| |  Letter from Port-Au-Prince Haiti Held HostageGangs control the capital. Foreign help is scarce. Can the embattled island nation save itself? By Jon Lee Anderson | | | | | This Week’s Cover | Cover Story “To the Sea!”The artist of this week’s cover, Peter de Sève, discusses his relationship to spontaneity and his affinity for drawings done by hand. By Françoise Mouly | | | | | | Shop this cover and others from The New Yorker in the Condé Nast Store » | | | | Reporting and Commentary |  The Political Scene How Gretchen Whitmer Made Michigan a Democratic Stronghold The Governor’s strategy for revitalizing her state has two parts: to grow, Michigan needs young people; to draw young people, it needs to have the social policies they want. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells |  American Chronicles Country Music’s Culture Wars and the Remaking of Nashville Tennessee’s government has turned hard red, but a new set of outlaw songwriters is challenging Music City’s conservative ways—and ruling bro-country sound. By Emily Nussbaum | |  Annals of Medicine A New Approach to M.S. Could Transform Treatment of Other Diseases Multiple sclerosis was once seen as a “dead-end disease.” But lots of little interventions have added up to remarkable progress. Should that change how we take on other conditions? By Rivka Galchen |  Comment Big Heat and Big Oil A rapid end to burning fossil fuel would arrest the heating that has caused extreme damage in recent weeks; and that rapid end is possible. By Bill McKibben | | | | | The Critics |  A Critic at Large The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism The free market used to be touted as the cure for all our problems; now it’s taken to be the cause of them. By Louis Menand |  The Theatre A Sexy, Mysterious Hamlet, in Central Park Kenny Leon’s production of “Hamlet,” at the Delacorte, starring Ato Blankson-Wood, is at times more of a cabaret than a narrative aimed like a dagger at the heart. By Vinson Cunningham | |  The Current Cinema The Extravagant Treats of “Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One” In the series’ seventh film, Tom Cruise returns to perform stunts of outsized magnificence. By Anthony Lane |  Books The Bear in Your Back Yard Throughout North America, they’re showing up in unexpected places. Can we coexist? By Jill Lepore | | | | | Fiction from the Issue | Fiction “The Maths Tutor”“The wolf wasn’t at the door, she thought then, with that sort of grimly satisfied, righteous outrage it was too easy to get addicted to. The wolf was inside the house!” By Tessa Hadley | | | | | Humor from The New Yorker |  Shouts & Murmurs Future Indiana Jones Sequels “Sallah, I keep telling you, I’m retired! We’re both so old we can barely walk, much less find a priceless ancient object. But fire up the wheelchair!” By Jay Martel |  Cartoons from the Issue Cartoons from the Issue Funny drawings from this week’s magazine. | |  Crossword A Challenging Puzzle First name of the man who played the Man with No Name: five letters. By Will Nediger |  Name Drop Play Today’s Quiz Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer? By Will Nediger | | | | | More from The New Yorker |  The Weekend Essay Growing Up in the House of Freud My psychoanalyst father wanted to prove the existence of the unconscious in the lab—and at home. By Gillian Silverman |  The New Yorker Interview The Parent of a Teen-Ager Is an Emotional-Garbage Collector Lisa Damour is helping families navigate adolescence at a moment of crisis. By Jessica Winter | | | | | | | | |
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