Donald Trump’s Idea of Selective Citizenship

Also: the weaponization of national belonging, and how Extinction Rebellion has commanded attention for the climate crisis. View in browser | Update your preferences Comment Donald Trump’s Idea of Selective Citizenship Last week, the President wasn’t just attacking four congresswomen of color; he was reanimating ideas whose prevalence wreaked havoc in the nation’s past. By Jelani Cobb Letter from the U.K. Does Extinction Rebellion Have the Solution to the Climate Crisis? A group of British activists, whose campaign of civil disobedience has commanded attention for the climate crisis, hopes to spread its success across the globe. By Sam Knight Our Columnists The Weaponization of National Belonging By turning unspoken assumptions about outsiders into hateful rally chants, Trump has initiated a radical renegotiation of what it means to belong in this country. By Masha Gessen More in Culture Annals of Inquiry The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions Why do we enjoy doing things for no good reason? By Paul Bloom Newsletters Sign Up for The New Yorker’s Books & Fiction Newsletter Book recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature, twice a week. Culture Desk The Audio App Transforming Erotica Narrative balance and a well-imagined scenario can be hard to achieve in fantasy. But the subscription-based audio-erotica app Dipsea gets it right. By Sarah Larson The Front Row “Cassandro, the Exotico!”: An Intimate Portrait of a Lucha-Libre Star Marie Losier’s vigorously playful yet pain-streaked film depicts Cassandro’s struggle with his sport’s public and private rigors. By Richard Brody On This Day Profiles The Moods of Ernest Hemingway The writer, who would have been a hundred and twenty today, pays a visit to New York—and is unimpressed. “This ain’t my town,” he says. By Lillian Ross Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Cognitive Dissonances I’m Comfortable With Perpetuating the cycle of toxic envy on Instagram, binge-watching TV while professing a love of reading, and other live-withable contradictions. By Irving Ruan and Katie Zhu 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.