Column: United Bid Committee tries new approach to rescue 2026 World Cup bid “At the end, they understood that our bid was a good one.” But it didn’t start that way. On April 10, 2017, when the United Bid was officially announced, it was done from the 102nd floor of New York’s One World Observatory, the tallest building on the continent. The lack of subtly was the point and the document supporting the United Bid would run to more than 70,000 pages. Sunil Gulati, then president of U.S. Soccer, was first to the podium, flanked by De Maria and Victor Montagliani, then president of the Canadian federation. The three countries’ combined wealth and resources made the United Bid arguably the strongest in World Cup history. And for months no other country even considered a challenge, making the United Bid’s selection appear to be more a coronation than a vote. But then in August of 2017, less than 10 months before FIFA would vote on awarding the rights to the tournament, Morocco entered the race. Within weeks the boldness of the United Bid became its weakness. The proposal was announced by the U.S. Soccer president, in the U.S., where a majority of games, including the final, would be played. And Gulati was the bid committee’s sole chairman. To outsiders the bid looked less like a united one and more like one led by the U.S. If once that had been a strength, it soon became a weakness because just eight months into President Trump’s first year in office, anti-American sentiment was growing over his administration’s derogatory comments about some African and Latin American countries and a proposed travel ban on citizens of majority Muslim countries. “There was always perhaps a little bit of hesitation about the U.S.; if it was a U.S. bid and they were the ones at the forefront,” said Reed, who succeeded Montagliani as the head of Canadian soccer a month after the United Bid was announced. “So we kind of positioned it differently. ‘No, it’s these three nations and we are all equal and we’re co-hosting’.” “In the politics of football,” Reed added “you just never know.” Gulati knew. Because he had been burned by those politics before. Eight years earlier the U.S. was confident it had done enough to win the right to host the 2022 World Cup, only to lose toQatarin a process marred by allegations of bribery and fraud. For Gulati, who had put so much into that bid, it was a crushing setback. “There were two divergent thoughts,” he remembered recently of that moment. “One is, I never want to do this again, I never want to be near these people again. “And two was, let’s start right away.” It took him a while to get to that second place. But by 2015, FIFA president Sepp Blatter had been forced to resign, felled by a corruption scandal, and Gianni Infantino, his successor, had changed the way the organization approved World Cup bids, going to a transparent public ballot in which every country would vote electronically. Read more:World Cup: 2026 World Cup is awarded to North America Convinced the process would be fair this time, Gulati and U.S. Soccer prepared to bid again. But so did Mexico and Canada. Worried they would divide votes that would cost North America the tournament, officials in the three countries began negotiations over sharing the event. The result was the United Bid, officially launched 1,250 feet above the streets of lower Manhattan. But just 10 months later, the campaign suffered what appeared to be a fatal blow — yet one which may ultimately have saved it from ruin. In the wake of the U.S. national team’s failure to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, coach Bruce Arena and his staff resigned. Seven weeks later Gulati also fell on his sword, announcing that he would not seek a fourth term as U.S. Soccer president. That cleared the way for Cordeiro, Gulati’s vice-president, to win the presidency at U.S. Soccer’s general meeting in February 2018. A Harvard graduate and former Goldman-Sachs investment banker, Cordeiro was well-suited to head a World Cup bid. He was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) to a Colombian mother and Luso-Indian father, then moved to Miami Beach, one of those most diverse cities in America, when he was 15. But he took over U.S. Soccer — and, by extension, the United Bid — at a delicate time, with the vote to award the 2026 tournament just four months away. He had a lot of catching up to do, so in his first international trip as president, he traveled to the UEFA Congress in Slovakia. The visit was intended to shore up the United Bid with some of the 55 European federation presidents in attendance. But after just a few conversations, Cordeiro came to realize the bid may not have had the level of support he assumed it did. Worried the World Cup was slipping through their fingers the bid committee reorganized in a way that made it, well, more united. Less than 24 hours after Cordeiro had landed in Slovakia, he, Reed and De Maria were named co-chairs of the committee. The reorganization served two purposes: it made the bid appear more a joint project and less something that was led by the U.S., and it also gave the three federation presidents equal standing and power to speak on behalf of the bid. That second part was vital because the committee believed the best way to make up its perceived deficit to Morocco was to meet in person with representatives of each of the FIFA federations that would be voting in Moscow. With just 12 weeks left before the vote, that would have been impossible for one person. But with three separate delegations – each with representatives from the U.S., Canada and Mexico – traveling to locations in Europe, Asia, Oceania and South America — the sprint to the end, while still challenging, was suddenly manageable. “We didn’t want to just talk about a united bid, but truly show that was the case,” said Cordeiro, who hatched the plan. The three presidents and their staffs — divided into three teams, Team Red (Canada), Team Green (Mexico) and Team Blue (the U.S.) — checked into the Fraser Suites, an extended-stay apartment hotel in London. Meetings were scheduled with various federation representatives and most nights the three co-chairs and their traveling parties would call in to find out where they were going next. The strategy, said one member of the U.S. team, was to make it personal by meeting with federation heads on their turf, face-to-face, and allowing them to ask questions, dig into the details, and even challenge the United Bid representatives. The itineraries frequently sent each of the three co-chairs to five or more countries each week because the United Bid couldn’t afford to skip any of them. Under FIFA rules, the vote of each member federation counts equally, giving Fiji and the Faroe Islands as much power asFranceand Finland. Cordeiro remembered being in Hong Kong and getting a message that he had to be inSaudi Arabiathe next day. A direct flight would take 11 hours but he was routed through Dubai instead, making the trip a tortuously long one. Another Cordeiro trip started with a flight from London to Latvia, then on to Belarus and Lithuania on the same day. Before the week was out, he would also visit Slovenia, Poland, Turkey and Ukraine. Along the way the bid representatives found themselves singing karaoke in Kuala Lampur, attending the King’s Cup final in Saudi Arabia and sitting for a traditional dinner in a heated winter garden in the city square in Latvia. That left little time for family. Near the end of the ordeal Reed invited his wife to visit him in London for the first time in a month, only to be dispatched, with De Maria, to southern Africa at the last minute. His plane took off just as one carrying his wife landed. Read more:U.S. and Canadian referees will have a record-sized presence at World Cup “We had a really good presentation with all the federations down there and we ended up getting almost all of the African vote,” Reed remembered triumphantly. Well, not really; the continent went 41-11 for Morocco but Reed and De Maria did pick upSouth Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho and Namibia, making the overall count a landslide, with the United Bid receiving more than twice as many votes as Morocco. When Infantino, the FIFA president, read the results to the gathered delegates in the Moscow convention center, Cordeiro pumped both fists, began to clap, then embraced Reed before turning to hug De Maria. Both the Canadian and Mexican federations have gone through four presidents since 2018; in the U.S., Cindy Parlow Cone, a former World Cup champion, became U.S. Soccer’s first female head in 2019, less than a year after Cordeiro tugged the World Cup bid across the finish line. Cordeiro, meanwhile, has gone on to become a senior advisor to Infantino while Gulati is a senior advisor to the New York-New Jersey host committee, which is responsible for July’s World Cup final. For Reed and De Maria, their fame was far more fleeting and their vital work seemingly forgotten. Not that they care all that much. De Maria 70, an economist who now advises one of Mexico’s largest pharmacy chains, plans to attend the World Cup opener at Azteca Stadium. He is one of the few people in Mexico, he said, who will have attended games from all three World Cups the country has hosted, with 2026 following 1970 and 1986. “I’m proud I have the privilege of being in charge, of doing that job,” he said by phone fromMexicoCity. “But the thing that I’m proud of the most is that we will have three World Cups. For most of the children of this country, it’s going to be their first time.” Reed, who brought the tournament to Canada for the first time, said he had to buy tickets to the opening game in Toronto. “We weren’t doing it for the accolades. We weren’t in it to get the freebies and stuff,” Reed, 70, a retired CPA, remembered by phone from a cabin in British Columbia’s remote Northern Gulf Islands. “It was just, you know, a labor of love, wanting to make sure that we had the opportunity to bring something to Canada.” “It was crazy and very, very tiring,” he added. “There were times when we were at each other’s throats. But we’re truly very close friends now.” Get the best, most interesting and strangest stories of the day from the L.A. sports scene and beyond from our newsletter The Sports Report. This story originally appeared inLos Angeles Times.

