The Repercussions of Trump’s Middle East Policies

Plus: the journalist who believes that imagination can save the world, and revisiting the first season of “The Sopranos.” View in browser | Update your preferences Our Columnists Trump’s Awful Middle East Policies Are Coming Back to Haunt Him The President strengthened Iranian hard-liners and contributed to a humanitarian crisis. After the attacks on oil installations in Saudi Arabia, the repercussions are hitting home. By John Cassidy A Reporter at Large Jonathan Ledgard Believes Imagination Could Save the World His strategies for a more equitable, sustainable future range from practical and humanitarian to fanciful and abstract. By Ben Taub Daily Comment Trump Tries to Explain What He Thinks “the Hispanics” Want The President’s supposed insights into the Latino electorate are based on stereotypes related to the dangers he associates with immigration. By Amy Davidson Sorkin News Desk Elizabeth Warren’s Crusade Against Corruption The Presidential candidate’s message of disrupting corporate influence on the government has driven her steady climb in the polls. By Sheelah Kolhatkar Letter from the U.K. The Remarkable Martha Gellhorn The writer, who reported from the beaches of D Day and lived, as a guest of Eleanor Roosevelt, in the White House, was remembered at a ceremony this month. By Sam Knight PAID POST A search for family memories and wartime secrets in the French Riviera Written with all the tenderness and psychological intensity that made Room an international bestseller, Akin is a warm, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy born two generations apart who unpack their painful story and start to write a new one together. On This Day On Television The Hit Man’s Burden On what would have been James Gandolfini’s fifty-eighth birthday, a look at The New Yorker’s review of the first season of “The Sopranos.” By Nancy Franklin Culture and More Page-Turner The 2019 National Book Awards Longlist: Poetry Many of this year’s choices are inflected with a sense of political urgency and emergency, and all the poets on the list are first-time contenders. By The New Yorker Annals of Inquiry The Meaning of Tracksuits The tracksuit is rap culture, and it is street culture—and, naturally, it has been co-opted and monetized by more apathetic, more ruthless forces. By Amos Barshad Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Travel Through Other People’s Instagram Stories If you enjoy venturing off the beaten path, may I suggest giving Drew a follow? By Farah Brook Daily Cartoon Wednesday, September 18th By Maddie Dai 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.