A New Attack on the Rights of Immigrant Children

The Trump Administration’s gutting of the Flores Agreement. Plus: how W. E. B. Du Bois made a laughingstock of a white supremacist. View in browser | Update your preferences News Desk The Trump Administration’s Latest Attack on the Rights of Immigrant Children The White House’s new regulations would gut the Flores Agreement, which, for more than twenty years, has insured protections for children held in government custody. By Jonathan Blitzer Politics and More American Chronicles When W. E. B. Du Bois Made a Laughingstock of a White Supremacist Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas. By Ian Frazier Daily Comment Changing How Democrats Think About the Supreme Court Though Presidential candidates aren’t yet talking about the judiciary, some former officials are trying to force the subject into the political conversation. By Jeffrey Toobin Campaign Chronicles Democrats Court the Overlooked Native American Vote On the heels of the Iowa State Fair, a dozen candidates gathered in Sioux City this week to discuss the concerns of indigenous communities. By Eren Orbey Campaign Chronicles Beto O’Rourke’s Campaign Reboot Feels Like an Ending After the shooting in El Paso, O’Rourke doesn’t want to return to the campaign trail he left behind, where he was floundering, with bad polls, bad press, and bad debate performances. By Eric Lach PAID POST A finely observed exploration of marriage, divorce, and ambition The smartest beach read of the summer is Fleishman Is in Trouble, the instant New York Times bestselling novel from journalist Taffy Brodesser-Akner, who “prods the form of the marriage novel as it if were a sleeping lump on the other side of the bed” (NewYorker.com). Culture and More Flash Fiction “Courage” “Selfishness was its own form of courage, and in fact was, within reason, exactly the kind of courage that he had in mind.” By Daniel Smith Cultural Comment The Grisly Fascination of “Salome” With its staggeringly original score and unsettling sexual and racial politics, Strauss’s opera effectively raised the curtain on twentieth-century music. By Alex Ross On This Day Sci-Fi Take Me Home Ray Bradbury was born on this day in 1920. Revisit how science fiction first took hold of him: “I would go out to that lawn on summer nights and reach up to the red light of Mars and say, ‘Take me home!’ ” By Ray Bradbury Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts The All-Natural Ingredients in Our Disgusting Skin-Care Line We extracted the warm, runny juice from every tortured pomegranate pore while looking away because they were so, so nasty. By Kiki O’Keeffe and Ysabel Yates Daily Cartoon Thursday, August 22nd By Tim Hamilton 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.