This article is part of a regular series of conversations with theReview’s contributors; read past entrieshereand sign up for ouremail newsletterto get them delivered to your inbox each week. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, “with his cowboy arms and crispy gelled hair, is a parody come to life,”writes Suzy Hansen in our June 11 issue. He is a parody of a certain type of American swashbuckler: brash, aggressive, god-fearing, contemptuous of the wretched refuse beyond our shores. Though a caricature of American chauvinism he may be, the tradition of raining “death and destruction from the sky,” as he described the Trump administration’s bombing of Iran, did not start with Hegseth. Generations of American foreign policy wonks, Hansen notes, have also trafficked in the bloodshed he so enjoys: “With the invasion of Iran, the Trump administration picked up where the Biden administration and the Democrats left off; the Biden people may not have exhibited that nasty Christianity, but they did exhibit that nasty hegemony.…Whether the perpetrators are Democrats evading responsibility through feigned haplessness or Republicans claiming the power of a wrathful God, the violence is the same.” For twelve years Hansen was based out of Istanbul, where she had a front-row seat to much of this violence. Before moving back to the US in 2019 she reported widely around the Middle East and west Asia, writing about the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya, to name a few. Her first book,Notes on a Foreign Country(2018), seeks to take stock of, and renounce, American solipsism abroad. Her new book,From Life Itself, narrates the turbulent decade between 2015 and 2025 as it was seen and heard on the streets of Karagümrük, a working-class neighborhood of Istanbul and a stronghold of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party. Since 2013 she has written for theReviewabout Turkey, the war on terror, and American foreign policy. Last week I wrote to Hansen to ask her about our self-styled secretary of war, learning to hold power to account, and the challenges of living and working abroad as a journalist. Dahlia Krutkovich:This essay seems to have been written against the grain of your first book,Notes on a Foreign Country, which is partially about turning away from the blinkered gaze Americans cast abroad. What about the last few years of American foreign policy made you want to root around in the world as seen by Pete Hegseth? Suzy Hansen:I first became interested in Hegseth—interested in or horrified by him—because of how shocking his behavior has been, his cartoonish demeanor, his nastiness. People of all backgrounds seem genuinely bewildered by him. But I actually came to this article by way of my interest in the Biden administration’s foreign policy, its tolerance of mass death and destruction in Gaza, and the shocking callousness of spokespeople like John Kirby. This interest does actually follow from my first book, which takes aim at how liberals and the institutions that produce them cultivate the assumption that Americans have good intentions no matter what havoc they wreak. I spent less time thinking about red state or conservative types during that project, because my worldview and temperament were, as an adult, shaped more by liberal institutions (the Ivy League, New York media, Democratic Party politics, etc.) than conservative ones, and I wanted to implicate myself. Often, when it comes to their foreign policy, “conservative” and “liberal” are really two superficial camps of Americans, but as Biden’s administration gave way to Trump’s, I found myself wanting to think about the Hegseth worldview in particular. What about his instincts for foreign policy and his lust for violence diverges from that of liberals or Democrats, if it does at all? The mass bombing reflex is at the very least bipartisan and has been since September 11. You write, “Extreme though Hegseth may be, he is a recognizable type: a jockish, puerile white man, a boy you knew in your public high school, if you went to one. He is the Jersey Shore as much as he is Kansas, Florida, Texas, and Oregon.” One of these places is a little more specific than the others. How did growing up on the Jersey Shore, with the men you may have known there, influence your feel for Hegseth? One of my guiding principles as a white American writing about the US is that it’s important to include yourself in your analysis, to acknowledge your own complicity or at least involvement in the country’s history or power, because you are a beneficiary of it. According to that rule, I felt I had to gesture to my own origins in this slightly more specific way. I also couldn’t help but notice certain resemblances in his and my biographies: we both grew up in white, middle-class small-town America, came of age during the post-1989 years of US triumph, and won entry to two of the more conservative Ivy League universities in part because we were good at sports. I went a different way in life after college than Hegseth did, but I know what kind of worldview, and what kind of inferiority complex, that upbringing can produce. Advertisement To that end, even though I knew men in my childhood who vaguely resembled Pete Hegseth, especially in regard to their class resentment, I also know misogynists and racists as an adult in New York City, and I feel comfortable assuming everyone reading the piece knows men like this, too. I wanted to urge liberals away from the tendency to exoticize him (although I understand the temptation, considering the absurdity of Trump’s second term) and instead consider that this imperial impulse has existed throughout all of American history and society. I wanted to make the case for our collective responsibility to respond to people who prey on the vulnerable, people like him—and maybe people like us. How did your time atThe New York Observerinfluence your eye for personalities? Your new book also has a few very artful character studies. You learn different things at different stages of life, but theObserver, the onetime house paper of New York City’s power elite, is where I learned to develop a voice. TheObserver’s voice was Peter Kaplan’s—the beloved editor who ran the magazine for years before I started in 2004 and after I left in 2006—and it was hiscompletely original stylethat we young writers tried our best to emulate. I usually failed, and it was up to the more senior editors to heavily edit those pieces and pull them in line with the paper’s sensibility. It’s through that back-and-forth that you learn how to write for yourself. I worry all the time that as journalism declines, and there are fewer places committed to that kind of editorial exchange, young writers aren’t getting to figure that out for themselves. It was also helpful that theObserverhad a reputation for being snarky, and even mean, to its subjects. I don’t like being mean, but writing with that sharpness taught me how to be critical and how to be tough—particularly when writing about the powerful. Unlike most mainstream publications, we could say almost anything we wanted, which is a very unusual experience for a young person to have. I learned how to be brave and recognized, eventually, that it was actually my job to take risks, to tell the darkest truths, and also to try—always, and all credit to Kaplan for this one—to say something new. It helped me immeasurably when I left to write about foreign affairs, which can tend toward the dull and stuffy. I spent the first years of my time in Istanbul trying to figure out how to write about Erdoğan like I would have forTheNew York Observerand still get published. What was it like learning Turkish upon your arrival in Istanbul? What were your early reporting experiences like in the language? I arrived speaking no Turkish at all, and actually no other languages at all, so I was bad at even knowing how to learn it. But I moved there ona fellowshipthat paid for six months of language instruction as part of a two-and-a-half-year term in Turkey, and I continued to take grammar classes and study one-on-one with teachers for years after. It’s a very hard language. The lucky part of that fellowship, though, was that I was discouraged from getting published during the term. And even though I kept living in Istanbul once the program was over, magazines weren’t very interested in Turkish politics, so I mostly reported from elsewhere. That’s why so much of my first book takes place in Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt, Greece, and other countries I visited in the region. American magazines really only wanteddeeply reported piecesfrom Turkey once Erdoğan began cracking down in 2013, and by that time I had already spent six years living with the language. In retrospect, the difficulty of Turkish, and knowing how hard it was for outsiders to learn, might have inspired me to report my second book the way I did. I wanted everyday conversation to be the mode through which I narrated how public life changed on one street in one neighborhood of Istanbul over ten years. I tried to capture the conversations unfolding in markets and barbershops and teahouses as local and international crises erupted around us and affected—or didn’t affect—everyday life. I ran the tape for hours, hired heroic transcriptionists, and then I translated