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☆ The Tyranny of Hotness
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Lauren Jackson | More About Lauren Jackson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A beautiful person is so often a confrontation. Why would an attractive person toil for a reaction if they don’t have to? Stand-up stages are crawling with beautiful men. Jimmy Fallon smiles boyishly on late night. One annoyed late night writer complained to his peers: “You’ve let the popular kids appropriate the very art form that helped you deal.”

Persons: Jason Zinoman, Chris Rock, Jimmy Fallon, boyishly, Trevor Noah, Jerry Seinfeld, Bob Newhart, Jim Gaffigan —, “ You’ve, ” Organizations: charmers

☆ Israel’s Ticking Clock
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Lauren Jackson | More About Lauren Jackson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the hours after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, Benjamin Netanyahu appeared ready to send his troops storming into Gaza. Israel’s initial ground invasion was slow and secretive, more of a crawl than a sprint. (Read what we know about the battle for Gaza City so far.) The Israeli government sees the group as an intolerable threat on its border after the Oct. 7 attack, which officials say killed roughly 1,400 people. Hamas is committed to Israel’s destruction; one of its leaders recently promised to keep attacking until Israel was destroyed.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Organizations: White Locations: Israel, Gaza, Las Vegas, —, Gaza City

The network is made up of tunnels, where most Hamas fighters are likely living alongside stockpiles of weapons, food, water and, now, more than 200 Israeli hostages. The Israeli military first launched an intense air attack targeting these tunnels and has now sent in ground troops to destroy them. Eliminating the tunnels would go long way toward breaking Hamas’s control over Gaza. But after Israel withdrew its forces and settlers from Gaza nearly two decades ago, Hamas vastly expanded the underground network. Hamas has a long history of terrorist violence — both the U.S. and the European Union consider it a terrorist group — and the tunnels allow its members to hide from Israeli air attacks.

Persons: Israel Organizations: Hamas, U.S, European Union Locations: Gaza, Israel

A writers’ strike has frozen Hollywood for months. Writers and studios have reached a tentative deal, the Writers Guild of America announced yesterday. The tentative deal includes most of what the writers sought. In the coming days, union members will vote on whether to approve the agreement. “We can say, with great pride, that this deal is exceptional — with meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership,” the W.G.A.

Organizations: Studios, Writers Guild of America

It was near midnight, in a storm, on a dirt road in the middle of Mongolia. “Go for it.”Cole accelerated and the front tires plunged off an unseen embankment, slamming onto the rocks below. We were perched at a precarious angle, and the front half of the truck was submerged. Drawn by the noise, two young men came over from a nearby tent camp. One waded toward the car into the waist-deep water with a message typed on Google Translate: “This is dangerous.” I was too embarrassed to be scared.

Persons: Cole Paullin, ”, “, ” Cole Organizations: Google Locations: Mongolia

☆ The Success of Mormon Fantasy Writers
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Lauren Jackson | More About Lauren Jackson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An epic origin story, a charismatic leader, a generational saga: Is this the description of a fantasy novel, or a religion’s history? For Mormon authors, the line is blurry. Drawing inspiration from their religion, Mormon writers have filled young adult best-seller lists with fantasy and sci-fi novels, Abby Aguirre reported for The Times. First, the church, officially called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, encourages members to become strong readers and public speakers from a young age. The religion also embraces the family-friendly entertainment that the Y.A.

Persons: Abby Aguirre, Stephenie Meyer’s, Orson Scott Card’s, ”, Ally Condie’s “, of Jesus Christ, churchgoers Organizations: The Times, of Jesus

Hurricane Idalia intensified overnight and is now a Category 4 storm heading toward Florida’s Gulf Coast. The strongest part of the storm will be over Florida’s Big Bend, where the state’s long peninsula curves to meet its Panhandle. More than half of Florida’s western coastline is at risk of life-threatening storm surges, as rising ocean water floods towns. Tallahassee is preparing for outages that could last days, expecting its strongest storm in decades. That’s partly because of human-driven climate change, which appears to have contributed to record-breaking ocean temperatures off the Florida coast.

Persons: Idalia, You’re, Ron DeSantis, ”, Heath Davis, “ Organizations: Carolinas, ”, Florida National Guard, California . Locations: Florida’s Gulf, Big Bend, United States, West, Central Florida, Georgia, Florida, Tallahassee, Tampa, Naples, Fla, California, U.S

☆ Wedding Season, Disrupted
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Lauren Jackson | More About Lauren Jackson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The blackout stranded wedding guests in transit, turned off a blow dryer as a bride was getting ready, and cut the lights and sound at reception halls. Still, many couples went ahead with their ceremonies. Now, as they approach their 20th anniversaries, my colleague Sadiba Hasan called some of the couples and asked: Did a wedding day crisis set up your marriage for success? On the morning of her wedding, she had been worried about the flowers. “I thought that the shade of purple of the flowers was not what I thought it was supposed to be,” Dr. Stollman, 44, a dentist, said.

Persons: Sadiba Hasan, Dvasha Stollman, Stollman, “ Locations: Midwest

☆ Threads Takes on Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Lauren Jackson | More About Lauren Jackson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To many users, Twitter had become like a bad boyfriend. Other tech companies, like Substack, tried to offer frustrated Twitter users a new place to go, but none was compelling enough to pose a viable alternative — until now. This week, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, released Threads, its Twitter competitor. More than 70 million users have joined Threads in the last few days, blowing past the audience sizes of Twitter’s other challengers. For people who liked Twitter but didn’t like the changes that Musk put in place, or had grown tired of his antics, the emergence of Threads is exciting.

Persons: Elon Musk, Donald Trump’s, Substack, Meta, Twitter Organizations: Twitter, Meta, Facebook

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