This Week's Issue: Mike Pompeo’s Loyalty to Trump

Plus: the institute where Big Tech goes to ask deep questions, and a trailblazing plan to fight California’s wildfires. View in browser | Update your preferences Profiles Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of Trump How he became a heartland evangelical—and the President’s most loyal soldier. By Susan B. Glasser A Reporter at Large Silicon Valley’s Crisis of Conscience Where Big Tech goes to ask deep questions. By Andrew Marantz 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 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 A Critic at Large State of the Unions What happened to America’s labor movement? By Caleb Crain 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 Comment The Failure to See What Jeffrey Epstein Was Doing Money offers one explanation for why people seemed to ignore the obvious. But money, here, is really shorthand for a range of ways to exert influence. By Amy Davidson Sorkin Humor from The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Pay Off Your Student Debt in Three Easy Lifetimes We know very little about the journey that each person makes as he or she crosses over. All we know for sure is that whatever you become owes us money. By Colin Nissan 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.