This Week's Issue: Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father’s Campaign?

Why Joe Biden’s son is under scrutiny. Plus: Jill Lepore on the lingering of loss. View in browser | Update your preferences A Reporter at Large Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father’s Campaign? Joe Biden’s son is under scrutiny for his business dealings and tumultuous personal life. By Adam Entous Personal History The Lingering of Loss My best friend left her laptop to me in her will. Twenty years later, I turned it on and began my inquest. By Jill Lepore Profiles On the Road with Mitski The musician, who writes achingly intense songs about private yearnings, has spent the past year in performance venues packed with fellow-loners. By Margaret Talbot 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 Drama Dept. “It’s the End of My Presidency”: Movie Stars Channel Mueller Funded by scions of the Disney clan, John Lithgow, Annette Bening, Jason Alexander, Michael Shannon, and friends brought the special counsel’s report (and Trump’s line “I’m fucked!”) to life. By Jeffrey Toobin Letter from Lima Letter from Lima What Led Peru’s Former President to Take His Own Life? Once the bright young hope of the Latin-American left, Alan García was caught up in an epic corruption investigation. By Daniel Alarcón This story is also available in Spanish. Read it here. Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Old Soul In the true era of my soul, Mary-Kate and Ashley played a single child, and Lindsay Lohan played twins. By Cora Frazier 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.