The Democratic Primary’s Moving Margins

Also: how rogue Republicans killed Oregon’s climate-change bill, and the new face of Turkey’s resurgent opposition. View in browser | Update your preferences Comment The Democratic Primary’s Moving Margins In the first debates, radical ideas were as much at the center of the action as at the fringes. By Amy Davidson Sorkin News Desk How Rogue Republicans Killed Oregon’s Climate-Change Bill Despite widespread support among voters—and a Democratic majority in the capitol—opponents of the state’s cap-and-trade legislation opted for anarchy. By Carolyn Kormann Dispatch The Triumphant New Face of Turkey’s Resurgent Political Opposition Ekrem İmamoğlu’s victory in Istanbul’s mayoral race has electrified his party and unified a fractured coalition of leftists, Kurds, nationalists, and the disaffected devout. By Ayla Jean Yackley News Desk The Law That Makes It Easy to Go to War with Iran The Authorization for Use of Military Force was passed with near-total unanimity, but it has come to reflect the legislative branch’s abdication of its role in war-powers separation. By Ben Taub More in Culture The Front Row The Enduring Urgency of Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” The shock of the movie is that its core drama—the killing of black Americans by police—continues unabated and largely unredressed thirty years later. By Richard Brody The New Yorker Radio Hour Emily Nussbaum on the TV Revolution, and Valeria Luiselli on the Border The New Yorker’s television critic demands respect for her medium, and a Mexican writer goes to the Southwest to try to understand the vigilante mindset. On Television “The Loudest Voice” Eviscerates Roger Ailes The series presents the view that Fox News programming is essentially a propagandistic edit of Ailes’s own conservatism. By Troy Patterson Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Daily Humor Newsletter Cartoons and more funny stuff in your in-box. Picks from the Editors Portfolio The Flowers that Make Chanel No. 5 On fifty acres in France, seventy pickers harvest the flowers that go into the popular perfume. News Desk Is the Age-Old Quest for a Baldness Cure Reaching Its End? From a new regenerative drug to a hair-transplanting robot: a trip on the frontiers of dealing with male-pattern baldness. By Amos Barshad Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts The Cooking Cartoonist: Guilt-Free Ways to Prepare Octopus Trying a vegan alternative and other innocent, humane approaches to consuming these eight-tentacled geniuses. By Farley Katz Cartoons From The Issue Cartoons from the Issue Drawings and drollery from this week’s magazine. Sign up for more newsletters from The New Yorker. Visit The New Yorker shop. Question about your subscription? Contact Customer Care. New Yorker digital subscribers get unlimited access to everything on newyorker.com. Log in to your account here. We’d love your feedback on this newsletter. Please send your thoughts and suggestions to TNYinbox@newyorker.com. This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, NewYorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2019. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.