A Trailblazing Plan to Fight California Wildfires

Plus: what Israeli and Palestinian activists wanted to tell Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, and Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up Big Tech. View in browser | Update your preferences Dept. of Ecology A Trailblazing Plan to Fight California Wildfires Throughout the twentieth century, federal policy focussed on putting out fires as quickly as possible, but preventing megafires requires a different approach. By Nicola Twilley Politics and More Letter from Jerusalem What Israeli Activists Wanted to Tell Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib The fallout from Israel’s ban on the two members of Congress has exposed a growing rift over how to respond to boycott supporters. By Ruth Margalit Currency How Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech In March, Warren released a proposal to reverse what is now a nearly four-decade trend in the concentration of corporate power in the U.S. economy. By Sheelah Kolhatkar Screening Room Deciphering the Presidential-Campaign Songs of the 2020 Race Choosing an anthem is an opportunity for a candidate to suggest that there’s reason to hope for a better future. By Amanda Petrusich Department of Newsletters Newsletters Sign Up for the New Yorker Recommends Newsletter Discover what our staff is reading, watching, and listening to each week. Culture and Books Annals of Gastronomy The Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is Here to Save America Together, the elements of the sandwich are so perfectly balanced that they meld to form a new, entirely coherent whole. By Helen Rosner The Art World Renoir’s Problem Nudes An argument is often made that we shouldn’t judge the past by the values of the present, but that’s a hard sell in a case as primordial as Renoir’s. By Peter Schjeldahl Under Review Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time How a kitschy art became a symbol of sex, loss, and self-invention. By Katy Waldman Second Read Françoise Sagan, the Great Interrogator of Morality At the heart of her brief and disturbing first novel, Sagan asks: Where does the moral sense come from? Is it intrinsic? If not, does that discredit morality itself? By Rachel Cusk Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Girl, You’re a Middle-Aged Woman Now “The Middle-Aged Woman on the Train,” “Middle-Aged Woman, Interrupted,” and other stories offering new perspectives on what it means to be “a woman of a certain age.” By Wendi Aarons and KJ Dell’Antonia Daily Cartoon Wednesday, August 21st By Jeremy Nguyen 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.