TikTok, the Emmys, and the Fake-Meat Movement

How the short-video app holds our attention, a look back at last night’s awards ceremony, and Impossible Foods proposes a solution to climate change. View in browser | Update your preferences Brave New World Dept. How TikTok Holds Our Attention On the popular short-video app, young people are churning through images and sounds at warp speed, repurposing reality into ironic, bite-size content. By Jia Tolentino News Desk The Mounting Scandal Over What Trump Said to Ukraine’s President If Volodymyr Zelensky so desires, he has the ability to seriously damage Trump’s Presidency with a few choice disclosures. By Joshua Yaffa and Adam Entous A Reporter at Large Can a Burger Help Solve Climate Change? Eating meat creates huge environmental costs. Impossible Foods thinks it has a solution. By Tad Friend Campaign Chronicles How Trump’s Presidency Looks from Rural Wisconsin Amid the struggles that stem from years of low commodity prices, the state’s farmers display a loyalty to Trump that may prove daunting for Democrats. By Peter Slevin A Critic at Large The Dark Side of Techno-Utopianism Big technological shifts have always empowered reformers. They have also empowered bigots, hucksters, and propagandists. By Andrew Marantz PAID POST Does college still work? “Indelible and extraordinary, a powerful reckoning with just how far we’ve allowed reality to drift from our ideals.”—Tara Westover (author of Educated), New York Times Book Review Culture and More On Television The Joyous, Fragmented, and Slightly Anxious 2019 Emmy Awards These Emmys were uneven and unsettled, and thus unusually interesting by the standards of this telecast. It was the text of a medium in flux. By Troy Patterson On Television “Fleabag,” an Original Bad-Girl Comedy The show was the surprise winner in four categories at Sunday’s Emmys. From 2016: a review of its dark, witty first season. By Emily Nussbaum Puzzles Dept. The Weekday Crossword Cinematic city with a buffalo for a police chief and a lion for a mayor: eight letters. By Elizabeth C. Gorski Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Ways of Planning: A Personality Guide Sending out spores, Russian roulette, appeasement, and other strategies for managing one’s social calendar. By Liana Finck Daily Cartoon Monday, September 23rd By Jason Adam Katzenstein 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.