what was on the page. Much of the dialogue in the book is simply lifted straight from those documents. That listening and translation process made me want to incorporate the rhythm of the language directly into the text, even when I wasn’t reproducing dialogue, while also somehow making it an enjoyable reading experience. I thought it captured the vibe of the place more. I hope it worked. Advertisement We’ve talked a bit offline about how going abroad is both a way to live within the humble means to be made by working in media and a way to hone your skillset as a journalist. Do you have any advice for young correspondents trying to find their way overseas? I moved abroad midcareer, or as some would put it, “late”—I was six months from turning thirty—so I arrived with contacts and editors’ email addresses and a knowledge of the business. It was an extreme advantage, but freelancing was still very hard. The global financial crisis struck just as my fellowship ended, and while that made me (a cheap foreign correspondent living four hours from many international destinations) an appealing hire for magazines, it also meant that rates started shrinking. I always had three or four side hustles and still do to this day. In the beginning it was fact-checking, and then it was book editing, and then teaching. But all of it was to salvage and preserve the gift of living abroad and being able to write, a life of freedom and discovery that I still think I was so privileged to have. Now it’s a different time in journalism, and if I had to do it again, I would think about it differently, as I have seen my former students do. They get jobs in various professions and write on the side. Or they go for staff positions because freelancing is too brutal and decide that health care and job security are too important to sacrifice. Or they apprentice themselves to writers with popular Substacks or authors working on books (“always find mentors” is my mantra). Or they are being wise about studying, say, data journalism and acquire technical skills. The main thing is to gain life experience—and linguistic and cultural and lived experience—so that you have something to offer as a thinker, while still feeling comfortable enough to stay sane and be kind to yourself. That, by the way, also includes remembering that what has happened to journalism in the twenty-first century is structural and due to enormous, predatory technological forces that we older people failed to protect you from. This was not in your control. And if it doesn’t work out, it’s not your fault. Suzy Hansen is the author ofFrom Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul, and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan, which was published this spring, andNotes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World. Dahlia Krutkovich is on the editorial staff ofThe New York Review.

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On May 22, 2026, amid a surge of hunger strikes in immigration detention prisons across the United States, 300 detainees announced from their cells in Newark, New Jersey that they would not eat and would not toil for their captors until their demands were met. This sparked ten days of protest and furious retaliation from federal, state, and local authorities. What began as a peaceful vigil outside Delaney Hall Detention Center in solidarity with the hunger strikers ended with New Jersey State Troopers encircling, brutalizing, and arresting scores of people. The series of events leading up to the strike and culminating in a marathon of violence has been densely packed. Consequently, the fog of war has obscured key details, including the complex dynamics at play between protesters and mutual aid workers, between experienced anti-ICE activists and the local terrain, between the government of New Jersey and federal mercenaries. Here, a participant in mutual aid efforts at Delaney Hall over the preceding months—who was on the ground for much of this wave of protests—recounts how the clashes unfolded. You can donate to support families impacted by immigrant detentionhere. I am a volunteer with Eyes on ICE New Jersey, a mutual aid collective that has been providing aid and hospitality to the detainees held captive in Delaney Hall—which is one of the largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers in the Northeast—and to the families that travel to visit them. Eyes on ICE is a coalition of volunteers and a preexisting network of aid organizations, includingMovimiento Cosecha,Pax Christi New Jersey,First Friends of New York and New Jersey,Mami Chelo Foundation, and others that have emerged over decades of advocating for those subjected to an increasingly archaic immigration system. Established immigrant justice and faith-based communities with aligned advocacy goals converged on Delaney Hall soon after it reopened in May 2025. Despite the forceful retaliation of federal and local police, the protests continued, only slowing down after thearrests of faith leadersandNewark Mayor Ras Baraka. Over the following weeks, protesters self-organized and refocused their efforts—shifting to assisting detainees and their families through networks of aid distribution, lawyers, and advocates, seeking to catch people before they fall through the cracks. At the same time that the aid group was being built, a ring of concertina-topped mesh-fencing sprang up around the prison. As the weather grew colder, the government of Essex County, the county that holds the detention facility,erected a permanent white tentto house Eyes on ICE. That tent has come to be called the “Radical Hospitality Zone.” The “Radical Hospitality Zone,” where Eyes on ICE volunteers built a space for visitors coming to see people incarcerated in Delaney Hall. Volunteers who do not have professional careers in advocacy participate by helping to maintain a community at the prison gates. Some of us cook or battle inclement weather. Others offer child care, collect donations of groceries and diapers, assist visiting families with transportation, or beautify the tent that houses us with art and music. All of us work together to document the detainees and their captors. Delaney Hall Detention Center is situated in one of the busiest shipping hubs in the country. Located directly behind Newark Airport, the private prison shares the same square mile with multiple incineration plants and a busy commercial road. Periodically, a train screams by loaded with trash to be incinerated or animal carcasses for reprocessing at the facility across the street. The prison is about the size of a Costco, with a 1000-bed capacity. It is operated by GEO Group, one of the largest private prison contractors in the world. GEO Group has a poor human rights track record and is quick to dismiss anyinquiriesor criticisms. TheNew Jersey Globereportsthat the prison is often at maximum capacity; volunteers do their best to count the number of captives inside the tinted windows of the vans that come and go. Some of the people who are released tell us they were arrested just days earlier, usually by accident or as a consequence of racial profiling. Others have been in the system for months, “…transferring between detention centers in Louisiana, Texas, and then back to Delaney, seemingly with the dual purpose of keeping them hidden or underrepresented in the legal system, while also creating excuses for GEO Group (owner of Delaney and often the largest private prison company in the states) to run up quite the tab with the obsequious federal government.” -The Puddle at Delaney Hall The facility is built on a filled-in portion of marshland and river. Backfill and debris from old construction form the foundation for Delaney Hall and the rest of the Ironbound neighborhood. The Ironbound is a historically redlined neighborhood, meaning it has long been home to Black, brown, and immigrant communities. Consequently, the Ironbound was zoned for heavy industry, and the 16-mile stretch of land that Delaney Hall sits on has come to be known as “Chemical Corridor” due to rampant environmental contamination from every form of industry imaginable. In short, it is desolate. There are no homes nearby and a single bus line serves the area. This was the arena for the week of state violence that shook the country. On May 22, Gabriela Soto, whose husband Martin Soto was then held in Delaney Hall, announced that a protest had begun within the prison. During the early hours of the protest, she publicly shared a phone call with Martin. The privilege of speaking on the phone with detainees has since been revoked for all families, along with all other forms of visitation. During that call, Martin announced that he had coordinated with up to 300 other detainees to begin a hunger and labor strike to draw attention to inhumane living conditions and lack of due process under the law. Detainees in Delaney Hall are forced to do all the work to maintain their own prison, receiving $1 per day in return; they regularly report receiving extremely poor quality food, including spoiled food. There are also consistent reports of mistreatment, unsafe living conditions, medical neglect, and sexual assault. Navigating the legal procedures around their detention is difficult; at best, these are intentionally opaque. Starting months before the strike began, Eyes