Trump’s Wacky, Angry August

Plus: the town that became a mecca for people with chronic-fatigue syndrome, and Brexit warnings and sheep grazing in a London park. View in browser | Update your preferences Letter from Trump’s Washington Trump’s Wacky, Angry, and Extreme August Thirty-one days in the life of a Twitter Presidency. By Susan B. Glasser Personal History A Town for People with Chronic-Fatigue Syndrome Patients moved from all over the country to Incline Village, Nevada, for an experimental drug. Then the drug disappeared. By Mike Mariani Letter from the U.K. Brexit Warnings and Sheep Grazing in a London Park For a week, five rare-breed sheep have been atop Boadicea’s Grave, a mound in Hampstead Heath named for a queen who, claiming a populist mantle, led an army of Britons against Roman invaders. By Rebecca Mead Second Read Ida and Louise Cook, Two Unusual Heroines of the Second World War The underestimation of women, especially women who might be dismissed on the basis of their looks, was a resource that the Cook sisters deployed for enormous good. By Margaret Talbot PAID POST A tour of a vast, lawless world that few have ever seen: the high seas. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Ian Urbina exposes one of the wildest, least understood frontiers on our planet. “Transcendent, rendering a complex portrait of an unseen and disturbing world…Not just a fascinating read, but a truly important document.” —NYT Culture and More Profiles How Matthew Lopez Transformed “Howards End” Into an Epic Play About Gay Life “The Inheritance,” opening soon on Broadway, reimagines E. M. Forster’s novel as a lovingly wry portrait of New York’s gay community. By Rebecca Mead Cultural Comment A Century of “Shrill”: How Bias in Technology Hurt Women’s Voices Technological bias is about more than audio quality—it’s about the forces that influence whose stories are told and how. By Tina Tallon Books Student Debt Is Transforming the American Family The cost of a degree—and the “open future” that supposedly comes with it—has become one of the defining forces of middle-class life. By Hua Hsu The Sporting Scene Bianca Andreescu’s Tactical Victory Over Taylor Townsend The Canadian teen-ager is playing in her first main draw at the U.S. Open, and is showing why she has been beating Top 10 players all season. By Gerald Marzorati Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts As the Father of a Daughter, I’m Upset Women Make Less Than Men Because who will support me in my old age? By Ginny Hogan Daily Cartoon Tuesday, September 3rd By Jon Adams 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.