New York’s Teen-Age Climate Strikers

Plus: a whistle-blower’s complaint against Trump, and Rihanna’s “Savage X Fenty Show.” View in browser | Update your preferences Cultural Comment New York’s Climate Strike and the Things That Make Teen-Agers March What had brought them here? Everyone’s answer was the same, the only one possible: a sense of existential threat. By Alexandra Schwartz Dispatch New York’s Original Teen-Age Climate Striker Welcomes a Global Movement For the past forty Fridays, Alexandria Villaseñor has kept a lonely climate vigil. This week, the fourteen-year-old had company. By Carolyn Kormann Our Columnists Did Trump Try to Extort the President of Ukraine? Congress and the White House are battling over access to a whistle-blower’s complaint about the President’s call with Volodymyr Zelensky. By John Cassidy Q. & A. Can Trump Be Held Accountable for the Whistle-Blower Complaint? An expert on national-security law discusses the legal issues involved in the Administration’s refusal to hand over the substance of the complaint to Congress. By Isaac Chotiner California Chronicles Trump’s War on California and the Climate The President’s adversarial stance is helping to shape California’s twenty-first-century identity as the Resistance State. By Dana Goodyear PAID POST Why do our interactions with strangers so often go wrong? A classic Gladwellian intellectual adventure through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news, Talking to Strangers argues that something is very wrong with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of the people we don’t know. Photo Booth Photo Booth The Faces of Young Protesters at New York City’s Climate Strike Crowds gathered at Foley Square, in Manhattan, as part of an international, youth-led demonstration demanding action on climate change. By Doreen St. Félix Culture and More On and Off the Avenue “Savage X Fenty Show” Puts a Fun Face on End-Stage Capitalism Rihanna’s show is a charming diversion and an estimable pseudo-event—a see-now-buy-now spectacular for the society of spectacle. By Troy Patterson The Front Row An Extraordinary Performance: Zia Anger’s “My First Film” The riotous, inventive show, which runs this weekend at Metrograph, is unsparing about the milieu of independent filmmaking—its economy, its judgments, and its prejudices. By Richard Brody The Current Cinema Villains Hog the Spotlight in “The Laundromat” The actors enjoy themselves so thoroughly in Steven Soderbergh’s film that it ends up revelling in the outrages it purports to condemn. By Anthony Lane Puzzles Dept. The Weekend Crossword Piece of sporting equipment with a heel and a toe: eleven letters. By Patrick Berry Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Bugaboo Playtime Survey Climbing Bugaboo Mountain a) “was a fun way to spend a rainy day”; b) proved “so impossibly frustrating” that I “vented my anger on the nearest sibling”; or c) left me in a “cavernous depression.” By Bruce Leddy Blitt’s Kvetchbook Netanyahu Reaches for the Stars The Israeli Prime Minister prepares for his next gig, just in case. By Barry Blitt 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.