on ICE volunteers and participating organizations received a series of handwrittenlettersfrom detainees. In March, a letter arrived captioned with a large “S.O.S.” and undersigned by 300 detainees from across various cell units. They detailed horrendous conditions, rapid transfers and deportation hearings, and other forms of torture. Many called specific judges out by name for their cruelty. The strikers demanded that New Jersey governor Mikie Sherrill come to Delaney Hall to meet with them and witness the conditions in the prison. They also called for the very young, very old, and medically infirm be released from the prison; an end to coercive pressure to sign voluntary deportation papers; and a meaningful review of cases and habeas corpus filings. Gabriela Soto’s announcement precipitated a coordinated call for all Eyes on ICE volunteers and their communities to participate in a 24/7 vigil in solidarity with the strikers. May 22, 2026: the hospitality tent outside Delaney Hall. Gabriela Soto holds a sign she made with her family as she announces the hunger strike. That vigil began immediately after Gaby made her announcement at noon on May 22. At 2 pm, family members of the detainees who were on strike reported that they were unable to communicate with their loved ones. The detainees typically had access to tablets that could make video calls, but the prison guards had revoked the communication privileges of the units that were on strike in retaliation. This information was confirmed by a person detained in the striking unit 2a/b. About to be deported, he used his final phone time to validate this detail. While other detainees in other units had agreed to the strike, 2a/b was the unit Martin Soto was held in, the unit that had initially announced the strike. By 6 pm, the number of protesters at the vigil had swelled to between thirty and forty people. There were several local media vans on scene. The story garnered a brief mention in the evening news in relation to the other strikes across the country. Outside Delaney Hall on the evening of Friday, May 22. As protesters chanted and sang into the night, detainees could be seen silhouetted in the windows closest to the street—waving, dancing, and placing heart-shaped cutouts against the opaque glass. Their response drove home that the vigil was cutting through their isolation. As the evening went on, a few detainees were released, as usual, one or two at a time, often as a consequence of paying bail. The volunteers carried out their intake process and made sure they were safe and had access to transportation and legal advice. The protest lasted through the night and into the following days without incident. Guards and protesters exchanged insults, but neither side deployed anything stronger. On Saturday, May 23, Gaby shared that her husband Martin, now seen as the primary instigator of the strike, had been offered release if he would call off the strike. According to Gaby, he said, “I don’t want to talk, put me back into my cell.” The alarm system for the building was set off for the day and night, a tactic that Eyes on ICE volunteers have witnessed as a means of psychologically torturing the detainees. The alarm is about the volume of a fire alarm in most high schools, but left on for the entire day and night to prevent sleep. Though guards initially denied him entry, Senator Andy Kim was eventually able to enter the facility. He spent several hours inside, speaking to dozens of detainees. In a speech he made afterwards, joined by Representative Rob Menendez, Kim confirmed most of the claims of the strikers, including the poor food and water quality, unacceptable sanitary conditions, and reports of mistreatment and medical neglect. Another night passed without incident as the protesters maintained a continuous presence. On Saturdays and Sundays, the facility is open for visitation and families are allowed in. Families continued to come for regular visitation throughout the weekend, bringing children and elders. This gave a familial air to the protest, with children chalking on the driveway leading to the gates and sometimes leading chants. On Saturday evening, Martin’s cell mates reported that ICE agents or guards came to the room to remove Martin to solitary confinement. Each twenty to thirty or more people inside. All thirty of Martin’s cellmates grouped around him and locked arms, refusing to let him be punished for his role in the strike. At about 4 pm on Sunday, May 24, Gaby approached the prison for a scheduled visit with Martin. Once she was inside the fence but had not entered the facility itself, she saw two ICE agents physically carry her husband out of the prison and throw him into the back of one of the white vans used for detainee transfer. Later, when she was eventually permitted to talk with him, she discovered that guards had lured him into leaving his cell by reassuring him that he was going to be released. He followed them to a second room, where ICE officials attempted to interrogate him, then prepared him for transfer and tossed him into a van. A call went out to Eyes on ICE volunteers and to various other leftist and aid groups as far afield as New York and Pennsylvania. Because Delaney Hall receives detainees from a large area, this was not just New Jersey’s fight. The message of Eyes on ICE was simple: “They’re retaliating against the strikers, and we won’t let them disappear even a single one until their demands are heard.” Elected officials who had been planning a congressional oversight visit that week were notified. The US representative for New Jersey, Rob Menendez, arrived later that night for an unannounced visit. He had visited a week prior but had left with the impression that the prison had been prepared in expectation of his inspection. Menendez was allowed into the gates of the prison, but was barred from entry for fourteen hours while a cleaning crew came to dispose of whatever they did not want him to see. He remained in the courtyard in the rain that whole night, trying to check vehicles for transfers and relaying information to protesters outside the gate. The blocking action started immediately with the legal protection of afederal judge’s court order—put in place pending the review of a previously filed Habeas petition barring Martin’s removal from the facility. With the blocking action in place, protesters formed a barrier from orange plastic water tanks commonly used as construction barriers. About 150 protesters stood behind the barrier by 8 pm on Sunday night. Outside Delaney Hall on the evening of May 24. As the night wore on, the crowd thinned to about 75 people, but they successfully stopped each attempted transfer from the facility. Eyes on ICE volunteers attempted to persuade the crowd to respect the property boundaries and refrain from physically obstructing the personal vehicles of GEO Group employees. Newark Police were dispatched several times to escort the transport vans past the crowd; people clearly and calmly explained to them that they were participating in an illegal removal. They disengaged at about 11 pm. Spirits were high, but several protesters argued over tactics. Many did not understand why volunteers asked that GEO Group vehicles be allowed to leave. The crowd did their best to inspect non-transport vehicles as they exited, but some protesters wanted to limit all vehicle movement in and out. Volunteers with Eyes on ICE repeatedly explained their reasoning for not wanting to engage with the police. Many volunteers had been present for the previous year’s protests at the facilities’ opening and did not want a repeat incident. At several points, GEO employees lurched their vehicles through the crowd, hitting people and almost pinning one against a barrier. At 1:30 am that night, a light rain began to fall. Protesters were formed in two groups, one by the main gate composed of between forty and fifty protesters and a smaller group of about ten by a secondary unused gate a hundred yards to the south, called gate five. It had been almost two hours since the agents attempted any transports, and the energy of the protesters was settling for a night’s vigil. Suddenly, approximately twenty ICE agents stormed from the south gate, armed with pepper spray. They shoved through the newly assembled barriers and sprayed several people in the smaller group of sentries. The ICE agents grabbed those who attempted to defend the barrier and threw them to the ground. One woman in her sixties remained at the barrier; three agents shoved her to the ground, picked her up, and threw her back down with considerable force about ten feet away. She was taken to the University Hospital about an hour later for broken ribs and trouble breathing. As soon as they had cleared a pathway, a convoy of ten unmarked vehicles, mostly Jeep compasses, sped out of the facility headed north toward downtown Newark. Later, a suspicion was confirmed that one of the vehicles carried Martin Soto, illegally transporting him to Elizabeth detention center—a smaller ICE facility. Once the vehicle carrying Martin and an escort vehicle were clear of the main body of protesters, the remaining eight cars turned around in the entrance of the Essex County Corrections Facility, a medium-security state prison right next to Delaney Hall. The feds sped recklessly through