The Trump White House issued an unequivocal condemnation after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, the leader of the opposition movement in Venezuela. But Marco Rubio, President Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser, is a longtime supporter of Machado. In fact, he signed a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee supporting her nomination for the prize.在委內瑞拉反對派運動領導人瑪麗亞·科里娜·馬查多獲得諾貝爾和平獎後，川普政府對此予以了明確譴責。但川普總統的國務卿兼國家安全顧問馬爾科·盧比奧長期以來一直是馬查多的支持者。事實上，他簽署了一封致挪威諾貝爾委員會的信，支持提名她獲得該獎項。
Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, has been confirmed as the 72nd secretary of state in a 99-0 vote. After casting a vote for himself, Rubio gave the Senate clerks a thumbs-up while a small bipartisan group of senators around him applauded.
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JD Vance once compared Trump to Hitler. Now, he's his vice president-elect.
I assumed that he would have to drop out in 2016 after the “Access Hollywood” tape. I thought he would be driven into exile after he egged on the Jan. 6 insurrectionists hunting down Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence. I thought his cynical move stacking the Supreme Court with religious fanatics who yanked away women’s reproductive rights would doom his comeback attempt. I thought his deranged, nasty, out-of-control final weeks of campaigning would surely sink him.
But Trump never disappeared in a puff of orange smoke. Every time, he bobbed back up, defying convention and luring voters I thought he had lost, given how he, JD Vance and his rally carny barkers delighted in disparaging so many voting blocs with utter abandon.我以為他會在 2016 年《走進好萊塢》錄影帶之後退出。我以為他會在 1 月 6 日慫恿叛亂分子追捕南希·佩洛西和邁克·彭斯後被迫流亡。我認為他憤世嫉俗的舉動將最高法院與剝奪婦女生育權的宗教狂熱分子混為一談，這將使他的東山再起嘗試失敗。我認為他在競選活動最後幾週的瘋狂、骯髒、失控肯定會讓他垮台。
Speaking at the White House, Donald Trump claimed a Nobel Prize recipient called him to say, “I am accepting this in honour of you because you really deserved it.” He said he helped during the crisis in Venezuela and “saved millions of lives.” Trump added, “I didn’t say, ‘Give it to me,’ though I think she might have,” suggesting his support was key to the laureate’s success. 唐納德·川普在白宮發表講話時聲稱，一位諾貝爾獎得主打電話給他說：「我接受這份獎是為了向你致敬，因為你真的應得這份獎。」他表示，自己在委內瑞拉危機期間提供了幫助，「拯救了數百萬人的生命」。川普補充說：“我沒有說‘給我’，儘管我認為她可能會這麼說。” 暗示他的支持是這位諾貝爾獎得主成功的關鍵。
María Corina Machado, the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, has emerged as a strong supporter of President Trump’s military buildup in the Caribbean, arguing, like Trump, that Venezuela’s autocratic leader, Nicolás Maduro, poses an enormous security threat to the region.Venezuela’s opposition leader,
María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader, has been in hiding since July.Credit...Adriana Loureiro Fernandez for The New York Times
Venezuela’s ‘Iron Lady’ Pleads With Trump to Save Her Country’s Democracy
In a series of rare in-depth interviews, Venezuela’s opposition leader called life in hiding “a difficult test” and asserted that Mr. Trump could gain an early “foreign policy victory” by pushing Nicolás Maduro from office.
María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader, has been in hiding since July.Credit...Adriana Loureiro Fernandez for The New York Times
Banned from running for president herself, Ms. Machado, seen here at a campaign rally, helped galvanize enormous support behind the opposition candidate who challenged President Nicolás Maduro in elections in July.Credit...Adriana Loureiro Fernandez for The New York Times
Venezuela’s ‘Iron Lady’ Pleads With Trump to Save Her Country’s Democracy
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half jointly to Aghion and Howitt “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.”
The laureates showed how new technology can drive sustained growth.
Over the last two centuries, for the first time in history, the world has seen sustained economic growth. This has lifted vast numbers of people out of poverty and laid the foundation of our prosperity. This year’s laureates in economic sciences, Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, explain how innovation provides the impetus for further progress.
Technology advances rapidly and affects us all, with new products and production methods replacing old ones in a never-ending cycle. This is the basis for sustained economic growth, which results in a better standard of living, health and quality of life for people around the globe.
However, this was not always the case. Quite the opposite – stagnation was the norm throughout most of human history. Despite important discoveries now and again, which sometimes led to improved living conditions and higher incomes, growth always eventually levelled off.
Joel Mokyr used historical sources as one means to uncover the causes of sustained growth becoming the new normal. He demonstrated that if innovations are to succeed one another in a self-generating process, we not only need to know that something works, but we also need to have scientific explanations for why. The latter was often lacking prior to the industrial revolution, which made it difficult to build upon new discoveries and inventions. He also emphasised the importance of society being open to new ideas and allowing change.
Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt also studied the mechanisms behind sustained growth. In an article from 1992, they constructed a mathematical model for what is called creative destruction: when a new and better product enters the market, the companies selling the older products lose out. The innovation represents something new and is thus creative. However, it is also destructive, as the company whose technology becomes passé is outcompeted.
In different ways, the laureates show how creative destruction creates conflicts that must be managed in a constructive manner. Otherwise, innovation will be blocked by established companies and interest groups that risk being put at a disadvantage.
“I had a whole list of people that I thought were going to win, and I wasn't on it.”
For Joel Mokyr, the news that he was a 2025 economic sciences laureate was an unexpected surprise. Shortly after the announcement Mokyr shared his happiness with us, and recalled visiting the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm ten years ago – a time where he didn’t for a moment imagine one day he would be on the stage. “Are you kidding me? I'm an economic historian. We don't win Nobel Prizes.”
Mr. Mokyr said he was optimistic about the prospects for more economic growth because of the “human capability of manipulating and harnessing the forces of nature to its own needs.”莫基爾先生表示，他對經濟進一步成長的前景感到樂觀，因為「人類有能力操縱和利用自然力量來滿足自身的需求」。
Mr. Aghion and Mr. Howitt’s work shows how economic growth can continue despite companies being sidelined by the innovation of other firms. Their work can support policymakers in designing research and development policies, the committee said.
A 2012 stroke has largely kept him from acting, but not from writing — and recording — a new memoir. “It was very peculiar not to be able to speak,” he says.
“It felt like somebody had paddled around in my brain,” Tim Curry says of the medical treatment he received after his stroke.Credit...
Curry is a lion in winter now, getting around in a wheelchair and with his stamina not what it was since the stroke brought his life to a frightening interregnum. Yet he is still drawn to creative risk, unready to pack it in as an artist.
“I can’t quite imagine retiring and not ever working again,” he said.
He has thought about it, of course he has, but “trying to stretch” creatively is the stronger impulse. On that score, he is “cautiously pleased” with “Vagabond,” albeit with a couple of regrets.
Image“Playing somebody like that wakes you up to new dimensions of human nature,” Curry writes of his unforgettable role in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”Credit...Getty Images
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“Playing somebody like that wakes you up to new dimensions of human nature,” Curry writes of his unforgettable role in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”Credit...Getty Images