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French voters backed the party of thenew president, Emmanuel Macron, inparliamentary voting. PAGE A5

INTERNATIONAL A4-10

Wave of Support for Macron

Puerto Ricans voted overwhelmingly tobecome America’s 51st state, in a flawedelection most voters sat out. PAGE A16

NATIONAL A11-16

Landslide for Statehood

People in transition because of layoffs,moves or illness turned to AffordableCare Act marketplaces as a stopgap,but that option may soon be gone underthe Republican health plan. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-4

Flexibility of Care at Risk

DUNWOODY, Ga. — Demo-crats are facing an open breachbetween the demands of their po-litical base and the strict limits oftheir power, as liberal activistsdream of transforming the healthcare system and impeachingPresident Trump, while candi-dates in hard-fought elections askwary independent voters merelyfor a fresh chance at governing.

The growing tension betweenthe party’s ascendant militantwing and Democrats in conserva-tive-leaning terrain, where theparty must compete to win powerin Congress, was on vivid, split-screen display over the weekend:in Chicago, where Senator BernieSanders led a revival-style meet-ing of his progressive devotees,and in Atlanta, where Democratsare spending colossal sums ofmoney in hopes of seizing a tradi-tionally Republican congressionaldistrict.

It may be essential for Demo-crats to reconcile the party’s twoclashing impulses if they are to re-take the House of Representativesin 2018. In a promising political en-vironment, a drawn-out struggleover Democratic strategy andideology could spill into primaryelections and disrupt the party’spath to a majority.

On the one hand, progressivesare more emboldened than theyhave been in decades, galvanizedby Mr. Sanders’s unexpected suc-cesses in 2016 and empowered bythe surge of grass-roots energydedicated to confronting an un-popular president and pushingthe party leftward.

Mr. Sanders rallied his youthful,often-raucous coalition Saturdaynight at a gathering named the

DEEPENING DIVIDE ROILS DEMOCRATSAS BASE TILTS LEFT

PARTY VS. PROGRESSIVES

Struggle Over Ideologyand Tactics May Put

’18 Goals in Peril

By ALEXANDER BURNSand JONATHAN MARTIN

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MARK R. CRISTINO/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

The bodies of marines killed in clashes with militants in Marawi arrived at an air base near Manila on Sunday. Page A4.Rise of ISIS, Long Ignored, Takes Toll in Philippines

WASHINGTON — A new fig-ure has swept through the WestWing lately, a man with silver haircombed back across his head, rim-less glasses perched on his nose, awhite handkerchief tucked neatlyinto his suit pocket, a taste for le-gal pugilism and an uncertain rolein a building confronted by a hostof political and legal threats.

Marc E. Kasowitz, a New Yorkcivil litigator who representedPresident Trump for 15 years inbusiness andboasts of beingcalled thetoughest law-yer on WallStreet, hassuddenly be-come the fieldmarshal for aWhite Houseunder siege.He is a person-al lawyer for the president, not agovernment employee, but he hasbeen talking about establishing anoffice in the White House complexwhere he can run his legal de-fense.

His visits to the White Househave raised questions about theblurry line between public andprivate interests for a presidentfacing legal issues. In recent days,Mr. Kasowitz has advised WhiteHouse aides to discuss the inquiryinto Russia’s interference in lastyear’s election as little as possible,two people involved said. He toldaides gathered in one meetingwho had asked whether it wastime to hire private lawyers that itwas not yet necessary, accordingto another person with directknowledge.

Such conversations between a

Trump LawyerAmasses CloutIn White House

Lines Blurred BetweenPublic and Private

By REBECCA R. RUIZand SHARON LaFRANIERE

Marc Kasowitz

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The ads have been popping upon billboards, buses and subwaysand in glossy magazines, with por-traits of attractive men and wom-en and a simple question in boldletters: What is Vivitrol?