the protesters on the street, narrowly missing several. They stopped their cars in a line directly in front of the south gate and deployed from their vehicles, one to two agents emerging from each car. Most agents were armed with telescoping batons, and about five carried large cans of pepper spray (likely MK 38, supplied bySafariland). The protesters at the north gate began responding to the ICE agents. Gaby was taken into the hospitality tent and instructed not to leave, as she was four months pregnant. Some protesters stayed behind at the north gate to ensure that the agents were not acting as a decoy. The rest rushed south. Just as they arrived to find that the crew at the south gate had been beaten and sprayed, the agents resumed spraying. However, the parallel parked vehicles on the street partially screened the protesters, and a truck returning from the port with a large shipping container in tow was stopped, further blocking the spray. Some protesters and independent photographers ran into the street to confront or photograph the agents. They were sprayed and chased back to the sidewalk, where agents hit several people with batons and sprayed several more at point-blank range. The entire encounter lasted about three minutes from the ICE agents exiting the gate to the moment they returned to their vehicles and sped south for the night. The pepper spray had severe effects, as most of the protesters that evening lacked adequate PPE. Representative Menendez maintained that he did not see the agents move Martin from the back of the van that he was believed to be in, but Menendez did not claim to have been watching it the whole time. Graffiti directing people in New York City to show up outside Delaney Hall in Newark. The events of the previous night marked the escalation that set the tone for the following week. A continuous presence of volunteers and protesters maintained the vigil throughout that night; the following morning, approximately ten protesters remained outside the gates of Delaney Hall. Governor Mikie Sherrill was due to arrive at 10 am to attempt entry and give a press briefing at the facility. Menendez remained inside the gates, still barred from entry. At about 7:30 am, a group of ICE agents could be seen staging down Doremus Ave, the road on which Delaney Hall is located. The agents were joined by a BearCat—a police armored personnel carrier. The roughly twenty agents were armed with pepper spray; the agent in the turret of the BearCat sported a FTC PRO pepperball gun. The agents dispersed the last few protesters and tore down the temporary barriers, lifting them into the dumpster beside the south gate. They then staged in front of the gate, standing across from a slowly growing crowd of protesters and journalists. Governor Sherrill arrived with more media in tow to cover her press briefing. She unsuccessfully attempted to enter Delaney Hall, then delivered a speech in front of the gates. Her speech frustrated protesters, as she offered few details about how the strikers’ demands might be met. She also misrepresented some details of the demands and the operations of the facility, suggesting that she had only a superficial understanding of the conflict. The governor departed by 11 am, and tensions between protesters and ICE agents mounted quickly. ICE agents attempted to clear a path through the crowd for a steady stream of transport vehicles. Senator Kim attempted to intervene, negotiating with the ICE agents and the gathering crowd to allow vehicles to pass if he could check them for transfers. Some protesters continued blocking vehicles. For the most part, Kim was denied access to the transport vehicles. While Kim stood between protesters and the agents, still negotiating, a transport approached from the gates. The crowd pressed forward and the agent on the turret of the BearCat opened fire indiscriminately. Afterwards, Kim reported that he felt the sting of something hitting him in the back, and then a chemical burn in his lungs and eyes. The agents also deployed pepper spray, striking many people, including Kim and several of his staffers, who required eye flushing afterwards. Kim eventually gained entry to the facility after personally calling the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Markwayn Mullin. This was possible only because of congress is the source of funding for all DHS operations, which secures them legal power of oversight. Afterwards, Kim was able to confirm that Martin Soto had been transferred. After the melee, the pressure of the crowd diminished as protesters and volunteers regrouped. Throughout the day, reports returned from family that the strikers were being collectively punishment. Most of the strikers were prevented from communicating with anyone outside, including with lawyers or with commissary accounts needed to purchase supplemental food. Some prisoners were forced to stand for extended periods of time, and many were threatened with transfer. Visitation was canceled indefinitely. The strikers reported that they were frustrated that people outside Delaney Hall were focusing on the conditions in the prison, emphasizing their desire for freedom, due process, and the closure of the detention facility. The agents who had attacked the crowd eventually reentered the facility. The rest of the afternoon and evening passed without incident. Throughout the afternoon and evening, protesters built a barricade, tearing up cement bricks from a retaining wall between the prison and the sidewalk. They employed additional scrap metal and refuse from the adjacent train tracks to reinforce the barricade. Once again, at 7 am, ICE agents reinforced by a BearCat deployed from the south gate. Using pepper spray and batons, they cleared a path through the crowd of about twenty protesters. Confrontations between protesters and ICE agents continued. By 4 pm, the crowd had grown to about 60 protesters. As the number of protesters grew, more agents appeared, forming a line. They pulled up three vehicles branded with ICE logos. These vehicles are typically not used for regular immigration enforcement operations; they first showed up in Minneapolis during a retaliatory rampage Greg Bovino led on January 13. They staged the vehicles in front of the gates, with the agents shoulder to shoulder on the sidewalk facing the protesters assembled in the street. As the sun set at 8 pm, the shoving match between agents and protesters settled into a 30-minute rhythm in which agents repeatedly lunged forward across the five feet separating the two lines. First, some agents would deploy pepper spray while others charged forward holding their batons horizontally as a bar at chest height. Once in contact with the arm-locked crowd, they would shove people to the ground, often swinging the batons at people’s knees. Sometimes this push coincided with vehicles leaving or entering the south gate, but often, there were no vehicles coming; it was as if they were adhering to a schedule. The agents deploying the pepper spray repeatedly sought to pull protesters’ protective masks and goggles away from their faces in order to spray directly into their eyes and mouths. At first, the medics treating those impacted by the pepper spray were baffled by how long the effects lasted and how resistant the spray was to decontamination with soap solution. They eventually concluded that ICE had switched to a pepper-gel formulation, likely to compensate for the persistently windy conditions on Doremus Avenue. Three individuals were marked for capture in the course of the night, and agents repeatedly broke through the line of protesters in twos or threes to chase them down. ICE agents incapacitated one of these individuals with a taser, and slammed the other two to the ground. All three were carried through the prison gates. One of the detainees was a volunteer with Eyes on ICE, marked with a red cross and explicitly operating as a medic. The agents flashed their flashlights at him repeatedly, and one protester reported hearing a confirmation of location and target from the agents immediately before they attempted to detain him. Eight agents surrounded and tackled the medic about twenty yards outside the conflict line, and carried him face down back to the prison. Later that evening, all three of the people that ICE had captured that day were left under a bridge about two miles away with all of their possessions. The medic was still marked with his red cross. One of the detainees reported being locked in an unventilated van for almost seven hours with his hands restrained and a possible concussion. Clashes continued through the night, with the agents using copious amounts of pepper spray. By morning, when many of the protesters had dispersed, the BearCat returned. During an outdoor recreation period, one of the detainees called out to the protesters: “Libertad, libertad, libertad!” Guards were observed mocking the prisoners and attempting to goad them into a confrontation, threatening them with large canisters of what volunteers suspected to be tear gas. The detainees who were still able to call their lawyers reported that the labor strike had forced the prison administrators to clean the bathrooms themselves. The strikers were not allowed to leave their rooms, and there were reports of a strong chemical odor emanating from the ventilation