How Trump Could Further Erode Our Democracy

Michael Luo on the potential weaponizing of the impeachment process. Plus: a Personal History by Haruki Murakami. View in browser | Update your preferences Daily Comment How Trump Could Further Erode Our Democracy With the unrestrained partisan animus that defines American politics today, even the proper use of impeachment could lead to the weaponizing of the process. By Michael Luo News Desk Trump’s Close-Call Diplomacy with Iran Emmanuel Macron intended to set up a three-way telephone conversation with Hassan Rouhani and the U.S. President. But, at the last moment, it fell apart. By Robin Wright Counterparts Dept. Ukraine’s TV President Before Volodymyr Zelensky was elected, he played in a genre-bending series that blends Ryan Murphy wackiness with Sorkinian uplift. By Emily Nussbaum Profiles A Photographer at the Ends of the Earth Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to document the world’s remotest places. By Dana Goodyear Our Columnists A Hypnotic but Contextless Portrait of Stalin’s Death and Its Aftermath In the found-footage documentary “State Funeral,” an absence of explanation creates a peculiarly powerful effect of both immediacy and estrangement. By Masha Gessen PAID POST A major graphic novel event more than 18 years in the making. From beloved cartoonist Chris Ware, a masterwork of graphic fiction that tackles life's biggest themes and smallest moments. “Rusty Brown is shaping up to be Ware’s epic, a kind of comic-book Ulysses full of unreliable narrators and occasional forays into stream of consciousness.”—Esquire Essays Personal History Abandoning a Cat “This heavy weight my father carried—a trauma, in today’s terminology—was handed down, in part, to me.” By Haruki Murakami Culture and More Second Read Rosmarie Waldrop’s Novel of the In-Between A book of desire and scandal and personal and political circumstance, “The Hanky of Pippin’s Daughter” is also about the problem of narration. By Ben Lerner Puzzles Dept. The Weekday Crossword Instrument that famously opens Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone”: five letters. By Natan Last Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Doctors’ Evaluations from When I Still Had Insurance “Patient requested a prescription for Adderall to last her three years, as she ‘would, like, probably be making bank by then.’ ” By Julia Edelman and Ginny Hogan Daily Cartoon Monday, September 30th By Pat Byrnes 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 insure delivery to your in-box (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.