Five years ago, Vivitrol was atreatment for opioid addictionthat was struggling to find a mar-ket. Now, its sales and profile arerising fast, thanks to its man-ufacturers’ shrewd use of politicalconnections, and despite scantscience to prove the drug’s effica-cy.

Last month, the health and hu-man services secretary, TomPrice, praised it as the future ofopioid addiction treatment aftervisiting the company’s plant inOhio. He set off a furor among sub-stance abuse specialists by criti-cizing its less expensive and morewidely used and rigorously stud-

ied competitors, buprenorphineand methadone, as medicationsthat “simply substitute” for illicitdrugs.

It was the kind of plug that Viv-itrol’s maker, Alkermes, has spentyears coaxing, with a deft lobby-ing strategy that has targeted law-makers and law enforcement offi-cials. The company has spent mil-lions of dollars on contributions toofficials struggling to stem theepidemic of opioid abuse. It hasalso provided thousands of freedoses to encourage the use of Viv-itrol in jails and prisons, whichhave by default become majordetox centers.

With the Trump administrationsending $1 billion in new addictionprevention and treatment funds tostates over the next two yearsthrough the 21st Century CuresAct, Alkermes’s marketing hasshifted into even higher gear.

The company’s strategy high-lights the profit opportunities that

drug companies and investors seein an opioid epidemic that killed 91Americans every day in 2015 andis growing worse. But some of itsmarketing tactics, and Mr. Price’scomments, ignore widely ac-

cepted science, as nearly 700 ex-perts in the field wrote the healthsecretary in a letter.

Not a single study has beencompleted comparing Vivitrol

Opioid Crisis and Lobbying Give Drug a Boost That Tests Don’tBy ABBY GOODNOUGH

and KATE ZERNIKE

Scientific evidence of the drug Vivitrol’s effectiveness is scant.SAM HODGSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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OPENING DOORS Democrats arecalling for testimony by AttorneyGeneral Jeff Sessions before aSenate committee to take place inan open hearing. PAGE A12

LONDON — In a little morethan two years, Britain has hadtwo general elections and a na-tionwide referendum. Each time,the politicians, pollsters, bettingmarkets, political scientists andcommentators have gotten itwrong.

Once considered one of themost politically stable countries inthe world, regularly turning outmajority governments, Britain isincreasingly confusing and unpre-dictable, to both its allies and it-self.

Far from settling the fierce divi-sions exposed by last year’s refer-endum on Britain’s exit from theEuropean Union, or Brexit, theelection on Thursday only madethem worse.

In the early hours of Friday,flushed with his party’s surprisingshowing, Labour’s leader, JeremyCorbyn, proclaimed: “Politics haschanged! And politics is not goingback into the box where it was be-fore.”

But where British politics is go-

Britain ShedsPredictabilityIn Its Politics

By STEVEN ERLANGER

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HARD TIMES A year after theBrexit vote, Britain’s economy ismarkedly slowing and consumersare facing rising prices. PAGE B1

HIELLEN, British Columbia —Speaking Haida for the first timein more than 60 years lookedpainful. Sphenia Jones’s cheeksglistened with sweat, and her eyesclenched shut. She tried again toproduce the forgotten raspy echoof the Haida k’, and again shefailed. Then she smiled broadly.

“It feels so good,” Ms. Jones, 73,said. “Mainly because I can say itout loud without being afraid.”

Like 150,000 indigenous chil-dren across Canada, Ms. Joneswas sent far from home to a res-idential school to be forcibly as-similated into Western culture.There, any trappings of her nativeculture were strictly forbidden.When a teacher caught Ms. Joneslearning another indigenous lan-guage from two schoolmates, Ms.Jones said, the teacher yanked outthree fingernails.

It worked: Ms. Jones spokenothing but English, until re-cently, when she began learningher lines in the country’s firstHaida-language feature film,“Edge of the Knife.”