pipes. One ambulance left the facility that evening. One of the hunger strikers was released. Once again, the ICE agents adhered to the 30-minute intervals, repeatedly pushing protesters back, often into heavy traffic. Doremus Avenue serves as an industrial artery, with large cargo trucks comprising much of the traffic. ICE agents repeatedly shoved protesters into the wheels of passing trucks. The agents appeared to be attempting to coordinate their attacks with the passing of traffic. The agents mostly used their batons as barring tools to secure space while other agents swung the batons at the knees of protesters. In the course of the day, several protesters required transport to the hospital, suffering nerve and bone damage from beatings or vehicle strikes. The same woman who had been the first casualty of Sunday night required a return trip to the hospital. She was unable to walk. That evening, protesters intensified their defensive strategy, employing shields constructed from traffic cones. More experienced anti-ICE activists from the Twin Cities, Los Angeles, and Chicago arrived to share tactical experience. Activists from Minnesota reported shock at the intensity of violence on display at the gate. Demonstrators confront ICE agents outside Delaney Hall on Wednesday, May 27. Governor Sherrill held a press briefing on the afternoon of Thursday, May 28, announcing a need for DHS to step back from crowd control functions at the gate and declaring that the state police would take their place the following day. She also announced the establishment of a “First Amendment Zone” to “protect” the protesters. During the day, prison officials spray-painted a line marking the boundary of the property of Delaney Hall. In fact, apart from the private property of the prison, the entire sidewalk and street is public property, and should legally require no special demarcation regarding where people’s rights begin and end. At about 1:30 pm, advocates and family members began receiving calls from detainees relaying that about forty guards from the Corrections Emergency Response Team (CERT) had entered their unit and began beating selected targets among the strikers, with ICE agents joining in. This retaliation occurred when CERT entered the striking unit 2a/b to remove a detainee who had been translating for the strikers’ communications with advocates outside. The strikers, gathered in a common area between cells, locked arms around that person. The agents and CERT team beat them and deployed CS gas in the hallways to drive the strikers back into their rooms. Then they opened each door in the unit and sprayed a heavy dose of pepper spray into the poorly ventilated rooms. Four ambulances carried away severely injured detainees later that afternoon, and nearly all of those in the striking women’s unit (unit 1) were transferred out of the prison. The contact between the line of ICE and the line of protesters replicated the established pattern of the previous day, intensifying at sundown, then becoming less frequent in the early morning as the number of protesters dwindled. During the day, the agents used batons less, opting for direct hand-to-hand confrontation. They would grab demonstrators’ clothing or PPE and use it to throw the protester to the ground. The agents appeared to be rotating on a nightly basis; Thursday night’s agents were visibly larger than their predecessors. They bodily lifted smaller protesters in order to throw them at the ground or into oncoming traffic. They continued to use batons, spray, and pepper balls, but to a lesser degree. Once again, a number of protesters were injured and required medical attention. ICE agents prepare to brutalize protesters outside Delaney Hall on Thursday, May 28. On Friday, May 29, reports began filtering in that strikers were eating again. The strikers communicated a new demand that outside medical treatment be offered to the members of unit 2a/b who had been beaten. A number of Facebook groups announced a counter-protest at the prison planned for Saturday at 10 am. Pro-ICE counter-protesters had been appearing in growing numbers throughout the week, though never exceeding a handful. They typically arrived during the day and stood with the ICE agents, antagonizing the protesters. Newark Police, in coordination with New Jersey State Police, began staging at the two roads intersecting Doremus about a half mile north and south of the prison. They put new barriers in place. The ICE agents were still visibly staged at the mouth of the south gate. An additional line of state and local police formed between the protesters and the ICE agents, facing the protesters. They conducted a few arrests, but much of the day passed without conflict. All non-commercial traffic was blocked from Doremus Avenue, forcing protesters and volunteers to park on the perpendicular roads, Roanoke Avenue and Wilson Avenue. As 9 pm approached, the crowd of protesters, holding steady at about one hundred people, received warning that they would be subject to arrest if they remained. State Police in riot gear closed off both ends of the street. At about 9:30 pm, a third line of State Police in riot gear appeared 300 yards north of the gathered protesters. The protesters formed their own line, facing north, and waited to see what sort of assault was coming. Assuming a shield wall formation, the police began shooting mortar-fired tear gas behind the assembled protesters, into the direction that they were ordering the protesters to disperse. The police advanced, attacking the protesters with flash-bang grenades and less-lethal 40 mm foam rounds. Throughout the confrontation, they also used stinger pellet rounds, while ICE agents fired pepper balls from their position on the flank of the retreating protesters. The CS gas was largely ineffective, as the wind was blowing the gas from the south to the north, where the police line was formed. Mounted horse units moved in front of the advancing shield wall and charged the slowly retreating protesters. A photo supplied by a protester showing spent munitions that the New Jersey State Police fired at demonstrators on the night of May 29. State Police fired tear gas directly at independent media journalists, hitting at least one person. Reporters from national media outlets suddenly disappeared into their vehicles and did not film the advance. It is possible they were instructed to do so ahead of time. As the protesters made contact with the shield wall of police, some shoving took place. The protesters eventually dispersed, retreating to their vehicles. Police arrested some of them. It was eventually learned from the police that the goal of the action was to open space for a shift change at the prison. The New Jersey Attorney General released a statement about the clashes between State Police and the protesters, characterizing the protesters as the instigators. Absurdly, they accused the protesters of attacking the police with tear gas, directly contradicting ample video documentation of what actually happened. A Department of Homeland Security vehicle damaged during a protest outside Delaney Hall on May 29. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka announced a 9 pm curfew, calling for “order” in the streets. Newark Police erected metal corral barriers in front of their line facing the street and created a separation between the designated spaces for protest and counter-protest. Over two hundred people assembled, despite the ban on parking on the entire street. Several hundred police were present as well, from multiple departments, both local and state. All this time, the volunteers at the hospitality tent had been organizing to receive people as they were released, as between one and three detainees had been released each day over the preceding three days. Volunteers also continued organizing peaceful protest events including prayer circles, singing, and dancing. Conflicts continued between volunteers and protesters who wanted to block vehicles. Multiple chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America had been called to the protest by the Eyes on ICE volunteers, with the request to train and assist in marshalling the crowd. At the most, between twenty and thirty individuals participated in the counterprotest. About eight of them claimed to represent the Proud Boys, arriving in shirts and masks branded with their signature logo. One carried a bottle of bear mace. No physical confrontations occurred and they eventually left at about 2 pm. Outside Delaney Hall on the afternoon of Saturday, May 30. Photograph byFizzy Fox Photographer. The rest of the day passed without incident until the 9 pm curfew. Once again, the State Police staged to the north; but this time, they deployed the shield wall to the south of the crowd. They advanced on the crowd the same way they had the previous night, firing tear gas over the heads of protesters while throwing gas canisters and flash-bang grenades in front of them. Horse units deployed again, but this time, the protesters were less willing to give ground. Police pushed the protesters back to the part of the street directly in front of the south gate. At that point, Newark Police were attempting to hold the barrier fences between the police line and the street, perpendicular to the advancing shield wall. None of the local