| | | |  Profiles Ras Baraka, Reasonable RadicalHow the Mayor of Newark is working to revive his city. By Kelefa Sanneh | | | | | From the News Desk | The Lede What Eric Adams’s Chief Adviser Knows About LoyaltyNewly obtained e-mails show that Ingrid Lewis-Martin stuck with Adams even when she feared for her safety. Will she stay by his side through a federal investigation? By Eric Lach | | The Political Scene Podcast How to Find Every Democratic Voter in WisconsinWhat it’s like to live on the razor’s edge of the political divide, with the Wisconsin Democratic Party chair, Ben Wikler. | | | | | The Weekend Essay | We often want to keep some information to ourselves. But information itself may be the problem. By Ben Tarnoff  Illustration by John Provencher I belong to the last generation of Americans who grew up without the Internet in our pocket. We went online, but also, miraculously, we went offline. The clunky things we called computers didn’t come with us. There were disadvantages, to be sure. We got lost a lot. We were frequently bored. Factual disputes could not be resolved by consulting Wikipedia on our phones; people remained wrong for hours, even days. But our lives also had a certain specificity. Stoned on a city bus, stumbling through a forest, swaying in a crowded punk club, we were never anywhere other than where we were. | | | | | |  | If you know someone who would enjoy the Daily, please share it. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up. | | | | Culture Dept. |  Critic’s Notebook Flag Waving and Flag Burning in Kamala Harris’s America This past year, there has been a surfeit of so-called recontextualized patriotism, brightened and Blacked up, made sexy, both in culture and in politics. By Doreen St. Félix |  Persons of Interest The Killers’ Return to Las Vegas A recent residency at Caesars Palace doubled as a homecoming. As one band member says, “We never lost the Vegas.” By Hanif Abdurraqib | |  The Front Row What to See in the 2024 New York Film Festival’s Second Week Recognized directors deliver surprising works that expand both their own horizons and the possibilities of the art at large. By Richard Brody |  Goings On The Brooklyn Museum Celebrates Two Hundred Years Also: The new piano bar So and So’s; Robert Downey, Jr., in “McNeal”; the Philly soul singer Bilal; and more. | | | | | Fun & Games Dept. | Shouts & Murmurs I Am a Leaf BlowerGood morning! I am a leaf blower! You’ve probably heard me. Right now, for example. Sure, put that pillow over your head. That should help. By Steve Macone | | | | |  | Name Drop: Can you guess the identity of a notable person—contemporary or historical—in six clues? Play our trivia game » | | | | | P.S. Amiri Baraka, Ras Baraka’s father, was “part trickster and part provocateur, a brilliant juggler of genres, ideas, and identities,” Jelani Cobb wrote, after the poet’s passing, in 2014. “Those of us who came of age listening to hip-hop and infused its idioms into our own prose were, knowingly or not, travelling the path that Baraka had cleared with the bebop-suffused lyricism of his writing.” 🖊️ | | | | | | | |
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