How Can We Fix Our Corrupt Elections?

Plus: Greta Thunberg’s sailboat arrives in New York, and three writing collectives challenge conventions of how fiction is produced. View in browser | Update your preferences News Desk Filling Seats at the F.E.C. Won’t Fix Our Corrupt Elections In the tug-of-war between lawfulness and corruption, a functioning F.E.C. has been losing, hand over fist, to the pull of anti-democratic forces for more than a decade. By Sue Halpern Dept. of Teen Spirit Greta Thunberg’s Slow Boat to New York A crowd of young eco-warriors and international media greeted the teen-age climate activist as she sailed into town on a carbon-neutral boat to attend a summit at the U.N. By Emily Witt Politics and More Podcast The Politics Behind the Anti-Vaccine Movement Nick Paumgarten joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how fear about vaccines acts likes a virus, and why public-health officials see the phenomenon as part of “an all-out war on science.” Culture and More Page-Turner Can You Write a Novel as a Group? The notion that novelists should be solitary creators has long been deeply ingrained, but the success of three fiction-writing collectives is challenging that assumption. By Ceridwen Dovey The Sporting Scene Magnus Carlsen Was Defeated, But the Draw Remains Dominant in Chess At the Sinquefield Cup, in St. Louis, the world champion was beaten for the first time in a playoff since 2007. By Louisa Thomas The Current Cinema The Hour of Reckoning Descends in “Mr. Klein” Restored to its clammy glory, Joseph Losey’s 1976 film, starring Alain Delon, shows the director as a connoisseur of dread as he dissects the anti-Semitism of Occupied France. By Anthony Lane On Television Why “Styling Hollywood” Is One of the Best Reality Shows The series is a wholesome domestic soap about the perils and rewards of mixing business and pleasure, in which high style merges with basic cheese. By Troy Patterson The Front Row “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” and the Problem of the Archive The quantity of material in Stanley Nelson’s documentary about the legendary jazz musician becomes an impediment to a sense of passion for any bit of it. By Richard Brody Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts America!: Prehistoric Political Ads Do you really want to vote for a candidate who will dissolve in the sweaty hands of some paleontologist thirty thousand years from now? By Ali Fitzgerald Daily Cartoon Friday, August 30th By Trevor Spaulding 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.