Andrew Yang’s Robot Apocalypse

Can a new perspective on unemployment heal a divided nation? Also: how three Ukrainian political reformers were sidelined. View in browser | Update your preferences Dispatch How Andrew Yang’s Robot Apocalypse Can Heal a Divided Nation The long-shot Presidential candidate is trying to tell a new story about mass unemployment. By Emily Witt Dispatch Three Ukrainian Reformers Pay an Unexpected Price for Their Success Sergii Leshchenko and his fellow-activists helped bring a new generation into Ukrainian politics. But, when it arrived, they found themselves sidelined. By Joshua Yaffa Daily Comment The Obamacare Challenge and Whether Political Speech Matters Trump’s tendency both to dissemble and to incite further complicates the tricky question of how courts should interpret the meaning of legislative and executive actions. By Amy Davidson Sorkin PAID POST David Baldacci introduces an unforgettable new character He survived war. He survived prison. Can Archer survive a small town with dark secrets? Master storyteller David Baldacci is back with ONE GOOD DEED, the perfect thriller for your beach bag. From the Archive A Reporter at Large The Hunt for El Chapo This week, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo, was sentenced to life in prison. Read the story, from 2014, about how the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured. By Patrick Radden Keefe On This Day Comment Nelson Mandela, Free On the hundred and first anniversary of his birth, read about the South African President’s release from prison—a transcendent moment in his country’s history. By William Finnegan More in Culture Page-Turner Goodnight Moon Landing How children’s books tell the story of Apollo 11. By Bruce Handy Under Review The Storytelling of Asian-American Lives A psychotherapist and a literary critic study broken narratives and missing words to understand what a diverse cohort has in common. By Hua Hsu Culture Desk Two Comedy Writers Take “Face/Off” to a New Level of Weirdness A new stage adaptation of the Nicolas Cage–John Travolta movie finds a way to mix Shakespeare into the action. By Amanda Petrusich On Television “The Hills: New Beginnings” and Our Warped American Reality The new show retains the original’s Warholian purity of inaction: nothing much happens, and it is not happening at a soothing pace. By Troy Patterson Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Classic Female-Authored Novels Rebranded as Chick Lit Elizabeth Bennet, the most IDGAF member of a girl gang of sisters, is a bad bitch who’s out to get hers. By Mary Cella Daily Cartoon Daily Cartoon: Thursday, July 18th By Avi Steinberg 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.