police were equipped with PPE; they began choking and covering their faces with their uniforms as clouds of gas wafted into their line. Protesters grabbed the dividing fence and pulled it away from the police, repurposing it as a barrier between themselves and the advancing shield wall. The Newark Police retreated into the prison gates. This time, protesters clashed more directly with the State Police, pushing back with makeshift shields and holding on to the barriers that they had pulled away from the local police. The police used same crowd control weapons again, eventually forcing the crowd of people north toward Roanoke Avenue. They made about a dozen arrests as the crowd retreated and inflicted severe injuries on several protesters, primarily by means of rubber bullets and other less-lethal rounds but also by slamming their shields into protesters. A confrontation outside Delaney Hall on the evening of Saturday, May 30. Photograph byFizzy Fox Photographer. As the line of conflict moved past the hospitality tent, the police targeted several volunteers with Eyes on ICE and its affiliated aid organizations for arrest. The protesters slowly backed down Doremus until they reached the intersection of Roanoke and Doremus, where a second shield wall of riot police was waiting. The police stopped there and faced the remaining protesters for almost half an hour while the protesters led chants and gave speeches. Someone started a fire using the tires and debris scattered over the road. The protesters chanted “When the streets get hot, ICE MELTS! When the streets burn, ICE MELTS!” as they prepared for what appeared to be a kettling action. The confrontation fizzled when a person in a wheelchair, accompanied by someone pushing it, approached the police line and began asking to be let through. Both people identified themselves as press; one was an Associated Press photographer and the other, aNew York Timesreporter. Both were displaying press credentials on lanyards. The person in the wheelchair informed the police that their knee was broken and they needed to pass the shield wall to reach immediate medical attention. The police were silent. This encounter lasted for ten minutes, with the protesters offering to back up to convince the police to open a passage for the injured person. With no audible instructions from the police, the journalists continued to plead; eventually, the police opened a small hole in their line. The injured person asked several times if it was safe to approach; the police gave no discernible answer. Eventually, without instruction from the police, the two passed through the opening. Police issued warnings to the remaining protesters, arresting and charging a few of them. A fire down the street from Delaney Hall on the evening of Saturday, May 30. Far fewer protesters arrived on Sunday, May 31. The entire street was closed to nonessential traffic. Those who did show up stood at the intersections with Roanoke to the north or Wilson to the south. For the first time, police did not let in volunteers to receive released detainees. At midday, Governor Sherrill held a press briefing, announcing a coordinated effort to cooperate with local police to take over and eventually close Delaney Hall through legal means. As the curfew approached, between fifty and sixty protesters gathered at the intersection of Wilson and Doremus, facing the State Police at the new roadblock. Some protesters pleaded with the police to reconsider their actions, informing them that the protesters were unarmed and holding their hands up to demonstrate this. At one point, people on foot who had traveled to Doremus to visit friends in the Essex County Corrections Facility walked into the middle of the standoff and, not knowing what exactly was going on, joined the protesters. They down sat in front of the protesters, who gave them helmets to protect them from less lethal munitions. All of the medics departed, pleading with the protesters to do the same, arguing that they had sustained too many injuries and arrests to remain in danger. At about 10 pm, the police began firing rubber bullets sporadically. Officers could be seen coordinating to target specific protesters. Some protesters began singing, “All that we are saying is give peace a chance,” hands raised in the air. Police received the order to advance and began rushing toward the protesters, shooting rubber bullets and flash-bang grenades. The protesters turned and ran. Synchronizing their movements, the police encircled the retreating crowd with a shield line. They formed a half circle around the protesters, backing them up against a wall. For ten minutes, they periodically picked off protesters at the edge of the kettle. Four police officers seized one of the people who had happened upon the protest while on their way to visit the Essex facility, dragging him into the wall of shields in a seated position. The wall of police closed around him, concealing the officers as they beat and pepper-sprayed him. The police closed in three steps in unison. Then they announced that individuals with “verified” press credentials would be allowed to leave. An officer checked press passes as at least ten independent journalists left the kettle. After pushing the journalists to a distance of over a hundred yards away, the police mass-arrested the remaining detainees. They made a total of sixty-four known arrests that night, including mutual aid volunteers. All the arrestees were held overnight and released with court summonses after twenty hours in custody. Most of the charges were “disorderly persons” and resisting arrest. Demonstrators use traffic cones to attempt to extinguish tear gas canisters on the night of May 30. We recommend immersing canisters in water to extinguish them; you can learn about how to do so safelyhere. The next day, Mayor Baraka announced that he would not be participating in cooperation with the State Police or ICE. He cited the misuse of police force, claiming that it was putting Newark’s own officers in danger. Governor Sherrill also made an announcement, presenting a plan to close Delaney Hall by bringing a lawsuit against GEO Group for illegally barring state inspectors from accessing the facilities’ medical units, bathrooms, and sleeping areas. She characterized the Eyes on ICE volunteers who had been rendering mutual aid and legal assistance to detainees and their families as “peaceful protesters, there for the past year,” implying that the Radical Hospitality Tent was some sort of state-sanctioned, palatable protest center. This is how her remarks were reported on outlets like Fox News. She also announced that she would be handing management of the street over to the Newark Police and withdrawing most of the State Police. On Monday, as a limited number of Eyes on ICE volunteers were allowed back to the tent, they discovered investigative units from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security Investigations inside, ransacking it. The agents had overturned everything inside the tent; many items were missing including diapers, an electric cooler, announcements of prayer gatherings posted on a bulletin board, and personal possessions. The hospitality tent still stands, though it will take professional cleaning crews to decontaminate it of CS gas residue. The volunteers are exhausted, but those who were arrested have been released, albeit with charges. Eyes on ICE continues working to ensure some degree of independent monitoring at the detention facility as well as supporting detainees and their families. New Jersey is still reeling from the week of vicious retaliation for the strike from both the state and federal governments. Narratives about the protests are regularly misrepresented in corporate news outlets. Nonetheless, centrists who were mostly sympathetic to the volunteers before this week have experienced collective disillusionment with state authority, especially with their Democratic governor, Mikie Sherrill. It remains to be seen whether conditions will improve for the detainees in Delaney Hall. Yet their story has been elevated to a national audience, forcing another discussion about police violence and immigration enforcement. For now, ICE continues to operate from their field office in downtown Newark at 614 Frelinghuysen Avenue. An increasing number of people have been released from the facility, including some who managed to obtain the attention of congresspeople on oversight visits. Many of those released have expressed profound gratitude for the nationwide expressions of solidarity, and the solidarity of the protesters, which they could hear from within their cells. The strike at Delaney Hall has sparked strikes in other facilities around the country. Visitation is set to resume soon with new restrictions. The people who stand at the gates of Delaney Hall, day in and day out, will continue to stand there. Many will continue working to dismantle the unjust immigration system, as they did before the opening of Delaney Hall. Anti-ICE protesters will regroup and converge on the next flashpoint, wherever that may be. Their numbers will likely be bolstered by new companions from New York and New Jersey, who will add their recent experience defying ICE to the movement’s collective memory. The fight will continue as they refine their tactics and strategies.

