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Carothers said the practice often moves, alongside treasured recipes, from generation to generation.

“If everybody’s doing their job correctly and holding their weight, it’s a bunch of crossing T’s and dotting I’s,” said Carothers.

Others, like Kelly Carothers, the director of government affairs and sustainability at Project N95, has spent the past few months compiling a database of problematic masks sold online.

Despite decades of Cold War messaging calling American alliances a force for democratization, this has never really been true, said Thomas Carothers, who studies democracy promotion at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

“If the music doesn’t happen, if the album doesn’t come out, we can’t do as much,” Carothers said.