With an entirely Haida cast, anda script written in a largely forgot-ten language, the film reflects aresurgence of indigenous art and

culture taking place across Cana-da. It is spurred in part by effortsat reconciliation for the horrorssuffered at those government-funded residential schools, thelast of which closed only in 1996.

Restoring the country’s 60 or soindigenous languages, many onthe verge of extinction, is at thecenter of that reconciliation.

The loss of one language, saidWade Davis, a University ofBritish Columbia anthropologyprofessor, is akin to clear-cuttingan “old-growth forest of the mind.”The world’s complex web ofmyths, beliefs and ideas — whichMr. Davis calls the “ethnosphere”— is torn, just as the loss of aspecies weakens the biosphere, hesaid.

A Haida glossary dedicatesthree pages to words and expres-sions for rain.

“English cannot begin to de-scribe the landscape of HaidaGwaii,” the Haida homeland, Mr.Davis said. “There are 10,000shades of nuance and interpreta-tion. That really is what languageis.”

Fewer than 20 fluent speakersof Haida are left in the world, ac-cording to local counts. For theHaida themselves, the destruc-tion of their language is pro-foundly tied to a loss of identity.

“The secrets of who we are arewrapped up in our language,” saidGwaai Edenshaw, a co-director ofthe film, who like most of the cast

A Language Nearly Lost Is Revived in a Script

Sphenia Jones, right, in British Columbia rehearsing lines inHaida, a language she hadn’t spoken for more than six decades.

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A Canadian Film Tapsan Indigenous Cast

to Tell Its Story

By CATHERINE PORTER

SAN FRANCISCO — Facing ac-cusations that Uber executivesturned a blind eye to sexual har-assment and other corporate mis-behavior, the ride-hailingservice’s board moved on Sundayto shake up the company’s leader-ship, ahead of the release thisweek of an investigation’s findingson its troubled culture.

Uber directors were weighing athree-month leave of absence forTravis Kalanick, the chief execu-tive who built the start-up into anearly $70 billion entity, according

to three people with knowledge ofthe board’s agenda.

In addition, Uber’s board said itwould accept the recommenda-tions made in a report by the for-mer attorney general Eric H.Holder Jr., who was retained to in-vestigate the company’s internalculture. One of the recommenda-tions included the departure of atop lieutenant to Mr. Kalanick,Emil Michael, said the people,who spoke on the condition of ano-nymity because the discussions

With Its Brash Ways Under Fire,Uber Weighs Leadership Shuffle

By MIKE ISAAC

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A housing co-op in Mexico City symbol-izes the fight for the right to city life forall, not just for the wealthy. PAGE A10

A Community Amid the Sprawl

An elevated walkway to BelvedereCastle would alter Central Park’s char-acter, critics say. Grace Notes. PAGE A18

NEW YORK A17-19

Battle Lines Over a Park Path

A collector sold her prized Lichtensteinfor $165 million to fund reforms to re-duce mass incarceration. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

Using Art to Champion JusticeAn adaptation of an 1882 play abouttainted water was painfully resonantwhen performed in Flint, Mich. PAGE A15

A Timeless Problem

Unlike the Watergate scandal, theTrump-Russia inquiry is unfolding in anera of informational chaos, with rivalversions of reality vying for supremacy,Jim Rutenberg writes. PAGE B1

The Rise of Dueling Narratives

Charles M. Blow PAGE A21

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21

Delta Air Lines and Bank of Americacriticized the Public Theater’s produc-tion of “Julius Caesar,” which depicts thekilling of a Trump-like ruler. PAGE A19

Play Loses Two Big Sponsors

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The improbable hit won for best new musical, and its star, BenPlatt, clinched the award for best leading actor. Arts, Page C1.

‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Rules Tonys

Pittsburgh broke a scoreless tie with1:35 left in Game 6 and beat Nashville,2-0, to become the first back-to-backStanley Cup winner since 1998. PAGE D1

SPORTSMONDAY D1-6

Penguins Repeat as Champions

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