Digital Editor Solar panels are so passé—Rivierathinks so anyway. The Australian yacht builder has teamed up with solar specialist Praxis to develop a new type of “solar skin” for models ranging from 39 to 78 feet. Sunreef has been incorporating a similar sort of integratedphotovoltaic technologyinto its catamarans for about five years, but Riviera is rolling it out to motoryachts.Related StoriesThe 987 HP Audi Nuvolari Supercar Is the Marque’s Most Powerful Production Model YetJason Momoa Just Turned His Classic Land Rovers and Vintage Harleys Into EVsFord and Filson’s New Bronco Is a Premium Off-Roader With Raptor Grunt “The pioneering efforts of our brilliant design team and the credentialed Praxis team have created an ingenious solution to reducing our yachts’ reliance on generated or shore power,” Riviera owner and chairman Rodney Longhurst said in a statement. “This is a significant breakthrough in many ways and with so many benefits from sustainability to enhancing the boating experience of Riviera yacht owners the world over.” Unlike traditional rigid solar panels that are mounted atop aluminum frames, the new ultra-thin nano-composite solar skin is bonded directly into the yacht’s hardtop during the moulding stage of construction. All visible layers are optically transparent, with the 2 mm skin following the curvature of the roof and superstructure. The result is approximately 120 percent more power from only around 90 percent of the surface area compared to conventional marine solar installations. The first Riviera to feature the skin is a 6800 Sports Yacht Platinum Edition. The 73-footer, which was recently delivered to its new owner in South Australia, can reportedly generate 3 kW at peak performance. Other models, like the 58 Sports, can produce close to 10 kWh per day. The technology means the yacht can power the navigation equipment, refrigeration, lighting, and digital control systems, a.k.a. the hotel load, without using a generator, thereby extending time at anchor. Some of the larger models can last up to three days off grid without running a genset, according to Riviera. That, of course, means fuel costs are significantly reduced, too. The skin is fully waterproof, virtually unbreakable, and available in matte, gloss, or non-skid finishes, Riviera says. It has a far more seamless appearance than classic solar panels, so as not to detract from the exterior. “Solar integration had to meet the same structural and aesthetic standards as the yacht itself,” adds Dan Henderson, Riviera’s design and engineering director. “It was essential that this innovation enhance, rather than interrupt, the Riviera design language.” The solar skin is now included as an option for new Riviera motor yachts, with bespoke designs currently being finalized across the range. Retrofit solutions are also available for existing vessels via the Riviera aftermarket service. Digital Editor Rachel Cormack is a digital editor at Robb Report. She cut her teeth writing for HuffPost, Concrete Playground, and several other online publications in Australia, before moving to New York at the…

This is an edition of TheAtlanticDaily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture.Sign up for it here. There are two reasonable reactions to the news thatBill Pultehas been named acting director of national intelligence: “Who?” and “Him?” Pulte, the current head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, will replaceTulsi Gabbard, who announced her departure last month after an unhappy and unempowered spell as the DNI. Pulte is taking the post on an interim basis, becoming the latest administration official todo multiple jobs. In some cases, such as Marco Rubio’s dual roles as secretary of state and national security adviser, obvious connections exist between the jobs. In others, such as Rubio’s stint as the national archivist, they do not. Pulte is in the latter camp. Knowing how long he might be in the job is impossible. Donald Trump has in the past shown little eagerness to fill roles. He prefers to have loyalists on hand, and he might struggle to find anyone qualified who is willing to serve. Besides, the Senate, which has already been slow to confirm some appointees, is currentlygummed up on other business. Three things about Pulte are important to know: First, he has no apparent intelligence experience. Second, he is being assigned to fill an important government-coordination position, but his brief track record shows that he has a tendency to clash with and infuriate colleagues rather than work with them. Third, the most notable thing that Pulte does bring to the role is a demonstrated history of using sensitive government data for political retribution. Thelaw that established the DNIstates that “any individual nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise.” When Trump appointed Gabbard—a former Democratic member of Congress who endorsed him in 2024—she became by far the least-qualified person to ever hold the job. Pulte somehow has fewer qualifications; Gabbard was at least a member of Congress. (On the plus side, he’s never been accused of lying about conversations with foreign dictators or being a Russian asset, unlike her.) Trump’sannouncementof Pulte’s assignment conspicuously did not cite any relevant work, andThe New York Timesdelicately notesthat Pulte “has no known experience for a national security role.” Some intelligence work is necessarily secret, but given that Pulte is just 38 years old and has a well-documented work history, past clandestine work seems unlikely. Trump may see a bit of himself in Pulte: the young scion of a real-estate family (the Pultes are major home builders) who has boundless confidence in his own abilities. That approach has not beenworking well for Trump recently. This shallow experience is particularly concerning given the reason the job exists. The DNI was created as part of post-9/11 reforms to the intelligence community. Inquiries including the work of the 9/11 Commission found that intelligence agencies not sharing information with one another had contributed to the failure to prevent the attacks. The DNI was designed to sit atop all of the agencies, including the CIA and the NSA, and ensure their coordination (although critics of the current structure have argued that it needs more power). If the goal is for top officials to work together, Pulte is not a promising person to make that happen. One of the most notable incidents involving Pulte during this administration was when Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent heard that Pulte was badmouthing him to Trump and tried to fight Pulte. “Why the fuck are you talking to the president about me? Fuck you,”Bessent said, according toPolitico. Even cooler-headed intelligence officials may not be enthused about taking direction from a young, unqualified political appointee. The one area in which Pulte has shown actual skill is the use of government information to launch retribution campaigns against Trump’s political enemies. Using agency data, Pultelaunched mortgage-fraud investigationsinto Senator Adam Schiff of California and New York Attorney General Letitia James, both Democrats, and Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. (James was charged, but a judge threw out the case because she found that the acting U.S. attorney involved had not been lawfully appointed, and a grand jury declined to bring new charges. Cook accused Pulte of cherry-picking data; after Trump fired her, she sued, and the Supreme Court has not issued a final ruling, but lower courts ruled against Trump. Schiff denied wrongdoing and has not been charged; Cook remains on the board.)Reuters reportedthat two members of Pulte’s family have filed housing claims similar to the ones for which he investigated Cook. Last year, the Government Accountability Officeopened an investigationinto whether Pulte had improperly used mortgage data. And top Fannie Mae officials were fired after they complained that a Pulte aide hadimproperly shared datafrom the federal housing lender with a competitor. The efforts to investigate Schiff, James, and Cook are all troubling, and more so if federal data were used improperly. So far, these efforts seem to have mostly come up short, either for lack of evidence or for other procedural failures by the Trump administration. But as the DNI, Pulte would have much greater access to sensitive data, creating the opportunity for far greater abuses than anything alleged during his time at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and he could pursue Trump’s revenge against anyone involved in investigating his ties to Russia. It’s hard not to suspect that that’s the reason Trump has chosen someone otherwise so unqualified for the job. Related: Here are three new stories fromThe Atlantic: Today’s News Evening Read The Ordinary Miracle of Existing By Alan Lightman On the northwestern shore of Africa, some 150 miles south of the Canary Islands, the coastline slightly bulges in a pimple known as Cape Bojador. For Europeans in the early 15th century, Cape Bojador marked the boundary between the known and the unknown. North of the cape was civilization and the cities of light. South were the mystical lands of Africa and the Mare Tenebrosum, the “Sea of Darkness.” Ancient notions, dating back to Ptolemy, claimed that Africa was surrounded by boiling seas filled with giant creatures, whirlpools, and perpetual darkness. No sailor had ventured south of Cape Bojador and returned. The challenge was taken up by Prince Henry of Portugal. Between 1424 and 1434, he sent 14 ship expeditions to round the perilous cape. None succeeded. All turned back from fear or foul weather. Yet the unknown beckoned. Read the full article. More FromThe Atlantic Culture Break Explore.Faith Hill writes about thestrange appealof the solitude influencer. Inspect.Tiepolo’sThe Finding of Moses. Goya’sBlind Beggar With Dog. Canines are everywhere in fine art, Judith Shulevitz writes. To understand a painting,look for the dog. Play our daily crossword. Explore all of our newsletters here. Rafaela Jinichcontributed to this newsletter. 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